with in print is to be taken for gospel. If ever I am in 
doubt upon a subject of British or English history, I have 
recurrence to the old foreign editions ; the editors have no 
prejudice one way or other, or semi-local knowledge to lead 
them wrong. No one can study the earlier history of our 
country without feeling confident that Maxima Cassarensis 
was the principal province and centre of the Roman Empire 
in Britain, and was of such importance, that seven Roman 
Emperors visited it in person ; and that the country of the 
Brigantes, with Eboracum, its capital, was the earlier as well 
as the later stronghold of its dominion. We learn from the 
Notitia Imperii, that under the Dux Britannise along the 
wall and in its vicinity were quartered, garrisons and cohorts, 
11,800 men. That the other garrisons in the North, in the 
rear of the wall, were 12,900 men; including in this Northern 
part of ours a total of more than 24,000 men ! It was here 
that Bede, a North-countryman himself, locates them, b. i., 
c. 11. "They {i.e., the Romans) resided within the rampart 
which, as we have mentioned, Severus made across the 
island, on the south side of it ; as the cities, temples, bridges, 
and paved roads there made testify to this day." There is 
also another circumstance strongly corroborative of my 
suggestion that Claudius, following the course of Aulus 
Plautius, who came from east to west, crossed from the Pays 
Bas, and landed on the eastern coast of Britain. In all 
British histories, related in different ways, with slight varia- 
tions of spelling in the name, there is an account of Loelius 
Hamo or Hamoiid, a Briton brought up at Rome, and present 
with Claudius' army, by his knowledge of their language, 
and putting on their clothes, deceiving the Britons, and by 
treachery slaying their king ; that the king's brother follows 
hard upon him through the woods unto a haven near, and, 
as he was getting on board ship, overtaking and slaying 
him; and that the part of the coast bears the name of 
