Àhèhrb^Miat
Ijilpfei îMÿ®te%ifel^#^lMei!EÔ'ûï ;H^wr->2F^^^tîe^@b“
yernrtrfntfôf ihe Romans^ mChèJhire-.-; ;
of the bf‘\^l&h' tm#(Mhrtf;
was à Parit0 fiÔ'Gw^èHfrèin
GhMftîâi^ 'Wéte. '
v4 ^ ^ !Wëre ^ I p
lift. etheÆaf 1 1 in Council SÏTiöffië1 'aiff W^f^ahrôaH/^I
ascbrteflaiipbffiMè^^h^iAëéohht, ‘ àr?â biuft hâte1 âckhowledge
tSyhlelf indebted to the h^ptDi#/Àïifié#WI%He^2FJ&I^^ii/,
whofe Credit is authentiek with the Curious and Learned. ||s
to âfepèfe&gaiiSS the Britain^ ièhabitin^ this Cetifity’ -in the
TjÉâÈÉéf the Romans, they ware called Devant, Comavii, ajtid
Cangi ^^^i'Ggé4sm^''^àkikp^^ime following AeeôüM^ÿin
the Second Book of his Geography, Cîÿ. 3. fiAwty« d*roAi)«mpo»
xóftoLiJtii 2V.TÔÎS ■sfiBÀas Aêowct I» «Aé *»t Aeÿiffl» ïht'Spopi^'j’ thÜt IS , The CoT-»
navii Zze Eajhïof tbéjè, robo/é Coder are Devana, and mêtB'there in
Garrifott ithe Twentieth Legion, called the Coriqtfêrö'r: This Twentieth
Legiomwas raifed ' by Auguftm
Mtefringhls 5:5th BoOkloffhê1 Rmdh HFftorÿ?
.cèdfirffiöï al' m ^àBia^'Bkgiâd^nôW^^fè^ Gêi^My^^^^bèh.
thejiceiljÿïthe Command OF-ihteTiMperof GtmkiîM ^Ë^bMèd
into TbVsiôiunder-the Comthànd of Aulm Bldùtitià, lilfrae Tfeb
of Chriffi 4^0 whom.
fafte Year,- as /thelfame :Auéh(^lâlSfiê&,!
the famousoEcelipfè that happen’d • ‘therein Rti’BldüÉm^BÉtit-
Ray n(irfié Sim heii^îdarkëô?dr'âbëut; -PiVe- ;thé Firft 'of
tAugy&ji in the Sixth'DegreeoP Leo : But;aé What Tirfië' fö " fix
this L^iondh thèfePartsy isfOiriethtn^ difficult to^d^fèröihé j
-yet wéjmayfeafonâbly cóh'jë&üïe ‘ïttb have beèri in that Yëar
.when CÀforam Pdetul^ ^nà. Pét^nîüsTurmilidriùs wëré^Cdnffls
under1 the Reign of Nero, and in the Yeai°01?ChiM7#!
dering the Coins of Nero which are frequently found at Chefter ;
and that that likewife Was the Time when Suetonius Paulinas
attempted the Conqueft of Anglefey : But this may adjnit of à
farther
factlieD;p'roba.bih,^ifE0m„the, Scheme W ThktybThree Legions
-i&ith^Em^^hdh i-rijb eingf) Eight Yeaisrafecwlrda ^cawn.up
Iby.MMtLeh? Emp§ro'r ^-in^which*. Mfyfcphriw relates it, he
plated the - T Wer&ieth Legiorfln Britain^ ftiled VdlWia Vifyricc,-
yvhich. Errofe dL heS^eo apfwa?!d,-j and, WrilX, farther appear fo
khmTacitm, BtoJomy0 n(§RommTy les^ug up atfifafter. vTLeyv
continu’d in; > thk-Jtafion ^whpn1 Matcus- Aureliu^AlepcanderMm
gmfferaar’ inuth^ear'of ;<ghriftv i |g | kj^a ^lfo .w h e^o n jia n tfn q
"the (Gr.e-at' had4ne,^lyhuiltygofiftantimplfi, ;thi§; Legipngrimaind
in >its old Sfetjom till the^eas, of an^prqbably.was
traMpoifed ouLOf' Britain by. Gopfydntiw, he lay mg; grpat ^frpf;
;upont his Country-men : Frequent Mulqcs,were. made of the
Briftfh Youth, and powerful! Levies trapfported, fosthe Service,
ofiith'e)Empirehi' Richard Broughton affuresjUs in his. Ecclefiaftical.
of Authqr, #th^t.fo'ear^
wenty Thopland BriUms ^ere trah,-
‘flaffld hence ior^Palefitne, and were» at the Sacking of Jerufdem:
yEArope: > but
tpw^fds.i;fhe Declenfion „of the Empire, when fo .many pume-;
rpus^i|^yh|cp|^revolted, efpecially in «^alentini^n R thq Third-’s,
about tjiq. Time of ,JEtius his Second. .Confulffiip, .he
%§gl§.theri PrefideHt .of Gallia,,, allv§he JBritifh -EqrGes. thep in..
Aapsi were mark’d away, and the whole.ifland-. left,,enervate,
di^m’d, undifciplin’d, and not one Roman Legion- to\.affim
them^ but the Inhabitants all lay expofed to the Jpfplts.pf their
miore ^potent Invaclprs..., ^
e; The Gangi may reafonably be fuppoled. to inhabit thefe Pa^ts^
^•4^.1%^° hinted before, and that ConghtU in (^ g
Btextpn in Cheshire, and -Cpngleton in\ the Hundred, of Nantroicb,
and. Kenda}e in Weftmorelayd, gnd Kentfandia. T^cajhirer!,m^ «
vqd their Denominations frotn that People by; an egfie CJorruption.
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