But tlie möré; fully' fö evidence the Truth ofithis Cora-
jeéfure, I fbalHn a QuaÉà'tloa
from Divine Authority. M#
In the Second place, clearly and fully evince, that the „Brito
^ in thofe Days worftupped the fame Beities: as the Monitions
did.
And in the Third and Laft place make it .evident,; that in
Nero’s Tim&'k :Btk$> Queen wore a 6 oRféw-2 %*Ma^i^iGh
fuffidently demonftrates the Britains traded rWidi other -Nations
before Cafar made his Attempts upon this .Ifland,
which from the fubfeqüent Obffervationt■ may föirly fa jwbvjftL
to be Phoenician.
Of the Firft ; Ezekiel, Chap. n f gives f a this Geographical
Account, which, if I miftake pot, ^xa^ly^^p^dratesjMdtJi
the Reverfe of the forementioned Coin ; and fully illuftrates to
usj tew from their vaft Induftry, jSkiUand g^ençe in ^ ^ g a -
tion they might tranfplant thèmfdvesMfhçriThat tfa People of
finis, which was one of the chief Qiûes^LPhænicia,ym!tà^^t^
at the Entry of the Sea, were; Merchants and a People for
many Ifles, that their Stóps were;fn&de Of tfeg- ^ É É É
Senir, and their Mails of the Cedars of Lebanon, that* they had
Oars from the Oaks of B&(ba?t, Beaches,'of Ivory frop>_the
Afhuntes, brought out of the Jfles o f Qfâtîm ; embroidered Lfa-
nea from fligyp for their Sails, Blue' and Purple from the
Ifles oî EliJha, the Inhabitants of Zidon and 'Arvad werp' thek
Mariners,-and the Wife-Men in Tyrws their Pilots, the Wife-
Men of frefe/and Ancients thereof their Calkers, that all : thie
Sti,ps of , the Sea were there to occupy thefa Merchandize,
thofe of Per fia, of Ltd and of Phutxvevt in thek Armies.: Ob-
ferve here Ltd in the Hebrew Language fignifieslfafa a
Country bordering upon Phoenicia; that therefore the Britifh
j Kong afluming that Name (from whom the City of London,
DANCAS HfRE,CHEj S f f i p E ^Scc.~ 6J
as^fuofr, cfafaurfafa denominated.^ v fepms to me t to producer
* that tfa had difcovered the, whole Iflandi 1 face' it
Is) probable)- he might chjefl^giieifr the, %me from fome eminent
^dmn, , fa ,moft;ndfargdh^pug, th§f Pfp^uci^ns’, vsfretfar
it be fa op no, I faaflfi^^afa /up^n^e^tQ; de^rfafl^:> How-
: rqiyfpierit tfa^H^e^faiqujrie^falfaJfa310^ . That the
Phoenicians Tr|ad^dt i^^^%§eytam4 ^hjch by the fall Cqmr
mentat^irf
fal, amongft which,
its probable,the Britains may fa: ineludfd ; that tfay Jikewyfe
traded. |n precious deaths f«?r their Chariots,- an;ln%ument
only-that they as well, as the' Ariteinx, made ufe\qf ,m Fight-
Having nowckprfd the firft Head, Ifriafl proceed to. tfa
fecund, and that is, to proyo that tfair Way of Worlhip in
Britain and Phoenicia was the fame; which, if I miftake not
duly -weighing tfa preceding Argum^nj^itorwit», i$u?:Plmticia*
Words in thefe Parts and Manner of Fighting, . with their
prodigious Mfrchandining, puts it beyond (fantradi|kipn, that
. this %nd muftl«q#[arily ,fa. mhabfad from that ^Country,
in a .great Meafpr-n at leaffa l]fa,Lekies tfay the^warlhip-
ped retained tfa following Names, and Afiarte, o f which
P'm fa^$gi.vqstfa following Account :ia.his Life of Nero.
The BritUk Amazon. Bonduca ovBoadicia,- faysfaq,; before ihe
^engaged the Romans, with heT'Handsfrft, uptto rfaeaven,' had
this Ejaculation; 0 Aftmte, Ttot€^rix|,6T^fae«, iinvocate thee.
Now the Phomicianf^iLs well a^lfa,; .wpclhipped Afiarte, by that
meaning the Maon-or Terw, which . fometim.es, they,.termed
Venus, fometimes Belifama, Cometimes Piana and fometimes
Proferpna, from the,benign -fafluenee tha{\tfay expected from
, her in the Rivers, Woods, Vallies and their Pleasures,; fee being
ftiled Belifama upon the Waters, in the Woods Diana, in the
, Vallies Proferfima; and when they implored her Affiftance for
Plea