i The NATURAL HISTORY >ƒ
‘ However before I leate the Anaent"InKaBitanfs^W'tEii
County, take a farther Account of them, given by that
Learned and Eminent Antiqhary, Mr. HoBingworth, once
Fellow of the Collegiate-Church &£ dManch^r^W^w^,-
nufeript beihg now K-ipofited in the Publkk-Library there.
5 The Ancient inhabitants ( I2yshe) "ot Lanf
cajhire, Wefbnorland, CumWHand and 'Durham, were
f t^e Brigantes., their chief City \ya§ %ovk,. fometifips gall’d
* Btigantia: In- Phfra/tktkk trhfcej- ^tilm&Gefialts ftruek
e a Terrour into the w^qkLand, Jay Invading at his firlt
c Entry the Brigantes, the mol populous of all the whole
cProvi|ice^; |t^any Battles, and 'Icpiq Bloblyhil^
c fought, and the greateft part of the Brigantes w ere either
c conquer’d or waited.
I dare not be pofitivgjin M attel d£ fo abftrufe a- Mature,
but myown Opinion is; 1That they OriginaUy w^e TJwg?
htitans, stoicT this"! thalr in mine hieaiiTO^endeavour tt>_
ii^ejQnLylfQi^^qlgainejOf thejfland inigener^ and the
TJ^v^iaak^Yo^ - of y .JUver. in thofe parts.; As to the
Iflan4 ,it W&i ^4 ^ haye alfcrt^f}., it wasjanokptjy call’d
Bratqnac, that word ip the 'Bh&nieimI^ngaage figriilymg
Tin, whieh wasi the chief product o f the Ilk they Traffkk’d
in: How^v^ry, thp’that aaay feein tq adrmtvof a debate,
yet, tf i^ weU known to be the C^hom of the Eflfkm-18»?-
tipns to exprefs themrfeives by Allegories,'Metaphors, .and
cancifo Exprefiiona, and fo- the ifypethefis is not irrational.
As to the derivation of the word Britannia, it may thus
he fa<&ountedifor in-,another fonte, Britt in the Briti/b
Language. flgnifiies Paint, and all our Hiftorkns agree the
Rritams were a, painted People $ and, as i§ imagined, made
ufe of the Juice of Qlaftum or Wmd, and ther Land; air that
time probably had no other Kame lave thait; Monofy liable:
But upon the Thtenkiaws arrival to Trade upon their
Coafts, which chiefly they did in Cornwall, where the 7»»
Mines were difcover’d, and whole Inhabitants were call’d
by the. Creeks. CttffiPmdss; it is very likely then their
Weights,
L / RE^QJQBhSHIRE* &c. g
W^hsiiii were
hqj$g sihen diftoysr’4
tQ the MM
Language. jg- Pojie
or B^%c§-hyx)$B^^ dW thjS, ^rnfywf
dj|fer rp^ph fjrgm, jthatt^hflS lil in eafy
corruption! .thy Urk
gant$$it it ;h rfa^nahlp/to(ponp|phpiift^efit!rti4r^ f- them i'vss6
pf- |ijyefiniJ;apfew<
k ^Wifyi^15‘in
vfti^hpjngj^gppj’drjto. hay&p V?,rf?$]'}? f
Influeq^ o y ^ V ^ r s , and f$u fhRt
■;. Hen^e j -That before the (fcaeltf
graded into and
no donb^hifep^pd t^j'jg|Eja$f|kjpj^g ,^ c e
‘thffpfofe^a B-iYftr *in thif Q^pn^yy^m •th p ^ ^ y
m m m
$Ml°W ^ak^jiLnranihjft^lit didi ( o Jqpli^ims^an rqn-
.denk|le:fki¥h^qro (to lhpp$#^
attrihuteditoitfrom the People o f ;^fewwxith&:
ieofide!(d-h«ar 4u d^haMy.hi! ' wd
beautiful Tow# now ftikd
Tn ithis.
»ro-rer That thefe People wei^rof an
-from thmr inanner of ^naking-.-iWftr < iq
ringing their Qh^riots,
Casern-not made?itk <-qf -jn
this Ifland oj^ly; This 'Ji4&,s lop#d iUjpOOj ,hfes- l^n^-
ihoniOf, the Ihe, whichiiway-^f^ T?ight*ngh§ had not- rlgqt
■wi(tfhy?ohlierin>%r^^ 5«h srii^W
qnerdrC®funtrj,es.;: -
T© thele. rqay h? adffed. the ftf a^^^iCoinof
J$ia minorir (Which Jbews xh& E»pei^e6{of;jMibif.Q^hi
B a- 'Naviga