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Chap. IV. OF MANCHESTER. to 5 to the fouth o£ Seteia " The rfhole soQnty of Cheftft appears to have been as mutih fubje€t to the Brigantes in thd time of Ptolemy; as the counties of Laficafter Weftmoreland and Cum* fcrland ] and therefore Ptolemy equally cedes theiti all to the Brigands. He particularly extends tl>eir paffeffioos oil this weftern fide to the channel of the Dee, ejftptefriy affigniiig them all the region that reached up to thd Qrdovices, who ccrtaihly lived beyond k IJ . And he particularly fixes the GofnavfL, dot at all to the north of the Ordovices* in. Ghefhire, but abfohrtely and entirely to the eaft of them, j in the regid&s t>f Shropshire tad Staffordshire. . . » % The eruption of the Carnabii muft have beei> undoubtedly prior to the invafion of the Brigantes, and the invafion muft have been equally prior to the migration of the Brigantefc fr6xa our weftern coaft into Ireland about the years 5 1 or 5 % of the Chriftiau sera 1+ . The migration appears plainly, from the friendly accompaniment of the Lancashire Cangii with the Briv gantes in; it ls f , to have been many years after the Aivafio^ and when the conquered had fabdued the firft natteral inipreflkms 6f ayepfion* and now began to agfboittye: iiv friendship with their QOnqtieiQcs. And the invafion na?v*fr iwp been a confiderabb number, of years after the eruption, as in the interval beftthft both the mighty conquerors of three or four counties were re- duced enough in character to be attacked within their original dominions, .anjl were (link enough in reality to be even fabdued within their native territories. But, Condate being thus poflfefled .by the invading Brigantes,* the unfubdued Garnabii of Flintfliixfe Shropshire Staffordshire Warwickshire and Leicestershire natu- rally erected a new capital, and raifed Uriconiu or Wroxeter tp that honour. And Uriconiu appears to have been pofleffed of it at the . period of the Roman invafion, Condate having, then U4t all its former luftre, and being reduced under the dominion; of the Brigantes and- the Supremacy of Ifeur. their metropolis 'V . 1