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Chap. V. OP MANCHESTER, 159 and the triumphal inscription M . The mfcription naturally va* ried in its manner, and the plate in its weight ; the name of the conquered nation being fometimes eicprefely infcribed upon the plate, as m the two firft and m the laft ; and being fomc-» times explained only by the place of its eredion, as in the third j apd the weight being fometimes one hundred pounds, as in the laft ; fometimes only fifty, as in the third ; and fometimes much kfe* as in both the firft probably 'V The Cheihire pieces of lead then were origmally defigned b^ the Romans a* a rtiafiumertt of triumph and the record of A victory over the CfeangL And this defign of them afceitains at once the pofkion of thefe Ceangi* Being the fervants dHf rite Carnabii and the attendants upon their cattle, they lived in the northern borders of their country, and in the marfhy giomndk particularly which ftill extend- for many miles by Norton Runch* orne and' Frodiham along the (here of the Merfey. . In thefe grounds were the pieces dag up, and in them muft the victory have been obtained* And the Ceangi over whom it was gained were very diftin£t from; the three tribes with whom they have been often confounded ; from the Cangi, who bordered immedi- ately upon the country of the Iceni, and who mull theiteibre have inhabited the wild extent of Cannock Foreft iu Staffiard- fhire;.from the Cangani, whole habitations ft retched along the weftern fhore of Caernarvonfhire j and -from the CangiL,. who dwelt amid the ftmthem hills of Weftinorelaad '*. Separated fitofn the ..firft by. the interpofiug Carnabii, and* front: the fecond by. the intervening Carnabii and Grdovices. together, they were equally feparared from the laft- by the whole interna* diafce region of the Siftuntii. ;> But the dices of' thefe infcriptuww are obvioufly difierflDty the one referring to a vi&ofcy in the reign of Vefpafian . and : in (tie year 76 particularly, and the other to a vi&biy ift the reign of Domitian. The former isfcriptioa* like* the infirriptrorts of Notth-Somerfecihire, refers without queftion td-the original con- <jueft of the country; and the latter like the infcriptkMitf'of South^fcmarfet&ire ani Yoddhi**, t& she fupp«fii©a of a tub* fequent