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Chap. VIII. OF-MANC HESTER. 149 and from the additional appellation of Rex or King which is given him by Tacitus appears equally to have retained the fame fo- vereignty under the Romans ?. Nor was this all. He was even in- verted by the Romans with the fovereignty of fome other ftates, which had probably loft the line of their princes in the profc- cution of the war* and which were now fubje£ted to the fcep- ter of the Dobuni *. One of thefe was undoubtedly the Regni of Syffex and Surry * ; and the reft mull: have been the nations that lay betwixt the Dobuni and them, the two intervening tribes of the Attrebates and the Bibroces. And this extended fovereignty over a part of Warwickihire, over a confiderable portion of Buckinghamfhire, over nearly all Berkfhire, abfolute- ly over all Worcefterfhire Oxfordshire Gloucefterfhire Surry and Suflex, Cogidubnus retained to the days of Trajan *% when not only thefe k cQunties in particular, but when the whole extent of England and Wales, had been long molded into the form of a province. This was allowed in the firft and fecond centuries, and at the firft modelling of the Roman conquefts among us. And thus allowed at firft, the Britifh Sovereigns muft have equally con- tinued through all the. period of the Roman government after- wards. Accordingly we find many reguli in general within the conquered provinces of the ifland during the courfe of the third century ". Accordingly we find Cunedag reigning the king of theOtadini, and fucceeding to the fovereignty of the Ordovices, in the fourth century ; though Otadinia and Ordovicia had both been reduced into a province three ages before, and though both of them continued members' of a proving^ to the period of the Tfcoman departure *, And accordingly ^ upon 1 the retreat of the Jtomans from Britain, we fee monafcHs appear irilmediately in every quarter of the ifland, 'and the 4 whole body of the Roman- ized Britons as much diyided into fliftinit principalities as ever the primeval Britons had been, and as much under thie govern- ment of diftinft princes ,3 . . t ' Hence, and hence only, are the fubjecfc Britons reprefented by Tacitus, even in the reign of Trajan, as only brought into obe- Kk dience,