Chap. VIII. OF MANCHESTER, $^ — " See the Pttrfaee to W«tt#tf$; editor -~ tJ See the original Preface or Pre&$$s to thr Laws.*-*** 1 Lib. I. c. ix. art 2, 7, and 8. •~* 5 In Ireland (fan Ww), the fucoeflbr was appointed by the common rotes of the- peoplr (Ant. Hib. o. viii*). And fee G 3. for all below the nobles Having no power or weight ia the affairs of government*-*— m6 Howel Dha lib. iv. e. 65. A. 4* — » • 7 Ibid.—* n See.Wotton's edition.-*** 9 Lib. i. c* 4-7. A. 8. And compare it with the accounts of theLetty or bedrooms of the great officers* Jn- (or, as it undpubtediy ought to be franflatied,over). the Necad was. the bedroom, of the royal heir, Thpw. (fays c. 9) he (hall deep attended by yoong nobles. Another great office* lay ift (over) the granary (c. 15), another in (over) the ddyit (c. 21), And k third in (oVet) the Jritehcn (c. 2(5).—— w Lib; ii. c' 1. A* 6. (In many houfe9 it was of ftone, p; 362), and lib.i. c. 42L — " Lib* L c. i 9. A. 9*' And fee an Exthk& from Fieta m Note to Preface, and Camden c. 33 1 . Gibfcn.-^'* Lib.-i v c. 17. A. 6. — * Lib. i. c. 18. A. 7. and lib. i. c. 17. A. 9. — +** Lib; i. c«i 3^. A. 2.— S5 Howel lib. i. c. 1, Aflerii Alfredus p. 4, Sax. Chroft. p. 99, and Florence of Worcefter p. 62 3, Frtnkibrt edit*. ~± •* Lib. i. : c. 20,- fc. 18. A. 4, and c. 40. A. 15.— " See Extract from Pletain Note to Preface to Howel Dha.— - 1f Lib. i. c. *>&e.
- Xab. i. c. 15, c. 17, and c. 18. — > 4 ° Extract from Fieta in Pre-
face to Howel Dfha.—^ 1 Lib. i. c. 14.— 4f Lib. L c. 12 and 1$.— - 41 Lib, ii c. 15.—- ■♦* Lib. i. e. 12.-*- */ Lib. i. c. 15.—- 4 * Ibid.— " Pegge*s Coins of Cunobeline N' 3. daft 2 and ISP 5. clafi r; Com 15,-169 and 20, in BorlafeV Corhtoall b. iii. ch. xii; atifl Agric. Vit. c.12. — ** N p 3, clafs 2 and N* 5. dafsi inPegge, and Borlafe's Coins 16 and 20. — *• Seek ill l&fona pi 158. X . } ' • . J. . . . • t. • ft. 5 WHEN the great tolony of the Siftuntii was firft led into the watery plains of Lanc&fhire, the coirirtiandant or fovereigjn of them, the youriger fon moft probably of fomc of the mote Southerly Jungs, muft have taken poffeflion of the lands by •the L 1 privilege
