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Shap. $1. 6 E MA , N, CHEST E R. *o ? - 1 Origen on Ezek. torn, iv. — Britannia — confenfit, andGildas c 7 and 8. — a Gildas c. 7 and 8. — 3 Ignatius* s Epift. ad Smyr- naeos f.8. and ad Polycarpum f. 6 &c. (Ruflell.) — «■ Sirmondus's Concilia Gallica Lutetiae 1629, .torn. I. p. 9. — s Richard p. 15 — 4 Sirmondus torn. I. p;g.^^ 7 Tacitus Ann. lib. xiv. c. 33. — 8 Ufher, Selden, Spelman, Stillingfleet, &c. — 9 Gale's Antoninus, Baxter, Carte, . &c. — IO Bede calls the region Lindiffis and the town Lindo-colina lib. ii. c. 16. — V Wren's Parentalia p. 265. — 11 Marcellinus lib. xxvii. c. 8. Lundinium vetus oppidum quod Auguftam pofteritas appellavit. — IJ Ch. vi. f. 4. — l4 Notitia. — xs Ibid. — ,6 Somner's R. Forts in Kent p. 9 &c. — 17 Richard p:2i. 9ad Carte, p, 214. a Note, And the. bifliop of Valentia.was equally abfenf, . whoie fee was at-. Leucophibia or Whitern in Galloway ;. a .fee being, fettled thpre in the times of the Britons, and Nynias a Briton being bifhop of it multo • tempore before 565, Bede lib. iiL c. 4. The.fhxry of king Lucius, which has been ibgreatly canvafled by our hiftorical critics, can belrue only in the manner in which it is xeprefented by Mr. Carte vol.. I. p. 137. And I have, already evinced that there were kings in Britain, beneath the Roman go- vernment. But the two coins impreffed with a crofs and the letters LVC, firfl: mentioned by archbifhop Ufher and more or lefs depended upon by all, muft certainly he fpurious. . Ufher's manner of mentioning them renders the fa& infinitely precarious. He had feen two coins, he fays, which were marked with the fign of the crofs and Literis obfcurioribus quae LVC denotarc vldebantur (p. 22, 1687). And no Britifh king, as I ! have al- ready fhewn from Gildas,. was allowed to mint monqy after the Roman conqueft. C H Ai EL.