Chap,XII. OF MANCHESTER. 409 quifit? to explain at large* to remove the thick cloud which ig- norance has railed before the hiftory, to clear away the wild whimfies which folly has incorporated with the fa&», and to give a brief authentic detail of the whole. In thefe momentous particulars the citizens of Mancu&iuxa were very deeply inter- filed^ Thefe. deprived them of their fi ieodly protestors in the adjoining caftrunv of the CafUe-fiehk Thefe broke for ever the chain of connexion that had lb long and & happily fubfifted be- tweeo Mancunium and Rome. And thefe brought the ravages of war into our borders, introduced the natives, of North-Ger* many into our parifl*, apd even planted a colony of barbarians from the Elbe ia our ftreets. . f Bede'a Hift. c-i. 1. i f and Sax, Chron. p. 1.— * Notitia. —
- Antonini Itineranum p. 9* Bertius's edit. & Iter Brit. 1, a, and
la.-r^Bede'ftHift, L i. c 1 .— 5 Sax. Chron. p. i<— 6 BedeL i. c. 1- ,>5 f and San. Chron. p. 1 — tu II. THR Britiih nations beyond the Valium of Antoninus were 'fixteen in number. Of thefe feme had once been entirely re- duced by the Romans. Of thefe others had ever lemained inde- pendent ef them.
- The former confifted of fix tribes and had about twenty fta-
tkxis among them*. The Horeftii lived immediately beyond the wait, ill Sterling and in Fife, in the South-eaftern parts of Strathern and Menteith, and in that fnlall portion of Perth ' which is to the fouth of the Tay ; being bounded by the Tay on the north, and having the towns of Alauna, Lindum, and Vi&oria in their dominions. Before the coming of the Ro- man* the Horeftii had been attacked and fubdued by the Dam- G g S . »",
