Page:History of Manchester (1771), Volume 1, by John Whitaker.djvu/476

Ch*p.XlL OP MANCHESTER.. 4 +I thi Cdfliteri* of the PhoBftteiatts, and the Silura of Solinus. th* ifland that I have (hewn to have once exifted near the weftera point of Cornwall, to have been divided from It by a dangerous . ftrait, and to have been fihee broken intb a variety of (heals ifldts and rocks ,s . The embarkation was made under the con- duit of Lafthon, the ibvereign Of the £)atanoriii or the (libj6& Carfftterides 3< And the Vodi*, a* we (hall di redly perceive, muft have been the flrft colony of the Belga* in Ireland. Thcffe muft have been immediately followed by the Velabo- rii, the Lucenii, and the Ibernii, all equally Belgic as the Vo- dise, and with them the only Belgic colonies that appear to have landed upon the ifland. The Velaborii, Velabcri, of Veliberi 5 muft have been the Damnonian inhabitants of Vo* liba or Voluba in Cornwall Ji , Volub-er-ii fignifying the men of # Voluba. The Lucenii muft have been the Damnonian inhabi- tants of Cenia in Cornwall 3 % Liicd Cenia importirig the people of Cenia, and the D (as I have (hewn) being quiefcent among the Iriih. The Ibernii muft have been derived from the Iber- nio of Ravennas and the prefent Beare in Dorfetfliire, and ap- pear accordingly to have had a town denominated Ibernio or Beare in Ireland. And the Vcklke muft therefore have been the Belgae that came from the Silley ifland. Within five or fix years after thefe fettlcments of the Bclgg in the fbuth, upon the invafion of the Brigantian territories in the year 5 1 by Oftorius, a body of the Brigantes took (hipping upon our weftem coaft, and pu(hed over to the coaft of Ireland 3 With the Brigantes embarked a body of Cangi or Cangani 3 % the Cangii of our Siftuntians, as appears plainly from their other appellation of Concangii 40 , a name appropriate to the capita! town of the Siftuntian Cangii in Britain, and retained by fbme of the inhabitants of it on their removal into Ireland. And thus the Siftuntii, who had already planted a colony upon the eaftern (hore of the ifland, now planted another upon the weft- em* Th* eaftern coaft was now nearly occupied from end to' end, and the Brigantes entered upon the only vacant portion of it. Iii thifr fitUation, the Concangii 'were forced to crofs the central L 1 1 parts