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Chap. XII. OF MANCHESTER. .451 And iu Bede's Hift. lib iii. c. 3. we find the Belgae of the fouth expreflly denominated Scots. — 7 ° Richard p. 53, and Bede's Eccl. Hift. lib. i. c. 1. — :I Gildas c. r 1. Scoti a Circio, and c. 15. Trans Tithicjam Vallem ve&i — Scotorum PiSorumque greges, and Bede lib. i. c.i. — 71 Oflian vol. i. p. 236. See alfo p. 48 and 59. — 71 P. 48 and 71, 59, 81, 236, 260 and 267, vol. i; and p. 203. vol. ii, — Fingal, by the tradition of Ireland, died in 283.— 74 Richard p. 53. And as the ready paflage of the Scots after- wards acrofs the Cluyd into Valentia fufficiently evinces, and the exprefs aflertion of Bede lib. i. c. 1. confirms, he fettled the Scots on the fouth-eaftern fide of his dominions and in the pre- i'ent (hire of Argyle. And the Scots have always confidercd Argylcfhire as the feat of their firft fettlement in Britain.— 7 * Ammianus lib. xxvii. c. 8. V, THE provinces being thus vigoroufly aflailed upon the north and eaft, and the tenth the feventh and the twentieth legions being probably tranfported out of the ifland at the fame period, as I have already (hewn the laft of them to have been certainly refident among us nearly to the middle of the fourth century % the remaining troops of the ifland were only the fixth Vi&orious and the fecond Auguftan legions and a body of auxiliaries.* This body however was more than the regular auxiliaries belonging to two legions. This body was nearly the whole number be- longing to four. As the auxiliary cavalry was double in num- ber to the legionary, as the latter was fomewhat more than (even hundred men to each legion, and as the former was thrown into alae or independent troops of four or five hundred men *, fix alae muft have been the complement of auxiliary horfe for a couple of legions. But the Notitia expreflly mentions eleven bodies of cavalry in the ifland, five of them fpecified as alae, and the other M m m 2 fix;