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Chap.XII. OF MANCHESTER, 461 Turjpes, humiles, iiipplicesque, Pi&orum fola bafiate Regum. Lib* x. Ep. 72. And if Dio's exprcffion could prove any thing, it muft prove* not the freedom of the monarchical government* but the exift- encc of a popular. But indeed fuch ftrokes as thefe muft be -ever cxpe&ed in the prefent period, the well-meaning though im- pertinent language of the times, in which antient hiftory is drefled up d t Angleterrt^ and Truth is facrificed at the (hrine of Liberty. P. 5.— The Attrebates, whom I have (hewn to have refided ia the north of Berkshire and to have been native Britons, are planted by Mr. Hume " in the fouth-eaft" of th6 ifland, and are reckoned among the Belgae or cultivated inhabitants* — -The Silures, who inhabited Hereford Radnor and Monmouth counties, are faid by Mr. Hume merely to inhabit the banks of the Severne. P. 6. — " London** (in the days of Boadicia) " already a floU- " rifhing Roman colony /* It was at this period no colony at all. — The feventy thoufand men whom Boadicia maffacred in Ca* malodunum Verulamium and Londinium are all butchered by Mr. Hume " in London/* Thefe confifted of Romans and Socii, the Belgje in alliance with them* But Mi Hume calls them the Romans and " Strangers*'* P. 7.—" Agricola drew a rampart between th6 friths df Forth " and Cluyd*" He only carried a line of forts acrofs the ifthmus. . — "Caledonia was defended by its b&rrtn mountain* and " by the contempt which the Romans entertained of it.' Be witnefs the attempts of Agricola of Lollius and of Severus t<* fubdue it. «« Lollius repaired tt rampart of Agricdla." He United the old forts by a new rampart. — " Severus added new fortifications to the wall of Hadrian. Hadrian's wall was of earth, SeverusV of ftone. They were O o o therefor*