5 8 "THE HISTORY Book h parts areifoefe, ivhkh Efficiently of tbemfelves betray the in- terpolating hand of Richard : Iter i y Verolamie municipio i z [unde fuit Atnphibalus et Albanus ^fertyres] ; Iter 3, Camolo* duno Colonia 9 £Ibi erat templum Claudii, Arx triumphalrs* et imago vifiborke Deae] ; Iter 4* Eboraco Manicip. [olkn Colonia Sexta] ; Iter 1 1 , Ifca Colonia 9 {unde fuit Aaron Martyr] ; &c. —
- See No. i> Appendix 4, 9, and 10 Itinera, -w 7 Tacitus Vit<
Agrrc c. zz y 29, and 38, — * P. 52 ; and fee b. L. ch. xii, f. 2. • Richard p. 5 2.— IQ Tacitus c. Kxiii.r— lx Horfeley p. 158.— ,2 Tar eitus c. xxiii and xxix. — " Horfeley p. 203 and 52.— ,4 Richard p. 52. and Hift. Aug. Scriptores p. 19. Paris 1*620.— •" P. 50 of Cafauboa's remarks upon Capitolinus ibid* — • '* Horfeley ac r cordingly corge£fcured it to be a little to the hoithof Iuvemefs. — > 17 Iter 9 and 10.— ,8 P« £. a Conftantinopoii u{que&c. awl p. 20a Bertius's edition. See a miftake therefore in Gale, Horfeley* and others, who merely from the title of the work, and in di- reft contradiction to thefe paflages, have fuppoied it to be written by onfe <>f the emperours that bore the name of Antoniniis* and particularly" under Caracalia the laft of thdm.^ '* In Richard is a Map of Britain drawn up by himfelf (as* he (ays) fecuhduril ftdem monumentorum jperveterum. This Mr. "Bertram thinks Ihperiour to all the reft of Richards Commentary for the curi- eufhefs and antiquity of it (Preface). This is agreatcuriofity undoubtedly, being the oldeft map of the ifland that is riow ex- tant, and the only old map of Roman Britain. Maps of the ifland however were not uncommon in Richard's time. He himfelf Ipeaks^of fome as recentiore aevo defcriptas* and gene- rally known (p. 3). And this is but of little value. It is fre- quently inaccurate. It frequently contradi&s its Qvfot Itinerary:. — ■* Richard alfc* drew up an Hiftory of England under the tide of Speculum hiftoriale de geftis regum Angliae. The hope of meeting with difcoveries as great in the Roman-BritHh and 5 in the, Saxon hiftory as he has given us concerning the preceding period induced me to examine the work. A MS. copy is pre- ferred in the publick library at Cambridge, Ff, r, 28, contain- ing 5 1 6 pages. But my expectations were greatly difappointedl 5 The
