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 256 THE HISTORY Boclc I. in his armour, grafping a fcepter, and wearing a cro w«, tl:c fcepter being a ftrong weapon of iron and pointed in the form of a lily, and the crown being a circlet ftudded with ftars and fringed with three flowers above 4 *. • x Genefis chap. iv. ver. j.- — *.Caefar p. 92, Mela lib. iii. c. d, .Dio p. 957, Diodorus p. 347, Tacitus Agric Vit. c. 15. fingulo* ilbi olim reges fiiifle, and Richard p. 15. How. i neon (iftent and miftaken therefore areDio p. 1380, and Richard p.- 7? — 'Tacitus Ann. lib. xiv. c« 31. — 4 Ibid. lib. xii. c. 40.*— * Ibid: — 6 See Carte particularly vol.. I. p. 133* 137, &c. — 7 Agric. Vit. c. 14. .Cogiduno regi. And in Dio p. 957 we have Togidumnus, tthc .fon of Cunobelinq, plainly appearing from the tenor of the. hit ftory as well <as the import of his appellation to have been the Togi or leader of the Dobuni, and dying in the defence of hb dominions againft the attacks of Plautius p. 958. — ' Tachus Agric. Vit. c. xiv. Quaedam civitates— donate. — 9 See the Chir chefter infeription in Horfeley.— xo Agric. Vit. c. xiy, — " Por* phyry in that well-known but mifapplied faying, that Britain jvasthen Fertilis provincia tyrannorum (Hieron, EpHl, afl Gtefi* phontcm)-^Richard p. 15 — and Nennius c. 18.— " Appendix at Nennius c. 64, and b. I. ch. xii. f. 5. Nennius brings Cunedag de regione— «Guotadin into Ordovicia.: the genealogists therefore ate miftaken in deriving jiini from Cumberland {fee Afrona p. 146 and Carte p. 139). And Carte, who, like the orher hifto* nans, verbally denies the exigence of any Britiih kings under the provincial government, virtually acknowledges it p. 1 39 and <i 63, mentioning the kings of the Ordovices. And fee a great miftake in him p. 163 &c — " See b.IL ch.i. f. 1 - M Agric. 'Vit c. 13. — "Tacitus Ann. lib. xiv. «c. 33, atxT Dio p. * 2fl*. -And in Galgacus's fpeech (Agric. Vit. c 31) (fee Romans are •laid to call themfelves the Amici of, the Britons.— 16 Die p. idiou — -" Mona.p. 130 &c. — '* Caefar p. 92, Nennius c. 64, and 0£ •fiaifs Poems.— * 9 Tacitus Ann. Hb. xiv. c. 35, and Agric. Vitl ic. rt.-^ 10 Tacitus Ann. lib. xiv. c. 35.— *' See b. II. th. iv. f. 2. ^ • '• • . •— *^Sefc