Page:History of Manchester (1771), Volume 1, by John Whitaker.djvu/37

 i* ■'*■ THE HISTORY BookL and formed ftinb have been found with hM»a» bones at th# Britifh tempDe of Abvury (Stukdksy P^SS)*-*-' 6 One fotmd at Tabley Cheshire, }tm. CurioC, p«54- t — «' 7 I>ugd»le f 778, and Plott p. 403 and plate. •■ A Gelt of brafs* ape inch longer thajOr this, was found in a Britiifr ba^jjow upon Salilbury Plain; as a, targe brafe weapon like a pole^e* and twelve pounds heavier fcban this, was diicovered ij&anpiher (Stukeley's Stonehenge p. 46)^ And ia the Mufaeum at Oxford aw fcwt«en or fifteen, of thefe axea, three ' or fcrt*c in ftone* and the reft in bnafs r but all fntatl and light.— ** Strabo p. 306* and Diodorus p. 33 2, -.-t 19 Cicero Epifh ad Fam* lilx vii* £. 6, 7* and Caefar p. 79- and 80. — 40 Caefcr ibid, and Tacitus Agric. Yit. e. 35, and 36.— .** Mela; lib. iii» c. 6, Offian p> ii « vol I, and b. 1, ch. be. fe&. 2; and Caefer p. 79 and Diodorus p, 352*. compared with Tacitujs c. xiu AgFic* Vifc. and GfTian and this. Work ibid. lit: WHEN the SiftuAtii firft fitted in; the coijnty of Lanc?vftcr, they would naturally ereft no ttwne because they oonld dread no invaders, and the-area of our Caftie-field eauft.havc been left covered with the *>aks of its native woods* They could fear nothing from the Britons of Ch&flure, of whom they muft have been a colony > or b^ whom they mwft have, been permitted to march, through their country into,Lan<£ftiir$. ^ Thsy could fear , nothing from* the more fouthcrly Btko&s*. for whofe iuperfluous numbers there were all the uninhabited counties, of the Norths and to whofe colonies they were ready* to am*d x peaceable pa f-, fage through their country, Atid when thp Belgae of .the iouth- ern coaft>. about one hundred years, before Cforift, extended thehr. encroachments into the inteciour regions of the ifland,. the many refugees retired not into the more northerly cowtics* and either" gained a fettlement by allowance or fecured one by uolencet. among them* but pafled over immediately to their brethren, u^ Ireland The political fears, of the Siftuntii uxufl havft been* firft excited, and their political precautions firit taken, upon an; incident^.