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 Chap. X. OF MANCHESTER. 3 tf man's Gloffary (Acceptor), who was-ignorant of the true origi- nal of the diverfion* And fee Howdl Dha's Laws lib, i. 'd 15. &c, where hawking appears to have been a favourite amufe- ment among the Britons of Wales in the tenth century. — * J Dio p. 1006. — ** Batteley's Antiq. Rutup. p. 84. See alfo Dio p. IO fo. — a$ Pliny lib. viii. c. $$. — a * Pliny lib- x. c. 21.— %7 Co- lumella (Gefner) p. 634 and 635. — %% Rixofarum avium laniftsc, cujus, plerumque totum patrimonhmv pignus aleae, vi&or Galli- paceus pufibes abftulit (Columella p. 6j5.')->— * 9 Pliny lib. x. c. zi. and Columella p. 634 and 635. — # See Itin. Cur. p. n$> a»d 156, irt. • * • .■ . . . . t ■ * The face of the'Siftuntian empire muft have exhibited nearly the farfie fylvan appearance as the general face of the ifland. It was in moil places tufted with woods, ' and it was m many over- fpread with forefts. .The fix woods which originally encircled the fix fortrefles of the primaeval Britons now fpread at a greater diftaiice about the regular towns which had been conftru&ed near them*, And the fouthern divifion of the county contained no lefs. than five or fix very confiderable forefts within it. The forefts of Pendle Rofiendalc and Blackburn e filled up nearly the whole circuit of Blackburne hundred, fpread over the now ragged fides of thofe extended moors, capped the now naked crefts of thofe numerous hills, and foftened the wildly dreary afpeft of both The foreft of Horwich poffefled all the north-wefterly region of Salford hundred, crofled a part of Derby, and ex- tended into the limits of Layland, and was as late as the four- ' tcenth century no lefs than fixteen miles in circumference And the foreft of Dirbyfhire was fo denominated becaufe it ranged over a very confiderable portion of Derby hundred, {hooting our, even in the middle of the thirteenth century, from Sankey-- water on the? eaft toBidterftaff and Aughton oA the north, the river Alt on the wdft, and the broad cvirrertt of the Mertey on the fc>uth Y y 2 The