Page:History of Manchester (1771), Volume 1, by John Whitaker.djvu/397

 &% /THE H 1ST OR X ■. BootL; at Rome was brought from the conquered £atana h} Sicily during the firft Punic war, and was fixed upon a pillar by t$ie roftruqa. This dial however was inaccurately made, the lines not anfwer- ing with precifion to the hours* But it remained the irregular ftandard of the Roman hours for the period *' of ; nft Jefi than ninety-nine years. And five years after it was flefocmed S^ipia Nafica invented an horologe which could be ferviceable on the fre- quent occafjons in which the other was ufelefei, and marked the ieveral ftages of time as well under a cloudy: as under a, funny iky and as weii in the hight as in the day. This waa a large Veflel which toeafured the courfc of the hows, by the t tickling of witter, and which Scipio fct up under cover for the ufe of, the public a V But the Britons muft have been undoubtedly as igno- rant of both at the period of the Roman invafion as the Romans ivere at the commencement of the firft Punic war* And the firft of the latter that was ever brought into the iiland muft have been introduced into it by Car far and his. army at his firft or fecond attempt upon the country *'. Both muft have been introduced into Britain by the. Romans* Both muft have beqn for ages the only regifters of the day in Mancuniunou And the o*ie therefore received the appellation of Horarium or an Hour-thing, and the other affumed the name of Diale a Dial or Day-thing* among the Roman Britons. The town of Manctmlum broft have contained within it the manfion of the baron, the dwellings of his immediately attend- ant villains, and the numerous houfcs of the artifaos. The many occupations that had been purfued by the* baronial villains before in the neighbourhood of the parifh muft have been equally pur- fued by the baronial villains now within the preciads of the town. The many mechanical profeffians that had been occa- sionally pra&ifed by fingle individuals before about the houfes of the chiefs muft have been now generally appropriated to par- ticular perfons and qow regularly followed as particular occupa- tions. The brazier the tinman the glazier the ironmonger and others, artifts all exifting before the ere&ion of Mancunium, muft now all have exifted in it. They were neceflary to the mutual