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 28 THE HISTORY Book L. dum Britanni vocant quum fylvas impeditas vallo atque fi?fs& munierunt. P. 87. The Britons ie in fylvas abdiderunt, locum na&i egregie et natur& jet opere munitum.— u B. I. ch x. feft. 3* — ,4 Caefar p.. 84. and 126, Tacitus Ann. lib. iir. c. 42, and. Offian vol. I. p. 38 &c. — ,s Baxter's' Gloflar. See alfo Camden p. 426. edit. 1607. — l6 Di&ionaire Celtique torn. I. p. 281 and 293. — I7 So Ruthven is pronounced Ruthen at prefent. — ,8 Offian vol. I. p. 32, 39, and 97. Hence the great wood to the weft of the Severn is ftill denominated Dean or The Foreft. — 19 B. I. ch. x. p. 3. a * — — - Paflimque armenta videbant Romanoque foro, et lautis mugire carinis^ ^Eneid. lib. vii;* IV. THIS niuft have been the ftate of the Britifh Mancemon ia the Caftle-field, this muft have been the condition of all the extended country around it, when the Romans firft advanced? into Lancashire. And the former had been now conftrufted a little riiore than a century. In the regular progrefs of their arms from the fouth, the Romans attacked the powerful and numerous tribe of the Brigantes in the year 72 or 73. This attack was made under the t^ommand of Cerealfs, but was con- fined by him to the proper Brigantes, the inhabitants of York- (hire and Durham. In cohfequence of it, and after feveral bloody engagements, equality of valour gave way to fuperiority* of difci- pline, and the proper Brigantes relu&antly fubmitted V Thus. ' were the Siftuntii of Lancafhire and their northern allien atci- deritafly freed by the Romans from the dominion of the Brigarites^ But weakened as perhaps they ftill were by their ftruggle with, that warlike tribe, and confcious of their inability to make an. effeftual bppofition to the fubduers of their conquerors, they muft every moment have expe&ed and dreaded an invafion from the Romans. And in this ftate of impotence and fear they con- tinued to the year 79 * ; when one of the ableft officers nv the 5 - Roman