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The History and Antiquities of the Town of Lancaster ....
The History and Antiquities of the Town of Lancaster Author:Robert Simpson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: '''Ptolemy, in the eleventh book and third chapter of his Geography, fixes the limits of the dominions of the Brigantes, according to the best exposition of that... more » author, after this manner. The Brigantes are bounded on the north side by the two rivers Vedra and Ituna. By the river Vedra is to be understood Tyne, and by the Ituna is meant the river Eden and Solway Frith; and Ptolemy says expressly, that the Brigantes' dominions reach from sea to sea. The limits of the Brigantes on the south, Ptolemy fixes thus, according to those who have explained him, the river Abus on the southeast ; by Abus we must understand Humber; and on the south-west, Ptolemy makes the Brigantes and Ordovices to join one upon another. By this rule, the Brigantes reached as far as the river Deva; and Dr. Gale endeavours to prove that Chester belonged to the Brigantes, because of an altar found in that city, which was inscribed and dedicated to the goddess, Brigantia. According to these limits of the dominions of the Brigantes, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland; all these five counties made up the dominions of the Brigantes. So that the Brigantes possessed the largest dominions of any people in all Britain in the time of the Romans." The following is Camden's account of these ancient Britons:— " This was a people stout and numerous ; and is very much commended by the better sort of through part of Dauphiny, and empties itself into the Rhine, near Valence. Here reigned, before the year A.D. 60, Venutius and his queen Cartismandua.—History of Knaresbro' p. 279. Rauthmal's History of Overborough, p. 39, 40. ancient writers; who all name them Brigantes, except Stephanus in his book of Cities, who calls them Brigce. What he says of them in that place, we know not; the sentence...« less