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History of the Parish and Town of Bampton
History of the Parish and Town of Bampton Author:John Allen Giles General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Printed at the author's private press Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this... more » book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FREDERICK WHITAKER ESQUIRE, OF BAMPTON, ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF OXFORD, THIS HISTORY OF HIS NATIVE TOWN IS DEDICATED BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND AND FAITHFUL SERVANT THE AUTHOR. chapter{Section 4 of B AMP TON. The geography of Britain, as of all the modern countries of Europe, has undergone at least two, perhaps in some parts three changes of nomenclature since the beginning of the Christian era. The names of places, which occur in early British history, whilst the ancient Batons still enjoyed independence, were mostly altered or modified by the Romans. The Italian pronunciation still delights to give euphony to the Teutonic and Celtic names of the north, by adding vowels and syllabic terminations to the uncouth consonants of the native idiom. After the departure of the Romans, the country, now called England, but at that time Britain, was invaded and conquered by the Saxons. The first leaders of this tribe of barbarians, Hengist and Horsa, landed about the year of our Lord 449, and at the end of a hundred and fifty years, during which there were continual wars between them and the Britons, we find that the names of most of the towns were changed or in some way modified by the new-comers. t The British prince, who bravely opposed the invasion of Julius Caesar, is thought to have been called Caswallon in his native tongue; but the classic ears of the Roman invaders softened the term into the more flowing majesty of Cassibellaunus or Cassibelinus. Cunobelin or C...« less