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The Right Honourable the Earl of Warrington The Right Honourable the Earl of Westmoreland The Right Honourable the Earl of Winchelfea; Two Books His Excellency General Wade; One The Reverend Doctor Waterland Henry Williams, Efq; The Reverend Mr. Mofes Williams; One John Woodward, M. D. One Royal Y The Reverend Mr. Obadiah Yates, ReEtor of Bolton. Itinerarium PARTI. CHAP. I. An Account of the Romans in the Southerly Parts of Britain, till the Time of Julius Agricola's Invading Caledonia, or Scotland, with a Roman Army. AVING, in my Preface, hewn the Advantages attending the valuable Study of Antiquity, as alfo the Motives which induced me to undertake this Work; the next Thing neceffary, is, To give an Account of the Time, when the lfland of Britain was firft invaded by the Romans, and of their chief Actions there, till Agricola's March into Caledonia: All which, I fhall do with as much Brevity as poffible, feeing am not to act the Part of an Hiftorian, but to introduce, in their due Order of Time, the Affairs of Roman Antiquity, in the Northern Parts of the Ifland: Nor fhall I trouble my Reader, with enumerating the many fabulous Accounts of the Romans in our Country, given by fome of the British Hiftorians in the Monkifh Times; their Contradictions to Claflick Authority, fufficiently known in this learned Age, bear evident Marks of having been originally no more than idle and Monaftick In ventions. N I fhall, therefore, at prefent, confine my felf to that concile Account, given us by Tacitus, of the Romans firft landing in our Inland, and the Succeffion of their |