Page:History of Manchester (1771), Volume 1, by John Whitaker.djvu/498

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Chap, XII. OF MANCHESTER. 463 of Antoninus and the fifth 6f Richard commence from the. weft- crn, and muft probably be as much maimed at the beginning rfs the firft. This route would carry the road in a ftraight dire&ion from north-eaft to foufh-weft, and not in fo ftrange a courfe as Mr. Horfeley has given it, firft tending to the north-weft to Old Town, then turning nearly weft to Whitley Caftle, and then, and not before, proceeding to the fouth-weft. And this would carry it (I apprehend), nearly by Peebles to Appleby,, leaving Wlntley-Caftle a little diftant on the left, and pointing dire&ly jxito Lancafhire and Cheflrire. — " Notitia. — . 3+ Richard p, 28, and Notitia. —See Bede Eccl. Hift. lib. i. c. 12* — " Notitia, and Horfeley. p. 105. * Some of* the. thirteen interior ftations were moft probably in Valentia.— ** Notitia. — 57 Nennius p* i42.(Ber- tram), Ad habitandum. — ,8 Claudian de Laud. Stil. 1. ii. — Me. — me juvit Stilicho.— 39 Nennius p. 142. — See a miftake therefore in Carte p. 213,, a Note. — 4 ° The Triades in Carte p. 213,, and Vaughan's Chron* in Carte p. 202. — 41 Carte JJ..175. — 4 * See No* bilis inLlhyud. And fo Scor-na-Fina,Scor-na-Kerri,&c. — 4, Clau- dian de L.,StiL l f .iu — Totam aim movit Iernem Scotus, & infefto fpumavit remige Thetys. — 44 Claudian ibid.;, and- Oflian p. 84- vol. i. — 4 'P. 162 and 66- vol. ii, and p. 75, vol. i. —

  • Nennius p. 102 and 142, Eubonia; and fee c. iL Nennius.— -

' 47 Nennius ibid. — 48 Carte p. 169, from the Lives of the Irifh Saints, —* 49 Claudian ibid. — ♦** Nennius p. 102 and 142, regione Manau Guotadin. — 5I Nienniu^p.142, ab omnibus regionibus Bri- tannicis. — 5 * See b. II. c. i. f. 2.-r— ° Having now deduced the hiftory to the final departure of the Romans, and now lofing the ufeful afliftance of Richard,, it may be proper to note lbme lit- tle miftakes into which this well-informod antiquarian ha* fallen, and which thave not mentioned before. Thus p. 28 he places the Maeatae in Valentia, whom. I have (hewn to have inhabited .Vefpafiana. Thus p. 50 he calls Divitiacus the King of the -^dui,. when he was King of the Sueflones. Thus p.. 52 he calls London a colony in the days of Boadicia, when Tacitus exgrefsly declares it not to have been a colony.. And thus p. 52 he