Early Britain—Roman Britain eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Early Britain—Roman Britain.

Early Britain—Roman Britain eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Early Britain—Roman Britain.

[Footnote 379:  Procopius, ‘De Bello Gothico,’ ii. 6.]

[Footnote 380:  See my ‘Alfred in the Chroniclers,’ p. 6.]

[Footnote 381:  See p. 175.]

[Footnote 382:  See p. 168.]

[Footnote 383:  ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,’ A. 491:  “This year Ella and Cissa stormed Anderida and slew all that dwelt therein, so that not one Briton was there left.”]

[Footnote 384:  Chester itself, one of the last cities to fall, is called “a waste chester” as late as the days of Alfred (’A.-S.  Chron.,’ A. 894).]

[Footnote 385:  In the districts conquered after the Conversion of the English there was no such extermination, the vanquished Britons being fellow-Christians.]

[Footnote 386:  For the British survival in the Fenland see my ’History of Cambs.,’ III., Sec. 11.]

[Footnote 387:  Romano-British relics have been found in the Victoria Cave, Settle.]

[Footnote 388:  ‘Comm. on Ps.  CXVI.’ written about 420 A.D.]

[Footnote 389:  ‘Epist. ad.  Corinth.’ 5.]

[Footnote 390:  Catullus, in the Augustan Age, refers to Britain as the “extremam Occidentis,” and Aristides (A.D. 160) speaks of it as “that great island opposite Iberia.”]

[Footnote 391:  ‘Menol.  Graec.,’ June 29.  A suspiciously similar passage (on March 15) speaks of British ordinations by Aristobulus, the disciple of St. Paul.]

[Footnote 392:  Nero.  This would be A.D. 66.]

[Footnote 393:  It is less generally known than it should be that the head of St. Paul as well as of St. Peter has always figured on the leaden seal attached to a Papal Bull.]

[Footnote 394:  Tennyson, ‘Holy Grail,’ 53.  This thorn, a patriarchal tree of vast dimensions, was destroyed during the Reformation.  But many of its descendants exist about England (propagated from cuttings brought by pilgrims), and still retain its unique season for flowering.  In all other respects they are indistinguishable from common thorns.]

[Footnote 395:  See also William of Malmesbury, ‘Hist.  Regum,’ Sec. 20.]

[Footnote 396:  See p. 62.]

[Footnote 397:  See Introduction to Tennyson’s ‘Holy Grail’ (G.C.  Macaulay), p. xxix.]

[Footnote 398:  See Bp.  Browne, ‘Church before Augustine,’ p. 46.]

[Footnote 399:  Chaucer, ‘Sumpnour’s Tale.’]

[Footnote 400:  Epig. xi. 54:  “Claudia coeruleis ...  Rufina Britannis Edita.”]

[Footnote 401:  See p. 141.]

[Footnote 402:  Epig. v. 13.]

[Footnote 403:  Tacitus, ‘Ann.’ xiii. 32.]

[Footnote 404:  See p. 69.]

[Footnote 405:  Lanciani, ‘Pagan and Christian Rome,’ p. 110.  The house was bought by Pudens from Aquila and Priscilla, and made a titular church by Pius I.]

[Footnote 406:  Homily 4 on Ezechiel, 6 on St. Luke.]

[Footnote 407:  ‘Adversus Judaeos,’ c. 7.]

[Footnote 408:  ‘Eccl.  Hist.’ iv.]

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