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By Beale Poste

Published 1857

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CHAPTER II	17
gildas, nennius, rhuys
Scrutiny and dissection of the work of Nennius and remarks	80
dumnonia, camlan, maelgwyn
The ancient sea coast of Britain illustrated	244
reculver, rother, medway
CHAPTER VI	291
geographicus, inquisitiones, nominum
CHAPTER VII	298
drepanum, coel, constantius
CHAPTER IX	307
carausius, caer, allectus

CHAPTER XI	336

CHAPTER XIV	331
gwenhwyvar, ambrosius, tywysog
On the name Vitalis as occurring in various Roman British	341
vitalis, cirencester, polydore
CHAPTER XIX	348
maximian, constans, uther
CHAPTER XX	356
descriptio, orosius, triads
Miscellanea relating to ancient British history geography	361
marzin, armorica, cadoc

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Das alte Wales: Ein Beitrag zur Völker-rechts-und Kirchengeschichte - Page 64
by Ferdinand Walter - 1859 - 535 pages
... und Ueberlieferungen hat er sich aber nicht eingelassen, wodurch seine Ansichten einseitig und unvollständig sind. X) Lives of the Cambro-British Saints, of the fifth and ...
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A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies ... - Page 31
by Jacob Poole - 1867
... JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 86, SO HO SQUARE. POSTE (Rev. Beale, MA) Britannic Researches; or, New Facts and Rectifications of Ancient British History. 8vo (pp. ...
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The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion - Page 276
by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1893
Some account of London. Fifth edition (of "Of London"). London, 1813. A tour in Wales. Illus. London, 1778. A tour in Wales. Two vols. 4to. Illus. London, 1784. ...
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Maidstone - Page 257
These were dug up in some of the low grounds on the line of the Medway, above Maidstone. They were in the primitive form of those used by savage ...
more pages: 249

Southampton - Page 156
and very unluckily for his own credit as an author; for he ignorantly makes Arthur land at Richborough instead of Southampton to punish him, ...
more pages: 139 157 159

Canterbury - Page 254
Canterbury may be considered to have been a seaport in Roman times, though history be silent on that subject. The foundations of the present city are ...
more pages: 264

Brighton - Page 286
which last was frequented by ships in the reign of Henry III; and, lastly, the loss of a considerable part of the coast at Brighton. ...
more pages: 287

Colchester - Page 304
The reader, perhaps, may be usefully reminded that the name Coel has no connection with Colchester (Colonise castrum): it is formed from two British ...

Edinburgh - Page 131
That might be ; for in his time Strathclyde extended from sea to sea, as we have noted before, and he fought one of his battles at or near Edinburgh. ...
more pages: 26 106 107 226

Rome - Page 83
Their adherence to the interests of Rome was undoubtedly strong; and so identified did they become with the people whom they governed, that they very ...
more pages: 27 28 52 120 135 136 186 299 325 348

Exeter - Page 4
Alfred, we elsewhere find, had given him the church of Exeter, with a certain district annexed to it, which the king might have considered his ...
more pages: 313

Ballyshannon - Page 168
circular gold plates im-pressed with the form of the cross were dug up near Ballyshannon, from an interment indicated by an Irish harper's song. ...

London - Page 254
In 1824, the city of London tried again to open the navigation, which was resisted by the proprietors of.
more pages: 54 57 157 250 260 271 277 300 344 372

Oxford - Page 306
having been born at Nyssa, as may be seen by consulting the manuscript of his work in Lincoln College, Oxford, and another belonging to a Mr. ...
more pages: 102 343

Manchester - Page 99
Whitaker, the historian of Manchester, of whom we have also before spoken, and mentioned his endeavours to assign the localities of the twelve battles ...
more pages: 232

Glasgow - Page 297
Many readers perhaps recollect Gibbon s remark relative to this people having been anciently inha-bitants of the neighbourhood of Glasgow. ...
more pages: 331

Leeuwarden - Page 365
Occa's Chronicle, Vlytarp's and Cornelius's edition, Leeuwarden, 1597, has mention of the Saxon leader, and that he had served under Valen- tinian III ...

Augsburg - Page 347
in 1585, or in that of Commeline in 1587 ; nor could it apply to the first printed edition, that of Augsburg, in 1534, which was nine years subsequent ...

Plymouth - Page 246
as there is a large detached tract of chalk at and about Bolt Head, between Plymouth and Dartmouth, there seems no occasion for such a supposition. ...

Peterborough - Page 346
Bernard, in his Catalogue of Manuscripts, mentions no collection of manuscripts at Peterborough cathedral. vii. His DE SITU BRITANNIA, if genuine, ...

Paris - Page 322
take the subject numismatically in hand ; which he did, though he was supplied with but few specimens, in a quarto volume published in Paris in 1740. ...
more pages: 133 137

Chichester - Page 343
Here the writer, whoever he were, would seem to style himself more obviously, Matthew Richard, of Chichester, than of Cirencester ; and somewhat to ...

Florence - Page 127
containing several of these romances, formerly in the Library de la Valiere, now in the possession of Seymour Kirkup, Esq., of Florence. ...

Milan - Page 347
of him; that he was a native of Treviso, and lived in the time of Ludovicus Sfortia, who usurped the dukedom of Milan in the year 1476, was deposed in ...

Dublin - Page 17
Gunn's edition, in 1819, is, for the most part, confined to Cambrian affairs; while the last edition, that of Dublin, by Dr. ...
more pages: 357

Leeds - Page 34
Elmet now forms that part which is the environs of Leeds, and is not far to the south-west of Eburacum,orYork. The candid inquirer after truth will ...

Pembroke - Page 165
At this conjuncture the king happened to be at Pembroke, where a minstrel, in his taking Arthur for its subject, described him as buried in the ...

Salisbury - Page 332
Polydore Vergil, and a German chronicler, Huldrich Mutius, in their narratives record that he perished at Salisbury plain, as does Paulus Diaconus, ...

Northampton - Page 311
Pretty, of Northampton, continued the researches, examining those of Northamptonshire and others more to the westward of that county ; but his map on ...

Lambeth - Page 345
The volume at Lambeth in which it is contained seems, in a great mea-sure, to be composed of extracts from manuscripts in Benet College Library. ...

York - Page 304
same thing: the latter in particular naming Paternna in York, the present Bederne; a division of the city in which the imperial palace was situated. ...

Cambridge - Page 32
manuscripts we have of Nennius; ie, that of the Corpus Christi Library, Cambridge, of the thirteenth century, which is the one marked B by Mr. ...

Gloucester - Page 55
see before), had given an account of the marriage of Arviragus and Inuenissa (or Gennissa), and of the build-ing of Gloucester, and of its being named ...

Warwick - Page 26
other battles, all in other parts of England, one ex- cepted, were, the ninth, at Caerleon, supposed to be meant for Warwick ; the tenth on the river ...

Valence - Page 135
They settle in Gaul in 407; near the Rhine in 412; and the territory of Valence is ceded to them by JEtius, Roman general, and commander- in-chief for ...

Norwich - Page 314
Venta Belgarum, Winchester; Venta Icenorum, Castor, near Norwich, for a good account of which see Britton and Bayley's Beauties of England and Wales; ...

Derby - Page 313
however, only foundation walls remain ; Corinium, Cirencester ; Derventio, Little Chesters, near Derby; Deva, Chester ; Dubris, Dover ; Durnovaria, ...

Portsmouth - Page 114
The battle of Llongborth, that is, of Portsmouth or the vicinity, took place, according to some, just previous to the year 530. ...

St. Augustine - Page 10
250-267, shows the employment of it, by numerous instances, between the fourth and ninth centuries; and quotes a passage from St. Augustine, bishop of ...

Jerusalem - Page 122
by force, of his gold-embroidered tunic, which he had received at his ordination at Jerusalem; from which he is solely prevented by a miracle. ...

Albany - Page 63
As the elder Gildas is very properly called Gildas Alba- nius, from Strathclyde or Albany, the place of his nativity, so the present Gildas is called ...

Ny - Page 68
Ny bo rhad na gwedd ar Vaelgwn Gwynedd; Drwy na dialler ar Run y etyvedd, Boed byr vo y vychedd boed diffaith \-oy dircdd, Boed hir diuroedd o Vaelgwn ...