Cambria triumphans, or Brittain in its perfect lustre shewing the origen and antiquity of that illustrious nation. The succession of their kings and princes, etc / [Percy Enderbie].

  • Enderbie, Percy, -1670
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[1810]
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Credit: Cambria triumphans, or Brittain in its perfect lustre shewing the origen and antiquity of that illustrious nation. The succession of their kings and princes, etc / [Percy Enderbie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 Brittain and France form¬ erly one conti¬ nent by some. ... p ii palmist, Our lives are fallen in pleasant places, yea we have a pleasant In- say with goodness of God and industry of man it is now, yet our English6iJoet'hath'truly described unto ns the first face thereof, thus: The Land which warlike Brittaines now possesse, And therein have their mighty Empires rais'd, In ancient time was savage Wilderness, Unpeopl'd, unmanur'd, improv'd, unprais'd. a i ii nit tVip Ocean doth at this present thrust itselfe between Dover and Calice dividing And albeit the entrenchment, so that Brittaine is thereby of a supposed Penisle th6de'an Ishnd-P vet divers have stifly held that once it wasjoyned by an arm of Land to the S(_U* *> ^ch °Pini0“ Mr- funher alluding thUS Cl0Seth hlS Stanza’ Fairy Queen. Ne was it Hand then, ne was it prais'd. Amid the Ocean waves, ne was it sought Of Merchants farr for profits therein prats d, But was all desolate, and of some thought By Sea t'have been from the Celtick mainland-brought. .m. motive of Ccesar s coming thither. Albions high Tops, her woody locks fore-shew. With quires of chaunting birds, those woods resounding : Her dowries and meadowes clad in verdant hue Meadowes and Downs with flocks and heards abounding. Latium had greater wealth, yet Caesar thought, To Brittish glory Latiums wealth was naught. Brutus his three sonnes. Wales prefer¬ red before Scotland. Ireland called Brittaine the less. Why the Ro¬ mans were not greedy to con¬ quer Scotland. The division of Brittaine by the Romans. Caerleon in Monmouth- shire. Another divi¬ sion of Brit¬ taine. Our most ancient Historians begin with Brute, and so continue the succession of Kings till CHARLES the First; which Brutus divided the Kingdome into thiee paits . To j^ul' nus he^aveLoegria nowEngland, to Camber bis second soune he gave Cambrm now Wales, Ihmrist or Albanact. Albania now Scotland. . .. PTolfmfamine' BritZ the great and the less, hath been by some mistaken, as so d.vid- • rut Tdand into two parts • but his proportion and distance from the Equator, compared will evince, that he calleth this our Island Great Brian*. anHowbeif someTater writers indeed do make the South and more Champion to he called Great Brit aine and the North and more Mountanous, Brit aine the lesse: whose Inhabitants were Anciently distinguished into Majata, and Caledomi, and now by the Scots are: into Hig i- IflmffT&Lofland-men; but the Northern Clime being more piercing for the Homans constitutions, and lesse profitable and fruitful, they set then-bounds not farre from Edmburg,, and altogether neglected the other parts of Scotland more North-wards. The nearer part of Brittaine they sub-divided into two paits, for the more Southein tract too-ether with Vufei, Dio termeth the higher, and that more North-ward the lower, as by the eats of their Legions may appeare; For the second Legion call’d Augusta (which hep tat Caerleon in South-wales) and the twentieth called Victnx (which re'^'nedassome say at 6 ter) he place* in the higher Brittaine: but the sixth Legion named also Victnx resident at York served as he write* in lower Brittaine, which division as seemeth, was made by Seve- rus the Emperor, who having vanquished Albums General of the Brittaines, and leducet their state Snder his Obedience, divided the Government thereot into two Piovinces, and PlAftei'*is1aga* Ramins did proportion Brittaine into three parts, whose limits: mir great Antiquary assigne* by the Archiopiscopal seats, grounding his conjecture on the sayin KUho fffirmeth, that the Ecclesiastic* Jurisdictions of the Chnstians accorded with the precincts of the Roman Magistrates, and that their Arch-Bishops had then Sees m those Cities wherein their Presidents aboad, so that the Ancient seats of the three Arch-bishop, here, being London in the East, Caerleon in the West, and York in the A orth, Londons i