ESSAY ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

THE history of every nation in the world begins in a dark and fabulous manner: nor can any history be more obscure than that of […]

FROM this time may be dated the subjection of our island to the Roman emperors, or, more properly perhaps, to their legates, and propraetors. It […]

IN the reign of Commodus, or as Beda places it, in the reign of Aurelius, we are told of Lucius, the first British monarch who […]

IMmediately upon the marriage of Vortigern with the daughter of Hengist, great numbers of the northern nations, under the inclusive title of Saxons, hastened over […]

OUR modern writers, with indefatigable industry, have given us a most exact historical  dictionary of the several Saxon monarchs, who successively reigned in the seven […]

HAVING gone through the whole state of the heptarchy, I find, upon a retrospect of that government, that although particular princes are mentioned and particular […]