[17] Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, vol. i. p. 492.

[18] De Bello Gallico, v. 14.

[19] Seebohm, V.C. 187, 223.

[20] Agricola, Chap. xix., and see the note in the edition of Church and Brodribb.

[21] How thickly the villas were scattered over the country is shown by Wright, Celt, Roman and Saxon (3rd ed.), pp. 227 seq.

[22] These are the phrases of Green, Making of England, pp. 6, 7.

[23] Seebohm, 294 n. 3.

[24] De Bello Gallico, vi. 13.

[25] For Ireland, see Skene, Celtic Scotland, iii. pp. 139-140, 146; for Wales, A. N. Palmer, Hist. of Ancient Tenures in the Marches of North Wales [1885], pp. 77, 80.

[26] Pp. 43 seq.