[187] See the inscription, etc., in Whittaker's Manchester, vol. i. p. 160.
[188] On these Frisian cohorts, and consequently also Frisian colonists, in England, see the learned Memoir on the Roman Garrison at Manchester, by my friend Dr. Black. (Manchester, 1849.)
[189] Buckman and Newmarch's work on Ancient Corinium, p. 114.
[190] Palgrave's Anglo-Saxons, p. 24.
[191] For fuller evidence on this point, see the remarks by Mr. Kemble in his Saxons in England, vol. i. p. 13, etc.
[192] Ammiani Marcellini Historiæ, lib. xxviii. c. 1. The poet Claudian, perhaps with the full liberty of a poet, sings of Theodosius' forces in this war having pursued the Saxons to the very Orkneys:—
----maduerunt Saxone fuso
Orcades.
[193] Inquiry into the History of Scotland, vol. i. p. 116. See also Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. xxv.
[194] Histor. Eccles., lib. i. c. 1, § 8.
[195] Bede's Hist. Eccles., lib. ii. cap. v. (Oisc, a quo reges Cantuariorum solent Oiscingas cognominare.)