[16] Equivalent to seventy-three and a half English miles: the distance from Wallsend to Bowness.
[17] The term “Menapian” may apply to either country.
[18] Notwithstanding the positive statement of the panegyrist that the victory over Allectus was won by Constantius in person, the merit of it is assigned by some of the historians to the Prætorian Prefect Asclepiodotus. It is, perhaps, impossible to frame a satisfactory narrative out of the very fragmentary materials at our disposal.
[19] It has been shown by Mr. Haverfield that Britannia Prima included Cirencester (Arch. Oxon., p. 220).
[20] They were Branodunum (Brancaster in Norfolk), Gariannonum (Caistor, near Yarmouth), Othona (at the mouth of the Blackwater in Essex?), Regulbium (Reculver in Essex), Rutupiæ (Richborough), Dubræ (Dover), Lemannæ (Lymne), Anderida (close to Beachy Head), Portus Adurni (not yet identified).
[21] Epist. viii. 6.
[22] 2 Kings xvii. 27.
[23] See English Historical Review, xi., 420, for a list of these evidences of Christianity in Britain, drawn up by Mr. Haverfield.
[24] Quotation from Haverfield, Victoria History of Norfolk, i., 282.
[25] See Stevenson’s Asser, p. 166, for reasons against it.