10. All masters of families are kings in their own houses; and have a power of life and death over their wives, children, and
slaves.
Their ANCIENT STATES.
| STATES. | COUNTIES. |
| 1. Danmonii, | Cornwall
and Devon. |
| 2. Durotriges, | Dorset. |
| 3. Belgæ, | Somerset,
Wilts, and the north part of Hants. |
| 4. Attrebatii, | Berks. |
| 5. Regni, | Surrey,
Sussex, and the south part of Hants. |
| 6. Cantii, | Kent. |
| 7. Trinobantes, | Middlesex,
Hertfordshire, & Essex. |
| 8. Iceni, | Suffolk,
Norfolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon. |
| 9. Catieuchlani, | Bucks
and Bedford. |
| 10. Dobuni, | Gloucester
and Oxford. |
| 11. Silures, | Hereford,
Monmouth, Rad- nor, Brecon, & Glamorgan. |
| 12. Dimetæ, | Carmarthen,
Pembroke, and Cardigan. |
| 13. Ordovices, | Flint,
Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, & Carnarvon. |
| 14.
Cornavii, | Chester,
Salop, Stafford, Warwick, and Worcester. |
| 15.
Coritani, | Lincoln,
Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Rutland, and Northampton. |
| 16.
Brigantes, | York,
Lancaster, Westmore- land, Cumberland, & Durham. |
| 17.
Ottadini, | Northumberland. |
Their general CHARACTER.
They were a great and glorious people, fond of liberty and property; but peculiarly remarkable for their rigid virtue, and their readiness to die with pleasure for the good of their country. They long lived in a perfect state of peace and tranquility till the year of the world 3950
, at which time its monarchy, by the boundless envy and ambition of Julius Cæsar, (when Rome was in the meridian of all her glory) was totally subverted, and Britannia became a province subordinatte
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to the Romans.
The ROMAN GOVERNMENT.