[143] Hospinian de Orig. Festorum—Polydore Virgil—and Godwin Antiq.
[144] Aug. de Civit. Dei—Rosinus de Antiquit. Rom.—and Hall’s Funebria Floræ.
[145] The Romans having undertaken to drain the fens, and rescue marsh lands, by strong embankments, from the ravages of the ocean, founded Lynn, (it is supposed,) in the reign of the emperor Claudius, under the direction of Catus Decianus, the Roman procurator of the Iceni, who was the principal superintendant of the canals, embankments, and other works of improvement then carried on in the fens. He is also thought to have brought over to his assistance, in this stupendous labour, a colony of Belgians, or Batavians, from whose dialect, the Belgio Celtique, the etymology of Lynn is considered to be derived. (Richard’s Hist. of Lynn, vol. i. p. 221.)
[146] By sound of trumpet all the courtezans in Rome were called to the Floralian sports, where they danced, it is said, (though greatly to be doubted,) in a state of nudity, about the streets, with the trumpets blown before them. Hence Juvenal, (Sat. 60,) speaking of a lewd woman, calls her a Floralian courtezan (Godwin Antiq.—Polydore Virgil—Farnab. in Martial, Epig. 110. 1.—Hall’s Funebria Floræ.)
[147] Io, in heathen mythology, was the daughter of Inachus, transformed by Jupiter into a white heifer, and worshipped under the name of Isis by the Egyptians. Serapis was the son of Jupiter and Niobe; he first taught the Egyptians to sow corn and plant vines; and, after his death, was worshipped as an ox, under the name of Osiris.
[148] Every-Day Book, vol. i. p. 556.
[149] A copy of Hall’s Funebria Floræ was sold January 20, 1819, in the Bindley Collection, for £6. 12s. 6d.
[150] Ordinance of Parliament, 1644:—see Every-Day Book, vol. i. p. 556.
[151] Elton’s Exposition of the Second Commandment.
[152] Ames, Cas. Cons. I v. c. 39.