[140a] Kent’s General View—Beauties of England, as before.
[140b] Ibid.
[146] Brancaster was one of those forts erected by the Romans along the Icenian coast, to guard the country against the incursions of the piratical Saxons, who used to infest this coast long before they obtained any footing in the country, and while it formed a part of the Roman Empire. From their frequent hostile visits, this coast was called the Saxon shore. The forts along the coast (the chief of which was Brancaster,—to which Rising might be a kind of appendage,) were garrisoned by a strong body of cavalry, called the Dalmatian horse, whose superior, or commander in chief, was denominated the Count of the Saxon store; and sometimes Branodunensis, from Branodunum, the Roman or Latin name of Brancaster.—Brancaster is now an obscure village, exhibiting no vestige of its ancient dignity, except some entrenchments, or earthworks, the remains of a Roman Camp, including, as Camden says, some eight acres; which the neighbours call Caster—all whose dimensions, according to his annotator, agree with the Roman models, in Cesar’s Commentaries.—See Gibson’s Camden, 391, 398.
[148] See Norfolk Tour, and Parkin.
[149] Beauties of England. 7, 505.
[158] Otherwise Titherington Hall.
[168] See Beauties of England, volume Xl.
[169] Norfolk Tour.
[171] Beauties of England as before.
[177a] The following lines of his, quoted by Lord Teignmouth in his Life of Sir William Jones, is supposed to be expressive of the manner in which he distributed, or employed his time.