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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B18452	Camden's Britannia newly translated into English, with large additions and improvements ; publish'd by Edmund Gibson ...; Britannia. English	Camden, William, 1551-1623.; Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.	1695 (1695)	Wing C359	2,080,727	883

to defend the Inhabitants against all Invasions This is the reason that in all Carausius's silver Coins we find two Emperors shaking hands with this Inscription round it CONCORDIA ●ugusto●m AUGG. Maximian now march'd with his army against the Franks who then inhabited Batavia and had assisted Carausius but were unexpectedly so surpriz'd by him that they forthwith submitted themselves In the mean time Carausius govern'd Britain with great authority and in perfect peace he repair'd the wall between the mouth of the Clud and Carun to keep out the Barbarians as Ninnius Eluodugus's Scholar tells us and fortified the same with seven castles and moreover built a round house of hewen stone upon the bank of the river Carun so called from him with a triumphal Arch in memory of his Victory However Buchanan thinks it to have been Terminus's Temple as we shall observe in Scotland When Dioclesian and Maximian had made Constantius Chlorus and Maximianus Galerius fellow partners of the Empire with them to the end they might better keep what they had got and recover what they had lost Constantius having raised an Army marches towards Bononia in Gaul otherwise called Gessoriacum which Carausius had strongly garison'd and invested the place sooner than was imagined blocking up the haven with huge timber beams struck down in it and by heaps of great stones which notwithstanding the shock and violence of the sea continued firm for many days together But as soon as the Town was surrender'd it was so shaken by the first tide that the whole work was disjointed and fell to pieces Eumenius the Panegyrist And while his Fleet was getting ready for his British expedition he cleared Batavia of the Franks who were then possessed of it and transplanted many of them to cultivate some barren places of the Empire C. Alectus Emp. In this juncture of affairs Carausius was treacherously slain by Allectus his bosom friend and prime Minister who thereupon usurp'd the Government to himself Upon this news Constantius mann'd out several distinct Fleets so that Alectus knowing neither what course to take nor where to expect him grew sensible the Ocean was not so much his fence and refuge as his Prison The Fleet setting out in bad weather and when the sea ran high had the fortune by reason of a mist to escape the British Navy which lay out by the Isle of Wight to observe and attend them and therefore as soon as he had arrived and put his army ashore he set fire to his whole fleet that there might be no hopes of refuge but in victory Allectus as soon as he saw Constantius's fleet upon the coast left the shore where he had posted himself and in his flight was accidentally met and encountred by Asclepiodotus Captain of the Life-guard but his confusion was such that as if he had been under an alienation of mind at that time he run on desperately to his own ruine for he neither drew up his army nor put his cavalry in any order but with his barbarous mercenaries after he had put off his Robes that they might not discover him rush'd upon the enemy and so in a tumultuary skirmish was kill'd without any note of distinction about him For which reason they had much ado to find him among the dead bodies which lay in heaps about the field and on the hills The Franks and other surviving Barbarians upon this determined to plunder London and escape by sea with the booty but a party of ours that were separated from the army in foggy weather coming luckily to London at the same time fell upon them and pursu'd them up and down the streets with a great slaughter not only to the rescue and safety of the Citizens but also to their great pleasure in being eye-witnesses of the rout By this victory the Province was recovered after it had been seven years or thereabouts governed by Carausius and three more by Allectus Upon this account Eumenius writes thus to Constantius O important victory worthy of many triumphs by this Britain is restored by this the Franks are defeated and other nations in that confederacy reduc'd to their due obedience To conclude the sea it self is scour'd to compleat our quiet You great Caesar as for your part may with justice glory in this discovery of another world and by repairing the Roman Navy of adding a greater Element to the Roman Empire A little lower also Britain is so perfectly reduced that all the nations of that Island are under an absolute subjection Persecu●ion in Britain Towards the end of Dioclesian's and Maximian's reign when the long and bloody persecution in the Eastern Church broke out in the Western Church also with great violence many Christians suffered martydrom in it The chief among them was Albanus Verolamiensis St. Alban Julius and Aaron a citizen of Exeter of which in their places For the Church surviv'd them with great triumph and happiness being not even by a continued persecution for ten years together stifled or destroyed Constantius Chlo●us Emp. Dioclesian and Maximian having abdicated the Empire Constantius Chlorus who till that time governed the Commonwealth under the title of Caesar was made Emperor To his share fell Italy Africa Spain Gaul and Britain Italy and Africa he surrender'd to Galerius and contented himself with the rest Being a Soldier in Britain under Aurelian he marry'd Helena the daughter of Coelus or Caelius a petty Prince here and by her had that Constantine the Great in Britain For in this all writers do agree with the great Baronius Baronius Hist Eces a See the learned Lipsius's opinion of this matter in h●s Letter to Mr. Camden publisht among his Epistles pag. 64. See also Usher's Antiquitates Britannicarum Ecclesiarum pag. 93. fol. cap. 8. except one or two modern Greeks who are but inconsiderable and vary from one another and a certain eminent person who grounds upon a faulty passage of J. Firmicus Chlorus was compell'd by Maximian to divorce this wife and marry his daughter Theodora This Helena Helena is the same who in old Inscriptions is call'd Venerabilis Piissima Augusta both for her Christian piety her suppressing of Idols at Jerusalem erecting a Church in the spot where Christ suffered and for the good invention of the Cross so mightily celebrated by Ecclesiastical writers Yet the Jews and Gentiles call her in reproach Stabularia because the Manger where Christ was laid was sought out by this pious Princess and a Church built by her in the place where the stable stood Of the ●●th of Theodosiu● Hence St. Ambrose They tell us that this Lady was first an Inn-keeper c. This good Inn-keeper Helena went to Jerusalem and there found out the place of our Lord's passion and the manger where her Lord lay This good Inn-keeper was not ignorant of him who cur'd the traveller that the robbers had wounded This good Inn-keeper did not care how