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A30658	A commentary on Antoninus, his Itinerary, or, Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain wherein the first foundation of our cities, lawes, and government, according to the Roman policy, are clearly discovered ... / by VVilliam Burton ... ; with a chorographicall map of the severall stations, and index's to the whole work.	Burton, William, 1609-1657.	1658 (1658)	Wing B6185; ESTC R6432	288,389	293

are to read Pecunia Londinii cusa for Notata as I think it is here Let the studious youth take the pains to compare these with the Apotheosis of Severus at Rome described by Herodian according to the fashion of those daies Some difference will be found as his having but one Eagle and that to convey the Soul upward in the top of the Structure which he compares to a Light-house commonly a Pharos In these you have on each side one Other differences are not material I am confident there may be more remaines of Antiquity found hereabout it would be perhaps not unworthy the pains and cost The noble Gentleman whose the place is might be by his acquaintance easily perswaded to a farther search being one publick fame reports it that doth nothing unwillingly for the common Good which he lately let the world know in that Honorable and free service which with so much gallantry he sustained for his Countrey Rome in the height of its greatnesse had not a more glorious and gallant shew to exhibite then what this poor piece of Copper would express But before I mention Constantius his Deification I should have acquainted you with the place of his death which was Eboracum Not onely St. Hieron but Eutropius also an Heathen Roman Historian affirmeth it Obiit in Britannia E●…oraci principatus anno tertio decimo atque inter di●…os relatus est If therefore he dyed at York most certainly there also was his body solemnly burnt And if so how comes it to pass that so many ages after we find his body again in Wales and so far remote too The good Monk of Westminister is Author for it where he Chronicles matters of Edward 1. times Apud Caernarvan prope Snoudunam corpus maximi Principis Patris Imperatoris nobilis Constantini erat inventum rege jubente in Ecclesia honorifice collocatum But the credulous Monk was abused as we should be also if we gave credit to one far antienter then he Nin●…ius the old British Historian who relates that this mans Grandchild Constantius the Son of Constantinus had his Sepulcher near Caernarvan as saith he letters inscribed upon his Tomb-stone there do witness When as we know by unquestionable circumstance as well as authority that he breathed his last in Cilicia at Mopsocrenae or Mopsuestia of a feaver in his expedition against Iulian his Kinsman who in Gaul had taken upon him the Name and Title of Augustus That which our learned Antiquary saith he was told by very credible men of this City carrieth greater shew of probability That when in the age before this the Religious houses there were dissolved and ruined in a kind of grot or vault where constant fame reported the Reliques of Constantius were laid a burning Lamp was found And withall he adds that the Antients used to preserve in the Sepulchres especially of greater persons by artificial dissolving of Gold into a fatty substance fire still continuing for many ages And for this he bringeth the testimony of Wolfagius Lazius Div●…s other writers might have been consulted about this custome I will onely name two for the Readers satisfaction Bernardus Scardeonius a diligent Italian Antiquary and Fortunius Licetus an excellent Philosopher of Padua The death of Constantius happened about the year CCCVI when as at York also his eldest Son Constantinus of British extraction by Helen his first Wife much opposing and gain-saying it had the Imperial Robe put upon him by the Army which at length he could not but accept of He that especially urged him to it was Erocus King of the Alma●…es and auxiliary to his Father in Britain Hear the Panegyrist speaking to him Imperator transitum facturus in coe●…um videt quem relinquebat haeredem illico enim atque ille terris fuerat exemptus universus in te consedit exercitus te omnium mentes oculique signarunt quanquam tu ad Seniores principes de summa reipub quid fieri placeret retulisses praevenerunt tamen studio quod illi mox judicio probaverunt Purpuram statim tibi quum primus copiam tui fecit egressus milites utilitate publicae magis quam tuis affectibus servi●…ntes injecere lacrymanti neque enim fas erat diutius s●…eri principem consecratum Diceris etiam Imp. invicte ardorem illum te deposcentis exercitus fugere conatus equum calcaribus incitasse quod quidem ut verum audias adolescentiae errore fac●…ebas Quis enim te Cylla●…us aut Arion posset eripere quem sequebatur imperium Illa inquam illa majestas quae Iovis subjecta nutu nec Iridi Deum nuntiae sed prius commissa victoriae tam facile te comitata est quam cito ad terras coelo missa 〈◊〉 Sic modestiam tuam atque pietatem differendi imperii co●…atus ostendit reip felicitas vicit O fortunata nunc omnibus beatior terris Britannia quae Constantinum Caesarem prima vidisti That is When the Emperour was about to pass from earth to heaven he saw whom he left his heir for presently upon his being taken from the Earth the whole Army pitcht upon thee the eyes and hearts of all designed thee for the place and although thou repairedst to the Senior Princes for the ordering as they pleased the chief dignity of the Commonwealth yet they came prae-resolved by study of what they soon acted in the Counsel Presently when thy first going out made plenty the Souldiers serving the Commonwealth more than thy fancy cast the purple upon thee whilest weeping nor was it meet that a consecrated Prince should be any longer bewailed And they say also O unconquered Emperour that thou didst spur thy horse to have avoided the importunity of the Army when they moved for thee which to tell you truly was done but weakly and as a youth For what Cyllarus or Arion could deprive him whom the Empire followed That I say that Majesty which is subject to the nod of Jove was not committed to Iris the Messenger of the Gods but first to Victoria so easily did she accompany thee as soon as things sent from Heaven come to Earth So did th●… endeavour of avoiding that dignity shew and the felicity of the Common-wealth overcome thy modesty O Fortunate and now of all Nations most happy Britain who first sawst Constantine Emperour These last words our Britains produce to assert the birth place of Constantine neither without great probability notwithstanding that Joannes Livineius doth urge this additament Caesaris against them quod illum ipsum premit maxime saith my most learned Lord of Armagh For although Constantine were declared Imperator in Britain both by his Father and the British Army yet not Britain but Gallia saw him first CAESAR which Liveneius his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proves at large Somewhat before he makes his addresses to him in these Words Sacrum istud Palatium

When one day sitting alone in his upper parlour at Longnor in meditation no doubt of Gods deliverance of his people he heard a general Ring of all the Bells in Shrewsbury whereunto in St. Ceadda's Parish his house belonged when strait his right-divining soul told him it was for Q. Maries death yet longing to know the truth more certainly and loath to trust his Servants therein for some reasons he sent his Eldest Son my Grandfather being then but a boy of sixteen years of age willing him to throw up his hat if it were so so impatient was his expection Who finding it and doing accordingly as he was directed the good man retiring presently from the window and recovering his Chair for extremity of joy which he conceived for the deliverance of the Saints of God he suddenly expired And this was his Nunc dimittis Domine But neither was the storm of persecution so quite blown over hereby but that still some scatterings did fall upon the Servants of God for they suffered some grievances still among which was their being debarred from Christian interment in Churches But facilis jactura sepulcri His friends made a shift to bury him in his Gardens by the Fish-ponds and set a Monument over him which being defaced by time and rain it happened in the year ∞ DC XIV that Edward Burton Esquire his Grandson inviting to Dinner the noble Sir Andrew Corbet then Lieutenant of the Shire with divers other Gentlemen of quality that the good Baronet desirous to see the place which preserved the reliques and memory of that excellent man as good men are still inquisitive after them whose vertues they honour but finding it much decayed by the weather after a friendly correption of his Host and serious injoynment to repair the Tomb whereby the memory of his most deserving Grandfather was kept alive he without any ado effected what he spake for and promised himself to become the Poet for an Epitaph And this is it which follows turned also into Latine verse but ex Anglicanis bonis Latina non item bona Haec mihi non vani nec erat cur fallere vellent Narravere Senes Here lieth the body of Edward Burton Esquire who deceased Anno Domini 1558. Was 't for denying Christ or some notorious fact That this mans body Christian burial lackt O no his faithful true profession Was the chief cause which then was held transgression When Pop'ry here did reign the Sea of Rome Would not admit to any such a Tomb. Within their Idol-Temple Walls but he Truly professing Christianity Was like Christ Iesus in a Garden laid Where he shall rest in peace till it be said Come faithful Servant Come receive with me A just reward for thy Integrity 1614. In Agro Salopiensi Longnorae ad Sabrinam Fl. ad Piscinas in Horto Iuxta Aedes patruelis mei Francisci Burtoni Proavi mei Epitaphium Quod scelus an Christi nomen temerare quod ausus Huic vetitum sacro condere membra solo Dii melius sincera fides nec tramite veri Devia causa illo tempore grande nefas Urbibus insultat nostris dum turbida Roma Rasaque gens sacris dat sua jura locis Noc sa●…ri ritus nec honores suneris intra Moenia Christicolis heu malesancta 〈◊〉 piis At referens Dominum inculptae munere vitae Ad Domini exemplar funera ●…actus eret Ille ●…t odorifero tumulatus marmore inhorto Ossa etiam redolens hortus hujus habet Hic ubi expect at felix solantia verba Euge age mercedem jam Bone Serve Cape And now have we done with Wrokcester and Long●…or the former whereof I have finished as part of my task undertaken what I have said concerning the other the great respect I had of my worthy Progenitours memory would not let me omit And I might also take my leave of Shropshire but that Usocona an old Station in Antoninus and thought sometimes to have been neer the limits thereof makes me some short stay USOCONA M. P. XI Not very far from the foot of the Wrekin in somewhat a low bottom stands a small village called Oken-Yate not famous at this Day for any thing except it be for the much frequented Coal-pits Of old time that it was Usocona written also according to the variety of copies Usoccona and Uxacona a Roman Station mentioned here in Antoninus is the conjecture of our great Antiquary for these reasons First that it is by the Military or antient Roman High-way an infallible sign in his judgemeut especially if there accompany it any proportionable distance which he next observes The equidistance between Wroxcester and this village on the o●…e side and Pencridge on the other agreeing with that in the Ininerary exactly confirms it so that he concludes it with that peremptoriness that there is no cause saith he our quisquam dubitet He addes then nec abnuit ipsum nomen deducing it as his manner is from the old British the ignorance of which I have more then once in this Work openly professed Nam haec dictio Y S saith he Britannis inferius notat and is it seems added to notify the Low situation And though the Language of the antient Britains endured not an X. as is somewhere else taken notice of yet the reading of the Name so Uxacona among the Romans it being frequent in old books is thereby nothing hindered at all PENNOCRUCIUM M. P. XII The divers readings in Surita are not worth the heeding Talbot first of all assigned it to Pencridge in Staffordshire where is the notable Horse-●…air Both names as well that which was in use in the Romans time as that which is at this day seem to be derived from the River there named Penck by a stone bridge over which the Military way which being there parted asunder is in a manner thereby joined again The distance of Miles in Antoninus from Uxacona also doth very handsomely suit ETOCETUM M. P. XII The divers readings of the Name are to be taken notice of for besides that set down you have in some old Copies Etoretum in others Erocetum But we follow the most common The learned Antiquary Camden confesseth he was out in his conjecture in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his great Work entituled BRITANNIA conceiving it to have been U●…exeter or U●…r which is also the mistake of William Fulk in his time Yet I dare say boldly they two conferred not notes The errour I am perswaded was the sooner entertained because of some light consonancy in the Names as if the late one had signified as much as Etoceti Urbs. But he upon farther Enquiry and second thoughts is confident he hath found it there being the karcass of an old City as he saics lying by the antient Roman High-way distant from Lichfield which is South of it scarce a whole mile At this day it is called the Wall in Staffordshire from the ruins of Walls

After Clodius Albinus his revolt and defeat we meet not with any Propraetor or Legat of Severus in Britain save Virius Lupus whom he appointed to that undertaking about the time that moving against Albinus he took his eldest son Aurel. Antoninus to share in command and Empire with him This we learn from an old inscription or two digged up in the North in which he is called Legatus eorum pro Praetore but Ulpian the famous Civil Lawyer names him Praeses or President of Britain Of any other I am quite ignorant For whereas the learned Camden names with him Heraclianus he is diversly written Heraclius and Heraclitus I am sorry to say he was very much deceived therein to make him a Legate in Britain being led indeed thereto by a corrupted Copy of Spartianus where he read Severus Heraclitum ad obtinendam Britanniam misit For Britaniam you must by all means read Bithyniam Casaubon offered very fair at this emendation but Salmasius ventured upon it in good time Neither can it be otherwise will you say if you heedfully read the same Author in Severus life as also in the life of Pescennius Niger in the first of which you have this which confirms it Bithyniam vero occupare non potuit Heraclius Byzantium jam tenente Nigro Besides Heraclius was sent to Bithynia before Severus had yet vanquished Niger or thought of Albinus who was Caesar and governed Britain at this time no suspition yet appearing between them Neer upon CC years after the Consulship of the same Dion Cassius if you will admit of Poetical Authority and theirs that interpret Poets you shall find this Sixt Legion departing out of Britain to serve Fl. Stilicho in his War against Alarichus King of the Gothes It is the flourishing and neat Poet Claudian who saith so much if his Expositor one learned enough Antonio Del Rio be not too far out in his conjecture The Poet of the two may best be excused in whom you read Venit extremis Legio praetenta Britannis Quae Scoto dat fraena truci ferroque notatas Perlegit exanimes Picto moriente figuras The Legion on the British Borders lay Which curb'd the valiant Scot and did survey The steel-cut figures on the dying Pict Upon which of his the other hath these Words Sexta videlicet Britannica ex eventu vi●…ricis nomen adepta He is out truely by taking the Poet too much at his word He should have done better to have remembred the great Cruiques censure of him Ignobiliori materia depressus quod deerat de materia addidit de ingenio Which is true here For this Legion is found in Britain afterward some good many years if that be true which Alciat Pancirolus Camden and others say that the Notitia of both Empires was set out by Theodosius the younger as most probable For that War against the Gothes was about the year CCCCIII in the Consulships of Theodosius Junior Aug. and Fl. Rumoridus before Theodosius was sole Emperor The mention thereof you have thus in the Notitia of the West Sub dispositione Viri spectabilis Ducis Britanniarum Praejectus Legionis Sextae As there were under his disposing also and command XIII more Praefecti in convenient stations besides XXIII other Prefects Tribunes of Cohorts c. per lineam Valli along the Wall which was raised to keep the barbarous off from the Britains Pancirolus to these last words Praefectus Legionis Sextae blunders fowly and dreams of some yet unknown place called Sexta setting it down so and of a Legion that had lost it's name But at length he falls right upon the Legio VI. which that it constantly resided at Eboracum or York somewhat above CCC years I suppose is very sufficiently demonstrated and made good And now to tell you after all this that about the time of the Norman Conquest this so antient and magnificent a City and seat of the Roman Greatness in the Province was called † Civitas Fborunt will be as perhaps needless after the tediousness so fruitless and long a discourse hath moved so quite besides my institutum and purpose who would sain confine my self in this whole business within the limit of those ages wherein the Romans bore sway among us and not lower And yet there remaining still within the limits of that time which I have prescribed to myself some goodly memories of the glory and splendour of this so antient a City and to this day florishing which argues the strong and sound constitution thereof quite untoucht some of them others very slightly handled by such as have undertaken to set forth our affairs of old time and to adorn them I shall here gather and sum up to what is said what else I have met with and conceive conducing to the lustre of the place and that in the behalf of the Favorers and Admirers thereof among whom I willingly profess my self for very good reasons though not in this place to be mentioned or thought of It makes not the least for the fame and glory of it that Septimius Severus the Emperor of Rome and Master of the World one deservedly equalled with the greatest Martialists of any age not only had his Palace and residence for so many years but also here breathed his last His Actions here and manner of his death we shall leave to History and a greater Work His dying speeches are memorable and full of brave spirit One in Dio argues his earnestness and dispatch of business 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Le ts see my Masters what else have we to do His last words related in Spartianus contain excellent and wise counsel to his Sons Firmum imperium Antoninis meis relinquo si boni eritis imbecillum si mali Together with an exact survey of what he had done so well becoming a man of so great performance Turbatam Rempublicam ubique accepi pacatam etiam Britannis relinquo Neither may that in the same Author be omitted which showes a gallant despiciency in him of all human affairs how great and glorious soever they were which himself conceived thus in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For though an African born he was an admirable Master in both Languages of the Empire When he saw there was no other way but death he called for the Urn wherein he had appointed his ashes should be put after the Ossilegium and viewing it very heedfully Thou shalt hold said he the man whom the whole World could not contain It was of Porphyrite or Red Marble Stone saith Dio of Alabaster as Herodian of gold as others but Dio for good reasons is to be thought in the right Being at length dead I will use the Poets words concerning Achil●…es of Severus who as far exceeded him as true History doth Romance or Errantry De tam magno restat Achille Nescio quid