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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

Voyages or Places which they usually accustomed to touch at in their expeditions by Sea set down after the recension of our Britain Stations have the Inscription of Itinerarium maritimum not Iter for the Britains indeed were generally accounted by the Romans themselves during the severall Ages they continued Masters of them to be toto divisi orbe and their Countrey likewise diducta Mundo wholy severed from the World and therefore not onely by their Poets but by their graver Writers also thought worthy to be termed Alter or Al us O●… and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 another habitable World And that not 〈◊〉 flourish only but in very good earnest in so much that Di●… a Consular Historian tels us That upon the apprehension hereof A. Plautius his Souldiers were very unwilling to follow him out of Gaul in his expedition hither seriously imagining it to be some service quite out of the World So that the Britains might very well seem to deserve a Notitia or Survey by themselves apart in the Description of the whole World Nature having first separated them by the vast and sometime thought unpassable Ocean More I could say by way of enlarging this Argument but I purposely forbear and refer it rather to another place Only this I add in this behalf that the word Iter doth not so fitly serve the turn in this place For first of all observe that here it doth no way exactly agree with what either the great Lawyer or Varro make the signification or meaning of the word to be in the latter of whom by the By I cannot choose but take notice of a Paradiorthosis or false emendation of Vertranius in that very place where he tels us what Iter is reading militare iter for limitare by which Varro understands nothing else but a small Path made in the confines of several mens Land ordered by a Law of the XII Tables to be not above V. Foot broad For had he meant those publick Through-fares or Waies which the Souldiers raised by uncessant and toilsome labor for their more convenient march from Station to Station call'd by Ammianus and others Aggeres itinerarii and actus publici by Herodian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Strata by Beda and such kind of Writers he would not have sayd Iter militare but via militaris the usuall word indeed Via as Iustinian teaches us containing in it both iter and actus and in ancient Authors iter militare is only quantum uno die militari gradu as Vegetius speaks conflci possit or One dayes march by Caesar and others call'd justum iter and by barbarous Writers dieta In the second place we may consider that here are XVI severall Itineraries or set marches not to be expressed by the singular Iter described from so many Garrisons to Garrisons it is likely of more esteem and concernment through others perhaps of less note here also set down to signifie all which Itinerarium must needs be thought far the more proper and significant notion by them that understand what it means and know besides to what excellent purpose such Itineraria were first instituted and appointed For they that are conversant in Antiquities of this nature cannot but take notice that to set down in writing likewise publish their particular Journeys and Marches by the several Camps Stations Mansions and Mutations so they were called by the Romans being places from which in after ages great Towns and Cities took their Originals was a thing for divers useful respects alwaies observed amongst the better managed and disciplin'd Nations and it was a business that tended to extraordinary advantage especially in great Empires and Dominions The people of Israel who had GOD for their Leader through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise most heedfully observed this course in their whole pilgrimage even from Romeses the place of their departure out of Egypt to the very Banks of Iordan and that not without the speciall Commandment of GOD himself These are saies Moses the Iourneys of the people of Israel which went forth out of the Land of Aegypt with their Armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron And Moses wrote their goings out according to their Iourneys by the Commandment of the LORD and these are their Iourneys according to their goings out And then he sets down no less then two and forty Journeys from the beginning of the Chapter to the 50. verse which S. Ierom calls Catalogum omnium mansionum per quas de Aegypto egrediens populos pervenit usque ad fluenta Iordanii Having passed over Iordan and under the Conduct of their victorious General either destroyed or dispossest the Inhabitants beyond it Three men are appointed out of each Tribe to go through the Land and describe it And the men went and passed through the Land and described it by Cities into seven parts in a Book and came again to Joshua to the Host at Shiloh As for the Kings of Persia we learn from Herodotus that they had the distances from Station to Station exactly set down through their great and vast Territories This is to be seen in him by that accurate enumeration of the severall Mansions from the Sea Coast in the lesser Asia even to Susa the Royall Palace containing in all C and XI Mansions All which described in a brazen Table with the Parasangs they were distant one from another Aristagoras the Militian brought to Cleomenes King of Sparta intending to urge the advantage he might gain thereby as a chief Argument to work him to the invasion of Persia. Although indeed he miss'd of his aime by unadvised and over-hastily telling him it would prove an expedition of some three months Journey before he had made it appear to him with what ease he might perform it his Marches and Quarter being by that Table before-hand scored out for him Buchanan therefore needed not to have sought so low for the antiquity of Draughts of this kind as the authority of Propertius Maps and Chorographicall descriptions being of so long standing And for Alexander the Great we may not imagine that so great a Commander would neglect so requisite and necessary a piece of Souldiership especially when we find that the Commentaries of his Marches were extant in Plinies time described by Diognetus and Beton whom he calls mensores itinerum Alexandri and he tells us a little before in the same Chapter that Comites Alexandri M. his followers diligently numbred and set down the Townes of that Tract of India which they had conquered and out of some of their Commentari s it is very likely was taken the summe of the 57. Chap. in Solinus inscribed 〈◊〉 Indicum Having spoken of ●…lexander I may by no meanes leave out his great parallel Iulius Caesar who though he hath left little to this purpose in those

Vera Effigies GUILIELMI BVRTON L. L. Baccalaurei 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 whence all succeeding Ages have drawn their Originall The ancient Names of their Garrisons within this Island are restored to the Modern with their Site and true distances Their Military Waies and Walls with many Antiquities Medalls Inscriptions and Urnes are recovered from the ruine of Time A Work very usefull for all Historians Antiquaries Philologists and more particularly for the Student of the LAWS By VVILLIAM BURTON Batchelor of LAWES Index's to the whole WORK Marcianus Heracleota 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is well known I shall rehearse In brief what 's not my following Verse More largely shall discourse and show What 's more obscure and few yet know LONDON Printed by Tho. Roycroft and are to be sold by Henry Twyford in Vine-Court Middle-Temple and T. Twyford at the Inner Temple-Gate 1658. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN Lord GLYN Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Upper-Bench MY LORD I Esteem my self happy that before my Journey to another World which I foresee I am shortly to undertake I have in readinesse to present to your Lordship ANTONINUS his ITINERARY through BRITAIN Not that I conceive the Present of that Worth that your Lordship can be much concerned in it but that I am able to leave some Testimony behinde me of my Gratitude and Observance which you my Lord may challenge by so many Names for not to mention the particular favours conferr'd on my self I can never think on those you have bestowed on my neer Relations without the highest Sentiments of a gratefull Heart Nor ought I to forget the happinesse I enjoy by my Interest in our Nationall Rights though a poor Proletarian under the prudent Administration of your Lordship who like another Papinian whose Story this Work affordeth may be justly stiled Juris Asylum doctrinae Legalis Thesaurus That I might testifie my Obligations after this sort I have been encouraged from the Nature of the Subject which is a piece of Antiquity and that no sterile piece such as too many are employd on but such as may serve to illustrate the History of our Nation which I take to be a study most proper to the Lawyer Dr. Cowel tells us that the Common Law of England is nothing but a mixture of the Roman Civill Law with some feue●…all customes and though this Discourse professeth not to teach ought of that Law yet it contains the Story of the whole Roman Government here which lasted near CCCLX years and a diligent Student surely may hence gather some particulars that may give light to our present Laws and therefore it was without doubt that Mr. Selden in that Book of his where he sets down the Originall of our Laws does not omit the History of the Roman Times And if the Lawyer be the fittest student who can be so apt a Patron as your Lordship who is the Father of the Law For mine own performance herein it is a Commentary that hath cost me many years study and I may without breach of modesty say it has been approv'd by him then whom in this or any kind of Phylologie no man knew more yet do I not recommend it as an object of your Lordships study which I wel know is conversant about matters of a higher pitch but onely pray that under your Patronage and Protection it may come into the hands of the Lovers of Antiquity and particularly of the Students of the Law And though this stranger will not presse upon your Lordships Business and more serious Studies in which the Good of so many persons are concerned yet he craves leave to attend you in your Circuits and Recesses where perchance he may point to some Monuments of that glorious Nation both of Persons and things not unworthy your observation The pleasure of such Contemplations are so great that Lipsius was not able to expresse it Quanti saith he quam arcani gaudii ista visio Cum non animo solum sed poene oculis sese inferunt Manes illi magni sola premimus pressa toties ipsis My Lord the Person that thus offers his service is no lesse then a Roman Emperour to that purpose I have set him forth as like himself as I could and better I may say without ostentation then he has elsewhere appeared if not sufficiently well the worthinesse of his Person may plead my excuse who as I have endeavoured to do him due Rites so had I by doing it in this publike manner no other ayme then to let your Lordship and the World know that I am My Lord Your Lordships most gratefull and faithfull servant W. BURTON THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader THough all Nations have been apt to consecrate their own Originals and the History of Brute for that onely Reason finds many Favourers Yet certain it is that unto the Romans we owe what ever of Magnificence or Elegancy our Britain could boast Namque ut homines disperse ac rudes eoque bello faciles c. For whereas the Britains were rude and dispers'd and therefore prone to every occasion of War Julius Agricola as Tacitus tells us to induce them by pleasures to quietnesse and rest exhorted them in private and publickly assisted them in building Temples Pallaces and places of generall Commerce commending the Forward checking the Slow and therby imposing a kind of necessity whilst each man contended to ●…nerit Favour from the Lievtenant Thus were erected those stupendious Fabricks the Reliques of which even in their most deformed Ruines move Reverence and Astonishment in every Beholder whilst the Vulgar celebrate them as the Works of Giants And the Learned by judicious view and diligent inquiry restore in great measure the past to the present and future Ages Amongst whom I may presume to say None hath deserved better from the Lovers of venerable Antiquity then our laborious Author whether you consider the Choice of his Subject or the manner of his prosecution For if ever any thing required the paines of the ablest Antiquary in this Nation I am confident all men will determine it to be a Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary And if any Rules in this kind of writing ought to be preferred our Author hath certainlie made the most prudent choice comparing the three notable Editions of Aldus Simler and Surita and by comparison establishing the truth correcting every where the errours of Scribes reconciling as much as is possible various lexions supplying all copiously but never impertinently with Marginall Annotations Things familiarlie known or of little use when made familiar he lightly passeth over insisting every where on the more