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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50038	The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire with an account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts / by Charles Leigh ...	Leigh, Charles, 1662-1701?	1700 (1700)	Wing L975; ESTC R20833	287,449	522

seems were for the Preservation of the Memory of Two Centuriont that had so many Years faithfully and worthily served the Romans there In the Year 1692 under the Root of an Oak in Med-Lock near Knot-Mill was found a Stone Three Quarters long Fifteen Inches broad Eleven Inches thick with the Letter'd side downward which Mr. Cambden saw not at least before the Finishing his Britania but is now to be seen in the Garden of Holme the Seat of Sir Iohn Bland Bar to whom that Estate descended the same formerly belonging to the Moseley's in Right of his Wife a Lady of great Temper Piety and Prudence The Inscription of the Stone is thus FORTVNAE CONSERVA TRICI LVCIVS SENACIANIVS MARTIVSBLEG VI. VICT. This seems to be an Altar dedicated to Fortune by Lucius Senecianus Martius Brutus a Commander in the Sixth Legion which remained in York in the Time of Severus his being there after he had vanquished Albinus General of the Britains and reduced their State under his Obedience It was surnamed Victrix and is plac'd by Dio in Lower Britain and the Twentieth Legion surnamed also Victrix remain'd at Chester which was plac'd in Higher Britain This Division it seems was made by the said Severus and the Country about it where these Legions were were divided into little Regions since call'd Hydes This was part of the Kingdom of Deiara several of whose Youth being sent to Rome and Pope Gregory admiring their Beauty sent over Augustine to convert the English Edward the First King of the West Saxons and afterwards of the Mercians sent into the Kingdom of the Northumbers an Army of the Mercians saith Hoveden ordering that they should fortifie the City of Manchester and place valiant Soldiers in it it being defac'd by the Danes It was a Frontier Town betwixt the Mercians that inhabited Cheshire and Derbyshire and the Northumbers inhabiting Lancashire and Yorkshire and in their Wars and mutual Incursions was sometimes possessed by the Mercians and sometimes the Northumbers Thus far our Author proceeds As to the present State of the Town it is vastly populous of great Trade Riches and Industry particularly for the Fustian Manufacture and Printing them as for those likewise which are call'd Manchester Wares both which are now sent all over the Kingdom as well as to the Indies It is watered by the Rivers Erwell and Irke Little can be added of Lancaster for Antiquity save that it was doubtless a Roman Fortress as appears by the Roman Wall and Road leading to it it is at this time a very thriving Corporation and an improving Port Its Eminency chiefly lies in this that many Branches of the Royal Family have enjoy'd Titles deriv'd from it which for the Dignity of the County in general I will enumerate as briefly as possible The First that was stiled Lord of the Place in the Beginning of the Norman Government was Roger of Poictou surnamed Pictarensis because his Wife came out of Poictou in France He was succeeded in that Honour by William Earl of Morton and Warren upon whose Death King Richard the First bestow'd it on his Brother Iohn afterwards King of England of whom Gualter De Hemingford and R. Hoveden gives this Account That King Richard shew'd great Affection to his Brother Iohn for besides Ireland and the Earldom in Normandy he bestow'd upon him such great Preferment in England that he was in a manner Tetrarch there For he gave him Cornwall Lancaster Nottingham and Derby with the adjacent Country and many other Things After this King Henry III. Son of King Iohn promoted his younger Son Edmund Crouchback he having been prevented of the Kingdoms of Sicily and Apuleia to the Earldom of Lancaster giving it in these Words The Honour Earldom Castle and Town of Lancaster with the Cow-Pastures which at this Day they call Vaccaries from thence and Forest of Wiresdale Lownsdale New-Castle under Lime with the Mannor Forest and Castle of Pickering the Mannor of Scateby the Village of Gormancester and the Rents of the Town of Huntingdon Edmund had Issue Thomas Henry and Iohn who died unmarried which Thomas was Second Earl of Lancaster and was succeeded in that Honour by his Brother Henry whose Son Henry was in Parliament created Duke of Lancaster being the Second Dukedom that was erected in England that of Cornwall being the First in the Person of Edward the Black Prince and left Two Daughters Maud Dutchess of Bavaria and Blanch married to Iohn of Gaunt so call'd because he was born at Ghent in Flanders Fourth Son of Edward the Third who thereby coming to the whole Estate and being now equal to many Kings in Wealth was created Duke of Lancaster by his Father he also obtain'd the Royalties from him and the King then advanced the County of Lancaster into a Palatinate By this Rescript wherein after he had declar'd the great Service he had done his Country at Home and Abroad he adds We have granted from Us and our Heirs to our Son aforesaid that he during his Term of Life shall have within the County of Lancaster his Chancery and his Writs to be issued out under his own Seal belonging to the Office of Chancellor his Justices likewise as well for Pleas of the Crown as for other Pleas relating to Common Law to have Cognizance of them and to have Power of making all Executions whatsoever by his Writs and Officers and to have all other Liberties and Royalties whatsoever appertaining to a County Palatine as freely and fully as the Earl of Chester within the said County is known to have Nor was he only Duke of Lancaster but by Marriage with Constantia Daughter to Peter King of Castile sometime bore the Title of King of Leon and Castile but by Contract he parted with this Title and in the Thirteenth of King Richard the Second was created Duke of Aquitaine by Consent of Parliament to the great Dissatisfaction of the Country At that Time his Titles were Iohn Son to the King of England Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincoln and Leicester and High Steward of England After this Henry de Bullingbrook his Son succeeded in the Dutchy of Lancaster who having deposed Richard the Second obtained the Crown and conferr'd that Honour upon Henry his Son afterwards King of England and that he might entail it upon him and his Heirs for ever he had an Act of Parliament made in these Words We being unwilling that our said Inheritance or Liberties by reason of our now assuming the Regal Seat and Diguity shou'd be any ways chang'd transferr'd diminish'd or impair'd but that our said Inheritance with its Liberties and Rights aforesaid shou'd in the same Manner and Form Condition and State wherein they descended and fell to us and also with all and singular Liberties Franchizes and Priviledges Commodities and Profits whatsoever which our Lord and Father in his Life-time had and held it for term of his Life by Grant of the late King Richard and wholly

and fully continu'd preserv'd and enjoy'd by Us and our Heirs specify'd in the said Charters and by the Tenure of these presents we do upon our certain Knowledge and with the Consent of this our present Parliament grant declare decree and ordain for Us and our Heirs that as well our Dutchy of Lancaster as all and singular Counties Mannors Honours Castles Fees Advowsons Possessions Annuities and Seigniories whatsoever descended to us before the Royal Dignity was obtain'd by us how or in what Place soever by Right of Possession Inheritance or in Reversion or other way remain to Us and our said Heirs specify'd in the Charter abovesaid after the said Manner for ever And in this State and Condition it remain'd from that time saving that Edward the Fourth in the First Year of his Reign when he had attainted Henry the Sixth for Treason appropriated it as they term it to the Crown that is to say to him and his Heirs Kings of England However Henry the Seventh broke this Entail and so at this Day it has its peculiar Officers namely a Chancellor Attorney Clerk of the Court Six Assessors a Messenger Two Auditors Three and Twenty Receivers and Three Supervisors Chester the Metropolis of that County Palatine is very remarkable for the many Antiquities there discover'd and will furnish us with Variety of Matter both in relation to its self and the many celebrated Personages that have receiv'd Titles from it that it was Eminent in the Romans Days is unquestionable by the numerous Spoils of their Grandeur and Magnificence found there I will briefly give you the most noted Observations of Mr. Cambden upon it and then add what has been more lately observ'd That it was a Roman Colony the Tyles daily dug up there confirm to us on the Reverse of some is inscrib'd Col. Divana Leg. XX. Victrix It is true indeed we cannot expect to behold the stately Ruines of the Place in this Generation which preceding Ages did yet even in the last Age it was not barren of them as Ranulph a Monk of this City tells us in his Polycronicon There are Ways says he under Ground wonderfully arch'd with Stone-work Vaulted Dining-Rooms huge Stones engraven with the Names of the Ancients and sometimes Coins dug up with the Names of Iulius Caesar and other famous Men. Likewise Roger of Chester in his Polycraticon When I beheld the Foundations of vast Buildings up and down in the Streets it seem'd rather the Effect of Roman Strength and the Work of Giants than of British Industry As to its Situation Lucian the Monk who lived Five Hundred Years ago speaks very largely both for its Pleasantness and Conveniency and doubtless it was an Argument of the Roman Prudence here first to form a Camp for so the Word Chester from Castrum implies and then to build a City for as Lucian observes this Place standing in the West Parts of Britain was very convenient to receive the Roman Legions transported hither and besides it was proper for Watching the Frontiers of the Empire and was a perfect Key to Ireland its Harbour supply'd it with the Products of all Europe For says the same Author Ships come in from Gascoigne Spain Ireland and Germany so that we drink Wine very plentifully Mr. Cambden takes no Notice of any Antiquities in this City except some Pavements of Chequer-work so that our Votive Altars and Curiosities must be of more modern Discovery Mr. Gibson indeed the late Publisher of him with Additions has an Altar with this Inscription I. O. M. TANARO T. ELVPIVS GALER PRAESENS GVVA PRI. LEG XX. VV. COMMODO ET LATERANO COS. V. S. L. M. Which he thus reads * But upon this Altar Mr. Prideaux who writ the Marmora Arundeliana Comments thus That it is an Altar dedicated to Iupiter the Thunderer Tanar in the British Language signifying Thunder and makes Praesens Guna to Praeses Gunathae that is Governour of North Wales Iovi Optimo Maximo Tanaro Titus Elupius Galerius Praesens gubernator Principibus Legionis Vicessimae Victricis Valeriae Commodo Laterano Consulibus Votum solvit Lubens Merito From which Inscription he argues the Twentieth Legion was stiled Victrix Valeria and not Valens Victrix as Mr. Cambden and others wou'd have it Another Inscription he mentions is VARONIV ......... ECTVS LEG XX VV c. And here the V being doubled he appeals to Dio who says the Twentieth Legion which is call'd Valeria and Victrix is now in upper Britain which Augustus preserv'd together with the other Legion that hath the Name of Vicesima and hath its Winter-Quarters in Lower Germany and neither now is nor then was usually and properly call'd Valeria He farther proceeds that Valeria may as well be allow'd as to other Legions the Additional Titles of Ulpia Flavia Claudia Trajana Antonina c. were But as to this disputed Title we shall give the Reader full Satisfaction in what follows Before I take Notice of his other Altar communicated to him by Mr. Henry Prescot of Chester let me insert what the same Author acquaints us was found round it About the Foundation where the Altar lay were to be seen the Signs of a Sacrifice as the Bones Horns and Heads of several Creatures as the Ox Roe-Buck c. with these Two Coins 1. Brass on the first side IMP. CAES. VESPASIAN AVG. COS. III. And the Face of the Emperor on the Reverse Victoria Augusti S. C. and a Winged Victory standing 2. Copper on the first side FL. VAL. Constantius Nob. C. And the Face of Constantius on the Reverse Genio Populi Romani a Genius standing holding a Bowl used in Sacrifices in the Right Hand and a Cornucopia in the Left One of these Coins is not spoke of in the following Manuscript given me by Mr. Prescot so I thought it not amiss to quote Mr. Gibson for it But that I may now do Justice to the Courtesie and Generosity of that curious Gentleman Mr. Henry Prescot of Chester the Reader may here take a full Account of that Altar from his Manuscript To Kendrick Eyton Esq at Eyton in the County of Denbigh SIR Chester Ian. 12. 1693. THE Altar found here is a considerable Piece of Antiquity it does indeed prove it self so at first sight but because the Names of the Emperors and Consuls are wanting it requires greater Skill in Antiquity than I pretend to to fix its Aera however since you command me I will give my Conjectures upon that and other Circumstances of it In Iuly last 1693. upon Occasion of digging a Place for a Cellar in the House of Mr. Heath in the East-Gate about Two Foot deep it was found with the Inscription downward upon a Stone Two Foot square and One in thickness which is supposed to have been the Pedestal being mouldred off on three sides the Foundation lay deep and broad consisting of many great Stones the Earth about was solid but of several Colours and Ashes were frequently found About the