Dr. Lettfom's Anfwer to Baron Dimfdale Confiderations upon the American Inquiry An Addrefs to the Freeholders of Middlesex A Sermon preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, by John Le Jeune's Choix de Livres Francois Political Reveries, and Utopian Schemes for the Welfare of Great Britain Thoughts on a Fund for the Improvement of Credit in Great Britain, Bagot's Twelves Difcourfes on the Prophecies concerning the first Eftab- Kippis's Biographia Britannica; or, the Lives of the most eminent Per- fons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest Ages to the prefent Times A Letter to the Patentees of Covent Garden Theatre Emma Corbet; or the Miferies of Civil War. Founded on fome recent "Circumstance which happened in America Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c. Dunbar's Effays on the Hiftory of Mankind in rude and uncultivated Darwin's Experiments, establishing a Criterion between mucaginous and purulent Matter, and an Account of the Retrogade Motions of the abforbent Veffels of Animal Bodies in fome Diseases Burke's Speech on prefenting to the House of Commons a Plan for the better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the econo- mical Reformation of the civil and other Establishments APPEN Encyclopedia Poetica, or a complete Collection of fugitive Pieces Hurtant's Historical Dictionary of the City of Paris Memoirs on Mathematics and Natural Hiftory An Enquiry into, and Remarks upon the Conduct of Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne Remarks on Gen. Burgoyne's State of the Expedition from Canada Obfervations on an Addrefs to the Freeholders of Middlesex Thoughts on the prefent County Petitions Mr. EB's Anfwer to his own Speech Cool Thoughts on American Independence Hartley's Addrefs to the Committee of the City of York Copies of the Proceedings of the County of Wilts Obfervations on American Independency` The Detail and Conduct of the American War Subftance of the Speeches made in the Houfe of Commons, on Dec. 15, 1779 ib. A Letter from a Gentleman in the English Houfe of Commons, in Vindication THE LONDON REVIEW, FOR JANUARY 1780. A new Hiftory of Gloucefterfire; comprising the Topography, Antiquities, Curiofities, Produce, Trade, and Manufactures of that County; the Foundation, Charters, and Endowments of Abbies, and other Religious Houses, the Foundation of the Bishoprick, &c. with a short Biographical Account of the Bifhops and Deans, the Names of the Patrons and Incumbents, and the ancient and present Value of all the Ecclefiaftical Benefices, Charters of Incorporation, and Civil Government of the feveral Boroughs; Deferiptions of the principal Seats; Defcent of the Manors; Genealogies of Families, with their Arms, Monumental Inferiptions, &c. In the Course of this Work is given the History of every Parish, Tithing, and Extra-Parochial Place in the County. Alfo the Ecclefiaftical, Civil, and Military Hiftory of the City of Gloucester, from its first Foundation to the prefent Time. With a Copy of the Domefday-Book of Gloucestershire, now first printed in the Language, and after the Manner of the Original. Illustrated with a Map of the County, Views of Gentlemen's Seats, &c. Folio. 31. 38. Rudder, Gloucefter; Crowder, London. (Concluded from page 358.) IN treating of the town of Cirencester, Mr. Rudder obferves that "This is called an ancient city, and, according to the opinion of fome perfons, of fo high antiquity as to have been built by the Britons before the Roman invafion. But that the Britons had then any cities or towns, in the fenfe we now understand those terms, is a notion very contrary to the testimony of ancient authors of the greatest credit as to that matter. Cæfar indeed speaks of their towns, but he tells us what they were ;* Oppidum autem 6 * De Bello Gallico, 1. v. ć. 21. p. 120. VOL. XI. B Britanni Britanni vocant quum fylvas impeditas vallo atque foffa munierunt." The Britons call that a town, when they have furrounded and fenced about their thickest woods with a bank and a ditch. And Xiphilin fpeaking of the Maata, or inhabitants of the now moft northern counties of England, afferts that they had neither walls nor cities; what paffed under the name of cities in Britain, being, according to Strabo, no other than groves. Thefe authorities will ftand their ground against the fond and loofe conje&ures of later writers; and upon, this ground I fhall venture to fay that Cirencefter was built by the Romans. The precife time of its founda tion I do not pretend to afcertain, but I apprehend it might be very foon after they had established themfelves in Britain. Three great roads meeting in this place, rendered it the most defirable fituation for a town that can be conceived, and no doubt that circumflance induced them to make choice of it.. 66 Being the metropolis of the large province of the Dobuni, it was called Corinium Dobunorum, and became a very eminent ftation for the Roman armies. Antoninus places it at the distance of fourteen miles from Glevum or Gloucefter, in the thirteenth Iter from Ifca, now Caerleon in Monmouthfhire, to Calleva, which Dr. Gale will have to be Henley, the Calleua Atrebatum, or chief city of the Attrebatii, whilft others give that honour to Wallingford in Berkshire. "The wall and ditch which inclofed the old city, were more than two miles in circumference. Dr.. Stukeley, about the year 1723, traced them quite round, as Leland had done before him but even in Leland's time there were but few veftiges of the wall remaining; -Sic omnia fatis In pejus ruere, ac retro. fublapfa referri. VIRG. "He tells us, that' a man may yet, walking on the bank of Churne, evidently perceyve the cumpace of foundation of towers fumtyme ftanding in the waul. And nere to the place wher the right goodly clothing mylle was fet up a late by the abbate, was broken down the ruine of an old tower toward making of the mylle waulles, in the which place was found a quadrate ftone fawllen down afore, but broken in aliquot fruftra, wherein was a Romain infcription, of the which, one fcantly lettered that faw yt, told me, that he might perceyve PONT. MAX. Among divers numifmata fownd frequently there, Dioclefian's be most faireft;. but I cannot adfirme the infcription to have bene dedicate onto hymn. In the middes of the old town in a medow, was found a flore de teffellis verficoloribus, and by the town noftris temporibus was fownd a broken fhank bone of a horse, the mouth clofed with a pegge; the which taken owt, a fhepard found yt fillid nummis argentis. In the fouth-fouth-weft fice of the waul be lykelyhood hath bene a caftel, or fum other great building, the hilles and diches yet remayne. The place is now a waren for conys, and |