See Notes at end of Part I.
Defective State of our Knowledge on the Arts, Institutions, and History of Ancient Britain.-Summary of the Annals of Britain, from the close of the Fourth to the close of the Seventh Century.-The "Cimbri" only appear in the Geography of Richard of Cirencester.-Welsh Topography dates back to the Eleventh Century.- Welsh Personages in the Saxon Chronicle have not Saxon nor Celtic Names.-The Britons lost in the Roman Annals from the close of the First Century.
Events in Britain to the Fifth Century, Cerausius, Maximus, Gerontius.— Independence. Plots against Britain by the Emperor Julian's School or Followers, the "Appollinares Mystici," Martin, Lupus, Germanus-his Hallelujah Victory over the Picts.-Vortigern.Maelgwin. Augustine and Battle of Bangor; Cadwallader.-What became of the 12,000 troops sent from this Island into Britany by Maximus?-Celts of Cerausius' Campaigns; Cadwallader.—The Cimbri of Devon post-Roman Settlers.
What became of the Britons of Kent and other Roman Provincials? -Kent and Welsh Topography and People compared. What of the British Marine, so conspicuous in the Wars of Cerausius?— Owen and Cymmric Battles of Independence indistinctly given.Cynedda and Owen in the Triads; Successes against the Picts.-Cimbri of the Baltic disappear with the Notice in Tacitus.-Cadwallader, a Celt.
WHO were the ancient Britons-that people mentioned in the two reconnoissances of Julius Cæsar, "as staining their