Small Guest Room. P P e e r r i Central Hall, i s with pillars s t on each side t y (often roofless). y l l e e Porch of Entry. It will be readily seen that we have here a building on the lines of an ordinary church. The small original congregation would meet, like other guests, in the reception-room. As numbers increased, the hall and adjoining cloisters would have to be used (the former being roofed in); the reception-room being reserved for the most honoured members, and ultimately becoming the chancel of a fully-developed church, with nave and aisles complete.[435] It _may_ be, therefore, that some of the Roman villas found in Britain were really churches.[436] F. 10.--This, however, is a less probable explanation of the absence of ecclesiastical remains; and the large majority of Romano-British church sites are, as I believe, still in actual use amongst us for their original purpose. And it may be considered as fairly proved, that before Britain was cut off from the Empire the Romano-British Church had a rite[437] and a vigorous corporate life of its own, which the wave of heathen invasion could not wholly submerge. It lived on, shattered, perhaps, and disorganized, but not utterly crushed, to be strengthened in due time by a closer union with its parent stem, through the Mission of Augustine, to feel the reflex glow of its own missionary efforts in the fervour of Columba and his followers,[438] and, finally, to form an integral part of that Ecclesia Anglicana whose influence knit our country into one, and inspired the Great Charter of our constitutional liberties.[439] Her faith and her freedom are the abiding debt which Britain owes to her connection with Rome. INDEX Aaron of Caerleon, 259 Addeomarus, 130 Adder-beads, 71 Adelfius, 259 Adminius, 126, 128, 130 Aetius, 245 Agricola, 156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165 Agriculture, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 191, 231 Agrippina, 140, 149, 150 Akeman Street, 166 Alaric, 237, 243 Alban, St., 227, 259 Albany, 247 Albinus, 200 Albion, 32 Alexander Severus, 71 Allectus, 220, 223, 224, 231 Alleluia Battle, 264 Alpine dogs, 191 Amber, 48, 49 Ambleteuse, 86, 95 Amboglanna, 174, 204 Aminus. _See_ Adminius Amphitheatres, 185, 224 Ancalites, 55, 120 Ancyran Tablet, 128 Anderida, 56, 240, 250, 265 Anglesey, 154, 161 Antedrigus, 131, 146 Antonines, 213 Antoninus Pius, 171, 197, 214 Aquae Sulis, 183. _See_ Bath Aquila, 257 Arianism, 230 Arms, 49, 178 Army of Britain, 159, 160, 199, 200, 218, 228, 230, 235, 242 Army of Church, 268 Arthur, 247 Arthur's Well, 205 Asclepiodotus, 224 Ash-pits, 177, 186 Asturians, 204, 205 Atrebates, 55, 56, 82, 87, 125, 127, 142 Attacotti, 46, 194, 233 Augusta, 180, 233 Augustine, 243 Augustus, 128, 129 Avebury, 30