XVII. Circa idem tempus insulam hancce visitans Hadrianus Imperator murum, opus sane mirandum & maxume memorabile, erexit, Juliumque Severum Legatum in Brittaniis reliquit. XVIII. Postea nichil unquam notatu dignum audivimus esse perpetratum, donec Antoninus Pius per Legatos suos plurima bella gessit, nam & Brittones, per Lollium Urbicum Proprætorem & Saturninum Præfectum classis, vicit, alio muro, submotis barbaris, ducto. provinciam, postea Valentiæ nomine notam, revocavit. XIX. Pio Mortuô, varias de Brittonibus, Germanisque victorias reportavit Aurelius Antoninus. XX. Mortuô autem Antoninô, cum ea quæ Romanis ademerant satis non haberent, magnam à Legato Marcello passi sunt cladem. XXI. Hic Pertinacem habuit successorem, qui fortem quoque se gessit ducem. XXII. Hunc excepit Clodius Albinus, qui de sceptro & purpura cum Severo contendit. XXIII. Post hos primus erat Virius Lupus, qui Legati nomine gaudebat. non huic multa præclara gesta adscribuntur, quippe cujus gloriam intercepit invictissimus Severus, qui, fugatis celeritur hostibus, murum Hadrianum, nunc ruinosum, ad summam ejus perfectionem reparavit; &, si vixerat, proposuerat exstirpare barbaros, quibus erat infestus, cum eorum nomine, ex hacce insula, sed obiit, manu Dei, apud Brigantes in municipio Eboraco. XXIV. Ejusque in locum subiit Alexander, qui orientis quasdam victorias reportavit, in Edissa mortuus. _Sicilia._ XXV. Successores habuit Legatos Lucilianum, M. Furium, N. Philippum....................................................... qui si defensionem terminorum ab ipsis observatam exceperimus, nil fere egerunt. XXVI. Post............................................................. ............................... _Desunt reliqua_....................... FINIS. An ACCOUNT of RICHARD +OF+ CIRENCESTER, MONK of WESTMINSTER, And of his Works: With his Ancient MAP of ROMAN BRITAIN, And the +Itinerary+ thereof. Read at the +Antiquarian Society+, March 18, 1756. I. _To the Right Honourable the Lord_ WILUGHBY _of_ Parham, _President of the_ Antiquarian Society. The love I had for my own country, in my younger days, prompted me to visit many parts of it, and to refuse great offers made me to go into foreign and fashionable tours. I was sensible we abounded at home with extraordinary curiosities, and things remarkable, both in art and nature; as well as most valuable antiquities in all kinds, most worthy of our regard, and which it most became us to take cognisance of.