It is fit we should say somewhat of the city of London, the glory of Britain. Cæsar calls the inhabitants of this country _Trinobantes_: it comprehends Middlesex and Essex on this side the river; Surry on the other. The name of _Trinobantes_ is derived from _Trinobantum_, the most ancient name of London: it signifies the city of the _Novii_, or _Novantes_, the original name of the people called _Trinobantes_ by Cæsar. _Tri_, or _Tre_, in the very old British dialect, imports a fortified city. Many names of this kind still remain, in Cornwall especially. _Noviomagus_ most certainly is Croydon in Surry. _Magus_ in British signifies a city on a down, or heath. Newington on the South of London, and Newington on the north, retain evident remains of the name of the _Novantes_. In many coins of the great king Cunobeline, nephew of our prince Mandubrace, we have inscribed TASCIO NOVANTVM, meaning the tribute of the Londoners, and of the people _Novantes_, dependent on them, called by Cæsar _Trinobantes_. The _Novii_, or _Novantes_, the original people of this country, knew how to take the proper advantage of the noble river Thames, and built this their fortified city of _Trinobantum_ upon a most convenient situation, celebrated by all writers. The inhabitants of this potent city carried on a very considerable trade with the continent, and were rich and flourishing, as those numerous coins of Cunobeline are evidences beyond all exception. _Londinium copia negotiatorum & commeatuum maxime celebre_, says Tacitus. These coins are in gold, silver, copper: I have engraved twenty-three plates of them. Nor, in my opinion, have we reason to doubt of Billings-gate being built by him, as his royal custom-house; and why Ludgate should not take name from Immanuence Lud, father of our prince Mandubrace, I see not. The business of a society of antiquaries is to separate truth from fable, by evidence, by reason, and judgement. Authors are certainly mistaken in thinking our British ancestors a rude and barbarous people. Need we a further testimony of our continental trade, Cæsar speaks of the Gaulish merchants who traded hither: he convened them together to inquire concerning the nature of the country; and I have the strongest reasons in the world to induce me to believe, that Britain was peopled before the opposite continent, by a great and polite nation; and that our British coins are the oldest of any in Europe.