He begins with Ireland; and besides a map of it along with that of Britain, he gives an accurate description of the country, people, rivers, promontories, divisions, manners, mensuration; the fertility of the land, origin of the inhabitants, _&c._ A very exact chorography of the nations and cities: Then of the other islands, Hebudes, Orcades, Thule, Wyght, and many more. LIBER II. The chronological part of the work; which does not appear to have been taken from other authors now known: it chiefly handles the chronology of Britain, and its history, in matters not mentioned in other chronologies. All the imperial expeditions hither, those of legates, proprætors, in their successive order; the taking of particular cities; the moving off of British people into Ireland; the building of the walls; the Romans abandoning _Vespasiana_ province; the persecutions of the christians. The passage of the Scots from Ireland. I need add no more, than, if Camden and Barton, Gale and Horsley, had had Richard of Cirencester’s work, there had been nothing left for others to do in this argument. A very lively proof of the Romans conquering Scotland by Agricola in Martial’s epigram, _Nuda Caledonio dum pectora præbuit Urso Non ficta pendens in cruce Laureolus._ Domitian was extravagantly fond of exhibitions in the amphitheatre: Martial’s I. Lib. intirely taken up therewith; nothing more engaging the emperor’s vanity, than for Agricola to send him some bears from Scotland, for his shows. * * * * * Cap. II. An _elenchus_ of the Roman emperors and legates commanding in Britain. The end is wanting. II. ON THE MAP of BRITTANIA ROMANA OF RICHARD of CIRENCESTER. A. D. 1338. Read at the +Antiquarian Society+, April 8, 1756. At first sight, this map appears very extraordinary; but when I came to compare it with those of Britain, in Ptolemy, and other old geographers, I was much surprised to find how far it exceeds them: _that_ in the oldest editions of Ptolemy is very mean, and especially erroneous, in turning all the major part of Scotland toward the east, instead of the north. Printed at Ulm, 1482. I have Schottus’s edition at Argenson, 1513, with Mirandula’s translation. Also another edition, 1540, at Basil, by Munster: but the map of Britain and Ireland, in all, poor and jejune.