Tacitus could conceive or express himself no otherwise of a person dissenting from his own pagan tenets, or of a religion disallowed by the Roman law, which was with him the standard of truth, rectitude, and orthodoxy. The above accusation and trial of Pomponia Græcina took place, it seems, while Nero and Calphurnus Piso were Consuls, and after Paul had come to Rome the first time, and therefore she may not unreasonably be supposed one of his converts. Other authorities render it highly probable, that some of those captives had embraced Christianity during their residence at Rome; but the _Triads_, above-mentioned, may be said to settle the point, and reduce the matter to a certainty. They were documents formed on purpose to preserve and perpetuate the memory of remarkable and interesting events; of which sort may justly be considered, the conversion of Brân and family, and their introducing Christianity into this island. There is every reason to conclude, that the religion of the first British Christians was venerably simple, pure, and perfect, like what appears in the New Testament, and very widely different from that of the men of the present generation. But this subject we will now drop, and resume the thread of the narrative. {219} SECTION III. _The ancient history of Lynn continued—the town supposed to have been founded by a colony of foreigners_, _introduced by the Romans—etymology of its name—mistakes of Camden_, _Spelman_, _&c. pointed out_. The great project formed by the Romans of embanking, draining, and improving these fens and marshes, is said to have been executed by a foreign colony, {220} brought over and settled here for that purpose, but, without doubt, powerfully assisted by the natives. This colony is presumed to have been of Batavian or Belgic origin; for where could the Romans have found a people so fit for their purpose as among the inhabitants of a country that so much resembles this, and who must have been, while at home, habituated to the work in which they were here to be employed? The vicinity of those countries to this, and their then subjection to the Romans, may be considered as further corroborating this opinion. From the exposed situation of Marshland, and its lying next to the inhabited part of the country, it may very reasonably be supposed, that these colonists would begin their work there, and even on its eastern side, about where Lynn now stands: and as they would immediately want habitations, it is very natural to conclude, that the town of Old Len, or Lynn, was built for, or by them, and that they were the very people that gave it its _name_. These conclusions appear remarkably countenanced and supported by that very name itself; for LEN, in the _Celtic_ (or _Belgio-celtic_) dialect, or language, is said to signify a _Fen_, _Morass_, or _Marsh_. {221} LEN, therefore, as they applied, or used the word here, might mean a town by a morass, the town in the marsh,