Note 417 — Chapter II · THE ROMAN INVASION.

C. R. Smith, no mean authority on such a subject, defends the authenticity of Richard of Cirencester in his recent valuable work on "The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lime," p. 177. The illustrations of our Northern itinera have led me to an opposite conclusion; but even should the genuineness of the "De Situ Britanniæ" be established, its value to Northern antiquaries must still be open to question.