CHAP. XXV. THE INTERMITTED NARRATION OF THE REVOLT OF BRITAIN VNDER NERO, PROSE∣CVTED.
AFter the death of consecrated CLAVDI∣VS, BRITAIN, with the rest of the RO∣MAN world, comming vnder the scepter of NERO, it was nowe of his reigne the seuenth yeare, CAESONIVS, and PETRONIVS Con∣suls, when the incensed BRITANNS, led by a woman and a widowe, reuengefullie writ her quarrell in the bloud of thousands of enemies. For such they esteemed all who were either free of ROME, or of the ROMAN partie. The causes of which sodein furie, with the bitter effects, the estate of things foregoing, and following (as affor∣ding great lessons) deserue a narration sutable to the maiestie, though not to the length of the intro∣duction. And first of all (that we may admiringlie know how large a place the euil shooke) it must not bee forgotten, that presentlie before the terrible blowe, all the countreyes, nowe comprehended vnder the noble names of ENGLAND, and WALES (excepting onely the Ile of MONA or ANGLESEY) were either immediatly RO∣MAN, as prouincial, or indirectlie, and vpon the