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METELLANVS dying without Issue, the Kingdom was con∣ferred on Caratacus, Son of Cadallanus, a young Man of the Royal Blood. Assoon as he entred upon the Kingdom, he quieted the People of the Aebudae Islands, (who had raised Commotions up∣on
the Death of their last King,) but not without great Trouble. Yet here I a cannot easily beleive what our Writers, following Oro∣sius, Eutropius, and Bede, do say, viz. That the Orcades were sub∣dued by Claudius Caesar in his Reign. Not, that I think it a very hard thing for him to attempt, one by one, a few Islands scatter'd up and down in the Stormy Sea, and having but a few, and those too unarmed, Inhabitants to defend them, and seeing they could not mutually help another, to take them all in; nor, that I think it in∣credible, That a Navy might be sent by Claudius on that Expedition, he being a Man that sought for War and Victory all the World over. But because Tacitus affirms, that, before the coming of Iulius Agri∣cola into Britain, that part thereof was utterly unknown to the Ro∣mans. Caratacus Reigned Twenty years.
The Orcades subdued in Claudius Cae∣sars days, as some affirm, but mistaken∣ly.