The reverse or back-face of the English Janus to-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the common and statute-law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations, to the decease of King Henry II. set down and tackt together succinctly by way of narrative : designed, devoted and dedicated to the most illustrious the Earl of Salisbury / written in Latin by John Selden ... ; and rendred into English by Redman Westcot, Gent.

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Title: The reverse or back-face of the English Janus to-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the common and statute-law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations, to the decease of King Henry II. set down and tackt together succinctly by way of narrative : designed, devoted and dedicated to the most illustrious the Earl of Salisbury / written in Latin by John Selden ... ; and rendred into English by Redman Westcot, Gent.
Author: Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Basset, and Richard Chiswell,; MDCLXXXII [1682]
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CHAP. XV.

Pag. 25, 26. The Inscriptions, which are left un-englished, are only brought in, to evidence, that there were several Roman Colonies, beside that at Maldon, called Colonia Victricensis, planted up and down in Britain; to wit, at York, at Chester, at Glocester, and I doubt not but at Colchester too, no less than there was one at Cullen in Germany, as the very name of them both imports, Colonia. And that ours hath an ad∣dition of Chester to it, is usual to some other Cities: Colchester for Colnchester, which in Latin would be Colonia Gastri, or rather Coloniae Castrum, the Castle or Garrison of the Colony.