The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ale trifling indeed as compared with those of Eome,but magnificent for a remote province. He built, probablyby the labours of the enslaved Britons, great roads—fourconverging at London, three at Chester, two at Bath—partly to assist commerce, but mainly, we may believe, formoving troops easily, and thus holding the conqueredtribes in subjection. Probably few Romans of the first rank ever dwelt inBritain. Officials, traders, and soldiers went thither fromExtent of Rome, as they now go to India from England, Eoman and ruled a subject population b
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ale trifling indeed as compared with those of Eome,but magnificent for a remote province. He built, probablyby the labours of the enslaved Britons, great roads—fourconverging at London, three at Chester, two at Bath—partly to assist commerce, but mainly, we may believe, formoving troops easily, and thus holding the conqueredtribes in subjection. Probably few Romans of the first rank ever dwelt inBritain. Officials, traders, and soldiers went thither fromExtent of Rome, as they now go to India from England, Eoman and ruled a subject population by virtue of influence. superior organization and culture. Though the Gauls readily for-got their tongue forthat of Rome, appar-ently the Britons neverin large numbers gaveup theirs. Some chief-tains adopted the lan-guage of the conquer-or, his dress and civi-lization, and even afictitious Roman pedi-gree, and Rome, in Britain asused suchagents ofsupremacy. elsewhere, leaders as her own The tax- KOMAN BRITAIN, ^M(<^I^ JS^^K About 400 A. gatherer did his sor-did work, and theburden became evermore crushing, espe- Hadrian in 119, cially for Severns in 208- the wcll-to-do citizcus of the towns. An em- 211, Constan- , •, ? , ^i xi • tinsin296 Con- P^ror, ambitious to survcy even the outlyingstantine in 306. parts of his dominions, occasionally reached 26 THE BRITISH NATION Britain and gave tlie island a temporary importance byhis presence. Every year the conscription carried offdrafts of men: British recruits served Rome in Gaul andSpain and on the Danube and the Euphrates. On theother hand, Cliristian missionaries carried to Britain whatbecame in 313 the religion of the emperor, and many ofthe Roman masters, and of their British dependents andslaves, accepted the faith of Christ. The Picts or Caledonians from the north, the Scotsfrom what is now Ireland, Saxons from across the North„, , ,. „ Sea, harassed the Roman power, and pene- The decline of . „ ^^ ^ ^ , t
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