The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . ct by the Britifh Romans and Roman Britons (6). A great variety with Roman Britifh characters in BorlacesHift. of Cornwall, p. 391, 396. See morein Warburtons Vallum Romanum, Lon- don> 1753 4to- (5) The archite&ure in England, which preceded the Gothic, is uiually called Saxon,but it is in fadT: Roman. (6) See Whitakers Manchefter, vol. 329 ; where he fhews that th
The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . ct by the Britifh Romans and Roman Britons (6). A great variety with Roman Britifh characters in BorlacesHift. of Cornwall, p. 391, 396. See morein Warburtons Vallum Romanum, Lon- don> 1753 4to- (5) The archite&ure in England, which preceded the Gothic, is uiually called Saxon,but it is in fadT: Roman. (6) See Whitakers Manchefter, vol. 329 ; where he fhews that the opinion ofMr. Wanley, that the Saxons brought letterswith them into England, is ill-founded. • Of (2) I have feveral of thefe pretended al-phabets in my collection ; though they are•$?*/ , only Roman letters deformed., {3) Many of thefe coins are preferved inthe elaborate differtation of the Rev. , on the coins of Cunoboline; andmany particulars concerning this prince ap-pear in the hift. of Manchefter, by , vol. I. p. 284, 372, and in hiscorrections, chap. ix. \ (4) See feveral monuments infcribed 5pT lenotnsueqsaeaesaceradosqiiidconvioniiue-^loajiasdeuice abict euLXUtrautainuffi ambo. i. ^: ^ .7 Ocker wotceR qui esr™r njccreosscipceaji^worneu tuurnad uewif^uegjuTTitu upccu tioiuvnxcscua pauem tjo|Eru msupen. suostcora aleFpa-Hopis liobie^ r ,a uofcua si cut uo-5,en 1 n rtnrn u6*oebTcoui o i Ccvj ei wducoc 6 vi o s lvrenfcccuo-wem ,setnioeua vjcsctiticuo acute ifrn pier*HJc 1 nullum lucedeutesiuomvufrus M i i. pT*!1 ?Tu-rn audoxis Si ufapcxmo uib;dvii siuequaceKetlcc lb nuoi qui&bicasTpil-ius iNbeQTsecunsuNTeumcyduLti eosoajNageT PRAacipiTeisNeo».NipesTuo5 eum TestHxeRUN-rbic-NONiecrr rztt p. S3- J r \ if rt i5 r V Chap. V. OF WRITING. 97 of capital letters were ufed by the Saxons in their MSS. of which manyfpecimens are given in our plates. Saxon I The capital letters in the fourteenth plate are taken from theCapitals.) Textus
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