The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

73 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
Ibme of Mr.Macpherfon's BelgcB to the South of
the Humber, and of all Mr. Macpherfon's Gael
to the North of the Tweed. Galgacns, a native
Briton, calls the Iceni, the Trinovantes, and the
Caffii, all that united in the great revolt under
Eoadicea, by the general name of Brigantes :
Brigantcs, feraina duce, exurere coloniara, ex-
pugnare caftra, &g. '. And Paufanias, fpeaking
of the whole body of the Caledonians, equally
calls them all Brigantes '.
This name then could not be given to the Bri-
tons of yorkfiiire, becaufe of their frequent incurfions
to the South of the Humber. They
iiiade noae. And the name was given equally to
others, and even to Mr. Macpherfon's own plun*
dered Belgse. It was, In truth, the general appellation
of the tribes of Britain. The name
of Cymri.was brought with the firft colonifts into
the illand, the hereditary appellation of their
iinceftors on the continent. But the name of
^Brigantes was conferred upon them in confe-
quence ci their palfage into ir, and was the na-
tural fignature of their feparation from their
brethren in Gaul". And it was therefore the
equal appellation of thofe Celtae, who had mi-
grated from the reft by crofiing the channel
* •: Agric. Vir. c. i.
* rliftor)^ of Ivianchelter, p. 9— 10. r.nd 454,
5 Hiitory of Mancheiler, p. 9—10.
into