| Description Of Item | Notes on how, ‘in the time of Paganism’, there were pagan temples dedicated to Roman gods in Britain. Such as a temple to Mars in Scotland, one to Mercury in Cornwall, to Miverna in Bangor in Wales, to Victoria in ‘Malden’ [Maldon] in Essex, to Apollo in Bath, to Janus in Leicester, to Bellona in York where St Peter’s ‘is now’, and a temple to Diana in London where St Paul’s is. It adds ‘nay Even no more than 53 years before the Incarnation of Christ, hen Julius Caesar came out of France into England, so absurd senseless & stupid were the People of this land’.
Copied from Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy, or, A nursery for gentry comprised in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations: wherein is much variety of discourse and modest delight (1651).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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