CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Poetical Description of Nottingham... Latitude, &c... Fairs... Markets ...Courts of Justice... Magistrates... Aldermen... Councillors...Officers...Survey of Ancient and Modern Trades...Merchant's Guide... Edward III. Parliament CHAPTER II. Mechanical Pre-eminence of Nottingham... Genius not Rewarded... CHAPTER III. Ancient History of the Town, traced to a more remote period than has been hitherto done... Rules five by which it may be done...John Rouse first Historian of Nottingham...Antiquity of Nottingham, as given by Ditto... Coilus Buried here A.M. 3832... Credited by Leland...Anochronism of White.....Erudi- CHAPTER IV. British History may be traced beyond the time of Julius Cæsar... Importance of familiar acquaintance with History... Reasons of compiling a New History of Nottingham... Its History as a Borough to be given for the first time. CHAPTER V. Present Name co-eval with the Conquest...Origin of Ditto...Ancient Saxon Name ..Etymology of... Mr. Rawlinson's Discoveries of Caves...Notting- ham, a Hamlet to Sneinton... Remote Antiquity of Ditto... British Caverns CHAPTER I. Nottingham little known during the Roman Dominancy...Notting- CHAPTER II. Advantageous situation of Nottingham..An early location here pro- CHAPTER III. River Trent, origin of its name... Drayton's description of...Not CHAPTER IV. Decreasing, depth of... Evidences that part of the county was once CHAPTER V. Spring head of the Trent...Tributary streams... Rapidity of course of BOOK III. CHAPTER I. Contemporary histories of ancient towns... Rights of ancient burgesses CHAPTER II. Rites.. Priesthood and religion... National hierarchies... Orders of CHAPTER IV. Orders of Druidical priestbood...Distinctions of dress...Lengthened CHAPTER V. Druids reverenced by the people... Official dresses...Druid's rod... Short hair... Long beards... Druid's breast-plate... Imitation of the Urim and Thummim...Described by Pliny... Ingenious account of, given to the vulgar... Serpent sacred to light...Ditto interwoven, formed the Druid's egg...Ditto encased in gold...Worn as a sacred badge. CHAPTER VI. Sacrifices of the Druids...Altars.. Places of sacrifice...Sacred fire always burning...Morning and evening sacrifices ..Priest walked round the altar... Poet Lucan on the Druids...No Druidical grove remaining...Druidical temple at Holywood... Roots of old oaks discovered. CHAPTER VII. Cæsar's testimony as to the Idols worshipped by the Druids... Oriental, origin of...Identified with all ancient idolatries... Britain once full of idols... Druid's opinion of the destiny of the world...Antiquity of Druidism. CHAPTER VIII. Lucian's description of Ogmius, the God of eloquence... The Hercules of the Druids... Etymology of Ogmius... Druid's real philosophers... Debased by degenerate rites... Remarks on the bold figures and florid language of the ancients...Every nation had its Hercules. CHAPTER IX. Apollo of the Greeks, the same as the Bel of the Britons and Chaldees... Bel an image of the Sun...A statute of discovered... Carns, what! how situated... Fires of Bel... Passing through the fire to Baal...Temple of Apollo...Aruns praying to Apollo. CHAPTER X. Beltein festivals, first of May and November... Manner of celebration ...Sacred fires...Dues of the Druids must be paid... Excommunication worse than death...Druidism, a corruption of divine truth...St. John's fires... Instances of Bel's fires still practised. CHAPTER XI. Druidical temples remains of at Aubury and Stonehenge... Ditto Island of Lewis, description cf... Identity of purpose with the Tower of Babel... Druids emigrated from India... Druids descendants of Brahmins... Druids not barbarians... Occupied the highest rank in the republic of letters... Grecian phy- losophy derived from them... Preceptors of Pythagoras. CHAPTER XII. Misrepresentations of Britons by Cæsar, plain inconsistency of... If they were so weak and barbarous, why did he bring hither the flower of his army...Why his great difficulty in landing...Why did he not conquer them... Britain better known to the ancient Greek than Roman philosophers...Strabo's ignorance of Ireland... Pytheas, description of, in the days of Alexander the CHAPTER XIII. Phenician commerce with Britain... Voyage of Himilco, the steel was known...Tin used as a mordaunt for dying...Brazen vessels used in BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. Spirit of Druidism... Identified with every ancient form of religion... CHAPTER II. Mystical rites of Druidism... Mystical signification of misletoe... CHAPTER III. Abuse poured upon the Druids... Ditto philosophically reverenced CHAPTER V. Celibacy of the Druids... Lived under oaks, or in caverns...were CHAPTER VI. Form of government... Civil polity of the Druids... Petty kings and CHAPTER VII. Druidical orders of nobility; gentry, yeomen, tradesmen, &c.... CHAPTER VIII. Druidical judges... Manner of deciding controversies... Titles to CHAPTER X. Druids famous for their literary habits... Literary degrees... How CHAPTER XI. Druids received tithes...Did uot originate with Moses...Abraham CHAPTER XII. Condition of the people under the Druids...Story of Abaris the British Ambassador to the court of Athens...Law of marriage, divorce...Singular custom in Scotland derived from the Druids...Ditto abused their power... Loss by the destruction of Druidical literature... Power of man to do evil... Impotent for good...Breast laws... Isle of Man. derived from the Druids...Equity of the CHAPTER XIII. Topographical nomenclature of Nottingham and adjacent places, CHAPTER I. Cæsar never penetrated beyond Verulam... Coritania who... Brigantes, locality of... Power of ditto... Roman commanders... Roman conquests...Suppres sion of the Druids...Massacre of ditto by the Romans... Roman camp at Holly Hill, Arnold... Exploratory camps distinguishable...Causennis, the Roman name for Nottingham...Itinerary of Antoninus.. Opinion of Dr. Gale... Granaries in subterranean chambers...Ancient manner of bread making... Improvements under the Romans... Excellency of Roman government...Æneid on the Romans ... Britain coveted by the Saxons... Tranquility under the Romans...Origin of CHAPTER II. Romans finally depart from Britain... Ditto defenceless, groans of the Britains...Ditto invite the Saxons... Warlike character of...Anchor off Thanet... |