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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt:...fur&St„ It would be an interesting but difficult task to pursue the SSitumo'" investigation of the military establishments throughout the ttuVoTuiV Empire. The "Magistri," in whose precinct Britain was included, resided at first held their station at Treves, the capital of the Prefecture of TtiVJ.' the Gauls, but afterwards at Aries. In the island itself, the S"1 Count of Britain had the southern and western parts under his JwmTe», especial command; and it has been conjectured that he was supreme commander of the Diocese. Another Count ruled the Britannia," "Saxon Shore," which extended from Brancaster1, in modern Moris Norfolk, to the "Portus Adurni"2 in Sussex; whilst the Duke Bnun-Pr of Britain governed the remainder of Roman Britain", including gggP" the Northern Marches, settled and defended by the Limitanean! j. 'Military soldiery. The leaders named by the Emperor were the magistrates as kurstrltei well as the commanders of the military. A jurisdiction derogating the om i i e ri i I manders of so largely from the power of the provincial governors, began, as the soldiery » Cod. Theod., lib. xv. tit. 1, 1. 13. De turribus limitaneis per Daciam Ripensem partim reficiendis, partim novis excitandis. Valentiniani Sen. lex, A.d. 361. Concerning the border towers throughout Dacia bordering on the Danube, those which were to be restored, and new constructions. It is the conjecture of Gothofredus, that instead of Tautomede, we should read Tautomer or Teutomer, and that the Duke of Dacia was the Frankish Chieftain, the "Protector Domesticus," mentioned by Marcellinus, lib. xv. c. 3. 6 Cod. Theod., lib. vii. tit. 22, de Filiis Milit. 1. 5. c Cod. Theod., lib. vii. tit. 1, de Re M...