THE

HISTORY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THE

FIRST INVASION OF IT BY THE ROMANS
UNDER JULIUS CÆSAR.

WRITTEN ON A NEW PLAN.

By ROBERT HENRY, D.D.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF EDINBURGH, MEMBER OF THE
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIANS OF SCOTLAND, AND, OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY. OF EDINBURgii.

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THE

ADVERTISEMENT.

HE Author of this Work, who died in 1790, left some part of the Volumes which are now offered to the Public unfinished; for Chapter V. on Arts, and Chapter VII. on Manners, &c. he had only sketched out a few of the authorities, and no part of the narrative was written by him: Those two Chapters are entirely the work of MALCOLM LAING Esquire, who has finished them at the request of Dr. Henry's Executors. The whole of the Appendix is also Mr. Laing's; but the reader may be assured, that every other part of the volumes was completed by Dr. Henry himself, and is faithfully published from his manuscript.

ΤΟ

THE MEMORY

OF

WILLIAM Earl of MANSFIELD, &c. &c.

THESE POSTHUMOUS VOLUMES

OF THE

HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN,

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY DR. HENRY's EXECUTORS,

H. MONCREIFF WELLWOOD,
WM. BALDERSTONE,

Wм. FINLAY.

Dr. HENRY was always proud of the friendship with which the late EARL of MANSFIELD had honoured him and it was the wish of his heart that the laft part of his literary labours fhould be introduced to the world under His Lordship's patronage.

The death of that Nobleman has deprived the following Volumes of this advantage. But the Executors of Dr. HENRY are perfuaded that they could not better fulfil the intention of the Author, than by infcribing this Work to the MEMORY of the EARL of MANSFIELD.

Dr. HENRY's friends have the fatisfaction to believe, that a man whom His Lordship esteemed as an Author, cannot be foon forgotten; pofterity will know that the Hiftory of Great Britain written by Dr. Henry was encouraged and protected by one of the wifeft and greatest men of his time, whofe old age was as venerable, as his active life was meritorious and diftinguished.

LONDON, 22d April 1793.