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_A catalog of causes or greeuances inciting the Britains to rebell
against the Romans, wherein is shewed what iniuries they susteined:
of diuers strange wonders and apparitions; the chiefe cause of the
Britains insurging against the Romans, they admitted as well women
as men to publike gouernement. A description of queene Voadicia, hir
personage and maner of attire_.

THE TENTH CHAPTER.


[Sidenote: _Cor. Tac. lib. 14_.]
The Britains indeed were occasioned to doo as they purposed,
thorough manie euill parts practised by the Romans greatlie to their
griefs and displeasures. For whereas Prasutagus (who is supposed
[Sidenote: Prasutagus.]
by Hector Boetius to be Aruiragus, king of the people called
[Sidenote: The Oxfordshire and Glocestershire men.]
Iceni) had made the emperour and two of his owne daughters his heires,
supposing by that meane to haue his kingdome and familie preserued
from all iniurie: it happened quite contrarie to that his expectation.
For his kingdome was spoiled by the Romane capteins, his wife
[Sidenote: Voadicia alias Bunduica.]
named Voadicia beaten by the souldiers, his daughters rauished, the
péeres of the realme bereft of their goods, and the kings friends made
and reputed as bondslaues.