death of Aulius Rufus. Thus Agricola being countermanded home to Rome,
deliuered his prouince vnto his successor Cneus Trebellius, appointed
thereto by the emperour Domitianus, in good quiet and safegard.

¶ Thus may you sée in what state Britaine stood in the daies of king
Marius, of whome Tacitus maketh no mention at all. Some haue written,
that the citie of Chester was builded by this Marius, though other
(as before I haue said) thinke rather that it was the worke of
[Sidenote: _Fabian_.]
Ostorius Scapula their legat. Touching other the dooings of Agricola,
in the Scotish chronicle you maie find more at large set foorth:
for that which I haue written héere, is but to shew what in effect
Cornelius Tacitus writeth of that which Agricola did here in Britaine,
without making mention either of Scots or Picts, onelie naming them
Britains, Horrestians, and Calidoneans, who inhabited in those daies
a part of this Ile which now we call Scotland, the originall of which
countrie, and the inhabitants of the same, is greatlie controuersed
among writers; diuerse diuerslie descanting therevpon, some fetching
their reason from the etymon of the word which is Gréeke, some from
the opening of their ancestors as they find the same remaining in
records; other some from comparing antiquities togither, and aptlie
collecting the truth as néere as they can. But to omit them, and
returne to the continuation of our owne historie.

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_Of Coillus the sonne of Marius, his education in Rome, how long he