 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 354 pages
...antiquities and natural history of this county, supposes that the Latin name Cornubia was " retained till the Saxons imposed the name of Weales on the Britons...calling their country, in the Latin tongue, Wallia; after which, finding the Britons had retreated not only into Wales, but into the more western extremities... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 196 pages
...county, supposes that the Latin name Conmbia .was " retained till the Saxons imposed the name of Wcales on the Britons driven by them west of the rivers Severn...calling their country, in the Latin tongue, Wallia; after which, rinding the Britons had retreated not only into Wales, but into the more western extremities... | |
 | Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale - Cornwall (England : County) - 1824 - 406 pages
...have been latinized into Cur nubia, which it retained till the Saxons imposed the name of Jl'cales on the Britons, driven by them west of the rivers Severn and Dee( calling their county in the Latin tongue, Wallia; after which, finding the Britons had retreated not only into Wales,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1836 - 416 pages
...Cornwall. Cornwall was considered as part of Wales, and, from its form, was called Cornu Wallise,, the horn of Wales. Indeed it is frequently styled...in the centre of Dartmoor, a colony might still be permitted to exist, either from their insignificance or their insulated situation ; and that this colony... | |
 | 1836 - 646 pages
...the horn of Wales. Indeed it is- frequently styled West Wales by the British writers. (See ' Ree's Cyclop.') The inhabitants, therefore, of Cornwall,...them west of the rivers Severn and Dee, calling their country,.in the Latin tongue, Wallia.' It is not improbable that, in the centre of Dartmoor, a colony... | |
 | Books - 1836 - 636 pages
...Walliae, the horn of Wales. Indeed it is frequently styled West Wales by the British writers. (See ' Ree's Cyclop.') The inhabitants, therefore, of Cornwall,...Borlase, who states that the Saxons ' imposed the name of Weates on the Britons, driven by them west of the rivers Severn and Dee, calling their country, in... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1859 - 360 pages
...Wallise, the horn of Wales. Indeed it is frequently styled West Wales by the British writers. (See Rees' Cyclop.) The inhabitants, therefore, of Cornwall as...in the centre of Dartmoor, a colony might still be permitted to exist, either from their insignificance or their insulated situation ; and that this colony... | |
 | Richard Stephen Charnock - English language - 1859 - 784 pages
...by the intercourse of the natives with *. ^ / . the Romans, into Cornubia, which it retained until the Saxons imposed the name of Weales on the Britons, driven by them west of ¿%, &./, ' the Severn and Dee, calling their country in Latin Wallia ; after which, finding the Britons... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1879 - 480 pages
...(See Rees's Cyclop^) The inhabitants, therefore, of Cornwall, as well as Wales, might be called Welsh. And in this supposition I am confirmed by Borlase,...in the centre of Dartmoor, a colony might still be permitted to exist, either from their insignificance or their insulated situation ; and that this colony... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1879 - 480 pages
...(See Rees's Cyclop^) The inhabitants, therefore, of Cornwall, as well as Wales, might be called Welsh. And in this supposition I am confirmed by Borlase,...in the centre of Dartmoor, a colony might still be permitted to exist, either from their insignificance or their insulated situation ; and that this colony... | |
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Cyclop.') The inhabitants, therefore, of Cornwall, as well as Wales, might be called Welch. And in this supposition I am confirmed by Borlase, who states that the Saxons " imposed the name of Weales on the Britons, driven by them west of the rivers Severn... 