From the recall of the legions to the foundation of the kingdom of East Anglia, we are left much to the guidance of that alluring but untrustworthy companion -Imagination.
The History Of Suffolk
The Roman Occupation – Later Section
Our business now lies with the Route IX. in Antonine’s Itinerary…
The Roman Occupation-Earlier Section
In order that the small contribution to the history of the Roman occupation of Great Britain which is allowed in this work may have any value, it is necessary that its sources should be indicated and their reliability estimated.
The ‘Commentaries’ of Julius Caesar bear the impress of truth, as plain, straightforward relations of fact, destitute of those literary attractions which give liveliness and take trustworthiness from a narrative.
Physiographic And Prehistoric
There is hardly a county in England which surpasses Suffolk in simplicity of form and boundary. Save for a considerable deflexion in the north-east, now containing three hundreds, the form of the county is an irregular oblong, about sixty miles by thirty, diversified in most parts by gentle undulations, and containing many varieties of soil. Along the east side it is washed by the German Ocean, and there is but little of the artificial element in the boundaries which divide it from Norfolk on the north, Essex on the south, and Cambridgeshire on the west; for Nature has supplied as limits the Waveney and Little Ouse on the north, and the Stour on the south; while even on the west the Lark and its tributary the Kennet divide Suffolk from Cambridgeshire for some miles.
The History Of Suffolk
This section contains the text of THE HISTORY OF SUFFOLK by the Reverend John James Raven one of the Popular County Histories series published by Elliot Stock of London in 1895.