Journal, conjectured the place to have been orginally a settlement of the world's conquerors, called Claudiwick, in compliment to the emperor Claudius. It was said Tradition pointed out the tumuli as the burial place of the emperor. Unfortunately for the imaginative etymology of Mr. Whitehead, the reign of Claudius had terminated some time before the Romans had advanced so far north as the province of the Brigantes. The Roman road after leaving Glodwick is again seen at the descent of the hill, and in the grounds of Wellihole. It leaves Haigh (Hey) Chapel a little to the south, goes up the hill to the village of Austerlands, and so proceeds forward to Slack. May not the name of Broadway-lane, occuring on the course of this road, be regarded as pointing to the appearance it presented in the time of the Saxons? The Roman road from Warrington to Ilkley, passed over the townships of Chadderton, Royton, and Crompton, within a short distance, if not close upon, the tumuli adjacent to Chadderton Hall, "branching probably from the way to Cambodunum about Ancoats-lane, it traversed the town- ship of Manchester obliquely. and passed by Street-fold in Moston, Green-lane and Street-bridge in Chadderton, Street-gate in Royton," and Green-hill near High Crompton, Crompton. These appellations ascertain the general direction of its course, and supply the want of any actual remains, or even of any traditional notices concerning it.

To the Romans succeeded the Saxons, A.D. 466, "who instituted an order of things altogether original; they parcelled out the country upon their own plan, called the lands by their own names, and transmitted to their posterity a local nomenclature, and a fundamental system of legal usages, which sustained the shock of the Norman Conquest, and even subsist at present." This part of the country was comprehended within the limits of the Saxon kingdom of Deira, which afterwards, about A.D. 547, merged in the kingdom of Northum-

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