The troops raised in Britain often served in Egypt; and those which were employed for the protection of this island were sometimes from Batavia or Germany, sometimes from provinces far to the east.

Whenever the strangers were withdrawn, as they were very easily, the province was left in the hands of men wholly unpractised in war.

After a peaceable possession of more than three hundred years, the Britons derived but very few benefits from their subjection to the conquerors and civilizers of mankind.

Neither does it appear that the Roman people were at any time extremely numerous in this island, or had spread themselves, their manners, or their language as extensively in Britain as they had done in the other parts of their Empire.

The Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon languages retain much less of Latin than the French, the Spanish, or the Italian.