Old England: A Pictorial Museum (page 14/52)

89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle.

In that curious record, in old French, of the foundation of the Castle of Dover, which we find in Dugdale’s ‘Monasticon,’ we are told that when Arviragus reigned in Britain, he refused to be subject to Rome, and withheld the tribute; making the Castle of Dover strong with ditch and wall against the Romans, if they should come. The old British hill-forts [...]Seneca) ‘the Roman conquers, he