Britons
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ancient inhabitants · the Britons
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Native inhabitants of Britain conquered and largely exterminated or displaced by the invading Saxons.
Or, would they find leisure to form resolutions, or opportunities to put them in practice, amidst the tumult and confusion of those fierce and bloody wars, which their nations first waged with the Britons, and then engaged in among themselves?
Adversus Judaeos
A people beyond direct Roman reach yet said to be subject to Christ, later cited as an example of a bounded people.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …