His principall argument I delivered before; to wit, the battell betwixt Her and the _Romans_, wherein _Boadicia_ utterly overthrown too, being fought upon a Plain. Was there in old time (did he think) no Plain in _Britain_ to fight a battell on but _Salisbury_ Plain? How came _Boadicia_ and her Army thither? I find indeed, _Boadicia_ leading one hundred and twenty thousand fighting men out of the _Icenian_ Countries, and like a terrible tempest, falling upon _Camalodunum_, that famous _Roman_ Colony of old, (where the first fury of the War was felt) she surprised it and razed it to the ground; _Suetonius Paulinus_ then in _Anglesey_: Intercepting _Petilius Cerealis_, who advanced with the ninth legion to relieve that Colony, she cut all his Infantry in peeces: Putting to the sword all those, which imbecillity of sex, tediousnesse of age, or pleasure of the place detained from following _Suetonius_ in his march from _London_: And taking _Verulamium_, sackt and burnt it down to ashes. But, how she marcht from thence to _Salisbury_ Plain is neither apparent nor probable; not the least inkling being left in the world, what hostile acts she committed, which way she moved, or what done by her, after the ruine of _Verulam_, till utterly overthrown.
Can it be imagined, she that destroyed so great a Colony, together with a free-borough of the _Romans_, slain seventy or eighty thousand persons in such horrid manner as scarce credible; reserving not one Prisoner alive, but killing, hanging, crucifying, and burning whatsoever _Romane_, or to that party enclined: that was yet victorious, and her Army encreasing daily; can it be imagined, I say, she marcht to _Salisbury_ Plain with so huge an Army invisibly? or stole from _Verulam_ thither by night, lest notice should be taken of her proceedings? _Anonymus_ self cannot think so unworthily of his _Boadicia_, yet certainly after such manner she went, if ever went thither at all: Otherwise, _Boadicia_ marching in the height of glory, and bearing down all before her till rancountred by _Suetonius_. Those faithfull Historians _Tacitus_, and _Dion_, (both so sedulous in delivering her Fame to posterity) would never have omitted so notable a march, through such a large tract of enemies Countrey, as of necessity she was to make from _Verulam_, to _Salisbury_ Plain; but would have prosecuted her War, by recording the spoyls, rapines, burnings, and devastations made therein; as particularly, as from the first fomenting the rebellion, till her advance to _Verulam_, they have done. Upon which Town, and the aforementioned places only, the aforesaid Historians directly tell us the whole burden of the War fell. _Ad Septuaginta millia civium & sociorum iis quæ memoravi locis occidisse constitit_, saith _Tacitus_. _It was manifest, there were slain in the places, I have remembred, the number of seventy thousand Citizens and Allies._ Bunduica _duas urbes_ (saith _Xiphilines Dion_ also) _populi_ Romani _expugnavit atque diripuit, in iísque cædem infinitam, ut supradixi, fecit._ Bunduica _took and razed to the ground two Towns of the_ Romans, _and in them made that infinite slaughter, I have mentioned before, of fourscore thousand persons_. At _Verulam_ then, it fully appears, the course of her Victories stopt, the inhumane butchery of the _Romans_, and their confederates, ended with the massacre in that Town; which could not possibly have hapned, if with such a firm resolution to extirpate the _Roman_ name in _Britain_, and such a numerous Army to effect it, she had gone on victoriously unfought with, so far as where this _Antiquity_ stands. And therefore the Plain of _Salisbury_ could not be the place of battell, as _Anonymus_ would fain enforce it. Who having so largely, and with so good advice, discoursed the motions, and actions of this rebellion, with all the circumstances thereof, from the first rise, till she destroyed _Verulam_, should either have found some warrantable authority for _Boadicia’s_ so great an undertaking afterwards, else never engaged her so far within the _Roman_ Province; otherwise, some may imagine, he framed it, only out of ambition for a meer pretence, rather, then stated it, from a reall endeavour, to make discovery for what cause _Stoneheng_ at first erected.