Bengala

P. L. 2. 638. Davity writes of Bengal in glowing terms, saying that it is a great kingdom containing many cities, that the city of Bengal is one of the largest and most beautiful in the Indies, and that the country produces abundantly all things nece ary to human and has an excellent climate. (Pp. 910-11.) InHakluytwe “In this place is very much Rice, and cloth made of cotton, and great store of cloth which is made of gra e, which they call Yerva; it is like a silke. (2. 1. 257.) life, read of Bengala: Benson (Besing ton). Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 134; A town of Oxfords hire. Be or ford. (4) 5. 177. Hist. Brit. (4) 5. 174, 175. Burford, Oxfords hire. Beranvirig (Banbury). Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 128. Banbury in Oxfords hire. Camden, to whom he refers in a note, makes a different identification:”Upon Barbury hill, the next ridge overlooking the north part of Wilts, is another camp called Barbury castle, Milton identifies this place with... round, double-ditched, the inner ditch very deep, the rampart high, entrances east and west, defended by half-moons, the inner rampart at the west entrance retiring inwards a little, as the outer ditch at the east, turning round with a semi-circular sweep. This great fortification, the barrows on the adjoining plains, and the similitude of names, seem to point out this place as the scene of the battle in which Cenric king of the West Saxons and his son Ceaulin defeated the Britans, A. D. 556. The modern name comes much nearer to Be ran by rig than Banbury in Oxford, where this battle has been fixed.” (1. 112.) Camden’s opinion is at present accepted. {Two Chr. 2. 15.) Sixteen Let. 5. 67