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Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)

Volume 1 page 61

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Voadicia
. . . and bycause that shee was most earnestlye bent to seeke reuenge of theyr iniuryes, and hated the Romaine name most of all other, they [the ancient Britains] chose hir to bee Captayne (for they in rule and gouernment made no difference then of sexe, whether they committed the same to man or woman) . . . There were of them a hundred and twentie thousande gotte togither in one armie vnder the leading of the sayde Voadicia . . .

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