or BOULTON, Edmund, an ingenious English antiquarian, who lived in the beginning of the 17th century. His most considerable work is that entitled Nero Caesar, or Monarchie depraved, dedicated to the duke of Buckingham, lord-admiral, printed at London 1624, folio, and adorned with several curious and valuable medals. It is divided into 55 chapters, in some of which are introduced curious remarks and observations. In the 24th and 25th chapters he gives an account of the revolt in Britain, against the Romans, under the conduct of Boadicea, which he introduces with a recapitulation of the affairs in Britain from the first entrance of the Romans into this island under Julius Caesar, till the revolt in the reign of Nero. In chapter 36th he treats of the East India trade in Nero's time, which was then carried on by the river Nile, and from thence by caravans over land to the Red sea, and thence to the Indian ocean; the ready coin carried yearly from Rome upon this account amounting, according to Pliny's computation, to above 300,000l. sterling; and the usual returns in December and January yielding in clear gain a hundred for one. Besides this he wrote, 1. An English translation of Lucius Florus's Roman History. 2. Hypercritica, or a rule of judgment for reading or writing our histories. 3. The elements of armories, &c.; and some other works.

a town of Lancashire in England, seated on the river Croell, and pretty well built. It has a manufacture of fusilians, and the market is considerable for cloth and provisions. W. Long. 2. 15. N. Lat. 53. 55.