MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. JOHN JUST, OF BURY. 



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road as demonstrated by liim having been laid down on the 

 Ordnance Maps. It was in connection with this subject 

 that Mr. Just first contributed to the Transactions of this 

 Society. 



On the 2nd April, 1839, Mr. Just, recently elected corres- 

 ponding member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester, read before it "An Essay on the Roman Road 

 in the vicinity of Bury, Lancashire," which is printed in its 

 Transactions, (New Series, vol. vi., p. 409.) He accompanied 

 this essay with a sketcli of the line and remains, not only as 

 an illustration of his paper, but valuable as a guide for any 

 future investigator. 



On the 22nd March, 1842, Mr. Just read before the Society 

 a paper " On the Roman Military Road between Manchester 

 and Ribchester," which was printed in their Transactions, 

 (New Series, vol. vii., p. 1,) illustrated by an engraved map 

 of the line and remains. 



On the 1st February, 1849, he read before the Historic 

 Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, (of which he was a 

 member from its formation in June, 1848, till his death,) the 

 first part of a paper "On the Roman Roads in I^ancashire, with 

 a particular account of the Tenth Iter of Antoninus." 



On the 17th November, 1850, he read the second part 

 of his paper before the same Society, which treated of the 

 Seventh Iter of Richard of Cirencester, — in other words, the 

 military road traversing Lancashire from west to east, — from 

 the Portus Sistuntiorum (on the Wyre?) to York. 



The British Archaeological Association having fixed its 

 seventh annual congress to be held in Manchester and 

 Lancaster, in August, 1850, and its President of the year 

 having ojEFered a donation to defray the cost of excavations 

 at Ribchester, for Roman remains, provided Mr. Just would 

 undertake the superintendence of such operations, he made 

 several visits to Ribchester for this purpose ; and the results 

 were exhibited to the Association on their visit to Ribchester; 



