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MEMOIR OF THK lATE MR. JOHN JUST, OF BURY. 



the foundation of the outer wall being laid bare: a quantity 

 of Roman pottery found, chiefly fragments of Samian ware, 

 many marked with the potter's name ; an ampulla, &c. ; five 

 Roman coins, three of silver, (Vespasian, Titus, and Vitellius,) 

 and two of copper, &c. A paper " on Roman Ribchester," 

 the joint production of Mr. Just and a friend, was read before 

 the congress at Manchester, on the 22nd August, 1850, and is 

 published in the Journal of the Association, (vol. vi., p. 229,) 

 with various illustrations of Roman altars and inscribed stones 

 found at Ribchester. 



The catalogue of Mr. Just's varied learning and acquire- 

 ments is not yet exhausted. A friend writes of him that " he 

 was not less diligent or less successful in scientific pursuits, 

 than in the acquirement of languages. He was well versed 

 in mathematics, and in natural philosophy there was scarcely 

 any branch of science that he had not thoroughly studied both 

 practically and theoretically. * * * If his circumstances 

 or the help of his friends had given him [in youth] the means 

 of pursuing those studies, for which he had so great a taste, 

 and accompanied with the advantages in due course of a 

 university education, he would not unlikely have gone on in 

 the same career of distinction with some of those pains-taking 

 scholars of the North, who, like a Sedgwick or a Whewell, 

 have gained for themselves the highest distinction for their 

 contributions both to literature and science." In early life it 

 was his intention to have entered the Church as a profession ; 

 but circumstances, greatly to his disappointment, prevented 

 his carrying this strong desire into effect. 



Although during the whole of his residence at Bury, he 

 was so unremittingly engaged in the work of teaching, both 

 at school and at home, he was a regular teacher at St. John's 

 Sunday School, twice a-day. He also occasionally lectured 

 at the Church Institute at Bury, and to the Bury Mechanics' 

 Institution. In 1836 or 1837, he was one of the promoters 

 of a Literary and Philosophical Society in Bury. It only 



