Sept. 9. 1854.] 



NOTES ANI> QUEEIES. 



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Moxon's ed., p. xxiii.)- Who was this Mr. 

 Spenser, of whom Sir William Pelham, Lord 

 Justice of Ireland, writes as, " his brother Spencer, 

 as now growinge into yeares, and having many 

 waies deserved some consideration from her Ma- 

 jestie ? " 



4. Is there proof that Spenser was in England 

 between 1580 and the latter end of 1589 ? 



5. The dedication of Colin Clout to Raleigh is 

 dated " From my house of Kilcolman, the 27th of 

 December, 1591." Is this the date in all the 

 ed. princip. of Colin Clout f 



6. The engraved portraits of Spenser differ 

 very considerably ; which is considered to be the 

 most authentic ? 



In "N. & Q.," Vol. iii., p. 301., there are some 



Jueries relative to the portraits of Spenser, which 

 do not think have been replied to. J. M. B. 



ROMAN INSCEIPTION, ETC. 



I herewith forward a copy of an inscription 

 upon a stoue recently discovered on an estate 

 called Chester in Northamptonshire. At this 

 place, which is about two miles from Wellingbo- 

 rough, and on the south side of the Nen, S. E. of 

 Wellingborough, are the well-defined remains of a 

 Koman station. This station is in the form of a 

 parallelogram, facing the four cardinal points, the 

 longest sides east and west. It has been sur- 

 rounded with a wall, which has been used as a 

 quarry until the very foundations are well nigh 

 gone. Still, the bounds are well defined, and at 

 the south-west corner is a high mound, probably 

 the remains of a watch-tower. The whole is now 

 under the plough-share. Here, and more especially 

 to the east of it, in the neighbourhood, thousands of 

 coins have been at times discovered. The ground 

 itself is strewed with fragments of pottery, and 

 with stones which have been brought thither. 

 Under cultivation these mementoes have rapidly 

 diminished, and in a few years probably there 

 will be little to tell what has been. Occasionally 

 relics of some value have been found, and recently 

 a stone has been brought to light with this in- 

 scription : 



"D.M.S 



ANICIVS . SATWi 



STRAT® @S . M . S . F." 



which local antiquaries read thus : 



" Diis Manibus Sacrum Anicius Saturaus Strator Con- 

 sul monumentum sibi fecit." 



I believe, however, that no consul of this name is 

 recorded, and think it unlikely one would be 

 buried here as this was. I would read it, " Dis 

 Manibus Sacrum Anicius Saturninus Strator 

 Consularis," &c. If this is wrong, it would oblige 

 me and others to have it corrected. The stone is 



said to be about four feet long, and to have co- 

 vered a kind of grave, but what that contained I 

 know not. Will some of your antiquarian readers 

 kindly tell me what the Romans called the station 

 where this was found, and throw some light upon 

 the subject and the period to which the inscription 

 belongs ? 



If you will allow me I would observe that 

 Roman and Saxon remains have been, and are, 

 frequently found on both sides the Nen from 

 Northampton to Peterborough. Some tumuli 

 have been removed or exhumed, others still remain. 

 Traces of the Romans are especially frequent, and 

 I would suggest that some Northamptonshire to- 

 pographer or antiquary would carefully collect 

 and record the facts which have been, or may be, 

 yet brought to light. I fear the county in 

 question has not had that attention from the an- 

 tiquary which it merits. B. H. G. 



Coins discovered near Smyrna. — By a letter from 

 a correspondent near Smyrna, I have received the 

 following notice : " Mr. Calvert informs me " (Mr. 

 Calvert is the consul at the Dardanelles) "that 

 some time ago a jar containing upwards of 800 

 coins of Philetserus, Antiochus, and others, were 

 discovered by some peasants ploughing. One of 

 these men, whose share was 300, set off for Smyrna, 

 and sold them to Mr. Borrell of Smyrna for 1500 

 piastres, the other men quarrelled about the divi- 

 sion of the rest, and of course the authorities 

 got wind of the affair, confiscated the whole re- 

 mainder, and sent them to Constantinople. Three 

 fell into my possession, and I am trying for five or 

 ten more which escaped the clutches of the Turks." 



Can any of your numismatick correspondents 

 throw any light upon this subject, and state 

 whether any of these coins have reached England. 

 Mr. Borrell's father was a great collector at 

 Smyrna, and was some years ago most lucky in 

 obtaining a large quantity of silver tetradrachmae 

 of Amyntas, king of Galatia, and for which he 

 received very large prices from divers collectors 

 in France and England. I should much like to 

 know farther details respecting this trouvaille, 

 and whether any have been sent to this country 

 by Mr. Borrell ? 



The piastre in Turkey is, I believe, now about 

 two-pence English. 



" Onb who bemembebs Amymtas." 



Santiago de ComposteUa. — When did the first 

 pilgrims from England resort to Santiago de Com- 

 posteUa? What pope declared a pilgrimage 

 thither to be as efiicacious as one to Jerusalem ? 

 Where can a particular account be found of the 

 religious duties and ceremonies, and the protection 



