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motto used by his supporters^ and worn as a card in tlie hat^ was^ 

 *' Goddard's the man, and freedom's his plan/' — Irrespective of all 

 party politics, I feel that I may confidently say that there are num- 

 bers who at the expected election^ in the spring will repeat that 

 ancient motto, and say — " Goddard's the man," We know that 

 real, that is, constitutional freedom, is his plan. 



By Professor A. H. Chuech. 

 MAY preface my too imperfect account of recent Roman 

 finds at Cirencester by mentioning the great obligation 

 that town is under to Mr. G. MofFatt, of Goodrich Court, for his 

 handsome gift of the best sepulchral monument ever found at 

 Corinium. This stone is now duly placed in the Museum. And I 

 may venture to allude here also to the dispersion of the Purnell 

 collection, which took place in May, 1872. I then secured the 

 beautiful statuette of Diana, found many years ago in Mr. Gregory's 

 Nursery, together with many other objects in bronze and bone, 

 which are mentioned in Messrs. Buckman and Newmarch's volume 

 on Corinium and its Artistic Remains of Roman origin. At the 

 same sale I competed unsuccessfully for the oculist ointment stamp, 

 described in the same work, which was secured for the British Museum. 

 I obtained a well-preserved urn full of bones. I regret exceedingly 

 that the curious civilian monument to Philus, son of Cassavus, 

 which was in the Purnell collection, has not found its way back to 

 Cirencester, Miss Purnell having presented it to the Museum at 

 Gloucester. 



> This expectation was verified by the return of Mr. Goddard as one of the 

 Members for Cricklade, February 5th, 1874. [Ed,] 



