LECTURE 



ON THE 



YIA JULIA km ITS COURSE BY SILBURT, 



BY THE 



REV. H. M. SCARTH, M.A. 



NOTICE. — Any opinions expressed in the Proceedings of 

 the Club must rest on the authority of their respective 

 Authors. 



upon it, sufficiently marks its antiquity. 



The name Via Julia, or Julia Strata, has been taken from 

 the poet Necham, who was Abbot of Cirencester, a.d. 

 1215-25, who mentions this road by that name,* and is cited 

 by Camden. (See Monmouthshire.) 



" Intrat et anget aquas Sabrini fluminis Osca 

 Preceps, testis erat Julia Strata mihi." 



*See his book "De Sapientia Divina," or the passage quoted by Leland, 

 Itin., 9, 10. 



