LECTURE 



ON THE 



VIA JULIA km ITS COURSE BY SILBURT, 



BY THE 



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



This is the subject which I have to bring before you this 

 evening, a subject not without its interest at the present 

 time ; but in order to do this effectually, I must say some- 

 thing respecting the name of the ancient road, the course of 

 which I am to describe. That name does not rest upon any 

 classical authority, but it is the name by which this road 

 appears to have been known in mediaeval times. Portions 

 of two of the ancient Itinera may be traced along its course, 

 and this, as well as the important Roman towns which lay 

 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. 



