

 HOVINGHAM. 211 



Titia, who died at the age of 38, to his son Vale- 

 rius Adjutor, who died at the age of 20 and his son 

 Variolus who died at the age of 15. " The com- 

 " mas at the top of the letters are very singular. 

 " The inscription has not like that at old Penrith, 

 " the D. M. (for Dis Manibus) usually prefixed to 

 " Roman epitaphs. Perhaps this Vindician had 

 " become a Christian after the old Penrith mon- 

 " ument was erected. The name Titia, occurs in 

 u Fleet wood, 232. 4. PINT A is not a part of the 

 *' name, as Horsley and others make it, but a con- 

 " traction for PIENTISSIMA, or PIISSIMA ; as ap- 

 " pears from Fleet wood, 288. 1. Perhaps Adjutori 

 " should be rendered the assistant, instead of read- 

 " ing it as a proper name. There were officers 

 ** called adjutores, as appears from the notitia, sect. 

 w 49, 52 f 53 ; and Valerius might be adjutor to his 

 " father." Vide Young's Hist, of Whitby, p. 713. 

 Ness is in the direct line of the Roman road from 

 Malton, towards Cleveland. Vindician probably 

 resided at Hovingham, which must have been a 

 Roman station from the remains of a hypocaust 

 and bath, a tesselated pavement, some fortifications, 

 and several Roman coins found here in 1745; 



The other townships in the parish of Ilovingham, 

 present little worthy of remark, excepting that 

 most of them command vie\* s similar in extent ; 

 tho', taken as a whole, not equally beautiful, or in- 

 deed to be compared with those around Hovin* 

 gham. 



At Col ton there was formerly a chapel of ease to 

 Hovingham, but of which no vestige at present 



