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ways, though fo near together, for we read that the Romans-, 

 where thewflj' was not well laid out, or was longer than needed ; 

 did commonly (to keep the people from idlenefs, and the Soldi- 

 ers from mutinies') lay them firaiter and better as Galen wit- 

 neffeth that Trajan did in Italy : hStt. P w$i) fmimt to^an^vms 2k 

 riv, octcuJ^* ciwro't-ov tii&tv TtfA.vofjfyj@i h ? j. e. that where the way was 

 longer than needed, he cut out another jhorter, which pofiibly 

 might alfo be done here, the Port way being much (horter and 

 more direft then Avefdich, to the place whither they both feem 

 to hold on their courfe : which may alfo be the reafon of the 

 two Ikgnild ways under Stoken Church hills, there being about 

 Lewkner and AftonRowant, an upper and lower Ikenild way. 



37. Befide thefe, there are yet two other branches coming out 

 of Akemanjireet ; one in Wood/lock Park, near Col: Cooks Lodge^ 

 whence it runs toward the trees called Oak. and Afh, not far from 

 Glympton, where it is difcontinued ; and where to be met with a- 

 gain I could no where find fo that all I can fay of it is, that 

 towards the end it points North-wed towards En/Ion and Chipping* 

 norton, and feems to have cut another fuch like way near Upper 

 Kiddington, which has its period there, as far as I could learn, but 

 runs as far as Ditchley the other way, where the ridge turns to a 

 ditch by the name of Grimes-dike (as that near #^//e/zg/W) and 

 gives name I fuppofe to Ditchley that (lands upon it, a Seat of the 

 Right Honorable Edward Henry Earl of Lichfield's, whence it 

 runs in that manner fair and vifible for about half a mile ; but 

 before it comes to Charlbury, turns again to a ridge, very high and 

 lofty at a place called Baywell, where it enters into Cornbury 

 Pdr.butfcarce vifible there ; yet as I was told, to be found again 

 in the woods beyond it, and that it pointed toward Ramfden, where 

 at firft (as I guefs) it branched out of Ak?manftreet. 



38. But whether this, and the other before-mentioned tend-* 

 ed, is hard to guefs, no Roman Jiation lying near this place, unlefs 

 I may be allowed to conjecture by their pointing, at a great di- 

 ftance, which muft needs be very uncertain. However, becaufe 

 a guefs perhaps may better pleafe than to fay nothing, I conjeclurc 

 the way by Ditchley may tend either toward Vennoni*, and Ratdi, 

 as the Port way and ^z/f/^/Vy6afore-mention'd were thought to do, 

 or elfe toward Tripontium, now Toucejier in Northampton-Jfnre % 



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