280 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1706. 



which he liked best, bread and butter, or bread and cheese? He answered, 

 bread and cheese : upon this, the poor woman overjoyed left him to acquaint 

 his brother with it, and they came straight up into the chamber to him, but 

 found him as fast asleep again as ever, and all the art they had could not wake 

 him. From this time to the end of January, or the beginning of February, he 

 slept not so profoundly as before, for when they called him by his name, he 

 seemed to hear them, and to be somewhat sensible, though he could not 

 make them any answer. His eyes were not now shut so close, and he 

 had frequently great tremblings of his eye-lids; on which they expected 

 every day he would wake; which however happened not till about the time 

 just now mentioned ; and then he waked perfectly well, not remembering any 

 thing that happened all this while. It was observed he was very little altered 

 in his flesh, only complained the cold pinched him more than usually, and 

 so presently fell to husbandry, as at other times. 



END OF VOLUME TWENTY-FOURTH OF THE ORIGINAL. 



Concerning some Roman Inscriptions found at York, proving that the Ninth 



Legion some time resided there. By Mr. Ra. Thoresby, F.R.S. N° 305. 



p. 3194. Fol. XXV. ' \tn.n'>?zv 



I here send you two Roman inscriptions found at York, which prove that the 



ninth legion was not only in Britain, but that it resided at York; which was 



heretofore unknown. It is a funeral monument, on which, under the statue 



(in basso-relievo) of the standard-bearer of the Qth legion, is this inscription: 



LDVCCIVS This monument was found in Trinity-yard in 



*L. VoL. RVFI Micklegate, at York. That this gth legion was in 



-NVS. VIEN Britain in Galba's time, and that it was also Hispa- 



SIGNF. LEG. Villi, niensis, appears from Sir Henry Saville's notes, at 



AN. XXIIX. the end of his edition of Tacitus; but that it, as 



H. S. E.-J- well as the 6th and the 20th, was also called Victrix, 



or that it resided at York, has not been observed before; and yet both are 



evident from this inscription upon a Roman brick found there : 



I LEG. IX. VIC. 



This is also an argument ot the peace which these parts enjoyed at that time, 

 (perhaps the latter end of Severus's reign,) making bricks, casting up highways, 

 &c. being the usual employment of soldiers at such vacancies. 



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