670 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1723. 



there cannot be fewer lost at the beginning of the seventh, where the stone is 

 more broken away than above ; so that probably there were 6 when perfect. 

 What we have left of them is only the top of an s ; perhaps it was a. sack. s. 

 a sacris sunt ; perhaps it was honor, s. honorati sunt : as to the former, we 

 find these collegia had their Sacerdotes, therefore qui a sacris sunt, which is 

 found in inscriptions, would be no improper term to express them ; or it might 

 have been sacer. s. sacerdotes sunt, since we find such mentioned in other 

 inscriptions. 



So that the vacuity in our inscription may very well have been filled up with 

 one or other of these words, and the three next letters that follow them d, s. d. 

 de suo dedicaverunt, will agree with either of them, and what precedes them. 



The last line has been pvdente pvdentini pil i o ; but there must have 

 been a letter or two of the praenomen at the beginning of it, unless it was 

 shorter than the rest at that, as well as at the latter end of it ; and from what 

 has been said, the whole may be read as follows. 



Neptuno & Minervae templum pro salute domus divinae, ex auctoritate Ti- 

 berii Claudii Cogidubni regis, legati Augusti in Britannia ; collegium fabrorum, 

 & qui in eo a sacris [or] honorati sunt, de suo dedicaverunt, donante aream 

 Pudente Pudentini filio. 



Chichester, by this inscription found at it, must have been a town of emi- 

 nence very soon after the Romans had settled here, and in process of time 

 seems to have been much frequented, by the Roman roads, still visible, that 

 terminate here from Portsmouth, Midhurst, and Arundel, though, what is 

 very strange, we have no Roman name now known for it. Lonce thought it 

 might have put in its claim for Anderida, which our antiquaries have not yet 

 agreed to fix any where, being situated very near, both to the sylva anderida, 

 and the southern coast of the island, the two properties of that city : but 

 Henry of Huntingdon, who lived in the time of Henry the Second, telling us, 

 that the Saxons so destroyed Andredecester, that nunquam postea reaedificata 

 fuit, & locus tantum quasi nobilissimae urbis transeuntibus ostenditur desolatus, 

 it could not be Chichester; for that was not only rebuilt before his time, but 

 was a place of such note, that when the bishops, soon after the conquest, re- 

 moved their churches from small decayed towns, where several of them were 

 then seated, in urbes celebriores, Stigand, then bishop of Selsey, settled his 

 episcopal chair at that place. 



When this inscription was dug up, there were also two walls of stone dis- 

 covered close by it, 3 feet thick each, one running north, the other east, and 

 joining in an angle, as the North-street and St. Martin's-lane now turn, which 

 probably were part of the foundations of the temple mentioned on the marble. 



