

THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XXIII.— SEPTEMBER, 1859. 



NOTES ON LATm INSCRIPTIONS POUND IN BEITAIN. 



PAST IV. 



BY THE BET. JOHN M'OAUL, LL.D., 



PEKSIDENT OF UNITEESITX COllE&E, TOEONTO^ 



Read hefore the Canadian Institute, 2%tli March, 1859. 



12. In the year 1752, some grave-stones* were dug up near 

 Wroxeter, tlie ancient Urioconium,f on one of whicli were three 

 panels, two bearing inscriptions and the third left vacant. Accord- 

 ing to the copy in Gough'a CamdenjJ Vol. iii. pi. 1, fig. 5, these 

 inscriptions stand thus : — 



* They are now preserved in the library of Shrewsbury Grammar School. 



t In the MS.S. of the Itinerary of Antoninus {vide ed. Parthey and Pinder, Berlin, 1848), 

 the name is given also as Uriconium, Uiriconium, Uroconium, and Viroconium. The 

 anonymous Rwoennas has Utriconion ; and in the treatise of Richard of Cirencester, de 

 Situ Britannice, we find the forms Viriconium and Virioconinm, besides Uriconium and 

 L'rioconium, It is difficult to decide which should be preferred. Mr. Wright adopts 

 Urieoninvm, and Mr. Scarth Urioconiwm; whilst the weight of authority seems to me to 

 preponderate in favour of Viroconium, the OvipoK6viov of Ptolemy. 



X I have omitted points, for [ am uncertain whether the marljs between certain letters, as 

 they appear in the copy of Gough's Camden, which I use, are intended for points or for 

 representations of defects i» the stone, or are blemishes in the engraving or printing. 

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