ViiL. A Letter fiom .\/r Ralph Thoresby, K % S. 
concerning a Roman Infcription latdy found at 
York, &c. 
^"Y^ H Monument lately difcovered T^^r^' 
J[ ( fv^iicli you defira an account of) was found in 
digging a Cellar in Comng-fireet^ not far from the Remm 
Wall and Multaiigular Tower, that Dr Li(ler has given fo 
curious and particular a Defcription of. This Monument, 
Dedicated to the Gmtm , or Tutelar Deity of the Place, 
is not of tfeat courfe flag, that the generality of the Roman 
Monuments are^ but of the finer Gritt, like the Altar at 
the hox^ Fairfaxes Houfe in Tork: 'Tis qi iaches long^p/^j/.TV^n. 
and II broad, and is infcribed CEN IO LOCI FE- ^^'^^ 
LICITER. There was a larger Stone found vvitii it, 
but without any Infcription ^ nor is there upon either of 
them the reprefentation of a Serpent, or a young Vifage, 
by both v;hich the Ancients fometimes defcribed thefe 
D// Joplci ^ if the Name had been added, it would have 
gratified the Curiofity of the Nf^^/er/f Antiqaaries^ but 
they muft yet acquiefce ( for ought I know ) in the old 
DV l, who is faid to be the Tutdat Deitj the Ci^y pt^^"^'^^^^^^ 
the Brigarjtes ^ from which as the Br//^^*;?/ calFd him, ' ^^""^ 
Dewshwy, or Dukhnrg in this Neighbourhood, feems to 
have received its name , a place now chiefly noted for a 
fort of courfe Cloath there made, and thence called DubQ- 
rknsi The Monument is of this form. 
