C^57) 
^T^He^ kind^a(fc6ptance | Mat&rs relating otar Na-^ 
tioii's Antiqiiitf , meet with among the Members 
c f your Learned Society, encourages to prefent tkefe 
following rnfcriptiofrs, which I copy'd from theStoiies,* 
¥/itho'jt any manner of addition 5 and I am the more^ 
willing to prefent them to yod, who have beerr 
a particular Orriament to that Goliege- I was^ lately a? . 
Student in^ t rtiean |St Johns^ and are ftill^ the greateft 
to our Profciiion . Thefe lafcri ption& were found ileaf 
a Village called Laneafier^ about 5 miles North Weft 
from Durham^ ^which I am fully perfwaded has been 
the Longomcnm Romans. It has been a very 
confiderable Place in thefe parts, and- their watHng 
Street lies through it. Tis on the top of a Hill^which 
has a defcent on three fides , towards the Weft its over- 
lookt by a high Hill, and almoft Eaftward from it 
bout a quarter of a mile, ftands the prefent. L^nchefier^ 
a, tolerable Country Village, with a pretty Churchy 
which before the Reformation was endowed with a 
Deanery and fix Prebends. The form of this place has 
been fquare, and fortify 'd with a thick, ftrong Stone 
Wail faced v/ith hewn Stone. Within the Wall are 
(and have been iormerlyj nothing but ruinous heaps 
of Stones ^ as alfo without the Wall toa, efpecialy to- 
wards the Eaft. 'Tis probable tlie Building within the 
Wall. 
