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and from the Skirts of the protuberant Bofs in the middle, it 
rjfes gradually to the Circumference, which is nigh three In- 
ches perpendicular from the Center ^ this has Fourteen Rows 
of ehe like Braii Studs, but the circular Plates of Iron they are 
fixc;d iHj do not he upon other crofs Plates, as the former does, 
^but each frooi the Center, upon the outer Edge of the other, 
which occafions its rifmg in that Concave manner. 
That thefe were part of rhe Acoatrement of the Roman 
■ Eqmtes^ rather than either the Velites or Ha(hti, I conclude, 
becaufe that, though all in general had Sheilds, yet ihofe of 
the FelireS) who were as the Forlorn Hopes, feem more flight, 
and are exprefiy faid to be, e Ugno com fuperinduBo, thole of 
the Haft at i are' not only laid , e flurihm Ugnis & aJJircuUs 
<:onftit^ &c. but were alio Four Foot lon^ to cover the whole 
Body, when (looping ; of which kind were likewife thofe of 
the Principes and TriariL Whereas the Defcription that the A- 
^nonymous Author of Roma Ihftrata with Fahicm'i Notes, 
gives in his Armatara Equitum, comes^he nigheft this, Scutum 
five Varmam hahehant ex hovillo cor to ^ arte levitcr Jurata, but 
then he adds, e^^Me mero, mdla matme fuhjeBa^ omitting not 
only the ornamental Studs, but the Iron Work, which C<3w/7- 
h/s hrU contrived as a defence againft the immenfe Swords of 
the Gaulj. I have endeavoured to make this Defcription more 
intelligible by a Draught of the Sheild above-mentioned, 
Leeds^ 26 Fehr, 169?. ^ 
p o s r S C K 1 F T. 
HAving he ird of fome Roman Coins lately plow'd up 
about Nottingham, I procured a Parcel of them,butthey 
prove common, and moO: of tetricm^ tho'fome alfoof GalU- 
.^ntis^ ViElortnus^ zxi^ CUndim Gothkm^ 
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