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ciefigned. The Town feems to have -been of confiderabic 
note by the hfcripthm^ and fragments of Statnes, Pillars, 
' Phil. Collect. &c. there dug up, all which are fasDr * iJJier has truly 
i«/^7<j4 p. obferved, that moll of the Roman Mortuments in thefe parts) 
made of the common fort of courfe Rag or Miliftone 
grit, of which are ^Ifo the remains of a large Aqu^dii^^ in 
Stones oA a great length and about \ of a yard thick, wherein 
the paffagefor the Water is about 6 inches broad and as 
many deep, alraoft double to thole of Clay found in the 
/^.-^// .Burying-placeat Torky formerly accounted for f No 25 4.. 
of the TranfaSions) one of which is in your Repofitory at 
Gre/^f^^ Colled ge. Some time ago here was dug up a Stdtut 
to the full proportion of a Roman Officer, with an Infcription, 
both which perifhed through the brtftiih ignorance and co- 
vetoufaefs of the Labourers, who in a fuperftitious conceit, 
bound wythys or wreaths of Straw about the poor 
Knight, and burnt him, in hopes of (by 1 know not what 
Magical Apparition in the Smoke J finding fomc hid Trt-Jure, 
and after in anger at their difappointment broke bim to 
pieces^ of which only the Head is now forthcoming^ uc the 
2 Infcriptions lately difcovered there fell into a more intcili- 
gent hand, one "john Rohinfon, whofe induftry and ingeni- 
ous contrivance of binding a final! Engine ro the Wrill: of 
his Arm, to fupply the place of his Fingers, which through 
the carelefsnefs of a Servant were burnt off in his Infancy, 
pleafed me well. Cjril Anhrlngoon of Arthrwgton\, Erq^, who ^ 
is Lord of theMannor, made me a prclenc of rhefe fiifcrip- 
|j : tions, the one is but a fragment, yet has enough to difcover 
, it to have been fepulchral,by the H S Efor Hie fifns efi^htlow 
P IE N TISS, the other is almoft entire, and is evidently a 
Funeral M&nument^ it begins as uikdiy wirh Hys Manibm 
.Sacrum^ and ends Pixit Annas X» as it feems^fo have been by 
'the vacancy, 'tis one toot thick, 2 brcn^d and 3 high, the 
Letters are very large, full 5 inches long, fome of them in- 
rerwcven, as AND (AD) and ED (as Tapprehend the £3 
to be) ia CandiediaM. The form of the Letten/ amd particu- 
larly 
