tilings fo maiiy Ages pafi admit of various conjtdiim, I will off«f 
another, which I am induced to from the fnnilitude of the Names, the 
or ^delocum of the AncientSj and theprcftnt Adh or ^^dcl as it is in the. 
MonAflicon AngUc: Tis true, 'tis foaietimcs writ*S(?^^/{;aw, but ag Mr i?«r- 
ton^ in his Comment upon Antraim'i Itinerary w^eii obfeires, it is to be 
reckoned among thofe Words to which the Ancients fometimes put an S or 
Sihilm^n^ lometimes omitted if this be thought too much Northward for 
that Station, which is placed South of jD^;j?^«^, it may be reply 'd, that, ntfc 
to infiii upon the tranljpofition of fome places, of which there are infhnccf 
in the Itinerary, I fee no inconvenience in admittiug that the Romms might 
then, as we at this day, have feverai Towns of the i^imc denomination 
thus from an Altar ill my poflelTion, ipfcribed CO ND ATE (the who's 
Infcriptton may be feen in the new Edit, of the Brit. p. 782.) the Vaid Learn- 
ed Dean of Tar concludes that Conjley near Plerjhrjd/j^wh^re this Alt^.r was 
foundjWas as well called Condatc^ as Congleton in Chejhire, And to me it feemi 
highly probable, that the Legions being detached againft the Enemy to di- 
ftant places, might endeavour to leave luch. Memorials of their remoi-es, thus 
tht Legio vicefmia v^^lenf ziiBrix. uiiially quartered atD^tA^or Wefi Cheife?\ 
were detached into WcfimorUndy as appears by an Infcription, and tht Lin- 
gones who werefeated ^tllkley, I queiiion not but werea'lib at Lmgiml ntm: 
Thorp en the Hili^ where the ^0;^^« Coyning molds fPhil. Tranf No 234.) 
were found, and that the intrenchments there were fo denominated froiM 
them, tht Roman Valkm being pronoun-ced Wallmi^ of which fee Qfanhon^ 
Somner, &c. Atthi^ Agelocum 01: Adehcum, Si^Ca^^bden himidi once read 
it, is a Church of the mo/1: Antique form that ever I beheld, and bcin^^ , 
built of fmallfquared Stones like the ^^^^;? Wall and Multangular Tower 
in I verily thought it the remains of fome Roman Temple, till 1 found ' 
in it fome ChrifHan Hiflories, particularly the delcent of the Holy GhoRin 
the form of a Dove, done in Bajfo RelievOyhut after fo intolerably rude x>- 
manner, as fufBciently evidences their great Antiquity. The Iribabitants 
have an old Tradition, that AdelChurdi once Rood upon BUdhill, tht place 
where thefe ^9;»^wMonumcnt5 were lately difcovercdjoccafioncd perhaps-. by 
the removal of the Stones from fomepublick Edifice, at the del^ru^ionoS 
the old Roman Town.But I am too tedioti?,aifid have fcaroe left place for the 
figures oF the Monuments. . . " 
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