Of OXFO%T>^SHI%E, 51? 
we fomtimes find them paved, where there was little need : which 
I guefs might be done to exercife the Soldiers and common feofU 
of xht Country^ leaft by lying idle they (liould have grown muti- 
nous, and affeded alterations in the State. But where they were 
indeed laid through meers and low places, and neceffity Compel- 
led them to raifeand pave them, we have the exaft method of 
making them, laid us down by Statiws 
Hie primus labor inchoare Sulcos^ 
Et refcindere limites-, isr alto \ ^ _ 
Egejiu penitm cavare terras : \ f ' ' '. , ::^:\ 
Mox hauftoialiter repkre foffds ■ . : 
Et fimmo gremium parare dorfo, ^ ..\,a 
Ne nutent Sola, ne maligna fedes 
Et preffis dubium Cubile faxi6. 
i. e. that they firft laid out the bounds^ then dug trenches^ renid* 
ving thefalfe earth : then filled them with found earth, and pav^d 
them with Hone^ that they might not fink or otherwife fail. 
22. 0[ the fom Bafilical^ Confular^ot Prt^torianways^ or Che^ 
mini majores, I have met with but one that paflTeth through this 
County-, the difcovery whereof yet I hope may prove acceptable, 
becaufe not defcribed before, or its footfteps any where noted 
by Sir//. Spelman^Kr, Camden, or any other Author that i have 
read or could hear of; whereat indeed I cannot but very much 
wonder, fince it is called by its old name at very many places 
\_Ikenildway'] to this very day. Some indeed call it Ickjiil-t fome 
Ackriil, others Hackney^ and fome again Hackj^gton, but all intend 
the very famew^jj, that ftretches it felf in this County from North- 
eaft to South- weft ; coming into it ("out of Bucks) the Parifli 
of Chinner, and going out again over the Thames (into Berh) 
at the Parifti of Goreing^ lying within the County in manner and 
form, and bearing to the Tarifhes and Villages placed on each 
hand, as defcribed in the M^p prefixed to this Ejfay, by two (lia- 
ded parallel lines made up of points, which I have chofe, to (liew 
that this way is not caft up in a ridged bank,orlaid out by a deep 
trench, as fome others are ; defcribed alfo in the Map by two con^ 
tinued parallel lines, that the Reader, or fuch as pleafe to view 
them hereafter, may know whereto expefta bank, or trench., and 
where no fuch matter. ^ ra^m.Surc.SmuSnvar.Uh.i,/tnvmT>omitian. 
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