( *9° ) 
The Fabric* Sacra, or Office for making Arms of the 
greater fort, for the Souldiery, is mention’d by Paternus 5 
who lived under the Antonines. Trajan feems, firft, to 
have built this fort of Office 3 whofe Oeconomy is here 
fee forth 5 bur, in Britain , Adrian, A. D- CXXI. Why 
we ought to read Fabricenjium. The Bath-Fabric had 
Ore and Fuel from the Silures , ( Glocejierjhire and Mon- 
wouthjhire ) where Adrian funk an Lon-work; Of the 
Officer in the Army called Armorum Cuftos. The Ar- 
mamentarium at the Mouth of the old Rhine , very an- 
cient : Its Communication, in latter Times, with our. 
Fabrica. Not unlikely, but that the Legionary Fabri- 
cenfes were incorporated into the Bath-Col/ege • Julius 
Vi talk recommended Himfelf to the College, perhaps by 
his Humanity, Probity, and Urbanity. The Luxury of 
this XXtb Legion, and of the Fabricenfes near Bath , mani- 
feft from their many Mofaic Pavements : Of which one is 
here deferi'oed. Vitalis feems to have been Prafetfus 
Fabricen fiurn, fromthe Honour done Him, by the whole 
College, in his Funeral and Monument. 
Seft. X. E L A T U S. 
The true Signification of this Word, in oppofition to 
Sipontinus. Collegium , in the pureft Latin Authors, never 
Signifies Place. 
Sed. XI. H S E. 
The Rife of Notes, Singul.e, or SigU, No Points in this 
Note, being of itfelf eafily underftood. The common 
way of Deciphering not difficult 5 and may be per- 
form’d by one, who underftands not the Language of 
the Writing. A way of writing propofed, fo occult, 
as not' to be difeovered. No Digamma JEAicum in any 
of the Britiffj Infcriptions . Phrafes, as well as Words, 
have 
