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If. Remarks upon an Antient Date, found at 
Widgel-Hall near. Buntingford mHertford- 
iliire, on an Oaken Plank ; now preferred in 
the Mufeum of the Royal Society, London. 
'By John Ward,^ef. Tr. Grefh. and F. % S. 
L ’JPON the fourth of April, 1734, a curious 
) Draught , of an antient Date, carved in an 
Oaken Plank, at Widgel-Hall y t\\z Seat of Francis 
Guljton , Efq; was laid before an Aflembly of the 
Royal Society, as the moft early Inftance of our 
common Figures, ufually called Arabian , which had 
ever been obferved in England . It was read 30 r < 5 , 
and thought to exprefs the Year 1016, the 20 be- 
ing taken for a Roman Numeral, and the 16 for 
Arabian Figures. 
Doctor Wallis had, in the Year 1683, communi- 
cated to that learned Body the Draught of a Mantle- 
tree, fomewhat like this, which he faw at the Par- 
fonage-houfe at HHmdon in North amptonjbire, 
and got it delineated. The Date, which was like- 
wife carved in mixed Characters, expreffed the 
Year £ 0 X 33 , as the Doctor read it. See Tab. IT. 
Fig. x. This being the oldeft Monument of that 
Sort, which had then been difcovered among us, 
was publiflied firft in the Rhilofophical Tranf 
actions a , and afterwards in the Doctor’s Algebra b . 
5 N°* 154. b Cap. 4. p. i 4 , 
And 
