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a different Courfe, and went by Londesbutgh> as" It 
fhall {hew in the Sequel 5 and the old Road being 
turn'd this Way, a new Town fprung up, which took 
its Name from the Occafipn of altering the Road. 
The fecond Reafon offer'd to prove Weighton to 
have been Delgovitia is, becaufe Mr. Horjeley ob- 
ferved fomething like a Tumulus at the Weft End of 
the Town. This alone is to weak an Argument to 
prove this Place a Roman Station, that I fhall take 
up no Time in endeavouring to confute it. I muft 
^alfo remark, that there are not the lead Remains of 
any Roman Road leading to Weight on? which there 
always are to any known Roman Station. 
The third Reafon offer’d, is, becaufe this Place 
agrees fo near with the Diftance from Derventio^ 
as mention'd in the Itinerary 5 but this Argument 
muft fall, when 1 fhall fhew in the Sequel, that it is 
not true in Faft, having had the Road meafured. 
There is no other Reafon offer'd, why Delgovitia 
was xihzvz Godmanham now is, than that this latter 
Place was faid, by Venerable Rede , to be Locus Ido- 
lorum , or a Place of Idols. Mr. Burton , in his It in. 
Anton . feems to lay a Strefs on the quondam Idolo - 
rum Locus , and fays. It may allude, as well to Ro- 
man Idols as Saxon; But this is too far (train'd $ 
and we may juftly enough conclude, that this was a 
Temple neither of Roman Structure nor Worihip, 
but a Place dedicated to Saxon Tdolatry ; fuch a one 
as is deferibed i w Verjlega?^ inclofed with a Hedge 
inftead of a Wall : For we find the curious Mr. Drake 
made a very ftridt Enquiry, and could not perceive 
the lead Remains of any Ruins j meeting with no- 
thing 
