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X Jn Account of d Roman InJcriptioHy found at 
Chichefter. iBj; Roger Gale, F. ^ S- 
T his Infcription, Fig, i. as curious as any that 
has yet been difcovered in Britain^ was found 
the Beginning of laft April at Chichefter^ in digging a 
< Cellar under the Corner-houfe of St. MartinsAane, on 
the North Side as it comes into Florthftreet. It lay a- 
bout four Foot under Ground, with the Face upwards, 
by which it had the Misfortune to receive a great deal 
of Damage from the Picks of the Labourers as they 
endeavoured to raife it *, for befides the defacing of fe- 
veral Letters, what was here disinterred of the Stone 
' was broke into four Pieces : The other Part of it, ft ill 
wanting, is, in all Probability, bury’d under the next 
Houfe, and will not be brought to light till that hap- 
pens to be rebuilt. The Infcription is cut upon a grey 
Suftex Marble, the Length of which was fix Roman 
Feet, as may be conjeftured by meafuring it from the 
Middle of the Word TEMPLUM to that End of 
it which is entire, and is not altogether three Foot 
Bnglijb^ from the Point mentioned. The Breadth of 
it is two and | of the fame Feet, the Letters beauti- 
fully and exadly drawn, thofe in the two firft Lines 
three Inches long, and the reft 2 
Being at Chichefter in September laft with Dr. Stuke- 
ly^ we took an accurate View of this Marble, which 
is now fixed in the Wall under a Window within the 
Houfe where it was found, and that we might be as 
. fure of the true Reading as poflible, wherever the Let- 
dft q ters 
