C ?99 ) 
The lad Line has been PVDENT-E PVDEN- 
TlNl FILio^ but there mull: have been a Letter 
or two of the Vrainomen at the Beginning of it, unlefs 
it was fhorter than the reft at that, as well as at the 
latter End of it^ and from what 1 have faid, the whole 
may be read as follows. 
"Neptuno ^ MinervA Templum pro Salute Domus Df- ’ 
vina^ ex AuBoritate Tiberit Claudii Cogidubni Regis^ 
Legati Augujli in Brittannid^ Collegium Fabrorum^ 
Qui in eo a Sacris [^or] Honorati funt^ De fuo Dedica* 
verunt^ Donante aream Fudente Fudentini Filio, 
Chichejler^ by this Infcription found at it, muft have 
been a Tov/n of Eminence very foon after the Romans^ 
had fettled here, and in Procefs of Time feemsto have 
been much frequented, by the Roman Roads, ftill vi- 
lible, that terminate here from Fortfmouth^ Midhurft^ 
and Arundel^ tho’, what is very ftrange, we have no 
Roman Name now known for it. I once thought it 
might have put in its Claim for Anderida, which our 
Antiquaries have not yet. agreed to fix any where, be- 
ing fituated, very near, both to the Sjilva Anderida^ and 
the Southern Coajl of the hland, the two Properties of 
tha,t City ^ : But Henry of Huntingdon^ who lived in 
the Time of Henry II. telling us, that the Saxons fo 
deftroyed Andredecefler^ that Nunquam pojiea readifi- 
cata fmt^ & locus tantum quaji nobiliJfimA urbis tran~ 
feuntibus oflenditur defolatus ° , it could not be Chi- 
chejier , for that was not only rebuilt before his Time, 
but was a Place of fuch Note, that when the Bilhops, 
foon after the Conqueft p , removed their Churches 
R r r from 
“ V. Camb. Brit, and Sonner’i Roman Ports and Torts. 
o Pag. 312. V. Dr, TaborV Difcourfe of Anderida. Philof. Trairf. N. 356. 
£ A, D. 1076. 
