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note long before Edward the ConfeJfor% time, as I gather 
from Roman Co)ns latdy^ found there, fome of which I 
hive had communicated to me by the Reverend Dr. Ral^h 
Trumbull^ not long fmce Re&or c f that Rlace. The beft 
of thofe fent to me is one of impure Silver (according 
to the Oifiom of that Time) in Honour of Jidia Mumm£a, 
Mother to Alexander Severns, That which makes it the 
more likely that here was a Town fo early is this, that 
the Ickenild Way palled not farfrom it on ihe right hand 
in i'S Courfe to CircnreJIer, where all the four Great Jfajj 
crofs’d- [ might here mention orlier Places^ that have 
receiv’d the fame Advantage for their Antiquity^ if [ were 
not fufficiently fatisfied that you are much better acquaint- 
ed with this Part of Learning , and with the fever ah 
Z)fes of it than I am. Thro’ the Ignorance of divers 
that light upon thefe old Monuments it is<that many of 
them are quite deftroy’d 5 but then there are not wanting 
feveral ingenious Gentlemen, who cut of a natural Love 
to Antiquity fpare no Cofis nor Pains to col left and pre- 
ferve as many as they can, and are always ready to com- 
municate to the Publ ck their Obfervations upon them. A- 
mongfe thefe I delervedly reckon your felf, who as You 
have made a very good Collection, fo you have withal 
been plea fed to oblige the Learned World wich feve- 
Ta1 curious Difeourfes upon them in the PhUofophied 
Tranfallions. You have likevvife been fo kind as to fa- 
vour me with the Account of fome of them, and when 
I was ingaged in the Oxford Edition of Livy, you took 
care to tranfmit to me two Infcriptions, which (hew that 
the ix/^ Legion of the Romans refided at Torl{.' Thefe 
1 have made publick at the End of the laft Volume in the 
Annotations (a). But I am mod: concern’d at prefent for 
the old Inft'ruments which you tell me were fome Months 
4 
{d) See f'd. VI. pag, iS.r, 
(ince 
