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ten years fince I (aw this Monument) the Learned and 
Ingenious Roger Gale, Efq$ was fo kind as to fend me a 
new Tranfcript 5 and I have by me alfo a third, lately 
taken by a grave Divine 5 all which agree that it is the 
IXth Legion, whieh is alfo confirm’d by the other In* 
feription upon the Brick, which was but lately found. I 
Qaali only add what an Ingenious Gentleman of Oxford 
writes, becaufe it relates to an Author I have not the op- 
portunity to confult here, but is poffibly in your Curious, 
Library. ** I am mightily pleafed with the Infcriptions 
“ you feet me relating to the 9th Legion, there being 
“ now no room to doubt about the place of Refidence, a 
“ thing which was unknown before , and for that reafon, 
st thofe who have written about the Roman Legions have 
“ faid nothing about this, but leave us quite in the dark 5 
only Vrfatut [in his Book de Notts Rom. 3 does remark, 
“ that it muft be fome where in Britain , becaufe Tacitus 
tells us, that when the Colony at Camalodumnt w’S de* 
ftroyed by Boadicia, Ptetilius Ctrtalk y Legate of the IXth 
Legion, came to their affiftance 5 but yet he makes no 
*• mention of its being ftiled ViSrix. This I receiv'd 
from Mr Tho. Hearne of Edmund Hall, from whom is ex- 
pected a curious Edition of Livy. 
Tour Mojl Obliged and Obedient Servant , 
«C 
Ralph Thoresby, 
