( *1 95 ) 
who had broke it in the middle, and were going to make 
ufe of it for two Through , as they call them, in the 
Wall; but by that worthy Gentlemans dire&ion it was 
placed upright, with the Infcription outwards. That 
this 9th Legion was in Britain in Galbah time, and that 
it was alfo Hifpanienjis, appears from the very Learned 
Sir Henry Savilcs Notes at the end of his Edition of 
Tacitm 5 but that it, as well as the Vlth and the XXth, 
was alfo called Viftrix, or that it refided at York, has not 
been obferved before $ and yet both are evident from 
this Infcription upon a Roman Brick found there. 
|L~EG. IX. VIC. 
This is alfo an Argument of the Peace thefe Parts en- 
joyed at that time, (poffibly the latter end of hveruss 
Reign,) making Bricks, calling up Highways, &c. being 
the ufual employment of Souldiers at fuch vacancies. 
The former Infcription is now removed to the Gardens 
of Sir John Goodrich at Ribjlon j the latter is in my pof- 
feffion. 
Sir Hen. Savile was of opinion that this Nona Hifpa- 
nienfis in Britannia was one of thofe eftablifhed by Tibs- 
rim , Cams , or Claudius , or peradventure in the later times 
of Augujlus 1 but however that it was certainly here in 
Nero's Reign, and that P<etus Cerealis was then Lieutenant 
thereof is indifputably evident from Tacitus, ( lib . 14. 
tap. 10. ) who gives a lamentable account of the (laugh- 
ter of feventy thoufand Citizens and Confederates, by 
the enraged Boudicea , in which number was all the Foot 
of this ninth Legion: Cerealis with the Horfe hardly 
efcaping. I fuppofe it needlefs to add, that this Number 
is frequently by the Romans writ VIII as well as IX 5 for 
one that is but competently vers’d in their Corns or In- 
fcriptions, cannot but have obferved inftances of bos h 
kinds j however, to prevent all miftakes, ( it being ne r 
