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the magidrates, which was not uncommon, as vve 
find by feveral antient infcriptions ( I ). 
But there was no town, to which this could be 
more fuitable than Bath , on account of the great 
number of drangers, who reforted thithe* for the be- 
nefit of the falutiferous fprings. For as fome of thofe, 
who came from didant parts, may be fuppofed from 
time to time to have died there ; a public coemetery 
for the burial of them was highly requifite. All the 
Roman infcriptions hitherto found at or near Bath 
have been of the fepulchral kind ; except that now 
under confideration, which however has fome affinity 
with them. The reft are five in number; four of 
which were fird publifhed by Camden (2), and fince 
by Dr. Guidott (3) and others ; and the fifth, relating 
to 'Julius Vitalis, by Dr. Mufgrave (4). But of the 
four in Camden , two at lead appear to have belonged 
to perfons, who were not fettled there, but came 
from didant places, probably upon the account ot 
their health. One of thefe is called de curio coloniae 
Glevenjis , that is, a fenator or alderman of Gloucefler , 
which was then a Roman colony named Glevum, 
The other is faid to have been a foldier legionis fe- 
cundae adjutricis , as thofe words have been generally 
read. But, as Horjley has remarked, it does not 
appear, that this legion ever was in Britain (f). As 
mod of thofe infcriptions were found at Walcote , a 
village 
(1) See Sertorii Monument. Patavin. 
(2) Britann. pag. 171, 172. edit. 1607. 
(3J Dijcourfe of Bathe, Chap. x. 
(4J J alii Vitalis Epitapbium. 
(5) Britann. Roman, pag. 326. 
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