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deputies (13)5 and other inferior officers, in the pro- 
vinces • who tranfadted their affairs there, and dif- 
pofed of their effects. 
Pliny obferves, that the lead mine's in Britain were 
in his time very large, and eafily worked, as they 
lay near the furface of the earth. His words are 
thefe : Nigro plumbo ad jijlulas lamina] que Mi'mur y 
laboriofius in Hifpania eruto , totafque per Ga/lias ; 
fed in Britannia jtimmo terrae corio adeo large , nt lex 
ultra dicatur , ne plus certo. modo fiat (if). And 
then he proceeds to acquaint us with the annual rent, 
at which one of thofe mines was farmed in Baetica , 
the more fouthern province of farther Spain. Mi- 
run, r, fais he, in his foils metallis , quod derelilla fer- 
tilius revivefeunt . Nuper id comperturn in Baetica San- 
tarenfi (iq)metallo, quod locari folitum x. cc.m (26) 
annuls, poftquam obliteratum erat , cclv (27) locatwn 
eft. The former of thefe fums makes of our money 
fix thoufand four hundred fifty eight pounds, fix 
Shillings, and eight pence ; and the latter, eight 
thoufand two hundred thirty four pounds, feven 
fhillings, and fix pence ; computing the value of a. 
Roman denary at feven pence three farthings, as Dr. 
Arbuthnot has done in his Tables. 
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(23) Z acchaeus feems to have had this office in Judaea, as he 
is (tiled and faid to have been rich ; whereas St. Mat- 
thew is only called t£A uvne. Luke xix. 2. Matth. x. 3. Luke v. 27. 
(24) N. H. Lib. xxxiv. cap.. 17. (25) Santarenfe was 
the name of the mine here fpoken of, as Harduin has fhewn in his 
notes upon this place. (26) That is, denariorurn ducentis' 
millibus. (27) That is, ducentis quinquaginta quinque mil - 
libus . 
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