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know at least tliat it was here in A.D. 108—9. Wliat became 
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of the ninth after the advent of the sixth ? There is no record 
of its being sent to any province abroad, and it has been sup¬ 
posed, therefore, that it was destroyed by the natives in war. 
A passage in Spartian’s Life of Hadiian gives some weight to 
this suggestion. It may have been seriously weakened in this way, 
but it was by no means obliterated. If we may judge from the 
large number of tiles at York which bear the stamp of the legion 
and the character of the numerals upon them, which are of 
much later date, many of them, than the times of Hadrian and 
the Antonines, we see that some of the men of the ninth legion 
were living and working at York long after the period assigned 
to their destruction. It is probable, I think, that they were 
much weakened in battle, and that on that account thev were 
practically merged in the sixth, and it may have been their 
duty to do garrison and home work whilst the men of the sixth 
were scattered among the stations on the walls of Hadrian and 
Antoninus. 
Nov. 2nd —The following paper by the Lev. Canon Haine 
was read:— 
In speaking about the Church of St. Clave, I must premise 
that my remarks relate especially to the present building which 
bears that name. The history of the earlier church may be 
briefly summarized. It was built originally by Siward, Earl 
of Northumberland, who died in A H. 1055. Olaf, King of 
Denmark, to whom it was dedicated, died in A.D. 1030. It 
would be some time after his decease before the honor of 
sanctity was ascribed to him, and the commencement of St. 
Olaf’s Church in this city can scarcely be placed earlier than 
A.D. 1045 or 1050. It would be dear, I doubt not, to the 
Danes, of whom York was full, and of whom Siward was one. 
After the Conquest the church passed, as a piece of privrde 
property, to Alan, Earl of Brittany, who gave it, somewhere 
about the year 1080, to Stephen, Abbot of Whitby, to be the 
nucleus of an ecclesiastical establishment. Eight years after 
this, William Kufus paid a visit to York, and observing that 
the monks were sorely pinched for room on the side of St. 
