1810.] Report on the Improvements of the City Prisons. QF 
burying-place, so here Gail-aid or Ge- 
daid in Ventageladia, seems to imply 
the slaughter portion, or place of battle, 
whereon the dead were interred; and 
the whole name to mean the Slaughter 
Portion Head, or Hill-Land Station. 
To sum up my observations. —The 
roads, the distances, and the names, per- 
fectly agree; and these, with the vestiges 
of extensive entrenchments, the barrows, 
&c. seem all to shew that we may fix 
this station with amore certainty here, 
than it can be fixed in any other ‘sep- 
posed situation, 
The site of Vindocladia’ being un- 
known, and even Durnovania not being 
& name mentioned by ancient writers as 
a town of the Durotriges, it might 
have been conceived that both these 
Stations Jay in another road from Sorbi- 
odunum te Moridunum; I have there- 
fore in my last, and in the above, endea- 
voured to settle this. It is remarkable, 
that the omissions of this Itinerary 
should be the same in Antoninus and 
Richard. Much is therefore still left 
for the antiquary to explore between 
Dorchester and Pentridge, and between 
the first and Moridunuin, 
In the remaining part of this Itinerary, 
the distances from Gld Sarum to Brige, 
and from thence to Venta Belgarum, 
seem to be ascertained; bat from the last 
to Vindomi, there is some uncertainty. | 
Dr. Beeke as found that the sum of the 
distances between Venta and Vindona, 
and Vindomi and Caleva, is right, 
though the particulars are not. 
In Richard’s map, Caleva and Vindo- 
mus are rivhtly placed ; but his commen- 
.tator fixes the first among the Seyontiaci. 
In [tinerary fifteen, if we reckon Silches- 
ter Caleva, the distance from Speene is 
too little; and from theace te Pentes is 
too much, 
In Itinerary eighteen, from Tamesa or 
Moulsford ( Moulsfort* perhaps, asin old 
maps) to Vindomis, the Itinerary statés 
it fifteen miles, which Dr. Beeke, in the 
fifteenth voiume of the Archiologia, 
finds to be the real distance. But in 
the Comment on Richard it is supposed, 
that instead of Vindomis we should read 
Caleva, which is contrary to the original 
and map, as well as to the purport of 
these naines. 
In the sixteenth Itinerary, the road 
from London to Winchester is not par- 
* Hembury Fort, Devun. is generally 
salled Hembury Ferd. 
map ; 
ticularised ; but in Itinerary fifteen, from 
London to Caleva by way of Pontes, it 
is forty-four miles; and Caleva is placed, 
by the Commentator, as befure-mention- 
ed, at Silchester. Vindomis this gen- 
tleman removes to St. Mary Bourne ; and 
Venta, he supposes twenty-one miles 
from this last; which is, as might be ex- 
pected, by maps, full six miles more 
from Venta than its real distance: and 
it is plain from inspection, and from what 
is above stated, that St. Mary Bourne 
lay notin the road from Caleba Attre- 
bates to Venta Belgarum: Dr. Beeke 
» seems to have very nearly’ settled the 
stations of Caleva ard Vindomis. 
To conclude; the Atrebates took their 
name from lying on the Thames; and the 
Segontiaci, from living near the south- 
western border of the Kennet. The 
names of their primary cities are con- 
formable to their situations and to the 
and their distances from each 
other seem to be reconcilable. 
A. B. 
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REPORT of the comM:TThE Of the conro- 
RATION of LonpoN, relative to the 
DEFECTS and PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS 
of the CITY PRISONS. 
T a Common Council holden in the 
Chamber of the Guildhall of the 
City of London, on Wednesday the 6th 
day of June, 1810, the Committee for 
General Purposes delivered into Court 
a Report in writing under their hands, 
on sir Richard Pluillips’s late publication 
relative to the Prisons within this City, 
which was read; and it was ordered that- 
the said Repost should be printed, and 
a copy sent to every member. 
To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Al. 
dermen, and Commons, of the City of London, 
ia Common Council assembled. 
We - whose names are hereunto subcsribed 
of your Committee for General Purposes, to 
‘whom it was referred on the @ist day of 
June last, to examine into the allegations 
contained in a publication, by sir Richard 
Phillips, knt. late one of the Sheriffs of this 
city and county of Middlesex, addressed to 
the livery of London, relative to the state ef 
the difterent Goals or this City, and the fees 
taken by the respective keepers, and to report 
our opinion thereon; do certify, That we 
referred the same to a Sub-committee, who 
have accordingly madea Report to us, which 
we have caused to be hereunto annexed ; and 
as fer as the enquiries of that Sub-committee 
have gone, they found the said publication 
of sir Richard Phillips to have heen cerect; 
and we unanimously agreeing with the Sub. 
Gemm iti as 
