Gale says it is not easy to know whether it be a man’s or a woman’s:
I suppose it is the Genius of the city, buried there for luck sake.
Such another found in the middle of Paris, very deep, with a mural
crown on; and such a one had ours, the holes being visible where it
was fastened.
[132] In the public papers, Jan. 1722–3, at Corton, Somersetshire, a
small Roman urn full of coins, Valerian, Gallienus, Aurelian, in the
hands of Mr. Tho. Nash, rector there.
[133] Some have had a notion that Joseph of Arimathea was buried at
Montague hill, not at Glasenbury; but if Joseph ever was in Britain,
it is most likely he was buried really at Glasenbury: and probably
it is Simon the Zealot, or Canaanite, one of our Saviour’s apostles,
that is buried at Montague; the two stories being confounded, and
perhaps two made of one: for that Simon preached in Britain, wrought
miracles here, was martyred and buried in Britain, we have the
express testimony, and very ancient, of Nicephorus, Dorotheus, the
Greek Monologies, wherein he is said to be crucified and buried there.
[134] A broad Roman sword found here, 1688. Here is a spring.
[135] Alexander, at building Alexandria, marked the track of the walls
with bread-corn.
[136] Urbs primum in medio regionis maximè condatur, delecto in loco
qui cæteras quoque opportunitates complectatur, quas & concipere &
designare minimè difficile est; deinde in partes duodecim distributio
fiat, ut Vestae prima Jovique atque Minervæ consecretur; & illa urbis
pars Arx nuncupetur, & septo diligenter muniatur: & ex eo urbem &
regionem in duodecim partes distribuant: vici præterea in 12 partes
erunt distribuendi, sicuti & cæteræ civium facultates ut ex 12
partium constitutione cursuum lustrationes commodius peragi possint:
12 quoque partes 12 diis erunt deinceps attribuendæ; & unaquæque
pars, ex ejus dei nomine cui illa obtigerit, erit nuncupanda, ut
tribus ipsa sit suo & tutelari deo cognominata; sed ut 12 urbis
membra, sicuti in reliqua regione factum est, singulatim in duas
habitationes fuerunt dividenda, quarum una circa medium sit, altera
circa extremum; & habitationis quidem ordo & ratio hunc in modum
conformetur.—All this Plato learnt from the Jewish œconomy.
[137] It pleases me to inquire the names of these old things, however
aukward. Quære, Whether it means the name of the person buried there,
or the god worshipped there, _Baal_, _Belinus_; or that it signifies
only an eminence, _bal_, _fal_?
[138] _Opus tessellatum_ found in the castle.
[139] Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and
all the brethren.—See Fuller’s Church History, and Usher.
[140] Mr. Terry of Lincoln tells me, at Tangham near Farnham,
innumerable Roman coins, urns, and antiquities, are dug up every
where in hedge-rows: vast quantities of them, which he got, he
gave to Oxford. This perhaps was the site of _Calleva_. Many
pillars, pilasters, capitals, bases, marble tables, &c. dug up there
continually; many in possession of George Woodroff, esq. late owner
of the estate: he had many pecks of coins found there.
[141] A large parcel of it, a quarter of a mile long, is still perfect
to the east of the brook, where the powder mills are on Hounslow
heath, where the common road goes southward to pass it.
[142] The _via Trinovantica_.
[143] November, 1731, a labourer dug up an urn full of silver Roman
coin, at Turnham green, as repeated in the public prints.
[144] Stanes was fenced round with a ditch.
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