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N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols, the highest and largest Price of each Day is given in the other Stocks the highest Price only.

THOMAS WILKIE, Stock-Broker, No. 71, St Paul's Church-yard.

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Mr. URBAN,

May 27. SCARCELY need inform your numerous readers that lord Incbiquin's houfe at Cliefden, Bucks, which has fuf fered lately fo much by fire, was built by that duke of Buckingham, who died in the worf inn's wort room." It was of red brick coped with ftone in the fame ftyle as the queen's palace at London, and built probably by the fame architect. The apartments were none of them large; the profpe&t from the South is delightful. Perhaps we have to lament, amongst many others, the lofs of the following portraits: feveral of the Hamilton family, who bore a part in the rebellion; George Fitz oy, duke of Northumberland, natural fon of Charles II; Queen Anne, when princefs, whole length by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Duke of Hamilton, who was killed by lord Mahon; Dutchels of Richmond, whole length, a black tick in her hand, an animated countenance, temping Charles I; Princefs dowager of Wales, mother of the prefent king.

The tapefry was very good; one part fhews the town of Ramilles, with loldiers carrying wood; an old thepherd fmoking his pipe, who is faid to have betrayed the French, is finely worked. It is hoped fome perfon who has taken a full account of the picures and tapestry will favour you with it. N. D.

PART I.

flation near London, to Carlisle, in the following direction:

Cafaromage, Chelmsford, or Writ tie; Celonia, Colchester; Villa Fauftini, St. Edmondsbury; Icianos, Ickburgh; Camborico, Chefterford; Duroliponte, Godmanchefter, or Cambridge, Durobrive, Dornford, or Caftor; Caufennis, Nottingham, Brigcaller:on, or Ancafter; Lindo, Lincoln; S-geloci, Lutleburgh, Dano, Doncafter; Eboraci, Yok, &c.

The modern names generally affigned by Camden, G blon, Gale, Hoifley, and others, are here adopted, as it is

not meant in this fhort letter to controvert them, but merely to fhew that the track of the Roman road, fuppofed the Herming-freet, was fomewhat in the direction. There is no Iter to Chefter from the Suth-eaft part of the king dom; but the liers on which Ratis or Leicegier occurs, moft probably had a

communication with Durobrive, or Cafter, by a vicinal way, which would pals through or near the fire of Medbourn, defcribed by your intelligent correfpondent, Mr. Tailby, p. 274. If he refides at or near this ipot, and has opportunity of examining it more ininutely, he may perhaps trace out fome veftiges of earth-works, or a road, pointing to Cafler. A line drawn from Medbourn to Leicester, in Cary's Map of Leicestershire, in the new edition of the Britannia, would pass through two villages of the name of STRETTON, which carry with them an evident Roman etymo.ogy; and the ditance from Medbourn to Leicester, by the fcale of the fame map, does not exceed 16 miles. Having croffed the W-Hand to the

defirous of being more particularly in formed about the Roman road which he "fuppofes" might have exifted between Colchester and Chefter; I readily fet down to communicate to him not only the information I received from the late Dr. Mafon, but alto fuch obfervations as I have occafionally made on feeing the greater part of it myself.

This road began, as Mr. Tailby rightly imagines, at Camalodunum (the firft Roman colony fettled in Britain, and extended, nearly in a direct line, thence cross the kingdom to Deva (or Chefter), the well-known flat.on of the 20th legion for many centuries. And though only one of each of the Itineraries of either Antonine or Richard of Cirencefter has taken notice of but a very finall part of it (probably, as the acute and learned Bergier imagines, from the greater part of it having been only a railed caufeway, and not regularly paved), yet the general course of this road is fo evident, the remains of it to this hour fo plain, and the stations fo well known, that it is impoffible for any perfon, who would give himself the trouble of examining it at his leifure, to entertain the leaft doubt of its existence.

From Camalodunum, or Colchester, this road proceeds, abfcurely to be fure from the high ftate of cultivation in which that part of Effex has been for fo many years," by Colne, Sible Hedingham (where I once faw fome remains of it), Yeldham, Ridgewell, and Have hall, to Horfeheath, whence it

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runs, quite vifible, and ftill very high raifed, over the open country, and, croffing the Ikenield street, continues ftraight teGogmagog hills; where,throwing off a branch by Grantchefter to Sandy (Salina), it defcends into the valley to Camboricum, or Cambridge, a station placed on the North fide of the Cam, and covering nearly all the ground from the river to the turnpike-gate going to Huntingdon.

From Cambridge it proceeds, nearly in the courfe of the present turnpike road, through Fen Stanton, to the next ftation, Durolipons, or Godmanchefter, where it joined the Ermin ftreet, and, croffing the Oufe near the gallows at Huntingdon, is still straight and tolerably plain for two or three miles, keeping under the hi-fide towards Alconbury. It is then faid to pals through Alconbury Wefton, Hamerton, Winwick,

bridge to Weldon (but of this part of it I am not certain, though a road is feen near Weldon ftraight and broad, and though the town itfelf is known to be Roman from the number of Antiquities found there, as the course appears to me a little too much to the Eaft).

I need not stop here to inform any of your readers, Mr. Urban, that, along the banks of this river, the Nen (which fepara ed the Iceni Ceomagni from the Iceni Coritani), ftill remain many of the fortifications thrown up by Oftorius, when he formed the great. plan of feparating the two great and powerful clans of the Iceni, but shall continue to trace the remainder of my road towards Chefter.

At Cottingham, on the borders of the foreft, our road appears again quite plain, near a tumulus, before it defcends into the plain, and croffes the Welland in its way to Leicester.

At Medburn was an undoubted ftation on this road; and the name of In Medio was probably given it from its being almoft exactly placed at an equal diftance from the two termini of this iter, Colchester and Chefter; and thence the road is ftill high raised and very vifible, running paft Gartre Buth, Norton Hedges, and the Strettons, all the way to the capital of the Iceni Coritani, Rate, or Leicester.

At Leicester our road crossed the Fofs, and, proceeding through the Northern gate, and, leaving Anstey'slane to the right, goes.ftraight forward to Groby (where Lord Stamford's houte

flands