Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I)

PREFACE ITER DOMESTICUM. I. 1 ITER OXONIENSE. II. 34 ITER CIMBRICUM. III. 51 ITER SABRINIUM. IV. 62 ITER ROMANUM. V. 75 ITER DUMNONIENSE. VI. 134 ITER SEPTIMUM ANTONINI AUG. VII...

If ruminating upon antiquities at home be commendable, travelling at home for that purpose can want no defence; it is still coming nearer the lucid springs of truth. The satisfa...

But it was not enough for the Romans thus to provide for commerce and travelling, without they set proper stations or mansions for the reception of negociators and the like. Acc...

Having given you then all the authentic or conjectural memoirs that have in general occurred to my reflection upon the most ancient state of this country, I shall proceed to oth...

Quaplode, called anciently Capellade, i. e. _Capella ad Ladam s. fluvium_, has a very ancient church, founded by the abbots of Croyland: the tower stands on the south side. In t...

Andrew de Craon, lord of Craon, of } = { Agnes, daughter of Fulk, the good Bruslon, and of Loches. } | { count of Anjou, and lord of Loches. | +-----------------------+---------...

Horncastle was undoubtedly the Banovallum in _Ravennas_: the latter part of the word is Latin, so that it signifies the fortification upon the river Bane. It is of a low situati...

Through Kettering we went to Northampton, the most elegant town in England: which, being wholly burnt down, is rebuilt with great regularity and beauty. There is a spacious squa...

Below here, two or three miles off, stands Tamese, now Tame, upon the side of a meadow; a pleasant town, consisting of one long and broad street, running north-east and south-we...

_Auxiliis olim stetit alma Coventria regum Dum fortuna fuit. Magnos colit hinc Edoardos Henricosque suos, urbs non ingrata patronos. Jamque adeo afflictis crescit spes altera re...

We entered the pleasanter country of Cheshire at Lyme, the seat of Mr. Leigh: here are curious gardens, lakes, cascades, fountains, summer-houses. This is a fine level, woody, a...

From Newberry the Roman road (I believe coming from Silchester) passes east and west to Marlborough, the Roman _Cunetio_,[47] named from the river. This town consists chiefly of...

The city of Hereford probably sprung up from the ruin of the Roman _Ariconium_, now Kenchester, three miles off, higher up the river Wye, but not very near it; which may be a re...

As well as use, they studied eternity in all their works, just opposite to our present narrow souls, who say, It will serve our time well enough. For this reason they made few b...

_M. poblic_ ℞ — _nus imp._ _Ant._ III. _vir_ _leg._ VI. _Sabin_ _l. titur._ the rape of the Sabins. _Augustus divi fil._ _imp_ x _act_. _Cæsar Augustus pater patriæ._ _Augusti f...

But this city being happily seated for navigation of the river, and the chief thoroughfare to the north, soon increased to that degree, that the Romans were obliged to add anoth...

We kept the road all the way, though sometimes it passes over little bogs, and at last about Winterton is inclosed: it terminates in some arable, where it is well nigh lost a mi...

The town of Caster is half way down this western steep; and in nothing more, that I have seen, did the Romans show their fine genius for choice of a station, than this: there is...

At Cossington (just before I came to the river Wrek, parting the counties) is a vast barrow, 350 foot long, 120 broad, 40 high or near it: it is very handsomely worked up on the...

Still higher stands Stukeley, a very large parish, on the same sort of soil as that in Huntingdonshire. This is the oldest church, and most intire, I ever saw, undoubtedly befor...

We must now, according to the Itinerary, leave the Watling-street, and go to Maidstone. The road hither passes by that famous British monument called Kits-coty-house. It cannot...

Sandown castle is composed of four lunettes of very thick arched work of stone, with many port-holes for great guns: in the middle is a great round tower, with a cistern at top;...

A little way further, at the end of the Stane-street,[124] the Roman road from Canterbury; and at a proper distance from thence is the port of _Lemanis_. I am surprized that som...

As we go from Wilton to Stonehenge, between Grovely wood and Woodford runs a ditch across the plain, with a high rampart southward: the ditch is broad, and goes east and west. I...

Under it, to the left, is the Devises: this I take to be the _Punctuobice_ of Ravennas, which he mentions by parcels thus: _Leucomagus_, Bedwin, (_Cimetzone_ for) _Cunetione_ in...

The church and tower of Cadbury is neat and small, built of stone. In this place they call walnuts _Welsh-nuts_. To the southward, on the opposite hill, corpses have been dug up...

Exeter is the famous _Isca Dumnoniorum_ of the Romans, the last station this way in Antoninus his Itinerary; _pen cair_ of the Britons, the capital: it is a large and populous c...

Poundbury, I am intirely persuaded, was a camp of Vespasian’s, when he was busy hereabouts in the conquest of the _Belgæ_, therefore ancienter than the adjacent Roman city: the...

I imagine the terrace at top in our work was designed for the men of arms: for they are by no means to be excluded, seeing one of the primary intents of these diversions was to...

I shall give the reader a plain calculation of the number of people, that might commodiously be present at the solemn sports and diversions, made generally upon holy-days and gr...

As at the beginning the shade came feelingly upon our right shoulders, so now the light from the north, where it opened as it were: though I could discern no defined light or sh...

From the gate of _Sorbiodunum_ the Icening-street goes from north-east to south-west, by the name of Port lane, over the river Avon at Stretford; then ascends the hill, and pass...

The old Roman city stood more eastward, upon the banks of the river Itching coming from Winchester, where now is a hamlet called St. Mary’s. There is a handsome new church built...

Chichester, by this inscription found at it, must have been a town of eminence very soon after the Romans had settled here, and in process of time seems to have been much freque...

Proofs of the rotation of the globe 4, 29, 49, 67, 73, 77, 93, 96, 101, 108, 115, 120, 121, 130, 137, 138, 141, 146, 148, 151, 157, 159, 202

Coins found 9, 13, 40, 42, 48, 52, 54, 59, 60, 62, 66, 70, 78, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 91, 94, 95, 101, 104, 107, 112, 114, 116, 139, 141, 142, 145, 149, 150, 154, 156, 158, 175, 17...

[35] Jan. 1718, between Broadwel and Stow in the Wold, Gloucestershire, a countryman digging a ditch to divide a pasture, found an urn of a green colour: at top it had foliage w...

[109] The river Medvacus runs through Vicenza, a city in Italy, built by the Gauls. I suppose our present Britons, or Welsh, are Gauls, the same as Cæsar conquered; that the old...