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An Account Of A Roman Inscription, Found At Chichester,
AN ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN INSCRIPTION , FOUND AT CHICHESTER ,
BY EOGEE GALE , ESQ , PUIS . Philosophical transactions No . 379 , Vol . 32 , p . 391 . The following able paper of Eoger
Gale , very little known generally , and especially to my brethren of the Masonic Order , though it has been casually alluded to previously , I have thought well to reprint , as an
Archteological study . It is specially interesting to us , as it relates to the earliest inscription so far discovered , or known ,
This Inscription , Kg ., 1 . as curious as ™} that has yet been discovered in Britain , was found the beginning of last April at Chichester , in digging a cellar juicier the comer-house of St . Martin ' s-• aiie , on the north side as it comes into
of the Eonians building Colleges in this country . Musgrave in his learned work , alludes to another about the same period , but this may be said to be the oldest so far ,
and the most clear and precise . Gale ' s dissertation on the " collegia llomanorum " is very clear and convincing , and as this Magazine is meant to be a collection of authentic documents , as well as
of undoubted evidences , and effective essays , I have thought it well , having long had it in my possession , to reprint it " in exteuso . " A . E . A . WOODFORD . London , August 23 , 1873 .
North-street . It lay about four J ' eet under ground , with the face upwards , by which it had the misfortune lu receive a great deal of damage from the picks of the labourers as they endeavoured to raise it ; for besides the defacing
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Account Of A Roman Inscription, Found At Chichester,
AN ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN INSCRIPTION , FOUND AT CHICHESTER ,
BY EOGEE GALE , ESQ , PUIS . Philosophical transactions No . 379 , Vol . 32 , p . 391 . The following able paper of Eoger
Gale , very little known generally , and especially to my brethren of the Masonic Order , though it has been casually alluded to previously , I have thought well to reprint , as an
Archteological study . It is specially interesting to us , as it relates to the earliest inscription so far discovered , or known ,
This Inscription , Kg ., 1 . as curious as ™} that has yet been discovered in Britain , was found the beginning of last April at Chichester , in digging a cellar juicier the comer-house of St . Martin ' s-• aiie , on the north side as it comes into
of the Eonians building Colleges in this country . Musgrave in his learned work , alludes to another about the same period , but this may be said to be the oldest so far ,
and the most clear and precise . Gale ' s dissertation on the " collegia llomanorum " is very clear and convincing , and as this Magazine is meant to be a collection of authentic documents , as well as
of undoubted evidences , and effective essays , I have thought it well , having long had it in my possession , to reprint it " in exteuso . " A . E . A . WOODFORD . London , August 23 , 1873 .
North-street . It lay about four J ' eet under ground , with the face upwards , by which it had the misfortune lu receive a great deal of damage from the picks of the labourers as they endeavoured to raise it ; for besides the defacing