[503] See vol. i. col. 1493.
[504] Gentleman’s Magazine.
[505] On visiting this camp, I searched for the “Old Well in the Fosse;” judge my surprise, when I found a modern circular frame of wood sunk in the fosse to collect clear water for the use of bricklayers, &c. this is a specimen of artists “pretty bits.”
[506] Alias—coinages of their own fancy.
[507] The idea is ridiculous, that the prætorium of the Roman general should be placed in a swampy, low situation, while such an advantageous position on the high ground, on which St. Pancras-church stands, is given to a native prince; another circumstance is against the doctor’s hypothesis, that this was a Roman camp, viz. a running stream through it.
[508] Dr. Stukely derives it from Bury Hill; but the lowness of the situation refutes such an etymology.
[509] View of London, vol. iii. p. 343-344.