[14] Later, about 1701 or 1702.
[15] At Grantford, by March, 1732, several Roman urns found.
[16] Holbech seems to have been Holbergh, as Wisbech Wousbergh.
[17] Anno 1727, at Walpole, by the side of Wisbech river, abundance of Roman aqueducts were dug up, and Roman bricks, &c. and Mr. Colburn, minister there, sent me an aqueduct.
[18] Wisbech is called Wiseberch, i. e. burgh, in king Wulfhere’s charter to Peterburgh. Mr. Peck’s Ant. Stanf. p. 21. Many Roman aqueducts dug up at Wisbech castle, when they built the present structure, as Mr. Beaupre Bell tells me; such as were found at Walpole, whereof I have one. William the Conqueror built a castle upon the Roman work.
[19] No less than eight canoos were found in draining Martin mere. Dr. Leigh’s Lancaster. A moss-deer’s skeleton found fourteen foot under ground in the fens by the river Witham, Lincolnshire. I saw part of a moss-deer’s horn at the Society in Peterborough, found in the fens there.
[20] The bed wherein Margaret lay, has since been removed to a farm-house by the fen-side, called Wrigbolt, where I have seen it. It is a very old-fashioned oak bed with panels of odd embossed work, like many we see in old country houses.
[21] Pliny says they eat ducks in Britain as a great delicacy.
[22] Radulfus de Holbech officium custod. resignat, & resumit locum focii ap. Æd. Petri Cant. 1349.