[33] At Naseby, round the font an inscription, �ΙΨΟ�
[34] The Rev. Mr. Bertie of Uffington gave me 1735, several Roman coins found in this city; a very fair silver Hadrian, IMP. CÆSAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG. reverse, a sitting figure. PM TRP COS. III.
[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 work; in it thirty pound weight of copper Roman coin, which he sold for six-pence per pound. About a dozen were sent to Dr. Mead, of Constans, Constantine, and Magnentius.
[36] Acha, in Irish, is a dike, mound, or bank.
[37] The countess of Warwick was abbess here. Tiber. B. XIII. 5. Bibl. Cotton. is her elegium.
[38] Holinshed, in his Hist. Engl. p. 92. says a stone trough full of Roman coin was found at Grantham forty years before: he there gives an account of the golden helmet, &c. found at Harlaxton.
[39] The castle was in the close by the river east of the church: people alive remember foundations of it being dug up. I saw this year, 1726, a large brass Antoninus coin, found near Slade mill, in possession of Mrs. Vincent. Some think the castle was at Captain Hacket’s house, and that it was John of Gaunt’s castle, who had a manor here: however, great foundations are at the place, and arches have been taken up by the Captain; whether belonging to that manor house, castle, or the adjoining St. Peter’s church, now demolished, I know not.
[40] It is a mistake I was led into by the vulgar opinion of the people of Grantham: Mr. Stokes was master of the school in Sir Isaac’s time.
[41] 1726, I saw the tomb-stone of this Robert new dug up, in a stable where was the priory chapel:
