[42] I have a brass Claudius, found in Grantham, reverse, ceres avgvsta, struck on occasion of that universal dearth mentioned by St. Luke. Josephus takes notice of it, Ant. Jud. III. 18.
[43] It contains 26,586 principal wheels, any one of which may be stopped separately, and independent of the rest: one regulator governs the whole work. It works 73,728 yards of silk every time the water-wheel goes round, which is thrice in a minute; 318,504,960 yards of silk in a day and night. A girl of eleven years old does the work of thirty-five persons. One chimney conveys warm air into every room.
[44] Walter Laci gave to the canons of Lanthony the whole valley where the abbey was situate, viz. from Kenentesset and Askareswey, by the Rudgewey, to Antefin, and from Haterell, from the land of Sesil Fitzgilbert, by the Ruggewey, to the bounds of Talgarth.
[45] An account of these shells in Phil. Trans. p. 427. V. II. Mr. collector Terry tells me they find here vast quantities of antediluvian fir-trees, and peat very deep in the earth: amongst it, a large hollow gold ring, an inch and a half diameter; and a broad thick coin of base gold, full of strange unknown characters on both sides, sold to a goldsmith there; probably an invaluable curiosity.
[46] At Frilsham, a Roman villa by ad Spinam, a Roman altar dug up, dedicated to Jupiter, 1730, in the earl of Abingdon’s grounds.
[47] At Froxfield, south of Ramesbury, upon the via Trinobantica, a Roman villa discovered anno 1724. under a wood two Mosaic pavements. Lord Winchelsea has the drawings of them. Many antiquities found here.
Howhill near here.
[48] Lod and Lud, &c. is a general name for rivers. The river Loddon runs into the Thames between Reading and Henley. Loddon, the name of a town upon a rivulet running into the Yare near Yarmouth, Norfolk. Lutton, in Holland, Lincolnshire, where all the drains of the country meet. Ludlow, and Ludford near it, from the river. Lidston, in Devonshire, and Lidford, anciently a large town upon the river Lid, a branch of the Tamar. Lidbury, upon the river Liden, Herefordshire. River Lid, in Cumberland. Lidesdale, Loder, in Westmoreland. Luda river and town (Louth) Lincolnshire. Ludham, upon a river in Norfolk. Lug, in Herefordshire, a river of note. Loghor, a river in Glamorganshire. Hence Luguballia, Lugotitia, Ludgate, &c.
[49] Wm. of Malmsbury, p. 65 tells a story he had from this Walkerius.