[88] The Thane was a count, or minister of the king. Tong castle, in Shropshire, upon the head of the Severn.
[89] Near Stanford, in old writings, the Hermen street is sometimes called the Foss.
[90] Vide Ogilby’s Survey, [p. 207].
[91] Godfrid abbot of Peterborough built a new roof and chapel at Collingham, which cost him 57l. 15s. 1d. says Walter Whittlesey, [p. 162]. this was about 1316. July 10, 1729, the reverend Mr. Welby of Scaleford gave me a coin or two, Roman, found near the Foss at Crocolana; one remarkably corroded, seemingly of Corinthian brass.
[92] Turketil Hoche gave it, says Hugo Candidus.
I saw two Roman coins found at Crocolana, 28. Apr. 1728. There is a long old wall.
[93] April 28, 1728, I saw at Newark two Roman coins, lately found at Brough: they say there is a long old wall there.
[94] Mr. Twells of Newark sent me four Roman coins dug up in the fields by Newark; a Magnentius, pretty fair; reverse, P. Antoninus Pius; two large Trajans, but defaced.
I guess Newark was built in the later Roman times, for its commodiousness upon the Trent, and exhausted the neighbouring Brough: both being destroyed by the plundering Danes, perhaps were repaired in after-ages, and called Newark.
My cousin, Edmund Dickenson esq. gave me a large brass Verus found in Newark fields, 1729, obliterated; an Hadrian found there.