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ARICONIVM
9th. Sept. 1721.
Tempus edax Rerum Tuque Invidiosa Vetustas
Omnia destruitis. Vitiataque dentibus Ævi
Paulatim lenta consumitis Omnia Morte.
Ov.
Kenchester.
The City contains 21 Acres.
Jacobo Hill Ar. J. C. Vicinæ Civitatis formam consecrat W. Stukeley.
Stukeley delin.
A Roman road goes hence along the river to Upton, where antiquities are dug up, (I take it for Ypocessa.Ypocessa of Ravennas) and so to Tewksbury, where it meets with the Ricning-street way. A little below Worcester a river called Teme falls into the Severn; and many other synonymous rivers there are in England, beside the great Thames, which shows it a common name to rivers in the old Celtic language, and the same with the Greek Ποταμος, the first syllable cut off. A little above, a river called Saltwarp falls into the Severn from Droitwich, a Roman town, which occurs too in Ravennas under the name of Salinis.Salinis; and they still make salt at the place. From hence I made an excursion to Malvern.Great Malvern, a considerable priory at the bottom of a prodigious hill of that name: the church is very large and beautiful, with admirable painted glass in all the windows, and several old monuments: upon a stone now in the body of the church, but taken from without the south side in a garden, which was anciently the south wing, this.
PHILOSOPHVS DIGNVS BONVS ASTROLOGVS LOTHERING,