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 tiquity) we eagerly enquired of a decent man who stood at the Inn door, whether there were any trace of the Romans in the neighbourhood. "I never heard of the family," replied he, "though this place has been my residence for sixty years." But a better-informed gentleman in a smock-frock, who stood by, voluntarily taking part in the conversation, told us, that "about six miles off, there were a Great many of thosen sort of volks: that they had a large chapel, and a parcel of priests; and if we did not mind, all the kingdom would in time become Roman-Catholics."

Yours. &c

R. W.