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Rh tinctly point out the situation of the Porticus, through which was the entrance. We also learn by this, and indeed by other authors, that the fashion of the churches of that age was formed from the Basilicæ, or Courts of Justice , in consequence of those places, (which were very well adapted for a congregation,) being originally made use of for this purpose in the time of Constantine the the Great. We are also informed that the Porticos of these Basilicæ were the building, and indeed precisely corresponding with the Porticos of the church of Melbourne, and as must be understood from the relation of Bede, and other ancient writers.


 * Mellitus confecr. Bp. of St. Paul's in the ti'me of K. Ethelbert.