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Rh Length of the intrenchment commonly called Dycke Hills, from the end near the brink of the Isis to Princes's Hill, 5 fur longs, 17 poles; mean breadth (taken from the summits on each side) 8 poles. Nearest distance between the Isis and the Thame stream, 5 furlongs. In May, 1710, Stukeley was one of a party with Mr. Kelsall, Vicar of Boston, Mr. Pacey, and many others, gentlemen of the town, who took a journey to Oxford. On this occasion be saw the Rolright circle—"Nought pleased me better."—Diary, vol. i., 17.

Burford. [Minutes of the Brazen-nose Society, Stamford] 18 Sept., 1786. Going to Burford I [W. Stukeley] passed over Battle Edge, by the downs where LEthelbald, our Mercian King, and Cuthred of the west Saxons, engaged in a bloody battle," to the disadvantage of the former, who lost his cbief standard of a golden dragon. In memory of it there was, within these few years, an annual procession, with pomp and pageants, particularly a dragon carryed about on midsummer eve. This was AD. 752. Burford was a Roman town. They often find ooyns under old foundations. I got one of Tiberius found bere. The emperor's head, TI CAESAR DrvI AvG F. AvGvsTVs nP. VIII. Reverse, 8. c., a winged caduceus, PONTE MArnM TRIBvN POTEST xxxym. This was struck in the year of the city 788 vol. ii, 42. At Mr. Lenthall's, at Burford, is the celebrated picture of Bir Thomas More's Family, by Holten.-Diary, vol. ii., 48.

Dorchester. [Minutes of the Brazen nose Society, Stamford] 1 Sept., 1786. I visited Dorchester, the antient episcopal see

"AD. 760 cudred, king of the west Sarons, rooe up against king Edil- wnad and in 767, Edimbald, king of the Mercian, was miserably murdered in the night by his own tutor. Booloa. But, p. 8MI.