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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
It is probable that Julius Frontinus, Prefect of the Legion 2da Augusta under Vespasian, who was detached to reduce the Silures, and from whom Julia Strata is said to have been denominated, passed the Severn three little miles below Oldbury, at Awst passage, perhaps termed from that legion, Trajectus, Augustæ; as the Monk of Ravenna stiles Caerleon Isca Augusta, and the Britons at this day call the month of August Mîs Awst.
page 2 note [a] Perhaps South Burgh.
page 4 note [b] Dr. Davies, of the Devises, picked up what medals were found in the urn, according to the information I received.
page 4 note [c] Ecclesia Mariæ infra Boscos.
page 5 note [d] Fanum Catoci. De Catoco nostro consulas Lelandum Script. Brit. in vitâ Cadoci.
page 5 note [e] See Rogers's Monmouthshire.
page 6 note [f] This seal is now in the possession of Mr. Lacon Lamb, of Hereford, or Bidney, whose father died lately Vicar of Caerleon.
page 6 note [g] Ant. It. p. 95.
page 7 note [h] See Gibson's Camden, p. 725.
page 8 note [i] Q. Whence the Kentish Romney took its denomination? Somner, or Lambard, say, from the Romans.
page 9 note [k] Anton. p. 124.
page 10 note [l] Since I wrote this, a gardener informed me, that at a great depth under kind ot half moon, which was taken down a few years ago in the garden of the late Mr. Lambert, within the castle, he found several broad, thick brass and copper coins; which he gave his children, as useless and of no value.
pahe 11 note [m] P. 115.
page 11 note [n] Of him see Leland, de Script. Brit. p. 60. and Tanner's Notitia Mon. p. 714.
page 11 note [o] There is an ecclesiastic termed Mabon in the Liber Landavensis.
page 12 note [p] Wynne's Caradoc, p. 244.
page 12 note [q] P. 247.
page 12 note [r] Or de Braiosa. Dugdale's Baronage. This family were lords of Gowerland, in this county, and erected the church of Eglwys Brewy near Cowbridge.
page 13 note [s] See Camden.
page 14 note [t] P. 125.
page 16 note [u] Iltut founded the monastery of Lantwit, or Lahn Iltud, A. D. 508. Tanner's Notitia, p. 712.
page 16 note [x] P. 127. He calls it the lordship of Boviarton, alias Lantwit.
page 16 note [y] C. 22.
page 18 note [x] Mr. Lhwyd suspects all those places in Wales that terminate in o or io to have been visited by the Romans, as Lhannio, Luentinum, &c.
page 18 note [y] There was no other brick but old Roman in the time when Giraldus flourished, nor till long after; consequently these walls must have been a Roman work.
page 20 note [z] See Davis on the word Sywedidd.
page 20 note [a] This inscription, copied from a more antient one, and here exhibited, is engraved on a brass plate, let into a piece of solid oak of the same length and shape. It hung in the portreve's seat in the church, but is at present fixt in the partition between that seat and the chancel. The Secretary communicated to the Society the opinion of some unknown critic, who supposed that the inscription, though written at length, consists of two distichs, or stanzas of verses, as well from the measure and jingle, as from the strain of composition. The phrase Lunam lucidam in plenilunio lucentem, seems to favour this conjecture (as it does also the tradition relative to the 2 o astronomers); no elogy being more poetical, or more proper for a professor of astronomy, than the comparing him to one of the great luminaries, which had been the subject of his contemplation. We may therefore read it thus:
Nole Clode yr Ethrode Karlleyn Advocade llawnhade Llundeyn,
A Barnwr bede breynt apute ty nev Aro ty Havalie.
Selis Sunoeir Suma Seadam Uske eval kulke;
Deke kummode Doctor Kymmen lleva loe i llawn oleve.
Or perhaps better thus,
Nole clode
Yr ethrode
Karlleyn
Advocade
Llawnhade
Llundeyn
A Barnwr bede breynt apute
Ty nev aro Tîs havalie.
Selif sunnoier sum a seadam Uske
Eval kulke
Deke Cummode
Doctor Kymmen, lleva leo i llawn oleve.
page 22 note[b] We now term Radnorshire Sir Maesevet, or Maesyfed, Campus Bibulus, from its thirsty barren soil.
page 23 note [c] Monasticon, Tom. I.
page 24 note [d] See an account and drawing of these figures, by John Strange, esq; in the first Volume of the Archaeologia, p. 294.