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VII. Remarks on Governor Pownall's Conjecture concerning the Croyland Boundary Stone. By Mr. Pegge. In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Milles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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It always gives me pleasure when I see gentlemen of known parts and learning reviewing any of our national antiquities, as one has a reasonable expectation of having them better illustrated; for though the modern antiquary may not perhaps be superior to his great predecessors in point of substantial literature, nor even equal them, yet he is possessed of some very singular advantages; he not'only stands upon their shoulders, but is sure to be divested of all local prejudice and personal partiality; he is not to be led away by every idle, perhaps legendary, story; nor will he pronounce hastily, without examining carefully and closely, by calling to his aid reason, experience, and probability; all which he will employ with liberality of sentiment, as well as with accuracy of description and expression.
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page 102 note [a] See the plate, p. 96. copied from Dr. Stukeley's Itinerar. Curios.
page 102 note [b] Cancellarius Turketulus …. jussit cruces lapideas terminorum innovari.
Again, posuit tunc Turketulus crucem lapideam. … et in boreali parte dictae insulae tunc posuit aliam crucem lapideam; which, it seems, is the cross in question. Once more, ex boreali parte crucis lapideae per praedictum Turketulum ibidem affiwae.
page 103 note [c] Zac. Sylvius in Praef. ad Schol. Salernit c. iv. says, origo ejus vetus et incerta. See also Fabricii Bibl. Lat. ii. p. 538, et iii. in Indice v. Leonini versus, and Mr. Warton's Hist. of Engl. Poetry in Dissert. ii. The famous Epitaph on Bede,
Hac sunt in fossa Bedae venerabilis ossa,
is probably as old as A. D. 948. Archbishop Usher must therefore be wrong in thinking the first extant example was in Gul. Pictavensis. Usserii Sylloge Epitt. Hibern. p. 123. 138.
page 104 note [d] The present inscription consists, in his type, of 35 or 36 letters, but there are 37 lost. I have presumed, in making the computation, that the names were latinized, the rest of the inscription being in that language.
page 104 note [e] Turketulus ordered his crosses “in proximâ solidà terrâ infigi, ne foṙtè lapsu temporis per aquarum alluvionem in flumina corruerant, prout antiquae cruces. … intellexerat corruisse.” Ingulphus.