feaste appointed accordingly. The concourse of people was of many thousands and after dynner the nobles de: parted away every one towards his owne home...... Finis.' The Mr. of the wardrobe paid to the Church for the breaking of the ground in the Quyre and making the grave X. Li. And for the blacks of the Quyre and Church XX. Li, Rich Fletcher Decano." The Dean also read the original letter of King James I. authorizing the removal of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Westminster : "James R. Trusty and wel-beloved, wee greet you well, for that wee remember it appertaynes to ye duty wee owe to our dearest mother that like honour should be done to hir body and like monument be extant to hir as to others, hirs and our progenitors have bene used to be done, and ourselves have already performed to our deare sister ye late Queen Elizabeth. Wee have commanded a Memoriall of hir to be made in our church of Westminster, ye place where ye Kings and Queens of this realme are usually interred. And for that wee thinke it inconvenient that ye monument and hir body should be in severall places, we have ordered that hir said body remayning now interred in that our Cathedrall Church of Peterborough shalbe removed to Westminster to hir said monument; and have committed ye care and chardg of ye said translation of hir body from Peterborough to Westminster to ye reverend father in God our right trusty and wel beloved servant ye Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, bearer hereof, to whom wee require you (or to such as ye shall assigne) to deliver ye corps of our Baid deceased mother, ye same being taken up in a decent and respectfull manner as is fitting. And for that there is a pall now upon ye hearse over hir grave which wilbe requisite to be used to cover hir said body in ye removing thereof, which may perhapps be deemed as a ffee that should belong to ye church. We have appointed ye said reverend father to pay you a reasonable redemption for ye same, which being done by him wee require you that he may have ye pall to be used for ye purpose aforesaid. Given under our signet at our Honor of Hampton Court ye eight and twentieth day of September in ye tenth yeare of our reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland ye six of fortieth. To our trusty and wel-beloved ye Dean and Chapter of our Cathedrall Church of Peterborough, and in theire absence to ye right reverend father in God ye Bishop of Peterborough and to such of ye Prebends or other officers of that church as shalbe found being there." The tercentenary of the Queen of Scots was also commemorated, on Monday, August 1, by a happilyconceived novelty. The Rev. D. W. Barrett, Vicar of Nassington-which manor was held with that of Fotheringhay for many hundreds of years-being in want of funds for the restoration of his ancient church, organized a bazaar, which was held under several tents in the precincts of Fotheringhay Castle. There were water excursions on the Nene, and numerous attractions for visitors, in addition to those to be found in the historical associations of the spot and the traces of the castle ruins. But the principal feature in the bazaar was the production of a series of tableaux vivants as a contribution to the tercentenary observance in connexion with the hapless queen. The scenes were eight in number, the characters being sustained by Mr. Edwin Drew's company of professional artists from London, assisted by local amateurs; and the costumes, supplied by Messrs. Harrison, Bow Street, London, were very faithfully represented. Mrs. Lloyd, wife of the Vicar of Fotheringhay, arranged the tableaux. The scenes were as follows: I. Garden of Convent, 1557; five characters. II. Court of France, Marriage of the Dauphin, June 20, 1558; ten characters. III. Holyrood Palace; Mary at Supper; Countess of Argyll and Rizzio; Murder of Rizzio, March 9, 1566; seven characters. IV. Abdication of Queen Mary at Lochleven Castle, July 24, 1567; seven characters. V. Mary going to her Trial at Fotheringhay Castle, Oct. 14, 1586; six characters. VI. The Last New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, 1586; one character. VII. Mary pledging her Attendants on the Eve of her Execution, Feb. 7, 1587; seven characters. VIII. On the Scaffold, Fotheringhay Banquet Hall, Feb. 8, 1587; nine characters, with numerous attendants and others. A supplementary living representation of old Scarlett, the sexton, was also shown, to connect the eight scenes with the anniversary of the tercentenary of the funeral in Peterborough Cathedral. It will thus be seen that four out of the eight scenes related to Fotheringhay Castle, and were enacted in dumb show within a few yards of the actual spot where the real tragedy was played. Such a circumstance, I imagine, has no precedent. When I wandered over the site of the once formidable fortress, and pondered over the chequered scenes that the spot recalled, I found the forget-menots in full blossom among the rushes in the moats; and on the southern side of the Mound, where was the fetterlock Keep and Mary's prison, a grand group of the milk thistle (Carduus marianus), which, from its being found growing around and about all the prisons and palaces and castles, from Dumbarton to Fotheringhay, where the Queen of Scots tarried, has been accepted as Mary Stuart's own floral emblem. In a letter addressed to me by Miss Agnes Strickland she expressed the opinion that Mary sowed the seed of the thistle in the gardens of her English prisons; and that although she may not have been able to do this during the six winter months of her imprisonment at Fotheringhay, yet that the milk thistle was subsequently introduced there by the romantic gallantry of her many admirers, who wished the very ground to bring forth souvenirs of her whose presence had thrown a charm over the spot. The "glossy purples" of the cotton thistle were also in great profusion, not only on the Mound, but also in every part of the castle precincts. Three fine specimens of the Fotheringhay thistles were dug up by the Marchioness Dowager of Huntly, and, being carefully tended, were seen growing in pots, as a decoration to the room in which is now being exhibited the most interesting collection of relics of Mary, Queen of Scots, that has ever been gathered together. P. 11 a, line 2. For "Wheatley's' read P. 13 b. For "Hulmean " read Hulmeian. P. 18. Sir Robert Clayton contributed two plates to the folio Bible published by Richard Blome, 1687. On his Protestant speech on being appointed Lord Mayor see the dedication of Delaune's Present State of London,' 1681; 'D. N. B.,' vii. 50 a. P. 23. Bp. Cleaver republished Alex. Nowell's Lesser Catechism,' in Latin, with notes, Oxon, 1795, and a second edition later; he dedicated it to the schoolmasters in his diocese. Wrangham's Zouch,' ii. 12, n.; 'Living Authors,' 1816. P. 41. Sir John Clerk. See much in Stukeley's 'Diaries,' Surt. Soc. The catalogue, which is the production of the indefatigable honorary secretary, Mr. Charles Dack -who, with his coadjutor, Mr. J. W. Bodger, has worked so strenuously to make the exhibition a success-will possess value as an historical docu-Life,' ii. 296, &c. ment. It is carefully and intelligently written, and will have an interest even for those who may be unable to visit the unique exhibition at Peterborough. Perhaps the Editor of 'N. & Q.' will permit me to say that the catalogue is sold at two shillings for the benefit of the Peterborough Museum. A briefer sixpenny catalogue is also sold in the room. It was at first intended to close the Museum of Relics on August 9; but so much interest has been shown in it, and so many pleaded that it might be kept open to a later date, that the committee, at their special meeting on July 26, decided to keep the exhibition open until the middle of September, provided that the consent of the owners of loans could be obtained. This has been done; and the exhibition will close on September 21. Several important additions have been made to the exhibition by Lords Spencer, Londesborough, and others since its opening. The various loans are insured for 23,000l., and are guarded day and night by policeIn connexion with the exhibition the Marchioness Dowager of Huntly has set on foot a memorial to Mary, Queen of Scots, to be erected in Peterborough Cathedral. The nature of the memorial will depend upon the amount subscribed. Every Mary (Marie, Maria, &c.) is asked to contribute something to this memorial, from one shilling (or less) to ten shillings; and donations can be sent to, or collecting cards obtained from, Mrs. Perowne, the Deanery, Peterborough, and Mrs. Gates, the Vineyard, Peterborough. Mrs. Perowne is also receiving donations from all Kates, Kitties, and Katherines for a memorial window to Queen Katherine of Arragon, who was the other hapless queen buried in Peterborough Cathedral by old Scarlett, the nonagenarian sexton. men. CUTHBERT Bede. 'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY': NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (See 6th S. xi. 105, 443; xii. 321; 7th S. i. 25, 82, 342, 876; ii. 102, 324, 355; iii. 101, 382.) Vol. XI. In the "List of Writers," "The Right Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Bart.," omit "Right." P. 3 a. Bp. Claughton was an examiner in the University of Durham, 1843-50. P. 3 b, line 15. For "Collection" read Collections. P. 3 b. In 1688 Thomas White, Bp. of Peterborough, lodged at Clavell's house in St. Paul's Churchyard. Bp. S. Patrick's' Autobiog.,' 1839, p. 132. P. 46 a. Bartholomew Clerke. There can hardly have been an edition of his Castilio' before 1571, for he says that he wrote it in that year. Perhaps the earlier English version by T. Hoby has been confused with Clerke's Latin one, which was reprinted at Frankfort, 1606; the Cambridge edition of 1713 was revised by Samuel Drake. Clerke dedicated his version to Queen Elizabeth and to Lord Buckhurst, 12 Cal. Oct. 1571; there are commendatory letters from Lord Buckhurst, John Caius, and Edw. Vere, Earl of Oxford, and verses by T. Bing and Henry Dethick. P. 46. Francis Clerke. There is a criticism of his book on 'Ecclesiastical Law' in Henry Conset's 'Practice of Spiritual Courts,' 1685, ded. and pref. P. 50 b, line 32. For "Leodensis" read Leodiensis. P. 69. Martin Clifford. His Treatise of Human Reason' was reprinted in 1736. He and Warren were answered by Sir George Blundell, 1683. N. & Q.,' 3rd S. iii. 510. P. 78. Lord Clifford of Chudleigh was intimate at college with Bp. Bull. See more in 'Life,' by Nelson, second edition, 1714, p. 14. P. 89. Henry Cline. See Wilson, 'Merchant Taylors' School,' 1188; 'Autobiog. of Miss Cornelia Knight.' P. 96 a. Is "Lyne" correct? P. 105. Mrs. Clive. Gray's' Works,' by Mason, 1827, p. 46. P. 124. Francis Close. Add 'An Apology for the Evangelical Party,' 1846, 8vo., pp. 33, in reply to the Rev. W. Gresley's Real Danger of the Church.' Mr. G. thereupon issued 'A Second Statement.' See also Saturday Review, Dec. 23, 1882, pp. 820-1. P. 145. Cobbett's 'Legacies' were 'Examined and Proved Null and Void' by a Norfolk Clergyman, Norwich, n.d. See Prof. Pryme's 'Autobiog.,' 1870, p. 203; Mathias, 'Purs. of Lit.,' eleventh P. 10. Sir W. Clay. Register, 1869, i. 295, 520. | edition, 1801, p. 340, P. 145 b. Ingram Cobbin. Miller, 'Singers and Songs.' his 'Engl. Dict.' there were other editions in 1677, Pp. 328-9. For "Selby" read Sibly. P. 333. Stephen College. See Oldham's 'Poems,' P. 148. Edward Cobden. His Latin poem on the Game at Draughts' is translated in Poems,' by Rev. John Coates, of Shipton, 1770, pp. 95-101. He left 400l. to the Superannuate Fund at Win-ed. Bell, p. 137. chester (Gilbert, 'Liber Schol.,' 1829, p. 110); more in Stukeley's 'Diaries,' Surt. Soc. P. 334 b, line 8 from bottom. "1783" must be an error. A painting by him of Covent Garden P. 154. Richard Cobden. Prof. Pryme's 'Auto-market at 5 A.M. is noticed in Chambers's 'Malbiog.,' p. 245. vern,' 1817, p. 185. P. 162. Sir John Cochrane. There is a letter concerning him, addressed to the Senate of Hamburgh, Aug. 10, 1649, in 'Literæ Cromwellii conscriptæ a Joanne Miltono,' 1676, pp. 2, 3. P. 181. Sir A. J. E. Cockburn. See Prof. Pryme's 'Autobiog.,' p. 374. P. 180 b, line 24 from bottom. For "Hatherly" read Hatherley (cf. 354 a). P. 182 b, l. 12 from bottom. Kilpatrick? P. 341 a. Giles Collier signed the paper at the end of Baxter's 'Reformed Pastor.' For "Warwickshire" read Worcestershire. P. 344 a. Isaac Watts praises Collier for his attack on the stage, preface to 'Hora Lyricæ.' Farquhar professes to have taken the hint, preface to Twin-Rivals.' P. 344 b. For "Nicholson" read Nicolson. P. 190. John Cockburn. See Ray's 'Creation,' | Singer. seventh edition, 1717, pp. 96, 246. P. 192. Wm. Cockburn signed the document printed before Garth's 'Dispensary.' P. 204. Codrington College has been affiliated to the University of Durham since 1875 ('Durham Univ. Cal.,' 1887, p. 184). An account of its foundation is in the appendix to the Bishop of Clogher's 'Sermon before the S.P.G., Feb. 18, 1714, and details in the early reports of that society. Pp. 212-3. St. Kevin. See Wakeman's 'Irish Antiq.,' 1848, pp. 70-2. P. 214. Coetlogon. Berridge's 'Works,' 1864, p. 366; Living Authors,' 1788. iii. Pp. 227-8. Cokayne pedigree in Top. et Gen., P. 240. Sir Edward Coke. An epigram by Owen, third collection, ii. 13. P. 250. Coke of Holkham. An account of his farming, and Lord Erskine's verses on it, in Prof. Pryme's Autobiog.,' pp. 298-300; Living Authors,' 1816. P. 252. Sir John Colbatch is mentioned in Pomfret's 'Reason.' See also Waring, 'Bibl. Therap.,' 1879, ii. 747. P. 269. Sir H. Cole. Olphar Hamst, 'Fict. Names,' p. 197. P. 276 a. For "Landsdowne " read Lansdowne. P. 277 a. Wm. Cole, of Bristol. See Ray's 'Three Discourses,' third edition, 1713, pp. 152, 199. P. 315. There is an account of Coleridge's philosophy in J. D. Morell's Hist. Mod. Phil.,' 1846, ii. 276-85; cf. the remarks in Tennemann, by J. R. Morell, and in Sidgwick, 'Hist. Ethics.' P. 316 b. Coleridge's marginalia on Southey's 'Wesley' were printed in the third edition. P. 320. Elisha Coles. N. & Q.,' 6th S. vii. 147. He was probably the author of 'Nomenclatura Trilinguis,' which reached a fifth edition. Of Pp. 370-1. John Collins. See Mathias, 'Purs. of Lit.,' eleventh edition, 1801, pp. 84-7. P. 386. W. B. Collyer. 'Living Authors,' 1816; Miller, Singers and Songs.' P. 390 a. Bollandist's? Pp. 390-3. Colman. Mathias, 'Purs. of Lit.,' p. 47; Gray's Works,' by Mason, 1827, p. 231; Living Authors,' 1788. Pp. 393-6. Colman, junior. Byron, English P. 408. C. C. Colton. See Leisure Hour, 1855 ; P. 427 a. On Combe's 'Horace' see Mathias, 'Purs. of Lit.,' eleventh edition, 1801, pp. 144, 226. P. 429. Combe. See Morell, 'Hist. Mod. Philos.,' 1846, vol. i. P. 430 b. T. Combe, printer. He was in partnership with his father as printer and publisher (mostly of church books) at Leicester, 1833-8. The reprints of old Anglican divinity issued by Stevenson of Cambridge, and similar books published at Oxford, 1838, were printed by T. Combe & Co., Leicester. In 1839 T. Combe appears at Oxford; printer to the University 1840. P. 431 a. Irnham. See 'Letters of Junius' (1807, p. 333). P. 435 b. Thomas Randolph dedicated his 'Jealous Lovers' to Comber, Master of Trinity. P. 437. Dean Comber. See 'Life of Mrs. Thornton,' Surt. Soc. Pp. 443-7. Bp. H. Compton. The sermon at his consecration in Lambeth Chapel was preached by Wm. Jane, and printed 1675. Samuel Speed addressed a "Panegyrick" to him, 'Prison Pietie,' 1677. He was a vigorous bishop: he increased the number of Easter communicants in his diocese (Burn, 'Hist. Par. Reg.,' second edition, 1862, p. 186); he refused to institute the Rev. John Pom-him the truth was that all the children were sent fret on account of his amorous poetry (Life, prefixed out of the way for fear the Highlanders should to his 'Poems '); he ordained Samuel Wesley priest devour them" (Johnstone's 'Memoirs of the Rein 1689; he appointed Dean Stillingfleet to preach bellion in 1745,' pp. 101-2). Cameron of Lochiel, at his ordination in 1684/5, and the sermon was at one place where he stayed a night, was told by printed, with a long preface addressed to himself; his landlady that "everybody said the Highlanders in 1689 he consecrated Stillingfleet Bp. of Wor-ate children, and made them their common food." cester ('Life of Stillingfleet,' 1710, p. 77); he was a man of wide sympathies, and assisted the Greek Church in London (Burn, Prot. Ref.,' 1846, pp. 231, 232); and see Sir Geo. Wheler's letter to him in Wrangham's 'Zouch,' ii. 181; B. Oley's commendation in preface to G. Herbert; his portrait is in the Universal Mag.; Top. et Gen., iii. 442; 'D.N. B.,' xi. 190, 191. P. 449 b. See a tribute to Compton in Philips's 'Cyder,' bk. ii. (1763, p. 108). P. 450 a. Spencer Compton's speech, Trial of Sacheverell,' 1710, p. 144. P. 451 a. Broome's address to Sir Sp. Compton, in his Epistle to Fenton,' 1726. P. 452 a. Compton. See Prof. Pryme's 'Autobiog.,' p. 293. P. 452 a. For "Smeedly" read Smedley? Pp. 464-5. Comyns. See 'Letters of Junius' (1807, p. 85). P. 466. Conant befriended Bp. Bull when at college. See Nelson's 'Life of Bull,' second edition, 1714, p. 13. P. 466 a. For "Woollebius" read Wollebius. LINKS WITH THE '45. (Continued from p. 42.) On his assuring her that they did nothing of the kind she "opened a press, calling out with a loud voice: Come out, children, the gentleman will not eat you'” (ib.). Even what they did eat some of them were willing to pay for. Sergeant Clark, of Brampton, now in his eighty-third year, says that when a boy he heard one Mary Gardner, who was eleven years old in 1745, relate that one day, when Lord George Murray and his staff were dining at her father's farmhouse at Westlinton, some Highlanders looked in, but seeing who were there backed out. When Lord George and his party had finished their dinner, they asked what they had to pay. Being told there was nothing to pay, "Well," said his lordship, "I believe we have saved you more than we have got." Host and guest, no doubt, parted very good friends. The prince himself, as shown by the items of his expenditure whilst at Brampton, quoted from his household book in Jefferson's History of Carlisle ' (p. 73), regularly paid for all that he and his lifeguards consumed, which, indeed, according to all accounts, was his invariable custom. No doubt a good deal of unauthorized foraging was practised by the rougher sort of his followers, who are alleged to have gone about “hunting and destroying the sheep of Lord Carlisle's tenants, and bearing off the country people's geese and For "Stamving Bank" (7th S. iii. 510) read Stan-other poultry" (Ray's History of the Rebellion wix Bank. It was at Stanwix, close to Carlisle, that one of the few pieces of wanton mischief known to have been done by the Highlanders occurred. They gutted the vicarage there, and destroyed the parish books and registers. of 1745,' p. 95), which statement is confirmed by the traditions of several farmhouses in the neighbourhood of Brampton. Brampton tradition, however, is comparatively silent about plunder of any other kind. Mr. George It had been expected that they would do far Howard, on my asking him whether the Highworse things. Most alarming rumours of what landers committed any depredation at Naworth they were in the habit of doing preceded their Castle, said there was at that time very little advance into Cumberland. The late Mr. T. Rout- there to plunder, and the only thing known to ledge, currier, of Brampton, who died in October have been taken from the castle was the lace from last, aged seventy-five, told me that he remembered off the hangings of a bed which had been the having heard his grandmother say that she and portion of the first Lady Carlisle. But the Highother children were sent off to Nether Denton to landers left behind at the castle some of their own be out of their way. She did not, however, tell property, which one would think was more valuable him, and perhaps herself never knew, of what fate to them at such a time than any amount of lace, they were supposed to have been in danger. "Mr. viz., a halbert, pike, and javelin, on one of which Halkstone, of Rathillet, who had been in this ex-weapons is the date 1745. pedition, told Mr. Young," a writer to the signet, They seem to have had a way of leaving such "that the belief was general among the people of things behind, for at the "Half Moon" in BrampEngland that the Highlanders ate children." On ton, then owned and occupied by the great-greathis asking his landlady, at a farmhouse near Car-grandfather of the present landlord, Mr. Thomas lisle, where he stayed several days, whether she Thompson, where, according to tradition in Mr. had any children, and where they were," she told Thompson's family, eight troopers were quartered, one of them, on the departure of the army, left behind a sword, which has ever since remained there. It is what is called a "dress sword," one worn by officers at balls or on state occasions. The "Half Moon," by the way, is the only house in Brampton now inhabited by a descendant of the family which occupied it in 1745. W. stone's 'Com.,' bk. ii. chap. xv.). Purchase is, therefore, equivalent to conquest in the Scotch law of succession, in which until 1874 there was a distinction in some cases in the succession to a person dying unmarried survived by an elder and a younger brother. In heritage or lands taken by descent the younger brother was heir, but to conquest lands the elder succeeded, the maxim being OLD SCOTCH BURGH RECORDS.-For centuries heritage descends, but conquest ascends. There it has been the custom for a member of the Estab- seems to be some difference in the law of England lished Church of Scotland on leaving one parish to also between the effects of acquisition by descent provide himself with a certificate from his minister, and by purchase. This may have been more both as an introduction to an employer of labour tangible formerly than now, but of English law I and as an evidence of his being free from Kirk cannot speak. Our great feudal writer Sir Thomas penalties. How very necessary was this "testifi- Craig remarks the identity of purchase with our cal," as it is very often written, is proved from the conquest. In his 'Jus Feudale' (date about 1600), fact that these testimonials were ofttimes forged. referring to it, bk. i. 10, sec. 13, he says, "Nos conThe following is from my transcriptions :quæstum [dicimus] Angli purchesse"; and, again, "Town Court of Kilmaures, Holden within the dwell. what is more cogent, bk. ii. 15, § 10," Nos conquæstum ing house of Hugh Boyd, baylzie of Kilmaures, upon dicimus, Angli et Normanni Pourches." And he the 19th of Nov', jajvi and Nyntie six year [1696]. is borne out by Du Cange's 'Glossary,' which The qlk day Jean Campbell, a vagrant pearson come gives both words, voce Purchacia. Moreover, since laitly out of the paroch of Paslay, being pursued by Mr. these notes were thrown into shape I have obThomson, Minister of the Gospel in Kilmaures, for cary-served that Hearne's glossary to the 'Chronicle' ing and producing of ane forged testimonial as being subscribed by Mr. Tho. Blackwell, Min' at Pasley, and Mr. Ja. Wallace, Sess. Clerk yr, and two elders, being called and compeared, acknowledged the testimonial was false and forged......and subscribed by John Pinkertoun, taylor in Heughhead of Paslay, and that she did give him fyfteen shillings scots for the forginge and counterfitt. ing of the subscriptiones of the fors Minister, Clerk, and Elders. Qr upon the Baylies of Kilmaures (considering the greatness of her crime), with the toun counsel, and that she deserves to be most severlie punished, doe yr for ordain the Jean Campbell to be put into the joges during the Magistrates pleasure, and afterwards to be put out of the toun with Touck of drume, and that non of the Inhabitants of this toun recept her heirafter under the penaltie of fourtie pounds scots, q' upon Robert Smith, domester, hath given dome." His biquide in þis manere. he made biuore is dep By English law I believe an estate in fee must be taken either by descent or by purchase. The latter term includes every method of coming to an estate but that of inheritance, being contradistinguished from acquisition by right of blood (Black also gives conquest as equivalent to porchas. These varied authorities I think prove that in the prefixed quotation the word is employed in its legal sense, and refers to England, which was all King William's "porchas" as opposed to Normandy his "eritage." They show, too, how appropriate was the use of the word to describe the land of which William called himself Conquæstor. Glasgow. G. N. MADAME DE POMPADOUR. -In 'The School of Life,' that curious chronicle of the scandal current in France in the time of Louis XV., the anonymous author, describing Madame de Pompadour, whose portrait by Boucher was sold recently at Messrs. Christie's for above 10,000l., says : "Stately Seats on the Hills and in the levels will not satisfy Padilla. These, many a Princess or a Duchess has. She is a Fairy, and must have her moving Palace: She diverts the courses of the Gold and Silver Mines; at her command men start out of the Earth, and others are buried alive in its Bowels; the very elements are subject to her. Who is this Padilla? An Empress! a queen! What is she? Say rather, what is she not?" RALPH N. JAMES. ROMAN ALTAR.-It may, perhaps, interest your readers to be informed that a Roman altar, on which Mars is described as winged, was found here, a little to the west of the castrum, in Cockburn Street. The inscription seems to be MART ALA [D] VENICIVS CELSVS PRO SE ET [SVIS] | VSLM. The altar is 2 ft. 6 in. high by 12 in. at the widest part. On one side are a patera and a præfericulum; the other side is defaced. ROBT. BLAIR. South Shields. |