A Roman road goes hence along the river to Upton, where antiquities are dug up, (I take it for _Ypocessa_ of Ravennas) and so to Tewksbury, where it meets with the Ricning-street way. A little below Worcester a river called Teme falls into the Severn; and many other synonymous rivers there are in England, beside the great Thames, which shows it a common name to rivers in the old Celtic language, and the same with the Greek Ποταμος, the first syllable cut off. A little above, a river called Saltwarp falls into the Severn from Droitwich, a Roman town, which occurs too in Ravennas under the name of _Salinis_; and they still make salt at the place. From hence I made an excursion to Great Malvern, a considerable priory at the bottom of a prodigious hill of that name: the church is very large and beautiful, with admirable painted glass in all the windows, and several old monuments: upon a stone now in the body of the church, but taken from without the south side in a garden, which was anciently the south wing, this. PHILOSOPHVS DIGNVS BONVS ASTROLOGVS LOTHERING, VIR PIVS AC HVMILIS MONACHVS PRIOR HVIVS OVILIS HAC IACET IN CISTA GEOMETRICVS AC ABACISTA DOCTOR WALCHERVS FLET PLEBS DOLET VNDIQ. CLERVS HVIC LVX PRIMA MORI DEDIT OCTOBRIS SENIORI VIVAT UT IN CELIS EXORET QVISQ. FIDELIS M. C. XXXV.[49] there is a carved stone image, by the south wall of the choir, of very rude and ancient workmanship: it is a knight covered with mail and his surcoat; in his right hand a halbert like a pick-axe, in his left a round target. Here are many coats of arms and cognizances upon a glazed sort of brick; such I have seen at other places. A handsome gate-house is left, and from the houses in the town you command a very noble prospect over Worcester, as far as Edghill, as they tell us: it is thought the Malvern has metals in its bowels. We diverted ourselves, as we rode through Dean forest, with a house after the primitive style, built round an oak tree, whose branches are still green with leaves. Vide Vitruv. L. II. C. I. Two thousand years ago, one would have suspected it to be a Druid’s. [Sidenote: +Ariconium.+] [Sidenote: TAB. LXXXV.] [Sidenote: +Credonhill.+ Br. _camp_.] [Sidenote: +Sutton walls.+ Ro. _camp_.]