_fui anno domini_ 1398 } _non fui_ 1594 } _dom. dei & pauperum_ _sum_ 1616 } _Qui hanc Deus hunc destruet._ [Illustration: 16·2ᵈ. _The Scite of the Roman town at_ Wintringham. _24. Iuly 1724._ +Abontrvs.+ _Stukeley delin._] Upon the sessions-house, _Hæc domus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat, Equitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, bonos._ 1620. Underneath, a coat palè of six, on a bend three annulets, with the arms of Ulster: over the door, _Fiat justitia_ 1619. All this whole country is a quarry just beneath the surface. Beyond Spittle woodland begins: by Broughton, a vein of deep sand well planted with coneys. At all these towns upon the Roman road, coins and antiquities are found; Hibberstow, Gainsthorp, Broughton, Roxby, &c. at Sandton has been a Roman pottery: between Scalby and Manton is a Roman camp: in Appleby is a place called Julian’s Bower: at Kirton, John of Gaunt had a seat: twenty-nine towns round about held of him in socage. I take Broughton to be another station, because of its name, and that a brook runs through it; so that the interval between Lincoln and Wintringham is conveniently divided into three parts, ten miles each, by Spittle and Broughton, the whole being thirty Roman miles. Thornholm, a mitred priory: there is but another in England, Spalding. Risby and Gokewell, two nunneries; some small remains of both. To the left is Normanby, where the late duke of Buckingham was born, and whence his title. [Sidenote: +Wintringham+ Ro. _town_.] [Sidenote: TAB. [i XVI]. 2d Vol.]