the British romance that tells of king Lear being buried here. Half a mile southward from Leicester, upon the edge of the meadows is a long ditch called Rawdikes: upon view of the place I found it to be a British _cursus_. King Charles I. when besieging Leicester, lay at the vicarage-house at Elston; and during the storm of the town, when his men took and pillaged it, he stood, as they report, upon the banks of this Rawdikes. About February 1721–2. a tesselated pavement was found the other side the river, about Wanlip, with coins of Constantine, broken urns, a human scull, &c. a foundation by it, doubtless of the house that covered it. [Illustration: _Prospect of_ Burrow hill _from the Leicester road. Sepᵗ. 8. 1722._ +Vernometvm.+ _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall sculp._ Willᵒ: Cheselden Chirurgo peritissimo, Amico _Tab. dd. W. Stukeley_. _Key found at Burrow Hill_ _T. Lyus Delin._ _from Revᵈ. G Ashby’s Museolum at Barrow Suffolk. 1791] [Illustration: 92 _Leicester._ Samueli Carte A.M. d.d. W. Stukeley. _Stukeley delin._] [Illustration: 55 _The Roman Building commonly called the Temple of Janus at Leicester._ _Ne tantam Ruinam absorbeat Inimica Ætas aq. forti fecit. Wˢ. Stukeley & Samⁱ Gale Ar. consecratā voluit. 1722._] [Illustration: 23·2ᵈ. _The west side of the_ roman building _at_ +Leicester+ _Sept: 8. 1722_. _Stukeley delin_: _E. Kirkall sculp_:] [Illustration: 24·2ᵈ.] [Illustration: 25·2ᵈ. _A Prospect of the British Cursus near Leicester, call’d Raw Dikes from the hills above. September 10. 1722._] [Illustration: 26·2ᵈ. _The Side View of the British Cursus at Leicester Sep. 10. 1722._ _Stukeley del._ _I. Vᵈᵉʳ. Gucht Sculp._] [Illustration: 27·2ᵈ. _A Prospect of the British Cursus at Leicester call’d Rawdikes from the other side of yᵉ River by the Foss road Sep. 9. 1722._] Soon after you go from Leicester, taking the Foss at Bronstongate, you come to some inclosures and troublesome gates across the road: here they have fenced it out into a narrow scantling, scarce the breadth of a coach, to the shame as well as the detriment of the country, suffering so scandalous an incroachment. I travelled by Narborough on the west side of the river, and a very wet journey under foot for one that was resolved to keep upon the road: sometimes I rode half a mile up to the horse’s belly in water upon the Roman pavement. The river Soar running near its east side, it is carried over many bogs, quags, and springs, for miles together, with a visible pavement of great round coggles by Sharnford, so called from the causeway: approaching High-cross it enters inclosures again, and is crossed by some more lakes scarce passable. Just upon the edge of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, at High-cross, I met the Watling-street, my future conductor. [Sidenote: +Benonis.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XCIII.]