Under it, to the left, is the Devises: this I take to be the _Punctuobice_ of Ravennas, which he mentions by parcels thus: _Leucomagus_, Bedwin, (_Cimetzone_ for) _Cunetione_ in the ablative case, Marlborough; _Punctuobice_, the Devises: then he begins a new period of cities in Wales, _Venta Silurum_, &c. I suppose here is a remnant of the former part of the word _Punctuobice_ in Poulsholt, a little village hard by; Potern another, Potern-wood, and the name of the hundred Potern, taken, in the first times of their division, from such a corrupt appellation of this place: the last syllable _bice_ subsists in the present name Devises, vulgarly _vies_. This town is excellently situated, about two miles from the bottom of the hills, which keep off the eastern winds, and in a rich soil.[130] Under the hill at Runway is an excellent spring, which the inhabitants have not yet found means to convey thither, though it runs but a little way off the town, where they want water. It is a very large old town, consisting chiefly of two long parallel streets; the houses for the most part of timber, but of a very good model: they value themselves for one of the best weekly markets in England, and for being tenants to the king. It was inclosed by the Romans with a _vallum_ and ditch, which I presently found out: they have made a road of the ditch in most parts round the town; but in several places both that and the _vallum_ are visible enough, and it took in the castle: this castle was Roman originally, finely chosen upon a natural fortification, but in after-times made in a manner impregnable by Roger a bishop of Salisbury; though now it is ignobly mangled, and every day destroyed by people that care not to leave a wall standing, though for a fence to their garden. Here are two churches; the choir of St. Mary’s, of a very old model; the steeple, choir, and both wings of St. John’s, the same, to which parcels have since been tacked all round, and new wide windows put in with pointed arches, instead of the ancient narrow semi-circular ones. Just out of town is a pretty plain, called the Green, with another handsome church and steeple, suburbs to the old town. Here William Cadby, a gardener, dug up his collection of gods, which he carried about for a show: they were found in a garden, in a cavity inclosed with Roman brick: the _Venus_ is of an excellent design; and the Vestal Virgin, as they call it, a fragment of Corinthian brass; it is of very curious drapery: _Vulcan_ is as lame as if made at a forge: the rest equal in designing with the _lares_ of the _Ostiaques_, and not at all mended in the plate published by Dr. Musgrave: he had several coins found thereabouts, and a brass Roman key which my lord Winchelsea bought. Roman antiquities are found here every day. My lord Winchelsea has one brass _Probus_; on the reverse, +Victoria Germ.+ with a trophy: and a great fund of such antiquities is to be met with all around the country.