Near the walls upon digging cellars they sometimes find bodies buried. A rivulet called Temsford runs into the Bane. The school lands were given by private persons, and it was incorporated by queen Elizabeth: their seal is a castle and hunting-horn: and a horn is the brand for the town cattle upon the common. It is dubious whether Bowbridge has its name from the arch of the bridge, or from its being the entrance into the town from Lindum through the gate called formerly a Bow. This way is the maypole-hill, where probably stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annually keep up the festival of the _Floralia_ on May day, making a procession to this hill with _May gads_ (as they call them) in their hands: this is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a _thyrsus_ of the Bacchanals: at night they have a bonfire and other merriment; which is really a sacrifice, or religious festival. The king formerly had this whole town in his possession, until it was bestowed on the bishop of Carlisle. Near the conflux of the two brooks was lately a pleasant garden, and a place called Julian’s Bower, much talked of. [Illustration: 89 +Banovallum.+ _Sept. 1. 1722._ Josepho Banks _de Revesby Ar._ Romanorum hæc Vestigia d.d. W. Stukeley. _Stukeley. Del._] [Illustration: 19 _Amicissimo Henrico Pacey Ar. Prospectum Bostoniæ Suæ d.d. W. Stukeley Aug. 29. 1722._] [Sidenote: +Boston.+] [Sidenote: +TAB. XIX.+] _Leak_ signifies a watery marshy place. _Wrangle_ an _ab_ A. S. _Wear lacus_, and _hangel arundo_, _lacus arundinibus obsita_? Return we to Boston, _Fanum Sti. Botulphi_, the saint of sea-faring men. St. Botulf (the bishop) his body lay in St. Edmund’s monastery at Bury. Wm. Malmsb. p. 137. This seems to have been the last bounds northward of the _Iceni_ in most antient times; therefore its old name was _Icanhoe_, or _Icenorum munimentum_, as Mr. Baxter interprets it in his Glossary. I guess the first monastery founded here was on the south of the present church; for I saw vast stone walls dug up there, and a plain leaden cross taken up; in my possession. Many were the religious houses here in superstitious times, whose lands were given to the corporation by Hen. VIII. as likewise the estate of the lord Hussey, beheaded then at Lincoln for rebellion: he lived in one of the houses where is a great square tower of brick, called now Hussey tower. There are many such in this country, as that now called Rochford and sometimes Richmond tower, which is very high. Queen Mary was a great benefactress to this corporation, and gave them lands called Erection-lands, to pay a vicar, a lecturer, and two school-masters: they have now a revenue of a thousand pounds per annum. In the parsonage-house is a scutcheon with a pastoral staff behind it thus: a fess charged with a fish and two annulets between three plates, each charged with a cross fitché. The church, I think, is the largest parish