“And now I shall take notice of a very great curiosity found in the Mark-lane――more properly called Mart-lane, it being a place where the Romans, and not improbably the ancient Britains, used to barter their commodities, as tin, lead, &c. with other nations, it may be the Greeks, who often came into this island to purchase the like goods.... The curiosity I am speaking of is a brick, found about forty years since [_i.e._ about 1670], twenty-eight feet below the pavement, by Mr. Stockley, as he was digging the foundation of an house that he built for Mr. Wolley.... This brick is of a Roman make, and was a key-brick to the arch of a vault where a quantity of burnt corn was found. ’Tis made of curious red clay, and in bass-relief on the front hath the figure of Sampson putting fire to the foxes’ tayles, and driving them into a field of corn. This brick is deposited in the museum belonging to the Royal Society’s house, Fleet-street.” Dr. Leland then gives an extract from a letter of Mr. Richard Waller, which is the following: “How the story of Sampson should be known to the _Romans_, much less to the _Britains_, so early after the propagation of the Gospel, seems to be a great doubt, except, it should be said, that some _Jews_, after the final destruction of _Jerusalem_, should wander into Britain; and London being, even in Cæsar’s time, a port or trading city, they might settle here, and in the arch of their granary record the famous story of their delivery from their captivity under the Philistines.” All these circumstantial evidences are sufficient, to my mind, to establish a probability, at least, that the Jews visited this country at a remote age. Baronius may therefore be right after all, that St. Peter preached the Gospel in Britain, notwithstanding the learned Stillingfleet’s opposition. The principal argument which the Bishop of Worcester advances against St. Peter’s visiting this island for the purpose of preaching the Gospel, is, that St. Peter was emphatically called the “Apostle of the Circumcision;” but――argues the learned prelate――as there were no Jews in Britain at that time, consequently Baronius must be wrong. With all due deference to the most learned Stillingfleet, I venture to say, that his lordship took for granted what remains to be proved. Baronius himself must certainly have been convinced that there were Jews in this realm in the days of the Apostles, or else he must have contradicted himself. He states that, until the 65th year of our Lord, the Gospel was preached to none but to the Jews; but he also tells us, that A.D. 61, Peter came over to Britain in order to preach the Gospel. Of course, he must have meant, to the Jews of Britain. Lippomanus declares, and Nicephorus makes use of his declaration, that St. ♦Peter preached also to the Britons; “for he carried,” says the latter, “the same doctrine to the Western Ocean and to the British Isles.” ♦ ‘Petre’ replaced with ‘Peter’