If you think the annexed sheets will cast any additional light on a controverted point of Julius Caesar's account of his expedition to Britain, I shall be obliged to you to present them to the Antiquarian Society.

It has been observed on a former occasion that the county of Derby in the British times constituted a part of that large tribe, the Coritani, or Coitanni, consequently it had then no peculiar provincial name.

Mr. Ledwich. in his ingenious, and in many instances satisfactory observations upon antient churches, published in Archæologia, vol. VIII. No. XIX. p. 176, has remarked, that if Osbern's authority is of any weight, the undercroft at Canterbury was founded antecedent to the year 742; that writer having informed us, that archbishop Cuthbert erected St. John's chapel in the eastern part of the greater church or cathedral. The chapel here noticed was not, however, any part of the cathedral fabrick; and I am inclined to attribute this mistake to Mr. Ledwich's having before him an imperfect extract from the life of archbishop Bregwin by Osbern; who expressly says, that the chapel was almost contiguous to the greater church.

The beautiful coloured drawing which you were pleased to exhibit at the Society, is so very curious, in regard to the many singularities which attend it, at least in my eye, that I request your favourable acceptance of a few additional observations upon it.

Having casually had occasion to recur to the learned Mr. Burton's Commentary on Antoninus' Itinerary through Britain, where at page 53, in quotation from Bede, he tells us, that were we acquainted with the mount called Wilpapes Dun or Wilfares Dun, about ten miles from Cataractonium, we should have little cause to doubt of the true situation of that place; this circumstance attended with an ardent desire to rescue from oblivion a few places mentioned in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, and other authors, induced me take a journey from Greta Bridge to Catterick, and some other parts of Yorkshire and Durham. The result of my observations may, perhaps, be not altogether unworthy of perusal; however, I shall at all events, confide in your wonted candor and humanity.

The drawing herewith exhibited, taken by Mr. Schnebbelie in the course of last summer [a], represents a fragment of one of the oldest mansion bouses in this kingdom.

I herewith send you a short account of the different modes of fortification which appear to have been in use in Scotland from the most early period to the accession of James VI. to the crown of England. If you think this worthy the acceptance of the Society of Antiquaries of London, please to present it to them with my best respects.

When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Rose Castle, I mentioned my having discovered some singular sepulchres of the ancient Britons ; and if you think the following account of them is worthy of being laid before the Society, I shall take the liberty of troubling you to present it.

Seeing your very curious account of those remarkable pits in Berkshire, which you favored the Society with, I could not help thinking, that the like kind of excavations might be found in the Peak of Derbyshire, where there are a number of caves, and other remains of the ancient Britons.

The inclosed inscription which has just been communicated to me by a gentleman who brought it from Cumberland in the course of the last summer, was exhibited to the Society by Major Rooke, and engraved in the Archæologia, Vol. IX. Pl XVII. a.

As I flatter myself that every attempt, however feeble, to illustrate the venerable remains of antiquity some degree with your lordsip's approbation, I have been induced to hazard my opinion on the state of mechanics of the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, and shall be happy if your lordship judges it worthy the attention of the Society of Antiquaries.

Plate VI. represents the south-east view of the parish church of Quenington, or Queenington, in the county of Gloucesler, which is situated about two miles north of the market town of Fairford in the same county.

Plate IX. Fig. 1. A burial urn of glass, found about twenty-five years since, in a field called Kingsmead, about half a mile distant from Cirencester; it was wrapped in lead, and deposited in a stone hollowed out to receive it; it is of a greenish colour, not very transparent, but well-moulded, having several raised circles on its bottom, quite smooth, without any appearance of having ever been fastened to a blowing iron as all modern glass vessels are in the making, which have therefore a rough mark at the bottom, unless they have been afterwards ground smooth. Its diameter at the top is five inches and three eighths, height ten inches and one eighth, and width at the bottom five inches and five eighths. It is in the possesion of C. H. Parry, M. D. of Bath.

The county of Cumberland abounds with Roman antiquities, arid many curious altars and inscriptions have been found in it; which have been accurately described by Horsley, Stukeley, and others. These antiquities have been discovered by chance, either in ploughing up ground for cultivation, or in digging up stones for the repair of houses and walls; and what is very surprising, I do not find that a regular search has ever been made in any of the noted stations.

I presumed to think, that whatever had a tendency to trace the modes of our government, or to mark the improvement of our freedom, would not be deemed by you altogether unworthy of your learned curiosity. And I was thus induced to communicate to you a copy of a warrant of the privy council, as late as 1620, for using torture on a person, who was suspected of treason; which, as a link connecting former practice with subsequent dissuetude, may be regarded as an instructive document.

The ingenious Mr. Williams mineral engineer having discovered in the Highlands of Scotland fome singular remains which he called vitrified forts, and having described in a Series of Letters those, at the hill of Knockfarrel, at the hill of Craig Phadrick, at the hill of Dun-Evan, at Castle Finlay and at the Castle hill of Fin-avon, this publication very much engaged the attention of the curious in research. Along with it, was published a Description of Craig-Phadrick, by Mr. Wate, Engineer at Birmingham, arid a Letter from Dr. Black, Professor of Chymistry, to Mr. Williams.

The drawing submitted to the examination of the Society, and engraved Plate XVI. represents a mosaic pavement before the altar of the chapel in the prior's lodgings at ELY, built of stone by John Crawden, or Crouden, prior from 1321 to 1341, now a dwelling house, making part of the Deanery, and lately in the occupation of the Reverend Mr. Lewis Jones, son of the late prebendary of that name. The pavement is 4 feet 10 inches long, and 3 feet 1 inch wide and represents the fall of man; Adam and Eve at the forbidden tree, whose fruit the serpent with a human face, which some persons believed he assumed, seems to be recommending to the latter.

In regard to your question concerning the hunting of the ancient inhabitants of the Island of Great Britain, the Britons and Saxons, the genuine and authentic notices which have come down to us relative to the customs and manners of those two nations, are indeed but very few, so that much cannot reasonably be expected to have reached us on the subject proposed. However, for the amusement of yourself and friend, I shall endeavour to bring together such passages as have occurred to me in authors concerning this matter, with some necessary remarks and observations, premising and noting here, once for all, that the writers alluded to deal so much in generals, that they afford us not many particulars, respecting the modes of proceeding of our ancestors in those early times in the great and important business, as I may call it, of the chase.

Being on a visit in Buckinghamshire, near Aylesbury, at the latter end of last year, I was informed that there was a remarkable antient arch at Dinton church in that neighbourhood. I took the first opportunity of going to see it; and finding it to correspond with the report I had heard, I employed an artist at Aylesbury to take a drawing of the arch, which I now take the liberty of requesting you to lay before the Society.