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THIS is one of the Roman roads, among many others, not mentioned in the Itinerary of Antonine, although well known the whole way from Chichester (the Regno of the Romans) to London.

The military ways of the Romans were constructed with considerable ingenuity and labour, and may be described as a causeway of ten or twelve feet high: they led in a direct line from one town to another, which was seldom a greater distance than fifteen or twenty miles. The materials used in their construction were generally taken from the neighbourhood through which they passed, such as flint in the chalky districts, and stone where it most abounded: in some instances the surface was covered with pebbles or gravel.

When we consider the great progress of cultivation, and the continual change in the inhabitants of this country for the last 1800 years, it is hardly fair to expect traces of all the Roman roads, or the most trifling marks even of the military posts that were

constructed on them: but in the instance before us we have a fine specimen, called the Stane, or Stonestreet. This road came from London, and entered the county of Sussex by Oakwood, and passing by Slinfold and Billinghurst, entered Pulborough ; whence it goes towards Hardham, Coldwaltham, and ascending the steep acclivity of Bignor hill, passes over Glating beacon, from which spot our Drawing was made. Here the view opens with amazing grandeur; the road keeping its course over some irregular ground to the North Wood, through which it passes, and is again visible over the corner of Halnaker Down, falling in with the present turnpike at Halnaker, and approaching the Roman station at Chichester. In the extreme distance is the Isle of Wight, with a large portion of the English Channel, and Spithead on the right: perhaps there are few situations in the kingdom that present a view so grand and interesting.

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PELYNT Church, near Looe, in Cornwall, is of considerable antiquity, being in a mixed style of Saxon and Gothic architecture: it consists of two main aisles, with a nave, transept, and chancel, and two side aisles, one called Trelawney, and the other Bake. In the former are four marble stones, with appropriate inscriptions, to the memory of some of the Trelawneys; underneath is a vault, in which the remains of several of the same family, including the bishop, have been deposited: also Mrs. Pole, the mother of the present Mr. Pole Carew. In the other, or Bake aisle, on a plain slate stone, is a figure at full length, representing Achym, esq. who formerly was possessed of a considerable estate in this parish. There are several other funereal devices upon different parts of the walls. The principal ornament of the Church is a large marble Monument,

erected to the memory of Francis Buller, esq. who died September 7, 1615; he was settled at Tregarrick, in the parish of Pelynt, and descended by his mother from the elder branch of the Courtenays, earls of Devonshire and barons of Oakhampton, which titles became extinct by the death of Edward, earl of Devonshire, at Padua, in 1556. Francis Buller was the father of sir Richard Buller, knt. of Shillingham, in Cornwall, who was the ancestor of John Francis Buller, esq.; this gentleman, at considerable cost, repaired the monument of his ancestor in Pelynt Church, about the year 1726. His great grandson, James Buller, esq. of Downes, in the county of Devon, and of Shillingham, in Cornwall, is at this time one of the representatives in parliament for the city of Exeter.

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CLEE is a small village in the wapentake of Bradley Haverstoc, in the division of Lindsey, situated about a mile south-east of Grimsby, and nearly the same distance from the south-west shore of the Humber; it is remarkable for its very ancient Church, the nave of which is a curious piece of ancient architecture; it was dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, by Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, in the time of Richard I. in 1192; as is expressed by a Latin in scription in Saxon characters, cut on a piece of marble, and inlaid in a square compartment on the shaft of a circular column. This bishop was so much in repute for his sanctity, that after his death he was canonized by Honorius III. in 1221. He was a native of Grenoble, and one of the most illustrious prelates of the church of England in the reigns of Richard I. and king John. His virtue gained him great reve rence from the people of his diocese, who were particularly afraid of his excommunications, having, as they thought, observed, that those who lay under that censure seldom failed of being visited in this world with some calamity. It is related as an instance of the zeal and resolution of this prelate, that by his own authority he ordered to be removed out

of the church of Godstow, in Oxfordshire, the tomb of Rosamond, mistress to Henry II. which stood in the middle of the choir, hung with black velvet, and wax tapers about it. Though he was informed that the tomb was placed there by the king's order, he contended that he ought not to suffer it, saying it was a shameful thing that the tomb of such a woman should stand in so honourable a place. He died about the year 1200, at London; and being brought to Lincoln for interment at the time when that city was honoured with the presence of the kings of England and Scotland, the two monarchs went out to meet the body, and for some time bore the coffin upon their shoulders.

Clee Church consists of a nave, which has a middle and two side aisles, a cross aisle, a smail chancel, and a pretty good square tower at the west end. The whole of the edifice is very small, the dimensions being as follows: the length of the nave thirty-seven feet, the width of the middle aisle eightteen feet, the south aisle thirteen feet, and the northern one eleven feet; the length of the transept fifty-four feet, its width sixteen feet, and the extent of the chancel thirty feet by eighteen. The south

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