A new and complete history of the county of York . issolved and incorporated with the sixth. In the chapel yard of MonumentRibston Hall is a very curious sepulchral monument of a standard-bearer of the standard*ninth Roman legion, which was dug up in the year 1688, in Trinity gardens, near , in York. The stone is about six feet high, and two feet in breadth,the top of an angular form: near the bottom of the stone is the inscriptionL. DVCCIVS. L. VO. F. RVFJNVS- VIEN- SIGNF. LEG. Villi. AN- S- E* above which stands the figure of a Roman soldier, with the ensign ofa coh
A new and complete history of the county of York . issolved and incorporated with the sixth. In the chapel yard of MonumentRibston Hall is a very curious sepulchral monument of a standard-bearer of the standard*ninth Roman legion, which was dug up in the year 1688, in Trinity gardens, near , in York. The stone is about six feet high, and two feet in breadth,the top of an angular form: near the bottom of the stone is the inscriptionL. DVCCIVS. L. VO. F. RVFJNVS- VIEN- SIGNF. LEG. Villi. AN- S- E* above which stands the figure of a Roman soldier, with the ensign ofa cohort or manipulus in his right hand, and a corn-meter* in his left. * Corn was part of the pay of a Roman soldier. Horsley reads this inscription :—L. DucciwtLucii Voltihia ttibu JUius Rufmus Viennends signifcr Leyionis nonie annos 28 hie situs est, whichmaybe translated thus:—L. Ducius Rufinus of Vienne, son of Lucius of the Voltinian tribe, (and)standard-bearer of the ninth legion for twenty-eight years, is buried here. 12 HISTORY OF BOOK This ancient relic was happily rescued by Brian Fairfax, Esq. from demolition bythe workmen who had broken it in the middle, and were preparing to make useof it for two troughs, as they are called, to bind together a stone wall which they were erecting. Invasionrepelled 3fiS. Britain fi-nally aban-doned bythe Ro-mans, andimmediate-ly oppress-ed by thePiets andScots. No transaction of importance occurred in this part of Britain till the reign ofValentinian the First, A. D. 364, when the northern tribes renewed their incursions;and the island, being at the same time invaded by the Saxons, and other bar-barians from the continent, was reduced to a deplorable state.* The barbariansat length were driven back to their northern wilds, by the Roman general Theodo-sius, who having added the new province of Valentia to the imperial territory, A. , restored tranquillity to Britain for a short period. Misery and wretchedness
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