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INTRODUCTION.

T HE Family os the Name of WRE N y os Note andAntiquity, from which the eminent Persons specifiedand distinguished in these Memorials were deseended,hath been seated, occafionally, at Sherborne-house , Billy~hall , andBinchejier , in the Bishoprick of Durham ; but came originallyfrom Denmark.

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" Binchejier , called by Antoninus , Vinoviu?n y by Ptolomy , Bi- Burton s An*novium y was a City of old, and a Roman-jlation y situated on the p. 4 6 .Brow of a Hill which overlooks the River Were y and nearBipops-Aukland y much taken notice of by the Neighboursthereabouts, for the Rubbish and Ruins of old Walls, andalso for the Roman Coins often dug up in it, which Country camdenTPeople call Binchejler-pennies ; and for Roman Inscriptions; vh. u. Mt.one of which cut out in an Altar, dedicated to the Mother - cabtdnf 4 ^goddess y is thus described by Mr. Camden. f ' 9+5 ‘

Scil. DeabuS Matribus * * * *.* Claudius £%uintianus y* benesciarius confulis y votum solvit lubens merito.

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* Sertor.Urlat. deNous Rom.

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CARTOV.

MARTI VICTORI.

GENIO LOCI.

ET BONO EVENTVI.

Scil. Tribunus cohortis primes Curloviorum marti vi'lori.genio loci , et bono eventui.

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