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Silver Penny, in each of which is a little Notch, which bcing joyn’d fothe like Nick in the next, makes a round Oriticc to pour in the Metal.

Each of thesc has eitherTwo Heads, or as mar.y Reverses; so that placingone, for Exarrple with JUcxander Seveuish Head on cne fide, and hisMo-ther Julia Marrmaas on the other, betwixt two pieces with Reverses, it com-pleats both; so that one with Heads, and ancther with Reverses, ate placedalternativ» for a considerable Length, ard then all palled over with anOuterCoat of Cia), to keep the Metal trom Running out, and a little Ledge oneither side tho Orifice, to convey the Metal into the long Rowof Holes.

They are all of Empenrs about the some Age, when indeed the Roma»

JSlonejs were notorioufiy Adulterated, as is oblirvable in any Collection oftheir Coins, thoughsome of them Nov? are so Scarce, particularly a Duodti-menianus, that 1 Question whether this Age can Produce One to take aCopy of.

XXIV. The Ancient Remans had Three Words, Scutum, Parma, and ^ Kom»»Cljpeus, for that Defensive Weapon we generally Engltjh a Shield, which Thorestyu.notwithffanding their Different Fornis or Matter, their Authors (elpecial- p- *°r-ly in the Declension of the Empire ) frequently Confound, as, if I mistakenot, we do Shield, Buckler and Target. Of thesc Shields or Bucklers I have l 3 -One of the Parma kind, and rightly so call’d, quod e Medio in omnes partesfit Par; whereas the Scutum was mostly Oval, tho’ sometimes Imbricatum ,with Corners equally broad ; it is i 5 Inches Diameter, whereof a little morethan a 3 d part is taken up with the Embo , or Protuberant Boß at the Na-vel, which is made of an Even Convex Piate, wrought Hollow on the In-side, to receive the Gladiator' s Hand ; upon the Center of This is a LesserBofs, wherein there soems to have been fix’d, some kind of Cuspis, or IharpOffensive Weapon, to be used when they came to Fight Hand to Hand, burthe Form of this I cannot describe, both my Shields being Defective in thatPoint. From the sind Umbo the Shield is 4 Inches and a half broad on eachside, in which are 11 Circular Equidillant Rows of Braß Studs of that Size,that 222 are Set in the Utmost Circle, which is 4 Eoot wanting 3 Inches, (forthat is the Circumference of the Euckler ) and so proportionably in the si.ef-ßrCircles. To the Center ofthesc 11 Rows ot Brazen Studs, the InmostCircle is placed upon the Umbo it felf, the next 8 upon as many CircularPlates of Iron, each a 3 i of an Inch Broad. The two Ourermost upon OneThicker Piate an Inch broad. In the little Intervals between these CircularPlates are plainly difcovered cerrain Gross Lammte, that paß on the Back ofthe other, trom the Umbo to the Exterior Circle ; and these Iron Plates arealso about the $d. part ofan Inch at the broaderend towards the Circumsc-rence, but gradually Contracted intoanarrower breadth, that they may bebroughe into the Compaß of the Umbo at the Center. The Inner Coatnext to thole Iron Plates is made of very Thick, Hard, Strong Leather,which Cuts Bright, (bmewhat like Parchment. Upon that is a Second Co-ver of the some, and on the Outside ot this are Plaited the Iron Ptns that runthrough the Erajs Studs ; for the above-mcntion’d Brass Studs are Cast pure-

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