^{page 370 note [a]} See the antient pig of lead of the age of Domitian in the British Museum. Some gentlemen have thought a transverse stroke might be omitted over the I in MEI, and that it might be intended for MET, i. e. metallum; and that the letters LVI might denote the number of the pig; but the piece has been closely examined for the purpose, and no such stroke appears. Besides, the specification of the number of pieces is not the mode or manner of any of the several inscriptions on the pieces hitherto discovered, which now are numerous.

^{page 370 note [b]} Drake's Eboracum, p. 8. 49.

^{page 370 note [c]} Horsley's Brit. Rom. passim.

^{page 371 note [d]} Gent. Mag. February, 1773.

^{page 371 note [e]} Ibidem.

^{page 371 note [f]} Philos. Trans. vol. XLIX. part ii; or the antient pig at the Museum. See also Camden, col. 680, for another piece smelted in that reign.

^{page 371 note [g]} Gent. Mag. ut supra.

^{page 372 note [h]} Flor. Vigorn, p. 568. Leland, Collect. III. p. 278.

^{page 372 note [i]} Asserij Annales, p. 151. Petr. Bles. p. 109. Polychron, p. 246.

^{page 372 note [k]} Leland, Collectan. II. p. 590. Itinerary, IV. p. 131.

^{page 372 note [l]} So I correct for DCCCCXXV, Archbishop Ceolnoth being sitting at Canterbury anno 835, but dead long before 925. The scribe mistook the first X for C. This correction I have since found confirmed by Somner, in Append. ad Ant. Cant. p. 38; and therefore have adopted it without scruple.

^{page 372 note [m]} Cinnewarra. Somner. This abbess, I believe, is not mentioned on any other occasion.

^{page 373 note [n]} Sui. Somner. Malè.

^{page 373 note [o]} Wircesmuth; and in marg. Wiresmuth, Somner; both wrong.

^{page 373 note [p]} As this amounts to above 93 £ per ann. of our present money, lead seems to have borne a great price then.

^{page 373 note [q]} Evidentiae Eccl. Christi inter X Script. col. 2222: also Somer, Ant. Cant. p. 38. Append. where it runs, “et successoribus suis in perpetuum.”

^{page 373 note [r]} Hoveden, p. 417. M. Westm. p. 134.

^{page 373 note [s]} Selden, Tit. of Hon. chap. V.

^{page 373 note [t]} Chron. Sax. p. 75.

^{page 374 note [u]} This word, however, occurs not in the Glossaries: the record has it again in Mestesforde, Crice, Badegwella, Ashford.

^{page 374 note [w]} Werkworth and Werk-castle, in Northumberland, may perhaps have the same etymology. Werkworth occurs too in Kennet, Par. Antiq. p. 381.

^{page 374 note [x]} Chron. Sax. p. 75. Lye, Sax. Dict. v. .

^{page 374 note [y]} Decem careias plumbi super refectorium posuimus. Ann. Dunst. p. 287. As there is no such a word as careia, Mr. Hearne says, vel carregia; but caretas is much nearer, and is a word used in M. Paris, p. 287. and Dugd. Mon. III. p. 60. written carrata. II. p. 231, but more usually carecta. However, hence carret, Thoroton Nottingh. p. 258, and now more contractedly cart. It means evidently a cart-load, and I question whether the futhur was then a certain weight, as it is now.

^{page 375 note [z]} Mr. Green's pig weighed 1561b. and see the Magazine above cited.

^{page 375 note [a]} Length, at top, 19 inches ¼, breadth 3 inches ¼. Length, at bottom, 22 inches ¼, breadth 5 inches ½. Thickness 3 inches ¾.

^{page 375 note [b]} Camden, col. 680, where the consulate is mentioned.

^{page 376 note [c]} Ibid.

^{page 376 note [d]} Ibid. col. 1017.

^{page 376 note [e]} Baxter, Gloss. v. Concangii.

^{page 376 note [f]} “Fuerint et Corijs five Coricenis aestiva versus montem Beccum [f. Peccum] “in Derventionensi regione.” Baxter, v. Crangi.

^{page 377 note [g]} Plin. Nat. Hist. XXXIV. cap. 17.