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ROMAN URNS DISCOVERED AT CHESTER FORD. 139 D. — -The inner ditch of the Castle, now made into Beverall Gardens. E. — A Garden, which the Patentee hath let to him that keepeth the prison. F. — The Prison, comon for the shire, builte upon the Castle grounde, and carried away, with divers other howses, by one Mr. Suthcote, as is sayd — by what right is not known. G. — Are certain Orchards and Gardens which I thinke ought to belong in righte to the Castle, which with manie howses seem to be also carried away by some citizens. Compare the lyinge of G. with H., and it will plainly appear lying all upon the side of the Castle Ditch, on the Brow of the Hill towards the Citie. H. — Belongeth to the Castle, and the Patentee hath granted his Estate thereof unto Mr. Manwayringe, whose Orcharde adjoynes it, and hath boughte upon the Castle lande a row of some eight tene- ments. I. — Mr. Manwayring's new tenementes. K.— The Castle Hill, the Bank and fall of the Castle Ditche, whereof, w"' the ditch itselfe, the Citizens take the profit, contayning about four acres of Pasture, upon p' whereof they have rayled in a bowling-greene, being the Prince's demesne land." ACCOUNT OF ROMAN URNS DISCOVERED AT CHESTERFORD, AND NOW PRESERVED IN THE MUSEUM OF THE HON. RICHARD NEVILLE, F.S.A. Early in January of the present year, Mr. Neville was informed that a Roman urn, covered by a lid, had been discovered at Chesterford, where he has in the course of recent investigations exhumed such an extensive and varied series of Roman fictile vessels, of which, by his kind liberality, so many curious examples have been brought before the Institute, and published in the "Journal," on former occa- sions. It was discovered by a man who was clearing a drain, close to the Cambridge line of railway, about an eighth of a mile from the Chesterford station, and immediately behind the Greyhound Inn, in the village of Chesterford. The urn was deposited only about eighteen inches deep, and it was carefully taken out with the supposed cover : it was not in any way disturbed until brought to Mr. Neville. On examining it, the so-called lid was found to be a jiatera of " Samian" ware, placed in an inverted position over the top of the large urn, and certainly serving all the purposes of a lid, as well as if it had been made on purpose. On taking off the lid, the large urn was found to be filled with earth and