Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853

Peter Simple. Illustrated Edition. Saunders and Otley. Vols. II. and III.

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Pointer's Britannia Romana. Oxford, 1724.

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Roman Stations in Britain. London, 1726.

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