lamented his death in some elegiac lines.

[3] Aldburgh, or Aldborough, so called by the Normans, was the
Iseur of the Ancient Britons, and the Isurium of the Romans.
Perhaps there is not another Roman city, not even excepting
York, where so many antiquities have been discovered. The
opening of ancient baths, burial vaults, &c. has led to
the finding of tesselated pavements, coins, urns, rings,
lachrymatories, seals, monumental inscriptions, medals,
statues, chains, sacrificing vessels, &c. It is to be lamented
that modern ignorance and barbarity are fast obliterating all
traces of the Roman walls of Isurium; their foundations having
been dug up for the mercenary purpose of obtaining their
materials. We cannot sufficiently censure such irreverence to
"hoar antiquity," or the contracted and grovelling ideas
which actuate such village Vandals.

[4] The following letter was addressed by Layton, one of the
emissaries of the Dissolution, to Lord Cromwell, at the
Reformation:--

"Please your worship to understand that the Abbot of Fountaynes
hath so greatly dilapidated his house, wasted ye woods,
notoriously keeping six ------; and six days before our coming,
he committed theft and sacrilege, confessing the same; for at
midnight he caused the chapleyne to stele the keys of the secton,
and took out a jewel, a cross of gold with stones; one _Warren_,
a goldsmith of the Chepe, was with him in his chamber at the
hour, and there they stole out a great emerode with a rubye, the
said _Warren_ made the Abbot believe the rubye was a garnet,