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part of the pacificatory system promoted by Agricola.] [Footnote 220: An _archigubernus_ (master pilot) of this fleet left his property to one of his subordinates in trust for his infant son. The son died before coming of age, whereupon the estate was claimed by the next of kin, while the trustee contended that it had now passed to him absolutely. He was upheld by the Court. Another York decision established the principle that any money made by a slave belonged to his _bona fide_ owner. And another settled that a _Decurio_ (a functionary answering to a village Mayor in France) was responsible only for his own _Curia_.] [Footnote 221: Inscriptions of the Twentieth have been found here.] [Footnote 222: _Legra-ceaster_, the earliest known form of the name, signifies Camp-chester _(Legra = Laager)_. In Anglo-Saxon writings the name is often applied to Chester. This, however, was _the_ Chester, _par excellence_, as having remained so long unoccupied. In the days of Alfred it is still a "waste Chester" in the A.S. Chronicle. The word _Chester_ is only associated with Roman fortifications in Southern Britain. But north of the wall, as Mr. Haverfield points out, we find it applied to earthworks which cannot possibly have ever been Roman. (See 'Antiquary' for 1895, p. 37.)] [Footnote 223: Bath was frequented by Romano-British society for its medicinal waters, as it has been since. The name _Aquae_ (like the various _Aix_ in Western Europe) records this fact. Bath was differentiated as _Aquae Solis_; the last word having less reference to Apollo the Healer, than to a local deity _Sul_ or _Sulis_. Traces of an elaborate pump-room system, including baths and cisterns still retaining their leaden lining, have here been discovered; and even the stock-in-trade of one of the small shops, where, as now at such resorts, trinkets were sold to the visitors.(See 'Antiquary,' 1895, p. 201.)] [Footnote 224: Similar excavations are in progress at Caergwent, but, as yet, with less interesting results. Amongst the objects found is a money-box of pottery, with a slit for the coins. A theatre [?] is now (1903) being uncovered.] [Footnote 225: See II. F. 4; also Mr. Haverfield's articles in the 'Athenaeum' (115, Dec. 1894), and in the 'Antiquary' (1899, p. 71).] [Footnote 226: Mr. Haverfield notes ('Antiquary,' 1898, p. 235) that British basilicas are larger than those on the Continent, probably because more protection from weather
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