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| copied on stone from originals now lost, but found in other places; and many are said to have been altered according to his fancy, with a singular conceit. He has given, of his own composition, three inscriptions cut à l'antique, which stand with the others. |
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| The first is historical, and settles the time in which the Romans had a station here; then gives the time in which it suffered the ravages of the Scots; after that commemorates a scourge of the pestilence, and finally the removal of the market to Gilshaughline. The last was occasioned by the plague, of which a hundred and twenty died in the town and parish. |
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| The next inscription is in memory of the founders of the school; and the third is a tribute he pays to his own - |
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| "ABALLABA QVAM CC. |
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| "FLVIT ITVNA. STATIO FVIT |
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| "RO. TEMP. MAVR. AREL. |
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| "HANC VASTAVIT. F. F. |
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| "GVIL. R. SCOT. 1176. |
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| "HIC PESTIS SAEVIT 1598 |
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| "OPP. DESERT MERCAT |
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| "AS GILSHAVGLINE. |
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| "DEVM TIME." |
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