encountering the Romans, to prevent their forming a road through the Forest of Arden.  There can be little doubt of a battle having been here fought, from the bones, urns, and tumuli discovered here and in the adjacent neighbourhood.  “In this parish (Church Over,”) says Dugdale, “upon the old Roman Way, called Watling Strete, is to be seen a very great tumulus, which is of that magnitude, that it puts travellers beside the usual road,” and a Letter from Elias Ashmole to Sir Wm. Dugdale,[5] states, “that about a mile from hence (that is from Holywell Abbey, now the site of Caves Inn,) there is a tumulus raised in the very middle of the high way, which methought was worth observing.”  This tumulus, in an ancient deed, is called the Pilgrim’s Low.  It was removed in making the turnpike-road from Banbury to Lutterworth, about the year 1770.  In the plantations of Abraham Grimes, Esq., within half a mile of the site of the former, is another tumulus of smaller dimensions, adjoining the road which leads from Rugby to Lutterworth.

These were probably raised in honour of some military chiefs who were slain in the battle.

  Si quid novisti rectius istis
  Candidus imperti:  si non, his utere mecum.

    [1] Probably a corruption of Benones Bridge, as it is within four
        miles of the Roman station, Benones, now High Cross.

    [2] Vitellius had great weight and influence in the reign of
        Claudius; Vespasian at that time paid his court to the
        favourite, and also to Narcissus, the emperor’s freedman.

    [3] Now in the possession of the Rev. P. Homer, of Rugby.

    [4] In the possession of Mr. Matthew Bloxam, of the same place.

    [5] Edited by that distinguished and learned antiquary, Wm. Hamper,
        of Birmingham, Esq., in his Life of Dugdale.

R.R.B.

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THE PENDRILLS.

(To the Editor of the Mirror.)

I beg to correct the statement of W.W. in vol. xiii. page 419, respecting this family.  It is true that the pension did not expire at Richard Pendrill’s death—­and it is also true that Dr. Pendrill died about the time as therein stated—­but his son, John Pendrill, died at his own residence, near the Seahouses, Eastbourne, last year only, (1828,) leaving issue, one son by his first wife, (named John,) and one son and three daughters by his second wife; his first son, John, now enjoys the pension of 100 marks, and is residing at the Gloucester Hotel, Old Steine, Brighton, in sound health.  The privilege granted to this family under the title of “Free Warren,” is the liberty of shooting, hunting, fishing, &c. upon any of the King’s manors, and upon the manor on which the party enjoying this pension might reside; and I am informed that a certain noble lord made some yearly payment or gift to the deceased,