ROXCESTER, (Salop) or WROXETER, on the Severn, near its conflux with the Terne and the hill, called the Wrekin, to the S.E. of Shrewsbury, had a priory; and though a city formerly of 3 m. round, the 2d if not the first of the Cornavii (built, as it is thought, by the Romans Watling-Street way, when they fortified the bank of the Severn, which is more easily fordable here than at any other place below it) is now but a small village of peasants, who often plough up coins, called Dinders, that prove its antiquity, though they are for most part illegible. Here are the ruins of old works, supposed to have been heretofore a castle, with a suditory, or sweating-house, for the Roman soldiers.