Eboracum recognise that the Multangular Tower was Roman in date in a 1683 paper with the Royal Society. John Horsley's 1732 "Britannia Romana", or 'The Roman Antiquities of Britain', included a chapter on Roman York and at least partly informed Francis Drake's 1736 "Eboracum" – the first book of its kind on Roman York. Drake also published accounts in the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society. The Rev. Charles Wellbeloved was one of the founders of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and a curator of the antiquities in the Yorkshire Museum until his death in 1858. He published a systematic account of
Eboracum names the city is known in those languages). The name was then Latinized by replacing the Celtic neuter nominative ending "-on" by its Latin equivalent "-um",a common use noted also in Gaul and Lusitania. Various place names, such as Évry, Ivry, Ivrey, Ivory and Ivrac in France would all come from "*eburacon / *eburiacon"; for example: Ivry-la-Bataille (Eure, "Ebriaco" in 1023–1033), Ivry-le-Temple ("Evriacum" in 1199) Évry (Essonne, "Everiaco" in 1158), etc. The Roman conquest of Britain began in 43 AD but advance beyond the Humber did not take place until the early 70s AD. This was because the people in