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
Reginald (given name) Reginald (given name) Reginald is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Latin "Reginaldus", which has been influenced by the Latin word "regina", meaning "queen". This Latin name is a Latinisation of a Germanic language name. This Germanic name is composed of two elements: the first "ragin", meaning "advice", "counsel", "decision"; the second element is "wald", meaning "rule", "ruler". The Old German form of the name is "Raginald"; Old French forms are "Reinald" and "Reynaud". Forms of this Germanic name were first brought to the British Isles by Scandinavians, in the form of