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CHAP. II 



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HE Solemnities, Ceremonies, Elites 

 of their Cremation or cncerrment, fo 

 folemnly delivered by Authours, we (ball 

 notdifparageour Reader to repeat. On- 

 ly the laft and lafting part in their Urns? 

 colleftcd bones and Afhes, we cannot 

 wholly omit, or decline that Subje&, 

 which occafion lately prefented, in foinc 

 difcovered among us, 



Ina Field of old tralfingfjavt, not ma 

 ny moneths paft, were digged up be 

 tween fourty and fifty Vrnes, depofitcd 

 in a dry and fandy foilc^not a yard deep, 

 nor farre from one another : Not all 

 ftri&ly of one figure, but moft anfwer- 

 ing thefe defcribed : Some containing 

 two pounds of bones, diftingut (liable ia 

 skulls, ribs, jawcs, thigh-bones, and 

 teeth, with frefh impreflions of their 

 combuftion. Befides the extraneous 

 fubftances, like peeces of fmall boxes, 

 my worthy or combes handfbmely wrought, handles 

 ^ ma ^ brafle inftruaients, brazen nip- 

 pers , and in one fome kinde of 



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