3 2 Hydriotaphia y 



fecrationof5M/frir,f5 and if we Kb fix this 

 period or ceffation 5 thcfe Urncs will chal 

 lenge above thirteen hundred years. 



But whether this praftife was onely 

 then left- by Emperours and great per- 

 fons, or generally about Rome, and not 

 another Provinces, we bold noamhen- 

 tick account. For after TertuUtAn, in the 

 dayes tfMtnucius it was obvioufly obje- 

 fted upon Chriftians, that they condem- 

 ned the pra&ife of burning e * And we 



fi de a P a ff a g c i Sido*m f j which af- 

 ftrteth that pradife in France unto a 

 awn. Min. lower account. And perhaps not fully 

 difufed tiU Chriftianity fully eftablilbed, 

 which gave the finall extinftion to thcfc 

 fepulcbrall Bonefires. 



Whether they were the bones of men 

 or women or children, no au then tick de- 

 ctfion from ancient cuftome in diftinfl: 

 places of burial 1. Although not impro 

 bably conjedured, that the double Se 

 pulture or burying place of Abraham^ 

 had in it fuch intenflon. But from exi 

 lity of bones, thinnefle of skulls, fmall- 

 ncfleof teethj ribbes, and thigh- bones 5 

 not improbable that many thereof were 

 perfons of minor z^p^ or women. Con- 



firmable 



