26 Hydriotaphia, 



and manners , conformed not unto this 

 praftife, we have no hiftoricall aficrtioti 

 or deniall* But Gnce from the account 

 ofTacittis the Romanes early wrought fo 

 much civility upon the Brittifh ftodc, 

 that they brought them to build Tem 

 ples, to wear the Gowne, and ftudy the 

 ^manc Laws and language, that they 

 conformed al fo unto their religious rites 

 and cuftomes in burials, feems no im 

 probable conjefture* 



That burning the dead was ufed in 

 Sarmatia, is affirmed by Gaguinus, that 

 l\\eSueoMsz\\<\GothUnders ufed to burne 

 their Princes and great perfons, is deli 

 vered by Stxo and olatis^ that this was 

 the old Germane pradife, is alfo aflcrted 

 by Tacitus. And though we are bare in 

 hiftoricall particulars of fuch obfequics 

 in this Ifland, or that the Saxons^ Jutes, 

 and Angles burnt their dead, yet came 

 they from parts where 'twas of ancient 

 praftifej the Germane* ufing it, from 

 whom they were defcended* And even 

 in Jutland and Slefmc^ in Anglia Cym- 

 trica^ Vrnes with bones were found not 

 many years before us 4 



B ut the Danifi and Northern Nations 



have 



