

have raifcd an Mr A or point of compute 

 from their Cuftome of burning their 

 dead: Some deriving it from V*g*i**s+ 

 fome from Frotbo the great $ who or 

 dained by Law, that Princes and Chief 

 Commanders fhotild be committed unto 

 he fire, though the common fort had 

 be common grave enterrmeot. So star- 

 ttterw that old Herce was burnt, and 

 'Jtngo royally burnt the body of HAtdA 

 ic King flaiq by him. 

 What time this cuftome generally ex- 

 >ired in that Nation, we difcern no aflii- 

 ed period ; whether it ceafed before 

 ^hriftianity, or upon their Converfion, 

 jy Anfguvius the Gaul in the time of Lu- 

 ovicus Tins the Sonne of Charles the 

 ;reat, according to good computes 5 or 

 whether it might not be ufed by fome 

 erfons, while for a hundred and eighty 

 ears Paganifme and Chriftianity were 

 H-omifcuoufly embraced among them, 

 here is no allured conclufion. About 

 vhich times the Danes were bufie in E0&- 

 avd, and particularly infefted this Coun- 

 rey : Where many Caftles and ftrong 

 xwds, were built by them, or againft 

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