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of the body of one that had been Refior of Wendlebury, taken up 

 in the Church there near forty years after he had been buryed, 

 whofe flefhyet look'd as red (as I was informed by the Incumbent, 

 fince alfo dead) as raw beef: which whether it might not be caufed 

 by the petrifying qualities of the earths and waters about that 

 Town, would be an experiment worthy the trial of the Ingenious 

 thereabout ; or about Sommerton or North Aflon, where it would 

 be eafie to try whether fleflh were fo inclinable to corrupt in 'pe- 

 trifying waters as others. But if this prove the caufe, all bodies 

 muft equally be preferved therc,as well as that. Ve quibm quaere. 



53. And thus I had finifli'd this eighth Chapter? but that I 

 muft beg leave to acquaint the Reader, that fince the Printing the 

 2i . of it, I have found the Quintan amongft the Roman exerci- 

 fes (which yet perhaps they might borrow from the Greeks) by 

 the name of Quintana ; fo called, by reafonthe Romans in their 

 Tents made firft four ways in manner of a Crofs, to which adding a 

 fifth on one fide, it was called Quintana *. In this way they fetup 

 a great Posl about fix foot high, fuitable to the ftature of a man, 

 and this the Roman Soldiers were wont to affail, with all Inftru- 

 ments of war, as if it were indeed a real enemy, learning upon 

 this, by the afliftance of the Campidoftores, how to place their 

 blows aright. And this they other wife called exercitium ad Pd- 

 lum; and fomtimes Palaria, the form whereof may be fee n in 

 Vulturwi * : which pra&ice being in ufe during their Government 

 here, in all likely hood has been retained among us ever fince, be- 

 ing only tranflated in times of Peace, from a military, to a fportive 

 marriage exercife. 



* Vid. Guid. VanciroUum, Rer. memoraM/ium, lib. 2. tit- 21 ; * In Auguftanis Monumentis, f . 2 37- 



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