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with another broad flat Hone : This Urn I faw at a houfe in the 

 Town, where 'tis ufed for a Hog-trough, but the glafi had been 

 broken long before, nor could I get any certain defcription of it ; 

 however, I guefs it fome fuch like veffel with that defcribed a- 

 bove, and placed there upon the fame or like accounts. There 

 have been feveral other Vrns<A{o taken up at divers other places, 

 particularly in the old Mine at Blunds Court above-mention'd, 

 Chap. 6. .63. at a place called Drunfiil notfar from Wood- Eat on, 

 but belonging, as I was told, to the Pariih of Marfion, near the 

 ridged way that comes from Noke ; and three in one Mr. Finches 

 .houfe at the Mercat-phce in Henly, and one in the high-way that 

 leads towards the North at the Towns end, not far from Ancaftle, 

 which argues thofe places fome of the firft Roman habitations,' 

 though no recorded garifons. 



63. Nor indeed is there any fuch to be found in this County, 

 though it cannot but be acknowledged that Oxford it felf muft be 

 a noted place, before the departure of the Romans at leaft, if the 

 Roman way thither defcribed in the Map, prove fo good an ar- 

 gument to the Reader as my felf. Where by the way perhaps it 

 may not be unworthy notice, that Oxford is mention'd by the Ara- 

 bian Geographer, Sharif oP Edr/fi, or Adrift (of whofe works 

 the Geographia Nubienfis tranflated by Gab. Sionita, and Job. He%^ 

 ronita, is too fhortan Epitome) by the name of e^ia^c Ozcfort *, 

 withal adding,that it ftands on the fame river with London (which 

 river he calls *<>-2>L-L, Retandah f ) 40 miles above it f , which fhews 

 that Oxford was always a Town of good repute, in the rcmoteft 

 places, as well as times. 



64. As for the antiquity of the Vniverfity, befide what was al- 

 leged . 30. of this Chapter, I think it very confiderable what 

 remains upon record in Magdalen College Library, in an ancient 

 MS of Walter Burley's Fellow of Merton College, (Tutor to the 

 Famous King Edw. 3. and defervedly ftiled Dr. Profundus') upon 

 the Problem {Complexio rara quare fanior~] he has thefe words 

 (which fhonld indeed have been mentioned before, Chap. 2. . 3. 



* Perhaps written e>j_i^, Ozcfort, (by a tranfpofition of the Letters which many times oc 



curs in words of difficult found; infead of o-J>JCl Oczfart. f fr j A ly *<*<'>fr feems ro 



be a fault of the Scribe : whereas the Author probably intended to have it read ^_^VJL> TJmize, or 



lamife. ' Sharif o/' EJrlfi Geograpk. MS. Arab, penes Revert* J. Edw. P<ko\ S. T- P. & Ecfhf Cath. 

 Cbriji. Oxon. Csnonkum. 



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