of XFO%$)~S Hl%E, 547 



in. Which ArmilU it feems were fomtimes fingle, and fom- 

 times curioufly link'd together. Thus the fix bracelets of King 

 Roricus above-mentioned, are faid to have been, ita mutuh nexi- 

 bus involutes ut ab invicem fequeilrari nequirent, no Jorum inextrica- 

 biliter ferie coh<rente k , i.e. fo inextricably involved one within 

 another, that ihere was no parting them. The Learned Bartho- 

 lin alfo informs us, that fomtimes the Armilla had a Ring hung 

 to it. Eft tamen ArmilU fuus quandoque circuits 1 1 And that when 

 rings are thus hung to bracelets, there is always fome my fiery, in it, 

 quo d annuli Armillk ferejungantur non caret myfterio m . Where by 

 ArmilU he means $ M ' a > or ^y&pma., ornaments for the wrifts, 

 and by annuli and circuli, ornaments for the fingers : ArmilU id 

 brachio fr<*ftant, quod digim annuli n , i. e. that bracelets have the 

 fame ufe on the wrift, that rings have on the finger. 



112. Now that ours was an Armilla, is plain enough, for 

 that the great Coffer ring is of fomwhat above three inches dia- 

 meter, and big enough to encompafs any ordinary mans wrift ; 

 the letter iron one, and green ring of glafs, being additional orna- 

 ments, efpecially the latter, which queftionlefs was put on to re- 

 prefent an Emrauld ; that fort of slone, as Pignorius and Bartho- 

 lin both teftifie, being much ufed in bracelets : which makes me 

 think it the bracelet but of fome ordinary perfon, the Armilla it 

 felf being coffer, with which, faith Bartholin, only the vulgar 1 

 adorned themfelves, ArmilU <zreje, flebedt cenfendde funt p ,and the 

 affendent glafi but a counterfeit Jewel. 



n^. For eminent places in this County, during the Govern- 

 ment of the Saxons and Vanes in Briton, we may reckon firft Ban- 

 bury, then called Baneybypis, where Kenric, the fecond Weft-Saxon 

 King, about the year 540, put to flight the Britans, fighting for 

 their lives, eftates, and all they had q . After the Conqueft, about 

 the year 1 1 25. it was ftrengthned with a Caftle by Alexander the 

 then great Bifhop of Lincoln ; and fince that, Jan. 26. i MarU, 

 made a Burg or Burrough confifting of a Bayliff, 1 2 Aldermen, 

 and 1 2 Burgeffes, in recompence of their faithful fervice done to 

 the faid Queen Mary (as 'tis expreftin their Charter) in manful- 

 ly refilling John Duke of Northumberland that rebelled againft 

 her ; whence 'tis plain this Town was ever zealou* in matters of 



k Sax Cram.Hift. Pan./ii. ^.p.i^.D.Edit.Operini. ' Tko. Bartholin. Schedion de Arm. Vet. 4.^.41. 

 " ldem \-inprincip. n Ibidem. Vid. Laurentium Pignoriumde Seivis. Et Bartholin. Schedion de Ar~ 

 mill- . 3./*. 37. ? Idem%. 3. de Armillarum materia, p. 32. * camd. Bntan< in Oxf. 



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