they lodged their Troops ; as Etofettim^ now Wd^ and Ven- 
nocrafmm now Stretton. In the Sxxon time we find Litchfield 
railed by Wlphere K. of xh^ Mercians to the Honour of St. 
CUdda. \ Wlphere Caftle at Berry-hank has yet fbnie Ruines 
which are vifible : Tamworth was K. Offas Seat ; and Wol^ 
verhampton, or JVu/phrunes-Hampton, called fb from Wulphrune 
Wife loAlthelm Duke of Northampton in K. f^g/tr's Reign, 
v/as by her eiido wed with a Deanary and Prebends; and (e- 
veral Lows or fepulchral Hillocks, railed by t!ie Saxons are to 
be feen up and down, Marks of thofe Bloody Engagements 
between them and tlie Danes. Tiiere are no Danijb Anti- 
quity, more remarkable than their v\^ooden Almanacks, ftill 
in ule in D^';^;^^ryt and Stajfordpjire ) one of which ufed in 
this County, our Author accurately defcribes, and explains its 
deviations from thofe now made in Norwey. Laftly he 
clears many Cuftoms and Fcnures brought in by the Nor- 
mans^ as the Chufing the King of the Minjlr els ^^iXiA the Bull- 
r^;>^;?/;^^(inftituted by "John of Gatmt)^t Tulhury^ the claiming 
of the Gummon of Bmn at Whitchnovery and feveral others^ 
Cap. X. 
'i.SClOXEMCVM TELESCOPICVM or a new Con- 
trwance of adapting a Telefcope to a Hori%ontaIl Dially 
for obfermng the moment of lime by Day or Night . by 
Will: Molineux Efq. R.S.S, Dublin . i6%6 in^^to. 
THE Author dividing his Book into Xl Chapters, he 
fiFll: declares the Ufe & Advantage of this new Contri- 
vance, which he conceives fo great,that fince the firft menti- 
on of Dials, he hath not heard of a more plain and eafy addi- 
tion for their advancement ; efpecially, when the Oblerva- 
tion of the exad moment of time is fo neceffary, that neither 
Geography^ Navigati n^ ov Jfironor^iy can be brought to per- 
fection, nor the Longitude or the Truth of Afironomical 
Tables. 
