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The Verbal Frocefs upmthe D if cowry of an Antient Se- 
pulchre^ In the Village of Cocherel upon the- Ri^er 
Eure /V^ France. 
IN theyeare 1685. the lu^. day of IuI/jWcq Olivier 
Efiienne an Advocate in Parliament, fubdeiegated by 
Mopffeigneur de MarUlacj Concellour of State in ordinary, 
having the conduft of the workes that are making upon 
the River of Eure below the Village of Pajfy^ Doe Certi- 
fye to all prefent and to come, that upon the petition of 
i/leffire RobertjVrcvo&L oi Cocherel^ Knight and Lord of the 
Mannour of the upper and lower Cocherel, wee have this 
day come to the fayd town of Cocherel ^ having with Us fe- 
veral WitnelTes, and from thence to a piece of Land of the 
fayd Mannour of upper Cocherel called ks Hmthergesj upon 
the top of a rifing Ground expofed on all fides to the Sunn, 
a little declining from South to Weft. Where being come 
the fayd Lord of the Mannour oi Cocherel i^A remonftrate 
unto us, tiiat having occafion for a confideratle quantity of 
Free-Stone for the reedification of the gate or Sluice for 
boates of the Mills of Cocherel, and which hee is to repaire 
by the Kings ord^r, hee had for that purpofe caufed two 
great Soncs, which appeared in this place above gound one- 
lj( as two Limits or Bounds, the one about afoot and the 
other about 8 or 9 Inches to be further uncovered, and they 
had been found to bee 6 foot heigh, and about a foot and a 
half thick ; marked in the figure of the Sepulchre A and B; 
the bredth of the one marked A of three foot , and the 
other marked B of two foot and a half, fct end ways by one 
another ; and they had further obferved in making this dil- 
covery, that it was an Antient Sepulchre , ftiut onlyoii 
three fides/^/^.at one end at the head by the twoStones alrea- 
dy mentioned; on the right fide by a Stone placed edg-ways 
upon its thicknefs of about 14 Inches, and being above 5 
E e foot 
