if they had been wafh't in water Now if they had 
inch Napkins, they might no queftion have had Jbeets o£ 
it too, and put them to the ufe above mention'd had 
they thought it expedient, as, 'tis faid in the Letter 
above, thcTartarian Princes^ and others ad joy ning, doe 
at this very day. 
That this Linnen was very well known to the indents y 
befide that of Plhyy we have the further teftimony of 
Calius l^odiginus, who agrees with the Letter^ placing 
both the material J and manufailure of it in India s j and 
T aulus Venetus mox(t particularly mTartary^ the Empe" 
TQur whereof, he fays, fenta piece of it to Pope^/^;v- 
lander^* It is alfo mention'd by /^is^rre? i zvxA Tur9iebus in 
his Commentary w^onYiim^ de Lingua LatK And by all 
of them as a thing inconlumable by fire. In thefe latter 
ages; Geo. Jgri€olatt\h\xs, that there was a Mantle of 
this Linnen at Verehurg in Saxany ^ s and Simon Majolus 
fays, hefawanother of it atLax^am expofed to the fire^ 
Salmuth alfo acquaints us that one Podocattarus a Cyprian 
Knight fliewed it publickly at Venice^ throwing it into ^ 
the yzr^ without Icruple or hurt"*i and Mr. Laffells faw 
apiece of it in the curious Cabinet of "Manfred Sept alia ^ 
Canon of Milan Mr. ^^ly wasfliewed a purfe oi it by 
theVrincQ Palatifi Heidlebergy which he (aw put into 
a pan o£ burning Charcoal till it was throughly ignite, 
which when taken out and cool, he could not perceive 
had received any harm^ 5 and we are told in the Burgun- 
dianPhilofophy.of a long Rope of it,fcnt fvom Stgnior Bocco- 
ni to the French King 6c kept by Monfieur Marchand in the 
Kings gardens at Paris ^ which though fteeped in oyle^^nt 
in the/r^, is not conlumed p. To which add,that \^e have 
now leen a piece oit]\\^Linneny^2L{s the fierry triall both at 
/ C Pl1niii<i'. Lib. rji- cap, i ^ Caelii Rhodigini Leftjonum AntFq. Lib. iS'I capj 31; fe. M, 
?auli, Ycncti deRegionibusOrientalib. Lib. i.cap. 4.7. i Andr. Turnebi Comment, in Varr. 
de Lingua Lar. Geo. Agricol e de natura FofliHum Lib. j. / Sim, Maioli dierum CanicHl. part. 
I. coUoq.ao. m Hen Salmuth in Pancirolli rer. deperdic. Tit. 4.» Rich. Laflels Voyage into Italy 
Eart. 1. 0 Rjy'sOiiiervat. Topograph*. &c, pap. 83. p Philofoph. Barg,und. Tom. j. Tiaft. 
