wasalthat-wasknowii in FUnfs tlm^^ wio coefefe it 
" was ¥eiy difficult m wmvt hj j^albe ®f its Jhmtmeff^ Mf- 
fi^ih te^xm fmftBT krmitMem^ * infomQcli that I gnrfs 
f hey nfed iome to ^efeS it, w&t difc0f»'d by A^thm-i^ 
fpiniBiigitpedapsfitfltfogcdierwith J^3^ aBdf9 wear- 
ing it i oto foy whicli meaiu 'tis lifcelj it inight Jhaiig 
f ogetlier af tef twas the.i'» beiegfamf jaway 
pcm tlie firft expofiog it to the fi^rj triaE j m elfc if tbcf 
it mloTC, perkaps they m%bt iBoiften it with G®»- 
imter^ t>r Ibme other lecli giutimm Uqmm^ to make it 
hang the better together^doriiig the^m^^^aod wml^g 
It mmdiyth^ which though burnt away upon the firft tK- 
f trimmt^ ytt the jfmiantus omc woven, in all probabili- 
ty might thea hang together well enough ot it 
Iel£ 
Thus baring Ihewn the Af.p^^(?//how ^w^/^/i^/)^^^ 
poffibly thisTWiWr^/ may befpun into thnd, and confe- 
quently work't intof/^^^Z'inour letusnext confider 
to what nfes it ever was, or may be put. As to the for- 
mer whereof P/mjinforms us, th^t Shraudj^ of this Linnen 
were anciently ufed, at the l^y^l Oifiquies ot to 
wrap up their Corps in, fo as that the ^^^j of their ^^///W 
might be preferved diftinft from tha/e of the rp^i?^ which 
mside tht funeral Ptle 'y and theL^if^^r acquaints us that 
the PrincesoiTartary, a^ K^eay^arear Sukradana was cre- 
dibly informed, doe uie fueh at this day for burning their 
deadi which I have had fo well confirmed from other 
hand^fincemy receipt of that Letter, that I have little 
reafon to doubt of the thing; there being no incapacity 
on the part of the A : of which though, ^stho. Letter 
fays, fomeisnot fo^(?c^as the reft (as 'tis in molt other- 
tommoditys) yet I doe not find there is any fo but will 
fofar relift the fire,^ as to perform this c^r^: for though 
it muft be acknowledged;it does^i!;w/w///7 every time it un- 
Jt C.Piinli H. B. Lib. cap. 2i ' ' ' 
