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I. Fart of Two Letters of Mr. Thoresby, one 
to Dr. Martin Lifter, Felloxv of the CoUedge 
of PhyJicianSj and Royal Society , Dated 
Leeds, 0£t. 30. 16^ j. the other to the 
Ke'verend Dr. Tho. Gale, Dean of York, and 
Dated Lceds^ Nov. 6. J6py. about 
fome Roman Antiquities found in York- 
fliire. 
Leeds J Oil, 30. 1697. 
I Have had pretty good Hap in adding to my Roman 
Curiofities, Two entire Urns, both of the BIewi(h- 
Grey Clay, but different Forms, with fome of the burnt 
Bones, and Two other Veflels of the Red Clay, the 
lefler of them is almoft in the Form of the Roman 
Simpulumcx Guttus^ and by the Narrownefi of the Neck 
ftems rather to have been a kind of Lacrymatory^ or 
Veflel for fome kind of liquid Matter, rather than Aflies, 
the other was part of an Aquedufl:, and is turn d in the 
Form of a Scrue on the infide, and has a narrow Neck 
at one end, to put into the open end of the next, and fe- 
veral of theft (each a Foot long and Four Inches broad) 
were found thus placed in the Roman Burying Place at 
Tork, by the River fide, out of Boutham Bar^ which our 
Learned Dean, Dr, Gale, tells me, fignifies Burning in 
the Britifh Language, and 'twas indilputably the Place 
the Romans made ufe of to tkat end, as appears by the 
great Number of Urns there frequently found, when 
they dig the Clay for Bricks, and that it continued the 
place of their Sepulture after that Cuftom of Burning, 
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