by whom > But fuch, as not fo much for Confcience, as 
for lucre-fake, broach and intrude them upon a credulous 
giddy fort of people, whofe applaufe they firft catch, and 
then their purfes. But leaving thefe fpiritual Moontsbanks, 
and their counterfeit ware, New Lights only in pretence , 
I (hall here acquaint you with a piece of Ne\¥ Light in- 
deedj but of another kind, preferited and held forth upon 
no account or aim at all of profit or advantage to the pub- 
iifher ^ (but if he miftakes not) of good ufeand profit (in 
point of knovv^Iedge) unto otherSjClearned Antiquarks z.rA 
Naturalifis^ as I fuppofe) of more skill, infight and judg* 
ment, ( if they pleafe to employ them on this occalion ) 
in things fo rare and extraordinary, than he can, doth, or 
would be thought to pretend unto. Well, to the matter 
of fad then. 
Mxjohn Somne'>\ in the month of September^ 1668, fink- 
ing a W^U at a new Houfe of his in Chartham^ a Village 
aboiit 5 miles from Canterbury^ towards Afofird^ on a (helv- 
ing ground, or bankfide, within 12 tods of the River.run- 
ning from thence to Canterburji^ and fo to Sandwich Haven ^ 
and diggirg for that purpofe about feventeen foot deep, 
through gravelly and chalky ground, and two foot into 
the Springs 5 there met v/irh, took and turned up a parcel 
of ftrange and monftrous Bones, fome whole, fome broken, 
together with four Teeth, perfeft and found, bat in a 
manner petrified, and turned into Stone 5 weighing (each 
Tooth) fomething above half a pound, and almoft as big 
Cfome of thern) as a aians fift. Cheek-Teeth, or Grind- 
ers, as to the form, they are all, nor much unlike, but for 
the bignefs, the Grinders of a Man. And wnereas I faid, 
almofi as big^ fome of them^ as a mans Jifi : it brings to my 
remembrance what I have read in Ludovicm Fives ^ of fucii 
a Tooth, but a little bigger 5 (^de^/s molark p^tgno mujor 3 
he faith : that is, a Cheek-Toothy bigger than a fijp) which 
was fhe wed to him for one of St 6W//%/Se/s Teeth, and 
was kept in a Church that bare his name: which whether 
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