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of the body of one that had been Rdhr of Wendkhury^ taken up 
in the ri;«rci? there near forty years after he had been buryed, 
whofe flefh yet look'd as red (as I was informed by the Incumbent, 
fince alfo dead) as raw beef-, which whether it might not be caufed 
by the fetriffing qualities of the earths and waters about that 
Town^ would be an experiment worthy the trial of the Ingenious 
thereabout ; or about Sommerton or North Afton^ where it would 
be eafie to try whether fledi were fo inclinable to corrupt in fe- 
trifying^zttxh 2iS others. But if this prove the caufe, all bodies 
muft equally be preferved there,as well as that. De quibm qudsre. 
53. And thus I had finiHi'd this eigbtb Chapter-, but that I 
muft beg leave to acquaint the Reader^ that fince the Printing the 
21 of it, I have found the Quintan amongft the Roman exerci- 
fes (which yet perhaps they might borrow from the Greeks') by 
the name of Quintana ; fo called, by reafonthe Romans in their 
Tents md.de f\ri[ four wajs in manner of a Crofs^ to which adding a 
j/iftb on one fide, it w^s czlied Quint ana *. In this way they fetup 
a great Fo^} about fix foot high, fuitable to the ftature of a man^ 
\nd this the RomanSoldlcrs were wont to affail, with all Inftru- 
ments of mr^ as if it were indeed a real enemy ; learning upon 
this, by the affiftance of the CamfidoSiores, how to place their 
blows aright. And this they otherwife called exercitium ad Fa- 
lum ; and fomtimes Palaria-, the form whereof m,ay be feen in 
Vulturiff^ * : which pradice being in ufe during their Government 
here, in all likelyhood has been retained among us ever fince, be- 
ing only tranflated in times of Peace, from a miliiary., to a fportivc 
marriage exercife. 
* Vid. Gttid. TanchroUutrt) Rer. memeral>itium, hb. 2. tit- 21. * l» Augu^ams Mmttmentis-^ / • 2 3 7- 
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