p% The U^tural Hi/lory 
and that from lf^oodftock^ow2LTd Mandueffedum^ now Manchefferlti 
Warwickrfiire^ or rather thd old Etocttum^ now the Wall in Staf- 
fordfiire. 
^c), which are all the raifed banks or deep trenches that I met 
with in Oxford-Jhire^ except the two banhj with a trench between 
them (therefore called dike-hills^ South and by Weft of Dorche-^ 
fler^ which I cannot imagin part of zny Roman way^ becaufe ex- 
tended only as a /Iring to a great bow of the River Ifis^ as defcribed 
in the Maf ; but rather a Fortification, fuch as P, Oficrm Froprx- 
tor here in Britan under Claudiu6^ is faid by Tacitus to have made 
on the Rivers and Sabrina or elfe fome of the Out- 
works of the Fortifications on Long-Witenham hill on the other 
fide the water, which perhaps was the Sinnodunum ' of the an-, 
cient Britans, 
40. Nigh to the raifed ways thus caft up by the Romans, they 
placed the 7i/;;2m//, or Sepulchres of their Ge/7^r^j/y, or fuch o^ 
ther valiant perfons as dyed in the wars-, it being forbid by the 
Law of the 12 Tables to bury within their Cities or Stations, Ho* 
minem mortuum in Vrbe ne fepelito neve urito ^ : And by a penal 
Refcript of the Emperor Hadrian ^ Now the reafon why they 
placed them on the military ways, rather then elfewhere, is given 
us by Camden, viz^. that Paffengers might be put in mind, that as 
thefe here buryed were fomtimes mortal men, that they them- 
felves are no better now : whence perhaps the formula ftill ufed 
on Tombs, Siffe Viator, and monumentum a monendo, 
4t . But I guefs that there could not but be fomwhat more in't^ 
for as it was accounted the greateft dijhonor imaginable to lie un- 
buryed, fo it was a great reputation to the perfon deceafed to be co- 
ver'd with a large Tumulus, which 'tis like might ifi part at leaft 
be the reafon of their placing them fo near the public ways, that 
Paffengers might continually add to the heap, it being look'd up- 
on as piety in them fo to do ; nor fufficedit to throw on a finglc 
handful of earth, but (as may be collefted from Horace^ ufually 
three. For in Archyta^'s rcqueft to the Mariner, that he would not 
fuffer his Body any longer to lye on the fioar unburyed, he makes 
it part of his plea, that notwithftanding the fwift motion of Sea- 
men, yet he might find time enough to throw 3 handfuls of duft. 
* Tacit i Amml Itb. \i. cup.^x. ' tid. Iceland. Cffinment. in Cygneam Cant, in verho Sinnodunum^ 
^ Ex Legikts i-2 .Tab.de Jure Sacroru7n. Fid. efiatn Cicer. de L. L.lii. 2. ' fF. De Sepulchroviolato. L. 
Prator alt, §. Divus HadriaTius. Vid. Camdeni Britan- in Com. W/lu 
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