Of 0 XFOTip^S Hi^E. 
111. Which ArmilU it feems were fomtimes fingle, and fom - 
times curiouily link'd together. Thus the fix bracelets of King 
Roricus above-mentioned, are faid to have been, ha mutuis nexi- 
bus involuta6 nt ah invicem JequeHrari nequirent^ nodorum inextrica^ 
biliter ferie cohderente \ /. e. fo inextricably involved one within 
another, that there was no parting them. The Learned Bart ho- 
lin alfo informs us, that fomtimes the Armilla had a Ring hung 
to it. Ejl tavien Armill<£ fuu6 quandoque circulu^ ^ : And that when 
rings are thus^hung to bracelets^ there is always fome my^iery in it, 
quod annuli ArmilliA ferepngantur non caret myfterio ™. Where by 
AnnillcX. he means or '^W/'^S ornaments for the mijis^ 
and by annuli and circuity ornaments for the fingers : ArmilU iJ 
brachio pr defiant ^ quod digitls annuli i. e. that bracekts have the 
fame ufe on the wrifi, that rings have on the finger. 
112. Now that ours was an Armilla, is plain enough, for 
chat the great Copper ring is of fom what above three inches dia- 
meter^ and big enough to enconipafs any ordinary mans wrift * 
theleifer ironone^ 2nd green ring of glafs^ being additional or;zdt- 
ments, efpecially the latter, which queftionlefs was put on to re- 
prefent an Emrauld ; that fort of ^ione^ as Pignoriu^ and Bartho- 
lin both teftifie, being much ufed in bracelets ° : which makes md 
think it the bracelet but of fome ordinary perfon, the Armilla it 
felf being copper^ .with which, faith Bartholin, only the vulgar 
adorned themfelves, Armill<£<£re<£, plebcde cenfendde funt P,and the 
appendent glafi but a counterfeit Jewel. 
1 13. For eminent places in this County^ during the Govern- 
m.ent of the Saxons 2Lnd. Danes in Britan^ we may reckon firfl: Ban- 
bury^ then called Banerbypi^, where Kenric, the fecond Weft-Saxori 
King, aboutthe year 540, put to flight the Britans, fighting for 
their lives, eftates, and all they had After the Conqueft^ about 
the year 1 125. it was ftrengthned with a Caftle by Alexander the 
then great Biiliop of Lincoln ; and fince that, Jan. 26. 1° Maride^ 
made a Burg o'c Burrough con{-i?i\ng of a Baylif^ 12 Aldermen^ 
and I 2 Burgeffes, in recompence of their faithful fervice done to 
the faid Queen Mary (as 'tis expreft in their Charter') in manful- 
ly refilling John Duke of Northumberland that rebelled againft 
her ; whence 'tis plain this Tox^n was ever zealo^6 in matters of 
^ Sax Gram.Bjft. Van. lib. I. p. 2\.D. Edit. Opermi. * Tho. Barthol'm. Schedion de Arm.Vct,^ 4^. p.d^i, 
^ Idem^^. in pr 'iJicip. " Ibidem. » Vid. Laurenthmi Pignoriumde Servis. Et Bartho/in. SchLdio7i lic Ar- 
villi- §•3./'. 37. ^ Idem §■ 7,. de ArtKil/aru?n materia, p. ']2. ^ Ca?Kd. Bntafh !» Oxf. 
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