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fince found at a PUe call’d Of^oMk^t 
Moor in your County, ^ 
would give \ou my Opinion 5 which I ^all the rathe 
do that you may fee I am not unmindful of your Favours, 
bu» am willing to make all pojfMe Returns I can. 
• i. 2 . Thtk Inllrnntents it appears from your Letor are 
of Brafs, and are five or fix in number, but oi ^ different 
Sieves, from a little more than three to four Incnes and a 
half in length, and from one and a half to two and a halt 
in breadth. They are fomewhat m form of a 'M??. as 
proceeding from a thin Edge to one and a halt or two 
Ikhes at the thlchr End, where they are hoUomd to put 
upon a Shaft. Each of them has an Ear or Loo?, wh.ch 
that I raay'^the better perceive the /tfmo/, you have bc^ 
at the Pains of adding the Draught ot one, accurately 
done by your felf. From your exaS and nu-e Relmion 
’tis plain that they are juft like that we have m the &p.- 
fitory adioyning to the Bodlejan Library at Oxford. Jhis 
has been kept there for feveral but where twas 
difeovered there, is not the leaft j\^nsor,al to inform us. 
Perhans it misht be procur’d by Dr. Plot when he was 
writing the Natural tHJlory of Stafordjhire, where he 
has Cb) mentioned feveral InUruments oi the fame kind 
dug up in that County: You have told nie that tis your- 
Opinion that thefe Inflruments were the Heads oj C:pears 
or walking Staves of the eroifeV Rr’ta.ns zn<X for Cn«- 
iirmation of it you refer me to Speed s l^ory of Great 
Britain, (0 where he has publilhd the the 
antient Britains both before and after they were av.l.^d. 
You acknowledge however that ihe7t>f’t of the Spears there 
are fomewhat different from thofe we are now confiderm|. 
And indeed they are not only fiwewbat hut ^altogether dijfjer 
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(i)-y«Chap.X. 19. &c. (r) L. \. (.7. 
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