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Creatures) here one, and there another; ali single and Current: and nearthe bottom are Stags in Course and Gray hounds purstiing, with an In-Icription (in a Gctb-hke Character os the Greater fort) which sec Fsg. 25.This miy be Yaultni. An Infertplion wiih the like Characters, is to be seenat Burrav- Brigg, and publisht by Dr. Lißer. And ihey have betn Care-sul in Preserving These ; for Tliis and forne other, having been broke, areCramm’d (or rather Soldered) with LeaJ. The $d. Sare is yet far morebeautitulthan any of the Rest, being adorn’d with Gray-Hounds very wellMoulded, and in tullPurfuit of Stags and Hindi, and ih e Wild- Bear \ uponwhich I discover’d the fame Inscriptio», as in the other. And tho’ 1 am notso vain, as to säy this relates to Our Coats of Arms, yet having so aear anAffiniry with it both in Crefi and Charge \ (a. the Stags Head j b, 3 Graj-Hottnds Current ; c. Whelp-Caftle 3 ) and being found ac the place which wecaire from (as is faid and belitv’d) I cannot but take (bme Norice of it.Thtre were stveral other Broken Infcriptims ; and one above the rest uponr, S- -6. the bottom of a Plain Di(h or Platter (on the inside of it ) writ as in Fig. 26.

but whether it stands for Vejpasian Imperator , or Domitianus, or neither ofthem, 1 cannot teil.

As to the Glafs , there was but a very fmall Fragment ofir, I can fcarceguesi theFigure, but I think ita Flute-Glafs madelike a Tunnel or Spire in-versed. It hath been asThick as a Barly Corn.

The Urns were of a LeadmColour inclining to Black • one had been Large,2 Inches thick in thefideof the Pot, but how Bigl know not, for there wasa Sherd only biought to me. The Top was in Diameter from out-side toout side 7 Inc/'.e', of which the Red is l Inches, and the Mouth 3 Inches ;The Keck yet Straighter, and only f of an Inch thick. And many suchare found at this Town, fome of which have Ears and Handies asThick asmy Arm-wrist, and their Heads and Mouths much of this bignefs, butThick-er and Stronger. But the other was almost Entire and whole, tho’ a verylmall one ; in Height 8,- Inches, in Diameter<Sj, at the Mouth almost 3^,and in the Neck more than z j. The Bottom well nigh as Big as the Topexcepting the Ring, and the Body in Thickneß the $tb part of an Inch :but Thickcr fomewhat at the Top and the Bottom.

The Sandais were fome for Älen, fome for Women, and fome for Childrtn ; allf<£. 27. Shaped by their Feet, fpreading moreto the Outfide than to the Inside : andfome were very Large and fome Crooked as g. The Leather was Fresh ofwhich they were made, but very Tender when it camc to be Spread up-on a Last. Each consisted of 3 principal parts; an Z/pper-Leather (or 4 ra-ther Heil-piece with two labs on each sidej an Inner Soal, a. Long 1 ij- In.ches, Broad 3^ ; of 3 or 4 Soals Stitched together with Leathern Thongs;and an Unter Seal, b. of 2, stuck füll of Kalis with little round Heads (soDccay’d and Rotten, that 1 cculd fcarce difeern them to be Iron) Platedon the Inside : and to the Upper Leather (3 Fold in the Heel-piece , c.) issix’d betwixt them and Sowed wich Leather or rather Tacked, which theIron Katls do help to Defend, Yet I think fome Wcmens (of the better fort )had no Najls at all, d. And of thefe there is or.e well worth the Obfervati-

on,