This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 Excerpt: ...when I began to consider it. Conjectures in Affairs of this nature are allowable, and accordingly I have made use of them; but I have endeavour'd to keep my self within the Bounds of Modejly, and I leave the whole to your better Sagacity. If I have suggested any thing that may be of use to you, as well as serve to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 Excerpt: ...when I began to consider it. Conjectures in Affairs of this nature are allowable, and accordingly I have made use of them; but I have endeavour'd to keep my self within the Bounds of Modejly, and I leave the whole to your better Sagacity. If I have suggested any thing that may be of use to you, as well as serve to gratify your Curiosity, it will be abundant satisfaction to, SIR, Oxon. Dec. Your oblig'd humble Servant, 20th 1709. Tho. Hearne. SINCE the Publication of this Discourse I find that Begerus y hath given some Account of the same kind of Instruments. He reckons them amongst the ancient celtes, which were chiefly made use of in cutting Inscriptions upon Sepulchral Monuments. And this Opinion will very well agree with, and in no small measure confirm, what I have noted, viz. that they are some of the ancient Chissels. And being found in Forreign Countries, as well as Britain, we may from thence learn that they are not properly Britijh Weapons, but rather Roman. Sepulchral Monuments, amongst the Romans, were look'd upon as very sacred, and severe Punishments were inflicted upon such as presum'd to violate them. Which Mulcts were os Pag. 43. /J Pag. 50. y In p. 419, of the Hid. Vol. of the Jlrandenburg Antiquities. sometimes sometimes pecuniary, and Cautions against their Violation are frequently given in the Inscriptions themselves to such as fliould view them. Hence in a Monument on the East Side of our Theater Yard at Oxford we have a Prohibition against the Alienation of it either by Sale or Gift, and a pecuniary Penalty of 30. thousand Sestertii (for H--S, or rather LL--S, XXX. M. N. is the fame as Sestertii triginta millia nummum) is injoyn'd to such as should be guilty of this Crime; which Money was a great Sum, and was immediately to be lodg'd i...
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