ON

Popular Antiquities:

Including the whole of
Mr. BOURNE's antiquitates Uulgares,
With ADDENDA to every Chapter of that Work:
As also, An

An A P P E N D I X,
Containing such Articles on the Subject, as have been omitted

by that Author.

By JOHN BRA N D, A. B.

Of LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD.

Multitudo Vulgi, more magis quam judicio, poft alium alius quasi pru-
dentiorem fequitur.

SALLUST. ad. CES.
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No&urnos lemures, portentaque Thejala rides? HORAT.'

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An Account of several of their OPINIONS

and CEREMONIES.

WITH

Proper REFLECTIONS upon each of

them; shewing which may be retained, and which ought to be laid aside.

By HENRY BOURNE, M. A. Curate

of the Parochial Chapel of All-Saint's,
in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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WILLIAM CARR, Esq; Mayor.
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