The upper Part of the Work being broke, and opened, they found a Floor about Two Foot below, and then digging onward, Three Floors successively under one another, at the Distance of a Foot and Half, the Stones being of a Slatty, not Bricky, substance; in these Partitions some Pots were found, but broke by the Workmen, being necessitated to use hard Blows for the breaking of the Stones; and in the last Partition but one, a large Pot was found of a very narrow Mouth, short Ears, of the Capacity of Fourteen Pints, which lay in an enclining Posture, close by, and somewhat under a kind of Arch in the solid Wall, and by the great Care of my worthy Friend, Mr. _William Masham_, who employed the Workmen, was taken up whole, almost full of Water, clean, and without Smell, and insipid, which being poured out, there still remains in the Pot a great Lump of an heavy crusty Substance. What Work this was we must as yet reserve unto better Conjecture. Mean while we find in _Gruter_ that some Monuments of the Dead had divers Holes successively to let in the Ashes of their Relations, but Holes in such a great Number to that Intent, we have not anywhere met with. About Three Months after, my Noble and Honoured Friend, Sir _Robert Paston_, had the Curiosity to open a Piece of Ground in his Park at _Oxnead_, which adjoined unto the former Field, where Fragments of Pots were found, and upon one the Figure of a well-made Face; but probably this Ground had been opened and digged before, though out of the Memory of Man, for we found divers small Pieces of Pots, _Sheeps_ Bones, sometimes an _Oyster_-shell a Yard deep in the Earth, an unusual _Coin_ of the Emperor _Volusianus_, having on the Obverse the Head of the Emperor, with a Radiated Crown, and this Inscription, _Imp. Cæs. C. Volusiano Aug._ that is, _Imperatori Cæsari Caio Vibio Volusiano Augusto_. On the Reverse an Human Figure, with the Arms somewhat extended, and at the Right Foot an Altar, with the Inscription, _Pietas_. This Emperor was Son unto _Caius Vibius Tribonianus Gallus_, with whom he jointly reigned after the _Decii_, about the Year 254; both he, himself, and his Father, were slain by the Emperor _Æmilianus_. By the Radiated Crown this Piece should be Coined after his Death and Consecration, but in whose Time it is not clear in History. Concerning the too nice Curiosity of censuring the Present, or judging into Future Dispensations. We have enough to do rightly to apprehend and consider things as they are, or have been, without amusing our selves how they might have been otherwise, or what Variations, Consequences and Differences might have otherwise arose upon a different Face of things, if they had otherwise fallen out in the State or Actions of the World.