And the succeeding Emperours desisted not from their conquests in these and other parts; as testified by history and medal inscription yet extant. The Province of _Britain_ in so divided a distance from _Rome_, beholding the faces of many Imperial persons, and in large account no fewer than _Cæsar_, _Claudius_, _Britannicus_, _Vespasian_, _Titus_, _Adrian_, _Severus_, _Commodus_, _Geta_, and _Caracalla_. A great obscurity herein, because, no medall or Emperours coyne enclosed, which might denote the dates of their enterrments, observable in many Urnes, and found in those of _Spittle_ Fields by _London_,[26] which contained the Coynes of _Claudius_, _Vespasian_, _Commodus_, _Antoninus_, attended with Lacrymatories, Lamps, Bottles of Liquor, and other appurtenances of affectionate superstition, which in these rurall interrments were wanting. [26] Stowes _Survey of_ London. Some uncertainty there is from the period or term of burning, or the cessation of that practise. _Macrobius_ affirmeth it was disused in his dayes. But most agree, though without authentick record, that it ceased with the _Antonini_. Most safely to be understood after the Reigne of those Emperours, which assumed the name of _Antoninus_, extending unto _Heliogabalus_. Not strictly after _Marcus_; For about fifty years later we finde the magnificent burning, and consecration of _Severus_; and if we so fix this period or cessation, these Urnes will challenge above thirteen hundred yeers. But whether this practise was onely then left by Emperours and great persons, or generally about _Rome_, and not in other Provinces, we hold no authentick account. For after _Tertullian_, in the dayes of _Minucius_ it was obviously objected upon Christians, that they condemned the practise of burning.[27] And we finde a passage in _Sidonius_,[28] which asserteth that practise in France unto a lower account. And perhaps not fully disused till Christianity fully established, which gave the final extinction to these Sepulchral Bonefires. [27] Execrantur rogos, et damnant ignium sepulturam. _Min. in Oct._ [28] Sidon. Apollinaris. Whether they were the bones of men or women or children, no authentick decision from ancient custome in distinct places of burial. Although not improbably conjectured, that the double Sepulture or burying place of _Abraham_, had in it such intension. But from exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of _minor_ age, or women. Confirmable also from things contained in them: In most were found substances resembling Combes, Plates like Boxes, fastened with Iron pins, and handsomely overwrought like the necks or Bridges of Musicall Instruments, long brasse plates overwrought like the handles of neat implements, brazen nippers to pull away hair, and in one a kinde of _Opale_ yet maintaining a blewish colour.