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Popular Antiquities:

Including the whole of

Mr. BOURNE's Antiquitates Uulgares,
With ADDENDA to every Chapter of that Work:
As alfo, An
An APPENDIX,
Containing fuch Articles on the Subject, as have been omitted
by that Author.

By JOHN BRAND,
Of LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD.

A. B.

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

SALLUST. ad. CES.

Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, fagas,
Nocturnos lemures, portentague Thessala rides?

HORAT.

"Sculp!"

NEWCASTLE

UPON TYNE:

Printed by T. SAINT, for J. Johnson, No. 72, St Paul's Church-
Yard, London, 1777.

An Account of feveral of their OPINIONS and CEREMONIES.

WITH

Proper REFLECTIONS upon each of them; fhewing 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.

NEWCASTLE:

Printed by J. WHITE for the AUTHOR.

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