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afc THE HISTORY Book L Uow popularly prevails! at Manchefter, and which turns Chimncjr into Chjjnbley, appears to have defcended to us from the antienf Britons of Mancunium. — And fee Suetonius in Vitellio c* 8. for Caininus a Chimney.— 11 Pliny, lib. xvi. c. 36. — " Sbinglerk ufed id an anient ftatute as an appellation fynonymous with Thatcher. So in 5 Eliz. fefit. 30. Tiler, Slater ', or Heller, and Tlmtcher or Shingkr. — ,3 Pliny lib. xvi. c. 10.— I+ Pliny lib. vii. e. 56. Th* (Germans on the continent had no tiles ; Ne — apud illos— tegu.- larum lifts (Tacitus de Mor. Germ. c. 16). — ,s Pliny lib. xxxVi. <3?22. — •* He^rne's Stunsfield Pavement in Leland vol. viiL p-30.. -*- 17 Gvioedeu is undoubtedly derived from the verb Guened to* Tee, a v#rb in Lhuyd under the article Candle. And this fuper«- ftdes Stance the many forced etymologies of the word. The' fibal part of the word is moft probably Aduy ; and both toge*" the*, GRined-aduy or Guined-duy, fignify literally the feeeing^ holes. — M Seneca Ep» 90. — " Pliny lib. xix* c+$± and Martial lib. viif. E. 1 4- — " See b. II. ch. viii. f. 3. The Lapis Spe^ulari*' However v fecms plainly to have been ufed for thofe ©ye-glaffes which we 'odflly <fiftingut<h at pfefent by the Roman name of Speftactrfa or $pe#actes, the Jtrifli <r4lii«g them" to diis 'day ;by : the Roman najtae of the ifihg-glafs windciwy Spec^Iare or Sj>eafc> ' lain— *' In LancaAke wt ft ill proaounee the word in thfe-Britifli ifianner, changing the M Into P,- *nd trailing it Tranfoj}.-^

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