and Sentime}2ts. 25 Latin difcus. It is not eafy to identify the forms of vefTels given in thefe pifhires with the words which are found in the Anglo-Saxon language, in which the general term for a veffel is feet, a vat 3 crocca, a pot or pitcher, no doubt of earthenware, is preferved in the modern Englifli word crockery ; and holla, a bowl, ore, a bafin, lledu and mcle, each anfwering to the Latin patera, Icefel and ceac, a pitcher or urn, hncep, a cup (iden- tical in name with the hanap of a later period), ^axe, a flalk, are all pure Anglo-Saxon words. Many of the forms reprefented in the manufcripts No. 1 6. ^ Supper Party. are recognifed at once as identical with thofe which are found in the earlier Anglo-Saxon graves. La the vocabularies, the Latin word am- phora is tranllated by crocca, a crock ; and lagena by cefcen, which means a veffel made of alli wood, and was, in all probability, identical with the fmall wooden buckets fo often found in the early Saxon graves. Li a document preferved in Heming's chartulary of Canterbury, mention is made of " an afcen, which is otherwife called a back-bucket" (crfcen the is othre namon hrygUehuc gecleopad, Heming, p. 393), which ftrongly con- E firms
