What is "urnes"

Usage examples of "urnes".

We conceive not these Urnes to have descended thus naked as they appear, or to have entred their graves without the old habit of flowers.

A Part of the Field being designed to be inclosed, while the Workmen made several Ditches, they fell upon divers Urnes, but earnestly, and carelessly digging, they broke all they met with, and finding nothing but Ashes, or burnt Cinders, they scattered what they found.

And therefore if we fall so low, as to conceive there were buried in this Nation but Twenty Thousand Persons, the Account of the buried Persons would amount unto Four Millions, and consequently so great a Number of Urnes dispersed through the Land, as may still satisfy the Curiosity of succeeding Times, and arise unto all Ages.

Unto these of our Urnes none here can pretend relation, and can only behold the Reliques of those persons who in their life giving the Laws unto their predecessors, after long obscurity, now lye at their mercies.

The treasures of time lie high, in Urnes, Coynes, and Monuments, scarce below the roots of some vegetables.

Great Princes affected great Monuments, And the fair and larger Urnes contained no vulgar ashes, which makes that disparity in those which time discovereth among us.

The present Urnes were not of one capacity, the largest containing above a gallon, Some not much above half that measure.