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Gervase says of the same fire, "combusta est Ecclesia S. Andreæ Roffensis et tota civitas cum officinis Episcopi et monachorum," and of the later one that in it the church, with the offices, was burnt and reduced to a cinder. Lambarde, staunch Protestant as he was, saw in these fires a token of God's disapproval of such monastic institutions.
He passes briefly over as lines of little import, the via combusta and the Cingulus Orionis, but lays some stress on the character of the nails and the knitting together of the hand, declaring that hands which can be bent easily backward denote effeminacy or a rapacious spirit.
"Tuque pater Tiberine tuo cum ilumino sancto." "Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem." "Quae neque Dardaniis campis potuere perire Nec quom capta capi, nec quom combusta cremari, Augusto augurio postquam incluta condita Roma est." On the other hand he sometimes falls into pure prose; "Cives Romani tum facti sunt Campani," and the like, are scarcely metre, certainly not poetry.
Eodem anno combusta est villa de Cupro casualiter." Bk. x, ch. xxii. Account of Harlaw
In the criminal registers of Constance there stands against the name of each the simple but significant phrase, "convicta et combusta." This case and hundreds of others were duly reported to the ecclesiastical powers.
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