The Natural History of Wiltshire

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John Aubrey. The Natural History of Wiltshire

The Natural History of Wiltshire

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PART I

PART II

MEMOIRES. OF. NATURALL REMARQUES. IN THE

TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, OBSERVABLES OF THE SAME KIND. IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, AND. FLYNTSHIRE. BY. MR. JOHN AUBREY, R.S.S

GRATII PALISCI CYNEGETICON "O RERUM PRUDENS QUANTUM EXPERIENTIA VULGO MATERIEM LARGILIA BONI, SI VINCERE CURENT DESIDIAM, ET GRATOS AGITANDO PREBENDERE FINES ! ———- DEUS AUCTOR, ET IPSA AREM ALUIT NATURA SUAM."

TO. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE. THOMAS, EARLE OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERIE,

ONE OF THE PRIVY COUNCELL TO THEIR MAJESTIES, AND PRESIDENT OF THE ROYALL SOCIETIE

PREFACE

FOR MR. JOHN AUBREY

JOHN RAY

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. CHOROGRAPHIA

CHOROGRAPHIA: LOCAL INFLUENCES. 11

THE CHAPTERS. PART I

PART II

CHAPTER I. AIR

CHAPTER II SPRINGS MEDICINALL

CHAPTER III. RIVERS

CHAPTER IV. SOILES

CHAPTER V. MINERALLS AND FOSSILLS

CHAPTER VI. STONES

CHAPTER VII. OF FORMED STONES

CHAPTER VIII. AN HYPOTHESIS OF THE TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE. A DIGRESSION

CHAPTER IX. OF PLANTS

CHAPTER X. BEASTES

CHAPTER XL FISHES

CHAPTER XII. BIRDS

CHAPTER XIII REPTILS AND INSECTS

CHAPTER XIV. OF MEN AND WOEMEN

A PROVERB: -

Part of an Epitaph at Colinbourne-Kinston in Wiltshire, communicated to the Philosophicall Conventus at the Musćum at Oxford, by Mr. Arthur Charlett, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford:- "Pray for the soule of Constantine Darrel, Esq. who died Anno Dni. 1400, and……. his wife, who died A°. Dni. 1495." See it. I doe believe the dates in the inscription are in numerical letters. [In this case the former date was probably left unfinished, when the husband placed the inscription to his wife, and after his death it was neglected to be filled up, as in many other instances. The numerals would be in black letter.- J. B.]

CHAPTER XV. DISEASES AND CURES

CHAPTER XVI. OBSERVATIONS ON PARISH REGISTERS, ACCORDING TO THE WAY PRESCRIBED BY THE HONBLE. SIR WM. PETTY, KNIGHT

PART II. CHAPTER I. WORTHIES

PART II. - CHAPTER II. OF THE GRANDEUR OF THE HERBERTS, EARLES OF PEMBROKE. WILTON HOUSE AND GARDENS

PART II. - CHAPTER III. OF LEARNED MEN THAT HAD PENSIONS GRANTED TO THEM BY THE EARLES OF PEMBROKE

PART II. - CHAPTER IV. OF GARDENS: - LAVINGTON GARDEN, CHELSEY GARDEN

PART II. - CHAPTER V. ARTS: LIBERALL AND MECHANICK

PART II - CHAPTER VI. ARCHITECTURE

PART II.-CHAPTER VII. AGRICULTURE

PART II. - CHAPTER VIII. THE DOWNES

PART II-CHAPTER IX. WOOLL

PART II. - CHAPTER X. FALLING OF RENTS

PART II - CHAPTER XL. HISTORIE OF CLOATHING

PART II.-CHAPTER XII. EMINENT CLOATHIERS OF THIS COUNTY

PART II.-CHAPTER XIII. FAIRES AND MARKETTS

PART 1I.-CHAPTER XIV. OF HAWKS AND HAWKING

PART II.-CHAPTER XV. THE RACE

PART II.-CHAPTER XVI. OF THE NUMBER OF ATTORNIES IN THIS COUNTIE NOW AND HERETOFORE

PART II.-CHAPTER XVII. OF FATALITIES OF FAMILIES AND PLACES

PART II.-CHAPTER XVIII. ACCIDENTS

PART II.-CHAPTER XIX. SEATES

PART II.-CHAPTER XX. DRAUGHTS OF THE SEATES AND PROSPECTS

ADVICE TO THE PAINTER OR GRAVER

HOUSES OF LESSER NOTE

PROSPECTS

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John Aubrey

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I think (if you can give me leave to be free with you) that you are a little too inclinable to credit strange relations. I have found men that are not skilfull in ye history of nature, very credulous, and apt to impose upon themselves and others, and therefore dare not give a firm assent to anything they report upon their own autority; but are ever suspicious that they may either be deceived themselves, or delight to teratologize (pardon ye word) and to make a shew of knowing strange things.

You write that the Museum at Oxford was rob'd, but doe not say whether your noble present was any part of the losse. Your picture done in miniature by Mr. Cowper is a thing of great value, I remember so long agoe as I was in Italy, and while he was yet living, any piece of his was highly esteemed there; and for that kind of painting he was esteemed the best artist in Europe.

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