Admirable curiosities, rarities and wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland ... / by Richard Burton.

  • Nathaniel Crouch
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Admirable curiosities, rarities and wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland ... / by Richard Burton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Henry the VIII. cut off his head; this Earl had lately gone over to Flanders to the Lady Margaret, King Henry’s sworn enemy, which made the King doubt of his intentions ; after King Philip had received the Order of the Garter, and King Henry that of the Golden Fleece, the King of Castile departed. In 1558, at Blackmore, in the parish of Armitage, a piece of ground of three acres removed over another close, with the trees and fences thereon, stopping up an high-way which led to Cerne, the hedges inclosing it as before, and the trees standing upright, only one oak of twenty load fell down; in the place whence it removed remained a great deep pit. In 1613, August Sth, the town of Dorchester was consumed with fire, save a few houses near the church, and goods to the value of two hundred thousand pounds, yet no man perished therein. In June, 1653, a black cloud was seen over the town of Pool, which dissolved into a shower of blood, and fell warm upon men’s hands, some green leaves with those drops upon them were sent to London. The Forest of is so called, be- coming hither to taken other deer, beautiful white afterward Tho- a gentleman and killed, for laid a fine upon whole county, the White Hart cause Henry II]. hunt,and having he spared a hart, which mas de Lynd, with others took which the King him, and_ the and the lands they hold pay to this day every year a sum of money into the Exchequer,call- ed, White Hart Silver. Myself, saith Dr. Fuller, have paidashare who neyvertasted so that it seems, is sooner eaten for the sauce, any of the meat, King’s venison than digested. Mr. Ignatius Jordan was born at Lime Regis, - and when young sent to Exeter, DR. FULLER. to be brought up a merchant in this city, he at last came to be mayor, and was a justice of peace twenty-four years; Lj WY Ve, Yt cs
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