First and second volumes of chronicles : comprising 1. The description and historie of England, 2. The description and historie of Ireland, 3. The description and historie of Scotland

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eription ofEngland. The def fable) other catch: Liquoz,as both the other. Some fate(er rather feundin the thebirds, d eth irhar of time the fhilfall and cunning, alto thofe that ate in faile bid (ping Calt this a that d of (uch thant afterwards x=tfowltng, that and heansof our perdjes and catps mud) Defire ffones Chichetfer, of bithop belaich are 110 as bauethe fone, pet of themfelnes confunte fo reftozed to the profit of the was iontt interceff bis bp butrather fyelso? grifiles, which in time plo courfe(fuch és the {uperffition of the people)ixi res thofe ibid ate nothing. This pet will J ad, that if nce thereof, 02 peraduentute fox the scale membza the of ant ignioz found in mufkels (for J am ptterlic Walid) men and falters d10 beare brito it the fihich bane Z , indeed pearle god generation of pearls) be chard de la lich their countriman,thep dfed of late of ounce an than moze ed at fundpie times gather times onbis date (fthich commeth onceitt the peare) ie entered bp tapiftrie, them,of obich viuerfe bauebolesalread TO tobang this falt (peng 02 fwell about toith ateat to ur tnferto much not them of fome nature, and tohaue fundzie games, Drinbings, and foltfh res fundzte colours, peafonint quantitic, and thereto of nels at it. wut to proceed. Mhere be a great number ht from agit hapencth amongtt tnd) as are broug of falt cotes about this well, therein the falt tuater ahen the efferlie coat to Saffron Taialven in ent,d muls és fonnert in leans, and brought to the perfection of fo fwant of fet);fale stinking fh and foelke pure iibite falt, Zhe other tivo falt fpgings be on the to is fifth other fo meat5 gad tobe t kels are though leGt fide of the riera pretie twaic lotwer than the firt, péere atnongtt bs Hhen latw doth bind 68 to bleit, and(as 3 found)at the berie endof the totune, at pe defcri the int ls ofpear ation gener the r S5é@ morefo thefe alt be diuerfe formaces to mabefalt, but the r infow ton of Scotland, fo3 there pou thal be furthe profit and plenitie of thele tion are nothing comparae omed out of Boctius é that bebalfe. hep are called the gaine that rifeth by the qreatetl.J afked of ttent,becaufe of the tlerenofle, thich vefembleth the 20 bie to bots manie fornacesthep bad at all the thee falter a fun, the of g therifin before aire colour of the clare fprings,aw he numbed themte eightanefcoze,that They areallo fought for in the tater end of Augutt, a ts,threburidied and firtie,fateng bots eneri¢one of ocivis the of le fineetne the time hich before little them paicd pearelie fir tilings ano eight pence to mof€ conuentent forthat bind of fit),abich Doth ine thebing . Zhe truthis that of olp thep ban liberties genderand conceine them, abete foyme is Gat,and mud like onto a lempet. The farther nozth alfo that Gitien ditto them for three hundzed foriiaces 02 mare, Offaltmadein England. asit was, but the number of foxnaces is not ine created to foure hundzed. There was of late {earch mane for another falt fpaing there abonts, by the meanes of one Melwport a gentleman dielling at and theretpon thep gtue a fee farme (02 VcCtigal) of one bunitzed pounds pearelie, Certes the penfion ts thep be found the brighteris thete colour,¢ their fabs ftanices of better balure,aslapidaries Do giue out, a Chap.t 3. yeasBG Were are ti England certein toelles tere falt ts made, ABFA) PEPCR hereof Leland bath tozitter He Oe abundantlicit bis comentar the Ulich, and the place here if was apereth,as Dothalto the tomand fimber ebich was (et abontif, tokepe bp the earth from fallinginto the fame. But Thedefcription of England. actnplenigs, thole Wanted {pringsate notwdecateo, neither of the valureof mettall , whereof thep haute and thep be infoicen to feeke their tod fo faras Wiorcetker folvne,and all the parts about Went benemane,as gold, fluer,sc: and almoft no abbete or religions houfe without fome of them. Zbhis round pole wood for the mol ,abichiseatietobecleft, tempoall boures 07 dates, our nation bath 10 re» pearelic,and to euerie load gorth fiueo2 Grquarters -therifing of balfe afigne , the other of a thole figne, ag thep make thefr accounts. 3f the foxnace men make move i one fornace than foure loans,itis(as tis faid)(mploied to their one auatle, And thus much bath Leland left in memroate of our thtte falt, -Shfchis mm thvoboures (pace, therof Parke femeth to {peakecap.15¢25,a8 the reft of the enangelifts (peaand he alfo tbtd.berf.3 3 )omofthe other, Math. 2745 Luke 23044,Jobn ry b 14) it Houlobe but {iho in an other bake, not nowin my bands,bath in bate. Jn like fozt,theras the eloer degppfians, graue, Alchiteh, and Alcefter. J afkena falter hotv mud wodbhe fapofed pearelie to betpent at thefe foynaceszand he anflwered that byeltimation there twas confurned about fr thoufmdload,and it was gard,and therefore to fhetw thetr quantitiesotfierens andbhandfomelieriuen inpeces, Thepeople that are about the foxnaces ave eric ill coloured, and the tuff io ces, and dinifions , into the greater mbthe lefler, (abereof the later conteineth one bnequall houre 03 rate of cuerie foxnace tsto make foure loadsoffalt touched the making. alfo of bate faltin fome partof Hfalians,Bohemians, latter Athentens, and Jews out countrieBut fith that bokets deliteredagaine begin their date at thefunfet over. night ; the Pers to the otoner, the tractation of baie falt can not be 20 fans, WBabplonfans, Orectans, and Mozibergians, framed im anie ozver, bicaufe mp memorie fill -_at the fanrifing (ech of them accompting their daies andnights by dnequall houres) allo the cloer Athes tiot ferne to thetv the true maner and theplace. Jt hall {uffice therfore fo haue giuenfuch notice ofit,te -itfens, Arabfans, Dutdnten , Gmbers, Betrurts the entd the reader map know Ghat afwwell thebateas ans,and Aftronomers at high none, and foreckon fhite are wrought and made in Cngland,andmow ‘front none to none : tee after Hipparcius and the thite alle bponthe welt coatttoward Scotland, in latter Aegvptians, 02 fo fpeake move peoperlie, titi Glerandelfe there, out of thefalt water betiwene -_tating the Koman maner bled in the church there of Wire and Cokermouth, ehichcommontie is of like Growing here in Cnglano, Of our accompt oftime & hirparts, this pit was not fince occupied, abetherit were foa grination and labozionstraucl ouce Crgland, be faith thus: dram Wioiectter Jroad to the Wid bp inclofen foile, hauing mectlic gad comeground, fuitictent od md god patture about.a firmiles off, With Mandeth fometbat tr aballte o2low grout, betiwirt tino fmall bils on the left ripe (fof be.cale leth the banke of enerie broke through out all bis Crgltith treatites) of a pretie river trhich not fae hee neath the Wich is called Salope broke. The beautic of the totone it maner ftandeth tt one treet, pot be there manic lanes tnthe towne befides. There te ale Ha meane charch tu the maine ret, ad once tt the wecke ant iiffercnt round mathet, The totone of it felfe ts fometkbat foule and durtic Uben anie Taine fatletty Lp reafon of nuh certage thzough the Mreets, Lich are derie tit patted ov rather not pancd Rall. Mhe queat eduancemrent allo hereof isby mar Wurg of falt!And though the connnopitte thereof be fingular great, pet the burgetes be paze general: Ute, bicanfe gentlemen bane for he mol part gots thn the great qaine of it into thete bands, thitet: % common WC paye bungelfes prelotato ett the laboue . Chere glegne w a Suatawe prefent time thee bandied falters ,and> eee {hringsitt the totone of Which, ubereof the fhithout ante bfe,fith the Tich men bane fach a pate uilege, that thep alone inthofe quarters thall baue the making of falt. he pits be fo fet abont with gute ters, that the falt water ts eafilic trrned to eucrte mans boufe, and at Mantwich beric manie troughs go oucrthe riuer for the commoditic of fudyas Diwell .¢ ontheother fide of the fame, They {eth alfo thetic falt water in fopnaces of lead, and lave ont the falt fonnte in cafes of wicker, thronah abte the water Diairteth,and the falt rematrieth, There be alfotwo 03 thre but eric little falt {pritigs at Dertwitd, ina low bottome,bere faltis fometime made, OFlate alfo amile from Cumb:zemere abbate a pece of arbiil vip finke, and in the fame pit rofe a fpzing of falt mater, bere the abbat begaw to make falt; but the men of the citic compounded with the Abbat ¢ coticiitahat there Gould be none made there, tibereby the pit was fuffered to go toloffe. Aud ale though tt peloed falt water fill of it felfe,pet. ft was fpofied at the lattann filled vp with filth.) The Wid men vfe thecimonitic of their fait fpzings tr D2atv« ing and decdeting the water of themoniie by Gir m0 neths in! the peare , thet is, from spiofummer to Qyititmas;as{z gefle) to mainteine the price of falts or for fauinitgf tumd,tbich % thinke to be their p2tne cipall reafowy Sor making of falt is a great and nor tabledeftrndion of toad,and hail be greater bereal* the tight rtpe coz Ditte,tor one exe ts Within a buthat of ter; erceptfome pronifion be mabe for the better iv creafeof. firing, Ihe lacke of towd alfo ts alreadte: dafyoatane fis fying ts Doudlef profitable én peelding of Lalt thep dicb to buieanptake.tix it iomd nevre bato thelt hie) of the river that there cometh dowwne: and Mane diem Graca gens sncipit astraifequentes Inmediolucts Indaw vefperefanta; Inchoatecclefia mediafia tempora notte, And this ts our generall order fo2 the nafurall date, ODFthe artifictall tue make & farreaccompt, as that fue reckonit daie then the funis bp,and night then 2 Subats Aim afstothe thefun leauethour hozison . Mtherinile alfo twe die F, Romans fo, their weight, utde it into ttwo parts, that ts to fate, foxenone and and the fotin ffandard mea xo after none,not regarding therupdie, hintng, buce 4 fure : fo in sur accompt of ning and arming feafons(of thee bnequall boures the parts of time, we take a piece, tahich others {eeme to dinide into fpeing time, 4) the date confifting of foure fummer, autumne, and iwinter, in Ike curfous N72 andtwentiehontes,tobe the manner) and thereof 3 read thefe berfes: FASE greater of the leatt, amd teat Solis equi lncis dicuntur quatuor hore, Chap. 14. lackeof plentic ofthe falt fpzirig,o2 for letting 02 bine ez ante thing of mite oione to bim,ercept tthe there Heceflitic darth inforce mre for the mere ald of toe reader, in the budetitanding of bis mind. Direaing therefore bis fournte from Worcetter inbis peres long time, choofe the berie point of midnight ; front pice with our teat. Finallie, hauing thus inters tehence Wwe accomipttiwelucequall houres nto mi: inebleo ote avtificiall falt with our minerals,let 0S 30 Daik infuing, and other tiveluc againe bute the as --fonefaid point, according to thele beries; gite oner,and go in band twith {uch mettals asare dering of the profit of the other thee, we fhinke that éf twmd and fale of falt ipoulo ferue, thep might dig rae ries of ‘WSritaine , aro trhofe & words onlts 4 twill fet dotwne go and fittd moze falt {prings aboutthe alich than thee, ye) but there is fomtetthat clfein the wind. 3fo2 J beard in Cnglith as be wrote them, Fax> abicantebe feemeth to haue bad that of late peates a (alt {pring was found in an priciest ther quarter of GMorcefterthire, but tt grety to be be a Diligent confineration of the fame, Without adding é«| ortelic fhall (uffice to note here (as by the waie ) that a8 antiquitie hath delighted in thefe things,fo in our time pompe and ercefle fpendeth all , and nothing is regarded that bringeth in nobjead. DF onequall 02 oe of the greatett, aherebp tie keepe our reckoning: Hecrubet.prac/plendet pac calet, lla tepet. toallinen, Ztwtlt fet notwne fomte Thort rehearfall vis cholerae medias lucisféx vendicathoras. theteof, aun that tn fo baiefe manner as bnfomeis poMible', As foyour aftronomicall pracifes 5 3 Ditque melamprimas nottis,tres luck iments Centralesponasfex nottisphlegmaris boras. Anvedour phpfictans have another partition of fo: of the houre (to fate the truth) the moft ancient Romans, Greeks, no2 Aebmnes bad anie ble; fith the daie,asmenof noleffe learning nodonbt than thepreckonenbp watches: athereof allo Cenfothe beftof foxrencountries, if wecould foconceiue tinus cap.19. fhetveth ateaton tberefore they iwere 5° of them. And herein thep concurre alfo tuith thofe of hegleced, $02 mp part Z donot (é anie great differ other nations,the fo2 diftindion in regimentof our tence ofed tn the obfernatton oftime ¢ bir parts, be -humo28, Diuide the artifictall baie amd night in fudy twene our otone¢anp other foyren nation,aberfoie -twifeas thefeberfes Da tmport, amd ate indeeDa geo IHallnot ned toftandlongonthis matter, Wows _nevall rule tetch ech of them doth follow: beit:to the end oureract order herein hall apeere bry Lresluctsprimassnottis tresfanguinis was, Meane notte meddle toith them , ith their couric is 2 thus, as Tanfterer bath giuett thers feoth it Snifdrmelienbrervevonet all, Dur cominon order o yis preledions: therefneis to begin at theminut , tbtch conteineth A ona nottisdoneofit tertia bitit, Patt of anhoure', as at thefmalleft partof time ine bute the people, notivithfanding that in Est dominusfangwis,fexinde,‘fequientibus hotis Et dominans cholera, duris licis noma fit bore Quarter‘o? quarter of the houre ; and from thence Pokthecphlegmavenit,dinecfit nona queetis. Molt places they Dofcend no lotver than the balfe ree Proceed onto the houre, to twit; the: foure' and Pott nigerhumidinet donecfit tertia nots; An Englith thus inettet : nso partof that ahic) tuccall the common and Threehoures yerfn doorife, o Urall date, tbich daoth begin at midnight, anvis and fo manieafter, blud, ecued continnallie by clockes, Dialles, and aftror boa inffruments of all fozts . the artificialt From fiineto three at after noone, hatidioler beares the fwaie, ao of ibich Kind of tware is fo great here it Euenfo'to nine atnight, perceiaed im places neere the CAich , for, thereas b Ngland, astro place elfe (imine opitiion) car be Ompatable therein to this le. J twill not fpeake occupl' Of the cof bettowen vpon thent in perle and fone, fwart cholet hath ro rule, AS phlegme from dience to three at morne; fix houres ech one I faic. an.