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&c.
CHAP. X. BEASTS :- Deer, Hares, Rabbits, Dogs, Cattle
CHAP. XI. FISHES :- Trout, Eels, Umbers or Grayling, Carp, Tench,
Salmon; Fish-ponds, &c.
CHAP. XII. BIRDS :- Larks, Woodpeckers, Bustards, Crows,
Pheasants, Hawks, Sea-gulls, &c.
CHAP. XIII. REPTILES AND INSECTS :- Snakes, Adders, Toads,
Snails, Bees; Recipe to make Metheglyn
CHAP. XIV. MEN AND WOMEN:- Longevity, Remarkable Births,

&c..
CHAP. XV. DISEASES AND CURES :- Leprosy, the Plague, Gout,
Ricketts, Pin-and-Web, &c.
CHAP. XVI. OBSERVATIONS ON PARISH REGISTERS :-
Population, Poor Rates, Periodical Diseases

PART II.
CHAP. I. WORTHIES :- Princes, Saints, Prelates, Statesmen, Writers,
Musicians; John Aubrey, Captain Thomas Stump
CHAP. II. THE GRANDEUR OF THE HERBERTS, EARLS OF
PEMBROKE:- Description of Wilton. House; Pictures, Library,
Armoury, Gardens, Stables ; the Earl's Hounds and Hawks, Tilting at
Wilton, &c.
CHAP. III. LEARNED MEN WHO HAD PENSIONS GRANTED TO
THEM BY THE EARLS OF PEMBROKE:- With Notices of Mary,
Countess of Pembroke, Dr. Mouffet, William Browne, Philip
Massinger, J. Donne, &c.
CHAP. IV. GARDENS:- At Lavington, Chelsea, Wilton, Longleat
CHAP. V. ARTS, LIBERAL AND MECHANICAL:- Learning,
Colleges; Trades, Inventions, Machinery
CHAP. VI. ARCHITECTURE:- Stonehenge, Avebury, Old Sarum,
Salisbury Cathedral, Wardour Castle, Calne Church, Painted Glass,
Bradenstoke Priory, Market Crosses, Paving Tiles, Old Mansions,
Church Bells
CHAP. VII. AGRICULTURE:- Manures, Water Meadows, Butter and
Cheese, Malting and Brewing

CHAP. VIII. THE DOWNES:- Pastoral Life, Sydney's Arcadia; Sheep,
Shepherds, Pastoral Poetry
CHAP. IX. WOOL:- Qualities of Wool; its Growth, and Manufacture
CHAP. X. FALLING OF RENTS in Wiltshire attributed to the reduced
price of Wool
CHAP. XI. HISTORY OF THE CLOTHING TRADE:- Merchants of
the Staple; Introduction of the Cloth Manufacture
CHAP. XII. EMINENT CLOTHIERS or WILTSHIRE:- John Hall, of
Salisbury; William Stump, of Malmsbury; Paul Methuen, of Bradford,
&c.
CHAP. XIII. FAIRS AND MARKETS:-At Castle-Combe, Wilton,
Chilmark, Salisbury, Devizes, Warminster, Marlborough, Lavington,
Highworth, Swindon
CHAP. XIV. HAWKS AND HAWKING:- Extraordinary Flight,
Historical Details
CHAP. XV. THE RACE:- Salisbury Races, Famous Race Horses,
Stobball-play
CHAP. XVI. NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS IN WILTSHIRE:- Increase
of Attorneys the Cause of Litigation
CHAP. XVII. FATALITIES OF FAMILIES AND PLACES:-
Norrington, Castle- Combe, Stanton St. Quintin, Easton Piers
CHAP. XVIII. ACCIDENTS, OR REMARKABLE
OCCURRENCES:- Destruction of Marlborough by Fire; Cure of the
King's Evil, Pretended Witchcraft, Mysterious Knockings at North
Tidworth, Witches Executed at Salisbury, Phantoms
CHAP. XIX. SEATS:- Merton, Ivy-church, Littlecot, Longleat,
Tottenham Park, Wardour Castle

CHAP. XX. DRAUGHTS OF THE SEATS AND PROSPECTS:-
Aubrey's Instructions to the Artists for a Map of the County, with
Engravings of the Principal Buildings and Views
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MEMOIRES
OF
NATURALL REMARQUES
IN THE
County of Wilts:
TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED,
OBSERVABLES OF THE SAME KIND
IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, AND
FLYNTSHIRE.
BY
MR. JOHN AUBREY, R.S.S.
1685.
PSALM 92, v. 5, 6. "0 LORD, HOW GLORIOUS ARE THY
WORKES: THY THOUGHTS ARE VERY DEEP. AN UNWISE
MAN DOTH NOT WELL CONSIDER THIS: AND A FOOL DOTH
NOT UNDERSTAND IT."
PSALM 77, v. 11. "I WILL REMEMBER THE WORKES OF THE
LORD: AND CALL TO MIND THY WONDERS OF OLD TIME."

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."
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TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THOMAS, EARLE OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERIE,
LORD HERBERT OF CAERDIFFE, &c.;
ONE OF THE PRIVY COUNCELL TO THEIR MAJESTIES, AND
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYALL SOCIETIE.
[A page is appropriated in the manuscript to the Author's intended
DEDICATION ; the name and titles of his patron only being filled in,
as above.
The nobleman named is particularly mentioned by Aubrey in his
Chapter on
"The Worthies of Wiltshire", printed in a subsequent part of this
volume. He was Earl of Pembroke from 1683 till his death in 1733; and
was distinguished for his love of literature and the fine arts. He formed
the Wilton Collection of marbles, medals, and coins; and succeeded
John, Earl of Carbery, as President of the Royal Society, in November,
1689.- J. B.]
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PREFACE.

TILL about the yeare 1649,* 'twas held a strange presumption for a
man to attempt an innovation in learning; and not to be good manners
to be more knowing than his neighbours and forefathers. Even to
attempt an improvement in husbandry, though it succeeded with profit,
was look't upon with an ill eie. "Quo non Livor abit?"† Their
neighbours did scorne to follow it, though not to do it was to their own
detriment. 'Twas held a sinne to make a scrutinie into the waies of
nature; whereas Solomon saieth, "Tradidit mundum disputationibus
hominum": and it is certainly a profound part of religion to glorify
GOD in his workes.‡
* Experimentall Philosophy was then first cultivated by a club at Oxon.
† Ovid. Fast.
‡ "Deus est maximus in minimis. Prsæsentemque refert quælibet Herba
Deum".
In those