These pipes were layd in Cardinal Wolsey's time, who built the house.
* I believe that in ye pipes was nothing else but Alga fontalis
trichodes, (C. B.) which is often found in conduit pipes. See
my Synopsis.-[JOHN RAY.]
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Earth growing. - In the court of Mrs. Sadler's, the great house in the
close in Salisbury, the pitched causeway lay neglected in the late
troubles, and not weeded: so at lengthe it became overgrown and lost:
and I remember about 1656, goeing to pave it, they found,.... inches
deep, a good pavement to their hands.
In the court of my honoured friend Edm. Wyld Esq., at Houghton in
Bedfordshire, in twenty-four yeares, viz. from 1656 to 1680, the
ground increased nine inches, only by rotting grasse upon grasse. 'Tis
a rich soile, and reddish; worth xxs. per acre.
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The spring after the conflagration at London all the ruines were
overgrown with an herbe or two; but especially one with a yellow
flower: and on the south side of St. Paul's Church it grew as thick as
could be; nay, on the very top of the tower. The herbalists call it
Ericolevis Neapolitana, small bank cresses of Naples; which plant Tho.
Willis told me he knew before but in one place* about the towne; and
that was at Battle Bridge by the Pindar of Wakefield, and that in no
great quantity. [The Pindar of Wakefield is still a public-house,
under the same sign, in Gray's Inn Road, in the parish of St.
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