Pancras,
London.- J. B.]
*It growes abundantly by ye waysides between London and Kensington.-
[J. RAY.]
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Sir John Danvers, of Chelsey, did assure me to his knowledge that my
Lord Chancellor Bacon was wont to compound severall sorts of earths,
digged up very deep, to produce severall sorts of plants. This he did
in the garden at Yorke House, where he lived when he was Lord
Chancellor. (See Sir Ken. Digby, concerning his composition of earth
of severall places.)
Edmund Wyld, Esq. R.S.S. hath had a pott of composition in his garden
these seven yeares that beares nothing at all, not so much as grasse
or mosse. He makes his challenge, if any man will give him xx li. he
will give him an hundred if it doth not beare wheate spontaneously;
and the party shall keep the key, and he shall sift the earth
composition through a fine sieve, so that he may be sure there are no
graines of wheat in it He hath also a composition for pease; but that
he will not warrant, not having yet tryed it,
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Pico's [Peaks.] - In this county are Clay-hill, near Warminster; the
Castle-hill at Mere, and Knoll-hill, near Kilmanton, which is half in
Wilts, and half in Somersetshire; all which seem to have been raised
(like great blisters) by earthquakes. [Bishop TANNER adds in a note,
"Suthbury hill, neer Collingburn, which I take to be the highest hill
hi Wiltshire".
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