1638 was a sickly and feaverish autumne; there were three graves open
at one time in the churchyard of Broad Chalke.
PART II.
CHAPTER I.
WORTHIES.
[IN this chapter Aubrey has transcribed that portion of Fuller's
Worthies of England which relates to celebrated natives of the county
of Wilts; but as Fuller's work is so well known, it is un- necessary
to print Aubrey's extracts from it here. He has interspersed them with
additional matter from which the following passages are selected.
- J. B.]
PRINCES. - There is a tradition at Wootton Basset that King Richard the
Third was born at Vasthorne [Fasterne], now the seate of the earle of
Rochester. This I was told when I was there in 1648. Old Mr. Jacob,
then tenant there to the Lady Inglefield, was then eighty yeares old,
and the like other old people there did affirme.
[According to the best authorities, this tradition is incorrect:
Richard was born in Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, on the 2d
of October, 1452.-J. B.]
Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hyde, Knight, was born at Purton,
in this county, and married to His Royal Highnesse James Duke of
Yorke, [James II.] by whom she left issue Mary Queen of England, and
Anne Princesse of Denmark [afterwards Queen].
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SAINTS. - St. Adelm. There was a great bell at Malmesbury Abbey, which
they called St. Adelm's bell, which was accounted a telesman, and to
have the power, when it was rang, to drive away the thunder and
lightning.
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