Anno 1647 I went to Parson Stump out of
curiosity, to see his manuscripts, whereof I had seen some in my
childhood; but by that time they were lost and disperse. His sons were
gunners and souldiers, and scoured their gunnies with them; but he
shewed me severall old deeds granted by the Lords Abbots, with their
scales annexed, which I suppose his sonn Capt. Tho. Stump of
Malmesbury hath still. [I have quoted part of this curious paragraph
in my Memoir of Aubrey, 4to. 1845.-J. B.]
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WRITERS.- William of Malmesbury. He was the next historiographer of
this nation to Venerable Bede, as he himself written; and was fain, he
sayes, to pick out his history out of ballads and old rhythmes.....
hundred yeares after Bede. He dedicates his history to [Robert, Earl
of Gloucester] "filio naturali Henrici primi". He wrote also the history
of the abbey of Glastonbury, which is in manuscript in the library of
Trinity College in Cambridge, wherein are many good remarques to be
found, as Dr. Thomas Gale of Paules schoole enformes me. [This was
edited by Gale, and published at Oxford in 1691, 8vo. - J. B.]
Robertus Sarisburiensis wrote a good discourse, De Piscinis, mentioned
and commended by Sir Henry Wotton in his Elements of Architecture. Q.
Anth. Wood, de hoc.
Dr..... Forman, - Mr. Ashmole thinkes his name was John, [Simon.-
J. B.]- physitian and astrologer, was born at Wilton, in Wilts. He was
of the University of Oxford, but took his degree of Doctor in
Cambridge, practised in Salisbury, where he was persecuted for his
astrologie, which in those ignorant times was accounted conjuring.
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