I remember the gentleman very
well. He dyed about 1650, I believe near 90 yeares old, and was the
handsomest, well limbed, strait old man that ever I saw, had a good
witt and a graceful elocution. He was the father of Bess Broughton,
one of the greatest beauties of her age.
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Proverb for apples, peares, hawthorns, quicksetts, oakes:
"Sett them at All-hallow-tyde, and command them to grow;
Sett them at Candlemass, and entreat them to grow."
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Butter and Cheese. At Pertwood and about Lidyard as good butter is
made as any in England, but the cheese is not so good. About Lidyard,
in those fatt grounds, in hott weather, the best huswives cannot keep
their cheese from heaving. The art to keep it from heaving is to putt
in cold water. Sowre wood-sere grounds doe yield the best cheese, and
such are Cheshire. Bromefield, in the parish of Yatton, is so - sower
and wett - and where I had better cheese made than anywhere in all the
neighbourhood.
Somerset proverb:
"If you will have a good cheese, and hav'n old,
You must turn'n seven times before he is cold."
Jo. Shakespeare's wife, of Worplesdowne in Surrey, a North Wiltshire
woman, and an excellent huswife, does assure me that she makes as good
cheese there as ever she did at Wraxhall or Bitteston, and that it is
meerly for want of art that her neighbours doe not make as good; they
send their butter to London.
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