T. Randolph
in a Pastoral sayes;-
" What clod-pates, Thenot, are our British swaines,
How lubber-like they loll upon the plaines." *
* [See "Plays and Poems, by Thomas Randolph, M.A." 12mo. 1664, p. 90.
The lines quoted are at the commencement of a dialogue between Collen
and Thenot; which is described as "an Eglogue on the noble assemblies
revived on Cotswold Hills by Mr. Robert Dover". An able criticism of
Randolph's works, with extracts, will be found in the sixth volume of
the "Retrospective Review". - J. B.]
Before the civill warres I remember many of them made straw hatts,
which I thinke is now left off, and our shepherdesses of late yeares
(1680) doe begin to worke point, whereas before they did only knitt
coarse stockings. (Instead of the sling they have now a hollow iron or
piece of horne, not unlike a shoeing horne, fastened to the other end
of the crosier, by wch they take up stones and sling, and keep their
flocks in order. The French sheperdesses spin with a rocque.
- J. EVELYN.)
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Mr. Ferraby, the minister of Bishop's Cannings, was an ingenious man,
and an excellent musician, and made severall of his parishioners good
musicians, both for vocall and instrumentall musick; they sung the
Psalmes in consort to the organ, which Mr. Ferraby procured to be
erected.
When King James the First was in these parts he lay at Sir Edw.
Baynton's at Bromham.
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