of King
James the First, ii. 668. In this curious chapter, Aubrey has further
transcribed "A Dialogue between two Shepherds uttered in a Pastorall
shew at Wilton", and written by Sir Philip Sidney. See the Life of
Sidney, prefixed to an edition of his Works in three volumes, 8vo,
1725.-J. B.]
†[Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I. was married to that monarch in
1589, and died in 1619.-J. B.]
‡[Shard is a word used in Wiltshire to indicate a gap in a hedge.
Ponshard signifies a broken piece of earthenware.-J. B.]
PART II-CHAPTER IX.
WOOLL.
[THE author appears to have merely commenced this chapter; which, as
it now stands in the manuscript, contains little more than is here
printed. The three succeeding chapters are connected in their subjects
with the present. - J. B.]
THIS nation is the most famous for the great quantity of wooll of any
in the world; and this county hath the most sheep and wooll of any
other. The down-wooll is not of the finest of England, but of about
the second rate. That of the common-field is the finest.
Quaere, if Castle Comb was not a staple for wooll, or else a very
great wooll-market?
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Mr. Ludlowe, of the Devises, and his predecessours have been wooll-
breakers [brokers] 80 or 90 yeares, and hath promised to assist me.
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Quaere, if it would not bee the better way to send our wooll beyond
the sea again, as in the time of the staple? For the Dutch and French
doe spinn finer, work cheaper, and die better.
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