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Springe of Elme trees by the Moorsyd was planted in 1613. The little Orchard 

 in the end of the More house field he compassed about with quicksetts in 

 anno 1616, and the trees was set in anno 1617. He maid two large bookes 

 diologge wyse of Phisicke & Chirurgerie, He delited much in reding Granados 

 meditations, and was verie seldome seene in anie rude companie, but avoyded 

 companie as much as he could and took much pleasure to walke in woods and 

 to be solitarie. He lyved in the daies of Quene Elizabeth, Kynge James & 

 Kinge Charles when he was fiftie & nine yeares oulde he mayd a large booke of 

 prayers & meditations which he did drawe out of sondrie learned authors. The 

 meditations are of all the miseries of man from his verie birth unto the daie of 

 his death. Allso of the torments which the wicked do suffer in hell . . . 



He died of consuming consumption at the age of six and three score wanting 

 one moneth. [ff. 83 v, 84.] 



[His garden list is printed on p. 310.] 



A most interesting extract from Shanne's diary was made by 

 Antony Wood when he consulted it in October 1674, by permission 

 of the then owner. It contains a most hfelike description of the 

 Ruff [Machetes pugnax L.), a bird that was not described by 

 Turner in his book on Birds, so that Shanne's is probably the first 

 English description. 



Anno 1588, there was taken at Crowley in Lincolnshire in the winter time 

 5 strange fowles of divers colours, having about their necks as it were great 

 monstrous ruffs, and had underneath those ruffs certaine quills to beare up the 

 same, in such a manner as our gallant dames have now of wier to beare up 

 their ruffs (which they call supporters). About their heads they had feathers 

 so curiously set togeather and frisled, altogeather like unto our nice gentle- 

 women who do curie and frisle their haire about their heads. Three of these 

 Strang fowles was brought into Sir Henrie Leese, and they would walk up and 

 doune the hall as if they were great states, and sometimes they v/ould stand 

 still and lay their heads together as if they were in a secret counsell. It made 

 the beholders to wonder therat. They cast them corne to eat, but they refused 

 to tast of any meat and so at length died. Mr. Richard Shann, of Wodrow in 

 Medley, Yorks., drew a picture of one of them which he placed in his herball. 

 Two men that had set lime twigs to catch birds withall did find them taken 

 therin. The like never seen or heard of before. 



ix. John Parkinson, 1567-1650. 



Several pages of notes in the Goodyer collection on American, 

 Bermudan, and Oriental plants are written in a hand that was at 

 first unknown to me, but which I have since been able to identify 

 beyond doubt as that of the well-known herbalist John Parkinson. 

 Certain of these notes are written on the back of a letter, every 

 word of which was so completely scribbled over as to be quite 

 unreadable. By slow and careful erasure with a sharp knife I 

 found it possible to remove sufficient of the ink-scrawling from the 



