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that at Teynton, nor will it like that endure the fire, of which 

 they make Mault-kjlls, and hearths for Ovens ; but then they take 

 care to furbed the ftone, i. e. fet it edg-v/ays, contrary to the 

 pofture it had in the bed, for otherwife there will be fome danger 

 of its flying. 



27. Befide the fire, it endures the weather, for of this mix- 

 ed with another fort dug near Whately, on the Worcefter road fide, 

 as it paffes betwixt Holton and Sir Timothy Tyrrills, are all the 

 oldeft Colleges in Oxford built ; as Baliol, Merton, Exeter, Queens, 

 Canterbury (now part of Cb. Ch.) College, Durham (now Trinity} 

 College, New College, Lincoln, All Souls, Magdalen, Brafen-nofe, 

 and the outermoft Quadrangle of St -.John Bapt. Coll. yet it en- 

 dures not the weather fo well as Heddington, by reafon, I fup- 

 pofe, of a fait it has in it, which the weather in time plainly dif- 

 folves, as may be feen by the Pinnacles of New College Chanel, 

 made of this ftone, and thus melted away. 



28. And yet the moifture of water has no fuch power over 

 it, but that they make of it Troughs and Cijlerns, and now of 

 late Mefi-fats for Brewing ; firft hinted, 'tis true, by Mr. Bayly of 

 Duckjington, but pra&ifed by one Mr. Veyfej of Teynton, who had 

 the firft made him by one Strong a Mafon, which it fecms did an- 

 fwer expe&ation fo well, that it has fince obtained in many other 

 places. Of thefe, that generous and courteous Gentleman, Sir 

 ComptonRead of Shipton under Whichwood, has one that holds a- 

 bout fixty five bufhels, drawn home with no lefs than one and 

 twenty horfes ; they ordinarily mejh in it three quarters of Mault, 

 but can, when at any time neceffity requires, mejh five at a time : 

 the dimenfions of which Veffel of one fingle ftone, taken within 

 the hollow and abating its thicknefs, becaufe of its vaft unufual 

 magnitude, I thought fit to note, and give as folioweth ; 



long, 2 yards \. 



broad, 1 yard 8 \ and ' x an inch. 



deep, 1 yard a . 



yet much larger than this might be had from the Quarry, were 

 there ufe for them, or could portage be contrived ; for as I was 

 informed by many credible witneffes, there was one fingle ftone 

 dug in this Quarry, containing no lefs than three hundred tuns. 

 And another in the year 1673. meafured by Mr. Vejfey, of an 

 > hundred 



