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believing it had vertue to preserve them from being forespoken, as they call it ; and they use to 

 plant one by their dwelling-house, believing it to preserve from witches and evill eyes. 



Mr. Anthony Hinton, one of the officers of the Earle of Pembroke, did inoculate, not long 

 before the late civill warres (ten yeares or more), a bud of Glastonbury Thorne, on a thorne at his 

 farm-house at Wilton, which blossomes at Christmas as the other did. My mother has had branches 

 of them for a flower-pott severall Christmasses, which I have seen. Elias Ashmole, Esq., in his notes 

 upon " Theatrum Chymicum," saies that in the churchyard at Glastonbury grew a wallnutt tree that 

 did putt out young leaves at Christmas, as doth the king's oake in the New Forest. In Parham 

 Parke, in Suffolk (Mr. Boutele's), is a pretty ancient thorne that blossomes like that at Glastonbury ; 

 the people flock thither to see it on Christmas-day. But in the rode that leades from Worcester to 

 Droitwiche is a blackthorne hedge at Clayn, halfe a mile long or more, that blossomes about Christmas- 

 day for a week or more together. The ground is called Longland. Dr. Ezerel Tong saycl that 

 about Runnly-marsh, in Kent, [Romney-marsh ?] are thornes naturally like that at Glastonbury. 

 The souldiers did cutt downe that neer Glastonbury : the stump remaines. 



In the parish of Calne, at a pleasant seat of the Blakes, called Pinliill, was a grove of pines, which 

 gives the name to the seate. About 1656 there were remaining about four or five : they made fine 

 shew on the hill. 



In the old hedges which are the boundes between the lands of Priory St. Marie, juxta Kington St. 

 Michael, and the west field, which belonged to the Lord Abbot of Glastonbury, are yet remaining a 

 great number of berberry-trees, which I suppose the nunnes made use of for confections, and they 

 taught the young ladies that were educated there such arts. In those days there were not schooles 

 for young ladies as now, but they were educated at religious houses. 



