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they were found no where but in Britaine. I ask'd him if 'twas not Gratius ; he told me no. 

 Quaere, Mr. Chr. Wace, if he remembers any such thing ? The books are now most lost and 

 gonne : perhaps 'twas Martial. 



Very good horses for the coach are bought out of the teemes in our hill-countrey. Warminster 

 market is much used upon this account 



I have not seen so many pied cattle any where as in North Wiltshire. The country hereabout is 

 much inclined to pied cattle, but commonly the colour is black or brown, or deep red. Some cow- 

 stealers will make a hole in a hott lofe newly drawn out of the oven, and putt it on an oxes horn for 

 a convenient time, and then they can turn their softned homes the contrary way, so that the owner 

 cannot swear to his own beast. Not long before the King's restauration a fellow was hanged at 

 Tyburn for this, and say'd that he had never come thither if he had not heard it spoken of in a 

 sermon. Thought he, I will try this trick. 



