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to refide in Wefkminfher : for Camden was matter of Welt- 
minfter-fchool, and Heyther a gentleman of the king’s 
chapel. In town they refided under the fame roof; and, in 
1609, when a pellilential difeafe had reached the houfe next 
to that of Camden and him felf, by whic h Camden was after- 
in o univerfity. 
It is more than infinuated by Ant. Wood, that Heather 
was not fufliciently {killed in counterpoint, to have compofed 
the anthem which was performed as an exercife for his 
, But as this ftory prebably originated from envy, 
n fince propagated without fufficient proof, it 
w onl eons notice, in order to put readers who may 
meet with it elfewhere, on ee guard, in giving it credence. 
ne anthem was which Heather had 
to ve 
politively faid that a MS. copy 
a found with the name of Orlando Gibbon prefixed to 
without acquainting us how it was a to have been 
pon aa as Dr. Heyther’ s exercife, who being brought 
up in one of our bet choirs, and Ggualifel for admiffion as a 
ee. of — king s chapel, could not be ignorant of 
y the mnuiical profefforthip 
- 
Gites were fuffered to age the —— ) 
or i and .on the 18th of May, i 
eated dations “i ether. 
Orlando. Gib i died of the Fh ie at Canterbury 
sealg where te was attending the folemnifation of th 
ge of Cha . wi enrietta of France, for hich 
Pet he had sdewited the mufic, and Dr. Heyther died 
in 1627, and was buried in the 
to the choir of Weltminfter abbe 
There is now in the sxnfle- kook at ig a picture <2 
Dr. Heyther in his gown and cap, and he well merits a 
place oe not only as a graduate, but a benefactor to that 
oe Ee in Rural Economy, a name e commonly a applied 
to heath in moft ef the more northern nee: of the kingdom, 
and particularly in Scotland. See 
; that’ kind of roof ear ia building, 
come: or covered with heather or heath, in- 
long as lefe trouble inthe repairs. It is 
aflerted that a roof of this material; when well put on, will 
that length of time. And it is ftat ‘that formerly molt pence 
of the churches in the above county were covered with this 
fort of roof ; hat -heather-roofs are 
Se rth he iti of Cova and that thre ae fe 
in 
which he of p 
Founded, SB i his zeal for the honour and progrefs of i 
emar- | 
broad or fouth aifle, joining cw 
RE & 
It is fuggefted, that in the “ great rage for deftroyin 
heath it ta be wife to fave, at gree as wihies of te oat s 
per kind 4s. might be nceded for that iin ing.”’ The writer 
Aion confiders it‘ a‘tonifhing, that, in.a country where 
heather Peaeety thofe roofs are not more common. T 
are,’” he afferts, *¢ indeed heavier than firaw roofs ; but by 
making them a little fteeper, and placing the couples a pe A 
nearer, than in our ordinary roofs, the moft of the weight 
will be thrown on the walls; which, if made, as they ought 
to be, of ftone and lime, will met ras the os 
This fort of material may certainly employed with 
advantage as a se @ 2 y for frnall eke and other buildings, 
— other kinds ubftances. cannot be procured, except 
at great expence 3 fe at the fame time it is very inferior to 
late and other fimilar matters in forming the coverings of 
uch erections. See Farm Buildings. 
HEA Lanp, that defeription of wafte 
ground which is principally covered with the wae plant. 
There are vaft tracts of this kind of land in thefe kingdoms; 
which, in their prefent ftate, are merely appropriated to the 
fupport of afew fheep, but which, under proper cultivation, - 
would afford ufeful crops wr feveral different forts, an 
pnt are more or Pieb Ho et Where fach 
lands are thickly ftudded with this fort of plant, it has been 
advifed on the ground of experience, asthe bet 
in the intention of getting rae quit “ 
roce: burn 
the un gv 
grafs m the society lp be 
fed with gs or mp other aoe fort of live ftock. 
Mr. Wedge, on poor heathy land, alfo found that fuch 
ared and burned, were far fi 
inftances, wablckdestee, ground of this de 
aoe where the heath is not too Fionn te thick i in its 
growth, may be brought into a ftate of culture without 
undergoing the operations of paring urmng ; which 
is often tedious, as well as attended se par Pad eg 
PrvTbere is fcarcely any. point of thie is interefbing fabjeG that 
demands more Se Or bees lac betecoeaeae ae oe 
cropping bea Me W nen ereen seal On peor 
