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Mr. J. Aubrey to Mr. Ray, 



Honoured Sir, London, Aug, 5*. 16 pi. 



AS to Lime-Trees, p. 233. I mull: advertife you, 

 that in Bedford/hire , there are Woods where 

 ^re thoufands of them, e.g. at Chickfands [Sir Of 

 burn's] and in other Woods thereabouts > alfo at Mr. 

 WyWs Eftate at Gotham in and this I do affure 



you from my worthy Friend Edm. TVyld, Efqj Mr. 

 Bullock's Kinfman. They alfo grow wild, but not fo 

 common in the For 6ft of Dean. In Cranborne-Chace 

 \ Dorfet] are very few, and they know not their 

 Name. As to Shave-weed ufed by Ai tifts, [which they 

 have from Holland^] we have of the fame fort, and 

 as good, in a Hill by B -Abbey in Wilts. I da 

 think there is a greater variety of Withys than you 

 mention > a Bencher of the Middle-Temple is very cu- 

 rious in them , but he prefers the Red- 4 withy. King 

 f ames Il d fent by Sir Garden, to the Royal So- 

 ciety, a Plant calFd^nr of the Earthy with the Re- 

 ceipt made of it to cure the biting of Mad-dogs, which 

 is inTranfa£t. Numb. 187. By the Salt-Pits at Lim- 

 mington, Hampjhire i grows a Plant calPd Squat-more$ 

 of wonderful efFe6fc for Bruifes, not m any Herbal : 

 This I had from Th. Guidott, M. D. whofe Father 

 had the Salt-works * and is a Witnefs of the Cures 

 done by it. My old Friend Mr. Fr. Potter [Author of 

 the Interpretation 666] told me that a Neighbour of 

 his who had the Gout many Years, an ancient Ma% 

 %vas cured by an old Woman with the Leaf of the 

 wild Fine. I came there above a Year after, and the 

 Party had never a touch of it. E. TV. Efqj tells me 

 of a Woman in Bedfordfhire who doth great Cures for 

 Agues and Fevers with Meadjweet, to which flie adds 



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