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MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



Buropmus, Linn.], cypress moss \Lycopodmm alpinum, 

 Linn.], and another small club moss [probably Lycopodimti 

 selaginoides, Linn.] with white seeds. 



September the 6th, I travelled to Mahentler, and 

 thence to the Silver Mills, where I saw and learned the 

 whole process of the work of melting and refining of 

 silver. They have two sorts of ore, the one rich of 

 Dorrens and Consomlogh, the other poorer of Talabont. 

 They mix these, six parts of Dorrens ore with four of 

 Talabont, because Dorrens being rich, will not melt off 

 the hearth without such a quantity of the Talabont. 

 Then they carry it in a barrow from the storehouse to 

 each smelter's several bing, where it is melted with black 

 and white coal (that is, sticks cut into small pieces, then 

 slit and dried ;) but the whole of this I had afterwards 

 more exactly in my fourth voyage. 



September the 7th, I directed my course to Shrews- 

 bury, and lodged at Llanver, short of Welch Pool ; where 

 I first heard of the death of Oliver L. Protector.* 



September the 8th, I rode through Welch Pool to 

 Shrewsbury. This town is as large as Cambridge, fair, 

 well built, compact, walled almost round with a thick 

 and strong wall (as walls go in England,) yet but low. 

 It hath a castle, six churches, a great free- school, having 

 four masters, and a brewhouse noted for its bigness. 

 Shrewsbury cakes are much esteemed. 



September the 12th, I travelled to Kidderminster; 

 and from thence proceeded on to Worcester. This town 

 is large, hath a fair cathedral, within side very handsome, 

 but is decaying apace. There are in it three or four 

 good streets, but no very good market-place. It is in 

 strength inferior to Shrewsbury; for greatness and beauty 

 equal. By the way, as I came hither, I passed Bridge- 

 north, where I saw a fair street of new-built houses, and 

 divers little houses cut out of the rock, particularly a 

 great wine cellar, which deserves to be seen. I had a 

 prospect of Worcester from the steeple of the cathedral. 



* Cromwell died on the 3d September, 1G58. 



