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did not enquire, and so leaving Yielding a little on the 

 right hand, we came to Higham, passing by several little 

 towns to Northampton. Upon the walls there, I saw 

 growing Baxifraga alba \p. granulata. Linn.,] Hgperi- 

 cum vulg. \IIyjpericum ^perforatum. Linn.,] Calamintha 

 vulg. [C. officinalis, Moench,] and Cotyledon vulg. \C. 

 Mmbilicus, Linn.] From Northampton we rode through 

 Hill Morton and Rugby to Coventry, thence to Coleshill, 

 and then to Middleton. On a bank, by the way side, 

 between Coventry and Coleshill, we found a kind of vetch, 

 vydth a bright purple flower. We passed by Sir Clement 

 Fisher's house, where is a bridge over the highway. 



Monday May the 12th, we rode out to Sutton Cofield, 

 where is a close called the park close, belonging to the 

 free-school. Here we found Lunaria minor [Botrgchium 

 lunaria, Sw.] in great plenty. 



Tuesday May the 13th, from Middleton to Stafford we 

 passed on by the Trent side, where we observed great 

 plenty of Fumaria alba claviculata \F. claviculata, 

 Linn. ;] all along by the way side, we saw that kind of 

 fern which I first took notice of in Sussex. At Stafford 

 town there is a fair market-place, and a good sessions 

 house builded of free-stone, over the market-cross. Here 

 is a hospital for twelve widows (a very pretty place) built 

 by Martin Nowell in 1657. My lord Aston hath a good 

 monument in the church at Stafford of his grandfather ; 

 he hath a good house called Tixhall, about three miles 

 from Stafford. The great church called St. Mary's was 

 formerly collegiate, and had three prebends. The town 

 is governed by a mayor, eleven aldermen, and ten 

 common-council men. At Riddesly is a new erected 

 market. Mr. Weston hath a pretty house here. 



Wednesday, May the 14th, we passed on to Nantwych, 

 twenty-one miles. We diverted out of our way to see the 

 puits [Larus ridibundus^ which we judged to be a sort 

 of Lari, in a meer at Norbury, belonging to Col. Skrim- 

 shaw. They build altogether in an islet in the middle of 

 a pool. Each hen layeth three or four eggs (of a dirty 



