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tern, I found Herba Paris [Paris qiiadrifolia, Linn.,] 

 and a kind of Briopteris, q, an Driopt, Tragi ? [Polypo- 

 dium dryopteris. Linn.] At Gloucester we saw the 

 college. In the cathedral are twelve little chapels. The 

 pillars in the body of the church are great and bulky, 

 the steeple part of the choir, into which the bell-ropes 

 hang down. Of the wings of the church are made 

 chapels. We saw here many antient monuments. 

 Robert de Courtois, in the midst of the choir in wood. 

 Lucius, the first christian king, lies as it were on a shelf. 

 Edward II, a Saxon king, that either founded or was a 

 great benefactor to this church ; also a fair monument of 

 Sir Humphrey Bohun ; another of Mr. Abraham Black- 

 leech, who had been lately a great benefactor to this 

 cathedral ; likewise a monument of Major-general Craw- 

 ford, a Scotchman, slain at the walls of Hereford, fighting 

 for the parliament, and divers others. We exactly mea- 

 sm^ed and surveyed the whispering-place, and took notice 

 of the cloister, which is very large and handsome. We 

 rode out to Lassington, where we found many of the 

 star-stones. Prom Gloucester we went to Sodbury, and 

 from thence to Alderly, where we found great plenty of 

 the cockle and scallop-stones, but no Cornua ammonis. 

 At Alderly, Judge Hales has an house. 



Thursday, June the 19th, we got to Bristol, where we 

 saw the cathedral. In it are a few antient monuments, 

 one of Sir John Newton, who took the king of Morocco 

 prisoner. Here are also the tombs of several religious 

 knights, and of some bishops ; one, of the first bishop of 

 this church, who hath his mitre under his head like a 

 pillow, and his ribs appear, that is, the bishop's effigies 

 is cut in stone like a skeleton, or a body extremely emaci- 

 ated. There is also the tomb of one Vaughan, a knight. 

 We took notice of the bowling-green, and the plain about 

 it by the river-side. We saw also Batclifi" church, built 

 by one Cannings. It is in the form of a cathedral, arched 

 vdth stone, well gilded on the roof. In the church-yard 

 is a fair stone cross, whereat are preached four sermons 



