^6 'The ^^Qimral Hijlory 
th^tzt Tejnton^ nor will ic like that endure the fire, of which 
they make Mault-kiUs^ and hearths for Ovens ; but then they take 
care to furbed the ftone, i. e. fet it edg-ways, contrary to the 
pofture it had in the bed, for otherwife there will be Tome danger 
of its flying. 
27. Befide the fire, it endures the weather, for of this mix- 
ed with another fort dug near Whately^ on the Worcefter road fide, 
as it pafies betwixt Holt on and Sir Timothy Tyrrills^ are all the 
oldeil Colleges in Oxford h\x\\l*^ zsBaliol^ Merton^ Exeter^ Queens^ 
Canterbury (now part of Cb. Ch.) College^ Durham (now Trinity') 
College^ New College^ Lincoln^ All Souls^ Magdalen^ Brafen-nofe^ 
and the outermoft Quadrangle of St. John Bapt, Coll. yet it en- 
dures not the weather fo well as Heddington^ by reafon, I fup- 
pofe, of a fait it has in it> which the weather in time plainly dif- 
folves, as may be feen by the Pinnacles of New Co//e^eChappel, 
made of this ftone, and thus melted away. 
28. And yet the moifture of water has no fuch power over 
it, but that they make of it Troughs and Cifierns^ and now of 
late Mejb-fats for Brewing ; firft hinted, 'tis true, by Mr. Bayly of 
Vucklington^ but praftifed by one Mr. Veyfey of Teynton, who Irad 
the firft made him by one Strong a Mafon, which it feems did an- 
fwer expedation fo well, that it has fince obtained in many other 
places. Of thefe, that generous and courteous Gentleman, Sir 
Comf ton Read of Shipton under Whichwood^ has one that holds a- 
bout fixty five buftiels, drawn home with no lefs than one and 
twenty horfes ; they ordinarily mej/j in it three quarters of Mault, 
but can, when at any time necefiity requires, mefi five at a time : 
thedimenfions of which VefiTel of one fingle ftone, taken within 
the hollow and abating its thickncfs, becaufe of its vaft unufual 
magnitude, I thought fit to note, and give as followeth ; 
long, 2 yards J. 
broad, I yard g. and an inch. 
deep, I yard ^. 
yet much larger than this might be had from the Quarry, were 
there ufe for them, or could portage be contrived ; for as I was 
informed by many credible witneffes, there was one fmgle ftons 
dug in this Quarry, containing no lefs than three hundred tuns. 
And another in the year 1673. fJi^^^'^red by Mr. Veyfey^ of an 
hundred 
