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[1794, Part I., pp. 300, 301.]
I shall avail myself of this opportunity, Mr. Urban, with
your leave, to transmit some of my church notes, etc., made
upon this
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| spot. In the chancel
of Bakewell Church is a beautiful and well preserved table monument
of alabaster (covered with a wooden frame, at the instance of
Mr. Roe, to protect it), with the following inscription upon
its edge in very singular characters, remarkably square, and
probably the whim of the sculptor, as I do not remember to have
ever seen any which resemble them. They were originally convex,
but, being somewhat damaged, have by the Rutland family, which
intermarried with the last heir of the Vernons, been traced
over with a black cement :
"HIC IACET IOH'ES VERNON FILIVS
ET HERES HENRICI VERNON QVI OBIIT XII DIE MENSIS AVGVSTI ANNO
D'NI Mmo CCCCLXXVII CVI' ANIME P'PICIET D'S"
On the east side of a chapel built by the Vernons is a fine
table r tomb, with three cumbent figures, with this inscription
:
"HERE LIETH Sr GEORGE VERNON KNYGHT
DECEASSED Ye [blank] DAYE OF [blank] AN° 156 . AND DAME
MARGERET HIS WYFFE DOWGHTr TO Sr GYLBERT TAYLEBOYS DECEASSED
Ye [blank] DAYE OF 156 . AND ALSO DAME MAWDE HIS WYFFE DOWGHTr
TO Sr RAPHE LANGEFO FOT (so in the original) DECEASSED Ye
[blank] DAYE OF [blank] AN° 156 . WHOSE SOLLES GOD P'DON."
The blanks here left are so in the original.
In the same chapel is a fine monument, of the time of Elizabeth,
for the last heir of the Vernons, who married into the Rutland
family, and another for the Manners', with a vast number of
figures of their children whilst living, placed there by some
odd caprice of the person who erected the monument, which
is finely preserved, and in the winter enclosed by folding
doors. In the same chapel is the figure of a Norman knight
in mail armour, but not cross-legged.
Upon his helmet is inscribed IHC NAZAREN, a facsimile of
which letters was traced off for me upon paper, by means of
a roller of black lead, by Mr. Roe.
In the churchyard I copied the following inscription :
Under this tomb lie the two wives of
JOHN DALE, of Bakewell, Barber Surgeon, born at Sheldon. His
first wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Godfrey Foljambe,
of Bakewell ; his second wife, Sarah, was the daughter of
Bloodworth. ..."
The rest of the inscription only mentions what children he
had by them, and is very much defaced, and difficult to read;
the inclemency of the weather likewise prevented me from persevering
in the attempt to transcribe it. On one side of the tomb are
these lines :
"Know, posterity, that, on the
8th of Aprill, in the year of grace 1757, the rambling remains
of the above said John Dale were, in the 86th year of his
pilgrimage, laid upon his two wives.
This thing in life
might raise some jealousie,
Here all three lie together lovingly;
But from embraces here no pleasure flows,
Alike are here all human joys and woes ;
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Here Sarah's chiding John no longer
hears,
And old John's rambling Sarah no more fears,
A period's come to all their toylsome lives,
The good man's quiet, still are both his wives."
In the churchyard is a very ancient cross, something like
that at Penrith, in Cumberland, but with a crucifix upon the
top.
F.A.S.
In a late tour in Derbyshire I was much pleased with visiting
a seat belonging to the Rutland family, called Haddon Hall,
about a mile and a half from Bakewell, in that county. At
present it is in a very ruinous condition, no one inhabiting
it ; but I think it as well worthy the observation of those
who are fond of seeing ancient seats as any I am acquainted
with.
Not having sufficient time when I was there to make any particular
remarks, I should esteem myself obliged if any of your numerous
correspondents would insert a short account of it in your
valuable repository, and if the same was accompanied with
a view, ever so roughly taken, it would perhaps give additional
satisfaction to many of your readers, and to none more than
your constant one,
W.P.
Our correspondent will find his curiosity
gratified by the accounts of this mansion by Mr. King, in
Archæologia, vi., 346-359 ; and by Mr. Bray,
in the second edition of his Tour; the substance of both which
are incorporated in the new edition of Camden's "Britannia,"
ii., 314. Vivares engraved a N. W. view of it 1769, after
a drawing taken by Smith 1744. The Society of Antiquaries
are possessed of a number of drawings of it by the late Mr.
Schnebbelie, with a full account of it; which, it is hoped,
they will give to the public as a continuation of their "Vetusta
Monumenta."
Beauchief.
[1814, Part I., pp. 225-227.]
With this you will receive a view of the remains of Beauchief
Abbey, in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby (see Plate
II.). It is situated 10 miles north-north-west from Chesterfield,
and 51 south-west by south from Sheffield, county York :
" An Abbey of Premonstratensian, or White, Canons, founded
A.D. 1183, by Robert Fitz Ranulph, Lord of Alfreton, one of
the executioners of Thomas Becket, Abp. of Canterbury, to
whom, canonized, this monastery was dedicated. It was valued
26 Hen. VIII. at £126: 3: 4 per annum, as Dugdale;
£134: 0: 0 Leland; £157 : 10 : 2 Speed; and granted
28 Hen. VIII. to Sir Nicholas Strelley."*
"An Historical Account" of this Abbey, by the late
Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge, was published in the year 1801, "wherein
the three following material points, in opposition to vulgar
prejudices and
* Tanner's "Not. Mon."
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opinions, are clearly
established: Ist. That this abbey did not take its name from
the head of Abp. Becket, though it was dedicated to him. 2nd.
That the founder of it had no hand in the murder of that prelate;
and, consequently, that the house was not erected in expiation
of that crime. 3rd. The dependence of this house on that of
Welbeck, co. Nottingham; a matter hitherto unknown." This
valuable Monastic History having been rendered remarkably scarce,
from an accident, it may be allowable to make a few extracts
from it :
(I) " It is the vulgar and common notion that the Abbey
was denominated from St. Thomas's Head ; but it is evident
to demonstration, from the very words of the grant of foundation,
that it had obtained the appellation of Beauchef, before
the abbey was founded, and probably before St. Thomas was born.
I conceive it took its name from the nature of the place, like
Beauchamp, Beaumont, Beaulieu, Beaupré, etc., chef
here not signifying the head of a person, but a head, or elevated
point of land, like the Italian capo, and the Spanish cabo.
In the conery at Beauchef there is an headland, under which
the abbey was situated [as shewn in the view], where there is
a fine and most extensive prospect, so as deservedly to be called
Beauchef" (p. 8).
(2) " Robert Fitz-Ranulph, the munificent founder of Beauchief
Abbey, does not appear to have been one of Becket's murderers
; and consequently there is no room for the supposition that
he established this convent by way of atoning for his crime;
for it is by all authors agreed there were but four persons
concerned in Becket's murder, Reginald Fitz-Urse, Wm. de Tracey,
Hugh de Morevilla, and Richard Brito. Surely a person of Fitz-Ranulph's
rank and consideration, a baron, and of the best note amongst
them (for the rest were only knights), would certainly have
been mentioned had he been present. He infallibly would have
been called to account, and punished for the crime equally,
or perhaps more severely, than the others, had he been one of
the company. It does not appear that he was ; on the contrary,
we behold him a nobleman of great dignity, opulent, and flourishing.
The perpetrators of this tragedy were all ordered immediately
out of the kingdom, and their estates would of course be seized
and confiscated; so that, if Fitz-Ranulph had been one of their
party, he never would have had it in his power to found a monastery
" (pp. 14-16).
(3) " The number of canons who composed this little body,
amounted to an abbat and twelve brothers, which number was thought
to constitute a true and proper convent; and deemed to be complete
and full. - It will be thought probable, that these canons were
at first all brought from one place, and from Welbeck, the nearest
house of the same order. The founder's great charter was attested
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house. - Welbeck
was the most opulent and flourishing house of the order in the
midland parts of England; and the founder's family appears to
have had great connexion with Welbeck. Though Beauchief was
not properly a cell to Welbeck, it nevertheless had a great
dependence upon that house; and the superintendance of the abbat
of Welbeck was grounded, it seems, on some papal bull now lost"
(pp. 51-55).
" Beauchief is extra-parochial. 'The place where the abbie
stands, and about 800 acres of the grounds adjacent and belonging
thereto, are still known and called by that one common name
of Beauchieffe, and are situated betwixt the lordship of Eccleshale
in Sheafield parish on the North, the hamlet of Dore in Dronfield
parish Westward, and the hamlets of Bradway, Greenhill, and
Woodseats, upon the South and East, within the parish of Norton.'*
There was a park, of about 200 acres, and water sufficient,
both for the use of the house, and for supplying the table with
fish, a matter to which the monks of all orders were constantly
attentive. The House was founded between the years 1172 and
1176, - though I incline to name 1180 for the opening, or even
a year or two before that. The house was not sacred solely to
St. Thomas, the Virgin Mary being associated with him, as represented
on their first seal. However, as St. Thomas eclipsed St. Mary
at Canterbury, so here the donations at last were made to St.
Thomas the Martyr, exclusively of the Virgin; and even the convent
themselves appear to wish to have it understood, that he was
their Saint paramount, since in their last seal no notice is
taken of her, but a representation is only given of the martyrdom,
as they were pleased to call it, of St. Thomas" (pp. 39-42).
"As to the chapel, or church, in the case above cited,
it is said, ' Here at Beauchife, together with the abbie, was
likewise built up a very spacious church, having a faire chancel,
where was an altar; a large steeple, where are five bells; and
likewise a cœmeterium, or church-yard, where (as
also in the church) corps were interred whilst I it was an abbie,
and since.' "
" In 28 Hen. VIII., 1537, the king granted the site of
the abbey, with the estate belonging to it, to Sir Nicholas
Strelley, of Strelley, co. Nottingham, for the sum of 223l;
and the description of the parcels then granted is 'The house
and site of the abbey or monastery De Bello Capite. ..and all
the church, belfrey, and church-
* From a MS. case at Beauchief, written
by Edward Pegge.
† " Though this is an history of the abbey, and
not an account of the family, I beg leave to add a word or
two of myself as the compiler; for I am more than nominally
authorized to undertake the work. Gertrude, whom I have purposely
specified as one of the children of Edward Pegge, the first
proprietor of the abbey, was my maternal grandmother;
add to this, that I have had access to all the family documents
at Beauchief from time to time, and especial1y by the indulgence
of my late kinsman, the first Strel1ey Pegge, my grandmother's
nephew."
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yard of the same.
.. also all messuages, houses, edifices, barns, stables, dovecotes,
gardens, orchards, ponds, parks, land, and soil, within the
scite, circuit, and precincts of the late abbey. Also 121 acres
of arable land, 65 acres and a half of meadow; and 73 acres
of pasture, with the appurtenances in Beauchief aforesaid. ...
Also all our grange called Strawbereley, with the appurtenances
in Beauchief aforesaid; ...and all houses, edifices, lands,
meadows, pastures, and commons" (pp. 203, 204).
..Sir Nicholas Strelley was of a very ancient family. The king
calls him his serviens. In the reign of Edward VI. he
was captain of the castle and town of Berwick ; had three wives,
and died 1560 or 1561. Gertrude Strelley, the great-great-granddaughter,
and at length heiress of Sir Nicholas, married in 1648, Edward
Pegge, esq., in whose lineal descendants Beauchief still remains
" (pp. 204, 205).
"The chapel of the convent was actually restored and fitted
up by Edward Pegge,* esq. (the first proprietor of that name),
converted into a church and used as such. It is a donative.
The church is now very decently pewed, and well covered"
(p. 207).
"As the abbey could never have become an habitable mansion
(like many other religious houses), the above Edward Pegge,
about 1671, began to build a spacious and handsome house on
a different site (at some distance from the abbey) upon a gentle
descent on the brow at the top of the hanging wood, the bellum
caput (fine head) or Beau Chef; whence the abbey received
its name" (p. 211).
By the return to the Population Act in 1811, Beauchief Abbey
contained 15 houses and as many families, 9 of whom were employed
in agriculture and 6 in trade, consisting of 46 males and 52
females, total 98. The money raised by the poor rate in 1803
was £46 6s. 6d., at threepence in the pound.
Yours, etc., B. N.
Bolsover.
[1786, Part I., p. 298.]
If you think fragments of ancient sculpture worthy of a place
in your valuable repository, the enclosed drawing of one is
at your service. About fourscore years ago a stone was taken
up, which served as a step to the north door of Bolsover Church,
co. Derby. On the lower side was discovered ancient rude sculpture
in very high relief representing the Nativity (see Plate II.,
Fig. 2). The Virgin Mary appears to be sitting in a stable
with a mutilated figure of our Saviour in her lap, who seems
to have had one hand on a dove; the other figure, standing
on the side, was probably intended for Joseph. In the background
an old man is seen coming into the stable. The two camels'
heads are looking into the manger; the great projection of
these heads from the background is very singular. The stone
is
* See Note † on p.24.
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five feet by three. I think it appears from the drapery and
other parts of the sculpture to be the work of the thirteenth
century, if not anterior to that period. It was then probably
held in high estimation, and from the situation in which it
was found, I should imagine it was put there as a place of
safety during the frequent attacks that were made on Bolsover
Castle, * or to secure it in later times from the fanatic
fury of the Parliament's forces when they took possession
of the castle. †The stone now stands against the wall
in the chancel.
Yours, etc., H. R.
[1786, Part I., p. 469.]
The gentleman, under the signature of H. R., who favoured
you with a drawing of a piece of sculpture in stone representing
the Nativity, which formerly served as a step to the north
door of Bolsover Church, is of opinion that it was laid there
with a design of preserving it during the frequent attacks
made on the neighbouring castle, or of securing it from the
fanatic fury of the Parliament forces in the Civil Wars of
the last century. To me it seems more likely to have been
removed from its original place in consequence of the statute
of 3rd and 7th of Edw. VI., cap. 10, which "enjoined
all images in churches of stone, timber, or earth, graven,
carved, or painted, to be defaced and destroyed ;" and
considering the subject delineated, and that Bolsover Church
was dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, it may have occurred to your correspondent that the
stone might be originally fixed in the chancel, in order to
commemorate her being the tutelary saint.
From the drapery and other parts, H. R. conceives it to be
the work of the thirteenth century, if not of an earlier period.
Supposing the surmise above offered to be well founded, if
the year of the building of the church could be discovered,
that might nearly ascertain the date of this ornamental stone.
For it was directed by several ecclesiastical ordinances that
at the time of the consecration of a church, the diocesan
should take care that the image of the saint, to whom the
church was dedicated, should be pictured on some wall or pillar
of it, or that there should be an inscription specifying the
name of the saint and the time of the ceremony's being performed.
It appears also from the decree of Archbishop Winchelsey,
confirmed by Reynolds, his immediate successor, that the chancel
was judged to be the most proper place for this purpose (Kennet's
" Parochial Antiquities," p. 609).
Yours, etc., W. and D.
Boylston.
[1792, Part II., pp. 884, 885.]
The following particulars relating to the parish of Boylston
are
* "Bibl. Top. Brit.," No. XXXII.,
p. 7. †Ibid., p. 17.
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at Mr. Urban's service.
The parish is situated on the western side of the county, nine
miles from Ashbourne, three from Sedbury, is in the deanery
of Castillar and hundred of Appletree. The living is a rectory.
The church, which is situated on a rising ground, seems to be
an ancient structure, built of stone. There are few monuments
of any note. In the chancel, within the rails, on a flat stone,
is the following inscription :
"Depositum GRATIÆ ALLSOP, quæ
fuit uxor Thomæ Allsop, rectoris per 49 annos. Mortem
obivit anno retatis 76; anno salutis 1714. Uxor prudens a Deo
venit, ad Deum redit."
On another:
" Depositum THOMAÆ ALLSOP, qui
fuit rector hujus ecclesiæ per 31 annos. Mortem obivit
anno ætatis75 ; anno salutis 1715."
On two other flat stones :
"SARAH ALLSOP, ob.
14 July, 1691."
"CHRISTOPHER ALLSOP, ob. II Feb. 1673."
On the north side of the church are two mural monuments,
of modern date : one to the memory of a Mr. Crofts; the other,
to several of the name of Chawner, who have had their residence
for some time back at a place called Lees Hall. I forgot to
mention that there is a flat stone in the south side of the
church, with a very ancient inscription round it ; but, through
the alteration of some seats, is broken, and otherwise much
defaced through time. On a future opportunity, if these be
worth your acceptance, I may probably send you some notes
respecting this village.
SAMUEL GETHOLL.
[1792, Part II., p. 1184, 1185.]
Mr. Getholl wishes to know if any family of the name of Boylston
ever lived at a village of the same appellation, situated
in the western part of Derbyshire. Be pleased to communicate
to him the following memoranda regarding the above place,
which I lately extracted from an ancient book of records,
viz., "that one Thomas was formerly Lord of Boylestone,
and held the same by the half of a knight's fee. And the said
Thomas was Lord of Draycot under Needwood, a member of the
aforesaid village of Boylestone, and held the town of Draycot
of the Earl of Ferrers, by service of hunting, viz., that
he should find one hunter with a horse, and if the horse should
die in the service of his lord the earl, then his lord the
earl should find another horse for him to ride upon."
From the above-mentioned Thomas descended Hawise, a daughter
and heir, and from her descended a Reginald de Boylestone.
This, I presume, is sufficient to answer in some degree your
correspondent's query. The name of Boylston I soon after find
changed into that of Pecche, as heir to the above places.
But, as my MS. is quite imperfect and confused, being entirely
without dates, I shall trouble
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this subject, particularly as Mr. Getholl has promised you some
future account of the village at Boylston. Now as Draycot is
said above to be then a member of that place, the one being
in Derbyshire, and the other near four miles distant from it,
and on the opposite side of the river Dove, in the parish of
Hanbury, I should wish to receive some farther evidence respecting
the truth of the above, and whether any such connection does
at present exist. ...
Yours, etc., S. S.
Brampton.
[1802, Part I. ,p. 297.]
I send you a rough draft of a curious monumental stone, accidentally
discovered in Brampton Church * by the pavement being taken
up for the purpose of making a vault. It is about a foot below
the floor of the church. The inscription upon it I read thus:
" Hic jacet Matilda
le Cave; orate pro anima ejus : pater nobilis."
From the veil over the face it is conjectured that the person
interred was a nun. There is no date upon the stone. I cannot
vouch for the correctness of the representation I have sent
you, as it is only a copy from one in Mr. Field's possession.
The inscription. I believe, is pretty accurate.
E. GOODWIN, Jun.
Buxton.
[1794. Part II., p. 1073.]
To the amusing account you have given of Buxton and its neighbourhood
[see 1793, ii., 1084-1085] the following letter to the Lord
Cromwell in the reign of Henry VIII. may be an amusing appendage.
It is taken from the British Museum, "Cotton MSS.,"
Cleopatra E. : IV., p.238:
"Right honourable my inespecial good Lord, according
to my bounden duty and the tenor of your Lordship's letters
lately to me directed, I have sent unto your good Lordship
by this bearer, my brother Francis Bassett, the images of
St. Ann of Buxton, and St. Andrew of Burton upon Trent, which
images I did take from the places where they did stand, and
brought them to my own house, within 48 hours after the contemplation
of your said Lordship's letters, in as sober manner as my
little and rude wits would serve me. And for that there should
no more idolatry and superstition be there used, I did not
only deface the tabernacles and places where
* About three miles west from Chesterfield
in Derbyshire.
† There seems no reason for supposing this lady was a
religious ; the veil and wimple being the female habit of
the time, about the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The
cross at the left comer is only the usual affix to these kind
of epitaphs; and the concluding words are Pater Noster. Were
the Caves an ancient or considerable family in Derbyshire
?
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but also did take away crutches, shirts, and sheets, with wax
offered, being things that did alure and intice the ignorant
people to the said offerings; also giving the keepers of both
places admonition and charge that no more offerings should be
made in those places till the King's pleasure and your Lordship's
be further known in that behalf. My Lord, I have also locked
up and sealed the baths and wells at Buxton, that none shall
enter to wash them till your Lordship's pleasure be further
known. Whereof I beseech your good Lordship that I may be ascertained
again at your pleasure, and I shall not fail to execute your
Lordship's commandment to the uttermost of my little witt and
power. And, my Lord, as touching the opinion of the people,
and the fond trust that they did put in those images, and the
vanity of the things; this bearer, my brother, can tell your
Lordship better at large than I can write; for he was with me
at the doing of all and in all places, as knoweth good Jesus,
whom ever have your good Lordship in his blessed keeping. Written
at Langley, with the rude and simple hand of your assured and
faithful orator, and as one ever at your commandment, next unto
the King, to the uttermost of my little power,
"WILLIAM BASSETT, Knight."
[1824, Part II., pp. 586, 587.]
In "the Benefit of the auncient Bathes of Buckstones,
which cureth most greeuous Sicknesses, neuer before published;
compiled by John Jones, Phisition, at the Kings Mede nigh
Darby, anno salutis 1572," is the following description
of exercises and amusements adapted to the invalid. The latter
do not appear to be noticed by either Brand or Strutt.
"To the sickly [ says the author] small exercyse will
serue, by reason of feeblenesse, not able too suffer pantynge,
neyther verily so violent for them shalbee requysite. But
if their strength will sustayne it, an exercyse conuenient
for theyr callinge shalbee vsed.
" Trol in Madam.-The ladyes, gentlewomen, wyues,
and maydes, maye in one of the galleries walke : and if the
weather bee not agreeable to theire expectacion, they may
haue, in the ende of a bench, eleuen holes made, intoo the
which to trowle pummetes or bowles of leade, bigge, little,
or meane, or also of copper, tynne, woode, eyther vyolent
or softe, after their owne discretion. The pastyme Troule
in Madame is termed.
"Lykewyse, men feeble the same may also practise, in
another gallery of the newe buyldinges, and this dooth not
only strengthen the stomack, and vpper parts aboue the mydryfe,
or wast, but also the middle partes beneath the sharp gristle
and the extreme partes, as the handes and legges, according
to the wayght of the thing trouled, fast, soft or meane.
"Bowling. - In lyke manner bowling in allayes,
the weather con-
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uenient, and the
bowles fitte to suche game, as eyther in playne or longe allayes,
or in such as haue cranckes with halfe bowles, which is the
fyner and gentler exercise.
" Shoting the noblest exercyse. - Shootinge at garden
buttes, too them whom it agreeeth and pleaseth, in place of
noblest exercyse standeth, and that rather wyth longe bowe,
than wyth tyller, stone bowe, or crosse bowe. Albeit to them
that otherwyse cannot, by reason of greefe, feeblenesse, or
lacke of vse, they may be allowed.
" This practise of all other the manlyest, leaueth no part
of the body vnexercised, the brest, backe, reynes, wast, and
armes, with drawing the thyghes, and legges, with running or
going.
" Wind ball, or yarne ball .- The wind baule, or
yarne ball, betwene three or foure, shall not be invtile to
be vsed, in a place conuenient, eache keeping their limite for
tossing, wherein may bee a very profitable exercise, by cause
at all tymes they keepe not the lyke force in stryking, so that
they shalbee constrayned too vse more violent stretching, with
swifter mouinge at one tyme than another, which will make the
exercise more nymble and deliuer, both of hand and whole body,
therefore encreasing of heat, through swift moouing, in all
partes the sooner.
" Plumbes or weightes .- Plumbetes, of Galene termed
alteres, one borne in eche hande, vp and downe the stayers,
galeries, or chambers, according to your strength, maye bee
a goode and profitable exercise; so may you vse wayghtes in
lyke maner.
" Bow lyne. - A fyne hallyer, or bowe lyne, a foote
or twoo hyer then a man may reache, fastened in length, some
way, shall not bee vnprofitable, holden by the handes, thereby
to stretche them; very excellent, as well for stretchinge of
the mydrife, interne panicles and wast, with all the rest of
the partes, as also to preserue and defend them from apostemes,
obstructions, and paynes thereto incident.
" These exercyse of your owne power, I thinke, for thys
place sufficient. Nowe we will shewe how they may bee profitable
vnto you thorow others mouihg; as well by waggon, charriet,
horselitter, and ryding, as by cradle and chayor hanged, in
sorte as to that vse may be best framed, all very profitable,
as they may bee exercised : much, little, or meane, close, or
open in the ayre, as to the parties shall bee requisite; taking
time likewise in the v sing, swift, slowe, or meane ; long,
short, or meane. And so likevyse in rocking by vice or engyne
; or on the figure, which is more shaking, and therefore to
them that may suffer it more profitable.
" The other good to weaker persons, as that in frame, conueyed
by pendent, from one to another, standing asunder according
to the length of the engyne, three or iiij sedome drawen from
them to the other, swift, slow, or meane, long, short, or mean,
as to the party shalbe conuenient. Omitting other deuices to
opportunity," etc.
Eu. HOOD.
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