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p. 371, in which no notice occurs of the Templar’s tomb

At Biddenden, in Kent, is a tradition of the same kind, but, according to Hasted, without foundation. See History of Kent, vol. iii, p. 66, folio ed. —⁠B. ↩

The Cross Bath took its name from an old cross which stood in the centre of the bath. This was repaired in 1675 by Mr. W. Coo, of Grandford, Northamptonshire, who put a bordure of lead round it. In 1687 Mary of Modena, queen of James II, tried the effect of the Cross Bath, and was benefited by it. John, Earl of Melfort, erected a marble pillar, with a Latin inscription, in honour of the event, in place of the old cross. The pillar being insecure was taken down in 1783. ↩

“They draw all their heavy goods here on sleds, or sledges, which they call ‘gee hoes,’ without wheels, which kills a multitude of horses.” Another writer says, “They suffer no carts to be used in the city, lest, as some say, the shake occasioned by them on the pavement should affect the Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults, which is certainly had here in the greatest perfection.” An order of Common Council occurs in 1651 to prohibit the use of carts and wagons-only suffering drays. “Camden in giving our city credit for its cleanliness in forming ‘goutes,’ says they use sledges here instead of carts, lest they destroy the arches beneath which are the goutes.”

Chilcott’s New Guide to Bristol, etc., 1826

—⁠B. ↩

Francis Baylie, shipbuilder of Bristol, whose name frequently appears in the Calendars of State Papers. ↩

Daniel Furzer, who was Surveyor to the Navy from 1699 to 1714. ↩

Mayor of Bristol, 1663, and M.P. for that city. —⁠B. ↩

A sort of rum punch (milk punch), which, and turtle, were products of the trade of Bristol with the West Indies. So Byron says in the first edition of his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers:

“Too much in turtle Bristol’s sons delight,
Too much o’er bowls of rack prolong the night.”

These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the following are substituted:

“Four turtle feeder’s verse must needs he flat,
Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat.”

Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners of Bristol regaled their visitors: “The repast was dressed in the furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk” (Hist. of England, vol. i, p. 335) —⁠B. ↩

The Abbey Church. ↩

James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester in 1616⁠—died 1618. He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose mother was Pepys’s aunt. Hence Pepys’s curiosity respecting the tomb. —⁠B. ↩

Tobias Venner, who practised as a physician at Bath nearly half a century, and died March 27th, 1660, aged eighty-five. —⁠B. ↩

John Felling, B.D., rector of Bath for thirty years. —⁠B. ↩

Jane, sole daughter of Sir Richard Reynell, wife of Sir William Waller, the parliamentary general. —⁠B. ↩

Abury. ↩

The well-known temple of the Druids. ↩

There is a notice of Silbury in Rickman’s paper on the antiquity of Abury and Stonehenge in The Archæologia, vol. xxviii, p. 402. ↩

Littlecott House, a fine old mansion, in the parish of Ramsbury, Wilts, still in the possession of the Popham family. Special interest has attached to the place, as the supposed scene of the extraordinary child murder ascribed to William Darel, who sold Littlecott to Sir John Popham, 1587, accounts of which have been given by Aubrey, by Sir Walter Scott in Rokeby, and in Britton’s Wiltshire, vol. iii, p. 260. ↩

M.P. for Bath. ↩

Hampstead Marshall is in Hampshire. Lord Craven’s celebrated mansion, designed by Sir Balthasar Gerbier after the model of Heidelberg Castle, was built 1626⁠–⁠65. It was destroyed by fire in 1718, and succeeded by the present mansion of the Earl of Craven, which is styled Hampstead House. ↩

This ballad was first printed in the reign of James I by T. Simcocke, and is reprinted in most of the collections of songs and ballads. In the reign of Charles II, “T. Howard, Gent.,” wrote and published “An old song of the old Courtiers of the King’s, with a new song of a new Courtier of the King’s to the tune of ‘The Queen’s old Courtier.’ ” A still more modern version has been in vogue under the title of “The Fine Old English Gentleman.” ↩

The Kennet. ↩

Colnbrook. ↩

The rough notes end here. ↩

“Such an operation was performed in this year, after a consultation of medical men, and chiefly by Locke’s advice, and the wound was afterwards always kept open, a silver pipe being inserted. This saved Lord Ashley’s life, and gave him health.”

Christie’s Life of the First Earl of Shaftesbury, vol. ii, p. 34

Tapski was a name given to Shaftesbury in derision, and vile defamers described the abscess, which had originated in a carriage accident in Holland, as the result of extreme dissipation. Lines by Duke, a friend and imitator of Dryden:

“The working ferment of his active mind,
In his weak body’s cask with pain confined,
Would burst the rotten vessel where ’tis pent,
But that ’tis tapt to give the treason vent.”

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