Grasses with knots
Date
1690-91
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p123
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 364mm
width (page): 236mm
width (page): 236mm
Subject
Description
Marginal drawing of grasses with knots in their stems from 'Memoires of Naturall Remarques in the county of Wiltshire, to which are annexed observables of the same kind in the county of Surrey and Flynt-shire' by John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original, made by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, in 1690-91.
Transcription
At the East end of Ebbes-borne-Wake is a Meadowe called Ebbesbourne-meade that beareth grasse eighteen foot long. I myself have seen of thirteen foot long: it is watered with the washing of the village & the rich (fatt) macomy streetes. Upon a waye in King James the first's time, with washing it more than usuall, the grasse was eighteen foot long. It is so sweet, that the Pigges will eate it, it growes no higher, than other grasse, but iwth knotts, and harles like a skeen of silke (or setts together): they cannot mowe it with a Sythe, but they cutt it with such a hooke, as they do bagge pease with y Mr Beech the Rector there.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
By John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original manuscript (1685). It was transcribed by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, at the behest of the Society in 1690-91.
At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
Related fellows
John Aubrey (1626 - 1697, British) , Antiquary
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