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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The volume which I have the honour of exhibiting to the Society is the original manuscript of Abraham de la Pryme's History of Winterton, in the county of Lincoln. It consists of twenty-six small quarto leaves, one of which is blank; they are stitched together in a cover of marbled paper. Of its history I know little. It was given to me by my friend the late Venerable William Brocklehurst Stonehouse, Vicar of Owston and Archdeacon of Stow, the historian of the Isle of Axholme. He found it, about thirty years ago, in a cottage in one of the villages near Owston. There can be no doubt that the manuscript is the autograph of de la Pryme. The handwriting corresponds in every respect with that of other documents known to have been written by him.
page 226 note a Cf. Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. i. p. 180. The title of De la Pryme's diary is, “Ephemeris Vitæ Abrahami Pryme; or, a Diary of my own life.” In 1828 it was the property of W. J. Bagshawe, Esq. of the Oaks, in Norton, co. Derby.
page 227 note a A transcript of this highly important work was among Warburton's collections. It now forms 890 of the Lansdowne Manuscripts. The title is “The History, Antiquities, and Description of the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull. Being the Annals of the sayd Towne….. by A. de la P.” The second part is called “A short account of the Religious Houses, viz. The Monasterys, Frierys, Colleges, Hospitals, Guilds, and Lands given to pious uses, that either have been or are within the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull.” The third is entitled “A short history of all the Towns that are in the County of Kingston upon Hull, to which is added also a brief account of Dripole, Sutton, and Cottingham.” Another transcript of the first part only exists in the British Museum, “ex legato J. Banks, Bart.” It forms Additional MS. 8936. Edward S. Wilson, Esq. of Melton, near Hull, possesses a copy of a portion of De la Pryme's Hull Collections. The original MS. was in De la Pryme's own possession when Bishop Kennett compiled his Collections.—See Lansd. MS. 972, f. 87.
page 227 note b See Thoresby's Diary, ed. Hunter, passim. Sir Philip Sydenham, Bart, of Brympton, co. Somerset, and Hackness, co. York, writing to Mr. Banks, the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Hull, says that he is indebted to De la Pryme for copies of Epitaphs at York.—Nichols's Illust. of Lit. Hist. vol. iv. p. 77.
page 229 note a Gibson's Camden, vol. ii. p. 64.
page 229 note b The passage referred to is as follows: “Anguium lapis apud Bohemos celebratur, forma est rotunda, crassitudine minimi digiti pueri sexennalis, in medio foramen habens tarn amplum, ut prædictus digitus immitti possit, quod altera parte latius est. Lapis colore est croceo obscuro, oculos exacte formatos in externa superficie, variis coloribus ornatos, vivi oculi instar habens, is tamen color qui iridem referre debet, cæruleus plerumque est. Boh end conflari à multis anguibus concurrentibus putant, ac singulos oculum formare. Propterea ab iis Duchanek vocatur, quasi dicas spiritalem, aut ex spiritu, vel flatu confectum lapidem. Existimant gestantem ab omni veneno, aëre pestilenti, fascinationibus, ac incantationibus immunem reddere. Verum falluntur vehementer, cum lapis iste ab illis in tanta authoritate habitus, non lapis, sed vitrum sit hac forma conflatum, ac mulierum verticillus, qui fusis dum fila trahunt adhibetur, ut pondere facilius vertantur, ac motus diutius perseveret. Memini me ante triginta sex annos, cum puer in Belgio viverem, innumeros hujusmodi verticillos apud mulieres vidisse. Caveant itaque ab impostoribus qui falsa pro veris obtrudunt in posterum Bohemi, nec sibi tarn facile imponi sinant.”— Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot Brugensis, Rudolphi ij Imperatoris Medicus. Nunc vero Recensuit…..Adrianus Toll. Lugd. Bat. CIO. IOC XXXVI. Cap. clxxiii. p. 346.
page 229 note c The distaff and spindle were in common use in this country during the sixteenth century, and probably to a much later period. Among the church furniture destroyed at Wroot, in the Isle of Axholme, co. Lincoln, A.D. 1566, was one “crwet…. whearof was made wharles for spindels.”—See the editor's “English Church Furniture, &c.” p. 170. The distaff and spindle are still used by the women of the Pyrennees and of some parts of Germany. It seems they have been employed in recent days in the Highlands of Scotland. John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A., in his very learned and interesting paper on the Distaff and Spindle in the 37th vol. of the Archæologia, states that a friend of his once saw a woman there using a small potatoe as a wharrow or spindle-whirl.
page 229 note d Sloane MS. 4056, fol. 31–33.
page 230 note a See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. i. p. 190, where the monumental inscription is given.
page 231 note a Stonehouse's History of Isle of Axholme, pp. 426–429. Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. i. p. 181.
page 232 note a This differs considerably from the text as edited by Hearne. See Bagster's reprint, 1810, p. 296.
page 233 note a Gainsborough.
page 234 note a Riccal near Selby. Florence of Wore, sub anno.
page 234 note b Fulford near Bishopsthorpe. Simeon of Durham, sub anno.
page 235 note a Glanford Briggs.
page 236 note a An engraving of this figure was published by the late Mr. William Fowler of Wiuterton, in his Collection of Mosaic Pavements and Stained Glass.
page 236 note b Gonaldstone in Nottinghamshire.
page 238 note a This word is still in use in Lincolnshire; it signifies the sweep of the scythe, i.e. the right of mowing grass for hay. See Cowell, Law Diet, sub voc. “Swepage” and “Swatha.” Coke, Institutes, vol. i. p. 4 b, edit. 1684.
page 239 note a The original document was evidently in existence when De la Pryme made his translation. It must have been in a mutilated condition, however, as an important part has been left out by the translator. A blank in the MS. indicates that this omission has not been made inadvertently. A translation of this document, among the editor's family papers, made when the record was perfect, gives him the opportunity of supplying the missing words, which are printed in the text inclosed in brackets. This version was made A.D. 1622. At that time the original was “in the hand and custodie of Thomas Howe, of Winterton.”
page 340 note a This monument still exists in a mutilated state in the chancel of the church. A pedigree of the family may be found in the Lincolnshire Heralds' Visitation for 1564. Harl. MS. 1550, ff. 231b, 232. MS. Queen's Coll. Oxford, F. 22, f. 45.
page 340 note b A new sluice was built at Ferriby about thirty years ago. The contractor who demolished the old one told the editor's father that he discovered in the foundations many moulded stones that had evidently once formed parts of some Gothic building.