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Diary of John Manningham

by John Manningham

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In Naui Ecclesiæ.

Thomas Willowbee, Decanus 3s, obiit anno 25 Reg. Elizab., 76 ætatis suæ, et 10o decanatûs.

Gualterus Phillips, nouissimus prior et primus decanus, obijt 23o Nouemb. 1570, ætatis 70, decanatûs 30o.

May 2, 1602.
fol. 17b.

At Glastenbury there are certaine bushes which beare May flowers at Christmas and in January, and there is a walnut tree which hath no leaues before Barnabies day in June, and then it beginns to bud, and after becomes as forward as any other.
(Mr. Towse narravit.)

I heard that the old Earle of Hartford60 maried Alderman Parnels [Pranell's] sonnes widdow; shee was the daughter of Viscount Bindon.

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