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When children did shalle $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$their teeth
a tooth$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ they rubbed salt upon it, and then threw it into the fire (and also for the Teeth of old people). [See p. 10.]

On St Stephens day the Farrier came constantly and blouded all $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ the
our $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ Cart-horses, &c. So in Germany. Cramer.

[Horseshoes and Witches.]

A Horse-shoe nailed on the threshold of y^e dore is yet in fashion: and no where more than in London: it ought (Mr. Lilly sayes) to be a Horse-shoe that one finds by chance on the Roade. The end of it is to prevent the power of Witches, that come into your house.

So in Germany y^e common people doe naile such an Horse-shoe on the Threshold of the doore. So neere the main-mast in ships..... [See Miscellanies, p. 140.]

Mat. Nayler was advised by the Wizard of Feversh. in Kent to leap three times over a small running streame, to prevent her being taken, when she escaped out of prison. Something like this in Ovid's Fastor:

——manibus puram fluminis hausit aquam,
Ter caput irrorat, ter tollit ad aethera palmas.
⁠Ovid's Fastor. lib. iv. [314-5.]

& then she makes her imprecations.—[See p. 9.]

[Music at Meals.]

In Wales, the Gentlemen have their Harpers, who play to them at Dinner & supper; and so have the Irish. 'Tis & old Custome derived from the Trojans (Brute) who came hither, v. Tho: Walsingham de hoc, &c., who sayes, that it was about y^e time of y^e Prophet Samuel; he acquainted y^e Pope, that upon a carefull search of ancient Records he found that the Britons are descended from the Trojans about y^e time of Samuel. In like manner, Evander and also Hercules came out of Greece into Italie; but the many Greeke words that remain in the British language (more than Latin from the Romans being here) doe