Pilgrimages to Old Homes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... of Plummes, Grapes, Philberts, Figges and many other fruits."' Thomas Lyte wrote wonderfully. He made out pedigrees of himself and his king from the Trojan heroes and a bit bevond. Also something possibly more useful on "Cookerye," "Husbandrye," "Physike" might be dangerous, "Markett matters," "Divers good instructions which I had found by to deer experience in husbandrye in our clay countrye to be trew." The experience about the pedigree was not "to deer," though he wrote on vellum in a hand fairer than any print, and illuminated in "ritch coulers"; for King James gave him a miniature of himself, by Nicholas Halliard, set in gold, with his initials in diamonds. This jewel was lately sold for, 2835, its original cost having probably been about as many pence. Another pedigree, more than twelve feet wide, gives the descendants of his grandparents John and Edith, who were married in 1521. Eight hundred and thirty-eight of them had accumulated in the 112 years to A.d. 1633. A great tribute to the industry and luck of the family. He writes: "This Genealogie was collected by Thomas Lyte of Lytes Carie, Esquire, Anno 1633... not for any ostentation of birth or kinred, knowing, as saythe Job, that corruption is our mother and the wormes our sisters and brethren...." Several members of the family are recorded as being by great misfortune " brent" or drowned. Jane was "not so fortunat as favre." Another Jane was "twise maried, tasted both of prosperity and adversitie." The portraits of several are given in their old-fashioned costumes. In 1631 he "repayred" the chapel, adorning it with gorgeous shields of arms around the walls; seventeen ...