[1343] North Wilts.
[1344] Aubrey no doubt cites text and note from Thomas Farnaby's edition.
[1345] Ad quem in terrâ defixum foeminae se exercent tanquam tyrones ut simulata pugna, feriendi, insiliendi, recedendi veram disciplinam ediscant (Vegetius.)
[1346] See facsimile at end of this volume.
[1347] The heavy wooden roller with which the ground is rolled after sowing, or when the corn sprouts in April and May.
[1348] Sic in MS.
[1349] For a similar birth at Middleton-Stony, Oxfordshire, in 1552, see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, iv. 64.
[1350] i.e. except the first and second stones, they are more or less (plus, minus) about 4 feet high. The diagram gives Aubrey's measurement of the circle: p. = paces.
[1351] i.e. measure exactly their height.
[1352] There is no indication of the person who saw the apparition. Anthony Wood (Life and Times, ii. 4) reports an apparition which appeared to Richard Lower in 1664.