Early Rising.—From March to November, at least, no cause, save sickness, or one of equal weight, should retain us in bed a moment after the sun has risen.—Dr. Granville. (What say the lazy Londoners to this? In Paris, shops are opened and set out for the day before six o'clock in the mornings of spring, summer, and great part of autumn.)
Food.—Many articles of consumption, introduced in the reign of Henry VIII, the following distich embraces a few:—
Turkey, carp, hops, pricard, and beer.
Came into England all in one year. (1525.)
Ince's Outline of English History.
Footnote 1: [ (return) ] See Rambler, No. 38.
Footnote 2: [ (return) ] It appears to have been called Brighton in a terrier of lands, dated in 1660.
Footnote 3: [ (return) ] In the years 1800 and 1801, when wheat was at an unprecedented price, the occupiers of farms on the South Downs converted much of their downland into tillage, from which they acquired abundant crops of corn. The green sward when once ploughed, can never be restored to its former verdure, and although grass seeds have been yearly sown in succession for more than 80 years upon down formerly broken up and converted into arable land, the distinctions between these parts and the original down is still clearly perceptible.
Footnote 4: [ (return) ] See the remains of a Druidical altar at Goldstone (Gor or Thor stone) bottom, about a mile to the north-west of the town.