Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, 13th cent., Trevisa, John, d. 1402., Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.

Of the hill Sophin. chap. 39.

SOphin is a mount in the lignage of Ephraim, in ye place of Charmachen, where Samuel was borne, as Ier. sayth, it was a place set full high and plenteous of hearbs & of grasse, & moist with water, & full of hearbes & of trees, and of liking.