The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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London :: Printed by J.G.W.L. and W.G. for Thomas Williams ...,
1662.
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Proverbs.
Rutland Raddleman.]
I meet in an * 1.1 Author with this blazon, as he termes it, of Rutland-shire, though I can scarcely recover the meaning thereof▪
Rad here is the same with red, (onely more broadly pronounced) as Radcliffe de ru∣bro clivo Redcliffe: Raddleman then is a Reddleman, a Trade (and that a poor one) onely in this County, whence men bring on their backs a pack of red stone or Oker, which they sell to their neighbouring Countries for the marking of sheep, well nigh as •…•…scer∣nable (and far less hurtful to the wooll) as Pitch-brands made on their flieces.