Note 46 — DAVIES GILBERT, (continued 6)
Reading edition
In the margin are the following notes on the Vivians:
“Vivian’s grandfather was a man of mene land.
“Vivian’s father was a galant Courtier set forth by Somerset Lord Herbert.
“Vivian now being heir, hath sum more land then his father had, and yet he hath scant an hunderith markes by yere.
“This Vivian hath an uncle, a lawier, a man of mene landes.
“The heir of the eldest house of the Vivians is now lord of Tredine Castelle at the southe-west pointe of Cornewal.
“There was found, in hominum memoria, digging for the fox, a brase [pot] ful of Roman mony.”