The Little Book of Oxfordshire by Paul Sullivan

Author:Paul Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press

I DON’T BELIEVE IT…

No snakes

First keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Robert Plot, confirmed that there were no snakes in the north of the county:

In the Lordship of Blechington, and all the more Northern parts of Oxfordshire, no Snakes have been ever or very rarely seen, in so much that I met with several ancient people about Deddington and Banbury that scarce ever saw a Snake in their Lives … And at Blechington ‘twas confidently believed that a snake brought from any other place, and put down there, would instantly dye, till I made the Experiment and found no such matter: Whereupon I got leave … to inclose my Snake … to see what time would produce, leaving the Gardener in trust to observe it strictly, who found it indeed, after three weeks time, dead, without any sensible external hurt.

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