... Intelligencer mentions the circumstance of a lad at Idle, named Daniel Firth, meeting his death from eating a great quantity blackberries. At the Bucks Michaelmas Sessions, Williani Alartin was found guilty of the heinous offence of robbing his master C. S ...

... orchards and hen-roosts were robbed in a month than bad formerly been pillaged in year; bastards became as plentiful as blackberries; Bibles were sold for blue ruin ; the only use they made of reading or writing was to enable them to forge a bill or c ...