New on Archive.org, The Diary and Will of Elias Ashmole, of Lichfield and Oxford.

1663. March. “I accompanied Mr. Dugdale in his Visitations of Staffordshire and Derbyshire.” [Note: “Ashmole’s notes made on this Visitation are preserved in MS. Rylands, e 27.]”

This followed his 1652 Noates in my Peake Journey into the Peak District. Which I see are now online with annotations…

Mostly the names of things and the diet of the people. But also an interesting naming of “Wagge of Wetton, the Staffordshire astrologer”, and at Dove bridge he met a diviner called Thompson who seems to have used a ‘call’ made under the bridge as a method of divination. Either listening to the echoes and water-sounds, or with an accomplice at the other end of the bridge making the ‘soft voice’ in reply.