And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.
a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677