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         Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
      
       
         
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             Three vveekes, three daies, and three houres obseruations and trauel, from London to Hamburgh in Germanie amongst Iewes and gentiles, with descriptions of townes and towers, castles and cittadels, artificiall gallowses, naturall hangmen: and dedicated for the present, to the absent Odcombian knight errant, Sr. Thomas Coriat. Great Brittaines error, and the worlds mirror. By Iohn Taylor.
             Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
          
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           ●●ree
           VVeekes
           ,
           three
           daies
           ,
           and
           
             three
             houres
          
           OBSERVATIONS
           AND
           TRAVEL
           ,
           FROM
           LONDON
           to
           HAMBVRGH
           
             in
             Germanie
          
           :
           Amongst
           Iewes
           and
           Gentiles
           ,
           with
           
             Descriptions
             of
             Townes
             and
             Towers
          
           ,
           Castles
           and
           Cittadels
           ,
           artificiall
           Gallowses
           ,
           Naturall
           Hangmen
           :
           And
           Dedicated
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           to
           the
           absent
           Odcombian
           Knight
           Errant
           ,
           S
           
             
             r.
             THOMAS
             CORIAT
             ,
             Great
             Brittaines
             Error
             ,
          
           and
           
             the
             worlds
             Mirror
          
           .
           By
           IOHN
           TAYLOR
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           EDWARD
           GRIFFIN
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           by
           GEORGE
           GYBBS
           at
           the
           signe
           of
           the
           Flower-deluce
           in
           
             Pauls
             Church
             yard
          
           .
           1617.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           COSMOgraphicall
           ,
           Geographicall
           describer
           ,
           Geometricall
           measurer
           ;
           Historiographicall
           Calligraphicall
           Relater
           and
           Writer
           ;
           Enigmaticall
           ,
           Pragmaticall
           ,
           Dogmaticall
           Obseruer
           ,
           Ingrosser
           ,
           Surueyer
           and
           Eloquent
           Brittish
           Graecian
           Latinist
           ,
           or
           Latine
           Graecian
           Orator
           ,
           the
           Odcombyan
           Deambulator
           ,
           Perambulator
           ,
           Ambler
           ,
           Trotter
           ,
           or
           vn-tyred
           Traueller
           ,
           Sir
           THOMAS
           CORIAT
           ,
           Knight
           of
           Troy
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           deerest
           darlings
           to
           the
           blinde
           Goddesse
           Fortune
           .
        
         
           MOst
           worthy
           Sir
           ,
           as
           Quintilian
           in
           his
           Apothegmes
           to
           the
           naked
           ,
           learned
           ,
           Gimnosophists
           of
           AEthiopia
           ,
           very
           wittily
           saies
           ,
           
             Potanto
             Machyo
             corbatio
             monomosco
             kayturemon
             Lescus
             ,
             Ollipuff
             tingere
             whingo
             :
          
           which
           is
           ,
           knowledge
           is
           a
           main
           
           Antithesis
           to
           ignorance
           ,
           and
           paines
           and
           trauell
           is
           the
           high
           way
           to
           experience
           .
           I
           being
           therefore
           well
           acquainted
           with
           the
           generous
           vrbanity
           innated
           or
           rooted
           in
           your
           humanity
           ,
           (
           in
           these
           daies
           of
           vanity
           ,
           )
           I
           dedicate
           (
           out
           of
           my
           affability
           ,
           debility
           ,
           ability
           ,
           imbecillity
           ,
           facility
           ,
           or
           agility
           ,
           )
           this
           poore
           Pamphlet
           to
           your
           nobility
           ,
           in
           all
           seruility
           and
           humility
           :
           not
           doubting
           but
           the
           fluent
           fecundity
           of
           your
           wisdomes
           profundity
           ,
           in
           your
           heads
           rotundity
           ,
           will
           conserue
           ,
           reserue
           ,
           preserue
           ,
           and
           obserue
           ,
           what
           I
           &
           my
           industrious
           labors
           deserue
           .
           I
           do
           (
           out
           of
           mine
           owne
           cognition
           )
           auerre
           and
           abett
           ,
           that
           hee
           is
           senselesse
           that
           will
           assent
           ,
           that
           the
           Fates
           did
           assigne
           ,
           with
           their
           whole
           assistance
           ,
           that
           any
           should
           aspire
           ,
           to
           be
           an
           associate
           in
           any
           assembly
           ,
           boldly
           to
           assimulate
           ,
           assay
           ,
           assault
           ,
           or
           ascribe
           to
           any
           mortall
           but
           your selfe
           ,
           superlatiue
           maiority
           or
           transcendency
           for
           trauels
           ,
           obseruations
           ,
           and
           oratorie
           .
           These
           things
           being
           reuolued
           and
           ruminated
           ,
           in
           the
           sagacitie
           or
           acutenesse
           of
           my
           Pericranion
           ,
           I
           imagined
           that
           no
           man
           vnder
           the
           Cope
           was
           
           more
           worthy
           then
           your selfe
           to
           be
           a
           Patronizing
           Poplar
           to
           shelter
           my
           poore
           reed-like
           endeuors
           .
           Howsoeuer
           in
           the
           preterlapsed
           occurrences
           there
           hath
           beene
           an
           Antagonisticall
           repugnancy
           betwixt
           vs
           ,
           yet
           I
           hope
           time
           and
           trauell
           hath
           worne
           it
           thred-bare
           ,
           or
           brought
           it
           to
           a
           most
           irrecouerable
           consumption
           ;
           withall
           I
           know
           you
           are
           vncapable
           of
           inexpugnable
           malice
           ,
           inueterate
           malignancy
           or
           emulation
           .
           I
           protest
           tongue-tide
           taciturnity
           should
           haue
           imprisoned
           this
           worke
           in
           the
           Lethargicall
           dungeon
           ,
           or
           bottomlesse
           Abisse
           of
           euer-sleeping
           obliuion
           ,
           but
           that
           I
           am
           confident
           of
           your
           patronage
           and
           acceptance
           ,
           which
           if
           it
           fall
           out
           (
           not
           according
           to
           any
           Promerits
           of
           mine
           )
           but
           out
           of
           mine
           owne
           expectation
           of
           your
           matchles
           and
           vnparalelld
           disposition
           ,
           I
           shall
           heereafter
           sacrifice
           whole
           Hecatombs
           of
           inuention
           both
           in
           Prose
           and
           Verse
           ,
           at
           the
           shrine
           of
           your
           vnfellowed
           and
           vnfollowed
           vertues
           .
           So
           wishing
           more
           to
           see
           you
           then
           to
           heare
           from
           you
           ,
           because
           writers
           want
           worke
           ,
           and
           the
           Presse
           is
           turned
           voluntarie
           through
           the
           
           scarcity
           of
           imployments
           ,
           which
           I
           hope
           your
           presence
           will
           supply
           ,
           I
           pray
           that
           
             Neptune
             ,
             AEolus
             ,
             Tellus
             ,
             Bacchus
             ,
          
           and
           all
           the
           watery
           ,
           windy
           ,
           earthly
           ,
           and
           drinking
           Deities
           may
           be
           officious
           ,
           auspicious
           ,
           and
           delicious
           vnto
           you
           ,
           humbly
           imploring
           you
           to
           take
           in
           good
           part
           this
           my
           sophisticall
           ,
           paradoxicall
           ,
           submission
           ,
           with
           a
           mentall
           reseruation
           of
           my
           loue
           and
           seruice
           ,
           to
           sympathize
           or
           be
           equiualent
           to
           your
           kind
           liking
           and
           corroborated
           affecting
           .
        
         
           
             He
             that
             hath
             a
             poore
             muse
             to
             trot
             in
             your
             seruice
             with
             all
             obsequious
             obseruance
             :
             
               IOHN
               TAYLOR
            
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Three
           weekes
           ,
           three
           daies
           ,
           and
           three
           houres
           trauels
           and
           Obseruations
           .
           OR
           ,
           TAYLORS
           TRAVELS
           .
        
         
           SAturday
           the
           17.
           of
           August
           ,
           1616.
           (
           after
           I
           had
           taken
           leaue
           of
           some
           friends
           that
           would
           hardly
           giue
           me
           leaue
           to
           leaue
           them
           )
           I
           was
           associated
           with
           fiue
           or
           sixe
           courteous
           Comrades
           to
           the
           Hauen
           of
           Billingsgate
           ,
           where
           I
           was
           no
           sooner
           come
           ,
           but
           I
           was
           shipt
           in
           a
           wherry
           for
           the
           port
           of
           Graues-end
           ,
           and
           hauing
           two
           women
           and
           three
           men
           in
           my
           company
           thither
           ,
           we
           past
           the
           way
           away
           by
           telling
           tales
           by
           turnes
           .
           Where
           one
           of
           the
           women
           tooke
           vpon
           her
           very
           Logically
           to
           defend
           the
           honesty
           of
           Brokers
           ,
           and
           she
           maintained
           her
           Paradoxicall
           Arguments
           so
           pithily
           ,
           as
           if
           her selfe
           like
           a
           desperate
           pawne
           had
           layen
           seauen
           yeares
           in
           Lauender
           on
           sweetning
           in
           long
           Lane
           ,
           or
           
           amongst
           the
           dogged
           inhabitants
           of
           Houndsditch
           .
           And
           one
           of
           the
           men
           replied
           that
           he
           thanked
           God
           he
           neuer
           had
           any
           need
           of
           them
           ,
           whereupon
           I
           began
           to
           suspect
           him
           to
           be
           a
           crafty
           knaue
           ,
           because
           the
           Prouerbe
           saies
           ,
           
             A
             crafty
             knaue
             needs
             no
             broker
             ,
          
           and
           indeede
           after
           I
           had
           enquired
           what
           countriman
           he
           was
           ,
           he
           told
           me
           he
           was
           a
           Welch
           man
           ,
           and
           a
           Iustices
           Clarke
           .
           I
           left
           him
           as
           I
           found
           him
           ,
           hoping
           neuer
           to
           be
           troubled
           with
           his
           binding
           ouer
           ,
           and
           withdrawing
           :
           and
           so
           landing
           at
           Graues-end
           ,
           wee
           all
           went
           to
           the
           Christopher
           where
           wee
           tooke
           a
           Bachanalian
           farewell
           one
           of
           another
           ,
           where
           I
           remained
           till
           the
           Munday
           following
           ,
           awayting
           the
           comming
           downe
           of
           the
           ship
           that
           I
           was
           to
           be
           transported
           in
           .
           About
           the
           houre
           of
           three
           in
           the
           afternoone
           ,
           with
           good
           hope
           we
           weighed
           Anchor
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           curteous
           tide
           and
           a
           gentle
           winde
           we
           sailed
           downe
           the
           riuer
           of
           Thames
           ,
           as
           farre
           as
           the
           grand
           Oyster
           hauen
           of
           Quinborough
           ,
           where
           though
           our
           ship
           was
           not
           Sea-sicke
           ,
           yet
           shee
           cast
           ,
           (
           Anchor
           I
           meane
           .
           )
        
         
           On
           the
           morrow
           ,
           being
           Tuesday
           ,
           wee
           weighed
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           friendly
           breath
           of
           Zephirus
           ,
           aliâs
           a
           Westerne
           wind
           ,
           our
           sailes
           being
           swolne
           ,
           our
           ship
           called
           the
           Iudith
           ,
           who
           with
           her
           sterne
           cut
           the
           liquid
           mounting
           mountaines
           of
           Neptunes
           wauering
           territories
           ,
           as
           nimbly
           as
           Hebrew
           Iudith
           beheaded
           Holofernes
           ,
           so
           that
           by
           the
           bountifull
           fauour
           of
           him
           that
           rules
           both
           Windes
           and
           Seas
           ,
           on
           the
           Thursday
           following
           wee
           espied
           the
           coast
           of
           Freezeland
           ,
           and
           the
           next
           day
           wee
           sailed
           by
           an
           Iland
           called
           the
           Holy
           Land
           ,
           which
           may
           bee
           called
           the
           Land
           of
           
           Lobsters
           ,
           or
           the
           Countrie
           of
           Crabs
           for
           the
           plentie
           of
           those
           kinde
           of
           crawling
           creatures
           that
           are
           taken
           there
           .
           But
           we
           ,
           taking
           time
           by
           the
           fore-top
           ,
           let
           no
           aduantage
           slip
           ,
           but
           with
           a
           merry
           Gale
           ,
           and
           a
           friendly
           floud
           ,
           on
           the
           Friday
           wee
           sailed
           vp
           the
           Riuer
           of
           Elue
           ,
           as
           farre
           as
           Stoad
           ,
           where
           we
           Anchoured
           till
           the
           morrow
           ,
           being
           Saturday
           ,
           and
           the
           feast
           of
           S.
           Bartholmew
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           we
           ariued
           at
           a
           bleake
           aliâs
           ,
           a
           towne
           an
           English
           mile
           from
           Hamburgh
           ,
           called
           Altonagh
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           called
           by
           the
           Hamburgers
           because
           it
           stands
           all-too-nigh
           them
           for
           their
           profit
           ,
           beeing
           inhabited
           with
           diuers
           tradesmen
           which
           doe
           hinder
           their
           freedome
           .
           I
           was
           no
           sooner
           landed
           there
           ,
           but
           my
           company
           and
           my selfe
           went
           to
           a
           Dutch
           drinking-schoole
           ,
           and
           hauing
           vpsefreez'd
           foure
           pots
           of
           boone
           beere
           as
           yellow
           as
           gold
           ,
           our
           host
           said
           we
           had
           foure
           shilling
           to
           betall
           ,
           or
           to
           pay
           ,
           which
           made
           me
           suspect
           it
           to
           bee
           a
           bawdy
           house
           by
           his
           large
           reckoning
           ,
           till
           at
           last
           I
           vnderstood
           that
           the
           shillings
           hee
           meant
           were
           but
           stiuers
           ,
           or
           three
           halfe
           pence
           a
           peece
           .
           So
           this
           terrible
           shot
           being
           discharged
           (
           which
           in
           the
           totall
           amounted
           to
           the
           sum
           of
           sixepence
           English
           ,
           )
           we
           departed
           towards
           Hamburgh
           ,
           where
           by
           the
           way
           I
           noted
           some
           20.
           men
           ,
           women
           ,
           and
           children
           in
           diuers
           places
           of
           Altonagh
           ,
           all
           deformed
           ,
           some
           with
           one
           eye
           ,
           some
           with
           hare-lips
           ,
           crooke
           backt
           ,
           splay
           footed
           ,
           halfe-nozed
           ,
           or
           one
           blemish
           or
           other
           .
           I
           admiring
           at
           them
           ,
           was
           told
           they
           were
           all
           Iewes
           ,
           wherein
           I
           perceiued
           the
           Iudgement
           of
           the
           high
           Iudge
           of
           all
           ,
           that
           had
           permitted
           Nature
           to
           deforme
           their
           formes
           ,
           whose
           Gracelesse
           mindes
           were
           so
           much
           
           mishapen
           through
           want
           of
           Grace
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           being
           entred
           the
           City
           of
           Hamburgh
           on
           the
           Saturday
           ,
           I
           was
           presently
           conducted
           to
           the
           English
           house
           ,
           where
           I
           found
           a
           kinde
           Host
           ,
           an
           honest
           hostesse
           ,
           good
           company
           ,
           store
           of
           meat
           ,
           more
           of
           drinke
           ,
           a
           true
           Tapster
           ,
           and
           sweet
           lodging
           .
           And
           being
           at
           dinner
           ,
           because
           I
           was
           a
           stranger
           ,
           I
           was
           promoted
           to
           the
           chiefest
           place
           at
           the
           Table
           ,
           where
           to
           obserue
           an
           olde
           custome
           ,
           euery
           man
           did
           his
           best
           endeuour
           to
           hauns
           me
           for
           my
           welcome
           ,
           which
           by
           interpretation
           is
           to
           giue
           a
           man
           a
           loafe
           too
           much
           out
           of
           the
           Brewers
           basket
           ;
           in
           which
           kinde
           of
           Pot-shot
           ,
           our
           English
           are
           growne
           such
           stout
           Proficients
           ,
           that
           some
           of
           them
           dares
           bandy
           and
           contend
           with
           the
           Dutch
           their
           first
           teachers
           .
           But
           after
           they
           had
           hanced
           me
           as
           well
           as
           they
           could
           ,
           and
           I
           pleas'd
           ,
           they
           administred
           an
           oath
           to
           mee
           ,
           in
           manner
           and
           forme
           as
           followeth
           ;
           
             Laying
             my
             hand
             on
             a
             full
             pot
          
        
         
           I
           sweare
           by
           these
           contents
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           is
           heerein
           contained
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           courteous
           fauour
           of
           these
           Gentlemen
           ,
           I
           doe
           finde
           my selfe
           sufficiently
           hanced
           ,
           and
           that
           henceforth
           euer
           I
           shall
           acknowledge
           it
           ;
           and
           that
           whensoeuer
           I
           shall
           offer
           to
           be
           hanced
           again
           ,
           I
           shall
           arme
           my selfe
           with
           the
           craft
           of
           a
           Fox
           ,
           the
           manners
           of
           a
           Hogge
           ,
           the
           wisdome
           of
           an
           Asse
           ,
           mixt
           with
           the
           ciuility
           of
           a
           Beare
           .
           This
           was
           the
           forme
           of
           the
           oath
           ,
           which
           as
           neere
           as
           I
           can
           shall
           be
           performed
           on
           my
           part
           ;
           and
           heere
           is
           to
           be
           noted
           that
           the
           first
           word
           a
           Nurse
           or
           a
           Mother
           doth
           teach
           her
           children
           if
           they
           be
           males
           ,
           is
           Drinke
           ,
           or
           Beere
           :
           So
           that
           most
           of
           them
           are
           transformed
           to
           Barrels
           ,
           
           Firkins
           ,
           and
           Kinderkins
           ,
           alwaies
           fraight
           with
           Hamburgh
           beere
           .
        
         
           And
           though
           the
           City
           is
           not
           much
           more
           then
           halfe
           the
           bignes
           as
           London
           is
           within
           the
           walls
           ,
           yet
           are
           there
           in
           it
           almost
           800.
           
           Brewhouses
           ,
           and
           in
           one
           day
           there
           hath
           beene
           shipped
           away
           from
           thence
           ,
           337.
           brewings
           of
           Beere
           ,
           besides
           13
           or
           14.
           brewings
           haue
           beene
           wrackt
           or
           stayed
           in
           the
           towne
           ,
           as
           not
           sufficient
           to
           be
           bezelled
           in
           the
           Country
           .
        
         
           The
           Saturday
           beeing
           thus
           past
           ,
           and
           Sunday
           come
           ,
           I
           went
           toward
           the
           English
           Church
           ,
           where
           I
           obserued
           many
           shops
           open
           ,
           buying
           and
           selling
           ,
           chopping
           and
           changing
           of
           all
           maner
           of
           wares
           ,
           with
           the
           streetes
           furnished
           with
           Apples
           ,
           Peares
           ,
           Plums
           ,
           Nuts
           ,
           Grapes
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           else
           that
           an
           ordinary
           Market
           can
           afford
           ,
           as
           commonly
           as
           if
           the
           Sabbaoth
           were
           but
           a
           bare
           ceremony
           without
           a
           Commandement
           .
           In
           which
           I
           note
           the
           Iewes
           in
           their
           execrable
           superstition
           ,
           to
           be
           more
           deuout
           and
           obseruant
           ,
           then
           these
           Pedlars
           in
           their
           profession
           ;
           for
           on
           the
           Saturday
           (
           beeing
           the
           Iewes
           Sabaoth
           )
           they
           neglect
           all
           humane
           affares
           ▪
           and
           betake
           themselues
           irreligiously
           to
           their
           misbeleeuing
           faithlesse
           religion
           .
        
         
           The
           Sermon
           being
           ended
           at
           the
           English
           Church
           ,
           I
           walked
           in
           the
           afternoone
           with
           a
           friend
           of
           mine
           ,
           (
           an
           Inhabitant
           of
           the
           Towne
           )
           to
           see
           and
           to
           be
           seene
           ,
           where
           at
           one
           of
           the
           gates
           was
           placed
           a
           strong
           guard
           of
           Souldiers
           with
           Muskets
           ,
           Pikes
           ,
           Halberts
           ,
           and
           other
           warlike
           accoutrements
           ,
           I
           asked
           the
           cause
           ,
           and
           I
           was
           informed
           it
           was
           because
           of
           the
           building
           of
           certaine
           new
           mounts
           and
           Bulwarks
           ,
           
           which
           were
           partly
           erected
           without
           the
           old
           wall
           :
           And
           when
           I
           perceiued
           these
           fortifications
           ,
           I
           was
           amazed
           ,
           for
           it
           is
           almost
           incredible
           for
           the
           number
           of
           men
           and
           horses
           that
           are
           daily
           set
           on
           worke
           about
           it
           ,
           besides
           the
           work
           it selfe
           is
           so
           great
           that
           it
           is
           past
           the
           credit
           of
           Report
           ,
           and
           as
           I
           suppose
           will
           prooue
           most
           inexpugnable
           and
           inuincible
           Rampiers
           to
           strengthen
           the
           Towne
           on
           that
           side
           against
           the
           inuasiue
           attempts
           of
           the
           greatest
           Monarke
           that
           should
           assaile
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           much
           musing
           ,
           walking
           further
           towards
           the
           fields
           ,
           I
           espied
           foure
           or
           fiue
           pretty
           parcels
           of
           modesty
           goe
           very
           friendly
           into
           a
           counsell-house
           by
           the
           wayes
           side
           ,
           as
           we
           and
           thousands
           of
           people
           vsed
           to
           passe
           ;
           they
           were
           handsome
           young
           Girles
           of
           the
           age
           of
           18.
           or
           20.
           yeares
           a
           peece
           ,
           and
           although
           they
           had
           a
           door
           to
           shut
           ,
           yet
           they
           knowing
           their
           businesse
           to
           bee
           necessary
           and
           naturall
           ,
           sate
           still
           in
           louing
           and
           neighbourly
           manner
           :
           so
           hauing
           traced
           a
           turne
           or
           two
           ,
           wee
           returned
           into
           the
           Towne
           againe
           ,
           and
           entring
           a
           long
           Garden
           within
           the
           walls
           ,
           some
           of
           the
           Townes-men
           were
           shooting
           for
           wagers
           at
           a
           marke
           with
           their
           muskets
           :
           some
           bowling
           :
           some
           at
           slide-thrift
           ,
           or
           shouell-boord
           :
           some
           dancing
           before
           a
           blinde
           fidler
           and
           his
           cowbellied
           ,
           dropsie
           ,
           durty
           drabb
           :
           some
           at
           one
           game
           ,
           some
           at
           another
           ,
           most
           of
           them
           drinking
           ,
           and
           all
           of
           them
           drunke
           ,
           that
           though
           it
           was
           a
           Sabboth
           ,
           which
           should
           wholly
           be
           dedicated
           to
           God
           ,
           yet
           by
           the
           abvse
           of
           these
           bursten-gutted
           bibbers
           ,
           they
           made
           it
           an
           after-noone
           consecrated
           ,
           or
           more
           truely
           execrated
           to
           the
           seruice
           of
           hell
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           
           great
           amplification
           of
           the
           Deuills
           kingdome
           .
        
         
           
             When
             Christians
             dare
             Gods
             Sabboth
             to
             abuse
             ,
          
           
             They
             make
             themselues
             a
             scorne
             to
             Turkes
             and
             Iewes
             :
          
           
             You
             stealing
             Barabasses
             beastly
             Race
             ,
          
           
             Rob
             God
             of
             glory
             ,
             and
             your selues
             of
             Grace
             .
          
           
             Thinke
             on
             the
             supreame
             Iudge
             who
             all
             things
             tries
             ,
          
           
             When
             Iewes
             in
             Iudgement
             shall
             against
             you
             rise
             .
          
           
             Their
             feigned
             trueth
             ,
             with
             feruent
             Zeale
             they
             show
             ,
          
           
             The
             Truth
             vnfeign'd
             you
             know
             ,
             yet
             will
             not
             know
             .
          
           
             Then
             at
             the
             Barre
             in
             new
             Ierusalem
             ,
          
           
             It
             shall
             be
             harder
             much
             for
             you
             then
             them
             .
          
        
         
           But
           leauing
           them
           to
           their
           drunken
           designes
           ,
           I
           return'd
           toward
           my
           lodging
           ,
           where
           by
           the
           way
           I
           saw
           at
           the
           common
           Iayle
           of
           the
           town
           ,
           a
           great
           number
           of
           people
           were
           clustred
           together
           ,
           I
           asked
           the
           cause
           of
           their
           concourse
           ,
           and
           I
           was
           certified
           that
           there
           was
           a
           Prisoner
           to
           be
           broken
           vpon
           the
           wheele
           the
           next
           day
           ,
           and
           that
           these
           idle
           Gazers
           did
           prease
           to
           gape
           vpon
           him
           for
           want
           of
           better
           imployments
           ,
           I
           being
           as
           inquisitiue
           after
           nouelties
           ,
           as
           a
           Traueller
           of
           my
           small
           experience
           might
           be
           ,
           enquired
           earnestly
           the
           true
           cause
           of
           the
           next
           daies
           execution
           :
           my
           friend
           told
           me
           that
           the
           Prisoner
           was
           a
           poore
           Carpenter
           dwelling
           in
           the
           Towne
           ,
           who
           lately
           hauing
           stolne
           a
           Goose
           ,
           and
           plucking
           it
           within
           his
           doores
           ,
           a
           little
           Girle
           ,
           (
           his
           daughter
           in
           Law
           )
           went
           out
           of
           his
           house
           ,
           &
           left
           the
           dore
           open
           ,
           by
           which
           meanes
           ,
           the
           owner
           of
           the
           Goose
           passing
           by
           ,
           espied
           the
           wretched
           theefe
           very
           diligently
           picking
           what
           hee
           before
           had
           beene
           stealing
           ,
           to
           whom
           the
           owner
           
           said
           ;
           Neighbour
           I
           now
           perceiue
           which
           way
           my
           Geese
           vse
           to
           goe
           ,
           but
           I
           will
           haue
           you
           in
           question
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           so
           away
           he
           went
           :
           the
           Caitife
           being
           thus
           reproued
           grew
           desperate
           ,
           and
           his
           child
           comming
           into
           his
           house
           ;
           ye
           yong
           whore
           ,
           quoth
           hee
           ,
           must
           ye
           leaue
           my
           dore
           open
           for
           folkes
           to
           looke
           in
           vpon
           me
           ?
           and
           with
           that
           word
           ,
           hee
           tooke
           a
           Hatchet
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           fatall
           cursed
           stroake
           ,
           he
           cloue
           the
           childes
           head
           :
           for
           the
           which
           murder
           hee
           was
           condemned
           and
           iudged
           to
           be
           broaken
           aliue
           vpon
           the
           wheele
           .
           Close
           to
           the
           Iayle
           I
           espied
           a
           house
           of
           free
           stone
           ,
           round
           and
           flat
           roofed
           ,
           and
           leaded
           ,
           vpon
           the
           which
           was
           erected
           the
           true
           picture
           of
           a
           most
           vnmatchable
           Hang-man
           ;
           and
           now
           I
           am
           entred
           into
           a
           discourse
           of
           this
           braue
           abiect
           ,
           or
           subiect
           ,
           you
           must
           vnderstand
           that
           this
           fellow
           is
           a
           merry
           ,
           a
           mad
           and
           a
           subsidie
           hangman
           ,
           to
           whom
           our
           Tyburne
           Tatterdemallian
           ,
           or
           our
           Wapping
           windpipe-stretcher
           ,
           is
           but
           a
           Raggamuffin
           ,
           not
           woorth
           the
           hanging
           :
           for
           this
           teare-throat
           Termagant
           is
           a
           fellow
           in
           Folio
           ,
           a
           commander
           of
           such
           great
           command
           ,
           &
           of
           such
           greatnesse
           to
           command
           ,
           that
           I
           neuer
           saw
           any
           that
           in
           that
           respect
           could
           countermand
           him
           :
           For
           his
           making
           is
           almost
           past
           description
           ,
           no
           Saracens
           head
           seemes
           greater
           ,
           and
           sure
           I
           thinke
           his
           braine-pan
           if
           it
           were
           emptied
           ,
           (
           as
           I
           thinke
           hee
           hath
           not
           much
           braine
           in
           it
           ,
           )
           would
           well
           containe
           halfe
           a
           bushell
           of
           mault
           ,
           his
           shaggie
           haire
           and
           beard
           would
           stuffe
           a
           Cusheon
           for
           Charons
           boate
           ,
           his
           Imbost
           nose
           and
           embroydered
           face
           ,
           would
           furnish
           a
           Ieweller
           ;
           his
           eies
           well
           dried
           ,
           would
           make
           good
           Tennis-balls
           ,
           or
           shot
           for
           a
           small
           peece
           of
           Ordinance
           ,
           
           his
           yawning
           mouth
           would
           serue
           for
           a
           Conniborrow
           ,
           and
           his
           two
           ragged
           rowes
           of
           teeth
           ,
           for
           a
           stone
           wall
           ,
           or
           a
           Pale
           ;
           then
           hath
           hee
           a
           necke
           like
           one
           of
           Hercules
           his
           pillars
           ,
           with
           a
           winde-pipe
           ,
           (
           or
           rather
           a
           beere
           pipe
           )
           as
           bigge
           as
           the
           boare
           of
           a
           Demiculuering
           ,
           or
           a
           woodden
           pumpe
           ;
           through
           which
           conduit
           halfe
           a
           brewing
           of
           Hamburgh
           beere
           doth
           run
           downe
           into
           his
           vnmeasurable
           paunch
           ,
           wherein
           is
           more
           midriff
           ,
           guts
           and
           garbage
           then
           three
           tripe-wiues
           could
           be
           able
           to
           vtter
           before
           it
           stunke
           .
           His
           post-like
           legges
           were
           answerable
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           great
           frame
           which
           they
           supported
           ,
           and
           to
           conclude
           ,
           sir
           
             Beuis
             ,
             Ascapart
             ,
             Gogmagog
          
           ,
           or
           our
           English
           sir
           
             Iohn
             Falstaff
          
           ,
           were
           but
           shrimpes
           to
           this
           bezzeling
           Bombards
           longitude
           ,
           latitude
           ,
           altitude
           ,
           and
           crassitude
           ,
           for
           hee
           passes
           ,
           and
           surpasses
           the
           whole
           Germane
           multitude
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           he
           is
           great
           in
           corpulency
           ,
           so
           is
           he
           powerfull
           in
           potency
           ,
           for
           figuratiuely
           he
           hath
           spirituall
           resemblance
           of
           Romish
           authority
           ,
           and
           in
           some
           sort
           hee
           is
           a
           kinde
           of
           demy-Pope
           ,
           for
           once
           a
           yeere
           in
           the
           dogge-daies
           he
           sends
           out
           his
           men
           with
           bats
           in
           stead
           of
           Buls
           ,
           with
           full
           power
           from
           his
           greatnes
           to
           knocke
           downe
           all
           the
           curs
           without
           contradiction
           ,
           whose
           masters
           or
           owners
           will
           not
           be
           at
           the
           charge
           to
           buy
           a
           pardon
           for
           them
           of
           his
           mightines
           ,
           which
           pardon
           is
           more
           dureable
           then
           the
           Popes
           of
           waxe
           or
           parchment
           ,
           for
           his
           is
           made
           of
           a
           piece
           of
           the
           hide
           of
           an
           Oxe
           ,
           a
           Horse
           ,
           or
           such
           lasting
           stuffe
           ,
           which
           with
           his
           stigmaticall
           stampe
           or
           seale
           is
           hanged
           about
           euery
           dogs
           necke
           who
           is
           freed
           from
           his
           
           furie
           by
           the
           purchase
           of
           his
           pardon
           .
           And
           sure
           I
           am
           perswaded
           that
           these
           dogges
           are
           more
           sure
           of
           their
           liues
           with
           the
           hangmans
           pardon
           ,
           then
           the
           poore
           besotted
           blinded
           Papists
           are
           of
           their
           seduced
           soules
           from
           any
           pardon
           of
           the
           Popes
           .
        
         
           The
           priuiledges
           of
           this
           graund
           haulter-master
           are
           many
           ,
           as
           he
           hath
           the
           emptying
           of
           all
           the
           vaults
           or
           draughts
           in
           the
           city
           ,
           which
           no
           doubt
           he
           gaines
           some
           sauour
           by
           .
           Besides
           all
           Oxen
           ,
           Kine
           ,
           Horses
           ,
           Hogs
           ,
           Dogs
           ,
           or
           any
           such
           beasts
           ,
           if
           they
           dye
           themselues
           ,
           or
           if
           they
           be
           not
           like
           to
           liue
           ,
           the
           hang-man
           must
           knocke
           them
           on
           the
           heads
           ,
           and
           haue
           their
           skins
           :
           and
           whatsoeuer
           inhabitant
           in
           his
           iurisdiction
           doth
           any
           of
           these
           things
           aforesaid
           himselfe
           ,
           is
           abhorred
           and
           accounted
           as
           a
           villaine
           without
           redemption
           .
           So
           that
           with
           hangings
           ,
           headings
           ,
           breakings
           ,
           pardoning
           and
           killing
           of
           dogges
           ,
           flaying
           of
           beasts
           ,
           emptying
           vaults
           ,
           and
           such
           priuy
           commodities
           ,
           his
           whole
           reuenue
           sometimes
           amounts
           to
           4.
           or
           5.
           hundred
           pounds
           a
           yeere
           .
           And
           hee
           is
           held
           in
           that
           regard
           and
           estimation
           ,
           that
           any
           man
           will
           conuerse
           and
           drinke
           with
           him
           ,
           nay
           sometimes
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Towne
           will
           feast
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           accounted
           no
           impeachment
           to
           their
           honours
           ;
           for
           he
           is
           held
           in
           the
           ranke
           of
           a
           Gentleman
           ,
           (
           or
           a
           ranke
           Gentleman
           )
           and
           he
           scornes
           to
           bee
           clad
           in
           the
           cast
           weedes
           of
           executed
           offenders
           :
           No
           ,
           he
           goes
           to
           the
           Mercers
           ,
           and
           hath
           his
           Sattin
           ,
           his
           Veluet
           ,
           or
           what
           stuffe
           he
           pleases
           ,
           measured
           out
           by
           the
           yard
           or
           the
           ell
           ,
           with
           his
           gould
           and
           siluer
           lace
           ,
           his
           silke
           stockings
           ,
           laced
           spangled
           garters
           and
           roses
           ,
           hat
           and
           feather
           
           with
           foure
           or
           fiue
           brauè
           villaines
           attending
           him
           in
           Liuery
           cloakes
           ,
           who
           haue
           stipendary
           meanes
           from
           his
           ignominious
           bounty
           .
        
         
           Monday
           the
           19.
           of
           August
           ,
           about
           the
           houre
           of
           12.
           at
           noone
           ,
           the
           people
           of
           the
           towne
           in
           great
           multitudes
           flocked
           to
           the
           place
           of
           execution
           ;
           which
           is
           halfe
           a
           mile
           English
           without
           the
           gates
           ,
           built
           more
           like
           a
           sconce
           then
           a
           Gallowes
           ,
           for
           it
           is
           walled
           and
           ditched
           about
           with
           a
           draw-bridge
           ,
           and
           the
           prisoner
           came
           on
           foot
           with
           a
           Diuine
           with
           ●im
           ,
           all
           the
           way
           exhorting
           him
           to
           repentance
           ,
           and
           because
           death
           should
           not
           terrifie
           him
           ,
           they
           had
           giuen
           him
           many
           rowses
           and
           carowses
           of
           wine
           and
           beere
           :
           for
           it
           is
           the
           custome
           there
           to
           make
           such
           poore
           wretches
           drunke
           ,
           whereby
           they
           may
           be
           sencelesse
           eyther
           of
           Gods
           mercy
           or
           their
           owne
           miserie
           ;
           but
           being
           prayed
           for
           by
           others
           ,
           they
           themselues
           may
           die
           resolutely
           ,
           or
           (
           to
           be
           feared
           )
           desperately
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           prisoner
           beeing
           come
           to
           the
           place
           of
           death
           ,
           hee
           was
           by
           the
           officers
           deliuered
           to
           the
           hangman
           ,
           who
           entring
           his
           strangling
           fortification
           with
           two
           graund
           hangmen
           more
           and
           their
           men
           ,
           which
           were
           come
           from
           the
           city
           of
           Lubeck
           ,
           and
           another
           towne
           ,
           (
           which
           I
           cannot
           name
           )
           to
           assist
           their
           Hamburghian
           brother
           in
           this
           great
           and
           weighty
           worke
           :
           the
           draw-bridge
           was
           drawne
           vp
           ,
           and
           the
           prisoner
           mounted
           on
           a
           mount
           of
           earth
           ,
           built
           high
           on
           purpose
           that
           the
           people
           without
           may
           see
           the
           execution
           a
           quarter
           of
           a
           mile
           round
           about
           :
           foure
           of
           the
           hangmans
           men
           takes
           each
           of
           them
           a
           small
           halter
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           hands
           and
           the
           feet
           they
           hold
           the
           
           prisoner
           extended
           all
           abroad
           lying
           on
           his
           backe
           :
           then
           the
           Arch-hangman
           ,
           or
           the
           great
           Master
           of
           this
           mighty
           busines
           tooke
           vp
           a
           wheele
           ,
           much
           about
           the
           bignesse
           of
           one
           of
           the
           fore
           wheeles
           of
           a
           Coach
           :
           and
           first
           hauing
           put
           off
           his
           doublet
           ,
           his
           hat
           ,
           and
           being
           in
           his
           shirt
           as
           if
           he
           meant
           to
           play
           at
           tennis
           ,
           he
           tooke
           the
           wheele
           ,
           and
           set
           it
           on
           the
           edge
           ,
           and
           turned
           it
           with
           one
           hand
           like
           a
           top
           or
           a
           whirigigg
           ,
           then
           he
           tooke
           it
           by
           the
           spoaks
           ,
           and
           lifting
           it
           vp
           with
           a
           mighty
           stroke
           he
           beat
           one
           of
           the
           poore
           wretches
           leggs
           in
           peeces
           ,
           (
           the
           bones
           I
           meane
           )
           at
           which
           hee
           rored
           grieuously
           ;
           then
           after
           a
           little
           pawse
           he
           breakes
           the
           other
           legg
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           ,
           and
           consequently
           breakes
           his
           armes
           ,
           and
           then
           he
           stroke
           foure
           or
           fiue
           maine
           blowes
           on
           his
           breast
           ,
           and
           burst
           all
           his
           bulke
           and
           chest
           in
           shiuers
           ,
           lastly
           he
           smoate
           his
           necke
           ,
           and
           missing
           ,
           burst
           his
           chin
           and
           iawes
           to
           mammocks
           ;
           then
           hee
           tooke
           the
           broken
           mangled
           corps
           ,
           and
           spreads
           it
           on
           the
           wheele
           ,
           and
           thrusts
           a
           great
           post
           or
           pile
           into
           the
           Naue
           or
           hole
           of
           the
           wheele
           ,
           and
           then
           fixed
           the
           post
           into
           the
           earth
           some
           sixe
           foot
           deepe
           ,
           being
           in
           height
           aboue
           the
           ground
           ,
           some
           tenne
           or
           twelue
           foote
           ,
           and
           there
           the
           carkasse
           must
           lye
           till
           it
           be
           consumed
           by
           all-consuming
           time
           ,
           or
           rauening
           fowles
           .
        
         
           This
           was
           the
           terrible
           manner
           of
           this
           horrid
           execution
           ,
           and
           at
           this
           place
           are
           twenty
           posts
           with
           those
           wheeles
           ,
           or
           peeces
           of
           wheeles
           ,
           with
           heads
           of
           men
           nailed
           on
           the
           top
           of
           the
           posts
           ,
           with
           a
           great
           spike
           driuen
           through
           the
           skull
           .
           The
           seuerall
           kinds
           of
           torments
           which
           they
           inflict
           vpon
           offenders
           in
           
           those
           parts
           ,
           makes
           me
           to
           imagine
           our
           English
           hanging
           to
           be
           but
           a
           flea-biting
           .
        
         
           Moreouer
           ,
           if
           any
           man
           in
           those
           parts
           are
           to
           be
           beheaded
           ,
           the
           fashion
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           Prisoner
           kneeles
           downe
           ,
           and
           being
           blinded
           with
           a
           Napkin
           ,
           one
           takes
           hold
           of
           the
           haire
           of
           the
           crowne
           of
           the
           head
           ,
           holding
           the
           party
           vpright
           ,
           whilest
           the
           hangman
           with
           a
           backward
           blow
           with
           a
           sword
           will
           take
           the
           head
           from
           a
           mans
           shoulders
           so
           nimbly
           ,
           and
           with
           such
           dexterity
           ,
           that
           the
           owner
           of
           the
           head
           shall
           neuer
           misse
           the
           want
           of
           it
           .
           And
           if
           it
           be
           any
           mans
           fortune
           to
           be
           hanged
           for
           neuer
           so
           small
           a
           crime
           ,
           though
           he
           be
           mounted
           whole
           ,
           yet
           hee
           shall
           come
           downe
           in
           peeces
           ,
           for
           he
           shall
           hang
           till
           euery
           ioynt
           and
           limbe
           drop
           one
           from
           another
           .
        
         
           They
           haue
           strange
           torments
           and
           varieties
           of
           deaths
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           various
           nature
           of
           the
           offences
           that
           are
           committed
           :
           as
           for
           example
           ,
           he
           that
           countersets
           any
           Princes
           coyne
           ,
           and
           is
           prooued
           a
           Coyner
           ,
           his
           iudgement
           is
           to
           be
           boyled
           to
           death
           in
           oyle
           ,
           not
           throwne
           into
           the
           vessell
           all
           at
           once
           ,
           but
           with
           a
           pully
           or
           a
           Rope
           to
           bee
           hanged
           vnder
           the
           Armepits
           ,
           and
           let
           downe
           into
           the
           oyle
           by
           degrees
           :
           first
           the
           feete
           ,
           and
           next
           the
           legs
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           boyle
           his
           flesh
           from
           his
           bones
           aliue
           .
           For
           those
           that
           set
           houses
           on
           fire
           wilfully
           ,
           they
           are
           smoked
           to
           death
           ,
           as
           first
           there
           is
           a
           pile
           or
           post
           fixed
           in
           the
           ground
           ,
           and
           within
           an
           English
           Ell
           of
           the
           top
           of
           it
           is
           a
           peece
           of
           wood
           nailed
           crosse
           ,
           wherepuon
           the
           offender
           is
           made
           fast
           sitting
           ,
           then
           ouer
           the
           top
           of
           the
           post
           is
           whelmed
           a
           great
           tub
           or
           Dryfat
           ,
           which
           doth
           couer
           
           or
           ouerwhelme
           the
           prisoner
           as
           low
           as
           his
           middle
           .
           Then
           vnderneath
           the
           executioner
           hath
           wet
           straw
           ,
           hay
           ,
           stubble
           ,
           or
           such
           kinde
           of
           stuffe
           ,
           which
           is
           fired
           ,
           but
           by
           reason
           it
           is
           wet
           and
           danke
           ,
           it
           doth
           not
           burn
           but
           smolder
           and
           smoake
           ,
           which
           smoake
           ascends
           vp
           into
           the
           tub
           where
           the
           Prisoners
           head
           is
           ,
           and
           not
           being
           able
           to
           speake
           ,
           hee
           will
           heaue
           vp
           and
           downe
           with
           his
           belly
           ,
           and
           people
           may
           perceiue
           him
           in
           these
           torments
           to
           liue
           three
           or
           foure
           houres
           ,
        
         
           Adultery
           there
           ,
           if
           it
           bee
           prooued
           ,
           is
           punished
           with
           death
           ,
           as
           the
           losse
           of
           both
           the
           parties
           heads
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           both
           married
           ,
           or
           if
           not
           both
           ,
           yet
           the
           the
           married
           party
           must
           dye
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           must
           endure
           some
           easier
           punishment
           ,
           eyther
           by
           the
           purse
           or
           carkasse
           ;
           which
           in
           the
           end
           proues
           little
           better
           then
           halfe
           a
           hanging
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           after
           a
           tempest
           a
           calme
           is
           best
           welcome
           ;
           so
           I
           imagine
           it
           not
           amisse
           after
           all
           this
           tragicall
           harsh
           discourse
           ,
           to
           sweeten
           the
           Readers
           pallat
           with
           a
           few
           Comicall
           reports
           which
           were
           related
           vnto
           me
           ,
           wherein
           ,
           if
           I
           seeme
           fabulous
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           remembred
           that
           I
           claime
           the
           priuiledge
           of
           a
           traueller
           ,
           who
           hath
           authority
           to
           report
           all
           that
           hee
           heares
           and
           sees
           ,
           and
           more
           too
           .
           I
           was
           informed
           of
           a
           fellow
           that
           was
           hanged
           somewhat
           neere
           the
           high
           way
           ,
           within
           a
           mile
           or
           two
           of
           Collein
           ,
           and
           the
           fashion
           being
           to
           hang
           him
           with
           a
           halter
           and
           a
           chaine
           ,
           that
           when
           the
           haulter
           is
           rotten
           with
           the
           weather
           ,
           the
           carkasse
           drops
           a
           butten
           hole
           lower
           into
           the
           chaine
           .
           Now
           it
           fortuned
           that
           this
           fellow
           
           was
           executed
           on
           a
           winters
           afternoone
           towards
           night
           ,
           and
           being
           hanged
           ,
           the
           chaine
           was
           shorter
           then
           the
           halter
           ,
           by
           reason
           whereof
           hee
           was
           not
           strangled
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           gamming
           of
           the
           chaine
           which
           could
           not
           slip
           close
           to
           his
           necke
           ,
           he
           hanged
           in
           great
           torments
           vnder
           the
           Iawes
           ,
           it
           happened
           that
           as
           soone
           as
           hee
           was
           trust
           vp
           ,
           there
           fell
           a
           great
           storme
           of
           raine
           and
           winde
           ,
           whereupon
           all
           the
           people
           ran
           away
           from
           the
           Gallowes
           to
           shelter
           themselues
           .
           But
           night
           being
           come
           ,
           and
           the
           moone
           shining
           bright
           ,
           it
           chanced
           that
           a
           Country
           Boore
           ,
           or
           a
           waggoner
           and
           his
           Sonne
           with
           him
           were
           driuing
           their
           empty
           waggon
           by
           the
           place
           where
           the
           fellow
           was
           hanged
           ,
           who
           being
           not
           choaked
           ,
           in
           the
           extremity
           of
           his
           paines
           did
           stirre
           his
           legges
           and
           writhe
           and
           crumple
           his
           body
           ,
           which
           the
           waggoners
           Sonne
           perceiued
           ,
           and
           said
           ;
           Father
           looke
           ,
           the
           man
           vpon
           the
           Gallowes
           doth
           mooue
           :
           quoth
           the
           olde
           man
           he
           moues
           indeed
           ,
           I
           pray
           thee
           let
           vs
           make
           hast
           ,
           and
           put
           the
           Waggon
           vnder
           the
           Gibbet
           ,
           to
           see
           if
           we
           can
           vnhang
           and
           saue
           him
           .
           This
           beeing
           said
           was
           quickely
           done
           ,
           and
           the
           wretch
           halfe
           dead
           was
           laid
           in
           straw
           in
           the
           Boores
           wagon
           ,
           and
           carried
           home
           ,
           where
           with
           good
           attendance
           he
           was
           in
           foure
           or
           fiue
           daies
           recouered
           to
           his
           health
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           had
           a
           cricke
           in
           his
           necke
           ,
           and
           the
           crampe
           in
           his
           iawes
           .
           The
           olde
           man
           was
           glad
           that
           he
           had
           done
           so
           good
           a
           deed
           ,
           (
           as
           he
           thought
           )
           began
           to
           giue
           the
           thiefe
           Fatherly
           counsell
           ,
           and
           told
           him
           that
           it
           was
           Gods
           great
           mercy
           towards
           him
           to
           make
           mee
           (
           quoth
           he
           )
           the
           Instrument
           of
           thy
           deliuerance
           ,
           and
           
           therefore
           looke
           that
           thou
           make
           good
           vse
           of
           this
           his
           gracious
           fauour
           towards
           thee
           ,
           and
           labour
           to
           redeeme
           the
           time
           thou
           hast
           mispent
           ,
           get
           thee
           in-into
           some
           other
           Princes
           countrey
           ,
           where
           thy
           former
           crimes
           may
           not
           bring
           thee
           into
           the
           danger
           of
           the
           Law
           againe
           ,
           and
           there
           with
           honest
           industrious
           endeuours
           get
           thy
           liuing
           .
        
         
           The
           theefe
           seemed
           willing
           to
           entertaine
           these
           good
           admonitions
           ,
           and
           thanked
           the
           Boore
           and
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           telling
           them
           that
           the
           next
           morning
           he
           would
           be
           gone
           ▪
           and
           if
           euer
           his
           fortunes
           made
           him
           able
           ,
           he
           promised
           to
           be
           so
           gratefull
           vnto
           them
           that
           they
           should
           haue
           cause
           to
           say
           their
           great
           curtesies
           were
           well
           bestowed
           vpon
           him
           ▪
           but
           all
           his
           sugred
           sweet
           promises
           ,
           were
           in
           the
           proofe
           but
           Gall
           and
           wormwood
           in
           the
           performance
           :
           for
           this
           gracelesse
           Caitiffe
           arose
           betimes
           in
           the
           morning
           ,
           and
           drew
           on
           a
           paire
           of
           Bootes
           and
           spurs
           which
           were
           the
           mans
           sonnes
           of
           the
           house
           ,
           and
           slipping
           out
           of
           the
           dores
           ,
           went
           to
           the
           stable
           and
           stole
           one
           of
           his
           kinde
           hosts
           best
           horses
           ,
           and
           away
           rode
           hee
           .
           The
           man
           and
           his
           Sonne
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           vp
           and
           missed
           the
           thiefe
           and
           the
           horse
           ,
           were
           amazed
           at
           the
           ingratitude
           of
           the
           wretch
           ,
           and
           withall
           speed
           his
           sonne
           and
           he
           rode
           seuerall
           waies
           in
           pursuit
           of
           him
           ,
           and
           in
           briefe
           one
           of
           them
           tooke
           him
           ,
           and
           brought
           him
           backe
           to
           their
           house
           againe
           ,
           and
           when
           it
           was
           night
           they
           bound
           him
           ,
           and
           laid
           him
           in
           their
           wagon
           (
           hauing
           deafe
           eares
           ,
           and
           hardened
           hearts
           to
           all
           his
           intreaties
           )
           and
           away
           to
           the
           Gallowes
           where
           they
           found
           him
           hanging
           ,
           there
           they
           
           with
           the
           halter
           being
           a
           little
           shortned
           ,
           they
           left
           him
           .
           The
           next
           day
           the
           Country
           people
           wondred
           to
           see
           him
           hanging
           there
           againe
           ,
           for
           they
           had
           seene
           him
           hanged
           ,
           and
           missed
           him
           gone
           ,
           and
           now
           to
           be
           thus
           strangely
           and
           priuately
           come
           againe
           in
           boots
           and
           spurs
           ,
           whereas
           they
           remembred
           at
           his
           first
           hanging
           he
           had
           shoes
           and
           stockings
           ,
           it
           made
           them
           muse
           what
           iourney
           he
           had
           beene
           riding
           ,
           and
           what
           a
           mad
           Ghest
           he
           was
           to
           take
           the
           Gallowes
           for
           his
           Inne
           ,
           or
           (
           as
           I
           suppose
           )
           for
           his
           end
           .
        
         
           The
           rumour
           of
           this
           accident
           being
           bruited
           abrood
           ,
           the
           people
           came
           far
           and
           neere
           to
           see
           him
           ,
           all
           in
           generall
           wondring
           how
           these
           things
           should
           come
           to
           passe
           .
           At
           last
           ,
           to
           cleere
           all
           doubts
           ,
           proclamations
           were
           published
           with
           pardon
           ,
           and
           a
           reward
           to
           any
           that
           could
           discouer
           the
           truth
           ,
           wherupon
           the
           old
           Boore
           and
           Sonne
           came
           in
           and
           related
           the
           whole
           circumstance
           of
           the
           matter
           .
        
         
           At
           another
           place
           (
           the
           hangmans
           place
           being
           void
           )
           there
           were
           two
           of
           the
           bloud
           ,
           (
           for
           it
           is
           to
           be
           noted
           that
           the
           succession
           of
           that
           office
           doth
           lineally
           descend
           from
           the
           Father
           to
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           next
           of
           the
           bloud
           )
           which
           were
           at
           strife
           for
           the
           possession
           of
           this
           high
           indignity
           .
           Now
           it
           happened
           that
           two
           men
           were
           to
           be
           beheaded
           at
           the
           same
           towne
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           auoid
           suite
           in
           Law
           for
           this
           great
           prerogatiue
           )
           it
           was
           concluded
           by
           the
           Arbitrators
           ,
           that
           each
           of
           these
           new
           hangmen
           should
           execute
           one
           of
           the
           prisoners
           ,
           and
           hee
           that
           with
           greatest
           cunning
           and
           sleight
           could
           take
           the
           head
           from
           the
           body
           ,
           should
           haue
           the
           place
           ,
           to
           
           this
           they
           all
           agreed
           ,
           &
           the
           Prisoners
           were
           brought
           forth
           ,
           where
           one
           of
           the
           Executioners
           did
           binde
           a
           red
           silke
           thred
           double
           about
           his
           prisoners
           necke
           ,
           the
           threds
           beeing
           distant
           one
           from
           another
           onely
           the
           bredth
           of
           one
           thred
           ,
           and
           he
           promised
           to
           cut
           off
           the
           head
           with
           a
           backward
           blow
           with
           a
           sword
           ,
           betweene
           the
           threds
           .
           The
           other
           called
           his
           prisoner
           aside
           ,
           and
           told
           him
           that
           if
           he
           would
           bee
           ruled
           by
           him
           ,
           hee
           should
           haue
           his
           life
           saued
           ,
           and
           besides
           ,
           (
           quoth
           he
           )
           I
           shall
           be
           sure
           to
           haue
           the
           office
           .
           The
           Prisoner
           was
           glad
           of
           the
           motion
           ,
           and
           said
           he
           wold
           doe
           any
           thing
           vpon
           these
           conditions
           ,
           then
           said
           the
           hangman
           ,
           when
           thou
           art
           on
           thy
           knees
           ,
           and
           hast
           said
           thy
           prayers
           ,
           and
           that
           I
           doe
           lift
           vp
           my
           Axe
           ,
           (
           for
           I
           will
           vse
           an
           Axe
           )
           to
           strike
           thee
           ,
           I
           will
           cry
           Hem
           ,
           at
           which
           word
           doe
           thou
           rise
           and
           run
           away
           ,
           (
           thou
           knowest
           none
           will
           stay
           thee
           if
           thou
           canst
           once
           escape
           after
           thou
           art
           deliuered
           into
           my
           custody
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           fashion
           of
           our
           countrie
           )
           and
           let
           me
           alone
           to
           shift
           to
           answer
           the
           matter
           .
           This
           being
           said
           ,
           or
           whispered
           ,
           the
           heads-man
           with
           the
           sword
           did
           cut
           off
           his
           prisoners
           head
           iust
           betweene
           the
           threds
           as
           hee
           had
           said
           ,
           which
           made
           all
           the
           people
           wonder
           at
           the
           steddinesse
           of
           his
           hand
           ,
           and
           most
           of
           them
           iudged
           that
           he
           was
           the
           man
           that
           was
           and
           would
           be
           fittest
           to
           make
           a
           mad
           hangman
           of
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           one
           tale
           is
           good
           till
           another
           be
           told
           ,
           and
           as
           there
           be
           three
           degrees
           of
           good
           ,
           better
           ,
           and
           best
           ,
           so
           this
           last
           hangman
           did
           much
           exceed
           and
           ecclips
           the
           others
           cunning
           :
           For
           his
           prisoner
           being
           on
           his
           knees
           ,
           and
           he
           lifting
           vp
           his
           axe
           to
           giue
           the
           fatall
           
           blow
           ,
           Hem
           said
           he
           (
           according
           to
           promise
           )
           whereupon
           the
           fellow
           arose
           and
           ran
           away
           ,
           but
           when
           he
           had
           ran
           some
           seuen
           or
           eight
           paces
           ,
           the
           hangman
           threw
           the
           axe
           after
           him
           ,
           and
           strooke
           his
           head
           smoothly
           from
           his
           shoulders
           :
           now
           for
           al
           this
           ,
           who
           shall
           haue
           the
           place
           is
           vnknowne
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           yet
           in
           Law
           for
           it
           ;
           and
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           before
           the
           matter
           be
           ended
           ,
           that
           the
           lawyers
           will
           make
           them
           exercise
           their
           owne
           trades
           vpon
           themselues
           to
           end
           the
           controuersie
           .
           This
           tale
           doth
           sauour
           somwhat
           hyperbolicall
           ,
           but
           I
           wish
           the
           Reader
           to
           beleeue
           no
           more
           of
           the
           matter
           then
           I
           saw
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           an
           end
           .
        
         
           At
           another
           Towne
           there
           stood
           an
           olde
           ouerworne
           despised
           paire
           of
           Gallowes
           ,
           but
           yet
           not
           so
           old
           but
           they
           will
           last
           many
           a
           faire
           yeare
           with
           good
           vsage
           ,
           but
           the
           Townsmen
           a
           little
           distance
           from
           them
           built
           another
           pair
           ,
           in
           a
           more
           stately
           Geometricall
           port
           and
           fashion
           ,
           whereupon
           they
           were
           demanded
           why
           they
           would
           be
           at
           the
           charge
           to
           erect
           a
           new
           Gallowes
           ,
           hauing
           so
           sufficient
           an
           old
           one
           :
           they
           answered
           ,
           that
           those
           old
           Gallowes
           should
           serue
           to
           hang
           fugitiues
           and
           strangers
           ;
           but
           those
           new
           ones
           were
           built
           for
           them
           and
           their
           heires
           for
           euer
           .
           Thus
           much
           for
           Hangmen
           ,
           Theeues
           ,
           and
           Gallowses
           .
        
         
           Yet
           one
           thing
           more
           for
           theeues
           :
           In
           Hamburgh
           those
           that
           are
           not
           hanged
           for
           theft
           ,
           are
           chained
           2.
           or
           three
           together
           ,
           and
           they
           must
           in
           that
           sort
           sixe
           or
           seauen
           yeares
           draw
           a
           dung-cart
           ,
           and
           clense
           the
           streetes
           of
           the
           towne
           ,
           &
           euery
           one
           of
           those
           theeues
           
           for
           as
           many
           yeares
           as
           he
           is
           condemned
           to
           that
           slauery
           ,
           so
           many
           bells
           he
           hath
           hanged
           at
           an
           iron
           aboue
           one
           of
           his
           shoulders
           ,
           and
           euery
           yeare
           a
           bell
           is
           taken
           off
           ,
           till
           all
           are
           gone
           ,
           and
           then
           he
           is
           a
           freeman
           againe
           ,
           and
           I
           did
           see
           ten
           or
           twelue
           of
           these
           Carts
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           the
           theeues
           had
           seuen
           bels
           ,
           some
           5.
           some
           6.
           some
           one
           ,
           but
           such
           a
           noyse
           they
           make
           ,
           as
           if
           all
           the
           Deuils
           in
           hell
           were
           dancing
           the
           morrice
           .
        
         
           Hamburgh
           is
           a
           free
           City
           ,
           not
           being
           subiect
           to
           the
           Emperor
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Prince
           ,
           but
           onely
           gouerned
           by
           24
           Burgomasters
           ,
           whereof
           two
           are
           the
           chiefe
           ,
           who
           are
           clled
           Lords
           ,
           adn
           doe
           hold
           that
           dignity
           from
           their
           first
           election
           during
           their
           liues
           ;
           The
           buildings
           are
           all
           of
           bricke
           ,
           of
           one
           vniforme
           fashion
           ,
           very
           lofty
           and
           stately
           ,
           it
           is
           wonderfull
           populous
           ,
           and
           the
           water
           with
           boates
           comes
           through
           most
           of
           the
           streetes
           of
           the
           Towne
           .
        
         
           Their
           Churches
           are
           most
           gloriously
           set
           forth
           ,
           as
           the
           most
           of
           them
           couered
           with
           copper
           ,
           with
           very
           lofty
           spires
           ,
           and
           within
           sides
           they
           are
           adorned
           with
           crucifixes
           ,
           Images
           and
           pictures
           ,
           which
           they
           doe
           charily
           keepe
           for
           ornaments
           ,
           but
           not
           for
           idle
           or
           idoll
           adoration
           ;
           In
           Saint
           Iacobs
           and
           in
           Saint
           Catherines
           Churches
           ,
           there
           is
           in
           one
           of
           them
           a
           Pulpit
           of
           Alablaster
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           other
           a
           paire
           of
           such
           Organs
           ,
           which
           for
           worth
           and
           workemanship
           are
           vnparalelld
           in
           Christendome
           ,
           as
           most
           trauellers
           doe
           relate
           .
        
         
           The
           women
           there
           are
           no
           fashion-mongers
           ,
           but
           they
           keepe
           in
           their
           degrees
           one
           continuall
           habite
           ,
           
           as
           the
           Richer
           sort
           doe
           weare
           a
           Huicke
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           robe
           of
           cloth
           or
           stuffe
           plaited
           ,
           and
           the
           vpper
           part
           of
           it
           is
           gathered
           and
           sowed
           to
           a
           thing
           in
           the
           forme
           of
           an
           English
           potlid
           ,
           with
           a
           tassell
           on
           the
           top
           ,
           and
           so
           put
           vpon
           the
           head
           ,
           and
           the
           garment
           goes
           ouer
           her
           ruffe
           and
           face
           if
           she
           please
           ,
           and
           so
           down
           to
           the
           ground
           ,
           so
           that
           a
           man
           may
           meet
           his
           owne
           wife
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           not
           know
           her
           from
           another
           Woman
           .
        
         
           They
           haue
           no
           Porters
           to
           beare
           burdens
           ,
           but
           they
           haue
           bigge
           burly-bon'd
           knaues
           with
           their
           wiues
           that
           doe
           daily
           draw
           Carts
           any
           whether
           vp
           and
           downe
           the
           towne
           ,
           with
           Marchants
           goods
           or
           any
           other
           imployments
           :
           And
           it
           is
           reported
           that
           these
           Cart-drawers
           are
           to
           see
           the
           rich
           men
           of
           the
           Towne
           prouided
           of
           milch-nurses
           for
           their
           children
           ,
           which
           nurses
           they
           call
           by
           the
           name
           of
           Ams
           ,
           so
           that
           if
           they
           doe
           want
           a
           nurse
           at
           any
           time
           ,
           these
           fellowes
           are
           cursed
           ,
           because
           they
           haue
           not
           gotten
           wenches
           enough
           with
           childe
           to
           supply
           their
           wants
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           a
           man
           of
           any
           fashion
           doe
           chance
           to
           goe
           astray
           to
           a
           house
           of
           iniquity
           ,
           the
           whilst
           he
           is
           in
           the
           house
           at
           his
           drudgery
           ,
           another
           of
           the
           whores
           will
           go
           to
           the
           Sherif
           ,
           (
           which
           they
           call
           the
           Rightheere
           )
           and
           informe
           that
           such
           a
           man
           is
           in
           such
           a
           suspected
           howse
           ,
           then
           is
           his
           comming
           forth
           narrowly
           watched
           ,
           and
           hee
           is
           taken
           and
           brought
           before
           the
           Right-heere
           ,
           and
           examined
           ,
           where
           if
           he
           be
           a
           man
           of
           credit
           ,
           he
           must
           ,
           and
           will
           pay
           forty
           ,
           fifty
           ,
           or
           sixty
           Rex
           Dollors
           before
           hee
           will
           haue
           his
           reputation
           
           called
           in
           question
           .
           Of
           which
           money
           ,
           the
           queane
           that
           did
           informe
           shall
           haue
           her
           reward
           .
        
         
           A
           Lawyer
           hath
           but
           a
           bad
           trade
           there
           ,
           for
           any
           Cause
           or
           Controuersie
           is
           tried
           and
           determined
           in
           three
           daies
           ,
           Quirks
           ,
           Quiddits
           ,
           Demurs
           ,
           Habeas
           Corposes
           ,
           Sursararaes
           ,
           Procedendoes
           ,
           or
           any
           such
           dilatory
           Law-tricks
           are
           abolished
           ,
           and
           not
           worth
           a
           button
           there
           .
        
         
           But
           aboue
           all
           ,
           I
           must
           not
           forget
           the
           rare
           actions
           and
           humours
           of
           a
           Quacksaluer
           or
           Mountebanke
           ,
           or
           to
           speake
           more
           familiarly
           ,
           a
           shadow
           of
           a
           skilfull
           Chirurgian
           .
           This
           fellow
           beeing
           clad
           in
           an
           ancient
           doublet
           of
           decayed
           Satin
           ,
           with
           a
           Spruce
           Leather
           Ierkin
           with
           Glasse
           buttons
           ,
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           attire
           being
           correspondent
           ,
           was
           mounted
           vpon
           a
           Scaffold
           ,
           hauing
           shelues
           set
           with
           Viols
           ,
           Gallipots
           ,
           Glasses
           ,
           Boxes
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           stuffe
           ,
           wherein
           as
           he
           said
           ,
           were
           Waters
           ,
           Oyles
           ,
           Vnguents
           ,
           Emplasters
           ,
           Ellectuaries
           ,
           Vomits
           ,
           Purges
           ,
           and
           a
           world
           of
           neuer
           heard
           of
           Drugs
           ;
           and
           being
           mounted
           (
           as
           I
           said
           )
           he
           and
           his
           man
           begin
           to
           proclaime
           all
           their
           skill
           and
           more
           ,
           hauing
           a
           great
           number
           of
           idle
           and
           ignorant
           gazers
           on
           ,
           he
           began
           as
           followeth
           (
           as
           I
           was
           informed
           by
           my
           Interpreter
           )
           for
           I
           vnderstood
           not
           one
           worde
           he
           spake
           .
           )
        
         
           I
           
             Iacomo
             Compostella
          
           ,
           Practitioner
           in
           Physicke
           ,
           Chyrurgery
           ,
           and
           the
           Mathematicks
           ,
           being
           a
           man
           famous
           through
           Europe
           ,
           Asia
           ,
           Affricke
           and
           America
           ,
           from
           the
           Orientall
           exaltation
           of
           Titan
           ,
           to
           his
           Occidentall
           declination
           ,
           who
           for
           the
           Testimony
           of
           my
           skill
           ,
           and
           the
           rare
           Cures
           that
           I
           haue
           done
           ,
           
           haue
           these
           Princes
           hands
           and
           seales
           ;
           as
           first
           the
           great
           Cham
           of
           Tartaria
           ,
           in
           whose
           Court
           ,
           onely
           with
           this
           Water
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Ellixar
           of
           Henbane
           diafracted
           in
           a
           Diurnall
           of
           ingredients
           Hippocratonticke
           ,
           Auicenian
           ,
           and
           Catarackt
           ,
           With
           this
           did
           I
           cure
           the
           great
           Dutchesse
           of
           Promulpho
           of
           the
           cramp
           in
           her
           tongue
           :
           and
           with
           this
           Oyle
           did
           I
           restore
           the
           Emperor
           
             Gregory
             Euanowich
          
           of
           a
           Convulsion
           in
           his
           Pericranion
           .
           From
           thence
           I
           trauelled
           through
           Slauonia
           ,
           where
           I
           met
           with
           
             Mustapha
             Despot
          
           of
           Seruia
           ,
           who
           at
           that
           time
           was
           intolerably
           vexed
           with
           a
           Spasmus
           ,
           so
           that
           it
           often
           droue
           him
           into
           a
           Syncope
           with
           the
           violent
           obstructions
           of
           the
           conflagerating
           of
           his
           Vaines
           .
           Onely
           with
           this
           precious
           Vnguent
           being
           the
           Quintessence
           of
           Mugwort
           ,
           with
           Auripigmenty
           terragrophicated
           in
           a
           Limbecke
           of
           Christalline
           Translucency
           ,
           I
           recouered
           him
           to
           his
           former
           health
           ,
           and
           for
           my
           reward
           I
           had
           a
           Barbary
           Horse
           with
           rich
           Caparisons
           ,
           a
           turkish
           Semitar
           ,
           a
           Persian
           Robe
           ,
           and
           2000.
           
           Hungarian
           Ducats
           .
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           here
           are
           the
           hands
           and
           seales
           of
           
             Potohamacke
             ,
             Adelantado
          
           of
           Prozewgma
           ,
           and
           of
           
             Gulch
             Flownderscurse
          
           chiefe
           Burgomaster
           of
           Belgrade
           ,
           and
           of
           diuers
           Princes
           and
           estates
           ,
           which
           to
           auoid
           tedious
           prolixity
           I
           omit
           .
           But
           good
           people
           if
           you
           or
           any
           other
           be
           troubled
           with
           Apoplexies
           ,
           Palsies
           ,
           Cramps
           ,
           Lethargies
           ,
           Cataracks
           ,
           Quincies
           ,
           Tisicks
           ,
           Pleurisies
           ,
           Coghs
           ,
           Headaches
           ,
           Tertian
           ,
           Quartan
           ,
           and
           Quotidian
           Agues
           ,
           burning
           Feuers
           ,
           Iawndizes
           ,
           Dropsies
           ,
           Collicks
           ,
           Illiaca
           passio's
           ,
           the
           
           Stone
           ,
           the
           Strangury
           ,
           the
           Poxe
           ,
           Plague
           ,
           Botches
           ,
           Biles
           ,
           Blanes
           ,
           Scabs
           ,
           Scurfs
           ,
           Manage
           ,
           Leprosies
           ,
           Cankers
           ,
           Megrimms
           ,
           Mumps
           ,
           Fluxes
           ,
           Meazels
           ,
           Murreins
           ,
           Gouts
           ,
           Consumptions
           ,
           Tooth-ache
           ,
           Ruptures
           ,
           Hernia
           Aquosa
           ,
           Hernia
           Ventosa
           ,
           Hernia
           Carnosa
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           malladie
           ,
           that
           dares
           afflict
           the
           body
           of
           man
           or
           woman
           ,
           come
           and
           buy
           while
           you
           may
           haue
           it
           for
           money
           ,
           for
           I
           am
           sent
           for
           speedily
           to
           the
           Emperour
           of
           Trapezond
           about
           affaires
           of
           great
           Importance
           that
           highly
           concernes
           his
           royall
           person
           .
        
         
           Thus
           almost
           two
           houres
           did
           this
           fellow
           with
           embost
           words
           ,
           and
           most
           laborious
           action
           ,
           talke
           and
           sweat
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           that
           vnderstood
           no
           more
           what
           hee
           said
           ,
           then
           hee
           himselfe
           vnderstood
           himselfe
           .
           And
           I
           thinke
           his
           whole
           takings
           for
           simple
           compounds
           did
           amount
           in
           the
           totall
           to
           9.
           pence
           sterling
           .
        
         
           But
           leauing
           Hamburgh
           ,
           (
           hauing
           gathered
           these
           few
           obseruations
           aforesaid
           )
           out
           of
           it
           I
           went
           August
           28.
           and
           my
           first
           iaunt
           of
           my
           trauels
           was
           by
           water
           ,
           to
           a
           Towne
           called
           Buckstahoo
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           little
           walled
           Towne
           ,
           and
           stands
           on
           the
           other
           side
           of
           the
           Riuer
           ,
           three
           miles
           (
           as
           they
           call
           it
           )
           from
           Hamburgh
           .
           The
           boate
           wee
           passed
           in
           is
           called
           an
           Iuar
           ,
           not
           so
           good
           as
           a
           Graues-end
           barge
           ,
           yet
           I
           thinke
           it
           bee
           as
           great
           ,
           and
           the
           three
           miles
           longer
           then
           from
           London
           to
           Graues-end
           ,
           for
           I
           am
           sure
           that
           we
           were
           going
           nine
           houres
           before
           we
           could
           be
           landed
           :
           Our
           passage
           cost
           vs
           threepence
           a
           peece
           ,
           and
           one
           thing
           I
           remember
           well
           ,
           that
           the
           lazie
           water-men
           will
           sit
           
           still
           all
           (
           or
           the
           most
           part
           of
           )
           the
           way
           ,
           whilest
           their
           passengers
           ,
           (
           be
           they
           neuer
           so
           rich
           or
           poore
           ,
           all
           is
           one
           to
           them
           ,
           be
           they
           men
           or
           women
           )
           they
           must
           rowe
           by
           turnes
           ,
           an
           houre
           or
           such
           a
           matter
           :
           and
           we
           landed
           in
           the
           night
           at
           a
           place
           called
           Crants
           ,
           where
           all
           the
           passengers
           were
           to
           goe
           to
           supper
           ,
           but
           such
           diet
           we
           had
           that
           the
           Prouerbe
           was
           truely
           verified
           ,
           
             God
             sent
             meat
             ,
             and
             the
             Deuill
             sent
             Cookes
          
           ;
           for
           as
           there
           was
           no
           respect
           of
           persons
           in
           the
           boate
           ,
           so
           all
           fellowes
           at
           the
           Table
           ,
           and
           all
           once
           price
           ,
           the
           Palatine
           and
           the
           Plebeian
           :
           our
           first
           messe
           was
           great
           platters
           of
           blacke
           broath
           ,
           in
           shape
           like
           new
           tarre
           ,
           and
           in
           tast
           Cosen
           Germane
           ,
           to
           slut
           pottage
           ;
           our
           second
           were
           dishes
           of
           Eeeles
           ,
           chop'd
           as
           small
           as
           hearbs
           ,
           and
           the
           broth
           they
           were
           in
           as
           salt
           as
           brine
           :
           then
           had
           wee
           a
           boyld
           Goose
           ,
           with
           choake
           peares
           and
           carrats
           ,
           buried
           in
           a
           deepe
           dish
           ;
           and
           when
           wee
           demanded
           what
           was
           to
           pay
           ,
           it
           was
           but
           three
           pence
           a
           man
           ,
           I
           mused
           at
           the
           cheapnesse
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           afterward
           they
           came
           vpon
           vs
           with
           a
           fresh
           reckoning
           of
           fiue
           pence
           a
           man
           for
           beere
           ,
           for
           they
           neuer
           count
           their
           meate
           and
           drinke
           together
           ,
           but
           bring
           in
           seuerall
           reckonings
           for
           them
           :
           but
           the
           morning
           being
           come
           ,
           we
           hired
           a
           Boores
           Wagon
           ,
           to
           carry
           vs
           to
           a
           place
           called
           Citizen
           ,
           three
           miles
           there
           ,
           or
           12.
           
           English
           miles
           from
           Buckstahoo
           :
           a
           little
           bald
           dorp
           it
           is
           ,
           where
           we
           came
           about
           noone
           ,
           and
           found
           such
           slender
           entertainment
           ,
           that
           we
           had
           no
           cause
           to
           boast
           of
           our
           good
           cheere
           ,
           or
           our
           Hostesse
           Cookery
           .
           We
           hauing
           ▪
           refreshed
           our selues
           ,
           and
           hyred
           a
           fresh
           Wagon
           ,
           away
           wee
           went
           two
           miles
           
           further
           to
           another
           Dorp
           called
           Rodonburgh
           ,
           this
           village
           belongeth
           to
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rodonburgh
           ,
           who
           hath
           a
           faire
           house
           there
           ,
           stronglie
           walled
           and
           deepely
           ditched
           and
           moated
           about
           ,
           very
           defensible
           ,
           with
           draw-bridges
           ,
           and
           good
           Ordinance
           .
           This
           Bishop
           is
           a
           temporall
           Lord
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           spirituall
           title
           ;
           and
           no
           doubt
           but
           the
           flesh
           preuailes
           aboue
           the
           Spirit
           with
           him
           ;
           So
           the
           Bishops
           of
           
             Breame
             ,
             Luningburgh
          
           ,
           and
           diuers
           other
           places
           in
           Germany
           ,
           doe
           very
           charitably
           take
           the
           fleece
           ,
           (
           for
           they
           themselues
           neuer
           looke
           to
           the
           flocke
           )
           by
           reason
           they
           vse
           no
           Ecclesiasticke
           function
           ,
           but
           onely
           in
           name
           .
        
         
           Being
           lodged
           at
           Rodonburgh
           ,
           in
           a
           stately
           Inne
           ,
           where
           the
           Host
           ,
           Hostesse
           ,
           Guests
           ,
           Cowes
           ,
           Horses
           ,
           Swine
           ,
           lay
           all
           in
           one
           Roome
           ;
           yet
           I
           must
           confesse
           their
           beds
           to
           be
           very
           good
           ,
           and
           their
           linnen
           sweet
           ,
           but
           in
           those
           parts
           they
           vse
           no
           couerlet
           ,
           rugge
           or
           blanket
           ,
           but
           a
           good
           featherbed
           vndermost
           ,
           with
           cleane
           sheetes
           ,
           pillowes
           ,
           and
           pillowbeares
           ,
           and
           another
           featherbed
           vppermost
           ,
           with
           a
           faire
           sheet
           aboue
           all
           ,
           so
           that
           a
           mans
           lodging
           is
           like
           a
           womans
           lying
           In
           ,
           all
           white
           .
        
         
           August
           the
           30.
           wee
           went
           from
           Rodonburgh
           ,
           and
           about
           noone
           wee
           came
           to
           an
           olde
           walled
           towne
           ,
           called
           Feirden
           ,
           it
           hath
           two
           Churches
           in
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           hangmans
           statue
           very
           artificially
           carued
           in
           stone
           ,
           and
           set
           on
           a
           high
           pillar
           ,
           with
           ▪
           a
           rod
           rampant
           in
           his
           hand
           ,
           at
           this
           towne
           I
           met
           with
           sixe
           strangers
           ,
           all
           trauellers
           ,
           where
           we
           went
           to
           dinner
           together
           all
           at
           one
           table
           ,
           and
           euery
           man
           opened
           
           his
           knapsack
           or
           budget
           with
           victualls
           ;
           (
           for
           he
           that
           carries
           no
           meat
           with
           him
           ,
           many
           fast
           by
           authority
           in
           most
           places
           of
           that
           country
           )
           but
           to
           note
           the
           kindnes
           of
           these
           people
           one
           to
           another
           ,
           some
           had
           bread
           and
           a
           boxe
           of
           salt
           butter
           ,
           some
           had
           raw
           bacon
           ,
           some
           had
           cheese
           ,
           some
           had
           pickled
           herring
           ,
           some
           dried
           beefe
           ,
           and
           amongest
           the
           rest
           ,
           I
           had
           brought
           three
           ribs
           of
           rost
           beefe
           ,
           and
           other
           prouision
           from
           Hanburgh
           :
           to
           conclude
           ,
           wee
           drew
           all
           like
           fidlers
           ,
           and
           fed
           (
           for
           the
           most
           part
           )
           like
           swine
           for
           euery
           man
           eat
           what
           was
           his
           owne
           ,
           and
           no
           man
           did
           proffer
           one
           bit
           of
           what
           he
           had
           to
           his
           neighbor
           ,
           so
           he
           that
           had
           cheese
           must
           dine
           with
           cheese
           ,
           for
           he
           that
           had
           meat
           would
           offer
           him
           none
           ;
           I
           did
           cut
           euery
           one
           a
           part
           of
           my
           rost
           beefe
           ;
           which
           my
           guide
           told
           me
           they
           would
           not
           take
           well
           because
           it
           is
           not
           the
           fashion
           of
           the
           Countrey
           :
           I
           tried
           ,
           and
           found
           them
           very
           tractable
           to
           take
           any
           thing
           that
           was
           good
           ,
           so
           that
           I
           perceiued
           their
           modesty
           to
           take
           one
           from
           another
           ,
           proceedes
           from
           their
           want
           of
           manners
           to
           offer
           .
           But
           dinner
           being
           done
           ,
           away
           wee
           went
           ouer
           a
           bridge
           ,
           in
           the
           midst
           whereof
           is
           a
           Iynn
           ,
           made
           in
           the
           likenesse
           of
           a
           great
           Lanthorne
           ,
           it
           is
           hanged
           on
           a
           turning
           Gybbet
           ,
           like
           a
           Crane
           :
           so
           that
           it
           may
           be
           turned
           on
           the
           bridge
           ,
           and
           ouer
           the
           Riuer
           ,
           as
           they
           shall
           please
           that
           haue
           occasion
           to
           vse
           it
           .
           It
           is
           bigge
           enough
           to
           hold
           two
           men
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           for
           this
           purpose
           ,
           if
           any
           one
           or
           more
           doe
           rob
           gardens
           or
           orchards
           ,
           or
           cornefields
           ,
           (
           if
           they
           be
           taken
           )
           he
           or
           they
           are
           put
           into
           this
           same
           whirligigge
           ,
           or
           kickumbob
           ,
           and
           the
           gybbet
           being
           turned
           ,
           the
           offender
           
           hangs
           in
           this
           Cage
           ouer
           the
           Riuer
           some
           12
           or
           14
           foot
           from
           the
           water
           ,
           then
           there
           is
           a
           small
           line
           made
           fast
           to
           the
           party
           some
           5.
           or
           6.
           fadome
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           tricke
           which
           they
           haue
           ,
           the
           bottome
           of
           the
           cage
           drops
           out
           ,
           and
           the
           thiefe
           fals
           sodenly
           into
           the
           water
           .
           I
           had
           not
           gone
           farre
           ,
           but
           at
           the
           end
           of
           the
           bridge
           I
           saw
           an
           olde
           chappell
           ,
           which
           in
           olde
           time
           they
           say
           was
           dedicated
           to
           S
           
           t.
           Frodswicke
           ,
           which
           hath
           the
           day
           after
           S.
           Luke
           the
           Euangelist
           :
           I
           entring
           in
           ,
           perceiued
           it
           was
           a
           charitable
           Chappell
           ,
           for
           the
           dores
           and
           windowes
           were
           alwaies
           open
           ,
           by
           reason
           there
           were
           none
           to
           shut
           ,
           and
           it
           was
           a
           common
           receptacle
           for
           beggars
           and
           rogues
           .
           There
           was
           the
           image
           of
           our
           Lady
           ,
           with
           a
           vaile
           ouer
           her
           ,
           made
           (
           as
           I
           thinke
           )
           of
           a
           Bakers
           bolter
           ,
           and
           Saint
           Peter
           houlding
           a
           candle
           to
           her
           .
           I
           cut
           a
           peece
           of
           her
           Vaile
           ,
           and
           taking
           Peter
           by
           the
           hand
           at
           my
           departure
           ,
           the
           kind
           Image
           (
           I
           know
           not
           vpon
           what
           acquaintance
           )
           being
           loose
           handed
           ,
           let
           me
           haue
           his
           hand
           with
           mee
           ,
           which
           being
           made
           of
           wood
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           ruinous
           antiquity
           ,
           burst
           of
           in
           the
           handling
           :
           which
           two
           precious
           relickes
           I
           brought
           home
           with
           me
           to
           defend
           me
           and
           all
           my
           friends
           from
           sparrow
           blasting
           .
        
         
           From
           this
           place
           we
           were
           glad
           to
           trauell
           on
           foot
           one
           dutch
           mile
           to
           a
           Dorpe
           called
           Durfurne
           ,
           where
           we
           hired
           a
           Boores
           waggon
           to
           a
           town
           called
           Neinburgh
           ,
           but
           we
           could
           not
           reach
           thither
           by
           2
           English
           miles
           ,
           so
           that
           we
           were
           glad
           to
           lodge
           in
           a
           barne
           that
           night
           :
           On
           the
           morrow
           early
           ,
           we
           arose
           and
           came
           to
           Nienburgh
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           little
           walled
           town
           ,
           belonging
           to
           that
           Bishopricke
           from
           whence
           it
           is
           so
           named
           .
           
           There
           we
           staied
           3.
           houres
           before
           wee
           could
           get
           a
           Waggon
           ,
           at
           last
           we
           were
           mounted
           to
           a
           Dorpe
           called
           Leiz
           ,
           two
           Dutch
           miles
           ;
           I
           would
           haue
           bargained
           with
           the
           Boore
           to
           haue
           carried
           vs
           to
           Dorne
           ,
           which
           I
           bade
           my
           guide
           tell
           him
           it
           was
           but
           a
           mile
           further
           ,
           a
           mile
           quoth
           the
           Boore
           ,
           indeed
           we
           call
           it
           no
           more
           ,
           but
           it
           was
           measured
           with
           a
           dogge
           ,
           and
           they
           threw
           in
           the
           taile
           and
           all
           to
           the
           bargaine
           ;
           so
           to
           Leiz
           he
           carried
           vs
           ,
           and
           there
           we
           found
           a
           Waggon
           of
           Dorne
           homeward
           bound
           ,
           which
           made
           vs
           ride
           the
           cheaper
           ;
           but
           it
           was
           the
           longest
           mile
           that
           euer
           I
           rode
           or
           went
           ,
           for
           surely
           it
           is
           as
           much
           as
           some
           ten
           of
           our
           miles
           in
           England
           .
           But
           hauing
           ouercome
           it
           at
           last
           ,
           from
           thence
           I
           tooke
           a
           fresh
           Waggon
           to
           carry
           me
           two
           miles
           further
           to
           a
           towne
           called
           Buckaburghe
           ,
           where
           I
           had
           ,
           and
           haue
           ,
           I
           hope
           ,
           a
           brother
           residing
           ;
           to
           whom
           my
           iourney
           was
           entended
           ,
           and
           with
           whom
           my
           Perambulation
           was
           at
           a
           period
           .
           This
           towne
           of
           Buckaburgh
           is
           wholely
           and
           solely
           belonging
           to
           the
           Grass
           or
           Graue
           of
           Shomburgh
           ,
           a
           Prince
           of
           great
           command
           and
           eminence
           ,
           absolute
           in
           his
           authority
           and
           power
           ,
           not
           countermanded
           by
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           further
           then
           curtesie
           requires
           ;
           and
           in
           a
           word
           ,
           hee
           is
           one
           of
           the
           best
           accomplisht
           Gentlemen
           in
           Europe
           for
           his
           person
           ,
           port
           ,
           and
           princely
           magnificence
           .
           He
           hath
           there
           to
           his
           inestimable
           charge
           ,
           built
           the
           towne
           ,
           with
           many
           goodly
           houses
           ,
           streets
           ,
           Lanes
           ,
           a
           strong
           wall
           ,
           and
           a
           deepe
           ditch
           ,
           all
           well
           furnished
           with
           munition
           and
           artillery
           ,
           with
           a
           band
           of
           Souldiers
           which
           he
           keepeth
           in
           continuall
           pay
           ,
           allowing
           
           euery
           man
           a
           Doller
           a
           weeke
           ,
           and
           double
           apparell
           euery
           yeere
           .
           Besides
           ,
           hee
           hath
           built
           a
           stately
           Church
           ,
           being
           aboue
           120.
           steps
           to
           the
           roofe
           ,
           with
           a
           faire
           paire
           of
           Organes
           ,
           a
           curious
           carued
           Pulpit
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           ornaments
           belonging
           to
           the
           same
           .
           His
           owne
           Pallace
           may
           well
           be
           called
           an
           earthly
           Paradice
           ,
           which
           if
           I
           should
           run
           into
           the
           praise
           of
           the
           description
           of
           ,
           I
           should
           bring
           my
           wits
           into
           an
           intricate
           Labyrinth
           ,
           that
           I
           should
           hardly
           find
           the
           way
           out
           :
           yet
           according
           to
           the
           imbecillity
           of
           my
           memory
           ,
           I
           will
           onely
           touch
           a
           little
           at
           the
           shadow
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           let
           the
           substance
           stand
           where
           it
           doth
           .
        
         
           At
           the
           front
           or
           outward
           gate
           is
           a
           most
           stately
           Arch
           ,
           vpon
           the
           top
           whereof
           is
           erected
           the
           image
           of
           Enuy
           ,
           (
           as
           great
           as
           a
           demy
           Colossus
           )
           betweene
           two
           Dragons
           ,
           all
           guilt
           with
           gold
           ;
           before
           the
           gate
           is
           an
           iron
           grate
           to
           open
           &
           shut
           as
           it
           were
           of
           flowers
           or
           worke
           of
           Embroydery
           ,
           at
           which
           gate
           stands
           alwaies
           a
           court
           of
           Guard
           ,
           and
           a
           Sentinell
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           lower
           part
           of
           the
           Arch
           is
           the
           Princes
           title
           or
           in
           Capitall
           letters
           as
           followeth
           ;
           
             ERNESTVS
             ,
             DEI
             GRATIA
             ,
             COMES
             HOLST
             ,
             Scomburgh
             ,
             Sternburgh
             ,
             &c.
             
          
        
         
           After
           I
           was
           entred
           within
           the
           outward
           gate
           ,
           I
           was
           shewed
           his
           stables
           ,
           where
           I
           saw
           very
           faire
           and
           goodly
           horses
           ,
           both
           for
           warre
           and
           other
           vses
           ,
           amongst
           the
           rest
           there
           was
           one
           naturally
           spotted
           like
           a
           Leopard
           ,
           or
           Panther
           ,
           and
           is
           called
           by
           the
           name
           of
           Leopard
           ,
           a
           stately
           couragious
           beast
           ,
           and
           so
           formed
           as
           if
           Nature
           had
           laid
           all
           hir
           cunning
           
           aside
           ,
           onely
           to
           compose
           that
           Horse
           ,
           and
           indeed
           I
           must
           acknowledge
           that
           hee
           was
           made
           for
           the
           seruice
           of
           some
           great
           Prince
           ,
           and
           not
           for
           any
           inferior
           Person
           .
        
         
           Passing
           further
           ,
           I
           came
           to
           another
           Court
           of
           Guard
           ,
           and
           ouer
           a
           draw-bridge
           ,
           into
           the
           inner
           court
           ,
           where
           on
           the
           right
           hand
           ,
           I
           was
           conducted
           into
           the
           Chappell
           ,
           in
           which
           Chappell
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           that
           the
           hand
           of
           mortall
           men
           (
           with
           artificiall
           workemanship
           )
           could
           visibly
           set
           forth
           the
           magnificent
           glory
           of
           the
           immortal
           Creator
           ,
           then
           absolutely
           there
           it
           is
           ,
           but
           beeing
           impossible
           so
           to
           doe
           ,
           (
           as
           neere
           as
           I
           can
           )
           I
           will
           describe
           it
           ;
           the
           pauement
           is
           all
           of
           blacke
           and
           gray
           marble
           ,
           curiously
           wrought
           with
           Chequer-worke
           ,
           the
           seats
           and
           pues
           are
           carued
           Wainscot
           of
           wonderfull
           cunning
           and
           workemanship
           :
           the
           roofe
           is
           adorned
           with
           the
           statues
           of
           Angels
           and
           Cherubins
           ,
           many
           in
           number
           ,
           all
           so
           richly
           guilded
           ,
           as
           if
           Gold
           were
           as
           plentifull
           as
           peauter
           ,
           there
           could
           not
           be
           more
           liberality
           bestowed
           :
           besides
           there
           are
           a
           faire
           set
           of
           Organs
           ,
           with
           a
           braue
           sweete
           Quire
           of
           Queristers
           :
           so
           that
           when
           they
           sing
           ,
           the
           Lutes
           ,
           Viols
           ,
           Bandoraes
           ,
           Organs
           ,
           Recorders
           ,
           Sagbuts
           ,
           and
           other
           musicall
           Instruments
           ,
           all
           strike
           vp
           together
           ,
           with
           such
           a
           glorious
           delicious
           harmony
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Angelicall
           musicke
           of
           the
           spheares
           were
           descended
           into
           that
           earthly
           Tabernacle
           .
           The
           Prince
           himselfe
           is
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           very
           zealous
           in
           his
           Prayer
           ,
           and
           diligent
           in
           his
           attention
           to
           the
           Preacher
           ,
           who
           although
           I
           vnderstood
           not
           ,
           yet
           I
           perceiued
           he
           was
           a
           good
           Diuine
           
           who
           grauely
           and
           sincerely
           with
           reuerence
           and
           eloquent
           Elocution
           deliuered
           the
           breade
           of
           life
           to
           the
           vnderstanding
           Auditors
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           Towne
           I
           stayd
           with
           my
           brother
           from
           Saturday
           the
           last
           of
           August
           ,
           till
           the
           Thursday
           following
           which
           was
           the
           fifth
           of
           September
           .
           When
           I
           was
           conducted
           an
           English
           mile
           on
           my
           way
           by
           certaine
           of
           my
           countrey-men
           my
           Lords
           Musicians
           ,
           where
           we
           dranke
           and
           parted
           ,
           onely
           my
           Brother
           and
           my
           Guide
           brought
           mee
           that
           night
           to
           a
           strong
           walled
           Towne
           called
           Minden
           ,
           which
           standeth
           on
           the
           riuer
           of
           Weazer
           ,
           and
           belongeth
           to
           the
           Bishop
           of
           that
           See.
           On
           the
           morrow
           I
           walked
           to
           see
           the
           Towne
           ,
           where
           I
           bought
           36.
           cheeses
           for
           eight
           pence
           ,
           and
           a
           yard
           and
           halfe
           of
           pudding
           for
           fiue
           pence
           ,
           which
           I
           brought
           into
           England
           for
           rarities
           .
           So
           about
           noone
           wee
           tooke
           a
           boat
           to
           passe
           downe
           the
           Riuer
           ,
           which
           boat
           is
           much
           longer
           then
           any
           westerne
           barge
           ,
           but
           nothing
           neere
           so
           broad
           ,
           it
           was
           halfe
           laden
           with
           lime
           and
           chalke
           ,
           and
           by
           reason
           the
           winde
           blew
           hard
           ,
           we
           were
           almost
           choaked
           with
           the
           flying
           and
           scattering
           of
           that
           dusty
           commodity
           .
           Besides
           the
           water
           was
           so
           shallow
           ,
           that
           we
           ran
           a
           ground
           3.
           or
           4.
           times
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           an
           houre
           ,
           sometimes
           lesse
           before
           wee
           could
           get
           a
           float
           againe
           :
           which
           made
           mee
           and
           my
           Guide
           goe
           a
           shore
           at
           a
           village
           called
           Peterhaghen
           ,
           where
           we
           hired
           a
           waggon
           to
           Leize
           ,
           where
           wee
           stayd
           all
           night
           ,
           (
           being
           come
           into
           our
           olde
           way
           againe
           )
           where
           were
           a
           crew
           of
           strowling
           rogues
           and
           whores
           that
           tooke
           vpon
           them
           the
           name
           of
           AEgyptians
           ,
           Iuglers
           and
           Fortune
           tellers
           ,
           
           and
           indeede
           one
           of
           them
           helde
           the
           Good-wife
           with
           a
           tale
           ,
           the
           whilst
           another
           was
           picking
           her
           chest
           ,
           and
           stole
           out
           ten
           dollors
           ,
           which
           is
           fortie
           shillings
           ,
           and
           she
           that
           talked
           with
           her
           ,
           looked
           in
           her
           hand
           ,
           and
           tolde
           her
           that
           if
           shee
           did
           not
           take
           great
           heede
           ,
           she
           knew
           by
           her
           Art
           that
           some
           mischance
           was
           neere
           her
           :
           which
           prooued
           true
           ,
           for
           her
           money
           was
           gone
           the
           whilst
           her
           fortune
           was
           telling
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           appoynted
           a
           waggon
           ouer
           night
           to
           bee
           ready
           by
           three
           of
           the
           clocke
           in
           the
           morning
           ,
           when
           I
           arose
           and
           applyed
           my
           trauell
           so
           hard
           by
           changing
           fresh
           waggons
           ,
           so
           that
           that
           day
           I
           came
           as
           farre
           as
           Rodonburgh
           ,
           which
           was
           nine
           Dutch
           miles
           ,
           where
           I
           stayd
           that
           night
           :
           The
           next
           day
           being
           Sunday
           the
           eighth
           of
           September
           ,
           wee
           tooke
           waggon
           towards
           Buckstahoo
           ,
           we
           had
           a
           mad
           merry
           Boore
           ,
           with
           an
           hundred
           totters
           about
           him
           ;
           and
           now
           I
           thinke
           it
           fit
           a
           little
           to
           describe
           these
           Boores
           ,
           their
           natures
           ,
           habits
           ,
           and
           vnmannerly
           manners
           .
           In
           our
           English
           tongue
           the
           name
           Bore
           or
           Boore
           doth
           truely
           explane
           their
           swinish
           condition
           ,
           for
           most
           of
           them
           are
           as
           full
           of
           humanity
           as
           a
           Baconhogge
           ,
           or
           a
           Bore
           ,
           and
           their
           wiues
           as
           cleanely
           and
           and
           courteous
           as
           Sowes
           .
           For
           the
           most
           part
           of
           the
           men
           they
           are
           clad
           in
           thinne
           buckerom
           ,
           vnlined
           ,
           barelegged
           and
           footed
           ,
           neither
           band
           or
           scarce
           shirt
           ,
           no
           woollen
           in
           the
           world
           about
           them
           ,
           and
           thus
           will
           they
           runne
           through
           all
           weathers
           for
           money
           by
           the
           waggons
           side
           ,
           and
           though
           no
           better
           apparrelled
           ,
           yet
           all
           of
           them
           haue
           houses
           ,
           land
           ,
           or
           manuall
           meanes
           to
           liue
           by
           :
           The
           substantiall
           
           Boores
           I
           did
           meet
           aboue
           120.
           of
           them
           that
           Sunday
           ,
           with
           euery
           one
           an
           hatchet
           in
           his
           hand
           ,
           I
           mused
           at
           it
           ,
           and
           thought
           they
           had
           been
           going
           to
           fell
           wood
           that
           day
           ,
           but
           my
           Guide
           told
           me
           they
           were
           all
           going
           to
           Church
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           stead
           of
           cloakes
           they
           carried
           hatchets
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           was
           the
           fashion
           of
           the
           Country
           :
           wherupon
           it
           came
           to
           my
           mind
           ,
           Cloake
           ,
           quasi
           Cleaue-oake
           ,
           ergo
           the
           Boores
           weare
           hatchets
           in
           steede
           of
           cloakes
           .
        
         
           There
           are
           other
           fashion
           Boores
           ,
           who
           weare
           white
           linnen
           breeches
           as
           close
           as
           Irish
           trouzes
           ,
           but
           so
           long
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           turned
           vp
           at
           the
           shooe
           in
           a
           role
           like
           a
           maides
           sleeues
           at
           the
           hand
           ,
           but
           what
           these
           fellowes
           want
           in
           the
           bignesse
           of
           their
           hose
           ,
           they
           haue
           in
           dublets
           ,
           for
           their
           sleeues
           are
           as
           big
           as
           breeches
           and
           the
           bodies
           great
           enough
           to
           hold
           a
           kinderkin
           of
           beere
           and
           a
           barrell
           of
           butter
           .
        
         
           The
           Countey
           is
           very
           full
           of
           woods
           ,
           and
           especially
           oakes
           ,
           which
           they
           very
           seldome
           cut
           downe
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           mast
           for
           their
           swine
           ,
           which
           liue
           there
           in
           great
           abundance
           .
           If
           any
           man
           bee
           slaine
           or
           murthered
           on
           the
           way
           ,
           they
           vse
           to
           set
           vp
           a
           woodden
           crosse
           in
           the
           place
           ,
           for
           a
           memoriall
           of
           the
           bloody
           fact
           committed
           there
           ,
           and
           there
           were
           many
           of
           those
           woodden
           crosses
           in
           the
           way
           as
           I
           trauelled
           .
        
         
           They
           seldom
           haue
           any
           robbery
           committed
           amongst
           them
           ,
           but
           there
           is
           a
           murther
           with
           it
           ,
           for
           their
           vnmannerly
           manner
           is
           ,
           to
           knocke
           out
           a
           mans
           braines
           first
           ,
           or
           else
           to
           lurke
           behinde
           a
           tree
           ,
           and
           shoot
           a
           man
           with
           a
           peece
           or
           a
           pistoll
           ,
           and
           so
           make
           sure
           worke
           with
           the
           passenger
           ,
           and
           then
           search
           his
           pockets
           .
        
         
         
           It
           is
           as
           dangerous
           to
           steale
           or
           kill
           an
           hare
           in
           some
           places
           there
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           to
           rob
           a
           Church
           or
           kill
           a
           man
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           yet
           a
           two-penny
           matter
           will
           discharge
           the
           offender
           ,
           for
           the
           best
           and
           the
           worst
           is
           but
           an
           halter
           ;
           and
           I
           was
           enformed
           that
           an
           English
           Marchant
           (
           not
           knowing
           the
           danger
           )
           as
           he
           was
           riding
           on
           the
           way
           ,
           hauing
           a
           peece
           charged
           in
           his
           hand
           (
           as
           it
           is
           an
           ordinary
           weapon
           to
           trauell
           with
           there
           )
           by
           chance
           hee
           espied
           an
           hare
           ,
           and
           shot
           at
           her
           and
           killed
           her
           ;
           but
           he
           was
           apprehended
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           it
           was
           like
           to
           haue
           cost
           him
           his
           life
           ;
           but
           before
           he
           got
           out
           of
           the
           trouble
           ,
           he
           was
           faine
           to
           vse
           his
           best
           friends
           and
           meanes
           ,
           (
           &
           pleading
           ignorance
           for
           his
           innocency
           )
           at
           last
           with
           the
           losse
           of
           a
           great
           deale
           of
           liberty
           ,
           and
           fiue
           hundred
           pound
           in
           money
           ,
           he
           was
           discharged
           :
           The
           reason
           of
           this
           strict
           conrse
           is
           ,
           because
           all
           the
           hares
           in
           the
           countrey
           doe
           belong
           to
           one
           Lord
           or
           other
           ,
           and
           being
           in
           abundance
           ,
           they
           are
           killed
           by
           the
           owners
           appoyntment
           ,
           and
           carried
           to
           the
           markets
           by
           cart-loads
           ,
           and
           sold
           for
           the
           vse
           of
           the
           honourable
           owners
           :
           and
           no
           Boore
           or
           Tenant
           that
           dwels
           in
           those
           parts
           where
           those
           hares
           are
           plenty
           ,
           must
           keepe
           a
           dogge
           ,
           except
           he
           pay
           fiue
           shillings
           a
           yeere
           to
           the
           Lord
           ,
           or
           else
           one
           of
           his
           fore-feet
           must
           be
           cut
           of
           that
           he
           may
           not
           hunt
           hares
           .
        
         
           A
           man
           is
           in
           almost
           as
           high
           promotion
           to
           bee
           a
           knaue
           in
           England
           ,
           as
           a
           Knight
           in
           Germany
           ,
           for
           there
           a
           Gentleman
           is
           called
           a
           Youngcurr
           ,
           and
           a
           Knight
           is
           but
           a
           Youngcurs
           man
           ,
           so
           that
           you
           shall
           haue
           a
           scuruy
           Squire
           command
           a
           Knight
           to
           hold
           his
           stirrup
           ,
           plucke
           off
           his
           boots
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           
           vnknightly
           peece
           of
           seruice
           :
           and
           verily
           I
           thinke
           there
           are
           an
           100.
           seuerall
           Princes
           ,
           Earles
           ,
           Bishops
           and
           other
           estates
           ,
           that
           do
           euery
           one
           keepe
           a
           mint
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           owne
           names
           stampe
           Money
           ,
           Gold
           ,
           Siluer
           ,
           &
           Brasse
           ,
           &
           amongst
           23.
           two
           pences
           which
           I
           had
           of
           their
           brasse
           money
           (
           which
           they
           call
           Grushes
           )
           I
           had
           13.
           seuerall
           coynes
           .
        
         
           Many
           more
           such
           worthy
           iniunctions
           and
           honourable
           ordinances
           I
           obserued
           ,
           which
           are
           hardly
           worth
           pen
           and
           inke
           the
           describing
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           omit
           them
           ,
           and
           draw
           toward
           an
           end
           ,
           for
           on
           the
           Wednesday
           morning
           I
           was
           at
           an
           anchor
           at
           St●ad
           ,
           &
           on
           the
           Friday
           night
           following
           I
           was
           (
           by
           Gods
           gracions
           assistance
           )
           landed
           at
           London
           .
           So
           that
           in
           three
           weeks
           and
           three
           dayes
           ,
           I
           sailed
           from
           England
           to
           Hamburgh
           and
           backe
           againe
           ,
           staying
           in
           the
           countrey
           17.
           dayes
           ,
           and
           trauelled
           200.
           miles
           by
           land
           there
           :
           gathering
           like
           a
           busie
           Bee
           all
           these
           honyed
           obseruations
           ,
           some
           by
           sight
           ,
           some
           by
           hearing
           ,
           some
           by
           both
           ,
           some
           by
           neither
           ,
           &
           some
           by
           bare
           supposition
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
  

