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Tailors travels from London to the Isle of VVight, vvith his returne, and occasion of his iourney
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1648
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TAILORS TRAVELS from LONDON TO THE ISLE of WIGHT VVith his Returne and occasion of his Iourney THE occasion why I undertooke this Insulary Journey or Voyage from one Island to another was for three Respects First I had a great importunate desire to see my Gracious Soveraigne afflicted Lord and Master Secondly I travelled with an intent to get some Silver in this Iron Age for pleasure and profit should be the reward of honest and harmelesse paines taking Before I began this high and mighty perambulation I did put forth many Bills to divers and sundry friends to pay me some small sums of that pretious thing called Money at my returne the purport purpose pretence signification meaning or marrow-bone of the Bill were these following words When John Taylor hath beene from London to the Isle of Wight and returned againe and that at his returne he doe give or cause to be given to me a Booke or Pamphlet of true newes and relations of Passages at the Island and to and fro in his Iourney I doe promise to give to him or his assignes the summe of what I please in Lawfull money of England provided that the sayd summe be not under 6 pence NOW at my returne if all my Customers doe pay me according to the Bill then am I exceedingly deceived but if none of them doe pay me then I am meerely couzened and now begins the Story Printed at the Authors Charge and are no where to be sold 1648. THis Pamphlet is not stuft with Triviall Bables Or vaine prodigious undisgested fables This is no Mercury with scoffs and jeeres To raise debate and set us by the eares As if poore England had not yet endur'd Sufficient plagues but she must be assur'd By New New Newes of New frights and new foes And future mischiefes worse then present woes I bring no tidings of such consequence To breed Feares Jealousies or give offence Nor am I fraught with wonders wounds and scarres Or any thing relating to the Warres It is so writ that no man can accuse Me of detraction scandall or abuse My lines are all from feare and horror free And here and there as true as true may be Yea much more true I may be bound to sweare Then many Bookes have beene this twice foure yeare Or any Mercury writ heretofore Or old Currantoes in the daies of Yore Then stroke your heards or wipe your mouthes at least And read and heare what I have here exprest THe next succeeding mouth unto September October was this yeare as I remember Without the charge of Proxcy or Atturney My selfe in proper Person tooke this journey Two Gentlewomen by two Maides attended Accompanied me till my travells ended We tooke one Coach two Coach-men and foure horses And merrily from London made our courses We wheel'd the top of th' heavy hill call'd Holborne Vp which hath been full many a sinfull soule borne And so along we jolted past Saint Gileses Which place from Brainford six or neere seven miles is To Stanes that night at five a clock we coasted Where at the * Bush we had bak'd boyl'd and roasted Bright Sols illustrious Rayes the day adorning We past Bagshot and Bawwaw Friday morning That night we lodg'd at the White Hart at Alâ—on And had good meate a table with a salt on Next morne w' arose with blushing cheek'd †Aurora The wayes were faire but not so faire as Flora For * Flora was a Goddesse and a woman And like the high wayes was to all men Common Our Horses with the Coach which we went into Did hurry us amaine through thick and thine to With fiery speede the foaming bits they champt on And brought us to the Dolphin at Southampton There found I friendship more then I expected Or did deserve so much to be respected The Gentlewomen both their husbands met there The Moone was mounted and the Sun was set there And after two houres time or some such matter We turn'd our Coach t' a boat and swam by water My entertainement was good wine and welcome The cups most kindly unto me pell well come Southamptons Governour much love did show me He was my old acquaintance and did know me He gave me's passe to passe me to the Island And I tooke boate and left him on the dry Land It was as bright a mooneshine night I say As ever man saw in a Summers day Thus with a fore winde and faire Cintha's light In foure houres time we came to the Isle of Wight We past Cowes Castle and into the Towne went Where some short time we wandring up and downe went Thus being favow'd by men windes and weathers At Cowes I landed and lodg'd at the Feathers The Isle of Wight contain'd a Wight of Waigh then And on that Wight of Waight I came to wait then Long live he blest internall and externall And blest be England in his love paternall To guide and guard him grace and power supernall Defend him from all trecherous traps infernall In imitation of him let us learne all To live so heer that we may live eternall And thou whose mercy were can be exhausted In thy compassion thinke on England wasted The sword of wrath that 's drawne is justly thine The Sinnes that made thee draw it forth are mine Jonas the storme did to himselfe apply Let each say so now each man say t is I. And now my story briefely I le compose From harsh hard rugged rime to smooth fac'd prose And thus have I truly and merrily told the passages and Relations how I came to the Royall captiving Isle of Wight Now it followes requisitely that I certifie you of some Occurrences and accidents there It is to be noted that the Gentlemen with their wives having such faire and speedy passage from Southampton to the Island that at the Towne called Cowes they had two horses which they left with their maides with me 'till the morning for me to bring by land to Newport where His Majesty was they with their wives tooke a small Boat about midnight having the tide with them to carry them that Saturday night or neare Sunday 3 miles up by water to Newport so they left me All the fagge end of the Saturday night and part of Sunday morning I had the happinesse to be Iohn amongst the Maides for we honestly lay in 2 beds in one chamber but I would have no man so mad to imagine that we lay all three both together Sunday the 22. of October we arose with the Sun betweene the houres of the careles number of 6 and 7 he is carelesse that sets all at 6 and 7 we quickly made our selves as fine as could be in hope to see fine folkes and fine things at Court and so we mounted our Polfreys the Hostler of the Princes Armes at Cowes being hired to be our Guide who did ride before one Maid and my selfe before the other and so by consequence both the Maides were behinde us
to give him ease but then the said application did most grievously vex and torment him so that he was perswaded to forbeare to use the said Oyles Emplasters and Unguents and then he was suddenly cured 6. Mistresse Elizabeth Paine of Bristell was blinde and such a Rhewmatick defluxion did dayly fall from her eyes which did wet two or three large hancherchiefes every day she came to the King on Sunday last the 5. of this November His Majesty did touch her eyes the Rhewme ceased so that she went away presently with a cleere and perfect sight and two houres after she came to the King againe and gave him thanks upon her knees His Majesty bade her give thanks to God so she with giving God praise and prayers for the King went from the Island to Bristoll with exceeding joy for her recovery 7. Margaret Hezden aged 73. yeares dwelling in Newport in Chayne lane was not able to stir but as she was lifted from bed to chaire and from chaire to bed touched by His Majesty and cured so that with one crutch she did goe about her house and drew 5 or 6. pots of Ale for me and my company These things me thinkes should move the mindes of some unmannerly Levellers to esteeme his Majesty as one that is not to be ranked or filed with common men Concerning any Newes of business at the Treaty there is so much made of it at London that there is little or none at all at the Court this is certaine that from the 21. of October till the first of November being 11. dayes there was no debating or treating at all for Sir Peter Killegrâ—â— was all that time from the Island to the Parliament at Westminster and till his returne with Orders and Directions alâ— things were silent however the London Mercuries and Moderate Occurrances did not faile to set forth newes oâ— their owne making every weeke All that I can relate is that Sir Peter came to the King on Tuesday night the last of October and the next day being the quondam All Saints His Majesty with the Commissioners began to Treate where it was agreed that the Presbyterian Governement in the Church should continue three yeares that the Booke of Common Prayer should be discontinued and not used publickly That no Masse should be tollerated to be sayd in the Kingdomes of England and Ireland or in the Principallity of Wales These matters of high consequence being concluded and agreed there is great hope of speedy restauration of His Majesty to His just Rights and a blessed peace for the Church people and Kingdomes I came from the Island on Tuesday the 7. of November and landed at a place called Hell Head from thence I came 3 miles to Titchfield on Wednesday I came 4 miles to Wickham Thursday to Warnford 7. miles Fryday I footed it 17. miles to Alton and to Farnham Saturday to Guilford and to Cobham 18. miles and Sunday 6 miles to Kingston and on Munday the 13. of November I came to London 10. Miles And as I have written merrily truely and impartially so I must conclude accordingly without flattery concerning thu Governour of the Isle of Wight Colonel Hammand the plaine truth is that my selfe with many others did hate him so much that he was very seldome or never prayed for the reasons and motives which possest most men with this mistaking and misapplyed inveterate mallice was upon the flying lying reports that the Governour had behaved himself most coursly ridged and barbarously unrespective to His Majesty The false weekely Pamphlets and Pamphleteers being inspired by their Father the Divell were not ashamed to publish in print that the Governour had proceeded so far it incivility as to immure or wall His Majesty in a small close roome under many bolts bars grates locks and keyes and debarred Him the comforts of His soule and of the seociety of men and further it was often printed by severall lying Villaines that the sayd Governour Hammond did strike the King on the face and gave Him a black eye These reports being invented by the Devills Imps the firebrands of contention printed and published by needy greedy Knaves and Varlets and believed by too many Fooles and foolish Gotehamists amongst which number I with much simplicity was one and as by Oath and duty I am bound to serve love and honour my Soveraigne Lord and Master so on the contrary my selfe with all true and Loyall Subjects had no cause to be well affected to any man that should dare to affront His Majesty with such transcended base indignities But to give the world satisfaction of the truth it is certaine that all those aspersions and rumours against the Governour are most odious scandalous and malicious lies for according to the trust reposed in him he hath alwayes carried him selfe with such deportment and humblenesse of dutifull service to His Majesty that he hath gained much love and favour from his Soveraigne and such good regard from all knowing men as belongs to a Gentleman of his place and Quallity And therefore Reader understand and note Who ever sayes I lye he lies in 's throate Blest Englands joy the King will come er'e long Praise God make Bonefires swing the Bells ding dong And let him never beare a Christians name Whose trade and pleasure is in blood and slame Of his deare Countrey and rip rend and teare His Mothers Womb that such a brat did beare FINIS I set forth on Thursday the 19. of Octob. We hired the Southamton coach which comes weekly to the Rose neer Holborn Bridge * The signe of the Bush †The dawning * Flora was a beautifull Courtezan in Rome who gat great treasure by the prostitution of her body which Wealth she gave to the Common Treasury for which they did esteeme her a Goddes and the Goddes of Flowers and built a Temple to her * For testimony of the truth of this there is one Iohn Newbery a Clothworker who dwels in Newport in the streete called Castle Hole this man did come over the water with her and did see her lame and cured