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A13478	A new discouery by sea, with a vvherry from London to Salisbury. Or, a voyage to the West, the worst, or the best That e're was exprest. By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1623 (1623)	STC 23778; ESTC S102630	20,497	40

workes and an encouragement or animating of all others who as yet seeme slowe in these good proceedings And if any thing here written by me be either impertinent extrauagant rude harsh or ouer bold I humbly entreate you to impute it rather to my want of iudgement learning and capacity then to any presumption or want of loue and duty to the Citie and cause which is hereafter handled It is sufficiently knowne that my intent and purpose at this time was not to make any profit to my selfe vpon any aduenture as it is deemed by many by my passage from London to Salisbury with a Wherry but I was entreated by a Waterman which was borne in Salisbury that I would beare him company for the discouery of the sands flats depthes shoales Mills and Weares which are impediments and lets whereby the Riuer is not Nauigable from Christ-Church or the Sea to Salisbury Which after many dangerous gusts and tempestuous stormes at Sea which I haue recited in verse before it pleased God that at the last we entred the Riuer which in my opinion is as good a Riuer and with some charge may be made as passable as the Riuer of Thames is vpwards from Brentford to Windsor or beyond it the shallow places in it are not many The Mills neede not be remoued and as for the Weares no doubt but they may with conscience be compounded for By which meanes of Nauigation the whole City and Countrey would be relieued loyterers turned into labourers penurie into plenty to the glory of God the dignity and reputation of your Citie and the perpetuall worthy memory of all benefactors and well-willers vnto so noble a worke If you will but examine your owne knowledges you shall finde that in the whole dominion of England there is not any one Towne or Citie which hath a Nauigable Riuer at it that is poore nor scarce any that are rich which want a Riuer with the benefits of Boates The Towne of Kingston vpon Hull in Yorkshire the Riuer there was cut out of Humber by mens labours 20. miles vp into the Countrey and what the wealth and estate of that Towne is by the onely benefit of that Riuer it is not vnknowne to thousands but you men of Sarum may see what a commodity Nauigation is neerer hand there is your neighbour Southampton on the one side and your deere friend Poole on the other are a payre of hansome looking-Glasses for you where you may see your want in their abundance and your negligence in their industry God hath placed your being in a fertile soyle in a fruitfull valley enuironed round with Corne and as it were continually besieged with plenty whilst you within hauing so many poore amongst you are rather lookers vpon happinesse then enioyers moreouer by Gods appointment Nature hath saued you the labour of cutting a Riuer for I thinke you haue one there as olde as your Citie ready made to your hands if you will bee but industrious to amend those impediments in it I dare vndertake to be one of the 3. or 4. men which shall bring or carie 16. or 20. Tunnes of goods betwixt the Sea and your Citie Now with extreame toyle of men Horses Carts your wood is brought to you 18. or 20. miles whereby the poore which cannot reach the high prices of your fewell are enforced to steale or starue in the Winter so that all your neere adioyning woods are continually spoyled by them which faults by the benefit of the Riuer would be reformed for the new Forrest standeth so neere to the water that it is but cut the wood and put it into a Boate which shall bring as much to your Citie as 20. Carts and fourescore Horses besides by this Riuer you might draw to you a trade of Sea-coale which would enrich you and helpe the plaine and inland Townes and Villages where no wood growes And for the Exportation of your Corne from Port to Port within our owne Countrey as it is well knowne what abundance of your Barley is continually made into Mault amongst you which if you had cariage for it might be brewed into Beere wherewith you might serue diuers places with your Beere which is now serued with your Mault besides cariages of Brickes Tyles Stones Charcoales and other necessaries which is now caried at deere rates by Horse or Carts which now you send in Carts or on Horses backes to Southampton to Bristow and to many other places so that the deerenesse of the Cariages eates vp all your commodities and profit which discommodity may be auoyded if your Riuer be cleansed and what man can tell what good in time may redownd to your Citie from the Sea by forraigne goods which may be brought into Christ-Church Hauen by Shipping nor can it be truly imagined what new and vsefull profitable businesses may arise in time by this meanes Our Forefathers and Auncestors did in their liues time in former ages doe many worthy and memorable workes but for all their industrie and cost they did not or could not doe all but as there was much done to our hands so there was much left for vs to doe and very fitting it was that it should be so for it is against common sence and reason our Fathers should toyle in good workes like drudges and wee spend our times loytring like Drones no what they did was for our imitation And withall that wee should be leaders of our posterities by our examples into laudable endeuours as our progenitours hath before shewed vs we are their sonnes and offspring wee haue their shapes and figures wee beare their names we possesse their goods we inherit their lands we haue materials of stones Timber Iron and such necessaries which they had if not in greater abundance and hauing all these let vs withall haue their willing and liberall hearts and there is no question to be made but that our Riuer of Auon will quickly be cleansed to the honest enriching of the rich and the charitable relieuing of the poore I am assured that there are many good men in the Citie Country of Wiltshire and others of worth and good respect in this Kingdome who would willingly bountifully assist this good work but like Gossips neere a Stile they stand straining curtesie who shal go first or the Mice in the Fable not one will aduenture to hang the Bell about the Cats neck So that if one good man would begin it would be like a health drank to some beloued Prince at a great feast pledged most heartily and by Gods grace effected most happily You haue already begun a charitable worke amongst you I meane your common Towne Brew-house the profit of which you entend shall be wholy imployed for the supply of the poore and Impotents which liue in your Citie frō which sort of people being such a multitude the Brewers there haue found their best custome for no doubt but the meanest begger amongst you is in some sort more

Bognors fearefull Rockes which hidden lie Two miles into the Sea some wet some drie There we suppos'd our danger most of all If we on those remorcelesse Rockes should fall But by th' Almighties mercy and his might We Row'd to Selsey where we stay'd all night There our necessity could haue no Law For want of beds we made good vse of Straw Till Sol that olde continuall Trauailer From Thetis lap gan mount his flaming Car. The weather kept it's course and blow'd and rag'd Without appearance it would e're be swag'd Whilst we did passe those hills dales Downes That had deuour'd great Ships swallow'd Towns Thus after sixe or fiue houres toyle at least We past along by Wittering West and East Vpon the Lee shore still the winde full South We came neere Chichesters faire Hauens mouth And being then halfe sunk and all through wet More fear'd then hurt we did the Hauen get Thus in that harbour we our course did frame To Portsmouth where on Monday morne we came Then to the Royall Fleete we Row'd abord Where much good welcome they did vs afford To the Lord Generall first my thanks shall be His bounty did appeare in gold to me And euery one abord the Prince I found In sted of want to make their loues abound Captaine Penrudduck there amongst the rest His loue and bounty was to vs exprest Which to requite my thankfulnes I 'le showe And that I 'le euer pay and euer owe. On Tuesday morning we with maine and might From Portsmouth crost vnto the I le of Wight By Cowes stout Castle we to Yarmouth hasted And still the windes and Seas fierce fury lasted On Wedn'sday we to Hursts strong Castle crost Most dangerously sowsd turmoyl'd and tost Good harbour there we found and nothing deere I thank kinde M. Figge the Porter there He shew'd vs there a Castle of defence Most vsefull of a round circumference Of such command that none can passe those Seas Vnsunk or spoil'd except the Castle please On Thursday we our Boat row'd pull'd and hal'd Vnto a place which is Key Hauen call'd The winde still blowing and the Sea so high As if the losty waues would kisse the skie That many times I wish'd with all my hart My selfe my Boat and Crewe all in a Cart Or any where to keepe vs safe and dry The weather raged so outragiously For sure I thinke the memory of man Since windes and Seas to blowe or flowe began Cannot remember so stormy weather In such continuance held so long together For ten long weekes ere that t is manifest The winde had blowne at Sowth or west Southwest And rais'd the Seas to shew each others power That all this space calme weather not one hower That whether we did goe by Sunne or Moone At any time at midnight or at noone If we did launch or if to land we set We still were sure to be halfe sunk and wet Thus toyling of our weary time away That Thursday was our last long look'd for day For hauing past with perill and much paine And plow'd furrow'd o're the dangeroas maine O're depths and flats and many a ragged Rock We came to Christ-Church hau'n at fiue a clock Thus God in mercy his iust iudgement sparing Gainst our presumption ouer bold and daring Who made vs see his wonders in the deepe And that his power alone aloft did keepe Our weather-beaten Boate aboue the waues Each moment gaping to be all our Graues We sinking scap'd then not to vs to Him Be all the Glory for he caus'd vs swim And for his mercy was so much extended On me whose temptings had so farre offended Let me be made the scorne and scoffe of men If euer I attempt the like agen My loue my duty and my thankfulnesse To Sir George Hastings I must here expresse His deedes to me I must requite in words No other payment poore mens state affords With fruitlesse words I pay him for his cost With thanks to Mr. Templeman mine Host. So leauing Christ-Church and the Hauen there With such good friends as made vs welcome cheere Some serious matter now I must compile And thus from verse to prose I change my stile GOD who of his infinite wisedome made Man of his vnmeasurable mercy redeemed him of his boundlesse bounty immense power and eternall eye of watchfull prouidence releeues guards and conserues him It is necessary that euery man seriously consider ponder these things and in token of obedience and thankfulnesse say with Dauid What shall I render and the man hauing thus searched considerately the causer of his being then let him againe meditate for what cause hee hath a being indeede it may be obiected that almost euery thing hath a being as stones haue being trees hearbs and plants haue being and life Beasts fowles and fishes haue being life and sence but to man is giuen a Being life sence and reason and after a mortall an immortall euer being this consideration will make a man know that hee hath little part of himselfe which hee may iustly call his owne his body is Gods he made it his soule is his who bought it his goods are but lent him by him that will one day call him to a reckoning for the well or ill disposing of them so that man hauing nothing but what he hath receiued and receiued nothing but what is to be imployed in the seruice of God and consequently his Prince and Countrey it is plainely to be perceiued that euery man hath the least share or portion of himselfe to boast of I haue written this Preamble not onely to enforme such as know not these things already but also to such whose knowledge is as it were fallen into a dead sleepe who doe liue as though there were no other being then here and that their life and being was ordained onely of themselues neither God Prince or Countrey hauing no share or portion of them or of what they call theirs But oh you Inhabitans of Salisburie I hope there are no such crawling Cankerwormes or Common-wealth Caterpillers amongst you Nay I am assured of the contrary that there are many who with religious piety open hands and relenting hearts doe acknowledge that your goods are but lent in trust vnto you and doe patiently beare the ouer-burthensome relieuing of many hundreds of poore wretches which were it not for your charity would perish in your streetes This being entred into my consideration that your Citie is so much ouercharged with poore as hauing in three Parishes neere 3000. besides decayed men a great many and that those fewe which are of the wealthier sort are continually ouerpressed with sustaining the wants of the needy the Citie being as it were at the last gaspe the poore being like Pharaohs leane Kine euen ready to eate vp the fat ones I haue made bold to write this Treatise ensuing both to entreat a constant perseuerence in those who haue begun to doe good