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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95552	Iohn Taylors last voyage, and adventure, performed from the twentieth of Iuly last 1641. to the tenth of September following. In which time he past, with a scullers boate from the citie of London, to the cities and townes of Oxford, Gloucester, Shrewesbury, Bristoll, Bathe, Monmouth and Hereford. The manner of his passages and entertainement to and fro, truly described. With a short touch of some wandring and some fixed scismatiques, such as are Brownist, Anabaptists, famalies, humorists and foolists, which the authour found in many places of his voyage and iourney. / By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing T473; Thomason E1100_3; ESTC R208333	14,156	32

Sunday the twenty two of August as I am bound gratefully to remember Munday the twenty three of August I left Monmouth and with a vvhole dayes labour by vvater according to the miles by land I got not a foote of ground for at night when I came to a place called Lidbrooke I was twelve miles from Hereford and I was but twelve miles from the said Citie vvhen I vvas in the morning at the Tovvne of Mounmouth this doth shevv that the River of Wye doth runne a little crooked from Lidbrooke I vvent on Saint Bartholomewes day to the Tovvne of Rosse vvhere I lodged nere Wilton Bridge there and on the tvventie five I vvent to Foane Hope and the tvventy sixe day about tenne of the clocke I gat to the Citie of Hereford vvhich vvas the last place and the end of my painefull travell Ioruney Voyage Perambulation and Peregrination or vvhat you please to call it At Hereford I vvas invited to three severall places to dine on the friday and I being not able to satisfie them all gave them all the slippe the three places vvere Edmond Ashton Esquire Mayor the second the Vicars at the Minster or Colledge thirdly at a Taverne vvith diverse Gentlemen but I having gotten the Mayors hand seale because I could not please all left all and stole avvay like a true man leaving my thankes for Master Mayor and Master Phillip Traherne vvith all the rest for their kindnesse to me the day before At my being at Hereford I vvas in a quandary or brovvne studdy vvhether it vvere best to sell my boat returne to London by land or else to bring the boate home againe either by land or vvater or both or how I could at last I determined resolved to bring the monumentall vessell backe againe vvhich I did as follovveth On friday the 27. of August I passed dovvne the River of Wye to a place called Inckson Weare vvhere vvith great entertainement and vvelcom I vvas lodged and my men also at the house of one Master Aperley dvvelling there to vvhom for many favours I doe acknovvledge my selfe to bee extraordinarily beholding And on the Saterday I came to Lidbrook to my former Hoste Master Mosse where understanding and knowing the passage down VVye and up Severne to be very long dangerous especially if stormye weather should arise the boate being split torne shaken that she did leake very much these things considered that I was within five miles of Severne by land to Newnham and that by water thither there was no lesse then 50 miles I hired a Wayne frow Lidbrook to Newnham And on Munday the 30. of August I past up Severne by Glocester and working all night came in the morning betimes to Tewxbury into another River called Avon which by thegreat charge and industry of Master Sands is made Navigable many miles up into the Countrey Tuseday the 31 of August I came to a Market Towne in VVorcestershire called Pershore On the first of September I came to the Auncient Towne of Evesholm corruptly called Esham and seeing that River to bee further and further out of my way home I hired another Wayne from Esham to Burford where I found a crooked brooke called VVindrush in which brooke after one nights lodging with my appendixes having taken each of us a Burford bait we passed many strange letts and hindrances in t o the River of Isis or Thames Againe at Newbridge 12. or 14. miles from Oxford by water By which Vniversity I past to Abingdon The fourth of September where I stayed till Wednesday the eight day from thence was I with my boate at home on the Friday following And thus in lesse then twenty dayes labour 1200. miles were past to and fro in most hard difficult and many dangerous passages for the which I give God most humble and hearty prayse and thankes and now I crave the Readers patlence a little whilst I briefely treate of a few things that may bee profitable as well as pleasant I have before related of certaine stops milles and wares that doe hinder the passages of boates of Thames and Isis now I will treate a little of the abuses and uses of other Rivers As for the River of Severne it is almost as much abus'd as us'd for an instance there are Coale-mines neere it and by the benefit of that River mane a hundred family is served with suficient fewell at cheape rates but some of those Cole-mines doe yeeld neere 1000 tunnes of Rubbish yearely which by reason of the neerenesse of the River is all washed into it and makes so many shallowes that in time Severne vvill bee quite choaked up and all passage stopped but of that River more at the conclusion Avon River that serveth Bristoll would also be made to serve Bathe and many other parts and places if Lockes were made at west Hanham weare and at Kenisham with 4. or 5. places more for the River doth offer Gods blessing to the peoples mouthes if they would but open their lippes to receive them The River Wye is debard of all passages with Boates by 7. Weares 2. of them are Monmouth Weare Wilton Weare the other 5. are Inkson Weare Carow Founehope Hancocks and Bondnam Weare these seven weares like the seven deadly sinnes doe dam up all goodnesse that should come from Monmouth to Hereford by water and if the yron milles in the forrest of Deane doe eate up all the wood there as it hath already done reasonably well and ill within these few yeares if the passages be stopt with Weares that coales cannot be carried by water to Hereford and many other places it is to be feared that many rich men will bee glad to blow their fingers ends in the Winter through want of fiering and numbers of poore will perish with extreame cold the complaints and cryes are grievous already which if I had not heard and seene I would not have beleeved and 7. lockes at those Weares would helpe all and hinder nobody or else onely two Lockes would doe much good the one at Monmouth Weare the other at Wilton which is but eight miles from Hereford and good vvay by land for the carriage of any thing that might be brought by vvater For the other Kiver Avon it comes from beyond the City of Coventry and running by the Tovvnes of Stretford Evesholme and Pershore it falles into Severne at Tewexbury so that Gloucestershire my native Countrey is encompast round vvith Navigable Rivers of vvhich Citie and Countrey I vvill speake a little for Countries sake but most of all for love I beare to truth and Charity Records and Histories doe make trve relation of the antiquity of the Citie of Gloucester that it vvas built by Arviragus a Brittaine King in the time of Claudus Tiberius Caesar The said Claudius being the Roman Emperour and commander of the vvhole World in vvhose Raigne our blessed Saviour suffered King Arviragus and Lucius the first Christian King doe