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A13460	The honorable, and memorable foundations, erections, raisings, and ruines, of divers cities, townes, castles, and other pieces of antiquitie, within ten shires and counties of this kingdome namely, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey, Barkshire, Essex, Middlesex, Hartfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire: with the description of many famous accidents that have happened, in divers places in the said counties. Also, a relation of the wine tavernes either by their signes, or names of the persons that allow, or keepe them, in, and throughout the said severall shires. By John Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1636 (1636)	STC 23764A; ESTC S113524	21,803	64

Iohn Pettit The towne of Midhurst hath foure Taverners Iohn Kelsey Anne Carus Mary Hudson and Ioan White Hastings is a good and profitable Fisher-town a Nu●…sery for Mariners and Saylors It had a Mint to coyne Money in it in the time of King Athelstan and it is named the first of the ●…que Ports it had these ports ●…nd towns belonging to it namely Seaford Pemsey Hodney Bulver●… Winchelsea and Rye all which were at any time at command of the King to set out 21 serviceable ships for the service of their Prince and Country within forty dayes warning and to beare all the charge of the sayd shipps for the space of fifteene dayes and the King was to be at all the charges after the fifteene dayes were expired Hastings hath two Tavernes Iohn Phissenden and Francis Wennell Lewis a famous Market Towne which had a Mint in it in King Athelstanes Reigne for his Coine of Gold and Silver or other Mettals It hath 6. Churches and a goodly house belonging to the Earle of Dorset A mighty memorable Battle was fought there Anno 1264. betwixt King Henry the third and Simon Montfort Earle of Leaster where the Earle tooke the King and the King of the Romanes prisoners Lewis hath these Taverns or number of houses for the sale of Wines Agnes Thurgood Thomas Oliver Robert Carter and William Peake may keep two Tavernes if he will At Lingfield Beding and Bramborow Richard Meade At Billi●…ghurst Iohn Agate At V●…field field Iohn Forde At Backesteed Thomas Oliver At Cliffe Richard Meade and William Peake At Crawley and Worth Iohn Peake At Brighthelmeson Alice Harding and William Peake At Barreash Mayfield Pemsey and Westham Thomas Oliver At Dallington Henfield and Abfreston Thomas Oliver At East-Greensteed Iohn Langridge and Henry Baldwin the signes at East Greensted are the Crowne and the Cat. Rye is a good Towne and was made strong by William of Ipres A valiant Nobleman and Earle of Kent It was walled in the undefensible and weakest places by King Edward the 3. Terrible stormes and tempests hath done more for them then they could well have done for themselves for the blustring raging Winds hath formerly caused the violence of the Sea to make them a good Haven but great pitty it is for it is much decay'd For Rye is a brave flourishing Towne and serves London and many other places with Fish in aboundance It hath these Tavernes in name or number Richard Pecote Iohn Halsey Richard Thomas Sussex had at the suppression of Abbyes Nunneries Priories Frieries Colledges and Hospitalls 32. This County is devided into 6. Devisions or Hundreds called Rapes namely Chichester Arundell Bramber Lewis Pemsey and Hastings There are in Sussex 18 Market townes 312 Parishes and 61 Tavernes Middlesex MIddlesex doth almost round beguirt the two famous Cities of London and Westminster And although I have in my former Booke made mention of many of the Tavernes neere adjoyning to the sayd Cities yet to make this my second narration in the better forme and order I haue named some of the said Tavernes againe because I would play the part of an honest true Taylor and put in all the stuffe At Chelsey Richard Eeds the signe of the Dog At Fulham Ioseph Holden Richard Parkes the signes are the Kings Armes and the Nags head At Hammersmith Alice Robinson or Thomas Warner at the white Hart and Thomas Holden at the Goat or Ant●…lop At Chiswick Valentine Smith at the Kings head At Acton Iohn Cooth●…idge and William Aldridg their signes are the Cock and the Bell. At Old Br●…ntford and New B●…entford are these signes the Three Pidgeons the Halfe Moone the Lyon the Goat the George the Swan The Ga●…ter neere Hammersmith in London way towards Brentford At Hownslow Henry Needles and Martha Warwick the signes are the Katherin Wheele and the Georg●… At E●…gworth Henry Haley At Harrow hill Peter Iones At Strangreene Thomas Blithe At Northket Katherin Awceter At Thistleworth Anne Parks At Rayslip Margaret Price At Kenzington Annis Turbervill at the Lyon At Knightsbridge Richard Kellway Elizabeth Sharpe there are three Taverne signes G●…ave Ma●…rice the Swan and the Rose Uxbridge is a faire long Market towne it hath many Innes and foure of them be 〈◊〉 Iohn Raynor Edmund Morrice Sara Hitchcock and Michael Web The signes are the Chequer the George the Crowne and the White horse The Toy Taverne at Hampton-Court needs no signe At Twickenham Anne Palmer At Paddington Walter Whitlock At Kingsland George Willis the signe the King or Princes Armes At Newington Iohn Usher at the Sun At Islington are these signes and Tavernes the Angell the Globe the Lyon the Miter the Nags-head the Swan and the Sarazens head At Kentish Towne the Rose Gregory Machin At Whetstone the Lyon and the Princes Armes Samuell Augier Richard Taylor At White-chappell Habacuck Kirby At South M●…mms Thomas Avis the Bell. At Hillingdon Katherin Taylor At Pinner Margery Bateman At Saint Giles Iohn Prince VVilliam Pearpoynt At Kenton William Bird. At Tottenham Court Iohn Day At Tottenham-highcrosse Mathew Beuning at the Sun At Chiswell street Samuell Taylor At Cow-crosse Robert Iordane At Edmonton Stephen Goodyere At Highgate at the Mermayd Mary Sell. At Budfo●… Thomas Weldish At Hackney William Gore and William Cave the signes are the Mermayd and the Rose At Engfield Elizabeth Kirby and Mary Southwell At Hardington Elizabeth Osbourne At Totnam street Francis K●…y At Hayes Mary Hill At Feltham Robert Butler At Holloway street Ez●…hiel Cates●… the B●…ll At Black-wall Zachary 〈◊〉 ●…igne of the Armes of the East India Company The Crosse at Ratcliffe the Diagon the Kin●…s head the Mermayd the Ship the Queenes head the Lyon the ship at Dickshore and the Hoope and the three Kings In Ratcliffe high-way the Anker the Garter the Rose At Bow the Flower de Lice the George and the Kings head At Mile end the Nags-head At Lime-house Iohn Iennings At Wapping Iames Bull the Bull the Angell the Crosse the Dragon the Gunne the Ship the Popes-head the Rose and the Kings head At Popler the Ship the Lyon The Bull at Stepney and the Bull-head These that follow hereafter named are already in my former booke because they are so neere to the Cities of London and Westminster but because they are in this County of Middlesex I will name them once more Neere the Bowling Alley at Westminster Henrie Normaville 〈◊〉 Galley street Daniel Hitche 〈◊〉 Holborne William Matthewes Thomas Simcots In Saint Iohn street Margery Baines and Mary Motsley In Saint Martins in the fields Richard Ieyner Anne Parks and Gertred Swan In Silver street Iohn Thomas In Tuttle street Ieffrey George In Savoy Parish Robert Amery and Thomas Blunt In the Tower Liberties Thomas Foster Stanes is famous for a Meadow neere it called Rennimead or Running mead where in the twelfe or thirteenth yeare of the raigne of King Iohn the most part of the Lords and great States of England met and oppos'd the King in Warlike

Margaret Hayles William Edwards At 〈◊〉 Anne Garyre At Brading Iohn Iames. So there are nine Taverns in the I le o●… W●…ght This ●…and to the County of Hampshire ●…s 2●… mil●…s in length 12 miles in bredth in the broadest place it is a most plentifull strong defencible Countrey Sea Art Nature made so It is peopled with valiant and warlike inhabitants Henry Bewchamp Earle of Warwick was crowned King of the I le of Wight in the raigne of King Henry the sixt At Forthingoridg one Taverne Richard Boen At Hambledon one Christopher Organ At Bishops Waltham one Iohn Hawksworth At Eastincon one Iane Loving At Botley Dorathy Doncastle Winchester is a very famous and ancient Citty it was the Royall seat of the West Saxon Kings it had 6 houses in it for coining and minting mony in the raigne of King Athelstane and long since that ●…ll the publike Records Evidences of the whole ●…ingdom of England were kept there This Citie hath been twice fired by sudden mis-fortunes and in king Stephens raigne it was sack'd and spoil'd by rude Soldiers that belong'd to the King and Mawd the Empresse factions but after it was much enrich'd by the royall favour of King Edward the 3 who caused a Mart or Staple of Wooll Cloth to be kept there but since as times hath altred this worthy City hath suffred many changes yet still with Fame and Reputation she beares up her head Winchester hath 4 tavernes Ioan Prat Anne Bud Thomas Brexton and Cornelius Brexton At Soake neere Winchester three VVilliam Pope Iohn Noake and VValter Travers At Lippock Robert Palmer At Sutton Sconey Michaell Nicholas At Hartlerow Anthony Maynard or Iohn VVild at the G●…orge Portsmouth so called because it stands at the mouth of the Port or Haven it is a strong towne and fortresse with a Garrison and it thrives better by War than by Peace It hath 4 tavernes Richard Iames Owen Iennings Dorothy Iennings and VVilliam Haberley Portsmouth Liberties one Anthony Haberly hath or may keepe two tavernes At Gosport neere Portsmouth two Anne Clarke and VVilliam Towerson At Hartford bridge Thomas Bickton or VVilliam VVild at the Swan At Milbrooke Margery Strood Odiam is a pretty Market towne where sometimes David King of the Scots was kept prisoner in King Eward the third's raigne since when the Kings of England have and do now then lodge there in a royall Mansion of their owne there was a fortresse there in the raigne of King Iohn of such strength that thirteene Englishmen did hold it fifteen dayes against Lewis the Daulphin of France who assaulted it with a mighty armie yet could not win it from the said thirteen men Odiam hath one taverne kept by Bridget Dickenson or one Mistrisse Keyes at the George Hampshire had at the suppression of Popery of Abbies Nunneries Priories Fricries Colleges Hospitals 30. This Shire hath 18 Market townes Parishes 253. It is divided into 40 hundreds or divisions as Crundon Acton Selburne Odiam Eastmean Sutton Bartenstacy Finchdeane Portsdown Tichfield Mansbridge Meanstock Fawley Hambledon Budlegate Redbridge Kings Sombourne Andover within Andover without Hornwell Bosmere Fareham Averstock and Gosport Waltham Eringer 〈◊〉 Kings Cleare Thoragate Overton Basingstoake extra Holdshot Christ-church Newforre●… Ringwood Barmanspi●… Forthingbridge Buntsborough Mainsborough Chutefey and Michell ●…ever Number of Tavernes in this County seventy three Barkshire BArkeshire is a rich and plentifull County and a great helpe to her neighbour Provinces for Wood and Corne which necessary commodities are the cause that no other thing fitting for mans use is wanting in this Countie Windsor is a daintie faire and spacious towne with a royall Castle of such mag●…cent structure and so scited and seated that for prospect it is unparalleld deserves respect transcendent beyond all the princely fabricks in Great Brittain That victorious Mars of men King Edw. 3. was borne in Winsor he founded the said Castle He held prisoners King Iohn of France and David K. o●… Scots since which time the Castle was made more stately and conspicuous by King Edw. 4. and a Noble Knight Sir Reignold Bray was at great charge in the augmenting of it since when the famous and worthy memorable Queene Elizabeth beautified it with the stone Gallery or Walke towards the Thames The Right honourable Order of the Garter was first instituted by K. Edw 3. at Burdeaux in France but since that time it hath bin continued at Winsor for that noble installation and in the beautifull Chappell there are all the Armes and Hatchments of that noble Fellowship placed in their degrees Also in this famous Castle was borne that good and pious King Henry the 6 who founded Aeton Colledge and the worthy structure of Kings Colledge in Cambridge Winsor hath these Tavernes the Crosskeyes the George the Garter and the White Hart. Wantage is a place of great antiquity long before the Norman Conquest there was a house for the king for Aelfred the 23 king of the West Saxons was borne there who raigned Anno 872 there is or may be two Tavernes kept by Edward Gallant at the signe of the Elephant At Buscot one Adam Kirby At Twyford one Henry Millward At Enborne one Anne Plantin At Wareseile one Thomas Garson Abendun Abbington or Abinton the name was first derived from a famous Abby built there by Cissa one of the Saxon Kings which Abby was throwne downe by the Danes and after raised againe by king Edgar Anno 995. since which time it grew to that state and greatnesse that scarse any Monastry in England could top it either for wealth or pomp but there remaines little or nothing of it now but Ruines and Rubbish as Reliques of the greatnesse which once it had from it the Towne was called Abby-town now changed into the name Abington it is a faire and sweet scituation famous for a rare Crosse in the Market place and for plenty of Mault made and sold there It hath but one Taverne kept by one Iohn Prince who at his pleasure may keepe three Tavernes there if he will At Theale one Iohn Bowyer At Winfield one Iohn Hawkins At Binfield Richard Williams At Thackham Robert Humphrey At Farington two Simon Turner and Margaret Handy At Okingham two Will Hunt and Rich Thorp At Lamburne one kept by one Daintree at the two neck'd Swan At Hungerford one Thomas Smith Wallingford was a good towne in the raigne of K. Edward the Confessor An. 1042. It hath been a walled towne as appeares by the ruines of it with a strong Castle neere the river of Thames which is now almost defac'd into fragments King Stephen with all his force could not win it from the besieged Empresse Mawd In the raigne of K. Edw. 3. An 1334 this town was of such greatnesse that it had 12 Churches which now are demolished and diminished to 1 or scarce two such are the changes of transitory things it is a good Market town and stands commodiously having two Tavernes

reason o●… the deepenesse of the Fourd or River there where Ships of great Burthen may safely Ride at Ankor there is a faire and usefull Do●…ke for the building or mending of the Kings Ships it hath also a goodly storehouse for provision for the said ships Deptford is sometimes called East-Greenewich This Towne hath these Taverne Licences or Inhabiters The Kings Head The Mermayd The Sunne and the Ship the parties that keepe or maintaine them are William Tyle Richard Aileworth Ieffrey Nixon William Dring Eltham where the King hath a faire Sommer House at the first it was founded by Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham who gave it to Elinor wife to king Edward the first but since often Re-edified by succeeding Princes It hath a Taverne under the name of one Nathanael Mercer Greenewich for scituation and prospect a Paradice of pleasure the Pallace there was first built by Humphrey Duke of Glocester in the Reigne of King Henry the 6. Since when it hath beene Re-edified and made more large and sumptuous by King Henry the 7. Which Pallace also was begun be enlarged by the late vertuous Queene Anne ●…t now finished by our gracious Queene Mary his Towne is most famous for the Birth of that ●…dmired Wonder of her Sexe Queene Elizabeth ●…ho was borne there in the yeare of Grace 1533. ●…ptember the 7. Greenewich hath these Wine Tavernes ●…he Beare The Crowne The Kings Armes The ●…rinces Armes The Rose And which I should ●…ave named first the Ship kept by Henry Noris Also there is a Taverne with a Bush onely kept ●…y Gregory Martin and the Kings Armes at Dept●…ord bridge in Greenewich Parish Darentfourd so called because it is scituate on the River Darent it is vulgarly named Dartfourd there was once a Nunnery built by King Edward the third which after was made a House for King Henry the 8. Where he did sometimes keepe his Court Dartford hath these Tavernes At the Bull George Hanger At the Cocke William Somers At the White Hart Elizabeth Glover Gravesend as the Learned Antiquary Master Camden writes is so called because it is the end of the Greve Reeve or Port Greves government or bounds It is a Towne famous for receipt of ●…ll Nations having at any time more faire Lodgings and provision for Entertainment then many Townes hath that are thrice as great It ha●… oftentimes lodged Kings Princes and Forreig●… Ambassadors it is divided into two Parishe●… namely Gravesend and Milton It hath the Wine Tavernes William Vernon at the Ange●… Richard Tucker at the Ship Thomas Toung at t●… Anker William Diston at the Bull. The Christ●…pher Thomas Skilhorne at the Horne Seavenoake so called because seven great Oake●… growing there abouts it is a good Market Towne and a great thorow-fare and hath these Tavernes The Crowne the Cat and the Bull they are Tavernes in the tuition or by the Licenses of Margery Pocock Debora Pocock and William Petley Tunbridge or the Towne of Bridges so called by reason it hath five stone Bridges for passage over the River which River is devided there into so many severall Branches it is lately famous for a healthfull approved sweet medicinable water that cures or eases many diseases The Tavernes there are at the dispose of two women namely Martha Bartlet and Elizabeth Frye Maydstone a faire spacious sweet pleasant rich and populous Market Towne hath these Taverns or Taverne keepers Iohn Taylor Thomas Davis and Agnes Shorey Rochester is a fine N●…ate Citie long sinc●… founded by a Bishop named Hamo it was destroyed by Atheldred King of the Mercians Anno 676. it hath been oftentimes spoyled by th●… Danes the Castle there hath been a strong piec●… of defence it was built by a Bishop named Gun●…dulph it was raced and spoyl'd in the Baron wars in King Henry the third's Raigne Th●… Cathedrall Church there was built by Aeth●…lber King of Kent The goodly s●…one Bridge ther●… was built by Sir Robert Knowles Knight with s●…ch Spoyles as hee had valliantly gotten from th●… French in the Raigne of King Richard the second Rochester hath these Tavernes Thomas Lovell a●… the Kings head Dorothy Allen or Thomas Mot a●… the Bull Iohn Stone or Ambrose Groome at th●… White-hart and Iohn Dom●…w or Iohn Philpot a●… the Crowne Queenburrough was built by King Edward th●… third in the honour of Queene Phillip his Wife there is a Tavern which serves for Minster as wel●… as for Queenburrough it is a●… the dispose or keeping of Iames Iacob This Towne is famous for my Arrivall there from London thither with a Boa●… o●… Browne Paper Anno 1619. Feversham a good Towne it was sometimes the residence of Athelstane King of Kent where hee enacted Lawes it is also famous for a sump●…uous Aboey ●…uilt there by King Stephen and there 〈◊〉 Queene Mawd his wife and his Sonne ●…ince Eustace were s●…pulchred It hath three Ta●…ernes at the Ship Walter Moyses the other two ●…elongs to S●…muell Thurstone and Iames Hudson At the Towne of Ashfourd there may be three ●…avernes for Thomas Mascall may or doth keepe ●…wo the other doth belong to Peter Colebrand At Chepsted one Anthony Fuller At Lenham one Robert Tray. At Egerton one Elizabeth Faireway At Erith one Giles Sidgwick At Kenthatch one Edmund Plomley At Gowthurst one Thomas Cowchman At Ashe one Iohn Tompson At Br●…mley two Toby Priest Iohn Halfepenny ●…he Bell the Hart. At Chattham Francis Giles At Folkstone one Elizabeth March At Ferningham one Iohn Rad●…liffe At El●…m two Iane Cuntrey Robert Fox At Crayford one Ralph Meykins at the Angell At Lamberhurst Mary Astone At Greenehive one Miles Croxton the signe Callice Sands At Leed●…s one Edward Lloyde Canterbury or the Kentish Burough or Citi●… is ancient and renowned it hath Metropolitan dignitie chiefe over England Augustine the Monke●… about the 67 yeare of Christ came into Britaine●… and at Canterbury kept his residence where by hi●… Doct●…ine and good example of life hee confirmed and established many in the Christian Fait●… causing it to spread and flou●…ish by his paineful Ministery so that after a holy and lawdable lif●… ended hee dyed and was buried in that Honorabl●… City It hath these Tavernes Elizabeth Lockley or William Terry at the Rose Edward Den at th●… White-hart Iames Penn or George B. at the Red. Lyon Elizabeth Bridg at the Sarazers head Miles Bull or Warham Iemut at the B●…ll William Mann Esquire hath also a Taverne License Robert or Susan Turner Alias Baker at the Ch●…quer Peter Winn or Christopher Baldwin at the Sun 8. At Milton and Newington one William Dickins At Staplehurst one VVilliam Poynet At Wye one Simon Allen. At Strowd one Edward Monox At Lewsham one Elizabeth Tarpley At Sandway one Iohn White At Mard●…n one Anthony Young At Yalding one Richard Pix At Offham one Thomas Tresse At New Romney three Susan Wood Sara Wood Smith Tookey At Hawkhurst one Agnes Viney At Bersted one Thomas Holford Deale where stands a strong

manner the Lords rebelliously to compell the King and the King to defend his person and Royall Prerogative and at last after much councell and debating they forc'd the King to yield to such conditions as were never observ'd Stanes is a good through fare and hath these ●…avernes Thomas Wilkins Iohn Shorter and Margaret Venman the signes are the Bush the Bell and the Lyon This County had of Religious houses a ●…es Nunneries Priories Frieries Colleges and Hospitalls nine London within and without the Walles and Liberties thirty one It hath these hundreds or divisions Edmonton Gore Finsbury and Wenulocks Barne Osulston Elthorne Istleworth Spelthorne It hath seventy three Parishes three Market Townes and a hundred and one Wine savernes Essex ESsex or East Saxony is a good a great and a rich County stored plentifully with Wood Fish Flesh Butter Cheese Saffron and as good Calves as any other County or Countrey whatsoever in a word it is stored with any thing or all things needfull Colchester stands neere the River Colne it is 〈◊〉 wasled Towne with fifteene Churches and one other a most stately building now ruined with an old Castle which Time hath brought into a Consumption This Towne is famous for Adtiquity it was built by Coylus a good King of Britaine it is said that this Coylus was father to Queen Hellen who was borne or brought up in this Towne she was the mother of Constantine the great Emperor who ●…lt Constantinople Colchester hath these seven ●…e Tavernes Francis Kitteridg Iohn Portkell Lawrence Browne Mary Spilesby Mary Bloomfield Elizabeth Wyles Elizabeth Wade At Barking Ioan Gowen or George Lilly at the Bull. At Braintree two Iohn Sparhawke and Ralph Burton At M●…nningtree George Springet and Robert Heywood At Abridge Samuell Newbold At So●…field Anne Dae At Epping Iohn and Mary Archer at the Cock. At Grayes Thomas Farnell Edward Knightly At Danbury William Dickins At Harlow Iohn Iosceline At Rochfourd Iudith Rix. At Orsed neere Graies Anthony Web. At Raynam Iohn Slany At Wethersfield Iohn Aldridge At Sampford Magna Ireffrey Baker At Pritle well Thomas Wait. At Thacksted Edward Constable At Stork Charles Newman At Woodham-series Oliver Higham At Springfield Richard Smith At Thorpe Iohn Beriffe At Wivenhoe Iohn Parker At 〈◊〉 Dame Martha Harris B●…entwood or Burntwood is an ancient Towne and had a Market and a Faire allowed by King Stephen and continued ever since It hath these Tavernes the Crowne the Angell but there are three in all kept or allowed by Richard Smith Iane Taylor and Iohn Camper the Angell At high ●…asterne Robert Plat. At Dagnam Ioan Bird. At Lexden Iohn Pottler At Leigh Iames Hare At Southweald Edward Woodford At Aveley Lucy Ringsoll At Saint Ozith Thomas Rand. At Bardfield Iohn Rudland At South Ockenden Elizabeth Wortley At Dedham Iohn Wills At Horndon Nicholas Richold At Upminster Elizabeth Saward At Tarling Dina Has●…er At Blackmore Iohn P●…chy At Little Waltham Abel White At Eastcolne Samuell Burton Ingarstone a good Towne for Market and excellent neate entertainment for Travellers it hath these Tavernes Agnis White Iohn Bond. At Bocking Ioan Kent Francis Fit●…h At Chippingange●… Will. Stane Katherin Stane At Waltham Abby Tho More Mary Waterer At Walthamstow Ralph Baker Thomas Shaw Rumford is a sweet savery cleane and gainfull Market for Hoggs and all other sorts of swine and of what else is needfull for mans life It hath these Tavernes the Angell the Bell the White Hart and the Cocke At Rawleigh Rob. Luckin Tho Parker At Dunmow George Deane and Agnes Gynn At East Tiburly Iohn French At Boreham Iohn Lane At Halstead 3. William Thurstone Iohn Coe Thomas Harvie At Hithe neere Colchester Edward Legg Francis Allen. At Ilford Francis Blanchard the signe of the blew Boate. Wittam or Whittam is an ancient very faire through-faire It was built by King Edward the Elder in the yeare 914 which was 154 yeares before the Norman Conquest 722 yeares since It hath two Tavernes William Nevell alias Smith and Iohn Alexander At Stratford Langthon two Ralfe Keeling and William Lovell At Low Laighton or Laighton stone Roger Falkstone the signe of the Huntsman At Burnham Robert Rowdon At Hatfield Peverell Abigail Lane Hatfield Broadoake so called because a broad Oake being a goodly faire tree grew there that spread a great compasse It hath one Taverne kept by or for one Iohn Earle Chelmsford a faire goodly Market-towne hath these 4 Taverns Simon Wilmot George Solme Nicholas Sutton and Tho. Freeman the signes are the three Tunnes the Cock the Black boy and the Lyon At Bricksley Roger Greene. At Kelvadon Iohn Theedham Harwich hath an excellent good Road for shipping It is a good strong Towne well strengthened by Naturall scituation and Artificiall Fortresses it is not only full of people but honestly peopled for the most part of them The River Stoure there divideth Essex from Suffolke Harwich hath three Tavernes kept or allowed by Alice Farley Will. Hart and Margaret Moore At Brookstreet at the Bull Agmondesham Pickayes At Chigwell one allowed by Tho Pennington At Plashie and St. Annes Will. Chandler At Much Parindon Roger Worthington VValden or Saffron-walden so called for the great quantitie of Saffron that growes thereabouts It hath had a faire Castle which is now Ruinated It is a very good Market towne and it hath a Corporation with large Priviledges It hath three Tavernes allowed o●… inhabited by Simon VVillmott Katherine Bates and Thomas VVatton At Much Wakering Mawd Goldingham At newport Iohn Sell. At Little-baddo Abigail Lane At Much Waltham Abell VVhite Maldon was a Citie in the time of Calligula the Emperour above fourty yeares after Christ It was then called Camallodunum It hath beene spoyled by the Danes and since repayred by the Normans but by the industry of the people there it hath beene and is still a towne of great worth and reputation it hath a good Haven and a Taverne for a safe harbour kept or allowed by Ursula Edwards This Countie of Essex in the Reigne of King Henry 8. had at the suppression of Monasteries Abbies Nunneries Priories Frieries Colledges and Hospitals 35. Essex is divided into 20 severall Hundreds namely Vltford Hinckford Rorchford Chelmesford Chaford Winstree Lexden Dengie Ougar Tendring Thurstable Barstable Dunmow Waltham Freshwell Harlow Havering Clavering Becontree Wittham Essex hath one and twenty Market townes foure hundred and fifteene Parishes and one hundred and seven Tavernes Hartfordshire HArtfordshire is a County that surpasseth all Countries and Counties for making the best Malt and for good cleane High-waies conscionable short Miles meat drink lodging for travellers kind men women faire and honest and with any thing that is necessary this County is plentifully stored withall Barkhamstead is a good Market Towne and it had once a Castle there of strength the Ruines of it are there yet to be seene it hath been the habitation for Kings and Princes for the most noble Prince Richard Brother to the King of England dyed there