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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

Iohn Taylors last Voyage AND ADVENTVRE 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 Brownists Anabaptists Famalies Humorists and foolists which the Authour found in many places of his Voyage and Iourney By Iohn Taylor Printed at London by F. L. for Iohn Taylor and may be had at the shoppe of Thomas Bates in the Old Baily 1641. To his Friend Mr. John Tayler on his voyage and Iourney IF true affection doth your muse inspire To 'th honor'd welfare of your native place Then set your hand to now I you desire The time is now when you may do us grace This Subiect sure is large if you thinke of it You are not bounded but you may at ease Survey collect the good the honour profit Of trade of Citie Countrey Rivers Seaes It may provoke some yet not thought upon To raise the ruines of this decayed place To procecute this hopefull worke begun And leave some honour to our after Race From ancient Monmouth Geffery tooke his name So Henry did from Huntington likewise Why may not Gloucester ad to Taylors fame Since that from thence his birth and name did rise Gloucester this 3 of August 1641. Yours to command HENRY ELLIS Iohn Taylor Water-Poet ANAGRAMME Loapety-Troian roweth STrange Newes There is arrived at our Key A wandring Poet alwaies in his way Whose wilfull Errors makes him thus to vaunt Aeneas-like I came from Troyonvant I rowed in Rivers sometimes checkt by Milles Steer'd under Bridges and came over Hilles The Oares of pleasure and of profit brought This Water-Poet hither in his boat And hence he must but yet he will I trow To the Brittaines rather then the Latines row English will serve him rightly to rehearse His crooked travells in good prose or verse When as the winds of fancy cease to blow him If he have watermen to row or tow him Expect Relations I beleeve in fyne The Poets waterworkes will goe in wine And all his dry-land passages appeare With casuall events both here and there Now I doe wish he may accomplsh it Without expence of any thing but wit Gloucester 3. August 1641. Yours IO. DORNEY IOHN TAYLORS LAST VOYAGE AND ADVENTVRE performed from the twentieth of Iuly last 1641. to the tenth of September following OF famous Rivers Brooks Bournes Rills Springs Of Deepes and Shallowes my invention Sings Of Rocks Impenetrable fourds and Mills Of Stopps and Weares Shelves Sands and mighty Hills Of Navigable passages Neglected Of Rivers Spoyl'd men begger'd and deiected Of Tame of Isis Seaverne Wye and Teme Lugg ' Loden Doyre and Monnoes Pearly Streame Of these of more then these and of their Vses And of their miserable strange Abuses I truely treate that men may note and see What blessings Navigable Rivers bee And how that thousands are debar'd those blessings By few mens Avaritious hard oppressings I also shew how those faults may be mended And no man have iust cause to be offended And with a paire of Oares for that intent I once from London unto Lincolne went Whereas a passage seven miles was cut thorowe From Lincolne into Trent and to Gainsborowe That way I past and into Humber past To Hull from thence to Owse and Yorke at last Another Voyage to the West againe I with a Wherry past the raging maine From London to the Isle of Wight and thence To Salisbury with Time and Coynes expence Since when our gratious soveraigne did ordaine The Uiscount Dorchester to take the paine To view what wrongs the River Thames did beare I served then and every Stoppe and Weare And all impediments I found I writ And hoping for amendment printed it For care was taken and true industrie That from faire Oxfords Vniversity To London I Annottomiz'd the flood And shew'd it's qualities both bad and good Promise was made Thames wrongs should bee reform'd And some small helps were speedily perform'd But yet not halfe is done that then was spoken All promises are either kept or broken For as a monument of our disgraces The Rivers too too fowle in many places I have describ'd heere many an injury In three great Rivers Severne Thames and Wye Besides two Rivers Avon one makes speede To Bristol and doth make it rich indeede And would Bathe cure that Rivers great amisse That City would be richer then it is But each man to himselfe beares private love And no man will the generall griefe remove The other Avon Ruines past Gloster West From Bristols Avon fifty miles at least It glides to Stretford Towne from Coventry And into Severne falls at Tewxbury Of Rivers many writers well have done Grave Camden Draytons Polyolbyon And painefull Speede doth in his Mappes declare Where all these Brookes and waters were and are But yet not any one have sought but I To finde their wrongs and shew some remedy I shew the meane neglect of Navigation For few mens profit publique lamentation T'e encrease some five or sixe mens Treasury Whiles twenty thousand lives in misery From shore to shore brave Rivers are dam'd so That not a woodden dish hath roome to go no not a hand breadth but that all is stop'd And from the poore man all reliefe is stop'd It is the goodnesse of our God to give To us foure Elements whereby we live Those Elements Fire Water Ayre are nam'd And Earth of which althings are made and fram'd And all those blessings the great God of Heaven Some more some lesse to every man hath given By ayre and breath and breath no man buy Ayre serves all creatures in community And though earth yeeld materialls for the fire Which many a sonne by right holds from his sire Yet sure me thinkes the water should be free For passage for all men of each degree And though the Rivers in proportions are Shar'd thine or mine or this or that mans share Yet sure where God gives water boates to beare It should not be stop'd up with Mill or Weare And now my meaning plainer to disclose A little while I 'le turne my Verse to Prose AS Raine from the Firmament is drawne from the Sea and other waters and vapours of the Earth and Ayre by the vigour of the Sunne whereby Rivers spring and overflow Grasse Groves Fruits encrease fishes multiplie beasts and cattell breede and waxe fat Corne plentifulls Butter and Cheese in abundance and all other blessings for the life of man or beast is nourished with milke of Heaven as raine may justly be called So Navigable Rivers are the Cherishing veines of the body of every Countrey Kingdome and Nation And as the veines of man doth distill supporting sustinence to every part and member of his