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A29627	An historical account of Mr. Rogers's three years travels over England and Wales giving a true and exact description of all the chiefest cities, towns and corporations in England, Dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Twede : together with the antiquities, and places of admiration, cathedrals, churches of note in any city, town or place in each county, the gentleman above-mentioned having made it his whole business (during the aforesaid time) to compleat the same in his travelling, : to which is annexed a new map of England and Wales, with the adjacent parts, containing all the cities and market towns bound in just before the title.	Brome, James, d. 1719.; D. J.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4857; ESTC R39940	65,229	160

as if he were then very hot upon the Chase and next to him Acteon transformed into a Stag with his Pack of Hounds worrying and devouring him the next is Diana with an Half-Moon upon her head and the Planets under her feet her Quiver in her hand and her Horn by her side and before her is a Greyhound as it were in a close pursuit after the Hare next to this stands old Time with an Hour-glass on his head a Sythe in his left hand and a prodigal Youth in his right and Death under his Feet with this Inscription Tempus edax rerum in the middle hangs the sign of the White Heart ingeniously contrived into an Oval figure with two Angels and two Lions on each corner under one of which are placed four naked Boys treading of Grapes and under the other a Mountebank shewing of Feats of Activity on both sides are the Arms of the chief Families both in Suffolk and Norfolk and also a Shepherd playing merrily upon his Pipes and last of all on each side of the Post which supports the whole Fabrick stands three-headed Cerberus the Great of the Infernal Court and old grisle-bearded Charon with his Boat and Oars wafling a Wench over the Stigion Lake the splendedness of this curious and costly piece of Workmanship is worthy of any Traveller's observation The next Town of Note we came to in this County was YARMOUTH which entertained us with a pleasant Prospect the Haven being as commodious as the Town is beautiful and is fortified both by Art and Nature for although it be environed almost round with Water on the West side by the River Yare from whence it borrows its Name which hath a Drawbridge over it and from other parts with the Ocean unless it be Northward where there is firm Land yet it is likewise enclosed with a very strong Wall upon which besides Towers is cast up a Mount towards the East and there are likewise planted several pieces of Ordnance to defend the Town and command the Seas there is but one Church but that is fair and lofty adorned with a high Spire-steeple built at first by Herbert Bishop of Norwich there are also divers clean and spacious Streets on each side of which are several Rows of very uniform Buildings inhabited by wealthy and gentle Persons This Town is of no long date or standing as appears by Antiquaries for it received its beginning from the Ruins of old Garianum which was near this place after which in a short time as we were informed built this new Town which grew potent and populous and they strengthened it with a Wall and grew very numerous in Inhabitants and there happened a fearful and sudden Pestilence which in the space of a Year brought above seven Thousand Men and Women to their Graves all which was faithfully recorded in an ancient Table which formerly used to hang up in their Church but since restored to its primitive Lustre and their Wealth hath increased and 't is now a place of great Merchandize and Traffick but especially renowned for its Fishery of Herrings of which at the Season here is very great plenty and by their care and industry are salted and dried in particular Houses designed and appointed for that very purpose and do supply our own and foreign Nations too The next place of Note we went to was NORWICH is one of the most renowned Cities in our Brittish Island for whether we consider the Wealth of the Citizens the Number of Inhabitants the great Conference of Foreigners the stately Structures and beautiful Churches the obliging Carriage of the Gentry and the Industry of the Commons do all concur to illustrate and dignifie it 'T is situated on the brow of a Hill and environed with a Wall in which are placed divers Turrets and twelve Gates to give entrance into the City unless it be on the East side where the River Yare after it hath with many windings watered the most part of the City having four Draw-bridges for People to pass over and is a farther defence by reason of its deep Channel and high Banks 't is reported to be a Mile and a half in length and half as much in breadth It hath had great Misfortunes and suffered very much by the Danes when they took their range in these parts and after William the Conqueror had settled the Brittish Crown upon his head it suffered much more which is too tedious to relate but in succeeding Ages it began to recruit its Strength and hath flourished exceedingly King Henry the First permitted the Citizens to Wall their City and King Richard the Second gave them a Grant for the Transportation of Worsted and to advance their Trade which was extreamly eclipsed King Henry the Fourth renewed their Charter and conferred on them the Honour to chuse every Year a Mayor for their Magistrate whereas by a former Order from King Stephen they were only governed by Coroners and Baliffs It containeth thirty two Parishes forty two Chappels and Churches of which the Cathedral is the fairest and chiefest the first Stone of which was laid by Bishop Herbert in the Reign of King William Rufus who Translated the Episcopal See from Thetford to this place and procured a Grant to have it confirmed the Mother-Church of Norfolk and Suffolk endowing it with great Revenues and it is a very stately and magnificent Structure but most famous for its Roof which runs aloft over the very body of it on which is drawn to the life the whole History of the Bible in divers little Images curiously carved and adorned from the Creation of the World to the Ascention of our blessed Saviour or the Descent of the Holy Ghost with the perfect resemblance of our Lord's Crucifiction and Resurrection and divers other things The Market Cross and Cloister of the Cathedral are the fairest in England There is a great House that was the Duke of Norfolk's now the Earl of Arundel's where there are very fine Granaries and the best Bowling-Alley in the Kingdom There is also an Hospital where an hundred Men and Women are maintained The Arms of the City are the Castle and Lion After some time of abode in this City we Travelled to a little Village called TETTLESHALL in the Parish-Church whereof is erected a stately Monument of Marble in honour to Sir Edward Cooke that most famous Lawyer of his time on the top are placed his Coat of Arms with the four Cardinal Vertues to support them at each corner his Effigies is of Marble laid out at full length above which this Motto is engraven'd Prudens qui Patiens and underneath in golden Characters this following Inscription The Monument of Sir Edward Cooke Knight born at Mileham in Norfolk Recorder of Norwich and London Solliciter to Queen Elizabeth and Speaker to the Parliament afterwards Attorney General to her and King James Chief Justice of both Benches a Privy Councillor as also of Council to Queen Anne and Chief Justice in

it were on the side of a little Hill with a small ascent towards the Market-place It is very well watered by a good River which runs along the one side of it and hath the Noble River of Thames which comes within a little distance on the other side It hath a Mayor for its chief Magistrate and it is famous for a very great Market once a Week for all Sorts of Grain We stayed here but one Night having a design to take a farther view of this County by Wallingford and so to ABBINGTON This is a fair Town in this County the River Isis after it hath winded it self a long way about in a crooked Channel makes its approach to this Town It is a large and populous Place and receives its Denomination from a famous Abby which was here erected although this Monastery did for some Years flourish exceedingly yet it was afterwards Subverted by the fury of the Danes but through the Bounties and Munificence of King Edgar was restored again to its Primitive Splendor and Greatness and by the Industry and Care of the Norman Abbots it grew to that pitch of Grandeur and so exceeding Rich and Wealthy that it began to have an Esteem of it self beyond all Comparison and indeed the Ruins too be-speak it to have been a very glorious Structure As for the Town though it had its chief Dependance from this Abby yet from the Year 1430 that one John Surnamed St. Helena built a strong Bridge of Stone over its River and so made a Through-fair and High Road through the Town it began to be populous and much frequented and ever since hath been most deservedly reputed the eminent principle Town in this County The Inhabitants are great Maulsters and Barly is the great Commodity of the Market The Magistrates by their Vigilancy and Care do keep up this Corporation in great Honour and Request and the Mayor and Aldermen are very Circumspect in the discharge of their Offices and for the more great and weighty Matters which are above their Sphere the Judges when they come their Circuit and keep the Assizes here for the County do ease them of that trouble by giving a final Determination of all FARRINGDON was the next Town of Note we went to in this County which though it be situated upon a stony Soil yet 't is now as famous for its great Market as it was once Renowned for its Impregnable Fortress which Robert Earl of Gloucester built here against King Stephen which the King though with the loss of a great number of Soldiers at last by his continual Assaults and Batteries took and utterly demolished But one thing is to be observed in this County That it is very pleasant and fertile watered with the River Isis adorned with woody Hills and thick Groves and in its Eastern parts thereof with fertile Valleys and in the Western part being called The Vale of White Horse is extreamly delightful and Nature compensates the Barrenness of the Soil in one place by her manifold Gifts she bestows upon it in another NEWBURY was the next place we went to 'T is a Town of very good Note and of a considerable largeness governed by a Mayor and Aldermen and hath a very commodious Market-house which is not much inferior to any in the County The Town is situated in a pleasant Valley and watered by a very good River called Newbury River which runs through one part of the Town near the Market-house and in the other part of it is a very find Rivelet which runs from one end of the Town to the other and is mighty necessary for all the Inhabitants We made no long stay here but went to Marlborough in Wiltshire of which hereafter Wiltshire MARLBOROUGH is a Town of an indifferent largeness and is Ruled by a Mayor and Aldermen The Buildings of this Town and the Market-place are not much inferior to any Town in England but that which is most remarkable and to be admired at is a Mount belonging to the Duke of Summerset the like is not in England The Mount it self is made round with a Quick-set Hedge which is all entire and goes several times round about the Mount rising with a very small Ascent till it comes up to the top within this Hedge is a very plain Path or Walk and the ground seems to be so even that you cannot well perceive the rise of it till you are at the top which is of a very great height and of a large circumference but yet as you go down you may easily perceive the ground fall much The Gardner there told us That it is a Mile from the bottom up to the top and go the Path-way which leads up to it On the top of the Mount is a very fine level piece of Ground planted with several sorts of Fruit-Trees there stands likewise on the top a very large leaden Cestern of about 12 foot square and 4 foot deep and is replenished with Water by a leaden Pipe which comes from a Spring along the Path that leads up to the top On the one side of this Mount is a very commodious Wilderness and on the other a fine Garden in a word this Mount is the most to be admired and must have the Respect of all Travellers to be the greatest piece of Artificial Workmanship in our own Nation We stayed here but one Night and went to take a farther View of this County in which there are many things very observable About two Miles out of this Town is a great Down called Marlborough Downs where there is an exceeding Curiosity of Nature's workmanship it is a huge number of Massy Stones they are called by the Name of The Grey Wethers and shew to your sight at a distance like a great number of Sheep and some of them higher but for the great number of them and containing such a vast distance of Land to be all in one and the like posture It is a large Plain or Valley between two Hills where they stand and is in breadth almost a Mile and about six Miles in length as we were informed undoubtedly it hath as much need to be mentioned as any thing in the Kingdom Having made some Observations here we went to take some account of Stonehenge in this County of which I shall give you a short Relation STONEHENGE This place contains in it within the circumference of three Hundred foot a rude and indigested Mass of vast large Stones rough and of a grey colour 25 Foot in length 10 in breadth and 8 in thickness they look as if they were hewen square and are joined two and two together and every couple hath a third Stone lying a-cross which is fastened by Tennants that enter into Mortesses not closed with any Morter It appears as if they had been set in three Ranks going round as Circles one within another whereof the uttermost and largest is in compass about 300 Foot but the other Ranks are decayed and