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A13484 Part of this summers travels, or News from hell, Hull, and Hallifax, from York, Linne, Leicester, Chester, Coventry, Lichfield, Nottingham, and the Divells Ars a peake With many pleasant passages, worthy your observation and reading. By Iohn Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1639 (1639) STC 23783; ESTC S111384 21,041 54

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Castle where I lodg'd the 28 of August But I crave pardon of the Reader for I had almost forgotten a merry passage or two which hapned in Norfolke not farre from Linne and thus it was At a place called Priors Thorns neere to two Towns namely Northbery and Sapham there dwelt a man named Frier who was rich in substance but very poore and miserable in his conditions belike hee had read or heard of a Play that was written 40 years since by Master Benjamin Iohnson the Play is extant and is called Every Man out of his Humour in which Play was acted and personated a mizerly Farmer that had much corne in his Barnes and did expect a scant or barren Harvest that through want and scarcity hee might sell his corne at what deare rates hee pleased but contrary to his wicked hopes the Harvest proved abundantly plentifull wherefore hee being in an extraordinary merry or mad veine put himselfe to the charge of the buying of a two penny halter and went into his Barn as secretly as he could and putting the halter about his neck with a riding knot he fastned the other end to a beam and most neatly hang'd himself But as ill luck would have it his man presently came into the Barne and espyde his Master so bravely mounted the unlucky Knave drew his Knife and cut the halter crying out for help as lowde as he could rubbing and chafing his Master with all care and diligence to recover him to life again at the last he awak'd out of his traunce and fetch'd a deep groan began to stare and look about him and taking the end of the cut halter in his hand his first words to his man was Sirrah who did cut this O Master said the fellow it was I that did it and I thank God that I came in good time to doe it and I pray you to take God in your minde and never more to hazard your soule and body in such a wicked manner to which good counsell of the poor fellow the Caitiffe replyde Sirrah If you would be medling like a sawey busie Rogue you might have untyde it that it might have serv'd another time such an unthristy Rascall as thou will never be worth such a halter it cost me two pence and I will abate the price of it in thy quarters wages And when the quarter day came hee did abate the said two pence for the which the fellow would dwell no longer with him but went and got him another service This was acted really and lately at the place aforesaid in imitation of that part in the Play of Every Man out of his Humour After the said Frier had some Hogs which were like to die with the Murrain which Hogs he killed and powdred and his wife children and Family as many as did eat of the Porke fell sick and dyed all for the which the slave deserv'd a hanging and a Hangman but hee yet lives for some worse purpose Concerning a paire of Brewers and a piece of justice Another short Norfolk Tale is not impertinent There was one Master Fen a Brewer at Fensham and one Master Francis Dix a Brewer at Sapkam this Dix was riding in the Countrey amongst his Customers the Inkeepers and Victuallers and he call'd for a pot of Ale or Beere as heroad by now that Ale-house was a Customer to Fen as soon as Dix had drank hee asked who brewed that drink to whom the Hoastesse sayd that Master Fen of Fensham brewed it well said Dix I dare lay a wager that I will give my Marc but a peck of Mault and she shall pisse better drink than this at the last these words came to Fens hearing for the which disparagement he sued Dix and recovered from him twenty pound damage besides costs at the Assizes last at Norwich 1639. And now to returne to the narration of my Travels from whence I have digrest since I lodg'd at Horne Castle in Lincolneshire From thence on the 18 of August I road 30 miles to Barton upon Humber and the next day being Friday I tooke a Boat for my selfe my Squire and my two Palfreyes down to Hull or Kingstone upon Hull the strength and scituation of which Towne I have formerly written of and I had no new thing there whereof to make any new Relation let it suffice that it is absolutely accounted the strongest and most defensible Town in the Kingdome of England and for good goverment inferiour to none I might speak somewhat of their good fellowship but my Book would swell big with it therefore I will pay them with thinking and thanking of them both my old friends and new acquaintance all in generall The 31 of August I left Hull and road to Holden 16 miles and on the morrow I road to Cowood Castle to see the most Reverend Doctor Neale the Lord Archbishop of Yorke his Grace whom in all humility I do acknowledge my self much bound in duty daily to pray for and remember him with unfained reverend thankfulnesse not only for the undeserved favours and bounty which his Grace extended towards mee now but for many other former approvements of his Graces love and liberality when his Grace liv'd neere mee at Winchester House At Dinner with his Grace I had the happinesse to renew my Acquaintance with the Noble and Worthy Knight Sir Francis Wortley who most courteously invited and commanded me to visit him in my journey of which more followeth My humble thanks rememberd to the right worthy worshipfull Knight Sir Paul Neale with his fair and vertuous Lady as also my Gratefull remembrance to all my Lords Gentlemen and Servants to whose loves and for whose friendships I shall ever acknowledge my selfe an ingaged Debter Thus having past the Sunday with my Lords Grace and those other before named Gentlemen On Munday the second of September I took my Breakfast and my leave both of Cowood and road to Yorke where I visited the worthy Knight my old acquaintance Sir Arthur Ingram with whom I thank his Worship I dined and also had some other token of his love and bounty for the which I remayn thankfull Of Yorke I have but little to say though it be a great a faire and the second City in England built 989 years before our Saviours Birth by Ebrank King of this Land from whom the City is called Eboracensis this Ebrank is said to have 21 Wives by whom he had 20 sonnes and 70 daughters he raigned here when as King Solomon Raigned in Ierusalem hee overran France he builded Alclaid or Dumbritton in Scotland hee founded York hee erected a Temple there and therein plac'd a Flamine to Diana but after in King LUCIUS time Elutherius pull'd downe the said Idolatrous wooden Temple and displac'd the Flamine and caused tho Minster to be built in that magnificent manner of free stone placing there an Archbishop severus the Roman Emperour dyed there and also there dyed the Emperour Flavius Vallerius Constantius which some call