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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

it but the Ruins and old Walls of the Earl's Castle and one small Dwelling-house and New Salisbury is become glorious and aimable resorted to and frequented and admired by Persons of all Qualities and Degrees for its Houses are stately its Churches magnificent its Streets clean its Rivers pleasant and well stored with Fish its Gardens delightful and very fragrant and nothing wanting in it to please either the Eye or the Pallate it is governed by a Mayor and Aldermen Thus have I given you a brief Account of Wiltshire I could have wrote much more for there are many other things very observable in this County especially for Travellers to take notice of which is too tedious here to relate Summersetshire The first Place of Note we came to in this County was Wells the chief City of the Shire and receives its Denomination from the variety of fresh and wholsome Springs which bubble up about it in great abundance The Houses therein are well contrived and built of Stone the Government safe and regular but the chief Ornament hereof is the Cathedral built by King Ina in honour to St. Andrew the Church hath been enriched with large Revenues by religious Benefactors it was made a Bishop's See in the Reign of King Edward the Second and Eadulphus was Constituted the first Bishop here in the Reign of William Rufus and in the Year 1092 John a Turon born being elected Bishop united that of Bath with this and hence it comes to pass that he that is Bishop of this See is called Bishop of Bath and Wells This Church underwent the same Calamities that other religious Places did in this Kingdom and took away the Revenues annexed to it 't is a magnificent Structure and the Quire of it yeilds to none for stateliness if we consider the artificial Bosses very delicately gilded which adorn it above or the curious Columns which uphold it below or the Bishop's Seat of Marble set out with most glorious Embellishments supported with rich Pillars and with its towring Piramids being the Head and Ornament in a more especial manner of the Quire as he is of the Church to this I may add the variety of carved Images which almost environ the Church on the out side containing the History of the Old Testament and the curious Architecture of the Chapter-house supported only by one large Column which stands in the middle of it Near unto the Church is the Bishop's Palace of great Grandeur which becomes a Reverend Father of the Church to be seated ed in But the remarkablest and which cannot but have the respect of all Travellers to be the most admirable piece of Nature's Workmanship in our Kingdom is a Place called Ochy-hole two Miles from this City 'T is a Cave under a very high Rock situated amongst the Mendippe-hills of which I shall endeavour to give a Description as briefly as I can OCHY-HOLE After that we had with some difficulty climbed up to the top of a Rock we went along the Brow of a Hill till we came to the Mouth of the Cave where opening a Door that gave entrance and lighting 24 Candles of 6 in the Pound which we provided for that purpose we ventured in being got within it we found the Cave very hollow and so dark that the Candles there scarce burning so bright though there were 24 as two doth ordinary in the Night in one of our largest Rooms we thought certainly we had been come into the Confines of the Infernal Regions or some such dismal Place and began to be affraid to visit it viz. That although we entered in frolicksome and merry yet we might return out of it Sad and Pensive and never more be seen to Laugh whilst we lived in the World such dreadful Apprehensions seized upon some of us and indeed we had cause to fear some such Operations might have proceeded from this as well as the other since both were equally uncomfortable by reason of our deprivation from the least glimmerings of light and consequently had the same Circumstances to beget both Horror and Amazement however we plucked up our Spirits and crept in one after another as fast as we could conveniently The Cave as we went a long was parted into several kinds of Rooms the Names whereof our Guides informed us The first was the Kitchin and at the Door sticks out a large Mass of the Rock which they tell us was the Porter's head formerly the Keeper of this Cave it bears the resemblance of a Head and by that lies a Stone which they call The Tombstone under which the Report is That his Body lies Enterred and his Dogherd by him in the same substance yet their Transformations are not so strange and wonderful being something too fabulous to be given Credit to as the variety which the Rock affords into which they are incorporated part of it glistering like Silver and part like Diamonds and both appear very pleasant to the Eye A little further on the right hand is another piece of the Rock that bears the resemblance of a Bell and on the left hand a Vessel which they term a But in which the Beer of an old Sorceress Cousin to the famous Circe Lady Governess of this dismal Cave used to be work'd in 't is a hollow Cestern of a considerable depth always filled with Water and now and then flowing over to which the drops of Water which continually trickle down from the top of the Rock add every moment fresh supplies hard by this stands another Vessel of hers in which they say she made her Mault they call it the East Hurdle 't is likewise hollow and of a pretty depth Now appears unto your view the old Witch her self heating of her Furnace which seems black and sooty it seems to be Alablaster by reason of its whiteness though 't is most probable to be the product of Nature and not of Art because the place is very unfit and very unsuitable for any Artist to exercise his Skill in it being very oft so low that it is impossible here and there for any one to stand upright in it and therefore it was that we were forced frequently to stoop and buckle almost double for fear of hiting our Heads against the Rock until we came to some Steps which we were to descend and the Defect thereto was very tedious and affrightful for on the right hand the Rock hung down over us extream low and sloping and on the left hand a great Rivolet which runs along through the Cave being pretty deep and making a loud noise in its gliding yet at length we came sweating into another Room which is called The Hall and here at first sight we were entertained with as great a Rarity as Nature hath in all her Store-houses 't is a Cestern almost square about six Foot each way and of a considerable depth always brimful of Water supplied by the Drops which falls from above but that which is to be admired in

likewise to visit our Friends and Acquaintances and then proceeded on designing to finish our intended purposes and so with God's Assistance took Horse and went to Essex RUMFORD is about 10 Miles from London in the County of Essex It is well stored with Inns and hath a great Market for Cattel the whole County is populous having in it divers fine Seats of Persons of Quality We tarried here not long but Travell'd on to Burntwood and so to Ingerstone both which Places have no great Remarks worth our tarrying we rid on to Chelmsford which place is situated in the heart of the County between two Rivers which meet here It hath a great Market for Corn and the Assizes are generally held here for the County here are likewise several Persons of Quality's Seats in and about the adjacent Places which do mightily enrich it We stayed here but one Night and the next Place of Note we came to in this County was Colchester of which it follows COLCHESTER is pleasantly seated upon the brow of an Hill and doth extend it self in length East and West and is very numerous for Inhabitants whereby its Buildings are enlarged and its Churches encreased to the number of fifteen but in the late unhappy Civil Wars it had its share of Calamities for being close Besieged by their Enemies the Royalists who were within behaved themselves so bravely that they could neither take it by Violence nor enforce it to a Surrendry until at last having blocked up all places whereby the least Provisions might be conveyed to them so that they were reduced to that Want and Exigency Hunger exercising its Tyranny within the Walls with no less Vigour than the Enemy did without that they were compelled by one Enemy to surrender to the other by trusting to the a merciless Sword rather than to die thro' griping Hunger So that the Rebels having got possession of the Town they did not only use their utmost Cruelty upon the weaker Sort who could make no resistance but even in cold-Blood did they barbarously murther those very Persons who had they been at the Head of an Army would have made the stoutest Champion of their Party to give way to them Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle Persons of as great Integrity and undaunted Courage as any whatsoever were cowardly and cruelly Shot to death by the Sanguinary of the insolent Soldiers in the Castle Yard on which very Spot of ground where they fell down dead hath never since sprouted up any Grass as there were wont the Ground it self from that time being clad in mourning Weeds and Grass dreading such execrable Murthers retires and hides its head within the Bowels of the Earth and this Plat of ground is a Monument to succeeding Generations yet doth a Vault that belonged to the Family of Sir Charles Lucus secure both his own and his Fellow-sufferer's Bodies from any farther Attempts of the Sons of Violence and being wrapped in Lead they were laid in that Church which was next to his own House which formerly was a fair and sumptuous Structure but ruinated by his Enemies who hated the House for the Master's sake The Castle which did stand about the midst of the Town is likewise now demolished and gone to decay and though the Inhabitants shewed us a Brazen-gate which gives entrance into a Vault fifteen Miles under the ground as some of the Inhabitants tell Stories of it yet I think there is no credit to be given to it Here are other large Towns and a considerable many of stately Buildings but I have not room here to insert them From hence we went to Suffolk IPSWITCH is a Town very commodious for its Haven Enriched by foreign Commerce replenished with Inhabitants adorned with several magnificent Churches and being united into a Corporation is governed by two Bailiffs who have all other Ministers befitting their Granduer to attend them tho' formerly it hath sustained great Losses by the Danes the Streets are very clean and well paved and in the midst of the Market-place which is surrounded with rich Shops and goodly Houses stands a very curious square Cross which hath the Effiges of Impartiality bearing a pair of Scales in one hand and a Sword in the other a sit Emblem to reminde the Magistrates of the exact Measure that they must use in the distribution of Justice The Store-houses which are kept for the King's Ships do much promote the Trade of the Town Before the subversion of the Monasteries it could glory in four Religious Houses besides a magnificent College erected by Cardinal Woolsey who received his first Breath in this place being only a Butcher's Son of this Town St. EDMUNDS-BURY or BURY a renowned Town a Place for situation and wholsomness of Air so excellent that Cambden saith Sol non vidit urbem situ elegantiorem Many of the Gentry live here There are two Churches in one Churchyard where there are Lectures several days in the Week Here was born Richardus de Bury Bishop of Durham the Governour of Edward the Third when young and famous especially for a Work which he Entituled Philobiblos in the Preface of which he confesseth Ecstatico quodam librorum amore potenter se abreptum He was well acquainted with Petrark the Italian and other learned Men of that Age. Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard Fitzralph Armachanus Walter Burleigh Robert Halcot and other most famous Men of that Age were his Chaplains We have been at most of the Towns in this County and there is five hundred seventy and five Parishes in it and the whole County is very fruitful We went from hence to Scole Inn in the County of Norfolk of which hereafter Norfolk SCOLE is a little Village very famous for an Inn and Sign-Post built by Mr. Peck a Gentleman which thing cost him several Hundred Pounds The House is of Brick very neat and uniform and hath great variety of Objects for diversion In the Porch at the four corners stands two Men playing on Wind-Musick a Tapster filling of Drink and a Mountebank shewing of Tricks on the two side-Posts Hercules with his Club and Sampson with his Jaw-bone on the Front is the Figure of the Whale vomiting up Jonah out of his Mouth and on the East side of the House the Statue of Peace and Hope with an Anchor and an Olive branch but that which is most admirable is the contrivance of the Sign-post which seems to contain great varieties on the top of all is an Astronomer looking thro' a Quadrant riding upon an Anchor with the four Cardinal-Vertues on each side of him Fortitude with her broken Pillar Temperance with her Cup pouring out Wine Prudence with a Snake in her right hand and a Horn of Plenty in her left and Justice with a pair of Scales and a Sword along the Sign-post stands several Images very curiously carved and painted the first represents a Huntsman equipped and accoutred with his Horn and his green Jacket just