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A29631	Travels over England, Scotland and Wales giving a true and exact description of the chiefest cities, towns, and corporations, together with the antiquities of divers other places, with the most famous cathedrals and other eminent structures, of several remarkable caves and wells, with many other divertive passages never before published / by James Brome ... ; the design of the said travels being for the information of the two eldest sons, of that eminent merchant Mr. Van-Ackar.	Brome, James, d. 1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4861; ESTC R19908	191,954	310

or Sand-ridge Portland Portland formerly an Island is now adjoined to the Continent which Name although some would derive from its lying against the Port of Weymouth yet seems rather to have received it from Port a Noble Saxon who about the Year 703 grievously infested this Coast This Place was formerly extremely exposed to the Danish Outrages and tho' by the Valour of Duke Aethelhelme they were here A. D. 537. routed and put to flight with the assistance of the Dorsetshire Men as the Saxon Chronicle informs us yet after this they got possession of it and killed Duke Aethelhelme on this spot After these Wars were over it fell into the Possession of the Church of Whinchester when Emma Mother to Edward the Confessor being accused by her Son of too great Familiarity with Aldwyn Bishop of VVinchester and having cleared her self from that unjust Imputation by suffering the Ordalium which in those Days was an usual Trial of Chastity in walking bare foot upon nine Coulters of red hot Iron which she did to a miracle without any harm or prejudice to her self she for a memorial hereof bestowed nine Lordships upon the See of VVinchester to which her Son added this Island with many other Revenues to expiate the Crime of his Defamatory Suspicion and unjust Accusation of his Mother's Honesty This Island or rather Peninsula is scarce seven Miles in compass rising up about the sides with high Rocks but lying low and flat in the midst inhabited scatteringly here and there plentiful enough with Corn and very good to feed Sheep but so great scarcity there is of Wood that for want of other Fuel they make use of Ox and Cow Dung dried for Fire The Portland Men like the ancient Inhabitants of the Baleares in the Mediterranean Sea were above all other English Men reputed the best Slingers and they do often find amongst the Sea-Weeds Isidis Ploramos growing without Leaves like Coral which when it is cut waxeth hard and black but is very brittle and if it falls soon breaks Here are likewise divers Quarries of excellent Stone which being accounted the most durable and handsom for all manner of Structure is conveyed away in Vessels to divers Parts but more especially to London for the rebuilding of Churches and other private Edifices On the East side there is only one Church and some few Houses standing close to it and on the North side is a Castle built by King Henry the Eighth which being well Fortified commands the entrance into the Haven of Weymouth Weymouth and Melcomb This Town is large and populous standing upon the mouth of a small River VVey over against which on the other side of the Bank is Melcomb sirnamed Regis both of them enjoying great Privileges apart did heretofore cause no small Animosities betwixt them but the Breaches being since made up they are now incorporated and conjoined by a Bridge and grown much greater and fairer in Buildings by Sea-Adventures than formerly Higher in the Country about seven Miles from the Sea lies Dorchester Dorchester which is the head Town of the whole Shire watered by the River Frome but neither large nor beautiful being much decay'd and long since dispoiled of its Walls by the Danes who raised as it is thought certain Trenches whereof one is called Maumbury being an Acre inditched another Poundbury something greater and the third a Mile off as a Camp with five Trenches containing near ten Acres called Maiden-Castle which in all probability was a Roman Station but that which argues its Antiquity is the Coin of the Romans both Copper and Silver found there and especially at Fordington hard by Fordington which the common People call King Dorne's Pence whom by some allusion to the Name they think him to be the Founder of the Town It had anciently a Castle in that place where the Grey Friars built their Convent out of the Ruins thereof it has three Parish Churches and several Alms-Houses for the support and maintenance of poor impotent People and it was formerly a noted Place for the Manufacture of Cloth as it is still for Sheep of which there are huge numbers to the great benefit and enriching of the Country Our next Stage was through Bere a little Market Town to Winburn which by the distance of sixteen Miles from Dorchester agrees right with the computation in Antonius's Itinerary which he reckons between Durnovaria and Vindogladia two Names by which those Places were formerly called Winburn is watered by the River Stowr Bere and Winburn in which is found as is reported great store of Tench and Eel from whence in Cambden's Opinion it might receive its Name Burn in the Saxon Language signifying a River 'T is seated upon part of a Hill and is a Town as well inhabited now as it was formerly by the Saxons before whom the Romans were Masters of it In the Year 718 according to the Saxon Chronicle St. Cuthburga Sister to Ina King of the West-Saxons Founded here a Nunnery for Benedictine Nuns which was afterward changed into a Collegiate Church consisting of a Dean four Prebendaries five Singing-Men three Vicars and four Deacons the famous Reginald Pool presided here as Dean who was afterward a Cardinal and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury In this Church A. D. 873. was interred King Aethelred a Virtuous Prince Brother to Alfred slain in a Battel against the Danes near the Hill Wilton saith the Saxon Chronicle and about the Year 961. the Body of King Sigefirth who killed himself was likewise buried in this Place Here is also interred Gertrude Blunt Marchioness of Exeter Daughter to William Lord Mountjoy and Mother to Edward Courtney the last Earl of Devonshire of that House and on the other side of the Quire John de Beaufort Duke of Somerset and Heir to Sir John Beauchamp of Bletneshor whose Daughter Countess of Richmond and Derby and Mother to King Henry the Seventh that most Heroick and Unparalled Princess of whom I have formerly spoken erected here a School for the Education of Youth Badbury That Aethelwald having broke the League that was made betwixt his Cousin King Edward the Senior and himself by the advice of the Danes came hither A. D. 901. and strongly Fortified this Place as is credibly related by Historians as that King Edward came against him with an Army which he encamped at Baddanbyrig since called Badbury upon which his perfidious Kinsman fled away to the Danes though he was afterward taken and brought before the King together with his Wife whom he had stoln out of a Nunnery and Married against the Leave of the King or Bishop This Badbury is a little Hill upon a fair Down about two Miles from Winburn environed with a triple Trench and Rampire and is reported formerly to have had a Castle which was a Seat of the West-Saxon Kings but of this there is not now the least Footsteps remaining From hence we travelled into Hampshire Hampshire a Country

ancient Records testifie in the first year of William the Conqueror and in the fifth year of William Rufus in the year of our Lord 1092 a Nobleman of the Norman Blood nam'd Picot a Vice-comes or Sheriff at the request of Hugolin his Wife founded a Church and Dedicated it unto St. Giles near to this Castle placing in it a Convent of six black Canons which was twenty years after remov'd to Barnwell a Village near a Mile distant from this place by Pain Reverell where he built a Priory to the Honour of St. Giles and St. Andrew and endow'd it with Revenues for the maintainance of thirty Canons of St. Austin's Order As Mr. Tanner informs us As to the Antiquity of the University of Cambridge if any Credit may be given to King Arthur's Diploma which says That King Lucius was converted by the preaching of the Doctors of Cambridge for which reason he gave Privileges to that University which were after confirm'd by King Arthur or if the Bull of Pope Honorius the First may be allow'd Authentick which bearing date Feb. 20 An. Dom. 624. makes mention of the Privileges granted to the University of Cambridge by Pope Eleutherius and takes notice of Doctors and Scholars Resident there at that time Why then as it is truly observ'd by our most Learned Bishop of Worcester in his Antiquities of the British Churches This is a sufficient Proof to all that relie on the Pope's Authority that in the time of King Lucius and Eleutherius there might be a sufficient number of Learned Men in Cambridge to have instructed King Lucius in the Christian Faith and that it is not improbable that Eluanus and Medwinus might be of that number especially considering that Camboritum or as many Copies have it Camboricum was a Roman Colony and mention'd amongst the best Copies among the 28 Cities of Britain and that the Roman Colonies had their Schools of Learning wherein the several Professors of Arts and Sciences did instruct both the Roman and British Youth But what ever Favours the Romans were pleased to confer upon this place 't is certain it met afterwards with very great Encouragement from divers other Benefactors and by the Countenance of Segebert King of the East-Angles and other Saxon Princes it held up its Head in a flourishing Condition till about the year 1100 as the Saxon Chronicle informs us The cruel and merciless Danes laid all waste before them and Swene their King with Fire and Sword burnt this place to the Ground contrary to what we read of the Roman Captain Sylla who though otherwise as furious as a Tyger or a Lion yet when he raged in Greece spared the much celebrated Athens for Minerva's sake Yet nevertheless when these Storms were once blown over in the time of the Normans Learning began to peep out again and seeing all was clear and quiet sprouted up a fresh recruiting it self by degrees till at last in progress of time it return'd to its Primitive State and flourish'd more vigorously than ever it did before For in the Reign of K. Henry I. for his Learning sirnam'd Beauclere it began again to be new modell'd into an University and hereupon Religious Houses and Halls were immediately erected and they have ever since been increasing to the number of Sixteen namely Twelve Magnificent Colleges and four famous Halls where the Buildings are so Uniform the Chapels so Stately the Privileges so Great the Government so Regular the Orders so Strict the Ceremonies so Decorous and the Preferments so Honourable that in all the European Countries no nor perhaps in all the Nations of the World can we find out one University excepting that of Oxford so richly endow'd so famous and renown'd for its Structures so admirable for its Discipline and so courted and address'd to for its most Polite Learning So that when Erasmus was pleased to give us a Strain of his Eloquence in Decyphering both their Characters he doth it but in such a Style as is very suitable to the Subject and the Elogy is no less than what they justly deserve I have before this saith he been extreamly well satisfy'd and have exceedingly rejoyced that England hath constantly been furnish'd with Men who have been as Eminent for their Parts as Learning But now I begin to envy her Felicity had he lived now in our days he would still have had greater reason for this Harangue by reason that she is now so enrich'd with all kind of Literature that by taking the Commendation thereof from other Regions she doth marvellously obscure and eclipse their Glory and yet this Commendation is not only due to England at this present time for it is well known for divers years past to have flourish'd with persons of deep and profound Learning The Universities prove this to be true which have for their Antiquity and Worthiness contended with and outstripped the most ancient and celebrated Academies that ever were planted in the Christian World It might now be expected that I should further exspatiate into a more particular Description of these Famous and Ample Colleges and give an exact Portraiture of the large and spatious Quadrangle of Trinity-College so excellently contriv'd and admirably surrounded with a curious Pile of Buildings which was at first founded by King Henry VIII Of the noble Fabrick of St. John's founded by Margaret Countess of Richmond and Darby both which Colleges have of late years been so extreamly beautify'd and enlarg'd Of Corpus-Christi or Bennet-College founded by Henry Duke of Lancaster whose Library is so famous for its divers ancient Manuscripts as well as from the great Honour it daily receives from His Grace the present Lord Archbishop of Canterbury who was formerly a Learned Fellow and still continues the greatest Glory of it Of that unimitable Piece of Architecture in King's College Chapel founded by that Heroick Prince King Henry VI. Of the Publick Schools of the University which have been of so ancient a continuance that there is no mention when or how they began Of the Publick Library which though it be not so spacious and glorious as the Vatican or Bodleian yet it is so well stock'd with all kind of Divine and Humane Writers that there is not sufficient Room for all the Manuscripts and choice Books which are daily given to it especially if that Order be strictly observ'd of which I have been credibly inform'd That a Copy of every Book which is printed in England be by the Printer presented to it I might insist further on the laudable Modes and Customs which are duly observ'd in this Renown'd University of the large Privileges and Immunities which have been ever granted to it of the honourable Degrees in Divinity Law and Physick which are here annually conferr'd of the great Encouragements which are daily given to all such Persons who have been most Exemplary for their Piety and Learning for which Reason undoubtedly three great and eminent Persons the Pious and Humble Dr. Sancroft the