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A new discouery by sea, with a vvherry from London to Salisbury. Or, a voyage to the West, the worst, or the best That e're was exprest. By Iohn Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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and fro betwixt them and Sandwich hauen the like is also in hand at Leedes in Yorkeshire Now if neither former or present examples can moue you if your owne wants cannot inforce you if assured proffit cannot perswade you but that you will still be neglectiue and stupid then am I sorry that I haue written so much to so little purpose but my hopes are otherwaies 〈◊〉 blinde lame and couetous excuses be laid aside then those who are willing will be more willing and those who are slacke or backward will in some reasonable manner drawe forward And there is the mouth of an vncharitable obiection which I must needs stop which is an old one and onely spoken by old men for say they we are aged and stricken in yeares and if we should lay out our moneys or be at charges for the Riuer by the course of Nature we shall not liue to enioy any proffit to requite our costs this excuse is worse then Heathenish and therefore it ill becomes a Christian for as I wrote before man was not created or had either the goods of minde body or Fortune bestowed on him by his Maker but that he should haue the least part of them himselfe his God Prince and Countrie claiming as their due almost all which euery man hath The oldest man will purchase land which is subiect to barrennesse and many inconueniences he will buy and build houses which are in danger of fire and diuers other casualties he will aduenture vpon Wares or goods at high prises which to his losse may fall to lowe rates he will bargaine for cattell and Sheepe who are incident to many diseases as the Rot the Murraine and diuers the like and all this will he doe in hope to raise his state and leaue his heires rich at his death perhaps when hee can keepe his goods no longer when in spight of his heart he must leaue all he will giue a few Gownes and a little money to Pious vses a Groce or two of penny loaues and there 's an end of him so that there remaines no more memory of him But this good worke of your Riuer is not subiect to barrennesse or sterilitie but contrarily it will be a continuall haruest of plenty it is not in danger of being consumed or wasted but it is assured of a perpetuall encrease The names and memories of contributors towards it shall be conserued in venerable and laudable remembrance to the eternizing of their fames the honour of their posterities and the good example of succeeding times to imitate Therefore you men of Salisbury I entreate you in this case to be good to your selues Or else you may say hereafter If we had beene Industrious we had beene happy If we had not beene couetous wee had beene Rich. Now to returne to my trauels and entertainements as I passed vp the Riuer at the least 2000. Swans like so many Pilots swam in the deepest places before me and shewed me the way When I came to the Towne of Ringwood 14 miles short of Salisburie I there met with his Maiesties Trumpeters and there my fellows Mr. Thomas Vnderhill and Mr. Richard Stocke Mr. Thomas Ramsey Mr. Randall Lloyd with others which I name not did walke on the banke and gaue me two most excelent flourishes with their Trumpets for the which I thanke them in print and by word of mouth At last I came to a Towne called Forthing Bridge where not many dayes before a grieuous mischance hapned for two men being swimming or washing in the Riuer a Butcher passing ouer the bridge with a Mastiffe Dogge with him did cast a stone into the water and say a Duck at which the Dog leapd into the Riuer and seasd vpon one of the men and kild him and the Butcher leaping in after thinking to saue the man was also slaine by his owne Dog the third man also hardly escaping but was likewise bitten by him From thence I passed further to a place called Hale where we were welcommed by the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Penrudduck Knight whom we carried there in our Boate and who I am assured will be a forward and a liberall Benefactor towards cleering of the Riuer So passing on our course by the Villages of Burgate Breamer Chartford Downton and Stonelye we came at last to Langfoord where we were well entertained by the Right Honourable the Lord Edward Gorge Lord barron of Dundalke and Captaine of his Maiesties strong and defencible Castle of Hurst in Hantshire to whom in loue and duty we profferd the gift of our tattered windshaken and weatherbeaten Boate which after our being at Salisbury being but two miles from thence his Lordship accepted And though he knew she was almost vnseruiceable yet his noble bounty was such that he rewarded vs with the price of a new Boate. I had some conference with his Honour concerning the impediments and clensing of the Riuer and I know he is most forwardly and worthily affected towards it and no doubt if it be pursued that then he will doe that which shall become a Gentleman of his Honourable calling and Ranke So on the same Friday at night we came to Salisbury where we brought our Boate through Fisherton Bridge on the West side of the Citie taking our lodging at the signe of the Kings head there with mine Host Richard Estman whose brother Thomas was one of the Watermen which came in the Boate thither from London on the morrow I with my company footed it two miles to Wilton where at the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooks my Lord Chamberlaines house I was most freely and beyond my worth and merit kindely welcommed by the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Morgan Knight with whom I dined and by whose command I was shewed all or the most part of the admirable contriued Roomes in that excellent and well built house which Roomes were all richly adorned with Costly and sumptuous hangings his Maiestie some few dayes before hauing dined there with most magnificent Entertainment as did expresse the loue of so noble a House-keeper for so Royall a Guest vpon the sight of which house with the Furniture I wrote these following verses If Wholsome Ayre Earth woods pleasant springs Are Elements whereby a house is grac'd If strong and stately built contentment brings Such is the house at Wilton and so plac'd There Nature Art Art-Nature hath embrac'd Without within belowe aloft compleate Delight and state are there so enterlac'd With rich content which makes all good and great The Hangings there with Histories repleate Diuine profane and Morrall pleasures giuing With worke so liuely exquisite and neate As if mans Art made mortall creatures liuing In briefe there all things are compos'd so well Beyond my pen to write or tongue to tell Then was I shewed a most faire and large Armorie with all manner of prouision and Furnitue for Pike Shot Bills Halberts Iauelins with other Weapons and munition which for goodnesse number and well-keeping
is not second to any Noblemans in England Afterwards I went to the Stables and saw my Lords great Horses whom I saw such and so good that what my vntutour'd Pen cannot sufficiently commend I am forced with silence to ouerpasse But amongst the rest the paines and industrie of an ancient Gentleman Mr. Adrian Gilbert must not be forgotten for there hath he much to my Lords cost and his owne paines vsed such a deale of intricate Setting Grafting Planting inocculating Rayling hedging plashing turning winding and returning circular Trianguler Quadranguler Orbiculer Ouall and euery way curiously and chargeably conceited There hath he made Walkes hedges and Arbours of all manner of most delicate fruit Trees planting and placing them in such admirable Artlike fashions resembling both diuine and morrall remembrances as three Arbours standing in a Triangle hauing each a recourse to a greater Arbour in the midst resembleth three in one and one in three and he hath there planted certaine Walkes and Arbours all with Fruit trees so pleasing and rauishing to the sense that he calls it Paradise in which he plaies the part of a true Adamist continually toyling and tilling Moreouer he hath made his Walkes most rarely round and spacious one Walke without another as the rindes of an Onion are greatest without and lesse towards the Center and withall the hedges betwixt each Walke are so thickly set that one cannot see thorow from the one walke who walkes in the other that in conclusion the worke seemes endlesse and I thinke that in England it is not to be fellowed or will in hast be followed And in loue which I beare to the memory of so industrious and ingenious a Gentleman I haue written these following Annagrams Adryan Gilbert Annagrams Art redily began A breeding tryal Art redily began a breeding tryal When she inspir'd this worthy Gentleman For Natures eye of him tooke full espiall And taught him Art Art redily began That though Dame Nature was his Tuteresse he Out-workes her as his workes apparent be For Nature brings but earth and seeds and plants Which Art like Taylers cuts and puts in fashion As Nature rudely doth supply our wants Art is deformed Natures reformation So Adryan Gilbert mendeth Natures features By Art that what she makes doth seem his creatures THus with my humble thankes to Sir Thomas Morgan and my kinde remembrance to all the rest of my Lords Seruants there My legges and my labouring lynes returne againe to Salisbury and from the next day being Sunday to Langford to my Lord Gorge his house with whoÌ„ I dined left my humble thanks for the reckoning In briefe my fruitlesse and worthy lip-labour mixt with a deale of Ayrie and non-substantiall matter I gaue his Lordship and the like requitall I bestowed on the right Worshipfull M. Thomas Squibb Mayor of Sarum with M. Banes M. Iohn Iuy M. Windouer with all the rest and more then thankes and a gratefull remembrance of their Honourable Worshipfull and friendly fauours I know they expect not and lesse then such a common duty as Gratitude I must not or cannot pay To shut vp all in few words I know his Maiesties pious inclination is so ample that he will be graciously pleased with any of your laudable endeuours for your welfare and commodity if you take good and speedy aduice then no doubt but the effects will be according to your honest intendments So farewell Salisbury till we meete againe which I hope will be one day in the meane space I pray thee take this poore Pamphlet as a louing pledge of my returne Me thinks I see already Men Horses Carts Mattocks Shouels Spades Wheelebarrowes Handbarrowes and Baskets at worke for the clearing of your Riuer But if my thoughts doe deceiue me and my expectation faile I shall euer hereafter giue small credit to their intelligence So once more Salisbury I wish thee thankfully well to fare On Thursday the 21. of August I tooke Winchester in my way homewards where I saw an ancient Citie like a body without â— soule and I know not the reason of it but for aught which I perceiued there were almost as many Parishes as people I lodged at the signe of the Cock being recommended to the Host of the house by a token from Salisbury but mine Host dyed the night before I came and I being weary had more minde to goe to bed then to follow him so long a iourney to doe my messuage or deliuer any commendations but the whole Citie seemed almost as dead as mine Host and it may be they were all at Haruest worke but I am sure I walked from the one end of it to the other and saw not 30. people of all sorts So that I thinke if a man should goe to Winchester for a Goose he might lose his labour for a Trader cannot liue there by venting such commodities On Friday I gallop'd a foote pace one and twenty miles from Winchester to Farneham where I and one of my company hired a couple of Hampshiere Ienets with seauen legs and three eyes betwixt them vpon whom wee hobled seauenteene miles to Stanes whence on Saturday the 23. of August we footed it to Brentfoord and Boated it to LonDON Any Raâ— that eats Pye is a Pyâ—rat When past down the Riuer there was not any Post or Horne there buâ— since it is most worthily Repaired All estates or degrees doe either loue or feare this Hauen * His name is Arthur Bray a Waterman of Lambeth a good Markman * We were fiue men two of vs were afraid two were not afraid and I was halfe afraid The right Ho the Lo Zouch Lord Warden of the Cinque ports No dwelling within neere three miles of those Cottages The towns name is Lydd two miles from Rumney in Kent Our beds were Cables and Ropes euery feather at the least 20. fatham long I walk'd to Winchelsey where I thanke my Couzin Mr. Collins the Mayor there he made me kindely welcome The Mayors name was Mr. Richard Boyse a Gentleman whose laudable life and honest gouernment is much beloued and aprou'd * Mathew Figge a right good fellow * Men should consider why God hath giuen them a being in this life No man is owner of himselfe Here is an honest course set downe for the inriching of your rich and the relieuing of your poore His name is Gregory Bastable and his ordinary place where he plyes or attends his labour is at the Temple and there also plyes Thomas Estman another Wiltshire man which went with me Some make a profit of quarelling some picke their lyuings out of contentions debate some thriue and grow fat by gluttonie many are brauely maintained by Bribery theft cheating roguery villany but put all these together and ioyne to them all sorts of people else and they all in generall are drinkers and consequently the Brewers Clients and Customers Let these Lines be considered if I lye or not Let these Lines be considered if I lye or not Tobyah Arabians Amonites Not a Tree stands there but it beares one good or rare fruit or other A round worke is endlesse hauing no end I touch not the matchlesse adioyning wood and walkes of Rowlington here whose praises coÌ„sists in it selfe my pen being insufficient