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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

heartily thankfull The Towne of Nottingham is seated on a Hill which Hill is almost of one stony Rocke or a soft kinde of penetrable sandy stone it hath very faire buildings many large streetes and a spacious Market place a great number of the inhabitants especially the poorer sort doe dwell in vaults holes or caves which are cut and digged out of or within the Rocke so that if a man be destitute of a house it is but to goe to Nottingham and with a Mattock a Shovell a Crow of Iron a Chizell and Mallet and such instruments he may play the Mole the Cunny or the Pioner and worke himselfe a Hole or a Burrow for him and his family Where over their heads the grasse and pasture growes and beasts do feed faire Orchards and gardens are their coverings and Cowes are milkt upon the tops of their houses I was much befriended by Master Palmer the Iaylor there for he went with me and shewed me the sometimes strong and defencible Castle but now much ruined yet still there are many faire and sumptuous roomes in reasonable reparation and estate On the lofty Battlements of the said Castle there is a most spacious prospect round about for from thence I could see the most stately Castle of Belvoyre or Bever Castle which doth as it selfe belong to the Right Honourable the Earle of Rutland and nearer hand within three miles I saw the ancient Towne of Gotham famous for the seven Sages or Wise men who are fabulously reported to live there in former ages In the aforesaid Castle of Nottingham I was shewed divers strange wonderfull Vaults cut or hewen out of the Rocke whereof one is said to be the place where David King of Scots was detained many years in captivity where the said King with his owne hands without any other instrument than the nayles of his fingers did with the said tooles engrave and claw out the forme of our Saviours Life death and passion which Worke is there to bee seene upon the Walls Also there is another Vault or passage through the Rocke whereby men may descend or ascend out or into the Castle which vault is called Mortimers Hole through which hole as report goes the great Roger Mortimer Earle of Wigmor and Lord of Wallingford had egresse and regresse to the Queene wife to King Edward the second or the infortunate Edward of Carnarvan Thus having seene as much of Nottingham Towne and Castle as is related on the twelfth of August I road to the ancient towne of Darby On the thirteenth of August I left Darby with an intent to retire to Leister but after I had road halfe a Mile I met with an acquaintance of mine who was travailing towards the Peake in Darby shire to a Towne called Wirksworth and from thence to Chiesterfield I returned with him The Country is very Mountainous and many Lead Mines are found thereabouts the best and most richest is called Dove Gany within a mile or little more of Wirksworth corruptly called Wortsworth and two Miles from thence are most dangerous wayes stony craggy with inaccessible Hils and Mountaines the grounds there are lawfull as they told me for any man to dig or mine in for Lead be they of what condition soever for the Laws of mining is that those that will adventure their Labours shall have all the profits paying the tenth part to the Lord or Landlord of all the Lead which they get If it happen that they take pains a yeare or two in sundry places to finde a Myne if their fortune be so hard to finde none as it often falls out so they do work all that while for nothing and finde themselves as they are able and in the end their toyle and labour is all lost but if they doe hit upon a good Myne that doth hold out and yield plentifully then they may quickly enrich themselves if they be good husbands I was told of a poore Thatcher that left his Trade and venturing his time and pains he found so rich a Lead Myne that he would turn Gentleman and he kept men in Liveries living at the rate of the expence of 100 pound a week so that he supposing that Leaden Golden World would never be ended took no care to save any thing but after a while the Myne failed and hee spent that little which hee had left in digging for more could finde none so that for a conclusion he forsook the Peake and turnd Thatcher again That part of the Peak which is called the Devils Ars is at or neere a Towne named Castleton or Castle Towne so stiled from an ancient ruined Castle on a Hill at the end of the Town it is 30 miles from Darby the Castle stands on the top of a Hill and under it is a Cliff or Riffe in the said Hill which is as wide at the entrance as three Barn doores but being entred in it is enclosed again so narrow that a man must stoop to passe further but after that straight passage is past there is rooms of incredible and wonderfull greatnesse with strange and intricate turnings and windings which no man can see without great store of lights and by reason that those things are naturall and formed without any attor labour of man and with all so dismall hotrid darke and hideous that place is called the Devils Ars a Peak at or upon which I have according to my promise given three jerks with my pen at the latter end of this Book From thence I returned towards Leicester 30 miles on the 15 of August and lodged at a Market Towne called Narbury and the next day I came all tyred and weary both man and beast to Leicester and on the 20 day I took my journey 64 miles into Norfolke to the famous Town of Linne and three miles from thence at a Village called Wooton I was there well welcomed by Master Richard Miles to whom I am and must be a thankfull Brother in Law whose loving kindnesse to me was shewed in such extraordinary manner which because I cannot expresse I will remayn gratefull with silence Concerning Linne it is an excellent Sea-town and strong Port it is gravely and peaceably governed by a Major 12 Aldermen and a Recorder It hath bin honored by divers but chiefly by King John 440 yeares since and by King Henry the Third the first gave them a faire gilt Cup which is there to be seene as a witnesse of his Royall liberality and who so will know more of Linne let them goe thither and look the Records of the Town or else let them read Master Camdens Britania or the painfull labours of Master Iohn Speed The troth is mine Hoast Noble was a noble Hoast to me at whose house my brothers kindred and friends gave me a friendly farewell On Tuesday the 27 of August from Linne to Boston in Lincolnshire 24 miles where I dined with the right Worshipfull Sir Anthony Thomas Knight from Boston I road 14 miles to Horn