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A95552	Iohn Taylors last voyage, and adventure, performed from the twentieth of Iuly last 1641. to the tenth of September following. In which time he past, with a scullers boate from the citie of London, to the cities and townes of Oxford, Gloucester, Shrewesbury, Bristoll, Bathe, Monmouth and Hereford. The manner of his passages and entertainement to and fro, truly described. With a short touch of some wandring and some fixed scismatiques, such as are Brownist, Anabaptists, famalies, humorists and foolists, which the authour found in many places of his voyage and iourney. / By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing T473; Thomason E1100_3; ESTC R208333	14,156	32

Iohn Taylors last Voyage AND ADVENTVRE PERFORMED from the twentieth of Iuly last 1641. to the tenth of September following In which time he past with a Scullers Boate from the Citie of London to the Cities and Townes of Oxford Gloucester Shrewesbury Bristoll Bathe Monmouth and Hereford The manner of his Passages and Entertainement to and fro truly described With a short touch of some wandring and some fixed Scismatiques such as are Brownists Anabaptists Famalies Humorists and foolists which the Authour found in many places of his Voyage and Iourney By Iohn Taylor Printed at London by F. L. for Iohn Taylor and may be had at the shoppe of Thomas Bates in the Old Baily 1641. To his Friend Mr. John Tayler on his voyage and Iourney IF true affection doth your muse inspire To 'th honor'd welfare of your native place Then set your hand to now I you desire The time is now when you may do us grace This Subiect sure is large if you thinke of it You are not bounded but you may at ease Survey collect the good the honour profit Of trade of Citie Countrey Rivers Seaes It may provoke some yet not thought upon To raise the ruines of this decayed place To procecute this hopefull worke begun And leave some honour to our after Race From ancient Monmouth Geffery tooke his name So Henry did from Huntington likewise Why may not Gloucester ad to Taylors fame Since that from thence his birth and name did rise Gloucester this 3 of August 1641. Yours to command HENRY ELLIS Iohn Taylor Water-Poet ANAGRAMME Loapety-Troian roweth STrange Newes There is arrived at our Key A wandring Poet alwaies in his way Whose wilfull Errors makes him thus to vaunt Aeneas-like I came from Troyonvant I rowed in Rivers sometimes checkt by Milles Steer'd under Bridges and came over Hilles The Oares of pleasure and of profit brought This Water-Poet hither in his boat And hence he must but yet he will I trow To the Brittaines rather then the Latines row English will serve him rightly to rehearse His crooked travells in good prose or verse When as the winds of fancy cease to blow him If he have watermen to row or tow him Expect Relations I beleeve in fyne The Poets waterworkes will goe in wine And all his dry-land passages appeare With casuall events both here and there Now I doe wish he may accomplsh it Without expence of any thing but wit Gloucester 3. August 1641. Yours IO. DORNEY IOHN TAYLORS LAST VOYAGE AND ADVENTVRE performed from the twentieth of Iuly last 1641. to the tenth of September following OF famous Rivers Brooks Bournes Rills Springs Of Deepes and Shallowes my invention Sings Of Rocks Impenetrable fourds and Mills Of Stopps and Weares Shelves Sands and mighty Hills Of Navigable passages Neglected Of Rivers Spoyl'd men begger'd and deiected Of Tame of Isis Seaverne Wye and Teme Lugg ' Loden Doyre and Monnoes Pearly Streame Of these of more then these and of their Vses And of their miserable strange Abuses I truely treate that men may note and see What blessings Navigable Rivers bee And how that thousands are debar'd those blessings By few mens Avaritious hard oppressings I also shew how those faults may be mended And no man have iust cause to be offended And with a paire of Oares for that intent I once from London unto Lincolne went Whereas a passage seven miles was cut thorowe From Lincolne into Trent and to Gainsborowe That way I past and into Humber past To Hull from thence to Owse and Yorke at last Another Voyage to the West againe I with a Wherry past the raging maine From London to the Isle of Wight and thence To Salisbury with Time and Coynes expence Since when our gratious soveraigne did ordaine The Uiscount Dorchester to take the paine To view what wrongs the River Thames did beare I served then and every Stoppe and Weare And all impediments I found I writ And hoping for amendment printed it For care was taken and true industrie That from faire Oxfords Vniversity To London I Annottomiz'd the flood And shew'd it's qualities both bad and good Promise was made Thames wrongs should bee reform'd And some small helps were speedily perform'd But yet not halfe is done that then was spoken All promises are either kept or broken For as a monument of our disgraces The Rivers too too fowle in many places I have describ'd heere many an injury In three great Rivers Severne Thames and Wye Besides two Rivers Avon one makes speede To Bristol and doth make it rich indeede And would Bathe cure that Rivers great amisse That City would be richer then it is But each man to himselfe beares private love And no man will the generall griefe remove The other Avon Ruines past Gloster West From Bristols Avon fifty miles at least It glides to Stretford Towne from Coventry And into Severne falls at Tewxbury Of Rivers many writers well have done Grave Camden Draytons Polyolbyon And painefull Speede doth in his Mappes declare Where all these Brookes and waters were and are But yet not any one have sought but I To finde their wrongs and shew some remedy I shew the meane neglect of Navigation For few mens profit publique lamentation T'e encrease some five or sixe mens Treasury Whiles twenty thousand lives in misery From shore to shore brave Rivers are dam'd so That not a woodden dish hath roome to go no not a hand breadth but that all is stop'd And from the poore man all reliefe is stop'd It is the goodnesse of our God to give To us foure Elements whereby we live Those Elements Fire Water Ayre are nam'd And Earth of which althings are made and fram'd And all those blessings the great God of Heaven Some more some lesse to every man hath given By ayre and breath and breath no man buy Ayre serves all creatures in community And though earth yeeld materialls for the fire Which many a sonne by right holds from his sire Yet sure me thinkes the water should be free For passage for all men of each degree And though the Rivers in proportions are Shar'd thine or mine or this or that mans share Yet sure where God gives water boates to beare It should not be stop'd up with Mill or Weare And now my meaning plainer to disclose A little while I 'le turne my Verse to Prose AS Raine from the Firmament is drawne from the Sea and other waters and vapours of the Earth and Ayre by the vigour of the Sunne whereby Rivers spring and overflow Grasse Groves Fruits encrease fishes multiplie beasts and cattell breede and waxe fat Corne plentifulls Butter and Cheese in abundance and all other blessings for the life of man or beast is nourished with milke of Heaven as raine may justly be called So Navigable Rivers are the Cherishing veines of the body of every Countrey Kingdome and Nation And as the veines of man doth distill supporting sustinence to every part and member of his

Sunday the twenty two of August as I am bound gratefully to remember Munday the twenty three of August I left Monmouth and with a vvhole dayes labour by vvater according to the miles by land I got not a foote of ground for at night when I came to a place called Lidbrooke I was twelve miles from Hereford and I was but twelve miles from the said Citie vvhen I vvas in the morning at the Tovvne of Mounmouth this doth shevv that the River of Wye doth runne a little crooked from Lidbrooke I vvent on Saint Bartholomewes day to the Tovvne of Rosse vvhere I lodged nere Wilton Bridge there and on the tvventie five I vvent to Foane Hope and the tvventy sixe day about tenne of the clocke I gat to the Citie of Hereford vvhich vvas the last place and the end of my painefull travell Ioruney Voyage Perambulation and Peregrination or vvhat you please to call it At Hereford I vvas invited to three severall places to dine on the friday and I being not able to satisfie them all gave them all the slippe the three places vvere Edmond Ashton Esquire Mayor the second the Vicars at the Minster or Colledge thirdly at a Taverne vvith diverse Gentlemen but I having gotten the Mayors hand seale because I could not please all left all and stole avvay like a true man leaving my thankes for Master Mayor and Master Phillip Traherne vvith all the rest for their kindnesse to me the day before At my being at Hereford I vvas in a quandary or brovvne studdy vvhether it vvere best to sell my boat returne to London by land or else to bring the boate home againe either by land or vvater or both or how I could at last I determined resolved to bring the monumentall vessell backe againe vvhich I did as follovveth On friday the 27. of August I passed dovvne the River of Wye to a place called Inckson Weare vvhere vvith great entertainement and vvelcom I vvas lodged and my men also at the house of one Master Aperley dvvelling there to vvhom for many favours I doe acknovvledge my selfe to bee extraordinarily beholding And on the Saterday I came to Lidbrook to my former Hoste Master Mosse where understanding and knowing the passage down VVye and up Severne to be very long dangerous especially if stormye weather should arise the boate being split torne shaken that she did leake very much these things considered that I was within five miles of Severne by land to Newnham and that by water thither there was no lesse then 50 miles I hired a Wayne frow Lidbrook to Newnham And on Munday the 30. of August I past up Severne by Glocester and working all night came in the morning betimes to Tewxbury into another River called Avon which by thegreat charge and industry of Master Sands is made Navigable many miles up into the Countrey Tuseday the 31 of August I came to a Market Towne in VVorcestershire called Pershore On the first of September I came to the Auncient Towne of Evesholm corruptly called Esham and seeing that River to bee further and further out of my way home I hired another Wayne from Esham to Burford where I found a crooked brooke called VVindrush in which brooke after one nights lodging with my appendixes having taken each of us a Burford bait we passed many strange letts and hindrances in t o the River of Isis or Thames Againe at Newbridge 12. or 14. miles from Oxford by water By which Vniversity I past to Abingdon The fourth of September where I stayed till Wednesday the eight day from thence was I with my boate at home on the Friday following And thus in lesse then twenty dayes labour 1200. miles were past to and fro in most hard difficult and many dangerous passages for the which I give God most humble and hearty prayse and thankes and now I crave the Readers patlence a little whilst I briefely treate of a few things that may bee profitable as well as pleasant I have before related of certaine stops milles and wares that doe hinder the passages of boates of Thames and Isis now I will treate a little of the abuses and uses of other Rivers As for the River of Severne it is almost as much abus'd as us'd for an instance there are Coale-mines neere it and by the benefit of that River mane a hundred family is served with suficient fewell at cheape rates but some of those Cole-mines doe yeeld neere 1000 tunnes of Rubbish yearely which by reason of the neerenesse of the River is all washed into it and makes so many shallowes that in time Severne vvill bee quite choaked up and all passage stopped but of that River more at the conclusion Avon River that serveth Bristoll would also be made to serve Bathe and many other parts and places if Lockes were made at west Hanham weare and at Kenisham with 4. or 5. places more for the River doth offer Gods blessing to the peoples mouthes if they would but open their lippes to receive them The River Wye is debard of all passages with Boates by 7. Weares 2. of them are Monmouth Weare Wilton Weare the other 5. are Inkson Weare Carow Founehope Hancocks and Bondnam Weare these seven weares like the seven deadly sinnes doe dam up all goodnesse that should come from Monmouth to Hereford by water and if the yron milles in the forrest of Deane doe eate up all the wood there as it hath already done reasonably well and ill within these few yeares if the passages be stopt with Weares that coales cannot be carried by water to Hereford and many other places it is to be feared that many rich men will bee glad to blow their fingers ends in the Winter through want of fiering and numbers of poore will perish with extreame cold the complaints and cryes are grievous already which if I had not heard and seene I would not have beleeved and 7. lockes at those Weares would helpe all and hinder nobody or else onely two Lockes would doe much good the one at Monmouth Weare the other at Wilton which is but eight miles from Hereford and good vvay by land for the carriage of any thing that might be brought by vvater For the other Kiver Avon it comes from beyond the City of Coventry and running by the Tovvnes of Stretford Evesholme and Pershore it falles into Severne at Tewexbury so that Gloucestershire my native Countrey is encompast round vvith Navigable Rivers of vvhich Citie and Countrey I vvill speake a little for Countries sake but most of all for love I beare to truth and Charity Records and Histories doe make trve relation of the antiquity of the Citie of Gloucester that it vvas built by Arviragus a Brittaine King in the time of Claudus Tiberius Caesar The said Claudius being the Roman Emperour and commander of the vvhole World in vvhose Raigne our blessed Saviour suffered King Arviragus and Lucius the first Christian King doe

lye there buried vvhen the Saxons had the rule and domination here in the raigne of Vier Pendragon and the renowned worthy King Arthur that City and County had a Duke a Bishop and a Major aboue 1100 yeares past their names were Edell Eldadus and Eldor the shire is divided in 33. Hundreds of which the Citie it selfe is one and two Hundreds more named Kings Burton and Dunstone with 30. Townes and Villages are annexed to the said Citie which is all under the commande of the Major and his brethren It hath beene anciently famous for the Trade of Merchandising now altogether decayed the more is the pitty King Henry the third was Crowned there the 28. of October 1216. there hath been many Dukes Earles of Glocester since the Norman Conquest as first Robert fittz Hamon second William de Mondevill third Robert de Millent which Robert was taken prisoner was exchanged for King Stephen the said King being then taken prisoner by Maude the Empresse the fourth Earle of Glocester was William sonne to the said Robert and Lord of Glamorgan was buried at Kinsham 1183. Iohn who was afterwards King of England was the third Earle of Glocester the sixt was Almerick Mountfort buried at Keinsham Sixt Geoffery de mandevile he was slaine at a Tilting or Tournament 1216. The 7. was Gilbert de Clare 1230. The 8. Richard de Clare 1262. The 9. Gilbert de Clare the second of that name 1295. all these three were buried at Tewxbury Richard de Mount hermer was the 10. Earle 1323. Gilbert de Clare the son of Gilbert the second was the 11. Earle was slaine at Sherbin in Scotland and buried at Tewxbury 1313. Hugh de Audley the 12 Earle dyed 1347. buried at Tunbridge Thomas of Woodstock the son of K. Edward the third Duke of Glocester was murthered at Callice 1397. Thomas Spencer the 13 Earle was beheaded at Bristow 1400. Humphrey Plantagenet the fourth son of K. Edward the fourth who was called the good Duke Humphrey was murthered buried at S. Albons 1440. Richard Duke of Glocester afterwards King of England was slaine at the battle of Bosworth and buried at Leicester 1485. Henry of Oatlands the fourth sonne to our Soveraigne Lord King Charels was borne at Oatlands in Surey on wednesday the eight of Iuly 1640. now Duke of Glocester whom God blesse And so much though much more might be said for the honour of Glocester and Glocestershire That commerce and Trade is the strength and sinnewes of the common wealth the chiefe and onely subsistance of Cities and Corporations it is apparently evident And the greatest honour and glory of Kingdomes the reasons why severall meanes there are that brings wealth and honour to a citie all of them put together in one ballance and the trade of Merchandising in the other it shall overprize them al upon it alone hangs and depends almost all other trades it brings great wealth and honour to all places where it is prosecuted with successe Witnesse that of Leogorne which within this 30. or 40. yeares was but a poore fishing towne which by that trade alone is now the greatest Mart of the Medeterenian Seas As likewise the Low-countries although they cannot build a ship but must fetch the materials from 6. severall kingdomes yet they build and have more ships then all Christendome besides have not any thing almost of a naturall staple commodity to deale upon yet by that trade alone they have ingrossed the greatest part of the trade of the Christian World to thēselves some of them if they please may be gaineful in the trade of merchandising there Now that the Citie of Glocester is scituated in as convenient a place as any other within this Kingdome the reasons following shall demonstrate First the said Citie hath beene an auncient Port towne graced infranchesed with priviledges as ample as London or any other citie or Towne within this Kingdom dignified with the title of the 3. son of the Kings and hath beene famous in former ages for the trade of Merchandizing now altogether decayed And is likewise situated in as rich a soyle as any in this Kingdome whose Markets are alwaies stored with abundance varieties of all commodities that the kingdome of England affords incident to the life and being of man And it is likewise situated in as convenient a place for any trade of Merchandizing being upon the famous River of Severne then which there is not any more miles Navigable within this Kingdome also the River of Avon being made Navigable with in foure miles of Warwick which standeth in the heart and center of the said Kingdome having both the said Rivers the advantage of all opportunities both for exportation importation of all goods and commodities whatsoever into and from at least a third part of the said Kingdome which parts vents as many forraine commodities and yeelds as many varieties of commodities as any other part of the said Kingdome doth And which said parts cannot bee served by or from any other parts then by the said Rivers unlesse they will fetch bring their commodities over the land three or foure score miles at a great charge which cannot bee conceived they will doe if it may be brought home to their doores by water the said Citie having by speciall grant under the Great Seale a spatious and convenient Key or Wharfe built of stone neare the Kings Custome-house upon the said River at which Key or Wharfe the Sea doth in its due course continually ebbe and flow for the bringing in and out of ships and other boates of convenient burthen so that a ship of a hundred and fifty tunne or thereabouts may at every tide come to Gatcombe which is but 12 miles from Gloucester and therelye secure and the River of Wye runneth into the Severne tenne miles above Kingrode where ships of two or three hundred Tunnes may lye secure and safe And I have observed that the trade that Bristoll driveth up to the city of Gloucester and beyond it in small Barkes hoighes and Trowes is at the least two hundred Tunnes of all commodities every spring which is every fortnight or lesse And it is conceiued and more then probable that if the said trade of Merchandizing were settled within the said City of Cloucester as heretoforeit hath beene that neither the trades men of the said City of Gloucester nor others that live three or foure score miles above it will goe downe to Bristoll and may have their commodities in Gloucester for divers Reasons and inconveniences that may thereby happen As first it saveth threescoure miles riding in a dirty Countrey next the ventring of their goods from Bristoll to Gloucester by Water sometimes cast away sometimes the spring not serving they are benept and so cannot have their commodities to serve their turne but usually much abused by Trow-men so that many that live up the River beyond Gloucester are thereby greatly discouraged and doe many

Body so doe passable Rivers convey all manner of commodities from place to place to the benefit of all and every place in every Countrey and Teritorie My selfe bearing a naturall affection to Portable Rivers and a setled inclination and desire of the preservation and use of them did for the same intent especially lately passe with a small Scullers boate into five great Rivers of this Kingdome for the which intent to beare charges I procured divers of my friends to subscribe to severall Bills for them to pay me some severall small summes of money upon my delivery to each of them a booke at my returue of the passages and entertainements which I had in my journey which booke this is which you are now reading and how I past out and came backe againe with many occurrences that happened I have truely related as followeth On the twentieth day of Iuly last 1641. the second day of the dogged Dogdayes I with my two men and a brace of boyes were embarqued with a Scullers boate first from London and within halfe a quarter of an houre after I past from my house neare the Beares Colledge on the Banckside I tooke leave of some friends and had a flagge advanced as a token of my publike departure but some enemies gave out that I was Runne away who I doe know since my returne to be a crew of malicious Vermin that still being the most auntient name of their Captaine and leader on the day afforesaid with many stops stayes and taking leaves wee gat to Oatlands at night and lodged at Weybridge at the signe of the sixe Ankers The next day being wendnesday I strived against the streame as farre as Great Marlow in Bucking hamshire where I Lodg'd at the signe of the Crowne Thurseday the 22. of Iuly I past with much toyle from Marlow to Goring and the next day I came to Abington If it be demanded why I was so may dayes in passing 130 miles I answer that the River by reason of a great drought wanted water in may places so that wee were forc'd to wade and leade or hale the boate divers times and moreover we did pull the said Boate over or thorough 14. Locks besides many other impediments which hindred our passage As farre as above Stanes which is forty miles by water from London The River Thames is by the care and providence of the Lord Mayor well conserved and kept from impediments of Stops Weares Sand beds and other hindrances of passages of eyther Boates or Barges and from Stanes to the furthest part almost there is no stoppage but only Weares which Weares have Lockes to open and shut for the passing to and fro of all manner of vessells passable thorough from London to Oxford betwixt which Cities the Barges doe draw up nineteene of those Lockes with engines like Capstanes which are called Crabbs I doe relate this heare because the Reader may by that which followeth understand that though Weares be necessary in Rivers yet they ought not to stop up all passages but to suffer Lockes to be opened and shut as Thames hath Thurseday the twenty seaven I passed with my Boate from Abington to Oxford where I was well entertained with good cheere and worshipfull company at Vniversity Colledge The next day I passed to a place called Bablack Hive or Hithe And on Thurseday the twenty nine I passed by Lechlad and came to Creeklad This towne of Creeklad is five miles distant by land from Ciciter but it is easier to row sixtie miles by water on the River of Thames then it is to passe betweene those two townes for there are so many milles fords and shallowes with stops and other impediments that a whole daies hard labour with my selfe and foure more could neyther by toyle or Art get but to a Mill of one Master Hortones at a place called Suddington a mile short of Ciciter so that according to land measure we went but foure miles in a long dayes travell The last of Iuly I left Suddington Mill with the honest welcome of the Miller and his wife and with much a doe for want of water I gatt to Ciciter where the River was so dry that it would beare my boate no further at the hither end of that Towne there stands a great Barne belonging to one Cooke of whom I hired a Waine wherein I put my Boate my selfe and my Men Boyes and luggage this Waine did in lesse then five houres draw me from the River Isis neere Ciciter to a brooke called Stroud which booke hath it's head or Spring in Bessley Hundred neere Misserden in Cotswould in Glostershire Stowd and Churne might be cut into one and so Severne Thames might be made almost ioyned friends are within 4. miles of Churne which hath its first spring nere Coberley 7. miles from Glocester falles into Isis about Laechlad so that 4 miles cutting in the Land betwixt Churne and Stroud would be a meanes to make passages from Thames to Severne to Wye to both the Rivers of Avon in England and to one River of Avon in Monnouthshire which falles into the River of Vske neere Cirlion in Wales By which meanes goods might be conveyed by water too from London in Rivers at cheape rates without danger almost to half the countyes in England and Wales But there is a devill or two called sloth and covetuousnesse that are the bane of all good endeavours and laudable Actions but more of this shall be said hereafter I being vncarted with my boate at a place called Stonehouse in the Afforesaid brooke called Stroud with passing and wading with haling over high bankes at fulling milles where there are many with plucking over suncke trees over and under strange Bridges of wood and stone and in some places the brooke was scarce as broad as my Boate I being oftentimes impeached with the bowghes and branches of willowes and Alder Trees which grew so thicke hanging over and into the brooke so that the day light or Sunne could scarce peepe through the branches that in many places all passages were stop'd so that I was some times forced to cut and hew out my way with a hatchett with this miserable toyle all the day I gat at night to a Mill called Froombridge Mill whereas for our comfort was neither Victualing house meate drinke or lodging but that a good gentlewoman one Mistris Bowser there did comiserare our wants and though she were not accustomed to victuall or lodge Travellers yet the rarety of our boate and strangenes of my adventure moved her so farre that shee at an casie rate did furnish us with good dyet my selfe with a bed in an out-house and my men and boyes with a sweet new mowed and new made hayloft I am much ingaged to a gentleman one Master Iohn Stephens whose worthy father Nathaniell Stephanes Esquire is one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of Glocester in this Honorable and high Court of Parliament To this House