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A verry merry vvherry-ferry-voyage: or Yorke for my money sometimes perilous, sometimes quarrellous, performed with a paire of oares, by sea from London, by Iohn Taylor, and Iob Pennell. And written by I.T.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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his Pilgrimage is spent When Earth to Earth returnes as Natures debter They feare the Prouerbe Seldome comes the better His Doctrine and example speake his due And what all people sayes must needes be true In duty I most humbly thanke his Grace He at his Table made me haue a place And meate and drinke and gold he gaue me there Whilst all my Crue it 'h Hall were fill'd with cheere So hauing din'd from thence we quickly past Through Owse strong Bridge to Yorke faire Citie last Our drowning scap'd more danger was ensuing 'T was Size time there and hanging was a brewing But had our faults beene ne're so Capitall We at the Vintners barre durst answere all Then to the good Lord Maior I went and told What labour and what dangers manifold My fellow and my selfe had past at Seas And if it might his noble Lordship please The Boat that did from London thither swim With vs in duty we would giue to him His Lordship pawsing with a reuerend hum My friend quoth he to morrow morning come In the meane space I 'le of the matter thinke And so he bad me to goe neere and drinke I dranke a Cup of Clarret and some Beere And sure for aught I know he KEEPES good châ—ere I gaue his Lordship in red guilded leather A well bound Booke of all my Workes together Which he did take There in the Citie were some men of note That gladly would giue money for our Boat But all this while good manners bad vs stay To haue my good Lord Maiors yea or nay But after long demurring of the matter He well was pleas'd to see her on the water And then my men Rowde halfe an houre or more Whilst he stood viewing her vpon the shore They bore his Lordships Children in her there And many others as she well could beare At which his Honour was exceeding merry Saying it was a pretty nimble Wherry But when my men had taken all this paines Into their eyes they might haue put their gaines Vnto his Shop he did perambulate And there amongst his Barres of Iron sate I ask'd him if he would our Boat forgoe Or haue her and his Lordship answer'd No. I tooke him at his word and said God buye And gladly with my Boate away went I. I sold the Boat as I suppos'd most meete To honest Mr. Kayes in Cunny streete He entertain'd me well for which I thanke him And gratefully amongst my friends I 'le ranke him My kinde remembrance here I put in paper To worthy Mr. Hemsworth there a Draper Amongst the rest he 's one that I must thanke With his good wife and honest brother Franke. Now for the Citie 'T is of state and Port Where Emperors Kings haue kept their Court 989. yeare the foundation Was layde before our Sauiours incarnation By Ebrank who a Temple there did reare And plac'd a Flammin to Diana there But when King Lucius here the Scepter swayde The Idols leuell with the ground were layde Then Eleutherius Romes high Bishop plac'd An Archbishop at Yorke with Tytles grac'd Then after Christ 627. Was Edwin baptiz'd by the grace of heauen He pluck'd the Minster downe that then was wood And made it stone a deede both great and good The Citie oft hath knowne the chaunce of warres Of cruell forraigne and of home-bred iarres And those that further please thereof to read May turne the volumes of great Hollinshead 'T is large 't is pleasant and magnificent The Norths most fertile famous ornament 'T is rich and populous and hath indeede No want of any thing to serue their neede Abundance doth that noble Citie make Much abler to bestow then neede to take So farewell Yorke the tenth of August then Away came I for London with my men To dinner I to Pomfret quickly rode Where good hote Venson stay'd for my abode I thanke the worshipfull George Shillito He fill'd my men and me and let vs goe There did I well view ouer twice or thrice A strong a faire and auncient Edifice Reedifide where it was ruin'd most At th' high and hopefull Prince of Wales his cost I saw the roome where Exton and his rowt Of Traytours Royall Richards braines beat out And if that King did striue so many blowes As hacks and hewes vpon one pillar showes There are one hundred slashes he withstood Before the villaines shed his Kingly blood From Pomfret then vnto my noble friend Sir Robert Swift at Doncaster we wend An ancient Knight of a most generous spirit Who made me welcome farre beyond my merit From thence by Newarke I to Stamford past And so in time to London at the last Wâ—â—â—ere friends and neighbours all with louing harts Did welcome me with pottles pintes and quarts Which made my Muse more glib and blyth to tell This story of my voyage So farewell An Epilogue Thus haue I brought to end a worke of paine I wish it may requite me with some gaine For well I wote the dangers where I venâ—ered No full bag'd man would euer durst haue entered But hauing further shores for to discouer Hereafter now my Pen doth here giue ouer FINIS a The yeare of our Lord b Iuly was nam'd so by Caesar. c The Dog-dayes were 6. dayes entred d I obserue signes windes Tides dayes houres times Scituations manners e Noone if you 'le take it so f Boats are like Barbars Chairs Hackneyes or Whores common to all estates * These star Sands are called the Spiâ—s * It hath not a fellow in England for fishing A Booke called the praise of the red Herring * And a ship Carpenter * We were in a puzzell * We were like Flounders aliue in a frying Pan that leap'd into the fire to saue themselues * These were the names of the cumbersome Cromorian Constables * People did come thither 3. or 4. miles about to know what the matter was * I had as good to haue said nothing * Diligent Officers * The dancing on the Ropes or a Puppet play had come short of his takings accounting time for time * This was more then I could willingly afford * And the sword was rusty with Salt-water that it had neede of a quarters warning ere it wold come out * O braue sent * He would haue had vs to haue stayed 3. or foure dayes with him * They long'd for imployment and rather then be idle would be ill occupied a The God of Riuers Springs Brookes Foords Fountains b We Rowed aboue 100. miles that day c Sands lying crookedly in our way making vs goe 3. or foure miles about at lowe water * It is so call'd in Mr Dâ—aytons secoÌ„d part of Polyalbion in his treatise of Humber * It is a passage cut through the land 8. miles from Lincoln into Trent but through either the peoples pouerty or negligence it is grown vp with weeds and mud so that in the Summer it is in many places almost dry * I went 15. mile out of Trent down Humber on purpose to see Hull when my way was quite contrary * Hull Cheese is much like a loafe out of a Brewers Basket it is Composed of two simples Mault and Water in one CoÌ„pound and is Cosen germain to the mightiest Ale in England * The meaning of those marks are onely knowne to the Townsmen there * An ingenious man named Machabeus * Mr. I.I. * The Riuer of Hull is 20. miles in length cut with mens labor to the infinite Commodity of the Countrey * He built another faire Waterwork at Yorke of Freestone which doth the Citty exceeding seruice * A Prouerb * Mark for all is true * I write not by heare-say * But I was euer better with forks to scatter then with Rakes to gather therefore I would not haue the Townes-men to mistake chalke for Cheese or Robert for Richard * At Bishopsthorpe wher the Right reuerend Father in God Toby Mathew Archbishop of Yorke his Grace did make mee welcome a There is some oddes betweene keeping spending b Heere I make a full point for I receiued not a point in exchange c I thought it my duty being wee had come a dangerous voyage to offer our Boat to the chief Maiestrate For why should not my Boat be as good a monument as Tom Coriats euerlasting ouer-trampling land-conquering Shooes thought I d And forgat to say I thank you good fellowes * A substaÌ„tiall worthy Citizen who hath beene Shriefe of Yorke and now keeps the George in Cunny streete * Ebrank was the 5. K. of Britaine after Brute * An Arch-Flammin which was as an Idolatrous high Priest to Diana * Edwin and his whole family were baptized there on Easter day the 12. of Aprill 627. Yourkshire the greatest Shire in England and 308. miles about Speed * Pomfreâ— Castle * Prince Charles * Sir Peirce of Exton Knight * King Richard the second murdered there
Hallifax But sure in Hell there is a heauier tax Let each one for themselues in this agree And pray From Hell good Lord deliuer me The Prouerbe and the Prayer expounded plaine Now to the Orders of the Towne againe I thinke it merites praise for Gouernment More then all Townes in Britaines Continent As first their Charity doth much appeare They for the Poore haue so prouided there That if a man should walke from Morne till Night He shall not see one Begger nor a Mite Or any thing shall be demaunded euer But euery one there doth their best endeuour To make the Idle worke and to Relieue Those that are Olde and past or Sicknes grieue All Poore mens Children haue a House most fit Whereas they Sowe and Spin and Card and Knit Where all of them haue something still to doe As their Capacities will reach vnto So that no Idle person Olde or Young Within the Towne doth harbour or belong It yearely Costs Fiue hundred pounds besides To fence the Towne from Hull and Humbers tides For Stakes for Bauins Timber Stones and Piles All which are brought by Water many miles For Workmens labour and a world of things Which on the Towne excessiue Charges brings All which with perill industry and sweat They from the bowels of the Ocean get They haue a Bridewell and an exc'lent skill To make some people worke against their will And there they haue their Lodging and their meate Cleane Whips and euery thing exceeding neate And thus with faire or foule meanes alwayes they Giue idle persons little time to Play Besides for euery Sea or Marine cause They haue a House of Trinity whose Lawes And Orders doe Confirme or else Reforme That which is Right or that which wrongs deforme It is a Comely built well ordred place But that which most of all the House doth grace Are Roomes for Widdowes who are Olde and poore And haue bin Wiues to Marriners before They are for house-roome foode or lodging or For firing Christianly prouided for And as some dye some doe their places win As one goes out another doth come in Should I in all things giue the Towne it 's due Some fooles would say I flatter'd writ vntrue Or that I partiall in my writings were Because they made me welcome and good cheere But for all those that haue such thoughts of mee I rather wish that them I hang'd may see Then that they iustly could report that I Did Rime for victuals hunger to supply Or that my Muse or working braines should beate To flatter fawne or lye for drinke or meate Let Trencher-Poets scrape for such base vailes I 'le take an Oare in hand when writing failes And 'twixt the Boate and Pen I make no doubt But I shall shift to picke a liuing out Without base flatt'ry or false Coyned words To mowldy Madames or vnworthy Lords Or whatsoe're degree or Townes or Nations I euer did and still will scorne such fashions Hearesay sometimes vpon a lye may light But what I see and know I dare to write Mine eyes did view before my Pen set downe These things that I haue written of this Towne A new built Custome-house a faire Towne Hall For solemne meetings or a Festiuall A Maior twelue Aldermen one Shriefe Recorder A Towne-Clarke altogether in one order And vniformity doe gouerne so They neede not flatter friend or feare a foe A Sword a Cap of maintainance a Mace Great and well Guilt to doe the Towne more grace Are borne before the Maior and Aldermen And on Festiuities or high dayes then Those Maiestrates their Scarlet Gownes doe weare And haue sixe Sergeants to attend each yeare Now let men say what Towne in England is That truly can compare it selfe with this For scituation strength and gouernment For charity for plenty for content For state and one thing more I there was told Not one Recusant all the Towne doth hold Nor as they say there 's not a Puritan Or any nose-wise foole Precissian But great and small with one consent and will Obay his Maiesties Iniunctions still They say that once therein two sisters dwelt Which inwardly the prick of Conscience felt They came to London hauing wherewithall To buy two Bybles all Canonicall Th' Apocripha did put them in some doubt And therefore both their Bookes were bound without Except those two I ne're did heare of any At Hull though many places haue too many But as one scabbed sheepe a flock may marre So there 's one man whose nose did stand a iarre Talk'd very scuruily and look'd ascue Because I in a worthy Townes-mans Pue Was plac'd at Church when God knowes I ne're thought To sit there I was by the Owner brought This Squire of low degree displeased than Said I at most was but a Water-man And that they such great kindnesse setting forth Made more a' th flesh then e're the broth was worth Which I confesse but yet I answere make 'T was more then I with manners could forsake He sure is some high minded Pharisie Or else infected with their Heresie And must be set downe in their Catalogues They lou'd the highest seates in Sinagogues And so perhaps doth he for aught I know He may be mounted when I sit below But let him not a Water-man despise For from the water he himselfe did rise And windes and water both on him hath smil'd Else the great Marchant he had n'ere beene stil'd His Character I finely will contriue He 's scornfull proud and tatling talkatiue A great Ingrosser of strange speech and newes And one that would sit in the highest Pues But bate an Ace he 'le hardly winne the game And if I list I could rake out his name Thanks Mr. Maior for my Bacon Gammon Thankes Roger Parker for my small fresh Sammon 'T was ex'lent good and more the truth to tell ye Boyl'd with a fine Plum-pudding in the belly The sixth of August well accompanide With best of Townes-men to the waters side There did I take my leaue and to my Ship I with my Drum and Colours quickly skip The one did dub a dub and rumble braue The Ensigne in the ayre did play and waue I launch'd supposing all things had beene done Bownce from the Block-house quoth a roaring Gun And wauing Hats on both sides with content I cride Adiew adiew and thence we went Vp Humbers flood that then amaine did swell Windes calme and water quiet as a Well We Rowde to Owse with all our force and might To Cawood where we well were lodg'd all night The morrow when as Phoebus gan to smile I forwards set to Yorke eight little mile But two miles short of Yorke I landed than To see that reuerend Metropolitan That watchfull Shepheard that with Care doth keepe Th' infernall Wolfe from Heau'ns supernall Sheepe That painefull Preacher that most free Almes-giuer That though he liue long is too short a liuer That man whose age the poore doe all lament All knowing when