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england_n	great_a	land_n	lord_n	2,551	5	3.2299	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64216	John Taylors vvandering, to see the vvonders of the vvest. How he travelled neere 600. miles, from London to the Mount in Cornwall, and beyond the Mount, to the Lands end, and home againe. Dedicated to all his loving friends, and free minded benefactors. In these dangerous dayes for rich men, and miserable times for the poore servants of the late King, (whereof I was one, 45. yeers to his royall father and himself) I thought it needful to take some course to make use of some friends, and devise a painfull way for my subsistence; which was the journey I have past, and this booke heere present; for which purpose I gave out many of these following bills, to which neere 3000. gentlemen and others, have kindly subscribed, to give me a reasonable reward.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1649 (1649)	Wing T528; ESTC R203757	12,426	22

any place where that good old man was buried the Abby was walled more then a mile about with a wall of free-stone as faire as London wall it is very probable that King Arthur our English Worthy was there sepulchred for there I saw some stones of Marble of which I placed the broken pieces together I read these words in Latin Hic jacet Guineverus Regins Vxores c. Queene Guinever was Wife to the great Arthur and she being buried there it is to be conjectured that his bones were not layd far from her Mr. Camden doth quote the Ancient Historian William of Malmsbury to write these words following concerning Glastenbury That it was the first Land of God in England the first Land of Saints in England the beginning and fountaine of all Religion in England the Tombe of Saints the Mother of Saints the Church founded and built by the Lords Disciples I saw a branch or slip of the Hawthorne Tree that did beare Blossomes every yeare when all other Trees were frost-bitten and seemed dead this Tree onely on Christmas day the day of our blessed Saviours Birth this Tree did in its kinde snew its joy in comemoration of the Nativity of the Redeemer of unkinde mankinde There are all the Inhabitants in the Towne will verifie it and thousands in England and other Countries will affirme that it is no Fable The Souldiers being over zealous did cut it downe in pure devotion but a Vintner dwelling in the Towne did save a great ship or branch of it and placed or set it in his Garden and he with others did tell me that the same doth likewise Bloome on the 25. day of December yearely I saw the sayd branch and it was ten foote high greene and flourishing I did take a dead Sprigge from it wherewith I made two or three Tobacco stoppers which I brought to London my humble thankes to Mr. Brooke with his good Sister for they entertained me freely so that the Towne of Glastonbury was not one penny the richer for any expences of mine Monday the second of Iuly I went to Bridgewater ten miles where all that was worthy of note was that neare the Towne at a stile I had a great disaster for a shagge or splinter of the stile tooke hold of my one and onely breeches and tore them in that extreme unmercifull unmannerly manner that for shame and modesties sake I was faine to put them off and goe breechlesse into the Towne where I found a botching threepenny Taylor who did patch me up with such reparations as made me not ashamed to put my breeches on againe and trot five miles further to a ragged Market Towne called Neather-St●y where extreame weary I tooke up my lodging at a signe and no signe which formerly was the Rose and Crowne but Roses are withered and Crownes are obscured as the signe was Surely that day was a mad sad glad auspicious unlucky day to me worse then an Ominous Childermas or a dogged byting dog-day for the Hostesse was out of Towne mine Host was very sufficiently drunke the house most delicately deckt with exquisite artificiall and naturall sluttery the roome be sprinckled and strewed with the excrements of Pigs and Children the wall and sielings were adorned and hanged with rare Spiders Tapistry or cobweb Lawne the smoake was so palpable and perspicuous that I could scarce see any thing else and yet I could scarce see that it so blinded me with Rheum a signe of weeping besides all this the odorifferous and contagious perfume of that house was able to outvie all the Millainers in Christendome or Somersetshire I being thus embellished or encompassed with these most unmatchable varieties but to comfort me compleatly mine Host swing'd off halfe a pot to me bad me be merry and asked me if I would have any powdred Beefe and Carrets to supper I told him yes with all my heart but I being weary of the house I went and sate three houres in the street where mine Host often did visit me with most delightfull and hydropicall non-sense at last 7 of the clock was struck and I went into the house to see if supper were ready but I found small comfort there for the fire was out no Beefe to be boyled mine Host fast asleep the Maid attending the hogs and my hungry selfe halfe starv'd with expectation I awaked mine Host and asked him where the Beefe was he told me that he had none and desired me to be contented with egges fryed with parsly I prayed him to shew me my chamber which he did the chamber was sutable to the rest of the house there I stayd till neere 9 a clock expecting fry'd egges when mine Host came to me with an empty answer there were no egges to be had so at the last I purchased a piece of bread and butter and to bed and then began my further torments for thinking to take a little rest I was furiously assualted by an Ethiopian Army of Fleas and do verily believe that I layd so manfully about me that I made more then 500 mortuus est they were so wel grown that as I took 'em I gave 'em no quarter but rub'd 'em between my finger and my thumbe and they were so plumpe mellow that they would squash to pieces like yong boyled pease But all these troubles I patiently past by making no more account of them then of so many Flea-bytings For my further delight my chamber-pot seemed to be lined within with crimson plush or shag'd scarlet bayes it had scaped a scowring time out of minde it was fur'd with antiquity and withall it had a monumentall savour and this pisse-pot was another of my best contentments At last wearinesse and watching began to inforce sleep upon me so that in spight of the fleas teeth I began to winke when suddenly three children began to cry and for an hours space I was kept waking which made mee fall to the slaughter againe The children being hush'd asleep the game began afresh amongst the dogs for the cry was up and the bawling Currs took the word one from the other all the Towne over and the dogs had no sooner done but the day break appeared and the hogs began to cry cut for their breakfast so I arose and travelled almost sleeping 10. miles that day which was to a Towne called Dunstar where upon a lofty hill stands a strong Castle it had then a Garrison in it I'must confesse I was free there From nasty Roomes that never fels broomes From excrements and all bad sents From childrens bawling and caterwawling From grunting of hogs and barking of dogs And from byting of Fleas there I found ease The fourth of Iuly I travelled to Exfourd so named because it stands near the head or spring of the River Ex which runs downe fom North to South neere 40 miles to the City of Exeter and to Exmouth where it delivers it selfe into the Ocean and from thence to Brayfourd another Fourd which