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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13485	The pennyles pilgrimage, or The money-lesse perambulation, of Iohn Taylor, alias the Kings Majesties water-poet How he trauailed on foot from London to Edenborough in Scotland, not carrying any money to or fro, neither begging, borrowing, or asking meate, drinke or lodging. With his description of his entertainment in all places of his iourney, and a true report of the vnmatchable hunting in the brea of Marre and Badenoch in Scotland. With other obseruations, some serious and worthy of memory, and some merry and not hurtfull to be remembred. Lastly that (which is rare in a trauailer) all is true.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1618 (1618)	STC 23784; ESTC S118255	31,268	54

glory Then Rome doth by fantastick Purgatory A long mile thus I past downe downe steepe steepe In deepenesse farre more deepe then Neptunes deepe Whilst o're my head in fourefould stories hye Was Earth and Sea and Ayre and Sun and Skie That had I dyed in that Cimerian roome Foure Elements had couered ore my tombe Thus farther then the bottome did I goe And many Englishmen haue not done so Where mounting Porposes and mountaine Whales And Regiments of fish with finnes and Scales Twixt me and Heauen did freely glide and slide And where great Ships may at an Anchor ride Thus in by sea and out by land I past And tooke my leaue of good Sir George at last The Sea at certaine places doth leake or soake into the Mine which by the industry of Sir George Bruce is all conueyd to one well neere the land where hee hath a deuise like a horsemill that with three horses and a great chaine of Iron going downeward many fadomes with thirty sixe buckets fastened to the chaine of the which eighteene goes downe still to be filled and eighteene ascends vp to be emptied which doe empty themselues without any mans labour into a trough that conueyes the water into the Sea againe by which meanes he saues his Myne which otherwise would be destroyed with the Sea beside he doth make euery weeke ninety or an hundred Tuns of salt which doth serue part of Scotland some hee sends into England and very much into Germany all which shewes the painefull industry with Gods blessings to such worthy endeauours I must with many thankes remember his courtesie to mee and lastly how he sent his man to guide me ten miles on the way to Sterling where by the way I saw the outside of a faire and stately house called Allaway belonging to the Earle of Marr which by reason that his Honor was not there I past by and went to Sterling where I was entertained and lodged at one Mr. Iohn Archibalds where all my want was that I wanted roome to containe halfe the good cheere that I might haue had there hee had me into the Castle which in few words I doe compare to Windsor for scituation much more then Windsor in strength and somewhat lesse in greatnes yet I dare affirme that his Majesty hath not such another hall to any house that he hath neither in England nor Scotland except Westminster Hall which is now no dwelling Hall for a Prince being long since metamorphosed into a house for the Law and the profits This goodly Hall was built by King Iames the fourth that married King Henry the eights sister and after was slaine at Flodden field but it surpasses all the halls for dwelling houses that euer I saw for length breadth height and strength of building the Castle is built vpon a rocke very lofty and much beyond Edenborough Castle in state and magnificence and not much inferiour to it in strength the roomes of it are lofty with carued workes on the seelings the doores of each roome beeing so high that a man may ride vpright on horsebacke into any chamber or lodging There is also a goodly faire Chappell with Cellers Stables and all other necessary Offices all very stately and besitting the Maiestie of a King From Sterling I rode to Saint Iohnston a fine Towne it is but it is much decayed by reason of the want of his Maiesties yearely comming to lodge there There I lodged one night at an Inne the Goodman of the house his name being Patrick Pettcarne where my entertainement was with good cheere good drinke good lodging all too good to a bad weary guest Mine Host tolde mee that the Earle of Marr and Sir William Murray of Abercarny were gone to the great hunting to the Brea of Marre but if I made hast I might perhaps finde them at a Towne called Breekin or Breechin two and thirty miles from Saint Iohns Stone wherevpon I tooke a guide to Breekin the next day but before I came my Lord was gone from thence foure dayes Then I tooke another guide which brought mee such strange wayes ouer mountaines and rockes that I thinke my horse neuer went the like and I am sure I neuer saw any wayes that might fellow them I did goe through a Country called Glaneske where passing by the side of a hill so steepe as is the ridge of a house where the way was rocky and not aboue a yard broad in some places so fearefull and horrid it was to looke downe into the bottome for if either horse or man had slipt he had fallen without recouery a good mile downe-right but I thanke God at night I came to a lodging in the Lard of Eggells Land where I lay at an Irish house the folkes not being able to speake scarce any English but I sup'd and went to bed where I had not laine long but I was enforced to rise I was so stung with Irish Musketaes a Creature that hath sixe legs liues like a monster altogether vpon mans flesh they doe inhabite and breed in most sluttish houses and this house was none of the cleanliest the beast is much like a louse in England both in shape and nature in a word they were to me the A. and the Z. the Prologue and the Epilogue the first and the last that I had in all my trauells from Edenborough and had not this highland Irish house helped mee at a pinch I should haue sworne that all Scotland had not beene so kind as to haue bestowed a Louse vpon me but with a shift that I had I shifted off my Caniballs and was neuer more troubled with them The next day I trauelled ouer an exceeding high mountaine called mount Skeene where I found the valley very warme before I went vp it but when I came to the top of it my teeth beganne to daunce in my head with colde like Virginall iackes and withall a most familiar mist embraced mee round that I could not see thrice my length any way withall it yeelded so friendly a deaw that it did moysten through all my clothes Where the olde Prouerbe of a Scottish Miste was verified in wetting mee to the skinne Vp and downe I thinke this hill is sixe miles the way so vneuen stonie and full of bogges quagmires and long heath that a dogge with three legs will outrunne a horse with foure for doe what we could wee were foure houres before we could passe it Thus with extreame trauell ascending and descending mounting alighting I came at night to the place where I would bee in the Brea of Marr which is a large Countie all composed of such mountaines that Shooters Hill Gads Hill Highgate Hill Hampsted hill Birdlip hill or Maluerne hilles are but Mole hilles in comparison or like a Liuer or a Gizard vnder a Capons wing in respect of the altitude of their toppes or perpendicularitie of their bottomes There I saw Mount Benawne with a furr'd mist vpon his snowie head in