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A95583	A short relation of a long iourney, made round or ovall by encompassing the principalitie of Wales, from London, through and by the counties of Middlesex and Buckingham, Berks, Oxonia, Warwick, Stafford, Chester, Flint, Denbigh, Anglesey, Carnarvan, Merioneth, Cardigan, Pembrooke, Caermarden, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Glocester, &c. This painfull circuit began on Tuesday the 13 of July last, 1652. and was ended (or both ends brought together) on Tuesday the 7. of September following, being near 600. miles. Whereunto is annexed an epitome of the famous history of Wales. / Performed by the riding, going, crawling, running, and writing of John Taylor, dwelling at the sign of the Poets Head, in Phenix Alley, near the midle of Long Aker or Covent Garden.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1653 (1653)	Wing T512; Thomason E1432_2; ESTC R209533	21,036	48

for all that Traherne his Kinsman got the Principalities of North-Wales and was the 19. Prince at which time Rees ap Owen with Ritherch ap Caradoc had equall all South-Wales but Ritherch was quickly murdered treacherously and Rees then had all South-Wales but Rees and another Brother of his were both slain in hot fight by Caradoc ap Griffith and in Anno 1087. Traherne was slaine by his Cousins of the Line and Race of Howell Dha The 20. Prince of North-Wales was Griffith the Son of Conan and Rees ap Theodor had South-Wales but Rees was mightily troubled in Wars with some Kinsmen of his who in the end were all slain then was St. Davids spoyled and burnt by Rovers and Rees was murdered at Brecknok by his own servants ayded by some Normans at that time Robert Fitzharmaco Knight and one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to William Rufus King of England surprised the Lordship of Glamorgan which the English do hold yet also 12. Commanders with him did likewise take Portions of Land there Their Names were 1. William de Londres or London 2. Richard Granavilla or Greeneville or Greenefeild 3. Paganus de Turberville 4. Robert de St. Quintin 5. Richard Sywarde 6. Gilbertus Humfrevell 7. Reignold de Beckrolls 8. Reinoldus de Swilly 9. Peter le Sorre 10. Johanes de Flemming 11. Oliverus St. John 12. John William de Esterling now Stradling After much trouble many cruel fights with great slaughters of and against Normans English Irish Scots and continuall War with South-Wales and divers places more in Wales this victorious Prince dyed much beloved aud lamented for when he had Nobly Ruled 50. years Anno 1137. The 21. King was Owen Gwynneth who was Sou to the last Famous Prince Griffith he began with Wars against South-Wales where the English had taken possession with Flemmings Normans and others he chased them away burnt and spoyled Caermarden and returned victoriously to North-Wales 1142. in the year 1143. seven great Lords all of them of Princely blood and pedigree were slain in Wales Also at this time the Irish did much spoyle and in conelusion were spoyled by Prince Owen and near this time Howell and Conan Owens Sons gave the Normans and Flemmings a bloudy discomfeture at Abertivye and returned to their Father with spoyle and honour Yet these Wars continued still but the Flemmings and Normans were beaten twice more at the Castles of Carmarden and Lhanstephan from the yeare of Christ 1138. to 1160 being 32. years Wales had not so much as six Moneths peace and quietness And then before one yeare was expired the Princes of South-Wales quarrelled with Prince Owen and after some dangerous bickerings Owen had the Victory In Anno 1163. Henry the Second King of England made great preparations for War hee entred South-Wales as far as Brecknok and returnd without any cause of triumphing And in the year 1165. the said King Henry the Second came in Person again having in his Army the stoutest of Englishmen Normans Gascoigners Flemmings Guiencys and some fugitive Welch but Prince Owen joyned with South-Wales and others after much fighting and losse on both sides King Henry returned without Conquest and fewer men then he brought forth Also the next year 1167. the same King made a greater inrode into Wales to as much purpose as he had done twice before Also presently in the ●ick of these troubles another Army of Flemmings and Normans came to West-Wales did much harm and in the end returned with much losse Then presently to make the misery of Wales compleat the Welsh Lords fell together by the ears one with another and after a weary and troublesome Raign of 32. yeares the magnanimous Prince Owen Guineth dyed Anno 1169. His Son David succeeded the 22 Prince who was fain to fight for it and kill his Brother Howell before he could attain the Princedom Then did Henry the 2. King of England enter South-Wales took the Town of Caerleon from the Lo. Jorworth and quite destroyed it and in 1172. after a tedious molestation Prince David ap Owen was expulst from his Rule and Lhewelyn ap Jorworth being lawfull Prince took the Government 1194. Richard the first of that Name being then King of England This Prince had a quiet beginning in North-Wales but South-Wales was much vexed for K. John of England with David ap Owen before named who was deposed or expulsed came with an Army against Prince Lhewelyn who fought and beat K. John and took David prisoner and kept him fast and the same yeare there was another bloudy Battell fought between the English and the Lords of South-Wales and many men slain by the treachery of some Welsh Lords for private interests In 12 yeares Prince Lhewelyn had not one months quietness yet he was still victorious 1211. K. John came into Wales with a mighty Army with a purpose to destroy all that had life but he returned with great loss and the next year he came again when by reason that the English King had many Welsh Lords to take his part Prince Lhewelyn ap Jorworth came to an agreement with K. John and gave him 20000 l. and 40 Horses But covenants not being kept by occasion of the harsh dealing of the English Nobles and their Officers made to the Prince to raise an Army and take some Castles and Countries for which K. John caused the Gentlemen which he had for Pledges to be all hang'd and with another great Army he came into Wales again to no purpose for K. John had his hands and head full of troubles at home with the Pope and the French that he was forced to leave Wales and return to his great grief and loss In the yeare of Grace 1214. there was great wars between the Lords of South-Wales and Powis Welsh against Welsh and much mischiefe done on both sides And Anno 1215. Prince Lhewelyn made an Inrode into England then hee wonne Shrewshury sack'd it and returned into South-Wales he took Caermarden from the English raised the Castle and took 12 Castles more and returned home triumphant shortly after he subdued all Powis Land to his obedience and in Anno 1217. he brought all Wales to his subjection He had not a weekes rest from the yeare 1218. to 1221. but either Welsh English Flemmings or other troubles kept him from idleness and still it was his happiness to be Victor King John of England being reconciled to the Pope the French expulst from thence and the Kingdome in quiet the King having little to do at home would have the tother bout with Wales which he attempted with much Charge and bad success and shortly after died to whom his son Henry the 3. succeeded who made a speedy expedition against Lhewelyn and returned home with much detriment peace was made for a smal time for in Anno 1231. K. Henry made another great preparation against the Prince to the effect aforesaid In 1232. Lhewelyn made an expedition into England and

though other Crosses all are down 'T is a dry City and dry let it be 'T was not made dryer one small drop for me Like a Camelion there I brake my fast And thence I twenty miles to Lichfield past There at the George I took my lodging up I well was lodg'd and well did sup and cup When there by chance I cast my wandring eyon The ruin'd Church with griefe I thought on Sion I sigh'd to see that sad confusion Like th' Hebrews by the Brook of Babylon On July 's twenty seventh I rode alone Full sixteen miles unto a Town call'd Stone Next day to Nantwich sixteen long miles more From thence to Chester near the Cambrian shore There was my welcome in such noble fashion Of which in Prose I 'le make some briefe Relation MY Lodging at Chester was in the Watergate street at the Sign of the Feathers I lay on a Feather-bed and in the same house I met with two Brothers of mine acquaintance thirty years they brought me to the Chamber of a Reverend Italian Physition named Vincent Lancelles he was more then 80 yeares of Age yet of a very able body and vigorous constitution The Yong mens Names were Thomas Morrine and Francis Morrine the people were pleased out of their Ignorance or in small Wit to call the old Gentleman a Mountebank but I am sure he was deservedly well reputed and reported of for many Malladies and Diseases which hee cured whereof divers were judged incurable He helped such as were grieved for three severall considerations First Hee cured the Rich for as much as hee could get Secondly Hee healed the Meaner sort for what they could spare or were willing to part withall Thirdly Hee cured the Poor for Gods sake and gave them mony and other reliefe as I my selfe with thankfull experience must ever acknowledge For he looked upon my lame leg and applyed such Medicine as did not only ease me but I am in hope will cure me the griefe being nothing but a Blast of Lightning and Thunder or Planet stroke which I received nine years ●ast at Oxford For a further courtesie when I was taking my leave of Chester I demanded what I had to pay for Lodging Dyet and Horse-meat mine Host sayd that all was fully payd and satisfied by the Good old Physition My humble thanks remembred to Captain Vincent Corbet but more especially to Captain John Whitworth at Chester On Fryday the 30. of July I rode and footed it ten Miles to Flint which is the Shire Town of Flint-shire and surely War hath made it miserable the sometimes famous Castle there in which Richard the Second of that Name King of England was surprised by Henry of Bullinbrook is now almost buried in it's own Ruins and the Town is so spoiled that it may truely be said of it that they never had any Market in the memory of man they have no Sadler Taylor Weaver Brewer Baker Botcher or Button-maker they have not so much as a signe of an Ale-house so that I was doubtfull of a Lodging but by good hap I hapned into the house of one Mr. Edward Griffith where I had good meat and lodging for me and my dumb Dun Beast for very reasonable consideration and this me thinks is a pitifull discription of a Shire Town Saturday the last of July I left Flint and went three miles to Holy-well of which place I must speak somewhat materially About the length of a furlong down a very steep Hill is a Well full of wonder and admiration it comes from a Spring not far from Rudland Castle it is and hath been many hundred yeares knowne by the name of Holy-Well but it is more commonly and of most Antiquity called Saint Winifrids Well in memory of the pious and chaste Virgin Winifrid who was there beheaded for refusing to yield her Chastity to the furious lust of a Pagan Prince in that very place where her bloud was shed this Spring sprang up from it doth issue so forceible a stream that within a hundred yards of it it drives certain Mils and some do say that nine Corn Mils and Fulling Mils are driven with the stream of that Spring It hath a fair Chappell erected over it called Saint Winifrids Chappell which is now much defaced by the injury of these late Wars The well is compassed about with a fine Wall of Free stone the Wall hath eight Angles or Corners and at every Angle is a fair Stone Piller whereon the West end of the Chappell is supported In two severall places of the Wall there are neat stone staires to go into the water that comes from the Well for it is to be noted that the Well it selfe doth continually work and bubble with extream violence like a boiling Cauldron or Furnace and within the Wall or into the Well very few do enter The Water is Christalline sweet and medicinable it is frequented daily by many people of Rich and Poore of all Discases amongst which great store of folkes are cured divers are cased but none made the worse The Hill descending is plentifully furnished on both sides of the way with Beggers of all ages sexes conditions sorts and sizes many of them are impotent but all are impudent and richly embrodered all over with such Hexameter poudred Ermins or Vermin as are called Lice in England Monday the second of August when the Day begun I mounted my Dun having hired a little Boy to direct me in the way that could speak no English and for lack of an Interpreter we travelled speachless eight miles to Rudland where is an old ruined winde and war-shaken Castle from that Town after my Horse and the Boy and my selfe had dined with Hay Oats and Barraw Causs we hors't and footed it twelve miles further to a fine strong walled Towne named Aberconwy there I lodged at the house of one Mr. Spencer an English man he is Post-Master there and there my entertainment was good and my Reckoning reasonable There is a good defensive Castle which I would have seen but because there was a Garrison I was loath to give occasion of offence or be much inquisitive The next day when the Clock strook two and fowre I mounted Dun Dun mounted Penmen Mawre And if I do not take my aime amisse That lofty Mountain seems the Skies to kisse But there are other Hils accounted higher Whose lofty tops I had no mind t' aspire As Snowdon and the tall Plinnillimon Which I no stomack had to tread upon Merioneth Mountains and Shire Cardigan To travell over will tire horse and man I to Bewmaris came that day and din'd Where I the good Lord Buckley thought to find But he to speak with me had no intent Dry I came into 's house dry out I went I left Bewmaris and to Bangor trac'd it Ther 's a brave Church but Time and War defac'd it For Love and Mony I was welcome thither 'T is merry meeting when they come together Thus having travelled

with it may be so then most uncurteous Mistris quoth I I doubt I must bee necessitated to take up my lodging in the Field To which the said ungentle Gentlewoman with her posteriors or butt end towards me gave me a finall Answer that I might if I would Whereupon I was enraged and mounted my Dun and in a friendly maner I tooke my leave saying that I would wander further and try my fortune and that if my stay at that house that night would save either Mr. Shallow-pate or Mrs. Jullock from hanging that I would rather lie and venture all hazards that are incident to Horse Man or Traveller then to be beholding to such unmanerly Mungrils Thus desperately I shaked them off that would not take me on and riding I knew not whither with a wide wild Heath under me and a wider Firmament above me I roade at adventure betwixt light and darkness about a mile when luckily a Gentleman overtook mee and after a little talk of my distresse and travail he bad me be of good chear for he would bring me to a lodging and entertainment in which promise he was better then his word for hee brought mee to a pretty Market Towne called Neath where he spent his money upon me for which kindness I thank him But one Doctour as they call him Rice Jones or Doctor Merriman came and supt with mee and very kindly payd all the reckoning That dayes journey being but 6 miles sterling The 19. of August I hired a Guide for 3 s. 16 miles to a place called Penline where somtime stood a strong Castle which is now ruined adjoyning to it or in the place of it is a fair house belonging to Anthony Turberville Esquire where although the Gentleman was from home the good Gentlewoman his Wife did with hospitable and noble kindnesse bid me welcome Fryday the 20. of August I rode a mile to an Ancient Town named Coobridge from whence I scrambled two miles further to Llanstrithyott where the Noble Gentleman Sure John Awbrey with his Vertuous Lady kept me three dayes in the mean space I rode two miles to the house of the Ancient and Honorable Knight Sir Thomas Lewis at Penmark to whom and his good Lady I humbly dedicate my gratitude The same day after Dinner I returned back to Llanstrithyott which was to me a second Golden Grove or Welch Paradice for Building Scituation wholsome Ayre Pleasure and Plenty for my free entertainment there with the Noble expression of the Gentlemans Bounty at my departure I heartily do wish to him and his with all the rest of my Honorable and Noble Worshipfull and friendly Benefactors true peace and happinesse internall externall and eternall Monday the 23. of August I rode eight miles to the good Town of Cardiffe where I was welcome to Mr. Aaron Price the Town Clark there with whom I dined at his cost and my perrill after Dinner he directed me two miles further to a place called Llanrumney where a right true bred generous Gentleman Thomas Morgan Esquire gave me such loving and liberall entertainment for which I cannot be so thankfull as the merit of it requires Tuesday being both Saint Bartholomews Day my Birth day the 24 of the Month and the very next day before Wednesday I arose betimes and travelled to a Town called Newport and from thence to Carbean and lastly to Vske in all 15 well measu'd Welsh Monmouthshire miles at Uske I lodg'd at an Inne the house of one Master Powell The 25. of August I rode but 12 miles by an unlook'd for accident I found Bartholomew Faire at Monmouth a hundred miles from Smithfield there I stayed two nights upon the large reckoning of Nothing to pay for which I humbly thank my Hospitable Host and Hostess Master Reignald Rowse and his good Wife Monmouth the Shire Town of Monmouthshire was the last Welsh ground that I left behind me August 27. I came to Glocester where though I was born there very few did know me I was almost as ignorant as he that knew no body my lodging there was at the signe of the George at the house of my Namesake Master John Taylor from whence on Saturday the 28. I rode 16. miles to Barnsley Of all the places in England and Wales that I have travelled to this Village of Barnsley doth most strictly observe the Lords day or Sunday for little children are not suffered to walke or play and two Women who had beene at Church both before and after Noone did but walke into the fields for their recreation and they were put to their choice either to pay sixpence apiece for prophane walking or to be laid one houre in the stocks and the pievish willfull women though they were able enough to pay to save their money and jest out the matter lay both by the heeles merrily one houre There is no such zeale in many places and Parishes in Wales for they have neither Service Prayer Sermon Minister or Preacher nor any Church door opened at all so that people do exercise and edifie in the Church-Yard at the lawfull and laudable Games of Trap Catt Stool-ball Racket c. on Sundayes From Barnsley on Monday the 30. of August I rode 30 miles to Abington from thence c. to London where I brought both ends together on Tuesday the 7. of September Those that are desirous to know more of Wales let them either travell for it as I have done or read Mr. Camdens Brittania or Mr. Speeds laborious History and their Geographicall Maps and Descriptions will give them more ample or contenting satisfaction ONE Humphrey Lloyd Esquire did exactly collect the Brittish or Welsh History from the Originall till the yeare 1510. after which it was continued by Doctor David Powell till the yeare 1584. Printed then and Dedicated to Sir Phillip Sidney Knight those who are desirous to read more largely let them make use of their larger Book But for such as love brevity or cheapnesse let them read this which followeth Cambria Brittania OR Ashort Abreviation of the History and Chronicles of VVALES By JOHN TAYLOR CARADOC of Lancarvan a studious Antiquary and a learned diligent Collector of the Successions and Acts of the Brittish Princes did write the History of Wales from the time and Raigne of Cadwallador who lived in the yeare of our Redemption 685 and continued the said Chronology near 500 years till the Raigne of Henry the second King of England It hath alwayes before those times and ever since that Writers for feare or flattery or profit have used shamefull or shameless partiality in publishing the fames of their owne Princes and Countrey above measure and beyond truth but in their detracting and traducing others they have been too liberall and in relating their Valour Vertues or Injuries of such they fancyed not they have been too sparing or wilfully negligent But to make bold and speak the truth it is worth good consideration to know what reason the English had to