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A13509	Taylor on Thame Isis: or The description of the tvvo famous riuers of Thame and Isis, who being conioyned or combined together, are called Thamisis, or Thames With all the flats, shoares, shelues, sands, weares, stops, riuers, brooks, bournes, streames, rills, riuolets, streamelets, creeks, and whatsoeuer helps the said riuers haue, from their springs or heads, to their falls into the ocean. As also a discouery of the hinderances which doe impeache the passage of boats and barges, betwixt the famous Vniuersity of Oxford, and the city of London.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1632 (1632)	STC 23803; ESTC S118291	9,347	30

TAYLOR on Thame Isis OR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TWO FAmous Riuers of Thame and Isis who being conioyned or combined together are called Thamisis or Thames With all the Flats Shoares Shelues San●● Weares Stops Riuers Brooks ●ournes Streames Rills Riuolets Streamelets Cree●● and whatsoeuer helps the said Riuers haue from their springs or heads to their falls into the Ocean As also a discouery of the hinderances which 〈…〉 e impeach the passage of Boats and Barges betwixt the famous Vniversity of Oxford and City of London LONDON P 〈…〉 d by Iohn Haui 〈…〉 163● TO The Right Honourable Lords THOMAS Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England EDWARD Lord Viscount Wimbleton Henry Lord Viscount Fawlkland and Sir Thomas Edmonds Knight Treasurer of the Kings Houshold Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuy Councell and Commissioners for the Nauigation and fishing of the famous Riuers of Thames and Medway RIght Noble Lords with sorrow I beheld That which to write my duty hath compel'd And from my pen the Thames flow'd to the presse From thence it ebbes to you to finde redresse My Honourable Lord of Dorchester He truly noted in particular Dame Isis wrongs and Thames great injuries For they were sad perspectiues to his eyes And had his Lordship liu'd his meaning was To make the Riuer passable to passe For then with noble care and deligence He view'dthe helps and the impediments Which aid or hinder passage vp and downe Twixt Oxford City and braue Winds●…r towne Yet as I sometimes row'd and sometimes st●…r'd I view'd wh●…e well where ill the way appeard And here I haue des●…rib'd the way we went Commixing truth with honest merriment My th●…ed-bare wit a mad wooll gathering goes To shew the things in verse I saw in prose And Honourable Pe●…res I humbly craue My artless●… lines may your acceptance haue Wis●…ing each fault remou'd which st●…nds vnfi●… As soone as you can reade what I haue writ Desiring God to giue y●…u high content Here and here f●…er glory permanent Humbly deuoted with his best endeuouts to all your Honourable personag●…s IOHN TAYLOR TO The memory of the truly Noble deceased DVDLEY CARLETON Lord Viscount Dorchester principall Secretary of State to his Maiestie of GREAT BRITAINE IF He be blest that is of Noble bloud And being made great is both great and good Who is a Christian euery way compleat Who holds it better to be good than great Whose life was guided with good Conscience Whose end was sauing faith and penitence These blessings Noble Dorchester were thine And these haue made thee ' Immortall and diuine To any Body I That ne're tasted the Castalian fount Or came in ken of the Thessalian Mount I that could ne're attaine to wet my lips With Tempes liquour or sweet Aga●…pps Who neuer yet haue so much fauour won To purchase one carrowse from Helicon Who with good Poets dare compare no way But one which is in being poore as they And hauing neuer seene the Muses hill Am plentifully stor'd with want of skill Then Fount or Mount nor sacred trebl●… trine Are no assistants in this worke of mine But ancient Isis current chrystall spring Inspires my braine and I her praises sing And Tame with Isis joynes his pearely streames Whose combination are my ampletheames Though for the most part in the tracts I tread Of learned Camden Speed and Hollinshead And Draytons painfull Polyolbyon Whose fame shall liue despight obliuion These are the guides I follow with pretence T'abbreuiate and extract their Quint-essence Nor can it be to them disparagement That I come after in the wayes they went For they of former writers followers be I follow them and some may follow me And man to man a President is made In Art or Science mysterie or Trade As they before these Riuers bounds did show Here I come after with my Pen and row TAYLOR ON THAME ISIS OVr patron Phoebus whose sweet influence Doth quicken all our reason life and sense T is he makes grasse to grow Riuers sprin● He makes both my songs subiect and me sin● His beames the waters doe extenuate To vapours and those vapours eleuate Into the middle Region where they tumble And melt and then descend and are made humble Moystning the face of many a spacious hill Where soaking deepe the hollow vaults they fill Where into Riuers they againe breake out So nature in a circle runnes about Large Downes doe treasure vp great store of raine Whose bowels vent it in the vales againe No place in England could a treasure keepe Thames to maintaine but Coteswould queene of sheepe In Glostershire my dearest motherearth From whose faire City I deriue my birth Are Coteswould hills and in the farthest cliffe Of all those hils of Isis head is chiefe Schollers from Gloster that to Oxford ride The truth of my assertion oft haue tride On their right hand neare Cubberley they passe Two Wells as sweet as milke as cleare as glasse Whence Isis first doth pedegree deriue Those two are able there two mills to driue At Burton on the water south from Stow Vpon the Would great vaines of waters flow To Burford and to Witney and along Till they make meadowes large and Isis strong The famous Riuer Isis hath her spring Neare Tetbury and downe along doth bring As hand-maids to attend her progresse Churne Colne Windrush Yenload Leech whose windings turne And Meads and Pastures trims bedecks and dresses Like an vnvaluable chaine of ESSES After releefe of many a Ducke and Goose At Saint Iohns bridge they make their rendeuous And there like robbers crossing London way Bid many a bare-foot Welshman wade or stay Close vnder Oxford one of Englands eyes Chiefe of the chiefest Vniuersities From Banbury desirous to adde knowledge To zeale and to be taught in Magdalen College The Riuer Charwell doth to Isis runne And beares her company to Abington Whil'st very neare that towne on Barkshire side The Riuer Ock doth into Isis glide These fountaines and fish-breeding Riuolets The Countries nurses nourishers and teats Attend Dame Isis downe to Dorchester Neare which her louely Tame doth meet with her There Tame his Isis doth embrace and kisse Both joyn'd in one cal'd Tame or Tame Isis Isis like Salmacis becomes with Tame Hermaphrodite in nature and in name Tame doth deriue his Spring or Pedegree Neare Mesworth in the vale of Aylsbury From whence he many miles with strange meanders To finde his lovely Isis slowly wanders Through fertile lands a quiet course he keepes Till Southward vnder Whately bridge he creepes And like a Pilgrim trauels all alone No Brooke or Riuer waiting him vpon Onely three namelesse Riuolets and two springs Which very priuately their tribute brings Bewailing Isis absence and his fate Poore Tame all heauie and disconsolate ●…nnauigable scorn'd despis'd disgrac'd ●…auing in vaine so many paces pac'd ●…espairing and quite desperate with these harmes ●…e hurles himselfe vnwares in Isis armes ●…or closer can the barke be

to the tree ●…han their infoldings and embracings be ●…hey rise and fall together and they are ●…n want and plenty to haue equall share ●…d Tame with Isis will be both one riuer ●…ill in the Oc●…n they their names deliuer ●…t Wallingford and Pangbourne two small ri●…s ●…heir homages to Thamisis instils ●…he more the riuer runnes the more t is spreading ●…ill in it's course it falls as low as Reading ●…here Kennet kindly comes with force and source ●…o aid and helpe Thamisis in their course ●…he head of Kennet is neare Ramsbury ●…assing to Hungerford by Newbury ●…he ●…iner Anborne out of Hampshire ●…ies ●…o Kennet with some namelesse small supplies ●…f pe●…ic rills which passing here and there ●…ho to repeat teadious and needlesse were ●…o Sunning and by Bisham Thames descends ●…o Marlow called great from whence it wends ●…hereas a little rill from Wickham towne ●…o wait vpon the Thames comes gliding downe Then pleasantly the riuer takes free way To Topley hills by Maidenhead and Bray Till it to Windsor and to Stanes doth win And there the riuer Colne comes gliding in Colne hath its head or spring in Hartfordshire At Abbots Langley or else very neere With some small petty rils and riuolets By Colbrooke vnto Stanes and Thames it gets The riuer Wey with diuers namelesse springs Neare Chertsey vnto Thames their seruice brings Wey beyond Guilford help'd with creeks and crooks At last at Oatlands towards Sunbury lookes And there a little rill scarce worth a line In Middlesex doth with the Thames combine Neare Reygate towne the riuer Mole is found Bearing its course runs Mole-like vnder ground But rising vp by Notbury againe At Molsey it the Thames doth entertaine From Ewell towne the riuer Brent makes haste Who by the Thames is louingly embrac'd Next which is Chiswicke towne and Hammersmith It entertaines a rill or little frith And after that below neare Wandsworth mill Comes in another ●…rooke or namelesse rill Thus I the riuer bring and it brings me From their first springs to London bridge you see Now from the bridge below descend I must Till Thames it selfe doth in the Ocean thrust And if my paines to good men proue a pleasure My gaine 's beyond my merit beyond measure Of Watermen men scarce can finde a Slower Yet hey to Grauesend hoe and somewhat lower Braue London Bridge claimes right preheminence For strength and Architects magnificence To be true None-such for no eye beheld A bridge which it each way hath paralleld The arches Tame and Isis shadie bowres Through which both East and West in twice twelue houres Twice Neptune greets it flowing from the Maine And twice the riuer sends it backe againe And as the flouds or ebbes encrease or falls They through the arches murmure Madrigals Whil'st th' Eddies divers wayes doth turne and trace Tame doth with Isis dance the wilde goose chace From this rare matchlesse piece of workmanship I with the tide of Ebbe must quickly slip And downe into the Riuer Lea I hie That parts Midsaxon from East Saxony Which riuer fals from Ware to Walthamstow And downe by Layton vnto Stratford Bow Some call it Lea but Camden calls it Stowre And neare Blackwall it in the Thames doth powre Next Rodeing is a Brooke or riuer small Which Foord from Berking into Thames doth fall From Hauering Burntwood and from Ockingdon Three little Rils into the Thames do run Th' are namelesse or scarce worth the nomination And so on Essex side I end my station And now I 'le crosse into the County Kent To note what riuers from her bound are sent To wait vpon the mighty bigswolne Thames Who now is grown the Prince of Brittains streams By Bromley glides the riuer Rauensburne To Deptford downe with many a wandring turne The riuer Darrent is the next and last Which downe by Dartford into Thames is cast And thus from Glocester shire neare Tetbury And Buckingham shire close by Aylsbury I haue brought Isis and her partner Tame With twenty seven helpes losing each their name Who spend themselues to make the Thames grow great Till below Lee it lose both name and seat Through many Countries as these waters passe They make the Pastures fructifie in grasse Cattell grow fat and cheese and butter Cheape Hey in abundance Corne by stricke and heape Beasts breed and Fish increase fowles multiply It brings wood Cole and Timber plenteously It beares the lame and weake makes fat the leane And keepes whole townes and countries sweet and cleane Wer 't not for Thames as heauens high hand doth blesse it We neither could haue fish or fire to dresse it The very Brewers would be at a fault And buy their water dearer than their mault And had they malt and water at desire What shift a Gods name would they make for fire There 's many a Seaman many a Nauigator Watermen fishers bargemen on this water Themselues and families beyond compare In number more than hundred thousands are Who doe their Prince and Country often serue And wer 't not for this riuer might goe sterue And for the good to England it hath done Shall it to spoyle and ruine be let runne Shall p●…iuate persons for their gainfull use Ingrosse the water and the land abuse Shall that which God and nature giues us free For vse and profit in community Be barr'd from men and damb'd vp as in Thames A shamelesse auarice surpassing shames I speake not of the riuers bounds below Whereas the tides perpetuall ebbe and flow Nor is the r●…er wanting much repaire Within the bounds of Londons honour'd Maior Which limits all are cleare from stakes and piles Beyond Stanes bridge that 's more than forty miles But I from Oxford downe to Stanes will slide And tell the riuers wrongs which I espide Not doubting but good mindes their powers will lend T' endeuour these abuses to amend Therefore I pray the Readers to dispence And pardon my abrupt intelligence From Oxford two miles Ifley distant is And there a new turne pike doth stand amisse Another stands at Stanford below that Weeds shelues and shoales all waterlesse and flat At Newnham locke there 's plac'd a fishing weare A gra●…ell hill too high scarce water there At Abington the shoales are worse and worse That Swift ditch seemes to be the better course Below which towne neare Sutton there are left Piles that almost our Barges bottome cleft Then Sutton locks are great impediments The waters fall with such great violence Thence downe to Cullom streame runs quicke and quicke Yet we rub'd twice a ground for want of liquor The Weare of Carpenter's sans fault I thinke But yet neare Witnum towne a tree did sinke Whereas by fortune we our Barge did hit And by misfortune there a board was split At Clif on there are rocks and sands and flats Which made vs wade and wet like drowned rats ●he passage bare the water often gone ●nd rocks smooth worne doe paue it like free stone

●rom Clifton downe to Wallingford we fleet Where for annoyance piles are plac'd vnmeet ●rom thence our Oares did downe the riuer draw ●ntill we came vnto a mungrill Spaw 〈◊〉 Bath a Spring a Fountaine or a Rill ●ha● issues from the bowels of a hill 〈◊〉 hill it may be tearm'd or demie mountaine ●rom out whose entralls springs this new-found fountaine Whose water cleare as Chrystall sweet as hony Cures all diseases except want of mony 〈◊〉 helpes the Palsey Cramp or Apoplexie ●cab scurfe or scald or dropsie if it vex yee ●he Plurisie the Lethargie Strangury ●t cures the Cataracke and the Stone assure yee ●he head-ach Megrim Canker or the Mumps Mange Murrians Meazles Melancholy dumps ●t is of vertue vigor and of force ●o driue all malladies from man or horse Help'd of a Tertian ague I saw one Weake and not worth the ground he went vpon Who drank the water mingled with the clay And presently the Ague ran away It cures an old sore or a bruised blow It made the deafe to heare the lame to goe One dumbe came thither and straightway disputed And on the trees are crutches executed To heale greene wounds it hath such Soueraigne power It cur'd a broken pate in halfe an houre Which sconce was crack'd on purpose to th' intent To try the vertue of the Element If any man imagine I doe lie Let him goe thither breake his pate and trie Some say crack'd maidenheads are there new sodered I 'm sure the hill with beggers is embroidered And all those beggers are with little cost With lice and scabs embroidered and embost And as it were the Well of Aristotle The water is farre fetch'd in many a bottle The clay mixt with the liquour kils the Cornes Ah could it cure some Cuckolds of their hornes It would haue patients out of euery climat More than my patience could endure to rime at And had it but the vertue to surcease Some clamorous tongues and make them hold their pea●… Thousands of husbands would their wiues send thither That they might be recouered all together Apothecaries I lament your lots Your medcines now will mould in Gallipots ●…ur drugges with barbarous names vnbought will lie ●…d waste and languish in obscurity ●…ill begger all the Quacksaluers outright 〈◊〉 all our Mountebanks are vndone quite 〈◊〉 what 's become of me can any tell ●…od Reader helpe me out of this strange well ●…with my pen its praise did meane to touch ●…nd it I feare hath made me write too much ●…hich if I haue let your constructions be ●…ame the strange working waters and not me ●…ut he that sayes that I doe ouer-doe ●…et him goe thither and hee 'le doe so to 〈◊〉 farewell Well well fare thou still excell ●…crease in operation Well farewell 〈◊〉 eath the fountaine next is Cleaue locks fall ●…d neare to that a locke men Goring call ●…ut hauing past the locke at Gorings there ●…t Master Coltons house we had good cheare ●…ith hearty welcome but 't was for his sake ●…hat d●…d this hopefull businesse vndertake ●…et with our hearty thanks we thanke them all ●…hat din'd vs like a solemne festiuall ●…rom thence to Harts locke downward we descended ●…d next to Whitchurch locke which must be mended ●…ecause the waters turne so swift and various 〈◊〉 gainst our wils to dangerous courses carry vs Next there 's a Weare that if it had its right Should be well lib'd or else remoued quite Below that Maple Ducham locke appeares Where stands three faulty and vntoward Weares Then neare the bridge of Cauersham there is One Welbecks Weare fit to be mou'd I wis As past the locke at Cauersham we row We found the riuer very foule below With weeds and hills of mud and grauell choak'd That with our Oares and staues we thrust and poak'd Next Breaches Weare neare Sunning naught doth lie And Sunning locke the groundsill is too high Besides two Gin-holes that are very bad And Sunning bridge much need of mending had Haules Weare doth almost crosse the riuer all Making the passage straight and very small How can that man be counted a good liuer That for his priuate vse will stop a riuer Shiplocke or Cottrels locke stand very neare Not from that farre is Elmes his fishing weare Whereas the riuers case is altered well For Master Ployden neare that place doth dwell Marsh locke is plac'd a little aboue Henly And there the Thames is kept indifferent cleanly And here at Henley once in fifteene yeares A Riuer stranger in the street appeares Whose cesterne in the Woods his wealth doth gather ●…n that long space and cannot get it rather B●…t gotten out of high-way-flouds and leaues A●… Dutchmen keepe the drops of their house-eues The cesterne fils and then the wals breake downe And send their stowage vnto Henley towne An●…ther fifteene yeares the wals repaire And fill the place with raine or thawed ayre And being so replenisht in that space It runnes rub rub close by the bowling place Neare Henley some three quarters of a mile A little I le digresse and change my stile Should I forget the good Iudge Whitlocks loue Vnmanner'd and vngratefull I should proue It was about the time as I remember In August some fiue dayes before September We landed neare the noble Iudges harbour With stomacks sharpe as razour of a Barber The time was short we neither toyd nor trifled The Kitchin Pantry Pastry strait we rifled The Celler and the Buttery both we forrag'd By which braue booty we were much encourag'd S●…ke and good Claret drawne from Tierce and Punchion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one whole day and two euenings Nunchion Ou●… b●…ead as good as euer baker sifted Ou●… wine rare wine as ere to mouth was lifted And in our businesse though we all were hasty We did surprize an excellent Venson pasty We there did saue the labour of inuiters Whole ioynts of mutton prou'd vs good sheepe-biters Our beere was brauely boyl'd and strongly malted Our Pidgeon Pie was pepper'd well and salted Most tender Chickins Pullet and a Capon We in our fury did commit a rape on A mighty scarlet Lobster last we seased And so with these Acchats our minds were eased But that which made our viands taste the better Was welcome which made each of vs a debter And long may he and his suruiue and flourish That did poore trauellers so kindly nourish These lines are writ in duty to expresse Our loue our duty and our thankfulnesse From thence we hi'd vs with the streame and wind And in the Barge at noone we brauely din'd And as our meat our gratefull minds did moue We dranke Iudge Whitlocks health to shew our loue Then came we to a locke call'd Hambleton Whereas the streame a handsome course doth runne Next Mednam Weare doth speedy mending lacke It puts the Thames and Thames puts it to wracke And neare Frogge-mill two paltry stops there are That in the Riuer take too great a share 〈◊〉 at Harley and a Weare

below ●…lmost a stop fit to be clear'd I know ●…hen Temple locke ' bouc Bisham Church there is ●…eneath which is a Weare somewhat amisse ●…hen Marlow locke is worst I must confesse ●…he water is so pinch'd with shallownesse ●…eneath which is a Weare should be defac'd ●…nd Cottrels Weare of Cookham be displac'd 〈◊〉 Weare doth to one Holdernesse belong ●…hich doth the riuer most in●…ious wrong ●…eare which a Spring runs from the chalkie hills ●…he which not long agoe did driue two mills 〈◊〉 stop 'gainst Toplow Warren much doth spread ●…ext Bolters lock a mile from Maydenhead ●…hus haue I past the locks now weares and stops ●…rom thence as farre as Stanes mine Inkhorne drops ●…oue Maidenhead bridge a stop and one beneath ●…hich both to be amended I bequeath ●…gainst Bray church and Bray mill stand three more ●…different bad as any were before 〈◊〉 stop at Water Oakley naught doth lie ●…t Rudles poole the grauell hills too high ●…he water turnes so short and runnes so quicke ●…hat oft the Barges there a ground doe stricke ●…eare Boueney Church a dangerous stop is found ●…n which fiue passengers were lately drown'd Below the bridge at Windsor passing thus Some need lesse p●…les stand very perillous Neare Eaton College is a stop and weare Whose absence well the riuer may forbeare A stop a weare a dangerous s●…nke tree No●… farre from 〈◊〉 Ferry are all three A graue●…l bed two stops and stakes beside Agai●…st and neare old Windsor Church we spide With 〈◊〉 stops more we saw neare Ankerwike And neare my Lord Maiors stone we saw the like Besides an 〈◊〉 or Island there we found Hedg'd far 〈◊〉 into the streame to gaine more ground From Stanes we past to Lallum guls most shallow Whereas ●…iue Barges fast aground did wallow And su●…h a trowling current there did set That we were vildly puzzled by to get Tumbling 'twixt Middlesex and Surrey land We came where Chertseyes crooked bridge doth stand Which s●…re was made all by left-handed men The like of it was neuer in my ken Wiw waw to Oakam ward kim kam kiwwaw That through i●… men can hardly set or row That 's the last fault I found that merits note And downe from thence we merrily did ●…lote Thus haue I shew'd Thames wrongs in generall And wish they may be mou'd or mended all And who can but with pity here behold These multitudes of mischiefes manifold Shall Thames be barr'd its course with stops and locks With Mils and hils with gravell beds and rocks With weares and weeds and forced Ilands made To spoile a publike for a priuate Trade Shame fall the doers and Almighties blessing Be heap'd vpon their heads that seeke redressing Were such a businesse to be done in Flanders Or Holland mongst the industrious Netherlanders They to deepe passages would turne our hils To Windmils they would change our watermils All helpes vnto this riuer they would ayd And all impediments should be destroyed Our vagabonds the wandering brood of Caine They would enforce those runnagates take paine Whereby much profit quickly would accrue For labour robs the hangman of his due In common reason all men must agree That if the riuer were made cleane and free One Barge with eight poore mens industrious paines Would carry more than forty carts or waines And euery waine to draw them horses fiue And each two men or boyes to guide or driue Charge of an hundred horse and 80. men With eight mens labour would be serued then Thus men would be employed and horse preseru'd And all the Countrey at cheape rates be seru'd T' is said the Dutchmen taught vs drinke and swill I 'm sure we goe beyond them in that skill I wish as we exceed them in what 's bad That we some portion of their goodnesse had Then should this worthy worke be soone begun And with successefull expedition done Which I despaire not of but humbly plead That God his blessings will increase and spread On them that loue this work and on their heires Their goods and chattels and on all that 's theirs I wish them blest externall and internall And in the end with happinesse eternall FINIS I Haue almost finished another small booke which I will name ALL WATERS wherein I haue treated of the strange diuersities of waters and also I haue described and explained the various dispositions of watermen their lawfull vses and their vnlawfull abuses neither flattering sparing or wronging any good or ill which I know either by them or my selfe not omitting any thing that may tend in the praise of their honest trade and conditions nor inserting any thing to couer their causlesse iniuries which many of them haue done to me and others for they haue lately cast out scandalous libels and defaming speeches against me and I must make them know that I am not of that tame patience to forbeare them who are knowin●… to be nothing but rumour and rabble therefore vpon such I must right my selfe in print Corruptly called Stow the old