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Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary Author:Celia Fiennes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HERE BEGINS MY NORTHERN JOURNEY IN MA Y 1697 ffrom London to Amwell Berry in Hartfordshire 19 mile, thence to Bishops Startford in Essex 13 mile, wch is a ver... more »y pretty Neat Market town, a good Church and a delicate spring of Water wch has a wall built round it, very Sweet and Cleare water for drinking. There is a little river runns by the town yt feeds severall Mills. Thence we went to Andlyend 10 miles, a house of y Earle of Sussex wch makes a Noble appearance Like a town, so many towers and buildings off stone within a parke wch is walled round. A good River runs through it, we pass over the bridge. Its built round 3 Courts, there are 30 great and Little towers on the top, and a great Cupilow in the Middle. The roomes are Large and Lofty with good Rich old ffurniture tapistry, but Noe beds in yt part we saw. There are 750 (150?) Roomes in the house. The Cannall in the Midst of the parke Look'd very fine, its altogether a Stately palace and was built for one of y Kings. Thence to Little-berry one Mile, where is a house with abundance of Curiosityes all performed by Clock work and Such like, w appears very Strange to the beholders, but the master was not at home so I saw no more than the Chaire they Set in when they are Carry'd about . All the Country is pleasant; between this and Cambridge you go in sight of so many neate villages wth Rows of trees about them and very neate built Churches—Sometimes 5 or 6 of these are in view together in 3 or four mile of Each other— Ye Churches are stone-work. We went to Babaram where was a house of Sr Richd Bennets in a pleasant parke prettyly situated, only it is in a Low ground, but y fine Rows of trees in the severall avenues Came just down to the Road : thence to Bornbridge 5 mile, thence to Hodmogoge hills 3 miles, w looks at a dis...« less