Transcriber’s Note: The spelling in this text is appropriate for the period in which it was written and published. The text has been checked for errors and a list of changes that have been made appears at the end. Where there was any doubt, the original wording was kept. Italicised text is indicated _like this_, text that is upright within italic passages or spaced for emphasis ~like this~. [Illustration: _G Thorton Scul._] THE Comical _PILGRIM_; OR, TRAVELS OF A Cynick PHILOSOPHER, Thro’ the most Wicked Parts of the WORLD, Namely, ENGLAND, }{ IRELAND, WALES, }{ and SCOTLAND, }{ HOLLAND. WITH His _Merry_ Observations on the _English_ Stage, Gaming-Houses, Poets, Beaux, Women, Courtiers, Politicians, and Plotters. _Welsh_ Clergy, Gentry, and Customs. _Scotch_ Manners, Religion, and Lawyers. _Irish_ Ceremonies in their Marriages, Christenings, and Burials. And _Dutch_ Government, Polity, and Trade. BEING A General SATYR on the Vices and Follies of the Age. The Second Edition. _LONDON_, Printed for _S. Briscoe_, at the _Bell Savage, Ludgate-Hill_, and the _Sun_ against _John_’s Coffee-House _Swithin_’s-Alley, Cornhill, 1722 [Illustration] THE PREFACE. _As Prefaces now are become common to every Production of the Press, I am resolv’d to be in the Fashion likewise, to let my Reader understand that I am not an Ascetick, or one of those devout Pilgrims, who will travel on Foot to see the holy Sepulchre, the Chapel of ~Loretto~, or some strange Relique; but a comical merry Traveller that would take a Perigrination, on Horseback or by Water, beyond the ~Devil~’s ~Arse~ i’th’ Peak, to see the Religion, Customs, and Manners of foreign People, as well as knowing those of my own Country; contrary to the Sentiments of ~Claudian~, who mentions it as a Happiness, for Birth, Life, and Burial, to be all in one Parish._