to shew her where Every thing was, and they hoped quickly to be in possession of it, and made many promises how kind they would be to them their retainers to the Church; but blessed be God y^t put a tymely stop to the protestants utter ruin and y^e hopes of the papists. When I was upon the tower I Could see Cambridg and a great prospect of y^e Country w^{ch} by reason of y^e great rains just before under water, all the ffenny ground being all on a flatt unless it be one side of the town w^{ch} is all the high dry grounds, into w^{ch} they drive up their Cattle to secure them in the wet seasons. There is no tradeing in the town, their maine buissiness and dependance is on draining and fencing their Grounds and breeding and grasseing Cattle. There is a fine gate of stone arch’d Like a Church w^{ch} is Called the abbey, but no remaines of y^e Abby Left, only as its built into houses for the Doctors and Clergy, within which is the palace for the Bishop which is their temporall as well as spiritual prince or Lord. From this Citty I passed over those higher grounds on w^{ch} was some good Corn but mostly is for grass for their Cattle. You see many pretty Little towns 4 or 5 in view together 2 or 3 miles distant. I went to Sutton, one of them, 6 miles off the Citty, this was a Little Market town; thence to y^e ffenn banks on y^e top of which I Rode at Least two miles w^{th} y^e ffenns on both sides w^{ch} now were mostly under water, a vast tract of such grounds w^{ch} are divided by the Dikes w^{th} out trees, as those I observ’d before, and these high banks are made to draine and ffence out y^e water from y^e Lower grounds, and so from one banck to another w^{ch} are once in many acres of Land 100, so that at length it does bear off the water but in the winter it returns, so as they are forced to watch and be all wayes in repaireing those bancks; and Considering y^e vast allowance yearly for draining those fenns at least 3000^£ an. I wonder they have not perfectly runn off y^e water and so Barracadoed it as not to (?) soe it often overflows it againe as it does in many places; but they are all a lazy sort of people and are afraid to do too much. Here I see y^t many swans nests on Little Hillocks of Earth in the wett ground that they Look as if swimming w^{th} their nests, some were with their young signetts, 3 or 4 in heape w^{th} their damms hovering over them for their security. This brought me to the Armitage along 8 mile in all from Ely town, and here I Repass’d the River Lin on a wooden Bridge and so went out of y^e jsland of Ely w^{ch} was in Cambridgshire and Entred into Huntingdonshire.