Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and MaryFiennes, Celia
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Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and Mary
Fiennes, Celia
England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Here I Rode over a Common or Down 4 mile Long in sight of y^e North sea
and saw Hartly poynt which is the Earle of Baths just by his fine house
Called Stow, his fine stables of horses, and Gardens. There I discern’d
the Poynt very plaine and just by I saw the jsle of Lundy which formerly
belonged to my Grandfather William Lord viscount Say and Seale, w^{ch}
does abound with ffish and Rabbets and all sorts of ffowles, one bird
y^t Lives partly in the water and partly out and so may be Called an
amphibious Creature, its true that one foote is Like a turky the other a
gooses foote; it Lays its Egg in a place the Sun shines on and sets it
so exactly upright on the small End and there it remaines till taken up
and all the art and skill of persons Cannot set it up soe againe to
abide. Here I met with some showers w^{ch} by fitts or storms held
me,—to Lanston 4 mile more, these 12 mile from Cambleford was not Little
ones and what with the wet and Dirty Lanes in many places I made it a
tedious journey. I Could see none of the town till just I was as you may
say ready to tumble into it, there being a vast steep to descend to when
the town seemed in a bottom yet I was forced to ascend a pretty good
hill into the place. Lanston is the chief town in Cornwall where the
assizes are kept, I should have remarked at y^e Lands End that Pensands
was the Last Corporation in England, soe this is one of y^e Last Great
towns tho’ noe Citty, for Cornwall is in y^e Diocese of Devonshire
w^{ch} is Exeter.
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