Thence to Pomffret 3 miles w^{ch} Looks very finely in the approach. Its built on a hill all of stone, its a very neate building and y^e streets well pitch’d and broad, the houses well built and looks more stately than any in York, only its not the tenth part so bigg, its a neate little town as I have seen. there are severall very good houses in it, one Doct^r Burgess has built a very good house w^{ch} is Call’d his ffolly. There is a noble house at the Entrance of the town of y^e Lady Grace Perpoynt, and good Parke Gardens and walks and a great revenue belonging to it,—the Daughter of the Marquis of Dorchesters. There is a ffine Church in the town and as spacious a market place as is at Salisbury or as you shall see any where, and the building so Even and uniforme as well as Lofty that it appears very magnificent—its a Major town. We were in the Chief Inn the Sunn, tho’ there are many good Inns, but this was a very good Genteel jnn and it happen’d the Landlord was then Major of y^e town. Provisions are very Easy here, we had 2 or 3 pound of Codffish for a small matter and it was a Large dish. Y^e town is full of Great Gardens walled in all round on y^e outside of the town, on the Edge of y^e hill so the Gardens runns down a great way, you descend with them by severall stepps. Its a fruitfull place, fine flowers and trees with all sorts of fruite, but that w^{ch} is mostly jntended is the Encreasing of Liquorish w^{ch} y^e Gardens are all filled with, and any body that has a Little ground improves it for the produce of Liquorish of w^{ch} there is vast quantetyes, and it returns severall 100 pounds yearly to the towns. The Leafe is not much unlike a Rose Leafe but some w^t narrower and Longer, the Coullour is something a Yellower Green, Else the branches grow Like it w^{th} double Leaves on a Stalke and severall all down y^e Stalke, somewhat in the manner of Caliceily or Solomons Seale and much of that smoothness of Leafe. Thence to Hemsworth 4 mile where we Could meet w^{th} no Lodging, only Little ale houses to give one a pot of beere, and so we went 2 mile ffarther but found it y^e same and it being too farre to reach Rotheram we made use of ye hospitallity of a Clergyman one M^r Fferrer w^{ch} was a very Genteele man and gave us a Civil Entertainm^t and good beds—he has a very good house and Genteely ffitted good Hall and parlour, and the Garden very neate. Its a very ffruitfull Country w^{ch} Encourages jndustry and there is plenty of Stone Like free Stone w^{ch} makes ffine houses and walls. Thence to Rotheram 12 miles, its most in a deep Clay ground and now the wayes are more difficult and narrow. Rotheram is a good market town well built all of stone. The Church stands high in y^e middle of the town and Looks finely, its all Stone and Carv’d very well all the out side. Thence to Ackington 8 mile, a very Little place its 3 mile from Shellton town, but that was thought out of our way, so we Lay here in a poor Sorry Inn.