18 THE CAPERCATLLIE. 



ICIS. In Taylor's ' VM to tJic Brca of Marr; in 1(318/ 

 lliure occurs the loUowin^j passage (p. 135) : — 



" Thus witli extri'iuii travi'll, ascending and descending, 

 niountin;^ and alighting, I came straight to this place where 

 I would he, in the Brea of Marr, which is a large county . . . 



" My good Lord of Marr having put me into that shape, I 

 rode with him from his house, wliere I saw the mines of an 

 n\i\ casth', called tlic Castle of Kindroghit. ... It was the 

 last house I saw in those parts ; for I was the sj^ace of tw^elve 

 daycs after, before I saw either house, cornefield, or habitation 

 for any creature but deere, wilde horses, wolves, and such 

 like creatures. . . . 



" Thus the first day wee traveld eight miles, where there 

 were small cottages built on purpose to lodge in, wliich they 

 call Lrjnquhards. I thanke my good Lord Erskin, hee com- 

 iiiiiiidcd that I should ahvayes .be lodged in his lodging, the 

 kitchen being alwayes on the side of a banke, many kettles 

 and pots boyling, and many spits turning and winding, with 

 great variety of cheere : as venison bak't, sodden, rost, and 

 stu'de, beefe, mutton, goates, kid, hares, fresh salmon, pidgeon, 

 hens, capons, chickens, partridge, moorecoots, heathcocks, 

 capcrkcllics, and termagants. . . . 



" All these, and more than these, we had continually in 

 superfluous abundance, caught by faulcons, fowlers, . . . 

 to victuale our campe, which conseisteth of fourteen or fifteen 

 hundred men and horses. . . . 



' " All Oic Workcs of John Taylor, llu JVatcr-Pod, Beeing Sixty and 

 thru in Number, Collected into One Volume by tJie Author : With Sundry 

 new additiom, corrected, revised, and newly imjrrinted, 1630. At London, 

 printed by J. B. for James Boler, at the fgurc of the Marigold in Paul's 

 Churchyard, 1630. Folio." At page 122 it is mentioned he left London 

 ' • The yeere of gnu;e, accounte<l (as I weene) 

 One thousand, twice three hundred and eighteen, 

 And, to relate all things in order <luly, 

 Twa-s Tuesday hi-st, the foureteenthe day of July." 

 I am indelited to Professor Newton for kindly transcribing this passag(i and 

 title for nio at length. 



