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Travelling of Old in England - - 145 
Song by Dr. Strode, &c., aot E. F. Rimbault - - 146 
Otloh the Scribe - - - 147 
Wives of Ecclesiastics - - - 7 
Na . Lee s Certificate in favour of Verses - - 149 
The expression “Mutual Friend,’ by Rev. Dr. Kennedy 149 
Gray’s Elegy, Polyglot Editions afi 4 - 150 
Notes upon Cunningham’s London, by E. F. Rimbault 150 
On Authors and Books, No. 3., by isis Corney - 151 
Cartwright’s Poems - - - 151 
MISCELLANIES : — 
Oliver Cromwell’s Birth— The Lawyer’s Patron Saint 
—V. Bourne to David Cook —A Nation’s Ballad- 
Makers — Ogilby’s Britannia— A Mess— Coffee — To 
endeayour Oneself— Countess of Pembroke’s Letter 
— Peal of Bells— Dowis of Sets ey, Seal eae 
Cross - - 151 
QUERIES :— 
‘The Book of the Mousetrap - - 154 
Was the Laced2monian Blick Broth BL ick - - 155 
Reheting, Rehetours, by Rev. J. H. Todd, D.D. 155 
Minor Queries : — Ancient Motto — Ordination Pledges 
—Scutter’s Atlas Novus— Miss Warneford—Beaufoy’s 
Ringer's Guide — Hordys — Germain’s Lips — Sir 
Walter de Bitton—A Fool or a Physician — Caerphili 
Castle — Father — Queries in Church History — Coli- 
nus, &c. - - - - - 156 
MIsceELLANEOus : — 
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - - 158 
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - - - 159 
Notices to Correspondents - - - - 159 
Advertisements - - - - - 160 
TRAVELLING OF OLD IN ENGLAND. 
I do not know any where a more distinet account 
of the commencement and progress of a journey 
in England, two centuries ago, than is given in 
Taylor's ; (the Water-poet) narrative, in prose and 
verse, of his travels from London to the Isle of 
Wight, while Charles I. was there. It is short, 
as well as clear, and the stages, and the time it 
took to perform them, are one after another 
pointed out. Moreover, he states that the jour- 
ney was performed in a public coach drawn by 
four horses, and conducted by two coachmen, 
There were four passengers besides Taylor, and 
they started from the Rose, near Holborn Bridge, 
in the Southampton coach (whic ‘h came weekly to 
that inn), on Thursday, 19th October, 1647, and 
arrived on the same evening, at 5 olelocks at 
Staines. They remained all ‘night at the Bush, 
and next morning proceeded by B: agshot to Alton, 
where they put up at the White Hart, and again 
ee On On 8 aces ee again set off ear IY ‘and 
SECOND EDITION, _ 
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| by dint of “fiery speed” and “ foaming bits,” they 
reached the Dolphin at Southampton that day. 
The Rose, at the foot of Holborn Hill, which I 
can remember forty years ago, and from which 
| the party set out, has disappeared ; but the Bush, 
| at Staines, and the Dolphin, at Southampton, still 
remain. A small part of Taylor’s information is 
given in marginal notes, but his text, which, in 
fact, contains all that illustrates the point at issue, 
is the following :— 
“ We took one coach, two coachmen, and four horses, 
And merrily from London made our courses, 
We wheel’d the top of the heavy hill call’d Holborn, 
(Up which hath been full many a sinful soul borne,). 
And so along we jolted past St. Giles’s, 
Which place from Brentford six, or near seven, 
miles is. 
To Staines that night at five o’clock we coasted, 
Where, at the Bush, we had bak’d, boild, and roasted. 
Bright Sol’s illustrious rays the day adorning, 
We past Bagshot and Bawwaw Friday morning. 
That night we lodg’d at the White Hart at Alton, 
And had good meat —a table with a salt on. 
Next morn we rose with blushing-cheek’d Aurora ; 
The ways were fair, but not so fair as Flora, 
For Flora was a goddess and a woman, 
And, like the highways, to all men was common. 
Our horses, with the coach which we wei t into, 
Did hurry us amain, through thick and thin too, 
With fiery speed, the foaming bits they champ’d on, 
And brought us to the Do!phin at Southampton.” 
The tract from which I quote was printed in 
1648 for the author, who was paid for it, as appears 
by his title-page, in the following manner :— 
“When Jobn Tayler hath been from London to the 
Isle of Wight and returned again, and at his return he 
do give, or cause to be given, to me a book or pam- 
phlet of true news, and relations of passages, at the 
Island, and to and fro in his journey, I do promise to 
give him, or his assignes, the sum of what I please in 
lawful money of England, provided that the said sum 
be not under six pence.” 
This, as many are aware, was a usual mode with 
Taylor and some others to pay themselves for their 
expeditions : the Water-poet made many journeys 
of the kind, as may be seen by the list of his 
works in the folio of 1630, in which, of course, his 
Travels from London to the Isle of ae in 1647, 
