travels of peter 



in 1635. 



in Dorset 



By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read December 7th, 1920.) 



OME years ago, I was applied to for information 

 on certain points by Miss Anstey, who was 

 assisting Sir Richard Temple in editing for publica- 

 tion by the Hakluyt Society, the MS. of Peter 

 Mundy, a Cornishman, who spent most of his life in travelling 

 in Europe and Asia, as well as in various parts of England. 

 Two volumes of his travels had been published and the third, 

 which deals chiefly with his voyage to China and contains the 

 portion relating to Dorset, has only lately been printed, 

 having been much delayed by the War. It having occurred 

 to me that the Dorset portion would be of much interest to 

 our Club, I obtained Sir Richard Temple's kind permission to 

 read this at one of our meetings and print it in our " Proceed- 

 ings" if thought suitable. Peter Mundy seems to have been a 

 most observant man and, as far as I can judge from the little I 

 have read of his travels, to have endeavoured to state and 



