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SECT. 6. Some particulars of the State of the County cf 

 Down in the Tears 1635 and 1657. 



SOME particulars refpecYmg the flate of this country 

 in 1635, extracted from a manufcript journal of an 

 Englifh gentleman, who travelled from his own houfe 

 at Handford in Cheftiire, June 12, 1635, and made a 

 circuit through Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, 

 into Scotland, through Edinburgh, Glafgow, Air, Port 

 Patrick, thence to Ireland through Carrickfergus, Bel- 

 faft, Liiburn, Dromore, Newry, Dundalk, &c. to 

 Dublin. The writer feems to have been a gentleman 

 of the Egerton family, rather leaning to puritanifm, but 

 very attentive to the flate of agriculture in the coun- 

 tries he pafled through, and to other fimilar objecls. 

 This manufcript belongs to General Vallancey, the an- 

 tiquarian, who bought it at an auftion, January 1791. 

 This extraft I owe to the attention of the Biftiop of 

 Dromore. 



On July the fifth he landed at Carrickfergus, which 

 he defcribes, and particularly Lord Chichefter's ver) 

 ftately houfe there, or rather like a pr'mcefs pallace; from 

 Carrickfergus to Belfafl you ride all upon the lock 

 (lough) fide, itt is a moft bare way, and deep in winter 

 and wet weather, though itt is hard and drje. This 



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