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Somersetshire, in 1577. He was educated at Westminster- 

 School, and at Gloucester-Hall, Oxford ; after which, he went 

 into the family of Henry Prince of Wales. He travelled 

 almost all over Europe on foot, and in that tour walked 900 

 miles with one pair of shoes, which he got mended at Zurich. 

 Afterwards he visited Turkey, Persia, and the Great Mogul's 

 dominions; proceeding in so frugal a manner, that, as he tells 

 his mother in a letter, in his ten months' travel between 

 Aleppo and the Mogul's Court, he spent but Three Pounds 

 Sterling, living reasonably well for about Two pence Sterling a 

 day ! He was a redoubted champion for the Christian reli- 

 gion, against the Mahometans and Pagans ; in the defence 

 whereof he sometimes risqued his life. He died of the flux, 

 occasioned by drinking sack at Surat in 1617; having, in 

 1611, published his Travels in a quarto volume, which he called 

 his Crudities; in which, on the reverse of b 1, in " a Character 

 " of the Author," is the passage alluded to in the text. 

 Hawkins. 



Page 283. What have we here ? A Church ? 

 This passage alludes to the Church at Alstonefield, a Parish 

 in the North Division of the Hundred of Totmanslow, and 

 County of Stafford ; it is dedicated to St. Peter, and stands 

 5 miles north-north-west from Ashborn. 

 Page 289. Now you are come to the door. 

 This celebrated Fishing-House, views of which are given at 

 pages 292 and 294, is formed of stone, and the room within is 

 a cube of fifteen feet, paved with black and white marble, 

 having in the centre a square black marble table. The roof, 

 which is triangular in shape, terminates in a square stone 

 sun-dial surmounted by a globe and a vane. It was originally 

 wainscoated with walls of carved pannels and divisions, in the 

 larger spaces of which were painted some of the most inte- 

 resting scenes in the vicinity of the building ; whilst the 

 smaller ones were occupied with groups of fishing-tackle. In 

 the right-hand corner stood a large beaufet with folding-doors, 

 on which were painted the portraits of Walton and Cotton 

 attended by a servant-boy ; and beneath it was a closet, having 

 a Trout and a Grayling delineated upon the door. Such was 

 the original appearance of the Fishing-House, as collected from 

 a description given by Mr. White of Crickhowel to Sir John 

 Hawkins, in 1784 ; although it was then considerably decayed, 

 especially in the wainscoating and the paintings, To this, the 

 following account of its present state, written from actual 

 observation by W. H. Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., etc. will form an 

 appropriate and an interesting counterpart. The visit which it 

 details was made by a party composed of several eminent cha- 

 racters equally distinguished in Science and the Fine- Arts. 



