Notes 



Partridge " to Milldale, where they cross the bridge, for the greater part of the 

 way is a cart track, and is only traceable down the steep side of Hanson Toot. 

 See page 309. 



The course of the road through Alstonfield has been changed. It originally 

 ran to the south of the church and, joining the present road past the village, soon 

 turned off to the right, across what are now fields ; and joined the Dove again 

 below Beresford Hall. 



Page 287. Tom Coriate. Tom Coriate, frequently spoken of by the writers 

 of that period, was the son of a clergyman, born in 1577, and educated at Oxford ; 

 after which he was received into the family of Henry, Prince of Wales, where 

 his eccentricities, pedantry, and vanity made him, as Anthony Wood says, " the 

 whetstone of all the wits of that age." In 1608 he travelled over almost all 

 Europe on foot, and walked 900 miles with one pair of shoes which he got mended 

 at Zurich ; and, on his return, published an account of his travels, which he called 

 Crudities, 410., 1611. The work is full of extravagant stories and egotistical ab- 

 surdities ; and was recommended by verses from Ben Jonson, Harrington, Inigo 

 Jones, Drayton, and others. Delighted with the success of his book, he deter- 

 mined to travel ten years more, and set out in 1612. He visited Constantinople, 

 Egypt, the Levant, and penetrated into Persia, and the dominions of the Great 

 Mogul. At Surat, a flux, occasioned by a debauch on sack, carried him off in 

 1617. During his absence some letters were published, in 1616, as from him, but 

 bearing strong marks of having been written by some other hand, or hands, to ridi- 

 cule him. Prefixed to them is an epigram called " His Parallel with Erasmus " : 



Erasmus did in praise of folly write, 

 And Cory ate doth in his self-praise endite. 



And under a wood-cut of him riding an elephant : 



Loe heere the "wooden Image of our "wits , 

 Borne in first tra-vaile on the back of nits. 

 But now on elephants, etc. 

 "what will he ride "when his years expire ? 

 The -world must ride him or he "will all retire. 



Purchas, in his Pilgrimage, Part I., book fifth, chap. vii. 5, 6 (and not, as 

 Hawkins says, book fourth, chap, xvii., where no mention is made of him), cites 

 from the letters published in 1617, and calls Coryate, " the world's great foot 

 post." The passage referred to occurs in his Crudities, in "a character of the 

 author," on the reverse of b. i. B. 



Page 287. a very pretty church. The church is that of Alstonfield. It was 

 Cotton's parish church. See page 313, 321, and 339. 



Page 288. here appears the house. Beresford Hall, Charles Cotton's seat* 

 demolished about forty years ago. See illustrations. 



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