BOTANICAL TOURS IN WALES. 217 
vatio habita anno eodem, 1 Augusti. Descripta studio et opera 
Thome Johnsoni. Londini, 1629. 
2. Mercurius Botanicus, sive Plantarum gratia suscepti itineris 
anno M.DC.xxxtv. descriptio, cum earum nominibus Latinis et 
Anglicis. Huic accessit de Thermis Bathonicis Tractatus. Lon- 
dini, M.pc.xxxiv. 
3. Mercurii Botanici pars altera, sive Plantarum gratia sus- 
cepti in Cambriam, sive Walliam, descriptio; exhibens reliqua- 
rum stirpium nostratium que in priore parte non enumerabantur 
Catalogum. Londini, m.pc.x11. 
The last of these tracts, as we see by the titles above given, 
contains the tour in Wales, which was printed in 1641; but the 
party travelled two years previously to this date. The author 
was accompanied by Mr. Paul Sone and by Mr. Edward Morgan, 
who knew the Welsh language, and was also a herbalist. They 
went by Henley-in-Arden, Birmingham (Bremicham)—at that 
early period renowned for forges (Vulcani municipium) ; thence 
to Wolverhampton, and through Newport in Salop, to Chester, 
where they were jomed by another associate, the Rev. Walter 
Stonehouse. Cheshire in those days does not appear to have 
been renowned for its innkeeping, if we may judge of the stock 
by the sample, according to the old saying, ev uno disce omnes. 
One of our travellers wrote on the wall of the room wherein he 
slept the following valedictory limes :— 

*« St mores cupias venustiores, 
St lectum placid, dapes salubres, 
Si sumptum modicum, hospitem facetum, 
Ancellam nitidam, impigrum ministrum, 
Hue diverte, Viator, dolebis.” 
We will not venture to translate this effusion; but it means 
briefly, if you like civility, clean sheets, eatable viands, attention, 
and moderate charges, pass this hospitium. The party entered 
Wales by Chester, and journeyed by Flint and Holywell (Hali- 
well) to Conway, where they were hospitably received by Mr. 
Robert Wynn, of Bodskalan. From Conway they travelled over 
Pen-maen-bahen and Pen-maen-mawy, or the lesser and greater 
promontory, and through Bangor to Carnarvon. The journey 
from London to Carnarvon was accomplished in twelve days: 
they left. London on the 22nd of July, and on the 3rd of An- 
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