336 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



the county. Generally Cheshire is a very fine county for corn and grass, 

 which, being intermixed with fine woods, render it very pleasant to the eyes, 

 Chester is a very large town of- great trade, it being the sea port town,' 

 though the ships come no nearer on than sixteen miles at a place called 

 Hoylake, there the river Dee runs by its walls, and it has a pretty strong 

 though small castle. 



Sir (John) Morgan- is now Governor of that place. The two main streets 

 of Chester have covered walks where you may walk at the hottest sun free 

 from heat, and in wet weather sheltered from rain; their shops are underneath 

 these walks.' Eound about the walls of the city you may walk upon large 

 stones, and have a prospect of the town and country. Hoylake is the sea 

 port, and has but two houses beside the King's store house. We stayed there 

 from Monday in the evening (of) the 16th, till Tuesday at eight in the 

 morning, then we embarked our horses, and us selves, we hoisted our sail 

 about three in the afternoon, with the tide, but with a contrary wind, which 

 made us ply to and fro all that day. About ten in the night no vrind 

 stirring we cast anchor till two in the morning. 



All the day after we had no wind, and our ship was only carried by the 

 tide. 



Thursday we fished most of the day, and took a great many gurnets and 

 whitings, the sea being in a great calm. That day we left Cumberland behind 

 us, and endeavoured to reach the Isle of Man, but could not. In the night 

 time, the wind arising, and pretty favourable for our voyage, we left the Isle 

 of Man at our left hand, and we discovered the coasts of Scotland at oiu- 

 right hand, which they call Galloway ; and Friday being the 19th, we came 

 between three islands and a town called Donaghadee, which is a market town, 

 and seems a pretty good one. We left it at our right, and Copeland Islands 

 at our left. We saw after that, at our left, the village called Bangor, which 

 is but a small one, but very fit for vessels to come to the very sides of it ; 

 both sides are very rocky. That small village is famous for Duke Schomberg 

 landing there with the forces under his command.* Upon your right you 



' The sandbanks of tlie Dee destroyed its prospects as a port. 



- Cf. "C.S.P. Domestic, 1689-90," p. 139. "All good men are very well pleased with our 

 governor, Sir John Morgan." 



According to Fuller the walks or rows are "galleries wherein passengers go dry without 

 coming into the streets, having shops on both sides and underneath, the fashion whereof is somewhat 

 hard to conceive. It is worth their pains who have money and leisure to make their own eyes the 

 expounder of the manner thereof, the like being said not to be seen in all England ; no, nor in all 

 Europe again." According to Camden, "the houses are very fair built, and along the chief are 

 galleries or walking places they call rows." 



^ *He landed on August 13, 1689, with twenty thousand men. He had arrived "aveo le plus 

 oe?.ii terns Pt le mpilleur vent qu'on eut pu souhaiter." Kazner, Leben Friedrichs von Schomberg 

 Oder SciioenLurg, II, 290. 



