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four-pence sterling — four bodels; and so one shilling 

 sterling is twelve shillings Scotch. Thirteen-pence half- 

 penny English, a mark Scotch. One pound Scotch, 

 twenty-pence sterling. One bodel they call tway-pennies, 

 (as above) two bodels a plack, three bodels a baubee, 

 four bodels eight pennies, six bodels one shilling Scotch. 



August the 26th, we bad farewell to Scotland, and, 

 after a journey of twenty -four miles, arrived at Carlisle, 

 fording three rivers by the way, one at Annan, which, 

 by reason of our ignorance, might have been a dangerous 

 pass to us. Our host here told us that he used to be 

 troubled with the stone, and the best remedy that he ever 

 had experience of for to give him ease, was the decoction 

 of Geranium Bobertianum. Carlisle is low-built, scarce 

 one fair house in it, poor, yet well walled about, and of 

 good strength. It hath a large market-place, a castle, a 

 citadel built of brick, but now ruinous, a guard-house in 

 the market-place, lately built of stone, and a cathedral 

 church, the body whereof hath been, since the civil wars, 

 pulled down, the choir still standing. It is but a mean 

 building, and poorly endowed; the top hath been in- 

 differently well gilded, and the seats round the choir 

 canopied with handsome carved work of wainscot. In 

 a little chapel they showed us a tomb, which they said 

 was St. Augustine's. They have preserved there two 

 elephant's teeth fastened in a bone like a scalp, which 

 they call the horns of the altar. On the backsides of the 

 seats of the choir have been painted divers stories, with 

 verses in old English, but now almost defaced. There is 

 very good ground about this town, and such as for twenty 

 years together will bear corn, without lying fallow. We 

 ought here to remember Mr. Eglanby, who was very civil 

 to us ; there we saw the ancient inscription which Camden 

 mentions. From Carlisle through Pereth, we went to 

 Shap, in Westmoreland, where we saw the ruins of the 

 abbey, very pleasantly situate in a private valley. The 

 well, called by the vulgar the Annywell, that is reported 

 to ebb and flow ; upon the place some told us they had 



