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from Lyons we travePd with a Meffenger to Paris, from 
Paris again to Calais, and (b crofs the Strait to Dover •, 
whence we at firfl: fet out, and began our Journey. 
14. Thus we have run through all that Mr. Kay has 
left us concerning France •, but for the Sake of obtain- 
ing more Particulars of that Journey, in which Mr. 
Ray feems to have been lefs circumftantial than ufual, 
we fliall hav9 Recourfe to Mr. Skippon'% Journal of their 
Travels from Lyons to Paris, in which the Reader will 
find very few Repetitions, and many fingular and cu- 
rious Remarks that, for any Thing I can difcern, had 
efcaped the Obfervation of former Travellers, and are 
not taken Notice of by any that came after them, more 
efpecially the Story which he tells us of the Son of Count 
St. Geran ; which he has related very fuccindly, and 
that has fince been made the Subjecl of a confider- 
able Treatife. it may not be amifs to obferve, that the 
young Gentleman, who thus recovered his Title and 
Fortune, married, and had only a Daughter, who, by 
the Intereft of the Family, was put into a Convent % by 
which Means the Eftate defcended very nearly in the 
fame Way that it would have done, if the Fraud had 
never been difcovered. 
March 6 , We gave forty five Livres a Man, for 
Horfes to a Meffenger, v/ho for that Money maintained 
us from Lyons to Paris, and allowed him five Sols a 
Pound, for every Pound our Portmanteaus weighed, 
above fix Found, which he carried on a Sumpter- horfe. 
By the Cache d’eau, a Conveyance by the River Soane, 
we fent fome of our Things, and paid but three Sols 
per Pound. 'Dr.Moulins, Wiv. Lifter, Mr. Ray and 
myfelf, were in Company this Journey with {ome. French- 
men. We went through a very ftony Way, and paffed 
over Hills, and three Leagues from Lyons paffed through 
la Brelle and three Leagues further brought us to our 
Lodgings in Larrara. This Day we obferved Oxen 
fiiod with Iron, yth. We mounted before Day, and 
rode over the Mountain of Farrara, where we found 
Snow. After three Leagues riding we came through 
St.Savorin, ‘&.r\d thereabouts obferved a perpendicular 
Stone moved by Water, to bruife Hemp, held under- 
neath by two Boys. Three Leagues further we dined 
at St. Nicholas in Roanne, and there ferried over the 
Louvre, each giving tv^ro Sols Marque. We paffed a plea- 
fant Valley, and four Leagues from our Baiting- place, 
lodged in Pas de ^andiere a fmall Village. 
The Slh,WQ rode, for the moft Part of four Leagues, 
thro’ hilly Way, and dined at C Eftcu de France in Palijfe, 
where the Count de S. Geran hath a Houfe. The prefent 
Count came thus to his Eftate; his Uncle being next 
prefumptive Heir, made a Compadf with a Midwife, 
who delivered the prefent Count’s Mother, but by caft- 
ing her into a Sleep, the Midvv^ife perfuaded her into a 
Belief ftie was delivered of a dead Child ; when the Mid- 
wife conveyed away the little Infant, who was bred up by 
a Country Woman, and being grown to fome Years, the 
Counters defired, and took him lor her Page, on whom 
fhe beftowed very good Breeding ; and in the' mean 
Time the Midwife, on her Death-Bed, confeffed the 
Cheat, and declared the Page to be the Countefs’s true 
Son, This Difcovery occafioned a great Suit between 
the Uncle and the young Heir ; but at laft it was de- 
termined by the Parliament of Paris, in Favour of the 
Heir the Countefs’s Son, 'who is now Count de St. Ge- 
ran. Four Leagues from Palijfe, having traveled 
good Way in a pleafant Country, we lodged at the St. 
George, without the Walls of Warene, a fmall Town. 
On the 9th, we traveled feven Leagues, and dined 
at the Fhree Moors in Moulins, where many Women 
came to fell their Sciffars, Knives, &c. Moulins is an 
indifferent City, which afforded little of Remark, be- 
fides the ftately Monument of Montmorency, who was 
beheaded in the Maifon de Ville at Louloufe. The white 
Marble Statues of the Duke and his Lady lay on a 
Tomb of black Marble ; a fair Marble Statue is on 
each Side, and over them a Marble Urn, and other 
Ornaments. We rode feven Leagues from Moulins in 
very good Way, (as we did in the Morning) and lodged 
this Night without the Walls of St. Pierre de Montier. 
Hereabouts began ftony Caufeways. On the loth, we 
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rode five Leagues, paffed a ftone Bridge over the Ri- 
ver Loire, and dined at the Flower de-lys in Nevers 
where the poor People defired us to buy their Ba^atells 
of Glafs. This City is meanly built nigh the hSre on 
a rifing Ground, and hath an indifferent fair Cathedra! 
where are feveral marble Monuments ; The Steeple of 
this Cathedral is handfomely adorned with Statues 
After Dinner we continued our Journey about two 
Leagues and an half, and tailed of an acid Water 
fpringing up plentifully in the Middle of a Court 
walled about. This Water is much drank in Auguft^ 
and is reputed very good for curing the Stone, Cfc. R 
is near Pogue a Village. This medicinal Weil rifes in 
the Level of a Valley. Two Leagues and a half far- 
ther we reached la Charite a Walled Place, fituated upon 
the Loire, Over the Gate we entered at is written. 
In Varieiate Securitas Jub Lilio. 
Our Inn was handfome, the Sign of the Croisc d^Or. 
On the nth, we took Horfe about Four in ' the 
Morning, and rode three Leagues to Pouilly, where we 
drank very good Wine, which that Place is noted for. 
Four Leagues thence we dined at Cofne, a walled Place* 
noted for Dogficin Gloves. In the Afternoon we tra- 
vel’d five Leagues to Bony, and one League and an 
half farther lodged in Briar e, a fmall walled Town. 
At this Place begins a Channel cut from the Loire to 
the Seine, the Water being kept up by Locks or 
Sluices. On the other Side of the Loire, in Berry, and 
about two, I.eagues from Cofne is Sancerre, a Town fitu- 
ated upon a Hill ; formerly a ftrong Place and well 
defended by the Proteftants about ninety Years a»o ; 
they held out fo long, that they underwent the gre^teft 
Mileries of Famine, fome Women digging up their 
Children they had buried three or four Days before. 
We met on the Road many Savoyards, who were 
Chimney-fweepers at Paris, &c. They come off the 
Mountains of Savoy in the Beginning of Winter, and 
return thither in the Spring. 
The 1 2th, we rode four Leagues, and dined at the 
Efcu de France in la Bufiere, a fmall Village. Seven 
Leagues further we. lodged in Montargis, a City where 
we law nothing worth our Obfervation. An indifferent 
Caftle ftands here on a Hill : There is an Archbifhop 
of this City, and the King fends a Governor. In the 
Road we took Norice of many thatch’d Houfes, and 
many Country-houfes with high and fteep Roofs co- 
ver’d with Slate. The 13th, we travel’d about five 
Leagues, and had on our Right Hand Pont a GaJJon, a 
walled Town, and a League thence dined at the Angel 
or Maifon rogue, a Houfe that ftands in the open Fields. 
In the Afternoon we went over a Plain fow'ed with 
Corn, and five Leagues from our Bait paffed by Milly.^ 
a large walled Place on our Left Hand, and one fhorc 
League thence arrived at Corrance, where we lodged. 
This Afternoon we faw on our l^ght the Wood of 
Fontainbleau. The 14th, we rode about a League, and 
paffed among Rocks where Travellers are often robbed. 
About two or three Leagues farther we faw, on our 
Right Hand, Corbilly, a City in a Valley, with many 
Villages round it. Seven Leagues from Corrance we 
dined at Juvifii, at the Sign of the Golden Lyon. 
Three Leagues thence we paffed through Ville Juifue, 
and there, on the Top of a Hill, had a Profpeff of 
Paris, where we fafdy arrived after we had traveled 
two Leagues. 
1 5. On our Left Hand we had a fair Hofpital ; from 
Corbilly to Paris is a Caufeway in a ftrait Line, and 
well paved with fquare Pebbles. Nigh Paris we ob- 
ferved feveral Stone Quarries. This Stone is of very 
great Advantage to the City of Paris for were it not 
thus plentiful, the Buildings would be but indifferent. 
We ftaid in this City till April i, 1666, too fhort a 
Time for fo great and remarkable a Place ; but the 
French King’s Declaration of War againft England 
commanded us out of France, within three Months af- 
ter the Proclamation thereof, which was on the iji of 
February, N. S. ~ 
What I could obferve during my Stay here, I haftily 
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