No. 2 is now all lost. Add: headless female figure, with one shield of arms.

Norwich. St. Giles.-No. 3 has Latin inscription "Orate p aia Johis Smyth capella qui obijt vii. die Novēbr ao dni mcccclxxxxix. cui aie ppicit de ame." Nos. and 5 apparently lost. No. 6. for Francisca read Elizabeth.

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Norwich. St. John, Maddermarket.—No.3 probably commemorates Ralf Segrym, and Agnes, his wife. He was M.P. for Norwich, in 1449, Mayor in 1451, and died in 1472. No. 8. For 4 sons read 5. Nos. 11 and 12 are apparently lost. Add English inscription to Margaret, wife of Robert, 1463.

Norwich. St. Peter, Mancroft.-Nos. 2, 3, and 5 apparently lost. Add a mutilated and nearly defaced plate, bearing two shields of arms and portion of an English inscription, including the name "Thomas Waller, and Elizabeth his wife."

Norwich. St. Peter, King Street.-1. Skull, cross-bones, shield of arms, and English inscription to John —, 1620. 2. Latin inscription to the Rev. William Weeles, S.T.B., 1620. 3. English inscription to Robert Godfrey, 1646.

Oxnead. 1. Latin inscription, " Hic jacet Anna, filia Johannis Paston." 2. Latin inscription to Galfridus Brampton, 1586. 3. Three shields and English inscription to Alice Paston, 1608. 4. Two shields and English inscription to Edmund Lambert, 1608.

Swanton Abbot.-Add: 2. Ínscription in English, Latin, and Greek to Elizabeth Knolles, 1641. 3. Latin inscription to Margaret, wife of Simon Skottowe, no date. 4. English inscription, "Here resth the body of Margget, the wife of John Wegge, who died the 4. of May Ano Dom 1621.

HAMPSHIRE.

Hartley Wespall.-1. Mutilated Latin inscription to John Waspaill, patron of the church, who died in 1448. One escocheon

of arms. 2. Portion of a fine marginal Latin inscription, bearing date 1474.

Heckfield.-Add: 2. An English inscription to Thomas Wyfold, Gent., and Annes, his wife, 1521. 3. Two emblems (SS. Luke and John), and a shield bearing the initials "J. C." Between the letters is a representation of a well with a cross in it, being a rebus for

the name Cresswell. Beneath is an English inscription to John Cresswell, and Isabell, his wife, "Lord of this Towne at the tyme of the byldyng of thys stepyll and the new yle and chapel in this cherche." He died in 1518.

Sherfield.-. A shield of arms and Latin

inscription to Edmund Molyneaux, born 1532/. 2. A very mutilated and worn mural brass, dated 1595. It represents a lady kneeling, surrounded by a numerous family Beneath is an Engof sons and daughters. lish inscription; surmounting the composi

tion are three small shields of arms.

OXFORDSHIRE.

Thame. No. 5. Of the children two daughters only remain.

In the possession of the Rev. J. Fuller Russell, F.S.A., &c.

No. 1. Finely-executed small figure of a lady kneeling at a desk, upon which is an open book. She wears the Paris head-dress and veil, large fur-trimmed sleeves, and jewelled girdle.

No. 2. Full-length figure of a civilian wearing a long beard and a moustache. He is habited in the fur-trimmed cloak with hanging sleeves. His feet are encased in low shoes.

No. 3. Small figure of a man in plate He has armour, wearing an heraldic tabard. a beard and moustache, and is represented kneeling at a desk. This has no connection with No. 1.

JOHN A. SPARVEL-BAYLY, F.S.A. Billericay, Essex.

ceipt. If drinking be a Crime, I conclude myselfe faulty; for I have tipled with such Appetite as if I had been Composed of Spunge & Stockfish, and that recover'd mee, Soe one Evill hath expelled a worse. Heere I have sent you a badd old piece new drawne, and Composed in the Furie of Lubeck's beere. Pray reade it: As you like this I'le finde* (sic) you a better. You that have the better part of mee, my heart, may commaund J. S. Egipt, this 22, Jan.

send

THREE MONETHS

OLSERVATIONS OF THE LOW COUNTREYS,

ESPETIALLY HOLLAND.

They are a generall Sea-Land. There is not such a Marish in the World, that's flatt. They are an universall Quagmire epitomized; A Greene-Cheese in pickle ;† Such an equilibrium of Mudd & Water, as a strong Farthquake would shake them into a Chaos. They are the Ingredients of a black-pudding, and want onely stirring together, ells you will have more blood then gretts, And then have you noe way to make it serve for anything, but to spread it under Zona Torrida, and soe drie it for Turfes: Thus stiffned you may boile it ith' Sea: otherwise all the sayles of ye Cuntrie will not furnish you with a Poke bigg enough.

It is an excellent place for despairing Lovers, for each Corner affordes them willowe; But if Justice shoulde condemne one to bee hanged on any other Tree, hee may live long & be confident.

It is the buttock of the World; full of Veynes & blood, but hath noe bones in it. Had S'

suffer

Stephan been condemned to have been stoned to death heere, hee might have lived still: for (unlesse it beet in their paved Townes) Gold is more plentifull then Stones.

It is a singular place to fatten Monkies in ; for there are Spiders as bigg as Shrimpes, & I think as many.

You may travaile the Countrey without a

In the original the word "finde" is underlined for deletion. The superior words denote, in all instances, the emendations to be substituted for the words immediately below them.

+ The punctuation of the original is retained. These words in italics are marked for deletion.

Guide; for you cannot baulke yo' Rode without hazard of drowning. A King that hates crowding may heere runne away without staying for his Usher; for hee can goe no whither but his way is made before him.

Had they but Cities as large as their Walls, Rome were but a bable to them, Twenty Miles are noething to be hurryed in bee sober you travaile in safetie, But deone of their Wagons; When, if yo' Foreman scending from thence, you must have stronger Faith then Peter had, or you sinke immediatlie. If yo' way bee not thus, it hangs in the water, & at the approach of yo' Waggoner, shall shake as if it were Ague stricken. The Duke d'Alvar's taxing of the Tenth penny frighted it into a Palsey, wch all the Mountebanks they have had since

know not how to cure.

bredd

Sometimes they doe those things wch seeme wonders: for they fish for Fire in the Waters, wch they catch in Netts, & after transport it to land in their boates, where they spread it smoothlie, as a Mercer doth his Velvett when hee would hooke in an heire at Eighteene. Thus lying in a Medow you would suppose it a Cantle of green Cheese spread over with black butter. Their ordinary Pack-horses are framed of wood, carrying their Bridles in their Tailes, & their burthen in their bellies, a Strong Tide, and a stiffe Gale are the Spurrs that make them speedie.

They dresse their Meate in aqua cælesti; for their Water springs not as ours, from the Earth, but comes to them (as Manna to the Israelites) from heaven.

The Elements are heere at variance, the more subtile overflowing the more grosser. The Fire consumes the Earth, and the Ayre the Waters; for they burne Turfes, & draine their ground wth Winde-mills, as if the Chollick were a Remedie for the Stone.

The little Land they have, is kept as neately as a Courtier's beard, and they have a Method in Mowinge. It is soe interveyned wth Waters & Rivers, as it is impossible to make a Common amongst them, even the Brownists are heere at a stand.

The Poore are never complained of heere for breaking of hedges, surely had the Wise

must

Men of Gotham lived heere, they would have studied some other Prison for the Cuckowe

Their Ditches they frame as they list, & distinguish them into workes and nookes, as my Lo. Maior's Cooke doth his Custards; They clense them often (but it is as Phisic'ons give their Potions) more to catch

cast

the fish, then to throw out the Mudd. Though their Countrey bee part of the Mayne, yet every house stands as it were in an Island; and that (though but a Boare dwell in it) lookes as Smugg as a Lady new painted. A gallant's Maskinge Suite sitts not more neately then a thatch'd Coate* of many yeares wearing: If you finde it dry, it is imbraced by Vines, and if lower seated, it is onely a Close Arbour in a plumpet of Willowes and Alders; pleasant enough while the Dogg-daies last, but those once past over, you must practize wading and swimming, or remaine Prisoner till the Spring, onely a hard frost, wth the helpe of Hammers and Sledges may chance to release you. The bridge to this is an outlandish planke, wth a box of stones to poize it withall, like a Quintine, wch with the least helpe turnes round, like a Headsman; that when the Master is over, stands drawne, and then hee is in his Castle. 'Tis sure, his feare that renders him suspitious; That hee may therefore certainly see who enters, you shall ever see his window made over his dore, but it may bee it is to shew you his Pedegree: for though his Auncestors were never knowne, their Armes are there, which in spight of Heraldrie, shall beare their Atcheivments wth ye helmett of a Baron at least, Marry, the Feild perhapps shal bee charged wth 3 basketts, to shew his Father's

trade portraied.

When you enter into one of their howses, the first thing you shall encounter is a Looking Glasse, the next are the Vessells martiallized about the howse like Watchmen, all is neate as if they were in a Ladies Cabbinett; for (unlesse it bee themselves) there are none of God's Creatures loose any thing of their native Beautie. Their howses (especially in their Cities) are the best Eye-beauties in their Countrie, for cost and sight they farr exceed of English, but want their State and Magnificence, Their lyning is yet more rich then their Outside,

not in hangings, but in Pictures, wch the poorest there are plentifullie furnished wth: Not a Sowtor* but has his toyes for Ornament. Were the knacks of their houses sett together, there were not such another Bartholomew Faire in Europe. Their Artists for these are as rare as thought. And if you want their Language, you may learne a great deale of it on their signe Posts, for what they are, they ever write under them, In that onely they deale plainely, And by this device hang up more honesty then they keepe. Their Roumes are but so many severall Sand-boxes. If not soe, you must either swallow yo' spittle, or blush when you see a Mappt brought. Their bedds are noe other then Land Cabines, high enough to need a Ladder or Staires, Once upp, you are walled in wth Wainscott, And that is good discretion, to avoide the trouble of making yo' Will every night; for once falling out

presently

would break yo' neck perfectly; But if you die in it, this comfort you shall bee sure to leave your friends, that you died in Cleane Linnen.

Whatsoever their Estates bee, their howses must bee fine and neate; Therefore from Amsterdame have they banished Seacoale, least it should soyle their buildings; of which the statelier sort are sometimes sententious, and carry in their fronts some conceipt of the Author. Their howses they keepe cleaner then their bodies, & their bodies cleaner then their Soules. Goe to one place, you shall finde the Andyrons shutt up in Nett-worke; at a second, the Warmingpan mufled up in Italian cutt-worke; at a third, the Scummer cladd in Cambricke; for the woman shee is ever ye head of the Man, and so takes the horne to her own charge; which she sometimes multiplies, bestowing the increase on her husband. For their propension to Venerie, 'tis true that their Woemen are not so ready at the sport as

[come short of] of English, for neither are they soe generally bredd to't, nor are their

Men such Linnen lifters. Idlenes and Court

ship hath not banish't honesty from among them. They talke more, and doe lesse;

Shoemaker or cobbler (sutor).

Mop (mappa, a napkin).

The words between brackets are underlined to denote deletion,

yet their blood burnes high, and their veynes are full, wch argues stronglie, that if ever the Courte turne them Gallants, they will take up the Custome of entertayning Ladies, And having once done it, I believe they wilbee notable, for I have heard they trade more for love then Money, but it is for the trick, not the Man; and therefore when they like the labo they will reward ye Workeman; otherwise their grosse feeding and clownish education hath spoiled them for being noblie minded. But I must give you this, onely on report, experience heerein having not made me wise.

Their People are generally Boorish, yet none but may bee bredd to bee a Statesman, none of them having the guift to bee soe nice conscienced but that they can turne out Religion to lett in Pollicie.

Their Countrey is the God they worshipp, Warr is their heaven, Peace their Hell, And the Spaniard their Divell, Custome is their Lawe & Will their Reason. You may sooner Convert a Jew, then make an ordinary Dutchman yeild to Arguments that crosse him. An olld Bawde will sooner and more easily bee made turne Puritane, then a Wagoner bee perswaded not to baite twice in nyne mile : His Soule is composed of English Beere (That makes him headstrong) & his bodie of pickled herring (They render him costive and testie). These two, wth a little butter, are the Ingredients of a meere Dutchman, wch a Voyage to the East Indies, by the heat of the Equinoctiall consolidates. If you see him fatt, hee hath been coopt up in a Rout-yard, & that has bladerd him. If you see him naked, you will intreate him to put off his Gloves, & Maske, or wish him to hide his hands and face that hee may appeare more lovely.

For their condition, they are churlish, & without question very auntient, for they were bredd before manners were in fashion. Yet all y they have not, they account superfluitie, wch they say mends some, & marrs more. They would make

They are seldome deceived; for they trust noe bodie, soe by consequence they are better to holld a Fort then to winne it; yet they can doe both. Trust them you must, if you travaile, for to call to them for a Bill, were to dive into a Waspes-Nest. Complement is an Idelness they are not trained upp in. And it is their happines that Court vanities have not stole away their mindes from busines. Their being Sailers and Soldiers have marr'd two parts already, If they bathe once in Court oyle they will soone marr the rest: they are painted trapp dores; & shall then suffer the Jewes to build a Citie where Harlem Meere is, & then cousin them on't. They will abuse a Stranger for noething, and after a few base terms scotch and snee one another into Carbonadoes,* as they doe their fryed Roaches. Noething quiettes them but Money and Libertie; which having once gotten, they presently abuse both; but if you tell them soe, they awake their fury, and you may sooner calme the Sea, then conjure that into Compasse againe.

They are in a manner all Aquatiles; & therefore the Spaniard calls them Waterdoggs, altogether I agree not with him, yet thinke withall they can catch a duck as soone. They love none but such as doe for them, & when their turne is served neglect them. They have noe friendes but their kindred, what every wedding feast meete among themselves like Tribes. All that helpe them not, they holld Popish, and thinke it an Argument of great honestie to raile agt the King of Spaine.

Their Shipping is the Babell they boast in, for the glorie of their Nation; 'Tis indeed a wonder; And they will have it soe; But wee may well hope they will never bee soe potent by Land, least they shew us how doggedly they can insult, where once they gett the Mastery. Their Navies are the Scourge of Spaine, the Pills wherewth they purge the Indies: Nature hath not bredd them soe active for the Land as some others; but at Sea they are Water-Divells, & attempt things incredible. Their Shipps lie like high North side, you freeze without helpe, for they woodes, in winter if you view them on the ride soe thick that through them you can see

* A steak broiled on the coals (carbonade).

will

but in jest and they could cutt your Throate in earnest; The very name implies Servitude. They hate it more then a Jew hates Images, or a woman olld Age. None among them hath Authority by Inheritance; That were the way to parcell out the Countrie into Families, They are all chosen as wee choose Aldermen, more for their Wealth then their witt, wch they soe over affect that Myne Here shall pace the street like an old Ape without a tayle after him, And if they may be had cheape, hee shall dawb his faced cloake with a stoters worth of pickled herrings, wch himselfe shall carry home in a string. Their common voice hath given him preheminence, And hee looses it but by living as hee did when hee was a Boore, But if pardon bee granted for wants (?)* past, they are about thinking it time to learne more civilitie. Their Justice is strict, if it crosse not Pollicy; but rather then hinder profitt or Traffique theylet tollerate any thing.

There is not under heaven such a Denne of severall Serpents as Amsterdame is; you may there bee what divell you please, soe you push not the State with yo' hornes: 'Tis an Universitie of all opinions, wch grow in it confusedly, as Stocks in a Nourcerie, without either order or Pruning. If you bee unsettled in yo opinion touching Religion you may heere see and try all, and take what you like. If you fancie none, you have a Patterne to follow of Two who wilbee a Church by themselves.

The Papist must not Masse it publiquely; not because hee is most hated, but because the Spaniard abridgeth the Protestant and Wts in the original. + Sic for they'll.

they had rather shew a little spleene then not cry quitts with the enemie. His Act is their Warrant, wch they retalliate justlie even to a haire; and for this Reason, rather then the Dunkirks they take shall want hanging, Amsterdam, who hath none of her owne, will borrow a hangman at Harlem.

In their Families they are all Equalls, and you have noe way to know the Mr and Mrs unles you finde them in bedd together; it may bee those are they. Otherwise Malkin will

prate

parle as much, laugh as lowde, and sitt on her tayle as well as her Mris. Had the first Logitians lived heere, Father and Sonne had never passed soe long for Relatives, they are heere whollie Individualls, for no demonstrance of Duetie or Authoritie can distinguish them, as if they were created together, & not borne successively; For yo' Mother, bidding blessing. Yo Man shalbe inconveniently her good-night, & kissing her, is punctuall sawcie, & you must not strike him; If you doe, hee shall complaine, and have Recompence.

It is a daintie place to please Boyes in, for the Father shall bargaine wh the Schoolem' not to whipp his Sonne, if hee doe, bee shall Revenge it on him with his knife, & have Lawe for it.

Their Apparell is civil enough, & good enough, but verie uncomely, usually it hath more Stuffe than Shape; Onely the Woemens Hukes* are commodious in Winter, but it is pittie they have not the witt to leave them off when Sommer comes. Their Woemen would have some good Faces if they did not marr starched soe blew, that when they are growne them in the making. Men & Woemen are old, you would verily believe you sawe winter standing up to the neck in a barrell of blew Starch.

cladd tollerably, unlesse they incline to the The Men amongst them are Sea fashion, And then are their Slopps yawning at the knee, as if they were about to devoure their shankes unmercifully. They are farr from going naked, for, of a whole Woeman you can see but halfe a face, as for labourer; wch you shall allwaies finde (as it her handes, they shew her to beet a shrewd were in Recompence of her paines) laden

* Cloaks.

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