British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke As Tourists in the United ProvincesThe book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published. After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch. Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days. This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland. |
Contents
SEVENTEENTHCENTURY TRAVEL ACCOUNTS | 17 |
Conclusion | 52 |
THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNITED PROVINCES | 65 |
Transport in Holland in the seventeenth century | 76 |
Accommodation | 90 |
Going to British or Dutch inns meals and drinks prices of meals | 97 |
SIGHTSEEING | 113 |
Tourist guides Binnenhof and courts in The Hague Town halls with | 123 |
Riches trade and charity | 191 |
The Dutch people and their customs | 211 |
Conclusion | 218 |
GENERAL CONCLUSION | 233 |
JOHN LOCKES JOURNEY OF 1684 | 299 |
ORRERY ACCOUNTS 168689 | 329 |
LIST OF INNS | 343 |
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF TRAVELLERS | 359 |
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