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THE NOTE-BOOKS OF RICHARD SYMONDS 2ig>
from Callais towards Paris, 120' the Clock, having left London
1 January, English accompt. We left Callis about one o'clock,
and about seven that night, we Came to Bollon thorough a hilly
Country, and by reason the Water has made deep gulls every
where, tis a very scurvy passage, worse than ever I rode in
England, now and then a fair Sandy Way. Near Callis some
Villages stands thick, but very small, where a few Cottages built of
stone and thatcht are neare the Church, which also is poore.
Here the Country people plough with three small horses, that go
all a breast, and wheel ploughs as in Kent, and lay their Land as
in Kent, but with this difference, they lay all one way alike, but
these in France remove furrowes. Only one small thatcht Abby
on our right hand, five or six miles from Callis I saw in this
Journey. A very playne hilly Country, no Wood but what is
about some houses. Their Cottages stink as bad as the in-
habitants.
From Bullen wee marcht along the shore. Bullen is no
garrison. The Town stands upon a high Hill1, and in the middle
the Church, which is large. Wee lay at the golden Horn in the
lowTowne2. Here is a monastery of Capuchines. This Country,
both in ground, but especially the Houses, is like Cornwall. This
soil is better, and more fruitfull, not so rockie.
About one of the Clock we got to Montrill, a strong Garrison
upon the summitye of a Hill3 and four or five Churches in it. In
one of them on the left hand, as you enter into the west end, lies
an old Monument of a Knight in old Armour like our Templars4.
It is a faire town and many hansome howses and good shops. I
saw many hares in the Cokes shops. Here the country people
pull off their hatts and goe out of the way with their Waynes,
which Waynes are drawne with three horses, and the Waggoner
three and twenty Years. To his Daughter Anne ,£500 to be paid at the age of
twenty years, or at the day of her marriage, which shall first happen. Edward
Symonds was baptis'd at Black Notley 20 December 1621, John 10 April 1627,
Anne 31 March 1631."
1 See p. 131.
2 Mundy lodged at "The Grayhound," which was also in the "lower
Towne." See p. 132.
3 Mnndy describes Montreuil as "a small Cittie with three walls." See
p. 132.
4 There is a sketch by Symonds, in the MS-, of the "Arms embossed over
the figure."
from Callais towards Paris, 120' the Clock, having left London
1 January, English accompt. We left Callis about one o'clock,
and about seven that night, we Came to Bollon thorough a hilly
Country, and by reason the Water has made deep gulls every
where, tis a very scurvy passage, worse than ever I rode in
England, now and then a fair Sandy Way. Near Callis some
Villages stands thick, but very small, where a few Cottages built of
stone and thatcht are neare the Church, which also is poore.
Here the Country people plough with three small horses, that go
all a breast, and wheel ploughs as in Kent, and lay their Land as
in Kent, but with this difference, they lay all one way alike, but
these in France remove furrowes. Only one small thatcht Abby
on our right hand, five or six miles from Callis I saw in this
Journey. A very playne hilly Country, no Wood but what is
about some houses. Their Cottages stink as bad as the in-
habitants.
From Bullen wee marcht along the shore. Bullen is no
garrison. The Town stands upon a high Hill1, and in the middle
the Church, which is large. Wee lay at the golden Horn in the
lowTowne2. Here is a monastery of Capuchines. This Country,
both in ground, but especially the Houses, is like Cornwall. This
soil is better, and more fruitfull, not so rockie.
About one of the Clock we got to Montrill, a strong Garrison
upon the summitye of a Hill3 and four or five Churches in it. In
one of them on the left hand, as you enter into the west end, lies
an old Monument of a Knight in old Armour like our Templars4.
It is a faire town and many hansome howses and good shops. I
saw many hares in the Cokes shops. Here the country people
pull off their hatts and goe out of the way with their Waynes,
which Waynes are drawne with three horses, and the Waggoner
three and twenty Years. To his Daughter Anne ,£500 to be paid at the age of
twenty years, or at the day of her marriage, which shall first happen. Edward
Symonds was baptis'd at Black Notley 20 December 1621, John 10 April 1627,
Anne 31 March 1631."
1 See p. 131.
2 Mundy lodged at "The Grayhound," which was also in the "lower
Towne." See p. 132.
3 Mnndy describes Montreuil as "a small Cittie with three walls." See
p. 132.
4 There is a sketch by Symonds, in the MS-, of the "Arms embossed over
the figure."