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APPENDIX G. EXTRACTS FROM
sitts on the neare horse behind. Browne horses are all as I have
yet seen.
That night went to a Village called Berney1, four or five
howses, as most of the rest of all Villages in this Country have.
This passage was good, an open Country, and some hills adorned
with Woods such like some parts of Northamptonshire.
Sunday early we left that hostelrie and early at Masse time we
entered Abbeville2, so called, as I suppose, from some famous
Abbey. There, indeed, part of a great church and lofty and other
buildings remain, which shew a great fabrique. There is five or
six more Churches, besides Religious houses. This is the best
buildings I have yet seen in France. Riding, Shoeing, Waggoning,
&c. are no Novelties on a Sunday. In this passage we came by
many Churches, which stood not above half a myle from each
other. We came near an Abbey, where, in the woods, are snares
of Ropes and pullyes sett upon the Trees to catch birds. About
Callis and this part of Picardy are many such crows, which are
about Cambridge, and calld Royston Crows. The Chancels of the
Countrey Churches are for the most part higher then the church.
The steeple a Wall, wherein two holes are cutt for two small
ting tang bells. The Villages have not above five or six poor
Cottages of stone, thatcht; a few trees; the Country playne.
The houses have an outward Doore besides the inward of thick
splints, not much different from our Essex Gates to preserve
braking open.
Abbeville is fortified strong, and many Trees in rows within
the Works3. Fair Churches here, and a good towne, but dirty,
especially in the market-place, which is large. Many Crosses in
this town, wherein the Crucifix is as big as the Life. Two or three
small Chapels in the high way with an Altar of stone and a statue.
After dinner we went to Poix; they call it nyne miles4. This
passage and Country is likest to Cambridgshire, chalky, playne,
champagne and hilly, Thin of parishes. The woods are not
fenct in, but open to the Champagne.
1 The Bearne of Mundy, who calls it "a poore Towne." See p. 132.
2 See p. 131 f.
3 Mundy had no time to make observations at Abbeville, as he stayed there
"only to breake fast."
4 Symonds, no doubt, had reason to distrust the native estimate of the
distance between Abbeville and Poix. Mundy gives 18 miles between the two
places. See p. 131 f.
APPENDIX G. EXTRACTS FROM
sitts on the neare horse behind. Browne horses are all as I have
yet seen.
That night went to a Village called Berney1, four or five
howses, as most of the rest of all Villages in this Country have.
This passage was good, an open Country, and some hills adorned
with Woods such like some parts of Northamptonshire.
Sunday early we left that hostelrie and early at Masse time we
entered Abbeville2, so called, as I suppose, from some famous
Abbey. There, indeed, part of a great church and lofty and other
buildings remain, which shew a great fabrique. There is five or
six more Churches, besides Religious houses. This is the best
buildings I have yet seen in France. Riding, Shoeing, Waggoning,
&c. are no Novelties on a Sunday. In this passage we came by
many Churches, which stood not above half a myle from each
other. We came near an Abbey, where, in the woods, are snares
of Ropes and pullyes sett upon the Trees to catch birds. About
Callis and this part of Picardy are many such crows, which are
about Cambridge, and calld Royston Crows. The Chancels of the
Countrey Churches are for the most part higher then the church.
The steeple a Wall, wherein two holes are cutt for two small
ting tang bells. The Villages have not above five or six poor
Cottages of stone, thatcht; a few trees; the Country playne.
The houses have an outward Doore besides the inward of thick
splints, not much different from our Essex Gates to preserve
braking open.
Abbeville is fortified strong, and many Trees in rows within
the Works3. Fair Churches here, and a good towne, but dirty,
especially in the market-place, which is large. Many Crosses in
this town, wherein the Crucifix is as big as the Life. Two or three
small Chapels in the high way with an Altar of stone and a statue.
After dinner we went to Poix; they call it nyne miles4. This
passage and Country is likest to Cambridgshire, chalky, playne,
champagne and hilly, Thin of parishes. The woods are not
fenct in, but open to the Champagne.
1 The Bearne of Mundy, who calls it "a poore Towne." See p. 132.
2 See p. 131 f.
3 Mundy had no time to make observations at Abbeville, as he stayed there
"only to breake fast."
4 Symonds, no doubt, had reason to distrust the native estimate of the
distance between Abbeville and Poix. Mundy gives 18 miles between the two
places. See p. 131 f.