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THE NOTE-BOOKS OF RICHARD SYMONDS 221
In Abbeville, I saw two wild bores heads and pawes nayled at
the Gate of a gentlemans Howse in the town. In the valley, as
we past, four miles, as I take it, from Abbeville, we came by a
small Garrison. They call it Pont d'armee1. Upon the draw-
bridge is a Wolfes head and clawes nayled....
Poix is a small village2. Here, as elsewhere, the lower parts-
of the windowes are latticed and glazed above. Here, in this inn,
the Woman servants, or Maid servants that wayted on us, helped
the fellows to fill the tumbriel with dung. On the top of the hill
stands a Castle of chalky stone, a grove neare it; also the Church,
which is faire, not like our Churches. Tis covered with blew
shingles, which lookes afar off like lead.
9 January, Julian accompt. Munday morning wee marcht
from thence through a fair hilly Country, where the Villages
stand in the Vallyes for the most part. The hills are plowed,
being a sandy and Chalky soil. But this journey was far better
then any of the former. About the middle of the way, on the
left hand, wee left a lofty, large and fair Castle. No Gentlemans
howses all this way, but one, and that was in our way near that
Castle. Many Dovehouses and great flocks of pidgeons.
In the beginning of the Evening we entered the faire, and the
best towne I have yet seene in France, of Beauvois2. Six or
seven Churches, one of them very high, of the fashion of the
Abbey of Westminster. The houses in this town are very high,
the streets well paved, but Dung-hills all the way in the middle of
them. The Churches are lofty, and much adorned with statues
outside; Many of the Arirgin Mary sitting and holding the dead
body of our Saviour in her Lap. This town is seated in a Valley :
the rivers run through it, and the lofty hills, which inviron it, are
adorned with a multitude of Vineyards. The situation not unlike
to Salisbury, and the prospect also, though the river divides itself
nothing so often. The great Church in this town is extreme lofty.
In the quire, near the Alter, are many large, flat stones, inlayd
with brass, for Bishops and churchmen, their inscriptions circum-
scribd in old French Characters, as our old ones are also in
England. I saw no arms in the Windowes, but faire old Glasse,
nor noe old monuments of any notice. Tis called l'Eglise de
1 See p. 131. Mundy agrees with Symonds in the distance between.
Abbeville and "Fondormy."
2 See p. 131.
In Abbeville, I saw two wild bores heads and pawes nayled at
the Gate of a gentlemans Howse in the town. In the valley, as
we past, four miles, as I take it, from Abbeville, we came by a
small Garrison. They call it Pont d'armee1. Upon the draw-
bridge is a Wolfes head and clawes nayled....
Poix is a small village2. Here, as elsewhere, the lower parts-
of the windowes are latticed and glazed above. Here, in this inn,
the Woman servants, or Maid servants that wayted on us, helped
the fellows to fill the tumbriel with dung. On the top of the hill
stands a Castle of chalky stone, a grove neare it; also the Church,
which is faire, not like our Churches. Tis covered with blew
shingles, which lookes afar off like lead.
9 January, Julian accompt. Munday morning wee marcht
from thence through a fair hilly Country, where the Villages
stand in the Vallyes for the most part. The hills are plowed,
being a sandy and Chalky soil. But this journey was far better
then any of the former. About the middle of the way, on the
left hand, wee left a lofty, large and fair Castle. No Gentlemans
howses all this way, but one, and that was in our way near that
Castle. Many Dovehouses and great flocks of pidgeons.
In the beginning of the Evening we entered the faire, and the
best towne I have yet seene in France, of Beauvois2. Six or
seven Churches, one of them very high, of the fashion of the
Abbey of Westminster. The houses in this town are very high,
the streets well paved, but Dung-hills all the way in the middle of
them. The Churches are lofty, and much adorned with statues
outside; Many of the Arirgin Mary sitting and holding the dead
body of our Saviour in her Lap. This town is seated in a Valley :
the rivers run through it, and the lofty hills, which inviron it, are
adorned with a multitude of Vineyards. The situation not unlike
to Salisbury, and the prospect also, though the river divides itself
nothing so often. The great Church in this town is extreme lofty.
In the quire, near the Alter, are many large, flat stones, inlayd
with brass, for Bishops and churchmen, their inscriptions circum-
scribd in old French Characters, as our old ones are also in
England. I saw no arms in the Windowes, but faire old Glasse,
nor noe old monuments of any notice. Tis called l'Eglise de
1 See p. 131. Mundy agrees with Symonds in the distance between.
Abbeville and "Fondormy."
2 See p. 131.