A JOURNEY TO LONDON, .In the Year, 1698. • After the Ingenuous Method of that tnade*by Dr. Martin Lyiler to Pa¬ ris, in the fame Tear^ &c. Wittten Originally in French^ B/ Mon- fieur Sorbiere^ and Newly Tranflated ♦nto Eoglilh. LONDON, Printed, and fold by A. Baldwin, in Warwick-Lane, 1698. ^Vloniiciir SoTbctv TO THE reader. I Am ref^Ivedtomakeno A- l Account otthe Magnificent^ and Noble-City of'‘London^ ^ where )?oa will meet i^th nothing offenfive and I fthink I have obfetved every thing that is Remarkable in it • It would have been unpardon¬ able mme, to have omitted a- ny matters which the Curious might be defirous to know having an Inimitable Pattern fromoneofthatCountry lately ■rwhofbr theclearnels of his Ex’ * preffion, the Elegancy of his Defcription.s. >5 To the Reader Delcriptions, as well Ingenuous 1, Choice of his Subjeds, deferves | a Particular Salutation froni all ^5! the Admirers of the Belles Let- \ | tres in the Univerfe. ' | I might here take an Oppor- | tunity to beg Pardon of the Erig- .lilh, for my mifreprefentations | ‘ Thirty Years ago , 4 but ’tis to be hoped this Book will m^ke ^ my ‘Peace with that Nation, The following pages will fliow : ^ you the Confiderable heads 1 de- W lign’dto Treat off, and now have paid my Devoirs at the En- ‘ | trance, I will not Importune joua-, ny longer. CON CONTENTS. Page 21 2? 9 ? 4 A 5 /.. Auction Beggars Brick and Stone Houfes Bureaus Boy in a little Coach Boats Bartholomerv Fair. ' , 27 Bread 29 Curiojity i 5/r Charles Cotterel and John Sharp Compar'^d 2 Cellar Windows Coaches Commendation of Linnen Shirts Calf with aTop-knot Coins ChiveyChafe Chocdlate Cabbage Chine of Beef wDucks ^Englifb no Lovers of finking Meat ■ Flannel Shirts * \ Grey Peafe Hot! InnSf the white Horfe^ &c. JC^nnels -i Kj^ightsbridge and Jfngton 4 5 18 20 20 li 28 n 29 8 5 5 KJtling CONTENTS. KjtUng in An Air Pomp LetHce Menage Monks _ {none') Miller*s Thumb Mufflers Mujhroofn Naked Statues Commended Old Women Witches Orris Portcochers and Remifes Poft Chaifes Roullions not in England '6 Pub lick Cries 16 Play Thit^s Poxi 24 Pick Pockets 27 Recreations and Walk, 7 A Rummer of tm Quarts 15 Rofemary, &c. 26 Squares, St. Jameses, Bloomsbury,Scc. 5 Signs in theftreet. Prodigious Large ! 7 p. td ? 9 16 22 12 H 18 / 2C ^ ijii Streets Lighted, ^•‘Clean Statues Sticklebacks Small coal Kfttles to Light a Pipe Salt Soups Things wanting in England Tennis Balls A JOURNEY T O L 0 N D 0 H In the Year, 1698 . After the Ingenuous Method of that made byDt. Martin Lyfter to Paris,-in the fame Tear^ &c. T ffis Tra^ was written chiefiy to^Poge t. fatisfy my own Curiofity , arid Curiofity; being in a place where I had lit^ tie to do, though fit to write a Book for fuch People as had idle time enough upon their hands to read it. The Eng- lilh Nation value themfelves Htp 9 n a plain Honefty,join’d with Hofpitality ; thele make them Courteous to Stran¬ gers, but they are not very cafy with their Curioftty. Fof they do not MdP- 5 ' B i A Journey to London.' P. 4- and drefs mojily for Figure,as the French, vffho are certainly the mofl Polite Nation in the Worlds and cin fraife andCoftrt tvitb a better grace than the rej^ of Mankind, V I did not intend to pat on the SpeBa- P.2. cles of the Prefent State of England, Written by Dr. Chamberlain, nor any Sur vey of the iarae for truftmg to my Ey es, 1 had a mind to fee without ^ein. ■ p 2 content you Reader, I promife :p, not to trouble you with Ceremonies, 1 either of State, or Church, or Politicks || though I met with an EngUfli | and Sir Gentleman who proffer’d to fhew me I chirks the Princes of the Blood, the Prime compar’d. Minifters of State , the Lord Mayor, ]! and other Officers belonging to a City jl of fo immenfe a greatnefs as that of J|i London, yet I refus’d the Civility, and told him, that I took more pleafure to . J fee honeft John Sharp of Hkckney, in M r. 3. his White Frock, crying Tarneps ho ! 'P four bunches a penny , than Sir Charles f j CottrH ^fmaking room for an Embaffa^ dour, and I found my felf better dijpos^d, and more apt to learn the phyjiogmmy of 1 a hundred Wzeds , than of live or (ix 'f Princes, ^ > J J J « ( I I 0 t, 0 \ i t J j t ? t] 4 t a; ai ai 1 I A Journey to London.' t arrived London, ■afret^x -tedtous p . 4. '^otrney , i» bad v^eather% for I fell (ick upo» the road f and lay dangeroufy ill tii the Tooth-ach. believe 1 did noi fee the tithe of^hat p. ^ deferves to be feen’y becaafe for mar^ things I wanted a reliffy farticularly for Painting and Building * though I con- fefs the grandure of a City chiefly confifts in Buildings; and I verily be¬ lieve Londonjco be one of the niof Beau¬ tiful and Magnificent in Europe. It is allb mofl: certain, that common people of London , livediL ^ .pers’d in Angle Houfe, whereas in Pa- ^ 4 - ris, there are from Four to Five^ and to Ten menages or difiinHFamities in rhany Houfesy from whence I infer chat as to the Commonalty Paris may be more fopulom than London, although perhaps their dwelling mayn’t be lb wholfome and cleanly. _ I found theJLoufes fame ofhew*h fione Bride entire , fame of Brick with fiee Stone ; as tbe Crown Tavern upon Ludgate-hiSy and the corner Houfe of Bifchin-Lancy and ieveral others. • p. g. Divers of the Citizens Houles, Poif- ^ Port-cochezs to drive in ^f 'oachy or B 2 4 A Journey to London. Cart eithei*, Confequently have Corns within^ and moftly Remifesufet thentufy ruchperfonsashave no^oit- ehochez, and confequently no Courts or Remifes, fet up their Coaches at o- ther places, and let their Horfes ftand at Livery. P- 8. The Cellar Windows of wofi Houfes w£ws. grated with ftrong barrs of Irony to keep thieves out, znA-Newgate is grat¬ ed up to the Top to keep them in. Which mufi be of vxfi expence ! P^ 9 k As the Houfes are magnificent withouty Bureaus. furnifh them within accord- ingly. But I could not find, that they had any Bureaus of Ivory. P- ?■ Upon viewing the Braziers and wSgin Turners Shops, I found it true, what England my Country Man Monfieur Juftell for- told mCy that according to his Cata- mera”' logae there were near threefcore utenfilsy with and conveniencies of Life more in En- France. France. But then the Englilh, fince the breach of their com¬ merce with France , lie under great neceffities of leveral commodities fir¬ ing for the eaft and fupport of Hu- P- U2. mane Life , as Counterfeit Pearl Neck- lacesy Fans, Tooth Picks, and Tooth Pick A Journey to London.' 5 Pick Calb, and efpecia^Iy Pmnes, the Calamity of which has been fo great for Ten Years laft paft, feat they have not had enough to lay round their Plum-porridge at ChrijtmAs. I muft XQ give a faithful account de- p. 10; fwnd even to the Kennels; the Gutters Kenneils. are deep, a/td lain with rough edges> which make the Coaches not to glide eajily over but occafion an imployment for an induftrious fort of people calPd Kennel-Ralfers. The Sc ^uares in London are many p. la. PxAvery beautifitlj asSt. Bloomburyj Red-Lyon. Devof^jireytonemo^m- of the largefi ^ and^ Hogfdon not bury. Jinifl}*d. But that which makes the dweU^' ling in this City very diverting, is the facility of going out into the felds, as to fQtightsbridge , where is an excellent Spring-Garden, toMarribone, where is a very good Bowling-Green, bridge tonus famous for Cakes, as Stepeny isiflington. for Bunns. But to defend to a more particular re- , view of this great City, I think it not a» mifs to [peak fir ft of the Streets. There are Coaches in the ftreetsCoachet. which are very numerous, but the Fiacers B 3 * tfre 6 A journey to London are not.hum^ with4puhle i'^nn^^^ gt the foiii” S!SjinTCri, whieh^^r^gs would i»r /efrj^ ':^edk a^' that li foiifra tt^,8a{e altef’q in England ; and ‘ I that hkd rathet fide ip a Fiacre at Faruj thart irttiie Chariot gf a ^ Lord'^mtiiukaoVy to my great afto-' niflimcnt a\ iLpftdby , found that iaa Hackney Coach, there'was »ojf a pit hut what dfftpe'd a Man J from whence I drew theifH Surprifirig Conclufions. 13 - Firft that- a Hackney mijerahlfy Voiturey and next, that a Man may be ^ ttiofe tir'ed'in m hour in thaty than infix hours' ridi^'' in A*mba0a- *' Aovs eafiefi Chariot. p. if, V I (aw riBoy that*bad HarnefsM twd By a Doggs , which drew a M Coach. witlVa Burden in it,, and I faW a little ^ little f^inegrette , a-? long by tfio BojSy mlich bigger then hlfnklty' znA pujfyd behind hj a Maid. Xliefe I wds willing to omit as tbiiiktng them at firfi fight fiandalhf^y and a yt ry jefi , they being wretchedbufin'ejjes in fo. • :: '. ihagmficent a City. ' ' " ', Poft ' Finding ihat neither Pafi chaifes nor chai'es RouHllonr were in ufe in'London. I told noT'Sthem how hoth^f^s^ but gland. # ' one A Journey to London. 7 cne only is in the Thilles^ hotv the Coach^ man mounts the B.oailUon^ hut for the Chaife he only mounts the fide Houje^ and that they might be introduced td good furfofe. But I found the Englifli Cu- riofity fo fmall that I did not fee any Rouillion made during my fix months ftay in London, As for their Recreations and Walks 14. St. James Parkis frequentedby feoyle ^ality, who if they have a mind towaiks. have better and freer Air, drive to Hide Parky where is a Ring for the Coaches to drive round, and hard by is Mrs. Pricers, where are incomparable Sil¬ labubs, out of other parts of the Totpn, they toHamfiead and Cane Wood/an admirable place for Nuts, as Mother Huffs for Bottle Alej fcarce any fide a~ p, mifs: I had almoft forgot that in St. Jameses Park are 'many Seats, for the entertainment of allPeople,the Lackqueys and Mob exceptedy but of this more hre~ after .' . '‘Tis pretty toobfervehpw the Magi’-^^^^f ftrates indulge the Inhabitants of this in the Great City, by this fmall infianced, for whereas in Paris the Kjng has caufed ’ the Citizens to take down their fignsy and ' B 4 not f g inns % V ■ ^-1 Journey to London. not to exceed A p»allmeafure of Square, In London they may be of what mea- fiire they pleafe, even to a Monftrous bignefs, as my great Curiofity ob- ferv’d, in the Sign of the Ship T^avernf apd the Cafile Tavern in Fleet*ftreet, which has almoft Qhfcur'*d the Sun ; and Barbers hang out poles of a great huge length almoft as long as a Miften Maft. There are a great may Puhlick Inns TheWhite London, where Lodging are to be Let, Horfeia SiS the BullInnln Bifilopgat'e-Jireet, the ft fabile^ it had a Foppijh \Night-Gown and Old Qwifure. Which *' lead me into this RejieSlion, that the^°r Modern Painters have hereby an oppor’^ ' tunity tobeidle. He has feveral other Curiofities; among the reft was a foman Glafs , whofe very bottom was fmooth and very little umbili'eate. Hep. fftow’d me. likewife^ a {Treat Rum* 15 39 * 38. fftow’d me, Jikewife^ a great ‘‘‘ .’iner of two Quarts, very proper forRuinmer Wine, and Limon and Su-^wts. gar in the midft of Summer ; I found that the foot of the latter was more ’Vmbilicated than the former. He then diverted me with a Copy of jthe Writing faid to be the Devil’s Writing, kept in Queen’s Col ledge in ^xford. Upon which I began the Di- 'fcourfe of thefe matters; 1 told him, that the Chinefe were very much Em- harajs^d in their fi' rising, as this IVri^ ting leem’d to be. But I was rather I inclirPdytothink this the Bouftrophedon ywiri mentioned by Suidas like the Racers n shout the Meta in the Cirque. But I could 16 A Journey to London^ could not find that he had any appre^ iui MillerV Thumb. F. 58. henfion of the matter in thisCoUeftion, 1ft I ikw a Millers Thumb , which he told Jlia me was taken by a Miller with his Thumb and fore finger. It is very ' n ,sti Stickle¬ backs. like a. Hippocumpus as to the Thick belly and breafi of it. With this I was ex- treamly pleafed, and am infinitely ob- p lig’d to this Mr. Doncafer, for hc;(tn Ihow’d me feveral Ibrt of Tadpoles, m and Sticklebacks, which only for big-' ^an nefs are riot much unlike a Pope , or l\ Ruff, and prefented nie with oneof ift, ’em, which I defign to give a draught jtlii of. _ . liK Mr. Mud- I was to vifit Mr. Maddifondj I was ■ nor redd' d thoughts Vof concerning the Hearts of a Hedghog^'^^ which had made a very great breach lov betwixt Mr. Goodemugh and himfelf, ||fp( I could have wifh’d, I might have re- i , concil’d the Animofity. But it is to be i[j| Hoped theremiy come good from anHone(i Emulation. I had feveral difeourfes jjfe with Mr. Muddifondf aiiout an O^d Cat t and a Toung KjtUng in an air Pump, and Killing in hoxv the Cat died after 16 Pumps, hat y the Kjtling furviv^d 500 Pumps. Up* jjff. on which we fell into a Learned Di-, ^1 fcourft, ’ an air Pump A Journey to London. i y courle <, of the lives of Cats; and at laft agreed upon this diftindion, That it ought qot to be laid that Cats , but that Kjtlwgs have nine . lives. And after the difpute ended^ 2. .he very obligingly procured me a Hu- ' wan Heart. But I tnuft confels the . generofity of the Englifh in this, for not many days after M.r. Baddingtony p. 71 . procured me. another , which was ex- ’ treamly Grateful. I was recommended by a Friend to Mr. BrotvnJjvorthy aPerlbnthat belongs I, to the Tower of London. He is a Ci- Brownf- ,(vil Gentleman, but his genius lead him "'°™* ® ^ore to Politicks than Curiofity. He proffer’d to (hew me the new Armory, which are Arms, as he told me, for ‘abovea Hundred Thcufand Men, all difpos’d in a manner, moft furprizing • ■ and magnihcent; as likewife another Armory, where are Arms for Twenty ' Thoufand Men more. He would like- wile have fhew’d me the Horle Armo¬ ry, a Royal Train of Artillery, and ^ leveral Cannon taken out of the Tr/- 4 dent Prize. • He would likewife have carryed me to lee the Crown Impe¬ rial, and other Jewels belonging to it* ' C i i8 A Journey to'Itondon, | I humbly thank’d hinij and told him,’ jiiA! ?. 2 . that my Curtoftty led me otherwife,and jiiattl that nty Obfervations inclined, rather to iDa\ Nature than Dominion. Upon which Hog fmiling he laid, he hoped he fliould jtk gratifie me, and immediately led me to a place where we law Lyons, «|rifj Tygers,and two very remarkableCat- y ( amountains. I took more particular tat Owls. Notice of two Orvls^ of an immenfe i’- 73- greatnefs^ but by their being without i p. 7 * 3 . horns^ I take ’em not to he a difiintt Calf with Species fro m the European. wta a^p- Blit that with which I was moft de- L j lighted, was a Calf skin ftuft, ’twas admirable to behold, a certain tumor ,jm.p or excrelcence it had upon its forehead, ipjjjs in all points refembling theCommodes or Top-knots now in Fafhion. Upon ^ jj, this 1 expreft my thanks to Mr. Brownfworth in the moft Obliging Terms I could. He then told me,the Royal Mint was not far off^ up9>i lluJej which I laid, I was a great ad- '' mirer of Coins, and defired him to give me an account of what Coins L. there were in England began to tell ;L 1 me,that about three Years ago the cur- I rent Coin of the Kingdom confiftedof old i A Journey, to London. ’19 old Money, coin’d by ieveral Kings ; ' that tholeCoinswereCIiptand debafed '1 *to a very great degree, but that the 4 , King with the advice of hisParliamenr, I in the very heighth of the War with i France, had eftablifli’d a Paper Credit (or if you pleafe to call itCoin)of Bills, iffued out of the Exchequer and Notes from the Royal Bank of England, a- . mounting to prodigious fums ;that at ' prelenf allour Silver is in Mild Mony, ^ either of the two laft Kings f or his prelent Majefty, of which there is lb . great a Quantity, that pofterity will ^ be apt to thinkjthat there were fcarce : any Prince that everCoin’d before him. This Money, and Credit, have circu- ^ lated lb far, and are in lb great a plen- ^ ; ty, that in a late fublcription to a Ne^v If ; Eajl India Compat^, T wo Millions I Sterling were fublcrib’d in left than two days time, and as much more ex- . P' ^ cluded-I believe the Man would have run on till Evening, if I had not thus ® , interrupted him: Sir, laid I, I *beg » . you to conlider, that I am z,Virtuoft), and that your prelent dilcourle is quite ' out of my Element; Sir, you would oblige me much more , if you could 1 C 2 find Coins of yabaia- thus. P’ 115. Coins of Cata- thumpton ' and Go- clenia. F . 121. P, 46. Moni- ment of Chivey- Oafe. A Journey to London, find me any Coin from Palmira^ more particularly of Zambia ^ Odemtm ^ or ’ VAhdathuSy and that I prefer’d a* rJBALATHVS VCRIMPR, or a FABALATHVS AVG. before Twenty of the beft pieces of Gold Coin’d in the Tower, The Gentle^ man very Civilly reply’d , that he would endeavour to latisfie my Curiof- ty ; that he had at home two rufty Copper Pieces, with which he intend- ed to prelent me, (which he accord¬ ingly did the next day) that he had been told by a Perlbn of the Belles Let~ tres^ that they were dug but of thelfle of Scilly, and that One was of Cata- thumpton a Saxon Prince, the other of , Goclema. his Daughter and Succeflbr ; they have both very odd Charafters, ' (if any') abput ’em. I defign to give the Reader a Cut of them. The Evening ■ coming on, and my thanks returned to him, we parted. 7 was to fee Mr. Shuttleworth, whofe Friendship 1 greatly Value ; He has many ■ Stones/i-ozw Scotland ; there is one the ^ mofi Curious of alljConcerning which he is ready to puhlifh a DiJJertation. His a Catalogue in three Columns^ of the Names 4 ai fi I inf A 'journey to London. of the mofi Principal Per fans that were ,^lPd at Chivey Chafe, fViddrington ^clofts the Column,and after his Name there is a NoblePindarick in which he is Recorded, upon the Cutinjt; off his Legs, to have foUgl^t ttJJOn W the Antiquity ofthis%conQy befdes the known Hijlory and names which juftify the time of thoje Men, the figure of the Letters and the Blacknels of ’em, particularly of the word are undoubted Arguments. He Ihow’d me a Thouland other Rarities as the skin of a Cap-Jfs , many very excellent Land Snails, a Frejhwater f. 6o. Mujfel from Chatham ; A thin Ojfter, ™d. a very large Wood Frog , with the ex- tremity %f the Toes Webbed. ■' He fhow’d me fome papers of Swzm- 73. mcrdam , in which were fome fmall Treatifes,or rather fome figures only of the Tadpole. Again figures relating to the natural Hijtory of a certain Day But¬ terfly, andof fome confiderable number of Snails, as well naked as fluviatile'. He p (bprPdme a vaft number of great Cafes in Play which were Play-things, or Puppets, all of them brought from France, Except Ruties/ one Sifirum, or ^Egyptian Rattle, with ■J’- , hat we hati leveral l.i.quyrs in Franci, r. i<5i. i Finde Bonn^ Mulfc^ Ch thre, piondrietty and D' Arh is, Ratafia, other- p. i<'4;' wfle ca}\edGberry-Brandj,F'attee,Tenout- liet de Pip deRee.Ht aTifwer’d mfe^hat he had a thoufand fuch fort ohUctors, iiumtie Dumtie, Three Threads, Finpitic* Four Threads, 0/d Vharoah, Kjiockdown, Oumtk, Hugmatee, Shouldree-,. Clamber-C'r oven, Hot^Fott at Newg&te-Market,Fox-comb, Blind Binneaux, Stijfle, &:c. • ^ ^■j| i JPrL i5efly,‘an<3 . fignt)f5y* jD^s^ that Vloiigh’4 a* ^^Acre of Ground, wi^ich I Deiievci ftiay. for %ant of Hotfesbe intrdiuced into Fr»nce , mthgeod Effe^, They, have very good ids that may lerve for pragooris, bur they v?ihi^?ce fill up< . on.frpteilahts. , ■ ■. ' • ■_ . ^ ... .- • ■•' 'V'. . ■ ;f:' If i 4 f ■I