The Travels Of Peter Mundy In Europe And Asia 1608 1667

From the Rawlinson MS. A. 315 in the Bodleian Library, with facsimile of original t.-p.: Itinerarium mundi, that is A memoriall or sundry relations of certain voiages,journeies ettc. ... By: Peter Mundy. With an appendix of extracts from the writings of seventeenth-century travellers to the Levant. Continued in Second Series 35, 45, 46, 55, and 78. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...most of Romantick storis and fables. The seating of the roumes are the like butt much finer....The Roume of Audience is very Long, most excellently well gilt, painted and foull of great rich Chints, the hangings are of cloth of Goulde imbraded with silver, the flower of the Louer is all of wood excellently in Laide...". Compare also Sloane MS. 2142, fol. 3, " The Chamber and Cabinett of the Queenes are as stately and rich as that of the Kings and replenished with very fine and rare Pictures." For further accounts see Coryat's Crudities, vol. i. p. 173 and A Tour in France and Italy (1675), p. 3. 4 After the reconciliation of Louis XIII. with his mother, Marie de Medicis, at Brissac, in August, 1620, the king went to Poitiers to put the affairs of Guiennc in order. See Abrtge" Chronologique de I'Histotre de France sous les Regnes de Louis XIII. el Louis XIV., vol. i. p. 185. Then wee past over the drawe bridge where the Marquesse de Ancres was slaine by the Kings Commaundement1: Soe to Rue Pharaon, where the last King was Killed by Ravilliacke3. Hard by stands Innocents church, rounde about whose Churchyard were great Storehowses full of Deadmens bones, manifest to sight through the Barrs, also many of them made into a wall with morter; others lay scattered heere and there under mens feete. They report that the earth of this Church yard hath this quallitie more then others, that in few dayes it consumes the dead bodyes of those that are layed therein, leaveinge nothinge but the very bones3. Afterwards to the Exchange, of which little can bee said, it consistinge only of a new shopps, where they sell bands, gloves, girdles, Garters etts.4 And from thence to 1 The Marechal d'Ancre met his death by the orders of Louis...

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