Francis Mortoft: his Book, Being his Travels through France and Italy 1658-1659 by Malcolm Letts

Author:Malcolm Letts [Letts, Malcolm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317133353
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Notes

1 Mortoft was travelling at the close of the war between France and Spain, which was a sequel to the Fronde. In March, 1657, it was agreed that the English and French should undertake operations, and the campaign of 1658 put an end to the Spanish resistance. Don Juan of Austria was defeated at the Battle of the Dunes in June, and the other strongholds were recovered in rapid succession. Camb. Mod. History, vol. iv. p. 619; D. Ogg, Europe in the Seventeenth Century, 1925, p. 224.

2 Montreuil-sur-mer. Mundy, Travels (1620) vol. i. p. 132 (Hakluyt Society), 1907, describes it as “a small Cittie with three walls.” Symonds, whose notebooks (1648) are printed in App. G to Mundy’s Travels, p. 219, calls it “a strong Garrison upon the summitye of a Hill.” Compare Journal of Richard Ferrier (1687), Camden Miscellany, vol. ix. p. 19.

3 Compare Mundy, Travels, p. 132; Symonds, p. 220. Ferrier, p. 19, mentions the pistols “which are there made and sold in great quantities, it being a place for that sort of work the most remarquable in France.”

1 Compare Evelyn, Diary (Globe ed.), p. 39: “It abounds with workmen who make and sell curiosities of ivory and tortoise-shells; and indeed whatever the East Indies afford of cabinets, porcelain, natural and exotic rarities are here to be had, with abundant choice.” Also Mundy, Travels, p. 138, n. 4.

2 An anonymous traveller (1647), whose diary is in my possession, writes: “The bridge over ye Seine hath bene ye farest in franee, but at present a great part of it broken downe. Yet their is a very fine bridge borne up by boates.” Compare Heylyn, The Voyage of France, 1673, p. 26; Evelyn, Diary (Globe ed.), p. 38. Merian’s view of 1620 shows the stone bridge with two piers missing, but not the bridge of boats. There is a short account of Rouen (1619) in Howell’s Letters, ed. Jacobs, 1892, vol. i. p. 41; see also E. Rodocanachi, Aventures d’un grand Seigneur Italien à travers l’Europe, 1606, Paris, 1899, pp. 156 ff.

3 The cathedral of Notre-Dame was begun in 1201 or 1202 and not completed until 1530. The great bell was known as George d’Amboise, having been cast by order of George Cardinal d’Amboise. See Mundy, Travels, p. xix. n. 3. It was the biggest bell outside Russia and was an object of great affection on the part of the citizens. It is said to have cracked with grief in 1786 at being called upon to ring for Louis XVI. It was melted down during the Revolution. T. A. Cook, Rouen (Med. Town Series), p. 129.

1 Compare Heylyn, Voyage of France, 1673, p. 33: “The religion in this Town is indifferently poysed, as it is also in most places of this Province. The Protestants are thought to be as great a party as the other, but far weaker; the Duke of Longueville having disarmed them in the beginning of the last troubles.” Also Travels, by Sir John Reresby, Dry den House Mem.

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