few people in it.  A very fair—­and like a Cathedral—­Church; and I saw the leads, and a vault that goes far under ground, and here lay with Betty Turner’s sparrow:  the town, and so most of this country, well watered.  Lay here well, and rose next day by four o’clock:  few people in the town:  and so away.  Reckoning for supper, 19s. 6d.; poor, 6d.  Mischance to the coach, but no time lost.

9th (Tuesday).  When come to Oxford, a very sweet place:  paid our guide, L1 2s. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book, Stonage, 4s.

[This must have been either Inigo Jones’s “The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge,” printed in 1655, or “Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restor’d to the Danes,” by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in 1663.]

To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord:  and to him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All Souls’ College, and Chichly’s picture, 5s.  So to see Christ Church with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer, before dinner, and did give the boy that went with me 1s.  Strawberries, 1s. 2d.  Dinner and servants, L1 0s. 6d.  After come home from the schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;—­to the butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales, . . . long.  Butler, 2s.  Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s.  So to Friar Bacon’s study:  I up and saw it, and give the man 1s.  Bottle of sack for landlord, 2s.  Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and cheap entertainment.  At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get some pretty good musick, and sang and danced till supper:  5s.

10th (Wednesday).  Up, and walked to the Hospitall:—­[Christ’s Hospital]—­very large and fine; and pictures of founders, and the History’ of the Hospitall; and is said to be worth; L700 per annum; and that Mr. Foly was here lately to see how their lands were settled; and here, in old English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at the bottom.  So did give the poor, which they would not take but in their box, 2s. 6d.  So to the inn, and paid the reckoning and what not, 13s.  So forth towards Hungerford, led this good way by our landlord, one Heart, an old but very civil and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of his quality.  He gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people’s not minding the way.  So come to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and crayfish.  Dinner:  a mean town.  At dinner there, 12s.  Thence set out with a guide, who saw us to Newmarket-heath, and then left us, 3s. 6d.  So all over the Plain by the sight of the steeple, the Plain high and low, to Salisbury, by night; but before I come to the town, I saw a great fortification, and there ’light, and to it and in it; and find it prodigious, so as to frighten me to be in it all alone at that time of night, it being dark.  I understand, since, it to be that, that is called Old Sarum.  Come to the George Inne, where lay in a silk bed; and very good diet.  To supper; then to bed.