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Journey Through England and Scotland Made by Lupold Von Wedel in the Years 1584 and 15851

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Gottfried Von Bulow
Gottfried Von Bulow
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Superintendent of the Royal Archives in Stettin
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L upold VON Wedel, author of the account of a journey through England and Scotland, 1584–1585, belonged to a noble German family, who still possess large estates in the North of Germany and in Scandinavia. He was born on the 25th of January in the year 1544, at Kremzow in Pomerania. Being a younger son, it was the intention of his family to prepare him for a learned career, and consequently after his father's death he entered the Latin School at Stargard, Pomerania. The lad, however (for he was only about eight years old), showed no intention of spending a quiet, studious life either at home or at school, his wish being to see foreign countries; and it is to this passionate desire that we owe the production of this very interesting journal of travels, military expeditions,&C., which he gives us in his own words.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 9 , December 1895 , pp. 223 - 270
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1895

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page 226 note 1 We,i.e. Lupold von Wedel and his companion Ewald von der Goltz, a German gentleman of noble birth, whom von Wedel mentions now and then in the text.

page 226 note 2 German miles.

page 226 note 3 English miles.

page 227 note 1 Samuel Kiechel, a merchant of Ulm, who visited London in 1585, lodged likewise at the ‘White Bear’; Rye, cf., England as seen by Foreigners (London, 1865), p. 87Google Scholar.

page 227 note 2 This is not quite right, 4˄ English miles are equal to one German mile.

page 228 note 1 None of the foreign travellers to England during tlie reign of Elizabeth seem to have visited this place, except Duke Philipp Julius of Pomerania; cf. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. vi.

page 228 note 2 About passport, Rye, cf., pp. 14Google Scholar and 47.

page 228 note 3 As to the impression the great number of swans on the Thames made on foreigners, Rye, cf., p. 183, n. 8Google Scholar.

page 229 note 1 Cf. Rye, p. 185, n. 2.

page 229 note 2 Theshiresin the order of the MS. may probably be identified as follows: Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Durham (?), Northumberland, Bedfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Somersetshire, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex, Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Lancashire, Devonshire (?), Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire. It will be seen that three shires have not been identified in this list—namely, Bissebruck, Vandorrn, and Zetzeseir, which might possibly be intended for Bucks, Northampton, and Leicestershire respectively, leaving four instead of two shires which had been ‘for-gotten’—namely, Hereford, Gloucestershire, Surrey, and Rutland—irrespective of the archaic northern shires Hallamshire, Hexhamshire, Norhamshire, &c.—[Ed.]

page 230 note 1 Originally a Dutch silver coin about a penny and half in value.

page 230 note 2 About bear and bull baiting, Rye, cf., pp. 46Google Scholar and 214, n. 56.

page 231 note 1 Hentzner, Paul, a German lawyer of Brandenburg, who travelled in England 1598Google Scholar, gives also a description of the Lord Mayor's presence at Bartholomew Fair; cf. Rye, p. 107.

page 232 note 1 Scott, Cf. George Gilbert, Gleanings from Westminster Abbey, Oxford and London, 1863, p. 121 seqqGoogle Scholar.

page 233 note 1 Perhaps the lance of Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, which Hentzner mentions when describing his visit to the Tower in 1598Google Scholar; cf. Rye, pp. 19 and 207, n. 42.

page 235 note 1 See what Hentzner says about this ‘perspectively painted’ portrait of the king; Rye, p. 280,n. 149.

page 236 note 1 This passage is mentioned in Norden's, JohnNotes on London and Westminster, 1592Google Scholar; cf. Rye, p. 99.

page 237 note 1 The ‘Slahlhof’ (Steelyard), in Lower Thames Street, belonged to the German Hanse merchants. The last traces of the buildings were removed during 1863. Cf. Rye, p. 190. Peter Eisenberg mentions the Steelyard (‘Stilliarde’) in his Guide-book, 1614; cf. Rye, pp. 172 and 19Q.

page 239 note 1 Henry, Perhaps, Earl of Northumberland, †1585Google Scholar; younger brother, Thomas, beheaded August 20, 1572.

page 240 note 1 Literally: ‘They had a great soaking with us.’ Fynes Moryson has a curious passage respecting the drinking customs of the English about 250 years ago; cf. Rye, p. 190, n, 20.

page 243 note 1 Thomas, , Duke of Norfolk, beheaded 06 12, 1572Google Scholar.

page 246 note 1 This should refer to James Earl of Morton; executed 1581.—[Ed.]

page 246 note 2 Erica, , Countess of Manderscheid, daughter of Count Theodor, †1560Google Scholar, was married first to Henry, Count of Isenburg, seeondly to Wilhelm of Battenberg, thirdly to William Stuart.

page 248 note 1 See Introduction.

page 250 note 1 Cf. ‘Diary of the Journey of Julius, Philip, Duke of Pomerania,’ Transactions (N.S.), vol. viGoogle Scholar.

page 250 note 2 William, , Prince of Orange, born 1533Google Scholar, was killed in the Netherlands July 10, 1584; Francis, Duke of Alencon, born 1555, youngest brother of the Kings of France—Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III.—died 1584, when governor of the Netherlands.

page 256 note 1 Hentzner, 1598, when seeing the queen at Greenwich, also mentions this salutation; cf. Rye, p. 105.

page 259 note 1 Cf. n. 243.

page 264 note 1 The Spanish Ambassador, Velasco, Juan Fernandez de, gives a description of the dances practised at the court of James I., 1604Google Scholar; cf. Rye, p. 123.

page 267 note 1 Philip, , Count of Arunded, died 11 10, 1595Google Scholar, in prison.