] I commending the country, as
indeed it deserves. And the first town we came to was
Brekington; where we stopping for something for the horses, we
called two or three little boys to us, and pleased ourselves with
their manner of speech. At Philips-Norton I walked to the
church, and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight Templar,
I think; and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two
heads cut, which the story goes, and creditably, were two
sisters, called the Fair Maids of Foscott, that had two bodies
upward and one belly, and there lie buried. Here is also a very
fine ring of six bells, and they mighty tuneable. Having dined
very well, 10s., me come before night to the Bath; where I
presently stepped out with my landlord, and saw the baths with
people in them. They are not so large as I expected, but yet
pleasant; and the town most of stone, and clean, though the
streets generally narrow. I home, and being weary, went to bed
without supper; the rest supping.
13th. Saturday. Up at four o'clock, being by appointment called
up to the Cross Bath; where we were carried after one another,
myself and wife and Betty Turner, Willet, and W.
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