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Author: Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.
Title: The post of the vvorld VVherein is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade and traficke. With their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts: with al their martes and fayres. And the raignes of all the kinges of England. A booke right necessary and profitable, for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted.
Series: Early English books online text creation partnership. Navigations series.
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Print source: The post of the vvorld VVherein is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade and traficke. With their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their mynts: with al their martes and fayres. And the raignes of all the kinges of England. A booke right necessary and profitable, for all sortes of persons, the like before this tyme not imprinted.
Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.
Imprinted at London: By Thomas East, 1576.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11090.0001.001
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TO THE RIGHT worshipfull, Syr Thomas Greas∣ham Knight. R. Rowlands wish∣eth continual encrease of re∣noumed worship and Vertue.
A godly prayer, very needefull to be vsed and sayde, before any Iorney be taken in hand.
Here foloweth the varietie of myles.
notice about abbreviations
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Here foloweth the most vsed wayes and passages from one notable Citie in Germany, vnto another. With certain brief descriptions of the antiquities of diuers Cities.
And first of Augspurge.
city Nuremberg
city Maintz
city Cologne
city Heidelberg
city Frankfurt
From the citie of Prage, in Bohemya, vnto Wien in Austrige.
city Vienna
city
city Gdansk
city
city Cracow
From Saltzburg, vnto Inszpruck.
city Strasbourg
city Constance
city Basel
city Braunschweig
city Regensburg
city Leipzig
city Magdeburg
city Antwerp
city Erfurt
city Lubeck
Here followeth the wayes and passages in Italie Fraunce England and Spaine.
city Ulm
city Genoa
city Lucca
city Rome
city Naples
city Ancona
city Venice
city Ferrara
city Milan
city London
Certaine vsed wayes and passages in England.
city Oxford
city Bristol
city York
city Berwick-upon-Tweed
city St. David's
city Paris
Certaine vsed vvayes and passages in Fraunce.
Here ye passe the French borders and enter into Spayne.
city Seville
city Zaragoza
city Barcelona
city Lisbon
Here followeth the ready way to vnderstand the valuation of the coine or minte in the principall Regions, Landes, and Cities.
The principall and most accosto∣med yearly fayers or markets, in the chiefest cities and vil∣lages of name: vsed of marchauntes and other oc∣cupiers.
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¶ Principall fayres of England, and VVales, orderly set forth, with the moneth, day, and place where they be kept.
Fayres in Ianuary.
Fayres in Februarie.
Fayres in March.
Fayres in Apryll.
Fayres in May.
Fayres in Iune.
Fayres in Iuly.
Fayres in August.
Fayres in September.
¶ Fayres in October.
¶ Fayres in Nouember.
¶ Fayres in December.
Hereafter foloweth the Reygnes of the Kinges of England, since King VVilliam the Conque∣rour.
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