[911] Lockier, in Spense's Anecdotes, 1820, p. 75.
[912] Journal, p. 89.
[913] Riding on horseback was the more usual mode of travelling, the horses being hired from town to town; cp. Locke's Journal, p. 149. Wherever possible, travellers went from one town to another by water—as from one of the Loire towns to another.
[914] The Memoirs of M. du Val ... intended as a severe reflexion on the too great fondness of English ladies towards French valets which at that time was a common complaint, London, 1670, Harleian Miscellany, iii. p. 308.
[915] Spared Houres of a Souldier, 1623.
[916] Moryson mentions Orleans as a good town; Edward Leigh, Blois and Orleans (Foelix Consortium, 1663); Evelyn, Blois and Bourges; Lookier, Orleans and Caen.
[917] Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 9th ed., 1726, p. 38.
[918] Heylyn, Voyage of France, 1673, p. 294.
[919] He kept a diary in Latin (1648-50); cf. Wood, Athenae Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 901.
[920] Gailhard, The Compleat Gentleman, 1678.