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voyages and travels9
diaries8
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Trumbull, William1
Turnor, Edward1
Somerset, Charles1
Hammond, William1
Aptall, George1
Hammond, Anthony1

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Diary of the adventures of a merchant captain in the Mediterranean, 1711-1715, compiled by George Aptall

Aptall, George

1715

Contains Captain George Aptall's personal account of his misadventures in the Eastern Mediterranean, signed by him on 17 October 1715.

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Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665.

Trumbull, William

1664-1670

The main body of the text is a diary in English of Sir William Trumbull's travels from Gravesend on 14 March 1664 through Italy to Rome and then through France as far as Avignon on the return journey ...

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An abstract of a voyage from England to the Mediteranian : the diary of an anonymous English naval victualler, 1694-1696.
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An abstract of a voyage from England to the Mediteranian : the diary of an anonymous English naval victualler, 1694-1696.

1694-1696

Contains the log of an anonymous English naval victualler on a voyage from Gravesend in England to Cadiz in the Mediterranean between 31 December 1694 and 29 October 1696.

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Travells into Holland &c., an anonymous diary of an Englishman's tour of Holland, Belgium, and France during 1687.

1687

Contains an account of a seventeenth-century Englishman's tour from London on Thursday, 30 June, 1687 to Holland, Belgium, and France, arriving back in London on Tuesday, 22 November, 1687.

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A journall of my voiage into Holland to fetch the Prince of Orange the 7th of October 1670, supposedly by Sir Edward Turnor

Turnor, Edward

1670

Contains a diary of Sir Edward Turnor's voyage to Holland in October 1670 to fetch William Prince of Orange on a visit to London.

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Anonymous diary of an early eighteenth-century traveller through Europe.

1711-1712

Contains an account of a tour of Europe beginning in London on Friday, 29 June, 1711, continuing through the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria, and arriving in Hanover on 13 July, ...

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Liber Caro, a diary of a tour through western Europe in 1611-1612, by Sir Charles Somerset.

Somerset, Charles

c.1612

Contains probably a nearly contemporary copy of the diary kept by Sir Charles Somerset of his tour through France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands between April 1611 and May 1612.

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Anonymous diary of an early eighteenth-century Englishman's travels through France, Belgium, and Holland.

1700

Contains an account of a tour of France, Belgium, and Holland from London, between Wednesday 1 May 1700 and Wednesday 25 September 1700, being incomplete at the end. The names of many public figures, ...

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