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Excerpt from A Relation of a Short Survey of 26 Counties Observed in a Seven Weeks Journey Begun on Aug. 11, 1634: By a Captain, a Lieutenant, and an Ancient, All Three of the Military Company in Norwich
But if we are forced to confess that we know no thing of the Lieutenant beyond his name, we are no better off as regards the Captain and the Ancient. The senior officer's name is indeed mentioned on one occasion. On page 41 the party was much de layed in the wild Cumberland hills by the loss of our Captain Dehumas. The name is curious, and suggests that he was a member of the Dutch, or per haps of the Walloon band, both of which appear in the muster-rolls. As for the Ancient, his name is not revealed to us at all; but he seems to have beenmedically inclined, for he had his ideas of the efficacy of the Bath waters, and of the manner in which they should be used, as his companions put themselves under his direction when they visited the baths, the sight of which put strange ideas into the Lieutenant's head (p.
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