(title):
Travels in England during the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth 

(author):
Paul Hentzner

(editor):
Cassell

(year):
1892. First published in Germany in 1612.


(Chapter heading):
OF THE MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH.

(Page number): 25

They are powerful in the field, successful 
against their enemies, impatient of anything 
like slavery; vastly fond of great noises that fill 
the ear, such as the firing of cannon, drums, 
and the ringing of bells, so that it is common for 
a number of them, that have got a glass in their 
heads, to go up into the belfry, and ring the 
bells for hours together for the sake of exercise.  
If they see a foreigner very well made, or 
particularly handsome, they will say, "It is a pity 
he is not an Englishman!"

(notes):
Extracted from a Project Gutenberg etext transcribed from 
the 1892 Cassell & Co. edition by Jane Duff and proofed 
by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk.
Travels in England during the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner AND Fragmenta 
Regalia by Sir Robert Naunton.  1892 Cassell

(from the Introduction signed "H.M".):
Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at 
Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of
January, 1558.  He died on the 1st January, 
1623.  In 1596, when his age was thirty-eight, 
he became tutor to a young Silesian nobleman, 
with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years' 
tour through Switzerland, France, England, and 
Italy.  After his return to Germany in 1600, he 
published, at Nuremberg, in 1612, a description 
of what he had seen and thought worth record, 
written in Latin, as "Itinerarium Germaniae, 
Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice Locorum, 
Rerum atque Verborum." 

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