Monthly Archives: December 2012

Oct: 16 Stile novo.[1]  we lay at Hedy[2] \where a Fran.[3] supped with us/ 9 leagues 17. we came to Rennes 5 Leg. We pas[s]ed through chateaux. went st. Pierre.[4]  In a league the Country very woody and therefore pleasant. From Rennes 19th.  Lay at Bain.[5] \6 leagues./ thence we past through and dined at  Nose[6]  6 leag[ues] 22d […]

we passed through Montaigu[1] and Lay at St.[2] to 23d Remouille.[3] St. Folgent[4] Chantoné[5] to \lay at/ Thirey[6] L. Rochelle.[7] Tonne buttone.[8]  Taille-bourg[9] St. Sauvien.[10] Saintes[11] blois[12] Bourdeaux October 30 1663. [1] Montaigu [2] Presumably Saint-Hilaire-de-Loulay, a village in between Montaigu and Remouillé [3] Remouillé [4] Saint-Fulgent [5] Chantonnay [6] Thiré [7] La Rochelle. [8] Tonnay-Boutonne [9] Taillebourg [10] […]

Lister stayed in Bordeaux throughout the winter. On folio 2 of his pocketbook, he noted: 8ber 30. came to my lodgings at M. Feuilles Rue della Roschelles à Bordeaux On folios 17 and 18 of his pocketbook, he then observed: the wines which they \call/ at Bordeaux vin de graves[1] is that which groweth in pebly ground […]

January 6 I left Bordeaux. lay at Cadillac. 7 at Mirmande[1] 8 at Lusinian[2] B. 9 at Magistere[3] B. 10. Finian[4] 11 Tolose.[5] 12 Villa France[6]. 13 Carcassonne 14. Narbonne. 15 Pezenas.[7] 16 Montpellier [1] Marmande [2] St. Hilaire de Lusignan [3] Lamagistère [4] Finhan [5] Toulouse [6] Villefranche-de-Lauragais [7] Pézenas  

I came to my Lodging at M. Fargeons maistre Apothecaire[1] vis a vis Ch. Bl[2]  the 18 January 1664 à Montpellier Here at Montpellier They carry out their dung with their Coach horses harnessed – Castelnau d’ arry.[3] M. told me upon discovery that I was a P[rotestant]. il y a des honetes gens de toutes Rel. […]

I left Montpellier Mars 30. and came to lodge at M. F. at Nismes. Apr. 1.   Dijs Manibus Corneliae Grat[ae] T. Connius Silanus Uxori[1]   D.  M. Cattij Achillei Julia Severina Marito Optimo[2] [1] This is an epitaph for a small Roman tombstone with a base and crown that Lister must have seen at Nîmes.  The Inscription […]

Left Nimes May 10 Avignon 13 chez M. de Pailleu à Arles. 17. The Caymargue[1] and the Crau[2] The Crau is commended for the wine that grows therin.  It is a greasey or juicey wine; which may, since the quantitie of them  is soe great, give a particular concoction to the nourishment of the vine.  […]

The beginning of June I happily meet with D.P.[1] & my Cousin Soames[2] at Arles June 16th I came to Marseilles which I left after 8 dayes and returned to Nismes en suite August 26th again to Montpelier [1] D.P. is probably Doctor [Henry] Paman (1626-1695), as he was reported by Philip Skippon as part of a […]

Dr. Joly wanted us at in his Vineyard . . .[for] entertaiments . . . There was alsoe in our company a French man in our Company that fained a voice from his stomach, which was heard of us, although it came a great way off and which way soever he turned his head, it seemed to come […]

Lister kept an ongoing record of his correspondence received and sent in folios 1-4 of his pocketbook, noting that My letters to be sent to ‘Mr Sharps Queens head in Fleet Street. To be left with Msrs. Capel and Kerby’ Lister continued in his pocketbook: To my Lady M. Pye[1] my mother[2]   To  Sir William Hartoppe.[3] […]