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Map Notes
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NOTES from BYNG'S RIDE INTO THE WEST, 1782
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95M88/1
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This transcript is of the Hampshire parts of the manuscript
journal, A Ride into the West, by John Byng, Viscount Torrington,
August 1782. The manuscript is in Hampshire Record Office, call
number 95M88/1.
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map type: HantsMap & Byng 1782
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This and other rides are published:-
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Byng, John & Adamson, D (ed): 1996:
Rides Round Britain: Folio Society
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The Journal
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The journal is a set of manuscript pages bound, fairly
recently, into a book. The title page has a scroll or strapwork
oval cartouche:-
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A Ride Into the West, August 1782.
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above which is a coat of arms. This is slightly faded; the
blazon is approximately:-
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quarterly argent and sable, in the 1st
a lion rampant or.
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Throughout the journal prints, engravings, of places visited
are pasted in. And three maps of the journey. The introductory
passage begins:-
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Tour Writing is the very Rage of the times; It is Selldom that I
am in the fashion, but fashions change so quickly, that I am
obliged, in their round, sometimes to find myself a Man of Mode.
Every one now describes the Manners and Customs of every County
through which they pass, ... ...
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The journal is written day by day (a journal) divided by a
small header of the date. The transcript here is cut up the same
way; remember that parts out of Hampshire are missed. When the
passages are written is sometimes unclear, read carefully to
understand which part of the journey is being described at any
one time. At the end is a tabulation of the places and distances
travelled.
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the writing is transcribed as well as I can. The use of
capitals and punctuation is strange by todays practice; and it is
awfully difficult to copy out 'wrong'! Being in a record office
50 miles away an easy opportunity to proof read the result is
lacking, and, as yet, this is not done. The marginal notes are my
own, for indexing, not John Byng's.
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Summary
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At the end of the journal, returned to London, there is a
tabulation:-
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| August |
1782 To What Places |
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County |
Miles |
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| 23d |
To Bagshot. |
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Surrey |
27. |
| 24th |
To Winchester. |
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Hants. |
39. |
| Sunday |
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| 25th |
To Ringwood. |
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Do. |
28. |
| 26th |
To Weymouth. |
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Dorsetsh. |
40. |
| 27th |
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| 28th |
To Upway, Sandfoot |
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Castle, & c. |
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14. |
| 29th |
A Ride. |
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6. |
| 30th |
To Maiden Castle. |
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12. |
| 31st |
On the Water. |
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| Sunday |
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| Septr. 1st |
To Wick, & c. |
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10. |
| 2d |
To Upway. |
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8. |
| 3d |
Round Portland Island. |
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14. |
| 4th |
Regatta. |
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| 5th |
A Ride. |
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12. |
| 6th |
To Woodyats Inn. |
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36. |
| 7th |
To Basingstoke. |
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Hants |
47. |
| Sunday |
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| 8th |
To Wooburn. |
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Bucks. |
35. |
| 9th |
To London. |
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28. |
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Miles |
356. |
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map type Byng 1782 -- menu of resources |
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links:-
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Saturday, 24 August 1782 -- BYNG0824.txt
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Sunday, 25 August 1782 -- BYNG0825.txt
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Monday, 26 August 1782 -- BYNG0826.txt
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Saturday, 7 September 1782 -- BYNG0907.txt
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Sunday, 8 September 1782 -- BYNG0908.txt
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list of map notes |
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HantsMap Notes -- BYNG1.txt
MN: 26.9.2002
last edit: 28.9.2002
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