Crudities

In Coryat's "Crudities," a very rare and highly interesting work, published in 1611, about a century and a half prior to the general introduction of the Umbrella into England, we find the following curious passage: --

Umbrellas and Their History William Sangster 1848

Taylor had an especial grudge against Coryat, for having had influence enough to procure his "Laugh and be Fat" — directed against the traveller — to be burned; and that he never failed to "feed fat the ancient grudge," may be seen in the many pieces of ridicule levelled at the author of the "Crudities," even after his death.

The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor: Alias the Kings ... 1618

See Coryat's "Crudities," p. 214, and "The Commonwealth and

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

Taylor had an especial grudge against Coryat, for having had influence enough to procure his "Laugh and be Fat" -- directed against the traveller -- to be burned; and that he never failed to "feed fat the ancient grudge," may be seen in the many pieces of ridicule levelled at the author of the "Crudities," even after his death.] [Footnote 17: TOPHET.

The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor John Taylor 1616

Coryate, attempting a record-breaking journey, described in Coryats Crudities (1611), tried to make

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

Follow me, I will Take my Advice, rise by the morning dawn and mount your Horse, by the Mornings dawn, and shake away amidst the great and beautiful scenes of Nature, that appear at that Time of the day, all the Crudities [illegible] that are left in your stomach, and all the obstructions that are left in your Brains.

John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759 1961

Footnote 412: Hermannus Kirchnerus in _Coryat's Crudities_, vol.ii. p. 74.

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

Footnote 54: Translated by Thomas Coryat in his _Crudities_, 1611.

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

Footnote 56: Kirchner in Coryat's _Crudities_, vol. i.

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

Footnote 37: Coryat's _Crudities_, ed. 1905, p. 17.

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard