Fynes Moryson

He wrote about it later in his multi-volume Itinerary, a work of value to historians as a picture of the social conditions existing in the lands he visited.

[1] From May 1591 to May 1595 Moryson travelled round Continental Europe for the specific purpose of observing local customs, institutions, and economics.

[2] In 1600, Moryson was appointed personal secretary to Lord Mountjoy, who was the head of government and commander-in-chief of the crown army in Ireland, then fighting against Tyrone's Rebellion.

In 1617, Moryson published the first three volumes of An Itinerary: Containing His Ten Years Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland.

These are downloadable at the Internet Archive: Also, the conceptual fourth volume of Moryson's Itinerary, as published by Charles Hughes in 1903, is available from Archive.org.

A revised edition of the original manuscript, including the passages deleted by Hughes, was part of a 1995 Birmingham thesis.