"Moryson is a sober and truthful writer, without imagination or much literary skill. He delights in statistics respecting the mileage of his daily journeys and the varieties in the values of the coins he encountered. His descriptions of the inns in which he lodged, of the costume and the food of the countries visited, render his work invaluable to the social historian."
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Sidney Lee, "Moryson, Fynes", DNB, vol. 39 (New York: Macmillan & Co, 1894) p. 173
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Fynes Moryson
Fynes Moryson (or Morison; 1566 – 12 February 1630) was an English writer and secretary. He spent most of the 1590s travelling on the European continent and in the eastern Mediterranean lands. He wrote about them 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.
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