FYNES

MORYSON (1566-163o)  , English traveller and writer, was the son of a Lincolnshire gentleman, Thomas Moryson, member of parliament for Grimsby .. After being educated at Cambridge, where he gained a fellowship at Peterhouse, Fynes Moryson spent many years in travel on the continent of Europe, in Palestine, and in Asia Minor . In 1600 he became secretary to Sir Charles Blount, lord-deputy of Ireland, in which country his brother, Sir Richard Moryson, held an important government appointment . In 1617 Moryson published an account of his travels and of his experiences in Ireland, where he witnessed O'Neill's rebellion, in a voluminous work entitled An Itinerary . He died on the 12th of February 163o . The Itinerary was originally intended to consist of five parts; but only three were printed, a fourth being preserved in manuscript in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (partially printed in 1903 in Charles Hughes's Shakespeare's Europe) . Another part of the Itinerary was republished in 1735 with the title History of Ireland 1599-16o3, with a short Narrative of the State of the Kingdom from1169; and in 1890 Henry Morley included in the " Carisbrooke Library " a volume, Ireland under Elizabeth and James I., de-scribed by Spenser, Sir John Davies and Fynes Moryson . The Itinerary is a work of great value to the historian as a truthful picture of the social conditions prevailing in Europe at the beginning of the 17th century .