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A lady of means and a dissenter, Celia Fiennes was the sister of the Third Viscount Saye and Sele.

She rode throughout England on tours of curiosity between 1685-1703, accomanied by only two servants, during parts of the reigns of William III and Queen Anne. She recorded her tours, her notes were found in 1885 and published as "Through England on a Side-Saddle, the Diary of Celia Fiennes" in 1888. Her writings are a valuable insight into the places she visited at the time.

She was born at Newton Toney, near Salisbury, into a Puritan family which had fought for Parliament during the civil war.

Celia Fiennes is often identified with the nursury rhyme, "Ride a Cock Horse"; the small Oxfordshire town of Banbury was the family seat of the Fiennes, and the phrase "on a fine horse" is thought to be a corruption of "up a Finnes horse";-

Ride A cock-horse
To Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady
On a white horse
With rings on her figers
And Bells on her toes
She shall have music
Wherever she goes

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1662		Birth of Puritan traveller, Celia Fiennes, at Newton Toney, Wilts.
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1685		English Puritan diarist, Celia Fiennes, starts her joureys around England (-1703)

1703		English Puritan diarist, Celia Fiennes, ends her joureys around England (-1703)

1741		Death of Puritan traveller, Celia Fiennes

1888		Publication of Through England on a Side-Saddle, the Diary of Celia Fiennes

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