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A40672	The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.; History of the worthies of England	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1662 (1662)	Wing F2441; ESTC R6196	1,376,474	1,013

buried in that Covent Anno 1326. Since the Reformation WILLIAM PEMBLE was born in this County where his Parents had no plentifull Estate but their wants were supplied as to this their Sons education in Learning by the bounty of John Barker of Mayfield in this Shire Esq. as by the following passage may appear written by Mr. Capel his worthy Tutor You are the man who supported the Vine that bore this and many other excellent grapes His studies had shrunk and withered even then when they were about to knit had it not been for you and your Exhibitions who have raised up an able Scholar a learned Divine a well studied Artist a skilfull Linguist and which is the soul of all a very godly Minister So then if I have miss'd Master Pembles native County yet I shall be excused by the known Proverb Non ubi nascor sed ubi pascor Sussex affording him his most effectu●…l maintenance He was bred in or if you will he bred Magdalen-hall in Oxford that house owing its late lustre to his Learned Lectures the gravest in the University not disdaining their presence thereat He was an excellent Orator indeed as who spake nonex ore sed ex pectore many excellencies being in him but above all this was his Crown that he unfainedly sought Gods Glory and the good of Mens Souls He died in the flower of his Age as he was making his Lectures on the Prophesie of Zachary finishing but nine chapters of fourteen Anno Dom. of a burning feaver THOMAS CHUNE Esquire living at Alfriston in this County set forth a small Manuall intituled Collectiones Theologicarum Conclusionum Indeed many have much opposed it as what book meeteth not with opposition though such as dislike must commend the brevity and clearness of his Positions For mine own part I am glad to see a Lay-Gentleman so able and industrious His book was set forth 1635. THOMAS MAY was born in this County of a worshipfull but decayed Family bred Fellow-commoner in Cambridge in Sidney colledge where he seriously applyed himself to his studies He afterwards lived in Westminster about the Court He was an Elegant Poet and translated Lucan into English Now though Scaliger be pleased to say Hypocritically of Lucan Non canit sed latrat yet others under the Rose as judicious allow him an excellent Poet and loseing no lustre by Mr. Mays translation Some disgust at Court was given to or taken by him as some will have it because his Bays were not gilded richly enough and his Verses rewarded by King Charles according to his expectation He afterwards wrote an History of this State in the beginning of our Civill Wars and being my self for my many writings one under the Authority of the Tongues and Pens of others it ill becometh me to pass any censure on his performance therein Sure I am if he were a Biassed and Partiall writer he lieth buried near a good and true Historian indeed I mean Mr. Camden in the West-side of the North Isle of Westminster Abby dying suddenly in the night Anno Dom. 1652. in the 55. year of his Age. JOHN SELDEN son of Thomas Selden was born at Salvington within the parish of East Terring in this County and the ensuing inscriptions being built three stories high will acquaint us with his age and parentage The lowest is written on the top stone of his sepulcher being five foot deep in the ground Hic inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni The second is inscribed on a blew marble stone lying flat on the 〈◊〉 in the Temple Church J. Seldenus J. C. Hic situs est The third is graven on the wall in a monument of white and black marble Johannis Seldenus Heic juxta situs natus est decimo sexto Decembris MDLXXXIV Salvintoniae qui viculus est Terring occidentalis in Sussexiae maritimis parentibus honestis Joannae Seldeno Thomae filio è Quinis secundo Anno MDXLI nato Et Margareta filia haerede unica Thomae Bakeri de Rushington ex Equestri Bakerorum in Cantîo familia filius 〈◊〉 cunis superstitum unicus Aetatis fere LXX annorum Denatus est ultimo die Novembris Anno salutis reparatae MDCLIV per quam expectat heic Resurrectionem faelicem He was first bred in Hart-hall in Oxford then in the Inner Temple in London where he attained great skill in the Law and all Antiquity His learning did not live in a Lan●… but traced all the Latitude of Arts and Languages as appears by the many and various works he hath written which people affect as they stand affected either by their Fancy or Function Lay-gentlemen preser his Titles of honour Lawyers his Mare Clausum Antiquaries his Spicelegium ad Edmearum Clergy-men like best his book de Dis Syris and worst his History of Tythes Indeed the body of that History did not more offend them in point of profit then the preface thereof in matter of credit Such his insolent reflections therein Nor will it be impertinent here to insert a passage of consequence which I find in a Modern Author of good Intelligence Master Selden was no friend to Bishops as constituted and established in the Church of England For being called before the High Commission and forced to make a publique acknowledgment of his error and offence gived unto the Church in publishing a book entituled The History of Tithes it sunk so deep into his stomack that he did never after affected the men or cordially approved the calling though many ways were tryed to gain him to the Churches interest To this his publique acknowledgment I can say nothing this I know that a friend of mine imployed on a fair and honest account to peruse the Library of Arch-bishop Laud found therein a large letter written to him and subscribed with Master Seldens own hand wherein he used many expressions of his Contrition much Condemning himself for setting forth a book of that nature which Letter my aforesaid friend gave back again to Master Selden to whom I assure you it was no unacceptable present But that which afterwards entituled him to a generall popularity was his pleading with Master Noy for a Habeas Corpus of such Gentlemen which were imprisoned for the refusall of the Loane Hence was it that most men beheld Master Selden as their Common Councell and them selves as his Clients conceiving that the Liberty of all English Subjects was concerned in that Suit He had very many Ancient Coynes of the Roman Emperours and more modern ones of our English Kings dying exceeding wealthy Insomuch that naked charity both wish'd and hoped for a good new Coat at his hands but mist of its Expectation The Arch-bishop of Armagh to whom he was always most civill and respectfull preached his Funerall Sermon The Large Library which he left is a Jewell indeed and this Jewell long looked to be put into a New Cabinet when one of the Inns of Court on which it was

or used some indirect means to inrich himself The Knight calmly gave in the unquestionable particulars of the Bottom he began on the accrewment by his Marriage and with what was advanced by his industry and frugality so bringing all up within the view though not the Touch of his present Estate For the rest my Lords said he you have a good Mistris our Gracious Queen and I had a good Master the Duke of Sommerset which being freely spoken and fairly taken he was dismissed without further trouble Nor were his means too big for his Birth if descended as Camden saith from the Antient Family of the Bottevils 41 WALTER VAUGHAM Ar. His Armes too large to be inserted in that short space were Sable a Chever●…n betwixt three Childrens-heads Cooped at the Shoulders Argent their Peruques Or Inwrapped about their Necks with as many Snakes Proper whereof this they say the Occasion because one of the Ancestors of this Family was born with a Snake about his Neck Such a Neck-Lace as Nature I believe never saw But grant it How came the Peruques about the Infants Heads So that Fancy surely was the sole Mother and Midwife of this Device The Lands of this Walter Vaugham afterwards Knighted descended to his Son Sir George a Worthy Gentleman and after his Issueless decease to a Brother of his who was born blind bred in Oxford brought up in Orders and Prebendary of Sarum King Charles 1 FRANCIS SEYMOUR Mil. This wise and religious Knight grand-child to Edward Earl of Hartford and brother to William Duke of Sommerset was by King Charles the first Created Baron of Troubridge in this County since for his Loyalty made Privy-councellour to K. Charles the second and Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster Battles Lansdoune Fight This was fought in the Confines of this County and Somerset the 13. of July 1643. It was disputed by parcells and peece-meals as the Place and narrow Passages would give leave and it seemed not so much one intire Battle as a Heap of Skirmishes hudled together It may be said in some sort of both ●…des Victus uterque fuit Victor uterque fuit For the Parliament Forces five times by the confession of the Royalists beat them back with much Disorder Sir Bevill Greenfield being slain in the Head of his Pikes Major Lowre in the Head of his Party of Horse Yet the Kings Forces alleadge Demonstration of Conquest that Prince Maurice and Sir Ralph Hopton remained in the Heads of their Troops all Night and next Morning found themselves possessed of the Field and of the Dead as also of three hundred Armes and nine 〈◊〉 of Powder the Enemy had left behind them Round way Fight Five days after Prince Maurice with the Earl of Carnarvan returning and the Lord Wilmot coming from Oxford with a gallant supply of Select Horse charged the Parliament Forces under the Conduct of Sir William Waller With him were the Horse of Sir Arthur Haslerigg so well Armed that if of Proof as well within as without each Souldier seemed an Impregnable Fortification But these were so smartly Charged by the Prince that they fairly forfook the Field leaving their Foot which in English Battles bear the heat of the day to shift for themselves In the mean time Sir Ralph Hopton hurt lately with the blowing up of Powder lay sick and sore in the Town of the Devizes His Men wanted Match whom Sir Ralph directed to beat and to boyl their Bed-cords necessity is the best Mother of Ingenuity which so ordered did them good service when Marching forth into the Field they effectually contributed to the totall routing and ruining of the Parliament ●…oot which remained The Farewell This County consisting so much of sheep must honour the Memory of King Edgar who first free'd the Land from all Wolves therein For the future I wish their flocks secured From 1. Two-legg'd Wolves very destructive unto them 2. Spanish Ewes whereof one being brought over into England Anno .......... brought with it the first generall contagion of sheep 3. Hunger-Rot the effect of an over-dry summer I desire also that seeing these seem to be of the same breed with Laban●… and Jethros sheep which had their solemn times and places of drinking which in other Shires I have not observed that they may never have any want of wholesome water WORCESTER-SHIRE hath Stafford-shire on the North Warwickshire on the East Gloucester-shire on the South Hereford and Shorp-shires on the West It is of a Triangular but not equilaterall form in proportion stretching from North to South Twenty two Miles South to North-west Twenty eight Miles Thence to her North-east point Twenty eight Miles Be this understood of the continued part of this Shire which otherwise hath Snips and Shreds cut off from the whole cloth and surrounded with the circumjacent Countries even some in Oxford-shire distanced by Gloucester-shire interposed What may be the cause hereof it were presumption for me to guess after the conjectures of so many Learned men Some conceive that such who had the Command of this County probably before the Conquest and had parcells of their own Land scattered in the Vicinage desired to Unite them to this County so to make their own authority the more entire Or else as a Worthy Writer will have it rendering a reason why part of Devon-shire straggleth into Cornwall it was done that there might rest some cause of Intercourse betwixt this and the Neighbouring Counties adding moreover that a late great man ensued and expressed the like consideration in the division of his Lands betwixt two of his Sons All I will say is this that God in the partage of Palestine Reader if you forget I must remember my own profession betwixt the twelve Tribes on the same account as the learned conceive made some Tribes to have In-lots within another And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her Towns and Ibleam and her Towns c. This County hath a childs portion and that I assure you a large one in all English and especially in these Naturall Commodities Lampreys In Latine Lampetrae à lambendo petras from licking the rocks are plentifull in this and the neighbouring Counties in the river of Severn A deformed fish which for the many holes therein one would conceive nature intended it rather for an Instrument of Musick then for mans food The best manner of dressing whereof says my Author is To kill it in Malmesey close the mouth thereof with a nutmegg the holes with so many cloves and when it is rolled up round putting in thereto filbard-nut-kernells stamped crums of bread oyle spices c. Others but those M●…so-lampreys doe adde that after all this cost even cast them away seeing money is better lost then health and the meat will rather be delicious then wholesome the eating whereof cost King Henry the first his life But by their favour that King did not dye of