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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57453	An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.; Van Hove, Frederick Hendrick.	1693 (1693)	Wing R169; ESTC R8443	18,952	88

Normandy that brake his Neck His eldest Daughter Cicilia became a Nun. Constance Married to the Earl of Brittain Adela to Stephen Earle of Bloys who likewise became a Nun in her Age such was their great Devotion and so much were these Solitary Retirements affected in those times by the greatest Ladies Another was Affianced to Alfonsus King of Galicia who with the other Sister promised to Harold Died before Marriage § 41. What he was in the Circle of himself in his own continent we find him of an even or middle Stature comely Personage of good presence Riding Sitting or Standing till his Corpulency gathering upon him in his latter Age made him somewhat unwieldy of so strong a Constitution that he was never Sickly till a few Months before his Death His Strength such as few Men could draw his Bow and being about Fifty One of his Age when he subdued this Kingdom it seems by his continual Actions he felt not the Weight of Years upon him till his last Year § 42. His Mind was no less excellently composed and we see it the fairest drawn in his Actions wherein his Mercy and Clemency the brightest Stars in the Sphere of Majesty appeared next to his great Devotion above all his other Virtues by the often pardoning and receiving into Grace those who had forfeited their Loyalty and most dangerously Rebelled against him Seeming to hold Submission satisfactory for the greatest Offence and that he sought to extinguish Mens Eenterprises but not themselves For we find but one great Nobleman executed in all his Reign and that was the Earl Waltheof who had twice falsified his Faith before And those whom he had held Prisoners in Normandy as the Earls Morcar and Siward with Wolfnothus the Brother of Harold and divers others upon Compassion of their Endurance he released a little before his Death § 43. Besides he was as far from Suspicion as from Cowardize and of that Confidence an especial Note of his Magnanimity has he gave Edgar his Competitor in the Crown the Liberty of this Court and upon his suit sent him well furnished to the Holy War where he so Nobly behaved himself as he attained to great Estimation with the Emperours of Greece and Almain Which might have been held dangerous in respect of his Alliances that way being Grand-Child to Henry the third Emperour But these may be as well Virtues of the Time as of Men and so the Age must have part of this Commendation FINIS Books Printed for SAMUEL KEBLE at the Turk Head in Fleestreet EPICTETI Enchiridion Or the most Excellent Morals of Epictetus made English in a Poetical Paraphrase History of the Bible Lively described in 120 Cuts or Figures 120.120 The Innocent Lady Degrees of Marriage that which is Ordered to be had in all Churches Preparation to a Holy Life or Devotion for Families and Private Persons by the Author of the Weeks Preparatin ation A Collection of Private Form of Prayers out of the Common Prayer Book for Morning Noon and Night and other special Occasions being in a different Method from any former By the Author of the Weeks Preparation to the Sacrement Together with the Holy Feast and Fasts as they are observed in the Church of England Explained and the Reasons why they are yearly Celebrated A Table to all the Epistles and Gospels in the Book of Common Prayer so that you may Find any Text of Scripture being contained in them This Table may be put in your Common Prayer Book without new binding Rules for our more Devout Behaviour in the time of Divine Service in the Church of England An Explanation of the Terms Order and Usefullness of the Liturgy of the Church of England By way of Question and Answer recommanded to be learned after the Church Catechisme A Perswasive to the stricter Observation of the Lords Day in pursuance of his Majesty Order and Direction to Preachers By Matthew Bryan LL. D. Books Printed for and Sold by D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses and work them according to Nature as also to Perfect Nature by the Subtilty of Art which was never found out But by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle Novae Hypotheseos ad Explicands Febrium Intermittentium Symptomata typos Excogitatae hypotyposis una cum AEtiologia Remediorum Speciatim vero de Curatione per Curticem Peruvianum Accessiti Dissertatiuncula de Intestinorum motu Periscaltico Authore Gulielmo Cole M. D. Epistolae Medinciales variis Occasionibus Conscriptae Authore Richardo Carr. M. D. The Reading of the Famous and Learned Robert Callis Esq on the Statute of the 23 of Henry the Eight Cap. 5. Of Sewers as it was delivered by him at Gray's Inn in August 1622. The Second Edition Inlarged with the several Judgments and Resolutions of the Reverend Judges upon the Laws of Sewers and other Remarques not before Published with a new Table to the whole Rules for Explaining and Decyphering all manner of Secret Writing plain and Demonstrative with Exact Methods for Understanding Intimation by Signs Gestures or Speech Also an Account of the Secret ways of Conveying Written Messages Discovered by Tritbenrius Schottus Lord Fran Bacon Bishop Wilkings c. with Exact Tables and Examples By I. F. ADVERTISSEMENT THE Slaughter of the Innocents by Herod A Poem Written in Italian by the Famous Italian Poet the Cavalier Marino Translated by T. R. Printed for S. M. And to be Sold by Sam. Keble at the Turk Heads in Fleestreet and D. Brown at the Blak-Swan without Temple Bar. * Cornwall Bede 1. 14. * Rowena Githa sister to Swain Dan. Toustain D. Anno 2. Anno 3. Anno. 6. Anno 7. Roger Fitz-Osborn the Son of William Cousin and especial Councellor to the King Anno. 20. Gervasins