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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

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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
28. Where he was no sooner arrived but he heard that his Son was again Revolted Treated the Normans ill and renounced his Father's Soveraignty over that Province which caused his little Stay in England for that time but only to prepare for his Return into Normandy Whither passing he was by Tempest driven on the Coast of Spain and there is said to have Fought in Battle against the Sarasnis Afterwards arriving at Bourdeaux his Son Robert came and submitted himself the second time whom now he took with him into England to frame him to a better Obedience by imploying him here for a Season and then sent him back again with his Youngest Son Harry whom he more trusted into Normandy where he held himself quiet a while and gave his Father some small Breathing time to dispose of the Affairs of this Kingdom § 29. But it was not long e're new Occasions of greater Troubles grew up which took by this means The two Princes Robert and Henry went to Visit and salute the King of France at Couflans where being seasted certain Days upon an After-dinner Henry wan so much at Chess of Louis the King 's eldest Son that he grew so far into Choler as he called him the Son of a Bastard and threw the Chess in his Face Henry takes up the Chess-board and strook Louis with that Force as he drew Bloud and had killed him had it not been for his Brother Robert who came in in the mean time and interposed himself whereupon they suddainely took Horse and with much a do saved themselves at Pontoise from the King's People that pursued them § 30. This Quarrel arising upon the intermeeting of these Princes which is a thing that seldom breeds good Bloud amongst them reinkindled a Heat of more Rancor in the Fathers and set a mighty Fire between the two Kingdoms which made the first War the English and French had together whereupon followed many others For presently the King of France complots again with Robert enters into Normandy and takes the City of Vernon The King of England invades France subdues the Countrey on Xaintoign and Poitou and returns to Roan Where the third time his Son Robert is reconciled unto him which much disappointeth and vexeth the King of France Who hereupon Summons the King of England to come and do him Homage for the Kingdom of England Which he refused to do saying that he held it of none but of God and his Sword But yet offering to do him Homage for the Dutchy of Normandy it would not satisfie the King of France who was willing to make any Occasion the Motive to set upon him And again he invaded his Territories but which more loss than Profit In the End they conclude a little unperfect Peace together which held no longer than King William had recovered a Sickness whereinto by Reason of his Years Travel and Fatness he was lately fallen At which Time the King of France then Young and Lusty jesting at his great Belly whereof he said he lay in at Roan so irritated him as being recovered he gathered all his Forces entred into France in the Chiefest Time of their Fruits and came even before Paris spoiling and burning all in his way Where with Heat and Toil he fell into a Relapse returned to Roan and there made an End of his Wars and Life after he had held this Kingdom twenty years and ten Months § 31. Now concerning his Government in Peace and the Course he held in Establishing the Kingdom thus gotten first he examines the English Laws which were then composed of Merchenlage Danelage and Westfaxlage Whereof some he abrogated and some allowed adding other of Normandy especially such as made for the Preservation of the Peace which most imported him to look unto And these Laws thus reformed he caused to be all Translated and and Written into the Norman Tongue hereby to draw the People of the Kingdom to learn that Language for their own Need that the two Nations might the better grow together and become one seeing a difference of Speech would continue a difference of Affections Wherein he attained not his Desire nor ever was it in the Power of any Conquerour so to do without the universal Extirpation of the Land-bred People Who being so far in number as they were above the Invaders both carry the main of the Language and also in few Years make them to become theirs that subdued them But yet upon these Laws thus Established by so prudent a Prince this free and Fierce Nation was so well held in Peace and Obedience as his Successors with some Abatement of Rigour and Prerogative have ever since continued a most Glorious Soveraignty over the same § 32. And for that he would be well and certainly supplied with Treasure which his great Wars and Entertainments required he took a most provident Course for reforming the Fisque or Exchequer and the ordering and raising of his Revenues Endeavouring to make and know the utmost of his Estate And therefore he imployed a most discreet Choice of Men to survey the whole Kingdom and to take the Particulars of his own and every Man's Ability the quantity and nature of Lands and Possessions with the Discriptions Bounds and Divisions of Shires and Hundreds within the same And this was drawn into one Book and brought into his AErarium the Exchequer so called of the Table whereat the Officers sate before termed the Talce and the same intitled Doomesday-Book Liber Iudiciarius saith Gervasius the Judgement Book that was to decide all Doubts concerning these Particulars § 33. All the Forrests and Chases throughout the Kingdom he took into his proper Possession and exempted them from being under any other Law than his own Pleasure to serve as Penetralia Regnum the withdrawing Chambers of Kings to recreate them after their serious Labours in the State where none might presume to have to do and where all Punishments and Pardons of Delinquents were to be Disposed by himself absolutely and the former Customes abrogated And to make his Command the more he encreased the Number of them in all parts of the Land and on the South-Coast dispeopled the Country for above thirty Miles space making of old inhabited Possessions a new Forrest Inflicting great Punishments for Hunting his Dear whereby he much advanced his Revenue which was the greatest Act of Concussion and Tiranny he committed in his Government And the same Course held almost every King near the Conquest For Henry the first proceeded with such Violence as to make a Law that if any Man killed the Kings Deer in his own Woods he should forfeit his Woods to the King But King Stephen having need of the Peoples Favour repealed that Law And in the End this Grievance amongst others after much Bloodshed in the Kingdom was allayed by the Charter of Forrests granted by Henry III. For other Possessions he permitted those which held them before his Coming to continue them quietly in