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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

George Duke of Clarence his own Brother with many faithful servants to King Edward 4. Edward the fifth his lawful Soveraign with Prince Richard his brother 5. Henry Duke of Buckingham his great friend and sixth one Collingborn an Esquire who was hang'd drawn and quartered for making this Verse The Cat the Rat and Lowel our Dog Rule all England under a Hog Finally having reigned two years and two months he was slain by Henry Earl of Richmond and buried at Grey Fryers Church at Leicester Henry the seventh who united the two Houses of York and Lancaster by marrying with Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Edward the fourth He was a Prince of marvellous Wisdom Policy Justice Temperance and Gravity and notwithstanding great troubles and wars which he had against home-bred Rebels he kept his Realm in right good order He builded the Chappel to Westminster-Abby a most accurate piece of Work wherein he was interred after he had reigned twenty three years and eight months Henry the eight who banished the Popes supremacy out of England won Bulloign from the French lived beloved and feared of his Neighbour Princes the last of our Kings whose name began with the Letter H. which Letter had been accounted strange and ominous every mutation in our State being as it were ushered in by it according as I find it thus versed in Albions England Not superstitiously I speak but H this Letter still Hath been accounted ominous to England's good or ill First Hercules Hesion and Helen were the cause Of war to Troy Aeneas seed becoming so Out-laws Humber the Hum with foreign Armes did first the Brutes invade Hellen to Romes Imperial Throne the British Crown convey'd Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this Isle Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed here long while At Harold had the Saxons end at Hardy Cnute the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Reign Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did Englands Crown obtain Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace Henry the eighth did happily Romes irreligion cease King Henry having Reigned thirty seven years nine months and odd days dyed and was buried at Windsor Edward the sixth a most vertuous religious Prince whose wisdom was above his years and whose piety was exemplary he perfected the Reformation begun by his father King Henry At the age of sixteen years he departed this life having Reigned six years five months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Mary his Sister whom King Henry begat of Katherine of Spain she restored again the Mass set at liberty those Bishops imprisoned in her brothers Reign and imprisoned those who would not embrace the Romish perswasion She was very zealous in the cause of the Pope for not yielding to which many godly Bishops and others of the Reformation suffered Mattyrdom In her time was Callice lost to the French the grief whereof it was thought brake her heart she Reigned five years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Elizabeth daughter to Henry the eighth by the Lady Ann of Bulloigne a most Heroick vertuous Lady she again banished the Popes power out of England reduced Religion to its primitive purity and refined the Coyns which were then much corrupt For the defence of her Kingdom she stored her Royal Navy with all warlike munition aided the Scots against the French the French Protestants against the Catholiques and both against the Spaniard whose invincible Armado as it was termed she overthrew in 88. Holland found her a fast friend against the force of Spain the Ocean it self was at her command and her name grew so redoubted that the Muscovite willingly entered into League with her She was famous for her Royal Government amongst the Turks Persians and Tartars which having endured forty four years five months and odd days she dyed being aged about seventy years and was buried at Westminster King James a Prince from his Cradle the sixth of that name in Scotland and the first in England He excelled for Learning and Religion a second Solomon in whose Reign during all the time thereof our Land was enriched with those two blessings of Peace and Plenty He died in a good old age notwithstanding the Treason of the Gowries and the Powder-plot Reigned twenty two years and three days and was buried at Westminster Charles the first Son to King James a most pious prudent vertuous Prince enriched with all excellencies both of mind and body He was by his own Subjects most barbarously murdered before his PallaceGate at Whitehall Jan. 30. An. 1648. after he had Reigned twenty three years ten months and 3 days Twit Papists now not with the Powder-plot This blacker deed will make the same forgot Charles the second the Heir of his Fathers vertues and Crown who having been long detained from his right by the prevailing sword of Rebels was miraculously restored to his Subjects and Kingdom May the 29. 1660. Who God grant long long long to Reign May they be all Rebels and Traitors reckon'd Who wish the least hurt unto Charles the Second Hereafter followeth the Histories of St Denis the Titulary Saint of France St. Romain and some others being after used in discourse for the Readers better information and delight according as we find it in the Legend of them SAint Denis is said to be the same Dionisius of Areopagita mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles who being converted himself ●hirsted after the conversion of others and ●o that end he with Rusticus and Elutherius ●ravelled into France then called Gauls where he converted many to Christianity and ●ecame the first Bishop of Paris making Rus●icus his Arch-Priest and Elutherius his Dea●on Afterwards in the Reign of Domitian the Emperor persecution growing hot Fes●ennius Governor of Paris commanded that ●e should bow before the Altar of Mercury and offer Sacrifice unto him which St. Denis with the other two beforenamed refusing to do they were all three of them condemned to be beheaded which was accordingly executed on Mont-Matre distant about a mile from Paris Now it came to pass that when the Executioner had smitten off Saint Denis his head that he caught it up between his Arms and ran with it down the Hill as fast as his legs could carry him half a mile from the place of his Execution he sate down and rested and so he did nine times in all till he came to the place where his Church is now built where he met with a very old woman whom he charged to bury him in that place and then fell down and died being three English miles from Mont-Matre and there he was buried together with Rusticus and Elutherius who were brought after him by the people Afterwards by the succeeding ages when Christianity had gotten the upper-hand of Paganism in the nine several places where he rested are erected so many handsome Crosses of stone all of a making To the memory of this Saint did

fish having the shape of a man which Fish was kept by Bartholemew de Glanvile Custos of the Castle of Oxford in the same Castle for the space of six moneths and more for a wonder he spake not a word all manner of meat he would gladly eat but most greedy was he after raw flesh or fish at length he stole away from his Keeper and ran to the Sea again Anno 1350. in the Reign of King Edward the third in Oxford shire near Chipping norton was found a Serpent having two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of womens attire the other face like the old attire and had wings like a Batt Anno 1545. in the last year of King Henry the eight one William Foxely Pot-maker for the Mint in the Tower of London fell asleep the 27 of April who could not be awakened neither by kicking cramping or pinching till the first day of the next Term which was full fourteen dayes and fifteen nights The cause of this his thus sleeping could not be known ●ough the same were diligently enquired ●●ter by the Kings Physicians and men of ●earning yea the King himself examined ●●m and he was in all points found as if he had ●ept but one night living till the year of our ●ord 1587. Anno 1552. in the Reign of King Edward ●he sixth at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which ●ad two perfect bodies from the Navel upwards and were so joyned together at the Navel that when they were laid out at ●ength the one head and body was west ●nd the other east the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they ●ived eighteen days and were Female ●hildren In the last year of Queen Mary within a mile of Nottingham a rempest of thunder as ●t came through two Towns beat down all ●he Houses and Churches the Bells were cast to the outside of the Church Yard and some webs of Lead four hundred foot in the field writhen like a Glove The River of Trent running between the two Towns the water running was with the wind carried a quarter of a mile and cast against trees Trees were pulled up by the roots and cast twelve score off a child was pulled out of a mans hand and carried a hundred foot and then let fall and dyed five or six men were killed there fell some Hail-stones that were fifteen inches about Anno Domini 1571. in the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth at Kinnaston in Hereford shire the Ground was seen to op●● and certain Rocks with a piece of groun● removed and went forward the space ●● four days it removed it self between ●● of the Clock in the Evening and seven th● next morning forty paces carrying grea● Trees and Sheep-coats along with it som● with threescore sheep in them The depth of the hole where it first broke out is thirty foot the breadth of the breach was eight score yards it overthrew in its passag● Kinnaston Chappel also two High-way were removed nigh a hundred yards with Trees and Hedge rows the ground in all is twenty six Acres and where Tillage ground was there is Pasture left in place and where was Pasture there is Tillage ground gone upon it In the seventeenth year of Queen Elizibeths Reign the 24 of February at Tewksbury a strange thing happened after a Flood In the afternoon there came down the River Avon a great number of Flies and Beettles such as in the Summer Evenings use to strike men on the face in great heaps a foot thick on the water so that to credible mens judgments there were with a pair of Buts length of those Flies about an hundred Quarters the Mills theroabout were quite dammed up with them for the space of four days after and then were cleansed by digging them out with shovels From whence they came is yet unknown but the day was cold and a hard Frost The twentieth of next June following in the same year one William Lumley a poor man in the Parish of Ernley in the County of Worcester being kept in prison by a wealthy Widow he having a mare of two and twenty years old with a Foal within three days ●fter foaled a mare-colt the which immediately had an Udder out of which was mil●ed the same day a pint of milk and every ●ay after gave above three pints to the great relief of his wife and children Thus when that men and women cruel be God will provide for those opprest we see We shall next tell you of a wonder in workmanship one Mark Scaliot a Black-smith of London for tryal of his skill made one Lock of Iron Steel and Brass of eleven several pieces and one Pipe key all clean wrought which weighed but one Grain of Gold He also at the same time made a Chain of Gold of forty three Links to which Chain the Lock and Key being fastned and put about a Fleas neck she drew the same with ease all which lock and key chain and flea did weigh but one grain and a half Anno 1580 in the Parish of Blansdon in Yorkshire after a great tempest of lightning and thunder a woman of fourscore years of age named Alice Perin was delivered of a hideous Monster whose head was like unto a Saller the fore-part of him like a man only he had eight legs not one like another and a tayl of half a yard long The same year in the Marshes of Dengy-hundred in a place called South-Minster in the County of Essex there suddenly appeared an infinite number of Mice which overwhelmed the said Marshes and did gnaw and shear the grass by the roots spoiling and tainting the grass with their venemous teeth in such sort that the Cattle that grazed there on were smitten with a murrain and dyed thereof which vermin could not be destroyed by the policy of men till it came to pass tha● there flocked about the Marshes such a company of Owls as all the Shire was not able to yield whereby the Marsh-holders were shortly delivered from the vexation of those Mice the like of those was once in Kent In Suffolk at the time of a great dearth upon a hard Rock grew above six hundred quarters of Pease without any manner of tillage to the great relief of poor people at that time Anno 1581. the four and twentieth of Queen Elizabeth on the 17 of January in the Parish of Armitage at a place called Blackmore in Dorset-shire a piece of ground containing three Acres removed it self from the place where it was first planted and was carried clean over another Close where Elder and Willow-Trees grew the space of forty Goad every Goad containing fifteen foot and stopt up a High-way that directed towards the Market Town of Cearn and yet the Hedges wherewith it was enclosed environ it still and the Trees stand thereon bolt upright saving an Oak of almost twenty load which was tumbled down the

annus in una Tam numerosa ferunt aede fenestra micant Marmoreasque tenet fusas tot ab arte columnas Comprensas horas quot vagus annus habet Tot gaudet portis quot mensibus annus abundat Res mira at vera res celebrata fide How many days in one whole year there be So many windows in one Church we see So many Marble Pillars there appear As there are hours throughout the flitting year So many gates as Moons one year does view Strange tale to tell yet not so strange as true For our other Churches the most renowned is First the Cathedral of Lincoln 2 For a private Parish-Church that of Ratcliff in Bristol 3 For a private Chappel that of Kings-Colledge in Cambridge 4 The Minster of Ely though now much defaced by the injury of the late rebellious times 5 For the curious workman-ship of the Glass that of Christ-Church in Canterbury 6 For the exquisite beauty of the Fronts those of Wells and Peterborough 7 For a pleasant lightsom Church the Abbey-Church at Bath And 8 For an ancient and reverend Fabrick the Minster of York though many of these Churches which our hot-headed Zealots pretended were beautified by superstition were in the late times of rebellion by sacrilegious ignorance much defaced and ruined Qu. Who was it according to report that built the Church of Sopham in Norfolk An. Tradition tells us that in former times there lived in that Town a certain Pedlar who dreamed that if he came up to London and stood on the Bridge there he should hear very joyful News which he at first slighted but afterwards his Dream being doubled and trebled unto him he resolved to try the Issue of it and accordingly to London he came and stood on the Bridge there for two or three days but heard nothing which might give him any comfort in the least that the profit of his journy would be equal to his pains At last it so happened that a Shop-keeper there hard by having noted his fruitless standing seeing that he neither sold any Wares nor asked an Alms went to him and demanded his business to which the Pedlar made answer that being a Country-man he dreamed adream that if he came up to London he should hear News And art thou said the Shop-keeper such a fool to take a Journey on such a foolish Errand why I tell thee this last night I dreamed that I was at Sopham in Norfolk a place utterly unknown to me where me-thought behind a Pedlars house in a certain Orchard and under a great Oak-tree if I digged there I should find a mighty Mass of Treasure now think you that I am so unwise to take so long a Journey upon me only by the instigation of a foolish Dream No no far be such folly from me therefore honest Country-man I shall advise thee to make haste home again and not to spend thy precious time in the expectation of the event of an idle Dream The Pedlar who noted well his words and knowing all the things he had said to concenter in himself glad of such joyful News went speedily home and digged under the Oak where he found an infinite Mass of Money with part of which the Church happening to fall down he very sumptuously re-edified the same having his Statue therein to this day cut out in stone with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels his memory being also preserved by the same form of picture in most of the glass-windows in Taverns and Alehouses of that Town to this day Qu. Wherefore on the top of Church-steeples is the Cock set upon the Cross of a long continuance An. The Papists tell us it is for our instruction that whilest aloft we behold the Cross and the Cock standing thereon we may remember our sins and with Peter seek and obtain mercy Qu. What is the cause why the Pope Christens his Bells An. That being by him thus sanctified the sound of them might drive devils out of the air clear the Skies chase away storms and tempests quench fires and give comfort to all the dead that hear them as the Bells themselves will tell you being rung to this tune Behold our uses are not small That God to praise Assemblies call That break the Thunder ' wail the dead And cleanse the air of tempests bred With fear keep off the Fiends of Hell And all by vertue of my Knell Qu. What three things is it wherein the Town of Saffron-walden in Essex doth excel An. A Magnificent House a sumptuous Church and a large pair of Stocks The House that is commonly called Audley-End House built by Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk in the time of King James a most gallant uniform Building little inferior to any of the choicest Statues in Europe The Church stands in the middle of the Town upon a Hill having an ascent each way unto it which makes it appear the more graceful It is very large and adorned with curious Workman-ship hath an excellent Ring of Bells and hath from time to time been continually kept in good repair The Stocks are made of one entire Tree and will by the legs wrists and Thumbs hold above forty several persons and are by the Inhabitants of that town shown to strangers as a great rarity Qu. In what place did the Ancients commonly use to bury their dead An. Former Ages would not permit any dead Corps to be buried within the walls of their Cities Thus we read that Abraham bought a field wherein to bury his dead and we finde in the seventh of Luke that the widow of Naims son was carried out to be buried This instance also we find to be used amongst the Athenians Corinthians and other of the Graecians Amongst the Romans it was the fashion to burn the bodies of the dead within their City which custom continued till the bringing in of the Laws of Athens commonly called The Laws of the Twelve Tables one of which Laws runneth in these words In urbe ne sepelito nemo urito After this Prohibition their dead Corps were first burned in Campus Martius and there was covered in sundry places in the fields The frequent Urns or Sepulchral Stones digged up amongst us here in England as of late days were many in Spittle-fields near London are sufficient testimonies of this assertion Besides we may find in Appium that the chief reason why the rich men in Rome would not yield to that Law called Lex Agraria or the Law of dividing the Roman possessions equally among the people was because they thought it an irreligious thing that the monuments of their Fore fathers should be sold unto others The first that is Registred to have been buried in the City was Trojanus the Emperor afterwards it was granted as an honorary to such as had deserved well of the Republick but afterwards when Christian Religion prevail'd o're heathenism Churchyards those Dormitories of the Saints were consecrated and the liberty of