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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

his friend and Patron Baldwin Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He travailed into Forrain parts which he did not as too many weed but gathered the Flowers returning stored with good Manners and stock'd with good Learning He endeavoured that all in his Convent should be like himself and Ford-Abbey in his time had more Learning therein than three Convents of the same bignesse He was Confessor to King John wrote many pious Works and dying was buried in his own Convent without any Funeral Pomp about the year 1215. RICHARD FISHAKER or FIZACRE Matthew Paris termeth him FISHACLE was saith 〈◊〉 born in Exoniensi Patria which I english in Devonshire He was bred first in Oxford then in Paris and became a Dominican Friar For his Learning and Preaching as highly esteemed as any of that age He was saith Learned Leland as fast linked in Friendship to Robert Bacon of whom hereafter as ever 〈◊〉 to Bacchius or Thes●…us to Perithous So that one may say ofthem there was two friends This Richard disdaining to survive Robert a●…oresaid hearing of his death expired in the same year 1248. and was buried at Oxford JOHN CUT 〈◊〉 was born at the Manor of Gammage in this County where his Name and Family do continue Owners thereof Now because that which is pretty is pleasing and what is little may be presumed pretty we will insert the short and indeed all the information we have of him In the time of King Edward the Third Johannes Rupe-Scissanus or de Rupe scissa Cutclif being a very sincere and learned man opposed himself against the Doctrine and Manners of the Clergy and wrote against the Pope himself I see Baleus non vidit omnia for Pitzeus it is no wonder if he be pleased to take no notice of a Writer of an opposite judgment to himself When we receive then will we return more Intelligence of this Authour RICHARD CHICHESTER was not born at Chichester in Sussex as his Name doth import but was an extract of that Ancient Family still flourishing at Raleigh in this County He became a Monk in Westminster seldome spending any spare time in vanity but laying it out in reading Scripture and good History He wrote a Chronicle from Hengisius the Saxon to the year of our Lord 1348. done indeed fide Historica His death happened about the year 1355. ROBERT PLYMPTON was born in Plypmton in this County and bred an Augustinian in the Town of his Nativity He was afterwards preferred Arch-Deacon of Totnesse conscientiously discharging his place for perceiving people extreamly 〈◊〉 he was another John Baptist in his painful preaching repentance unto them which Sermons he caused to be written and it is conceived they wrought a very good 〈◊〉 on the Devonians The time wherein he flourished is not certainly known NICHOLAS UPTON was born in this County of an Ancient Family still flourishing therein at ........... He was bred Doctor in the Canon-Law and became Canon of Salisbury Wells and St. Pauls Humphrey Duke of Glocester the Me coenas General of goodnesse and learning had him in high esteem and gave him great rewards Hereupon Upton in expression of his gratitude presented his Patron with a Book the first in that kind of Heraldry and the Rules thereof a Book since set forth in a fair impression by Edward Bish Esquire a Person composed of all worthy accomplishments He flourished under King Henry the Sixth 1440. Since the Reformation RICHARD HOOKER was born at Heavy-tree nigh Exeter bred in Corpus Christi Colledg in Oxford and afterwards was preferred by Arch-Bishop Whitgift Master of the Temple whilst at the same time Mr. Walter Travers was the Lecturer thereof Here the Pulpit spake pure Canterbury in the Morning and Geneva in the Afternoon until Travers was silenced Hooker his Stile was prolixe but not tedious and such who would patiently attend and give him credit all the reading or hearing of his Sentences had their expectation over-paid at the close thereof He may be said to have made good Musick with his fiddle and stick alone without any Rosin having neither Pronunciation nor gesture to grace his matter His Book of Ecclestiastical POLITIE is prized by all generally save such who out of Ignorance cannot or Envy will not understand it But there is a kind of People who have a Pike at him and therefore read his Book with a prejudice that as Jephtha vowed to sacrifice the first living thing which met him these are resolved to quarrel with the first word which occurreth therein Hereupon it is that they take exception at the very Title thereof Ecclesiastical Politie as if unequally yoked Church with some mixture of City-nesse that the Discipline Jure Divino may bow to Humane Inventions But be it reported to the Judicious whether when all is done a Reserve must not be left for prudential Supplies in Church Government True it is his Book in our late Times was beheld as an Old-Almanack grown out of date but blessed be God there is now a Revoluion which may bring his Works again into reputation Mr. Hooker leaving London no inclination of his own but obedience to others put him on so publick a place retired to his small Benefice in Kent where he put off his Mortality Anno 1599 leaving the Memory of an humble holy and learned Divine Here I must retract after a Father no shame for a Child two passages in my Church History For whereas I reported him to die a Bachilour he had Wife and Children though indeed such as were neither to his comfort when living nor credit when Dead But Parents cannot stamp their Children from their Heads or Hearts Secondly his Monument was not erected by Sir Edwin Sandys a person as probable as any man alive for such a performance but by Sir William Cooper now li ving in the Castle of Hartford and let the good Knight have the due Commendation thereof JOHN REINOLDS was born in this County bred in Corpus-Christi-Colledge in Oxford of whom I have spoken plentifully in my Church-History NATHANIEL CARPENTER Son to a Minister was born in this County bred Fellow of Exeter-Colledge in Oxford He was right-handed in the Cyclopedy of all Arts Logick witnesse his Decades Mathematicks expressed in the Book of his Geography and Divinity appearing in his excellent Sermons called Achitophel As for his Opticks it had been a Master-piece in that kind if truly and perfectly printed I have been informed that to his great grief he found the written Preface thereof CaChristmass Pies in his Printers House Pearles are no Pearles when Cocks or Coxcombs find them and could never after from his scattered Notes recover an Original thereof He went over into Ireland where he became Chaplain to James Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh and School-Master of the Kings Wards in Dublin A place of good profit great credit greatest trust being to bring up many Popish Minors in the Protestant Religion who under his Education grew

Sir Robert Bellknap Leicest 131 Richard Belgrave ib. 132 Sir Henry Bellasis York 223 John Bellasis ibid.   St. Beno Flint 38 Thomas Benion Somers 34 Thomas Bendish Essex 340 Thomas Bentham York 197 Robert Bennet Berk. 92 Thomas Berkley Gloc. 363 Gilbert Berkeley Norf. 238 Dame Katherine Berkeley Gloc. 361 Bertram Fitz-Allen Linc. 166 St. Bertelin Staff 40 Peregrin Berty Linc. 161 Sir Richard de la Bere Heref. 46 Alphred of Beverly York 205 St. John of Beverly ib. 192 William Bischop Warw. 129 Benedict Biscop York 192 Thomas Bickely Buck. 131 Sir Richard Bingham Dors. 281 John Bird Warw. 22 Thomas Bilson Hant. 7 Sir Francis Bigot York 209 John of Birlington alias Bridlington ib. 193 Sir Thomas de Billing Northamp 286 Philip Biss Som. 30 John Bloxham Linc. 165 Michael Blaunpayn Corn. 203 Peter Blundell Dev. 265 Cornelius Bongy Warw. 120 Utred Bolton Wales 14 Robert Bolton Lanc. 116 John Boise Suff. 71 David Boyse Wales 15 Dr. John Bois Kent 84 Sir William Boleyn ib. 95 Queen Anne Bollen Lond. 202 Sir Godfrey Bollen Norf 258 Edward Bonner alias Savage Worc. 169 William Bowyer Staff 53 William Booth Chesh. 174 Laurence Booth ibid.   John Booth ib. 155 Edward Bone Cornw. 206 Wenfr Boniface Devon 249 Sir George Bowes York 223 Henry Bourchier Essex 338 John Bourchier Hertf. 27 Thomas Bourchier Essex 324 William of Bottlesham Cambr. 152 Andrew Borde Lond. 215 Philip Bottiller Essex 345 Boso Hertf. 20 John Bray Cornw. 205 Sir John Bramston Essex 329 Robert Braybrook Northamp 284 Henry de Braybrook Bedf. 122 Robert de Braybrook ibid.   Henry Bradshaw Ches 190 Sir Henry Bradshaw ib. 177 Robert Brassy ib. 182 John de Bradfeild Berk. 92 John of Bridlington alias Birlington York 193 a William Breton Wales 14 Walter Brute ib. 8 Sir Henry Bromfleet York 221 Gualo Britannus Wales 14 Hugh Broughton ib. 16 Richard Broughton Hunt 53 b John Briton alias Breton Heref. 37 Nicholas Breakspear Hertf. 20 William de Brito Kent 91 Sir Richard Brakenburgh ib. 95 Maurice Bryyn Essex 339 Giles de Bruce Breckn 23 John Bradford Lanc. 108 Sir Thomas Bromley Staff 43 John Bromley ibid.   Sir Thomas Brumley Shrop. 6 William Briewere Berk. 103 Sir John Brewerton Chesh. 185 Edward Brerewood ib. 190 William Brewer Devon 252 268 Fulco de Breantee Berk. 104 Walter Bronscombe Dev. 274 Ralph Browning Suff. 61 Sir Robert Brooke ib. 65 Sir David Brooke Somers 25 Walter Browne Lond. 228 William Browne Rutl. 348 Christopher Browne ib. 253 John Browne ib. 354 Stephen Browne Northumb. 308 Matthew Browne Surr. 98 Thomas Bradwardine Suss. 102 Wulstan of Braundsford Worc. 168 Robert Bristow ib. 176 Ralph of Bristol Somers 34 Henry Bright Worc. 177 William Brightman Nottingh 319 Fulk de Brent Middl. 182 Edmund Brudenell Northamp 300 Henry Bullock Berk. 95 John Buckingham Buck. 130 Edward Bulstrod ib. 141 William Burgoin Devon 265 Hubert de Burgo Kent 91 Thomas Lord Burgh or Borough Linc. 159 Arthur Bulkly Anglesey ●…18 Lancelot Bulkly ib. 19 Sir Ralph Butler Gloc. 356 Charles Butler Hant. 13 Sir Thomas Burge Linc. 174 Henry Burton Staff 46 Robert Burton     William Butler Suff. 67 William Burton Leic. 134 Robert Burton ibid.   Sir Thomas Burdet Leic. 140 John of Bury Suff. 69 Boston of Bury Linc. 165 Robert Burnel Shrop. 4 Henry Burwash Suss. 103 John Buckeridge Wilt. 151 Nicholas Byfeild Warw. 122 Hub. de Burozo Kent 91 C. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Sir Peter Carew Devon 272 Nicholas Carew Surr. 96 Richard Carew Cornw. 205 Sir John Cary Devon 253 James Cary ibid.   Valentine Cary Northum 305 Henry Cary Hertf. 23 Sir Henry Cary ibid.   John Careless Warw. 120 Robert Can●…tus Wilt. 155 Sir George Calvert York 201 Sir Robert Calvert ib. 230 Thomas Castleford ib. 207 Caducanus Wales 10 Gualt Calenius ib. 14 St. Canock Breckn 22 St. Cadock ibid.   Sir Edward Carne Glamor 41 Wal●…er Cantilupe Monm 51 Giraldus Cambrensis Pemb●… 57 Vinarius Cap●…llanus Norf. 269 Sir John Cavendish Suff. 65 Thomas Cavendish ib. 66 John Cavendish ib. 72 William Caxton Camb. 157 Sir Hugh Calvely Chesh. 178 John Canon Cumb. 220 Robert Epis. Carliol ib. 225 Edmund Campian Lond. 222 Sir Robert Catelin Leic. 131 John Caius Norf. 275 Sir Philip Calthrope ib. 270 Sir William Capell Suff. 73 Richard Capell Gloc. 361 Arthur Capell Hertf. 28 Nathaniel Carpenter Devon 264 John Carpenter Gloc. 355 Sir William Catesby Northamp 286 George Garleton Northumb. 304 Thomas Cantilupe Heref. 35 Osburn of Canterbury Kent 99 Thomas Car●…wright Hertf. 27 Thomas Carden Surr. 96 William Cecill Linc. 159 Jane Cecill ib. 168 David Cecill Northamp 299 Sir Thomas Cecill ib. 300 David Cerington Wilt. 159 Cecily Daugh. to Edw. IV. Westmin 237 Sir Julius Cesar Middl. 185 King Charles I. Kent 67 King Charles II. Westmin 237 Witt. Chappel Notting 317 Humphry Chetham Lanc. 121 Sir Thomas Chaleton Middl. 187 Maurice Chamner Lond. 222 Henry Chichely Northamp 292 283 Richard Chichester Devon 263 Sir Arthur Chichester ibid. 254 Robert Chichester ibid. 251 Roger of Chester Chesh. 189 Richard Chamond Cornw. 211 William Chadderton Chesh. 175 Sir Hugh Cholml●…y ibid. 187 Lawrence Chaderton Lane 117 John de Chesill Essex 325 John Christopherson Lanc. 110 Thomas Cheyney Kent 96 Will●…am Cheyney ibid. 95 Sir Fr●…ncis Ch●…ney Buck. 141 Sir John Che●…ke Camb. 156 Thomas Chase Bedf. 115 Peter Chapman Berk. 97 Thomas Chaucer ibid. 106 Jeffrey Chaucer Oxf. 337 William Chillingworth ibid. 339 Child Devon 266 John Christmas Ess●…x 346 John Chedworth Gloc. 355 Thomas Charnock Kent 82 David of Chirbury Shrop. 8 Thomas Church-yard ibid. 9 Sir John Champneys Som. 31 Thomas Chune Suss. 109 John Chylmarke W●…lt 156 Sir Roger Cholmley York 200 Sir William Chauncey Northamp 301 Sir Dudley Charlton Oxf. 334 Roger the Cistercian Devon 263 Francis Clearke Bedf. 118 William Clarke Oxf. 345 George Clearke ●…anc 121 Sir John Clarke Northamp 299 Richard de Clare Monm 51 Richard Clough Flint 39 St. Clintanke Breck 22 Francis Cl●…fford York 223 George Clifford ibid. 203 Anne Clifford Wesimor 140 Richard Clarke Dors. 282 Osbern Claudian Gloc. 357 Katherine Clyvedon ibid. 361 Sir Jervase Clifton Camb. 169 Richard Clifford Kent 70 John Cleaveland Leic. 135 Hugh Clopton Warw. 129 Elizabeth Clare Suff. 71 Nicholas Close Westmorl 137 Alice Coberly Wilt. 148 Sir Francis Cottington ibid. 152 Hugh Coren alias Curwen Westmor 137 John Comin alias Cumin Worcest 167 Sir Thomas Coventry ibid. 170 Walter of Coventry Warw. 124 Vincent of Coventry ibid.   William of Coventry     Roger Ep. Covent Litch Berk. 104 Walt. de Constantiis Wales 10 St. Congellus alias Comgallus Flint 38 Constantine G. Essex 322 William Coberly Wilt. 148 Sir Edward Conway Warw. 123 Miles Coverdale York 198 Sir William Compton Worc. 179 Cocke Devon 261 Henry Cocke Hertf. 32 Sir Edward Coke Norf. 250   Buck. 141 Sir John Cooke Derb. 233 George Cooke ibid. 232 Sir Thomas Cooke Suff. 73 Sir Anthony Cooke Essex 327 John Cowell

or silver-hair-skins formerly so dear are now levelled in prices with other colours yea are lower then black in estimation because their wool is most used in making of hats commonly for the more credit called Half-Beavers though many of them hardly amount to the proportion of Semi-Demi-Castors Herrings Great store and very good of these are caught nigh Yarmouth where once every year on the Feast of Saint Michael is a Fair held for the sale of fish and such the plenty of Herrings there constantly vented that incredible the sum which is raised thereby Indeed the fishing for Herrings is a most gainful trade fish though contemptable in it self considerable in its company swiming in such shoals that what the Whale hath in bigness the Herring hath in number It may well mind such who excell in strength and valour not to boast or be proud thereof seeing the greatest courage may be soon pressed to death under unequal number Yea Red-herrings in England mostly eaten for sauce to quicken the Appetite serve in Holland and elsewhere for food to satisfy hunger I will conclude the Natural Commodities of this County with this memorable passage which I have read in a modern Author The Lord F. W. assured me of a Gentleman in Norfolk that made above 10000l sterl of a piece of ground not forty yards square and yet there was neither Mineral nor Metal in it He a●…ter told me it was onely a sort of fine clay for the making a choise sort of earthen ware which some that knew it seeing him dig up discovered the value of it and sending it into Holland received so much money for it My belief tireth in coming up to the top of this story suspecting the addition of a cypher But if it were so how much would it have inriched us if those mockChina-dishes had been made in England Manufactures Worsteds These first took their name from Worsted a Village in this County originally it is nothing but Woollen-thred spun very fine and for the more strength twisted together But O! it surpassesh my skill to name the several stuffs being VVorsted disguised with VVeaving and Colouring made thereof It argueth the usefulness and publick profit of this commodity which first found a general repute in England toward the end of the raign of King Henry the sixth that there are no fewer then fourteen Statutes now in force in the well ordering thereof to Merchantable proof And appointing which of them may which may not be Transported Not to speak of four VVardens of VVorsted VVeavers to be chosen yearly within the City of Norwish and other four out of the County of Northfolk with their solemn Oath Office and Authority As for worsted Stockins they were first made in England Anno 1564. by VVilliam Rider an ingenious Apprentice living against Saint Magnus Church at the foot of London Bridge This William chancing to see a pair of knit worsted Stockins in the Lodging of an Italian Merchant who had brought them from Man●…ua borrowed them and making the like by that pattern presented them to VVilliam Earl of Pembroke who first wore them in England Proverbs Norfolk dumplings This cannot be verified of any dwarfish or diminutive stature of people in this County being as tall of their bodies and as tall of their arms too I assure you as any in England But it relates to the fare they commonly feed on so generally called I wish much good may it do them and that their bodies thereby may be enabled for all natural civil and spiritual performances Norfolk VViles Such the skill of the common people hereof in our Common-Law wherein they are so versed ut si nihil sit litium lites tamen ex juris apicibus serere callent If I must go to Law I wish them rather of my Counsel then my Adversaries For whereas pedibus ambulando is accounted but a vexatious Suit in other Counties here where men are said to study Law as following the Plough tail some would perswade us that they will enter an action for their neighbours horse but looking over their hedge Now although we listen to this but as a jeer yet give me leave to observe two parts in VViles VVittiness which all must commend VVickedness condemn Sure I am that in Scripture a VVile always male audit is taken in an evil sense as wherein the simplicity of the Dove is stung to death by the subtilty of the Serpent But no more hereof least Norfolk-men commence a Suit against me though I verily believe many therein are of as peaceable dispositions as any in other places A Yarmouth Capon That is a red-herring No news for creatures to be thus disguised under other names seeing Criticks by a Libyon bear sub pelle Libystidis ursae understand a Lion no Bears being found in the land of Libya And I believe few capons save what have more fins then feathers are bred in Yarmouth But to countenance this expression I understand that the Italian Friers when disposed to eat flesh on Fridays call a Capon piscem è corte a fish out of the Coop He is arrested by the Baily of Marshland The aire of Marshland in this County is none of the wholesomest being surrounded with the Sea and Fens on all sides Hence it is that strangers coming hither are clapt on the back with an ague which sometimes lasts them longer then a Stuffe Suit The best is when such prisoners have paid the Bailiffs Fees and Garnish and with time and patience have weathered out the brunt of that disease they become habited to the aire of the Country and arrive in health at a very great age Princes I meet with no Prince since the Conquest taking his first breath in this County probably because so remote from the principal place of Royal Residence Prelats GILBERT BERKELEY was born in this County but descended from the ancient Barons of that name as appeareth by his Armes He was consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells in the first of Queen Elizabeth and sate therein 22. years He died of a Lethargy being 80. years of age 1581. and is buried on the North-side of the Communion-table of his own Cathedral JOHN AYLMER Brother to Sir Robert Aylmer Knight was born at Aylmerhall in the Parish of Tilsely in this County as his nearest surviving relations have informed me from whom I have received the following information When he was but a Child going toward school Henry Gray Duke of Suffolk having some discourse with took so much liking unto him that after he had been bred some years in the University of Cambridge he made him his Chaplain and committed his daughter the Lady Jane Gray to his tuition In the reign of Queen Mary he fled over beyond Sea and was little less then miraculously saved from the Searchers of the Ship by the ingenuity of a Marchant who put him into a great Wine-but which had a partition in the middle so that

thereof with circumspect diligence and without long delay to procure and see to be done and obtained such Licenses as they will answer for the same before Almigbty God for if they or any of them should neglect to obtain such Licenses no Prince nor Counsel in any degree will deny or defeat the same and if conveniently by my Will or other Conveyance I might assure it I would not leave it to be done after my Death Then the same shall revert to my Heirs whereas I do mean the same to the Commonweale and then their default thereof shall be to the reproch and condemnation of the said Corporation before God c. This worthy Knight compleated his second change I mean of a mortal life for a Blessed Eternity on the 21. of November 1579. and lieth buried in the Parish Church of Saint Hellens Sir WILLIAM PASTON Knight son and heir to Erasmus Paston of Paston Esquire is justly recounted a Publick Benefactour True it is the family whence he was extracted were always forward in deeds of Charity according to the devotion of the days they lived in Witness their ●…ountiful donations to the Abbys of Saint Bennet in the Holme and Bromholme in this County after the Reformation they had not with too many less heat because more light but continued the stream though they changed the Channel of charity This Sir William erected a very fair school with thirty pounds per annum for the maintenance thereof at Northwalsam in this County a deed no doubt acceptable to the God of heaven Solomon saith Teach a Child in the trade of his youth But alas it's above the reach of poor parents to teach their Children lacking learning to do it themselves and livelyhood to hire others save where such good persons as this worthy Knight have made provision for them This Sir William married Francis the daughter of Sir Tho. Clear of Stokesby and was Great-grand-father to Sir William Paston the bountiful promoter of all my weak endeavours HENRY HOWARD youngest son of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and brother to Thomas Howard last Duke of Norfolk was bo●… at Shotesham in this County He was bred a serious student for many years in Kings colledge in Cambridge then in Trinity-hall going the ordinary path and pace to the degree of Mastership without any honorary advantage Here he became a grea●… and general Scholar witness his large and learned work intituled A D●…pensative against the poyson of supposed Prophesies and dedicated to Sir Francis Walsingham His fortune left him by his Father was not great and he lived privately all the reign of Queen Elizabeth till King James advanced him in honour and wealth Here for variety sake and the better to methodize our matter we will make use of a distinction common in the Custome-house about bills of lading Inwards and Outwards observing what greatness were imported and conferred on him what gratitude was exported and performed by him Inwards Outward 1. King James Created him Baron of Marnehill in Dorset shire 2. Earl of Northampton 3. Lord Privy Seal 4. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 5. Knight of the Garter 6. Cambridge chose him her Chancellour 1. He founded and endowed an Hospital for twelve poor women and a Governour at Rising in this County 2. Another for twelve poor men and a Governour at Clun in Shropshire 3. Another at Greenwich in Kent for a Governour and twenty poor men of whom eight are to be chosen out of Shotesham the place of his nativity He died the 15. of June 1614. and was buried in the ancient Chappel of the Castle of Dover Memorable Persons SHARNBORN born at and Lord of Sharnborn a considerable Mannor in this County This Manner William the Conquerour out of the plenitude of his power conferred on one Warren a Norman Souldier But Sharnborn was not so tame as silently to set down and suffer a stranger peaceably to possess his inheritance which his English Ancestors for many years had injoyed but fairly traversed his Title I will not say in Westminster-hall as of later erection in the reign of King Rufus but in that publick place where Pleas were held in that age Surely none but a Norfolk-man durst go to Law with the Conquerour and question the validity of his Donations Yea brave Sharnborn got the better of the Suit and the Kings grant was adjudged void This is pertinently pressed by many to prove that King William though in Name was in very deed no Conquerour but came in by composition to keep the Laws of England Now as I am heartily sorrowful that Sharnborn possessed ever since almost 600. years by that name and family should in our age be sold and aliened from it whose heir males are just now extinct so am I cordially glad that it is bought by a worthy person Francis Ash Esquire which with some limitation hath freely setled it being of good yearly value on Emanuel-colledge and may they as long enjoy it as the former owners if before that term the Day of Judgement put not a Period to all earthly possessions Lord Mayors Name Father Place Company Time 1 Godfry Bullen Geffrey Bullen Salle Probably Mercer 1457 2 Bartholomew Rede Robert Rede Crowmer Goldsmith 1502 3 Richard Gresham John Gresham Holt Mercer 1537 4 John Gresham John Gresham Holt Mercer 1547 5 Thomas Cambell Robert Cambell Fullsam Iron-Monger 1609 6 John Leman John Leman Gillingham Fish-Monger 1616 7 Edward Barkham Edward Barkham South-Akere Draper 1621 The names of the Gentry of this County returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. William Bishop of Norwich Commissioners to take the Oaths John de Morley Chivaler Robert Cliffton mil. Knights for the shire John Roys Knights for the shire Abbatis de Langle Abbatis de Creek Abbatis de Wendelyng Abbatis de Derham Prioris Sancte fidis Prioris de VValsyngham Prioris de Tetford Prioris de Linne Prioris de Yernemouth Prioris de Ingham Prioris de Cokysforde Prioris de Westar Prioris de Penteneye Prioris de Castelacre Prioris de Bromhill Prioris de Ghildham Prioris de Wyrmingheye Prioris de Bokynham Prioris de Bromholm Prioris de Hyking Prioris de Petreston Prioris de Flycham Prioris de Baeston Iohan. Clyfton mil. Briani Stapulton mil. Tho. Kerdeston Hen. Inglose mil. Tho. Tudenham mil. Rog. Harsick mil. Hen. Richford mil. Iohan. Curson mil. Henry Grey Williel●…i Calthorp Iohan. Fitz-Rauf de Moris Thomae Willoughby Oliveri Groos Thomae Chaumbir Edmundi Winter Nich. Apilyerde VVill. Apilyerde Nicholai Castel Edmundi Stapulton Thomae Pigot Henrici Walpole Thomae Trusbute Willielmi Byllingford Willielmi Daubeney Thomae Astele Radulphi Lampet Iohannis Woodehouse Iohan. Berney de Redham Ioh. Berney de Wythingham Georgii Holkham VVillielmi Yelverton Edmundi VVychyngham Iohan. Heydon VVill. Grey de Merston VVillielmi Raimis Thomae Dengayne Iohannis Clepisby Iohannis Strange Richardi Gogh Christopheri Strange Henrici Catte Iohannis Bakon

so the Cathedral dedicated unto him in this County challengeth the Precedency of all in England for a Majestick Western Front of Columel-work But alas This hath lately felt the misfortune of other Fabricks in this kind Yea as in a Gangrean one member is cut off to preserve the rest so I understand the Cloysters of this Cathedral were lately plucked down to repair the Body thereof and am heartily glad God in his mercy hath restored the onely remedy I mean its lands for the Cure thereof As for Civil Structures Holdenby-house lately carried away the credit built by Sir Christopher Hatton and accounted by him the last Monument of his Youth If Florence be said to be a City so fine that it ought not to be shown but on Holy-days Holdenby was a House which should not have been shown but on Christmas-day But alas Holedenby-house is taken away being the Embleme of human happiness both in the beauty and brittleness short flourishing and soon fading thereof Thus one demolishing Hammer can undoe more in a day then ten edifying Axes can advance in a Month. Next is Burleigh-house nigh Stamford built by William Lord Cecil Who so seriously compareth the late state of Holdenby and Burleigh will dispute w●…th himself whither the Offices of the Lord Chancellour or Treasurer of England be of greater Revenues seeing Holedenby may be said to show the Seal and Burleigh the Purse in their respective magnificence proportionable to the power and plenty of the two great Officers that built them Withorpe must not be forgot the least of Noble Houses and best of Lodges seeming but a dim reflection of Burleigh whence it is but a Mile distant It was built by Thomas Cecil Earl of Exeter to retire to as he pleasantly said out of the dust whilst his great House of Burleigh was a sweeping Castle Ashby the Noble Mansion of the Earl of Northampton succeeds most beautifull before a casual fire deformed part thereof But seeing fire is so furious a plunderer that it giveth whatsoever it taketh not away the condition of this house is not so much to be condoled as congratulated Besides these there be many others no County in England yeilding more Noble men no Noble men in England having fairer habitations And although the Freestone whereof they be built keepeth not so long the white innocence as Brick doth the blushing modesty thereof yet when the fresh luster is abated the full state thereof doth still remain The Wonders There is within the Demeasnes of Boughton the Barony of the Right Honorable Edward Lord Mountague a Spring which is conceived to turn wood into stone The truth is this the coldness of the water incrustateth wood or what else falleth into it on every side with a stony matter yet so that it doth not transubstantiate wood into stone For the wood remaineth entire within untill at last wholy consumed which giveth occasion to the former erroneous relation The like is reported of a Well in Candia with the same mistake that Quicquid incidit lapidescit But I have seen in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge a Skull brought thence which was candied over with stone within and without yet so as the bone remained intire in the middle as by a casual breach thereof did appear This Skull was sent for by King Charles and whilst I lived in the house by him safely again returned to the Colledge being a Prince as desirous in such cases to preserve others propriety as to satisfie his own curiosity Medicinal Waters Wellingborough-well Some may conceive it called Wellingborough from a sovereign Well therein anciently known afterwards obstructed with obscurity and re-discovered in our days But Master Camden doth marr their mart avouching the ancient name thereof Wedlingburough However thirty years since a water herein grew very famous insomuch that Queen Mary lay many weeks thereat What benefit her Majesty received by the Spring here I know not this I know that the Spring received benefit from her Majesty and the Town got credit and profit thereby But it seems all waters of this kind have though far from the Sea their ebbing and flowing I mean in esteem It was then full tide with Wellingburough-well which ever since hath abated and now I believe is at low water in its reputation Proverbs The Mayor of Northampton opens Oysters with his Dagger This Town being 80 miles from the Sea Sea fish may be presumed stale therein Yet have I heard that Oysters put up with care and carried in the cool were weekly brought fresh and good to Althrope the house of the Lord Spencer at equal distance Sweeter no doubt then those Oysters commonly carried over the Alpes well nigh 300. miles from Venice to Viena and there ●…eputed far fetch'd and deer bought daintes to great persons though sometimes very valiant their savour Nor is this a wonder seeing Plinny tell us that our English Oysters did Romanis culinis servire Serve the Kitchings of Rome Pickled as some suppose though others believe them preserved by an ingenious contrivance Epicures bear their brains in there bowels and some conceive them carried in their shells But seeing one of their own Emperours gave for his Motto Bonus odor h●…stis melior Civis occisi Good is the smell of an Enemy but better the smell of a Citizen of Rome killed I say unto such a Roman-Nose stinking may be better then sweet Oysters and to their Palates we 'll leave them He that must eat a buttered Fagot let him go to Northampton Because it is the dearest Town in England for fuel where no Coles can come by Water and little Wood doth grow on Land Camden saith of this County in general that it is Silvis nisi in ulteriori citeriori parte minùs laetus And if so when he wrote fifty years since surely it is less wooddy in our age What reformation of late hath been made in mens judgments and manners I know not sure I am that deformation hath been great in trees and timber who verily believe that the clearing of many dark places where formerly plenty of wood is all the new light this age produced Pity it is no better provision is made for the preservation of woods whose want will be soonest for our fire but will be saddest for our water when our naval walls shall be decayed Say not that want of wood will put posterity on witty inventions for that supply seeing he is neither pious nor prudent parent who spends his patrimony on design that the industry and ingenuity of his son may be quick'ned thereby Princes ELIZABETH daughter of Sir Richard Woodevill by the Lady Jaquet his wife formerly the relict of John Duke of Bedford was born at Grafton Honour in this County in proof whereof many stronge presumptions may be produced Sure I am if this Grafton saw her not first a child it beheld her first a Queen when married to King Edward the fourth This Elizabeth was widow to Sir John Grey who

his own charge chased away the French-man relieved the English and took six●…y of the French Prisoners He removed afterwards to Virginia to view those parts and afterwards came into England and obtained from King Charles who had as great an esteem of and affection for him as King James a Patent to him and his Heirs for Mary-land on the North of Virginia with the same Title and Royalties conferred on him as in Avalon aforesaid now a hopeful Plantation peopled with eight thousand English souls which in processe of time may prove more advantagious to our Nation Being returned into England he died in London April 15. 1632. in the 53. year of his age lying buried in the Chancel of S. Dunstans in the West leaving his Son the Right Honourable Cecil Calvert now Lord Baltemore heir to his Honour Estate and Noble Disposition THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of Strafford Deputy though Son to William Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse in this County Esq at his Sons birth afterward Baronet yet because born in Chancery-Lane and Christned April 22. Anno 1593. in Saint Dunstans in the West hath his Character in London Seamen ARMIGELL WAAD born of an ancient Family in York-shire as I am informed from his Epitaph on his monument at Hampstead in Midlesex wherein he is termed Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Regum Secretiori consilio ab epistolis which I took the boldnesse to interpret not Secretary but Clerk of the Councel Take the rest as it followeth in his Funeral Inscription Qui in maximarum Artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britannos Indicarum Americarum explorator primus Indeed he was the first Englishman that discovered America and his several voyages are largely described in Mr. Hackluite his Travels This English COLUMBUS had by two Wives twenty Children whereof Sir William Waad was the eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Councel to Queen Elizabeth This Armigel died June 20. 1568. and was buried as is aforesaid MARTIN FROBISHER Kt. was born nigh Doncaster in this County I note this the rather because learned Mr. Carpenter in his Geography recounts him amongst the famous men of Devonshire But why should Devon-shire which hath a flock of Worthies of her own take a Lamb from another County because much conversing therein He was from his youth bred up in Navigation and was the first Englishman that discovered the North way to China and Cathai whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it Silver or Gold Ore but which upon trial with great expence prov'd uselesse yet will no wise man laugh at his mistake because in such experiments they shall never hit the mark who are not content to 〈◊〉 it He was very valiant but withal harsh and violent faults which may be dispensed with in one of his profèssion and our Chronicles loudly resou●…d his signal service in Eighty Eight for which he was Knighted His last service was the defending of Brest-Haven in Britain with ten ships against a far greater power of Spaniards Here he was shot into the side the wound not being mortal in it self But Swords and Gu●…s have not made more mortal wounds than Probes in the hands of carelesse and skillesse Chirurgeons as here it came to passe The Chirurgeon took out only the Bullet and left the bumbast about it behind wherewith the sore festered and the worthy Knight died at Plimo●…th Anno 1594. GEORGE CLIFFORD Lord Clifford Vescye c. Earl of Cumberland was son to Henry second Earl of that Family by his second Lady a person wholly composed of true Honour and Valour whereof he gave the world a clear and large demonstration It was resolved by the judicious in that age the way to humble the Spanish greatnesse was not by pinching and pricking him in the Low-Countries which only emptied his veins of such blood as was quickly re-filled But the way to make it a Cripple for ever was by cutting off the Spanish sinews of War his Money from the West Indies In order whereunto this Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost and adventured his own person therein being the best born Englishman that ever hazarded himselfe in that kind His Fleet may be said to be bound for no other Harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto I say touching whose design was not to enrich himself but impoverish the enemy He was as merciful as valiant the best metal bows best and left impressions of both in all places where he came Queen Elizabeth Anno 1592. honoured him with the dignity of the Garter When King James came first out of Scotland to York he attended him with such an equipage of Followers for number and habit that he seemed rather a King than Earl of Cumberland Here happened a contest between the Earl and the Lord President of the North about carrying the Sword before the King in York which office upon due search and enquiry was adjudged to the Earl as belonging unto him and whilest Cliffords Tower is standing in York that Family will never be therein forgotten His Anagram was as really as litterally true Georgius Cliffordius Cumberlandius Doridis regno clarus cum vi f●…lgebis He died 1605. leaving one Daughter and Heir the Lady Anne married to the Earl of Dorset of whom hereafter Physicians Sir GEORGE RIPLEY whether Knight or Priest not so soon decided was undoubtedly born at Ripley in this County though some have wrongfully entituled Surry to his Na●…vity That York-shire was the place of his birth will be evidenced by his relation of Kindred reckoned up by himself viz. 1. 〈◊〉 2. Riple●… 3. Madlay 4. VVilloughby 5. Burham 6. VVaterton 7. Flemming 8. Talboyes Families found in York-shire and Lincoln-shire but if sought for in Surrey to be met with at Nonesuch Secondly it appeareth by his preferment being Canon of Bridlington in this County and to clear all In patria Eboracensi saith my Author But Philemon Holland hath not only erroniously misplaced but which is worse opprobriously miscalled him in his description of Surrey In the next Village of Ripley was born G. de Ripley a ringleader of our Alchimists and a mystical Impostor Words not appearing in the Latine Britannia and therefore Holland herein no Translator of Cambden but traducer of Ripley Leaving this Land he went over into Italy and there studied twenty years together in pursuance of the Philosophers Stone and ●…ound it in the year 1470. as some collect from those his words then written in his Book Juveni quem diligit anima mea spoken by the Spouse Cant. 3. 4. so bold is he with Scripture in that kind An English Gentleman of good credit reported that in his travels abroad he saw a Record in the Isle of Malta which declares that Sir George Ripley gave yearly to those Knights of Rhodes

in Catal. Episc. Londini impres anno 1616. See here four places challenge one man and I am as unwilling to accuse any of falshood as I am unable to maintain all in the Truth However the difference may thus be accomodated Bradwardins Ancestors fetch'd their Name from that place in Herefordshire according to Camden though he himself was born as Bale saith at Hartfeld in Sussex within the City saith Pits of Chichester interpret him ex●…ensively not to the Walls but Diocesse and Jurisdiction thereof As for Suffolk in Bishop Godwin I understand it an Erratum in the Printer for Sussex Our usual expedient in the like cases is this to insert the Character at large of the controverted person in that County which according to our apprehension produceth the best Evidence for him yet so that we also enter his name with a reference in the other respective places which with probability pretend unto him If equal likelyhood appear unto us on all sides that County clearly carries away his character which first presenteth it self to our Pen in the Alphabetical Order Thus lately when the same Living was in the gift of the Lord Chancellour Lord Treasurer and Master of the Wards that Clerk commonly carried it who was first presented to the Bishop However though in the disputable Nativities of worthy men first come first serv'd a Caveat is also entred in other Counties to preserve their Titles unprejudiced It must not be forgotten that many without just cause by mistake multiply differences in the places of mens Births The Papists please themselves with reporting a Tale of their own inventing how the men of two Towns in Germany fell out and fought together whilst one of them was for Martin the other for Luther being but the several names of the same person If one Author affirms Bishop Jewel born at Buden another at Berinerber let none make strife betwixt these two Writers the former naming the House and Village the later the Parish wherein he was born a case which often occurs in the Notation of Nativities That the Children of Clergymen have been as successeful as the Sons of Men of other Professions There goeth a common Report no less uncharitable than untrue yet meeting with many Beleivers thereof as if Clergy mens Sons were generally signally unfortunate like the Sons of Ely Hophnies and Phineaz's dissolute in their Lives and doleful in their Deaths This I may call a Libell indeed according to Sir Francis Bacon his Description thereof for first it is a Lye a notorious untruth and then a Bell some lowd and lewd Tongue hath told yea Rung it out and perchance was welcome Musick to some hearers thereof It is first confest that the best Saints and Servants of God have had bad as well as good children extracted from them It is the Note of Illiricus on those words of Saint John to the Elect Lady I rejoiced greatly when I found of thy Children walking in the Truth He saith not all thy but of thy children intimating that she had mingled Ware Corn and Tares in those who were descended from her Thus Aaron for I desire to restrain my self in instances of the Priests had Nadab and Abihu two strange Fire Offerers as well as his Godly Sons Eliazar and Ithamar Yea I find one of the best Fathers having two and those I beleive all he had of the worst Sons even Samuel himself Nor do we deny but that our English Clergy have been unhappy in their off-spring though not above the proportion of other Professions whereof some have not unprobably assigned these causes First If Fellows of Colledges they are ancient be●…ore they marry Secondly their children then are all Benjamins I mean the children of their Old age and thereupon by their Fathers to take off as much as we may the weight of the fault from the weaker Sex cockered and indulged which I neither defend or excuse but bemone and condemn Thirdly Such Children after their Fathers Death are left in their Minority to the careless Care of Friends and Executors who too often discharge not their due trust in their Education whence it is such Orphans too osten embrace wild courses to their own destructions But all this being granted we maintain that Clergy-mens Children have not been more unfortunate but more observed than the Children of the Parents of other Professions There is but one Minister at one time in a whole Parish and therefore the fewer they are the easier they are observed both in their Persons and Posterities Secondly the Eminency of their place maketh them exposed and obvious to all discoveries Thirdly possibly Malice may be the Eye-salve to quicken mens Sight in prying after them Lastly one ill Success in their Sons maketh for the reasons aforesaid more impression in the Ears and Eyes of people then many miscarriages of those Children whose Fathers were of another Function I speak not this out of Intent to excuse or extenuate the Badnesse of the one by the Badnesse of the other but that both may be mutually provoked to Amendment In a word other mens Children would have as many Eyesores if they had as many Eyes seeing them Indeed if happinesse be confin'd unto outward Pomp and Plenty and if those must be accounted unfortunate which I in the true meaning of the word must interpret unprovidenced who swim not in equal Plenty with others then that Epithet may be fixed on the Children of the Clergy Whose Fathers coming late to their Livings and surprised by Death not staying long on them which at the best afforded them but narrow maintenance leave them oft-times so ill provided that they are forced without blame or shame to them as I conceive to take sometimes poor and painful Employments for their Livelyhood But by our following Endevours it will plainly appear that the Sons of Ministers have by Gods blessing proved as Eminent as any who have raised themselves by their own Endevours For Statesmen George Carew Privy Councellor of England Scotland and Ireland and as able a man absit Invidia as the age he lived in produced was Earl of Totnes the same place whereof his Father was Arch-deacon Sir Edwin Sandys Son to Arch-bishop Sandys will be acknowledged even by his Enemies a man of such merit that England could not afford an Office which he could not manage For Lawyers Sir Thomas Richardson lately and the never sufficiently to be commended Sir Orlando Bridgeman now Lord Chief Justice with many others For Seamen Sir Francis Drake that great Scourge and Terror to the Spanish Pride If any say these are but thin Instances out of so thick a number de tot modo milibus unus few of so many Hundreds know we have only taken some Eminent persons leaving the rest for fear to be counted Forestallers to the Collection of the Reader in our ensuing Book But the Sons of Ministers have never been more successeful then when bred in the Professions of their

Gods grace may prove sober Christians and eminent in their generations The last Port to which I traffiqued for intelligence towards our insuing Work was by making my addresses by letters and otherwise to the nearest Relations of those whose Lifes I have written Such applications have sometimes proved chargable but if my weak pains shall find preferment that is acceptance from the judicious Reader my care and cost is forgotten and shall never come under computation Here I cannot but condemn the carelessness not to say ingratitude of those I am safe whilst containing my self in general terms who can give no better account of the Place where their fathers or grand-fathers were born then the child unborn so that sometimes we have been more beholden to strangers for our instructions herein then to their nearest Kindred And although some will say Sons are more comfortably concerned to know the time of their Fathers death then place of their birth yet I could almost wish that a moderate fine were imposed on such heirs whose Fathers were born before them and yet they know not where they were born However this I must gratefully confess I have met with many who could not never with any who would not furnish me with information herein It is observable that men born an hundred years since and upwards have their nativities fixed with more assurance then those born some eighty years since Mens eyes see worst in the Twilight in that intervale after the Sun is set and natural light ended and before candles are set up and artificial light begun In such a crepusculum oftime those Writers lived who fall short of the history of Bale and Leland yet go before the memory of any alive which unhappy insterstice hath often perplexed us and may easier be complained of then amended To conclude should I present all with Books who courteously have conduced to my instruction the whole Impression would not suffice But I remember the no less civil then politick invitation of Judah to the Tribe of Simeon Come up with me into my Lot to Conquer the Cananites and I likewise will go with thee into thy Lot if such who have lent me theirs shall have occasion to borrow mine assistance my Pains Brains and Books are no more mine then theirs to command which besides my prayers for them and thanks to them is all my ability in requital can perform CHAP. XXIII A double Division of the English Gentry 1. According to the Nation whence they were extracted 2. According to the Profession whereby they were advanced THis discourse I tender the Reader as a preparative to dispose him for the better observing and distinguishing of our English Gentry in our ensuing Lives and Catalogue of Sheriffs We begin with the Britains the Aborigines or Native Inhabitants of the South of this Island but long since expelled by the Saxons into the West thereof None then remaining in some since returning into our Land of whom hereafter We confess the Romans Conquered our Country planted Colonies and kept Garrisons therein but their descendants are not by any character discernable from the British Indeed if any be found able to speak Latine naturally without learning it we may safely conclude him of Roman Extraction Mean time it is rather a pretty conceit then a solid notion of that great Antiquary who from the allusion of the name collecteth the noble family of the Cecils more truly Sytsilts descended from the Cecilii a Senatorian Family in Rome The Saxons succeed whose Of-spring at this day are the main bulk and body of the English though not Gentry Nation I may call them the whole cloath thereof though it be garded here and there with some great ones of foreign Extraction These Saxons though pitifully depressed by the Conquerour by Gods goodness King Henry the first favour their own patience and diligence put together the plankes of their Shiprack'd Estates and aferwards recovered a competent condition The Danes never acquired in this Land a long and peaceable possession thereof living here rather as Inroders then Inhabitants the cause that so few families distinguishable by their Surnames are descended from them extant in our age Amongst which few the respected Stock of the Denizes often Sheriffs in Devon and Gloustershire appear the principal As for Fitz-Hardinge the younger son of the King of Denmark and direct ancestour of the Truly Honourable George Lord Berkeley he came in long since when he accompanied the Conquerour I must confess that at this day there passeth a Tradition among some of the Common People that such names which Terminate in Son as Johnson Tomson Nicolson Davison Saunderson are of Danish Origination But this fond opinion is long since con●…uted by Vestegan that ingenious and industrious Antiquary Yea he urgeth this as an argument which much prevaileth with me why those Surnames were not derived from the Danes because they had no such name in use amongst them as John Thomas Nicholas David Alexander from whence they should be deduced Yea he further addeth that it is more probable that they made the Childs name by adjecting the syllable Son to the Appellation of the Father a custome which is usual even at this time amongst the Vulgar sort of the Dutch Yet is there not remaining any sign thereof amongst the names of our Age which probably might have been Canutson Ericson Gormoson Heraldson Rofolson c. The Normans or French under the Conquerour swarmed in England so that then they became the only visible Gentry in this Nation and still continue more then a Moity thereof several Catalogues of their Names I have so largely exemplifyed in my Church-history that some have taxed me for tediousness therein and I will not adde an new obstinacy to my old error But besides these we have some Surnames of good Families in England now extant which though French are not by any diligence to be recovered in the lists of such as came over with the Conquerour and therefore we suppose them to have remained of those Gentlemen and others which from Henault attended Queen Isabel wife unto King Edward the second Of this sort was Deureux Mollineux Darcy Coniers Longchamp Henage Savage Danvers with many more Of the British or Welsh after their expulsion hence by the Saxons some signal persons have returned again and by the Kings Grant Matches Purchases c. have fixed themselves in fair possessions in England especially since the beginning of the reign of their Country-man King Henry the seventh rewarding the valour of many contributing to his Victory in the battle of Bosworth Of the Welsh now re-estated in England and often Sheriffs therein some retain their old Surnames as the Griffins in Northamptonshire the Griffiths and Vaughans in Yorkshire some have assumed New ones as the Caradocks now known by the new Name of the Newtons in Somersetshire Many Scotch long before the Union of the two Kingdomes under King James seated themselves

not exactly adequate thereunto For I find in this County the Family of the Pusays so ancient that they were Lords of Pusay a village nigh Faringdon long before the Conquest in the time of King Canutus holding their lands by the tenure of Cornage as I ●…ake it viz. by winding the Horn which the King aforesaid gave their family and which their posterity still extant at this day do produce Yet none of their name though Persons of Regard in their respective generations appear ever Sheriffs of this County I am glad of so pregnant an instance and more glad that it so seasonably presenteth it self in the front of our work to con●…ute their false Logick who will be ready to conclude Negatively for this our Catalogue of Sheriffs excluding them the lines of ancient Gentry whose Ancestors never served in this Office On the other side no ingenuous Gentleman can be offended with me if he find not his Name registred in this Roll seeing it cannot be in me any Omission whilst I ●…ollow my Commission faithfully transcribing what I find in the Records Richard I. 3 WILLIELMUS BRIEWERE He was so called saith my Author because his Father was born upon an Heath though by the similitude of the Name one would have suspected him born amongst briers But see what a poor mans child may come to He was such a Minion to this King Richard the first that he created him Baron of Odcomb in Sommersetshire Yea when one Fulk Paynell was fallen into the Kings displeasure he gave this William Briewere the Town of Bridgewater to procure his reingratiating His large inheritance his son dying without issue was divided amongst his Daughters married into the honourable Families of Breos Wake Mohun La-fert and Percy 8 PHILIPPUS filius ROB. ALAN de MARTON It is without precedent that ever two persons held the Shrevalty of one County jointly or in Co-partnership London or Middlesex alone excepted whereof hereafter However if two Sheriffs appear in One year as at this time and frequently hereafter such Duplication cometh to pass by one of these Accidents 1. Amotion of the first put out of his place for misdemeanor whereof very rare precedents and another placed in his Room 2. Promotion When the first is advanced to be a Baron in the year of his Shrevalty and an other substituted in his Office 3. Mort. The former dying in his Shrevalty not priviledged from such Arrests to pay his Debt to Nature In these cases Two and sometimes Three are found in the same year who successively discharged the office But if no such mutation happened and yet two Sheriffs be found in one year then the second must be understood Sub-vice-comes whom we commonly also call Mr. Sheriffe in courtesie his Deputy acting the affaires of the County under his Authority However if he who is named in this our Catalogue in the second place appear the far more Eminent Person there the Intelligent Reader will justly suspect a Transposition and that by some mistake the Deputy is made to precede him whom he only represented Be it here observed that the place of Under-Sheriffs in this age was very honourable not hackned out for profit And although some uncharitable people unjustly I hope have now adays fixed an ill character on those who twice together discharged the place yet anciently the office befitted the best persons little difference betwixt the High-Sheriffe and Under-Sheriffe save that he was under him being otherwise a man of great credit and Estate Henry III. 2 FULCO de BREANTEE Oxf. This Fulco or Falkerius or Falkesius de Breantee or Breantel or Brent so many several ways is he written was for the first six years of this King High-Sheriffe of Oxford Cambridge Huntington Bedford Buckingham and Northampton shires Counties continued together as by perusing the Catalogues will appear What this Vir tot locorum Man of so many places was will be cleared in Middlesex the place of his Nativity 56 ROG EPIS COVENT LICH That Bishops in this age were Sheriffs of Counties in their own Dioceses it was usuall and obvious But Bark-shire lying in the Diocess of Sarum Oxfordshire of Lincolne that the far distant Bishop of Coventry and Lich. should be their Sheriffe may seem extraordinary and irregular This first put us on the inquiry who this Roger should be and on search we found him surnamed De Molend aliàs Longespe who was Nephew unto King Henry the third though how the kindred came in I can not discover No wonder then if his royal relation promoted him to this place contrary to the common course the King in his own great age and absence of his Son Prince Edward in Palestine desiring to place his Confidents in offices of so high trust Edward II. 6 PHIL. de la BEACH Their Seat was at Aldworth in this County where their Statues on their Tombs are Extant at this day but of Stature surely exceeding their due Dimension It seems the Grecian Officers have not been here who had it in their Charge to order Tombs and proportion Monuments to the Persons represented I confess Corps do stretch and extend after their Death but these Figures extend beyond their Corps and the People there living extend their Fame beyond their Figures Fancying them Giants and fitting them with Porportionable Performances They were indeed most Valiant men and their Male Issue was extinct in the next Kings Reign whose Heir Generall as appeareth by the H●…ralds Visitation was married to the ancient Family of WHITLOCK Sheriffs of Bark-shire and Oxfordshire Name Place Armes RICH. II.     Anno     1 Edmund Stoner   Azure 2 ●…ars Dancet●…ee Or a Chief G. 2 Tho. Barentyn   Sable 2 Eaglets displayed Arg. Armed Or. 3 Gilbertus Wa●…     4 Iohannes Ieanes     5 Richar. Brines     6 Tho. Barentyn ut prius   7 Iohan. Hulcotts   Fusilee Or Gules a Border Azure 8 Rober. Bullocke Arborfield Gu. a Cheveron twixt 3 Bulls Heads Arg. armed Or. 9 Iohan. Holgate     10 Tho. Barentyn ut prius   11 Gilb. Wace mil.     12 Thomas Pool     13 Williel Attwood     14 Hugo Wolfes     15 Robert Bullock ut prius   16 Williel Wilcote     17 Tho. Farington   Sable 3 Unicorns in pale Current Arg. armed Or. 18 Tho. Barentyn ut prius   19 Edrum Spersholt     20 Williel Attwood     21 Iohan. Golafre     22 Idem     HEN. IV.     Anno     1 Will. Wilcote     2 Tho. Chaucer Iohan. Wilcote Ewelme Ox. Partee per pale Ar. G. a bend counter-changed 3 Robert Iames     4 Idem     5 Tho. Chaucer ut prius   6 Will. Langford     7 Rob. Corbet mil.   Or. a Raven proper 8 Iohan. Wilcote     9 Th. Harecourt m. Stanton Ox. Gules two Barrs Or. 10 Petrus Besiles Lee Berk.

occasion for this Proverb at the Originall thereof which then contained Satyricall truth proportioned to the place before it was Reformed whereof thus our great Antiquary It was altogether unpassable in times past by reason of Trees untill that Leofstane Abbot of St. Albans did cut them down because they yeilded a place of refuge for thieves But this Proverb is now Antiquated as to the truth thereof Buckingham-shire affording as many maiden Assizes as any County of equall populousness Yea hear how she pleadeth for her self that such High-way-men were never her Natives but fled thither for their Shelter out of Neighbouring Counties Saints St. EDBURG daughter unto Redwald King of the East-Angles embraced a Monasticall life at Alesbury in this Coun●…y where her Body was deposited and removed afterwards to Edburgton now Edburton in Suffolk her Native Country It seems her person would make one County proud which made two happy Alesbury observing her Memory on the day of whilst Edburton was renowned for her Miracles By the way it seems wonderfull that in Scripture we onely meet with one PosthumeMiracle viz. the Grave-f●…llow of Elisha raised with the touch of his Bones whilst most of Popish miracles are reported born after the Saints death meerly to mold mens minds to the Adoration of their Reliques St. RUMALD was the same with St. Rumbald commonly called by Country people St. Grumbald and St. Rumwald as others spell him but distinct from another St. Rumwald of Irish ext●…action a Bishop and Martyr whose Passion is Celebrated at M●…chlyn in Braband This Criticisme Reader I request thee to take on my credit for thy own ease and not to buy the truth of so difficult a tris●…e with the trouble I paid for it Entring now on the Legend of his life I writ neither what I believe nor what I expect should be believed but what I find written by others Some make him Son of a British King which is sufficiently confuted by his own Saxon name More probable their tale who relate him Son to a King of Northumberland by a Christian daughter of Penda King of Mercia Being born at Kings Sutton in this County as soon as he came out of his Mothers womb he cryed three times I am a Christian. Then making a plain Consession of his faith He desired to be baptized chose his Godfathers and his own name Rumwald He also by his fingers directed the standers by to fetch him a great hollow-stone for a font which sundry of his fathers servants essayed in vain as much above their strength Till the two Priests his●… designed Godfathers did goe and fetch it easily at his appointment Being Baptized He for three days discoursed of all the Common places of Popery and having confirmed their truth he bequeathed his body to remain at Sutton one year at Brackly two and at Buckingham ever after This done he expired Reader I partly guess by my own temper how thine is affected with the reading hereof whose soul is much divided betwixt severall actions at once 1. To frown at the impudency of the first inventors of such improbable untruths 2. To smile at the simplicity of the believers of such improbable untruths 3. To sigh at that well-intended devotion abused with such improbable untruths 4. To thank God that we live in times of better and brighter knowledge Now although St. Rumwald was born in this County he was most honoured at Boxley in Kent and thereon a story depends There was in the Church of Boxley a short Statue of St. Rumwald as of a boy-saint smal hollow and light so that a child of seven years of age might easily lift it The moving hereof was made the Criterion of womens chastity Such who paid the Priest well might easily remove it whilst others might tugg at it to no purpose For this was the contrivance of the cheat that it was fastned with a Pin of wood by an invisible stander behind Now when such offered to take it who had been bountifull to the Priest before they bare it away with ease which was impossible for their hands to remove who had been Close-fisted in their Confessions Thus saith my Author it moved more laughter then Devotion and many chast virgins and wives went away with blushing faces leaving without cause the suspicion of their wantonness in the eyes of the Beholders whilst others came off with more credit because with more coyn though with less chastity The certain time of his life is unknown but may be guessed about the year 680. Martyrs JOHN SCRIVENER was Martyred at Amersham Anno Dom. 1521. on whom an extraordinary piece of cruelty was used his own children being forced to set the first fire upon him for which the law Deut. 13. 6. was most erroneously pretended as will appear by the perusing thereof If thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosome or thy friend which is as thy own soul entice thee secretly saying let us go and serve other gods Thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him But thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death See we here how in the case of Idolatry one is to spare none related unto them either as Equalls or Inferiors But this Law injoines not children to accuse or execute their own parents as Scrivener his children were compelled to do A barbarous cruelty especially seeing the Civil law among the heathen Romans did provide that filius non torquetur in caput parentis A son shall not be examined on the rack to accuse his father in such cases wherein his life is concerned Others besides Scrivener were martyred and more Confessors 〈◊〉 in this small County Anno 1521. then in all England elsewhere for twenty years together P●…elates RICHARD de WENDOVER a place well known in this Shire was Rector of Bromley in Kent where the Bishop of Rochester hath a Palace and that See being vacant he was lawfully chosen the Bishop thereof But Edmond Arch-bishop of Canterbury afterwards Sainted refused to give him consecration because he was rude and unlearned Hereupon Wendover appealed to the Pope whom he found his better friend because Edmond a bitter inveigher against Papal extorsions was a Foe unto him and so was consecrated Now none will gr●…dge him his Place amongst our Worthies seeing what he lack'd in learning he had in holiness and such his signal sanctity that after his death he was by speciall Mandate of King Henry the third buried in the Church of Westminster as another Jehojadah for his publick goodness Anno 1250. JOHN BUCKINGHAM for so his Name is truly written aliàs Bokingham and Bukingham took his Name and Nativity no doubt from Buckingham in this County a-la-mode of that Age. He was bred at the University of Oxford and although since by some causelesly slandered for want of Learning was a

Staffondshire The meaning is the Gen●…ry in Cheshire find it more profitable to match within their County then to bring a Bride out of other 〈◊〉 1. Because better acquainted with her birth and breeding 2. Because though her Portion perchance may be less the expence will be less to maintain her Such 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 County have been observed both a prolonger of worshipfull families and the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them seeing what Mr. Camden reported of the Citizens of 〈◊〉 is verified of the Cheshire Gentry they are all or an Alliance Cardinals WILLIAM MAKILESFIELD was saith my Author 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bishop Godwin 〈◊〉 little 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Civitate 〈◊〉 However I conceive him born in this 〈◊〉 finding a 〈◊〉 Market-town and Forrest therein so named though he was reputed a 〈◊〉 because 〈◊〉 in that Age was in the 〈◊〉 of Coventry and Lichfield But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not swim against the stream I Remit the Reader to his Character in Warwickshire 〈◊〉 WILLIAM BOOTH was first bred in 〈◊〉 Inn in London in the studie of our Municipall Laws till he 〈◊〉 that profession on the proffer of a 〈◊〉 Place in Saint Pauls and took Orders upon him It was not long before he was 〈◊〉 Bishop of Letchfield and six years after translated to 〈◊〉 He expended much money 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 died and was buried in Saint Maries Chappell in Southwell 1464. LAURENCE BOOTH Brother but by another Mother to William aforesaid was bred and became Master of 〈◊〉 hall in 〈◊〉 and was Chancellour of that University He made the Composition 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 colledge to their mutuall advantage and was an eminent 〈◊〉 to his own Colledge bestowing thereon all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Church amongst which was St. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Colledge of a Pension of five pounds which he redeemed and and Conferred there on the 〈◊〉 and Patronage of Overton-Waterfield in Huntingtanshire As it is Gods so it is all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 method in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Servants Be faithfull in a little and thou shalt rule over much Doctor Booth well performing his Chancellors Place in Cambridge was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 the fixth Well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of King 〈◊〉 the fourth made Lord High Chancellor 〈◊〉 seems his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bishop of York and deserving well of both Sees For he built in the first the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 colledge and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It must not be forgotten than this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till the day of his death and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Bishop 〈◊〉 not that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the place but the place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with them as it is this day by the Right Reverend Father in God Benjamin Lany Lord Bishop of Peturborough This Arch-bishop died Anno Dom. 1480. JOHN BOOTH Brother to Laurence aforesaid Bachellor of Laws was consecrated Bishop of Exceter in the sixth of King Edward the fourth 1466. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in his Cathedral which in the judicious Eye of Bishop Godwin hath not his Equall in England Let me adde that though this be the fairest Chair the soft Cushion thereof was taken away when Bishop Vescy alienated the Lands thereof The worst was when Bishop Booth had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein so troublesome the times of the civil wars betwixt York and Lancaster So that preferring his privacy he retired to a little place of his own purchasing at Horsley in Hampshire where he dyed April the first 1478. and was buried in Saint Clements Danes London We must remember that these three Prelates had a fourth and eldest Brother Sir Roger Booth Knight of Barton in Lancashire Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevill third Earl of Westmerland And may the Reader take notice that though we have entred these Bishops according to our best information in Cheshire yet is it done with due reservation of the right of Lancashire in case that County shall produce better Evidence for their Nativities THOMNS SAVAGE was born at Maklefield in this County his Father being a Knight bred him a Doctor of Law in the University of Cambridge Hence was he preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York He was a greater Courtier then Clerke and most Dextrous in managing Secular Matters a mighty Nimrod and more given to Hunting then did consist with the Gravity of his Profession No doubt there wanted not those which taxed him with that Passage in Saint Jerome Penitus non invenimus in scripturis sanctis sanctum aliquem Venatorem Piscatores invenimus sanctos But all would not wean him from that sport to which he was so much addicted His provident Precedent spared his Successors in that See many pounds of needless expences by declining a costly instaulation being the first who privately was instauled by his Vicar Yet was he not Covetous in the least degree maintaining a most numerous Family and building much both at Scroby and Cawood Having sate seven years in his See he died 1508. his Body being buried at York his Heart at Maklefield where he was born in a Chapel of his own Erection intending to have added a Colledge thereunto had not death prevented him Since the Reformation WILLIAM CHADERTON D. D. Here I solemnly tender deserved thanks to my Manuscript Author charitably guiding me in the Dark assuring that this Doctor was ex praeclaro Chadertonorum Cestrensis comitatus stemmate prognatus And although this doubtfull Direction doth not cleave the Pin it doth hit the White so that his Nativity may with most Probability not prejudicing the right to Lancashire when produced here be fixed He was bred first Fellow then Master of Queens and never of Magdalen-colledge in Cambridge as Reverend Bishop Godwin mistaketh and chosen first the Lady Margarets then Kings Professor in Divinity and Doctor Whitacre succeeded him immediately in the Chair He was Anno 1579. made Bishop of Chester then of Lincoln 1594. demeaning himself in both to his great commendation He departed this life in April 1608. His Grand-child a virtuous Gentlewoman of rare accomplishments married to Mr. Joceline Esquire being big with child wrot a Book of advise since Printed and Intitled the Mothers Legacie to her unborn Infant of whom she died in travail WILLIAM JAMES D. D. was born in this County bred a Scholar in Christs-church in Oxford and afterwards President of the University Colledge He succeeded Bishop Mathews in the Deanary and Bishoprick of Durham He had been Chaplain to Robert Dudly Earl of Lecester and I hope I may lawfully transcribe what I read Sir J. Harrington view of the Church of England pag.

* S. a Falcon rising betwe●…t 3 Mullets O●… 21 Rich. Gedy ar     22 Io. Moyle ar vir * S. Germains † Or on a Bend G. 3 Millroinds Argent CAR. REG.   * G. a Moyle passant Arg. Anno     1 Tho. Wivell ar     2 Ioh. Trefuses ar   Arg. a Cheveron betw 3 wharrow Spindles S. 3 Io. Rashleigh ar ut prius   4 Geor. He le ar   G. a Bead Losengee Erm. 5     6 Io. Trelawney m. ut prius   7 Ioh. Prideaux ar ut prius   8 Nic. Loure mil. ut prius   9 Cha. T●…evanio a. ut prius   10 Hu. Bosgawen ar   Vert a Bull passant Arg. Ar●…ed Or in a Cheif Ermin a Rose Gules 11 Io. St. Albin a. ut prius   12 Rich. Buller mil. ut prius   13 Fran Godolpin a. ut prius   14     15 Rich. Trevill ar   Or a Cross engrailed Sa. in the first quarter a Mull●…t G. 16 Fran. Willear     17     18     19     20     21     22 Edw. Heile ar ut prius   Edward III. ROGER de PRIDDEAUX My eye cannot be entertained with a more welcome object then to behold an antient Name not onely still continuing to but eminently flourishing in our age On which account I cannot but congratulate the happiness of this Family expecting a daily Accession of Repute from the hopefull branches thereof Edward IV. 10 JOHN ARUNDLE Mil. This worthy Knight was forewarned by what Calker I wot not that he should be slain on the Sands This made him to shun his house at Efford alias Ebbing-ford as too Maritime and remove himself to Trerice his more Inland habitation in this County But he found it true fata viam inveniant for being this year Sheriff and the Earl of Oxford surprizing Mount Michael for the House of Lancaster he was concerned by his Office and Command from the King to endeavour the reducing thereof and lost his life in a skirmish on the sands thereabouts Thus it is just with Heaven to punish mens curiosity in enquiring after credulity in believing of and cowardise in fearing at such prognostications 21 THOMAS GRANVIL Be it entred by way of caveat that there is some difference in the blazoning of the coat of the Granvils or Greenvils What usually are termed therein Rests being the Handles of Spears most honorable in Tilting to break them nearest thereunto are called by some Criticks 〈◊〉 being the necessary appendants to Organs convaying wind unto them If as it seemeth their dubious Form as represented in the Scutcheon doth ex aequo answer to both with me they shall still pass for the Rests of Spears For though I dare not deny but the Greenvils might be good Musitians I am assured they were most valiant Souldiers in all their Generations But the merits of this ancient Family are so many and great that ingrossed they would make one County proud which divided would make two happy I am therefore resolved equally to part what I have to say thereof betwixt Cornwall and Devonshire Richard III. The Reader will take notice that as it is in our Catalogue Richard Duke of Gloucester was High-Sheriff of this County ad terminum vitae a strange Precedent if it may be said to go before which hath nothing to follow after seeing for the last two years he was both King of England and Sheriff of Cornwall We therefore behold all the following persons unto the first of King Henry the seventh but as so many Deputies under him and amongst these we take speciall notice of 2 JAMES TIRREL Mil. This is he so infamous in our English Histories for his activity in murdering the Innocent sons of King Edward the fourth keeping the Keyes of the Tower and standing himself at the foot of the Staires whilst Mr. Forest and J. Dighton stifled them in their Beds I behold this Sir James as an Essex-man though now the prime Officer of this County For King Richard accounted Cornwall the back dore of Rebellion and therefore made this Knight the Porter thereof Indeed it is remote from London and the long sides of this County afford many landing-places objected to Britain in France whence the Usurper always feared and at last felt an Invasion and therefore he appointed him Sheriff to secure the County as obliged unto him by gratitude for favours received and guilt for faults committed This Tirrel was afterwards executed for Treason in the Tower yard in the beginning of King Henry the seventh Henry VII 12 JOHN BASSET This was a busie year indeed in this County when the Cornish Commotion began headed by Flammock a Lawyer and Michael Joseph a Blacksmith at the Town of Bodmin Let none impute it to the neglect of this Sheriff that he suppressed them not seeing besides that they quickly quitted this County and went Eastward it was not the work of Posse Comitatus but Posse Regni to encounter them However after long-running for they marched the breadth of the land from Cornwall to Kent before battle was bid them they were overtaken and overcome at Black-heath 13 PETER EDGCOMBE Mil. The Names of pierce or Peter and Richard have been saith my Author successively varied in this family for six or seven Descents Such Chequering of Christian Names serve Heraulds instead of Stairs whereby they ascend with assurance into the Pedigrees of Gentlemen and I could wish the like alternation of Font-names fashionable in other families For where the Heirs of an House are of the same Name for many generations together it occasioneth much mistake and the most cautious and conscientious Heralds are guilty of making Incestuous Matches confounding the Father for the Son and so reciprocally Queen Elizabeth 4 RICHARD CHAMOND Esq. He received at Gods-hand an extraordinary favour of long life serving in the office of a Justice of Peace almost sixty years He saw above fifty several Judges of the Westerne Circuit was Uncle and Great-uncle to three hundred at least and saw his youngest child above fourty years of age 19 WILLIAN MOHUN He was descended from the ancient Lords of Dunster and Earls of Somerset of which one received a great Papall priviledge whereof largely in my Church History I behold him as Grand-father to John Lord Mohun of Oakehampton descended by a Coheir from the Courtneys Earls of Devonshire and Great-grand-father to the Right Honourable Warwick Lord Mohun 29 ANTHONY ROUSE Esq. Give me leave only to transcribe what I find written of him He employeth himself to a kind and uninterrupted entertainment of such as visit him upon his not sparing inviting or their own occasions who without the self-guilt of an ungrateful wrong must witness that his frankness confirmeth their welcome by whatsoever means provision the fewell of Hospitality can in the best manner supply He was Father to Francis Rouse late Provost of Eaton whose Industry is more commendable then his

great linage allied to the Earl of Devonshire and no lesse Learning excellently skilled in the Knowledg of both Laws So that at the instant suit of K. Henry the Fifth He was preferred Bishop of Norwich Anno 1413. His person the Inne of his Soul had a fair Sign was highly favoured by his Prince and beloved by the people Yet all this could not prolong his life So that he died of a flux at the siege of Harflew in Normandy in the second year of his Consecration and his Corps brought over was honourably entombed in Westminster J●…AMES CARY was born in this County his name still flourishing nt Cockington therein He was at Rome made Bishop of Lichfield and travailing thence homewards towards England did again light on the Pope at Flor●…nce just at the news of the vacancy of Exeter and the same See was bestowed on him the more welcome because in his Native County Say not this was a Degradation For though in our time Lichfield is almost twice as good as Exeter ●…xeter then was almost four times as good as Lichfield This appeareth by their valuations of their Income into First-Fruits Exeter paying the Pope six thousand Ducats whilst Lichfield paid onely seventeen hundred at the most But what ever the value of either or both was Cary enjoyed neither of them dying and being buried in Florence Thus though one may have two Cups in his hand yet some intervening accident may so hinder that he may taste of neither He died 1419. JOHN STANBERY was saith Bale out of Leland in Occidentali 〈◊〉 parte natus But the Western parts being a wide Parish thanks to our Authour who hath particularized the place of his Nativity viz. the Farm of Church-hill within the Parish of Bratton or Broad-Town in this County where some of his Name and Kindred remain at this day He was bred a Carmelite in Oxford and b●…came genera●…ly as learned as any of his Order deserving all the dignity which the ●…niversity did or could confer upon him King H●…n the sixth highly favoured and made him the first Provost of Eaton being much ruled by his advice in ordering that his new Foundation He was by the King designed Bishop of Norwich but William de la Poole Duke of Suffolk See the presumption of a proud Favourite or Minion rather got it from him for his own Chaplain and Stanbery was for to stay his stomack on the poor Bishoprick of Bangor till Anno 1453 he was advanced Bishop of Hereford Leland doth condemn him for his over compliance with the Pope in all his intollerable taxes and others commend him as much for his fidelity to his Master King Hen. whom he deserted not in all his adversity so that this Bishop was taken prisoner in the Battail of Northampton Say not to this Prelate as Eliab to David Why camest thou down hither with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the Wildernesse I know the pride and the malice of thy heart for thou art come down to see the Battail For Stanbery being Confessor to King Henry he was tyed by his Oath to such personal attendance After long durance in Warwick Castle he was set at liberty and dying Anno 1474 was buried in the Convent of Carmelites at Ludlow where his barbarous and tedious Epitaph ill suiting with the Authour of such learned and pithy Books is not worth the inserting PETER COURTNE●… son to Sir Phillip Courtney was born at Powderham in this Shire He was first preferred Arch-Deacon then Bishop of ●…xeter expending very much money in finishing the North Tower giving a great called Peter Bell thereunto He was afterwards Anno 1486 translated to Winchester where he sat five years It is much one of so Illustrious Birth should have so obscure a Burial Bishop Godwin con̄fessing that he knew not whereabouts in his Church he lyeth interred Since the Reformation JOHN JEWEL bearing the Christian Name of his Father Grandfather and Great Grandfather was born at Buden a Farm possessed more than two hundred years by his Ancestors in the Parish of 〈◊〉 nigh Illfracombe in this County on the 24th of May 1552. His mothers Sirname was Bellamy who with her husband John Jewel lived happily fifty years together in Holy Wedlock and at their death left ten children behind them It may be said of his Sirname Nomen Omen Jewel his Name and Pretious his Vertues So that if the like ambition led us English men which doth Foraigners speciously to render our Sirnames in Greek or Latine he may be termed Johnnes Gemma on better account then Gemma Frisius entituleth himself thereunto He was chiefly bred in the School of Barstable where John Harding afterwards his Antagonist was his School fellow and at 15 years of age was admitted in Merton Coll●…dge under the tuition of John Parkhurst afterwards Bishop of Norwich Such his sedulity rising alway at 4 of the Clock and not going to bed till 10 that he was never punished for any exercise and but once for absence from Chappel Hence he was removed to Corpus Christi Colledge where he proved an Excellent Poet having all Horace by heart Linguist and Orator Thus having touched at all Humane Arts he landed at Divinity being much assisted by Peter Martyr the Kings Professor therein St. Jerome telleth us that so great was the intimacy betwixt Pamphilius that worthy Martyr a Priest and Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea ut ab uno alter nomen acceperet that they mutually were sirnamed the one from the other Pamphilius Eusebii and Eusebius Pamphilii No lesse the unity of affections be twixt these two who accordingly might be called Martyrs Jewell and Jewells Martyr as seldome in body and never in mind asunder What eminent changes afterwards befel him in the course of his life how he fled into Germany lived at Zurick returned into England was preferred Bishop of Salisbury wrote learnedly preached painfully lived piously died peaceably Anno Dom. 1572. are largely related in my Ecclesiastical History and I will trouble the Reader with no repetitions JOHN PRIDEAUX was born at Hartford in the West part of this County bred Scholar Fellow and R●…ctor of Exeter Colledg in Oxford Canon of Christ-Church and above thirty years Kings Professor in that University An excellent Linguist but so that he would make words wait on his matter chiefly aiming at expressivenesse therein he had a becomming Fe●…ivity which was Aristotles not St. Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Admirable his memory retaining what ever he had read The Welch have a Proverb in my mind somewhat uncharitable He that hath a good memory giveth few Alms because he keepeth in mind what and to whom he had given before But this Doctor cross'd this Proverb with his constant charity to all in want His learning was admired by Forreigners Sextinus Amma Rivet c. He was not Vindicative in the least degree One intimate with him having assured me that he would

Gospell He was a Zacheus for his Stature and with him tall in Piety and Charity He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxford on which account his memory is sacred to all posterity He died Anno Dom. 883. whose body was buried by one Barry his Scholar in Eynsebury since St. Neots in Huntington-shire and some say was afterwards removed to the Abby of Crouland Martyrs Of the forty four Martyrs in this Shire Three were most Remarkable 1. JOHN LAURENCE who at the Stake was permitted a Posture peculiar to himself For being so infeebled with long durance and hard usage that he could not stand he had a Chair allowed him and had the painfull ease to sit therein Nor must we forget how little Children being about the fire C●…ied unto him God strengthen you God strengthen you which was beheld as a product of his providence who out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings ordained Strength as also it evidenced their Pious Education To say Hosanna is as soon learnt by children as go up thou Bald head if it be as surely taught unto them 2. THOMAS HAWKES Gentleman first brought into trouble for refusing to Christen his Child after the Popish fashion This man going to the Stake promised his friends to give them some solemn token of the clearness and comfort of his Conscience In performance where of whilst his body was burning he raised up himself and though having the sence having no fear of the Fire joyfully clapp'd his hands over his head to the admiration of all the beholders 3. ROSE ALLIN a Virgin who being in her Calling fetching Beer for her Bedrid Mother was intercepted by Justice or rather un-justice Tyrrell who with a Candle most cruelly burnt her wrists which her Fire-proof patience most constantly endured What was said of the Roman scaevola when he burnt his hand before Porcenna is more appliable to this Maid Manum amisit sed Palmam retinuit Tyrrell did this meerly by the Law of his List otherwise no statute except written on the back-side of the book did authorize him for so Tyrannicall an act Some days after the fire which here took Livery and seisin of her hand brought her whole body into the possession thereof Confessors RICHARD GEORGE Labourer of West-Barfold is most eminent amongst the many Confessors in this Shire For he had successively three wives whereof two were burnt and the third imprisoned for Religion viz. 1. Agnes George burnt at Stratford-Bow June 27. 1556. 2. Christian George burnt at Colchester May 26. 1558. 3. ........... George imprisoned in Colchester and escap'd by Queen Maries death Novemb. 17. 1558. Some who consult the dates of his wives deaths will condemn him for over-speedy marriage and the appetite to a new wife is not comely before the grief for the former be well digested Such consider not that their glorious death in so good a cause was the subject rather of his joy then grief and that being necessitated for his children sake to marry he was carefull as it appears to marry in the Lord. Nor did he thrust his wives into the fire and shrink back from the flames himself who being imprisoned in Colchester had followed his two first and gone along with his last to the Stake had not Divine Providence by Queen Maries death prevented it Cardinalls THOMAS BOURCHIER was son to Sir William Bourchier who though but an English Knight was a French Earl of Ewe in Normandy Created by King Henry the fifth and had a great estate in this County with many Mansion-houses Hawsted being the place of their principall residence where I presume this Prelate was born He was bred in the University of Oxford whereof he was Chancellour 1454. Dean of Saint Martins then successively Bishop of Worcester Ely Arch-bishop of Ca●…terbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths A Prelate besides his high birth aforesaid and brotherhood to Henry Bourchier first Earl of Essex of that Surname remarkable on many accounts First for his vivacity being an old man and proportionably an older Bishop 1. Being consecrated Bishop of Worcester 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the sixth 2. Dying Arch-bishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of K. Henry the seventh Whereby it appeareth that he wore a Mitre full fifty one years a term not to be paralleld in any other person Secondly he saw strange revolutions in State the Civil-wars between Lancaster and York begun continued and concluded For though Bishop Morton had the happiness to make the match Arch-bishop Bourchier had the honour to marry King Henry the seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the fourth so that his hand first solemnly held that sweet posie wherein the White and Red Roses were tied together Thirdly for his wary compliance that he lost not himself in the labyrinth of such intricate times applying himself politiquely to the present predominant power However it may be said of him Praestitit hic Praesul nil tanto sanguine munere tempore dignum He left no monument to posterity proportionable what was an hundred pounds and a chest given to Cambridge to his great blood rich place and long continuance therein But this my Author imputeth unto the troublesomeness of the times seeing peace was no sooner setled and the land began to live but he died March 30. 1486. I know not what generous planet had then influence on the Court of Rome this I know that England never saw such a concurrence of noble Prelates who as they were Peers by their places were little less by their descent I behold their birth a good buttress of Episcopacy in that age able in Parliament to check and crush any Antiprelaticall project by their own relations But let us count how many were contemporaries with Thomas Bourchier from his first consecration at Worcester till the day of his death John Stafford son to the Earl of Stafford Arch-bishop of Canterbury Robert Fitz-Hugh Bishop of London Henry Beauford son to John Duke of Lancaster Bishop of Winchester William Gray son to the Lord Gray of Codnor Bishop of Ely Marmaduke Lumley extracted from the Lord Lumley Bishop of Lincoln Richard Beauchamp brother to the L. Saint Amand Bishop of Sarum Lionel Woodvile son to the Earl of Rivers Bishop of Sarum Peter Courtney extracted from the Earls of Devon Bishop of Exeter Richard Courtnee of the same extraction Bishop of Norwich John Zouch descended of the Lord Zouch Bishop of Landaffe George Novile brother to the Make-King Earl of Warwick Arch-bishop of York William Dudley son to the Lord Dudley Bishop of Durham William Piercy son to the Earl of Northumberland Bishop of Carlile But after the death of Bourchier I meet with but three Bishops of noble extraction viz. James Stanley Edmond Audley and Cardinall Pole However they were though of lower image of no less learning and religion Prelates RICHARD de BARKING took his name according to the Clergy-mens

own drink afterwards SIMON LYNCH Son of William Lynch Gentleman was born at Groves in the Parish of 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1562 bred a Student in Queens Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards Bishop Aylmere his kinsman bestowed on him a small living then not worth above 40 〈◊〉 per 〈◊〉 at North Weale nigh Epping 〈◊〉 this County and ●…ly said unto him Play Cousin with this a while till a better comes But Mr. Lynch continued therein the first and last place of his Ministry sixty four years The Bishop ●…terwards 〈◊〉 him Brent-Wood Weale three times better 〈◊〉 North 〈◊〉 to whom Mr. Lynch to use his own words return'd this answer That he 〈◊〉 the weal of his 〈◊〉 souls before any other weal whatsoever He lived sixty one years in wedlock with Elizabeth eane his wife He was an excellent house keeper 〈◊〉 yet provided well for his ten children He was buryed at North-Wale Annò 〈◊〉 1656 Lord Mayors Name 〈◊〉 Place Company Time 1 William Edwards William Edwards Hoton Grocer 1471 2 Robert Basset Robert Basset Billenkei Salter 1475 3 Iohn Shaa Iohn Shaa Rochford Goldsmith 1501 4 Laurence Aylmer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Draper 1507 5 William Baily Iohn 〈◊〉 Thackstead Draper 1524 6 〈◊〉 Allen Richard 〈◊〉 Thackstead Mercer 1525 7 Richard Martin Thomas Martin Saffron Walden Goldsmith 1593 8 Thomas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Skinner Walden Clothworker 1596 9 〈◊〉 Dean George Deane MuchdunMowe Skinner 1628 The Names of the Gentry of this County Returned by the Commissioners in the 〈◊〉 year of King Henry the sixth 1433. Ralph Bishop of London or his 〈◊〉 generall the Bishop being absent beyond the 〈◊〉 Commissioners to take the 〈◊〉 Iohn Earl of Oxford Henry 〈◊〉 Chivaler Knights for the Shire Iohn Tyrill Chivaler Knights for the Shire Ioh. Mongom chiv Nich. Thorle chiv 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chiv Edm. Benst chiv Ioh. Fitz-Sim chiv Will. Golingh chiv Ludov. Ioh. ar Ioh 〈◊〉 ar Rob. Darey ar Tho. 〈◊〉 ar Edvar Torell ar Will. 〈◊〉 ar Tho. Rolf. Ioh. Teye arm Tho. Knevet ar Hen. Langley ar Georgii Langham ar Ricardi Fox ar Ioh. Helyon ar Tho. Batyll ar Tho. Henenyngh ar Ioh. Godmanston ar Rob. Hunte ar Ioh. Leventhorp jun. arm Tho. Barington ar Tho. Pynthon ar Tho. Pykenham ar Galf. Robell ar Hen. Chater●…on ar Tho. Storkedale ar Will. Senklere ar Ioh. Godeston ar Rogeri Spyce ar Tho. Bendysh ar Hug. Nayllingh ar Tho. Rigedon Ricardi Priour Ioh. Green Ioh. Basset Rogeri Deyncourt Ioh. Poynes Ioh. Santon Ioh Malton Tho. Basset Ioh. Walchif Edm. Prest on Rob. Sudbury Ioh. Baryngton W●…ll Ardale Nich. Mortimer Hen. Aleyn Rob. Weston Ioh. Chamber Tho. Chittern Will. Aleyn Ioh. Beche Rob. Pri●…ur Ballivi Burgi Colcesteri Rich. Beamond Will. Gorge Balivi Burgi de Maldon Rob. Simond de Hatfield Tho. Hardekyn Tho. Mullyng Ioh. Gale de Farnham Ioh. Stodehawe Tho. Aldres Egidii Lucas Ioh. Stanford Rob. Wade Tho. Blosme Will. Ga●…ton Rob. Wright de Thurrok Ioh. Barowe Rob. Brook de Dedham Ioh. Steph●…nede de Elmestede Tho. Andrew Rich. Dykeleygh Will. Cony Ioh. Rouchestre Ioh. Marlere Rob. de Bury Tho. Stanes Ioh. à Benham de Witham Rich. Jocep Ioh. Berdefeld Tho. Brentys Tho. Selers Ioh. Boreham Rob. Seburgh Hen. Maldon Ioh. Caweston Th. Mars de Dunmow Ioh. Hereward de Thapstede Ioh. Fil. Will. Atte Fan de eadem Reg. Bienge de eadem Walt. Goodmay Will. Spaldyng Hug. Dorsete Rich. Atte More Radul Bonyngdon Tho. Barete Radul de Uphavering Ioh. Gobyon Will. Scargoyll Ioh. Shyunyng VVill. Higham Ioh. Riche Ioh. Veyle senioris Ioh. Hicheman Edm. Botere Ioh. VVestle VVill. Admond Ioh. Campion Rich. Sewale VValt Tybenham Ioh. Marshant de Peldon Rich. Eylotte Ioh. Baderok Ioh. VVayte de Branketre Ioh. Parke de Gestmyngthorp Will. Manwode Hen. Hoberd Rog. Passelewe Will. Atte Cherche Will. Reynold Ioh. Sailler Rich. Billingburgh Allani Bushe Ioh. Wormele Ioh. Glyne Rob. Ferthyng Mart. Stainer Rob. Beterythe Rob. Smyth de Waltham Observations Some part of this County lyeth so near London that the sound of Bow-bell befriended with t●…e wind may be heard into it A Bell that ringeth the Funerall Knell to the ancient Gentry who are more healthfull and longer-liv'd in Counties at greater distance from the City R. Bishop of London being absent beyond the Seas was Robert Fitz-Hugh who was twice sent Embassadour into Germany and once unto the Pope John Earl of Oxford was John de Vere second of that name and eleventh Earl of Oxford beheaded afterwards Anno 1462. in the fifth of King Edward the fourth for his Loyalty to the House of Lancaster HENRY BOURCHIER Here additioned Chivaler appears by all proportion of time and place the self same person who marryed Elizabeth sister to ●…ichard Plantaganet Duke of York and who by his Nephew King Edward the fourth was created Earl of Essex He dyed an aged person 1483 I conceive that his Father William Lord Bourchier Earl of Ewe in Normandy was living when this Henry Bourchier was chosen Knight for the shire a place usually conferred on the Eldest Sons of Peers in the life-time of their Fathers JOHN TE●…RYLL Chivaler Was chief of that family rich andnumerous in this County of exemplary note and principall regard Great Thorndon was the place of their sepulture where their Monuments to the Church both ruinous This name if still alive lies gasping in this County but continuing health●…ull in Buchingham shire JOHN MOUNTGOMERY Chivaler I find him Supervisor to the Will of Sir Robert Darcy Anno 1469. and conceive that Surname since utterly extinct MAURICE BRUYN Chivaler He had his seat at South-Okenton From the two heirs generall of this family often married Charles Branden Duke of Suffolk the Tirells Berners Harlestons Heveninghams and others are descended A branch of the Heir-male removed into Hant-shire since into Dorset-shire where they subsist in a right Worshipfull equipage WILLIAM GOLDINGHAM Chivaler Though the great tree be blasted a small sprig thereof still sprouteth in this County JOHN DOREWARD Esq. He lived at Bocking-Doreward in this County and was Patron of the rich Parsonage therein which no ingenious person will envy to the worthy Incumbent Doctor John Gauden This John Doreward lieth buried in the Church with this inscription Hic jacet Johannes Doreward Armiger qui obiit xxx die Januar. Anno Domini Mil. cccc lxv Blancha uxor ejus quae obiit ... die Mens ... Anno Dom. Mil. cccc lx quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Claviger Aethereus nobis sit janitor almus ROBERT DARCY Ar. An ancient name in this County having Danbury whilst living for their residence and the Church in Maldon when dead for their Sepulture where there be many of their shamefully defaced Monuments This Robert Darcy afterwards Knighted by his Will made the fifth of October 1469. bequeathed his body to be buried in Alhallows-church in Maldon before the Alter where his father lyed in a Tombe of Marble He willed that forty marks should be disposed for Two thousand Masses four p●…nce a Masse to be said

the people thereabout if in point of Profit their tongues would not cross their hearts as this New-Forrest did Whereof hereafter Natural Commodities Red Deer Great store of these were lately in New Forrest so called because Newly made by K. William the Conqueror Otherwise ten years hence it will be six hundred years old Indeed as Augustus C●…sar is said to have said of Herod King of Judaea that it was better to be his Hog than his Childe So was it most true of that King William that it was better to have been his Stag than his Subject the one being by him spared and preserved the other ruined and destroyed Such was the Vastation he made of Townes in this County to make room for his game And it is worth our observing the opposition betwixt the Characters of K. EDGAR K. WILLIAM Templa Deo Templis Monachos Monachis dedit agros Templa adimit Divis fora Civibus arva Colonis And now was the South-West of this County made a Forest indeed if as an Antiquary hath observed a Forest be so called quia foris est because it is set open and abroad The Stags therein were stately creatures jealous revengeful insomuch that I have been credibly inform'd that a Stag unable for the present to master another who had taken his Hinde from him waited his opportunity till his enemy had weakned himself with his wantonness and then kill'd him Their Flesh may well be good whose very Horns are accounted Cordial Besides there is a concave in the neck of a green-headed Stag when above his first crossing wherein are many worms some 2. inches in length very useful in Physick and therefore carefully put up by Sir Theodore Mayerne and other skilful Physicians But I beleive there be few Stags now in New-Forest fewer Harts and not any Harts-Royal as escaping the chase of a King though in time there may be some again Hony Although this Countie affordeth not such Lakes of Honey as some Authors relate found in hollow Trees in Muscovy nor yieldeth Combes equal to that which Pliny reporteth seen in Germany eight foot long yet produceth it plenty of this necessary and profitable Commoditie Indeed Hantshire hath the worst and best Hony in England worst on the Heath hardly worth five pound the Barrel best in the Champian where the same quantity will well nigh be sold for twice as much And it is generally observed the finer the Wheat and Wooll both which very good in this County the purer the Hony of that place Hony is useful for many purposes especially that Hony which is the lowest in any Vessel For it is an old and true rule the best Oyle is in the top the best Wine in the middle and the best Hony in the bottome It openeth Obstructions cleareth the Breast and Lights from those humors which fall from the head loosneth the belly with many other soveraign qualities too many to be reckoned up in a Winters day However we may observe three degrees or kinds rather of Hony 1. Virgin Hony which is the purest of a late Swarm which never bred Bees 2. Chaste Hony for so I may term all the rest which is not Sophisticated with any addition 3. Harlot Hony as which is adulterated with Meal and other trash mingled therewith Of the first and second sort I understand the Counsel of Salomon My Sonne eat Hony for it is good good absolutely in the substance though there may be excess in the quantitie thereof Wax This is the Cask where Hony is the Liquour and being yellow by Nature is by Art made white red and green which I take to be the dearest colours especially when appendant on Parchment Wax is good by Day and by Night when it affordeth light for Sight the clearest for Smell the sweetest for Touch the cleanliest Useful in Law to seal Instruments and in Physick to mollifie Sinewes ripen and dissolve Ulcers c. Yea the Ground and Foundation of all Cere-cloath so called from Cera is made of Waxe Hoggs Hantshire Hoggs are allowed by all for the best Bacon being our English Westphalian and which well ordered hath deceived the most judicious Pallats Here the Swine feed in the Forrest on plenty of Acorns Mens meat in the golden Hogs food in this iron Age which going out lean return home fat without either care or cost of their Owners Nothing but fulness stinteth their feeding on the Mast falling from the Trees where also they lodge at liberty not pent up as in other places to stacks of Pease which some assign the reason of the fineness of their flesh which though not all Glorre where no bancks of lean can be seen for the Deluge of fat is no less delicious to the taste and more wholsome for the stomack Swines-flesh by the way is observed most nutritive of mens bodies because of its assimilation thereunto Yet was the eating thereof forbidden to the Jewes whereof this Reason may be rendred besides the absolute Will of the Law-giver because in hot countries Mens bodies are subject to the Meastes and Leprosies who have their greatest repast on Swines-flesh For the Climate of Canaan was all the year long as hot as England betwixt May and Michael-mass and it is penal for any Butchers with us in that Term to kill any Pork in the Publick Shambles As for the Manufacture of Clothing in this County diffused throughout the same such as deny the goodness of Hant-shire Cloath and have occasion to wear it will be convinced of its true worth by the price which they must pay for it The Buildings The Cathedral in Winchester yeildeth to none in England for venerable magnificence It could not be Opus unius saeculi perfected by the contributive endeavours of several successive Bishops whereof some lie most sumptuously interred in their Chappel-like-Monuments On the walls of the Quire on each side the dust of the Saxon-Kings and ancient Bishops of this Church were decently Intombed many hundred years after by Richard Fox Bishop of this See till in the beginning of our Civil Wars they were barbarously thrown down by the Souldiers Josephus reports what some hardly believe how Herod took many talents of Treasure out of the Sepulchre of David sure I am they met with no such wealth here in this Mine of Mortality amongst the ashes which did none any injurie and therefore why Malice should scratch out that which did not bite it is to me unknown As for Civil Structures Basing built by the first Marquess of Winchester was the greatest of any Subjects House in England yea larger than most Eagles have not the biggest Nests of all Birds of the Kings Palaces The Motto Love Loyaltie was often written in every window thereof and was well practised in it when for resistance on that account it was lately levelled to the Ground Next Basing Bramsell built by the last Lord Zouch in a bleak and barren place was a stately

making I behold his as the second accounting the Lord Tiptoft the first noble hand which since the decay of Learning took a Pen therein to be Author of a Book He dyed on the 16. of March 1532. and is buryed in the great church in Calice And I have read that the estate of the Berners is by an Heir-general descended to the Knyvets of ●…shwelthorp in Norfolk Since the Reformation ROGER HUTCHINSON was born in this County and bred Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge where he was very familiar with Mr. Roger Askam who disdained Intimacy with Dunces And as this is euough to speak him Scholar so it is a sufficient Evidence to an Intelligent Jury to prove him Protestant that being commended by Bale for writing a book in English of the Image of God he is wholly omitted by John Pits He flourished Anno Dom. 1550. and probably dyed in the happy Reign of Edward the sixth before the following persecution THOMAS CARTVVRIGHT was born in this County and was admitted in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge Anno 1550. In the Reign of Queen Mary he left the University being probably one of those Scholars which as Mr. Fox observeth went alias were driven away from this Colledge all at one time and betook himself to the service of a Counsellour Here he got some skill in the Common-Law which inabled him afterwards to fence the better for himself by the advantage thereof In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he returned to Cambridge was chosen Fellow first of St. Iohns then of Trinity How afterwards he was made Margaret Professour outed thereof for his Non-conformity travelled beyond Seas returned home became the Champion of the Presbyterian partie is largely related in our Ecclesiastical History Onely I will add that the Non conformists not a greeing which of them where there is much choice there is no choice should answer Dr. Whitgifts Reply I read that Mr. Cartwright at last was chosen by lot to undertake it It seems the Brethren concluded it of high and holy concernment otherwise I know what Mr. Cartwright hath written of the appeal to Lots Non nisi in rebus gravioribus alic●…jus magni momenti ad sortis judicium recurrendumm maxime cum per sortem Deus ipse in judicio sedeat One saith for riches he sought them not and another saith that he dyed rich and I beleive both ●…ay true God sometimes making Wealth to find them who seek not for it seeing many and great were his Benefactors He dyed and was buryed in Warwick where he was Master of the Hospital Anno. 1603. DANIEL DIKE was born at Hempstead in this County where his Father was a Minister silenced for his Non-conformity He was bred in ....... Colledge in Cambridge and became afterwards a profitable Labourer in Gods Vineyard Witness besides his Sermons his worthy books whereof that is the Master-peice which treateth of the deceitfulnesse of mans heart wherein he layes down directions for the Discovery thereof As also how in other Cases one may be acquainted with his own Condition seeing many men lose themselves in the Labyrinths of their own hearts so much is the Terra incognita therein This Book he designed for his pious Patron John Lord Harrington But alas when the Child was come to the Birth there was no strength to bring forth before the Book was fully finished the Author thereof followed his honourable Patron into a better World so that his Surviving brother of whom immediately set it forth And to the Lady Lucy Countesse of Bedford the Lords Sister the same was dedicated A Book which will be owned for a Truth whilst men have any badness and will be honoured for a Treasure wilst men have any goodnesse in them This Worthy man dyed about the Year 1614. JEREMIAH DIKE his Younger Brother was bred in Sidney Colledge in Cambridge beneficed at Epping in Essex one of a chearful Spirit And know Reader that an Ounce of Mirth with the same degree of Grace will serve God farther then a pound of Sadnesse He had also a gracious heart and was very profitable in his Ministry He was a Father to some good Books of his own and a Guardian to those of his Brother whose Posthume Works he set forth He was one peaceable in Israel And though no Zelot in the practice of Ceremonies quietly submitted to use them He lived and dyed piously being buryed in his own Parish-Church Anno Dom. 1620. ARTHUR CAPEL Esquire of Had●…m in this County was by King Charls the first created a Baron 1641. He served the King with more Valour and Fidelity then Success during the Civil Wars in the Marches of Wales After the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house in this Shire and was in some sort well cured of the so then reputed Disease of Loyalty when he fell into a Relaps by going to Colcbester which cost him his life beheaded in the Palace Yard in Westminster 1648. In his Life time he wrote a book of Meditation published since his death wherein much judicious piety may be discovered His mortified mind was familiar with afflictions which made him to appear with such 〈◊〉 Resolution on the Scaffold where he seemed rather to fright Death then to be frighted with it Hence one not unhappily alluding to his Arms a Lyon Rampant in a Field Gules betwixt three Crosses thus expresseth himself Thus Lion-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with crosses in a Field of Blood A Learned Dr. in Physick present at the opening and embalming of him and Duke Hambleton delivered it at a publike Lecture that the Lord Capels was the least Heart whilst the Dukes w●…s the greatest he ever beheld Which al●…o is very proportionable to the Observation in Philosophy that the Spirits contracted in a lesser model are the cause of the greater courage God hath since been the Husband to His Widow who for her goodnesse may be a Pattern to her Sexe and Father to his Children whom not so much their Birth Beauty and Portions as Vertues married to the best Bloods and Estates in the Land even when the Royalists were at the lowest condition EDVVARD SYMONDS born at Cottered in this County was bred in Peter House in Cambridge where he commenced Master of Arts afterwards Minister of Little Rayne in Essex a man strict in his Life and profitable in his preaching wherein he had a plain and piercing faculty Being sequestred from his Living for siding with the King with David 1 Sam. 23. 13. He went wheresoever he could go to Worcester Exeter Barnstable France and lastly returned to London He wrote a Book in VINDICATION OF KING CHARLES and was Instrumental in setting forth his Majesties book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pens were brondished betwixt him and Mr. Stephen Marshal though all was fair betwixt them before his Death For Mr. Symonds visited him lying in his bed at Westminster told him Had I taken you for a

token that he vanted that he cheated the covetous Usurer who had given him Spick and Span new money for the Old Land of his Great Great Grandfather JOHN GVVILLIM was of VVelch extraction but born in this County and became a Pursuivant of Arms by the name first of Portsmouth then Rougecroixe but most eminent for his methodical Display of Herauldry confusion being formerly the greatest difficulty therein shewing himself a good Logician in his exact Divisions and no bad Philosopher noting the natures of all Creatures given in Armes joyning fansie and reason therein Besides his Travelling all over the earth in beasts his Industry diggeth into the ground in pursuit of the properties of precious stones diveth into the Water in Inquest of the qualities of Fishes flyeth into the Air after the Nature of Birds yea mounteth to the very Skies about stars but here we must call them Estoiles and Planets their use and influence In a word he hath unmysteried the mysterie of Heraldry inso much that one of his own faculty thus descanteth in the Twilight of jest and earnest on his performance But let me tell you this will be the harm In Arming others you Your self disarm Our Art is now Anatomized so As who knows not what we our selves do know Our Corn in others Mill is ill apaid Sic vos non vobis may to us be said I suspect that his endevours met not with proportionable reward He dyed about the latter end of the Reign of King Iames. JOHN DAVIES of Hereford for so he constantly styled himself was the greatest Master of the Pen that England in his age beheld for 1 Fast-writing so incredible his expedition 2 Fair-writing some minutes Consultation being required to decide whether his Lines were written or printed 3 Close-writing A Mysterie indeed and too Dark for my Dimme Eyes to discover 4 Various-writing Secretary Roman Court and Text. The Poetical fiction of Briareus the Gyant who had an hundred hands found a Moral in him who could so cunningly and copiously disguise his aforesaid Elemental hands that by mixing he could make them appear an hundred and if not so many sorts so many Degrees of Writing Yet had he lived longer he would modestly have acknowledged Mr. Githings who was his Schollar and also born in this County to excel him in that faculty whilst the other would own no such odious Eminencie but rather gratefully return the credit to his Master again Sure I am when two such Transcendent Pen-masters shall again come to be born in the same shire they may even serve fairly to engross the will testament of the expiring Universe Our Davies had also some pretty excursions into Poetry and could flourish matter as well as Letters with his Fancy as well as with his Pen. He dyed at London in the midst of the Reign of King James and lyeth buryed in St. Giles in the fields Romish Exile Writers HUMPHRY ELY born in this County was bred in St. Johns Colledge in Oxford Whence flying beyond the Seas he lived successively at Doway Rome and Rheams till at last he setled himself at Pont-Muss in Lorain where for twenty years together he was Professor of Canon and Civil Law and dying 1604. Was buried therein with a double Epitaph That in Verse my Iudgement commands me not to beleive which here I will take the boldnesse to translate Albion Haereseos velatur nocte viator Desine Mirari Sol suus hic latitat Wonder not Reader that with Heresies England is clouded Here her SUN he LIES The Prose-part my Charity induces me to credit Inopia ferme laborabat alios inopia sublevans He eased others of Poverty being himself almost pinched therewith Benefactors to the Publick JOHN WALTER was born in the City of Hereford Know Reader I could learn little from the Minister which preached his funeral less from his acquaintance least from his Children Such his hatred of vain glory that as if Charity were guiltinesse he cleared himself from all suspicion thereof Yet is our Intelligence of him though breif true as followeth He was bred in London and became Clerk of Drapers-hall Finding the World to flow fast in upon him he made a solemn Vow to God that he would give the surplusage of his estate whatever it was to pious uses Nor was he like to those who at first maintained ten thousand pounds too much for any man which when they have attained they then conceive ten times so much too little for themselves but after his Cup was filled brim-full to the aforesaid proportion he conscienciously gave every drop of that which over-flowed to quench the thirst of people parched with Poverty I compare him to Elizabeth in the Gospel who as if ashamed of her shame so then reputed taken from her hid her self five Moneths so great her modesty such his concealing of his Charity though pregnant with good works and had not the Lanthorn of his body been lately broken it is beleived the light of his bounty had not yet been discovered He built and endowed a fair Almes house in Southwark another at Newington both in Surrey on which and other pious uses he expended well nigh ten thousand pounds whereof twenty pounds per annum he gave to Hereford the place of his Nativity His Wife and surviving Daughters were so far from grudging at his gifts and accounting that lost to them which was lent to God that they much rejoyced thereat and deserve to be esteemed joint-givers thereof because consenting so freely to his Charity He dyed in the seventy fourth year of his age 29. December Anno Domini 1656. and was solemnly buried in London Memorable Persons ROSAMUND that is saith my Authour Rosemouth but by allufion termed Rose of the World was remarkable on many accounts First for her Father VValter Lord Clifford who had large Lands about Cliffords-castle in this County secondly for her self being the Mistress-peice of beauty in that Age. Thirdly for her Paramour King Henry the second to whom she was Concubine Lastly fot her Son VVilliam Longspee the worthy Earl of Salisbury King Henry is said to have built a Labyrinth at VVoodstock which Labyrinth through length of time hath lost it self to hide this his Mistress from his jealous Iuno Queen Eleanor But Zelotypiae nihil impervium by some device she got accesse unto Her and caused her Death Rosamund was buryed in a little Nunnery at Godstowe nigh Oxford with this Epitaph Hic jacet in Tumba Rosa mundi non Rosamunda Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet This Tomb doth inclose the worlds fair Rose so sweet full of favour And smell she doth now but you may guess how none of the sweetest savour Her Corps may be said to have done penances after her Death For Hugh Bishop of Lincoln coming as Visitor to this Nunnery and seeing Rosamund's body lying in the Quire under a Silken Herse with tapors continual●…y burning about

from VVolstan de Paston who three years after the Conquest came into England to VVilliam Earl of Glandwill were all interred at Paston He lest rich revenues to John Paston Esquire his eldest son who married Margaret daughter and heir of John Mautby and no mean Estate to VVilliam his second surviving son who married Anne daughter to Edmond Duke of Somerset Sir EDWARD COKE Knight son of Robert Coke Esquire and of VVinefred Knightly his wife was born at Mileham in this County bred when ten years of age at Norwich-school and thence removed to Trinity-colledge in Cambridge After four years continuance there he was admitted into Cliffords-Inn-London and the year following entered a Studient of the Municipal-law in the Inner-Temple Such his proficiency therein that at the end of six years exceeding early in that strict age he was call●…d to the Bar and soon after for three years chosen Reader in Lyons-Inn Here his learned Lectures so spred forth his fame that crouds of Clients sued to him for his counsel and his own suit was the sooner granted when tendering his affections in order to marriage unto Briget daughter and Co-heir of John Paston Esquire She was afterwards his incomparable wife whose Portion moderately estimated Viis modis amounted unto thirty thousand pounds her vertues not falling under valuation and she enriched her husband with ten children Then began preferment to press upon him the City of Norwich chusing him Recorder the County of Norfolk their Knight to Parliament the Queen her Speaker therein as also successively her Solicitor and Attorney King James honoured him with Knighthood and made him Chief Justice first of the Common-Pleas then of the Kings-Bench Thus beginning on a good bottome left him by his father marrying a wife of extraordinary wealth having at the first great and gainful practice afterwards many and profitable Offices being provident to chuse good penny-worths in purchases leading a thrifty life living to a great age during flourishing and peaceable times born as much after the Persecution under Queen Mary as dying before our Civil Wars no wonder if he advanced a fair estate so that all his sons might seem elder brethren by the large possessions left unto them Some falsly character him a back-friend to the Church and Clergy being a grand benefactour to the Church of Norwich who gratefully under their publique seal honoured him with the ensuing testimony Edwardus Coke Armiger saepius in multis difficillimis negotiis Ecclesiae nostrae auxiliatus est nuper eandem contra Templorum Helluones qui dominia maneria haereditamenta nostra devorare sub titulo obscuro Concelatum dicunt sponte suâ nobis insciis sine mercede ullâ legittimè tutatus est atque eandem suam nostri defensionem in perpetuam tantaerei memoriam quam posterorum si opus fuerit magna cum industria scriptis redegit nostrae Ecclesiae donavit As for the many Benefices in his own Patronage he freely gave them to worthy men being wont to say in his Law-language that he would have Church-livings pass by Livery and Seisin not Bargain and Sale Five sorts of people he used to fore-design to misery and poverty Chemists Monopolizers Concelers Promoters and Rythming Poets For three things he would give God solemn thanks that he never gave his body to physick nor his heart to cruelty nor his hand to corruption In three things he did much applaud his own success in his fair fortune with his wife in his happy study of the laws and in his free coming by all his Offices nec prece nec pretio neither begging nor bribing for preferment His parts were admirable he had a deep judgment faithful memory active fancy and the jewel of his mind was put into a fair case a beautiful body with a comely countenance a case which he did wipe and keep clean delighting in good cloaths well worne and being wont to say that the outward neatness of our bodies might be a Monitor of purity to our souls In his pleadings discourse and judgements he declined all Circumlocutions usually saying The matter lies in a little room In all places callings and jurisdictions he commended modesty and sobriety within their boundaries saying If a River swells beyond its Banks it loseth its own Channel If any adverse party crossed him he would patiently reply If another punisheth me I will not punish my self In the highest Term of business he made Vacation to himself at his Table and would never be perswaded privately to retract what he had publikely adjudged professing he was a Judge in a Court and not in a Chamber He was wont to say No wise man would do that in prosperity whereof he should repent in adversity He gave for his Motto Prudens qui Patiens and his practise was accordingly especially after he fell into the disfavor of King James The cause hereof the Reader may find in our English Chronicles whilst we behold how he employed himself when retired to a private life when he did frui suo infortunio and improv'd his loss to his advantage He triumphed in his own innocency that he had done nothing illegally calling to mind the Motto which he gave in his rings when made Serjeant Lex est tutissima Cassis The Law is the safest Helmet And now he had leisure to peruse what formerly he had written even thirty books with his own hand most pleasing himself with a Manual which he called his Vade mecum from whence at one view he took a prospect of his life pass'd having noted therein most remarkables His most learned and laborious works on the Laws will last to be admired by the judicious posterity whilst ●…ame hath a trumpet left her and any breath to blow therein His judgement lately passed for an Oracle in Law and if since the credit thereof hath causelesly been questioned the wonder is not great If the Prophet himself living in an incredulous age found ●…ause to complain Who hath believed our Report it need not seem strange that our licentious times have afforded some to shake the authenticalness of the Reports of any earthly Judge He constantly had prayers said in his own house and charitably relieved the poor with his constant almes The foundation of Suttous-hospital when indeed but a foundation had been ruined before it was raised and crush'd by some Courtiers in the hatching thereof had not his great care preserved the same The Free-school at Thetford was supported in its being by his assistance and he founded a School on his own cost at Godwick in this County It must not be forgotten that Doctor Whitgift afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury was his Tutor who sent unto his Puple when the Queens Atturney a fair New Testament with this message He had now studied Common-law enough let him hereafter study the Law of God Let me adde to this that when he was under a cloud at Court and outed of his Judges place

Convent of Blackney and afterwards studied first in Oxford then in Paris one remarkable on many accounts First for the Dwarfishness of his stature Scalpellum calami atramentum charta libellus His Pen-knife Pen Ink-horn one sheet of Paper and any of his books would amount to his full height As for all the books of his own making put together their burden were more then his body could bear Secondly for his high spirit in his low body Indeed his soul had but a small Diocess to visit and therefore might the better attend the effectual informing thereof I have heard it delivered by a learned Doctor in Physick at the Anatomy lecture in London who a little before had been present at the Emboweling and and Embalming of Duke Hamilton and the Lord Capel that the heart of the former was the largest the latter the least he had ever beheld inferring hence that contracted spirits act with the greatest vigorousness Thirdly for his high title wherewith he was generally termed the resolute Doctor Two sorts of people he equally disliked Scepticks who are of none and unconstant people who are successively of all opinions and whilst others turned about like the Wheel he was as fixed as the Axletree in his own judgement Yet this his resoluteness was not attended with censuring of such who were of another Opinion where equal probability on either side allowed a latitude to dissent He groaped after more light then he saw saw more than he durst speak of spake of more then he was thanked for by those of his superstitio●…s Order amongst whom saith Bale neither before nor after arose the like for learning and religion Most agree in the time of his death Anno 1346. though dissenting in the place of his burial assigning Blackney Norwich London the several places of his Interment JOHN GOLTON born at Tirington in this County was Chaplain to William Bateman Bishop of Norwich and first Master by the appointment of the Founder of Gonvil-hall in Cambridge Leland allows him a man plus quam mediocriter doctus bonus for which good qualities King Henry the fourth advanced him Arch-bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland He was imployed to the Court of Rome in the heavy schisme betwixt Pope Urban the sixth and Clement the seventh which occasioned his writing of his learned treatise De causa Schismatis and because knowing the cause conduceth little to the cure without applying the remedy he wrote another book De Remediis ejusdem It seemeth he resigned his Arch-bishoprick somewhat before his death which happened in the year of our Lord 1404. ALAN of LYNNE was born in that famous Mart-town in this County and brought up in the University of Cambridge where he proceeded Doctor of Divinity and afterwards became a Carmelite in the Town of his nativity Great his diligence in reading many and voluminous Authors and no less his desire that others with him should reap the fruit of his industry to which end he made Indexes of the many Writers he perused An Index is a necessary implement and no impediment of a book except in the same sense wherein the Carriages of an Army are termed Impedimenta Without this a large Author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct the Reader therein I confess there is a lazy kind of learning which is onely Indical when Scholars like adders which onely bite the horse heels nibble but at the Tables which are calces librorum neglecting the body of the book But though the idle deserve no Crutches let not a staff be used by them but on them pity it is the weary should be denied the benefit thereof and industrious Scholars prohibited the accommodation of an Index most used by those who most pretend to contemn it To return to our Alan his Herculean labour in this kind doth plainly appear to me who find it such a toil and trouble to make but an Index of the Indexes he had made of the Authors following 1 Aegidius 2 Alcuinus 3 Ambrosius 4 Anselmus 5 Aquinas 6 Augustinus 7 Baconthorpe 8 Basil 9 Bede 10 Belethus Bles. 11 Bernard 12 Berthorius 13 Cassianus 14 Cassiodorus 15 Chrysostome 16 Cyril 17 Damascen 18 Gerard. Laodic 19 Gilbert 20 Gorham 21 Gregory 22 Haymo 23 Hierome 24 Hilary 25 Hugo 26 Josephus 27 Neckam 28 Origen 29 Pamph. Eusebius 30 Phil. Ribot 31 Raban 32 Remigius 33 Richard All these I. Bale professeth himself to have seen in the Carmelites Library at Norwich acknowledging many more which he saw not Now although it be a just and general complaint that Indexes for the most part are Heteroclites I mean either redundant in what is needless or defective in what is needful yet the Collections of this Alan were allowed very complete He flourished Anno 1420. and was buried at Lynne in the Convent of Carmelites WILLIAM WELLS was born saith Pitz. at Wells the Cathedral See in Somerset-shire wherein no doubt he is mistaken For be it reported to any indifferent judgement that seeing this VVilliam had his constant converse in this County living and dying an Augustinian in his Covent at Lynne and seeing there is a VVells no mean Market-Town in this Shire with more probability he may be made to owe his nativity and name to Norfolk He was for twenty years Provincial of his Order in England Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge an industrious man and good writer abate only the Siboleth of Barbarisme the fault of the age he lived in He died and was buried at Lynne 1421. JOHN THORPE was born in a Village so called in this County bred a Carmelite at Norwich and Doctor at Cambridge Logick was his Master-piece and this Dedalus wrote a book intituled the Labyrinth of Sophismes and another called the Rule of Consequences for which he got the title of Doctor Ingeniosus This minds me of a Prognosticating Distick on the Physiognomies of two children Hic erit Ingenuus non Ingeniosus at ille Ingeniosus erit non erit Ingenuus The later of these characters agreeth with our Thorpe who had a pound of wit for a dram of good nature being of a cruel disposition and a violent persecutor of William White and other godly Wickliffites He died Anno Domini 1440. and lieth buried at Norwich His name causeth me to remember his Name-sake of modern times lately deceased even Mr. John Thorpe B. D. and Fellow of Queens-colledge in Cambridge my ever honored Tutor not so much beneath him in Logick as above him in the skill of Divinity and an Holy conversation JOHN SKELTON is placed in this County on a double probability First because an ancient family of his name is eminently known long fixed therein Secondly because he was beneficed at Dis a Market-town in Norfolk He usually styled himself and that Nemine contradicente for ought I find the Kings Orator and Poet Laureat We need go no further for a testimony of his learning than to Erasmus styling

Works left to posterity 1. De variis Annorum Formis 2. De natura Coeli conditione Elementorum 3. Praelectio Astronomica 4. De origine Fontium 5. Disquisitio Phisiologica 6. Explicatio additameutnm Arg. temp nat ministerii Christi In handling of these subjects it seems he crossed Scalliger who was highly offended thereat conceiving himself such a Prince of Learning it was high Treason for any to doubt of much more deny his opinion Yea he conceited his own Judgment so canonical that it was Heresie for any inferiour person to differ from the same Shall Scalliger write a book of the Emendation of Times and should any presume to write one of the Emendation of Scalliger especially one no publick Professor and so private a person as Lydyate However this great Bugbear Critick finding it more easie to contemn the person than confute the arguments of his Adversary sleighted Lydyate as inconsiderable jeering him for a Prophet who indeed somewhat traded in the Apocalyptical Divinity Learned men of unbiassed judgments will maintain that Lydyate had the best in that Contest but here it came to pass what Solomon had long before observed Nevertheless the poor mans wisdom is despised and his words are not heard He never attained higher Church-preferment than the Rectory of Alkerton the Town of his Nativity and deserted that as I have cause to suspect before his death Impute his low condition to these causes 1. The nature of his Studies which being Mathematical and Speculative brought not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grist to the mill 2. The nature of his Nature being ambitious of Privity and Concealment 3. The death of Prince Henry whose Library-keeper he was and in whose Grave Lydyates hopes were interred 4. His disaffection to Church-discipline and Ceremonies used therein though such wrong his memory who represent him an Anabaptist His modesty was as great as his want which he would not make known to any Sir William Boswell well understanding his worth was a great friend unto him and so was Bishop Williams He dyed about Westminster as I take it in the year of our Lord 1644. Happy had it been for posterity if on his death-bed he could have bequeathed his Learning to any surviving Relation Sir RICHARD BAKER Knight was a Native of this County and High-Sheriff thereof in the 18. of King James Anno Dom. 1621. His youth he spent in learning the benefit whereof he reaped in his old age when his Estate thorough Surety-ship as I have heard him complain was very much impair'd But God may smile on them on whom the World doth frown whereof his pious old age was a memorable instance when the storm on his Estate forced him to flye for shelter to his studies and devotions He wrote an Exposition on the Lords prayer which is corrival with the best Comments which professed Divines have written on that subject He wrote a Chronicle on our English Kings imbracing a method peculiar to himself digesting Observables under several heads very useful for the Reader This reverend Knight left this troublesome world about the beginning of our Civil wars WILLIAM WHATELEY was born in Banbury whereof his father was twice Mayor and bred in Christs-college in Cambridge He became afterwards Minister in the Town of his Nativity and though generally people do not respect a Prophet or Preacher when a Man whom they knew whilest a Child yet he met there with deserved reverence to his Person and Profession Indeed he was a good Linguist Philoso pher Mathematician Divine and though a Poetical Satyrical Pen is pleas'd to pass a jeer upon him free from Faction He first became known to the world by his book called the Bride-bushe which some say hath been more condemned than confuted as maintaining a Position rather odious than untrue But others hold that blows given from so near a Relation to so near a Relation cannot be given so lightly but they will be taken most heavily Other good Works of his have been set forth since his death which happened in the 56. year of his age Anno Dom. 1639. JOHN BALLE was born at Casfigton four miles North-west of Oxford in this County an obscure Village onely illustrated by his Nativity He proceeded Batchelor of Arts in Brazen-nose college in Oxford his Parents purse being not able to maintain him longer and went into Cheshire untill at last he was beneficed at Whitmore in the County of Stafford He was an excellent School man and School-master qualities seldom meeting in the same man a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer and his Treatise of Faith cannot sufficiently be commended Indeed he liv'd by faith having but small means to maintain him but 20 pounds yearly Salary besides what he got by teaching and boording his Scholers and yet was wont to say he had enough enough enough Thus contentment consisteth not in heaping on more fuell but in taking away some fire He had an holy facetiousness in his discourse when his friend having had a fall from his horse and said that he never had the like deliverance Yea said Mr. Balle and an hundred times when you never fell accounting Gods preserving us from equal to his rescuing us out of dangers He had an humble heart free from passion and though somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church-discipline confuted such as conceived the corruptions therein ground enough for a separation He hated all New Lights and pretended Inspirations besides Scripture and when one asked him whether he at any time had experience thereof in his own heart No said he I bless God and if I should ever have such phantasies I hope God would give me grace to resist them Notwithstanding his small means he lived himself comfortably relieved others charitably left his children competently and dyed piously October the 20. Anno Dom. 1640. WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH was born in the City of Oxford so that by the benefit of his birth he fell from the lap of his mother into the armes of the Muses He was bred in Trinity college in this University an acute and subtil Disputant but unsetled in judgment which made him go beyond the Seas and in some sort was conciled to the Church of Rome but whether because he found not the respect he expected which some shrewdly suggest or because his Conscience could not close with all the Romish corruptions which more charitably believe he returned into England and in testimony of his true conversion wrote a book entituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation against Mr. Knot the Jesuit I will not say Malo nodo malus quaerendus est cuneus but affirm no person better qualified than this Author with all necessary accomplishments to encounter a Jesuit It is commonly reported that Dr. Prideaux compared his book to a Lamprey fit for food if the venemous string were taken out of the back thereof a passage in my opinion inconsistent with the Doctors approbation prefixed in the beginning

bad success He exhorted them to be Pious to God Dutifull to their King Pi●…full to all Captives to be Carefull in making Faithfull in keeping articles with their enemies After the death of Strafford he was made Arch-bishop of Canterbury and at Avenion where the Pope then resided received his Consecration Here he was accounted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 somewhat Clownish by the Romish Court partly because he could not mode it with the Italians but chiefly because money being the generall Turn-key to Preferment in that place he was mee●…ly advanced for his merit But that which most recommended his memory to posterity is that worthy book he made de Causâ Dei wherein speaking of Pelagius he complaineth in his second Book that Totus paenè mundus ut timeo doleo post hunc abiit erroribus ejus fave●… I fear and lament that almost the whole world runs after him and favours his errors Bradwardine therefore undertook to be Champion for Grace and Gods cause against such who were not defensores sed deceptores sed inflatores sed praecipitatores liberi arbitr●… as Augustine calleth them and as the same Father saith of Cicero dum liberos homines esse volunt faciunt sacrilegos He died at Lamb●…th in October Anno Dom. 1349. THOMAS ARUNDELL was the fourth Arch-bishop of Canterbury who was born in this County Son he was to Robert Brother to Richard Fitz-Alen both Earls of Arund●…ll Herein he standeth alone by himself that the Name Arundell speaks him both Nobleman and Clergy-man the Title of his fathers honor and place of his own birth meeting both in the Castle of Ar●…ell It was ●…ither his Nobility or Ability or Both which in him did supplere aetatem qualifying him to be Bishop of Ely at twenty two years of age He was afterwards Archbishop of York and at last of Canterbury 1396. and three severall times Lord Chancellor of England viz. In the Tenth of Richard the second 1386. in the Fifteenth of Richard the second 1391. the Eleventh of Henry the fourth 1410. By King Richard the second when his Brother the Earl of Arundell was beheaded this Thomas was banished the land Let him thank his Orders for saving his Life the Tonsure of his hair for the keeping of his Head who otherwise had been sent the same path a●… pase with his Brother Returning in the First of K. Henry the fourth he was restored to his Arch-bishoprick Such who commend his Courage for being the Churches Champion when a powerfull Party in Parliament pushed at the Revenues thereof condemn his Cruelty to the Wicklevites being the first who persecuted them with Fire and Fagot As for the manner of his death we will neither carelesly wink at it nor curiously stare on it but may with a serious look solemnly behold it He who had stop'd the mouths of so many servants of God from preaching his Word was himself famished to Death by a swelling in his Throat But seeing we bear in our Bodies the seeds of all Sicknesses as of all sins in our souls it is not good to be over-bold and buisie in our censures on such Casualties He died February 20. 1413. and lieth buried in his Cathedral at Canterbury HENRY BURWASH so named saith my Author which is enough for my discharge from Burwash a Town in this County He was one of Noble Alliance And when this is said all is said to his Commendation being otherwise neither good for Church nor State Soveraign nor Subjects Covetous Ambitious Rebellious Injurious Say not what makes he here then amongst the worthies for though neither Ethically nor Theologically yet Historically he was remarkable affording something for our Information though not Imitation He was recommended by his kinsman B●…rtholomew de Badilismer Baron of Leeds in Kent to K. Edward the second who preferred him Bishop of Lincoln It was not long be fore falling into the Kings displeasure his Temporalities were seized on and afterwards on his submission restored Here in stead of new Gratitude retayning his old Grudge he was most forward to assist the Queen in the deposing of her husband He was twice L. Treasurer once Ch●…ncellor and once sent over Ambassador to the Duke of Bavaria He died Anno Domini 1340. Such as mind to be merry may read the pleasant Story of his apparition being condemned after Death to be viridis viridarius a green ●…rester because in his life time he had violently inclosed other mens Grounds into his Park Surely such Fictions keep up the best Park of Popery Purgatory whereby their fairest Game and greatest Gaine is preserved Since the Reformation WILLIAM BARLOW D. D. My industry hath not been wanting in Qaest of the place of his Nativity but all in vain Seeing therefore I cannot fix his character on his Cradle I am resolved rather then omit him to fasten it on his Coffin this County where in he had his last preferment A man he was of much Motion and Promotion First I find him Canon Regular of S●… 〈◊〉 in Essex and then Prior of Bisham in Barkshire Then preferred by K. Henry the eighth Bishop of St. Asaph and consecrated Febr. 22. 1535. Translated thence the April following to St. Davids remaining 13. years in that See In the Third of King Edward the sixth he was removed to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells Flying the Land in the Reign of Queen Mary he became Superintendent of the English Congregation at Embden Coming back into England by Q. Elizabeth he was advanced Bishop of Chichester It is a Riddle why he chose rather to enter into new First-fruits and begin at Chichester then return to Bath a better Bishoprick Some suggest that he was loth to go back to Bath having formerly consented to the Expilation of that Bishoprick whilst others make his consent to signify nothing seeing impowred Sacriledge is not so mannerly as to ask any By your leave He had a numerous and prosperous female-Issue as appeareth by the Epitaph on his Wifes Monument in a Church in Hant-shire though one shall get no credit in translating them Hic Agathae tumulus Barloi Praesulis inde Exulis inde iterum Praesulis Uxor erat Prole beata fuit plena annis quinque suarum Praesulibus vidit Praesulis ipsa datas Barlows Wife Agathe doth here remain Bishop then Exile Bishop then again So long she lived so well his Children sped She saw five Bishops her five daughters wed Having sate about ten years in his See he peaceably ended his Life Dec. 10. 1569. WILLIAM JUXTON was born at Chichester in this County bred Fellow in Saint Johns-colledge in Oxford where he proceeded Bachelour of Law very young but very able for that degree and afterwards became Doctor in the same Faculty and President of the Colledge One in whom Nature hath not Omitted but Grace hath Ordered the Tetrarch Humour of Choler being Admirably Master of his Pen and his Passion for his Abilities

the vomit of Popery which my charity will not believe Indeed in the first of Queen Mary he was outed of his Bishoprick for being married and all that we can recover of his carriage a●…terwards is this passage at the examination of Master Thomas Hauke Martyr When John Bird then very old brought Boner a bottle of Wine and a dish of Apples probably a present unto him for a Ne noceat and therefore not enough to speak him a Papist in his perswasion Bishop Boner desired him to take Haukes into his Chamber and to try if he could convert him whereupon after Boners departure out of the room the quondam Bishop accosted Haukes as followeth I would to God I could do you some good you are a young man and I would not wish you to go to far but learn of the elders to bear somewhat He enforced him no further but being a thorough old man even fell fast asleep All this in my computation amounts but to a passive compliance and is not evidence enough to make him a thorough paced Papist the rather because John Pitts omitteth him in the Catalogue of English-writers which no doubt he would not have done had he any assurance that he had been a radicated Romanist Nothing else have I to observe of him but onely that he was a little man and had a pearl in his eyes and dying 1556. was buried in Chester States men Sir NICHOLAS THROCKMORTON Knight fourth Son of Sir George Throckmorton of Coughton in this County was bred beyond the Seas where he attained to great experience Under Queen Mary he was in Guild-Hall arraigned for Treason compliance with Wyat and by his own warie pleading and the Jurie's upright verdict hardly escaped Queen Elizabeth employed him Her Leiger a long time first in France then in Scotland finding him a most able Minister of State yet got he no great wealth and no wonder being ever of the opposite party to Burleigh Lord Treasurer Chamberlain of the Exchequer and Chief Butler of England were his highest preferments I say Chief Butler which office like an empty covered cup pretendeth to some state but affordeth no considerable profit He died at supper with eating of salates not without suspicion of poison the rather because hapning in the house of one no mean artist in that faculty R. Earl of Leicester His death as it was sudden was seasonable for him and his whose active others will call it turbulent spirit had brought him into such trouble as might have cost him at least the loss of his personal estate He died in the fifty seventh year of his age February the 12. 1570. and lyeth buryed in the South-side of the Chancel of St. Katharine Cree-Church London EDWARD CONWAY Knight Son to Sir John Conway Knight Lord and Owner of Ragleigh in this County This Sir John being a Person of Great skill in Military affaires was made by Robert Earl of Leicester Generall of the English Auxiliaries in the united Provinces Governour of Ostend His Son Sir Edward succeeded to his Fathers Martial skill and valour and twisted therewith peaceable policy in State-affaires so that the Gown and the Sword met in him in most Eminent Proportion and thereupon King James made Him one of the Principal Secretaries of State For these his good services he was by him created Lord Conway of Ragleigh in this County and afterwards by King Charles Viscount Killultagh in the County of Antrim And lastly in the third of King Charles Viscount Conway of Conway in Carnarvanshire England Ireland and Wales mutually embracing themselves in His Honours He dyed January the third Anno 1630. JOHN DIGBY Baron of Sherborn and Earl of Bristol was born in this County a younger Son of an ancient family long flourish●…ng at Coleshull therein To pass by his Infancy all Children being alike in their long Coats his Youth gave pregnant hopes of that Eminency which his mature age did produce He didken the Emhassador-Craft as well as any in his age employed by King James in several services to frreign Princes recited in his Patent which I have perused as the main motives of the Honors conferr'd upon him But his managing the Matchless Match with Spain was his Master-piece wherein a Good I mean a Great number of State-Traverses were used on both sides His contest with the Duke of Buckingham is fresh in many mens Memories charges of High Treason mutually flying about But this Lord fearing the Dukes Power as the Duke this Lor●…s policy it at last became a Drawn Battail betwixt them yet so that this Earl lost the love of King Charles living many years in his Dis-favour But such as are in a Court-Cloud have commonly the Countries Sun-shine and this Peer during his Eclyps was very Popular with most of the Nation It is seldom seen that a favorite once Broken at Court sets up again for himself the hap rather then happiness of this Lord the King graciously reflecting on him at the beginning of the Long-Parliament as one Best able to give him the safest Counsell in those dangerous Times But how he incensed the Parliament so far as to be excepted Pardon I neither do know nor dare enquire Sure I am after the surrender of Exeter he went over into France where he met with that due respect in forraign which he missed in his Native Country The worst I wish such who causelesly suspect him of Popish inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong Arguments for the Protestant Religion as I have heard from him who was to his commendation a Cordial Champion for the Church of England He dyed in France about the year 1650. Writers WALTER of COVENTRIE was born and bred a Benedictine therein Bale saith he was Immortali vir dignus Memoria and much commended by Leland though not of set purpose but sparsim as occasion is offered He excelled in the two Essential Qualities of an Historian Faith and Method writing truly and orderly onely guilty of Coursness of style This may better be dispenced with in him because Historia est res veritatis non Eloquentiae because bad Latin was a catching disease in that age From the beginning of the Britons he wrote a Chronicle extant in Bennet Colledge Library to his own time He flourished Anno 1217. VINCENT of COVENTRIE was born in the chief City in this shire and bred a Franciscan though Learned Leland mistakes him a Carmelite in the University of Cambridg His order at their first entrance into England looked upon learning as a thing beneath them so totally were they taken up with their Devotion This Vincent was the first who brake the Ice and then others of his order drank of the same water first applyed himself to Academicall studies and became a publick Professor in Cambridge he set a Coppy for the Carmelites therein to imitate who not long after began their publick Lectures in the same place he

not know and dare not too curiously inquire left I turn their mirth among themselves into anger against me Sure it is seated in a fruitful soyl and cheap Country and where good chear and company are the Premisses mirth in common consequence will be the Conclusion Which if it doth not trespass in time cause and measure Heraclitus the sad Philosopher may perchance condemn but Saint Hilary the good Father will surely allow Princes HENRY youngest son to William Duke of Normandy but eldest to King William the Conquerour by whom he was begotten after he was Crowned King on which politick 〈◊〉 he claim'd and gain'd the Crown from Duke Robert his eldest brother was Anno Dom. 1070. born at Selbey in this County If any ask what made his Mother travail so far North from London know it was to enjoy Her Husbands company who to prevent insurrections and settle peace resided many months in these parts besides his peculiar affection to Selby where after he founded a MitredAbby This Henry was bred say some in Paris say others in Cambridge and I may safely say in both wherein he so profited that he attained the Surname of Beauclerke His learning may be presumed a great advantage to his long and prosperous raign for thirty five years and upwards wherein he remitted the Norman rigour and restored to His subjects a great part of the English Laws and Liberties Indeed his princely vertues being profitable to all did with their lustre so dazle the eyes of his subjects that they did not see his personall vices as chiefly prejudicial to himself For he was very wanton as appeareth by his numerous natural issue no fewer then fourteen all by him publickly owned the males highly advanced the females richly married which is justly reported to his praise it being lust to beget but love to bestow them His sobriery otherwise was admirable whose temperance was of proof against any meat objected to his appetite Lampreys alone excepted on a surfeit whereof he died Anno Domini 1135. He had onely two children William dying before and Maud surviving him both born in Normandy and therefore omitted in our Catalogue THOMAS Fifth son of King Edward the first and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife was born at and surnamed from Brotherton a small Village in this County June 1. Anno Dom. 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolke and Earl Marshall of England He left no male-issue but from his females the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolke and from them the Earls of Arundel and Lords Berkeley are descended RICHARD PLANTAGENET Duke of York commonly is called Richard of Conisborrow from the Castle in this Shire of his nativity The Reader will not grudge him a place amongst our Princes if considering him fixed in his Generation betwixt an Antiperistasis of Royal extraction being Son to a Son of a King Father to the Father of a King Edmund of Langley Duke of York Richard Duke of York Fifth son to K. Edward 3. Father to King Edward 4. Besides he had married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer the true Inheritrix of the Crown But tampering too soon and too openly to derive the Crown in his Wives right to himself by practising the death of the present King he was taken and beheaded for treason in the raign of K. Henry the fifth EDWARD sole son to King Richard the third and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham near Richmond in this County and was by his father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a child of as much hopes as his Father a man of hatred But he consumed away of a suddain dying within a month of his Mother King Richard little lamenting the loss of either and presently projecting to repair himself by a new Marriage The untimely death of this Prince in respect of the terme to which by Naturall possibility he might have attained in his innocent age is generally beheld as a punishment on him for the faults of his Father The Tongue foreswears the Ears are cut off the Hand steals the Feet are stocked and that justly because both consisting of the same body And because Proles est pars parentis it is agreeable with divine justice to inflict on Children temporal judgements for defaults of their Parents Yet this judgment was a mercy to this Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of his Father Let me adde and a mercy also to all England For had he survived to a mans estate he might possibly have proved a wall of partition to hinder the happy union of the two houses of York and Lancaster Saints HILDA was daughter unto Prince Hererick nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland and may justly be counted our English Huldah not so much for sameness of sex and name-sounding similitude as more concerning conformities Huldah lived in a Colledge Hilda in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County Huldah was the Oracle of those times as Hilda of her age being a kind of a Moderatresse in a Saxon Synod or conference rather called to compromise the controversie about the celebration of Easter I behold her as the most learned English Female before the Conquest and may call her the She-Gamaliel at whose feet many Learned men had their education She ended her holy life with an happy death about the year of our Lord 680. BENEDICT BISCOP was born saith Pitz amongst the East Saxons saith Hierome Porter in Yorkshire whom I rather believe First because writing his life ex professo he was more concerned to be curious therein Secondly because this Benedict had much familiarity with and favour from Oswy King of Northumberland in whose Dominions he fixed himself building two Monasteries the one at the influx of the river Were the other at the river Tine into the sea and stocking them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Moncks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies In the former is driven on as great a Trade of Cheating as in any earthly Commodity in so much that I admire to meet with this passage in a Jesuite and admire more that he Met not with the Inquisition for writing it Addam * nonnunquam in Tem plis reliquias dubias profana corpora pro Sanctorum qui cum Christo in Coelo regnant exuviis sacris fuisse proposita He left Religion in England Braver but not better then he found it Indeed what Tully said of the Roman Lady That she danced better then became a modest woman was true of Gods Service as by him adorned the Gaudiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof He made all things according not to the Patern in the Mount with Mose's but the Precedent of Rome and his Convent being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed In a word I reverence his Memory

him home and commanded him to surrender his acquests into his hands which done he received them again by re-grant from the King save that Henry reserved the City of Dublin for himself This Strongbow is he who is commonly called Domitor Hiberniae The Tamer of Ireland though the Natives thereof then and many hundred years after paid rather ●…erbal submission than real obedience to our English Kings Yea some of their great Lords had both the power and Title of Kings in their respective Territories witness the Preface in the Commission whereby King Henry the second made William Fitz. Adelme his Lieutenant of Ireland Archiepiscopis Episcopis Regibus Comitibus Baronibus omnibus fidelibus suis in Hibernia Salutem Where Kings are postposed to Bishops which speaketh them Royolets by their own ambition and by no solemn inauguration This Earl Richard died at Dublin 1177. and lieth buried in Trinity Church therein Sir ROGER WILLIAMS born of an ancient Family at Penrosse in this County was first a Souldier of Fortune under Duke D'Alva and afterwards successfully served Queen Elizabeth having no fault save somewhat over-free and forward to fight When a Spanish Captain challenged Sir John Norris to fight a single Combat which was beneath him to accept because a General This Roger undertook the Don. And after they had fought some time both Armies beholding them without any hurt they pledged each other a deep ●…raught of Wine and so friendly departed Another time at midnight he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma nigh Venloe slew some of the enemies and pierced to the Tent of the General as highly blamed by some for rashness as commended by others for his valour He bravely defended Slufe whilest any hope of help WILLIAM HERBERT Earl of Pembroke with Sir Richard Herbert his Brother were both undoubtedly born in this County but whether or no at Ragland Castle is uncertain Both valiant men and as fast Friends to King Edward the fourth as professed Foes to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick They gave the last and clearest evidence hereof in the Battel of Banbury where we find it reported that these two leading the Army of the Welsh with their Poll-Axes twice made way through the Battel o●… the Northern men which sided with King Henry the sixth without any mortal wound There passeth a tradition in the Noble Family of the Herberts of Chierbury that this Sir Richard their Ancestor slew that day one hundred and forty men with his own hands which if done in charging some censure as an act of impossibility if after a rout in an execution as a deed of cruelty But others defend both truth and courage therein as done in passing and repassing through the Army Indeed Guns were and were not in fashion in that age used sometimes in sieges but never in field service and next the Gun the Poll-Ax was the mortal Weapon especially in such a Dead han●… as this Knight had with which Quot icti tot occisi He is reported also to be of a Giants stature the Peg being extant in Mountgomery Castle whereon he used to hang his Hat at dinner which no man of an ordinary height can reach with his hand at this day However both these brave brethren circumvented with the subtilty of their Foes Odds at any time may be bet on the side of treachery against valour were brought to Banbury beheaded and buried the Earl at Tinterne and Sir Richard at Abergaveny in this County Writers JEFFREY of Monmouth was born in and named from Monmouth He was also called ap Arthur from his Father as I suppose though others say because he wrote so much of King Arthur but by the same propor●…ion Homer may be termed Achillides and Virgil the Son of Aeneas Yea this Jeffrey by an ancienter title might be sirnamed ap Bruit whose story he asserteth He translated and compiled the various British Authors into one Volume I am not so much moved at William Newbourough calling this his book Ridicula sigmenta as that Giraldus Cambrensis his Countryman and as I may say Con-sub-temporary should term it Fabulosam historiam Indeed he hath many things from the British Bards which though improbable are not ipso facto untrue We know Herodotus nick-named by some Pater Fabularum is by others acknowledged to be Pater Historiarum The truth is that both Novelants and Antiquaries must be content with many falshoods the one taking Reports at the first rebound before come to the other raking them out of the dust when past their perfection Others object that he is too hyperbolical in praising his own Countrey A catching disease seeing Livy mounts Italy to the skyes and all other Authors respectively and why should that be mortal in our Monmouth what is but venial in others And if he be guilty in Mis-timing of actions he is not the onely Historian without company in that particular However on the occasion of the premisses his book is prohibited by his Holiness whilst the lying Legend is permitted to be read without controul Thus Rome loves questuosa non inutilia figmenta Falshoods whereby she may gain Some conceive it to be his greatest fault that he so praiseth the ancient Church in Britain making it Independent from the See of Rome before Austin the Monk came hither One maketh him a Cardinal which is improbable whilest it is more certain that he was Bishop of St. Asaph and flourished Anno 1152. THOMAS of Monmouth was probably born certainly bred and brought up in the chief Town of this County Nor doth it move me to the contrary because Pits calls him an Englishman Monmouth in that Age being a Frontier Garrison peopled with English Inhabitants It happened at this time many Jews lived in Norwich where their habitation was called Abrahams Hall though therein not practising the piety of that worthy Patriarch He out of conformity to Gods command sacrificed his one and onely son they contrary to his will in his Word crucified the child of another William by name His Sepulchre was afterwards famed for many miracles whereof this Thomas wrote an History and dedicated it to William de Turbes Bishop of Norwich though he lived above six score miles from the place of those strange performances But probably the farther the better Major è longinquo reverencia and miracles are safest reported and soonest believed at some competent distance He flourished Anno 1160. under King Henry the Second Benefactors to the Publick HENRY PLANTAGENET first Duke of Lancaster was born in Monmouth castle the chief seat of his Barony He is commonly sirnamed de torto collo or the wry-neck and by others the good Duke of Lancaster by which name we entitle him it being fitter to call men from what was to be praised than what to be p●…tied in them not from their natural defects but moral perfections His bounty commends him to our mention in this place being head of