Clarence President in his stead for the same No sooner was his Father dead but he reclaimed himself and became a Glory to his Country and a constant Terror to his Enemies yea and banished all his idle Companions from Court allowing them a competency for their subsistence When the Lord Chief Justice who had secured him when Prince for striking him for the Commitment of some of his lewd Companions he not only forgave him but rewarded his Justice In his Reign a Supplication was preferred that the Temporal Lands given to pious uses but abusively spent might be siezed on by the King This was wisely awarded by Chichley Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by putting the King on the design of recovering France Yea this King by his Valour reduced Charles 6. King of France to such a condition that he resigned his Kingdom into his hand and our King Henry 5. was accordingly Crowned in Paris King of France There the French found him as good or rather worse as his Promise which he made to the Dolphin who sent him a Barrel of Paris Tennis-Balls sending such English-Balls that they proved fatal to them He dyed at Boys St. Vincent ult Aug. 1422. and was brought over with great Solemnity and interred in Westminster-Abbey Saints St. Amphibalus a Citizen of Carlion See the Saints in Hereford St. Aaron a wealthy Citizen of Carlion was Martyred under Dioclesian the Emperour 30â— Note that the three first British Martyrs viz. Alban Amphibalus and Aaron have the first a Latine the second a Greek and the third an Hebrew Name St. Julius of Carlion suffered with Aaron aforesaid Note that Carlion now a small Town was once a great City reaching a Mile in length and comprehending St. Julian's a House of late Sir William Herbert's now a Mile distant from the Town Cardinals Geffery of Monmouth is avouched by some to have been made Cardinal but it is improbable that so much honour should be done unto him whilst living who was so solemnly disgraced after his death his Books being then publickly prohibited by the Court of Rome See Writers in this Shire John of Monmouth D. D. and Canon of Lincoln was chosen Bishop of Landaff 1296. after that See had been 7 years vacant He was a Learned and Pious Divine Besides other Benefactions to his See he procured the Rectory of Newland in the Forrest of Dean to be appropriated thereto But Bishop Kitchin afterwards impoverished the same more then all his Predecessors had endowed it in 400 years This John dyed April 8. 1322. and was buried in St Maries Chappel Walter Cantilupe Son to William the elder Lord Cuntilupe whose prime residence was at Abergavennie in this County was made by Henry 3. Bishop of Worcester He would not yield to the Popes Legate who complained of many Clergy-men keeping their Livings against the Canons intending to make room for the Popes Favourites or force such irregular incumbents to a Composition He was one of a keen nature whose two-edged spirit did cut on both sides against the King and Pope Against the former he sided with the Barons to whom he promised Heaven for the reward of their Rebellion against their Prince though it cost him an Excommunication from the Pope who was the more forward in denouncing that fatal Sentence against him because he had told Rusland his Legate coming hither 1255. that he would preferr him to be hang'd on the Gallows rather then ever consent to such expilation of the Church as aforesaid Lying on his deathâ—bed he was touched with true remorse for his disloyalty and obtained Absolution He dyed February 1267. whom I behold as Uncle to Thomas the Sainted Bishop of Hereford Souldiers Richard de Clare alias Strongbow born probably at Stringule Castle was Earl of Stringule and Pembrook A person of effectual performance It happened that Mac Murugh an 1167. being expelled his Territories for several Tyrannies by the Lords of Meath and Conaight repaired to King Henry 2. and invited him to Ireland That Politick King sent over this R. Strongbow with 1200 Men who possessed himself of the Ports of Leinster and Mounster with large Lands thereunto belonging insomuch that the King growing jealous of his greatness remanded him home and commanded him to surrender his Acquest into his hands which done he received them by regrant from the King save that Henry reserved the City of Dublin for himself This Strongbow is commonly called Domitor Hiberniae the Tamer of Ireland Yet some of the great Lords there did still retain the Power and Title of King Witness the Preface in the Commission whereby King Henry 2. made William Fitz-Adelme his Lieutenant of Ireland Archiepiscopis Episcopis Regibus c. Salutem This Earl dyed at Dublin 1177. Sir Roger Williams born of an ancient Family at Penross was first a Souldier of Fortune under the Duke of Alva and afterwards served Queen Elizabeth A man extreamly forward to Fight When a Spanish Captain challenged Sir John Norris to fight a single Combat which was beneath him to accept being 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 draught of Wine and so friendly departed Another time at mid-night he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma nigh Venloe slew some of the Enemies and pierced to the Tent of the General He bravely defended Sluse whilst any hope of help William Herbert Earl of Pembrook with Sir Richard his Brother were both valiant Men and as fast Friends to King Edward 4. as professed Foes to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick Leading the Army of the Welsh in the Battle of Banbury with their Poll-Axes they twice made way through the Battle of the Northern men which sided with King Henry 6. 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 140 Men with his own hands in passing and repassing through the Army Guns not being then in fashion the Poll-Axe was the next Mortal Weapon especially in such a dead Hand as this Knight had He is reported also to be of a Giants Stature the Peg being extant in Montgomery 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 alias ap Arthur Translated and Compiled the various British Authors into one Volume He hath many things from the British Bards which though improbable are not therefore ipso facto untrue yet Humanum est errare and Tradition having run a great way from its clear Original may swell into a rapide Stream violently
Glouc. Brist and Peterbur being the other 4. whose Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction were not confirmed by the Pope nor Baronies by the Parliament These owed their being solely to the Kings Prerogative And therefore when some Anti-Prelatists in the late long Parl. 1641. endeavoured to overthrow their Baronies for want of Confirmation in Parl. upon better Consideration they desisted from that design as unfesible Proverbs I. When the Daughter is stoln shut Pepper-gate The Mayor of Chester had his Daughter stoln through that Gate whereupon he caused that shut with all other Gates in the City Martyrs Geo. Marsh condemned by Bishop Coats burnt without this City near to Spittle Boughton See his Charact. in Lanc. Prelates Geo. Dounham D. D. Son to Jo. Dounham Bishop of Chester was born in this City and bred in Christs-Coll in Camb. made Fellow thereof 1585. and chosen Logick Professor of the University Was as well skilled in Rhetorick as Logick tho 't is seldom seen that the Clunch-fist of this Art good to knock a Man down at a blow can so open it self as to Smooth and Stroak one with the Palm thereof That the Doctor could do both his Oration prefixed to his Treatise of Logick does sufficiently Witness He Preached the Sermon Apr. 17. 1608. at the Consecration of Ja. Montague Bishop of Bath and Wells irrefragably proving therein Episcopacy jure divino After which he was made Bishop of Derry of Ireland to which London-Derry had been added a little before He endeavoured by his Gentleness to Civilize the Wild Irish and proved very successful therein Sea-men Dav. Middleton one of those who effectually contributed his Assistance to the making of Through-lights in the World I mean New discoveries in the East and West Indies v. his Printed Relation His dangers were great and many among Canibals and Portugals Crocodiles and Hollanders yet at last he did settle the English Trade at Bantam about 1610. Sir Hen. Middleton Knight younger brother as I take it to the former under-went great Pains and Perils in advancing the English Trade Remarkable his Voyage into the Red-Sea which had like to have proved the Dead-Sea unto him Here he was tolled to Land at Moha by the Treacherous Aga and had eight of his Men Barbarously Slain himself and seven more Chained up by the Necks The pretence was because that Port was the Door of the Holy-City and it is Capital for any Christian to come so near thereunto Then was he sent above 160 Miles to the Basha at Zenan in Arab. Jan. 1611. in which City tho but 15 deg N. Lat. from the Equator there was Ice at that time of a Fingers thickness in one Night as the said Sir Hen. did relate At last the Basha giving him leave he sailed East-ward and repaired himself by a gainful Composition with the Indians for the losses he had sustained by the Turks His Ship called the Trades encrease well answered the Name thereof until it pleased God to visit his Men with a strange disease whereof 100 English deceased the grief whereat was conceived the cause of this Worthy Knights Death May 24. 1613. whose Name will ever survive whilst Middletons-Bay from him so called appeareth in the Dutch Cards Writers Roger of Chester a Benedictine Monk in St. Werburges wrote a British Chron. from the beginning of the World which after an addition of 25 years he Entitled Polycratica Temporum the Stile pure Latine He dyed about 1339. and was buried in Chester Randal or Ranulph Higden commonly called Ran of Chester bred a Benedictine in St. Werb not only vamp'd the History of Rog. aforesaid but composed One of his own Commendable for his Method and Modesty therein He continued 46 years a Monk and dyed 1363 and was buried in Chester Hen. Bradshaw a Benedictine in this City and diligent Historian wrote a Chronicle and the Life of St. Werburge in Verse A pious Man for the Age he lived in He flourished about 151â— Since the Reformation Edward Brierwood bred in Brason-nose-Coll in Oxf. Being Candidate of a Fellowship and loosing it he afterwards applyed himself so seriously to his Studies that he became a most accomplished Scholar in Logick Witness his Treatise thereof Mathematicks being afterwards Lecturer thereof in Gresham-Coll and Languâ—ges of which he wrote his Enquiries He maintained against Mr. Byfield That we are not bound to a Jewish exactness in the observatiobservation of the Sabbath He dyed about 1633. Jo. Downham younger Son of Will Bishop of Chester bred in Camb. B. D. became a profitable Preacher in London and was the first who commendably discharged the Eminent Lecture behind the Exchange plentifully endowed by Mr. Jones of Monmouth He is Memorable to Posterity for his worthy work of the Christian Warfare He dyed about 1644. Benefactors Will. Aldersea a Pious Man was Mayor of the City 1560. and compleated the Lame List of Mayors out of the Records He dyed Oct. 12. An. 1577. and lies buried in the Chancel of St. Oswals Sir Th. Offley bred a Merch. Taylor in London whereof he became Lord Mayor An. 1556. in his Mayoralty began the Custom of the Night-Bell-man He was the Zaccheus of London for his high Charity bequeathing the half of his Estate being 5000 pound to the Poor tho he had Children of his own yea he appointed that 200 pound left to his Son Hen. should be taken out of the other half and employed to Charitable uses He dyed 1560 and was buried in the Church of St. Andr. Vndershaft Mr. Hugh Offley Leather-Seller Sheriff of London An. 1588. buried in the same Church gave 600 pound to the City to put forth young Men. Mr. Rob. brother to Hugh gave 600 pound for 24 young Men in Chester whereof 12 were Apprentices On the first of these I suppose these Rhythms were made Offley three Dishes had of daily Roast An Egg an Apple and the third a Toast Feasting himself moderately that he might feed others by his Bounty Jo. Terer Gent. Erected a seemly Water-work built Steple-wise at the Bridge-gate which serves to convey the River-water through Pipes to the Citizens Houses in Chester His Son endeavoured and I believe effected the like for the Conveniency of the middle part of that City Cornwal COrnwall hath its Name from the Form and Inhabitants thereof Cornu signifying a Horn and Wale Strangers for such were the Inhabitants of this County reputed by their Neighbours It hath Devonshire on the West divided from it by the River Tamer encompassed with the Sea on all other sides affording plenty of Harbours where Forreigners touch in their passage to or from Spain Ireland the Levant the E. or W. Indies The Language hath some Affinity with the Welsh and is Copious to express the Conceits of a good Wit tho as 't is said affording but two Natural Oaths or three at the most The Natural Commodities are Diamonds which well cut and set off with a good Foyl may at the first sight deceive no unskilful Lapidary
Josephus his Antiquities Polychronicon c. An. 2. Rob. Dimock Mil. at the Coronation of H. 7. came on Horse-back into Westm Hall where the K. dined monarch R. 2. and casting his Gauntlet on the ground challenged any who durst question the Kings Right to the Crown An. 9. â—0 Husee created by H. 8. the first and last Baron of Husee in Sheford engaging with the Rebellious Commons An. 1537. was beheaded monarch H. 7 An. 16. Th. Burge Mil. descended from the Heir Gen. of the Lord Cobham of Sterbury in Surry monarch H. 8. afterwards created Baron Burge or Burough by H. 8. His Grand-child Th. Lord Burge Dep. of Ir. and Knight of the Garter left no Issue Male nor plentiful Estate only 4 Daughters Eliz. married to Sir Geo. Brook Frances to the ancient Family of Coppinger in Suff. Anne Wife to Sir Drue Drury and Kath. married to Knivet of Norf. Mother to Sir Jo. Knivet Knight of the Bath An. 9. Jervase Scroop Mil. engaged with his Majesty in Edge-hill-fight where he received 26 Wounds and was left among the Dead monarch K. Char. Next day his Son Adrian obtained leave to bury his Corps which when he found he perceived some heat therein and by Gods Mercy he recovered and lived 10 years after Middlesex IT is in Effect but the Suburbs at large of London replenished with the retiring Houses of the Gentry and Citizens thereof Palaces of Noblemen and 3 lately Royal Mansions It is about 18 miles in length and 12 in breadth It hath Hartford on the N. Buck on the W. Ess on the E. Kent and Surrey on the S. The Air generally is most healthful especially about High-Gate The Natural Commodities are Wheat the best in Engl. growing in the Vale lying South of Harrow-the-hill nigh Hessen Q. Eliz. received no Composition-Money from the Villages thereabouts but took her Wheat in kind one of those Villages being called Perivale or Purevale from the cleerness of the Corn therein Tamarisk first brought over by B. Grindal out of Switz and planted in his Garden and Fulham The Manufactures are Leather in the true Tanning of which the Lord Burleigh was indoctrinated by a Cobler exemplifying the same in toasted Bread called by him a tanned Toast which if artificially done will last said the Cobler many Mornings Draughts Of Buildings HAMPTON-COURT built by Card. Woolsey who bestowed it on H. 8. by him erected into an Honour mightily encreased and now continues tho the other Royal Palaces Holdenby Oatlands Richmond Theobalds have found their fatal Period H. 8. enforrested the Grounds hereabouts OSTERLY-HOUSE now Sir Will. Waller's was built in a Park by Sir Th. Gresham who here magnificently entertained and lodged Q. Eliz. who found fault with the Court of this House as too great affirming that it would appear more handsome if divided with a Wall in the middle Sir Thomas being very observant had the Court made double against the next Morning of which a Courtier then said It was no wonder he could so soon change a Building who could build a Change Another reflecting on some known differences in this Knights Family affirmed That any House is easier divided than united Proverbs 1. A Middlesex Clown Clown i. e. Colonus one that Plougheth the Ground of which Middlesex hath many of great Estates and there are some of the Yeomantry in this County as compleatly civil as any in England 2. He that is a low Ebbe at Newgate may soon be a float at Tiburn This is too Satyrical Some will have Tiburn so called from Tie and Burn the poor Lollards having been the first who were tied up and burnt in that place 3. When Tottenham Wood is all on fire Then Tottenham street is nought but mire That is when that Wood of many 100 Acres on the top of a Hill hath a Mist like Smoak over it generally foul weather followeth 4. Tottenham is turned French About the beginning of H. 8. French Mechanicks swarm'd in England to the great prejudice of English Artisans which caused the Insurrection in London on ill-May-day 1517. The City and Country Villages were filled with French Fashions and Infections The Proverb is applied to such who contemning the Custom of their Country make themselves more ridiculous by affecting forreign Humours and Habits Princes Edward Sole surviving Son of H. 8. and Jane his Wife was born at Hampton-Court An. 1537. He succeeded his Father in the Kingdom and was most Eminent in his Generation Whose Virtues were so resplendent no faults humane frailties excepted appeared in him He died July 5 th 1553. and pity it is that deserved the best should have no Monument indeed a brass Altar of excellent Workmanship under which he was buried I will not say sacrificed with an untimely Death by treachery of others did formerly supply the place of his Tombe which since is abolished under the notion of Superstition Being a Child he had more of Man in him than any of his Age And his Goodness was no less conspicuous In a Letter he wrote to Mr. Barnaby Fitz-Patrick Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber he charges him to regard the Scripture or some good Book and to give no reverence to the Mass at which that Gentleman should chance to be present in his Attendance on the French K. To avoid the Company of Women as far forth as he might Besides other Advertisments relating to the Publick which are very judiciously penned In another Letter to him he congratulates his Constancy and sends him an Account of the Great Tide which drowned the Isle of Doggs Plumsted Marsh Shippey and Foulness in Ess as also Towns and Cities in Zealand c. Martyrs At Barnet Islington and Stratford Bow there were more than 20 persons Martyred Mr. Jo. Dendley burnt at Vxbridge began to sing a Psalm at the Stake and Dr. Story there present caused a prickley Faggot to be hurled in his Face Now the singing Nightingale needed no Thorn but only the sleeping one to awake it We may believe that this Martyrs Prick-song indeed made good Melody in the Ears of the God of Heaven Smithfield near London being Bonners Shambles and the Bone-fire General of England no wonder if some sparks thereof were driven thence into the vicinage Prelates Richard Northall a Carmelite and Chaplain to R. 2. was made B. of Ossory and Chancellour of Ireland and at last Arch-Bishop of Dublin He wrote a Set of Sermons for the whole year he died 1397. Since the Reformation William Wickham junior born at Enfield bred in K. Coll. Bishop first of Lincoln then of Winchester died of the Strangury 1596. having not made water for 14 days together 'T is no ill Custom among the Modern Jews that they Praise God solemnly for their vents of ejection as well as Mouths for the admission of nourishment Souldiers Falcatius or Fulke de Brent was Minion to King Jo. who gave him in marriage Marg. the Daughter of Warrin Fitz-Gerald his Chamberlain He was highly in favour
differences betwixt Christian Princes much time was spent a Mass of Money expended many lives lost some Honour atchieved but little Profit produced Going to Palestine he suffered Shipwrack and many Mischiefs on the coasts of Cyprus coming for England through Germany he was tossed with a worse Land-Tempest being in pursuance of an old grudge betwixt them taken Prisoner by Leopold D. of Austria yet this Caeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted King for so was he commonly called was no less Lion tho now in a Grate then when at Liberty abating nothing of his high Spirit in his Behaviour The Duke did not undervalue his Royal Prisoner prizing his Person at 10 years purchase according to the then yearly Revenue of the English Crown This Ransom of 100000 pounds being paid he came home first reformed himself and then mended many abuses in the Land He was afterwards shot with an Arrow in France 1199. Edmund Youngest Son to King Edward 1. by Queen Marg. was born at Woodstock Aug. 5. 1301. He was afterwards created E. of Kent and was Tutor to his Nephew King Edward 3. In whose Reign he was beheaded at Winchester March 19. for that he never dissembled his Brotherly affection towards his Brother deposed and went about when he was murdered before not knowing so much to enlarge him out of Prison perswaded thereunto by such as covertly practised his Destruction Edward Eldest Son of King Edward 3. was born at Woodstock and bred under his Father in Martial Discipline He was afterwards called the Black Prince from his Atchievements dismal and black as they appeared to the eyes of his Enemies whom he constantly overcame He married Joan Countess of Salisbury and Kent whose Garter which now flourisheth again hath lasted longer than all the Wardrobes of the Kings and Queens of England since the Conquest continued in the Knighthood of that Order This Prince died before his Father at Cant. An. 46. Aet An. Dom. 1376. whose Maiden success attended him to the Grave as never soiled in any undertakings He left 2 Sons Edward and Richard afterward King both born in France Th. of Woodstock Youngest Son of E. 3. and Queen Philippa was Earl of Buck. and Duke of Gloc. created by his Nephew King Rich. who summoned him to Parliament He married Isabel Daughter of Humphrey Bohun E. of Essex in whose Right he became Constable of England He observed the King too nearly and checked him too sharply whereupon he was conveyed to Calis and there Strangled By whose Death King Richard being freed from the causless fear of an Unkle became exposed to the cunning Plots of his Cosen German Henry Duke of Lancaster who at last deposed him This Th. founded a fair Colledge at Playsie in Essex where he was afterwards buried his Body having been since translated to Westminster Anne Beauchamp born at Cavesham was Daughter to Rich. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and married to Rich. Nevil Earl of Sarisbury and Warwick commonly called the Make-King In his own and her Husband 's right she was possessed of 114. Manners Isa her eldest Daughter was married to Geo. Duke of Clarence and Anne her younger to Edward Prince of Wales Son of H. 6. and afterwards to King Richard 3. Her Husband being killed at Barnet fight all her Land by Act of Parliament was setled on her 2 Daughters Being attainted on the account of her Husband she was forced to flye to the Sanctuary at Beauly in Hant-shire and thence to the North where she lived privately and in a mean condition Saints St. Frideswide was born in Oxford being Daughter to Didan the Duke thereof 'T is said that one Algarius a young Noble man was struck blind upon his attempting her Chastity She was afterwards Abbess of a Monastery erected by her Father in the same City which since is become part of Christs Church where her body lyeth buried An. 1. Eliz. the Scholars of Oxford took up the body of the Wife of Pet. Martyr who formerly had been disgracefully buried in a dung-hill and interred it in the Tomb with the dust of this Saint with this Inscription as Saunders affirms Here lyes Religion with Superstition and there was more than 800 years betwixt their several deaths St. Frideswide dying 739 and is remembred in the Romish Calender on 19 Oct. St. Edwold Younger brother to St Edmond King of the E. Angles so cruelly Martyred by the Danes and after his death Edwold being his right Heir declined the Crown and retired to Cornhouse-Monastery at Dorchester where he was interred and had in great veneration for his reputed Miracles after his death which happened 871. St. Edward the Confessor was born at Islip He was afterwards King of England whose Reign was attended with Peace and Prosperity Famous for the first founding of Westminster-Abbey and for many other worthy Atchievements He lived and dyed Single never carnally conversing with St. Edith his Queen which opened a Door for forreign Competitors and occasioned the Conquest of this Nation He died 1065. and lyeth buried in Westminster-Abbey Cardinals Robert Pullen or Bullen came over from Paris in the Reign of Henry 1. when Learning ran low in Oxford He improved his utmost power with the King and Prelates for the restoring thereof He is said to have begun to read the Scriptures at Oxford which were grown out of fashion in England Afterwards Pope Innocent courteously sent for him to Rome Celestine created him Cardinal of St. Eusebius 1144. Lucius 2. made him Chancellor of the Church of Rome He died about 1150. Th. Joyce or Jorce a Dominican and D. D. in Oxford became Provincial of his Order Afterwardes Pope Clement 5. created him Cardinal of St. Sabine He had 6 Brethren Dominicans who altogether were by one uncharitably resembled to the 7. Sons of Seeva which were Exorcists however they may be termed a Week of Brethren whereof this Rubricated Cardinal was the Dominical Letter There want not those who conceive great Vertue in the youngest Son of these seven and that his touch was able to cure the Popes Evill Th. flourished 1310. and he lyes buried in his Convent in Oxford Prelates Herbert Losing born in Oxford Son of an Abbot gave 1900 l. to King William Rufus for the Bishoprick of Thetford having also purchased his Fathers preferment Hence the Verse Filius est Praesul Pater Abbas Simon uterque both being guilty of Simony Herbert afterwards went to Rome no such clean washing as in the water of Tyber and returned thence as free from fault as when first born Thus cleansed from the Leprosie of Simony he removed his Bishoprick from Thetford to Norwich laid the first Stone and in effect finished the fair Cathedral therein and built 5 beautifull Parish Churches He died 1119. See Suff. Owen Oglethorp Pres of Magdalen Colledg Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Carlile in the Reign of Queen Mary crowned Queen Elizabeth which the rest of his Order refused to do and by her deprived for his ensuing
a Fight And hence forward the Sun of the Kings Cause declined versing more and more VVestward till at last it set in Cornwal and since after a long and dark night rose again by Gods goodness in the East when our Gracious Sovereign arrived at Dover Note that an 1607 there happened an Inundation by the irruption of the Severn-Sea which over-flowed this County almost 20 Miles in length and four in breadth though by Gods special Providence it drowned no more then 80 Persons BRISTOL BRistol or Bright-stow i. e. Illustrious Dwelling is divided by the River Avon and pleasantly Scituated on the Rising of a Hill The Buildings are fair and firm the Streets cleanly kept The City answereth its Name chiefly for having bred many Eminent Persons It is a Liberty of it self though it standeth both in Sommerset-shire and Glocester-shire There are Diamonds though somewhat dim produced at St. Vincents Rock near to this City Of Manufactures Gray Sope was anciently made only in this City As for Buildings Ratcliff-Church is the best Parish Church in England It was first Founded by Cannings first a Merchant then a Priest St. Augustines Church is better accommodated with publick Buildings about it for the See of the Bishop Under St. Vincents Rock on the VVest of the City there is St. Vincents Well the waters whereof run through some Mineral of Iron and are sovereign for sores and sicknesses being washt in or taken inwardly The Beer brewed thereof is wholsome against the Spleen If it should chance that the Crudity of the Waters trouble the Stomach there is a remedy in this City and that is Bristol Milk a Prov. or Sherry-Sack which the Courteous Inhabitants present to all Strangers when first visiting their City Martyrs Richard Sharp Th. Benion and Th. Hale were Martyred in this City in the dayes of Q. Mary whose Blood will be visited on account of Dalbye the Chancellour of this Diocess Jo. Holyman then Bishop of this City not having Persecuted any therein Prelates Ralph of Bristol born there and bred belike in the Covent of Glassenbury became Treasurer of St Pat. in Dublin then Bishop of Kildare He wrote the Life of Lawrance Arch-Bishop of Dublin and granted certain Indulgences to the Covent aforesaid He dyed 1232. Since the Reformation Tobias Matthew D. D. bred in Oxford became Bishop of Durham and at last of York He dyed 1628. See my Eccles Hist Seamen Hugh Eliot Merchant of this City the prime Pilot of our Nation in his Age first with the Assistance of Mr Thorn his Fellow Citizen found out New-found-Land though an 1527. before Virginia or any other English Plantation was conceived And note that no City in England London alone excepted hath in so short a time bred more brave and bold Seamen As for Eliot's discovery had it been as fortunate in publick Encouragement as private Industry probably before this time we had enjoyed the kernel of those Countries whose shell only we now possess VVriters Th. Norton a great Professor of Chymistry in the 7 Chap. of his Ordinal wrote the two following Lines of himself Thomas Norton of Briseto A perfect Master you may him trow The first Line whereof he modestly parted into the initial Syllables of several other Lines thereby obliging his Reader to become a perfect Master in Nominal Chymistry before he can extract the Golden Name of Norton He affirms of himself that being scarce 28 years of Age he learned the perfection of Chymistry in 40 dayes The spight is he complaineth that a Merchants Wife of Bristol stole from him the Elixir of Life Some suspect her to have been the Wife of VV. Cannings of whom before contemporary with Norton who started up to so great and sudden Wealth He is said to have undone himself and those who trusted him He dyed 1477. Jo. Spine D. D. in Oxford living under Edw. 4. left some Books to Posterity His sirname seems to be Latine which Englished is Thorn an ancient name in this City He was Provincial and Champion of the Carmelites through England Scotland and Ireland He laboured to make all believe that Christ was a Carmelite and Professor of wilfull Poverty by which he tacitly condemned the pomp of the Prelates Hereupon the Bishop of London his Diocesan cast him into Prison from whom he appealed to Paul II and went to Rome where he remained three years in close Prison then he was enlarged by 7 Cardinals to whom the business was referred Returning into London he was nominated Bishop of St. Dav. but never sat in that See He dyed 1â—86 W. Grocine an excellent Poet became publick Professor of the Greek Tongue in Oxford Erasmus owns him in his Epistles for his Patron and Master His Mistriss it seems having in a frolick pelted him with a Snow-ball he declared in a Poetical Rapture that that cold Meteor had made so great an addition to his Flame that it could not be quenched otherwise then by a reciprocal Affection Sola potes nostras extinguere Julia flammas Non nive non glacie sed potes igne pari He dyed an 1520. Romish Exile Writers Jo. Flower Printer skilful in Latine and Greek and a good Poet Orator and Divine wrote an Abridgment of Thomas his Summes the Translation of Osorius into English Having fled for his Religion he set up at Antwerp where he was serviceable to the Catholick Cause He dyed 1579. Benefactors to the Publick Robert Thorn a Merchant-Taylor in London gave more then 4445 pound to pious uses and to his Kindred 5142 pound He dyed a Batchelor 1532 and was buried in St. Christophers London Since the Reformation Mary Dale or Ramsey Daughter of William Dale became second Wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey Grocer and Lord Mayor of London 1577. She founded two Fellowships and two Scholarships in Peter-House in Cambridge on which she would have have setled 500 pounds per Annum on condition that it should be called the Colledge of Peter and Mary Dr. Soams then Master of the House refused affirming that Peter who so long lived single was now too old to have a Feminine Partner She dyed 1596 and lyeth buried in Christs-Church in London Thomas White D. D. was bred in Oxford and a Preacher in the Reign of Q. Eliz. He had one Cure of Souls but several dignities False was the Aspersion of his being an Usurer Besides Benefactions to Christs-Church and a Lecture in St. Pauls London he left 3000 pounds for the building of Sion-Colledge He built there also an Almshouse for twenty poor Folk allowing them yearly 6 pounds a piece and another at Bristol which is better endowed He dyed 1623. Mr. Jo. Simson Minister of St. Olaves Hart-street London perfected the aforesaid Colledge of Sion building the Gate-house with a fair Case for the Library and endowing it with 60 pounds per Annum Mr. Richard Grigson expended a great sum of Money in new casting of the Bells of Christs-Church in Bristol He paid 105 pounds for his reputed