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

which Pilgrims from all places come to visit the Tomb of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury who was there enshrined as witnesseth Chaucer fro all England do they wend The Holy blissful Martyrs Tomb to see c. And now also of the City of Loretto in Italy which at first was but a mean Village but is now grown a rich and populous City for the opinion that the chamber of the Virgin Mary is there the Legend whereof here followeth This Chamber they say was the same wherein the Virgin Mary was saluted by the Angel with those joyful tidings of the Conception of our Saviour being then at Nazareth in Judaea and was after the Virgins death had in great Reverence by the Christians where it remained untouched till all Palestine was subdued by the Turks and Saracens Anno 1291. then was it most miraculously transported into Sclavonia but that place being unworthy of the Virgins divine presence it was by the Angels carried over into the Sea-cost of Italy An. 1294. but that place proving as bad as the other being infected with Thieves and Pirats the Angels removed it to the little Village of Loretto where her miracles being quickly divulged drew thither a great concourse of People insomuch that Paul the second Pope of Rome built over this chamber a most stately Church whither Pilgrims from all places resort to this day to the great enriching thereof which by this means it is now from a poor Village grown to be a wealthy City Q. Which is the chief City in England Ans London which is accounted to contain in circuit 8 miles is enriched with a Navigable River the Palace of the King divers houses of the Nobility and several Colledges for the Study of the Laws the next to which is the City of York according to the verse Londinum caput est regni urbs Brittanni Eboracum à prima jure secundae venit London is Englands chiefest Town well known The second place York claimeth as its own Q. Who was the first builder of London A. The common received opinion is that it was Brutus the Son of Silvius and Grandchild to Aeneas who having by accident killed his Father was for the fact banished his Countrey with whom accompanied him many worthy persons to be partakers of his fortune who after many wandrings and adverse fortunes at last arrived in England at a place called Totnes in Devonshire as the Poet Neckam sings The Gods did guide his sayl and course the winds were at command And Totnes was the happy shore where first he came on Land This Land was then inhabited with Gyants the chief of which was named Gogmagog with whom Corineus one of Brute's followers encounter'd though he were a Gyant of twelve Cubits high and of such puissance that he could pull up a great Oak at one pull as if it had been a small Wand when they came together Corineus laid by his armour and challenged his Combatant to Handy-gripes who at first came upon him with such fury and violence that he crushed in pieces three of Corineus's ribs where with he being mightily enraged redoubling his strength threw him upon his shoulder and so carried him to the top of a Rock and threw him down head-long into the Sea where he perished with the fall which place is called to this day Gogm●gogs-Leap In reward of his valiant act Brute bestowed upon the noble Corineus that part of the Land which he after his name cal'd Coriner afterwards by corruption of speech it was called Cornubia and now Cornwal Brute afterwards having the Land of those Gyants erected a City on the River of Thames which he named after the Seat of his Ancestors New Troy which is the same that is now called London as one writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 razed Troy to rear a Troy sit place he searched then And Viewing first the Northern parts these fit quoth he for men That trust as much to Flight as fight our Bulworks are our breast A Trojans Courage is to him a Bulwork of unrest Then casting a more pleasant eye where Thames did fairly glide Resolv'd he to erect the same upon that Rivers side He many Houses built therein and clos'd it in with Wall Which Lud did after beautifie and Luds-Town did it call Q. What do the common Countrey people think of London Ans Those who have never seen it account it a very strange wonderful place One having a Brother living there directed his Letter thus To his loving Brother T. W. living at London Another had a great mind to see the City only he said he was not acquainted with any of the Porters to open the Gates and let him in Q. Which are the Principal Rivers in England A. The chief is the Thamesis or Thames compounded of the two rivers Thame Isis the former whereof rising somewhat beyond Tame in Buckinghamshire and the latter beyond Cirencester in Glocestershire meet together about Dorcester in Oxfordshire the issue of which happy conjunction is the Thamesis or Thames the most glorious River of all Europe The second is the Severn which taketh its beginning in Plinlimon Hill in Mountgomery-shire and his end about seven miles from Bristol washing in the mean space the walls of Shrewsbury Worcester and Glocester this River is said to take its name from Sabrina the daughter of Estrild who being taken by Queen Guendeline was cast into this River and there drowned The third River of note is Trent so call'd for that thirty kind of Fishes are found in it or for that it receiveth thirty lesser Rivulets it hath its Fountain in Strafford-shire and gliding through the Counties of Notingham Lincoln Leicester and York burieth its self in the turbulent Current of the Humber The fourth is Medway a Kentish River the Common Harbor for the Royal Navy The fifth is Tweed the North east bound of England on whose fertile banks is seated the strong and impregnable Town of Barwick The sixth is Tine which mightily enricheth the Town of Newcastle by the conveyance from thence of her plenty of Coals These and the rest of most principal concern are thus comprehended in one of Mr Drayton's Sonnets Our Floods Queen Thames for Ships and Swans is crown'd And stately Severn for her Shore is praised The Chrystal Trent for Fords and Fish renown'd And Avons fame to Albions Cliffs is raised Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee York many wonders of her Owse can tell The Peak her Dove whose banks so fertile be And Kent will say her Medway doth excel Cotswal commends her Isis to the Tame Our Northern Borders boast of Tweeds fair Flood Our Western parts extol their Willies fame And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood Q. Who is the most renowned for memory that we have heard or read of An. In former times Seneca who writes of himself that he was able to recite two thousand words after they were once read unto him and of late days we find Mr.

animalia plebis Inveniunt For when the seven mouth'd Nile the Fields forsake And to his ancient Channel him betakes The tillers of the ground live Creatures find Of sundry shapes i' th mud that 's left behind This River is in length almost 3000. miles being the only River of Egypt and is for its varieties sufficiently famous all the World over Of the fortunate Islands The Air of those Islands is reported to be of that singular temperature and the Earth of that fruitfulness that the Husbandmen have their Harvest in March and April Here all good things do abound useful or delightful for the life of man plenty of Fruits store of Grapes the Woods and Hedges bringing forth excellent Apples of their own accord The grass being mowed down in five days space will grow up to the length of a Cubit the ground is so fertile At Christmas they have Summer and all fruits ripe The Earth yields her fruit five or six times a year the Mountains are always beautified with variety of Flowers the Trees and Hedges-rows evermore green Dame Flora hath here her continual habitation and Ceres therein a continual Mansion In their sowing every two grains bringing forth a thousand Qu. How many Kings did formerly 〈◊〉 in these Countrys whereof our now 〈…〉 Soveraign King Charles the second is the most absolute Monarch An. In England it self were seven during the time of the Saxon Heptarchy which were 1. The Kingdom of Kent containing Kent only begun by Hengist the Saxon Captain and ending in Baldred having a succession of eighteen Kings and the continuance of two hundred forty and two years Queens County Weishford and Dublin Scotland had formerly two Kings whereof one was of the Scots the other of the Picts Besides these there was a King of the Isles of Scotland and one of the Isle of Man and Henry the sixth created Henry Beauchamp Earl of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight so that reckoning seven Kings in England three in Wales five in Ireland two in Scotland and three in the other Islands and you will find the whole number to amount to twenty Kingdoms A Discourse of Wonders Foreign and Domestick And first of Foreign AN Artizan in the Town of Norenburg in Germany made a wooden Eagle which when the Emperor Maximilian was coming thither flew a quarter of a mile out of the Town to meet him and being come to the place where he was turned back of its own accord and accompanied him home to his lodging 2. There is a Lake about Armach in Ireland into which if one thrust a piece of wood he shall find that part which remaineth in the mud converted to Iron and that which continueth in the water turned to a Wherstone 3. The Hill Aetna in Sicily which continually vomiteth forth flames of Fire to the astonishment of all beholders The reason of these flames as is conjectured is the abundance of Silver and Brimstone contained in the bosom of this Hill which is blown by the wind driving in at the chaps of the Earth as by a pair of bellows through which chinks also there is continually more fuel added to the fire the very water administring an operative vertue to the combustible matter as we see that water cast on coals in the Smiths Forge doth make them burn more ardently The reason of this flame is thus rendred by the witty Ovid in his Metamorphosis I st ● bitumine● rap●un●t incendi●● vices Luteaque exiguis ard●scunt Sulphura slammis Atque ubi terra cibos alimentaque debita slamma Non dabit absumptis per longum viribus annum Naturaeque su●m nutrim●ntum decrit edaci Non f●cit Aetna famem desertaque deseret ignis A rozen mould these siery flames begin And clayje Brinstone aids the sire within Yet when the slymie soylconsumed shall Yield no more food to feed the sire withal And Nature shall restrain her nourishment The flame shall cease hating all famishment 4. A Lake in Aethiopia superior of which whosoever drinketh either falleth immediately mad or is for a long time troubled with a drowsiness of which the aforesaid Ovid thus reciteth Aethiopesque Lacus quos siquis faucibus hausit Aut fu●i● aut patitar mirum gravetate soporem Who doth not know the Aethiopian Lake Whose waters he that drinks his thirst to slake Either groweth mad or doth his soul oppress With an unheard of drowsiness 5 The three wonders of which Spain boasteth of viz. 1. A Bridge over which the water flows that is used to run under all other Bridges 2. A City compassed with fire which is called Madrid by reason of the Wall that is all of Flints environ it round about 3. Another Bridge on which continually feed ten thousand Cattel the River Guadiana which hath his head in the Mountain Seira Molina afterwards runneth under ground the space of fifteen miles the like doth the River Lycus in Anatolia according to Ovid. Sic ubi terreno Lycus est epotus hiatu Exsilicit procul hinc alioque renascitur ore So Lycus swallowed by the gaping ground At a new mouth far off is rising found 6. The Tomb of Mansolus built by his Wife Artunesia Queen of Halicarnassus accounted one of the worlds seven wonders it being five and twenty Cubits high and supported by six and thirty curious Pillars of which thus writeth the witty Poet Martial Aere nam vacuo pendentia Mansolaea Laudibus immodicis Caris ad astra ferunt The Mansolaea hanging in the Sky The men of Caria's praises Deify 7. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus accounted also one of the worlds seven wonders It was two hundred years in building being four hundred twenty five foot long and two hundred twenty broad sustained with a hundred twenty seven Pillars of Marble seventy foot high whereof twenty seven were most curiously graven and all the rest of Marble polisht It was fired seven times and lastly by Herostratus the same night in which Alexander the great was born which made the Poets say that Diana who was the Goddess of Midwifery was so busie at the birth of that great Potentate that she had no time to defend her own Temple 8. The Pyramis of Aegypt reckoned also for one of the worlds seven wonders which have out-lived devouring time They were built nigh to the City of Memphis whereof two are most famous The first and greatest was built by Cleops a King of that Country who in the work employed a hundred thousand men the space of twenty years The Basis of which Pyramis contained in circuit sixty Acres of ground and was in height a thousand foot being made all of Marble This work was begun of such a prodigious vastness that King Cleops wanted money to finish the same whereupon as Herodotus writeth he prostituted his Daughter to all commers by which dishonest means he perfected his building and she besides the money due to her father exacted of every man that had the use of her body one stone

Canopy Q. What is that which hath a voice but no Body speaks yet understands not itself what it says is often heard but never seen A. It is an Eccho said by Ovid to be a fair Maid that pined her self away to nothing for love Qu. Who are those amongst men that attempted to fly like birds A. Daedalus and Icarus Also one of our British Kings if the History of Geoffry of Monmouth be true who attempting to play the Fowl or rather the Fool fell down and brake his neck This King's name was Bladud It is also said that of late years an Italian flew from the top of St. Mark 's Tower in Venice and did it without hurt Q. What likeness have false men to countterfeit money A. Man and money a mutual falshood show Man makes false money money makes man so Q. To what are Souldiers in peace compared unto A. To Chimneys in Summer for though in hot weather we have no extraordinary need of Chimneys yet we do not pull them down as knowing that Winter will come in like manner Soldiers are continued in Peace either to prevent or to be ready if War do come Q. Amongst all Beasts and Birds which are of most beautiful and various colours yet not without some parts of great deformity A. The Peacock among Birds and the Panther among Beasts the first hath a very goodly Train but foul Feet The other a gay Body but deformed Head and therefore it is said that wanting Food and being a Beast but of slow pace she hideth her head whereat all the other Beasts come about her to wonder at her Beauty but coming within the reach of her Claws she catcheth them and makes them become her food Q. To what are out-side Gallants likened unto A. To Cinnamon trees whose bark is better than their whole body Q. What was the old saying concerning Friends A. That it was good to have Friends but bad to need their help since true friendship indeed is very rare No such friends to be found now adays as was Damon and Pythias Alexander and Lodowick Musidorus and Pyrocles Friendship extending now no further than profit according as one wittily versifies Friends like to leaves that on the Trees do grow In Summers prosperous state much love will shew But art thou in adversity then they Like leaves from trees in Autumn fall away He happy is that hath a friend indeed But he more happy that no friend doth need Q. What makes silver look so pale A. To this Diogenes the Cynick answers that it is because so many lies in wait for it Q. Why is it said 't is good to have a wolf cross the way and bad to have a Hare cross it A. By this is meant that when a Wolf crosses away from us it is good luck that we scape him and if a Hare it is bad luck that that scapes us but for any future things that is boded by them I am of the opinion of Cato who when one would needs know what harm attended him by reason that Rats had gnawn his Hose he answered That it was no strange thing to see that but it had been much more strange if his Hose had eaten the Rats Q. Who was the two men the one whereof was never born but died the other was born but never died Ans Adam and Enoch Q. Why do so many men praise poverty and yet covet after riches A. Their actions shew they mean not as they say for although the poor are accounted blessed yet most of them are of Ovid's mind Non tamen haec tanti est pauper ut esse velim Though blessings be for them in store To be their Heir I 'de not be poor Q. Who was the greatest Traveller in his time A. Sir Francis Drake who first put a Girdle about the world of whom a Wit in that Age thus descants Drake who th' encomapss'd Earth so fully knew And whom at once both Poles of Heaven did view Should men forget thee Sol could not forbear To Chronicle his Fellow-Traveller Q. What is the most beautiful thing in the world A. One said the Sun which if so then were blind men of all others most miserable but certainly virtue is most resplendent of all things and which is to be discerned by the eyes of the Soul wherein blind men of all others have the greatest help of Contemplation Q. What is the heaviest burthen that the earth bears A. Sin which is more ponderous than the biggest Mountains or greatest Piles of buildings for it weigheth down even to Hell Q. Which is the longest Letter in the Alphabet A. The letter L. which is more than a yard long Q. Which is the most unnecessary Letter in the Alphabet A. K. because C. is of the same sound Q. What three Vowels are most pernicious to Debtors A. These three IOV. Q. What two words are those that trouble the world A. Meum and Tuum Thine and Mine Q. What are the principal causes of the greatness of Cities A. Although they are many in number yet they are reduced principally to these seven 1. A Navigable River by which there may be continual concourse of Merchants as may be seen by Venice Amsterdam Constantinople and our Metropolitan City of London which as it is thought had it not been for the River of Thames would not have gone on so forward in the rebuilding since that terrible conflagration thereof by fire which may be evidenced in that the buildings towards the River side were the first begun and are the forwardest in finishing 2. The Palace of the Prince for where the Court is there will be continually store of Nobility and Gentry which enriches Tradesmen by selling commodities to them one instance whereof we have by Madrid in Spain which is grown from a mean Village to a very populous City only by the Kings Court. 3. The Residence of the Nobility by whom beautiful Buildings and stately Structures are raised to the great adornment thereof as may be seen in the Cities of Italy where their Nobles and Gentry constantly reside as ours do in Towns and Villages 4. The Seat or Tribunal of Justice which invites Lawyers and their Clients thither in abundance to the great enriching thereof as may be evidenced by the Parliamentary Cities of France and Spiers in Germany 5. Universities or publick Schools of Learning which draw thither the Sons of several Noble persons and Gentlemen from the adjoyning Counties to the great benefit and profit thereof as Paris well knoweth Oxford Collen and several other places 6. Immunities from Taxes and Impositions which cause many persons to come and inhabit in such places their Income being thereby greatest and their Priviledges most as in Naples Florence and Venice which being almost desolate by a Plague were again very suddenly peopl'd by granting Immunities to all Comers 7. The last but not the least is opinion of Sanctity as was evidenced in former times bp the City of Canterbury to

Mummie black red Ebony From burning Chus from Peru Pearl Gold From Russia Furs to keep the rich from cold From Florence Silks from Spain Fruit Saffron Sacks From Denmark Amber Cordage Furs and Flax. From France and Florence Linnen Wood and Wine From Holland Hops Horse from the banks of Rhine From England Wool all Lands as God distributes To the Worlds Treasure pay their sundry Tributes Qu. What did our Ancients hold to be the greatest wonders in the world An. The Tower of Pharoah the walls of Babylon the Temple of Diana at Ephesus the Tomb of Mausolus and the Pyramids of Egypt which are supposed by some to be in part built with the same Bricks which the children of Israel did burn Of those Pyramids two are most famous the first and greatest was built by Cheops who in this Work employed 100000 Men the space of twenty years The charges of Garlick Roots and Onions onely came to sixteen hundred Talents of Silver The Basis of this Pyramis contained in circuit sixty Acres of Ground and was in height ten thousand Foot being made all of marble Now when Cheops wanted money he prostituted his Daughter to all comers by which dishonest means he finished his Building and she besides the money due unto her Sire for father I cannot call him desired for her self of every man that had the use of her body one stone of whom she got so many that with them she made the second Pyramis almost equal to the first as Herodotus a Grecian Author observeth Stone-buildings Cities Brick-works decay Virtue 's immortal and doth live for aye Qu. What Trees were those that brought-forth their fruit at the instant of their first planting An. The Trees which God made in the beginning of the world which immediately brought forth their fruit according as God spake the word Qu. What two Countreys are those which are endued with these two most excellent prerogatives of breeding no venomous worms or hurtful Creature neither will any live if brought thither from foreign Countries An. Creta or Candie an Island of Greece now in the possession of the Venetians and our neighbour Country of Ireland of which last one writing thus maketh that Land to speak Illa ego sum Graiis Glacialis Hibernia dicta Cut Deus melior rerum nascentium origo Jus commune dedit cum Creta altrice Tonantis Angues ne nostris diffundant sibila in oris I am that Island which in days of old The Greeks did call Hibernia Icie-cold Secur'd by God and Nature from this fear Which gift was given to Crete Joves mother dear That pois'nous snakes should never here be bred Or dare to hiss or hartful venome shed Qu. What is accounted the worthiest sign of liberty above all others An. The covering of the head or wearing of the Hat as is well known to those which are conversant in Antiquity The Lacones a people of Peloponnesus after they had obtained to be made free Denizons of Lacedaemon in sign of their gotten Liberty would never go into the Battel but with their Hats on Amongst the Africans as it is written by good Authors the placing of a Hat on the top of a Spear was used as a token to incite the people to their liberty which had been oppressed by Tyrants But amongst the Romans we have more variety The taking off the Hat o● Tarquinius Priscus by an Eagle and the putting of it on again occasioned the Augur to prophesie unto him the Kingdom which fell out accordingly In their Sword-plays when one of the Gladiators had with credit slain his adversary they would sometimes honour him with a Palm sometimes with the Hat of these the last was accounted the worthier the Palm only honouring the Victor but the Hat enfranchised him on whom it was conferred Erasmus in his Chiliads maketh the Hat to be the sign of some eminent worth in him that weareth it on this he conjectureth that the putting on of Caps on the heads of such as are created Doctors or Masters had its original which custom is still of force in the Universities of England the putting on of the Cap being never performed but in the solemn Comitia and in the presence of all such as are either Auditors or Spectators of that days exercise Qu. Why have some people affirmed that women have no souls and how is it to be proved by Scripture that they have An. It is to be proved by Scripture that they have out of those words in Luke 1. 46. My soul doth magnifie the Lord c. which were the words of a woman yet some envying against that Sex and because of the faults of some few condemn them all amongst others hear these verses of the Comedian Trust women ah fond man nay rather trust The Summer winds th' Oceans constancy For all their substance is but levity Light are their waving vails light their attires Light are their heads and lighter their desires Let them lay on what coveriure they will Upon themselves of modesty and shame They cannot hide the woman with the same Trust women ah fond man nay rather trust The false devouring Crocodils of Nile For all they work is but deceit and guile What have they but is fein'd their hair is fein'd Their beauty fein'd their stature fein'd their pace Their gesture motion and their grace is fein'd And if that all be fein'd without what then Shall we suppose can be sincere within For if they do but weep or sing or smile Smiles tears and tunes are engines to beguile And all they are and all they have of grace Consists but in the outside of a face c. Qu. By what Aera or computation do they in Transilvania compute their time besides that of the birth of our Saviour Christ An. The transmigration of their Children which hapned the 22. of July Anno 1376. which marvelous accident is thus delivered by Verstegan an Author of good credit who saith that the Countrey being beyond credit troubled with Rats a Musician whom they call'd the Pied Piper undertook for a great mass of money to destroy them they agree hereupon he tuneth his Pipes and all the Rats in the Countrey came after him dancing and were drowned in a great River this done he asketh his pay but is denyed whereupon he striketh up a new fit of mirth and all the Children Male and Female follow after him dancing into the Hill Hamele● which presently closed again since which time the Transilvanians permit not an● Drum Pipe or other Instrument to be sounded in that place and established a Decree that in all writing of Contract or Bargain after the date of our Saviours Nativity th● date also of this their Childrens Transmigration should be added thereto Qu. What three Creatures are the Dutch French and Spanish Nations compared unto An. The French is said to be like a fle● quickly skipping into a Countrey and a● soon leping out of it the Dutch is compared to a

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

of whom she got so many that with them she made the second Pyramis almost equal to the first 8. A Tree in Mexico in America called Mete which they plant and dress as we do our vines It hath forty kinds of Leaves which serve for many uses for when they be tender they make of them Conserves Paper Flax Mantles Mats Shooes Girdles and Cordage On these leaves grow certain prickles so strong and sharp that they use them instead of Saws from the root of this Tree cometh a juice like unto Syrup which if you settle it will become Honey if you purifie it it will become Sugar you may also make Wine and Vinegar of it The rind roasted healeth hurts and sores and from the top boughs issueth a Gum which is an excellent Antidote against poyson 1. A Tree in the Isles of Orcades in Scotland near the Sea side that beareth a fruit which dropping on the dry Land putrifies away and turns to nothing but falling into the water becomes a living Creature like unto a Duck. And by this means as Authors they have se'd A Soland Goose is hatched up and bred 11. The River Styx in Arcadia which for its poysonous nature the Poet feigned to be the River of Hell on which plyed Charon the Ferriman whose description take thus from the Poet Charon grim Ferriman these streams doth guard Ugly nasty his huge hairy beard Knit up in Elf-locks staring fiery ey'd With Robe on heastly shoulder hung knotty'd 12. Near unto the Lake where once stood the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah grow certain Trees which bear Apples in colour and show like unto Gold but being touched fall to ashes 13. The Psylli a people of Lybia of so venomous a nature that they would poyson a Snake insomuch that when their Wives were delivered they would throw their Children amongst a herd of Serpents supposing that child to be born of an adulterous bed the very smell of whose body would not drive away a whole brood of the like poisonous vermine Other Forraign Wonders It is recorded by Guicciardine L. Vives Erasmus and Dr. Heylin in his Microcesmus how that Margaret Sister to Earl Floris the Fourth of Holland being the age of forty two years brought forth at one birth three hundred sixty three Children whereof half were Males half Females and the odd one an Hermophrodite They were Christened in two Basons at the Church of Lo●sdunen by Guido suffragan to the Bishop of Utrecht who named the Males Johns the Females Elizabeths all which immediately after dyed and with them their Mother the Basons are yet to be seen in the aforesaid Church Their runneth a story concerning this miraculous accident how that a certain poor Beggar woman with three twin-Children came to this Countesses door and begged an Alms of her which she not only denyed but also called her Harlot and Strumpet telling her withal it was impossible she should have so many by one man which this Beggar hearing besought God who knew her innocency to manifest it unto her by giving her so many at one birth by her Husband as there are days in the year which fell out accordingly Much to this purpose is the story of one Jermentrudis wife to Isenbardus Earl of Altorse in Suevia which Countess grievously accused one of her neighbour women of adulteries and had her punished because she had not long before been delivered of six Children at a birth It fortuned that she her self her Husband being abroad in the Fields was delivered at one birth of twelve Children all Males she fearing the like infamous punishment which by her instigation had been inflicted on the former woman commanded the Nurse to kill eleven of them The Nurse going to execute the will of her Mistriss was met by her Lord then returning homeward He demanded what she carried in her Lap She answered Puppies He desired to see them she denied him The Lord on this growing angry opened her Apron and there found eleven of his own Sons pretty sweet babes and of most promising countenances The Earl examined the matter found out the truth enjoyned the Nurse to be secret and put the children to a Miller to nurse Six years being passed over in silence the Earl making a solemn Feast invited most of his wives and his own Friends The young boys he attired all in the same fashion and presenteth them to their mother she misdoubting the truth confesseth her fault is by the Earl pardoned and acknowledgeth her Children A like strange thing we have of one Agilmond a King of the Lombards in the Land of Hungary who going forth one morning a Hunting as he was riding by a Fish pond he spyed seven children sprawling for life which some Harlots had been dilivered of and most barbarously thrown into the water The King amazed at this spectacle put his Bore spear or hunting-pole among them on which one of the childrens hands fastened and the King softly drawing back his hand wafted the Child to the shore This child he named Lamissus from Lama which in their Language signified a Fishpond He was in the Kings Court carefully brought up where there appeared in him such tokens of vertue and courage that after the death of Agilmond he was by the Lombards chosen to succeed him Nor is that less strange which is reported of Claudia a Romane Vestal Virgin the story whereof is this The Romans were once told by an Oracle that they should be Lords of the world if they could but get the Goddess Cybele from the Phrygians which was there worshipped in a City called Pesinus Hereupon they sent unto the Phrygians to demand it who being willing to please a potent Neighbor especially the Romans being their Countrey-men as descended from Aeneas and his Trojans granted their request and the Goddess is shipt for Rome But when it came into the River of Tyber it there made a stand neither could it be again moved forward by force or sleight It happened that this Claudia having been accused of incontinency to clear herself tyed her Girdle to the Ship praying the Goddess that if she were causelesly suspected she would suffer the Ship to go forward which was no sooner said than granted Claudia by her Girdle drawing the Ship to Rome by the same clearing her self from all imputation of Uncleanness or Incontinency Pharo a King of Aegypt being blind was told by an Oracle that if he washed his eyes with the Urine of a woman which being a wife had known but one man he should recover his sight After many vain trials h● found one woman whose Urine helped him her he married and causing all the other whom he had tryed to be gathered together in a Town called Latthus he set fire on th● same burning them all for their Incontinency Domestick Wonders IN the Year of our Lord 1151. and in the 33 year of the Reign of King Henry the second near unto Oxford in Suffolk certain Fishers took in their Nets a