of Mean and Honest Parents and bred in Christ-Church in Oxf. where he Studied 16 hours a day for many years together A general Scholar and Exquisite Linguist his Modesty setting the greater Lustre oâ— his Learning His Notes on Doctor Redleys Book of Civil-Law gave the first Testimony of the Pregnancy of his Parts He was first Chapl. of Christ-Church then Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum He dyed 1646. and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxf. His Posthume Works are set out by Jo. Gurgam dedicated to Edw. Bishop Esquire who relieved Gregory in his greatest Distress Sam. Collins Son to Baldwin Preacher Prodigiously Bountiful to the Poor whom Queen Eliz. called constantly Father Collins born and bred at Eaton Hence successively chosen Fellow Provost and Regius Professor of K. Coll. in Camb. Of admirable Wit and Memory and a most fluent Latinist Of his Lectures which he constantly read twice a Week for 40 years together there were not two which did not Critically differ He used all his Friends to decline his Election to the Bishoprick of Bristol as being in profit inferiour to the place he enjoyed In these troublesome times he lost his Church but kept his Choir wherein he dyed about 1651. Will. Oughtred branch'd from a right Ancient Family in the North born and bred in Eaton becamâ— Fell. of K. Coll. and at last Beneficed by Th. Earl Arundel at Albury in Surrey Prince of Mathematicians in our Age and Nation This Aged Simeon had a strong Persuasion that he should behold Christs anointed restored to his Throne which he did to his incredible Joy and then had his Dimittis out of this mortal life June 10. 1660. Romish Exile Writers Th. Dorman born at Amersham Nephew to Th. Dorman a Confessor in the Reign of H. 8. and Cordial Protestant tho through weakness he did abjure the Realm This Th. junior was bred at Barkhamsted-School founded by Doctor Incent in Hartfordshire under Mr. Reeve a Prot. School-master but this Dorman turn'd tail and becoming a great Romanist fled beyond the Seas where he wrote Against Alex. Nowel the English Calvanist He flourished An. 1560. Memorable Persons Jo. Mathew Mercer Son to Th. Mathew was born at Sherington Lord Mayor of London An. Dom. 1490. the first Batchelor that ever was chosen into that Office a singular Example for above 120 years when Sir Jo. Leman also Batchelor enjoyed the same Dignity 1616. Dame Hester Temple Daughter to Miles Sands Esq was born at Latmos and Married to Sir Th. Temple of Stow Baronet She had four Sons and nine Daughters who Married and Multiplyed exceedingly insomuch that she saw 700 Extracted from her Body Which Off-spring if contracted into one place had been enough to have peopled a City of Competent Proportion Noted Sheriffs Jo. Croke Ar. afterwards Knighted monarch Q. Eliz. Son of Sir Jo. Croke one of the six Clerks in Chanc. The Name was assumed by their Ancestors for that of Le Blount which they concealed in the Civil Wars between York and Lanc. As for this Sir John Sher. of Buck. he was fortunate in an Issue happy in the knowledge of our Municipal-Law Of whom Sir Jo. Croke his eldest Son Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parl. 43. Eliz. received this Elogium from her Majesty That he had proceeded therein with such Wisdom and Discretion that none before him had deserved better Rob. Dormer Ar. Jun. 10. 1615. made Baronet by King Ja. and 30 of the same Month Baron Dormer of Wing in this County His Grand-child Robert was An. 4. King Ch. I. created Viscount Ascot and Earl of Carnarvan and lost his Life fighting for him who gave him his Honour in the first Battle of Newbury Being a little before his Death desired to make a Suit to the King he replyed I will not dye with a Suit in my Mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery he had Charles now Earl of Canarvan Edw. Bulstrod Ar. Whose Arms are Ancient viz. S. a Buckhead Ar. attired O. shot the Nose with an Arrow of the 3. headed and featherd of the 2. a Cross patee fitchee betwixt the attire O. Hen. Longvile Ar. Had to his 4 th Son Sir Mich. Longvile who Married Susan sole Daughter to H. Earl of Kent Now when the Issue in a direct line of that Earldom failed in our memory Mr. Selden proved that the Barony of Ruthyn parcel of the Earldom ought to descend to the Son of the said Sir Michael and thereupon he sat as Baron Ruthyn in the late long Parl. His sole Daughter and Heir was Married to Sir Henry Yelverton of Earton in the County of Northampton Baronet a worthy Gent. of fair Estate Benedict Winchcombe whose Arms I represent in gratitude to the Memory of his Ancestor so well deserving of Newbury monarch K Ja. viz. Az. on a Chev. engrail'd between 3 Birds O. as many Cinqfoiles of the 1. on a chief of the 2. a fl de luce between 2. Spears-heads of the 1. Edward Coke Knight the English Trebonianus monarch K. Ch. famous for his Comments on the Common-Law The Court-party to prevent his Election as a Member of Parliament got him prickt Sheriff whose Oath he scrupled to take because amongst other things the Sheriff is bound thereby to prosecute the Lollards wherein the best Christians may be included but no excuse could serve so that his Friends must behold him who had been Lord Chief Justice attend on the Judges of the Assises Francis Cheney Knight A noble Ancient Name There was a Family of the Cheneys flourishing in Kent giving for their Arms Az. 6. Lyons Ramp Arg. a Canton Ermin Of this House was Hen. Cheney High-Sheriff of this County and Bedf. An. 7. Eliz. and not long after created by her Baron of Tuddington in Bedf. tho in his Youth wild and venturous witness his playing at Dice with Hen. 2. King of France from whom he won a Diamond of great worth at a cast and being demanded what shift he would have made to repair himself in case he had lost the cast I have said the young Cheney in an Hyperbolical Brave Sheeps-tails enough in Kent with their Wool to buy a better Diamond then this His reduced Age afforded the befitting fruits of Gravity and Wisdom And this Lord deceased without Issue As for Sir Fr. Cheney Sher. he was Father to Charles Cheney Esquire who by his Exquisite Travelling hath Naturalized Forreign Perfection to himself and is Exemplarily happy in a Vertuous Lady Jane Daughter to the truly Noble Will Marquess of New-Castle and by her of hopeful Posterity Cambridgeshire CAmbridgeshire hath Lincolnshire on the North and Suffolk on the East Essex and Hartfordshire on the South Huntington and Bedfordshire on the West in length 35 in breadth not full 20 Miles Plentiful in Provision the South part of Bread and Beer and the North of Cattle The Grain here is so good that it outselleth
at Redclinch of an Ancient Family was by Hen. 8. made Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench He sate one of the Assistants when Sir Thomas More was Arraigned for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and was shrewdly put to it to save his own Conscience and not incurr the Kings displeasure declaring himself upon demand in these words My Lords all by St. Gillian I must needs confess that if the Act of Parliament be not unlawful then the Indictment is not in my Conscience insufficient He dyed An. 30. Hen. 8. and his Family doth still flourish at Lewson in Dorsetshire Sir Jo. descended from his Brother Alured has strongly encouraged my weak Endeavours Jo. Portman Knight of Worshipful Extraction at Portmans-Orchard was An. 2. Mary made Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in which Office it seems he dyed A Baron of his Name and Lineage flourisheth at this day with a plentiful Estate Dav. Brook Knight born at Glassenbury Son to Jo. Brook Esq Serjeant at Law to Hen. 8. was an 1. Mary made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer He Married Katharine Daughter of Jo. Lord Chandois but dyed without Issue James Dier Knight born at Roundhill an 1. Elizabeth was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas continuing therein 24 years At the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk an 1572. This Judge declared that Duke could have no Councill assigned him for matter of Fact and that the Council of Humphry Stafford in the Reign of Hen. 7. which was pleaded by the Duke had been granted only as to point of Law His Reports evidence his great Abilities He dyed an 25. Eliz. though Married without Issue There is a house of a Baronet descended from his Elder Brother at great Stoughton in Hunt Sir Jo. Popham of most ancient descent was born at Huntworth when a Youth he was stout and well skilled at Sword and Buckler and wild enough in his Recreations Afterwards he applyed himself to a more profitable Fencing the Study of the Common Laws wherein he became Eminent He was preferred the Queens Attorney and afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England He deposed upon his Oath in open Court at the Tryal of the Earl of Essex an 1600. that he had been violently detained at the Earls house by his Military men there Assembled which some conceived tantamount to an Imprisonment Note the rarity of the Precedent He cut asunder the Knot of Northern Robbers and others with the Sword of Justice He represented effectually to King James the inconvenience of frequent Pardons He used exemplary severity against Male-Factors shunning the dangerous Rock of Cruel Mercy whereby the Lives of many Thousands were preserved He dyed 16. Souldiers Jo. Courcy Baron of Stoke-Courcy was the first Englishman who invaded and subdued Vlster in Ireland therefore Created Earl thereof He was afterwards surprized by Hugh Lacy corrival for his Title sent over into England and imprisoned by King John in the Tower of London Sometime after he was commanded by the King to fight a French man in decision of a Controversie about the Title of a French Castle the King of France being Present but the Monsieur being informed that Courcy was a monstrous Eater and concluding his Courage to be proportionable to his Stomach wisely declined the Combat The English Champion was fain to give proof of his strength another way in the presence of the two Kings sundring a Steel Helmet at one blow into two pieces and striking the Sword so deep into the Block whereon the Helmet lay that none but himself could pull it out again being observed to look sternly before and in the giving of the blow he was demanded why he looked so exceeding fierce Had I said he missed my blow I would have killed the Kings and all in the place This was in no wise displeasing to the Kings being highly in good humour both because they were confident Courcy now was not so ill natur'd as his words did import and also because the words appeared to be some necessary Evaporations of that violent Ferment of his Blood which had produced in him a propensity to give an Vniversal demonstration of his Strength by making the deepest Impression on the strongest Mettal or otherwise leaving no reserve of Spirits to actuate the Organs of his Speech for any Expression of his Allegiance at that time yet by that great Action he seems to have declared himself in a most eminent manner the Kings Man and to have antedated the performance of that Homage which the Lord Courcy Baron of Ringrom the second of Ireland was of course bound to do Hence it is that these Barons claimed a priviledge after their first Obeisance to be covered in the Kings Presence His Devotion was equal to his Valour being a great Founder and endower of Religious houses yet he turn'd the Church of the Holy Trinity in Down into the Church of St. Pat. for which 't is said he was condemned never to return into Ireland though attempting it 15 several times but repelled with soul weather He dyed in France about 1210. Math. Gournay was born at Stoke under Hambden where his Family hath flourished since the Conquest and there built both a Castle and a Colledge He was the Honour of his house In the Reign of Edw. 3. he fought at the Siege of Algier and Benemazin against the Saracens at Ingen Poictiers Sluce and Cressy against the French and at Nazaran under the Black Prince in Spain His Armour was beheld by Martial men with much civil veneration with whom his faithful Buckler was a Relique of esteem He dyed in Peace Aged 96 years about the beginning of Rich. 2. and was buried in the Church of Stoke Seamen Sir Amias Preston of an Ancient Family at Cricket an 88. seized on the Admiral of the Galiasses wherein the Governour with most of his Men were burnt or killed An. 1595 he took the Isle of Puerto Santo and the Isle of Cochi surprized the Fort and Town of Coro sack'd the City of St. Jago put to ransom the Town of Cumana and entred Jamaica all in the West-Indies and returned home safely He sent a Challenge to Sir Walter Raleigh then Privy Councellor which was by him refused Sir Walter having a Wife and Children and a fair Estate and Sir Amias being a private and single Person though of good Quality Besides Sir Walter condemned those for ill Honours where the Hangman gives the Garland These two Knights were afterwards reconciled and Sir Amias dyed about the beginning of the Reign of King James Writers Gildas the Wise was born in Bath He was also sirnamed the Querulous because the little we have of his Writing is only an Historical Complaint against the sins and sufferings of the Age he lived in calling the Clergy Mountains of Malice the Britans generally the Ink or stain of the Age. Dr. Gerard Vossius does by a mistake attribute the Comedy of Aulularia in Plautus to this Gildas He dyed about 570. Maurice Somerset born in Sommerset-shire
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
ENGLISH WORTHIES IN CHURCH AND STATE Anglorum Speculum OR THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND In Church and State Alphabetically digested into the several SHIRES and COUNTIES therein contained WHEREIN Are Illustrated the Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Persons since the Conquest to this present Age. ALSO An account of the Commodities and Trade of each Respective County and the most flourishing Cities and Towns therein LONDON Printed for Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge William Thackary at the Angel in Duck-lane and John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill 1684. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Here present you with an abstract of the Lives and Memoir's of the most famous and Illustrious Personages of this Realm since the Conquest to this present time for order sake I have digested it Alphabetically into the several Shires and Counties contained in this Kingdom which I hope will find a kind acceptance there being nothing of the same method now Extant Dr. Fuller in his large History in Folio did go a great way in this matter but here is included the Lives of many more eminent Heroes and generous Patrons which I hope their memory may survive in succeeding Ages this being done with that brevity which may be more beneficial to the Reader Here you have the Original or rise of most of the Eminent Families in this Kingdom Also an Epitome of the most material matters in Church and State containing the Lives of the most Eminent Fathers in the English Church and the most Flourishing Statesmen in the latter times Also the most famous Authors as well Divine as Historical together with the Lives of the most Memorable Persons in the Law Mathematicks Geographers Astronomers Poets c. which have made this Kingdom known throughout the World I need not inlarge or give any further Incomium upon this subject but referr you to the Table first and then to the Book it self which I hope will find that kind acceptance that may ingage me in some further procedure that may please my Countrymen which I shall alwayes endeavour to do in plainness and brevity to the Readers satisfaction and in the mean time am Yours to command G. S. An Abstract OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND CHAP. I. The Design of the Work THE Rooms of the House being described by others 't is my intention to describe the Furniture viz. the Commodities with the Persons of Quality c. of the several Shires of England But it may be asked Cui bono To what good end I Answer 1. To gain some Glory to God 2. To preserve the Memories of the Dead 3. To present Examples to the Living 4. To entertain the Reader with Delight 5. To procure some honest profit to my self The matter is either Real viz. The Commodities and Observables of every County or Personal the Characters of those worthy Men who were Natives thereof CHAP. II. The Real Topicks insisted on in the Respective Counties 1. THE Native Commodities Of which if any be general to all England it is entered in that County where there was the first or else the most and best of that kind 2 The Manufactures Admirable for Rarity and Variety Of which such as are not properly Natural but Mixed are promiscuously placed 3 Medicinal Waters Wonderful for Colour Tast Odour Sound Heat Weight Motion and Effects The last is proper for my Pen. 4. The Wonders or Rarities which are Transient or Permanent The Wonders of England are as considerable for kind as those of other Countries 5. The Buildings of which the Churches are most admirable 6. Local Proverbs and there are Six essentials of a Proverb that it be Short Plain Common Figurative Ancient and True I have only insisted upon the most considerable Local Proverbs that suggest to us some Historical Hint and have declined all such as are Narrow Frivolous Scurrillouâ— and Scandalous 7. Medicinal herbs which if rare and very useful are placed next the Medicinal Waters in the respective Counties CHAP. III. Of the first Quaternion of Persons Viz. 1. Princes since the Conquest 2. Saints who generally may be divided into those of Fiction Faction Superstition or Real existence 3. Martyrs 4. Confessors FOr the First I take notice of the Legitimate Issue as to Saints I am sorry that the Lives of some of them are so darkened with Needless if not False Illustrations to their Dishonour and the Detriment of Church History which has arisen from the Ignorance or Disingenuity of the Writers of their Lives or for want of true matter or for hope of gain or lastly for this that they saw it pleased the People Whence it is true what Melchior Canus says I speak it to my grief that the Lives of the Philosophers are more gravely Written by Laertius than Saints are by Christians Our Catalogue contains only English Saints wherefore Anselm is left out as being a French-Man since whom the Pope has been very sparing to confer the Honour of Saintship because the multitude of Saints abates Veneration and would overcharge the Calender that already labours with the Sacred burden besides the charge of Canonization is great and his Holiness unwilling to bestow it gratis and lastly Protestants shrewdly suspect that some unworthy Persons have been served with the Dignity by that Servant of the Servants of God therefore none are Canonized while their Memories are on the Must immediately after their Deaths before the same be fined in the Cask with some competent time As to the third viz. Martyrs who have lost their Lives for the Testimony of a fundamental Truth those our Land hath produced are either Brittains who suffered under Dioclesian or Saxons Massacred by the Danes or lastly English Martyred by the Papists since the year 1400. I shall treat of the last the two former being done already For the last viz. Confessors they are such who have lost all but Life for the truth and escaped Martyrdom very narrowly who were as Wax ready for the Signature of Death But Threatned folks Live long yea threatned Elijah by Gods Miraculous Providence never died CHAP. IV. Of Popes Cardinals and Prelates before the Reformation THere have been four Popes Englishmen and but six Germans tho Germany be five times bigger then England which boasts of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury formerly accounted Pope of England As for Cardinals they were anciently no more then Curats made by Bishops as well as by the Pope For there were founded anciently in the Church of St. Pauls two Cardinals chosen by Dean and Chapter out of the twelve petty Cannons whose Office was to look to those of the Quire to give the Eucharist to the Minister of that Church and his Servants to hear Confessions appoint Penance and to commit the Dead to convenient Sepulture and two of them lie buried in the Church of St. Faiths This Custom of Cardinal-making was in many other Countries but afterwards was appropriated to Rome where they are divided into Bishops who
project of the LOAN and thereupon he was by Writ discharged from his place after which he lived long at Westm much praised for his Hospitality The Gown being put off he had a warm Suit remaining I mean a fair Estate particularly Crew-Hall in Cheshire He it was that brought the Model of excellent Building into these Remoter parts He had a Vertuous Lady very Essential to the Integrity of a Married Judge lest what Westminster-Hall doth conclude Westminster-Bed-chamber do revoke He had a Brother Sir Th. Crew a Learned Serjeant in the same Profession whose Son Geo. Crew instrumental in the Kings Restauration is designed for some Title of Honour Sir Humph. Davenport bred in the Temple a Studyed Lawyer and upright Person Qualities which commended him to be chosen Baron of the Exchequer Souldiers Sir Hugh Calvely born at Calvely of whom 't is said that he could feed as much as two and fight as much as ten men his quick and strong Appetite could digest anything but an injury so that killing a Man is reported the Cause of his quitting this Country and going for France where he became such an excellent Souldier that he converted the most difficult Atchievments into easie performances by his Martial Valour He was one of 30 English in France who in a Duel encountred as many Britains He revenged the Blood of the English who whilst his Hands were tied behind him were slain before his Face An. ult E. 3. 'T was he that after an unfortunate Voyage of the English Nobility An. 1. R. 2. took Barkbulloign and 25 other French Ships besides the Castle of Mark lately lost and by him recovered And in the next year he spoiled Estaples with the plunder of which he enriched the Calicians for many years after He Married the Queen of Arragon whose Arms are quartered on his Tomb. His Death may be Collected about 1388. After which time no mention of him and it was impossible for such a Spirit to be and not to be Active Sir Rob. Knowles Knight born of mean Parents in this County yet did not the Weight of his low Extraction depress the Wings of his Martial mind who by his Valour wrought his own Advancement He was another of the 30 English spoken of immediately before Afterwards he was a Commander in the French War under King E. 3. where behaving himself like a true Son of Mars he drove his Enemies before him like Sheep overturning like another deluge Cities Towns c. so that many years after the Sharp points and Gableends of overthrown houses were commonly called KNOWLES MITRES His last Service was the suppressing of Wat Tiler and his Rebels The Citizens of Lond. in expression of their Gratitude Enfranchised him a Member thereof His Charity was as great as his Valour and he rendred himself no less loved by the English than feared by the French He gave bountifully to the Building of Rochester-Bridge founding a Chappel and a Chantry at the East end thereof with a Colledge at Pontfract in Yorkshire where Constance his Lady was born endowing with it 180 pounds a year He dyed at his Mannor of Scone-Thorp in Norf. in Peace and Honour being about 90 years of Age and is buried in White Friers in London Jo. Smith Captain born in this County spent the most part of his life in Foreign parts First in Hungary under the Emperor fighting against the Turks three of which he himself killed in single Duels and therefore was Authorized by Sigismund King of Hung. to bear three Turks heads as an Augmentation of his Arms. Here he gave intelligence to a besieged City in the Night by Significant Fire-Works formed in the Air in Legible Characters Thence he went into America about the end of the Reign of Queen Eliz. such his Perils and Preservations they seem to most Men above belief They are mentioned in a Treatise done by himself He was very Instrumental in setling the Plantation of Virginia whereof he was Governour as also Admiral of New-England When old he lived in London where being High-minded and Poor he was exposed to the contempt of disingenuous persons Yet he efforted his Spirits with a Commemoration of the Days of Old He was buried in Sepulcher-Church-Quire A Line of his Rauting Epitaph follows Here lies one Conquer'd that hath Conquered Kings Physicians If this County bred no Writers in that Faculty the Wonder is the less if it be true what I read that if any here be Sick They make him a Posset and tye a Kerchief about his head and if that will not mend him then God be merciful to him This may be true of the Common People the Gentry having the help no doubt of the learned in that Profession Writers Th. Ecleston bred a Franciscan in Oxf. wrote a Book of the Succession of his Order in England c. and another de Impugnatione Ordinis sui per Dominicanos these two sort of Friers Whipping one another with their Cords to the mutual wounding of their Reputations He dyed An. 1340. Since the Reformation Ralph Radcliffe who converted a Demolished House of the Carmelites into a Grammer-School wrote a Treatise of the Burning of Sodome another of the Afflictions of Job and a third de Triplici Memoriâ Of the Threefold Memory denoting probably such a difference as there is between Wax Water and Iron in receiving an impression He flourished under E. 6. 1552. and 't is likely he dyed before the Reign of Queen Mary Jo. Speed born at Farington first a Taylor did no more than cut his Coat according to his Cloath when being obedient to the Impulses of a Vigorous mind and assisted by Sir Fulk Grevil a great Favourer of Learning he designed the Maps and Composed the History of England and made the usual Geneaologies formerly prefixed to all English Bibles having a patent granted to him by King Ja. in reward of his great Labours Thus he Exchanged a Manual for a Manly Trade and made no greater hast than good Speed He dyed in London An. 1629 and was buried in St. Giles without Criple-Gate Jo. Dodd born at Shotliedge bred in Jesus-Coll A witty Learned and Godly Divine Minister successively of Hanwell in Oxf. Fenny Compton in Warw. Canons Ashby and Fausly in Northam tho for a time silenced in each of them yet even then he did instruct by his holy Demeanor and Pious Discourse A good Chymist to extract Gold out of other Mens Lead and how loose soever the Premisses of other Mens discourse Piety was always his unforced conclusion thereupon When others meditated mischief in the Civil-Wars he confined himself to the Meditations of Sanctity and Innocency V. Clarks Lives Benefactors Sir Rich. Sutton born at Presbury of a Plentiful Estate and bountiful Hand It hap'ned that Will. Smith Bishop of Lincoln began Brason-Nose-Coll but dyed before the finishing of one Nostril thereof Sutton being his Executor Compleated the Foundation with his own Liberal Additions thereunto He dyed about the middle of
the Bishop Essex ESsex hath Kent on the South Suffolk on the North Cambr. Hartf and Middlesex on the West A fair County 35 Miles Square affording all things necessary for Mans Subsistence save that the Eastern part thereof is not very healthful in the Air thereof The parts adjoyning to the Sea are called the Hundreds of Essex and Vulgar Wits will tell you that the Stock of poor people in these parts is Five Hundred Cows which is no more than five The Natural Commodities are Saffron about Walden Oysters the best in England bred near Colchester King Ja. was wont to say he was a Valiant Man that first adventured on the Eating of them Hops which are said to grow best where Vines will not grow and are wholesome if unmixed c. according to Stat. 1. Jac. c. 18. Puits in the Puit-Island near Harwick a kind of Birds which are delicate Food when fatted As for Manufactures Bays Says and Serges are made in Colchester Coxal c. And there is Gun-powder made in Mills erected on the River Ley between Waltham and Lond. Of Buildings 1. Audley-End built by Th. Howard Earl of Suff is the best Subjects House in this Island 2. New-hall built by the Ratcliffs Earls of Suff. bought by Geo. Villiers D. of Buck. surpasses for the pleasant approach thereunto and the adjoyning Parks 3. Copt-Hall or Coppice-Hall seated on a Hill in the midst of a Park was built by the Abbot of Waltham and enlarged by Sir Th. Heneage In which there is the most Proportionable Gallery in England An. 1639. a Hericano forced the Stones of the great East-Window like Pellets quite through this Gallery in length 56 Yards Dr. Jackson about the same time observed the like Wind as Ominous and Presaging our Civil Dissentions To proceed to more Wonders the huge Bones which were digged out at the Ness near Harwich were generally thought to be Bones of Men tho it be more probable they were Bones of Elephants brought over by the Emperor Claudius The Story of the Anatomy of Bones in the Abbey of Waltham-Cross which being touched in one part fell all into Powder is confirmed by Publick Fame with several instances of the like Nature Proverbs I. Essex miles that is very long Miles Comparatively to those of Middlesex II. Essex Calves the fattest fairest and finest in Engl. III. The Weavers Beef of Colchester That is Sprats the Weavers Food such Beef-eaters and such Beef being numerous in and about that City IV. Jeering-Coxhall it was true by way of Catachresis in Queen Maries daies for then the Inhabitants of that Town were very serious some in suffering and others in shifting Martyrdom V. He may fetch a flitch of Bacon from Dunmoe It was a Custom formerly that whoever did swear before the Prior of the Convent at Dunmoe That they never made any Nuptial Transgression might demand a Gammon of Bacon Princes Hen. Fitz. Roy Natural Son to H. 8. and the Lady Talbois was born at Black-more Mannor An. 1519. He was created Earl of Nottingham and D. of Richmond Bastard in him was not Boes art i. e. an abject Nature but Besteaerd the best disposition since he purchased a Reputation by his Martial Activity and Learning He Married Mary Daughter to Th. D. of Nâ—rf and dyed An. 1536. and was buried in Framlingham in Suff. Saints St. Helen was born at and Daughter to Coel King of Colchester She was Mother of Constantine the first Christian Emperor and is famous to all Posterity for finding out Christs-Cross on Mount Calvary Hence the Arms of Colchester a Cross enragled between four Crowns By the Pagans she was Nick-named Stabularia she having found the Stable of Christs-Nativity Whose Son St. Constantine was born at Colchester V. Eccl. Hist St. Ethelburgh Sister to Erkenwald Bishop of Lond. was Abbess of the Nunery of Barking where she led an Austere Life and dyed 676. Whose Sister Hildetha succeeded her and dyed 700. Theorithoid a Holy Nun of the same place dyed 678. Edilburge Wife to Ina King of the West Saxons a Nun at Barking was reputed a Saint after here Death An. 740. Wolfhild a Barking Nun dyed An. 989. This Nunery was valued at 1000 l. yearly rent at the Dissolution St. Ofith Daughter to the King of the E. Angles was abbess of a Monastery of her own founding at Chich. She was beheaded by the Danes about 870. after which she was able to carry her own head no further than 3. furlongs and if St. Deni's carried his head further you may imagine his was the lighter Head of the twâ— St. Neots first an Eremite in Cornw. then a profitable Preacher of the Gospel a Zaccheus for Stature and Piety He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxf. for which his Memory is sacred to all Posterity He dyed An. 883. and was buried at Eynsbury since St. Neots in Hunt Martyrs Jo. Lawrence being very feeble had a Chair at the Stake the little Children crying God strengthen you Th. Hawkes Gent. having promised to give his Friends a Token of the comfort of his Conscience whilst burning raised himself up and clapped his Hands over his Head to the Admiration of all the beholders Rose Allin a Virgin endured the Burning of her Wrists with incredible Patience as afterwards the burning of her Body with a Christian Constancy These are the most Noted of 44 Martyrs in this Shire Confessors Rich. George Labourer of West-Barfold Of three several Wives he had two of them were Burnt and himself the third imprisoned for Religion His Burning was prevented by Queen Maries Death Cardinals Th. Bourcher Brother to Hen. first Earl of Ess was successively Bishop of Worc. Ely Arch-bishop of Cant. for 51 years by the Title of St. Cyriacus in the Baths He married H. 7. to the Daughter of E. 4. and applyed himself Politickly to the Power of that Prince Yet 't is said Praestitit hic praesul nil tanto sanguine dignum What was 100 pounds and a Chest given by him to Camb. He saw the Civil Wars between York and Lanc. begun continued and concluded Many Noble Prelates were his Contemporaries and after his decease Cardinal Pole a Man of Noble Extraction Prelates Rich. de Barking became Abbot of Westminster and Councellor to Hen. 3. Ch. Baron of the Exchequer and Lord Treasurer of England He dyed An. 1246. and was buried in Westm Church Jo. de Chesill was Bishop of Lond. and twice Chancellour and afterwards Lord Treasurer of England Jo. Waltham Mr. of the Rolls Keeper of the Pr. Seal and Bishop of Salisbury was Excommunicated by Courtney Arch-bishop of Cant. for refusing to be visited by him after the Popes death Yet he dyed Lord Treasurer and was by R. 2. his Order buried amongst the Kings in Westm 1395. Roger Walden a poor Mans Son was Dean of York and at last Treasurer of England during the Exile of Th. Arundel Arch-bishop of Cant. he called Synods c. in that See till the
thought no good could come out of Wales Being now Bishop of St. Davids he went to Rome and there stickled for an exemption of that See from Canterbury whereby he highly offended Hubert the Archbishop thereof Whereupon being rather overborn with bribes then overcome in Cause returned re infecta died and was buried in his own Cathedral about 1215. RADNOR-SHIRE RAdnor-shire in British Sire Maiseveth in form three square is bounded on the North-West with Hereford-shire and on the South separated by the River Wye with Brecknock-shire and on the North with Montgomery-shire Nature may seem to have chequered this County the East and South parts thereof being fruitful whilst the North and West thereof being Mountainous can hardly be bettered by Husbandry Yet it is indifferently stored with Woods and conveniently watered with Rivers and Meers Mr. Cambden telleth us that there is a place therein termed Melienith from the yellowish Mountains thereof which stretcheth from Offa Dike unto the River Wye which cutteth overthwart the West corner of this Shire where meeting with some stones which impede its motion on a sudden for want of ground to glide on hath a violent downfal which place is termed Raihader Gowy that is the Fall of Wye Hereupon he supposeth it not improbable that the Englishmen forged that word for the name of this Shire terming it Radnor-shire Prelates Elias and Guilielmus de Radnor were both born in Old Radnor both Bishops of Landaff and both eminent being eminent for nothing the former dying May 6. 1240. the latter June 30. 1256. 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