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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50648	Anglorum gesta, or, A brief history of England being an exact account of the most remarkable revolutions and most memorable occurrences and transactions in peace and war ... : with several useful catalogues of the bishopricks, cities, shires, colledges and halls in both universities, and tables of the kings reigns and of the dimensions of England, Scotland and Ireland / by George Meriton, gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1675 (1675)	Wing M1787; ESTC R232265	156,802	458

Calves and Lambs were Monstrous some with Collors of Skins about their Necks like to the double Cuffs of Shirts then used About this time Francis King of France dying Charles his Brother succeeded him and great Dissentions arising Queen Elizabeth sought a Reconciliation but it could not be obtained whereupon for supportation of Religion she sent an Army into France under the Command of Lord Ambrose Dudly Earl of Warwick who landed at Newhaven in Normandy and after eleven moneths possession thereof were then constrained to render it to the French through Famine and Plague which they brought into England Anno 1563 whereof there dyed in 8 moneths space 23660. The year after the Thames was so hard frozen that Markets were kept on the Ice and all manner of Exercise performed thereon without Danger which Frost going away with a five dayes thaw caused great Floods and drowned many people especially in Yorkshire and this year also was such a Terrible Tempest of Hail Lighting and Thunder in June that at Chelmesford in Essex 500 Acres of Corn was destroyed with it and the Windows on the East side of the Town all the Tyles of their houses were beaten down with it besides divers Barns Chimneys and the Battlements of the Church and the like harm was done in divers other places as at Leeds Crainbrook and Dover And now Shan O Neale Rebelling in Ireland and after several Submissions and Pardons still bursting out again into Armes at length he was slain by his Brother in a Tent. And about this time Anno 1566. The Royal Exchange in London was first built at the Charges of Sir Thomas Gresham the Marchants in former times using to meet in Lumbard-Street And two years after to wit Anno 1568 The Scots murthered their King and Mary Queen of Scotland fled into England where she was honourably received but at length lost her Head Now after these Commotions in Scotland the Earls in the North Westmerland and Cumberland Dacres Nevil Norton Tempest Danby and others in the year 1569 rebelled against the Queen but they were quickly dismaid at the Approach of the Earl of Sussex who was sent against them and surprized them and at Durham caused an Alderman a Priest called Plumtree and 66 Constables to be hanged and Sir George Bowes Knight Marshal did see them Executed in every Town betwixt Newcastle and Weatherby whereupon the Earls fled Westmerland into Flanders and Northumberland into Scotland from whence he was sent into England and lost his head Anno 1570 And the year after at Kingston in the County of Hereford on the 17 of February was the ground seen to open and certain Rocks with a piece of ground removed and went forwards four days together carryed with it great Trees and Sheep-Coats some with 60 sheep in them and overthrew Rimnalstone Chappel the depth of the hole where it first broke out is 30 Foot and the breadth of the Breach was 160 yards also two high ways were removed neare 100 yards with trees and hedg-rowes c. And now Peace being concluded with France and the Queen of Navar a Protestant coming to Paris in France to solemnize her Sons Marriage with the Kings Sister was there secretly poysoned and after her the Admiral of France cruelly murthered and such a Massacre made as neither Sex nor Age escaped the Fury of these Romanists this was about the year 1572. and the time being now elapsed for the delivery of Callis to Queen Elizabeth according to conditions when the Peace was concluded she therefore sent to demand it and after much Dispute and Debate it was at length absolutely denyed And not long after this the Queen was deprived of all Princely Authority at the fained suit of one Morton at Rome and the Pope sent his Bull into England to that purpose which Bull being hung up at the Bishop of London's gate the bringer therof John Felton was for his paines hanged and quartered in St. Paul's Church-yard After this Anno. 1576. In March near Richmond in York-shire a strange Tempest happened which overthrew Cottages Trees Barnes and Hay-stacks and great part of the Church called Patrick Brunton and most strange sights were seen in the Air both terrible and fearful And about this time the Regent of Scotland was murthered and after him the Earl of Lenox the new Regent so powerful were the Popes perswasions with these Idolizers of his holiness the Duke of Norfolk also lost his head on Tower-hill for being as was supposed too favourable towards these Scotch Proceedings and now another new Regent being chosen in Scotland he desired the help of Queen Elizabeth for the defence of the young King which was granted and 1500 Men were sent under the Command of Sir William Drury who presently caused the Surrender of Edenbrough Castle Anno 1580. that renowned English Navigator Sir Francis Drake finished his Voyage of compassing the Earth and now our Merchants began to Trade with the Muscovites and Turks This year there happned a great Earthquake and a Blasing Starr was seen Nightly in October and November a strange and Terrible Tempest also of Lightining and Thunder hapned which seized on the Churches of Blybrough in Suffolk and Bongey nine miles from Norwich and rent the Churches and steeples killing four Persons and several others thrown down groveling on the ground and the same year also in the Parish of Blandsdon in York-shire a women of 80 years of Age named Alice Perim was deliver'd of an hideous Monster whose head was like unto a sallet the fore part of him like a Man with eight Legs of several shapes and a Tail of half a yard long An. 1583 Tobacco came first into England The Pop's Envy now burning still against the Queen he procured the King of Spain to send 600 men for Irelands Rebellion who were all slain by the Lord Grey Deputy of Ireland Anno 1585 Virginia was made an English Colony and about this time all the Assizes kept at the City of Exceter in Devonshire before Sir Henry Anderson Lord Justice of the Common Pleas there dyed Serjeant Floriday Sir John Chichester Sir Arthur Blasset and Sir Barnard Drake Knights Thomas Cary Richard Cary John Fortiscue William Waldrum and Thomas Risden Esquires and Justices of the Peace and of the Common People dyed very many Constables Reeves Tythingmen and Jurors especially of one Jury died eleven of the twelve this Sickness began amongst the Prisoners and fastned on the rest by degrees and about ten years before at the Assizes at Oxford before Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Barron there dyed abundance of Persons also suddenly by the rising of a damp among them Now as is said before the Pope still seeking all occasions against the Reformed Religion it made several flye and some sued to Queen Elizabeth for Aide amongst whom the States of the Netherlands became her Petitioners for their Defender which Request She thrice denied but at length condescended which kindness hath been badly retaliated and sent 5000

England and Wales with the Countys in which each of them are scituated and how many Burgesses they send to the Parliament Burroughs Countys N. B. Abingdon Berks 01 Admonsham Bucks 02 St. Albons Hartford 02 Alborough Suffolk 02 Alborough York 02 Alesbury Bucks 02 Andover Hants 02 Appleby Westmer 02 Arrundel Sussex 02 Ashberton Devon 02 Banbury Oxford 01 Barnestable Devon 02 Barwick Tweed Northum 02 Bathe City Somers 02 Bedford Bedford 02 Berealston Devon 02 Bewdlye Worc. 01 Beverlye Yorksh 02 Bewmoris Anglesey 01 Bishopps Castle Salops 02 Blechinley Surry 02 Bodmin Cornwall 02 Bodwin Wilts 02 Bossiney Cornwall 02 Boston Lincoln 02 Brackley Northamp 02 Branber Sussex 02 Brecknock Brecon 02 Brideport Dorcets 02 Bridgenorth Salops 02 Bridgewater Somers 02 Bristol City Somers 02 Buckingham Bucks 02 Burrough bridg Yorks 02 Calne Wills 02 Cambridge Cambr. 04 Canterbury C. Kent 02 Cardigan Cardig 01 Cardiff Glamor 01 Caermarthen Gaermer 01 Caernervon Caerner 01 Carlisle City Cumbl 02 Castlerising Norfolk 02 Chichester City Sussex 02 Chipenham Wilts 02 Chipenwicomb Bucks 02 Chester City Cheshire 02 Christs Church Hants 02 Cirencester Glouc. 02 Clifton Devon 02 Clitherow Lancast 02 Cockermouth Cumbl 02 Colchester City Essex 02 Comelford Cornwall 02 Corfe Castle Dorcet 02 Coventry City Warwick 02 Cricklade Wilts 02 Denbigh Denbigh 01 Derby Derbysh 02 Devizes Wilts 02 Dorchester Dorcet 02 Dowton Wilts 02 Droitwich Worc. 02 Dunhivid Cornwall 02 Dunwich Suffolk 02 Durham City Durham 02 East Grinstead Sussex 02 East Lowe Cornwall 02 East Retford Nonting 02 St. Edmundsbury Suffolk 02 Evesham Wore 02 Exeter City Devon 02 Flint Flints 01 Fowey Cornwall 02 Gatton Surry 02 Gloucester C. Glouc. 02 Grantham Lincol. 02 Grawpound Cornwall 02 Grimsby Lincoln 02 Guilford Surry 02 Haslemore Surry 02 Harwich Essex 02 Haverford West Pembrooke 01 Heitsbury Wilts 02 Helston Cornwall 02 Hereford City Herefordsh 02 Hertford Hertfordsh 02 Hiddon Yorksh 02 Higham Ferries Northamp 01 Hindon Wilts 02 Honyton Devon 02 Horesham Sussex 02 Hull Yorksh 02 Huntington Hunt 02 St. Jermins Cornwall 02 St. Ives Cornwall 02 Ilchester Somers 02 Ipswich Suffolk 02 Kellington Cornwall 02 Kings Lynn Norfolk 02 Knarseborough Yorksh 02 Lancaster Lanc. 02 Leicester Leic. 02 Lempster Hereford 02 Leskard Cornwall 02 Lewes Sussex 02 Lincoln City Lincoln 02 Litchfield City Stafford 02 Liverpoole Lanc. 02 London City Mids 04 Loswithall Cornwall 02 Ludlowe Sallop 02 Lugarsall Wiltsh 02 Lymington Hants 02 Lym Regis Dorcet 02 Maidston Kent 02 Maldon Essex 02 Malmsbury Wiltsh 02 Malton Yorksh 02 Marborough Wil●s 02 Marlow Bucks 02 Mawes Cornwall 02 Melcome Regis Dorcet 02 Midhurst Sussex 02 Michaell Cornwall 02 Milborne Port Somers 02 Minehead Somers 02 Montgomery Montgom 01 Morpeth Northumb. 02 Munmouth Munmouth 01 Newcastle Tine Northumb. 02 Newcast un Lin. Stafford 02 Newport Cornwal 02 Newport Hants 02 New sarum Wilts 02 Newark Nott. 02 New shoreham Sussex 02 Newton Lanc. 02 New Town Hants 02 New Windsor Berks. 02 New Woodstock Oxford 02 North Allerton Yorks 02 Norwich City Norfolk 02 North-hampton Northam 02 Nortingham N●ttingh 02 Okehampton Devon 02 Old Sarum Wilts 02 Oxford Suffolk 02 Oxford C. U. Ox●ord 04 Pembroke Pembro 01 Pemyn Cornwall 02 Peterborough Northam 01 Peterfield Hants 02 Plymouth Devon 02 Plympton Devon 02 Pomfreit Yorksh 02 Poole Dorcet 02 Port Pigham Cornwall 02 Portsmouth Hant. 02 Preston Lanc. 02 Queenborough Kent 02 Radnor Radnor 01 Reading Berks. 02 Richmond Yorksh 01 Rippon Yorksh 02 Rochester City Kent 02 Rygate Surry 02 Salop Salopps 02 Saltash Cornwall 02 Scarborough Yorksh 02 Shaston Dorcet 02 Southampton Hants 02 Southwark Surry 02 Stafford Staffordsh 02 Stockbridge Hants 02 Stamford Lincol. 02 Sudbury Suffolk 02 Steyning Sussex 02 Tamworth Stafford 02 Taunton Somers 02 Tarestock Devon 02 Tewkesbury Glouster 02 Thetford Norfolk 02 Thirske Yorksh 02 Tiverton Devon 02 Totnes Devon 02 Tregonye Cornwall 02 Truro Cornwall 02 Wallingford Berks. 02 Wareham Dorcet 02 Warwick Warwicksh 02 Wells City Somers 02 Wendover Bucks 02 Wenlock Salop. 02 Weoblye Hereford 02 Westbury Wilts 02 Westminster C. Midds 02 Weymouth Dorcet 02 Whit-Church Hants 02 Wigam Lanc. 02 Wilton Wilts 02 Whinchester C. Hants 02 Wootonbasset Wilts 02 Yarmouth Hants 02 Yarmouth Norfolk 02 Worcester C. Worc. 02 York City Yorksh 02 These eight Burroughs following are called Cinque ports Dover Kent 02 Hasting Sussex 02 Heythe   02 Rumnye Kent 02 Rye Sussex 02 Sandwich Kent 02 Seaford Sussex 02 Winchelsey Sussex 02 Note that the Citizens and Burgesses for the Citys and Burroughs before mentioned in the whole amount unto 417. over and above which number there are also for the 39 shires in England 78 Knights of the shires and 14 for the 13 shires in Wales which added to the former number do amount unto 509 being the compleate and full Number of the House of Commons in Parliament A Catalogue of the Peers A Catalogue of the Peers of England according to their Precedence Dukes JAmes Duke of York and Albany Earl of Vlster Lord High-Admiral of England the Kings only Brother Rupert Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness The Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Privy-Seal take place before all the other Dukes Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Francis Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Christopher Monk Duke of Albemarle James Scot Duke of Monmouth William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle Marquesses Charles Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Henry Somerset Marquess of Worcester Henry Pierre-point Marquess of Dorchester Earls These three take place in respect of their Offices The Lord High Chamberlain of England The Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold The Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold Aubry de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Anthony Grey Earl of Kent William Stanly Earl of Derby John Manours Earl of Rutland Theopilus Hastings Earl of Huntingdon William Russel Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook Edward Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham James Howard Earl of Suffolk Richard Sackville Earl of Dorset James Cecil Earl of Salisbury John Cecil Earl of Exceter John Egerton Earl of Bridgwater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester James Compton Earl of Northampton Robert Rich Earl of Warwick and Holland William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire Basil Fielding Earl of Denbigh George Digby Earl of Bristol Charles Sackvill Earl of Middlesex Robert Rich Earl of Holland and Warwick Gilbert Holles Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Charles Fane Earl of Westmerland Robert Montague Earl of Manchester Charles Howard Earl of Bark-shire John Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave William Ley Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers Robert Berty Earl of Lindsey John Cary Earl of Dover Charles Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Mordant Earl of Peterborough Henry Grey Earl of Stamford Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarven Mountjoy Blount Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield Nicholas Tufton