a J. Scot his â—ables Author hath affirmed But finding no such place in that b See Speeds maps in the Catalogues of both Countâ—â— County a Wakerly nigh Stanford in Northamptonshire blame me not if willing to restore my native shire to its right and the honor of his nativity This Richard being the last foundation-Fellow and third Provost of Kings-Colledge purchased four Tenements in Millstreet over against the late Carmelites then newly Queens-Colledge and founded an Hall thereon for one Master and three Fellowes dedicating it to St. Katherine the Virgin and Martyr since augmented by the bounty of others 41. This may be termed Aula Bella Properly a prety Hall if not a proper a pretty Hall even by the confession of the Poet so critical in the word Sed qui bellus homo Cotta c Martial lib. 1. Epigra 10 pusillus homo What thing is in it self but small d in his list of Edward the fift folio 62. That Cotta we doe pretty call And the beholding of this House mindeth me of what Sir Thomas More wrteth of a She favourite of King Edward the fourth as to this particular conformity betwixt them otherwise far be it from me to resemble this Virgin Hall to a wanton Woman namely that there was nothing in her Body one could have changed except one would have wished her somewhat higher Lowness of endowment and littlensse of Receit is all can be cavilled at in this foundation otherwise proportionably most compleat in chappell cloisters library Hal c. Indeed this House was long Town-bound which hindered the growth thereof til Dr. Goslin that good Physitian cured it of that disease by giving the Bull-Inn thereunto so that since it hath flourished with buildings and Students lately more numerous than in greater Colledges Masters Benefactors Bishops Learn Writers Col. Livings 1 Robert Roch. 2 John Tarton 3 John Wardoll 4 Rich. Barleston 5 Thomas Green 6 Rain Bainbrig 7 Edwin Sands 8 Edm. Cosin 9 John May. 10 Edm. Hound 11 John Overal 12 John Hills 13 Richard Sibs 14 Ralph Brounrig 15 Willam Spurstow 16 John Lightfoot 1 Isabel Canterbury Sister to the founder 2 William Tayler 3 Katherine Mils 4 Robert Simpton 5 Hugh PembertoÌ„ 6 John Chester 7 Thomas Green 8 The Lady Elizabeth Bernardiston 9 John Leach 10 Rich. Nealson 11 Rob. Shorton 12 D. Thimblebie 13 Dr. Middleton 14 Hugh Garret 15 Rosamond Paster 16 John Colmlex 17. John Duke 18 John Claypoole 19 John Gostlin Knight 20 Thomas Buck. Esquire Bedle. 21 Mr. Christopher Shirland 22 Mrs. Stafford 23 Mr. Tho. Hobbs 24 Mr. Peter Phesant 25 Lady Cocket 26 Mrs. Jurdain 27 Ann. Lady Bernardiston 28 William Gouge 39 Mr. Coulson 30 Mr. Skirne Esquire 31 Mr. Alured 32 Mr. Cradock 33 The worthy company of Mercers of the City of London Edwin Sands Master Archbishop of York John May Mr. Bishop of Carlile John Overal Mr. Bishop of Norwich Ralp Brounrig Mr. Bishop of Exeter Edwin Sands Archbishop of York Richard Sibs a most Pious and profound Divine Thomas Godwin Fellow an eminent Preacher John Lightfoot an excellent Linguist Coaton Rect. in the Diocess of Ely valued at 6l 12s 9d 0b So that lately in this were maintained one Master six Fellowes with all the Students above an hundred Joannes Boynton Can. Thomas Rotheram Can. Thomas Northwood Can. Richardus Badew Can. Tho. Cosine Can. Joannes Blithe The foundation of Jesus Colledge Can. Robertus Fitz-hugh Can. Richard Freyer 1476 17 Ro. Woodroof Proct. Thomas Swayne 1477 18 Gerard Borell Proct. Guil. Stockdale 1478 19 John Laycroft Proct. Robert Wellby 1479 20 Robert Luther Proct. Guil. Tompson 1480 21 Roger Bower Proct. Phil 1481 22 Morgan Thomas Hole Proct. Jo. Green 1482 Edv. 5. Rich. 3. and James Grave Proct. Jo. Smith 1483 2 and Ro. Hacumblen Proct. John Butler 1484 3 and Gilb. Geuge Proct. John Butler and Gilb. Urmsen 1485 Hen. 7. Proct. Gilb. Fitz-John 1486 2 Hen. Babington Proct. Tho. Waters 1487 3 and Guil. Birly Proct. Richard Walle 1488 4 and John Basset Proct. Tho. Medcalfe 1489 5 Roger Layburne Proct. Gual Bedman 1490 6 John Wolfe Proct. Ric. Burton 1491 7 and John Wolfe Proct. John Sickling 1492 8 and John Walle Proct. Jo. Lound 1493 9 and Ric. Huddleston Proct. Ric. Bramton 1494 10 and John Robinson Proct. John Fisher 1495 11 and Thomas Cooke Proct. Jac. Denton 1496 12 and Tho. Gogney Proct. 42. This year a new Colledge was made in Cambridge of an old Nunâ—ery sounded some three hundred years agoe Viz. anno 1133. by Malcolme of the Scots Royall-race Earle of Cambridge and Huntington and dedicated to St. Radegund This Radegund daughter to Berthram Prince of Thuringia was wife to Lotharius King of France Son to Clodoveus the great the first Christian King of that country whose sequestring herself from her husbands company about the year 560 liv'd The incontinence of Saint Radegunds Nuns and died in a small Monasterie in Poicton thereby gaining the reputation of a Saint 43. But it seems the Sisters living in Cambridge Nunnery consecrated to her honor fell as far short in chastity as she over-did therein Indeed one of them left a good memory Anno Regis Henr. 7. 12 Anno Dom. 1443 or at least hath a good Epitaph inscribed on her monument in the Chappell Moribus ornatae jacet hîc bona Berta Rosata But the rest were not so sweet and fragrant in their reputes squandring away the wealth and ornaments of their house which was no wonder for those to doe which were prodigals of their own persons Not able therefore to go away from their shame they went away with their shame and quitting their covent concealed themselves privately in their own countrey Tradition e Godwin in his catalogue of Bishops of Ely in the life John Alcock saith that of the two remaining one was with child the other but a child so that their land seemed lapsed for want of owners or rather for the owners want of honesty 44. John Maiors testimony here of But let us heare what John Maior f De gestis Scotoâ—um fol. 9. the blunt Scotch Historian saith hereof living in Cambridge some years after whilest those matters were yet fresh in most mens memories Quoddam mulierum coenobium in collegium Jesu converterunt consilio eruditissimi pariter et optimi Viri Stubis doctoris Theologi Nolebant mulieres illae includi sed scholasticorum consortium admiserunt Unde graves viros scandalizarunt quocirca eis ejectis allis Coenobiis imposit is earum loco studentes inopes positi sunt quatenus literis virtutibus incumberent folium darent in tempore suo Hanc mulierum ejectionem approbo Si enim proreligione
upon his men playing at bowls was upon a sudden strook with a palsy had thence to his death-bed and being advised by some to remember God yea so I do saith he and my Lord Cardinal too D r. Gesserte the bloodie Chancellour of Sarisburie died suddenly on a Saturday the day before he had appointed moe than ninety persons to be examined by inquisition M r. Woodrosse that cruell Sheriffe of London being but a week out of his office was so striken by the hand of God that for seven yeers space till his dying-day he was not able to move himself in his bed Burton the cruell Bailie of Crowland was poisoned to death with the stinch of a crowes dung muting on his face What shall I speak of Dale the Promoter eaten up with lice Alexander the Keeper of Newgate consumed with offensive rottenness Robert Balding smitten with lightning at the taking of William Seaman Clarke who hang'd himself in the Tower with many moe So that we may conclude with the prophecie of a Deut. 32. 43. Moses Rejoyce O ye nations with his people for he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will be mercifull unto his land and to his people 38. And now What use to be made of the Martyrs sufferings to take our leaves of those Martyrs what remains but 1. That we glorifie God in and for their patience b Matth. 9. 8. who had given such power unto men 2. That we praise God that true doctrine at this day may be professed at an easier rate then in that age In Faires and Markets for the most part commodities are sold dearest in the morning which towards evening may be bought at a lower price Sure I am they paid most for the Protestant-Religion at the dawning of the day from Popery life or limbe was the lowest price thereof which since may be purchased at a cheaper pennie-worth 3. That we embrace and defend that doctrine which they sealed with their lives and as occasion shall be offered to vindicate and assert their memories from such scandalous tongues and penns as have or shall traduce them 39. It is inconsistent with our History Parsons his Cavill against the Martyrs calling answered here to enter the lists with that railing book which Parsons the Jesuite hath made against those good Martyrs Onely be it remembred that his Cavill-General is chiefly at their calling because they were most Mechanicks Weavers Shooe-makers c. An exception lying as well against just Joseph a Carpenter hospital Simon a Tanner zealous Aquila and Priscilla Tent-makers attentive Lydia a purple-seller And is it not injurious to inferr their piety to be less because their painfulness was more If it be farther objected that it is improbable that these fillie souls should be more illuminated with knowledge than the great Doctours of the Romish Church know that Christs birth was revealed to the c Luke 2. 1. shepherds in their calling watching their flocks by night and concealed from the Priests and Pharisees the pretended shepheards of Israel and God might give more light to these industrious artificers than to their idle Masters of Arts. 40. Behold your calling saith the Apostle how not manie wise men after the flesh c. Poverty and piety oft goe together But God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise 1 Cor. 1. 26 27. And allwayes in time of persecution the Church is like a copse which hath in it more under-wood than oakes For great men consult with their safety and whilest the poorer sort as having little to lose boldly embrace religion with both armes the rich too often do only behold it at distance with a smiling countenance but dare not adventure to entertain it except with very great secrecie We conclude all with this observation that such Martyrs as were artificers by their vocation humbly continued in the station wherein Divine Providence had placed them none presuming as too many now adayes to invade the ministeriall function not adventuring to preach save onely that their real Sermon of patience at their death 41. So much for the first forme A Catalogue of Confessours with their places of refuge of Christians in those dayes which were martyr'd A second sort succeeds of such who being Confessours for the Faith fled into forrain parts from persecution This their removall is not onely defended from cowardize but warranted for Christian Policy by our Saviours a Mat. 10 23. precept But when they persecute you in this City flee into another Had all fled Religion had been at a losse for champions to defend her for the present had none fled Religion might have been at a loss for champions to maintain her for the future We will give in a particular both of such eminent persons and of the places wherein they were entertained Partly that such places may receive their deserved praise for their hospitality to exiles and partly that our harbouring the banished Dutch flying many yeers after from the cruelty of Duke d' Alva in London Norwich Canterbury Colchester and Sandwich may appear not so much the giving of a free and fair curtesie as the honest paying of a due debt and wiping off an old score runn on trust by our great-grand-fathers Som seated themselves at 1. Emden in East-Frizland a Staple-Town of English Merchants I finde neither the names nor number of those that harboured here only it appears that John Scorie late bishop of Chicester was here Superintendent of the English Congregation in Emden 2. Weasel then in the Dominions as I take it of the Duke of Cleve but bordering on the Low-Countries in the possession of the King of Spaine The English meeting here was rather a Chappel then a Church or rather a Tabernacle then a Chappel because soon set up and as suddenly taken down again For they who formerly had fled so farr from Mary were now loth to live too neer to Philip and for fear of so potent a neighbour quickly forsook this place and disposed themselves elsewhere in these four following Church Colonies 3. Arrow a Troubles of Franksord printed Anno. 1575. pag 185. a small city in Switzerland on the banks of the River Arrola belonging to the Republique of Berne The most noted men abiding here were Thomas Leaver Robert poumall Richard Laughorne Thomas Turpin Boys Willford Vpchaire 4. Strasburgh where they found most courteous entertainment The most eminent English abiding here as may be collected from their solemne b Tr. of Fr. pag. 23. joynt-subscription to a letter were James Haddon Edwin Sandys Edmond Grindal John Huntington Guido Eaten John Geoffrey John Peader Thomas Eaten Michael Reymuger Augustine Bradbridge Arthur Saule Thomas Steward Christopher Goodman Humsrey Alcocson Thomas Thomas Lakin Crafton 5. Zurich This was no formed Congregation of Pastours and people but rather a flock of Shepheards and therefore the letters unto them
Augustine Not c See his answer to Augustine's third question to proceed too rigorously in the Alteration of Ceremonies but to allow a Latitude according to Time and Place Oh for a little in him of S t. Paul's Temper who was d 1 Cor. 9. 22. made all things to all men that by all means he might gain some Had Augustine's Joynts been suppled with the Oyl of Humility one bended Knee might probably have bowed many Hearts unto him whereas now he lost their Affections Pride being an unwinning Quality rendering the Proud party scorned by his Betters hated by his Equals feared perchance by his Inferiours but loved by None Had not he who is said to have cured the Blind need to have his own Eies opened herein Who though he be commonly called Augustine the lesse in distinction from his Name-sake Father S t. Augustine of Hippo yet may be allowed Augustine the great if a Measure be taken from the Dimensions of his Pride and Haughtinesse 8. We passe now from this Augustine's Pride Augustine's Prophesie to his Prophesie who enraged at the British Bishops for denying Subjection unto him flatly fell a menacing them that seeing they would not submit to his Motion and joyn with him in Preaching to the Saxons soon after they should feel the force of their Enemies Sword and be suddenly confounded by those whom they would not endeavour to convert Which accordingly came to passe 9. For not longafter 603 alias Ethelfride the Pagan King of Northumberland The massacre of the Monks of Baugor having conquered Chester invaded VVales and bade the Britans battel Amongst them was a Regiment of the Monks of Bangor 605 all naked and unarmed save with Tears and Pâ—ayers whole Vollies whereof they discharged to Heaven for the good Successe of their Country-men being all by themselves upon an Advantage of Ground and one Brockmaile a Britan as Captain of their Life-guard had a Company of Souldiers to defend them Ethelfride being informed that these Monks prayed against him concluded them to be his effectual Enemies though otherwise offering him no Hostility and fiercely falling on them put twelve hundred of them to the Sword fifty onely escaping Brockmaile most basely deserting them whom he was set to defend 10. But here some Birds sing a different Note from the rest Augustine suspected to be their murderer which must be listened unto namely such Authours considerable for their Number Antiquity Gravity and Learning who accuse this Augustine for the Designer of the Death and Destruction of these innocent British Monks so that he cunningly foretold what he himself cruelly intended to fulfill Thus well might Iezabel who a Revel 2. 20. calleth herself a Prophetesse certainly foreshew the death of Naboth for denying his Vine-yard to Ahab when she had purposely before-hand packed and plotted the same An heavy Accusation if true that Augustine to use my b M r. Abraham Wheelock is his notes on Bede pag. 115. Friend's Expression Gregorii Vicarius should be Gregis sicarius Ecclesiae futurae Anglicanae Conversor should be praesentis Britannicae everfor so that instead of a Prophets Reward he deserved the Punishment of a Murderer But to clear this point conceive we a Grand-Jury of four and twenty judicious Readers empannelled before whom the Memory of Augustine is indicted of Murder and Witnesses produced on both Sides Let none censure me if in these Proceedings my Pen failes in legal Formalities such Exactnesse not being by me intended but onely some general Conformity with a Law-triall to fix the History in our Fancies with more Pleasure and Delight 11. The Bill first was solemnly read Witnesses produced against him running to this effect That Augustine the Monk commonly called the English Apostle not having the Feare of God before his Eyes out of fore-thought Malice feloniously did plot project and contrive the Murther of twelve hundred Monks of Bangor by soliciting Ethelbert the Christian King of Kent to move Ethelfride the Pagan King of Northumberland with force of Armes to kill and slay the Monks aforesaid c. An Accusation so hainous that at first it filled the whole Jury with Silence Horrour and Amazement till afterwards they recollected themselves to attend unto the following Witnesses 1. Ieffery Monmouth whose Welsh Bloud was up as concern'd in the Cause of his Country-men Ethelbert King of Kent said c Manuscript in pub lib. Cantab pag. 167. he when he saw the Britans disdaining to yield Subjection to Augustine and that they scorned to be subject to himself stirred up the Northumberlanders and other Saxon Princes that gathering a great Army against the City of Bangor they should go forth to destroy the Abbot Dionoth and the other Clergy who had formerly slighted them 2. Thomas Gray an old d Cited in Iewel 's Apolog part 1. pag. 11. Chronicler as it is written in French brought in this Evidence That Augustine being refused of the Christian Britans enflamed Ethelbertus King of Kent to levy his Power and to war against them himself being also in company as in the old Abstract of Chronicles is recorded and marching with him towards the Slaughter Where they had no more regard of Mercy then a Wolf hath upon a Sheep 3. Nicolus Trivet Anno Dom. 603 a Dominican who wrote some three hundred years since a Sir Henry Spelman's Councills pag. 111. deposed That Ethelbert King of Kent being highly offended incited Ethelfride King of Northumberland and other petty Saxon Kings because they had contemned Augustine in the Council c. 4. Elsebiensis Monachus commenting on those words of Merlin Delebitur iterum Religio Religion shall again be destroyed thus b Manusâ—r in Bennet Coll. Librar Camb. expoundeth them This was afterwards fulfilled either by Gormund or by Augustine who caused twelve hundred Monks to be slain at Bangor in Wales because they obeyed him not in a Councill These Testimonies much moved the Jury who notwithstanding reserved their other Eare as it became Honest men to hearken to the Depostions in Augustine's behalf 12. Amongst these Testimonies in his behalf that of c Eccles Hist lib. 2. cap. 2. editione VVholochiana Bede was most materiall Sicque completum est praesagium sancti Pontificis Augustini quamvis ipso jam multo antè tempore ad coelest a regna sublato ut etiam temporalis interitus ultionem sentirent perfidi quòd oblata sibi perpetuae salutis consilia spreverant Which words for it is seasonably remembred all Pleas must now be in English may thus be translated And so the prophesy of holy Bishop Augustine was fulfilled although himself long before that was taken out of this Life to the Kingdome of Heaven that also the treacherous People might feel the Revenge of Temporal Ruine because they had despised the Counsells of Eternall Salvation offered unto them 13. Much Difference arose hereabouts The Paragraph in Bede's testimony questioned the rather because
Yet the Pope endeavoured what lay in his power 16. to disswade Prince Lewis from his design 1215. to which at first he encouraged him Lewis Prince of France invited by the Barons to invade England and now forbad him in vain For where a Crown is the Game hunted after such hounds are easier laid on then either rated or hollowed off Yea ambition had brought this Prince into this Dilemma that if he invaded England he was accursed by the Pope if he invaded it not forsworn of himself having promised upon oath by such a time to be at London Over comes Lewis into England and there hath the principal learning of the Land the Clergie the strength thereof the Barons the wealth of the same the Londoners to joyn with him Who but ill requited King John for his late bounty to their City in first giving them a a Granted to the City Anno Dom. 1209. Grafton fol. 59. Mayor for their governour Gualo the Popes new Legat sent on purpose bestirr'd himself with Book Bell and Candle Excommunicating the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with all the Nobility opposing King John now in protection of his Holiness But the commonness of these curses caused them to be contemned so that they were a fright to few a mock to many and an hurt to none 21. King John thus distressed An unworthy Embassie of King John to the King of Morocco sent a base degenerous and unchristian-like embassage to Admiralius Murmelius a Mahometan King of Morocco then very puissant and possessing a great part of Spain offering him on condition he would send him succour to hold the Kingdome of England as a vassal from him and to receive the Law b Mat. Paris pag. 245. placeth this two years sooner viz. An. 1213. of Mahomet The Moor marvellously offended with his offer told the Embassadors that he lately had read Pauls Epistles which for the matter liked him very well save onely that Paul once renounced that faith wherein he was born and the Jewish profession Wherefore he neglected King John as devoid both of piety and policie who would love his liberty and disclaim his Religion A strange tender if true Here whilest some alledg in behalf of King John that cases of extremity excuse counsels of extremity when liberty is not left to chuse what is best but to snatch what is next neglecting future safety for present subsistence we onely listen to the saying of Solomon c Eccles 7. 7. Oppression maketh a wise man mad In a fit of which fury oppressed on all sides with enemies King John scarce compos sui may be presumed to have pitched on this project 22. King John having thus tried Turk and Pope and both with bad success sought at last to escape those his enemies 17. whom he could not resist 1216. by a far The lamentable death of King John and fast march into the North-eastern Counties Where turning mischievous instead of valiant he cruelly burnt all the stacks of Corn of such as he conceived disaffected unto him doing therein most spight to the rich for the present but in fine more spoil to the poor the prices of grain falling heavy on those who were least able to bear them Coming to Lin he rewarded the fidelity of that Town unto him with bestowing on that Corporation his own a Camd. Brit. in Norfolk sword Anno Dom. 1216. which had he himself but known how well to manage Anno Regis Joh. 17. he had not so soon been brought into so sad a condition He gave also to the same place a faire silver Cup all gilded But few dayes after a worse Cup was presented to King John at Swinshed Abbey in Lincoln-shire by one Simon b Wil. Caxton in his Chron. called Fructus temp lib. 7. a Monk of poisoned wine whereof the King died A murther so horrid that it concerned all Monks who in that age had the Monopoly of writing Histories to conceal it and therefore give out sundry other causes of his death c Mat Paris pag. 287. Some report him heart-broken with grief for the loss of his baggage and treasure drowned in the passage over the washes it being just with God that he who had plagued others with fire should be punished by water a contrary but as cruel an element d Compare Mr Fox Martyr pag. 234. with Holynshed pag. 194. Others ascribe his death to a looseness and scouring with bloud others to a cold sweat others to a burning heat all effects not inconsistent with poyson so that they in some manner may seem to set down the symptomes and suppress his disease 23. It is hard to give the true character of this Kings conditions King Johns character delivered in the dark For we onely behold him through such light as the Friers his foes show him in who so hold the candle that with the shaddow thereof they darken his virtues and present onely his vices Yea and as if they had also poisoned his memory they cause his faults to swell to a prodigious greatness making him with their pens more black in conditions then the Morocco-King whose aid he requested could be in complexion A murtherer of his Nephew Arthur a defiler of the wives and daughters of his Nobles sacrilegious in the Church profane in his discourse wilful in his private resolutions various in his publick promises false in his faith to men and wavering in his Religion to God The favourablest expression of him falls from the pen of Roger Hoveden Princeps quidem magnus erat sed minùs felix Atque ut Marius utramque fortunam expertus Perchance he had been esteemed more pious if more prosperous it being an usual though uncharitable error to account mischances to be misdeeds But we leave him quietly buried in Worcester Church and proceed in our storie 24. Henry Henry the third under Tutors and Governors the third of that name Hen. 3 1. Octob. 2◠his Son succeeded him being but ten years old and was Crowned at Glocester by a moiety of the Nobility and Clergie the rest siding with the French Lewis Now what came not so well from the mouth of Abijah the son concerning his father Rehoboam posterity may no less truly and more properly pronounce of this Henry even when a man e 2 Chro. 16. 7. He was but a childe and tender-hearted But what strength was wanting in the Ivie it self was supplied by the Oaks his supporters his Tutors and Governours first William Mareshall Earl of Pembroke and after his death Peter Bishop of Winchester But of these two Protectors successively a sword-man and a Church-man the latter left the deeper impression on this our King Henry appearing more Religious then resolute devout then valiant His Reign was not onely long for continuance fifty six years but also thick for remarkable mutations happening therein 25. Within little more then a twelvemonth By what means King
free Soc. to be held as of the Manour of East Greenwich sine reditu  George Bridges Lord Shandois St. Edmunds-Bury in Suffolke Q. o 2 parte rot 13. Elizabeth in the second year of her Reign Feb. 14. Iohn Eye Esquire of the payment of four hundred pound in free Soccage to be held as of the Queens Manour of East Greenwich sine reditu   St. Albans in Hertfordshire Q. p 4 part rot 52. Elizabeth in the sixt of her Reign May 6. Christopher Smith Esq Thomas Broughton Gent. of the payment for it and other lands in the Grant of 1703 li. 1s 4d in free and common Soccage sine reditu   Hitherto we have proceeded on the most authentick authority out of Records And although we are confident of the truth of such as follow yet wanting the like assurance in the Dates Tenures and Considerations we thought fit to rank them by themselves 2. Battel-Abbey in Sussex was bestowed by King Henry the eighth on Sir Anthony Browne Knight of the Garter and Master of His Majesties Horse enjoyed by his heir-male in a direct line at this day 3. Thorney-Abbey in Cambridge-shire was conferred by King Henry the eighth on Iohn Lord Russell and is possessed by his Abnepos William Earle of Bedford in a lineall descent 4. S. Iohn's Priory in Coventry was given by King Henry the eighth to Hales Esquire Clerk of the Hanaper at this day in possession of one of his name and lineage 5. Eversham-Abbey in Worcester-shire I finde not to whom first granted but by a long Lease it was in the possession of one Mr. Andrewes father and son whose Grandchilde living now at Berkhampsteed in Hertford shire hath better thrived by God's blessing on his own industry than his Father and Grandfather did with Evesham-Abbey The sale of the stones whereof he imputeth a cause of their ill successe Lately it was Sir William Curteens and I know not to whom his Sonne sold it 6. The Abbey of S. Bennet's in the Holme in Norfolke was never sold Bennet in the Holme changed with the Bishop of Norwich but onely changed in the two and thirtieth of King Henry the eighth with the Bishop of Norwich as appeareth by the printed Statute which affirmeth That the lands setled by the King on the Bishoprick were of a greater yearly value than the Lordships and Manours given to his Grace Which might be so seeing all profit consists not in annuall revenue but much in casualties of Fines Indeed generally Coronets did gain but Miters lose in their exchanges with the Crown 7. S. Maryes in Yorke with Selby S. Maryes in Yorke how disposed the onely Mitred Abbey beyond Trent was kept in the Crown to be the Kings Palace when repairing into those parts Since called the Manour where the Lord President of the Councell in the North held his residence At this day it is in the hands of the States as excepted by name in the Ast for the sale of Kings lands and one was allowed a Fee for the carefull keeping thereof 8. My enquire cannot attain to whom S. Maryes in Shrewsburie was passed As for Augustine's in Canterbury I conceive it never aliened from the Crown reading in my worthy * Will Somner in his Antiq. of Canterbury pag. 60. friend that the remaining ruines thereof are made subject to publick uses And thus we have a perfect account of all the Mitred English-Abbeys The Reader well remembring what we have formerly written at large of S. Iohn's of Ierusalem and Waltham as also of Glocester Peterborough and Westminster advanced into Cathedrals save that the last was afterwards altered into a Collegiate-Church 9. we may observe that the greatest Abbeys founded in Cities were of the least profit Countrey Abbeys largest in profit because so streight-laced with streets and houses round about them that they could not grow to any extraordinary bulk for ground continued thereunto so that the Sites were but Sites as in S. Albans S. Edmunds-Bury Hyde c. Whereas Monasteries in Countrey-Towns let loose at more liberty to dilate themselves had generally a large Manour and ample Demesnes annexed unto them 10. Wise men have informed me Present gaine future losse that had succeeding Princes followed King Henry's pattern generally granting Abbeys only in Capite that such lands though passed gratis from the Crown under small rents would notwithstanding in some part have returned thither again as affording Respit of Homage Reliefs Wardships Fines for alienation for a constant revenue Whereas being afterwards granted in free soccage whilst the tenure onely advanced the present sale the Crown was deprived of much Emolument and more obligation 11. Richard Williams aliàs Cromwell Esquire A solemn Tilting proclaimed to whom Ramsey Abbey was partly given partly sold was one of the five who in the thirty second year of Henry the eighth made the bold challenge at Justs to all comers that would in France Flanders Scotland and Spain Here it was expected that some of our Knights Hospitallers whose House by Act of Parliament was dissolved but a month before should appear valiantly in their vindication if conceiving any injustice offered unto them But they kept themselves close probably not so much for fear of all the Challengers as of one of the Spectatours viz King Henry Himself as sure if Conquerours of the King's anger and others envy if worsted of their own disgrace Besides by the laws of their Order they were not to Tilt against Christians but onely to spend their spears against Pagans and Infidels Lastly the challenge seemed only confined to forraigners 12. This Richard Williams aliàs Cromwell came into the place an Esquire The noble atchievements of Rich. Cromwell but departed a Knight dubbed by the King for his valour clearly carrying away the credit overthrowing Mr. Palmer * Stow in the reign to Hen. 8. pag. 580. in the field at Justs one day and the next serving Mr. Culpepper at Barriers in the same manner Hereupon there goeth a Tradition in the Familie that King Henry highly pleased with his prowesse Formerly said He thou wast My Dick but hereafter shalt be My Diamond and thereat let fall His Diamond-Ring unto him In avowance whereof these Cromwells have ever since given for their Crest a Lyon holding a Diamond-Ring in his Fore-paw 13. Some conceive these Abbey-Lands more unsuccessfull than any other Censure on Abbey-Lands and infectious to the third Generation Yea Papists would perswade us that as Bucephalus cast all his Riders till backed by Alexander his Lord and Master so these skittish-Lands will dismount all that bestride them untill forsooth they be as they hope restored to their proper Owners And this they impute to the curse of their Founders denounced to such who should alienate them from their first institution Others maintain that no certainty can be concluded from such casualties but that all things come to passe alike to all As dye
the Church joyned with them in the Town house Rich Pepists feared their goods would be condemned as heretical even by the Rebels of their own Religion which made them persist in their loyalty to their Soveraign 8. John Russell Lord privie Seal was sent down with small Forces to suppresse the Commotion A person very proper for that service as of a stout spirit and richly landed in this County He stayed some time at Honyton in vain expecting promised supplies either because this Lord was lookt on as of the Protectors party whose Court-interest did much decline or because Norfolke Rebellion as nearer London engrossed all warlike provisions Thus was this Lord in deep distresse having nothing save his Commission strong about him and his few forces for fear and want of pay began daily to forsake him 9. And now following the advice of the Dorset-shire Gentry he was ready to return when three Princely Merchants for so may I term them both for great interest and loyal intentions viz Thomas Prestwood Thomas Bodly and John Periam so improved their credits with Bristoll Lime and Taunton that they furnished the Lord Russell with necessaries to march forward Animated herewith they advance and gave the Rebels such a blow at Fenington-bridge that they left three hundred of their bodies dead on the place 10. Soon after the Lord Gray of Wilton whose slownesse may be excused as busied by the way in suppressing Tumults in Buckingham and Oxford shire came with a company of Horsmen and 300 Italian Shot under Baptist Spinola their Leader to recruit the Lord Russell Here one would wonder to behold the native English fighting in the maintenance of the Masse opposed by Italians untill he considereth that these foraigners being Souldiers of Fortune consulted the Coine not the Cause of such as entertained them And now the Kings Army advanceth towards Exeter a word or two of which Cities sad condition 11. The Rebels had often attempted to fire the Gates of the City till at last the Citizens found the Paradox true that the onely way to keep their City shut was to set their Gates open making rampires more defensible behinde them As for the Enemies intent to undermine and blow up the Walls it was first discovered then defeated by John Newcombe a Tinner of Teingmouth Philip Comineus For taking advantage of the declivity of the City on that side he countermin'd the Rebels work and then deriv'd into it all the kennels and water-courses falling down with a great precipice and so drowned the vault intended with powder to blow up the Walls Besides at the same instant set an impetuous showre which added to the Deluge Thus in vain doth Hell seek to kindle that Fire when Heaven intendeth to poure water for the quenching thereof 12. Famine raged most extremely insomuch as they were fain to bake bran and meal moulded up in cloathes for otherwise it would not stick together Nor must the worthy resolution of a loyall Citizen be forgotten publickly professing That rather than he would surrender the City to the Rebels he would fight with one arm and feed on the other And now were they reduced to utmost extremity when the seasonable approach of Lord privie Seale put a period to their Miseries For at the winde-mill of S. Mary Clist after a bloody Battle wherein Sir William Francis was slain on the King's side the Rebels were routed and sorced to flie leaving a thousand of their corps dead on the place Miles Coverdail gave publick thanks to God for the victory in the view of Exeter and soon after was made the Bishop thereof 13. Then the Lord caused S. Mary Clist to be burnt to the ground though it was his own Town as knowing full well Traytours to their King would never make good Tenants to their Landlord And on Clist-heath a second fight was begun where the Rebels were finally overcome The Lord privie Seal marched into Exeter and was there as he well deserved welcomed with all possible expressions of joy Sir William Herbert with 1000 Welsh came too late to fight but soon enough to be an honourable Witnesse of the victory 14. This sixt of August Two solemne yearly festivals the day of their deliverance is an high festival in the Almanack of Exeter Good cheer and thereby I justly guesse their great gratitude being annually observed with a publick Sermon to perpetuate the memory of Gods mercy unto them Yet such Solemnities doe daily decay every new Generation being removed one degree farther from the deliverance The King conferred the Manour of Exetland formerly belonging to the City but wrested from it by the Earls of Devon-shire on their Corporation in reward of their loyalty and valour 15. Humphrey Arundle Winslade Bery and Coffi were executed and as this Commotion began it ended at Sampford-Courtney where their last remnant was defeated Six Popish Priests were hanged with Welsh the Vicar of St. Thomas though all this was but mercy to the cruelty of Sir Anthony Kingston Provost-Marshall in trussing up many mean offenders 1. It began about the 20 th of June at Attilborrough about the laying open of Commons The beginning of two Rebellions pretended lately inclosed to the prejudice of the Poor Much increased on the 6â— of July at Windham Play where there was a great confluence of idle people repairing from all parts of the County 2. Robert Ket Their Ring-leaders and number Tanner of Windham one of more wealth than common folk of his craft yet of more wit than wealth confidence than either was chosen their Captain He with two Assistants chosen out of every hundred kept his Kings Bench Chancery and all other Courts under a Tree termed the Oake of Reformation where he did justice be it wrong or right to all such as were summoned before him In short time they increased to be more than twenty thousand 3. Sir Edmond Windham Sheriffe of Northfolke The Sheriffs endevours succeed not commanded them in the King's name peaceably to depart But had not his Horsemanship been better than his Rhetorick himself had not departed the place Yea now the * Hooker alias Vowell in Hollingshed p. 1015 1017. Rebels began to play their pranks threatning to burn the House Idem p. 1029. and defacing the Dovecoat formerly a Chappel before it was turned of an House of Prayer into a Den of Thieves of Master Corbets of Sprowston and committing many outrages layed all Pastures rather waste than open where they came Yea now they march towards Norwich the chief place in the County 4. Norwich is like a great volume with a bad cover The description of Exeter and Norwich having at best but parchment walls about it Nor can it with much cost and time be effectually fortified because under the frowning brow of Moushold Hill hanging over it The River Yere so wanton that it knoweth not its own minde which way to goe such the involved flexures thereof within a
Queens officers as they had just cause more strick in searching as her Judges more severe in punishing the Papists Hereupon the Seculars complained that such proceedings against them tearmed persecution by them and justice by our State was caused by the Jesuits and that Parsons especially though he had kindled the fire left others to bear the heat thereof Yea which was more he was not himself contented to sleep in a whole skinn at Rome but lashed others of his own Religion and having got his neck out of the collar accused others for not drawing weight enough taxing the Seculars as dull and remiss in the cause of Religion and to speak plainly they differed as hot and cold poison the Jesuits more active and pragmatical the Seculars more slow and heavie but both maintaining treacherous principles destructive to the common-Wealth 31. If we look now on the Non-Conformists A general calm we shall finde them all still and quiet After a storm comes a calm wearied with a former blustering they began now to repose themselves in a sad silence especially since the executions of Vdal and Penry had so terrified them that though they might have secret designes we meet not their open and publick motions so that this Century affordeth little more then the mortalities of some eminent men 32. We begin with Richard Fletcher Bishop of London The death of Bp Fletcher and Bishop Coldwell bred in Bennet Colledge in Cambridg one of a comly person and goodly presence qualities not to be cast away in a Bishop though a Bishop not to be chosen for them he lov'd to ride the great horse and had much skill in managing thereof condemned for very proud such his natural stately garb by such as knew him not and commended for humility by those acquainted with him he lost the Queens favour because of his second unhappy match and died suddainly more of grief then any other disease with him let me couple another heart-broken Bishop John Coldwell of Salisbury D r of Physick S t Luke we know was both an Evangelist and Physician who never enjoyed himself after he had consented though little better then surprised thereunto to the alienation of Sherborn Manor from the Bishoprick 33. Here I am at a loss for the date of the death of Laurence Humphry The death of Laurence Humfry but confident I hit the but though miss the mark as about this time He was a consciencious and moderate Non-conformist condemned for luke-warm by such as were scalding-hot Dean of Winchester and Master of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to which he bequeathed a considerable Summ of Gold left in a chest not to be opened except some great necessity urged thereunto But lately whilst D r John Wilkinson was President of the Colledge this Gold was shar'd between him and the fellows And though one must charitably beleeve the matter not so bad as it is reported yet the most favourable relation thereof gave a general distast 34. Sure I am A great Antiquaries good intention discouraged a great Antiquarie lately deceased rich as well in his state as learning at the hearing hereof quitted all his intentions of benefaction to Oxford or any place else on suspition it would be diverted to other uses On the same token that he merrily said I think the bestway for a man to perpetuate his memory is to procure the Pope to Canâ—nize him for a Saint for then he shall be sure to be remembred in their Calender Whereas otherwise I see all Protestant charity subject to the covetousness of posterity to devour it and bury the donor thereof in oblivion 35. M r Baltazer Zanches a Spaniard The charity of a Spanish Protestant born in Sherez in Estremadura founded an alms-house at Totnam high-cross in Middlesex for eight single people allowing them competent maintenance Now seeing Protestant Founders are rare Spanish Protestants rarer Spanish Protestant Founders in England rarest I could not pass this over with silence nor must we forget that he was the first confectioner or comfit-maker in England bringing that mystery to London and as I am informed the exactness thereof continues still in his family in which respect they have successively been the Queens and Kings confectioners 36. A Parliament held at Westminster The acts in the Parliament 1597. 40. wherein the deprivation of Popish Bishops in the first of this Queens Reign was declared legall Some will wonder what need is of this Statute at so many years distance but the Preface intimates the necessity thereof The Legality also of our Bishops and their Officers were again by act of Parliament confirmed And whereas there was a pretended concealment of some lands of the Bishoprick of Norwich the same by act of Parliament were setled on that See and the Exchange of Lands ratified made in the Reign of King Henry the Eight The contemporary convocation did nothing of moment 37. Thomas Stapleton this year ended his life The death of Tho. Stapleton 1598. 41. and was buried at S t Peters Church in Lovain it is written in his Epitaph qui Cicestriae in Anglià nobili loco natus where Cicestriae is taken not for the City but Diocess of Chicester having otherwise good assurance that he was born at Hemfield in Sussex the same year and moneth wherein * See Pitzaeus in his life S r Thomas Moore was beheaded observed by the Catholicks as a grand providence he was a most learned assertor of the Romish Religion wanting nothing but a true cause to defend On one account I am beholding unto him viz. for disswading * Idemibidem Pitzaeus from being a Souldier to be a Scholler whose History of our English writers hath so often been usefull unto me 38. Richard Cosine D r of the Law and Dean of Archeys this year ended his life The death of Dr Cosine One of the greatest Civilians which our Age or Nation hath produced a most moderate man in his own nature but most earnest assertor of the Ecclesiastical discipline as by his printed works doth appear 39. Robert Turner his death was now much bemoaned by the Papists The death of Rob. Turner 1599. 42. he was born at Barstable in Devon bred for a while in Oxford whence flying beyond the Seas he became Canon of Breslaw in Silesia and at the same time Privie Councellor to the Duke of Bavaria falling afterward into his displeasure probably because more pragmatical then became a forrainer however Ferdinand of Gratz afterwards Emperor took him from the Duke to be his own Secretary for the Latine tongue wherein he excelled as by his printed Orations doth appear he lieth buried at Gratz under a handsom Monument 40. Great was the grief of Protestants for the decease of Richard Hooker Anno Regin Eliza. 42. Anno Dom. 1599. The death of Rich. Hooker Turners Country-man as born also in Devon-shire and bred in Corpus-Christi
effectually Earle of Cambridge Anno Dom. by the ensuing evidence doth sufficiently appear It is a Å¿ Extant among the Records of the Earls of Oxford cited at large by Augustine Vincent in hâ— Correction of Bâ—â—â—ks errours pag. 393. Grant made by Mâ—uld the Emperesse Daughter of King Henrie the first unto Aubery de Vere afterward Earl of Oxford part whereof so much as concerns the present point we have here transcribed translated and commented on conceiving it to contain some criticisms in History and Heraldry worthy observation Concedo quòd sit Comes de Cantebruggescire 10 habeat inde tertium denâ—ium sicut Comes debet haberâ— 1144 Itâ— dico si Rex Scotiae non habet illum Comitatum Et si Rex habuerit perquiram illud ei ad posse meum per Escambium Et si non potero tunc do 〈◊〉 concede quòd sit Câ—mes de quolibet quatuor Comitatuum subserptorum viz. Oxenfordscire Berkscire Wiltscire Dorsetscire per consilium considerationem Comitis Glocestriae frairis mei Comitis Gaufridi Comitis Gilberti I grant that he be Earl of Cantbruggshire and that he have from thence the third penny as the Earl ought to have So I say if the King of Scotland hath not that Earldom And if the King hath it I shall to my power procure it him by exchange And if I cannot then I give and grant unto him that he be Earl of which he will of the four Earldoms subscribed namely Oxfordshire Berkshire Wiltshire and Dorsetshire by the counsel and advise of the Earl of Glocester my brother and of Earl Geofrey and of Earl Gilbert The date of this Grant is uncertain but from the hand of her brother the Earl of Glocester subscribed thereunto we collect that it must be before the yeer 1146 wherein the said Earl ended his life 21. Out of this Grant observe Observations collected from this Grant First That though Steven de facto was King of England yet the right was in this Mauld the Emperesse Betwixt these two for many yeers it was catch who catch may both in gaining of places and giving of Honours as successe befriended them Secondly That Earls in that age were Earls indeed not meerly titular but substantiall as receiving the third penny I humbly conceive it of the Crown-revenues therein of the County whence they had their honour Thirdly Kings of Scotland accounted it no abatement to their Crown-Royall to we are with it an English Coronet holding in Commendam as I may say with their own Crown one or moe of English Earldoms As here King David held Cambridge in his own and Huntingdon in right of his Wife Fourthly As the Counties of Cambridge and t See Câ—mdens Britan. in Hunting donshire Huntingdon soon after the Conquest were united under one Comes or Earl so they two onely of all Shires in England remain under one Vicecomes or Sheriff at this day Fifthly Queen Mauld earnestly endeavoured in compliance no doubt with the desires of her favorite Aubery de Vere to confer the County of Cambridge upon him as a place of principal honour above the four other Counties proffered unto him Sixthly The honour of the title of Cambridge arose from the famous University therein otherwise the foresaid Aubery if consulting his profit would cleerly have preferred either Oxfordshire Berkshire Wiltshire or Dorsetshire as greater in extent and therefore returning by the third penny therein larger revenues Lastly Seeing a good title of Cambridge could not be made to him as prepossessed by the Scotch King Aubery was contented with and thankfull for Oxford as the other famous University in England which title his noble and most ancient family enjoyeth at this day 22. Nigellus or Neale 11 second Bishop of Ely 1145 having first obtained a faculty from the Pope Nigellus his foundation in Cambridge â—ounded â—n Hospitall for u Godwin in Epist. â—â—ie pag. 3â—6 Canons regular in Cambridge in the place where now S t. John's Colledge is erected Hee is said to have endowed the same with an hundred and fourty pound by the yeer Anno Dom. yeerly rent Anno Regis Hen. 2 which it so in that age was a vast proportion 23. Roger of Hereford Roger of Hereford Student in Cambridge so named because born there 1170 studied at this time in Cambridge 16 became an admirable Astronomer Philosopher and Chymist diving much into the mysteries of metals He wrote many books of Astronomy and Astrologie which for a long time were kept in Cambridge Librarie but not extant I fear at this day Yet the Oxford w â—â—ri Twine Apolog. lib. 2. pag. 219. Antiquarie will by no means allow this Roger a Student in Crambridge as who flourished before the coming of the Crowland Professors thither but whether more credit may be hung on this single Twine than on the twisted testimonie of Leland Bale and Pitz all agreeing both in his education at Cambridge and flourishing in this Age be it reported to any ingenuous Reader 24. There happened a merciless fire in Cambridge A merciless fire onely so pitifull as to goe out when no more fewell was left to feed the furie thereof 1174 Most of the Churches in the town then built of wood 20 and therefore the more combustible were burnt in part and Trinity-Church wholly x Caius Hist Contab consumed Hence it was that for time to come the Steeple thereof was firmly built of free-stone to prevent by Gods goodnesse the return of the like casualty 25. A sad accident happened this yeer at y Matth. Paris in Anno 1209 pag. 228. Oxford Oxford deserted and partly removed to Cambridge A Clergie-man 1208 and Student in that University K John 9 casually kill'd a woman and fled upon it The Maior of the City with other officers search after him light on three of his Chamber-fellows both innocent and ignorant of the fact committed These they injuriously thrust into Prison and some dayes after King John a back friend to the Clergie as continually vexed with their constant opposition commanded them to be executed in contempt saith my Author of Ecclesiastical libertie Offended hereat three thousand Students at once left Oxford as well Masters as Scholars It a quòd nec unus ex omni Universitate remansit So that not one remain'd of all the Universitie Of these some removed to Cambridge some to Reading so that in this total eclipse of learning therein Oxford was left emptie for a season 26. John of S t. John of St. Omers a Poet bred in Cambridge Omers studied about this time at Cambridge 1209 By his surname I should have conjectured him a Forainer of Artois 10 had not my z Baleus Cent. 3 pag. 261. Author assured me that he was born in Norfolk Yea when a Monk of Peterburgh bred also in Cambridge had with his Iatyrical
at London Robert Gilbert VVarden of Merton Colledge Doctor of Divinity in the behalf of Oxford and Thomas Kington Doctor of Law Advocate of the Arches in the behalf of d Ex Registro Cantuar. Hen. Chichely Cambridge made two eloquent Orations that the worth of Scholars in the Vniversity might be rewarded and preferment proportioned to their Deserts Hereupon it was ordered that the Patrons of vacant Benefices should bestow them hereafter on such as were Graduated in the Vniversity Gradus Professionis ratione juxta Beneficiorum census valores habita So that the best and most Livings should be collated on those of the best and highest Degrees 39. Doctor Kington returning to Cambridge Refused by their own folly instead of Thanks which he might justly have expected for his successfull industry found that the favour he procured was not accepted of The Regent-Masters in the Congregation out of their e Ant. Brit. pag. 278. Youthfull Rashnesse rejected the kindness merely out of Spleen and Spite because the Doctors would be served with the first and best Livings and the Refues onely fall to their share Iohn Riken d ale 1419 7 Chancellour g p 40. The Regent-Masters being grown older and wiser But on second thoughts accepted were perswaded to accept the profer sending their thanks by the Chancellour to another Synod now kept at London And now when the bestowing of Benefices on Vniversitymen was clearly concluded the f Ant. Brit. ut prius unlearned Friars whose interest herein was much concerned mainly stickled against it untill by the Kings interposing they were made to desist The same year it was ordered in Parliament that none should practise g Rob. Hare in Archivis Physick or Surgery except approved on by one of the Vniversities Hen. 6. 1 Thomas de Cobham 1422 1423 Chancellour Robert Fitzhugh Master of Kings Hall Chancellour afterward Bishop of London 2 Marmaduke Lumley Anno Regis Hen. 6. 7 8 9 Anno Dom. 1428 1429 1430 Chancellour afterwards Bishop of Lincoln VVilliam VVimble Chancellour Iohn Holebroke Chancellour 41. Difference arising betwixt the Vniversity Differences betwixt the Bishop of Ely and the University and Philip Morgan Bishop of Ely Pope Martine the fifth at the instance of the Vniversity appointed the Prior of Barnwell and Iohn Deeping Canon of Lincoln his Delegates to enquire of the Priviledges of the Vniversity 42. The Prior undertook the whole businesse Remitted by the Pope to the Prior of Baâ—nwell examined seven witnesses all Aged some past threescore and ten and perused all Papal Bulls Priviledges and Charters wherein he found that the Chancellours of Cambridge have all a Rob. Hare 〈◊〉 Archivis vol. 2. fol 103 Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction viz. Excommunication and suspension over Scholars and their servants probates of VVills granting of Administration and taking their accounts the aged witnesses deposing it on their own sight and knowledge 43. This being returned by the Prior The Pope giveth his sentence for Cambridge it's exemtion Pope Martine pronounced his sentence wherein he declareth that the Vniversity time out of mind was in the Possession use and exercise of Ecclesiasticall and spirituall Iurisdiction without any disquieting of Arch-bishops Bishops or their Officers and for the time to come he confirmed their b Hare in Archivis vo 2. fol. 115. Immunities which his Successour Eugenius the fourth re-confirmed unto them This strengthens our former Conjecture that the Vniversity willingly receded from their own Priviledges in Arundel's visitation VVilliam Lassells 10 1431 Chancellour Richard Caudrey 11 1432 Chancellour Iohn de Langton 15 1436 Chancellour 44. Richard Duke of York was at this time Earle of Cambridge A constant Tenure of Princely Earles the last that ware that Honour for many years in whose death it was extinct And now let the Reader at one view behold the great Persons dignified with the Earledome of Cambridge Scotch Kings Germane Princes English Dukes 1. David 2. Henry 3. Malcolm 4. Iohn Earle of Henault 5. VVilliam Marques of Iuliers 6. Edmond of Langly fifth Son to Edward the third 7. Edward his Son 8. Richard Duke of York his Brother Father to King Edward the 4 th No City Town or place in England was ever honoured with so many and great persons as Cambridge was whose Earledome sleeping for almost two hundred yeares was at last conferred by King Iames on the royallyextracted Marques Hamilton whereof in due place 45. About this time the many Chests of Money formerly well filled The Universities money embezeled and worthily employed for the good of the University and eminent Scholars therein were squandered away and embezeled to private mens profit I cannot particularize in their names nor charge any single person but it appeared too plainly that of 14. or 15. Chests not four were left and the summes in them inconsiderable so that Cambridge never recovered her Bank nor recruited her Chests to the former proportion Anno Dom. 1436 Yet afterwards she met with two good Benefactours Anno Regis Henri ci 6. 15 the one Thomas Bourchier Never reâ—lored to the same degree Arch-bishop of Canterbury who bestowed on her an hundred pounds the other the Lady Elizabeth Cleere Dutchesse of Norfolk which put the Vniversity in stock again bestowing no lesse then a thousand Marks at severall times on the publick Treasury though within few yeares little was left thereof 46. I know it is pleaded Vehement suspition of corruption that the expensive Suites of the University against the Towns-men in the Reigns of King Henry the seventh and King Henry the eighth much exhausted their Coffers But when all is audited a strong suspition still remaines on some in publick employment of unjust dealing Sure it is in the Reign of King Edward the sixth the Treasury was so empty it wanted wherewith to defray necessary and ordinary Expences SECTION V. Anno Regis RADULPHO FREEMAN Anno Dom. in Comitatu Hertfordensi Armigero SOlon interrogatus à Croeso Regum opulentissimo Plutarch in vita Solon quem ille mortalium agnosceret Beatissimum Tellum quendam Atheniensem civem privatum nominavit Huic res nec augusta nec angusta cum inter Invidiam Inoptam pari fere distantia collocaretur Si Solon nunc in vivis Te faelicissimis hujus Seculi annumeraret cui Mens composita Corpus licet tenue integrum Domus elegans Supellex nitida Patrimonium satis amplum Soboles numerosa ac ingenua Nec nimiis Titulis tumescis necte Obscuritas premit cui talis obtigit Conditio qua melior haud facile fingi potest Quod si tibi suppetat hora succisiva quae non sit fraudi serioribus tuis Negociis perlegas quaeso hanc Historiae meae portiunculam cujus pars majuscula in Collegio Regali describendo consumitur in quo
from cruelty covetousness and Popish inclinations 44. 45 46. his crossing a Court project 47. BANGOR the Monks therein massacred b. 2. ¶ 9. Peter BARO why leaving his Professours place Hist. of Cam. p. 125. ¶ 21. different judgements about his departure ¶ 22. William BARRET Fellow of Cajus Coll. His solemn recantation Hist of Cam. p. 150. BARDS their powerfull practices on the Pagan Britans Cent. 1. ¶ 94. BARNWELL nigh Cambridge the Original of Midsummer fair therein Hist of Cam. p. 3. ¶ 9. a Priory therein founded by Paine Peverell p. 7. ¶ 16. BASIL Councill English Ambassadours sent thither b. 4. p. 178. observations on their Commission p. 179 180. John BASTWICK his accusation b. 11. p. 151. ¶ 58. his plea 152. ¶ 64. his speech on the Pillory p. 155. ¶ 71. BATTEL ABBEY founded by King Will. the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 1. the large Priviledges thereof Ibidem and ¶ 15. Thomas BECKET b. 3. p. 32. ¶ 57. Arch-bishop of Canterb. 58. stubborn in defending the Clergy 59 c. slain by 4 Knights in his own Church ¶ 66 67. the great supper stition at his shrine p. 36. ¶ 70. Biob BEALE Clark of the Councill zealus against Bishops b. ¶ p. 47. Arch-bishop Whitgift complains of his insolent carriage ibidem BEDE though sent for went not to Rome C. 8. ¶ 15. yet probably went out of his Cell ¶ 16. why ssur-named VENERABLE ¶ 17. the last â—laze going out of the Candle of his life ¶ 18. BENNET COLL in Cambridge the foundation thereof Hist of Cam. p. 43 44 c. Archb. Parker a par amount benefactor thereunto p. 46. ¶ 11. BENEDICTINE Monks b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. most anâ—cient of all orders in England p. 267 268. BERKLEY Nuns all with child at once c. 11. c. 19. and b. 6. p. 301. ¶ 2. BERKLEYS their Armes relating to their service in the Holy Land b. 11. p. 43. ¶ 23. their great Bonefaction to Abbeys Hist of Abb. p. 326. sers by their dissotution 327. Tho. L. BERKLEY Patron to John de Trevisa b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 43. at whose command he translated the Bible into English ¶ 44. BERTHA the Christian Wife of King Ethelbert as yet a Pagan a great Promoiresse of Religion b. 2. c. 6. ¶ 9. St. John of BEVERLEY his Miracles c. 8. ¶ 11. Theodorns BEZA his letter to Mr. Travers to crave contribution for the City of Geneva b. 9. p. 136 137. why coldly resented ibid. BIBLE three severall Translations thereof b. 7. p. 387. a fourth and best by the appointment of King James b. 10. p. 45 c. Vide Translatours BIRINUS converts the West-Saxons C. 7. ¶ 65. breaketh his promise yet keepeth it ¶ 66. made Bishop of Dorchester ¶ 67. BISHOPS their judisdictions first severed from the Sheriffs b. 3. p. 5. ¶ 10. BISHOP Sin the late long Parliament being charged with a Premunire for making the late canons b. 11. p. 183. ¶ 6. legally defend themselves ¶ 7. acquit themselves from Feculencie of Extraction wherewith a Lord aspersed them ¶ 8 9. symptomes of their dying power in Parliament p. 184. ¶ 10. being petitioned against p. 185. ¶ 12. and assaulted ¶ 13. twelve of them subscribe and present a protest p. 186. ¶ 16. forwhich they are imrisoned p. 188. ¶ 18. enlarged on bayle p. 196. ¶ 34. BISHOPRICKS when and why removed from small Towns to great Cities b. 3. ¶ 21. Five on the destruction of Abbies erected by King Henry the eighth b. 6. p. 338. ¶ 3. BLACKFRIERS the dolefull downfall or fatall Vespers thereof b. 10. p. 102. ¶ 29 30 c. Q. Anna BOLLEN hath amatorious Letters written unto her from king Henry the eighth b. 5 p. 175 ¶ 49. preserved as some say in the Vatican ibidem her character p. 206. ¶ 20. solemnly divorced from King Henry the eighth p. `207 ¶ 2. Robert BOLTON an eminent Divine his death b. 11. p. 143. ¶ 25. EDMUND BONNER Bishop of London begins to bonner it b. 5. p. 231. ¶ 19. deprived under Ed. 6. b. 7. p. 414. his cruell articles Hist of Walth p. 18. whom allgenerations shall call Bloudy b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 11. why imprisoned in the Marshalsey b. 9. ¶ 17. traverseth a suite with Horn Bishop of Winchesters S. 4. ¶ 1. his Counsells plea in his behalf ¶ 2 34. A drawn Baitel betwixt them occasioned by a provisoe in a new Statute ¶ 7. BONNES HOMMES why so called b. 6. 273 ¶ 24. Rich Eremites in pretended povertie ¶ 25. BOOKS embezeled at the dissolution of Abbies b. 6. p. 334. to the great lasse of learning ibidem BOOKS preparatory to reformation set forth by King Henry the eighth b. 7. p. 375. Gilb. BOURN Bishop of Bath and Wells why milde in the dayes of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 3. his death b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 32. Theoph. BRADBURN his sabbatarian fancies b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 32. Thomas BRADWARDINE a great Schoolman c. 14. p. 98. ¶ 23. his just praise ibidem afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury BRANDONS Brothers successively Dukes of Suffolk die of the sweating sicknesse Hist of Cam. p. 128. ¶ 70. Bishop Parkhurst his Epitaph on them ibidem Thomas BRIGHTMAN his birth breeding b. 10. p. 49. ¶ 12. preferment ¶ 13. writings ¶ 14. good life ¶ 15. and sudden death ¶ 16 17. BRITANS their dolâ—full case whilst Pagans C. I. ¶ 1. their principall Idols ¶ 2. in vain they crave help of the Roman Emperour against the invasion of the Picts C. 4. ¶ 22. and C. 5. ¶ 14. 15. BRITAIN the causes hastning the Conversion thereof before other Countries nearer Palestine C. 1. ¶ 6. why the first Planters of Christianity therein are unknown ¶ 8. not beholden to Rome for her first Preachers ¶ 18. not divided into five Roman Provinces as Giraldus Cambrensis mistakes untill the time of Flavius Theodosits C. 2. ¶ 10. Christianity continued therein after the death of King Lucius C. 3. ¶ 2. by the Testimony of Gildas Tertullian and Origen ¶ 3. in defiance of Dempster a detracting writer ibid. Why so little left of the primitive Church-History thereof ¶ 6. and C. 4. ¶ 11. BRITISH CLERGIE refuse submission to the Pope of Rome C. 7. ¶ 3. the Dialogue betwixt them and an Anchoret ¶ 6. BRITISH LANGUAGE the commendation thereof C. 7. ¶ 17. vindicated from causlesse cavils ¶ 18. Robert BROWN his gentile Extraction b. 9. p. 166. ¶ 2. deserted by his own Father p. 167. his opinions p. 168. spared when his Followers were executed ¶ 45. the odd occasion of his imprisonment and death ¶ 46. BRUXELS Benedictine rich Nunnery for English Gentle-women with good portions b. 6. p. 363. Martine BUCER called to Cambridge History of Camb. p. 128. ¶ 32 33 34. the various dates of his death p. 130. ¶ 37. belyed by Parsons to die a Jew ¶ 38. his bones burnt by Card. Poole p. 135. ¶ 54. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE paramount for Martyrs b. 5. p. 163. ¶ 2. Dr.