fratri nostro defuncto impendit in futurum fideliter impendet dedimus Concedimus eidem Thomae heredibus suis Masculis quandam Annuitatem sive annualem reditum quadraginta libraram Habendum percipiendum annuatim eidem Thomae heredibus suis de-exitibus perficuis reventionibus Comitatus Palatini nostri Lancastriae in Com. Lanc. per manus Receptoris ibidem pro tempore existente ad Festum Sancti Michaelis Arch-angeli aliquo statuto actu sive Ordinatione in contrarium editis sive provisis in aliquo non Obstante In cujus rei testimonium has literas fieri fecimus Patentes Dat. apud Ebor. 2 do Aug. Anno regni 2 do A branch of these Talbots are removed into Lancashire and from those in Yorkshire Colonel Thomas Talbot is descended Edward IV. 10 HEN. VAVASOR Mil. It is observed of this family that they never married an Heir or buried their Wives The place of their habitation is called Hassell-wood from wood which there is not wanting though stone be far more plentifull there being a quarry within that Mannor out of which the stones were taken which built the Cathedrall and Saint Maries Abby in York the Monasteries of Holden-selby and Beverly with Thornton-colledge in Lincolnshire and many others So pleasant also the prospect of the said Hassel-wood that the Cathedralls of York and Lincoln being more then 60. miles asunder may thence be discovered Hâ—…nry VIII 2 RADULPHUS EURE Alias EVERS Mil. He was afterwards by the above named King Created a Baron and Lord Warden of the Marshes towards Scotland He gave frequent demonstration as our Chronicles do testify both of his Fidelity and Valour in receiving many smart Incursions from and returning as many deep Impressions on the Scots There is a Lord Evers at this day doubtless a Remoter Descendant from him but in what distance and degree it is to me unknown 5 WILLIAM PERCY Mil. I recommend the following Passage to the Readers choicest observation which I find in Camdens Brit. in Yorkshire More beneath hard by the River Rhidals side standeth Riton an antient Possession of the antient family of the Percy-hays commonly called Percys I will not be over confident but have just cause to believe this our Sheriffe was of that Family And if so he gave for his Armes Partie per fess Argent and Gules a Lion Rampant having Will. Percy-hay Sheriff in the last of Edw. the third for his Ancestor 23 NICHOLAS FAIRFAX Mil. They took their name of Fairfax à Pulchro Capillitio from the fair hair either bright in colour or comely for the plenty thereof their Motto in alusion to their Name is Fare fac say doe such the sympathy it seems betwixt their tongues and hearts This Sir Nicholas Fairfax mindeth me of his Name-sake and Kins-man Sir Nicholas Fairfax of Bullingbrooke Knight of the Rhodes in the raign of Edward the fourth Jacomo Bosio in his Italian History of Saint John of Jerusalem saith that Sir Nicholas Fairfax was sent out of Rhodes when it was in great distress to Candia for relief of Men and Provisions which he did so well perform as the Town held out for some time longer and he gives him this Character in his own Language Cavilero Nicholo Fairfax Inglich homo multo spiritoso è prudento Queen Mary 3 CHRISTOPHER METCALFE Mil. He attended on the Judges at York attended on with three hundred Horsemen all of his own name and kindred well mounted and suitably attired The Roman Fabii the most populous tribe in that City could hardly have made so fair an appearance in so much that Master Camden gives the Metcalfes this character Quae numerosissima totius Angliae familia his temporibus censetur Which at this time viz. Anno 1607. is counted the most numerous family of England Here I forbear the mentioning of another which perchance might vie numbers with them lest casually I minister matter of contest But this Sir Christopher is also memorable for stocking the river Yower in this County hard by his house with Crevishes which he brought out of the South where they thrive both in plenty and bigness For although Omnia non omnis terra nec unda feret All lands doe not bring Nor all waters every thing Yet most places are like trees which bear no fruit not because they are barren but are not grafted so that dumbe nature seemeth in some sort to make signes to Art for her assistance If some Gentleman in our parts will by way of ingenuous retaliation make proof to plant a Colonie of such Northern Fishes as we want in our Southern Rivers no doubt he would meet with suitable success Queen Elizabeth 4 GEORGE BOWES Mil. He had a great Estate in this County and greater in the Bishoprick of Durham A Man of Metall indeed and it had been never a whit the worse if the quickness thereof had been a little more allayed in him This was he who some seven years after viz. Anno 1569. was besieged by the Northern Rebells in Bernards Castle and streightned for Provision yielded the same on Condition they might depart with their Armour After the suppression of the Rebells their Execution was committed to his Care wherein he was severe unto Cruelty For many Well-meaning people were ingaged and others drawn in into that Rising who may truely be termed Loyall Traytors with those two hundred men who went after Absolon in their simplicity and knew not any thing solicited for the Queens service These Sir George hung up by scoars by the Office of his Marshallship and had hung more if Mr. Bernard Gilpin had not begged their lives by his importunate intercession 23 ROBERT STAPLETON Mil. He was descended from Sir Miles Stapleton one of the first founders of the Garter and Sheriâ—… in the 29. of Edward the third He met the Judges with sevenscore men in suitable liveries and was saith my Author in those days for a man well spoken properly seen in languages a comely and goodly personage had scant an equall except Sir Philip Sidney no superior in England He married one of the Co heirs of Sir Henry Sherington by whom he had a numerous posterity 42 FRANCIS CLIFFORD Ar. He afterwards succeeded his Brother George in his Honours and Earldome of Cumberland a worthy Gentleman made up of all Honorable accomplishments He was Father to Henry the fifth and last Earl of that Family whose sole Daughter and Heir was married to the right Honourable and well worthy of his Honour the then Lord Dungarvon since Earl of Cork 45 HENRY BELLASIS Mil. He was afterwards by King Charles Created Baron Fauconbridge of Yarum as since his Grandchild by his Eldest Son is made Vicount Fauconbridge John Bellasis Esquire his second Son who in the Garrison of Newarke and elsewhere hath given ample Testimony of his Valour and all Noble Qualities accomplishing a Person of Honour since is advanced to the dignity of a Baron
in Catal. Episc. Londini impres anno 1616. See here four places challenge one man and I am as unwilling to accuse any of falshood as I am unable to maintain all in the Truth However the difference may thus be accomodated Bradwardins Ancestors fetch'd their Name from that place in Herefordshire according to Camden though he himself was born as Bale saith at Hartfeld in Sussex within the City saith Pits of Chichester interpret him exâ—…ensively not to the Walls but Diocesse and Jurisdiction thereof As for Suffolk in Bishop Godwin I understand it an Erratum in the Printer for Sussex Our usual expedient in the like cases is this to insert the Character at large of the controverted person in that County which according to our apprehension produceth the best Evidence for him yet so that we also enter his name with a reference in the other respective places which with probability pretend unto him If equal likelyhood appear unto us on all sides that County clearly carries away his character which first presenteth it self to our Pen in the Alphabetical Order Thus lately when the same Living was in the gift of the Lord Chancellour Lord Treasurer and Master of the Wards that Clerk commonly carried it who was first presented to the Bishop However though in the disputable Nativities of worthy men first come first serv'd a Caveat is also entred in other Counties to preserve their Titles unprejudiced It must not be forgotten that many without just cause by mistake multiply differences in the places of mens Births The Papists please themselves with reporting a Tale of their own inventing how the men of two Towns in Germany fell out and fought together whilst one of them was for Martin the other for Luther being but the several names of the same person If one Author affirms Bishop Jewel born at Buden another at Berinerber let none make strife betwixt these two Writers the former naming the House and Village the later the Parish wherein he was born a case which often occurs in the Notation of Nativities That the Children of Clergymen have been as successeful as the Sons of Men of other Professions There goeth a common Report no less uncharitable than untrue yet meeting with many Beleivers thereof as if Clergy mens Sons were generally signally unfortunate like the Sons of Ely Hophnies and Phineaz's dissolute in their Lives and doleful in their Deaths This I may call a Libell indeed according to Sir Francis Bacon his Description thereof for first it is a Lye a notorious untruth and then a Bell some lowd and lewd Tongue hath told yea Rung it out and perchance was welcome Musick to some hearers thereof It is first confest that the best Saints and Servants of God have had bad as well as good children extracted from them It is the Note of Illiricus on those words of Saint John to the Elect Lady I rejoiced greatly when I found of thy Children walking in the Truth He saith not all thy but of thy children intimating that she had mingled Ware Corn and Tares in those who were descended from her Thus Aaron for I desire to restrain my self in instances of the Priests had Nadab and Abihu two strange Fire Offerers as well as his Godly Sons Eliazar and Ithamar Yea I find one of the best Fathers having two and those I beleive all he had of the worst Sons even Samuel himself Nor do we deny but that our English Clergy have been unhappy in their off-spring though not above the proportion of other Professions whereof some have not unprobably assigned these causes First If Fellows of Colledges they are ancient beâ—…ore they marry Secondly their children then are all Benjamins I mean the children of their Old age and thereupon by their Fathers to take off as much as we may the weight of the fault from the weaker Sex cockered and indulged which I neither defend or excuse but bemone and condemn Thirdly Such Children after their Fathers Death are left in their Minority to the careless Care of Friends and Executors who too often discharge not their due trust in their Education whence it is such Orphans too osten embrace wild courses to their own destructions But all this being granted we maintain that Clergy-mens Children have not been more unfortunate but more observed than the Children of the Parents of other Professions There is but one Minister at one time in a whole Parish and therefore the fewer they are the easier they are observed both in their Persons and Posterities Secondly the Eminency of their place maketh them exposed and obvious to all discoveries Thirdly possibly Malice may be the Eye-salve to quicken mens Sight in prying after them Lastly one ill Success in their Sons maketh for the reasons aforesaid more impression in the Ears and Eyes of people then many miscarriages of those Children whose Fathers were of another Function I speak not this out of Intent to excuse or extenuate the Badnesse of the one by the Badnesse of the other but that both may be mutually provoked to Amendment In a word other mens Children would have as many Eyesores if they had as many Eyes seeing them Indeed if happinesse be confin'd unto outward Pomp and Plenty and if those must be accounted unfortunate which I in the true meaning of the word must interpret unprovidenced who swim not in equal Plenty with others then that Epithet may be fixed on the Children of the Clergy Whose Fathers coming late to their Livings and surprised by Death not staying long on them which at the best afforded them but narrow maintenance leave them oft-times so ill provided that they are forced without blame or shame to them as I conceive to take sometimes poor and painful Employments for their Livelyhood But by our following Endevours it will plainly appear that the Sons of Ministers have by Gods blessing proved as Eminent as any who have raised themselves by their own Endevours For Statesmen George Carew Privy Councellor of England Scotland and Ireland and as able a man absit Invidia as the age he lived in produced was Earl of Totnes the same place whereof his Father was Arch-deacon Sir Edwin Sandys Son to Arch-bishop Sandys will be acknowledged even by his Enemies a man of such merit that England could not afford an Office which he could not manage For Lawyers Sir Thomas Richardson lately and the never sufficiently to be commended Sir Orlando Bridgeman now Lord Chief Justice with many others For Seamen Sir Francis Drake that great Scourge and Terror to the Spanish Pride If any say these are but thin Instances out of so thick a number de tot modo milibus unus few of so many Hundreds know we have only taken some Eminent persons leaving the rest for fear to be counted Forestallers to the Collection of the Reader in our ensuing Book But the Sons of Ministers have never been more successeful then when bred in the Professions of their
be given Lingua enim nostra supra abavum non ascendit Our language saith he meaning the Spanish affords not a name above the great-grandfathers father But had the off-spring of this Lady been contracted into one place they were enough to have peopled a City of a competent proportion though her issue was not so long in succession as broad in extent I confess very many of her Descendants dyed before her death in which respect she was far surpassed by a Roman Matron on whom the Poet thus Epitapheth it in her own person Viginti atque novem genitrici Callicratea Nullius sexus mors mihi visa fuit Sed centuÌ„ et quinque explevi bene messibus annos Intremulam baculo non subeunte manun Twenty nine births Callicrate I told And of both Sexes saw none sent to grave I was an hundred and five winters old Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave Thus in all ages God bestoweth personal felicities on some far above the proportion of others The Lady Temple dyed Anno Dom. 1656. Lord Mayors Name Father Place Company Time 1 John Brokle William Brokle Newport Paganel Draper 1433 2 Thomas Scot Robert Scot Dorney Draper 1458 3 Henry Collet Robert Collet Wendover Mercer 1486 4 John Mathew Thomas Mathew Shreington Mercer 1490 5 John Mundy William Mundy Wycombe Goldsmith 1522 6 John Coates Thomas Coates Bearton Salter 1542 The Names of the 〈◊〉 of this County Râ—…turned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. William Bishop of Lincoln Commissioners to take the Oathes Reginald de Gray de Ruthyan Chivaler  Thomas Sakevile Miles Knights for the Shire  William Wapload Knights for the Shire  Reginaldi Lucy Chiv. Walteri Lucy Chiv. Iohan. Cheyne Chiv. Tho. Chetewode Chiv. Iohan. Cheyne Arm. Iohan. Hampden de Hampden Ar. Andreae Sperâ—…ing Thomae Rokes Ar. Iohan. Langeâ—…on Ar. Iohan. Iwardby Ar. David Breknook Ar. Thomae Stokes Ar. Iohan. Hampden de Kimbell Walteri Fitz Richard Armigeri Iohan. Stretlee Ar. Tho. Shyngelton Ar. Thomae Cheyne Ar. Iohan. Stokes Ar. Thomae Gifford Ar. Iohan. Gifford dâ—… Whaddon Senioris Ar. Thomae Boteler Ar. Rob. Puttenham Ar. Roberti Olney de Weston Ar. Iohan. Tyringham Ar. Iohan. Brekenock Ar. Thomae Rufford Ar. Iohan. Dayrell Ar. Nicolai Clopton Edmundi Brutenell Iohan. Sewell Iohan. Watkins Willillmi Brook de Chesham Bernardi Sanderdon Thomae More Will. Fouler Iohannis Arches Iohan. Skydmore Iohan. Kimbell Will. Joyntour Rogeri More Iohan. Horewode Iohan. Baldewin Thomae Atte Welle Will. Chapman de Aylesbury Tho. Turnour Iohan. Knight de Hampslape Will. Watford Thomae Oliver Will. Colingrgg de Toursey Thomae Malins Will. Parker de Eton Will. Burton persone Ecclesiae de Crowle Iohan. Clerke de Olney Rich. Hawtreve Iohan. Giffard de Hardmede Iohan. Tapelo de Hampslape Thomae Knight de eadem Iohan. Giffard de Whaddon junioris Iohan. Sapcote de Olney Rich. Arnecok Will. Edy Nich. Brackwell Will. Sambroke Iohan. Edy junioris Thomae Edy Iohan. Puchas Will. Berewell Ade Ashinden David Whitchirche Iohan. Sweft Will. Britwell de Cherdesle Iohan. Verney Eustachii Grenvile Iohan. Fitz Iohn Will. Gerebray Tho. Maudeleyn Iohan. Vesy Tho. Wodewarde Rich. Enershawe Iohan. Harewold de Weston Hen. Loveden Iohan. Thorp Iohan. Parker de Fenny Stratford Nicholai Baker de Crowle Nich. Hobbesson Tho. Malette Iohan. Kerye Tho. Tappe Rich. Hoo de Snenston Iohan. Manchestre Iohan. Phelip Hen. Hunkes Rich. Miches Will. Meridale Tho. Edward Iohan. Vaux Will. Dun Hen. Toursey Hen. Dicon Will. Winslowe Iohan. Bilindon Hen. Porter Tho. Turgens Rober. Dalafeld Math. Colett Iohan. Hampden de Wycombe Iohan. Wellesburn Tho. Merston Will. Attegate Tho. Mery Rich. Milly Will. Wodeward Tho. Pusey Roberti Broun de Beknesfeld Iohan. Iourdeley Tho. Houghton Rich. Yaulode Iohan. Gold de Ailesbury Will. Clarke de eadem Will. Clarke de Culverdon Thomae Kene de Horsendon Will. Symeon Will. Fether Iohan. Caradons Will. Combe de Aylesbury Will. Gill Rich. Lamburn Will. Hidâ—… Tho. Bristow Nich. Baron Will. Cook de Fertwell Iohan. Glover de Kimbell Iohan. Balke de Aylesbury Iohan. Lucy Rich. Lucy Sheriffs This County had the same with Bedford-shire untill they were parted in the seventeenth year of Queen Elizabeth Since which time these have been the Sheriffs of this County alone Name Place Armes REG. ELIZA   Anno   17 Ioh. Croke ar Chilton G. a fess between 6 martlets Arg. 18 Griff. Hampden armiger Hampden Argent a Saltire Gules betwixt 4 Eaglets Az. 19 Mich Blount ar  Barry 〈◊〉 of 6 Or. Sable 20 Rob. Drury ar 〈◊〉 Arg on a Chief vert the 〈◊〉 Tau betwâ—…xt 2 〈◊〉 pierced Or. 21 Rich. Crafford ar   22 Paul Darell ar Lillingstone Az. a Lion Rampant Or 〈◊〉 Argent 23 Th. Tasborough a.  Az. on a Cross Arg. 5 mullets G. 24 Edm. Verney ar  Arg. 4 Lions passant S. betwixt 2 Gemewes in Bend. 25 Will. Hawtrey ar Checkers    Az. 10 billets 4 3 2 1. Or in a Chief of the second a Lion issuant Sable 26 Rob. Dormer ar Wing  27 Edw. Bulstrod ar See our Notes Arg. on 2 Bars S. 6 martlets Or. 28 Ioh. Temple ar Stow * Ar. on a Bend S. 2 Cubit arms Issuant out of 2 pettet Clouds Rayonated all proper Rending of a of a 〈◊〉 Or. 29 Ioh. Goodwin ar See 21 of K. James  30 Ioh. Burlace * ar   31 Fran. Cheney ar Chesham the Vache Checky Or 〈◊〉 Fess G Fretty Erm. 32 Ge. Fleetwood a.  Partee per pale Nebulee Az. 〈◊〉 6 martilets counterchanged 33 Ale Hampden a. ut prius  34 Hen. Longvile ar WolvertoÌ„ Gules a Fess indented twixt 6 Crosses 〈◊〉 Arg. 35 Tho. Pigot ar Dodershal S. 3 〈◊〉 Arg. 36 Mic. Harecourt a.  Or. 2 Barrs Gules 37 Edw. Tirrell ar Thornton Arg. 2 Chev. Az. within a Border Engrailed G. 38 An. Tirringham a. Tirringham Az. a 〈◊〉 Engrailed Arg. 39 Ioh. Dormer ut prius  40 Will. Garrend ar  See our Notes in Northamptonshire 41 Will. Clarke mil.   42 Tho. 〈◊〉 ar  G. a Chev. between 3 Cressets Ar. 43 Will. Burlace ar ut prius  44 Anth. Chester ar Chichely Per Pale Arg. Sable a Chev. between 3 Rams-heads Erased armed Or within a Border ingrailed roundelly all Counterchanged 45 Fran. Cheney mi. ut prius  REG. JAC.   Anno   1 Fran. Cheney mi. ut prius  2 W. Willoughby m  AMP. 3 Ri. Ingoldesby m. Lethenbor Erm. a Saltire Engrailed S. 4 Hen. Longvile m. ut prius  5 Will. Andrews m  G. a Saltire Or Charged with another 〈◊〉 6 Fran Fortescu m.  Az. a Bend Engrailed Ar. cotised Or. 7 Anth. Greenway a.   8 Rob. Lovet mil. Liscomb Arg. 3 wolves passant in Pale S. 9 Iero. Horsey mil.  Az. 3 Horses-heads Couped Or Bridled Ar. 10 Edw. Tirrell mil. ut prius  11 Sim. May ne
his own at his own pleasure I find also two other of the same Sur-name not mutually more allyed in bloud then in charitable dispositions Master Hugh Offley Leather-seller Sheriff of London in the year 1588. buried also in Saint Andrews aforesaid Besides many other benefactions he gave six hundred pounds to this City to put forth youngmen Mr. Robert Offley bred in London and as I take it Brother to the aforesaid Hugh Offley did in year the of our Lord 1596. bestow six hundred pounds on twenty four youngmen in Chester whereof twelve were Apprentices I know not the exact date of his departure It is hard to instance in a Lease of kinsmen born so far from bred in London meeting together in such bountifull performances I believe it was the First of these three Offleys on whom the Rhythme was made Offley three dishes had of daily Roast An Egge an Apple and the third a Toast This I behold neither sin nor shame in him feeding himself on plain and wholesome repast that he might feast others by his bounty and thereby deserving rather praise then a jear from posterity JOHN TERER Gentleman and a Member of this City He erected a seemly waterwork built Steeplewise at the Bridgegate by his own ingenious industry and charge This since hath served for the conveying of River-water from the Cisterne in the top of that Work through Pipes of Lead and Wood to the Citizens houses to their great conveniences I could wish all designes in the like nature hopefully begun may as hâ—…ppily be compleated My industry cannot attain the exact time of his death only I find that his son of the same name indeavoured the like to bring water from a fine spring to the midst of this City which I believe was effected The Farewell And now being to take our leave of this Antient and Honorable City the worst that I wish it is that the distance betwixt Dee and the New-tower may be made up all Obstructions being removed which cause or occasion the same That the Rings on the New-tower now only for sight may be restored to the Service for which they were first intended to fasten Vessels thereunto That the Vessells on that River lately degenerated from Ships into Barks may grow up again to their former Strength and Stature CORNWALL CORNWALL it hath its name partly from the Form partly from the Inhabitants thereof from the former it is so called because narrow in fashion of a horn which by the way is a word of all others passing thorough both Learned and Modern Languages with the least variation 1 Keren Hebr. 2 Keras Gr. 3 Cornu Lat. 4 Corn Fr. 5 Cuerno Span. 6 Corno Ital. 7 Horn Eng. 8 Horne Dut. 9 Kerne Wel. The latter Wale signifies strangers for such were the Inhabitants of this County reputed by their Neighbours It hath Devonshire on the West divided from it generally with the River Tamer encompassed with the Sea on all other sides affording plenty of Harbours so that Forraigners in their passage to or from Spain Ireland the Levant East or West Indies sometimes touch herewith sometimes are driven hither against their will but never without the profit of the Inhabitants according to the Common Proverbe where the horse lieth down there some hairs will be found The Language of the Natives it is a different tongue from the English and dialect from the Welsh as more easie to be pronounced and is sufficiently copious to express the conceits of a good wit both in Prose and Verse Some have avouched it derived from the Greek producing for the proof thereof many words of one sense in both as Kentron A spur Schaphe A boat Ronchi Snoring c. But the judicious behold these as no regular congruities but casuall coincidencies the like to which may be found in languages of the greatest distance which never met together since they parted at the confusion of Babel Thus one would enforce a conformity between the Hebrew and English because one of the three giants sons of Anak was called Ahiman The Cornish-tongue affordeth but two natural oaths or three at most but whether each of them be according to the kinds of Oaths divided by the School-men one Assertory the other Promissory to which some add a third Comminatory is to me unknown The worst is the Common Cornish supply this I will not say defect not onely with swearing the same often over but also by borrowing other oaths of the English Naturall Commodities Diamonds These of themselves sound high till the Addition of Cornish substracteth from their Valuation In Blackness and Hardness they are far short of the Indian Yet Set with a good Foyle advantaged Hypocrisie passeth often for Sincerity may at the first sight deceive no unskilfull Lapidary as their Lustre is less then Orient Diamonds so herein they exceed them that Nature hath made both their Face and their Dressing by whom they are Pointed and Polished But enough hereof the rather because some from the Latine names of Jewells Jocalia things to be jested and played with and Baubellae things which are Trifles and Baubles spightfully collect that Stones accounted precious are more beholding to the Consent of Fancy then their own Intrinsick worth for their high valuation Ambergreese I confess this precious Commodity is fixed to no place in the world as too great a Treasure for any one Country to engross and therefore it is only fluctuating and casually found by small parcells sometimes in one place and sometimes in another yet because the last greatest and best quantity thereof that ever this Age did behold was found on the Coasts of this County we will here insert a little of the name nature and use thereof It is called Ambra-gresia That is gray Amber from the Colour thereof which modern name utterly unknown to the Antients doth speak it to be of later invention whereof a Learned Doctor of Physick hath assigned this probable reason because it was never found in the Midland-sea which in effect was all the Seas to the Antients but onely in the main Ocean which was not navigated on till within this last two hundred years since Seamen have gotten the use of the Card and Compass It is almost as hard to know what it is as where to find it Some will have it the sperme of a fish or some other unctuous matter arising from them others that it 's the foam of the Sea or some excrescency thence boiled to such a height by the heat of the Sun Others that it is a gum that grows on the shore In a word no certainty can be collected herein some Physitians holding one way and some another but this is most sure that Apothecaries hold it at five pounds an Ounce which some say is dearer then ever it was in the memory of man It is a rare Cordiall for the refreshing of the spirits and soveraign for the strengthning the head besides the most fragrant scent
bountifull in such cases though our Nation be most concerned therein Let all ships passing thereby be fore-armed because fore-warned thereof seeing this Rock can no otherwise be resisted than by avoiding EXETER EXETER It is of a circular and therefore most capable form sited on the top of an Hill having an easie assent on every side thereunto This 〈◊〉 much to the cleannesse of this City Nature being the chief Scavenger thereof so that the Rain that falleth there falleth thence by the declivity of the place The Houses stand sidewaies backward into their Yards and onely 〈◊〉 with their Gables towards the Street the City therefore is greater in content than appearance being bigger than it presenteth it self to 〈◊〉 through the same Manufactures Cloathing is plyed in this City with great Industry and Judgment It is hardly to be believed what credible Persons attest for truth that the return for Serges alone in this City amounteth weekly even now when Trading though not dead is sick to three Thousand Pounds not to ascend to a higher proportion But the highest commendation of this City is for the Loyalty thereof presenting us with a pair-Royal of Services herein when besieged by 1 Perkin Werbeck in the Reign of King Henry the seventh 2 The Western Rebels in the Raign of King Edward the sixth 3 The Parliament Forces in the Raign of King Charles the first There Valour was invincible in the two first and their Loyalty unstained in the last rewarded by their Enemies with the best made and best kept Articles yea in the very worst of times a depressed party therein were so true to their Principles that I meet with this epitaph in the Chancell of St. Sidwells Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restituendo Ecclesiam in asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanam captus decollatus 6 Maii 1655. The Buildings The Cathedrall dedicated to St. Peter is most beautifull having the West end thereof adorned with so lively Statues of stone that they plainly speak the Art of those who erected them There is in this City a Castle whitherto King Richard the Usurper repaired and for some dayes reposed himself therein He demanded of the Inhabitants how they called their Castle who returned the name thereof was RUGEMONT though I confesse it a Rarity that the castle in a City should be called by any other name than a Castle Hereat the Vsurper was much abashed having been informed by Wizards that he should never prosper after he had met a thing called Rugemont It seems Sathan either spoke this Oracle low or lisping desirous to palliate his fallacy and ignorance or that King Richard a guilty conscience will be frighted with little mistook the word seeing not Rugemont but Richmond the title of King Henry the seventh proved so formidable to this Vsurper As for Parish-Churches in this City at my return thither this year I found them fewer than I left them at my departure thence 15 years ago But the Demolishers of them can give the clearest Account how the plucking down of Churches conduceth to the setting up of Religion besides I understand that thirteen Churches were exposed to sale by the publick Cryer and bought by well-affected Persons who preserved them from destruction The Wonders When the City of Exeter was besieged by the Parliaments Forces so that only the southside thereof towards the Sea was open unto it incredible number of Larks were found in that open quarter for multitude like Quails in the Wildernesse though blessed be God unlike them both in cause and effect as not desired with Mans destruction nor â—…ent with Gods anger as appeared by their safe digestion into wholesome nourishment hereof I was an eye and mouth witnesse I will save my credit in not conjecturing any number knowing that herein though I should stoop beneath the truth I should mount above belief they were as fat as plentifull so that being sold for two Pence a dozen and under the Poor who could have no cheaper as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meat used to make pottage of them boyling them down therein Seveâ—…al natural Causes were assigned hereof 1. That these Fowl frighted with much shooting on the Land 〈◊〉 to the Sea-side for their Refuge 2. That it is familiar with them in cold winters as that was to shelter themselves in the most 〈◊〉 parts 3. That some sortes of Seed were lately fown in those parts which invited them thither for their own repast However the Cause of causes was Divine 〈◊〉 thereby providing a Feast for many poor people who otherwise had been pinched for provision Princes HENRIETTA youngest Childe of King Charles and Queen Mary was born at BedfordHouse in this City Anno 1644. on the sixteenth day of June After her long and sad night of Affliction the day dawn'd with her in her Brothers happy returne Since she is marryed to the Duke of Orleance I hope that I once related unto her as a Chaplain may ever pray for her that her soul may be sanctified with true Grace and she enjoy both the Blessings of this and a Better life Prelates BARTHOLOMEUS ISCANUS born in this * City was accounted in that age the Oracle of Learning and Religion so that in all Conventions to that purpose his suffrage clearly carried it He became afterwards Bishop in the place of his nativity being intimate with his City-man whose Character next followeth Baldwin of Devonshire then but Abbot of Ford afterwards advanced to higher preferment These mutually dedicated Books each to others Commendation so that neither wanted praise nor praised himself This Leland calleth pulcherimum certamen Indeed this Alternation of reciprocal Encomiums became them the better because it was merit in both flattery in neither This Bartholomew was an opposer of Becket his insolence and having sate Bishop 14 Years ended his life Anno 1185. BALDVINUS DEVONIUS was born in this City of poor Parentage save that in some sort a worthy man may be said to be Father to himself His preferment encreased with his Learning and deserts being first a School-master then an Arch-deacon then Abbot of Ford afterwards Bishop of Worcester and lastly Arch-bishop of Canterbury An eloquent Man and a pious Preacher according to the Devotion of those dayes so that the errours which he maintained may justly be accounted the Faults of the timâ—…s and in him but infirmities When King Richard the first went to Palestine he conceived himself bound both in conscience and credit to partake of the pains and perils of his Soveraign whom he attended thither but not thence dying there and being buried at Tyre Anno Dom. 1190. WALTER BRONSCOMBE was Son to a very mean * man in this City and therefore the more remarkable that taking no rise from his extraction he raised himself by his own industry to be Bishop of Exeter Here he built and endowed an Hospital for poor people and also founded a fair Colledge at
clear evidence to the contrary this Henry Marny Esquire shall pass with me for him who was then Servant afterwards Executor to the Kings Mother the Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond The very same who afterwards was Knighted made Chancellor of the Dutchy and Created Lord Marny by King Henry the eighth and whose daughter and sole heir Elizabeth was with a fair inheritance married to Thomas Howard Viscount Bindon 14 JOHN CHRISTMAS Ar. Such will not wonder at his Surname who have read the Romans cognominated Jaâ—…arius Aprilis c. Yea Festus himself is well known in Scripture probably so called from being born on some solemn festivall the occasion no doubt of this Sheriffs Surname at the first If the name be extinct in Essex it remaineth in other Counties and the City of London where ...... Christmas Esquire a great promoter of my former and present endeavours must not by me be forgotten Henry VIII 6 WILLIAM FITZ-WILLIAMS Ar. I cannot exactly design his habitation but conceive it not far from Waltham Abby in the South west part of this County because he bequeathed 50. pounds to mend the High-ways betwixt Chigwell and Copers-hall He was afterwards Knighted by King Henry the eighth on a worthy occasion whereof hereafter in his Sheriffalty of North-hampton-shire in the 15. of King Henry the eight He bequeathed 100. pounds to poor Maids Marriages 40. pounds to the University c. and delivering a Catalogue of his Debtors into the hands of his Executors he freely forgave all those over whose names he had written Amore Dei remitto 25 BRIAN TUKE Knight He was Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight as appears by his Epitaph and dying Anno 1536. lyeth buried with Dame Grissel his wife deceasing two years after him under a fair Tombe in the North Isle of the Quire of Saint Margarets in Lothbury London Lealand giveth him this large commendation that he was Anglicae linguae eloquentiâ mirificus Bale saith that he wrot observations on Chaucer as also against Polidore Virgill for injuring the English of whom then still alive he justly and generously demanded reparations though since his unresponsable memory can make us no satisfaction Edward VI. 3 Sir JOHN GATES He was descended from Sir Geffry Gates Knight who as appears by his Epitaph in the Church of High-Eastern bought the Mannor of Garnets in that parish of one Koppenden Gentleman This Sir Geffry was six years captain of the Isle of Wight and Marshall of Callis and there kept with the Pikards worschipfull Warrys Reader it is the Language of his Epitaph And died Anno Dom. 1477. As for this Sir John Gates Knight descendant from the said Sir Jeffry he is heavily charged with Sacriledge in our Histories and ingaging with John Dudley Duke of Northumberland in the Title of Queen Jane he was beheaded the 22. of August the first of Queen Mary 1553. Queen Elizabeth 1 RALPH ROWLET Knight He married one of the learned daughters of Sir Anthony Cook Sister to the wives of the Lord Chancellour Bacon and Treasurer Cecill His family is now Extinct one of his daughters marrying into the then Worshipfull since honorable family of the Mainards and with her devolved a fair inheritance 12. JAMES ALTHAM Esq. His Armes casually omitted in our List were Pally of six Ermin and Azure on a Chief Gules a Lyon rampant Or. His Name-sake and direct Descendent now living at Markhall made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles the second addeth with his accomplished civility to the Honor of his Ancestors King James 1. HENRY MAINARD Kt. He was Father to William Maynard bred in Saint John's Colledge in Cambridge where he founded a Logick Professor created Baron of Wicklow in Ireland and Easton in this County whose Son William Lord Maynard hath been so noble an encourager of my Studies that my Hand deserveth to wither when my Heart passeth him by without a prayer for his good successe 15. PAUL BANNING Kt. and Bar. No doubt the same Person who afterwards was created Viscount Banning of Sudbury His Son was bred in Christ-Church of most hopeful parts descended from the Sackvils by the Mother-side and promising high Performance to his Country but alas cut off in the prime of the prime of his life He left two Daughters which though married left no Issue so that his large estate will be divided betwixt the children of his four Sisters Wives to the Marquess of Dorchester Viscount Grandison the Lord Dacres of the South and Henry Murrey Esq of the Bed-Chamber to King Charles King Charles 12. JOHN LUCAS Esq This worthy Person equalling his Extraction with his Vertues was at Oxford made Baron by King Charles the first I understand he hath one sole Daughter to whom I wish a meet Consort adequate to her Birth and Estate seeing the Barony began in this Lord is suspicious in him to determine The Battels Though none in this County the heart of the Eastern Association yet the siege Anno 1648. of Colchester must not be forgotten Know then that the Remnant of the Royalists routed in Kent with much difficulty recovered this County the Parliliaments Forces pursuing them March much farther they could not such their weariness and want of Accommodation bid Battel to their numerous Foes they durst not which was to run in the Jaws of ruine wherefore they resolved to shelter themselves for a time in Colchester Reader pardon a Digression Winchester Castle was by the Long-Parliament ordered to be made UNTENABLE but the over-officious malice of such who executed the Order wilfully mistaking the word made it UNTENANTABLE To apply the Distinction to 〈◊〉 All men beheld it as Tenantable full of faire Houses none as Tenable in an hostile way for any long time against a great Army But see what Diligence can do in few days they fortified it even above imagination Indeed the lining of the Wall was better than the faceing thereof whose Stone outside was ruinous but the in-side was well filled up with Earth which they valiantly maintained Nor was it General Fairfax they feared so much as General Famine that grand Conqueror of Cities having too much of the best Sauce and too little of the worst Meat Insomuch that they were fain to make Mutton of those Creatures which kill Sheâ—…p and Beefe of Cattel which never wore Horns till they were forced to submit to the worst but best they could get of Conditions Here those two worthy Knights Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle the one eminently a whole Troop of Horse the other a Company of Foot were cruelly sentenced and shot to Death whose bodies have since had a civil Resurrection restored to all possible outward Honour by publick Funerall Solemnities The Farewell I wish the sad casualties may never return which lately have happened in this County The one 1581. in the Hundred of Dengy the other 1648. in the Hundred of Rochford and Isle
WADES-Mill Part of a Village lying two miles North thereof were so prodigiously rich as to countervail the wealth of LONDON The Fallacy lieth in the Homonymy of WARE here not taken for that Town so named but appellatively for all vendible Commodities We will not discompose the wit of this Proverb by cavilling that WEARE is the proper name of that Town so called anciently from the Stoppages which there obstruct the River But leave it as we found it and proceed HARTFORD-SHIRE Kindness This is generally taken in a good and grateful sense for the mutual return of favours received It being belike observed that the people in this County at entertainments drink back to them who drank to them parallel to the Latine Proverbs Fricantem refrica Manus manum lavat par est de merente bene bene mereri However sometimes Hartford-shire kindness may prove Hartford-shire cruelty and amount to no less then a Monopoly when this reciprocation of Favours betwixt themselves is the exclusion of all others from partaking thereof Princes WILLIAM second Son of King Edward the Third and Philip his wife took his Christian-name from his Grandfather William Earle of Henault and his Sirname of Hatfield from the place of his Nativity in this County where he was born the ninth of his Fathers Reign Anno Domini 1335. and expired within few dayes afâ—…er So that what I find written on the late Monument of a Noble Infant may also serve for his Epitaph Vivus nil poteram fari quin mortuus Infans Nunc loquor ut mortis sis memor atque vale Living I could not speak now dead I tel Thy duty think of death and so farewel It is uncertain where he was interred but most believe him buried at Westminster EDMUND of LANGLEY Fifth son to King Edward the Third and Queen Philip Was so sirnamed from Kings-Langley in this County the place of his Nativity He was created Earle of Cambridge in the Thirty sixth year of the Reign of his Father and Duke of York in the ninth year of his Nephew King Richard the Second He married Isabel daughter and Co-Heir of Peter King of Castile and lie buried at Langley together He had besides other Children of both Sexes to his eldest Son Richard Duke of York and he died Anno Dom. 1402. EDMUND of HADDAM Reader I presume thee to be so much a Gentleman as in courtesie to allow him a Prince who was Son to Queen Katherine by Owen Theodor her second husband womb-brother to King Henry the Sixth and Father to King Henry the Seventh That he was born in this County one may well be confident seeing there is no Haddam in any Shire of England save Hartford-shire alone I confesse therein three Villages of that name but sure no lesse then Great Haddam was the place of so eminent a Native He was solemnly created Earle of Richmond at Reading in the 31. of King Henry the Sixth Many good works no doúbt he did when living whose corps when buried saved from destruction the fair Cathedral of Saint Davids For his Monument in the midst of the Quire saith my Author as the Prebendaries told him spared their Church from defacing in the dayes of King Henry the Eighth I could wish all King Henries nearest relations had after their decease been severally so disposed preservatives from ruine rapine as the corps of Q. Katherin Dowager did as some say save the Church of Peterburgh But this ill agreeth with that which Brookes reporteth viz. That this Earl was buried in Carmarthen and because Vincent his professed adversary finding fault with him alwayes when any sometimes when no cause taketh no exception thereat I the more rely on his Testimony Onely it is possible that this Earle first enterred in Carmarthen might be afterwards for the more eminence of Sepulture removed to Saint Davids He died Anno Domini 1456. Saints Saint ALBAN though as Saint Paul a Roman by priviledge but Britton by Parentage was born in this County though many hundreds of years before Hartfordshire had its modern Name and Dimensions in the City of Verulam and was martyred for Christianity under Dioclesian An. 303. The cause and manner whereof with the Martyrdome of Saint Amphibalus hard by Rudborn I have so largely related in my Ecclesiastical History that as I will repeat nothing I can add nothing of consequence thereto Except any will conceive this to be remarkable that good Liquoras groweth naturally out of the ruinous walls of Verulam an old City the Mother of the New Town of Saint Albans as a skilful eye-witness Antiquary and zealous Protestant hath observed Had some Papist taken first notice hereof he might probably have made it a Miracle and assign the sanctitie of this place for the root of this Liquoras Martyrs It appeareth by the Maps that Africa lieth partly in the Torrid and partly in the Temperate Zone Nor is the wonder any at all considering the vastness thereof extending it self through many Degrees More strange it is that this small County should be partly in a Temperate viz. the Western part thereof subjected to the Bishop of Lincoln and partly in the Torrid Climate namely the Eastern Moity belonging to the Dioces of London which under Bonner was parched with persecution Yet not to make this Monster worse then he was though many in his Jurisdiction were much molested and though Tradition points the very place in Bishops Stortford where poor people were burnt at the stake yet my Book of Martyrs or Eyes or both be defective wherein I cannot recover the name of any particular person Pope NICHOLAS Son to Robert Break-spear a Lay brother in the Abbey of St. Albans fetcht his Name from Break-speare a place in Middlesex but was born at Abbots-Langley a Town in this County When a Youth he was put to such servile work in St. Albans Abbey that his ingenious Soul could not comport therewith Suing to be admitted into that house he received the repulse which in fine proved no mis-hap but a happy-miss unto him for going over into France he studied so hard and so happily at Paris that for his worth he was preferred Abbot of St. Rufus neer Valentia and afterward by Pope Eugenius the Third was made Bishop of Alba nigh Rome Adnatalis soli memoriam saith my Author that he who was refused to be Monachus Albanensis in England should be Episcopus Albanensis in Italy He was employed by the Pope for the conversion of the Norwegians and though Bale saith he were not Bale if he were not bitter Anti-christiano charactere Norwegios signavit yet his reducing them from Paganisme to Christianity in the Fundamentals was a worthy work and deserves true commendation He was afterwards chosen Pope of Rome by the name of Adrian the fourth There is a mystery more then I can fathome in the changing of his name Seeing his own font-name was a Papal one Yet he
and exceed him in Acurateness therein Being old rather in experience than years he died not 46. years old Anno 1583. and lieth buried under a comely Monument in Saint Giles without Creplegate London on the South Wall of the Quire Let Mr. Cambdens commendation pass for his Epitaph Artis Heraldicae studiosissimus peritissimusque qui in foecialium Collegio Somerseti titulum gessit Robertus Gloverus If the expression were as properly predicated of a Nephew as of the next Brother one might say he raised up seed unto his Uncle Glover in setting forth his Catalogue of Honour in English as more useful therein because chiefly of our Nationall concernment He was employed on a message of Importance from Q. Elizabeth unto Henry the fourth King of France be ing then in Normandy which trust he discharged with great fidelity and incredible scelerity being returned home with a satisfactory answer to her Highness before she could believe him arrived there In memory of which service he had given him for the Crest of his Arms a Chappeau with Wings to denote the Mercuriousnesse of this Messenger He died Anno 16. in Ordinary by name of RoughDragon and afterwards Somerset Herald He made very pertinent Additions to the second Edition of Mr. Cambdens Remains and deserved highly wel of the City of London proving in a learned and ingenious Book that Gentry doth not abate with Apprentiship but only sleepeth during the time of their Indentures and awaketh again when they are expired Nor did he contribute a little to the setting forth of his Uncles Catalogue of Honour He died Anno 1645. and was buried in Bennet Pauls-wharf THOMAS PLAYFERD was born in this County as some of his nearest Relations have informed me He was bred Fellow of Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge and chosen 1597. to succeed Peter Barrow in the place of Margaret Professor His fluency in the Latine tongue seemed a wonder to many though since such who have seen the Sun admire no more at the Moon Doctor Collins not succeeding him so much in age as exceeding him in eloquence The counsel of the Apostle is good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His Foe-Friends commending of him and his own conceiting of himself made too deep an impression on his Intellectuals It added to his Distemper that when his reâ—…election to his place after his last two years end was put into the Regent-House a great Doctor said DETUR DIGNIORI However he held his Professor-ship until the day of his death 1609. and lieth buried with an Hyperbolical Epitaph in S. Botolphs in Cambridge JOHN BOIS D. D. was descended of a right ancient and numerous Family in this County deriving themselves from J. de Bosco entring England with William the Conqueror and since dispersed into eight Branches extant at this day in their several seats Our John was bred Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge and afterwards preferred Dean of Canterbury famous to posterity for his Postils in defence of our Liturgy So pious his life that his adversaries were offended that they could not be offended therewith A great Prelate in the Church did bear him no great good will for mutual animosities betwixt them whilest Gremials in the University the reason perchance that he got no higher preferment and died as I conjecture about the year 1625. Benefactors to the Publick Sir JOHN PHILPOT was born in this County where his Family hath long resided at Upton-Court in the Parish of Sibbertswood He was bred a Citizen and Grocer in London whereof he became Mayor 1378. In the second of King Richard the second our English Seas wanted scouring over-run with the rust of Piracies but chiefly with a Canker fretting into them one John Mercer a Scot with his fifteen Spanish Ships To represse whose insolence our Philpot on his own cost set forth a Fleet a project more proportionable to the Treasury of a Prince than the purse of a private subject His successe was as happy as his undertaking honourable and Mercer brought his Wares to a bad Market being taken with all his Ships and rich plunder therein Two years after he conveyed an English Army into Britaine in ships of his own hiring and with his own money released more than 1000. Arms there which the Souldiers formerly engaged for their victuals But this industry of Philpot interpretatively taxed the lazinesse of others the Nobility accusing him Drones account all Bees pragmatical to the King for acting without a Commission Yea in that ungrateful age under a Child-King Pro tantorum sumptuum praemio veniam vix obtinuit However he who whilest living was the scourge of the Scots the fright of the French the delight of the Commons the darling of the Merchants and the hatred of some envious Lords was at his death lamented and afterwards beloved of all when his memory was restored to its due esteem WILLIAM SEVENOCK was born at Sevenock in this County In allusion whereunto he gave Seven Acorns for his Arms which if they grow as fast in the field of Heraldry as in the Common field may be presumed to be Oaks at this day For it is more than 200. years since this William bred a Grocer at London became Anno 1419. Lord Mayor thereof He founded at Sevenock a fair Free Schoole for poor peoples Children and an Alms House for twenty men and women which at this day is well maintained Since the Reformation Sir ANDREW JUD Son of John Jud was born at Tunbridge in this County bred a Skinner in London whereof he became Lord Mayor Anno 1551. He built Alms Houses nigh Saint Ellens in London and a stately Free Schoole at Tunbridge in 〈◊〉 submitting it to the care of the Company of Skinners This fair Schoole hath been twice founded in effect seeing the defence and maintenance whereof hath cost the Company of Skinners in suits of Law and otherwise four thousand pounds So careful have they been though to their own great charge to see the Will of the Dead performed WILLIAM LAMB Esquire sometime a Gentleman of the Chappel to King Henry the eighth and in great favour with him was born at Sutton-Valens in this County where he erected an Alms-House and a well endowed Schoole He was a person wholly composed of goodnesse and bounty and was as general and discreet a Benefactor as any that age produced Anno 1557. he began and within five months finished the fair Conduit at Holborn-Bridge and carried the water in pipes of Lead more than two thousand yards at his own cost amounting to Fifteen hundred pound The total summe of his several gifts moderately estimated exceeded six thousand pounds He lies buried with his good works in Saint Faiths Church under Saint Pauls where this Inscription set up it seems by himself in his life time is fixed on a Brasse plate to a Pillar O Lamb of God which sin didst take away And as a Lamb wast offered up for sin Where I poor Lamb
as when perceiving his old Palace at Otford to want water he struck his staff into the dry ground still called Saint Thomas his well whence water runneth plentifully to serve that house lately re-built unto this day Others spightful as when because a Smith dwelling in that Town had clogged his Horse he ordered that no Smith afterwards should thrive within that Parish But he who shall go about seriously to confute these Tales is as very a Fool as he was somewhat else who first impudently invented and vented them Prelates STEPHEN LANGTON Here we are at a perfect losse for the place of his birth his surname affording us so much direction in effect it is none at all Inopes nos copia fecit finding no fewer than twelve Langtons though none very near to this place which makes us fly to our marginal refuge herein Stephen born in England was bred in Paris where he became one of the greatest Scholars of the Christian world in his age He was afterwards consecrated Cardinal of Saint Chrysogone and then by Papal power intruded Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in defiance of all opposition which King John could make against him Many are his learned Works writing Comments on all the Old and on some of the New Testament He was the first that divided the whole Bible into Chapters as Robert Stephens a French-man that curious Critick and painful Printer so ne six score years since first subdivided into Verses A worthy Work making Scripture more managable in mens memories and the passages therein the sooner to be turned to as any person who is â—…ooner found out in the most populous City if methodized into Streets and Houses with signs to which the Figures affixed do fitly allude Say not this was a presumption incurring the curse denounced to such who adde to Scripture it being no Addition but an Illustration thereof Besides God set the first pattern to mens industry herein seeing the distinction of some Verses may be said to be Jure Divino as those in the Lamentations and elsewhere which are Alphabetically modelled As causless their complaint who cavil at the inequality of Chapters the eighth of the first of Kings being sixty six the last of Malachy but six verses seeing the entireness of the sense is the standard of their length or shortness It is confessed some few Chapters end and others begin obruptly and yet it is questionable whether the ateration thereof would prove advantageous seeing the reforming of a small fault with a great change doth often hurt more than amend and such alterations would discompose Millions of Quotations in excellent Authors conformed to the aforesaid received divisions Here it must not be concealed that notwithstanding this general tradition of Langtons chaptering the Bible some learned men make that design of far ancienter date and particularly that able Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman This I am confident of that Stephen Langton did something much material in order thereunto and the Improver is usually called the Inventor by a complemental mistake However though I believe Langton well employed in dividing the Bible he was ill busâ—…ed in rending asunder the Church and Kingdom of England reducing King Iohn to sad extremities He died and was buried at Canterbury Anno Dom. 1228. Souldiers WILLIAM PRUDE Esquire vulgarly called Proud was born in this City where his stock have continued for some hundreds of years bred a Souldier in the Low Countreys where he attained to be Lieutenant Colonel He was slain Iuly 12. 1632. at the siege of Mastrich His body which I assure you was no usual honour was brought over into England and buried in the Cathedral of Canterbury in Saint Michaels Chappel on the South side of the Quire with this Inscription on his Monument Stand Souldiers ere you march by way of charge Take an example here that may enlarge Your minds to noble Action Here in peace Rests one whose Life was War whose rich encrease Of Fame and Honour from his Valour grew Unbegg'd unbought for what he won he drew By just desert having in service been A Souldier till near sixty from sixteen Years of his active Life continually Fearless of Death yet still prepar'd to die In his Religious Thoughts for midd'st all harmes He bare as much of Piety as Armes Now Souldiers on and fear not to intrude The Gates of Death by th' example of this Prude He married Mary Daughter of Sir Adam Sprackling Knight and had Issue by her four Sons and three Daughters to whose memory his surviving Son Searles Prude hath erected this Monument Writers OSBERN of CANTERBURY so called because there he had his first birth or best Being as Chanter of the Cathedral Church therein An admirable Musitian which quality endeared him though an Englishman to Lankfrank the Lordly Lombard and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He was the English Jubal as to the curiosity thereof in our Churches An Art which never any spake against who understood it otherwise Apollo is in a sad case if Midas his ears must be his Judges However in Divine Service all Musick ought to be tuned to edification that all who hear may understand it otherwise it may tend to delight not devotion and true zeal cannot be raised where knowledge is depressed This Osbern wrote the life of Saint Dunstan in pure Latine according to that age flourishing under William the Conquerer Anno 1070. SIMON LANGTON was by his Brother Stephen Langton the Arch-Bishop preferred Arch-Deacon of Canterbury who Carne sanguine revelante saith the Record made the place much better both to him and his successors in revenue and jurisdiction A troublesome man he was and on his Brothers score a great adversary to King Iohn even after that King had altered his Copy and became of a fierce Foe a Son-Servant to the Pope by resigning his Crown unto him But our Simon could not knock off when he should having contracted such an habit of hatred against K. Iohn that he could not depose it though commanded under the pain of excommunication This caused him to trudge to the Court of Rome where he found little favour For such who will be the Popes white Boyes must watchfully observe his signals and not only charge when he chargeth but retreat when he retreateth This Simon beside others wrote a Book of the penitence of Magdalene in relation it seems to himself though she found more favour in the Court of Heaven than he at Rome He died Anno Dom. 12 Benefactors to the Publick JOHN EASDAY was Alderman and Mayor of this City Anno 1585. He found the Walls thereof much ruined and being a man but of an indifferent estate began the reparation thereof at Ridingate and therein proceeded so far as his name is inscribed on the Wall whose exemplary endeavours have since met with some to commend none to imitate them THOMAS NEVILE born in this City of most honourable extraction as his name is enough to notifie
it and yet so clear that light will pass through it No Mechanick Trade but hath some Utensils made thereof and even now I recruit my pen with Ink from a Vessel of the same Yea it is useful cap-a-pe from Combs to shooing-horns What shall I speak of the many gardens made of horns to garnish houses I mean artificial flowers of all colours And besides what is spent in England many thousand weight are shaven down into leaves for Lanthorns and sent over daily into France In a word the very Shavings of Horn are profitable sold by the Sack and sent many miles from London for the manuring of ground No wonder then that the Horners are an ancient corporation though why they and the Bottle-makers were formerly united into one company passeth my skill to conjecture The best horns in all England and freest to work without Flaws are what are brought out of this County to London the shop-general of English Industry The Manufactures Fustians These anciently were creditable wearing in England for persons of the primest quality finding the Knight in Chaucer thus habited Of Fustian he weared a Gippon All besmottred with his Haubergion But it seems they were all Forreign Commodities as may appear by their modern names 1. Jen Fustians which I conceive so called from Jen a City in Saxony 2. Ausburgh Fustians made in that famous City in Swevia 3. Millaine Fustians brought over hither out of Lumbardy These retain their old names at this day though these several sorts are made in this County whose Inhabitants buying the Cotton Wool or Yarne coming from beyond the Sea make it here into Fustians to the good employment of the Poor and great improvement of the Rich therein serving mean people for their out 〈◊〉 and their betters for the Lineings of their garments Bolton is the staple-place for this commodity being brought thither from all parts of the County As for Manchester the Cottons thereof carry away the credit in our Nation and so they did an hundred and fifty years agoe For when learned Leland on the cost of King Henry the Eighth with his Guide travailed Lancashire he called Manchester the fairest and quickest Town in this County and sure I am it hath lost neither spruceness nor spirits since that time Other Commodities made in Manchester are so small in themselves and various in their kinds they will fill the shop of an Haberdasher of small wares being therefore too many for me to reckon up or remember it will be the safest way to wrap them all together in some Manchester-Tickin and to fasten them with the Pinns to prevent their falling out and scattering or tye them with the Tape and also because sure bind sure find to bind them about with points and 〈◊〉 all made in the same place The Buildings MANCHESTER a Collegiate as well as a Parochial Church is a great ornament to this County The Quire thereof though but small is exceeding beautiful and for Woodwork an excellent peice of Artifice The Wonders About VViggin and elsewhere in this County men go a Fishing with spades and Mathooks more likely one would think to catch Moles then Fishes with such Instruments First they pierce the Turffie ground and under it meet with a black and deadish water and in it small Fishes do swim Surely these Pisces Fossiles or subterranean Fishes must needs be unwholesome the rather because an unctuous matter is found about them Let them be thankful to God in the first place who need not such meat to feed upon And next them let those be thankful which have such meat to seed upon when they need it Proverbs Lancashire fair Women I believe that the God of nature having given fair complections to the Women in this County Art may save her pains not to say her sinnes in endeavouring to better them But let the Females of this County know that though in the Old Testament express notice be taken of the beauty of many Women Sarah Rebekah Rachel 〈◊〉 Thamar Abishag Esther yet in the New Testament no mention is made at all of the fairness of any Woman not because they wanted but because Grace is chief Gospel-beauty Elizabeths unblameableness the Virgin Maries ponâ—…ering Gods word the Canaanitish Womans faith Mary Magdalens charity Lydia her attention to Pauls Preaching these soul-piercing Perfections are far â—…etter than skin-deep Fairness It is written upon a Wall in Rome RIBCHESTER was as rich as any Town in Christendome And why on a Wall Indeed the Italians have a Proverb A wall is the fools paper whereon they scribble their Fancies 〈◊〉 not to be overcurious in examining hereof we suppose some Monumental Wall in Rome as a Register whereon the names of principal Places were inscribed then subjected to the Roman Empire and probably this Ribchester anciently was some eminent Colony as by pieces of Coins and Coluâ—…s there dayly digged out doth appear However at this day it is not so much as a Mercate Town but whether decaied by age or destroyed by accident is uncertain Here Reader give me leave the Historian must not devour the Divine in me so as to debar me from spiritual Reflections What saith S. * Paul We have here no continuing City and no wonder seing Mortal Men are the Efficient Moldring Buildings the Material and Mutable Laws the formal cause thereof And yet S. Paul was as well stocked with Cities as any man alive having three which in some sort he might call his own Tarsus where he was born * Jerusalem where he was bred at the feet of Gamaliel and Rome whereby he received the Priviledg of Freedome all which he waved as nothing worth because of no abiding and continuance Martyrs JOHN ROGERS was born in this County and bred in the University of Cambridge a very able Linguist and General Scholar He was first a Zealous Papist till his eyes being opened he detested all Superstition and went beyond * Seas to VVitenberg where some years after Tyndal he translated the Bible from Genesis till the Revelation comparing it with the Original coming to England he presented it in a fair Volumne to King Henry the 〈◊〉 prefixing a Dedicatory Epistle and subscribing himself those dangerous dayes required a Disguise under the name of Thomas Matthew And now Reader that is unriddled unto me which hath pusled me for some Years for I finde that K. James in the Instructions which he gave to the Translators of the Bible enjoyned them to 〈◊〉 the former Translations of 1. Tindal 2. Matthews 3. Coverdale 4. 〈◊〉 5. Geneva Now at last I understand who this Matthews was though unsatisfied still in VVhitchurch believing his Book never publickly printed but remaining a Manuscript in the Kings Library Yet this present could not procure Mr. Rogers his security who it seems for fear of the 6 Articles was fain to fly again beyond Seas
Thomae Malton Iohannis Drayton Willielmi Swanlond Willielmi Norton Iohannis Barnvile Richardi Richmond Roberti Oliver Willielmi Bray Roberti Foster Henrici Filingsley Iohannis Bronn Roberti Charyngworth Richardi Skarburgh Richardi Bronn Iohannis e Elryngton VVillielmi Brokherst Iohannis Danyell What is generally true of the Gentry in all Counties that being in continuo fluxu Labitur labetur in omne volubilis aevum is most true in this County where the Stream thereof runneth most rapid to make more speedy room for Succession so that the Gentry in Middlesex seem Sojourners rather then Inhabitants therein Is it not strange that of the thirty three forenamed Families not three of them were extant in the Shire one hundred and sixty years after viz. anno Dom. 1593. as appeareth by the alphabetical Collection set forth by Mr. Norden in that year I impute the brevity as I may term it of such Gentry in this County to the Vicinity of London to them or rather of them to it and hope that Worshipful Families now fixed in Middlesex will hereafter have longer continuance THOMAE a CHALETON Militis I can hardly believe him of the same Family R. being slipped out in the Writing thereof with Thomas Carleton who dyed anno Domini 1447. being buryed under a much defaced Monument in EdmontonChurch and whom the Inhabitants deliver by Tradition to have been a man of great command in this County THOMAE b FROVVYK He was Owner of Gunners-Bury in the Parish of Great Eling wherein he lyes buryed and was Father of famous Judge Frowyk of whom before WILLIELMI c WROTH Ancestor to Sir Henry VVrotâ—… still living at Durance whose great Grandfather Sir Thomas VVroth fled over for his Religion into Germany in the Reign of Queen Mary and it is observable that he who then went away for his Conscience hath alone of all this Catalogne his name remaining in this County As for VVilliam VVroth mentioned in this Catalogue he was Son to VVill. VVroth Esquire who dyed the 20. of March the Ninth of Henry the Fourth who was the Son of Iohn VVroth who married Maud sole Daughter unto Thomas Durand by whom the house of Durands was devolved unto him JOHN SHORDYCHE So called from Shorditch on the North of Bishops Gate in London whereof he was Owner as also of the Mannor of Hackney I say Shorditch so named here in the twelfth of King Henry the Sixth and some hundred years before quasi Shorditch or the Ditch that was the Sewer or publick Drain to the North-East part of the City Hereby appeareth the Vanity of their Conceits who will have it so called from Iane Shore the Minion of Edward the Fourth reported to dye here pitifully as much pitied though not relieved in the Reign of King Richard the Third Reader Be pleased to take notice that though Mr. Norden in his Survey of this County passeth over this Sirname in Silence yet the Progeny of this Iohn Shorditch hath still a confiderable estate at Icknam therein JOHANNIS e ELRYNGTON These had an house sometimes at Neusdon in this County but are since extinct and the last that I find of the name was Iohn Elryngton Filycer of the City of London and Keeper of the Records of the Common Pleas who dying 1504. is buryed with an Inscription in Hackney Church The Sheriffs Some perchance may expect that in conformity to other Counties I should here insert the Sheriffs of Middlesex reserving those of London to the Descrâ—…ption of that City These proceed on an old vulgar error that the Sheriffs aforesaid have their several Jurisdictions divided accordingly Whereas indeed both are jointly and equally Sheriffs of London and Middlesex having not only concurrent but united power in all places Nor know I any difference betwixt them save that he who is first chosen taketh place and he who liveth the neerest to the Tower hath the Poultrie the other VVood street-Counter assigned to his Service But more of them in London All I will add is this the Gentry in Middlesex have herein a priviledge above any County in England that they are not Eligible except also they be Freemen of London to be Sheriffes of this Shire which doth cut off from them the occasion of much expences The Battells Brandford Fight 1642. November the 12. It began on the South west side of the Town near Zion house some execution being done by Great Guns and a Boat on the Thames with many therein sunk and Capt. Quarles an active Citizen on the Parliament side drowned before he could recover the Shore Soon was the Scene of this Tragedy removed to the North of the Town near Acton and the Kings Forces fell fiercely on the Regiment of Collonel Denzil Hollis then present in Parliament and put them to the Worst Here the Welsh under Sir ....... Salisbury their Leader made true the Greek Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that Flyeth will fight again 〈◊〉 These who shewed swift heels at Edgehill â—…attle use as stout Arms as any in this Fight For formerly they were little better then Naked whereas since they had recovered armour to fence their bodies and Resolutions to arme their Minds Next day being Sunday marched out the Militia of London but both Armies may be said to have kept the Sabboth faceing each other without any considerable action It is incredible how many Cart Loads of Victuals were carried out from London enough to have feasted their Souldiers for some days and fed them for some Weeks In the Evening the Kings Forces drew off towards Kings Town The Number of the slain on both sides amounted not to a thousand and the Reputation of the Victory on the Kings Side was more then the effect thereof for then the Royalists did Nose and Beard the Populous City of London and did Triumphare though not In sub Hostico Indeed the accession of Citizens to the King answered not Rational expectation Wealth though Loyal being always Fearful and Loath to hazzard a certain Estate This is most sure that many Scores of Prisoners taken by the King were by him freely dismissed without other Ransome then a strict Oath to serve no more against him Now what Oath office is kept in London I know not nor what Pope therein had power to dispence with so sacred an Obligation But these met with such Confessors who seemingly satisfied them in the Violation of this Oath so that some Weeks after they appeared on the same side as fierce as before The Farewell This County is much infested with the Mildew That it is I know to my Cost but could not purchase the knowledge what it is much lesse how it might be prevented at the same Price though having diligently enquired into the Name and Nature thereof Some will have it called Mildew quasi Maldew or Illdew others Meldew or Hony-dew as being very sweet oh how lushious and noxious is Flattery with the Astringency thereof causing an Atrophy a Consumption in the Grain His
Prison to which many are committed for their contempts more for their debts So called it is from a Brook running by as that of Tygris in Armenia from its former Fleetnesse though now it creepeth flow enough not so much for age as the injection of City excrements wherewith it is so obstructed The Proverb is appliable to those who never owed ought or else having run into debt have crept out of it so that now they may defie danger and arrests yea may triumphare in Hostico laugh in the Face of the Serjeants Surely the Threshold of the Fleet so used setteth a good edge on the Knife and a better on the Wearer thereof acting him with a Spirit free from all engagements All goeth down Gutter-lane There is a small Lane inhabited anciently by Gold-beaters leading out of Cheapside East of Foster-lane which Orthography presents to the Reader by the name of Guthurun-Lane from him the once Owner thereof But common people we must speak with the volge and think with the wise call it Guttur Lane pleading for their mispronouncing it that the narrow form thereof is like the Throat or Gullet and such a one would have pleased Apitius the Epicure who wished to himself Tricubitale Guttur The Proverb is appliable to those who spend all in Drunkennesse and Gluttony meer Belly-Gods whom the Philosopher called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I confesse the word both in sound and sense hath some affinity with that of St. Pauls of the Gretians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idle-bellyes save that our Gastrimargi are far worse so named from the meer madnesse and distraction of their appetite As Lame as St. Giles Criple-gate St. Giles was by â—…irth an Athenian of noble Extraction and great Estate but quitted all for a solitary Life He was visited with a Lamenesse whether natural or casual I know not but the Tradition goes that he desired not to be healed thereof for his greater mortification if so his Judgement differed from all the good Lame-men in the Gospel importunate for ease from their infirmity He is accompted the Patron of Criples and whereas Churches dedicated to other Saints of better Footmanship get the speed of him and come into the City generally Lame St. Giles laggeth behind in the Suburbs as in London Cambridge Salisbury c. Criplegate was so called before the Conquest from Criples begging of Passengers therein And indeed they may prescribe for their Custome ever since the Lame-man begged an Alms of â—…eter and Iohn at the beautiful Gate of the Temple This Proverb may seem guilty of false Herauldry Lamenesse on Lamenesse and in common Discourse is spoken rather merrily then mournfully of such who for some light hurt lagg behind and sometimes is applied to those who out of Lazinesse none so lame as they that will not go counterfeit Infirmity You are all for the Hoistings or Hustings It is spoken of those who by Pride or Passion are mounted or elated to a pitch above the due proportion of their Birth Quality or Estate such as are all in Altitudinibus so that Common persons know not how to behave themselves unto them It cometh from Hustings the Principal and highest Court in London as also in Winchester Lincolne York c. so called from the French word Haulser to raise or lift up The mention of the Hustings a Court so called mindeth me of another Court called the Court of Hall-mote and I am resolved to run the hazard of the Reader 's anger with this my Digression to rectifie a mistake in some and prevent it in others Sir Edward Coke Institut 4. part cap. 9. This is derived of Hall and Mote as much as to say the Hall Court id est Conventus Civium in Aulam Publicam Every Company in London having a Hall wherein they kept their Courts and this Court antiently called Hall-Mote or Folk-Mote With whom verbatim concurreth who would not willingly dissent from him in point of Common-Law the Learned Doctor Cowel in his Interpreter But let all take heed that they confound not this Court with another more Antient and more proper for the cognizance of the Pen of a Divine viz. Haly-Mote Court being a Court derived from Haly which is Holy and Mote a Meeting being an Assembly kept before the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the Regulation of the Company of the Bakers in London wherein the Staffe of Bread and therein the Life of the poor is so much concerned formerly kept on the Lords Day whence it took its Name before the Feast of St. Thomas But a Court of Common-Councell 〈◊〉 the 15th 1609. altered that Court until the Thursday before St. Thomas's Day as since by a later act of the same Councel it is Removed unto the Monday before the said Festival The Antient Title of this Court ranne as followeth Curia Sancti-Motus tenta in Guilhaldea Civitatis London coram Majore Vicecomitibus Civitatis London Die Dominico proximo ante Festum St. Thomae Apostoli ad horam sextam ante Meridiem ejusdem Diei secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis London Such who are Learned in the Lawes and are pleased to reflect on the Name of my Author and Worthy Friend on the Margin will not in the least Degree suspect the Truth hereof Before I come to enroll the List of the Worthies of this City I premise the words Londinas and Londinensis as some have curiously stated their Senses according to whose fancy 1. Londinas signifieth one born in London wheresoever he doth live 2. Londinensis  one living in  wheresoever he was born Could this be made a truth this distinction would be very serviceable to me in this work but it will not hold water finding on due enquiry that by the best Criticks both are used promiscuously for anâ—… either born or living in that City save that Londinas answering to the Question Cujas signifieth Persons alone whilst Londinensis importeth either Persons or Things relating to that City as Turris Londinensis Pons Londinensis c. Princes KATHERINE third Daughter of K. Henry the third and Q. Eleanor was born at London Anno Dom. 1252. November the 25th being St. Katherins day whose name was therefore given unto her at the Font by Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury her Uncle and Godfather She dyed in her very Infancy on whom we will presume to bestow this Epitaph Wak't from the wombe she on this world did peep Dislik tit clos'd her eyes fell fast asleep She lyeth interr'd at Westminster in the space betwixt the Chappels of King Edward and St. Bennet JOAN Eldest Daughter and third child of K. Edward the second and Q. Isabel was born in the Tower of London about the year 1316. She was afterward married to David the second K. of Scotland continuing his wife twenty eight yeares This was she as I conceive who was commonly called Joan Make-Peace and we know Blessed are the peace makers improving her power though sometimes
Saint John's then Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge His studies were suitable to his years when young a good Philosopher witness his book of Meteors afterwards his endeavours ascended from the middle region of the aire to the highest heavens when he bâ—…came a pious and solid Divine Now the Romanists seeing they could no longer blind-fold their Laitie from the Scriptures resolved to fit them with false spectacles and set forth the Rhemish Translation which by Doctor Fulke was learnedly confuted though he never attained any great preferâ—…ent in the Church Here it is worth our pains to peruse the immediate succession of Masters in Pembroke-hall because unparallel'd in any English Foundation Edm. Grindall Archp. of Cant. Mat. Hutton Archp. of York Jo. Whitgift Archp. of Cant. Jo. Young 〈◊〉 of Rochester William Fulke D. D. Lanc. Andrews Bp. of Winchester Sam. Harsnet Archp. of York Nic. Felton Bp. of Eely Here though all the rest were Episcopated Doctor Fulke was but Doctor Fulke still though a man of great merit This proceeded not from any disaffection in him to the Hierarchie as some would fain suggest but principally from his love of privacy and place of Margaret-Professour wherein he died Anno Dom. 1589. EDMOND SPENCER born in this City was brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge where he became an excellent Scholar but especially most haypy in English Poetry as his works do declare In which the many Chaucerisms used for I will not say affected by him are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes known by the learned to be beauties to his book which notwithstanding had been more salable if more conformed to our modern language There passeth a story commonly told and believed that Spencer presenting his Poems to Queen Elizabeth She highly affected therewith commanded the Lord Cecil Her Treasurer to give him an hundred pound and when the Treasurer a good Steward of the Queens money alledged that sum was too much then give him quoth the Queen what is reason to which the Lord consented but was so busied belâ—…ke about matters of higher concernment that Spencer received no reward Whereupon he presented this petition in a small piece of paper to the Queen in her Progress I was promis'd on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason Hereupon the Queen gave strict order not without some check to her Treasurer for the present payment of the hundred pounds she first intended unto him He afterwards went over into Ireland Secretary to the Lord Gray Lord Deputy thereof and though that his office under his Lord was lucrative yet got he no estate but saith my Author Pâ—…culiari Poetis fato semper cum paupertate conflictatus est So that it fared little better with him then with William Xilander the German a most excellent Linguist Antiquary Philosopher and Mathematician who was so poor that as Thuanus saith he was thought fami non famae scribere Returning into England he was robb'd by the Rebels of that little he had and dying for grief in great want Anno 1598. was honorably buried nigh Chaucer in Westminster where this Distick concludeth his Epitaph on hâ—…s monument Anglica te vivo vixit plausitque poesis Nunc moritura timet te moriente mori Whilst hâ—…iu didst live liv'd English poetry Which fears now thou art dead that she shall die Nor must we forget that the expence of his funeral and monument was defrayed at the sole charge of Robert first of that name Earl of Essex JOHN STOW son of Thomas Stow who died Anno 1559. grand-child to Thomas Stow who died 1526. both Citizens of London and buried in Saint Michaels in Cornhill was born in this City bred at learning no higher then a good Gramar-scholar yet he became a painful faithful and the result of both useful Historian Here to prevent mistake by the homonymie of names I request the Reader to take special notice of three brace of English writers 1. Sir Thomas commonly with the addition of De la More who lived under and wrote the life of King Edward the second 1. John Leland bred in Oxford the most exquisite Grammarian of his age who flourished Anno 1428. 1. John Stow a Benedictine Monke of Norwich Anno 1440. who wrote various Collections much cited by Caius in his history of Cambridge 2. Sir Thomas More the witty and learned Chancellour of England 2. John Leland bred in Cambridge the most eminent Antiquary under K. Henry the eight 2. John Stow this Londiner and Historian I confess I have heard him often accused that as learned Guicciardine is charged for telling magnarum rerum minutias he reporteth res in se minutas toys and trifles being such a Smell-feast that he cannot pass by Guild-hall but his pen must tast of the good chear therein However this must be indulged to his education so hard it is for a Citizen to write an History but that the fur of his gown will be felt therein Sure I am our most elegant Historians who have wrote since his time Sir Francis Bacon Master Camden c. though throwing away the basket have taken the fruit though not mentioning his name making use of his endeavors Let me adde of John Stow that however he kept tune he kept time very well no Author being more accurate in the notation thereof Besides his Chronicle of England he hath a large Survey of London and I believe no City in Christendome Rome alone excepted hath so great a volume extant thereof Plato was used to say that many good laws were made but still one was wanting viz. a law to put all those good laws in execution Thus the Citizens of London have erected many fair monuments to perpetuate their memories but still there wanted a monument to continue the memory of their monuments subject by time and otherwise to be defaced which at last by John Stow was industriously performed He died in the eightieth year of his age April 5. 1605. and is buried at the upper end of the North-Isle of the Quire of Saint Andrews-Undershaft His Chronicle since continued by another whose additions are the lively embleme of the times he writeth of as far short of Master Stow in goodness as our age is of the integrity and charity of those which went before it GILES FLETCHER was born in this City son to Giles Fletcher Dr. in law and Embassadour into Russia of whom formerly in Kent From Westminster-school he was chosen first Scholar then Fellow of Trinity colledge in Cambridge One equally beloved of the Muses and the Graces having a sanctified wit witness his worthy Poem intituled Christs Victory made by him being but Bachelour of Arts discovering the Piety of a Saint and Divinity of a Doctor He afterward applied himself to School-Divinity cross to the grain of his Genius as some conceive and attained to good skill therein When he preached at Saint Maries his
to compute the Benefactors Natives of this City whose names are entred in fair Tables the Counterpart of the Original no doubt kept in heaven in their respective Parishes so that in this City it is as easy to find a Steeple without a Bell hanging in it as a Vestry without such a Memorial fixed to it Thither I refer the Reader for his better satisfaction and proceed to the Lord Mayors  Name Father Place Company Time 1 Iohn Rainwell Robert Rainwell London â—…ish-monger 1426 2 Nicholas Wotton Thomas Wotton London Draper 1430 3 Robert Large Thomas Large London Mercer 1439 4 Stephen Foster Robert Foster London Fish-monger 1454 5 Ralph Varney Ralph Varney London Mercer 1465 6 Iohn Tate Iohn Tate London Mercer 1473 7 Bartholom Iames Edward Iames London Draper 1479 8 Iohn Percivall Roger Percivall London Merchant-Taylor 1498 9 Richard Haddon William Haddon London Mercer 1506 10 William Brown Iohn Brown London Mercer 1507 11 Henry Kebble George Kebble London Grocer 1510 12 William Brown Iohn Brown London Mercer 1513 13 George Monox Nâ—…t named Lonâ—…on Draper 1514 14 Thomas Seymer Iohe Seymor London Mercer 1526 15 William Holleis William Holleis London Baker 1539 16 George â—…arn George Barn London Haberdasher 1552 17 William Garret Iohn Garret London Grocer 1555 18 William Chester Iohn Chester London Draper 1560 19 Thomas Rowe Robert Rowe London Merchant-Taylor 1568 20 William â—…llen William Allen London Mercer 1571 21 Iames Hawes Thomas Hawes London Cloath-worker 1574 22 Nichol Woodrofe David Woodrofe London Haberdasher 1579 23 Iohn Branche â—…ohn Branche London Draper 1580 24 Thomas Blanke Thomas Blank London Haderdasher 1582 25 George Barne George Barne London Haberdasher 1586 26 Martin Calthrop Martin Calthrop London Draper 1588 27 Iohn Garret William Garret London Haberdasher 1601 28 Thomas Low Simon Low London Haberdasher 160â—… 29 Henry Rowe Thomas Rowe London Mercer 1607 30 Iohn Swinnerton Thomas Swinnerton London Merchant-Taylor 1612 31 Sebastan Harvey Iames Harvey London Iron-Monger 1618 32 William Cockain William Cockain London Skinner 1619 33 Martin Lumley Iames Lumley London Draper 1623 34 Iohn Goare Gerrard Goare London Merchant-Taylor 1624 35 Robert Ducy Henry Ducy London Merchant-Taylor 1630 36 Robert Titchborn ........ Titchborn London Skinner 1656 Sheriffs of London and Middlesex HEN. II. Anno 1 Quatuor Vic. Anno 2 Gervasius Johan Anno 3 Gervasius Johan filius Radulphi Anno 4 Anno 5 Remiencus fili Berigarii socii ejus Anno 6 Anno 7 Johan filius Radulphi Anno 8 Eri saldus Sutarius vital Clicus Anno 9 Remiencus filius Boringarii Will fil Isabell for 7 years Anno 16 Johan Bievinitte Bald. Clicus Anno 17 Rad. Orificus Rad. Vinter Andre Buckerol Adlord Crispus David de Cornhill Rog. Blundus for 4 years Anno 21 Bricknerus de Haverhil Pet. fil Walter Anno 22 Idem Anno 23 Will. fil Isab Anno 24 Waleran Johan filius Nigelli Anno 25 Will. fil Isab. Arnulphus Buxell Anno 26 Will. Regin le Viell Anno 27 Idem Anno 28 Idem Anno 29 Will. fil Isab. for 6 years RICH. I. Anno 1 Henri de Cornhill Rich. fil Renner Anno 2 Rich filius Renner ut supra Anno 3 Will Hen. fil Renner Anno 4 Nichol. Duke Pet. Neveley Anno 5 Rog. Duke Rich. fil Alwin Anno 6 Will. fil Isabel Will fil Arnold Anno 7 Rob. Besont Joh. de Josue Anno 8 Gerard. de Anteloch Rob. Durant Anno 9 Rog. Blunt Nicol. Ducket Anno 10 Constant. fil Arnold Rob. le Beau. K. JOHN Anno 1 Arnold fil Arnold Rich. fil Barthol Anno 2 Rog. Dorset Jacob. Bartholomew Anno 3 Walter filius Alic. Simon de Aldermanbury Anno 4 Norman Blundell Johan de Eely Anno 5 Walt. Broune Will Chamberlain Anno 6 Tho Haverel Hamon Brond Anno 7 Johan Walgrave Rich. de Winchester Anno 8 Johan Holihand Edm. fil Gerard. Anno 9 Rog. Winchester Edm. Hard I. e. Anno 10 Petrus Duke Tho. Neal. Anno 11 Petr. le Josue Will Blound Anno 12 Adam Whiteley Step. le Grasse Anno 13 Johan fil Pet. Joh. Garland Anno 14 Randolp Eyland Constan. Josue Anno 15 Martin fil Alic. Petr. Bate Anno 16 Solom Basinge Hug. Basinge Anno 17 Joh. Travers Audre Newland HEN. III. Anno 1 Benedict Seinturer Will Bluntivers Anno 2 Tho. Bockerel Rad. Holyland Anno 3 Johan Veile Johan le Spicer Anno 4 Rich. Wimbledon Johan Veile Anno 5 Rich. Renger Johan Veile Anno 6 Rich. Renger Tho. Lambart Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Johan Travars Aud. Bockerell Anno 9 Idem Anno 10 Rog. Duke Martin fil Will. Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 Steph. Bokerel Hen. Cocham Anno 13 Idem Anno 14 Will. Winchester Rob. fil Johan Anno 15 Rich Walter Johan de Woborne Anno 16 Micha de S. Helen Walter de Enfeild Anno 17 Hen. de Edmonton Gerard. Bat. Anno 18 Sim. fil Mar. Rog. Blunt Anno 19 Rad. Ashwy Johan Norman Anno 20 Gerard. Bat. Rich. vel Rob. Hardle Anno 21 Hen. Cobham Jordan de Coventry Anno 22 Johan Toloson Gervasius Anno 23 Johan Codras Joh. Wilhall Anno 24 Reymond Bongey Rad. Ashwy Anno 25 Johan Gisors Mich. Tony. Anno 26 Tho. Duresme Johan Voil Anno 27 Johan fil Joh. Rad. Ashwy Anno 28 Hugo Blunt Adam Basing Anno 29 Rad. Foster Nich. Bat. Anno 30 Rob. de Cornhill Adam de Bewley Anno 31 Simon fil Mar. Laurent Frowick Anno 32 Johan Voile Nic. Bat. Anno 33 Nich. fil Josue Galf. Winchester Anno 34 Rich. Hardell Joh. Toloson Anno 35 Humf. Bat. Will. fil Richardi Anno 36 Laur. Frowick Nic. Bat. Anno 37 Will. Duresme Tho. Wimborne Anno 38 Johan Northamton Rich. Picard Anno 39 Rad. Ashwy Rob. Limon Anno 40 Steph. Doe Hen. Walmond Anno 41 Mich. Bocherel Joh. Minor Anno 42 Rich. Otwell Will Ashwy Anno 43 Rob. Cornhill Joh. Adrian Anno 44 Idem Anno 45 Adam Brouning Hen. Coventry Anno 46 Iohan. Northampton Rich. Picard Anno 47 Iohan. Taylor Rich. Walbrook Anno 48 Rob. de Mount Piter Osbert de Suffolk Anno 49 Greg. Rokesley Tho. de Detford Anno 50 Edward Blunt Petr. Anger Anno 51 Iohan. Hind Iohan. Walraven Anno 52 Iohan. Adrian Lucas de Baten-Court Anno 53 Walter Harvy et Will. Duresme Anno 54 Tho. Baseing et Rob. Cornhill Anno 55 Walt. Potter Phil. Taylor Anno 56 Greg. Rokesley Hen. Walleys Anno 57 Rich. Paris Johan de Wodeley EDW. I. Anno 1 Johan Horne Walt. Potter Anno 2 Nico. Winchester Hen. Coventry Anno 3 Lucas de Batencourt Hen. Frowick Anno 4 Johan Horne Rad. Blunt Anno 5 Rob. de Arer
Week for ever He was when living a great Benefactor to the building of Alder-Mary-Church and by his Testament gave 1000. pounds towards the finishing thereof how barbarously he was afterwards requited and his body cast out of the grave we have formerly largely bemoaned and with just indignation HENRY the Eighth 1. GEORGE MONOX He re-edified the decayed Parish-Church of Waltamstow or Walthamstow in Essex he founded there a Free-school and Almes-houses for thirteen Almes-people he made also a Cawsey of Timber over the Marshes from Walthamstow to Lock-bridge The Farewell And now being to take my Farewell of this great City I cannot forget the verse which I find amongst others in Master Camden's commendation thereof Urbs pietate potens numeroso cive superba Potent in piety in her people proud But see the Romish charity who confine all piety to Popery The Index Expurgatoâ—…ius Printed at Madrid by Lewes Sanchez 1612. commandeth the forepart of the verse concerning their piety to be expunged letting the latter moity of their pride to remain May I in this particular be the humble Remembrancer of the City without the least intrenching on his place who worthily dischargeth that office to cross and consute that peevish and partial Index Let it be their endeavours to delete out of their hearts all high conceits of their populousness and effectually to express grace and goodness in their conversations Nor let the City of London ever forget quantillum interfuit inter maximam Civitatem et nullam How little distance there lately was betwixt the greatest City and none at all if Gates and Barrs as it is generally received be the essential difference of a City But God who can produce light out of darkness can make the plucking dâ—…wn of the Gates to be the setting up of the City Wherefore though the Eleventh day of March be generally beheld as the first day of Spring London may date her Spring from the Eleventh day of February 1659. when she effectually felt the vernal heat after a long Winter of woe and misery I heartily wish this honourable City what ever may conduce to the continuance and increase of the happiness thereof Especially that the river of Thames the lifâ—… of London as which Easeth Adorneth Inricheth Feedeth and Fortifieth it may have its Channel constantly continued The Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water is appliable to this City so long as Thames-water continues Londoners may Wine it but should it fail they must drink water indeed and some perchance brackish too as made of their tears I will not pry too nearly and narrowly into the fancy of our Poet speaking of the ruins of old Rome Ne ought save Tiber hasting to his fall O Worlds inconstancy Remains of all That which is firm doth flit and fall away And that is flitting doth abide and stay And yet by his leave greater rivers then Tiber have in process of time had their streams by casualties or neglect partly drained wholy dryed or otherwise diverted My humble request therefore to the Officers of the City is effectually to own their concernment in the river of Thames in clearing and cleansing it from Sholes Sands and other obstructing incroachments that they may leave it as well to posterity as they found it from their fathers WESTMINSTER WESTMINSTER is the greatest City in England next London not onely in Position but by the Dimensions thereof For let it be taken as truly it ought extensively with the Liberty of Lancaster from Temple-bar and it filleth as much ground not to say containeth more reasonable souls then any City in the Land But as a proper man seemeth a Dwarfe when placed next to a Giant such the infelicity of Westminster whose due greatness devoured by the vicinity of London is insensible in the eyes of the Beholders It was anciently called Thorney and afterwards Westminster for distinction from Saint Pauls called in ancient times Eastminster The Buildings The Abbey Church is beheld as a rare structure with so small and slender Pillars greatest legs argue not the strongest Man to support so weighty a fabrick built by King Henry the third and afterwards much enlarged and beautified by the Abbots thereof Adjoyning to it is the Chappel of King Henry the seventh which Leland calls the Miracle of the World Indeed let the Italians deride our English and condemn them for Gothish Buildings This they must admire and may here take notes of Architecture if their pride would permit them to perfect theirs accordingly In this Chappel the founder thereof with his Queen lieth interr'd under a Monument of solid Brass most richly gilded and Artificialy carved Some slight it for the cheapness because it cost but a thousand pounds in the making thereof Such do not consider it as the work of so thrifty a Prince who would make a little money go far besides that it was just at the turning of the Tide as one may term it of money which flowed after the finding out of the West-Indies though ebbing before Amongst the civil structures Westminster-Hall is eminent erected by King W. Rufus for the Hall to his own Court built with copwebless beams conceived of Irishwood Sure I am we then had no command in that Island as first subdued by King Henry the second It is one of the greatest rooms in Christendome and indeed it needeth to be of good capacity to receive so many Plantiffes and Defendants being at such mutual distance of affection Next is White-hall the Palace of ouâ—… English Kings which one term'd a good Hypocrite promising less then it performeth and more convenient within then comely without to which the Nursery of Saint James's was an appendant As for the houses of Noble-men all along the Strand I desire to be excused from commending some lest it should by caviling Spirits be implicitely interpreted a dispraise of the rest Besides I am ignorant under what name to commend them to posterity so many houses daily new-dipt assume to themselves new names according to the alteration of their Owners I conclude them therefore all best and best of all whilst they continue in the hands of their present possessors Proverbs As sure as Exchequer pay All know that the Exchequer was formerly the Treasury of the Kings of England kept in this City the pleading part on the one side and the paying part on the other side of Westminster-hall This Proverb was in the prime thereof in the raign of Queen Elizabeth who maintained her Exchequer to the heigth that her Exâ—…hequer might maâ—…tain her The pay thereof was sure inwards nothing being remitted which was due there to the Queen and sure outwards nothing being detained which was due thence from the Queen full and speedy payment being made thereof This Proverb began to be crost about the end of the raign of King James when the credit of the Exchequer began to decay and
22 Tho. Barney ar ut prius  Queen ELIZABETH 18 DRUGO DRURY Arm. This Sir Dru being afterwards Knighted was joyned in Commission with Sir Amias Paulet to keep Mary Queen of Scots and discharged his dangerous trust therein It moveth me not that I find both these Knights branded for Puritans being confident that Nick-name in relation to them both was first pronounced through a Popish mouth causlesly offended at their Religion King CHARLES 5 ROGER TOWNSEND Baronet He was a religious Gentleman expending his soul in piety and charity a lover of God his Service and Servants A grave Divine saith most truly that incroachments on the Church are like breaches of the Seas a thousand to one if they ever return But this worthy Knight may be said to have turn'd the tide restoring Impropriations to the Church to some hundreds in yearly valuation He married Mary daughter and co-heir of Horatio Lord Vere of Tilbury by whom he had Sir Horace who for his worth was deservedly Created a Baron at the Coronation of King Charles the second The Farewell And now being to take my leave of this County I wish the inhabitants thereof may make good use of their so many Churches and cross that pestilent Proverb The nigher to the Church the farther from God substituting another which will be a happy change in the room thereof viz. The more the Churches the more sincere the Devotion NORWICH is as you please either a City in an Orchard or an Orchard in a City so equally are Houses and Trees blendid in it so that the pleasure of the Country and populousness of the City meet here together Yet in this mixture the inhabitants participate nothing of the rusticalness of the one but altogether of the urbanity and civility of the other Natural Commodities Flowers The Dutch brought hither with them not onely their profitable crafts but pleasurable curâ—…osities They were the first who advanced the use and reputation of Flowers in this City A Flower is the best complexioned grass as a Pearl is the best coloured clay and daily it weareth Gods Livery for He cloatheth the Grass in the Field Solomon himself is out-braved therewith as whose gallantry onely was adopted and on him their 's innate and in them In the morning when it groweth up it is a Lecture of Divine Providence In the evening when it is cut down withered it is a Lecture of Humane Mortality Single flowers are observed much sweeter then the double ones poor may be more fragrant in Gods nostrils then the rich and let Florists assign the cause thereof whether because the Sun doth not so much dry the Intricacies of such flowers which are Duplicated Great the Art in meliorating of flowers and the Rose of Roses Rosa Mundi had its first being in this City As Jacob used an ingenious invention to make Laban's cattle speckled or ring-straked so much the skil in making Tulips feathered and variegated with stripes of divers colours In my judgement those flowers carry it clearly which acquit themselves to a double sense sight and smel for though in some thing it may be true Optime quae minime olent yet in flowers besides a negation of an ill the position of a good sent is justly required Manufactures Stuffs It is an ill wind which bloweth no man good even Storms bring VVrecks to the Admiral The cruelty of Duke D'Alva as it blew the Dutch out off their own brought them into this City and with them their Manufactures which the English quickly learned from them until Norwich became the Staple of such Commodities for the whole Land For the nimble wooffe its artificial dancing in several postures about the standing warpe produceth infinite varieties in this kind Expect not I should reckon up their several names because daily increasing and many of them are binominous as which when they begin to tire in sale are quickned with a new name In my child-hood there was one called Stand-far-of the embleme of Hypocrisie which seemed pretty at competent distance but discovered its coursness when nearer to the eye Also Perpetuano so called from the lasting thereof though but a counterfeit of the cloaths of the Israelites which endured in the VVillderness 40. years Satinisco Bombicino Italiano c. Comineus saith that a Favorite must have an handsome name which his Prince may easily call on all occasions so a pretty pleasing name complying with the Byers fancy much befriendeth a Stuffe in the sale thereof By these means Norwich hath beaten Sudbury out of distance in the race of Trading Indeed in the starting the South having the better of the North and Bury or City being before VVich or Vicus a Village Sudbury had the advantage but now Norwich is come first to their Mark The Buildings The Cathedral therein is large and spacious though the roof in the Cloysters be most commended When some twenty years since I was there the top of the Steeple was blown down and an Officer of the Churce told me That the wind had done them much wrong but they meant not to put it up whether the wrong or the steeple he did not declare Amongst private houses the Duke of Norfolks palace is the greatest I ever saw in a City out of London Here a covered Bowling-alley the first I believe of that kind in England on the same token that when Thomas last Duke of Norfolk was taxed for aspiring by marriage of the Q to the Crown of Scotland he protested to Queen Elizabeth that when he was in his Bowling-alley at Norwich he accounted himself as a King in Scotland As for the Bishops Palace it was formerly a very fair structure but lately unleaded and new covered with tyle by the purchasers thereof Whereon a wag not unwittily Thus Palaces are altered we saw John Leyden now Wat Tyler next Jack Straw Indeed there be many thatch'd houses in the City so that Luther if summoned by the Emperour to appear in this place would have altered his expression and said instead of Tyles of the house that if every Straw on the roof of the houses were a Divel notwithstanding he would make his appearance However such thatch is so artificially done even sometimes on their Chancels that it is no eye-sore at all to the City Physicians JOHN GOSLIN born in this City was first Fellow and afterwards Master of Caius-colledge in Cambridge Proctor of the University and twice Vice-chancellour thereof a general Scholar eloquent Latinist a rare Physician in which faculty he was Regius Professor A strict man in keeping and Magistrate in pressing the Statutes of Colledge and University and a severe punisher of the infringers thereof And here courteous Reader let me insert this pleasant passage seeing Cato himself may sometimes smile without offence I remember when this Doctor was last Vice-chancellour it was highly penal for any Scholar to appear in boots as having more of the Gallant then Civil Student therein
worth the inserting Know then that notwithstanding the literall allusion Shrewsbury affordeth as many meeke Wives as any place of the same proportion Besides a Profitable Shrew well may content a reasonable man the Poets faining Juno chasâ—…e and thrifty qualities which commonly attenda shrewd nature One being demanded How much shrewishnesse may be allowed in a VVife Even so much sayed he as of Hops in Ale Whereof a small quantity maketh it both last the longer in it selfe and taste the better to the owner thereof The Case is altered quoth PLOWDEN This Proverb referreth its originall to Edmund Plowden an eminent Native and great Lawyer of this County though very various the relations of the occasion thereof Some relate it to Plowden his faint pleading at the first for his Client till spurred on with a better Fee which some will say beareth no proportion with the ensuing Character of his Integrity Others refer it to his altering of his Judgement upon the Emergencie of new matter formerly undiscovered It being not Constancie but Obstinacie to persist in an old error when convinced to the contrary by cleer and new Information Some tell it thus That Plowden being of the Romish perswasion some Setters trapanned him pardon the prolepsis to hear Masse But afterwards Plowden understanding that the pretender to Officiate was no Priest but a meer Lay-man on designe to make a discovering Oh! The case is altered quoth Plowden No Priest no Masse As for other meaner Origination of this Proverb I have neither List nor Leasure to attend unto them Princes RICHARD PLANTAGENET second Son to Edward the fourth and Elizabeth his Queen was born at Shrewsbury 1472. He was created by his Father Duke of York and affianced to Anne Daughter and Heir to John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk But before the nuptials were solemniz'd his cruel â—…ncle the Duke of Glocester maried him to a grave in the Towre of London The obscurity of his burial gave the advantage to the report that he lived in Perkin Warbeck one of the Idols which put politick King Henry the seventh to some danger and more trouble before he could finally suppresse him GEORGE PLANTAGENET youngest son to Edward the fourth and Elizabeth his Queen was born at Shrewsbury He was like Plautus his Solsticial Flower Qui repentinò ortus repentinò occidit dying in the infancie of his infancie Some vainly conceive such conjectures may be safely shot when no body can see whether they hit or misse the mark that had this George surviv'd he would have secured the lives of his two elder Brethren whose â—…ncle Duke Richard durst not cut thorow the three-fold Cable of Royal Issue A vain surmise seeing when Tyrants hands are once wash'd in blood two or three are all one with their cruelty Saints MILBURGH daughter to Meroaldus Prince of Mercia had the fair Mannor of Wenlock in this County given to her by her Father for her portion She quitting all wordly wealth bestowed her Inheritance on the Poor and answered her name of Milburgh which as an Antiquary interpreteth is Good or Gracious to Town and City Living a Virgin she built a Monastery in the same place and departed this life about the year 664. Four hundred years after in the Reign of William the Conquerour her Corps discovered by Miracles wrought thereby were taken up sound and uncorrupted to the admiration of the beholders saith my Authour and surely had I seen the same I would have contributed my share of wondring thereunto This I am sure of that as good a Saint Lazarus by name by the confession of his own Sister did stink when but four dayes buried Her Relicts inshrined at Wenlock remained their in great state till routed in the reign of King Henry the Eighth OSWALD was King of Northumberland who after many fortunate battels fought was vanquished and slain at last by Penda the Pagan King of the Mercians at a place in this County called after his name Oswaldstre now a famous Market-Town in the Marches thereby procuring to his memory the reputation of Saint and Martyr Be pleased Reader to take notice that all battels of this nature though they were quarrels or armed-suits commenced on a civil or temporal account for the extending or defending their Dominions yet were they conceived in that age especially to have a mixture of much Piety and Church-concernment therein because fought against Infidels and so conducing consequentially to the propagation of the Faith the reason that all Kings kill'd in such service atchieved to themselves the veneration of Saints and Martyrs Say not that King Saul might be Sainted on the same account mortally wounded in a pitcht field fought against the Vncircumcised Philistins both because in fine he slew himself and his former life was known to be notoriously wicked Whereas our Oswald was alwayes pious and exceedingly charitable to the Poor His arm cut off it seems from the rest of his body remained said Bede whole and incorrupt kept in a silver Case in S. Peters Church at Bamborough whilest his Corps was first buried at Peterborough and afterwards in the Danish persecution translated to Bergen in Flanders where it still remaineth The fifth of August was in our Kalendar consecrated to his memory save that the Thanks-giving for the defeating of Gowries-Conspiracy made bold to justle him out all the reign of king James His death hapned Anno Domini 635. Confessors This County afforded none as the word is reconfined in our Preface But if it be a little enlarged it bringeth within the compasse thereof THAMAS GATAKER younger son of William Gataker was a branch of an Ancient Family so firmely planted by Divine providence at Gatacre-Hall in this County that they have flourished the owners thereof by an noninterrupted succcession from the time of King Edward the Confessor This Thomas being designed a Student for the Law was brought up in the Temple where in the raign of Queen Mary he was often present at the examination of persecuted people Their hard usage made him pity their persons and admirable patience to approve their opinions This was no sooner perceived by his Parents being of the Old perswasion but instantly they sent him over to Lovain in the Low-Countries to win him to a compliance to the Popish Religion and for his better encouragement setled on him an estate of One hundred pound per annum old Rent All would not do Whereupon his Father recalled him home and revoked his own grant to which his Son did submit as unwilling to oppose the pleasure of his Parents though no such Revocation could take effect without his free consent He afterwards diverted his mind from the most profitable to the most necessary Study from Law to Divinity and finding Friends to breed him in Oxford he became the profitable Pastor of S. Edmonds in Lumbard-street London where he died Anno leaving Thomas Gatakèr his Learned Son of whom formerly heir to
Book be mysteriously extracted He was scarce twenty eight years of Age when in fourty dayes believe him for he saith so of himself he learn'd the perfection of Chymistry taught as it seems by Mr. George Ripley But what saith the Poet Non minor est virtus quà m quaerere parta tueri The spight is he complaineth that a Merchants wife of Bristol stole from him the Elixir of life Some suspect her to have been the wife of William Cannings of whom before contemporary with Norton who started up to so great and sudden Wealth the clearest evidence of their conjecture The admirers of this Art are justly impatient to hear this their great Patron traduced by the Pen of J. Pits and others by whom he is termed Nugarum opifex in frivola scientia and that he undid himself and all his friends who trusted him with their money living and dying very poor about the year 1477. JOHN SPINE I had concluded him born at Spine in Bark-shire nigh Newbury but for these diswasives 1. He lived lately under Richard the Third when the Clergy began to leave off their Local Surnames and in conformity to the Laity to be called from their Fathers 2 My Author peremptorily saith he was born in this City I suspect the name to be Latinized Spineus by Pits and that in plain English he was called Thorn an ancient Name I assure you in this City However he was a Carmelite and a Doctor of Divinity in Oxford leaving some Books of his making to posterity He died and was buried in Oxford Anno Dom. 1484. JOHN of MILVERTON Having lost the Fore I must play an After-game rather than wholely omit such a Man of Remark The matter is not much if he be who was lost in Somerset-shire where indeed he was born at Milverton be found in Bristol where he first fixed himself a Frier Carmelite Hence he went to Oxford Paris and at last had his abode in London He was Provincial General of his Order thorough England Scotland and Ireland so that his Jurisdiction was larger than King Edward the Fourth's under whom he flourished He was a great Anti-Wiâ—…liffist and Champion of his Order both by his writing and preaching He laboured to make all believe that Christ himself was a Carmelite Professor of wilful Poverty and his high commending of the Poverty of Friers tacitly condemned the Pomp of the Prelates Hereupon the Bishop of London being his Diocesan caâ—…t him into the Jaile from whom he appealed to Paul the II. and coming to Rome he was for three years â—…ept close in the Prison of St. Angelo It made his durance the more easie having the company of Platina the famous Papal Biographist the Neb of whose Pen had been too long in writing dangerous Truth At last he procured his Cause to be referred to Seven Cardinals who ordered his enlargement Returning home into England he lived in London in good repute I find him nominated Bishop of St. Davids but how he came to miss it is to me unknown Perchance he would not bite at the bait but whether because too fat to cloy the stomack of his mortified Soul or too lean to please the appetite of his concealed covetousness no man can decide He died and was buried in London 1486. WILLIAM GROCINE was born in this City and bred in Winchester-School Where he when a Youth became a most excellent Poet. Take one instance of many A pleasant Maid probably his Mistris however she must be so understood in a LoveFrolick pelted him with a Snow-ball whereon he extempore made this Latin Tetrastick Me nive candenti petiit mea Julia rebar Igne carere nivem nix tamen ignis erat Sola potes nostras extinguere Julia flammas Non nive non glacie sed potes ignes pari A snow-ball white at me did Julia throw Who would suppose it Fire was in that snow Julia alone can quench my hot desire But not with snow or Ice but equal fire He afterwards went over into Italy where he had Demetrius Calchondiles and Politian for his Masters And returning into England was Publick Professor of the Greek Tongue in Oxford There needs no more to be added to his Honour save that Erasmus in his Epistles often owns him pro Patrono suo praeceptore He died Anno 1520. Romish Exile Writers JOHN FOWLER was born in Bristol bred a Printer by his occupation but so Learned a Man that if the Character given him by one of his own perswasion be true he may pass for our English Robert or Henry Stephens being skilful in Latin and Greek and a good Poet Oratour and Divine He wrote an abridgment of Thomas his Summes the Translation of Osorius into English c. Being a zealous Papist he could not comport with the Reformation but conveyed himself and his Presse over to Antwerp where he was signally serviceable to the Catholick Cause in printing their Pamphlets which were sent over and sold in England He died at Namurch 1579. and lies there buried in the Church of St. John the Evangelist Benefactors to the Publick ROBERT THORN was born in this City as his ensuing Epitaph doth evidence I see it matters not what the Name be so the Nature be good I confesse Thorns came in by mans curse and our Saviour saith Do men gather Grapes of Thorns But this our Thorn God send us many Copices of them was a Blessing to our Nation and Wine and Oil may be said freely to flow from Him being bred a Merchant-Tailor in London he gave more than Four thousand four hundred fourty five pounds to pious uses A Sum sufficient therewith to build and endow a Colledge the time being well considered being towards the beginning of the reign of King Henry the Eighth I have observed some at the Church-dore cast in six pence with such ostentation that it rebounded from the Bottom and rung against both the sides of the Bason so that the same piece of Silver was the Alms and the Givers Trumpet whilst others have dropt down silent 5 shillings without any noise Our Thorn was of the second sort doing his Charity effectually but with a possible privacy Nor was this good Christian abroad worse in the Apostle-phrase than an Iâ—…del at home in not providing for his Family who gave to his poor Kindred besides Debt forgiven unto them the sum of five thousand one hundred fourty two pounds Grudge not Reader to peruse his Epitaph which though not so good as he deserved is better than most in that Age. Robertus cubat hic Thornus Mercator Honestus Qui sibi legitimas Arte paravit opes Huic vitam dederat parvo Bristolia quondam Londinum hoc tumulo clauserat ante diem Ornavit studiis patriam virtutibus auxit Gymnasium erexit sumptibus ipse suis. Lector quisquis ades requiem cineri precor ora Supplex precibus numina
flecte tuis He died a Batchelour in the fourtieth year of his Age Anno Domini 1532 and lieth buried in Saint Christophers London Since the Reformation MARY DALE better known by the name of Mary Ramsey daughter of William Dale Merchant was born in this City She became afterward second Wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey Grocer and Lord Major of London Anno 1577 and surviving him was thereby possessed of a great Estate and made good use thereof She founded two Fellowships and Scholarships in Peter-House in Cambridge and profered much more if on her terms it might have been accepted For most certain it is that she would have setled on that House Lands to the value of five hundred pounds per annum and upwards on condition that it should be called the Colledge of Peter and Mary This Doctor Soams then Master of the House refused affirming that Peter who so long lived single was now too old to have a Feminine Partner A dear jest to loose so good a Benefactres This not succeeding the stream of her Charity was not peevishly dried up with those who in matters of this nature will do nothing when they cannot do what they would do But found other channels there in to derive it self She died Anno Dom. 1596 and lieth buried in Christs-Church in London THOMAS WHITE D. D. was born in this City and bred in Oxford He was afterwards related to Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy of Ireland whose Funeral Sermon he made being accounted a good Preacher in the reign of Queen Elizabeth Indeed he was accused for being a great Pluralist though I cannot learn that at once he had more than one Cure of Soules the rest being Dignities As false is the Aspersion of his being a great Vsurer but one Bond being found by his Executors amongst his Writings of one thousand pounds which he lent gratis for many years to the Company of Merchant-Tailors whereof he was Free the rest of his Estate being in Land and ready money Besides other Benefactions to Christ-Church and a Lecture in St. Pauls London he left three thousand pounds for the Building of Sion Colledge to be a Ramah for the Sons of the Prophets in London He built there also a fair Alms-house for Twenty poor Folk allowing them yearly six pounds a piece And another at Bristol which as I am informed is better endowed Now as Camillus was counted a second Romulus for enlarging and beautifying the City of Rome So Mr. John Simpson Minister of St. Olaves Hart-street London may be said a second White for perfecting the aforesaid Colledge of Sion building the Gate-house with a fair Case for the Library and endowing it with Threescore pounds per annum Dr. Thomas White died Anno Dom. 1623. Lord Majors Name Father Company Time John Aderley John Aderly Ironmonger 1442 Thomas Canning John Canning Grocer 1456 John Young Thomas Young Grocer 1466 The Farewel I am credibly informed that one Mr. Richard Grigson Cittizen hath expendeth a great Sum of money in new casting of the Bells of Christ-Church adding tunable Chymes unto them Surely he is the same person whom I find in the printed List of Compounders to have paid One hundred and sive pounds for his repuetd Delinquency in our Civil Wars and am glad to see one of his perswasion so lately purified in Goldsmiths-Hall able to go to the Cost of so chargeable a Work I wish Bristol may have many more to follow his Example though perchance in this our suspicious Age it will be conceived a more discreet and seasonable desire not to wish the increase but the continuance of our Bells and that though not taught the descant of Chymes they may retein their plain song for that publick use to which they were piously intended STAFFORD-SHIRE hath Cheshire on the North-West Darby-shire on the East and North-East Warwick and Worcester-shires on the South and Shrop-shire on the West It lieth from North to South in form of a Lozenge bearing fourty in the length from the points thereof whilst the breadth in the middle exceeds not twenty six miles A most pleasant County For though there be a place therein still called Sinai-park about a mile from Burton at first so named by the Abbot of Burton because a vast rough hillie ground like the Wilderness of Sinai in Arabia yet this as a small Mole serves for a soil to set off the fair face of the County the better Yea this County hath much beauty in the very solitude thereof witness Beau-Desert or the Fair Wildernesse being the beautiful Barony of the Lord Paget And if their Deserts have so rare Devises Pray then how pleasant are their Paradises Indeed most fruitful are the Parts of this Shire above the Banks of Dove Butchers being necessitated presently to kill the Cattle fatted thereupon as certainly knowing that they will fall in their flesh if removed to any other Pasture because they cannot but change to their loss Natural Commodities The best Alabaster in England know Reader I have consulted with Curious Artists in this kind is found about Castle-Hay in this County It is but one degree beneath White Marble only more soft and brittle However if it lye dry fenced from weather and may be let alone long the during thereof Witness the late Statue of John of Gaunt in Pauls and many Monuments made thereof in Westminster remaining without breck or blemish to this day I confess Italy affords finer Alabaster whereof those Imagilets wrought at Ligorn are made which indeed Apes Ivory in the whiteness and smoothness thereof But such Alabaster is found in small Bunches and little proportions it riseth not to use the Language of Work-men in great Blocks as our English doth What use there is of Alabaster Calcined in Physick belongs not to me to dispute Only I will observe that it is very Cool the main reason why Mary put her ointment so precious into an Alabaster Box because it preserved the same from being dried up to which such Liquors in hot Countries were very subject Manufactures Nailes These are the Accommodators general to unite Solid Bodies and to make them to be continuous Yea coin of gold and silver may be better spared in a Common-wealth than Nailes For Commerce may be managed without mony by exchance of Commodities whereas hard bodies cannot be joyned together so fast and fast so soon and soundly without the mediation of Nailes Such their service for Firmness and expedition that Iron Nailes will fasten more in an hour than Wooden Pins in a day because the latter must have their way made whilst the former make way for themselves Indeed there is a fair House on London Bridge commonly called None-such which is reported to be made without either Nailes or Pins with crooked Tennons fastened with wedges and other as I may term them circumferential devices This though it was no labour in vain because at last attaining the intended end yet was it no better than
County hath been much greater and those of that Trade far richer I perswade my self heretofore than in these times or else the Heirs and Executors of the deceased were more careful that the Testators dead Corps should be interred in more decent manner than they are now a-dayes Otherwise I should not find so many Marbles richly inlaid with Brass to the memory of Cloathiers in fore-going Ages and not one in these later seasons All the Monuments in the Church of Neyland which bare any face of comliness and Antiquity are erected to the memory of Cloathiers and such as belong to that Mystery Some perchance would assign another reason viz. Because Monuments formerly were conceived to conduce much to the happiness of the deceased as bespeaking in their Epitaphs the Suffrages of the living in their behalf which errour is vanished away since the Reformation all which being fully beleeved weakneth not the observation but that Suffâ—…lk Clothiers were Wealthier in former than in our Age. Buildings This County hath no Cathedral therein and the Parochial Churches generally fair no one of transcendent eminency But formerly it had so magnificent an Abbey-Church in Bury the Sun shined not on a fairer with three lesser Churches waiting thereon in the same Church-yard Of these but two are extant at this day and those right stately structures And if the Servants we so much commend What was the Mistriss whom they did attend Here I meet with a passage affected me with wonder though I know not how the Reader will resent it It is avouuched by all Authors That Mary youngest sister to King Henry the Eighth Relict to Lewis the Twelfth King of France afterwards married to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk died on Mid-summer Eve 1533 and was buried in the Abbey Church in Bury But it seems her Corps could not protect that Church from demolishing which in few years after was levelled to the ground I read not that the Body of this Princess was removed to any other place nor doth any monument here remain to her memory though her King-Brother and second Husband survived the destruction of that Church A strange thing save that nothing was strange in those dayes of confusion As for the Town of Bury it is sweetly seated and fairely built especially since the year 1608. About which time it was lamentably defaced with a casual Fire though since God hath given them Beauty for Ashes And may the following Distich set up therein prove Prophetical unto the place Burgus ut antiquus violento corruit igne Hic stet dum flammis terra polusque flagrent Though furious fire the old Town did consume Stand This till all the World shall flaming fume Noris the School a small Ornament to this Town founded by King Edward the Sixth being itself a Corporation now as well as ever flourishing under Mr. Stephens the able Master thereof Amongst the many fair houses of the Gentry in this County Long Melford must not be forgotten late the house of the Countess Rivers and the FIRST FRUITS of PLUNDERING in England and Sommerley Hall nigh Yarmouth belonging to the Lady Wentworth well answering the Name thereof For here Sommer is to be seen in the depth of Winter in the pleasant walks beset on both sides with Firr-trees green all the year long besides other curiosities As for Merchants houses Ipswich Town corrival with some Cities for neatness and greatness affordeth many of equal handsomness Proverbs Suffolk Milk This was one of the Staple-Commodities of the Land of Canaan and certainly most wholesome for Mans Body because of Gods own chosing for his own People No County in England affords better and sweeter of this kind lying opposite to Holland in the Netherlands where is the best Dairy in Christendom which mindeth me of a passage betwixt Spinola and Grave Maurice The Spanish General being invited to an entertainment by the afore-said Prince at Breda as I take it when Lemons and Oranges were brought in for sauce at the first Courâ—…e What a brave Country is my Masters quoth de Don affording this fair fruit all the year long But when Cream was brought up to close the Feast Grave Maurice returned What a brave Country is ours that yeildeth this fruit twice every day Suffolk fair Maids It seems the God of Nature hath been bountiful in giving them beautiful complexions which I am willing to believe so far forth as it fixeth not a comparative disparagement on the same Sex in other Counties I hope they will labour to joyn gracious hearts to fair faces otherwise I am sure there is a Divine Proverb of infallible truth As a Jewel of gold in a Swines snout so is a fair Woman which is without discretion Suffolk sâ—…iles It is a measuring cast whether this Proverb pertaineth to Essex or this County and I believe it belongeth to both which being inclosed Countries into petty quillets abound with high stiles troublesome to be clambred over But the owners grudge not the pains in climbing them sensible that such severals redound much to their own advantage You are in the high way to Needham Needham is a Market-Town in this County well stokt if I mistake not with poor People though I believe this in no degree did occasion the first denomination thereof They are said to be in the high way to Needham who do hasten to poverty However these fall under a distinction some go others are sent thither Such as go embrace several wayes some if Poor of Idleness if Rich of Carelesness or else of Prodigality Others are sent thither against their wills by the powerful oppression of such who either detain or devour their Estates And it is possible some may be sent thither by no Default of their own or visible cause from others but meerly from Divine Justice insensibly dwingling their Estates chiefly for trial of their Patience Wherefore so many wayes leading to Needham from divers quarters I mean from different causes It is unjust to condemn all persons meeting there under the Censure of the same guiltness Princes EDMUND MORTIMER son to Roger Mortimer Earl of March Grand-child of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and of Philippa sole daughter of Lionel Duke of Clarence may passe with the charitable Reader for a Prince since he paid so dear for the same as will appear I confess it impossible to fix his Nativity with assurance having not hitherto read any record which reached it the rather because of the vastness of his patrimony and several habitations In England In the Marches of VVales whence he had his honour In Ireland Clare-Casâ—…le with many other Mannors in Suffolk VVigmore in Hereford-shire Trim Conaught with large Lands in Ulsier  Ludlow in Shrop-shire  But most probable it is that he was born where he was buried at Clare After the death of King Richard the Second he was the next heir to the Crown Happy had he been if either nearer to it so as to
found in the name of ALCUINUS LUCIANUS Thus these Nominall Curiosities whether they hit or miss the Mark equally import nothing to Judicious Beholders He was made first Abbot of Saint Augustines in Canterbury and afterward of Saint Martins in the City of Towers in France and dying Anno 780 he was buried in a small Convent appendant to his Monastery He is here entred under the Topick of Saints because though never solemnly canonized he well deserved the Honor His Subjects said to David Thou art worth ten Thousand of us and though I will not ascend to so high a Proportion many of the Modern Saints in the Church of Rome must modestly confess that on a Due and True estimate our Alcuinus was worth many Scores of them at least so great his Learning and holy his Conversation SEWALL had his Nativity probably in these Parts But he was bred in Oxford and was a Scholar to St. Edmund who was wont to say to him Sewald Sewald thou wilt have many Afflictions and dye a Martyr Nor did he miss much of his mark therein though he met with Peace and Plenty at first when Arch-bishop of York The occasion of his Trouble was when the Pope plenitudine potestatis intruded one Jordan an Italian to be Dean of York whose Surprised Installing Sewald stoutly opposed Yea at this time there were in England no fewer then three Hundred Benefices possessed by Italians where the People might say to them as the Eunuch to Philip How can we understand without an â—…nterpreter Yea which was far worse they did not onely not teach in the Church but mis-teach by their lascivious and debauched behaviour Asfor our Sewald Mathew Paris saith plainly that he would not bow his Knee to Baal so that for this his contempt he was excommunicated and cursed by Bell Book and Candle though it was not the Bell of Aarons Garment nor Book of Scripture nor the Candle of an Unpartiall Judgement This brak his heart and his Memory lyeth in an Intricate posture peculiar almost to himself betwixt Martyr and no Martyr a Saint and no Saint Sure it is â—…ewall though dying excommunicated in the Romish is reputed Saint in Vulgar estimation and some will maintain that the Popes solemn Canonization is no more requisite to the making of a Saint then the Opening of a Manâ—… Windows is necessary to the lustre of the Sun Sewald died Anno Dom. 1258. Bale who assumeth liberty to himself to surname Old-writers at his pleasure is pleased to Addition this worthy man Sewaldus Magnanimus Martyrs VALENTINE FREESE and his Wife were both of them born in this City and both gave their lives therein at one Stake for the testimony of Jesus Christ Anno Domini 1531. Probably by order from Edward Lee the cruell Arch-bishop I cannot readily call to mind a man and his wife thus Marryed together in Martyrdome And begin to grow confident that this Couple was the first and laâ—… in this kind Confessors EDWARD FREESE brother to the aforesaid Valentine was born in York and there a Prentice to a Painter He was afterwards a Novice-Monke and leaving his Convent came to Colchester in Essex Here his hereticall Inclination as then accounted discovered it self in some sentences of Scripture which he Painted in the Borders of Cloths for which he was brought before John Stoaksley Bishop of London from whom he found such cruell usage as is above belief Master Fox saith that he was fed with Manchet made of Saw-dust or at the least a great part thereof and kept so long in Prison Manicled by the wrests till the Flesh had overgrown his Irons and he not able to kembe his own head became so distracted that being brought before the Bishop he could say nothing but my Lord is a good man A sad sight to his Friends and a sinfull one to his Foes who first made him mad and then made mirth at his madness I confess distraction is not mentioned in that list of losses reckoned up by our Saviour He that left his House or Brethren or Sisters or Father or Mother or Wife or Children or Lands for my sake c. But seeing his wits is nearer and dearer to any man then his wealth and seeing what is so lost may be said to be left no doubt this poor mans distraction was by God gratiously accepted on his enemies severely punished and to him mercifully rewarded We must not forget how the wife of this Edward Freese being big with child and pressing in to see her husband the Porter at Fulham gave her such a kick on the belly that the child was destroyed with that stroke immediately and she died afterwards of the same Prelates JOHN ROMAN so called because his Father was born in Rome though living a long time in this City being Treasurer of the Cathedrall therein and I conjecture this John his Son born in York because so Indulgent thereunto For generally Pure Pute Italians preferred in England transmitted the gain they got by Bills of Exchange or otherwise into their own Country and those outlandisâ—… Mules though lying down in English Pasture left no Hairs behind them Whereas this Roman had such Affection for York that being advanced Arch-bishop he began to build the Body of the Church and finished the North Part of the Cross-Isle therein Polydore Virgil praised him no wonder that an Italiaâ—… commended a Roman for a Man of great Learning and Sincerity He fell into the disfavour of King Edward the first for Excommunicating Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham and it cost him four thousand marks to regain his Princes Good Will He died Anno Domini 1295. And let none grudge his Buriaâ—… in the best Place of the Church who was so Bountifull a Builder thereof ROBERT WALBEY born in this City was therein bred an Augâ—…stinian Friar he afterwards went over into France where he so applied his studies that at last he was chosen Divinity Professor in the City of Tholouse he was Chaplain to the black Prince after his death to his Father K. Edward the third Now as his Mr. injoyed three Crowns so under him in his three Kingdoms this his Chaplain did partake successively of three Miters being first a Bishop in Gascoine then Arch-bishop of Dublin in Ireland afterwards Bishop of Chichester in England not grudging to be degraded in Dignity to be preferred in profit At last he was consecrated Arch-bishop of York and was the first and last Native which that City saw the least of Infants and in his Time when Man the greatest therein Yet he enjoyed his place but a short time dying May 29. Anno Domini 1397. Since the Reformation THOMAS MORTON was born Anno 1564. in the City of York whose father Richard Morton allyed to Cardinall Morton Arch bishop of Canterbury was a Mercer I have been informed the first of that calling in that City sure of such repute that no Mercers
consigned his Servant John Charleton born at Apple in Shropshire a vigorous Knight to marry her creating him in her right Bâ—…ron of Powis Thus was he possessed of his Lady but get her Land as he can it was bootless to implead her uncles in a Civil Court Action was the only Action he could have against them and he so bestirred himself with the assistance of the Kings Forces that in short time he possessed himself of three of her uncles prisoners and forced the fourth to a composition Yea he not only recovered every foot of his Wives Land but also got all the Lâ—…nds of her uncles in default of their issue male to be settled upon her I wish that all Ladies injured by their potent Relations may have such Husbands to marry them and match their adversaries These things hapned about the yeare of our Lord 1320. Know Reader there were four John Charletons successively Lords of Powis which I observe rather because their Homonymy may not occasion confusion JULINES HERRING was born at Flambere-Mayre in this County 1582. His Father returned hence to Coventry to which he was highly related Coventry whose Ancestors for the space of almost two hundred years had been in their course chiefe Officers of that City Perceiving a pregnancy in their Son his parents bred him in Sidney Colledge in Cambridge he becamê afterwards a profitable and painful Preacher at Calk in Derby-shire in the Town of Shrewsbury and at Rendbury in Cheshire being one of a pious life but in his judgement disaffected to the English Church-Discipline I could do no less than place him amongst the memorable Persons otherwise coming under no Topick of mine as writing no Books to my knowledge 〈◊〉 hiâ—… Life written at large by Mr. Samuel Clark I say Mr. Clark whose Books of our modern Divines I have perused as Travellers by the Levitical Law were permitted to pass thorow other mens Vinyards For they must eat their fill on conditions they put no Grapes up in their Vessels I have been satisfied with reading his works and informed my self in Places and Dates of some mens births and deaths But never did nor will whatever hath been said of me or done by others incorporate any considerable quantity of his Works in my own detesting such Felony God having given me be it spoken with thanks to him and humility to man plenty of my own without being plagiary to any Author whatsoever To return to Julines Herring whose Christian name is very usual in the Country amongst people of quality in memory of Julius Palmer in the Marian Days martyred and a Native of that City he being prohibited his preaching here for his non-Conformity was called over to Amsterdam where he continued Preacher to the English Congregation some years well respected in his place and died in the year of our Lord 1644. The Farewell And now being to take our leave of this County the worst I wish the Inhabiâ—…ants thereof is that their Horses excellent in their kind whereof before may to use â—…he Counâ—…-mans expression Stand well being secured from all Infectious and peâ—…lential Diseâ—…ses â—…he rather because when God is pleased to strike this Creature not unfitly termed mans wings whereby he so swiâ—…tly flyeth from one place to another for dispatch of his occasions it is a sad presage that he is angry with the Riders and will without their seasonable Repentance punish their sins with some exemplary judgment MONMOUTH-SHIRE MONMOUTH-SHIRE I may fiâ—…ly call this an English-Welsh County for though it lie West of Severn yea of 〈◊〉 it self and though the Welsh be the common Language thereof yet it doth wear a double badge of English relation First whereas formerly all Welsh Counties sent but one Knight to the Parliament this had the priviledge of two Conformable to the Shires of England Secondly it is not subject to the VVelsh Jurisdiction but such Itinerant Judges as go Oxford Circuit have this County within the compass of their Commission Manufactures Caps These were the most ancient general warm and profitable coverings of mens heads in this Island It is worth our pains to observe the tenderness of our Kings to preserve the trade of Cap-making and what long and strong strugling our State had to keep up the using thereof so many thousands of people being maintained thereby in the land especially before the invention of Fulling-Mills all Caps before that time being wrought beaten and thickned by the hands and feet of men till those Mills as they eased many of their labour outed more of their livelihood Thus ingenious inventions conducing to the compendious making of Commodities though profitable to private persons may not always be gainful to the publick to which what employes most is most advantageous as Capping anciently set fiâ—…teen distinct Callings on work as they are reckoned up in the Statute 1. Carders 2. Spinners 3. Knitters 4. Parters of Wooll 5. Forsers 6. Thickers 7. Dressers 8. Walkers 9. Dyâ—…rs 10. Battellers 11. Shearers 12. Prâ—…ers 13. Edgers 14. Liners 15. Band-makers And other Exercises No wonder then if so many Statutes were enacted in Parliaments to encourage this Handicraft as by the ensuing Catà logue will appear 1. Anno 22. of Edward the fourth Cap. 5. That none thicken any Cap or Bonnet in any Fulling-Mill upon pain to forfeit forty shillings 2. Anno 3. of Henry the eighth Cap. 15. That no Caps or Hats ready wrought should be brought from beyond the Seas upon the forfeiture of fourty shillings Yet because notwithstanding this Statute some still presumed to import forraign Wares it was enacted 3. Anno 21. of Henry the eighth Cap. 9. That such outlandish Hats should be sold at such low prices as are specified in the Statute meerly to deter the Merchant from importing them because such their cheapness that they would turn to no accompt 4. Anno 7. of Edward the sixth Cap. 8. Fulling-Mills beginning now to take footing in England the Statute made the 22 of Edward the fourth was revived to stand and remain in full force strength and effect 5. Anno 8. of Queen Elizabeth Cap. 11. Fulling-Mills still finding many to favour them the pains and profit of Cap-making was equally divided betwixt the Mills and the Cap-makers it being enacted That no Cap should be thicked or fulled in any Mill untill the same had first been well scoured and closed upon the Bank and half footed at least upon the foot-stock 6. Lastly to keep up the usage of Caps it was enacted the 13. of Queen Eliz. Cap. 19. That they should be worn by all persons some of worship and quality excepted on Sabboth and Holy-days on the pain of forfeiting ten groats for omission thereof But it seems nothing but Hats would fit the Heads or humors rather of the English as fancied by them fitter to fence their fair faces from the injury of wind and weather so that the 39 of Queen Elizabeth this Statute was repealed Yea the Cap accounted