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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08698	The varietie of memorable and worthy matters. By Walter Owsolde	Owsolde, Walter.	1605 (1605)	STC 19001; ESTC S113804	16,833	30

image of our Lady and of an Angell saluting her and for that occasion is called the Order of the Annuntiation This Earle ordained this Order in memory of Amé the great Earle of Sauoye which succoured the Knights of Saint Iohn when they conquered the I le of Rhodes vpon the Turkes in the yeare of our Lord 1310. The third in antiquitie is the Order of the golden Fleece founded vpon the fable of the golden Fleece that Iason with the other Argonautes went to seeke in the I le of Colohos which is to meane that hee went to the mine of gold and ordained by Phillip the second surnamed the good Duke of Burgundie in the yeare of our Lord 1430 the complete number of which Order are 24 Knights and weare their cloakes and hoods of Scarlat garded with imbroderie made with flames of fire and a Collor of gold made with fire stones sparkling out fire whereat hangeth a Fleece of gold and appointed for the celebrating of that Order Saint Andrewes day being the 30 of Nouember But the Emperour Charles the fift heyre of the house of Burgundie and chiefe of that Order changed their apparell and ordained that their clokes should bee of crimson Veluet and their hoodes of violet coullor Veluet and that vnderneath they should were a Cassoke of cloath of siluer The fourth in antiquitie is the Order of Saint Michaell the Archangell instituted by Lewis the 11 King of France the first day of August in the yeare of our Lord 1469 and ordained that of that Order there should be 36 Knights gentlemen of name and of armes without reprooch of whom hee himselfe was chiefe and Soueraigne and after him his successors Kings of Fraunce And the brothers or companions of this order were bound at the receiuing thereof to forsake and leaue all other Orders if any they had either of a Prince or any companie onely excepting Emperours Kings and Dukes which beside this Order might weare that Order whereof they weare chiefe with the agreement and consent of the King and confrarie of the sayd Order and in like manner the sayd Kings of Fraunce might weare beside his owne the Order of other Emperours Kings and Dukes And for the connoissance of this Order and the Knights thereof hee gaue to euery of them a Coller of gold wrought with Cocquell shells enterlacing on another with a double pointing Ribon of silke with golden Tagges which King Francis the first because his name was Francis changed into a white Friers or Franciscans girdle made of a twisted corde and hangeth on that Collor a tablet of Saint Michaell vppon a Rocke of the institution of this Order is made a booke containing 98 Articles wherein are set downe the things wherevnto the Knights of this Order are subiect The fift Order is that of the holy Ghost instituted by Henry the third King of Fraunce at this present on New yeares day in the yeare of our Lord 1579 of this also is written a booke containing the Articles whereunto the Knights thereof are bound Among the which I haue principally noted one that is to defend and sustaine the Clergie for the king doth giue to euery of them the rent of certaine Abbeys religious houses or other spiritually Lands whereof they shall alow a certaine stipend to the entertaining of a certaine number of religious persons in euery religious house vnder him and for that benefite are sworne at their entring into the sayd Order alwaies to defend the spiritualitie and maintaine the Clergie in their priuiledges but how they keepe their oath it is well seene in euery place of their spirituall possessions and thereof my selfe haue often times had oculare experience for trauelling in that Countrie and passing often times by goodly religious houses I haue sometimes for recreation hauing wel tried the curtious demeanor that cōmonly religious men vse towards strangers that come to view their houses entred into sundry of them where I haue diuers times beene sufficiently enformed by the religious how the king had giuen the rents and possessions of their houses to the Knights of his Order with the conditions already rehearsed which Knights alow them such bare exhibitation that by reason it is not sufficient to entertaine the fourth part of the number by them appointed almost all of them are constrained either to forsake their houses begge or else there to starue through which occasion many goodly religious houses are of late fallen in decay for want of reparation trimming vp and inhabiting and will doe more and more without a redresse And this haue I learned in diuers religious houses beside the common murmering of the Clergie and so wee may see how these Knights called of the holy spirit for to defend and maintaine the spiritualitie doe vnder pretence thereof rob and prodigally wast the spirituall possessions so that it may seeme only to be a pollicie vnder the correction of better iudgement put in the kings head to diminish spirituall liuings which in that Country are wonderfull great satisfie his prodigall minde in rewarding by that meanes his flatterers because through his exceeding lauishnesse hee is scarce able otherwise to reward them The Bishop of Rome considering what dismembring of Church-lands and decay of Gods seruice commeth through this Order in the Realme of Fraunce will not grant the confirmation thereof although the King hath beene instant for the same but notwithstanding the Popes misliking thereof the Order is maintained though to the great weakening of the religion in that Country Yea at the last celebration thereof which was on New-yeeres day eeuen 1581 I saw three Bishops were admitted into that Order the connissance wherof is a Doue representing the holy Ghost wraught in Orenge tauny Veluet garnished about with siluer beames which the Knights of that Order weare cōmonly vpon their clokes before their hart The 13 Cantons of Swisserland THE inhabitants of Heluetia or Swisserland after they had emancipated themselues from the yoke of the Empire and expelled the nobilitie of the Emperiall faction began to make leagues and confederacies one towne with another to fortifie themselues by that meanes against forraine inuasions if any hapned And in processe of time within little more then an hundred yeeres are increased to the number of 13 which they call Cantons by which the whole Country of Swisse is gouerned and defended And heere according to theyr antiquitie I place them the first that confederated together and gaue example to the rest were Vri Swits Vnderuard Villages and these three by little and little haue drawne to theyr faction all the rest that followeth Lucerne Zurich Citties Glaris Zug Villages Berne Fribourg Soullcurre Basle Schaffouse Citties Appensel village Whereof 7. professe the Romish religion j. Vri Swits Vnderuard Zug Lucerne Fribourg and Soullcurre the rest are Zuinglians which diuersitie of religion hath caused dissention and mortall warres of late yeeres among them although they be all sworne together to defend theyr liberties against strangers FINIS Non munus sed animus

not beene seene that the Kings of Fraunce haue done or passed any matter of importance touching the state of the Realme so much is it respected both within the Realme and abroad This Court of Parliament was first ordeyned by Phillip the fayre King of France The second Parliament is at Bordeaux for the countries of Gwyen Gascoine Zaintonge Perigort part of Poictou and others and was first ordained by Charles the seauenth The third Parliament is at Rouën for the Dukedome of Normandie first made Exchequer by Phillip the fayre and afterwards continuall Parliament by Lewes the twelfth The fourth Parliament is at Toulowze first ordained for certaine times of the yeere by Phillip the fayre and afterwards made continuall by Charles the seauenth for the Country of Languedoc The fift Parliament is at Grenoble for the country of Daulphine instituted by Lewes the xj The sixt Parliament is at Dijon for the Dukedome of Burgundie it was likewise ordained by the sayd Lewes the xj The seauenth Parliament is at Aix for the Earledome of Proueme appointed by Lewes the xij The eyght Parliament is at Renes in Britaine ordained by Henry the second Of all these Parliaments Paris Parliament is the chiefe and certaine cases are reserued to be iudged only at the Parliament of Paris The seauen Saxon Kingdomes that England was once deuided into THe first was the Kingdome of Kent which had his beginning of the Saxon Hengist in the yeare of our Lord 476 and the fift yeare of Vortiger King of Britaine his last raigne for he had beene deposed the Kingdome continued 342 yeares till that Egbert King of Westsaxons vanquished Baldred last King thereof and ioyned it to his owne Kingdome The second Kingdome was of Sussex or Southsaxons which began by the Saxon Ella in the yeare of our Lord 482 and the second yeare of Aurelambrose King of Britaine This kingdome continued not aboue 112 yeares The third kingdome was of Estangles or east Englishmen and contained Northfolke and Southfolke it was first begunne by the Saxon Vffa about the yeare of our Lord 492 and the 11 yeare of Aurell Ambrose king of Britaine This kingdome continued 376 yeares the last king whereof was Saint Edmond martired by the Danes The fourth was the kingdome of Westsaxons containing the West countrie of England and had his beginning by the Saxon Cerdicus the yeare of our Lord 522 and the fift yeare of Arthur the great king of Britaine and endured from the first yeare of Cerdicus to the last of Alured the tearme of 378 yeares The kings of this Countrie subdued at length all the other sixe kingdomes which Egbert beganne and Alured finished making of all the South part of this Iland one Monarchie The fift was the kingdome of Northumberland containing the Countries betwixt the Riuer of Humber and Scotland had his beginning of the Saxon Ida king of Brenicia the yeare of our Lord 547 and the second or last yeare of the raigne of Aurele Canon king of Britaine This kingdome of Northumberland was at the first deuided into two kingdomes the one was called the Brenicia which bended towards the North the other Deyra about the Countrie of Durham and this kingdome continued some while vnder one king sometime vnder two the tearme of 409 yeares first vnder the Saxons and then vnder the Danes The sixt kingdome was of the East Saxons or Essex which beganne by the Saxon Sobert the yeare of our Lord about 614 continued from the beginning of the raigne of Sebert till the eight yeare of Edward the elder 293 yeares The 7. kingdome was of Mercia containing Huntingtonshire Hertfortshire Glocestershire and others and was the greatest of all the other taking his beginning of the Saxon Penda in the yeare of our Lord 626 after the comming of Hengist 126 yeares during the raigne of Cadwan king of Britain and continued from Penda till that Edward the elder chased out the Danes about 280 yeeres These 7. kingdoms of the Saxons beside that of Walles Scotland were all contained at once in this Iland of Britaine and continued along space Fiue Orders of Chiualrie which continue at this day among Princes THe first and ancientest of these Orders of Chiualrie or Knighthood is the Order of the Garter instituted the yere of our Lord 1348 in Bordeaux chiefe Citty of the dukedome of Guyne in Fraunce by Edward the third king of England and then possessor of that Dukedome which order hee consecrated and dedicated to S. George though the motiue of the institution thereof proceeded of the losse of a Garter which he supposed to haue been the Countesse of Salsburies but I referre the Reader to the Chronicle And it hapned in this manner as one day he was entertaining her with pleasant talke a Garter chanced to vnlose and fall downe the King endeuouring to take it vp wittingly caused such a iest as mooued the Noble-men to laughter the Countesse thereat blushing and blaming that more then seemely familiaritie of the King for that he had caused such a iest among the assistance said sharply to him and the rest Honi soit qui mal y pense which englished is diffamed be hee which euill therein thinketh And the King in recompence of his rashnes said forth-with that before it were long those Noble men which had made a iest and laughing at the Garter fallen downe should esteeme themselues much honored to weare it for a marke of honour and chiualrie and thereupon ordayned the saide Order and dedicated it to S. George and made thereof 26 Knights and ordained that they should weare their clokes of violet cullour Veluet their hoods of redde Veluet lined with white Damaske theyr bases of redde Veluet and vnder the left knee a blew Garter buckled with golde garnished with precious stones and about it wrought the wordes of the Countesse of Salisbury HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE and a coller of gold full of red white Roses with an Image of S. George hanging thereon about these Roses are written those words which are in the Garter This Order is celebrated on S. George his day beeing the 23 of Aprill And although it was first ordained at Bordeaux yet the said King Edward the third would that the siedge and place of the solemnising thereof should be at the Church of Winsor heere in England where at the same time he founded Chanons or a Chanonry for the better prosperitie of the Knights of his order The second order in antiquitie is the order of the Annuntiation instituted anno dom 1356 by Amé the sixt of that name Earle of Sauoye and surnamed the greene Knight The Knights of this order weare a great collor of gold made wynding with three laces which are called of loue wherein are enterlaced these words FERT FERT FERT euerie letter importing his Latin word thus F. fortitudo E. eius R. Rhodum T. tenuit that is his force hath conquered Rhodes and at this Collor hangeth an