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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35212	Admirable curiosities, rarities, & wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or, An account of many remarkable persons and places ... and other considerable occurrences and accidents for several hundred years past together with the natural and artificial rarities in every county ... as they are recorded by the most authentick and credible historians of former and latter ages : adorned with ... several memorable things therein contained, ingraven on copper plates / by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, &c., and Remarks of London, &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1682 (1682)	Wing C7306; ESTC R21061	172,216	243

English Tongue and the Bishop of Romes Power was by several Statutes abolished in England howeuer divers of the Popish Bishops and Clergy privately endeavoured to restore it again which he was alwaies aware of and therefore calling his Servants together he discovered to them in what a slippery condition he stood considering the variable affections of the King and the malice and subtlety of his Popish Adversaries and therefore required them to be very circumspect least by their default any quarrel might be pickt against him and soon after some false witnesses accused him of Heresy and of speaking some words against the King yet his Enemies durst not bring him to his answer nor try him by his Peers but procured an Act of Attainder whereby he was condemned before he was heard and the King not long after his death repented his hast wishing That he had his Cromwell alive again When he came upon the Scaffold at Towerhill he spake thus to the People I am come hither to die and not to purge my self as some perhaps may expect I should I am by the Law condemned to dye and I thank my Lord that hath appointed me this death for mine offences for I have alwaies lived a Sinner and offended my Lord God for which I ask him hearty forgiveness It is not unknown to many of you that I was a great Traveller and being but of mean Parentage was called to high Estate and now I have offended my Prince for which I heartily ask him forgiveness beseeching you to pray with me to Almighty God that he will forgive me And once again I desire you to pray for me that so long as life remaineth in this flesh I may waver nothing in my Faith Then kneeling down on his knees he made an excellent Prayer concluding thus Grant O most merciful Father that when death shall shut up the Eyes of my Body yet the Eyes of my Soul may still behold and look upon thee and when death hath taken away the use of my Tongue yet my heart may cry and say unto thee Lord into thy hands I commend my soul Lord Jesus receive my soul Amen Having ended his Prayer he made a Divine exhortation to those on the Scaffold and then quietly gave up his Spirit 1541. Upon his Monument was Ingraven Cromwell surnamed the Great whom Wolsey first raised from the Forge to eminent good Fortunes whom Henry 8. used as his Instrument to suppress the Popes Supremacy and to dissolve Religious Structures whom he advanced to the highest pitch of Honour and Authority whom he cast down suddenly and bereft both of Life and Dignities lies here Interred Surrey is divided into 13 Hundreds wherein are seven Market Towns besides Southwark which keeps the same with London 140 Parish Churches and is in the Diocess of Winchester It elects 14 Parliament Men and gives the Title of Earl to Henry L. Howard who is also Duke of Norfolk SVSSEX hath Surrey on the N. Kent on the E. the Sea on the S. and Hantshire on the W. The Soil is rich but ill for Travellers in the Winter the Land lying low and the ways being deep the middle Tract is adorned with Meadows Pastures and Cornfields the Sea-Coast with Hills called the Downs abundantly yielding both Corn and Grass and the Northside is overshadowed with Groves and thick Woods called the Weald where sometimes was the famous Wood called Andradswald 120 miles in length memorable for the death of Sigebert King of the West Saxons who being deposed was stabbed in this place by a Swine-heard Chichester in this County is a large and beautiful City very well walled about a little River running hard by it on the West It hath four Gates from whence the Streets lead directly and cross themselves in the middle where in a fair Market House of Stone supported with Pillars round about the Market is kept between the West and South Gates stands the Cathedral Church not very great but handsom and neat having a Spire Steeple of Stone rising a great height It is the residence of the Bishop and has often suffered by Fire It was first built by Cissa the second King of the South Saxons wherein he kept his Royal Court Lewes seems to contend with Chichester for Populousness largeness and buildings where King Athelstan appointed a Mint for his Money and William de Warren Earl of Surrey who came into England with William the Conqueror built a strong Castle and founded an Abby there It is recorded that Edw. 1. in the 8th year of his Reign 1282. sent out his Writ of Quo Warranto through England to examine by what Title men held their Lands and Estates which brought him in much mony till John E. Warren Successor to this William being called to shew his Title drew out an old rusty Sword and then said he held it by that and by that he would hold it till death which caused the King to desist from proceeding any further in that Project In King Henry 3. time the same John Earl Warren had the confidence to kill Zouch Allen Lord Chief Justice with his own hands upon the Bench in Westminster-Hall so much did he presume upon his great favour with the King In the Barons Wars with this King the Lords got into this Castle of Lewes and not far off fought a great Battle wherein the King had his Horse shot under him and was taken Prisoner with his Brother and Son In the year 1058. Harold putting to Sea in a small Boat for his pleasure from Boseham his Mannor in Sussex and having unskilful Marriners was driven upon the Coasts of Normandy where by Duke William he was detained till he had sworn to make him King of England if Edward the Consessor died without Children yet afterward without any regard to his Oath he placed himself on the Throne Duke William hereupon arrived at Pemsey and with his Sword revenged the Perjury of Harold at Battle in this County with such severity that there fell 67974 English Men that day the Conqueror putting himself thereby into full possession of the whole Kingdom over which he Reigned 22 years being victorious both at home and abroad but to discover the vanity of all earthly things it sometimes happens that some great Persons are not suffered to go to rest when their Bed is made and others are pulled out of those Lodgings whereof they had once taken peaceable possession as appears very fully in the following Relation No sooner had the soul of this victorious Prince William the Conqueror left his Body but that his dead Corps was abandoned by his Nobles and Followers and by his meaner Servants he was stript of Armour Vessels Apparel and all Princely Furniture his naked Body left upon the floor and his Funerals wholly neglected till one Harlwin a poor Country Knight undertook to carry his Corps to St. Stephens Church at Caen in Normandy which the dead King had formerly founded At his entrance into Caen the

are all deceased it is in the Diocess of Ely CHESHIRE hath Lancashire on the North Denby Flintshire and the Irish Ocean on the West Darby and Stafford shires on the East and Shropshire on the South it produces the best Cheese also Milstones Fish Fowl and all sorts of Cattel in K. Richar 2. time it was made a Principality the City of Chester is the chief Town and in the daies of King Edgar was in a very flourishing condition he having the homage of 8 other Kings who rowed his Barge from St. Johns to h● Pallace himself holding the helm as their Supream a fair stone Bridge is built over the River Dee upon 8 Arches at either end whereof is a Gate from whence the walls incompass the City high and strongly built with four fair Gates opening to the 4 winds besides 3 Posterns and 7 Watch Towers it is reported by credible and believed by discreet Persons that there is a Pool adjoining to Brereton the seat of the Honourable Family of the Breretons wherein Bodies of Trees are seen to swim for certain days together before the death of any Heir of that house and after the Heir is dead they sink and are never seen more till the next occasion neither must we forget the many Fir-trees found buried under ground on the Southside of Cheshire by the River Wever which the common People imagine to have lain buried there ever since Noah's Flood the Inhabitants cut pieces of such wood very small and use them instead of Candles which give a good light the Author adds That such wooden Candles have long snuffs and yet saith he which indeed is a wonder in falling down they do no harm though they light into Tow Flax or the like yet let not this incourage careless Servants since this Country has been sadly sensible of casualties by Fire Nantwich a fair Market Town therein being twice burnt to the ground in 150 years In 1657. July 8 In the Parish of Bickly in this County about 3 in the afternoon was heard a very great noise like Thunder afar off which was much wondred at because the sky was clear from Clouds soon after says the Author a Neighbour comes and tells me if I would go with him I should see a very strange thing so coming into a Field called Layfield we found a very great bank of Earth which had tall Oaks growing on it now quite sunk under ground Trees and all at first we durst not go near it because the earth for near 20 yards about was much rent and seemed ready to fall in but since that time saith he my self and some others by Ropes have ventured to look down and saw water at the bottom about 30 yards from us under which is sunk all the Earth about it for 16 yards round at least with 3 or 4 tall Oaks and certain other small Trees and not a sprig of them to be seen above water four or five Oaks more were expected to fall every moment and a great quantity of Land beside it never ceasing more or less and when any considerable clod fell it was much like the report of a Canon we could discern the ground hollow above the water a great way but how far or how deep is not to be found out by man the water was salt like that of the Sea from whence some imagine it came through certain large passages under ground but it is probable to be no other than that which issues from those salt Springs about Nantwich and other places in this County may we not also judge that those Trees which are digged up in some places hereabout were buried in the Earth by some such accident as this is July 30. 1662 was a very stormy and Tempestuous day in many parts of Cheshire and Lancashire at Ormskirk there was such a storm of hail as brake the Glass-windows and did much hurt to their Corn Mr. Heywood measured an Hailstone after some of it was wasted and found it four inches about others being thought larger the same day in the afternoon in the Forrest of Maxfeild in Cheshire there arose a great Pillar of smoke in height like a Steeple and judg'd 20 yards broad which making a most hideous noise went along the ground 6 or 7 miles levelling all in the way it threw down Fences and Stonewalls and carried the Stones a great distance from their places but happening upon Moorish ground not inhabited it did the less hurt the terrible noise it made so affrighted the Cattel that they ran away and were thereby preserved it passed over a Cornfield and laid all as even with the ground as if it had been troden down with Feet it went through a Wood and turned up above an hundred Trees by the Roots coming into a Field full of Cocks of Hay ready to be carried in it swept all away so that scarce an handful of it could afterward be found only it left a great Tree behind in the middle of the Field which it had brought from some other place from the Forrest of Maxfield it went up by a Town called Taxal and thence to Waily Bridge where and no where else it overthrew an house or two yet the People that were in them received not much hurt but the Timber was carried away no body knew whither from thence it went up the Hills into Derbyshire and so vanished this account was given by Mr. Hurst Minister of Taxal who had it from an Eye-witness Dr. Walter Needham an eminent and learned Physician in a late discourse of Anatomy gives a Relation of a Child that cryed in its Mothers Womb which is as followeth A long time saith he I could scarce believe that there were such cryings till I was informed of that which I now set down by a Noble Lady in Cheshire as this Honourable Person sate after meat in the Dining Room with her Husband their Domestick Chaplain and divers others she was sensible of an extraordinary stirring in her Belly which so lift up her cloths that it it was easily discernable to those that were present she was then with Child and in her seventh month upon a suddain there was a voice heard but whence it should come they were not able to conjecture not suspecting any thing of the Embrio in her Womb soon after they perceived the Belly and Garments of the Lady to have a second and notable commotion and withal heard a cry as if it proceeded from thence while they were amazed at what had passed and were discoursing together of this Prodigy all that before had happened did a third time so manifestly appear that being now become more attentive they doubted not but that the cry came from her Womb the Girl that was so talkative in the Womb of her Mother doth yet live and is likely enough so to continue I cannot doubt saith he of the Truth of so eminent a story receiving the confirmation of it from so credible Persons There is a Proverb

Berk●y Castle where he was courteously received by Thomas Berkly Lord thereof who was allowed a 100 shillings a day for keeping him close Prisoner But Q. Isabel being much troubled that her Husband lived consults again with the wicked Bishop of Hereford pretending that she was much troubled with frightful dreams which presignified that if her Husband should be again restored to his dignity he would burn her for a Traitor or send her into perpetual banishment the Bishop and several other great Men both of the Nobility and Clergy finding themselves likewise equally guilty became uneasy while the King lived and therefore sent chiding Letters to the Keepers pretending they gave the King too much liberty and kept him too high and delicately and withal added this line at the end of the Letter contrived by the Bishop Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To shed King Edwards blood Refuse to fear I count it good Never was the fallacy of pointings or ambiguity of Phrase more mischievously used to the destruction of a King or for the defence of the Contrivers than in this hainous Parricide for it was so craftily contrived in a double sense that both the Keepers might find sufficient warrant and himself might find sufficient excuse the Keepers guessing at the meaning took it in the worst sense and therefore putring the L. Berkly out of the Castle they shut up the King in a close Chamber where with the stinch of dead Carkases laid in the Cellar under him he was almost poysoned of which he made complaint to some Carpenters who worked at his Chamber-window but these wretches perceiving this would not do the work they rushed one night into his Chamber and casting as many heavy bolsters upon him as 15 men could carry they pressed them down hard and not content with that heated an Iron red hot and through a Pipe like a Trumpet thrust it up into his body that no marks of a violent death might be seen but however they were heard for when they were thus doubly murdering him he was heard to roar and cry all the Castle over Gourney and Martravers his Murtherers expecting rewards had the reward of Murtherers for the Queen and Bishop Torlton disavowing the Command threatned to question them for the Kings death whereupon they fled beyond Sea and Gourney after three years being taken in France and sent into England was in the way upon the Sea beheaded Martravers flying into Germany had the grace to repent but lived ever after miserably thus died this unfortunate Prince in 1327 about half a year after his deposing never certainly was any King turned out of a Kingdom in such a manner many Kingdoms have been lost by the chance of War but this was lost before the Dice were cast no blow struck no battle fought done forceably and yet without force violently and yet with consent both parties agreed yet neither pleased for the King was not pleased to leave his Kingdom and the Queen was not pleased to leave him his life though he often declared in his Captivity That nothing grieved him so much as that t● Queen his Wife would never be persuaded to come and see him and swore very devoutly That from the first time he saw he face he could never like of any other Woman by which it appears that neither Gaveston nor the Spencers his wicked Favourites had so far debauched him as to make him false to his Bed or disloyal to his Queen but she was hardened against him thinking it not safe to leave him a part by which he might afterward recover the whole which was the chief occasion of his coming to this miserable end The County of Glocester is divided into 30 Hundreds wherein are 26 Market Towns 208 Parish Churches and is in the Diocess of Glocester out of it are elected 8 Parliament Men. For the County 2 for the City of Glocester 2 Tewksbury 2 Cirencester 2. HANTSHIRE hath Berkshire on the North Surry and Sussex on the East the Sea on the South Dorset and Wiltshire on the West from North to South it is 54 miles and from East to West 30. It is fruitful in Corn plenteous in pasture and for all advantages of the Sea wealthy and happy Wools Cloths and Iron are the general Commodities of this County Winchester is a City which flourished in the time of the Romans and now indifferently peopled and frequented by water it is about a mile and an half in Circuit within the walls which open at 6 Gates and is adorned with magnificent Churches and a Bishops See Dr. Heylin tells us That one of the Principal Orders of Knighthood is that of the round Table instituted by Arthur King of the Brittains and one of the worlds 9 worthies It consisted of 150 Knights whose names are recorded in the History of King Arthur the principal of them were Sir Lancelot Sir Tristram Sir Lamarock Sir Gawin c. all placed at one round Table to avoid quarrels about Priority and Place The round Table hanging in the great Hall of Winchester is falsly called Arthur's round Table it being not of sufficient Antiquity nor containing but 24 Seats In the Year 959. Edgar the Saxon King hearing the Daughter of a Western Duke exceedingly praised for her Beauty he was so inflamed therewith that he presently made a journey into those parts and coming to Andover in this County he commanded the Virgin to be brought to his Bed the Mother being tender of her Daughters honour brought her Maid in the dark to the King who pleased him as well in his lascivious dalliance the morning approaching this late Maid made haste to rise but the King being loth to part so soon with his supposed fair Lady asked her why she made such haste she told him she had a great deal of work to do and that her Lady would be very angry if she did not rise and dispatch it but being kept longer than her time she upon her knees did beseech the King to free her from her angry Mistriss alledging That she who had been imbraced by the King ought not to serve any other The King hereby perceiving the deceit was very angry yet since he could not recall what was past after having severely reproved the deceitful Lady he turned it into a jest but the Girl it seems pleased him so well that he took her for his Concubine whereby she ruled over them who lately commanded her and loved her entirely keeping to her alone till he was married to the fair Elfreda before mentioned This King likewise debauched a Nun named Wolfchild on whom he begat Edith afterward accounted a Saint He committed the like folly with Ethelfleda Duke Ordmars Daughter who for her extraordinary beauty was called The White on whom he begot his eldest Son Edward for which Mr. Fox affirmeth he did 7 Years Penance enjoyned him by St. Dunstan This Edward succeeded him in the Kingdom at 12 Years old the beginning of whose Reign