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A57453	An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.; Van Hove, Frederick Hendrick.	1693 (1693)	Wing R169; ESTC R8443	18,952	88

Normandy that brake his Neck His eldest Daughter Cicilia became a Nun. Constance Married to the Earl of Brittain Adela to Stephen Earle of Bloys who likewise became a Nun in her Age such was their great Devotion and so much were these Solitary Retirements affected in those times by the greatest Ladies Another was Affianced to Alfonsus King of Galicia who with the other Sister promised to Harold Died before Marriage § 41. What he was in the Circle of himself in his own continent we find him of an even or middle Stature comely Personage of good presence Riding Sitting or Standing till his Corpulency gathering upon him in his latter Age made him somewhat unwieldy of so strong a Constitution that he was never Sickly till a few Months before his Death His Strength such as few Men could draw his Bow and being about Fifty One of his Age when he subdued this Kingdom it seems by his continual Actions he felt not the Weight of Years upon him till his last Year § 42. His Mind was no less excellently composed and we see it the fairest drawn in his Actions wherein his Mercy and Clemency the brightest Stars in the Sphere of Majesty appeared next to his great Devotion above all his other Virtues by the often pardoning and receiving into Grace those who had forfeited their Loyalty and most dangerously Rebelled against him Seeming to hold Submission satisfactory for the greatest Offence and that he sought to extinguish Mens Eenterprises but not themselves For we find but one great Nobleman executed in all his Reign and that was the Earl Waltheof who had twice falsified his Faith before And those whom he had held Prisoners in Normandy as the Earls Morcar and Siward with Wolfnothus the Brother of Harold and divers others upon Compassion of their Endurance he released a little before his Death § 43. Besides he was as far from Suspicion as from Cowardize and of that Confidence an especial Note of his Magnanimity has he gave Edgar his Competitor in the Crown the Liberty of this Court and upon his suit sent him well furnished to the Holy War where he so Nobly behaved himself as he attained to great Estimation with the Emperours of Greece and Almain Which might have been held dangerous in respect of his Alliances that way being Grand-Child to Henry the third Emperour But these may be as well Virtues of the Time as of Men and so the Age must have part of this Commendation FINIS Books Printed for SAMUEL KEBLE at the Turk Head in Fleestreet EPICTETI Enchiridion Or the most Excellent Morals of Epictetus made English in a Poetical Paraphrase History of the Bible Lively described in 120 Cuts or Figures 120.120 The Innocent Lady Degrees of Marriage that which is Ordered to be had in all Churches Preparation to a Holy Life or Devotion for Families and Private Persons by the Author of the Weeks Preparatin ation A Collection of Private Form of Prayers out of the Common Prayer Book for Morning Noon and Night and other special Occasions being in a different Method from any former By the Author of the Weeks Preparation to the Sacrement Together with the Holy Feast and Fasts as they are observed in the Church of England Explained and the Reasons why they are yearly Celebrated A Table to all the Epistles and Gospels in the Book of Common Prayer so that you may Find any Text of Scripture being contained in them This Table may be put in your Common Prayer Book without new binding Rules for our more Devout Behaviour in the time of Divine Service in the Church of England An Explanation of the Terms Order and Usefullness of the Liturgy of the Church of England By way of Question and Answer recommanded to be learned after the Church Catechisme A Perswasive to the stricter Observation of the Lords Day in pursuance of his Majesty Order and Direction to Preachers By Matthew Bryan LL. D. Books Printed for and Sold by D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses and work them according to Nature as also to Perfect Nature by the Subtilty of Art which was never found out But by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle Novae Hypotheseos ad Explicands Febrium Intermittentium Symptomata typos Excogitatae hypotyposis una cum AEtiologia Remediorum Speciatim vero de Curatione per Curticem Peruvianum Accessiti Dissertatiuncula de Intestinorum motu Periscaltico Authore Gulielmo Cole M. D. Epistolae Medinciales variis Occasionibus Conscriptae Authore Richardo Carr. M. D. The Reading of the Famous and Learned Robert Callis Esq on the Statute of the 23 of Henry the Eight Cap. 5. Of Sewers as it was delivered by him at Gray's Inn in August 1622. The Second Edition Inlarged with the several Judgments and Resolutions of the Reverend Judges upon the Laws of Sewers and other Remarques not before Published with a new Table to the whole Rules for Explaining and Decyphering all manner of Secret Writing plain and Demonstrative with Exact Methods for Understanding Intimation by Signs Gestures or Speech Also an Account of the Secret ways of Conveying Written Messages Discovered by Tritbenrius Schottus Lord Fran Bacon Bishop Wilkings c. with Exact Tables and Examples By I. F. ADVERTISSEMENT THE Slaughter of the Innocents by Herod A Poem Written in Italian by the Famous Italian Poet the Cavalier Marino Translated by T. R. Printed for S. M. And to be Sold by Sam. Keble at the Turk Heads in Fleestreet and D. Brown at the Blak-Swan without Temple Bar. * Cornwall Bede 1. 14. * Rowena Githa sister to Swain Dan. Toustain D. Anno 2. Anno 3. Anno. 6. Anno 7. Roger Fitz-Osborn the Son of William Cousin and especial Councellor to the King Anno. 20. Gervasins

the same maner and took none but from such as after his Possession of the Crown Rebelled against him or were slain in the Wars § 34. He imposed no new Taxations on the State and used those he found very moderately As Danegelt being a Tax raised by the former Kings of two Shillings upon every Hilde-Land to maintain the Wars against the Danes he would not have it made an Annual payment but only taken upon urgent Occasion And it was seldom gathered in his Time or his Successors Scutagium or Escuage which was also then an Imposition of Mony upon every Knight's Fee afterwards only imployed for the Service in Scotland was never Levied but in Like Occasions for Stipends and Donatives to Souldiers § 35. Only one Exaction he he was forced to raise to cure a Mischief which arose by his Means In the begining of this Reign the Rancor of the English towards the New-come Normans was such as finding them single in Woods and remote Places they secretly murthered them and the Deed doers for any the severest Courses taken could never be discovered Whereupon it was ordained that the Hundred wherein a Norman was found slain and the Murther not taken should be condemned to pay the King some thirty-six pounds and some twenty eight pounds according to the Quantity of the Hundred And this was done to the End the Punishment being generally inflicted it might particularly deter them and hasten the Discovery of the Malefactor by whom so many must otherwise be interessed This Mulct and the seizing into his Hands the Church Treasure before-noted though both were done by the especial commanding Warrant of Necessity were much taken to heart in the Kingdom both by the Clergy and Common People § 36. And yet otherwise was he to both very gratious and beneficial For upon petition made unto him he relieved the Oppression of such as were Tenants at will of their Lords which were a very great Number and began after this manner All those who were discovered to have had a Hand in any Rebellion and were pardoned only to injoy the Benefit of Life having all their Lively-hood taken from them became Vassails unto those Lords to whom the Possessions were given of all such Lands as were forfeited by Attainders And if by their diligent Service they could attain any Portion of Ground they held it but only so long as it pleased their Lords without having any Estate for themselves or their Children and were oftentimes miserably cast out upon the sudden contrary to Promise upon any small Displeasure Whereupon it was ordained that whatsoever they had obtained of their Lords by any obsequious Service or agreed for upon any Lawful Pact they should hold by an inviolable Law during their own Lives § 37. And for the Clergy other than in this one Act he maintained all their Immunities and Priviledges and they grew very much under him But this it seems was the Cause that made them so much disfigure his Worthiness and leave his Memory in so black Colours to Posterity as they did in delineating his Tyranny Rigor and Oppression when the Nature and Necessary Disposition of his Affairs do much excuse him therein and shew that he was a Prince of a most active Virtue whose Abilities of Nature were equal to his Undertakings of Fortune as preordained for so great a Work And though he might have some Advantage of the Time wherein we often see Men prevail more by the Imbecilities of others than their own Worth Yet let those Times be well examined his Strength and Eminency if we take his just Measure where of an exceeding Proportion Neither wanted he those Encounters and Concurrences of sufficient able Princes his Neighbours to put him to the Trial thereof having on one side the French to grapple withal on the other the Dane far mightier in People and Shipping than himself strongly sided in the Kingdom as greedy to recover their former Footing here as ever and as well or better prepared § 38. But this name of Conquest which ever imports Violience and Misery is of so harsh a found and so odious in nature as a people subdued seldom gives the Conquerour his due tho' never so worthy And especially to a Stranger whom only time must naturalize and let in by degrees into their Liking and good Opinion Wherein also this King was greatly advantaged by reason of his twenty years Government which had much impaired the Memory of former Customs in the younger sort and well inured the elder to the present Usances and Form of State Whereby the Rule was made more easy to his Sons who tho' they were far inferiour to him in Worth were a little better beloved then he and the rather for that they were content somewhat to unwrest the Sovereignty from the Height whereunto he had strained it which brought the State to a better proportion of Harmony § 39. Of those who were the especial Men of Employment in his Reign time has shut us out from the knowledge of many it being in the Fortune of Kings to have the Names and Memory of their Counsellors like Rivers in the Ocean Buried in their Glory Yet these we find principally mentioned in Stories First William Fitz-Osborne Earl of Hereford the especial Mover and Counsellor of this Voiage of England reported also to have furnished forty Ships at his own Charge for the Enterprise Odo Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent sometimes his Viceroy in England and seems also to have managed the Finances but of such excessive Avarice that he gathered so much Treasure as he went about to buy the Papacy and attempting to go to Rome about the same the King staid him at Home in a fair Prison and excused the matter upon Exclamation made in this sort that he only Imprisoned the Earl of Kent not the Bishop of Bayeux Beside he had Lanfranc a Man of universal Learning and an excellent Lawyer Born in Lumbardy who peradventure might introduce something of the Constitutions of that Province to the making up our Laws which in many things seem to participate with theirs And no doubt he had many others else For being of a strong Constitution of Judgment he could not but be strongly furnished in that kind seeing ever weak Princes have weak Sides and our most renowed Kings have been best underset with Counsel and happily served with the ablest Officers § 40. He had a fair issue by Maud his Wife Four Sons and Five Daughters To Robert his Eldest Son he left the Dutchy of Normandy to William the Kingdom of England and to Henry his Treasure with an Annual Pension of 8000. pounds to be paid him by his two Brothers Richard that was his Second Son Died in his Youth of a surfeit taken by Hunting in the New Forrest and began the fatal Misfortune that followed of that place by the Death of King William the Second there slain with an Arrow and of Richard the Son of Robert Duke of