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death_n	duke_n	king_n	richard_n	5,531	5	9.4247	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70258	Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.	G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)	1670 (1670)	Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183	59,815	208

at Battle when the hazard of England was tryed in one days fight and Harold the King gave place to his Conqueror by losing his life among sixty seven thousand nine hundred seventy four English men besides whose bloud so spilt gave name to the place in French Sangue Lac. And the Soil after Rain becoming of a reddish colour caused William of Newbery to write that if there fell any small sweet showers in the place where so great a slaughter of the English was made presently sweateth forth very fresh bloud out of the Earth as if the evidence thereof did plainly declare the voice of bloud there shed and cryed still from the Earth unto the Lord. William the Bastard Duke of Normandy making his claim to the Crown of England by Affinity Adoption and Promise arrived at a Port in Sussex called Pensey with 896 ships furnished for War the 28 th of September in the year 1066. And the 14th of October following being Saturday near Hastings in the same County joyned Battel with Harold King of England who in the Field Valiantly fighting was there slain by the shot of an Arrow into his brains and with him dyed his two Brethren and 67974 men besides The place where they fought ever since doth in Memory thereof bear the name of Battel where the Heptarchy of the Saxons was brought to their last Period Having all their Laws altered their Nobles displaced and all men disherited all seized into the Normans hand who made himself Lord of all and on the day of Christ his Nativity in the same year was Crowned at Westminster King of England which he governed the space of 20 years 8 Months and 16 days But Places of other Note in this County is that from Basham Earl Harold taking the Sea for his delight in a small Boat was driven upon the Coast of Normandy where by Duke William he was retained till he had sworn to make him King after Edward Confessors Death which Oath being broken the Bastard arrived at Pensey and with his Sword revenged that perjury SURREY THis County is stored with many Princely Houses yea and five of His Majesties so Magnificently built that of some she may well say no Shire hath none such as is None-such indeed And were not Richmond a fatal place of Englands best Princes it might in Esteem be ranked with the Richest For therein dyed the great Conqueror of France King Edward the third the beautiful Anne Daughter to Charls the Fourth Emperour and intirely beloved Wife to King Richard the second the most wise Prince King Henry the seventh and the Barest of her Sex the Mirrour of Princes Queen Elizabeth the Worlds Love and Subjects Joy In Chertsey Abbey King Henry the sixth who was deposed and made away in the Tower of London was first Interred without all Funeral Pomp but for his holy life was imputed a Saint and lastly translated and Intombed at Windsor Hant-shire NEar Ringwood from God and peoples service to Beast and Luxury thirty six Parish Churches were converted and pulled down by the Conqueror and thirty miles of circuit inforrested for his Game of Hunting Wherein his Sons Richard and Rufus with Henry the second son to Duke Robert his first felt by hasty death the hand of Justice and Revenge For in the same Forrest Richard by a blasting of a pestilent Air Rufus by a shot taken for a Beast and Henry as Absalom hanged by a bough came to their untimely ends At so dear a rate the pleasure of Dogs and harbour for Beasts were bought in the bloud of these Princes In the City of Winchester was Richard and Rufus Interred their bones by Bishop Fox were gathered and shrined in little gilt Coffers fixed upon a wall in the Quire where still they remain carefully preserved The Wars betwixt Maud the Empress intituled Lady of England unto whom all the Nobility had sworn Allegiance And King Stephen Earl of Bolloign her Cousin German was prosecuted with such variable Fortunes in many conflicts on both parts that Stephen himself was by her taken Prisoner and retained in Irons with other extremities used But the success of War altering Maud the Empress to save her own life adventured through the Host of her Enemy laid in a Coffin fained to be dead and so was carryed in a Horse-Litter from Winchester to Lutegershall Vices and Glocester and thence to Oxford whence the year following she escaped as dangerously by deceiving the Scout Watch in a deep Snow Anno 1141. Wight Island IT is reported that in the year 1176. and twenty three of King Henry the second that in this Island it rained a shower of bloud which continued for the space of two hours together to the great wonder and amazement of the people that beheld it with fear Devonshire FRom the Port of Plymouth Sir Francis Drake that potent Man at Sea setting forth in the year 1577. In the space of two years and ten Months did compass the circle of the Earth by Sea Henry Holland Grand-Child to John Holland half Brother to King Richard the second siding with Lancaster against Edward the fourth whose Sister was his Wife was driven to such misery as it is reported that he was seen all torn and bare-footed to beg his living in the Low-Countries and lastly his body was cast upon the shore of Kent as if he had perished by shipwrack so uncertain is Fortune in her endowments and the state of Man notwithstanding his great Birth Cornwall BEsides the abundance of Fish that do suffice the Inhabitants the Pilchard is taken who in great Skuls swarm about the Coast whence being transported to France Spain and Italy yield a yearly Revenue of gain unto Cornwall There are Rocks that are not destitute of Gold nor Silver yea and Diamonds shaped and pointed Angle-wise and smoothed by nature her self whereof some are as big as Walnuts inferiour to the Orient only in blackness and hardness Memorable matters for Antiquity and strangeness of sight are these at Boskenna is a Trophy erected which are eighteen stones placed round in compass and pitched twelve foot each from others with another far bigger in the very center These do shew some Victory there attained either by the Romans or else King Athelstone At the foot of the Rocks near unto St. Michaels Mount in the Memory of our Fathers were digged up Spear-heads Axes and Swords of Brass wrapped in Linne the Weapons that the Cimbrians and ancient Britains anciently used There also the Wring-Cheese doth shew it self which are huge Rocks heaped one upon another and the lowest of them the least fashioned like a Cheese lying pressed under the rest of those Hills which seemeth very dangerous to be passed under But near to Pensans and unto Mounts-bay a far more strange Rock standeth namely Main-Amber which lyeth mounted upon others of meaner size with so equal a counterpoize that a Man may move it with the push of his finger but no strength remove it out of his