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A70258
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Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.
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G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)
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Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183
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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
other Sea fish which if they be not the wonders of Nature we may deem to be the undoubted tokens of the general deluge that in Noahs time over-flowed the whole face of the Earth Also the River Swale among the English was reputed a very Sacred River and Celebrated with an universal glory for that the English Saxons first embracing Christianity in one day above ten thousand men besides a Multitude of Women and Children were therein baptized unto Christ by the hands of Paulinus Arch-bishop of York The North and East Riding PLaces of eminent Note are Whitby where are found certain stones fashioned like Serpents folded and wraped round in a Reath even the very pastimes of Nature who when she is wearied as it were with serious works sometimes forgeth and shapeth things by way of sport and recreation so that by the credulous they are thought to have been Serpents which a Coat or crust of stones had now covered all over and by the prayers of St. Hilda turned to stones And also there are certain fields here adjoyning where Geese flying over fall down suddenly to the ground to the great admiration of all men Ounsbery hill besides a Spring of Medicinable waters for the eyes is a Prognostication unto her Neighbours whose head being covered with a cloudy cap presageth some tempestuous storms or showers to follow At Huntly Nabe are stones found at the roots of certain Rocks of divers bigness so artificially shaped round by nature in manner of a Globe as if they had been made by the Turners hand In which if you break them are found stony Serpents enwrapped round like a reath but most of them headless The Bishoprick of Durham THings of rare note observed in this shire are three pits of a wonderful depth commonly called the Hell Kettles which are adjoyning near unto Darlington whose waters are somewhat warm These are thought to come of an Earth-quake which happened in the year 1179. whereof the Chronicle of Tinmouth maketh mention whose Record is this On Christmas-day at Oxenhall in the Territory of Darlington within the Bishoprick of Durham the ground heaved up aloft like unto a high Tower and so continued all that day as it were unmoveable until the Evening and then fell with so horrible a noise that it made all the Neighbour dwellers sore afraid and the earth swallowed it up and made in the same place a deep pit which is there to be seen for a testimony unto this day Of no less admiration are certain stones lying within the River Weere at Butterbee near Durham from whose ebb and low-water in the Summer issueth a certain Salt reddish water which with the sun waxeth white and growing into a thick substance becometh a necessary salt to the use of the by-dwellers Westmorland nothing worth noting Cumberland THe Rivers in this Country feed a kind of Muskle that bringeth forth Pearl wherein the mouth of the Irt as they lye gaping and sucking in dew the Country people gather and sell to the Lapidaries to their own little and the buyers great gain But the Mines Royal of Copper whereof this Country yieldeth much is for use the Richest of all at Keswick and Newland is the black lead gotten whose plenty maketh it of no great esteem otherwise a Commodity that could hardly be missed At Burgh upon the sand was the fatal end of our famous Monarch King Edward the first who there leaving his Wars unfinished against Scotland left his troubles and soon missed life to his untimely and soon lamented death And at Salkelds upon the River Eden a Monument of seventy stones each of them ten foot high above ground and one of them at the entrance fifteen as a Trophy of Victory was erected These are by the by-dwellers called Long Megg and her Daughters Northumberland THe chiefest Commodity that enricheth Country is that which we call Sea-Coals whereof there is such plenty and abundance digged up as they do not only return a great gain to the Inhabitants but procure also much pleasure and profit to others No place of this Province vents forth so many of these Sea-Coals into other Regions as New-Castle doth The Inhabitants of Morpeth set their own Town on fire in the year 1215. in the spight they bare to King John for that he and his Rutars over ran these Countries Man Island THis Commodity makes this Island more happy then we are here for the people are there free from all necessary commencements of Suits from long and dilatory Pleas and from frivolous Feeing of Lawyers No Judge or Clerks of the Court take there any penny for drawing Instruments or making of Processes All Controversies are there determined by certain Judges without writings or other Charges and them they call Deemsters and chuse forth among themselves If any complaint be made to the Magistrate for wrongs either done or suffered he presently taketh up a stone and fixeth his mark upon it and so delivereth it unto the party Plaintiff by vertue of which he both calls his adversary to appearance and to produce his Witnesses If the case fall out to be more litigious and of greater consequence than can easily be ended it is then referred to twelve men whom they term the Keys of the Island And this Island is so well managed for matter of Rule and civil Discipline that every man there possesseth his own in peace and safety No man lives in dread or danger of losing what he hath Men are not there inclined to robbing or thieving or licentious living This Isle prohibits the customary manner of begging from door to door detesting the disorders as well Civil as Ecclesiastical of Neighbour-Nations That which deserves to be committed to Memory is that the Women of this Country wheresoever they go out of their doors gird themselves about with the winding-sheet that they purpose to be buryed in to shew themselves mindful of their Mortality and such of them as are at any time condemned to dye are sowed within a sack and flung from a Rock into the Sea This Island is in length 29 Miles the widest part is scarce nine Miles the whole compass about is fourscore and two Miles Holy Island THis Island from East to West is about two thousand two hundred and fifty paces so that the circumference cannot be great Farn Isle THe bredth of this Isle is but five Miles and the length no more the whole circumference extends it self no further then to fifteen Miles Garnsey THis Isle lyeth in length from Plimmouth-bay South-west to Lancross de Anckers North-east thirteen Miles in bredth from St. Martins point South-east to the Howe North-west nine miles and is in circuit thirty six miles In this Isle is neither Toad Snake Adder or any other venemous Creature whereas Jersey hath great plenty their fields in the Summer time are so naturally garnished with Flowers of all sorts that a Man being there might conceit himself to be in a pleasant Artificial Garden Among the Rocks