great many such burning Glasses that being set upon the Wall and Turrets set on fire the Ships and Engines that were in the Harbour p. 415. Anastasius being dead Amantius an Eunuch tampered with the Souldiers to make Theocratinus Emperor and to that end delivered to Justinian who till seventeen years old was a Neat-heard in Thrace a vast sum of money to be distributed amongst the Captaines which he taking dealt with them for himself and so obtained the Imperial dignity Imp. Hist p. 419. Narses a valiant Captain having recovered Italy from the Gothes and having governed it twelve years being calumniated by Justin who succeeded his Grand-father Justinian was commanded home and a Successor sent him and Sophia the Empress added this taunt that she would have him to come home to spin Wool with her Women in Constantinople He enraged with this scorn replied that he would twist her such a Web that she should never untwine and so called in the Longobeards that overcame and possest all Italy p. 442. Albinus King of Lombardy having caused his Wife Queen Rosamond to drink Wine at a publick Banquet out of her Fathers Scull she in Revenge plotted and procured his Death p. 445. Baras Hormisda's General being vanquished by the Romanes Hormisda sent him in disgrace a VVomans Garment Upon vvhich Baras rebelled against him and vvas the occasion that Hormisda vvas deposed and Cosroes set up in his place Idem p. 453. Mauritius slain by Phocas vvho had murdered in his sight tvvo Sons three Daughters and his Empress had foretokens of his Death At noon day in the Market of Constantinople there appeared a Man to the Emperour in the habit of a Monk holding a Sword in his hand and said with a Loud Voice The Emperor Mauritius shall die by the Sword and then vanished He likewise in his sleep dreamt that a Souldier named Phocas had murdered his Wife Children and afterward himself and being troubled he asked his Brother what Phocas was he answered a Coward then said the Emperor he is cruel and a Murderer which accordingly came to pass Mauritius at his death often repeated Just thou art O Lord and righteous is thy Judgments p. 458. Cosroes King of Persia having Conquered Jerusalem carried away thence that part of Christ's Cross vvhich the Empress Helena had left there and kept it fourteen years but it was restored to Heraclius by his Son and Heraclius the Emperor entring Jerusalem carried it with great joy upon his shoulders Imp. Hist 471. Heraclius the Emperor who in his old age degenerated from the vertues of his youth and in whose time Mahomâ—t sprung up is reported to dye of a strange disease called Priapismus p. 471. Rodwaldus King of the Lombards falling in Love with a Noblemans Wife being taken with her was slain by her Husband The Emperor Constans the second having besieged Rimoaldus the Son of Grimoaldus King of Lombardy in Benevent The Son distressed sent to his Father by one that was his Nurse-father for relief who being intercepted by the Emperour was commanded by him to go to the Walls of the City and to tell Rimoaldus that his Father was not able to assist him and therefore he should yield Who being brought bound before the Walls told Rimoaldus that his Father would have him be of good chear for this day he arriveth at the River Satrico and within these three dayes will be here with an infinite Army I can say no more I am in the Enemies hand who begin to Murder me I recommend unto you my VVife and Children Having said these words the Emperors Souldiers kill'd him presently p. 480. Leoncius surprized his Master Justinian the second and cut off his Ears and Nose and banisht him into Pontus and took the government and Imperial Title to himself Anno Dom. 696. Leoncius having reigned three years Tiberius rebelled against him and served him as he had served Justinian He banisht one Philippicus because he had reported that he dreamt an Eagle pitcht upon his Head Justinian recovering dealt so by him and slew both him and Leoncius and as often as he would have wiped his Nose if he had had one he caused some of those that had been followers of Leoncius to be slain and fearing Philippicus because of his dream and intending his destruction he enforced him to stand upon his guard and fighting with him was slain and lost his Kingdom to him Imp. Hist p. 495. Irene Mother to Constantine the sixth being put by her government by her son come to age out of desire to rule surprized her Son and put out his Eyes and took upon her the government of the Empire Leo the Emperor fighting against Cramas King of Bulgaria in a great battel the two Princes happened to meet and the Emperor slew with his own hands the Bulgarian King p. 52â— A Cardinal named Swinesnout Os porci in the daies of Ludovicus Pius Emperor was chosen Pope and because it was a very unseemly name for so High a dignity by a general consent it was changed and he was called Sergius the second Hence arose the custom of the Popes altering their names after their election to the Popedom Imp. Hist p. 538. The Emperor Theophilus of Constantinople fearing a Captain called Theodosius would usurp the Empire after his death but a few hours before he died himself caused that Theodosius his head to be smitten off Lotharias the first having raigned fifty years gave up his Empire and professed himself Monk In his time Pope Joan an English Woman held the Papal dignity two years p. 544. In the raign of Lewis the second Emperor who died Anno dom 878. in the City of Bressia in Lombardy for three days it rained blood so fresh and perfect as if it had been of a Bull or other beast newly killed Basilius Emperor of Constantinople riding on Hunting was killed by a Stagg Imp. Hist. p. 553. The Emperor Arnulph besieging the Duke of Spoleto in Benevent the Dutchess corrupted a Chamberlain to give him a sleeping Potion which the Emperor taking awaked not in three Days and three Nights afterwards finding himself ill he returned home and died of the Lowsy disease p. 558. In the Raign of Otho the fourth Emperor about nine of the Clock in the Morning there appeared in the Element a great Flaming Fire like to a burning Torch which continued a great while and the light being vanished there appeared in the same place the likeness of a Serpent The Emperor was poysoned by a pair of perfumed Gloves given him by the VViddow of Crescentius whom he too familiarly conversed with and whose Husband the Emperor had caused to be put to Death Imp. Hist p. 595. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century V. HEnry the second Emperor was perswaded against his will to marry the daughter of the County Palatine of Rhine called Amigunda with whom undiscovered and unknown to any till his death he liv'd most chastly both of them observing Voluntary Virginity without
had Herod and Philip the Tetrarchs Herod would have compelled the Pharisees to swear obedience to him who would not but Phaeroras his wife payeth their fine hoping by their means to obtain the Kingdom for her Sons whereupon he cast off his houshold Servants that were of the Pharisees faction and requireth Phaeroras to put away his wife Antipater whom Herod had joyned with him in the government conspires against his Father is accused condemned and cast into Prison who was convinced to have prepared poyson for his Father which being given as a Tryal to a condemned Malefactor presently kill'd him Herod fell sick of a terrible painful burning sickness in his intrails with a Canine appetite an vlcer in his bowels a furious Collick His members rotted and were full of crawling wormes a perpetual Priapisme with an intolerable stench a violent convulsion of his Nerves and shortness of breath Apprehending his death he sent for the Nobles of the Jews upon pain of death to come to him shuâ— them up in the Hippodrome and commanded his Sister Salome and his brother Alenas that at his death the Soldiers should kill them that so he might not die without Lamentation but Salome and Alenas discharged them and sent them home unhurt Six daies before he died he caused his Son Antipater to be slain He raigned after the Romans appointed him King thirty and seven years He died after Christs birth one year and lived sixty and left his Kingdom to Archelaus Joseph Antiq. from p. 370. to 450. When Herod assaulted certain Thieves who had betaken themselves unto their Caves there was an old man amongst them with his wife and seven Sons who being required by them that he would suffer them to go and submit themselves took up the entry of the Cave and as his Sons advanced themselves to issue out he slew them so that having massacred them all and afterwards his wife and cast their dead bodies down the Rock he reviled Herod to his face refused his proffered pardon and threw himself down head-long after them preferring death before servitude Ioseph Antiq. p. 377. At such time as Caesar and Anthony made Trial of their Titles in the Actian Warr and in the seventh year of the raign of King Herod there happened such an earth quake in the Country of Judaea that divers beasts were slain and many men over-whelm'd with the ruine of their Houses and perished to the number of ten thousand Id. 391. At that time viz. when Pontius Pilate was governour was Jesus a Wise-man if it be lawful to call him a man For he was the performer of divers admirable works and the instructor of those who willingly entertain the truth He drew unto him divers Jews and Greeks to be his followers This was Christ who being accused by the Princes of our nation before Pilate was condemned by him to the Cross yet did not those that followed him forbear to love him notwithstanding the ignominy of his death For he appeared unto them alive the third day after according as the Divine prophets had before testified and divers wonderful things were done by him and from that time the race of the Christians who have derived their name from him have never ceased Id. 466. Decius Mundus a Roman Knight profered six thousand pounds to Paulina a beautiful but chaste Lady for one nights free enjoying her but was refused She afterwards by the contrivance of I le the Priest of Isis who pretended to her that their God Anubis desired familiarity with her was prevailed with to take her lodging in the Temple and there entertained Mundus instead of Anubis which he bragging of to her she informes her husband who complained to the Emperor Tiberius of the abuse who hang'd the Priest destroyed the Temple and threw Anubis Statue into Tiber and banished Mundus Id. p. 468. Four Jews dwelling in Rome and expounding the Law had prevailed with Fulvia a noble Lady and wife to Saturnine to become a Proselyte and to send Purple and Gold to the Temple at Jerusalem which they received and converted to their own use This being discovered and complaint made to Tiberius he commanded all the Jews to depart ouâ— of Rome so that Multitudes suffered for the offence of four Joseph Jews Antiq. p. 4 8. Vitellius shewed the Jews great favour came to Jerusalem restored to them the custody of the Priestly Vestments sent Pontius Pilate to Rome and removed Caiaphas from his Priest-hood and advanced Jonathan the Son of Ananus to that dignity Id. p. 463. Philip the Tetrarch Reigned thirty seven years and behaved himself very peaceably he made his ordinary abode within his own Dominions He walked being accompanied with a small number of his chosen servants and had that seat carried after him wherein he was accustomed to sit and do justice And therein sate he to the end that if any one presented himself and required his assistance he might without delay do him right for on the first motion the seat was placed in that path wherein the Plantiff met him and being seated thereon he examined the cause punished the guilty and absolved the innocent Id. p. 471. Herod the second having put away the Daughter of Aretas King of Arabia his lawful wife and taken Herodias who was his Brother Aristobulus Daughter and his Brother Philip's wife Philip yet living was discomfited by Aretas Souldiers and his Army quite overthrown divers of the Jews were of the opinion that God justly punish'd him for the death of John the Baptist whom Josephus commends for his vertue and ascribes his death to Herods fear lest his Subjects being allured by his Doctrines and perswasions should be drawn to revolt Id. p. 471. Herod's progeny is related by Josephus that we may know that neither the number of Children nor any other humane force can be available without the fear of God considering that within the space of one hundred years all Herods Line which was very numerous was extinguisht a very few excepted Joseph p. 471. Agrippa the Great the Son of Aristobulus who was Herods Son by Mariamne married Cypros the Daughter of Salamso the Daughter of Mariamne by Herod which Salamso was the wife of Phaseolus the Son of Phaseolus Herod's Brother Agrippa had by his wife Cypros three Daughter Bernice Mariamne and Drusilla and two Sons Drasis that died young and Agrippa so that Agrippa the Great and his wife were both the Grandchildren of Herod the Great Id p. 471. Agrippa the Great riding with Cajus Caligula wisht the death of Tiberius his Uncle and Cajus his Succession and was complained of by his Coachman to Tiberius who kept him six months in chains in Prison he was told by a German conjecturing from the sight of an Owl which sat over his head of his future prosperity and death within five days he should again see that Bird. When Cajus came to the Empire he released him from Prison and created him King of Judaea and had the Tetrarchy of
where but in the face which they not able or willing to endure presently retired and lost the Day to Caesar Pompey flying towards Egypt had his Head smitten off in a Boat by the command of the King of Egypt which Caesar wept at when it was shew'd unto him and put to Death those that did it Imperial History p. 15. Afranius one of Pompeys Captaines and Juba King of Mauritania rather than fall into Caesars Hands determined to dye fighting the one against the other Juba slew Afranius and afterward commanded his own Slave to kill himself and so died desperately p. 18. Caesar returning to Rome had four triumphs granted him one for France the second for Egypt the third for Pontus and King Phraaces which he conquered so quickly that he wrote of it veni vidi vici I came I savv I conquered The fourth for Juba As for his Conquest of Pompey he refused because it was over a Romm Citizen Ibid. p. 18. Caesar being in great danger in his last War in Spain against the younger Pompey was ready to have killed himself but recovering the day he said of it That in other Battels he fought for his Honour but in this for his Life Idem p. 19. When Caesar was counselled to have a Guard alwayes about him He answered he would have none for he would rather dye once than live in perpetual care and fear p. 21. Caesar in the fifty sixth year of his age was slain in the Senate seventy of the chief Senators conspiring his Death he having the Night before when a question was asked what Death was best answered The suddain and not propensed His Wife dreamt that Night that he lay dead in her Lap and Spurina warned him to have heed to the Ides of March and a Note was given to him going to the Senate discovering the conspiracy which he began to read but was interrupted and died with it in his hands p. 23. When Marcus Antonius made the Funeral Oration for Caesar who was slain forty and two yearrs before the Birth of our Saviour he shewed his bloody Robe to the People which so enraged them that they ran with burning-brands from the fire of Caesars burning and set on fire the Houses of Brutus and Caffius two principal Conspirators and slew in their rage one Elius Cinna mistaking him for Cornelius Cinna one of Caesars Murderers though he was his Friend And observable it is that all Caesars Murderers within three years died and not one of them of a natural death Imperial History p. 26. Augustus Caesar shut Janus Temple three times in token of Vniversal peace which had bin but twice shut before from the foundation of Rome and in the forty and second year of his Raign the last time that he shut Janus Temple Christ was born Idem p. 49. Tiberius though most unchast himself yet was a great punisher of unchastity in others In the eighteenth year of whose Raign Christ was Crucified whom Tiberius would have had the Senate admit into the number of the Gods but they refused p 59. When one condemned by Tiberius desired that he might be put to present Death he answered No I am not yet so much your Friend p. 60. Caligula was the best Servant and the worst Lord in the World He made a Bridg three Miles over an Arm of the Sea covered it with Earth and built Houses on it and burnt such an infinite number of Torches in the Night he lay there that the darkness of the Night was expelled whereupon be brag'd that he had made of the Sea Land and of the Night Day He commanded himself to be worshipped as a God yet was so afraid of Thunder that he would creep under a Bed to hide himself He wisht all the Roman People had but one Neck that he might destroy them all at one blow He gathered a great Army and marshalled them on the Sea coast and commanded them to gather Cockle-shells for which he demanded Triumph and was killed by Conspiracy in the year of our Lord God sixty three Imperial History p. 70. Nero though most cruel by Nature yet feigned Clemency insomuch that a warrant being brought him to sign for the putting one to Death He said he would that he could not write p. 85. When Agrippina was told that her Son should be Emperour but that he should kill his Mother She replied Let him have the Empire and then kill her and spare not which he accordingly did and viewed his Mothers Womb in which he lay Idem p. 89. In the days of Nero the City of Laodicea was wholly laid wast and destroyed with an Earth-quake p. 90. In the days of Nero it was more dangerous to be rich than to commit offences Few were punished because of their misdeeds but many lost their lives because of their wealth Idem p. 91. When Nero espoused Sporus whom he castrated as his Wife One hearing of it said It had been well for the VVorld that Nero's Father Domitius had never bad but such a VVife Idem p 94. Nero set Rome on fire and in six Days and seven Nights would not suffer it to be quenched so that of fourteen Parts ten were burned and the while got up into a high Tower where delighted with the sight He sung verses out of Homer concerning the burning of Troy He raised the first persecution against Christians whom he covered with Wild Beasts Skins and then set Dogs at them p. 94. Otho when his Army was discomfited to avoid effusion of more Roman blood slew himself and when he was burned divers slew themselves for love of him Imperial History p. 112. Vitellius coming into the Fields where the dead Bodies that were slain taking part with Otho lay unburied his Souldiers and Captains holding their Noses He reproved them saying that there was not a sweeter smell in the World Than the smell of an Enemy being Dead especially a Citizen He banished Astrologers and Mathematicians because they had foretold he should not raign above a year He was excessive in his prodigality and most bloudy in his cruelty He put to Death two young men only because they had interceeded for their Father whom he had condemned to Death p. 115. Vespasian was made Emperor against his VVill and forced to accept of it with drawn Swords by his Souldiers who threatned otherwise they would immediately kill him He was a good Prince lived seventy nine yeares died in his Bed For his health he used frictions and fasting one day every month without eating any thing Id. p. 117. 129. Titus was called Deliciae humani generis sent none from him discontented One Night having given nothing that day he said to his Friends Heu diem perdidi and when two great men had conspired his Death he freely forgive them without punishment Domitian delighted in catching Flies and though he were evil himself yet he severely punisht evil Governours He commanded himself to be called God and Lord. p. 136. When a Battel
a hundred and fourscore years after Christ which it retained in great sincerity for the space of a hundred years till the raign of Dioclesian who began his raign Anno Dom. 288. Bp. Godwins lives of the Bishops p. 35. Augustine the first Arch bishop of Canterbury being dead and leaving Laurence a Virtuous man his successor upon the death of Ethelbert a good Prince Eadbald his Son succeeding a Vicious person that married his Fathers Wife and renounced the Christian Religion the Arch-bishop Laurence being hereby discouraged determined to go into France and the night before the day of his intended departure he caused his bed to be made in the Church of his Monastery where after many tears and sighs he recommended to God the miserable estate of his poor Church and so fell a sleep It seemed unto him that St. Peter came to him and first expostulated the matter with him and then reprehended him and lastly whipt his naked body so terribly as when he awaked finding it more than a dream he was all gore blood He went immediately to the King shewing him his wound and related the occasion on which the King being terrified he renounced his Idols put away his Incestuous wife was baptized and built a Church in the Monastery of St. Peter and the Archbishop continued in his pastoral charge till his death which was February 3. Six hundred and nineteen Bp. Godwin p. 50. Honorius the fifth Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was the first that divided his province into Parishes that so he might appoint particular Ministers to particular congregations He died Anno dom 653. Godwin p. 52. Theodore a Graecian born in Tarsus of Cilicia Saint Pauls Country was the seventh Arch bishop of Canterbury a learned man brought great store of books both Greek and Latine with him He erected a School at Greekeslade or Greekes slade in Wiltshire so called of the Graecians his Countrymen that taught and studied there and removing thence are supposed to lay the Foundation of the Vniversity of Oxford He sate Archbishop twenty two years died six hundred and ninety being eighty eight years of age unto which time he would often say that he thought he should live for that in a dream it had been so signified unto him many years before Id. p. 54. Cuthbert the eleventh Arch-bishop of Canterbury was the first that got liberty from the Pope of making Coemeteries or burying places within Townes or Cities for before within the Walls none were buried Id. p. 57. In the time of Athelred who was eighteen years Arch-bishop of Canterbury all the Monasteries of England were destroyed by the Danes so as for the space of ninety years after Monkery ceased throughout England yea in the North-parts there was not seen either Monks or Nuns in two hundred years after till about the middle of the raign of VVilliam the Conqueror Married Priests every where inhabited Monasteries whence a long time after with much ado they were hardly ejected This Athelred died in the year of our Lord eight hundred eighty nine Bp. Godw. p. 60. Odo the two and twentieth Arch-bishop of Canterbury divorced King Edwin from his Queen excommunicated his Concubines and caused one of them whom the King doted most unreasonably on to be fetcht out of the Court by Violence burnt her in the fore-head with a hot Iron and banished her into Ireland After his death which happened in the year nine hundred fifty eight Elsinus Bishop of VVinchester that could never brook him in his life by bribery and corrupt means obtained election and coming thither spurned at his Tomb despightfully using these speeches Now at last saith he thou art dead old Dotard and much against thy will hast left thy place to a man worthier of it than thy self Our stories report that the next night Odo appeared to him in his sleep threatning a speedy and fearful vengeance of this insolency According to which prediction it fell out that travelling to Rome for his Pall upon the Alpes he was so oppressed with cold that he was constrained to put his feet wherewith he had so contumeliously disgraced his predecessor into the bellies of his Horses and yet at last to die with cold Idem p. 63. Dunstan the 23d Archbishop of Canterbury born in Somersetshire brought up in the Abbey of Glastonbury being commended by Athelm his Vncle to the King was entertained at Court till for a Miracle as the Monks call it which was then imputed to Conjuration he was driven thence with much disgrace and applied himself to the service of Elphege Bishop of Winchester who earnestly perswaded him to be a Monk which he could not away with till falling dangerously sick and apprehending it a Judgment for disgracing his Uncles persuasion and then in great hast he professed himself a Monk in Glastonbury where leading a strict life as to outward appearance he grew famous and was called by King Edward to Court where he had a divers reputation sometimes accounted too familiar with fair VVomen sometimes a Conjurer but by most a vertuous person a bitter Enemy of married Clergymâ—n and a great Promoter of Monkery ruled all at his pleasure under King Edmund and Elred but King Edwin could not brook him which Dunstan perceiving got away into France and lived there in Banishment but by Edgar that succeeded was recalled and promoted to the Bishoprick of Worcester then of London and after of Canterbury where he sate twenty seven years enriching Monasteries and persecuting married Priests and dyed May the 19th 988. and was shortly after Canonized for a Saint Bp. Godwyn p. 65. Edwin the Son of King Edmund the day of his Coronation rose from the Feast and went immediately to his Chamber where a beautiful Concubine attended his coming Dunstan that had gotten some inkling of the business that he went about followed him boldly and forced him not only to leave that enterprise for that time but also to forswear the Company of that VVoman for ever Id. p. 64. In the year one thousand and twelve it happened the Danes to be disappointed of certain tribute which they claimed as due unto them for want whereof they spoiled and burnt the City and Church of Canterbury The Monks and People thereof Men VVomen and Children they tithed putting nine to the Sword and letting go a tenth only so that for 804. that were suffered to escape 7236 went to Pot. Elphege then Archbishop they kept in Prison and put him to Death at Greenwich Id. p. 66. Agelnoth the 29th Archbishop of Canterbury going to Rome to fetch his Pall bought an Arm of St. Austin Bishop of Hippo for an hundred Talents of Silver and a Talent of Gold and bestowed it on the Church of Coventry Godw. p 67. Robert sirnamed Gemeticensis a Norman being by the favour of Edward the Confessor made Archbishop of Canterbury and not enduring that any should bear so great Sway as himself at Court fell to devising how he might overthrow Emma the Kings
Mother who only seemed to overtop him He began therefore to beat into the Kings head who was a mild and soft natured Prince how hard a hand his Mother had held upon him when he lived in Normandy how likely it was that his Brother came to his Death by the practice of her and Earl Godwyn and lastly that she used the Company of Alwyn Bishop of VVinchester more familiarly than was for her Honour The King unadvisedly crediting these Tales without debating the matter seised upon all her goods and committed her to Prison in the Nunnery of Warewell banished Earl Godwyn and his Sons and commanded Alwyn upon pain of Death not to come forth of the Gates of Winchester The Queen made the best Friends she could to be called to her answer but the Archbishop so possest the King that other tryal of her Innocency might not be allowed than this She must walk over nine Plow-shares red hot in the midst of the Cathedral Church of VVinchester If either she performed not this kind of purgation or were found any thing at all hurt she and the Bishop should be esteemed guilty if otherwise the Archbishop was content to undergo such punishment as they should have endured This purgation the Queen performed and acquitted her self and the Bishop of the Crimes objected The King greatly bewailed the wrong done to his Mother asked her forgiveness on his knees restored her and the Bishop to their goods and former places and to make some satisfaction for the fault committed would needs be whipped by the Bishops there present and receive three stripes from his Mother who clearly forgave and forgot the wrong done her Emma and Alwin to shew themselves thankful gave each of them to the Monastery of Saint Swithins nine Manours in remembrance of the nine Plow-shares This gift the King Confirmed and gave two of his own The Archbishop doubting the success of this matter under pretence of sickness kept himself at Dover and as soon as he heard how the World went as well knowing England would be too hot for him he got to the Abbey of Gemetica where he was bred up and there shortly died Bp. Godw. p. 70. Upon the flight of Robert Gemeticensis Stigand thrust himself into the Archbishoprick without the usual Ceremonies and with it held VVinchester raised the Kentishmen at Saxons comb who carrying green boughs in their hands VVilliam the Conqueror was in the midst of them before he was aware and easily granted the Kentishmen to be governed by their Ancient Laws but bore a grudg against the Archbishop by whom he would not be Crowned and against whom he underhand procured Legates from Rome who deprived him and he was likewise clapt in the Castle of VVinchester and hardly used even well near famished which usage was to make him confess where his Treasure lay But he protested with Oaths that he had no money yet after his Death a little Key was found about his Neck the lock whereof being carefully sought out shewed a Note or direction of infinite Treasuries hid under ground in divers places He died in the year 1069. Lanfranck descended from Carus the Emperor was born at Papia in Lombardy being brought up in all good Learning till he came to Mans Estate when he determined to travail through France he came into Normandy rob'd by the way he got to Becco where for a maintenance he first read Logick afterward admitted to be Monk and soon Priour when he was called by Duke William to be Abbot of St. Stephens in Care and thence by the said Duke now King of England to be Archbishop of Canterbury unto whom the Pope afforded his Pall with extraordinary Favour For at his first coming he rose up unto him and met him and told him he yielded him that honour not of duty but because he had heard of his excellent Learning He governed for eighteen years laudably save one Action which was this perswading the Conqueror passing by his Eldest Son Robert to settle the Crown of England on William Rufus who afterward though advanced by him banisht him but was recalled and died 1089. Bp. Godwyn Anselm profest himself a Monk in the Abby of Becco in Normandy in which he was Prior and Abbot for seventeen years He came into England upon the invitation and earnest design of Hugh Earl of Chester then very sick and for the fame of his Learning and Piety was entertained with great respect by all King Rufus himself besides many verbal favours offered him the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury that he had kept voyd four years verily hoping that a man given to contemplation would have refused it But Anselme accepted and the King would have retracted shewing him the burthen of so weighty a calling but Anselme kept his hold and was consecrated the fourth of Decemb. 1093. The King immediately fell out with him and for naming Vrban Pope before the King had acknowledged him charged him with high treason and convened all the Bishops and Abbots of England to Rochingham Castle where the business being proposed by the King they all forsook their Arch-bishop save Gundulphus Bishop of Rochester he was banished and at Dover plundered of all he had went to the Pope at Lions who at first stuck to him till bought by Rufus's Gold he deserted him The Pope dieth and so did Rufus whose death was miraculously signified to Anselm being in France A paper was put into the hand of his Chaplain no man knew how in which was written Gulielmus Rufus occisus est Henry the first recalled him but again banisht him and again recalled him and he died at Canterbury April 21. 1109. Bp. Godw. p. 80. Henry the first having disposed Bishopricks and given investiture and possession by delivery of the staffe and ring Anselm refuseth to consecrate such Bishops or to repute such Bishops who had been consecrated Pope Paschal the second is appealed to who would not yield one jot unto the King For when the Kings Ambassador told him that his Master would as soon lose his Crown as this Priviledge The Pope answered yea let him lose his head if he will while I live he shall never appoint Bishop but I will resist him what I may This contention cost him twice three years banishment but at last by the Importunity of Adela Countess of Bloys the Kings Sister he was not only permited to return but had all his revenues gathered in his absence and his Estate restored to him After which he lived two years and was a bitter Enemy of the married Clergy not only expelling them out of Monasteries but deprived them of their promotions confiscated their goods pronounced them and their Wives Adulterers and forced all that entred into Orders to vow chastity He writ many learned Tracts and was for the Integrity of his life and conversation admirable In Honour of whom the Pope ordained that the Archbishop of Canterburies place in all general Councils should be at his own right Foot using
p. 15. Sir Fancis Drake in two years and ten months went round the world Speeds Maps p. 15. Henry Holland Duke of Excester and who had â—arried King Edward the fourth his Sister was seen to beg his bread in France Main Amber near Pensans in Cornwall is a rock which mounted on others of meaner size hath so equal a poyse that a man may move it with a push of his finger but no strength remove it Id. p. 21. At Dunster in Somersetshire a great Lady obtained of her husband so much pasture ground in common by the townes side for the good and benefit of the Inhabitants as she was able in a whole day to go about bare-footed Id. p. 23. At Calne in Wilâ—shire in the year nine hundred seventy seven a Synod was held by Dunstan against married Priests in an upper room The floor fell down only Dunstans chair stood whereupon the married â—riâ—sts lost the day though it was done by device Id. p. 25. In Salisbury Cathedral there are as many Windows as days cast marble pillars as houres and Gates as months in the year Ibid. Edward the third King of England was born in Windsor Castle and after had at the same time John King of France and David King of Scots Prisoners in it In the Chappel of which Castle lyes interred Henry the sixth and Edward the fourth Kings of England whom living the whole land could not contain At Finchamsteed in Bark-shire in the year one thousand one hundred a Well boyled up with streames of blood and fifteen dayes together continued that spring whose waters made red all other where they came to the great amazement of beholders Speeds Maps p. 27. In the year one thousand five hundred eighty one an Army of Mice so over-run the Marshes in Dengry Hundred in Essex near unto South-Minster that they shore the grass to the very roots and so tainted the same with their venemous teeth that a great Murrain fell on the cattel that grazed on it In Colchester Lucius H lena and Constantine the first Christian King Empress and Emperor in the World was born Id. p. 31. A Fish in all parts like a man was taken near Oxford in Suffolk and for six months was kept in the Castle whence afterwards he escaped and got again into the Sea Id. p. 33. Betwixt Oxford and Aldebrough in the County of Suffolk in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and five in a time of great dearth a Crop of pease grew in the rocks without tillage or sowing so that in August there had been a hundred quarters gathered and so many more left blossoming where never grass before grew or Earth was seen on the hard solid rock Id. p. 33. Between January and July in the year one thousand three hundred forty eight there died in Norwich of the plague fifty seven thousand five hundred and four p. 35. Breakespear an English-man born at Langley in Hâ—rtfordshire known by the name of Pope Hadrian the fourth whose stirrop was held by Frederick the Emperor was killed by a Fly that flew into his mouth p. 39. Before the Civil Wars between Lancaster and York in the year one thousand three hundred ninety and nine the River Owse near Harwood in Bedfordshire stood suddenly still and went not forward so that men passed three miles together on foot in t e depth of the Channel and backward the Vâ—ater swelled to a great height Speeds Map p. 41. King Offa's Leaden Tomb in t e River Owse like some fantastical thing appeareth to them that seek it not but to them that seek it it remaineth invisible Id p. 49. At Askridge in Buchingamshire was grâ—at resort to the blood supposed to floâ— out of Christs side brought out of Germany by Henry the Eldest â—on of Richard Kiâ—g of the Romanes which was afterwards discovered to be clarified Honey coloured with Saffron Id. p. 43. The Lands of Condemned Persons in some parts of Glocestershire fall to the King only for a year and a day and then revert to the right Heirs Id. p 47. In Herefordshire near Richards Castle there is a Well called Bonewell wherein aâ—e continually found little Fishes Bones but not a Finne seen and being wholly cleansed will notwithstanding have again the like whether naturally produced or in Veines thither brought none knowes Id. p 49. Marcley-Hill in Herefordshire in the â—ear one thousand five hundred seventy one moved it self in thre dayes four hundred Yards without any stay overturned Kingston Chappel and turned two wâ—ves near a hundred paces from their usual Paths p. 49. In the year one thousand four hundred sixty one on the day of the urification of the â—irgin there was a great Battel fought by James â—utâ—er Earl of Ormond against Edward Earl of March betwixt Ludlow and little Hereford before which Bâ—ttel on the same daâ— appeared in the Firmament three Suns which after a while united into one Sp. M. p. 49. Tâ—e Citizens of Coventry having offended their first Lord had their Priviledges infringed and themselves oppressed with many heavy tributes Whose Wife the Lady Godiva pittying their Estatâ— incessantly sued to her Husband for their peace which he granted on this condition that she would ride naked through the Streets of the City at Noon day which she accordingly performed letting down her Hair which covered her Body p. 53. At Newingham Regis in Warwickshire there is a Soveraign Spring against the Stone green Wounds Vlcers and Impostumes The VVater of which if drunk i th Salt looseneâ—h if with Sugar bindeth and turneth sticks that fall into it into stone Sp. M. p. 53. If any Nobleman come into the Mannour of Okam in Rutlandshire he forfeiteth one Shoe of the Horse he rideth as an Homage to the Lord Harrington Lord of it Sp. M. 59. King Henry the second at the siege of Bridge-North had been slain with an Arrow aimed at him had not Sir Hubert Sinclere received it by stepping betwixt the shaft and his Soveraign and so lost his own Life to save his Lords Sp. M. p. 71. At Pitchford in Shropshire in a private mans Yard there is a VVell whereon floateth a thick Scum of Liquid Bitumen which being clear off to day will gather the like to Morrow a lively emblem of our in-being corruption Sp. M. p. 71. King Edgar being in Chester nad the Homage of eight other Kings who rowed his Barge from St. Johns to his Palace himself holding the Helme as their Supreme p. 73. Certain Trees are reported to float in Bagmeere in Cheshire only against the death of the Heir of the Breertons and after to sink and disappear till the next like Occasion At Steingrave a little Village in Yorkshire some seventy years since was caught a Fish called a Sea-man that for certain days fed on raw Fishes but espying his opportunity escaped again into his Watry Element p. 81. There are certain Fields near Whitby in Yorkshire over which Geese flying fall down Speeds Maps p. 81.
made such Lamentation for it that his Mother beat him with a Taper of VVax that stood before her and that so sorely that he could never after well endure the sight of a Taper Edmund Ironside and Canute the Danes after many former battels by the Counsel of a Captain put the trial of their quarrel to their own single combat in a little Island called Alney near Glocester where after some trial of their valour they came to an agreement and divided the Kingdom between them p. 401. Duke Edrick after many false and treacherous deeds having contrived Edmund Ironsides death which was effected by thrusting into his body as he retired to a place for natures necessity a sharp Spear and having cut off his Soveraigns head he carried it to Canute with this fawning Salutation All hale thou now sole Monarch of England for here behold the head of thy Copartner which for thy sake I have adventured to cut off Canute though ambitious enough yet grieved at so disloyal a Fact replied and vowed That in reward of that service the bringers own Head should be advanced above all the Peeres of his Kingdom which high Honor while this Wretch expected soon after by the Kings command his Head bad fareâ—el to his Shoulders and was placed on the Highest Gate to overlook London Speeds Hist p. 401. Osbright a Vice-roy of Northumberland forced the Lady of Beorne Bocador a Nobleman related to the King of Denmark who flying to him to revenge his Cause he sent Hungar and Hubba whose Father Lothbroke following his Hawk in a little skiffe was carried into England taken as a Spy carried to King Edmund who preferred him and delighted in him for his skill in Hawking Which the Kings Faulconer Birrick envying at murthered him in a Wood which murder being by Lothbrokes Spaniel discovered Birrick was put in Lothbrokes Boat without Oar or Tackle and driven into Denmark accused King Edmund as the cause of his Murder which enraged Hungar and Hubba to invade England Id. p 398. Canutus established a Law that Women marrying within a year after their Husbands death should lose their Joyntures Id. p. 401. King Canutus gave great Jewels to Winchester Church whereof one is reported to be a Cross worth as much as the whole revenue of England amounted to in a year and unto Coventry he gave the Arm of St. Augustine which he bought at Papia for an hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold Speeds Hist p. 402. Gormo Father of one Canute slain before Dublin so exceedingly loved him that he swore to kill him that brought him Newes of his Sons death which when Thira his Mother heard of she used this Policy to make it known to him She prepared mourning apparel and laid aside all princely State which the Old man perceiving he concluded his Son dead and with excessive grief ended his own Life p. 403. Hardicanute King of England was a great Epicure caused his Table to be spred with abundance of dainties four times every day which caused in the Common-wealth a riotous looseness Subjects being apt to praise their Soveraigns Vertues but to imitate their Vices Id. p. 406. King Edward the Confessor having married a virtuous and beautiful Lady Egitha Daughter of Earl Godwyn abstained her Bed saying on his own Death-bed That openly she was his Wife but as to secret embracing as his own Sister Which undue neglect of Marriage-right the Simplicity and Superstition of those times Canonized him for p. 411. One Dane made good Stamford-Bridg against all King Harolds Army and with his Axe slew forty of his Men till at last the Danish Souldier was slain with a Dart. Id. p. 415. Tosto and Harold the Sons of Earl Godwyn falling out Tosto secretly hyed himself into the Marches of VVales and near the City Hereford at Portaslith where Harold had a House then in preparing to entertain the King he slew all his Brothers Servants and cutting them peice-meal into Gobbets some of their Limbs he Salted and cast the rest into the Vessels of Meath and Wine sending his Brother word that he had furnished him vvith powdred Meats against the Kings coming thither Speeds Hist p. 413. Pope Alexander the 20. to encourage William the Conqueror to invade England sent him a consecrated Banner an Agnus Dei and one of the Haires of St. Peter and cursed all those that should oppose against him by which he was so encouraged that Landing his men in England to cut off all hope and occasion of return he fired all the Fleet. p. 415. VVilliam the Conqueror at his arrivage from Sea in England his feet chanced to slip so that he fell into the mud and bemired his hands which accident was presently construed as a lucky presage one of his Captains presently saying as Caesar did on the like occasion landing in Africk that now he had taken possession of the Land of which he should shortlâ— become King As accordingly it came to pass after he had slain Harold at Battle Abbey for mangling whose dead body he cashiered a common Souldier out of his wars and wages for ever unto which Abbey erected in memory of his conquest he granted large privileges and amongst others this that Malefactors flying thither should be secured harmless and if the Abbot chanced to come by any place where any Malefactor was to be Executed he might deliver him Speeds Hist 416. 18 33. Lewes King of France having procured the death of William Longspee Duke of Normandy was intercepted by the Normans and detained Prisoner till he had agreed to these Articles viz. That young Richard should succeed his Father in that Dukedom and that thenceforth when the King and Duke should confer together the Duke should be girt with a Sword and the King disabled either of Sword or Knife To which King Lewes bound himself by Oath Speeds Hist p. 423. Robert Duke of Normandy Father to William the Conqueror going to Hierusalem on pilgrimage and falling sick by the way was born in a litter on the Saracens shoulders when he desired a Christian Pilgrim whom he met to report what he saw which was That he was born to heaven on the Divels back p. 423. VVilliam the Conqueror at first held a hard hand on the Englishmen He instituted the ringing of the curfue Bell at eight of the Clock at night when he commanded all the English to put out the fire as a means to keep them in greater subjection Yea the Natives themselves became as strangers shaving their beards and rounding their hair and in garments behaviour and diet fashioned themselves to imitate the Normans It being a shame in those days even amongst Englishmen to be an English man Id. p. 427. William the Conqueror demanding how it came to pass that he should conquer England in one day when the Danes were so many years about it Fretherick Abbot of St. Albans answered That long peace had converted the riches of the land which should have maintained Soldiers
to the revenues of the Church whereby the land was weakened The Conqueror replied That since the Clergy is so rich that thereby the land is enfeebled out of thine own mouth will I condemn thee and begin with thee first and immediately took all the land that lay between Barnet and London-stone from him Id. p. 429. The Monks of Ely being to pay seven hundred Marks by way of composition to the Conqueror when they came to pay there wanted a groat upon which he made them pay a thousand Marks more for their peace Speeds Hist p. 429. William the Conqueror in Normandy being sick of some disease in his belly and keeping his bed more than he was used Philip King of France hearing of it said Oh what a number of Candles must I offer when our Cousin goes to Church I think a Million will not suffice The Conqueror being told of it said Our Cousin of France shall be at no such charge but after this my Child-bed I will find him Candles and light them my self and immediately entred France and Fired all before him and burnt the City of Naunts in whose walls was enclosed an Anchoret who might but would not escape holding it a breach of his religions vow to forsake his Cell in that distress p. 432. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century VIII RObert Duke of Normandy in a battel encountred his own Father William the Conqueror and unhorsed him but knowing him by his voice humbled himself and secured his Father from further danger Speeds Hist p. 430. VVilliam the Conqueror imprisoning his brother Odo who was both an Earl and Bishop of Bayeux said he did it not as his Brother was a Bishop but as he enjoyed a secular honour William the Conqueror dying hearing the great Bell ring Prime to our Lady lifting up his hands said I commend my self to that Blessed Lady Mary Mother of God that she by her holy prayers may reconcile me to her most dear Son our Lord Jesus Christ and with these words yielded up the Ghost p. 434. William the Conqueror no sooner dead but was forsaken and left naked by all his followers none taking care to bury him till a poor Country Knight one Harluins undertook to carry him to Cane where fire happening at his entrance all left the Herse and being about to be interred one Asceline Fits Arthur forbad him burial in that place which he alledged was sometimes his Fathers House till compounded with and when he was put into the grave his body breaking drove all away with the intolerable stench Speeds Hist p. 434. Rufus besieging Rochester commanded that every man should repair to the siege that would not be counted a Niding a word of such disgrace and so distastful to the English that multitudes seemed rather to fly than to run to it p. 438. Henry the youngest Son of William the Conqueror being besieged by his two Brothers Robert and William in great want of water sent to Duke Robert who courteously supplied him at which when Rufus was displeased Robert replied Dost thou esteem of water more than of a Brother having no more than him and me In which dissension Henry escaped Id. 439. Malcolme King of Scots besieging Alnwick Castle an English Knight unarmed only having a light Spear in his hand on the top of which he bare the Keyes of the Castle came riding into the Camp where being brought to the King couching his Spear as though he intended to present him with the Keyes ran him into his left Eye left him dead and through the swiftness of his Horse escaped Hence some say came the name Percy p. 440. Rufus having notice by a messenger of the siege of Main a City in Normandy the King answered he would take advice what to do but thy subjects said the messenger are in distress and cannot be delaied whereat the King sware his wonted Oath by St. Lukes face that if they could not they should not and that he would not turn his back till he were with them and thereupon commanded to break down that Wall that he might go forth the next way to the Sea leaving his Commission to his Nobles to follow but the Seas and Winds being rough his Pilate misdoubting hazard desired him to stay till the Sea and Elements were calmer he replied Hast thou ever heard that any King hath been drowned therefore hoyse up thy Sails I charge thee and be gon Speeds Hist p. 441. Rufus his Chamberlain bringing him a pair of new Hose and he demanding the price was answered that they cost three shillings Away base fellow quoth â—e are tâ—ese beseeming a King bring me of a Mark price His Servant went and brought a pair of no greater cost but told him tâ—ey were of the rate appointed with which the King was well pleased p. 442. Two rich Monkes outvying one another for an Abbacy another poor sober Monk standing by Rufus asked him what he would give to be made Abbot he replied nothing for I entred my profession to be Poor And on him the King conferr'd it as most worthy of it Id. p. 442. In the last year of King Rufus Earl Godwyns Lands were drowned by the Sea now called Godwyn Sands and a Well of Blood rose up out of the ground at Finchamsteade near Abington in Barkeshire Id. p. 443. Rufus dream'd that the Veins of his Armes were broken and abundance of Blood lay on the Floor And a Monk dream'd that the Crucifix spurned the King to the ground of whom Rufus said Well a Monk he is and can dream as Monkes use to do for gain give him a hundred shilling lest he should think that he dreamed bootless Ibid. Rufus hunting in the new Forrest which his Father had depopulated was accidently shot by Sir Walter Tyrrel and being slain was layed in a Colliers Cart drawn with one Horse which Cart broke in a dirty way and there lay the Spectacle of earthly Glory pitifully begoared and filthily bemired Id. p. 443. Henry Beauclerke after he was King his first work was to reform his Court and Houshold cashiering all nice and effeminate Wantons and enacting a Decree against his Courtiers Rapines Adulteries and Robberies punished their Thefts with death and their Lechery with the loss of their Eyes and other parts peccant Speeds Hist p. 445. Robert Duke of Normandy being chosen King of Hierusalem hearing of the death of Rufus refused that in hopes to have England for which his neglect of divine appointment it is said God never prospered him after for his Brother Henry Beauclerk conquered Normandy from him on Saturday the Vigil of St. Michael being the same day forty years that William the Conqueror set foot on English ground for his Conquest God so disposing that Normandy should be subjected to England that very day wherein England was subjected to Normandy He likewise put out his Eyes and kept him Prisoner in Cardiff Castle twenty six years where for grief conceived at the putting on of a fair new
Robe too little for the King and therefore sent in kindness to the Duke to wear grew weary of his life as disdaining to be mocked with his Brothers cast cloths and cursing the time of his unfortunate Nativity refused thenceforth to take any sustenance and so pined himself to death Sp. p. 445. 447. 452. It is reported of Henry Beauclerk that detaining the Kingdom from his brother Robert against his conscience that he stood more in fear of men whose favours he cunningly laboured to keep than of God whom he meant to please as he thought in building an Abbey for his satisfaction p. 447. Robert de Beliasme delighted in cruelty an example whereof he shewed on his own Son who being but a child and playing with him the Father for a pastime put his Thumbs in his childs Eyes and put out the balls thereof Id. p. 448. Guimundus the Kings Chaplain grieving that the Beauclerk bestowed his preferment on unworthy persons being on Rogation day to read that lesson of St. James It rained not on the earth III years and VI months it he purposely read it rained not one one one year and five one months All men laughing and wondring the King chid him and asked the reason Marry quoth he I see you bestow your preferment only on such as can read so which the King considering preferred him and was after more careful in his other Choices Speeds Hist 448. Prince William Son to the Beauclerk Richard his base Brother his Sister the Countess of Perch with many others to the number of one hundred and sixty persons perisht by ship-wrack coming from Normandy Of whom a writer speaks that God suffered not those unnatural wantons being Sodomiticâ labe fere omnes infecti to have Christian burial but were swallowed up by the Seas when her waves were most calm the Mariners in their drink striving to out-sail the Kings Ship dasht against a rock Id. p. 449. Beauclerk and the Pope at Gisory had an enterview where two youths of the Kings company Sons of the Earl of Mellent gravelled the Cardinals in disputing who had nothing to say but that there was more learning in the VVestern parts than they had thought Id. p. 449. Henry Beauclerk died at St. Dennis and was thence conveighed to Roan where he was emboweled salted and wrapped up in a Bulls hide to avoide the stench which was so intolerable that the Physitian who took out his brains was poisoned therewith and presently died whereupon it was observed that other Kings killed men in their lives but this when he was dead p. 452. Henry Fits Empress razed and cast down one thousand one hundred and fifteen Castles raised in the time of King Stephen 452. Maud the Empress to escape her enemies hands was laid in a Coffin as dead bound fast with Cords and so carried in a Horse-litter from the Devizes to Glocester and after being close girt in Oxford by King Stephen she clothed her self and her followers all in White and so in the Snow deceived the Sentinels and got safe to Wallingford Speeds Hist p. 461. King Lewes of France cast the Popes Bull whereby he required the Fruits of Vacancies of all Cathedral Churches in France into the fire saying That he had rather the Popes Bull should rost in the fire than his own soul fry in Hell p. 463. Eustace the Son of King Stephen having plundered the Monkes of Bury of their Corn and provision being set at Dinner the first bit he put into his mouth drove him into a Frenzy whereof he shortly after died p. 465. Henry the second besieging Bridgenorth had been slain with an arrow had not Hubert St. Clare cast himself between death and the King taking the arrow in his own bosome to preserve his Soveraign As Sejanus bare the ruins of a banqueting house with the peril of his life from the Emperor Tiberius p. 466. Henry de Essex Standard-bearer to Henry the second abandoning the Royal standard was challenged for it by Robert de Montford and in single battel at Reding vanquished was thereon shorn a Monk and shortly after died Id. p. 465. King Henry the second and Queen Elianor being Crowned at Worcester laid their Diadems on the high Altar as Godfry of Bulloigne would not wear a Crown of Gold at Hierusalem where Christ wore a Crown of Thorns 466. Henry the Second crowning in his life-time his Eldest Son and at the feast carrying the first dish The Arch-bishop of York saying in pleasaunce to the young King Rejoyce my fair Son for there is no Prince in the world hath such a Servitor attending on his Table as you The unnatural young man answered why wonder you at this My Father knows that he doth nothing that misbecomes him that his Father was royal born but of one side but our self are Royal born both by one side and other p. 470. Henry the second for the death of Becket submitted voluntarily to this Pennance he went three miles bare-foot so that much blood issued from his feet and received by way of discipline 80 lashes at the hands of Bishops and Monks on his bare flesh Speeds Hist p. 476. Henry the Son of Henry the second who had often rebelled against his Father when on his death-bed the Father fearing danger to himself would not come to see him but sent his ring in token of reconciliation he keeping the ring with many tears and confessing his fault at the approach of his death would needs be drawn out of his bed and laid upon another strewed with Ashes where he departed in a most penitent manner p. 478. When Hierusalem was first recovered by the Christians and when it was after fourscore years lost from the Christians a Frederick was Emperor and Vrban was Pope and Heraclius was Patriarch p. 479. When Henry the Second by the opposition of his Son Richard was fain to abandon Ments in Main he uttered these words against his Son That since he had taken from him that day the thing that he most loved in the world he would requite him for after that day he would deprive him of that thing in him which should best please a child viz. his heart and finding his Son John in the Catalogue of the Conspirators against him he bitterly cursed the hour of his birth laying Gods curse and his own upon his Sons which he would never recal for any perswasions of the Bishops and others p. 479. Henry the second being dead all his attendants fell to spoiling and left him naked of whom one saith Surely these Flies sought Honey these Wolves a Carcass They followed not the man but the spoil And when King Richard met his Fathers Corps the Corps fell fresh a bleeding p. 480. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln Visiting the Nunnery of Godstow finding a fair Herse-cloth over Rosamunds Tomb thought the Herse of a Harlot no fit spectacle for a Quire of Virgins to contemplate and therefore he caused her bones to be cast out of the Church
slanderous rancour of the wicked Speeds Hist p. 622. A Galthrop or engine with three sharp points was hid in Henry the fourths bed but he espied it and so prevented the danger 627. A Frier Minor being asked that he would do if King Richard were alive and present he confidently answered that he would fight for him till death against any whatsoever which cost him his life being drawn and hanged in his Friers weeds Id. 627. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century IX AT Danbury Church in Essex the Divel appeared in the habit of a Minorite to the incredible astonishment of the Parishioners For at that time there was such a terrible tempest with lightnings and thunder and great fire-balls that the vault of the Church broke and half the Chancel was carried away Speeds Hist p. 628. Between Bedford and Bickleswade in the year one thousand four hundred and three sundry Monsters of divers colours in the shapes of armed men were often seen to issue out of the woods at Morning and at Noon which to suchs as stood far off seemed to encounter one another in most terrible manner but when they drew near nothing was to be found p. 629. Nero though generally hated while he was alive yet twenty years after his death an obscure fellow feigning himself Nero was so backt and countenanced by the Parthians and others that not without much difficulty the Romans could get him into their hands Speeds Hist. p. 629. Henry the fifth supposing his Father dead took the Crown that stood by him his Father reviving enquired for it which when he brought the Father said Oh Son with what right I got it God knows who forgive me the sin Howsoever it was got said the Prince I mean to keep it and defend it with my Sword as you by Sword obtained it p. 631. Henry the fifth though while Prince was wild and Companion of riotous persons yet coming to the Crown the first thing he did was the banishment of all such his old Companions ten miles from his presence Speeds Hist p. 637. Archbishop Arundel having in a synod condemned Oldcastle Lord Cobham for an Heretick and enacted that the holy Scripture should not be translated into the English tongue shortly after his tongue grew so big in his mouth that he could not speak or swallow but in horror lay languishing till he was starved to death p. 638. The Dolphin of France understanding that Henry the fifth intended to invade France sent him in scorn a Tun of Tennis Balls But the King returned answer that the Balls he should play the Gates of Paris should not be rackets strong enough to beat back and afterwards most gallantly made good his words p. 640. Ziska that famous Bohemian Protestant commanded that when dead his skin should be made the cover of a Drum to terrifie his Enemies Speeds Hist 645. Henry the fifth having vanquished the French at Azincourt returning thanks to God at Pauls in London would not have his broken Crown nor bruised Armour bore before him p. 646. Lewes the eleventh of France being perswaded to demolish the Tomb of the Duke of Bedford who had been Regent in France and was buried at Roan answered That it vvould be dishonourable to disturb him dead vvho when alive made all France tremble p. 676. Walter Earl of Athol conspired the murther of James the first King of Scotland in hopes of the Crown and Crowned he was as his Sorcerers had foretold him he should be but not with the Crown of the Kingdom but of Red hot Iron clapt upon his head being one of the tortures by which he ended at once his wicked daies and designs p. 672. Whilst the controversy between Henry the sixth and Richard Duke of York was debating in the Parliament a Crown which hung for garnishment in the middle of the roof where the Knights and Burgesses met as likewise a Crown which for the like Cause stood upon the highest Tower of Dover Castle fell down which was vulgarly construed to portend the translation of the Crown from the Lancastrian to the Yorkest which soon after came to pass p. 683. On Candlemas day in the year one thousand four hundred sixty one immediately before the Battel at Mortimers Cross where Edward Earl of March afterwards King Edw. the fourth was victorious there appeared in the Firmament three Suns which suddainly joyned in One Which occasioned to use as his device The Sun in his brightness Speeds Hist p. 684. One Walker a London Grocer for words spoken concerning his own Son to encourage him to learn his Book that he would make him Heir of the Crown meaning his own House having that sign was therefore in the eighth day of Edward the fourths Raign beheaded in Smithfield p. 684. Edward the fourth being ready to joyn battel caused Proclamation to be made That he that feared to fight might forthwith depart but if any Souldier abiding should seek to fly or turn back he should be slain by his next fellow and the slayer to receive a great reward besides the stipend of a double pay p. 687. Sir Ralph Percy being slain taking part with Henry the sixth died with these words I have saved the bird in his breast meaning his Oath made to King Henry p. 687. Richard Nevil Earl of VVarwick spent in his house in London six Oxen every day p. 689. Henry the sixth when certain Ladies presented themselves before him in a Mask with their hair loose and their breasts uncovered He then a Bachelor and able of Marriage immediately rose up and departed the presence saying Fie Fie forsooth you are to blame p. 689. When Henry the sixth lay Prisoner in the Tower a Ruffian intending his death wounded him in the side with a Sword whom being restored to his Estate he freely forgave and another striking him in the face he punished only with this reprehension Forsooth you are to blame to strike me your anointed King Sp. p. 697. Henry Holland Duke of Excester and brother in Law to Edward the fourth was driven by him out of England into Burgundy where Comines writes that he saw him running bare-legged after Burgundies train begging his bread for Gods sake And the Countess of Oxford had nothing to maintain her but the Charity of others and her own needle Speeds Hist p. 968. Edward the fourth hunting in Arrow Park belonging to Thomas Burdet Esquire among other game kill'd a white Buck that Burdet highly valued whereupon Burdet wished the Hornes in his belly that wished the King to kill it For which his words being interpreted as though he wisht them in the Kings belly he was condemned and beheaded at Tiburne p. 700. An old Prophecy that a G. should raign after an E. occasioned the death of George Duke of Clarence who on pretended Articles of Treason was condemned in Parliament and by his own choyce drowned in a But of Malmsey p. 701. The Lord Chamberlain Hastings having been of Counsel to imprison and behead the Lord
Flux saw that he should die he caused his Armor to be put upon him and so Armed and sitting in a Chair said Thus it becometh a Knight or man of honor to die and not lying in his bed as another mean man Grafton p. 181. Edward the Confessor was the first King of England that used by his touch to cure the Kings evil William the Conqueror had three Horses killed under him at Battel Abbey Field Id. p. 191. An Hide of Land containeth five yards and every yard containeth four Acres An Acre containeth forty perches in length and four in breadth And a Knights fee con aineth eight Hides which amount to one hundred and sixty Acres and is accompted a Plough Land Grafton 2. Vol. p. 16. Leofricus Duke of Mercia in the time of Edward the Confessor adorned the Church of Coventry with great riches of Gold Silver and Jewels insomuch that Robert William the Conquerors Chaplain being made Bishop thereof took from one beam in his Church the value of five hundred Marks A Tempest in the year one thousand and ninety in the raign of William Rufus blew down six hundred houses in London p. 23. William Rufus warring in Normandy when by his command an Army of twenty thousand men were gathered together at Hastings in Sussex ready to be transported he sent then word that every man paying ten shillings might return home as meaning to corrupt therewith Philip the French King to desert his brother Robert which accordingly was done and thereon Robert was fain to sue for Terms of Peace Id. p. 25. In the time of Rufus Bishopricks were bought and sold in England as other Merchandises also Priests used bushed and braided-heads and blazing clothes shining and Golden Girdles and gilt Spurs and many other enormities uncontrouled Grafton 2. Vol. p. 28. In the year one thousand one hundred and sixty were seen in England two Moons on Maunday Thursday the one in the East the other in the West and in the year one thousand one hundred and fifty six were seen two Suns and in the Moon a Red Cross about which time in Italy appeared three Suns by the space of three hours in the West and in the year following three Moons whereof the middle had a Red Cross overthwart noted as a token of the schisme among the Cardinals about the election of Alexander the third that endured twenty years As also in December in the year one thousand and two hundred in the raign of King John were seen in the Element about ten at night within the Province of York five Moons One in the East another in the West a third in the South another in the North and a fifth in the middle Hail fell as big as Hens Eggs and Spirits were seen flying in the Air like Birds with fire in their bills setting houses on fire as they flew And the last of October one thousand three hundred twenty and one the Sun for six hours together appeared as red as blood And in the year one thousand two hundred sixty and one in the raign of Henry the third the Thames was frozen so hard that men rode over on horse-back Grafton 2. Vol. p. 36. 51. 92. 98 138. 201. All Becket's Kinred both men and women were banished for his offence by Henry the second p. 68. Becket on Christmas day did excommunicate Robert de Brocke for cutting off the tail of one of his Horses the day before p. 71. When Pope Alexander trod upon the Emperor Fredericks neck the Quire blasphemously sung this verse Thou shalt walk upon the adder and the Basilisk and shall tread down the Lion and the Dragon p. 79. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century X. HEnry the second King of England never laid any Tax or tribute on his Subjects in all his raign and yet when he died left nine hundred thousand pounds in his Treasury Grafton Vol. 2. p 81. Robin Hood and little John who is reported to be fourteen foot high two Famous Thieves lived in the time of King Richard the first p. 85. Four hundred Jews at York in the time of Richard the first cut their Master veines and bled themselves to death p. 87. In the year one thousand two hundred twenty one the men of Cathness in Scotland burnt their Bishop because he cursed them for not paying Tithes for which cause the King of Scots hanged four hundred of the chief doers gelded their children and disinherited the Earl of that Country Id. p. 119. A Jew falling into a Privy at Tewksbury on Saturday for reverence of the day which is their Sabbath would not be taken forth The Earl of Glocester hearing of it commanded that he should not be taken out on the Lords day for reverence of the Christian Sabbath and on Munday morning he was found dead Grafton Vol. 2. p. 119. When Isabel Edward the seconds Wife was returning with an Army into England had they not been driven by a Tempest to a contrary Harbour they had all miscarried their Enemies waiting at the Port they intended to land at p. 20. Edward the third tempted the Chastity of the beautiful Countess of Salisbury and had an honorable repulse p. 214. King Edward the third having streightned Calice by a Twelve-months siege proffered mercy to all except six which should come forth with Halters about their necks and be left wholly to his dispose they coming he commanded them to be beheaded but upon the earnest intercession of his Queen and Nobles he forgave them who had all voluntarily proffered themselves to that danger to save their people p. 286. King Edward the third took Sir Eustace of Richmond Prisoner with his own hand and for his valiant behaviour in the encounter he set him at liberty and gave him a rich Chapelet of Pearls to were in remembrance of him Grafton Vol. 2. p. 291. Sir James Audely having behaved himself valiantly at the battel of Poytiers the Black Prince gave him five hundred Marks a year which he presently gave his four Esquires the Prince hearing of it confirmed his gift and gave him six hundred Marks more for himself p. 299. John King of France and Edw. the 3d King of England being together at Mass when the Pax was profered to be kissed both refused to kiss first and so instead of kissing the Pax they kissed each other p. 316. In the year one thousand four hundred and eleven the Thames flowed three times in one day of which Grafton gives the reason to be great Winds Rains and Frost p. 441. At the Council of Constance was assembled of Bishops Abbots and Doctors three hundred forty six of Noble men five hundred sixty four of Knights and Esq sixteen thousand besides Servants which not accounting the Townsmen were reckoned forty five thousand persons Id. 444. In the raign of Henry the fiftâ— there was a Bill put up in the Parliament at Leicester against the Temporalties of the Clergy That that which was devoutly given and disordinately spent might
Moguntinensis Treverensis Coloniensis Quilibet Imperii sit Cancellarius horum * Rhenis * Saxoniae Et Palatinus * dapifer Dux * portitor ensis * Brandeburgensis Marchio * Praepositus Camerae Pincerna Bohemus Hi statuunt dominum per omnia saecula summum Id. part 6. P. 7. Calixtus chosen Pope having taken Pope Benedict his opposer caused him to ride before him through the City of Rome on a Mule with his face towards the tail and holding it in his hand as a bridle and after cast him into Prison Id. part 6. R. 6. Epitaphium Henrici filii H. 5. Imperatoris Omnis honoris honos decor decus urbis orbis Militiae splendor gloria lumen apex Julius ingenio virtutibus Hector Achilles Viribus Augustus moribus ore Paris Fruct Temp. part 7. S. 3. Pope Gregory when Legate convented a Bishop before him that was suspected of Simony and said openly before all the people since the Bishop denied it and none could prove it Let mans Judgment cease for it's deceivable and let God dispose of it For certain it is that the Dignity of a Bishop is the gift of the Holy Ghost and whosoever buâ—es a Bishoprick sins against the Holy Ghost Then if thou Bishop didst not sin against the Holy Ghost say openly before all people Gloria patri filio Spiritui sancto And many times he began to say it but could never speak Spiritui sancto He was deposed from his Bishoprick and afterwards could speak it well enough Id. part 7. R. 3. John Comin was slain by Robert Bruise King of Scots before the Altar at Dunfrees whose blood in the stones cannot be washt away Id. part 7. X. 3. Boniface the eighth Pope entred as a Fox lived as Lion died like a Dog Fructus Temp. part 7. X. 6. The Emperor Henry the seventh was poisoned by a Frier in the Sacrament Id. part 7. Z. 3. When Sir Roger Mortimer was Prisoner in the Tower he made a great Feast to the Lieutenant apd all his Officers at which he gave them in their drink a sleepy potion that they slept two days and two nights and in the mean time he made his escape Id. part 7. Z. 3. At Halidon hill besides Berwick there were slain in one battel of the Scots thirty five thousand seven hundred and twelve and of the English but fourteen Id. part 7. A. 5. In the time of King Edward the third there reigned a great pestilence over most part of the World and from that time all that ever have been born have two cheeks teeth less than they had before Id. part 7. B. 4. King Richard the second in the year of his raign out of his displeasure against London removed the Courts and Terms from Midsummer till Christmas unto York Fructus Temp. part 7. E. 2. Eleven persons were pressed to death on London bridge by the throng of people that came from meeting King Richard the second in his return from France Id. part 7. E. 4. Thomas of Woodstock the good Duke of Glocester was smothered to death at Calice by the command of Richard the second between two feather-beds Id. part 7. E 4. In the year one thousand four hundred thirty four appeared three Suns at one time and anon followed the three-fold government of the Church The Pope The Council The Neutral and an Holy maid in Holland called Lidwith lived only by miracle not eating any meat Id. part 7. H. 8. The nine Orders of Angels are thus reckoned Angels Archangels Principates Potestates Virtues Dominations Thrones Cherubim Seraphim Polychronicon fol. 3. The Caspian hills are seven thousand paces in length but in breadth little more than a Cart-way Id. f. 8. In India the men have many wives and when the husband dieth the fairest and best beloved is buried with him which they esteem as the highest honour and preferment Id. f. 10. In the dead Sea a Lanthorn with a candle lighted swimmeth and floateth but if the light be quenched it sinketh nothing that hath life will sink as was tried by Vespasian who threw in two men bound together and yet they swam King Alexander intending to make War upon the Amazons they writ to him that they much wondred at him For if he were vanquished he should have great shame and if he were Conquerer he should have no Credit With which letter he was so convinced that he forbore to meddle with them sent for the Queen kept her as his Concubine forty dayes and sent her back with child by him Polycrhonicon fol. 17. The Shadow of Mount Athos reacheth seventy miles in length Id. f. 20. Bellerophons Image with his Horse made of Iron weighing fifteen thousand pound weight hung in the midst of a Temple in the air without chains or supporters only by the strength of Adamant or Loadstones that were in the Vaults and Arches that drew the Iron so every way that it might not move upwards nor downward nor sidewards but hang always in the middle Id f. 23. The Albestone when once set on fire can never be quencht or diminisht f. 23. In the North of Ireland is the land of Life where none die till they are carried out Id f. 35. In the Isle of Thule the six Summer months it's day and the six Winter months it's night Polycron f. 41. The Isle of Man was Judged to Brittain from Ireland because Venomous creatures are found therein Id f. 44. In Bohemia there is a beast called Boaz that hath no Horns but hath a large bag under his Chin wherein he gathereth water and in running heateth scalding hot and spouteth out on the Hunters and Hounds that pursue him and scaldeth them full sore A Maid the same day she was to be married turned into a Man and shortly after married a wife Id. f. 49. In the time of William the Conqueror there were in England forty five thousand and two Parish Churches Id. Ibid. What Hannibal said of the Romans that Ranulph of Chester saith of Englishmen that they could not be overcome but in their own Country Idem f. 56. The space between the hands stretched out which we call a Fathom is the just length of the body Polycronicon f. 57. In Africa there are some men that if they praise any thing it withereth and decayeth Id. f. 58. Trevisa tells of one Roger Bagge a very old man in Wotton Underhedge in Glocestershire that never spat or coughed in all his life f. 58. When there was War between the men of Thessaly and Athens an Oracle was given that the party whose Duke should be slain should have the better Codrus King of Athens disguised himself and went into the midst of his Enemies and so willingly occasioned his own death to get the Victory to his people f. 85. On Sardanapalus tomb by his own appointment was written So much I had as I eat and drank Id. f. 86. Licurgus having established his Laws bound the Lacedemonians by an Oath not to alter them till
him to death instead of the said Picard Which being after made knovvn to the Kings Council the Provost vvas put to the like death Id. p. 188. In the year of our Lord one thousand three hundred sixty one were seen two Castles in the Air one in the East the other in the West Out of which at Noon-tide appeared two Hosts of men to issue forth what came from the East appeared White the other Black which encountred each other and the White that seemed at first to be Victorious at last was worsted and so it disappeared Id. p. 245. In the year of our Lord One thousand three hundred ninety six upon the death of Gregory the Eleventh were chosen two Popes Urban the Sixth by the Italians and Clement the Seventh by the French Which double Head of the Romish Synagogue continued by several Elections thirty nine years Fabian p. 262. At the Siege of the Rock of Arnan in Brittaine kept by the English the Commander of the French hung a Purse and fifty Scutes of Gold on a Speares End with promise that who first entered the Town should have the said fifty Scutes of Gold which so encouraged the Souldiers that within four hours they entred and took it Id. p. 277. In a Parliament held in England in the twelfth year of Edward the Third and in the year of our Lord one thousand three hundred thirty seven it was Enacted that no man should wear any manner of Silk in Gown Coat or Doublet which could not spend of good Rents an hundred pound by the year Id. p. 214. When John King of France was Prisoner in England the three Estates of Languedock ordained that no man should wear any Furres of any great price and that women should leave their rich Attire off their heads and wear neither Pearl nor Gold upon them nor Silver upon their Girdles so long as the King remained Prisoner and also that all manner of Minstrells for that season should be put to silence Fabian p. 284. Charles King of Navar being a man of great Age and very feeble was by Counsel of Physicians sowed in a sheet washed with Aqua-Vitae to revive heat in him He that sowed the sheet taking a Candle to burn off the end of the thread suddainly the Aqua-Vitae inflamâ—d and so burnt his flesh that he shortly after died with it p. 361. Certain Noblemen disguising themselves in Linnen clothes glued to their bodies with Pitch and coloured with Oyl entred into the presence of Charles the seventh of France to make him disport by Torch-light which Garments suddenly took fire and the disguisers after much torment with great difficulty by running into waters saved themselves Fabian p. 363. Henry the fourth doing his devotions at St. Edwards Shrine vvas suddenly taken sick and so carried into the Abbots Lodging where enquiring what the Chamber in which he lay was call'd it being answered Jerusalem He presently replied I know I shall now die it being foretold him that he should die in Jerusalem and so he did p. 389. William Mandevil a Weaver of Abington having raised a Commotion against King Henry the sixth give out in a vaunting manner that he would make Priests-heads as cheap as Sheeps-heads and sell three for a penny but was himself taken Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd Id. p. 422. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century XII THe English and French fighting one named Bonsapriest a French Knight for fear fled and hid himself in a Covert of Bushes till the fight was ended two English men their party having the worst fled into the same Covâ—rt by whom the Knight perceiving that the French had the better he became so Couragious that he forced the said Englishmen to become his Prisoners and with them entred the French Host and bare a Countenance as if he had won them in the aforesaid fight but when his demeanour was known he was had in great derision and by the chief Captain deprived of his Prisoners Fabian p. 429. In the year of our Lord one thousand four kindred thirty six all the Lions in the Tower died which had continued a long season there Id. p. 454. In the year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and thirty nine died Sir Robert Chichley who had been twice Lord Mayor of London who by his Will appointed that on his mind day a good dinner should be provided for two thousand four hundred poor men and two pence a piece to be bestowed on them Id. p. 436. Charles the eighth of France having concluded a Marriage between his daughter Magdaline and Ladislaus King of Bohemia while the Bride with great Pomp was conveighed toward her intended Husband he was taken suddainly with sickness and died Id. p. 478. Lewes the eleventh King of France Warring against Charles Duke of Burgoigne committed the charge of his Army to John Balna Priest and Cardinal whereat the Temporal Lords disdaining the Earl of Damptmartin in their name said to the King Most Soveraign Lord it hath pleased your Highness to commit to a Spiritual man the charge of this Host and he not fearing God hath taken it upon him to the effusion of Christian blood wherefore may it like your most noble Grace to send me a Temporal man to visit his Diocess and to take the charge of his Flock which is as fit for me as the other is for him Of the which the King made game but did as to him seemed best Fabian p. 486. Charles the eighth of France being troubled with the Leprosy he commanded to be brought before him all the cunning Musicians that by their Melody he might be eased but when he had assembled a hundred and twenty yet a few Shepherds Pipes vvere to him more solace than all the other and therefore commanded them every day at a certain distance from the place he lay to play to him Fab. p. 491. One Mr. Dominick Physician to King Edward the fourth assured him that the Queen was conceived of a Son This Physician when the Queen vvas in travail vvaited in the second chamber that he might be the first that might bring tidings to the King of the birth of the Prince And when he heard the child cry he called secretly at the Chamber door to know what the Queen had To whom it was answered by one of the Ladies Whatsoever the Queens Grace hath here within sure it is that a Fool standeth there without And so confused with that answer he departed without seeing the King for that time Fab. p. 496. One William Colingborn Esquire being condemned for making this Rime on King Richard the third The Cat the Rat and Lovel our Dog Rule all England under the Hog vvas put to a most cruel death for being hanged and cut down alive his bowels ript out and cast into the fire when the Executioner put his hand into the bulk of the body he said Lord Jesus yet more trouble and so died to the geat sorrow of much people Id. p. 519. In the
year of our Lord one thousand four hundred ninety and six the body of Richard Hakendies wife was taken up in Saint Mary Hill Church London whole and entire that had lain in the ground more than one hundred and twenty years Fabian p. 530. In the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred fifty two a child was born at Middleston with two bodies two heads four Arms and hands one belly and one Navil on the one side two legs and two feet on the other one leg made of twain and a foot with nine toes It lived four daies and the one part died before the other Id. p. 556. The Images of Emrods and Mice we read of 1 Sam. 6.5 were made by the Astrologers directions and were Telesmatical signes of the efficacy of which Hali gives an experiment practised upon a Saracens Servant who having been stung with a Scorpion was cured by his Master with a stone of this kind engraven with the figure of a Scorpion The mightiest of this sort of Operators was Apollonius Tyaneus who got himself a great name by travailing about and making Telesmes who coming to Antioch made one against the Northern Wind and set it upon the East gate of the City and caused an Image of a Scorpion to be molten in brass and set upon a pillar in the midst of the City and the Scorpions vanished out of all their coast A like to which was set up in Henopos a City of Syria Apamia And when in the upper region of Grand Cairo the Crocodiles were mischievous the Talismans cast a leaden Crocodile which written upon with an Aegyptian charm they buried in the foundation of the Temple this for a long time defended the people but when that leaden Image was melted the Crocodiles returned to their own malice And the Fortune of Byzantium stood with one foot in a ship of Brass a Telesme erected against the dangers of that Tempestuous Sea and while it stood entire stilled the rage But some parts thereof being broken off and conveighed away the Sea begun to be as unruly as before the cause thereof being curiously enquired into and discovered the broken pieces were sollicitously searched found out and put together again and forthwith the Winds and Seas obeyed and that it might be certainly knovvn that this indeed vvas the cause vvhy the Ships could not safely arrive the pieces of the brass vvere again taken avvay and thenceforth vvhatsoever Vessels toucht upon the coast vvere driven back by the Violence of the Winds they therefore made the Ship to be most carefully repaired These Consecrations for so they are also called vvere more usually but not only practised in the East For Gregory of Tours reports that at the repairing of a bridge in Paris there was found the Images of a Serpent and Dormouse in Brass and that at the taking away of these the Serpents and Mice came up in great numbers Such were the Serpentina Columna and the Statua Equestris ahenea in Constantinople the destruction whereof hath been followed with most fearful and periodical mortalities So that these Telesmes were the Ancient rite of Averruncation That in case a City or Country should be infested with any plague either of disease or noxious creature the Talismans were consulted and desired to erect an Image of the plague under a certain influence of Celestial Configurations And this was the cause why the Philistin Astrologers gave counsel that Golden Images should be made of the Hemorrhoids and Mice that marred the land to give glory to the God of Israel The Astrologers had perceived that God had been pleased with the brazen Serpent which Moses the Talisman so they would account him set up upon a Pole in the Wilderness against the Fiery Serpents which was the first occasion not given but taken of all these Telesmatical practices And the God of Ekron was called Beelzebub a God of Flies not because it was the priviledge of the Jewish Sacrifices above the Heathen that never any Flie was seen in the slaughter-house of the Temple but because the Ekronites being pestered with noysome Flies to avert this Nusance the Astrologers set up the Image of a Flie Telesmatically endued The people finding the benefit of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made it a God The Israelites themselves did as much to the brazen Serpent Rowland Judicial Astrol condemn'd p. 130. An Astrologer calculated the Nativities of two Twin brethren and told their Parents that they should both be fortunate because he perceived they were born under a Fortunate Planet which proved contrary For these grown men and wanting means betook themselves to Robbing on the High ways who for so doing were both taken committed to Prison the next Assize brought to their Trial convicted condemned and judged to be hanged All this while their fortunes were equal but contrary to the prediction of the Astrologer unfortunate but when they were brought to Execution and ready to be turned off a Reprieve saved the youngest who had his pardon and afterwards became an Honest man The eldest with the loss of his life satisfied the Law Id. p. 186. An Astrologer foretold that one Donello Forobosco a notorious Thief should be hanged Who came something nigh in his prediction for he being a notorious Robber was condemned to be hanged and coming to the Gallows when the Executioner came to put the noose about his neck he flung Ginny Pepper in his Eyes leapt off the Ladder made towards the Sea which was nigh the place of Execution and endeavouring to swim to save himself the Cramp took him and he was unfortunately drowned Rowland Jud. Astr cond p. 186. An Astrologer made a prediction of King Henry the sevenths death that it should happen such a year The King hearing of it sent for him and askt him if he were an Astrologer and could tell Fortunes To whom he answered Yes The King again askt him if he never did forsee by his Art that there was eminent danger that much about that time should hang over his head meaning the Astrologer to whom he answered No. The King replied Thou art a foolish figure-caster for I am more skilful than thou art for as soon as I saw thee I instantly prophesied thou shouldst be in Prison before night which thou shalt find true and sent him thither but he had not been long in custody but the King sent for him again to know if he could cast a Figure to know how long he should be in Prison To whom he still ansâ—ered No. Then the King said Thou art an Illiterate fellow that canst not foretel either good or bad that shall befall thy self therefore I will conclude thou canst not tell of mine and so set him at liberty giving him many disgraceful words Rowland Jud. Astr condemn'd p. 18â— Zonaras declareth that the day in which Julian the Apostate died a certain man lying the night in a solitary place by himself saw a heap of Stars in the Element which he
Antiochus had slain his Uncle Menelaus and given the Priest-hood to Alcimus who was not of the race of the Priests and so transferred this honour into another family fled unto Ptolaemaus King of Egypt where he obtained a place in the Heltopolitan Scignory and in it built a Temple like unto that which was at Jerusalem In the mean time Alcimus the intruder intending to beat down an old wall in the Temple was suddenly stricken lost his speech fell to the ground and after enduring many tormentâ— died miserably having enjoyed the Priest-hood four years Id. 313. 315. 3 2. In Judaea there were three Sects 1. Pharisees who affirm some things not all things directed by Destiny 2. Essenes that affirm all things so governed 3. Sadduces that deny destiny and affirm all things to be governed by mans own dispose Id. p. 329. Tryphon being a private man flattered the people and made shew of moderation and by such allurements drew the Army to make him King But having the Kingdom he shewed his wicked and malicious nature Id. 339. Hircanus opening Davids Monument drew three thousand Talents out of it and destroyed the Temple at Garizim which Samballat by Alexanders permission built in favour to his Son in law Manasses brother to the high Priest Jaddus He heard a voyce in the Temple that signified to him that his two Sons had at that instant vanquisht Antiochus He left the Pharisees who brought in their traditions to be observed and joyned with the Sadduces who allow nothing but what was written raigned honorably thirty one years and was honoured by God with three great gifts of Government Priest-hood and prophecies Id 335. 36. 39. Ptolemy Luthurus obtaining a Victory in Judaea commanded his Soldiers where they quartered to kill men and women and to chop them into pieces to boyl their flesh and eat it that thereby they might be more terrible to their Enemies Id. p. 342. Pompey having taken Jerusalem entered into the Sanctum Sanctorum and although he found a Table of Gold and a sacred Candlestick and other Vessels and odoriferous drugs in great quantity and two thousand Talents of Silver yet he touched nothing thereof through reverence that he bore to God and caused the Temple to be purged and commanded the Sacrifices to be offered according to Law But Crassus dealt otherwise who shortly after took away eight thousand Talents of Gold from the Temple and a Wedge of solid Gold that weighed three hundred pound which was enclosed in a Woodenbeam and none knew of but Eleazar a Priest who gave it him upon his Oath which he falsified to redeem the rest and the ornaments of the Temple Crassus was suddainly after slain in Persia Joseph p. 355. 356. Herod the great was the Son of Antipater in Idumean and was made Governor of Galilee when he was but fifteen years old and being accused before Hircanus he appears with such a train that the Sanhedrim durst not question him but acquitted him He won Cassius favour by money and is made by him Governour of Coelo-Syria and is promised the Kingdom of Judaea marrieth Hircanus grand child Mariamne by his daughter Doris is made Tetrarch by Antonius accused by a hundred Jews to Antonius who were slain for their labour His brothâ—r Phaselus being taken prisoner by Antigonus to avoid his hands dasht his brains out against a Stone Herod goeth to Rome and by Caesar Augustus and Antonius means is by the Senate declared King when he intended to have demanded it for his wives brother Alexander whom he after put to death After his return to Judaea the house wherein he had solemnly feasted immediately after the Guests were gone out fell down doing none any harm His brother Joseph was slain by Antigonus Herod takes Jerusalem and bribes An ony to put Antigonus to death in whom ended the Asmonean Family which had continued in rule one hundred and twenty six years He honoured the Pharisees because when condemned to die by the Counciâ— one Pollio a Pharisee foretold that he should escape and punish them all Herod makes Ananel high priest and afterwards displaceth â—im and puts in Aristobulus in his pâ—ace and afterward causeth him to be drowned and restoreth Ananel and counterfeits great sorrow for his death Alexandra certifieth Cleopatra of it who accuseth him to Antonins â—erod going to clear himself commanded one Ioseph whom he lest his deputy that if he miscarried he should put Mariamne to death Joseph lets Mariamne know this charge which put her into a Sullen that cost Joseph his life presently and afterwards her own Hircanus his wives Grand-father is by Herods command put to death Upon Antonius his defeat he repairs o Caesar acknowledgeth his Friendship and assistance to Antony gives him eight hundred Talents and is approved and confirmed in his government by him Before he went he gave his brother Pheroras the like charge about Mariamne which he likewise discovers to her to the encrease of her discontent and hastening her ruine who was put to death by her husband Herod who immediately after falls little better than mad and desperately sick He putteth his Mother in law Alexandra to death buildeth two Castles in Jerusalem makes money of all his Silver and Gold Vessels and buyeth Corn with it and relieves the poor removeth Jesus from his Priest-hood and placeth Simon in his room builds the Palace in Jerusalem and Caesarea and in it erects a Theater and Amphitheater sendeth his Sons Alexander and Aristobulus to Rome to Caesar buildeth a Temple at Panica and buildeth anew the Temple at Jerusalem during the building of which Temple it is reported that it never rained by day but by night that the work might not be interrupted Herod sailes to Rome brings home his Sons by Mariamne and by Salomes procurement hates them marrieth them accuseth them before Caesar who reconciles them He builds Antipatris and a lofty wall about Jericho and called it after his Mothers name Cyprea and a watch-tower and called it by his brothers name Phaselus as likewise the Temple of Apollo at Rhodes through greediness of honour He was cruel to his own people that he might be liberal to strangers He was always fortunate abroad but most unhappy at home in the intestine differences in his own family In hope of a great purchase he opens Davids Sepulcher but found no money and took thence precious attires and ornaments of Gold and sent two men into the inner part of the Sepulcher where Davids and Solomons bodies lay who were lost fire coming forth and consuming them After which time his house began to decay Antipater his Son practising against Mariamnes Children Caesar is offended at Herod but is again reconciled to him and gives him leave to try his Sons Which he did in a Council at Beritum where they were condemned to die and were strangled at Sebasti Herod had nine wives by a Samaritan he had Archelaus that succeeded him and by Cleopatra a Woman of Jerusalem he
thoughts and deeds of the sick man and said unto him Behold thy vertues see what thy examination shall be To whom he answered True Satan but thou hast not set all Thou shouldst have added The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin and he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved The Romans where they Conquered any Country they carried away their Captivate gods though of strange Religion and built Temples to them They never differed with any but the Christian Religion and the Reason is that divers Lyes may dwell together Herod and Pilate were made friends but there is no accord between a Lye and the Truth Cajus Caligula though none broke forth into more audacious contempt of the Divine Majesty yet was most dasterdly timorous hiding himself under a Bed when he heard it Thunder It was the custome that when the Emperour of Constantinople was Crowned two Masons came in the sight of all the people bringing in their Hand Marble stones of several Colours saying Let the Emperour command what sort of Marble he will have his Monument made of Peter Martyr perswading the improvement of good examples tells a story of a deformed man married unto an uncomely woman who being desirous of handsome children bought many beautiful pictures and desired his Wife daily to look upon them by means whereof their children were fair and lovely A Maintainer of the Pope out of his detestation to the true Religion doubted not to say and swear That if he thought Calvin was in Heaven he would never come thither to be there with him Nauplius on the Cepharean Rock made shew of a false fire to the Grecian Navy in their return from Troy The Papist doth the like making shew of Miracles amongst those rush Candles that they give us to seek the Church by as the Cynick did his man in the Market place at Mid-day But how poor a matter since infidels work Miracles witness the Egyptian South-sayers and false Prophets Yea Vives himself a learned Papist speaking of their Golden-Legend which is the History of their Miracles saith That he which made it had an Iron Face and a Leaden Heart Christ indeed in the Churches infancy did Miracles But what need Truckles when the Child can go Herbs new set require a watering pot which having once taken root need no such farther labour And therefore as Austin in his 22d Book of the City of God observes He which seeks them now is Prodigium magnum since the Glory of Miracles is not Nota Ecclesiae sed Doctrinae a note of the Church but Doctrine Yet the Protestant Truth and Church though they plead not Miracula yet they want not Mirabilia as 1. Luthers Conquest in Life and Peace in Death 2. The French Protestants flourishing after the Parisian Massacre In Anno 1572. 3. Rochel relieved by Fish never seen in that Coast before 1573. 4. Geneva's preservation in the midst of powerful Enemies 5. Queen Elizabeths long and peaceable Raign and Death 6. Deliverance from Gunpowder Treason But it 's the word of Truth wâ—ich the Protestant rests on and not Miracles which are but false signs The Romans dedicated the first Day of the new Year to a double-faced Idol called Janus The Idol is gone but the Moral is still useful teaching us then to look both backward to what is past and forward to what is to come Which if we do looking backward considering Gods mercies we have reason to say Thou crownest the Year with thy goodness If we look forward considering our own wickedness we have need to cry Lord spare us this year also It was a gallant resolution of Scipio who being procurator Purveyor for the City of Rome in a time of Dearth being to set Sail homeward with Provision it being very turbulent weather the Pilot loth to venture would have perswaded him to stay but he commanded him to set Sail and said Nâ—cesse est ut cam non ut vivam The Persians had a Law that if a man were accused and found guilty he should not straightway be condemned but after a diligent enquiry of his Life and Conversation And if the number of his praise-worthy deeds did countervail the contrary he was fully quit of the trespass Caligula having made a ridiculous expedition entring the â—ea with his Army in Battailara commanded the Souldiers to gather Cockleshells and fill their Hâ—lmets and for this demanded triumph as though he had conquered the Ocean Claudius the Emperour was full of courtesy to his Friends so that when lantius triumph'd he accompanied him and going to the Capitol gave him the preheminence Domitian the Emperâ—ur put to Death Salustius Lucuilus Governor of Brittain for that he called some Launces or Spears he had invented by his own name Lucul ians Lucius King of rittain sending to Pope Eleutherius for the Roman and Imperial laws received this answer from him That he had the old and new Testament and out of them might compose his Laws to govern his people by Julian the â—p stâ—tâ— in despight to Christ sent Alipius to repair Jerusalem but terrible flaines of fire issuing ouâ— of the earth when they laid the foundation enforced them to leave the enterprise The Turks have four Divan or Judgment dayes every week viz. Saturday Sunday Munday Tuesday The Officers meet all by break of day dine in the Judgment-House and give account to the King who many times comes privily to a little Window which looks into the Divan-House to observe secretly what is done The Grand Signior sending forth a Bashaw or Governour of a Province always sends with him a Companion which hath always a free liberty to go in and out and talk to him at his pleasure to spy his Actions and to give the Grand â—ignior intelligence what is done Attendants of the Great Turk all except the Great Aga never speak but standing looking down with their hands cross to â—â—ew and do him reverence Gray Seraglio Turks fear not to buy the Cloaths of those who dye of the Plague and use them as though tâ—e Disease were not infectâ—ous affirming that their end is written in thâ—ir foreheads and a vain thing therefore to think â—o prevent it The Great Turkish Sultanaes or Ladies like those Blackamore Maidens best and give the greatest price for them who are most ill-favoured because they think that on the sight of their Deformities their own Beauties are better regarded Turâ—ish Ladies that are kept for the King never see any men save Blacks except the King And when they are sick the Phâ—sician feels their pulse but never seeth them The Great Turk seldome speaks at his meals but when to grace an Aga or chief Officer standing by him he throweth a Loaf of Bread at him from his own Table and this is held for a singular Grace and Favour There is no paper used by the Turks at their Privies because God and Mahomets names are written in it The Great Turk is Heir to all great ones who
delights in tormenting and vexing either Beasts or Men as the daughter of Caligula that let her Nailes grow to scratch her companions and play-fellows is of an evil perfidious and untoward nature Idem p. 91. The Indian Brachmans of old if they disliked the Indoles of their children would abandon them in the woods to the wild Beasts and the inhabitants of Magadascur expose all their children that are born upon a Friday Idem p. 94. Precocious Persons though sometimes they verify that Proverb soon ripe soon rotten as Hermogenes the Orator was heard at twelve years old with admiration at 24 with laughter yet not alwayes For many we read that began exceeding timely to appear accomplisht did continue so As Bellarmin Perron Tasso John Picus Mirandula Scaliger Grotius Lipsius Tostatus and many other for Scholars Augustus Caesar at Nineteen and the Great Cosmo Medicus at Seventeen years of age took upon them the management of their affairs and carried them on with honour and success Discourse of Education p. 101. Manutius in his preface to his Paradoxes tells us of one Creighton a Scotchman who at twenty one years of age when he was killed by the order of the Duke of Mantua understood twelve Languages had read over all the Poets and Fathers disputed de omni scibili and answered extempore in Verse Ingenium prodigiosum sed judicium defuit Ibid. p. 102. Men in age make greater progress in learning than children Julius Scaliger began not to learn Greek till forty years old and then mastered it in a very few Moneths as he did French And Gascon in three Peter Damianus learned not to read till Mans estate yet proved an eminent Scholar and Baldus entred so late upon the Law that they told him he meant to be an Advocate in the other world Idem p. 108. Lewis the Eleventh desired his Son might understand no more Latin than Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare it seems he had but one trick in King-craft and that a very mean one More Latin might have taught him and others and not to have needed that so base and so unworthy of a Prince as it did those great Monarchs who were practised in it Julius Augustus and the rest of that Family whereof Nero to his dishonour wars the first that stood in need of borrowed eloquence Seneca makeing his speeches for him Hannibal Caesars great Captains great Scholars Alexander slept with Homer under his Pillow Idem p. 111. Passions moved make men eloquent Seneca relates that he heard a dull Orator declare most eloquently the day his Son dyed Polus the Actor that he might the more vively represent the grief of a Father upon the Body of his deceased Son brought in an Vrn the Ashes of his own Son new dead Facit indignitio versum Archilochus and Hipponan two very bad Poets for spite to be revenged on two persons that injured them invented those Dogrel sorts of verses Iambicks and Scattazons whose force they so well applyed that their adversaries made away themselves so Love transports as a Smith of Antwerp refused by his Sweet-heart turned and proved a most excellent Painter Idem p. 125. Though a great memory seldom accompanieth a great wit and good judgment yet sometimes it doth as in Monsieur Pascall who when a Youth at School could repeat all Ovids Metamorphosis and Justin's History by heart Mr. Oughtred in his old age had Ovid and Virgil fresh in memory Humane learning though a great embellishment and of excellent use yet must give way to the study of Divinity and practice of piety Albertus Magnus five years before his Death desired of God that he might forget all that he had learned in those Studies that he might entirely give himself up to Devotion Monsieur Pascal a man most eminent in all sorts of humane knowledge yet ten years before his Death he distasted them and professed that nothing besides Religion was an object worthy an ingenuous mans study because those studies produced no consolation in time of affliction and therefore though there were some advantage in them as to converse with men yet we might not prize them above their due value And that if it were better to know and undervalue than be ignorant of them yet it were better be ignorant than know and overvalue them Petrarch in his old age left Helicon for mount Olivet and the Cardinal Perron though formerly a great Poet and Oratour yet kept not so much as any Book of humanity in his Library Discourse of Education p. 114. Forraign Education usually perverts Youth and therefore Eteocles would not give Hostages to Antipater of the youth but of grave men And the Persians when wanting a King they sent for some of the Royal family then Hostages at Rome were afterwards displeased and cut them off as not agreeing with the manners and custome of the Country Disc Educ p. 194. The neglect of their Pens have ruined many particularly that great Master of Civility the Author of Galaleo For going to present to the Pope a petition by a mistake he delivered a Copy of Licentious verses writ by himself whereby he lost the Popes favour his own Reputation and all hopes of farther advancement Idem p. 228. Augustus advised Tiberius not to be offended with peoples speaking ill of them It sufficeth saith he that we can secure our selves from their doing us harm When one said he was a Tyrant he answered Were I so he durst not have said it To one calling him dwarfe Well said he then I will get higher Shoes Idem p. 247. It was the observation of a great Prelate that a Courtier at Rome ought to have a Thousand Ducats Rent Two thousand in his purse and be a thousand Miles from his Kindred p. 268. That Courtier is happy that hath opportunity given him of shewing his prudence and valour Sejanus by one action of saving Tiberius Life with the hazard of his own obtained that Reputation that he governed the whole Empire and had almost settled it upon himself through the great confidence Tiberius though otherwise a very jealous Prince had in him Discourse of Education p. 277. Calvins name was so odious to the Papists that they would not name him Hence in their Spanish expurgatory Index p. 204. they give this direction Let the name of Calvin be suppressed and instead of it put studiosus quidam and one of their Proselytes went from Mentz to Rome to change his native Name of Calvinus into the adopted of Baronius Bp. Morton Cath. Appel Ep. dâ—dic It was Stapletons advice to the Duke of Parma when Governor of the Low-Countries in reference to the divisions in point of Religion then on foot to cut all knots of Argument with Alexanders Sword and to beat them down with Hercules Club rather than to labour to appease and moderate them by the Harp of Apollo To repress them by violence rather than moderate them by Judgment Mortons Appeal pref Some Parents and Nurses with their
milk and food of Life do ordinarily transfuse some insensible seed of their own hereditary infirmities which in time grow upon their Children and become both sensible and dangerous unless they are purged out so it must be acknowledged of St. Gregory and Austin whom he sent into England and that together with the substantial Doctrin of the Christian Faith his Scholars and Converts might receive some few of his infirmities and superstitions which like hereditary diseases increasing with time and growing stronger ought not therefore to be still cherished because hereditary Id. p. 5. The Devil appeared unto one Secundello a Deacon in the likeness of our Saviour and said unto him I am Christ Go forth and do Cures and heal Diseases he being seduced with this delusion did so and putting his hand upon the infirm in the name of Christ they were immediately healed and he returned stuff'd with pride and vain glory Mortons appeal p. 18. It 's noted of Caesar that he therefore disclaimed the Title of a King that thereby he might more plausibly and popularly execute all monarchical and Kingly power and Authority The Pope stiles himsejf Servo Servorum The Servant of Servants that thereby he may Lord it over Gods Heritage And notwithstanding this Title of Humility yet the Book of the Pâ—ntifical Ceremonies doth require that all Mortal Men of whatsoever State or Degree when they come first into the Popes presence must kneel thrice and also kiss his feet Idem p. 35. 159. Platina relates that Pâ—pe Sabinian commandded first the lighting of Lamps in the day time in Churches for this reason ut Horae distinguerentur officii gratia that the Houres for Divine Offices might be distinguished and duly observed And so we read in our English Histories that King Aelfrid who divided the natural day into three eight houres viz. One for his bodily refreshment one for his studies and the third for the affaires of his kingdom measured hi time by the burning of Wax-tapers Clocks and Watches and Hour-glasses being not then invented Idem p. 57. Binius relates that some Donatifsts who in contempt threw the Sacramental bread unto Dogs were by those Dogs fallen mad set upon and eat up themselves And in St. Johns Colledg in Cambridg Dr. Whitaker being the Master one Booth a Bachelor of Arts and an excellent Scholar who in contempt had taken the Sacramental bread and thrown it over a Wall not long after threw himself Headlong from the battlements of the Chappel and died within four and twenty hours after Idem p. 132. Pope Alexander in the behalf of Ferdinand King of Portugal thus decrees concerning India Upon our meer Motion and Liberality saith he and from the fulness of our Apostolical Authority we give unto you all the Islands and Lands as well those which are found out as those which shall hereafter be discovered in India from the North-Azores unto the VVest to you and your Heirs for ever And this upon no better Truth or Title than the Devil promised the Kingdomes of the VVorld to our Saviour Bp. Mortons appeal p. 155. The Popish VVriters though confessing some of their Popes as John the twelfth to be sceleratissimos Monstra most Wicked Monsters yet stile them of good and godly Memory Because say they we herein respect not what they did but what became them to have done By which reason like honour of blessed Memory belongeth to Jeroboam among the Kings Balaam among the Prophets and Judas among the Apostles Idem p. 159. The Books of accounts belonging to Christ-Church in Canterbury do testifie that there being three several Offerings in that Church One to Christ another to the Virgin Mary a third to Thomas Becket The Oblation to Thomas Becket communibus annis did amount to eight hundred or a thousand pounds To our Lady two hundred pounds To our Saviour somtimes five Marks somtimes twelve Marks and somtimes Hoc anno nihil This year Nothing Bp. Mortons appeal p 242. The necessity of ministring the Eucharist to Infants was defended by St. Austin and Innocent the first and was practised by the Church almost six hundred years together yet at length was left off and rejected as a fond and unwarrantable custome Idem p. 244. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century IV. ZEno being asked how a man might be wise answered He must converse vvith the dead viz. by reading understand and know the acts of the Antients Don Pedro Men. Imp. Hist preface The Trophies of Miltiades stirred up Themistocles What Homer wrote of Achilles provoked Alexander and Alexanders History did Julius Caesar to great exploits Ibid. Philosophy Rhetorick Mathematicks and Astrology have been banished Rome and a long time it was e're Physick was admitted Ibid. Sylla having overthrown Marius made himself Dictatour and seised on Rome nevertheless before his death he deposed himself from his Dictatorship and left it at liberty Pompey followed Sylla's faction and Caesar Marius p. 4. The greatest civil warr that ever was in the World was between Pompey and Caesar in which were engaged all the Roman Senators and Souldiers and lasted five years It was waged in Italy France Spain Epirus Thessaly Egypt Asia and Africa The whole Roman Empire not sufficing the ambition of the two Commanders Pompey not enduring an Equal nor Caesar a Superior Imperial History p. 6. Men commonly judg that lawful in themselves which they condemn in others Pompey would not allow Caesar to stand for the Consulship being absent though he himself had it before he was of lawful age Idem p. 7. Caesar coming to the River Rubicon which the Senate commanded him not to pass with his Army is reported to use these words If I forbear it will be the beginning of my disgrace and if I pass it will be to all Men Mortal Yet preferring his own honour before publick good using these Words Jacta est Alea the Lot is Cast past the River and began the Civil VVar. p. 8. Pompey having raised a new raw unexperienced Army his Old Legions being in Spain under Patricius and Afranius two inexpert Captains Caesar being in suspence which to attaque first at last resolved to go into Spain saying Let us go first against the Army that is without a Captain and then against the Captain that is without an Army Caesar disguised with three Servants entred a Brigandine intending to cross the Sea but coming down he River to enter the Sea it was so troublous and tempestuous that the Master not daring to pass farther would have returned Then Caesar discovered his face and said Fear not â—hou carriest Caesar and all his Fortunes p. 12. Pompey worsted Caesar at Dirrachium but prosecuted not his Victory On which â—aesar said to his Friends Of a truth this Day had ended our Wars if our Enemies had had a Captain that had known how to use his Victory p. 13. Caesar commanded his Horse-men fighting with Pompey's Cavalry who were nice and effeminate Gentlemen to strike them no
was fought in Germany between Saturninus and Appius who was Domitians General Appius got the Victory the News whereof was brought to Rome the same day An Astrologer told Domitian of his Death The Emperor asked him whether he knew his own He answered he should be killed and eaten with Dogs the Emperor commanded him to be killed and his Body to be burned while which was doing there fell a great showr of rain put out the fire and the Dogs and came eat him Imp. Hist p. 139. Nerva was an excellent Prince released the Christians from Banishment John the Divine came then from Pathmos to Ephesus He made poor mens Sons to be brought up at the common charge and sware that no Senator of Rome by his command should be put to Death which Oath he performed He was wont to say that he remembred not that he had done any thing but that he might giving up his Empire live privately without fear He chose Trajan meerly for publick good to succeed him p. 144. Trajan being reproved for his too much familiarity with his Subjects he answered that be desired to be such an Emperor towards his Subjects as he would wish they would be to him if he were a Subject p. 144. The Nobles of Armenia presented Trajan with a very fair Horse that coming into his presence kneeled upon both knees and bowed his Head to the ground Imperial History p. 150. When Trajan lay at Antioch a terrible Earth-quake overthrew the City and all his Palaces so that he was fain to keep in the Field in Tents for many days Id. p. 15I Trajans Ashes were set up upon the top of a Pillar in the Maâ—ket-place at Rome which was of one whole Stone containing 140 Foot in height Id. p. 154. The Jews when bound to keep the Law upon every light occasion became Idolaters and now the Law is abolisht most obstinately persevere in it Idem p. 1611 A certain Roman Knight camc to entreat a favour at Trajans hand the Knight being Old had a gray Beard and was full of wâ—ite Hairs and failing of what he desired within a few days after he came again with a new petition to the same effect But in the mean time he had dyed his Beard and Hears and looked young again which being noted by the Emperor he to jeer him therewith answered I would be glad to do you the pleasure you require but there are but a few days past since I denyed it to your Father which desired the same Wherefore it seems to me a matter unjust to grant that to the Son which I would not to the Father and the Old Knight departed with shame Imp. Hist p. 158. It having not rained in Africa for five years together upon Adrians coming it rained plentifully which made him double welcome He rebuilt Carthage and afterwards Jerusalem and died of wilful abstinence using this saying Turba Medicorum interfecit Regem The multitude of Physicians kill'd the King p. 61. 1691. Commodus intending to put to Death several persons and having written their Names down his Concubine Marcia lighted upon the List and finding her own name she wiâ—h others contrived and procured his Death with poyson and stabbing p. 179. When the Pretorian Souldiers had rebelliously slain Pertinax they openly proclaimed the sale of the Empire to him who would give most and Didius Julianas bought it of them but after seven months was slain by the contrivance of that Senate p. 189. Audentius upon the death of Caracalla being profered the Empire utterly refused it and would not by any perswasions be brought to accept of it p. 208. Heliogabalut turned the day into night and the night into day He rose from his Bed about Sun setting and laid himself to sleep about day breaking and ordered that business which should be done by day should be done by night and what was to be done by night should be dispatcht by day p. 210. Alexander Severus would admit no Officers in his Court that were not honest and of good fame and would not suffer any to buy places of Judicature and to know how his Officers discharged their trust he had certain secret Honest men that vvere to watch and report their Carriages to him He apparelled himself decently but never costly He never gave Office for favour but desert and when his Mother told him that his overmuch familiarity tnade his raign of less Reputation He ansvvered true but thereby more firm and durable In his Wars he did eat no other meat than what the relt of his Army did and had often in his Mouth Do not that to another which thou wouldest not to be done to thy self Imp. Hist p. 223. Macedonius slaying Ticus who was set up Emperor against Maximinus brought his Head to Maximinus who put him to a cruel death for murthering his Soveraign and being a Traytor to his Friend Idem p. 230. Philip by the same means he got the Empire lost it the same Souldiers putting him to death which he made use of to put Gadienus to death Imperial Hist p. 245. In the time of Galienus there were thirty that usurped the name and Ensignes of the Empire and none of them dyed a natural death but were most of them slain by the Souldiers that set them up p. 255. In Galienus time the Sun shone not in many days Many Cities were overflowed with the Sea and in one day there died in Rome five thousand Persons But the Emperor swallowed up with sensual pleasures regarded it not and when the whole kingdom of Egypt was lost he answered And what then cannot we live without the Linnen Cloth of Egypt p. 257. Zenobia would never lye with her Husband after she was with Child Neither twice till by natural signes she knew whether she had conceived or no. p. 265. Aurelianus slew forty Men in one day and in all nine hundred with his own hands Besieging Tyanea he threatned after destruction not to leave a Dog alive but being terrified with the apparition of Apollonius he only put to death Heraclemon that betrayed the City to him judging him not likely to prove faithful to him who was a Traytor to his own Country and gave his Souldiers liberty to kill all the Dogs but not the Men. Pedro Men. Imp. History p. 275. Aurelianus being about to sign an edict against the christians a Thunder-bolt fell so near him that all men thought he had been slain notwithstanding which he persisted in his persecution and was murthered by his own Servants p. 278. Tacitus the Emperor chosen by the Senate on the entreaty of the Souldiers was so temperate as in his diet so in all things that he would not allow his Wife the Empress to wear any precious stones or jewels of any great price Id. p. 278. Carus the Emperor vvas slain by a â—hunder-bolt that fell on him in his Tent. Anno Dom. 287. Dioclesian by an edict commanded his Foot to be kist by those that came to salute
tired and was fetcht off with a Boat Mariana Hist de Esp 2 part p. 94. In one of the Islands of the Canaries called del Hiero there is no other Water but what doth distil and drop from the Leaves of one Tree p. 136. An Infant of eight Months old at the begining of the troubles of Portugal about the year 1385. in Ebora heaved it self up in the Cradle and in a loud voice said three times Don Juan King of Portugal Idem p. 138. Tamerlane besieging Beritus they held â—ut the first day but yielding the second they sent out the young Boyes and Girles clothed in white with green Boughs in their hands who falling down on the ground beg'd mercy but this barbarous Tyrant commanded his Horse-men to ride over them and so kill'd them all A certain Genoâ—ay advised that he should shew mercy and that he was a Mortal man To whom Tamerlane answered Dost thou think I am a man no I am the scourge of God and the plague of Mankinde Idem p. 191. Vincent Ferrer a Dominick Frier of Valencia famous for Miracles converted 8000 Moores and 35000 Jews Who preaching in his vulgar Tongue strangers understood him as if he had spoke to each in his own Language a singular gift and since the Apostles only granted to him Idem p. 195. There were Laws made in Castile that the Moores should wear a piece of blew cloth in form of a Crescent the Jewes a round piece of yellow cloth and Priests Concubines a piece of red cloth whereby they might be known to be such Id. p. 197. About the year 1407. the Pay of a Horse-man by the day was twenty Maravedes and of a Foot-man ten A Maravede is a brass coyne of which six make an English penny Id. 198. Henry King of Castile entring upon the government of his Kingdom found his revenue so extremely exhausted that having been one day in the Field catching of Quailes he returning found nothing prepared for his breake-fast asking his Steward the reason was answered that he had neither money nor credit to buy what was necessary The King marvelled at and commanded him that he should upon a pledge buy him some flesh and dress it with his quailes for his break-fast Which done his steward waiting on him there arose several discourses amongst which one was that his Grandees and courtiers fared otherwise and that the Arch-bishop of Toledo and other chief Courtiers did by turnes feast one the other and that night they were all to Sup at the Arch-bishops The King in a disguise went to see what past where he saw most plentiful provisions and heard their discourses of each ones revenues what of their own and what of the Kings rent The King resolved to remedy these disorders and gave out the next morning that he was sick and intended to make his Will The Courtiers came to the Castle in which the King lay who had given order then when the Courtiers were entred their retinue should be kept forth which was accordingly done The Nobles waited in the Hall a greet space about noon the King comes in Armed with his Sword drawn and sitting down with an angry Countenance turnes to the Arch-bishop and askt him and the rest how many Kings they had known in Castile One answered three others four and who knew most five The King replied and how can this be since I that am so young know Twenty And you are they to the great impoverishment of my Kingdom and dishonour to our Person but I shall take care that your raign shall not be long and that you make no longer a scoff of me and with this calls for the Executioners of Justice with their Instruments and six Hundred Soldiers that were in readiness They being all amazed the Arch-bishop fell on his Knees and begged pardon and so did all the rest and promised amendment The King gave them their lives but not their liberties till they had given up all the Castles they were intrusted with and an account of the Kings rents which they had received A Notable deed that humbled and kept in awe his great Subjects This Princes saying was I more fear the curses of my people than the Armes of my Enemies His Queen was the Daughter of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Constance the Daughter of King Pedro the cruel and himself the Grandson of Henry the Bastard Brother of the same King Peter Mariana 2 part p. 200. John King of Castile being dead the whole nobility profered and were very importunate with his Brother Ferdinand to accept the Crown but he refused it and caused his Brothers Son John the second a Child of twenty two Months old to be proclaimed King Idem p. 202. Four Leagues distant from Girona a City in Spain in the year one thousand four hundred and twenty there opened two Mouthes of Fire which burnt those that came within two stones throw of them and near to these issued forth a stream of black Water of a stinking savour which fell into the River kill'd the Fishes and the savour of it was so strong that it reacht to Girona Mariana 2 part p. 239. In the year one thousand four hundred thirty and seven seven men that went forth to the VVoods in Spain near Guadalajar were frozen to death and not long before it snowed forty dayes together Id. p. 291. Alvaro de Luna who had bin thirty years favourite to John King of Castile fell at last into disgrace was condemned and beheaded A Witch had told him that he should dye in Cadahalso Now the King had given him a Country so called which for that reason he would never enter into not minding that Cadahâ—lso signifies a Scaffold on which indeed he ended his days Id. p. 340. About the year one thousand four hundred fifty six a Country called Bojano sunk with an Earth-quake and remaines a standing Lake of VVater in which disaster there perished thirty thousand Persons of all sorts p. 350. And in the year one thousand five hundred forty four there was an Eclipse of the Sun that lasted a whole day Id. p. 741. A great Commander of the Moors in Malaca being killed with many wounds yet bled not till a bracelet of Gold which he wore on his Arm was taken off and then the blood abundantly issued out It 's supposed that the Bracelet had a stone taken out of a Beast called which hath a marvailous Virtue to restrain blood p. 677. At 〈…〉 of Bolongue a part of the Wall 〈…〉 with a mine so that both those 〈…〉 and those without could see under yet fell down again and settled in its own place Id. p 682. The Island of Brittain was the first National Church in the whole World of Christians For though the Gospel was Preached in many other Nations privately long before yet of all Nations it was the first that with publick approbation of Prince and State received the Profession of the Christian Religion under King Lucius about
these VVords Includamus hunc in Orbe nostro tanquam alterius Orbis Papam Id. p. 81. Radulphus the 35th Archbishop of Canterbury being very old and sickly yet went to Rome to complain of the injury done him by sending Legates into England alledging it to be the priviledg of the Archbishop of Canterbury to be Legatus Natus and none other to be admitted without special Licence This allegation the Pope allowed and the Archbishop returned contented who for being more delighted with jesting and merry Toys than became the gravity of his age or place was sirnamed or rather nicknamed Nugax He died Octob. 20th 1122. Bp. Godw. p. 82. In the year 1122. William Corbel being Archbishop a Convocation was called by him at VVestminster wherein John de Crema the Popes Legate inveighed most bitterly against the Marriage of Priests and was the next Night taken in Bed with a common Strumpet In this Synod more Canons vvere made against the Marriage of Clergy-men but the King set them all to a yearly Pension or took present large Sums of Money â—o dispense with them King Henry dying that preferred this Archbishop he was content to betray his Daughter Maud the Empress and contrary to his Oath to joyn with Stephen Earl of Bloys whom he Crowned with his own hand but vvith such fear and terrour of Conscience that the consecrated Host fell out of his hand in the middle of Mass by reason of his trembling and fearful amazedness Idem p. 83. Theobald Abbot of Becco a Norman born a wise and vertuous Person was chosen Archbishop in a Convocation held in London 1138. by his suffragan Bishops consecrated by Albert the Popes Legate received his Pall at Rome from Innocentius the second vvho confirmed to him and his Successors for ever the Title of Legatus Natus resisted the Popes intrusion of vvorthless Persons into dignities and vvas therefore much troubled St. Bernard vvrit to the Pope for him Ep. 111th In the third year of his Consecration a Council vvas summoned at Rhemes vvhereto he vvas called Henry Bishop of VVinchester King Stephens Brother and Legate endeavoured to circumvent him he dealt with the Pope not to dispense vvith his absence and vvith King Stephen to forbid his passage Yet go he did and vvas at the Council in good time The King follovving the advice of his Brother seized upon his Estate and banished him the Realm He Interdicts the King and Kingdom came home and lived privately till by Intercession of Friends he vvas restored and grevv in great Favour vvith the King and vvas the chief means of concluding the final peace betvveen him and Maud the Empress at Wallingford in the year 1152. He summoned a Council vvhere King Stephen would have constrained the clergy to have made his Son Eustace King The intent vvas espied before Letters vvere procured from the Pope forbidding the Clergy to meddle in it yet the King prosecutes his design shuts the Doors upon the Clergy and thought by force to compel them The greater part yield but the Archbishop stole avvay secretly took his Barge rowed dovvn the Thames got beyond Sea and by his absence dissolved the Synod King Stephen being dead H. the second restored him to all vvhich he enjoyed till his death vvhich vvas 1160. Bp. Godw. p. 86. Hugo the Popes Legate coming into England a Convocation was summoned at Westminster where Richard Archbishop of Canterbury being sate at the right hand of the Legate Roger Archbishop of York coming in would needs have displaced him which when the other would not suffer he sate dovvn in his Lap. All vvonder The Servants of Canterbury dravv him by violence out of his ill chosen place threvv him dovvn tare his Robes trod upon him and used him very despitefully He in this dusty pickle goes and complaines to the King vvho vvas at first angry but vvhen he heard the truth laughed at it and said he was vvell enough served Richard Archbishop of Canterbury sleeping at his mannor of Wrotham there seemed to come to him a terrible Personage asking him vvho he vvas and vvhen the Archbishop vvas silent he told him Thou art he vvho hast destroyed the goods of the Church and I will destroy thee from off the Earth this said he vanished The Archbishop gets up took his Journey to Rochester by the vvay told this Vision and immediately was taken with a cold and stiffness and being hardly got that Night to Halling a House of the Bishop of Rochester extreamly tormented with the Collick the next night dyed Febr. 16. 1183. Id. p. 96. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century VI. THe Saxons called in by the distressed Brittains as their Friends in a short time proved their suppressing and supplanting Enemies driving them out of their Antient habitations except Cornwal and VVales Speeds Maps Eple Harald made a Law that if any VVelsh-man was found on this side Offditch with any weapon he should forthwith have his right hand cut off Id. p. 3. Elfrid King of the VVest Saxons reduced his Country to that peaceable frame from notorious Robberies that in the very High wayes he commanded bracelets of gold to be hung up to mock the greedy passengers while none were found so hardy as to take them away Which he effected by dividing his land into shires and then into hundreds and Tithings making each hundred and Tithing responsible for their Inhabitants Id. p. 3. England was divided into Parishes in the year six hundred thirty six by Honorius the fifth Arch-bishop of Canterbury and there are twenty and seven Bishopricks and nine thousand two hundred eighty five Parishes Speed p. 5. At Mottingham in Kent in the year 1586. the fourth day of August the ground began to sink and three great Elmes growing thereon sunk and a Hole was left fourscore yards in compass and a line of fifty fathoms plumm'd into it doth find no bottom Id. p. 7. Beckets Tomb for glory wealth and superstitious worship equallized the Pyramides of Egypt or the Oracles of Delphos yet now with Dagon is fallen before the Ark of God 161. The Conqueror for his pleasure inforested thirty miles in Hampshire and pulled down thirty six Parish Churches In which Forrest his two Sons Richard by a Pestilent air Rufus by a shot and his Grand-son Henry son of Duke Robert by hanging in a bough as Absolom came to their untimely ends Id. p. 13. Canutus to convince his flatterers set himself by the Sea side and commanded it to retire but that disobeying he acknowledged God the only governour and gave up his Crown to the Rood at Winchester Maud the Empress was carried in a Coffin from Winchester to Glocester and so to Oxford as dead to escape her Enemies The men of the Isle of VVight brag that they are happier than their neighbours in that they never had Monk that wore Cowl Lawyer that cavilled nor Foxes that were crafty In which Isle in the year 1176 it rained a shoure of blood for two houres Id.
Id. p. 257. Constantius Chlorus to try his Officers commanded them to offer Sacrifice to the Idol Gods pretending to discourt all such as refused but contrariwise those that obeyed he put from him with this reproof That he that is disloyal to his God will never be true not trusty to his Prince p. 258. Constantine in his Expedition towards Rome being doubtful what God to invocate casting up his Eyes to Heaven had the sign of the Cross presented to him wherein were Stars as Letters so placed that visibly might be read this Sentence in Greek In this Sign thou shalt overcome Speeds Hist p. 259. Maxentius framed a deceitful Bridg over Tybur to intrap Constantine but joyning Battel and overlaid and retiring fled himself over the same Bridg which falling under him he and many more were drowned 260. Constantine intending to build a City at Chalcedon in Asia whilst they were measuring out the Circuit an Eagle scouping at the Line flew with it over the Sea toward Bizantium in Thrace to which place the thing seeming Ominous he transferred his new Foundation and there built Constantinople p. 261. In the famous Library at Constantinople in which there were one hundred and twenty thousand Manuscripts there were the Gutts of a Dragon 120 foot long on which Homers Iliads were written admirably in Letters of Gold p. 261. Julian the Emperor first a Deacon after a Wretched Apostate yet was otherwise highly commended for his many good qualities so temperate that he never had any War with his Belly so chast that after the Death of his VVife he never regarded VVomen and would not see the Persian Captive Ladies nor suffer Cookes or Barbers in his Army as being Ministers of Intemperance As for Stage-Plays he never but once a year permitted them in his Court and then he saith of himself he was similior detestanti quam spectanti Id. p. 265. When Delphidius the Orator inveighed against an innocent denyal saying Nocens esse poterit quisquam si negare sufficeret Who can be guilty if it be enough to deny Julian replied And who can be innocent if it be enough to accuse Id. 265. Julian in despight of the Christians would have rebuilt the Temple at Jerusalem and set men on work to that purpose but was frustrated by terrible Earth-quakes and Fire-balls that hindred his proceedings and forms of Crosses shining as the Sun fell on the Garments of the Jews Ibid. From above the Porch of Entrance into one of the Cities which Julian regained the Wreath of Lawrel reserved as an Ornament of the place fell in a wonderfull manner on his head which fill'd him with hopes of conquering the Persians against whom having vowed a Sacrifice of Christians if he returned going with confidence was slain by a Launce from whose hand none knew and dying cast his blood into the air with these words Vicisti Galilaee His usual saying was Turpe est sapienti cum habeat animam captare laudes ex corpore Speeds Hist p. 266. Valentinian the Son of a Rope-maker in the dayes of Julia laid down his belt that is his Command in the Army rather than he would renounce his faith and was shortly after chosen Emperor in whose dayes St. Jerom reports that it rained Wooll from heaven so perfect and good that no better grew upon the sheep the natural producers of it p. 371. Severa Valentinians wife commending the beauty of Justina to her husband occasioned his marrying of her who taking two wives himself made a Law that others might do so likewise p. 272. Maximus the Usurper seeking the life of Gratianus the Emperor caused letters and reports to be brought to Gratian that his Empress was on her journey to visit him and withall sent forth a Caroch stuff'd with Soldiers and with them a desperate Captain named Andragathius Gratian rejoycing at his wifes approach prepared himself to meet her and opening the letter thinking to embrace his Empress was by the Command of Andragathius treacherously murdered But Andragathius after Maximus was overthrown by Theodosius his state being then desperate cast himself headlong into the Sea and made an end of his wretched life p. 233. Theodosius in a great danger overlaid by Eugenius and Arbogastus upon his earnest prayer God raised a violent tempest which so sorely beat upon his Enemies that he got a glorious Victory One Constantine a common Soldier was elected Emperor only for his names sake p. 280. Theodosius having cruelly destroyed the Thessalonians coming to Millain would have entered the Church to have communicated with other Christians but was resisted and forbid by St. Ambrose in which estate the Emperor stood for eight months and then with great humility and submission acknowledging his offence was absolved and again received into the congregation Speeds Hist p. 275. Theodosius being very passionate and thereby sometimes doing amiss to prevent it enacted a Law that thirty days should pass betwixt the sentence of death and the execution of the Malefactor and to suppress his hasty Choler his usual manner was to recite the Greek Alphabet before he uttered any speech savouring of that humour p. 275. Pelagius was a Brittain whose heretical opinions were these 1. That man without the grace of God was able to fulfil all the Commandments 2. That man in himself had free will 3. That the grace of God was given unto us according to our merits 4. That the Just have no sin 5. That children are free from Original sin 6. That Adam should have died if he had not sinned p. 279. Among the Antient Saxons he that abandoned or lost his shield in battel was debar'd from their publick sacrifices and Assemblies the greatest disgrace that could be for shame of which many destroyed themselves Id. p. 289. The Germanes were a warlike Nation their Maids presented to their Husbands as a dowry at their Nuptials a Tent and a Spear and their Men usually met at their Feasts and Counsels in their armour and for any to return alive from the Battel in which the Prince was slain was a perpetual Infamy p. 289. Women taken in Adultery among the Saxons haing first their Hair cut off vvere turned stark naked out of their Husbands Houses and that in presence of their ovvn kindred then vvere they scourged vvith VVhips through the Tovvn vvithout regard of birth beauty age or wealth and never after could get any other Husbands p. 289. Vodine Bishop of London feared not to tell King Vortigerus that for Marrying Rowena a heathenish Lady Daughter to Hengist he had indangered both his Soul and his Crown Which words were so ill digested that they shortly cost the Bishop his Life Speeds Hist p. 290. Ethelburga the Wife of King Brithrich the West Saxon having poysoned her Husband fled into France where being for her beauty prostered by King Charles the Marriage of himself or his Son she making choice of the Son had neither but was thrust into a Monastery whence committing VVhoredom she was
expelled and died in great misery Id. p. 328. Ino King of the West Saxons gave over his Kingdom vvent to Rome professed Religion and there died Sibba King of the East Saxons turned Monk Ossa likewise put on a Cowl and went to Rome Osith Wife of King Sighere and Keneswif Wife of King Ossa enter'd Religion No less than eight Kings of the Saxons gave over the World and became Votaries p. 309. 11. Pauls in London was a Temple of Diana and St. Peters in Westminster was a Temple of Apollo Id. 311. Etheldred commonly called St. Audry wife to Egfrid King of Northumberland and before to Tombert a Noble man lived with them both and with her last husband twelve years yet continued a Virgin and having got leave to depart from her husband profest her self a Nun. p. 317. Vortimer ordered his tomb to be built in the Isle of Thanet to the terror of the Saxons whom he had often Conquered As Scipio ordered that his tomb might be so set as to overlook Africa as a terror to the Carthaginians 331. Uter Pendragon being deeply enamoured on Igren the beautiful wife of Gorlois Duke of Cornwal and having often in vain attempted her chastity at last by the help of Merlin obtained his desire for Merlin so new moulded the shape of King Vter and printed in his face the features of Gorlois that without suspect Igren entertained him in which bed of deceit the famous Arthur was begot Id. p. 333. Careticus King of Brittain flying from Gurmund into Chichester certain Sparrows being caught and fire fastened to their feet were let fly in the Town which lighting upon straw and other matter fit for flaming burnt in a short space the whole City Speeds Hist. p. 388. Colman and Wilfrid disputing about the time of Easter before King Oswy Colman urged the Example of St. John VVilfrid of St. Peter to whom Christ had committed the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven which the King hearing concluded this controversie thus I will not gainsay such a Porter as this lest when I come to the Doores of Heaven I find none to open to me having his displeasure p. 348. Redwald King of the East Angles after the manner of the Old Samaritans in the same Temple erected an Altar for the service of Christ and another for Sacrifices to his Idols p. 350. A Ruffian being sent to Murder Edwyn King of Northumberland and drawing his Sword Lilla the Kings Servant wanting wherewith to defend his Master put himself between the King and his Sword and so lost his own to save his Masters life Edwyn's care was such for waifaring passengers that he enclosed by the way sides clear Springs where he set Basins of Brass both to drink and wash in p. 351. Oswald King of Northumberland having sent for Aidan a Scottish Bishop to instruct his Northumbrians whereas Aidan could not speak the Language the King himself was Interpreter at his Sermons and gave his words in English as he spake them in the Scottish â—anguage p. 353. Oswald upon a solemn Feast day seeing many Poor at his Gates sent them the Delicates for himself prepared and commanded the Charger of Silver to be broken and divided amongst them Bishop Aidan much rejoycing thereat took the King by the right hand and prayed that it might never consume as after his death it did not but was shrined in Silver and reserved in St. Peters Church in Bambrough p. 354. VVulphere a Saxon King kill'd his two Sons for being Christians but after repenting of his inhumane Murther became a Christian himself and converted his Heathenish â—emples into Christian Churches Id. p. 157. Oswâ—ne King of Deira gave Bishop Aidan a goodly Gelding with rich and costly Trappings which as the Bishop rode to Preach a Poor man demanding his Almâ—s he having nothing else to give alighting gave to him The King blaming him for it Aidan replied Is the brood of a Beast dearer in your sight than this Poor man a Child of God The King laying aside his Sword fell at the Bishops Feet and craved forgiveness At which Aidan weeping said I never till this time saw an humble King And surely his Life cannot be long for his People are not worthy to have such a Prince to govern them Speed p. 355. Boniface an Englishman in the year six hundred and sixteen complained in a Letter sent to Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury that the English Nuns wandring in Pilgrimage under shew of devotion lived in pleasure and wanton Fornications through all the Cities of France and Lombardy p. 360. Ethelbald King of the West Saxons which had risen in Armes against his Father Ethelwolf for setting Judith the Daughter of the King of France and then his Wife in a Chair of Estate by him contrary to the Law of the West Saxons afterward against the Law of God and nature took the same Judith his Mother for his own Wife p. 369. The Huns of Coldingâ—am to avoyd the barbarous pollutions of the Danes deformed themselves to their lascivious Eyes by cutting off their upper Lips and Noses p. 373. Aelfrid King of the West Saxons worsted by the Danes disguised himself in the habit of a common Minstrel and in person repair'd to the Danes Camp where he saw their negligent securities learnt their design and shewing himself to his people who thought him dead gave the Danes a great overthrow The Danes having brought their Pinnaces to Wear in Hartfordshire King Aelfrid divided the stream and so made the River unnavigable p. 375 Aelfrid a learned man and a great favourite of learning divided the natural day into three Taper which he distinguished by burning of a Taper in his Oratory Eight houres he spent in study eight houres in provision for himself repose and rest and eight houres in the affairs of his Kingdom He made a Law that all men of ability should breed up their children to learning till they were fifteen years old preferred none to Offices but such as were learned and was the Founder of the University of Oxford and died in the year 901. Speeds Hist 376. What time Edward the elder King of England lay at Austlin and Liolin Prince of Wales at Beethslay intending a Parley Liolin refused to come down or to cross the Severn whereupon Edward took Boat and entered the River towards him which when Liolin saw and knew who he was he cast off his rich Robe and entered the River towards him breast-high when clasping the boat he submissively said Most wise and sage King thy humility hath overcome my Insolency and thy wisedom triumph'd over my folly Come get up on my neck which I have fool as I was lifted up against thee so shalt thou enter into that land benign mildness hath made thine own this day And after he had taken him on his shoulders and carried him to land he would needs have him sit down on his rich Robes and so putting his hands joyntly into the Kings did him homage p.
378. Elfleda King Edwards Sister having born her husband Ethelred one daughter her travail in childbed was so grievous that ever after she forbare the nuptial embracements of her husband alledging that it was an over foolish pleasure which brougâ—t after so great paines Speeds History p. 378. Ethelstan being jealous of Edwin his Brother caused him to be put into a little Pinnace without Tackling or Oares one only page accompanying of him that his death might be imputed to the waves whence the young Prince overcome with Grief cast himself headlong into the Sea p. 379. Edburg the eighth daughter of King Edward in her child-hood had her disposition tried and her course of life disposed by her Father in this manner He laid before her gorgeous apparel and rich Jewels in one end of a Chamber and the new Testament and books of Princely instructions in another wishing her to make her choice of which she liked best She presently took up the books and he her in his Armes and kissing her said Go in Gods name whither he hath called thee and thereupon placed her in a Monastery at Winchester where she Vertuously spent her whole life Id. p. 380. Elfrid a Noble man intending to have put out King Aethetstons Eyes his Treason being known was apprehended and sent to Rome where at the Altar of St. Peter and before Pope John the tenth he abjured the fact and thereupon fell down to the earth so that his servants bore him to the English School where within three days after he died the Pope denying him Christian burial till he knew Aethelstans pleasure Speeds Hist p. 380. Athelstan by the instigation of his parasites especially his Cup-bearer having exposed his Brother without Oars and Tackling in a Pinnace whence he threw himself into the Sea this Cup-bearer chancing on a Festival to stumble with one Foot and recovering himself with the other pleasantly said Ye see how one Brother helpeth another Upon which Speech the King calling to mind and laying to Heart the death of his Brother forthwith commanded execution to be done on his Cup-bearer the procurer of it p. 381. Aethelstan having conquered Constantine King of Scots and Howel King of Wales presently restored them to their former estate adding withall this princely saying That it was more Honour to make a King than to be a King Id. p. 381. Antaff King of some part of Ireland warring against King Aetheâ—stan disguised himself like a Harper and came into Aethelstans Tent whence being gon a Souldier that knew him discovered it to King Aethelstan who being offended with the Souldier for not declaring it sooner the Souldier made this answer I once served Antaff under his pay as a Souldier and gave him the same faith I now give you if then I should betray him what trust could your grace repose in my truth Let him therefore die but not by my treachery and let your care remove your Royal self from danger Remove your Tent from the place where it stands lest at unawares he assayl you Which the King did and a Bishop pitching in the same place was that Night with all his retinue slain by Antaff seeking the Kings life p. 381. Aethelstan going into Scotland turned aside to visit St. John of Beverley where praying for his prosperous success for the want of a richer Jewel offered his Knife vowing to redeem it at his return with a richer present which accordingly he did Ibid. Hugh King of France â—â—â—t to Aethelstan the Sword of Constantine tâ—â—â—reat in the Hilt whereof all covered with â—old was one of the Nailes that fastned Christ to the Cross Speeds Hist p. 381. King Edmund interposing himself between his Sewer and another to part a Fray was with a thrust through the body slain at â—uckle Church in Glocestershire p 387. Edred the twenty eighth Monarch of the Englishmen submitted his Body to be chastised at the pleasure of Dunstan of Glastonbury p. 385. Edwy the twenty ninth Monarch of English the day of his Coronation in the sight of his Nobles sitting in Counsel with shameless and unprincely lust abused a great Lady his near Kinswoman whose Husband he slew to enjoy her more securely p. 385. King Edgar enacted a Law against excessive drinking ordaining a size by certain Pins set in the Pots with penalties to those should drink beyond the mark he likewise imposed a Tribute on the Welsh-men of 300 VVolves yearly which being paid three years in the fourth year there were none to be found and so the Tribute ceased p. 387. Edgar having heard a daughter of a VVestern Duke commended for her beauty came to Andover and commanded the Damsel to his bed The Mother brought her Maid servant instead of her daughter who hastning to rise in the morning to her work was detained by the King who perceiving the deceit chekt her deceivers and kept her for his Concubine Edgar being told of the beauty of Elfrida daughter of Ordgarus Duke of Devonshire sent Ethelwold a Courtier to see her who minding to get her for himself discommended her to the King and by his leave married her Edgar aftervvards perceiving that he vvas abused invited himself to hunt at Ethelwolds Parâ— vvho suspecting the Kings meaning persvvaded his vvife so to dress her self as might conceal her beauty but she contrarily set it forth to the utmost so that the King entangled vvith it kill'd Ethelwold and tooâ— Elfrida to vvife p. 388. Edgith the daughter of Edgar a veiled Nun in the Monastery of Wilton being sharply reproved by Bishop Ethelwold for her too Curious attire roundly ansvvered him That God regarded the Heart more than the garment and that sins might be covered as vvell under Rags as Robes Speeds Hist. p. 38â— In a Council at VVincâ—ester vvhen there could be no agreement concerning the Marriage of Priests the business vvas referred by the Council to the Rood placed on the Refectory VVall vvhere the Council sate They praying to him he returned this ansvver God forbid it should be so God forbid it should be so You judged well once and to change is not good p. 391. The Devil coming to tempt St. Dunstan in the shape of a beautiful Woman he pulling her Nose with hot burning Pincers spoiled a good face Ibid. Ethelred gave secret Commissions to destroy all the Danes on Saint Brices day which accordingly was done in the year of our Lord one thousand and two Id. p. 394. Swain the Danish King demanded a great composition for the preservation of St. Edmunds Monastery the Inhabitants refusing to pay he threatned spoil to the place and the Martyrs bones in the midst of which Jollity he suddainly cried out that he was struck by St. Edmund with a Sword being in the midst of his Nobles and no man seeing from whose hand it came and so with great horror and torment on the third of February ended his dayes Id. 396. Ethelred when his Mother had procured the death of King Edward his brother
as unworthy for her unchast life to have Christian burial But the chast Virgins gathered them up put them into a perfumed bag and buried them laying a fair grave-stone upon them inscribed with these verses Hic jacet in Tumba Rosa mundi non Rosa munda Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet Qui meat hâc oret signumque salutis adoret Vtque tibi detur requies Rosamunda precetur Speeds Hist p. 480. Morgan natural Son to Henry the second born of the body of the Lady Blewet being elected Bishop of Durham and going for Consecration and a dispensation because of his Bastardy the Pope advised him to own himself Blewets Son but he answered That he would not renounce his Roâ—al blood for any promotion p. 480. Maud the Empress was the daughter wife and mother of Kings all named Henry which is expressed in this distich made of her Ortu magna Viro major sed maxima prole Hic jacet Henrici filia sponsa nurus Speeds Hist 481. Richard the first though himself had rebelled against his Father yet coming to the Crown cashiered all those that had forsaken and retained those who had stood faithful to his Father though against himself and made use of them in all his affairs p. 485. Rhese ap Griffith Prince of Wales coming as far as Oxford to Visit King Richard because the King came not forth to meet him returned back into his own Country without once saluting of him Ibid. When the Emperor gave three thousand Marks a part of King Richards ransome to make Silver Censers through all the Cestertian Order they refused the gift as part of an accursed spoil p. 489. Pope Celestin Crowning Henry the Emperor held the Crown between his feet which the Emperor stooping low he put upon his head and presently with his foot struck it off and dasht it to the ground but the Cardinals catching of it up put it again on the Emperors head Sp. H. p. 485. Henry de Pumeroy having fortified St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall against King Richard in behalf of Earl John hearing of the Kings return out of Captivity died of fear Id. p. 489. Richard the first sitting at Dinner at Westminster receiving advertisement of the siege laid to Vernveil by Philip of France sware that he would not turn his face till he had gotten thither with his Army whereupon he caused the wall to be bored through and never rested till he had removed the siege Id. p. 489. The Pope writing to King Richard to release the Bishop of Beauvoys whom he kept Prisoner calling him his Son The King sent the Habergica and Curace of the Bishop to the Pope with this question See if this be thy Sons Coat The Pope replied that he was no Son of his nor of the Church but the Son of Mars and should be ransomed at the Kings pleasure p. 499. King Richard the first out of Covetousness of Treasure of which he was profered a great part but would have all went to assault a Castle where he received his deaths wound Speeds Hist p. 491. Whilst King Richard warred in France one Fulco a French Priest came to him and told him he had three very bad daughters which he wished him to bestow in Marriage or else Gods wrath would attend him When the King denied he had any daughters Yes quoth the Priest thou cherishest three daughters Pride Covetousness and Lechery The King replied My Pride I bequeath to the haughty Templars and Hospitallers my Covetousness to the white Monks of the Cesteaux Order and my Lechery to the Priests and Prelates for therein they take their greatest Felicity Id. p. 492. A Monk at Swinstead Abbey presenting King John with an Invenomed Cup whereof the King commanded him to be his taster became the diabolical instrument of his own and his Soveraigns destruction Id. p. 516. William Marshal Earl of Pembrook famous for his atchievements in Ireland had this Epitaph made on him Sum qui Saturnum sibi sensit Hibernia Solem Anglia Mercurium Normannia Gallia Martem William Longspee Earl of Salisbury upon point of death would not receive the Sacrament in his bed but on his bare knees on the ground which he bedewed with his tears The like devotion is reported of King Henry the eighth On VVilliam Longspee was made this Epitaph Flos comitum Wilielmus obit Stirps regia longus Ensis Vaginam coepit habere brevem Speeds Hist p. 524. Henry the third the same day he set sail from England did himself in person visit the poor and feeble and dealt large Almes not refusing to kiss the sick and leprous p. 527. Four Parelions together with the Sun in the year one thousand two hundred thirty and three in the moneth of April appeared from Morning till night about the parts of Hereford and VVorcestershire 529. Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent vvas articled against to King Henry the third that he had stoln out of the Kings Jewel-house a pretious stone of wonderful value whose vertue was to make him that wore it invincible in battel and that he gave that stone to Liolin Prince of Wales the Kings Enemy Speed p. 528. Liolin Prince of Wales being threatned that if he lived not quiet King Henry the third would soon abate him answered I more fear the Almsdeeds the King gives than all the men of War he hath and the whole Clergy put together p. 530. In a great famine in the raign of Henry the third certain poor of Albaldestea in Cambridgshire while as yet the corn was green pluckt the ears in the common field to sustain their lives whereat the owners call on the Priest to curse all such but one in the Company adjured the Priest in the name of God to exempt his Corn in the sentence saying That it pleased him well that the poor driven with famine had taken his Corn and so commended that which they had left to God The Priest compelled by the importunity of the rest was entred into the sentence when by a terrible interrupting tempest of thunder lightning wind hail and rain all the Corn-fields about were desolated as if they had been trodden down with Horse and Cart and no kind of beast or fowl would feed upon the Corn thus layed but that honest and compassionate hearted man found all his Corn and ground though intermixed vvith theirs altogether untoucht and unharmed p. 532. In the year one thousand tvvo hundred thirty five there vvere brought before King Henry the third seven Jews vvho circumcised a child and purposed in contempt of Christ and Christianity to have crucified him at Easter at Norwich Speeds History p. 532. At the Marriage of Richard Earl of Cornwall brother to Henry the third there were thirty thousand Messes provided in the Cookery only and of all other things incredible plenty and yet the next day there was no sign of it p. 537. Ingetram or Coucy a great Lord in France whose daughter Alexander King
of Scots had Married was by the stumbling of his Horse in a ford cast out of his Saddle and pitcht into the depth of a River while his foot hung fast in the stirrup his Sword at the same time falling out of his sheath and running of him through did most strangely end his life by a triple death 537. The Pope desiring to come into England was denyed by Henry the third it being said That the Pope was like a Mouse in a Sachel or a Snake in ones bosome who did but ill repay their Hostes for their entertainment Id. p. 538. Five Brethren of the Marshals successively Earls of Pembroke died issueless which Matthew Paris attributeth to the Judgment of God upon them for their Fathers iniquity who detained from the Bishop of Firning certain Manours violently taken from him 539. The Popes extortions in England in the days of Hen. the third were exceeding great and heavy Insomuch that a Cardinal truly told the Pope that England was to the Pope as Balaams Ass which being so often wrung spur-galled and cudgelled it was no marvail that now at length she opened her mouth to complain And for themselves and the Roman Court they were like Ishmael every mans hand against them and theirs against every man Id. p. 539. Walter Clifford a Baron of the Marches of VVales made the Kings Officer to eat the Kings VVrit VVax and all Speeds Hist p. 540. The Pope having lain sometimes at Lions Cardinal Hugo at his going away made a Sermon of Farewel to the Citizens wherein amongst other benefits which the Pope's abode in that City had brought them he told them this was a principal That whereas at their coming thither there vvere three or four VVhore-houses in Lions now at their departing they left but one but indeed that reached from the East Gates of the City to the West p. 540. At the Marriage of Alexander the King of Scots to the Lady Margaret Daughter to King Henry the third there was given by the Archbishop of York and spent all at one meal six hundred Oxen. p. 541. When Grosted Bishop of Lincoln had written a sharp Letter to the Pope concerning the abuses of his Court The Pope in a rage swore by St. Peter and St. Paul that he could find in his heart to make that doting Prelate a mirrour of Confusion to all the World but some wiser Cardinals advised him to hush the matter for fear of stirring Coales especially since it was known that there would be a departure from the Church Id p. 543. Richard Earl of Cornwall being chosen Emperor at his accepting of it had this Expression Let me before I depart hence die and be burnt with the fire of Hell if I do accept the Empire for ambition or avarice but only to restore the Empire to a better estate which God grant and to govern them who have willingly chosen me for their Lord in a most just and honorable manner Id. p. 541. Richard Earl of Cornwall when elected King of the Romans is reported to possess so much ready coyn as would every day for ten years afford him an hundred Marks on the main stock Id. p. 545. Cedunt Togae Armis Henry the third intending to suppress his rebellious Barons made choice of Oxford as his place of Residence and banished thence all the Students to the number of fifteen thousand Speeds Hist 549. Simon Earl of Monfort a powerful Rebell took Prisoners King Henry the third Richard King of the Romans and both their Eldest Sons yielded to him by composition p. 549. A cup of Gold of ten pound weight cost hundred pound in King Henry the thirds days Edward the first while Prince warring in the holy land being wounded by a Saracen with an envenomed Knife the Lady Elianor his wife gave a rare example of conjugal affection and her immortal memory doth justly impart glory to the whole Sex For when no Medicines could extract the poyson she did it with her tongue licking daily while her husband slept his rankling wounds whereby they perfectly closed and yet herself received no harm p. 552. When Charles King of Sicily fell off from prosecuting of the holy war Prince Edward hearing of it solemnly sware that though all should forsake him yet he and his Lacquey would enter Ptolemais which he did though better attended p. 553. Edward the first being in his return from the holy land in the court of Charles King of Sicily and hearing first of the death of his Son and heir and after of his Father He much more sorrowed for his Fathers death than his Sons whereat King Charles greatly marvailing had of him this answer The loss of Sons is but light because they are multiplied every day but the death of Parents is irremediable because they are no more to be had Id. p. 554. At the coronation of King Edward the first for the more celebration of the great Feast and honor of so Martial a King there were five hundred great Horses let loose every one to take them for his own who could Speeds Hist p. 554. Upon a Marble Chair in Scone where the Kings of Scotland were used to be Crowned which Chair by King Edward the first was transported to Westminster was written this Distick Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invâ—niant lapidem regnum teneatur ibidem Id. p. 558. In the year one thousand three hundred and one Cassan King of Tartars gloriously slew an hundred thousand Turks in a battel upon the Plain of Damascus and was baptized thereupon as acknowledging the Victorie to come from the Son of God p. 560. Robert Bruce intending to seize on the Crown of Scotland and being accused to King Edward the first denied it and had time and warning to escape For an Earl sent unto him Twelve Striveling pence and a sharp pair of Spurs presently upon his departure from the Kings presence which he wittily interpreted to be a symbol of flight according whereunto he escaped from London shooing his Horses backward that he might not be followed by the Prints in the Snow Id. p. 560. Robert Bruce after his seizing the Crown of Scotland was driven to that extremity by the English that he was sometimes naked and hungry without meat or drink save only water and roots of Herbs and his life perpetually in danger and yet trusting in God he never forsook himself but recovered his Kingdom p. 5â—2 Edward the first dying in his march yet commanded his Son to carry his bones through all Scotland as a terror to them and to send his Heart to the holy land with one hundred and forty Knights and their retainers because being hindred by his home Wars he could not fulfil his vow in going personally thither providing thirty two thousand pound of Silver which upon pain of eternal damnation he appointed should not be expended on any other use Speeds Hist p. 563. The Countess of Buquahan Sister to the Earl of Fife whose Office
it was to Crown the Scottish King in her Brothers absence had stolen from her Husband with all his light Horses to set the Crown on Bruces head being taken by Edward the second was set in a wooden Cage made Crown-wise on the Walls of Barwick Castle for all to wonder at 561. The Scots at Bancksborn obtained a famous Victory over the English under Edward the second by this stratagem Before their Battalions they digged certain Trenches three foot deep and three foot broad which having fixed sharp stakes in them with their points upwards they covered so with hurdles that foot men treading warily might pass but not Horse in which King Edward's Cavalry were intrapped and so miserably slain and the battel lost King Edward the second having put to death Thomas Earl of Lancaster a Courtier of mean birth being condemned many potent Favorites pressed the King on his behalf The King brake forth into these most vehement words A Plague upon you for cursed whisperers malicious backbiters wicked Counsellors Intreat you for the life of a most notorious Knave who the longer he lives the more Villanies will he commit and would not speak a word for the life of my near kinsman the noble Earl Thomas He shall therefore dye the death he hath deserved Id. p. 569. When Queen Isabel rose in rebellion against King Edward the second her husband Adam de Olton Bishop of Hereford her bosome Counsellor at Oxford chose this Text My head my head aketh 2 King 4.19 On which he delivered to them the reason of the Queens coming with an Army concluding more like a Butcher than a Divine That an aking and sick head of a Kingdom was of necessity to be taken off and not to be tampered with by any other Physick Speeds Hist p. 574. The Commission sent to put Edward the second to death was a witty but wicked Amphibology being written and left uncomma'd in these words Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est which being comma'd after Timere was a command after Nolite was a prohibition and so occasioned the death of the King and the Ruine of those that did it p. 579. Edmund Earl of Kent by the practice of his Enemies was condemned to death for endeavouring to set at liberty his brother King Edward the second who was dead before and had his head stricken off at Winchester Castle Gate having stood from noon till five at night and none found to behead him till a base wretch of the Marshalsea was sent and did it p. 579. Edward the third in his Minority being over-ruled by Mortimer things went much to wrack on which was made this Rime Long beards heartless painted Hoods witless Gay Coates graceless make England thriftless When the Sea forces of Edward the third had spoiled the Abbey of St. Colmes in Scotland the whole Fleet as a punishment for that sacrilege was battered with a tempest and some of them perisht At another time the like sacrilege being perpetrated the ship in which the sacrilegious goods were sunk into the bottom without any Tempest Id. p. 581. When Edward the third and Philip of Valois had brought two mighty Armies of an hundred thousand men apiece into the Field to face one another by the mediation of Jane of Valois Sister to Philip and Mother in Law to Edward they withdrew and struck not a stroak Speeds H. p. 585. Small matters many times occasion great effects Edward the third King of England dancing with the beautiful Lady Joan Countess of Salisbury her Garter falling off the King took it up at which the Nobles smiling the King seriously said it should not be long before there should be Soveraign honour done to that Silken Tie whereupon he instituted the honor of the Garter whose Motto is Honi soit qui mal y pense p. 588. The black Prince at the battel of Cressy being overpressed and in danger the Lords that were with him sent to his Father to come and succour him Who made this answer Let them send no more to me for any adventure that may befall while my Son is alive But let him either vanquish or dye because the honor of this brave day shall be his if God suffer him to live p. 590. King Edward the third besieging Callis the Enemy turned forth fifteen hundred of the poorer sort whom the good King turned not back but relieved them with victuals and money and suffered them safely to pass through his Camp Speeds Hist 591. Henry Earl of Lancaster at the taking of the Town of Brigerack by assault had permitted every Souldier to seize any House and to convert the same and what was in it to his own proper use A certain Souldier named Reeth having broken into a House where the Moneyors had stowed all the Moneys of the Country not thinking that the Generals pleasure was that so great a Treasure should be converted to a private use He acquainted the General with it who answered That the House and all therein was his according as he had first proclaimed let them be worth what they would And when the Souldier again told him of the great Treasure there found He replied What tellest thou me of the greatness of the Treasure Go take enjoy For to give then to take it back again is childs play I have once said and my word being once passed cannot with honor be revoked Speeds Hist p. 592. It is observed of King Edward the third that he had alwayes fair weather in his passage into Erance and foul weather in his return p. 593. Henry Pecard Lord Mayor of London at one time feasted four Kings viz. of England Scotland France and Cyprus p. 594. A terrible tempest that destroyed many horse and men in Edward the third's Army occasioned him to encline to agreements of peace which before he was utterly averse to p. 595. Edward Son to the Earl of Cambridge married the daughter of the King of Portugal but afterwards neither would the Earl leave his Son behind as suspecting the Portugals Faith nor the other entrust his daughter to the Earl so that they remained disjoyned in body however united in Ceremony Wat Tylers Companions in an holy outrage burning the Savoy threw one of their felâ—ows into the flames because he had thrusts piece of stollen plaâ—â— into his bosome p. 607. When Richarâ— the second entered Scotland the Scâ—ts had so retired thâ—mselves and all their goods that when the English came they could see no quick then left but Owles 611. A Monk bestows this Epitaph on Wicklif The Divels Instrument Churches Enemy Peoples Confusion Hereticks Idol Hypocrites mirrour Schismes broacher Hatreds sower Lies Forger Flatteries sink who at his death despaired like Cain and stricken by the horrible judgment of God breathed forth his wicked Soul to the dark mansions of the black Divel Whereby Gods children may learn not to regard while they live the malice nor to expect after their death ought else but the
part 623. Lincoln Lincolnshire Leicestershire Huntingtonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire part Hartfordshire part 1255. Chichester Sussex Hertfordshire part 250. Winchester Hampshire Surrey Wight Isles Garnsey Isles Jersey Isles 362. Salisbury Wiltshire Barkeshire 248. Excester Devon Cornwall 604. Bath and Wells Somerset 388. Glocester Glocestershire 267. VVorcester VVorcestershire VVarwick part 241. Lichfield Coventry Staffordshire Derby VVarwick part Shropshire part 557. Hereford Herefordshire Shropshire 3â—3 Ely Cambridgshire Ely Isle 141. Norwich Norfolk Suffolk 1121. Oxford Oxfordshire 195. Peterborough Northampton Rutland 293. Bristol Dorset Glamorgan 236. Landaff Monmouth Brecknock Radnor 177. St. Davids Pembrook Caermerden 308. Bangor Carnarvan Anglesy Isle Merioneth Denbigh part 107. St. Asaph Denbigh part Flintshire part 121.  York Province  York Yorkshire Nottinghamshire 581. Chester Cheshire Lancashire Richmondshire Cumberland part Flintshire part 256. Carlisle Cumberland part VVestmorland 95. Durham Durham Northumberland 135. Soder Isle of Man 17. 1084. So that the total number of the Bishopricks in England are twenty seven of the Shires fifty and two and of the Parishes nine thousand two hundred eighty and five Speeds Maps p. 6. From Basham in Sussex Earl Harold taking Sea for his delight in a small Boat was driven upon the coast of Normandy where by Duke VVilliam he was detained till he had sworn to make him King of England after Edward the Confessors death which oath being broken the bastard arrived at Pensey and with his Sword revenged the perjury at Battel in the same County where King Harold with sixty seven thousand nine hundred seventy and four English men lost their lives the Conqueror thereby recovering full possession Id p. 9. Surrey is compared unto a homespun frize cloth with a costly list for the Outverg doth much exceed the middle it self In this Shire are Oaking Oateland Nonsuch Richmond four stately Palaceâ— of the Kings besides Lambeth the Archbishop of Canterbury his house and Ocham that gave breath to VVilliam of Ocham Id. p. 11. In Hamptshire there sometimes stood a great and famous city called Silvester that now is so demolished there is no sign left of it Southampton that was the antient Clausentium in the time of Edward the third was fired by the French under the conduct of the King of Sicelies Son whom a Country-man encountred and struck down with a Club he crying Rancon that is Ransome but the Country-man neither understanding his Language nor the law of Armes laid on more soundly saying I know thee a Françon and therefore shalt thou die Id. Falmouth bay in Cornwal is so wide that an hundred Ships may therein ride at Anchor by themselves apart so that from the tops of the highest Masts they shall not see each other and lie most safely under the VVinds. Speeds Maps p. 21. When Trajan was hastening against his Enemies a poor Widdow met him and desired Justice against the Murtherer of her Son The Emperor answered that at his return he would do her Justice but saith the Widdow what if thou shouldst not return he replied his successor should That would not avail him He alighting heard her cause and did her right Boschier 5 part Accad Peccat p. 255. Some Thieves robbing an Hermits house left a Chest which they saw not The Hermit went after them with it with which they were so moved that they restored what they had taken Id. Ibid. p. 280. An Abbot travailing fell into the hands of plunderers who dismounted him and took away his Horse which done he offered them his whip telling them it might serve their turn to beat up his Horse which was slow The Thieves riding to a River their Horses would not go forward which made them mind the good Abbot whom they had wronged and returning back gave him his Horse But that man fared worse who having some part of his garments taken from him run after them threatning them that they should answer it at the day of Judgment but they deriding him who threatned them with what they thought a great vvay off took avvay the rest of his cloths from him Id. p. 28 One Eginhartus a Counsellor to Charles the great falling in love with the Emperors daughter and she vvith him they enjoying by stealth their unlavvful pleasures One morning vvhen he vvas to go avvay from the Princesses Chamber the Pavement being all covered vvith Snow he vvas afraid by his footsteps to be discovered to prevent vvhich his Mistriss took him on her back and carrying of him in that Posture met her Father vvho yet forgave them both and gave her to this Counsellor for his wife since she had been before his Harlot Id. p. 291. Alexander the Patriarch of Constantinople was so merciful that when his Secretary having stollen his goods and â—ying away was taken by Thieves his Master redeemed him for a great Sum and being returned he used him kindly so that it grew into a Proverb Nihil utilius quam Alexandro malefacere The same is reported of Archbishop Cranmer Abuse the Arch-bishop and he will ever be your Friend Diego Salazar a Spanish Captain having Conquered an Island in the Indies and taken an Antient Indian Woman whom he sent from him to carry letters to another Governor she being gone he sent after her a very fierce Mastive whom the Woman seeing run at her she sate down on the ground and thus bespoke him in her language Good Mr. Dog good Mr. Dog I carry these letters to the Governor and then added good Mr. Dog do me no harm The Dog coming to her stood still did her no harm only heaving up his leg pist on her The Spaniard knowing the nature of the Dog took it for a Miracle and so would not kill her but saved her alive Boschier Ibid. p. 299. It was a good Law of the Romans that none should make a publick feast before he had provided for the necessity of his neighbours And of the Aegyptians that every five years each family should be searcht to see what course they took to maintain themselves Adam fifteen years after the Creation begat Cain and Calmana and fifteen years after Abel and Delbora And when Abel being an hundred years old was killed Adam mourned for him an hundred years and had resolved never more to know his Wife but that God particularly will'd him and he had thirty children more and lived nine hundred and thirty years and as the other Patriarchs before the flood did eat no flesh and survived Cain who was slain by Lamech in a Bush taken for a beast And to perpetuate the knowledge of Arts and Sciences Adam and Seth made two pillars the one of Brass the other of Stone as likewise Tubal Cain and Tubal foreseeing that the World should be burnt and drowned erected two pillars more one of Brick to defend the Fire the other of Marble to defend the Water and thereon did grave the Arts and Sciences by them invented Grafton Hist p. 3 4 5. p. 11. The Tree under which Abraham
entertained the Angels continued till the i me of Constantius the younger Id. p. 21. London was built three hundred fifty and six years before Rome in the time of Eli the high Priest Graftons Hist p. 36. King Locrine Brutus Son kept Estrildes his beautiful Concubine seven years in a secret cave at London and when he went to her gave out that he would make a secret sacrifice to the Gods On her he begat Habren whom Gwendolin his Wife together with her Mother threw into Severn and drowned and from the childes name commanded the River to be called Habren as the Welch now call it and by corruption Severn p. 39. King Bladad who founded Bathe having made himself VVings and intending to fly with them fell on the Altar of Apollo and bruised himself and therewith died Id. p. 47. In the time of Rivalio King of England it rained blood for three daies continually which bred an innumerable company of Flies and after was followed with a fearful pestilence Id. p. 49. Malmutius gave priviledge of Sanctuary to Temples Cities Carts and the four High-wayes which are called The Foss from Totness to Lincoln VVatlingstreet from Dover to Cardigan Erming street from St. Davids to Southampton Kickneld street from VVorcester to Tinmouth p. 54. 57. When Brennus besieged the Capitol the Ganders awakened the VVatch and saved it On which accasion the Romans long time after held a feast of Ganders the first day of June p. 59. When the Soldiers of Brennus had robbed the Temple of Apollo at Delphos his Army was destroyed by an Earth-quake and hail-stones and Brennus in despair slew himself p. 59. Morindus King of Brittain was slain by a Sea Monster whom he rashly would needs encounter with in the year of the VVorld three thousand six hundred fifty two Archigallo King of Brittain being deposed his Brother Elidurus was substituted King in his place who when he had raigned five years finding his Brother by chance in a VVood restored him again to his Crown Grafton p. 63. Ptolomeus Philodelphus King of Egypt being desirous to have the old Testament translated into Greek released freely a hundred thousand of the Jews that were captive gave great gifts and sent to Jerusalem for seventy Interpreters who coming to him in seventy daies finished it and were richly rewarded every one having given them three suits of apparel two talents of Gold and one Cup of one Talent of Gold and sufficient furniture for all their journeys and expences p. 63. In the daies of Eldadus King of Brittain there was a child born in Rome with four feet four hands four eyes as many ears and both Natures Id. p. 65. From Adam to Christ are three thousand nine hundred sixty three years six months and ten da s and from Christs birth one thousand six hundred and seventy three so that the VVorld hath endured five thousand six hundred thirty and six Grafton p. 74. Lucius the first Christian King in the year of Christ one hundred and eighty appointed VVestminster to be a Sanctuary Id. p. 83. Severus the Emperor built a Wall between Tine and the Sea which was one hundred twenty two miles long Id. p. 84. Donald the third King of Scots a cruel Tyrant never laught but when he heard of the discord and slaughter of his Nobles p. 87. Austin and his Mother praising God for his Conversion sung the Hymn Te Deum answering mutually p. 92. Vortiger having procured a guard of an hundred Picts to attend King Constance he made them drunk and laid open to them his own poverty and by secret wayes let them know his mind to have the King removed whom they wickedly slew and Vortiger for so doing put them all to death and usurped the Crown Grafton p. 95. Hengist the Saxon begg'd of King Vortiger so much ground as an Ox hide would compass which being granted he cut the Hide into small thongs and with the same measured out a large circuit of ground in Lindsey long after named Thong Castle p. 96. Vortimer caused his Sepulchre of Brass made spirewise to be set in that Port in Kent where the Saxons were commonly wont to arrive and his dead Corps to be laid in it to terrify the Saxons of which Saxons King Arthur in one day with his own hands slew 140 and Edolse at Stonehing with a stake â—o and got safe away to his Castle p. 99. 160. 106. In the Monastery of Bangor in the year five hundred forty six there were more than two thousand Monks that lived by the travail of their hands of whom one Etherfrid King of Northumberland kill'd twelve hundred at one time when they came to pray for the good speed of the Brittans Grafton p. 109. Pope Gregory writing an answer to Austins questions gave this determination That all goods that were given to the Church should be divided into four parts One to the maintenance of the Bishop and his houshould the second to the Clergy the third to the amendment of Churches and the fourth to the reliefe of poor people and works of mercy p. 114. Kenneth Keir King of Scotland commanded all Juglers Minstrels and scoffers to be banished as Vagabonds or else to find some honest occupation to live by p. 116. Elsteda the daughter of King Oswy was gigen by her Father to God with twelve Mannors on which to build twelve Abbeys Grafton p. 122. Glazing was first brought into England by Bennet a Monk about the year six hundred p. 122. Tiberius the Emperor beheaded one that had found out the Art of making Glass malleable saying That that Art would make Gold and other Metals of no value p. 123. Wilfred being deposed from the Arch-bishoprick of York applied himself to the Saxons and taught them fifteen years and instructed them in the Art of Fishing p. 124. In the raign of King Ino King of the West Saxons one Brightwoldus after he had been a long time dead was restored again to life and told many things of great wonder to many men whereby he caused great Alms and deeds of charity to be done Id. p. 127. Eugenius King of Scotland caused the Acts of his Ancestors to be committed to writing and that Historiographers should be found at the common cost Grafton p. 128. Before the Danes came into England in the daies of Brithricus King of the VVest Saxons in the year 779 as men walked in the streets Crosses like unto blood fell upon their clothes and blood like drops of Rain fell from Heaven p. 130. A grant of Land made by Athelstan in this short form I King Athelstan give unto Paulan Odham and Rodham as good and as fair as ever they mine were And thereto witness Maud my wife p. 147. When Dunstan held Ethelred being an Infant over the Font he defiled it with his ordure Whereon Dunstan sware by God and his Mother this child will be unkind to God and his Church Id. p. 160. When Seward Earl of Northumberland being sick of a
of France having taken Cramyris his Eldest Son in battel who had rose in Rebellion against him as an example to all disobedient Children he enclosed him and his wife and Children in a House set it on fire and burned them in it Id. p. 91. Fredigund wife to King Chilperick resting on her bed her husband passing by with a little wand struck her upon the back the Queen not looking up and supposing the King gone a hunâ—ing said Landry why strikest thou me thus the King hearing these words made semblance as though he had not heard them but she perceiving it was the King for fear coâ—trived and procured his death the same day as he came from Hunting Id. p. 109. Brunchild the wife to Segebert the fourth Son of Lotharius the first King of France having been a great stickler in the French affairs and the death of no less than ten Princes was at last by the King and Peers of France condemned to be tied to a Wild Horse-tail by the hair of her head and so to be drawn till she was dead which accordingly was done Id. p. 131. Clodoveus Son of Dagobert King of France in a great dearth caused the Church of St. Dennis which his Father had covered with Plates of Silver to be covered with lead and the Silver given to the relief of the poor Id. p. 151. Aelfrid King of the VVest Saxons being naturally inclined to Incontinency praied that God would send him such a disease that might hinder his lust but not unfit him for the managing he affairs of his Kingdom And he accordingly had the disease called Ficus Fabian Hist 1. part p. 216. A noble man named Hebert having invited Charles the simple King of France to his Castle there treacherously murthered him Lewes the fifth his Son long time after attaining the Crown intends revenge Having convened his Nobles amongst which Hebert was one a Messenger brought him a letter which while he read and smiled his Nobles asked what that letter imported he told them that a Kinsman of his in England had acquainted him that a husbandman inviting his Lord to dinner treacherously slew him and desired to know of him what such a one deserved and since they were thus met he desired their opinion They all and Hebert amongst them adjudged him to a shameful death The King turning to Hebert told him Thou art the man who hast treacherously slain my Father and therefore I Judge thee out of thy own mouth and accordingly he was immediately executed Id. p. 237. King Edward Son of Edgar being slain by his step-mothers command and buried in VVimborn she intending to Visit him by way of Pilgrimage could not by any means make the Horse she rid on come nigh the place of his burial Fabian Hist 1. part p. 255. Robert Duke of Normandy being chosen King of Jerusalem hearing of the death of his Brother VVilliam Rufus King of England minding to succeed him refused Jerusalem but as Authors say for that refusal of providence never prospered after Id. 319. Philip the Eldest Son of Lewes Son of Philip King of France being a youth riding through the streets of Paris for his disport a Hog suddainly started up which frighted his Horse so that he threw him off with so great Violence that he died that night Id. p. 332. Emanuel Emperor of Constantinople when the VVestern Princes about the year one thousand one hundred and fifty went against the Saracens sold them Meal mingled with lime whereof many of the Christian Army perisht 341. King Henry the second returning out of Ireland when on VVhitsunday he was taking horse suddainly appeared unto him a Man of pale and wan colour barefoot in a white Kirtyl and said Sir King Christ greeteth thee well and commandeth thee strictly that no Market or servile work be holden upon the Sunday in the lands of thy Lordship out take what belongeth to the dressing of meat and if thou so dost all shall prosper with thee The King bad the Knight that held his Horse ask him whether he had dreamed this The man replied whether I have dreamed or no take thou heed of my saying that if thou mend not thy life thou shalt shortly hear such things as shall make thee sorry to thy lives end This spoken the man suddainly vanisht and the King not amending himself was unfortunate ever after Fabian Hist p. 349. Epitaphium H. 2. Regis Angli Sufficit hic tumulus cui non suffecerit Orbis Res brevis est ampla cui fuit ampla brevis Rex Henricus eram mihi plurima regna subegi Multiplicique modo Duxque Comesque fui Cui satis ad Votum non â—ssent omnia terrae Climata Terra modo sufficit octo pedum Qui legis haec pensa discrimina mortis in me Humanae speculum conditionis habe Quod potes instanter operare bonuÌ„ quia mundus Transit incautos mors inopina rapit Id. p. 356. Epitaphium Frederici Imper. Si probitas sensus Virtutis gratia census Nobilitas ortûs possent resistere morti Non foret extinctus Fredericus qui jacet intus Fabian Hist 2. Vol. p. 53. In the year of our Lord one thousand two hundred seventy two at Greenwich near London a Lamb was yeaned having two perfect bodies with all their members but one head Id p. 99. In the yeâ—r of our Lord one thousand two hundred eighty six a Woman in Switzerland was delivered of a Child that from the Navâ—l upwards had two compleat bodies and downward was but one and another woman bore a Child whose head and face was like a Man and all the rest of the body like a Lion Boniface the eighth minding to get the Popedom hired one of the Chamberlains to Coelestine the fifth who was a good and holy but simple man in the dead of the night to speak in a reed and say Coelestine if thou wilt be saved renounce this Pomp of the VVorld and serve me as thou didst before He having often heard the voyce took it for a Divine warning resigned the Popedom and would have retired into the VVilderness But Boniface fearing his restauration held him Prisoner and so used him that he shortly after died Id 158. The three wives of the three Sons of Philip the fair King of France which wives were Sisters Daughters to the Duke of Burgoigne were at one time accused of Spouse-breach the two eldest convict and the youngest was cleared the two wives put in Prison and the two paramours hanged The youngest vvas restored to her husband Charles after King of France but from him aftervvards divorced because her Mother vvas Godmother to her husband Fabian Vol. 2. p. 163. 189. In the third year of the raign of Philip the fifth of France the Provost of Paris having in his Prison a Picard a man of great riches vvhich vvas judged to be hanged The said Provost being hired thereunto vvith great Sums of Money took another Innocent Man and put
seria p. 75. The Pope that he might congratulate Charles Cardinal of Lorrain for his great zeal against the Lutherans sent him his letters of thanks and withall the picture of the Virgin with Christ in her Arms being Michael Angelo's most curious Master-piece The Messenger in his journey fell sick and lighting upon a Merchant of Lucca who pretended himself a retainer to the Cardinal though he was for injuries received a most bitter Enemy to him delivers the Popes letter and present to him to present to the Cardinal who undertakes it and being arrived at Paris gets a â—imner that bore ill will to the Cardinal to draw a Picture of equal bigness in which instead of the Virgin Mary were pourtrayed the Cardinal the Queen his Niece the Queen Mother and the Duke of Guise his wife all stark naked their Armes about his neck and their Legs twisted in his this being put in the case of the other with the Popes lâ—tters were delivered to one of the Cardinals Secretaries while he was with the King in Council But returning having read the letter he reserved the opening the case till the next day where having invited those Ladies and many Nobles and Cardinals they found themselves miserably deceived and disappointed and exceedingly ashamed Id. p. 39. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century XIII THE posterity of Seth invented the science of the Celestial Bodies and to the end that their inventions should not be defaced by the general destruction by fire and water which Adam had foretold they made two pillars the one of Brick the other of Stone and ingraved in them both the things they had invented that the Brick might outstand the fire and the Stone the water That of Brick is in the Country of Lycia to this day Josephus Jewish Antiq p. 6. The demonstrations in Astronomy had never been attained by the Antediluvian Patriarchs had they not lived at least six hundred years For the great year is accomplisht in tâ—at number Id. p. 8. The Jews who descended from Isaac are Circumcised the eighth day But the Arabians who are descended from Ismael the thirteenth year as he was Id. p. 17. We may not marvel that the Israelites passed through the Red Sea since not long time ago God thinking it good the Sea of Pamphilia divided it self to give way to Alexander King of Macedon's Souldiers having no other way to destroy the Empire of Persia Josephus p. 52. Jephtae Sacrificed his Daughter for a Burnt-offering which oblation of his was not conformable to the aw nor acceptable to God Id. p. 120. The Samaritans who were transplanted from Persia into the Land of Israel as often as they find the Jews in prosperity call them their Cousins but if they perceive their fortunes to be on the declining hand they abjure their consanguinity and renounce any lawful parentage or amity and say they were planted in the Country and drawn thither from a forreign Nation Id. 244. and 304. Alexander meeting Jaddus the high Priest fell prostrate on his face and adored not him but God who in that likeness had formerly appeared to him and encouraged him to the Conquest of Persia and received the Jews with much favour when all his Souldiers intended and supposed he did so to their destruction Id. p. 286. When the Law was translated by the seventy Interpreters Ptolemy took great pleasure in the reading of it and askt of Demetrius how it came to pass that neither Poet nor Historiographer had made mention of it notwithstanding that in it self it was so admirable To whom Demetrius gave this answer That no man was so hardy to touch that work by reason that it was Divine and every way admirable assuring him also that certain men t at had set their hands thereto had been punished by God for so doing As Theopompus who intended to reduce certain Contents of that Law had been distracted for more than thirty days and that having some intermission he appeased God by prayer conjecturing what was the cause of his malady Moreover he was certified by a Vision that appeared to him in his sleep that this inconvenience befel him because he had too curiously searched into Sacred and Divine matters and had intended to communicate the same with profane men from which enterprise since he had defisted he recovered his right wits again He likewise insinuated further That Theodestes the Tragick Poet intending to make mention in some of his Poems of a History written in the sacred Scriptures was strucken blind and acknowledging the cause thereof to proceed from his audacious presumption he was restored to his sight after he had appeased Gods displeasure Id. 294. Hircanus with other Nobles that wisht him not well being invited by Ptolemy to a Banquet or Feast the other Nobles to put a trick upon him laid all their bones on the Table before Hircanus and suborned Tryphon the Kings Jester to say to the King See whaâ— store of bones are before Hircanus Hereby you may conjecture how his Father hath fleeced Syria as he hath bared these bones of flesh The King laughing asked Hircanus how he came by so many bones before him Not without cause said he O King for Dogs devour the flesh with the bones as these do but men cast away the flesh and eat the bones as I do because I am a man Joseph p. 301. Four thousand Jews on a Sabbath day not resisting the stopping their mouths were buried in a Cave that they might not violate the Sabbaâ—h But Matthias instructed them better and afterwards prevaileâ— with them to make resistance and fight with their Enemies if assaulted on the Sabbath day Id. p. 30â— In the one hundred and sixtieth before Christ the Temple was laid desolate be Antiochus and continued so three years and was then restored to its former use and was solemnly dedicated by Judas Maccabeus the Son of Matthias and a Festival instituted for eight days which our Saviour observed notwithstanding it was instituted without Divine appointment which Feast was called the Feast of Lights because as Josephus conjectures so great felicity began to shine as a light contrary to all hope Joseph p. 309. Polybius writes that Antiochus Epiphanes was taken away by a violent sickness through Gods justice for that he would have spoiled the Temple of Diana in Persia but Josephus chargeth it on the Sacrilege he committed in the Temple at Jerusalem This he did the other he only intended Id. p. 311. Eleazar Judas Brother seeing a huge Elephant armed with Royal Trappings and supposing that the King Antiochus was upon the same he ran against him with a mighty courage and after he â—ad slain divers of them that were about the Elephant and scattered the rest he thrust his sword into the belly of the beast and wounded him to the death so that the Elephant falling upon Eleazar slew him with the weight thereof Joseph Ant. p. 312. Onius the Son of the high Priest seeing that the King
the Monastery of Pontiniacâ— and there excommunicates his suffâ—agan Bishops thence the King by threatning otherwise to expel all the Monks of that Order out of hi Kingdom gets him banish'd and sends all his kindred and well-willers out of England Becket had got the French â—ing and the Pope to back him but Lucius the Anti-Pope dying and Barborossa the Emperor being no friend to the Pope the King and Emperor treated to deal with the Cardinals to choose another Pope which the Pope fearing first made the Kings of England and France friends and then used the mediation of the French King to make up the difference between the King and Becket which after two or three attempts in vain Becket still adding in his submissions to the King Salvo Honore Dei which the King justly disliked because whatever displeased him he would affirm was against Gods Honour yet at last were made friends and the Arh-Bishop sent home but not fully restored till he behaved himself quietly a while at Canterbury which he promised but contrarily he immediately excommunicates the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishops of London and Salisbury and all that had any hand in the young Kings Coronation they complain to the King who was exceedingly troubled and cursed the time that he made him Arch-â—ishop or sent for him home and withal added that it was his chance ever to do for unthankful men otherwise some or other would have made this proud Priâ—st an example to all such troublesome pâ—rturbers of his Kingdom and State four Knights hearing these word resolve to kill him come to Canterbury on Innocents day and after â—hey had treated with him to be pliable to the Kings pleasure but to no purpose at evening they enter the Church and on the steps going up to the Quire they kill'd him The Monks immediately bury his body which was afterwards taken up and layd in a most sumptuous shrine in the East end of the Church at Canterbury The Pope hearing of this Massacre excommunicates the authors and consenters The King was fain to purge himself by Oath yet could not be absolved before he had done this strange Penance First he should pray devoutly at the shrine of this new Martyr Secondly that he should be whipt in the Chapter House receiving of every Monk one lash Thirdly that he should maintain two hundred Soldiers for the space of one year at Jerusalem and lastly revoke the declaration publisht at Clarendon that originally gave the occasion of this murther All this such were those times the King was fain to perform Bp. Godw. lives of the Bps. p. 95. Giraldas Cambrensis speaking concerning Baldwin the fourtâ— Archbishop of Canterbury gives him this Character that he was a better Monk than Abbot Bishop or Arch-bishop for which cause the â—ope in a certain letter greeted him thus Urban the Servant of the Servants of God to the most fervent Monk the zealous Abbot the Lukewarm Bishop and careless Arch-bishop greeting This Bishop would needs attend King Richard the first into the Holy Land and died at the Siege of Acon and gave all his goods to be divided amongst the Soldiers Id. p. 1â—0 King Richard the first being taken Prisoner by Leopald Arch-duke of Austria at what time the Sea of Canterbury was void effectually by his letters endeavoured and prevailed that Hubert Walter who had waited on him in his Warrs in the Holy land and was then Bishop of Salisbury might be advanced to the Arch-bishoprick While his Pall was fetching from Rome he went to Merton and professed himself a Monk He prevailed for a quarter part of the Revenues both of Clergy and Laity for one year which with the Plate and Ornaments of the Church then sold were to pay the Kings ransome being 150000 Marks The King at his return made him Lord Chancellor and Chief Justice of England and Governour of all his dominions who being before Arch-bishop and the Popes Legate wanted no Authority that was possible to be laid upon him In two years after his preferment he gatâ—ered to the Kings use 1100000 Marks devized the â—ssize of Bread Weights and Measures for Wine Oyl and Corn was a great House-keeper buâ—lt a Monastery at Derham in Northfolk where he was born Walled and Moated so as the Water encompassed the Tower of London encreased the Revenues of his Sea and procured divers privileges to it built a Chappel at Lambeth by the Monks of Canterburies consent hardly obtained and that not without this express condition that no Bishops should there be Consecrated nor Abbot admitted nor Order administred He lived twelve years Arch-bishop both beloved of Prince and people blamed for nothing but ambition in holding so many places of power Which temporal Offices on the Popes command he laid down divers years before his death which happened July 15th 1205. Id. p. 105. King John and the Monks of Canterbury rejoyced at Huberts death of whom it seems they stood in some Awe the King when he first heard of it used this expression Methinks quoth he I am now indeed King of England But the Event declared they had no great cause of Joy for upon a difference amongst the Monks who had made two Elections the Pope voiding both imposed upon the See of Canterbury one Stephen Langton a man of great worth had he orderly entred The King forbad him entrance into England the Pope hereon interdicts the whole realm during the time of which all divine service ceaâ—ed except baptism auricular Confession and administration of the Lords supper to such as lay at point of death and at last particularly excommunicates the King himself which he little regarded till he perceived the French King ready to Invade him and his own Subjects to desert him Whereupon he was necessitated to comply with the Pope to resign his â—rown and take it from him paying a yearly pension of a thousand Marks and at last was poysoned by a Monk Having first admitted the Arch-bishop into his Land and restored him his revenues the Arch bishop calls a Convocation at Osnias whither came a young man shewing the marks of wounds in his hands feet and side professing himself to be Jesus Christ and was accompanied by two Women whereof one professed herself the Virgin Mary the other Mary Magdalen But this Counterfeit Christ was for his pains really crucified Presently after he translates the bones of Becket with so great expense at the solemnity that neither he nor four of his successors were able to recover the debt it cast his See and Church into He first divided the Bible into Chapters in such sort as we now account them and died July the ninth 1228. Bp. Godw. p. 108. In the Raign of Henry the third many Italians had possessed themselves of the best benefices in England which being much spitted at certain mad fellows took upon them by force to thresh out their Corn every where and gave it away to the poor as also to rob and spoil them of
hundred and nineteen one Bernard Calvert of Andover rode from St. Georges Church in Southwark to Dover from thence passed by Barge to Calice in France and from thence returned back to St. Georges Church in the same day setting out about three of the Clock in the morning and returned about eight of the Clock in the evening fresh and lusty Sr. R. Baker p. 605. Sr. Francis Michel a chief assistant to Sr. George Montpesson was degraded and made to ride with his face to the Horse Tayl through the City of London in the year one thousand six hundred twenty and one Id. p. 605. When King Charles the first went into Spain Gondamer lying here Embassador received three hundred pounds of one Lady to be Groom of the Stool when the Princess should come and of another a round sum to be Mother of the Maids and of divers others the like for other places p. 605. George Abbot Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shooting at a Deer the Arrow glancing kill'd a man Id. 615. In the fifth year of Queen Mary within a mile of Notingham so great a Thunder happened that it beat down all the Houses and Churches thereabouts many were hurt and five or six men were slain and yet their flesh and skin not perished and Hail-stones fell fifteen inches about Id. p. 466. In the second year of the Raign of King James a strange Accident hapned to the terror of all Murderers which was this One Anne VVaters enticed by a lover of hers consented to have her Husband strangled whom they buried secretly under a Dunghil in the Cow-House whereupon the man being mist by his Neighbours and his wife making shew of wondering what was become of him it pleased God that â—ne of the Inhabitants of the Town Dreamed â—hat his Neighbour Waters was strangled and â—uried under the Dunghil in the Cow-House and upon declaring of his Dream search being made the dead body was found The wife was apprehended confessed the Fact and was burned Id. p. 614. In the year one thousand six hundred and thirteen on the seventeenth of April in the Parish of Standish in Lancaster a Maiden Child was born having four Legs four Arms two Bellies joyned to one Back one Head with two Faces the one before the other behind like the Picture of Janus Sr. R. Baker p. 615. In the year one thousand six hundred and thirteen on the twenty sixt day of June in the Parish of Christs Church in Hamptshire one John Hitckil a Carpenter lying in bed with his wife and a young child was himself and his child both burned to death with a sudden Lightning no fire appearing outwardly upon him and yet lay burning for the space almost of three days till he was quite consumed to ashes p. 615. In the year one thousand six hundred and seven the Sea broke into Somersetshire and Glocestershire and drowned eighty Persons and did twenty thousand pounds worth of hurt at which stoud Hares Foxes Dogs and other several Beasts of several kinds and natures getting up to the top of the Hills in the midst of the waters were peaceable together p. 611. The twenty seventh day of May one thousand five hundred eighty two a rich Merchants Daughter of Antwerp came to a most fearful and lamentable End she being invited to a wedding and inending to shew her self in her greatest gallantry sent for two Landresses to dress her Ruffs then greatly in Fashion who bringing them home as well drest as possibly they could yet not to the satisfaction of her foolish curiosity she in great rage began to swear curse and ban and t rowing the Ruffs on the ground wished the Devil might take her when she wore any of them again In which time by Gods permission the Devil in the shape of a Gallant Suitor came to her and questioning the cause of her rage she told him how she was abused in setting her Ruffs He undertook to please her drest them who liking them put them on and looking in the Glass was very well pleased but while she was so doing the Divel kist her and writhing her neck kill'd her Great preparations were made for her Burial and when four men went to move the Coffin they could not then six tried but could not they opened the Coffin and instead of the body which was gone there was seen sitting therein a black Cat very lean and deformed setting of great Ruffs and frizling of Hair to the great fear and wonder of all the beholders and inâ—tance of Goâ—s displeasure against Pride and fantastical Curiosity Peter Stubs Anatomy of Abuses p. 44. The eighth day of February one thousand five hundred seventy eight eight Citizens of Swaben whose names were Adam Giebens George Kepel c. being the Lords day would needs go to a Tavern and so came to the house of one Anthony Hage a pious person early in the morning and called for store of all sorts of Wine The Host told them they should have none till Divine Service were past and counselled them to go to Church But they all except Adam Giebens told him they loathed that exercise And when the good Host would give them none and commanded his Servants they should not he went to Sermon They fell to Swearing and Cursing and wishing the Divel should break their necks if they went thence till they had Wine straightway the Divel in the shape of a young man appeared bringing in his hand a Flagon of Wine and demanding why they caroused not and drank to them saying Good Fellows be merry ye shall have Wine enough for you seem lusty lads and I hope you will pay me well who inconsiderately answered they would pay him or else they would gage their necks yea their bodies and Souls Thus they continued swilling till they could hardly see one another At last the Divel their Host told them they must pay the Shot whereat their hearts waxed cold But the Divel comforting them said Be of good Cheer for now you must drink boyling Lead Pitch and Brimstone with me in the pit of Hell for evermore Hereupon he made their Eyes like Flames of Fire and as broad as Saucers Then began they to call for mercy but it was too late and e're they could speak again the Divel prevented them brake their necks and threw horrible Flames of Fire out of their meâ—â—â—â— Thus all these except Adam Giebens who counselled them to hear the Sermon and gave an account of the whole passage miserably perished and are thus recorded as a terrible instance of Gods severe displeasure against prophane drunkards Stubs Anatomy p. 78. The fourth day of July one thousand five hundred and eighty two drunken Varlets called at an Inn and sate swilling so long in the Town of Nakershofew in Almain till they were as drunk as Swâ—aes Then one of them pouring forth Wine carowsed to his Fellow the other pledging him asked to whom he should drink quoth this Varlet drink to God This done he
Husband brings a Portion to his Wife in the presence of the Friends of both parties which she immediately gives to her Parents for their care and cost in breeding which if they have need the Parents may spend if not they give again to the daughter to give to her Sons or spend at her pleasure So that amongst them he is held to be most rich that hath most daughters Juan Gonçcales Hist de la China p. 44. In the Provinces of China near Tartary they have this remarkable custome Their Law requires all men and women to marry by such an age or else to profess Religion and live single Now those that can match themselves may but for those that cannot they have this Provision The Governour and Viceroy in each Province appoint a certain time and Chief City at which and to which all those who are willing to marry may and do come both men and women where twelve principal men are appointed Judges before whom they present themselves who take their names and qualities of their persons and substance wherewith to endow their Wives and then of the number and if they find more of the one Sex than t e other they cast Lots and the supernumeraries are reserved to be first provided the next year Six of these Judges divide the men into three parts The very Rich the Indifferent the Poor The other six Judges the mean while divide the Maids into the Beautiful the indifferent the unhansome Which done the Judges give the beautiful to the very rich and they give what the Judges appoint to them The indifferent rich to the indifferents hansome who pay nothing for them And the unhansome to the poor men with the money the rich paid divided by equal portions Thus in one day they are all Married though paradventure not all well contented Id. p. 46. The King of China besides his Queen makes choice of thirty Concubines of the most beautiful Ladies in his Kingdom who live in the Royal palace while he lives and when he dies takes this care for them that after his obsequies are past his successor doth cause these thirty Concubines to be most curiously and rich arrayed and then placed in a large Hall so vailed that none may know them or see their faces Which done there enter into the Hall thirty of the Principal Noble men whom the deaâ— King nominated in his Will either according to their age or nomination and each of them takes one of those Ladies so vailed and accâ—utred by the hand and so leads her to his own house and there keeps her for his VViâ—e and highly respects her having a yearly constant allowance out of the Royal Palace for her honourable maintenance Gonçales Hist de la China p 46. Pope Julius the third being in the heat of Summer walking in his â—hamber without his Gown and Robes two Cardinals coming to Visit him drew back but he called them into his Chamber and told them that their Robes must needs be a great burden to them who had walked in the Sun since he could not endure his in the shade and therefore commanded them and compelled them though unwilling to lay aside theirs and to walk with him in Cuerpo Having thus walked a little while the Pope asked them What would our Romans say if they should see us thus walk through the streets of the City They ansvvered They vvould esteem us Rogues and hardly suffer us to pass from them vvithout ignominious usage To whom the Pope replies Behold my Brethren how much we are beholding to our Garments that defend us from Injuries and procure to us so great an esteem of Holiness Melander p. 33. When Tecelius was sent by Pope Leo the tenth with his Indulgences into Germany a certain Saxon Carrier came to him and asked him if he could grant him pardon for not only those sins he had already but those he should commit thereafter and told him if he could he would give him ten Crowns The Monk paused upon it and told him it was a difficult case but yet if he would give thirty his power from Pope Leo did extend to pardon which was done Tecelius rejoycing at the purchase he had made returning with his monies this Carrier way-lays him Robs him and went into the town Tecelius was going to who being come accuseth him to the Magistrate the Carrier pleads that he had his pardon and so produceth the Popes bull that he had from Tecelius The Magistrate gives Credit to it Tecelius hath the worst of it and is laught and hist from the bar with contempt and disgrace Otho Meland Joca seria p. 55. Hemingius a worthy Divine relates this Story of a Woman that being grievously troubled with sore Eyes applies her self to a Scholar for remedy and promiseth him if he could cure her a good reward The Scholar though utterly ignorant yet out of hope of the reward undertakes it He takes a piece of paper and therein writes Characters never before seen or heard of and under them in great Letters The Divel pull out thy Eyes and fill the holes with Dung This Paper fo ded up and sowed in a Cloth he commands the Woman to wear abouâ— her neck she obeys and was cured About a year or two after the Woman had a great desire to see what it was she wore opens the bag causeth the Paper to be read is exceedingly displeased at it throws away the Paper and her distemper in her Eyes again returns Otho Mela. Joca seria p. 91. Jacobus Latomus who had written against Luther being near unto death caused to be called to him some of those they call Magistri Nostri at Paris and said with grief and deep sighs I have therefore call'd you together that I might testifie unto you that the Doctrine of Luther which you so furiously persecute is the true Doctrine of Christ the Apostles and the Church and that which you defend is wicked and divelish and that for writings which against my conscience knowingly and wittingly I have put forth I am a damned wretch When they amazedly beheld him some of the wiser sort advised him not to despair of Gods mercy though he judged he had done amiss He discourses to them concerning the banishments punishments and death that through his means many had suffered adds In vain do you labour to comfort me for I am sure I am damned and with this word ended his wretched life Otho Meland 107. In the year one thousand five hundred twenty six two brethren whose names were Thomas and Leonard Schykers living near a City called Mullegas met on the seventh of February at the House of their Father with other of their Opinions being Anabaptists and having spent the night in Enthusiastical discourses and gestures early in the Morning Thomas commanded his brother Leonard to kneel down before his Father and the rest of the Company who advised him that he would not do any thing unfitting he replyed nothing
could be done there but what was the Will of the heavenly Father and suddainly drawing one his Sword cut off his Brothers head which done while the company astonished were lamenting he ran forth into the street and cried The day of the Lord is at hand and that great things were done that Morning and the will of the heavenly Father was done The fact being divulged he was apprehended condemned and therefore justly executed Id. p. 124. A certain aged Inn keeper of a considerable estate who had only one child and that a daughter entertained a stranger into his service who was poor but industrious and having obtained the good VVill of his Masters daughter but being poor though otherwise respected by his Master could not gain her Fathers consent The Host wife and daughter going to the Baths left the administration of his House to him It happened the first night to come a Merchant whom he kill'd buried in the Stable sold his Horse and cloths and took all he had no one living besides himself conscious to it The Master returning found all things to his good content Not long after he shews his Master a Letter which he pretended was sent from his Friends which acquainted him that his Father was dead and they had sent him eighty Crowns to furnish him with Horse and other things for his Journey to look after what estate was left him He dâ—sired leave to go and tell his Master that he would not buy a Horse nor carry so much money with him but left it with his Master and said he would rather live in that City than any where else He goes returns and feigning things concerning what was left him he puts the rest of his stollen money into his Masters hands who hereby was perswaded to graâ—ifie his daughters desire and gave way for her to marry him and his Father in Law dying enjoyed all his goods and living in good repute for many years and arrived to the chiefest Magistracy in that City but being perpetually tormented with the terror of his own conscience being one day sitting amongst his brethren the Magistrates in judgement on a Murderer he having given his Sentence to the Condemnation of him he arose acquainted them with his Murder and Theft and desired the same Sentence to be passed against him They supposed him distempered with Melancholy but he replied That though they judged him innocent and as to other gross offences he was faultless yet of this he was guilty and if they would send they should find the bâ—nes of the Merchant in the Stable They sent found him so and condemned him who went most willingly to his Execution where with the other he was beheaded Otho Meland p. 128. A Silesian Noble man having inviâ—ed guests and the hour of Dinner come his provisions ready his Guests excused themselves at which being provoked to passion he brake forth into these Words Let all the Divels come if no man will This spoken he went to Church and heard the Preachers Sermon But being there behold the Guests he wisht for came in monstrous and strange shapes on Horse-back and bid a Servant of the Noble mans go tell his Master that his guests were come The Servant full of consternation goes to the Church acquaints his Master who consults the Minister and by his advice all his Family went forth of the House and forgot a Childe lying in the Cradle which they brought not with them The Divels began to keep revel-rout to look out of the VVindows in the shapes of Bears and VVolves of cats and men to hold forth the Cups of VVine and dishes of meats These when the neighbours and Minister and others saw Oh said the Father where is my poor infant Immediately one of the Divels took up the Childe in his Armes brought him to the VVindow and shewed it to them The amazed Noble man being sollicitous for the Child had a Servant that feared God whom he askt what he should doe the good Servant replied I will commit my life into Gods hand and in the name of God go in and by his help bring forth the child His Master bad him go and God go with thee and help thee and confirm thy courage The Minister and people praying to him the Servant went in and coming before the Chamber in which the Devils were he fell upon his knees and commended himself to God and opened the door and saw the Devils in horrible shapes sitting standing walking creeping and all running towards him cryed out Ho ho fellow what dost thou here He notwithstanding being encouraged by Divine assistance thus bespake the Devil that had the Child in his Armes Deliver me the Child To whom he answered No by no means the Child is mine bid thy Master come and fetch it himself To whom the Servant said I discharge the duty of my place in which God hath set me and know that what I do in my office will be acceptable to God And therefore by vertue of my office and by the help and in the name and power of Jesus Christ I take from thee this Infant and restore it to his Father and so took the Child and carried it from him They answered nothing but crying our Oh Knave Oh Knave leave the Child or we will tear thee in pieces he not regarding their threats came away and brought the Child safe to his Father The Devils after a few dayes disappeared and the whole family returned quietly into the House Otho Mel. p. 129. ex Sel. in Genesin When Tecelius came into Mesnia with the Popes Indulgences preaching in the Morning he promised his Auditors that in the afternoon he would shew them a most excellent and rare Relique to wiâ— a Quill of the Angel Michaels Wing which the Devil in the contest with him mentioned Rev. 12. pulled out The School-master of the place hearing this Impudent lye and dining with Tecelius at the Ministers House who having laid his case in which his Quill was in the VVindow the School-master took it out privily and filled the case with Coles Tecelius returning to Preach and magnificently speaking of his relique when he opened the case found the Quill gone and Coles in the Room The Devil helpt him at this loss to invent this lye Friends saith he I promised you to shew the Quill of St. Michaels wing but have mistaken the case and instead thereof have brought that in which are some of the Coles with which that glorious and blessed Martyr Saint Lawrence was broiled to death on a Gridiron Otho Melander Joca seria p. 184. About one hundred and thirty years since tâ—ere was in Hatzfeld in Hassia a bold and daring Taylor that having kill'd a Priest was excommunicated and forced to flee his Country he going to Rome for absolution from the Pope feigned that he had kill'd two and paying the price obtained the Popes letters of pardon for the murdering two Priests Returning with these home he made his
Thieves and perjured persons blind if it touch their Eyes And in Ireland there is a Lake into which if you put a pole or stake what 's above water will continue wood what in the water will be stone what still in the ground will be converted to Iron Polycronicon fol. 14 17 19 20 29 30 36. In the first year of Decius the Emperor in the year of our Lord two hundred fifty four the seven sleepers began to sleep in the mount Caelius and so slept two hundred years and rose about the last of Theodosius and were known to sleep to long by the old monies they had about them Polycronicon f. 67. Pope Leo the sixth when a Woman on Christmas day kissed his hand he was assaulted with temptation to uncleanness he thereupon cut off his hand and had iâ— again by miracle restored Id. f. 180. Cunebertus King of Lombardy consulting with one of his Secretaries how he might kill his Knight Aldo was troubled with the humming of a great Fly whose foot he cut off with a Knife Aldo suspecting nothing coming to Court was met by a halting man who said Beware Aldo if thou come to Court the King will kill thee Whereupon he fled to Saint Romans Church and took Sactuary and when the King asked him why he did so Aldo told him that he was warned by a halting man that he would kill him The King perceived it was an Evil Spirit whose foot he had cut off in the shape of a Fly and recovered Aldo to grace Id. fol. 216. Of Adhelme Bishop of Sherbone it is written that when he was tempted in his flesh he took upon him this Martyrdom that he would hold with him in his bed a fair Maid as long as he was saying the Psalter from the beginning to the end The same Adhelme having said Mass at Rome he put back his Chesible supposing his Servant had been there to have took it and the Sun-beams held it up from falling And baptizing a Child that was Fathered on Pope Sergius he demanded of the Child which was but nine dayes old if Sergius had begotten him and the Child answered that the Pope was Innocent Id. f. 213. Charles the Son of Pipin King of France having seized on much of the Churches possâ—ssions after his death an Angel shewed Eucherius Bishop of Orleance how for so doing he was tormented body and Soul in Hell then by the warning of Eucherius the Abbot of Saint Denis and Pipinas his Priest went to Charles his grave and turned off the â—tone and saw a great Dragon fly out of the grave but there was no body found Id. f. 215. When the Pope had commanded St. Bennets body to be restored to the Mount Cassin the Monks of Florence wept and fastâ—d and prayed that the body might abide with them and their prayers were heard so that the messengers that were sent for it were stricken stark blind Polycron f. 218. One Gingulphus of Burgogne left his Wife because of her spouse-breach and was afterwards slain by the Clarke that kept her When he was dead many miracles were done by him but his wife spake evil of those miracles and said When Gingulphus my husband doth miracles my Arse shall sing and so afterwards as often as she spake her lower end would sing with a foul noise Id. ibid. Wâ—en Rollo the Dane besieged Cornutum a City in Italy the Citizens trusted not in their Walls nor in their strength but they took our Ladies Smock that Charles the bald had brought with other reliques from Constantinople and set this Smock upon a Pinnacle as if it were a banner the Enemies made game and shot at it and were immediately smitten with blindness and the City thereby delivered Id. f. 228. Fifteen men and three women led a Dance in St. Magnus Church-yard at Christmas night the Priest offended at them though his daughter was one of the Company prayed that they might continue so doing for twelve months and accordingly they did without meat or drink or rest Id. f. 247. When William the Conqueror would have deprived Wulstan of his Bishoprick of VVorcester to have placed in a Norman VVulstan took his pastoral and pitcht it in the hard stone at St. Edward the Kings feet that lay there in his grave that none but himself could take it out saying A better man than thou art tooke it to mee and I take it to him again Take it away now if thou canst Id. f. 273. Geoffrey Plantagenet Earl of Anjow Father to Henry fitz Empress King of England came of the Children of a Countess that was married only for fairness of body She would seldome come to church and then would not stay the Mystery of the Mass which her Husband taking notice of appointed four Knights to hold her in the Church whereupon she threw of the mantle they held her by and left two sons that were under the right-side of the mantle and with two other Sons that were under the left-side flew out of the church window and was never seen more Polycron p. 294. Columbus having knowledg in Astronomy and being in a strait for want of victuals together wi h his whole army and foreseeing an Eclipse of the moon within few dayes to happen threatned the Indians he would send infinite plagues amongst them if they did not speedily â—câ—â—re them in token whereof they should at such a time see the moons light taken from them which they at first slighted but when they saw that the moon began to be darkned and grow so more and more and being ignorant of the Cause thereof they not only sent them supplies of victuals but threw themselves at Columbus feet and asked forgiveness Rowland Judicial Astrol p. 48. One being told by a Scholar that he should have his brains beaten out was hereupon so wary of himself that he would not lye in a House for fear the Roof should fall upon his head resolving to lye in a Tent. But that resolution lasted not long for he durst not trust himself there for fear the cross Pales should fall on his head Then he resolved to lye under some Tree but then he doubted lest in a windy night the Tree should fall on him He durst not go into a Town lest the Tyles should crack his crown so that whatsoever place he went into he was fearful of himself at last walking in the heat and putting off his Hat having a bald head a Bird with a Shell-fish in â—is claws let it fall and so beat out his brains Id. p. 189. 'T is put upon Chrysostome that he affirmes that in the East in a City called Seth near the Ocean there was a Society of men Twelve in number Students in Astrology who learning out of Balaams prophecy Numb 24.17 That a Star was to appear gave themselves from year to year to observe the Heavens and to wait for its appearance and for continuation of that observation did at the death of any of the