Creature of absolute and common Concernment without which we should be burnt with the thirst and buried with the filth of our own bodies GABRIEL GOODMAN Son of Edward Goodman Esq was born at Rythin in thâ—…s County afterwards Doctor of Divinity in Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge and Dean of VVestminster where he was fixed for full forty years though by his own parts and his friends power he might have been what he would have been in the Church of England Abigail said of her Husband Nabal is his name and folly is with him But it may be said of this worthy Dean Goodman was his name and goodness was in his nature as by the ensuing Testimonies will appear 1. The Bible was translated into VVelsh on his cost as by a note in the Preface thereof doth appear 2. He founded a Schoole-house with a competent salary in the Town of his Nativity as also erected and endowed an Almes-House therein for twelve poore people 3. He repaired the House for the Minister there called the Warden of Rythin furnishing it with Plate and other Utensils which were to descend to his Successors 4. He purchased a fair House with Land thereunto at Chiswick in Middlesex where with his own hands he set a fair Row of Elmes now grown up to great beauty and height for a retiring place for the Masters and Scholars at Westminster in the heat of Summer or any time of Infection If these Lands at this Day be not so profitably employed as they were by the Donor piously intended it is safer to bemoan the sad effect than accuse the causers thereof There needs no other Testimony of his Honesty and Ability than that our English Nestor the Lord Treasurer Cecil made him one of the Executors of his Will to dispose of great sums to charitable uses which Trust he most faithfully discharged He died in the year 1601. and is buried in the Collegiate Church of Westminster whereof he so well deserved as of all England Mr. Cambden performing his Perambulation about it on his expences Sir HUGH MIDDLETON Son of Richard Middleton was born at Denbigh in this County and bred in London This is that worthy Knight who hath deserved well of London and in it of all England If those be recounted amongst Davids worthies who breaking through the Army of the Philistines fetcht water from the Well of Bethlehem to satisfie the longing of David founded more on fancy than necessity how meritorious a work did this worthy man perform who to quench the thirst of thousands in the populous City of London fetcht water on his own cost more than 24. miles encountering all the way with an Army of oppositions grapling with Hills strugling with Rocks fighting with Forrests till in defiance of difficulties he had brought his project to perfection But Oh whaâ—… an injury was it unto him that a potent Person and idle Spectator should strike in Reader I could heartily wish it were a falshoâ—…d what I report and by his greatness possess a moity of the profit which the unwearied endeavours of the foresaid Knight had purchased to himself The Farewell I heartily wish this County may find many like Robert Eari of Leicester by his bounty much advancing the building of a new Church in Denbigh who may willingly contribute their Charity for the repairing of all decayed Churches therein Yea may it be happy in faithful and able Ministers that by their pains they may be built up in the Faith of the Lord. FLINT-SHIRE FLINT-SHIRE It taketh the name from Flint formerly an eminent place therein But why Flint was so named will deservedly bear an enquiry the rather because I am informed there is scarce a Flint stone to be found in the whole shire An eminent Antiquary well known in these parts Reader I must carry my Author at my back when I write that which otherwise will not be believed hath informed me it was first called Flit-Town because the people Flitted or removed their habitations from a smal Village hard by to and under a Castle built there by King Edward the first Afterwards it was called Flint Town or Flint to make it more sollid in the prononciation Now although sometimes Liquids are melted out of a word to supple it to turn the better on the tongues end It will hardly be presidented that ever the sturdy Letter N. was on that or any account interjected into the middle of an original word But it is infidelity not to believe what is thus traditioned unto us It hath the Sea on the North Shropshire on the South Cheshire on the East and Denbigh-shire on the west thereof the smallest County in Wales whereof the Natives render this reason That it was not handsomly in the power of King Edward the first who made it a Shire to enlarge the Limits thereof For the English Shires Shropshire and Cheshire he would not discompose and on the Welsh side he could not well extend it without prejudice to the Lord Marchers who had Potestatem vitae necis in the adjacent Territories the King being unwilling to resume and they more unwilling to resign their respective Territories If any ask why so small a parcel of ground was made a Shire let them know that every foot therein in Content was ten in Concernment because it was the passage into North Wales Indeed it may seem strange that Flint the Shire Town is no Market Town no nor Saint Asaph a City qua sedes Episcopi till made so very late But this is the reason partly the vicinity of Chester the Market generaâ—… of these parts partly that every village hath a Market in it self as affording all necessary Commodities Nor must we forget that this County was parcel of the Pallatinate of Chester paying two thousand Marks called a Mize at the change of every Earl of Chester until the year of our Lord 1568. For then upon the occasion of one Thomas Radford committed to prison by the Chamberlain of Chester Flint-shire saith my Author revolted I dare say disjoyned it self from that County Pallatine and united it self to the Principalities of Wales as conceiving the same the more advantagious Proverbs Mwy nag â—…n bwa yro Ynghaer That is more then one Yugh-Bow in Chester Modern use applieth this Proverb to such who seize on other folks goods not with intent to steal but mistaken with the similitude thereof to their own goods But give me leave to conjecture the original hereof seeing Cheshire-men have been so famous for Archery Princes ELIZABETH the seventh Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Elenor was born at Ruthland Castle in this County a place which some unwarily confound with Rythin Town in Denbigh shire This Castle was anciently of such receipt that the King and his Court were lodged therein yea a Parliament or something equivalent was kept here or hereabouts seeing we have the Statutes of Ruthland on the same token the year erroneously printed in the
20 Fr. Lamplough a. ut prius  21 Ioh. Lamplough ut prius  22 Hen. Curwen ar ut prius  23 Chri. Dacre ar ut prius  24 Wilfr Lawson ar  Per Pale Arg. and S. a Chev. counterchanged 25 Ioh. Dalston ar ut prius  26 Ioh. Midleton ar   27 Geo. Salkeld ar ut prius  28 Ioh. Dalston ar ut prius  29   30 Rich. Louther ar ut prius  31 Hen. Curwen 〈◊〉 ut prius  32 Chr. Pickering ar  Ermin a Lion Rampent Azure Crowned Or. 33 Ioh. Southwike a   34 Will. Musgrave a. ut prius  35 Ger. Louther ar ut prius  36 Ioh. Dalston ar ut prius  37 Lau. Salkeld ar ut prius  38 Chri. Dalston ar ut prius  39 Wilfri Lawson ut prius  40 Tho. Salkeld ar ut prius  41 Ios. Penington ar ut prius  42 Nich. Curwen ar ut prins  43 Will. Orfenâ—…r ar   44 Edm. Dudley ar  Or a Lion rampant duble queve Vert. 45 Will. Hutton ar prim Jac. ut prius  JAC. REX   Anno   1 Will. Hutton ar ut prius  2 Ioh Dalston ar ut prius  3 Chri. Pickeâ—…ing a. ut prius  4 Wilf Lauson m. ut prius  5 Chri. Pickering m. ut prius  6 Hen. Blencow ar  Sable on a Bend 3 Chaplets G. 7 Will. Hutton m ut prius  8 Ios. Penington ar ut prius  9 Chr. Pickering m. ut prius  10 Wilf Lawson m. ut prius  11 Th. Lamplough a. ut prius  12 Edw. Musgrave m. ut prius  13 Rich. Flecher ar Hutton Arg. a Salter engrailed betwixt 4 Roundlets each châ—…rged with a Pheon of the field 14 Will. Musgrave m. ut prius  15 Wil. Hudleston a. ut prius  16 Geo. Dalston ar ut prius  17 Hen. Curwen mi. ut prius  18 Io Lamplough a. ut prius  19 Hen. Fetherston  G. a Chev. betwixt 3 Oestridges feathers 20 Fran. Dudley vid. Admi. Tho. Dudley ar Edw. Dudley ar defund Tho. Lamplough mil. ut prius   ut prius   ut prius  21 Rich. Samford m ut prius  22 Rich. Fletcher m. ut prius  CAR. REG.   Anno   1 Hen. Blencowe m. ut prius  2 Pet. Senhouse ar Scascall Arg. a 〈◊〉 proper 3 Chri. Dalston ar ut prius  4 Will. Layton ar   5 Wilâ—… Musgrave m. ut prius  6 Chr. Richmond a.   7 Leon. Dykes ar  Or 3 Cinquefoils Sable 8 Ioh. Skelton ar ut prius  9 Will. Orfener ar   10 Rich. Barvis ar ut prius  11 Will. Lawson ar   12 Patri Curwen ar ut prius  13 Tho. Dacre 〈◊〉 ut prius  14 Ti. Fetherston 〈◊〉 ut prius  15   16 Chri. Louther ar ut prius  17 Hen. Fletcher bar ut prius  18   19   20   21   22 Hen. Tolson ar ut prius  Edward IV. 16 RICHARD DUKE OF GLOUCESTER He is notoriously known to Posterity without any â—… Comment or Character to describe him In his Armes it is observable that the younger sons of Kings did not use our Common Modern manner of differences by Cressants Mullets Martilets c. but assumed unto themselves some other differencing devices Wonder not that his Difference being a Labell disguised with some additions hath some Allusion to Eldership therein whilst this Richard was but the Third son seeing in his own Ambition he was not onely the Eldest but Onely Child of his Father as appeareth by his Project not long after to Basterdize both his Brethren And now did he begin to cast an Eye on and forecast a way to the Crown by securing himself of this County which is the Back as Northumberland the Fore Door into Scotland In the mean time Cumberland may count it no mean Credit that this Duke was for six years together and at that very time her High-Sheriff when he was made or rather made himself King of England Henry VIII 21 THOMAS WHARTON This must needs be that worthy person whom King Henry the eighth afterwards created first L. Wharton of Wharton in Westmerland and who gave so great a defeat to the Scots at Solemn Moss that their King James the fifth soon after died for sorrow thereof Indeed the Scotish Writers conceiving it more creditable to put their defeat on the account of Anger then of Fear make it rather a Surrender then a Battle as if their Country-men were in effect unwilling to Conquer because unwilling to Fight Such their Disgust taken at Oliver Sentclear a man of Low Birth and High Pride obtruded on them that day by the King for their Generall And to humor their own discontentment they preferred rather to be taken Prisoners by an Enemy then to fight under so distasted a Commander As for the Lord Wharton I have read though not able presently to produce my Author that for this his service his Armes were augmented with an Orle of Lions paws in Saltier Gules on a Border Or. The Farewell I understand two small Manufactures are lately set up therein the one of course Broad-cloath at Cokermouth vended at home The other of Fustians some two years since at Carlile and I wish that the Undertakers may not be disheartned with their small encouragement Such who are ashamed of Contemptible beginnings will never arrive at considerable endings Yea the greatest Giant was though never a Dwarfe once an Infant and the longest line commenced from a little point at the first DERBY-SHIRE DERBY-SHIRE hath York-shire on the North Nottingham-shire on the East Leicester-shire on the South Stafford and Cheshire on the West The River South Darwent falling into Trent runneth through the middle thereof I say South Darwent for I find three more North thereof Darwent which divideth the West from the East riding in Yorkshire Darwent which separateth the Bishoprick of Durham from Northumberland Darwent in Cumberland which falleth into the Irish Ocean These I have seen by Critical Authors written all alike enough to perswade me that Dower the Brittish word for water had some share in their denomination The two extreams of this Shire from North to South extend to thirty eight miles though not fully twenty nine in the broadest part thereof The South and East thereof are very fruitful whilest the North part called the Peak is poor above and rich beneath the ground Yet are there some exceptions therein Witness the fair pasture nigh Haddon belonging to the Earl of Rutland so incredibly battling of Cattel that one proffered to surround it with shillings to purchase it which because to be set side-ways not edge-ways were refused Natural Commodities Lead The best in England not to say Europe
Coker ar ut prius i Per pale Arg. and Azure in the first 3. palets Sablo 27 Ioh. Horsey ar ut prius  28 Christ. Percy ar m  k Az. 3. bendlets Arg. a Chief Ermine 29 Rich. Rogers ar ut prius  30 Rob. Frampton ar n  m Or a Lion ramâ—… Az. quartered with G. 3 lucies hauriant Argent 31 Ioh. Brown ar Frampton  32 Tho. Chaffin ar   33 Radus Horsey ar ut prius n Sab. 2. Lions paws issuing out of the Dexter and sinister base points erected in form of a Cheweron Argent armed Gules 34 Ioh. Williams ar ut prius  35 Geo. Morton ut infra  36 Rob. Strod ar ut prius  37 Tho. Hussy ar o Shopwick  38 Geor. Trenchard m ut prius o Barry of 6. Erm. and Gul. 39 Tho. Freke ar Shrowton  40 Gor. Moâ—…ton ar Clenston Quarterly Gul. Er. a goats head errased Arg. in the first and last quarter 41 Rob. Miller ar * Briddie  42 Tho. Uudall ar ut prius  43 Ioh. Stoker ar  * Azure four Mascles Or. 44 Ioh. Rogers ar ut prius  JACOB   Anno   1 Ioh. Fitz-Iames ar Lewston Az. a Dolph naiant imbow Ar. 2 Ioh. Tregonwel ar Milton  3 Ioh. Ryves ar Blanford  4 Rob. Napper mil. Middle M. Arg. a salt S. bet 4. roses Gul. 5 VVill. VVeb mil. ut prius  6 Christ. Auketil ar  Arg. a saltire ragule Vert. 7 Edr. Uuedall mil. ut prius  8 Ioh. Heniâ—…g ar Pokeswell Barry Wavy of six pieces on Chief Gul. 3. plates 9 Tho. Freke mil.   10 Ioh. Strangways m ut prius  11 Rob. Coker aâ—… ut prius  12 Ioh. Hanham mil. Wimborn  13 Ioh. Brewyne ar Addle-M Azure a Crossmoline Or. 14 Ioh. Tregonwel ar ut prius  15 Ioh. Browne mil.   16 V Valt Earl mil. Charboro Gal. 3. escalops a border engrailed Arg. 17 Anth. Ashly mil. * S. G. Wim  18 Nath. Napper mil. ut prius * Az. a cinque foil Ermin a border engrailed Or. 19 Edw. Lawrence m. †  20 Ioh. Harbyn ar  †Ermin a Cross Ragulee Gul. a Canton Erminess 21 VVill. Francis ar * Combflor  22 Bam. Chafin ar  * Ar. a Che. bet 3. mull. G. pierc CAROL I.   Anno   1 Fran. Chaldecot a.   2 VVill. Uuedell mil ut prius  3 Fitz-James ar  Azure a Dalphin naiant imbowed Arg. 4 Tho. Still ar Redlinch  5 Angel Grey ar Stâ—…nsford  6 Joh. Mellet mil. ut prius  7 Bria VVilliams m. ut prius  8 Joh. Brown ar   9 VVill. Colyer ar Pidle * Per pale Arg. and Azure 3. Palets Sab. 10 Tho. Trenchard *   11 Joh. Feele ar   12 Rich. Rogers arm ut prius  13   14 Rich. Bingham ar Melcombe Azure a bend cotized betw six Crosses pattee Or. 15 VVil. Churchil a. *   16  * Sab. a Lyon ramp Arg. debruised with a bend Gul. 17 Ed. Lawrence mil. ut prius  18   Bâ—…llum nobis haec otia secit   19   20   21   22   Hen. V. 8. JOHN NEWBURGH This Family of the Newburghs or De Novo Burgo is right ancient as which derive their Pedigree from a younger Son of Henry the first Earle of Warwick of the Norman line Yea Master Cambden saith that they held Winfrot with the whole Hundred by the gift of King Henry the first Per servitium Camerarii in Capite de Domino Rege that is in service of Chamberlaine in chiefe from the King though afterwards under the reigne of King Edward the first it was held by Sergeanty namely by holding the Lauer or Ewre for the King to wash in upon his Coronation Day Hen. VIII 4. EGIDIUS STRANGWAYES Thomas Strangways was the first advancer of this Family in this County who though born in Lancashire was brought into these parts by the first Marquess of Dorcet and here raised a very great Inheritance Nor was it a little augmented through this Marriage with one of the Daughters and Inheritrices of Hugh Stafford of Suthwich by whom there accrued unto him Woodford where Guy Brent a Baron and renowned Warriour once had a Castle The Heirs of this Thomas built a fair seat at Milbery 24. THOMAS MORE Mil. He dwelt at Melplash in the Parish of Netherbury and by Tradition is represented a very humerous person Aged folk have informed me whilest I lived in those parts by report from their Fathers that this Sir Thomas whilest Sheriffe did in a wild frolick set open the Prison and let loose many Malefactors Afterwards considering his own obnoxiousness for so rash a fact he seasonably procured his pardon at Court by the mediation of William Pawlet Lord Treasurer and afterward Marquess of Winchester and a Match was made up betwixt Mary this Sheriffs Daughter and Co-heir and Sir Thomas Pawlet second Son to the said Lord by whom he had a numerous Issue The Farewell And now being to take our leave of this County I should according to our usual manner wish it somewhat for the compleating of its Happiness But it affording in it self all necessaries for mans subsistance and being through the conveniency of the Sea supplyed with forraign Commodities I am at a loss what to begge any way additional thereunto Yet seeing great possessions may be diminished by Robbery may the Hemp The Instrument of common Execution growing herein be a constant Monitor unto such who are thievishly given whither their destructive ways tend and mind them of that end which is due unto them that they leaving so bad may embrace a better some industrious course of living DURHAM DURHAM This Bishoprick hath Northumberland on the North divided by the Rivers Derwent and Tine York-shire on the South the German Sea on East and on the West saith Mr. Speed it is touched by Cumberland touched he may well say for it is but for one mile and Westmerland The form thereof is triangular the sides not much differing though that along the Sea-coasts is the shortest as not exceeding twenty three miles However this may be ranked amongst the 〈◊〉 Shires of England And yet I can remember the time when the people therein were for some years altogether unreprosented in the Parliament namely in the Interval after their Bishop was depâ—…ved of his Vote in the House of Lords and before any in the House of Commons were appointed to appear for them Princes CICELY NEVIL Though her Nativity cannot be fixed with any assurance whose Fathers vast estate afforded him a Mansion House for every week in the year yet is she here placed with most probability Raby being the prime place of the Nevils residence She may pass for the clearest instance of humane frail felicity Her Happiness Her Miseries
in the Latitude thereof a Continent five times bigger than England measured by the aforesaid Pantaleon with advantage I say seeing Germany the Emperour whereof is or ought to be Patron to the Pope produced but Six of that Order England's four acquit themselves in a very good appearance I need not observe that our English word Pope came from the Latine Papa signifying a Father a Title anciently given to other Bishops but afterwards fixed on the See of Rome One would have him call'd Papa by abbreviation quasi PAter PAtriarcharum flitting only the two first syllables A prety conceit which I dare no more avouch than his Fancy who affirmed the former syllable in Papa to be short in verse for the Pope personal who indeed are short-lived whilest the same syllable is long the word being taken for the succession of Popes who have lasted above a thousand years Cardinals A word of their Names Numbers Degrees Dignities Titles and Habit. Cardinals are not so called because the Hinges on which the Church of Rome doth move but from Cardo which signifieth the end of a Tenon put into a Mortais being accordingly fixed and fastned to their respective Churches Anciently Cardinalis imported no more than an Ecclesiastical Person beneficed and inducted into a cure of Soules and all Bishops generally made Cardinals as well as the Pope of Rome In proof whereof there were anciently Founded in the Church of Saint Pauls two Cardinals chosen by the Dean and Chapter out of the twelve petty Canons whose Office it was to take notice of the absence and neglect of all in the Quire to give the Eucharist to the Minister of that Church and their servants as well in health as in sickness to hear Confessions appoint penance and to commit the dead to convenient sepulture And two of them lie buried in the Church of Saint Faiths with these Epitaphes Hic homo Catholicus VVilielmus VVest tumulatur Pauli Canonicus Minor Ecclesiae vocitatur Qui fuerat Cardinalis bonus atque sodalis c. Perpetuis annis memores estote Johannis Good Succentoris Cardinalisque minoris c. Many other Churches besides Saint Pauls retained this custome of Cardinal making Viz. Ravenna Aquileia Millain Pisa Beneventana in Italy and Compostella in Spain But in processe of time Cardinal became appropriated to such as officiated in Rome and they are reckoned up variously by Authours Fifty one fifty three fifty eight sixty I believe their number arbitrary to ben creased or diminished ad libitum Domini Papae They are divided into three ranks Cardinall Bishops Assessors with the Pope Priests Assistants to the Pope Deacons Attendants on the Pope The former of these have Chaires allowed them and may sit down in presence of his Holynesse and these are seven in number whose Sees are in the Vicinage of Rome and some Englishmen have had the honour to be dignified by them Bishop of 1 Hostia Bishop of 2 Porto R. Kilwardby Bishop of 3 Sabine Bishop of 4 Alba Nic. Breakspeare Bishop of 5 Preneste Bernar. 〈◊〉 Simon 〈◊〉 Bishop of 6 Rufine 7 Bishop of Tusculane Cardinall Priests succceed generally accounted twenty eight divided into foure Septenaries whose Titles are here presented with such Englishmen who attained to be honoured with such Churches in Rome 1. St. Maries beyond Tyber 2. St. Chrysogon Steph. Langhton A. D. 1212 3. St. Ceâ—…ily beyond Tyber Thomas Wolsey An. D. 1515 4. St. Anaftasia John Morton An. D. 1493 5. St. Laurence in Damaso 6. St. Marke 7. St. Martin in the Mount William Alan An. D. 1587 8. St. Sabine John Stafford An. D. 1434 9. St. Prisca Reginald Pole An. D. 1540 10. St. Balbine 11. St. Nereus Achileus Phil. Repington An. D. 1408 12. St. Sixtus 13. St. Marcellus 14. St. Susan 15. St. Praxis Ancherus An. Do. 1261 Chr. Bambridge An. D. 1511 16. St. Peter ad vincula Ancherus An. Do. 1261 Chr. Bambridge An. D. 1511 17. St. Laurence in Lucina 18. St. Crosses Jerusalem Boso An. Dom. 1156 19. S. Steph. in Mount Celius Robert Curson An. Do. 1211 Robert Summercote A.D. 1234 20. St. John and St. Paul Robert Curson An. Do. 1211 Robert Summercote A.D. 1234 21. The4 Crowned Saints 22. The holy Apostles 23. S Cyriacus in the Baths Thomas Bourchier An. D. 1464 24. St. Eusebius Robert Pullen An. Dom. 1144 25. St. Puntiana Boso An. Dom. 1160 26. St. Vitalis St. John Fisher An. Dom. 1535 27. St. Marcelline Peter 28. St. Clement Observe I pray you this Catalogue of Titles taken out of Sir Henry Spelman his Glossary is imperfect St. Pastor being omitted therein whereof Boso was at last made Cardinal For these Cardinals were not so morâ—…aised to their Churches but that they might be removed especially if advanced a Story higher from Cardinal Deacons to Priests from Priests to Bishops and sometimes though remaining on the same flore they were removed to make room for others to some other Title Many more Englishmen we had created Cardinals whose certain Titles are unknown But let us proceed to the Cardinal Deacons 16. in number 1. St. Mary in Dompusinica 2. St. Lucy 3. St. Mary the new 4. St. Cosmus and St. Damian 5. St. Gregory 6. St. Mary in the Greek School 7. St. Mary in the Porch 8. St. Nicholas by the Prison 9. St. Angelus 10. St. Eustachius 11. St. Mary in the water 12. St. Mary in the broad way 13. St. Agathe 14. St. Lucia on thto p of Sabine 15. St. Quintin 16. St. The last lost by the Scribe in Curia I onely find one Englishman Boso by Name made Cardinal Deacon of St. Cosmus and St. Damian but it was not long before he was advanced to be a Cardinal Bishop The habit of Cardinals is all Scarlet whereof Theodore Beza tartly enough thus expresseth himself Crede meae nullo satur antur murice vestes Divite nec cocco pallia tincta mihi Sed quae rubra vides SanctoruÌ„ caede viroruÌ„ Et mersa insonti sanguine cuncta madeÌ„t Aut memor istoruÌ„ quae celat crimina vestis Pro Domino justo tincta pudore rubet My clothes in Purple liquor ne're were stewd Nor garments trust me richly di'd in grain These Robes you see so red I have imbrew'd In gore of guiltless Saints whom I have slain Or mindful of the faults thay hide with shame The bashfull clothes do blush their wearers blame They wore also a red Hat of a peculiar fashion to themselves and rid abroad on horsback on scarlet Foot-clothes and Pope Paul the Second made it penal for any beneath their Order in Rome to use the same Yea to such a height of pride did they aspire that we read this Note in the Roman Pontifical Notandum quod Caesar antequam coronetur simplici diademate sedet post primum Episcopum Cardinalem si quis Rex adest sedet tunc post primum omnium Presbyterum Cardinalem Indeed making their own Canons and being their
worthy of his end but where he had his birth As for his Round-Table with his Knights about it the tale whereof hath Trundled so smoothly along for many ages it never met with much beliefe amongst the judicious He died about the year Anno Dom 542. And now to speak of the Cornish in generall They ever have been beheld men of Valour It seemeth in the raign of the aforesaid King Arthur they ever made up his Van-Guard if I can rightly understand the barbarous Verses of a Cornish Poet. Nobilis Arcturus nos primos Cornubienses Bellum facturus vocat ut puta Caesaris enses Nobis non aliis reliquis dat primitus ictâ—…m Brave Arthur when he meant a field to fight Us Cornish-men did firstof all invite Onely to Cornish count them Cesars swords He the first blow in Battle still affords But afterwards in the time of King Canutus the Cornish were appointed to make up the Rear of our Armies Say not they were much degraded by this transposition from Head to Foot seeing the judicious in Marshaling of an Army count the â—…rength and therefore the credit to consist in the Rear thereof But it must be pitied that these people misguided by their Leaders have so often abused their valour in rebellions and particularly in the raign of King Henry the seventh at Black-heath where they did the greatest execution with their Arrows reported to be the length of a Taylors-yard the last of that proportion which ever were seen in England However the Cornish have since plentifully repaired their credit by their exemplary Valour and Loyalty in our late Civil Wars Sea-men JOHN ARUNDEL of Trerice Esquire in the fourteenth of King Henry the eighth took prisoner Duncane Campbell a Scot accounted their Admiral by his own Country-men a Pirat by the English and a Valiant man by all in a fight at Sea This his Goodly Valiant and Jeopardous enterprise as it is termed was represented with advantage by the Duke of Norfolk to the King who highly praised and rewarded him for the same Civilians JOHN TREGONWELL was born in this County bred in Oxford where he proceeded Doctor of the Laws both Canon and Civil and attaining to great perfection in the Theoretick and practicall parts of those professions he was imployed to be Proctor for King Henry the eighth in the long and costly cause of his divorce from Queen Katherine Dowager Now as it was said of the Roman Dictator Sylla suos divitiis explevit So King Henry full fraught all those with wealth and rewards whom he retained in that imployment This Doctor he Knighted and because so dexterous and diligent in his service gave him a pension of fourty pounds per annum And upon the resignation thereof with the paying down of a Thousand pounds he conferred on him and his heirs the rich demesne and scite of Middleton a Mitred Abby in Dorsetshire possessed at this day by his posterity This Sir John died about the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and fourty and is buried under a fair Monument in the Church of Middleton aforesaid Physitians Although this County can boast of no writer graduated in that faculty in the University and that generally they can better vouch practise for their warrant then warrant for their practise yet Cornish-men would be offended if I should omit RAWE HAYES a Blacksmith by his occupation and furnished with no more learning then is sutable to such a calling who yet ministred Physick for many years with so often success and generall applause that not onely the home-bred multitude believed so mainly in him but even persons of the better calling resorted to him from the remote parts of the Realm to make tryall of his cunning by the hazard of their lives and sundry either upon just cause or to Cloke their folly reported that they have reaped their errands ends at his hands He flourished Anno Dom. 1602. ATWELL born in this County and Parson of Saint Tue therein was well seen in the Theoricks of Physick and happy in the practise thereof beyond the belief of most and the reason that any can assign for the same For although now and then he used blood-letting he mostly for all diseases prescribed milk and often milk and apples which although contrary to the judgements of the best esteemed practitioners either by virtue of the Medicine or fortune of the Physitian or fancy of the Patient recovered many out of desperate extremities This his reputation for many years maintained it self unimpaired the rather because he bestowed his pains and charge gratis on the poor and taking moderately of the rich left one half of what he received in the housholds he visited As for the profits of his benefice he poured it out with both hands in pious uses But for the truth of the whole fit fides penes authorem This Atwell was living 1602. Writers HUCARIU the LEVITE was born in this County and lived at Saint Germans therein All-eating Time hath left us but a little Morsell for manners of his Memory This we know he was a pious and learned man after the rate of that Age and it appeareth that he was eminent in his function of Divine Service because Levite was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fixed upon him In his time as in the days of Eli the Word of God was precious which raised the repute of his pains who wrote an hundred and ten Homilies besides other Books He flourished 1040. JOHN of CORNWALL so called from the County of his Nativity leaving his Native soil studied in forraign Universities cheifly in Rome where his Abilities commended him to the Cognizance of Pope Alexander the third It argueth his learning that he durst cope with that Giant Peter Lumbard himself commonly called The Master of the Sentences and who on that account expected that all should rather obey then any oppose his judgement Yea it appeareth that the judgement of this Peter Bishop of Paris was not so sound in all points by a passage I meet with in Mathew Paris of Pope Alâ—…xander the third writing a letter to an Arch-bishop of France to abrogate the ill doctrine of Peter sometimes Bishop of Paris about Christs Incarnation But our John wrote against him in his life time a book de Homine assumpto and put Peters Pen to some pains to write his own vindication He wrote also a book of Philosophy and Heresies Wonder not at their conjunction Philosophy being in Divinity as Fire and Water in a Family a good Servant but bad Master so Sad it is when the Articles of our Creed must be tried by the Touchstone of Aristotle This John flourished under K. Henry the second Anno 1170. SIMON THURWAY was born in this County bred in our English Universities untill he went over into Paris where he became so eminent a Logician that all his Auditors were his admirers Most firm his memory
to Thomas Carew and Elizabeth Eâ—…gecomb was born at Anthony in this County of right worshipfull parentage who honoured his extraction with his learning He was bred a Gentleman-commoner in Oxford where being but fourteen years old and yet three years standing he was called out to dispute ex tempore before the Earls of Leicester and Warwick with the matchless Sir Philip Sidney si quaeritis hujus Fortunam pugnae non est superatus ab illo Ask you the end of this contest They neither had the better both the best He afterwards wrote the pleasant and faithfull description of Cornwall and I will not wrong his memory with my barbarous praise after so eloquent a pen. Sed haec planiùs planiùs docuit Richardus Carew de Anthonie non minus generis splendore quà m virtute doctrina nobilis qui hujus regionis descriptionem latiore specie non ad tenue elimavit quemque mihi praeluxisse non possum non agnoscere This his book he dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh with this modest complement that he appealed to his direction whether it should pass to his correction if it might pass and to his protection if it did pass Adding moreover that duty not presumption drawing him to that offering it must be favour not desert must move the other to the acceptance thereof This Survey was set forth 1602. and I collect the Author thereof died about the middle of the raign of K. James I know not whether he or his son first brought up the use of Gambadoes much worne in the West whereby whilest one rides on horseback his leggs are in a Coach clean and warme in those dirty Countries CHARLES HERLE was born in this County of an Antient and Worshipfull Family bred though never Fellow in Exeter-colledge and at last richly Beneficed in Lancashire We read how Pharaoh removed all the Egyptians the Priests alone excepted from one end of the Borders of the land to the other end thereof but we the Ministers in England are of all men most and farthest removeable three hundred miles and more being interposed betwixt the place of Mr. Herles Birth and Benefice He was a good Scholar and esteemed by his party a deep Divine and after the death of Doctor Twiss President of the Assembly As I dare not defend all the doctrine delivered in his Printed books so I will not inveigh against him lest in me it be interpreted a revenge on his memory for licencing a book written against me wherein I was taxed for Popish Complyance though since in my self still the same man I groan under a contrary Representation The best is innocence doth turn such groans in to songs of gladness Mr. Herle departed this life about 1655. Having received no instructions of any eminent benefactors in this County either before or since the Reformation we may proceed to Memorable Persons KILTOR in the last Cornish Commotion which was in the raign of King Edward the sixth Anno Dom. 1546. was committed to Launceston Gaol for his activity therein This man lying there in the Castle-green upon his back threw a stone of some pounds weight over the Towers top and that I assure you is no low one which leadeth into the Park JOHN BRAY Tenant to Master Richard Carew who wrote the survey of this County carried upon his back about the year 1608. at one time by the space well near of a Butt length six Bushells of Wheaten Meal reckoning fifteen gallons to the Bushell and upon them all the Miller a Lubber of four and twenty years of age JOHN ROMAN his Contemporary a short Cloâ—…nish Grub may well be joyned with him He may be called the Cornish Milo so using himself to burdens in his Child-hood that when a man he would bear the whole carkase of an Oxe and to use my Authors words yet never tugged thereat VEAL an old man of Bodmin in this County was so beholden to Mercuries predominant strength in his nativity that without a teacher he became very skilfull in well-near all manner of handy-crafts a Carpenter a Joyner a Mill-wright a Free-mason a Clock-maker a Carver a Mettall-founder Architect quid non yea a Chirurgeon Physitian Alchimist c. So as that which Gorgias of Leontium vaunted of the liberall Sciences he may prosess of the Mecanicall viz. to be ignorant in none He was in his eminency Anno 1602. EDWARD BONE of Ladock in this County was servant to Mr. Courtney therein He was Deaf from his Cradle and consequently Dumb nature cannot give out where it hath not received yet could learn and express to his master any news that was stirring in the Country Especially if there went speech of a Sermon within some miles distance he would repair to the place with the soonest and setting himself directly against the Preacher look him stedfastly in the face while his Sermon lasted to which religious zeal his honest life was also answerable Assisted with a firm memory he would not onely know any party whom he had once seen for ever after but also make him known to any other by some speciall observation and difference There was one Kempe not living far off defected accordingly on whose meetings there were such embracements such strange often and earnest tokenings and such hearty laughters and other passionate gestures that their want of a tongue seemed rather an hinderance to others conceiving them then to their conceiving one another Lord Mâ—…yors I meet with but this one and that very lately Sir Richard Cheverton Skinner born in this County imputing it chiefly to their great distance from London Insomuch that antiently when Cornish-men went or rather were driven up by the violence of their occasions to that City it was usual with them to make their Wills as if they took their Voyage into a Forraign Country Besides the children of the Cornish Gentry counted themselves above and those of the Poorer sort counted themselves beneath a Trade in London as unable to attain it by reason of the differance of their Language whose Feet must travail far to come to London whilst their Tongues must travail further to get to be understood when arrived there This is one of the twelve pretermitted Counties the names of whose Gentry were not returned into the Tower in the 12. of King Henry the sixth Sheriffs of Cornwall HEN. II. Anno 1 RECORDA MANCA Anno 22 Eustachius fil Stephani for 5 years Anno 27 Alanus de Furnee for 4 years Anno 31 Hug. Bardulph Dapifer Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Idem RICH. I. Anno 1 Will. de Bachland Anno 2 Rich. Revel for 9 years JOHAN R. Anno 1 Ioh. de Torrington Anno 2 Hug. Bardolph Anno 3 Rich. Flandry Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Will. de Botterel for 5 years Anno 11 Ioh. filius Richard for 6 years HEN. III. Anno 1 Anno 2 Anno 3 Guliel Lunet Anno 4
Comment on the Pentateuch Dialogue-wise as also on the Incarnation Nativity Passion and Resurrection of our Saviour He wrote also a Book called Pan-Ormia dedicating the same to Hamelin Abbot of Gloucester The Title of this Book minds me of a pretty passage in Tully At a publick Plea in Rome Sisenna an Orator who defended his Client affirmed that the crimes laid to his charge were but Crimina Sputatilica To whom Rufius the Orator who managed the accusation rejoyned that he feared some treachery in so hard a word quid Sputa sit scio quid Tilica nescio But I am at a worse loss in this uncouth word though knowing both the parts thereof I know what Pan is All what Ormia is a Line or Hook but of what subject Pan-Ormia should treat is to me unknown But well fare the heart of J. Bale who I believe out of Leland rendreth it a Dictionary or Vocabulary â—…ooking all words it seems within the compass thereof This Osbern flourished under King Stephen Anno 1140. ROBERT of GLOUCESTER so called because a Monk thereof He is omitted whereat I wonder both by Bale and Pits except disguised under another Name and what I cannot conjecture they speak truly who term him a Rhimer whilest such speak courteously who call him a Poet. Indeed such his Language that he is dumb in effect to the Readers of our age without an Interpreter and such a one will hardly be procured Antiquaries amongst whom Mr. Selden more value him for his History than Poetry his lines being neither strong nor smooth but sometimes sharp as may appear by this Tetrastick closing with a pinch at the panch of the Monkâ—… which coming from the Pen of a Monk is the more remarkable In the Citie of Bangor a great Hous tho was And ther vndyr vij Cellens and ther of ther Nas That C.C.C. Moncks hadde othur mo And alle by hure travayle lyvede loke now if they do so He flourished some Four hundred years since under King Henry the second and may be presumed to have continued till the beginning of King John 1200. ALAN of TEUXBURY probably born in this Country though bred at Canterbury where he became first a Monk of Saint Saviours and afterwards Prior thereof Very intimate he was with Thomas Becket having some reputation for his Learning In his old age it seems he was sent back with honour into his Native Country and for certain was made Abbot of Teuxbury when Stephen Langton so much endeavoured and at last accomplished the canonizing of Thomas Becket Four Authors were employed Becket his Evangelists to write the History of his Mock-passion and Miracles And our Allan made up the Quaternion He flourished under King John Anno 1200. ALEXANDER of HALES was bred up in the famous Monastery of Hales founded by Richard King of the Romans After his living some time at Oxford he went over to Paris it being fashionable for the Clergy in that as for the Gentry in our age to travail into France that Clerk being accounted but half learned who had not studied some time in a Forraign University But let Paris know that generally our English men brought with them more Learning thither and lent it there than they borrowed thence As for this our Alexander as he had the name of that great Conqueror of the world so was he a grand Captain and Commander in his kind For as he did follow Peter Lombard so he did lead Thomas Aquinas and all the rest of the Schoole-men He was the first that wrote a Comment on the Sentences in a great Volumn called the Summe of Divinity at the instance of Pope Innocent the fourth to whom he dedicated the same for this and other of his good services to the Church of Rome he received the splendid Title of Doctor Irrefragabilis He died Anno Dom. 1245. and was buried in the Franciscan Church in Paris THOMAS de la MORE was saith my Author born of a Knightly Family Patria Gloucestrencis a Gloucester-shire-man by his Country For which his observation I heartily thank him who otherwise had been at an utter losse for his Nativity He thus further commendeth him Pacis Armorum vir artibus undique clarus A man whose fame extended far For Arts in Peace and Feats in War Indeed he was no Carpet Knight as who brought his honour with him out of Scotland on his swords point being knighted by King Edward the first for his no less fortunate than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therein Nor less was his fidelity to his Son Edward the second though unable to help him against his numerous enemies But though he could not keep him from being deposed he did him the service â—…aithfully to write the manner of his deposition being a most rare Manuscript extant in Oxford Library This worthy Knight flourished Anno Dom. 1326. THOMAS of HALES came just an hundred years after Alexander of Hales in time but more than a thousand degrees behind him in ability and yet following his Foot steps at distance First they were born both in this County bred Minorites in Hales Mona stery whence for a time they went to Oxford thence to Paris where they both proceeded Doctors of Divinity and applyed themselves to Contravertial Studies till this Thomas finding himself not so 〈◊〉 for that Imployment fell to the promoting positive or rather fabulous poynts of Popery for the maintainance of Purgatory He flourished under King Edward the third Anno Dom. 1340. THOMAS NEALE was born at Yate in this County bred first in Winchester then New Colledge in Oxford where he became a great Grecian Hebritian and publick Professor of the later in the University He translated some Rabins into Latine and dedicated them to Cardinâ—…l Pole He is charactered a man Naturae mirum in modum timâ—…dae Of a very fearful nature yet always continuing constant to the Roman perswasion He was Chaplain but not Domestick as not mentioned by Mr. Fox to Bishop Bonner and resided in Oxford In the first of Queen Elizabeth fearing his Professors place would quit him for prevention he quitted it and built himself an House over against Hart hall retaining the name of Neals House many years after Papists admire him for his rare judgement and Protestants for his strange invention in first 〈◊〉 the improbable lye of Parkerâ—…is â—…is Consecration at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 since so substantially confuted He was living in Oxford 1576. but when and where here oâ—… beyond the Seas he died is to me unknown Since the Reformation RICHARD TRACY Esquire â—…orn at Todington in this County was Son to Sir William Tracy Confessor of whom before He succeeded to his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the defence whereof he wrote several Treatises in the English tongue and 〈◊〉 moâ—…markable which is entituled 〈◊〉 to the Crosse. This he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having suffered much himself in his Estate for his 〈◊〉 reputed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also he wrote prophetically Anno
to be wholy set again Scotish Proverbs currant in this County Lang or ye cut Falkland-wood with a penknife It is spoken of such who embrace unproportionable and improbable means to effect the ends propounded to themselves to as much purpose as to lave the sea with a cockle shell Falkland was one of the King of Scotland his Royal Palaces in Fife having a boâ—…ny wood whereof great want in the South of this Land where one can hardly find a stick to beat a dog about it so that an axe is proper and no penknife fit onely to fell a forrest of feathers with the timber of quills therein for such employment He is an Aberdeens man taking his word again It seems the men of that Town a fair Haven in the County of Mar have formerly been taxed for breach of promise I hope it true if ever of either onely of the old Aberdeen now much decayed and famous onely for Salmon-fishing If of the new then I believe it of the Townes-men not Scholars living in the University founded by Bishop Elfinston However we have formerly observ'd what is to be believed in such satyrical Proverbs He was born in August At the first hearing thereof I took it for a fortunate person that month beginning the return of profit for the pains of the year past I know amongst the Latines some months were counted more unhappy then others witness the by word Mense Maio nubunt male But since I perceive a man may miss his mark as well by over as under shooting it And one may be too serious in interpreting such common speeches For I am informed by a Scotish man that it is onely the Periphrasis of a licorish person and such said to be born in August whose Tongues will be the Tasters of every thing they can come by though not belonging to them A Yule feast may be quat at Pasche That is Christmas-cheer may be digested and the party hungry again at Easter No happiness is so lasting but in short time we must forego and may forget it The Northern parts call Christmas-Yule hence the Yule-block Yule-oakes Yule-songs c. though much difference about the cause there Some more enemies to the ceremony then cheer of Christmas to render that Festival the more offensive make the word of Paganish extraction deriving it from Julus the son of Aeneas An Etymology fetch'd far from England and farther from truth But to omit many forced and feigned deductions that worthy Doctor hits the mark bringing it from the Latine Jubilo a word as ancient as Varro signifying the rural shouting for joy so that it is a name general for festivals as Lammas Yule c. though Christmas be so called without any addition as the Feast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above all others It is more then probable that the Latines borrowed their Jubilo from the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the long sound of the trumpet whence their Jubilee got the name And seeing Christs birth was a freeing us from the slavery of sin I see not how Yule can be cavill'd at in that signification Saints Saint EBBA was born in Northumberland being daughter to Edilfrid the King thereof When her father was taken prisoner she got hold of a boat in Humber and passing along the raging Ocean she safely landed at a place in Merch in Scotland which is call'd the Promontory of Saint Ebb unto this day Becoming Prioress of Coldingham in that Country to preserve her own and fellowNuns chastity from the Pagan Danes She cut off her own Nose and perswaded the rest to do the like that their beauty might be no bait whilst their deformity did secure their virginity Sure I am that since more have lost their Noses in prosecution of their Wantonness then in preservation of their Chastity As for the Danes being offended that these Nuns would not be the objects of their lusts they made them the subjects of their fury burning them and their Monastery together But such the reputed holiness of Saint Ebb that many Churches commonly called Saint Tabbs are in North-England dedicated unto her and her memory is continued in the name of Ebb-Chester a little Village in the Bishoprick of Durham She flourished about the year 630. Prelates since the Reformation GEORGE CARLETON was born in this County nigh the Borders of Scotland at Norham his father being the Keeper of the Important Castle therein bred in Merton-colledge in Oxford Hear what our English Antiquary saith of him Whom I have loved in regard of his singular knowledge in Divinity which he professeth and in other more delightful Literature and am loved again of him c. He was one of the four Divines sent by King James to the Synod of Dort each of them there observed in their respective Eminencies In Carletono praelucebat Episcopalis gravitas in Davenantio subactum Judicium in Wardo multa lectio in Hallo expedita concionatio Doctor Carleton was then Bishop of Landaffe and afterwards of Chichester His good affections appear in his Treatise entituled A thankful Remembrance of Gods mercy Solid Judgement in his Confutation of Judicial Astrology and clear invention in other Juvenile exercises Indeed when young he was grave in his manners so when old he was youthful in his parts even unto his death which happened in the first of King Charles VALENTINE CARY was born at Barwick which though North of Tweed is reduced to this County extracted from the Carys Barons of Hunsdon He was first Scholar of Saint Johns-colledge in Cambridge then Fellow of Christs-colledge afterwards of Saint Johns again and at last Master of Christs-colledge so that I meet not with any his Peer herein thus bounded and rebounded betwixt two foundations But the best is they both had one and the same Foundress Margaret Countess of Richmond He was Vice-chancelour of Cambridge Anno 1612. Dean of Saint Pauls and at last Bishop of Exeter A complete Gentleman and excellent Scholar He once unexpectedly owned my nearest Relation in the high commission court when in some distress for which courtesie I as heir to him who received the favour here publickly pay this my due thanks unto his memory Though some contest happened betwixt him and the City of Exeter yet I am credibly informed when that City was visited with the Sickness he was bountiful above expectation in relieving the poor thereof He died Anno Domini 1626. and lyes buried under a plain stone in the Church of Sain Pauls London Though he hath another Monument of Memorial in the Church of Exeter RICHARD HOLEWORTH D. D. was born at Newcastle in this County preferred Fellow of Saint Johns-colledge in Cambridge Rector of Saint Peters in the Poor of London Arch-deacon of Huntington and at last Master of Emanuel-colledge During his continuance in London he did Dominari in concionibus and although it be truly observed that the People in London honour their Pastors as John Baptist 〈◊〉
Manufactures Taunton Serges are eminent in their Kind being a fashionable wearing as lighter than Cloath yet thicker than many other Stuffs When Dionysius sacrilegiously plundred Jove his Statue of his Golden Coat pretending it too cold for Winter and too hot for Summer he bestowed such a vestimēt upō him to fit both Seasons They were much sent into Spain before our late War therewith wherein Trading long since complained of to be dead is now lamented generally as buried though hereafter it may have a resurrection The Buildings Of these the Churches of Bath and Wells are most eminent Twins are said to make but one Man as these two Churches constitute one Bishops See Yet as a Twin oft-times proves as proper a person as those of single Births So these severally equal most and exceed many Cathedrals in England We begin with Bath considerable in its several conditions viz. the beginning obstructing decaying repairing and finishing thereof 1 It was begun by Oliver King Bishop of this Diocess in the reign of Henry the Seventh and the West end most curiously cut and carved with Angels climbing up a Ladder to Heaven But this Bishop died before the finishing thereof 2 His Death obstructed this structure so that it stood a long time neglected which gave occasion for one to write on the Church-wall with a Char-coal O Church I wail thy woeful plight Whom King nor Card'nal Clark or Knight Have yet restor'd to ancient right Alluding herein to Bishop King who begun it and his four Successors in thirty five years viz. Cardinal Adrian Cardinal Wolsey Bishop Clark and Bishop Knight contributing nothing to the effectual finishing thereof 3 The decay and almost ruin thereof followed when it felt in part the Hammers which knocked down all Abbyes True it is the Commissioners profered to sell the Church to the Towns-men under 500 Marks But the Towns-men fearing if they bought it so cheape to be thought to cozin the King so that the purchase might come under the compasse of concealed lands refused the profer Hereupon the Glass Iron Bells and Lead which last alone amounted to 480 Tun provided for the finishing thereof were sold and sent over beyond the Seas if a ship-wrack as some report met them not by the way 4 For the repairing thereof collections were made all over the Land in the reign of Queen Elizabeth though inconsiderable either in themselves or through the corruption of others Onely honest Mr. Billet whom I take to be the same with him who was designed Executor to the Will of William Cecil Lord Burghley disbursed good sums to the repairing thereof and a Stranger under a fained name took the confidence thus to play the Poet and Prophet on this Structure Be blithe fair Kirck when Hempe is past Thine Olive that ill winds did blast Shall flourish green for age to last Subscribed Cassadore By Hempe understand Henry the Eight Edward the Sixth Queen Mary King Philip and Queen Elizabeth The Author I suspect had a Tang of the Cask and being parcel-popish expected the finishing of this Church at the return of their Religion but his prediction was verified in a better sense when his Church 5 Was finished by James Montague Bishop of this See disbursing vast sums in the same though the better enabled thereunto by his Mines at Mynedep so that he did but remove the Lead from the bowels of the Earth to the roof of the Church wherein he lies enterred under a fair Monument This Church is both spacious and specious the most lightsome as ever I beheld proceeding from the greatness of the Windows and whiteness of the Glass therein All I have more to add is only this that the parable of Jotham Judg. 9. 8. is on this Church most curiously wrought in allusion to the Christian Sirname of the first Founder thereof how the Trees going to choose them a King profered the place to the OLIVE Now when lately one OLIVER was for a time Commander in Chief in this Land some from whom more Gravity might have been expected beheld this Picture as a Prophetical Prediction so apt are English fancies to take fire at every spark of conceit But seeing since that Olive hath been blasted bottom his Root and Branches this pretended Prophecy with that observation the reason is withered away As for the Cathedral of Wells it is a greater so darker than that of Bath so that Bath may seem to draw devotion with the pleasantnesse Wells to drive it with the solemnity thereof and ill tempered their Minds who will be moved with neither The West Front of Wells is a Master-piece of Art indeed made of Imagiry in just proportion so that we may call them Vera spirantia signa England affordeth not the like For the West end of Excester beginneth accordingly it doth not like Wells persevere to the end thereof As for the Civil Habitations in this County not to speak of Dunstar Castle having an high ascent and the effect thereof a large prospect by Sea and Land Mountague built by Sir Edward Philips Master of the Roles is a most magnificent Fabrick Nor must Hinton St. George the House of the Lord Poulet be forgotten having every stone in the Front shaped Doule-wayes or in the form of a Cart-nail This I may call a Charitable Curiosity if true what is traditioned That about the reign of King Henry the Seventh the owner thereof built it in a dear year on purpose to imploy the more poor people thereupon The Wonders VVockey Hole in Mendip-hills some two miles from VVells This is an undergroundConcavity admirable for its spacious Vaults stony Walls creeping Labyrinths the cause being un-imaginable how and why the Earth was put in such a posture save that the God of Nature is pleased to descant on a plain hollowness with such wonderful contrivances I have been at but never in this Hole and therefore must make use of the description of a Learned eye Witness Entring and passing through a good part of it with many lights Among other many strange Rarities well worth the observing VVe found that water which incessantly dropped down from the Vault of the Rock though thereby it made some little dint in the Rock yet was it turned into the Rock it self As manifestly appeared even to the judgment of sense by the shape and colour and hardnesse It being at first of a more clear and glassie substance then the more ancient part of the Rock to which no doubt but in time it hath been and will be assimulated And this we found not in small pieces but in a very great quantity and that in sundry places enough to load many Carts From whence I inferre that as in this Cave so no doubt in many other where they searched the Rocks would be found to have increased immediately by the dropping of the water besides that increase they have from the Earth in the Bowels thereof which still continuing as it doth there can be no fear
a place for persons of a different perswasion Whilst we leave the invisible root to the Searcher of hearts let us thankfully gather the good fruit which grew from it He died before his Colledge was finished his Estate by Co-heirs descending to Strangwayes Windham White c. and he lyeth buried with his wife under a stately Monument in the fair Church of Illminster PHILIP BISS was extracted from a worshipful Family in this County who have had their habitation in Spargrave for some descents Being bred Fellow and Doctor in Divinity in Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford he was afterwards preferred Arch-Deacon of Taunton A Learned Man and great lover of Learning Now though it be most true what Reverend Bishop Hall was wont to say Of Friends and Books good and fâ—…w are best Yet this Doctor had good and many of both kinds And at his death bequeathed his Library consisting of so many Folio's as were valued at one thousand pounds to Wadham Colledge then newly founded This Epitaph was made upon him wherein nothing of wit save the Verbal-Allusion which made itself without any pains of the Author thereof Bis fuit hic natus puer Bis Bis juvenisque Bis vir Bisque senex Bis Doctor Bisque Sacerdos I collect by probable proportion that his death happened about the year 1614. Memorable Persons Sir JOHN CHAMPNEIS son of Robert Champneis was born at Chew in this County but bred a Skinner in London and Lord Major thereof 1535. Memorable he is on this account that whereas before his time there were no Turrets in London save what in Churches and publick structures he was the first private man who in his house next Cloth-workers Hall built one to oversee his neighbours in the City which delight of his eye was punished with blindness some years before his death But seeing prying into Gods secrets is a worse sin than over-looking mens houses I dare not concurre with so Censorious an Author because every consequent of a fact is not the punishment of a fault therein THOMAS CORIAT Though some will censure him as a person rather ridiculous than remarkable he must not be omitted For first few would be found to call him Fool might none do it save such who had as much Learning as himself Secondly if others have more Wisdom than he thankfulnesse and humility is the way to preserve and increase it He was born at Odcombe nigh Evil in this County bred at Oxford where he attained to admirable fluency in the Greek tongue He carried folly which the charitable called merriment in his very face The shape of his head had no promising form being like a Sugar-loaf inverted with the little end before as composed of fancy and memory without any common-sense Such as conceived him fool ad duo and something else ad decem were utterly mistaken For he drave on no design carrying for Coin and Counters alike so contented with what was present that he accounted those men guilty of superfluity who had more suits and shirts than bodies seldom putting off either till they were ready to go away from him Prince Henry allowed him a pension and kept him for his Servant Sweet-meats and Coriat made up the last course at all Court-entertainments Indeed he was the Courtiers Anvil to trie their Witts upon and sometimes this Anvil returned the Hammers as hard knocks as it received his bluntnesse repaying their abusinesse His Book known by the name of Coriat's Crudities nauceous to nice Readers for the rawnesse thereof is not altogether useless though the porch be more worth than the Palace I mean the Preface of other mens mock-commending verses thereon At last he undertook to travail unto the East-Indies by land mounted on an horse with ten toes being excellently qualified for such a journey For rare his dexterity so properly as consisting most in manual signs in interpreting and answering the dumb tokens of Nations whose language he did not understand Besides such his patience in all distresses that in some sort he might seem cool'd with heat fed with fasting and refresh'd vvith weariness All expecting his return with more knowledge though not more wisdom he ended his earthly pilgrimage in the midst of his Indian travail about as I collect the year of our Lord 1616. Lord Majors Name Father Place Company Time 1 John Champneis Robert Champneis Chew Skinner 1535 2 George Bond Robert Bond Trul Haberdasher 1588 Know Reader this is one of the Ten pretermitted Counties the Names of whose Gentry were not by the Commissioners returned into the Tower in the 12 of K. Henry the sixth Sheriffes This County had the same with Dorsetshire until the ninth year of Queen Elizabeth since which time these following have born the Office in this County alone Name Place Armes ELIZ. Reg.  Crosses Formee Argent 9 Maur. Berkley mil. Bruiton Gules a Cheveron between 10 10 Geo. Norton Mil.   11 Hen. Portman ar Orchard Or a flower de Luce Azure 12 Thâ—… Lutterel ar Dunst. Ca. Or a Bend betwixt 6 Martlets S. 13 Geo. Rogers arm Cannâ—…gton Arg. a Cheveron betwixt 3 Bucks currant Sa. attired Or. 14 Joh. Horner arm Melles Sable 3 Talbots passant Arg. 15 Io. Sydenham arm Broâ—…pton Argent 3 Rams Sable 16 Ioh. Stowel Miles Stawel Gules a Cross Lozengee Argent 17 Christop Kenne ar Conâ—…swick Ermin 3 half Moons Gules 18 Tho. Mallet arm Enmore Azure 3 Escallops Or. 19 Geo Sydenham ar ut prius  20 Joh. Colles arm   21 Ioh. Brett   22 Maur. Rodney ar Rodney Sâ—…ke Or 3 Eâ—…glets displayed Purpure 23 Hen. Newton arm  Arg. on a Cheveron Az 3 Garbs Or. 24 Ioh. Buller arm  Sa. on â—… plain Cross Arg. quarter pierced 4 Eaglets of the field 25 Ar. Hopton arm VVitham Argent 2 Barrs Sable each with 3 Mullets of six points Or. 26 Gaâ—…r Hawley ar †  27 Nic. Sidenham ar ut prius †Vert a Saltir ingrailed Or. 28 Ioh. Clifton miles Bâ—…rringtoÌ„ Sable Semee of Cinquefoils a Lion rampant Arg. 29 Hen. Berkley mil. ut prius  30 Edw. Sainthorp ar   31 Sam. Norton arm   32 Hugo 〈◊〉 ar ut prius  33 Ioh. Harington ar  Sable a Frâ—…t Argent 34 Geo. Speke aâ—…g 〈◊〉 Argent 2 Barrs Azure over all an Eagle displayed Gules 35 Geo. Lâ—…erel arm ut prius  36 Hen. Walrond  AMP. 37 Ioh. Francis arm Combe flouree Argent a Cheveron betwixt 3 Mullets Gules pierced 38 Ioh. Stowel mil. ut prius  39 Ioh. Colles arm   40 Ioh. Gennings ar â—…urron Azure a Châ—…veron Or betwixt 3 Bâ—…zants on a Chief Eâ—…min 3 Cinquesoils Gules 41 Gâ—…o Rodney arm ut prius  42 Hugo Portman mil. ut prius  43 Ioh. Mallet aâ—…mig ut prius  44 Joh. May aâ—…mig Charterhouse Hâ—…yden Sable a Câ—…everon Or betwixt 3 Roses Argâ—… a Chief of the second 45 Edw. Râ—…gers 〈◊〉 ut prius  IAC
flecte tuis He died a Batchelour in the fourtieth year of his Age Anno Domini 1532 and lieth buried in Saint Christophers London Since the Reformation MARY DALE better known by the name of Mary Ramsey daughter of William Dale Merchant was born in this City She became afterward second Wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey Grocer and Lord Major of London Anno 1577 and surviving him was thereby possessed of a great Estate and made good use thereof She founded two Fellowships and Scholarships in Peter-House in Cambridge and profered much more if on her terms it might have been accepted For most certain it is that she would have setled on that House Lands to the value of five hundred pounds per annum and upwards on condition that it should be called the Colledge of Peter and Mary This Doctor Soams then Master of the House refused affirming that Peter who so long lived single was now too old to have a Feminine Partner A dear jest to loose so good a Benefactres This not succeeding the stream of her Charity was not peevishly dried up with those who in matters of this nature will do nothing when they cannot do what they would do But found other channels there in to derive it self She died Anno Dom. 1596 and lieth buried in Christs-Church in London THOMAS WHITE D. D. was born in this City and bred in Oxford He was afterwards related to Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy of Ireland whose Funeral Sermon he made being accounted a good Preacher in the reign of Queen Elizabeth Indeed he was accused for being a great Pluralist though I cannot learn that at once he had more than one Cure of Soules the rest being Dignities As false is the Aspersion of his being a great Vsurer but one Bond being found by his Executors amongst his Writings of one thousand pounds which he lent gratis for many years to the Company of Merchant-Tailors whereof he was Free the rest of his Estate being in Land and ready money Besides other Benefactions to Christ-Church and a Lecture in St. Pauls London he left three thousand pounds for the Building of Sion Colledge to be a Ramah for the Sons of the Prophets in London He built there also a fair Alms-house for Twenty poor Folk allowing them yearly six pounds a piece And another at Bristol which as I am informed is better endowed Now as Camillus was counted a second Romulus for enlarging and beautifying the City of Rome So Mr. John Simpson Minister of St. Olaves Hart-street London may be said a second White for perfecting the aforesaid Colledge of Sion building the Gate-house with a fair Case for the Library and endowing it with Threescore pounds per annum Dr. Thomas White died Anno Dom. 1623. Lord Majors Name Father Company Time John Aderley John Aderly Ironmonger 1442 Thomas Canning John Canning Grocer 1456 John Young Thomas Young Grocer 1466 The Farewel I am credibly informed that one Mr. Richard Grigson Cittizen hath expendeth a great Sum of money in new casting of the Bells of Christ-Church adding tunable Chymes unto them Surely he is the same person whom I find in the printed List of Compounders to have paid One hundred and sive pounds for his repuetd Delinquency in our Civil Wars and am glad to see one of his perswasion so lately purified in Goldsmiths-Hall able to go to the Cost of so chargeable a Work I wish Bristol may have many more to follow his Example though perchance in this our suspicious Age it will be conceived a more discreet and seasonable desire not to wish the increase but the continuance of our Bells and that though not taught the descant of Chymes they may retein their plain song for that publick use to which they were piously intended STAFFORD-SHIRE hath Cheshire on the North-West Darby-shire on the East and North-East Warwick and Worcester-shires on the South and Shrop-shire on the West It lieth from North to South in form of a Lozenge bearing fourty in the length from the points thereof whilst the breadth in the middle exceeds not twenty six miles A most pleasant County For though there be a place therein still called Sinai-park about a mile from Burton at first so named by the Abbot of Burton because a vast rough hillie ground like the Wilderness of Sinai in Arabia yet this as a small Mole serves for a soil to set off the fair face of the County the better Yea this County hath much beauty in the very solitude thereof witness Beau-Desert or the Fair Wildernesse being the beautiful Barony of the Lord Paget And if their Deserts have so rare Devises Pray then how pleasant are their Paradises Indeed most fruitful are the Parts of this Shire above the Banks of Dove Butchers being necessitated presently to kill the Cattle fatted thereupon as certainly knowing that they will fall in their flesh if removed to any other Pasture because they cannot but change to their loss Natural Commodities The best Alabaster in England know Reader I have consulted with Curious Artists in this kind is found about Castle-Hay in this County It is but one degree beneath White Marble only more soft and brittle However if it lye dry fenced from weather and may be let alone long the during thereof Witness the late Statue of John of Gaunt in Pauls and many Monuments made thereof in Westminster remaining without breck or blemish to this day I confess Italy affords finer Alabaster whereof those Imagilets wrought at Ligorn are made which indeed Apes Ivory in the whiteness and smoothness thereof But such Alabaster is found in small Bunches and little proportions it riseth not to use the Language of Work-men in great Blocks as our English doth What use there is of Alabaster Calcined in Physick belongs not to me to dispute Only I will observe that it is very Cool the main reason why Mary put her ointment so precious into an Alabaster Box because it preserved the same from being dried up to which such Liquors in hot Countries were very subject Manufactures Nailes These are the Accommodators general to unite Solid Bodies and to make them to be continuous Yea coin of gold and silver may be better spared in a Common-wealth than Nailes For Commerce may be managed without mony by exchance of Commodities whereas hard bodies cannot be joyned together so fast and fast so soon and soundly without the mediation of Nailes Such their service for Firmness and expedition that Iron Nailes will fasten more in an hour than Wooden Pins in a day because the latter must have their way made whilst the former make way for themselves Indeed there is a fair House on London Bridge commonly called None-such which is reported to be made without either Nailes or Pins with crooked Tennons fastened with wedges and other as I may term them circumferential devices This though it was no labour in vain because at last attaining the intended end yet was it no better than
of Fugitives These his losses doubled the love of the Duke of Florence unto him And indeed Sir Robert was a much meriting person on many accounts being an Excellent 1 Mathematician especially for the practical part thereof in Architecture 2 Phisician his Catholicon at this day finding good esteem amongst those of that Faculty 3 Navigator especially in the Western Seas Indeed long before his leaving of England whilst as yet he was Rectus in Curia well esteemed in Queen Elizabeths Court he sailed with three small Ships to the Isle of Trinedad in which Voyage he sunk and took nine Spanish ships whereof one an Armada of 600 Tunn It must not be forgotten how he was so acceptable to Ferdinand the Second Emperor of Germany that by his Letters Patents bearing date at Vienna March the 9 1620 he conferred on him and his Heirs the Title of a Duke of the Sacred Empire Understand it a Title at large as that of Count Arundels without the Assignation of any proper place unto him How long he survived this Honour it is to me unknown Writers NICHOLAS OCKHAM was bred a Franciscan in Oxford and became the eighteenâ—…h publick Lecturer of his Convent in that University He is highly praised by the Writers of his own Order for his Learning whom I do believe notwithstanding Bale writeth so bâ—…tterly against him He flourished Anno 1320. WILLIAM OCKHAM was born in this County in a Village so called of Oakes and indeed our William was all Heart of Oake as soon will appear He was first bred under John Scotus and afterwards served him as Aristotle did his Master Plato disproving his Principles and first setting on foot a new sort of Sophistry Then it was hard to hear any thing in the Schooles for the high railing betwixt the REALS headed by John Duns Scotus NOMINALS fighting under their General Ockham Neither of them conducing much to the advance of Religion Our Ockham flushed with success against John Scotus undertook another John of higher Power and Place even Pope John the three-and-twentieth and gave a mortal wound to his Temporal Power over Princes He got a good Gardian viz. Lewis of Bavaria the Emperor whose Court was his Sanctuary so that we may call him a School-man-Courtier But he was excommunicated by the Pope and the Masters of Paris condemned him for a Heretick and burnt his Books This I conceive was the cause why Luther was so vers'd in his Works which he had at his fingers ends being the sole Schoolman in his Library whom he esteemed However at last the Pope took Wit in his Anger finding it no policy to enrage so sharp a Pen and though I find no Recantation or publick Submission of Ockam yet he was restored to his state and the repute of an Acute School-man Now because he is generally complained of for his Soul of opposition gain-saying what ever Scotus said it will serve to close his Epitaph what was made on a great Paradox-monger possessed with the like contradicting spirit Sed jam est mortuus ut apparet Quod si Viveret id negaret But now he 's dead as plainly doth appear Yet would denie it were he living here He flourished under King Edward the Third and dying 1330 was buried at Monchen in Bavaria JOHN HOLBROOK was as Leland relates a profound Philosopher and Mathematician much esteemed with the English Nobility for his rare accomplishments and yet is his short Character blemished in Bale with a double Ut fertur One relating to the Place of his Birth yet so as Surrey is assigned most probable The other to the time wherein he flourished The last is a wonder to me that so exact a Critick who had with great pains reduced the Tables of Alphonsus most artificially to Months Dayes and Hours should have his own memory left at such a loss as to the Timeing thereof that Authors hopeless to hit the mark of the year aim only at the Butt of the Age and conjecture him to have been eminent in the fourteenth Century GEORGE RIPLY was born saith my Author at Riply in this County But on the serious debate thereof he clearly appeareth a Native of York-shire and therefore we remit the Reader to that County where he shall find his large Character Since the Reformation HENRY HAMMOND D. D. was born at Chertsey in this County his Father being Doctor of Physick and Physician to King James He was bred in Eaton-School where 〈◊〉 Mr. Bust so skilful in reading other Boyes could not spell his Nature but being posed with the Riddle of his portentous Wit at last even left him to himself which proved the best Hence he became Fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford till preferred Canon of Christ-Church and Oratour of the â—…niversity He may be called an Angelical Doctor as justly as he who is generally so stiled First For his Countenance and Complexion White and Ruddy resembling the common portraictures of Cherubins Secondly His Sanctity spending his life in Devotion His eating and drinking were next to nothing so exemplary his Abstinence And he alwayes embraced a single life Thirdly Meekness Michael durst not the valour of an Arch-Angel is frighted at a sin bring a railing accusation against Saton Herein only our Doctor was a Coward he feared to revile any of an opposite Judgement Fourthly his Charity He was the Tutelar Angel to keep many a poor Royalist from famishing it being verily beleeved that he yearly gave away more than two hundred pounds Lastly for his Knowledge Such the Latitude of his Learning and Languages As Distillers extract Aqua Vitae or Living Water from the dregs of Dead Beer So he from the rotten writings of the Rabbins drew many Observations to the advance of Christianity He could turn his Plow-Shares and Pruning-Hooks into Swords and Spears in his Controversial Treatises and could again at pleasure convert his Swords and Spears into Plow-shareâ—… and Pruning-Hooks in his Comments and Practical Cathechisme He was well vers'd in all Modern Pamphlets touching Church-Discipline When some of the Royal Disputants in the Treaty at Uxbridge in some sort did over-shoot their Adversaries this Doctor could lay his Arguments level against them and discourse with the Parliament-Divines in their own Dialect But alas he was an Angelical man no Angel Witness his death of the Students disease the Stone He died at Westwood in Worcester-shire at the house of the Lady Packington his PELLA where he peaceably reposed himself whilst all our English Jerusalem was in Combustion One thousand pounds well nigh were due unto him at his death yet there appeared neither specialty nor any mans hâ—…nd amongst his Writings so confident he was that his consciencious debtors would faithfully pay what was freely lent them By his Will he impowered Dr. Humphreâ—… Henchman since Bishop of Sarum his sole Executor to expend according to his discretion in the relief of poor people not exceeding two hundred pounds Let this his
called Chimneys portable in pockets the one end being the Harth the other the Tunnell thereof Indeed at the first bringing over of Tobacco Pipes were made of silver and other metalls which though free from breaking were found inconvenient as soon fouled and hardly clensed These Clay-pipes are burnt in a furnace for some fifteen hours on the self-same token that if taken out half an hour before that time they are found little altered from the condition wherein they were when first put in It seems all that time the fire is a working it self to the height and doth its work very soon when attain'd to perfection Gauntlet-pipes which have that mark on their heel are the best and hereon a Story doth depend One of that trade observing such Pipes most salable set the Gauntlet on those of his own making though inferior in goodness to the other Now the workman who first gave the Gauntlet sued the other upon the Statute which makes it penal for any to set anothers Mark on any Merchantable Commodities The Defendant being likely to be cast as whose Counsell could plead little in his behalf craved leave to speak a word for himself which was granted He denied that he ever set another man's mark for the Thumb of his Gauntlet stands one way mine another and the same hand given dexter or sinister in Heraldry is a sufficient difference Hereby he escaped though surely such who bought his Pipes never took notice of that Criticisme or consulted which way the Thumb of his Gauntlet respected The Buildings The Cathedrall of Salisbury dedicated to the Blessed Virgin is paramount in this kind wherein the Doors and Chappell 's equall the Months the Windows the Days the Pillars and Pillarets of Fusill Marble an ancient Art now shrewdly suspected to be lost the Hours of the Year so that all Europe affords not such an Almanack of Architecture Once walking in this Church whereof then I was Prebendary I met a Country-man wondring at the Structure thereof I once said he to me admired that there could be a Church that should have so mamy Pillars as there be Hours in the Year And now I admire more that there should be so many Hours in the Yèar as I see Pillars in this Church The Cross Isle of this Church is the most beautifull and lightsome of any I have yet beheld The Spire Steeple not founded on the ground but for the main supported by Four Pillars is of great heighth and greater workman-ship I have been credibly informed that some Forraign Artists beholding this building brake forth into Tears which some imputed to their Admiration though I see not how wondring can cause weeping others to their Envy grieving that they had not the like in their own Land Nor can the most Curious not to fay Cavilling Eye desire any thing which is wanting in this Edifice except possibly an Ascent seeing such who address themselves hither for their devotions can hardly say with David I will go up into the house of the Lord. Amongst the many Monuments therein that of Edward Earl of Hartford is most magnificent that of Helen Suaâ—…enburgh a Swede the Relict of William Marquess of Northampton and afterwards married to Sir Thomas Gorges is most commended for its artificiall plainness But the curiosity of Criticks is best entertained with the Tomb in the North of the Nave of the Church where lieth a Monument in stone of a little boy habited all in Episcopal Robes a Miter upon his â—…ead a Crosier in his hand and the rest accordingly At the discovery thereof formerly covered over with Pews many justly admired that either a Bishop could be so small in Person or a Child so great in Clothes though since all is unriddled For it was fashionable in that Church a thing rather deserving to be remembred then fit to be done in the depth of Popery that the Choristers chose a boy of their society to be a Bishop among them from Saint Nicholas till Innocents day at night who did officiate in all things Bishop-like saying of Mass alone excepted and held the state of a Bishop answerably habited amongst his fellows the counterfeit Prebends one of these chancing to die in the time of his mock-Episcopacy was buried with Crosier and Miter as is aforesaid Thus superstition can dispence with that which Religion cannot making Piety Pageantry and subjecting what is sacred to lusory representations As for Civil-buildings in this County none are such Giants as to exceed the Standard of Structures in other Counties Long-leat the house of Sir James Thynne was the biggest and Wilton is the stateliest and pleasantest for Gardens Fountains and other accommodations Nor must the industry of the Citizens of Salisbury be forgotten who have derived the River into every Street therein so that Salisbury is a heap of Islets thrown together This mindeth me of an Epitaph made on Mr. Francis Hide a Native of this City who dyed Secretary unto the English Leiger in Venice Born in the English Venice thou didst die Dear friend in the Italian Salisbury The truth is that the strength of this City consisted in the weakness thereof uncapable of being Garrison'd which made it in our Modern Wars to scape better then many other places of the same proportion The VVonders Stone-henge After so many wild and wide conjectures of the Cause Time and Authors hereof why when and by whom this monument was erected a Posthume-book comes lagging at last called Stone-henge restored and yet goeth before all the rest It is questionable whether it more modestly propoundeth or more substantially proveth this to be a Roman work or Temple dedicated to Coelus or Coelum son to Aether and Dies who was senior to all the Gods of the Heathen That it is a Roman design he proveth by the Order as also by the Scheame thereof consisting of four equilateral Triangles inscribed within the Circumference of a Circle an Architectonicall Scheam used by the Romans Besides the Portico or entrance thereof is made double as in the Roman ancient Structures of great Magnificence Not to say that the Architraves therein are all set without Morter according to the Roman Architecture wherein it was ordinary to have Saxa nullo fulta glutino No less perswasive are his Arguments to prove a Temple dedicated to Coelum First from the Sâ—…ituation thereof standing in a plain in a free and open Ayre remote from any village without woods about it Secondly from it's Aspect being sub dio and built without a roof Thirdly from the Circular form thereof being the proper Figure of the Temple of Coelus Not to mention his other arguments in which the Reader may better satisfy himself from the originall Author then my second-hand relation thereof Knot Grasse This is called in Latine Gramen caninum supinum longissimum and groweth nine miles from Salisbury at Master Tuckers at Maddington It is a peculiar kind and of the ninety species of Grasses in England is
25. * Godwin in the Bâ—…shops of Lincoln * Hatcheâ—…s M. S. in Anno 1444. * Goodwyn in the Bishops of Worcestâ—…r * Idem Ibid. * Godwyn in his Catalogue of the Bishops of Durâ—…m * Dr. Hatchâ—…r his Manuscript Catalogue of the Masters and Fellows of K. Colleâ—… * Godwin in his Cataloguâ—… of the Bishops of Herâ—…ford * Prov. 13 8. * David Powel in his History of Wales * Camb. Brit. in Derby-shire * Camb. Brit. in Gloucestershire * Register of the Burial in the Temple * See Camb. Eliz in these respective years * Sir George Summers of whom in Dorset-shire * Bâ—…le descrip Brit. Cent. 2. Num. 78. Pits in Anno 1140. * In his Book Declaris Oratoribus otherwise called Brutus toward the later end * Cells or Portions †Ruler or Governor sed quaere * Bale de scrip Brit. Cent. 3. Num. 46. Pits in An. 1200. * Pits de Illust. Ang. script Anno 1326. * New Coll. Reg. Anno 1540. * Pitseus de Angl. script pag. 770. * Mason de Mâ—…nst Ang. * Bale de scrip Bâ—…t Cent. 9. Num. 58. * Tho Râ—…ndolph * Page 18. * Cent. Octav. Nuâ—… 71. * Patent 7. Rich. 2. part 2. Memb. 2. * In his Description of Gloucestershire * Job 31. 20. * Stows Annals pag. 327. * Cambden in 〈◊〉 set-shire * Burton in description of Leicester-shire pag. 320. * Lord Howard in his Defensative against Prophesies fol 130. * Lord Herbert ut prius * In his life of K. Edw. 6. †In his Survey of Cornwall * Holingshed in the fourth of Q Mary pag. 1132. * Matth. 13. 5. * Camden's Brit. in Somersetshire * Idem in Hant-shire * Sir Ro. Cotton under the name of Mr. Speed in Huntingtonshire * P. Jovius de legatione Muscovitarum 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 * Nat. Hist. lib. 11. cap. 24. * Naturae liquor iste novae cui summa natat faex Auson * Prov. 24. 13. * Olim communis pecori cibus atque homini Glans Auson * Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Winc hester * Cam. Brit. in the Isle of Wight * Speeds Catâ—… of Religious Houses * Speeds Chro. Page 565. * Lord Verulam in his Hen. the 7. * Speeds Chro. Page 763. * Hen. Higgd Polick lib. 6. cap. 4. * Flowers of the English Saints Page 570. June the 15. * Idem Ibidem * The English Martyrologie in the 15. of June * J. Bale Descript Brit. Cent. 8. num 89. * 2 King 9. 11. * Numb 22. 28. * Godwin in the Bishops of Winchest * Those dates are exactly Transcribed out of the Records of New-Colledge * Register of New-Colledge in Anno 1449. * Godwin in Catalogue of Bishops of Lincolne * J. Philpot in Catalogue of Chancellors page 65. * Harps field Hist. Eccl. Ang. dâ—…cimo quinto saeculo c. 24. * Idem ibid. * New-Colledge Register in the year 1475 * Godwin in the Arch-bishops of Canterbury * â—…ew Coll. Register in the year 1474. * Cambdens Brit. in Sussex * Godwin in his Bishops of Chichester * Godwin in his Bishops of Chichester * Sir J. Harrington in the Bishops of Winchester * Made by Christopher Johnson afterwards Schoolmaster of Winchester * Piâ—…s de ill Ang. Script page 763. * Nâ—…w Colledge Register Anno 1565. * John 19. 30. * See the life of Dr. Smith prefixed to his Sermon * New-Colledge Register Anno 1589. wherein he was admitted * 〈◊〉 Description of Leicester-shire page 105. * J. Philpot in his Carâ—… of Chancellors page 73. S. N. * Sir Robert 〈◊〉 in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 2 Sam. 20. 24. * 1 King 4. 6. * King 12. 18. * Ibidem * Holinshead Stow Ed. Herbert in this Year * Gwillim his Display of Heraldry pag. 50. * Hatkluit his Voyages Volume 3. pag. 437. * Idem pag. 450. * Idem pag. 451. * Pitz. aetate decima Num. 149. * Libro secundo de gestis Reg. Angliae * Pitz. aetat undecima Num. 154. * Descrip. Brit. Cent. quarta pag. 302. * de scrip Brit. * Idem * Idem * In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 * Bale de Script Britt Cent. 8. Numb 64. * Stowes Survey of London page 370. * Bale de Script Brit. Cent. 9. Num. 78. * Bale de Script Britt Cent. 9. Num. 79. * Idem Ibidem * Psal. 69. 12. * Rinerius in Histor. Benedictinor †Holling sheads Cron. p. 1403. * Heroologia Angliae p. 173. * Idem Aut. Ibid. * Lord Verulam In his Apophâ—…gms * New Colledge Register Anno 1593. * Britt in Monmouthshire S. N. * In the Verses ad Authorem * He writeth himself in his Book of Basing-stoak * Pitts de Ill. Ang. Scrip. pag. â—…06 †Pits in the life of William Aulton in anno 1330. * Idem in his own life pag. 817. * Micah 6. 9. S. N. Brittania Baconica in Hantshire Pag. 51. * 2 Chron. 35. 26. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this County * Sâ—…ed in his Map of this County * In his description of Hartford-shire Page the 2d * Eccles. 3. 5. * Tunbridge Epsham Barnet * On Charles Blunt son to the Earle of Newport in St. Martins in the Fields * As appeareth in Villare Anglicanum * Speed in the Description of Pembrokeshire * Lord Herbert in the life of King Henry the Eighth * In the Earle of Richmond * Acts 22. 25. * Cent. 4. pag. 17 c. * Norden in his description of this County pag. 29. * Camd. Brit. in Middlesex * Bale de Scrip. Brit. Cent. Secund numero 90. Piâ—…seus in anno 1159. * REM * Bale de Scrip. Brit. * Godwin in Cat. of Cardin. Pag. 164. * On his Tomb yet well to be seen in Westminster Abbey on the North-side of the Tomb of Amer de Valens Earl of Pembroke * J. Philipot in his Treasurers of England collected Ann. Dâ—…m 1636. p. 19. * Godwin in his Bishops of London * Camd. Britt in Middlesex * Bish. Godw. in Bishops of Ely * Godwin in Cat. of Bishops of St. Davids * Bale de Scrip. Brit. Cent. 7 n. 53. Pits An. 1419. S. N. * Sir R. Nanton in his Fragment Regal * Bale 〈◊〉 de Scrip. Angl. * In An. 1253. * Symphorianus Champerius in his fift Tract de medi Art script * Mathaeus Silvaticus in Lexico * Bale de scrip Brit. Cent. 5. n. 7. Pits in an 1320. * Bish. Godw. in Cat. of the Bish. of Lincoln * Bale Pits de script Angl. * Weavers Fun. Mon. in Hartford-shire * In suo heptuâ—…lo * Bale de scrip Brit. cent 4. p. 323. Pits p. 349. * Weavers Fun. Mon. in this County * Bale de scrip Brit. * Pit de Illust. Ang. Scrlp. an 1400. * See Writers in Middlesex * Wâ—…aver Fun. Monum p. 569 Manusc Sir R. Cottons Library AMP. * Mills in hls Catal.