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A66693	The Essex champion, or, The famous history of Sir Billy of Billerecay and his Squire Ricardo shewing the renowned atchievements and valiant acts of the invincible knight Sir Billy of Billerecay with his love to his Lady Dulcinia, as also, the comical exploits and amorous adventures of Squire Ricardo performed by his invisible ring, their tilts and tournaments in honour of ladies, their battles with gyants and monsters, their punishing of inchanters and negromancers, pedlars and poppit-players / being that excellent piece of knight-errantry written by William Winstandly.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing W3059A; ESTC R27621	95,346	215

could not forbear laughing at Thomasio's discourse but the Justice was more exasperated against him than before thinking their whole design to be more out of Knavery than simplicity and therefore commanded that both Thomasio and Sir Billy should be set in the Stocks whilst Rica●do was looking up to accompany them and then he would take such order with them as he thought fitting But 〈◊〉 Stocks happening to be broken at that time the Const●ble to secure them put them both in the Cage which so exasperated our Knight Errant that he swore by the fiery F●●shion of bloody Mars he would either free himself from that captivity or lo●● his Life in the Adventure And so having al● his thoughts bound up in Choller like mad Orestes in a great fury he ran with all his might against the Bars of the Cage and like another Bajazet beat out his own Brains Old Thomasio seeing what had happened was struck into a marvellous astonishment so transformed with Wonder that he stood like to a breathing Stone The Justice hearing what had happened went likewise thither as also his Daughter and the rest of his Family who beholding this dismal sight were also marvelously astonished The Coroner being not yet gone a Jury was impannel'd who found him guilty of self Murther whereupon he should have been buried in the High-way with a stake driven thorough him But for the honour of Knight-Errantry and being the last and like to be the last of that Order he was buried in the Church-yard of that Parish accompanied with an extraordinary multitude of People and upon his Tomb were these Verses inscribed Vnder this Clod of Clay Alas and well-a-day Lies Billy of Billerecay He Gyants did subdue And Monsters overthrew Now death our Knight hath slew Here let him rest in Peace Who living did not cease Fresh troubles to increase Books Printed for and Sold by J. Blare Bookseller at the Looking glass on London-Bridge THE Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities Or The Ingenious Gentlewoman and Servant-maids Delightful Companion Arithmetick A Treatise fitted for the Use and Benefit of such Trades-men as are ignorant in that Art teaching the nature and use of Fractions both Vulgar and Decimal by a new and easie method made familiar to an ordinary Capacity Also the Mensuration of Solids and Superficies By John Ayres likewise his Copy-books of several sorts The ●ey of Commerce shewing the true method of keeping Merchants Books after the Italian manner of Debtor and Creditor in one hundred and twenty Propositions containing most Cases relating to Merchandise with a Practical Wast-book Journal and Ledger and transfer the ballance thereof as an In●entory to a new Ledger Designed for the Help and Assistance of Young Merchants at their first Entrance 〈◊〉 their Apprenticeship to their Masters By J.H. ●f London Merchant The Grounds of the French Tongue Or a new ●●ench Grammar according to the present Use and ●odern Orthography Digested into a short easie 〈◊〉 accurate Method With a Vocabulary and Dia●●gues For the Use of Young Merchants and others ●●at are now going to France Price 2 s. Russell's Seven Sermons viz. 1. Of the Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost 2. The Accepted Time and Day of Salvation 3. The end of Time and beginning of Eternity 4. Joshua's Resolution to serve the Lord. 5. The way to Heaven made Plain 6. The Future State of Man or a Treatise of the Resurrection 7. Mercy remembred in the midst of Judgment The Accomplished Seamans Delight Pearls of Eloquence Or the School of Complements The History of Arg●lus and Parthenia The English Fortune-tel●er by J.P. The Secretary Guide directing to write Letters With a Collection of the newest Songs The Famous History of Amadis of Greece Or the Knight of the Burning Sword Ari●totle's Legacy The famous History of H●●o and Leander Russel's little book for little Children A Description of Kent and Sussex Or a View of all the Cities Towns and Villages in each County At the aforesaid place is Sold Books of Divinity History and Navigation b● Wholesale or Retail 〈◊〉 Reasonabl● Rates

wits end not knowing what course to take sometimes he prayed sometimes he swore wishing all the Imprecations upon himself he could reckon up if he knew the least who it was came with him but let him use what Oaths and Protestations he would they could gain no Credit with them but sending for some of their Neighbours to help them they resolved to throw him into the River to try him for a Witch but whilst they were preparing to do it the Host of the former Inn with the Bayliffs hearing how their Capon and Platter was convey'd thither came to seek for it These Bayliffs knowing the Horse-Courser as most commonly Brethren in Iniquity are acquainted toge●her got a reprieve for him till the matter could be more deliberately discoursed And now they began to reckon up their Mischances and to shew their Wounds and considering the manner how it was done they concluded it could be no other than the Devil to punish them for their Sins Then began the Host to tell the Bayliffs of their Swearing and Cruelty how many ungodly practises they used to get people in their Clutches and having them there how unconscionably they used them The Bayliffs on the other side tell the Host and Hostess of their fals● Reckonings Scoreing with a crotched Chalk and when people were near fuddled carrying away Flaggons before they were half empty and frothing them up again making them pay for whole ones as also how they gave information to Padders and Men of that profession the quality of the Guests that Lodged at their Houses The Horse-Courser was also accused for divers deceits in his Occupation so that if his picture be drawn to the Life you shall find him by his qualities to be no other than a Cousening Knave In the mean time their supposed Devil Ricar●o was gotten beyond the length of their Clutches leaving them to lament their Losses and now he was minded to return the next day to his Master and to that end went directly to the Farmer 's where he had left his Horse But a new trouble appeared unto him for he had no Money to pay for his Horse-keeping but that difficulty was soon over for passing by a Usurer's House he heard Money clattering on the Table and the Door being open putting on his Invisible-Ring he went in where a Poor Man who had borrowed Ten Pounds of this Usurer was now come to pay it which being told and the Bond Cancel'd the Usurer put it up in a Bag of his own all which Ricardo eyed very narrowly and no sooner had he laid it on the Table but Ricardo as soon took it away The Usurer whose Eye like his Heart was always on his Money seeing his Bag to creep away so insensibly was quite confounded with Amazement as it would move a Dog to see a Pudding stir and began to call upon him who before was seldom in his thoughts fearing the Devil whom he Judged to have drawn away his Bag would next come for him and therefore vowed a Reformation of his Course of Life That he would never more take the Rigour of a Forfeiture as soon as the day was past nor under colour of Bonds Writing and Procuration make the Borrower pay at least Ten or Twelve Shillings in the Hundred Nay rather than fail to be preserv'd from this Danger he would build an Alms-House to maintain them who had been Ruin'd by his Extortion Now you will say it had been good Hanging this Usurer whilst he was in this ●umour lest he should be of the same mind with a Master of a Ship who in a great extremity of Danger promised our Lady to offer at her Altar a Candle as great as the main Mast of his Ship And when one of his Mates jogging him told him he had promised an impossibility Tush Fool said he we must speak to her fair in time of need but if ever I come ashore I will make her be content with a Candle of six to the Pound But Ricardo was somewhat more Consciencious in his doings for being got s●fe out of the Usurers House he put some of the Money in his Pocket and waiting fo● the poor Man's return gave him the rest bidding him to be a good Husband with it and pray for the Squire of the Invisible Ring for his good Fortune And s● leaving the Poor Man over-joy'd he wen● towards the Farmers when passing through a Meddow he saw a Maid Milk●ing of a Cow who was sweetly singin● forth this Song When first on Love I cast my wanton though● But yet not minding him for to obey For freedom sure I thought was better ough● Than serving him his Servitors doth s●●● For what to Hungry Lovers is relief 〈◊〉 But Sorrow Anguish Discontent Gri●● But yet my mind is not so fully set For Maidens minds are subject unto change But if I could a faithful Servant get Whose Love would not be subject for to range I soon to Love should yield a due subjection And he should Master be of my Affection For Maidens Hearts they are not like to steal Obdurate hard will no Impression take But tender soft when Cupid's Darts they feel Which in their Hearts will soon Imp●ession make No Fort so strong but may be won at last No Mind so fixt but it may change as fast Ricardo stood amaz'd at the ravishing Harmony of her Voice comparing it to the Melody of the Thracian Poet Orpheus when by his Songs he attracted Beasts Trees and Stones to follow him or rather to the Harmony of the Seraphick Choires wishing himself all Ear to listen to her Song the pleasingness whereof so insensibly crept into his Heart that he became a Thrawl unto her But first he began to consider whether Squire Errants might have their Mistresses as well as Knights and many weighty Arguments pro and Con passed in his thoughts but Love so over-swayed them all that he became solely captivated to her Affections and therefore was she no sooner risen from Milking her Cow but he accosted her on this manner Most beautyful Mistress the attracting Harmony of your Angelical Voice hath so captivated my Heart that I am become a Sworn Servant to your Vertues and therefore among all the Days of my Life I must account this the Happiest wherein I had the Honour first to see you Nor think you have met with an ordinary person which seeks thus to gain an Interest in your Graces for know I am no less than a Squire-Errant to that Renowned Knight at Arms the invincible and Victorious Sir Billy of Billerecay whose Fame begins to sound all the World over and whose History is to be Writ with a brazen Pen and enroled in the Book of Fame Let me intreat you therefore to accept of me for your Servant by which you may come to be as Famous as Dulcina my Masters Lady and in process of Time the Wife to a Governour of an Island The poor Maid who had never before been acquainted

or to live by the shifts of his Invisible-Ring at last he resolved with himself to go to his Master knowing his Necessities to be so great that without his help he was not able to support them having left behind him both his Horse and Armor by which he appeared at least in show not like a Knight Errant and therefore neither he nor his Squire acceptable to those places whether they should come Now as he travelled along often taking a sup of the Bottle to cheer his heart he overtook a Fidler who was going to play at a Wedding at the next Village with whom Ricardo consorted and to endear his Company the more as they went sitting down under an aged Oak whose spreading boughs sheltered them from the heat of Sol● burning rayes which with his orient tresses cast a radient lustre over the world there they ●mpti'd the remainder of the two Bottles and new having their Spirits heightned with the generous Wine they went Merrily on till they came to the House where the Wedding was kept Here the Bridegroom and Bride entertained Ricardo right heartily and a great Company being met together there was Fiddling Dancing Singing Kissing and Playing which so delighted the Heart of Ricardo that now he forgot both the affrightment of the Justice Freston and also the necessity which his Master Billy might be in for the Amorous smiles and Odoriferous Kisses of those Country Wenches were such inticing Charms unto Ricardo that he thought himself in Elizium being in their Company And now the Nuptial Couple were going to Church to tye that Knot with their Tongues which afterwards they could not untye with their Teeth having the Fiddlers playing before them and all the way thither strowed with Rushes though afterwards Nettles might more properly serve the turn Now in most parts of Essex where this Wedding was kept it is a common Custom when Poor People Marry to make a kind of a Dog-Hanging or Mony-gathering which they call a Wedding-Dinner to which they invite Tag and Rag all that will come where after Dinner upon Summons of the Fiddler who setteth forth his voice like a Town-Cryer a Table being set forth and the Bride set simpering at the upper end of it the Bridegroom standing by with a White Sheet overthwart his shoulders as if he did pennance for the Folly he had committed that day whilst the people invited to it like the Soldiers of a Country Train-Band March up to the Bride present their Mony and Wheel about After this offering is over then is a pair of Gloves laid on the Table most monstrously bedaub'd about with Ribbe● which by way of Auction is set to Sal● at who gives most and he whose hap ●● for to have them shall withal have a Kis● of the Bride which many times is no● much worth because her breath is not 〈◊〉 sweet-scented as her Gloves Ricardo who had some Mony still left●● that which he had taken from the Usure● was very liberal at this Wedding an● very bountiful amongst the Maids of 〈◊〉 Kisses two things which indeared h●● very much to their Company And 〈◊〉 the juice of the Malt began to wor● their Crowns and every Coridon had selected his Lass to conferr with Amongst the rest an Ancient Batchellor whose Head was covered with an Hoary Fleece and whom one would have thought to have had nothing but Ice in his veins and earth in his Vissage had gotten in his Arms a brisk Lass as youthful as the early day Hugging and Kissing her as if he meant to make a perpetual feast of her lips Ricardo beheld this with an envious Eye and thinking it unequal that January and May should so twine together he resolved to hinder their Conjunction and to that end having put on his Invisible-Ring sat down close by them to hear their discourse where unperceiv'd he could here the Old Letcher make great asseverations of his affection to her colouring all under the notion of Love although his thoughts were as lustful and as libidinous as a Goat The Wench a crafty Baggage one well skill'd in Venus School seem'd with some Coy words to push him away from her and then with a flattering smile to allure him again He seeing his words not prevalent enough to batter the Fort of her supposed Chastity gave her Golden promises remembring what he had read in the Poet. Nor less may Jupiter to Gold ascribe For when he turn'd himself into a Bribe Who can blame Danaae or the brazen Tower That they withstood not the Almighty Shower Never till then did Love●make Jove put on A form more bright and noble than his own O the powerful oratory of a Golden Tongue his gifts prevails with the Damosel she consents so it may be done privately Si caste non caute a fit place they agree upon and he being hot upon the spur will admit of no delay Ricardo heard all their discourse and followed them as close as the shadow doth the Sun until they came to the place appointed And now a new parley began betwixt them for the Wench belike having had false dealings before would do nothing without Mony in hand with that the old Letcher told her out twenty Shillings be ing the price agreed on betwixt them which the Wench very wary in her ba●gaining would likewise tell over if i● were right which whilst she was doin● Ricardo laid hold of it and snatchin● it out of her hands bellowed forth the Words Thou Rogue and VVhore must go with me Away to Limbo presen●ly These words struck them into a panick fear so that instead of an Amorous heat a chilling sweat over-run their trembling Joynts and a sudden amazement made their Hair to stand an end whereupon they betook them to their Heels and fear adding VVings to their Feet in an instant they were out of sight Ricardo was well pleased with their flight he leaving behind him his Cloak and she her Scarf besides the Mony he had gotten before so that now he thought himself well satisfied for what he had spent at the Wedding besides the pleasure he had in spending his Mony whereupon he resolved to proceed on in his Journey where how he found his Master and what befel Sir Billy after his parting from him shall be declared in the next Chapter CHAP. 10. Sir Billy's encounter with a Dancer on the Ropes how he was carried before a Justice of the Peace and set free by Ricardo by the help of his Invisible-Ring SIR Billy after he had parted from Ricardo was in a very bad condition for Mony he had none without which it is but bad Travelling either amongst Friends or Foes and though he had read that Knights Errant never carried any Mony about them but that they were to be entertained Gratis where-ever they came yet it troubled him not a little that he was equipped neither like a Knight nor Squire having left both his Horse and Armor behind him at the Sage Frestons yet