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
the Chancellour by Act of Parliament We have begun our Catalogue of Chancellours at Sir Thomas More before whose time that place was generally discharged by Clergy men entered in our Book under the Title of Eminent Prelates If any demand why such Clergy-men who have been Lord Chancellours are not rather ranked under the Title of Statesmen than under the Topick of Prelates Let such know that seeing Episcopacy is challenged to be jure Divino and the Chancellours place confessed to be of Humane Institution I conceive them most properly placed and to their best advantage If any ask why the Lord Chancellours who meddle so much in matters of Law are not rather digested under the Title of Lawyers then under that of Statesmen Let such know it is done because some Chancellours were never Lawyers ex professo studying the Laws of the Land for their intended Function taking them only in order to their own private accomplishment Whereof Sir Christopher Hatton was an eminent instance As we begin our Catalogue with Sir Thomas More we close it with Sir Thomas Coventry it being hard toâ—…ay whether the Former were more Witty and Facetious or the Later more Wise and Judicious Lord Treasurers Kings without Treasure will not be suitably obeyed and Treasure without a Treasurer will not be safely preserved Hence it was that the Crowns and Scepters of Kings were made of gold not only because it is the most pure and precious of metalls but to show that wealth doth effectually evidence and maintain the strength and state of Majesty We may therefore observe not only in prophane but holy writ not only in Old but New Testnment signal notice taken of those who were over the Treasury in which great place of Trust the Eunuch served Candace Queen of Ethiopia The Office of Lord Treasurers was ever beheld as a Place of great charge and profit One well skilled in the Perquisits thereof being demanded what he conceived the yearly value of the place was worth made this Return That it might be worth some thousands of pounds to him who after death would go instantly to Heaven twice as much to him who would go to Purgatory and a Nemo Scit to him who would adventure to go to a worse place But the plain truth is He that is a Bad Husband for himself will never be a good one for his Soveraign and therefore no wonder if they have advanced fair Estates to themselves whose Office was so Advantagious and they so judicious and prudent persons without any prejudice to their Master and for ought I know Injury to his Subjects We have begun our Catalogue at William Lord Powlett Marquess of Winchester For although before him here and there Lay-Lords were Intrusted with that Office Yet generally they were Bishops and so anticipated under our Topick of Eminent Prelates and blame me not if in this particular I have made the Lustrè of the Lords Spiritual to Eclipse the Lords Temporal drowning their Civil Office in their Ecclesiastical Employment We close our Catalogue of Lord Treasurers with Francis Lord Cottington Secretaries of State There were but two of these at once in the Kings time whereof the one was styled the Principal Secretary the other the Secretary of Estate Some have said that the first in the Senioritie of Admition was accounted the Principall but the Exceptions in this kind being as many as the Regularities the Younger being often brought over the head of the elder to be Principal Their chiefnesse was Penes Regis Arbitrium Nor was the one confined to Forreign Negotiations the other to domestick businesse as some have believed but promiscuously ordered all affaires though the Genius of some Secretaries did incline them most to forreign Transactions Their Power was on the matter alike and Petitioners might make their Applications indifferently to either though most addressed themselves to him in whom they had the greatest Interest Their Salaries were some Two hundred pounds a piece and five hundred pounds a piece more for Intelligence and Secret Service Before the Reformation Clergy-men who almost were all things were generally Secretaries of Estate as Oliver King Secretary to Edward 4. Edward 5. and Henry the 7. and those came under our Pen in the Notion of Eminent Prelates We therefore begin our Catalogue of Secretaries from Sir Thomas Cromwell in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth because from him until our Time a continued Series of Lay-men haâ—…e discharged that Office We â—…onclude our Secretaries of State with Sir John Cook who perceiving his aged body not so fit for such Active times resigned his Place about the beginning of the Long Parliament though surviving some years after in a private condition We will for the more safety follow the Pattern of so wise a States-man and where he gave over his Office we will give over writing of those Officers for fear we tread too neere on the Toes of the Times and touch too much on our Modern distempers Amiralls or Admiralls Much difference there is about the Original of this word whilst most probable their Opinion who make it of Eastern Extraction borrowed by the Christians from the Saracens These derive it from Amir in Arabick a Prince and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Belonging to the Sea in the Greek Language such mixture being precedented in other words Besides seeing the Sultans Dominions in the Time of the Holy War extended from Sinus Arabius to the North Eastern part of the Midland-Sea where a barbarous kind of Greek was spoken by many Amirall thus compounded was significatively comprehensive of his Jurisdiction Admirall is but a Depraving of Amirall in vulgar mouths However it will never be beaten out of the Heads of the Common sort that seeing the Sea is Scene of Wonders something of Wonderment hath incorporated it self in this Word and that it hath a Glimps Cast or Eye of Admiration therein Our English Kings following the Precedent of the Politick Romans who very seldome entrusted places of great importance especially during life in a single person as also that they might gratifie more and trust less divided the Over-sight of sea-matters betwixt a Triumvirate of Amiralls and like wary Merchants ventured the charge in several bottoms for the more Safety 1. The North Amirall 2. The South Amirall 3. The West Amirall His jurisdiction reached from the Mouth of Thames to the outmost Orcades though often opposed by the Scots and had Yarmouth for his prime Residence His Bounds stretched from the Thames Mouth to the Lands end having his station generally at Portsmouth His power extended from the lands end to the Hebrides having Ireland under his Inspection Milford Haven the chief Stable for his Wooden Horses I find that Richard Fitz-alin Earl of Arundell was by King Richard the second made the first Amirall of all England yet so that if Three Co-Admiralls were restored as formerly his Charter expired John Vere Earl of Oxford was the sirst of Hen. the seventh
passant of the first 4 Tho. Parker ar   5 Iacob Pedley ar   6 Tho. Terrell ar Fulborn C. Arg. two Cheverons Az. within a border engrailed G. 7 Rich. Covil ar  Az. a Lion ramp Arg. a File os 3 Lambeaux G. 8 Capel Bedell ar ut prius  9 Anth. Cage ar ut prius  10 Rob. Ballam ar   11 Ludo. Dyer Bar. Gr. Ston ton Hu. Oâ—… a chief indented Gules The Sheriffs of Cambridge-shire alone Name Place Armes 12 Ioh. Carleton ba. Chevely Arg. on a Bend Sa. 3 Mascats of the first 13 Tho. Chichesley ut prius  14 Tho. Wendy ar ut prius G. a Fess twixi 3 Scallops Or. 15 Tho. Pichard * TruÌ„pington Arg. a Fess betwixt 3 Crosses Fitchee G. 16 Ioh Crane †ar Kingston  17 Ioh. Cotton mil. Landwad S. a Cheveren betwixt 3 〈◊〉 â—…heads erazed Arg. The Sheriffs of Cambridge and Huntington-shires again Name â—…lace Armes 18 Tho. Martin mil. Barton Arg. an Eagle displayed G. 19 Idem ut prius  20 On slo Winch ar   21 Tris. Diumond Wel.  Edward IV. 16 THOMAS COTTON Ar. This Thomas Cotton different in Arms and descent from the Cottons of Hunt was of Cambridg-shire the same person who in the. Gentry of that County Henricâ—… 6. 12. was returned the twenty second in Order Henry the VIII 24 THOMAS ELIOT Mil. He was son to Sir Richard Eliot and born some say in Suffolk but his house and chief estate lay in this County After his long sailing into forraign parts he at last cast anchor at home and being well skilled in Greek and Latine was the Author of many excellent works Of these one in Latine was styled Defensorium bonarum mulierum or the defence of good women though some will say that such are hardly found and easily deâ—…ended He wrote also an excellent Dictionary of Latine and English if not the first the best of that kind in that age and England then abounding with so many learned Clergy-men I know not which more to wonder at that they mist or he hit on so necessary a subject let me adde Bishop Cooper grafted his Dictionary on the stocke of Sir Thomas Eliot which worthy Knight deceased 1546. and was buried at Carlton in this County 28 THOMAS CROMWELL Ar. Here Reader I am at a perfect losâ—… and do desire thy charitable hand to lead me No Cromwell Thomas can I find at this time in this County and can hardly suspect him to be the Cromwell of that Age because only additioned Armiger Indeed I find him this very year created Baron of Okeham but cannot believe that he was Un-knighted so long besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an Office having no Interest I ever met with in Cambridg-shire though which may signifie somewhat he was at this time Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Thus I have started the doubt which others may hunt down to their own satisfaction 34 EDWARD NORTH Mil. He was a prudent Person and in managing Matters of importance of great dispatch not unskilled in Law and eminently imployed in the Court of Augmentation A Court though short lived erected in the end of King Henry the eighth dissolved in the beginning of King Edward the sixth his reign yet very beneficial to the Officers therein This Sir Edward was made by Queen Mary Baron of Catlidge in this County and was a considerable Benefactor to Peter-house in Cambridge where he is remembred in their Parlour with this Distich under his Picture Nobilis Hic vere fuerat si Nobilis ullus Qui sibi 〈◊〉 Nobilitatis erat He was Father to Roger Lord North and Great-grand-father to Dudly Lord North now surviving Edward the VI. 2 JOHN HUDDLESTON Mil. He was highly honored afterwards by Queen Mary and deservedly Such the Tâ—…ust she reposed in him that when Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen she came privately to him to â—…alston and rid thence behind his servant the better to disguise herself from discovery to Framlingham castle She afterwards made him as I have heard her Privy-Councellor and besides other Great Boones bestowed the bigger part of Cambridgecastle then much ruined upon him with the stones whereof he built his fair house in this County I behold his Family as branched from the Huddlestones in Cumberland Queen Elizabeth 14 JOHN CUTS Mil. He was a most bountifull house-keeper as any of his estate insomuch that Queen Elizabeth in the beginning of her reign whilst as yet she had peace with Spain the sickness being at London consigned the Spanish Embassadour to this Knights house in this County The Embassadour coming thither and understanding his name to be John Cuts conceived himself disparaged to be sent to one of so short a name the Spanish Gentlemen generally having voluminous Surnames though not so long as the Deity in New-Spain called Yoca huvaovamaorocoti usually adding the place of their habitation for the elongation thereof But soon after the Don found that what the Knight lacked in length of name he made up in the largeness of his entertainment 34 HENRY CROMWELL Mil. This was the fourth time he was Sheriff in the reign of the Queen He was son to Richard Cromwell Esquire Sheriff in the 32. of King Henry the eighth to whom his Valour and Activity so endeared him that he bestowed on him so much Abby-land in this County as at that day at a reasonable rate is worth twenty thousand pounds a year and upwards He was no whit at all allyed to though intimately acquainted with Thomas Lord Cromwell the Mauler of Monasteries which I knowingly affirme though the contrary be generally believed For when Doctor Goodman late Bishop of Gloucester presented a Printed paper to Oliver Cromwell Grand child to this our Sheriff mentioning therein his near Affinity to the said Lord Cromwell the pretended Protectour desirous to confute a Vulgar Errour in some passion returned That Lord was not related to my Family in the least degree 39 JARVASIUS CLIFTON Mil. He had a fair Estate at Barrington in Somerset-shire whence he removed to Huntingtonshire on his Match with the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Darcy of Leighton-bromswold in that County This Sir Jarvase was by King James created Baron of Leighton aforesaid and there began a beautifull house which he lived not to finish His sole Daughter Katherine was married to Esme Steward Duke of Lenox to whom she bare the truly Illustrious by Virtues and high Extraction James Duke of Richmond King James 9 SIMON STEWARD Mil. I remember he lived after he was Knighted a Fellow-commoner in Trinity-hall where these his Armes are fairly depicted in his Chamber with this Distich over them FrancoruÌ„ Carolus voluit sic Stemmata ferri Singula cum valeant sunt meliora simul French Charls would have these Coats to be thus worn When singly good their better jointly born But how the Royal Name of Steward came
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
Provost of Kings Colledge in Cambridge Which he reteined with the Bishoprick of Chichester to which he was consecrated 1543. A most pertinacious Papist who though he had made some kind of Recantation in a Sermon as I find it entred in king Edward the Sixth his own Diary yet either the same was not satisfactory or else he relapsed into his errours again for which he was deprived under the said king and restored again by Queen Mary He died Anno Dom. 1556. Prelats since the Reformation WILLIAM DAY was brother to the aforesaid George Day I find no great difference betwixt their age seeing George Day was admitted in Kings Colledge Anno 1538. VVilliam Day was admitted in the same Colledge Anno 1545. Yet was there more than forty years betwixt the dates of their deaths George Day died very young Bishop of Chichester Anno Dom. 1556. VVilliam Day died very old Bishop of VVinchester Anno 1596. But not so great was the difference betwixt their Vivacity as distance betwixt their Opinions the former being a Rigid Papist the later a Zealous Protestant Who requesting of his Brother some Money to buy Books therewith and other necessaries was returned with this denial That he thought it not fit to spend the goods of the Church on him who was an enemy of the Church However this William found the words of Solomon true And there is a friend who is nearer than a Brother not wanting those who supplyed his necessities He was Proctor of Cambridge 1558 and afterwards was made by Queen Elizabeth who highly esteemed him for his Learning and Religion Provost of Eton and Dean of Windsor two fair preferments parted with Thames but united in his person The Bishoprick of Winchester he enjoyed scarcely a whole year and dyed as aforesaid 1596. Statesmen Sir THOMAS BROMLEY was borne at Bromley in this County of a right ancient Family I assure you bred in the Inner Temple and Generall Solicitor to Queen Elizabeth He afterwards succeeded Sir Nicholas Bacon in the Dignity of Lord Chancellor Aprill 25. 1579. Now although it was difficult to come after Sir Nicholas Bacon and not to come after him Yet such was Sir Thomas his Learning and Integrity being charactred by my Authors Virjuris prudentia insignis That Court was not sensible of any considerable alteration He possessed his place about nine years dying Anno 1587 not being 60 years old Hereby the pregnancie of his parts do appear seeing by proportion of time he was made the Queens Solicitor before he was 40 and Lord Chancellor before he was 50 years old Learning in Law may seem to run in the veins of that name which since had a Baron of the Exchequer of his Alliance Sir CLEMENT EDMONDS was born at Shrawardine in this County and bred Fellow in All-Souls Colledge in Oxford being generally skilled in all Arts and Sciences Witness his faithfull Translations of and learned Illustrations on Caesars Commentaries Say not that Comment on Commentary was false Heraldry seeing it is so worthy a work that the Authour thereof may pass for an eminent instance to what perfection of Theorie they may attain in matter of War who were not acquainted with the Practick part thereof being only once employed by Queen Elizabeth with a dispatch to Sir Francis Vere which occasioned his presence at the Battail at Newport For he doth so smartly discusse pro and con and seriously decide many Martiall Controversies that his judgement therein is praised by the best Military Masters King Iames taking notice of his Abilities made him Clerke of the Council and Knighted him And he was at last preferred Secretary of State in the vacancy of that place but prevented by Death acted not therein He died Anno 16. and lies buried at Preston in Northamptonshire where he purchased a fair Estate which his Grandchilde doth possess at this day Capitall Judges and Writers on the Law EDMUND PLOWDEN was borne at Plowden in this County one who excellently deserved of our Municipall Law in his learned Writings thereon but consult his ensuing Epitaph which will give a more perfect account of him Conditur in hoc Tumulo corpus Edmundi Plowden Armigeri Claris ortus Parentibus apud Plowden in Comitatu Salop. natus est à pueritia in literarum studio liberaliter est educatus in provectiore vero aetate Legibus juris prudentiae operam dedit Senex jam factus annum aetatis suae agens 67. Mundo valedicens in Christo Jesu sanctè obdormivit die sexto mensis Februar Anno Domini 1584. I have rather inserted this Epitaph inscribed on his Monument on the North side of the East end of the Quire of Temple Church in London because it hath escaped but by what casualty I cannot conjecture Master Stow in his Survey of London We must add a few words out of the Character Mr. Camden gives of him Vitae integritate inter homines suae professionis nulli secundus And how excellent a medly is made when honesty and ability meet in a man of his Profession Nor must we forget how he was Treasurer for the Honourable Society of the Middle-Temple Anno 1572. when their magnificent Hall was builded He being a great advancer thereof Sir JOHN WALTER son to Edmund Walter Chief Justice of South-Wales was born at Ludlow in this County and bred a Student of our Common-Laws wherein he atteined to great Learning so that he became when a Pleader eminent when a Judge more eminent when no Judge most eminent 1 Pleader The Character that Learned James Thuanus gives of Christopher Thuanus his Father being an Advocate of the Civil Law and afterwards a Senator of Paris is exactly agreeable to this Worthy Knight Ut bonos a calumniatoribus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur That he fuffered not good men to be born down by slanderers poor men by more potent Learned men by the ignorant 2 Judge Who as when ascending the Bench entering into a new temper was most passionate as Sir John most patient as Judge Walter and great his gravity in that place When Judge Denham his most upright and worthy Associate in the Western Circuit once said unto him My Lord you are not merry Merry enough return'd the other for a Judge 3 No Judge Being outed of his place when Chief Baron of the Exchequer about the Illegality of the Loan as I take it He was a grand Benefactor though I know not the just proportion to Jesus Colledge in Oxford and died Anno 1630. in the Parish of the Savoy bequeathing 20 l. to the Poor thereof EDWARD LITLETON born at Mounslow in this County was the eldest son to Sir Edward Littleton one of the Justices of the Marches and Chief Justice of North-Wales He was bred in Christ-Church in Oxford where he proceeded Batchelor of Arts and afterward one of the Justices of North-Wales Recorder of London
Lampreys but of excess in eating them and I am confident the Jews might surfet of Manna it self if eating thereof above due proportion Perry This is a Drink or a Counterfeit Wine made of Pears whereof plenty in this County though such which are least delicious for tast are most proper for this purpose Such the Providence of Nature to design all things for mans service Peter Martyr when Professor in Oxford and sick of a Feaver would drink no other liquor though it be generally believed both cold and windy except corrected with spice or some other addition Salt I have twice formerly insisted hereon and doe confess this Repetition to be flatly against my own Rules laid down for the regulating of this work save that the necessity of this Commodity will excuse it from any offence I beheld England as a long well-furnish'd Table and account three principal Salt-cellars set at distance thereon Worcester shire I fancy the Trencher Salt both because it is not so much in quantity though very considerable and because it is whiter finer and heavier then any other Châ—…shire I conceive deserveth to be reputed the Grand-salt-cellar placed somewhat beneaâ—…h the middle whilst the third is the Salt of New-castle set far North at the lower end of the Table for the use of those who otherwise cannot conveniently reach to the former The usefulness of this not-duely-valued-blessing may be concluded from the Latine word Salarium so usuall in antient and modern Authors which importeth the entertainment or wages of Souldiers antiently paid chiefly if not only in Victuals and taketh its name by a Synecdoche fr om Sal or Salt as of all things most absolutely needfull without which condiment nothing can be wholesome nutriment I read in a modern Author describing his own County of Che-shire and measuring all things to the advantage thereof that There is no Shire in England or in any other Country beyond the seas where they have more then one salt-well therein neither at Droitwich in Worcester-shire is there more then one whereas in Che-shire there be four all within ten wiles together Here let me enter this Caveat in preservation of the right of Worcester-shire that many salt-fountains are found therein but stopped up again for the preservation of woods so that the making of salt at one place alone proceeds not from any Natural but a Politick restriction Nor must I forget how our German-Ancestors as Tacitus reports conceited such places where salt was found to be nearest to the heavens and to ingratiate mens pâ—…ayers to the gods I will not say founding their superstition on the mis-apprehension of the Jewish-worship Every sacrifice shall be salted with salt The Buildings I am sorry I have never seen the Cathedrall of Worcester so that I cannot knowingly give it a due commendation and more sorry to hear that our late Civil Wars have made so sad an Impression thereon The Market-towns are generally handsomely built and no Shire in England can shew a brace of them so neat and near together as Beaudley and Kiddermister in this County being scarcely two miles asunder Saints Saint RICHARD born at Wich alias Droitwich from which he took his name was bred in Oxford afterwards at Paris lastly at Bononia in Italy where for seven years together he heard and read the Canon-law Having thus first plentifully laid in he then began to lay out in his Lectures in that University and returning Home became Chancellor of Oxford then of Canterbury till at last chosen Bishop of Chichester He was a great Becketist viz. a stout opposer of Regal Power over Spiritual Persons on which and other accounts he wrot a Book to Pope Innocent the fourth against King Henry the third These his qualities with the reputation of his holy life so commended his memory to the notice of Pope Urban the fourth that seven years after his death viz. Anno 1260 he canonized him for a Saint It seems men then arrived sooner at the maturity oâ—… Popish Saintship then now a days more distance being now required betwixt their death and canonization As for their report that the Wiches or Salt-pits in this County were miraculously procured by his prayers their unsavory lye hath not a graine of probability to season it it appearing by antient Authors that salt-wâ—…ter flowed there time out of mind beâ—…ore any sweet-milk was given by Mother or Nurse to this Saint Richard This County affording no Martyrs such the moderation of Bshop Pates let us proceed to Cardinals JOHN COMIN or Cumin It must cost us some pains but the merit of the man will quit cost to clear him to be of English extraction For the proof whereof we produce the testimony of Giraldus Cambrensis his contemporary and acquaintance who saith he was Viâ—… Anglicus natione Hereby the impudent falsehood of John Demster the Scotish Historian doth plainly appear thus expressing himself Johannes Cuminus ex nobilissimo Comitum Buchaniae stemmate ortus Banfiae natus falsissimè inter Anglos reponitur cum ipse viderim quaedam ipsius nuper Parisiis scripta quibus suorum Popularium causam Pontifici Lucio commendavit in bibliotheca Pauli Petavii Senatoris Parisiensis John Cumin descended from the most noble stock of the Earls of Buchan born at Banfe is most falsely set down amongst the English seeing I my self lately saw some of his writings at Paris in the Library of Paulus Petavius Senator of Paris in which he recommended the cause of his Countrimen to Pope Lucius In plain English this Scotish Demster is an arrant rook depluming England Ireland and Wales of famous Writers meerly to feather his own Country therewith so that should he according to the Jewish Law be forced to make four-fold restitution for his felony he would be left poor enough indeed Besides Alexander Comin was Created first Earl of Buchan by King Alexander the second who began to raign Anno Dom. 1214. whereas Comin by the testimony of Demster himself died 1212. and therefore could not properly descend of their stock who were not then in being I cannot certainly avouch him a Worcester-shire man but know that he was bred a Monke at Evesham therein whence he was chosen the King procuring it à clero Dublinensi consonè satis concorditer Arch-bishop of Dublin He endowed Trinity-Church in Dublin with two and twenty Prebends and was made by Pope Lucius Cardinal of Saint Vellit in Italy HUGH of EVESHAM so called from the place of his Nativity in this County applyed himself to the Study of Physick with so good success that he is called the Phoenix in that Faculty Great also was his skill in the Mathematicks and especially in Astrology Some questions arising at Rome about Physick which consequencially were of Church government Pope Martin the fourth sent for our Hugh to consult with him who gave such satisfaction to his Demands that in requitall he Created him Cardinal