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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50038	The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire with an account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts / by Charles Leigh ...	Leigh, Charles, 1662-1701?	1700 (1700)	Wing L975; ESTC R20833	287,449	522

seems were for the Preservation of the Memory of Two Centuriont that had so many Years faithfully and worthily served the Romans there In the Year 1692 under the Root of an Oak in Med-Lock near Knot-Mill was found a Stone Three Quarters long Fifteen Inches broad Eleven Inches thick with the Letter'd side downward which Mr. Cambden saw not at least before the Finishing his Britania but is now to be seen in the Garden of Holme the Seat of Sir Iohn Bland Bar to whom that Estate descended the same formerly belonging to the Moseley's in Right of his Wife a Lady of great Temper Piety and Prudence The Inscription of the Stone is thus FORTVNAE CONSERVA TRICI LVCIVS SENACIANIVS MARTIVSBLEG VI. VICT. This seems to be an Altar dedicated to Fortune by Lucius Senecianus Martius Brutus a Commander in the Sixth Legion which remained in York in the Time of Severus his being there after he had vanquished Albinus General of the Britains and reduced their State under his Obedience It was surnamed Victrix and is plac'd by Dio in Lower Britain and the Twentieth Legion surnamed also Victrix remain'd at Chester which was plac'd in Higher Britain This Division it seems was made by the said Severus and the Country about it where these Legions were were divided into little Regions since call'd Hydes This was part of the Kingdom of Deiara several of whose Youth being sent to Rome and Pope Gregory admiring their Beauty sent over Augustine to convert the English Edward the First King of the West Saxons and afterwards of the Mercians sent into the Kingdom of the Northumbers an Army of the Mercians saith Hoveden ordering that they should fortifie the City of Manchester and place valiant Soldiers in it it being defac'd by the Danes It was a Frontier Town betwixt the Mercians that inhabited Cheshire and Derbyshire and the Northumbers inhabiting Lancashire and Yorkshire and in their Wars and mutual Incursions was sometimes possessed by the Mercians and sometimes the Northumbers Thus far our Author proceeds As to the present State of the Town it is vastly populous of great Trade Riches and Industry particularly for the Fustian Manufacture and Printing them as for those likewise which are call'd Manchester Wares both which are now sent all over the Kingdom as well as to the Indies It is watered by the Rivers Erwell and Irke Little can be added of Lancaster for Antiquity save that it was doubtless a Roman Fortress as appears by the Roman Wall and Road leading to it it is at this time a very thriving Corporation and an improving Port Its Eminency chiefly lies in this that many Branches of the Royal Family have enjoy'd Titles deriv'd from it which for the Dignity of the County in general I will enumerate as briefly as possible The First that was stiled Lord of the Place in the Beginning of the Norman Government was Roger of Poictou surnamed Pictarensis because his Wife came out of Poictou in France He was succeeded in that Honour by William Earl of Morton and Warren upon whose Death King Richard the First bestow'd it on his Brother Iohn afterwards King of England of whom Gualter De Hemingford and R. Hoveden gives this Account That King Richard shew'd great Affection to his Brother Iohn for besides Ireland and the Earldom in Normandy he bestow'd upon him such great Preferment in England that he was in a manner Tetrarch there For he gave him Cornwall Lancaster Nottingham and Derby with the adjacent Country and many other Things After this King Henry III. Son of King Iohn promoted his younger Son Edmund Crouchback he having been prevented of the Kingdoms of Sicily and Apuleia to the Earldom of Lancaster giving it in these Words The Honour Earldom Castle and Town of Lancaster with the Cow-Pastures which at this Day they call Vaccaries from thence and Forest of Wiresdale Lownsdale New-Castle under Lime with the Mannor Forest and Castle of Pickering the Mannor of Scateby the Village of Gormancester and the Rents of the Town of Huntingdon Edmund had Issue Thomas Henry and Iohn who died unmarried which Thomas was Second Earl of Lancaster and was succeeded in that Honour by his Brother Henry whose Son Henry was in Parliament created Duke of Lancaster being the Second Dukedom that was erected in England that of Cornwall being the First in the Person of Edward the Black Prince and left Two Daughters Maud Dutchess of Bavaria and Blanch married to Iohn of Gaunt so call'd because he was born at Ghent in Flanders Fourth Son of Edward the Third who thereby coming to the whole Estate and being now equal to many Kings in Wealth was created Duke of Lancaster by his Father he also obtain'd the Royalties from him and the King then advanced the County of Lancaster into a Palatinate By this Rescript wherein after he had declar'd the great Service he had done his Country at Home and Abroad he adds We have granted from Us and our Heirs to our Son aforesaid that he during his Term of Life shall have within the County of Lancaster his Chancery and his Writs to be issued out under his own Seal belonging to the Office of Chancellor his Justices likewise as well for Pleas of the Crown as for other Pleas relating to Common Law to have Cognizance of them and to have Power of making all Executions whatsoever by his Writs and Officers and to have all other Liberties and Royalties whatsoever appertaining to a County Palatine as freely and fully as the Earl of Chester within the said County is known to have Nor was he only Duke of Lancaster but by Marriage with Constantia Daughter to Peter King of Castile sometime bore the Title of King of Leon and Castile but by Contract he parted with this Title and in the Thirteenth of King Richard the Second was created Duke of Aquitaine by Consent of Parliament to the great Dissatisfaction of the Country At that Time his Titles were Iohn Son to the King of England Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincoln and Leicester and High Steward of England After this Henry de Bullingbrook his Son succeeded in the Dutchy of Lancaster who having deposed Richard the Second obtained the Crown and conferr'd that Honour upon Henry his Son afterwards King of England and that he might entail it upon him and his Heirs for ever he had an Act of Parliament made in these Words We being unwilling that our said Inheritance or Liberties by reason of our now assuming the Regal Seat and Diguity shou'd be any ways chang'd transferr'd diminish'd or impair'd but that our said Inheritance with its Liberties and Rights aforesaid shou'd in the same Manner and Form Condition and State wherein they descended and fell to us and also with all and singular Liberties Franchizes and Priviledges Commodities and Profits whatsoever which our Lord and Father in his Life-time had and held it for term of his Life by Grant of the late King Richard and wholly

to make my self so far Master of the Language that I write in as to adapt my Expressions to the subjects that I treat off How far these kind of Actions are reconcileable either to Justice Honour or Learning I freely submit to the common Censures of Mankind nay even to their own Sentiments And would gladly be inform'd by what unaccountable Methods they have so totally Monopolized all natural Learning that the freedom of thought shall not be allowable to another Notwithstanding their wonderful assurance I will once again venture to affirm their Petrefactions many of them at least are not so exquisitely like the Shells which they represent but we may as reasonably suppose that the Espousers of this Fiction may be as much mistaken as the Bird which peck'd upon the Grapes drawn by Zeuxes And am apt to think that upon a serious Consideration of the whole matter The one will be found as starving an Entertainment as the other 'T is true some of these Gentlemen have very choice and curious Collections of Natural Curiosities and in their Collections of petrified Shells as they term them even outstrip all the Trophies of Caligula when he made that vast Collection upon the Belgic Shore but if these Gentlemen cannot be certain that those Shells are the Exuviae of those Fishes they take them for they do but impose upon their own Judgments and only entitle themselves to a spurious Off-Spring wherefore considering the many absurdities that inevitably arise from that Hypothesis that Learning is built upon I shall not expatiate upon them here but leave the further disquisition of those matters to the Unbiassed Readers This to be incerted as a Postscript at the end of the First Book after the Explication of the Cuts THE Natural History OF LANCASHIRE CHESHIRE AND THE Peak in DERBYSHIRE BOOK II. CHAP. I. Of Quadrupeds unusual Phoenomena in Human-Kind of Persons noted for Arts Professions and Acts of Charity THAT there shou'd be a Species of Quadrupeds in these Parts different from others in England is scarce to be imagin'd I shall therefore only take notice in this Treatise of what are most remarkable amongst us In a Park call'd Stiperly in Cheshire belonging to Iohn Legh of Adlington Esq from which Family my Ancestors had the Honour to descend are an unusual kind of Sheep they are of a larger size than most others and bear rather a kind of Hair than Wooll They have all Four Horns and some of them of an Extraordinary size the Two Horns next the Neck are erect like those of Goats but larger the other next the Forehead are curved like those of other Sheep whether or no these be a particular Species of Sheep or perhaps might come at first by Goats and Sheep engend'ring together I cannot determine their Flesh is agreeable enough yet different from other Mutton yet more resembling that than Goats Flesh Not far from thence lies Lime-Park belonging to Peter Legh of Lime Esq in which there are a great Number of Red-Deer of which this is remarkable that once a Year the Keepers drive them together upon a grass Plain before the Gates of the Hall a thing I believe not practis'd upon these Wild Creatures in any other part of the World The wonderful consent there is betwixt the Horns and Testicles of these Creatures is scarce to be imagin'd as likewise their Yearly casting their Horns it is most certain if these Deer be gelded before the Eruption of their Horns they never produce any afterwards and if before the usual time of casting them they then never cast those they are possest of which Phoenomenon to me seems to argue that the principal occasion of casting their Horns is that about Rutting time their Testicles are more pregnant than at other Seasons hence their Blood being raised to an higher Ferment nay indeed to so touring a Pitch that Nature it self is almost unhing'd hence the Blood Vessels being distended beyond their Natural Tone are uncapable to contain any longer but are forcibly burst asunder by the disruption of these the Horns which abound with them are dispoiled of all possible Communication of Nourishment by which means the Nerves are render'd Weak and Languid the Horn consequently by its own Weight declines and falls off these Horns afford us in Chymical Preparations an Oil and a Spirit which is indeed nothing but the Volatile Salt dissolved in Phlegm and a Volatile Salt which are all of them of Extraordinary use in Languors and Convulsive Distempers or in any Malady of the Nerves It is affirm'd by the Learned Dr. Brown in his Travels in Hungary that in Servia where the Plague frequently rages they find no better Antidote against it than Eating the Flesh of these Creatures for which there may be this Reason it is probable the Flesh of these Creatures contains a greater quantity of Volatile Salt than other Flesh may by which means it becomes a more generous Food and by a more than an Ordinary Volatilized Chyle prevents Coagulation of the Blood which causes that Pestilental Distemper those Volatile Alkalies destroying the other Saline Acid particles that make the Coagulum The Horns of these Creatures by their own Effluvia are Convertible into a Jelly which is of great use to Emaciated Persons and a noble Food to any it may be it was from this Preparation that Monsieur Papin received the first hint of his New Digester by which he Converted Bones into Marrow by their own Effluvia which I have seen frequently Experimented by that Excellent Chymist Christopher White of Oxford Operator in the Publick Laboratory of that most Flourishing University it is affirm'd by the Huntsmen that these Creatures when they find themselves Encompassed by the Dogs and no possibility of escape will weep most Mournfully a sight that to a Tender Spirit wou'd damp the Divertisement of that days Recreation so endearing a Principle is Life to all Creatures In the Park near Mannor in Lancashire are spotted Deer There are some of these likewise in Dunham-Park belonging to the Right Honourable the Earl of Warrington in the County of Chester In a Park near Bury in Lancashire are Wild Cattel belonging to Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton these I presume were first brought from the high-lands of Scotland They have no Horns but are like the Wild Bulls and Cows upon the Continent of America of which Monsieur Hennipin has given us a full account in his Travels up the River Mesashippi upon the Banks of which great Herds of these are frequently seen Grasing and are Hunted by the Indians as the Deer by us The defect of Horns in these Beasts brings into my Mind a very remarkable Phoenomenon of one Alice Green whose Picture I have seen in Whalley-Abbey in Lancashire this Woman had Two Horns which grew out at the back part of her Head they grew backwards like those of Rams and were about three Inches long these she cast once in three Years and had always intolerable