Barbarous fact Yet though his right hand suffered as a Malefactour there want not those who maintained that Martyr belongs to the rest of his Body Prelats STEPHEN de FULBORN was born at Fulborn no other of that name in England in this County Going over into Ireland to seek his Providence commonly nick-named his fortune therein he became anno 1274 Bishop of Waterford and Lord Treasurer of Ireland Hence he was preferred Arch-bishop of Tuam and once and again was Chief Justice of that allow me a Prolepsis Kingdome He is reported to have given to the Church of Glassenbury in England Indulgâ—…nces of an hundred days which I cannot understand except he promised pardon of so many days to all in his Province who went a Pilgrimage to that place and this also seems an over-papal Act of a plain Arch-bishop He died 1288. and was buried in Trinity Church in Dublin NICHOLAS of ELY was so called say some from being Arch-Deacon thereof which dignity so died his Denomination in grain that it kept colour till his death not fading for his future higher preferments though others conjecture his birth also at Ely When the bold Barons obtrued a Chancellour A Kings Tongue and Hands by whom he publickly speaks and acts Anno 1260. they forced this Nicholas on King Henry the third for that Office till the King some months after displaced him yet knowing him a man of much merit voluntarily chose him L. Treasurer when outed of his Chancellors place so that it seems he would trust him with his Coffers but not with his Conscience yea he afterwards preferred him Bishop of Worcester then of Winchester Here he sate 12. years and that Cathedrall may by a Synedoche of a novel part for the whole challenge his interment having his Heart inclosed in a Wall though his body be buryed at Waverly in â—…urry 1280. WILLIAM of BOTLESHAM was born at Bottlesham contractly Botsam in this County This is a small village which never amounted to a Market-town some five miles East of Cambridge pleasantly seated in pure aire having rich arable on the one and the fair health of New-market on the other side thereof It hath been the nursery of refined wits affording a Triumvirate of learned men taking their lives there and names thence and to prevent mistakes to which learned pens in this point have been too prone we present them in the ensuing parallels William of Bottlesham John of Bottlesham Nicholas of Bottlesham Made by the Pope first Bishop of Bethlehem in Syria afterwards Anno 1385. Bishop of Landaffe and thence removed to Rochester A famous Preacher Confessor to King Richard the second and learned Writer but by Walsingham and Bale called John by mistake He dyed in Febru Anno 1399. Nor must we forget that he was once Fellow of Pembroke-hall Was bred in Peter-house in Cambridge whereunto he was a Benefactor as also to the whole University Chaplain to T. Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury by whose recommendation he was preferred to succeed his Towns-man in the See of Rochester which he never saw saith my Authour as dying in the beginning of the year 1401. Was a Carmelite bred in Cambridge afterwards removed to Paris where in Sorbone he commenced Doctor of Divinity Returning to Cambridge he became Prior of the Carmelites since Queens-colledge where he wrote many books and lies buried in his own Covent Anno Domini 1435. Let all England shew me the like of three eminent men all contemporaries at large which one petty village did produce Let Bottlesham hereafter be no more fam'd for its single Becon but for these three lights it afforded THOMAS of NEW MARKET was born therein and though that Town lyeth some part in Suffolk my Author assures his Nativity in this County He was bred in Cambridge an excellent Humanist and Divine having left some learned Books to Posterity and at last was advanced to be Bishop of Carlile Surely then he must be the same with Thomas Merks consecrated Anno 1397. consent of time most truly befriending the conjecture Merks also and Market being the same in effect Neither doth the omission of New in the least degree discompose their Identity it being usuall to leave out the Prenomen of a Town for brevity sake by those of the Vicenage amongst whom there is no danger of mistake commonly calling West-chester Chester South-hampton Hampton If the same he is famous in our English Histories because his devotion in a Transposed Posture to publick practise worshiped the Sun-setting King Richard the second for which his memory will meet with more to commend then imitate it Yet was his Loyalty shent but not sham'd and King Henry the fourth being sick of him not daring to let him to live nor put him to death because 〈◊〉 Prelate found an Expedient for him of a living death confining him to a Titular Grecian Bishoprick He dyed about 1405. THOMAS THIRLBY Doctor of Laws was as I am assured by an excellent Antiquary born in the Town and bred in the University of Cambridge most probably in Trinity hall He was very able in his own faculty and more then once employed in Embasseys by King Henry the eighth who preferred him Bishop of Westminster Here had Thirlby lived long and continued the course he began he had prevented Queen Mary from dissolving that Bishoprick as which would have dissolved it self for lack of land sold and wasted by him And though probably he did this to raise and enrich his own family yet such the success of his sacriledge his name and alliance is extinct From Westminster he was removed to Norwich thence to Ely He cannot be followed as some other of his order by the light of the Fagots kindled by him to burn poor Martyrs seeing he was given rather to Prodigality then cruelty it being signally observed that he wept at Arch-bishop Cranmers degradation After the death of Queen Mary he was as violent in his opinions but not so virulent in his expressions always devoted to Queen Mary but never invective against Queen Elizabeth He lived in free custody dyed and is buried at Lambeth 1570. Since the Reformation GODFREY GOLDSBOROUGH D. D. was born in the Town of Cambridge where some of his Sur-name and Relation remained since my memory He was bred in Trinity-colledge Pupil to Arch-bishop Whitgiff and became afterwards Fellow thereof at last he was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester Anno Dom. 1598. He was one of the second set of Protestant Bishops which were after those so famous for their sufferings in the Marian days and before those who fall under the cognizance of our generation the true reason that so little can be recovered of their character He gave a hundred mark to Trinity colledge and died Anno Dom. 1604. ROBERT TOWNSON D. D. was born in Saint Botolphs parish in Cambridge and bred a Fellow in Queens-colledge being admitted very young
of the Sea c. I confesse the modern mystery of Watch-making is much completed men never being more curious to divide more carelesse to imploy their time but surely this was accounted a master-peece in that age His Sermons so indeared him to King Edward 6. that he preferred him whilst as yet scarce thirty six yeares of age to the Bishoprick of Rochester then of Winchester But alas these honor 's soon got were as soon lost being forced to fly into high Germany in the first of Queen Mary Where before he was fully fourty and before he had finished his Book begun against Thomas Martin in defence of Ministers marriage he died at Strasburg the 2. August 1556. And was buried there with great Lamentation RICHARD FLETCHER was born in this County Brother to Doctor Giles Fletcher the Civilian and Embassadour in Russia and bred in Bennet Colledge in Cambridge He was afterwards Dean of Peterborough at what time Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay to whom he made saith my Authour Verbosam Orationem a Wordy speech of her past present and future condition wherein he took more pains that he received thanks from her who therein was most concerned Hence he was preferred Bishop of Peterborough and at last of London my Authour saith he was Presul Splendidus and indeed he was of a comly presence and Queen Elizabeth knew full well Gratior est pulcro veniens è corpore virtus The Iewel vertue is more Grac'd When in a proper person Cas'd Which made her alwayes on an equality of Desert to reflect favourably on such who were of Graceful countenance and stature In one respect this Bishop may well be resembled to John Peckham Archbishop of Canterbury of whom I find this Character Quanquam gestu incessu saepeetiami n Sermone gloriosus videretur elatus animo tamen fuit benignissimo perquam comi Although he seemed a boaster and puffed up both in gesture and gaâ—…e and sometimes in his speech also yet was he of a loving disposition exceeding courteous Such a one was Bishop Fletcher whose pride was rather on him than in him as only gate and gesture-deep not sinking to his heart though causelesly condemned for a proud man as who was a good Hypocrite and far more humble than he appeared He married a Lady of this County who one commendeth for very vertuous which iâ—… so the more happy she in her self though unhappy that the world did not believe it Sure I am that Queen Elizabeth who hardly held the second matches of Bishops excusable accounted his marriage a trespasse on his gravity whereupon he fell into her deep displeasure Hereof this Bishop was sadly sensible and seeking to lose his sorrow in a mist of smoak died of the immoderate taking thereof June the fifteenth 1596. BRIAN DUPPA D. D. the worthy Bishop of Winchester was born at Lewsham in in this County staying for farther instructions I am forced to deferre his life to our Additions States-Men Sir EDWARD POYNINGS Knight was in martial performances inferiour to none of his age and a Native of this County as from the Catalogue of the Sheriffs therein may be collected We will insist only on his Irish Action being employed by King Henry the seventh to conjure down the last walking Spirit of the House of York which haunted that King I mean Perkin Warbeck Having ferreted him out of Ireland he seriously set him self to reclaim that barbarous Nation to civility and in order thereunto passed an Act in Parliament whereby all the Statutes made in England bâ—…fore that time were enacted established and made of force in Ireland He caused also another Law to be made that no Act should be propounded in any Parliament in Ireland till first it had been transmitted into England approved there by the King and returned thence under his broad Seal Now though this Act seemeth prima facie prejudicial to the liberty of the Irish Subjects yet was it made at the request of the Commons upon just important cause being so sensible of the oppression and Laws imposed by private Lords for their particular ends that they rather referred themselves to the Kings Justice than to the merciless mercy of so many Masters Also to conform Ireland to England he procured the passing of an Act that the Irish Barons should appear in Parliament in their Robes which put a face of Grandeur and State on their Convention And indeed formalities are more than Formalities in matters of this nature essentiall to beget a veneration in barbarous people who carry much of their Brain in their Eyes He thriftily improved the Kings Revenues and obtained a Subsidy of twenty six shillings eight pence payable yearly for five years out of every six score Acres manured The worst was the burden fell on their backs whose Islands were most industrious whereby the Soveraign became not more wealthy but the Subjects more lazy the mischief being as apparent as the remedy impossible Many more large Laws of his making found but narrow performance viz. only within the Pale Nor was Henry the seventh though in title in trâ—…th Lord of all Ireland but by the favour of a Figure and large Synechdeche of a part for the whole These things thus ordered Sir Edward was recalled in to England created a Baron and dying in the beginning of King Henry the eight left a numerous natural but no legitimate issue Sir ANTHONY St. LEGER is rationally reputed a Kentish man though he had also a Devonshire Relation as will appear to such who peruse the Sheriffs of this County He was properly the first Vice-Roy of Ireland seeing shadows cannot be before their substance and in his Deputy-ship Henry the eight in the 33. year of his reign assumed the Title of King and Supream Head of the Church of Ireland To him all the Irish Nobility made their solemn submission falling down at his feet upon their knees laying aside their Girdles Skeines and Caps This was the fourth solemn submission of the Irish to the Kings of England and most true it is such seeming submissions have been the bane of their serious subjection For out of the Pale our Kings had not power either to Punish or Protect where those Irish Lords notwithstanding their Complemental Loyalty made their list the law to such whom they could over-power He caused also certain Ordinances of State to be made not altogether agreeable with the Rules of the Law of England a satisfactory reason hereof being given in the Preamble to them Quia nondum sic sapiunt leges Jura ut secundum ea jam immediate vivere regi possint Because the Irish as yet do not so savour the Laws of England as immediately to live after and be ruled by them Thus the greatest Statesmen must sometimes say by your leave to such as are under them not acting alway according to their own ability but others capacity He seized all
King Iames Bishop of Salisbury He dyed in his calling having begun to put in print an excellent book against Atheists most useful for our age wherein their sin so aboundeth His Death happened March 11. 1619. not two full years after his Consecration Statesmen EDVVARD FINES Lord Clinton Knight of the Garter was Lord Admiral of England for more then thirty years a Wise Valiant and Fortunate Gentleman The Masterpeice of his service was in Mustleborough Field in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth and the Battail against the Scots Some will wonder what a Fish should do on dry Land what use of an Admiral in a Land fight But know the English kept themselves close to the shore under the shelter of their ships and whilst their Arrows could do little their spears lesse their swords nothing against the Scots who appeared like a hedge of Steel so well armed and closed together the great Ordnance from their ships at first did all making such destruction in the Scottish army that though some may call it a Land-fight it was first a Victory from the sea and then but an Execution on the Land By Queen Elizabeth who honoured her honours by bestowing them sparingly he was created Earl of Lincoln May 4. 1574. and indeed he had breadth to his height a proportionable estate chiefly in this County to support his Dignity being one of those who besides his paternal Inheritance had much increased his estate He dyed January the sixteenth 1585. and lyeth buryed at Windsor in a private chappel under a stately Monument which Elizabeth his third Wife Daughter to the Earl of Kildare erected in his Remembrance THOMAS WILSON Doctor of Laws was born in this County bred Fellow of Kings-Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards was Tutor in the same University to Henry and Charles Brandons successively Dukes of Suffolk Hard shift he made to conceal himself in the Reign of Queen Mary Under Queen Elizabeth he was made Master of the Hospital of St. Katharines nigh the Tower of London upon the same Token that he took down the Quire which my Author saith allow him a little Hyperbole was as great as the Quire at St. Pauls I am loth to believe it done out of Covetousnesse to gain by the materials thereof but would rather conceive it so run to Ruin that it was past repairing He at last became Secretary of State to Q. Elizabeth for four years together It argues his ability for the place because he was put into it Seeing in those active times under so judicious a Queen weaknesse might despair to be employed in such an office He dyed anno dom 15. THOMAS Lord BURGE or BOROUâ—…H Son to William Lord Burge Grandson to Thomas Lord Burge created Baron by King Henry the Eight was born in his Fathers Fair house at Gainsborough in this County His first publick appearing was when he was sent Embassador into Scotland anno 1593. to excuse Bothwell his lurking in England to advise the speedy suppressing of the Spanish Faction and to advance an effectual association of the Protestants in that Kingdome for their Kings defence which was done accordingly Now when Sir William Russel Lord Deputy of Ireland was recalled this Lord Tho. Burgh was substituted in his room anno 1597. Mr. Camden doth thus character him Vir acer animi plenus â—…ed nullis fere castrorum rudimentis But where there is the stock of Valour with an able brain Experience will soon be graffed upon it It was first thought fit to make a Months Truce with Tyrone which cessation like a Damm made their mutual animosities for the present swell higher and when removed for the future run the fiercer The Lord Deputy the Truce expired streightly besieged the Fort of Blackwater the only Receptacle of the Rebells in those parts I mean besides their Woods and Bogs the Key of the County of Tyrone This Fort he took by Force and presently followed a bloody Battle wherein the English paid dear for their Victory loosing many worthy men and amongst them two that were Foster brothers Fratres Collactanei to the Earl of Kildare who so layed this losse to his heart amongst the Irish Foster brethren are loved above the Sons of their fathers that he dyed soon after Tyrons credit now lay a bleeding when to stanch it he rebesieged Blackwater and the Lord Deputy whilst indevouring to relieve it was struck with untimely death before he had continued a whole year in his place All I will add is this that it brake the heart of Valiant Sir John Norris who had promised the Deputies place unto himself as due to his deserts when this Lord Burgh was superinduced into that Office His Relict Lady famous for her Charity and skill in Chirurgery lived long in Westminster and dyed very aged some twenty years since WILLIAM CECIL Know Reader before I go farther something must be premised concerning his position in this Topick Virgil was prophane in his flattery to Augustus Caesar profering him his free choice after his death to be â—…anked amongst what heathen Gods he pleased so that he might take his place either amongst those of the Land which had the oversight of Men and Cities or the Sea-Gods commanding in the Ocean or the Skye-Gods and become a new Constellation therein But without the least adulation we are bound to profer this worthy Peer his own election whether he will be pleased to repose himself under Benefactors to the Publick all England in that age being beholden to his bounty as well as the poor in Standford for whom he erected a fair Bead-house acknowledging under God and the Queen their prosperity the fruit of his prudence Or else he may rest himself under the title of Lawyers being long bred in the Inns of Court and more learned in our Municipal-Law then many who made it their sole profession However for the present we lodge this English Nestor for wisdome and vivacitie under the notion of States-men being Secretarie and Lord-Treasurer for above thirty years together Having formerly written his life at large it will be enough here to observe that he was born at Bourn in this County being son to Richard Cecil Esq of the Robes to King Henry the eighth and a Legatee in his Will and Jane his Wife of whom hereafter He was in his age Moderator Aulae steering the Court at his pleasure and whilst the Earl of Leichester would indure no equall and Sussex no superiour therein he by siding with neither served himself with both Incredible was the kindness which Queen Elizabeth had for him or rather for her self in him being sensible that he was so able a Minister of State Coming once to visit him being sick of the Goute at Burley house in the Strand and being much heightned with her Head Attire then in fashion the Lords Servant who conducted her thorow the door May your Highness said he be pleased to stoop the Queen
bred in Bennet Colledge in Cambridge to which afterwards he proved a bountiful Benefactor building a beautiful Chappel therein He afterwards applied himself to the study of the Common Law and was made Attourney to the Court of Wards whence he was preferred Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the First of Queen Elizabeth 1558. He married Anne second daughter to S â— Anthony Cook of Giddy-hall in Essex Governour to King Edward the Sixth And it is worthy of our observation how the Sates-men in that Age were arched together in affinity to no small support one to another Sir John Cheek Secretary to K. Edward the Sixth whose sister was first wife to Sr William Cecil Secretary to the same King Sir Will. Cecil aforesaid for his second wife married the wives sister unto this Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper Sr. Francis Walsingham Secretary to Queen Elizabeth had a sister married unto Sir Walter Mildmay Chancellour of the Exchequer Sir Franc. Walsingham was also brother in Law unto Sir Tho. Randolph that grand States-man Ambassador To return to Sir Nicholas Bacon he was condemned by some who seemed wise and commended by those that were so for not causing that Sâ—…atute to be repealed the Queen relying on him as her Oracle of Law whereby the Queen was made illegitimate in the dayes of her Father For this wise States-man would not open that wound which time had partly closed and would not meddle with the variety yea contrariety of Statutes in this kind whereby people would rather be perplexed than satisfied but derived her right from another Statute which allowed her succession the rather because Lawyers maintain That a Crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof He continued in his Office about eighteen years being a Man of rare wit and deep experience Cui fuit ingenium subtile in corpore crasso For he was loaden with a corpulent body especially in his old Age so that he would be not only out of breath but also almost out of life with going from Westminster-hall to the Star-chamber in so much when sitting down in his place it was some time before he could recover himself And therefore it was usual in that Court that no Lawyer should begin to speak till the Lord Keeper held up his staffe as a signal to him to begin He gave for his Motto Mediocria Firma and practised the former part thereof Mediocria Never attaining because never affecting any great Estate He was not for Invidious Structures as some of his Contemporaries but delighted in Domo Domino pari Such as was his house at Gorhambury in Hartfordshire And therefore when Queen Elizabeth coming thither in progresse told him My Lord your house is too little for you No Madam returned he no less wittely than gratefully But it is your Highness that hath made me too great for mine house Now as he was a just practiser of the first part of this Motto Mediocria so no doubt he will prove a true Prophet in the second part thereof Firma having left an Estate rather good than great to his posterity whose eldest son Sir Edward Bacon in this County was the first Baronet of England He died on the 20th of February 1578 and Iieth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls In a word he was a goodman a grave States-man a Father to his Country and Father to Sir FRANCIS BACON Sir WILLIAM DRUERY was born in this County where his Worshipful Family had long flourished at Haulsted His name in Saxon soundeth a Pearle to which he answered in the pretiousness of his disposition clear and hard innocent and valiant and therefore valued deservedly by his Queen and Country His youth he spent in the French Wars his middle in Scotland and his old Age in Ireland He was Knight Marshal of Barwick at what time the French had possessed themselves of the Castle of Edenburgh in the minority of King James Queen Elizabeth employed this Sir William with 1500 men to besiege the Castle which service he right worthily performed reducing it within few dayes to the true owner thereof Anno 1575 he was appointed Lord President of Mounster whether he went with competent Forces and executed impartial Justice in despite of the Opposers thereof For as the Sign of Leo immediately precedeth Virgo and Libra in the Zodiack so no hope that innocency will be protected or Justice administred in a Barbarous Country where power and strength do not first secure a passage unto them But the Earl of Desmond opposed this good President forbidding him to enter the County of Kerry as a Palatinate peculiarly appropriated unto himself Know by the way as there were but four Palatinates in England Chester LancasterDurham and Ely whereof the two former many years since were in effect invested in thâ—… Crown there were no fewer than eight Palatinates in Ireland possessed by their Respective Dynasts claiming Regal Rites therein to the great retarding of the absolute Conquest of that Kingdom Amongst these saith my Author Kerry became the Sanctuary of sin and Refuge of Rebels as out-lawed from any English Jurisdiction Sir William no whit terrified with the Earls threatning entred Kerry with a competent Train and there dispenced Justice to all persons as occasion did require Thus with his seven-score men he safely forced his return through seven hundred of the Earls who sought to surprise him In the last year of his life he was made Lord Deputy of Ireland and no doubt had performed much in his place if not afflicted with constant sickness the fore-runner of his death at Waterford 1598. Sir ROBERT NAUNTON was born in this County of Right ancient Extraction some avouching that his Family were here before others that they came in with the Conqueror who rewarded the chief of that Name for his service with a great Inheretrix given him in marriage In so much that his Lands were then estimated at a vast sum in my Judgment seven hundred pounds a year For along time they were Patrons of Alderton in this County where I conceive Sir Robert was born He was first bred Fellow Commoner in Trinity Colledge and then Fellow of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge He was Proctor of the University Anno Domini 160 0 1 which Office according to the Old Circle returned not to that Colledge but once in fourty four years He addicted himself from his youth to such studies as did tend to accomplish him for Publick imployment I conceive his most excellent piece called Fragmenta Regalia set forth since his death was a fruit of his younger years He was afterwards sworn Secretary of State to King James on Thursday the eighth of January 1617. which place he discharged with great ability and dexterity And I hope it will be no offence here to insert a pleasant passage One Mr. Wiemark a wealthy Man great Novilant and constant Pauls walker hearing the News that day of the beheading of Sir Walter Raleigh His head said he
he was the son of a good King which many men would wish and no child could help The then present Power more of coveteousness than kindness unwilling to maintain him either like or unlike the son of his Father permitted him to depart the Land with scarce tolerable Accommodations and the promise of a never-performed Pension for his future Support A passage I meet with in my worthy Friend concerning this Duke deserveth to be written in letters of Gold In the year 1654 almost as soon as his two Elder Brethren had removed themselves into Flanders he found a strong practise in some of the Queens Court to seduce him to the Church of Rome whose temptations he resisted beyond his years and thereupon was sent for by them into Flanders He had a great appetite to Learning and a quick digestion able to take as much as his Tutors could teach him He fluently could speak many understood more Modern Tongues He was able to express himself in matters of importance presently properly solidly to the admiration of such who trebled his Age. Judicious his Curiosity to inquire into Navigation and other Mathematical Mysteries His Courtesie set a lustre on all and commanded mens Affections to love him His life may be said to have been All in the night of affliction rising by his Birth a little before the setting of his Fathers and setting by his Death a little after the rising of his Brothers peaceable Reign It seems Providence to prevent Excess thought fit to temper the general mirth of England with some mourning With his Name-sake Prince Henry he compleated not twenty years and what was said of the Unkle was as true of the Nephew Fatuos a morte defendit ipsa insulsitas si cui plus caeteris aliquantulum salis insit quod miremini statim putrescit He deceased at Whitehall on Thursday the 13th of September 1660 and was buried though privately solemnly Veris spirantibus lacrymis in the Chappel of King Henry the Seventh Martyrs I meet with few if any in this County being part of the Diocess of Politick Gardiner The Fable is well known of an Ape which having a mind to a Chest-nut lying in the fire made the foot of a Spannel to be his tongs by the proxy whereof he got out the Nut for himself Such the subtlety of Gardiner who minding to murther any poor Protestant and willing to save himself from the scorching of general hatred would put such a person into the fire by the hand of Bonner by whom he was sent for up to London and there destroyed Confessors ELEANOR COBHAM daughter to the Lord Cobham of Sterborough-Castle in this County was afterwards married unto Humphrey Plantaginet Duke of Glocester This is she who when alive was so persecuted for being a Wickliffiâ—…e and for many hainous crimes charged upon her And since her memory hangs still on the file betwixt Confessor and Malefactor But I believe that the voluminous paines of Mr. Fox in vindicating her innocency against the Cavils of Alane Cope and others have so satisfied all indifferent people that they will not grudg her position under this Title Her troubles happened under King Henry the Sixth Anno Domini 14 ... Prelates NICHOLAS of FERNHAM or de Fileceto was born at Fernham in this County and bred a Physician in Oxford Now our Nation esteemeth Physicians little Physick little worth except far fetcht from foreign parts Wherefore this Nicholas to acquire more skill and repute to himself travelled beyond the Seas First he fixed at Paris and there gained great esteem accounted Famosus Anglicus Here he continued until that â—…niversity was in effect dissolved thorough the discords betwixt the Clergy and the Citizens Hence he removed and for some years lived in Bononia Returning home his fame was so great that he became Physician to King Henry the Third The Vivacity and health of this Patient who reigned longer than most men live was an effect of his care Great were the giâ—…ts the King conferred upon him and at last made him Bishop of Chester Wonder not that a Physician should prove a Prelate seeing this Fernham was a general Scholar Besides since the Reformation in the reign of Queen Elizabeth we had J. Coldwel Doctor of Physick a Bishop of Sarum After the Resignation of Chester he accepted of the Bishoprick of Durham This also he surrendred after he had sitten nine years in that See reserving only three Mannors for his maintenance He wrote many Books much esteemed in that Age of the practice in Thysick and use of Herbs and died in a private life 1257. WALTER de MERTON was born at Merton in this County and in the reign of King Henry the Third when Chancellors were chequered in and out three times he discharged that Office 1 Anno 1260 placed in by the King displac'd by the Barons to make room for Nicholas of Ely 2 Anno 1261. when the King counting it no Equity or Conscience that his Lords should obtrude a Chancellor on him restored him to his place continuing therein some three years 3 Anno 1273. when he was replaced in that Office for a short time He was also preferred Bishop of Rochester that a rich Prelate might maintain a poor Bishoprick He founded Merton-Colledge in Oxford which hath produced more famous School-men than all England I had almost said Europe besides He died in the year 1277 in the fifth of King Edward the First THOMAS CRANLEY was in all probability born at and named from Cranley in Blackheath Hundred in this County It confirmeth the conjecture because I can not find any other Village so named in all England Bred he was in Oxford and became the first Warden of New Colledge thence preferred Arch-bishop of Dublin in Ireland Thither he went over 1398 accompanying Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey and Lieutenant of Ireland and in that Kingdom our Cranley was made by King Henry the Fourth Chancellour and by King Henry the Fifth Chief Justice thereof It seems he finding the Irish possessed with a rebellious humour bemoaned himself to the King in a terse Poem of 106 Verses which Leland perused with much pleasure and delight Were he but half so good as some make him he was to be admired Such a Case and such a Jewel such a presence and a Prelate clear in Complexion proper in Stature bountiful in House-keeping and House-repairing a great Clerk deep Divine and excellent Preacher Thus far we have gone along very willingly with our Author but now leave him to go alone by himself unwilling to follow him any farther for fear of a tang of Blasphemy when bespeaking him Thou art fairer than the children of men full of grace are thy lips c. Anno 1417 he returned into England being fourscore years old sickned and died at Faringdon and lieth buried in New-Colledge Chappel and not in Dublin as some have related NICHOLAS WEST was born at Putney in
all earnestnesse which will add so much to their account Some will say if the English be so forward in deeds of Charity as appeareth by what you said before any exhortation thereunto is altogether supersâ—…uous I answer the best disposed to Bounty may need a Remembrancer and I am sure that Nightingale which would wake will not be angry with the Thorn which pricketh her Breast when she noddeth Besides it is a Truth what the Poet saith Qui monet ut facias quod jam facis ipse monendo Laudat hortatu comprobat acta suo Who what thou dost thee for to do doth move Doth praise thy Practice and thy Deeds approve Thus the exhortations of the Apostles at Jerusalem were commendations of St. Paul Only they would that we should remember the poor the same which I also was forward to do Lastly though many of our Nation be free in this kind there want not those who instead of being Zealous are Jealous of good works being so far from shining themselves that they enviously endevour to extinguish the light of others whose Judgements I have laboured to rectifie herein The Stating of the Word REFORMATION with the Extensiveness thereof No word occurs oftner in this our Book then REFORMATION It is as it were the Aequator or that remarkable Line dividing betwixt Eminent Prelates Leaed Writers and Benefactors to the Publick who lived Before or After It. Know then that this Word in Relation to the Church of England is of above twenty years extent For the Reformation was not advanced here as in some Forraign Free-States suddenly not to say rapidly with popular Violence but Leisurely and treatably as became a matter of so great importance besides the meeting with much opposition retarded the proceedings of the Reformers We may observe that the Jews returned from the Captivity of Babylon at three distinct times under the Conduct of several persons 1. When the main Body of the Captives was brought home by Zorobabel by whom the second Temple was built 2. When a considerable Company returned with Ezra by whom the Church part as I may tearm it was setled in that Nation 3. When Nehemiah no doubt with suitable attendance came home and ordered the State moiety repairing the VValls of Jerusalem In like manner we may take notice of three distinct Dates and different degrees of our English Reformation though in relation to the Jewish I confess the method was altogether inverted For 1. The Civil part thereof when the Popes Supremacy was banished in the Reign of King Henry the Eight 2. VVhen the Church Service was reformed as far as that Age would admit in the first year of King Edward the Sixth 3. VVhen the same after the Marian interruption was resumed and more refined in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth The first of these I may call the morning Star The second the dawning of the day The third the Rising of the Sun and I deny not but that since that time his light and heat hath been increased But now the Question will be what is to be thought of those Prelates Writers and Benefactors which lived in the aforesaid Interval betwixt the Beginning and Perfecting of this Reformation For these appear unto us like unto the Batable ground lying betwixt England and Scotland whilest as yet two distinct Kingdomes in so dubious a posture it is hard to say to which side they do belong It is Answered the only way to decide this difference is to observe the Inclinations of the said persons so far forth as they are discovered in their Writings and actions such as appear in some good degree favourers of the Gospel are reputed to be since whilest those who are otherwise are adjudged to be Before the Reformation CHAP. XII Of Memorable Persons THe former Heads were like private Houses in which persons accordingly Qualified have their several habitations But this last Topick is like a publick Inn admitting all Comers and Goers having any extraordinary not vitious Remark upon them and which are not clearly reducible to any of the former Titles Such therefore who are over under or beside the Standard of Common persons for strength stature fruitfulnesse Vivacity or any other observeable eminence are lodged here under the Notion of Memorable Persons presuming the pains will not be to Me so much in marking as the pleasure to the Reader in knowing them Under this Title we also repose all such Mechanicks who in any Manual Trade have reached a clear Note above others in their Vocation Objection It is Deforme Spectaculum an uncouth Sight to behold such handy-crafts-men blended with Eminencies in ingenious professions such a mottley colour is no good wearing How would William Cecill Lord Treasurer of England and Baron of Burghleigh be offended to behold James York the Blacksmith set with him at the same Table amongst the Natives of Lincolne-shire Answer I am confident on the contrary that he would be highly pleased being so great a Statesman that he would countenance and encourage his Industrious Country man accounting nothing little without the help whereof greater matters can either not be attained or not long subsist Yea we see what signal notice the Spirit of God takes of the three Sons of Lamech the first Founders of Tent-making Organs and Iron-works and it is observable that whereas all their names are forgotten which built the Tower of Babel though done on design to get them a name these three Mechanicks viz. Jabal Jubal and Tubal Cain are nominatim recorded to all posterity Thus is it better to bottome the perpetuity of ones memory on honest Industry and ingenuous diligence then on Stately Structures and expensive magnificence I confesse it is easier to add to any art than first to invent it yet because there is a perfection of degrees as well as Kinds Eminent Improvers of an art may be allowed for the Co-inventers thereof being Founders of that accession which they add thereunto for which they deserve to be both regarded and rewarded I could name a worshipful Family in the South of England which for 16. several descents and some hundreds of years have continued in the same stay of Estate not acquiring one foot of Land either by match purchase gift or otherwise to their ancient Patrimony The same may be said of some handycrafts wherein men move in the same compasse but make no further progresse to perfection or any considerable improvement and this I impute generally to their want of competent encouragement CHAP. XIII Of Lord Maiors of LONDON I Have concluded this Work with these Chief Officers in that great City A place of so great Honour and Trust that it hath commonly been said that on the death of an English King The Lord Maior is the Subject of the greatest Authority in England Many other Offices determining with the Kings Life till such time as their Charters be renewed by his Successor whereas the Lord Maiors Trust continueth for a
Gods grace may prove sober Christians and eminent in their generations The last Port to which I traffiqued for intelligence towards our insuing Work was by making my addresses by letters and otherwise to the nearest Relations of those whose Lifes I have written Such applications have sometimes proved chargable but if my weak pains shall find preferment that is acceptance from the judicious Reader my care and cost is forgotten and shall never come under computation Here I cannot but condemn the carelessness not to say ingratitude of those I am safe whilst containing my self in general terms who can give no better account of the Place where their fathers or grand-fathers were born then the child unborn so that sometimes we have been more beholden to strangers for our instructions herein then to their nearest Kindred And although some will say Sons are more comfortably concerned to know the time of their Fathers death then place of their birth yet I could almost wish that a moderate fine were imposed on such heirs whose Fathers were born before them and yet they know not where they were born However this I must gratefully confess I have met with many who could not never with any who would not furnish me with information herein It is observable that men born an hundred years since and upwards have their nativities fixed with more assurance then those born some eighty years since Mens eyes see worst in the Twilight in that intervale after the Sun is set and natural light ended and before candles are set up and artificial light begun In such a crepusculum oftime those Writers lived who fall short of the history of Bale and Leland yet go before the memory of any alive which unhappy insterstice hath often perplexed us and may easier be complained of then amended To conclude should I present all with Books who courteously have conduced to my instruction the whole Impression would not suffice But I remember the no less civil then politick invitation of Judah to the Tribe of Simeon Come up with me into my Lot to Conquer the Cananites and I likewise will go with thee into thy Lot if such who have lent me theirs shall have occasion to borrow mine assistance my Pains Brains and Books are no more mine then theirs to command which besides my prayers for them and thanks to them is all my ability in requital can perform CHAP. XXIII A double Division of the English Gentry 1. According to the Nation whence they were extracted 2. According to the Profession whereby they were advanced THis discourse I tender the Reader as a preparative to dispose him for the better observing and distinguishing of our English Gentry in our ensuing Lives and Catalogue of Sheriffs We begin with the Britains the Aborigines or Native Inhabitants of the South of this Island but long since expelled by the Saxons into the West thereof None then remaining in some since returning into our Land of whom hereafter We confess the Romans Conquered our Country planted Colonies and kept Garrisons therein but their descendants are not by any character discernable from the British Indeed if any be found able to speak Latine naturally without learning it we may safely conclude him of Roman Extraction Mean time it is rather a pretty conceit then a solid notion of that great Antiquary who from the allusion of the name collecteth the noble family of the Cecils more truly Sytsilts descended from the Cecilii a Senatorian Family in Rome The Saxons succeed whose Of-spring at this day are the main bulk and body of the English though not Gentry Nation I may call them the whole cloath thereof though it be garded here and there with some great ones of foreign Extraction These Saxons though pitifully depressed by the Conquerour by Gods goodness King Henry the first favour their own patience and diligence put together the plankes of their Shiprack'd Estates and aferwards recovered a competent condition The Danes never acquired in this Land a long and peaceable possession thereof living here rather as Inroders then Inhabitants the cause that so few families distinguishable by their Surnames are descended from them extant in our age Amongst which few the respected Stock of the Denizes often Sheriffs in Devon and Gloustershire appear the principal As for Fitz-Hardinge the younger son of the King of Denmark and direct ancestour of the Truly Honourable George Lord Berkeley he came in long since when he accompanied the Conquerour I must confess that at this day there passeth a Tradition among some of the Common People that such names which Terminate in Son as Johnson Tomson Nicolson Davison Saunderson are of Danish Origination But this fond opinion is long since conâ—…uted by Vestegan that ingenious and industrious Antiquary Yea he urgeth this as an argument which much prevaileth with me why those Surnames were not derived from the Danes because they had no such name in use amongst them as John Thomas Nicholas David Alexander from whence they should be deduced Yea he further addeth that it is more probable that they made the Childs name by adjecting the syllable Son to the Appellation of the Father a custome which is usual even at this time amongst the Vulgar sort of the Dutch Yet is there not remaining any sign thereof amongst the names of our Age which probably might have been Canutson Ericson Gormoson Heraldson Rofolson c. The Normans or French under the Conquerour swarmed in England so that then they became the only visible Gentry in this Nation and still continue more then a Moity thereof several Catalogues of their Names I have so largely exemplifyed in my Church-history that some have taxed me for tediousness therein and I will not adde an new obstinacy to my old error But besides these we have some Surnames of good Families in England now extant which though French are not by any diligence to be recovered in the lists of such as came over with the Conquerour and therefore we suppose them to have remained of those Gentlemen and others which from Henault attended Queen Isabel wife unto King Edward the second Of this sort was Deureux Mollineux Darcy Coniers Longchamp Henage Savage Danvers with many more Of the British or Welsh after their expulsion hence by the Saxons some signal persons have returned again and by the Kings Grant Matches Purchases c. have fixed themselves in fair possessions in England especially since the beginning of the reign of their Country-man King Henry the seventh rewarding the valour of many contributing to his Victory in the battle of Bosworth Of the Welsh now re-estated in England and often Sheriffs therein some retain their old Surnames as the Griffins in Northamptonshire the Griffiths and Vaughans in Yorkshire some have assumed New ones as the Caradocks now known by the new Name of the Newtons in Somersetshire Many Scotch long before the Union of the two Kingdomes under King James seated themselves
prophecy or this prophetical menace to be not above six score yeares old and of Popish extraction since the Reformation It whispereth more then it dare speak out and points at more then it dares whisper and fain would intimate to credulous persons as if the blessed Virgin offended with the English for abolishing her Adoration watcheth an opportunity of Revenge on this Nation And when her day being the five and twentieth of March and first of the Gregorian year chanceth to fall on the day of Christs Resurrection then being as it were fortified by her Sons assistance some signal judgment is intended to our State and Church-men especially Such Coincidence hath hap'ned just fifteen times since the Conquest as Elias Ashmole Esquire my worthy friend and Learned Mathematician hath exactly computed it and we will examine by our Chronicles whether on such yeares any signal fatalities befell England A. D. Anno Reg. D. L. G. N. Signal Disasters 1095 W. Rufus 8. G 13 K. Rufus made a fruitless invasion of Wales 1106 H. first 6. G 5 K. Hen. subdueth Normandy and D. Robert his Brother 1117 H. first 17. G 16 He forbiddeth the Popes Legate to enter England 1190 R. first 2. G 13 K. Richard conquereth Cyprus in his way to Palestine 1201 K. John 2. G 5 The French invade Normandy 1212 K. John 13. G 16 K. John resigneth his Kingdom to the Pope 1285 Ed. first 13. G 13 Nothing remarkable but Peace and Plenty 1296 Ed. first 24. AG 5 War begun with Scotland which ended in Victory 1380 R. second 4. AG 13 The Scots do much harm to us at Peryth Fair. 1459 H. sixth 38. G 16 Lancastrians worsted by the Yorkists in fight 1543 H. eighth 34. G 5 K. Henry entred Scotland and burnt Edenburgh Hitherto this Proverb hath had but intermitting truth at the most seeing no constancy in sad casualties But the sting will some say is in the taile thereof and I behold this Proverb born in this following year 1554 Q. Mary 2. G 16 Q. Mary setteth up Popery and Martyreth Protestants 1627 Charles 3. G 13 The unprosperous Voyage to the Isle of Rees 1638 Charles 14. G 5 The first cloud of trouble in Scotland 1649 Â G 16 The first complete year of the English Common-wealth or Tyranny rather which since blessed be God is returned to a Monarchy The concurrence of these two dayes doth not return till the year 1722. and let the next generation look to the effects thereof I have done my part in shewing remitting to the Reader the censuring of these occurrences Sure I am so sinfull a Nation deserves that every year should be fatal unto it But it matters not though our Lady falls in our Lords lap whilst our Lord sits at his Fathers right hand if to him we make our addresses by serious repentance When HEMPE is Spun England is Done Though this Proverb hath a different Stamp yet I look on it as Coined by the same Mint Master with the former and even of the same Age. It is faced with a Literal but would be Lined with a Mysticall sense When Hemp is Spun that is when all that necessary Commodity is imployed that there is no more left for Sailes and Cordage England whose strength consists in Shipping would be reduced to a Doleful Condition But know under HEMPE are Couched the Initial Letters of Henry the 8. Edward the 6. Mary Philip and Elizabeth as if with the Life of the last the Happiness of England should expire which time hath confuted Yet to keep this Proverb in Countenance it may pretend to some Truth because then England with the Addition of Scotland lost its name in Great Brittain by Royal Proclamation When the Black Fleet of NORVVAY is come and gone ENGLAND Build Houses of Lime and Stone For after Wars you shall have none There is a Larger Edition hereof though this be large enough for us and more then we can well understand Some make it fulfilled in the eighty eight when the Spanish-Fleet was beaten the Sur-name of whose King as a Learned Author doth observe was NORVVAY Others conceive it called the Black Fleet of Norway because it was never black not dismall to others but wofull to its own Apprehension till beaten by the English and forced into those Coasts according to the English Historian They betook themselves to Flight leaving Scotland on the West and bending towards Norway ill advised But that necessity urged and God had Infatuated their Councells to put their shaken and battered bottoms into those Black and Dangerous Seas I observe this the rather because I believe Mr. Speed in this his Writing was so far from having a Reflexion on that I Question whether ever I had heard of this Prophecy It is true that afterwards England built houses of Lime and Stone and our most handsome and Artificiall Buildings though formerly far greater and stronger bear their date from the defeating of the Spanish Fleet. As for the Remainder After Wars you shall have none We find it false as to our Civil Wars by our woful Experience And whether it be true or false as to Forreign Invasions hereafter we care not at all as beholding this prediction either made by the wild fancy of one foolish man and then why should this many wise men attend thereunto or else by him who alwaies either speaks what is false or what is true with an intent to deceive So that we will not be ellated with good or dejected with bad success of his fore-telling England is the ringing Island Thus it is commonly call'd by Foreigners as having greater moe and more tuneable Bells than any one County in Christendom Italy it self not excepted though Nola be there and Bells so called thence because first founded therein Yea it seems our Land is much affected with the love of them and loth to have them carryed hence into forreign parts whereof take this eminent instance When Arthur Bulkley the covetous Bishop of Bangor in the Reign of King Henry the eighth had sacrilegiously sold the five fair Bels of his Cathedral to be transported beyond the Seas and went down himself to see them shipp'd they suddenly sunk down with the Vessell in the Haven and the Bishop fell instantly blind and so continued to the day of his death Nought else have I to observe of our English Bells save that in the memory of man they were never known so long free from the sad sound of Funerals of general infection God make us sensible of and thankfull for the same When the sand feeds the clay England cryes Well a-day But when the clay feeds the sand it is merry with England As Nottingham-shire is divided into two parts the sand and the clay all England falls under the same Dicotomie yet so as the sand hardly amounteth to the Fifth part thereof Now a wet year which drowneth and chilleth the clay makes the sandy ground most fruitfull with corn and
in his profession is sufficiently attested by his own Printed Reports Eight eminent Judges of the Law out of their knowledge of his great wisdome learning and integrity approving and allowing them to be published for the Common benefit He was against the Illegality of Ship-money both publickly in Westminster-hall and privately in his judgment demanded by the King though concluded to subscribe according to the Course of the Court by plurality of voices The Country-mans wit levelled to his brain will not for many years be forgotten That Ship-money may be gotten by Hâ—…ok but not by Crook though since they have paid taxes loins to the little finger and Scorpions to the Rod of Ship-money but whether by Hook or Crook let others inquire His piety in his equall and even walkings in the way of God through the several turnings and occasions of his Life is evidenced by his Charity to man founding a Chappel at Beachley in Buckingham-shire two miles at least distanced from the Mother-Church and an Hospitall in the same Parish with a liberall Revenue Considering his declining and decaying age and desiring to examine his Life and prepare an Account to the Supreme Judge he petitioned King Charles for a Writ of Ease which though in some sort denied what wise Mr. would willingly part with a good Servant was in effect granted unto him He dyed at Waterstock in Oxford shire in the eighty second year of his age Anno Dom. 1641. EDWARD BULTSTRODE Esq. born in this County bred in the studies of our municipall Laws in the Inner Temple and his Highness his Justice in North-wales hath written a book of divers Resolutions and Judgments with the reasons and causes thereof given in the Court of Kings-bench in the reigns of King James and King Charles and is lately deceased Souldiers Sir WILLIAM WINDSOR Knight I am confident herein is no mislocation beholding him an Ancestor to the right honourable Thomas Windsor Hickman Lord Windsor and fixed at Bradenham He was deputed by King Edward the third in the fourty seventh year of his reign Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which Country was then in a sad Condition For the King was so intent on the Conquest of France as a Land nearer fairer and due to him by descent that he neglected the effectuall reduction of Ireland This encouraged the Irish Grandees their O's and Mac's to Rant and Tyrant it in their respective seignieuries whilst such English who were planted there had nothing Native save their Surnames left degenerating by degrees to be Irish in their Habits Manners and Language Yea as the wild Irish are observed to love their Nurses or Fosters above their natural Mothers so these barbarizing English were more endeared to the interest of Ireland which fed then of England which bare and bred them To prevent more mischief this worthy Knight was sent over of whose valour and fidelity the King had great experience He contracted with the King to defray the whole charge of that Kingdome as appeareth by the instrument in the Tower for eleven thousand two hundred thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence per annum Now Sir William undertook not the Conquest but Custody of the Land in a defen sive war He promised not with a daring Mountebank to Cure but with a discreet Physician to ease this Irish Gout Indeed I meet with a passage in Froissard relating how Sir William should report of himself that he was so far from subduing the Irish he could never have access to understand and know their Countries albeit he had spent more time in the service of Ireland then any Englishman then living Which to me seems no wonder the Irish vermin shrowding themselves under the Scabs of their Bogs and Hair of their Woods However he may truly be said to have left that land much improved because no whit more impaired during those dangerous distractions and safely resigned his office as I take it in the first of K. Richard the second ARTHUR GRAY Baron of Wilton is justly reckoned amongst the Natives of this Shire whose father had his Habitation not at Wilton a decayed Castle in Hereford-shire whence he took his Title but at Waddon a fair house of his Family not far from Buckingham He succeeded to a small Estate much diminished on this sad occasion His father William Lord Gray being taken Prisoner in France after long ineffectuall soliciting to be because captivated in the publick service redeemed on the publick charge at last was forced to ransom himself with the sale of the best part of his Patrimony Our Arthur endeavoured to advance his estate by his valour being entered in Feats of war under his Martial father at the siege of Lieth 1560. where he was shot in the shoulder which inspirited him with a constant antipathy against the Scotch He was afterwards sent over Lord Deputy into Ireland anno 1580. where before he had received the Sword or any Emblemes of Command ut acrioribus initiis terrorem incuteret to fright his foes with his fierce beginning he unfortunately fought the rebels at Glandilough to the great loss of English blood This made many commend his Courage above his Conduct till he recovered his credit and finally suppressed the rebellion of Desmund Returning into England the Queen chiefly relied on his counsel for ordering our Land-forces against the Spaniards in 88. and fortifying places of advantage The mention of that year critical in Church differences about discipline at home as well as with foreign foes abroad mindeth me that this Lord was but a Back-friend to Bishops in all divisions of Votes in Parliament or Council-table sided with the Anti-prelatical party When Secretary Davison that State-Pageant raised up on purpose to be put down was censured in the Star-chamber about the business of the Queen of Scots this Lord Gray onely defended him as doing nothing therein but what became an able and honest Minister of State An ear-witness saith Haec fuse oratoriè animosè Greium disserentem audivimus So that besides bluntness the common and becoming eloquence of Souldiers he had a real Rhetorick and could very emphatically express himself Indeed this warlike Lord would not wear two heads under one Helmet and may be said always to have born his Beaver open not dissembling in the least degree but owning his own judgment at all times what he was He deceased anno Dom. 1593. Writers ROGER de WENDOVER was born at that Market-town in this County bred a Benedictine in St. Albans where he became the Kings Historian Know Reader that our English Kings had always a Monck generally of St. Albans as near London the Staple of news and books to write the remarkables of their reigns One addeth I am sorry he is a forrainer and therefore of less credit at such distance that their Chronicles were lock'd up in the Kings Library so that neither in that Kings nor his Sons life they were ever opened If so
was very wild and venturous witness his playing at Dice with Henry the second King of France from whom he won a Diamond of great worth at a Cast And being demanded by the King what shift he would have made to repair himself in case he had lost the cast I have said young Chency in an hyperbolical brave SHEEPS TAILS enough in Kent with their Wool to buy a better Diamond then this His reduced Age afforded the befitting fruits of Gravity and Wisdome and this Lord deceased without Issue As for Sir Francis Cheney Sheriff for this present year we formerly observed the distinct Armes of his Family This worthy Knight was father to Charles Cheney Esq. who by his exquisite Travelling hath Naturalized foreign perfections into himself and is exemplarily happy in a vertuous Lady Jane Daughter to the truly Noble William Marquis of New-castle and by her of hopefull Posterity The Farewell On serious consideration I was at a loss to wish to this County what it wanted God and the Kings of England have so favoured it with naturall perfections and civil priviledges In avowance of the latter it sheweth more Burrow-towns sending Burgesses no fewer then twelve to the Parliament then any Shire though thrice as big lying in the Kingdome of Mercia Now seeing at the instant writing hereof the generall News of the Nation is of a Parliament to be called after his Majesties Coronation my prayers shall be that the Freehoulders of this County shall amongst many therein so qualified chuse good Servants to God Subjects to the King Patriots to the County effectually to advance a happiness to the Church and Common-wealth CAMBRIDGE-SHIRE CAMBRIDGE-SHRE hath Lincoln shire on the North Northfolk and Suffold on the East Essex and Hartford-shire on the South Huntington and Bedford-shires on the West being in length thirty five in breadth not fully twenty miles The Tables therein as well furnished as any the South-part affording bread and beer and the North the Isle of Ely meat thereunto So good the grain growing here that it out-selleth others some pence in the Bushel The North-part of this County is lately much improved by drayning though the poorest sort of people will not be sensible thereof Tell them of the great benefit to the publick because where a Pike or Duck fed formerly now a Bullock or Sheep is fatted they will be ready to return that if they be taken in taking that Bullock or Sheep the rich Owner â—…indicteth them for Felons whereas that Pike or Duck were their own goods only for their pains of catching of them So impossible it is that the best project though perfectly performed should please all interests and affections It happened in the year 1657. upon the dissolution of the great Snow their banks were assaulted above their strength of resistance to the great loss of much Cattle Corn and some Christians But soon after the seasonable industry of the Undertakers did recover all by degrees and confute their jealousies who suspected the relapsing of these lands into their former condition This Northern part is called the Isle of Eelie which one will have so named from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fenny or Marish-ground But our Saxon Ancestors were not so good Grecians and it is plain that plenty of Eels gave it its denomination Here I hope I shall not trespass on gravity in mentioning a passage observed by the Reverend Professour of Oxford Doctor Prideaux referring the Reader to him for the Authours attesting the same When the Priests in this part of the County would still retain their wives in despight of whatever the Pope and Monks could doe to the contrary their wives and children were miraculously turned all into Eels surely the greater into Congers the less into Griggs whence it had the name of EELY I understand him a LIE of EELS No doubt the first founder of so damnable an untruth hath long since received his reward However for this cause we take first notice amongst this Counties Naturall Commodities Of Eels Which though they be found in all Shires in England yet are most properly treated of here as most first and best the Courts of the Kings of England being thence therewith anciently supplyed I will not ingage in the controversy whether they be bred by generation as other fish or aequivocally out of Putrefaction or both ways which is most probable Seeing some have adventured to know the distinguishing marks betwixt the one and other I know the Silver Eels are generally preferred and I could wish they loved men but as well as men love them that I my self might be comprised within the compass of that desire They are observed to be never out of season whilst other fishes have their set times and the biggest Eels are ever esteemed the best I know not whether the Italian proverb be here worth the remembring Give Eels without wine to your Enemies Hares Though these are found in all Counties yet because lately there was in this Shire an Hare-park nigh New-market preserved for the Kings game let them here be particularly mentioned Some prefer their sport in hunting before their flesh for eating as accounting it melancholick meat and hard to be digested though others think all the hardness is how to come by it All the might of this silly creature is in the flight thereof and remember the answer which a school-boy returned in a latine distick being demanded the reason why Hares where so fearfull Cur metuunt lepores Terrestris nempe marinus Aethereus quod sit tartareusque canis Whether or no they change their sex every year as some have reported let Huntsmen decide These late years of our civil wars have been very destructive unto them and no wonder if no law hath been given to hares when so little hath been observed toward men Saffron Though plenty hereof in this County yet because I conceive it first planted in Essex we thither refer our description thereof Willows A sad Tree whereof such who have lost their love make their mourning garlands and we know what Exiles hung up their Harps upon such dolefull Supporters The twiggs hereof are Physick to drive out the folly of children This Tree delighteth in moist places and is triumphant in the Isle of Ely where the roots strengthen their Banks and lop affords fuell for their fire It groweth incredibly fast it being a by-word in this County that the profit by Willows will buy the Owner a Horse before that by other Trees will pay for his Saddle Let me adde that if green Ash may burn before a Queen withered Willows may be allowed to burn before a Lady Manufactures Paper Expect not I should by way of Preface enumerate the several inventions whereby the ancients did communicate and continue their Notions to Posterity First by writing in Leaves of Trees still remembred when we call such a Scantling of Paper a Folio or Leafe Hence from Leaves men proceeded to the
first into this County consult I pray the ensuing Epitaph in Ely Minster transcribed as my Son hath informed me by himself exactly from his Monument Premendo sustusit Ferendo vicit Secundum Redemptoris Mundi adventum expectat hic Marcus Steward Miles filius haeresque Simeonis Steward Armig. Nicholao Steward Armig. geniti qui patrem habuit Richardum Steward Armig. quem genuit Thomas Steward Armig. Johannis Steward militis filius cujus Pater erat Johannes Steward Miles ejus nominis in Angliâ primus qui cum Jacobo Roberti Scotiae Regis filio in Franciam tranfretans regnante tunc Henrico quarto vento eorum propositis opposito in Anglicano littore applicuerunt ubi diu post pro obsedibus custodiebantur Sed hic Johannes in amorem cujusdam virginis Anglicanae nomine Talmach incidens obtentâque Johannae Reginae veniâ cui ancilla inserviebat eam in conjugem cepit in fidemque Regis Henrici dum vixisset solenniter est juratus Hujus pater erat Alexander quem genuit Andreas Steward Miles Alexandri cognominati Ferocis filiorum natu minimus cujus pater erat Walterus Steward à Dun de vale in Scotiâ dictus Sed Primus in Genealogiâ hâc summonitus hic sepultus ex Annâ unâ filiarum Haeredum Roberti Huicke Armig. Reginae Elizabethae Medici pri marii varios habuit liberos quos omnes inadultos Fata rapuere praeter duos Marians scilicet Gulielmo Forster in Com. Berke militi nuptam Simionem Steward Militem Haeredem filiúmque suum moestissimum qui pii Officii singularisque erga Patrem Amoris gratiâ hoc posuit monumentum ubi inscriptum legas quòd cum multos Annos Bello Pace pro Patriâ feliciter egisset aetate tandem confectus militari singulo Auratis Calcaribus à Jacobo Rege Screnissimo ornatus senex pene octogenarius fatali Necessitati concessit 28. Februarii Anno salutis 1603. The Farewell It is hard for a Physitian to prescribe proper Physick to such a Patient who hath a Hot Liver and a Cold Stomack because what is Good for the One is Bad for the Other As hard it is for Weather to please the Concernments of this County whose Northern part being Moist and Fenny desires Fair weather â—…outh and South-eastern Dry and Heathy delighteth so much rain thâ—…t it can well digest save in harvest time one shower every Day and two every Sunday But the God of Heaven * who can make it rain on one place and not on another can fit tue Necâ—…ssity of Bâ—…th and I remitte them both to his Providence CHES-SHIRE CHES-SHIRE lieth in form of an Axe Wirral being the handle thereof having Lanca-shire parted with the river Mersey on the North a corner of York-shire on the North-East Darby and Stafford shires severed with mountains on the East Shrop-shire on the South Denbigh Flint-shire and the Irish Ocean on the West thereof The longest part advantaged with excursions is four and fourty the broadest twenty five miles This County was reputed a Palatinate before the Conquest and since continued in the same dignity It is much senior to Lancashire in that honour which relateth to Cheshire as the copy to the original being Palatinated but by King Edward the third referring the Duke of Lancaster to have his regal juridiction Adeò integrè liberè sicut Comes Cestriae c. And whereas Records are written in the Common-law Contrà Coronam dignitatem Regis in this County they run thus Contra dignitatem gladii Cestriae It aboundeth with all things necessary to mans life and it is observable that all the rivers and rivolets therein rise in or run through some meer or pool as Cumber-meer Bag-meer Pick-meer Ridley-pool Petty-pool c. so that Cheshire hath more lakes in this kind then all the neighbouring Counties affording plenty of Carps Tenches Trouts Eeles c. therein The Gentry of this County are remarkable upon a four-fold account 1. For their Numerousness not to be parallel'd in England in the like extent of ground 2. Their Antiquity many of their Ancestors being fixed here before the Norman-conquest 3. Their Loyalty especially against a Northern enemy heartily hateing a Scot understand it before the union of the two Kingdomes 4. Hospitality no County keeping better houses which because all growes on their own may be the better afforded One said pleasantly that it appeared to all people that the Cheshire Gentry were good house-keepers because they gave so many wheat-sheaves bread being the staffe of hospitality wheaten the best of bread in their Coats of Armes Indeed I have told no fewer then six and twenty called Garbs in Herauldry which are born in the several Coat-Armours of the Gentry of this County The Original whereof is sufficiently known to be out of conformity to Hugh 〈◊〉 the fifth Earl-Palatine of Chester who gave Azure six Garbs Or. And many of the Gentry of the County being his dependents had assigned them or did assume in their sheilds something in allusion thereunto Naturall Commodities Salt This is most Essentiall to mans Lively-hood without which neither Sacrifice was acceptable to God nor Meat is savory to Man It is placed on the Board with bread to shew that they are equally necessary to mans sustenance A General in our late wars soundly chid a Captain for his so soon surrendring of a Castle seeing he had store of Powder therein I had returned the Captain plenty of BLACK but no WHITE Powder at all And here it is Remarkable to Observe the defects which sundry places have herein 1. Some Countries have Salt without Flesh within many miles as in the South-part of Africa 2. Some have plenty of Flesh but no Salt to make use thereof as in many parts of Tartary 3. Some have Flesh and Salt but the Flesh utterly uncapable of seasoning as about Nombre de Dios and other places near the Meridian in America 4. Some have Flesh Salt and Flesh capable thereof but so unconscionably dear that Common people have little comfort therein as in France no Country having Salt most plentifull and for reason of State most excessive in the rate thereof These things considered we who have Flesh Salt Salt at reasonable prises and Flesh capable thereof have cause to professe O Fortunati nimium bona si sua norint Angligenae The manner of making of Salt in this County is so largely and exactly described by Mr. Camden that nothing can be added thereunto Cheese Poor men do eat it for hunger Rich for digestion It seems that the Ancient British had no skill in the making thereof till taught by the Romans and now the Romans may even learn of us more exactness therein This County doth afford the best for quantity and quality and yet their Cows are not as in other Shires housed in the Winter so that it may seem strange that the hardiest Kine should yield the tenderest cheese Some Esayed in vain
also Oysters and other Shellfish gaping for the Dew are in a manner impregnated therewith So that some conceive that as Dew is a Liquid Pearl so a Pearl is Dew consolidated in these fishes Here poor people getting them at low water sell to Jewellers for Pence what they sell again for Pounds Indeed there is a Spanish Proverbe that a Lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed as not caring how cheap they sell and sell to those that go to be married as not caring how dear they buy But waving these advantages such of that Mistery which Trade with Country-people herein gaine much by buying their Pearls though far short of the Indian in Orientness But whether not as usefull in Physick is not as yet decided Black-lead Plenty hereof is digged up about Keswick the onely place as I am inform'd where it is found in Europe and various is the use thereof 1. For Painters besides some mixture thereof in making Leadâ—…colours to draw the Pictures of their Pictures viz. those shadowy lines made onely to be unmade again 2. For pens so usefull for Scholars to note the remarkables they read with an impression easily deleble without prejudice to the book 3. For Feltmakers for colouring of hats 4. To scoure leaden cisternes and to brighten things made of Iron 5. In Flanders and Germany they use it for glasing of stuffs Besides these visible surely there are other concealed uses thereof which causeth it daily to grow the dearer being so much transported beyond the seas Copper These mines lay long neglected choak'd in their own rubbish till renewed about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth when plenty of Copper was here afforded both for home-use and â—…orraign transportation But Copper it self was too soft for severall military services and could not alone no single person can prove a parent produce brass most usefull for that purpose Here taste and see Divine Providence which never doth its work by halfes and generally doubleth gifts by seasonable giving them Lapis calaminaris whereof hereafter in due place was then first found in England the Mother of Brass as Copper the father hereof Hence came it to pass that Queen Elizabeth left more brass then She found Iron-ordnance in the Kingdome And our wooden walls so our ships are commonly call'd were rough-casted over with a coat of a firmer constitution We must not forget the names of the two Dutch-men good froggs by sea but better moles by land who re-found out these Copper-mines wherein also some silver no new milk without some creame therein viz. Thomas Shurland and Daniel Hotchstabter of Auspurge in Germany whose Nephews turning purchasers of lands hereabouts prefer easily to take what the earth tenders in her hands above ground then painfully to pierce into her heart for greater treasure I am sorry to hear and loath to believe what some credible persons have told me that within this twenty years the Copper within this County hath been wholly discontinued and that not for want of Mettall but Mining for it Sad that the industry of our age could not keep what the ingenuity of the former found out And I would willingly put it on another account that the burying of so much steel in the bowells of men dureing our Civil Wars hath hindred their digging of Copper out of the entralls of the Earth hoping that these peaceable times will encourage to the resuming thereof The Buildings This County pretendeth not to the mode of Reformed Architecture the Vicinity of the Scots causing them to build rather for Strength then State The Cathedrall of Carlile may pass for the Embleme of the Militant-Church Black but Comely still bearing in the Complexion thereof the remaining signes of its former burning Rose-castle the Bishops best Seat hath lately the Rose therein withered and the Prickles in the Ruins thereof onely remain The houses of the Nobility and Gentry are generally built Castle-wise and in the time of the Romans this County because a Limitary did abound with Fortifications Mr. Cambden taking notice of more Antiquities in Cumberland and Northumberland then in all England besides The Wonders Although if the word Wonders be strained up high and hard this County affordeth none yet if the sense thereof be somewhat let down the compass thereof fetcheth in the Moss-Troopers So strange the condition of their living if considered in their Original Increase Height Decay and Ruine 1. Originall I conceive them the same called Borderers in Mr. Cambden and charactered by him to be a wild and war-like people they are called Moss-Troopers because dwelling in the Mosses and riding in Troops together They dwell in the Bounds or meeting of two Kingdomes but obey the Laws of neither They come to Church as seldome as the 29. of February comes into the Kalender 2. Increase When England and Scotland were united in Great Britain they that formerly lived by Hostile incursions betook themselves to the robbing of their Neighbours Their Sons are free of the trade by their Fathers Copy they are like unto Job not in piety and patience but in suddain plenty and poverty sometimes having Flocks and Heards in the morning none at night and perchance many again next day They may give for their Motto vivitur ex rapto stealing from their honest Neighbours what sometimes they re-gain They are a nest of Hornets strike one and stir all of them about your ears Indeed if they promise safely to conduct a Traveller they will perform it with the fidelity of a Turkish Janizary otherwise wo be to him that falleth into their quarters 3. Height Amounting forty years â—…ince to some Thousands These compelled the Vicenage to purchase their security by paying a constant rent unto them When in their greatest height they had two great Enemies the Laws of the Land and the Lord William Howard of Naworth He sent many of them to Carlisle to that place where the Officer always doth his work by day-light Yet these Moss-Troopers if possibly they could procure the pardon for a condemned person of their Company would advance great sums out of their Common stock who in such a case cast in their Lots amongst themselves and all have one purse 4. Decay Caused by the wisdome valour and diligence of the Right Honorable Charles L. Howard now Earl of Carlisle who routed these English-Tories with his Regiment His severity unto them will not onely be excused but commended by the judicious who consider how our great Lawyer doth describe such persons who are solemnly 〈◊〉 Bracton Lib. tertio Tract 2. Cap. 11. Ex tunc gerunt Caput Lupinum ita quod sine judiciali inquisitione ritè 〈◊〉 secum 〈◊〉 judicium portent meritò sine Lâ—…ge pereunt qui secundum Legem vivere recusarunt Thenceforward after they are out-law'd they wear a Woolfs-head so that they lawfully may be destroyed without any judiciall inquisition as who carry their own Condemnation about them and
that is Give all kind kind signifying a Child in the low Dutch This practice as it appeares in Tacitus was derived to our Saxons from the ancient Germans Teutonibus priscis patrios succedit in agros Mascula stirps omnis ne foret ulla potens 'Mongst the old Teuch lest one o'retop his breed To his Sire's land doth every son succeed It appeareth that in the eighteenth year of King Henry the sixth there were not above fourty persons in Kent but all their land was held in this tenure But on the petition of divers Gentlemen this custome was altered by Act of Parliament in the 31. of King Henry the eighth and Kentish-lands for the most part reduced to an uniformitie with the rest in England DOVER-COURT All speakers and no hearers There is a Village in Essex not far from Harwich called Dover-Court formerly famous for a Rood burnt in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth But I take it here to be taken for some Tumultuous Court kept at Dover the Consluence of many Blustering Sea-men who are not easily ordered into awful attention The Proverb is applyed to such irregular conferences wherein the People are all Tongue and no Eares parallel to the Latine Proverb Cyclopum Respublica being thus charactered that therein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Father to the Bough The Son to the Plough That is though the Father be executed for his Offence the Son shall neverthelesse succeed to his Inheritance In this County if a Tenant in Fee-simple of Lands in Gavel-kind commit Felony and suffer the judgement of Death therefore the Prince shall have all his Chattels for a forfeiture But as touching the Land he shall neither have the Escheat of it though it be immediately holden of himself nor the Day year and Wast if it be holden of any other for in that case the Heir notwithstanding the offence of his Ancestor shall enter immediately and enjoy the lands after the same Customes and services by which they were holden before In assurance whereof the former Proverb is become Currant in this County But this Rule holdeth in case of Felony and of Murther onely and not in case of Treason nor peradventure in Piracy and other Felonies made by Statutes of later times because the custome cannot take hold of that which then was not in being It holdeth moreover in case where the offender is justiced by Order of Law and not where he withdraws himself after the fault coÌ„mitted and will not abide his lawful trial TENTERDENS Steeple is the Cause of the Breacâ—… in Goodwyn Sands It is used Commonly in derision of such who being demanded to render a reason of some inportant Accident assign Non causam pro causa or a Ridiculous and improbable cause thereof and hereon a story depends When the Vicinage in Kent met to consult about the Inundation of Goodwyn sands and what might be the Cause thereof an Old man imputed it to the building of Tenterden Steeple in this County for those sands said he were firme Lands before that steeple was built which ever since were overflown with Sea-water Hereupon all heartily laughed at his unlogical Reason making that the effect in Nature which was only the consequent in time not flowing from but following after the building of that steeple But One story is good till another is heard Though this be all whereon this Proverb is generally grounded I met since with a * supplement thereunto It is this Time out of mind mony was constantly collected out of this County to fence the East bancks thereof against the eruption of the Seas And such Sums were deposited in the hands of the Bishop of Rochester But because the Sea had been very quiet for many years without any encroachings The Bishop commuted that money to the building of a Steeple and endowing of a Church in Tenterden By this diversion of the Collection for the maintenance of the Banks the Sea afterwards brake in upon Goodwyn Sands And now the old man had told a rational tale had he found but the due favour to finish it And thus sometimes that is causelesly accounted ignorance in the speaker which is nothing but impatience in the Auditors unwilling to attend the end of the discourse A Jack of Dover I find the first mention of this Proverb in our English Ennius Chaucer in his Proeme to the Cook And many a Jack of Dover he had sold Which had been two times hot and two times cold This is no Fallacy but good Policy in an houshould to lengthen out the Provision thereof and though lesse toothsome may be wholsome enough But what is no false Logick in a Family is false Ethicks in an Inn or Cooks-shop to make the abused Guest to pay after the rate of New and Fresh for meat at the second and third hand Parallel to this is the Latine Proverb crambe bis cocta crambe being a kind of Colewort which with vinegar being raw is good boiled better twice boiled noysome to the Palat and nauceous to the stomach Both Proverbs are appliable to such who grate the ears of their Auditors with ungratefull Tautologies of what is worthlesse in it selse tolerable as once uttered in the notion of Novelty but abominable if repeated for the tediousnesse thereof Princes JOHN of ELTHAM Second Son to King Edward the Second by Isabell his Queen was born at Eltham in this County He was afterwards created Earle of Cornwal A spritely Gentleman and who would have given greater evidence of abilities if not prevented by death in the prime of his age He dyed in Scotland in the tenth yeare of the reign of King Edward the Third Be it observed that hitherto the younger Sons to our English Kings were never advanced Higher than Earls Thus Richard Second son to King Iohn never had higher English Honour then the Earle of Cornwel though at the same time he were King of the Romans But this Iohn of Eltham was the last Son of an English King who dyed a plain Earl the Title of Duke coming aâ—…erwards into fashion Hence it was that all the younger Sons of Kings were from this time forwards Created Dukes except expiring in their infancy BRIDGET of ELTHAM fourth Daughter of K Edward the fourth and Elizabeth his Q. was born at Eltham in this County Observing her three eldest Sisters not over happy in their husbands she resolved to wed a Monastical life and no whit ambitious of the place of an Abbess became an ordinary votary in the Nunnery at Dartford in this County founded by K. Edward the 3. The time of her death is uncertain but this is certain that her dissolution hapned some competent time before the dissolution of that Nunnerie EDMUND youngest Son to King Henry the 7. and Elizabeth his Queen bearing the name of his Grand-father Edmund of Haddam was born at Greenwich in this County 1495. He was by his Father created Duke of Somerset and he dyed before he was full
him renow'd throughout the Christian world Yet such the bafeness and ingratitude of the French that concluding a Peace with O. C. the Usurper of England they wholy forgot his former services and consented to the expulsion of this Prince and his royal brothers out of that Kingdome 〈◊〉 valour cannot long lye neglected soon was he courted by Don John de Austria into Flanders where in the action at Dunkirk he far surpassed his former deeds often forgetting that he was a Prince to shew himself a true souldier such his hazarding his person really worth ten thousand of them to the great molestation of his true friends Since God out of his infinite love to the English hath safely returned this Duke to his native Country where that he may long live to be the joy and delight of the whole Nation I shall constantly beg of God in my daily devotions ELIZABETH second daughter of King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at Saint James's Anno 1635. on the 28. day of December She proved a Lady of parts above her age the quickness of her mind making recompence for the weakness of her body For the remainder of her life I will my hold peace and listen to my good friend Master John Buroughs thus expressing himself in a letter unto me The Princess Elizabeth with her Brother Henry Duke of Glocester being by order of parliament to be removed to Carisbroke-castle in the Isle of Wight where his Most Excellent Maiesty was lately a Prisoner were accordingly received by Mr. Anthony Mild may from the Earl and Countess of Leceister at Penshurst in Kent and began their unwilling journey on Friday 9. of August 1650. On the 16. of the same Month they were first lodged in Carisbroke-castle aforesaid The Princess being of a melancholy temper as affected above her age with the sad condition of her Family fell sick about the beginning of September following and continuâ—… 〈◊〉 for three or four days having onely the Advise of Doctor Bignall a worthy and able 〈◊〉 of Newport After very many rare ejaculatory expressions abundantly demonstrating her unparalelled Piety to the eternal honour of her own memory and the astonishment of those who waited on her she took leave of the world on Sunday the eighth of the same September Her body being embalmed was carefully disposed of in a Coffin of Lead and on the four 〈◊〉 twentieth of the said Month was brought in a Borrowed Coach from the Castle to the Town of Newport attended thither with her few late Servants At the end of the 〈◊〉 the Corps were met and waited on by the Mayor and Aldermen thereof in their formalities to the Church where about the middle of the East part of the Chancel in Saint Thomas 〈◊〉 Chappel her Highness was interr'd in a small Vault purposely made with an Inscription of the date of her death engraved on her Coffin The 〈◊〉 of Norway where a Winters day is hardly an hour of clear light are the 〈◊〉 of wing of any Foul under the firmament nature teaching them to bestir themselves to lengthen the shortness of the time with their swiftness Such the active piety of this Lady improving the little life alloted her in running the way of Gods Commandeâ—… 〈◊〉 third daughter to King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at 〈◊〉 James's March 17. Anno Domini 1637. She was a very pregnant Lady above 〈◊〉 and died in her infancy when not full four years old Being minded by those 〈◊〉 her to call upon God even when the pangs of death were upon her I am not able saith she to say my long prayer meaning the Lords-prayer but I will say my short one Lighten mine eyes O Lord lest I sleep the sleep of death this done the little lamb gave up the ghost KATHARINE fourth daughter to King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at White hall the Queen-Mother then being at Saint James's and survived not above half an hour after her baptizing So that it is charity to mention her whose memory is likely to be lost so short her continuance in this life The rather because her name is not entred as it ought into the Register of Saint Martins in the fields as indeed none of the Kings children save Prince Charles though they were born in that Parish And hereupon a story depends I am credibly informed that at the birth of every child of the King born at Whitehall or Saint James's full five pounds were ever faithfully paid to some unfaithful receivers thereof to record the names of such children in the Register of Saint Martins But the money being embâ—…iled we know by some God knows by whom no memorial is entred of them Sad that bounty should betray any to such baseness and that which was intended to make them the more solemnly remembred should occasion that they should be more silently forgotten Say not let the children of mean persons be written down in Registers Kings children are Registers to themselves or all England is a Register to them For sure I am this common confidence hath been the cause that we have been so often at a loss about the nativities and other properties of those of Royal extraction CHARLES STUART son to the Illustrious James Stuart Duke of York by Anne daughter to the Right Honourable Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour of England and Frances his Lady descended of the Ancient Family of the Aylesburies High-sheriffs for many years together of Bedford and Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Edward the second and third was born at Worcester-house 22. day of October 1660. and christened by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert L. Bishop of London his Majesty and George Duke of Albemarle being his God-fathers and Mary the Queen-mother his God-mother He was declared Duke of Cambridge a title which to the great honour of that University for these four hundred years hath been onely conferred either on forraign Princes or persons of the Royal Bloud This Princely infant dyed May 5. 1661. Saints Saint WULSY being a man reputed when living and reported when dead of great vertue and innocency Was by Saint Dunstan created the first Abbot of Westminster where he lived many years very exemplary for his conversation untill his death which happened Anno Dom. 960. Then was his body buried in the same Monastery and the 26. day of September was kept by the Citizens of London with great Veneration of his miracle-working memory Martyrs I meet with none in this City and in my mean Judgment it is most observable that London having two Pages as I may term them attending it viz. Westminster and Southwark both joyned to it in buildings should be so different from it in condition in London we have no room to hold Martyrs in the other two no Martyrs to take up any room Inquiring the cause thereof we find these three places though contiguous not to say
five parts which were used in Cathedrals many years after his death the certain date whereof I cannot attain JOHN DOULAND was as I have most cause to believe born in this City sure I am he had his longest life and best livelyhood therein being Servant in the Chappel to Queen Elizabeth and King James He was the rarest Musician that his Age did behold Having travailed beyond the Seas and compounded English with Forreign Skill in that faculty it is questionable whether he excell'd in Vocal or Instrumental Musick A chearful Person he was passing his days in lawful meriment truly answering the Anagram made of him JOHANNES DOULANDUS ANNOS LUDENDO HAUSI Christian the fourth K. of Denmark coming over into England requested him of K. James who unwillingly willing parted with him Many years he lived as I am credibly informed in the Danish Court in great favour and plenty generally imployed to entertain such English Persons of quality as came thither I cannot confidently avouch his death at Denmark but believe it more probably then their assertion who report him returned and dying in England about the year 1615. Benefactors to the Publique JAMES PALMER B. D. was born in this City and bred in Magdalen-colledge in Cambridge The Company of Carpenters in London gave him an exhibition towards his maintenance there or lent it him rather For since his bounty hath repaid them the Principle with plentiful consideration He was afterwards for many years the constant Preacher of Saint Bridgets in Fleetstreet the onely Church preferment he enjoyed I perceive thus craft and cruelty may raise a quick and great but plain frugallity especially if vivacious will advance a better and surer estate Though sequestred in these times what he had formerly gained in his place he hath since bestowed in building and endowing over against the New Chappel in Westminster a fair Almes-house for twelve poor people besides this many and great have his gifts been to Ministers poor widdows and wonder not Reader if they be unknown to me which were unknown to his own left-hand all this he did in his life time O it giveth the best light when one carrieth his Lant-horn before him The surest way that ones Will shall be performed is to see it performed Yea I may say that his poor people in his Almes-house are in some sort provided for not onely from head to foot but also from body to soul he constantly preaching to them twice a week He dyed Anno 1659. Memorable Persons EDMOND DOUBLEDAY Esquire was of a tall and proper person and lived in this City Nor had this large case a little jewell this long body a lazy soul whose activity and valour was adequate to his strength and greatness whereof he gave this eminent testimony When Sir Thomas Knevet was sent November 4. 1605. by King James to search the Cellar beneath the Parliament-house with very few for the more privacy to attend him he took Master Doubleday with him Here they found Gui Faux with his dark-lant-horn in the dead of the night providing for the death of many the next morning He was newly come out of the Divels Closset so I may fitly term the inward room where the powder lay and the train was to be laid into the outward part of the Cellar Faux beginning to bussel Master Doubleday instantly ordered him at his pleasure up with his heels and there with the Traytor lay the Treason flat along the floor by Gods goodness detected defeated Faux vowed and though he was a false Traitor herein I do believe him that had he been in the inner room he would have blown up himself and all the company therein Thus it is pleasant musick to hear disarmed malice threaten when it cannot strike Master Doubleday lived many years after deservedly loved and respected and died about the year of our Lord 1618. The Farewell Seeing the well-being yea being of this City consisteth in the Kings Court and in the Courts of Justice I congratulate the happy return of the one praying for the long continuance of the other yea may the Lawyers in Westminster-hall never again plead in their Armour as they did in the time of Wyats rebellion but in their peaceable Gowns and Legal Formalities Nor doth this Wish onely extend to the Weal of Westminster but all England For no such dearth in a Land as what is caused from a drought of Justice therein For if judgement do not run down as Waters and righteousness as a mighty Stream Injustice like an Ocean will drown all with its inundation NOR FOLK hath the German Ocean on the North and East thereof Suffolk severed by the river Waveny on the South-side Cambridge-shire parted by the river Ouse and a small part of Lincoln shire on the West it extendeth full 50. miles from East to West but from North to South stretcheth not above thirty miles All England may be carved out of Norfolk represented therein not onely to the kind but degree thereof Here are Fens and Heaths and Light and Deep and Sand and Clay-ground and Meddows and Pasture and Arable and Woody and generally woodless land so gratefull is this Shire with the variety thereof Thus as in many men though perchance this or that part may justly be cavelled at yet all put together complete a proper person so Norfolk collectively taken hath a sufficient result of pleasure and profit that being supplied in one part which is defective in another This County hath the most Churches of any in England six hundred and sixty and though the poorest Livings yet by some occult quallity of their good husbandry and Gods blessing thereon the richest Clergy-men Nor can there be given a greater demonstration of the wealth and populousness of this County than that in the late Act for an Assessment upon England at the rate of sixty thousand pounds by the Month for three Months Norfolk with the City of Norwich is rated at three thousand two hundred sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence the highest proportion of any Shire in England And though Norfolk hath little cause to please and less to pride it self in so dear purchased pre-eminence yet it cannot but account it a credit to see it self not undervalued Natural Commodities It shareth plentifully in all English Commodities and aboundeth with the best and most Rabbits These are an Army of natural Pioners whence men have learned cuniculos agere the Art of undermining They thrive best on barren ground and grow fattest in the hardest frosts Their flesh is fine and wholesome If Scotish-men tax our language as improper and smile at our wing of a Rabbit let us laugh at their shoulder of a Capon Their skins were formerly much used when furs were in fashion till of late our Citizens of Romans are turned Grecians have laid down their grave gowns and took up their light cloaks men generally disliking all habits though emblemes of honour if also badges of age Their rich
in this kind then ours but they are the more Ingenious and Industrious School-master of the lesson of publick advantage making every place in their Province to have access unto every place therein by such cheap transportation NORTHUMBERLAND hath the Bishoprick of Durham seperated by the river Dervent running into Tine on the South Cumberland on the South-west the German Ocean on the East Scotland on the North and West parted with the river Tweed Cheviot-hills and elsewhere whilst our Hostility with the Scots Mutuo Metu with Mutual Fear now turned into Mutual Faith both Nations knowing their own and neither willing to invade the bounds of others It is somewhat of a Pyramidal Form whose Basis objected to the South extendeth above 40. whilst the shaft thereof narrowing Northward ascendeth to full 50. miles Nature hath not been over indulgent to this County in the fruitfulness thereof yet it is daily improved since to use the Prophets expression they have beat their Swords into Plough-shares and Spears into Pruning-hooks and surely such Plough-shares make the best furrows and such comfortable Pruning-hooks cut with the best edge It must not be forgotten how before the uniting of England and Scotland there lay much wast ground in the Northern part of this County formerly disavowed at lestwise not owned by any onely to avoid the charges of the common defence But afterwards so great sudden and good the alteration that the Borders becoming safe and peaceable many Gentlemen inhabiting therabouts finding the antient wast ground to become very fruitful in the fourth of King James put in their claimes and began to contend in Law about their Bounds challenging their Hereditary right therein The Buildings One cannot rationally expect fair Fabricks here where the Vicinity of the Scots made them to build not for state but strength Here it was the rule with ancient Architects what was firm that was fair so that it may be said of the Houses of the Gentry herein Quot mantiones tot munitiones as either being all Castles or Castle-like able to resist though no solemn siege a tumultary incursion Before we come to the Worthies of this County be it premised that Northumland is generally taken in a double acception First as a County whose bounds we have fore-assigned and secondly as a Kingdome extending from Humber to Edenborough-frith and so taking in the Southern-part of Scotland Here then we have an oportunity to cry quits with Demster the Scotish Historian and to repair our selves of him for challenging so many English-men to be Scots Should we bring all them in for Northumberlanders which were born betwixt Berwick and Edenborough whose nativities we may in the rigor of right justifie to be English if born therein whilst the tract of ground was subjected to the Saxon Heptarchy But because we will have an unquestionable title to what we claim to be ours we are content to confine our selves to Northumberland in the County-Capacity thereof Proverbs To carry Coals to Newcastle That is to do what was done before or to busy ones self in a needless imployment Parallel to the Latine Aquam mari infundere Sidera Coelo addere Noctuas Athenas To carry Owles to Athenes which place was plentifully furnished before with fowle of that feather From Berwick to Dover three hundred miles over That is from one end of the land to the other Semnable the Scripture expression From Dan to Ber-sheba Such the Latine Proverbs A carceribus ad metam A capite ad calcem when one chargeth thorough an employment from the beginning to the end thereof To take Hectors cloake That is to deceive a friend who confideth on his faithfulness and hereon a story doth depend When Thomas Piercy Earl of Northumberland Anno 1569. was routed in the Rebellion which he had raised against Queen Elizabeth he hid himself in the house of one Hector Armestrong of Harlaw in this County having confidence he would be true to him who notwithstanding for money betrayed him to the Regent of Scotland It was observed that Hector being before a rich man fell poor of a sudden and so hated generally that he never durst go abroad insomuch that the Proverb to take Hectors cloak is continued to this day among them when they would express a man that betrayeth his friend who trusted him We will not lose a Scot. That is we will lose nothing how inconsiderable soever which we can save or recover Parallel to the Scripture expression VVe will not leave an Hooffe behind us This Proverb began in the English borders when during the enmity betwixt the two Nations they had little esteem of and less affection for a Scotch-man and is now happily superseded since the Union of England and Scotland into Great Britain A Scottish mist may wet an English-man to the skin That is small mischeifs in the beginning if not seasonably prevented may prove very dangerous This limitary Proverb hath its original in these parts where mists may be said to have their fountain North but fall South of Tweed arising in Scotland and driven by the winds into England where they often prove a sweeping and soaking rain Sure I am our late Civil War began there which since hath wet many an English-man in his own hearts blood and whether at last the Scotch have escaped dry that is best known to themselves A Scotish-man and a Newcastle-grind-stone travail all the world over The Scots Gentry especially when young leave their Native land hard their hap if losers by their exchange and travail into foreign parts most for maintenance many for accomplishment Now no ship sets safe to sea without a Carpenter no Carpenter is able without his tools no tools useful without a Grind-stone no Grind-stone so good as those of Newcastle Some indeed are fetch'd from Spain but of so soft a grit that they are not fit for many purposes Hence it is that these Grind-stones though mostly in motion may be said fixed to ships as most necessary thereunto If they come they come not And If they come not they come We must fetch an Oedipus from this County to expound this riddling Proverb customary in the wars betwixt the Crowns of England and Scotland For the cattle of people living hereabout turn'd into the common pasture did by instinct and custome return home at night except violently intercepted by the Free-booters and Borderers who living between two Kingdomes owned no King whilst Vivitur ex rapto Catch who catch may Hence many in these parts who had an herd of kine in the morning had not a cow-tail at night and alternatly proved rich and poor by the trade aforesaid If therefore these Borderers came their cattle came not if they came not their cattle surely returned Now although a sprigg of these Borderers hath lately been revived disguised under the new name of Moss-Troopers yet the union of the two Kingdomes hath for the main knock'd this Proverb out of joynt never I hope
of the Ladies amongst whom one reputed a kins-man to the great Sophy after some Opposition was married unto him She had more of Eb◅ny then Ivory in her Complexion yet amiable enough and very valiant a quality considerable in that Sex in those Countries With her he came over into England and lived many years therein He much affected to appear in forreign Vestes and as if his Clothes were his limbes accounted himself never ready till he had something of the Persian Habit about him At last a Contest happening betwixt him and the Persian Ambassadour to whom some reported Sir Robert gave a Box on the Ear the King sent them both into Persia there mutually to impeach one another and joyned Doctor Go◅gh a Senior Fellow of Trinity-colledge in Cambridge in Commission with Sir Robert In this ◅oyage as I am informed both died on the Seas before the controverted difference was ever heard in the Court of Persia about the beginning of the reign of K. Charles Sir THOMAS SHIRLEY I name him the last though the eldest Son of his Father because last appearing in the world mens Activity not always observing the method of their Register As the Trophies of Miltiades would not suffer Themistocles to sleep so the Atchivements of his two younger brethren gave an Ala◅m unto his spirit He was ashamed to see them Worne like flowers in the Breasts and Bosomes of forreign Princes whilst he himself withered upon the stalk he grew on This made him leave his aged Father and fair Inheritance in this County and to undertake Sea Voyages into forreign parts to the great honour of his Nation but small inriching of himself so that he might say to his Son as Aeneas to Aescanius Disce puer Virtutē ex me verumque Laborem Fortunam ex aliis Virtue and Labour Learn from me thy Father As for success Child Learn from others rather As to the generall performances of these three brethren I know the Affidavit of a Poet carieth but a small cre◅it in the court of History and the Comedy made of them is but a friendly foe to their Memory as suspected more accommodated to please the present spectators then inform posterity However as the belief of Miti◅ when an Inventory of his adopted Sons misde◅nours was brought unto him embraced a middle and moderate way nec omnia credere nec nihil neither to believe all things nor nothing of what was told him so in the list of their Atchivements we may safely pitch on the same proportion and when abatement is made for poeticall embelishments the remainder will speak them Worthies in their generations The certain dates of their respective deaths I cannot attain Physicians NICHOLAS HOSTRESHAM Know Reader I have placed him in this County only on presumption that Horsham in this Shire no such place otherwise in England is contracted for Hostresham He was a learned man a most famous Physician and esteemed highly of all the Nobility of the Land who coveted his company on any conditions It seemeth that he was none of those so pleasing and conformable to the Humor of their Patients as that they press not the true Cure of the Disease and yet none of those who are so Regular in proceeding according to Art for the Disease as that they respect not sufficiently the condition of their Patients but that he was of a Middle Temper and so in effect was two Physicians in one Man Many were the Books he wrote reckoned upby Bale and Pitz amongst which I take especial notice of one contra dolorem renum thus beginning Lapis quandoque generatur in renibus I observe this the rather because his Practise was wholly at home it not appearing that he ever went beyond the Sea and this is contrary unto the confidence of such who have vehemently affirmed that the Stone was never heard of in England untill Hopps and Beer made therewith about the year 1516. began to be commonly used He flourished Anno Domini 1443. Writers LAURENCE SOMERCOTE was born saith Bale in the South-part of the Kingdome But had I am sure his best English preferment in Sussex being Canon of Chichester After his breeding here under his Carefull Parents and Skilfull Masters who taught him Logick and Rhetorick he applied himself to the Study of the Law and attained to great Learning therein Then leaving the Land he went to Rome and repaited to his Brother or Kinsman Robert Somercote Cardinall who it seems procured him to be Sub-Deacon under the Pop◅ He wrote some Books both in Latine and French and flourished in the year of our Lord 1240. JOHN DRITON so is his Surname Englished by Bale And why not as well John Driby a V◅llage in Lincoln-shire seeing no Driton in all England The truth is this in Latine he wrote himself de Arida Vill◅ equivalent with Sicoa villa or Sack-wil a Surname most renowned in this County and because it is added to his Character ex Illustri quadam Angliae familia procre◅s it suiteth well with our conjecturing him this Country-man He was bred according to the Mode of that Age in France and there became at Paris Summus Gymnasii Moderator which howsoever rendred in English soundeth a high place Conferred on a Forreigner In his time was much busling in the University about an Apocrypha Book patched together out of the Dreams of Joachime and Cyril two Monkes which was publickly read and commented on by many Admirers thereof by the name of the Eternall Gospell The Pope who often Curseth where God Blesseth here Blessed where God Cursed and notwithstanding the solemn Commination against such Additions to Scripture favoured them and what a Charitable Christian can scarcely believe damned their Opposers for Hereticks this our Sackwill bestirred himself and with William de Sancto Amore and other pious Men opposed this piece of Imposture Pitz in the Character of this our de Arida Villa treads like a foundred Horse on stones mentioning only that he met with much disturbance without any particulars thereof At last this Eternall Gospell had a Temporal End and with the Serpents of the Aegyptian Inchanters which vanished away this pretended Quint Essence Gospell sunk with shame into silence whilst the other four Gospells with the Serpent of Moses doe last and continue This our Writer flourished 1260. JOHN WINCHELSEY was bred in Oxford and became a great Scholar therein I am not bound to believe Bale in full latitude that he made a Centaur-Divinity out of Poets and Philosophers but this I believe that in his old Age he turned a Franciscan and when Gray became a Green Novice of the Order at Sarisbury Many condemned him that he would enter into such a life when ready to goe out of the world and others of his own Covent commended him who being old was concerned to find out the most compendious way to Heaven The year of his Probation was not ended when he died and was
AMP * Bishop Godwin in his Bishops of Rochester * In his Brit. in this County * Francis Godwin his Son in his Catalogue of Bishops of Bath Wells * Sir John Harington in his aditional supply to Bp. Godwin Pag. 115. * Sir Jamâ—…s Warede Praesulibus Lageniae Pag. 67. * Sir Jo. Hayâ—… ward in his Edw. the 6. pag. 105. * Stows Annals Edw. 6. pag. 612. * Cam. Eliz. Anno 1566. sub fin m. * These words are absurdly rendred by Aâ—… 〈◊〉 Darcy who understood not Lâ—…tin and translated Camden aut of the Fâ—…nch Transâ—…ation He was diligent and careful to thâ—… preservation of Benefits * Exemplifyed in Mills his Catalogue of honour in the Edition of Royal paper in the List of the â—…arls of Warwick * Fnn by Lee Clâ—…rentiaux markt fol. 45. S. N. * De Scrip. Brit. Cent. 3. num 20. * I vehemently suspect this man meerly made by the mistake of Pitseus Anno 1235. for Râ—…ger Wendover * Bâ—…le de Scrip. Brit. Ceâ—…t 5. num 19. AMP. * Baâ—…e de Scrip 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 9. Num. 7. * Camdâ—…ns Brit. in Bark-shire †Lib. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Register of New 〈◊〉 Anno 1543. * Pits dâ—… Scrip. Brit. Anno 1597. * Camb. Brit. in Bark-shire * Mr. 〈◊〉 in his notes on 〈◊〉 pag. 192. * Stows Sur. of Lond. p. 98. * Mat. 13. 32. * Sam. 23. 19. * Stows Survey of Lon. 193. S. N. * Camdens Brit. in this County * Caâ—…dens Brit. in Sommerset * In the Title Souldiers * Godwâ—…n in the Bishops of Coventry and Lich. * â—…igies Justo Majores impositae Camd. Brit. â—…n Bâ—…rkshire * Bishop Godwin in Bishops of Winchester * Sir Isaac Wake in his Musae Regnantâ—…s * Harpfield Eccle Hist. pag. 550. * E Arundle Notingham Suffolk Barksh B Moubray Estrick * Verstegan of decaied intelligence pag. 〈◊〉 * Weavâ—…rs Fun. Mon. pag. 447 * Jean LeFeron eale Chapter d. 〈◊〉 Marâ—…schaviz de France sol 5. Prov. 27. 24. * 〈◊〉 Acts Mon. p. 1219. * Idem p. 1221 * Cam. Brit. in 〈◊〉 * See the picture of Bishop Ridley his burning in Mr. Fox * I 〈◊〉 description of Oxfordshire Title Souldiers * Rot. Pat. quarto Edwardi sexti John 6. 9â—… * Lib. 10. c. 29. * Lib. 1. 10. * Harpâ—…ield Hist. of Wik pag. 708. and Holinshed pag. 544. * See more hereof in Surrey Ti le Nat. Commod * Hypodagma pag. 163. * Draitons Poly-olbion the 22. Song * See their number in her funeral Sermon preached by Bishop Fishâ—…r * Luk. 8. 3. * Fox Acts Monu pag. 775. * Whence Bishop Godwin transcribed his Catalogue of Bishops * John Philipot in his Chanelors of England pag. 20. * 〈◊〉 Paris Anno 1253. * Extant in 〈◊〉 Fun. Mon. pag. 577. * Bale de Scrip. Brit. Cent. 9. * Fox Acts Monu pag. 1027. * So was I informed by his Son Doctor 〈◊〉 late Minister of Peters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Sto. Survey of London pag. 62. * Camb. Eliz. â—… Anno 1587. * Idem in his Brit. in Kent * Hackwil's Apologâ—… pag. 253. * Huartes in the trial of wits * Comâ—…e Camdens Brit. in Essex wâ—…th hâ—…m iâ—… Flintshâ—…re * Brit. 〈◊〉 * Cam Brit. in Bark-shire * Cam. Eliz. 〈◊〉 1558. * Uxore frustra 〈◊〉 iâ—…tente idem Anno 1560. * Stow in survey of London pag. 18 writing of the river Thames * Plin lib. D. cimo sâ—…xto pag. â—…87 cap. 38. vers 44. * Plin. lib. Nigâ—…s quar pag. 442. cap. 5. vers 37. * Staâ—… 35. of Hen. the eight cap. 17. * Stat. Primo Eliza. cap. 15. * Sam. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 84. * Mich. Draâ—…ton in his P ly olbion * Idem ibidem * Cam. Brit. in Buckinghamsh * The English Martyrology on the 28. of August * Cam Brit. in Buckinghamsh * 〈◊〉 Legendâ—… Anglica in the life of Saint Rumwald * 〈◊〉 iâ—… his Perambulation of Kent pag. 187. * Idâ—…m ibidem * Fox Acts and Mon pag. 838 * See Fox his Acts and Mon. in that yeâ—…r * Godwin in the Bishops of Roâ—… * Idem ibidem * 2 Chr. 2416. * J. Bile J. Pits de script Bâ—…t * â—…ill Sommers in his Antiquities of Cant. pag. 181. * New col Regi Anno 1482. * J. Philpot in his Catalogue of the Masters of the Rowles * New-colledge Register Anno Dom. 1512. * Mr. Martin beneficed neer Northampton * Laurence Humphred in the latine life of Bishop Jeweâ—…l * Gen. 15. 15. * Bp. Godwin in his 〈◊〉 of the Bishops of Hereford * Mr. Hatchers in his Manuscript Cat. of the Fellows of Kings-colledge * Godwin in his Catal. of 〈◊〉 * Mr. Hatcher ut prius * Idem ibidem * Godwin in Catal. of 〈◊〉 of Chichester * Dr. Humfred in his Latine life of Bishop Jewel pag. 73. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non nimâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pit Godwin ut pâ—…s * Resurgam * So am I informed by his Son-in-law Doctor David Sâ—…okes * Ezek. 16. 44 * Psal. 1. * In his life prefixed to his Reports * 47. Edw. 3. claus pers 2 M. 24. 26. * The same also in effect iâ—… found in 〈◊〉 in Rich. â—…he second * Camdens Eliz. anno notato * Camdens Eliz. anno 1580 * Camdens Eliz. anno 1587. * Ponticus Viruâ—…ius cited by J. Bâ—…le de script Brit. Cent 4. num 94. * See Dr. Watts his Prefatory notes to Math Paris * Bale de script Brit. Pits Aetat 14. num 843. * Hatchets M. S. 8. of the Fellows of Kings-Colledge * Bâ—…le de script Brit. Ceat. nono Num. 87. * Humfredus PatriÌ„a Buchingam s. Baleus de Script Brit. Cent. 9. num 93. * Camdens Elizabeth in Anno 1589. * Cen. 43. 13. * Mr. Hatcher in his M. S. Catalog of the Fellows of Kings-col * 〈◊〉 his life 〈◊〉 to his booâ—… * Hence he stileth himself in his books Aetonensis * Fox his Acts and Mon. pag. 838. * Paginâ—… 914. * Stow Survâ—…y of London pag. 573. * This Mayor was the second Batchlor saith How continuing Slow in his Survay of London pag. 195. Sed quaere * Lib. 7. cap. 13. * In comment upon the 8. c. os Lib. 15. De Civit. Dei. * Ausonius Epitap Heroum num 34. * Pref. to Crok's Reports * In the Wriâ—… of Law in this County * See Memorable persons in Bark-shire * Sir Henry 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verbo Lollard * Viz. in the 31. year of Q. Elizabeth * Doctor Smith in the lise of his Father-in-law Doctor â—…illet * In his Comitiat Oration De duobus Testibus pag. 15. * Psalm 137. 2. * â—…ob 19. 23. * Isaiah 19. 7. * Psalâ—… 113. 7. * P. Virg. de 〈◊〉 inventionibus lib. 2. cap. 8. * 2 Cor. 11. 33. * In my History of that University * Phil. 2. 12. * In vitâ Soloâ—…is * 〈◊〉 pares 〈◊〉 ministri
Virg. Aeâ—… lib. 1. juxta finem * 〈◊〉 in Helvidium * Camden in Cambridgeshire * 〈◊〉 Twin Ant. Acad. Ox. pag. 333. * Gulielmus Zoon * So Mr. Fox spells it in his Acts and Mon. pag. 1573. called Sâ—…il Well at this day * Gen. 6. 2. * There were but 3. more Maryred in this County whereof John Hullier Fellow of Kings-col was most remarkable * Sir James Ware in the Arch-bishops of Tuam * Ireland properly was no Kingdome till the time of K. Henry the eighth * Sir James ut prius * John Philipot in his Catal. of Chancellors pag. 23. * Idem in his Catalogue of Treasurers pag. 16. * Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Winchester a Godwin in the Catal. of Landaffe and Rochester b Idem in the Biposhs of Râ—…chester c Bale pag. 576. and Pits pag. 625. * Bale de Script Ang. Cent. 7. Num. 60. * Idem i bidem * Bale maketh him to flourish under K. Henry the fourth * See his speech in Parliament Speed pag. * Godwin in the Bishop of Carlile * Mr. Martin beneficed neer Northampton * The particulars of this were procured for me by my worthy friend Mathew Gilly Esquire from Elizabeth the Bishops sole surviving daughter * Mills Cat. of Hon. pag. 1010. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 8. num 46. * Milles ut supra * Chronicon â—…o Bromton pag. 887. AMP. * Camdens Briâ—… in Cambridgeshire * Pits de it Aug. dâ—…script pag. 3â—…8 * Bâ—…le dâ—…pt Brit. Cent. 4. Num. 48. * Bale descript Brit. Cent. 5. Num. 40. S. N. * Bale Descript. Brit. Cent. 5. Num. 88. * Cent. octa Num. 43. * Polychron lib. ult cap. 10. * Balâ—… dâ—…ript Bâ—… Câ—…w 9. Num. 67. * So his son-in-law informed me * With Mrs. Skinner daughter to Sir Ed. Coke a very religious Gentlewoman * Henry of Huntington * Stows survay of London pag. 575. * This story is oâ—… his own relation * Bale descript Bâ—…t Cent. oct Num. 77. * Idem ibidem * Misprinted Sir Robertâ—…n â—…n my Ecclesiasticall History * Lord Herbert in the life of K. Henry the 8 pag. 181. Amos 4. 7. * Vate Royall of Eng. pag. 19. * Camdens Brit. in Châ—…shire * William Smith in his Vale Royal pag. 18. * In the wonders of Angle sea * 〈◊〉 Smith in his Vale-royal of England pag. 17. * Once Anno 14. and again Anno 1583. * See our Pro verbs in Kent * Holinshead Chron. pag. 489. * Stows Survey of London pag. 522. * Draytons Po lyalbion Song 〈◊〉 * â—… Kings 19. 12. * In his Brit. in Ireland * Pitz de 〈◊〉 script pag. 388. †In his 〈◊〉 of Cardinals * In his Cata of Bishops of Exeter * Bishop Godâ—… in the Arch bishop 〈◊〉 York †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Idem 〈◊〉 †In his comment on the 90. 〈◊〉 * R. Parker in Scel Cant in the Masters of Queens-colledge * In his Cata. of the Bishops of Lincola Printed 1616. * In 〈◊〉 Cestriensi natus Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Durham * Sir J. Harrington pag. 206. * Luk. 8. 3. * Joh. 13. 29. * In his Elizabeâ—…h Anno 1596. * Bishop Williams * Alledâ—…'d by Sir Fâ—…a Bâ—…con in his Censure on the Earl of Som rset AMP. * Sir Hen. Sp. Gâ—…oss verbo justiciarius seems to assign him 1 Edw. 5. 1 Rich. 3. 1 Hen. 7. * In Sir Henry Spelm. ut prius John 12. * Acts 19. 24 * 〈◊〉 Brit. in Cheshire * Camden ibidem * Weavers Fun Mon. pag. 436 * Sir Wal. Râ—…leigh Hist. of the World lib 5. pag. 545. * Lambertsâ—…er â—…er amb of Kent * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this County * So is it writ in the Table over 〈◊〉 tomb * William Smith Vale-royal pag. 16. * Pitz de scripâ—… Brit. Anno 1340. * Bale Script Brit. Cent. 8. Num. 98. * Ang. Script Num. 992. * Mrs. Blackmore a Stationers wife in Pauls-Church-yard * In his description of Warwick-shire * Gen. 30. 36. * See Arch-bishop ushers Cron. * So my good friend Dr. Tates Principal of Brasen-Nose hath informed me * Mr. Hatcher in his Manuscript Catalogue of the Fellows of Kings-colledge * Fox Acts Mon. pag. 1958. * Mr. Haâ—…cher ut prius * Acts 10. 38. * Isaith 9. 3. * Will. Smith in his Vâ—…le pag. 18. * The Vale-Royal of England pag. 86. Idem pag. 199. * Vale royal of England written by Witt. Webb p. 22. * Christs-coll Register * Master John Spencer Library Keeper of Zion-colledge * Puâ—…chas his Piâ—…grims 1. part pag. 226. sâ—…q * Mat. 4. â—… * Purchas his Pilgrims lib. 3. pag. 255. * Bale de script Brit. Gent. 6. Nuâ—… 1â—… * Pits de Ang. Script pag. 690. * Script Brit. Ceut 9. Num. 17. * Pro. 20. 25. * Gal. 4. 4. * Mat. 12. 8. * In the Church behind the Exchange * Stows Suâ—…vey of London pag. 585. * Dâ—… Willet in his Catalogue of good works since the Reformation pag. 1226. * Stows Survey of London pag. 1226. * Stow his Survey of London pag. 154. †Vale Royal of England pa. 207. * Ibidem * Carews Survey of Cornwall pag. 55. * Num. 11. 5. * Camdens Brit. in Cornwall * Polydore Virgil de Invent. Rerum in lib 3. Cap. 8. Pag. 251. * Virg. 〈◊〉 6. * Lib. 3. Epig. 5â—… * Câ—…rew in his Sur. of Corn. pag. 100. * Cam English Brit. in Cornwall * Câ—…ews Sur 〈◊〉 Câ—…wall fol. 115. * Idâ—…m fol. 141. * 〈◊〉 lib. 8. cap. 3. †〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 lib. 3. cap. 5. Mela lib. 2. cap. 4. * 〈◊〉 Sur. of Cornwall fol. 126. * Caâ—…ew 〈◊〉 of Cornwall fol. 141. * See Master 〈◊〉 notes on Polyolbion pag. 131. * Rich. White of Basing-Stoke in Hist. Brit. Mart. and English Martyr on Octob. 21. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Cata. Sanct. Brit. Anno Dâ—…m 411 * Carew Survey of Corn. fol. 59. * Godwin in the Arch-bish of York * Bâ—…le de Scrip. Brit. Cent. Oct. Num. 13. * Sir James Wâ—…re de scrip Hib. lib. 2. pag. 13â—… * Idem de Arch epis Dublin pag. 30. * Garews Sâ—…r Corn. fol. 59. Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Exeter Bishop Godwin ut prius * Stows Survey * Carew Survey of Cornwall fol. 59. * These cannot now be pretended an hinderance being put down by the long-lasting Parliament * Hamond L'Estrange Esq his Life of King Charles Reader in the last page I affirmed that Mr. Noy was no writer But since I am informed that there is a Posthume Book of his * Alomena wife to Amphitruo and Igern wife to Gâ—…loise Pr. of Cornwall * Draytons Polyolbion pag. 5. * Michael Cornubiensis * Joan. Sarishu de nugu Curial 5. cap. 18. * L Verulam in King Henry the seventh pag. 171. * Carew's survey of Cornwall * Carew in his survey of Cornwall sol 61. Speed Chron. pag. 780. *