find it more profitable to Match within their County than to bring a Bride out of other Shires being more easily acquainted 〈◊〉 put to less Charge at home Cardinals Will. Makilsfield probably born in this County tho reputed a Conventrian because then Cheshire was in the Diocess of Coventry and Liech See his Character in Warwickshire Prelates Will. Booth first bred in Greys-Inn in London in the Study of Com. Law till upon proffer of a Chancellours place in St. Pauls he took orders Afterwards consecrated Bishop of Liechfield and six years after Translated to York and after twelve years dyed and was buried in St. Maries Chappel in Southwell 1464. Lawr. Booth half Brother to Will was bred and became Master of Pemb. Hall in Camb. and was Chancellour of that University He made the Composition between the University and the K. Coll. and was an Eminent Benefactor to his own bestowing thereon all the Tenements since Alienated betwixt it and St. Botolphs Church amongst which was St. Thomas Hostle He Exonerated the Colledge of â—… Pension of five Pounds which he redeemed and conferred thereon the mannor and Patronage of Overâ—…on Waterfield in Hunt He was preferred Chancelâ—…or to Marg. Queen to H. 6. and An. 13 E. 4. made Lord High Chancellor it seems his Publick Spirit was neither for York nor Lanc. but England having first been Bishop of Durham afterwards Arch-bishop of York and built in the first the Gate of Aukland-Colledge and bought for the latter the Mannor Baâ—…erfed nigh London He kept the Master-ship of Pemb. Hall till the day of his Death that place being Ambitious of his Patronage Jo. Booth Brother to Lawr. aforesaid Batchelor of Laws was consecrated Bishop of Exeter An. 6. E. 4. 1466. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in â—…his Cathedral which hath not its equal in England but the softest Cushion belonging to it was taken away when Bishop Vescy Alienated the Lands thereof When the Bishop had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein such were the troubles arising from the Wars between York and Lanc. Therefore retiring to his Private Habitation at Horsley in Hampshire he dyed 1478. and was buried in St. Clem. Danes in London These three Brothers had an eldest Brother Sir Roger Booth Knight of Barton in Lanc. Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevil third Earl of Westâ—…erland Th. Savage born at Maklefield His Father a Knight bred a Doctor of Law in Camb. Hence aâ—… was preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York A greater Courtier than Clerk deâ—…trous in managing secular Affairs a mighty 〈◊〉 man He was the first who was privately installâ—…d by his Vicar He maintained a Numerous Family and built much at Scroby and Cawood He dyed 〈◊〉 his Body being buried at York his heart at Maklefield in a Chappel of his own Erection Since the Reformation Will. Chaderton D. D. of worthy Extraction iâ—… this County bred a Fellow and Mr. of Queens Coll. iâ—… Camb. and chosen first the Lady Margarets then the Kings professor in Divinity to whom Doctor Whitaker succeeded Made Bishop of Chester An. 1579. then of Lincoln 1594. He dyed 1608. His Virtuous Grand-Daughter married to Mr. Jocelin Esquire writ The Mothers Legacy to her unborn Infant and dyed in Travel Will. James D. D. born in this County and bred in Christs-Church in Oxf. was President of the University Colledge and Dean and Bishop of Durham He had been Chaplain to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester and Ministred Comfort to him near the hour of Death He was a Principal means of recovering Durham-house to his See which House was granted by E. 6. to the Lady afterwards Queen Eliz. for Term of Life and lay neglected till Bishop Jaâ—…er regained it and repaired the Chappel to his great cost He once entertained Queen Eliz. very much to her Satisfaction Otherwise it was with a following Bishop of that See being reproved by King Ja. for some neglect of his Officers he Survived that reproof not a full Twelve-month Jo. Richardson born in this County of a most Worshipful and Ancient Family bred in the University of Dublin where he was Graduated Doctor in Divinity and afterwards was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland in the late Rebellion he came over into England A Grave Man and good Divine verifying the Rule Bonus Texturius bonus Theologus for he carried a Concordance in his Memory The Larger Annotations especially on Ezekiel an Elaborate Work Challenge him in a great measure for the Author Our Bishop who had been relieved had his bounty to bestow on others and by his Will bequeathed a considerable Legacy to the Colledge of Dublin He dyed An. 1658. Aet 74. Statesmen Sir Thomas Egerton Knight extracted from an Ancient Family in this County so Eminent a Lawyer that Queen Eliz. made him her Solicitor then Master of the Rolls then Keeper of the Great Seal An. 38 of of her Reign A man of great Wisdom and Gravity quick Wit solid Judgment ready Utterance and great integrity An. 1. Jac. he was made Lord Chancellor the same in effect with Lord Keeper and of Lord Elismer he was created Viscount Brackley 1616. Great was the Contention for many years together betwixt this Lord of Equity and Sir Edw. Coke the Oracle of Justice at Westminster-Hall His civil Death by Resignation hap'ned a few days before his Natural Death after which his Body was buried in Duddleston in this County He left a fair Estate to his Son who was afterwards Created Earl of Bridgewater When he observed King James to be profuse to the Scots he advised him to preserve his Crown-lands seeing he or his Successors might meet with Parliaments which would not supply his occasions but on such Conditions as would not be very acceptable It was aâ— ordinary Speech with him Frost and Fraud end in Foâ— He dyed 1616. Capital Judges Sir Humph Starkey probably born in this County so skilled in the Law that he was preferred Bar. of the Exchequer about â—â— Hne 7. Whereas that Age was justly complaining of the Extortions of the Kings Officers as Empsâ—â— and Dudley c. nothing of that nature is laid in his charge He dyed An. ult H. 7. was buried in Leonard Shore-ditch Where his Epitaph begins Orate Sir Hen. Bradshaw Knight so noted a Lawyer that An. 6. E. 6. he was Ch. Bar. of the Exchequer demeaning himself therein to his great Commendation I have cause to conceive that this Judge was outed of his place 1. Ma. finding no more mention of him Sir Randel Crew so great a Lawyer that 22 Ja was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. and therein served two Kings tho scarce two years 〈◊〉 his Office with great Integrity He declared his Judgment against the project of the LOAN and thereupon he was by Writ discharged from his place after which he lived long at Westm much praised for his Hospitality The Gown being put off he had a warm Suit remaining
that desperate Traitor Rowland York first used thrusting with Rapiers that Sport is disused and the Prov. only appliable to quarrelsom people 17. A Loyal heart may be landed under Traitors-Bridge Q. Eliz. was compelled to go under that Bridge when she was sent Prisoner to the Tower 18. To cast Water into the Thames 19. He must take him a House in Turn-again Lane This in old Records is called Wind-again-Lane and lyeth in the Parish of St. Sepulchres and in it there is no through-passage It is applied to those who take sinister Courses 20. He may whet his Knife on the Threshold of the Fleet. It is applied to those who being out of Debt may defie Arrests and are in no danger of Imprisonment in the Fleet or elsewhere 21. All goeth down Gutter-lane A small Lane in the City otherwise Guthurum-lane Appliable to great Gluttons and Drunkards 22. As Lame as St. Giles Cripple-gate St. Giles a Noble Athenian being Lame waved all cure for his greater Mortification It is spoken of such who for some light hurt or out of Laziness lagg behind 23. You are all for the Hustings The Hustings is the highest Court in London so called from the French word Haulser to lift up The Proverb is spoken of those who are lifted up with the Wings of Pride and Ambition above the Level of their Birth and Estate Princes Kath. 3d. Daughter to K. Hen. 3d. and Q. Eleanor was born at London 1252. on St. Kath. Day She dyed in her very infancy Wak't from the Womb she on this World did peep Dislik't it clos'd her eyes fell fast asleep She lyeth buried at Westminster Joan Eldest Daughter of King Edward 2. and Queen Elizabeth was born in the Tower of London about 1316 and was married to Dav. 2. King of Scotland She did good offices betwixt the 2 Kingdoms and was therefore called Joan Make-Peace Dying without Issue at London she was burled in Grey-Friers Kath. Youngest Daughter to King Henry 7. and Elizabeth his Queen was born in the Tower of London Feb. 2. 1503. dying few days after On whose Innocence and short life this Epitaph might be written Here lieth SHE was born and cry'd Liv'd a few days fell sek and dy'd Much differing from that of an Ancient Man Here lyes the Man was born and cry'd Liv'd 60 years fell sick and dy'd Anne Bollen Daughter of the Lord Th. Bollen Earl of Wilt-shire was Probably born in London and became 2d Wife to H. 8. after he had made her Marchioness of Pembroke She was accomplished in Body Vertuous in Mind and a great Promoter of the Gospel The Inconstancy of her Husband's Affection is conceived by most moderate Men her chiefest Crime and cause of her death 1536. Kath. Howard Daughter to the Lord Edm. Howard Son to Th. D. of Norfolk was probably born in London and became 5th Wife to Henry 8. Whom you may imagine thus speaking on his Death-bed Three Kates 2 Nans and one dear Jane I Wedded One Spanish one Dutch and 4 English Wives From 2 I was Divorced 2 I beheaded One Died in Childbirth and one me survived 'T is said the Incontinency of this Kath. cost her her Life The greatest good the Land got by this Match was general leave to marry Cousin-Germans She was beheaded 1540. Saints St. Sedd born in London was very instrumental in the Conversion of the Mircians St. Wulsine a Benedictine Monk was Ab. of Westminster then translated to be Bishop of Sherburne in Dorset-shire whence he drove all the secular Priests as became a Champion for Monastical life He is said to have seen Heaven open in the instant of his departure out of this Life 985. Th. Becket a Merchants Son was born in London in the place where now Mercers-Chappel is erected He was slain on Innocents-day in his own Church of Canterbury 1170. many Vows were made by superstitious Pilgrims to his Shrine The Papists in favour of Vows of that Nature tamper to corrupt Holy Writ as in the Vulgar Lat. Prov. 20. 25. Ruina est homini Devorare Sancta c. Which they read Ruina est homini Devorare Sanctos It is a snare to a man who often maketh Vows to Saints and after Vows retracteth them See my Ecc. Hist Martyrs William Sautre al. Chatris Parish-priest of St. Osuhs London was the first English Wickliffite who wast put to Death for his Opinion He was charged with a relapse into Heresie after Abjuration He was convicted in a Provincial Councel of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and burnt in Smith-field about Feb. 28 1400. The close of the Arch-Bishops Sentence of Degradation when Sautre was committed over to the Secular Court endeth with this expression Beseeching the Court aforesaid that they will receive favourably the said William c. which was nothing but Cruelty in Masquerade Jo Badby an Artificer in Black Friers London was burnt about 1401. Hen. Prince of Wales afterwards King Henry5 being present at his execution promised him a Pardon and a Pension on his Recantation all which Badby refused He was put in an empty Tun and the fire put therein at the first feeling whereof he cryed Mercy Mercy of God which Prince Henry mistaking for a kind of Revocation of his Opinions profered him the same Condition a second time which Badby again refused and was Martyred Prelates Sim. of Gaunt born in London was preferred B. of Salisbury by Edward 1. 1298. He gave the first leave to the Citizens thereof to fortifie that place with a Ditch and Walls and no less was his care of the Church than of the City making good Statutes whereby it was ordered even unto our Age. He died about 1315. Jo. Kite born in London bred in Oxford sent Ambassador into Spain made a Titulary Arch-Bishop and at last Bishop of Carlisle He lyeth in the Church of Stepney William Knight bred in Oxford was Secretary to Henry 8. and first employed to the Pope to mention the Matter of his Divorce After his Return he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells In Wells he built a stately Cross to secure poor people from the Weather He died 1547. Nic. Heath one of St. Anthonies Piggs i. e. Scholar of that School in London then bred in Cambridge was Almoner to Henry 8. and by him preferred Bishop first of Roch. then of Worc. deprived by Edward 6. restored by Queen Mary who advanced him Arch-Bishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England A moderate Man yet infected with the Popish Bishops he refused the Oath of Supremacy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth for which he was deprived He led a pious Life on his own Lands at Cobham in Surry whither Queen Elizabeth came often to visit him He died about 1566. Since the Reformation Jo. Young D. D. was born in Cheapside and bred in Cambridge was Bishop of Rochester and refused the See of Norwich saying It was not so easie for an old man since the Cushion was taken away from it Meaning since
Earls of Northumberland is most famous for a stately Stable which affordeth standing in State for 60 Horses with all necessary accommodations Proverbs I. He is none of the Hastings That is he is slow and dull the Proverb bearing only a nominal counter-relation to the Noble and ancient Family of the Hastings formerly Earls of Pembroke and still of Huntington There is also a Haven of that name in this County which is said to have been built in all hast by William the Conquerour Martyrs Grievous the persecution in this County under Jo. Christopherson the Bishop thereof Such his havock in burning poor Protestants in one year that had he sat long in that See and continued after that Rate there needed no Iron Mills to rarifie the Woods of this County The Papists admire him as a great Divine which I will not oppose but only say as the Man said of his surly Mistriss She hath too much Divinity for me Oh! that She had some more Humanity Cardinals Herbert de Bosham was a Manubus unto Tho. Becket at whose Murder-Martyring he was present and had the discretion to make no resistance He wrote the story of his Masters death Going over into Italy he was by Pope Alex. 3. made Arch-Bishop of Beneventum and in Dec. 1178. created Cardinal Prelates Jo. Peckham born of obscure Parents bred in Oxford and beyond the Seas became Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by the Popes favour for which he afterwards paid 4000 Marks He neither feared the Layty nor flattered the Clergy and was a great punisher of Pluralists He transmitted the Canons place at Lyons which he held for life to his Successors who held the same in Commendam some hundred years after He built and endowed a Colledge at Wingham yet left a great Estate to his Kindred whose descendants are possessed of the same at this day in this and the next County He dyed 1294. Robert Winchelsey bred in Merton-Colledge in Oxford where after having travelled he proceeded D. D. and became Chancellour of the University successively Can. of Pauls Arch-Deacon of Essex and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He went to Rome and obtained his Pall of Pope Celestine refusing a Cardinals Cap offered unto him After his return confiding in the Canon of the Councel of Lions which forbad the Clergy to pay Taxes to Princes without consent of the Pope he created much molestation to himself King Edw. 1. using him first very harshly till at last he overcame all with his Patience A worthy Prelate excellent Preacher Being Learned himself he loved and preferred Learned Men. Prodigious his Hospitality being reported that Sundays and Fridays he fed no fewer then 4000 Men when Corn was cheap and 5000 when it was dear After his death 1313 poor men used to repair to his Tomb and present their Petitions to him Tho. Bradwardine descended of an ancient Family at Bâ—…adw in Hereford whence they removed and setled in this County for three Generations was born in or near Chichester and bred in Merton-Colledge in Oxford where for his skill in the Mathematicks and Divinity he was called Dr. Profundus He was Confessor to Edw. 3. To his Prayers the Conquest of France was by some imputed He Preached Piety to the Army He was Consecrated at Avignon Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at which time he was accounted somewhat Clownish both because he could not mode it with the Italians but chiefly because he was advanced for his Merit and not for his Money In his excellent Book De Causâ Dei he complaineth grievously of the prevalent Errours of Pelagius He dyed 1349. Tho. Arundel Son to Robert and Brother to Richard Fitz-Allen both Earls of Arundel was Arch-Bishop of York the fourth Arch-Bishop of Canterbury having been Bishop of Ely at 22 years of Age. He was thrice Lord Chancellour of England viz. an 10. and 15. Rich. 2. and 11 Hen. 4. He was by Rich. 2. banished the Land waâ—…ter his Brother was beheaded Restored by Hen. 4. to his Arch-Bishoprick In Parliament he was the Churches Champion for preservation of her Revenues He was the first who persecuted the Wicklevites with Fire and Faggot This Noble Person who had stop'd the Mouths of many Servants of God from Preaching his Word was himself famished to death by a swelling in his Throat Feb. 20. 1413. and lyeth Buried in the Cathedral of Canterbury H. Burwash of Noble Alliance a Covetous Ambitious Rebellious and Injurious Person was recommended by Barth de Badilismer Bar. of Leeds in Kent to Edw. 2. who preferred him Bishop of Linscoln Having fallen into the Kings displeasure and forfeited his Temporalities though afterwards restored he was most forward to assist the Queen in the deposing of her Husband He was twice Lord Treasurer once Chancellour and once Ambassadour to the Duke of Bavaria He dyed 1340. There 's a merry Story that he was condemned after his death to be a Green Forrester because in his life time he had violently enclosed other Mens Grounds into his own Park Since the Reformation W. Barlow D. D. was Canon of St. Osiths then Prior of Bisham in Bark-shire afterwards preferred by Hen. 8. Bishop of St. Asaph whence he was Translated to St. Davids thence an 3. Edw. 6. to Bath and Wells Having fled in the dayes of Queen Mary he was superintendent of the English Congregation at Embden Returning afterwards into England he was made by Queen Elizabeth Bishop of Chichester He had a numerous and prosperous Female Issue He dyed December 10 1569. W. Juxton born at Chichester was bred at St. Johns Colledge in Oxford where he commenced Doctor of Law and became Pres of the Colledge He was admirably Master of his Pen and Passion By K. Charles I. he was preferred Bishop first of Hereford then of London and for some years Lord Treasurer of England in the legal and prudent management of which Office He was well reported of all Men and of the Truth it self He beheld with much Christian Patience those of his Order lose their Votes in Parliament much contempt poured on his Function whilst their Enemies hence concluded their final Extirpation would follow This Bishop was amongst others selected as Confessor to King Charles I. at his Martyrdom He formerly had had experience in the case of the Earl of Strafford that this Bishops Conscience was bottom'd on Piety the Reason that from him he received the Sacrament good Comfort and Counsel just before the perpetration of that horrid Murder a Fact so foule that it alone may confute the Errour of the Pelagians maintaining that all sin cometh by imitation the Universe not formerly affording such a precedent as if those Regicides had purposely designed to disprove the observation of Solomon that there is no new thing under the Sun King Charles II. an 1660 preferred him Arch-Bishop of Canterbury which place he worthily graceth at the Writing hereof Acceptus Fruin D. D. President of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford was by K. Charles I. advanced Bishop of Coventry and
Learning by his Instructions He founded the University in Paris so that the Learning of the French was a Taper lighted at Our Torch His Name puts me in mind of their malitious and silly Anagram upon Calvin viz. Calvinus Lucianus who was an Atheist though there were many worthy persons of the same Name The same Anagram is found in Alcuinus He was first made Abbot of St. Augustines in Canterbury and afterwards of St. Martins in the City of Tours in France and dying 780 he was buried in a Convent appendant to his Monastery Many of the Modern Saints in the Church of Rome must modestly confess that on a due and true estimate Our Alcuinus was worth many scores of them so great his Learning and Holy his Conversation Sewal bred in Oxford was Scholar to St. Edmund who was wont to say to him Sewald Sewald thou wilt have many Afflictions and dye a Martyr Nor did he miss much of his Mark therein though he met with Peace and Plenty at first when Arch-Bishop of York But afterwards opposing the Pope who intruded one Jordan an Italian to be Dean of York he was for his contempt Excommunicated Note that at the same time there were 300 Benefices possessed by Italians who did not only teach in the Church but mis-teach by their lascivious and debauched Conversations Let us now return to Sewald who never returned in the Popes favour but dyed of grief in the state of Excommunication 1258. Yet was he reputed a Saint in Vulgar Estimation Martyrs Valentine Freese and his Wife both born in this City gave their Lives therein at one Stake for the Testimony of Jesus Christ an 1531. probably by order from Edward Lee the cruel Arch-Bishop Confessors Edward Freese Brother to Valentine aforesaid was Apprentice to a Painter afterwards a Novice-Monk and leaving his Convent came to Colchester in Essex where discovering his Heretical Inclinations by Painting Sentences of Scriptures in the Borders of Cloaths he was called to an account by Jo. Stoaksley Bishop of London Mr. Fox saith he was fed with Manchet made of saw-dust and kept so long in Prison maniâ—…led till the Flesh had overgrown his Irons and he not able to Kemb his own head became so distracted that being brought before the Bishop he could say nothing but my Lord is a good Man We must not forget how the Wife of this Edward being big with Child and pressing in to see her Husband the Porter at Fulham gave her such a kick on the Belly that the Child was destroyed with that stroak immediately and she dyed afterwards of the same Prelates Jo. Roman whose Father was born at Rome was probably born in York seeing he was very indulgent to that City For generally Outlandish Mules though lying down in English Pasture used to leave no hairs behind them But this Jo. being advanced Arch-Bishop began to build the Church and finished the North part of the Cross-Isle therein Pol. Virg. praiseth him for a man of great Learning and Sincerity He fell into the disfavour of King Edward 1. for Excommunicating Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham and it cost him 4000 Marks to regain his Prince's good Will He dyed 1295. and was buried in his own Church Robert Walbey an Augustinian Friar in York went over into France where he was chosen Professor of Divinity in the City of Tholouse He was Chaplain to the Black Prince and after his death to his Father King Edward 3. Now as his Master enjoyed three Crowns so under him his Chaplain did successively partake of three Mitres being first a Bishop in Gascoigne then Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Ireland and afterwards Bishop of Chichester in England At last he was Consecrated Arch-Bishop of York He dyed 1397. Since the Reformation Thomas Morton born 1564. was Son to a famous Mercer reputed the first in York and allied to Cardinal Morton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He was bred in York School with that Arch-Traytor Guy Faux and afterwards in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge and for his Merit chosen Fellow thereof before 8 Competitors Commencing D. D. he made his Position on his second Question contrary to the expectation of Dr. Playfere replying upon him with some passion Commôsti mihi Stomachum to whom Morton returned Gratuâ—…or tibi Reverende Professor de bono tuo Stomacho canabis apud me hâc nocte He was successively preferred Dean of Glocester Winchester Bishop of Chester Coventry and Lichfield and Durham The Foundation which he laid of Forreign Correspondency with eminent persons of different perswasions when he attended as Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent by King James Ambassador to the King of Denmark c. he built upon unto the day of his death In the late Long Parliament the displeasure of the House of Commons fell heavy upon him partly for subscribing the Bishops Protestation for their Votes in Parliament partly for refusing to resign the Seal of his Bishoprick and Baptizing a Daughter of John Earl of Rutland with the Sign of the Cross two faults which compounded together in the judgment of honest and wise men amounted to an High Innocence Yet the Parliament allowed him 800 pounds a year a proportion above his Brethren for his Maintenance But the Trumpet of their Charity gave an uncertain sound not assigning by whom or whence this Sum should be paid Indeed the severe Votes of Parliament ever took full effect according to his observation who did Anagram it VOTED OUTED But their Merciful Votes found not so free performance however this good Bishop got 1000 pounds out of Goldsmiths Hall which afforded him support in his Old Age. He wrote against Faction in defence of three Innocent Ceremonies and against Superstition in his Treatise called The Grand Impostor He solemnly proffered unto me to maintain me to live with him which courteous proffer as I could not conveniently accept I did thankfully refuse Many of the Nobility deservedly honoured him but none more then John Earl of Rutland to whose Kinsman Roger Earl of Rut. he had formerly been Chaplain Sir George Savil civilly paid him his purchased Annuity of 200 pounds He dyed at Easton Manduit in Northampton-shire the House of Sir Henry Yelverton 1659. Aet 95. Statesmen Sir Robert Car Son to Thomas Laird of Funihurst in the South of Scotland who being active for Mary Queen of Scots was thereupon forced to fly to York was born in this City and therefore he afterwards refused to be Naturalized by Act of Parliament as needless to him being born in the English Dominions 'T is reported that his first making at Court was by breaking of his Leg at Tilting in London whereby he came first into the cognizance of King James who reflected on him whose Father had been a kind of Confessor for the Cause of the Queen his Mother Besides the young Gentleman had a handsome Person and a conveniency of desert Honours were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Sommerset Knight of the Garter Warden of
consist XIV England a good Land and a bad People A â—…rench Proverb 't is well they being such Admirers â—…f their own will allow any goodness to another Country XV. The High Dutch Pilgrims when they beg they â—…ing the French whine and cry the Spaniards curse wear and blaspheme the Irish and English steal This is Spanish The Italians are not mentioned because they seldom go out of their Country There was occasion to make Felony highly Penal in England to restrain the Pezantry somewhat addicted â—…hereunto but may Honesty in themselves and Charity in others hinder the Progress and prevent the Consequences of that Sneaking Trade Princes John Eldest Son of King E. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor dyed in his Infancy 1273. in ult H. 3. and was buried August 8. in West minâ—â—er under a Marble Tomb inlaid with his Picture â—…n an Arch over it Eleanor Eldest Daughter to King Ed. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor An. Dom. 1266. Afterwards was Married by Proxy a Naked Sword interposed between her and his Body to Alphonâ—… King of Arragon who dyed An. 1292 before the Consummation of Marriage This Princess was afterwards Married to Hen. 3. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of Anjou and Kings of Sicil are descended She died in 27th year of her Fathers Reign Anno Dom. 1298. Margaret third Daughter of E. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor An. 3. E. 1. 1275. At fifteen she was Marryed at Westminster July 9. 1290. to John II. Duke of Brabant by whom she had John Issue III. Duke of Brabant from whom the Dukes of Burgundy are descended Mary sixth Daughter of King Ed. and Queen El. born at Windsor April 12. 1279. at 10 years of Age was made a Nun at Amesbury in Wiltshire meerly to gratifie Queen Eleanor her Grand-mother The other Children of this King probably born in this Castle viz. Henry Alphonse Blanche dyed in their Infancy who Cleansed at Font did draw untainted Breath Not yet made bad by Life made good by Death The two former were buried with their Brotheâ—… John at Westminster in the same Tomb but where Blanche was interr'd is unknown Edward III Son to E. 2. and Queen Isab born aâ—… Windsor Oct. 13. 1312. a Pious and Fortunate Prince was Passive in the deposing of his Father Practised â—â— in his Minority by his Mother and Mortimer Hâ—… French Victories speak both of his Wisdom and Valour And tho the Conquests by H. 5. were thicker his were broader in France and Scotland thâ—… both in length alike as lost by their immediate Successors He was the first English King which Coyâ—â— â—â— Gold He first stamped the Rorseâ—…obles having on one side Iesus autem â—â—nsiens per medium illorum ibat and â—â— the Reverse his own Image with Sword and Shield siting in a Ship Waving on the â—â—a Hereupon was made the English Rhym in the â—…eign of H. 6. For four things our Noble sheweth to me King Ship and Swerd and Power of the Sea â—…e had a Numerous and Happy Issue by Phillippa â—â—s Queen after whose Death being almost 70 years â—â—d he cast his Affection on Alice Pierce his Paraâ—…our to his Dishonour it being true what Epictetus â—…eturned to Adrian the Emperour asking of him â—…hat Love was In Puero Pudor in Virgine Ruâ—…r in faeminâ Furor in juvene Ardor in Sene â—…isus In a Boy bashfulness in a Maid blushing â—â— a Woman fury in a young-Man fire in an â—â—d Man folly However this King had few Equals one Superiors for Wisdom Clemency and Courage â—…e died An. Dom. 1378. William Sixth Son to E. 1. and Queen Phil. born â—â— Windsor He had a Brother born at Hatfield of â—…he same Name who died in his Infancy as this â—…illiam also did As for King Edwards Female Chilâ—…ren Isabel Joan Blanch Mary and Margarâ—…t â—…is believed they were born in France Henry VI Son to H. 5. born at Windsor was 〈◊〉 for a Coul than Crown of so easie a Nature that â—…e might well have Exchanged a pound of 〈◊〉 â—…r an ounce of Valour He Marryed Margaret Daughâ—…er of Reinier King of Jerusalem Sicily and Arragâ—â— â—…uissant only in Titles Through Home-bred Disâ—…entions he not only lost the Forreign Acquisstions of the Father in France but also his own Inheritance in England to the House of York Her Death or Murder rather happened 1471. This Henry waâ—… twice Crowned twice Deposed and twice Burieâ—… first at Chestry then at Windsor and once halâ—… Sainted Our Hen. VII cheapned the price of hiâ—… Canonization but would not come up to the Suâ—… demanded However this Henry was a Saint with the People repairing to his Monument from thâ—… farthest part of the Land He was the last Prince whom I find expresly born at Windsor It seemâ—… that afterwards our English Queens grew out oâ—… Conceit with that place as unfortunate for Royaâ—… Nativities Saints Margaret Alice Rich born at Abbington in this County and were successively Prioress of Catesby in Northamptonshirâ—… They were Sisters to St. Edmund The former dying An. 1257. the latter 1270. Both were Honoured for Saints and many Miracleâ—… were reported done at their Shrine St. Edmund Son to Edw. Rich and Mabel his Wife born at Abbington and bred in Oxford Edmunds-Hall in that University which probably was not built by but Named iâ—… Memory of him He was Canon of Salisbury and afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury but after 10 years deserted this Function being offended at the Ambition and Extortion of the Popes Legate iâ—… England he therefore going into France sighed ouâ—… the Remainder of his Life at Pontiniack some say at Soiffons where he dyed An. 1240. Pope Innocenâ—â— IV Canonized him 6 years after his Death that as some affirm he might not be tormented with his â—…host Lewis King of France a year after tranâ—â—ated his Corps and three years after that beâ—â—owed a most Sumptuous Shrine of Gold Silver and â—…hrystal upon it And the 16 of Nov. is the Festival â—…ppointed for his Memorial Martyrs At Newbury in this County there were 6 or 7 score Persons being â—…etrayed by a Lewd Person whom they â—…dmitted into their Society Abjured and besides â—…here were three or four burnt whose Names tho â—…ot known are no doubt written in the Book of Life The day of the Gospel dawned as soon in this Counâ—â—y as in any place of England The Honour of the â—…eniority in this kind belongs to Newbury the Moâ—…ive used by Doctor Will. Twit to quicken the pace of his Parishoners there that Town as he said â—…eing the first Fruits of the Gospel in England At Windsor of a Company of Godly Persons there â—…our were Arraigned and Condemned by Commisâ—…ioners whereof three were put to Death viz. Anth. Parsons Priest being fast'ned to â—…he Stake he laid a good deal of Straw â—…n his Head saying This is God's Hat â—… am now Arm'd like a Souldier of Christ Rob. Testwood a
Opinions distasteful to thâ—… Church of Rome and wrote 200 Volumns besideâ—… his Translation of the Bible into English Having suffered much Persecution from the Popish Clergy after a long Exile he return'd in safety and dyeâ—… at his Living at Lutterworth in Leicestershier An. 138 His Bones were taken up and burnt 42 years after his Death Prelates I shall begin with four Nevils of Honourable Extraction 1. Ralph Nevil born at Raby Lâ—â— Chanc. under King Hen. 3. and Bishop of Chichesâ—â— 1223. built a fair House for himself and his Successeâ—… in Chancery-lane in Lond. which House is since callâ—â— from the Earl of Lincoln once possessor therereof Lincolns Inn. He was chosen afterwards Arch-bishop of Cant. but the Pope stopped his Consecration 〈◊〉 being apt to dissuade King Hen. from paying 〈◊〉 Pension granted to his Holiness by King John Tâ—â— being elected Bishop of Winch. he was obstruâ—â— by the King He built St. Michaels Chapple with the East-gate of Chichester and dyed at Lond. 12â—… 2. Alex Nevil 3d. Son of Ralph Lord Nevil 〈◊〉 at Raby was Arch-bishop of York where he beâ—â— fied Cawood Castle Being Loyal to R. 2. he 〈◊〉 forced for Protection to flee to Pope Urban 〈◊〉 Translated him to St. Andrews in Scotland But 〈◊〉 Nevil chose rather to be Minister at Lovaine wâ—â— he dyed 3. Rob. Nevil sixth Son of Ralph first 〈◊〉 of Westmerland by Joan his Wife Daughter of 〈◊〉 of Gaunt was Bishop of Sarisbury An. 6. Hen. 6. 14â—… 〈◊〉 founded a Convent at Sunning in Barkshire From â—â—risbury he was Translated to Durham where he â—…ilt the Exchequer at the Castle-gate and added â—…n allusion to his 2 Bishopricks 2 Annulets to his â—â—ms He dyed An. 1457. 4. Geo. Nevil fourth â—…n to Rich. Earl of Salisbury was born at Middleâ—â—m and consecrated Bishop of Exeter when he was â—…t as yet 20 years of Age and five years after was â—…ade Lord Chancellor of England and aftewards â—â—rch-â—â—rch-bishop of York making a prodigious Feast at â—…s Installing yet at last falling into the displeasure 〈◊〉 E. 4. he was slenderly dieted not to say Famished in â—â—e Castle of Calis for after his enlargement he dyed â—…eart-broken at Blyth and was buried in the Catheâ—…ral of York 1476. There was another Nevil Broâ—…her to Alexander who was chosen Bishop of Ely â—…ut dyed before Consecration Since the Reformation Rob. Horn bred in St. Johns-Coll in Camb. was by â—… 6. made Dean of Durham In the Marian days â—…e became head of the Episcopal Party at Frankford 〈◊〉 Germ. Returning into England he was made Bishop â—…f Winch. 1560. A worthy Man ground betwixt Papists and Sectaries who sported with his Name â—…nd twitted his Person as Dwarfish Carping at the â—…ase when they were not able to find fault with the â—…ewel Whatever his Mould might be he was made of good Metal as being of a Sprightful and Fruitful Wit He dyed 1589. Jo. Cosen was born in Norwich one whose Abiâ—…ities are sufficiently made known in his learned books Great his Constancy in Religion tho he was Slanâ—…er'd by some silly people as declining to the Popish Religion As for his urging of some Ceremonies he made his Purgation effectually clearing himself frâ—â— the least Imputation of any Fault yea whilst in Frâ—â— he was the Atlas of the Prot. Religion supportiâ—â— the same with his Piety and Learning and daily adâ—…ing Proselytes not of the meanest Rank thereunâ—â— Since the Kings Restauration he was preferred Bishop of Durham When some Propositions of the Popâ—… in favour of Protestants were made mention of bâ—… one in his presence he said We thank him not a 〈◊〉 for which God hath always allowed us in his Word sâ—… he would grant it so long as it stood with his Policy and take it away so soon as it stood with his Power Civilians Rob. Cosen Dr. of Law was born at Hartly 〈◊〉 His Father a Person of Quality a valiant Captaiâ—… in Musselborough field was drowned in the Riveâ—… Tweed Richard at 12 years of Age was admitted into Trin. Coll. in Camb. He became a General Schole Geometrician Musitian Physician Divine but chiâ—â—â— Civil and Canon Lawyer He was Chancellor 〈◊〉 Worcester then Dean of the Arches He defendeâ—… the High Commission and Oath ex Officio against â—… Book called the Abstract which one observed was aâ—…stracted from all Wit Learning and Charity Soâ—â— laid to his Charge that he gave many Blank Liceâ—â— for Marriage whereas there was but one which 〈◊〉 Fugitive Servant stole from the Register He haâ—… according to his Wish a sweet and quiet departure and his last Words to his Friends were Remember your Mortality and eternal Life He gave 40 l. to the building of a Chamber in Trin. Coll. and 15 l. â—… year for the maintainance of two Scholarships therein On him these Verses were made by the University or 〈◊〉 Magna deos inter lis est exorta creatas Horum qui lites Dirimit ille deest Cosinum petiere Dii Componere tantus Lites quod vero jure peritus erat Writers Jo. of Darlington Confessor to Hen. 3. and Archâ—â—â—hop of Dublin and Collector of the Pope's Peterâ—â—ce through Ireland wrote many Books and dyed Lond. 1284. Will. Siveyar in lat Severus born at Shinkley as Son to a Sive-maker was Bishop of Carlile 1496. â—â—d Translated to Durham He dyed An. 1505. â—…ote Sir Empson was also the Son of a Sive-maker and â—…s Contemporary Since the Reformation Th. Jackson bred in Oxf. where falling into the â—…iver he was taken up for dead by some Fisher-men â—…ho were rewarded with a Revenue during his life â—…e was chosen President of Corp. Christi-Coll where â—…e dyed 1640. He was a Pious Man profound Writer â—â—d painful Preacher Sam. Ward born at Bishops-Middleham Mr. of â—…idney-Coll in Camb. was imprisoned in the late times â—…efore which he was counted a Puritan and Popish whilst those days lasted yet was he a true Proâ—…estant at all times He dyed An. 1643. Memorable Persons Anth. Lord Gray Earl of Kent Son of Geo. Gray â—…squire was born at Branspath He studied Divinity and became Rector of Burbach in Leicestersâ—â—â— And upon the Death of Hen. Earl of Kent his 〈◊〉 man the Inheritance and Honour descended upon hiâ—… Yet after that he abated nothing in the constancy â—â— his Preaching but improved that accession of Greâ—â—ness to make his Goodness the more Illustrious Wâ—â—â— Summoned as a Peer to Parl. he excused himself bâ—… reason the indisposition of his Age. By Magâ—â— Purefoy his Wife he had Hen. the 9th Earl of Keâ—â— He dyed An. 164. In this County the Bishop is Sheriff Paramount whose Deputy never accounts in the Exchequer â—â— makes up his Audit to the Bishop Essex ESsex hath Kent on the South Suffolk on thâ—… North Cambr. Harif and Middlesex on thâ—… West A fair County 35 Miles Square affording all things necessary for Mans Subsistence save thâ—â— the Eastern part thereof is not very healthful in thâ—… Air thereof The
nothing for Superstition was begun 1541 an 33. and finished 1544 36 Henry 8. at the sole cost of Sir William Hollis Lord May or of London great Grand-father to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clare The wonders of this County are that at Lemington within two Miles of Warwick there issue out within a stride of the Womb of the Earth two Springs the one salt and the other fresh On Friday April 17 1607. there happened in Coventry such an inundation no considerable Rain preceding that continued for the space of three hours wherein it overflowed more then 250 dwelling houses to the great dammage of the Inhabitants vanishing away as quickly as it did rise and note the City has no River near it save a small Brook over which generally one may make a Bridge with a stride As for Medicinal Waters there is at Newenham a Spring the water whereof drunk with Salt loosneth with Sugar bindeth the Body It is sovereign against Ulcers and Imposthumes and the Stone though Mr. Speed affirms that it turned Wood into Stone Proverbs I. He is the black Bear of Arden By this is meant Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick a grim person and surly of Resolution who in spite of all opposition caused the death of Pierce Gaveston that Minion of Edward 2. at a Hill within two Miles of Warwick Arden is a Forrest anciently occupying all the Wood-land part of this County 'T is applyed to such who without any other Authority then that of their Countenance or Disposition strike terrour into others II. As bold as Beauchamp Though there was a series of successive undauntedness in the Noble Family of the Earls of Warwick yet I conceive that Thomas first of that name gave the chief occasion to this Proverb He being arrived with King Edward 3. at Hogges in Normandy 1346. was the first man who landed and being followed by one Esquire and six Archers is reported to have fought against a 100 Armed men and in hostile manner to have overthrown every one who withstood him having at one shock slain 60 Normans and removed all resistance so that the Kings whole Army landed in safety The Heirs Male of this name are long since extinct though some deriving themselves from the Heirs general are extant at this day Ill. The Bear wants a Tail and cannot be a Lion This abated the jealousie the Dutch had of Robert Earl of Leicester descended from the ancient Earls of Warwick Governour of the Low-Countries being suspected to hatch a design of making himself Sovereign Commander over the Low-Countries whilst he diffused his own Coat of the green Lion with two Tails and sign'd all instruments with the Crest of the Bear and Ragged Staff Then it was that this Proverb was written under his Crest set up in publick places Ursa caret caudâ non queat esse Leo. The Bear he never can prevail To Lion it for lack of Tail It is applyed to such who aspire to what is above their power to atchieve IV. He is true Coventry-blew It seems the best Blews are dyed in Coventry It is applyed to such an one who is a faithful Friend Princes Anne Nevil Daughter and coheir to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick was probably born in Warwick Castle She was Married to Edward Prince of Wales sole Son to Henry 6. afterwards murdered by Richard Duke of Glocester who took to Wife the same Anne She died for grief 1464 though others suspect a Grain was given her for the greater dispatch to another World Edward Plantag Son to George Duke of Clarence was the last Male Heir of the Royal Family His Mother was Isabella eldest Daughter to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick and he was born in Warwick-Castle Being kept close Prisoner by Edward 4. Richard 3. and Henry 7. he was rendred weak in his Intellectuals Upon the proposal of Marriage for Prince Arthur with Katharine Daughter of Ferdinand King of Spain this Edward was taken out of the way to the end all Titles might be cleared The Lady Katharine Dowager was wont to acknowledge the death of her two Sons an ill success of her match as Heavens judgment on her Family for the murdering of this Earl which happened 1499. Saints St. Wolstan born in Long Jetington was Bishop of VVorcester a man of great Candour and an opposer of the French fickleness and the Italian pride for which he was hated by VVilliam the Conqueror and Lanfrak Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and by them commanded to resign his Episcopalibus Upon this the Honest Bishop repaired to the Monument of Edward the Confessor and there offered up his Episcopal Habiliments These said he from you I received and to you I resign them This his plain dealing not only recovered his Bishoprick but also purchased to him the reputation of a Saint He was active in promoting VVilliam Rufus to the Kingdom in prejudice of his eldest Brother Robert Martyrs Laurence Saunders a Priest was Martyred in Coventry February 8. 1555. Robert Glover born at Mancetor Gentleman was Martyred in Coventry September 0. 1555. Cornel. Bongey born at Coventry a Capper was Martyred at Coventry September 20 1555. Jo. Carles born at Coventry a Weaver was Martyred at the Kings Bench London Julius Palmer born at Coventry and bred in Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford was burnt in Newbury Confessors John Glover Brother to the aforementioned Robert escaped miraculously whilst his Brother without the intention of his enemies fell into their hands Cardinals VVilliam Macklesfield born 't is said in Coventry was made B. D. in Paris Dr. at Oxford and became General of the Dominican Order He was by Pope Benedict 11. created Cardinal with the Title of St. Sabine but dyed in London before his Cap was brought him yet this chief part of a Cardinal I mean the Cap was with great solemnity set on his Tomb. Peter Petow of an ancient Family flourishing for a long time at Chesterton was a Franciscan afterwards Cardinal being created by Pope Paul 3. 1557. who also made him Legat a Latere and Bishop of Salisbury Queen Mary in favour to Cardinal Pole prohibited this Legats entrance into her Court He dyed in France 1558. Prelates John Stratford Son of Robert and Isabel was born at Stratford and preferred by the Pope Bishop of VVinchester whereupon falling into the displeasure of Richard 2. for a time he took it in so ill part that he forsook that King whilst in his extremity This cost him the displeasure of Queen Mother and Edward 3. till at last converted by his Constancy they turned their frowns into smiles upon him When Arch-Bishop of Canterbury he furnished the King with great sums at his first setting forth for France but when the King afterwards sent for another supply instead of Coyn the Bishop sent him Counsel whereat the King returning into England was so highly offended that the Bishop was fain to pass his publick Purgation in Parliament by which he was restored to the Reputation of his innocence He
Reign of King Henry 5. Edward sole Son to King Richard 3 and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham in this County and was by his Father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a Child of as much Hopes as his Father a Man of Hatred But he consumed away on a sudden dying within a Month of his Mother A Judgment on his Father a Mercy to the Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of him who begot him and a Mercy to all England for had he survived to a Mans Estate he might possibly have proved a Wall of Partition to hinder the Happy Union of the two Houses of York and Lancaster Saints St. Hilda Daughter to Prince Hererick Nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland lived in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County and was the Oracle of her Age being a kind of Moderatrix in a Sax. Synode held about the Celebration of Easter The most Learned English Female before the Conquest the She-Gamaliel at whose Feet many Learned Men had their Education This our English Huldah ended her holy life with a happy death 680. St. Benedict Biscop fixed himself in the Dominions of Oswy King of Northumberland and built two Monasteries the one at the influx of the River Were the other at that of the River Tine into the Sea and stockt them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Monks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies He left Religion in England braver but not better then he found it the Gawdiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof His Monastery being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed Being struck with the dead Palsie his Soul retired into the Upper Rooms of his Clay Cottage much employed in Meditation until the day of his death which happened 703. St. John of Beverly born at Harpham was 33 years and upwards Arch-Bishop of York being bred under Hilda aforesaid and after under Theodorus the Grecian and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Venerable Bede his Scholar wrote his Life and supposed Miracles Being Aged he resigned his Arch-Bishoprick and retired to Beverly where he had Founded a Colledge for which he procured the Freedstool a Sanctuary from King Athelstan He dyed May 7. 722. and was buried in the Porch of his Collegiate Church A Synode held at London 1416. assigned the day of his death an Anniversary Solemnity to his Memory Thomas Plantag was Earl of Darby Lancaster Leicester a popular person and a great enemy to the two Spencers Minions to King Edward 2. who being hated as Devils for their Pride no wonder if this Thomas was honoured as a Saint or Martyr by the common sort Indeed he must be a good Chymist who can extract Saint out of Malefactor and our Chronicles generally behold him put to death for Treason against King Edward 2. But let him pass for a Provincial though no National or Loyal Saint seeing he did not Travel far enough for Romish and too far for English Canonization His beheaded Martyrdom happened at Pontfret 1322. Note Lord Herb. in the Life of King Henry 8. speaking of Reliques The Bell of St. Guthlack and the Felt of St. Thomas of Lancaster both Remedies for the Head-ach must mean this St. Thomas seeing there is no other English of the Name found in any English Martyrology Richard Role alias Hampole from the place of his Holy Life Death and Burial was a Hermite of strict Life He wrote many Books of Piety which I prefer before his Prophetical Predictions as but a degree above Almanack Prognostications He threatned the sins of the Nation with future Judgments and his Predictions if hitting were heeded if missing not marked Having spoken much against the Covetousness of the Clergy of that Age he dyed 1349. Jo. Birlington born in Birlington and bred in Oxford became Canon in the Convent of Birlington where he grew Eminent for exemplary Holiness He refused at first the Office of Prior counting himself unworthy thereof but upon the second proffer accepted of it 'T is said Martha and Mary were compounded in him being as pious so provident to husband the Revenues of his house to the best advantage A She-Ancorist accosting him thus Jesus is my Love and you so honour him in your heart that no earthly thing can distract you He replyed I came hither to hear from you some saving and savoury discourse but seeing you begin with such idle talk farewel He dyed 1379. being reputed though I think not Canonized a Saint whose Friend W. Slightholme asked of his friend Jo. aforesaid what might be the reason the Devil appeared so seldom in their dayes c. To whom Jo. replyed We are grown so remiss in Godliness that the Devil needs not put himself to such pains seeing less and lighter Temptations will do the deed William is reported to have been one of singular Piety and to have wrought many Miracles at his Tomb after his death which happened 1380. A certain Maid resisting the sollicitations of a Bravo was by him Murdered her Head being set up on a Yew-Tree at Horton called now Halifax The silly people conceited that the Veins which in form of little threds spread themselves betwixt the Bark and the Body of the said Tree were the very Hairs of the Virgins Head to whom they flocked in Pilgrimage Note the prevalency of Opinion Her reputation for being a Saint is transmitted to Posterity though her name be lost Martyrs The County and generally the Province of York escaped from Popish Persecution which under Gods goodness may be imputed to the tempers of their four succeeding Arch-Bishops Thomas Woolsey who was more Proud then Cruel Edward Lee who persecuted to Imprisonment none to Death save two Robert Holgate who was a parcel-Protestant Nicholas Heath a meek and moderate Man And as there were no Martyrs so were there no Confessors which are Martyrs in the bud Cardinals Jo. Fisher born in Beverly and bred in Michael House in Cambridge whereof he was first Chancellour became Bishop of Rochester He was accessary to the dissembling of Elizabeth Barton the Holy Maid of Kent He opposed King Henry's Divorce and Title of Supream Head of the Church procured a Cardinals Cap from the Pope and forfeited his own Head to the King being beheaded 1535. Having been tryed by an ordinary Jury and not by his Peers Prelates Eustathius de Fauconbridge was chosen Bishop of London an 6. Henry 3. 1222. He was Chief Justice then Chancellour of the Exchequer and afterterwards Treasurer of England and twice Ambassadour to the King of France He dyed October 31. 1228. and was buried in the Presbytery W. de Melton Prov. of Beverly and Canon then Arch-Bishop of York Being Consecrated at Avignon and returning into England he expended 700 Marks in the finishing of his Cathedral His Life was free from scandal signal for his Chastity Charity Fasting
and Praying He bought 3 Mannors from the Arch-Bishop of Roan with the Popes Confirmation and setled them on his Brothers Son He compassed about the Old Baily in York with a great Wall He dyed 1340. and was buried in his own Church Henry Wakefield preferred Bishop of Worcester by King Edward 3. 1375. was for one year Lord Treasurer of England dying March 11. 1394. he was buried in his own Church which before his death he had enlarged R. Scroope Son to the Lord Scroope and brother to William Earl of Wilt-shire was D. D. in Cambridge a man of great Learning and unblameable life He was preferred Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield then Arch-Bishop of York Being netled with the News of his Brothers beheading he joyned with the Earl of Northumberland and others against King Henry 4. The Earl of Westmorland complyed with him in appearance till he had trepanned him It doth not appear that he desired to be tryed by his Peers if he was dealt with therein but odly the Executioner served him as odly in having 5 stroaks at his Neck before he could sunder it from his Body an 1405. Stephen Patrington born in Patrington was a Carmelite D. D. in Oxford and Provincial of his Order in England and afterwards Chaplain and Confessor to King Henry 5. by whom he was deputed a Commissioner to proceed against the Wicklevites and during that service he was made Bishop of St. Davids Hence he was sent over to the Council of Constance returning into England he was advanced Bishop of Chichester but dying before his Translation was finished was buried in White Friers in Fleet-street VVilliam Peircy Son to Henry Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor his Wife whose principal Seat was Topliff in this County was D. D. in and Chancellour of Cambridge and made Bishop of Carlile 1452. He dyed 1462. Cuthbert Tonstal born at Hatchforth in Richmondshire in this County of a Worshipful Family at Tonstal Thurland was bred in Cambridge to which he was in Books a great Benefactor He was afterwards Bishop of London and at last of Durham a great Linguist Mathematician and Divine and a fast Friend to Erasmus In the Reign of King Henry 8. he publickly confuted the Papal Supremacy in a learned Sermon 1539. but returned to his errour in the Reign of Edward 6. continuing therein an 1. Elizabeth for which he was deprived of his Bishoprick He shewed Mercy when in Power and found it in his Adversity He dyed a Prisoner at Lambeth 1560. Ralph Baines Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge was an excellent Linguist Going over into France he became Hebrew Professor at Paris He wrote a Comment on the Proverbs in three Volumes and Dedicated it to Fr. 1st King of France Returning into England he was by Queen Mary made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in which Diocess he caused great Persecution He was deprived of his Bishoprick an 1. Elizabeth and dying he was buried in St. Dunstans 1560. Since the Reformation Thomas Bentham Fellow of Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford renounced Popery an 1. Mary He assisted Henry Bull one of the same Colledge to wrest out of the hands of the Choristers the Censer when about to offer their Superstitious Incense Flying into Germany he lived at Basil Preacher to the English Exiles Towards the end of Queen Mary he was secretly sent over to be Superintendent of the London Conventicle the only true Church in the time of Persecution where with all his caution he hardly escaped An. 2. Elizabeth he was Consecrated Bishop of Caventry and Lichfield He dyed February the 21st 1578. Edmund Guest born at Afferton was D. D. in Kings-Colledge in Cambridge He was Almoner to Queen Elizabeth by whom he was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Salisbury Having written many Books he dyed 1578. Miles Coverdale bred in Cambridge became an Augustine Frier but afterwards quitting that Profession he went into Germany he laboured greatly in Translating of the Bible and writing other Books He was made D. D. at Tubing and returning into England was made Bishop of Exeter by King Edward 6. An. 1. Mary he was imposed though saved from Martyrdom by the Mediation of Fred. King of Denmark Being enlarged he went over into Germany whence in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England but not to Exeter He was one of those who solemnly Consecrated Matthew Parker Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at Lambeth He dyed 1588. and lyes buried in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange Adam Loftus bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where he Commenced D. D. was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Sussex Lord Deputy of Ireland and was first made Arch-Bishop of Armagh an 1562. and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1567. At last being made Chancellour of Ireland he discharged that place with singular Ability and Integrity until the day of his death He was a principal Procurer of and a profitable Agent in the Foundation of the University of Dublin being the first Honorary Master thereof whilst he was Arch-Bishop if not Chancellour of Ireland He dyed April 5. 1605. and was buried in the Church of St. Pat. having been Arch-Bishop almost 43 years George Mountaine bred in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge was Chaplain to the Earl of Essex whom he attended in his Voyage to Cales being indeed a man of great Valour He was afterwards made Dean of Westminster then successively Bishop of Lincoln and London whilst residing in the latter he would often pleasantly say that of him the Proverb would be verified Lincoln was and London is and York shall be which came to pass accordingly when he was removed to the Arch-Bishoprick of York He was a good Benefactor to Queens-Colledge whereon he bestowed a fair piece of Plate called Poculum Charitatis with this Inscription incipio and Founded two Scholarships therein Capital Judges Sir William Gascoine born at Gauthorp studied in the Inner Temple and being Knighted an 1. Henry 4. he was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in which Office he demeaned himself with great integrity It happened that a Servant of Prince Henry afterwards King Henry 5. was Arraigned before this Judge for Felony whom the Prince then present endeavoured to take away coming up in fury striking the Judge But he sitting without moving committed the Prince Prisoner to the Kings-Bench there to remain until the Pleasure of the King his Father were further known who when he heard thereof gave God thanks who at the same instant had given him a Judge who could minister and a Son who could obey Justice He dyed an 14. Henry 4. Guido de Fairfax Knight whose Name hath continued at Walton in this County more then 450 years was bred in the Study of the Law and became Serjeant thereof He favoured the House of York in those civil distempers yet was he by King Henry 7. advanced Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Roger Cholmley Knight natural Son to Lieutenant of the Tower under King Henry 7. was an 37. Henry 8. made
Rome whence returning into England he fished for Proselytes for 20 years together being for some considerable time imprisoned at last he procured his Enlargement In his time happened the Schisme betwixt the Jesuits and Priests which threatned Ruine to the Church of Rome Mush went to Rome about it and was very instrumental in Composing of those differences Returning into England he was assistant to the English Arch-Priest He wrote among other books Vitam Martyrium D. Margaretae Clithoreae Whether D. be for Domina or Diva Lady or Saint I know not I take her for some Gentlewoman in the North who for some practices in maintenance of her Religion became obnoxious to the severity of the English Law He lived 1612. Benefactors to the Publick Thomas Scot born at Rotheram which he assumed for his Name was Fellow of Kings-Colledge afterwards Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge and Chancellour of the University He built on his proper cost saving something helped by the Scholars the fair Gate of the School with fair Walks on each side and a Library on the East thereof This Thomas having felt the sharp tusks of the Boar when imprisoned by King Richard 3. for resigning the Great Seal of England to Queen Elizabeth the Relict of King Edward 4. he advanced that Kings Crest being the Boar on the aforesaid Gate meerly to ingratiate himself He was successively Provost of Beverly Bishop of Rochester Lincoln and lastly Arch Bishop of York Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellour of England Many were his Benefactions to the Publick of which none more remarkable then his founding 5 Fellowships in Lincoln Colledge in Oxford He dyed at Cawood of the Plague 1500. Jo. Alcocke born at Beverly where he built a Chappel and Founded a Chantry for his Parents was D. D. in Cambridge and became Bishop of Ely and was preferred Lord Chancellour of England by King Henry 7. He turned the old Nunnery of St. Radegund Founded by Malcolm King of Scotland into a New Colledge called Jesus in Cambridge He was a Learned and Pious Man deceasing 1500. Since the Reformation Mr. Harrison of Leeds built a new Church in that Town the old one being too small for the numerous Parishoners Memorable Persons Paulinus de Leeds was so far from buying a Bishoprick that when a Bishoprick bought him he refused to accept it King Henry offering him the Bishoprick of Carlile with an Addition of 300 Marks to the yearly Revenue which he refused He flourished 1186. W. de la Pole born at Ravensford for Wealth and Skill in Merchandize inferiour to none in England resided at Kingston upon Hull He lent King Edward 3. many thousands of pounds in recompence whereof the King made him Valect i. e. Gent. of the Bed-Chamber and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer c. giving him the Precedency and Honour of a Knight Banneret though he was not made in the Field with the usual Ceremony He dyed about 1350. Noted Sheriffs Edward 2. An. 9. Simon Ward the Male line of his ancient Family expired in Sir Christopher Ward Standard bearer to King Henry 8. at Bolleign He lived at Grindal leaving three Daughters Married to the Families of Strickland Musgrave and Osborn Edward 3. An. 17. Thomas de Rokeby was twice 1351 and 1355 Lord Justice of Ireland He in part extirpated the damnable Custom of Coigne and Livery in that Kingdom whereby the Commander in Chief extorted from the people Horse-meat Mans meat and Money at pleasure without any satisfaction for the same This Custom was begun in the time of King Edward 2. by Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond In reference to which this Rokeby used to say that he would eat in Wooden dishes but would pay for his Meat Gold and Silver Henry 4. An. 8. Thomas Rokeby Junior Mil. overcame and took by the sole assistance of this Shire Prisoners Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Barldolfe who began War against the King Henry 5. An. 8. Halvatheus Maulever Mil. had his Sirname in Latine Malus Leporarius from his unskilfulness in hunting of the Hare Henry 6. An. 11. Henry Bromfleet Mil. was sent the year following with other Ambassadours to the Council of Basil and returning was created Lord Vescy in the right of his Mother And though in his Patent that Title was entailed on his Heir-Males only yet Margaret his sole Daughter and Heir Married to Jo. Lord Clifford Father to Henry first Earl of Northumborland of that Sirname derived the Barony into that Family which at this day they enjoy 22. Edmund Talbot Mil. though not related to the house of Shrewsbury was of a Family of ancient extraction ever since King Henry 2. He was Father to Sir Thomas one very zealous for the House of York and a servant to King Richard 3. who bestowed an Annuity of 40 pounds per Annum on him A Branch of these Talbots are removed into Lancashire and from those in York-shire Col. Thomas Talbot is descended Edward 4. Henry Vavasor Mil. It is observed of this Family that they never Married on Heir or buried their Wives The place of their habitation is called Hasel Wood out of which Mannor the stones were taken that built St. Maries Abbey in York Henry 8. An. 2. Radulphus Eure alias Evers Mil. was created Baron and Lord Warden of the Marches towards Scotland where he gave signal demonstrations of his Fidelity and Valour in resisting and opposing the Scots From him the present Lord Evers is descended 5. William Piercy Mil. was probably of the Family of the Piercy's-Hays whose ancient possession was Riton hard by the River Rhidals 23. Nicholas Fairfax Mil. the Sirname signifying Fair Hair had for his Motto Fare Fac Say Doe His Namesake Sir Nicholas of Bullingbrook was Knight of the Rhodes in the Reign of King Edward 4. being Charactred Cavaliero molto spiritoso e Prudente Q. Mary An. 3. Christopher Metcalfe Mil. attended on the Judges of York with 300 Horsemen all of his own Name and Kindred well mounted and suitably attired This Family was accounted the most numerous of any in England an 1607. He stocked the River Yower nigh his house with Crevishes Q. Eliz. An. 4. George Bowes Mil. had a great Estate in this County and greater in Durham He was besieged by the Northern Rebels an 1569. in Bernards-Castle which he delivered upon condition they might depart with their Armour After the suppression of the Rebels their Execution was committed to his care wherein he was severe unto Cruelty many well meaning people having been in their simplicity drawn in under a pretence of doing the Queen service These Sir George hung up by Scores by the Office of his Marshalship and had hung more if Mr. Bernard Gilpin had not interceeded for their Lives 23. Robert Stapleton Mil. descended from Sir Miles one of the first Founders of the Garter and Sheriff 29. Edward 3. met the Judges with 140 Men in suitable Liveries and was a very comely
ENGLISH WORTHIES IN CHURCH AND STATE Anglorum Speculum WORTHIES OF ENGLAND In Church and State Alphabetically digested into the several SHIRES and COUNTIES therein contained WHEREIN Are Illustrated the Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Persons since the Conquest to this present Age. ALSO An account of the Commodities and Trade of each Respective County and the most flourishing Cities and Towns therein LONDON Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge and William Thackary at the Angel in Duck-lane 1684. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Here present you with an abstract of the Lives and Memoir's of the most famous and Illustrious Personages of this Realm since the Conquest to this present time for order sake I have digested it Alphabetically into the several Shires and Counties contained in this Kingdom which I hope will find a kind acceptance there being nothing of the same method now Extant Dr. Fuller in his large History in Folio did go a great way in this matter but here is included the Lives of many more eminent Heroes and generous Patrons which I hope their memory may survive in succeeding Ages this being done with that brevity which may be more beneficial to the Reader Here you have the Original or rise of most of the Eminent Families in this Kingdom Also an Epitome of the most material matters in Church and State containing the Lives of the most Eminent Fathers in the English Church and the most Flourishing Statesmen in the latter times Also the most famous Authors as well Divine as Historical together with the Lives of the most Memorable Persons in the Law Mathematicks Geographers Astronomers Poets c. which have made this Kingdom known throughtout the World I need not inlarge or give any further Incomium upon this subject but referr you to the Table first and then to the Book it self which I hope will find that kind acceptance that may ingage me in some further procedure that may please my Countrymen which I shall alwayes endeavour to do in plainness and brevity to the Readers satisfaction and in the mean time am Yours to command G. S. An Abstract OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND CHAP. I. The Design of the Work THE Rooms of the House being described by others 't is my intention to describe the Furniture viz. the Commodities with the Persons of Quality c. of the several Shires of England But it may be asked Cui bono To what â—od end I Answer 1. To gain some Glory to God 2. To reserve the Memories of the Dead 3. To present examples to the Living 4. To entertain the Reader with delight 5. To procure some honest profit to my self The matter is either Real viz. The Commodities and Observables of every County or Personal the Characters of those worthy Men who were Natives thereof CHAP. II. The Real Topicks insisted on in the Respective Counties 1. THE Native Commodities Of which if any be general to all England it is entered in that County where there was the first or else the most and best of that kind 2 The Manufactures Admirable for Rarity and Variety Of which such as are not properly Natural but Mixed are promisouously placed 3 Medicinal Waters Wonderful for Colour Tast Odour Sound Heat Weight Motion and Effects The last is proper for my Pen. 4. The Wonders or Rarities which are Transiem or Permanent The Wonders of England are as considerable for kind as those of other Countries 5. The Buildings of which the Churches are most admirable 6. Local Proverbs and there are Six essentials of a Proverb that it be Short Plain Common Figurative Ancient and True I have only insisted upon the most considerable Local Proverbs that suggest to us some Historical Hint and have declined all such as are Narrow Frivolous Scurrillous and Scandalous 7. Medicinal herbs which if rare and very useful are placed next the Medicinal Waters in the respective Counties CHAP. III. Of the first Quaternion of Persons Viz. 1. Princes since the Conquest 2. Saints who generally may be divided into those of Fiction Faction Superstition or Real existence 3. Martyrs 4. Confessors FOr the First I take notice of the Legitimate Issue as to Saints I am sorry that the Lives of some of them are so darkened with Needless if not false Illustrations to their Dishonour and the Detriment of Church History which has arisen from the Ignorance or Disingenuity of the Writers of their Lives or for want of true matter or for hope of gain or lastly for this that they saw it pleased the People Whence it is true what Melchior Canus says I speak it to my grief that the Lives of the Philosophers are more gravely Written by Laertius than Saints are by Christians Our Catalogue contains only English Saints wherefore Anselm is left out as being a French-Man since whom the Pope has been very sparing to confer the Honour of Saintship because the multitude of Saints abates Veneration and would overcharge the Calender that already labours with the Sacred burden besides the charge of Canonization is great and his Holiness unwilling to bestow it gratis and lastly Protestants shrewdly suspect that some unworthy Persons have been served with the Dignity by that Servant of the Servants of God therefore none are Canonized while their Memories are on the Must immediately after their Deaths before the same be fined in the Cask with some competent time As to the third viz. Martyrs who have lost their Lives for the Testimony of a fundamental Truth those our Land hath produced are either Brittains who suffered under Dioclesian or Saxons Massacred by the Danes or lastly English Martyred by the Papists since the year 1400. I shall treâ—â— of the last the two former being done already For the last viz. Confessors they are such who have lost all but Life for the truth and escaped Martyrdom very narrowly who were as Wax ready for the Signature of Death But Threatned folks Live long yea threatned Elijah by Gods Miraculous Providence never died CHAP. IV. Of Popes Cardinals and Prelates before the Reformation THere have been four Popes Englishmen and but six Germans tho Germany be five times bigger then England which boasts of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury formerly accounted Pope of England As for Cardinals they were anciently no more then Curats made by Bishops as well as by the Pope For there were founded anciently in the Church of St. Pauls two Cardinals chosen by Dean and Chapter out of the twelve petty Cannons whose Office was to look to those of the Quire to give the Eucharist to the Minister of that Church and his Servants to hear Confessions appoint Penance and to commit the Dead to convenient Sepulture and two of them lie buried in the Church of St. Faiths This Custom of Cardinal-making was in many other Countries but afterwards was appropriated to Rome where they are divided into Bishops who are
Singer in Windsor-Quire There â—…ap'ned a Contest betwixt him and another of that Society Singing an Anthem together to the Virgin Mary Rob. Philips on the one side of the Quire â—… Redemtrix Salvatrix Rob. Testwood on the other side Non Redemtrix nec Salvatrix Whoever â—…ad the better then God be thanked the Nons have got now the better of the Os in England He was also accused for diswading the People from Pilgrimages and for striking off the Nose of the Image of our Lady Hen. Palmer Church-Warden of Windsor who had Articled against their Superstitious Vicar for Heretical Doctrine When an account was given of the patient Death of these three to King Hen. VIII he was pleased to say Alass poor Innocents This was Pity but could be no Protection yet by this Occasion others were preserved This storm blown over Barkshire enjoyed peace for twelve years viz. from An. Dom. 1544. till 1556 when Doctor Jeffrey the Cruel Chancellour of Sarisbury renewed the Troubles of Nembury and caused the Death of Julins Palmer See his Character being born in Coventry in Warwickshire John Gwin Th. Askin All three Burnt July 16. 1556. in the Sandpits near Newbury enduring the Fire with such incredible Constancy that it confounded their Foes and confirmed their Friends in the Truth Confessors John Marbeck a skilful Organist in Windsor-Quire who not perfectly understanding the Latin Tongue did out of the Latin with the help of the English Bible make an English Concordance commended highly by Bishop Gardiner yea by King Hen. VIII saying He was better employed than those Priests who accused him Marbick was a very Zealous Protestant of so sweet a Nature all good Men did love and few bad Men did hate him Yet he was Condemned An. 1544. on the Stat. of the six Articles to be Burnt at Windsor but was pardoned some say for the Love Gardiner bore to him some that his Accusers out of Remorse of Conscience procured his Pardon others that they intended to reserve him for a discovery of others 'T was a pardonable mistake of Mr. Fox in affirming this Marbeck was burnt which he afterwards amended Some Cavil and tell us That Many who were burnt in Fox's time in the Reign of Queen Mary drank Sack in the days of Queen Elizabeth but Humanum est errare Protestants disclaim infallibility and will reclaim their Errors when known Robert Bennet Lawyer in Windsor a zealous Professor of the true Religion when Mr. Testwood was Condemned was sick of the Plague in the Prison of the Bishop of London and by that means preserved receiving a Pardon after his recovery Cardinals This County affordeth one who might have been a Cardinal but would not viz. William Laud who at the proffer said That the Church of Rome must be first mended before he would accept any such Dignity Prelates Will. Reading a learned Benedictine employed by King Henry II. in many Embassies and by him promoted to the Arch-Bishoprick of Bourdeaux where he died in the Reign of King Richard I. John de Bradfield or De Lato Campo born likely at Bradfield in Berks. He was Chanter and Bishop of Rochester He had another Sur-name viz. De Hoe but the same Character viz. A man of honest Conversation good Learning and Moderation in all things Richard Beauchamp Brother to William Beauchamp Bar. of St. Amaud of Widehay in this County was bred Doctor in the Laws and became Bishop first of Hereford then of Salisbury He was Chancellour of the Garter which Office descended to his Successours Windsor-Castle the Seat of that Order being in the Diocess of Salisbury He built a beautiful Chappel on the South-side of St. Marries Chappel in his own Cathedral where he lyeth buried His death hap'ned An. Domini 1482. Since the Reformation Tho. Godwin born at Oakingham in this County was of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford maintained there for a time by the Bounty of Doctor Layton Dean of York till at last he was chosen Fellow of the Colledge Afterwards he was School-Master of Barkley in Gloucestershire then he studied Physick which proved Beneficial to him when forbidden to teach School in the Raign of Queen Mary Bonner threatning him with Fire and Faggot caused him often to obscure himself He was an Eloquent Preacher Tall and Comely in person which much indeared him to Queen Elizabeth For eighteen years together he was one of the Select Chaplains which Preached in Lent before her Majesty He was first Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford then Dean of Canterbury and at last Bishop of Bath and Wells Being Aged and Diseased he was necessitated for a Nurse to marry a second Wife which was represented to the Queen to his disgrace as if he had married a Girl of Twenty But the Earl of Bedford intervening Madam said he to her Majesty I know not how much the Woman is above Twenty but I know a Son of hers is but little under Forty He died at Oakingham of a Quartane Feaver Nov. 19. 1590. And lyeth buried â—…nder a Monument in the South-side of the Chancel Th. Ramme born at Windsor was admitted in Kings â—…olledge in Cambridge An. Dom. 1588. whence he was Chaplain first to Robert Earl of Essex then to Charles Lord Mountjoy both Lord Lieutenants in Ireland afterwards he was made Bishop of Fernos and Laghlin â—…n that Kingdom both peaceably enjoyed An. 1628. Will. Lawd born at Reading in this County of hoâ—…est Parents bred in S. John's Colledge in Oxford whereof he became President Successively Bishop of â—… David's Bath and Wells London and at last Arch-Bishop of Canterbury One of low Stature but high â—…arts piercing Eyes chearful Countenance whereâ—…n Gravity and Pleasantness were well compounded â—…dmirable in his Naturals unblameable in his Morals being very strict in his Conversation Impartial posterity will allow his Name to be reposed among the Heroes of England seeing such as behold his expence on S. Paul's as but a Cypher will assign his other Benefactions a very valuable Signification viz. His erecting and endowing an Alms-house in Reading his encreasing of Oxford Library with Books and S. John's Colledge with beautiful Buildings He was beheaded Jan. 10. 1644. States-men Sir John Mason Knight born at Abbington where â—…he was Benefactor to a beautiful Alms-house bred in All-Souls in Oxford King Henry VIII coming hither was so highly pleased with an Oration Mr. Mason made unto him that he instantly gave Order for his Education beyond the Seas as confident he would prove an able Minister of State He was Privy-Councellour to Henry 8. and Edward 6. One maketh him Secretary of State Another but Master of thâ—… Requests He continued Councellor to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth to whom he was Treasurer of the Houshold and Chancellor of the University of Oxford He having no Child adopted his Nephew He was a Man of Gravity and great Learning He died 1566 and lyeth buried in the Quire of S. Paul's a part oâ—… whose
and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury He was Hospital and Generous He dyed and was buried An. Dom. 1622. Th. Son to Will. Westfield D. D. born An. Dom. 1573. in Ely bred at â—…es Coll. in Camb. where he was Fellow He was Assistant to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside after Rector of Horsney and great St. Barth Lond. where in his Preaching he went through the 4 Evangelists He was afterward made Arch-Deacoh of St. Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol The Parl. had a good Opinion of him as appears by this Order 13. May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Com. for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon information in the behalf of the B. of Bristol That his Tenants refuse to puy him his Rents it is ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great Age and a Person of great Learning and Merit Jo. Wylde By his Will he desired to be buried in the Cathedral-Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop And as for my Worldly Goods the words of his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give c. to my Wife Eliz. He dyed June 28. 1644. and lyeth buried according to his own desire An Anagram made on him by his Daughter was Thomas Westfield I dwell the most safe Statesmen Jo. Tiptoft Son and Heir of Jo. Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Edw. Charlton Lord Powis by his Wife Eleanor Sister and Coheir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this County He was bred at Baliol-Coll in Oxf. where he attained to great Learning and by H. 6. was afterwards created first Viscount then Earl of Worcester and Lord High Constable of England and by E. 4. Knight of the Garter The Skies began to Lowre and Threaten Civil Wars and the House of York fell sick of a Relapse Mean time this Earl could not be discourteous to Hen. 6. who had so much advanced him nor disloyal to Edw. 4. in whom the Right of the Crown lay For an Expedient he quitted his own and visited the Holy-Land At Rome in his passage by an Elegant Latin Speech he drew the Admiration of all the Auditors and Teart from the Eyes of the Pope Pius II. He returned from Christs-Sepulchre to his own in England in as unhappy time if sooner or â—â—ter he had found Edward on that Throne to which now H. 6. was restored and whose Restitution was only remarkable for the Death of this Worthy Lord. Treason was charged on him for secretly siding with King Edw. On this account he lost his life The Ax then did at one blow cut off more Learning in England then was left in the Heads of all the Surviving Nobility His Death hap'ned on St. Lukes day 1470. Edw. Lord Tiptoft his Son was restored by Edw. 4. Earl of Worcester but dying without Issue his Inheritance fell to his three Aunts Sisters to the Learned Lord aforesaid viz. 1. Philip married to Th. Lord Ross of Hamlake 2. Joan Wife of Sir Edm. Inglesthrop of Borough green in this County 3. Joyce married to Sir Edw. Sutton Son and Heir of John Lord Dudley from whom came Edw. Sutton Lord Dudley and Knight of the Garter Jo. Cheeke Knight Tutor to Ed. 6. and Secretary of State born in Camb. Of him see our Church-History Souldiers When the rest of the East-Angles cowardly fled away in the Field from the Danish Army the Men of the County of Camb. did manfully resist whence it was that whilst the English did rule the praise of the People of Cambridgeshire did most eminently flourish At the coming of the Normans they made so stout a Resistance that the Conqueror who did fly into England was glad to creep into Ely Cambridgeshire-men commonly passed for a Proverb tho now like old Coyn almost grown out of request Indeed the Common-people have Robust bodies able to carry 8 Bushels of Barley on their Backs whereas 4 are found a sufficient Load for Men of other Counties and I doubt not but if there were occasion their Arms and Hands would appear to be as good as their Backs and Shoulders Writers Math. Paris probably born in this and bred in the next County where the Name is right Ancient long before they were setled at Hildersham which accrued to them by their Marriage with the Daughter and Heir of the Buslers He was a Monk at St. Albans skilled in Poetry Oratory and Divinity as also in Painting Graving c. But his Genius chiefly disposed him to the Writing of Histories wherein he wrote a large Chronicle from the Conquest unto the year of our Lord 1250. where he concludes with this Distich Sistetui metas studii Matthaee quietas Nec ventura petas quae postera proferat atas Matthew here cease thy Pen in peace and study on no more Nor do thou aim at things to come which next Age hath in store Yet resuming the Work he continued it to 1259. A catching disease with Authors my self being concerned to obey the importunity of others contrary to their own inclination His History is impartially and judiciously save whereby he indulgeth too much Monkish Miracles and no Writer so plainly discovereth the Pride Avarice and Rapine of the Court of Rome so that he seldom kisseth the Popes toe without Biting it The Papists insinuate a suspicion that such Reflections are forged but all the Candour imaginable has been used in the Editions of that Author first by Math. Parker and then and especially by Doctor Will. Wats This Matthew left off living and writing An. 1259. Tho he had sharp Nailes he had clean Hands strict in his own and striking at the loose Conversation of others and for his Eminent Austerity was not only employed by Pope Innocent 4. to visit the Monks in the Diocess of Norwich but also was sent unto Norway to reform the Discipline in Holui a fair Covent Helias Rubeus in Engl. Rous or Red bred D. D. in Camb. A great Courtier and Gracious with the King Wrote a Book contra Nobilitatem inanem T is thought he flourished about the year 1266. Jo. Eversden was bred a Monk in Bury-Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but his mounting above this mean Employ he buried himself in Poetry Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryars And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury An. 1336. there hap'ned a hideous Hericano levelling Trees Towers c. Yet went they out with a Calm at the time of the Dissolution This John flourished under King E. 3. and dyed about the year 1338. Rich. Wetherset commonly called of Cambridge where he was Chancellour A great
belonging to Sir Rich. Carew The Name is as much as Grey-Amber A rare Cordial for refreshing the Spirits and Sovereign for Strengthening the Head besides the Fragrant Scent especially when Compounded with other Ingredients Apothecaries hold it at five Pounds an ounce Garâ—…ick good Sauce to some and good Physick to many The best grows at Stratton in this County Pilchâ—…ards are taken in great plenty in these parts driven to the Shore by the Tunne and Hake A small Fish tho 't is said there have been seen many Pilchards an Ell long their Numbers are incredible employing very many People to dress and dry them and then by the Name of Fumadoes with Oyland Lemon c. they are Meet for the Mightiest Don in Spain It is suspected they daily decay their Shoals usually shifting Coasts Verging more Westward to Ireland Other Fish here be which turn to good account save the Star Fish esteemed contagious Blew-Slate which is thin clear light and lasting is commonly found under the Walling-Slate when the depth hath brought the Work-men to the Water Great store of them are Transported into France and the Low-Countries TINNE Whereof the most and best in Christendom is produced in this County Yea it was the only Tinne in Europe until a Fugitive Miner running hence discovered Tinne in Voiteland in the Confines of Bohemia Vast their expences in making their Addits or Accesses to the Mine with Dressing Breaking Stamping Drying Crazing Washing and Melting As for Buildings Mount-Eedgecombe was Built by Sir Rich. Edgecombe Knight who in the Reign of Queen Ma. about 1555 gave Entertainment at one time forsome good space to the English Spanish and Dutch Admirals and many other Nobles at Mount Edgecombe a Square-structure having a stately Hall affording a delicate sound as one entreth it a Parlour and Dineing-room giving a large Prospect both of Sea and Land The high Situation giveth Health as the Neighbour-River Wealth two Blockhouses great safety and the Town of Pilmouth good company unto it The ground about stored with Wood Timber Fruit Deer and Conies sufficient Pasture Meadow and Arable Land Marl Stone Lime c. 'T is said the D. of Medina Sidonia Admiral of the Sp. Fleet An. 88. beholding this House at a distance was resolved to have it for his own Possession in the Partage of this Kingdom For Waters I know none Medicinal tho Dr. Hall Bishop of Norw affirms St. Maderus Well to have Miraculously cured a Criple washing therein As for Wonders the first is big with a Fiction viz. the Hurlers which are Stones whom Tradition reporteth to have been men judicially hard'ned for Hurling on the Lords-Day We may believe them to have been set for Bounds or a Monument in memory of some Victory The next Main Amber that is in Cornish a Stone set up as some think by Ambrose that Valiant Britain It was a Master-piece of the Mithematicks and Critical Proportions being a great Stone of so exact position on the top of a Rock that any weakness by touching it might move and yet no force remove it Yet I am informed that some Souldiers of late have utterly destroyed it In Turkey there was a Tomb erected near the High-way on some Person of Quality on the Chapiter of which was written in the Turkish Language the Brains are in the Head which in process of time a cunning Fellow unriddleing broke the Globe or Chapiter and found it full of Gold But the pretence for demolishing Main Amber was Reformation and that ever this should be advanced by Devastation and Deformity is indeed a Wonder Proverbs I. By Tre Poland Pen you shall know the Cornishmen These Constituting their Ancient Surnames â—…s Tre-lawney Pol-wheel Pen tire c. II. To give â—…e a Cornish-hugg The Cornish are Masters of Wreâ—…tling so that if the Olympian Games were in fashion â—…hey would come away with the Victory Their Hugg is a cunning Close with their Fellow Combaâ—…ant Figuratively applyed to deceitful dealing II. Hengsten-down well ywrought is worth London-Town dear ybought Denoting the vast Treasure of Tinn that formerly was or the Diamonds that now â—…re found in this Down IV. Tru-ru Triveth-eu Omâ—…ina giveth Try-ru that is Truru consisteth of three Streets and it shall in time be said Here Truru stood â—… He doth Sail into Cornwall without a Bark Italian The Periphrasis of a Cuckold and 't is a bare allusion to the Name and not any reflection on the County of Cornwall VI. He is to be summoned before the Mayer of Halgaver An imaginary Officer before whom Slovens are Arraigned Tryed Condemned and Executed more to their Scorn then Hurt VII When Dudman and Ramehead meet Two Forelands 20 Miles asunder the Periphr of an impossibility Yet have these two Points met tho not in Position in Possession of Sir Pierce Edgecombe Saints St. Kiby Son to Solom D. of Cornwall Travelled into France to see and converse with St. Hilary of Poictiers and was by him made Bishop as Leland affirms of the Isle of Anglesey after which he corverted the Northern parts of Wales and confirmed the rest in Christianity Of whom in that Isle theâ—â— is a threefold Memorial 1. Point-Hilary 2. Caer-Gâ—…iby 3. Holy-Head Ursula Daughter to Dinoth D. of Cornw. is said to have carried over out of Britain 11000 Maids of prime Quality besides 60000 of meaner Raak to be married to so many in Little-Britain in France but they were partly Drowned and partly slain by the Huns of Colen where there is a Church dedicated to their Memories An. 383. St. Meliorus Son to D. Melianus beheaded by linald his Pagan Brother in Law An. 411. at whose Tomb Miracles were reported to have been done Prelates Will. de Greenvil born of a Worshipful Family became Can. of York Dean of Chichester Chancellor of England under King E. 1. and Arch-bishop of York but not confirmed till he had paid 9500 Marks Then was he confirmed by the very hands of Pope Clem. V. By this payment being reduced to Poverty and relieved once by the Clergy of his Province he craved another help of their Hand under the new Name of a Subsidy He was a great favourer of the Templars At the Council of Vienna he took place next the Arch-bishop of Triers He dyed at Gawood 1315. and was buried in the Chappel of St. Nicholas leaving the Reputation of an able States-man and no ill Scholar Mich. Tregury bred in Oxf. where he was so eminent that he was commended to H. 5. fit to be a Forreign Professor And accordingly was made the first Professor in the Colledge of that Kings Erection in Cane in Normandy 1418. Hence H. 6. preferred him B. of Dublin in Ireland Jo. Arundel of Ancient Parentage of Lanhearm â—â—d in Oxf. was by H. 7. preferred Bishop of Covenâ—â—â— and Lich. An. 1496 thence Translated to his naâ—â—â—e Diocess of Exeter He dyed at Lond. An. 1503 â—â—d lieth buried in St. Clem. Danes Capital Judges and Writers on the Law There is a
Coll. in Oxf. An. 1. Jac. went over Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent Ambassadour to the King of Denmark Here he attained to a great easiness in the Latine Tongue and kept Correspondency with Persons of Eminent Learning He was an excellent Logician witness his Work in that kind and became Chaplain in Ord. to King Ja. and Rector in Black-Notley in Ess His Posthume Works viz. Vigilius dormitans in defence of Justinian the Emp. and the Answer to the Manifesto of the Arch-bishop of Spalato find an Universal and Grateful Reception Salkeld a Branch of a Worshipful Family breâ—… beyond the Seas either Jesuit or secular Priest Coâ—…ing over into England to angle for Proselites 〈◊〉 Line broke and he was cast in Prison Whence being brought to King Ja. by his Arguments withâ—â— Benefice bestowed on him in Som. he became a Protestant He was not a little proud that that King was pleased to Stile him the Learned Salkeld 〈◊〉 his true Character in the Book he wrote of Angels He dyed 1638. Gerard Langbain D. D. born at Kirk-Banton brâ—â— first Fellow then Provost of Queens Coll. in Oxf. â—â— Skilful Antiquary and ingenious in his Writings Iâ—… his Works concerning the Dissent of the Galâ—â—â— Churches from the Council of Trent he makes it appear that the History of that Council is not so compleat as is generally believed He dyed young An. 1657. Benefactors Rob. Eaglesfield Pious and Learned in that Age Chapl. and Confessor to Philippa Queen to King E. 3. founded Queens Coll. in Oxf. for a Provost and iâ—… Fellows appointing that those of Cumberland and Westm should be proper for Preferment in his Foundation Alledging that those Counties were Desert Places and the Minds of the Inhabitants uncultivated But prevented by Death he only left to this Colledge the Mannor of Renwick in this County with the impropriation of Burgh under Stanmore He ordered that in the Hall they should speak either Latin or French He bequeathed his Colledge to the Honorary Patronage of the Queens of England He dyed about the year 1370. Memorable Persons Maud Daughter of Th. Lord Lucy and Heir of â—…nth Lord Lucy and Bar. of Cokermouth the Wiâ—â—w of Gilb. Humphrevile Earl of Angus was the seâ—â—nd Wife of Hen. Piercy E. of Northum Who when â—â—e saw that she should die without Issue gave to 〈◊〉 Hen. her Husband the Castle and Honour of Coâ—…rworth c. upon Condition that his Issue should â—…ear the Arms of the Lucies viz. G. 3. Lucies or Pikes Hauriant Arg. quartered with their own â—â—rms of the Percies and incorporated into one Coat â—â— effect and for it levyed a fine in the Court of R. 〈◊〉 This promise the Piercies have bonâ fide performed â—…he dyed about 1382. Noted Sheriffs An. 21. Rob. de Vaus al. de Vaux or de Vallibus a right Ancient Family still extant in this County Beu-Castle Church is thought to have been of their erection This Rob. was Father to Jo. de Vallibus on whose Loyalty and Valour K. Hen. 3. relied The Lord Vaux of Harrowd of Northamton-sh doth hence fetch his Extraction An. 8. Walt Epis. Carliel no great Clerk Being made Lord Treasurer of England he avowed his Accounts even when justly charged with 100 pound debt to the Exchequer upon which he resigned his Bishoprick and became a Fryar at Oxf. where he dyed 1248. An. 2. Andr. de Harcla behaved himself right handsomely in the Service of King E. 2. especially at the Battle of Borough-bridge where he killed Humph. Bohun Earl of Heâ—â— and took Th. Plantagenet Earl of Lanc. c. Prisonerâ—… In reward whereof he was created Earl of Carlile and had the Isle of Man bestowed upon him Bâ—â— he turned Apostate from his Allegiance and lest tâ—â— Nobility should by secret Sympathy suffer in his disgraceful Death the Earl was first parted from thâ—… Man and his Honour severed from his Person by â—… solemn Degradation having his Knightly 〈◊〉 how'd off which done he was hang'd drawn and quartered 16. Rich. Duke of Glouc. had a labell for the difference of his Arms tâ—â— he was but third Son to the King fâ—â— in his own Ambition he was not only the Eldest bâ—… the only Child of his Father as it appeareth by 〈◊〉 project not long after to Bastardize both his Brethern And now did he begin to take this County in his way to the Crown by securing it in thâ—â— time of his Shirivalty in order to his higher Advancement 21. Th. Wharton by H. 8. Created first Lord Wharton of Wharton in Westmerl gave the Scots such a Blow at Solemn Moss that K. Ja. 5. soon after dyed for Sorrow thereof The Scots then preferred rather to be taken Prisoners than to fight under their distasted Genera Ol. Saint-clere a Man of Low-birth and Highpride Derbyshire DErbyshire hath Yorkshire on the North Notinghamsh on the East Leic. on the South and â—…aff and Cheshire on the West The River South Darwent falling into Trent runneth through the midde thereof It is in length 38 Miles and 29 Miles â—â— the broadest part thereof The South and East â—…hereof are very Fruitful whilst the North part â—â— called the Peak is Poor above and Rich beneath the â—…round Yet is the fair Pasture near Haddon beâ—…onging to the Earl of Rutland so Rich that one â—…roferred to surround it with Shillings to purchase â—…t which because to be set Side-ways not Edgeways was refused Of Natural Commodities there is in â—…his County the best Lead in England The Miâ—…ers as a particular Common-wealth are Governed with Laws peculiar to themselves often confirmed by Act of Parl. Of which Laws one is this 16 E. 1. â—… 2. That whosoever Stealeth Oar twice shall be fined â—…nd the third time struck through his Hand with a Knife unto the haft into the Stow and shall there stand untill Death or loose himself by cutting off his Hand As for Buildings there is Chatsworth erected by the Magnificent Lady Eliz. Cavendish Countess of Shrewsbury A Stately Structure upon the Bank of Darwent The Garden on the backside with an Artificial 〈◊〉 compleateth the place with all Pleasure Of Wonderâ—… the Chief is Maim or Mam Tor that is the 〈◊〉 Hill from which incredible heaps of Sandy 〈◊〉 fall yet it is not visibly diminished And 〈◊〉 Well dedicated to St. Anne sending forth both cold 〈◊〉 warm Water by which Queen Maâ—â— Queen of Scots received much refreshing of which Mr. Hobbs Huc Mater fieri cupiens accedit inanis Plenaque discedit puto nec veniente Marito Where Wives may breed tho desperately Bâ—â—ren Sans Husbands help as Conies in a Warren Saints St. Alkmund Son to Alred King of Northum slaiâ—… in Battle occasioned by the Vice-Roy of Worcester in pursuing of his Title to some Lands was notwithstanding reputed a Martyr However it waâ—… believed Miracles were done at St. Alkmunds Church where his Body was interred whither the Northern People made Pilgrimages till discomposed
on the E. Warwick-shire and Northampton-shire on the N. A plentifull County whereof the Chief City Oxford was lately for some years together a Court a Garrison and an University The Natural Commodities are Fallow Deer the most ancient Park is said to have been at Woodstock in this County Wood now in decay is relieved by Coals For preservation of Shot-over-woods it was alleadged by the University That Oxford being one of the eyes of the Land and Shot-over-woods the Hair of the eye lids the loss thereof must needs prejudice the sight with too much moisture flowing therein As for Buildings the Colleges in Oxford exceed the most in Christendome for the generality of their Structure and equal any for the largeness of their Endowments A moiety of their Founders were Prelates who provided them the Patronages of many good Benefices Of these Colleges University is the Oldest Pemb. the youngest Christ-Church the greatest Lincon the least Magdalen the neatest Wadham the most uniform New-College the strongest and Jesus-College the poorest New-College for the Southern Exeter for Western Queens for Northern Brazon-nose for North-Western men St. John's for Londoners Jesus for Welshmen and at other Colleges almost indifferently for men of all Countries Merton Famous for Schoolmen Corpus-Christi for Linguists Christs-Church for Poets All-Souls for Orators New-College for Civilians Brazen-nose for Disputants Queens College for Metaphysicians Exeter for a late Series of Regius Professors Magdalen for ancient St. Johns for modern Prelates Corpus-Christi-College was formerly called the College of Bees which industrious creatures were as it seems Aborigines from the first building of the College and An. 1630 there was an incredible mass of Honey found over the Study of Ludovicus Vives that Mellifluous Doctor The Library in some respects equals any in Europe and in most kinds exceeds all in England standing as Diana amongst the Nymphs In the infancy of Christianity the Library of York bare away the Bell founded by Arch-Bishop Egbert Before the Dissolution of the Abbeys that at Ramsey was the greatest Rabbin abounding chiefly with Jewish Books Guildhall Libra-ry founded by Richard Whittington was deprived of 3 Cart loads of choice Manuscripts in the days of Edward 6. Since the Reformation that of Benet in Cambridge founded by Math. Parker exceed any Collegiate Library in England And of late the Library of that University augmented with the Archi-episcopal Library of Lambeth is grown the Second in the Land Of Private Libraries that of Treas Burleigh's was the best for the use of Statesmen the Lord Lumlie's for an Historian the Earl of Arundel's for a Herauld Sir Rob. Cottens for an Antiquary and Arch-Bishop-Usher 's for a Divine with many others as Lord Brudnel's Lord Hatton's c. which were routed in our Civil wars or transported into forreign parts Oxford Library was founded by Humphry D. of Glocester confounded in the Reign of Edward 6. and refounded by Sir Th. Bodley and the bounty of daily benefactors As for the Kings Houses in this County Woodstock is Justly to be preferred where the Wood and Water-Nymphs might equally be Pleased in its Situation Here Queen Elizabeth was Prisoner in the Reign of Queen Mary Here she escaped a dangerous fire Here hearing a Milk-maid merrily singing in the Park she wished for an exchange of her Condition with the Maid's Here Henry 2. built a Labyrinth which is now vanished Enston made by Th. Bushel Esq sometime Servant to Fr. Bacon Lord Verulam is a Place by Nature pleasant and adorned with Art Proverbs I. You were born at Hogs-Norton This is a Village properly call Hoch-Norton whose Inhabitants it seems formerly were so rustical in their behaviour that clownish people are said to be born at Hogs-Norton II. To take a Burford bait That is to be drunk III. Banbury Zeal Cheese and Cakes Some would have Veal put for Zeal Illl. He looke as the Devil over Lincoln The Devil 's picture did over-look Lincoln-College It is appliable to envious persons V. Lincoln-shire Testons are gon to Oxford to study in Brazen-Nose That is Testons now corruptly called Testers worth 6 d. were in the Reign of Henry 8. debased and so mixed with copper and brass that they were not above 3 s. 4d the ounce looking so red with the allay that they blushed for shame as conscious of their own corruption VI. Send Verdingales to Broad Gates in Oxford Verdingales formerly worn by women pent-housed their 's Gowns far beyond their bodies and were as some say a barricado against the assaults of Wantons but as others affirm a convenient cover of the fruits of wantonness the first Inventress thereof being known for a light hous-wife These grew so great that their Wearers were to enter ordinary Doors side-ways as the Scotch Pedlars do with their Packs on their backs VII Chronica si penses cum pugnent Oxonienses Post aliquot menses volat ira per Anglinienses Mark the Chronicles aright When Oxford Scholars fall to fight Before many months expired England will with war be fired By this are properly intended the Contests betwixt Scholars and Scholars which were observed predictional as if their Animosities were the Index of the Volume of the Land There were shrewd Bickerings betwixt the Southern and Northern Men in the University not long before the bloody War of the Barons did begin The like hapned twice under R. 2. before the fatal Fights betwixt Lancaster and York tho there were no Broyls in Oxford before the late Civil Wars Princes Richard Son to H. 2. and Queen Eleanor was the 6th King since the Conquest born in Oxford 1157. Whilst a Prince he was undutiful to his Father or to qualifie the Matter over-dutiful to his Mother whose Domestick Quarrels he always espoused To expâ—…ate his offence when King he with Philip King of France undertook a Voyage to the Holy-Land where through the Treachery of Templary Cowardise of the Greeks diversity of the Climate and differences betwixt Christian Princes much time was spent a Mass of Money expended many lives lost some Honour atchieved but little Profit produced Going to Palestine he suffered Shipwrack and many Mischiefs on the coasts of Cyprus coming for England through Germany he was tossed with a worse Land-Tempest being in pursuance of an old grudge betwixt them taken Prisoner by Leopold D. of Austria yet this Caeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted King for so was he commonly called was no less Lion tho now in a Grate then when at Liberty abating nothing of his high Spirit in his Behaviour The Duke did not undervalue his Royal Prisoner prizing his Person at 10 years purchase according to the then yearly Revenue of the English Crown This Ransom of 100000 pounds being paid he came home first reformed himself and then mended many abuses in the Land He was afterwards shot with an Arrow in France 1199. Edmund Youngest Son to King Edward 1. by Queen Marg. was born at Woodstock Aug. 5. 1301. He was afterwards created E. of Kent and
he took the St. Anne was the most considerable being the Spanish Admiral of the S. Sea of 700 Tuns and 190 Men. There were 122000 Pezos each worth 8 shillings of Gold with other Rich Lading as Silks and Musk. Mr. Cavendish landed the Spaniards and left them plentiful Provisions Surrounding the East-Indies and returning for England the Content whose Men were mutinous stayed behind Mr. Cavendish safely landing at Plymouth Sept. 9. 1588. Amongst his Men three most remarkable Mr. John Way their Preacher Mr. Th. Fuller of Ipswich their Pilote and Mr. Fr. Pretty of Eyke in this County who wrote the History of their Voyage Thus having circumnavigated the whole Earth let his Ship be no longer termed the Desire but the Performance He was the third Man and second Englishman of such universal undertakings In his next Voyage begun 26 August 1591. he was severed from his Company the November following near Port-desire by him formerly so named in the Megellan-Straits and never seen or heard of afterwards Physicians W. Butler born at Ipswich was Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge where he became the Aesculapiuâ—… of our Age. He was the first English-man who quickned Galenical Physick with a touch of Paracelsus Being excellent at the instant discovery of a cadaverous face at the first sight of sick Prince Henry he got himself out of the way knowing himself to be Prince of Physicians he would be observed accordingly Complements would prevail nothing with him intreaties but little surely threatnings would do much and a witty jeer would do any thing Neatness he neglected into slovenliness and accounted cuffs to be manacles He made his humoursomness to become him wherein some of his Profession have rather aped then imitated him who kept the tenour of the same surliness to all persons He was a good Benefactor to Clare-Hall and dyed 1621 he was buried in the Chancel of St. Maries in Cambridge leaving nothing to his only Brother because he had turned Papist beyond the Seas VVriters Humphrey Necton a Carmelite in Norw and the first D. D. of his Order in Cambridge flourished under Hen. 3. and Edw. 1. and dyed 1303. Jo. Horminger Travelling in Italy where he heard some Italians villifie England as being only fruitful of a barbarous people wrote in her defence an Epitome of the Commodities thereof and after his return Of the Profit and Pleasure of England He flourished 1310. Th. of Ely born in Monks-Ely was a Carmelite the second D. D. of his Order in Cambridge He travelled over the Seas and kept Lectures at Bruges in Flanders till his death about 1320. Rich. Lanham a Carm. in Ipswich and D. D. in Oxford was a great Adversary to the Wicklevites His Learning is attested by the Books he left to Posterity Some say he was beheaded by the Rebellious Crew of Wat Tyler others that he dyed a natural death at Bristol 1381. Jo. Kinyngham a Carm. in Ipswich then bred in Oxford was perfect of his Order in England and Ireland Confessor to Jo. of Gaunt and his Lady He was the first who encountred Wickliffe in the Schools of Oxford and disputed with great ingenuity and modesty whereupon his good Antagonist prayed heartily that his Judgment might be convinced He dyed 1399. and was buried at York Jo. Lydgate born at Lydgate was a Benedictine in St. Edmund Bury the best Author of his Age in Pottry and Prose He wrote of himself as follows I wear a habite of Perfection Although my Life agrees not with the same c. He dyed about 1444. and was buried in his own Convent Jo. Barningham born at Barningham was a Carm. in Ipswich and D. D. in Oxford and in Sorbon the Cock-pit of Controversies He had a subtile Wit and was a great Master of Defence in Schools both to guard and hit He wrote 4 fair Volumes He dyed 1448. Jo. of Bury an Augustinian in Clare and D. D. in Cambridge was Prov. of his Order through England and Ireland and a great Opposer of Wicklevites flourishing 1460. Th. Scroope born at Bradley but descended from the Lord Scroope in Yorkshire was a Benedictine a Carmelite in Norwich then an Anchorite 20 years afterwards by papal dispensation Bishop of Drummore in Ireland and at last an Anchorite again yet using once a Week to walk on his bare Feet and Preach the Decalogue in the Villages round about About 1425. being cloathed with Sackcloth and girt about with an Iron Chain he cry'd out in the Streets That new Jerusalem was shortly to come down c. Rev. 21. and that with great Joy he saw the same in the Spirit Th. Waldensis the great Anti-VVicklivite offended thereat protested it was a great scandal to the Church Scroop lived very nigh 100 years being accounted a Holy man He was buried at Lestoffe 1491. Since the Reformation Rich. Sibs born nigh Sudbury was Fellow in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge afterwards Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn whence he was chosen Master of St. Kath. Hall in Cambridge which he found in a low condition but left replenished with Scholars beautified and better endowed He was most eminent for Christian humility Of all points of Divinity he most pressed that of Christs Incarnation of Humility the true Original whence he copied his own He dyed 1631. W. Alabaster born at Hadley was Fellow in Trin. Colledge in Cambridge a most rare Poet witness his Tragedy of Roxqna so admireably Acted in that Colledge and so pathetically that a Gentlewoman present thereat at the hearing of the last words thereof Sequar Sequar so hideously pronounced fell distracted and never after recovered her Senses He was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex in Calis Voyage where he staggered in his Religion and afterwards turned Papist though he returned both to his Religion and Country where he was made Preb. of St. Pauls and Rector of Tharfield in Hartford He was an excellent Hebrician He dyed 163. Samuel Ward was born at Haveril where his Father had been a Famous Minister according to his Epitaph Quo si quis scivit scitius Aut si quis docuit doctius At rarus vixit sanctius Et nullus tonuit fortius Grant some of knowledge greater store More Learned some in teaching Yet few in Life did Lighten more None thundered more in Preaching Sam. was bred in Sidn Colledge in Cambridge and became a great Scholar and excellent Preacher Being Minister in Ipswich he gained the Affections of the people by the tender care he had of them yet he had his Foes as well as Friends who complained of him to the High Com. where he met with some molestation He had three Brethren and it was said that these four put together would not make up the abilities of their Father nor were they offended with this Hyperbole One of them lately dead followed the Counsel of the Poet Ridentem dicere verum Quis vet at having in a jesting way delivered much smart truth of the times Sam. dyed 163. Jo. Boise
Sidney-Colledge An excellent Grecian and general Scholar old when young such his gravity in Behaviour and young when old such the quickness of his Endowments He bestowed on the Colledge 120 pounds for some perpetual use for the Master and Fellowes and 10 pounds for Books for the Library At last he was Rector of Fullebey in Lincoln-shire where by his Piety and Diligence he procured his own security He dyed 1653. and lyes buried in his Chancel Memorable Persons Jo Feckenham born of poor Parents in Feckenham-Forrest being a Benedictine at Evesham received at the time of the dissolution an Annual Pension of about 20 pounds which maintained him in Oxford where he attained to Eminency in Learning He was imprisoned in the Reign of Edward 6. made Abbot of VVestminster by Queen Mary with whom he was very gracious laying out all his Interest with her to procure pardon of the faults or mitigation of the punishments for poor Protestants By Queen Elizabeth he was highly honoured and proffered as is currantly traditioned the See of Canterbury which he refused and was kept in easie restraint By his bounty he gained the good will of all persons He dyed very Aged in VVisbich Castle about 1585. Henry Bright born in VVorcester where he was for 40 years School Master excellently skilled in and Communicative of the Latine Greek and Hebrew Languages and Canon of the Cathedral Church of VVorcester He dyed 1626 being buried in the Cathedral I behold him placed by Divine Providence in this City in the Marches that he might equally Communicate the lustre of Grammar Learning to Youth both of England and VVales Noted Sheriffs Henry 7. An. 3. Jo. Savage Mil. was made Kt. of the Garter and Privy Councellour to King Henry 7. And he or his Son removed into Cheshire and Married the Heir General of the ancient Family of the Bostocks and was Ancestor to the present Earl of Rivers Henry 8. An. 8. VV. Compton Mil. was highly favoured by the King in whose Court no Layman Charles Brandon excepted was equal to him His Son Peter Married into the Right Honourable Family of Shrewsbury and his Grandson Sir Henry Compton was one of the three H. C. Henry Cary Henry Compton and Henry Cheney who were made Barons by Queen Elizabeth and Ancestor to James Earl of Northampton Q Eliz. An. 19. Jo. Russel Ar. afterwards Knighted had a great quarrel with Sir Henry Berkley so that great blood-shed was like to have ensued at the Sessions of Worcester but Dr. Whitgift Bishop of Worcester wisely prevented the same requiring both parties with their Friends to come well guarded to his Palace where disarming them he put a Conclusion to that Affray having used perswasions and threatnings to good effect 36. Jo. Packington Mil. being a fine but no assiduous Courtier drew the Curtain between himself and the light of the Queens favour and then death overwhelmed the remnant and utterly deprived him of recovery And they say of him that had he brought less to the Court then he did he might have carried away more then he brought for he had a time of it but was no good husband of opportunity King James An. 12. Richard Walsh Ar. afterwards Knighted followed the Powder-Traytors ferreted out of Warwick-shire by Sir Richard Verney out of the bounds of this County till they took covert in the house of Stephen Littleton at Hallbach in Stafford-shire and not standing on the Punctilio of exceeding his Commission in a case wherein the Peace of the Kingdom was so highly concerned prosecuted his Advantage and beset the house round about till both the Rights were killed in the place Catesby and Piercy slain with one Bullet Rookwood and Winter wounded and all the rest apprehended The Battles Worcester Fight September the 3d. 1651. His Majesty on the 1st of August foregoing began his March from Edenburgh into England not meeting with any considerable opposition those at Warrington being put to flight by his presence until he came to Worcester His Army consisted of 12000 effectual fighting Men whereof 2000 English the rest Scotch Men but neither excellently Armed nor plentifully stored with Ammunition whilst the Parliaments Forces under Cromwel more then doubled that number wanting nothing but a Good Cause that an Army could wish or desire The Royalists chief Strength consisted in two passes they possessed over the River of Severn which proved not advantagious according to expectation for the Enemy found the River fordable elsewhere and the Bridge and Pass at Uptern though valiantly defended by Major General Massey who received a shot in his hand was forced by Lambert pouring in unequal Numbers on the King's Forces Besides Cromwel finished a Bridge of Boards and Planks over the main River with more Celerity and less Resistance then could have been expected in a matter of such importance Then began the Battle wherein his Majesty to remember His Subjects good forgot His own safety and gave an incomparable Example of Valour to the rest by Charging in his own Person This was followed by few to the same degree of Courage or Danger but imitated in the greatest measure by the Highlanders fighting with the Butt-ends of their Muskets when their Ammunition was spent But new Supplies constantly charging them and the main Body of the Scotch Horse not coming up in due time from the City to his Majesties Relief his Army was forced to retreat in at Sudbury-Gate in much disorder If there were which some more then whisper false and foul play in some persons of Principal Trust as they have had a great space seasonably God grant them his Grace sincerely to Repent for their treacherous retarding the Happiness prolonging and encreasing the Troubles of the Best of Monarchs and Three Great Nations Sure it is here were slain the Flower of the Scotish Loyal Gentry with the most Illustrious William formerly Earl of Lannerick Duke of Hamilton As for Common Souldiers some few who escaped had a longer Life to have a sadder Death wandring in the Country till other Mens Charity and their own Strength began to fail them Since how God hath conducted his Royal Majesty through Labyrinths of many difficulties to the Peaceable Possession of his Throne is notoriously known to the Wonder of the World YORK-SHIRE YOrk-shire hath the Bishoprick of Durham and Westmorland on the North Lancashire and a snip of Cheshire on the West Darby Nottingham and Lincoln-shire on the South and the German Ocean on the East thereof It is a Square of 90 Miles each side of equal dimensions with the Dukedom of Wirtenberg in Germany If the Goodness of this County which is not inferiour to others be drawn into the greatness thereof the product will be a denomination of the best Shire in England Besides in respect of the goodness and plenty of some Commodities it might be termed the Garden of England save that it is too far from the Mansion-house I mean the City of London Dr. Tonstal Bishop of Durham shewed
King Henry 8. in his Progress to York a Valley near Doncaster the richest as he affirmed that ever he observed in all his Travails through Europe for within 10 Miles of Haselwood the Seat of the Vavasors there were 165 Mannor-houses 275 several Woods some of them containing 500 Acres 3 Parks and Chases of Deer 120 Rivers and Brooks whereof 5 be Navigable 76 Water-Mills 25 Coal Mines 3 Forges for making of Iron The natural Commodities of this County are Geat found in the Clefts of the Rocks towards the Sea side being naturally of a reddish and rusty colour it grows black with polishing It may pass for the Embleme of our Memories attracting trifles and letting pass matters of more moment Alume first found nigh Gesburgh some 60 years since by Sir Thomas Chaloner Tutor to Prince Henry The Mine thereof being afterwards managed by three prime Workmen brought not to say stoln over in Hogsheads from Rochel in France was adjudged a Mine Royal who paid yearly to the King 12500 pounds to the Earl of Moulgrave 1640 pounds to Sir William Penniman 600 pounds and though he had in pay at one time no fewer then 800 Men he complained not of his Bargain Selling the Alume whereof he had the sole Sale at 26 pounds the Tun. This the late Long Parliament Voted a Monopoly and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries who now pursue the work at five several places viz. Sands-end and Ash-holme belonging to the Earl of Moulgrave Slapy-wath Sir William formerly Penniman's Darcey's Dunsley Mr. Thomas Fairfax's Whitlay Sir Hugh Chomley's The Commodity is now fallen 13 pounds the Tun. Lime is made near Pontfract no less as I am credibly informed then 20000 pounds worth yearly This County doth breed the best Race of English Horses which generally are not so slight as the Barbe nor so slovenly as the Flemish nor so Airy as the Spanish Gennets especially if as reported they be conceived of the Wind nor so Earthly as those in the Low-Countries and Germany But being of a middle Stature and Strength are both seemly and serviceable Well may Philip be so common a Name among the Gentry of this Country who are generally so delighted in Horsemanship The Manufacture of Cloathing is vigorously followed in this County As for edged and pointed Tools Sheffeild is the Staple Town for Knives and many and good Pins are made in this County But come we now to the Medicinal Waters about a Mile and a half from Knares-borough Westward there is a Spring of Vitrioline tast and odour discovered by one Slingsby about 1620 and is conceived to run parallel with the Spaw Waters in Germany Not far oft is a Sulphur-Well the stench whereof is great but the vertues greater In the same Parish there is the Petrifying Well because it converteth spungy substances into a stone or crusteth them over round about St. Mungus his Well is famous for the Sovereign Vertue of the Waters thereof and for four Springs near in Scituation and distant in Operation It has its Name from St. Mungo a Scotch Saint See Dr. Dean's Spadsacrena Anglica As for Buildings the Church of Beverly is a fine Fabrick of which more when I shall have occasion to speak of the Collegiate Church of Rippon Then Wresel-Castle is seated in the Confluence of Derwent and Owse built of square Stone with four fair Towers at each corner with a Gatehouse wherein are Chambers five stories high and Gardens without the Walls It had a Study made with great Art in an eight square Tower called Paradise all which beautiful Building belonging to the Earl of Northumberland is much impaired if not wholly defaced by time Proverbs I. From Hell Hull and Halifax deliver us This is part of the Beggars or Vagrants Letany Hull is terrible to them as a Town of good Government Halifax is formidable to them for the Law thereof whereby Thieves taken in the very act of stealing Cloath are instantly beheaded with an Engine without any further Legal Proceedings II. A Scarborough Warning that is none at all but a sudden surprize when a mischief is felt before it be suspected It took its Original from Thomas Stafford who in the Reign of Queen Mary 1557. with a small Company siezed on Scarborough Castle before the Townsmen had the least notice of his approach However by the industry of the Earl of Westmorland Sir Thomas Stafford was within 6 dayes taken brought to London and beheaded Others affirm this Proverb to be of more ancient Original fetching it from the custom of Scarborough Castle in former times in shooting of Ships which strook not sail warning and damnifying them both together III. As true Steel as Rippon Rowels The best Spurs of England are made at Rippon the Rowels whereof may be enforced to strike through a shilling and will break sooner then bow It is applyed to Men of Metal faithful in their Employments IV. An York-shire Wee-Bit That is an overplus not accounted in the reckoning which sometimes proveth as much as all the rest V. Merry Wakefield This Town is seated in a fruitful Soyl and cheap Country where there is good Chear and good Company and therefore why should not the Town be merry Princes Henry youngest Son to William Duke of Normandy but eldest to King William the Conquerour was born at Selby 1070. where his Father Founded an Abbey and afterwards gained the Crown from D. Roberts his eldest Brother He was bred in Cambridge and Paris where he so profited that he attained the Sirname of Beau-Clerke He Reigned 35 years and upwards remitted the Norman Rigour and restored to his English Subjects a great part of the English Laws and Liberties His Princely Vertues were attended with some Amorous Extravagancies as appears by his numerous Natural Issue no fewer then 14 all by him publickly owned the Males highly advanced the Females richly Married His Sobriety otherwise was admirable whose Temperance was of proof against any Meat objected to his Appetite Lampreys only excepted on a Surfeit whereof he dyed 1135. He had only two Legitimate Children William dying before and Maude surviving him both born in Normandy Thomas fifth Son of King Edward 1. and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife was born at and Sirnamed from Brotherton a Village in this County June the 1st 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England He left no Male Issue but from his Females the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and from them the Earls of Arundel and the Lords Berkley are descended Richard Plantag Duke of York commonly called Richard of Connisborough from the Castle in this Shire of his Nativity was Grandchild to King Edward 3. He Married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer the true Inheritrix of the Crown But tampering too soon and too openly to derive the Crown in his Wives Right to himself by practising the death of the present King he was taken and beheaded for Treason in the
and eloquent Man equally charming both the senses of Discipline the Eyes and the Ears He married one of the Co-heirs of Sir Henry Sherington by whom he had a numerous Posterity 42. Francis Clifford Ar. succeeded his Brother George in the Earldom of Cumberland a worthy Gentleman made up of all honourable Accomplishments He was Father to Henry the 5th and last Earl of that Family whose sole Daughter and Heir was married to the Right Honorable the then Lord Dungarvon since Earl of Cork 45. Henry Bellasis Mil. was by King Charles I. created Baron Fauconbridge of Yarum as since his Grandchild by his eldest Son is made Visc Fauconbridge Jo. Bellasis Esquire who in the Garrison of Newark and elsewhere hath given ample testimony of his Valour and all noble Qualities is since advanced to the dignity of a Baron K. James An. 9. Henry Slingsby Mil. of an ancient Family whose Armes are Quarterly the first and the fourth G. a Chev. between two Leopards Heads and a Hutchet or Bugle Arg. the second and the third Arg. a Griffin Surgeant S. supprest by a Fess G. 11. George Savil Mil. and Bar. was of a Numerous Wealthy and Ancient Family of which Sir Jo. Savil was lately created Baron Savil of Pomfraict and his Son since Earl of Sussex K. Charles Sir Marmaduke Langdale was Sheriff 1641. who might have said as to the Kings side of Northern Actions Pars ego magna fui But as for his raising of the Siege of Pomfraict felt before seen by the Enemy it will appear Romance-like to Posterity with whom it will find Plus Famae quam Fidei King Charles II. created him a Baron the Temple of Honour being of due open to him who had passed through the Temple of Vertue The Battles That at Marston-Moor July 2. 1644 was our English Pharsalian Fight to the Loyal Cavaliers Prince Rupert having raised the Siege at York drew out his Men into the Moor with intention to fight the Enemy though his Souldiers were weary and the expected Recruits were not come and besides if the Parliaments Army had been then let alone such were their Animosities that they had fallen foul among themselves had not the Prince preparing to fight them cemented their differences to agree against a General Enemy But the Prince was not informed of such differences But being pressed by the Kings Command to fight the Enemy speedily and having received Intelligence that the Enemy had the day before sent away 7000 Men who yet returned before the Fight he proceeded so far that it was too late to draw off the Parliaments Forces necessitating them to fight and about four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Battle began Some causlesly complain on the Marquess of New-castle that he drew not his Men soon enough according to his Orders out of York to the Prince's succour Such consider not that Souldiers newly relieved from a 9 weeks Siege will a little indulge themselves The Lord General Goring so valiantly charged the left Wing of the Enemy that they fairly forsook the Field General Leslie with his Scotish Army ran away more than a York-shire Mile and a Wee-Bet Fame with her Trumpet founded their Flight as far as Oxford the Royalists rejoycing with Bonefires for the Victory But within few dayes their Bayes by a mournful Metamorphosis were turned into Willow For Cromwel with his Cuirassires did the work of that day Some suspected Collonel Hurry lately converted to the Kings side for foul play herein for he 〈…〉 the Kings old Horse into small Bodies alledging this way the best way to break the Scotish Lanciers But those Horse alwayes used to charge together were much discomposed with this new Mode Besides a right Valiant Lord severed with a Ditch from the Enemy did not attend till the Foe forced their way unto him The Van of the Kings Foot being led up by the truly Honourable Collonel John Russel impressed with 〈…〉 numbers and distanced from seasonable succour became a Prey to their Enemy The Marquess of Newcastles white Coats who were said to bring their Wiâ—â—ing sheet about them into the Field after thrice firing fell to it with the But-ends of their Muskets and were invincible till mowed down by Cromwel's 〈…〉 they were almost all slain Great was the Execution of that day Cromwel commanding his Men to give â—…o Quarter Various the numbering of the slain of both sides yet I meet with none mounting them above 6. or sinking them beneath 3000. I remember no Person of Honour slain on the Kings side save the hopeful Lord Cary eldest Son to the Earl of Monâ—â—â—b But on the Parliaments side the Lord Didup a lately erected Baron was slain on the same token that when King Charles said that he hardly remembred that he 〈…〉 such a Lord in Scotland one returned that the Lord had wholly forgotten that he haed such a King in England Soon after more then 60 Royalists of prince Quality removed themselves beyond the Seas So that hence forward the King's Assairs in the 〈…〉 were in a languishing Condition YORK YORK is an ancient City built on both sides of the River Ouse joyned with a Bridge of one Arch the largest in England Here the Roman Emperours had their Residence Severus and Valer. Constantius their death What it sacketh of London in bigness and beauty of Buildings it hath in cheapness and plenty of Provisions Of Manufactures it challengeth none peculiar to it self They send course Cloath to Hamborough and have Iron Flax c. in return But the Trade which is indeed but driven at York runneth of it self at Hull which of a Fishers Town is become a City's Fellow within 300 years being the Key of the North. As for the Buildings of York the Cathedral was built by Jo. Romaine William Melton and Jo. Thoresbury successive Arch-Bishops thereof the Family of the Piercy's contributing Timber of the Vavasors Stone thereunto It is famous all the World over for the largeness and workmanship thereof Appending to it is the Chapter-house such a Master-piece of Art that this Golden Verse is Engraved thereon Ut Rosa Flos Florum sic est Domus ista Domorum Proverbs I. Lincoln was London is and York shall be True it is that Lincoln is the greatest City in the Kingdom of Mercia that London is we know and if York shall be God knows It was indeed in a fair way of preserment when England and Scotland were first United into Great Britain But as for those who hope it shall be the English Metropolis they must wait until the River of Thames run under the great Arch of Ouse-Bridge However York shall be that is shall be York still as it was before Saints Flaccus Albinus alias Alcuinus born probably in York where he was advanced was bred under Ven. Bede and became a man of prodigious Learning He was Master to Charles I. Emperour who owed unto him the best part of his Title the Great being made Great in Arts and