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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

found ●n our Isles of Britain An. In the Isle of Man are found at this day certain Trees of Timber and other Wood in great abundance many fathoms under the ground which were thought to be brought thither and 〈◊〉 in Noahs flood and not discovered till of late years At Barry Island in Glamorgan-shire upon ● Clift or Hole of a Rock laying your ear unto it you may hear sometimes as it were ●he noise of blowing the Bellows others of Smiths striking at the Anvil sometimes ●iling clashing of Armour and the like this ●s said to be by inchantment by the great Merlin who bound certain Spirits to work here in making of Armour for Aurelius Am●rosius and his Britains until his return but he being killed they by the force of his harm are constrained to labour there still Qu. By how many several Nations hath this Land been inhabited An. The first Inhabitants hereof were the Britains whose off-spring at this day is the Welsh our seeming ancient Historians de●ive them from the Trojans who came hither under the conduct of one Brutus but this by Mr. Cambden and our late Antiquaries is rejected as a fable who by many unanswerable arguments prove them to be descended from the Gauls they were questionless a warlike Nation and stoutly with stood the Romans in their invasion of them being at last more over come by the treachery o● Androge●s and others than by the Roman puissance The next were the Romans who entered the Island under the conduct of Julius Casar some few years before the birth of our Savior It continued a Roman Province till after the year 400 when Proconsul Aetite taking with him away the Legoniary Soldiers to defend Gallia from the Franks and Burgundians left South Britain a prey to the Scots and Picts quitting our Island of themselves to defend those Provinces nearer home The third Nation were the Saxons a people of Germany called in by Vortiger Kin● of the Britains in aid against the Scots and Picts who then over-run this Island bu● these Guests soon become their Masters wh● under the leading of Hengist and Horsus ● planted themselves in this Island that the n●tive Inhabitants could never recover it from them These Saxons came not in all at once b● at seven several times each under their Le●ders gaining a part from our Brittish Monarchy till at last they ingrossed the who● to themselves then was England divide● into a Heptarchy or seven several Kingdom all which were united into one by Egb● King of the West-Saxons who was the first English Monarch The fourth people were the Danes who made violent irruptions in this Island under the Reign of King Ethelred the Saxon and so far they prevailed that he was contented to pay them the yearly Tribute of 10000 pounds which at last they enhanced to 48000 pounds This Tyranny Ethelred not able to endure warily writ to his Subjects to kill all the Danes as they slept on St Brices night being the 12. of November which being executed accordingly Swain King of Denmark came with a Navy of three hundred and fifty sail into England drove Ethelred over into Normandy and tyrannized over the English with a very high hand every English house maintaining one Dane whom they called Lord who living idly and receiving all the profit of the English labours gave occasion to after-ages when they saw an idle fellow to call him a Lurdan And so imperious were they that if an English man and a Dane had met on a Bridge the English man must have gone back and stayed till the Dane had come over They used also when the English drank to stab them or cut their throats to avoid which villany the party then drinking used to request some of the next sitters by to be his surety or pledge whilst he paid Nature her due and hence have we our usual custom of pledging one another finally after the Reign of three Kings the English threw off their yoke and the Saxons were re-inthronized The fifth Conquest thereof was by William Duke of Normandy Anno 1066. who with a strong Army entred the Land flew King Herald and with him 66654 of his English Soldiers Somewhat before that time was a great Comet which portended as it was thought this change of Government of which one wrote thus A thousand six and sixty year It is as we do read Since that a Comet did appear And English men lay dead Of Normandy Duke William then To England ward did sail Who conquer'd Harold and his men And brought this Land to bale A brief Epitome or Chronical-discourse of the Kings of England since the Norman Conquest VVIlliam the First sirnamed Conqueror bastard Son to Robert Duke of Normandy who having conquer'd the Country used such policies as utterly disheartened the English from hopes of better fortune who thereupon yielded to him and he having for twenty two years ruled or rather tyrannized over the English Nation dyed and was buried at Cane in Normandy William the second sirnamed Rufus the second son of the Conqueror took the Crown upon him his eldest Brother Robert being then busie in the Holy-Land who when the Christians had conquered Jerusalem chose him King thereof but he hoping for the Crown of England refused it but his brother William taking possession in his absence stoutly defended his Title brought Duke Robert to composition and having reigned twelve years and eleven months wanting eight days he at last hunting in the new Forrest was by the glance of an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tirrel struck in the breast whereof he immediately dyed and was buried at Winchester Anno 1100. Henry the first the youngest Son of the Conqueror yet too old for his brother Robert in policy took the advantage of time and stept into his Throne in his absence against whom he warring was by him taken and had his eyes put out this Henry was for his learning sirnamed Beauclark he reduced the measures of England to that proportion which we now call an Ell he left behind him only one Daughter reigned thirty five years and lieth buried at Reading Stephen Earl of Blois Son to Alire Daughter to the Conqueror usurped the Crown he was a man of Noble parts and hardy passing comely of favor and personage he excelled in martial policy gentleness and liberality towards men to purchase the peoples love he released them of the tribute called Darn-gelt he had continual War against Maud the Empress and after a troublesome Reign of eighteen years ten months and odd days he dyed and lieth buried at Font Everard Henry the Second Son to Maud the Empress Daughter to Henry the first and to Maud Daughter to Malcolm King of Scotland and Margaret Sister to Edgar Etheling by which means the Saxon blood was restor'd to the Crown This Henry was a most magnanimous Prince and by his fathers inheritance added many of the French Provinces to the English Crown as also the Dutchy of Aquitain and the

George Duke of Clarence his own Brother with many faithful servants to King Edward 4. Edward the fifth his lawful Soveraign with Prince Richard his brother 5. Henry Duke of Buckingham his great friend and sixth one Collingborn an Esquire who was hang'd drawn and quartered for making this Verse The Cat the Rat and Lowel our Dog Rule all England under a Hog Finally having reigned two years and two months he was slain by Henry Earl of Richmond and buried at Grey Fryers Church at Leicester Henry the seventh who united the two Houses of York and Lancaster by marrying with Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Edward the fourth He was a Prince of marvellous Wisdom Policy Justice Temperance and Gravity and notwithstanding great troubles and wars which he had against home-bred Rebels he kept his Realm in right good order He builded the Chappel to Westminster-Abby a most accurate piece of Work wherein he was interred after he had reigned twenty three years and eight months Henry the eight who banished the Popes supremacy out of England won Bulloign from the French lived beloved and feared of his Neighbour Princes the last of our Kings whose name began with the Letter H. which Letter had been accounted strange and ominous every mutation in our State being as it were ushered in by it according as I find it thus versed in Albions England Not superstitiously I speak but H this Letter still Hath been accounted ominous to England's good or ill First Hercules Hesion and Helen were the cause Of war to Troy Aeneas seed becoming so Out-laws Humber the Hum with foreign Armes did first the Brutes invade Hellen to Romes Imperial Throne the British Crown convey'd Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this Isle Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed here long while At Harold had the Saxons end at Hardy Cnute the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Reign Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did Englands Crown obtain Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace Henry the eighth did happily Romes irreligion cease King Henry having Reigned thirty seven years nine months and odd days dyed and was buried at Windsor Edward the sixth a most vertuous religious Prince whose wisdom was above his years and whose piety was exemplary he perfected the Reformation begun by his father King Henry At the age of sixteen years he departed this life having Reigned six years five months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Mary his Sister whom King Henry begat of Katherine of Spain she restored again the Mass set at liberty those Bishops imprisoned in her brothers Reign and imprisoned those who would not embrace the Romish perswasion She was very zealous in the cause of the Pope for not yielding to which many godly Bishops and others of the Reformation suffered Mattyrdom In her time was Callice lost to the French the grief whereof it was thought brake her heart she Reigned five years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Elizabeth daughter to Henry the eighth by the Lady Ann of Bulloigne a most Heroick vertuous Lady she again banished the Popes power out of England reduced Religion to its primitive purity and refined the Coyns which were then much corrupt For the defence of her Kingdom she stored her Royal Navy with all warlike munition aided the Scots against the French the French Protestants against the Catholiques and both against the Spaniard whose invincible Armado as it was termed she overthrew in 88. Holland found her a fast friend against the force of Spain the Ocean it self was at her command and her name grew so redoubted that the Muscovite willingly entered into League with her She was famous for her Royal Government amongst the Turks Persians and Tartars which having endured forty four years five months and odd days she dyed being aged about seventy years and was buried at Westminster King James a Prince from his Cradle the sixth of that name in Scotland and the first in England He excelled for Learning and Religion a second Solomon in whose Reign during all the time thereof our Land was enriched with those two blessings of Peace and Plenty He died in a good old age notwithstanding the Treason of the Gowries and the Powder-plot Reigned twenty two years and three days and was buried at Westminster Charles the first Son to King James a most pious prudent vertuous Prince enriched with all excellencies both of mind and body He was by his own Subjects most barbarously murdered before his PallaceGate at Whitehall Jan. 30. An. 1648. after he had Reigned twenty three years ten months and 3 days Twit Papists now not with the Powder-plot This blacker deed will make the same forgot Charles the second the Heir of his Fathers vertues and Crown who having been long detained from his right by the prevailing sword of Rebels was miraculously restored to his Subjects and Kingdom May the 29. 1660. Who God grant long long long to Reign May they be all Rebels and Traitors reckon'd Who wish the least hurt unto Charles the Second Hereafter followeth the Histories of St Denis the Titulary Saint of France St. Romain and some others being after used in discourse for the Readers better information and delight according as we find it in the Legend of them SAint Denis is said to be the same Dionisius of Areopagita mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles who being converted himself ●hirsted after the conversion of others and ●o that end he with Rusticus and Elutherius ●ravelled into France then called Gauls where he converted many to Christianity and ●ecame the first Bishop of Paris making Rus●icus his Arch-Priest and Elutherius his Dea●on Afterwards in the Reign of Domitian the Emperor persecution growing hot Fes●ennius Governor of Paris commanded that ●e should bow before the Altar of Mercury and offer Sacrifice unto him which St. Denis with the other two beforenamed refusing to do they were all three of them condemned to be beheaded which was accordingly executed on Mont-Matre distant about a mile from Paris Now it came to pass that when the Executioner had smitten off Saint Denis his head that he caught it up between his Arms and ran with it down the Hill as fast as his legs could carry him half a mile from the place of his Execution he sate down and rested and so he did nine times in all till he came to the place where his Church is now built where he met with a very old woman whom he charged to bury him in that place and then fell down and died being three English miles from Mont-Matre and there he was buried together with Rusticus and Elutherius who were brought after him by the people Afterwards by the succeeding ages when Christianity had gotten the upper-hand of Paganism in the nine several places where he rested are erected so many handsome Crosses of stone all of a making To the memory of this Saint did

which Pilgrims from all places come to visit the Tomb of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury who was there enshrined as witnesseth Chaucer fro all England do they wend The Holy blissful Martyrs Tomb to see c. And now also of the City of Loretto in Italy which at first was but a mean Village but is now grown a rich and populous City for the opinion that the chamber of the Virgin Mary is there the Legend whereof here followeth This Chamber they say was the same wherein the Virgin Mary was saluted by the Angel with those joyful tidings of the Conception of our Saviour being then at Nazareth in Judaea and was after the Virgins death had in great Reverence by the Christians where it remained untouched till all Palestine was subdued by the Turks and Saracens Anno 1291. then was it most miraculously transported into Sclavonia but that place being unworthy of the Virgins divine presence it was by the Angels carried over into the Sea-cost of Italy An. 1294. but that place proving as bad as the other being infected with Thieves and Pirats the Angels removed it to the little Village of Loretto where her miracles being quickly divulged drew thither a great concourse of People insomuch that Paul the second Pope of Rome built over this chamber a most stately Church whither Pilgrims from all places resort to this day to the great enriching thereof which by this means it is now from a poor Village grown to be a wealthy City Q. Which is the chief City in England Ans London which is accounted to contain in circuit 8 miles is enriched with a Navigable River the Palace of the King divers houses of the Nobility and several Colledges for the Study of the Laws the next to which is the City of York according to the verse Londinum caput est regni urbs Brittanni Eboracum à prima jure secundae venit London is Englands chiefest Town well known The second place York claimeth as its own Q. Who was the first builder of London A. The common received opinion is that it was Brutus the Son of Silvius and Grandchild to Aeneas who having by accident killed his Father was for the fact banished his Countrey with whom accompanied him many worthy persons to be partakers of his fortune who after many wandrings and adverse fortunes at last arrived in England at a place called Totnes in Devonshire as the Poet Neckam sings The Gods did guide his sayl and course the winds were at command And Totnes was the happy shore where first he came on Land This Land was then inhabited with Gyants the chief of which was named Gogmagog with whom Corineus one of Brute's followers encounter'd though he were a Gyant of twelve Cubits high and of such puissance that he could pull up a great Oak at one pull as if it had been a small Wand when they came together Corineus laid by his armour and challenged his Combatant to Handy-gripes who at first came upon him with such fury and violence that he crushed in pieces three of Corineus's ribs where with he being mightily enraged redoubling his strength threw him upon his shoulder and so carried him to the top of a Rock and threw him down head-long into the Sea where he perished with the fall which place is called to this day Gogm●gogs-Leap In reward of his valiant act Brute bestowed upon the noble Corineus that part of the Land which he after his name cal'd Coriner afterwards by corruption of speech it was called Cornubia and now Cornwal Brute afterwards having the Land of those Gyants erected a City on the River of Thames which he named after the Seat of his Ancestors New Troy which is the same that is now called London as one writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 razed Troy to rear a Troy sit place he searched then And Viewing first the Northern parts these fit quoth he for men That trust as much to Flight as fight our Bulworks are our breast A Trojans Courage is to him a Bulwork of unrest Then casting a more pleasant eye where Thames did fairly glide Resolv'd he to erect the same upon that Rivers side He many Houses built therein and clos'd it in with Wall Which Lud did after beautifie and Luds-Town did it call Q. What do the common Countrey people think of London Ans Those who have never seen it account it a very strange wonderful place One having a Brother living there directed his Letter thus To his loving Brother T. W. living at London Another had a great mind to see the City only he said he was not acquainted with any of the Porters to open the Gates and let him in Q. Which are the Principal Rivers in England A. The chief is the Thamesis or Thames compounded of the two rivers Thame Isis the former whereof rising somewhat beyond Tame in Buckinghamshire and the latter beyond Cirencester in Glocestershire meet together about Dorcester in Oxfordshire the issue of which happy conjunction is the Thamesis or Thames the most glorious River of all Europe The second is the Severn which taketh its beginning in Plinlimon Hill in Mountgomery-shire and his end about seven miles from Bristol washing in the mean space the walls of Shrewsbury Worcester and Glocester this River is said to take its name from Sabrina the daughter of Estrild who being taken by Queen Guendeline was cast into this River and there drowned The third River of note is Trent so call'd for that thirty kind of Fishes are found in it or for that it receiveth thirty lesser Rivulets it hath its Fountain in Strafford-shire and gliding through the Counties of Notingham Lincoln Leicester and York burieth its self in the turbulent Current of the Humber The fourth is Medway a Kentish River the Common Harbor for the Royal Navy The fifth is Tweed the North east bound of England on whose fertile banks is seated the strong and impregnable Town of Barwick The sixth is Tine which mightily enricheth the Town of Newcastle by the conveyance from thence of her plenty of Coals These and the rest of most principal concern are thus comprehended in one of Mr Drayton's Sonnets Our Floods Queen Thames for Ships and Swans is crown'd And stately Severn for her Shore is praised The Chrystal Trent for Fords and Fish renown'd And Avons fame to Albions Cliffs is raised Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee York many wonders of her Owse can tell The Peak her Dove whose banks so fertile be And Kent will say her Medway doth excel Cotswal commends her Isis to the Tame Our Northern Borders boast of Tweeds fair Flood Our Western parts extol their Willies fame And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood Q. Who is the most renowned for memory that we have heard or read of An. In former times Seneca who writes of himself that he was able to recite two thousand words after they were once read unto him and of late days we find Mr.

who should shroud themselves in his long fleece when he would jump into Heaven and so convey them all thither With a thousand of the like fopperies Qu. Which Heretick in his time had the most followers An. Arius a priest of Alexandria who hatched that devilish Doctrine against the perpetual Divinity of Christ to beat down which Heresie the first Council of Nice was called wherein was made the Nicene Creed and the Clause of one substance with the Father proved to be agreeable to the Word Constantine being then Emperor sent for Arius to subscribe to the Decrees of this Council who went to Constantinople with his own heretical Tenets written in a paper and put into his bosom where reading before the Emperor the Decrees of the Council he writ a Recantation of his Heresie laying his hand on his breast and swearing he meant as he had written but though thereby he blinded the Emperor God manifested his hypocrisie for passing in great triumph through the streets of the City a necessity of Nature enforcing him he withdrew aside into a House of Ease where he voided out his Guts and sent his soul as a Harbinger to the Devil to provide room for his body However his Heresie died not with him but overspread so far that one of the Fathers complained The whole world is turned Arian And long time it was ere this Serpent of Error was knocked on the head by the Hammer of Gods Word though very powerful then in the mouths of many faithful Ministers Many other Heresies might be reckon'd up which were frequent in the primitive times as the Nicholaitans Donatists c. but we descend to speak of some more modern Qu. Who was the first that broached that ridiculous Schism of the Adamites An. One Picardus a Native of Belgia or the Low Countreys who coming into Bohemia drew a great sort of men and women unto him pretending to bring them to the same state of perfection that Adam was in before his fall and having gotten a great many disciples they betook themselves to an Island called Paradise and went stark naked having no respect unto marriage yet would they not accompany any woman until the man coming to Adam said unto him Father Adam I am enflamed towards this woman and Adam made answer Increase and multiply But long they had not lived in this lascivious course of Irreligion but Zisca that renowned Bohemian Captain hearing of them with a selected Band of Soldiers entered their Fools Paradise and put them all to the Sword An. Dom. 1416 The same pretence to bring men to Paradise though in a different way was once practised by Aladine a seditious Persian who inhabited a Valley in that Countrey which he fortified with a strong Castle Hither he brought all the lusty Youths and beautiful Maidens of the adjoyning Provinces The women were confined to their Chambers the men to prison where having endured much sorrow they were severely cast into dead sleeps and conveyed to the women where they were entertained with all the pleasures youth and lust could desire or a sensual mind affect To the eyes were presented curious Pictures and other costly Sights the Ears were charmed with melodious Musick the Nose delighted with odoriferous Smells the Taste satiated with costly Viands and the Touch satisfied with whatsoever might be pleasing unto it nothing was wanting which a sensual appetite could desire to enjoy Having lived in this happiness a whole day they were in a like sleep conveyed to their Irons Then would Aladine come unto them and inform them how they had been in Paradise in which place it was in his power to seat them eternally and which he would do if they would hazard their lives in his Quarrels They poor souls thinking all to be real swore to perform whatsoever he requested whereupon he destinated them to the massacre of such Princes as he had a mind to be rid out of the way which for the hopes of this Paradise they willingly put in execution refusing no dangers to be there the sooner One of these was he who so desperately wounded our King Edward the first when he was in his Wars in the Holy Land Qu. Who was the most notorious Heretick of these latter times An. One David George born at Delft in Holland who called himself King and Christ immortal He fled with his wife and children Anno 1544 to Basil where he divulged his doctrine the chief heads whereof were 1. That the Law and the Gospel were unprofitable for the attaining of Heaven but his doctrine able to save such as received it 2. That he was the true Christ and Messias 3. That he had been till that present kept in a place unknown to the Saints And fourthly that he was not to restore the house of Israel by death or tribulation but by the love and grace of the Spirit He died in the year 1556. and three years after his doctrine was by them of Basil condemned his Goods confiscated and his bones taken up and burned He bound his disciples to three things 1. To conceal his name 2. Not to reveal of what condition he had been And thirdly Not to discover the Articles of his doctrine to any man in Basil Thus every age produces Hereticks Who against Christ and true Religion kicks Qu. From whence had the Sect of the Anabaptists their first original An. From Germany about the year 1527. being very ripe in the Province of Helvetia where one of them in the presence of his Father and Mother cut off his brothers head and said according to the humour of that Sect who boast much of dreams visions and enthusiasms that God had commanded him to do it Since which time this Sect like a pernicious infection hath spread it self into many Countries having been very baneful to England in our late uncivil wars I might instance many examples more of our late Schismaticks as of the Ranters Fifth-Monarchy-men c. but we will now turn our pen to other matters Qu. What women of all others are most fruitful An. Beggars wives that of all others one would think should be most barren Qu. What is mans ingress and egress in this world An. He is born head-long into this world and carried to the grave with his feet foremost of which one thus writes Nature which head-long into life did throng us With our feet forwards to our grave doth bring us What is less ours than this our borrowed breath We stumble into life we go to death Qu. What is that State comparable unto wherein is most Nobles and Gentry and the Husbandmen are made their meer drudges An. Sir Francis Bacon in his History of Henry the Seventh likens them to Coppice-woods in which if you let them grow too thick in the stadles they run to bushes or briars and have little clean under-wood This may be evinced by the Countrey of France which is very numerous of Nobles and Gentry but the poor Peasants kept in

a miserable servitude by which means although their Cavalry or Horse be very good yet their Infantry or Foot comes infinitely far short of those of ours in England where the Commons enjoy such priviledges as the French Peasants neither have nor can hope for Qu. What said the Poet concerning those who first adventured to plough the Ocean waves with a Ship An. Illi robur aes triplex Circa pectus erat qui fragilem tru●i Commisit pelago ratem Hard was his heart as brass which first did venture In a weak Ship on the rough Seas to enter Qu. What King of Scotland was he on whom the Prophecy concerning Jacobs stone was fulfilled that a King of that Nation should live to be crowned thereupon An. King James the first of that name of England and the sixth of Scotland who was Crowned at Westminster whither the same was brought by our Edward the first at such time as he harassed Scotland with Fire and Sword on which stone was this written If Fates go right where ere this Stone is pight The Regal Race of Scots shall rule that place This Stone is said to be the same on which Jacob slept when to avoid his brothers fury he fled to Padan-aram to Laban his mother Rebeckahs brother Of which stone one thus further writes The Stone reserv'd in England many a day On which old Jacob his grave head did lay And saw descending Angels whilst he slept Which since that time by sundry Nations kept From age to age I could recite you how Could I my pen that liberty allow A King of Scotland ages coming on Should live for to be crown'd upon that Stone Qu. What three things are those which are accounted very strange or rather miraculous in the Countrey of Scotland An. 1. The Lake of Mirton part of whose waters do congeal in winter part of them not 2. The Lake of Lenox twenty four miles round in which are thirty Islands one of which is driven to and fro in every tempest 3. The Deaf-stone twelve foot high and thirty three cubits thick of this rare quality that a Musquet shot off on the one side cannot be heard by a man standing on the other Qu. In how many forms doth a Physitian appear to his Patient An. In these three 1. In the form of a skilful man when he promiseth help 2. In the shape of an Angel when he performs it 3. In the form of a Devil when he asketh his reward And therefore it is the Physicians Rule Accipe dum dolet Take the second Fee while the Sick hand giveth it But if Diseases thou hast none Let the Physician then alone For he thereby may purge thy purse And make thy body ten times worse Qu. What Trade is set up at the least charge An. A Scriveners for the Wing of a Goose sets up forty of them Qu. Of what four parts should a good History consist An. Of Annals Diaries Commentaries and Chronologies borrowing from them all somewhat to beautifie her self withal especially from Annals the year and Diaries the day in which any remarkable business happened from Commentaries is derived matter and from Chronologies consent of Times and Coetanity of Princes Qu. What is it that makes Physicians well An. Other mens sickness according to the Poet Physicians are most miserable men That cannot be deny'd For they 'r ne'r truly well but when Most men are ill beside Qu. What were the names of the seven wise men of Greece An. Bius Solon Chilon Cleobules Pitarus and Periander but now our age is grown so wise or self-conceited that as the Poet hath it The wise men were but seven now we scarce know So many fools the world so wise doth grow And yet I think I may safely say with another Poet In these two terms all people we comprize Some men are wise but most are otherwise Qu. Into how many parts is the world divided An. Into four parts and four Religions Asia Africa America Europe Jewish Mahometan Pagan Christian hope Qu. Why did Godfrey of Bulloign when he took upon him the Title of the King of Jerusalem yet by no means would be perswaded to he crowned King An. Because he judged himself unworthy to wear a Crown of Gold where his Lotd and Saviour was crowned with thorns With Golden Crown it is not fit t' adorn The servants head where the Masters Crown was thorn Such was the humility of great men in former times thus we read of Saladine Emperor of the Turks that at his death he caused a black shirt to be fixt on a spear and carried round about his Camp with this proclamation This black shirt was all that Saladine Conqueror of the East after all his Victories and successes carried with him to his grave Who then would credence give to humane glory Since that the best of all is transitory Qu. By what means according as it is deliver'd by Authors was Constantine the great first converted to the Christian Faith An. Socrates Scholastius writing thereon saith That when Constantine was appointed Emperor in Britain Maxentius was by the Pretorian Soldiers chosen at Rome and Lycinius nominated Successor by Maximinius Against these Constantine marching and being in his mind somewhat pensive he cast his eyes up to Heaven where he saw in the Sky a lightsome Pillar in the form of a Cross wherein were engraven these words In hoc vince The night following our Saviour appeared to him in a Vision commanding him to bear the figure of that Cross in his Banners and he should overcome his Enemies Constantine obeyed the vision and was accordingly victorious after which he not only favoured the Christians but became himself also one of that Holy profession This Constantine as most Writers agree was the Son of Helena daughter to Caelus or Coylus a British Prince and Colchester was the place where he beheld the light as the Poet Necham learnedly sung From Colchester there rose a Star The Rayes whereof gave glorious light Throughout the World in Climates far Great Constantine Romes Emperor bright Helena his Mother was she that built the Temple of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem and found out the Holy Cross much ado had the good Lady to find the place where Christ was buried for the Jews and Heathens had raised great Hillocks thereon and built there a Temple to Venus This Temple being plucked down and the Earth digged away she found the three Crosses whereon our blessed Saviour and the two Thieves had suffered to know which of these was the right Cross they were all carried to a woman who had long been visited with sickness and now lay at the point of death The Crosses of the two thieves did the weak woman no good but as soon as they laid on her the Cross on which our Lord dyed she leaped up and was restored to her former health or this Cross there are in several places shown so many pieces that as one saith were they all put together

permanent His handy work doth tell Day unto day doth teach And of the Lord do preach His wondrous works relating Night unto night doth show That every one might know His wisdom them creating There is no speech nor Land But this doth understand Though it far distant lyes Yet doth it heart the noise Acknowledging the voice And Language of the Skyes c. Qu. At what time of the year according to the opinion of many men was the world created An. That the world began in Autumn is of late the opinion of many both Divines and Chronologers And yet of old the ancient Fathers Eusebius Basil Athanasius Ambrose Cyril of Jerusalem Augustine Nazianzen Damascen Bede Psidore c. were persuaded otherwise Yea in a Synod holden in Palestine by Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea it was agreed that the World was made in the Spring Nor is that but a great question betwixt two furious Rabbins for though the Rabbins for the most part be for Autumn yet R. Josua maintains the contrary against Eleazer another great Rabbi who contends for Autumn True it is that the year of Jubilee began alwayes at Autumn howbeit the first month of the year was to be reckoned from the Spring which is as Moses saith to the Israelites Ezod 12. 2. This shall be to you the beginning of Months as if he had said though whilst you were in Aegypt you followed another reckoning yet it was divers from that which ye had at the first for this is to you the beginning of months or the natural head of the year Nor did the Chaldeans with whom Abrabam lived a long time reckon otherwise And successively since Astrologers have accounted the revolutions of the world from the vernal Equinox at the Suns entrance into the first scruple of Aries Translated out of Manilius Lib. 4. ALl Animals that be do groveling lye Or in the Earth the Water or the Sky One rest one sence one belly like in all Which they communicate in general But man consists of soul and body linkt Of Councils capable of voice distinct He into natural causes doth inspect And knows what to devise how to direct Into the world he Arts and science brings And searcheth out the hidden birth of things The unplow'd earth he to his will subdues And all it brings forth he knows how to use The untam'd Beasts he doth at pleasure bind He in the Seas untroden paths doth find He only stands with an erected brest As the sole Victor over all the rest His Star-like eyes into the Stars inquire The Heavens themselves he scales if he desire He seeks out Jove his thoughts will not be ty'd The Stars from him in vain themselves do hide He not content to look them in the faces Ransacks their Houses there most secret places This is the scope of mans all prying mind Himself he hopes amongst the Stars to find Of the unfortunate and fatal Days in the Year THe ancient Astronomers have observ'd certain days in every month to be held very fatal and unfortunate in which they accounted it ominous to begin or undertake any matter which days be as follow January the 1 2 4 5 10 15 17 and 19 February the 8 10 and 17. March the 15 16 and 19. April the 16 and 21. May the 7 11 and 20. June the 4 and 7. July the 15 and 20. August the 19 and 20. September the 6 and 7. October the 5. November the 15 and 19. December the 6 7 and 9. Also they will have in every change of the Moon two unfortunate days in which they advise no man to begin any work or undertake any journey because it shall come to no good end Which days be these In Jan. the 3 and 4 days of the new Moon In February 5 and 7 In March 6 and 7. In April 5 and 8. In May 8 and 9. In June 5 and 15. In July 3 and 13. In August 8 and 13. In September 8 and 13. In October 5 and 12. In November 5 and 9. In December 3 and 13. Others there be which note out of the whole year six most unfortunate days above all other wherein they advise no man to bleed or take any drink because the effects of the Constellation work mightily to death and in other respects they be right unfortunate which days be these January the 3. April the 30. July the 1. August the 1. October the 2. December the 30. Others again there be which observe three dangerous Mundays to begin any business fall sick or undertake any journey viz. First Munday in April on which day Cain was born and his Brother 6 bel slain Second Munday in August on which day Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed 31 of December on which day Jadas was born that betrayed Christ Likewise throughout England the 28 of December being Innocents day is called Childermas or Cros●-day and is so accounted every week Moreover there be certain unfortunate and bad days in the year called Dog-Days which be very prejudicial to mans health they begin the 19 day of July and end the 27 of August the malignity of which days Pliny reporteth Lib Chap 40. of his Natural History Exact rules to find out the beginning and ending of the Terms with the number of their Returns HIllary Term begins always the 23 of January and ends February the 12 and hath four Returns Easter Term begins always on the Wednesday fortnight after Easter ends the Munday after Ascension day and hath five Returns Trinity Term begins always the Fryday after Trinity and ends the Wednesday fortnight after and hath four Returns Michaelmas Term begins October the 23. and ends November the 21. and hath six Returns Note that the Exchequer opens 8 days before any Term begins except Trinity Term before which it opens only 4 days Of Weights and Measures commonly used in England THe most common Weight used in England are Troy and Avoirdupois by the first is weighed Wheat Bread Gold Silver c. which Troy-weight contains in every pound twelve ounces every ounce twenty penny weight and every penny weight twenty four grains whereby a mark weight ariseth just to eighty ounces By the second and more common weight of Avoirdupois is weighed all kind of Grocery ware Physical drugs and gross wares as Rosin Pitch Hemp c. and all Iron Copper Tin or other metals this weight hath sixteen ounces to the pound and is divided into grains scruples drams and ounces so that one pound Avoirdupois contains 16 ounces 128 drams 384 scruples and 7680 grains How Ale and Beer it measured These two sorts of Liquors are measured by pints quarts pottles gallons firkins kilderkins and barrels so that a barrel of Beer contains two kilderkins four Firkins thirty six gallons seventy two pottles 144 quarts and 282 pints A Barrel of Ale is two kilderkins four firkins thirty two gallons sixty four pottles 128 quarts and 256 pints so then the Barrel of Ale is less than the Barrel of Beer