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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

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.

burying within the walls was alike granted to all Qu. Which is the surest way to make a man's name immortal either by strong stone buildings and calling them after their own names or like Homer Virgil or Ovid by leaving behind them some witty Poem or Invention in Paper An. To this the Poet will give you a ready Answer Marmor a Maeonii vincunt monument a libelli Vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt The Muses Works Stone Monuments out-last 'T is Wit keeps Life all else death will down cast Qu. What death according to History do we find that Aristotle that great Philosopher and Searcher out of the Secrets of Nature died of An. History tells us that he drowned himself in the River Euripus which being a small River betwixt Eubeo and Achata and ebbing and flowing seven times in a day contrary to the nature of other Rivers when he could not find out the reason thereof it is said that he threw himself therein with these words Quia ego non capio te tu capias me If I cannot contain thee thou shalt contain me Qu. Who was the first man that publickly in writing set forth a tractate of the Antipodes An. Many are of opinion that the Antipodes was known to the Ancients although they were by them never discovered and therefore it is said That in former times it was known that there were Antipodes although the Antipodes were not known but the first that declared it in writing was Virgilius Bishop of Salizburg in Germany which Boniface Bishop of Mentz in that Country happening to see and supposing that under that strange name some damnable Doctrine was contained made complaint first to the Duke of Bohemia and next to Pope Zachary Anno 745. By whom the poor Bishop unfortunate onely in being learned in such a time of Ignorance was condemned of Heresie for that which now every ordinary Seaman can demonstrate for truth Qu. Who first broacht the opinion of the mutability of the Earth that it turns round about the Center of the Sun An. The first that publickly declared himself of this opinion was Copernicus a Doctrine so strange in those times that an able Poet thus writ to him Thou thinks the Earth moves round that 's a strange tale When thou didst write this thou wert under sail And yet now this opinion is taken up by our ablest Astrologers as Mr. Vincent Wing Mr. Saunders Mr. Leyburn and others Qu. Why is virtue more talked of than practised An. Because every one desires the name of Virtuous although he do not deserve it according to the Poet Virtue we praise but practise not her good Athenian-like we act not what we know So many men do talk of Robin Hood Who never yet shot arrow from his Bow The old Romane built a Temple to Honor which whosoever would come to must first pass through the Temple of Virtue intimating thereby that Honor was the reward of Virtue and that without virtuous actions none could come to Honors preferments Qu. What people lie in most state An. Beggars who have the Heavens for their Canopy Qu. What is the right part of a Judge An. To hear both sides indifferently and not to be prepossessed in any case for thereby though he do Justice yet himself errs according to the Poet He that doth Judge and will but one side hear Though he Judge right he 's no good Justicer Qu. What is that that bears all forms all nourisheth all increaseth all creates all buries all and receives all into her again An. The Earth Qu. Why can no man be said to be truly happy or miserable in this life An. Because as the Poet said Unmedled Joys here to no man befall Who least hath some who most hath never all Qu. Who first found out the use of weights and measures An. One Phidon an Argine in the time of Arbanes the Mede An. M. 3146. Qu. What makes it that few people are content with their condition An. Because the desire of riches encreases ●n the getting of them few people being ●ontented with that state which God hath alotted to them The poor have little Beggars none The rich too much enough not one Qu. Why was Diogenes accounted an Epicure An. Because out of love to Wine when it was all drunk out he would live in the Cask Qu. Why do Beggars go with hungry bellies An. Because it is Money rules the Roast Qu. What is that is spoken of in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Tongues An. That the Hebrew is most sacred the Greek most rich and the Latine most copious Qu How came the word Harlot first in use among the English An. From Arlet King William the Conquerors Mother whose Father Robert Duke of Normandy passing through Falaise a town in France and seeing this Arlet being a Skinners daughter nimbly to trip it in a dance he thought he would not be sluggish in a bed and therefore sent for her to accompany him that night to which she readily condescended and the Duke that night begat on he● William the Bastard King of England inspight to whom and disgrace to his Mother the English called all whores Harlots a word yet in use with us unto this day Qu. Who first brought up that use of pledging one another being drunk unto An. This Custom took its original on such time as the Danes Lorded it in this Land who used when the English drank to stabb them or cut their throats to avoid which vill any the party then drinking would request some of the next sitters by to be his surety or pledg whilst he paid Nature his due And hence have we our custom of pledging one another which begun at first upon necessity is now grown to be a Complement and common to all Qu. What two Letters are those that at ou● entrance into the world we all cry out upon An. A and E as the Poet explains in this verse Clamant A vel E. quot quot nascunour ab Eva All cry out of E and A That are born of Eva. Qu. What is delivered in Histories concerning the three Kings of Collen or the wise men that came out of the East to worship our Saviour An. It is said that those wise men were three Kings and that they came out of Arabia first in respect that Arabia is East from Jerusalem and secondly because it is said in the 72 Psalm The Kings of Arabia shall bring gifts Their bodies are said to have been translated from Palestine by Helena the Mother of Constantine to Constantinople from thence by Eustasius Bishop of Millain unto Millain and finally brought to Collen in Germany by Rainoldus Bishop thereof Anno ● 164. where they lie interred the first of them being called Melchior an old man with a long beard who offered Gold as unto a King The second called Gaspar a beard●ess young man who offered Frankincense ●s unto God The third called Balthasar a Black Moor with a spreading Beard who offered

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

Earldoms of Guyen and Poictou by Elbiner his wife and a great part of Ireland by conquest towards the latter end of his Reign he was much troubled with the unnatural Rebellion of his Sons He dyed the sixth day of July Anno 1189. and Reigned twenty four years and seven months lacking eleven days Richard the first for his valor and magnanimous courage sirnamed Coeur de Lion he with a most puissant Army warred in the Holy-Land where by his acts he made his name very famous overcoming the Turks in several Battels whom he had almost driven out of Syria he also took the Isle of Cyprus which he afterwards exchanged for the Title of King of Jerusalem after many worthy atchievements performed in those Eastern parts returning homewards to defend Normandy and Aquitain against the French he was by a Tempest cast upon the Coast of Austria where he was taken prisoner and put to a most grievous Ransom finally he was slain at the siege of Chaluz in France by a shot from an Arbalist the use of which warlike Engine he first shewed to the French whereupon a French Poet made these Verses in the person of Antropos Hoc volo non alia Richardum marte perire Ut qui Francigenis Balistae primitus usum Tradidit ipse sui rem primitus experiatur Quamque aliis docuit in se enim sentiat artis It is decreed thus must great Richard die As he that first did teach the French to dart An Arbalist 't is just he first should try The strength and taste the Fruits of his own Art In his days lived those Outlaws Robin Hood Little John c. King John next succeeded or rather usurped the Crown his eldest Brothers Son Arthur of Britain being then living He was an unnatural Son to his Father and an undutiful subject to his Brother neither sped he better in his own Reign the French having almost gotten his Kingdom from him who on the Popes curse came to subdue it with whom joyned many of his Subjects by which the Land was brought to much misery Finally after a base submission to the Popes Legat he was poysoned by a Monk at Sw●nested-Abby after he had reigned seventeen years and five months lacking eight days and lyeth buried at Worcester Henry the third Son to King John against whom the rebellious Barons strongly warred yet however he expelled the intruding French out of England confirmed the Statutes of Magna Charta and having reigned fifty six years and twenty eight days was buried at Westminster of which Church he built a great part Edward the first sirnamed Long-shanks who warred in the Holy-Land where he was at the time of his Fathers death a most Heroick magnanimous Prince he awed France subdued Wales and brought Scotland into subjection disposing of the Crown thereof according to his pleasure he brought from thence the Regal Chair still reserved in Westminster-Abby he was a right vertuous and fortunate Prince Reigned thirty four years seven months and odd days and lyeth buried at Westminster Edward the second a most dissolute Prince hated of his Nobles and contemned by the vulgar for his immeasurable love to Pierce Gaveston and the two Spencers on whom he bestowed most of what his Father had purchased with his Sword as one writeth in these Verses Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand Albania Gascoyn Cambria Ireland That young Carnarvon his unhappy Son Should give away all that his Father won He having Reigned nineteen years six months and odd days was deposed and Edward his eldest Son Crowned King Edward the third that true pattern of vertue and valor was like a rose out of a Bryar an excellent Son of an evil Father he brought the Scots again to a formal obedience who had gained much on the English in his Fathers life time laid claim to the Crown of France in right of his Mother and in pursuance of his Title gave the French two great overthrows taking their King prisoner with divers others of the chief Nobility he took also that strong and almost impregnable Town of Callice with many other fair possessions in that Kingdom Reigned fifty years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Richard the second Son to Edward the black Prince the eldest Son of King Edward the third an ungovern'd and dissolute King He rejected the sage advice of his Grave Counsellors was most ruled by his own self-will'd passions lost what his Father and Grand-father had gained and at last his own life to the Lancastrian faction in his time was that famous or rather infamous rebellion of Wat Taylor and Jack Straw He having Reigned twenty two years three months and odd days was deposed and murdered at Pomfret Castle Henry the fourth Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster third Son to Edward the third obtained the Crown more by force than by lawful succession he was a wise prudent Prince but having gotten the Crown unjustly was much troubled with insurrection of of the subjects which he having quieted surrendred to fate having reigned thirteen years six months and odd days and was buried at Canterbury Henry the fifth who from a dissolute vicious Prince became the mirror of Kings and pattern of all Heroick performance he pursued his Title to the Crown of France bear the French at Agin Court and was in a Parliament of their Nobility Clergy and Commons ordained Heir apparent to the French Crown but lived not to possess it dying in the full carrier of his victories at Vincent Boys in France and was brought over into England and buried at Westminster He Reigned nine years five months and odd days Henry the sixth sirnamed of Windsor his birth-place of whom it was prophesied that What Henry of Monmouth had won which was his Father Henry of Windsor should lose He was a very pious Prince and upheld his State during the life of his Unkles John Duke of Bedford and Humphrey of Glocester after whose deaths the Nobility growing factious he not only lost France to the French but England and his life to the Yorkish faction He having reigned thirty eight years was overthrown by Edward Earl of March descended by the Mothers side from Lionel Duke of Clarence second Son to King Edward the third was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Cherlsey since removed to Windsor Edward the fourth a prudent politick Prince He after nine bloody Battels especially that of Tawton in which were slain of the English thirty six thousand on both sides was at last quietly seated in his dominions of England and Ireland Reigned twenty two years one month and odd days and was buried at Windsor Edward the fifth his Son a King proclaimed but before his Coronation was murdered in the Tower Richard the third brother to Edward the fourth was Crowned King ascending to the same by steps of blood murdering King Henry the sixth and Prince Edward his Son 3.