Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	duke_n	henry_n	lancaster_n	3,000	5	11.3657	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09206	Thestylis atrata: or A funeral elegie vpon the death of the Right Honourable, most religious and noble lady, Frances, late Countesse of Warvvick who departed this life at her house in Hackney neere unto London, in the moneth of June last past. 1634. By Henrie Peacham.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1634 (1634)	STC 19516; ESTC S110332	12,773	26

thought of fraile and mortall man I take but time and leave a while to summe The parcels of our losses in her tomb As in an Ocean that are sunk and fled And never more shall be recovered A losse wherein so many had a share That Townes and Tenants well-nigh undone are A losse for which faire LINCOLNE from her hill Doth to her Citie streames of teares distill It weepes and by her River doth convay Her salt-abundant sorrow everie way And as a Mother who hath lately lost Her dearest daughter whom with care and cost She from her tender infancie hath bred And in all goodly Science 〈◊〉 With bitter teares and wringing oft her hands Amidst her neighbours dumb and sobbing stands Incapable of comfort and would faine Even with her imgers dig her up againe Such griefe and it not greater doe I ghesse The heart of all this Countie doth possesse LINCOLNE whose soile hath ever fertile be●ne Of such Heroique Spirits that betweene Earth-bounding ORKNEY and the Godes of Spaine They may for merit scaree be matcht againe Who while a time I leave her Honours herse Embellish with your glorious names my verse Her name to Fame I may the more endeare Withall advance the honour of the Shire Lincolne anciently by Bede and others called LIND●COLLINUM from the situation upon the top of an ●ill and also LINDUM whence that part of the Shire beyond the River of WITHAM was called LIND●●● or 〈◊〉 By the Normans it was called NICO●-shire by a Metathesis or transposition of a letter as wee finde in a certaine deed made by IOHN of GAUNT be●inning thus 〈…〉 〈…〉 I will not turne the Anuals as I might Of antique ages bring againe to light Those warlike natives who by 〈◊〉 floud So oft imbru'd their swords in Danish bloud Nor that religious King of Mercia who Here kept 〈◊〉 Court eight hundred yeares agoe OFF A King of MERCIA who kept his Court in 〈◊〉 Castle of Stallingburgh in the Countie of Lincolne now being part of the inheritance of that Noble and right worthy Gentle-man Sir Edward A●scough Knight here also was Saint E●kenwald sometime Bishop of London borne as I was informed by Master Linall a great Searcher of Antiquities in this Countie With many a learned many an holy man Wherewith this spacious Shire abounded than Rest they in peace some few I le onely name Of later times deserving equall fame Then for her home-borne first this soile may vaunt Great BOLLINGBROOKE the son of JOHN of GAUNT Henrie Plantagenet who was Henrie the fourth borne at Bollingbrooke in Lincolnshire son and heire of JOHN of Gaunt by BLANCH daughter and co-heire of Henrie the first Duke of Lancaster who tooke to wife MAR●● daughter and one of the two heires of Hump●rey de Bol●●n Earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England He lieth buried by Marie his wife in the Monasterie of Christs Church in Cantuarburie under a pillar in the North I le To this Church King Henrie with Thomas Arundell Arch-Bishop of Cantuarburie were great benefactors he died Anno 1412. Then that brave Worthy WILLOUGHBIE the Great Who wily PARMA did so soundly beat From BERGEN with his ever honour'd Son Earle LINDSEY living lov'd of everie one It was in the yeare 1588. PARMA lying before BERGEN two whole moneths together was beaten thence by the valour of the L. Willoughbie Governour Sir William D●urie Colonell Morgan and many other resolute and brave Commanders being then in the Towne at what time were knighted for their valour Sir Francis Vere Sir Thomas Knolles Sir Nicholas Parker and Sir Iohn Poolie c. But how can my weake Muse thy merit crowne Great President of honour and renowne Thrice-Noble 〈◊〉 the survlving glor● Of Eightie eight and subject of that storie When thy enraged thunder-belching BEARE SPAINES floting Castles did to peeces teare The L. Sheffield Baron of Butterwick and Earle of Mowgrave who to his great praise and honour did notable service in Eightie eight in that famous fight with the Spanish Armado being then Captaine of the White Beare one of her Majesties ships royall With PELHAMS also father and the son Whose fear'd black lances their great honour won When th'row the heart of B●●GIA they ran Conducted by the silver Pellican Sir William Pelham who being at that time Generall of the Horse over-ran saith Cambden all Brabant Anno 1586. As he was an absolute Souldier so his son was also a great Souldier and Scholler as any Gentleman in the Shire having left behind him a sufficient testimonie hereof whose son is Sir William Pelham a verie worthy and noble Gentleman now living of Brocklesbie in Lincolnshire And expert OGLE able to command A XERXES Armie if that need should stand Sir Iohn Ogle borne at Piachbeck in Holland a verie honourable Gentleman and my especiall friend with whom I lived in UTRECHT when he was L. Governour thereof whom as well for Honours sake as his owne especiall deserts having done great service to the States in the Netherlands I could not but in this place remember With all-lamented BURROUGH who did see Too late their errours who attempted REE Sir Iohn Burroughs borne at Stow by Gainesburgh and slaine being shot into the belly before the Fort there And as it were a Nurserie of men Dread Soveraigne CHARLES this Countie doth agen Send thee thy Champion hopefull DIMOK hee Whose CARE HOLDS KIM● whom time shall shortly see Such is his towardnesse vertuous education The flower not of the Shire but of the Nation Whose father Sir Edward Dimok not here to be forgotten was a Gentleman as well deserving in his time as any other for he was of a noble and co●●agious spirit learned and had travelled the most parts of Europe With HARWOOD SMITH and numbers unnam'd here All children of their mother Lincolnshire Sir Edward Harwood borne at Bourne and a Colonell in the Netherlands slaine as it was reported before Mastrecht hee was by his last will and testament a great benefactor to the towne of Bourne Captaine Iohn Smith borne at Alford in the Marsh of Lincolnshire who served under the Prince of Transylvania and made a great discoverie in the North parts of America Now as if Nature seemed loth to part These ablest men of Armes from those of Art Shee here againe produc'd for tongue and pen Great Statesmen many grave and learned men The wisest BURGHLEY Atlas of our State Our Englands PALINUR● whose care of late In greatest stormes of danger steer'd the helme And sav'd from wreck our farre engaged Realme His birth acknowledg'd unto fennie BOURNE Though STAMFORD holds his ashes and his urne Sir William Cecill Knight Lord Burghley and Treasurer of England was borne at BOURNE in Lincolnshire Anno 1521. His fathers name was Richard Cecill one of the Ward-robe to King Henrie the eighth of the house of Alterynnis in Wales his mothers name was Iane heire of the noble house of EXINGTON