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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70258	Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.	G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)	1670 (1670)	Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183	59,815	208

redeem it at a price with Money In witness whereof there are many Horse-shooes nailed upon the Shire-hall door some of large size and ancient fashion Leicester-shire KIng Richard the third vid. Crouch-back Richard the Usurper who from the City of Leicester set forth in one day in great Pomp and in battel-aray to keep the Crown sure upon his own helmet in a sore fought field yielded both it and his life unto the Head and Hands of Henry of Richmond his Conquerour and the next day was brought back like a Hog naked and torn and with contempt without tears obscurely buryed in the Gray-Fryers in this City whose suppression hath suppressed the Plot place of his Grave and only the Stone-Chest wherein he was laid a drinking trough now for Horses in a common Inn retaineth the Memory of that great Monarchs Funeral And so did a Stone in the Church and Chappel of St. Maries inclose the Corps of the proud and pontifical Cardinal Wolsey who had prepared for himself a far more richer Monument Lutterworth Where the famous John Wickliffe Englands Morning-Star dispersed the clouds of all Papistical darkness by preaching the Gospel in that his charge and stile of his Pen so piercing in power that the Man of sin ever since hath been better known to the world Lincoln-shire THis Country affordeth great Plenty of Fowl and Fish exceeding any other in the Realm wherein at some times and season of the year hath been taken in Nets In August at one draught above three thousand Mallards and other Fowls of the like kind At Harlaxton was plowed up a brazen Vessel wherein was inclosed a Golden Helmet of an ancient fashion set with precious stones which was presented to Katherine of Spain Wife and Dowager to King Henry the eight At Bullingbrooke was King John poysoned by Simon a Monk of S●●nsted Abbey and of Queen Eleanor wife to King Edward the first the Mirrour of Wedlock and Love to the Commons who at Harby near Bullingbrooke his Birth place ended her life Nottingham-shire IN this Town are many strange Vaults hewed out of the Rocks and those under the Castle of an esp●cial note one for the story of Christs passion engraven in the Walls and cut by the hand of David the second King of Scots whilst he was therein detained prisoner Another wherein the Lord Mortimer was surprized in the Non-age of King Edward the third ever since bearing the name of Mortimers Hole these have their stairs and several rooms made artificially even out of the Rocks as also in that Hill are dwelling Houses with winding stairs windows chimneys and room above room wrought all out of the same Rock Darby-shire THings of strange note are the hot water Springs bursting forth of the ground at Buxton where out of the Rock within the compass of eight yards nine Springs arise eight of them warm but the ninth very cold These run from under a fair square building of free stone and about threescore paces off receive another hot Spring from a well near unto which another very cold Spring bubled up daily experience sheweth they are good for the stomach and sinews and very pleasant to bathe the body in Not far thence is Elden hole the Waters that trickle from the top of that Cave which indeed is very spacious but of a low and narrow entrance do congeal into stone and hang as Ickles in the roof very white and somewhat Christal-like And seven miles thence upon a Mounted hill standeth a Castle under which there is a hole or Cave in the ground of a marvellous capacity which is commonly called the Devils Arse in the Peak Shrop-shire hath nothing remarkable The County Palatine of Chester CHeshire having been made a Principality by Richard the 2d and styled himself Prince of Chester King Henry the 3d. gave it to his eldest Son Prince Edward against whom Lewlin Prince of Wales gathered a mighty Band and with them did the Country much harm even unto the Cities gates With the like Skar Fiers it had oft times been afrighted which they lastly defenced with a Wall made of the Welsh mens heads on the South side of Dee in Hanbridge Chester in the days of King Edgar was in most flourishing Estate wherein he had the Homage of eight other Kings who rowed his Barge from St. Johns to his Pallace himself holding the Helm as their Supreme Lancashire BY the civil Wars of York and Lancaster was bred and brought forth that bloudy division and fatal strife of the Noble Houses which for many years together molested the peace and quiet of the Land and defiled the earth with bloud there were thirteen fields fought and three Kings of England one Prince of Wales twelve Dukes one Marquess eighteen Earls one Viscount and three and twenty Barons besides Knights and Gentlemen lost their lives in the same yet at last by the happy Marriage of Henry the seventh King of England next heir to the house of Lancaster with Elizabeth Daughter and heir to Edward the fourth of the house of York the White and red Roses were conjoyned in the happy uniting of those two divided Families York-shire HAlifax once called Horton and touching the alteration of the name this pretty story is related of it namely that a Clerk for so they call him being far in Love with a Maid and by no means either of long praises or large promises able to gain like affection at her hands when he saw his hopes frustrate and that he was not like to have his purpose of her turned his love into rage and cut of the Maids head which being afterwards hung upon an Ewe tree common people counted it as an hallowed Relique till it was rotten And afterward such was the credulity of that time it maintained the opinion of reverence and Religion still for the people resorted thither on Pilgrimage and perswaded themselves that the little veins that spread out between the bark and body of the Ewe-tree like fine threds were the very hairs of the Maids head Hereupon it was called by this name Haligfax or Haly-fax that is Holy-hair Under Knaushrouh there is a Well called Dropping-well in which the Waters spring not out of the veins of the earth but distil and trickle down from the Rocks that hang over it it is of that vertue and efficacy that it turns Wood into Stone for what Wood soever is put into it will be shortly covered over with a stony bark and be turned into stone as hath been often observed St. Wilfrids Needle a place very famous in times past for the narrow hole in the close vaulted room under the ground by which womens honesties were wont to be tryed for such as were chaste pass through with much facility but as many as had plaid false were miraculously held fast and could not creep through The West Riding of York-shire THose Mountains near unto Richmond on the top whereof are found certain stones much like unto seawinkles Cockles and

place Sommerset-shire THis Country besides other Commodities in some places is inriched by Lead-mines which yields great Plenty the most Marchantable Commodity that is in England and vented into all parts of the World Some places are beautified with Diamonds as St. Vincent Rock whereof there is great plenty and so bright of colour as they might equalize Indian Diamonds if they had their hardness yet being so many and so common they are less sought after or commended In this Country is the City of Bathe which takes name of the hot Baths A place of continual concourse for Persons of all degrees and almost of all diseases who by Divine Providence do very often find relief there the Springs thereof by reason of their Mineral and sulphurous passage being of such exceeding power and medicinal heat as that they Cure and Conquer the rebellions stubbornness of corrupt humors At Dunstere where as is reported a great Lady obtained of her Husband so much Pasture Ground in common by the Town side for the good and benefit of the Inhabitants as she was able in a whole day to go about bare-foot Wilt-shire SAlisbury the chief City in which every street almost hath a River running thorow in her midst The Cathedral a most rich Magnificent Church wherein are as many Windows as there are days in the year as many cast Pillars of Marble as there are hours in the year and as many Gates for entrance as there are months in the year Aurelius Ambrosus buryed at Stonheng Anno 500. THis ancient Monument was erected by Aurelius Surnamed Ambrosus King of the Britiains whose Nobility in the Reign of Vortiger his Countrys scourge about the year 475. by the Treachery of the Saxons on a day of parley were there slaughtered and their bodys there Interred In Memory whereof this King Aurel caused this Trophy to be set up Admirable to Posterities Both in form and quantity the matter thereof are stones in great bigness containing twenty eight foot and more in length and ten in bredth these are set in the ground by two and two and a third laid Gate-wise over-thwart fastn'd with tenons mortasses wrought in the same which seem very dangerous to all that pass there under The form is round and as it seemeth hath been circulated with three ranks of these stones Many whereof are now fallen down and the uttermost whereof containeth in compass three hundred foot by measure of assize They all are rough and of a gray colour standing within a Trench that hath been much deeper In this place this foresaid King Aurelius with two more of the Brittish Kings his Successors have been buryed with many more of their Nobility and in this place under little banks to this day are found by digging bones of Mighty men and Armour of large and ancient fashion Not far hence is seen the ruins of an old Fortress thought by some to be built there by the Romans when this Kingdom was possessed by their Emperours Bark-shire IN Reading in the Collegiate Church of the Abbey King Henry the first and Queen lay both veiled and Crowned with their Daughter Maud the Empress called the Lady of England were Interred as the private History of the place avoucheth But of far greater Magnificence and State is the Castle of Windsor A most Princely Pallace and Mansion of His Majesty In this Castle was King Edward the third born and here held at one and the same time Prisoners John King of France and David King of Scotland Neither was it ever graced with greater Majesty then by the Institution of the most Honourable Order of the Garter the invention thereof some ascribe to be from a Garter falling from his Queen or rather from Joan Countess of Salisbury a Lady of an uncomparable beauty as she danced before him whereat the by-standers smiling he gave the impress to check all evil conceits and in Golden Letters imbellished the Garter with this French Posie Honi Soit Qui Maby Pense The Princely Chappel of Windsor is graced with the bodies of Henry the 6 th and Edward the 4 th Kings of England the one of Lancaster the other of York as also King Henry the 8 th lyeth there Interred Finch-hampsted For wonder inferiour to none where as our Writers do witness that in the year a thousand one hundred a Well boiled up with streams of bloud and fifteen days together continued that Spring whose Waters made red all others where they came to the great amazement of the beholders Middlesex LOndon This City doth shew as the Cedars among the other trees being the seat of the British Kings the Chamber of the English the Model of the Land and the Mart of the World For thither are brought the silk of Asia the spices from Africa the balms from Grecia and the riches of both the Indies East and West No City standing so long in Fame nor any for Divine and Politick Government may with her be compared In King Johns time a Bridge of Stone was made over Thames upon nineteen Arches for length breadth beauty and building the like again cannot be found in the World Essex IN the year 1581. an Army of Mice so over ran the Marshes in Deug●y Hundred near unto South-Minster in this County that they shore the grass to the very roots and so tainted the same with their venemous teeth that a great Murrain fell upon the Cattel which grazed thereon to the great loss of their owners Suffolk RAlph Coggeshall in the Monuments of Colchester declareth that a Fish in all parts like a Man was taken near Orford and for six Months was kept in the Castle whence after he escaped went again to the Sea As strange but most true was a crop of Pease that without tillage or sowing grew in the Rocks betwixt this Orford and Aldebrough in the year 1555. when by unseasonable weather a great dearth was in the Land there in August were gathered above one hundred Quarters and in blossoming remained as many more where never grass grew or Earth ever seen but hard sollid Rocks three yards deep under the roots Hereford-shire AT Langley in this Country was buryed Richard the second that unfortunate King who in the Cell of Fryers Preachers was there first buryed but afterwards removed and enshrined at Westminster And in another Langley near the East from thence was born that Pontifical Breakspear Bishop of Rome known by the name of Hadrian the fourth and famous for his Stirrup-holding by Frederick the Emperour whose breath was lastly stopped by a fly that flew into his mouth Bedford-shire IN the year 1399. immediately before those Civil Wars broke out between the Princes of York and Lancaster The River Ouse near unto Harwood stood suddenly still and refrained to pass any further so that forward men passed three miles together on foot in the very depth of her channel and backwards the waters swelled unto a great height which was observed by the judicious to fore-tell some