nor too cold occasioned by the many Rivers which run through this Shire The Soil is Rich Plenteous and Delightful and yields abundance of Corn Cattle Wool and Grass and is destitute of nothing that is either Pleasant or Profitable to the Life of Man The Principal Commodities are Wheat Barley and Malt. It is in the Diocesses of London Chichester and Lincoln and hath in it 120 Parishes Out of it are Elected 6 Members which sit in Parliament Knights 2 St. Albans 2 Hertford 2 Its Division is into 8 Hundreds viz. 1. Odsey 2. Edwinstreet 3. Branging 4. Brodewater 5. Hitching 6. Dacor 7. Hertford 8. Caisho And in these Hundreds are 18 Market-Towns Barnet Mon. Barkhamsted M. Buntingford M. VVatford Tues Ware Tues Hitching Tues Sabsworth Wed. Hempsted Thurs Hatfield Th. Hodsdon Th. Bishop Stafford Th. Baldock Th. Stevenedge Frid. Tringe Frid. Stondon Fr. Hertford Sat. S. Albans Sat. Rickmanswortb Sat. Stevenedge and Redbourn 2 new Markets The Principal Town in this Shire is Hertford lying in the Latitude of 51 deg 50 min. bearing from London N. by W. and is distant therefrom 20 Miles Thus From London to Barnet 10. to Hertford 20. But the way upon the Road is 22 miles measured This Town of Hertford though the Shire-Town is not the richest the turning of the way through Ware having much hindred Travellers from going through it It hath been formerly a Baliwick but is now governed by a Mayor nine Burgesses a Recorder and Two Serjeants their Attendants The Arms of Hertford is A Hart in a Field Proper The Earls of Hertford are Roger Earl of Clare and Hertford Edward Senior Earl of Hertford In this County three remarkable Battels of Civil dissention in England have been fought viz. The First on the 23d of May 1455. in the Town of St. Albans by Richard D. of York the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury and Lords of Fow Cambridge and Cobham against K. Henry the 6. In whose defence Edw. D. of Somerset Henry E. of Northumberland and John Lord Clifford with 5000 more lost their Lives The King himself wounded in the Neck with an Arrow the D. of Buckingham and Lord Sudley in their Faces Humphrey E. of Stafford in his right Hand and the E. of Dorset almost slain There were on the Dukes part only 600 slain The King by them was brought to London and a Reconciliation made by their advancements unto Dignities and Offices The Second Battel was also fought at St. Albans on the 17th of February being Shrove-Sunday by Q. Margaret against the Dukes of Norffolk and Suffolk the Earls of Warwick and Arundel who by force kept the King her Husband with them and by constraint he held and on their side fought till the Field was lost and the Lords fled when with great joy he was received by his Queen and young Prince Edward The Third Battel was fought in Anno 1471. upon the 14th of April being Easter-Day near High Barnet by the Earls of Warwick and Oxford and Marquesso Mountaculo against K. Edw. 4. who led with him K. Henry the 6th his Prisoner unto that Field and that day obtained the Victory against his Enemies There were Slain in this Battel Richard Nevil the stout E. of Warwick with his Brother the Marquess and the E. of Oxford put to flight and the Duke of Excester sore wounded and left in the Field for Dead On the King's part were Slain the Lords Cromwell Bowcher and Barns and on both parts the number of 10000 Men. Remarques in this County Near Fishpool-Street in St. Albans saith Cambden in our remembrance have Anchors of a great weight been digged up There is near St. Albans a Brook called Womere which never breaketh out but it foretelleth dearth or scarcity of Corn or else some danger suddenly to ensue At Ashwell in this County rise so many Sourses of Springs together that they presently drive a Mill and become a pretty big River Herefordshire IS bounded on the East by Gloucestershire and Worcestershire On the West by Radnorshire On the South by Monmouthshire And on the North by Shropshire It containeth in length 63 Miles in breadth 36 Miles And in Circumference 101 Miles The Air is very healthful temperate and wholsom The Soyl of this County is exceeding Rich for Corn and Cattle and about Lemster is the finest Wool in all England The Chief Commodities of this County are Syder Corn Wood and the best Wool in any part of England It is in the Diocess of Hereford and in it are 176 Parishes Out of it are elected 8 Parliament Men. Knights 2 Hereford 2 Lemster 2 VVeobly 2 Its Division is into 11 Hundreds viz. 1 Wignore 2 Wolsey 3 Broxash 4 Stretford 5 Radlow 6 Grimsworth 7 Greytree 8 Webtree 9 Ewjaslacy 10 Wormelow 11 Huntington In these Hundreds are 8 Market-Towns viz. Branyeard Monday Pembridge Tues Lidbury Tuesd Kyneton Wedn. Webley Thurs Rosse Thurs Lemster Friday Hereford Wed. Friday and Saturday The most eminent place in this County is the City of Hereford lying in the Latitude of 52 deg 12 min. and bearing W. N. W. from London and distant therefrom 101 miles thus From London to Maidenhead 22. to Nettlebed 33. to Alington 46. to Farrington 56. to Perrors-bridge 69. to Gloucester 81. to Rosse 91. to Hereford 101. But according to a more accurate admeasurement upon the Road it is distant from London 130 miles The City of Hereford is Walled about having six Gates for entrance and 15 Watch-Towers for defence It is yearly Governed by a Mayor chosen out of one of the 30 Citizens which are called the Election whoever after is known for an Alderman and cloathed in Scarlet the four eldest Aldermen are Justices of the Peace and graced with a Sword-bearer a Recorder a Town-Clerk and 4 Sergeants with Maces The Arms of the City of Hereford are Gules three Lyons Passant Guardant Or. The Earls of Hereford since the first Constitution are William Fitz Osbourn Earl Robert Bossue Earl Miles Consta of England Henry Bohun Earl Henry Bullingbrook D. Stafford Walter D'Evreux Visc Heref. Upon the 2d of February being Candlemas-Day in the year 1461. near Ludlow a great Battel was fought between Jasper E. of Pembrook and James Butler E. of Ormond and Wiltshire against Edward E. of March in which 3800 men were Slain The two Earls fled and Owen Tenther taken and beheaded Before this Battel began there appeared visible in the Heavens 3 Suns which after a while all joyned together and became One as before This caused Edward afterwards to give the Sun in his Glory for his Badge and Cognizance Things remarkable in this County By Snodhill Castle is a Quarry of Exellent Marble By Richards Castle is a Well called Bone-Well wherein are continually found little Fishes Bones but not a Fin to be seen which Well being wholly cleansed of them yet will the like come again But saith Mr. Speed no man knows whether they be produced naturally or brought thither in Veins through
Shafton Dorchester Blanford And in these 5 Divisions are 29 Hundreds viz. White-Church H. Bemister Redohave Tollerford Lowsbarrow Eggardon Vgscomb Sherbourn Yeatminster Buckland Redlane Brownsell Whitway H. Puddletown Winfrith Beere Rushmore Cogdeane Badbury Knowlton Vpwinborn Newton George Rowbarrow Hasler H. Craneborne Culliford Totcomb H. Pimpern And in these Hundreds are 19 Market-Towns Middleton Mon. Pool Mond Thur. Weymouth Melcom Reg. Tu. F. Cerne Abbas Wed. Cranborn Wed. Abbots Bury Thurs Sherbourn Th. Sat. Corse Castle Th. Sturminster Th. Frampton Th. Wimborn Minster Fr. Dorchester Sat. Shaftsbury Sat. Blandford Sat. VVorham Sat. Lime Bird Port Bemyster Everstwit The Chief and most remarkable place in this Shire is Dorchester lying in 50 deg and 35 min. of North Latitude It bears from London S. W. by W. and is distant therefrom 85 miles thus To Basing-stoke 39. to Stockbridge 55. to Dunkton 67. to Cranburn 76. to Blandford 85. to Dorchester 97. but by measure on the Road 112 miles This City is situate on the South-side of Frome and hath formerly been Walled about part of which Wall upon the West and South side yet remaineth Not far from which there remaineth the Tract and Trench almost meeting the River a Fortification of Earth trenched about and mounted above the ordinary plain 150 foot and contains about five Acres of Ground wherein plenty of Corn grows This City is Governed by 2 Bailiffs elected out of 8 Magistrates or Aldermen a Recorder Town-Clerk and 2 Sergeants attending them The Earls and Marquesses of Dorchester since the first constitution are Osmond Earl of Dorset John Beaufort Marquess of Dorchester Thomas Grey Marquess of Dor. Thomas Sackvile Earl of Dor. Things remarkable in this Shire At Pool in this County upon the 20th of June 1653. it is reported that it rained warm Blood In the Haven of Pool the Sea contrary to all other Ports in England Ebbs and Flows four times in 24 hours viz. First at a S. E. and N. W. Moon and the Second time at a S. by E. and a N. by W. Moon In Anno 1582. and 1583. upon the 13th of January at Hermitage in the Vale of White Hart a piece of Ground of 3 Acres removed from its old place and was carried over another Close where Alders and VVillows grew the distance of 40 Rod or Perches stopping up the VVay to Cerne Abbas and yet the Hedges and Trees that enclosed it before enclose it still the Trees growing upright and the place where this Ground was before is left as a great Pit The Portland Men are Excellent good Slingers In the Isles of Purbeck are Veins of Marble running under the Earth The Arms of the City of Dorchester is Gules a Castle Argent in its Front the Arms of England and France Quartered Durham THE BISHOPRICK and CITY THis Bishoprick and City is bounded on the East by the German Ocean On the VVest by Westmorland and Cumberland On the South by Yorkshire And on the North by Northumberland It containeth in length 35 miles In breadth 30 miles And in Circumference 105 miles The Air of this Countrey is sharp and piercing The Soil on the Eastern part of it is Richest the South is Moorish but most inhabited the VVest all Rocky affording neither Grass nor Grain but only it feeds Cattle and is well stored with Coal as the whole Countrey is The Eastern part which I said before was the Richest yieldeth great plenty of Coal and where it hath plenty of Coal it is notwithstanding very fruitful and good Land The Commodities of this Countrey are Coles Lead and Iron It is in the Diocess of Durham and hath in it 118 Parishes Out of it are elected 4 Members for Parliament men Knights 2 Durham 2 The Division of it is not into Hundreds but VVakes which are Four In this Bishoprick are 6 Market-Towns Darlington Monday Barnard Castel Wed. Bishop Ankland Th. Sunderland Friday Durham Saturday Stainthorp The Principal place in the County is the City of Durham lying in the Latitude of 54 deg and 50 min. It bears from London N. by W. and is distant therefrom 200 Miles Thus From London to Waltam Cross 12. to Hodsdon 17. to Ware 20. to Buntingford 27. to Royston 33. to Caxton 42. to Huntington 48. to Stamford 69. to Grantham 85. to Newark 95. to Tuxford 105. to Doncaster 123. to Wentbridge 130. to Tadcaster 142. to York 150. to Borrowbridge 163. to Northallerton 176. to Dorlington 186. to Durham 200. But the same way being measured upon the Road it will be found to contain 262 miles Of this County the Bishops have had the Royalty of Princes and the Inhabitants have pleaded Priviledges in time of War not to pass over the River Tyne The Arms of Durham are Azure a Cross Flooree Or between four Lyons Rampant Argent Remarques in this County In the upper part of the City of Durham William the Conqueror erected a Castle upon a high Hill for her defence which is almost encompassed about with the River Were In the year of our Lord 1346. and in the 20th of Edward the 3d. upon the 20th of October at Nevel's Cross near Durham a Battel was fought betwixt the English and the Scots wherein David Brush K. of Scotland with many of his Nobility were taken Prisoners by Queen Phillip Wife to K. Edw. 3. who was in person present in the Field The Battel was managed by the Lords Moubray Percy and Nevil At Oxenhall near unto Dorlington in this County are three Pits wonderful deep called Hell Kettles They are thought to come of an Earthquake that hapned Anno 1179. For our Chronicles make mention that on Christmas-Day at Oxenhall the ground heaved up aloft like a Tower and so continued all that day till evening and then fell in making a very horrid noise and the Earth swallowed it up and made in the place three great holes Bishop Tunstall of this Diocess took a Goose and marked it and put it into one of these Pits and the same Goose was found afterwards in the River Tees At Batterby near Durham within the River Weer in the Summer time there issues a salt reddish water from the sides of certain Stones at the Ebb and Low water which the Sun calcines to whiteness and growing thick becomes Salt and the Inhabitants thereabouts do use it for Salt Essex THis County is bounded on the East by the German Ocean On the West by Hartfordshire and Middlesex On the South by Kent And on the North by Suffolk It contains in Length 45 miles In Breadth 38 miles And in Circumference 148 miles The Air of this Shire is temperate but down in the Hundreds towards the Sea-side it is very Aguish The Soil for the most part is good and in some parts so fruitful that after 3 years Glebe oâ— Saffron the Land for 18 years more will yield plenty of Barly without any manuring with dung or the like and then bear Saffron again One Acre of this Ground
magnificently Built that of some she may well say that no Shire hath none such as is Nonesuch it self The Dukes and Earls of Surrey since the first Constitution William Warren created Earl of Surrey by Will. Rufus William Earl of Eagle Son to K. Stephen E. of Surrey Hamlin Base Son to Geffery Plantaginet E. of Surrey Thomas Mowbray E. of Surrey in right of his Wife Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey created by K. Richard the 2d Thomas Beaufort E. of Surrey created by K. Henry the 4th Thomas Howard E. of Surrey created by K. Richard the 3d. Things Remarkable in this County At Richmond in this County died Edward the 3d. Conqueror of France The beautiful Ann Daughter to Charles the 4th Emperour and Wife to K. Richard the 2d The most wise Prince K. Henry the 7th And the rarest of her Sex Q. Elizabeth Under Holm Castle standing upon a Hill of Gritty Stone is a great Vault of Arched Work The River Mole runs above a mile under ground and in the place where it falls into the ground there groweth abundance of Box naturally Near unto Nonesuch is a Vein of Potters Earth much commended for that it is excellent good for the making of Crucibles for the melting of Gold and other Metals The rising of a Bourn or stream near Croydon as the common people hold presageth Death as the Plague or the like and it hath been observed to fall out so The VVaters of Ebsham in this County are very famous and much frequented for their Medicinal Virtues and purging by Siege In the year 1389. in the Month of July K. Richard the 2d being at his Court at Sheene there swarmed in his Court such multitude of Flies and Gnats skirmishing with one another that in the end they were swept away with Brooms by heaps and Bushels were filled with them Sussex THis County is bounded on the East by Kent On the West by Hantshire On the South by the Brittish Sea And on the North by Surrey It containeth in length 53 miles In breadth 16 miles And in Circumference 172 miles The Air is good but subject to Fogs and Mists arising from the Sea The Soil is Rich and yeildeth plenty of all things necessary but very ill for Travellers in the Winter time for the Land lying low the ways are very Mirey but on the other side of them you have the prospect of Meadows Pastures and Corn Fields The chief Commodities this County affords are Corn VVood Iron and Malt. It is in the Diocess of Chichester and hath in it 312 Parishes Out of it are elected 20 Parliament Men. Knights 2 Chichester 2 Horsham 2 Midhurst 2 Lewes 2 New-Shoreham 2 Bramber 2 Steyning 2 East-Grimstead 2 Arundel 2 Its Division is into 6 Rapes and each of them contains a several number of Hundreds in all 65 Hundreds viz. Chichester Rape In which is contained Hundreds 07 Arundale Rape 05 Bramber Rape 10 Lewes Rape 13 Pevensa Rape 17 Hastings Rape 13 Hundreds in all 65 And in these Hundreds are 16 Market-Towns viz. Chichester Wednes and Sat. Petworth Wed. Stevington Wed. Arundel Wed. and Satur. Steneinge Wed. Rhye Wed. and Sat. Hastings Wed. and Sat. Midhurst Th. Bright Helmiston Th. East Grinstead Th. Sattell Th. Coxfield Friday Horsham Sat. Lewes Sat. Tarringe Winchelsey now disused The Principal place in this County is the City of Chichester lying in the Latitude of 50 deg 48 min. It bears from London S. VV. by S. And is distant therefrom 50 Miles Thus From London to Kingston 10 miles to Guilford 25. to Godalmin 28. to Lechford Bridge 39. to Chichester 50. But by measure it is found to be distant from London 63 miles This City is beautiful and large and well VValled about This City hath born the Title of an Earldom whereof those of Arundel were sometimes so stiled The Arms of this City are Guttee Argent and Sable On a Chief Engrailed Gules a Lyon Passant Guardant Or. The Earls of Sussex and Arundel since the first Constitution William de Albania Earl of Chichester and Arundel John Fitz Allan Earl of Sussex and Arundel Philip Howard Earl of Arundel Robert Radcliffe Earl of Sussex Leonard Lord Dacres Earl of Sussex Things Remarkable in this County Upon the 28th of September 1066. William the Bastard D. of Normandy making his claim to the Crown of England by Affinity Adoption and Promise arrived at a Port in Sussex called Pensey with 896 Ships furnished for VVar And on the 14th of October following near Hastings Joyned Battel with Harold K. of England where in the Field valiantly fighting was there slain by the shot of an Arrow into his Brains and with him died Gorob and Leofwine his Brethren and almost 68 Thousand of his Men. The place where this Battel was fought doth ever since bear the name of Battayl where the Heptarchy of the Saxons was brought to the last Period Then were all their Laws altered their Nobles displaced and all men disherited and all seated into the Normans hands who made himself Lord of all and on the day of his Nativity was Crowned King of England in Westminster-Hall Upon the place where this Battel was fought namely at Battayl aforesaid William of Newberry fabulously thus writeth That if there any small showers of Rain do fall upon this place where so great a Slaughter of English men was made presently sweateth forth very fresh blood out of the Earth In this County are many Iron Mines In this County also is made Glass but it is neither good nor clear This County hath been formerly all a VVood being part of the great wood Andradswald which was 120 miles long and 30 miles broad At Selsey in this County are great store of Cockles and Lobsters and those the best In the year 1250. The Town of Winchelsey in this County was wholly swallowed up of the Sea In the 35th year of K. Henry the 8th the first Cast Pieces of Iron that ever were made in England were made at Bucksted in this County by Ralph Hage and Peter Bawde In the 3d year of Q. Elizabeth a Man-child was born in Chichester having Arms and Legs like to an Anatomy the Breast and Belly monstrous big about the Neck a great Coller of Flesh and Skin growing like the Ruff of a Shirt In the 22th year of Q. Elizabeth in the Town of Walsham in Sussex a Child of Eleven years old whose name was Will. Withars lay in a Trance for the space of 10 days without any sustenance and at the last coming to himself he uttered to the standers by many strange Speeches inveighing against Pride Covetousness coldness of Charity and other erroneous Sins Warwick-Shire IT is bounded on the East by Leicestershire and Northamptonshire On the West by Worcestershire On the South by Orfordshire and Gloucestershire And on the North by Staffordshire It contains in length 40 miles In breadth 30 miles And in Circumference 122 miles This Shire is commended much for the wholsomness
352 January 25. Gloucester Edward 3 1312 1326 January 25. 51 5 301 June 21. Westminster Richard 2 1366 1377 June 21. 22 3 279 September 29. Westminster The Line of Lancaster Henry 4 1367 1399 September 29. 13 6 265 March 20. Canterbury Henry 5 1584 1412 March 20. 9 5 256 August 31. Westminster Henry 6 1421 1422 August 31. 38 6 218 March 4. Windsor The Line of York Edward 4 1442 1460 March 4. 23 1 195 April 9. Winchester Edward 5 1433 1471 April 9. 0 2 195 June 18. Not known Richard 3 1448 1483 June 18. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester The Families United Henry 7 1459 1485 August 22. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester Henry 8 1491 1508 April 22. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester Edward 6 1537 1547 January 28. 37 10 132 June 28. Windsor Q. Mary 1518 1553 July 6. 6 5 125 July 6. Westminster Q. Eliz. 1533 1558 November 17. 44 4 76 March 24. Westminster The Union of the two Kingdoms James 1566 1602 March 24. 22 0 53 March 27. Westminster Charles 1 1600 1625 March 27. 23 11 30 January 30. Windsor Charles 2 1630 1648 January 30. Whom God grant long to Reign A CATALOGUE of the Peers and Nobility of England according to their Precedence Dukes James Duke of York and Albany Earl of Vlster Lord High Admiral of England the King 's only Brother Created Jan. 27. 1643. Rupert Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holdernesse Jan. 24. 1643. The Lord Chancellor Keeper Treasurer Privy Seal Take place of all the other Dukes Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Francis Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Christopher Monk Duke of Albemarle James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Henry Cavendish Duke of New-Castle Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton Marquesses Charles Pawlet Marq. of Winchester Henry Somerset Marq. of Worcester Henry Pierrepoint Marq. of Dorchester Earls The L. High Chamberlain of England Steward of the King's Houshold Chamberlain of the King's Houshold Take Place of all Earls in respect of their Places Aubry de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Anthony Grey Earl of Kent William Stanly Earl of Derby John Manours Earl of Rutland Theophil Hastings Earl of Huntington William Russell Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke Edward Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham James Howard Earl of Suffolk Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset and Middlesex James Cecill Earl of Salisbury John Cecill Earl of Excester John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester James Compton Earl of Northampton Edward Rich Earl of Warwick Holland Will. Cavendish Earl of Devonshire William Fielding Earl of Denbigh John Digby Earl of Bristol Charles Sackvill Earl of Middlesex and Dorset Gilbert Holles Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Charles Fane Earl of Westmorland Robert Montague Earl of Manchester Charles Howard Earl of Berkshire John Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave William Leg Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers Robert Berty Earl of Lindsey John Cary Earl of Dover ex Charles Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Mordant Earl of Peterborough Thomas Gray Earl of Stamford Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Caernarvan Mountjoy Blount Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield John Tufton Earl of Thanet Tho. Weston Earl of Portland Will. Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Nicholas Lerke Earl of Scarsdale John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Henry Jermin Earl of St. Albans Edw. Montague Earl of Sandwich James Butler Earl of Brecknock Henry Hyde Earl of Clarendon Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Robert Brukenel Earl of Cardigan Arthur Annesley Earl of Anglesey John Greenvill Earl of Bath Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle William Craven Earl of Crave Robert Bruce Earl of Aylesbury Richard Boyle Earl of Burlington Henry Bennet Earl of Arlington Anth. Ashly Cooper Earl of Shaftsbury George Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland Henry Howard Earl of Norwich William Herbert Earl of Powys Edw. Henry Lee Earl of Litchfield Charles Fitz-Charles Earl of Plymouth Thomas Leonard Earl of Sussex Thomas Osborn Earl of Darby John Maitland Earl of Gilford Lewis de Duras Earl of Feversham Charles Earl of Burford Viscounts Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Francis Brown Viscount Montague James Fiennes Viscount Say and Seale Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noel Viscount Cambden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg John Mordant Viscount Mordant George Savill Viscount Hallifax Robert Paston Viscount Yarmouth Francis Newport Viscount Newport of Bradford Barons George Nevill Lord Abergavenny James Touchet Lord Audly Charles West Lord De la Ware George Berkley Lord Berkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Montage Cogniers Darcy Lord Darcy and Meynel William Stourton Lord Stourton Henry Lord Sandys de la Vine Benj. Mildmay Lord Fitzwater Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Wingfield Cromwell Lord Cromwell Ralph Eure Lord Eure. Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Will. Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Pagett Lord Paget Charles North Lord North and Baron Grey of Rolston William Bruges Lord Shandois James Berty Lord Norris William Petre Lord Petre. Digby Gerard Lord Gerard of Gerard Bromley Charles Stanhop Lord Stanhop Henry Arundell Lord Arundel of Wardour Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Robert Grevill Lord Brook Edw. Montague Lord Mountague of Boughton Ford Grey Lord Grey of Wark John Roberts Lord Roberts John Lovelace Lord Lovelace John Pawlet Lord Pawlet William Maynord Lord Maynard George Coventry Lord Coventry James Lord Esrick Charles Mohun Lord Mohun William Boteler Lord Boteler Edw. Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seymore Lord Seymour Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carington Will. Widdrington Lord Widdrington Humble Ward Lord Ward Tho. Culpepper Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley John Lucas Lord Lucas John Bellasis Lord Bellasis Edw. VVatson Lord Rokingham Charles Gerard Lord Gerard of Brandon Gilbert Sutton Lord Lexinton Char. Kirkhaven Lord Wotton Marm. Langdale Lord Langdal Will. Croft Lord Croft dead John Berkley Lord Berkly of Stratton Denzil Holles Lord Holles Char. Cornwallis Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord De la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend John Crew Lord Crew John Frescheville Lord Frescheville Rich. Arundell Lord Arundel of Trerice Thomas Butler Lord Butler of Moor Park Thomas Clifford Lord Clifford of Chudley Richard Butler Lord Weston Charles North Lord Grey of Rollston and L. North of Cartlidge Heneage Finch Lord Daventry The Lords Spiritual Sancroft Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Rich. Sterne Arch-Bishop of York Isaac Barrow Bishop of St. Asaph Humphrey Lloyd Bishop of Bangor Peter Mew Bishop of Bath and Wells Guy Carleton Bishop of Bristol Edward Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle John Pierson Bishop of Chester Ralph Brideoake Bishop of Chichester Thomas Wood Bishop of Coventry Lichf William Lucie Bishop of St. Davids Nathanael Crew Bishop of Durham Peter Gunning Bishop of Ely Thomas Lamplugh Bishop of Excester John Prichard Bishop of Gloucester Herbert Crofts Bishop of Hereford VVilliam Lloyd Bishop of Landaffe Thomas Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Henry Compton Bishop of London Anthony Sparrow Bishop of Norwich John Fell Bishop of Oxford Joseph Henshaw Bishop of Peterborough John Dolben Bishop of Rochester Seth VVard Bishop of Salisbury George Morley Bishop of VVinchester James Fleetwood Bishop of VVorcester A CATALOGUE of all the Bishopricks in the two Provinces of Canterbury and York The Names of what Cities Shires or Counties are in each Diocess How many Parishes in each Diocess How many of them are Impropriations The Annual Revenue of each Bishoprick as it is in the Kings Book And how the Clergies Tenths are rated in each of them In the Province of CANTERBURY The Diocess of Canterbury Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Kent part 257 000 2816-17-09-1 0651-18-02-1 St. Asaph Part of Denbigh Flint Montgomery Merioneth Shropshire 121 000 0187-11-06-0 0186-19-07-3 Bangor All Carnarvan Anglesey Part of Denbigh Montgomery Merioneth 107 036 0131-16-04-0 0151-14-03-1 Bath and Wells Somersetshire all 388 160 0533-01-03-0 0353-18-00-3 Bristol Bristol City Dorsetshire all 236 064 0338-08-04-0 0353-18-00-3 Chichester Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Sussex all 250 112 0677-01-00-3 0287-02-00-3 Coventry and Lichfield All Darbyshire Staffordshire Part of VVarwickshire Shropshire 557 250 0559-18-02-3 0590-16-11-1 Eely All Cambridgeshire Eely Isle 141 075 2134-18-05-3 0384-14-09-1 St. Davids All Pembrookshire Cardiganshire Radnorshire Brecknockshire Part of Monmouth Hereford Montgomery Glamorgan 308 120 0457-01-10-3 0336-14-10-0 Excester All Devonshire Cornwall 604 239 0500-00-00-0 1200-15-02-0 Gloucester Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Gloucestershire all 267 125 0315-17-02-0 0358-15-00-0 Hereford Herefordshire all Shropshire part 313 136 0768-10-06-3 340-02-02-2 Landaffe Part of Glamorgan Monmouth 107 098 0154-14-01-0 155-05-04-0 Lincoln All Lincolnshire Leicestershire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Huntingdonshire Hertfordshire part 1255 577 0894-10-01-2 751-14-06-0 London All Middlesex Essex Part of Hertfordshire 622 189 1119-08-40-0 821-15-01-0 Norwich All Norfolk Suffolk 1181 385 0899-18-07-2 1117-13-00-1 Oxford Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Oxfordshire all 195 88 0354-16-04-2 255-08-00-0 Peterborough All Northamptonshire Rutlandshire 293 91 0414-19-11-0 520-16-08-0 Rochester Kent Part. 098 36 0358-03-02-1 222-14-06-3 Salisbury All Barkshire VViltshire 544 109 1367-11-08-0 901-08-01-0 Worcester VVorcester all VVarwickshire part 241 071 1049-17-03-3 228-00-00-0 Winchester All Surrey Southampton Isle of VVight Isle of Jersey Isle of Garnsey Sark and Ald. 362 131 2973-04-02-3 846-01-00-0 In the Province of YORK The Diocess of York  Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Nottinghamshire Yorkshire part 581 336 1609-19-02-0 1113-17-09-3 Carlisse Cumberland part VVestmorland all 093 018 0530-04-11-2 0161-01-07-2 Chester All Cheshire Lancashire Part of Yorkshire Cumberland 256 101 0420-01-08-0 0435-12-00-0 Durham Durham all Northumberland part Yorkshire part 135 087 1821-01-05-1 0385-05-06-2 Man The Isle of Man 017 The Total Number of Dukes 11 Marquesses 3 Earls 73 Viscounts 11 Barons 66 Baronets 668 Arch-Bishops 2 Bishops 24 Principal Secretaries of State 2 Judges 12 Judges of the Court of Kings Bench 4 Judges of the Court of Common Pleas 4 Barons of Exchequer 4 Counties in England 39 Counties in VVales 13 Islands 8 Parliament Men 509 Hundreds 768 Market-Towns 713 Parishes 9241 FINIS
ENGLAND'S Remarques Giving an Exact Account of the Several Shires Counties and Islands in ENGLAND and WALES In every of which you have I. How the County is bounded II. The Length Breadth and Circumference III. The Temperature of the Air and Fertility or Barrenness of the Soil IV. What Commodities each Shire or County affordeth V. In what Diocess and how many Parishes in it VI. The Number of Parliament-Men Hundreds and Market-Towns VII In every Shire you have the Name of the City or Shire-Town with the Latitude thereof and how it bears with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London the Road to the same how Governed and the Coat of Arms and what other things are therein Remarkable VIII You have the Names of such Noble Families as have been Dukes or Earls of each County since their first Constitution IX Whatsoever is Eminent or Remarkable thorowout the whole Kingdom To which is added a Travelling Map describing the Principal Roads thorow-out England London Printed for Langley Curtis in Goat-Court upon Ludgate-Hill and sold by Tho. Mercer at the Half Moon under the South-east Corner of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1682. TO THE READER THE Apophthegme of Chilo One of the Seven Wise-Men of Greece Nosce teipsum was not unworthily Consecrated to Apollo at Delphos None being a competent Judge of others who doth not first know himself and no person can judge of another Countrey unless he knows his Own Therefore Nosce Patriam is as necessary an Adage especially to those whose Ample Fortunes and Natural Inclinations call them into Foreign Countreys As Chilo's APOPHTHEGME is to all Persons whatsoever Many in this Age travel into France and other Adjacent Countreys and perhaps at their Return are able to give you an Account how many Provinces c are contained in the Countrey they have Travelled when at the same time they scarce know any more Land in England than their Fathers or their own Inheritance But here as in a Map you may at first View give an Account of any thing Remarkable in England be the Question asked either in England or Foreign Parts Which by perusing this Little Manual you will soon find The Names of the several Counties in England BArkshire Pag. 1 Bedfordshire Pag. 5 Buckinghamshire Pag. 8 Cambridgeshire Pag. 11 Cheshire Pag. 15 Cornwall Pag. 20 Cumberland Pag. 27 Derbyshire Pag. 31 Devonshire Pag. 33 Dorsetshire Pag. 40 Durham the Bishoprick and City Pag. 45 Essex Pag. 48 Gloucestershire Pag. 52 Hantshire Pag. 58 Hertfordshire Pag. 63 Herefordshire Pag. 67 Huntingtonshire Pag. 72 Kent Pag. 75 Lancashire Pag. 84 Leicestershire Pag. 90 Lincolnshire Pag. 94 Middlesex Pag. 99 Norfolk Pag. 133 Northamptonshire Pag. 140 Northumberland Pag. 145 Nottinghamshire Pag. 149 Oxfordshire Pag. 153 Rutlandshire Pag. 159 Shropshire Pag. 162 Somersetshire Pag. 166 Staffordshire Pag. 174 Suffolk Pag. 179 Surrey Pag. 185 Sussex Pag. 189 Warwickshire Pag. 194 Westmoreland Pag. 200 Wiltshire Pag. 204 Worcestershire Pag. 211 Yorkshire Pag. 215 The Names of the Counties in Wales ANglesey Pag. 226 Brecknockshire Pag. 229 Cardiganshire Pag. 232 Caernarvanshire Pag. 235 Caermardenshire Pag. 238 Denbyshire Pag. 241 Flintshire Pag. 244 Glamorganshire Pag. 248 Merionethshire Pag. 251 Monmouthshire Pag. 254 Montgomeryshire Pag. 258 Pembrokeshire Pag. 261 Radnorshire Pag. 266 Of the Islands about England THe Isle of Man Pag. 268 The Isle of Wight Pag. 271 The Isle of Jersey Pag. 273 The Isle of Garnsey Pag. 275 An Exact Map of England with the Roads from London to all the other parts of this Kingdome T. Cross Sculpsit N Counties Names 1 Bark sh 2 Bedford sh 3 Buckingham sh 4 Cambridge sh 5 Cheshire 6 Cornwall 7 Cumberland 8 Derby sh 9 Devon sh 10 Dorset sh 11 Durham 12 Essex 13 Glocester sh 14 Hant. sh 15 Hertford sh 16 Hereford sh 17 Huntington sh 18 Kent 19 Lancashire 20 Leicester sh 21 Lincoln sh 22 Middlesex 23 Norfolk 24 Northampton sh 25 Northumberland 26 Nottingham sh 27 Oxford sh 28 Rutland sh 29 Shrop. sh 30 Somerset sh 31 Stafford sh 32 Suffoll 33 Surrey 34 Sussex 35 Warwick sh 36 Westmorland 37 Wilt. sh 38 Worcester sh 39 York sh 40 Anglesey Ish 41 Brecknock sh 42 Cardigan sh 43 Carnarvan sh 44 Carmarden sh 45 Denbigh sh 46 Flint sh 47 Glamorgan sh 48 Merioneth sh 49 Monmouth sh 50 Montgomery sh 51 Pembroke sh 52 Radnor sh It is divided into Twenty Hundreds viz. Farington Ganfield Hormer Oake Wanting Shrivenham Lainborn Kentbury Westisle Morton Faircrosse Braye Reading Charlton Sonning Cookham Wargrove Bernersh Riplessmore Theale And in these Hundreds are Twelve Market-Towns viz. Abbington M. and Fr. Wallingford Tu. and F. Faringdon Tu. Ockingham Tu. Maiden-Head W. Hungerford W. East-Isley W. Newberry Th. New-Windsor Sa. Wanting Sa. Reading Sa. Lainborne This Shire hath formerly had in it six Castles of which there now remains only that magnificent one of Windsor one of his Majesties Palaces In this Castle the Victorious Prince Edward the third was born In it is instituted the most honourable Order of the Garter of St. George a signal of Martial Prowess And in the Chappel of this Castle there lye interred the Bodies of Henry the 6. Edward the 4th Henry the 8th and as is supposed of King Charles the First The first Institution whereof was in Anno Dom. 1350. And those that first received the order were Edward the 3d. Edward Prince Henry Duke of Lancaster Tho. Earl of Warwick Captain de Bonch Ralph Earl of Stafford W. Mountecut E. of Sal. Roger Mert ' Earl of March John de Lisle Knight Tho. Burwash K. Jo. Beauchamp K. John de Mohun K. Hugh Courtney K. Tho. Holland K. John Grey K. Ri. Fitz-Simon K. Miles Stapleton K. Tho. Wall K. Hugh Wrothsley K. Nele Loring K. John Chandos K. James de Andley K. Otho Holland K. Henry Eme King Zanchet Dabridg Will. Paganell K. The Chief Town is Reading lying in the Latitude of 51 degrees 28 min. And West from London and is distant therefrom 32 Miles viz. To Cole-Brooke 15 to Maiden-head 22 to Reading 32 but by more accurate and late Admeasurement it is found to be 44 Miles distant from London The Town of Reading is Governed by a Mayor and Aldermen The Arms of the County The Field is Argent three Castles Gules over the middlemost a Bucks Face erect of the second Horned Or On a chief Vert between the Bucks Horns the Arms of England and France Quartered Remarkable things in this Shire In the year of our Lord 1387. And in the 11 year of Richard the 2d At Radcot-bridge The Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel Warwick Derby and Nottingham Encountered with Robert Vere Duke of Ireland maintained against them by King Richard the 2d Where the said Duke was put to flight who with swimming over the Thames hardly escaped drowning In this Encounter in the Dukes behalf Sir Tho. Molineux Constable of Chester with many others lost their lives In the year 1100. At Enchamsteed
Amounderne Blackburn Laisand West Darbie Salford And in these Hundreds are 26 Market-Towns viz. Boulton Mon. Blackborn M. Wigan M. and Fr. Poulton Mon. Cartmill Mon. Hornby Mon. Haws-head Mon. Rochdale Tues Charley Tu. Ormek rk Tues Kirkham Tues Prescot Tues Hâ—slington Wed. Coln Wed. Warington W. Preston W. F. S. Bury Thurs Gastinge Th. Vlverston Th. Lancaster Sa. Manchester Sa. Clitheroe Sa. Leverpoole Sa. Dalton Sa. Leigh Great Eccleston The Shire-Town in this County is Lancaster lying in the Latitude of 54 deg 10. min. And it beareth from London N. W. by N. and is distant therefrom 187 miles Thus From London to Barnet 10. to St. Alban 20. to Dunstable 30. to Stony Stratford 44. to Toceter 50. to Daventry 60. to Coventry 74. to Lichfield 94. to Rugeley 99. to Stone 110. to Newcastle 116. to Warrington 136. to Newton 141. to Wiggan 148. to Preston 162. to Garstang 172. to Lancaster 187. But by a more exact admeasurement upon this Road it is found to be distant from London 232 miles This Town is very pleasantly situate but the Inhabitants thereof do not much abound in Wealth It is built on the South-side of the River Lon The principal Glory of this Town consisteth in the Church the Castle and the Bridge and in it are many fair and long Streets To this Town K. Edward the Third granted a Mayor and two Bailiffs which are elected out of 12 Brethren assisted by 24 Burgesses by whom it is yearly Governed with the supply of 2 Chamberlains a Recorder Town-Clerk and 2 Sergeants at Mace The Arms of this Town is Party per Fesse Vert and Gules in Chief a Quadrangle of Castles walled Argent and in Base a Lyon of England The Earls and Dukes of this County are Edmond Croukback Earl John of Gaunt D. The Kings of England of the House of Lancaster were Henry the IV. Henry the V. Henry the VI. Henry the VII Those of the House of York Edward IV. Edward V. Richard III. After many Battels and conflicts at length by the happy Marriage of Henry the 7th K. of England next Heir to the House of Lancaster with Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Edward the 4th of the House of York the Red and white Roses were United Although Lancaster be the Shire Town yet the Town of Manchester far exceedeth it which is famous not only for the Church Colledge and Market-Place but for the great resort to it for Cloathing It was by Anthony the Emperour called Mancunium and was made the Fort and Station of the Romans Bible Chester also in this County though but a little Town hath been esteemed and called The Richest Town in Christendom Things Remarkable in this County Along the Sea side in many places lye heaps of Sand upon which the People pour Water till it contract a Saltish humour from the Sand and this they boyl with Turff till it become White Salt Not far from Fourness Fells is the greatest standing Water in England of a wonderful depth and stretching it self out for the space of 10 miles together all Paved in the bottom with Stone This Water is called the Miander Meer and there breeds in it a kind of Fish called a Chare which is no where else to be found The Mosses in this Shire are very unwholsom but the upper Coat of this Mossy Earth being pared away it yields a fat Earth for Fuel And in divers places under this mossy Earth good Marl is found to inrich the Land On the Banks of the River Irwell there is found a reddish Stone And about Manchester are Quarries of very good Stone By Chatmosse is a low moisy Ground very large a great part of which saith Cambden the Brooks swelling high carried quite away with them whereby the Rivers were corrupted and a number of fresh Fish perished In this place now lyes a low Vale watered with a small Brook where Trees have been digged up lying along The Wood of these Trees burns very bright so that some think them to be Fir Trees But Cambden questions whether they be not Subterraneous Trees growing under Ground as well as Plants and other Creatures Upon the very top of Pendle Hill grows a peculiar Plant called Clowdesberry as coming out of the Clouds This Hill lately did the Countrey near it much harm by abundance of water gushing out of it And this is remarkable for whensoever the top of it is covered with a Myst it is an infallible sign of Rain Besides this Hill there are not far from it two others viz. Ingleborrow and Penigent which seem to touch the Clouds In the River Lune near Cockerfand Abby is great store of Salmon Leicestershire THis Shire is bounded on the East by Lincolnshire On the West by Warwickshire On the South by Northamptonshire And on the North by Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire It containeth in length 30 miles In breadth 26 miles And in Circumference 100 miles The Air of this Shire is mild and wholsom making the Inhabitants very healthy and long liv'd The Soil is good for the production of Corn Cattle and Coles The principal Commodities are Pease Beans Cattle and Wool It is in the Diocess of Lincoln and hath in it 192 Parishes Out of it are elected 4 Parliament Men. Knights 2 Leicester 2 Its Division is into 6 Hundreds viz. West Goscote Sparkingho Goodlaxton Gartrey East Goscote Framland And in these Hundreds are 12 Market-Towns viz. Hinckley Mon. Mont Sorell Mon. Melton Mowbrey Tu. Harborough Tu. Bâ—sworth Wednes Loughborow Th. Waltham Would Th. Hallaton Th. Lutterworth Th. Billesden Frid. Leicester Sat. Asby de la Zouch Sa. The Principal Town in this Shire is Leicester lying in the Latitude of 52 deg 41 min. It beareth from London N. N. W. and is distant therefrom 78 miles Thus From London to Barnet 10. to St. Albans 20. to Dunstable 30. to Stony-Stratford 44. to Northampton 54. to Haverborough 66. to Leicester 78. But by more accurate admeasurement along the Road 98 miles This Town is said to be built by King Leir who lived 844 years before the Birth of Christ By whom this City is annually Governed I do not find but the Arms of the Town seem to be the same with that of Robert de Bellemont who was first Earl thereof which is Gules a Cinquefoil Ermine pierced of the Field The Earls of Leicester since the first Constitution are Robert de Bellemont Simon de Montefort Ranulph Earl of Chester Simon de Montefort Edmond Crouchback Will. de Bavar E. of Holland John of Gaunt D. of Lancaster Robert Dudley Things remarkable in this County Near Bosworth upon Redemore the last of the 13 Battels between the two Houses of York and Lancaster was fought whose dissention spent England more Blood than did the winning of France In which Battel Richard the Tyrant and Usurper by Henry Earl of Richmond with 4000 men were slain and but 10 only on the Earl's part lost their Lives The Corps of the Dead King
depth that it beareth Ships of great burthen and is able to defend them against Storms and Tempests It s Government is by a Maior to whom K. Richard the 2d granted a Sword to be carried before And Henry the 6th made it a County consisting of a Corporation within it self The Arms of the Town is Gules 3 Castles Or. In this County is also the Town of Barwick the utmost Northerly Town in England and the strongest Hold in all Brittanie The Names of the Earls and Dukes of Northumberland since the Norman Conquest VValdeof Earl of Northumberland Robert Mowbrey E. of Northumberland Henry Son to David K. of Scotland Hugh Pudsey Bishop of Durham John Nevill E. of Northumberland Henry Percy E. of Northumberland John Dudley Duke of Northumberland Tho. Percy E. of Northumberland George Fits Roy E. of Northumber 3d Son to the Dutchess of Cleveland Things Remarkable in this County It may seem that the Inhabitants are long liv'd for one Mr. Macklane Parson of Lesbury in this County who died about the year 1658. did in the year 1656. renew his youth so that though 40 years before he could not read without Spectacles being 116 years of age he could then read the smallest Print without them His hair which before he had lost came again as a Childes There are Hills hard by North Tyne so boggy and standing with Water on the top that no Horseman is able to ride over them and yet which is to be wondered at there be many great heaps of Stones called by the Inhabitants Lews which is thought were laid up in old time in remembrance of some Victory or some that were slain there By Bywell Castle is great store of Salmons Many Memorable Antiquities are found in this County as Coyns Inscriptions pieces of broken Altars Russy-gap in this County is a place infamous for Robbing and Thieving In the year 1215. the Inhabitants of Morpeth in this County set their own Town on Fire in spite they bare to King John for that he and his Rutars had over-run these Counties Nottingham-Shire IT is bounded on the East by Lincolnshire On the West by Derbyshire and Yorkshire On the South by Leicestershire And on the North by Yorkshire It containeth in length 40 miles In breadth 24. And in Circumference 110 miles It hath a delectable healthy and sweet Air. The Soil is Rich being part sandy and part Clayie and for Corn and Grass so fruitful that it may parallel any other of its bigness in the whole Kingdom it yielding beside abundance of Wood Water and Coals The chief Commodities are Pit-Coals Wood Corn Fish Fowl and Liquorice It is in the Diocess of York and hath in it 168 Parish-Churches Out of it are elected 8 Members to sit in Parliament Knights 2 Nottingham 2 Estretford 2 Newark 2 Its Division is into 8 Hundreds viz. Bassetlaw Worthelay Southclay Newark Broxton Thurgarton Bingham Bushcliffe And in these 8 Hundreds are 9 Market-Towns viz. Tuxford Monday Newark Wednes VVorksop Wedn. Bingham Thursday Mansfield Th. Blyth Th. Southwell Saturday Redford Sat. Nottingham W. F.S. The principal Town is Nottingham lying in the Latitude of 52 deg 50 min. It bears from London N. W. And is distant therefrom 96 miles Thus From London to Newark 95 miles as in the Road to New-Castle in Northumberland Thence to Nottingham 3 miles in all 98. But being measured upon the Road it is distant from London 122 miles This Town of Nottingham is most pleasantly seated upon a Hill in it are many fair Buildings and large Streets which may compare with most Cities and the Market-place transcendeth any in any County The Town is Governed by a Mayor and 6 Aldermen clad in Scarlet 2 Sheriffs 2 Town-Clerks and 6 Sergeants with Maces their Attendants The Arms of the Town of Nottingham is Argent two Ragged Staves in Cross Vert between three Coronets two in Chief and one in Base Or the Ragged Staff in Pale passing through the Coronet in Base The Names of the Earls of Nottingham since the first Constitution Robert Ferrers John Mowbray Rich. D. of York VVill. Barkley Hen. Fitz Roy. Charles Howard Things remarkable in this County Upon the 16th of June Anno 1487. being the third year of Henry the 7th At Stoke near unto Newark in this County a great Battel was fought against K. Henry the 7th by the Erectors of Lambert a counterfeit Warwick wherein John de la Pole E. of Lincoln Francis L. Lovell Tho. Garadyne Chancellor of Ireland Martin Swart and Sir Tho. Broughton with 4000 of their naked Irish lost their Lives Lambert was there taken and made a Turn-Spit in the King's Kitchen and afterwards one of his Faulconers In this County grows a Stone softer than Alabaster which being burnt makes a Plaister harder than that of Paris With this they floor upper Rooms and when well laid and throughly dried is of great durance At Worksop grows the best Liquorice in all the Northern parts In Nottingham Town there are in good Houses many lower Rooms which the Door-Cases Fire-Hearths Stairs Windows Window-Jams and Soils have all been hewed out of the solid Rock Oxfordshire THis Shire is bounded by Buckinghamshire on the East By Gloucestershire on the West By Barkshire on the South And by Warwickshire and Northamptonshire on the North. It containeth in length 41 miles In breadth 29 miles And in Circumference 144 miles The Air is mild temperate and delicate The Soil fertile pleasant and bounteous The hilly parts being loaded with Wood and Cattel and the Valleys with Corn and Pasturage The chief Commodities of this County are Corn Cattel Fruit Wood and Malt. It is in the Diocess of Oxford And in it is contained 280 Parishes Cut of it are elected 9 Members which sit in Parliament Knights 2 University of Oxford 2 City of Oxford 2 New-VVoodstock 2 Banbury 2 Its Division is into 14 Hundreds viz. Banbury Bloxham Chadlington VVootton Floughley Bullington Bampton Tame Lewknor Pirton Dorchester Ewelme Langtree Binfield And in these Hundreds are 15 Market-Towns viz. VVoodstock Tues Tame Tues Bampton Wed. Chippingnorton Wed. Witney Thurs Banbury Thurs Henley Thurs Bunchester Friday Burford Sat. Deddington Sat. Watlington Sat. Bistow Fairford Coleford Oxford Wed. Sat. The principal place in this Shire is the famous City and University of Oxford from whence the Shire taketh its name This City lyeth in the Latitude of 51 deg 46 min. It bears from London W. N. W. And is distant therefrom 47 miles Thus From London to Uxbridge 15. to Beckonsfield 22. to High Wickham 27. to Stoken Church 32. to Wheatly Bridge 41. to Oxford 47. But by exact admeasurement upon the Road the distance is found to be almost 56 miles The Arms of Oxford is Bendy wavie Argent and Azure An Oxe Gules passing over a Ford proper The University consisteth of these Colledges and Halls viz. Colledges Founded by Anno. University King Alfrid 872 Beliol Jo. Belial Kt. Dev. his Wife 1263 Merton Walter