the generall Granarie of the Land which then is dearer in other Counties and it is harder for one to feed foure than foure to feed one It is furthermore observed that a drought never causeth a dearth in England because though parching up the sandy ground the clay being the far greatest moiety of the Land having more natural moisture therein affordeth a competent encrease England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray-goose-wing But a fling That is a slight light thing not to be valued but rather to be cast away as being but half an Island It is of no great extent Philip the Second King of Spain in the reign of Queen Elizabeth called our English Ambassadours unto him whilst as yet there was Peace betwixt the two Crowns and taking a small Map of the World layed his little finger upon England wonder not if he desired to finger so good a Countrey and then demanded of our English Ambassadour where England was Indeed it is in greatness inconsiderable to the Spanish dominions But for the crooked stick c. That is use of Archery Never were the Arrows of the Parthians more formidable to the Romans then ours to the French horsemen Yea remarkable his Divine Providence to England that since Arrowes are grown out of use though the weapons of war be altered the English mans hand is still in Ure as much as ever before for no Country affords better materials of Iron Saltpeter and Lead or better work-men to make them into Guns Powder and Bullets or better marks-men to make use of them being so made So that England is now as good with a streight Iron as ever it was with a crooked stick England is the Paradise of Women Hell of Horses Purgatory of Servants For the first Billa vera Women whether Maids Wives or Widowes finding here the fairest respect and kindest usage Our Common-Law is a more courteous carver for them than the Civil-Law beyond the seas allowing Widows the thirds of their Husbands Estates with other Priviledges The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or highest seats are granted them at all Feasts and the wall in crowding most danger to the weakest in walking most dignity to the worthiest resigned unto them The Indentures of maid-servants are cancelled by their Marriage though the term be not expired which to young-men in the same condition is denyed In a word betwixt Law and Laws-Corrival Custom they freely enjoy many favours and we men so far from envying them wish them all happiness therewith For the next â—… Englands being an Hell for Horses Ignoramus as not sufficiently satisfied in the evidence alledged Indeed the Spaniard who keeps his Gennets rather for shew than use makes wantons of them However if England be faulty herein in their over-violent Riding Racing Hunting it is high time the fault were amended the rather because The good man regardeth the life of his beast For the last â—… Pugatory for servants we are so far from finding the Bill we cast it forth as full of falshood We have but two sorts Apprentices and Covenant-servants The Parents of the former give large summes of money to have their Children bound for seven yeares to learn some Art or Mystery which argueth their good usage as to the generality in our Nation Otherwise it were madness for men to give so much money to buy their Childrens misery As for our Covenant-servants they make their own Covenants and if they be bad they may thank themselves Sure I am their Masters if breaking them and abusing their servants with too little meat or sleep too much work or correction which is true also of Apprentices are liable by Law to make them reparation Indeed I have heard how in the Age of our Fathers servants were in far greater subjection than now adayes especially since our Civil Wars hath lately dislocated all relations so that now servants will do whatsoever their Masters injoyn them so be it they think fitting themselves For my own part I am neither for the Tyranny of the one nor Rebellion of the other but the mutuall duty of both As for Vernae Slaves or Vassals so frequent in Spain and forreign parts our Land and Lawes whatever former Tenures have been acknowledg not any for the present To conclude as Purgatory is a thing feigned in it self so in this particular it is false in application to England A famine in England begins first at the horse-manger Indeed it seldom begins at the horse-rack for though hay may be excessive dear caused by a dry summer yet winter-grain never impaired with a drought is then to be had at reasonable rates Whereas if Pease or Oates our horse-grain and the latter mans-grain also generally in the North for poor people be scarce it will not be long ere Wheat Rie c. mount in our Markets Indeed if any grain be very dear no grain will be very cheap soon after The King of England is the King of Devils The German Emperour is termed the King of Kings having so many free Princes under Him The King of Spain King of men because they willingly yield their Sovereign rational obedience The King of France King of Asses patiently bearing unconscionable burdens But why the King of England King of Devils I either cannot or do not or will not understand Sure I am S. Gregory gave us better language when he said Angli velut Angeli for our fair complexions and it is sad we should be Devils by our black conditions The English are the Frenchmen's Apes This anciently hath been and still is charg'd on the English and that with too much truth for ought I can find to the contrary dolebat Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli it is to us a pain This should be said and not gain-said again We ape the French chiefly in two particulars First in their language which if Jack could speak he would be a Gentleman which some get by travell others gain at home with Dame Eglentine in Chaucer Entewned in her voice full seemly And French she spake full feteously After the scole of Stratford at Bowe For French of Paris was to her unknow Secondly in their Habits accounting all our fineness in conformity to the French-fashion though following it at greater distance than the field-pease in the Country the rath ripe pease in the garden Disgracefull in my opinion that seeing the English victorious Armes had twice charged through the bowels of France we should learn our fashions from them to whom we taught Obedience The English Glutton Gluttony is a sin anciently charged on this Nation which we are more willing to excuse than confess more willing to confess than amend Some pretend the coldness of Climate in excuse of our sharp Appetites and plead the Plenty of the Land England being in effect all a great Cookes-shop and no reason any should starve therein for our prodigious Feasts They alledge also that foreigners even the
marryed by a Proxy a naked sword being in bed interposed betwixt him and her body to Alphons King of Arragon with all Ceremonies of State And indeed they proved but Ceremonies the substance soon 〈◊〉 the said King Alphons dying Anno Dom. 1292. before the Consummation of the Mâ—…rriage But soon after this Lady found that a Living Earl was better then a Dead King when Marryed to Henry the 3d. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of 〈◊〉 and Kings of Sicil are descended This Lady deceased in the seven and twentieth of her Fathers Reign Anno Dom. 1298. MARGARET third Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor in the 3d. year of her Fathers Reign 1275. When fifteen year old she was Marryed at Westminster July 9th 1290. to John the second Duke of Brabant by whom she had Issue John the third Duke of Brabant from whom the Dukes of Burgundy are descended MARY sixth Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor April the 12. 1279. being but ten years of Age she was made a Nun at Amesbury in Wilt-shire without her own and at the first against her Parents consent meerly to gratify Queen Eleanor her Grand-mother Let us pity her who probably did not pity her self as not knowing a vaile from a kerchief not understanding the requisites to nor her own fitness for that profession having afterwards time too much to bemoan but none to amend her condition As for the other Children of this King which he had by Eleanor his Queen probably born in this Castle viz. HENRY ALPHONSE BLANCHE Dying in their infancy immediately after their Baptism it is enough to name them and to bestow this joynt Epitapb upon them â—…leansed at Font we drew untainted Breath Not yet made bad by Life made good by Death The two former were buryed with their Brother John of whom before at Westminster in the same Tomb but where Blanche was interred is altogether unknown Edward the Third Son to Edward the Second and Queen Isabel was born at Windsor October 13. 1312. and proved afterwards a pious and fortunate Prince I behold him as meerly passive in the deposing of his Father practised on in his Minority by his Mother and Mortimer His French Victories speak both of his Wisdom and Valour and though the Conquests by King Henry the fifth were thicker atchieved in a shorter time His were broader in France and Scotland by Sea and Land though both of length alike as lost by their immediate Successours He was the first English King which Coined* Gold which with me amounts to a wonder that before his time all yellow payments in the Land should be made in foreign Coin He first stamped the Rose-Nobles having on the one side Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat And on the reverse his own image with sword and shield sitting in a ship waving on the Sea Hereupon an English Rhymer in the Reign of King Henry the sixth For four things our Noble she weth to me King Ship and Swerd and Power of the See He had a numerous and happy issue by Philippa his Queen after whose death being almost seventy years old he cast his affection on Alice Pieâ—…ce his Paramour much to his disgrace it being true what Epictetus returned to Adrian the Emperour asking of him what Love was In puero pudor in virgine rubor in soemina furor in juvene ardor in sene risus In a boy bashfulness in a maid blushing in a woman fury in a young man fire in an old man folly However take this King altogether at home abroad at Church in State and he had few equals none superiours He dyed Anno Dom. 1378. WILLIAM sixth Son of King Edward the third and Queen Philippa was born at Windsor Indeed his second Son born at Hatfield was of the same name who dyed in his infancy and his Mother had a fond affection for another William because her Fathers Brothers and a Conquering Name till his short Life also dying in his cradle weaned her from renewing her desire As for King Edwards female Children Isabel Joan Blanch Mary and Margaret there is much probability of their French and no assurance of their English Nativity HENRY the sixth Son to Henry the fifth was born in Windsor-Castle against the will of his Father by the wilfulness of his Mother He was fitter for a Coul then a Crown of so easie a nature that he might well have exchanged a pound of Patience for an ounce of Valour Being so innocent to others that he was hurtful to himself He was both over-subjected and over-wived having marryed Margaret the Daughter of Reinier King of Jerusalem Sicily and Arragon a Prince onely Puissant in Titles otherwise little able to assist his Son in Law Through home-bred Dissentions he not onely lost the foreign acquisitions of his Father in France but also his own inheritance in England to the House of York His Death or Murder rather happened 1471. This Henry was twice Crowned twice Deposed and twice Buryed first at Chertsy then at Windsor and once half Sainted Our Henry the seventh cheapned the price of his Canonization one may see for his love and buy for his money in the Court of Rome but would not come up to the summe demanded However this Henry was a Saint though not with the Pope with the People repairing to this Monument from the farthest part of the Land and fancying that they received much benefit thereby He was the last Prince whom I find expresly born at Windsor It seems that afterwards our English Queens grew out of conceit with that place as unfortunate for Royal Nativities Saints MARGARET ALICE RICH were born at Abbington in this County and were successively Prioresses of Catesby in Northampton-shire They were Sisters to St. Edmund whose life ensueth and are placed before him by the Courtesie of England which alloweth the weaker Sex the upper hand So great the Reputation of their Holiness that The former Dying Anno 1257. The latter 1270. Both were honoured for Saints and many Miracles reported by crafty were believed by Credulous people done at their shrine by their Reliques St. EDMUND Son to Edward Rich and Mabel his Wife was born at Abbington in Bark-shire and bred in Oxford Some will have Edmunds-Hall in that University built by his means but others more probably nam'd in his Memory He became Canon of Salisbury and from thence by the joynt-consent of Pope King and Monkes three cords seldom twisted in the sa ne Cable advanc'd Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where he sate almost ten years till he willingly deserted it partly because offended at the power of the Popes Legate making him no more then a meer Cypher signifying onely in conjunction when concurring with his pleasure partly because vexed at his polling and peeling of the English people so grievous he could not endure so general
their order who passed by the name of Historicus Regius the Kings Historian to write the remarkable passages of his time Our Roger was by King Henry the third selected for that service and performed it to â—…is own great credit and the contentment of others He flourished in the year of our Lord 1235. ROBERT RICH Son to Edward and Mabell his Wife Brother of St. Edmund Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was born at Abbington in this County he followed his Brother at very great distance both in Parts and Learning though accompanying him in his Travells beyond the Seas and wrote a Book of the Life Death and Miracles of his Brother being much to blame if he did not do all right to so near a Relation He dyed about the year of our Lord 1250. RICHARD of WALLINGFORD was born in that Market Town pleasantly seated on the River Thames wherein his Father was a Black-Smith He went afterwards to Oxford and was bred in Merton Coll then a Monke and at last Abbot of St. Albans where he became a most expert Mathematician especially for the Mechanical part thereof and retaining somewhat of his Fathers Trade was Dexterous at making pritty engines and Instruments His Master-piece was a most Artificial Clock made saith my Author Magno labore majore sumptu Arte verò maxima with much Pain more Cost and most Art It remain'd in that Monastry in the time of John Bale whom by his words I collect an Eye-witness thereof affirming that Europe had not the Like So that it seemed as good as the famous Clock at Strasburg in Germany and in this Respect better because ancienter It was a Calendar as well as a Clock Shewing the fixed Stars and Planets The Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea Minutes of the Hours and what not I have heard that when Monopolies began to grow Common in the Court of France the Kings Jester moved to have this Monopoly for himself viz. a Cardescue of every one who carried a Watch about him and cared not how he employed his Time Surely the Monks of Saint Albans were Concerned to be carefull how they spent their hours seeing no Convent in England had the like Curiosity This their Clock gathering up the least Crum of Time presenting the Minutary fractions thereof On which account I conceive Richard the maker thereof well prepared for the time of his dissolution when he died of the Leprosie Anno Dom. 1326. Since the Reformation HENRY BULLOCK was most probâ—…bly born in this County where his ancient name appears in a worshipful estate He was bred Fellow and Doctor of Divinity in Queens Colledge in Cambridge A good Linguist and general Scholar familiar with Erasmus an Evidence of his Learning it being as hard to halt before acriple as to deceive his Judgement calling him Bovillum in his Epistles unto him By the way our English Writers when rendring a Sirname in Latine which hath an Appellative signification content them to retein the Body of the Name and only disguise the termination as Cross Peacok Crossus Peacocus c. But the Germans in such a Case doe use to mould the meaning of the name either into Latine as I. Fierce they translate I. Ferus Bullock Bovillus or into Greek as Swarts they render Melanthon Reeck-lin Capnio T is confessed our Bullock compelled by Cardinal Wolsy wrote against Luther but otherwise his affections were biased to the Protestant Party The Date of his death is unknown WILLIAM TWIS was born at Spene in this County which was an ancient Roman City mentioned by Antonine in his Itinerary by the name of Spinae This mindeth me of a passage in Clemens Alexandrinus speaking of sanctified afflictions Nos quidem è Spinis uvas colligimus and here in another sense Gods Church gathered grapes this Good man out of this thornie place Hence he was sent by Winchester-School to New-Colledge in Oxford and there became a general Scholar His plaine preaching was good solid disputing better pious living best of all He afterwards became Preacher in the place of his nativity Spinham lands is part of Newberry and though generally our Saviours observation is verified A prophet is not without honour save in his own country chiefly because Minutiae omnes pueritiae ejus ibi sunt cognitae yet here he met with deserved respect Here he laid a good foundation and the more the pity if since some of his fancifull auditors have built hay and stubble thereupon And no wonder if this good Doctor toward his death was slighted by Sectaries it being usuall for New-lights to neglect those who have born the heat of the day His Latin Works give great evidence of his abilities in controversial matters He was chosen Prolocutor in the late Assembly of Divines wherein his moderation was very much commended and dying in Holborn he was buried at Westminster Anno Dom. 164. WILLIAM LYFORD was born at Peysmer in this County and bred in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he proceeded Bachelour of Divinity 1631. He was also Fellow of that foundation on the same token that his Conscience Post factum was much troubled about his resigning his place for money to his Successor but as his friends have informed me he before his death took order for the restitution thereof The modesty of his mind was legible in the comeliness of his countenance and the meekness of his Spirit visible in his courteous Carriage He was afterwards fixed at 〈◊〉 in Dorset-shire where his large Vineyard required such an able and painfull Vine-dresser Here he layed a good foundation before the beginning of our Civil Wars with his learned Preaching and Catechising and indeed though Sermons give most Sail to mens souls Catechising layeth the best Ballast in them keeping them stedy from being carriâ—…d away with every wind of Doctrine Yet he drank a deep Draught of the bitter Cup with the rest of his brethren and had his share of Obloquie from such factious Persons as could not abide the wholsome words of sound Doctrine But their Candle without their Repentance shall be put out in darkness whilst his memory shall shine in his Learned works he hath left behind him He died about the year of our Lord 1652. Romish Exile Wâ—…iters THOMAS HYDE was born at Newberry in this County and bred a Master of Art in New Colledge in Oxford he was afterwards Canon of Winchester and chief Master of the school therein He with â—…ohn martiâ—…l the second Master about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth left both their School and their Land living long beyond the Seas This Hyde is charactred by one of his own perswasion To be a man of upright life of great gravity and severity He wrote a book of Consolation to his fellowexile And died Anno Dom. 1597. Bâ—…nefactors to thâ—… Publick ALFREDE the fourth Son to K. Athelwolph was born at Wantage a market-town in this County An excellent scholar though he was
She was youngest Daughter and Child to Ralph Earl of Westmerland who had one and twenty and exceeded her Sisters in honour being married to Richard Duke of York She saw her Husband kill'd in battel George Duke of Clarence her second Son cruelly murdered Edward her eldest son cut off by his own intemperance in the prime of his years his two sons butchered by their Uncle Richard who himself not long after was slain at the bartel of Bosworth She was blessed with three Sons who lived to have issue each born in a several Kingdom Edward at Bourdeaux in France George at Dublin in Ireland Richard at Fotheringhay in England She saw her own reputation murdered publickly at Pâ—…uls-Cross by the procurement of her youngest son Richard taxing his eldest Brother for illegitimate She beheld her eldest Son Edward King of England and enriched with a numerous posterity  Yet our Chronicles do not charge her with elation in her good or dejection in her ill success an argument of an even and steady soul in all alterations Indeed she survived to see Elizabeth her grand child married to King Henry the seventh but little comfort accrued to her by that conjunction the party of the Yorkists were so depressed by him She lived five and thirty years a widow and died in the tenth year of King Henry the seventh 1495. and was buried by her Husband in the Quire of the Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay in Northampton-shire which Quire being demolished in the days of King Henry the eighth their bodies lay in the Church-yard without any Monument until Queen Elizabeth coming thither in Progress gave order that they should be interred in the Church and two Tombs to be erected over them Hereupon their bodies lapped in Lead were removed from their plain Graves and their Coffins opened The Duchess Cicely had about her neck hanging in a Silver Ribband a Pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Roman Hand was as fair and fresh to be read as if it had been written but yesterday But alas most mean are their Monuments made of Plaister wrought with a Trowell and no doubt there was much daubing therein the Queen paying for a Tomb proportionable to their Personages The best is the memory of this Cicely hath a better and more lasting Monument who was a bountiful Benefactress to Queens Colledge in Cambridge Saints BEDE And because some Nations measure the worth of the person by the length of the name take his addition Venerable He was born at Girwy now called Yarrow in this Bishoprick bred under Saint John of Beverly and afterwards a Monk in the Town of his Nativity He was the most general Scholar of that age Let a Sophister begin with his Axioms a Batchelor of Art proceed to his Metaphysicks a Master to his Mathematicks and a Divine conclude with his Controversies and Comments on Scripture and they shall find him better in all than any Christian Writer in that age in any of those Arts and Sciences He expounded almost all the Bible translated the Psalms and New Testament into English and lived a Comment on those Words of the * Apostle shining as a light in the world in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation He was no gadder abroad credible Authors avouching that he never went out of his Cell though both Cambridge and Rome pretend to his habitation Yet his Corps after his death which happened Anno 734. took a journey or rather were removed to Durham and there enshrined Confessors JOHN WICKLIFFE It is a great honour to this small County that it produced the last maintainer of Religion before the general decay thereof understand me Learned Bede and the firm restorer thereof I mean this Wickliff the subject of our present discourse True it is His Nativity cannot be demonstrated in this Bishoprick but if such a scientia media might be allowed to man which is beneath certainty and above conjecture such should I call our perswasion that Wickliff was born therein First all confess him a Northern man by extraction Secondly the Antiquary allows an ancient Family of the Wickliffs in this County whose Heir general by her match brought much wealth and honour to the Brakenburies of Celaby Thirdly there are at this day in these parts of the name and alliance who continue a just claim of their kindred unto him Now he was bred in Oxford some say in Baliol others more truly in Merton Colledge and afterwards published opinions distasteful to the Church of Rome writing no fewer than two hundred Volumns of all which largely in our Ecclesiastical History besides his translating of the whole Bible into English He suffered much persecution from the Popish Clergy Yet after long exile he by the favour of God and good Friends returned in safety and died in quietness at his living at Lutterworth in Leicestershire Anno 1387. the last of December whose bones were taken up and burnt 42. years after his death Disdain not Reader to learn something by my mistake I conceive that Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments had entred the Names of our English Martyrs and Confessors in his Kalender on that very day whereon they died Since I observe he observeth a Method of his own fancy concealing the reasons thereof to himself as on the perusing of his Catalogue will appear Thus VVickliff dying December the last is by him placed January the second probably out of a design to grace the new year with a good beginning though it had been more true and in my weak judgement as honourable for VVickliff to have brought up the rear of the old as to lead the front of the new year in his Kalender Prelates The Nevills We will begin with a Quaternion of Nevils presenting them in Parallels and giving them their Precedency before other Prelates some their Seniors in time because of their Honourable Extraction All four were born in this Bishoprick as I am informed by my worthy Friend Mr. Charles Nevil Vice-Provost of Kings in Cambridge one as knowing 〈◊〉 Universal Heraldry as in his own Colledge in our English Nobility as in his own Chamber in the ancient fair and far branched Family of the Nevils as in his own Study RALPH NEVIL was born at Raby in this Bishoprick was Lord Chancellour under King Henry the third none discharging that Office with greater integrity and more general commendation and Bishop of Chichester 1223. He built a fair House from the ground in Chancery Lane for himselfe and successors for an Inne where they might repose themselves when their occasions brought them up to London How this House was afterwards aliened and came into the possession of Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln from whom it is called Lincolns Inne at this day I know not Sure I am that Mr. Mountague late Bishop of Chichester intended to lay claim therunto in right of his see But alas he was likely to follow a cold scent
fortnight in stocks in the Bishop of Londons Cole house with Irons upon him chained again by Sir Thomas More to a post two nights cruelly handled for a seven-night at Fulham scourged for a fortnight in the Tower and at last sent to a second Tree of Truth I mean to the Stake Whereat he was burned in Smithfield April 30. 1532. Here Mr. Fox reports a passage which I cannot with credit insert or omit but take it as I find it When his Armes and Legs were half consumed in the fire he spake these words O â—…e Papists behold ye look for miracles and here now you may see a miracle for in this fire I feel no more pain than if I were in a Bed of Downe but it is to me as sweet as a Bed of Roses Soft and sweet both to please the touch and smell a double wonder I believe it might be a falshood but no lye in the Author reporting it who possibly might be abused in his intelligence Secondly it is possible that this good man feeling so much pain before might through Gods goodnesse have none at his death Thirdly this story may be kept on the deck to counterpoise the scales against that of Father Briant a Popish Priest who reported himself cruelly racked in the Tower and yet se nihil quicquam doloris sensisse That he felt not any pain at all Lastly though our Saviour juâ—…ly taxeth those who were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 slow in heart to believe such things as were revealed in the Scripture yet neither God nor Man wâ—…ll be offended with the incredulous in such reports attested onely with Humane suspicious Authority Prelates TIDEMAN de WINCHCOMBE was born in this County at the Market Town formerly famous for a rich Abbey now for plenty of Poore therein He was preferred first Abbot of Benle then Bishop of Landaffe and lastly of Worcester by King Richard the second his importunity to the Pope notwithstanding one John Green was fairly elected thereunto This Tideman was the Kings Physician and very well skilled in that Faculty Be it observed by the way that I am dayly more confirmed in my opinion that till the last two hundred years Physick in England was not a distinct profession from Divinity and the same persons Physicians and Confessors to Princes Say not these Functions were inconsistent the former uâ—…ually departing the later commonly coming to dying men for the several Professions did not justle but succeed one another so that when Potion did end Unction did begin A practice continued by Popish Priests in England at this day gaining commodity and concealment by being such Pluralists in their profession having the most best and last privacy with their Patients This Tideman died Anno Dom. 1400. JOHN CHEDWORTH was born in this County and bred in Kings Colledge in Cambridge being the third Scholar that came thereinto by election from Eaton Schoole though some I confesse for a short time make him admitted into Merton Colledge in Oxford He afterwards was the third Provost of Kings Colledge possessing the place six years till at last he was elected Bishop of Lincoln He was joyned in Commission by King Henry the sixth with Bishop Wainfliet of Winchester to revise and regulate the Statutes of Eaton and Kings Colledges He sate Bishop about eighteen years and dying 1471. lies buried in his own Cathedral under a Marble Monument JOHN CARPENTER was as my Author rationally collecteth born at Westbury in this County bred in Oriall Colledge in Oxford whereof he became Provost and Chancellor of the University thence preferred Prefect of Saint Anthonies in London and at last Bishop of Worcester He was so indulgent to Westbury the place of his Nativity that of a mean he made it a magnificent Convent more like a Castle than a Colledge walling it about with Turrets and making a stately Gate-house thereunto He had an humorous intent to style Himself and Successors in imitation of Bath and Wells Bishops of Worcester and VVestbury which Title though running cleverly on the tongues end never came in request because therein Impar conjunctio the matching of a Collegiate and Cathedral Church together He died Anno Dom. 1475 and was buried in his Native Town of VVestbury His Tomb since his Death I will use my Authors words hoping their ignorance if alive understands no Latine A stolidis quibusdam nebulonibus pudendum in morem mutulatur As for the Colledge of VVestbury it is the inheritance of the Right VVorshipful and Hospital House-keeper Ralph Sadler Esq and was in these Civil Broils unhappily burnt down though those who esteemed themselves judicious in war apprehended neither necessity thereof noâ—… advantage thereby THOMAS RUTHAL born at Cicester in this County bred in Cambridge where he commenced Doctor of the Laws was by King Henry the Seventh for his great Abilities preferred to be Bishop of Durham King Henry the Eighth made him of his Privy Councel notwithstanding the hatred which Cardinal VVolsey bare unto him It happened King Henry employed him as a politick person to draw up a Breviate of the State of the Land which he did and got it fairly transcribed But it fell out that in stead thereof he deceived with the likenesse of the cover and binding presented the King with a Book containing an Inventory of his own Estate amounting to an inviduous and almost incredible summe of One hundred thousand pounds VVolsey glad of this mistake told the King he knew now where a masse of money was in case he needed it This broke Ruthall his heart who had paid the third part of the cost of making the Bridge of New-Castle over Tyne and intended many more Benefactions had not death 1523. on this unexpected occasion surprised him Since the Reformation EDWARD FOX was born in Duresley in this County bred first in Eaton then in Kings Colledge in Cambridge whereof he was chosen Provost which place he kept until his death He was afterwards Almoner to King Henry the Eighth He first brought Doctor Cranmer to the knowledge of the King which Doctor first brought the King to the knowledge of himself how he stood in matter of marriage with the Widow of his Brother This Doctor Fox was after Bishop of Hereford and was saith my Author Reformationis Ecclesiasticae illius tempore coeptae clanculum fautor Let me adde he was the principal pillar of the Reformation as to the managery of the Politick and Prudential part thereof being of more activity and no less ability then Cranmer himself Martin Bucer dedicated unto him his Comment on the Gospels yea this Bishop wrote many Books whereof that De differentia utriusque potestatis was his Master-piece He was employed by the King on several Embassies into France and Germany and died to the great loss of Gods Church May 8. 1538. States-men Sir RALPH BUTLER Knight of the Garter and Lord Sudeley in this County was Lord Treasurer of England
I wish the continuance and Encrease of the breed of this kind of Canes Venatici And though the pleasure be not so much as in hunting of Hares the profit is more in destroying those Malignant Pioneers mischievous to Grasse more to Grain most to Gardens Lord Majors It is no less true theâ—… strange that this County so large in it self so near to London weekly changing Cloth for Money therewith is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I mean hath not contributed one to this Topick Such as suspect the truth thereof will be satisfied on their exact survey of Stow's Survey of London The Names of the Gentry in this Shire returned into the Tower by the Commissioners in the 12th Year of K. Henry the sixth anno 1445. H. Epus VVinton Cardinalis Angliae  Commissioners to take the Oath Reginaldus le Warre Miles   Johannes Lysle Knights for the Shire  Johannes Brewe de Stapule   Walter Sandes Chivaler Johannes Popham Chivaler Johannes Uvedale Willielm Warbleton Thome Tame VVilliam Fanconer Roberti Dyngle Steph. Popham Chivaler Willielm Brokays Willielm Ryngebourne Walter Veere Iohannes Hampton Iohannes Gyffard Iohannes Brinkeley Petri Condraye Iohannes Skilling Thome Ringewood senior Willielm Persh Iohannes Hacket Iohannes Haymowe Roberti Fursey Roberti Tylbourgh Willielm Astel. Iohannes Balon Iohannes Bray Iohannes Purbyke Iohannes Catevan Willielm Clive Willielm Chellys Iohannes Faukoner Iohannes Mofunt Willielm Tested Richard Rumsey Willielm Burton Roberti VVhittehede Richard Spicer Johannes atte Berwe de Charleford Johannes Lawrence Thome Rockley Thome Yardly Thome Benebury Willielm Wellis Iohannes Escote Iohannes Rotherfield Richard Parkere Iohannes Kybbyll Iohannes Barbour Symonis Almayn William Farcy Richard Punchardon Nicholas Bernard Nicholas Banestre Thome Wayte It will be worth our enquiry who this chief Commissioner Henry Bishop of Winchester was with his insolent Title of CARDINAL of ENGLAND I finde many eminent Epithets but none of the Quorum of St. Pauls Bishops meeting in his person viz. Noble Rich Valiant Politique and long-lived Noble being Son of JOHN à GAUNT by KATHARINE SWINFORD born at Beaufort in France whence he had his Name â—…rother to King Henry the Fourth Uncle to King Henry the fifth great Uncle to King Henry the Sixth Rich commonly called the Rich Cardinal In his time the King and Courtiers cast a covetous eye on Church-Endowments but were diverted from longer looking on them by the Councel of Arch-Bishop Chickly and Coin of this Bishop Beaufort The former putting the King upon the War with France the later lending him on good security twenty thousand Pounds a Sum sounding high in those dayes He was also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Cardinal of England though we had another and his Senior at the same time of the same Order viz. Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham Valiant being the Pope's Legate in plain English the Pope's General leading his Army into Bohemia in which service he behaved himself fortius quam Episcopum decebat Worldly â—…olitick venting words on his Death-bed to this purpose That if all England some Reporters take a longer Circuit would preserve his Life he was able by his Purse to purchase or by Policy to procure it Long Life having been Bishop of Lincolne and Winchester fifty Years yet was he so far from being weaned from the world he sucked the hardest as if he would have bit off the Nipples thereof the nearer he was to his Grave Dying anno 1447. He was in his Generation by a charitable Antiperistasis fixed betwixt Bishop Wickham and Wanfleet but did not equall them in his Benefactions to the publick though he founded a fair Hospital in VVinchester a work no doubt more acceptable to God than when he anno 1417 undertook and performed a dangerous Voyage to Jerusalem It is in my apprehension very remarkeable that the 3 aforesaid Bishops of Winchester Wickham Beaufort and Wanfleet sate successively in that See six score years lacking two not to be parallel'd in any other Bishoprick To take our leave of this great Cardinall we read of K. Josiah Now the rest of the Acts of K. Iosiah and his GOODNESS c. But as for this Prelate the rest of his acts and his GREATNESS we leave to such as are desirous thereof to collect them out of our English Hystorians Sheriffs of Hantshire HEN. II. Anno 1 Anno 2 Turcinus vic Anno 3 Turcinus vic Anno 4 Anno 5 Turcinus vic Anno 6 Anno 7 Rich. fil Turcini for 9 years Anno 16 Hugo de Gundevill for 4 years Anno 20 Herudus de Stratton Hugo de Gundevill for 5 years Anno 25 Hen. de Stratton Hugo de Gundevile Anno 26 Galf. fil Aze for 8 years RICH. I. Anno 1 Galf. fil Azon Anno 2 Ogerus fil Ogeri Anno 3 Joh. de Rebez Anno 4 Will. Briewere Anno 5 Ogerus fil Ogeri Anno 6 Hugo de Bosco for 5 years JOH REG. Anno 1 Hugo de Basco Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Will. Briewere Rad. de Bray Anno 4 Galf. fil Petri Will Stokes Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Rog. fil Ade for 4 years Anno 10 Walt. Briewere Alan de Bockland Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 Will. Briewere Anno 13 Hugo de Nevill Galf. de Salvaozins Anno 14 Idem Anno 15 Idem Anno 16 Will. de S to Johanne Anno 17 Will. Briewere Will de S to Johanne HEN. III. Anno 1 Anno 2 Pet. Winton Epis. Will de Schorewell for 7 yearr Anno 9 Rich. Epis. Saresb. Bartholomew de Kemes Anno 10 Idem Anno 11 Rich. Epis. Saresb. Gilb. de Staplebrigg Anno 12 Idem Anno 13 Nich. de Molis Walt. de Romsey Anno 14 Nich. de Molis Hen. de Bada Anno 15 Idem Anno 16 Idem Anno 17 Pet. Winton Epis. Rog. Wascelin Anno 18 Idem Anno 19 Hen. fil Nicholai Anno 20 Hen. fil Nich. Rob. de Mara Anno 21 Galf. de Insula Anno 22 Idem Anno 23 Idem Anno 24 Emueus de Lacy Anno 25 Idem Anno 26 Idem Anno 27 Rob. Passelewe for 6 years Anno 33 Rob. Passell Anno 34 Hen. Facull for 6 years Anno 40 Hen. de Farneleg Anno 41 Ja. le Savage Anno 42 Joh. le Jac. Savage Anno 43 Idem Anno 44 Will. de Wintershull Anno 45 Regin fil Petri Joh. de Flemer Anno 46 Idem Anno 47 Regin fil Petri Hereward de Marisco Anno 48 Idem Anno 49 Joh. de Botele Anno 50 Idem Anno 51 Gerar. de Grue Anno 52 Joh. le Botele Anno 53 Idem Anno 54 Idem Anno 55 Will. de Wintershull Anno 56 Idem EDW. I. Anno 1 Will. de Wintershull Anno 2 Hen. de Shote broke Anno 3 Joh. de Havering for 4 years Anno 7 Will. de Braybofe Anno 8 Idem Anno 9 Phil. de Foynil Anno 10 Idem Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 Simon de Winton Anno 13 Idem Anno
County a place so named as it seems from some noxious and malignant herbs growing therein What the natural plants there may be I know not sure the moral ones are excellent which hath produced so many of the Honourable Family of the Wottons Of whom this Nicholas Doctor of Civil Laws bred in Oxford may be termed a Center of Remarkables so many met in his person 1. He was Dean of the two Metropolitan Churches of Canterbury and York 2. He was the first Dean of those Cathedrals 3. He was Privy Councellor to four successive Soveraigns King Henry the eight King Edward the sixth Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth 4. He was employed Thirteen several times in Embassies to forraign Princes Now because there are some of so diffident Natures that they will believe no total summe except they peruse the particulars let them satisfie themselves with what followeth Five times to Charls the fifth Emperor Once to Philip his Son King of Spain Once to Francis the first King of France Once to Mary Queen of Hungary Governess of the Netherlands Twice to William Duke of Clive Once to renew the peace between England France and Scotland Anno Dom. 1540. Again to the same purpose at Cambra 1549. Once sent Commissioner with others to Edinbourgh in Scotland 1560. We must not forget how in the first of Queen Elizabeth the Archbishoprick of Canterbury was proffered unto and refused by him He died January the twenty sixth Anno Dom. 1566. being about seventy years of age and was buried in Canterbury GILES FLETCHER brother of Richard Fletcher Bishop of London was born in this County as I am credibly informed He was bred first in Eaton then in Kings Colledge in Cambridge where he became Doctor of Law A most excellent Poet a quality hereditary to his two Sons Giles and Phineas Commissioner into Scotland Germany and the Low-Countries for Queen Elizabeth and her Embassador into Russia Secretary to the City of London and Master of the Court of Requests His Russian Embassie to settle the English Merchandise was his master-piece to Theodor Juanowich Duke of Muscovia He came thither in a dangerous juncture of time viz. in the end of the year 1588. First some forraigners I will not say they were the Hollanders envying thâ—… free Trade of the English had done them bad offices Secondly a false report was generally believed that the Spanish Armado had worsted the English Fleet and the Duke of Muscovy who measured his favour to the English by the possibility he apprehended of their returning it grew very sparing of his smiles not to say free of his frowns on our Merchants residing there However our Doctor demeaned himself in his Embassie with such cautiousness that he not only escaped the Dukes fury but also procured many priviledges for our English Merchants exemplified in Mr. Hackluit Returning home and being safely arrived at London he sent for his intimate friend Mr. Wayland Prebendary of S. Pauls and Senior Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Tutor to my Father from whose mouth I received this report with whom he heartily exprest his thankfulnesse to God for his safe return from so-great a danger for the Poets cannot fansie Ulrsses more glad to be come out of the Den of Polyphemus than he was to be rid out of the power of such a barbarous Prince who counting himself by a proud and voluntary mistake Emperour of all Nations cared not for the Law of all Nations and who was so habited in blood that had he cut off this Embassadors head he and his friends might have sought their own amends but the question is where he would have found it He afterwards set forth a Book called The Russian Commonwealth expressing the Government or Tyranny rather thereof wherein saith my Author are many things most observable But Queen Elizabeth indulging the reputation of the Duke of Muscovy as a confederate Prince permitted not the publick printing of that which such who have private Copies know to set the valuation thereon I cannot attain the certain date of his death Physicians ROBERT FLOID who by himself is latined Robertus de Fluctibus was born in this County and that of a Knightly Family as I am informed bred as I take it in Oxford and beyond the Seas A deep Philosopher and great Physician who at last fixed his habitation in Fan-Church-Street London He was of the Order of the Rosa-Crucians and I must confesse my self ignorant of the first Founder and Sanctions thereof perchance none know it but those that are of it Sure I am that a Rose is the sweetest of Flowers and a Cross accounted the sacredest of forms or figures so that much of eminency must be imported in their composition His Books written in Latine are great many and mystical The last some impute to his Charity clouding his high matter with dark language left otherwise the lustre thereof should dazle the understanding of the Reader The same phrases he used to his Patients and seeing conceit is very contributive to the well working of Physick their fancy or faith-natural was much advanced by his elevated expressions His works are for the English to sleight or admire for French and Forraigners to understand and use not that I account them more judicious than our own Countrymen but more inquiring into such difficulties The truth is here at home his Books are beheld not so good as Chrystal which some say are prized as precious pearls beyond the Seas But I conclude all with the Character which my worthy though concealed Friend thus wrote upon him Lucubrationibus quas solebat edere profusissimas semper visus est plus sumere laboris quam Populares nostri volebant fructum quia hunc fere negligebant prae tedio legendi prejudicio quodam oleam perdendi operamque ob CABALAM quam scripta ejus dicebantur olere magis quam PERIPATUM ob ferventius hominis ingenium in quo plerique requirebant Judicium He died on the eighth of September Anno Dom. 1637. WILLIAM HARVEY Son of Thomas Harvey was born at Folkston in this County His Father had a Week of Sons whereof this William bred to learning was the eldest his other brethren being bound Apprentices in London and all at last ended in effect in Merchants They got great Estates and made their Father the Treasurer thereof who being as skilful to purchase Land as they to gain Money kept employed and improved their gainings to their great advantage so that he survived to see the meanést of them of far greater estate than himself Our William was bred in Caius Colledge in Cambridge where he proceeded Doctor of Physick Five years also he studied at Padua making a good Composition of Forraign and Domestick learning So that afterwards he was for many years Physician to King Charles the First And not only Doctor Medecinae but Doctor Medicorum For this was he that first found out the Circulation of the Blood an
the lands belonging to the Church of Norwich which formerly he had so industriously recovered and setled thereon were again called into question being begged by a Peer who shall pass nameless Sir Edward desired him to desist telling him that otherwise he would put on his Gown and Cap and come into Westminster-hall once again and plead there in any Court in Justification of what he had done He died at Stoke Poges in Buckingham-shire on Wednesday the 3. of September being the 83. year of his age whose last words were Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done Sir THOMAS RICHARDSON Knight was born at Mulbarton in this County his father being Minister thereof He was bred in the study of our Municipal-law and became the Kings Serjeant therein Afterwards on the 28. of November 1626. he was sworn Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas that place having been void ten months before But coming now to our own times it is safest for me to break off Virgil I remember put a period to his Eclogue with Et Hylax in limine latrat VVe 'l Verfifie no more For do but hark Hylax doth bark at th' entrance of the Dore. Seeing many will be ready to carp it is safest for me to be silent whilst his Brass Monument on the South-side of VVestminster Abby thus entertaineth the Reader Deo Om. Thomae Richardsoni Iceni Equitis Aurati Humanum Depositum Ille Juris Municip omnes gradus exantlavit Conventus tertii ordinis ann Jacobi Regis 21 22. Prolocutor extitit Fori civilis Communium Placitorum vocant Supremum Magistratum quinquennium gessit Ad summum tandem primarii per Angliam judicis Tribunal A Rege Carolo evectus expiravit Anno aetatis 66. salutis MDCXXXIIII Tho. Richardson fil unicus Eques Aur. Baro Scotiae designatus Patri incomparabili posuit This Judge married for his second Lady Elizabeth Beaumont the sister as I take it of Mary Countess of Buckingham and the Relict of ........ Ashburnham Knight She was by King Charles Created Baroness of Craumount in Scotland and though issueless by the Judge the Honour descended to his Grand-child Souldiers ROBERT VENILE Knight one I confess whose name I never heard of till meeting with this memorable Note in a Modern Historian And here must not be forgotten Robert Venile Knight a Norfolk man who when the Scots and English were ready to give battle a certain stout Champion of great stature commonly called Tournboll coming out of the Scots Army and challenging any English man to meet him in a single combate this Robert Venile accepteth the challenge and marching towards the Champion and meeting by the way a certain black Mastife dog which waited on the Champion he suddenly with his sword cut him off at the loyns and afterwards did more to the Champion himself cutting his head from off his shoulders This put me with blushing enough that one so eminent in himself should be altogether to me obscure upon the inquiry after this valiant Knight but all my industry could not retrive him in any author so that he seems to me a kin to those spirits who appear but once and finally vanish away Sir OLIVER HINGHAM was born richly landed and buried in Hingham an eminent Market-town in this County A right valiant man whom King Edward the third left Governour of Aquitain in France an honorable but difficult place being to make good a great Country with a few men against a fierce and numerous enemy Yet he gave a good account of his trust When the French lay before Burdeaux the Citizens thereof to abuse the enemies hopes set open their gates displaying the Golden-lilies the French-armes on their Towers as if they were theirs the French were no sooner securely entred but brave Oliver Captain of this City and Warden of the whole Country for King Edward gave them such an entertainment that they drank not so much Claret-wine in the City as they left Bloud behi nd them This happ'ned in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Edward the third This Sir Oliver liv'd many years after and was made Knight of the Garter and lies buried at Hingham under a fair tomb of free-stone curiously wrought with his resemblance in his Coat-Armour having a Crowned Owle out of an Ivy-bush for his Crest lying upon a Rock beholding Sun Moon and Stars because a great Travailer all lively set forth in metal with four and twenty mourners about his monument JOHN FASTOLFE Knight was a native of this County as I have just cause to believe though some have made him a French-man meerly because he was Baron of Sineginle in France on which account they may rob England of many other Worthies He was a Ward and that the last to John Duke of Bedford a sufficient evidence to such who understand time and place to prove him of English extraction To avouch him by many arguments valiant is to maintain that the sun is bright though since the Stage hath been over bold with his memory making him a Thrasonical Puff and emblem of Mock-valour True it is Sir John Oldcastle did first bear the brunt of the one being made the make-sport in all plays for a coward It is easily known out of what purse this black peny came The Papistsâ—…ailing â—…ailing on him for a Heretick and therefore he must also be a coward though indeed he was a man of arms every inch of him and as valiant as any in his age Now as I am glad that Sir John Oldcastle is put out so I am sorry that Sir John Fastolfe is put in to relieve his memory in this base service to be the anvil for every dull wit to strike upon Nor is our Comedian excusable by some alteration of his name writing him Sir John Falstafe and making him the property of pleasure for King Henry the fifth to abuse seeing the vicinity of sounds intrench on the memory of that worthy Knight and few do heed the inconsiderable difference in spelling of their name He was made Knight of the Garter by King Henry the sixth and died about the second year of his reign Sir CLEMENT PASTON Knight fourth son to Sir VVilliam Paston son to Sir John Paston a famous Soldier and favorite to King Edward the fourth sent by him with the Lord Scales to conduct the Lady Margaret the sister of the King to her husband Charles Duke of Burgundy son to VVilliam Paston the Judge was born at Paston in this County When a youth he was at the burning of Conquest in France and afterwards by King Henry the eight was made Captain of one of his ships of war and in a Sea-fight took a French Gally and therein the Admiral of France prisoner called the Baron of Blancard whom he brought into England and kept at Castor nigh rarmouth till he had payed 7000. crowns for his ransome besides the spoil of the Galley wherein he had a cup and two snakes of gold which were the
Minister bred Fellow of Trinity-colledge in Oxford afterwards an eminent Preacher in London and Dean of ............ Hence he was preferr'd Bishop of Bristol and afterwards of Oxford and is still and long may he be living States-men Sir CHRISTOPHER HATTON was born I collect at Holdenby in this County of a family rather ancient then wealthy yet of no mean estate He rather took a bate then made a meal at the Inns of Court whilst he studied the Laws therein He came afterwards to the Court in a mask where the Queen first took notice of him loving him well for his handsome dancing better for his proper person and best of all for his great abilities His parts were far above his learning which mutually so assisted each other that no manifest want did appear and the Queen at last preferred him Lord Chancellour of England The Gown-men grudging hereat conceived his advancement their injury that one not thoroughly bred in the Laws should be preferred to the place How could he cure diseases unacquainted with their causes who might easily mistake the Justice of the Common-law for Rigour not knowing the true reason thereof Hereupon it was that some sullen Serjeants at the first refused to plead before him until partly by his power but more by his prudence he had convinced them of their errors and his abilities Indeed he had one Sir Richard Swale Doctor of the Civil-laws and that Law some say is very sufficient to dictate equity his servant-friend whose advice he followed in all matters of moment A scandal is raised that he was popishly affected and I cannot blame the Romanists if desirous to countenanâ—…e their cause with so considerable a person Yet most â—…ue it is that his zeal for the discipline of the Church of England gave the first being and life to this report One saith that he was a meer Vegetable of the Court that sprung up at night and sunk again at his noon though indeed he was of longer continuance Yet it brake his heart that the Queen which seldome gave boons and never forgave due debts rigorously demanded the present payment of some arrears which Sir Christopher did not hope to have remitted but did onely desire to be forborn failing herein in his expectation it went to his heart and cast him into a mortal disease The Queen afterwards did endeavour what she could to recover him bringing as some say cordial broaths unto him with her own hands but all would not do Thus no Pullies can draw up a heart once cast down though a Queen her self should set her hand thereunto He dyed Anno Domini 1591. and is buried under a stately monument in the Qâ—…ire of Saint Pauls Sir WILLIAM FITZ-WILLIAMS born at Milton in this County married the sister of Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy of Ireland Yea he himself was five times Lord Deputy of that Kingdome a sufficient evidence of his honesty and ability seeing Queen Elizabeth never trusted twice where she was once deceiv'd in a Minister of State She so preserved him in the power of his place that sending over Walter Earl of Essex a person higher in honour to be Governour of Ulster it was ordered that the Earl should take his Commission from the Lord Deputy An intelligent pen alloweth him serviceable towards the reduction of that Kingdome in two eminent particulars First in raising a composition in Mounster then in setling the possessions of the Lords and Tenants in Monahan one of the last acts of State tending to the reformation of the civil government perform'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth His vigilancy was most conspicuous in the Eighty-eight when the routed Armado in its return did look dared not to land in Ireland except against their wills driven by tempest when they found the shore worse then the sea unto them I confess some impute the Irish Rebellion which afterwards brake out to this Deputies severity in imprisoning suspected persons for concealing Spanish goods though this onely gave the Irish a mantle for their intended wickedness He died Anno Domini 15 ... Sir ISAAC WAKE was born in this County whose father Arthur Wake Clerk was Parson of Billing Master of the Hospital of Saint Johns in Northampton and Canon of Christs-church and son to John VVake of Sancy-forrest Esquire of a most ancient and honorable family He was bred Fellow of Merton-colledge in Oxford Proctour and Oratour of that University he was afterwards Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton Secretary of State and from his was advanced into the Kings Service and imployed Embassadour to Venice where he neglected his own commodity to attend his Majesties imployment the reason that he died rich onely to his own Conscience Coming from Venice he was appointed Leiger for France and designed Secretary of State had not death prevented him at Paris He was accomplished with all qualifications requisite for publique Employment Learning Languages Experience Abilities and what not King Charles hearing of his death commanded his Corps to be decently brought from Paris into England allowing the expences for his Funeral and enjoyning his neerest relations to attend the performance thereof These accordingly met his body at Bulloin in France and saw it solemnly conveyed into England where it was interred in the Chappel of the Castle of Dover Anno Dom. 16 ... Capital Judges and Writers on the Law MARTIN de PATESHULL Let him remain here till any shall show me a Town called Pateshulle in any other County of England which village in this Shire gave the name and afforded the habitation to that ancient family Though a Clergy-man he was in the first of King Henry the third made Justice of the Lower-â—…ench or Common-Pleas wherein he continued for twelve years and upwards as appeareth by the date of his death out of an excellent Author Eodem anno obiit Martinus de Pateshulle Decanus St. Pauli London 18. Cal. Decem. vir mirae prudentiae Legum Regni peritissimus He was the fourth Dean of Saint Pauls as reckoned up in Bishop Godwin his Catalogue In that age we see Clergy men were not onely trusted with the spirit I mean the equity but also with the letter of the Law being Judges in those Courts wherein were the most strictest proceedings Sir THOMAS de BILLING was born in this County where two Villages his namesakes near Northampton and had his habitation in great state at Ashwell in this Shire He was made Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench in the sixth and so continued till the one and twentieth of Edward the fourth whose lands and those very large have since by the Lovels descended to the Shirlies Nothing else have I to observe of him save that he married for his second wife Mary the daughter and heir of Robert Nesenham of Conington in Huntingtonshire the Relict of William Cotton whose issue possess her inheritance at this day and she lieth intomb'd in VVestminster Sir
Stutvile 〈◊〉 Dallam 〈◊〉 Argent and Gules a Lion rampant Sable Nicol. Bacon miles ut prius  Reg. JACO   Anno   1 〈◊〉 Bacon miles ut prius  2 Edm. Bokemham armiger   〈◊〉 Tho. Playters arm 〈◊〉 Bendy Wavy of six Argent and Azure 4 Antho. Penning ar   Iâ—…oho Wentworth armiger  Sable a Cheveron between 3 Leopaâ—…ds heads Or. 6 Lionel Talmarsh ar ut prius  7 Geo. le Hunt miles   8 Thom. Tilney arm ut prius  9 Calthorp Parker mil. ut prius  10 Martin Stutevil ut prius  11 Rob. Brook miles  AMP. 12 Rob. Barker mil.  Perfess embatt'led Or and Azure 3 martlets counterchanged 13 Tho. Clench arm   14 Lio. Ialmarsh m. B. ut prius Azure a Cheveron Argent 15 Edw. Lewkenor m.   16 Io. Wentworth m. ut prius  17 Hen. North miles  Azure a Lion passant Or between 3 Flower de 〈◊〉 Ar. 18 Will. Spring miles ut prius  19 Will. Wetle arm   20 Rob. Brook arm   21 Nâ—… Bernardiston m ut prius  22 Galf. Pittman arm   Reg. CAROL   1 Sam. Aylemer arm Cleydon Argent a Cross Sable betwixt 4 Cornish 〈◊〉 proper 2 Joha Prescot mil.  S. a Chev. betwixt 3 〈◊〉 Ar. 3 Maur. Barrowe ar  S. 2 swords in Saltire Ar. 〈◊〉 betw 4 flowers de luce Or within a Bordure compone of the second and 〈◊〉 4 Brampt Gourden a. ut prius  5 Hen Hookenham a.   6 Iohan Acton arm   7 Rob. Crane miles Chyston Ar. a Fess betw 3 Cross 〈◊〉 fitchee Gu. 8 Will. * Some miles   9 Edw. Bacon miles ut prius Gules a Cheveron betwixt 3 Mallets Or. 10 Ioha Barker arm ut prius  11 Ioha Rouse miles ut prius  12 Phil. Parker mil. ut prius  13 Ed. Duke armiger Brampton Az a Cheveron betwixt 3 〈◊〉 Argent membred Gules 14 Ioh. Clench arm   15 Sim. Dewes miles Stow-Hall Or 3 Quatersoilâ—…s Gules 16 VVill. Spring arm ut prius  17 Will. 〈◊〉 aâ—…   18 Maur. Barrowe arâ—… ut prius  19   20 Ioha Cotton arm   21   22 Tho. Blosse arm   Queen ELIZABETH 18 JOHN HIGHAM Arm. I find this passage in the Ingenious Michael Lord Montaigne in France in his Essay * of Glory I have no name which is sufficiently mine Of two I have the one common to all my Race yea and also to others There is a Family at Paris and another at Montpellier called Montaigne another in Brittanny and one in Zantoigne surnamed de la Montaigne The removing of one only syllable may so confound our Web as I shall have a share in their Glory and they perhaps a part of my shame And my Ancestors have heretofore been surnamed HEIGHAM or HIQUEM a surname which also belongs to an House well known in England Indeed the Highams so * named from a Village in this County were for I suspect them extinct a right Ancient Family and Sr Clement Heigham Ancestor to this John our Sheriff who was a Potent Knight in his Generation lies buried under a fair Tomb in Thorning-Church in Northfolk 20 ROBERT JERMIN Miles He was a Person of singular Piety a bountiful Benefactor to Emanuel-Colledge and a man of great command in this County He was Father to Sir Tho. Jermin Privy Concellour and Vice-Chamberlain to King Charles the First Grandfather to Thomas and Henry Jermin Esquires The younger of these being Lord Chamberlain to our present Queen Mary and sharing in her Majesties sufferings during her long Exile in France was by King Charles the Second deservedly advanced Baron and Earl of St. Albans 23 NICHOLAS BACON Miles He was son to Sir Nicholas and elder Brother to Sir Francis Bacon both Lord Chancellors of England and afterward by King James in the ninth of his reign on the 22 of May created the first Baronet of England 36 THOMAS CROFTS Armiger He was a Man of Remark in his generation Father to Sir John Crofts Grand-father to .... Crofts who for his Fidelity to his Sovereign during his suffering condition and for several Embassies worthily performed to the King of Poland and other Princes was created Baron Crofts by King Charles the Second CHARLES the First 15 SIMONDS DEWES Miles This Sir Simonds was Grand-child unto Adrian Dâ—…wes descended of the Ancient Stem of Des Ewes Dynasts or Lords of the Dition of Kessel in the Dutchy of Gelderland who came first thence when that Province was wasted with Civil War in the beginning of King Henry the Eighth He was bred in Cambridge as appeared by his printed speech made in the long Parliament wherein he indeavoured to prove it more Ancient than Oxford His Genious addicted him to the study of Antiquity Preferring Rust before Brightness and more conforming his mind to the Garbe of the former than mode of the moderne times He was studious in Roman Coin to discriminate true ones from such as were cast and counterfeit He passed not for Price to procure a choice piece and was no less careful in conserving than curious in culling many rare Records He had plenty of pretious Medals out of which a methodical Architect might contrive a fair Fabrick for the benefit of posterity His Treasury afforded things as well new as old on the token that he much admired that the Ordinances and Orders of the late Long Parliament did in Bulks and number exceed all the Statutes made since the Conquest He was loving to Learned Men to whom he desired to do all good offices and died about the year of our Lord 1653. The Fare-wel To conclude our description of Suffolk I wish that therein Grain of all kinds may be had at so reasonable rates that rich and poor may be contented therewith But if a Famine should happen here let the poor not distrust Divine providence whereof their Grand-fathers had so admirable a testimony 15. When in a general dearth all over England plenty of Pease did grow on the Sea-shore near Dunwiâ—…h never set or sown by humane industry which being gathered in full ripeness much abated the high prices in the Markets and preserved many hundreds of hungry Families from famishing SURREY hath Middlesex divided by the Thames on the North Kent on the East Sussex on the South â—…ant Bark-shires on the West It may be allowed to be a Square besides its Angular expatiation in the South-west of two and twenty miles and is not unproperly compared to a Cynamon-tree whose Bark is far better than the Body thereof For the skirts and borders bounding this Shire are rich and fruitful whilst the ground in the inward parts thereof is very hungry and barren though by reason of the clear Air and clean wayes full of many gentile habitations Naturall Commodities Fullers-Earth The most and best of this
King Edward the second regaining his Good will by the intercession of Arch-bishop Mepham and being a Subject not to the Prosperity but person of his Prince he forsooke him not in his greatest Extremity This cost him the Displeasure of the Queen Mother and King Edward the third till at last Converted by his Constancy they turned their frowns into smiles upon him When Arch-bishop of Canterbury he perswaded King Edward the third to invade France promising to supply him with competent provisions for the purpose A promise not so proportionable to his Archiepiscopal Capacity as to him as he had been twice Treasurer of England and skilfull in the collecting and advancing of money so that he furnished the King with great sums at his first setting forth for France These being spent before the year ended the King sends over for a supply Stratford instead of Coin returns Counsell advising him to alter his Officers otherwise if so much was spent at a Breakfast the whole wealth of the land would not suffice him for Dinner Over comes the angry King from whose fury Stratford was forc'd to conceal himself untill publickly passing his purgation in Parliament he was restored to the reputation of his Innocence and rectified in the Kings esteem He built and bountifully endowed a Beautifull Colledge in the Town of his Nativity and having set Archbishop fifteen years dyed Anno 1348. leaving a perfumed memory behind him for his Bounty to his Servants Charity to the Poor Meekness and Moderation to all persons RALPH STRATFORD kinsman to the foresaid Arch-bishop was born in the Town of Stratford on Avon where he built a Chappel to the honour of Saint Thomas He was first Cannon of Saint Pauls and afterwards May 12. 1339. was consecrated at Canterbury Bishop of London During his sitting in that See there happened so grievous a Pestilence in London that hardly the Tenth Person in some places did escape Then each Church-yard was indeed a Polyandrum so that the Dead might seem to Justle one another for room therein Yea the Dead did kill the Living so shallowly were their heaped Corps interred Whereupon this Bishop Charitably bought a Piece of Ground nigh Smithfield It was called No Mans-Land not à parte Ante as formerly without an Owner seeing it had a Proprictary of whom it was legally purchased but de futuro none having a particular interest therein though indeed it was All-Mens-Land as designed and consecrated for the Generall Sepulture of the Deceased This Bishop having continued about 14. years in his See he died at Stepney 1355. ROBERT STRATFORD brother to the Arch-bishop aforesaid was in the reign of King Edward the third made Bishop of Chichester He was at the same time Chancellour of Oxford wherein he was bred and of all England Honorable Offices which sometimes have met in the same Person though never more deservedly then in the Present Enjoyer of them both In his time there was a tough contest betwixt the South and Northern-men in that University They fell from their Pens to their Hands using the contracted fist of Marâ—…ial Logick bloody blows passing betwixt them Th s Bishop did wisely and fortunately bestirre himself an Arbitrator in this Controversy being a proper Person for such a performance born in this County in the very Navil of England so that his Nativity was a Naturall Expedient betwixt them and his Judgement was unpartiall in compremising the difference He was accused to the King for favouring the French with his Brother Archbishop contented patiently to attend till Pregnant Time was delivered of Truth her Daughter and then this Brace of Prelates appeared Brethren in Integrity He died at Allingbourn April 9. 1362. JOHN VESTY alias HARMAN Doctor of Law was born at Sutton Colefield in this County bred in Oxford A most vivacious person if the Date of these Remarks be seriously considered 1. In the twentieth year of King Henry the sixth he was appointed to celebrate the Divine-service in the Free-Chappell of Saint Blase of Sutton aforesaid 2. In the twentie third year of Henry the seventh he was made Vicar of Saint Michaells Church in Coventry 3. Under K. Henry the eighth he was made Dean of the Chappell Royall Tutor to the Lady Mary and President of Wales 4. In the Eleventh of K. Henry the eighth 1519. he was advanced to be Bishop of Exeter Which Bishoprick he destroyed not onely shaving the Hairs with long leases but cutting away the limbs with sales outright in so much that Bishop Hall his successor in that See complaineth in print that the following Bishops were Barons but Bare-ones indeed Some have Confidently affirmed in my hearing that the word to Veize that is in the West to drive away with a Witness had its Originall from his Profligating of the lands of his Bishoprick but I yet demurre to the truth thereof He robbed his own Cathedrall to pay a Parish Church Sutton in this County where he was born wheron he bestowed many Benefactions and built fifty one houses To inrich this his Native Town he brought out of Devonshire many Clothiers with Desire and Hope to fix the Manufacture of Cloathing there All in vaine for as Bishop Godwin observeth Non omnis fert omnia tellus Which though true conjunctively that all Countrys put together bring forth all things to be Mutually bartered by a Reciprocation of Trade is false disjunctively no one place affording all Commodities so that the Cloath-workers here had their pains for their labour and sold for their lost It seems though he brought out of Devon-shire the Fiddle and Fiddlestick he brought not the Rosen therewith to make Good Musick and every Country is innated with a Peculiar Genius and is left handed to those trades which are against their Inclinations He quitted his Bishoprick not worth keeping in the reign of King Edward the sixth and no wonder he resumed it not in the reign of Queen Mary the Bone not being worth the taking the Marrow being knocked out before He died being 103. years old in the reign of Q. Mary and was buried in his Native Town with his Statue Mitred and Vested Since the Reformation JOHN BIRD was born in the City of Coventry bred a Carmelite at Oxford and became afterwards the 31. the head-game and last Provinciall of his Order He Preached some smart Sermons before King Henry the eighth against the Primacy of the Pope for which he was preferred saith Bishop Godwin to be successively Bishop of Ossery in Ireland Bangor in Wales and Chester in England To the two last we concur but dissent to the former because John Bale contemporary with this John Bird and also Bishop of Ossery who therefore must be presumed skilfull in his Predecessors in that See nameth him not Bishop of Ossery but Episcopum Pennecensem in Hiberniâ the same Bale saith of him Audivi eum ad Papismi vomitum reversum I have heard that in the reign of Queen Mâ—…ry he returned to
performance 1. Being hardly 22. years old in the fift of King Henry the fourth at the Queens Coronation he Justed and Challenged all commers 2. He bid battle to Owen Glendour the Welch Rebell put him to flight and took his Bannor with his own hands 3. He fought a pitch'd field against the two Piercies at Shrewsbury and overcame them 4. In his passage to the Holy land whither he went on Pilgrimage he was challenged at Verona by an Italian Sir Pandulph Malacet to fight with him at three weapons viz. with Axes Arming Swords and Sharp Daggers whom he had slain at the second weapon had not some seasonably interceded 5. Fighting at Justs in France with Sir Collard Fines at every stroke he bare him back-ward to his horse and when the French suspected that he was tyed to his Saddle to confute their jealousies our Earl lighted and presently remounted 6. He was eminently active in the Kings victorious battles in France and might truely say Quorum pars ego magna fui 7. He was one of those whom King Henry the fifth sent to the Counsell of Constance whose whole retinue amounted unto eight hundred horse 8. Here he killed a Dutch Duke who challenged him Sigismond the Emperour and his Empress beholding it 9. The Empresse affected with his valour took the Badge from one of the Earls men being a plain Bear of Silver anâ—… wore it on her shoulder But the next day our Earl presented her with a Bear which was his Crest made of Pearls and Precious Stones 10. Being sent by King Henry the fifth with a thousand men in armes to fetch Q. Katherine sole daughter to the King of France he fought with the Earls of Vendosm and Linosin killed one of them with his own hand routed the forces of five thousand men and brought the Lady whom he saw safely married to the King 11. He was by the said Kings Will appointed Governour to his son in his mâ—…no rity and made Lieutenant oâ—… aâ—…l France 12. During his life our â—…uccess in France was progressive and retrograde aâ—…ter his death It must not be forgotten how Sigismond the Emperour coming into England told King Henry the fifth that no Christian King had such another Knight foâ—… 〈◊〉 Nurture and Manhood He obtained leave of the King because in his Dominions that he might by Imperial Authority fix a Title of Honour upon him and caused him to be named the Father of Courtesie as indeed true courage and courtesie are undividuall Companions The last time he went over into Normandy he was tossed with a hideous Tempest so that despairing of life he caused himself to be bound for who could bind him against his will with his Lady and infant Son to the Main Mast on this design that having his Armour and Coat of Armes upon him he might thereby be known that such who should light on his corps if either noble or charitable might afford him a Christian buriall Yet he escaping the Tempest and landing safely in France dyed in his bed no usuall repose for so restless and active a spirit at Roan of a lingring disease April 30. 1439. and lieth buried in a most stately Tombe in a Chappel of the Collegiat Church of Warwick where his Epitaph graven in brasse is pointed with Bears serving for Commas Colons Periods and all distinctions thereof His deeds of Charity according to the devotion of those days were little inferior to the Atchievements of his valour Physitians and Chemists Sir EDWARD KELLEY alias TALBOT was born at Worcester as I have it from the Scheame of his Nativity graved from the original calculation of Doctor Dee Anno Domini 1555. August the first at four a clock in the afternoon the Pole being there elevated gr 52. 10. Thus Reader I hope that my exactness herein will make some reparation for my uncertainties and looser intelligence in the births of othâ—…r persons He was well studied in the mysteries of nature being intimaâ—…e wiâ—…h Doctor Dee who was beneath him in Chemistry but above him in Mathematicks These two are said to have found a very large quantity of Elixir in the ruins of Glassâ—…nbury Abby Indeed I have read how William Bird the Prior of the Bath left and lost the Elixir in the walls of his Priory and it may seem strange that what was lost at Bath was found at Glassenbury in the same County indeed but sixteen miles asunder But so long as Kelley had this treasure none need trouble themselves how or where he came by it Afterwards being here in some trouble he went over beyond the seas with Albertus Alasco a Polonian Baron who gave for his Armes the Hull of a ship having onely a Main-mast and a top without any tackling and gave for his Motto Deus dabit Vela God will send Sails But it seems this Lord had formeny carried too high a sail of whom a good Author reporteth that Aere alieno oppressuâ—… clam recessit and now it seems sought to repair his fortunes by associating himself with these two Arch-chemists of England How long they continued together is to me unknown Sir Edward though I know not how he came by his Knight-hood with the Doctor fixed at Trebona in Bohemia where he is said to have transmuted a brass warming-pan without touching or melting onely warming it by the fire and putting the Elixir thereon into pure silver a piece whereof was sent to Queen Elizabeth He had great converse with Rodulphus the second Emperour I have seen a voluminous Manuscript in Sir Thomas Cotton his Library of the particulars of their mysterious proceedings where amongst many strange passages I find this ensuing monstrosity They kept constant intelligence with a Messenger or Spirit giving them advice how to proceed in their mysticall discoveries and injoyning them that by way of preparatory qualification for the same they should enjoy their Wives in common Though boggling hereat at first they resolved to submit thereunto because the Law-giver might dispence with his Laws in matters of so high a nature Hereby may the Reader guess the rest of their proceedings This probably might be the cause why Doctor d ee left Kelley and return'd into England Kelley continuing still in Germany ranted it in his expences say the Brethren of his own art above the sobriety befitting so mysterious a Philosopher He gave away in gold-wyer-rings at the marriage of one of his Maid-servants to the value of four thousand pounds As for the high conceit he had of his own skill in Chemistry it appeareth sufficiently in the beginning of his own works though I confess my self not to understand the Geberish of his language All you that fain Philosophers would be And night and day in Geber's kitchin broyle Wasting the chips of ancient Hermes Tree Weening to turn them to a precious Oyle The more you work the more you loose and spoil To you I say how learn'd so e're you be Go burn your Books and
prius  14 Nich. Moor ar   The Farewell I understand that in January 1607. part of this County which they call the Moore sustained a great loss by the breaking in of the Severn sea caused by a violent South-west wind continuing for three dayes together I heartily desire the Inhabitants thereof may for the future be secured from all such dangerous inundations water being a good servant but bad master by his Providence who bindeth the sea in a girdle of sands and saith to the waves thereof Thus far shall ye go and no further PEMBROKE-SHIRE is surrounded on all sides with the Sea save on the North-East where it boundeth on Cardigan and East where it butteth on Carmarthen-shire A County abounding with all things necessary for mans livelihood and the East part thereof is the pleasantest place in all VVales which I durst not have said for fear of offence had not Giraldus their own Country-man affirmed it Nor is it less happy in Sea than in Land affording plenty of Fish especially about Tenby therefore commonly called Tenby-y-Piscoid which I rather observe for the vicinity of the British piscoid with the Latine piscosus for fishfull though never any pretended an affinity between the two Languages A part of this Country is peopled by Flemmings placed there by King Henry the first who was no less politick than charitable therein For such Flemmings being driven out of their own Country by an irruption of the Ocean were fixed here to defend the land given them against the Welsh and their Country is called little England beyond Wales This mindeth me of a passage betwixt a Welsh and English man the former boasting Wales in all respects beyond England to whom the other returned he had heard of an England beyond Wales but never of a Wales beyond England Natural Commodities Faulcons Very good are bred in this County of that kind they call Peregrines which very name speaks them to be no Indeginae but Forraigners at first lighting here by some casualty King Henry the second passing hence into Ireland cast off a Norway Goshawk at one of these but the Gos-hawk taken at the source by the Faulcon soon fell down at the Kings foot which performance in this ramage made him yearly afterward send hither for Eyesses These Hawkes Aeries not so called from building in the Air but from the French word Aire an Egge are many in the Rocks in this Shire Buildings For a sacred structure the Cathedral of Saint David is most eminent began by Bishop Peter in the raign of King John and finished by his Successors though having never seen it I can say little thereof But in one respect the roof thereof is higher than any in England and as high as any in Europe if the ancient absolute independent jurisdiction thereof be considered thus stated by an Authentick Author Episcopi Walliae à Menevensi Antistite sunt consecrati ipse similiter ab aliis tanquam suffraganeis est consecratus nulla penitus alii Ecclesiae facta professione vel subjectione The generality of which words must be construed to have reference as well to Rome as to Canterbury Saint Davids acknowledging subjection to neither till the reign of King Henry the first Princes HENRY TUTHAR Son to Edmund Earl of Richmond and Margaret his Lady was born at Pembroke in this County Anno Dom. In the reign of King Henry the sixth he was bred a Child at Court when a young man he lived an Exile in France where he so learned to live of a little that he contracted a habit of frugality which he did not depose till the day of his death Having vanquished King Richard the third in the battel of Bosorsth and married Elizabeth eldest Daughter to King Edward the fourth he reigned King of England by the name of Henry the seventh He is generally esteemed the wisest of our English Kings and yet many conceive that the Lord Bacon writing his life made him much wiser than he was picking more prudence out of his actions than the King himself was privy to therein and not content to allow him politick endeavoured to make him policy it self Yet many thiâ—…k hâ—…s judgemenâ—… 〈◊〉 him when refusing the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Columbus for the discovery of America who might therein have made a secret advenâ—…e without any prejudice to the râ—…putation of his wisdom But such his waâ—…ss he would not tamper with costly Contâ—…s though never â—…o probable to be gainful nor would he hazard a hook of Silver to catch a fish of Gold He was the first King who secretly sought to abaâ—…e the formidable greatness the Parent of many former Rebellions in the English â—…earage lessening their Dependencies countenaâ—…cing the Commons and encouraging the Yeomandry with provisions against Depopulations However â—…ereby he did not free his Successors from fear but only exchanged their care making the Commons who because more numerous less manageble more absolute and able in time to conâ—…est with Soveraignty He survived his Queen by whom he had the true Title to the Crown about five years Some will say that all that time he was King only by the Courtesie of England which I am sure he was loth to acknowledge Others say he held the Crown by Conquest which his Subjects were as unwilling to confess But let none dispute how hâ—… hâ—…ld seeing he held it having Pope Parliament Power Purse Success and some shadow of Succession on his side His greatest fault was grinding his Subjects with grievous exactions he was most magnificent in those Structures he hath left to posterity Amongst wâ—…ich his â—…evotion to God is most seen in two Chappels the one at Cambridge the other at Westminster his charity to the poor in the Hospital of the Savoy his Magnificence to himself in his own Monument of guilded Copper and his vanity to the World in building a Ship called the Great Harry of equal cost saith some with his Chappel which asterwards sunk into the Sea and vanished away in a moment He much imployed Bishops in his service finding them honest and able And here I request the judicious and learned Reader to help me at a dead liâ—… being posed with this passage written in his life by the Lord Verulam He did use to raise Bishops by steps that he might not lose the profits of the First fruits which by that course of gradation was multiplied Now I humbly conceive that the First fruits in the common acception of the word were in that age paid to the Pope and would fain be informed what By-FirstFruits these were the emolument whereof accrued to the Crown This politick King at his Palace of Richmond April 22. 1509. ended his life and was buried in the Magnificent Chappel aforesaid On the same token that he ordered by his last Will and Testament that none save such of the Blood Royal who should descend from his Loyns should be buried in that place
cured all Maladies and so in my apprehension gave a Supersedeas to the Practitioners in that Faculty and yet I find honourable mention made of Luke the beloved Physician But since I have wondred at my wondring thereat For that Communion of Goods was but tâ—…mporal for a short continuance and topical of a narrow compasse practised onely in Judea or thereabouts whilest the Churches amongst the Gentiles continued their propriety and particularly at Rome where Zenas had his Habitation and had work enough no doubt to exercise his Profession even amongst Christians themselves As for the Apostles they had not alwayes power at their own pleasure to work Miâ—…acles and cure diseases in all Persons no nor allwayes in themselves witnesse sick St. Paul receiving in himself the Sentence of Death but as they were directed for the glory of God and other occasions And therefore notwithstanding their miraculous Power St Luke might have plenty of Practice in his Profession Not was it probable that God the Authour of all Ingenuity would by the giving of the Gospel utterly extinguish any literal Calling which formerly had been publickly lawfully and needfully professed We have in our following Book given in the List of some Eminent LAVVYERS Civilians and Cannonists who have wrote on that Subject though we confess them very few in Number their Profession being lately undeservedly disgraced though now we congratulate the probability of the Restitution thereof to its former Dignity Sure I am in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth when an Embassadour was sent to Foreign PRINCES if it were an Affair of grand importance and more than a mere matter of magniâ—…ent complement some able Civilian as Doctor Hadden Dale Fletcher c. was joyned in Commission with the Noble-man imployed on that Embassie And as the Iron Doggs bear the burthen of the fuel while the Brasen-Andirons stand only for state to entertain the Eyes so the Negotiating part was loaded on the Civil 〈◊〉 whilest the Pomp-pageantry was discharged at the cost of the Noble-man Writers on Physick The Pâ—…ecept in the Apocrypha hath a Canonical Truth therein Honour the Physician for necessity sake and although King Asa justly received little benefit by them because of his preposterous addressing himself to them before he went to God and the. Woman in the Gospel troubled with the Issue reaped lesse ease by their Endeavours because God reserved her a Subject for his own Miraculous Cure yet in all Ages Millions have been cured by their Practice The Ancient Briâ—…tans who went without Cloathes may well be presumed to live without Physick Yet seing very Beasts know what is good for themselves the Dear the Cretan Dictamum and Toad his Antidote of plantaine sure they had some experimental Receipts used amongst them and left the rest to Nature and Temperance to cure The Saxons had those they termed Leaches or Bloud-letters but were little skilled in methodical practise Under the Normans they began in England and would we had ferch'd Physicians onely and not Diseases from France Yet three hundred years since it was no distinct Profession by it self but practiced by men in Orders witness Nicholas de Fernham the chief English Physician and Bishop of Durham Hugh of Evesham a Physician and Cardinal Grisant a Physician and Pope Yea the word Physician appears not in our Statutes till the days of King Henry the eight who incorporated their Colledge at London since which time they have multiplied and flourished in our Nation but never more and more learned then in our age wherein that Art and especially the Anatomical part thereof is much improved our Civil Wars perchance occasioning the latter We begin our Catalogue at Richardus Anglicus our first Physician flourishing Anno 1230. and continue to Doctor Harvey whom I may term Gulielmus Anglicus such honour he hath done England by his worthy Writings Thus wishing them all happy success in their Practice I desire a custome in France and other forreign parts naturalized in England where a Physician is liable to Excommunication if visiting a Patient thrice before he acquainteth a Priest of his sickness that so the Medicine for soul and body may go hand in hand together Chimistry Chimistry is an ingenious Profession as which by Art will force somewhat of worth and eminence from the dullest substance yea the obduras'st and hardest hearted body cannot but shed forth a tear of precious liquor when urged thereunto with its intreaties They may be termed Parcel-physicians every day producing rare experiments for the curing of many diseas es bu I must confess there occurs t few and of those few fewer Modern ones through the whole series of our Book Yet may we be said to have extracted the spirits I mean such as were eminent therein of this Profession being confident the judicious Reader will value one Jem before many Barly Corns and one Drop of a true extract before many Bottles of worthless water Chirurgery Necessary and ancient their Profession ever since mans body was subject to enmity and casualty For that promise A bone of him shall not be broken is peculiar to Christ. As for the other To keep them in all their ways that they dash not their foot against a stone though it be extended to all Christians yet it admitteth as other temporal promises of many exceptions according to Gods will and pleasure It seemeth by the Parable of the good Samaritan who bound up the Passengers wounds pouring in Oil and Wine that in that age ordinary persons had a general insight in Chirurgery for their own and others use And it is reported to the just praise of the Scotch Nobility that anciently they all were very dextrous thereat particularly it is written of James the fourth King of Scotland Quod vulnera scientissime tractaret He was most scilful at the handling of wounds But we speak of Chirurgery as it is a particular Mystery Professed by such as make a Vocation thereof Of whom we have inserted some eminent for their Writings or otherwise amongst Physicians and that as we hope without any offence seeing the healing of diseases and wounds were anciently one Calling as still great the Sympathy betwixt them many diseases causing wounds as Ulcers as wounds occasioning diseases as feavers till in process of time they were seperated and Chirurgions only consigned to the Manual Operation Thus wishing unto them the three Requisits for their practise an Eagles Eye a Ladies Hand ond a Lions Heart I leave them and proceed CHAP. X. Writers BEING to handle this Subject let not the Reader expect that I will begin their Catalogue from Fabulous Antiquity or rather fanciful Fabels For if the first Century of J. Bale or J. Pits their British Writers were Garbled four parts of five would be found to be Trash such as 1. Samothes Gigas 2. Magus Samotheus 3. Sarron Magius 4. Druys Sarronius 5. Bardus Druydius 6. Albion Mareoticus 7. Brytus Julius 8. Gerion
Spaniards themselves coming over hither acquit themselves as good Trencher-men as any so that it seems want not temperance makes them so abstemious at home All amounts not to any just defence excess being an ill expression of our thankfullness to God for his goodness Nor need we with the Egyptians to serve up at the last course a dead mans head to mind us of our mortality seeing a Feast well considered is but a Charnel house of foul Fish and Flesh and those few shell-fish that are not kill'd to our hands are kill'd by our teeth It is vaine therefore to expect that dead food should alwaies preserve life in the feeders thereupon Long beards heartless painted-hoods witless Gay-coats graceless make England thriftless Though this hath more of Libell than Proverb therein and is stark false in it self yet it will truely acquaint us with the habits of the English in that Age. Long-beards heartless Our English did use nutrire comam both on their Head and beards concieving it made them more amiable to their friends and terrible to their foes Painted-hoods witless Their hoods were stained with a kind of colour in a middle way betwixt dying and painting whence Painters-stainers have their name a Mystery vehemently suspected to be lost in our Age. Hoods served that Age for Caps Gay-coats graceless Gallantry began then to be fashionable in England and perchance those who here taxed them therewith would have been as gay themselves had their Land been as rich and able to maintain them This sing-song was made on the English by the Scots after they were flush'd with Victory over us in the Reign of King Edward the Second Never was the Battle at Cannae so fatal to the Romans as that at Sterling to the Nobility of England and the Scots puffed up with their Victory fixed those opprobrious Epithets of heartless witless graceless upon us For the first we appeal to themselves whether Englishmen have not good hearts and with their long beards long swords For the second we appeal to the World whether the wit of our Nation hath not appeared as considerable as theirs in their Writings and Doings For the third we appeal to God the onely Searcher of hearts and trier of true grace As for the fourth thriftless I omit it because it sinks of it self as a superstructure on a foundred and sailing foundation All that I will adde is this that the grave sage and reduced Scotish-men in this Age are not bound to take notice of such expressions made by their Ancestors seeing when Nations are at hostile defiance they will mutually endeavour each others disgrace He that England will win Must with Ireland first begin This Proverb importeth that great designs must be managed gradatim not only by degrees but due method England it seems is too great a morsel for a forreign foe to be chopped up at once and therefore it must orderly be attempted and Ireland be first assaulted Some have conceived but it is but a conceit all things being in the bosom of Divine Providence that had the Spanish Armado in eighty eight fallen upon Ireland when the well affected therein were few and ill provided they would have given a better account of their service to him who sent them To rectify which errour the King of Spain sent afterward John de Aquila into Ireland but with what success is sufficiently known And if any foreign Enemy hath a desire to try the truth of this Proverb at his own peril both England and Ireland lie for Climate in the same posture they were before In England a bussâ—…l of March dust is woâ—…th a Kingâ—… randsom Not so in Southern sandy Counties where a dry March is as destructive as here it is beneficial How much a Kings randsom amounteth unto England knows by dear experience when paying one hundred thousand pounds to redeem Richard the first which was shared between the German Emperour and Leopoldus Duke of Austria Indeed a general good redounds to our Land by a dry March for if our clay-grounds be over-drowned in that moneth they recover not their distemper that year However this Proverb presumeth seasonable showers in April following or otherwise March dust will be turned into May-ashes to the burning up of grass and grain so easily can God blast the most probable fruitfulness England a good Land and a bad People This is a French Proverb and we are glad that they being so much Admirers and Magnifiers of their own will allow any goodness to another Country This maketh the wonder the less that they have so much endeavoured to get a share in this good Country by their former frequent invasions thereof though they could never since the Conquest peaceably posseâ—…s a hundred yards thereof for twenty hours whilst we for a long time have enjoyed large Territories in France But this Proverb hath a design to raise up the Land to throw down the People graceing it to disgrace them We English-men are or-should be ready humbly to confess our faults before God and no less truly then sadly to say of our selves Ah sinfull Nation However before men we will not acknowledge a visible badness above other Nations And the plain truth is both France and England have need to mend seeing God hath formerly justly made them by sharpe Wars alternately to whip one another The High-Dutch Pilgrims when they beg do sing the French-men whine and cry the Spaniards curse swear and blaspheme the Irish and English steal This is a Spanish Proverb and I suspect too much truth is suggested therein the rather because the Spaniards therein spare not themselves but unpartially report their own black Character If any ask why the Italians are not here mentioned seeing surely their Pilgrims have also their peculiar humours know that Rome and Loretta the staples of Pilgrimages being both in Italy the Italians very seldom being frugal in their Superstition go out of their own Country Whereas stealing is charged on our English it is confess'd that our poor people are observed light-fingered and therefore our Lawes are so heavy making low Felony highly Penal to restrain that Vice most to which our Pezantry is most addicted I wish my Country more true Piety then to take such tedious and useless journeys but if they will go I wish them more honesty then to steal and the people by whom they pass more Charity than to tempt them to stealth by denying them necessaries in their journey Princes JOHN Eldest Son of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor before his Fathers voyage into Syria His short life will not bear a long Character dying in his infancy 1273. the last year of the Reign of King Henry the 3d. and was buryed August the 8. in Westminster under a Marble Tomb in-laid with his Picture in an Arch over it ELEANOR Eldest Daughter to King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor Anno Dom. 1266. She was afterwards
confess it was somewhat too soon for one with safety and truth to treat of such a Subject Indeed I could instance in some kind of course Venison not fit for food when first killed and therefore cunning Cooks bury it for some hours in the Earth till the rankness thereof being mortified thereby it makes most palatable meat So the memory of some Persons newly deceased are neither fit for a Writers or Readers repast untill some competent time after their Interment However I am Confident that unpartial Posterity on a serious review of all Passages will allow his Name to be reposed amongst the HEROES of our Nation seeing such as behold his expence on St. Pauls as but a Cypher will assign his other Benefactions a very valuable Signification viz. his erecting and endowing an Almes-house in Reading his increasing of Oxford Library with Books and St. Johns Colledg with beautifull buildings He was beheaded Jan. 10. 1644. States-men Sir JOHN MASON Knight was born at Abbington where he is remembred among the Benefactors to the beautifull Almes-house therein bred in All souls in Oxford King Hènry the eighth coming thither was so highly pleased with an oration Mr. Mason made unto Him that he instantly gave order for his education beyond the seas as confident he would prove an able Minister of State This was the politick discipline of those days to select the pregnancies of either Universities and breed them in forraign parts for publique employments He was Privy-Councellour to King Henry the eighth and K. Edward the sixth One maketh him His Secretary of State which some suspect too high another but Master of the Requests which I believe as much beneath him He continued Councellor to Q. Mary and Q. Elizabeth to whom he was Treasurer of the Household and Chancellor of the University of Oxford Mr. Camden gives him this true character Vir fuit gravis atque eruditus which I like much better then that which followeth so far as I can understand it Ecclesiasticorum Beneficiorum incubator maximus Surely he could be no Canonical Incumbent in any Benefice not being in Orders which leaveth him under the suspicion of being a great ingrosser of long leases in Church-livings which then used to be let for many years a pityful pension being reserved for the poor Curate Thought possibly in his younger time he might have Tonsuram primam or be a Deacon which improved by his great power might qualify at least countenance him for the holding of his spiritual promotions He died 1566. and lieth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls over against William Herbert first Earl of Pembroke and I remember this Distick of his Long Epitaph Tempore quinque suo regnantes ordine vidit Horum a Consiliis quatuor ille fuit He saw five Princes which the scepter bore Of them was Privy-Councellour to Four It appears by His Epitaph that he left no Child of his own Body but adopted his Nephew to be his Son an Heir Sir THOMAS SMITH Knight was born at Abbington bred in the University of Oxford God and himself raised him to the eminency he attained unto unbefriended with any extraction He may seem to have had an ingenuous emulation of Sir Tho. Smith senior Secretary of State whom he imitated in many good qualities and had no doubt equalled him in preferment if not prevented by death He attained only to be Master of the Requests and Secretary to K. James for His Latine Letters higher places expecting him when a period was put to his life Novemb. 28. 1609. He lieth buried in the Church of Fullkam in Middlesex under a monument erected by his Lady Frances daughter to William Lord Chandos and since Countess of Exeter Souldiers HENRY UMPTON Knight was born as by all Indications in the Heralds Office doth appear at Wadley in this County He was Son to Sir Edward Umpton by Anne the Relick of John Dudley Earl of Warwick and the Eldest Daughter of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset He was imployed by Queen Elizabeth Embassadour into France where he so behaved himself right stoutly in her behalf as may appear by this particular In the Moneth of March Anno 1592. being sensible of some injury offered by the Duke of Gwise to the honour of the Queen of England he sent him this ensuing challenge For as much as lately in the Lodging of my Lord Du Mayne and in publick elsewhere Impudently Indiscreetly and over boldly you spoke badly of my Soveraign whose sacred Person here in this County I represent To maintain both by word and weapon her honour which never was called in question among people of Honesty and Vertue I say you have wickedly lyed in speaking so basely of my Soveraign and you shall do nothing else but lie whensoever you shall dare to taxe her honour Moreover that her sacred Person being one of the most complete and Vertuous Princess that lives in this world ought not to be evil spoken of by the Tongue of such a perfidious Traytor to her Law and Country as you are And hereupon I do defy you and challenge your Person to mine with such manner of Arms as you shall like or choose be it either on horse back or on foot Nor would I have you to think any inequality of Person between us I being issued of as great a Race and Noble house every way as your self So assigning me an indifferent place I will there maintain my words and the Lie which I gave you and which you should not endure if you have any Courage at all in you If you consent not meet me hereupon I will hold you and cause you to be generally held for the arrantest coward and most slanderous slave that lives in all France I expect your Answer I find not what answer was returned This Sir Henry dying in the French Kings Camp before Lofear had his Corps brought over to London and carryed in a Coach to Wadley thence to Farington where he was buryed in the Church on Tuesday the 8. of July 1596. He had allowed him a Barons Hearse because dying Ambassadour Leigier Writers HUGH of READING quitted his expectances of a fair Estate and sequestring himself from worldly delights embraced a Monastical life till at last he became Abbot of Reading Such who suspect his sufficiency will soon be satisfied when they read the high Commendation which Petrus Bloesensis Arch Deacon of Bath one of the greatest Scholars of that Age bestoweth upon him He wrote a Book of no Trival Questions fetcht out of the Scripture it self the reason why I. Bale generally a back-friend to Monks hath so good a Character for him who flourished Anno Dom. 1180. ROGER of WINDSOR was undoubtedly born in this Town otherwise he would have been called Roger of St. Albans being Chanter in that Convent Now in that Age Monks were reputed men of best Learning and most leasure The cause why our English Kings alwaies choose one of
place Master Augustine Vincent but out-went him as survivor And because Method is the mother of Memory he orderly digested all Records that they were to be found in an instant He abominated their course who by a water would refresh a Record to make it usefull for the present and useless ever after He detested under the pretence oâ—… mending it to practice with a pen on any old writing preserving it in the pure natuâ—…e thereof Indeed Master Selden and others in their Works have presented Posterity with a plentifull feast of English rarities but let me say that Collet may be called their Caterer who furnished them with provision on reasonable rates He died to the great grief of all Antiquaries Anno Dom. 1644. EDWARD NORGATE son to Robert Norgate D. D. Master of Bennet-colledge was born in Cambridge bred by his Father-in-law who married his Mother Nicholas Felton Bishop of Ely who finding him inclined to Limning and Heraldry permitted him to follow his fancy therein For parents who cross the current of their childrens genius if running in no vicious chanells tempt them to take worse courses to themselves He was very judicious in Pictures to which purpose he was imployed into Italy to purchase them for the Earl of Arundel Returniug by Marseilles he missed the money he expected and being there unknowing of and unknown to any he was observed by a French Gentleman so deservedly styled to walk in the Exchange as I may â—…ll it of that City many Hours every Morning and Evening with swift feet and sad face forwards and backwards To him the civil Monsieur addressed himself desiring to know the cause of his discontent and if it came within the compass of his power he promised to help him with his best advise Norgate communicated his condition to whom the other returned Take I pray my Counsel I have taken notice of your walking more then 20 miles a day in one furlong upwards and downwards and what is spent in needless going and returning if laid out in Progressive Motion would bring you into your own Country I will suit you if so pleased with a light habit and furnish you with competent money for a Footman Norgate very chearfully consented and footed it being accommodated accordingly through the body of France being more then five hundred English miles and so leasurely with ease safety and health returned into England He became the best Illuminer or Limner of our age employed generally to make the Initial letters in the Patents of Peers and Commissions of Embassadours having left few heirs to the kind none to the degree of his art therein He was an excellent Herald by the title of and which was the crown of all a right honest man Exemplary his patience in his sickness whereof I was an eye-witness though a complication of diseases Stone Ulcer in the bladder c. ceased on him He died at the Heralds Office Anno Dom. 1649. Lord Mayors Name Father Place Company Time 1 Robert Clopton Thomas Clopton Clopton Draper 1441 2 William Horn Thomas Horn Snaylewell Salter 1487 3 William Purchase John Purchase Gamelinghey Mercer 1497 4 Thomas Kneisworth John Kneisworth Kneisworth Fish-monger 1505 5 Thomas Mirfine George Mirfine Ely Skinner 1518 6 William Bowyer William Bowyer Harstone 1543 7 Richard Mallory Anthony Mallory Papworthamus Mercer 1564 The Names of the Gentry of this County Returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. John Bishop of Ely Commissioners to take the Oathes John de Tiptoft Chivaler William Allington Knights for the shire John Burgoin miles Knights for the shire Will. Pole Mil. Iohan. Colvyle Mil. Will. Hazenhull Mil. Will. Malory Mil. Iohan. Argenton Mil. Will. Alyngton Senioris de Horseth Laurencii Cheyne de Ditton Hen. Somer de Grancotre Iohan. Cheyne de Longstanton Thomae Dischalers de Whaddon Will. Frevill de Shelford Iohaâ—… Hore de Childerle Ioh. St. George de Haclee Will. St. George de Eadem Rob. Bernard de Iselham Rob. Alyngton de Horseth Walt. Clovile de Pampisworth Walt. Cotton de Ladevade Will. Burgoyne de Caxton Ioh. Moris de Trumpiton Ioh. Pigot de Aviton Tho. Cotton de Lanwade Simo. Brunne de Wenelingham Edm. Seyntlowe de Malketon Alexan. Child de Horton Iohan. Keterich de Beche Nicholai Caldâ—…cote de Melreth Walt. Hunty don de Trumpiton Radul Sanston de Sanston Will. Fulburne de Fulburn Rob. Kingston de Berklow Rich. Stotevil de Brinkelee Rich. Foster de Bodekisham Iohan. Ansty senioris de Ovye Iohan. Totehill de Swafham Iohan. Chirche de Bassingburn Edm. Bendisch de Barenton Iohan. Ansty junioris de Tanerisham Radul Hamelin de Sanston Iohan. Fulburn de Fulburn Iohan. Borlee de Iselham Iohan. Bury de Stretelee Magistri de Chepenham de Chepenham Nich. Hamond de Swofham Tho. Cantyes de Littillington Iohan. Walter de Cranden Iohan. West de Croxton Iohan. Knesworth de Knesworth Warini Ingrith de Melreth Iohan. Wilford sen. de Badbrurgham Iohan. Wilford junio de eadem Sim. Hokington de Hokington Iohan. Clopton de Clopton Iohan. Bungeye de Fulburn Ioh. Mars de Abiton Tho. Danseth de Conyton Tho. Haneheech de Shelford Hen. Calbech de Balsham Will. Sternede de Stapileford Iohan. Wizhton de Hokington Rob. Anfleys de Eltislee Will. Eremilond de Iselham Iohan. Vescey de Swanesey Galf. Clopton de Clopton Will. Baily de Saham Tho. Parker de Kertelenge Tho. Bulseham de Chenele Iohan. Bate de Reche Iohan. Taillour de Brinkle Iohan. Cotisford de Weston Rog. Hunte de Balseham Iohan. How de Sanston Tho. Paris de eadem Iohan Trope de Dokisworth Iacob Russil de Skelington Rich. Hoggepound de wrotting Iohan. Palgrave de eadem Tho. Cokeparker de Campis Iohan. Petzt de eadem Steph. Petiz de eadem Iohan. Lambard de eadem Iohan. Smith de eadem Iohan. Britsale de Berkelow Will. Fuller de Lintone Iohan. Plukerose de eadem Thomae Hamont de eadem Iohan. Person de eadem Iohan. Haberd de Onye Iohan. Orveye de Ditton Philip. Grome de Hinton Edm. Preston de Botisham Tho. Bunte de eadem Ioh. Wilkin de Wilburgham Will. Thornton Warnier de Saham Tho. Stapelton de Badburgham Iohan. Ray de Novo Mercato Hen. Attelane de Beche Iohan. Knith de eadem Walt. Fote de Middilton Ioh. Andrew de Waterbeche Rob. Bertelct de eadem Iohan. Tylly de eadem Hen. Clerke de eadem Ioh. Annfleys de Critton Iohan. Fox de eadem Richard Mably de Howis Iohan. Attechercke de eadem Iohan. Mably de eadem Will. Colyn de Maddyngle Iohan. Custance de eadem Tho. Mesynger de eadem Will. Reynolt de eadem Will. Knight de Chesterton Iohan. Bacon de eadem Ioh. Bernard de eadem Henrici Speed deHyston Will. Page de eadem Iohan. Smith sen. de eadem Walt. Spernd de Cotenham Hen. Mey de eadem Hugon Bernard de eadem Will. Burbage de Drayton Iohan. Gifford de eadem Rober. Salman de eadem Hen. Roys de Lolworth Iohan. Asplen
Idem Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Gul. de Pucot Anno 7 Reg. de Valle Torta Walt. de Treverden Anno 8 Reg. de Valle Torta Anno 9 Gul. Bregnen junior Rog. de Langford Reg. de Valle Torta A BLANK in the Records to the end of this Kings Raign being forty four years except any suppose which is not very probable that the three forementioned persons all two or one of them continued so long in their Office EDW. I. Anno 1 Anno 2 Anno 3 Ioh. Wigger Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Rob. de Chini Anno 6 Anno 7 Will. de Munckton for 5 years Anno 12 Alex. de Sabridsworth Anno 13 Idem Anno 14 Idem Anno 15 Simon de Berkeley Anno 16 Idem Anno 17 Edw. Comes Cornubiae for 12 years Anno 29 Thom. de la Hide for 7 years EDW. II. Anno 1 Anno 2 Anno 3 Pet. de Gaviston Com. Cornubiae Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Tho. de la Hide Anno 7 Tho. de Excedekney Anno 8 Rich. de Polhampton Anno 9 Rich. de Hewish Anno 10 Hen. de Willington Anno 11 Anno 12 Anno 13 Isab. Regina Angliae Anno 14 Nullus Titulus in Rotulo Anno 15 Nullus Titulus in Rotulo Anno 16 Nullus Titulus in Rotulo Anno 17 Isab. Reg. Angliae Regis Consors Anno 18 Idem EDW. III. Anno 1 Eliz. Regina Regis mater for 5 years Anno 6 Will. de Botreaux Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Ioh. Petit Anno 9 Idem Anno 10 Ioh. de Chudeleigh Anno 11 Ioh. Hamly Ioh. Petit Anno 12 Idem Anno 13 Anno 14 Edw. Dux Cornubiae Anno 15 Hen. Terrill Rog. de Prideaux Anno 16 Edw. Dux Cornubiae Anno 17 Idem Anno 18 Guliel Pipehard Anno 19 Edw. Dux Cornubiae for 9 years Anno 28 Ioh. Northcot Will. Auncell Anno 29 Idem Anno 30 Idem Anno 31 Guliel Auncell Anno 32 Edward Dux Cornubiae to the end of this Kings raign Sheriffs Name Place Armes RICH. II.   Anno   1 Nich. Wampford   2 Rad. Carmino  Azure a bend Or a Labell of 3 points G. 3 Oto de Bodrigay   4 Will. Talbot AMP.  5 Ioh. Bevill Gwarnack Arg. a Bull Passant G. armed Tripped Or. 6 Wa. ArchdeacoÌ„ m. Anthony Arg. 3 Cheverons S. 7 Wil. Fitzwanter m.   8 Rich. de Kendall  Arg. a Cheveron betwixt 3 Dolphins Sable 9 Ioh. Bevill ut prius  10 Nich. Wamford   11 Ioh. Colyn   12 Rich. Sergeaux   13 Tho. Peverell   14 Will. Talbot ut prius  15 Ioh. Colyn   16 Ioh. Col shall   17 Ioh. Herle  Arg. a Fess G. betwixt 3 Sheldrakes proper 18 Ia. Chuddelegh  Ermin 3 Lions Rampant G. 19 Will. Talbot ut prius  20 Ioh. Bevill ut prius  21 Ioh. Colshull   22 Gal. Seyntalâ—…yn  Or on a Cross G. 5 Bezants HEN. IV.   Anno   1 Hen. fil Regis Hen. 4. Primogenitus Johannes Keynes  The Armes of England with the Difference of the Heir Apparent 2 Idem ut prius  3 Idem ut prius  4 Idem ut prius  5 Pre. Henricus ut prius  6 Ioh. Cole   7 Pre. Henricus ut prius  8 Idem ut prius  9 Idem ut priâ—…s  10 Idem ut prius  11 Idem ut prius  12 Idem ut prius  HEN. V.   Anno   1 Ioh. Kederow   2 Idem   3 Will. Talbot ut prius  4 Oto TrevarthaÌ„ m.   5 Hen. Fullford  G. a Cheveron Arg. 6 Ioh. Arundel mil. Lanhearn S. 6 Swallows in pile Arg. 7 Steph. Derneford   8 Ioh. Arundel mi. ut prius  9 Ioh. Arundel mil. Trerice Ut prius with due difference HEN. VI.   Anno   1 Ioh. Arundel mâ—… ut prius  2 Tho. Carmyno ut prius  3 Will. Talbot ut prius  4 Ioh. Herle mil. ut prius  5 Ioh. Arundel mil. ut prius  6  7 Ioh. Namson   8 Tho. Carmino ut prius  9 Ro. Chambleyn   10 la. Chuddeleigh ut prius  11   12 Ioh. Herle mil. ut prius  13 Tho. Bonevill S. 6 Mullets 3 2 1. Ar. 14 Ioh. Yerd   15 Tho. Whalesbrew ut prius  16 Ren. Arundel ut prius  17 Ioh. Collshull   18 Ich. Nanson   19 Ioh. Masndy   20 Th Whalesbrough   21 Ioh. Blewet  Or a Cheveron betwixt 3 Eagles displaied vert 22 Ioh. Arundel ut prius  23 Ni vel Mic. Power   24 Io. Champernoun  Gul. a Saltire Vairee twixt 12 Billets Or. 25 Ioh. Austill   26 Hen. Foretscu  Az. a Bend engrailed Arg. Cotissed Or. 27 Ioh. Trevilyan †  28 Ioh. Basset  †G. a Demyhorse Arg. issuing out of the waves of the sea 29 Ioh. Nanson   30 Tho. Butside   31 Will. Dawbeney  Arg. a Fess lozengee Gules 32 Th Walesbrough   33 Ioh. Petyt   34 Ioh. Conkworth   35 Ioh. Nanson ar ut prius  36 Ioh. Arundel   37 Ioh. Walesbrough ut prius  38 Ioh. Trevilian ar   EDW. IV.   Anno   1 Ro. Champernon ut prius  2 Ren. Arundel ut prius  3 Ren. Arundel ut prius  4 Tho. Bere   5 Alver Cordburgh   6 Will. Bere   7 Ioh. Collshull m.   8 Ioh. Sturgeon ar   9 Alver Cornburgh   10 Ioh. Arundel mil. ut prius  11 Ioh. Fortescu ar ut prius  12 Idem ut prius  13 Idem ut prius  14 Idem ut prius  15 Rich. Dux Glouc. vir ad terminum vic suae  France and England on a Label of three Ermine as many Cantons G. 16 Ioh Fortescu ar   17 Egid. Dawbeney ut prius  18 Will. Cornsnyowe   19 Rob. Willoughby   20 Rich. Nanson   21 Tho. Greenvil  Gules Three Rests Or. 22 Tho. Fullford  Gules a Cheveron Arg. RICH. III.   Anno   1 Ioh. Treffey Foy S. a Cheveron betwixt 3 Hawthorns Arg. 2 Ia. Tirell mil. ESSEX Arg. 2 Cheverons Az. within a Border engrailed G. 3 Will. Houghton   HEN. VII   Anno   1 Tho. Greenvil ut prius  2 Ioh. Tremayn  G. 3 Armes in Circle joyned at the Tronkes Or with Hands proper 3 Alex. Carew Anthony Or 3 Lions Passant Gardant S. Armed and Langued G. 4 Rich Nanson   5 Ioh. Treffey mil. ut prius  6 Ioh. Roscarrock Roscarrock Arg. a Chever twixt 2 Roses G. a Sea Tenchnayat
first quarter a 〈◊〉 of the second 4 Nich. Ratcliffe m. ut prius Or five Fusils in Fess Az. 5 Io. Penington m.   6 Chri. Culwen ut prius  7 Chri. Moresby ut prius  8 Tho. Delamore  Argent 6 Mattlets 3 2. 1. Sable 9 Ioh. Penington ut prius  10 Ioh. Skelton   11 Ioh. Lâ—…mplow m. ut prius  12 Chri. Culwen ut prius  13 Io. Penington m. ut prius  14 Ioh. Broughton  Arg. a Chev. betwixt 3 mullets G. 15 Hen. Fenwick m.  Per Fess G. Arg. six Martlets counterchanged 16 Chri. Culwen m. ut prius  17 Chri. Moresby ut prius  18 Hug. Louther ut prius  19 Ioh. Skelton ar   20 Will. Stapilton ut prius  21 Tho. Beauchamp  AMP. 22 Tho. Delamore ut prius  23 Chri. Curwen ut prius  24 Ioh. Skelton ar ut prius  25 Ioh. Broughton ut prius  26 Tho. Delamore ut prius  27 Th. Crakenthorp  Or a Cheveron betwixt 3 Mullets pierced Az. 18 Tho. Curwen m. ut prius  29 Ioh. Skelton ar ut prius  30 Roul Vaux ar  Chekee Or and Gules 31 Tho. Delamore ut prius  32   33 Ioh. Hodilston ar  Gules Frettee Argent 34 Hug. Louther ar ut prius  35 Tho. Curwen ut prius  36 Rich. Salkeld  Vert. Frettee Argent 37 Hen. Fenwick m. ut prius  EDW. IV.   Anno   1 Rich. Salkeld ar ut prius  2 Roul Vaux ar ut prius  3 Idem ut prius  4 oh Hudleston m. ut prius  5 Th. Lamplough a. ut prius  6 Rich. Salkeld ar ut prius  7 Roul Vaux ar ut prius  8 Ioh Hodilston m. ut prius  9 Idem ut prius  10 Will. Leigh mil.   11 Chri Moresby m. ut prius  12 Will. Parr mil. WESTM Arg. 2 Bars Az. a Border 〈◊〉 S. 13 Ioh. Hodilston m. ut prius  14 Will. Leigh mil.   15   16 Ric. Dux Glouc. Io. HodilstoÌ„ m. Sub. ut prius France and England on a Label of 3 Erm as many Cantons Gules 17 Idem   18 Rich. Dux Glouc. ut prius  19 Nul Titulus Comit is in Rotulo   20 Rich. Dux Glou. ut prius  21 Idem ut prius  22 Idem ut prius  RICH. III.   Anno   1 Rich. Salkeld ut prius  2   3   HEN. VII   Anno   1 Chri. Moresby m. ut prins  2 Nul Titulus Comitis in Rotulo   3 Chri. Moresby m. ut prius  4 Th. Beauchamp a. ut prius  5   6 Nul Titulus Coâ—… in Rotulo   7 Ioh. Musgrave m. ut prius  8 Nul Titulus Comitis in Rotulo   9 Edw. Redman ut prius  10 Rich. Salkeld m. ut prius  11 Chri. Moresby m. ut prius  12 Tho. Beachamp ut prius  13 Chri Dacre ar  Gu. 3 Fscalop-shells Argent 14 Idem ut prius  15 Idem ut prius  16 Idem ut prius  17 Idem ut prius  18 Idem ut prius  19 Idem ut prius  20 Hug. Hutton ar  AMP. 21 Chri. Dacre ar ut prius  22 Io. Hudleston m. ut prius  23 Ioh. Ratcliffe ar ut prius  24 Idem ut prius  HEN. VIII   Anno   1 Ioh. Curwen m. ut prius  2 Io. Penington mi. ut prius  3 Ioh. Shelton mil. ut prius  4 Io Crakenthorp 〈◊〉 ut prius  5 Idem Edward Musgrave ut prius  6 Ioh. Radcliffe m. ut prius  7 Ioh. Louther m. ut prins  8 Tho. Curwen mi. ut prius  9 Gawin Eglesfeld  Or 3 Eglets displaied Gules 10 Ioh. Radciffe mi. ut prius  11 Edw. Musgrave ut prius  12   13 Christ Dacre ut prius  14   15 Ioh. Ratcliffe mi. ut prius  16 Chri. Curwen mil. ut prius  17 Chri. Dacre mil. ut prius  18 Ioh. Ratcliffe mi. ut prius  19 Edw. Musgrave m. ut prius  20 Wil. PeningtoÌ„ m. ut prius  21 Tho. Wharton m.  Sable a Maunch Argent 22 Rich Ireton  Arg. a Fess S. 3 〈◊〉 in Chief Gules 23 Christ. Dacre m. ut prius  24 Wil. Musgrave m. ut prius  25 Christ. Curwen ut prius  26 Cut. Hutton ar ut prius  27 Tho. Wharton m. ut prius  28 Tho. Curwen m. ut prius  29 Ioh. Lamplo mil.   30 Ioh. Thwaits ar  Arg. a Cross S. Frette Or. 31 Tho. Wharton m. ut prius  32 Tho. Dalston ar Dalston Arg. a Cheveron between 3 Ravens-heads S. billed Or. 33 Wil. Musgrave m. u t prius  34 Ioh. Louther mi. u t prius  35 Tho. Salkeld ar u t prius  36 Edw. Aglyonby a.  Azu 2 Bars and 3 Martlits in Cheif 〈◊〉 37 Rob. Lamplo ar ut prius  38 Tho. Sandford  Per Cheveron S. and Erm two Boars-heads in Chief coopedOr EDW. VI.   Anno   1 Tho. Wharton m. ut prius  1 Ioh. Leigh ar   3 Ioh. Lamplow ar ut prius  4 Ioh. Louther mil. ut prius  5 Ric. Eglesfeld ar ut prius  6 Will. Penington ut prius  REG. MARI   Anno   1 Tho. Leigh ar   PHIL. MAR.   Anno   1 2. Rich. Musgrave ut prius  2 3. Tho. Sandford a.   3 4. Rob. Lamplow a. ut prius  4 5. Ioh. Leigh ar ut prius  5 6. Will. Penington ut prius  ELIZ. REG.   Anno   1 Th. Dacre sen mi. ut prius  2 Th. Lamplough a. ut prius  3 Hug. Ascough m Hen. Curwen a. ut prius S. a Fess Or 〈◊〉 3 Asses passant Ar. mained unguled of the second 4 Will. Musgrave ut prius  5 Ant. Hudleston a. ut prius  6 Chri. Dacree ar ut prius  7 Wil Penington a. ut prius  8 Rich. Louther ar ut prius  9 Ioh. Dalston ar ut prius  10 Cut. Musgrave ar ut prius  11 Sim. Musgrave ar ut prius  12 Hen. Curwen ut prius  13 Geo. Lamplough ut prius  14 Ioh. Lamplough ut prius  15 Will. Musgrave ut prius  15 Will. Musgrave ut prius  16 Anth. Hudleston ut prius  17 Ric. Salkeld ar Hen. Tolston ar ut prius Vert on a Cheif Azu â—… Martlets Or. 18 Ioh. Dalston ar ut prius  19 Geo. Salkeld ar ut prius Â
Richard Bingham who is sent over with more honour and power Marshal of Ireland and General of Lâ—…mster to undertake that service whereof no doubt he had given a good account had not death overtaken him at Dublin Wherever buried he hath a Monument of mention in the South side of Westminster Abbey Sea Men. RICHARD CLARK of VVeymouth in this County was a most knowing Pilot and Master of the Ship called the Delight which Anno 1583. went with Sir Humphrey Gilbert for the discovery of Norembege Now it happened without any neglect or default in the same Richard how that Ship struck on ground and was cast away in the year aforesaid on Thursday August 29. Yet wave followed not wâ—…ve faster than wonder wonder in the miraculous preservation of such as escaped this Shipwrack 1. Sixteen of them got into a small Boat of a Tun and half which had but one Oar to work withal 2. They were seventy leagues from Land and the weather so soul that it was not possible for a Ship to brook half a course of Sail. 3. The Boat being over-burdened one of them Mr. Hedly by name made a motion to cast Lots that those four which drew the shortest should be cast over-board provided if one of the Lots fell on the Master he notwithstanding should be preserved as in whom all their safety were concerned 4. Our Richard Clark their Master disavowed any acceptance of such priviledge replying they would live or die together 5. On the fifth day Mr. Hedly who first motioned Lot-drawing and another died whereby their Boat was somewhat allightned 6. For five days and nights they saw the Sun and Stars but once so that they onely kept up their Boat with their single Oar going as the Sea did drive it 7. They continued four days without any sustenance save what the Weeds which swam in the Sea and salt water did afford 8. On the seventh day about eleven a clock they had sight of and about three they came on the South part of New found land 9. All the time of their being at Sea the wind kept continually Soâ—…th which if it had shifted on any other Point they had never come to land but came contrary at the North within half an hour after their arrival 10. Being all come safe to Shore they kneeled down and gave God praise as they justly might for their miraculous deliverance 11. They remained there three days and nights having their plentiful repast upon Berries and wild Peason 12. After five days rowing along the shore they hapned on a Spanish Ship of Saint John de Luz which courteously brought them home to Biskay 13. The Visitors of the Inquisition coming aboard the Ship put them on examination but by the Masters favour and some general Answers they escaped for the present 14. Fearing a second search they shifted for themselves and going twelve miles by night got into France and so safely arrived in England Thus we may conclude with the Psalmist They which do go down into the Sea and occupy in the great waters These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep GEORGE SUMMERS Knight was born in or near Lyme though on my best enquiry living some years within seven miles of the place I could not attain the exactness thereof He afterwards was a successful Voyager into far distant Countries and first discovered the Bermuda's from and by him named the Summer Islands A Plantation though slighted of late whether for want of industry in the Planters or staple Commodities I hnow not yet were it in the hand of the Spaniard as by Gods blessing never shall it would be over-considerable unto us Yea that which now is quarrelled at for not feeding us with any provision might then stop the mouths yea knock out the teeth of such who now so undervalue it I say they were called the Summer Islands from this Knight which I conceive necessary to observe For I find that though the County of Somerset is undoubtedly so called from Sommerton once the principal Town therein yet because that Town at this day is mean and obscure some have strongly fancied and stifly defended it so named from the Summer the fruitfulnesse whereof so appeareth therein Possiâ—…ly in processe of time with a more probable cover for their mistake these Summer Islands may be conceived so named because there Winter doth never appear This Sir George Summers was a Lamb on the Land so patient that few could anger him and as if entring a ship he had assumed a new nature a Lion at Sea so passionate that few could please him He died modest conjectures are better than confident untruths about the year of our Lord 1610. Before we take our final farewell of the Seamen in this County I conceive fit that the following Note should not be forgotten Anno 1587. when Tho. Cavendish Esq was in the pursuit of his Voyage about the world some of his men August 1. went a shoar at Cape Quintero to fetch fresh water when two hundred Spanish Horsemen came poudring from the Hills upon them They being hard at work in no readiness to resist suddenly surprized and over-powered in number were slâ—…in to the number of twelve men a third of which losse fell on this county whose names ensue 1. William Kingman of Dorset-shire in the Admiral 2. William Biet of VVeymouth in the Vice Admiral 3. Henry Blacknals of Weymouth In the Hugh-Gallant 4. William Pit of Sherborne In the Hugh-Gallant But their surviving Country-men being but fifteen in number who had any weapons on the shoar soon revenged their death who coming from the works not only rescued the rest but also â—…orced the enemy to retire with the losse of 25. of his men and then watered there in despight of all opposition Civilians Sir THOMAS RYVES Doctor of the Laws was born at Little Langton in this County bred in New Colledge in Oxford A general Scholar in all polite learning a most pure Latinist no hair hanging at the neb of his Pen witness his most critical Book of Sea-Battels a Subject peculiar I think to his endeavours therein He was at last made the Kings Advocate indeed he formerly had been Advocate to the King of heaven in his poor Ministers in his Book entituled The Vicars Plea wherein much Law and Learning and Reason and Equity is shewen in their bâ—…half A grievance 〈◊〉 camplained of than heard oftner heard than pitied and oftner 〈◊〉 than redressd so unequal is the contest betwixt a poor Vicars Plea and a wealthy Impropriators Purse He was a man of valour as well as of much learning and gave good evidence therof though wel stricken in years in our late wars He died in his native County about the year 1652 Benefactors to the Publick since the Reformation ROBERT ROGERS born at Poole in this County was afterwards a Leather-seller in London and dying a rich Batchelor bequeathed a great part
their own Country Well it were if this good old custome were resumed for if where God hath given Talents men would give but Pounds I mean encourage hopefull Abilities with helpfull Maintenance able persons would never be wanting and poor men with great parts would not be excluded the Line of preferment This Sir Thomas was afterwards Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and a grand benefactor to both Universities as I have formerly declared at large He died Anno Domini 1577. THOMAS HOWARD wherever born is justly reputed of this County wherein he had his first honour and last habitation He was second son to Thomas last Duke of Norfolk but eldest by his wife Margaret sole heir to Thomas Lord Audley Queen Elizabeth made him Baron of Audley and Knight of the Garter and King James who beheld his father a State-Martyr for the Queen of â—…ots in the first of his raign advanced him Lord Chamberlain and Earl of Suffolk and in the twelfth of his raign July 12. Lord Treasurer of England He was also Chancellour of Cambridge loving and beloved of the University When at his first coming to Cambridge Master Francis Nethersole Orator of the University made a Latine Speech unto him this Lord returned though I understand not Latine I know the Sence of your Oration is to tell me that I am wellcome to you which I believe verily thank you for it heartily and will serve you faithfully in any thing within my power Doctor Hasnet the Vice-chancellour laying hold on the Handle of so fair a Proffer requested him to be pleased to Entertain the King at Cambridge a Favour which the University could never compass from their former great and wealthy Chancellours I will do it saith the Lord in the best manner I may with the speediest conveniency Nor was he worse then his word giving his Majesty not long after so Magnificent a Treatment in the University as cost him five thousands pounds and upwards Hence it was that after his death Thomas his second son Earl of Bark-shire not suing for it not knowing of it was chosen to succeed him losing the place as some suspected not for lack of voices but fair counting them He died at Audley end Anno Domini 1626. being Grand-father to the right Honourable James Earl of Suffolk RICHARD WESTON I behold him son to Sir Jerome Weston Sheriff of this County in the one and fourtieth of Queen Elizabeth and cannot meet with any of his relations to rectifie me if erronious In his youth he impaired his estate to improve himself with publique accomplishment but came off both a saver and a gainer at the last when made Chancellor of the Exchequer and afterwards upon the remove of the Earl of Marlburrough July 15. in the fourth of King Charles Lord Treasurer of England But I hear the Cocks crow proclaiming the dawning day being now come within the ken of many alive and when mens memories do arise it is time for History to haste to bed Let me onely be a Datary to tell the Reader that this Lord was Created Earl of Portland February 17. in the eight of King Charles and died Anno Domini 163. being father to the right Honorable Jerome now Earl of Portland Capitall Judges Sir JOHN BRAMSTONE Knight was born at Maldon in this County bred up in the Middle-Temple in the study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench One of deep learning solid judgement integrity of life gravity of behaviour in a word accomplished with all qualities requisite for a Person of his place and profession One instance of his integrity I must not forget effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant Bruerton of whom formerly bequeathed by Will to Sidney-colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel Ward informed me the gife was invalid in the Rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramstone who married the Serjeants Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a Farthing and the legal setling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times the delivering his judgement on the Kings side in the case of Ship â—…oney cost him much trouble The posting Press would not be perswaded to stay till I had received farther instructions from the most Hopefull sons of this worthy Judge who died about the year 1646. Souldiers ROBERT FITZ-WALTER It is observable what I read in my Author that in the raign of King John there were three most eminent Knights in the land 〈◊〉 for their prowess viz. Robert Fitz-Roger Richard Mont-Fâ—…chet and this Robert Fitz-Walter Two of which three a fair proportion fall to be natives of this County This Robert was born at Woodham-walters and behaved himself right 〈◊〉 on all occasions highly beloved by King Richard the first and King John untill the later banished him the land because he would not prostitute his daughter to his pleasure But worth will not long want a Master the French-King joyfully entertained him till King John recalled him back again on this occasion five-years truce being concluded betwixt the two Crowns of England and France an English-man challenged any of the French to just a course or two on horse-back with him whom Fitz-Walter then oâ—… the French party undertook and at the first course with his great spear fell'd horse and man to the ground Thus then and ever since English-men generally can be worsted by none but English-men Hereupon the King next day sent for him restored his lands with license for him to repair his Castles and particularly Bainards-castle in London which he did accordingly He was styled of the common-people The Marshall of Gods Army and Holy-Church He died Anno Domini 1234. and lieth buried in the Priory of Little-Dunmow Sir JOHN HAWKEWOOD Knight Son to Gilbert Hawkewood Tanner was born in Sible heningham This John was first bound an apprentice to a Taylor in the City of London but soon turned his needle into a sword and thimble into a shield being pressed in the service of King Edward the third for his French Wars who rewarded his valour with Knighthood Now that mean men bred in manuall and mechanick trades may arrive at great skill in Martiall performances this Hawkewood though an eminent is not the onely instance of our English nation The heat of the French Wars being much remitted he went into Italy and served the City of Florence which as yet was a Free State Such Republiques preferred forrainers rather then natives for their Generalls because when the service was ended it was but disbursing their pay and then disbanding their power by cashering their Commission such Forraigners having no advantage to continue their
censure him for deserting his Principles yet he is said on his death-bed to have given full â—…tisfaction to such who formerly suspected his sincerity to the Presbyterian Discipline dying Anno Dom. 1655. He was solemnly buried in the â—…bbey at Westminster Exiâ—…-Romish-Writers RICHARD BROUGHTON was born at Great Steuckley in this County bred at Rhemes in France where he received the Order of Priesthood and was sent over into England for the propagation of his partie Here he gave so signal testimony and fidelity to the cause that he was before many others preferred Assistant to the English Arch-Priest He wrote many books and is most esteemed by those of his own Religion for his English Ecclesiastical History from the first planting of the Gospel to the coming in of the Saxons But in plain truth there is little milk no creame and almost all whey therein being farced with Legendary stuff taken from Authors some of condemned most of suspected credit If by the Levitical Law a bastard should not enter into the congregation of the Lord understand it to bear Office therein to the tenth generation it is pity that adulterated Authours being an illegitimate off-spring should be admitted to bear rule in Church-History This Broughton was living in the latter end of the Reign of King Iames. Benefactors to the Publicke AMBROSE Son to Iohn Nicholas was born at Needenworth in this County whence he went to London and was bound apprentice to a Salter thriving so well in his Trade that Anno 1576. he became Lord Mayor of London He founded Twelve Almes houses in Mungwel-street in that City indowing them with Competent maintenance Sir WOLSTAN Son to Thomas Dixie was born at Catworth in this County bred a Skinner in London whereof he became Lord Mayor Anno 1585. He was a man made up of deeds of Charitie the particulars whereof are too long to recite He gave 600. pound to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge to the founding of a Fellowship Erected a Free-school at Bosworth in Leicestershire and Endowed it where his family flourish at this day in a worshipfull Estate RICHARD FISHâ—…OURN was born in the Town of Huntington cut out of no mean Quarry being a Gentleman by his Extraction Leaving a Court life as more pleasant then profitable He became servant to Sir Raptist Hicks afterwards Viscount Camden and by Gods blessing on his industry attained a great Estate whereof he gave two thousand pounds for the buying out of Impropriations in the Northern parts and setling a preaching Ministery where most want thereof he bequeathed as much to the Company of Mercers whereof he was free and the same summe to Huntington the place of his Nativity with One thousand marks to Christ-Church Hospital The whole summe of his benefactions amounted to ten thousand seven hundred pounds and upwards briefly summed up in his Funeral Sermon commonly called Corona Charitatis preached by Master Nathaniel Shute wherein to use his Expression He supped up many things with a very short breath contracting his Deeds of Charity to avoid tediousness Nor must it be forgotten how this Gentleman lying on his death-bed when men are presumed to speak with unmasked consciences did professe that to his knowledge he had got no part of his goods unjustly No man of his Quality won more Love in health Prayers in sicknesse and Lamentation at his Funeral dying a single man and buried in Mercers Chappel May the 10. 1625. Memorable Persons Sir OLIVER CROMWELL Knight son of Sir Henry Cromwell Knight of Hinching-brooke in this County is Remarkable to Posterity on a four-fold account First For his hospitality and prodigious entertainment of King James and his Court. Secondly for his upright dealing in bargain and sale with all chapmen so that no man who soever purchased Land of him was put to charge of three pence to make good his Title Yet he sold excellent penniworths insomuch that Sir Iohn Leamon once Lord Mayor of London who bought the fair Manour of Warboise in this County of him affirmed That it was the cheapest Land that ever he bought and yet the dearest that ever Sir Oliver Cromwell sold. Thirdly for his Loyalty alwayes beholding the Usurpation and Tyranny of his Nephew God-Son and NAME-SAKE with Hatred and Contempt Lastly for his Vivacity who survived to be the oldest Gentleman in England who was a Knight Though not the oldest Knight who was a Gentleman seeing Sir George Dalston younger in years yet still alive was Knighted some dayes before him Sir Oliver died Anno Dom. 1654. The Names of the Gentry of this County returned by the Commissioners in the Twelfth year of King Henry the Sixth William Bishop of Lincoln Commissioners John de Tiptofte Chivaler  Roger Hunt Knights for the Shire  William Waton Knights for the Shire  Abbatis de Ramsey Abbatis de Sautrey Prioris de Huntington Prioris de S. Neoto Prioris de Stonle Archidiaconi Eliensis Rectoris de Somerham PrebendaÅ•ii Ecclesiae Lincolniens Domini de Leighton Rectoris Ecclesiae de Bluntesham Vicarii Ecclesiae de Gurmecest Vicarii Ecclesiae de S. Neoto Rect. Ecclesiae de Ript Abbatis Nicholai Stivecle Militis Roberti Stonham armigeri Everardi Digby armigeri Radulphi Stivecle armigeri Thomae Devyll armigeri Thomae Nesenham armigeri Henrici Hethe Johannis Bayons armigeri Rogeri Lowthe Edwardi Parker Walteri Taillard Iohannis Eyr Iohannis Bekeswell Willielmi Castell Willielmi Waldesheefe Thomae Freman Ioannis Donold Walteri Mayll Roberti Boteler de Alyngton Roberti Boteler de Hilton Iohannis Kirkeby Iohannis Sankyn Roberti Langton Reginaldi Rokesden Iohannis Pulter Roberti Wene Iohannis Sampson de Somersh Thomae Clerevax Radulphi Pakynton VVillielmi Est Richardi Est Roberti Creweker VVillielmi Maister Iohannis Morys VVillielmi Druell de VVeresle Radulphi Ioce Iohannis Devyll de Chescerton Iohannis Cokerham Richardi Bâ—…singham I. Cokeyn Parker de Kimbolton Richardi Burgham Richardi Parker de Bukden Thomae Alcumbury VVillielmi Boteler de VVeresle VVill. Iudde dâ—… Sancto Ivone VVillielmi VVassingle VVillielmi VVardale VVillielmi Colles Laurentii Merton Thomae Judde Willielmi Boteler de Ramsey Thomae Barboure de Eadem Thomae Rede Thomae Irlle Willielmi Holland Williel Smith de Alcumbury Williel Hayward de Buckworth Richardi Boton Iohannis Cross senioris Edmundi Fairstede Willielmi Erythe Willi. Skinner de Brampton Willielmi West Thomae Daniel Willielmi Daniel Iohannis Barbour Thomae Parker de S. Neoto Edm. Faillour de Kymbolton Thomae Bowelas Willielmi â—…eete Willielmi Talers Thomae Aungevin Walteri Godegamen Iohannis Cage Johannis Manypeny Johannis Copgray clerici Willielmi Arneburgh Henrici Attehill Johannis Charwalton Edmundi Ulfe Willielmi Hare Johannis Dare Willielmi Sturdivale Richarde Brigge Mich. Carleton Ballivi ejusdeÌ„ Ville Huntington Georgei Giddyng Iohannis Chikson Iohannis Pecke Thome Charwalton Iohannis Abbotesle I meet with this uncomfortable passage in Mr. Speeds or rather in Sir Robert Cottons description of this Shire Thus as this City so the old families have been here with time out worne
with the stones It fixeth no fault in the Fruit the Expression being merely Metaphorical wherein the folly of such is taxed who associate themselves equal in expence with others in higher dignity and estate till they be loosers at last and well laughed at for their pains Saint-Foine SAINT-FOINE or Holy-hay Superstition may seem in the name but I assure you there is nothing but good husbandry in the sowing thereof as being found to be a great Fertilizer of Barren-ground It is otherwise called Polygala which I may English much Milk as causing the Cattle to give abundance thereof Some call it the small clover Grass and it prospereth best in the worst ground It was first fetcht out of France from about Paris and since is sown in divers places in England but especially in Cobham-Park in this County where it thriveth extraordinary well on dry chalky banks where nothing else will grow If it prospereth not equally in other dry places it is justly to be imputed to some errour in the managing thereof as that the ground was not well prepared or made fine enough that the seed was too sparing or else old and decayed that cattle cropt it the first year c. It will last but seven years by which time the native grasse of England will prevail over this Foreigner if it be not sown again Trouts We have treated of this Fish before and confesse this repetition had been a breach of the Fundamental Laws premised to this Book were it not also an addition Kent affording Trouts at a Town called Forditch nigh Canterbury differing from all others in many considerables 1. Greatness many of them being in bignesse near to a Salmon 2. Colour cutting white as others do red when best in season 3. Cunning onely one of them being ever caught with an Angle whereas other Trouts are easily tickled into taking and flaâ—…tered into their destruction 4. Abode remaining nine moneths in the Sea and three in the fresh water They observe their coming up thereinto almost to a day and the men of Forditch observe them as exactly whom they catch with nets and other devices Weld or Wold Know Reader that I borrow my Orthographie hereof if it be so from the Dyers themselves This is a little seed sown in this County some fourty years since when first it was brought into England with Barley the growth whereof it doth not hinder in any degree For when the barley is mowed down in Harvest then this Weld or Wold first peeps out of the Earth where it groweth till the May following when it is gathered And thus Husband-men with one sowing reap two Crops yet so as it taketh up their ground for two years The use hereof is for the dying of the best Yellow It hath some times been so low as at four pounds a Load which containeth fifteen hundred weight and somtimes so dear that it was worth fifteen pounds betwixt which prices it hath its constant motion and now is in the Aequator betwixt both worth seven pounds ten shillings It was first sown in this County and since in Northfolk and in other places Madder This is very useful for Dyers for making of Redds and Violets It is a Weed whose root onely is useful for dying whilest the leaves only of Woade are serviceable for that purpose and there are three kinds thereof 1. Crop-Madder worth betwixt 4. and 5. l. the hundred 1. Umber-Owe  betwixt 3. and 4. l.  3. Pipe or Fat-Madder  about 1. l. 10. s.  Some two years since this was sown by Sir Nicholas Crispe at Debtford I hope will have good success first because it groweth in Zeland in the same if not a more Northern Latitude Secondly because wild-Madder growes here in abundance and why may not Tame Madder if Cicurated by Art Lastly because as good as any grew some thirty years since at Barn-Elms in Surrey though it quit not Cost through some Error in the first Planter thereof which now we hope will be rectified Flaxe I am informed by such who should know that no County in England sends better or more to London Yet doth not our whole Land afford the tenth part of what is spent therein so that we are fain to fetch it from Flanders France yea as far as Aegypt it selfe It may seem strange that our Soile kindlie for that seed the use whereof and profit thereby so great yet so little care is taken for the planting thereof which well husbanded would find linen for the rich and living for the poor Many would never be indicted Spinsters were they Spinsters indeed nor come to so publick and shameful punishments if painfully imployed in that Vocation When a Spider is found upon our clothes we use to say some money is coming towards us The Moral is this such who imitate the industry of that contemptible creature which taketh hold with her hands and is in Kings Palaces may by Gods blessing weave themselves into wealth and procure a plentiful estate Manufactures Though clothing whereof we have spoken before be diffused through many Shires of England yet is it as vigorously applyed here as in any other place and Kentish cloth at the present keepeth up the credit thereof as high as ever before Thread I place this the last because the least of Manufactures Thread being counted a thing so inconsiderable Abraham said to the King of Sodom that he would take nothing from a Thread to a Shoe latchet That is nothing at all It seems this Hebrew Proverb surrounded the Universe beginning at a Thread a contemptible thing and after the incircling of all things more precious ended where it begun at a Shoe-latchet as mean as Thread in valuation But though one Thread be little worth many together prove useful and profitable and some thousand of pounds are sent yearly over out of England to buy that Commodity My Author telleth me that Thread is onely made I understand him out of London at Maidstone in this County where well nigh a hundred hands are imployed about it I believe a thousand might be occupied in the same work and many idle women who now onely spin Street-thread going tatling about with tales might procure if set at work a comfortable lively-hood thereby The Buildings The Cathedral of Rotchester is low and little proportional to the Revenews thereof Yet hath it though no Magnificence a venerable aspect of Antiquity therein The King hath besides other three fair Palaces in this Shire Greenwich with a pleasant medlay prospect of City Country Water and Land Eltham not altogether so wholsome and Otford which Arch-Bishop VVarham did so enlarge and adorne with Building that Cranmer his Successor was in some sort forced to exchange it with King Henry the Eighth on no gainful conditions To lesson the Clergy to content themselves with Decency without sumptuousness lest it awaken Envy and in fine they prove loosers thereby COBHAM the House of the late
opinion which entred into the World with great disadvantages For first none will be acquainted with strangers at the first sight as persons generally suspected as if to be unknown were part of being guilty Secondly the Grandees of this Profession were of the opposite judgement heavy enough without any Argument to overlay and so to stifle any Infant opinion by their Authority But Truth though it may be questioned for a Vagrant carrieth a Passport along with it for its own vindication Such have since shaken friendly hands with Doctor Harvey which at first tilted Pens against him And amongst the rest Riolanus that learned Physician if not Ambabus ulnis with one Arm at the least doth embrace his opinion and partly consent thereunto This Doctor though living a Batchelor may be said to have left three hopeful Sons to posterity his Books 1. De circulatione sanguinis which I may call his Son and Heir the Doctor living to see it at full age and generally received 2. De generatione as yet in its minority but I assure you growing up apace into publick credit 3. De Ovo as yet in the nonage thereof but infants may be men in due time It must not be forgotten that this Doctor had made a good progresse to lay down a Practice of Physick conformable to his Thesis of the Circulation of Blood but was plundered of his Papers in our Civil War Unhappy dissentions which not onely murdered many then alive but may be said by this call it mischief or mischante to have destroyed more not yet born whose Diseases might have been either prevented or removed if his worthy pains had come forth into the Publick And I charitably presume that grateful posterity will acknowledge the improvements of this opinion as Superstructures on his Foundation and thankfully pay the fruit to his memory who watered planted not to say made the root of this discovery He hath since been a second Linaore and great Benefactor to the Colledge of Physicians in London where his Statue stands with this Inscription GULIELMO HARVEO VIRO Monumentis suis immortali Hoc insuper Coll. Med. London posuit Qui enim Sanguin motum Ut Animal ortum dedit Meruit esse Stator perpetuus He died in the eightieth year of his Age June 3. Anno Dom. 1657. Writers JOHN of KENT so called because born in this County after he had studied at home with good proficiency went over into France where he became Canon in the Church of Saint Maries in Angiers But afterwards being weary of worldly wealth he quitted that place and turned a Franciscan Fryer and by Pope Innocent the fourth he was sent a joynt Legate into England He flourished in the year of our Lord 1248. HAIMO of FEVERSHAM both had his first breath at and fetched his name from Feversham in this County When a man he left the land and repairing to Paris applied his studies so effectually that Leland saith he was inter Aristotelicos Aristotelissimus He became a Franciscan in the Church of Saint Dennis it self and returning into England was elected Provincial of his Order Afterwards he was called to reside in Rome for his advice where quitting his Provincialship to his Successor he was chosen General of the Franciscans Surely he had much real or reputed merit being so highly prized by the Italians who generally do as much undervalue us English as they over-admire themselves Speculum honestatis the Glasse of honesty â—…aith one was the title given unto him though dark and false this Glasse if Bale may be believed who taxeth him for being an Inquisitor after and Persecutor of good people especially when imployed by the Pope into Grecia Lying on his Death-bed at Anagnia in Italy the Pope in person came to visit him which was no small honour unto him but all would not prolong his life which he ended Anno 1260. Having first at the command of Pope Alexander the fourth corrected and amended the Roman Breviary SIMON STOCK was born in this County and when but twelve years of Age went into the Woods whereof this Shire then afforded plenty and became a Hermite This Christian Diogenes had for his Tub the Stock of a hollow Tree whence he fetched his name and abating his Sex was like the Nymphs called Hama-druides which were the properties of Oak Trees Here he had saith Leland Water for his Nectar and wild Fruits for his Ambrosia One may admire how this man here met with Learning except by Inspiration and except Books as at the Original were written on Barks of Trees where with he conversed yet the University of Oxford would force a Batchelor of Divinity-ship upon him and many are the superstitious writings he lèft to posterity Reader behold here how the Roaring Lyon hath translated himself into a Mimical Ape endeavouring a mock Parallel betwixt this Simon and Simeon in the Gospell Old Simeon had a Revelation that he should not die till he had seen our Saviour come in the Flesh. This Simon aged 80. years had a Revelation that before his death he should behold a holy Order of Carmelites come out of Syria which fell out accordingly At their arrival in England our Simon quitted his Oak and advanced forward to meet them as of whom though he had no sight he had a vision before which is probably as true as that he was fed seven years with Manna in Mount Carmel He was chosen the General Governour of their Order all over Europe and died in the hundred year of his age Anno Dom. 1265. and was buried at Burdeaux in France THOMAS HASHLWOOD I find the name very ancient in a worshipful Family in Northampton-shire and professe not only my inclination but propensity to gain him for the credit of my Native Country But that needs not to be and I ought not to make it rich with the wrong of others Indeed I find a Haselwood Transposition makes no Mutation in Suffolk and another in Northumberland but their vast distance from the Monastery of Leeds in this County wherein our Haselwood was bred an Augustinian Fryer with some other insinuations too long to report prevail with me to fix him in this place He was an excellent Scholar himself and a fortunate School-master to teach others and became a faithful and painful Historian Bale out of William Botiner an industrious Collector of Antiquities assigneth him to flourish under King Edward the second 1321. but Mr. Weaver light on a Manuscript of his making in Sir Robert Cottons Library wherein he particularly speaks of the Atchievements of Edward the black Prince which I here thought fit to exemplifie Edwardus filius Edw. 3. primogenitus Princeps Walliae fortunatissimus miles in bello audacissimus inter validissima bella gesta militaria magnifice ab eodem peracta Johannem Regem Franciae apud Poyteizes debellavit pluribus tam nobilibus quam aliis de dicto regno captis
us should 〈◊〉 the others Funerall-Sermon But see a strange change God to whom belongs the 〈◊〉 from death was pleased with the Patriarch Jacob blessing his 〈◊〉 wittingly to guide his hands 〈◊〉 reaching out death to the living and life to the dying So that Dr. Felton recovered and not only performed that last office to his Friend Dr. Fenton but also survived him more than ten years and dyed Bishop of 〈◊〉 Roger Fenton dyed in the fiftieth Year of his age anno Dom. 1615. buryed in his own Church under a Monument made at the expence of the Parish ROBERT BOITON was born at Blackborne in this County on Whit sunday 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Year as infamous for the Massacre of many Protestants in France so for the 〈◊〉 of some eminent in England His Parents having a narrow Estate struggled with their necessities to give him liberal Education and he was bred first in 〈◊〉 then in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford He had Isocrates his six Marks or Properties of a good Scholar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His want of means proved an advancement unto him For 〈◊〉 having whence to buy Books he borrowed the best Authours of his Tutor read over abridged into Note-books and returned them He was as able to express himself in Latine or Greek as English and that Stylo Imperatorio He was chosen one of the Disputants before King James at his first coming to the University and performed it with great applause Thus far I have followed my Authour mentioned in the Margine but now must depart from him a little in one particular Though Mr. Boltons parents were not overflowing with wealth they had a competent Estate as I am informed by credible intelligence wherin their Family had comfortably continued long time in good repute Sr. Angustine Nicholls presented him to the Rectory of Broughton in Northamptonshire sending him his Presentation unexspectedly from his Chamber in Sergeants â—…nn where D. King Bishop of London being accidentally present thanked the Judge for his good choice but told him withall that he had deprived the University of a singular Ornament Besides his constant Preaching he hath left behinde him many usefull Books the Witnesses of his Piety and Learning and dyed in the 59th Year of his age December 17. 1631. JOHN WEEVER was born at in this County bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge under Dr. John Person his worthy Tutor He was very industrious in the Studie of Antiquity and composed a usefull Book of Funeral Monuments in the Diocesse of Canterbury Rochester London and Norwich He dyed in London in the fifty sixth Year of his age and was Buried in St. James Clerken-well where he appointed this Epitaph for himself Lancashire gave me Breath And Cambridge Education Middlesex gave we Death And this Church my Humation And Christ to me hath given A place with him in Heaven The certain date of his Death I cannot attain but by Proportion I collect it to be about the Year of our Lord 1634. RALPH CUDVVORTH D. D. the second Son of Ralph Cudworth of Wernith-hall near Manchester Esquire Chief Lord of Ouldham was bred Fellow of Emanuel-colledge in Cambridge A most excellent preacher who continued and finished some imperfect works of Mr. Perkins and after his Decease supplyed his place in St. Andrews in Cambridge He was at last presented by the Colledge to the parish of Auler in Somersetshire Anno 163. LAWRENCE CHADERTON was born at Chaderton in this County of ancient and wealthy Parentage but much nuzled up in Popish Superstition He was intended for a Lawyer and in order thereunto brought up some time in the Inns of Court till he changed his profession and admitted himself in Christs Colledge in Cambridge His Father hearing that he had altered his place studies and Religion sent him a Poke with a groat therein for him to go a begging therewith disinheriting him of â—…hat fair estate which otherwise had descended upon him But God who taketh men up when their Fathers and Mothers forsake them provided him a comfortable subsistance when chosen Fellow of the Colledge He was for many years Lecturer at St. Clements in 〈◊〉 with great profit to his Auditors afterwards made by the Founder first Master of Emanuel He was chosen by the Non-Conformists to be one of their four Representatives in Hampton-court conference and was afterwards employed one of the Translators of the Bible He had a plain but effectual way of Preaching It happened that he visiting 〈◊〉 friends preached in this his Native Countrey where the Word of God as in the dayes of Samuell was very pretious And concluded his Sermon which was of two hours continuance at least with words to this effect That he would no longer trespasse upon their Patience Whereupon all the Auditory cryed out wonder not if hungry people craved more meat for God 〈◊〉 Sir Go on go on Hereaâ—… Mr. Chaderton was surprised into a longer Discourse beyond his expectation in Satisfaction of their importunity and though on a sudden performed it to their contentment and his commendation Thus constant Preachers like good house keepers can never be taken so unprovided but that though they make not a plentiful Feast they can give wholsome food at a short warning He commenced Dr. in Divinity when Frederick Prince Palatine who married the Lady Elizabeth came to Cambridge What is said of Mount Caucasus that it was never seen without Snowe on the Top was true of this Reverend Father whom none of our Fathers generation knew in the Universitie before he was gray headed yet he never used Spectacles till the day of his death being Ninety four years of age He was not disheartned with that common saying he that resigneth his place before his death buryeth himself alive but put off his Clothes long before he went to bed divested himself of the Master-ship of Emanuel Colledge that so he might see a worthy successor in his life time The blessing which befell Job was in some sort appliable unto him he saw his Successors to the fourth generation I mean Doctor Presson and after his Death Doctor Sancroft and after his death Doctor Holesworth who preached his Funeral Sermon Anno 1640. about the Ninety fourth year of his age GEORGE WALKER was born at Hauxhead in Fournifells of Religious Parents Being visited when a child with the Small-poxe and the standers by expecting his dissolution he started up out of a Trance with this ejaculation Lord take me not away till I have shewed forth thy praises which made his Parents devote him to the Ministery after his recovery He was bred B. D. in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge where he attained to be well skilled in the Oriental Tongues an excellent Logician and Divine Mr. Foster formerly his Tutor resigned unto him his living of St. John the Evangelist London wherein Mr. Walker continued the painful Preacher well nigh fourty years refusing higher preferment often profered him Dr. Felton the
complying with it which may not and confuting of it which ought to be done Most make a difference between the railing fool and the reasoning fool the former to be ordered as Hezekiah did Rabshakeh Answer him not a word But if he be a reasoning fool who will offer to argue conceited of himself take him off his speed with a short and seasonable return Such a fool this Hoggard was adjudged whom John Plough undertook to answer and cut his combe so close that the other appeared no more He dyed in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth WILLIAM BRIGHTMAN was born in Nottingham where some of his brethren were lately alive bred Fellow of Queen Colledge in Cambridge and aftewards beneficed at Haunes in Bedfordshire No lover of Conformity yet no hater of Conformists being charitable to such who in judgement dissented from him His Memory is most remarkeable for his Comment on the Revelation by some Protestants approved praised admired by others sleighted contemned condemned Pro. 1. His very name Brightman imports something of illumination and clearness therein 2. He makes many hard places to be plain and mysteries to be histories by his Comment 3. He foretold many things forty years ago which we see performed in our dayes Con. 1. Names are casual and even Lucian himself as bad as he was had as much of light and lustre in his name 2. He makes many plain places hard and histories to be mysteries by his mis-interpretation expounding the seven Asian Churches then literally extant to be Germany France England c. 3. Shooting so many Arrows no wonder if fome few rather by hap than aim hit the mark Sure I am that Time and Mr. Brightman will expound the hardest places in the Revelation but what credit is to be given to the later alone I will not engage Such who dislike Mr. Brightmans writing could not but commend his Angelical living who had so much of Heaven in his heart Walking thorough the vineyard of this world he pluckt and eat a few grapes but put up none in his Vessel using wealth as if he us'd it not His Clay-cottage did crack and fall down in the same minute so sudden was his death But he who dyed daily could on no day be said to dye suddenly being alwayes prepared for his dissolution which happened Anno Dom. 16 Memorable Persons ROBERT HOOD was if not by birth by his chiefest abode this Country-man Cambden calls him praedonem mitissimum the gentlest thief that ever was and know Reader he is entered into our Catalogue not for his thievery but for his gentleness Take the character of his though not good less bad behaviour from the pen of our Poet From wealthy Abbots chests and Churles abundant store What oftentimes he took he shar'd amongst the poor No lordly Bishop came in lusty Robins way To him before he went but for his Pass must pay The widow in distress he graciously reliev'd And remedied the wrongs of many a Virgin griev'd But who made him a Judge or gave him a Commission to take where it might best be spared and give where it was most wanted His principal residence was in Shirewood Forrest in this County though he had another haunt he is no Fox that hath but one hole near the Sea in the North-riding in York-shire where Robin Hoods Bay still retaineth his name Not that he was any Pirat but a Land-thief who retreated to those unsuspected parts for his security One may wonder how he escaped the hand of Justice dying in his bed for ought is found to the contrary But it was because he was rather a merry than a mischievous thief complementing passengers out of their purses never murdering any but Deer and this popular Robber feasted the Vicinage with his Venison He played his pranks in the reign of King Richard the First about the year of our Lord 1100. THOMAS MAGNUS He was an exposed child left by his mother in the Parish of Newark What the Poet saith of the father of Cadmus commanding his son to find his lost sister Europa or else never to return that he was Facto piuâ—… sceleratus eodem Expressing in one act a mind Which was both cruel and was kind may be applied to the mother of this and all such Foundlings Now it happened that some York shire Clothiers coming in the dark very early or late did light on this child and resolved to pay both for his nursing and education the charge whereof would not be great equally divided betwixt them according to the Proverb Multorum manibus grande levatur onus An heavy work is light to do When many hands are put thereto First then they took order he should be baptized in Newark by the name of Thomas probably the best person in their company and because all of them had Interest alike in him for his Sirname they assigned him Amang-us which is amongst us in the Northern pronunciation They were very careful in his breeding I confess Aristotle urgeth it as an argument against the breeding of children in common that the care of all will effectually be the care of none and so the children be neglected Not so here where this Thomas though he had a Common-wealth of Foster-fathers was very well brought up in learning and became an excellent scholar and States-man being imployed in many forreign Embassies Then took he on him the name of Dr. Magnus and was famous thereby both at home and beyond the Seas on which account he might claim kindred with Pompeius Magnus Carolus Magnus and Albertus Magnus and whom not who was Great for arts arms or otherwise It soundeth much in his commendation that he forgot not his gratitude to the Town of his Nativity where he erected a fair school with other Benefactions He flourished as I take it under King Henry the Eight Lord Mayors I cannot on my best inquiry recover any Native of this County who ever attained to this place of Magistracy but am informed that now the feet of one do tread near unto the Thrâ—…shold of that Dore of Honor and doubt not but when he hath first entered and opened the way there will be others soon found to follow him The Names of the Gentry of this County returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth John Archbishop of York Commissioners to take the Oaths Humfrey Earl of Stafford  Richard Stanhop One of the Knights for the Shire  Tho. Cheworth chiv Iohan. Zouche chiv Will. Plumton chiv Hug. Welughby chiv Roberti Strelley chiv Hen. Perponnt chiv Rob. Maâ—…kam chiv Gerv. Clâ—…ston chiv Will. Meryng chiv Hug. 〈◊〉 chiv Ioh. Cokfeld armig Radulphi Makerell Thome Nevyll Roberti Brewce Thome Stanton Rad. Leek Richardi Sutton Thome Stanhope Iacobi Stanhope Thome Curson Willielmi Byrton Henrici Perponnt Hugonis Hercy Iohannis Wastnes Iohannis Gaitford Gorgii Clay Iohannis Husse Iohannis Hiklinge Ioh. Barbour de Leek Thome Stannton
he was successively preferred by King Charles the first Bishop of Hereford and London and for some years Lord Treasurer of England A troublesome place in those times it being expected that he should make much Brick though not altogether without yet with very little Straw allowed unto him Large then the Expences Low the Revenues of the Exchequer Yet those Coffers which he found Empty he left Filling and had left Full had Peace been preserved in the Land and he continued in his Place Such the mildness of his temper that Petitioners for Money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his denialls they were so civilly Languaged It may justly seem a wonder that whereas few spake well of Bishops at that time and Lord Treasurers at all times are liable to the Complaints of discontented people though both Offices met in this man yet with Demetrius he was well reported of all men and of the truth it self He lived to see much shame and contempt undeservedly poured on his Function and all the while possessed his own soul in patience He beheld those of his Order to lose their votes in Parliament and their insulting enemies hence concluded Loss of speech being a sad Symptom of approching Death that their Final extirpation would follow whose own experience at this day giveth the Lie to their malicious Collection Nor was it the least part of this Prelates Honour that amongst the many worthy Bishops of our Land King Charles the first selected him for his Confessor at his Martyrdome He formerly had had experience in the case of the Earl of Strafford that this Bishops Conscience was bottom'd on Piety not Policy the reason that from him he received the Sacrament good Comfort and Counsell just before he was Murdered I say just before that Royal Martyr was Murdered a Fact so foul that it alone may confute the errour of the Pelagians maintaining that all Sin cometh by imitaâ—…ion the Universe not formerly affording such a Precedent as if those Regicides had purposely designed to disprove the Observation of Solomon that there is No new thing under the Sun King Charles the second Anno Domini 1660. preferred him Arch-bishop of Canterbury which place he worthily graceth at the writing hereof Feb. 1. 1660. ACCEPTUS FRUIN D. D. was born at in this County bred Fellow of Magdalen-colledge in Oxford and afterwards became President thereof and after some mediate preferments was by King Charles the first advanced Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and since by King Charles the second made Arch-bishop of York But the matter whereof Porcellane or China dishes are made must be ripened many years in the earth before it comes to full perfection The Living are not the proper objects of the Historians Pen who may be misinterpreted to flatter even when he falls short of their due Commendation the Reason why I adde no more in the praise of this worthy Prelate As to the Nativities of Arch-bishops one may say of this County many Shires have done worthily but SUSSEX surmounteth them all having bred Five Archbishops of Canterbury and at this instant claiming for her Natives the two Metropolitans of our Nation States-men THOMAS SACKVILL son and heir to Sir Richard Sackvill Chancellour and Sub-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Privy-Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth by Winifred his wife daughter to Sir John Bruges was bred in the University of Oxford where he became an excellent Poet leaving both Latine and English Poems of his composing to posterity Then studied he law in the Temple and took the degree of Barrister afterward he travelled into forraign parts detained for a time a prisoner in Rome whence his liberty was procured for his return into England to possess the vast Inheritance left him by his father whereof in short time by his magnificent prodigality he spent the greatest part till he seasonably began to spare growing neer to the bottom of his Estate The story goes that this young Gentleman coming to an Alderman of London who had gained great Pennyworths by his former purchases of him was made being now in the Wane of his Wealth to wait the coming down of the Alderman so long that his generous humour being sensible of the incivility of such attendance resolved to be no more beholding to Wealthy pride and presently turned a thrifty improver of the remainder of his Estate If this be true I could wish that all Aldermen would State it on the like occasion on condition their noble debtors would but make so good use thereof But others make him the Convert of Queen Elizabeth his Cosin german once removed who by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion Indeed she would not know him till he began to know himself and then heaped places of honour and trust upon him creating him 1. Baron of Buckhurst in this County the reason why we have placed him therein Anno Dom. 1566. 2. Sending him Ambassadour into France Anno 1571. into the Low-countries Anno 1586. 3. Making him Knight of the Order of the Garter Anno 1589. 4. Appointing him Treasurer of England 1599. He was Chancellour of the University of Oxford where he entertained Q. Elizabeth with a most sumptuous feast His elocution was good but inditing better and therefore no wonder if his Secretaries could not please him being a person of so quick dispatch faculties which yet run in the bloud He took a Roll of the names of all Suitors with the date of their first addresses and these in order had their hearing so that a fresh-man could not leap over the head of his senior except in urgent affairs of State Thus having made amends to his house for his mis-spent time both in increase of Estate and Honour being created Earl of Dorset by King James he died on the 19. of April 1608. Capitall Judges Sir JOHN JEFFRY Knight was born in this County as I have been informed It confirmeth me herein because he left a fair Estate in this Shire Judges genebuilding their Nest neer the place where they were Hatched which descended to his Daughter He so profited in the study of our Municipall-Law that he was preferred Secondary Judge of the Common-pleas and thence advanced by Queen Elizabeth in Michaelmas Terme the nineteenth of her Reign to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer which place he discharged for the Terme of two years to his great commendation He left one only Daughter and Heir married to Sir Edward Mountague since Baron of Boughton by whom he had but one Daughter Elizabeth married to Robert Barty Earl of Linsey Mother to the truly Honorable Mountague Earl of Linsey and Lord Great Chamberlain of England This worthy Judge died in the 21. of Queen Elizabâ—…h Souldiers The ABBOT of BATTLE He is a pregnant Proof that one may leave no Name and yet a good Memory behind him His Christian or Surname cannot be recovered out of our Chronicles which hitherto
I have seen But take his worth as followeth King Richard the second in the beginning of his Reign was in Nonage and his Council some will say in Dotage leaving the Land and Sea to defend themselves whilst they indulged thir private Factions This invited the French to invade this County where they did much mischief Plundering the Thing was known in England before the Name the people thereof and carrying away captive the Prior of Lewes And no wonder if our Abbot was startled therewith seeing it may pass for a Proverb in these parts Ware the Abbot of Battle When the Prior of Lewes is taken Prisoner Wherefore though no Sheriff he got together as well as he might the Posse Comitatus and puting it in as good a posture of defence as the time would permit marched to Winchelsey and fortified it Some condemned him herein it being incongruous for a Clergy-man to turn Souldier They objected also that he ought to have expected Orders from Above doing Rectum but not Rectè for want of a Commission Others commended him to save and preserve being the most proper Performance of a Spirituall Person That in Hostes Publicos omnis Homo Miles That though it be high Treason for any to Fight a Foe in a Set field without Command from the Supreme power yet one may if he can repell a Rout of Armed Thieves invading a Land the first being the fittest Time for such a Purpose the Occasion it self giving though no express an Implicite Commission for the same This Abbot used rather the Shield then the Sword being only on the Defensive side Well the French followed the Abbot and besieged him in the Town of Winchelsey In Bravado they dared him to send out one two three four or more to try the Mastery in fight to be encountred with an equal number But the Abbot refused to retail his men out in such Parcels alledging that he was a spiritual person not to challenge but only defend Then the French let fly their great Guns and I take it to be the first and last time they were ever planted by a Forreign Enemy on the English Continent and then roared so â—…ud that they lost their voice and have been blessed be God silent ever since The Enemy perceiving that the Country came in fast upon them and suspecting they should be surrounded on all sides were fain to make for France as fast as they could leaving the Town of Winchelsey behind them in the same form and fashion wherein they found it I behold this Abbot as the Saver not onely of Suffex but England For as Dogs who have once gotten an Haunt to worry sheep do not leave it off till they meet with their reward So had not these French felt the smart as well as the sweet of the English Plunder our Land and this County especially had never been free from their incursions All this happened in the raign of King Richard the second Anno Domini 13 ... Sir WILLAM PELHAM Knight was a Native of this County whose ancient and wealthy Family hath long flourished at Laughton therein His Prudence in Peace and Valour in War caused Queen Elizabeth to imploy him in Ireland where he was by the Privy Council appointed Lord Chief Justice to govern that Land in the interim betwixt the death of Sir William Drury and the coming in of Arthur Gray Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Say not that he did but stop a Gap for a twelve-month at the most seeing it was such a GAP Destruction had entred in thereat to the final ruine of that Kingdome had not his Providence prevented it For in this juncture of time Desmund began his Rebellion 1579. inviting Sir William to side with him who wisely gave him the Hearing with a Smile into the Bargain And although our Knight for want of force could not cure the wound yet he may be said to have washed and kept it clean resigning it in a recovering condition to the Lord Gray who succeeded him Afterwards he was sent over into the Low-Countries 1586 being Commander of the English Horse therein and my Author saith of him Brabantiam persultabat He leaped-through Brabant Importing Celerity and Success yea as much Conquest as so sudden an expedition was capable of I suspect he survived not long after meeting no more mention of his Martial Activity The Shirleys Their ancient extraction in this County is sufficiently known The last age saw a leash of brethren of this family severally eminent This mindeth me of the Roman Horatii though these expressed themselves in a different kind for the honour of their Country pardon me if reckoning them up not according to their age Sir ANTHONY SHIRLEY second Son to Sir Thomas set forth from Plimouth May the 21. 1596. in a ship called the Bevis of Southampton attended with six lesser vessels His designe for Saint Thome was violently diverted by the contagion they found on the South coast of Africa where the rain did stink as it fell down from the heavens and within six hours did turn into magots This made him turn his course to America where he took and kept the City of Saint Jago two days and nights with two hundred and eighty men whereof eighty were wounded in the service against three thousand Portugalls Hence he made for the Isle of Fuego in the midst whereof a Mountaine Aetna-like always burning and the wind did drive such a shower of ashes upon them that one might have wrote his name with his finger on the upper deck However in this fiery Island they furnished themselves with good water which they much wanted Hence he sailed to the Island of Margarita which to him did not answer its name not finding here the Perl-Dredgers which he expected Nor was his gaine considerable in taking the town of Saint Martha the Isle and chief town of Jamaica whence he sailed more then thirty leagues up the river Rio-dolci where he met with great extremity At last being diseased in person distressed for victuals and deserted by all his other ships he made by New-found-Land to England where he arrived June 15. 1597. Now although some behold his voyage begun with more courage then counsel carried on with more valour then advice and coming off with more honour then profit to himself or the nation the Spaniard being rather frighted then harmed rather braved then frighted therewith yet unpartial judgments who measure not worth by success justly allow it a prime place amongst the probable though not prosperous English Adventures Sir ROBERT SHIRLEY youngest Son to Sir Thomas was by his Brother Anthony entred in the Persian Court. Here he performed great Service against the Turkes and shewed the difference betwixt Persian and English valour the latter having therein as much Courage and more Mercy giving Quarter to Captives who craved it and performing Life to those to whom he promised it These his Actions drew the Envie of the Persian Lords and Love
the vomit of Popery which my charity will not believe Indeed in the first of Queen Mary he was outed of his Bishoprick for being married and all that we can recover of his carriage aâ—…terwards is this passage at the examination of Master Thomas Hauke Martyr When John Bird then very old brought Boner a bottle of Wine and a dish of Apples probably a present unto him for a Ne noceat and therefore not enough to speak him a Papist in his perswasion Bishop Boner desired him to take Haukes into his Chamber and to try if he could convert him whereupon after Boners departure out of the room the quondam Bishop accosted Haukes as followeth I would to God I could do you some good you are a young man and I would not wish you to go to far but learn of the elders to bear somewhat He enforced him no further but being a thorough old man even fell fast asleep All this in my computation amounts but to a passive compliance and is not evidence enough to make him a thorough paced Papist the rather because John Pitts omitteth him in the Catalogue of English-writers which no doubt he would not have done had he any assurance that he had been a radicated Romanist Nothing else have I to observe of him but onely that he was a little man and had a pearl in his eyes and dying 1556. was buried in Chester States men Sir NICHOLAS THROCKMORTON Knight fourth Son of Sir George Throckmorton of Coughton in this County was bred beyond the Seas where he attained to great experience Under Queen Mary he was in Guild-Hall arraigned for Treason compliance with Wyat and by his own warie pleading and the Jurie's upright verdict hardly escaped Queen Elizabeth employed him Her Leiger a long time first in France then in Scotland finding him a most able Minister of State yet got he no great wealth and no wonder being ever of the opposite party to Burleigh Lord Treasurer Chamberlain of the Exchequer and Chief Butler of England were his highest preferments I say Chief Butler which office like an empty covered cup pretendeth to some state but affordeth no considerable profit He died at supper with eating of salates not without suspicion of poison the rather because hapning in the house of one no mean artist in that faculty R. Earl of Leicester His death as it was sudden was seasonable for him and his whose active others will call it turbulent spirit had brought him into such trouble as might have cost him at least the loss of his personal estate He died in the fifty seventh year of his age February the 12. 1570. and lyeth buryed in the South-side of the Chancel of St. Katharine Cree-Church London EDWARD CONWAY Knight Son to Sir John Conway Knight Lord and Owner of Ragleigh in this County This Sir John being a Person of Great skill in Military affaires was made by Robert Earl of Leicester Generall of the English Auxiliaries in the united Provinces Governour of Ostend His Son Sir Edward succeeded to his Fathers Martial skill and valour and twisted therewith peaceable policy in State-affaires so that the Gown and the Sword met in him in most Eminent Proportion and thereupon King James made Him one of the Principal Secretaries of State For these his good services he was by him created Lord Conway of Ragleigh in this County and afterwards by King Charles Viscount Killultagh in the County of Antrim And lastly in the third of King Charles Viscount Conway of Conway in Carnarvanshire England Ireland and Wales mutually embracing themselves in His Honours He dyed January the third Anno 1630. JOHN DIGBY Baron of Sherborn and Earl of Bristol was born in this County a younger Son of an ancient family long flourishâ—…ng at Coleshull therein To pass by his Infancy all Children being alike in their long Coats his Youth gave pregnant hopes of that Eminency which his mature age did produce He didken the Emhassador-Craft as well as any in his age employed by King James in several services to frreign Princes recited in his Patent which I have perused as the main motives of the Honors conferr'd upon him But his managing the Matchless Match with Spain was his Master-piece wherein a Good I mean a Great number of State-Traverses were used on both sides His contest with the Duke of Buckingham is fresh in many mens Memories charges of High Treason mutually flying about But this Lord fearing the Dukes Power as the Duke this Lorâ—…s policy it at last became a Drawn Battail betwixt them yet so that this Earl lost the love of King Charles living many years in his Dis-favour But such as are in a Court-Cloud have commonly the Countries Sun-shine and this Peer during his Eclyps was very Popular with most of the Nation It is seldom seen that a favorite once Broken at Court sets up again for himself the hap rather then happiness of this Lord the King graciously reflecting on him at the beginning of the Long-Parliament as one Best able to give him the safest Counsell in those dangerous Times But how he incensed the Parliament so far as to be excepted Pardon I neither do know nor dare enquire Sure I am after the surrender of Exeter he went over into France where he met with that due respect in forraign which he missed in his Native Country The worst I wish such who causelesly suspect him of Popish inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong Arguments for the Protestant Religion as I have heard from him who was to his commendation a Cordial Champion for the Church of England He dyed in France about the year 1650. Writers WALTER of COVENTRIE was born and bred a Benedictine therein Bale saith he was Immortali vir dignus Memoria and much commended by Leland though not of set purpose but sparsim as occasion is offered He excelled in the two Essential Qualities of an Historian Faith and Method writing truly and orderly onely guilty of Coursness of style This may better be dispenced with in him because Historia est res veritatis non Eloquentiae because bad Latin was a catching disease in that age From the beginning of the Britons he wrote a Chronicle extant in Bennet Colledge Library to his own time He flourished Anno 1217. VINCENT of COVENTRIE was born in the chief City in this shire and bred a Franciscan though Learned Leland mistakes him a Carmelite in the University of Cambridg His order at their first entrance into England looked upon learning as a thing beneath them so totally were they taken up with their Devotion This Vincent was the first who brake the Ice and then others of his order drank of the same water first applyed himself to Academicall studies and became a publick Professor in Cambridge he set a Coppy for the Carmelites therein to imitate who not long after began their publick Lectures in the same place he
Daughter Frances Countess of Warwick scatter her Benesactions the thicker in that place But I have been informed that his Ancestor by some accident came out of Cornwell where his Name is right Antient. He was bred in the study of our Municipall Law and such his proficiency therein that in the sixteenth of Queen Elizabeth in Michaelmas Term he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench He was not like that Judge who feared neither God nor man but onely one Widow lest her importunity should weary him but he heartily feared God in his Religious Conversation Each man he respected in his due distance off of the Bench and no man on it to biass his judgement He was pro tempore Lord Privy Seal and sate Chief in the Court when Secretary Davison was sentenced in the Star Chamber Sir Christopher collecting the censures of all the Commissioners concurred to Fine him but with this Comfortable conclusion that as it was in the Queens power to have him punished so Her Highness might be prevailed with for mitigating or remitting of the Fine and this our Judge may be presumed no ill instrument in the procuring thereof He bountifully reflected on Magdalen-colledge in Cambridge which infant Foundation had otherwise been starved at nurse for want of maintenance We know who saith * the righteous man leaveth an inheritance to his Childrens Children and the well thriving of his third Generation may be an evidence of his well-gotten goods This worthy Judge died May the eighth in the thirty fourth of Queen Elizabeth States Men. Pardon Reader my post poning this Topick of States-Men being necessitated to stay a while for further information Sir JOHN PUCKERING Kt. was born at Flamborough head in this County as I have learned out of the Notes of that industrious and judicious Antiquary Mr. Dodâ—…worth He was second Son to his Father a Gentleman who left him neither plentiful nor penurious estate his breeding was more beneficial to him than his portion gaining thereby such skill in the Common Law that he became Queens-Serjeant Speaker in the House of Commons and at last Lord Chancellor of England How he stood in his judgement in the point of Church-Discipline plainly appeareth by his following Speech delivered in the House of Lords 1588. the Original whereof was courteously communicated unto me And especially you are commanded by Her Majesty to take heed that no eare be given nor time afforded to the wearisome solicitations of those that commonly be called Puritans wherewithal the late Parliaments have been exceedingly importuned which sort of men whilest that in the giddiness of their Spirits they labour and strive to advance a new Eldership they do nothing else but disturb the good repose of the Church and Commonwealth which is as well grounded for the body of Religion it self and as well guided for the Discipline as any Realm that prosesseth the Truth and the same thing is already made good to the world by many the writings of Godly and Learned men neither answered nor answerable by any of these new fangled Refiners And as the present case standeth it may be doubted whether they or the Jesuits do offer more danger or be more speedily to be repressed For albeit the Jesuites do empoison the hearts of her Majesties Subjects under a pretext of Conscience to withdraw them from their obedience due to Her Majesty Yet do they the same but closely and only in privy corners But these men do both teach and publish in their printed Books â—…nd teach in all their Conventicles sundry opinions not only dangerous to the well-setled Estate and Policy of the Realm by putting a Pique between the Clergy and the Laâ—…ty But also much derogatory to Her Saâ—…red Majesty and Her Crown as well by the diminution of her ancient and lawfull Revenues and by denying her Highness Prerogative and Supremacy as by offâ—…ng peril to her Majesties safety in her own Kingdom In all which things however in other points they pretend to be at war with the Popish Jesuites yet by this separation of themselves from the unity of their Fellow-Subjects and by abasing the Sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince they do both joyn and concur with the Jesuites in opening the door and preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion that is threatned against the Realm And thus having according to the weaknesse of my best understanding delivered Her Majesties Royal pleasure and wise direction I rest there with humble suit for Her Majesties most gracious pardon in supply of my defects and recommend you to the Author of all good counsel He died Anno Domini 1596. caractered by Mr. Cambden VIR INTEGER His estate is since descended according to the solemn settlement thereof the male-issue failing on Sir Henry Newton who according to the condition hath assumed the Surâ—…name of Puckering and I can never be sufficiently thankful to him and his Relations Sir GEORGE CALVERT Kt. was born at Kiplin near Richmond in this County had his education first in Trinity Colledge in Oxford then beyond the Seas His abilities commended him first to be Secretary to Robert Cecil Earl of Sarisbury Lord Treasurer of England Afterwards he was made Clerk of the Councel and at last principal Secretary of State to King James succeeding Sir Thomas Lakes in that office Anno 1619. Conceiving the Duke of Buckingham highly instrumental in his preferment he presented him with a Jewel of great value which the Duke returned him again not owning any activity in his advancement whom King James ex mero motu reflecting on his ability designed for the place This place he discharged above five years until he willingly resigned the same 1624. on this occasion He freely confessed himself to the King That he was then become a Roman Catholick so that he must either be wanting to his Trust on violate his Consolence in discharging his office This his ingenuity so highly affected King James that he continued him Privy Councellor all his raign as appeareth in the Councel-Book and soon after created him Lord Baltemore of Baltemore in Ireland During his being Secretary he had a Patent to him and his Heirs to be Absolutus Dominus Proprietarius with the Royalties of a Count Palatine of the Province of Avalon in New-found-Land A place so named by him in imitation of old Avalon in Somerset shire wherein Glassenbury stands the first fruits of Christianity in Britain as the other was in that part of America Here he built a fair House in Ferry Land and spent five and twenty thousand pounds in advancing the Plantation thereof Indeed his publick spirit consulted not his private profit but the enlargement of Christianity and the Kings Dominions After the death of King James he went twice in person to New found-Land Here when Mounsier de l'Arade with three Men of War sent from the King of France had reduced our English Fishermen to great extremity This Lord with two Ships manned at
parentage Veritati Dei tunc revelatae Auscultans and Pitz taxeth him that his Pen was too compliant to pleasure K. Henry the eight The truth is this he lived in these parts in that juncture of time when the two Northern Rebellions happened the one in Lincoln the other in Yorkshire and when the Popish party gave it out that the Reformation would ruine Church and State levell all dignities and degrees Wilfrid to Confute the Priests truthless Reports and the Peoples causless Jealousies stated the Controversie Truely Clearly and Wittily in the manner of a Dialogue He survived not many months after the setting forth of this book Anno 1536. THOMAS ROBERSON was born in this County and being Doctor of Divinity in Oxford was one of the best Grammarians for Greek and Latine in that age He had an admirable faculty in teaching of youth for every Boy can teach a Man whereas he must be a Man who can teach a Boy It is easie to inform them who are able to understand but it must be a Master piece of industry and discretion to descend to the capacity of Children He wrote notes upon the Grammar of Lilly and besides others one book De Nominibus Hetoroclitis and another De verbis Defectivis so that by his pains the hardest parts of Grammar are made the easiest and the most anomalous reduced to the greatest regularity by his endeavours What Robert Robinson under whose name Quae genus in the Grammar is Printed was to this Thomas Roberson I have no leisure to enquire and leave it to those to whom it is more proper suspecting they may be the same person and thâ—…t Pitzaeus our Author living mostly beyond the seas might be mistaken in the name However he flourished Anno Domini 1544. WILLIAM HUGH was born in this County and bred in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford where he attained to great Eminency in Learning In his time the Consciences of many tender Parents were troubled about the Finall Estate of Infants dying unbaptized as posting from the Wombe to the Winding sheet in such speed that the Sacrament could not be fastened upon them To pacify persons herein concerned this William wrote and Dedicated a book to Q. Katherine Parr entituled The troubled mans Medicine He died of the breaking of a Vain Anno Dom. 1549. ROGER ASCHAM was born at Kirby-weik in this County and bred in Saint Johns-Colledge in Cambridge under Doctor Medcalfe that good Governour who whet-stonelike though dull in himself by his encouragement set an edge on most excellent wits in that foundation Indeed Ascham came to Cambridge just at the dawning of learning and staid therein till the bright-day thereof his own endeavours contributing much light thereunto He was Oratour and Greek-Professour in the University places of some sympathy which have often met in the same person and in the beginning of the raign of Queen Mary within three days wrote letters to fourty seven severall Princes whereof the meanest was a Cardinal He travailed into Germany and there contracted familiarity with John Sturmius and other learned men and after his return was a kind of teacher to the Lady Elizabeth to whom after she was Queen he became her Secretary for her Latine letters In a word he was an Honest man and a good Shooter Archery whereof he wrote a book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being his onely exercise in his youth which in his old age he ex changed for a worse pastime neither so healthfull for his body nor profitable for his purse I mean Cock-fighting and thereby being neither greedy to get nor carefull to keep money he much impaired his estate He had a facile and fluent Latine-style not like those who counting obscurity to be elegancy weed out all the hard words they meet in Authors witness his Epistles which some say are the only Latine-ones extant of any English-man and if so the more the pity What loads have we of letters from forraign Pens as if no Author were compleat without those necessary appurtenances whilst surely our English-men write though not so many as good as any other Nation In a word his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is accounted a good book for Young-men his School-master for Old-men his Epistles for all men set out after his death which happened Anno Dom. 1568. December 30. in the 53. year of his Age and he was buried in Saint Sepulchers in London Sir HENRY SAVILL Knight was born at Bradley in the Parish of Hallifax in this County of antient and worshipfull extraction He was bred in Oxford and at last became Warden of Merton-colledge and also Provost of Eaton Thus this skilfull Gardiner had at the same time a Nurcery of young Plants and an Orchard of grown Trees both flourishing under his carefull inspection This worthy Knight carefully collected the best Copies of Saint Chrysostome and imployed Learned men to transcribe and make Annotations on them which done he fairly set it forth on his own cost in a most beautifull Edition a burden which he underwent without stooping under it though the weight thereof would have broken the back of an ordinary person But the Papists at Paris had their Emissaries in England who surreptitiously procured this Knights learned Labours and sent them over weekly by the Post into France Schedatim sheet by sheet as here they passed the Press Then Fronto Duceus a French Cardinall as I take it caused them to be Printed there with implicite faith and blind obedience letter for letter as he received them out of England onely joyning thereunto a Latine translation and some other inconsiderable Additions Thus two Editions of Saint Chrysostome did together run a race in the world which should get the speed of the other in publique sale and acceptance Sir Henry his Edition started first by the advantage of some Months But the Parisian Edition came up close to it and advantaged with the Latine Translation though dearer of pâ—…ice out-stript it in quickness of Sale but of late the Savilian Chrysostome hath much mended its pace so that very few are left of the whole Impression Sir Henry left one onely Daughter richly married to Sir William Sidley of Kent Baronet He dyed at Eaton where he lyeth buried under a Monument with this Inscription Hic jacent Ossa Cineres Henrici Savill sub spe certa resurrectionis natus apud Bradley juxta Halifax in Comitatu Ebor Anno Domini 1549. ultimo die mensis Novembris Obiit in Collegio Etonensi Anno Domini 1621. xix die mensis Februarii It must not be forgotten that he was a most excellent Mathematician witness his learned Lectures on Euclid Yet once casually happening into the Company of Master Briggs of Cambridge upon a learned encounter betwixt them Master Briggs demonstrated a truth besides if not against the judgment of Sir Henry wherewith that worthy Knight was so highly affected that he chose him one of his Mathematick
his own charge chased away the French-man relieved the English and took sixâ—…y of the French Prisoners He removed afterwards to Virginia to view those parts and afterwards came into England and obtained from King Charles who had as great an esteem of and affection for him as King James a Patent to him and his Heirs for Mary-land on the North of Virginia with the same Title and Royalties conferred on him as in Avalon aforesaid now a hopeful Plantation peopled with eight thousand English souls which in processe of time may prove more advantagious to our Nation Being returned into England he died in London April 15. 1632. in the 53. year of his age lying buried in the Chancel of S. Dunstans in the West leaving his Son the Right Honourable Cecil Calvert now Lord Baltemore heir to his Honour Estate and Noble Disposition THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of Strafford Deputy though Son to William Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse in this County Esq at his Sons birth afterward Baronet yet because born in Chancery-Lane and Christned April 22. Anno 1593. in Saint Dunstans in the West hath his Character in London Seamen ARMIGELL WAAD born of an ancient Family in York-shire as I am informed from his Epitaph on his monument at Hampstead in Midlesex wherein he is termed Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Regum Secretiori consilio ab epistolis which I took the boldnesse to interpret not Secretary but Clerk of the Councel Take the rest as it followeth in his Funeral Inscription Qui in maximarum Artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britannos Indicarum Americarum explorator primus Indeed he was the first Englishman that discovered America and his several voyages are largely described in Mr. Hackluite his Travels This English COLUMBUS had by two Wives twenty Children whereof Sir William Waad was the eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Councel to Queen Elizabeth This Armigel died June 20. 1568. and was buried as is aforesaid MARTIN FROBISHER Kt. was born nigh Doncaster in this County I note this the rather because learned Mr. Carpenter in his Geography recounts him amongst the famous men of Devonshire But why should Devon-shire which hath a flock of Worthies of her own take a Lamb from another County because much conversing therein He was from his youth bred up in Navigation and was the first Englishman that discovered the North way to China and Cathai whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it Silver or Gold Ore but which upon trial with great expence prov'd uselesse yet will no wise man laugh at his mistake because in such experiments they shall never hit the mark who are not content to 〈◊〉 it He was very valiant but withal harsh and violent faults which may be dispensed with in one of his profèssion and our Chronicles loudly resouâ—…d his signal service in Eighty Eight for which he was Knighted His last service was the defending of Brest-Haven in Britain with ten ships against a far greater power of Spaniards Here he was shot into the side the wound not being mortal in it self But Swords and Guâ—…s have not made more mortal wounds than Probes in the hands of carelesse and skillesse Chirurgeons as here it came to passe The Chirurgeon took out only the Bullet and left the bumbast about it behind wherewith the sore festered and the worthy Knight died at Plimoâ—…th Anno 1594. GEORGE CLIFFORD Lord Clifford Vescye c. Earl of Cumberland was son to Henry second Earl of that Family by his second Lady a person wholly composed of true Honour and Valour whereof he gave the world a clear and large demonstration It was resolved by the judicious in that age the way to humble the Spanish greatnesse was not by pinching and pricking him in the Low-Countries which only emptied his veins of such blood as was quickly re-filled But the way to make it a Cripple for ever was by cutting off the Spanish sinews of War his Money from the West Indies In order whereunto this Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost and adventured his own person therein being the best born Englishman that ever hazarded himselfe in that kind His Fleet may be said to be bound for no other Harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto I say touching whose design was not to enrich himself but impoverish the enemy He was as merciful as valiant the best metal bows best and left impressions of both in all places where he came Queen Elizabeth Anno 1592. honoured him with the dignity of the Garter When King James came first out of Scotland to York he attended him with such an equipage of Followers for number and habit that he seemed rather a King than Earl of Cumberland Here happened a contest between the Earl and the Lord President of the North about carrying the Sword before the King in York which office upon due search and enquiry was adjudged to the Earl as belonging unto him and whilest Cliffords Tower is standing in York that Family will never be therein forgotten His Anagram was as really as litterally true Georgius Cliffordius Cumberlandius Doridis regno clarus cum vi fâ—…lgebis He died 1605. leaving one Daughter and Heir the Lady Anne married to the Earl of Dorset of whom hereafter Physicians Sir GEORGE RIPLEY whether Knight or Priest not so soon decided was undoubtedly born at Ripley in this County though some have wrongfully entituled Surry to his Naâ—…vity That York-shire was the place of his birth will be evidenced by his relation of Kindred reckoned up by himself viz. 1. 〈◊〉 2. Ripleâ—… 3. Madlay 4. VVilloughby 5. Burham 6. VVaterton 7. Flemming 8. Talboyes Families found in York-shire and Lincoln-shire but if sought for in Surrey to be met with at Nonesuch Secondly it appeareth by his preferment being Canon of Bridlington in this County and to clear all In patria Eboracensi saith my Author But Philemon Holland hath not only erroniously misplaced but which is worse opprobriously miscalled him in his description of Surrey In the next Village of Ripley was born G. de Ripley a ringleader of our Alchimists and a mystical Impostor Words not appearing in the Latine Britannia and therefore Holland herein no Translator of Cambden but traducer of Ripley Leaving this Land he went over into Italy and there studied twenty years together in pursuance of the Philosophers Stone and â—…ound it in the year 1470. as some collect from those his words then written in his Book Juveni quem diligit anima mea spoken by the Spouse Cant. 3. 4. so bold is he with Scripture in that kind An English Gentleman of good credit reported that in his travels abroad he saw a Record in the Isle of Malta which declares that Sir George Ripley gave yearly to those Knights of Rhodes