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A51537	A most choice historical compendium fitted for the use of all ingenious and inquisitive persons who are curious to know what wonderfull events have come to pass for almost 1000 years, under the figure 8, from 818 to 1688 inclusive : wherein is briefly comprised, the life and death, rise and fall of kings, queens, noblemen, clergymen, warriors and several famous poets : with many other curious remarks and observations, not here mention'd / written in a plain method, by A.M., Gent.	A. M., Gent.	1692 (1692)	Wing M3; ESTC R9727	48,168	167

the Roads very clear and quiet for the Prince's Horse to march at their leisure and come for London which by easie Marches in few days was accomplish●● to the great joy and rejoying of England But before his Highness would arrive at White-hall to prevent disorders by tumults or otherways which might have been raised by the Romanists and other disaffected persons residing and busying themselves in and about London and Westminster he was pleased to send three or more Lords to the King that he would be pleased to withdraw his person and his Guards to Windsor or any other place where his Majesty should make choice of And withall upon the word of a Prince his Majesty should be secured from all fear and danger This message came to the King about 11. or 12. a Clock in the Night which being delivered the King presently prepared himself and withdrew into Kent with a party of his Guards to Rochester This was his first leaving White-hall December 10th and going to Feversham in Kent was retaken and brought back to London in great state and rejoycing by his Subjects and the Prince did appoint some of his own Guards half Protestants and half Papists which latter went to Mass with him and had liberty to go where he pleased the Guard being charged by the Prince to that very purpose The Priests thinking themselves in a snare which indeed did of right belong to them made the King very uneasie and perswaded him to go away a second time which was done 18. Decemb. and going into Kent with his Guards which the King himself commanded took shipping with a party with him dismissing his Guards whom by gratuities he requited and so sailed into France without any disturbance Now let any indifferent and unbyassed person judge if the King was forced by any rough or unmannerly means or actions to leave his Kingdom being upon 23. of December His Queen with her new found out Relation went away from White-hall upon Decemb. 9. accompanied with Count Dada Father Peters and some Ladies of Honour and Gentlewomen to wait upon her person with good store of Household-goods Jewels and Treasure and also landed safely in France where the French King was pleased after his compliments passed to provide for her according to her Royal quality The King going away as I told you upon the 18. day Upon the same day the Prince entred into St. James Palace his whole Army marching with him increased by this time to above 20000 and being very much wearied by their long marches and the winter Season was all except sufficient Guards sent into winter Quarters into the adjacent Counties but especially Southwark Westminster and the Suburbs were filled with sufficient numbers of them The Army being thus provided with Quarters the Prince was pleased to assemble a General Council consisting of Lords Spiritual and Temporal Gentlemen and Lawyers in which Assembly the Prince was desired to send out his several Precepts to all Counties Cities and Borough-Towns in England and Wales these precepts was directed to the several Coroners in their respective Counties for at this time the Sheriffs of most Counties were not setled and as these Coroners so the Mayors and Sheriffs of Cities and divers Corporations were required to give notice to all in their several Jurisdictions at certain days prefixed and at such places as they should judge convenient and there to make choice of Able Persons and Gentlemen of known integrity to appear such a day at Westminster in th● two Houses of Parliament which accordingly was performed and received the Nomination of a Convention But b●fore this meeting the Prince was pleased to send for over into England his Royal Consort Mary Princess of Orange this Convention after some weeks taking into consideration the distracted and unsetled condition of the Nation wanting a Head and power to restore the said Nation into its pristine Glory and Safety by the advice of the best Lawyers and Statesmen and by search of many former Precedents wherein it did plainly appear that in all reason this Convention so generally chosen by the consent of the Commons of England might be stiled the Parliament of England to all intents and purposes And accordingly under that denomination all matters of State and concerns of the Publick were transacted And taking into their consideration the departure of King James out of the Kingdom after many arguments Pro and Con. it was agreed that by such departure out of the Kingdom without any compulsion but his own free accord he had absolutely abdicated his Kingdom and it was absolutely necessary the Crown should be conferred on the next lawful Heir which was without any further arguing adjudged to be M●ry Princess of Orange Nevertheless the Parliament wisely searching into the State of the Kingdom into what great dangers it was relapsed both by reason of open Enemies and seeming bosom-Friends at home the Devilish Intreagues of that deadly hater of Christians and almost all Mankind Lewis the French King for preventing these mischievous designs now on Foot against England Scotland and Ireland it was Voted by Both Houses of Parliament Nemine contradicente that the Prince of Orange should be invested in the Crown with his Lady and so made King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland with all other Dominions thereunto belonging and they were immediately Proclaimed at Whitehall-Gate Temple-Bar and the Royal Exchange with the usual Solemnities and with great signs of rejoycing and satisfaction to all sober People and then Proclamations were sent down into all the Counties of England to the same purpose which was performed with great joy and alacrity as appeared by their many Bonsires Ringing of Bells and several other demonstrations of gladness they would take up several Sheets of Paper if they were to be fully mentioned in this small Treatise and for the Coronation of this blessed Pair it falls not under my figure Yet I hope the Readers Patience will hold out till April 11th in the next ensuing year where in other Writings he may be sure to satisfie himself in the truth of the whole Proceedings Scotland knowing very well all the several transactions of England and being well approved by them take the same measures and tread in the same steps calling together the States of the Land being the Nobility Gentry and other Degrees amongst them and being assembled were likewise named a Convention and afterwards a Parliament who presently addressed themselves to our King and humbly beg'd his Protection and Proclaimed William and Mary their King and Queen according to the Scottish Custom and after a little time came to London tend●ing their Crown by Commissioners to their Majesties which was accepted very graciously Poor distressed Ireland however the major but in the genuine sence the better part thereof would have willingly and chearfully followed the former Examples of England and Scotland but the Commands of the late King James the crafty Projects of the French King the fly

was made Bishop of Waterford and Lord Treasurer of Ireland and after Archbishop of Tuam and twice Lord Chief Justice of that Kingdom He dyed an 1288. and was buried in Trinity Church in Dublin St. Dunstan born in and Abbot of Glassenbury was Bishop of London and Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury and for promoting of Monkery was reputed a Saint His skill in Smithery was so great that the Goldsmiths in London are incorporated by the name of the Company of St. Dunstans He dyed Anno 988. He was the strictest of the Clergy against the marriages of Priests in his life time Sewald bred in Oxford was Scholar to St. Edward who was wont to say to him Sewald Sewald thou wilt have many afflictions and dye a Martyr Nor did he miss much of his mark therein though he met with peace and plenty at first when Archbishop but afterwards opposing the Pope who intruded one Jordan an Italian to be Dean of York he was for his contempt Excommunicated Note that at the same time there were 300 benefices possessed by Italians who did not only teach in the Church but misteach by their lascivious and debauched conversations Let us now return to Sewald who never returned into the Popes favour but dyed of grief in the state of Excommunication An. 1258. yet was he reputed a Saint in vulgar estimation Eleanor Eldest Daughter to King Ed. I. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor afterwards was married by Proxy a naked sword interposing between her and his body to Alphons King of Arragon who dyed before the consummation of marriage The Princess was afterwards married to H. 3. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of Anjou and Kings of Sicil are descended She dyed An. 1298. Edward III. Son to Ed. II. and Queen Isabel born at Windsor a pious and fortunate Prince was Passive in 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 H. 5. were thicker his were broader in France and Scotland though both in length a like as lost by by their immediate Successors He was the first English King that coyned Gold He first stamped the Rorse Nobles having on one side Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat and on the Reverse his own Image with a Sword and Sheild sitting in a Ship waving on the Sea He had a numerous and happy Issue by Philippa his Queen after whose death being almost 70 years old he cast his assections on Alice Pierce his Paramour to his dishonour it being true what Epictetus returned to Adrian the Emperor asking of him what love was In puero pudor in virgine Rubor in Foemina furorin 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 this King had few equals none superiours for Wisdom Clemency and Courage He dyed An. Dom. 1378. Wulstan of Brandsford was Prior of Worcester and built a most beautifull Hall in his Convent Hence he was preferred Bishop of Worcester 1338. He was verus pontisex in the Grammatical notation thereof building a fair Bridge at Brandsford over the River Teme and dyed not long after Jo. Eversden was breda Monk in Bury Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but mounting himself above this mean imploy he buried himself in Poetry Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryers And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury a few years before his death there hapened a hideous Hurricane lev●lling Trees Towers yet went they out with a clam at the time of the dissolution He dyed 1338. Anno 1378. Note that in this year in the Reign of Richard II. the Sussexians of Rye and Winchel-sea imbarked for Normandy and afterwards entred by night into a Towncalled Peter's Port took all such Prisoners who were able to pay ransom and safely returned home with their spoils amongst which were some Bells the French had formerly taken from the Towns in this County which they lately invaded It was a worthy advice which William Earl of Arundel gave to his Son Henry Fitz-Allen never to trust his Neighbours the French which I would commend to the inhabitants of this County and indeed now and forever to all England John Stratford of Stratford Warwickshire being born there was preferred by the Pope to the Bishopr of Winchest whereupon falling into the displeasure of Richard II. for a time he took it in so ill part that he forsook that King whilst in his extremity this cost him the displeasure of the Queen Mother and Edw. III. till at last converted by his constancy they turned their frowns into smiles upon him When he was Archbishop of Cant. he furnished the King with great sums of money at his first seting forth for France But when the King sent to him again for another supply instead of Coyn the Bishop sent him Counsel whereat the King returning into England was so highly offended that the Bishop was forced to pass his publick purgation in Parlia by which he was restored to the reputation of his Innocence He built and bountifully endowed a Beautiful Colledge in Stratford He dyed Anno 1348. having been a man of great charity meekness and moderation Ralph Straford his Kinsman was Bishop of London and there being a grievous Pestilence there this Bishop bought a piece of Land for the burial of the Dead lying near Smithfield called No mans Land Eustathius de Fauconbridge was chosen Bishop of London An. 6. Hen. III. He was chosen Chief Justice then Chancellor of the Exchequer and afterwards Treasurer of England and twice Ambassador to the King of France He dyed October 31. 1228. and was buried in the Presbytery Maurice Chamnee bred a Fryer in the Charter-House He only escaped when 18 of his Order lost their lives by him written for refusing the Oath of supremacy 'T is said he warped to the will of H. 8. to preserve his Covent from destruction He dyed beyond the Seas about 1580. Sir Amias Preston of an ancient Family at Cricket in Somerset An. 88. seized on the Admiral of the Galiasses wherein the Governour with most of his men were burnt or killed He took the Town of Puerto Sancto and the Isle of Cochi surprized the Fort and Town of Coro sacked the City of St. Jago put to Ransom the Town of Cumana and entred Jamaica all in the West Indies and returned home safely He sent a challenge to Sir Walter Raleigh the Privy Counsellor which was by him refused having a Wife and Children and a fair Estate and Sir Amias being a private and single Person though of good quality because Sir Walter condemned those for ill humours where the Hangman gives the Garland These two Knights were reconciled afterwards and Sir Amias dyed about the

the Kings Tryal Jan. 20. he was brought before the High Court of Justice falsely so called 22. day the second time 23. the third time was brought before the said Court the 27. day sentenced to Death by that bold Traitor John Bradshaw the 30. day barbarously murdred at his own Palace door betwixt 1. and 2. a Clock So fell this Pious and Learned Prince who will never be too much lamented nor forgotten This sad Subject would make a Volume but that is not my intention there are several Tracts already written That alone of Dr. Nalson's of the Kings Judges under Phelp's own hand is sufficient and note when the King was murdered Sir Tho. Fairfax was General and Oliver Cromwel was Leiutenant General of the Army The latter over ruling overawing over fooling the former or else Dr. Hammond's Letter would have turned that violent Torrent which with him took no effect but was altogether slighted or unregarded but would have converted any unbjassed person from doing or suffering to be done such a bloody and unjust Act by so many impious Regicides Then the above named false and confused Society adjourned Hilary Term. Febr. 6. the Kings Office voted unnecessary and burdensome the 7. the King's body removed to Windsor and there interred under a small Marble Stone and so remains to this day without any show of Magnificence or Regal Monument where I hope his now dust will rest quietly But before I close up this fatal year let me produce one little wonder Note that in the Hundred of R●ckford Essex an Army of Mice shaved off all the Grass at the bare roots which withered to Dung was infectious to Cattle the March following numberless flocks of Owls from all parts flew thither and destroyed them and 68 years before this year happened the like accident in the Hundred of Dengy in Essex Jo. Richardson Born in Cheshire of a most worshipful and ancient Family bred in the University of Dublin where he was graduated Doctor in Divinity and was afterwards made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland In the late Rebellion he came over into England a grave man and good Divine verifying the Rule Bonus Texturius Bonus Theologus for he carried a Concordance in his memory The larger Annotations especially on Ezekiel an elaborate work challenge him in a great measure for the Author Our Bishop who had been relieved had his bounty to bestow on others and by his will bequeathed a considerable Legacy to the College of Dublin He dyed an 1658. aged 74. Jo. Cleaveland Born at Hinkley Loic where his Father was Vicar was Fellow in St. John's College in Camb. and Advocate General in the Garrison of Newark a general Artist pure Latinist exquisite Orator and eminent Poet. His lofty fancy may seem to stride from the top of one Mountain to the top of another so making to it self a constant champain and Level of continued elevations He dyed an 1658. and was buried at College Hill Church Mr. Parson in his funeral Sermon forbore his praises seeing such who knew him not would sufpect them far above whilst such as were acquainted with him did know them much beneath his true desert In this year 58 Dunkirk was taken by the English but not long after by the English or by a few of the better sort of the English sold to the French King and surrendred into his hands and 't was such a Bargain for France as England has had reason and I am afraid ever will to lament and be much afflicted for the loss of it and a hard-task it will prove to reduce it to the Crown of England In this year also being in July Sir H. Slingsby and the Reverend and Pious Dr. Huit was beheaded under the Tyranny of Oliver Cromwel However he set up a High-Court of Justice called so then Dr. Huit was a very great and good Divine and though Oliver's Daughter very much besought her Father upon her knees for his life all was but in vain however it was believed that the Monster of mankind Oliver never enjoyed himself long after for he was much troubled with Gravel and a little after that was much tormented with the Stone in the Bladder and though Dr. Bowls set him on his head and his heels upwards to remove the stone and gave him some ease at present yet he being return'd to his natural posture and the Dr. into the Country with his Coach and Six which Oliver had bestowed on him for his fees and attendance the Stone pressed down again with that violence and force and caused that horrible pain and that pain a Feaver and the Feaver brought that which took the insolent Usurper from his Protectorship which happened Sept. 3. 1658. Now let me desire you to accept of the Company of his Son Richard for a Protector Though he staid but six Months at the Helm the Sea the Commonwealth of Engl. grew very boisterous and sick till Richard was spewed up and outed of his Protectorship And he wanting his Fathers Courage and Judgment was outed accordingly 't was said he had some kindness for King Ch. II. and was willing to shew it at that time and help to restore him but too many eyes were upon him and his own want of experience made all ineffectuall at that juncture of affairs and the Government was put into other hands as shall appear afterwards This short-ruling Protector did very little in his half years Reign only got together things necessary for his Fathers Pompous Funeral which was upon Novomber 23. 1658. This funeral cost so much that all the Tradesmen and others concerned in it were either forced to run away or hide themselves in some Alsatia ever after Anno 1668. In this year there were two Easter days the one being in April and the other on March 23. 1668. and the precedent year had no Easter A thing to be noted because 't is to be found very rarely either by looking forward or the days past This year also by instigation of the Parliament to the King an Order was made to send the Earl of Clarendon out of England He travelled to Montpelier in France where he stayed some years and then hearing the joyful news of his return with excess of joy gave up the ghost his body was brought into England and interred in H. 7. Chapel close by the Steps He was the first Lord Chancellor under Ch. II. James Duke of York was married to his Daughter Ann at the Kings return into England from whom are descended Mary Our Gracious Queen and Ann Princess of Denmark The first stone of the first pillar of the Royal Exchange was laid by K. Ch. II. in this year 1668. Anno 1678. In this year the Popish Plot was discovered and 18 persons were executed for the same the chief of them was Viscount Stafford beheaded at Towerhill Edw. Coleman Esq then Secretary to the Dutchess of York his House searche● and Papers seized October the 1. day Wherein was

1588. viz. 150 Ships some 1000 Tuns 65 Galleoons 25 Terras 500 Tuns 19 Pinnaces some 100 Tuns 20 Carvills 10 Fulvas 6 Oars a piece 4 Galeasses 4 Gallies In all 57868 Tuns 2630 Pieces of Cannon   Ensigns 171 Mariners 8650 Soldiers 19295 Gally-slaves 2808 Volunteers 224 Allowed Servants for the Can. 167 For the Hospital 58 Chyrurgeons 108 Church-Men 108 All these Preparations of the Spaniards did not daunt or diminish but rather excite the courage of the Queen who had also made ready a splendid Navy well furnished with gallant Commanders Sea-men and Soldiers and a Land-Army where they lay encamped at Tilbury-Fort in Essex there the Queen appeared amongst them on a white Palsrey to their great incouragement But when their Armado should have ingaged our Fleet God Almighty took his own way and raised such Storms and Winds that their whole Forces were all scattered and destroyed without fighting very few of them escaping to tell the news in Spain to their Lord and Master and their surviving Friends Now let us proceed to give an account of some memorable actions of noble Persons since that great deliverance Tho. Stapleton born at Henfield in Suss of a very good Family he was bred in New-College in Oxford and became Canon of Chichester which place he quitted An. 1 of Eliz. and having fled beyond the Seas he became Catechist at Doway which place he having discharged to his commendation he was preferred King's Professor of Divinity in Lovain and was 40 years together Undertaker-general against all Protestants Dr. Whitaker professor in Cambridge experimentally professed That Bellarmine was the fairer and Stapleton the shrewder Adversary He died and was buried in St. Peters in Lovain 1598. Edm Spencer born in London bred in Cambridge a great Poet who imitated Chaucer 'T is said that he presented Q. Elizabeth with a Poem with which she was so well pleased that she commanded the Lord Treasurer Cecil to give him 100 l. and when he alleaged that Sum was too much then give him quoth the Q. what is reason but being delayed he presented these Lines to the Queen I was promised on a time To have reason for my Rhime From that time unto this season I receiv'd nor Rhime nor Reason Hereupon the Queen gave strict order for the present payment of 100 l. He was afterwards Secretary to the Lord Gray Deputy of Ireland He was an excellent Linguist Antiquary Philosopher Mathematician yet so poor as being a Poet that he was thought fami non famae scribere Returning into England he was robb'd by the Rebels of that little he had and dying for grief in great want 1598. was honourably buried nigh Chaucer in Westminster the expence of his Funeral and Monument was defrayed at the sole charge of Robert first of that name Earl of Essex Sir Walt. Raleigh born at Budeley Devonsh of an ancient Family but decayed in Estate and he was the youngest Brother thereof was bred in Ori●ll College in Oxford and thence coming to Court found some hopes of the Queens favour this made him write in a glass Window obvious to the Queens Eye Fain would I climb yet fear I to fall Under which her Majesty perceiving it did write If thy Heart fail thee climb not at all But his Introduction into Court is said to have born an elder date from the time he spread his plush Cloak for her Majesty to step upon over a wet place Yet the wise Queen in rewarding him made him to purchase by pain and peril as well as Complement what places were bestowed on him He seemed to be born to that only which he went about so dextrous he was in all his undertakings in Court in Camp by Sea by Land by Sword by Pen witness in the last his History of the World Of his detractors he was wont to say If any Man accuse to my face I will answer him with my Mouth but my Tail is good enough to answer to such who traduce me behind my back Yet such a Traducer there was that subtle Gondamour the Span. Ambassador to K. James that never left his sollicitations and intreagues with the King till he procured his Decollation which was done Ann. 1618. Thus died this learned and honourable Person never to be forgotten so long as wise Men are living John Bray Tenant to Mr. Richard Carew carried upon his back Ann. 1608. at one time six bushels of wheaten Meal by the space well near a butt length and upon the wheaten Meal the Miller a Lubber of above 24 years of Age. And John Roman the Cornish Milo so used to Burdens in his Child-hood that when a Man he would bear the whole Carcase of an Oxe and never tugged thereat Tho. Sackvill Son and Heir to Sir Richard Chancellor Sub-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Privy-Counsellor to Q. Elizabeth by Winifred his Wife Daughter to Sir John Bruges was bred in Oxford where he became an excellent Poet leaving both Latine and English Poems of his composing to posterity Then he became Barrister and afterwards in his Travels was for some time prisoner at Rome whence returning to the possession of a good Estate he wasted the greatest part thereof and afterwards being made as is reported to dance attendance on an Alderman of London who had gained great Penny-worths by his former purchases of him he was sensible of the incivility and resolving to be no more beholding to wealthy Pri●le he turned a thrifty improver of the remainder of his Estate Others affirm that Q. Elizabeth his Cousin-German once removed diverted the torrent of his Profusion by her frequent admonition after which she made him Baron of Buckhurst in Suss sent him Ambassador into France then into the Low-Countries made him Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of England He was Chancellor of the University where he entertained Q. Elizabeth with a sumptuous Feast He was a person of so quick dispatch that his Secretarys seldom pleased him 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 K. James He died in April An. 1608. Tho. Bilson born in Winchester was Bishop of Worcester then of Winchester as Reverend and Learned a Prelate as England ever afforded witness his Works of The perpetual Government of Christ's Church and of Christ's descent into Hell The new Translation of the Bible was by King James's command ultimately committed to his and Dr. Smith's Bishop of Gloucester perusal He died An. 1618. Robert Smith born at Mercate-Harborough Merchant-Taylor in London Comptroller of the Chamber there and one of the four Attornies of the Mayor's Court gave 750 l. to purchase Lands for the maintainance of a Lecturer in the Town of his Nativity c. as appears by the Settlement He died An. 1618. Sir Tho. Coventry born at Croon in Worcestershire was eldest Son to Sir Thomas Knight one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas He was bred in and Treasurer of the