29 april 14 The prince of Orange slaine 1584 518 26 28 apr 19. E Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge founded by VValter Mildmay 1585 519 27 27 aprill 11  1586 520 28 26 aprill 3 Sir H. Sidney deceased 1587 521 29 25 aprill 16 The Queene of Scots beheaded 158◠522 30 24 apr 7 G Tilbury Campe. 1589 523 31 23 mar 30 Portugall voyage 1590 524 32 22 aprill 19 Christs Colledge in Cambridge founded 1591 525 33 21 aprill 4  1592 526 34 20 ma. 26. B Terme at Hartford 1593 527 35 19 aprill 15 Prince Henry borne in Scotland 1594 528 36 18 mar 31  1595 529 37 17 april 20 A great dearth Anno Reg. 37. 1596 530 38 18 apr 11. D The Spaniards win Callis 1597 531 39 15 mar 27 The voyages to the Isles of Tercera's 1598 532 40 14 aprill 16 The King of Spaine dyeth 1599 533 41 13 aprill 8 The Earle of Essex rode towards Ireland 1600 534 42 12 ma. 23. F  1601 535 43 11 april 12 The Earle of Essex beheaded 43. Marshall Baron of France arriued 1602 536 44 10 aprill 4 Seminaries executed Q. Elizabeth died Mar. 24 periodi K. Iames began Mar. 24 periodi She dyed hauing reigned 44. years 4. moneths 14 daies buried at Westminster An. D P. C kr Sc. T. e. East da The great plague in London wherof dred from Decem. 1602. to Dece 1603 30 578 peace with Spaine 3 Popes in 6 weekes Powder treason The King of Denmark cometh to England Great inundations in England The Oath of Alegeance ministred The first plantation of Virginia The King of France murthered And the prince created Prince of Wales after setteth his house in honorable fashion order his Titles be Henry Prince of VVales Duke of Cornvvall and Rothesey and Earle of Chester 1602 536 1 36 10 aprill 4 1603 537 1 37 9 apri 24 1604 538 2 38 8 ap 18. A 1605 539 3 39 7 mar 31 1606 540 4 40 6 apri 20 1607 541 5 41 5 april 5 1608 542 6 42 4 m. 27 C 1609 543 7 43 3 april 16 1610 544 8 44 2 aprill 8 1611 545 9 45 1 mar 24 Anno Domini post conquestum K. Re. England K. Re. Scotland time expired Easter day 1612 546 10 46 0 apr 12 E 1613 547 11 47 1 aprill 4 1614 548 12 48 2 april 24 1615 549 13 49 3 aprill 9 1616 550 14 50 4 ma. 31. G 1917 551 15 51 5 april 20 1618 552 16 52 6 april 5 1619 553 17 53 7 mar 28 1620 554 18 54 8 apr 16 B 1621 555 19 55 9 april 1 1622 556 20 56 10 april 21 1623 557 21 57 11 april 13 1624 558 22 58 12 ma 28. D 1625 559 23 59 13 april 17 1626 560 24 60 14 aprill 9 1627 561 25 61 15 mar 25 1628 562 26 62 16 apr 13 P 1629 563 27 63 17 aprill 5 Anno Domini post conquestum K Re. England K Re. Scotland time expire Easter day 1630 564 28 64 18 mar 28 1631 565 29 65 19 aprill 10 1632 566 30 66 20 apri 1. A 1633 567 31 67 21 april 21 1634 568 32 68 22 april 6 1635 569 33 69 23 mar 29 1636 570 34 70 24 ap 17. C 1637 571 35 71 25 aprill 9 1638 572 36 72 26 mar 25 1639 573 37 73 27 april 14 1640 574 38 74 18 apr 4. B 1641 575 39 75 29 april 25 1642 576 40 76 30 april 10 1643 577 41 77 31 april 2 1644 578 42 78 32 ap 21. G 1645 579 43 79 33 aprill 6 1646 580 44 80 34 mar 29 Note in the reading of these briefe Chronicle Notes at the end of many of them you shall haue certaine figures set which signifies the yeare of the King it happened in because sometime the accident was not in that regnal yeare that stands against the Eclesian yeare The Description and vse of this New Table called A Concordancy of Yeares THis my Concordancy of Yeares hath in euery page 5 seuerall rowes vnder seuerall Titles as the first row is vnder the Yeare of our Lord beginning at 1066. at what time the Conqueror began so continuing to the yeare 1646. The next row is vnder post Conquestū shewing how many yeares any yeare of our Lord or any yeare of any King was after the Conquest The third is vnder Kings Reigne shewing how the yeares of the Kings answere to the yeares of our Lord. The fourth is vnder Time expired shewing how many yeares it is since any of the yeares placed in any of the 3 former rowes at this present yeare 1612. And the last row is placed vnder the Title of Easter day shewing what day of the moneth Easter day fell vpon any yeare since the Conquest to the yeare 1646. In which row also be certaine Capitall letters placed which bee the later of the Dominicall letters in the Leape-yeare as in Chap. 21. Now these things considered you are to vnderstand that all the difficulty in computating of time is when the question is onely propounded by the yeare of the Kings reigne and therefore if you can deuise when any question is made by any yeare of any King to know in what yeare of our Lord it was then the labour is nothing for you must know that euery yeare of any King as yet began in one yeare of the Lord ended in the next insuing yeare which is the cause of this difference But to make all more plaine I will propound certaine examples both of the yeare of our Lord and of the regnall yeare Quest 1 I haue a Lease for an hundred yeares bearing date in Aprill 1514 and I would know this yeare 1612. what time I haue remaining ANSVVERE Séeke first the yeare of our Lord 1514 their begin to tell at the next yeare forwards calling 1515. one 1516. two and so procéed vntill you come to 1612 so shall you count to the number of 98 yeares and so many of your 100 yeares be expired But in the numbring thus you must remember that before after the change of euery Prince one the same yeare of our Lord is twice placed therefore omit the one in your reckoning Or take 1514 out of 1612 so haue you 98 years Or séeke with more ease in the third row vnder Time expired what figures stand against 1514 so shall you finde 98 as before and so many yeares be expired 1612. But if you had sought this any other yeare after 1612. as 1614 then must you haue séene what figures in the fift row had béene against 1614 as 2 the which 2 must haue béene added to 98 so had you 100 yeares The like for any other yeare after to 1646. Quest 2. I haue a Lease granted for 60 yeares bearing date the 8 of Ianuary in the 6 yeare of Edward the 6. and I would know this yeare 1612 how many years be expired ANSVVER You must note first that
F Queene Maud deceased 1153 87 18 459 april 19  1154 88 19 458 april 4  Stephen dyed Octo 25 Defect Henry 2 began Octo 25 Defect He reigned 18 years 11. moneths 18 dayes and buried at Feuersham in Kent 1154 88 1 458 april 4 Flemings departed EnglaÌ„d their castle spoiled being built to pill the rich and spoyle the poore 1155 89 1 457 mar 27  1156 90 2 456 apri 5. A  1157 91 3 455 Ma. 31 The K. goes against Wales fels their woods Anno Domini Post CoÌ„g K Reigne time expired Easter day Henry 2. son of Ieffery Pâ—antaâ—enet and Maud the Empresse he was noble wise stedfast yet a wedlocke-breaker Richard the 1 for his valour called Cordelion son of Henry the 2. who would haue no Iews nor women at his Coronation 1158 92 4 454 april 20  1159 93 5 453 april 12 The K. had 124 p. Escuage of the English 5. 1160 94 6 452 ma. 27. C The Kings sonne marieth the French Kings daughter he 7 she 2 yeares old Anno Reg. 6. 1161 95 7 451 april 16  1162 96 8 450 aprill 8. 30 Germans professed théselues publicans they be burnt with a letter and whipped 8. 1163 97 9 449 mar 25. London bridge new built with timber 1164 98 10 448 apr 12. E  1165 99 11 447 april 4  1166 100 12 446 april 24 A great Earth-quake in Ely c. 12 1167 101 13 445 aprill 9 Wars betwixt EnglaÌ„d France renewed 13 1168 102 14 444 ma. 31. G  1169 103 15 443 april 29 The king crowns his son in his own time 15. 1170 104 16 442 aprill 5 Thomas Becket murthered after was the regiment of Ireland granted to the King by Pope Adrian the 4 an Englishman called Nicholas Breake speare 1171 105 17 441 mar 28  1172 106 18 440 apr 16. B  1173 107 19 439 aprill 8 Leicester burnt razed K. of Scots prisoner 1174 108 20 438 mar 24. K. Henry the son c. reconciled to the King 1175 109 21 437 april 13 The King and his son visit T. Beckets tombe London-bridge built with stone towards the which a Cardinall and the Arch-bishop of Canterbury gaue 1000 markes 1176 110 22 436 apr 4. D  1177 111 23 435 april 24  1178 112 24 434 april 9.  1179 113 25 433 aprill 1  1180 114 26 432 apr 20 F Vsurers punished 1181 115 27 431 april 5  1182 116 28 430 mar 28 S. Austines in Bristow founded 1183 117 29 429 aprill 17  1184 118 30 428 apr 1 A The king sent an army into Wales 1185 119 31 427 april 21 Glocester burnt 1186 120 32 426 april 13 Paris in Fraunce and London paued and thatching in both left because all lubericke was spoiled thereby with fire Maud the Empresse dveth 1187 121 33 425 mar 29  1188 122 34 424 apr 17 C  1189 123 35 423 aprill 9.  Henry the 2 dieth Iuly 6 Defecti Rich. the 1. began Iuly 6 Defecti He reigned 34 ye 9 mo 1. day is buried at Fonterland in a monastery by him founded 1189 123 1 423 aprill 9 Robert Hood and little Iohn and this yeare London obtained to bee gouerned by Sheriffes and Maiors 1190 124 1 422 mar 25  1191 125 2 421 aprill 14  1192 126 3 420 am 5. E King Richard taken prisoner by Leopold Anno Domini post conquestum K. reigne time expired 612 Easter day K. lohs brother to K. Richard the I. was of complection melancholy Hee granted the Shrief wicke of London Midolesex to the Citizens for 300. pound perannum as of old 1193 127 4 419 mar 28 His ranfome was 100000. pound 1194 128 5 418 april 10  1195 129 6 417 april 2 The King Crowned againe Anno Reg. 6. The King complains of Leopold to the Pope 1196 130 7 416 apr 21. G He excommunicates Leop. Duke of Austria 1197 131 8 415 april 6 The King the Earle of Flanders conspire 1198 132 9 414 mar 29 The King tooke 5 shillings of euery Hydeland through England 1199 133 10 413 aprill 18  Rich the 1. slaine Aprill 6. period K. Iohn began Aprill 6. period Richard the 1 reigned 9 years 9 moneths buried at Founteuerard his heart at Roan his bowels at Chalne 1199 133 1 413 april 18  1200 134 1 412 apri 9. B  1201 135 2 411 mar 25 The King had 3 shillin for euery plow-land 1202 136 3 410 april 14 The King of Scots with many of his Nobility did homage to the King at Lincolne 1203 137 4 409 aprill 6  1204 138 5 408 ap 28. D  1205 139 6 407 april 12 Arthur Earle of Brittaine murthered By reason of a frost from Ianuary to March wheat was sold for a marke the Quarter which before was at 12 pence Anno Reg 6. 1206 140 7 406 aprill 2  1207 141 8 405 april 22 The King took the 13 part of all moueable goods both of the Lay and Religious 1208 142 9 404 apr 6 F  1209 143 10 403 mar 29 London-bridge builded with stone and this yeare the Citizens of London had a grant to choose them a Mayor and the king of Scots gaue 11000 markes and his two daughters for a pledge for a treaty of peace 1210 144 11 402 aprill 10  1211 145 12 401 aprill 3  1212 146 13 400 ma. 25. A  1213 147 14 399 aprill 13  1214 148 15 398 april 6 By meanes of Pandulph the Barons excommunicated their Charter and Liberties before granted disanulled 1215 149 16 397 aprill 9  1216 150 17 396 apr 10 C  King Iohn dyed Octob. 19 periodic K. Henry 3 began Octob. 19 periodic He reigned 17 years 17 weekes buried at Worcester dying at Newarke Castle with much griefe for the losse of diners things 1216 150 1 396 apr 10. C  1217 151 1 395 mar 26  1218 152 2 394 mar 25  1219 153 3 393 aprill 7  1220 154 4 392 ma. 29 E. The new worke of our Lady Chappell at Westminster begun by the King 1221 155 5 391 april 11  1222 156 6 390 aprill 3  1223 157 7 389 april 23  1224 158 8 388 aprill 14 The King of Ierusalem seeketh aid of the King to win Ierusalem 1225 159 9 387 mar 30  Anno Domini Post conquestum K Reigne time expired 1612 Easter day Henry the 3 eldest son of Iohn aged 9 yeares was crowned at Glocester remaining in custody of VVil Marshall Earle of Penbrooke in his life hee tooke the 15 part of all mens goods moueable 1226 160 10 380 april 19 The Citizens of London had liberty to hunt a certaine distance about the City and to passe toll-free through England anno reg 10. 1227 161 11 385 april 11  1228 162 12 384 ma. 26 B  1229 163 13 383 april 15  1230
18 Of the lunar yeare both coÌ„mon extraordinary ch 19 Of the solar yeare and the etymology thereof Ch. 20 Of the Iulian yeare or our vulgar yeare of the leap yeare and the cause thereof with diuers beginnings of yeares Chap 21. Vulgar errors reform'd c. 22 Of the Kalends Nones c. and what they be Cha. 23. Of the infortunate and fatall daies of the yeare as also of the good and happy daies Chap. 24 To find what planet reigneth any houre in the yeare and how long he reigneth c. 25 Of the natures properties of the 7 planets Cha. 26 A briefe discourse of the naturall causes of watery meteors as snow haile raine c. Chap. 27 Diuers signes to prognosticate what wether is towards Chap. 28 Of the foure quarters of the yeare and first of Winter Chap. 29. Certaine predictions of the weather in euery Moneth with necessary Abstracts and the poeticall rising of the starres Chap. 30 Predictions of euery day more particularly Cha. 31 Of the golden number circle of the Sunne Dominicall Letter and Epact c. Chap. 32. To get the age change full quarters of the Moone Chap. 33. To finde what signe the Sun or Moone is in Chap. 34 Of the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone and to know when they shall happen and the quantity of obscuration Chap. 35 To finde the houre of Sun-rising setting the length of the day night with the breake of day continuance of twy-light Cha. 36 To know how long the Moone shineth when shee riseth with the cause of her lesse or greater light C. 37 A Table to know the houre of the night by the moone her comming to the south the quaÌ„tity of her shining and full sea through England Chap. 37 Astronomicall Elections for phisick and chirurgery depending vpon the place and course of the Moone Chap. 38. Of the moueable Feasts and diuersities of Easter with the reason of our difference with the Romans Chap. 39. To find the moueable feasts for euer according to our English Kalender Cha. 40 To find the moueable feasts according to the Romane Church Chap. 41 Of the Ember and Fasting-dayes as also of the times of mariage Chap. 42 Of weights and measures vsed in England Chap. 43 Measures in longitude and of the length the bredth and compasse of England Ireland and the adiacent Islands Chap. 44 To know how to reckon how much your daily expences commeth to in the whole yeare very readily without a Table or Calculation Chap. 45 Of the difference of gold in finenesse and the valuation of seuerall peeces of gold with other necessary Tables Chap. 46. Of the degrees of men before the Conquest Ch. 47. The placing of Estates and Degrees of Nobility in England in this Age C. 48 Of the number of Bishops in England and how they be to take place one before the other and of the number of parish Churches in England c. Of the towns that haue Burgesses in the Parliament house with the number of parishes in euery shire Chap. 49 A Concordancy of Yeares containing a most exact Computation of time with briefe Notes out of the best Chronicles against euery yeare Also a briefe Description and vse of the same AD LECTOREM IN LAVDEM AVTHORIS ROBERTI BROVGHTON Interionis Templi Carmina A ARtis ingenij vi nixus lector in arcto R Replicat Hoptonus coÌ„modapro partria T Tramite vulgari non est ingressus at eccè H Hîc procul occultas inuenit ille vias V Vraniae motus numeros scrutatur astra R Rarus aerarum computus ecce tibi H Hinc tibi concursus lunae cum sole notatur O Ortus stellarum Cosmicus Chronicus P Pandit deliquium solis lunaeque forensi T Tum fastos memorat iustitijque dies O Optamus placeat saueas tu sin minus audin N NecquicquaÌ„ infestans rumpitor inuidiâ AD ARCTVRIVM HOPTON Annis etiamnum Iuuenilibus Homine liboro verè dignis Studijs oppidò quà m insignitum Carmine Phaleucio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Encomium AN quem Patricius docebat olim Iam tu a Scholler to the Irish Saint wrot of Genethliaque Iudgements liued vnder Vortiger about CDLX Bal. Maccius an scholae b A great Machematitian president of the publique Schooles which for those times were as our now Vniuersities at Caer leon in Munmouth not instituted by Arthur as Cay in his antiquity of Cambridge supposes but long after otherwise how could there haue beene C C. Students there about the Saxons ariuall as is witnessed in Camden out of Alexander Essâ—biensis Nor doth the Munmouth Ieffrey affirme that he instituted any Schoole there but onely that he had in the time of that pompous celebration of the Round Table-Order a Schoole of C C. Philosophers in this Citie which were altogether in coelestiall obseruations and Astrologie iudiciall Bale puts all this at Chester but vpon warâ—ant of the Brittish Story which in some things is seriously to be regarded it should be at Caerâ—leon vpon Vske stiled Isea Leg. II Aug. in Surita's Antonmus which may perhaps be meant by Ptolemâ—es 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although he places it in another people He flourished vnder Vortimer vetustae Es Maugantius Insulaenè Glasti An c Otherwise Mouinus a Monke of Glastenbury in Somerset an Astrologer in Vortiport reigne Melkinus an aemulus Bladudi Madulphi d ¶ Elmer forrein writers call him so studious in curiosities that hee aduentured the imitation of Daedalus and the British Bladud's flying but with no lesse mis-fortune About the Confessors time was he a Monk of Malmsbury in VViâ—â—shire Bal. Cent. 2. Leland Malmesburicus Lib. 1. cap. 2. Camd. Matth. Paris in Hen. 3. so called froÌ„ Maldulph a Scot or Scoto-Hibernus who with Adelm his scholler disputed wrote about the great Controuersie of celebrating the true Passouer in his true time monachus e Rohert surnamed Grosse-test Bishop of Lincolne vnder Hen. III. besides his Mathematique sufficiencies which remaine testified in his Computus Higdens Polychronicon and else where spent seuen yeares labour in framing a Brasen-head which as Orpheus his did in Lesbos should tell Of such things as befell Philostrat in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I Govver in Confess Amantis lib. 4. And seven yeres besinesse He layd but for the lachesse Of halfe a minute of an houre Fro first he began labours He lost all that he had do Such a peece of Magique performed is by an old Monke affirmed of Gerebert G. Malmsh de hist reg lib. 2. cui Gerebertus iste contrà quam alijs â—st Ioannes PP XV. De themate munâ—â— consule Petrum Alliacens ap Picum Mirand aduers Astrolog lib. 5. cap. 9. v. Iul. Firmic Bal. Cent. 3. De praestig Damonum lib. 2. cap. 4. Th. Iames in Eclog. Oxonio-Cantabrigâ—ers lib. 1. Leo Suan in comvend philâ—sâ— Paracels ad Paracels lib. 1. de vitalongá afterward Pope Syluester
Hu. vel Nub. Remiss calor Neb. Turb Turb vel Nix Ventos humidos vel saltem Nubi Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis ☿ Aliquando ventos Nubiferos Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis Ouer and besides these aspects you must likewise note the mansion that the Moone is in as in the 24 chapter so shall you conferring these things together produce more substantiall preiudications but indéed here is no place amply to deliuer such rules that should bee obserued before according to Art you can bee able to giue iudgement of any one day for I let passe all in resepect of the vnaptnesse of the volume CHAP. XXXII Of the Golden number Circle of the Sunne Dominicall letter and Epact c. THe golden number is a Periodicall reuolution of 19 of our ciuill yeares in which time the old Phylosophers thought that all the lunations or aspects betwixt the Sun and Moone returned to the same place they were at 19 yeares before for in that space the Dragons head made a Periodicall reuolution but this is not so for in 19 yeares there is an Anticipation of an houre and a halfe very néere wanting but 75 seconds so that looke what coniunction hapned this yeare in Aries at noone shall fall 19 yeares hence one houre halfe before this Circle is called Decem-nouenalis Circulus whose parts bee called the golden number for that it was writ in golden characters in Tables of siluer and so sent to Rome or for that they bee written in red or golden leters in the Kalender and is found thus Adde to the yeare of our Lord 1. for so much was the Prime when Christ was borne which diuide by 19 the remainder is the Prime or Golden number Of the Epact THe Epact is nothing else but a number of 11 daies which the common solar yeare doth excéed the common Lunar yeare the one consisting of 365 dayes the other of 354 daies and therefore they adde that excesse vnto the Lunar yeare to coequal thē for Epactae with the Greekes frō 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth intercalare or addere by the addition of which excesse in euery foure yeares there is gotten a number more then 30 which is greater then the Epact can bee because from change to change there can be but 30 dayes therefore 30 must be taken from that excesse and the remainder is the Epact for the next yeare as 1611 the Epact is 26 to which adde 11 so haue you 37 from which take 30 and you haue 7 the Epact 1612. To get the Epact for euer doe therefore thus multiply the Prime by 11 parting the product by 30 so is the remainder the Epact or as is said adde 11 to the Epact of this yeare so haue you the Epact of the next or see the age of the Moone the 11 Calends of Aprill for that is the number of the Epact But because I will ease you of calculation sée the ensuing Table which sheweth you in perpetuall the Concordancy betwixt the Prime and the Epact so that hauing one you may find the other answering thereunto and for your further ease I haue added the yeares of our Lord to it hauing the yeare of our Lord vnder it in order you haue the Prime and Epact and when the yeares in this Table be expired beginne them againe placing 1631 where 1612 is c. so shall your Table bee perpetuall A Table to finde the Golden number and Epact for euer An. Do. 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1612 1613 1614 Prime 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Epact 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 9 20 1 12 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 Of the Circle of the Sunne and Dominicall letter and to find them for euer THe Circle of the Sunne is nothing else but a reuolution of 28 yeares in which time the Dominical letters make all their seueral changes it is called the Circle of the Sunne not for that it sheweth any motion of the Sunne but because by meanes thereof the letter Dominicall is alwaies found as we had a circle called Cyclus lunaris by reason of the office it had because it was first inuented ad monstrandas lunationes so this is called the Solar Circle or rather in English the Sunday Circle because it comprehends all the varieties and changes that the Sunday letter can haue by reason of Byssextile or leap-yeare In briefe this Circle is called the Circle of the Sun because it acquaints you with the Sunday letter which is the day of the Sunne To finde the Circle of the Sunne either in the old or new Kalender do thus adde to the yeare of our Lord proposed 9 for our Sauiour was borne when the number was 9 which parted by 28 as by the number of yeares of the whole circle so shall the quotient shew you that number of reuolutions of the said circle the remainder the circle of the Sun Of the Dominicall letter THe Dominicall letter is alwaies one of these seuen letters ABCDEFG and doth shew the Sunday letter or day of the Sunne all the yeare vnlesse it be in Byssextile or leap-yeare for then there be two Dominicall letters whereof the first of the two in this Table serueth from the beginning of January to Saint Mathias eue and the other to the yeares end but for your more ease behold the ensuing Table where the Circle of the Sunne and Sunday letter are placed vnder the yeare of our Lord and when the yeares of this Table be expired set 1641 where 1612 is so will your table be perpetuall if you procéed as before A perpetuall Table for the Circle of the Sunne and Dominicall letter Ann. Do. 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624  ☉ Circle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  Dominicall letter GF E D C BA G F E DC  Ann. Do. 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633  ☉ Circle 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18  Dominicall letter B A G FE D C B AG F  Ann Do. 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1612 1613 1614 1615 ☉ Circle 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Sunday letter E D CB A G F ED C B A Note if it bee leape-yeare the first of the two letters beginnes the yeare Also note the Epact changeth alwaies the first of March and the Dominicall letter and Prime c. the first of January Of the Romane indiction Wee haue no great vse of this circle in England it is vsed of the Bishops of Rome in the instruments and writings of their Pronotations imitating thereby the old Romanes though theirs were to another purpose as to beare account of the payment of trybute it is a number of 15 yeare but for that it stands vs to little purpose in England briefly find it thus Adde to the yeare of our Lord 3
of Grocery all phisicall drugges all grosse wares as Rosin wax pitch tarre tallow hempe flax c. and all Iron stéele lead tinne copper alome copporas c. and though the pound of this weight be greater then the pound Troy yet is the ounce lesse because the pound Troy hath but 12 ounces and the pound Auerdupois 16 ounces as in the Table ensuing you must note that the Auerdupois pound is diuided into Graines Scruples Dragmes and so to ounces euery one hauing a proper Character to expresse the same as is set after the Table Graines 7680 3840 1920 480 240 120 60 30 15 â—0 1â— 5 Scruples 384 192 96 24 12 6 â— 11 ◠¾ 7 7 2 7 4 Dragms 128 64 32 8 4 2 7 ½ ¼  Ounces 16 8 4 1 7 2 ¼  Pounds 1 ½ ¼  Graines gr Scruples ℈ Dragmes Ê’ Ounces â„¥ Pounds £ How Ale and Beere is measured These two sorts of Liquor are measured by Pints Quarts Pottles Gallons Firkins Kilderkins or halfe barrels barrels as in the insuing table these such like be concane measures  Beere Measures Ale Measures Pints 288 144 72 8 4 2 256 128 64 8 4 2 Quarts 144 72 36 4 2 1 128 64 22 4 2 1 Pottles 72 36 18 2 1  64 32 1â— 2 1  Gallons 36 18 9 1  32 16 8 1  Firkins 4 2 1  4 2 1  Kilderkin 2 1  2 1  Barrels 1  1  How Wine Oyle and Hony is measured One Gallon of Wine containes 8 pound of Troy weight whereby are measured the vessels in the insuing Table Pint. 2110 1008 67â— 504 336 252 128 8 4 2 Quart 1008 504 336 252 168 126 64 4 2 1 Pottle 504 252 168 126 84 63 36 2 1  Gallon 152 126 84 63 42 31½ 18 1  Rundlet 14 7 4 â…” 3 ½ 2 â…“ 1 ¾ 1  Barrels 8 4 2 â…” 2 1 â…“ 1  Tierce of a pipe 6 3 2 1 ½ 1  Hogshead 4 2 1 â…“ 1  Punchion 3 1 ½ 1  Pipe or But. 2 1  Tunne 1  Measures of Graine All kinde of graine is measured by Troy weight of which 8 pounds make a gallon whereof are made Pints Quarts Pottles Gallons Pecks Haise-bushels Bushels Strikes or halfe coombs Cornoockes Coombes or halfe Quarters Quarters or Seames Lasts whose quantity behold in the insuing Table Pintes 5120 2560 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Quarts 2560 1280 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1  Pottles 1280 640 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1  Gallons 640 320 64 32 16 8 4 2 1  Peckes 320 160 32 16 8 4 2 1  Half-bushels 160 80 16 8 4 2 1  Bushels 80 40 8 4 2 1  Strikes 40 20 4 2 1  Cornoockes 20 10 2 1  Quarters 10 5 1  Last 1  And know that the Barrell and halfe barrell of Herrings and likewise of Butter and Sope are the same measure vsed for Ale Herring are counted by the hundreds thousands and Lasts a Last being 10000. euery thousand being 1200 which is 12000 Herrings in the Last at 120 the hundred Of Iron and Lead Iron is counted by the Pound hundred and Tun and Lead by the pound hundred and fodder Iron Pound 2240 112 Hundred 2 1 Tunne 1  Lead Pound 2184 122 Hundred 19 ½ 1 Fodder 1  Tinne Copper and Lattine haue 112 pounds to the hundred Of Fuell All fuell is sised by the statute of which there be Shids Billets Fagots and Coles all Shids must be foure foot long beside the carfe and vpon them is 1.2.3.4 or 5 markes or notches and then they must be in compasse about the midst 16.23.28 33 or 38 inches according as it hath number of markes All Billets should be three foot long and there be three kinds thereof as the Single a Cast and a Cast of two the first being 7½ ynches about the next 10 and the last 14 inches compasse Fagots should be three foot long and the band beside the knot 24 ynches made round for your flat Fagots be much lesse though they be all one compasse about The Sacke of Coles is 4 bushels How things be Numbred Furres Sables Martins Minkes Ienits Filches Grayes haue foure skins in the Timber Coney Kid Lambe Budge Cat c. haue fiue score in the hundred The skins of Goats are numbered by the kippe which is 50 and Calues by the dozen 12 I means being tanned There is also in Lether hides Dickers Lasts the Last is 20 Dickers or 200 hides a Dicker is 10 hides Of Fish Ling Cod or Haberdine hath 124 to the hundred Stock-fish 120 to the hundred so hath Herring A Last of Barrell-fish is twelue Ale Barrels Of Paper and Parchment A Bale of paper is 10 Reame or 200 quires a Reame is 20 quires or 500 sheetes a quire is 25 sheetes A Rowle of parchment is 5 dozen or 60 skins a dozen is 12 skins Of Wooll A Last of wooll is 4368 pounds or 12 sackes a sacke is 364 pounds or 2 weyes a wey is 182 pound or 6 Toddes and a halfe a Todde is 28 pounds or two stone a stone is 14 pound and a cleaue is halfe a stone so that a Last hath 312 stones and 156 Toddes and a Sacke hath 26 stones CHAP. XLIIII Measure in Longitude and of the length and the bredth and compasse of England Ireland and the adiacent Islands THrée barley cornes make an ynch 12 ynches a foote 3 foote a yard 5 yards and a halfe a pearch 40 pearches in length and 4 in bredth an Acre 4 in bredth and 10 in length a rood or quarter of an Acre so that an Acre hath 43560 square feet 4840 square yards and 160 square pearches Also an English mile is 8 Furlong 88 scores 320 pearches 1056 paces 1408 Elles 1760 yards 5280 feet 63360 ynches 190080 Barley cornes as you may see more largs in my Geodeticall Staffe Lib. 2. The compasse of the earth is 360 degrées or 21600 Italian miles or 5400 common Germane miles or 4320 miles of Sueuia whose diameter is 6872 8 11 Italian 1728 2 11 Germane or 1397 6 11 miles of Sueuia The compasse of the Heauens is 1017562500 miles and so much doth the Sun go in 24 houres according to the motion of the first Mouer and in his meane motion in the Zodiaque hee goeth euery day 2826562 ½ miles so that his peragration in respect of his compassing the heauens euery naturall day is 306392500000 miles in the whole yeare Measures of England and the adiacent Islands The compasse of England is 1532 miles The greatest length thereof Northwards and Soothwards is from Barwicke to the Lands end which not crossing the sea is 386 miles The shortest length from Barwicke to Calshot Castle in South-hampton shire is 286 miles The brodest place of England from the Lands end to Sandwich is 279 miles From S. Dauids
in the West in Penbrooke-shire through the middest of Worcester and Warwicke-shire Eastward to Yarmouth in Norfolke is 240 miles And this is the next brodest place in England Of Ireland Ireland reiecting adiacent Islands and some Indraffes is in compasse 948 miles The length Northward and Southward is 303 miles The bredth East and West is 113 miles Being taken in the South parts from the vttermost point of the Continent Westwards to the East point of Cilana lying ouer-against S. Dauids in Penbrooke-shire The Isle of Man The Isle of Man is in compasse 91 miles The length is 28 miles The bredth 18 miles The Isle of Anglesea Mona or Anglesea is in compasse 85 miles The length 21 miles The bredth 18 miles The Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is in compasse 57 miles The length 22 miles The bredth 11 miles CHAP. XLV To know how to reckon how much your daily expences commeth vnto in the whole yeare very readily without a Table or Calculation TO auoid all Tables and to giue you a ready rule to beare in memory do thus Suppose you spent 6 pence the day and would know what it amounteth vnto in the yeare which to doe say thus sixe pence the day is sixe pounds six halfe pounds and six groates which set together maketh 9 pounds two shillings Againe 7 pence the day is 7 pounds 7 halfe pounds and 7 groates in the yeare which set together maketh 10 pounds 12 shillings and foure pence The like of any other How Money is numbred in England The greatest péece of English siluer now coined ordinarily at the Tower is called 12 d. or a shilling and that is diuided into two parts which be called 6 pence or testons and that is subdiuided into two other parts called 3 pence being one fourth part of the shilling Againe the 12 pence is diuided into 6 parts euery of which part is called 2 pence The shilling is diuided into 12 parts called pence into 24 parts called halfe pence and into 48 parts called farthings we haue now a péece of siluer stamped which is the ¾ of a shilling called 9 pence and the halfe of that called 4 pence halfe peny thrée of which make a Scottish marke which is 13 pence halfe peny sterling out of these small peeces there is made other summes that haue proper and peculiar denominations as Crownes Nobles and Markes and their halfes a Crowne is 5 shillings a Noble 6 shillings 8 pence a marke 13 shillings 4 pence or two Nobles foure Nobles is 26 shillings 8 pence fiue Nobles is 33 shillings 4 pence seuen Nobles is 2 pounds 6 shillings 8 pence 14 Nobles is 4 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence and 20 Nobles is 6 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence Againe foure Marks is 2 pound 13 shillings 4 pence fiue Marks is 3 pound 6 shillings 8 pence 20 Markes 13 pound 6 shillings 8 pence 40 Markes is 26 pound 13 shillings 8 pence And an hundred Markes is 66 pound 13 shillings 4 pence A briefe remembrance of the principall Faires in England and Wales the Moneth Day and Place where they bee kept more largely set forth then heretofore ¶ Faires in Ianuary THe third day at Llanybyther Tuesday after the Twelfe-day at Salisbury and at Melton Mowbray Thursday after at Banbury and at Litterworth 7. at Llanginnie 25. at Bristoll Churchingford Grauesend and at Northalerton euery Wednesday from Christmas till Iune 31. at Llandyssell ¶ Faires in February THe first day at Brumley the second at Lin Bathe Maidstone Budworth Reading Bicklesworth Vizes and at Whitland the third at Borgroue the eighth at Tragarron the ninth at Llandaffe the 14. at Owndle and at Feuersham the 24. at Vppingham Higham-ferries Walden and at Tewkesbury On Shroue-munday at New-castle-vnder-line On Ash-wednesday at Lichfield Exceter Roystone Abington Ciceter Tamworth Dunstable Tunbridge Fockingham and Eaton The first Munday in Lent at Winchester and at Chersay in Surrey The first Tuesday in Lent at Bedford the first Thursday in Lent at Banbury ¶ Faires in March THe first day at Llangadog Madrim and at Llangeuallah the eight at Tregarron the 12. at Stamford Sudbury Wooborne Wrexham and at Bodnam the 13. at Wye and Bodwin the 17. at Patrington the 18. at Sturbridge the 20. at Alesbury and at Durham the 24 at Llanerchimeth the 25. at Northampton Malden Cardigan Malpas Saint Albons Ashwell Huntington all the Ladidayes at Saint Iones in Worcester at Woodstocke the 31. at Malmesbury Mio-lent Sunday at Saffron-walden and at Odiham Munday before the Annunciation at Kendall Wisbich and at Denbigh the fifth Sunday in Lent at Grantham Salibury Sudbury and at Helxsome Wednesday before Palme-sunday at Drayton Thursday at Llandissell Palmesunday Eus at Newport Pomfret Leicester Skipton Ailesbury and at Wisbich Palme-sunday at Worcester Llandaurenuoure Billingsworth and at Kendall wednesday before Easter at Llanuillinge and at Kaerline Thursday before Easter at Sudmuster and at Kettering On Good-friday at Mâ—llaine Bishops-castle Action-burnell Longuer Risborow Bury Amptill Bishops-hatfield Brewton Hinningham Rotheram Ipswich S. Pombes Gilford Nutly Engfield and Charing ¶ Faires in Aprill THe second day at North-fléet Rochford and at Hitchin the third at Leeke the fifth at Wallingford the seuenth at Darby the ninth at Billingsworth the munday next after at Euesham the 22 at Stabford the 23. at Chichester Tamworth Ipswich Charing Amptill Hinningham S. Pombs Burie Wilton Wortham Brewton castle Combes and at Bewdley the 25. at Darby Vttoxeter Dunmow Colebrooke Buckingham Winchcombe and at Cliffe the 26. at Tenderden and at Clete Munday in Easter wéeke at Gainesborow and at Onay tuesday in Easter wéeke at Daintrée Hitchin Brails Rochford Sandbach and at Northfleet wednesday in Easter weeke at Wellingborow Friday at Darby Saterday at Skipton Munday after Lowsunday at Bicklesworth Euesham and as Newcastle vnder-line ¶ Faires in May. THe first day at Leycester Warwice Oswestrée Kinuar worsworth Bricke-hill Congerton Reading Stow the old Pombridge Chensford ford Perin Andouer Maidston Llantrissent Vske and at Grighouel the second at Pwllhely the third at Stafford Bromyard Nun-eaton Rats-dale Waltham abby Elstow Hinningham Chersay Chepnam Cowbridge Aberganennie Mounton Denbigh Merthir and Tiduile the fifth at Marchenlleth the sixth at Almesburie Hoy and Knighton the seuenth at Beuerly Newton Oxford Stratford vpon Auon Hanslop and at Bathe the ninth at Maidstone the tenth at Ashburne the 11 at Dunstable the 15. at Welshpoole the 16. at Llangarranogge the 19. at Rochester Odehil Mayfield and Wellow the 20. at Malmesbury the 25. at Blackburne the 26. at Lenham the 29. at Crambrooke Rogation weeke at Beuerley Engfield On Ascension Eue at Darking and Abergelcy On Ascension day at Bremmencham Bishops-stratford Kidderminster Eccleshall Wigan Middle-with Stopford Chappell-Frith Rosse Burton vpon Trent Vizes Brasted Sudmuster Eglesrew in Keames Chappell-kinon Bridgend and Bewmarris Munday after Ascension day at Thacksteed On wednesday after at Shrewsbury On Friday at Ruthin On Whitsun-eue at Skipton vpon Crauon Wisbich and Newin On Whitsun-munday
thereof by Brute to his three sonnes being then called Britaine as to Locrine the eldest hee gaue this part of Britaine called England to Albanact the second the Country of Albany now called Scotland and to Camber the yongest hee gaue the Prouince of Cambria called now Wales And you shall note that the lands that Abbots such like men enioied before the suppressioÌ„ thereof did containe 15. Carledomes 1500. Knights lands 6200. Esquires lands 100. Almes-houses besides to the Kings Treasury 20000. l. as may appeare by a petition exhibited in the 11 yeare of Henry the 4. at a Parliament held at Westminster and reuiued in the 2. yeare of Henry the 5. in a Parliament at Leicester What Shires belong to euery Bishoprieke or Diocesse and first in the Prouince of Canterburie Canterbury and Rochester hath all Kent London hath Essex Middlesex and part of Hartfordshire Chichester hath Sussex Winchester hath Hampshire Surrey and the Isle of Wight Salisbury hath Wiltshire and Barkeshire Exceter hath Deuonshire Cornewall Bathe Welles hath Sommersetshire Glocester hath Glocestershire Worcester hath Worcestershire and part of Warwickshire Hereford hath Herefordshire part of Shropshire part of Monmouthshire part of Worcestershire part of Radnorshire Couentry Liechfield hath Staffordshire Derbyshire and the rest of Warwicke and Shropshire Lincolne greatest of all hath Lincolne Leicester Huntington Bedford and Buckinghamshire and the rest of Hartfordshire Ely hath Cambridge and the Isle of Ely Norwich hath Norfolke Suffolke Oxford hath Oxfordshire Peterborough hath Northampton Rutlandshire Diocesses in Wales S. Dauids hath 331 parishes Landaffe 156. Bangor 95 and Asaph 128 parishes In the Prouince of Yorke Yorke hath Yorke Nottingham Westchester Cheshire Richmondshire and part of Flint and Denbigh in Wales Duresme hath the Bishopricke of Duresme and Northumberland Carlile hath Cumberland and Westmerland Of the Shires Cities and Boroughes of England that haue any Knights or Burgesses in the Parliament house the Shires standing Alphabetically Barkshire New-windsor Reading Wallingford Abington Bedfordshire Bedford towne Buckeinghamshiâ—e Bukingham T Wickham Alisbury Cambridge towne Cheshire Chester cittie Cumberland Carlile ci Corn wall Launceston alia Newport Lesthued Dunheuet Turo Bodmin Holston Saltash Camelford Grampond Poney Trogony Tresmena alia Basing S. Iues S. Iermeines S. Michael Foy S. Maws Castled Darby towne Deuonshire Exceter Citie Toines Plimmouth Barstable PlimtoÌ„ Stonestocke Clyston Dartmouth whose proper name is Hardnesse Dorsethire Poole Dorcester Line Melcombe Waymouth Bertport Shaftbury Wareham Essex Colchester Malden Glocestershire Glocester Citie Cicester towne Hartfordshi S. Albons Herefordshire Hereford Citie Lemster towne HuÌ„tingtonshire Huntington Towne Kent Canterbury Rochester Maidstone Quinborough Lancashire Lancaster town Preston in Holdernesse Leuerpoole tow Newton Wigan Clithero Leicestershi Leicester Towne Lincolneshâ—re Lincolne Citty Grimby Stamford Grantham Boston Middlesex London Citty Westminsterci Norfolk Norwich Citty Linne Thetford town Gr. Yarmouth Castell rising NorrhhamptoÌ„shire NorthamptoÌ„ T. Peterborow Ci. Higham Ferry NorthuÌ„berlandshire Newcastle vpoÌ„ tine Barwicke town Morpith the Bishoprick of Durham NottinghaÌ„shire Nottingham T. East Stretford Oxfordshire Oxford Citty Woodstocke Banbury Richmondshire Rutlandshire Shropshire Shrewsbury Bridge-North Ludlow Wenlocke Bishops castle Somersetshire Bristow Bath cities Welscitty Taunton Bridgwater Minhead SouthhamptoÌ„shire Winchester Ci. Southampton Portsmouth Petersfield Stocke-bridge Christs-church Whit-church Staffordshire Lichfieild City Stafford T. Newcastle vnderline Tamworth Suffolk Ipswich Donewich Orford Alderburgh Sudbury Ely Surrie Southwarke Blechingley Riegate Guilford Gatton Suffex Norsham Midhurst Lewes Shorehame Brandbro Steining east gréenstead Arundell Chichester Citi. Warwickeshire Couentrie City Warwick town Westmeâ—laÌ„d Appleby Towne Wiltshire Salisbury Citi. Noua Wiston DowntoÌ„ Hinden Hetesbury Westbury Calue Deuises Chippingham Malmsbury Cricklad Old Salisbury Wotton basset Marleborough Bodwine the great Lodgershull Worcestershire Worcester Cif. Wiche Yorkeshire Yorke Citie Sharborough T Kingston vpon Hull Hedon Thuske Knaresborough Rippon Borough-bridge Alderborugh Beuerly The Prouince of Wales Mountgomeryshire Mountgomery Towne Monmouthshire Monmouth Towne Radnorshire Radnor Towne Denbighshire Denbigh Towne Penbrookeshire Penbrooke Towne CardigaÌ„shire Cardigan Towne Flineshire Flint Towne CarmartheÌ„shire Carmarthen Towne CarnaruaÌ„shire Carnaruan Towne Breckenockeshire Brecknocke Towne Anglesey Newborough Towne Merionethshire ClamorgaÌ„shire Cardiffe Heruerd Townes A Table of the number of Parish-Churches in euery Shire with the number of Shires in England and Wales 1 Barkeshire 140 2 Bedfordshire 116 3 Buckingham 185 4 Cambridgeshi 163 5 Cheshire 68 6 Cumberland 58 7 Cornewall 161 8 Derbyshire 106 9 Deuonshire 394 10 Dorsetshire 248 11 Essex 415 12 Glocestershire 280 13 Hartfordshire 120 14 Herefordshire 176 15 Huntington 78 16 Kent 398 17 Lancashire 36 18 Leicestershire 200 19 Lincolneshire 630 20 Middlesex 73 21 Norfolke 660 22 Northampton 320 23 NorthumberlaÌ„ 168 24 Nottingham 168 25 Richmondshi 104 26 Rutlandshire 47 27 Oxfordshire 280 28 Shropshire 170 29 Somersetshire 385 30 Southampton 253 31 Staffordshire 130 32 Suffolke 575 33 Surrey 140 34 Sussex 312 35 Warwickshire 158 36 Westmerland 26 37 Wiltshire 304 38 Worcestershire 152 39 Yorkeshire 459 WALES 1 Montgomery 47 2 Monmouthshi 127 3 Radnorshire 52 4 Denbighshire 57 5 Penbrooke 145 6 Cardiganshire 64 7 Flintshire 28 8 Carmarthenshi 87 9 Brecknockshire 61 10 Anglesey 74 11 Merionethshire 37 12 Clamorganshi 118 13 Carnaruan shi 68 A Computation of the seuen Ages of the world for this present yeare 1612. From the First Age. Creation vnto the Flood 1656 Creation till this yeare is 5574 Flood till this yeare are 3918 secoÌ„d Age. Floud to Abraham is 292 Birth of Abraham till this yeare 3626 third Age. Birth of Abraham till the departing of the Israelites out of Egypt 503 Departing of the Iraelites till this yeare 3121 fourth Age. Departing of the Israelites vntill the building of the Temple 482 Building of the Temple till this yeare 2641 fifth Age. Building of the Temple til the Captiuity of Babylon 414 Captiuity of Babylon till this yeare 2252 sixth Age. Captiuity of Babylon till the Birth of Christ 614 The seuenth Age beginneth at the birth of Christ hath continued 1612 yeares at the 25 of March and so forth to the pleasure of God A Geographicall Description of the wales from one notable Towne to another ouer all England and thereby how to trauell from any of them to the Citie of London set forth after a new order Note that the figures in the rowes vnder this marke * is the distance of that towne they stand against from London or from the towne you are directed vnto From Yorke to London 150. miles From Yorke go first vnto Tadcaster which is 8. miles thence to  Miles * Wenthridge 12 130 Doncaster 7 123 Tuxford 18 105 New-market 10 95 Grantham 10 85 Stanford 16 69 Stilton 12 57 Huntington 9 48 Royston 15 33 Ware 13 20 Waltham 8 12 London 12  From Norwich to London 86 miles From Norwich go first vnto Windam which is 5 miles thence to  Miles * Acleborrought 5 76 Thetford 10 66 IckinghaÌ„ sands 6 60 New-market