and a bad People A French Proverb 't is well they being such Admirers of their own will allow any goodness to another Country XV. The High Dutch Pilgrims when they beg they sing the French whine and cry the Spaniards curse swear and blaspheme the Irish and English steal This is Spanish The Italians are not mentioned because they seldom go out of their Country There was occasion to make Felony highly Penal in England to restrain the Pezantry somewhat addicted thereunto but may Honesty in themselves and Charity in others hinder the Progress and prevent the Consequences of that Sneaking Trade Princes John Eldest Son of King E. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor dyed in his Infancy 1273. an ult H. 3. and was buried August 8. in Westminster under a Marble Tomb inlaid with his Picture in an Arch over it Eleanor Eldest Daughter to King Ed. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor An. Dom. 1266. Afterwards was Married by Proxy a Naked Sword interposed between her and his Body to Alphons King of Arragon who dyed An. 1292 before the Consummation of Marriage This Princess was afterwards Married to Hen. 3. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of Anjou and Kings of Sicil are descended She died in 27 th year of her Fathers Reign Anno Dom. 1298. Margaret third Daughter of E. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor An. 3. E. 1. 1275. At fifteen she was Marryed at Westminster July 9. 1290. to John II. Duke of Brabant by whom she had John Issue III. Duke of Brabant from whom the Dukes of Burgundy are descended Mary sixth Daughter of King Ed. and Queen El. born at Windsor April 12. 1279. at 10 years of Age was made a Nun at Amesbury in Wiltshire meerly to gratifie Queen Eleanor her Grand-mother The other Children of this King probably born in this Castle viz. Henry Alphonse Blanche dyed in their Infancy who Cleansed at Font did draw untainted Breath Not yet made bad by Life made good by Death The two former were buried with their Brother John at Westminster in the same Tomb but where Blanche was interr'd is unknown Edward III Son to E. 2. and Queen Isab born at Windsor Oct. 13. 1312. a Pious and Fortunate Prince was 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 tho the Conquests by H. 5. were thicker his were broader in France and Scotland tho both in length alike as lost by their immediate Successors He was the first English King which Coyned Gold He first stamped the Rorse-Nobles having on one side Iesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat and on the Reverse his own Image with a Sword and Shield siting in a Ship Waving on the Sea Hereupon was made the English Rhym in the Reign of H. 6. For four things our Noble sheweth to me King Ship and Swerd and Power of the Sea He had a Numerous and Happy Issue by Phillippa his Queen after whose Death being almost 70 years old he cast his Affection on Alice Pierce his Paramour to his Dishonour it being true what Epictetus returned to Adrian the Emperour asking of him what Love was In Puero Pudor in Virgine Rubor in faeminâ 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 this King had few Equals none Superiors for Wisdom Clemency and Courage He died An. Dom. 1378. William Sixth Son to E. 1. and Queen Phil. born at Windsor He had a Brother born at Hatfield of the same Name who died in his Infancy as this William also did As for King Edwards Female Children Isabel Joan Blanch Mary and Margaret 't is believed they were born in France Henry VI Son to H. 5. born at Windsor was fitter for a Coul than Crown of so easie a Nature that he might well have Exchanged a pound of Patience for an ounce of Valour He Marryed Margaret Daughter of Reinier King of Jerusalem Sicily and Arragon Puissant only in Titles Through Home-bred Dissentions he not only lost the Forreign Acquisitions of the Father in France but also his own Inheritance in England to the House of York Her Death or Murder rather happened 1471. This Henry was twice Crowned twice Deposed and twice Buried first at Chestry then at Windsor and once half Sainted Our Hen. VII cheapned the price of his Canonization but would not come up to the Sum demanded However this Henry was a Saint with the People repairing to his Monument from the farthest part of the Land 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 born at Abbington in this County and were successively Prioress of Catesby in Northamptonshire They were Sisters to St. Edmund The former dying An. 1257. the latter 1270. Both were Honoured for Saints and many Miracles were reported done at their Shrine St. Edmund Son to Edw. Rich and Mabel his Wife born at Abbington and bred in Oxford Edmunds-Hall in that University which probably was not built by but Named in Memory of him He was Canon of Salisbury and afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury but after 10 years deserted this Function being offended at the Ambition and Extortion of the Popes Legate in England he therefore going into France sighed out the Remainder of his Life at Pontiniack some say at Soissons where he dyed An. 1240. Pope Innocent IV Canonized him 6 years after his Death that as some affirm he might not be tormented with his Ghost Lewis King of France a year after translated his Corps and three years after that bestowed a most Sumptuous Shrine of Gold Silver and Chrystal upon it And the 16 of Nov. is the Festival appointed for his Memorial Martyrs At Newbury in this County there were 6 or 7 score Persons being betrayed by a Lewd Person whom they admitted into their Society Abjured and besides there were three or four burnt whose Names tho not known are no doubt written in the Book of Life The day of the Gospel dawned as soon in this County as in any place of England The Honour of the Seniority in this kind belongs to Newbury the Motive used by Doctor Will. Twit to quicken the pace of his Parishoners there that Town as he said being the first Fruits of the Gospel in England At Windsor of a Company of Godly Persons there four were Arraigned and Condemned by Commissioners whereof three were put to Death viz. Anth. Parsons Priest being fast'ned to the Stake he laid a good deal of Straw on his Head saying This is God's Hat I am now Arm'd like a Souldier of Christ Rob. Testwood a Singer in Windsor-Quire There hap'ned a Contest betwixt him and
Woodvill or Wydevill born at Grafton bred in then Chanc. of Oxford was made B. of Salisbury 1482. His Memory is supported rather by the Buttresses of his great Relations than the Foundation of his own Deserts For he was Son to Jaquet Dutchess of Bedford and Rich. Wydevill Earl of Rivers Brother to Elizabeth Queen of England and Brother in Law to Edward 4. Heart-broken with grief with the Tragedies he beheld in his own Family caused by the Cruelty of King Richard 3. he died about 1484. Since the Reformation Ja. Montague Son to Sir Rich. Knight was born at Boughton bred in Christ-college in Cambridge was after Mr. of Sidney-college which he freed from a debt of 20 l. yearly payable to Trin. College He expended 100 Marks to bring running water into the Kings-ditch in Cambridge He was afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells then of Winchester being highly in favour with King James whose Works he translated into Latin He died 1618 and lyeth buried in the Church of Bath Fr. Godwin Son to Th. Bishop of Bath and Wells was born at Hanningham 1561. and became D. D. in Christs-Church in Oxford Sub-Dean of Exeter and afterwards Bishop of Landaffe An. 40 Eliz. 1601. He was a good Man grave Divine skilfull Mathematician pure Latinist and incomparable Historian to whose painful Endeavors the whole Church Militant is much beholding He was translated by King James to Hereford and died in the Reign of King Charles An. 162 Jo. Owen born at Burton Latimers where his Father was Minister was bred in Jesus-College in Cambridg where he commenced D. D. and was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was a Prince King Charles being troubled with 2 Competitors advanced this modest Doctor to the Bishoprick of St. Asaph to end the contest He outlived his Vote in Parliament and survived to see all Contempt cast on his Order which he bare with Moderation and died 164 ... Rob. Skinner D. D. born at Pisford and bred in Oxford became a Preacher in London and Dean of Hence he was preferred Bishop of Brist then of Oxford and is still and long may he be living Statesmen Sir Christopher Hatton born at Holdenby of an ancient Family was beloved of the Queen for his handsom Dancing better for his Proper Person and best of all for his Abilities The Queen at last preferred him Lord Chancellor of England He by his Power and Prudence convinced some sullen Serjeants who thought him not throughly learned in the Laws of their Errours and his own Abilities His Zeal for the Discipline of the Church of England gave the first being to a scandalous report that he was Popishly affected It brake his heart that the Queen rigorously demanded the present Payment of some Arrears and falling into a mortal Disease he could not be recovered by the Queens broth 's which some affirm her Majesty brought to him with her own hands He died 1591. and was buried in the Quire of St. Paules Sir W. Fitz-Williams born at Milton married the Sister of Sir Henry Sidney Lord Dep. of Ireland where himself was 5 times Dep. and when Walt. Earl of Essex was sent over Governour of Vlster he took his Commission from this Sir W. then Lord Dep. He was Serviceable towards the reduction of that Kingdom in raising a Composition in Munster and in setling the Possessions of the Lords and Tenants in Monohan His Vigilancy was most conspicuous in 88. when the routed Armado in its return dared not to land in Ireland except against their Wills when driven by tempest when they found the Shore worse than the Sea unto them Some impute the Irish Rebellion which afterwards brake out to this Deputies Severity in imprisoning suspected Persons for concealed Spanish Goods tho this gave only the Irish a Mantle for their intended Wickedness He died An. 15. Sir Isaack Wake honorably descended was bred in Oxford where he was Orator of the Univ. He was afterwards Secretary to Sir Dudley Charleton Secretary of State and from his was advanced into the Kings service and employed Ambassadour to Venice where he neglected his own Commodity to attend his Majesties Imployment the reason that he died only rich to his own Conscience He was afterwards appointed Leiger for France and designed Secretary of State had not Death prevented him at Paris He was accomplished with all Qualifications requisite for publick Employment King Charles allowed the Expences for his Funeral and at his Majesties Command his Corps was brought over to England and buried in the Castle of Dover An. 16 Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Martin de Pateshull was made Justice of the Common Pleas An. 1. H. 3. He was 4th Dean of St. Pauls Sir Tho. Billing dwelt at Ashwell was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench An. 6. E 4. Whose Lands have since by the Lovils descended to the Shirlies He married for his 2d Wife Mary Daughter and Heir of Robert Nosenham of Conington in Hunt the Relict of W. Cotten whose Issue possess her Inheritance at this day and she lyeth entombed in Westminster Sir W. Catesbye whose Family flourished at Ashby St. Leger was advanced by W. Lord Hastings into the Notice and Favour of Richard 3. tho ill requiting it when betraying him who caused his Preferment He was a man well Learned in the Laws of the Land and sure great pity it was that he had not had more Truth or less Wit He was eminently all Officers in every Court of Judicature Witness the Libell which Collingborn made and which cost him his Life for the same The Rat and the Cat and Lovel the Dog Do Govern all England under the Hog He died probably before the end of R. 3. Sir Richard Empson another Catesbye was eminent for having odious for abusing his skill in the Law active for his Prince injurious to the People He was Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and from a Sieve-maker's Son at Towceter in this County where he was born came to sift the Estates of the wealthiest Men in England For Henry 7. vexed that he had refused Columbus his proffer whereby the West Indies fortunately discovered fell to Ferd. King of Spain resolved to discover Indies in England and to this purpose made Empson Promoter General to press the Penal Statutes all over the Land Impowred hereby this prolling Knight did grind the faces of the Rich and Poor bringing the grist thereof to the K. and keeping the Toll thereof to himself whereby he advanced a vast Estate which now with himself is reduced to nothing He united the Houses of York and Lanc. in the Kings Coffers taking notice of no person for his good service but making all equally obnoxious to Forfeitures This Empson scoffingly demanding of a Judicial Astrologer in Warw. When the Sun would change Even then said the Astrologer when such a wicked Lawyer as you go to Heaven In the beginning of H. 8. he was beheaded 1510. Edw. Mountague born at Brigstock was made
few who escaped had a longer Life to have a sadder Death wandring in the Country till other Mens Charity and their own Strength began to fail them Since how God hath conducted his Royal Majesty through Labyrinths of many difficulties to the Peaceable Possession of his Throne is notoriously known to the Wonder of the World YORK-SHIRE YOrk-shire hath the Bishoprick of Durham and Westmorland on the North Lancashire and a snip of Cheshire on the West Darby Nottingham and Lincoln-shire on the South and the German Ocean on the East thereof It is a Square of 90 Miles each side of equal dimensions with the Dukedom of Wirtenberg in Germany If the Goodness of this County which is not inferiour to others be drawn into the greatness thereof the product will be a denomination of the best Shire in England Besides in respect of the goodness â—nd plenty of some Commodities it might be termed the Garden of England save that it is too far from the Mansion-house I mean the City of London Dr. Tonstal Bishop of Durham shewed King Henry 8. in his Progress to York a Valley near Doncaster the richest as he affirmed that ever he observed in all his Travails through Europe for within 10 Miles of Haselwood the Seat of the Vavasors there were 165 Mannor-houses 275 several Woods some of them containing 500 Acres 3 Parks and Chases of Deer 120 Rivers and Brooks whereof 5 be Navigable 76 Water-Mills 25 Coal Mines 3 Forges for making of Iron The natural Commodities of this County are Geat found in the Clefts of the Rocks towards the Sea side being naturally of a reddish and rusty colour it grows black with polishing It may pass for the Embleme of our Memories attracting trifles and letting pass matters of more moment Alume first found nigh Gesburgh some 60 years since by Sir Thomas Chaloner Tutor to Prince Henry The Mine thereof being afterwards managed by three prime Workmen brought not to say stoln over in Hogsheads from Rochel in France was adjudged a Mine Royal who paid yearly to the King 12500 pounds to the Earl of Moulgrave 1640 pounds to Sir William Penniman 600 pounds and though he had in pay at one time no fewer then 800 Men he complained not of his Bargain Selling the Alume whereof he had the sole Sale at 26 pounds the Tun. This the late Long Parliament Voted a Monopoly and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries who now pursue the work at five several places viz. Sands-end and Ash-holme belonging to the Earl of Moulgrave Slapy-wath Sir William formerly Penniman's Darcey's Dunsley Mr. Thomas Fairfax's Whitlay Sir Hugh Chomley's The Commodity is now fallen 13 pounds the Tun Lime is made near Pontfract no less as I am credibly informed then 20000 pounds worth yearly This County doth breed the best Race of English Horses which generally are not so slight as the Barbe nor so slovenly as the Flemish nor so Airy as the Spanish-Gennets especially if as reported they be conceived of the Wind nor so Earthly as those in the Low-Countries and Germany But being of a middle Stature and Strength are both seemly and serviceable Well may Philip be so common a Name among the Gentry of this Country who are generally so delighted in Horsemanship The Manufacture of Cloathing is vigorously followed in this County As for edged and pointed Tools Sheffeild is the Staple Town for Knives and many and good Pins are made in this County But come we now to the Medicinal Waters about a Mile and a half from Knares-borough Westward there is a Spring of Vitrioline tast and odour discovered by one Slingsby about 1620 and is conceived to run parallel with the Spaw Waters in Germany Not far ofâ— is a Sulphur-Well the stench whereof is great but the vertues greater In the same Parish there is the Petrifying Well because it converteth spungy substances into a stone or crusteth them over round about St. Mungus his Well is famous for the Sovereign Vertue of the Waters thereof and for four Springs near in Scituation and distant in Operation It has its Name from St. Mungo a Scotch Saint See Dr. Dean's Spadsacrena Anglica As for Buildings the Church of Beverly is a fine Fabrick of which more when I shall have occasion to speak of the Collegiate Church of Rippon Then Wresel-Castle is seated in the Confluence of Derwent and Owse built of square Stone with four fair Towers at each corner with a Gatehouse wherein are Chambers five stories high and Gardens without the Walls It had a Study made with great Art in an â—ight square Tower called Paradise all which beautiful Building belonging to the Earl of Northumberland is much impaired if not wholly defaced by time Proverbs I. From Hell Hull and Halifax deliver us This is part of the Beggars or Vagrants Letany Hull is terrible to them as a Town of good Government Halifax is formidable to them for the Law thereof whereby Thieves taken in the very act of stealing Cloath are instantly beheaded with an Engine without any further Legal Proceedings II. A Scarborough Warning that is none at all but a sudden surprize when a mischief is felt before it be suspected It took its Original from Thomas Stafford who in the Reign of Queen Mary 1557. with a small Company siezed on Scarborough Castle before the Townsmen had the least notice of his approach However by the industry of the Earl of Westmorland Sir Thomas Stafford was within 6 dayes taken brought to London and beheaded Others affirm this Proverb to be of more ancient Original fetching it from the custom of Scarborough Castle in former times in shooting of Ships which strook not sail warning and damnifying them both together III. As true Steel as Rippon Rowels The best Spurs of England are made at Rippon the Rowels whereof may be enforced to strike through a shilling and will break sooner then bow It is applyed to Men of Metal faithful in their Employments IV. An York-shire Wee Bit. That is an overplus not accounted in the reckoning which sometimes proveth as much as all the rest V. Merry Wakefield This Town is seated in a fruitful Soyl and cheap Country where there is good Chear and good Company and therefore why should not the Town be merry Princes Henry youngest Son to William Duke of Normandy but eldest to King William the Conquerour was born at Selby 1070. where his Father Founded an Abbey and afterwards gained the Crown from D. Roberts his eldest Brother He was bred in Cambridge and Paris where he so profited that he attained the Sirname of Beau-Clerke He Reigned 35 years and upwards remitted the Norman Rigour and restored to his English Subjects a great part of the English Laws and Liberties His Princely Vertues were attended with some Amorous Extravagancies as appears by his numerous Natural Issue no fewer then 14 all by him publickly owned the Males highly advanced the Females richly Married His Sobriety otherwise was admirable whose Temperance
were no Martyrs so were there no Confessors which are Martyrs in the bud Cardinals Jo. Fisher born in Beverly and bred in Michael House in Cambridge whereof he was first Chancellour became Bishop of Rochester He was accessary to the dissembling of Elizabeth Barton the Holy Maid of Kent He opposed King Henry's Divorce and Title of Supream Head of the Church procured a Cardinals Cap from the Pope and forfeited his own Head to the King being beheaded 1535. Having been tryed by an ordinary Jury and not by his Peers Prelates Eustathius de Fauconbridge was chosen Bishop of London an 6. Henry 3. 1222. He was Chief Justice then Chancellour of the Exchequer and afterterwards Treasurer of England and twice Ambassadour to the King of France He dyed October 31. 1228. and was buried in the Presbytery W. de Melton Prov. of Beverly and Canon then Arch-Bishop of York Being Consecrated at Avignon and returning into England he expended 700 Marks in the finishing of his Cathedral His Life was free from scandal signal for his Chastity Charity Fasting and Praying He bought 3 Mannors from the Arch-Bishop of Roan with the Popes Confirmation and setled them on his Brothers Son He compassed about the Old Baily in York with a great Wall He dyed 1340. and was buried in his own Church Henry Wakefield preferred Bishop of Worcester by King Edward 3. 1375. was for one year Lord Treasurer of England dying March 11. 1394. he was buried in his own Church which before his death he had enlarged R. Scroope Son to the Lord Scroope and brother to William Earl of Wilt-shire was D. D. in Cambridge a man of great Learning and unblameable life He was preferred Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield then Arch-Bishop of York Being netled with the News of his Brothers beheading he joyned with the Earl of Northumberland and others against King Henry 4. The Earl of Westmorland complyed with him in appearance till he had trepanned him It doth not appear that he desired to be tryed by his Peers if he was dealt with therein but odly the Executioner served him as odly in having 5 stroaks at his Neck before he could sunder it from his Body an 1405. Stephen Patrington born in Patrington was a Carmelite D. D. in Oxford and Provincial of his Order in England and afterwards Chaplain and Confessor to King Henry 5. by whom he was deputed a Commissioner to proceed against the Wicklevites and during that service he was made Bishop of St. Davids Hence he was sent over to the Council of Constance returning into England he was advanced Bishop of Chichester but dying before his Translation was finished was buried in White Friers in Fleet-street VVilliam Peircy Son to Henry Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor his Wife whose principal Seat was Topliff in this County was D. D. in and Chancellour of Cambridge and made Bishop of Carlile 1452. He dyed 1462. Cuthbert Tonstal born at Hatchforth in Richmond-shire in this County of a Worshipful Family at Tonstal Thurland was bred in Cambridge to which he was in Books a great Benefactor He was afterwards Bishop of London and at last of Durham a great Linguist Mathematician and Divine and a fast Friend to Erasmus In the Reign of King Henry 8. he publickly confuted the Papal Supremacy in a learned Sermon 1539. but returned to his errour in the Reign of Edward 6. continuing therein an 1. Elizabeth for which he was deprived of his Bishoprick He shewed Mercy when in Power and found it in his Adversity He dyed a Prisoner at Lambeth 1560. Ralph Baines Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge was an excellent Linguist Going over into France he became Hebrew Professor at Paris He wrote a Comment on the Proverbs in three Volumes and Dedicated it to Fr. 1 st King of France Returning into England he was by Queen Mary made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in which Diocess he caused great Persecution He was deprived of his Bishoprick an 1. Elizabeth and dying he was buried in St. Dunstans 1560. Since the Reformation Thomas Bentham Fellow of Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford renounced Popery an 1. Mary He assisted Henry Bull one of the same Colledge to wrest out of the hands of the Choristers the Censer when about to offer their Superstitious Incense Flying into Germany he lived at Basil Preacher to the English Exiles Towards the end of Queen Mary he was secretly sent over to be Superintendent of the London Conventicle the only true Church in the time of Persecution where with all his caution he hardly escaped An. 2. Elizabeth he was Consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield He dyed February the 21st 1578. Edmund Guest born at Afferton was D. D. in Kings-Colledge in Cambridge He was Almoner to Queen Elizabeth by whom he was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Salisbury Having written many Books he dyed 1578. Miles Coverdale bred in Cambridge became an Augustine Frier but afterwards quitting that Profession he went into Germany he laboured greatly in Translating of the Bible and writing other Books He was made D. D. at Tubing and returning into England was made Bishop of Exeter by King Edward 6. An. 1. Mary he was imposed though saved from Martyrdom by the Mediation of Fred. King of Denmark Being enlarged he went over into Germany whence in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England but not to Exeter He was one of those who solemnly Consecrated Matthew Parker Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at Lambeth He dyed 1588. and lyes buried in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange Adam Loftus bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where he Commenced D. D. was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Sussex Lord Deputy of Ireland and was first made Arch-Bishop of Armagh an 1562. and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1567 At last being made Chancellour of Ireâ—and he discharged that place with singular Ability and â—ntegrity until the day of his death He was a principal Procurer of and a profitable Agent in the Foundation of the University of Dublin being the first Honorary Master thereof whilst he was Arch-Bishop if not Chancellour of Ireland He dyed April 5. 1605. and was buried in the Church of St. Pat. having been Arch-Bishop almost 43 years George Mountaine bred in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge was Chaplain to the Earl of Essex whom he attended in his Voyage to Cales being indeed a man of great Valour He was afterwards made Dean of Westminster then successively Bishop of Lincoln and London whilst residing in the latter he would often pleasantly say that of him the Proverb would be verified Lincoln was and London is and York shall be which came to pass accordingly when he was removed to the Arch-Bishoprick of York He was a good Benefactor to Queens-Colledge whereon he bestowed a fair piece of Plate called Poculum Charitatis with this Inscription incipio and Founded two Scholarships therein Capital Judges Sir William Gascoine born at Ganthorp studied in the Inner Temple and being Knighted an 1. Henry 4.
much Moderation At last he was Preacher at St. Magdalens Bermondsey being a solid Divine and a man made up of piety pity and patience He was visited with many and most acute diseases the Gout Stone and Ulcer in his Bladder and another in his Kidneys His Liberality knew no bottom but an empty Purse so bountiful he was to all in want He dyed 1654. and was buried in his own Parish All I shall add is this distick Whites ambo Whitehead Whitgift Whitakerus uterque Vulnera Romano quanta dedere Papae Romish Exile Writers Jo. Young was Fellow of St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge at first a parcel-Protestant Translating into English the Book of Arch-Bishop Cranmer of the Sacrament he became a zealous Papist and great Antagonist of Mart. Bucer and an able disputant He was Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge 1554 Master of Pemb. Hall Professor of Divinity and Rector of Landbeach nigh Cambridge but lost all his preferment an 1. Elizabeth being deprived and imprisoned He dyed 1579. Jo. Mush bred in the English-Colledge at Doway and in Rome whence returning into England he fished for Proselytes for 20 years together being for some considerable time imprisoned at last he procured his Enlargement In his time happened the Schisme betwixt the Jesuits and Priests which threatned Ruine to the Church of Rome Mush went to Rome about it and was very instrumental in Composing of those differences Returning into England he was assistant to the English Arch-Priest He wrote among other books Vitam Martyrium D. Margaretâ— Clithoreae Whether D. be for Domina or Diva Lady or Saint I know not I take her for some Gentlewoman in the North who for some practices in maintenance of her Religion became obnoxious to the severity of the English Law He lived 1612. Benefactors to the Publick Thomas Scot born at Rotheram which he assumed for his Name was Fellow of Kings-Colledge afterwards Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge and Chancellour of the University He built on his proper cost saving something helped by the Scholars the fair Gate of the School with fair Walks on each side and a Library on the East thereof This Thomas having felt the sharp tusks of the Boar when imprisoned by King Richard 3. for resigning the Great Seal of England to Queen Elizabeth the Relict of King Edward 4. he advanced that Kings Crest being the Boar on the aforesaid Gate meerly to ingratiate himself He was successively Provost of Beverly Bishop of Rochester Lincoln and lastly Arch Bishop of York Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellour of England Many were his Benefactions to the Publick of which none more remarkable then his founding 5 Fellowships in Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford He dyed at Cawood of the Plague 1500. Jo. Alcocke born at Beverly where he built a Chappel and Founded a Chantry for his Parents was D. D. in Cambridge and became Bishop of Ely and was preferred Lord Chancellour of England by King Henry 7. He turned the old Nunnery of St. Radegund Founded by Malcolm King of Scotland into a New Colledge called Jesus in Cambridge He was a Learned and Pious Man deceasing 1500. Since the Reformation Mr. Harrison of Leeds built a new Church in that Town the old one being too small for the numerous Parishoners Memorable Persons Paulinus de Leeds was so far from buying a Bishoprick that when a Bishoprick bought him he refused to accept it King Henry offering him the Bishoprick of Carlile with an Addition of 300 Marks to the yearly Revenue which he refused He flourished 1186. W. de la Pole born at Ravensford for Wealth and Skill in Merchandize inferiour to none in England resided at Kingston upon Hull He lent King Edward 3. many thousands of pounds in recompence whereof the King made him Valect i. e. Gent. of the Bed-Chamber and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer c. giving him the Precedency and Honour of a Knight Banneret though he was not made in the Field with the usual Ceremony He dyed about 1350. Noted Sheriffs Edward 2. An. 9. Simon Ward the Male line of his ancient Family expired in Sir Christopher Ward Standard bearer to King Henry 8. at Bolleign He lived at Grindal leaving three Daughters Married to the Families of Strickland Musgrave and Osborn Edward 3. An. 17. Thomas de Rokeby was twice 1351 and 1355 Lord Justice of Ireland He in part extirpated the damnable Custom of Coigne and Livery in that Kingdom whereby the Commander in Chief extorted from the people Horse-meat Mans meat and Money at pleasure without any satisfaction for the same This Custom was begun in the time of King Edward 2. by Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond In reference to which this Rokeby used to say that he would eat in Wooden dishes but would pay for his Meat Gold and Silver Henry 4. An. 8. Thomas Rokeby Junior Mil. overcame and took by the sole assistance of this Shire Prisoners Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Barldolfe who began War against the King Henry 5. An. 8. Halvatheus Maulever Mil. had his Sirname in Latine Malus Leporarius from his unskilfulness in hunting of the Hare Henry 6. An. 11. Henry Bromfleet Mil. was sent the year following with other Ambassadours to the Council of Basil and returning was created Lord Vescy in the right of his Mother And though in his Patent that Title was entailed on his Heir-Males only yet Margaret his sole Daughter and Heir Married to Jo. Lord Clifford Father to Henry first Earl of Northumberland of that Sirname derived the Barony into that Family which at this day they enjoy 22. Edmund Talbot Mil. though not related to the house of Shrewsbury was of a Family of ancient extraction ever since King Henry 2. He was Father to Sir Thomas one very zealous for the House of York and a servant to King Richard 3. who bestowed an Annuity of 40 pounds per Annum on him A Branch of these Talbots are removed into Lancashire and from those in York-shire Col. Thomas Talbot is descended Edward 4. Henry Vavasor Mil. It is observed of this Family that they never Married an Heir or buried their Wives The place of their habitation is called Hasel-Woâ—d out of which Mannor the stones were taken that built St. Maries Abbey in York Henry 8. An. 2. Radulphus Eure alias Evers Mil. was created Baron and Lord Warden of the Marches towards Scotland where he gave signal demonstrations of his Fidelity and Valour in resisting and opposing the Scots From him the present Lord Evers is descended 5. William Piercy Mil. was probably of the Family of the Piercy's-Hays whose ancient possession was Riton hard by the River Rhidals 23. Nicholas Fairfax Mil. the Sirname signifying Fair Hair had for his Motto Fare Fac Say Doe His Namesake Sir Nicholas of Bullingbrook was Knight of the Rhodes in the Reign of King Edward 4. being Charactred Cavaliero molto spiritoso e Prudente Q. Mary An. 3. Christopher Metcalfe Mil. attended on
Gentlemen 4. Instructions received from the nearest Relations to those persons whose Lives we have presented The printed Books are cited in the Margin As for Records Mr. William Riley Master of those in the Tower had great care in securing dexterity in finding diligence in perusing them and courtesie in Communicating such Copies of them as my occasions required For the Records of the Exchequer I was assisted by Mr. High-more of the Pipe-Office Mr. John Wit and Mr. Francis Boyton the learned Knight Sir Winkfield Bodenham Besides I repaired to the Originals in the Exchequer for better information I have added Church Registers tho no Records in Law yet of great force in History but the Civil Wars have occasioned great loss of these Lastly the Instructions of the nearest Relations I have met with many who could not never with any who would not further me with Information 'T is observable that Men an hundred years since and upwards have their Nativities fixed with more assurance then those born some eighty years since To conclude my Pains Brains and Books are no more mine then theirs to command who Courteously have conduced to my instruction CHAP. XXIV Of a Two-fold English Gentry viz. by Nation and Profession I Begin with the Ancient Britains who Inhabited the South and were succeeded by the Saxons in the West As for the more Ancient Romans their Descendants are not by any Character discernable from the British The Off-spring of the Saxons are the main bulk and body not of the Gentry but of the English Nation These tho pitifully dispersed by the Conqueror yet by God's Goodness King Henry I. his favour their own patience and diligence put together the Planks of their Ship-wrackt Estates and afterwards recovered a Competent condition The Danes were rather Inroders here then Inhabitants of whose Extraction there are therefore few in our Age among whom the Denizes often Sheriffs in Devon and Glocestershire appear the principal As for Fitz-Harding the younger Son of the King of Denmark and direct Ancestor of the truly Honourable George Lord Berkley he came long since when he accompanied the Conquerour They seem to err who are of Opinion that those Names which end in son as Johnson Thomson c. are of Danish Origination since the Danes had no such Names in use among them as John or Thomas c. The Normans after the Conquest became the only visible Gentry of this Nation and still continue more then a moiety thereof There are some Surnames of the good Families in England now extant which tho French are not to be recovered in the Lists of such as came over with the Conqueror and therefore we suppose them to have remained of those Gentlemen which from Hanault attended Queen Isabel Wife to King Edward II. Of this sort was Deureux Mollineux Darcy Coniers Longchamp Henage Savage Danvers c. Of the British or Welsh after their Expulsion hence by the Saxons some signal persons have returned again and by the Kings Grant Matches Purchases c. have fixed themselves in fair Possessions in England especially since the beginning of the Reign of their Countrey-man King Henry 7 th rewarding the Valour of many Contributing to his Victory at the Battle of Bosworth Of the Welsh now re-estated in England and often Sheriffs therein some retain their old Surnames as the Griffins in Northamptonshire the Griffiths and Vaughans in Yorkshire some have assumed New ones as the Caradocks now known by the Name of Newtons in Somersetshire Many Scotch long before the Union of the Two Kingdoms under King James seated themselves in this Land resorting hither for Succour from their Civil Wars Distress at Sea hath driven others in as the Stewards High-Sheriffs in Cambridgeshire As other Accidents have occasioned the coming in of the Scrimpshires an hundred years since High Sheriffs in Staffordshire more lately the Napers in Bedfordshire and before both the Scots-Hall in Kent As for the Irish of any Eminency their Religion and Inclination have drawn them to other Countries rather then England Of the Italian Nation very few have founded Families in England yet have we a Sprinkling of Italian Protestants Castilian a Valiant Gentleman of Barkshire the Bassanoes Excellent Painters and Musicians in Essex which came into England under King Henry 8 and since in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Sir Horatio Palavicine Receiver of the Popes Revenues Landed in Cambridgeshire And the Caesars al. Dalmarii still flourishing in Hartfordshire in Worshipful Estates The High dutch of the Hans Towns anciently much conversed in our Land known by the Name of Easterlings invited hither by the large Priviledges our Kings conferred upon them so that the Steel-Yard was the Gold-yard unto them But these Merchants moved round in their own Sphere matching among themselves without mingling with our Nation Only we may presume that the Easterlings commonly called the Stradlings formerly Sheriffs in Wiltshire and still famous in Glamorganshire with the Nestphalings lately Sheriffs of Oxfordshire were originally of German Extraction The Low Countrey-men frighted by Duke of Alva's long-Nose and longer Sword flocked hither under King Edward the VI. fixing themselves in London Norwich Canterbury and Sandwich But these confined themselves to their own Church-discipline and advanced not forward by Eminent Matches into our Nation Yet I behold the worthy Family of de la Fountain in Leicestershire as of Belgian original and have read how the Ancestors of Sir Simond D'us in Suffolk came hither under King Henry VIII from the Dunasti or D'us in Gelderland As for the Spaniards tho their King Philip matched with our Queen Mary yet few of any Eminence now extant if I well remember derive their Pedigrees from them by reason of their short Reign and the ensuing Change of Religions Probable it is we might have had more Natives of that Kingdom to have setled and flourished in our Nation had he obtained a Marriage with Queen Elizabeth as he desired Of the Portuguese few have fixed their Habitations here yet is the want of the Number of these abundantly supplyed with the Transcendent Quality and most Noble Vertues of our gracious Queen who as Cynthia dispenses her Royal Influence to the lesser Stars and Strikes with Love and Veneration the Hearts of all The May's who have been Sheriffs in Sussex are of the Portugal Race Come we now to the second Division of our Gentry according to the Professions whereby they have been advanced And Note such Professions found most of them Gentlemen being the younger Sons of Wealthy Fathers able to give them liberal Education Their Blood lighted them and their Profession set them up in a higher Candlestick making a Conspicuous Accession of Wealth and Dignity Thus all behold Isis encreased in Name and Water after it's Conjunction with Thame at Dorcester whilst few take notice of the first Fountain thereof many Miles more Westward in Gloucestershire The Study of the Common-Law hath advanced very Ancient Families in England It seems they
the English for abolishing her Adoration watcheth an Oppertunity of Revenge on this Nation And when her day 25 th of March chanceth to fall on the day of Christ's Resurrection some signal Judgment is intended to our State and Chuch-men especially Such co-incidence has hap'ned just fifteen times since the Conquest An. 1095. when King Rufus made a fruitless Invasion of Wales 1106. King Henry 1. subdueth Normandy and D. Robert his Brother 1117. the same King Henry forbideth the Popes Legate to enter England 1190. and King Richard 1. Conquereth Cyprus in his way to Palestine 1201. in King John's days The French invade Normandy 1212. King John resigneth his Kingdom to the Pope 1285. Nothing remarkable but Peace and Plenty 1296. in the Reign of Edward 1. War begun with Scotland which ended in Victory 1380. The Scots do much harm to us at Peryth Fair. 1459. Lancastrians worsted by the Yorkists in fight 1543. King Henry 8. entred Scotland and burnt Edenburgh Hitherto this Proverb has had but intermitting Truth at the most seeing no Constancy in Casualties But the sting will some say is in the taile thereof And I behold this Proverb born An. 1554. For then Queen Mary setteth up Popery and Martyreth Protestants 1627. 3. Car. 1. The unprosperous Voyage to the Isle of Rees 1638. 14. Car. 1. The first Cloud of Trouble in Scotland 1649. The first compleat Year of the English Common-Wealth or Tyranny rather which since blessed be God is returned to a Monarchy The next Concurrence will be in the Year 1722. But it matters not tho our Lady falls in our Lords lap whilst our Lord sits at his Fathers right hand if to him we make our Addresses by serious Repentance II. When Hemp is spun England is done I look upon both this and the former to be coyned by a Roman Mint-Master and even of the same Age. It is faced with a Literal but would be faced with a Mystical sense When Hemp is spun when that Commodity is spent and none left for Sails Cordage c. England whose strength consists in Ships would be reduced to a doleful Condition But know under HEMPE are couched the Initial Letters of Henry 8. Edward 6. Mary Philip and Elizabeth as if with the Life of the last the Happiness of England should expire which Time hath confuted Yet to keep this Proverb in Countenance it may pretend to some Truth because then England with the Addition of Scotland lost its Name in Great Britain by Royal Proclamation III. When the Black Fleet of Norway is come and gone England build Houses of Lime and Stone For after Wars you shall have none Some make it fulfill'd in 88 when the Spanish Fleet was beaten the Surname of whose King was Norway 'T is true the English afterwards built handsome Houses of Lime and Stone But the remainder After Wars you shall have none was proved false by the Civil Wars IV. England is the Ringing Island So called by reason of the most tuneable Bells which it affords V. When the Sand feeds the Clay England crys Well-a-day But when the Clay feed the Sand It is merry with England That is when the Season is very wet the Sandy Ground amounting to about a fifth part only of the English Soil is rendred fruitful yet cannot make any Compensation to the damage received in the Claiy ground being about four fifth parts of the whole and on the other side by reason of this Disproportion a drought never causeth a dearth in England VI. England were but a fling i. e. a slight thing Save for the crooked Stick and the grey Goose-wing That is the use of Archery On which they deservedly put a great Value because they were therein so much skill'd VII England is the Paradise of Women Hell of Horses Purgatory of Servants Law and Custom allows the Women desirable Advantages allowing the third of their Husbands Estates with the fairest respect and kindest usage As to Horses besides over-violent Riding Racing and Hunting they are Tormented in Carts and Waggons For Servants whether Apprentices or Covenant Servants we conceive the Proverb to be Erroneous since Apprentices are well used for their Money and other Servants for their Fidelity VII A Famine in England begins first at the Horse-Manger That is if Peaseor Oats Horse-Grain be dear it will not be long ere Wheat and Rye be so too VIII The King of England is the King of Devils That is the Mobile has as great an Ambition to be Worshipped by Christ's Vice-gerant as ever the Devil had to have our Saviour fall down before him But this is only a Conjecture and such a one as probably has need of a Fuller to reduce to a genuin Colour but I am told he is resolved not to meddle with it The German Emperour is termed King of Kings or free Princes the King of Spain King of Men because they willingly yield their Soveraign rational Obedience The King of France King of Asses And here 't is very likely the Devil has made the Ass two Appellations grating on not gratifying a well disciplin'd Ear. As to the first S. Gregory gave the English better Language when he said Angli veâ—ut Angeli English men were as Angels IX The English are the French mens Apes This is charged upon the English with some Truth Since they imitate the French in two particulars 1. In their Language Which if Jack could speak he would be a Gentleman 2. In their Habits accounting all fineness in Conformity to the French Fashion They learn their Fashions from them to whom by their Conquests they taught Obedience X. The English Glutton This Vice has been charged on the English which we are more willing to excuse than confess more willingly to confess than amend true it is England is as it were a large Cook-shop and it is no reason any should starve therein which justifies Moderation but does not excuse Excess XI Long-beards Heartless painted Hoods Witless Gay-coats Graceless make England Thriftless This tho false acquaints us with the English Habit in former Times The English were wont to nourish their Hair conceiving it more amiable to their Friends and terrible to their Foes Their Hoods were Colour'd or stain'd And Gallantry began to creep in with their Gay-coats This Proverb was made by the Scots when they obtain'd a Victory over the English in the Reign of Edward 2. XII He that England would win Must with Ireland first begin 'T is observed that Subjects at a great distance from their Prince are most apt to swerve from their Allegience being not so nearly influenced by the Beams of Majesty as others who besides the Sense of their Duty that inwardly perswades them to Obedience have Royal Terror without encamping as it were round about them to restrain them from Violence XIII In England a Bushel of March-dust is worth a Kings Ransome A dry March being Beneficial to Clay-ground of which England does most consist XIV England a good Land
Ambergreese not engrossed here but casually found by small parcels of which the best greatest and last quantity that ever this Age did behold was found on the Coasts of this County An. 3. Cor. I. in the Mannor of Anthony belonging to Sir Rich. Carew The Name is as much as Grey-Amber A rare Cordial for refreshing the Spirits and Sovereign for Strengthening the Head besides the Fragrant Scent especially when Compounded with other Ingredients Apothecaries hold it at five Pounds an ounce Garlick good Sauce to some and good Physick to many The best grows at Stratton in this County Pilchards are taken in great plenty in these parts driven to the Shore by the Tunne and Hake A small Fish tho 't is said there have been seen many Pilchards an Ell long their Numbers are incredible employing very many People to dress and dry them and then by the Name of Fumadoes with Oyland Lemon c. they are Meet for the Mightiest Don in Spain It is suspected they daily decay their Shoals usually shifting Coasts Verging more Westward to Ireland Other Fish here be which turn to good account save the Star Fish esteemed contagious Blew-Slate which is thin clear light and lasting is commonly found under the Walling-Slate when the depth hath brought the Work-men to the Water Great store of them are Transported into France and the Low-Countries TINNE Whereof the most and best in Christendom is produced in this County Yea it was the only Tinne in Europe until a Fugitive Miner running hence discovered Tinne in Voiâ—eland in the Confines of Bohemia Vast their expences in making their Addits or Accesses to the Mine with Dressing Breaking Stamping Drying Crazing Washing and Melting As for Buildings Mount-Eedgecombe was Built by Sir Rich. Edgecombe Knight who in the Reign of Queen Ma. about 1555 gave Entertainment at one time forsome good space to the English Spanish and Dutch Admirals and many other Nobles at Mount Edgecombe a Square-structure having a stately Hall affording a delicate sound as one entreth it a Parlour and Dineing-room giving a large Prospect both of Sea and Land The high Situation giveth Health as the Neighbour-River Wealth two Blockhouses great safety and the Town of Pilmouth good company unto it The ground about stored with Wood Timber Fruit Deer and Conies sufficient Pasture Meadow and Arable Land Marl Stone Lime c. 'T is said the D. of Medina Sidonia Admiral of the Sp. Fleet An. 88. beholding this House at a distance was resolved to have it for his own Possession in the Partage of this Kingdom For Waters I know none Medicinal tho Dr. Hall Bishop of Norw affirms St. Maderus Well to have Miraculously cured a Criple washing therein As for Wonders the first is big with a Fiction viz. the Hurlers which are Stones whom Tradition reporteth to have been men judicially hard'ned for Hurling on the Lords-Day We may believe them to have been set for Bounds or a Monument in memory of some Victory The next Main Amber that is in Cornish a Stone set up as some think by Ambrose that Valiant Britain It was a Master-piece of the Mathematicks and Critical Proportions being a great Stone of so exact position on the top of a Rock that any weakness by touching it might move and yet no force remove it Yet I am informed that some Souldiers of late have utterly destroyed it In Turkey there was a Tomb erected near the High-way on some Person of Quality on the Chapiter of which was written in the Turkish Language the Brains are in the Head which in process of time a cunning Fellow unriddleing broke the Globe or Chapiter and found it full of Gold But the pretence for demolishing Main Amber was Reformation and that ever this should be advanced by Devastation and Deformity is indeed a Wonder Proverbs I. By Tre Poland Pen you shall know the Cornishmen These Constituting their Ancient Surnames as Tre-lawney Pol-wheel Pen-tire c. II. To give one a Cornish-hugg The Cornish are Masters of Wrestling so that if the Olympian Games were in fashion they would come away with the Victory Their Hugg is a cunning Close with their Fellow Combatant Figuratively applyed to deceitful dealing III. Hengsten-down well ywrought is worth London-Town dear ybought Denoting the vast Treasure of Tinn that formerly was or the Diamonds that now are found in this Down IV. Tru-ru Triveth-eu Omdina giveth Try-ru that is Truru consisteth of three Streets and it shall in time be said Here Truru stood V. He doth Sail into Cornwall without a Bark Italian The Periphrasis of a Cuckold and 't is a bare allusion to the Name and not any reflection on the County of Cornwall VI. He is to be summoned before the Mayor of Halgaver An imaginary Officer before whom Slovens are Arraigned Tryed Condemned and Executed more to their Scorn then Hurt VII When Dudman and Ramehead meet Two Forelands 20 Miles asunder the Periphr of an impossibility Yet have these two Points met tho not in Position in Possession of Sir Pierce Edgecombe Saints St. Kiby Son to Solom D. of Cornwall Travelled into France to see and converse with St. Hilary of Poictiers and was by him made Bishop as Leland affirms of the Isle of Anglesey after which he coâ—verted the Northern parts of Wales and confirmed the rest in Christianity Of whom in that Isle there is a threefold Memorial 1. Point-Hilary 2. Caer-Guiby 3. Holy-Head Vrsula Daughter to Dinoth D. of Cornw. is said to have carried over out of Britain 11000 Maids of prime Quality besides 60000 of meaner Rank to be married to so many in Little-Britain in France but they were partly Drowned and partly slain by the Huns of Colen where there is a Church dedicated to their Memories An. 383. St. Meliorus Son to D. Melianus beheaded by Rinald his Pagan Brother in Law An. 411. at whose Tomb Miracles were reported to have been done Prelates Will. de Greenvil born of a Worshipful Family became Can. of York Dean of Chichester Chancellor of England under King E. 1. and Arch-bishop of York but not confirmed till he had paid 9500 Marks Then was he confirmed by the very hands of Pope Clem. V. By this payment being reduced to Poverty and relieved once by the Clergy of his Province he craved another help of their Hand under the new Name of a Subsidy He was a great favourer of the Templars At the Council of Vienna he took place next the Arch-bishop of Triers He dyed at Cawood 1315. and was buried in the Chappel of St. Nicholas leaving the Reputation of an able States-man and no ill Scholar Mich. Tregury bred in Oxf. where he was so eminent that he was commended to H. 5. fit to be a Forreign Professor And accordingly was made the first Professor in the Colledge of that Kings Erection in Cane in Normandy 1418. Hence H. 6. preferred him B. of Dublin in Ireland Jo. Arundel of Ancient Parentage of Lanhearn bred in Oxf. was by H. 7.
Arch-bishops Restoration then being poor he was made by Arundels means Bishop of Lond. and dyed 1404. Since the Reformation Rich. Howland born at Newport-Ponds consecrated Bishop of Peterborough dyed June 1600. Jo. Jegon born at Coxhall Mr. of Bennet-Coll and thrice Vice-Chancellour of the University of Camb. He was both Grave and Facetius The Mulcts of the Undergraduats were by him one time expended in new whiting the Hall of the Coll. Whereupon a Scholar hung up these Verses on the Skreen Dr. Jegon Bennet-Colledge Master Brake the Scholars-head and gave the Walls a Plaister To which the Doctor Annexed Knew I but the Wagg that writ these Verses in a Bravery I would commend him for his Wit but whip him for his Knavery He was made Bishop of Norwich by King Ja. as being mighty Zealous for the Church of England He dyed An. 1618. Sam. Haresnet born at Colchester was Bishop of Chich. then of Norw and at last Arch-bishop of York and Privy Councellor to King Ch. II. He founded and endowed a fair Grammer-School at Chigwell He bequeathed his Library to Colchester provided they were kept in a decent Room for the use of the Clergy of that Town He dyed An. 1631. Augustine Linsel D. D. born at Bumsted was exact in Greek Hebrew and all Antiquity 〈◊〉 was Bishop of Peterborough and thence removed to Hereford where he dyed 163 Statesmen Sir Th. Audley Keeper of the Great Seal 1532. was An 24. H. 8. made Knight of the Garter Lord Chancellour of England and Baron Audley of Audley End in this County He got a Grant of the Priory of the Trinity now Dukes Place in Ealdgate Ward Lond. the first that was dissolved He had one only Daughter who was Married to Th. last D. of Norfolk He dyed 1544. and was buried in the Church of Saffron Walden He founded and endowed Magd. Coll. in Camb. for the maintenance of able Poets Sir Rich. Morison Knight skilled in Languages and in the Laws was frequently employed Ambassadour by H. 8. and E. 6. unto Ch. 5. Emp. c. He began a Beautiful House a Cashobery but before he had finished it and after he had fled beyond the Seas he dyed in Strasburgh An. 1556. Sir Anth. Cook Knight Great-Grand-child to Sir Th. Lord Mayor of Lond. was born at Giddy-Hall He was one of the Governours to Ed. 6. whilst Prince His Daughters were Learned in Greek and Latine and Poetry of whom Mildred was Married to Will. Cecil Lord Treasurer and Ann to Nich. Bacon Lord Chanc. of England and Katherine to Hen. Killigrew This Kath. being unwilling her Husband Sir Hen. should be sent Ambassadour to France wrote to her Sister Mildred these Verses Si mihi quem cupio cures Mildreda remitti Tu bona tu melior tu mihi sola â—oror Sin male cunctando retines vel tranâ— Mare mittes Tu Mala tu pejor tu mihi nulla soror It si Connubiam tibi pax sit omnia loeta Sin mare Cecili nuntio bella Vale. This Sir Anth. dyed An. 1576. leaving a fair Estate to his Son Sir Th. Smith Knight born at Saffron-Walden was by order of King Hen. 8. brought up beyond the Seas He was afterwards Secr. of State to Queen Eliz. and a great Benefactor to both Universities He dyed An. 1577. Th. Howard second Son to Th. last D. of Norf. by Marg. Heir to Th. Lord Audle was by Queen Eliz. made Baron of Audley and Knight of the Garter and King Ja. who beheld his Father a State Martyr for the Queen of Scots An. 1. Regni advanced him Lord Chamberlain and Earl of Suff. any An. 12 Lord Treasurer of England When made Chancellour of the University of Camb. he answered the Orators Speech by telling him Tho he knew no Latine he knew the Sence to make him wellcome and that he would serve the Vniversity faithfully c. Upon which the Vice-Chanc Hasnet requested him to entertain King Ja. at Camb. which accordingly he did in a very Magnificent Manner at the expence of above 5000 l. Hence after his Death Th. his second Son Earl of Barkshire succeeded him in the Place He dyed at Audley-End An. 1626. being Grandfather to the Right Honourable Ja. Earl of Suff. Rich. Westory probably Son to Sir Jerom Sher. in this County An. 21. Eliz. impaired his Estate to improve himself with Publick Accomplishments and was no looser when made Chancellour of the Exchequer and An. 4. Car. I. Lord Treasurer of England He was created Earl of Portland An. 18. Car. I. and dyed An. 163 Capital Judges Sir Jo. Bramstone born at Maldon and bred in the Middle-Temple was by King Ch. I. made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. One accomplished with all Qualities requisite for a Person of his place Having Married Serj. Bruertons Widow he paid near 3000 l. to Sidney-Coll which that Serjeant bequeathed by his Will imperfect in it self and invalid in the Rigour of the Law His opinion was for Ship-money which cost him much trouble He dyed about 1646. Souldiers Rob. Fitz. Walter born at Woodham-Walters highly beloved by Rich. 1. and King Jo. until the latter banished him because he would not Prostitute his Daughter to his Pleasure The French entertain'd him joyfully till upon a Truce betwixt France and England an English Man Challenged any of the French and was answer'd and unhorsed by this Fitz-Walter Hereupon King Jo. sent for him and restored his Lands to him with License to repair his Castles and particularly Bainards-Castle in Lond. He was Vulgarly Stiled The Marshal of Gods Army and Holy-Church He dyed An. Dom. 1234. and lyeth buried in the Priory of Little-Dunmow Sir Jo. Haukewood Son to Gilbert a Tanner was born at Sible Heningham and bound an apprentice to a Taylor in Lond. Afterwards he served King E. 3. in the French Wars and was Knighted for his Valour Then he served the City and then Free-State of Florence which rewarded his Gallant Service with a Rich Statue and Sumptuous Monument wherein his Ashes remain honoured at this day He had a Son born in Italy Naturalized An. 7. H. 4. He dyed very Aged An. 1394. 18. R. 2. Th. Ratcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter and Earl of Suss was twice Deputy of Ireland A most Valiant Man by whose Diligence and Prudence the threatning Clouds of Rebellion were dispersed in his time Afterwards at the Court of England he opposed Rob. Earl of Leicester He dyed An. Dom. and was buried in the Church of St. Olives Hartfleet in London Sir Fr. Vere rigid in Nature and undaunted in dangers served on the Scene of all Christendom where War was acted One Master-piece of his Valour was at the Battle of New-port where he was attended by the Ragged Regiment Another was when for three years he defended Ostend against a strong Army He dyed in the beginning of the Reign of King Ja. His younger Brother Sir Horace had as much Courage and more Meekness so Pious that he first made his
that time taken Prisoner by the Scots who slew 4000 Men of the English Army being 8000 in all near the River Swale Afterward having recovered his Liberty he was made Chancellor of England and Bishop of Norwich An. 18. E. 2. He gave 200 l. to buy Lands to maintain Priests to say Mass for his Soul and died 1337. at Charing Cross nigh London 'T is he bestowed the Mannor of Silk Willoughby in this County on his Family which with other fair Lands is possessed by them at this day William Waynflet surnamed of the Town of his birth Son to Richard Pattin an ancient Esq whose Posterity remain at Barsloe in Darbyshire Founded Magd. College in Oxf. V. Eccl. Hist William Lynwood probably D. L. in Oxford was Chanc. to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Keeper of the Pr. Seal to H. 6. and was Employed on several Embassies to Sp. and Portug He wrote a Comment on the English Provincial Constitutions for which he was made Bishop of St. Dav. He died 1446. Will. Ascough D. L. descended of a worshipfull and ancient Family now living at Kelsey became Bishop of Sarum Confessor to H. 6. Jack Cade and his Crew many of them being his Tenants fell foul on this Bishop being a learned Pious and rich Man three Capital Crimes in a Clergy man They first plundred his Carriages of 10000 marks and then dragged himself from the high Altar to a hill hard by the Church and there barbarously murdered him tearing his bloody shirt in Pieces and leaving his stripped body stark naked the Place 1450 Sic concussa cadit Populari Mitra tumultu Protegat optamus nunce DIADEMA deus Richard Fox born at Grantham for the Publick good was very instrumental in bringing H. 7 to the Crown who made him Bishop of Winchester He was bred in Cambridge and afterwards in Oxford where he founded the Fair Colledg of Corp. Christi allowing to it 401 l. 18 s. 11 d. per An. He beautified his Cathedral and made decent Tombs for the Bodies of the Sax. Kings and Bishops there which were since barbarously demolished when blind with Age he felt Woolsey's puls beat violently through the extream desire he had of his civil or natural death and having defeated that Cardinals design to effect the first by rendring him obnoxious to the Kings displeasure and outing him of his See he yielded to the latter An. 1528. Since the Reformation Th. Goodrick of Kirby D. L. in Cambridg was employed in many Embassies and at last made Bishop of Ely by King Henry 8. and Lord Chancellor of England by King E. 6. Having resigned the place of Chancellour to Stephen Gardiner his Death was very seasonable for his own safety 1554. An. 1. Ma. Jo Whitgift born at Grimsby and bred in Cambridg was Bishop of Worcester then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury See my Eccl. History I meet with this Anagram Joannes Whitegifteus Non vi egit favet Jesus Indeed his politick patience was Blessed in a high Proportion Jo. Still D. D. born at Grantham was bred in Cambridg for which he was chosen to oppose all Comers for defence of the English Church when towards the end of Queen Elizabeth there was an unsucceeding motion of a Diet which should have been in Germany for composing Matters of Religion Then An. 1592 being the 2 d time Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells where he raised a great Estate from the Lead Mines in his time found in Mendip Hills and laid the Foundation of three Families leaving to each of them a considerable Revenue in a worshipfull Condition He gave 500 l. for the building of an Alms-houss in the City of Wells and dying 1607 he lyes buried in his own Cathedral Mart. Fotherby D. D. born at Great Grimsby of a good Family and bred in Cambridg was Preband of Canterbury then preferred by King Ja. Bishop of Salisbury Having begun a Treatise against Atheists he died 1619 Statesmen Edw. Fines Lord Clinton Knight of the Garter was Lord Adm. of England for above 30 years a Wise Valiant and Fortunate Gentleman The Master-piece of his service was in Mussleborough Field where the Victory over the Scots was from the Sea and an execution on the Land Queen Elizabeth created him Earl of Lincoln May 4. 1574. and indeed he had breadth to his heighth a sufficient Estate to support his Dignity He died 1585. and lyeth burâ—â—d at Windsor Th. Wilson D Lâ—bred in Cambridg was Tutor to H. and Ch. Brandons successively Dukes of Suff. He was made in the Raign of Q. Elizabeth Mr. of the Hospital of St Kath. the Quire which he took down as being probably past repairing He at last became Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth He died 15 Th. Lord Bury or Borough Grandson to Th. created Baron by King Henry 8 was born at Gainsborough He was sent Ambassador into Scotland 1593. to excuse Bothwel's lurking in England to advise the speedy suppressing of the Sp. Faction and to advance an effectual Association of the Protestants in that Kingdom for their Kings defence which was done accordingly He was made Deputy of Ireland An. 1597 Where after the expiration of a Months Truce with Tyrone he besieged the Fort of Black Water the Key of the County of Tyrone and took it by Force and presently followed a bloody Battel wherein the English paid dear for their Victory losing many worthy Men and amongst the two that were Foster brothers the strongest Irish Relation to the Eâ—rl of Kildary who so layd this â—oss to heart that he died soon after Tyrone rebeâ—eged Blackwater and the Lord Deputy endeavouâ—ing to relive it was struck with an untimely Death â—ote That it brake the Heart of the Valiant Sir â—o Norris who had promised the Deputies Place â—o himself as due to his Deserts when this Lord Burgh was superinduced to that Office William Cecil our English Nestor for Wisdom and Vivacity born at Burn was Secretary and Treaâ—urer for above 30 years together He steer'd the Court at his Pleasure and whilst the Earl of Leiceâ—ter would endure no Equal and Sussex no Superior â—herein he by siding with neither served himself with both You may easily imagine how highly the Wise Queen Elizabeth valued so great a Minister of â—tate Coming once to visit him when sick and beâ—ng much heightned with her Head Attire then â—n Fashion the Lord's Servant who conducted â—er throw the door May your Highness said he â—e pleased to stoop The Queen returned For your Master's sake I will stoop but not for the King of Spains All England in that Age was beholding to his Bounty as well as the Poor in Standford for whom â—e erected a fair Bead-house acknowledging under God and the Queen their Prosperity the Fruit of â—is Prudence This Worthy Patriot died in 77 â—ear of his Age Aug. 4. 1598. V. my Holy State Capital Judges Sir Will. de Skipwith made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer An. 35. E. 3. condemned Will.
The Soile is various comprehending all Kinds and Degrees so that Norfolk collectively taken hath a sufficient result of pleasure and profit This County hath the most Churches of any in England viz. 660 and tho the poorest Livings yet the richest Clergy-men Nor can there be given a greater demonstration of the Wealth and Populousness of this County than that in the late Act for an Assessment upon England at the Rate of 60000 l. by the Month for 3 Months Norfolk with the City of Norwich is rated at 3266 l. 13 s. 4 d. the highest Proportion of any Shire in England The Natural Commodities are chiefly Rabbits and Herrings caught nigh Yarmouth besides the County shareth plentifully in all other English Commodities 'T is reported of a Gentleman in Norfolk that he made above 10000 l ster of a Piece of ground not 40 yards square which contained a sort of Clay for the making a choice sort of earthen ware The Manufactures are Worsteds so called from Worsted a Village in this County which first found a general repute in England towards the end of King Henry 6. Worsted Stockins were first made in England An. 1564. by William Rider Apprentice in London who made a pair by an Italian Pattern and presented them to William Earl of Pembrook Proverbs I. Norfolk Dumplings The fare they generally feed on II. Norf. Wiles Such the Skill of the Common People in the Common Law who are said to study Law as following the Plough tail and some would perswade us that they will enter an action for their neighbours horse but looking over their hedge III. A Yarmouth Capon That is a Red Herring IV. He is arrested by the Baily of Marshland That is an Ague caused by the unwholsomness of the Air in the Marshes Prelates Gilb. Berkeley descended from the ancient Barons of that Name as appeareth by his Arms was made Bishop of Bath and Wells An. 1 Eliz. He died 1581. and was buried in his own Cathedral Jo. Aylmer brother to Sir Rob. was born at Aylmer-hall and bred in Cambridg He became Chaplain to H. Gray D. of Suffolk and had the tuition of his Daughter the Lady Jane Gray Flying in the Reign of Queen Mary he was wonderfully saved from the Searchers of the Ship by a Merchant who put him in a great Wine-But which had a Partition in the middle so that Mr. Aylmer sat in the hinder part whilst the Searchers drank Wine which they saw drawn out of the head or other end thereof In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he was made Arch-deacon of Linclon and at last Bishop of London He had a Son called Tob-el i. e. God is Good in memorial of a great deliverance bestowed on his mother when being big with child of him she was thrown out of a coach This Bishop was a great Scholar and Divine He was chosen a Disputant at Westminster against the Popish Bishops An. 1. Elizabeth He stoutly opposed the Non-conformists and was fouly be-libelled by them He died 1594. He left the main of his great Estate to Sam. his eldest Son High-Sheriff of Suff. in the Reign of King Ch. of his youngest Sons Dr. Aylmer Rector of Haddam in Hartford was a very Learned Man and great Divine Jo. Towers bred in Cambridge became Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton who bestowed on him the Benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northampton He was preferred Dean and at last B. of Peterborough He was a good Actor when he was young and a great Sufferer when he was Old dying about 1650 rich only in Children and Patience Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Ralph de Hengham was made Lord Chief Justice of the K. Bench An. 2 E. 1 and fined in 7000 Marks for bribery and ejected out of his place 18 E. 1. He was afterwards made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas under the confidence generally conceived of his Amendment He died An. 19 E. 1. and lyes buried in the Church of St. Paul's William Paston Esquire born at Paston was Serj. to H. 6. and was by him preferred second Judge of the Common Pleas. The King allowed him besides the ordinary Salary 110 Marks with 2 Gowns yearly out of the Exchequer He had been also in Grace with two former Kings H. 4. H. 5. This William married Agnes Daughter and Heir of Sir Edmund Berrey by which Marriage the Pastons Quarter at this day the several Coats of Hetherest Wachesham Craven Gebredge Hemgrave and Kerdeston He died at London 1444 and lyes buried in Norwich Wolstan de Paston his Ancestor came into England 3 years after the Conquest from whom all the descendants except this Will were buried at Paston Jo. eldect Son to Will married Marg. the Daughter of Jo. Mautby and William his second Surviving Son married Anne Daughter to Edm. D. of Somerset Sir Ed. Coke Knight Son of Rob. Esquire and of Winefred his Wife was born at Mileham and bred in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and in Cliffords-Inn London Afterwards in the Inner-Temple After 6 years he was called to the Barr and for 3 years he was Reader in Lyons-Inn He had 30000 l. with his incomparable Wife Bridget Daughter and Coheir of Jo. Paston Esquire By her he had 10 Children Then began Preferment to press upon him being made Recorder of the City of Norwich Knight of the Shire for the County of Norfolk Speaker in the House of Commons and successively the Queens Solicitor and Attorney King James honoured him with Knighthood and made him Chief Justice first of the Common Pleas then of the K. Bench. Thus beginning on a good Bottom left him by his Father Marrying a Wife of Extraordinary Wealth having at the first great and gainful Practice afterwards many and profitable Offices being provident to choose good Penny-worths in purchases leading a thrifty life living to a great Age during flourishing and peaceable times no wonder 〈◊〉 he advanced a fair Estate Some falsly Character him a back-friend to the Church and Clergy being a Grand Benefactor to the Church of Norwich which he vigorously defended and that gratis against a Frye of busie Informers and Devourers of Churches who intended to swallow down the Church Lands of Norwich under the obscure Title of Concealments He freely gave the Benefices in his own Patronage to worthy Men and used to say That he would have Church-Livings pass by Livery and Seisin and not Bargain and Sale Five sorts of people he used to fore-design to Misery viz. Chymists Monopolizers Concealers Promoters and Rhyming Poets For three things he would give God solemn thanks that he never gave his Body to Physick nor his Heart to Cruelty nor his Hand to Corruption In three things he did much applaud his own success in his fair fortune with his Wife in his happy study of the Laws and in his free coming by all his Offices nec Prece nec Pretio neither begging nor bribing for preferment His parts were admirable he had a deep Judgment faithful Memory
differences betwixt Christian Princes much time was spent a Mass of Money expended many lives lost some Honour atchieved but little Profit produced Going to Palestine he suffered Shipwrack and many Mischiefs on the coasts of Cyprus coming for England through Germany he was tossed with a worse Land-Tempest being in pursuance of an old grudge betwixt them taken Prisoner by Leopold D. of Austria yet this Caeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted King for so was he commonly called was no less Lion tho now in a Grate then when at Liberty abating nothing of his high Spirit in his Behaviour The Duke did not undervalue his Royal Prisoner prizing his Person at 10 years purchase according to the then yearly Revenue of the English Crown This Ransom of 100000 pounds being paid he came home first reformed himself and then mended many abuses in the Land He was afterwards shot with an Arrow in France 1199. Edmund Youngest Son to King Edward 1. by Queen Marg. was born at Woodstock Aug. 5. 1301. He was afterwards created E. of Kent and was Tutor to his Nephew King Edward 3. In whose Reign he was beheaded at Winchester March 19. for that he never dissembled his Brotherly affection towards his Brother deposed and went about when he was murdered before not knowing so much to enlarge him out of Prison perswaded thereunto by such as covertly practised his Destruction Edward Eldest Son of King Edward 3. was born at Woodstock and bred under his Father in Martial Discipline He was afterwards called the Black Prince from his Atchievements dismal and black as they appeared to the eyes of his Enemies whom he constantly overcame He married Joan Countess of Salisbury and Kent whose Garter which now flourisheth again hath lasted longer than all the Wardrobes of the Kings and Queens of England since the Conquest continued in the Knighthood of that Order This Prince died before his Father at Cant. An. 46. Aet An. Dom. 1376. whose Maiden success attended him to the Grave as never soiled in any undertakings He left 2 Sons Edward and Richard afterward King both born in France Th. of Woodstock Youngest Son of E. 3. and Queen Philippa was Earl of Buck. and Duke of Gloc. created by his Nephew King Rich. who summoned him to Parliament He married Isabel Daughter of Humphrey Bohun E. of Essex in whose Right he became Constable of England He observed the King too nearly and checked him too sharply whereupon he was conveyed to Calis and there Strangled By whose Death King Richard being freed from the causless fear of an Unkle became exposed to the cunning Plots of his Cosen German Henry Duke of Lancaster who at last deposed him This Th. founded a fair Colledge at Playsie in Essex where he was afterwards buried his Body having been since translated to Westminster Anne Beauchamp born at Cavesham was Daughter to Rich. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and married to Rich. Nevil Earl of Sarisbury and Warwick commonly called the Make-King In his own and her Husband 's right she was possessed of 114. Manners Isa her eldest Daughter was married to Geo. Duke of Clarence and Anne her younger to Edward Prince of Wales Son of H. 6. and afterwards to King Richard 3. Her Husband being killed at Barnet fight all her Land by Act of Parliament was setled on her 2 Daughters Being attainted on the account of her Husband she was forced to flye to the Sanctuary at Beauly in Hant-shire and thence to the North where she lived privately and in a mean condition Saints St. Frideswide was born in Oxford being Daughter to Didan the Duke thereof 'T is said that one Algarius a young Noble man was struck blind upon his attempting her Chastity She was afterwards Abbess of a Monastery erected by her Father in the same City which since is become part of Christs Church where her body lyeth buried An. 1. Eliz. the Scholars of Oxford took up the body of the Wife of Pet. Martyr who formerly had been disgracefully buried in a dung-hill and interred it in the Tomb with the dust of this Saint with this Inscription as Saunders affirms Here lyes Religion with Superstition and there was more than 800 years betwixt their several deaths St. Frideswide dying 739 and is remembred in the Romish Calender on 19 Oct. St. Edwold Younger brother to St Edmond King of the E. Angles so cruelly Martyred by the Danes and after his death Edwold being his right Heir declined the Crown and retired to Cornhouse-Monastery at Dorchester where he was interred and had in great veneration for his reputed Miracles after his death which happened 871. St. Edward the Confessor was born at Islip He was afterwards King of England whose Reign was attended with Peace and Prosperity Famous for the first founding of Westminster-Abbey and for many other worthy Atchievements He lived and dyed Single never carnally conversing with St. Edith his Queen which opened a Door for forreign Competitors and occasioned the Conquest of this Nation He died 1065. and lyeth buried in Westminster-Abbey Cardinals Robert Pullen or Bullen came over from Paris in the Reign of Henry 1. when Learning ran low in Oxford He improved his utmost power with the King and Prelates for the restoring thereof He is said to have begun to read the Scriptures at Oxford which were grown out of fashion in England Afterwards Pope Innocent courteously sent for him to Rome Celestine created him Cardinal of St. Eusebius 1144. Lucius 2. made him Chancellor of the Church of Rome He died about 1150. Th. Joyce or Jorce a Dominican and D. D. in Oxford became Provincial of his Order Afterwardes Pope Clement 5. created him Cardinal of St. Sabine He had 6 Brethren Dominicans who altogether were by one uncharitably resembled to the 7. Sons of Seeva which were Exorcists however they may be termed a Week of Brethren whereof this Rubricated Cardinal was the Dominical Letter There want not those who conceive great Vertue in the youngest Son of these seven and that his touch was able to cure the Popes Evill Th. flourished 1310. and he lyes buried in his Convent in Oxford Prelates Herbert Losing born in Oxford Son of an Abbot gave 1900 l. to King William Rufus for the Bishoprick of Thetford having also purchased his Fathers preferment Hence the Verse Filius est Praesul Pater Abbas Simon uterque both being guilty of Simony Herbert afterwards went to Rome no such clean washing as in the water of Tyber and returned thence as free from fault as when first born Thus cleansed from the Leprosie of Simony he removed his Bishoprick from Thetford to Norwich laid the first Stone and in effect finished the fair Cathedral therein and built 5 beautifull Parish Churches He died 1119. See Suff. Owen Oglethorp Pres of Magdalen Colledg Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Carlile in the Reign of Queen Mary crowned Queen Elizabeth which the rest of his Order refused to do and by her deprived for his ensuing
that Usurper in that House of Humphrey Banaster who for 1000 l. betrayed the Duke to the Sheriff 3. Gilb. Talbot Mil. Son to Jo. 2 d. Earl of Shrewsbury of that name assisted Hen. of Richmond afterwards K. Hen. 7. with 2000 men well appointed most of them Tennants and Retainers to his Nephew Geo. E. of Shrewsbury at the Battle of Bosworth-Field For his good Service K. Hen. rewarded him with fair Lands at Grafton in Worc. made him Governour of Calis in France and Knight of the Garter and from him the present E. of Shrewsbury is descended I conceive it was his Son to whom K. Hen. 8. fearing a surprise wrote briefly and peremptorily that he should instantly fortifie the Castle of Calis To whom Governor Talbot as briefly replied That he could neither fortifie nor fiftifie without Money An. 45. Roger Owen Mil. was a Worthy Son to a Worthy Father Sir Th. Chief J. of the Com. Pleas. monarch Q Eliz. He was a Member of Parl. 11 Jac. when a great Man there cast a grievous and general Aspersion on an English Clergy using this Expression Quo genere hominum nihil est putidius This Sir Rog. appeared a Zelot in their defence and not only removed the Bastard calumny from their dores but also carried the Falshood home to the true Father and urged it shrewdly against the Person who in that place first revived the Aspersion An. 14. Rowl Cotton Mil. was a valiant and active Gent. so strong as if he had been nothing but Bones monarch K. James so nimble as if he had been nothing but Sinews An. 2. Rich. Newport Mil being Faithful to the King in his lowest Condition monarch K. Ch. I. was rewarded with the Title of Baron of High-Arcâ—l in this County 1642. His Son Fr. Lord Newport adorneth his Honour with Learning and other natural Accomplishments Note This County was visited with the Sweating Sickness which first began and twice raged in the Town of Shrewsbury the Cure was found to be the keeping the Patient in the same posture wherein he was seised without Food or Physick and such who weathered out the Disease for 24 hours did certainly escape SOMMERSET-SHIRE SOmmerset-shire hath the Severn Sea on the North Glocester-shire on the North East Wilt-shire on the East Dorset-shire on the South and Devonshire on the West It is named from Sommerton the most ancient Town in the County It reacheth from East to West 55 and from North to South 42 Miles It is generally Fruitful 'T is said there are several single Acres in this Shire which may serve a good round Family with Bread for a Year as affording a Bushel of Wheat for every Week therein There is plenty of the best Lead for Shot digged out of Myndyp-Hills by the benefit whereof vast sums of Money were advanced to the Bishops of Bath and Wells since the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Bishop Still having had the Harvest Bishop Montague the Gleanings and Bishop Lake the Stubble thereof and yet considerable was the profit of Lead to him and his Successors In Myndip-Hills there is also found plenty of Lapis Calaminaris good for clearing of the sight which mixed with Copper doth make Brass and yet is not worth above six pence in the pound It was discovered about the time when Copper-Mines were re-discovered in Cumberland The best and biggest Cheese in England are made at Chedder in this County The Rich and Poor of a Parish joyn their Milk for the making of Corporation Cheeses of which the Proprietors are Tennants in Common Woad groweth naturally in this County especially about Glassenbury The use thereof was either ancient among the Britains for a black wash to render their Faces terrible to their Enemies or modern as a ground-colour for dying It greatly impaireth the ground it groweth on The Gentry and Commonalty of thiâ— County are much affected with Bull-baiting for which purpose there are very good Mastiffs though chiefly useful for necessary defence as being good Porters Note Prince Henry An. 1602. allowd a pension for the maintenance of a Mastiff which had worsted a Lyon and gave Order That he that had fought with the King of Beasts should never after encounter any inferiour Creatures When 100 Mastiffs were sent from England to the Pope a Cardinal hearing the Letter read mistook the Latin Molossos for so many Mules yet since that word does almost sound Mule-asses you may imagine the Cardinal had neither good Latiâ—â— nor English in not laying his Bull equally on both the kinds of these Beasts of burden The Manufactures here are Taunton Serges which were much sent into Spain before the Civil War As for Buildings the Churches of Bath and Wells are most eminent and constitute one See The Church of Bath was begun by Oliver King Bishop of this Diocess in the Reign of Hen. 7. and the West end most curiously Cut and Carved with Angels on Jacob's Ladder After his decease it stood a long time neglected whence these Verses were written on the Church-wall with a Charcoal O Church I wail thy woful plight Whom King nor Cardinal Clark or Knight Have yet restored to ancient right Alluding to the aforesaid Bishop King and his 4 Successors in 35 years viz. Card. Woolsey Card. Adrian Bishop Clark and Bishop Knight It felt the Hammers which knocked down the Abbeys The Townsmen were not willing to buy the Church so cheap as 500 Marks as it was proffered by the Commissioners fearing to be thought to couzen the King so that the purchase might come under the compass of concealed Lands Hereupon the Glass Iron Bells and Lead which last amounted to 480 Tun provided for the finishing thereof were sold and sent beyond the Sea and as some say lost by shipwrack In the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Collections were made all over the Land for the repairing thereof though they proved inconsiderable Only Mr. Billet who was I think Executor to W. Cecil Lord Burleigh disbursed good sums to that end A Stranger wrote on this Structure Be blith fair Kirck when Hempe is past Thine Olive that all winds did blast Shall flourish green for Age to last The parcel Popish Author who subscribed himself Cassadore expected the finishing of this Church at the return of their Religion and lookt for this after the Reigns of Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mary K. Philip and Q. Eliz. This Church was finished by James Montague Bishop of this See who removed the Lead from the Bowels of the Earth to the Roof of the Church which is both spacious and specious the most lightsome as ever I beheld The parable of Jotham the name of the first Founder Judg. 9.8 is most curiously wrought in this Church When Oliver the Usurper was Commander in chief in this Land some beheld him as the Olive mentioned in the Parable till he was once blasted Root and Branches The Cathedral of Wells is greater and darker then the other so that Bath may seem to draw
delinquency in our Civil Wars STAFFORD-SHIRE STafford-shire hath Cheshire on the North-West Darby-shire on the East and North-East Warwick-shire and Worcester-shire on the South and Shrop-shire on the West It lyeth from North to South in form of a Lozenge in length 40 and in breadth 26 Miles A most pleasant and fruitful County wherein Beau-desert is the beautiful Barony of the Lord Paget The best Alabaster in England is found about Castle-Hay in this County The great Manufacture here is Nails As for Buildings the neat Church of Lichfield was ruined in the Civil Wars 'T is said of the Close of Lichfield that the Plague which long had raged therein did abate at the first shooting of a Cannon at the siege thereof Of Civil Buildings Tutbury-Castle is a stately Structure affording a large and brave Prospect It was formerly the Seat of the Lord Ferrars Earl of Derby and was forfeited to Hen. 3. by Robert de Ferrars Earl of Darby who had sided with Simon Mumford against that King because he did not advance a Fine of 5000 pounds at the time appointed The English Clergy willing to relieve Jo. the Son of this Earl Robert were commanded to the contrary under the paâ—n of the Popes Curse Tutbury was annexed to the Dutchy of Lancaster and some small matter was restored to John Dudley Castle high and pleasantly seated and in the Reign of King Edw. 6. well built was adorned by John Dudley Duke of Northumberland who claiming the Title thereof had thrust out John Sutton Lord Dudley a weak man and entangled with Debts who therefore got the Name of Lord Quondam But after the Execution of that Duke Queen Mary restored Edward the Son of the aforesaid poor Lord. Proverbs I. In April Doves Flood is worth a Kings good Dove is a River parting this and Derby-shire much batling the Meadows thereof II. Wotton under Weaver where God came never Though it is probable that Wotton is a dismal place covered with Hills from the light of the Sun yet this Proverb set off with such a dark ground does the more plainly discover its own profane Complexion Saints There was a Grand Massacre committed by the Pagans under Dioclesian on the Christians in Britain and elsewhere particularly in the place where Lichfield now standeth whose names and numbers are utterly unknown St. Bertelin a Brittan of Noble Birth lived an Eremite in the Woods near Stafford anciently called Bithiney Wolfadus and Ruffinus loving in their Lives in their Death they were not divided They were Murdered by their Bloody Father the Pagan King of Mercia There is the Chappel of Burnweston built in a Woody place whither Ruffinus had fled for a while from his Fathers fury Cardinals Reginald Pole born at Stoverton-Castle 1500 was second Son to Sir Richard Knight of the Garter and nearly related to King Henry 7. His Mother Margaret Countess of Salisbury was Neice to King Edw. 4. and Daughter to George Duke of Clarence He was bred in Corpus-Christi Colledge in Oxford preferred afterwards Dean of Exeter King Henry 8. allowing him a Pension sent him beyond the Seas He studied at Padua conversed much with the Patricians of Venice and in fine became a perfect Italian and could not be prevailed upon by the King or his Friends to return to England whereupon his Pension was withdrawn Living afterwards in a Venetian Monastery he attain'd great Credit for his Eloquence Learning and good Life It was not long before he was made Deacon Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary in Cosmedin by Pope Paul 3. who sent him Ambassadour to the Emperour and the French King to incite them to War against K. Hen. 8. Afterwards he retired to Viterbo in Italy where his House was the Sanctuary of Lutherans and he himself became a Racking but no through paced Protestant Insomuch that being appointed one of the three Presidents of the Council of Trent he endeavoured to have Justification determined by Faith alone During his living at Viterbo he was taxed for begetting a Bastard which Pasquil Published in Verses affixed to his Pillar That Blade being made all of Tongue and Teeth would not stick to tell where the Pope trod his Holy Sandals awry Yet he had some Relation to the Beast in the Apocalyps in that under the Name of Pasquil there has been a successive Corporation of Satyrists After the death of Paul 3. Pole was at midnight in the Conclave chosen to succeed him the refusal whereof under the notion of a deed of darkness was by the Italians lookt upon as a piece of dulness in our Cardinal Next day expecting a re-Election he saw Julius 3. his professed Enemy chosen in his place Yet afterwards he became Alterius Orbis Papa when made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by Queen Mary He was a Person free from Passion His Youthful Books are full of the Flowers of Rhetorick whilst those of his old Age are dry and dull He dyed few hours after Q. Mary November 17. 1558. Prelates Edmund Stafford Brother to Ralph first Earl of Stafford and Son to Edmund Baron of Stafford was by King Rich. 2. preferred Bishop of Exeter and under King Henry 4. was Chancellor of England He added two Fellowships to Stapletons-Inn in Oxford first named by him Exeter-Colledge and setled Lands for the maintenance and made good Statutes for the good order of the same He dyed 1419 and was buried in his own Cathedral W. Dudley Son of John Baron Dudley of Dudley-Castle in this County and bred in Vniver Colledge in Oxford became Dean of Windsor and afterwards Bishop of Durham He dyed at London 1483 and was buried in VVestminster Edmund Audley Son to the Lord Audley of Heyley in this County whose Sirname was Touchet was bred in Oxford where he built the Quire of St. Maries adorning it with a Musical Organ He was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Hereford and at last of Salisbury He dyed at Ramsbury 1624 and was buried in his own Cathedral in a Chappel of excellent Artifice of his own Erection Lawyers Sir Thomas Littleton Knight was Son to Thomas VVestcote Esq and Elizabeth Littleton his Wife He was bred in the Study of the Laws in the Inner Temple and became Serjeant and Steward of the Court of the Marshal-sea of the Kings Houshold to Henry 6. By Edw. 4. an 6 reg he was made one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas and an 15. reg Created Kt. of the Bath He deserved as well of our Common as Justinian of the Civil Law whose Book of Tenures is counted Oraculous in that kind Commented upon by the Learned Sir Edward Coke He Married Joan Daughter and Coheir of W. Boerly of Bromsecraft Castle in Salop by whom he had three Sons Founders of three Families still flourishing 1. William fixed at Frankley in this County where his Posterity is eminently extant 2. Richard whose Issue remain at Pillerton-Hall in Shropshire 3. Thomas whose Linage continues in Worcestershire This Reverend Judge dyed an 21. of
made Subdeacon under the Pope He wrote some Books and flourished 1240. Jo. Driton alias Sicca Villa or Sackvil bred in Fr. became the Chief Moderator of the Colledge of Paris and together with W de Sancto Amore vigorously opposed the Hellish imposture of the Monks Eternal Gospel though it was much countenanced by his Holiness He flourished 1260. Jo. Winchelsey bred in Oxford turn'd a Franciscan in his old dayes and when grey became a green Novice of the Order at Sarisbury He dyed before the year of his probation was ended 1326. Since the Reformation W. Pemble maintained in a great proportion by Jo. Barker of Mayfield in this Shire Esquire was bred in or if you will he bred Magdalens-Hall in Oxford that house owing its late Lustre to his Learned Lectures An excellent Oratour and a better Christian He dyed in the Flower of his Age. Tho. Chune Esq living at Alfriston set forth a Manual Entituled Collectiones Theologicarum Conclusionum which positions are brief and clear set forth 1635. Tho. May of a worshipful but decayed Family was bred Fellow Commoner in Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards lived about the Court. Being an Elegant Poet he Translated Lucan into English some affirm that he took some disgust at Court because his Bays were not gilded enough nor his Verses rewarded by King Charles I. according to his Expectation He afterwards wrote an History of this State in the beginning of the Civil Wars He died suddenly in the night 1652. Jo. Selden born at Salvington within the Parish of East Terring was Son to Jo. by his Wife Margaret Daughter and Heir of Tho. Barker of Rushington descended from a Knightly Family in Kent He was bred in Hart-hall in Oxford then in the Inner Temple in London where he attained great skill in the Law and all Antiquity He traced all the dimensions of Arts and Languages as appear by the many and various Works which he hath written whereof Lay-Gentlemen prefer his Titles of Honour Lawyers his Mare Clausum Antiquaries his Spicilegium ad Eadmerum Clergy-men like best his Book de Diis Syris and worst his History of Tithes For which Book having been called to an account before the High Commission 't is said that afterwards he was no Friend to Bishops never affecting the Men nor cordially approving their Calling But it is certain Mr. Selden did in a Letter to Arch-Bishop Laud express his unfeigned contrition for setting forth of the said Book of Tithes That which afterwards Entituled him to a general popularity was his pleading with Mr. Noy for an Habeas Corpus for such Gentlemen who were imprisoned for refusal of the Loan He had very many Ancient and Modern Coyns and dyed exceeding Wealthy His large and excellent Library is now reposited Bodly within a Bodly in the matchless Library of Oxford Romish Exil'd Writers George Martin born at Macfield bred in Oxford was Tutor to Phil. Earl of Arundel Son to Tho. Duke of Norfolk After he had Travelled to Rome he became Professor of Divinity in the English Colledge of Rhemes He wrote much in defence of the Romish Faith one of his Books being Entituled A Detection of Corruptions in the English Bible He dyed 1582. and was buried in St. Stephens Church in Rhemes Tho. Stapleton born at Henfield of a very good Family was observed by those of his own Perswasion to have been born in the same Year and Month wherein Sir Thomas More was beheaded as if Divine Providence had purposely drop'd from Heaven an Acâ—â—n in place of the Oak that was fell'd He was bred in New-Colleage in Oxford and became Canon of Chichester which place he quitted an 1. Eliz. and having fled beyond the Seas he became Catechist at Doway which Office he having discharged to his commendation he was preferred Kings Professor of Divinity in Lovain and was 〈◊〉 yâ—ars together undertaker General against all 〈…〉 Dr Whitaker Professor in Cambridge 〈…〉 professed that Bellarmine was the fairer and â—ap eâ—on the shrewdeâ— Adversary He dyed and was buried in 〈…〉 in Lovain 1598. Benefactors to the â—ublick sâ—â—ce the Reformation Richard Sackvil Eldest Son of Thomas Earl of Dorset had his barony if not his Birth at Buckhurst A Learned Gentleman to whom the Greek and Latine were as familiar as his own Native Tongue Succeeding his Father in that Earldom he enjoyed his Dignity not a full ear He erectâ—d a Colledge at East Greensted in this County for 3 pâ—oâ— pâ—â—ple to serve Almighty 〈◊〉 therein endowing the same with 330 pounds a year out of all his Lands â—n England By Margaret sole Daughter to Tho. Duke of Norfolk he left two surviving Sons Richard and Edward of admirable parts sâ—ccessively Earlâ— after him and dying was buried in Withâ—ham in this County Memorable Persons John Henry and Thomas Palmer were Sons to Edward Palmer Esquire of Angmarine by his Wife Daughter to one Clement of Wales who for his effectual assisting of King Henry 7. from his Landing at Milford Haven untill the Battle of Bosworth was brought by him into England and rewarded with good Lands in this and the next County It happened that their Mother being a full fourthnight inclusively in Labour was on Whitsunday delivered of John her eldest Son on the Sunday following of Henry her second Son and the Sunday next after of Thomas her third Son These three were Knighted for their Valour by King Henry 8. They have a Worshipful and numerous Posterity in Sussex and Kent amongst whom Sir Roger Palmer Aged 80 years lately deceased and Cofferer to the late King averred the Truth of the aforesaid Relation Leonard Mascal of Plumsted was the first who brought over into England from beyond the Seas Carps and Pippins about an 5. Henry 8. 1514. W. Withers being a Child of about 11 years of Age an 1581. lay in a Trance 10 dayes without any sustenance and at last coming to himself uttered to the standers by many strange Speeches inveighing against Pride Covetousness and other outragious sins Note that an 1378 in the Reign of Richard 2. the Sussexians of Rye and Winchelsey embarqued for Normandy and afterwards entered by night into a Town called Peters Port took all such Prisoners who were able to pay ransome and safely returned home with the Spoil 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 recommend to the Inhabitants of this County WARWICK-SHIRE WArwick-shire hath Leicester and Northampton-shire on the East Oxford and Glocester-shire on the South Worcester on the West and Stafford-shire on the North thereof It extends 33 Miles from North to South and 26 from East to West This County is the Heart but not the Core of England The Woodland thereof may want what the Fieldon affords As for the pleasure thereof an
Owâ—n Glendour the Welsh Rebel put him to flight and took his Banner with his own hands 3. He vanquished the two Piercies at Shrewsbury 4. Being challenged in his Pilgrimage to the Holy-Land at Verona by Sir Pandulph Malacet an Italian to fight with him at three Weapons viz. with Axe Sword and Dagger he had slain his Adversary 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 backward to his Horse and when the French suspected that he was tyed to his Saddle to conâ—ute their Jealousies our Earl â—ighted and presently remounted 6. He was eminently active in the Kings Victorious Battles in France and might truly say Quorum pars ego magna sui 7. By King Henry 5. he was sent to the Council of Constance with a Retinue of 800 Horse 8. Here he killed a Dutch Duke who challenged him in the presence of the Emperour 9. The Empress affected with his Valour took the Badge from one of the Earls Men being a plain Bear of Silver and 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 5. with 1000 Men in Arms to fetch Queen Katharine sole Daughter to the King of France he fought with the Earls of Vendosme and Limosin killed one of them with his own hand routed the Forces of 5000 Men and brought the Lady whom he saw safely Married to the King 11. He was by the said Kings Will appointed Governour of his Son in his Minority and made Lieutenant of all France 12. During his Life our success in France was progressive and retrograde after his death Sigismund the Emperor coming into England told King Henry 5. that no Christian King had such another Knight for Wisdom Nurture and Manhood and by Imperial Authority with the Kings consent caused him to be named The Father of Courtesie Being tossed with a great Tempest in his last Voyage to Normandy and despairing of Life he caused himself his Lady and infant Son to be bound to the main Mast on this design that being known by his Armour and Coat of Arms upon him he might have a Christian Burial Yet he dyed afterwards in his Bed at Roan April 30. 14â—9 and lyeth buried in a Chappel of the Collegiate Church of Warwick having a most stately Tomb. His Deeds of Charity were little inferiour to the Atchievments of his Valour Physicians and Chymists Sir Edward Kelley alias Talbot born at Worcester was reported to have joyntly found with Dr. d ee a great quantity of Elixir in the Ruins of Glassenbury Abbey That Doctor having Calculated Sir Edward's Nativity might possibly by some Mystical Equations find out the place of that Elixir They afterwards fixed at Trebona in Bohemia where Sir Edward being a skilful as well as fortunate Chymist is said to have transmuted a Brass warming Pan by warming it by the fire and putting the Elixir thereon into pure Silver a piece whereof was sent to Queen Elizabeth These two Sir Edward and Dr. Dee kept constant Intelligence with a Spirit giving them advice how to proceed in their mystical discoveries and enjoyning them by way of preparatory qualification for the same they should enjoy their Wives in common Though bogling hereat at first they resolved to submit thereunto because the Law-giver might dispense with his Laws in matters of so high Nature Upon this 't is thought Dee left his Companion to rant it in Germany who trusting too much to his Treasure spent extravagantly 4000 pounds on Rings which he gave away at the Marriage of one of his Maid-servants Being highly conceited of his Skill he gives Advice to all Lovers of Chymistry in these words To you I say how Learned soever you be Go burn your Books and come and learn of me According to the malignant position of Aquarius which hath influence on the Legs observed in the Scheme of his Nativity Being imprisoned by Radulphus the Emperour and endeavouring to escape out of an high Window by a pair of Sheets tyed together he fell and brake his Leg whereof he dyed 1595. From this Compound Chymist if you separate his Sublimate and Precipitate that is his Pride and Prodigality there will remain an experienced Philosopher worthy recommendation to Posterity Writers Florence of Worcester being learned and industrious wrote Chronicum Chronicorum from the Creation till his death happening 1119. Jo. Wallis or Welsh a Franciscan in VVorcester was bred in Oxford then in Paris where he was commonly called the Tree of Life though the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil had been more proper he having written 20 Volumes of curious speculations He dyed and was buried in Paris 1216. Elias de Evesham a Benedictine born of good Parentage flourished about 1270. VV. de Packington a Layman was Secretary and Treasurer to Edward the black Prince Having lived long in France and acquired an eâ—actness in the Language he wrote in French the Story of five English Kings John Henry 3. Edward 1.2 and 3. and a Book of the Atchievments of the Black Prince He flourished 1380. Since the Reformation Sir Edwin Sandys Son to Edw. D. D. and Bishop of VVorcester was bred in Cambridge and attained to be a most accomplished person right handed to any great Employment and constant in all Parliaments as the Speaker himself being beheld by all as an excellent Patriot He was Treasurer to the Undertakers for the VVestern Plantations the Bermudaes owing their happiness to his care and Sandys Tribe is no contemptible proportion therein He had a Commanding Pen Witness his Book of the Religion of the VVestern World I have been informed that he bequeathed a considerable Sum to the building of a Colledge in Cambridge but Debts not coming in according to expectation his good intention failed in the performance thereof He dyed 1631. Romish Exile Writers Riehard Smith D. D. was bred in Oxford where he was the Kings Professor till King Edward 6. sent for Pet. Martyr to supply that place betwixt whom and Smith there was great contest But in the Reign of Queen Mary Peter Martyr was glad to fly from that University and make room for the old pretender Thus we see that in such Controversies as were betwixt them it mattered little who were the disputants whilst the prevalent power was the Moderator Dr. Smith flying again into the Low Countries became Dean of St. Peter in Doway and the first Professor in the University founded therein He dyed 1563. Jo. Marshal born at Dalisford was bred at New-Colledge in Oxford where he proceeded Batchelour of Laws and was second Master of VVinchester School Flying an 1. Elizabeth he became Canon of Lisle in Flanders He wrote a Book against Jo. Calfield an English Protestant At his death he bequeathed a Ring with a rich Stone to adorn a piece of the Cross in
was of proof against any Meat objected to his Appetite Lampreys only excepted on a Surfeit whereof he dyed 1135. He had only two Legitimate Children William dying before and Maude surviving him both born in Normandy Thomas fifth Son of King Edward 1. and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife was born at and Sirnamed from Brotherton a Village in this County June the 1st 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England He left no Male Issue but from his Females the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and from them the Earls of Arundel and the Lords Berkley are descended Richard Plantag Duke of York commonly called Richard of Connisborough from the Castle in this Shire of his Nativity was Grandchild to King Edward 3. He Married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer the true Inheritrix of the Crown But tampering too soon and too openly to derive the Crown in his Wives Right to himself by practising the death of the present King he was taken and beheaded for Treason in the Reign of King Henry 5. Edward sole Son to King Richard 3 and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham in this County and was by his Father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a Child of as much Hopes as his Father a Man of Hatred But he consumed away on a sudden dying within a Month of his Mother A Judgment on his Father a Mercy to the Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of him who begot him and a Mercy to all England for had he survived to a Mans Estate he might possibly have proved a Wall of Partition to hinder the Happy Vnion of the two Houses of York and Lancaster Saints St. Hilda Daughter to Prince Hererick Nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland lived in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County and was the Oracle of her Age being a kind of Moderatrix in a Sax. Synode held about the Celebration of Easter The most Learned English Female before the Conquest the She-Gamaliel at whose Feet many Learned Men had their Education This our English Huldah ended her holy life with a happy death 680. St. Benedict Biscop fixed himself in the Dominions of Oswy King of Northumberland and built two Monasteries the one at the influx of the River Were the other at that of the River Tine into the Sea and stockt them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Monks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies He left Religion in England braver but not better then he found it the Gawdiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof His Monastery being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed Being struck with the dead Palsie his Soul retired into the Vpper Rooms of his Clay Cottage much employed in Meditation until the day of his death which happened 703. St. John of Beverly born at Harpham was 33 years and upwards Arch-Bishop of York being bred under Hilda aforesaid and after under Theodorus the Grecian and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Venerable Bede his Scholar wrote his Life and supposed Miracles Being Aged he resigned his Arch-Bishoprick and retired to Beverly where he had Founded a Colledge for which he procured the Freedstool a Sanctuary from King Athelstan He dyed May 7. 722. and was buried in the Porch of his Collegiate Church A Synode held at London 1416. assigned the day of his death an Anniversary Solemnity to his Memory Thomas Plantag was Earl of Darby Lancaster Leicester a popular person and a great enemy to the two Spencers Minions to King Edward 2. who being hated as Devils for their Pride no wonder if this Thomas was honoured as a Saint or Martyr by the common sort Indeed he must be a good Chymist who can extract Saint out of Malefactor and our Chronicles generally behold him put to death for Treason against King Edward 2. But let him pass for a Provincial though no National or Loyal Saint seeing he did not Travel far enough for Romish and too far for English Canonization His beheaded Martyrdom happened at Pontfret 1322. Note Lord Herb. in the Life of King Henry 8. speaking of Reliques The Bell of St. Guthlack and the Felt of St. Thomas of Lancaster both Remedies for the Head-ach must mean this St. Thomas seeing there is no other English of the Name found in any English Martyrology Richard Role alias Hampole from the place of his Holy Life Death and Burial was a Hermite of strict Life He wrote many Books of Piety which I prefer before his Prophetical Predictions as but a degree above Almanack Prognostications He threatned the sins of the Nation with future Judgments and his Predictions if hitting were heeded if missing not marked Having spoken much against the Covetousness of the Clergy of that Age he dyed 1349. Jo. Birlington born in Birlington and bred in Oxford became Canon in the Convent of Birlington where he grew Eminent for exemplary Holiness He refused at first the Office of Prior counting himself unworthy thy thereof but upon the second proffer accepted of it 'T is said Martha and Mary were compounded in him being as pious so provident to husband the Revenues of his house to the best advantage A She-Ancorist accosting him thus Jesus is my Love and you so honour him in your heart that no earthly thing can distract you He replyed I came hither to hear from you some saving and savoury discourse but seeing you begin with such idle talk farewel He dyed 1379. being reputed though I think not Canonized a Saint whose Friend W. Slightholme asked of his friend Jo. aforesaid what might be the reason the Devil appeared so seldom in their dayes c. To whom Jo. replyed We are grown so remiss in Godliness that the Devil needs not put himself to such pains seeing less and lighter Temptations will do the deed William is reported to have been one of singular Piety and to have wrought many Miracles at his Tomb after his death which happened 1380. A certain Maid resisting the sollicitations of a Bravo was by him Murdered her Head being set up on a Yew-Tree at Horton called now Halifax The silly people conceited that the Veins which in form of little threds spread themselves betwixt the Bark and the Body of the said Tree were the very Hairs of the Virgins Head to whom they flocked in Pilgrimage Note the prevalency of Opinion Her reputation for being a Saint is transmitted to Posterity though her name be lost Martyrs The County and generally the Province of York escaped from Popish Persecution which under Gods goodness may be imputed to the tempers of their four succeeding Arch-Bishops Thomas Woolsey who was more Proud then Cruel Edward Lee who persecuted to Imprisonment none to Death save two Robert Holgate who was a parcel-Protestant Nicholas Heath a meek and moderate Man And as there
Countries fail she plentifully feedeth them with Provision and is said to afford Corn enough to sustain all Wales Nor is she less happy in Cattle then Corn. II. Crogging Crogging The Original of this by word was in dayes of King Henry 2. who had many men slain by the Welsh at Croggen-Castle The English afterwards used it as a Provocative when they had the Welsh at an advantage It is now without cause uttered in disgrace of the Welsh though originally it was expressive of their Honour Prelates Guido de Mona that is of Anglesey was Bishop of St. Davids and Lord Treasurer of England under King Henry 4. though the Parliament moved that no Welshman should be a State Officer in England He dyed 1407. Arthur Bulkley Bishop of Bangor though bred Dr. of the Laws never read or forgot the Chapter de Sacrilegio for he spoyled the Bishoprick and sold the five Bells being so over-officious that he would go down to the Sea to see them Shipped He was suddenly deprived of his sight and dyed 1555. William Glyn D. D. bred in and Master of Queens-Colledge in Oxford was an 2. Mary preferred Bishop of Bangor An excellent Scholar being constant to his own and not cruel to opposite judgments he caused no persecution in his Diocess He dyed an 1. Elizabeth whose Brother Jeffrey Dr. of Laws built and endowed a Free School at Bangor Since the Reformation Rouland Merrick Dr. of Laws was born at Bodingan bred at Oxford where he became Principal of New-Inn-hall and afterwards a Dignitary in the Church of St. Davids He procured the imprisonment of Robert Ferrar his Diocesan in the dayes of King Edward 6. who was afterwards Martyred in the Reign of Queen Mary Mr. Merrick was Consecrated Bishop of Bangor an 2. Elizabeth 1559. He was Father to Sir Gilly Merrick Knight who lost his life for engaging with the Earl of Essex 1600. Lancelot Bulkley was born of a then Right Worshipful since Honourable Family one of whose fair Habitations is near Beumaris He was bred in Brazen-Nose-Colledge in Oxford and afterwards became first Arch-Deacon and then Arch-Bishop of Dublin October 3. 1619. Soon after he was made by King James one of his Privy Counsel in Ireland He dyed about 16. Seamen Madoc Son to Owen Gwineth ap Griffith ap Conan and Brother to Dav. Prince of North-Wales was born probably at Aberfraw then the principal Palace of their Royal residence He 1170. made a Voyage Westward and probably those names of Cape de Breton Norvinberg and Pengwin in part of the Northern America were Reliques of his discovery BRECKNOCK-SHIRE BRecknock-shire hath Radnor-shire on the North Cardigan and Carmarthen-shire on the West Glamorgan-shire on the South Hereford and Monmouth-shire on the East In length 28 and in breadth 20 miles The fruitfulness of the Vallies in this Shire maketh amends for the barrenness of the Mountains Brecknock the chief Town hereof doth at this present time afford the Title of an Earl to James Duke of Ormond the first that ever received that Dignity About 400 years since a Daughter of Gilb. and Maud Becket and Sister to Thomas Becket was by King Henry 2. bestowed in Marriage on one Butler an English Gentleman Him King Henry sent over into Ireland and endeavouring to expiate Beckets blood rewarded him with large Lands so that his Posterity were created Earls of Ormond In this County there is plenty of Otters in Brecknock Meer the Wool whereof is much used in making of Beavers As for Wonders 't is reported by Speed that Cloaks Hats and Staves cast down from the top of an Hill called Mouchy Denny or Cadier Arthur and the North-East Rocks would never fall but were with the air and wind still returned back and blown up again nor would any thing descend save a Stone or some metallin substance When the Meer Lynsavathan within two Miles of Brecknock hath her frozen Ice first broken it yields a thundering noyse and there is a Tradition that where that Meer spreadeth its waters stood a fair City till swallowed up by an Earthquake which is not improbable first because all the Highways of this County do lead thither secondly Ptolemy doth place in this Tract the City Loventrium which Mr. Cambden could not recover and therefore likely to be drown'd in this Pool the rather because Levenny is the name of the River running by it Saints St. Canoch Cadock Sons and Keyne Daughter to Braghan King builder and namer of Brecknock who had 24 Daughters all Saints though only St. Keyne survived flourished about 492. of whom St. Cadock is reported a Martyr and all had in high Veneration amongst the people of South-Wales St. Clintanke was King of Brecknock It happened that a Noble Virgin gave it out That she would never Marry any man except the said King who was so zealous a Christian A Pagan Souldier purposely to defeat her desire killed this King who left behind him the reputation of a Saint Prelates Giles de Bruse born at Brecknock was Son to William de Bruse Baron of Brecknock a prime Peer in his time This Giles became Bishop of Hereford and in the Civil Wars sided with the Nobility against King John on which account he was banished but at length returned and recovered the Kings favour His Paternal Honour and Inheritance was devolved upon him and from him after his death transmitted to his Brother Reginald who Married the Daughter of Leoline Prince of Wales His Effigies on his Tomb in Hereford Church holdeth a Steeple in his hand whence it is concluded that he built the Belfree of that Cathedral He dyed 1215. Since the Reformation Thomas Howel born at Nangamarch bred Fellow of Jesus-Colledge in Oxford became a most meek man and excellent Preacher His Sermons like the waters of Siloah did run softly gliding on with a smooth stream King Charles I. made him Bishop of Bristol He dyed 1646. leaving many Orphan Children behind him I have been told that the Honourable City of Bristol hath taken care for their comfortable Education Statesmen Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham set up King Richard on the Throne endeavouring afterwards in vain to depose him the King compassing him into his clutches through the treachery of Humphrey Banister the Dukes own Servant the Sheriff siezing him in Shrop-shire where he was digging of a Ditch in a disguise He was beheaded at Sarisbury without any Legal Tryal 1484. Memorable Persons Nesta Daughter to Gruffin Prince of Wales and Wife to Bernard of Newmarch a Noble Norman and Lord by Conquest of this County was an Harlot to a young Gentleman Mahel her Son having got this Stallion into his hands used him very hardly wherewith Nesta being madded came into open Court and on her Oath before King Henry 2. publickly protested that Mahel was none of Newmarch his Son but begotten on her in Adultery This if true spake her dishonesty if false her perjury true or false her Peerless impudency Hereby she disinherited Mahel
forcing Rubbish into its own Channel which shall render the waters thereof impenetrable by the Eye and ungrateful to the Palate His Book is prohibited by his Holiness whilst the lying Legend is permitted to be read without controul If Jeffrey be guilty of mistakes they are such as make not for the Popes advantage He was Bishop of St. Asaph and flourished 1152. Thomas of Monmouth wrote an History of St. William the Child that was Crucified by the Jews in Norwich in hatred of our Saviour He flourished 1160 under King Henry 2. Benefactors to the Publick AMP. Henry Plantagenet first Duke of Lancaster was born in Monmouth Castle the chief Seat of his Barony He is commonly Sirnamed the Wryneck and by others more rightfully the good Duke of Lancaster He was Head of the Guild of Corpus-Christi in Cambridge and the first Founder of a Colledge so called in that University Indeed the Land was little he conferred thereon but great the Countenance of so eminent a person in procuring and setling their Mortmain He dyed 1361. and was buried in the Collegiate Church at Leicester which he Founded Blanche his only Daughter which had Issue was Married to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Since the Reformation W. Johnes born in Monmouth was forced thence for not being able to pay 3 s. and 4 d. Flying to London he became first a Porter and then a Factor and going over into Hamborough made such a Vent for Welsh Cottons that what he found Drugs at home he left Dainties beyond Sea He Founded a fair School in Monmouth allowing 50 pounds yearly for the Master with 100 pounds Salary to a Lecturer besides a Stately Almshouse for 20 poor Folk each of them having 2 Rooms and a Garden with half a Crown a Week All which Benefactions he submitted to the oversight of the Honourable Company of Haberdashers in London who at this day right worthily discharge their trust herein He dyed 16 Memorable Persons William Evans was two yards and an half in height being Porter to King Charles I. He was somewhat lame knocking his Knees together and going out squalling with his Feet yet made he a shift to Dance in an Antimask at Court where he drew little Jeffrey the Dwarf out of his Pocket He dyed 163 Note this was made a Shire an 27. Henry 8. but not solemnly setled till 5 years after An. 1607. the Moor in this County sustained by the breaking in of the Severn Sea PEMBROKE-SHIRE PEmbroke-shire is surrounded on all sides with the Sea save on the North-East where it boundeth on Cardigan and the East where it butteth on Carmarthen-shire 'T is very plentiful of all things necessary for Man's livelyhood and the East part thereof is the pleasantest place in all Wales It affordeth plenty of Fish especially about Tenby-y-Piscoid having its name from the abundance thereof A part of this County is peopled by Flemings placed there by King Henry 1. to defend the Land given them against the Welsh and their Country is called Little England beyond Wales In this County there is a Breed of very good Faulcons called Peregrines King Henry 2. passing hence into Ireland cast off a Norway Goshawk at one of these but the Goshawk taken at the source by the Faulcon soon fell down at the Kings Foot which performance in this ramage made him yearly send hither for Eyesses Of Buildings the Cathedral of St. David is most eminent begun by Bishop Peter in the Reign of King John The Roof thereof is higher then any in England It acknowledged subjection neither to Rome nor Canterbury till the Reign of King Henry 1. Princes Henry Tuthar Son to Edmund Earl of Richmond and Margaret his Lady was born at Pembroke in the Reign of King Henry 6. When a young man he lived in Exile in France where he contracted a permanent habit of Frugality Having vanquished King Richard 3. in Bosworth-field and Married Elizabeth eldest Daughter to King Edward 4. He Reigned King of England by the name of Henry 7. He is generally conceived a most politick Prince yet many think his judgment failed him when refusing the proffer of Columbus for discovering of America but such his wariness he would not tamper with costly Contingencies He was the first King who secretly sought to abate the formidable greatness the Parent of many former English Rebellions in the English Peerage Hereby he taught the Commons to claim Jurisdiction by the name of Priviledge and made them able in time to contest with Sovereignty He survived his Queen by whom he had the best Title to the Crown about five years His greatest fault was grinding his Subjects with grievous exactions He was most Magnificent in those Structures he left to Posterity amongst which his Devotion to God is 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 say some with his Chappel which soon after sunk into the Sea He much employed Bishops in his service finding them honest and able He deceased at Richmond April 22. 1509. and was buried in his Magnificent Chappel at Westminster having prohibited by his Will the Interment of any person or persons whatsoever therein save those of the Royal Blood Saints Justinian a Noble Briton with his own inheritance built a Monastery in the Island of Ramsey in this County where many Monks lived happily under his Jurisdiction until three of them murdered him in hatred of his Sanctity about 486. His Body was brought to Menevia and there interred by St. David and since much famed for supposed Miracles Writers Giraldus Cambrensis whose Sirname was Barry and some say Fitz-Girald was born at Tenby being Son to William Barry an Englishman by his Wife Angareth Daughter of Nesta Daughter of Rhese Prince of South-Wales He was Nephew to David the second Bishop of St. David by whom he was made Arch-Deacon of Brecknock He was wont to complain that the English did not love him because his Mother was a Welsh-woman and the Welsh did hate him because his Father was an Englishman though by his excellent Writings he deserved of England well of Wales better and of Ireland best of all making a Topographical description of all three But acting in the last as a Secretary under King John with great industry and expence Having Travelled to Jerusalem he wrote De Mirabilibus Terrae Sanctae Having had ill success at Court he attained to no considerable Dignity For a long time no preferment was proffered him above a beggarly Bishoprick in Ireland At last the See of St. David was the highest place he attained Giraldus himself tells us the true reason thereof that he was ever beheld oculo novercali because being a Welshman by the surer side and then such the antipathy of the English that they
W. Wilford Page 160 The life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert Page 161 The life of Sir Walter Rawleigh who would demonstrate the errours of his Traducers a posteriori ibid The life of the famous Hooker Page 163 The life of the Lord Pomery Page 164 Nich. and Andr. Tremane twins alike in all lineaments c. Page 165 The Stratagem of Sir Richard Edgecomb Page 166 EXETER The Fatal Castle of Rugemont Page 167 The life of Princess Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans Page 168 The Character of the famous Iscanus Bishop of Exeter ibid. DORSET-SHIRE Commodities Salt Tobacco-pipe Clay wild madder Page 171 The Life of St. Edward Son to King Edgar ibid. The life of Arch-Bishop Morton Page 173 The life of Arch-Bishop Stafford ibid. The life of Bishop Turbevil ibid. The life of the valiant Sir Richard Bingham Page 175 The Original of White-Hart-Silver Page 177 The descent of the Newburgs ibid. DURHAM The life of Cicely Nevil Daughter to the E. of Westmerland Page 178 The life of Venerable Bede Page 179 The life of John Wickliffe Page 180 The lives of the Nevils ibid. The life of Bishop Horn and Bishop Cosen ibid. The life of Anthony Lord Gray and Rector of Burbach Page 183 ESSEX Where Vulgar wits are said to multiply exceedingly Page 184 The Commodities Page 185 The life of Henry Fitz-Roy Son to Henry VIII Page 186 The life of St. Helen ibid. The Miracle of St. Osith Page 187 The life of Arch-Bishop Bourcher Page 188 The life of the facetious Dr. Jegon Page 189 The life of the Lord Chancellour Audley Page 190 The life of Sir Anthony Cook famous for his learned Daughters ibid. The life of Tho. Howard Earl of Suffolk Page 191 With his Magnificent Entertainment of King James Page 192 The life of Tho. Ratcliffe Earl of Suffolk Page 193 The life of Sir Francis Vere Page 194 The life of Tho. Waldensis Page 195 The Character of Francis Quarles ibid. The life of Joseph Mede Page 196 The life of Sir Walter Mildmey Page 197 The supposed occasion of the Barons War ibid. The Siege of Colchester Page 200 GLOCESTER-SHIRE King James his Observation of fruitful Pastures Page 202 Commodities Tobacco Steel Syder ibid. The Legend of St. Kenelme Page 204 Biâ—hop Ruâ—hal's fatal mistake Page 205 The liâ—â— of Bishop Fox ibid. Local Treason or a Treasonable Castle Page 206 Neal's invention of Nâ—gs Head Page 208 A treatise found in the belly of a Cod ibid. The life of Sir Thomas Overbury ibid. The fatal effects of Fear Page 212 HANT-SHIRE Commoditiesâ— Honey c. Page 213 Thâ— life of King Henry I Page 214 The life of P. Arthur Brother to King Henry VIII ibid. The life of St Edburg Page 215 The death of Katharine Gouches ibid. The 〈…〉 Sir Richard Rich Page 218 The life of W. Pawlet Marqâ—ess of Winchester ibid. King James his Character of Sir Thomas Lakes ibid. Whiâ—ehead's blunt Râ—partee to Q. Elizabeth Page 221 The â—ase of a Tâ—eble Character viz. Pits the Drone Page 222 A Plough drawn by dogs Page 223 HERTFORD-SHIRE Is the Garden of England The life of Edmund Earl of Richmond Page 370 The life of Pope Nicholas ibid. King Henry VIII his prediction concerning Sir Ed. Waterhouse Page 371 The life of Sir Henry Cary Page 372 The life of Alexander Nâ—quam Page 373 The Character of Thomas Cartwright Page 375 The life of the Loyal Lord Capel ibid. Thomas Conisby's Resolution Page 377 HEREFORD-SHIRE Of a good Alâ— Page 377 The wonder of Bonâ—-Well ibid. Appearance of two Parelion's ibid. Thomas Cantilupe the last Canonized Englishman Page 378 The Life of Card. de Easton The severe punishment of several Cardinals Page 379 The fatal Riddle concerning King Edward ibid. The Life of the Earl of Essex Page 380 The Spend-thrifts Requiem Page 382 Woodstock Labyrinth Page 383 A Religious President for Persuming ibid. The life of Sir James Crofts Page 384 HUNTINGTON-SHIRE Protestant Nunnery Page 386 The life of St. Elâ—â—ed Page 387 The life of Bishop White Page 388 A through-paced Poet Page 389 The life of Sir Robert Cotton the great Antiquary ibid. The life of Stephen Marshal B. D. Page 391 Cromwel's Vncle Page 392 KENT Of the Royal Navy and Navigation Page â—â—â— Proverbs Page 3â—â— The life of King Henry VIII Page 39â— The life of Q. Mary ibid The life of Q. Elizabeth Page 399 King James in his Prayer resolved to have respect to the Virgin Mary Page 400 The lives of Princess Sophia and Prince Charles ibid. The life of St. Elphage The fatal death of Judge Hales Page 402 The life of Cardinal Kemp ibid. The life of Sir Edward Poynings Page 405 The life of Sir Anth. St. Leger Page 406 The life of Sir Henry Sidney ibid. The life of Sir Philip Sidney Page 407 The life of Sir Francis Walsingham ibid. The life of Sir Henry Finch Page 409 W. Adams the first effectual discoverer of Japan ibid. The life of Dr. Harvey Page 411 The Life of the Loyal Sir Thomas Wiat Page 412 Charnock's Miscarriage Page 413 The life of Dr. Bois Page 414 Sir John Philpot's Fleet Page 415 A strange account of a Woman in dispair Page 417 Sir Tho. Cheney Privy Councellour to four Soveraign Princes Page 419 CANTERBURY The Life of Arch-Bishop Langton Page 421 A vindication of Musick in Churches Page 422 The life of Simon Langton ibid. LANCASHIRE The Inhabitants generally devout Page 424 Fishing with Spades ibid. The life and death of John Rogers Page 425 The life and death of John Bradford ibid. The life of Cardinal Alan Page 426 The life of Bishop Barnes Page 428 The life of Arch-Bishop Bancroft Page 429 The 6 Properties of a good Scholar Page 432 The â—rance of George Walker an infant Page 433 Mr. Chetham's Benefactions Page 434 The Battle of Preston Page 435 LEICESTER-SHIRE Where the inhabitants of a certain Village have a ratling kind of speech Page 437 The life of Jane Katharine and Mary Grey ibid. The life and death of Latimer Page 439 The life of Bishop Langton Page 440 The life of Roger de Martival ibid. The life of Dr. Hall Page 441 The life of the Duke of Buckingham ibid. The life of Judge Belknap Page 442 The life of the Lord Chief Justice Cateline Page 443 The life of W. Burton Page 445 The life of Richard Vines ibid. The life of John Cleaveland Page 446 Sir John Poultney's Benefactions ibid. The Pectoral Bird of Thomas Burdet and the occasion of his death Page 448 LINCOLN-SHIRE Foolish Fowls have fine flesh Page 450 The life of King Henry IV. Page 453 The Lives of Gilb. de Sempringham and Cardinal Somercote Page 454 A Remark on the imprisonment of Pope Urb. 8 Page 455 The life and cruel death of W. Ascough D. L. Page 456 The life of Bishop Fox ibid. Arch-Bishop Whitgifts Anagram Page 457 The life of Edward Fines Earl of Lincoln Page 458 The life of Thomas Lord Bury ibid. The life of the Lord Treasurer Cecil
Family in France monarch H. 7. which is said to have flourished there 800 years Of this Family whose Arms is G. two Bars O. a younger Branch coming over at the Conquest fixed it self at Staunton Harecourt in Oxford-shire In the Reign of King Jo. Richard Harecourt of Staunton marrying Orabella Daughter of Saer de Quincy Earl of Winchester had the Mannor of Bosworth in Leicester-shire for his Wives Portion Robert Harecourt was made Knight of the Garter by E. 4. From him Lineally descended the Valiant Sir Simon Harecourt lately slain in the Wars against the Rebels in Ireland whose Son a hopeful Gentleman enjoys the Mannor of Staunton to this day Jo. Basket an Esquire of Remark and Martial Activity in his younger days and after removed to Devnish in Dorsetshire to whom he going into France committed the Care of that Country Will. Essex Ar. a worthy Man of great Command in this County monarch H. 6. whereof he was four times Sheriff and the first of his Family who fixed in Lambourn therein for he married Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir of Tho. Rogers of Benham whose Grand-father Jo. Rogers had married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Jo. Shotesbroke of Bercole in this County whose Ancestors had been Sheriffs in Bark-shire An. 4.5 and 6. E. 3. by whom he received a large Inheritance This Will afterwards Sir Will. was Son to Th. Essex Esquire Remembrancer and Vice-Treasurer to E. 4. who died Nov. 1. 1500 and lyeth buried in the Church of Kensington Middlesex He derived himself from Henry de Essex Bar. of Rawley and Standard-bearer of England and his Posterity have lately assumed his Coat viz. Arg. an Orle G. There was lately a Baron of this Family with Revenues of a Baron Humph. Foster Knight a Lover of Protestants in the most dangerous times and spake to the Quest in the behalf of Mr. Marbeck that good Confessor Yea he Confessed to Henry 8. that never any thing went so much against his Conscience as his attending by Command the Execution of three poor Men Martyred at Windsor Francis Inglefield Knight afterwards Privy-Councellour to Queen Mary monarch E. 6. and so zealous a Romanist that after her Death he left the Land with a most large Inheritance and lived for the most part in Spain He was a most industrious Agent to solicite the Cause of the Queen of Scots He was a great Promoter of and Benefactor to the English Colledge at Valladolid in Spain where he lyeth interred A Family of his Alliance is still Worshipful extant in this County Jo. Williams Knight was before the Expiration of the year of his Sherivalty made by Queen Mary monarch Queen Mary Lord Williams of Tame in Oxford In which Town he built a small Hospital and a very fair School He with Sir Henry Bennyfield were Joynt-keepers of the Lady Elizabeth whilst under Restraint being as Civil as the other was cruel to her Bishop Ridley when Martyred requested this Lord to stand his Friend to the Queen that those Leases might be confirmed which he had made to poor Tenants which he promised and performed accordingly Henry Norrice Son-in-Law to the Lord Williams aforesaid monarch Queen Elizab. was by Queen Elizabeth created Bar. of Norrice in Ricot in Oxford He was Son to Sir Henry Norrice who suffered in the Cause of Queen Anne Bullen Grand-Child to Sir Edward Norrice who married Friswide Sister and co-heir to the last Lord Lovell He was Father to the Martial Blood of the Norrices Elizabeth his Grand-Child sole Daughter and Heir unto Francis Norrice Earl of Bark-shire and Baroness Norrice was married to Edward Wray Esquire whose only Daughter Elizabeth Wray Baroness Norrice lately deceased was married unto Montague Bartue Earl of Lindsey whose Son a Minor is Lord Norrice at this day Edward Vmpton Knight this ancient Name was extinct in the days of our Fathers for want of issue Male and a great part of their Lands devolved by an Heir general to G. Puffen of Wadley Esquire whose Care is commendable in preserving the Monuments of the Vmptons in Farrington Church and restoring such as were defaced in the Civil War Besilius Fetiplace The Seat of the Family was at Lee thence called Besiles Lee in this County until Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Will. Bes last of the Name was married to Richard Fetiplace whose Great-grand-Child was named Besile to continue the Remembrance of their Ancestors Richard Lovelace Knight a brisk Gentleman in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth making use of Letters of Mart monarch King James had the Success to seize on a large Remnant of the King of Spains Fleet charged with Silver King Charles created him Lord Lovelace of Hurley Sir Jo. Darell Baronet Of which Order Note the Qualifications monarch King Charles Service and Dignity For the first 1. They were to be Men of honest Reputation 2. Descended at least of a Grand-father that bare Arms. 3. Having Estate of 1000 pounds a year two Thirds thereof at least in Possession the rest in Reversion expectant on one Life only holding in Dower or Joynture As to the Second 1. Each of them was to advance towards the planting of the Province of Vlster in Ireland with Money enough to maintain 30 Foot for three years after the Rate of eight pence a day for each Man 2. The first years Wages was to be paid down on the passing of their Patent the Remainder as they contracted with the Kings Commissioners Authorized to treat of and conclude the same For the last viz. their Dignity 1. They were to take place with their Wives and Children respectively immediately after the Sons of Barons and before all Knights-Batchelors of the Bath and Banneret save such Solemn ones as afterwards should be created in the Field by the King there Present under the Standard Royal displayed 2. The Addition of Sir was to be prefixed before their Names 3. The Honour was to be Hereditary and Knight-hood not to be denied to their eldest Sons of full Age if desiring it 4. There was added to their Arms a Bloody hand in a Canton or Escutcheon at their Pleasure The King did undertake that they should never exceed 200 and none were to be substituted upon a Vacancy And that no other new Order should be superinduced Battles Newbury I. 1643. Sept. 20. Earl of Essex having raised the Siege of Glocester and returning towards London was followed by the Kings Army both sides might be traced by a Tract of bloody Foot-steps especially at Auborn in Wilts where they had a smart Encounter At Newbury the Earl made a stand Here hap'ned a fierce Fight on the East side of the Town The Parliament was conceived to lose the most the King the most considerable Persons amongst whom the Earl of Carnarvon and Sunderland the Viscount Faulkland Collonel Morgan Victory and Loss was equally shared on both sides which were so filled with their Supper that the next day they had no Stomach for Breakfast but keeping their Stations were
by Heart the second Book of the Aeneads which he learnt at School without missing a Verse He was an excellent Preacher He attended King Ja. his Chaplain into Scotland and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury He was Hospital and Generous He dyed and was buried An. Dom. 1622. Th. Son to Will. Westfield D. D. born An. Dom. 1573. in Ely bred at Jes Coll. in Camb. where he was Fellow He was Assistant to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside after Rector of Horsney and great St. Barth Lond. where in his Preaching he went through the 4 Evangelists He was afterward made Arch-Deacon of St. Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol The Parl. had a good Opinion of him as appears by this Order 13. May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Com. for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Vpon information in the behalf of the B. of Bristol That his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents it is ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great Age and a Person of great Learning and Merit Jo. Wylde By his Will he desired to be buried in the Cathedral-Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop And as for my Worldly Goods the words of his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give c. to my Wife Eliz. He dyed June 28. 1644. and lyeth buried according to his own desire An Anagram made on him by his Daughter was Thomas Westfield I dwell the most safe Statesmen Jo. Tiptoft Son and Heir of Jo. Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Edw. Charlton Lord Powis by his Wife Eleanor Sister and Coheir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this County He was bred at Baliol-Coll in Oxf. where he attained to great Learning and by H. 6. was afterwards created first Viscount then Earl of Worcester and Lord High Constable of England and by E. 4. Knight of the Garter The Skies began to Lowre and Threaten Civil Wars and the House of York fell sick of a Relapse Mean time this Earl could not be discourteous to Hen. 6. who had so much advanced him nor disloyal to Edw. 4. in whom the Right of the Crown lay For an Expedient he quitted his own and visited the Holy-Land At Rome in his passage by an Elegant Latin Speech he drew the Admiration of all the Auditors and Tears from the Eyes of the Pope Pius II. He returned from Christs-Sepulchre to his own in England in an unhappy time if sooner or later he had found Edward on that Throne to which now H. 6 was restored and whose Restitution was only remarkable for the Death of this Worthy Lord. Treason was charged on him for secretly siding with King Edw. On this account he lost his life The Ax then did at one blow cut off more Learning in England then was left in the Heads of all the Surviving Nobility His Death hap'ned on St. Lukes day 1470. Edw. Lord Tiptoft his Son was restored by Edw. 4. Earl of Worcester but dying without Issue his Inheritance fell to his three Aunts Sisters to the Learned Lord aforesaid viz. 1. Philip married to Th. Lord Ross of Hamlake 2. Joan Wife of Sir Edm. Inglesthrop of Borough-green in this County 3. Joyce married to Sir Edw. Sutton Son and Heir of John Lord Dudley from whom came Edw. Sutton Lord Dudley and Knight of the Garter Jo. Cheeke Knight Tutor to Ed. 6. and Secretary of State born in Camb. Of him see our Church-History Souldiers When the rest of the East-Angles cowardly fled away in the Field from the Danish Army the Men of the County of Camb. did manfully resist whence it was that whilst the English did rule the praise of the People of Cambridgeshire did most eminently flourish At the coming of the Normans they made so stout a Resistance that the Conqueror who did fly into England was glad to creep into Ely Cambridgeshire-men commonly passed for a Proverb tho now like old Coyn almost grown out of request Indeed the Common-people have Robust bodies able to carry 8 Bushels of Barley on their Backs whereas 4 are found a sufficient Load for Men of other Counties and I doubt not but if there were occasion their Arms and Hands would appear to be as good as their Backs and Shoulders Writers Math. Paris probably born in this and bred-in the next County where the Name is right Ancient long before they were setled at Hildersham which accrued to them by their Marriage with the Daughter and Heir of the Buslers He was a Monk at St. Albans skilled in Poetry Oratory and Divinity as also in Painting Graving c. But his Genius chiefly disposed him to the Writing of Histories wherein he wrote a large Chronicle from the Conquest unto the year of our Lord 1250. where he concludes with this Distich Siste tui metas studii Mâ—â—â—â—aee quietas Nec ventura petas quae postera proferat aetas Matthew here cease thy Pen in peace and study on no more Nor do thou aim at things to come which next Age hath in store Yet resuming the Work he continued it to 1259. A catching disease with Authors my self being concerned to obey the importunity of others contrary to their own inclination His History is impartially and judiciously save whereby he indulgeth too much Monkish Miracles and no Writer so plainly discovereth the Pride Avarice and Rapine of the Court of Rome so that he seldom kisseth the Popes toe without Biting it The Papists insinuate a suspicion that such Reflections are forged but all the Candour imaginable has been used in the Editions of that Author first by Math. Parker and then and especially by Doctor Will. Wats This Matthew left off living and writing An. 1259. Tho he had sharp Nailes he had clean Hands strict in his own and striking at the loose Conversation of others and for his Eminent Austerity was not only employed by Pope Innocent 4. to visit the Monks in the Diocess of Norwich but also was sent unto Norway to reform the Discipline in Holni a fair Covent Helias Rubeus in Engl. Rous or Red bred D. D. in Camb. A great Courtier and Gracious with the King Wrote a Book contra Nobilitatem inanem 'T is thought he flourished about the year 1266. Jo. Eversden was bred a Monk in Bury-Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but his mounting above this mean Employ he buried himself in Pâ—â—try Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryars And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury An. 1336. there hap'ned a hideous Hericano levelling Trees Towers c. Yet went they out with a Calm at the time
was to H. 4. II. Better Wed over the Mixon than over the Moor. Over the Mixon that is at home Mixon being the Compost in the Yards of good Husbands The meaning is the Gentry in Cheshire find it more profitable to Match within their County than to bring a Bride out of other Shires being more easily acquainted and put to less Charge at home Cardinals Will. Makilsfield probably born in this County tho reputed a Conventrian because then Cheshire was in the Diocess of Coventry and Liech See his Character in Warwickshire Prelates Will. Booth first bred in Greys-Inn in London in the Study of Com. Law till upon proffer of a Chancellours place in St. Pauls he took orders Afterwards consecrated Bishop of Liechfield and six years after Translated to York and after twelve years dyed and was buried in St. Maries Chappel in Southwell 1464. Lawr. Booth half Brother to Will was bred and became Master of Pemb. Hall in Camb. and was Chancellour of that University He made the Composition between the University and the K. Coll. and was an Eminent Benefactor to his own bestowing thereon all the Tenements since Alienated betwixt it and St. Botolphs Church amongst which was St. Thomas Hostle He Exonerated the Colledge of a Pension of five Pounds which he redeemed and conferred thereon the mannor and Patronage of Overton Waterfield in Hunt He was preferred Chancellor to Marg. Queen to H. 6. and An. 13 E. 4. made Lord High Chancellor it seems his Publick Spirit was neither for York nor Lanc. but England having first been Bishop of Durham afterwards Arch-bishop of York and built in the first the Gate of Aukland-Colledge and bought for the latter the Mannor Baterfed nigh London He kept the Master-ship of Pemb. Hall till the day of his Death that place being Ambitious of his Patronage Jo. Booth Brother to Lawr. aforesaid Batchelor of Laws was consecrated Bishop of Exeter An. 6. E. 4. 1466. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in his Cathedral which hath not its equal in England but the softest Cushion belonging to it was taken away when Bishop Vescy Alienated the Lands thereof When the Bishop had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein such were the troubles arising from the Wars between York and Lanc. Therefore retiring to his Private Habitation at Horsley in Hampshire he dyed 1478. and was buried in St. Clem. Danes in London These three Brothers had an eldest Brother Sir Roger Booth Knight of Barton in Lanc. Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevil third Earl of Westmerland Th. Savage born at Maklefield His Father a Knight bred a Doctor of Law in Camb. Hence he was preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York A greater Courtier than Clerk dextrous in managing secular Affairs a mighty Huntsman He was the first who was privately installed by his Vicar He maintained a Numerous Family and built much at Scroby and Cawood He dyed 1508. his Body being buried at York his heart at Maklefield in a Chappel of his own Erection Since the Reformation Will. Chaderton D. D. of worthy Extraction in this County bred a Fellow and Mr. of Queens Coll. in Camb. and chosen first the Lady Margarets then the Kings professor in Divinity to whom Doctor Whitaker succeeded Made Bishop of Chester An. 1579. then of Lincoln 1594. He dyed 1608. His Virtuous Grand-Daughter married to Mr. Jocelin Esquire writ The Mothers Legacy to her unborn Infant and dyed in Travel Will. James D. D. born in this County and bred in Christs-Church in Oxf. was President of the University Colledge and Dean and Bishop of Durham He had been Chaplain to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester and Ministred Comfort to him near the hour of Death He was a Principal means of recovering Durham-house to his See which House was granted by E. 6. to the Lady afterwards Queen Eliz. for Term of Life and lay neglected till Bishop James regained it and repaired the Chappel to his great cost He once entertained Queen Eliz. very much to her Satisfaction Otherwise it was with a following Bishop of that See being reproved by King Ja. for some neglect of his Officers he Survived that reproof not a full Twelve-month Jo. Richardson born in this County of a most Worshipful and Ancient Family bred in the University of Dublin where he was Graduated Doctor in Divinity and afterwards was 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 Colledge of Dublin He dyed An. 1658. Aet 74. Statesmen Sir Thomas Egerton Knight extracted from an Ancient Family in this County so Eminent a Lawyer that Queen Eliz. made him her Solicitor then Master of the Rolls then Keeper of the Great Seal An. 38 of of her Reign A man of great Wisdom and Gravity quick Wit solid Judgment ready Vtterance and great integrity An. 1. Jac. he was made Lord Chancellor the same in effect with Lord Keeper and of Lord Elismer he was created Viscount Brackley 1616. Great was the Contention for many years together betwixt this Lord of Equity and Sir Edw. Coke the Oracle of Justice at Westminster-Hall His civil Death by Resignation hap'ned a few days before his Natural Death after which his Body was buried in Duddleston in this County He left a fair Estate to his Son who was afterwards Created Earl of Bridgewater When he observed King James to be profuse to the Scots he advised him to preserve his Crown-lands seeing he or hâ—s Successors might meet with Parliaments which would not supply his occasions but on such Conditions as would not be very acceptable It was an ordinary Speech with him Frost and Fraud end in Foul. He dyed 1616. Capital Judges Sir Humph Starkey probably born in this County so skilled in the Law that he was preferred Bar. of the Exchequer about 〈◊〉 Hâ—e 7. Whereas that Age was justly complaining of the Extortions of the Kings Officers as Empson and Dudley c. nothing of that nature is laid to his charge He dyed An. ult H. 7. was buried in Leonard Shore-ditch Where his Epitaph begins Orate Sir Hen. Bradshaw Knight so noted a Lawyer that An. 6. E. 6. he was Ch. Bar. of the Exchequer demeaning himself therein to his great Commendation I have cause to conceive that this Judge was outed of his place 1. Ma. finding no more mention of him Sir Randel Crew so great a Lawyer that 22 Jac. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. and therein served two Kings tho scarce two years in his Office with great Integrity He declared his Judgment against the
born at and a Monk in Girway now Yarrow the most General Scholar of that Age expounded almost all the Bible Translated the Psalms and New-Testament into English and lived a Comment upon those Words Shining as a Light in the World c. Phil. 2.15 Credible Authors report he never went out of his Coll. tho both Cambridge and Rome pretend to his Habitation He dyed An. 734. and his Corps was removed to Durham Confessors Jo. Wickliffe published Opinions distasteful to the Church of Rome and wrote 200 Volumns besides his Translation of the Bible into English Having suffered much Persecution from the Popish Clergy after a long Exile he return'd in safety and dyed at his Living at Lutterworth in Leicestershier An. 1387. His Bones were taken up and burnt 42 years after his Death Prelates I shall begin with four Nevils of Honourable Extraction 1. Ralph Nevil born at Raby Lord Chanc. under King Hen. 3. and Bishop of Chichester 1223. built a fair House for himself and his Successors in Chancery-lane in Lond. which House is since called from the Earl of Lincoln once possessor therereof Lincolns-Inn He was chosen afterwards Arch-bishop of Cant. but the Pope stopped his Consecration as being apt to dissuade King Hen. from paying the Pension granted to his Holiness by King John Then being elected Bishop of Winch. he was obstructed by the King He built St. Michaels Chapple without the East-gate of Chichester and dyed at Lond. 1244. 2. Alex Nevil 3 d. Son of Ralph Lord Nevil born at Raby was Arch-bishop of York where he beautified Cawood Castle Being Loyal to R. 2. he was forced for Protection to flee to Pope Vrban who Translated him to St. Andrews in Scotland But this Nevil chose rather to be Minister at Lovaine where he dyed 3. Rob. Nevil sixth Son of Ralph first Earl of Westmerland by Joan his Wife Daughter of Jo. of Gaunt was Bishop of Sarisbury An. 6. Hen. 6. 1427. He founded a Convent at Sunning in Barkshire From Sarisbury he was Translated to Durham where he built the Exchequer at the Castle-gate and added in allusion to his 2 Bishopricks 2 Annulets to his Arms. He dyed An. 1457. 4. Geo. Nevil fourth Son to Rich. Earl of Salisbury was born at Middleham and consecrated Bishop of Exeter when he was not as yet 20 years of Age and five years after was made Lord Chancellor of England and aftewards Arch-bishop of York making a prodigious Feast at his Installing yet at last falling into the displeasure of E. 4. he was slenderly dieted not to say Famished in the Castle of Calis for after his enlargement he dyed Heart-broken at Blyth and was buried in the Cathedral of York 476. There was another Nevil Brother to Alexander who was chosen Bishop of Ely but dyed before Consecration Since the Reformation Rob. Horn bred in St. Johns 〈…〉 E. 6. made Dean of Durham 〈…〉 he became head of the Episcopal 〈…〉 in Germ. Returning into England 〈…〉 of Winch. 1560. A worthy Man 〈…〉 Papists and Sectaries who sported 〈…〉 and twitted his Person as Dwarfâ—◠〈…〉 Case when they were not able to find 〈…〉 Jewel Whatever his Mould might 〈…〉 of good Metal as being of a Sprightâ—u◠〈…〉 Wit He dyed 1589. Jo. Cosen was born in Norwich one 〈…〉 are sufficiently made known in his 〈…〉 Great his Constancy in Religion thâ— he was â—â—â—â—der'd by some silly people as declining 〈…〉 Religion As for his urging of some 〈…〉 made his Purgation effectually clearing himself from the least Imputation of any Fault yea whilst in France he was the Atlas of the Prot. Religion supporting the same with his Piety and Learning and daily adding Proselytes not of the meanest Rank thereunto Since the Kings Restauration he was preferred Bishop of Durham When some Propositions of the Pope in favour of Protestants were made mention of by one in his presence he said We thank him not at all for which God hath always allowed us in his Word for he would grant it so long as it stood with his Policy and take it away so soon as it stood with his Power Civilians Rob. Cosen Dr. of Law was born at Hartly Poole His Father a Person of Quality a valiant Captain in Mussâ—lborough field was drowned in the River Tweed Richard at 12 years of Age was admitted into Tâ—â—n Coll. in Camb. He became a General Scholar Geometrician Musitian Physician Divine but chiefly Civil and Canon Lawyer He was Chancellor of Worcester then Dean of the Arches He defended the High Commission and Oath ex Officio against a Book called the Abstract which one observed was abstracted from all Wit Learning and Charity Some laid to his Charge that he gave many Blank Licences for Marriage whereas there was but one which a Fugitive Servant stole from the Register He had according to his Wish a sweet and quiet departure and his laâ—â— Words to his Friends were Remember your Mortality and eternal Life He gave 40 l. to the building of a Chamber in Trin. Coll. and 15 l. a year for the maintainance of two Scholarships therein On him these Verses were made by the University of Camb. Magna deos inter lis est exorta creatas Horum qui lites Dirimit ille deest Cosinum petiere Dii Componere tantus Lites quod vere jure peritus erat Writers Jo. of Darlington Confessor to Hen. 3. and Archbishop of Dublin and Collector of the Pope's Peter-pence through Ireland wrote many Books and dyed in Lond. 1284. Will. Siveyar in lat Severus born at Shinkley was Son to a Sive-maker was Bishop of Carlile 1496. and Translated to Durham He dyed An. 1505. Note Sir Empson was also the Son of a Sive-maker and his Contemporary Since the Reformation Th. Jackson bred in Oxf. where falling into the River he was taken up for dead by some Fisher-men who were rewarded with a Revenue during his life He was chosen President of Corp. Christi-Coll where he dyed 1640. He was a Pious Man profound Writer and painful Preacher Sam. Ward born at Bishops-Middleham Mr. of Sidney-Coll in Camb. was imprisoned in the late times before which he was counted a Puritan and Popish whilst those days lasted yet was he a true Protestant at all times He dyed An. 1643. Memorable Persons Anth. Lord Gray Earl of Kent Son of Geo. Gray Esquire was born at Branspath He studied Divinity and became Rector of Burbach in Leicestershire And upon the Death of Hen. Earl of Kent his Kinsman the Inheritance and Honour descended upon him Yet after that he abated nothing in the constancy of his Preaching but improved that accession of Greatness to make his Goodness the more Illustrious When Summoned as a Peer to Parl. he excused himself by reason the indisposition of his Age. By Magdal Puresoy his Wife he had Hen. the 9 th Earl of Kent He dyed An. 164 In this County the Bishop is Sheriff Paramount whose Deputy never accounts in the Exchequer but makes up his Audit to
Elizabeth 2 d. Daughter to K. Hen. 8. was born at Greenwich Sep. 7. 1533. She was Heir to the Learning Bounty Courage and Success of her Father Besides Goodness wherein she was Daughter to her Mother Her Learning appears in her 2 Lat. Speeches to the University and a third little better then Ex tempore to the Poland Amb. Her Bounty was founded on Merit and ordered with Moderation seeing that is the best Liberality that so enricheth the Receiver that it doth not impoverish the Giver Her Courage was undaunted never making her self so cheap to her Favourites but that she still valued her own Authority A prime Officer with a White Staff was commanded by the Q. to conferr a Place then void on one of her Servants whom she commended unto him Pleaseth your Highness Madam saith the Lord the disposal thereof pertaineth to me by vertue of this White Staff conferred upon me True said the Queen yet I never gave you your Office so absolutely but I still reserved my self of the Quorum But of the Quarum Madam returned the Lord presuming on the favour of her Highness Hereat the Q. in some Passion snatching the Staff out of his Hand you shall acknowledge me said she of the Quorum Quarum Quorum before you have it again The Lord waited Stafless almost a day which seemed so long to him as if the Sun stood still before the same was re-conferred upon him Her Success was admirable keeping the K. of Sp. at Armes-end all her Reign She was well skilled in the Queen-craft and by her Policy and Prosperity she was much beloved by her People insomuch that since it hath been said That Q. Eliz. might Lawfully do that which K. James might not Her Popularity having sugared many things her Subjects thanking her for taking those Taxes which they refused to pay to her Successor She died at Richmond March 24. 1602. Mary Daughter to K. James and Anne of Denm his Q. was born at Greenwich Apr. 8. K. James was wont pleasantly to say He would not pray to the Virgin Mary but he would pray for the Virgin Mary viz. his own Daughter She died in her Infancy and was buried at Westm Sophia Youngest Daughter to K. James and Q. Anne was born at Greenwich June 22. 1606. and died 3 days after She was buried nigh Q. Eliz. and is represented sleeping in her Cradle Charles Eldest Son of K. Charles and Q. Mary was born at Greenwich An. 1629. A fright of his Mother is generally reported to have antedated his Nativity The Popish Priests belonging to the Queen stood ready watching to snatch the ROYAL BABE to their Superstitious Baptisme But the tender Care of K. Charles did out-vigil their watchfulness commanding Dr. Web his next Chaplain in attendance to Christen the Child according to the Church of England This done within few hours he expired and lyes buried at Westm Saints St. Elphage well descended bred at Glouc. became a Monk at Glastenbury whence he removed and built himself a Hut at Bath which small Cell in process of time proved the beautiful Priory of that Place Hence he was preferred B. of Winch. and at last of Canterbury which City was in his time Decimated by the Danes under pretence of Tribute detained They saved the 10 th part of the Citizens alive amounting to 804. Destroying 9 parts no fewer than 7236. Elphage unable to pay the Sum by them demanded was after 7 Months Imprisonment barbarously murdered near Greenwich about 1013. His Corps first buried in St. Pauls was removed to Cant. by the Command of K. Canutus St. Agelnoth the Good Arch-bish of Cant. is said to have given at Rome 100 Talents of Silver and one Talent of Gold for the Arm of St. Augustine B. of Hippo. He expended much in repairing his Cathedral lately destroyed by the Danes assisted therein by the Bounty of K. Canutus He died 1038. Martyrs Will. White a Wicklevite and the first married Priest since the Popes solemn prohibition thereof was constant to his Calling and was as a Partridge daily on the Wing removing from place to place He was seized condemned and burnt at Norwich 1428. As for Marian Martyrs those in this Shire suffered either by the Cruelty of Griffin Bishop of Rochester or Thorton Suffragan of Dover Confessors Sim. Fish Esq a Lawyer was forced to fly beyond the Seas for personating Proud Woolsey in a Tragedy His Book called the Supplication of Beggars approved by Hen. 8. was the occasion of his Return to England after 2 years absence He escaped the Hands of Men viz. Sir Th. More and more Papists and fell into the Hands of God dying of the Plague 1531. Sir Ja. Hales J. of the Com. Pleas a Man of signal Integrity when the rest of the Judges frighted with the Frowns of the D. of North. subscribed the disinheriting of the Lady Mary and Lady Eliz. he only refused as against both Law and Conscience Yet An. 1. Q. Mary by urging some Laws of E. 6. he fell into the Displeasure of B. Gardiner was imprisoned and so threatned by his Keeper that he endeavoured to have killed himself which being set at liberty he afterwards effected Drowning himself in a small Water near his House He had led a Godly Life and suffered much for his Conscience Cardinals Jo. Kemp born at Wye where he built a fair Colledge for seculars and bred in Oxf. was successively B. of Roch. Chich. and Lond. afterwards Arch-bish of York and Cant. Cardinal first by the Title of St. Balbine then of St. Rufine in Rome He was also twice Lord Chan. of Engl. according to these Verses Bis Primas ter Praesul erat bis Cardine functus Et dixit Legem bis Cancellarius Anglis Being of a Knightly Family he left it much improved by his bounty and some of his Name and Blood flourish in Kent at this day He died An. 1453. Rich. Clifford born probably at Babbing was made B. of Lond. 1407. and sent by K. Hen. 4. as his Ambassadour to the Council of Constance where he preached a Lat. Sermon before the Emperour and Pope He acted as a Cardinal among the rest in the Election of a Pope He was a Pious Man and much esteemed He died 1421 being buried nigh Sir Christopher Hatton Prelates Ralph of Maydenstan Maidston a very Learned Man and great Divine was preferred B. of Hâ—reford in the Reign of H. 3. 1234. He bought of one Mount-hault a Noble-man a fair House and the Patronage of St. Ma. Mont-hauly in Lond. leaving both to his Successors in the See of Heref. He turn'd his Mitre into a Coule becoming a Franciscan first in Oxf. then in Glouc. where he died about 1244. Henry de Wingham was made by H. 3. Chancellour both of England and Gascony Dean both of Totten-hall and St. Martins and twice Ambassadour into France Being chosen B. of Winchester he refused that See because he would not eject Ethelmar Womb-Brother to K. Hen. 3. he was
new supply of Souldiers sent to him for Assistants Hubert de Burozo succeeded the former in his Office No less a Couragious Judge having advised K. Hen. 3. to cancell the Great Charter alledging that since it had been granted by that King during his Minority it was of no Force in Law An. 20. Johan de Northwood of a right Ancient Family before the Conquest monarch E. 1. Their chief Residence was Northwood in the Parish of Milto Church One of their Heirs was married into the Family of the Nortons 16. Rich. Waller in the time of H. 5. took Charles monarch H. 4. D. of Orleans Prisoner at the battel of Agin-Court and brought him over to England where he held him in honourable restraint at Grome-Bridge He was a Benefactor to the repair of Spelherst Church The Prince assigned to him and his Heirs an Additional Crest viz. the Arms of France hanging by a Label on an Oak with the Motto Hic fructus Virtutis From this Richard Sir William Waller is lineally descended 23. Will. Crowmer was taken by Jack Cade the Rebel and committed by his Worship to the Fleet in London because as Jack said he was guilty of Extortion in his Office Jack having catch'd him would not leave him so but being attended with other venturous Lads brought him to Mile-End and there reformed the Gentleman by cutting off his Head which they set upon a long Pole on London Bridge John Scot Arm. was Knighted and was much trusted and employed by E. 4. who made him one of his Privy Council and Knight Marshal of Callis and sent him with others Ambassadour to the Dukes of Burgundy and Brittain to bring back the Earls of Pembrook and Richmond He lyeth buried in the Church of Braborne An. 3. Rich. Blakenbury was nearly allied to Sir Rob. Constable of the Tower monarch R. 3. who dipped his fingers so deep in the Blood of King Ed. 5. and his Brother An. 5. William Boleyn Mil. was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of R. 3. monarch H. 7. He married a Daughter and Coheir of Th. Butler E. of Ormond by whom he had among others Sir Th. Boleyn E. of Wiltshire 10 Jo. Peach with the Kentish Gentry made Perkin who landed then in Sandwich shrink his Horns back again into the shell of their Ships and brought 150 of Perkin's men up to London He was Knighted for his good service An. 5. Jo. Norton monarch H. 8. Mil. went over a Captain with the 1500 Archers under the Conduct of Sir Ed. Poynings to assist Marg. Dutchess of Savoy against the D. of Guelders where this Sir Jo. was Knighted by Charles Young Prince of Castile and afterwards Emperour He lyeth buried in Milton Church 7. Th. Cheyney Arm. Knighted by H. 8. was a Spritely Gentleman living and dying in great Honour a Favourite and Privy-Councellor to four successive Kings and Queens viz. H. 8. E. 6. Q Mary and Q. Elizabeth 11 Jo. Wiltshire Mil. was Comptroller of Calis An. 21. H. 7. He founded a Chappel in the Parish of Stove An. 3. Moile Finch Mil. married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Sir Th. Heneage Vice-Chamb to Q. Elizabeth monarch K. James and Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster She in her Widowhood by the Special favour of K. James was honoured Viscountess Maidston and afterwards by the great grace of K. Charles 1. created Countess of Winchelsey both Honours being Entailed on the Issue Male of her Body To which her Grandchild the right Honourable Heneage lately gone Ambassadour to Constantinople doth succeed Canterbury CAnterbury an ancient City during the Saxon Heptarchie was the chief Seat of the Kings of Kent Here Becket had his death here Edward the Black Prince and K. Hen. 4. had their Interment The Metropolitan Dignity first conferred by Gregory the Great on Lond. was for the Honour of Augustine afterwards bestowed on this City It is pleasantly Situated being surrounded with a fertile Soil well Wooded and commodiously Watered by the River Stoure called Durrwhen in Brit. i. e. a swift River tho it needs scouring Of Buildings Christ-Church first dedicated and after 300 years Intermission to Th. Becket restored to the Honour of our Saviour is a Stately Structure being the performance of several successive Arch-Bishops it is much adorned with Glass Windows painted with excellent Colours tho none of the best Figures Yet 't is said a Forraign Ambassadour proffered a vast price to transport the East Window of the Quire beyond the Seas As Pictures are the Books painted Windows were in time of Popery the Library of Laymen V. Somners Antiquities Proverbs 1. Canterbury Tales a Book of Chaucer so called it is applied to all Feigned and Pleasant Stories c. such as the Miracles of Becket some helpfull as when perceiving his old Palace at Otford to want water he struck his staff into the dry ground still called St. Thomas his Well whence Water runneth plentifully to serve that House Others spitefull as when because a Smith dwelling in that Town had clogged his Horse he ordered that no Smith afterwards should thrive in that Parish Prelates Steph. Langton born in England bred in Paris was one of the greatest Scholars of the Christian World in his Age. He was consecrated Cardinal of St. Chrysogone and then by the Pope intruded Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in defiance of King John He wrote Comments on all the Old and some on the New Testament He first divided the Bible into Chapters which Robert Stephens a Frenchman subdivided into Verses Others attribute the Division into Chapters to that able Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman who was the Improver but not the Inventor Langton divided also the Kingdom of England reducing King John to sad extremities He died and was buried at Canterbury 1228. Souldiers William Prude Esq Lieutenant Collonel in the Low Countreys was slain July 12 1632 at the Siege of Mastricht His body was brought into England and buried in the Cathedral of Canterbury part of his Epitaph being Stand Souldiers ere you march by way of Charge Take an Example here that may inlarge Your Minds to noble Action He fear'd not Death midst all Harms He bare as much of Piety as Arms. Now Souldiers on and fear not to intrude The Gates of Death by th' Example of this Prude He married Mary Daughter of Sir Adam Sprackling Knight and had Issue by her four Sons and three Daughters his surviving Son Searles Prude having erected his Monument Writers Osbern of Canterbury an admirable Musician and therefore a great Favourite to Lanfrank the Arch-Bishop He was the English ju-bal as to the curiosity of Musick in our Churches An Art which never any spake against who understood it otherwise Apollo is in a sad case if Midas his Ears must be the Judges He wrote the Life of St. Dunstan in Latine flourished under William the Conqueror An. 1070. Simon Langton Brother to Stephen Arch-Bishop was Arch-Deacon of Canterbury who Carne Sanguine revelante encreased both
Piggs i.e. Scholar of that School in London then bred in Cambridge was Almoner to Henry 8. and by him preferred Bishop first of Roch. then of Worc. deprived by Edward 6. restored by Queen Mary who advanced him Arch-Bishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England A moderate Man yet infected with the Popish Bishops he refused the Oath of Supremacy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth for which he was deprived He led a pious Life on his own Lands at Cobham in Surry whither Queen Elizabeth came often to visit him He died about 1566. Since the Reformation Jo. Young D. D. was born in Cheapside and bred in Cambridge was Bishop of Rochester and refused the See of Norwich saying It was not so easie for an old man since the Cushion was taken away from it Meaning since Dr. Scambler had scambled away the Revenues thereof He died An. 1605 and lyeth buried at Bromly Church in Kent Will. Cotton D. D. born in London bred in Cambrigde was made B. of Exeter Nov. 12. 1598. during his sitting there Mr. Snape came out of Gersey and plentifully sowed the seeds of Non-conformity in his Diocess which the Vigilancy of this Prelate seasonably plucked up Being enfeebled with the Apoplexy which deprived him of his Speech some days before his death so that he could only say Amen Amen he was rendred obnoxious to this malicious cavil That he lived like a Bishop and dyed like a Clark He died 1621. and was buried in the Quire of Exeter Lancelot Andrews D D. bred in Cambridge was an unimitable Preacher of whom Bishop Felton said I had almost marr'd my own natural Trot by endeavouring to imitate his artificial Amble See my Eccl. Hist He died 1626. Th. Dove D. D. was made by Q. Eliz. Dean of Norwich An. 1589 then Bishop of Peterborough 1101. He died 1630 having raised his Family to a Knightly degree Jo. Howson bred in Oxf. was made B. of Oxford 1619. His Book of Divorce with his Sermons agaist Popery and his Stating of the Popes Supremacy in 4 Sermons to clear himself from the Imputation of Popery have made him Famous to all Posterity Being translated to Durham he died 1631 and was buried in St. Paul's London Jo. Davenant D. D. Son to Jo. of Davenant Lands in Essex was Master of Q. Colledge in Cambridge He gave his Negative voice at an Election against a Kinsman Cosen said he I will satisfie your Father that you have Worth but not Want enough to be one of our Society Returning from the Synod of Dort he was elected B. of Sarum 1621. Praefuit qui Profuit was the Motto written in most of his Books He was humble in himself and charitable to others Being invited by B. Field and not pleased with some roisting Company he embraced the next opportunity of departure When B. Field proffered to light him with a Candle down Stairs My Lord said he let us lighten others by our unblameable Conversation He was a Man of great Candour and Sincerity who hated Flattery from his Child-hood He dyed 1641 and was buried in his own Cathedral Math. Wren was bred in Cambridge where at an Extraord Philof Act. before K. Ja. he noted the Prerogative of the King's Hounds by vertue whereof they could lawfully do that for which other Dogs were beaten He preached a Sermon on Amoz 5.24 let Judgment run down like Waters a little before the Draining of the Fens suspected detrimentalto the University He was B. of Norwich and Ely He was imprisoned by the Long Parliament almost 15 years and his Cause never heard He died 1661. Statesmen Sir Th. More Son to Sir Jo. one of the Justices of the K. Bench was bred in Oxford He became Barrister and Judge in the Sheriff of London's Court and never took a Fee from the Poor or Widow c. Being Member of the House of Commons he obstructed H. 7. about Money for the Marriage of his Daughter Marg. a Courtier telling the K. that a Beardless Boy had obstructed his desires K. Hen. 8. coming to the Crown Knighted him and made him Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster then Lord Chancellor of England He demeaned himself with great Integrity Refusing a complyance about the Queens Divorce he resigned his Place It was against his Mind that any should suffer for their Consciences He rather soiled his Fingers than dirted his Hands in the matter of the Holy Maid of Kent He used to say that his Natural Temper was so tender that he could not endure a Philip yet he suffered 16 Months Imprisonment for refusing the Oath of Supremacy When the Lieutenant of the Tower told him he was sorry his Commons were no better I like said Sir Th. your diet very well and if I dislike it I pray turn me out of Doors He was beheaded 153. He left but 100 l. per An. Estate having perfectly hated Covetousness as appears by his refusing of 4 or 5000 l. offered him by the Clergy Of his Latine Books Vtopia is the most considerable His Daugh. Marg. for all Learning and Languagues the Miracle of her Age was for her secresie entrusted by her Father with his most important Affairs Erasmus hath dedicated some Epistles to her Being well red in the Fathers she mended a depraved Place in St. Cyprian nisi vos sinceritatis making it Nervos Sinceritatis She translated Eusebius out of Greek which because done before was not Printed She bought her Fathers Head and kept it for a Relique till she was Questioned before the Council for the same Th. Wriothesley Knight of the Garter was bred in Cambridge He became an Eminent Lawyer He was by Henry 8. created Baron of Tichborne 1543 and a year after Chancellor of England From which Place being afterwards removed by Edward 6. he was created Earl of Southampton He died 1550 and lyes buried at St. Andrews in Holbourn William Paget Knight Privy Councellor to 4 successive Princes King Henry 8. made him Secretary and employed him Ambassador to Ch. 5. Emperor and the King of France King Edward 6. made him Chancellor of the Dutchy Comptroller of his House and created him Baron of Beaudesert Queen Mary made him Keeper of the Privy-Seal Queen Elizabeth dispenced with his attendance at Court in favour to his great age and highly respected him Duke Dudley in the daies of King Edward ignominiously took from him the Garter of the Order quarrelling that by Extraction he was not qualified for the same no wonder if his Pride wrongfully snatched a Garter from a Subject whose Ambition endeavoured to deprive 2 Princes of a Crown This was restored to him by Queen Mary as to a person who by his Prudence had merited much of the Nation He died 1563. and was buried in Lichfield Th. Wentâ—orth of York-shire parentage was bred in Cambridge became a Champion Patriot on all occasions and seemed to have a casting voice in the House of Commons He was created Bar. and Visc Wentworth Earl of Strafford and
active Fancy and the Jewel of his Mind was put into a fair case a beautiful Body with a comly Countenance Being always neat he was wont to say That the out-ward neatness of our Bodies might be a Monitor of purity to our Souls He always declined Circumlocutions He commended Moderation saying if a River swell beyond its Banks it loseth its own Channel If any adverse party crossed him he would patiently reply If another Punish me I will not Punish my self He would never privately retract what he had publickly adjudged professing that he was Judge in a Court and not in a Chamber He was wont to say No Wise Man would do that in Prosperity whereof he should Repent in Adversity He gave for his Motto Prudens qui Patiens and his practice was accordingly especially after he fell into the disfavour of K. James See the Engl. Chron. In his private Life he triumphed in his own Innocency that he had done nothing illegally calling to mind the Motto which he gave in his Rings when made Searj Lex est tutissima Cassis The Law is the safest Helmet And now he had leisure to peruse 30 Books written with his own hand most pleasing himself with a Manual which he called his Vade Mecum containing the Remarkables of his life His most Learned and Laborious Works on the Laws will last 〈◊〉 be Admired by the Judicious Posterity whilst Fame hath a Trumpet left her and any breath to blow therein His Judgment lately passed for an Oracle in Law and if since the Credit thereof hath causlesly been questioned the wonder is not great If the Prophet himself living in an incredulous Age found cause to complain Who had believed our Report It needs not seem strange that our licentious times have afforded some to shake the Authenticallness of the Reports of any earthly Judge He constantly had Prayers in his own House and relieved the Poor with his constant Alms. The Foundation of the Charter-House had been ruined before it was raised crushed by some Courtiers in the hatching thereof had not his great care preserved the same The Free-School at Theâ—ford was supported in its being by his assistance and he founded a School at his own cost at Godwick in this County Dr. Whitgift afterwards Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was his Tutor who sent unto his Pupil when the Queens Attorney a fair New Testament with this Message He had now studied Common Lawenough let him hereafter study the Law of God When he was under a Cloud at Court and outed of his Judges Place the Lands belonging to the Church of Norwich were again called into Question being begged by a Peer Sr Edw. 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 Buck. on Wedn. 3. September being the 83 year of his Age Whose last Words were Thy Kingdome come Thy Will be done Sir Th. Richardson Knight born at Mulberton his Father being Minister thereof was the Kings Serj. afterwards sworn Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas 1626. Speaker of the House of Commons 21 and 22 Jac. He married for his second Lady Eliz. Beaumont the Sister as I take it of Mary Countess of Buck and the Relict of Ashburnham Knight She was by King Charles created Baroness of Craumont in Scotland and tho issuless by the Judge the Honours descended to his Grandchild Souldiers Rob. Vinile when about to fight Tournboll the Champion of the Scoth Army is said to have made his Way through a Mastiff the Champions attendant by cutting him off at the Loyns and then cutt Tournboll's head from off his shoulders Sir Oliver Hingham was born richly landed and buried in Hingham A Valiant Man whom King Edward 3 left Governour of Aquitain in France He gave the French who had been drawn into Bourdeaux such entertainment that they drank not so much Claret-wine in the City as they left blood behind them An. 13. 3. He was afterwards made Knight of the Garter His Monument has his Resemblance in Coat Armor lively set forth in Metal with 24 Mourners about his Monument Jo. Fastolf Baron of Sineginle in France was a Ward to Jo. D. of Bedford sufficient to prove him an Englishman Tho he was truly Valiant the stage hath made him a Thrasonica Puff and Emblem of Mock-valour He was made Knight of the Garter by Henry 6. and died about the second year of his Reign Sir Clem. Paston Knight Grandson to Sir Jo. a favourite to Edward 4. was born at Paston He was at the burning of the Conquest in France and afterwards by Henry 8. 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 Caster nigh Yarmouth till he had paid 7000 Crowns for his Ransom besides a Cup and 2 Snakes of Gold of the Spoil of the Gally bequeathed by Sir Clem to his Family He received many wounds and was left for dead in Musleborough Field in Scotland He was the Gentleman to whom Sir Wiat when worsted at Ludgate did willingly submit He had the Command of some Ships of Queen Elizabeth at New-Haven and was Pensioner to 2 Kings and 2 Queens successively At Oxnit he built a goodly house for Hospitality and a Hospital hard by for 6 poor serving-men He died 15 Seamen No County in England doth carry a Top and Top Gallant more high in Maritine performances than Norfolk Witness Yarmouth's proportion in the Navy used by Edward 3. against of about 700 Ships and 14500 Men. 43 ships with 1950 belonging to Yarmouth well nigh double to what London did afford Yarmouth was very Populous in that Age and tho but one Parish a lamentable Plague in one year did sweep thence 7000 men Nich. of Lynne bred in Oxford accounted a Franciscan Frier an Excellent Musician Mathemation and Astrologer is reported to have sailed to the Northern Islands in the World An. 30 E. 31 330 and to have gone so far as the Pole Arctick where he discovered 4 In-draughts of the Ocean from the 4 Quarters of the World 'T is said he wrote a Book of discoveries called Inventio Fortunata Chaucer makes an Honourable mention of him He died 1360. and was buried in Lynne Pet. Read Esq worthily served his Prince and Country as also Ch. 5. Emp. who gave him the Order of Barbary for his valiant deeds there and at Tunis He died 1569. Writers Jo. Baconthorpe born at Baconthorpe bred a Carmelite in Blackney made more Books for weight number then his Body could bear His Soul had but a small Diocess of a Body to visit therefore might the better attend the effectual informing thereof 'T is said that the Heart of the D. of Hamilton was the largest and
him the name of Amang-us i. e. Amongst-us But he growing afterwards a famous Scholar and Statesman took upon him the Name of Dr. Magnus and was famous thereby both at home and abroad He was a great benefactor to the Town of his Nativity and founded a faâ—r School there He flourished as I take it under Henry 8. Noted Sheriffs An. 15 W. Hollis Knight called the Good Sir W. for his Hospitality and other Virtues was Son to Sir W. Lord Mayor of London monarch Q. Eliz. father to Jo. Hollis Lord Houghton of Houghton created Earl of Clare An. 22 Charles I and Grandfather to the Right Honourable Jo. the present Earl of Clare Rob. Pierpoint Arm. was afterwards created Baron Pierpoint and Earl of Kingston upon Hull monarch James An. 4 Car I. His Ancestors coming over with the Conquerour first fixed at Hurst Pierpoint in Sussex and thence removed into this County There was another Rob. who lived in great dignity under E. 3. Oxford-shire OXford-shire hath Bark-shire on the S. Glocester-shire on the W. Buckingham-shire on the E. Warwick-shire and Northampton-shire on the N. A plentifull County whereof the Chief City Oxford was lately for some years together a Court a Garrison and an University The Natural Commodities are Fallow Deer the most ancient Park is said to have been at Woodstock in this County Wood now in decay is relieved by Coals For preservation of Shot-over-woods it was alleadged by the University That Oxford being one of the eyes of the Land and Shot-over-woods the Hair of the eye lids the loss thereof must needs prejudice the sight with too much moisture flowing therein As for Buildings the Colleges in Oxford exceed the most in Christendome for the generality of their Structure and equal any for the largeness of their Endowments A moiety of their Founders were Prelates who provided them the Patronages of many good Benefices Of these Colleges Vniversity is the Oldest Pemb. the youngest Christ-Church the greatest Lincon the least Magdalen the neatest Wadham the most uniform New-College the strongest and Jesus-College the poorest New-College for the Southern Exeter for Western Queens for Northern Brazon-nose for North-Western men St. John's for Londoners Jesus for Welshmen and at other Colleges almost indifferently for men of all Countries Merton Famous for Schoolmen Corpus-Christi for Linguists Christs-Church for Poets All-Souls for Orators New-College for Civilians Brazen-nose for Disputants Queens College for Metaphysicians Exeter for a late Series of Regius Professors Magdalen for ancient St. Johns for modern Prelates Corpus-Christi-College was formerly called the College of Bees which industrious creatures were as it seems Aborigines from the first building of the College and An. 1630 there was an incredible mass of Honey found over the Study of Ludovicus Vives that Mellifluous Doctor The Library in some respects equals any in Europe and in most kinds exceeds all in England standing as Diana amongst the Nymphs In the infancy of Christianity the Library of York bare away the Bell founded by Arch-Bishop Egbert Before the Dissolution of the Abbeys that at Ramsey was the greatest Rabbin abounding chiefly with Jewish Books Guildhall Library founded by Richard Whittington was deprived of 3 Cart loads of choice Manuscripts in the days of Edward 6. Since the Reformation that of Benet in Cambridge founded by Math. Parker exceed any Collegiate Library in England And of late the Library of that University augmented with the Archi-episcopal Library of Lambeth is grown the Second in the Land Of Private Libraries that of Treas Burleigh's was the best for the use of Statesmen the Lord Lumlie's for an Historian the Earl of Arundel's for a Herauld Sir Rob. Cottens for an Antiquary and Arch-Bishop-Usher 's for a Divine with many others as Lord Brudnel's Lord Hatton's c. which were routed in our Civil wars or transported into forreign parts Oxford Library was founded by Humphry D. of Glocester confounded in the Reign of Edward 6. and refounded by Sir Th. Bodley and the bounty of daily benefactors As for the Kings Houses in this County Woodstock is Justly to be preferred where the Wood and Water-Nymphs might equally be Pleased in its Situation Here Queen Elizabeth was Prisoner in the Reign of Queen Mary Here she escaped a dangerous fire Here hearing a Milk-maid merrily singing in the Park she wished for an exchange of her Condition with the Maid's Here Henry 2. built a Labyrinth which is now vanished Enston made by Th. Bushel Esq sometime Servant to Fr. Bacon Lord Verulam is a Place by Nature pleasant and adorned with Art Proverbs I. You were born at Hogs-Norton This is a Village properly call Hoch-Norton whose Inhabitants it seems formerly were so rustical in their behaviour that clownish people are said to be born at Hogs-Norton II. To take a Burford bait That is to be drunk III. Banbury Zeal Cheese and Cakes Some would have Veal put for Zeal IIII. He looks as the Devil over Lincoln The Devil 's picture did over-look Lincoln-College It is appliable to envious persons V. Lincoln-shire Testons are gon to Oxford to study in Brazen-Nose That is Testons now corruptly called Testers worth 6 d. were in the Reign of Henry 8. debased and so mixed with copper and brass that they were not above 3 s. 4 d. the ounce looking so red with the allay that they blushed for shame as conscious of their own corruption VI. Send Verdingales to Broad Gates in Oxford Verdingales formerly worn by women pent-housed their 's Gowns far beyond their bodies and were as some say a barricado against the assaults of Wantons but as others affirm a convenient cover of the fruits of wantonness the first Inventress thereof being known for a light hous-wife These grew so great that their Wearers were to enter ordinary Doors side-ways as the Scotch Pedlars do with their Packs on their backs VII Chronica sipenses cum pugnent Oxonienses Post aliquot menses volat ira per Anglinienses Mark the Chronicles aright When Oxford Scholars fall to fight Before many months expired England will with war be fired By this are properly intended the Contests betwixt Scholars and Scholars which were observed predictional as if their Animosities were the Index of the Volume of the Land There were shrewd Bickerings betwixt the Southern and Northern Men in the University not long before the bloody War of the Barons did begin The like hapned twice under R. 2. before the fatal Fights betwixt Lancaster and York tho there were no Broyls in Oxford before the late Civil Wars Princes Richard Son to H. 2. and Queen Eleanor was the 6 th King since the Conquest born in Oxford 1157. Whilst a Prince he was undutiful to his Father or to qualifie the Matter over-dutiful to his Mother whose Domestick Quarrels he always espoused To expiate his offence when King he with Philip King of France undertook a Voyage to the Holy-Land where through the Treachery of Templary Cowardise of the Greeks diversity of the Climate and
the Engish Tongue A great Mathematician Witness his Book de Sphaerâ He was living 1402. being Contemporary with Gower Since the Reformation Th. Lydgate born at Alkerton and bred in Oxford was Eminent for his Learning and Obscure for his Living An admirable Mathematician witness his Learned Treatises De Naturâ Coeli and de variis Annorum Formis c. He opposed the opinion of Scaliger and was by him jeered for a Prophet having somewhat traded in the Apocalyptical Divinity yet 't is said Lydgate had the best in the Contest He was Rector of Alkerton His low Condition may be imputed to these Causes 1. The Barrenness of his speculative Studies 2. His own Nature being inclined to Solitude 3. The death of P. Henry whose Library-Keeper he was 4. His Disaffection to Church Discipline and Ceremonies tho such wrong his Memory who represent him an Anabaptist His Modesty was as great as his want which he would not make known to any Sir W. Boswell and B. Williams were great Friends to him He died about 1644 Sir Richard Baker Knight was High Sheriff of this County An. 18. Jac. 1621. his Estate being encumbered he fled in his old Age for shelter to his studies and devotions He wrote an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and a Chronicle of our English Kings He died about the beginning of the Civil Wars W. Whateley born in afterwards Minister of Banbury and bred in Cambridge was a good Linguist Philosopher Mathematician and Divine He wrote a Book entitled the Bride-bush which is variously construed He died 1639. Jo. Balle born at Casfigton bred B. D. in Oxford was Preacher at Whitmore in Stafford-shire His Treatise of Faith cannot sufficiently be commended He was a Humble Pious and good Natured Christian When his friend having had a fall from a Horse said that he never had the like deliverance Yea said Mr. Balle and a hundred times when you never fell He hated all New Lights Living comfortably he relieved others charitably left his children competently and died piously 1640. W. Chillingworth born in Oxford and bred in Trinity College was a subtil Disputant Going beyond the Seas he was in some sort reconciled to the Church of Rome but returning afterwards into England in testimony of his true Conversion he wrote a Book entitled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation He was taken Prisoner by the Parliaments Forces at Arundel-Castle and safely conducted to Chichester where hard usage hastned his death Dan. Featly D. D. born in or near to Oxford made the Speech in Corpus-Christi-College at the Funeral of Dr. Reynalds He was good in the Schools and in the Pulpit and a happy disputant against Papists In the conference with F. Fisher who was caught in a Net cast by Dr. White Dr. Featly did help strongly to draw that Net to the shore He was in but it seems not of the late Assembley his body being with them but his heart at Oxford Being discovered he was imprisoned in the College at Chelsey where he died 1643. Jo. White originally from Hant-shire born at Staunton-St John and bred in Oxford was Minister at Dorchester for about 40 years in which time he expounded the whole Scripture once over and half over again That Town was enriched by his Wisdom Knowledge causing Piety Piety breeding Industry and Industry Plenty unto it A beggar then was not to be seen in the Town He absolutely commanded his own Passions and the Purses of the Parishoners and was free from Covetousness He had a Patriarchal influence both in Old and New-England Yet towards the end of his days Factions grew in his stock then disloyal persons would not pay the due respect to the Crown of his old Age. He was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines He married the sister of Dr. Burges by whom he left 4 Sons and died quietly at Dorchester 163. Benefactors to the Publick Th. Tisdall of Glimpton Esq dying 1610. bequeathed 5000 l. to Geo. Abbot then Bishop of London and others to purchase Lands for the maintainance of 7 Fellows and 6 Scholars which Money was expended for the purchase of 250 l. per An. and a new College was erected therewith by the Name of Pembroke College Th. gave many other charitable Legacies and deserved well of Abbington School founding an Usher therein Memorable Persons Anne Green a person unmarried having been executed at Oxford 1650. for killing her Child recovered perfect health Charitable people interpret her so miraculous preservation a Compurgator of her Innocence Noted Sheriffs An. 11. W. Taverner Arm. in the year of his Sherivalty came to Oxford monarch Q. Eliz. went up into the pulpit at St. Maries with a sword by his side and a gold chain about his neck where he made a Sermon to the University 18 Rob. Doyle Knight in whose year the Black Assizes were at Oxford wherein the Prisoners caused the death of the Judge Chief Baron Bell the Sheriff some of the Lawyers many of the Justices and most of the Jury besides other persons of Quality there present It was generally imputed to the stench of the Prisoners cloathes and bodies 31 W. Clarke Arm. Son to W. Sher. 10 Jac. and grandchild to Sir Jo. of Northam 21. Henry 8. 36. Rich. Fenys bred in Oxford was lineally desended from Ja. Lord Say and Seal Treasurer of England in the days of Henry 6. was created An. 1 Ja. Lord Say and Seal He died 1612. W. Fenys his eldest Son was since created Visc Say and Seal and is still alive An. 3. Rich. Wenmam was by King Charles I. created monarch K. Ch. I. first Baron of Wenman of Chilmaynam in the County of Dublin and then Visc Wenman of Tuant in the County of Galloway both in the Kingdom of Ireland Rutland-shire RVtland-shire the least County in England is both pleasant and fruitful and in Form almost Orbicular The name is q. Redland from the colour of the Soyl. As for Buildings Burgley on the Hill belonged formerly to the Lords Harringtons but since so beautified by the D. of Buckingham that it was inferiour to few for the House superiour to all for the Stable It was demolished in the Civil War Of Wonders this is one that this County had never an absolute or entire Abby therein producing only Okeham and Brook two small Appurtenances to Convents in other Counties The cause whereof seems to have been Ed. the Confessor's giving all Rutland to Westminster Church which tho rescinded by William the Conqueror yet other Convents perchance might be scrupulous to accept what once belonged to another Foundation Proverbs I. Rutland Raddleman A poor sort of Trader that sells red stones or Oker for the marking of sheep Saints St. Tibba a Saxon was in the times of Superstition reputed the Patroness of Hawking and worshipped as a second Diana she lived a Virgin and Anchoress at Dormundcaster and died with the reputation of holiness about 660. Benefactors to the Publick W. Brown Esq twice Alderman
over-awed by God and John Duke of Lancaster he could do him no harm He was killed in the Rebellion of J. Straw and Wat Tyler 1381. being buried in St. Gregories Church in Sudbury Tho. Edwardston born in Edwardston bred in Oxford then Augustinian in Clare attended Lionel Duke of Clarence in Italy when he Married the Daughter of the Duke of Milan He wrote some Learned Works and undertook care of some Arch-Bishoprick probably during the vacancy thereof He dyed at Clare 1396. Tho. Peverel well descended a Carmelite and D. D. in Oxford was by Rich. 2. made Bishop of Ossory in Ireland whence he was removed to Landaff in Wales then to Worcester in England being much esteemed for his Learning as his Books do declare He dyed 1417. and lyeth buried in his own Cathedral Stephen Gardiner was born in Bury St. Edmunds and by some reported to be Base-Son to Lionel Woodvile Bishop of Salisbury though this Bishop was by others more truly conceived to be younger then he He was a Man of admirable natural parts and Memory especially and was bred Dr. of Laws in Trinity-Hall in Cambridge After many great Employments he was made Bishop of Winchester Being Secret in all his own Acts of Cruelty he often chid Bonner calling him Ass though not so much for killing poor people as for not doing it more cunningly He chiefly contrived the six Articles Gardiner's Creed which caused the death of many and trouble of more Protestants He had almost cut off Queen Kath. Par and prevented Queen Elizabeth from being Queen had not Divine Providence preserved them He throughly complyed with Henry 8. opposed K. Edw. 6. by whom he was imprisoned and deprived acted all under Q. Mary by whom he was restored and made Lord Chancellour of England He is reported to have avowed at his death Justification by the Merits of Christ only He dyed at Whitehall of the Gout Nov. 12. 1555 and was buried in the Quire leaving as is said 4000 Marks in ready Money behind him He improved his power with Queen Mary to restore some Noble Families formerly depressed viz. Some descendant from the Duke of Norfolk the Arundels of Warder-Castle and the Hungerfords Since the Reformation John Bale born at Covie and bred in Jesus-Colledge in Oxford was a Carmelite in Norwich He was converted to be a Protestant by the means of Thomas Lord Wentworth He wrote a Book de Scriptoribus Britannicis He was Bishop of Ossory in Ireland an 1552. whence on the death of Edw. 6. he fled some of his servants being slain before his eyes and in his passage over the Seas was taken Prisoner ransom'd and safely arrived in Switzerland Under Q. Eliz he was made only Prebendary of the Church of Canterbury being probably a pâ—â—son more learned then discreet fitter to write then govern as unable to command his own Passion and Biliosus Balaeus passeth for his true Character He dyed at Canterbury 1563. and was buried in the Cathedral Church therein John May bred in Cambridge was Consecrated Bishop of Carlile September 27. 1577. and dyed in April 1598. John Overal D. D. born at Hadley was Regius Professor in Cambridge and Master of Kath. Hall afterwards Dean of St. Pauls He was by King Jamâ—â— employed in the New Translation of the Bible and made Bishop of Norwich where he was a discreet presser of Conformity He dyed 1618. Leonard Maw born at Rendlesham antiently the Residence of the Kings of the E. Angles where K. Redwald kept at the same time a Communion Table and Altars for Idols was Master of Peter House then of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and in 5 years disengaged that Foundation from a great debt He was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was a Prince and waited on him in Spain by whom he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells A good Scholar grave Preacher mild man and gentile in his deportment He dyed 163. Ralph Brownrig D. D. born in Ipswich was the Son of a Merchant He was Fellow of Pembrook Hall in Cambridge where he to the wonder of the hearers performed the Joco-serious part of a Philosophy Act before King James no man had more ability or less inclination to be Satyrical His Wit was Page and not Privy Councellor to his Judgment He had a Loyal Memory quick Fancy solid Judgment and fluid Utterance being not only flumen but fulmen Eloquentiae When Commencing B. D. he chose for his Text Phil. 1. 29. To you it is given not only to believe but suffer somewhat Propâ—etical to him being afterwards affronted and defied by some who almost Deified him before in whose Eyes he seemed the blacker for wearing white Sleeves when 1641. made Bishop of Exeter Dr. Young Preaching his Consecration Sermon on this Text The Waters are risen c. complained of the many invasions which Popular Violence had made on the Rights and Priviledges of Church and State This Bishop himself was soon sadly sensible of such Inundations and yet by the procerity of his parts and piâ—ty he not only safely waded through them himself but also when Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge by his Prudence raised such Banks that those overflowings were not so destructive as otherwise they would have been to the University He continued constant to the Church of England a Champion of the needful use of the Liturgy and for the priviledges of Ordination to belong to Bishops alone Being unmoveable in his Principles of Loyalty he told Oliver the Usurper demanding his Advice in a matter of great difficulty My Lord the best Counsel I can give you is give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods with which free Answer O. C. was rather silenced then satisfied A little before his death he was Minister of both Temples He dyed December 7. 1659. Aet 67. The deserved Opinion of his goodness had peaceable possession in the hearts of the Presbyterian-Party and at his Burial the prime persons of all perswasions were present Dr. Jo. Gauden wrote the Memorials of his Life and hath since succeeded him in the Temple and Bishoprick of Exeter Statesmen Sir Nich. Bacon Knight born not far from St. Edmund Bury of a very ancient Family and bred in Ben. Colledge in Cambridge in which he built a beautiful Chappel after he had studied the Common Law was made Atturney to the Court of Wards whence he was preferred Lord Keeper of the Great Seal an 1. Eliz. 1558. He Married Anne second Daughter to Sir Anth. Cook of Giddy-Hall in Essex Governour to King Edw. 6. Queen Elizabeth relyed upon him as her Oracle in Law who that he might clear the Point of her Succession derived her Right from a Statute which allowed the same though there was a Statute whereby the Queen was made illegitimate in the days of her Father remained unrepealed the rather because Lawyers maintain that a Crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof He was a Man of rare Wit and deep
Judgment was remitted This Lord played in a manner Rubbers when his Head lay at Stake and having lost the fore recovered the after-game He dyed very Aged 1590. Seamen Th. Cavendish of Trimley Esq intending forreign discoveries on his own cost Victualled and Furnished three Ships the least of Fleets viz. the Desire Admiral 120 Tuns the Content Vice-Admiral 40 and the Hugh-Gallant Rere-Admiral 40 Tuns all three man'd with 123 and setting to Sea from Plymouth July 21. 1586. Entring the mouth of the Magellan Straits 7 Jan. following where they suffered great hunger Mr. Cavendish named a Town there Port-Famine The Spaniards intending to fortifie the Straits and engross the passage were smitten with such a Mortality that scarce 5 of 500 did survive On Feb. 24. they entred the South Sea and frequently landed as they saw occasion Many their Conflicts with the Natives more with the Spaniards coming off gainers in most and savers in all encounters that at Quinterno excepted April 1. 1587. when they lost 12 men of aâ—â—ount the cause that they afterwards sunk the Rere-Admiral for want of Men to manage her Of the many prizes he took the St. Anne was the most considerable being the Spanish Admiral of the S. Sea of 700 Tuns and 190 Men. There were 122000 Pezos each worth 8 shillings of Gold with other Rich Lading as Silks and Musk. Mr. Cavendish landed the Spaniards and left them plentiful Provisions Surrounding the East-Indies and returning for England the Content whose Men were mutinous stayed behind Mr. Cavendish safely landing at Plymouth Sept. 9. 1588. Amongst his Men three most remarkable Mr. John Way their Preacher Mr. Th Fuller of Ipswich their Pilote and Mr. Fr. Pretty of Eyke in this County who wrote the History of their Voyage Thus having circumnavigated the whole Earth let his Ship be no longer termed the Desire but the Performance He was the third Man and second Englishman of such universal undertakings In his next Voyage begun 26 August 1591. he was severed from his Company the November following near Port-desire by him formerly so named in the Megellan-Straits and never seen or heard of afterwards Physicians W. Butler born at Ipswich was Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge where he became the Aesculapius of our Age. He was the first Englishâ—man who quickned Galenical Physick with a touch of Paracelsus Being excellent at the instant discovery of a cadaverous face at the first sight of sick Prince Henry he got himself out of the way knowing himself to be Prince of Physicians he would be observed accordingly Complements would prevail nothing with him intreaties but little surely threatnings would do much and a witty jeer would do any thing Neatness he neglected into slovenliness and accounted cuffs to be manacles He made his humoursomness to become him wherein some of his Profession have rather aped then imitated him who kept the tenour of the same surliness to all persons He was a good Benefactor to Clare-Hall and dyed 1621 he was buried in the Chancel of St. Maries in Cambridge leaving nothing to his only Brother because he had turned Papist beyond the Seas VVriters Humphrey Necton a Carmelite in Norw and the first D. D. of his Order in Cambridge flourished under Hen. 3. and Edw. 1. and dyed 1303. Jo. Horminger Travelling in Italy where he heard some Italians villifie England as being only fruitful of a barbarous people wrote in her defence an Epitome of the Commodities thereof and after his return Of the Profit and Pleasure of England He flourished 1310. Th. of Ely born in Monks-Ely was a Carmelite the second D. D. of his Order in Cambridge He travelled over the Seas and kept Lectures at Bruges in Flanders till his death about 1320. Rich. Lanham a Carm. in Ipswich and D. D. in Oxford was a great Adversary to the Wicklevites His Learning is attested by the Books he left to Posterity Some say he was beheaded by the Rebellious Crew of Wat Tyler others that he dyed a natural death at Bristol 1381. Jo. Kinyngham a Carm. in Ipswich then bred in Oxford was prefect of his Order in England and Ireland Confessor to Jo of Gaunt and his Lady He was the first who encountred Wickliffe in the Schools of Oxford and disputed with great ingenuity and modesty whereupon his good Antagonist praâ—ed heartily that his Judgment might be convinced He dyed 1399. and was buried at York Jo. Lydgate born at Lydgate was a Benedictine in St. Edmund Bury the best Author of his Age in Poetry and Prose He wrote of himself as follows I wear a habite of Perfection Although my Life agrees not with the same c. He dyed about 1444. and was buried in his own Convent Jo. Barningham born at Barningham was a Carm. in Ipswich and D. D. in Oxford and in Sorbon the Cock-pit of Controversies He had a subtile Wit and was a great Master of Defence in Schools both to guard and hit He wrote 4 fair Volumes He dyed 1448. Jo. of Bury an Augustinian in Clare and D. D. in Cambridge was Prov. of his Order through England and Ireland and a great Opposer of Wicklevites flourishing 1460. Th. Scroope born at Bradley but descended from the Lord Scroope in Yorkshire was a Benedictine a Carmelite in Norwich then an Anchorite 20 years afterwards by papal dispensation Bishop of Drummore in Ireland and at last an Anchorite again yet using once a Week to walk on his bare Feet and Preach the Decalogue in the Villages round about About 1425. being cloathed with Sackcloth and girt about with an Iron Chain he cry'd out in the Streets That new Jerusalem was shortly to come down c. Rev. 21. and that with great Joy he saw the same in the Spirit Th. Waldensis the great Anti-VVicklivite offended thereat protested it was a great scandal to the Church Scroop lived very nigh 100 years being accounted a Holy man He was buried at Leâ—â—offe 1491. Since the Reformation Rich. Sibs born nigh Sudbury was Fellow in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge afterwards Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn whence he was chosen Master of St. Kath. Hall in Cambridge which he found in a low condition but left replenished with Scholars beautified and better endowed He was most eminent for Christian humility Of all points of Divinity he most pressed that of Christs Incarnation or Humility the true Original whence he copied his own He dyed 1631. W. Alabaster born at Hadley was Fellow in Trin. Colledge in Cambridge a most rare Poet witness his Tragedy of Roxana so admireably Acted in that Colledge and so pathetically that a Gentlewoman present thereat at the hearing of the last words thereof Sequar Sequar so hideously pronounced fell distracted and never after recovered her Senses He was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex in Calis Voyage where he staggered in his Religion and afterwards turned Papist though he returned both to his Religion and Country where he was made Preb. of St. Pauls and
for a long time at Chesterton was a Franciscan afterwards Cardinal being created by Pope Paul 3. 1557. who also made him Legat a Latere and Bishop of Salisbury Queen Mary in favour to Cardinal Pole prohibited this Legats entrance into her Court He dyed in France 1558. Prelates John Stratford Son of Robert and Isabel was born at Stratford and preferred by the Pope Bishop of VVinchester whereupon falling into the displeasure of Richard 2. 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 Queen Mother and Edward 3. till at last converted by his Constancy they turned their frowns into smiles upon him When Arch Bishop of Canterbury he furnished the King with great sums at his first setting forth for France but when the King afterwards sent 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 fain to pass his publick Purgation in Parliament by which he was restored to the Reputation of his innocence He built and bountifully endowed a beautiful Colledge in Stratford He dyed 1348 having been a Man of great Charity Meekness and Moderation Whose Kinsman Ralph Stratford was born in Stratford where he built a Chappel to the Honour of St. Thomas He was first Canon of St. Pauls and afterwards Bishop of London 1539 about which time there being a most grievous Pestilence in London this Bishop bought a piece of ground nigh Smithfield for the burial of the dead and named the same No-mans-land He dyed 1355 whose Brother Robert Stratford was in the Reign of Edward 3. made Bishop of Chichester being then Chancellour of Oxford and of all England He compremised a bloody contest and difference that arose about that time betwixt the South and North parts of that University He with his Brother Arch-Bishop being accused for favouring the French were afterwards freed from that false aspersion He dyed at Allingbourn 1362. John Vesty alias Harman Dr. of Law was born at Sutton Colefield bred in Oxford was a vivacious person He was appointed to celebrate Divine Service at Sutton aforesaid an 20. Henry 6. was Vicar of St. Michaels Church in Coventry 23 Henry 7. Dean of the Royal Chappel Tutor to the Lady Mary and President of VVales under Henry 8. and being advanced to be Bishop of Exeter an 11. of that King which Bishoprick he so destroyed that Bishop Hall his Successor complaineth that the following Bishops were Barons but Bare-ones indeed Some affirm the word Veize that is in the VVest to drive away with a Witness had its original from his profligating of the Lands of his Bishoprick He robbed his own Cathedral to pay a Parish Church Sutton in this County whereon he bestowed many Benefactions and built 51 houses He intended also but in vain to fix the Cloth Manufacture of Devonshire in the aforesaid Town He quitted his Bishoprick not worth the keeping in the Reign of Edward 6. He dyed being 103 years old in the Reign of Queen Mary and was buried in Sutton with his Statue Mitred and Vestred Since the Reformation Jo. Bird born in Coventry and bred a Carmelite at Oxford was the Provincial of his Order For his smart Sermon against the Primacy of the Pope preached before Henry 8. he was preferred Bishop of Bangor in VVales then of Chester in England Pitz saith he returned to the Vomit of Popery which I cannot believe though he might be guilty of a passive compliance as appears by his telling Mr. Haukes Protestant about the time of his Examination I would not wish you to go to far He dyed 1556. Statesmen Sir Nich. Throckmorton Knight fourth Son of Sir George of Coughton was bred beyond the Seas Under Queen Mary he was Arraigned for Treason complyance with VVyat and hardly escaped Queen Elizabeth employed him her Lieger in France and Scotland He was of the opposite party to Burleigh Lord Treasurer He was Chamberlain of the Exchequer and chief Butler of England which offices yielded him no considerable profit He dyed at Supper with eating of Salades not without suspicion of poyson the rather because happening in the House of no mean Artist in that Faculty Robert Earl of Leicester He dyed 1570 and lyeth buried in St. Katharine Cree-Church in London Edward Conway Knight was Son to Sir Jo. Knight Lord and Owner of Ragleigh in this County who was made by Robert Earl of Leicester Governour of the English Auxiliaries in the Vnited Provinces Governour of Ostend being a man of great skill in Military affairs His Son succeeding to his Fathers Wisdom and Valour was by King James made Principal Secretary of State and by him created Lord Conway of Ragleigh in this County and afterwards by King Charles I. Visc Killultagh in the County of Autrim Lastly an 30. Car. I. Visc Conway of Conway in Carnarvan shire He dyed 1630. Jo. Digby Baron of Sherborn and Earl of Bristol was employed by King James in several Embassies to Forreign Princes But his managing the Matchless Match with Spain was his Master-piece After the great Contest betwixt him and the Duke of Buckingham he fell into the Kings displeasure during which he was very popular with most of the Nation And the King was afterwards graciously pleased to reflect upon him at the beginning of the Long Parliament as one best able to give him the safest Counsel in those dangerous times but how he incensed the Parliament so far as to be excepted Pardon I know not After the surrender of Exeter he went over into France where he met with that due respect in Forreign which he missed in his Native Country He was a Cordial Champion of the Church of England He dyed in France 1650. Writers Walter of Coventry where he was a Benedictine was a Man as â—ale affirms worthy of immortal Memory and excelled in two Essential Qualities of an Historian Faith and Method being only guilty of coursness of Style From the beginning of the Britons he wrote a Chron. to his own time He flourished 1217. Vincent of Coventry born in Warwick was a Franciscan in Cambridge He was the first of his Order who applyed himself to Academical Studies and became publick Professor in Cambridge He set a Copy to the Carmelites left some Books to Posterity and dyed 1250. Jo. of Killingworth was bred in Oxford an excellent Philosopher Astronomer and Physician He was Father and Founder to all the Astronomers in that Age being a Star of the first Magnitude amongst those of that Faculty He flourished 1360. W. of Coventry where he was a Carmelite being lame in his Hip was called Claudus Conversus Conversus being properly one who is condemned or turned to servile work in the Monastery He preferred Charity to pilgrimages and wrote several Books flourishing 1360. Jo. Rouse born at Warwick and descended from the Rouses of 〈…〉 great 〈◊〉 of Learning in Oxford whence 〈…〉 a
all the World over for the largeness and workmanship thereof Appending to it is the Chapter-house such a Master-piece of Art that this Golden Verse is Engraved thereon Vt Rosa Flos Florum sic est Domus ista Domorum Proverbs I. Lincoln was London is and York shall be True it is that Lincoln is the greatest City in the Kingdom of Mercia that London is we know and if York shall be God knows It was indeed in a fair way of preferment when England and Scotland were first United into Great Britain But as for those who hope it shall be the English Metropolis they must wait until the River of Thames run under the great Arch of Ouse-Bridge However York shall be that is shall be York still as it was before Saints Flaccus Albinus alias Alcuinus born probably in York where he was advanced was bred under Ven. Bede and became a man of prodigious Learning He was Master to Charles I. Emperour who owed unto him the best part of his Title the Great being made Great in Arts and Learning by his Instructions He founded the University in Paris so that the Learning of the French was a Taper lighted at Our Torch His Name puts me in mind of their malitious and silly Anagram upon Calvin viz. Calvinus Lucianus who was an Atheist though there were many worthy persons of the same Name The same Anagram is found in Alcuinus He was first made Abbot of St. Augustines in Canterbury and afterwards of St. Martins in the City of Tours in France and dying 780 he was buried in a Convent appendant to his Monastery Many of the Modern Saints in the Church of Rome must modestly confess that on a due and true estimate Our Alcuinus was worth many scores of them so great his Learning and Holy his Conversation Sewal bred in Oxford was Scholar to St. Edmund 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 Arch-Bishop of York 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 mis-teach by their lascivious and debauched Conversations Let us now return to Sewald who never returned in the Popes favour but dyed of grief in the state of Excommunication 1258. Yet was he reputed a Saint in Vulgar Estimation Martyrs Valentine Freese and his Wife both born in this City gave their Lives therein at one Stake for the Testimony of Jesus Christ an 1531. probably by order from Edward Lee the cruel Arch-Bishop Confessors Edward Freese Brother to Valentine aforesaid was Apprentice to a Painter afterwards a Novice-Monk and leaving his Convent came to Colchester in Essex where discovering his Heretical Inclinations by Painting Sentences of Scriptures in the Borders of Cloaths he was called to an account by Jo. Stoaksley Bishop of London Mr. Fox saith he was fed with Manchet made of saw-dust and kept so long in Prison manicled till the Flesh had overgrown his Irons and he not able to Kemb his own head became so distracted that being brought before the Bishop he could say nothing but my Lord is a good Man We must not forget how the Wife of this Edward being big with Child and pressing in to see her Husband the Porter at Fulham gave her such a kick on the Belly that the Child was destroyed with that stroak immediately and she dyed afterwards of the same Prelates Jo. Roman whose Father was born at Rome was probably born in York seeing he was very indulgent to that City For generally Outlandish Mules though lying down in English Pasture used to leave no hairs behind them But this Jo. being advanced Arch-Bishop began to build the Church and finished the North part of the Cross-Isle therein Pol. Virg. praiseth him for a man of great Learning and Sincerity He fell into the disfavour of King Edward 1. for Excommunicating Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham and it cost him 4000 Marks to regain his Prince's good Will He dyed 1295. and was buried in his own Church Robert Walbey an Augustinian Friar in York went over into France where he was chosen Professor of Divinity in the City of Tholouse He was Chaplain to the Black Prince and after his death to his Father King Edward 3. Now as his Master enjoyed three Crowns so under him his Chaplain did successively partake of three Mitres being first a Bishop in Gascoigne then Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Ireland and afterwards Bishop of Chichester in England At last he was Consecrated Arch-Bishop of York He dyed 1397. Since the Reformation Thomas Morton born 1564. was Son to a famous Mercer reputed the first in York and allied to Cardinal Morton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He was bred in York School with that Arch-Traytor Guy Faux and afterwards in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge and for his Merit chosen Fellow thereof before 8 Competitors Commencing D. D. he made his Position on his second Question contrary to the expectation of Dr. Playfere replying upon him with some passion Commôsti mihi Stomachum to whom Morton returned Gratutor tibi Reverende Professor de bono tuo Stomacho canabis apud me hâc nocte He was successively preferred Dean of Glocester Winchester Bishop of Chester Coventry and Lichfield and Durham The Foundation which he laid of Forreign Correspondency with eminent persons of different perswasions when he attended as Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent by King James Ambassador to the King of Denmark c. he built upon unto the day of his death In the late Long Parliament the displeasure of the House of Commons fell heavy upon him partly for subscribing the Bishops Protestation for their Votes in Parliament partly for refusing to resign the Seal of his Bishoprick and Baptizing a Daughter of John Earl of Rutland with the Sign of the Cross two faults which compounded together in the judgment of honest and wise men amounted to an High Innocence Yet the Parliament allowed him 800 pounds a year a proportion above his Brethren for his Maintenance But the Trumpet of their Charity gave an uncertain sound not assigning by whom or whence this Sum should be paid Indeed the severe Votes of Parliament ever took full effect according to his observation who did Anagram it VOTED OVTED But their Merciful Votes found not so free performance however this good Bishop got 1000 pounds out of Goldsmiths Hall which afforded him support in his Old Age. He wrote against Faction in defence of three Innocent Ceremonies and against Superstition in his Treatise called The Grand Impostor He solemnly proffered unto me to maintain me to live with him which courteous proffer as I could not conveniently accept I did thankfully refuse Many of the Nobility deservedly honoured him