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A38421	England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.		1682 (1682)	Wing E3027; ESTC R218203	95,213	312

352 January 25. Gloucester Edward 3 1312 1326 January 25. 51 5 301 June 21. Westminster Richard 2 1366 1377 June 21. 22 3 279 September 29. Westminster The Line of Lancaster Henry 4 1367 1399 September 29. 13 6 265 March 20. Canterbury Henry 5 1584 1412 March 20. 9 5 256 August 31. Westminster Henry 6 1421 1422 August 31. 38 6 218 March 4. Windsor The Line of York Edward 4 1442 1460 March 4. 23 1 195 April 9. Winchester Edward 5 1433 1471 April 9. 0 2 195 June 18. Not known Richard 3 1448 1483 June 18. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester The Families United Henry 7 1459 1485 August 22. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester Henry 8 1491 1508 April 22. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester Edward 6 1537 1547 January 28. 37 10 132 June 28. Windsor Q. Mary 1518 1553 July 6. 6 5 125 July 6. Westminster Q. Eliz. 1533 1558 November 17. 44 4 76 March 24. Westminster The Union of the two Kingdoms James 1566 1602 March 24. 22 0 53 March 27. Westminster Charles 1 1600 1625 March 27. 23 11 30 January 30. Windsor Charles 2 1630 1648 January 30. Whom God grant long to Reign A CATALOGUE of the Peers and Nobility of England according to their Precedence Dukes James Duke of York and Albany Earl of Vlster Lord High Admiral of England the King 's only Brother Created Jan. 27. 1643. Rupert Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holdernesse Jan. 24. 1643. The Lord Chancellor Keeper Treasurer Privy Seal Take place of all the other Dukes Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Francis Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Christopher Monk Duke of Albemarle James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Henry Cavendish Duke of New-Castle Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton Marquesses Charles Pawlet Marq. of Winchester Henry Somerset Marq. of Worcester Henry Pierrepoint Marq. of Dorchester Earls The L. High Chamberlain of England Steward of the King's Houshold Chamberlain of the King's Houshold Take Place of all Earls in respect of their Places Aubry de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Anthony Grey Earl of Kent William Stanly Earl of Derby John Manours Earl of Rutland Theophil Hastings Earl of Huntington William Russell Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke Edward Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham James Howard Earl of Suffolk Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset and Middlesex James Cecill Earl of Salisbury John Cecill Earl of Excester John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester James Compton Earl of Northampton Edward Rich Earl of Warwick Holland Will. Cavendish Earl of Devonshire William Fielding Earl of Denbigh John Digby Earl of Bristol Charles Sackvill Earl of Middlesex and Dorset Gilbert Holles Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Charles Fane Earl of Westmorland Robert Montague Earl of Manchester Charles Howard Earl of Berkshire John Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave William Leg Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers Robert Berty Earl of Lindsey John Cary Earl of Dover ex Charles Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Mordant Earl of Peterborough Thomas Gray Earl of Stamford Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Caernarvan Mountjoy Blount Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield John Tufton Earl of Thanet Tho. Weston Earl of Portland Will. Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Nicholas Lerke Earl of Scarsdale John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Henry Jermin Earl of St. Albans Edw. Montague Earl of Sandwich James Butler Earl of Brecknock Henry Hyde Earl of Clarendon Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Robert Brukenel Earl of Cardigan Arthur Annesley Earl of Anglesey John Greenvill Earl of Bath Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle William Craven Earl of Crave Robert Bruce Earl of Aylesbury Richard Boyle Earl of Burlington Henry Bennet Earl of Arlington Anth. Ashly Cooper Earl of Shaftsbury George Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland Henry Howard Earl of Norwich William Herbert Earl of Powys Edw. Henry Lee Earl of Litchfield Charles Fitz-Charles Earl of Plymouth Thomas Leonard Earl of Sussex Thomas Osborn Earl of Darby John Maitland Earl of Gilford Lewis de Duras Earl of Feversham Charles Earl of Burford Viscounts Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Francis Brown Viscount Montague James Fiennes Viscount Say and Seale Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noel Viscount Cambden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg John Mordant Viscount Mordant George Savill Viscount Hallifax Robert Paston Viscount Yarmouth Francis Newport Viscount Newport of Bradford Barons George Nevill Lord Abergavenny James Touchet Lord Audly Charles West Lord De la Ware George Berkley Lord Berkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Montage Cogniers Darcy Lord Darcy and Meynel William Stourton Lord Stourton Henry Lord Sandys de la Vine Benj. Mildmay Lord Fitzwater Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Wingfield Cromwell Lord Cromwell Ralph Eure Lord Eure. Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Will. Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Pagett Lord Paget Charles North Lord North and Baron Grey of Rolston William Bruges Lord Shandois James Berty Lord Norris William Petre Lord Petre. Digby Gerard Lord Gerard of Gerard Bromley Charles Stanhop Lord Stanhop Henry Arundell Lord Arundel of Wardour Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Robert Grevill Lord Brook Edw. Montague Lord Mountague of Boughton Ford Grey Lord Grey of Wark John Roberts Lord Roberts John Lovelace Lord Lovelace John Pawlet Lord Pawlet William Maynord Lord Maynard George Coventry Lord Coventry James Lord Esrick Charles Mohun Lord Mohun William Boteler Lord Boteler Edw. Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seymore Lord Seymour Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carington Will. Widdrington Lord Widdrington Humble Ward Lord Ward Tho. Culpepper Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley John Lucas Lord Lucas John Bellasis Lord Bellasis Edw. VVatson Lord Rokingham Charles Gerard Lord Gerard of Brandon Gilbert Sutton Lord Lexinton Char. Kirkhaven Lord Wotton Marm. Langdale Lord Langdal Will. Croft Lord Croft dead John Berkley Lord Berkly of Stratton Denzil Holles Lord Holles Char. Cornwallis Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord De la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend John Crew Lord Crew John Frescheville Lord Frescheville Rich. Arundell Lord Arundel of Trerice Thomas Butler Lord Butler of Moor Park Thomas Clifford Lord Clifford of Chudley Richard Butler Lord Weston Charles North Lord Grey of Rollston and L. North of Cartlidge Heneage Finch Lord Daventry The Lords Spiritual Sancroft Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Rich. Sterne Arch-Bishop of York Isaac Barrow Bishop of St. Asaph Humphrey Lloyd Bishop of Bangor Peter Mew Bishop of Bath and Wells Guy Carleton Bishop of Bristol Edward Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle John Pierson Bishop of Chester Ralph Brideoake Bishop of Chichester Thomas Wood Bishop of Coventry Lichf William Lucie Bishop of St. Davids Nathanael Crew Bishop of Durham Peter Gunning Bishop of Ely Thomas Lamplugh Bishop of Excester John Prichard Bishop of Gloucester Herbert Crofts Bishop of Hereford VVilliam Lloyd Bishop of Landaffe Thomas Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Henry Compton Bishop of London Anthony Sparrow Bishop of Norwich John Fell Bishop of Oxford Joseph Henshaw Bishop of Peterborough John Dolben Bishop of Rochester Seth VVard Bishop of Salisbury George Morley Bishop of VVinchester James Fleetwood Bishop of VVorcester A CATALOGUE of all the Bishopricks in the two Provinces of Canterbury and York The Names of what Cities Shires or Counties are in each Diocess How many Parishes in each Diocess How many of them are Impropriations The Annual Revenue of each Bishoprick as it is in the Kings Book And how the Clergies Tenths are rated in each of them In the Province of CANTERBURY The Diocess of Canterbury Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Kent part 257 000 2816-17-09-1 0651-18-02-1 St. Asaph Part of Denbigh Flint Montgomery Merioneth Shropshire 121 000 0187-11-06-0 0186-19-07-3 Bangor All Carnarvan Anglesey Part of Denbigh Montgomery Merioneth 107 036 0131-16-04-0 0151-14-03-1 Bath and Wells Somersetshire all 388 160 0533-01-03-0 0353-18-00-3 Bristol Bristol City Dorsetshire all 236 064 0338-08-04-0 0353-18-00-3 Chichester Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Sussex all 250 112 0677-01-00-3 0287-02-00-3 Coventry and Lichfield All Darbyshire Staffordshire Part of VVarwickshire Shropshire 557 250 0559-18-02-3 0590-16-11-1 Eely All Cambridgeshire Eely Isle 141 075 2134-18-05-3 0384-14-09-1 St. Davids All Pembrookshire Cardiganshire Radnorshire Brecknockshire Part of Monmouth Hereford Montgomery Glamorgan 308 120 0457-01-10-3 0336-14-10-0 Excester All Devonshire Cornwall 604 239 0500-00-00-0 1200-15-02-0 Gloucester Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Gloucestershire all 267 125 0315-17-02-0 0358-15-00-0 Hereford Herefordshire all Shropshire part 313 136 0768-10-06-3 340-02-02-2 Landaffe Part of Glamorgan Monmouth 107 098 0154-14-01-0 155-05-04-0 Lincoln All Lincolnshire Leicestershire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Huntingdonshire Hertfordshire part 1255 577 0894-10-01-2 751-14-06-0 London All Middlesex Essex Part of Hertfordshire 622 189 1119-08-40-0 821-15-01-0 Norwich All Norfolk Suffolk 1181 385 0899-18-07-2 1117-13-00-1 Oxford Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Oxfordshire all 195 88 0354-16-04-2 255-08-00-0 Peterborough All Northamptonshire Rutlandshire 293 91 0414-19-11-0 520-16-08-0 Rochester Kent Part. 098 36 0358-03-02-1 222-14-06-3 Salisbury All Barkshire VViltshire 544 109 1367-11-08-0 901-08-01-0 Worcester VVorcester all VVarwickshire part 241 071 1049-17-03-3 228-00-00-0 Winchester All Surrey Southampton Isle of VVight Isle of Jersey Isle of Garnsey Sark and Ald. 362 131 2973-04-02-3 846-01-00-0 In the Province of YORK The Diocess of York   Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Nottinghamshire Yorkshire part 581 336 1609-19-02-0 1113-17-09-3 Carlisse Cumberland part VVestmorland all 093 018 0530-04-11-2 0161-01-07-2 Chester All Cheshire Lancashire Part of Yorkshire Cumberland 256 101 0420-01-08-0 0435-12-00-0 Durham Durham all Northumberland part Yorkshire part 135 087 1821-01-05-1 0385-05-06-2 Man The Isle of Man 017 The Total Number of Dukes 11 Marquesses 3 Earls 73 Viscounts 11 Barons 66 Baronets 668 Arch-Bishops 2 Bishops 24 Principal Secretaries of State 2 Judges 12 Judges of the Court of Kings Bench 4 Judges of the Court of Common Pleas 4 Barons of Exchequer 4 Counties in England 39 Counties in VVales 13 Islands 8 Parliament Men 509 Hundreds 768 Market-Towns 713 Parishes 9241 FINIS

my Author that the Sea hath overflowed much Land on this Coast About Kilgarran are abundance of Salmons taken And there also is a place called Salmons-Leap for this Reason The Salmon coveteth to get into fresh-water Rivers to Spawn and when they come to places where the water falls down suddenly from some higher place as many such there be they use this piece of natural Policy They bend themselves backward and take their Tails in their Mouths and with all their force unloosing their Circle on a suddain he mounteth up before the fall of the Stream And therefore these downright Falls or rather Cataracts of water are called Salmon-Leaps In the Island of Scalmey on the West side of this Shire there grows abundance of wild Thyme Radnorshire THis Shire is bounded on the East by Herefordshire On the West and South by Brecknockshire And on the North by Montgomeryshire It containeth in length 27 miles In breadth 20 miles And in Circumference 8 miles This Shire hath cold Air and sharp because of the Snow lying long unmelted under the shady Hills and hanging Rocks of which there are many The Soil saith Speed is hungry though not barren but that on the East and South parts is the best The North and West are rough and churlish and hardly bettered by painful Labour so that they serve chiefly for the reering of Cattel and Horses Their Commodities are Cattel Cheese and Horses It is in the Diocess of Hereford And hath in it 52 Parishes Out of it are elected 2 Members to sit in Parliament Knight 1 Radnor 1 Its Division is into 6 Hundreds viz. Knighton Rayadergowy Kevenllice Radnor Poinscastle Collowyni And in these Hundreds are 3 Market-Towns viz. New Radnor Thurs Knighton Thurs Prestaine Saturday The Shire-Town is Radnor It lies in the Latitude of 52 deg 22 min. It bears from London W. N. W. And is distant therefrom 115 miles Thus From London to Worcester 85 miles as in Worcestershire to Radnor 115. But by more accurate admeasurement the distance is found to be 148 miles from London The Town of Radnor is pleasantly seated under a Hill whereon formerly stood a large and strong Castle Although Radnor be the Shire-Town yet Prestayn for beauteous Building is the best in this Shire a Town of good Commerce and Trade and of late years much frequented There is no Remarque of note in all this Shire OF THE ISLANDS ABOUT England I. Of MAN Island THis Island lyeth open on the East against Lancashire On the West against Ireland On the South against Anglesey And on the North against Scotland It containeth in length 35 miles In breadth in the broadest place 10 miles And in Circumference 82 miles The Air is cold and sharp and needs must having for a shelter nothing but a Wall of Water The Soil is reasonable fruitful both for Corn and Cattel and by the industry of the Inhabitants yieldeth sufficient of every thing for its self and a moderate supply for other Countries The chief Commodities are Corn Cattel Fish Hemp and Flax. The People of this Island are happy in this That all Controversies are there determined by certain Judges whom they call Deemsters chosen among themselves without Writings or other charges If any complaint be made to the Magistrate of wrong done or received he presently takes up a Stone and fixeth his mark upon it and delivereth it to the Plaintiff by vertue of which he both calls his Adversary to appearance and also Summons his Witnesses If the Cause be more difficult or litigious and cannot be ended by the Magistrate it is then referred to 12 men whom they term The Keys of the Island This Island is so well managed for Civil Rule and Government that every man there possesseth his own in peace and safety No man liveth in fear of losing what he hath And the men there are not inclinable to Robbing Pilfering or Licentious living The Inhabitants are generally Religiously given and do much Reverence to their Pastors daily frequenting the Church and avoiding all Controversies either Ecclesiastical or Civil The Gentrey do much imitate the people of Lancashire both for their honest Carriage and good House-keeping Things Remarkable in this Island The middle part of this Island riseth up with high Hills the highest of which is called Sceafull from the top whereof upon a cleer day a man may easily behold three Kingdoms at once viz. England Scotland and Ireland The Women of this Countrey whensoever they go out of their doors gird themselves about with their Winding-sheet that they purpose to be Buried in to shew themselves mindful of their Mortality If a Woman at any time be condemned to die she is sowed up in a Sack and flung from a Rock into the Sea In the South part of the Island the Speech of the Inhabitants doth much incline to the Irish Tone as the Northern Inhabitants Speech doth to the Scotch The Island is defended by 2 Castles in it are 14 Parishes and 5 Market-Towns II. Of WIGHT Island THis Island is encompassed round with the Brittish Sea It containeth in length 20 miles In breadth 12 miles and in Circumference 60 miles The Air is delightful and very wholsom The Soil is very fruitful produceing Corn not enough only to supply the Inhabitants of the Island but to supply other neighbouring people The Sea about this Island is exceeding full of Fish And the Land is well stored with Grain and Cattel and almost all places are stored with Conies Hares Partridges and Pheasants The chief Commodities are Cattel Sea-Fowl Corn and Fish It is in the Diocess of Worcester And hath in it 36 Parishes It s Division is into two Medens viz. East-Meden West-Meden In it are 3 Market-Towns The Principal Town in this Island is Newport lying in the Latitude of 50 deg 35 min. This Town of Newport is well seated and much frequented It is very populous It hath an entrance into the Island from the Haven and a passage for Vessels of small Burthen unto the Key It is Governed by a Maior and Burgesses Things Remarkable in this Island In the year of Christ 1176. in this Island it raigned a Shower of Blood which continued the space of 2 hours III. Of JERSEY Island THis Island lyeth upon the Brittish Sea and hath upon the North parts the Coasts of Hampshire and on the South the Countrey of Normandy It containeth in length 10 miles In breadth 6 miles And in Circumference 38 miles It is a very delightful and pleasant Island The Soil is very fertile and produceth great store of Corn and Cattel but especially Sheep in abundance whose Wool is very fine and white of which they make Stockings The chief Commodities are Fish Cattel Sheep Lobsters Wool and in Summer the best Lobsters England affords Firing as Wood is very scarce and their chief firing is Turff Furze c. In the Island are 12 Parishes and 4 Castles The Captain is the Governour of the Island who appointeth