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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

found ●n our Isles of Britain An. In the Isle of Man are found at this day certain Trees of Timber and other Wood in great abundance many fathoms under the ground which were thought to be brought thither and 〈◊〉 in Noahs flood and not discovered till of late years At Barry Island in Glamorgan-shire upon ● Clift or Hole of a Rock laying your ear unto it you may hear sometimes as it were ●he noise of blowing the Bellows others of Smiths striking at the Anvil sometimes ●iling clashing of Armour and the like this ●s said to be by inchantment by the great Merlin who bound certain Spirits to work here in making of Armour for Aurelius Am●rosius and his Britains until his return but he being killed they by the force of his harm are constrained to labour there still Qu. By how many several Nations hath this Land been inhabited An. The first Inhabitants hereof were the Britains whose off-spring at this day is the Welsh our seeming ancient Historians de●ive them from the Trojans who came hither under the conduct of one Brutus but this by Mr. Cambden and our late Antiquaries is rejected as a fable who by many unanswerable arguments prove them to be descended from the Gauls they were questionless a warlike Nation and stoutly with stood the Romans in their invasion of them being at last more over come by the treachery o● Androge●s and others than by the Roman puissance The next were the Romans who entered the Island under the conduct of Julius Casar some few years before the birth of our Savior It continued a Roman Province till after the year 400 when Proconsul Aetite taking with him away the Legoniary Soldiers to defend Gallia from the Franks and Burgundians left South Britain a prey to the Scots and Picts quitting our Island of themselves to defend those Provinces nearer home The third Nation were the Saxons a people of Germany called in by Vortiger Kin● of the Britains in aid against the Scots and Picts who then over-run this Island bu● these Guests soon become their Masters wh● under the leading of Hengist and Horsus ● planted themselves in this Island that the n●tive Inhabitants could never recover it from them These Saxons came not in all at once b● at seven several times each under their Le●ders gaining a part from our Brittish Monarchy till at last they ingrossed the who● to themselves then was England divide● into a Heptarchy or seven several Kingdom all which were united into one by Egb● King of the West-Saxons who was the first English Monarch The fourth people were the Danes who made violent irruptions in this Island under the Reign of King Ethelred the Saxon and so far they prevailed that he was contented to pay them the yearly Tribute of 10000 pounds which at last they enhanced to 48000 pounds This Tyranny Ethelred not able to endure warily writ to his Subjects to kill all the Danes as they slept on St Brices night being the 12. of November which being executed accordingly Swain King of Denmark came with a Navy of three hundred and fifty sail into England drove Ethelred over into Normandy and tyrannized over the English with a very high hand every English house maintaining one Dane whom they called Lord who living idly and receiving all the profit of the English labours gave occasion to after-ages when they saw an idle fellow to call him a Lurdan And so imperious were they that if an English man and a Dane had met on a Bridge the English man must have gone back and stayed till the Dane had come over They used also when the English drank to stab them or cut their throats to avoid which villany the party then drinking used to request some of the next sitters by to be his surety or pledge whilst he paid Nature her due and hence have we our usual custom of pledging one another finally after the Reign of three Kings the English threw off their yoke and the Saxons were re-inthronized The fifth Conquest thereof was by William Duke of Normandy Anno 1066. who with a strong Army entred the Land flew King Herald and with him 66654 of his English Soldiers Somewhat before that time was a great Comet which portended as it was thought this change of Government of which one wrote thus A thousand six and sixty year It is as we do read Since that a Comet did appear And English men lay dead Of Normandy Duke William then To England ward did sail Who conquer'd Harold and his men And brought this Land to bale A brief Epitome or Chronical-discourse of the Kings of England since the Norman Conquest VVIlliam the First sirnamed Conqueror bastard Son to Robert Duke of Normandy who having conquer'd the Country used such policies as utterly disheartened the English from hopes of better fortune who thereupon yielded to him and he having for twenty two years ruled or rather tyrannized over the English Nation dyed and was buried at Cane in Normandy William the second sirnamed Rufus the second son of the Conqueror took the Crown upon him his eldest Brother Robert being then busie in the Holy-Land who when the Christians had conquered Jerusalem chose him King thereof but he hoping for the Crown of England refused it but his brother William taking possession in his absence stoutly defended his Title brought Duke Robert to composition and having reigned twelve years and eleven months wanting eight days he at last hunting in the new Forrest was by the glance of an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tirrel struck in the breast whereof he immediately dyed and was buried at Winchester Anno 1100. Henry the first the youngest Son of the Conqueror yet too old for his brother Robert in policy took the advantage of time and stept into his Throne in his absence against whom he warring was by him taken and had his eyes put out this Henry was for his learning sirnamed Beauclark he reduced the measures of England to that proportion which we now call an Ell he left behind him only one Daughter reigned thirty five years and lieth buried at Reading Stephen Earl of Blois Son to Alire Daughter to the Conqueror usurped the Crown he was a man of Noble parts and hardy passing comely of favor and personage he excelled in martial policy gentleness and liberality towards men to purchase the peoples love he released them of the tribute called Darn-gelt he had continual War against Maud the Empress and after a troublesome Reign of eighteen years ten months and odd days he dyed and lieth buried at Font Everard Henry the Second Son to Maud the Empress Daughter to Henry the first and to Maud Daughter to Malcolm King of Scotland and Margaret Sister to Edgar Etheling by which means the Saxon blood was restor'd to the Crown This Henry was a most magnanimous Prince and by his fathers inheritance added many of the French Provinces to the English Crown as also the Dutchy of Aquitain and the

Earldoms of Guyen and Poictou by Elbiner his wife and a great part of Ireland by conquest towards the latter end of his Reign he was much troubled with the unnatural Rebellion of his Sons He dyed the sixth day of July Anno 1189. and Reigned twenty four years and seven months lacking eleven days Richard the first for his valor and magnanimous courage sirnamed Coeur de Lion he with a most puissant Army warred in the Holy-Land where by his acts he made his name very famous overcoming the Turks in several Battels whom he had almost driven out of Syria he also took the Isle of Cyprus which he afterwards exchanged for the Title of King of Jerusalem after many worthy atchievements performed in those Eastern parts returning homewards to defend Normandy and Aquitain against the French he was by a Tempest cast upon the Coast of Austria where he was taken prisoner and put to a most grievous Ransom finally he was slain at the siege of Chaluz in France by a shot from an Arbalist the use of which warlike Engine he first shewed to the French whereupon a French Poet made these Verses in the person of Antropos Hoc volo non alia Richardum marte perire Ut qui Francigenis Balistae primitus usum Tradidit ipse sui rem primitus experiatur Quamque aliis docuit in se enim sentiat artis It is decreed thus must great Richard die As he that first did teach the French to dart An Arbalist 't is just he first should try The strength and taste the Fruits of his own Art In his days lived those Outlaws Robin Hood Little John c. King John next succeeded or rather usurped the Crown his eldest Brothers Son Arthur of Britain being then living He was an unnatural Son to his Father and an undutiful subject to his Brother neither sped he better in his own Reign the French having almost gotten his Kingdom from him who on the Popes curse came to subdue it with whom joyned many of his Subjects by which the Land was brought to much misery Finally after a base submission to the Popes Legat he was poysoned by a Monk at Sw●nested-Abby after he had reigned seventeen years and five months lacking eight days and lyeth buried at Worcester Henry the third Son to King John against whom the rebellious Barons strongly warred yet however he expelled the intruding French out of England confirmed the Statutes of Magna Charta and having reigned fifty six years and twenty eight days was buried at Westminster of which Church he built a great part Edward the first sirnamed Long-shanks who warred in the Holy-Land where he was at the time of his Fathers death a most Heroick magnanimous Prince he awed France subdued Wales and brought Scotland into subjection disposing of the Crown thereof according to his pleasure he brought from thence the Regal Chair still reserved in Westminster-Abby he was a right vertuous and fortunate Prince Reigned thirty four years seven months and odd days and lyeth buried at Westminster Edward the second a most dissolute Prince hated of his Nobles and contemned by the vulgar for his immeasurable love to Pierce Gaveston and the two Spencers on whom he bestowed most of what his Father had purchased with his Sword as one writeth in these Verses Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand Albania Gascoyn Cambria Ireland That young Carnarvon his unhappy Son Should give away all that his Father won He having Reigned nineteen years six months and odd days was deposed and Edward his eldest Son Crowned King Edward the third that true pattern of vertue and valor was like a rose out of a Bryar an excellent Son of an evil Father he brought the Scots again to a formal obedience who had gained much on the English in his Fathers life time laid claim to the Crown of France in right of his Mother and in pursuance of his Title gave the French two great overthrows taking their King prisoner with divers others of the chief Nobility he took also that strong and almost impregnable Town of Callice with many other fair possessions in that Kingdom Reigned fifty years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Richard the second Son to Edward the black Prince the eldest Son of King Edward the third an ungovern'd and dissolute King He rejected the sage advice of his Grave Counsellors was most ruled by his own self-will'd passions lost what his Father and Grand-father had gained and at last his own life to the Lancastrian faction in his time was that famous or rather infamous rebellion of Wat Taylor and Jack Straw He having Reigned twenty two years three months and odd days was deposed and murdered at Pomfret Castle Henry the fourth Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster third Son to Edward the third obtained the Crown more by force than by lawful succession he was a wise prudent Prince but having gotten the Crown unjustly was much troubled with insurrection of of the subjects which he having quieted surrendred to fate having reigned thirteen years six months and odd days and was buried at Canterbury Henry the fifth who from a dissolute vicious Prince became the mirror of Kings and pattern of all Heroick performance he pursued his Title to the Crown of France bear the French at Agin Court and was in a Parliament of their Nobility Clergy and Commons ordained Heir apparent to the French Crown but lived not to possess it dying in the full carrier of his victories at Vincent Boys in France and was brought over into England and buried at Westminster He Reigned nine years five months and odd days Henry the sixth sirnamed of Windsor his birth-place of whom it was prophesied that What Henry of Monmouth had won which was his Father Henry of Windsor should lose He was a very pious Prince and upheld his State during the life of his Unkles John Duke of Bedford and Humphrey of Glocester after whose deaths the Nobility growing factious he not only lost France to the French but England and his life to the Yorkish faction He having reigned thirty eight years was overthrown by Edward Earl of March descended by the Mothers side from Lionel Duke of Clarence second Son to King Edward the third was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Cherlsey since removed to Windsor Edward the fourth a prudent politick Prince He after nine bloody Battels especially that of Tawton in which were slain of the English thirty six thousand on both sides was at last quietly seated in his dominions of England and Ireland Reigned twenty two years one month and odd days and was buried at Windsor Edward the fifth his Son a King proclaimed but before his Coronation was murdered in the Tower Richard the third brother to Edward the fourth was Crowned King ascending to the same by steps of blood murdering King Henry the sixth and Prince Edward his Son 3.

Dagobert the first build a Church in the place where he was buried for so it happened that this Dagobert during the life of Clotoyre the second his Father had cruelly slain Sadrasegille h●● Governor To avoid the fury of his Father much incensed with that Unprincely action he was compelled to wander up and down France hungry and thirsty In this miserable condition coming to the Sepulchre of S● Denis he laid him down and slept when there appeared to him an old man with a staff i● his hand who told him that his Father wa● dead and that he should be King and desired him that when it came so to pass he would build a Church there in the honour of St. Denis which Dagobert coming to be King accordingly did and a Bishop was sent for i● all haste to bless it But it hapned the night before the Bishops coming that there cam● to the Town an ugly Leper who desired to lie in the Church And when he was ther● about twelve a clock at night our Saviour came into the Church in white Garments and with him the Apostles Angels and Martyrs with most delicious Musick And then Christ blessed the Church and bid the Leper tel● the Bishop that the Church was already blessed and for a token of it he gave the Lep●● his health who on the next morning wa● found to be sound and perfectly whole The Legend of Saint Romain SAint Romain was Bishop of Roven i● France It happened that in his time there was a poysonous Dragon which had done much harm to all the country thereabouts many ways had been tryed to destroy him but none prospered at last Romain being then Bishop of the Town undertook to do it and accompanied onely with a Thief and a Murtherer he marched towards the place where the Dragon lay upon sight of the Dragon the Thief stole away but the Murderer went on and saw the Holy man vanquish the Serpent and onely with a Stole ● which is a neck habit sanctified by his Holiness of Rome and made much after the manner of a Tippet with this stole tyed about the neck of the Dragon doth the Murderer ●ead him prisoner to Roven the people much admiring at the same highly extolling the Bishop pardoned the Murderer and burned the Dragon to ashes In memory of this marvellous act King Dagobert the first who Reigned in France Anno 632 granted unto Andoin or Owen successor to St. Romain that from that time forwards the Chapitre of the Cathedral Church of Roven should every Ascension day have the faculty of delivering ●ny Malefactor whom the Laws had condemned This that King then granted and all the following Kings even to this time have successively confirmed it Of Saint Dunstan SAint Dunstan was Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the time of Etheldred the Saxon King he was according to the opinion of these times of great sanctity of life being ● sleep one day in the Church he dreamed some thing of the Devil whereupon he ran about pursuing him even to the top of the Church and came down again in his sleep without any hurt At another time the Devil came to tempt him in the likeness of a beautiful Damosel but St. Dunstan caught up a pair of tongs being red hot and therewith so pincht the Devil by the Nose a● quite spoiled his countenance and for ever taking Tobacco throw the nose again He also coming once into a Gentlemans house where were several Instruments hanging up against the Wall at his entrance in they of their own accord fell on playing It is reported of him that when he Christened King Ethelred the child with his ordure defiled the Fount whereupon Sr. Dunstan said By Gods Holy Mother this Child if he live will prove a sloathful person which accordingly came to Pass the Danes in his time over-running England This Saint Dunstan flourishing about the year of our Lord 978. Of Thomas Becket THomas Becket was the Son of one Gilbert Becket which Gilbert being taken prisoner among the Sarazens the Kings daughter of that countrey fell in love with him gained his liberty and came over into England where she was baptiz'd in the Church of S. Paul and married to this Gilbert who upon her begot this Thomas afterwards made Arch-bishop of Canterbury by King Henry th● second in which place he behaved himself very high as well against the King as against the Nobles nor was he it seems much beloved of the Commons for coming one day into Town in Kent the people cut off his Horse tail whereupon the Children of that Count for a long time after as the Legend reports were born with long tails like Horses he was at last slain in his Cathedral Church of Canterbury by four Knights and after his death by the Pope Canonized for aSaint Many miracles are said to be by him performed as namely how a fellow for stealing a Whetstone was deprived of his eyes but praying to St. Thomas he had his sight again restored nay a Bird flying out of a Cage and being pursued by a Hawk and ready to be seized on the Bird crying out only Saint Thomas help me the Hawk immediately fell down dead and the Bird escaped His Tomb was afterwards much enriched with costly gifts and visited by Pilgrims from all places according to what we find in Chaucer From every Shires end Of England do they wend The Holy blissful Martyrs Tomb to seek Who hath them holpen wherein they beseke JESTS A new way to know the Father of a Child A Wench that lived in a Knights service was gotten with child and brought to bed of a goodly Boy before it was publickly known in the house after her uprising being examined before a Justice of the Peace to know who was the Father of the child she said she could not tell well her self for there was two of the Knights servants that had to do with her about the same time whereof one was a Welsh man the other an English man one of them she said was the father but which of the two she was not certain This doubtful case put the Justice in a great quandary upon which of them to lay the charge of bringing up the child but the Clerk said he would soon decide the controversie whose the child was and thereupon went into the Kitchen and toasted a bit of Cheese and then brought it and offer'd it the child putting it to his mouth which made the Child to cry refusing it as much as it could Whereupon the Clerk said upon my life the Welshman is not the father of it for if he were it would have eaten toasted cheese at a day old The King of Swedens Goose THe King of Swethland coming to a town of his enemies with a very little company they to slight his force did hang out a Goose for him to shoot at but perceiving before night that these few soldiers had invaded and set their chiefest Holds on fire they demanded

which Pilgrims from all places come to visit the Tomb of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury who was there enshrined as witnesseth Chaucer fro all England do they wend The Holy blissful Martyrs Tomb to see c. And now also of the City of Loretto in Italy which at first was but a mean Village but is now grown a rich and populous City for the opinion that the chamber of the Virgin Mary is there the Legend whereof here followeth This Chamber they say was the same wherein the Virgin Mary was saluted by the Angel with those joyful tidings of the Conception of our Saviour being then at Nazareth in Judaea and was after the Virgins death had in great Reverence by the Christians where it remained untouched till all Palestine was subdued by the Turks and Saracens Anno 1291. then was it most miraculously transported into Sclavonia but that place being unworthy of the Virgins divine presence it was by the Angels carried over into the Sea-cost of Italy An. 1294. but that place proving as bad as the other being infected with Thieves and Pirats the Angels removed it to the little Village of Loretto where her miracles being quickly divulged drew thither a great concourse of People insomuch that Paul the second Pope of Rome built over this chamber a most stately Church whither Pilgrims from all places resort to this day to the great enriching thereof which by this means it is now from a poor Village grown to be a wealthy City Q. Which is the chief City in England Ans London which is accounted to contain in circuit 8 miles is enriched with a Navigable River the Palace of the King divers houses of the Nobility and several Colledges for the Study of the Laws the next to which is the City of York according to the verse Londinum caput est regni urbs Brittanni Eboracum à prima jure secundae venit London is Englands chiefest Town well known The second place York claimeth as its own Q. Who was the first builder of London A. The common received opinion is that it was Brutus the Son of Silvius and Grandchild to Aeneas who having by accident killed his Father was for the fact banished his Countrey with whom accompanied him many worthy persons to be partakers of his fortune who after many wandrings and adverse fortunes at last arrived in England at a place called Totnes in Devonshire as the Poet Neckam sings The Gods did guide his sayl and course the winds were at command And Totnes was the happy shore where first he came on Land This Land was then inhabited with Gyants the chief of which was named Gogmagog with whom Corineus one of Brute's followers encounter'd though he were a Gyant of twelve Cubits high and of such puissance that he could pull up a great Oak at one pull as if it had been a small Wand when they came together Corineus laid by his armour and challenged his Combatant to Handy-gripes who at first came upon him with such fury and violence that he crushed in pieces three of Corineus's ribs where with he being mightily enraged redoubling his strength threw him upon his shoulder and so carried him to the top of a Rock and threw him down head-long into the Sea where he perished with the fall which place is called to this day Gogm●gogs-Leap In reward of his valiant act Brute bestowed upon the noble Corineus that part of the Land which he after his name cal'd Coriner afterwards by corruption of speech it was called Cornubia and now Cornwal Brute afterwards having the Land of those Gyants erected a City on the River of Thames which he named after the Seat of his Ancestors New Troy which is the same that is now called London as one writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 razed Troy to rear a Troy sit place he searched then And Viewing first the Northern parts these fit quoth he for men That trust as much to Flight as fight our Bulworks are our breast A Trojans Courage is to him a Bulwork of unrest Then casting a more pleasant eye where Thames did fairly glide Resolv'd he to erect the same upon that Rivers side He many Houses built therein and clos'd it in with Wall Which Lud did after beautifie and Luds-Town did it call Q. What do the common Countrey people think of London Ans Those who have never seen it account it a very strange wonderful place One having a Brother living there directed his Letter thus To his loving Brother T. W. living at London Another had a great mind to see the City only he said he was not acquainted with any of the Porters to open the Gates and let him in Q. Which are the Principal Rivers in England A. The chief is the Thamesis or Thames compounded of the two rivers Thame Isis the former whereof rising somewhat beyond Tame in Buckinghamshire and the latter beyond Cirencester in Glocestershire meet together about Dorcester in Oxfordshire the issue of which happy conjunction is the Thamesis or Thames the most glorious River of all Europe The second is the Severn which taketh its beginning in Plinlimon Hill in Mountgomery-shire and his end about seven miles from Bristol washing in the mean space the walls of Shrewsbury Worcester and Glocester this River is said to take its name from Sabrina the daughter of Estrild who being taken by Queen Guendeline was cast into this River and there drowned The third River of note is Trent so call'd for that thirty kind of Fishes are found in it or for that it receiveth thirty lesser Rivulets it hath its Fountain in Strafford-shire and gliding through the Counties of Notingham Lincoln Leicester and York burieth its self in the turbulent Current of the Humber The fourth is Medway a Kentish River the Common Harbor for the Royal Navy The fifth is Tweed the North east bound of England on whose fertile banks is seated the strong and impregnable Town of Barwick The sixth is Tine which mightily enricheth the Town of Newcastle by the conveyance from thence of her plenty of Coals These and the rest of most principal concern are thus comprehended in one of Mr Drayton's Sonnets Our Floods Queen Thames for Ships and Swans is crown'd And stately Severn for her Shore is praised The Chrystal Trent for Fords and Fish renown'd And Avons fame to Albions Cliffs is raised Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee York many wonders of her Owse can tell The Peak her Dove whose banks so fertile be And Kent will say her Medway doth excel Cotswal commends her Isis to the Tame Our Northern Borders boast of Tweeds fair Flood Our Western parts extol their Willies fame And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood Q. Who is the most renowned for memory that we have heard or read of An. In former times Seneca who writes of himself that he was able to recite two thousand words after they were once read unto him and of late days we find Mr.

burying within the walls was alike granted to all Qu. Which is the surest way to make a man's name immortal either by strong stone buildings and calling them after their own names or like Homer Virgil or Ovid by leaving behind them some witty Poem or Invention in Paper An. To this the Poet will give you a ready Answer Marmor a Maeonii vincunt monument a libelli Vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt The Muses Works Stone Monuments out-last 'T is Wit keeps Life all else death will down cast Qu. What death according to History do we find that Aristotle that great Philosopher and Searcher out of the Secrets of Nature died of An. History tells us that he drowned himself in the River Euripus which being a small River betwixt Eubeo and Achata and ebbing and flowing seven times in a day contrary to the nature of other Rivers when he could not find out the reason thereof it is said that he threw himself therein with these words Quia ego non capio te tu capias me If I cannot contain thee thou shalt contain me Qu. Who was the first man that publickly in writing set forth a tractate of the Antipodes An. Many are of opinion that the Antipodes was known to the Ancients although they were by them never discovered and therefore it is said That in former times it was known that there were Antipodes although the Antipodes were not known but the first that declared it in writing was Virgilius Bishop of Salizburg in Germany which Boniface Bishop of Mentz in that Country happening to see and supposing that under that strange name some damnable Doctrine was contained made complaint first to the Duke of Bohemia and next to Pope Zachary Anno 745. By whom the poor Bishop unfortunate onely in being learned in such a time of Ignorance was condemned of Heresie for that which now every ordinary Seaman can demonstrate for truth Qu. Who first broacht the opinion of the mutability of the Earth that it turns round about the Center of the Sun An. The first that publickly declared himself of this opinion was Copernicus a Doctrine so strange in those times that an able Poet thus writ to him Thou thinks the Earth moves round that 's a strange tale When thou didst write this thou wert under sail And yet now this opinion is taken up by our ablest Astrologers as Mr. Vincent Wing Mr. Saunders Mr. Leyburn and others Qu. Why is virtue more talked of than practised An. Because every one desires the name of Virtuous although he do not deserve it according to the Poet Virtue we praise but practise not her good Athenian-like we act not what we know So many men do talk of Robin Hood Who never yet shot arrow from his Bow The old Romane built a Temple to Honor which whosoever would come to must first pass through the Temple of Virtue intimating thereby that Honor was the reward of Virtue and that without virtuous actions none could come to Honors preferments Qu. What people lie in most state An. Beggars who have the Heavens for their Canopy Qu. What is the right part of a Judge An. To hear both sides indifferently and not to be prepossessed in any case for thereby though he do Justice yet himself errs according to the Poet He that doth Judge and will but one side hear Though he Judge right he 's no good Justicer Qu. What is that that bears all forms all nourisheth all increaseth all creates all buries all and receives all into her again An. The Earth Qu. Why can no man be said to be truly happy or miserable in this life An. Because as the Poet said Unmedled Joys here to no man befall Who least hath some who most hath never all Qu. Who first found out the use of weights and measures An. One Phidon an Argine in the time of Arbanes the Mede An. M. 3146. Qu. What makes it that few people are content with their condition An. Because the desire of riches encreases ●n the getting of them few people being ●ontented with that state which God hath alotted to them The poor have little Beggars none The rich too much enough not one Qu. Why was Diogenes accounted an Epicure An. Because out of love to Wine when it was all drunk out he would live in the Cask Qu. Why do Beggars go with hungry bellies An. Because it is Money rules the Roast Qu. What is that is spoken of in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Tongues An. That the Hebrew is most sacred the Greek most rich and the Latine most copious Qu How came the word Harlot first in use among the English An. From Arlet King William the Conquerors Mother whose Father Robert Duke of Normandy passing through Falaise a town in France and seeing this Arlet being a Skinners daughter nimbly to trip it in a dance he thought he would not be sluggish in a bed and therefore sent for her to accompany him that night to which she readily condescended and the Duke that night begat on he● William the Bastard King of England inspight to whom and disgrace to his Mother the English called all whores Harlots a word yet in use with us unto this day Qu. Who first brought up that use of pledging one another being drunk unto An. This Custom took its original on such time as the Danes Lorded it in this Land who used when the English drank to stabb them or cut their throats to avoid which vill any the party then drinking would request some of the next sitters by to be his surety or pledg whilst he paid Nature his due And hence have we our custom of pledging one another which begun at first upon necessity is now grown to be a Complement and common to all Qu. What two Letters are those that at ou● entrance into the world we all cry out upon An. A and E as the Poet explains in this verse Clamant A vel E. quot quot nascunour ab Eva All cry out of E and A That are born of Eva. Qu. What is delivered in Histories concerning the three Kings of Collen or the wise men that came out of the East to worship our Saviour An. It is said that those wise men were three Kings and that they came out of Arabia first in respect that Arabia is East from Jerusalem and secondly because it is said in the 72 Psalm The Kings of Arabia shall bring gifts Their bodies are said to have been translated from Palestine by Helena the Mother of Constantine to Constantinople from thence by Eustasius Bishop of Millain unto Millain and finally brought to Collen in Germany by Rainoldus Bishop thereof Anno ● 164. where they lie interred the first of them being called Melchior an old man with a long beard who offered Gold as unto a King The second called Gaspar a beard●ess young man who offered Frankincense ●s unto God The third called Balthasar a Black Moor with a spreading Beard who offered

a miserable servitude by which means although their Cavalry or Horse be very good yet their Infantry or Foot comes infinitely far short of those of ours in England where the Commons enjoy such priviledges as the French Peasants neither have nor can hope for Qu. What said the Poet concerning those who first adventured to plough the Ocean waves with a Ship An. Illi robur aes triplex Circa pectus erat qui fragilem tru●i Commisit pelago ratem Hard was his heart as brass which first did venture In a weak Ship on the rough Seas to enter Qu. What King of Scotland was he on whom the Prophecy concerning Jacobs stone was fulfilled that a King of that Nation should live to be crowned thereupon An. King James the first of that name of England and the sixth of Scotland who was Crowned at Westminster whither the same was brought by our Edward the first at such time as he harassed Scotland with Fire and Sword on which stone was this written If Fates go right where ere this Stone is pight The Regal Race of Scots shall rule that place This Stone is said to be the same on which Jacob slept when to avoid his brothers fury he fled to Padan-aram to Laban his mother Rebeckahs brother Of which stone one thus further writes The Stone reserv'd in England many a day On which old Jacob his grave head did lay And saw descending Angels whilst he slept Which since that time by sundry Nations kept From age to age I could recite you how Could I my pen that liberty allow A King of Scotland ages coming on Should live for to be crown'd upon that Stone Qu. What three things are those which are accounted very strange or rather miraculous in the Countrey of Scotland An. 1. The Lake of Mirton part of whose waters do congeal in winter part of them not 2. The Lake of Lenox twenty four miles round in which are thirty Islands one of which is driven to and fro in every tempest 3. The Deaf-stone twelve foot high and thirty three cubits thick of this rare quality that a Musquet shot off on the one side cannot be heard by a man standing on the other Qu. In how many forms doth a Physitian appear to his Patient An. In these three 1. In the form of a skilful man when he promiseth help 2. In the shape of an Angel when he performs it 3. In the form of a Devil when he asketh his reward And therefore it is the Physicians Rule Accipe dum dolet Take the second Fee while the Sick hand giveth it But if Diseases thou hast none Let the Physician then alone For he thereby may purge thy purse And make thy body ten times worse Qu. What Trade is set up at the least charge An. A Scriveners for the Wing of a Goose sets up forty of them Qu. Of what four parts should a good History consist An. Of Annals Diaries Commentaries and Chronologies borrowing from them all somewhat to beautifie her self withal especially from Annals the year and Diaries the day in which any remarkable business happened from Commentaries is derived matter and from Chronologies consent of Times and Coetanity of Princes Qu. What is it that makes Physicians well An. Other mens sickness according to the Poet Physicians are most miserable men That cannot be deny'd For they 'r ne'r truly well but when Most men are ill beside Qu. What were the names of the seven wise men of Greece An. Bius Solon Chilon Cleobules Pitarus and Periander but now our age is grown so wise or self-conceited that as the Poet hath it The wise men were but seven now we scarce know So many fools the world so wise doth grow And yet I think I may safely say with another Poet In these two terms all people we comprize Some men are wise but most are otherwise Qu. Into how many parts is the world divided An. Into four parts and four Religions Asia Africa America Europe Jewish Mahometan Pagan Christian hope Qu. Why did Godfrey of Bulloign when he took upon him the Title of the King of Jerusalem yet by no means would be perswaded to he crowned King An. Because he judged himself unworthy to wear a Crown of Gold where his Lotd and Saviour was crowned with thorns With Golden Crown it is not fit t' adorn The servants head where the Masters Crown was thorn Such was the humility of great men in former times thus we read of Saladine Emperor of the Turks that at his death he caused a black shirt to be fixt on a spear and carried round about his Camp with this proclamation This black shirt was all that Saladine Conqueror of the East after all his Victories and successes carried with him to his grave Who then would credence give to humane glory Since that the best of all is transitory Qu. By what means according as it is deliver'd by Authors was Constantine the great first converted to the Christian Faith An. Socrates Scholastius writing thereon saith That when Constantine was appointed Emperor in Britain Maxentius was by the Pretorian Soldiers chosen at Rome and Lycinius nominated Successor by Maximinius Against these Constantine marching and being in his mind somewhat pensive he cast his eyes up to Heaven where he saw in the Sky a lightsome Pillar in the form of a Cross wherein were engraven these words In hoc vince The night following our Saviour appeared to him in a Vision commanding him to bear the figure of that Cross in his Banners and he should overcome his Enemies Constantine obeyed the vision and was accordingly victorious after which he not only favoured the Christians but became himself also one of that Holy profession This Constantine as most Writers agree was the Son of Helena daughter to Caelus or Coylus a British Prince and Colchester was the place where he beheld the light as the Poet Necham learnedly sung From Colchester there rose a Star The Rayes whereof gave glorious light Throughout the World in Climates far Great Constantine Romes Emperor bright Helena his Mother was she that built the Temple of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem and found out the Holy Cross much ado had the good Lady to find the place where Christ was buried for the Jews and Heathens had raised great Hillocks thereon and built there a Temple to Venus This Temple being plucked down and the Earth digged away she found the three Crosses whereon our blessed Saviour and the two Thieves had suffered to know which of these was the right Cross they were all carried to a woman who had long been visited with sickness and now lay at the point of death The Crosses of the two thieves did the weak woman no good but as soon as they laid on her the Cross on which our Lord dyed she leaped up and was restored to her former health or this Cross there are in several places shown so many pieces that as one saith were they all put together

plantae tantopere indulgent in Barbarorum naturam degenerasse videntur The two chief vertures ascribed to it are that it is good against Lues Venerea that loath some disease the Pox and that it voideth Rheum for the first like enough it is that so unclean a disease may be fitted with so unwholesome a medicine for the second good quality attributed unto it I think it rather to consist in opinion than truth the Rheum which it voideth being only that which it self ingendereth We may as well conclude that Bottle-Ale breaketh wind for that effect we find to follow the drinking of it though indeed it is only the same wind which it self conveyed into the stomack I confess in some respects being moderately taken it may be serviceable for Physick but Tobacco is by few taken now as medicinal it is grown a good fellow and fallen from a Physician to a Complement He 's no good fellow that 's without the POX Burnt Pipes Tobacco and his Tinder-box Hear his farewel to it who once much doted on this heathenish weed Farewel thou Indian smoak Barbarian Vapour Thou enemy to life foe to waste paper Thou dost diseases in the body breed And like a Vulture on the purse dost feed Changing sweet breath into a stinking loathing And with three pipes turn two pence into nothing Grim Pluto first invented it I think To poyson all the world with Hellish stink And though by many it hath been defended It makes men rotten ere their life 's half ended Base Heathenish weed how common is it grown That but a few years past was scarcely known When for to see one take it was a riddle As strange as a Baboon to tune a Fiddle Were it confin'd only to Gentlemen It credit were to take Tobacco then But Bedlams Tinkers Coblers Water-bearers Your common Drunkards and most common Swearers Are them that use it most which makes me muse That men of quality the same should use Things common commmonly are most neglected Saving Tobacco that is still respected If Mans flesh be like Hogs as it is said It sure by smoaking thus is Bacon made Then farewel smoke good for such things as these Gainst Lice Sore heads Scabs Mange or French Disease Qu. What Country in all the whole world is most commended for the equal and just manner of the Rule thereof An. England wherein there is referred to the King absolute Majesty to the Nobles convenient Authority to the People an incorrupted Liberty all in a just and equal proportion a rare mixture of government a perfect and happy Composition wherein the King hath his full prerogative the Nobles all due respects and the people among other blessings perfect in this that they are Masters of their own purposes and have a strong hand in the making of their own Laws Qu. Who was the first that planted the Christian Religion in England An. Ioseph of Arimathea whose body is affirmed to be buried at Glassenbury in Somersetshire in which place grew a Tree that on the 24 of December would be bare and naked as other trees but on the next day being Christmas day it would be full of blossoms and flourishing as other trees in Summer This Hawthorn for such it was by ignorant zeal in the late times of Rebellion was hewn down I have heard also of an Oak in Staffordshire that every year on the same day would bring forth green leaves fresh and flourishing though the day before it were sear and dry an evident argument of the truth of Christs appearing in the flesh though of late some more nice than wise reject all such things accounting them no other than meer superstitions the rags and reliques of the Smock of the Whore of Babylon Qu. Who first erected Charing-Cross An. Edward the first in honor of his wife Queen Elenor whom he loved so dearly that dying in his company in the North Countrey intending to bury her in Westminster-Abbey in every place where her Corps rested he erected a most magnificent Cross the last of which was this at the end of the Strand commonly called Charing-Cross which having stood the space of 350 and odd years it was by avaritious blinded zeal commanded to be pulled down Thus Charing-Cross which lasted many lives Was turn'd to Salt-sellers and Hafts of Knives It being built of fine Marble there were many useful things made of the same else had not the profit thereof been more than the superstition it might for ought I know have stood there still Qu. What was Diogenes's opinion concerning Marriage An. That for young men it was too soon for old men too late So that by his rule men should not marry at all Qu. What was the Epitaph or Writing upon Diogenes grave An. Epitaphium Diogenis Cynici in cujus Sepulchro pro Titulo Canis signum est Dic Canis hic cujus tumulus Canis At Canis hic quis Diogenes obiit Non obiit sed abit Englished Diogenes Epitaph written on his Tomb with a Dog standing over it Tell me Dog whose Tomb is this A Dogs What Dog Diogenes Diogenes why died he Because no honesty he could see Qu. How many Letters are there in the holy Tongue An. As many as there are Books in the Old Testament of which one thus further observes that as two and twenty Letters forms our Voice so two and twenty Books contains our Faith Qu. What is the difference betwixt Art Fortune and Ignorance An. I shall tell you in the words of the Poet. When Fortune fell asleep and Hate did bind her Art Fortune lost and Ignorance did find her Sith when dull Ignorance with Fortune's store Hath been enrich'd and Art hath still been poor Qu. In what place was it wherein there was together a whole world of men and Languages An. In Noahs Ark. Qu. What said Budoeus concerning Plutarchs Books An. That if all the learning in the world were lost it might be found again in his Works Qu. What do you finde to be abominable superstition in the Papists An. The carrying about of their breaden God or the Hoast as they call it being of the Sacrament reserved which is carried of a couple of Priests under a Canopy ushered with Torches and attended by a company of people which have no other employment Before it goes a Bell continually tinkling at the sound whereof all such as are in their houses being warned that then their God goeth by them make some shew of Reverence those which meet it in the street with bended knees and elevated hands doing it honour The Protestants of this Bell make a use more religious and use it as a warning or watch-peal to avoid that street through which they hear it coming This invention of the Bell hath some what in it of Turkism it being the custom in all those Countries where the Mahumetan Religion is professed that at their Canonical hours when they hear the Cryers bawling in the Steeples to fall prostrate on the ground wheresoever

the Coach in which she came thither giving her by that ceremony to understand that she must restra in her self from gadding abroad and that being now joyned to an Husband she must frame her self to live and tarry with him without any hope of departure Qu. Wherein is a good wife compared to a Snail An. Because she carries her house on her head but a bad wife makes her husband headed like a Snail I know not which lead most unnatural lives Horn-headed husbands or light wag-tayl'd wives Qu. Whether is better wealth or wit An. This may be resolved by several circumstances that folly is the most hatefullest thing in the world a man without wisdom is but a moving block and though adorned with golden trappings his long ears will show him to be an Ass for folly in a mans breast like the sin of murther will not be hid Qu. Why do rich men love more servently than poor men An. Though some do say that in Love there is no lack yet when once wealth Loves fuel is spent we oftentimes see Love thereby is also extinguisht according to that of the Poet Love is maintain'd by wealth when all is spent Adversity then breeds the discontent Qu. What four things be those that be grievous to our eye sight An. 1. Smoke out of the moist Wood. 2. Wind in a storm 3. An empty purse 4. To see our enemies fortunate and our 〈…〉 Qu. In what place of Europe is it where the Barrels are so much preferred before the Bar An. Hamburg in Germany in which Town are 777 Brewers and but one Lawyer the reason why there is such a huge disproportion between the number of Brewers and Lawyers is because their differences are sooner divided over a Can than by course of Law thus strong beer which in some Countries breeds quarrels here ends them where strife ceaseth there is little need of the Lawyer Qu. What man of all others is most worldly miserable An. He who having once sate on the top of Fortunes Wheel is after by the blind Goddess brought to want and penury according to the Poet Adversity hurts none but only such Whom whitest Fortune dandled has too much Qu. Of which Countrey were the seven Sleepers what were their names and how long according to tradition was the time that they slept An. History tells us that they were born in Ephesus and lived in the time of the seventh persecution under Decian the Emperor their names were 1. Maximilian 2. Malchus 3. Marcianus 4. Denis 5. Iohn 6. Seraphion and 7. Constantius These men to avoid the heat of the persecution fled to a Cave in the mount of Celion where they fell fast a sleep which Caves mouth was stopped up by their persecutors and they remained sleeping therein 208 years until the time of Theodosius the Emperor when it being again opened they came out of the same well and lively as if they had slept but one night Qu. Who is the Father of all Lies and untruths An. We read in the Scripture that the Devil is the Father of lies to which we may add as a second cause wide-mouth'd tatling Fame according to that of the Poet Error by Error tales by tales great grow As Snowbals do by rouling to and fro To which also we may add that of Ovid. The thing false told grows great as it would burst And every one adds second to the first Qu. What is the Character that one giveth in his censure of several Kings in Europe An. That the Emperor of Germany is Rex Regum because he hath under him such a number of Reguli or free Princes the King of Spain Rex Hominum because of his subjects reasonable obedience the King of France Rex Asinorum because of their infinite Taxes and impositions and the King of England Rex Diabolorum because of his subjects often insurrections against and depositions of their Princes Of the River Nilus in Egypt It is uncertain where this famous River hath its head or Fountain whether in the Mountain of the Moon or the Lake Zembre in Aethiopia interior but certain it is that it runneth in one continual Channel till it washeth the midland of Aegypt having in the mean space several Cataracts which is a great fall of the waters that maketh such a hideous noise as not only deafeth the by-dwellers but the Hills also are torn with the sound as Lucan hath it Cuncta tremunt undis multo murmure montus Spumens invictis albescit fluctibus amnis The noise the mountains shakes who roar in spight To see th'unvanquisht waves cloath'd all in white Before it taketh its influx into the Sea it divideth it self into seven Channels or Mouths namely 1. Heracleoticum 2. Bolviticum 3. Schanitium 4. Patinicum 5. Mendesium 6 Caniticum 7. Pebusiacum This Nilus from the 15. day of June swelleth above his banks the space of forty days and in as many more gathereth his waters again to their proper bounds If it flow not to the height of fifteen Cubits then the earth is deficient in her abundance of encrease for want of moisture and if the waters surmount the superficies of the earth more than seventeen Cubits then like a drunken man it cannot produce its natural operations as having its stomach as it were over-laid and surcharged with too much liquor but if the mean be granted no Countrey can brag of such abundance whereof the aforesaid Lucan Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Iovis in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo the Earth content with its own wealth doth crave No forraign Mars nor Jove himself they have Their hopes alone in Nilus fruitful wave During this inundation the Beasts and Cattel live on the Hills and in the Towns to which they are before hand driven and there are till decrease of the waters fodderd As for the Towns and Villages they stand all on the tops of the Hills and at the time of the Flood appear like so many Islands commerce and entercourse is not a jot diminished for Skifs and the like Boats supply the places of Horses and Camels transporting safely and speedily the market-men and their commodities from one Town to another Now beside the fertility a second commodity arising from this inundation of the Nile is the health it bringeth with it for the plague which here often miserably rageth upon the first day of the Flood doth instantly cease insomuch that whereas 500 die in Caire the day before the day following there dyeth not one A third strangeness in this River is that keeping its waters together it changeth the colour of the Sea farther into the Mediterranean than the Sea can thence be discerned A fourth miracle is that not in fruit onely but in producing live creatures also it is even to wonder fruitful according to Ovid Namque ubi discernit madidos septemsluus agros Nilus antiquo sua flumina reddidit alveo Plurima Cultores versis

animalia plebis Inveniunt For when the seven mouth'd Nile the Fields forsake And to his ancient Channel him betakes The tillers of the ground live Creatures find Of sundry shapes i' th mud that 's left behind This River is in length almost 3000. miles being the only River of Egypt and is for its varieties sufficiently famous all the World over Of the fortunate Islands The Air of those Islands is reported to be of that singular temperature and the Earth of that fruitfulness that the Husbandmen have their Harvest in March and April Here all good things do abound useful or delightful for the life of man plenty of Fruits store of Grapes the Woods and Hedges bringing forth excellent Apples of their own accord The grass being mowed down in five days space will grow up to the length of a Cubit the ground is so fertile At Christmas they have Summer and all fruits ripe The Earth yields her fruit five or six times a year the Mountains are always beautified with variety of Flowers the Trees and Hedges-rows evermore green Dame Flora hath here her continual habitation and Ceres therein a continual Mansion In their sowing every two grains bringing forth a thousand Qu. How many Kings did formerly 〈◊〉 in these Countrys whereof our now 〈…〉 Soveraign King Charles the second is the most absolute Monarch An. In England it self were seven during the time of the Saxon Heptarchy which were 1. The Kingdom of Kent containing Kent only begun by Hengist the Saxon Captain and ending in Baldred having a succession of eighteen Kings and the continuance of two hundred forty and two years Queens County Weishford and Dublin Scotland had formerly two Kings whereof one was of the Scots the other of the Picts Besides these there was a King of the Isles of Scotland and one of the Isle of Man and Henry the sixth created Henry Beauchamp Earl of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight so that reckoning seven Kings in England three in Wales five in Ireland two in Scotland and three in the other Islands and you will find the whole number to amount to twenty Kingdoms A Discourse of Wonders Foreign and Domestick And first of Foreign AN Artizan in the Town of Norenburg in Germany made a wooden Eagle which when the Emperor Maximilian was coming thither flew a quarter of a mile out of the Town to meet him and being come to the place where he was turned back of its own accord and accompanied him home to his lodging 2. There is a Lake about Armach in Ireland into which if one thrust a piece of wood he shall find that part which remaineth in the mud converted to Iron and that which continueth in the water turned to a Wherstone 3. The Hill Aetna in Sicily which continually vomiteth forth flames of Fire to the astonishment of all beholders The reason of these flames as is conjectured is the abundance of Silver and Brimstone contained in the bosom of this Hill which is blown by the wind driving in at the chaps of the Earth as by a pair of bellows through which chinks also there is continually more fuel added to the fire the very water administring an operative vertue to the combustible matter as we see that water cast on coals in the Smiths Forge doth make them burn more ardently The reason of this flame is thus rendred by the witty Ovid in his Metamorphosis I st ● bitumine● rap●un●t incendi●● vices Luteaque exiguis ard●scunt Sulphura slammis Atque ubi terra cibos alimentaque debita slamma Non dabit absumptis per longum viribus annum Naturaeque su●m nutrim●ntum decrit edaci Non f●cit Aetna famem desertaque deseret ignis A rozen mould these siery flames begin And clayje Brinstone aids the sire within Yet when the slymie soylconsumed shall Yield no more food to feed the sire withal And Nature shall restrain her nourishment The flame shall cease hating all famishment 4. A Lake in Aethiopia superior of which whosoever drinketh either falleth immediately mad or is for a long time troubled with a drowsiness of which the aforesaid Ovid thus reciteth Aethiopesque Lacus quos siquis faucibus hausit Aut fu●i● aut patitar mirum gravetate soporem Who doth not know the Aethiopian Lake Whose waters he that drinks his thirst to slake Either groweth mad or doth his soul oppress With an unheard of drowsiness 5 The three wonders of which Spain boasteth of viz. 1. A Bridge over which the water flows that is used to run under all other Bridges 2. A City compassed with fire which is called Madrid by reason of the Wall that is all of Flints environ it round about 3. Another Bridge on which continually feed ten thousand Cattel the River Guadiana which hath his head in the Mountain Seira Molina afterwards runneth under ground the space of fifteen miles the like doth the River Lycus in Anatolia according to Ovid. Sic ubi terreno Lycus est epotus hiatu Exsilicit procul hinc alioque renascitur ore So Lycus swallowed by the gaping ground At a new mouth far off is rising found 6. The Tomb of Mansolus built by his Wife Artunesia Queen of Halicarnassus accounted one of the worlds seven wonders it being five and twenty Cubits high and supported by six and thirty curious Pillars of which thus writeth the witty Poet Martial Aere nam vacuo pendentia Mansolaea Laudibus immodicis Caris ad astra ferunt The Mansolaea hanging in the Sky The men of Caria's praises Deify 7. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus accounted also one of the worlds seven wonders It was two hundred years in building being four hundred twenty five foot long and two hundred twenty broad sustained with a hundred twenty seven Pillars of Marble seventy foot high whereof twenty seven were most curiously graven and all the rest of Marble polisht It was fired seven times and lastly by Herostratus the same night in which Alexander the great was born which made the Poets say that Diana who was the Goddess of Midwifery was so busie at the birth of that great Potentate that she had no time to defend her own Temple 8. The Pyramis of Aegypt reckoned also for one of the worlds seven wonders which have out-lived devouring time They were built nigh to the City of Memphis whereof two are most famous The first and greatest was built by Cleops a King of that Country who in the work employed a hundred thousand men the space of twenty years The Basis of which Pyramis contained in circuit sixty Acres of ground and was in height a thousand foot being made all of Marble This work was begun of such a prodigious vastness that King Cleops wanted money to finish the same whereupon as Herodotus writeth he prostituted his Daughter to all commers by which dishonest means he perfected his building and she besides the money due to her father exacted of every man that had the use of her body one stone

George Duke of Clarence his own Brother with many faithful servants to King Edward 4. Edward the fifth his lawful Soveraign with Prince Richard his brother 5. Henry Duke of Buckingham his great friend and sixth one Collingborn an Esquire who was hang'd drawn and quartered for making this Verse The Cat the Rat and Lowel our Dog Rule all England under a Hog Finally having reigned two years and two months he was slain by Henry Earl of Richmond and buried at Grey Fryers Church at Leicester Henry the seventh who united the two Houses of York and Lancaster by marrying with Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Edward the fourth He was a Prince of marvellous Wisdom Policy Justice Temperance and Gravity and notwithstanding great troubles and wars which he had against home-bred Rebels he kept his Realm in right good order He builded the Chappel to Westminster-Abby a most accurate piece of Work wherein he was interred after he had reigned twenty three years and eight months Henry the eight who banished the Popes supremacy out of England won Bulloign from the French lived beloved and feared of his Neighbour Princes the last of our Kings whose name began with the Letter H. which Letter had been accounted strange and ominous every mutation in our State being as it were ushered in by it according as I find it thus versed in Albions England Not superstitiously I speak but H this Letter still Hath been accounted ominous to England's good or ill First Hercules Hesion and Helen were the cause Of war to Troy Aeneas seed becoming so Out-laws Humber the Hum with foreign Armes did first the Brutes invade Hellen to Romes Imperial Throne the British Crown convey'd Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this Isle Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed here long while At Harold had the Saxons end at Hardy Cnute the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Reign Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did Englands Crown obtain Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace Henry the eighth did happily Romes irreligion cease King Henry having Reigned thirty seven years nine months and odd days dyed and was buried at Windsor Edward the sixth a most vertuous religious Prince whose wisdom was above his years and whose piety was exemplary he perfected the Reformation begun by his father King Henry At the age of sixteen years he departed this life having Reigned six years five months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Mary his Sister whom King Henry begat of Katherine of Spain she restored again the Mass set at liberty those Bishops imprisoned in her brothers Reign and imprisoned those who would not embrace the Romish perswasion She was very zealous in the cause of the Pope for not yielding to which many godly Bishops and others of the Reformation suffered Mattyrdom In her time was Callice lost to the French the grief whereof it was thought brake her heart she Reigned five years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Elizabeth daughter to Henry the eighth by the Lady Ann of Bulloigne a most Heroick vertuous Lady she again banished the Popes power out of England reduced Religion to its primitive purity and refined the Coyns which were then much corrupt For the defence of her Kingdom she stored her Royal Navy with all warlike munition aided the Scots against the French the French Protestants against the Catholiques and both against the Spaniard whose invincible Armado as it was termed she overthrew in 88. Holland found her a fast friend against the force of Spain the Ocean it self was at her command and her name grew so redoubted that the Muscovite willingly entered into League with her She was famous for her Royal Government amongst the Turks Persians and Tartars which having endured forty four years five months and odd days she dyed being aged about seventy years and was buried at Westminster King James a Prince from his Cradle the sixth of that name in Scotland and the first in England He excelled for Learning and Religion a second Solomon in whose Reign during all the time thereof our Land was enriched with those two blessings of Peace and Plenty He died in a good old age notwithstanding the Treason of the Gowries and the Powder-plot Reigned twenty two years and three days and was buried at Westminster Charles the first Son to King James a most pious prudent vertuous Prince enriched with all excellencies both of mind and body He was by his own Subjects most barbarously murdered before his PallaceGate at Whitehall Jan. 30. An. 1648. after he had Reigned twenty three years ten months and 3 days Twit Papists now not with the Powder-plot This blacker deed will make the same forgot Charles the second the Heir of his Fathers vertues and Crown who having been long detained from his right by the prevailing sword of Rebels was miraculously restored to his Subjects and Kingdom May the 29. 1660. Who God grant long long long to Reign May they be all Rebels and Traitors reckon'd Who wish the least hurt unto Charles the Second Hereafter followeth the Histories of St Denis the Titulary Saint of France St. Romain and some others being after used in discourse for the Readers better information and delight according as we find it in the Legend of them SAint Denis is said to be the same Dionisius of Areopagita mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles who being converted himself ●hirsted after the conversion of others and ●o that end he with Rusticus and Elutherius ●ravelled into France then called Gauls where he converted many to Christianity and ●ecame the first Bishop of Paris making Rus●icus his Arch-Priest and Elutherius his Dea●on Afterwards in the Reign of Domitian the Emperor persecution growing hot Fes●ennius Governor of Paris commanded that ●e should bow before the Altar of Mercury and offer Sacrifice unto him which St. Denis with the other two beforenamed refusing to do they were all three of them condemned to be beheaded which was accordingly executed on Mont-Matre distant about a mile from Paris Now it came to pass that when the Executioner had smitten off Saint Denis his head that he caught it up between his Arms and ran with it down the Hill as fast as his legs could carry him half a mile from the place of his Execution he sate down and rested and so he did nine times in all till he came to the place where his Church is now built where he met with a very old woman whom he charged to bury him in that place and then fell down and died being three English miles from Mont-Matre and there he was buried together with Rusticus and Elutherius who were brought after him by the people Afterwards by the succeeding ages when Christianity had gotten the upper-hand of Paganism in the nine several places where he rested are erected so many handsome Crosses of stone all of a making To the memory of this Saint did