Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	lord_n	sir_n	viscount_n	2,855	5	12.0299	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55329	Kalōz telōnēsantai or, The excise-man Shewing the excellency of his profession, how and in what it precedes all others; the felicity he enjoys, the pleasures as well as qualifications that inevitably attend him, notwithstanding the opprobrious calunmies of the most inveterate detractor. Discovering his knowledge in the arts, men and laws in an essay. By Ezekiel Polsted, A.B.	Polsted, Ezekiel.	1697 (1697)	Wing P2780B; ESTC R218302	49,596	137

having the first Christian King and out of whose Bowels sprung the first Christian Emperor that little World so self-sufficient (a) 〈…〉 that she seems to thrust away from her all the World besides as being a perfect Substantive that can stand by her self Besides it may be positively affirm'd That there is not any pretended Advantage that accrues abroad or any Observable but may be equaliz'd if not excell'd at home for is he covetous of the Company of Learned Men no Foreign Place can pretend to a Competition Is he desirous to see the Miracles of Nature it cannot be excell'd by any Or is he ambitious of viewing Noble Structures Fields Gardens Fruits c. he cannot sind them so absolutely reign in their excellency any where so great as in England Nature her self does here in Triumph ride And makes this Place the ground of all her Pride Whose various Flowers cheat the rasher Eye In taking them for curious Tapestry A si●ver Spring down from a Rock does fall That in a Draught would serve to water all Vpon the edges of a grassy Bank A Tuft of Trees grow circling in a Rank So fair so fresh so sweet so green a Ground The piercing Eye of Heav'n yet never found So sweet the Air so moderate the Clime None sickly lives or dies before his Time Heaven sure has kept this spot of Earth uncurs't To shew how all things were created first O fortunata omnibus Terris beatior Britannia Te omnibus Coeli ac soli ditavit Natura Tibi nihil inest quod vitae offendat Tibi nihil deest quod vita desideret ita ut alter Orbis extra Orbem poni ad delicias humani generis videaris Oh happy and blessed Britain above all other Countries in the World Nature hath enrich'd thee with all the Blessings of Heaven and Earth nothing in thee is hurtful to Mankind nothing wanting in thee that is desirable inasmuch that thou seemest another World plated besides or without the great one meerly for the delight and pleasure of Mankind Thus also the Poet Quicquid amat luxus quicquid desiderat usus Ex Te proveniunt vel aliunde Tibi Thus having given some small Hints of the great Advantages that attend the knowing of our own Countrey I shall as briefly acquaint you who is the only competent Judge of it and that excels any in this extraordinary Qualification for there is no Rarity as Scituation Division Honourable Titles Historical Remarks or Character of any County in general or Town in particular but our Excise-Man perfectly enjoys and can give an immediate satisfaction and account of and that this cannot be deni'd shall be proved by the following Instance among many others that might have been as properly incerted CHAP. XVI Gloucestershire DIVISION IT is divided into Thirty Hundreds and therein Twenty six Marke-Towns Two hundred and eight Parish-Churches and in the Diocess of Gloucester PARLIAMENT-MEN It elects Eight Members for the County Two for the City of Gloucesttr Two Tewksbury Two Cirencester Two HONOVRABLE TITLES This City gave the Title to a Duke the youngest Son of King Charles I. but he expiring in the Year 1662. it now gives that Title to the eldest Son of George Prince of Denmark and Berkley Castle gives the Title of Earl to George Lord Berkley SCITVATION This County hath Worcester and Warwick-shires on the North Oxford and Wiltshire on the East Somersetshire on the South Herefordishre with the River Wye on the West the River Seaverne running through it Natural and Artificial Rarities 1. There is not any exceeds the River Seaterne for Breadth of Channel Swiftness of Stream or Multiplicity of Fish There is in it says M●●m●bury a daily Rage and Fury of the Waters raising up the Sands winding and driving them into Heaps and sometimes overflowing its Banks covering the bordering Grounds though immediately retiring Unhappy is the Vessel it taketh full upon the side but the Watermen hearing it they prepare themselves to meet it by which they cut the Waves and avoid the danger This encounter of the Salt and Fresh Water is call'd the Higre or Eager for the keenness and fie●●eness thereof which is occasion'd saith Bruannia Baconica by the several Tides which immediately meeting force it up with that Extremity that it very usually swims as I may call it over the Water Six Foot which comes in at Gloucester all at once of which hear an old Poet Vntil they be embraced In Seavern's Sovereign Arms with those tumultuous Waves Shut up in narrower Bounds the Higre wildly raves And frights the stragling Flocks the neighbouring Shoars to fly Afar as from the Main it comes with hideous cry And on the angry Front the curled Foam doth bring The Billows ' gainst the Banks which fiercely it doth fling Throws up the siimy Oar and makes the scaly Brood Leap madding to the Land affrighted from the Flood Or'eturns the toiling Barge whose Steersman doth not launch And thrusts the surrowing Beak into her dreadful Paunch 2. The Cathedral Church of Gloucester is a beautiful Building and consist of a continued Window-work wherein is the famous Whispering-place thus described If you speak here against a Wall softly another shall hear you voice 30 or 40 Feet better than he that 's near you I suppose says Sir Francis Bacon there is some Vault or Hollow or Isle behind the Wall and some passage to it toward the further end of that Wall against which you speak so as the voice of him that speaketh slideth along the Wall and then entreth at some passage and communicateth with the Air of the hollow for it is somewhat preserv'd by the plain Wall but that is too weak to give an Audible Sound till it hath communicated with the Back Air. HISTORICAL REMARKS In this Church lies Robert Duke of Normandy eldest Son to William the Conqueror in a painted wooden Tomb in the midst of the Quire whose Eyes were burnt out in Cardiffo Castle in Glamorganshire where he was kept Prisoner 26 years by Brass Basons And here also the unhappy Ring Edward II. lies buried under a Monument of Alablaster who in the 20th year of his Reign was depos'd by Parliament This County saith Dr. Fuller did breed a Plaintiff and Defendant (a) Worthies pag. 2. which betwixt them with many Altercations traversed the longest Suit I ever read of in England for a Su t was commenc'd between the Heirs of Sir Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle against the Heirs of the Lord Berkley about certain Lands in the County the Suit began in the end of the Reign of Edward IV. and was depending until King Jame the First 's time when it was compounded after the expiration of One hundred and forty Years He finds that in the 17th Year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign the 24th of February at Tewksbury in this County a miraculous thing happen'd after a Flood In an Afternoon there came down the River Avon a great number of Flies and