be given Lingua enim nostra supra abavum non ascendit Our language saith he meaning the Spanish affords not a name above the great-grandfathers father But had the off-spring of this Lady been contracted into one place they were enough to have peopled a City of a competent proportion though her issue was not so long in succession as broad in extent I confess very many of her Descendants dyed before her death in which respect she was far surpassed by a Roman Matron on whom the Poet thus Epitapheth it in her own person Viginti atque novem genitrici Callicratea Nullius sexus mors mihi visa fuit Sed centuÌ„ et quinque explevi bene messibus annos Intremulam baculo non subeunte manun Twenty nine births Callicrate I told And of both Sexes saw none sent to grave I was an hundred and five winters old Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave Thus in all ages God bestoweth personal felicities on some far above the proportion of others The Lady Temple dyed Anno Dom. 1656. Lord Mayors Name Father Place Company Time 1 John Brokle William Brokle Newport Paganel Draper 1433 2 Thomas Scot Robert Scot Dorney Draper 1458 3 Henry Collet Robert Collet Wendover Mercer 1486 4 John Mathew Thomas Mathew Shreington Mercer 1490 5 John Mundy William Mundy Wycombe Goldsmith 1522 6 John Coates Thomas Coates Bearton Salter 1542 The Names of the 〈◊〉 of this County Râ—…turned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. William Bishop of Lincoln Commissioners to take the Oathes Reginald de Gray de Ruthyan Chivaler  Thomas Sakevile Miles Knights for the Shire  William Wapload Knights for the Shire  Reginaldi Lucy Chiv. Walteri Lucy Chiv. Iohan. Cheyne Chiv. Tho. Chetewode Chiv. Iohan. Cheyne Arm. Iohan. Hampden de Hampden Ar. Andreae Sperâ—…ing Thomae Rokes Ar. Iohan. Langeâ—…on Ar. Iohan. Iwardby Ar. David Breknook Ar. Thomae Stokes Ar. Iohan. Hampden de Kimbell Walteri Fitz Richard Armigeri Iohan. Stretlee Ar. Tho. Shyngelton Ar. Thomae Cheyne Ar. Iohan. Stokes Ar. Thomae Gifford Ar. Iohan. Gifford dâ—… Whaddon Senioris Ar. Thomae Boteler Ar. Rob. Puttenham Ar. Roberti Olney de Weston Ar. Iohan. Tyringham Ar. Iohan. Brekenock Ar. Thomae Rufford Ar. Iohan. Dayrell Ar. Nicolai Clopton Edmundi Brutenell Iohan. Sewell Iohan. Watkins Willillmi Brook de Chesham Bernardi Sanderdon Thomae More Will. Fouler Iohannis Arches Iohan. Skydmore Iohan. Kimbell Will. Joyntour Rogeri More Iohan. Horewode Iohan. Baldewin Thomae Atte Welle Will. Chapman de Aylesbury Tho. Turnour Iohan. Knight de Hampslape Will. Watford Thomae Oliver Will. Colingrgg de Toursey Thomae Malins Will. Parker de Eton Will. Burton persone Ecclesiae de Crowle Iohan. Clerke de Olney Rich. Hawtreve Iohan. Giffard de Hardmede Iohan. Tapelo de Hampslape Thomae Knight de eadem Iohan. Giffard de Whaddon junioris Iohan. Sapcote de Olney Rich. Arnecok Will. Edy Nich. Brackwell Will. Sambroke Iohan. Edy junioris Thomae Edy Iohan. Puchas Will. Berewell Ade Ashinden David Whitchirche Iohan. Sweft Will. Britwell de Cherdesle Iohan. Verney Eustachii Grenvile Iohan. Fitz Iohn Will. Gerebray Tho. Maudeleyn Iohan. Vesy Tho. Wodewarde Rich. Enershawe Iohan. Harewold de Weston Hen. Loveden Iohan. Thorp Iohan. Parker de Fenny Stratford Nicholai Baker de Crowle Nich. Hobbesson Tho. Malette Iohan. Kerye Tho. Tappe Rich. Hoo de Snenston Iohan. Manchestre Iohan. Phelip Hen. Hunkes Rich. Miches Will. Meridale Tho. Edward Iohan. Vaux Will. Dun Hen. Toursey Hen. Dicon Will. Winslowe Iohan. Bilindon Hen. Porter Tho. Turgens Rober. Dalafeld Math. Colett Iohan. Hampden de Wycombe Iohan. Wellesburn Tho. Merston Will. Attegate Tho. Mery Rich. Milly Will. Wodeward Tho. Pusey Roberti Broun de Beknesfeld Iohan. Iourdeley Tho. Houghton Rich. Yaulode Iohan. Gold de Ailesbury Will. Clarke de eadem Will. Clarke de Culverdon Thomae Kene de Horsendon Will. Symeon Will. Fether Iohan. Caradons Will. Combe de Aylesbury Will. Gill Rich. Lamburn Will. Hidâ—… Tho. Bristow Nich. Baron Will. Cook de Fertwell Iohan. Glover de Kimbell Iohan. Balke de Aylesbury Iohan. Lucy Rich. Lucy Sheriffs This County had the same with Bedford-shire untill they were parted in the seventeenth year of Queen Elizabeth Since which time these have been the Sheriffs of this County alone Name Place Armes REG. ELIZA   Anno   17 Ioh. Croke ar Chilton G. a fess between 6 martlets Arg. 18 Griff. Hampden armiger Hampden Argent a Saltire Gules betwixt 4 Eaglets Az. 19 Mich Blount ar  Barry 〈◊〉 of 6 Or. Sable 20 Rob. Drury ar 〈◊〉 Arg on a Chief vert the 〈◊〉 Tau betwâ—…xt 2 〈◊〉 pierced Or. 21 Rich. Crafford ar   22 Paul Darell ar Lillingstone Az. a Lion Rampant Or 〈◊〉 Argent 23 Th. Tasborough a.  Az. on a Cross Arg. 5 mullets G. 24 Edm. Verney ar  Arg. 4 Lions passant S. betwixt 2 Gemewes in Bend. 25 Will. Hawtrey ar Checkers    Az. 10 billets 4 3 2 1. Or in a Chief of the second a Lion issuant Sable 26 Rob. Dormer ar Wing  27 Edw. Bulstrod ar See our Notes Arg. on 2 Bars S. 6 martlets Or. 28 Ioh. Temple ar Stow * Ar. on a Bend S. 2 Cubit arms Issuant out of 2 pettet Clouds Rayonated all proper Rending of a of a 〈◊〉 Or. 29 Ioh. Goodwin ar See 21 of K. James  30 Ioh. Burlace * ar   31 Fran. Cheney ar Chesham the Vache Checky Or 〈◊〉 Fess G Fretty Erm. 32 Ge. Fleetwood a.  Partee per pale Nebulee Az. 〈◊〉 6 martilets counterchanged 33 Ale Hampden a. ut prius  34 Hen. Longvile ar WolvertoÌ„ Gules a Fess indented twixt 6 Crosses 〈◊〉 Arg. 35 Tho. Pigot ar Dodershal S. 3 〈◊〉 Arg. 36 Mic. Harecourt a.  Or. 2 Barrs Gules 37 Edw. Tirrell ar Thornton Arg. 2 Chev. Az. within a Border Engrailed G. 38 An. Tirringham a. Tirringham Az. a 〈◊〉 Engrailed Arg. 39 Ioh. Dormer ut prius  40 Will. Garrend ar  See our Notes in Northamptonshire 41 Will. Clarke mil.   42 Tho. 〈◊〉 ar  G. a Chev. between 3 Cressets Ar. 43 Will. Burlace ar ut prius  44 Anth. Chester ar Chichely Per Pale Arg. Sable a Chev. between 3 Rams-heads Erased armed Or within a Border ingrailed roundelly all Counterchanged 45 Fran. Cheney mi. ut prius  REG. JAC.   Anno   1 Fran. Cheney mi. ut prius  2 W. Willoughby m  AMP. 3 Ri. Ingoldesby m. Lethenbor Erm. a Saltire Engrailed S. 4 Hen. Longvile m. ut prius  5 Will. Andrews m  G. a Saltire Or Charged with another 〈◊〉 6 Fran Fortescu m.  Az. a Bend Engrailed Ar. cotised Or. 7 Anth. Greenway a.   8 Rob. Lovet mil. Liscomb Arg. 3 wolves passant in Pale S. 9 Iero. Horsey mil.  Az. 3 Horses-heads Couped Or Bridled Ar. 10 Edw. Tirrell mil. ut prius  11 Sim. May ne
Gospell He was a Zacheus for his Stature and with him tall in Piety and Charity He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxford on which account his memory is sacred to all posterity He died Anno Dom. 883. whose body was buried by one Barry his Scholar in Eynsebury since St. Neots in Huntington-shire and some say was afterwards removed to the Abby of Crouland Martyrs Of the forty four Martyrs in this Shire Three were most Remarkable 1. JOHN LAURENCE who at the Stake was permitted a Posture peculiar to himself For being so infeebled with long durance and hard usage that he could not stand he had a Chair allowed him and had the painfull ease to sit therein Nor must we forget how little Children being about the fire Câ—…ied unto him God strengthen you God strengthen you which was beheld as a product of his providence who out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings ordained Strength as also it evidenced their Pious Education To say Hosanna is as soon learnt by children as go up thou Bald head if it be as surely taught unto them 2. THOMAS HAWKES Gentleman first brought into trouble for refusing to Christen his Child after the Popish fashion This man going to the Stake promised his friends to give them some solemn token of the clearness and comfort of his Conscience In performance where of whilst his body was burning he raised up himself and though having the sence having no fear of the Fire joyfully clapp'd his hands over his head to the admiration of all the beholders 3. ROSE ALLIN a Virgin who being in her Calling fetching Beer for her Bedrid Mother was intercepted by Justice or rather un-justice Tyrrell who with a Candle most cruelly burnt her wrists which her Fire-proof patience most constantly endured What was said of the Roman scaevola when he burnt his hand before Porcenna is more appliable to this Maid Manum amisit sed Palmam retinuit Tyrrell did this meerly by the Law of his List otherwise no statute except written on the back-side of the book did authorize him for so Tyrannicall an act Some days after the fire which here took Livery and seisin of her hand brought her whole body into the possession thereof Confessors RICHARD GEORGE Labourer of West-Barfold is most eminent amongst the many Confessors in this Shire For he had successively three wives whereof two were burnt and the third imprisoned for Religion viz. 1. Agnes George burnt at Stratford-Bow June 27. 1556. 2. Christian George burnt at Colchester May 26. 1558. 3. ........... George imprisoned in Colchester and escap'd by Queen Maries death Novemb. 17. 1558. Some who consult the dates of his wives deaths will condemn him for over-speedy marriage and the appetite to a new wife is not comely before the grief for the former be well digested Such consider not that their glorious death in so good a cause was the subject rather of his joy then grief and that being necessitated for his children sake to marry he was carefull as it appears to marry in the Lord. Nor did he thrust his wives into the fire and shrink back from the flames himself who being imprisoned in Colchester had followed his two first and gone along with his last to the Stake had not Divine Providence by Queen Maries death prevented it Cardinalls THOMAS BOURCHIER was son to Sir William Bourchier who though but an English Knight was a French Earl of Ewe in Normandy Created by King Henry the fifth and had a great estate in this County with many Mansion-houses Hawsted being the place of their principall residence where I presume this Prelate was born He was bred in the University of Oxford whereof he was Chancellour 1454. Dean of Saint Martins then successively Bishop of Worcester Ely Arch-bishop of Caâ—…terbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths A Prelate besides his high birth aforesaid and brotherhood to Henry Bourchier first Earl of Essex of that Surname remarkable on many accounts First for his vivacity being an old man and proportionably an older Bishop 1. Being consecrated Bishop of Worcester 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the sixth 2. Dying Arch-bishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of K. Henry the seventh Whereby it appeareth that he wore a Mitre full fifty one years a term not to be paralleld in any other person Secondly he saw strange revolutions in State the Civil-wars between Lancaster and York begun continued and concluded For though Bishop Morton had the happiness to make the match Arch-bishop Bourchier had the honour to marry King Henry the seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the fourth so that his hand first solemnly held that sweet posie wherein the White and Red Roses were tied together Thirdly for his wary compliance that he lost not himself in the labyrinth of such intricate times applying himself politiquely to the present predominant power However it may be said of him Praestitit hic Praesul nil tanto sanguine munere tempore dignum He left no monument to posterity proportionable what was an hundred pounds and a chest given to Cambridge to his great blood rich place and long continuance therein But this my Author imputeth unto the troublesomeness of the times seeing peace was no sooner setled and the land began to live but he died March 30. 1486. I know not what generous planet had then influence on the Court of Rome this I know that England never saw such a concurrence of noble Prelates who as they were Peers by their places were little less by their descent I behold their birth a good buttress of Episcopacy in that age able in Parliament to check and crush any Antiprelaticall project by their own relations But let us count how many were contemporaries with Thomas Bourchier from his first consecration at Worcester till the day of his death John Stafford son to the Earl of Stafford Arch-bishop of Canterbury Robert Fitz-Hugh Bishop of London Henry Beauford son to John Duke of Lancaster Bishop of Winchester William Gray son to the Lord Gray of Codnor Bishop of Ely Marmaduke Lumley extracted from the Lord Lumley Bishop of Lincoln Richard Beauchamp brother to the L. Saint Amand Bishop of Sarum Lionel Woodvile son to the Earl of Rivers Bishop of Sarum Peter Courtney extracted from the Earls of Devon Bishop of Exeter Richard Courtnee of the same extraction Bishop of Norwich John Zouch descended of the Lord Zouch Bishop of Landaffe George Novile brother to the Make-King Earl of Warwick Arch-bishop of York William Dudley son to the Lord Dudley Bishop of Durham William Piercy son to the Earl of Northumberland Bishop of Carlile But after the death of Bourchier I meet with but three Bishops of noble extraction viz. James Stanley Edmond Audley and Cardinall Pole However they were though of lower image of no less learning and religion Prelates RICHARD de BARKING took his name according to the Clergy-mens
it thought the Herse of an Harlot no proper Object for the Eyes of Virgins to contemplate on therefore caused her bones to be scattered abroad However after his Departure those Sisters gathered her bones together again put them into a perfumed bag and inclosed them in lead where they continued until outed again in the reign of King Henry the 8. The Names of the Gentry of this County returned by the Commissioners in the Twelfth year of King Henry the Sixth 1433. Thomas Bishop of Hereford  James de Audley  John Skudamore Chival Knights for the Shire Commissioners to take the Oaths John Russell  Dom. Grey de Whilton Chiv. VValteri Lucy Chivaler Radulphi de la Bere Chival Roberti VVhiteney Chivaler Johannis Baskervile Chival â—…ohannis Merbury Armiger Richardi de la Mare Armig. Tho. Bromwich sen. Armig. Iohannis Brugge Armigeri Tho. Bromwich jun. Armigeri Iohannis Melborn Armiger Iohannis Barre Armigeri Thomae Donton Armigeri Hugonis Mortimer Armigeri Tho. de Lastay senioris Arm. Iohannis Skudamore Armig. Richardi VVigmore Armig. VVillielmi Croft Armigeri VValteri Hackluit Armigeri VVillielmi Criketot Armig. Rich. VValwain de Mayde A. Maculmi VValwain Armig W. Walwain de Longford 〈◊〉 Nicholai VVallwayn Armig. Thomae Walwain de Stoke Ar. R. Walweyn de Lugwardyn a. Willielmi Byriton Armigeri Iohannis Stapelton Armigeri VVillielmi Hereford Armig Richardi Habberhale Armig Iohannis Aberhale Armiger Iohannis Deverose Aamiger Richardi Deverose Armigeri Iohannis De la Bere Armig. VVillielmi de la Bere Arm. Rogeri Bodenham Armigeri Milonis VVatier Armigeri Radulphi Baskervile Armig. Thomae de La Hay Arm. jun. Rowlandi Lenthall Chivaler Henrici Oldcastlé Armigeri Henrici Slake Armigeri Richardi ap Harry Armigeri Johannis Dansey Armigeri Henrici ap Griffith Armig. Rogeri Wiggemore Armig. Hugonis Monyngton Ar. Iohannis Monyngton Ar. VValteri Monington Ar. Johannis VVise Armig. Wal. ap Rosser Vanghan A. Johannis Dumbleton Ar. Thomae Parker Armigeri Johannis Skellwick Ar. Johannis Harper VVillielmi Garnons Thomae Brugge de Leye Thom. Brugge de Brugge Thomae Smith de Webley Edmundi Gomond Johannis Alton Johannis VVellynton Roberti Hunte Armigeri Boberti Bromwich VVillielmi Bromwich R. Watteis de Bedingwey Richardi Leon Iohanni Goure VVillielmi Smethecote VVillielmi Hackluit Hugonis Hackluit â—…acobi Everard Tho. Brugge de Yuenton Richardi Upton Iohannis Upton Rogeri Erlyche Iohannis de Ey Egidii Hackluit Thomae Halle Hugonis VVarton Iohannis Bluwet Iohannis Luntelye Philippi Lyngeyn Iohannis Bevere VValteri Bradford Iohannis Bradford VValteri VValker Thomae Morton Iohannis Salisbury Iohannis VValker VVillielmi Rafes Iohannis Sherer Iohannis VValdbâ—…et Richardi VVindesley Io. Mortimer de Bromyerd Thomae Harlowe Iohannis Ragon Iohannis Broun Iohannis Smith Thomae Dovile Iohannis Panton jun. Thomae Petit Thomae Horsenet Richardi VVynne Iohannis VVinter Thomae Loveday Iohannis Sheref Thomae Everard Johannis Young Thomae Tomkins VVillielmi Shebrond Wil. Waleyn de Bickerton Milonis Skulle Rogeri â—…dmonsham Roberti Priour Johannis VVatts Richardi Rovenhal Johannis Comyn Richardi Gambdon Henrici Comyn VVillielmi Blanchard VVillielmi Monyngton Johannis Arundell Thomae Arundell Thomae Myntrick VVillielmi Gray Johannis Brugge de Rosse Henrici VVhite Richardi Coekes Johannis VVollrich Johannis de VVall. VVilliam Lanke Will. ap Thomas ap L. Will. Gerrard Richardi Trevays Hugonis Cola Richardi de La Hay Hugonis Hergest Johannis Pu VValteri Puy VVillielmi Huntington VVillielmi Carwardine Johannis Chabenore VVill. Smith de Tiberton VVillielmi Chamberleyn Howel ap Howel ap Wilmiston Johan Wiston Johan Hunt de Snodhell Thomae Lightfoot Joh. ap Thom. de Dorston Galfredi ap Thomas Johannis Pychard Thomae Bruyn Georgii Braynton Majoris Civitatis Hereford VValteri Mibbe Henrici Chippenham Johannis Fulk Draper Johannis Mey Johannis Fuister Thomae Hore Johannis Green Richardi Green Richardi Prat Thomae Bradwardyn Richardi Russell Richardi Barbour Johannis Orchard Jacobi Orchard Johannis Dudley Richardi Houghton Rogeri Collyng Johannis Collier Thomae Choppynham Henrici Cachepolle Thomae Knobelle Hugonis Clerk Thomae Combe Thomae Verbum Johannis Elynner Io. Heyward de Bodenham Ro. VVych de Ludwardyn Sheriffs of Hereford-Shire HEN. II. Anno 1 Anno 2 Walt. de Hereford for 5 years Anno 7 Will. de Bello Campo f or 9 years Anno 16 Idem Walt. Clicums Anno 17 Willielmus de la Lega Anno 18 Gilbertus Pypard Anno 19 Idem Anno 20 Willielmus de Braiose Anno 21 Idem Anno 22 Radulphus Pulcherus for 7 years Anno 29 Milo de Mucegros VVillielmus Torelle Anno 30 VVillielmus Torelle Anno 31 Radul Arden Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Idem RICH. I. Anno 1 Radul de Arden Anno 2 Hen. de longo Campo Anno 3 VVillielmus de Braiosa Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Hen. de longo Campo Willielmus de Braiosa Anno 6 Roger. Fitz-Mauricis Anno 7 Willielmus de Braiosa Anno 8 Idem Anno 9 Willielmus de Braiosa Williemus de Burchhull Anno 10 Idem JOHAN Anno 1 Walter de Clifford Gilbertus Clifford Anno 2 Willielmus de Braiosa Willielmus Burchull Anno 3 Hubert de Burgo Rich. de Signes for 3 years Anno 6 Willielmus de Cantulum Walter de Puhier Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Walt. de Clifford Osbert Pil. VVillielmi Anno 9 Idem Anno 10 Gerer de Atria Rich. de Burges Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 Endebard de Cicomato Rich. de Burges Anno 13 Enozelcardus de Cicomato Rich. Burgeis sive Burzeis for 4 years HEN. III. Anno 1 Walt. de Lascy Anno 2 Tho. de Anesey Anno 3 Walt. de Lascy Warrinus de Grindon for 3 years Anno 6 Walt. de Lascy Tho. de Anesey Anno 7 Walt. de Lascy Anno 8 Radulph fil Nic. Hen. fil Nic. frater ejus for 3 y. Anno 11 Radul fil Nich. Hen. frat ejus Jo. de East for 3 years Anno 14 Joan. de Fleg Anno 15 Idem Anno 16 Johan de Munemus Anno 17 Williel fiâ—…lus Warrini Anno 18 Idem Anno 19 Amaricus de S to Aman. Anno 20 Amari de S to Amando Ricard de Fardingston Anno 21 Idem Anno 22 Amari de S to amando Matth. de Coddray for 3 years Anno 25 Amaricus de Cancell for 7 years Anno 32 Waleranus Anno 33 Waleranus de Bradlegh Anno 34 Hugo de Kinardell Anno 35 Hen. de Bradlegh Anno 36 Idem Anno 37 Williel de S to Omero Anno 38 Idem Anno 39 Joan. de Brekon sive Brecon for 3 years Anno 42 Hen. de Penebrige Anno 43 Idem Ric. de Baggindin Anno 44 Robertus de Meysy Anno 45 Idem Anno 46 Robertus de Meysy Adam de Bideford for 7 years Anno 53 Barthol de Buly Adam de Botiler for 3. years EDW. I. Anno 1 Barthol de Stutely Adam de Botiler Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Joan. de Ware Anno 4 Egid. de Berkel for 3 years
Scotland I lay at Alnwick in Northumberland one Sunday by the way and understanding from the Host of the house where I lodged that this Minister lived within three miles of that place I took my horse after dinner and rid thither to hear him preach for my own satisfaction I found him in the Desk where he read unto us some part of the Common-prayer some of Holy Davids Psalmes and two Chapters one out of the Old the other out of the New Testament without the use of Spectacles The Bible out of which he read the Chapters was a very small Printed Bible He went afterwards into his Pulpit where he prayed and preached to us about an hour and half His Text was Seek you the Kingdome of God and all things shall be added unto you In my poor judgement he made an excellent good Sermon and went cleaverly through without the help of any Notes After Sermon I went with him to his house where I proposed these several following Questions to him Whether it was true the book reported of him concerning his hair whether or no he had a new set of Teeth come whether or no his Eye-sight ever failed him and whether in any measure he found his strength renewed unto him He answered me distinctly to all these and told me he understood the News-book reported his hair to become a dark brown again but that is false he took his Cap off and shewed me it It is come again like a childs but rather flaxen then either brown or gray For his Teeth he hath three come within these two years not yet to their perfection while he bred them he was very ill Forty years since he could not read the biggest Print without Spectacles and now he blesseth God there is no Print so small no written hand so small but he can read it without them For his Strength he thinkes himself as strong now as he hath been these twenty years Not long since he walked to Alnwick to dinner and back again six North-country miles He is now an hundred and ten years of age and ever since last May a hearty body very chearful but stoops very much He had five children after he was eighty years of age four of them lusty lasses now living with him the other died lately his wife yet hardly fifty years of age He writes himself Machell Vivan he is a Scotish-man born near Aberdeen I forget the Towns name where he is now Pastor he hath been there fifty years Your assured loving friend Thomas Atkin. Windsor 28. Septem 1657. A most strange accident For waving the Poetical fiction of Aeson his Re-juvenescency in Medeas Bath it will hardly be paired To begin with Scripture Caleb or All-heart his professing himself as able for any action at eighty as forty years before speaketh no renovation but continuation of his strength And whereas David saith that his youth was renewed as an Eagles he is to be understood in a Metapborical yea Spiritual sense of the vigorousness and sprightfulness of grace in his heart seeing otherwise his great debilitation doth appear at seventy years scarce a moity of this mans a age As for the many miracles wrought by our Saviour though extending to the cleansings of Leapers Curing Diseases Casting out Divels yea Reviving the Dead yet they never countermanded nature in this kind by recruiting the strength of an aged person As for humane History I meet not with any to mate him in all particulars The nearest that treadeth on his heels is the Countess of Desmond married in the reign of King Edward the fourth and yet alive Anno 1589. and many years since when she was well known to Sir Walter Raleigh and to all the Nobles and Gentlemen in Mounster But chiefly to the Earls for there was a succession of them worn out by her vivacity of Desmond from whose expectation she detained her jointer The Lord Bacon casteth up her age to be an hundred and fourty at least adding withall Ter per vices dentisse That she recovered her Teeth after her casting them three several times All I will adde is this had this happened in foreign parts addicted to Popery near the shrine of some Saint superstition with her sickle might have reaped a great harvest thereby ........ ANDERSON a Townsman and Merchant of Newcastle talking with a friend on Newcastle-bridge and fingering his ring before he was aware let it fall into the river and was much troubled with the loss thereof untill the same was found in a fish caught in the river and restored unto him The same is reported by Herodotus in his third book of Polycrates a petty King and the Minion of fortune and may be an instance of the recurrency of remarkable accidents according to Solomons observation There is no new thing under the sun The names of the Gentry of this County returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. Thomas Bishop of Durâ—…am Commissioners to take the Oaths Ralph Earl of VVestmerland  Thomas Lilborn Knights for the Shire  John Carington Knights for the Shire  Rob. Umfravile mil. Rad. Gray mil. Rob. Ogle senior mil. Rob. Ogle jun. mil. Johan Bertram mil. Will. Elmeden mil. Johan Midleton mil. Will. Svynbarn mil. Johan Maners mil. Math. Whitfeld mil. VVill. Carnaby Johan Fenwyk Johan Midelton Tho. Ilderton Rob. Raymes Tho. Haggerston Rob. Maners Laur. Acton Tho. Gray de Norton Tho. Blekensop Row Thirwall Ric. Fetherstanhalgh Gilb. Rotherford VVill. Muschaunce Gilb. Eryngton VVill. Clenell Johan Heron de Netherton Tho. Reed de Redesdale Roger. Ushere Tho. Midleton Joh. Ellerington Joh. Park Rich. Lilburne Tho. Elwick Joh. Eryngton Nic. Heron de Meldon Joh. Trewyk Joh. Chestre Lion Chestre Joh. Horsley de Horsley Jaco Buk de Morpath Observations The Fable is sufficiently known of the contest betwixt the Wind and the Sun which first should force the Travailer to put off his cloaths The Wind made him wrap them the closer about him whilst the heat of the Sun soon made him to part with them This is moralized in our English Gentry such who live South-ward near London which for the â—…stre thereof I may fitly call the Sun of our Nation in the warmth of wealth and pleanâ—…â—…f pleasures quickly strip and disrobe themselves of their Estates and Inheritance whilst the Gentry living in this County in the Confines of Scotland in the VVind of VVar daily Alarumed with their blustering enemies buckle their Estates as their armour the closer unto them and since have no less thriftily defended their patrimony in Peace then formerly they valiantly maintained it in War The Commissioners of this County did not over weary themselves in working when they returned these persons presenting no underwood yea no standels but only tymber-oaks men of great wealth and worship in this Shire as appears by the thinness of their number but one and twenty Sheriffs of Northumberland HEN. II. Anno 1 Odardus Anno
Ioh. Palmer arm ut prius  36 Ioh. Thetcher arm   37 Ioh. Dawtree mil. ut prius  38 Ioh. Sackvile arm ut prius  EDVV. VI.   Anno   1 Thom Carden mil.   2 Ioh. Scott armig ut prius  3 Nich. Pelham mil. ut prius  4 VVill. Goring m. ut prius  5 Rob. Oxenbrigg â—… ut prius  6 Anthon. Brown m. ut prius  Rex PHIL. MAR. Reg   Anno   1 Tho. Saunders mil. chartwood Sable a Cheveron between 3 Bulls heads Aâ—…g 2 Ioh. Covert arm ut prius  3 VVill. Saunders ar ut prius  4 Edw. Gage mil.  Gyronne of four Az. and Arg a Saltire Gules 5 Ioh. Ashburnham ut prius  6 VVill. Moore arm ut prius  Regin ELIZ.   Anno   1 Tho. Palmer mil. ut prius  2 Ioh. Colepeper ar  â—…rg a Bend engrailâ—…d Gules 3 Joh. Stidolf arm  Arg. Or a Chief Sable 2 Wolves heads Erased Or. 4 Hen. Goring arm ut prius  5 Will. Gresham   6 Rich. Covert arm ut prius  7 Antho. Pelham ar ut prius  8 Will. Dawtree arm ut prius  This year the 2 Counties were divided Sheriffs of Surrey alone Name Place Amreâ—… 9 Franc. Carew ar ut prius  10 Hen. Weâ—…on mil. ut prius  11 Thom. Lifeld ar ut prius  12 Tho. Brown arm ut prius  This year the two Counties were again united under one Sheriff Name Place Amreâ—… 13 Ioh. Pelham arm ut prius  14 Tho Palmer mil. ut prius  15 Fran. Shirley arm ut prius  16 Ioh. Rede arm Rich. Polsted   17 Hen Pelham arm ut prius  18 Will. Gresham ar ut prius  19 Tho. Shirley mil ut prius  20 Georg. Goring ar ut prius  21 Will. Moore mil. ut prius  22 Will. Morley arm ut prius  23 Edw. Slifeld arm   24 Tho. Brown mil. ut prius  25 Walt. Covert arm ut prius  26 Tho. Bishop arm Parham Argent on a Bend cottised Gules 3 Bezauts 27 Rich. Bostock ar  Sable a Fesse Humet Aâ—…g 28 Nich. Parker ar   29 Rich. Brown arm ut prius  30 Ioh. Carrell arm Harting Argent 3 Bars and as many Martlets in Chief Sable 31 Thom. Pelham a. ut prius  32 Hen. Pelham arm ut prius  33 Robâ—… Linsey arm  Or an Eagle displayed Sable beaked and membred Az. a Chief Varry 34 Walt. Covert mil. ut prius  35 Nich. Parker mil.   36 Will. Gardeux a.   37 Rich. Leech arm   38 Edm. Culpeper a. ut prius  39 Georg. Moore arm ut prius  40 Jam. Colebrand a. Botham Az. 3 Levels with Plummets O. 41 Tho. Eversfeld a. Den Erm. on a Bend S. 3 Mullets O. 42 Edm. Boier arm Camberwel Sur. O. a Bend varry betwixt 2 Cottises Gules 43 Thom. Bishop arm ut prius  44 Ioh. Ashburnham ut prius  45 Rob. Lynsey ut prius  JAC. Rex   Anno   1 Rob. Linsey arm ut prius  2 Hen. Goring mil. ut prius  3 Edw. Culpeper mil ut prius  4 Tho. Hoskings mil.   5 Hen. Morley arm ut prius  6 Georg. Gunter mil.  Sable 3 Gantlets within a Border Or. 7 Thom. Hunt miles   8 Ioh. Lountesford  Az. a Cheveron betwixt 3 Boares Or Coupe Gules 9 Edw. Bellingham 〈◊〉 prins  10 Wil. Wignall a Tandrigde Sur. Azure on a Cheveron Or betwixt 3 Ostriges 3 Mullets Gules 11 Edw. Goring arm ut prius  12 Ioh. Willdigos m.   13 Rola Tropps Mor Ioh. Morgan m.   14 Ioh. Shirley mile ut prius  15 Ioh. Middleton a.   16 Ioh. Howland mil. Shatham Arg. 2 Bars and 3 Lions Ramp in Chief Sable 17 Nich. Eversfeld a. ut prius  18 Rich. Michelborne   19 Franc. Leigh mil. ut prius  20 Tho. Springet m.   21 Ben. Pelham mil. ut prius  22 Amb. Browne arm ut prius  CAROLUS Rex   Anno   1 Edr. Alford arm  G. 6 Pears 3 2 1 a chief O. 2 Tho. Bowyer arm Leghthorn Suss. Or a Bend Vary betw 2 Cotises G 3 Edw. Jourden arm Gatwik S. an Eagle displaied betw 2 Bendlets Ar. a Canton siâ—…ster Or. 4 Steph. Boord mil.   5 Anth. May armâ—…ger  G. a Fesse between 8 Billets Or. 6 Will. Walter mil. Wimblâ—… Az. a Fesse indented Or between 3 Eagles Argent 7   8 Iohâ—… Chapman m.   9 Rich. Evelyn arm Wotton Az. a Gâ—…yphon passant Chief O. 10 Will Culpeper ar ut prius  11 Will. Morley mil. ut prius  When I look upon these two Counties it puts me in mind of the Epigram in the Poet. Nec cum te possum vivere nec sine te Neither with thee can I well Nor without thee can I dwell For these two Shires of Surrey and Sussex generally had distinct Sheriffs until the Reign of King Edward the Second when they were united under One. Then again divided in the ninth of Queen Elizabeth united in the thirteenth divided again in the twelfth of King Charles and so remain at this day but how long this condition will continue is to me unknown seeing neither conjunctim nor divisim they seem very well satisfied Sheriffs of this Connty alone Name Place Amreâ—… King CHARLES   Anno   12 Antho. Vincent mil. Stock'd Azure 3 Quarterfoils Argent 13 Abernn  14 Iohan Gresham mil   15 Ioh. Howland mil. ut prius  16 Tho. Smith armig   17 Georg. Price arm   18   19 Edru Jorden arm ut prius  20 Mathe. Brand mi   21   22 Will. VVymondsal mil. Putnie  RICHARD the Second 19 JOHN ASHBURNHAM My poor and plain Pen is willing though unable to add any lustre to this Family of stupendious Antiquity The Chief of this name was High Sheriffe of Sussex and Surrey Anno 1066. when WILLIAM Duke of Normandy invaded England to whom King Harauld wrote to assemble the Posse Comitatunm to make effectuall resistance against that Foreigner The Original hereof an Honourable Heir-Loome worth as much as the Owners thereof would value it at was lately in the Possession of this Family A Family wherein the Eminency hath equalled the Antiquity thereof having been Barons of England in the Reign of King Henry the Third The Last Sr. John Ashburnham of Ashburnham married Elizabeth Beaumont Daughter of Sr. Tho. Beaumont afterwards by especiall Grace created Viscountess Crawmount in Scotland and bare unto him two Sons John of the Bed-chamber to King CHARLES the first and second and William Cofferer to his
is he who afterwards designed the Maps and composed the History of England though much help'd in both no shame to crave aid in a work too weighty for any ones back to bear by Sir Robert Cotton Master Camden Master Barkham and others He also made the usefull Genealogies preposed formerly to English Bibles in all Volumes having a Patent granted him from King James in reward of his great Labours to receive the benefit thereof to him and his This was very beneficiall unto them by Composition with the Company of Stationers untill this Licentious age neglecting all such Ingenious helps to understand Scripture and almost levelling if not prevented the propriety of all Authors of Books He dyed in London Anno 1629. and was buried in Saint Giles without Criplegate in the same Parish with Master John Fox so that no one Church in England containeth the Corps of two such usefull and voluminous Historians Master Josias Shute Preach'd his Funerall Sermon and thus we take our leaves of Father Speed truly answering his name in both the acceptions thereof for Celerity and Success JOHN DOD was born at Shottliedge in this County where his Parents had a competent Estate bred in Jesus-colledge in Cambridge by Nature a Witty by Industry a Learned by Grace a Godly Divine successively Minister of Hanwell in Oxford Fenny-Compton in Warwick Cannons-Ashby and Fausly in Northampton-shire though for a time silenced in each of them A Father who shall pass nameless is censured by some for his over-curiosity in his conceit rather then Comment Math. 5. 2. And he opened his mouth and taught them For Christ saith he taught them often when he opened not his mouth by his Example Miracles c. Here I am sure accordingly Master Dod when his mouth was shut prohibited preaching instructed almost as much as before by his holy demeanour and pious discourse A good Chimist who could extract Gold out of other mens lead and how loose soever the premises of other mens discourse piety was always his naturall and unforced conclusion inferred thereupon For the rest I refer the Reader to Master Samuel Clark by whom his life is written wherein are many remarkable passages I say Master Samuel Clark with whose pen mine never did nor shall interfere Indeed as the flocks of Jacob were distanced three days journeys from those of Laban so to prevent voluntary or casuall commixtures our styles are set more then a Months journey asunder The Jewish Rabbins have a fond and a false conceit that Methuselah who indeed dyed in the very year and his death a sad prognostick of the deluge had a Cabin built him in the outside of Noahs Ark where he was preserved by himself But most true it is that good Father Dod though he lived to see the flood of our late Civil Wars made to himself a Cabin in his own contented conscience and though his cloths were wetted with the waves when plundred he was dry in the deluge such his self-solace in his holy meditations He dyed being eighty six years of age Anno 1645. When thieves break in a house and steal the owner thereof knows for the present that he is robbed but not of what or how much till some days after he finds out by the want of such things which were taken from him The Vicenage of Fausly where Mr. Dod dyed knew then they were bereaft of a worthy treasure though ignorant in the perticulars of their losses till daily discovery hath by this time made them sensible thereof Benefactors to the Publique Sir RICHARD SUTTON was born at Presbury in this County he is generally believed a Knight though some have suspected the same but suppose him but Esquire He was one of a Plentifull Estate and Bountifull Hand It happened that William Smith Bishop of Lincoln began Brasen-Nose-Colledge but dyed before he had finished one Nostrill thereof leaving this Sutton his Executor who over-performed the Bishops Will and compleated the Foundation with his own liberall Additions thereunto When the following Verses were composed in the Person of Brasen-Nose-Colledge the Muses seemed neither to smile nor frown but kept their wonted countenance But take them as they are Begun by one but finish'd by another Sutton he was my Nurse but Smith my Mother Or if the Phrase more proper seem say rather That Sutton was my Guardian Smith my Father 'Cause equal Kindness they to me exprest Better I neither love love both the best If Both they may be call'd who had one will What One design'd the Other did fulfill May such Testators live who Good intend But if they dye Heaven such Exec'tors send This Worthy Knight being born in this County deservedly reflected upon his own Country-men making them and those of Lancashire most capable of Preferment I collect his death to have happened about the middle of the Raign of King Henry the eighth Since the Reformation ROBERT BRASSY was born at Bunbury contracted for Boniface-Bury in this County bred D. D. in Kings-colledge in Cambridge whereof he was elected the 13. Provost He being a Learned and Stout man publickly protested against the Visitors of the University in the Raign of Queen Mary as to his own Colledge Say not he onely opposed Superstition with Superstition pleading Popish Exemptions For considering the times he Drave the nail which would best go and thereby took off the edge of those Persecuting Commissioners But let none Envy him a place under this title who deserved so well of Cambridge For when many Doctors therein whose Purblind souls saw onely what was next them for the present and either could not or would not look far forward to Posterity had resolved to sell their Rights in Sturbridge-fair for a trifle to the Towns-men which if done the Vice-Chancellor might even have held the Stirrup to the Mayor he only opposed it and dash'd the designs He dyed Anno Domini 1558. and lyes buried on the South-side of the Chappell GEORGE PALIN was as I have Cogent presumptions born at Wrenbury in this County bred a Merchant in London free of the Company of Girdlers Indeed we may call his Benefactions Aureum Cingulum charitatis the Golden Girdle of Charity With our Saviour he Went ABOUT doing good compleating the Circuit of his Bounty continuing till he ended where he began 1. To Wrenbury where we believe him born two Hundred pound to purchase Lands for the relief of the poor 2. Nine Hundred pound for the building of Almes-houses in or about London 3. To Trinity-colledge in Cambridge three hundred pound 4. To the Colledge of Saint Johns the Evangelist in Cambridge three Hundred pounds 5. To the Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southmark fifty pounds 6. To the Preachers at Pauls Cross towards the bearing of their charges two Hundred pounds 7. Toward the making a sweet Chime in Bow-church one Hundred pounds 8. To six Prisons in and about London sixty pounds 9. To Brasen-Nose-colledge in Oxford two
deservedly die without Law because they refused to live according to Law 5. Ruine Such the success of this worthy Lords severity that he made a Through Reformation amongst them and the Ring-leaders being destroyed the rest are reduced to Legall obedience and so I trust will continue Proverbs If Skiddaw hath a cap Scruffell wots full well of that These are two neighbour hills the one in this County the other in Anan-dale in Scotland If the former be capp'd with clouds and foggy mists it will not be long before rain falls on the other It is spoken of such who must expect to sympathize in their sufferings by reason of the vicinity of their habitation Tum tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet When thy neighbours house doth burn Take heed the next be not thy turn The Cumberlanders have found the truth hereof by their sad experience in our Civil Wars paying dear for their vicinity with Scotland Skiddaw Lauvellin and Casticand Are the highest hills in all England I know not how to reconcile this ryme with another which I meet with in the same Author Iâ—…gleborrow Pendle and Penigent Are the highest hills between Scotland and Trent But in order of an expedient betwixt them we may observe First that every County is given to magnify not to say altify their own things therein Secondly that the survey goes according to the guess of mens eyes as never exactly measured variable according to severall apprehensions Thirdly some hills are higher in view rising almost perpendicularly of a suddain by themselves whilst the invisible greatness of others is not heeded so much which mount with the Country about them creeping up insensibly by degrees Mean time no mention of Plynillymon hill as being in Wales and without compare the Monarch of all mountains South of Scotland Saints Saint Hâ—…REBERT Priest and Confessor may justly be referred to this County For there is a lake therein Bede calleth it Prâ—…grande Stagnum nigh Keswick made by the River Darwent wherein three Islands are found in the least of which this Herebert lead an Eremiticall life If he travailed hence it was to visit his friend Saint Cuthbert betwixt whom such Intimacy that 〈◊〉 telling him how his own death approached Herebert falling down at his feet importunately requested him that they might both pass out of this World together which by Saint Cuthberts prayers is said to be obtained Thus as they were loving in their lives so in their death they were not devided departing this World the same day and hour Anno Dom. 688. Saint ALRIKE born and bred in this County led an Eremiticall life in a forrest near to Carlile This man did not more macerate himself with constant fasting then time since hath consumed his memory which hath reduced it to nothing more then the scelleton of his name without any Historicall passages to flesh and fill up the same for I account the report of Saint Goderick another Hermite and present at this mans death not worth the remembring viz. that he saw the soul of Alrike ascend to Heaven as it were in a Sphericall form of a burning wind but we lissen unto it but as unto wind He dyed Anno 1107. Martyrs This County affordeth none in the raign of Queen Mary whereof accept a double reason First the People thereof generally were nuzell'd in Ignorance and Superstition Secondly such as favoured the Reformation were connived at by Owin Ogelthorp the courteous Bishop of Carlile who Crowed Queen Elizabeth and who in requittall had a favour for him had he lived any longer However Cumberland had one Native who going up to London first found a Husband and then met with Martyrdome therein viz. ELIZABETH FOSTER was born at Graystock in this County though her Maiden Sur-name be unknown Travailing to London she was there married to one John Forster Cutler of the Parish of Saint Brides in Fleetstreet and being summoned before Bonner for not coming to Church was imprisoned and strictly examined Being moved by the Bishop to desert her answers I will not said she go from them by Gods grace Hereupon she was condemned and being fifty five years of age accordingly suffered with six other Martyrs all in one fire in Smithfield Jan. 27. 1556. Prelates ROGER WHELPDALE was born in the borders of this County so that Westmerland pretends to a share of him bred in Baliol-colledge in Oxford and afterwards became Provost of Queens-colledge in that University A good 1. Logician witness his books of 1. Summulae Logicales 2. Mathematician 2. De Quanto Continuo 3. Divine 3. De Deo invocando Bale ingenuously confesseth that he cannot find where this Learned man after his long labours in Oxford led the rest of his life and Pitz who seeing with Bales eyes both are blind or sighted together is at the same loss But herein we are able guide our guides and light a candle to direct them for he was by King Henry the fifth preferred Bishop of Carlile 1419. he sate three years in that See and dying at London Feb. 4. 1422. was buried in Saint Pauls ROGER LAYâ—…URN was born of a Noble Family not living far from Carlile A Noble Family indeed expiring in the days of our Grand-fathers when Elizabeth sole daughter and heir of Sir Francis Layburn was married to Thomas Dacre last Baron of Gilsland and Graystock This Roger was bred Fellow in Pembroke-hall Doctor of Divinity and at last was consecrated Bishop of Carlile 1503. two years after he solemnly accepted of the Mastership of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge which I have heard called Episcopale Collegium not onely because it hath bred so many Bishops for the proportion thereof but chiefly because many Prelates have held the Mastership thereof even untill their death Doctor Layburn dyed soon after 1509. before he could express his good intentions to his Colledge or Cathedrall Since the Reformation EDMUND GRINDALL was born at Saint Bees in this County bred Scholar Fellow and Master of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge and Proctour of the University In the raign of Queen Mary he fled beyond the seas and was no Violento in the Troubles of Franckford but with all meekness to his might endeavoured a pacification Returning home he was made successively Bishop of London Arch bishop of York and Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth highly favouring him for his learning piety modesty and single life till at last he lost Her love by the mischievous practices of his enemies His fault was for keeping others from breaking two of Gods Commandements Thou shalt not steal when he would not let the Lord of Leicester have Lambeth-house and Thou shalt not commit adultery when he would not permit Julio the Earls Italian Physician to marry another mans wife But it was objected againsthim to the Queen that he was a fierce defender of factious Prophecying which in process of time would undermine the Hierarchy though moderate men were of the opinion
and returning in the Raign of King Edward the sixâ—… became a Preacher of London He and Mr. Hooper were the two greatest Sticklers against Ceremonies though otherwise allowing of Episcopal Government He was the first Martyr who suffered in Smithfield in Queen Maries dayes and led all the rest of whom we may truly say that if they had not beâ—…n flesh and blood they could not have been burnt and if they had been no more then flesh and blood they would not have been burnt The Non-Conformists account it no small Credit unto them that one of their Opinion as who would not flinch from the faith was chosen by Divine Providence the first to encounter the fire Such may remember that no Army is all FRONT and that as constant did come behinde as went before Had those of an opposite judgment been called first they had come first to the stake and in due time the defenders of Ceremonies were as substantial in their Sufferings This John Rogers was martyred Febr. 4. 1555. JOHN BRADFORD was born at * Manchester in this County and bred first a Lawyer in the Inns of Court and for a time did solicite Suits for Sr. John Harrington afterwards saith my * Authour ex Rixoso Causidico mitissimus Christi Apostolus going to Cambridg a man in maturity and ability the University by special Grace bestowed on him the Degree of Master of Art and so may he be said to Commence not only per saltum but per volatum The Jesuit doth causlesly urge this his short standing for an Argument of his little understanding whereas he had alwayes been a hard Student from his youth and his Writings and his Disputings give a sufficient Testimony of his Learning It is a demonstration to me that he was of a sweet temper Because Parsons who will hardly afford a good VVord to a Protestant saith that he seemed to be of a more soft and milde nature than many of his fellowe 〈◊〉 Indeed he was a most holy and mortified man who secretly in his closet would so weep for his sinnes one would have thought he would never have smiled again and then appearing in publick he would be so harmlesly pleasant one would think he had never wept before But Mr. Fox his pains have given the pens of all Posterity a VVrit of ease to meddle no more with this Martyr who suffered Anno Dom. 1555. GEORGE MARSH was born at Dean in this County bred a good Scholar in a Grammer-School and then lived in the honest condition of a Farmer after the death of his wife he went to Cambridge where he followed his Studies very close and afterwards solemnly entring into Orders became a profitable Preacher and Curate to Mr. Lawrence Sanders the worthy Martyr Causlesly therefore doth Parsons asperse him that he of a Farmer turned a Preacher as if he had done it immediately with many of our Age leaping from the plough to the pulpit concealing his Academical breeding such is the Charity of his jesuitical reservation As little is his Charity for condemning him for answering 〈◊〉 and fearfully at first to such who examined him about the Sacrament of the Altar seeing the said Marsh condemned himself for doing it as therein too much consulting carnal Respects to save his life as appears in Mr. Fox whence the Jesuite fetcheth all his Information But Marsh made amends for all these failings with his final constancy being both burnt and scalded to death having a barrel of pitch placed over his head an accent of cruelty peculiar to him alone when he was martyred at VVestchester Apr. 24. 1555. Cardinals WILLIAM ALAN was born in this County saith my Authour nobilibus parentibus of 〈◊〉 Parentage He was bred in Oriel Colledg in the University of Oxford and became Head of Sâ—… Maries Hall therein Then going beyond the Seas he became Kings 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 Cannon of Cambray and Rhemes and at last by Pope Sixtus Quint us made Cardinal priest of Martins in Rome 1587. and deserved his Red Hat by his good Service the year after against his Native Country But hear what Different Characters two Authours of several perswasions bestow upon him PITZEU 〈◊〉 ANO. Script page 792. GODWIN in his Catalogue of Cardinals page 479. He was somewhat above an ordinary man in Stature comely of Countenance composed in his Gaâ—…e affable in all Meetings and for the Gifts of his Mind Pious Learned Prudent Grave and though of Great Authority Humble modest meek patient peaceable in a word beautified and adorned with all kinds of Virtues He was the last of our English Cardinals in time and first in wickedness deserving not to be counted among English men who as another Herostratus to atchieve himself a name amongst the Grandees of Earth endeavoured to fire the Church of England the Noblest without envy be it spoken in the Christian World so that his memory deserveth to be buried in oblivion He collected the English Exilâ—…s into a Body and united them in a COLLEDG first at Doway then at Rhemes so great an Advancer that we may behold him as Founder of that Seminary He â—…yed at Rome Anno 1594. and preferred rather to be buried in the English School than in the Church of St. Martins which gave him the Title of Cardinal Prelates HUGH OLDHAM born in this County at Oldham a Village some fix miles from Manchester bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge was no ill Scholar and a good Man most pious according to and above the Devotion of the Age he lived in he was afterwards Bishop of Exeter a Foe to a Monkish Superstition and a Friend to University Learning Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford and Corpus-Christi Colledge therein will for ever bear witnesse of his bounty to advance Religion and Learning Besides the Town of Manchester have good cause to remember him who founded and endowed a School therein with large Revenue appointing the Warden of the Colledge therein Caput Scholae This Bishop having a tough contest with the Abbot of Tavestock was excommunicated for refusing to stand to the decision of the Court of Rome He had formerly built a Chapel in the South side of his Cathedrall and dying excommunicate on the aforesaid account was Buried not in the very Church but brink thereof and body of the Wall He dyed Anno Dom. 1520. JAMES STANLEY D. D. brother of Thomas Earl of Darby was born in this County and was by K. Henry the seaventh his kinsman by marriage preferred Bishop of Ely 1506. a man more memorable than commendable who never resided at his own Cathedral I can partly excuse his living all the Summer with the Earl his Brother in this County but must condemn his living all the Winter at his Mannour at Somersham in Huntingtonshire with one who was not his sister and wanted nothing to make her his Wife save mariage However if Jehu allowed a Burial to his most profest Enemy on this account that
Saint John's then Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge His studies were suitable to his years when young a good Philosopher witness his book of Meteors afterwards his endeavours ascended from the middle region of the aire to the highest heavens when he bâ—…came a pious and solid Divine Now the Romanists seeing they could no longer blind-fold their Laitie from the Scriptures resolved to fit them with false spectacles and set forth the Rhemish Translation which by Doctor Fulke was learnedly confuted though he never attained any great preferâ—…ent in the Church Here it is worth our pains to peruse the immediate succession of Masters in Pembroke-hall because unparallel'd in any English Foundation Edm. Grindall Archp. of Cant. Mat. Hutton Archp. of York Jo. Whitgift Archp. of Cant. Jo. Young 〈◊〉 of Rochester William Fulke D. D. Lanc. Andrews Bp. of Winchester Sam. Harsnet Archp. of York Nic. Felton Bp. of Eely Here though all the rest were Episcopated Doctor Fulke was but Doctor Fulke still though a man of great merit This proceeded not from any disaffection in him to the Hierarchie as some would fain suggest but principally from his love of privacy and place of Margaret-Professour wherein he died Anno Dom. 1589. EDMOND SPENCER born in this City was brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge where he became an excellent Scholar but especially most haypy in English Poetry as his works do declare In which the many Chaucerisms used for I will not say affected by him are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes known by the learned to be beauties to his book which notwithstanding had been more salable if more conformed to our modern language There passeth a story commonly told and believed that Spencer presenting his Poems to Queen Elizabeth She highly affected therewith commanded the Lord Cecil Her Treasurer to give him an hundred pound and when the Treasurer a good Steward of the Queens money alledged that sum was too much then give him quoth the Queen what is reason to which the Lord consented but was so busied belâ—…ke about matters of higher concernment that Spencer received no reward Whereupon he presented this petition in a small piece of paper to the Queen in her Progress I was promis'd on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason Hereupon the Queen gave strict order not without some check to her Treasurer for the present payment of the hundred pounds she first intended unto him He afterwards went over into Ireland Secretary to the Lord Gray Lord Deputy thereof and though that his office under his Lord was lucrative yet got he no estate but saith my Author Pâ—…culiari Poetis fato semper cum paupertate conflictatus est So that it fared little better with him then with William Xilander the German a most excellent Linguist Antiquary Philosopher and Mathematician who was so poor that as Thuanus saith he was thought fami non famae scribere Returning into England he was robb'd by the Rebels of that little he had and dying for grief in great want Anno 1598. was honorably buried nigh Chaucer in Westminster where this Distick concludeth his Epitaph on hâ—…s monument Anglica te vivo vixit plausitque poesis Nunc moritura timet te moriente mori Whilst hâ—…iu didst live liv'd English poetry Which fears now thou art dead that she shall die Nor must we forget that the expence of his funeral and monument was defrayed at the sole charge of Robert first of that name Earl of Essex JOHN STOW son of Thomas Stow who died Anno 1559. grand-child to Thomas Stow who died 1526. both Citizens of London and buried in Saint Michaels in Cornhill was born in this City bred at learning no higher then a good Gramar-scholar yet he became a painful faithful and the result of both useful Historian Here to prevent mistake by the homonymie of names I request the Reader to take special notice of three brace of English writers 1. Sir Thomas commonly with the addition of De la More who lived under and wrote the life of King Edward the second 1. John Leland bred in Oxford the most exquisite Grammarian of his age who flourished Anno 1428. 1. John Stow a Benedictine Monke of Norwich Anno 1440. who wrote various Collections much cited by Caius in his history of Cambridge 2. Sir Thomas More the witty and learned Chancellour of England 2. John Leland bred in Cambridge the most eminent Antiquary under K. Henry the eight 2. John Stow this Londiner and Historian I confess I have heard him often accused that as learned Guicciardine is charged for telling magnarum rerum minutias he reporteth res in se minutas toys and trifles being such a Smell-feast that he cannot pass by Guild-hall but his pen must tast of the good chear therein However this must be indulged to his education so hard it is for a Citizen to write an History but that the fur of his gown will be felt therein Sure I am our most elegant Historians who have wrote since his time Sir Francis Bacon Master Camden c. though throwing away the basket have taken the fruit though not mentioning his name making use of his endeavors Let me adde of John Stow that however he kept tune he kept time very well no Author being more accurate in the notation thereof Besides his Chronicle of England he hath a large Survey of London and I believe no City in Christendome Rome alone excepted hath so great a volume extant thereof Plato was used to say that many good laws were made but still one was wanting viz. a law to put all those good laws in execution Thus the Citizens of London have erected many fair monuments to perpetuate their memories but still there wanted a monument to continue the memory of their monuments subject by time and otherwise to be defaced which at last by John Stow was industriously performed He died in the eightieth year of his age April 5. 1605. and is buried at the upper end of the North-Isle of the Quire of Saint Andrews-Undershaft His Chronicle since continued by another whose additions are the lively embleme of the times he writeth of as far short of Master Stow in goodness as our age is of the integrity and charity of those which went before it GILES FLETCHER was born in this City son to Giles Fletcher Dr. in law and Embassadour into Russia of whom formerly in Kent From Westminster-school he was chosen first Scholar then Fellow of Trinity colledge in Cambridge One equally beloved of the Muses and the Graces having a sanctified wit witness his worthy Poem intituled Christs Victory made by him being but Bachelour of Arts discovering the Piety of a Saint and Divinity of a Doctor He afterward applied himself to School-Divinity cross to the grain of his Genius as some conceive and attained to good skill therein When he preached at Saint Maries his
or silver-hair-skins formerly so dear are now levelled in prices with other colours yea are lower then black in estimation because their wool is most used in making of hats commonly for the more credit called Half-Beavers though many of them hardly amount to the proportion of Semi-Demi-Castors Herrings Great store and very good of these are caught nigh Yarmouth where once every year on the Feast of Saint Michael is a Fair held for the sale of fish and such the plenty of Herrings there constantly vented that incredible the sum which is raised thereby Indeed the fishing for Herrings is a most gainful trade fish though contemptable in it self considerable in its company swiming in such shoals that what the Whale hath in bigness the Herring hath in number It may well mind such who excell in strength and valour not to boast or be proud thereof seeing the greatest courage may be soon pressed to death under unequal number Yea Red-herrings in England mostly eaten for sauce to quicken the Appetite serve in Holland and elsewhere for food to satisfy hunger I will conclude the Natural Commodities of this County with this memorable passage which I have read in a modern Author The Lord F. W. assured me of a Gentleman in Norfolk that made above 10000l sterl of a piece of ground not forty yards square and yet there was neither Mineral nor Metal in it He aâ—…ter told me it was onely a sort of fine clay for the making a choise sort of earthen ware which some that knew it seeing him dig up discovered the value of it and sending it into Holland received so much money for it My belief tireth in coming up to the top of this story suspecting the addition of a cypher But if it were so how much would it have inriched us if those mockChina-dishes had been made in England Manufactures Worsteds These first took their name from Worsted a Village in this County originally it is nothing but Woollen-thred spun very fine and for the more strength twisted together But O! it surpassesh my skill to name the several stuffs being VVorsted disguised with VVeaving and Colouring made thereof It argueth the usefulness and publick profit of this commodity which first found a general repute in England toward the end of the raign of King Henry the sixth that there are no fewer then fourteen Statutes now in force in the well ordering thereof to Merchantable proof And appointing which of them may which may not be Transported Not to speak of four VVardens of VVorsted VVeavers to be chosen yearly within the City of Norwish and other four out of the County of Northfolk with their solemn Oath Office and Authority As for worsted Stockins they were first made in England Anno 1564. by VVilliam Rider an ingenious Apprentice living against Saint Magnus Church at the foot of London Bridge This William chancing to see a pair of knit worsted Stockins in the Lodging of an Italian Merchant who had brought them from Manâ—…ua borrowed them and making the like by that pattern presented them to VVilliam Earl of Pembroke who first wore them in England Proverbs Norfolk dumplings This cannot be verified of any dwarfish or diminutive stature of people in this County being as tall of their bodies and as tall of their arms too I assure you as any in England But it relates to the fare they commonly feed on so generally called I wish much good may it do them and that their bodies thereby may be enabled for all natural civil and spiritual performances Norfolk VViles Such the skill of the common people hereof in our Common-Law wherein they are so versed ut si nihil sit litium lites tamen ex juris apicibus serere callent If I must go to Law I wish them rather of my Counsel then my Adversaries For whereas pedibus ambulando is accounted but a vexatious Suit in other Counties here where men are said to study Law as following the Plough tail some would perswade us that they will enter an action for their neighbours horse but looking over their hedge Now although we listen to this but as a jeer yet give me leave to observe two parts in VViles VVittiness which all must commend VVickedness condemn Sure I am that in Scripture a VVile always male audit is taken in an evil sense as wherein the simplicity of the Dove is stung to death by the subtilty of the Serpent But no more hereof least Norfolk-men commence a Suit against me though I verily believe many therein are of as peaceable dispositions as any in other places A Yarmouth Capon That is a red-herring No news for creatures to be thus disguised under other names seeing Criticks by a Libyon bear sub pelle Libystidis ursae understand a Lion no Bears being found in the land of Libya And I believe few capons save what have more fins then feathers are bred in Yarmouth But to countenance this expression I understand that the Italian Friers when disposed to eat flesh on Fridays call a Capon piscem è corte a fish out of the Coop He is arrested by the Baily of Marshland The aire of Marshland in this County is none of the wholesomest being surrounded with the Sea and Fens on all sides Hence it is that strangers coming hither are clapt on the back with an ague which sometimes lasts them longer then a Stuffe Suit The best is when such prisoners have paid the Bailiffs Fees and Garnish and with time and patience have weathered out the brunt of that disease they become habited to the aire of the Country and arrive in health at a very great age Princes I meet with no Prince since the Conquest taking his first breath in this County probably because so remote from the principal place of Royal Residence Prelats GILBERT BERKELEY was born in this County but descended from the ancient Barons of that name as appeareth by his Armes He was consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells in the first of Queen Elizabeth and sate therein 22. years He died of a Lethargy being 80. years of age 1581. and is buried on the North-side of the Communion-table of his own Cathedral JOHN AYLMER Brother to Sir Robert Aylmer Knight was born at Aylmerhall in the Parish of Tilsely in this County as his nearest surviving relations have informed me from whom I have received the following information When he was but a Child going toward school Henry Gray Duke of Suffolk having some discourse with took so much liking unto him that after he had been bred some years in the University of Cambridge he made him his Chaplain and committed his daughter the Lady Jane Gray to his tuition In the reign of Queen Mary he fled over beyond Sea and was little less then miraculously saved from the Searchers of the Ship by the ingenuity of a Marchant who put him into a great Wine-but which had a partition in the middle so that
Works left to posterity 1. De variis Annorum Formis 2. De natura Coeli conditione Elementorum 3. Praelectio Astronomica 4. De origine Fontium 5. Disquisitio Phisiologica 6. Explicatio additameutnm Arg. temp nat ministerii Christi In handling of these subjects it seems he crossed Scalliger who was highly offended thereat conceiving himself such a Prince of Learning it was high Treason for any to doubt of much more deny his opinion Yea he conceited his own Judgment so canonical that it was Heresie for any inferiour person to differ from the same Shall Scalliger write a book of the Emendation of Times and should any presume to write one of the Emendation of Scalliger especially one no publick Professor and so private a person as Lydyate However this great Bugbear Critick finding it more easie to contemn the person than confute the arguments of his Adversary sleighted Lydyate as inconsiderable jeering him for a Prophet who indeed somewhat traded in the Apocalyptical Divinity Learned men of unbiassed judgments will maintain that Lydyate had the best in that Contest but here it came to pass what Solomon had long before observed Nevertheless the poor mans wisdom is despised and his words are not heard He never attained higher Church-preferment than the Rectory of Alkerton the Town of his Nativity and deserted that as I have cause to suspect before his death Impute his low condition to these causes 1. The nature of his Studies which being Mathematical and Speculative brought not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grist to the mill 2. The nature of his Nature being ambitious of Privity and Concealment 3. The death of Prince Henry whose Library-keeper he was and in whose Grave Lydyates hopes were interred 4. His disaffection to Church-discipline and Ceremonies used therein though such wrong his memory who represent him an Anabaptist His modesty was as great as his want which he would not make known to any Sir William Boswell well understanding his worth was a great friend unto him and so was Bishop Williams He dyed about Westminster as I take it in the year of our Lord 1644. Happy had it been for posterity if on his death-bed he could have bequeathed his Learning to any surviving Relation Sir RICHARD BAKER Knight was a Native of this County and High-Sheriff thereof in the 18. of King James Anno Dom. 1621. His youth he spent in learning the benefit whereof he reaped in his old age when his Estate thorough Surety-ship as I have heard him complain was very much impair'd But God may smile on them on whom the World doth frown whereof his pious old age was a memorable instance when the storm on his Estate forced him to flye for shelter to his studies and devotions He wrote an Exposition on the Lords prayer which is corrival with the best Comments which professed Divines have written on that subject He wrote a Chronicle on our English Kings imbracing a method peculiar to himself digesting Observables under several heads very useful for the Reader This reverend Knight left this troublesome world about the beginning of our Civil wars WILLIAM WHATELEY was born in Banbury whereof his father was twice Mayor and bred in Christs-college in Cambridge He became afterwards Minister in the Town of his Nativity and though generally people do not respect a Prophet or Preacher when a Man whom they knew whilest a Child yet he met there with deserved reverence to his Person and Profession Indeed he was a good Linguist Philoso pher Mathematician Divine and though a Poetical Satyrical Pen is pleas'd to pass a jeer upon him free from Faction He first became known to the world by his book called the Bride-bushe which some say hath been more condemned than confuted as maintaining a Position rather odious than untrue But others hold that blows given from so near a Relation to so near a Relation cannot be given so lightly but they will be taken most heavily Other good Works of his have been set forth since his death which happened in the 56. year of his age Anno Dom. 1639. JOHN BALLE was born at Casfigton four miles North-west of Oxford in this County an obscure Village onely illustrated by his Nativity He proceeded Batchelor of Arts in Brazen-nose college in Oxford his Parents purse being not able to maintain him longer and went into Cheshire untill at last he was beneficed at Whitmore in the County of Stafford He was an excellent School man and School-master qualities seldom meeting in the same man a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer and his Treatise of Faith cannot sufficiently be commended Indeed he liv'd by faith having but small means to maintain him but 20 pounds yearly Salary besides what he got by teaching and boording his Scholers and yet was wont to say he had enough enough enough Thus contentment consisteth not in heaping on more fuell but in taking away some fire He had an holy facetiousness in his discourse when his friend having had a fall from his horse and said that he never had the like deliverance Yea said Mr. Balle and an hundred times when you never fell accounting Gods preserving us from equal to his rescuing us out of dangers He had an humble heart free from passion and though somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church-discipline confuted such as conceived the corruptions therein ground enough for a separation He hated all New Lights and pretended Inspirations besides Scripture and when one asked him whether he at any time had experience thereof in his own heart No said he I bless God and if I should ever have such phantasies I hope God would give me grace to resist them Notwithstanding his small means he lived himself comfortably relieved others charitably left his children competently and dyed piously October the 20. Anno Dom. 1640. WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH was born in the City of Oxford so that by the benefit of his birth he fell from the lap of his mother into the armes of the Muses He was bred in Trinity college in this University an acute and subtil Disputant but unsetled in judgment which made him go beyond the Seas and in some sort was conciled to the Church of Rome but whether because he found not the respect he expected which some shrewdly suggest or because his Conscience could not close with all the Romish corruptions which more charitably believe he returned into England and in testimony of his true conversion wrote a book entituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation against Mr. Knot the Jesuit I will not say Malo nodo malus quaerendus est cuneus but affirm no person better qualified than this Author with all necessary accomplishments to encounter a Jesuit It is commonly reported that Dr. Prideaux compared his book to a Lamprey fit for food if the venemous string were taken out of the back thereof a passage in my opinion inconsistent with the Doctors approbation prefixed in the beginning
notice of his parts and perfections allowing him Festivum ingenium ad quodcunque deflexum having a subtile and supple Wit so that he could be what he would be a great Master of Defence in the Schools both to guard and hit Bale saith he saw his Works in Cambridge fairly written in four great Volumes Weary with his long Race beyond the seas he returned at last to the place whence he started and retiring to his Convent whereof he was Ruler at Ipswich died there January 22 1448. JOHN of BURY was an Augustinian in Clare Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge Provincial of his Order thorough England and Ireland no mean Scholar and a great opposer of Reginald Peakock and all other Wicklevites He flourished Anno 1460. THOMAS SCROOPE was born at Bradley in this County but extracted from the Lord Scroop in York-shire who rolled through many professions 1 He was a Benedictine but found that Order too loose for his conscience 2 A Carmelite of Norwich as a stricter profession 3 An Anchorite the dungeon of the prison of Carmelitisme wherein he lived twenty years 4 Dispensed with by the Pope he became Bishop of Drummore in Ireland 5 Quiâ—…ing his Bishoprick he returned to his solitary life yet so that once a week he used to walk on his bare â—…eet and preach the Decalogue in the Villages round about He lived to be extreamly aged for about the year 1425 cloathed in sack-cloath and girt with an iron chain he used to cry out in the streets That new Jerusalem the Bride of the Lamb was shortly to come down from Heaven prepared for her Spouse Revel 21 and that with great joy he saw the same in the spirit Thomas Waldensis the great Anti-Wicklevite was much offended thereat protesting it was a scandal and disgrace to the Church However our Scroope long out-lived him and died aged well nigh 100 years Non sine sanctitatis opinione say both Bale and 〈◊〉 And it is a wonder they meet in the same opinion He was buried at 〈◊〉 in this County Anno 1491. Since the Reformation RICHARD SIRS was born in the edge of this County yet so that Essex seemeth to have no share in him nigh Sudbury and was bred a Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge He proved afterwards a most profitable Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grais-Inn whence he was chosen Master of St. Katharine-hall in Cambridge He found the House in a mean condition the Wheel of St. Katharine having stood still not to say gone backwards for some years together he left it replenished with Scholars beautified with Buildings better endowed with Revenues He was most eminent for that grace which is most worth yet cost the least to keep it viz. Christian humility Of all points of Divinity he most frequently pressed that of Christs Incarnation and if the Angels desired to pry into that Mystery no wonder if this Angelical Man had a longing to look therein A Learned Divine imputed this good Doctors great humility to his much meditating on that point of Christs humiliation when he took our flesh upon him If it be true what some hold in Physick that Omne par nutrit suum par that the Vitals of our Body are most strengthned by feeding on such Meat as are likest unto them I see no absurdity to maintain that Mens souls improve most in those graces whereon they have most constant meditation whereof this worthy Doctor was an eminent instance He died in the 58th year of his Age Anno Domini 1631. WILLIAM ALABLASTER was born at Hadley in this County and by marriage was Nephew to Doctor John Still Bishop of Bath and Wells He was bred Fellow in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge A most rare Poet as any our Age or Nation hath produced witnesse his Tragedy of Roxama admirably acted in that Colledge and so pathetically that a Gentle-woman present thereat Reader I had it from an Author whose credit it is sin with me to suspect at the hearing of the last words thereof sequar sequar so hideously pronounced fell distracted and never after fully recovered her senses He attended Chaplain in Calis-voyage on Robert Earl of Essex where he was so affected with the beauty of Popish Churches and the Venerable respect the Papists gave to their Priests that he staggered in his own Religion There wanted not those of the Romish party to force his fall whom they found reeling working on his Ambition who complained of the slownesse of preferment in England which followed not so fast as in due time to overtake his deserts so that soon after he turned a Papist Yet it was not long before he was out of love with that perswasion so that whether because he could not comport with their discipline who would have made him who conceived himself at the top begin again according to their course at the bottom of Humane Learning Or because which I rather charitably beleeve that upon second thoughts he seriously disgusted the Romish superstition he returned into his own Country It was not long before he was made Prebendary of St. Pauls and Rector of the rich Parsonage of Tharfield in Hartford-shire He was an excellent Hebrician and well skilled in Cabalistical Learning witnesse his Clerum in Cambridge when he commenced Doctor in Divinity taking for his Text the first words of the first Book of Chronicles Adam Seth Enos Besides the literal sense as they are proper names of the Patriarchs he mined for a mystical meaning Man is put or placed for pain and trouble How well this agreeth with the Original belongs not to me to enquire This I know it had been hard if not impossible for him to hold on the same rate and reduce the proper names in the Genealogies following to such an Appellativeness as should compose a continued sense He died Anno Domini 163. SAMUEL WARD was born at Haveril in this County where his Father had long been a painful Minister of the place and I remember I have read this Epitaph written on his Monument in the Chancel there which I will endeavour to translate Quo si quis scivit scitiùs Aut si quis docuit doctiùs At rarus vixit sanctiùs Et nullus tonuit fortiùs Grant some of knowledge greater store More Learned some in teaching Yet few in life did lighten more None thundred more in preaching He bred his son Samuel in Cambridge in Sidney Colledge whereof he became Fellow being an excellent Artist Linguist Divine and Preacher He had a sanctified fancy dexterous in designing expressive pictures representing much matter in a little model From Cambridge he was preferred Minister in or rather of Ipswich having a care over and a love from all the Parishes in that populous place Indeed he had a magnifick Vertue as if he had learned it from the Load-stone in whose qualities he was so knowing to attract peoples affections Yet found he foes as well as friends who complained of him to the High
of the Ladies amongst whom one reputed a kins-man to the great Sophy after some Opposition was married unto him She had more of Eb◅ny then Ivory in her Complexion yet amiable enough and very valiant a quality considerable in that Sex in those Countries With her he came over into England and lived many years therein He much affected to appear in forreign Vestes and as if his Clothes were his limbes accounted himself never ready till he had something of the Persian Habit about him At last a Contest happening betwixt him and the Persian Ambassadour to whom some reported Sir Robert gave a Box on the Ear the King sent them both into Persia there mutually to impeach one another and joyned Doctor Go◅gh a Senior Fellow of Trinity-colledge in Cambridge in Commission with Sir Robert In this ◅oyage as I am informed both died on the Seas before the controverted difference was ever heard in the Court of Persia about the beginning of the reign of K. Charles Sir THOMAS SHIRLEY I name him the last though the eldest Son of his Father because last appearing in the world mens Activity not always observing the method of their Register As the Trophies of Miltiades would not suffer Themistocles to sleep so the Atchivements of his two younger brethren gave an Ala◅m unto his spirit He was ashamed to see them Worne like flowers in the Breasts and Bosomes of forreign Princes whilst he himself withered upon the stalk he grew on This made him leave his aged Father and fair Inheritance in this County and to undertake Sea Voyages into forreign parts to the great honour of his Nation but small inriching of himself so that he might say to his Son as Aeneas to Aescanius Disce puer Virtutē ex me verumque Laborem Fortunam ex aliis Virtue and Labour Learn from me thy Father As for success Child Learn from others rather As to the generall performances of these three brethren I know the Affidavit of a Poet carieth but a small cre◅it in the court of History and the Comedy made of them is but a friendly foe to their Memory as suspected more accommodated to please the present spectators then inform posterity However as the belief of Miti◅ when an Inventory of his adopted Sons misde◅nours was brought unto him embraced a middle and moderate way nec omnia credere nec nihil neither to believe all things nor nothing of what was told him so in the list of their Atchivements we may safely pitch on the same proportion and when abatement is made for poeticall embelishments the remainder will speak them Worthies in their generations The certain dates of their respective deaths I cannot attain Physicians NICHOLAS HOSTRESHAM Know Reader I have placed him in this County only on presumption that Horsham in this Shire no such place otherwise in England is contracted for Hostresham He was a learned man a most famous Physician and esteemed highly of all the Nobility of the Land who coveted his company on any conditions It seemeth that he was none of those so pleasing and conformable to the Humor of their Patients as that they press not the true Cure of the Disease and yet none of those who are so Regular in proceeding according to Art for the Disease as that they respect not sufficiently the condition of their Patients but that he was of a Middle Temper and so in effect was two Physicians in one Man Many were the Books he wrote reckoned upby Bale and Pitz amongst which I take especial notice of one contra dolorem renum thus beginning Lapis quandoque generatur in renibus I observe this the rather because his Practise was wholly at home it not appearing that he ever went beyond the Sea and this is contrary unto the confidence of such who have vehemently affirmed that the Stone was never heard of in England untill Hopps and Beer made therewith about the year 1516. began to be commonly used He flourished Anno Domini 1443. Writers LAURENCE SOMERCOTE was born saith Bale in the South-part of the Kingdome But had I am sure his best English preferment in Sussex being Canon of Chichester After his breeding here under his Carefull Parents and Skilfull Masters who taught him Logick and Rhetorick he applied himself to the Study of the Law and attained to great Learning therein Then leaving the Land he went to Rome and repaited to his Brother or Kinsman Robert Somercote Cardinall who it seems procured him to be Sub-Deacon under the Pop◅ He wrote some Books both in Latine and French and flourished in the year of our Lord 1240. JOHN DRITON so is his Surname Englished by Bale And why not as well John Driby a V◅llage in Lincoln-shire seeing no Driton in all England The truth is this in Latine he wrote himself de Arida Vill◅ equivalent with Sicoa villa or Sack-wil a Surname most renowned in this County and because it is added to his Character ex Illustri quadam Angliae familia procre◅s it suiteth well with our conjecturing him this Country-man He was bred according to the Mode of that Age in France and there became at Paris Summus Gymnasii Moderator which howsoever rendred in English soundeth a high place Conferred on a Forreigner In his time was much busling in the University about an Apocrypha Book patched together out of the Dreams of Joachime and Cyril two Monkes which was publickly read and commented on by many Admirers thereof by the name of the Eternall Gospell The Pope who often Curseth where God Blesseth here Blessed where God Cursed and notwithstanding the solemn Commination against such Additions to Scripture favoured them and what a Charitable Christian can scarcely believe damned their Opposers for Hereticks this our Sackwill bestirred himself and with William de Sancto Amore and other pious Men opposed this piece of Imposture Pitz in the Character of this our de Arida Villa treads like a foundred Horse on stones mentioning only that he met with much disturbance without any particulars thereof At last this Eternall Gospell had a Temporal End and with the Serpents of the Aegyptian Inchanters which vanished away this pretended Quint Essence Gospell sunk with shame into silence whilst the other four Gospells with the Serpent of Moses doe last and continue This our Writer flourished 1260. JOHN WINCHELSEY was bred in Oxford and became a great Scholar therein I am not bound to believe Bale in full latitude that he made a Centaur-Divinity out of Poets and Philosophers but this I believe that in his old Age he turned a Franciscan and when Gray became a Green Novice of the Order at Sarisbury Many condemned him that he would enter into such a life when ready to goe out of the world and others of his own Covent commended him who being old was concerned to find out the most compendious way to Heaven The year of his Probation was not ended when he died and was
Good ar   9 Ioh. Keyt ar   10 Ioh. Savage ar ut prius  11 Will. Russell bar ut prius  12 Ioh. Rows mil ut prius  13 Edw. Dingley ar ut prius  14 Tho. Greaves ar   15 Ioh. Winford ar   16   18   19   1   20   21   22   Queen Elizabeth 19. JOHN RUSSELL Ar. The same Gentleman no doubt who was afterwards Knighted and betwixt whom and Sir Henry Berkeley was so deadly a quarrell as that great blood-shed was likely to have ensued at the Sessions in Worcester by reason of their many friends and followers ingaged therein But Doctor Whitgift then Bishop of Worcester and Vice-President of Wales in the absence of Sir Henry Sidney then in Ireland wisely prevented it by providing a strong watch at the gates and about the City and requiring them to bring both parties with their attendance well guarded to his Palace Here he caused them all to the number of four or five hundred to deliver their weapons into his own Servants custody and after two hours pains taken sometimes in perswading and otherwhiles in threatning them he made them so good friends that they both attended him hand in hand to the Town-hall where in amitie and love they performed the service of their Country 36. JOHN PACKINGTON Mil. It is now good manners for me to hold my peace and listen to a Privy-Councellor thus describing his character He was a Gentleman of no mean family of form and feature no ways disabled a very fine Courtier and for the time which he stayed there which was not lasting very high in the Queens grace But he came in and went out and though disassiduity drew the curtain between himself and the light of her favour and then death overwhelmed the remnant and utterly deprived him of recovery And they say of him that had he brought less to the Court then he did he might have carried away more then he brought for he had a time of it but was no good husband of opportunity King James 2. RICHARD WALSH Ar. I find him called in our Chronicles perchance by a Prolepsis Sir Richard Walsh Yea I find him stiled so by him who best might because he made him so Knighting him for his good service In his Sheriffalty the Powder-Traitors sereted out of Warwick-shire by Sir Richard Verney were as fiercely followed by Sir Richard Walsh out of the bounds of this County till they took covert in the house of Stephen Littleton at Hallbach in Stafford-shire This discreet Sheriff not standing on the punctilio of exceeding his Commission in a case wherein the peace of the Kingdome was so highly concern'd prosecuted his advantage and beset the house round about till both the Wrights were kill'd in the place Catesby and Percy slain with one bullet Rookwood and Winter wounded all the rest apprehended The Battles Worcester Fight Many smart Skirmishes have happened in this County and near this City We onely insist on that Fatall Fight September the third 1651. Know then as Introductory thereunto that His Majesty on the first of August foregoing began his March from Edenbrough into England not meeting with any considerable Opposition those at Warrington being soon put to flight by his Presence untill he came to Worcester His Army consisted of twelve thousand effectuall Fighting men whereof two thousand English the rest of the Scottish Nation but neither excellently Armed nor plentifully stored with Ammunition whilst the Parliament Forces under Cromwell more then doubled that Number wanting nothing but a Good Cause that an Army could wish or desire The Royalists Cheifest strength consisted in two Passes they possessed over the River of Severn which proved not advantagious according to expectation For the Enemy found the River Fordable elsewhere and the Bridge and Pass at Uptrn though valiantly defended by Major Generall Massey who received a shot in his hand was forced by Lambert powring in unequall Numbers on the Kings Forces Besides Cromwell finished a Bridge of Boards and Plancks over the main River with more Celerity and less Resistance then could have been expected in a matter of such importance Then began the Battle wherein His Majesty to remember his subjects Good forgot his own Safety and gave an incomparable example of Valour to the rest by Charging in his Own Person This was followed by few to the same degree of danger but imitated in the greatest measure by the Highlanders fighting with the But-ends of their Muskets when their Ammunition was spent But new supplies constantly Charging them and the Main Body of the Scotch Horse not coming up in due time from the City to His Majesties relief his Army was forced to retreat in at Sudbury-gate in much disorder If there were which some more then whisper false and foul Play in some Persons of Principall Trust as they have had a great space seasonably God grant them his Grace sincerely to repent for their Treacherous retarding the happiness prolonging and increasing the Miseries of a Gracious King and three great Nations Sure it is here were slain the Flower of the Scottish Loyal Gentry with the most Illustrious William formerly Earl of Lanerick Duke of Hamilton As for Common Souldiers some few who escaped had a longer life to have a sadder death wandring in the Country till other mens Charity and their own Strength failed them Since how God hath conducted His Majesty miraculously through Laberynths of many Difficulties to the Peaceable Possession of his Throne is notoriously known to the wonder of the world Here my Muse heartily craveth leave to make an Humble address to His Majesty depositing at his feet the ensuing PANEGYRICK 1. AT Wor'ster great Gods goodness to our Nation It was a Conquest Your bare Preservation When ' midst Your fiercest foes on every side For Your escape God did a LANE provide They saw You gonc but whether could not tell Star-staring though they ask'd both Heaven and Hell 2. Of forraign States You since have studied store And read whole Libraries of Princes o're To You all Forts Towns Towers and Ships are known But none like those which now become Your OWN And though Your Eyes were with all Objects fill'd Onely the Good into Your Heart distill'd 3. Garbling mens manners You did well divide To take the Spaniards wisdome not their pride With French activity You stor'd Your Mind Leaving to them their Ficklenesse behind And soon did learn Your Temperance was such A sober Industry even from the Dutch 4. But tell us Gracious Soveraign from whence Took You the pattern of Your Patience Learn't in Afflictions School under the Rod Which was both us'd and sanctifi'd by God From Him alone that Lesson did proceed Best Tutor with best Pupil best agreed 5. We Your dull Subjects must confess our crime Who learnt so little in as long a time And the same