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A59136	The history of England giving a true and impartial account of the most considerable transactions in church and state, in peace and war, during the reigns of all the kings and queens, from the coming of Julius Cæsar into Britain : with an account of all plots, conspiracies, insurrections, and rebellions ... : likewise, a relation of the wonderful prodigies ... to the year 1696 ... : together with a particular description of the rarities in the several counties of England and Wales, with exact maps of each county / by John Seller ...	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1696 (1696)	Wing S2474; ESTC R15220	415,520	758

a great Overthrow and made the whole Nation submit their Crown to him which he placed on the Head of Constantine upon his Submission saying It was more Honour to make a King than to be a King However he imposed a Tribute on the Kingdom and to shew the mightiness of his Strength made a vast dint in a Stone with his Sword at Dunbar causing it to be Recorded as a Mark of his Title to the Kingdom of Scotland but soon after Constantine repenting his Submission Leavyed Forces and Invaded England joyning with Anlafe the Dane but at a place called Bromingfield he was Overthrown for the English seeming to retire and the others supposing they had really done it Rallyed on the loose Troops of their Enemies and beat them down in great numbers obtaining a great Victory and Killing 20000 of their Enemies among which Willfert Prince of the Guentes and Howel Prince of North Wales and Seven Dukes who came to the assistance of the Scots Malcolm Heir apparent to Scotland was much Wounded whereupon King Ethelstan setled the English Borders beyond the Tweed taking in the three Southern Counties strongly Garrisoning Edenburg Castle and other Fortresses so that Constantine finding that he was unable to make further opposition betook himself to a Contemplative Life in the Abby of St. Andrews where in a short time after he Dyed Hereupon Ethelstane caused the Scots Nobles to Swear Fealty to him and injoyned them to pay him Yearly twenty Pounds in Gold three Hundred Pounds in Silver and 2500 Head of Cattle Hounds Hawks c. So that the Scots mourned many Years for their joyning with the Danes to Invade England And indeed a little before the fatal Battel a Fountain of Blood-Coloured Water issued out of the side of a Mountain in Galloway and Coloured divers Streams into which it run for many Miles and a Monster was Born with the Members of both Sexes and a Head like a Swine the Back of it full of Bristles and the Nailes like Claws another in Northumberland of the Male Sex having one Belly and two Thighs and Legs but divided upwards into two entire Bodies with two Heads and four Arms and when one Head Slept the other Waked when one Eat the other refused sustenance and always Quarelled the one with the other till one Dying its Stench Killed the other The County of DARBY By John Seller This Ethelstane caused the Bible to be Translated into English which is accounted the first time it ever was in our Language And when he had Reigned Fifteen Years he Dyed and was Buryed with much solemnity at Malmsbury where his Tomb remained some Hundreds of Years with an Epitaph in his praise as a good Prince and a great lover of Justice Remarks on Derbyshire c. THE County of Derby tho' somewhat Hilly in divers parts yet it is a very pleasant County watered with the River Derwent and other Rivers abounding with Fish It has in it a great number of Forrests and Parks stored with Deer It breeds an excellent sort of Large Cattle and abundance of Sheep It abounds also with various sorts of Stones as Free-Stone or durable Greet-Stone and in some places Lime-Stone which is useful both in Building and Husbandry for the Manuring of the Land Here is also Alabaster Crystal Black and Grey Marble which is not only very durable but Polishes well And for Mill-Stones and Whet-Stones here are several Quarries of them in the working whereof many Persons are Employed But the chiefest Commodity of this County is Lead which for the Goodness and Plenty thereof yields to no Place in the World And famous for this is the Peak of Derby-shire commonly called the Devil's Arse which is indeed the most remarkable thing in this County This Peak or Cave called the Devil's Arse is a great Rock or Castle upon an high Hill under which there is a Cave in the ground of a vast bigness the Name seemes to be taken from its having two Buttocks sticking out in form like a Mans bending to the Ground The Arch of the Rock is extream high and through it Drops of Water are continually falling Those that are minded to enter into it must have good store of Lights for going between two Rocks near together they loose the sight of Day which makes the place look dreadful and affrighting and perhaps gave rise to all those fabulous stories of Spirits and Phantoms which are reported of it the recital whereof is neither worth my Pains nor the Readers Eldenhole is another remarkabls place and one of the Wonders of the Peak It is distant two miles from Castleton a Town in the High-Peak The hole of this Cave is about 30 Yards long and 15 Yards broad on the Top descending directly down into the Earth which is much straitned when it cometh 40 Yards deep The Waters which trickle down from the Top thereof do congeal into Stone and hang like Isicles in the root of it Some are hollow within and grow Taper-wise very white and not unlike to Crystal But the greatest Wonder of the Peak is that of Buxton-Wells where nine Springs arise out of a Rock within the compass of eight or nine Yards eight of which are Warm and the ninth very Cold These Springs run from under a Square Building of Free-Stone and about 60 paces off receive another hot Spring from a Well inclosed with four flat Stones called St. Ann near unto which another cold Spring bubleth up These Springs have been found by daily Experience very good for the Stomach and Sinnews and very pleasant to bathe the Body in The wonderous Vertues whereof are thus describ'd Unto St. Ann the Fountain sacred is With Waters Hot and Cold its Springs do rise And in its Sulphur Veins there 's Med'cine lies Old Mens numb'd Joynts new Vigor here acquire In frozen Nerves this Water kindleth Fire Hither the Cripples halt some help to find Run hence and leave their Crutches here behind The Barren hither to be Fruitful come And without help of Spouse go Mothers home This County contains 106 Parishes and is divided into six Hundreds It has eight Market Towns and 13 Rivers It is Rich in Pasture and Memorable for many great Actions that have happened in it It sends Members to Parliament four viz. Derby two and two Knights of the Shire It is Bounded with Yorkshire Notinghamshire Cheshire Staffordshire and Leicestershire Derby the chief Town is commodiously situate on the Western Bank of the River Derwent and in the North-East end of it stands a Bridge of Free-Stone and upon the Bridge a fair Chappel called St. Mary's Chappel But besides Derwent which empties it self six Miles lower into the Trent this Town has the conveniency of a Brook rising Westward and running through it under nine several Bridges The Town is large and populous containing five Parish Churches of which that of All Saints is the fairest whose Tower-Steeple in which are eight Tuneable Bells was built at the only charge

and there being attended on a Scaffold before the Banquetting-House by Dr. Juxon Bishop of London he made a Profession of his Innocency and of his Faith forgiving his Enemies and praying to God not to lay his Blood to their Charge seeming troubled that he had consented to the Sentence against the Earl of Strafford and after this and much more to the like Purpose he kneeling down gave the Sign to the Executioner by stretching out his Arms and at one Blow had his Head separated from his Body which being put in a Coffin covered with Velvet was carried to Windsor and buried in a Vault in St. George's Chappel Thus without President fell King Charles when he had Reigned 23 Years 10 Months and 3 Days being the 24th Year of his Reign and 49th of his Age. Put to Death by the Hands of his own Subjects contrary to all Law and Justice universally Pitied but unable to be help'd by his People He was one of the Chastest Princes that ever sate upon the Throne being all along so true to his Queen that he never Defil'd his Marriage-bed And had he not given too much heed to Buckingham Laud and some other f●attering Parasites and Courtiers who were continually Buzzing into his Ears nothing but Absolute and unlimitted Power putting him upon Dissolving his Parliaments and then raising Money and Ruling without them as appear'd by his Twelve Years interval of Parliaments viz. from Anno 1628 to 1640. whereby he lost the Love of his People he had never been brought to that dismal Catastrophe but might have Liv'd and Dy'd a Happy Prince And this may be observ'd from this King's Reign as well as from several before That never any Prince fell out with his Parliament and went about to Establish an Arbitrary Power but he not only found himself Mistaken but also thereby made himself Miserable Before the breaking out of this unnatural War amazing Sights were seen in the Air of Firey Men and Horses running at each other with Launces encountring with great Blasts of Lightning and noise of Thunder In Gloucester-shire Spectres were seen in a large Field not far from that City drawn up in Battalia furiously Engaging and then Vanishing to the Amazement of the Beholders The Reign of King CHARLES The Second KING Charles the First being put to Death the Relicks of the Parliament began to take out of the way such Nobles and others as they supposed would obstruct their Proceedings and particularly Duke Hamilton the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capel were Beheaded for Treason pretended against them And now to make their Power the Stronger they combined with the Army-Officers And tho' Charles Son to the preceding King had an undoubted Right to the Kingdom they proceeded to bar him and all the Royal Line as they hoped from the Crown or any other from being King or chief Magistrate unless by Publick Act of Parliament so appointed and that it should be Treason in any to attempt to further King Charles the Second by them generally called Charles Stewart in his Designs to possess the Crown by Proclaiming him or any Assistance given to him taking great care not to admit the Secluded Members lest they should put a stop to the Current of their Proceedings taking down every where the King 's Arms and placing the Harp and Cross in their places called the States Arms and having taken down the late King's Effigies from the Royal-Exchange they caused to be inscribed in the place where it stood in Letters of Gold Exit Tyranus Regum ultimus Anno Libertatis Angliae Restitutiae Primo Anno 1648. Jan. 30. All Titles in Processes of Law were altered and instead of Carolus Dei Gratia c. was put in Custodes Libertatis Angliae c. The King's-Bench was called the Vpper-Bench and a new Stamp was made for Money having on the one side the Cross and on the other the Cross and Harp inscribed The Common-wealth of England on the one side and God with Vs on the other also a new Great Seal was prepared with the Cross and Harp on the one side with this Inscription The Great Seal of England and on the other side the Picture of the House of Commons with these Words In the first Year of Freedom by God's Blessing restor'd 1648. Things being thus Moddelled whilst King Charles was in France Solliciting for Aid to possess him of his Kingdoms Fairfax out of some dislike to the Patliaments proceedings laid down his Commission which was given to Oliver Cromwel who from this time laid the Projection of his future Greatness And indeed in his attempts on Ireland and Scotland he was so Successful as to reduce them to the English Obedience with incredible Slaughter of the Natives However King Charles was proclaimed by his Friends in England and Ireland and soon after in Scotland And now Money being wanting to maintain the Parliaments Armies c. the Crown-Lands Dean and Chapter and Bishops Lands were Sold with many stately Houses and most of the Castles in England Demolished and all Persons expelled from Places of Trust in Church and State that Subscribed not to be Conformable to the New-modelled Government The Scots all this while were Debating how to Restore the King who was in the Isle of Jersey and coming to a Result sent the Laird Libberton and Mr. Windram to him with Proposals the Heads being these 1. That he should Sign the Solemn League and Covenant 2. That he should Pass divers Acts concluded on in the two last Sessions of Parliament in Scotland 3. That he should recall the Commissions given to Montross 4. That he should put from him all Papists and appoint some place in Holland to treat with their Commissioners and give them a speedy Answer And Sir William Fleming being sent by the King to the Estates of Scotland Breda was appointed for the place of Treaty and Commissioners were sent to represent the Kirk and State who delivered what they had in Charge to the same Effect as has been mentioned But whilst the Treaty held the Marquess of Montross making new Attempts was Surprized in Scotland where with much Indignity he was brought to Execution and Hanged on a Gibbet of extraordinary height Dying with a Courage and Bravery suitable to that wherein he had Lived and Quarters were set up in divers places This being done in a full Treaty greatly Displeased the King because he had his Commission and had acted in his Cause but the necessity of his affairs made him pass it over and he Condescended to most of the Proposals The Parliament of England soon heard of their Treaty and to prevent its taking effect sent an Army under Cromwel into Scotland and manning out a Fleet Admiral Blake fell in with Prince Rupert's Squadron sinking and burning most of the Ships he Commanded for the King however matters being agreed on the King hastened to Scotland and Landed at Spey where several Lords came to him and the Town of

threatned mischief a number of Persons Headed by the Earl of Leicester of all Ranks bound themselves mutually to each other by their Oaths and Subscriptions to pursue all those to Death and final Destruction that should attempt any thing against the Queens Life and this Combining was called the Association And one Parry a Member of the House of Commons was Accused by Edward Nevel for having held Secret Consultations about taking away the Queens Life which he confessing was condemned and executed and the Earls of Aurundel and Northumberland were committed to the Tower on suspicion of the like Practice and in a little time the Latter was found Shot in his Head with three Bullets which was concluded to be done by himself because the Chamber Door was barred on the inside and so the Corroners Inquest found it And now the States of Holland being brought very Low sued to the Queen to take them into Protection yielding the Soveraignty of the Provinces into her Hands whereupon taking Sluice as a Cautionary Town she sent the Earl of Leicester with 5000 Foot and 1000 Horse to whom for the Queens use the absolute Authority over the Provinces was committed by an Instrument in Writing and he Invested with the Title of Governour and Captain General of Holland Zealand the United and Confederate Provinces which he Accepted as also the Stile of Excellency which much offended the Queen tho' he appeased her Anger with Submissive Letters But he Governing with a high Hand and Imposing unusual Customs on the Merchants they soon grew weary of him However to create in those people a better oppinion of his Actions he undertook to Relieve the Greve a Town in Brabant Besieged by the Prince of Parma but the Cowardice of the Governour prevented it by too suddain a Surrender for which he was Executed Yet several small places were taken in by the Valour of the English and Princes of the House of Nassaw but in a Rencounter before Zutphen Sir Philip Sidney received a Mortal Wound of which he Dyed being for Learning and Valour the Honour of his Time but the Earl not able to win this place left it Block'd up and came to the Hague where he was entertained with complaints of his Conduct and the ill circomstances it had brought their State into which so Angered him that he took away the Jurisdiction of the States Council and Presidents of Provinces and thereupon came for England to excuse his proceedings to the Queen The Spaniard having received much damage from Drake Hawkins Cavendish Forbusher and other English Adventurers in the West Indies was now studying how to revenge it and although there was a seeming Treaty carried on he was making all imaginable preparations in the Netherlands and in his own Ports of which the French King gave the Queen Secret notice whereupon with all dilligence a Fleet was set out some by the Queen others by Private Persons tho' much inferiour in Number and Bigness to the Invaders For besides the Popes Blessing and promise of Success for their Fleet called the Invincible Armado which consisted of 130 Sail wherein were 19209 Land Soldiers 8050 Marriners 2080 Galley-Slaves and 2630 pieces of Canon with small Arms and proportionable Stores besides they were to be Joyned by Forces the Prince of Parma was providing in Flanders The Fleet being ready to put to Sea the Queen appointed the Lord Howard of Effingham Admiral Sir Francis Drake Vice Admiral and the Lord Seymour with an English and Dutch Squadron to lie on the Flemish Coast and hinder Parma's sending the intended Succours and by Land having made the Earl of Leicester who had resigned his Authority in the Low Countries General he ordered an Encampment at Tilbury of 1000 Horse and 22000 Foot and raised another Army for the Guard of her Person but the Spaniards were so handled at Sea by the Admiral That after several Days Fighting they were utterly Defeated so that what were Taken Sunk Stranded and Perished in their return they lost the greater part of their Fleet with about 13500 Men and scarce a Noble Family in Spain but lost in this Expedition one Relation or other which blow Spain has not Recovered to this day For which Success the Queen caused publick Thanks to be given and afterward greatly molested the Spaniard by Warring in Portugal and sending Adventurers to the West Indies in one of which Expeditions the famous Sir Francis Drake Dyed But Sir Walter Rawleigh took a great Carrick the Prize being valued at 150000 l and others did very famous Exploits Whilst these things were doing Lopez a Jew and Physitian to the Queen was hired to Poison her as also one Patrick Cullen an Irishman to Stab her but these Designs being timely discovered divers Conspirators were Condemned and Executed This being found to be a Spanish Intreague so incensed the Queen that she sent the Earl of Essex Sir Walter Rawleigh and other brave Commanders to Anoy his Coast Towns who putting in at Cales Took and Sacked that Rich Town and Burnt a Fleet of Merchants and Men of War Valued at Twenty Millions of Duckets And now the Earl of Essex who had done many great and brave things in Ireland the Low Countries Spain Portugal and France and had all along stood high in favour with the Queen was much Disgusted at the Advancement of some Upstarts which made them his Enemies and labour all they could for his Destruction so that being sent into Ireland against the Earl of Tirowen who was in Rebellion they procured him to be Recalled and laid divers Miscarriages to his charge so that he was brought to a private Tryal but upon his Submission Acquitted by the Queens favour and set at Liberty However being a Man of a high Spirit he so resented the Affront That he concluded to remove his Enemies from the Queen by force whereupon being Assisted by the Earl of Southampton and others he Fortified his House Imprisoned her Counsellours sent to him to Advise him to submit and going into London thought to have made an Insurrection in favour of him but though he was very Popular they at this time failed him and at last Surrendering himself he with the Earl of Southampton and others was found Guilty of High Treason and the Queen over-perswaded Signed the Warrant for his Death and he was Beheaded but Southampton Reprieved Sir Charles Dorves Sir Christopher Blunt one Cuff and Merrick likewise suffered Death on this account But the Earls Death so grieved the Queen that she laid a bitter Curse on those that advised her to consent to it and growing Melancholy she soon after retired to Richmond where on the 24th of March 1602 she died when she had Reigned 44 Years 4 Months and 7 Days in the 67th Year of her Age and was buried at Westminster being the last of the Name of the Teudors of the Royal Race In this Queens Reign a Mare brought forth a Foal with two Heads and a long Tail growing between

them A Sow furrowed Piggs with Arms and Hands fingered as a Child instead of Legs And many other Creatures produced Monstrous Births A Plague likewise happened whereof Dyed in 8 Months 23660. The Thames was so hard Frozen that Waines and Carts passed it Markets and divers sorts of Exercises were kept and used on it Great Floods and Tempests happened spoiling much Corn and demolishing many Buildings In Yorkshire a Tempest over-threw a Church called Patrick Burton and laid many Villages in Ruins And many fearful Sights appeared in the Air. The Reign of King JAMES the First QUeen Elizabeth a little before she died having declared King James the Sixth of Scotland her Successor as indeed he was the next Allied to the Crown of England as being great Grand-Son to the Lady Margaret Eldest Daughter to Henry the Seventh he was upon that Queens death Proclaimed by Secretary Cecill and others and solemnly Invited to fill the vacant Throne when having disposed Affairs in Scotland for the preserving the Peace of that Kingdom he set forward with a very splendid Equipage And his first Act was to Establish and Continue Religion as it had been Setled by the deceased Queen causing the Old and New Testaments to be Translated from the Original and set many at liberty who were Imprisoned on sundry occasions by the Queen deceased But whilst these things were doing there wanted not some who envied his Accession to the Throne and secret contrivances were laid to Depose him and set up the Lady Arabella a Branch sprung from the same Stem by another Branch but it being timely discovered divers were Apprehended Tryed and Condemn'd yet only George Brook Brother to the Lord Cobham and two Popish Priests suffered Death Sir Walter Rawleigh and divers others being Pardoned and on the 25th of July 1603 the King and Ann his Queen were Crowned at Westminster in the Marble Chaire brought out of Scotland by Edward the First which fullfilled the Prophecy Inscribed on it and mentioned in that Kings Reign and Prince Henry the Kings Eldest Son was made Knight of the Garter and stiled Prince of Wales and Honours were conferred on divers Persons The next thing the King proceeded to do was to decide the Controversy between the Church of England and the Party that then stiled themselves Puritans and a Conference to that purpose was appointed at Hampton-Court where the King so Learnedly Argued that the former carried the day And the Jesuits proving over-hot in stirring up the People to change in opinions thereby to work their own ends were Banished the Kingdom and a Proclamation put out for Uniformity in the Church Soon after this the King Assembled a Parliament recommending to them the care of the Nation and a lasting settlement of Peace and Tranquility and thereupon restored the Antient Name of this Island causing himself to be Proclaimed King of Great Britain And whilst he and the Parliament happily accorded a private design was carried on to destroy them both for the Popish Party being denied the Tolleration they had petitioned for contrived one of the most Stupendious Mischiefs that ever entered into the Hearts of Men for their heat of Mallice would not be quenched with the Royal Blood but that of the Nobility and Gentry the representative body of the whole Kingdom united at Westminster was to have been shattered in pieces and dismembered by a blast of 36 Barrells of Gunpowder which they had placed in a Cellar under the Parliament House but it was Discovered by a Letter to the Lord Monteagle the Morning before it was to have been put in execution The principal Conspirators were Robert Catesby Thomas Piercy Robert Winter Thomas Winter John Garnet Ambrose Rookwood John Wright Francis Fresham Sir Everard Dighby and Guido Faux This Latter was to have set Fire to the Train and was taken with his Dark-Lanthorn at the Enterance of the Cellar on the 5th of November 1605. Which day by Parliament was appointed Annually a Day of Thanksgiving for that memorable Deliverance Upon this Discovery the Conspirators that escaped by flying were divers of them slain by Forces raised by the High-Sheriff of Warwickshire Faux upon Examination before the Council confessed the whole matter saying God would have had it prosper but the Devil Discovered it expressing himself sorry that it had not taken effect Garnet the Jesuite and others were Executed on this account and some Lords who were absent from Parliament and were suspected to have notice of the Design were committed to the Tower but after some confinement were released again and soon after this a rumour was spread without any certain Author That the King was Stabbed and Slain with an Impoisoned Knife as he was Hunting near Ockingham which for a time much troubled the People nor could their fears be allayed before a Proclamation came out to satisfie them of the contrary and the King of Denmark the Queens Brother coming to White-Hall was Magnificently Entertained and having stay'd about a Month departed highly satisfied The Kingdoms of England and Scotland that had long continued in bloody Wars were now United by both their consents in their Representatives on a foundation advantagious to either Nation and so it has ever since continued The Duke of Juliers about this time dying the Dukes of Newburg and Brandenburg strove for that Dutchey but whilst they weakly contended Spain more powerful resolved to take it from them both seizing on the City of Juliers the principal place of the Province which obliged King James at the States of the Netherlands supplication to send 4000 English under the Command of Sir Edward Cecill and Sir Hatton Cheek by whose Valour it was chiefly Reduced Soon after Henry the Fourth of France was Stabbed in his Coach by one Ravilliack passing the Ironmongers-street in Paris for which the Murtherer was pulled to pieces with Burning Pincers yet could not be compelled to tell who set him on that wicked Enterprize and King James startled with this untimely Death put out a Second Proclamation to Banish the Jesuits out of the Kingdom and all Popish Recusants Ten Miles from the Court. The Lord Sanquire a Scotish Baron having his Eye put out by one Turner a Fencing-master in White-Fryars in revenge hired two Persons to Murther him for which he was Hanged before Westminster-Hall-Gate in the Palace-Yard and Dyed very penitently tho' great intercession was made to save him And the Queen of Scots Beheaded in the foregoing Reign was by the Kings order removed from Peterborough to Westminster and there magnificently Interred and soon after the Elector Palatine of the Rhin● came into England and Married the Lady Elizabeth the Kings Daughter But the splendour of the Nuptials were Eclipsed by the Death of Prince Henry the Kings Eldest Son which happened a little before the Weding not without suspicion of Poison as some have it by the Scent of Perfumed Gloves others by eating a Bunch of Grapes but the Disease affecting mostly the Brain it carried him