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A51537	A most choice historical compendium fitted for the use of all ingenious and inquisitive persons who are curious to know what wonderfull events have come to pass for almost 1000 years, under the figure 8, from 818 to 1688 inclusive : wherein is briefly comprised, the life and death, rise and fall of kings, queens, noblemen, clergymen, warriors and several famous poets : with many other curious remarks and observations, not here mention'd / written in a plain method, by A.M., Gent.	A. M., Gent.	1692 (1692)	Wing M3; ESTC R9727	48,168	167

beginning of King James Rob. de Leic a Frank in Oxford was one that brought Preaching into fashion in that Age He wrote of the Hebrew and Roman Chronological Computation He died at Lichfield 1348. Sir John Philpot whose Family hath long resided in Vpton-Court in Kent was bred a Grocer in London whereof he was Mayor 1378. He set forth a Fleet in the Reign of ● 2. at his own cost to repress the Insolence of one John Mercer a Scot who was taken with all his Ships and rich Plunder therein Two Years after he conveyed an English Army into Britain in Ships of his own hiring and with his own Money released more than 1000 Arms there which the Soldiers had formerly engaged for their Victuals The Nobility accused him for acting without a Commission yea pro tantorum sumptuum pr●mio veniam vix obtinuit That is He searcely obtained his Pardon by a great charge and by r●ward and gifts Sir Hugh Calvely born at Calvely in Cheshire of whom 't is said He could feed as much as two and fight as much as ten men his strong Appetite would digest any thing but an injury so that killing a Man is reported the cause of quitting his Country and going for France where he became such an excellent Soldier that he converted the most difficult Atchievements into easie performances by martial Valour He was one of 30 English in France who in a Duel encountered as many Britains He revenged the Blood of the English who whilst his hands were tied behind him were slain before his Face An. ult E. 3. 'T was he that after an unfortunate Voyage of the English Nobility An. 1. R. 2. took Barkbulloign and 25 other French Ships besides the Castle of Mark lately lost and by him recovered and the next Year he spoiled Estaples with the Plunder of which he inriched the Calicians He married the Queen of Arragon whose Arms are quartered on his Tomb. He died 1388. John Booth Bachelor of Law was consecrated Bishop of Exeter An. 6. Ed. 4. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in its Cathedral which hath not his equal in England but the sofest Cushion belonging to it was taken away when Bishop Vescy alienated the Lands thereof When the Bishop had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein such were the troubles arising from the Wars between York and Lancast therefore retiring to his private Habitation at Horsley in Hampshire He died 1478. and was buried in St. Clement Danes in London There was an elder Brother Sir Rog. Booth of Barton in Lincolnshire Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevil third Earl of Westmoreland Theorithoid a holy Nun at Barkin in Essex after her death was reputed a Saint She died 678. This Nunnery was valued 1000 l. yearly rent at the dissolution in Henry 8. Sim of Gaunt born in London was preferred Bishop of Salisbury by Ed. 1. He gave the first leave to the Citizens thereof to fortifie that place with a Ditch and Walls 1298. And no less was his care of the Church than of the City making good Statutes whereby it was ordered even unto our Age. Henry eldest Son to King John born at Winchester An. 1208. was a pious but poor King He was at first postponed to King Lewis of France afterwards imbroiled with the Barons Wars and imprisoned yet at last he obtained a comfortable old Age by the means of his Son Prince Edward He would be governed by those he knew wiser than himself the main cause of his peaceable death and pompous burial in the Abbey of Westminster of his own foundation Philip de Repton became D. D. in Oxford a great Asserter of the Doctrine of Wickliff but he recanted and became a Persecutor wherefore he was termed by those he molested Rampington He was made Abbot of Leicester Chancellor of Oxford Bishop of Lincoln An. 1408. and was created by Pope Gregory 12. Card. of St. Nerius c. though he had solemnly sworn he would make no more Cardinals 'till the Schism in Rome were ended He resigned his Bishoprick after 12 Years possession Will. White a Wicklevite and the first married Priest since the Pope's solemn prohibition thereof was constant to his calling and was as a Partridge daily on the Wing removing from place to place he was seized condemned and burnt at Norwich 1428. As for Marian Martyrs those in this Shire suffered either by the cruelty of Griffin Bishop of Rochester or Thornton Suffragan of Dover William Gray Son to the Ld. Gray of Codnor was as honourable He first studied in Baliol Coll. in Oxford then at Ferrara in Italy where he was an Auditor of Guarinus of Verona He was made by H. 6. Pro●urator in the Court of Rome and was freely elected to the Bishoprick of Ely by Edw. 4. He was Lord Treasurer the last Clergy Man that ever was preferred to that Office until Bishop Juxton in our days enjoyed it He died 1478. and lies buried in the Church of Ely Will. Caxton of Caxton a diligent and learned Man bred beyond the Sea and lived 30 Years in the Court of Mary Dutchess of Burgundy Sister to K. Edw. 4. He continued Polychronicon unto the end of that King with good Judgment and Fidelity He collected and printed all Chaucers Works and on many accounts deserved well of Posterity and died 1488. Stephen Brown Grocer was born at Newcastle afterwards Knighted and made Lord Mayor of London 1438. In which Year happened a great Famine caused much by unseasonableness of Weather but more by some huckstering Husbandmen who may be properly called Knaves in Grain Sir Stephen sent some Ships to Dantzick whose seasonable return with Rye suddenly sunk Grain to reasonable rates whereby many a languishing Life was preserved He was one of the first Merchants who in want of Corn shewed the Londoners the way to the Barn-Door I mean into Spruceland Edw. Fox born in Duresly in Gloucestershire was Almoner to King H. 8. he first brought Dr. Cranmer to the knowledge of the King He was afterwards Bishop of Hereford and was the principal Pillar of the Reformation as to the managerie of the politick part thereof Of the many Books he wrote that De differentia utriusque potestatis was his master-piece He was imployed on several Embassies into France and Germany and died Anno 1538. Mary Groy the youngest Daughter of Henry Duke of Suffolk frighted with the infelicity of her two elder Sisters forgot her honour to remember her safety and married one whom she could love and none need fear Martin Kayes of Kent Esq Serjeant-Porter and died without Issue 20. Ap. 1578. James Goldwel born at great Chart in Kent was Dean of Salisbury Secr. to Edw. 4. and at last Bishop of Norwich He repaired the Church of great Chart and founded a Chapel on the South-side thereof he died 1598. His Brother Thomas by Qu. Mary was preferred Bishop of St. Davids and in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth he went to Rome where

with due commendation so long as either Ingenuity or Learning are fashionable in our Nation He died An. 1638 and was buried in the Abby Church of Westminster under a small Stone with this Inscription O rare Ben. Johnson Sir Robert Car Son to Thomas Laird of Fumhurst in the South of Scotland who being active for Mary Queen of Scots was thereupon forced to fly to York was born in this City 'T is reported that his first making at Court was by breaking his Leg at Tilting in London whereby he came first into the cognizance of K. James who reflected on him whose Father had been a kind of Confessor for the cause of the Queen his Mother besides the young Gentleman had a handsom Person and a conveniency of desert Honours were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Somerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. He was a good natur'd Man doing himself more hurt than any Man else but yet much harm to others viz. Sir Tho. Overbury lost the favour of this Earl by dissuading him from keeping Company with a Lady Wife of another Person of Honour to whom afterwards he was married her first Husband still living Earl of Essex and had a Child by her a Daughter who was afterwards married to a Person of Honour but Sir Tho. Overbury under a pretence for refusing to be sent Ambassador to Russia was sent to the Tower and his strict restraint encouraged his Enemies to practise his death which was by Poison effected for which divers were executed the Earl had the sentence of death which by K. James contrary to his word was never executed but gave him a lease of so many years as a pardon for his Life though he was banished the Court lived privately even from the sight of his Wife and in much sorrow and grief died An. 1638. In this year 1638. Lewis XIV King of France was born or rather per ignotam illicitam viam by that politick and governing Cardinal sent into the World to be a Plague to all Christendom a spoiler and robber of his own Country a troubler of the Gallican-Clergy a great opposer of his Infallible Holiness a severe and cruel Tormenter of the Hugonots first eating and plundering their Goods by his Booted Apostles his Dragoons and then unmercifully abusing their Bodies by Wounds Irons Whippings Prisons Famine and Death it self but without burial which by us is never denied to any Roman-Catholick He governs all his Vassals and Slaves that should be his Subjects by his will rigour and injustice and when they have got any thing for their own Family the King's Officers take it for their Master and there is no remedy for this general contagion But yet let me inform you of one piece of good nature that is rooted fast to him tho' he resists the Pope he loves the Turk and much condemns the Emperor for fighting against him and the French K. has many times lately assured his Brother the Turkish Emperor That he will divert all his Enemies that is all Christian Princes from invading his Countrey by his own powerful Armies And pray do not think much of these his strange and extravagant expressions for he hopes as there is but one King of Heaven so there will be but one on Earth and that must be a French one There was also in this year 1638. a many little Devils called the Covenanters in Scotland gathered into a riotous Body and chused David Leisley for their General and sollicited France for aid and though it took little effect yet you may learn that the Scotch were always great lovers of the English Their Covenant consisting of 666 words the mark of the Beast was set on Foot and every one willing or not swallowed it down by the help of labouring Preachers the Covenanters All this was but a preparative for their coming into England which they did the next year and according to their Covenant to settle the King in his Throne in Peace and Honour and make him a Glorious King which contrary to their Covenant by Perjury falsehood and selling his Person was accomplished in an 1648. next to be observed being a year full of wonder and horrour but before we give an account of that take notice there was four persons concerned in a Tumult in Moor-fields pretending to reform by pulling down Baudy Houses on the Easter Holidays who was sentenced and executed as Traytors May 9. 1638. I wish the Mobile in these our days were well informed of this late action Now also in this year take in John Lilburn the Quaker who was whipped at a Carts Tayle in Febr. 1638. Anno 1648. At Preston in Anderness Duke Hamilton Aug. 7th entred England with an Army Most beheld him as one rather cunning than wise yet rather wise than valiant however he had Officers what did ●ken the geat of fighting as wool as ony of oor Age. He would accept of no English assistance Their Van and their Rear were many miles asunder and they met the resistance of Major General Lambert before they expected it He at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a blow as stunned it though it reeled on some miles more Southward into Staffordshire Where at Vlcester the Duke was taken Prisoner and utterly defeated and afterwards made a Prisoner in the Tower and then condemned and executed with the Lord Capel which is the next to be taken notice of Arthur Capel Esq of Hadham Hartf was by Ch. I. Created Baron 1641. after the surrender of Oxford he retired to his House from whence he went to Colchester His Loyalty to his Master was proof against all Batteries and Sollicitations of his Enemies He was sent Prisoner to the Tower by the Parliament which was butindeed but a part of the Dom. Com. He escaped from the Tower in Feb. but was retaken and sent back and the next day an Act made for his Tryal and being condemned was beheaded 1648. undaunted on the Scaffold Hence one alluding to his Arms a Lyon Rampant in a Field Gules betwixt three Crosses made these following Lines Thus Lyon like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood He wrote a book of Meditation wherein judicious Piety is discovered he was Grandfather to this present Earl of Essex The Earl of Holland was executed at the same time with this Noble Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton March 9th an 1648. And now give me leave to bring in a Murder without any former precedent and I hope none will be so wicked and horrid as to think of the like fact for the future Char. the I. our Lawful and good King was taken from his own House at Holdenby in Northamptonshire and carried to Childersley by Cornet Joice then to Roysten Hatfield Windsor Hampton-Court this was done in May and June Then the King escaped to the Isle of Wight but stay'd not long before he was brought back and Jan. 4. an Ordinance was engrossed and read for

Chastity either in Man or Woman ought by Gods Laws to be observed 5. That private Masses were necessary for the people and agreeable to the Law of God 6. That Auricular Confession was expedient to be retained and continued in the Church of God Now I hope none will deny that what mischief and confusions ensued and caused by him as the Papists deeply condemn him for to this day and tell us our Religion came out of his That he lived and dyed as severe a Roman Catholick as any of them hath shewed themselves in this our Age. And for his Wives he was dextrous in changing beheading one of them and the very next day marrying another but hear him on his death bed speaking thus Three Kates two Nans and one dear Jane I wedded One Spanish one Dutch and four English Wives From two I was divorced two I beheaded One dyed in Childbirth and one me survived They that will be more and better informed of this King's Reign let them read his Life written by that excellent and learned Lord Herbert Sir Tho. Offley of Cheshire bred a Merchant Taylor in London whereof he became Lord Mayor in his Mayoralty he began the custom of Night Bellmen He was the Zacheus of London for his high Charity bequeathing the half of his Estate being 5000 pound to the poor though he had children of his own yea he appointed that 200 l. left to his Son Hen. should be taken out of the other half and imployed to charitable uses Mr. Hugh Offley Leather-Seller Sheriff of London An. 1588. gave 600 pound to the City to put forth young men Mr. Rob. Brother to Hugh gave 600 pound for 24 young men in Chester whereof 12 were Apprentices On the first of these I suppose these Rhimes were made Offley three dishes had of dayly Roast An Egg an Apple and the third a Toast Feasting himself moderately that he might feed others by his bounty Miles Coverdaile of Yorkshire became an Augustine Fryer but afterwards quitting that profession he went into Germany he laboured greatly in translating the Bible and writing other books He was made D. D. at Tubing and returning into England was made Bishop of Exeter by K. Edw. 6. An. 1. Mary he was deposed though saved from Martyrdom by the mediation of Fred. King of Denmark being enlarged he went over into Germany whence in the Reign of Queen Eliz. he returned into England but not to Exeter He was one of those that solemnly consecrated Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth He dyed 1588. and lies buried in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange London Sir Christ Wray Knight was born in the Parish of Bedal Yorkshire which made his Daughter Frances Countess of Warwick scatter her benefactions thicker in that place His Ancestors came out of Cornwal where his name is right ancient being bred in the Law he was by Q. Eliz. made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench he was moved with no fear but that of the Judge of the world he was pro tempore Lord privy Seal and sat chief in the Court when Secretary Davison was sentenced in the Star Chamber concurring with the rest of the Commissioners to lay a Fine on him His benefaction to Magdalen college in Cambridge was both bountiful and seasonable This worthy Judge dyed May 8th 1588. Rob. Crowley of Northamptonshire bred in Oxford confuted Miles Hogheard who writ against the poor Protestants He fled to Frankford in Queen Mary's days and in the Reign of Queen Eliz. was made Vicar of St. Giles without Cripplegate London where he lies buried having dyed 1588. Cock was in 1588. a Cock of the Game being the only man of note amongst the English who fighting a Volunteer in his own Ship lost his life to save his Queen and Country Sir John Howard of Barkshire Kt. Son to Sir Rob. Howard soon after was created a Baron by Edw. IV. and Duke of Norfolk by K. Rich. III. as Kinsman and one of the Heirs of Anne Dutchess of York and Norfolk whose Mother was one of the Daughters of Tho. Mowbray D. of Norfolk Soon after he lost his Life in Bosworth-Field in the quarrel of him who had given him his Honour From him descended the noble and numerous Family of the Howards of whom 4 Earls viz. Arundel Nottingham Suffolk and Barkshire and 2 Barons viz. Mowbray and Escrick sat in the last Parliament of K. Charles I. Verstegan the great Antiquary will have their Name to be Holdward Keeper of a Castle or Trust and they have well answered unto their Name Did not Tho. Howard Earl of Surrey well hold his ward by Land when in the Reign of Henry VIII he conquered the Scots in Flodden-Field and took James the 4th their King Prisoner And did not Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham hold his ward by Sea in 1558 when the Armado was defeated William Howard Son to Thomas D. of Howard was by Queen Mary created Baron of Effingham and made Lord-Admiral of England He was one of the first favourers and furtherers of the discovery of Russia He died 1548. whose Son Charles succeeded his Father in the Admiralty an hearty Gentleman and cordial to his Soveraign of a most proper Person one reason why Queen Elizabeth reflected so much upon him The first evidence he gave of his prowess when the Emperors Sister the spouse of Spain with a Fleet of 130 Sail passed the narrow Seas his Lordship accompanied with 10 Ships only environed their Fleet and enforced them to stoop Gallant and strike Sail. In 88. at the first news of the Spaniards approach he towed at a Cable with his own hands to draw out the harbour-bound Ships into the Sen. He was Commander of the Sea Forces at the taking of Cadiz and for his good service there he was made Earl of Nottingham He resigned his Admiralty in the Reign of K. James to the D. of Buckingham and died not long after D. of Medina Sidonia Admiral of the Spanish Fleet An. 88. beholding Mount Edgcomb in Cornwall that belongs to Sir Rich. Edgcomb who at one time for some good space gave Entertainment to the English Spanish and Dutch Admirals and many other Nobles at Mount Edgcomb a square Structure having a stately Hall affording a delicate sound as one entreth it a Parlour and Dining-Room giving a large prospect both of Sea and Land It is near Plimouth the Ground about it being stored with Wood Timber Fruit Deer and Conies sufficient Pasture Meadow and Arable Land Marle Stone c. and of an high situation And this Medina was so much in love with it was resolved to have it for his own possession in the partage of this Kingdom which should have been in 88. And here I think it very necessary before we proceed any further to make a small description of this Spanish Invasion called The Invincible Armado which put England into such a consternation when it should have been invaded in the Reign of Q. Eliz.