of his Estate and gave the King and others what remained thereof not regarding Sir H. Grey his Brother by a 2 d. Venter of Wrest in this County who therefore declined the Honour Thus the Earldom of Kent lay asleep in the Family of the Greys almost 50 years viz. from 15. H. 8 till 13 of Queen Eliz. when she advanced Reginald Grey Grandfather to Sir H. Grey aforesaid who had Recruited himself with Revenues to be Earl of Kent An. 1571. Reginald dying Childless within the year Hen. his Brother the Subject of our present description succeeded to this Honour A Person truly Noble expending the Income of his own Estate and his Ladies Joynture Mary the Relict of Edw. E. of Darby in Hospitality He was a Cordial Protestant on the same Token that being present at the Execution of Queen of Scots when she requested the Nobility there to stand by and see her Death he fearing something of Superstition hardly assented thereunto On the other side he was as far removed from Faction deserving the Character given him by Mr. Cambd. A Person highly Honoured with all the Ornaments of true Nobility He left no Issue except some will behold him in some sort Parent of Sidney-Coll in Camb. as one of the Executors to the Foundress thereof who both proved and improved her Will besides her Personal Benefaction thereunto And being the Surviving Executor he did Perpetuate the Fellowships formerly Temporary according to his Trust He dyed An. 1613. Fr. Cleark Knight born at Eaton-soton in the Lordship called the Paersonage A Noble Benefactor to Sidney-Coll augmenting all the Scholarships of the Foundation and erecting a fair Range of Buildings So skilful he was that he computed to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing thereof He founded four new Fellowships The Gift was felt before the Giver a meer Stranger was seen He dyed An. Dom. 163. Memorable Persons A Woman lived dyed and is buried at Dunstable where is her Epitaph who had 19 Children at 5 Births viz. 3.3.3.5 and 5. Noted Sheriffs The Family of the Blundells whereof Sir Edw. Blundel behaved himself right Valiantly in the Expedition to the Isle of Ree Rich. Basset and Albericus de Veer The last of whom was made monarch M. 2. by Maud the Emp. E. of Oxford And the first was his under-Sheriff in this County Hen. de Essex Bar. de Raleigh in Ess and Hereditary Standard-bearer of England He in the Battle at Coleshul in Flintsh between the English and the Welsh casting away his Courage and Banner together occasioned a great overthrow of the English and was therefore challenged in Combat by Rob. de Momford Knight and by him overcome in Duel His Inheritance was forfeited to the King and he himself made a Honourable Retreat into a Convent and under a Coul betwixt Shame and Sanctity blushed out the Remainder of his Life Dav. Archdeacon whose Ancestors probably having been Ecclesiasticks left him that Surname Rob. Braybrook and Hen. Fil. Hen. Br. and Rob. Pater monarch K. Jo. A loving Reciprocation of Sheriff and under Sheriff betwixt Father and Son Under-Sheriff to his Father that was his Duty Under-Sheriff to his Son that was his Courtesie Indeed I can Name one under-Sheriff to his own Father being a Gent. of right Worthy Extraction and Estate which Son afterwards became Lord Ch. Justice and Treasurer of England Edward Eldest Son to the King A great Honour to this Shire and Buck. where he was Sheriff for five years together monarch H. 3. Yea the Imperial Crown found him in that Office when it fell unto him Barthol de Fowen being under-Sheriff Th. Hoo. A famous Man whom King Hen. 6 made Knight of the Garter and Lord Hoo and Hastings monarch H. 6. He left four Daughters thus Married 1. Anne to Sir Jeffrey Bullen 2. Eleanor to Sir Rich. Carew 3. Jane to Rob. Cople Esquire 4. Eliz. to Sir Jo. Devenish From the first of these was Queen Eliz. descended Some of the issue Male were lately extant in Hartfordshire Jo. Wenlock was returned Knight of the Town of his Principal Residence to the Parl. 12. H. 6. and afterwards created Bar. of Wenlock and Knight of the Garter fought Valiantly and lost his Life in the Battle of Teuxbury He dyed without Issue and his Estate came to E. 4. From his Cousin and Heir-general the Lauleys in Shropshire are descended Sir Jo. St. John Knight Father Son and Grandson were of the same Name and Dignity The Father monarch H. 7. Sheriff in the time of H. 7. was Son to Sir Oliver St. John by Marg. Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Jo. Beauchamp She was afterwards Married to Jo. D. of Somerset to whom she bare Margaret Mother to King Hen. 7. Will. Gascoine was a younger Brother of Ganthorp-house in Yorkshire and was setled at Cardington in this County by marrying the Inheretrix thereof He was afterwards twice Sheriff under H. 8. Knighted and Comptroller of the House of Cardinal Woolsey A rough-Man preferring rather to profit than please his Master The Prelates Wisdom knowing Thrift to be the Fuell of Magnificence often advised with this his Servant His Name and Estate are Extinct in this County Jo. Mordant Ar. of Ancient Extraction monarch H. 8. married one of the Daughters and Heirs of Hen. Vere of Addington in Northamptonshire By Aged Persons he was remembred by the Name of John of the Woods I was born under the shadow and felt the warmth of them So great a Master was he of Timber in that County besides large Possessions in Essex and elsewhere King Hen. 8. owning him deservedly for a Wise Man created him Bar. Mordant of Turvey Will. Windsor Knight descended from Walt. Fitz Otho Castle keeper of Windsor in the time of Will the Conquerour and was by King H. 8. created Bar. Windsor of Bradenham in Buckinghamshire Ancestor to the present Lord Windsor descended from him by an Heir general so that Hickman is his Surname Fr. Russel Knight Son to Jo. Lord Russel afterwards Earl of Bedford monarch E 6. Succeeding his Father in his Honour so great was his Hospitality that Queen Eliz. was wont to say of him That he made all the Beggars He founded a small School at Wobourn and dying in great Age and Honour was buried at Cheneys 1585. Oliver St. John Ar. By Queen Eliz. made Lord St. John of Bletso in this County and left two Sons who succeeded him to this Honour First John whose only Daughter Anne was married to Will Lord Esfingham was Mother to Eliz. now Count. Dowager of Peterborough his Second Son Oliver blessed with a Numerous Issue and Ancestor to the present Earl of Bullingbrook Will. Dormer Knight was Son to Rob. by Jane Newdigate his Wife monarch Q Ma. He had by Mary Sidney his Wife a Daughter married to the Count of Feria when he came over hither with King Phil. This Count under pretence to visit his Sick Lady remaining here did very earnestly move a Match
Rector of Tharfield in Hartford He was an excellent Hebrician He dyed 163. Samuel Ward was born at Haveril where his Father had been a Famous Minister according to his Epitaph Quo si quis scivit scitius Aut si quis docuit doctius At rarus vixit sanctius Et nullus tonuit fortius Grant some of knowledge greater store More Learned some in teaching Yet few in Life did Lighten more None thundered more in Preaching Sam. was bred in Sidn Colledge in Cambridge and became a great Scholar and excellent Preacher Being Minister in Ipswich he gained the Affections of the people by the tender care he had of them yet he had his Foes as well as Friends who complained of him to the High Com. where he met with some molestation He had three Brethren and it was said that these four put together would not make up the abilities of their Father nor were they offended with this Hyperbole One of them lately dead followed the Counsel of the Poet Ridentem dicere verum Quis vetat having in a jesting way delivered much smart truth of the times Sam. dyed 163. Jo. Boise born at Elmeseth bred in Cambridge was of the Quorum in Translating the Bible and whilst Chysostome lives Mr. Boise shall not dye such his learned pains on him in the Edition of Sir H. Savil. He dyed about the beginning of the Civil Wars Romish Exile Writers Robert Southwell wrote many Books and was reputed a dangerous Enemy to the State for which he was Imprisoned and Executed March 3. 1595. Benefactors to the Publick Elizabeth third Daughter of Gilb. Earl of Clare and Wife to Jo. Burgh Earl of Vlster in Ireland had her greatest Honour from Clare in this County She Founded Clare-Hall in Cambridge an 1343. Sir Simon Eyre born at Brandon first an Vpholster then a Draper in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1445 on his own cost built Leaden-Hall for a common Garner of Corn to the City He left 5000 Marks to charitable uses He dyed Sept. 18. an 1459. and is buried in the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard-Street London Th. Spring the rich Clothier was born I believe at Laveham He built the Carved Chappel of Wainscot on the North side of the Chancel as also the Chappel at the South side of the Church He dyed 1510 and lyeth buried in his own Chappel Since the Reformation W. Coppinger was born at Bucks-hall in this County where his Family flourisheth in good esteem He was bred a Fishmonger in London whereof he became Lord Mayor 1512. He gave the half of his great Estate to pious uses I am sorry to see this Gentleman's ancient Arms substracted in point of honour by the addition of a superfluous Bordure Sir W. Cordal Knight had a fair Estate in Long-Melford and was well descended He became a Barrister Speaker of the Parliament and Privy Counsellour and Master of the Rolls to Queen Mary He founded a fair Almshouse at Melford and left a large allowance to the poor for Diet and Cloaths He continued Master of the Rolls till the day of his death 23 Eliz. Sir Robert Hicham Knight and Serjeant at Law born at or near Nacton purchased the Mannor of Framlingham from the Earl of Suffolk and entered into the same after great and many intervening Obstacles He left a great part of his Estate to pious uses and principally to Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge He dyed a little before the beginning of the Civil Wars Memorable Persons Jo. Cavendish Esq born at Cavendish was servant to Richard 2. when Wat Tyler played Rex in London whom he in assistance of Sir W. Walworth Lord Mayor of London dispatched by giving two or three mortal wounds The beginning of the bustle was that Wat took it mightily in dudgeon that Sir Jo. Newton did not make a mannerly approach to him upon which the said Lord arrested Wat and wounded him with his Dagger Hence the Arms of London were augmented with a Dagger King Richards discretion appeared very much in appeasing the tumult which happened 1381. Sir Th. Cook Knight and Sir W. Capel Knight born the first at Lavenham the later at Stoke-Neyland were bred Drapers in London and were Lord Mayors of the City Sir Will. is reported after a large entertainment for King Henry 7. to have burnt many Bonds in which the King stood obliged to him and at another time to have drank a dissolved Pearl which cost him many hundreds in an Health to the King Sir Th. was in danger of his Life for lending Money in the Reign of K. Edw. 4 Both dyed in Age Honour and Riches these transmitted to their Posterity The Cooks flourishing at Giddy-hall and the Capels at Hadham in Hartford Note Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Capel was Married to Sir W. Pawlet Marquess of VVinchester and Mildred descended from Sir Th. Cook to VV. Cecil Lord Burleigh both their Husbands being Lord Treasurers of England Sir Tho. lyeth buried in the Church of Augustine Friars in London Sir VV. Capel in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange Noted Sheriffs Q. Eliz. An. 18. Jo. Higham Arm. the ancient Sirname of the Lords Montaign in France was descended from Sir Clem. a Potent Knight 20. Robert Jermin a pious Man and a great Benefactor to Emanuel Colledge and a potent man was Father to Sir Th. Privy Councellor and Lord Chamberlain to King Charles I. Grandfather to Tho. and Hen. Esq the younger of these being Lord Chamberlain to our present Queen Mary and sharing in her Majesties sufferings was by King Charles II. made Baron and Earl of St. Albans 23. Nich. Bacon Mil. was the first Baronet in England 36. Tho. Crofts Arm. was Grandfather to Crofts who was created Baron Crofts by K. Cha. II. Sir Simond Dewes was Grandfather to Adrian descended from the Lords of Kessel in Gelderland who came thence in the time of their Civil Wars in the Reign of Henry 8. He was bred in Cambridge and became a great Antiquary He observed that the Ordinances of the late long Parliament did in Bulk and Number exceed all the Statutes made since the Conquest He dyed about 1653. SURREY SVrrey hath Middlesex on the North Kent on the East Sussex on the South Hant and Bark-shire on the West It is very near a Square of 22 Miles the Skirts whereof are fruitful and the inward parts barren though generally the Air be clear and the ways clean Here is the most and best Fullers Earth digged up near Rygate It is worth four pence a Bushel at the Pit and the Transportation thereof is prohibited The County likewise affords good Trouts and VVall-nuts and the best Box growing about Darking In this Shire there is the best Gardening for Profit King James about the end of his Reign gave 2000 pounds to Sir Francis Crane to build a House at Morelack for setting up a Manufacture of Tapestry and one Francis Klein a German was the designer thereof and united the Italian and Dutch perfections
Lords of the Privy Council at Dublin of whom Bishop Coren a Principal produced a Card for his Commission and was imprisoned for the affront After his enlargement he was very willing to make a reparation by getting the Commission renewed in England but was prevented by the Queens death Bishop Coren conformed with the first to the Reformation of Queen Elizabeth being ever sound in his heart He was for some time Chief Justice and Chancellour of Ireland till he quitted all his Dignities in Exchange for the Bishoprick of Oxford which being attended with more quiet was more welcome to him in his old Age. He dyed 1567. Barnaby Potter was born within the Barony of Kendal 1578. and bred in Queens Colledge in Oxford whereof he became Provost He was Chaplain in Ordinary to Prince Charles being accounted at Court the Penitential Preacher and by King Charles I. was preferred Bishop of Carlile He was commonly called the Puritanical Bishop and they said of him in the time of King James that Organs would blow him out of the Church which I do not believe the rather because he loved Vocal Musick and could bear his own part therein He was a constant Preacher and performer of Family duties of a weak Constitution Melancholly lean and a hard Student He dyed in Honour being the last Bishop that dyed a Member of Parliament 1642. Statesmen Sir Edward Bellingham Knight of an Ancient and Warlike Family was Servant of the Privy Chamber to King Edward 6. who sent him over Deputy of Ireland He first extended the English pale proceeding against the Irishry in a Martial course by breaking the Moors and Connors two Rebellious Sexts He built the Forts of Leix and Offaly to secure his new Acquisition and had setled the English Plantations therein had he not been suddenly revoked before two years were expired His Souldiers never knew whither they went till they were come whither they should go Thus he surprized the rude Earl of Desmond brought him to Dublin reformed him in Civility sometimes making him to kneel an hour together before he knew his Duty till he became a new man in his behaviour This Earl all his Life after highly honoured him and at every Meal would pray to God for good Sir Edward Bellingham When the Deputy returned into England he cleared himself of many faults laid to his charge recovering the King's favour and had been sent over Deputy again save that he excused himself by indisposition of Body and dyed not long after Writers Richard Kendal an excellent Grammarian and Schoolmaster extracted a Quintessence from a vast number of Latine Grammars and boasted like a conceited Pedant that Latine only to be elegant which was made according to his Rules He flourished under Henry 6. Since the Reformation Bernard Son of Edward Gilpin Esquire was born at Kentmire 1517. and bred in Queens Colledge in Oxford He disputed against Mr. Hooper who was afterwards Martyred when indeed he did follow his Argument with his Affections He afterwards became a zealous Protestant He was Rector of Houghton in the North and boarded in his house 24 Scholars the greater number poor mens Sons upon whom he bestowed Meat Drink Cloth and Education He kept a Table for his Parishioners every Sunday from Michaelmas to Easter He commended a Marryed life in Clergy-men himself living and dying a Batchelour He bestowed 500 pounds in the building and endowing of his School He was accounted a Saint in the Judgments of his very Enemies if he had any such Being full of Faith and good works he was put in his Grave as a heap of Wheat in due time swept into the Garner dying March 4. 1583. Aet 66. Richard Mulcaster of ancient Extraction was born in this County or Cumberland and bred in Kings Colledge in Cambridge afterwards in Oxford He was chosen the first Master of Merchant Taylors School in London where his Scholars profited so well that the Merchant Taylors intended to fix him as his Desk to their School till death should remove him This he perceived and therefore gave for his Motto Fidelis servus perpetuus Asinus but after 25 years he was made Master of Pauls School Such his Discipline that the Indulgence of Parents rather encreased then mitigated his severity on their offending Children He was Plagosus Orbilius and which quallified the matter unpartial Amongst the many excellent Scholars which he bred Bishop Andrews was most remarkable At last quitting the place he became Parson of Stanford Rivers and dyed about the middle of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Christopher Potter D. D. Kinsman to Bishop Potter was bred in and Provost of Queens Colledge in Oxford He was Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles I. and Dean of Worcester one of a sweet nature comely Presence courteous Carriage devout Life and deep Learning He wrote an excellent Book Entituled Charity mistaken answered by a Jesuit against whom Mr. Chillingworth took up the Cudgels He dyed in the beginning of the Civil War Benefactors to the Publick Robert Langton and Miles Spencer Doctors of Law joyntly built a fair School at Appleby Robert was bred in and a Benefactor to Queens Colledge in Oxford owing the Glasing of many Windows therein to his Beneficence on which Windows he caused his Sirname to be made in this manner viz. Long or Lang ton Anne Clyfford sole Daughter and Heir to George Earl of Northumberland Wife to Richard Earl of Dorset then to Philip Earl of Pembrock and Montgomery had her greatest Estate in the North She built and endowed a most beautiful Hospital at Appleby in this County and is still living Memorable Persons Richard Gilpin who was enfeoffed in the Lordship of Kent-mire-hall by the Baron of Kendal for his singular deserts killed the wild Bore that raging in the Mountains adjoyning much endammaged the Country people whence it is that the Gilpins give the Bore in their Arms. Note that in the Reign of King Edward 1. the Hereditary Sherivalty of this County was conferred on the Lord Clifford who married Sibel eldest Daughter to Robert de Vipont Henry Lord Clifford was by Henry 8. an 1525. Created Earl of Cumberland and when Henry the 5th Earl of that Family dyed lately without issue male the Honour of the Hereditary Sherivalty reverted unto Anne the third Daughter of George Clifford the third Earl of Cumberland the Relict of Richard Earl of Dorset and since of Philip Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery by whom she had two Daughters the elder Married to the Earl of Thanet and the younger Married to James Earl of Northampton WILT-SHIRE WIlt-shire hath Glocester-shire on the North Bark-shire and Hamp-shire on the East Dorset-shire on the South and Somerset-shire on the West From North to South it extendeth 39 Miles being in bredth 29. and in circumference 139-miles A pleasant County and of great variety It is plentiful in all English Commodities especially in Wool the Manufacture of Clothing being vigorously pursued and very good Whites made
purchased good Titles made sure Settlements and entail'd Thrift with their Lands on their Posterity Sir Edward Coke hath prevented my Pains and given in a List of such Principal Families 'T is admirable that there is not a great and Numerous House in England wherein there is not one Anciently or at this day Living thriving and flourishing by the Study of the Law Especially if to them be added those who have raised themselves in Courts of Judicature The City hath produced more then the Law in Number and some as broad in Wealth but not so high in Honour nor long lasting in time who like Landfloods soon come and soon gone have been dryed up before this Generation Yet many of these have continued in a certain Channel and carried a constant Stream The Church before the Reformation advanced many Families For tho Bishops might not marry they preferred their Brothers Sons to great Estates as the Kemps in Kent Peckhams in Sussex Wickhams in Hampshire Meltons in Yorkshire Since the Reformation some have raised their Families to a Knightly and Worshipful Estate as Hutton Bilson Dove Neil c. For Sheriffs Sandys in Worcester Cambridgeshire Westphaling in Herefordshire Elmar in Suffolk Rud in Carmarthenshire Of the inferiour Clergy Robert Johnson attain'd such an Estate that his Grandson was Pricked Sheriff of a County but declined the place as being a Deacon The Civil Law hath preferred few The most Eminent in that Faculty before the Reformation being Persons in Orders abstained from Marriage since the Reformation there are Worshipful Families raised thereby The professors of Civil Law were equally Contemned with Gods Ministers during the Civil Wars the Promoters whereof having a constant Pique at all Civility and Order But by the Return of our Brittish Sun those Clouds of Barbarity are dispelled and Regularity of Motion and good Order is introduced into the vast Sphere of his Dominion and the joyful Seasons of Peace and Plenty are by his kindly Influences restored Physick hath promoted more and that since the Reign of King Henry 8. Before whose time there was one a Doctor of Physick Father to Reginald first and last Lord Bray This Faculty hath much flourished the three last fifty years Sir William Buts Doctor Wendy and Doctor Hatcher have raised Worshipful Families thereby Some have rais'd themselves by Sea-service and Letters of Mart. Amongst those most remarkable the Baronets Family of Drakes in Devonshire sometimes Sheriffs there Some have raised themselves by their Attendance at Court here younger Brothers have found their Birth-right Many have advanced themselves by their Valour in Forraign Wars especially in France as the Knolls a Noble Family and the Caveleys often Sheriffs in Cheshire Clothing as it affords Coats to most People so it has given Arms and Gentility to many Families in this Land As on the Springs of High-Sheriffs in Suffolk The Countrey with her two full Breasts of Grasing and Tillage hath raised many Families Some have had two Strings to their Bow As the Chichlies in Cambridgeshire are Descendants from a Lord Major allied also Collaterally to an Arch-bishop of Canterbury We may observe how happy a Liberal Vocation has proved to Younger Brethren with which agree the School-Boys Exposition of these Verses Dat Galenus opes dat Justinianus Honores Cum Genus Species cogitur ire pedes The Study of Physick giveth Wealth The Study of Law giveth Honour When High-birth and Beauty having no other Calling is compelled to go on Foot Barkshire BARKSHIRE hath Wiltshire on the west Hampshire on the South Surrey on the East Oxford and Buckinghamshire on the North. 'T is in Form of a Lute the Belly towards the West the Neck extending to the East In length about forty Miles viz. from Coleshul to Windfor and about twenty Miles in the broadest part Very plentiful of Grass Grain Fish Fowl Wool and Wood c. The Natural Commodities are first Oakes of Trees Barkshire hath abundance in all kinds The Oaks in Windsor-Forrest as all other English Oak are the best 1. for firmness for when entred with Bullet it remaineth firm round about it whilst all the Oak does cowardly split about the passage 2. For convenience of Portage our four principal Forrests lying either on the Sea or Navigable Rivers viz. New-Forrest on the Sea Shire-wood on the Trent Dean on the Severn Windsor-Forrest on the Thames Secondly Bark Whence the Name of this County It is essential for making of good Leather for he that stays for Leather-shooes made without Bark may long time go Bare-foot Thirdly Trouts A dainty Fish being found in the swiftest Streams and on the hardest Gravel Of this kind there are Great and Good in the River of Kennet nigh Hungerford They are best in May and decline with the Buck. After their full growth they decay in goodness tho their Head still thrive Note a Hog-back and little Head is a sign any Fish is in season As for Manufactures the chief is Clothing For the Antiquity of it 1. Cloth is of the same date with the Civility of our Land indeed the Britains went naked which Custom a Beggar continuing gave a reason thereof by saying All my Body is Face 2. Fine narrow Cloth begun about 1. E. III. 3. Broad-cloth wherein the Wealth of England is folded up began in the Reign of Henry 8. Jack of Newbury 't is said was the first that introduced it Minerva was held the Foundress of Weaving so great is the ingenuity thereof For Buildings Windsor-Castle a Royal Seat ever since the Conquest brought to modern Beauty chiefly at the cost of E. 3. It is a Castle for Strength and a Palace for State and hath a Colledge Chappel and Alms-House In this Palace is most remarkable the Hall for Greatness Winchester-Tower for height and the Terrace on the North-side for Pleasure Nor boasteth it so much that it consisteth of two Great Courts as that it contained two Great Kings John of France and David of Scotland Prisoners therein together as also that it was the Seat of the Honourable Order of the Garter Many pleasant Seats are in this County on the Kennet and Thames which seem dutifully to attend at distance on Windsor-Castle as Alder-maston Ingle-field c. For Proverbs One is peculiar to this County viz. The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still Bray is a Village here named from the Bibroges ancient British Inhabitants The Vivacious Vicar living under Henry 8. Edward 6. Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth was a Papist then Protestant then Papist then Protestant again He found the Martyrs fire near Windsor too hot for his Temper and being Taxed for a Turn-coat Not so said he for I always kept my Principle to live and dye the Vicar of Bray General Proverb I. When our Lady falls into our Lords lap Then let England beware of a sad Mishap Al. Let the Clergy-man look to his Cap. This Prophecy about 130 years old implies that the Blessed Virgin offended with
Of them was Privy-Councellor to four Sir Th. Smith Knight born in Abbington bred in the University of Oxf. God and himself raised him to the Eminency he attained unto unbefriended with any Extraction Emulating Sir Th. Smith Senior Secretary of State he had equalled him in Preferment if not prevented by Death This Sir Thomas was Master of the Requests and Secretary to King James He died Nov. 28. 1609. and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex under a Monument erected by his Lady Frances Daughter to William Lord Chandes and since the Countess of Exeter Souldiers Henry Vmpton Knight born at Wadley in this County was Son to Sir Edward Vmpton by Anne the Relick of Jo. Dudley Earl of Warwick and eldest Daughter of Edward Seymor D. of Somerset He was employed by Queen Elizabeth Ambassadour into France where in the Month of May An. 1592. being sensible of some injury offered by the D. of Guise to the Honour of the Queen of England he sent him this Challenge Forasmuch as lately in the Lodging of my Lord Du Mayne and in Publick elsewhere impudently indiscreetly and over boldly you spoke boldly of my Soveraign whose sacred Person here in this County I represent To maintain both by Word and Weapon her Honour which never was called in Question by people of Honesty and Vertue I say you have wickedly lyed by speaking so basely of my Soveraign and you shall do nothing else but lye whensoever you shall dare to tax her Honour Moreover that her Sacred Person being one of the most Complete and Vertuous Princess that lives in this World ought not to be evil spoken of by the Tongue of such a perfidious Traitor to her Law and Country as you are And hereupon I defie you and Challenge your Person to mine with such manner of Arms as you shall like or choose be it either on Horse-back or on Foot Nor would I have you to think any inequality of Person between us I being issued of as great a Race and Noble House everyway as your self So assigning me an indifferent place I will there maintain my Words and the Lie which I gave you and which you should not endure if you have any Courage at all in you If you consent not to meet me hereupon I will hold you and cause you to be generally held for the arrantest Coward and most slanderous Slave that lives in all France I expect your Answer I find not what Answer was returned This Sir Henry dying in the French Kings Camp before Lofear and his Corps brought over was buried in Farrington Church July 8. 1596. He had allowed him a Barrons Heirs because dying Ambassadour Leigier Writers Hugh of Reading quitted his Expectances of a fair Estate and embraced a Monastical life till at last he became Abbot of Reading He is highly commended by the Learned and writ a Book of Questions fetcht from the Scripture Roger of Windsor Chanter of the Convent of S. Albans was the Kings Historian He flourished An. Dom. 1235. Robert Rich Son to Edward and Mabel his Wife Brother of S. Edmund Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was born at Abbington in this County He wrote a Book of the Life Death and Miracles of his Brother and died about the year of our Lord 1250. Richard of Wallingford a Black-Smith's Son was bred at Merton-Colledge in Oxford a Monk at last Abbot of S. Albans where being a good Mathematician especially as to the Mechanick part thereof he made a Clock with much Pain more Cost and most Art Being a Calender as well as Clock shewing the Fixed Stars and Planets the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea c. but my Author did not inform me if the Canonical hours were mark't on the Clock He died An. Dom. 1326. Since the Reformation Henry Bullock probably born in this County where his Name appears in a Worshipful Estate He was bred a Fellow and Doctor of Divinity in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge a general Scholar familiar with Erasmus calling him Bovillum in his Epistles to him At Cardinal Wolsey's instance he wrote against Luther tho otherwise his Affections were biased to the Protestant Party When he died is unknown Will. Twis born at Spene an ancient Roman City bred at New-Colledge in Oxford and there became a General Scholar Good at plain Preaching better at Disputing and best in Living He became Preacher in Spinhamlands Towards his Death he was slighted by Sectaries it being usual for New-lights to neglect those who have born the heat of the Day His Latin Works speak him able in Controversie He was Moderate Prolocutor in the Assembly of Divines And dying in Holborn he was buried at Westminster An. Dom. 164 Will. Lyford born at Peysmer and bred at Magdalen-Coll in Oxf. Proceeded there Batchelour of Divinity 1631. He was also Fellow of that Foundation He was troubled in Conscience for having Resigned his place for Money to his Successour but before his Death he made Restitution He had a comely Countenance and modest Mind a Courteous Carriage and meek Spirit He was afterwards Preacher at Shirburn in Dorsetshire and tho both Pious and Painful he had his share of Obloquie from such factious Persons as could not abide the wholsome Words of sound Doctrine He dyed about 1652 tho his Memory lives in his Learned Works Romish Exile Writers Th. Hyde born at Newbury bred Master of Art in New-Coll in Oxf. was made Canon of Winchester and chief Master of the School there He with Jo. Martial about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. went beyond the Seas This Hyde is Charactered by one of his own profession to be A Man of upright Life of great Gravity and Severity He wrote a Book of Consolation to his Fellow Exile and dyed An. Dom. 1597. Benefactors to the Publick Alfrede the fourth Son to King Athelwolf born at Wantage An excellent Scholar tho he was past 12 years of Age before he knew one Letter He was a Curious Poet an Excellent Musician a valiant and successful Souldier fighting seven Battles against the Danes in one year at last Conquered them and reduced them to the Profession of Christianity He gave the first Institution or according to others the best Instauration to the University of Oxford A Prince who cannot be Painted to the Life without his Loss no Words reaching his Worth He divided 1. every natural day as to himself into 3 parts viz. 8 hours for his Devotion and 8 for Business and the remainder for Sleep and Refection 2. His Revenues into 3 parts one for War a second for his Court and the third for Pious uses 3. His Land into 32 Shires 4. His Subjects into Hundreds and Tithings consisting of 10 Persons mutually Pledges for their Good Behaviour He left Learning where he found Ignorance Justice where he found Oppression and Peace where he found Destraction And having Reigned 34 years he dyed and was buried at Winchester An. 901. He loved Religion more then
of Mean and Honest Parents and bred in Christ-Church in Oxf. where he Studied 16 hours a day for many years together A general Scholar and Exquisite Linguist his Modesty setting the greater Lustre oâ— his Learning His Notes on Doctor Redleys Book of Civil-Law gave the first Testimony of the Pregnancy of his Parts He was first Chapl. of Christ-Church then Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum He dyed 1646. and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxf. His Posthume Works are set out by Jo. Gurgam dedicated to Edw. Bishop Esquire who relieved Gregory in his greatest Distress Sam. Collins Son to Baldwin Preacher Prodigiously Bountiful to the Poor whom Queen Eliz. called constantly Father Collins born and bred at Eaton Hence successively chosen Fellow Provost and Regius Professor of K. Coll. in Camb. Of admirable Wit and Memory and a most fluent Latinist Of his Lectures which he constantly read twice a Week for 40 years together there were not two which did not Critically differ He used all his Friends to decline his Election to the Bishoprick of Bristol as being in profit inferiour to the place he enjoyed In these troublesome times he lost his Church but kept his Choir wherein he dyed about 1651. Will. Oughtred branch'd from a right Ancient Family in the North born and bred in Eaton becamâ— Fell. of K. Coll. and at last Beneficed by Th. Earl Arundel at Albury in Surrey Prince of Mathematicians in our Age and Nation This Aged Simeon had a strong Persuasion that he should behold Christs anointed restored to his Throne which he did to his incredible Joy and then had his Dimittis out of this mortal life June 10. 1660. Romish Exile Writers Th. Dorman born at Amersham Nephew to Th. Dorman a Confessor in the Reign of H. 8. and Cordial Protestant tho through weakness he did abjure the Realm This Th. junior was bred at Barkhamsted-School founded by Doctor Incent in Hartfordshire under Mr. Reeve a Prot. School-master but this Dorman turn'd tail and becoming a great Romanist fled beyond the Seas where he wrote Against Alex. Nowel the English Calvanist He flourished An. 1560. Memorable Persons Jo. Mathew Mercer Son to Th. Mathew was born at Sherington Lord Mayor of London An. Dom. 1490. the first Batchelor that ever was chosen into that Office a singular Example for above 120 years when Sir Jo. Leman also Batchelor enjoyed the same Dignity 1616. Dame Hester Temple Daughter to Miles Sands Esq was born at Latmos and Married to Sir Th. Temple of Stow Baronet She had four Sons and nine Daughters who Married and Multiplyed exceedingly insomuch that she saw 700 Extracted from her Body Which Off-spring if contracted into one place had been enough to have peopled a City of Competent Proportion Noted Sheriffs Jo. Croke Ar. afterwards Knighted monarch Q. Eliz. Son of Sir Jo. Croke one of the six Clerks in Chanc. The Name was assumed by their Ancestors for that of Le Blount which they concealed in the Civil Wars between York and Lanc. As for this Sir John Sher. of Buck. he was fortunate in an Issue happy in the knowledge of our Municipal-Law Of whom Sir Jo. Croke his eldest Son Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parl. 43. Eliz. received this Elogium from her Majesty That he had proceeded therein with such Wisdom and Discretion that none before him had deserved better Rob. Dormer Ar. Jun. 10. 1615. made Baronet by King Ja. and 30 of the same Month Baron Dormer of Wing in this County His Grand-child Robert was An. 4. King Ch. I. created Viscount Ascot and Earl of Carnarvan and lost his Life fighting for him who gave him his Honour in the first Battle of Newbury Being a little before his Death desired to make a Suit to the King he replyed I will not dye with a Suit in my Mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery he had Charles now Earl of Canarvan Edw. Bulstrod Ar. Whose Arms are Ancient viz. S. a Buckhead Ar. attired O. shot the Nose with an Arrow of the 3. headed and featherd of the 2. a Cross patee fitchee betwixt the attire O. Hen. Longvile Ar. Had to his 4 th Son Sir Mich. Longvile who Married Susan sole Daughter to H. Earl of Kent Now when the Issue in a direct line of that Earldom failed in our memory Mr. Selden proved that the Barony of Ruthyn parcel of the Earldom ought to descend to the Son of the said Sir Michael and thereupon he sat as Baron Ruthyn in the late long Parl. His sole Daughter and Heir was Married to Sir Henry Yelverton of Earton in the County of Northampton Baronet a worthy Gent. of fair Estate Benedict Winchcombe whose Arms I represent in gratitude to the Memory of his Ancestor so well deserving of Newbury monarch K Ja. viz. Az. on a Chev. engrail'd between 3 Birds O. as many Cinqfoiles of the 1. on a chief of the 2. a fl de luce between 2. Spears-heads of the 1. Edward Coke Knight the English Trebonianus monarch K. Ch. famous for his Comments on the Common-Law The Court-party to prevent his Election as a Member of Parliament got him prickt Sheriff whose Oath he scrupled to take because amongst other things the Sheriff is bound thereby to prosecute the Lollards wherein the best Christians may be included but no excuse could serve so that his Friends must behold him who had been Lord Chief Justice attend on the Judges of the Assises Francis Cheney Knight A noble Ancient Name There was a Family of the Cheneys flourishing in Kent giving for their Arms Az. 6. Lyons Ramp Arg. a Canton Ermin Of this House was Hen. Cheney High-Sheriff of this County and Bedf. An. 7. Eliz. and not long after created by her Baron of Tuddington in Bedf. tho in his Youth wild and venturous witness his playing at Dice with Hen. 2. King of France from whom he won a Diamond of great worth at a cast and being demanded what shift he would have made to repair himself in case he had lost the cast I have said the young Cheney in an Hyperbolical Brave Sheeps-tails enough in Kent with their Wool to buy a better Diamond then this His reduced Age afforded the befitting fruits of Gravity and Wisdom And this Lord deceased without Issue As for Sir Fr. Cheney Sher. he was Father to Charles Cheney Esquire who by his Exquisite Travelling hath Naturalized Forreign Perfection to himself and is Exemplarily happy in a Vertuous Lady Jane Daughter to the truly Noble Will Marquess of New-Castle and by her of hopeful Posterity Cambridgeshire CAmbridgeshire hath Lincolnshire on the North and Suffolk on the East Essex and Hartfordshire on the South Huntington and Bedfordshire on the West in length 35 in breadth not full 20 Miles Plentiful in Provision the South part of Bread and Beer and the North of Cattle The Grain here is so good that it outselleth
held the Suffragans-Ship under Hen. Beaufort B. of Lincoln He left behind him many Learned Books He flourished under King R. 2. An. 1390. Jo. Skelton See his Character in Norf. Since the Reformation Rich. Crakenthorpe D. D. descended of an Ancient Family bred Fell. in Queens Coll. in Oxf. An. 1. Jac. went over Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent Ambassadour to the King of Denmark Here he attained to a great easiness in the Latine Tongue and kept Correspondency with Persons of Eminent Learning He was an excellent Logician witness his Work in that kind and became Chaplain in Ord. to King Ja. and Rector in Black-Notley in Ess His Posthume Works viz. Vigilius dormitans in defence of Justinian the Emp. and the Answer to the Manifesto of the Arch-bishop of Spalato find an Universal and Grateful Reception Salkeld a Branch of a Worshipful Family bred beyond the Seas either Jesuit or secular Priest Coming over into England to angle for Proselites his Line broke and he was cast in Prison Whence being brought to King Ja. by his Arguments with a Benefice bestowed on him in Som. he became a Protestant He was not a little proud that that King was pleased to Stile him the Learned Salkeld See his true Character in the Book he wrote of Angels He dyed 1638. Gerard Langbain D. D. born at Kirk-Banton bred first Fellow then Provost of Queens Coll. in Oxf. A Skilful Antiquary and ingenious in his Writings In his Works concerning the Dissent of the Gallican Churches from the Council of Trent he makes it appear that the History of that Council is not so compleat as is generally believed He dyed young An. 1657. Benefactors Rob. Eaglesfield Pious and Learned in that Age Chapl. and Confessor to Philippa Queen to King E. 3. founded Queens Coll. in Oxf. for a Provost and 12 Fellows appointing that those of Cumberland and Westm should be proper for Preferment in his Foundation Alledging that those Counties were Desert Places and the Minds of the Inhabitants uncultivated But prevented by Death he only left to this Colledge the Mannor of Renwick in this County with the impropriation of Burgh under Stanmore He ordered that in the Hall they should speak either Latin or French He bequeathed his Colledge to the Honorary Patronage of the Queens of England He dyed about the year 1370. Memorable Persons Maud Daughter of Th. Lord Lucy and Heir of Anth. Lord Lucy and Bar. of Cokermouth the Widow of Gilb. Humphrevile Earl of Angus was the second Wife of Hen. Piercy E. of Northum Who when she saw that she should die without Issue gave to E. Hen. her Husband the Castle and Honour of Cokerworth c. upon Condition that his Issue should bear the Arms of the Lucies viz. G. 3. Lucies or Pikes Hauriant Arg. quartered with their own Arms of the Percies and incorporated into one Coat in effect and for it levyed a fine in the Court of R. 2. This promise the Piercies have bonâ fide performed She dyed about 1382. Noted Sheriffs An. 21. Rob. de Vaus al. de Vaux or de Vallibus a right Ancient Family monarch K. Hen. 2. still extant in this County Beu-Castle Church is thought to have been of their erection This Rob. was Father to Jo. de Vallibus on whose Loyalty and Valour K. Hen. 3. relied The Lord Vaux of Harrowd of Northamton-sh doth hence fetch his Extraction An. 8. Walt Epis. Carliel no great Clerk monarch H. 3. Being made Lord Treasurer of England he avowed his Accounts even when justly charged with 100 pound debt to the Exchequer upon which he resigned his Bishoprick and became a Fryar at Oxf. where he dyed 1248. An. 2. Andr. de Harcla monarch E. 2. behaved himself right handsomely in the Service of King E. 2. especially at the Battle of Borough-bridge where he killed Humph. Bohun Earl of Heref. and took Th. Plantagenet Earl of Lanc. c. Prisoners In reward whereof he was created Earl of Carlile and had the Isle of Man bestowed upon him But he turned Apostate from his Allegiance and lest the Nobility should by secret Sympathy suffer in his disgraceful Death the Earl was first parted from the Man and his Honour severed from his Person by a solemn Degradation having his Knightly Spurs hew'd off which done he was hang'd drawn and quartered 16. Rich. Duke of Glouc. had a Labell for the difference of his Arms monarch E. 4. tho he was but third Son to the King for in his own Ambition he was not only the Eldest but the only Child of his Father as it appeareth by his project not long after to Bastardize both his Brethern And now did he begin to take this County in his way to the Crown by securing it in the time of his Shirivalty in order to his higher Advancement 21. Th. Wharton by H. 8. Created first Lord Wharton of Wharton in Westmerl gave the Scots such a Blow at Solemn Moss that K. Ja. 5. soon after dyed for Sorrow thereof monarch H. 8. The Scots then preferred rather to be taken Prisoners than to fight under their distasted Genera Ol. Saint-clere a Man of Low-birth and Highpride Derbyshire DErbyshire hath Yorkshire on the North Notinghamsh on the East Leic. on the South and Staff and Cheshire on the West The River South Darwent falling into Trent runneth through the middle thereof It is in length 38 Miles and 29 Miles in the broadest part thereof The South and East thereof are very Fruitful whilst the North part called the Peak is Poor above and Rich beneath the Ground Yet is the fair Pasture near Haddon belonging to the Earl of Rutland so Rich that one proferred to surround it with Shillings to purchase it which because to be set Side-ways not Edgeways was refused Of Natural Commodities there is in this County the best Lead in England The Miners as a particular Common-wealth are Governed with Laws peculiar to themselves often confirmed by Act of Parl. Of which Laws one is this 16 E. 1. c. 2. That whosoever Stealeth Oar twice shall be fined and the third time struck through hit Hand with a Knife unto the haft into the Stow and shall there stand untill Death or loose himself by cutting off his Hand As for Buildings there is Chatsworth erected by the Magnificent Lady Eliz. Cavendish Countess of Shrewsbury A Stately Structure upon the Bank of Darwent The Garden on the backside with an Artificial Rock compleateth the place with all Pleasure Of Wonders the Chief is Maim or Mam Tor that is the Mother-Hill from which incredible heaps of Sandy Earth fall yet it is not visibly diminished And Buxtom Well dedicated to St. Anne sending forth both cold and warm Water by which Queen Mary Queen of Scots received much refreshing of which Mr. Hobbs Huc Mater fieri cupiens accedit inanis Plenaque discedit puto nec veniente Marito Where Wives may breed tho desperately Barren Sans Husbands help as Conies in a Warren
born at and a Monk in Girway now Yarrow the most General Scholar of that Age expounded almost all the Bible Translated the Psalms and New-Testament into English and lived a Comment upon those Words Shining as a Light in the World c. Phil. 2.15 Credible Authors report he never went out of his Coll. tho both Cambridge and Rome pretend to his Habitation He dyed An. 734. and his Corps was removed to Durham Confessors Jo. Wickliffe published Opinions distasteful to the Church of Rome and wrote 200 Volumns besides his Translation of the Bible into English Having suffered much Persecution from the Popish Clergy after a long Exile he return'd in safety and dyed at his Living at Lutterworth in Leicestershier An. 1387. His Bones were taken up and burnt 42 years after his Death Prelates I shall begin with four Nevils of Honourable Extraction 1. Ralph Nevil born at Raby Lord Chanc. under King Hen. 3. and Bishop of Chichester 1223. built a fair House for himself and his Successors in Chancery-lane in Lond. which House is since called from the Earl of Lincoln once possessor therereof Lincolns-Inn He was chosen afterwards Arch-bishop of Cant. but the Pope stopped his Consecration as being apt to dissuade King Hen. from paying the Pension granted to his Holiness by King John Then being elected Bishop of Winch. he was obstructed by the King He built St. Michaels Chapple without the East-gate of Chichester and dyed at Lond. 1244. 2. Alex Nevil 3 d. Son of Ralph Lord Nevil born at Raby was Arch-bishop of York where he beautified Cawood Castle Being Loyal to R. 2. he was forced for Protection to flee to Pope Vrban who Translated him to St. Andrews in Scotland But this Nevil chose rather to be Minister at Lovaine where he dyed 3. Rob. Nevil sixth Son of Ralph first Earl of Westmerland by Joan his Wife Daughter of Jo. of Gaunt was Bishop of Sarisbury An. 6. Hen. 6. 1427. He founded a Convent at Sunning in Barkshire From Sarisbury he was Translated to Durham where he built the Exchequer at the Castle-gate and added in allusion to his 2 Bishopricks 2 Annulets to his Arms. He dyed An. 1457. 4. Geo. Nevil fourth Son to Rich. Earl of Salisbury was born at Middleham and consecrated Bishop of Exeter when he was not as yet 20 years of Age and five years after was made Lord Chancellor of England and aftewards Arch-bishop of York making a prodigious Feast at his Installing yet at last falling into the displeasure of E. 4. he was slenderly dieted not to say Famished in the Castle of Calis for after his enlargement he dyed Heart-broken at Blyth and was buried in the Cathedral of York 476. There was another Nevil Brother to Alexander who was chosen Bishop of Ely but dyed before Consecration Since the Reformation Rob. Horn bred in St. Johns 〈…〉 E. 6. made Dean of Durham 〈…〉 he became head of the Episcopal 〈…〉 in Germ. Returning into England 〈…〉 of Winch. 1560. A worthy Man 〈…〉 Papists and Sectaries who sported 〈…〉 and twitted his Person as Dwarfâ—◠〈…〉 Case when they were not able to find 〈…〉 Jewel Whatever his Mould might 〈…〉 of good Metal as being of a Sprightâ—u◠〈…〉 Wit He dyed 1589. Jo. Cosen was born in Norwich one 〈…〉 are sufficiently made known in his 〈…〉 Great his Constancy in Religion thâ— he was â—â—â—â—der'd by some silly people as declining 〈…〉 Religion As for his urging of some 〈…〉 made his Purgation effectually clearing himself from the least Imputation of any Fault yea whilst in France he was the Atlas of the Prot. Religion supporting the same with his Piety and Learning and daily adding Proselytes not of the meanest Rank thereunto Since the Kings Restauration he was preferred Bishop of Durham When some Propositions of the Pope in favour of Protestants were made mention of by one in his presence he said We thank him not at all for which God hath always allowed us in his Word for he would grant it so long as it stood with his Policy and take it away so soon as it stood with his Power Civilians Rob. Cosen Dr. of Law was born at Hartly Poole His Father a Person of Quality a valiant Captain in Mussâ—lborough field was drowned in the River Tweed Richard at 12 years of Age was admitted into Tâ—â—n Coll. in Camb. He became a General Scholar Geometrician Musitian Physician Divine but chiefly Civil and Canon Lawyer He was Chancellor of Worcester then Dean of the Arches He defended the High Commission and Oath ex Officio against a Book called the Abstract which one observed was abstracted from all Wit Learning and Charity Some laid to his Charge that he gave many Blank Licences for Marriage whereas there was but one which a Fugitive Servant stole from the Register He had according to his Wish a sweet and quiet departure and his laâ—â— Words to his Friends were Remember your Mortality and eternal Life He gave 40 l. to the building of a Chamber in Trin. Coll. and 15 l. a year for the maintainance of two Scholarships therein On him these Verses were made by the University of Camb. Magna deos inter lis est exorta creatas Horum qui lites Dirimit ille deest Cosinum petiere Dii Componere tantus Lites quod vere jure peritus erat Writers Jo. of Darlington Confessor to Hen. 3. and Archbishop of Dublin and Collector of the Pope's Peter-pence through Ireland wrote many Books and dyed in Lond. 1284. Will. Siveyar in lat Severus born at Shinkley was Son to a Sive-maker was Bishop of Carlile 1496. and Translated to Durham He dyed An. 1505. Note Sir Empson was also the Son of a Sive-maker and his Contemporary Since the Reformation Th. Jackson bred in Oxf. where falling into the River he was taken up for dead by some Fisher-men who were rewarded with a Revenue during his life He was chosen President of Corp. Christi-Coll where he dyed 1640. He was a Pious Man profound Writer and painful Preacher Sam. Ward born at Bishops-Middleham Mr. of Sidney-Coll in Camb. was imprisoned in the late times before which he was counted a Puritan and Popish whilst those days lasted yet was he a true Protestant at all times He dyed An. 1643. Memorable Persons Anth. Lord Gray Earl of Kent Son of Geo. Gray Esquire was born at Branspath He studied Divinity and became Rector of Burbach in Leicestershire And upon the Death of Hen. Earl of Kent his Kinsman the Inheritance and Honour descended upon him Yet after that he abated nothing in the constancy of his Preaching but improved that accession of Greatness to make his Goodness the more Illustrious When Summoned as a Peer to Parl. he excused himself by reason the indisposition of his Age. By Magdal Puresoy his Wife he had Hen. the 9 th Earl of Kent He dyed An. 164 In this County the Bishop is Sheriff Paramount whose Deputy never accounts in the Exchequer but makes up his Audit to
of Th. E. of Rutland Then the Stone Tower built by William Lord Hastings at Ashby de la Zouch hath something Monarchical in Height Strength and Workmanship above the ordinary Aristocracy of Fabricks Also the Fair Palace built at Broadgate by Th. Grey Marq. of Dorset challengeth the preheminence above the rest As for Wonders There is a Village in this County called Charleton Curly and all that are born therein have an harsh and ratling kind of Speech and cannot well pronounce the Letter R. Which in all probability proceeds from a peculiar Intemperature of the Elements in that place There was a Fellow of Trin. Coll. likely a Native of Charleton composed a Speech of competent length without any R therein which he could not pronounce his Speech having no Room for ERROURS seeing there was an errour in his Speech Proverbs 1. Bean-belly Leicester-shire for Plenty 'T is a merry saying Shake a Leicester-shire Yeoman by the Collar and you shall hear the Beans rattle in his Belly tho at the same time they may have good Silver ringing in their Pockets 2. If Bever have a Cap You Churles of the Vale look to that That is when Clouds hang over Bever-Castle it is a signe of much Rain c. Princes Jane Grey eldest Daughter of Hen. D. of Suff. by Fr. Bandon eldest Daughter to Mary second Sister to K. Hen. 8. was born at Broadgate near Leicester She lived many pious but few pleasant days whose Soul was never out of the Non-age of Afflictions till death made her of full years to inherit Happiness Whilst a Child her Father 's was to her an House of Correction nor did she write Woman sooner than she did subscribe Wife and in obedience to her Parents was unfortunately matched to the Lord Guilford Dudley a pious Gentleman but Son to an Ambitious Father She was Proclaimed but never Crowned Queen living in the Tower longer a Captive than a Queen Her Family by snatching at a Crown which â—as not lost a Coronet which was their own She suffered on Tower-hill 1554 5 Feb. 12. Kath. Grey 2 d. Daughter to Henry D. of Suffolk was married to the Lord Herbert Son to the Earl of Pembroke who knowing the Case altered with that Family brake the Marriage quite off Thus she became a Heraclita or Lady of Lamentation The Roses of whose cheeks looked very wan and pale tho they wanted not for watering Afterward Ed. Seymour E. of Hertford married her privately without the Queens Licence and concealed it till her pregnancy discovered it The English Proverb It is good to be near a Kin to land holdeth in private Patrimonies not Titles to Crowns Q. Elizabeth beheld her with a jealous eye unwilling she should match either Forreign Prince English Peer or any person whatsoever The E. of Hartford being fined 15000 l. was imprisoned with his Lady in the Tower and severely forbidden her company By bribing the Keeper he bought what was his own his Wives Embraces and had by her a surviving Son Edw. Ancestor to the Right Honorable the D. of Som. She died Jan. 26. a Prisoner in the Tower 1567 after 9 years Durance therein Whose Sister Mary Grey the Youngest 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. Martyrs Hugh Latimer born at Thurcaston in his first Sermon before King Ed. 6. declared his own Pedigree to this effect My Father was a Yeoman who had a Farm of 3 or 4l a year kept 100 Sheep and six Servants and my Mother milked 30 Kine He did find the King an HARNESS which I remember I buckled on with himself and his Horse when he went to Black-heath field He kept me to School or else I had not been able to Preach before the King's Majesty now He married my Sisters with 5l a piece so that he brought them up in Godliness and the fear of God He kept Hospitality for poor Neighbours and some alms and all this did he of the same Farm where he that now hath it payeth 16l p. an and more and is not able to do any thing for his Prince for himself nor for his Children or give a cup of Drink to the Poor He was bred in Cambridg and converted under God by Mr. Bliney from a violent Papist to a zealous Protestant He was afterwards made Bishop of Worc. and 4 years after outed for refusing to subscribe the 6. Art He onely of the Bishops of the new Learning in the time of H. 8. urged that two Abbeys at the least in every Diocess of considerable Revenues might be preserved for the maintenance of Learned Men therein And swiming a good while against the stream he was at last carried away with the Current He was Martyred at Oxford 1555. Prelates Gilb. Segrave born at Segrave and bred in Oxford succeeded a Kinsman who on his death-Bed recommended him in the Provost's place of St. Sepulâ—hers in York and afterwards was Bishop of Londdon He died 1317. Walt. de Langton born at West-Langton made by E. 1. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and Treas of English He lost the Favor of E. 2. for reproving him when as yet but Prince for his debauchery and tho he never wholly regained that Princes good Will 't is said the surplusage of the People's affection to him did fill up that blank Prodigious his bounty in building and endowing his Cathedral He died 1321 and was buried in the Chappel of St. Ma. of his own erection Rog. de Martival Son of Sir Aukitell Mar. whose Arms were Ar. a cinque-foil S. was born at Nowsley He was First Arch-Deacon of Leic. then Dean of Linc. and at last Bishop of Salisbury in the Reign of E. 2. 1315. He was the last heir male of his Race and Founded a Colledge at Nowsley for a Warden and certain Brethren His Estate descended to Joyce-de Mart. his Sister married to Sir Ralph Hastings lineal Ancestor to the now Earl of Hunt and the Hazleriggs are at this day Possessors of the Mannor of Newsley He died 1329. Rob. Wivil well descended born at Stanton Wivil was made Bishop of Salisbury 1329. tho both a Dunce and a Dwarfe He impleaded William Montague E. of Salisbury in a Writ of Right for the Castle of Salisbury and it had been tried by a Combat of their two Champions had not the King interposed and ordered that the Bishop should pay 2500 marks for the quiet Possession of the Castle Since the Reformation Joseph Hall born at Ashby de la Zouch and bred in Em. Colledg in Cambridg maintained there with a Flourishing wit That the World groweth Old He was Minister at Halsted in Suffolk where his Little Catechisme did much good He became D. D. and was at the Synod of Dort and was preferred first Dean of Worc. then Bishop of Ex. then of Norwich then of
been presented to him as another Maid was would have left no room for that Kings inquisitiveness in asking if she could spin as he did in the case of the other who could Speak and Write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew Noted Sheriffs Edw. 3. An. 1. Andrew Sackvil The Family of the Sackvils is as ancient as any in England taking their Name from Sackvil a Town of their Possession in Normandy Before this time Sir Robert Sackvil Knight younger Son of Herbran was fixed in England and gave the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolk to the Abbey of St. John de Bap. in Colchester about the Reign of Will. Rufus Sir Jo. his Son was one of the Assistance to 25 Peers appointed to see the Liberties of Magna Charta performed whose Son Richard was a principal Baron of whose house Hubert de Avesty held some Lands whose Granchild Sir Jordan was taken Prisoner at the Battle of Emesham in the Reign of Henry 3. for siding with the Barons against him whose Son Andrew the Kings Ward was imprisoned in Dover an 3. Edw. 1. and afterwards by the Kings command Married Ermyntide a Lady of the Houshold of Queen Eleanor whereby he regained a great part of his Inheritance which had been formerly forfeited whose Son Andrew first above mentioned was Ancestor to the truly Honourable Rich. now E. of Dorset Note Surrey and Sussex generally had distinct Sheriffs until the Reign of Edw. 2. when they were united then again divided an 9 Eliz. united an 13. divided agin an 12. K. Charles I. Rich 2. An. 19. Jo. Ashburnham was Ancester to Sir Jo. who Married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Tho. Beaumont afterwards Created Viscountess Cramond in Scotland and had by her 2 Sons John of the Bed Chamber to K. Charles I. and II. and William Cofferer to his Majesty who will build their Name a story higher to Posterity And note this Family is of stupendious Antiquity the chief whereof was Sheriffs of Sussex and Surrey 1066 when VV. Duke of Normandy invaded England to whom K. Harauld wrote to assemble Posse â—omitatuum to make resistance against that Duke And the eminency hath equalled the Antiquity thereof having been Barons of England in the Reign of King Henry 3. Hen. 6. An. 29. Jo. Lewkenor afterwards Knight with 3000 others were slain in the Battle of Teuksbury valiantly fighting under P. Edward Son to K. Hen. 6. Hen. 7. An. 12. Math. Brown Arm. was Ancestor though not in the direct Line to Sir Anthony Standard-bearer of England second Husband of Lucy fourth Daughter to Jo. Nevel Marquess Montacute and Grand-father to Sir Anthony whom Q. Mary created Visc Montacute and whom Q. Eliz. much esteemed direct Ancestor to the right Honourable the present Visc Montacute who has a place and Vote in Parliament by an express clause in his Patent but otherwise no particular Title of a Baron Hen. 8. An. 10. Nich. Carew Mil. a jolly Gentleman was made Knight of the Garter by and Master of the Horse to Hen. 8. He built the fair house at Beddington in this County which by the advantage of the water is a Paradise of Pleasure 'T is said K. Hen. 8. being then at Bowls gave this Knight opprobrious Language betwixt jest and earnest to whom the other returned a stout Answer that was inconsistent with his Allegiance which cost him his Life The last of this Sirname adopted a Throgmorton on condition to assume the Name and Arms of Carew From him is Lineally descended Sir Nich. Carew Knight who I confidently hope will continue and encrease the Honour of his ancient Family Edw. 6. An. 1. Tho. Carden Mil. was 5 years before Endited for Heresie but K. Henry preserved him with some others of his Privy Chamber being in the same circumstances Q. Eliz. An. 20. George Goring whose names sake Sir George Goring was by Charles I. created Baron of Hurst Per-point in Sussex and afterwards Earl of Norwich He was the only instance of a Person of Honour who found Pardon for his Loyalty to his Sovereign Afterwards going beyond the Seas he was happily instrumental in advancing the Peace betwixt Spain and Holland and since the Restauration of K. Charles II. he was made Captain of his Majesties Guard Note that about 140 years ago one Mr. Clark hearing that the Market-house of Farnham in this County begun by him was not generally approved of but liked by some and disliked by others who found fault with the Model thereof and discouraged the Workmen caused this Distich to be writ in that House You who do like me give Money to end me You who dislike me give Money to mend me I wish the Advice may be practised all overt his County SUSSEX SVssex hath Surrey on the North Kent on the East the Sea on the South and Hantshire on the West It extendeth along the Sea 60 miles in length though not exceeding 20 in breadth A fruitful County though very dirty for Travellers All the Rivers in this County have their Fountains and Falls therein It is sufficient Evidence of the plenty of this County that the Toll of the Wheat Corn and Malt growing or made about and sold in the City of Chichester doth amount yearly at a half-penny a Quarter to 60 pounds and upwards Of Commodities Iron is plentiful in this County It is to be hoped that for the preservation of Woods a way may be found out to Chark Sea-coal in such manner as to render it useful for the making of Iron Then Talk produced in great abundance in this County is an excellent white Wash and a great astringent There is a Bird called Wheat-Ears so named because fattest when Wheat is ripe which is peculiar to this County a fine Bird though in season only in the heat of Summer A certain Gentleman concluded a great Lord a man of very weak parts because once he saw him at a Feast feed on Chickens when there were Wheat-Ears on the Table This County aboundeth with more Carpes then any other in England and is eminent for an Arundel Mullet a Chichester Lobster a Shelsey Cockle and an Amerly Trout The Manufactures are great Guns made of the Iron in this County A Monk in Mentz some 300 years since is generally reputed the first Founder of them when about the same time a Souldier found out Printing Jo. Oaven was the first Englishman who in England cast Brass Ordnance an 1535 Peter Baud a Frenchman an 1. Edw. 6. was the first who in England cast Iron Ordnance Tho. Johnson servant to Peter improved his Masters Art He dyed about 1600. There is also plenty of Glass made in this County and the Workmen thereof are much encreased since 1557 A certain Lord living near Cambridge upon his Petition got from Queen Elizabeth a grant of all the Plate in that University upon condition to find Glasses for the Scholars the performance of which condition at first and at all times after upon the casual or wilful breaking of the Glasses would
He was well reported of all Men and of the Truth it self He beheld with much Christian Patience those of his Order lose their Votes in Parliament much contempt poured on his Function whilst their Enemies hence concluded their final Extirpation would follow This Bishop was amongst others selected as Confessor to King Charles I. at his Martyrdom He formerly had had experience in the case of the Earl of Strafford that this Bishops Conscience was bottom'd on Piety the Reason that from him he received the Sacrament good Comfort and Counsel just before the perpetration of that horrid Murder a Fact so foule that it alone may confute the Errour of the Pelagians maintaining that all sin cometh by imitation the Vniverse not formerly affording such a precedent as if those Regicides had purposely designed to disprove the observation of Solomon that there is no new thing under the Sun King Charles II. an 1660 preferred him Arch-Bishop of Canterbury which place he worthily graceth at the Writing hereof Acceptus Fruin D. D. President of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford was by K. Charles I. advanced Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and since by K. Charles II. made Arch-Bishop of York and is now alive This County hath bred 5 Arch-Bishops of Canterbury at this instant claiming for her Natives the two Metropolitans of our Nation Statesmen Tho. Sackvil Son and Heir to Sir Richard Chancellour Sub-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Privy-Councellour to Queen Elizabeth by Winifred his Wife Daughter to Sir Jo. Bruges was bred in Oxford where he became an excellent Poet leaving both Latine and English Poems of his Composing to Posterity Then he became Barrister and afterwards in his Travels was for some time Prisoner at Rome whence returning to the possession of a fair Estate he wasted the greatest part thereof and afterwards being made as is reported to dance attendance on an Alderman of London who had gained great penny-worths by his former purchases of him he was sensible of the incivility and resolving to be no more beholding to Wealthy Pride he turned a thrifty improver of the Remainder of his Estate Others affirm that Queen Elizabeth his Cosin Germ. once removed diverted the torrent of his profusion by her frequent admonitions after which she made him Baron of Buckhurst in this County an 1566. Sent him Ambassadour into France 1571 into the Low Countries 1586. made him Knight of the Garter 1589. and Treasurer of England 1599. He was Chancellour of the University where he entertained Queen Elizabeth with a sumptuous Feast He was a person of so quick dispatch that his Secretaries seldom pleased him Thus having made amends to his house for his mispent time both in encrease of Estate and Honour being created Earl of Dorset by King James He dyed April 19. 1608. Capital Judges Sir Jo. Jeffrey Knight was preferred Secondary Judge of the Common Pleas thence advanced an 19. Elizabeth to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer He left one only Daughter and Heir Married to Sir Edward Montague since Baron of Boughton by whom he had but one Daughter Elizabeth Married to Robert Berty Earl of Linsey Mother to the truly Honourable Montague Earl of Linsey and Lord great Chamberlain of England This worthy Judge dyed an 21. Elizabeth Souldiers The Abbot of Battle after the French had invaded this County during the Non-age of King Richard 2. and the Dotage of his Council and taken the Prior of Lewis Prisoner Fortified Winchelsey effectually against the Enemy who in vain had attempted to storm the place and feared to venture a fair siege suspecting that they should be surrounded on all sides The Monsieurs therefore bid adieu to England and made for France as fast as they could An. Dom. 13 ... Sir W. Pelham Knight of an ancient and wealthy Family at Laughton was by Queen Elizabeth made Lord Chief Justice of Ireland betwixt the death of Sir W. Drury and the coming in of Arthur Gray Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In this juncture of time Desmond began his Rebellion 1579. inviting Sir W. Pelham to side with him who though he could not cure the wound for want of Force yet he kept it clean resigning the same in a recovering condition to the Lord Gray his Successor Afterwards he was Commander of the English Horse in the Low-Countries where he surprised Brabant Sir Anth. Shirley second Son to Sir Thomas set forth from Plimouth May 21. 1596. in a Ship called the Bevis of Southampton attended with six lesser Vessels His design for St. Thome was diverted by a Contagion occasioned by stinking Rain which within six hours after it fell turned to Maggots Turning therefore his course to America he took and kept the City of St Jago two dayes and nights with 280 Men wherein 80 were wounded in the service against 3000 Portugals Hence he made for the Isle of Fuego in the midst whereof was a Mountain Aetna-like always burning and the Wind did drive such a shower of Ashes upon them that one might have wrote his name with his Finger on the upper Deck Whence passing by the Island of Margarita he took St. Martha the Chief Town of Jamaica After much distress and desertion by the other Ships he returned into England Whose youngest Brother Sir Robert Shirley was entred by his Brother Anth. in the Persian Court. Here he performed so great service against the Turks that it drew the envy of the Persian Lords and love of the Ladies among whom one reputed a Kinswoman to the great Sophy was afterwards Married unto him and came over with him into England He much affected to appear in the Persian habit At last having as 't is said given the Persian Ambassadour a box on the ear upon some contest betwixt them they were sent both together into Persia to impeach one another Dr. Gough being joyned in Commission with Sir Robert but Neptune decided the Controversie before they came thither both of them dying on the Seas as I have been informed about the beginning of King Charles I whose eldest Brother Sir Tho. Shirley excited by the Atchievments of his two younger Brethren undertook Sea Voyages into Forreign parts to the great honour of his Nation but small enriching of himself As to the general performances of these three Brethren when Abatement is made for Poetical Embellishments contained in the Comedy made upon them c. the Remainder will speak them Worthies in their Generations Physicians Nich. Hostresham it seems from Horsham in this County a famous Physician wrote many Books amongst which one Contra dolorem Renum thus beginning A Stone is sometimes bred in the Kidneys c. Note this was long before Hops and Beer made therewith accounted by some the Original of the Stone in this Land were commonly used in England 1516. He having flourished 1443. Writers Lawrence Somercote was Can. of Chichester He studied the Law and went to Rome where through the favour of his Brother or Kinsman Robert Somercote Cardinal he was
most delicious place within a mile of Warwick he wrote the Antiquities of Warwick a Chronicle of the English Kings and a History of the two Universities He was as good at his Pensil as Pen being an excellent Limner He dyed 1491. Since the Reformation W. Perkins born at Marston bred Fellow of Christs-Colledge became Preacher of St. Andrew in Cambridge See of him in my Holy State He dyed 1602. Tho. Drax D. D. born at Stonely and bred in Christs-Colledge in Cambridge was a pious Man and an excellent Preacher He Translated all the Works of Mr. Perkins into Latine He was beneficed nigh Harwich in Essex and dyed 1616. The Family of the Drax flourished a long time at Wood-hall in York-shire and after various Changes hath recovered and encreased its former lustre in Sir James Drax who hath merited much of the English Nation in bringing the Sugars and other Commodities of the Barbadoes to their perfection William Shakespeare born at Stratford was in some sort a Compound of three eminent Poets viz. Martial Ovid and Plautus the Comedian The two first were Charactered in a Verse made by Queen Elizabeth coming into a Grammar School Persius a Crab-staff Bawdy Martial Ovid a fine VVag. Though the Genius of this our Poet was jocular he could be solemn and serious when occasion required as appears by his Tragedies so that He aclitus himself might afford to smile at his Comedies and Democritus scarce forbear to sigh at his Tragedies His Learning being very little Nature seems to have practised her best Rules in his production Many were the witty Combates betwixt him and Benjamin Johnson who like a Spanish Gallion was built far higher in Learning solid but slow in his performances whilst Shakespeare like an English Man of War less in bulk but lighter in Sailing could turn with all Tides tack about and take advantage of all Winds by the quickness of his wit and invention He dyed 16. and was buried at Stratford Michael Drayton born at Athelston was a pious Poet a Temperate man and a good natured Companion He changed his Laurel for a Crown of Glory 1631. and was buried in Westminster-Abbey Sir Fulke Grevil Knight Son to Sir Fulke Senior of Becham Court was bred in Cambridge He came to Court back'd with a fair Estate in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth He was a good Scholar and a great Friend to Learned Men Bishop Overal chiefly owed his preferment to him and Mr. Cambden tasted largely of his Liberality His Studies were most in Poetry and History as his works do witness King James created him Baron Brook of Beauchamp-Court as descended from the sole Daughter and Heir of Edward VVilloughby the last Lord Brook He was murdered 16. by a discontented servant who conceiving himself not soon or well enough rewarded first wounded his Master mortally and afterwards dispatched himself He lyeth buried in Warwick Church under a fair Monument whereon he is styled Servant to Queen Elizabeth Councellour to King James and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney dying unmarried his Barony descended on his Kinsman Robert Grevil Lord Brook Father to the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brook Nich. Byfield bred in Queens Colledge in Oxford entring into the Ministery was invited into Ireland But being wind-bound at Chester and having preached there with great approbation he was chosen Minister in the City being afterwards informed that his going over to Ireland would have been labour in vain He maintained the strict observation of the Lords day against Mr. Breerwood He was afterwards Minister of Isleworth in Middlesex where he Preached for 15 years together twice every Lords day and expounded Scripture every Wednesday and Fryday He dyed of the Stone in his Bladder which being taken out after his death was weighed and measured being 33 ounces and more in length 13 inches and above in measure about the breadth almost 13 inches and about the edge 15 and ½ Being of solid substance to look upon like Flint He was buried at Isleworth Philemon Holland bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge a Doctor in Physick and fixed himself in Coventry He was the Translator General of his Age of whom one saith Holland with his Translations doth so fill us He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus Many of his Books he wrote with one Pen whereon he himself versifies With one sole Pen I writ this Book made of a Grey Goose Quill A Pen it was when I it took and a Pen I leave it still He Translated Cambden's Britannia with many excellent Additions and was himself Translated to a better Life 16 ... Francis Holyoake born at Whitacre was Minister of Southampton He set forth Rider's Dictionary and dyed 16 ... James Cranford born at Coventry and bred in Oxford was beneficed in Northampton-shire afterwards Minister of St. Christophers in London A learned and pious man and a painful Preacher of much Humility Moderation and Charity Having sadly sympathized with the Sufferings of Church and State he dyed 1657. Romish Exile Writers William Bishop Son probably to John a Protestant and Patron of Brails in this County went first to Rhemes then to Rome whence being sent back into England he was siezed on and committed by Secretary Walsingham to the Marshalsey After 3 years beâ—ng banished the Land he became a Doctor of Sorbon Afterwards he returned into England and for nine years laboured in the Popish Harvest And after another visit to his Holiness he returned to his Station till he was imprisoned at London At last being enlarged he went to Paris The Papists cry him up for a Glorious Confessor of the Popish Faith who if any goodness in him should also be a thankful Confessor of the Protestant Charity permitting him twice to depart Prison Benefactors to the Publick Hugh Clapton born at Stratford and bred a Mercer in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1491. built at Stratford a stately and long Stone Bridge of many Arches over the â—von many other Charities he bestowed and deceased 1496. Since the Reformation Hales Esquire sounded and endowed a fair Grammar School in Coventry the Priory of which he had purchased from King Henry 8. Jo. Lord Harrington born at Combe-Abbey was no less Pious then Noble He began the Fashion of a diary wherein he registred his daily failings Being a wise Accomptant he used that method of Christian Arithmetick in numbering his dayes with such exactness that it seems he had but one day to account for and repent of before his death He was a most bountiful Benefactor to Sidney-Colledge He dyed in his prime and unmarried being the last Male of that Honourable Family as one complains by way of Anagram Johannes Dominus Harringtonius insignis erat Ah! Vnus Honor Domi. He left his two Sisters his Heirs Lucy Married to Edward Earl of Bedford and Anne who by Sir Robert Chichester had a Daughter Anne married to Thomas Earl of Elgin and Mother to Robert Lord Bruce who is at this day Heir apparent to no
small part of the Lands but actually possessed of a large share of the Vertues of his great Uncle Memorable Persons Thomas Vnderhill Esquire was born at Neaher-Eatendon lived with his Wife 65 years having by her 13 Sons and 7 Daughters in Worshipful Equipage which was rendred illustrious by their Exemplary Hospitality She dyed in July and he in October following 1603. Noted Sheriffs Q. Eliz. An. 27. An. Shugburg Arm. The Sirname of the Family is right ancient in the place of their Name and Habitation giving for their Arms the Stones Astroites in Herauldry reduced to Mullets which they most resemble found within their Mannor K. James An. 2. Richard Verney Mil. hunted the Powder-Traytors taking desperate courses after the discovery of their Plot out of this into the next Shire of Worcester 16. Francis Leigh Mil. was Created Baron of Dunsmore and afterwards Earl of Chichester by King Charles I. His eldest Daughter and Heir was Married to Thomas Earl of Southampton his younger to George Villiers Visc Grandison K. Charles I. An. 12. Thomas Leigh Mil. was Created by Charles I. Baron of Stoneleigh in this County and he is happy in his Son Sir Thomas Leigh who undoubtedly will dignifie the Honour which descendeth unto him The Battle on October 3. 1642. The Fight at Edge-Hill was very terrible no fewer then Five Thousand Men slain upon the place the Prologue to a greater Slaughter if the dark night had not put an end to that dispute The Victory went on the Kings side who though he lost his General yet he kept the Field and possessed himself of the dead Bodies and not so only but he made his way open unto London and in his way forced Banbury Castle in the very sight as it were of the Earl of Essex who with his flying Army made all the hast he could towards the City that he might be there before the King to secure the Parliament The King afterwards entred triumphantly into Oxford with no fewer then 120 Colours taken in the Fight Yet here many of the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire fell with the Earl of Linsey their Country-man and had not some miscarriage happened here the Royalists had totally in all probability routed their Enemies WESTMORLAND WEstmorland hath Cumberland on the West and North Lancashire on the South Durham and York-shire on the East thereof Iâ— is in length from North to South 30 Miles and in breadth 24. The County is neither stored with Arable Grounds nor Pasturage the principal profit that the people of this County raise unto themselves is by Cloathing Speed mentions but one Religious House in this County though it has several Kirks As for Manufactures Kendal Cottons are famous all over England Note the Clothiers of Kendal were the first Founders of Sturbridge Fair. Proverbs I. Let Uter-Pendragon do what he can the River Eden will run as it ran Tradition reporteth that Vter-Pendragon designing to Fortifie the Castle of Pendragon in this County invited in vain the River Eden to forsake her old Channel The Proverb is applyable to such who offer a Rape to Nature by endeavouring to abrogate any of her Established Lawes to divert her course or invert her method Princes Katharine Daughter of Sir Thomas Par was born at Kendal-Castle which descended to her Father from the Brusses and Râ—sses of Werk She was first Married to John Nevil Lord Latimer and afterward to King Henry 8. She was a great Favourer of the Gospel and would earnestly argue for it Once politick Gardiner had almost got her into his Clutches had not Divine Providence delivered her Yet a Jesuit who was neither Confessor nor Privy-Councellour to the King tells us that the King intended if longer surviving to behead her for an Heretick She was afterwards Married to Sir Thomas Seymour Baron of Sudeley and Lord Admiral and dyed in Child-bed of a Daughter 1548. Cardinals Cristopher Bambridge born near Appleby was bred Doctor of Law in Queens Colledge in Oxford He was afterwards Dean of York Bishop of Durham and at last Arch-Bishop of York Being employed an Ambassadour to Rome he was an active instrument to procure King Henry 8. to take part with the Pope against Lewis King of France for which good service he was created Cardinal of St. Praxis A little after falling out with his Steward Rivaldus de Medena an Italian and caâ—eing him for his faults the Italian in short poysoneâ— him July 14. 1511. He was buried in the Hospital of the English at Rome Prelates Thomas Vipont descended of those ancient Barons who were Hereditary Lords of this County was by the Canons of Carlile elected their Bishop though King Henry 3. with great importunity why not Authority commended John Prior of Newbury to them He enjoyed his place but one year and dyed 1256. John de Kirby born at Kirkby Lansdale or Stephens was first Canon afterwards Bishop of Carlile 1332. He with the Assistance of Thomas Lucy and Robert Ogle persons of prime power in those parts fighting in an advantagious place utterly routed and ruined the Scots who invaded England with an Army of 30000 Men under the Conduct of William Douglas and had taken and burnt Carlile He dyed 1353. Thomas de Appleby was legally chosen Bishop of Carlile yet he durst not own the choice till he had obtained his Confirmation from the Court of Rome He was consecrated 1363 and deceased 1395. Robert de Appleby went over into Ireland and there became Prior of St. Peter near Trimme hence he was by the Pope preferred Bishop of Ossory in that Kingdom He dyed 1404. W. of Strickland descended of a right Worshipful Family was elected Bishop of Carlile yet Robert Read was by King Richard 2. and the Pope preferred to the place which affront Strickland bore with much moderation He was afterwards during a vacancy chosen again and Consecrated Bishop of Carlile 1400. For the Town of Perith in Cumberland he cut a passage from the Town into the River Petteril for the conveyance of Boatage into the Irish Sea He dyed 1419. Nich. Close born at Bibreke was one of the six Original Fellows whom King Henry 6. placed in his new Colledge Kings Colledge in Cambridge having committed the building of that house to his fidelity He was first Bishop of Carlile then of Lichfield where he dyed within a year after his Consecration viz. an 1453. Since the Reformation Hugh Coren was made by Queen Mary Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Ireland his Predecessor having been deprived for being married 'T is very observable that no person in that Kingdom suffered death for their Religion in Queen Maries dayes Indeed an 3. Mary a Pursevant was sent with a Commission into Ireland to impower some eminent persons to proceed with Fire and Faggot against poor Protestants On he went to Chester where his Hoste a Protestant having an inkling of the matter stole the Commission putting the Knave of Clubs in the room thereof Some weeks after he appeared before the
he was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in which Office he demeaned himself with great integrity It happened that a Servant of Prince Henry afterwards King Henry 5. was Arraigned before this Judge for Felony whom the Prince then present endeavoured to take away coming up in fury striking the Judge But he sitting without moving committed the Prince Prisoner to the Kings-Bench there to remain until the Pleasure of the King his Father were further known who when he heard thereof gave God thanks who at the same instant had given him a Judge who could minister and a Son who could obey Justice He dyed an 14. Henry 4. Guido de Fairfax Knight whose Name hath continued at Walton in this County more then 450 years was bred in the Study of the Law and became Serjeant thereof He favoured the House of York in those civil distempers yet was he by King Henry 7. advanced Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Roger Cholmley Knight natural Son to Lieutenant of the Tower under King Henry 7. was an 37. Henry 8. made Chief Baron of the Exchequer and an 6. Edward 6. Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench An. 1. Mary he with Sir Edward Montague Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas was committed to the Tower for drawing up the Will of King Edward 6. wherein his Sisters were disinherited whereupon Sir Roger was deprived of his Judges place though his Activity had amounted no higher then to a Subscription of the said Will. He built a free School of Brick at Highgate about 1564. Sir Christopher Wray Knight was born in the Parish of Bedal the motive which made his Daughter Frances Countess of Warwick scatter her Benefactions the thicker in that place His Ancestor came out of Cornwal where his Name is right ancient Being bred in the Law he was an 16. Elizabeth made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench He was moved by no Fear but that of the Judge of the World He was pro tempore Lord Privy Seal and sate 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 Magdalens-Colledge in Cambridge was both bountiful and seasonable We know who saith The righteous man leaveth an Inheritance to his Childrens Children and the well thriving of his third Generation may be an evidence of his well gotten Goods This worthy Judge dyed May the 8th an 34. Elizabeth Statesmen Sir Jo. Puckering Knight born at Flamborough-head being a second Son applyed himself to the Study of the Common Law and became the Queens Serjeant Speaker in the House of Commons and at last Lord Chancellour of England In the House of Lords he made a Speech against those that were called Puritans wherein he charges them with the open profession of disloyal and seditious Principles and affirms that they by this Separation of themselves from the Vnity of their Fellow Subjects and by abasing the Sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince do both joyn and concurr with the Jesuites in opening the door and preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion that is threatned against the Realm He dyed 1596. He is Charactred by Mr. Cambden in Elizabeth Vir integer His Estate is since descended his Male Issue failing on Sir Henry Newton who assumed the Sirname of Pâ—ckering and I can never be sufficiently thankful to him and his Relations Sir George Calvert Knight was born at Kiplin and bred first in Trinity-Colledge in Oxford then beyond the Seas He was Secretary to Robert Cecil Earl of Sarisbury Lord Treasurer of England Afterward he was made Clerk of the Councel and at last Principal Secretary of State to King James an 1619. Conceiving the Duke of Buckingham highly instrumental in his preferment he presented him with a Jewel of great value which the Duke returned again not owning any activity in his advancement whom King James ex mero motu reflecting on his Ability designed for the place which he resigned 1624. confessing to the King he was become a Roman Catholick so that he must either be wanting to his Trust or violate his Conscience King James continued him his Privy Councellour all his Reign and created him Lord Baltemore of Balt. in Ireland When Secretary he had a Grant from King James to him and his Heirs of a County Palatine of Avalon in the New-found-Land He built a fair House in Ferry Land in America and spent 25000 pounds in advancing the Plantation thereof consulting therein the enlargement of Christianity and the Kings Dominions After the death of King James he went twice in person to New-found-Land Here with two Ships manned at his own charge he chased away Monsieur D' Arade sent by the King of France to annoy the English Fishermen relieved the English and took 60 of the French Prisoners King Charles I. gave a Patent to him and his Heirs of Mary-Land on the North of Virginia with Royal Franchises He dyed in London April 15. 1632. and lyeth buried in St. Dunstans in the West leaving his Son the Right Honourable Cecil Calvert now Lord Baltemore Heir to his Honour Estate and Noble Disposition Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford Son to William Wentworth of Went. Woodhouse in this County was born in London which see Seamen Armigel Waad born of an ancient Family in Yorkshire was Clerk of the Counsel to Henry 8. and Edward 6. A man of great accomplishments employed in several Embassies and the first Englishman who discovered America He had by two Wives 20 Children whereof Sir William Waad was the eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Councel to Queen Elizabeth This Armigel dyed June the 20th 1568. and was buried at Hampstead in Middlesex Martin Forbisher Knight born nigh Doncaster was the first Englishman who first discovered the North way to China and Cathay whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it to be Silver Ore but it proved useless He was Valiant and Violent He was Knighted for his signal service in 88. Having with 10 Ships defended Brest-Haven in Britain against a far greater power of the Spaniards he was shot in the side His wound not being mortal in it self was rendred such by the unskilfulness of the Chirurgeon who having taken out the Bullet left the bombast behind wherewith the sore festered and the worthy Knight dyed 1594. George Clifford Lord Clifford Vescye c. Earl of Cumberland was Son to Henry second Earl of that Family by his second Lady A person wholly Composed of true Honour and Valour In order to the cuting off the Spanish Sinews of War their Money from the West-Indies this Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost and Adventured his own person therein being the best born Englishman that ever adventured himself in that kind His Fleet may be said to be bound for no other Harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in his passage thereunto
Countries fail she plentifully feedeth them with Provision and is said to afford Corn enough to sustain all Wales Nor is she less happy in Cattle then Corn. II. Crogging Crogging The Original of this by word was in dayes of King Henry 2. who had many men slain by the Welsh at Croggen-Castle The English afterwards used it as a Provocative when they had the Welsh at an advantage It is now without cause uttered in disgrace of the Welsh though originally it was expressive of their Honour Prelates Guido de Mona that is of Anglesey was Bishop of St. Davids and Lord Treasurer of England under King Henry 4. though the Parliament moved that no Welshman should be a State Officer in England He dyed 1407. Arthur Bulkley Bishop of Bangor though bred Dr. of the Laws never read or forgot the Chapter de Sacrilegio for he spoyled the Bishoprick and sold the five Bells being so over-officious that he would go down to the Sea to see them Shipped He was suddenly deprived of his sight and dyed 1555. William Glyn D. D. bred in and Master of Queens-Colledge in Oxford was an 2. Mary preferred Bishop of Bangor An excellent Scholar being constant to his own and not cruel to opposite judgments he caused no persecution in his Diocess He dyed an 1. Elizabeth whose Brother Jeffrey Dr. of Laws built and endowed a Free School at Bangor Since the Reformation Rouland Merrick Dr. of Laws was born at Bodingan bred at Oxford where he became Principal of New-Inn-hall and afterwards a Dignitary in the Church of St. Davids He procured the imprisonment of Robert Ferrar his Diocesan in the dayes of King Edward 6. who was afterwards Martyred in the Reign of Queen Mary Mr. Merrick was Consecrated Bishop of Bangor an 2. Elizabeth 1559. He was Father to Sir Gilly Merrick Knight who lost his life for engaging with the Earl of Essex 1600. Lancelot Bulkley was born of a then Right Worshipful since Honourable Family one of whose fair Habitations is near Beumaris He was bred in Brazen-Nose-Colledge in Oxford and afterwards became first Arch-Deacon and then Arch-Bishop of Dublin October 3. 1619. Soon after he was made by King James one of his Privy Counsel in Ireland He dyed about 16. Seamen Madoc Son to Owen Gwineth ap Griffith ap Conan and Brother to Dav. Prince of North-Wales was born probably at Aberfraw then the principal Palace of their Royal residence He 1170. made a Voyage Westward and probably those names of Cape de Breton Norvinberg and Pengwin in part of the Northern America were Reliques of his discovery BRECKNOCK-SHIRE BRecknock-shire hath Radnor-shire on the North Cardigan and Carmarthen-shire on the West Glamorgan-shire on the South Hereford and Monmouth-shire on the East In length 28 and in breadth 20 miles The fruitfulness of the Vallies in this Shire maketh amends for the barrenness of the Mountains Brecknock the chief Town hereof doth at this present time afford the Title of an Earl to James Duke of Ormond the first that ever received that Dignity About 400 years since a Daughter of Gilb. and Maud Becket and Sister to Thomas Becket was by King Henry 2. bestowed in Marriage on one Butler an English Gentleman Him King Henry sent over into Ireland and endeavouring to expiate Beckets blood rewarded him with large Lands so that his Posterity were created Earls of Ormond In this County there is plenty of Otters in Brecknock Meer the Wool whereof is much used in making of Beavers As for Wonders 't is reported by Speed that Cloaks Hats and Staves cast down from the top of an Hill called Mouchy Denny or Cadier Arthur and the North-East Rocks would never fall but were with the air and wind still returned back and blown up again nor would any thing descend save a Stone or some metallin substance When the Meer Lynsavathan within two Miles of Brecknock hath her frozen Ice first broken it yields a thundering noyse and there is a Tradition that where that Meer spreadeth its waters stood a fair City till swallowed up by an Earthquake which is not improbable first because all the Highways of this County do lead thither secondly Ptolemy doth place in this Tract the City Loventrium which Mr. Cambden could not recover and therefore likely to be drown'd in this Pool the rather because Levenny is the name of the River running by it Saints St. Canoch Cadock Sons and Keyne Daughter to Braghan King builder and namer of Brecknock who had 24 Daughters all Saints though only St. Keyne survived flourished about 492. of whom St. Cadock is reported a Martyr and all had in high Veneration amongst the people of South-Wales St. Clintanke was King of Brecknock It happened that a Noble Virgin gave it out That she would never Marry any man except the said King who was so zealous a Christian A Pagan Souldier purposely to defeat her desire killed this King who left behind him the reputation of a Saint Prelates Giles de Bruse born at Brecknock was Son to William de Bruse Baron of Brecknock a prime Peer in his time This Giles became Bishop of Hereford and in the Civil Wars sided with the Nobility against King John on which account he was banished but at length returned and recovered the Kings favour His Paternal Honour and Inheritance was devolved upon him and from him after his death transmitted to his Brother Reginald who Married the Daughter of Leoline Prince of Wales His Effigies on his Tomb in Hereford Church holdeth a Steeple in his hand whence it is concluded that he built the Belfree of that Cathedral He dyed 1215. Since the Reformation Thomas Howel born at Nangamarch bred Fellow of Jesus-Colledge in Oxford became a most meek man and excellent Preacher His Sermons like the waters of Siloah did run softly gliding on with a smooth stream King Charles I. made him Bishop of Bristol He dyed 1646. leaving many Orphan Children behind him I have been told that the Honourable City of Bristol hath taken care for their comfortable Education Statesmen Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham set up King Richard on the Throne endeavouring afterwards in vain to depose him the King compassing him into his clutches through the treachery of Humphrey Banister the Dukes own Servant the Sheriff siezing him in Shrop-shire where he was digging of a Ditch in a disguise He was beheaded at Sarisbury without any Legal Tryal 1484. Memorable Persons Nesta Daughter to Gruffin Prince of Wales and Wife to Bernard of Newmarch a Noble Norman and Lord by Conquest of this County was an Harlot to a young Gentleman Mahel her Son having got this Stallion into his hands used him very hardly wherewith Nesta being madded came into open Court and on her Oath before King Henry 2. publickly protested that Mahel was none of Newmarch his Son but begotten on her in Adultery This if true spake her dishonesty if false her perjury true or false her Peerless impudency Hereby she disinherited Mahel
hath a Steeple that groweth therein the Bell on a Yeugh-Tree and more Alehouses then Houses Barns c. being used for their Tipling Conventicles I mean good-fellowship Saints AMP. St. Thelian bred under Dubritius Bishop of Landaff was much envied for his Holiness by one of the Commanders of the Picts who harassed his Country That Bravo sent 2 lewd Strumpets supposing by their tempting tricks to entice this Holy Man These Women counterfieting madness whereby they might take the more liberty to themselves of filthy discourse returned distracted indeed not having understanding enough to relate the cause of their sad misfortunes which wrought so much on the Souldier that he received the Faith was Baptized and ever after had a great veneration for this our Saint who afterwards accompanied Sir Dav. Bishop of Menevia to Jerusalem and returning into his own Country by his fervent Prayers freed the same from the Plague wherewith it was then much infested He dyed February 9. about 563. Note that this County abounding with Sheep was not a little beholding to Ludwal their Prince who King Edgar imposing on him a yearly Tribute the presenting him with 300 Wolves did free this County from Wolves MONTGOMERY-SHIRE MOntgomery-shire hath Cardigan and Radnor-shire on the South Shrop-shire on the East Denbigh-shire on the North and Merioneth-shire on the West in this County are many high Hills and many delightful fruitful Vallies Montgomery is the chief Town of the County of which there never was any Earl until the Reign of King James who created Philip Herbert second Son to Henry Earl of Pembrook Baron Herbert of Shurland and Earl of Montgomery There are excellent Horses bred in this County Proverbs I. Y Tair Chiwiorydd In English the 3 Sisters whereby are meant the 3 Rivers of Wye Severn and Rhiddial arising all 3 in this County The Tradition is that these 3 Sisters were to run a race which should be first Married to the Ocean Severn and Wye having a great Journey to go chose their way through soft Meadows and kept on a Travellers pace whilst Rhiddial presuming on her short Journey staid before she went out and then to recover her lost time runs furiously in a distracted manner with her mad stream over all opposition It is applyable to children of the same Parents but of different dispositions and courses of lives so that their Cradles were not so near but their Coffins are as far asunder II. Pywys Paradwys Cymry That is Powis is the Paradise of Wales This Proverb referreth to Teliessen the Author thereof at what time Powis contained all that pleasant Land lying betwixt Wye and Severn III. Gwan di Bawlyn Hafren Hafren fydd hifel cynt That is fix thy Pale with intent to fence out his water in Severn Severn will be as before applyable to such who undertake projects above their power to perform Writers George Herbert born at Montgomery-Castle was bred Fellow in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and Orator of the University where he made a Speech of the return of Prince Charles out of Spain Waving worldly preferment he served at Gods Altar So pious his Life that as he was a Copy of Primitive he might be a Pattern of Sanctity to Posterity He never mentioned the Name of Jesus but with this Addition my Master next God the Word he loved the Word of God being heard often to protest That he would not part with one leaf thereof for the whole World By his good Example he gained many to the Church He was Preacher at Bemmerton nigh Salisbury where he built a fair House for his Successor and Prebendary at Leighton founded in the Cathedral of Lincoln where he built a fair Church with the assistance of some Friends free Offerings When a Friend of his went about to comfort him with the remembrance thereof as a good work he returned it is a good work if sprinkled with the Blood of Christ He dyed 163. Whose Brother Edward Herbert Son to Sir Richard Herbert Esq and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Montgomery-Castle Knighted by King James who sent him over Ambassadour to France Afterwards King Charles I. created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron Cherbury in this County He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men. He wrote a Treatise of the Truth in French extant at this day with great Honour in the Pope's Vatican He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Julians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance both in England and Ireland He dyed in August 1648. and was buried in St. Giles in ths Fields London A fair Monument of his own invention was begun and almost finished in the Church of Montgomery Memorable Persons Hawis Gadarn a Lady of remark sole Daughter and Heir to Owen ap Gruffyth Prince of Powis Wenwinwin was justly Sirnamed Gadarn i. e. Hardy Her 4 Uncles Lhewelyn Jo. Griffith Vaughan and David detained her inheritance from her Give said they a Girl a little Gold and Marry her God and Nature made Land for men to manage Hereupon Hawis complained to King Edward 2. who commiserating her condition consigned his Servant John Charleton born at Apple in Shropshire a Vigorus Knight to Marry her creating him in her Right Baron of Powis Being assisted with the Kings Forces he took three of her Uncles Prisoners about 1320 brought the fourth to a Composition and finally recovered all his Wives Estate procuring also the Lands of her Uncles in default of their Issue Male to be setled on her Julines Herring was born at Flambere-Mayre 1582. His Ancestors for the space of almost 200 years had been in their course chief Officers of Coventry Julines was bred in Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge and became Preacher at Calk in Derby-shire Shrewsbury and Rendbury in Cheshire being one of a Pious Life but disaffected to Church Discipline he was prohibited his Preaching here and called over to Amsterdam where he continued Preacher to the English Congregation some years well respected and dyed 1644. MONMOUTH-SHIRE MOnmouth-shire may be called an English-Welsh County For whereas formerly all Welsh Counties sent but one Knight to Parliament this had the priviledge of two and it is not subject to the Welsh Jurisdiction but to the Governance of the itinerant Judges who ride Oxford Circuit As for Manufactures the best Caps were formerly made at Monmouth where the Cappers Chappel doth still remain The Statute of the 13th of Queen Elizabeth c. 19. Enacting that Caps should be worn by all persons was repealed an 39. Eliz. Princes Henry of Monmouth Son to King Henry 4. by Mary one of the Daughters and Heirs of Humfrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and whom he succeeded on the Throne being the fifth of that Name and began his Reign March 20. an 1413. Being extravagant in his Youth he had been by the King his Father expelled his Council substituting his younger Brother the Duke of
rather contented to Face then Fight one another Newbury II. Essex recruited from London gave the King Battle The Fight was as long and fierce as the former but the Victory more clear on the Parliaments side The Royalists at Night hung lighted Matches on the Hedges so to simulate their aboad thereabouts whilst they drew off securing their Cannon in Dunnington-Castle the Governour whereof Sir Jo. Bois did the King Knights Service and returned in as good Order as their Condition was capable of Many here lost their lives as if Newbury were so named by a sad Prolepsis fore-signifying that that Town should afford a New-burying-place to many slain in two Bloody Battles Bedfordshire BEdfordshire hath Northamptonshire on the North Huntington and Cambridgeshire on the East Hartfordshire on the South Bucking on the West Of an Oval Form from North to South about 22 Miles in length 15 in breadth The Soyl consisteth of a deep Clay and some Sand between Woburn and Potton affording Fair and Pleasant as the other part both of fruitful and profitable Places for Habitation Natural Commodities are Grain as Wheat and Barley Where Note that much of that which Originally grows here is carried to Hartfordshire and from thence to London where it carries credit for Hartfordshire Wheat c. Fullers-Earth at Woburn whence 't is called Woburn's earth of great use in Drapery wherefore the Transportation thereof is prohibited by Stat. Larks the most and best about Dunstable As for Manufactures the Inhabitants take a Writ of ease Buildings A Fair Chappel and Monument at Maldon erected by Th. E. of Elgin to the Memory of his Lady Diana Cecil Taddington Amphtil and Woburn carry away the credit amongst the Houses of Nobility in this County Wonders At Harold or Hareles-wood the River of Ouse An. 1399. parted asunder and became passible on foot for three Miles A sad Omen of the Wars be-between the two Houses of York and Lancashire Also there 's a Rivolet near Aspâ—lly that is of a Petrefying Nature converting Wood to Stone Proverbs I. As plain as Dunstable Road this Road being broad and beaten II. As Crooked as Crawley Brook being Meandrous III. The Baylif of Bedford is coming The River of Ouse running by is called Baylif of Bedford which swelling in the Winter and coming down on a suddain arresteth the Isle of Ely with an Inundation Princes Marg. Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Darby Great-great Grand-child to E. 3. and Mother to H. 7. and Allied to many Forrain Princes She may be Rank'd also under the Topic of Benefactors There is an Expression of her Humility and Charity That if the Christian Princes would agree to March with an Army for the Recovery of Palestine she would be their Laundress She founded the two fair Colledges of Christ and St. Johns in Camb. besides a Professor of Divinities Place This Lady too High for a mean Man to Commend is long since gone to the Great God to reward Saints Ainulph of Royal British Blood a Holy Hermit Ainulphs-bury a Town in the Confines of this and Huntingtonshire was erected in his Memory part whereof corruptly called Ainsbury is now extant under the Name St. Neots Martyrs Th. Chase an Ancient and Faithful Minister Hang'd at the Bishops Prison in Woburn His Executioners to palliate their Murder and asperse his Memory gave it out that he destroy'd himself A loud Lie seeing he was so loaden with Chains that he could not lift up his own Body His Death hap'ned in the Reign of King Hen. 7. An. Dom. 1506. Prelates Silvester Everton al. Eversden or Everseen From Everton a Village in this County Memorable for his preferment and very able to discharge the Lay-part thereof receiving the great Seal An. 29. H. 3. Was well versed in the Customs of Chancery The same year he was chosen Bishop of Carlile and consecrated the year following He with other Bishops made an Address to H. 3. boldly requiring that all Forreigners and Vnsufficient Persons might be put out of their Bishopricks to whom the King replyed And thou Sylvester of Carlile who so long Licking the Chancery was the little Clark of my Clergy-men it is sufficiently known unto all how I advanced thee to be a Bishop before many Reverend Persons and able Divines I find no Bishop born here since the Reformation Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Sir Jo. Cokeyn Knight Chief Bar. of the Exchequer in the Reign of H. 4. founded a Worshipful Family at and imparted his Surname to Cokeyn-Hatley in this County tho he was born in Derbyshire q. v. Edw. Wingate Esquire born here where his Family flourished at Hartington He was bred at Greys-Inn in the Study of the Common-Law whereof he wrote besides others a Book â—ntitled The Reason of the Common-Law and is lately deceased Writers Jo. Dunstable My Pen now fears Surfeiting for he was John of all Arts and therefore I refer you to his 2 Epitaphs on his Tomb in St. Stephen's Walbrook Lond. He dyed An. 1455. Since the Reformation Geo. Joy born in this County A great Friend to Mr. Tindal and therefore hated by Woolsey Fisher and Sir Th. Moor. The particulars of his Suffering if known would justly advance him into the reputation of a Confessor He Translated part of the Bible and wrote several Books He dyed and was buried in his Native Country An. ult E. 6. 1553. Fr. Dillingham bred a Fellow in Christs-Coll Camb. An Excellent Divine and Subtile Disputant was chosen to be one of the Translators of the Bible and being richly Beneficed at Wilden in this County dyed a single Man leaving a fair Estate to his Brother Mr. Th. Dill. chosen a Member of the Assembly tho he appeared not but remained Pastor of Dean the place of his Nativity Will. Sclater born at Layton-Buzard was Son to Anth. Sclater Minister thereof for 50 years together who lyed near 100 years of Age. Will. was bred in Eaton then in Kings Coll. of Camb. where he became after some years Doctor of Divinity Being afterwards Preacher in the West he incurred great Vexâ—tion and Danger but came off by God's goodness He was reconciled to the Ceremonies of the Church after he had Studied the Point with all Imaginable Exactness and drew others over by his Example He was Subject to the Stone which he called Flagellum Studiosorum Jo. Lord Pawlet preferred him to Limpsam living in Som. from thence for his Health he returned to Pitmister where he had formerly been Minister and there dyed An. Dom. 1627. and 50 th of his Age leaving behind him his Comment on the Rom. Thess a Treatise of Tithes or the Ministers Portion c. Benefactors Sir Will. Son to Will. Harper was born in Bedford but bred a Merchant-Taylor in London where he was chosen Lord Mayor He erected and endowed a Free-School in Bedford where he lyeth buried Hen. Grey Son to H. Grey was born at Wrest Rich. Grey 3 d. Earl of Kent of that Family wasted most
He looks as if he had lived on Tewksbury Mustard It is spoken of such who have a severe or sad Countenance V. The Tracies have always wind in their Faces Founded on a false Tradition since Sir Will. Tracy was most active against four Knights who killed Th. Becket it is imposed on Tracies for Miraculous Penance that whither they go by Land or Water the Wind is ever on their Faces Saints Kenelme Son of Kenwolfe King of Mercia at 7 years of Age succeeded his Father but was shortly after killed by Quenrid his Sister and that Murder was wonderfully discovered if the Legend be true by a Dove that carried in Parchment notice thereof to Rome As for Quenrid when her Eyes fell out they Bloodied her Primer whilst her Brothers Corps was Solemnly buried at Winchcomb and had in holy Veneration Martyrs Jo. Baynham Esquire a Lawyer and a true Lover of the Gospel was by Sir Th. Moores Order whipt at a Tree in Chelsey then cruelly Rackt in the Tower in his sight after which he abjured But Recanting his Recantation he was after much cruel usage Burnt in Smithfield Prelates Tideman de Winchcomb was made by R. 2. Abbot of Benle Bishop of Landaff then of Worcester He was also the Kings Physician having a Plurality of Cures both in Number and Kind Jo. Chedworth Bishop of Lincoln was joyned in Commission by King Hen. 6. with the Bishop of Winch. to Regulate the Statutes of Eaton and Kings Colledges in Camb. He dyed An. 1471. Jo. Carpenter born at Westbury was Bishop of Worcester He could not procure to himself the Title of Bishop of Worcester and Westbury He dyed 1475. Th. Ruthal born in Chichester was made by King Hen. 7. Bishop of Durham and by H. 8. Privy Councellour He was grossly mistaken when in stead of a Breviate of the State of England which he had drawn up he presented H. 8. with his own Estate amounting to an invidious Sum viz. of 100000 l. his Enemy Card. Woolsey glad at the mistake told the King he knew now where a Mass of Money was in case he needed it This broke Ruthal's Heart who had paid the third part of the cost of making the Bridge of New-Castle over Tyne and intended many more Benefactions had not Death 1523 on this occasion surprised him Since the Reformation Edw. Fox born in Duresley was Almoner to King Hen. 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 Managery of the Politick part thereof Of the many Books he wrote that De differentiâ utriusque Potestatis was his Master-piece He was employed on several Embassies into France and Germany and dyed An. 1538. States-men Sir Ralph Butler Knight of the Garter and Lord Sudeley in this County was Lord Treasurer of Engl. He built Sudley-Castle the strongest and best Habitation of a Subject in Engl. Being Summoned by E. 4. and suspecting imprisonment he said It is thou Sudeley and not I that am a Traytor And so resigned the same into the Kings hands to procure his Liberty Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Anth. Fitz Herbert Justice of the Com. Pleas V. Derb. Edw. Trotman born at Cam. wrote an Abridgement of Sir Edw. Coke's Reports his Endeavours being well esteemed by the Learned in that Profession He was buried in the Temple-Church 1643. Souldiers Sir Will. Tracy of Todington a Gent. of high Birth State and Stomach much in favour with King Hen. 2. was the forwardest of the four Knights who killed Thomas Becket He had large Possessions in Dev. His intended Pilgrimages to Jerus for Penance were ever crossed with advers Winds He dyed An. 1180. Seamen Will. Winter Knight and Vice-Adm of Engl. assaulted the Fort of French in the Island of Inchkeith in Edenburgh Frith An. 1559. He with Sir Th. Smith demanded the Restitution of Calis 1567. He conducted a great Treasurer of the Genoa Merchants safely into the Netherlands in despite of the French opposing him 1568. He with Rob. Beale was sent into Zealand to demand the Restitution of some English Ships 1576. He did signal Service when the Sp. Fleet was fallen towards the Coast of Zealand 1588. Lidney-house the Seat of the Family had produced many more Mariners happy in Sea-Voyages Writers Osbern Claudian of Glouc. where he was a Benedictine Monk a Learned and Facetious Man wrote a Comment on the Pentateuch and on the Incarnation Nativity c. of Christ besides his Pan-Ormia and others Rob. of Glou. where he was a Monk was a Rhymer but good Historian flourishing under Hen. 2. and King Jo. 1200. Alan Abbot of Teuxbury was intimate with Th. Becket after whose decease he with three other of Becket's Evangelists wrote the History of his Mock-passion and Miracles He flourished under King Jo. An. 1200. Alex. of Hales as he followed Pet. Lombard so he did lead Th. Aquinas and other Schoolmen He was the first that wrote a Comment on the Sentences called the Sum of Divinity at the Instance of Pope Innoc 4. For his Services he had the Title of Doctor Irrefragabilis He dyed An. Dom. 1245. and was buried in Paris Th. de la More well descended was famous in Peace and War and brought honour out of Scotland on his Swords point being Knighted by E. 4 for his Valiant and Fortunate Service therein He wrote the Manner of Deposition of E. 2. to whom he bore a most Loyal Affection and did the best Service he could on that Fatal occasion He flourished An. 1326. Th. of Hales a Minorite promoted the Fabulous point of Purgatory with other Popish Positions under E. 3. 1340. Th. Neale born at Yate and bred in Oxf. where he was Prof. of Hebrew dedicated his Translation of some Rabbins to Card. Pole He was a Man of fearful Nature yet constant to the Rom. Persuasion being Chaplain to Bishop Bonner Papists admire him for his rare Judgment and Protestants for his strange Invention in first â—eigning Math. Parkers Consecration at the Nags-head in Cheapside He lived in Oxf. 1576. Since the Reformation Rich. Tracy Esquire born at Todington was Son to Sir Will. the Confessor to whose Zeal he succeeded and wrote in the defence thereof several Treatises in English amongst which was Preparations to the Cross He wrote Prophetically before the Reign of Queen Mary Note that An. 1626. there was amongst others a Treatise called A Preparation to the Cross found in the Belly of a Cod which was sold at Camb. Of which these Verses were written If Fishes thus do bring us Books then we May hope to equal Bodleys Library Yet after that some found the Cross in Camb. Sir Th. Overbury Knight born at Borton on the Hill and bred in Oxf. hath given a Proof of his Accomplishments in Poetry and Prose He was the first Writer of Characters in Engl. so far as I have observed He lost the favour of the Earl of Som.
by dissuading him from keeping Company with a Lady Wife of another Person of Honour He was committed to the Tower for refusing to be imployed Ambassadour to Russia His strict Restraint encouraged his Enemies to Practise his Death which was by Poyson effected 1615. For which the Earl was banished the Court and others were executed Jo. Sprint bred in Oxf. and Minister of Thornbury became a Conformist of a great Dissenter and wrote his Cassander Anglicanus a Persuasive to Conformity dedicated to Arch-Deac Burton whose Arguments had prevailed much with him in the Laudable Change of his opinion He dyed about 30 years ago Jo. Workman born about Lasbury and bred in Oxf. and Preacher at Glouc. made a Counter-change to the former renouncing all Conformity by reason of some Super-Canonical Ceremonies that were pressed by some He was outed of his School for saying That the Papists painted the Blessed Virgin more like a Curtesan than a modest Maid and afterwards turn'd Physician He dyed 1636. Rich. Capel born in Glouc. and bred in Oxf. wrote a Pious Book of Temptations asserting all Temptations to be injected solely by our own Corruption Upon his refusing his assent to the Book of Sports on the Lords-day he resigned his Benefice He dyed An. Dom. 165 Benefactors to the Publick Kath. Clyvedon or Dame K. Berkley founded the fair School of Wootton-under-edge which remains after the extinguishment of the vast Donations of the Berkleys to Monasteries Sir Will. Hampton born at Minchen-Hampton was a Fish-monger and afterwards Lord Mayor of Lond. 1472. He was the first that set up Stocks in every Ward for the punishment of Vagabonds c. Since the Reformation Th. Bell twice Mayor of Glouc. was one of the first that brought the Trade of Capping into the City and was Knighted by H. 8. He bought from the Crown Blackfryers by the South-gate where he built his House and hard by it an Alms-house endowing it with Competent Revenues His Daughter and Heir brought a fair Estate into the Families of the Dennis He dyed in the beg of the Reign of Queen Eliz. Edw. Palmer Esquire Uncle to Sir Th. Overbury born at Limington in this County where his Ancestry have continued ever since the Conquest was a curious and diligent Antiquary He spent vast Sums of Money in pursuance of a design to erect an Academy in Palmers-Island in Virginia but before it was finished he was Transplanted to another World 1625. Hugh Pirry born in Wootton-under-edge Merchant and Sher. in Lond. 1632. derived Water to the Town of Wootton at his own cost and bequeathed 1000 l. for the building of an Alms-house there Of 4 Daughters the Eldest was Married to the Lord Fitz-Williams of Northam He dyed An. 163 Noted Sheriffs An. 9. Walt. de Stuchesly monarch E. 1 received the Kings Letters enjoyning him to take an account of the Number and Names of all Villages c. with the present Possessors of the County The Return whereof began thus Nulla est Civitas in Comitat. Glouc. c. There is no City in the County of Gloucester Gloucester having been since made an Episcopal See and City by H. 8. The like Returns were made through England 5. Th. Berkeley de Cobberley used E. 2. very civilly monarch E. 3. when Prisoner at Berkeley Castle one of the Seats of that Right Ancient Family who are descended from Rob. Fitz-Harding derived from the Kings of Denmark The Crosses in their Arms denote their Services in the Holy-war as the Mitre signifies their Benefactions Of this Family was descended Will. Lord Berkeley by King Hen. 4. made Visc Berkeley and by R. 2. Earl of Nott. and in the Right of his Wife Daughter of Th. Mowbray D. of Norf. Hen. 7. made him Marq. Berkeley and Marshal of Engl. He dyed without Issue At this Day there flourisheth many Noble Stems sprung thereof tho Geo. Lord Berkeley Bar. Berkeley Lord Mowbray Segrave Bruce be the Top Branch One who hath been so signally Bountiful in promoting these and all other my weak endeavours that I deserve to be Dumb if ever I forget to return him Publick thanks for the same 43. Jo. Points whose Ancestors are mentioned in Dooms-day-book and were Seated at Acton in the days of E. 2. when Sir Nich. Points Married the Daughter and Heir of Acton monarch H. 8. 6. Will Kingston Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and Captain of the Guard to King Hen. 8. being persuaded by Card. Woolsey to beware of Kingston he declined the Town Kingston in his way but he dyed within a few days after he had been brought out of the North by 4. Anth. Kingston the terrible Provost Marshal of the Kings Army in the Execution of the Western Rebels who also dyed as some say for fear of Death in his way to Lond. having been apprehended for a Conspiracy against Queen Mary and the Government Hantshire HAntshire hath Berkshire on the North Surrey and Suss on the East the Sea on the South Dorcet and Wiltshire on the West in length 54 and in breadth 30 Miles It affords the best Wood for Fuel the clearest Rivolets and a fair and fruitful Soyl tho Stony in some places The South-West of the County is called the New Forrest made by Will the Conqueror where are Red Deer for the maintaining of which Towns were laid wast This County affords the best Honey in England on the Champain and the worst on the Heath The Hoggs here make the best Bacon being our English Westphalian As for Cloth there is much made in this County Of Buildings the Cathedral of Winchester yieldeth to none in England for Venerable Magnificence The Tombs made by Bishop Fox for the Dust of the Saxon Kings and Bishops of that See were Barbarously thrown down in the beginning of the Civil Wars As for Civil Structures Basing built by the Marq. of Winch. was the greatest of any Subjects House in England The Motto Love Loyalty written in the Windows was much practised in it when for Resistance on that account it was lately levelled to the Ground There is a wonderful Oak said to be in this County that puts forth green Leaves yearly on or about Christmas-day It groweth nigh Lidhurst in the New-Forrest Proverbs I. Manners make a Man quoth Will. Wickham II. Canterbury is the higher Rack but Winchester is the better Manger W. Edington Bishop of Winch. the Author gave this for a reason of his refusal of the See of Cant. III. The Isle of Wight hath no Monks Lawyers nor Foxes viz. in Proportion to places of the like extent Princes Hen. Eldest Son of King Jo. born at Winchester An. 1208. was a Pious but Poor King He was at first postponed to King Lewis of Fr. and afterwards embroyled with the Barons Wars and imprisoned yet at last he attained a comfortable old Age by the means of his Son Prince Edward He would be governed by those he knew to be wiser than himself the main cause of his Peaceable Death and Pompous