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
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
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
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
Felton B. of Ely his Father in Law was a Limner the best of our Age employed into Italy to purchase Pictures for E. of Arundel Returning by Marseilles and his money failing him he used to walk a long time with a swift pace on the Exchange there every Morning and Evening A civil Monsieur observing him told him That if Will. would convert his Reciprocal into a Progressive Motion directed to his own Country he would provide him a light Habit and competent Money for a Footman To which Proposal consenting he footed it through France being more than 500 English Miles and returned safely into England Where he was generally employed to make the Initial Letters in the Patents of Peers c. He was an Excellent Herauld by the Title of and which was the Crown of all a very Honest Man Exemplary his Patience in Sickness tho a Complication of Diseases seized on him He dyed at the Herauld Office 1649. Noted Sheriffs monarch H. 8. Th. Eliot Mil. born some say in Suff. had his Habitation in this County being well skilled in Greek and Latine he was the Author among other excellent Books of Defensorium Bonarum Mulierum or the defence of good Women an excellent Latine and English Dictionary the Stock on which B. Cooper grafted his Dictionary He dyed 1546. and was buried at Carlton in this County Th. Cromwel Ar. made Baron of Okeham was Chancellour of the University Edward North Mil. skilled in the Law and an able Manager of Publick Affairs was employed in the Court of Augmentation Made by Queen Ma. Baron of Catlidge in this County A considerable Benefactor to Peter-house in Camb. where under his Picture there is this Distich Nobilis hic vere fuerat si Nobilis ullus Qui sibi principium Nobilitatis erat He was Father to Roger Lord North and Great-Grand-Father to Dudley Lord North now surviving monarch E. 6. Jo. Huddleston Mil. To whom Queen Mary came privately when Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen to Saltston and rid thence behind his Servant the better to disguise her self to Framlingham-Castle She afterwards made him her Privy-Councellor and among other Great Boones bestowed the bigger part of Cambridge-Castle then much ruined upon him with the Stones whereof he built a fair House in this County I behold his Family as Branched from the Huddlestons in Cumb. Jo. Cuts Mil. A most Bountiful House-Keeper monarch Q. El. to whose House Queen Eliz. whilst there was Peace with Spain consigned the Spanish Ambassador in the Sickness at London This Spaniard being first Scandalized at the Knights short Surname was afterwards very well satisfyed with his large Entertainment Where note that the Spanish Gentlemen have generally long names tho short Commons Hen Cromwell Mil. Son to Rich. Cromwell Esquire Sher. 32 H. 8. to whom his Valour and Activity so endeared him as he bestowed on him so much Abbey-land in this County as at this day is worth 20000 Pounds a year He was not allied tho acquainted with Th. Lord Cromwell the Mauler of Monasteries Cromwell the pretended protected Grand-Child to this Sheriff having on a certain occasion owned that that Lord was not related to his Family in the least degree Jervase Clifton Knight By King Ja. created Baron of Leighton had a fair Estate at Barrington in Som. whence he removed to Huntingtonshire on his match with the Sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Hen. Darcy of Leighton-bromswold Kath. sole Daughter to Jervase was married to Esme Steward D. of Lennox to whom she bare the truly Illustrious James D. of Richmond monarch K. Ja. Sim. Steward Knight lived after he was knighted a Fellow-Commoner in Trinity-hall The sixth in lineal descent from John Steward who married Talmach a Maid of Honour to Queen Joan and Swore allegience to H. 4. Cheshire CHeshire lyeth in form of an Axe having Lanc. on the North Darby and Staff on the East Shropshire on the South Denbigh Flintshire and the Irish Sea on the West the longest part 44 and the broadest 25 Miles The County was reputed a Palatinate before the Conquest and it is much to Lanc. in that honour being related to Che. as the copy to the original being Palatinated but by E. 3 Granting that the D. of Lanc. should have Regal Jurisdiction So fully and freely as the Earl of Chester And whereas Records are written in the Comon Law Contra Coronam Dignitatem Regis â—n this County they run thus Contra Dignitatem gladii Cestriae It aboundeth with all Necessaries for Mars life All the Rivers here either rise or through some Pool And of Lakes of this Cheshire abounds and therefore has great plenty of Carps Tenches Trouts Eels The Gentry are Remarable for their Numerousness Antiquity many of their Ancestors being fixed here before the Conquest their Loyalty and Hospitality One said pleasantly that it appears they are good House-keepers by the Wheaton-sheaves so frequently given in their Coats of Arms The Original whereof was in Conformity to Hugh Kivelios the fifth Earl who gave Az. 6. Garbs or Sheaves O. Natural Commodities are Salt Cheese whence some say is the Word Cheshire 9. Chees-shire Whereof the best of England is made here yet are not their Cows Housed in the Winter Milstones great and good in Mowcop-hill For Buildings Beestones-Castle situated on a steep Hill carried away the credit Erected by Raynulf the third Earl of Chester a beautiful structure levelled to the ground since the late Wars of which Leland Prophesies a Restauration As for Wonders it is said there is a Pool adjoyning to Brereton wherein great Logs of Timber are seen to swim for certain days together before the Death of any Heir of that House but I have heard this contradicted by the Right Honourable Lord Brereton now living who told me that lately some Persons concerned in the Event upon observation of the Critical time could not behold the prodigy and that the time of the motion of those Logs is as uncertain as the Original cause of loosness is Proverbs I. Cheshire chief of Men which Challenge the Men of Cornwall or Kent are ready to Answer But rather than any difference shall arise Wise-men will allow of many Chiefs Indeed the Cestrians have in all their Undertakings demeaned themselves Valiantly King Rich. II in dangerous times sent for 2000 of them to attend him and in time a suspicious Parl. the Number was doubled Pity it was their Valour was once wasted against themselves in the Terrible Battle beteen H. 4. and H. Piercy Sirnamed Hotspur Of which Drayton There Dutton Dutton kills a Done doth kill a Done One side fought for Mortimer who should be King by Right the other for H. 4. who was Actually so The Loyalty of the first side is not so much impeached by the Voice of Fame as it is disproved by Voice of the Law which Supposes Treason may be committed against one that is only a King de facto which Limitation was more Applicable to R. 3. than it
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
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
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