cause valiantly fighting in the battle of Teuxbury It is charity to enter this memorial of him the rather because he died without issue and his fair estate forfeited to King Edward the fourth was quickly scattered amongst many Courtiers but from his Cousin and Heire-general the Lauleys in Shropshire are lineally descended Henry VII 17 Sir JOHN SAINT JOHN Mil. There were three Sir John Saint Johns successively in the same family since their fixing in this County 1. The father this year Sheriffe being son to Sir Oliver Saint John by Margaret daughter and sole heir to Sir John Beauchamp This Margaret was afterwards married to John Duke of Somerset to whom she bare Margaret Mother to King Henry the seventh 2. The son Sheriffe in the seventh year of King Henry the eighth 3. The grand-child Sheriffe in the third of Edward the sixth and father to Oliver the first Lord Saint John This we insert to avoid confusion it being the general complaint of Heraulds that such Homonymie causeth many mistakes in pedigrees 22 WILLIAM GASCOIGNE Much wondering with my self how this Northem Name stragled into the South I consulted one of his Family and a good Antiquary by whom I was informed that this William was a Younger Brother of Gauthorpe house in York-shire and was settled at Cardinton nigh Bedford in this County by Marrying the Inheritrix thereof He was afterwards twice Sheriffe under King Henry the eighth Knighted and Controler of the House of Cardinall Woolsey A rough Gentleman preferring rather to profit then please his Master And although the Pride of that Prelate was sar above his Covetousnesse yet his Wisedome well knowing Thrift to be the Fuell of Magnificence would usually disgest advice from this his Servant when it plainly tended to his own Emolument The Name and which is worse the Essate is now quite extinct in this County Henry VIII 1 JOHN MORDANT Ar. He was extracted of a very Ancient parent in this County and married one of the Daughters and Heirs of Henry Vere of Addington in Northampton-shire whereby he received a great Inheritance being by Aged persons in those parts remembred by the name of John of the Woods Reader I was born under the shadow and felt the warmth of them so great a Master he was of Oaks and Timber in that County besides large possessions he had in Essex and elswhere King Henry the eight owning him deservedly for a very wise man created him Baron Mordant of Turvey 29 WILLIAM WINDSOR Mil. He was descended from Walter Fitz Otho Castle-keeper of Windsor in the time of King William the Conqueror and was by King Henry the eighth created Baron Windsor of Bradenham in Buckingham-shire Ancestor to the present Lord Windsor descended from him by an Heir-general so that Hickman is his Surname Eâ—…ward VI. 1 FRANCIS RUSSEL Mil. He was Son to John Lord Russel afterward Earl of Bedford Succeeding his Father in his honour so great was his Hospitality that Queen Elizabeth was wont to say pleasantly of him That he made all the beggars He founded a small School at Wobourne and dying in great age and honour was buried at Cheneys 1585. 5 OLIVER SAINT JOHN Ar. He was by Queen Elizabeth made Lord Saint John of Bletso in this County and left two sons who succeeded to his honour First John whose onely daughter Anne was married to William Lord Effingham and was mother to Elizabeth now Countess Dowager of Peterborough His second son was Oliver blessed with a numerous issue and Ancestor to the present Earl of Bullinbrook Queen Mary 1 WILLIAM DORMER Mil. He was son to Sir Robert Dormer Sheriffe the 14. of K. Henry the 8. by Jane Newdigate his wife which Lady was so zealous a Papâ—…st that after the death of Q. Mary she left the land and lived beyond the Seas This Sir William by Mary Sidney his wife had a daughter married to the Count of Feria when he came over hither with King Philip. This Count under pretence to visit his sick Lady remaining here did very earnestly move a match betwixt King Philip his Master and Queen Elizabeth which in fine took no effect He theâ—… also mediated for Jane Dormer his Grand-mother and some other fugitives that they might live beyond the Seas and receive their revenues out of England which favour the Queen though not fit to indulge whereat the Count was so incensed â—…hat he moved Pope Pius the fourth to excommunicate Her though his wife did with all might and maine oppose it Sheriffs of this County alone Name Place Armes REG. ELIZA   Anno   17 〈◊〉 Rotheram Es. Farly Vert 3 Roe bucks tripping Or a Baston Gul. 18 Ioh 〈◊〉 â—…ewelbury G. a Salter engrailed Arg. 19 Ge. Kenesham Es. Temsford  20 Ioh. Spencer Esq Cople  21 Nich. Luke Esq. Woodend Ar. a Bugle-horn S. 22 Hen. Butler Esq. BiddenhaÌ„ G. a Fess Choâ—…kee Ar. S. betw 6 Cross 〈◊〉 Ar. 23 Ioh. Tompson Es. Crawley  24 Ric. Conquest Es. Houghton Q. Ar. S. a Labelw th 3 points 25 Lodo. Dive Esq. Brumham Parte per Pale Ar. et G. a Fess Az. 26 Ioh. Rowe Esq Ric. Charnock Es. Holeot Ar. on a Bend S. 3 Crosses Croslet of the field 27 Oliv. St. John Es.  Ar. on a Chief G. 2 Mullets Or. 28 Ric. Charnock Es. ut prius  29 Will. Butler Esq. ut prius  30 Rad. Astry Esq. Westning Barrâ—…wavee of six Ar. Az. on a Chief G. 3 Bezants 31 Oliv. St. John Es. ut prius  32 Ge Rotheram Es. ut prius  33 Exp. Hoddeson Es. ut prius  34 Will. Duncombe Batlesden Party per Chev. countâ—…r Flore G. Arg. 3 Talbots-heads Erazed countercharged 35 Nich. Luke Esq. ut prius  36 Ioh. Dive Esq ut prius  37 Wil. Gostwick Es. WillingtoÌ„ Arg. a Bend G. cotized S. twixt 6 Câ—…rnish chaughes proper on a chief Or 3 Mullets vert 38 Ric. Conquest Es. ut prius  39 Tho. Cheney Esq. Sundon  40 Edr. Rateliffe Kt. Elstow Arg. a Bend engrailed S. 41 Wâ—…ll Butler Esq ut prius  42 Ioh. Crost Kt.   43 Ric Charnocks Es. ut prins  44 Geo. Francklyn Malvern  45 Ioh. Dive Kt. ut prius  JAC. REX   Anno   1 Ioh. Dive Kt. ut prius  2 Ioh. Leigh Esq.   3 Edr. Sands Kt. Eaton  4 Fran. Anderson E. Eworth Arg. a Cheveron twixt 3 Cross-Croslets S. 5 Tho. Snagge Kt. Marson  6 Edw Mordâ—…nt Es. Ockley Aâ—…a a Chev. 〈◊〉 3 Estoyles S. 7 Tho. Ancell Esq. Barford G. on a Saltier Or betw 4 Bezants a Malcel of the first 8 Fran Ventres Kt. Campton Azu a lutie beewaot 2 Bendswavy Arg. 9 Rob. Sandy Esq.   10 Wil. Beecher Esq. Hooberry  11 Ric. Sanders Esq. Marson Parte per Ch. Ar. S. 3 Elephants heads Erazed ceunterchanged 12 Edw. Duncombe ut prius  13 Will. Plomer
returned For your Masters sake I will stoop but not for the King of Spains This worthy Patriot departed this life in the seventy seventh year of his Age August the 4th 1598. Capitall Judges Sr. WILLIAM de SKIPVVITH was bred in the study of the Laws profiting so well therein that he was made in Trinity Terme Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the thirty fifth continuing therein untill the fortieth of the Reign of King Edward the third I meet not with any thing memorable of him in our English Histories except this may pass for a thing remarkable that at the importunity of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster this Sr. William condemned William Wichkam Bish. of Winchester of Crimes rather powerfully objected then plainly proved against him whereupon the Bishops Temporalls were taken from him and he denied access within twenty miles of the Kings Court. I confess there is a Village in the East riding of Yorkshire called SKIPWITH but I have no assurance of this Judge his Nativity therein though ready to remove him thither upon clearer information Sr. WILLIAM SKIPVVITH Junior He was inferior to the former in place whom I behold as a Puisne Judge but herein remarkable to all posterity That he would not complie neither for the importunity of King Richard the second nor the example of his fellow Judges in the 10th year of that Kings Reign to allow that the King by his own power might rescinde an Act of Parliament Solus inter impios mansit integer Gulielmus Skipwith * Miles Clarus ideo apud Posteros And * shined the brighter for living in the midst of a crooked Generation bowed with fear and favour into Corruption I know well that the Collar of S. S. S. or Esses worn about the necks of Judges and other persons of Honor is wreathed into that form whence it receiveth its name Chiefly from Sanctus Simon Simplicius an uncorrupted Judge in the Primitive Times May I move that every fourth link thereof when worn may mind them of this SKIPVVITH so upright in his judgment in a matter of the highest importance Having no certainty of his Nativity I place him in this County where his name at Ormesby hath flourished ever since his time in a very worshipfull equipage Sr. WILLIAM HUSEâ—… Knight was born as I have cause to believe in this County where his name and Familie flourish in a right worshipfull equipage He was bred in the study of our Municipall Law and attained to such eminencie therein that by King Edward the fourth in the one and twentieth of his Reign he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. King HENRY the seventh who in point of policy was onely directed by himself in point of Law was chiefly ruled by this Judge especially in this question of importance It hapned that in his first Parliament many Members thereof were returned who being formerly of this Kings partie were attainted and thereby not legal to sit in Parliament being disabled in the highest degree it being incongruous that they should make Laws for others who themselves were not Inlawed The King not a little troubled therewith remitted it as a case in Law to the Judges The Judges assembled in the Exchequer Chamber agreed all with Sr. VVilliam Husee their Speaker to the King upon this Grave and safe opinion mixed with Law and convenience that the Knights and Burgesses attainted by the course of Law should forbear to come into the House till a Law were passed for the reversall of their attainders which was done accordingly When at the same time it was incidently moved in their Consultation what should be done for the King himself who likewise was attainted the rest unanimously agreed with Sr. VVilliam Husee that the Crown takes away all defects and stops in blood and that by the Assumption thereof the fountain was cleared from all attainders and Corruptions He died in Trinity Term in the tenth year of King Henry the 7th Sr. EDMUND ANDERSON Knight was born a younger brother of a Gentile extract at Flixborough in this County and bred in the Inner Temple I have been informed that his Father left him 1000 l. for his portion which this our Sr. Edmund multiplyed into many by his great proficiency in the Common Law being made in the twenty fourth of Queen Elizabeth Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. When Secretary Davison was sentenced in the Star Chamber for the business of the Queen of Scots Judge Anderson said of him that therein he had done * justum non juste and so acquitting him of all malice censured him with the rest for his indiscretion When H. â—…uff was arraigned about the Rising of the Earl of Essex and when Sr. Edward Coke the Queens Solicitor opposed him and the other answered Syllogistically our Anderson sitting there as Judge of Law not Logick checked both Pleader and Prisoner ob stolidos Syllogismos for their foolish Syllogismes appointing the former to press the Statute of King Edward the third His stern countenance well became his place being a great promoter of the established Church-discipline and very severe against all Brownists when he met them in his Circuit He dyed in the third of King James leaving great Estates to several sons of whom I behold Sr. Francis Anderson of Euworth in Bedfordshire the eldest whose son Sr. John by a second Wife Audrey Butler Neece to the Duke of Buckingham and afterwards married to the Lord Dunsmore in VVarwickshire was according to some conditions in his Patent to succeed his Father in Law in that honour if surviving him This I thought fit to insert to vindicate his memory from oblâ—…vion who being an hopefull Gentleman my fellow Colleague in Sidney Colledge was taken away in the prime of his youth Souldiers Sr. FREDERICK TILNEY Knight had his chief Residence at Bostone in this County He was a man of mighty stature and strength above the Proportion of ordinary persons He attended King Richard the first Anno Dom. 1190. to the Seidge of Acon in the Holy Land where his Atcheivements were such that he struk terror into the Infidels Returning home in safety he lived and died at Terington nigh Tilney in Norfolk where the measure of his incredible stature was for many 〈◊〉 preserved Sixteen Knights flourished from him successively in the Male line till at last their Heir generall being married to the Duke of Norfolk put a period to the Lustre of that ancient family PEREGRINE BERTY Lord Willoughby Son of Richard Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk Reader I crave a dispensation that I may with thy good leave trespass on the Premised Laws of this Book his name speaking his foraign Nativity born nigh Hidleberg in the Palatinate Indeed I am loath to omit so worthy a Person Our Histories fully report his valiant Atcheivements in France and the Netherlands and how at last he was made Governour of
laid to his charge He was buried in Leonard Shorditch where this remains of his Epitaph Orate pro Animabus Humphredi Starkey Militis nuper Capitalis Baronis de Scaccario Domini Regis Henrici septimi Isabellae Uxoris ejus omnium amicorum suoâ—…um c. The date of his death defaced on his Tombe appeareth elsewhere to be at the end of K. Henry the seventh so that his on the Bench was parallel with his Soveraigns sitting on the Throne begun in the first and ended in the last of his raign Sir HENRY BRADSHAW Knight This Surname being diffused in Darbyshire and Lancashire aswell as in this County his Nativity advantaged by the Alphabet first come first served is fixed herein He became so noted for his skill in our Common Law that in the sixth of K. Edward the sixth in Hillary terme he was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer demeaning himself therein to his great commendation Pity it is that Demetrius who is well reported of all* men should suffer for his name sake Demetrius the Silver Smith who made the Shrines for Diana and raised persecution against Saint Paul And as unjust it is that this good Judge of whom nothing ill is reported should fare the worse for one of the same Surname of Execrable Memory of whom nothing good is remembred I have cause to conceive that this Judge was outed of his place for Protestant inclination 1. Mariae finding no more mention of him Sir RANDAL CREW was born in this County bred in the study of our Municipal Law wherein such his proficiency that after some steps in his way thereunto in the 22. of K. James he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench and therein served two Kings though scarce two years in his Office with great integrity King Charles his occasions calling for speedy supplies of Money some Great-Ones adjudged it unsafe to adventure on a Parliament for fear in those distempered Times the Physick would side with the Disease and put the King to furnish his necessities by way of Loan Sir Randal being demanded his Judgement of that Design and the Consequence thereof the imprisoning of Râ—…usants to pay it openly manifested his dislike of such Preter-legal Courses and thereupon November 9. 1626. was commanded to forbear his sitting in the Court and the next day was by Writ discharged from his Office whereat he discovered no more Discontentment then the weary Travailer is offended when told that he is arrived at his journies end The Country hath constantly a Smile for him for whom the Court hath a Frown this Knight was out of Office not out of Honour living long after at his house in Westminster much praised for his Hospitality Indeed he may the better put off his Gown though before he goeth to bed who hath a warm Suit under it and this learned Judge by Gods blessing on his endeavours had purchased a fair Estate and particularly Crew-hall in Cheshire for some ages formerly the possession of the Falshursts but which probably was the Inheritance of his Ancestors Nor must it be forgotten that Sir Randal first brought the Model of excellent Building into these remorter parts yea brought London into Cheshire in the Loftiness Sightliness and Pleasantness of their Stuctures One word of his Lady a virtuous wife being very essential to the integrity of a Married Judge lest what Westminster-hall doth conclude Westminster Bed-chamber doth revoke He married Julian Daughter and Co-heir of John Clipsby of Clipsby in Northfolk Esq. with whom he had a fair Inheritance She died at Que in Surry 1623. and lieth buried in the Chancell of Richmond with this Epitaph Antiquâ fuit orta Domo pia vixit inivit Virgo pudica thorum sponsa pudica polum I saw this worthy Judge in health 1642. but he survived not long after and be it remembred he had a Younger Brother Sir Thomas Crew a most honest and learned Serâ—…eant in the same Profession Whose Son John Crew Esquire of his Majesties Privy-Councel having been so instrumental to the happy change in our Nation is in Generall report which no doubt will be effected before these my paines be publick designed for some Title of Honour Sir HUMFREY DAVENPORT His Surname is sufficient to intitle this County unto him but I will not be peremtory till better information He was bred in the Temple had the reputation of a Studied Lawyer and upright person qualities which commended him to be chosen Chief Baron of the Exchequer How he behaved himself in the case of the Ship-money is fresh in many mens memories The Reader cannot be more angry with me then I am grieved in my self that for want of intelligence I cannot doe the right which I would and ought to this worthy Judges Memory who died about the beginning of our Civil distempers Souldiers Sir HUGH CALVELY born at Calvely in this County Tradition makes him a man of Teeth and Hands who would Feed as much as two and Fight as much as ten men his quick and strong Appetite could disgest any thing but an Injury so that killing a man is reported the cause of his quitting this County making hence for London then for France Here he became a most eminent Souldier answering the Character our great Antiquary hath given him Arte militari ita in Galliâ incâ—…ruit ut vivide ejus virtuti nihil fuit impervium I find five of his principall Aâ—…hievements 1. When he was one of the thirty English in France who in a duel encountred as many Britans 2. When in the last of King Edward the third being Governour of Calice he looked on his hands being tyed behind him by a Truce yet in force for a Month and saw the English slain before his eyes whose bloud he soon after revenged 3. When in the first of King Richard the second after an unfortunate voyage of our English Nobility beaten home with a Tempest he took Bark bulloigne and five and twenty other French-ships besides the Castle of Mark lately lost by negligence which he recovered 4. When in the next year he spoiled Estaples at a Fair-time bringing thence so much Plunder as enriched the Calicians for many years after 5. When he married the Queen of Aragon which is most certain her Armes being quartered on his Tomb though I cannot satisfy the Reader in the Particularities thereof The certain date of his death is unknown which by proportion may be collected about the year 1388. After which time no mention of him and it was as impossible for such a spirit not to be as not to be active Sir ROBERT KNOWLES Knight was born of mean parentage in this County yet did not the weight of his low extraction depress the wings of his Martial mind who by his valour wrought his own advancement He was Another of the thirty English who for the honour of the Nation undertook to duel with as many Britons and came off
happened hath been shewn to some eminent Lawyers riding that Circuit which are yet alive However no violent impression is intimated in this his peaceable Epitaph on his Monument in Amerie Church Hic jacet Will. Hankford Miles quondam Capitalis Justiciarius Domini R. de Banco qui obiit duodecimo Die Decembris Anno Domini 1422. cujus c. His Figure is portraied kneeling and out of his mouth in a Label these two sentences do proceed 1 Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam 2 Beati qui custodiant judicium faciunt justitiam omni tempore No charitable Reader for one unadvised act will condemn his Memory who when living was habited with all requisites for a person of his place Sir JOHN FORTESCUE was born of a right Ancient and Worthy Family in this County first fixed at Wimpstone in this Shire but since prosperously planted in every part thereof They give for their Motto Forte Scutum Salus Ducum and it is observable that they attained eminency in what Profession soever they applyed themselves In the Field In Westminster Hall In the Court. Sir HEN FORTESCUE a valiant and fortunate Commander under King Henry the Fifth in the French Wars by whom he was made Governour of Meux in Berry Sir HEN. FORTESCUE was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and justly of great esteem for his many vertues especially for his sincerity in so tempting a place Sir JOHN FORTESCUE that wise Privy Councellor Overseer of Queen Elizabeth her Liberal Studies And Chancellor of the Exchequer and Dutchy of Lancaster Sir ADRIAN FORTESCUE Porter of the Town of Calice came over with King Henry the Seventh and effectually assisting him to regain the Crown was by him deservedly created Knight Banneret Sir JOHN FORTESCUE our present Subject Lord Chief Justice and Chancellour of England in the Raign of King Henry the Sixth whose learned Commentaries on the Law make him famous to all posterity  Sir LEWIS POLLARD of Kings Nimet in this County Sergeant of the Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the time of King Henry the Eighth was a man of singular knowledg and worth who by his Lady Elizabeth had Eleven Sons whereof four attained the honour of Knighthood Sir Hugh Sir John of Ford. Sir Richard Sir George who got his honour in the defence of Bullen All the rest especially John Arch Deacon of Sarum and Canon of Exeter were very well advanced Eleven Daughters married to the most potent Families in this County and most of them Knights So that what is said of Cork in Ireland that all the Inhabitants therein are Kinne by this Match almost all the Ancient Gentry in this County are allied The Portraiture of Sir Lewis and his Lady with their two and twenty Children are set up in a Glasse Window at Nimet-Bishop There is a Tradition continued in this Family that the Lady glassing the Window in her husbands absence at the term in London caused one child more then she then had to be set up presuming having had one and twenty already and usually conceiving at her husbands coming home she should have another child which inserted in expectance came to passe accordingly This memorable Knight died Anno 1540. Sir JOHN DODERIDG Knight was born at ...... in this County bred in Exeter Colledg in Oxford where he became so general a Scholar that it is hard to say whether he was better Artist Divine Civil or Common Lawyer though he fixed on the last for his publick Profession and became second Justice of the Kings Bench. His soul consisted of two Essentials Ability and Integrity holding the Scale of Justice with so steady an hand that neither love nor lucre fear or flattery could bow him on either side It was vehemently suspected that in his time some gave large sums of money to purchase places of Judicature And Sir John is famous for the expression That as old and infirm as he was he would go to Tyburn on foot to see such a man hang'd that should proffer money for a place of that nature For certainly those who buy such Offices by whole sale must sell Justice by retail to make themselves savers He was commonly called the Sleeping Judg because he would sit on the Bench with his eyes shut which was onely a posture of attention to sequester his sight from distracting objects the better to lissen to what was alledged and proved Though he had three Wives successively out of the respectful Families of Germin Bamfield and Culme yet he left no issue behind him He kept a Hospital House at Mount-Radford neer Exeter and dying Anno Domini 1628. the thirteenth day of September after he had been seventeen years a Judg in the seventy third year of his age was interred under a stately Tomb in our Ladys Chappel in Exeter To take my leave of the Devonian Lawyers they in this County seem innated with a Genius to study Law none in England Northfolk alone excepted affording so many Cornwal indeed hath a Famine but Devon-shire makes a Feast of such who by the practice thereof have raised great Estates Three Sergeants were all made at one Callâ—… Sergeant Glanvil the Elder Dew and Harris of whom it was commonly said though I can nor care not to appropriate it respectively One Gained as much as the other two Spent Gave One Town in this Shire Tavistock by name furnisheth the Bar at this present with a Constellation of Pleaders wherein the biggest Stars Sergeant Glanvil who shineth the brighter for being so long eclipsed and Sergeant Maynard the Bench seeming sick with long longing for his sitting thereon As it is the Honour of this County to breed such able Lawyers so is it its happinesse that they have most of their Clients from other Shires and the many Suits tried of this County proceed not so much from the Litigiousnesse as Populousnesse of her Inhabitants Souldiers Sir RICHARD GREENVIL Knight lived and was richly landed at Bediford in this County He was one of the Twelve Peers which accompanied Robert Fitz-Haimon in his expedition against the Welsh when he overthrew Rhese ap Theodore Prince of South-Wales and Justine Lord of Glamorgan and divided the conquered Countrey betwixt those his Assistants This Sir Richard in my apprehension appears somewhat like the Patriarch Abraham For he would have none make him rich but God alone though in his partage good land was at Neath Nidum a City in Antoninus in Glamorgan-shire allotted unto him Indeed Abraham gave the tenth to God in Melchisedeck and restored the rest to the King of Sodom the former proprietary thereof This Knight according to the Devotion of those darker dayes gave all to God erecting and endowing a Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Neath for Cistertians bestowing all his military Acquests on them for their maintenance so that this Convent was valued at 150 li. per. annum at the dissolution Thus having finished and setled this foundation he
Sir VVilliam was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Richard the Third He married one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Thomas Butler Earl of Ormond by whom besides four Daughters married into the Worshipful and Wealthy Families of Shelton Calthrop Clere and Sackvil he had Sir Tho. Boleyn Earle of VViltshire of whom hereafter 10. JOH PEACH Arm. This year Perkin VVarbeck landed at Sandwich in this County with a power of all Nations contemptible not in their number or courage but nature and fortune to be feared as well of Friends as Enemies as fitter to spoil a coast than recover a country Sheriff Peach knighted this year for his good service with the Kentish Gentry acquitted themselves so valiant and vigilant that Perkin shâ—…unk his horns back again into the shell of his ships About 150. of his men being taken and brought up by this Sheriff to London some were executed there the rest on the Sea Coasts of Kent and the neighbouring Counties for Sea-marks to teach Perkin's people to avoid such dangerous shoars Henry the Eighth 5 JOH NORTON Mil. He was one of the Captains who in the beginning of the Raign of King Henry the eight went over with the 1500. Archers under the conduct of Sir Edward Poynings to assist Margaret Dutchesse of Savoy Daughter to Maximillian the Emperour and Governesse of the Low-Countries against the incursions of the Duke of Guelders where this Sir John was knighted by Charles young Prince of Castile and afterwards Emperor He lieth buried in Milton Church having this written on his Monument Pray for the souls of Sir John Norton Knight and Dame Joane his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Norwood Esq who died Febr. 8. 1534. 7. THOMAS CHEYNEY Arm. He was afterward knighted by King Henry the Eighth and was a spriteful Gentleman living and dying in great honour and estimation a Favourite and Privy Counsellor to four successive Kings and Queens in the greatest â—…urn of times England ever beheld as by this his Epitaph in Minster Church in the Isle of Shepey will appear Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Cheyney inclitissimi ordinis Garterii Miles Guarduanus quinque Portuum ac Thesaurarius Hospitii Henrici octavi ac Edwardi sexti Regum Reginaeque Mariae ac Elizabethae ac eorum in secretis Consiliarius qui obiit mensis Decembris Anno Dom. M. D.L.IX ac Reg. Reginae Eliz. primo 11. JOHN WILTSHIRE Mil. He was Controller of the Town and Marches of Calis Anno 21. of King Henry the Seventh He founded a fair Chappel in the Parish of Stone wherein he lieth entombed with this Inscription Here lieth the bodies of Sir John Wiltshire Knight and of Dame Margaret his Wife which Sir John died 28. Decemb. 1526. And Margaret died of Bridget his sole Daughter and Heir was married to Sir Richard VVingfield Knight of the Garter of whom formerly in Cambridge-shire 12. JOHN ROPER Arm. All the memorial I find of him is this Inscription in the Church of Eltham Pray for the soul of Dame Margery Roper late VVife of John Roper Esquire Daughter and one of the Heirs of John Tattersall Esquire who died Febr. 2. 1518. Probably she got the addition of Dame being Wife but to an Esquire by some immediate Court-attendance on Katharine first Wife to King Henry the Eighth King James 3. MOILE FINCH Mil. This worthy Knight married Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas Heneage Vice Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth and Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster She in her Widowhood by the special favour of King James was honoured Vicounâ—…ess Maidston unprecedented save by One for this hundred years and afterwards by the great Grace of King Charles the First created Countesse of VVinchelsey both Honors being entailed on the Issue-male of her Body to which her Grand-Child the Right Honourable Heneage lately gone Embassador to Constantinople doth succeed The Farewell Having already insisted on the Courage of the Kentish-men and shown how in former Ages the leading of the Van-guard was intrusted unto their magnanimity we shall conclude our Description of this Shire praying that they may have an accession of Loyalty unto their Courage not that the Natives of Kent have acquitted themselves less Loyal than those of other Shires but seeing the one will not suffer them to be idle the other may guide them to expend their Ability for Gods glory the defence of his Majesty and maintenance of true Religion CANTERBURY CANTERBURY is a right ancient City and whilest the Saxon Hâ—…ptar chy flourished was the chief seat of the Kings of Kent Here Thomas Becket had his death Edward surnamed the Black Prince and King Henry the Fourth their Interment The Metropolitan Dignity first conferred by Gregory the Great on London was for the Honour of Augustine afterwards bestowed on this City It is much commended by William of Malmesbury for its pleasant scituation being surrounded with a fertile soil well wooded and commodiously watered by the River Stoure from whence it is said to have had its name Durwhern in British a swift River It is happy in the vicinity of the Sea which affordeth plenty of good Fish Buildings CHRIST CHURCH First dedicated and after 300. years intermission to Saint Thomas Becket restored to the honour of our Saviour is a stately structure being the performance of several successive Arch-Bishops It is much adorned with glasse Windows Here they will tell you of a foraign Embassador who proffered a vast price to transport the East Window of the Quire beyond the Seas Yet Artists who commend the Colours condemn the Figures therein as wherein proportion is not exactly observed According to the Maxime Pictures are the Books painted windows were in the time of Popery the Library of Lay men and after the Conquest grew in general use in England It is much suspected Aneyling of Glass which answereth to Dying in grain in Drapery especially of Yellow is lost in our age as to the perfection thereof Anciently Colours were so incorporated in Windows that both of them lasted and faded together Whereas our modern Painting being rather on than in the Glass is fixed so faintly that it often changeth and sometimes falleth away Now though some being only for the innocent White are equal enemies to the painting of Windows as Faces conceiving the one as great a Pander to superstition as the other to wantonnesse Yet others of as much zeal and more knowledge allow the Historical uses of them in Churches Proverbs Canterbury-Tales So Chaucer calleth his Book being a collection of several Tales pretended to be told by Pilgrims in their passage to the Shrine of Saint Thomas in Canterbury But since that time Canterbury-Tales are parallel to Fabulae Milestae which are Charactered Nec verae nec verisimiles meerly made to marre precious time and please fanciful people Such are the many miracles of Thomas Becket some helpful though but narrow as only for private conveniency
so the Cathedral dedicated unto him in this County challengeth the Precedency of all in England for a Majestick Western Front of Columel-work But alas This hath lately felt the misfortune of other Fabricks in this kind Yea as in a Gangrean one member is cut off to preserve the rest so I understand the Cloysters of this Cathedral were lately plucked down to repair the Body thereof and am heartily glad God in his mercy hath restored the onely remedy I mean its lands for the Cure thereof As for Civil Structures Holdenby-house lately carried away the credit built by Sir Christopher Hatton and accounted by him the last Monument of his Youth If Florence be said to be a City so fine that it ought not to be shown but on Holy-days Holdenby was a House which should not have been shown but on Christmas-day But alas Holedenby-house is taken away being the Embleme of human happiness both in the beauty and brittleness short flourishing and soon fading thereof Thus one demolishing Hammer can undoe more in a day then ten edifying Axes can advance in a Month. Next is Burleigh-house nigh Stamford built by William Lord Cecil Who so seriously compareth the late state of Holdenby and Burleigh will dispute wâ—…th himself whither the Offices of the Lord Chancellour or Treasurer of England be of greater Revenues seeing Holedenby may be said to show the Seal and Burleigh the Purse in their respective magnificence proportionable to the power and plenty of the two great Officers that built them Withorpe must not be forgot the least of Noble Houses and best of Lodges seeming but a dim reflection of Burleigh whence it is but a Mile distant It was built by Thomas Cecil Earl of Exeter to retire to as he pleasantly said out of the dust whilst his great House of Burleigh was a sweeping Castle Ashby the Noble Mansion of the Earl of Northampton succeeds most beautifull before a casual fire deformed part thereof But seeing fire is so furious a plunderer that it giveth whatsoever it taketh not away the condition of this house is not so much to be condoled as congratulated Besides these there be many others no County in England yeilding more Noble men no Noble men in England having fairer habitations And although the Freestone whereof they be built keepeth not so long the white innocence as Brick doth the blushing modesty thereof yet when the fresh luster is abated the full state thereof doth still remain The Wonders There is within the Demeasnes of Boughton the Barony of the Right Honorable Edward Lord Mountague a Spring which is conceived to turn wood into stone The truth is this the coldness of the water incrustateth wood or what else falleth into it on every side with a stony matter yet so that it doth not transubstantiate wood into stone For the wood remaineth entire within untill at last wholy consumed which giveth occasion to the former erroneous relation The like is reported of a Well in Candia with the same mistake that Quicquid incidit lapidescit But I have seen in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge a Skull brought thence which was candied over with stone within and without yet so as the bone remained intire in the middle as by a casual breach thereof did appear This Skull was sent for by King Charles and whilst I lived in the house by him safely again returned to the Colledge being a Prince as desirous in such cases to preserve others propriety as to satisfie his own curiosity Medicinal Waters Wellingborough-well Some may conceive it called Wellingborough from a sovereign Well therein anciently known afterwards obstructed with obscurity and re-discovered in our days But Master Camden doth marr their mart avouching the ancient name thereof Wedlingburough However thirty years since a water herein grew very famous insomuch that Queen Mary lay many weeks thereat What benefit her Majesty received by the Spring here I know not this I know that the Spring received benefit from her Majesty and the Town got credit and profit thereby But it seems all waters of this kind have though far from the Sea their ebbing and flowing I mean in esteem It was then full tide with Wellingburough-well which ever since hath abated and now I believe is at low water in its reputation Proverbs The Mayor of Northampton opens Oysters with his Dagger This Town being 80 miles from the Sea Sea fish may be presumed stale therein Yet have I heard that Oysters put up with care and carried in the cool were weekly brought fresh and good to Althrope the house of the Lord Spencer at equal distance Sweeter no doubt then those Oysters commonly carried over the Alpes well nigh 300. miles from Venice to Viena and there â—…eputed far fetch'd and deer bought daintes to great persons though sometimes very valiant their savour Nor is this a wonder seeing Plinny tell us that our English Oysters did Romanis culinis servire Serve the Kitchings of Rome Pickled as some suppose though others believe them preserved by an ingenious contrivance Epicures bear their brains in there bowels and some conceive them carried in their shells But seeing one of their own Emperours gave for his Motto Bonus odor hâ—…stis melior Civis occisi Good is the smell of an Enemy but better the smell of a Citizen of Rome killed I say unto such a Roman-Nose stinking may be better then sweet Oysters and to their Palates we 'll leave them He that must eat a buttered Fagot let him go to Northampton Because it is the dearest Town in England for fuel where no Coles can come by Water and little Wood doth grow on Land Camden saith of this County in general that it is Silvis nisi in ulteriori citeriori parte minùs laetus And if so when he wrote fifty years since surely it is less wooddy in our age What reformation of late hath been made in mens judgments and manners I know not sure I am that deformation hath been great in trees and timber who verily believe that the clearing of many dark places where formerly plenty of wood is all the new light this age produced Pity it is no better provision is made for the preservation of woods whose want will be soonest for our fire but will be saddest for our water when our naval walls shall be decayed Say not that want of wood will put posterity on witty inventions for that supply seeing he is neither pious nor prudent parent who spends his patrimony on design that the industry and ingenuity of his son may be quick'ned thereby Princes ELIZABETH daughter of Sir Richard Woodevill by the Lady Jaquet his wife formerly the relict of John Duke of Bedford was born at Grafton Honour in this County in proof whereof many stronge presumptions may be produced Sure I am if this Grafton saw her not first a child it beheld her first a Queen when married to King Edward the fourth This Elizabeth was widow to Sir John Grey who
fratri nostro defuncto impendit in futurum fideliter impendet dedimus Concedimus eidem Thomae heredibus suis Masculis quandam Annuitatem sive annualem reditum quadraginta libraram Habendum percipiendum annuatim eidem Thomae heredibus suis de-exitibus perficuis reventionibus Comitatus Palatini nostri Lancastriae in Com. Lanc. per manus Receptoris ibidem pro tempore existente ad Festum Sancti Michaelis Arch-angeli aliquo statuto actu sive Ordinatione in contrarium editis sive provisis in aliquo non Obstante In cujus rei testimonium has literas fieri fecimus Patentes Dat. apud Ebor. 2 do Aug. Anno regni 2 do A branch of these Talbots are removed into Lancashire and from those in Yorkshire Colonel Thomas Talbot is descended Edward IV. 10 HEN. VAVASOR Mil. It is observed of this family that they never married an Heir or buried their Wives The place of their habitation is called Hassell-wood from wood which there is not wanting though stone be far more plentifull there being a quarry within that Mannor out of which the stones were taken which built the Cathedrall and Saint Maries Abby in York the Monasteries of Holden-selby and Beverly with Thornton-colledge in Lincolnshire and many others So pleasant also the prospect of the said Hassel-wood that the Cathedralls of York and Lincoln being more then 60. miles asunder may thence be discovered Hâ—…nry VIII 2 RADULPHUS EURE Alias EVERS Mil. He was afterwards by the above named King Created a Baron and Lord Warden of the Marshes towards Scotland He gave frequent demonstration as our Chronicles do testify both of his Fidelity and Valour in receiving many smart Incursions from and returning as many deep Impressions on the Scots There is a Lord Evers at this day doubtless a Remoter Descendant from him but in what distance and degree it is to me unknown 5 WILLIAM PERCY Mil. I recommend the following Passage to the Readers choicest observation which I find in Camdens Brit. in Yorkshire More beneath hard by the River Rhidals side standeth Riton an antient Possession of the antient family of the Percy-hays commonly called Percys I will not be over confident but have just cause to believe this our Sheriffe was of that Family And if so he gave for his Armes Partie per fess Argent and Gules a Lion Rampant having Will. Percy-hay Sheriff in the last of Edw. the third for his Ancestor 23 NICHOLAS FAIRFAX Mil. They took their name of Fairfax à Pulchro Capillitio from the fair hair either bright in colour or comely for the plenty thereof their Motto in alusion to their Name is Fare fac say doe such the sympathy it seems betwixt their tongues and hearts This Sir Nicholas Fairfax mindeth me of his Name-sake and Kins-man Sir Nicholas Fairfax of Bullingbrooke Knight of the Rhodes in the raign of Edward the fourth Jacomo Bosio in his Italian History of Saint John of Jerusalem saith that Sir Nicholas Fairfax was sent out of Rhodes when it was in great distress to Candia for relief of Men and Provisions which he did so well perform as the Town held out for some time longer and he gives him this Character in his own Language Cavilero Nicholo Fairfax Inglich homo multo spiritoso è prudento Queen Mary 3 CHRISTOPHER METCALFE Mil. He attended on the Judges at York attended on with three hundred Horsemen all of his own name and kindred well mounted and suitably attired The Roman Fabii the most populous tribe in that City could hardly have made so fair an appearance in so much that Master Camden gives the Metcalfes this character Quae numerosissima totius Angliae familia his temporibus censetur Which at this time viz. Anno 1607. is counted the most numerous family of England Here I forbear the mentioning of another which perchance might vie numbers with them lest casually I minister matter of contest But this Sir Christopher is also memorable for stocking the river Yower in this County hard by his house with Crevishes which he brought out of the South where they thrive both in plenty and bigness For although Omnia non omnis terra nec unda feret All lands doe not bring Nor all waters every thing Yet most places are like trees which bear no fruit not because they are barren but are not grafted so that dumbe nature seemeth in some sort to make signes to Art for her assistance If some Gentleman in our parts will by way of ingenuous retaliation make proof to plant a Colonie of such Northern Fishes as we want in our Southern Rivers no doubt he would meet with suitable success Queen Elizabeth 4 GEORGE BOWES Mil. He had a great Estate in this County and greater in the Bishoprick of Durham A Man of Metall indeed and it had been never a whit the worse if the quickness thereof had been a little more allayed in him This was he who some seven years after viz. Anno 1569. was besieged by the Northern Rebells in Bernards Castle and streightned for Provision yielded the same on Condition they might depart with their Armour After the suppression of the Rebells their Execution was committed to his Care wherein he was severe unto Cruelty For many Well-meaning people were ingaged and others drawn in into that Rising who may truely be termed Loyall Traytors with those two hundred men who went after Absolon in their simplicity and knew not any thing solicited for the Queens service These Sir George hung up by scoars by the Office of his Marshallship and had hung more if Mr. Bernard Gilpin had not begged their lives by his importunate intercession 23 ROBERT STAPLETON Mil. He was descended from Sir Miles Stapleton one of the first founders of the Garter and Sheriâ—… in the 29. of Edward the third He met the Judges with sevenscore men in suitable liveries and was saith my Author in those days for a man well spoken properly seen in languages a comely and goodly personage had scant an equall except Sir Philip Sidney no superior in England He married one of the Co heirs of Sir Henry Sherington by whom he had a numerous posterity 42 FRANCIS CLIFFORD Ar. He afterwards succeeded his Brother George in his Honours and Earldome of Cumberland a worthy Gentleman made up of all Honorable accomplishments He was Father to Henry the fifth and last Earl of that Family whose sole Daughter and Heir was married to the right Honourable and well worthy of his Honour the then Lord Dungarvon since Earl of Cork 45 HENRY BELLASIS Mil. He was afterwards by King Charles Created Baron Fauconbridge of Yarum as since his Grandchild by his Eldest Son is made Vicount Fauconbridge John Bellasis Esquire his second Son who in the Garrison of Newarke and elsewhere hath given ample Testimony of his Valour and all Noble Qualities accomplishing a Person of Honour since is advanced to the dignity of a Baron
She was youngest Daughter and Child to Ralph Earl of Westmerland who had one and twenty and exceeded her Sisters in honour being married to Richard Duke of York She saw her Husband kill'd in battel George Duke of Clarence her second Son cruelly murdered Edward her eldest son cut off by his own intemperance in the prime of his years his two sons butchered by their Uncle Richard who himself not long after was slain at the bartel of Bosworth She was blessed with three Sons who lived to have issue each born in a several Kingdom Edward at Bourdeaux in France George at Dublin in Ireland Richard at Fotheringhay in England She saw her own reputation murdered publickly at Pâ—…uls-Cross by the procurement of her youngest son Richard taxing his eldest Brother for illegitimate She beheld her eldest Son Edward King of England and enriched with a numerous posterity  Yet our Chronicles do not charge her with elation in her good or dejection in her ill success an argument of an even and steady soul in all alterations Indeed she survived to see Elizabeth her grand child married to King Henry the seventh but little comfort accrued to her by that conjunction the party of the Yorkists were so depressed by him She lived five and thirty years a widow and died in the tenth year of King Henry the seventh 1495. and was buried by her Husband in the Quire of the Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay in Northampton-shire which Quire being demolished in the days of King Henry the eighth their bodies lay in the Church-yard without any Monument until Queen Elizabeth coming thither in Progress gave order that they should be interred in the Church and two Tombs to be erected over them Hereupon their bodies lapped in Lead were removed from their plain Graves and their Coffins opened The Duchess Cicely had about her neck hanging in a Silver Ribband a Pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Roman Hand was as fair and fresh to be read as if it had been written but yesterday But alas most mean are their Monuments made of Plaister wrought with a Trowell and no doubt there was much daubing therein the Queen paying for a Tomb proportionable to their Personages The best is the memory of this Cicely hath a better and more lasting Monument who was a bountiful Benefactress to Queens Colledge in Cambridge Saints BEDE And because some Nations measure the worth of the person by the length of the name take his addition Venerable He was born at Girwy now called Yarrow in this Bishoprick bred under Saint John of Beverly and afterwards a Monk in the Town of his Nativity He was the most general Scholar of that age Let a Sophister begin with his Axioms a Batchelor of Art proceed to his Metaphysicks a Master to his Mathematicks and a Divine conclude with his Controversies and Comments on Scripture and they shall find him better in all than any Christian Writer in that age in any of those Arts and Sciences He expounded almost all the Bible translated the Psalms and New Testament into English and lived a Comment on those Words of the * Apostle shining as a light in the world in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation He was no gadder abroad credible Authors avouching that he never went out of his Cell though both Cambridge and Rome pretend to his habitation Yet his Corps after his death which happened Anno 734. took a journey or rather were removed to Durham and there enshrined Confessors JOHN WICKLIFFE It is a great honour to this small County that it produced the last maintainer of Religion before the general decay thereof understand me Learned Bede and the firm restorer thereof I mean this Wickliff the subject of our present discourse True it is His Nativity cannot be demonstrated in this Bishoprick but if such a scientia media might be allowed to man which is beneath certainty and above conjecture such should I call our perswasion that Wickliff was born therein First all confess him a Northern man by extraction Secondly the Antiquary allows an ancient Family of the Wickliffs in this County whose Heir general by her match brought much wealth and honour to the Brakenburies of Celaby Thirdly there are at this day in these parts of the name and alliance who continue a just claim of their kindred unto him Now he was bred in Oxford some say in Baliol others more truly in Merton Colledge and afterwards published opinions distasteful to the Church of Rome writing no fewer than two hundred Volumns of all which largely in our Ecclesiastical History besides his translating of the whole Bible into English He suffered much persecution from the Popish Clergy Yet after long exile he by the favour of God and good Friends returned in safety and died in quietness at his living at Lutterworth in Leicestershire Anno 1387. the last of December whose bones were taken up and burnt 42. years after his death Disdain not Reader to learn something by my mistake I conceive that Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments had entred the Names of our English Martyrs and Confessors in his Kalender on that very day whereon they died Since I observe he observeth a Method of his own fancy concealing the reasons thereof to himself as on the perusing of his Catalogue will appear Thus VVickliff dying December the last is by him placed January the second probably out of a design to grace the new year with a good beginning though it had been more true and in my weak judgement as honourable for VVickliff to have brought up the rear of the old as to lead the front of the new year in his Kalender Prelates The Nevills We will begin with a Quaternion of Nevils presenting them in Parallels and giving them their Precedency before other Prelates some their Seniors in time because of their Honourable Extraction All four were born in this Bishoprick as I am informed by my worthy Friend Mr. Charles Nevil Vice-Provost of Kings in Cambridge one as knowing 〈◊〉 Universal Heraldry as in his own Colledge in our English Nobility as in his own Chamber in the ancient fair and far branched Family of the Nevils as in his own Study RALPH NEVIL was born at Raby in this Bishoprick was Lord Chancellour under King Henry the third none discharging that Office with greater integrity and more general commendation and Bishop of Chichester 1223. He built a fair House from the ground in Chancery Lane for himselfe and successors for an Inne where they might repose themselves when their occasions brought them up to London How this House was afterwards aliened and came into the possession of Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln from whom it is called Lincolns Inne at this day I know not Sure I am that Mr. Mountague late Bishop of Chichester intended to lay claim therunto in right of his see But alas he was likely to follow a cold scent
after so many years distance and a colder suit being to encounter a Corporation of Learned Lawyers so long in the peaceable possession thereof Bishop Nevil was afterwards canonically chosen by the Monks and confirmed hy King Henry the third Arch-bishop of Canterbury being so far from rejoycing thereat that he never gave any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or reward for their good news to the two Monks which brought him tidings nor would allow any thing toward the discharging their costly journey to Rome foreseeing perchance that the Pope would stop his Consecration For some informed his Holiness that this Ralph was a Prelate of High Birth haughty Stomach great Courtship gracious with the King and a person probable to disswade him from paying the Pension promised by his Father K. Iohn to the Court of Rome then no wonder if his Consecration was stopped theron But was it not both an honor happiness to our Nevil thus to be crost with the hands of his Holiness himself yea it seems that no Crosier save only that of Chichester would fit his hand being afterwards elected Bish. of Winchester then obstructed by the K. who formerly so highly favor'd him He built a Chappell without the east gate of Chichester dedicated to S. Michael and having merited much of his own Cathedral died at London 1244. ALEX. NEVIL third Son of Ralph Lord Nevil was born at Raby became first Canon then Arch-Bishop of York where he beautified and fortified the Castle of Cawood with many Turrets He was highly in Honour with King Richard the second as much in hatred with the party opposing him These designed to imprison him putting Prelates to death not yet in fashion in the Castle of Rochester had not our Alexander prevented them by his flight to Pope Urban to Rome who partly out of pity that he might have something for his support and more out of policy that York might be in his own disposal upon the removal of this Arch-Bishop translated him to Saint Andrews in Scotland and so dismissed him with his Benediction Wonder not that this Nevil was loth to go out of the Popes blessing into a cold Sun who could not accept this his new Arch Bishoprick in point of credit profit or safety 1. Credit For this his translation was a Post-Ferment seeing the Arch-Bishoprick of Saint Andrews was subjected in that age unto York 2. Profit The Revenues being far worse than those of York 3. Safety Scotland then bearing an Antipathy to all English and especially to the Nevils redoubted for their victorious valour in those northern parts and being in open hostility against them Indeed half a loaf is better than no bread but this his new translation was rather a stone than half a loaf not filling his Belly yet breaking his Teeth if feeding thereon This made him preferre the Pastorall Charge of a Parish Church in Lovaine before his Arch-noBishoprick where he died in the fifth year of his Exile and was buried there in the Convent of the Carmelites ROB. NEVIL sixth Son of Ralph first Earl of Westmerland by Joane his second VVife Daughter of Iohn of Gaunt bred in the University of Oxford and Provost of Beverly was preferred Bishop of Sarisbury in the sixth of King Henry the sixth 1427. During his continuance therein he was principal Founder of a Convent at Sunning in Berkshire anciently the Bishops See of that Diocess valued at the dissolution saith Bishop Godwin at 682 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob which I rather observe because the estimation thereof is omitted in my and I suspect all other Speeds Catalogue of Religious Houses From Sarisbury he was translated to Durham where he built a place called the Exchequer at the Castle gate and gave in allusion of his two Bishopricks which he successively enjoyed two Annulets innected in his Paternal Coat He died Anno Dom. 1457. GEO. NEVIL fourth Son of Rich. Nevil Earl of Salisbury was born at Midleham in this Bishoprick bred in Baliol Colledge in Oxford consecrated Bishop of Exeter when he was not as yet twenty years of age so that in the race not of age but youth he clearly beat Tho. Arundel who at twenty two was made Bishop of Ely Some say this was contrary not only to the Canon Law but Canonical Scripture S. Paul forbidding such a Neophyte or Novice admission into that Office as if because Rich. the make-King Earl of Warwick was in a manner above Law this his Brother also must be above Canons His Friends do plead that Nobility and Ability supplyed age in him seeing five years after at 25. he was made Lord Chancellor of England and discharged it to his great commendation He was afterwards made Arch-bishop of York famous for the prodigious Feast at his Installing wherein besides Flesh Fish and Fowle so many strange Dishes of Gellies And yet amongst all this service I meet not with these two But the inverted Proverb found truth in him One GluttonMeal makes many hungry ones for some years after falling into the displeasure of King Edward the fourth he was flenderly dyetted not to say famished in the Castle of Calis and being at last restored by the Intercession of his Friends died heart-broken at Blyth and was buried in the Cathedral of York 1476. Besides these there was another Nevil Brother to Alexander aforesaid chosen Bishop of Ely but death or some other intervening accident hindered his Consecration Since the Reformation ROBERT HORN was born in this Bishoprick bred in Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge Going thence under the raign of King Edward the sixth he was advanced Dean of Durham In the Marian days he fled into Germany and fixing at Frankford became the head of the Episcopal party as in my Ecclesiastical History at large doth appear Returning into England he was made Bishop of VVinchester Feb. 16. 1560. A worthy man but constantly ground betwixt two opposite parties Papists and Sectaries Both of these in their Pamphlets sported with his name as hard in Nature and crooked in Conditions not being pleased to take notice how Horn in Scripture importeth Power Preferment and Safety both twitted his person as dwarfish and deformed to which I can say nothing none alive remembring him save that such taunts though commonly called ad Hominem are indeed ad Deum and though shot at Man does glance at Him who made us and not we our selves Besides it shews their malice runs low for might though high for spight who carp at the Case when they cannot find fault with the Jewel For my part I mind not the Mould wherein but the Metal whereof he was made and lissen to Mr. Cambden his Character of him Valido foecundo ingenio of a sprightful and fruitful wit He died in Southwark June 1. 1589. and lyeth buried in his own Cathedral near to the Pulpit And now Reader I crave leave to present thee with the Character of one who I confess falls not under my Pen
Comment on the Pentateuch Dialogue-wise as also on the Incarnation Nativity Passion and Resurrection of our Saviour He wrote also a Book called Pan-Ormia dedicating the same to Hamelin Abbot of Gloucester The Title of this Book minds me of a pretty passage in Tully At a publick Plea in Rome Sisenna an Orator who defended his Client affirmed that the crimes laid to his charge were but Crimina Sputatilica To whom Rufius the Orator who managed the accusation rejoyned that he feared some treachery in so hard a word quid Sputa sit scio quid Tilica nescio But I am at a worse loss in this uncouth word though knowing both the parts thereof I know what Pan is All what Ormia is a Line or Hook but of what subject Pan-Ormia should treat is to me unknown But well fare the heart of J. Bale who I believe out of Leland rendreth it a Dictionary or Vocabulary â—…ooking all words it seems within the compass thereof This Osbern flourished under King Stephen Anno 1140. ROBERT of GLOUCESTER so called because a Monk thereof He is omitted whereat I wonder both by Bale and Pits except disguised under another Name and what I cannot conjecture they speak truly who term him a Rhimer whilest such speak courteously who call him a Poet. Indeed such his Language that he is dumb in effect to the Readers of our age without an Interpreter and such a one will hardly be procured Antiquaries amongst whom Mr. Selden more value him for his History than Poetry his lines being neither strong nor smooth but sometimes sharp as may appear by this Tetrastick closing with a pinch at the panch of the Monkâ—… which coming from the Pen of a Monk is the more remarkable In the Citie of Bangor a great Hous tho was And ther vndyr vij Cellens and ther of ther Nas That C.C.C. Moncks hadde othur mo And alle by hure travayle lyvede loke now if they do so He flourished some Four hundred years since under King Henry the second and may be presumed to have continued till the beginning of King John 1200. ALAN of TEUXBURY probably born in this Country though bred at Canterbury where he became first a Monk of Saint Saviours and afterwards Prior thereof Very intimate he was with Thomas Becket having some reputation for his Learning In his old age it seems he was sent back with honour into his Native Country and for certain was made Abbot of Teuxbury when Stephen Langton so much endeavoured and at last accomplished the canonizing of Thomas Becket Four Authors were employed Becket his Evangelists to write the History of his Mock-passion and Miracles And our Allan made up the Quaternion He flourished under King John Anno 1200. ALEXANDER of HALES was bred up in the famous Monastery of Hales founded by Richard King of the Romans After his living some time at Oxford he went over to Paris it being fashionable for the Clergy in that as for the Gentry in our age to travail into France that Clerk being accounted but half learned who had not studied some time in a Forraign University But let Paris know that generally our English men brought with them more Learning thither and lent it there than they borrowed thence As for this our Alexander as he had the name of that great Conqueror of the world so was he a grand Captain and Commander in his kind For as he did follow Peter Lombard so he did lead Thomas Aquinas and all the rest of the Schoole-men He was the first that wrote a Comment on the Sentences in a great Volumn called the Summe of Divinity at the instance of Pope Innocent the fourth to whom he dedicated the same for this and other of his good services to the Church of Rome he received the splendid Title of Doctor Irrefragabilis He died Anno Dom. 1245. and was buried in the Franciscan Church in Paris THOMAS de la MORE was saith my Author born of a Knightly Family Patria Gloucestrencis a Gloucester-shire-man by his Country For which his observation I heartily thank him who otherwise had been at an utter losse for his Nativity He thus further commendeth him Pacis Armorum vir artibus undique clarus A man whose fame extended far For Arts in Peace and Feats in War Indeed he was no Carpet Knight as who brought his honour with him out of Scotland on his swords point being knighted by King Edward the first for his no less fortunate than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therein Nor less was his fidelity to his Son Edward the second though unable to help him against his numerous enemies But though he could not keep him from being deposed he did him the service â—…aithfully to write the manner of his deposition being a most rare Manuscript extant in Oxford Library This worthy Knight flourished Anno Dom. 1326. THOMAS of HALES came just an hundred years after Alexander of Hales in time but more than a thousand degrees behind him in ability and yet following his Foot steps at distance First they were born both in this County bred Minorites in Hales Mona stery whence for a time they went to Oxford thence to Paris where they both proceeded Doctors of Divinity and applyed themselves to Contravertial Studies till this Thomas finding himself not so 〈◊〉 for that Imployment fell to the promoting positive or rather fabulous poynts of Popery for the maintainance of Purgatory He flourished under King Edward the third Anno Dom. 1340. THOMAS NEALE was born at Yate in this County bred first in Winchester then New Colledge in Oxford where he became a great Grecian Hebritian and publick Professor of the later in the University He translated some Rabins into Latine and dedicated them to Cardinâ—…l Pole He is charactered a man Naturae mirum in modum timâ—…dae Of a very fearful nature yet always continuing constant to the Roman perswasion He was Chaplain but not Domestick as not mentioned by Mr. Fox to Bishop Bonner and resided in Oxford In the first of Queen Elizabeth fearing his Professors place would quit him for prevention he quitted it and built himself an House over against Hart hall retaining the name of Neals House many years after Papists admire him for his rare judgement and Protestants for his strange invention in first 〈◊〉 the improbable lye of Parkerâ—…is â—…is Consecration at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 since so substantially confuted He was living in Oxford 1576. but when and where here oâ—… beyond the Seas he died is to me unknown Since the Reformation RICHARD TRACY Esquire â—…orn at Todington in this County was Son to Sir William Tracy Confessor of whom before He succeeded to his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the defence whereof he wrote several Treatises in the English tongue and 〈◊〉 moâ—…markable which is entituled 〈◊〉 to the Crosse. This he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having suffered much himself in his Estate for his 〈◊〉 reputed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also he wrote prophetically Anno
preferred rather to be Adrian the fourth then Nicholas the third He held his place four years eight moneths and eight and twenty dayes and Anno 1158. as he was drinking was choakt with a Fly Which in the large Territory of St. Peters patrimony had no place but his Throat to get into But since a Flye stopt his Breath fear shall stop my Mouth not to make uncharitable Conclusions from such Casualties Cardinal BOSO confessed by all an English-man is not placed in this County out of any certainty but of pure Charity not knowing where elswhere with any Probability to dispose him But seeing he was Nephew to the late named Nicholas or Pope Adrian we have some shadow and pretence to make him of the same County This is sure his Unckle made him Cardinal in the Moneth of December 1155. and he was a great Change-Church in Rome being successively 1. Cardinal Deacon of Sts. Cosma Damiam 2. Cardinal Priest of St. Crosses of Jerusalem 3. Cardin. Pr. of St. Prudentiana 4. Cardin. Pr. of Pastor He was more than Instrumental in making Alexander the third Pope with the suffrages of 19. Cardinals who at last clearly carried it against his Anti-Pope Victor the fourth This Boso dyed Anno Dom. 1180. Prelates RICHARD de WARE for this is his true name as appears in his Epitaph though some pretending his honour but prejudicing the Truth thereby sirname him Warren He was made Abbot of Westminster 1260 and twenty years after Treasurer of England under King Edward the first This Richard going to Rome brought thence certain Work-men and rich Purphury And for the rest hear my Author By whom and whereof he made the rare Pavement to be seen at Westminster before the Communion Table containing the Discourse of the whole World which is at this day most Beautiful a thing of that Singularity Curiousnesse and Rarenesse that England hath not the like again See Readers what an Enemy Ignorance is to Art How often have I trampled on that Pavement so far from admiring as not observing it And since upon serious Survey it will not in my Eyes answer this Character of Curiosity However I will not add malice to my Ignorance qualities which too often are Companions to disparage what I do not understand but I take it on the trust of others more skilful for a Master-peece of Art This Richard dyed on the second of December 1283 the 12. of King Edward the first and lyeth buryed under the foresaid Pavement RALPH BALDOCK So called from the Place of his Nativity A MoungrelMarket in this County was bred in Merton Colledge in Oxford One not unlearned and who wrote an History of England which Leland at London did once behold King Edward the first much prised and preferred him Bishop of London He gave two hundred pounds whilst living and left more when dead to repair the East part of St. Pauls on the same token that upon occasion of clearing the Foundation an incredible number of Heads of Oxen were found buried in the Ground alledged as an argument by some to prove That anciently a Temple of Diana Such who object that heads of Stagges had been more proper for her the Goddesse of the Game may first satisfie us Whether any Creatures ferae Naturae as which they could not certainly compass at all seasons were usually offered for Sacrifices This Ralph dyed July the 24. 1313. Being buryed under a Marble Stone in St. Maries Chappel in his Cathedral JOHN BARNET had his Name and Nativity from a Market-Town in this County sufficiently known by the Road passing thorough it He was first by the Pope preferred 1361. to be Bishop of Worcester and afterwards was translated to Bath and Wells Say not this was a Retrograde motion and Barnet degraded in point of profit by such a Removal For though Worcester is the better Bishoprick in our age in those dayes Bath and Wells before the Revenues thereof were reformed under King Edward the sixth was the richer preferment Hence he was translated to Ely and for 6. years was Lord Treasurer of England He dyed at Bishops Hatfield June 7. 1373. and was buried there on the South-fide of the high Altar under a Monument now miserably defaced by some Sacrilegious Executioner who hath beheaded the Statue lying thereon THOMAS RUDBURNE no doubt according to the fashion of those dayes took his Name from Rudburne a Village within four miles from St. Albans He was bred in Oxford and Proctor thereof Anno 1402. and Chancellour 1420. An excellent Scholar and skilful Mathematician of a meek and mild temper though at one time a little tart against the Wic-livites which procured him much love with great persons He was Warden of Merton Colledge in Oxford and built the Tower over the Colledge Gate He wrote a Chronicle of England and was preferred Bishop of St. Davids He flourished Anno Domini 1419. though the date of his Death be unknown Reader I cannot satisfie my self that any Bishop since the Reformation was a Native of this County and therefore proceed to another Subject Statesmen Sir EDVVARD WATERHOUSE Knight was born at Helmsted-bury in this County of an ancient and worshipful Family deriving their discent lineally from Sir Gilbert VVaterhouse of Kyrton in Low Lindsey in the County of Lincoln in the time of King Henry the third As for our Sir Edward his Parents were John Waterhouse Esquire a man of much fidelity and Sageness Auditor many years to King Henry the Eighth of whom he obtained after a great entertainment for him in his house the grant of a Weekly Market for the Town of Helmsted Margaret Turner of the ancient house of Blunts-Hall in Suffolk and Cannons in Hartfordshire The King at his Departure honoured the Children of the said John Waterhouse being brought before him with his praise and encouragement gave a Benjamins portion of Dignation to this Edward foretelling by his Royal Augury That he would be the Crown of them all and a man of great Honour and Wisdome fit for the Service of Princes It pleased God afterwards to second the word of the King so that the sprouts of his hopeful youth only pointed at the growth and greatness of his honourable age For being but twelve years old he went to Oxford where for some years he glistered in the Oratorick and Poëtick Sphear until he addicted himself to conversation and observance of State affairs wherein his great proficiency commended him to the favour of three principal patrons One was Walter Devereux Earl of Essex who made him his bosome-friend and the said Earl lying on his death-bed took his leave of him with many kisses Oh my Ned said he farewell thou art the faithfullest and friendliest Gentleman that ever I knew In testimony of his true affection to the dead Father in his living Son this Gentleman is thought to have penned that most judicious and elegant Epistle recorded in Holinsheds History pag.
1266. and presented it to the young Earl conjuring him by the cogent arguments of example and rule to patrizate His other Patron was Sir Henry Sidney so often Lord Deputy of Ireland whereby he became incorporated into the familiarity of his Son Sir Philip Sidney between whom and Sir Edward there was so great freindlinesse that they were never better pleased then when in one anothers Companies or when they corresponded each with other And we find after the Death of that worthy Knight that he was a close-concerned Mourner at his Obsequies as appeareth at large in the printed Representation of his Funeral Solemnity His third Patron was Sir John Perot Deputy also of Ireland who so valued his Counsel that in state-affairs he would do nothing without him So great his employment betwixt state and state that he crossed the seas Thirty seven times until deservedly at last he came into a Port of Honour wherein â—…he sundry years anchored and found safe harbour For he received the Honour of Knighthood was sworn of her Majesties Privy Council for Ireland and Chancellour of the Exchequer therein Now his grateful soul coursing about how to answer the Queens Favour laid it self wholly out in Her service wherein two of his actions most remarkable First he was highly instrumental in modelling the Kingdome of Ireland into shires as now they are shewing himself so great a Lover of the Politie under which he was born that he advanced the Compliance therewith as commendable and necessary in the Dominions annexed thereunto His second service was when many in that Kingdome shrowded themselves from the Laws under the Target of power making force their Tutelary Saint he set himself vigorously to suppress them And when many of the Privy Council terrified with the greatness of the Earl of Desmond durst not subscribe the Instrument wherein he was proclaimed Traitor Sir Edward among some others boldly signed the same disavâ—…wing his and all treasons against his Prince and Country and the Council did the like commanding the publication thereof As to his private sphear God blessed him being but a third Brother above his other Brethren Now though he had three Wives the first a Viliers the second a Spilman the third the Widow of Herlakenden of VVood-church in Kent Esquire and though he had so strong a Brain and Body yet he lived and dyed Childlesse entercommoning therein with many Worthies who are according to Aelius Spartianus either improlifick or have Children in genitorum vituperium famarum laesuram God thus denying him the pleasure of posterity he craved leave of the Queen to retire himself and fixed the Residue of his life at VVood-church in Kent living there in great honour and repute as one who had no designe to be popular and not prudent rich and not honest great and not good He dyed in the fifty sixth year of his age the 13. of October 1591. and is buried at VVood church under a Table Marble-Monument erected to his memory by his sorrowful Lady surviving him Reader I doubt not but thou art sensible of the alteration and improvement of my Language in this Character owing both my Intelligence and expressions unto Edward VVaterhouse now of Syon Colledge Esquire who to revive the memory of his Namesake and great Uncle furnished me with these instructions HENRY CARY Viscount of Falkland in Scotland and Son to Sir Edw. Cary was born at Aldnam in this County He was a most accomplished Gentleman and compleat Courtier By King James he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switcht nor spur'd merely because backt The rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in Subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard Speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his Age in a Knot flourished beneath his Name concealing the Day of his Birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the Month with his own Birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false Writings which were past but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future Being recalled into England he lived honourably in this County until he by a sad casualty brake his Leg on a Stand in Theobalds Park aud soon after dyed thereof He married the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Cheif Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair estate in Oxfordshire His Death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being Father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Grandfather to the present Henry Lord Falkland whose pregnant parts now clarified from Juvenile Extravagancies perform much and promise more useful service to this Nation Souldiers Sir HENRY CARY Son to Sir William Cary and Mary Bollen his Wife was where-ever born made by Queen Elizabeth Lord Chamberlain Baron of Hunsdon in this County A Valiant man and Lover of Men of their hands very cholerick but not malicious Once one Mr. Colt chanced to meet him coming from Hunsdon to London in the Equipage of a Lord of those dayes The Lord on some former grudge gave him a Boxe on the Ear Colt presently returned the principle with Interest and thereupon his Servants drawing their Swords swarmed about him You Rogues said the Lord may not I and my Neighbour change a blow but you must interpose Thus the Quarrel was begun and ended in the same minute It was merrily said that his Latine and his Dissimulation were both alike and that his custome in swearing and obscenity in speech made him seem a worse Christian than he was and a better Knight of the Carpet then he could be He might have been with the Queen whatsoever he would himself but would be no more then what he was preferring enough above a Feast in that nature He hung at Court on no mans Sleve but stood on his own Botome till the time of his death having a competent estate of his own given him by the Queen Who bestowed on him in the first of her Reign Hunsdon house in this County with four thousand pounds a year according to the valuation in that age in fair Demesnes Parks and Lands lying about it Yet this was rather Restitution than Liberality in her Majesty Seeing He had spent as great an estate left him by his father in her Service or rather Releif during her persecution under Queen Mary â—… This Lord suppressed the first Northern Commotion the sole reason why we have ranked him under the Title of Soldier for which This Letter of Thanks was solemnly returned unto him By the QUEEN Right Trusty and Wellbeloved Cousin We greet you well And right glad we are that it hath pleased God to assist you in this your late Service against that cankred subtil Traytor Leonard Dacres whose force being far greater in Number than yours we perceive you have overthrown and how he
interfectis eundem Regem captivavit ipsum potenter in Angliam ductum Patri suo praesentavit Henricum etiam intrusorem Hispaniae potentissime in bello devicit Petrum Hispaniae Regem dudum à regno suo expulsum potenti virtute in regnum-suum restituit Unde propter ingentem sibi probitatem actus ipsius triumphales memoratum Principem inter regales Regum memorias dignum duximus commendandum Thus have I not kill'd two Birds with one bolt but revived two mens memories with one Record presenting the Reader according to my promise with the Character of this Prinâ—… and Style of this Writer speaking him in my conjecture to have lived about the raign of King Richard the second Since the Reformation Sir THOMAS WIAT Knight commonly called the Elder to distingish him from Sir Thomas Wiat raiser of the Rebellion so all call it for it did not succeed in the raign of Queen Mary was born at Allyngton Castle in this County which afterwards he repaired with most beautiful buildings He was servant to King Henry the eight and fell as I have heard into his disfavour about the business of Queen Anna Bollen till by his innocence industry and discretion he extricated himself He was one of admirable ingenuity and truly answered his Anagram Wiat A Wit Cambden saith he was Eques auratus splendide doctus It is evidence enough of his Protestant Inclination because he translated Davids Psalms into English meter and though he be lost both to Bale and Pits in the Catalogue of Writers yet he is plentifully found by Leland giving him this large Commendation Bella suum merito jactet Florentiâ—… Dantem Regia Petrarchae carmina Roma probat His non inferior Patrio Sermone Viattus Eloquii secum qui decus omne tulit Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And Royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wiat both of them doth coast In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet This Knight being sent Embassador by King Henry the eight to Charles the fifth Emperour then residing in Spain before he took shipping died of the Pestilence in the West Country Anno 1541. LEONARD DIGGS Esquire was born in this County one of excellent Learning and deep judgement His mind most inclined him to Mathematicks and he was the best Architect in that age for all manner of buildings for conveniency pleasure state strength being excellent at fortifications Lest his learning should die with him for the publick profit he Printed his Tectonicon Prognostick general Stratiotick about the ordering of an Army and other works He flourished Anno Dom. 1556. and died I believe about the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth Nothing else have I to observe of his name save that hereditaâ—…y learning may seem to run in the veins of his family witnesse Sir Dudley Diggs of Chilham Castle in this County made Master of the Rolls 1636. whose abilities will not be forgotten whilest our age hath any remembrance This Knight had a younger son Fellow of All Souls in Oxford who in the beginning of our Civil Wars wrote so subtile and solid a Treatise of the difference betwixt King and Parliament that such Royalists who have since handled that Controversie have written plura non plus yea aliter rather than alia of that subject THOMAS CHARNOCK was born in the Isle of Thanet in this County as by his own words doth appear He discovereth in himself a modest Pride modest stiling himself and truly enough the uNLETTERED SCHOLAR Pride thus immoderately boasting of his Book discovering the mysteries of the Philosophers Stone For satisfying the minds of the Students in this Art Then thou art worthy as many Books as will lie in a Cart. However herein he is to be commended that he ingeniously confesseth the Persons viz. William Byrd Prior of Bath and Sir James a Priest of Sarisbury who imparted their skill unto him This Charnock in the pursuance of the said Stone which so many do touch few catch and none keep met with two very sad disasters One on New-years day the omen worse than the accident Anno 1555. when his work unhappily fell on fire The other three years after when a Gentleman long owing him a grudge paid him to purpose and pressed him a Souldier for the relieving of Calice Whence we observe two things first that this Charnock was no man of estate seeing seldom if ever a Subsidy man is pressed for a Souldier Secondly that though he practised Surgery yet he was not free of that Society who by the Statute 32 Hen. 8. are exempted from bearing armour But the spight of the spight was that this was done within a Month according to his own computation which none con confute of the time wherein certainly he had been made master of so great a treasure Such miscarriages frequent in this kind the friends of this Art impute to the envy of evil spirits maligning mankind so much happinesse the foes thereof conceive that Chymists pretend yea sometimes cause such casualties to save their credits thereby He was fifty years old Anno 1574. and the time of his death is unknown FRANCIS THINNE was born in this County and from his infancy had an ingenuous inclination to the Study of Antiquity and especially of Pedignees Herein hee made such proficiency that he was prefer ROBERT GLOVER Son to Thomas Glover Mildred his Wife was born at Ashford in this County He addicted himself to the Study of Heraldry and in the reward of his pains was first made a Pursuivant Porcul THO. MILLES Sisters Son to Robert Glover aforesaid was born at Ashford in this County and following his Uncles direction applyed himself to be eminent in the Genealogies of our English Nobility JOHN PHILPOT was born at Faulkston in this County and from his child-hood had a genius enclining him to the love of Antiquity He first was made a Pursuivant Extraordinary by the Title of Blanch-Lion then red towards the end of the raign of Q. Elizabeth to be an Herald by the Title of Lancaster A Gentleman painful and well deserving not only of his own Office but all the English Nation Whosoever shall peruse the Voluminous Works of Raphael Hollinshed will find how much he was assisted therein by the help of Mr. Thinne seeing the Shoulders of Atlas himselfe may bee weary if sometime not beholding to Hercules to relieve him He died 15. lis and then Somerset Herald When the Earle of Derby was sent into France to carry the Garter to K. Henry the third Mr. Glover attended the Embassage and was as he deserved well rewarded for his pains He by himselfe in Latine began a Book called the Catalogue of Honour of our English Nobility with their Arms and Matches Being the first Work in that kind He therein traced untrodden paths and therefore no wonder if such who since succeeded him in that subject have found a nearer way
and exceed him in Acurateness therein Being old rather in experience than years he died not 46. years old Anno 1583. and lieth buried under a comely Monument in Saint Giles without Creplegate London on the South Wall of the Quire Let Mr. Cambdens commendation pass for his Epitaph Artis Heraldicae studiosissimus peritissimusque qui in foecialium Collegio Somerseti titulum gessit Robertus Gloverus If the expression were as properly predicated of a Nephew as of the next Brother one might say he raised up seed unto his Uncle Glover in setting forth his Catalogue of Honour in English as more useful therein because chiefly of our Nationall concernment He was employed on a message of Importance from Q. Elizabeth unto Henry the fourth King of France be ing then in Normandy which trust he discharged with great fidelity and incredible scelerity being returned home with a satisfactory answer to her Highness before she could believe him arrived there In memory of which service he had given him for the Crest of his Arms a Chappeau with Wings to denote the Mercuriousnesse of this Messenger He died Anno 16. in Ordinary by name of RoughDragon and afterwards Somerset Herald He made very pertinent Additions to the second Edition of Mr. Cambdens Remains and deserved highly wel of the City of London proving in a learned and ingenious Book that Gentry doth not abate with Apprentiship but only sleepeth during the time of their Indentures and awaketh again when they are expired Nor did he contribute a little to the setting forth of his Uncles Catalogue of Honour He died Anno 1645. and was buried in Bennet Pauls-wharf THOMAS PLAYFERD was born in this County as some of his nearest Relations have informed me He was bred Fellow of Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge and chosen 1597. to succeed Peter Barrow in the place of Margaret Professor His fluency in the Latine tongue seemed a wonder to many though since such who have seen the Sun admire no more at the Moon Doctor Collins not succeeding him so much in age as exceeding him in eloquence The counsel of the Apostle is good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His Foe-Friends commending of him and his own conceiting of himself made too deep an impression on his Intellectuals It added to his Distemper that when his reâ—…election to his place after his last two years end was put into the Regent-House a great Doctor said DETUR DIGNIORI However he held his Professor-ship until the day of his death 1609. and lieth buried with an Hyperbolical Epitaph in S. Botolphs in Cambridge JOHN BOIS D. D. was descended of a right ancient and numerous Family in this County deriving themselves from J. de Bosco entring England with William the Conqueror and since dispersed into eight Branches extant at this day in their several seats Our John was bred Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge and afterwards preferred Dean of Canterbury famous to posterity for his Postils in defence of our Liturgy So pious his life that his adversaries were offended that they could not be offended therewith A great Prelate in the Church did bear him no great good will for mutual animosities betwixt them whilest Gremials in the University the reason perchance that he got no higher preferment and died as I conjecture about the year 1625. Benefactors to the Publick Sir JOHN PHILPOT was born in this County where his Family hath long resided at Upton-Court in the Parish of Sibbertswood He was bred a Citizen and Grocer in London whereof he became Mayor 1378. In the second of King Richard the second our English Seas wanted scouring over-run with the rust of Piracies but chiefly with a Canker fretting into them one John Mercer a Scot with his fifteen Spanish Ships To represse whose insolence our Philpot on his own cost set forth a Fleet a project more proportionable to the Treasury of a Prince than the purse of a private subject His successe was as happy as his undertaking honourable and Mercer brought his Wares to a bad Market being taken with all his Ships and rich plunder therein Two years after he conveyed an English Army into Britaine in ships of his own hiring and with his own money released more than 1000. Arms there which the Souldiers formerly engaged for their victuals But this industry of Philpot interpretatively taxed the lazinesse of others the Nobility accusing him Drones account all Bees pragmatical to the King for acting without a Commission Yea in that ungrateful age under a Child-King Pro tantorum sumptuum praemio veniam vix obtinuit However he who whilest living was the scourge of the Scots the fright of the French the delight of the Commons the darling of the Merchants and the hatred of some envious Lords was at his death lamented and afterwards beloved of all when his memory was restored to its due esteem WILLIAM SEVENOCK was born at Sevenock in this County In allusion whereunto he gave Seven Acorns for his Arms which if they grow as fast in the field of Heraldry as in the Common field may be presumed to be Oaks at this day For it is more than 200. years since this William bred a Grocer at London became Anno 1419. Lord Mayor thereof He founded at Sevenock a fair Free Schoole for poor peoples Children and an Alms House for twenty men and women which at this day is well maintained Since the Reformation Sir ANDREW JUD Son of John Jud was born at Tunbridge in this County bred a Skinner in London whereof he became Lord Mayor Anno 1551. He built Alms Houses nigh Saint Ellens in London and a stately Free Schoole at Tunbridge in 〈◊〉 submitting it to the care of the Company of Skinners This fair Schoole hath been twice founded in effect seeing the defence and maintenance whereof hath cost the Company of Skinners in suits of Law and otherwise four thousand pounds So careful have they been though to their own great charge to see the Will of the Dead performed WILLIAM LAMB Esquire sometime a Gentleman of the Chappel to King Henry the eighth and in great favour with him was born at Sutton-Valens in this County where he erected an Alms-House and a well endowed Schoole He was a person wholly composed of goodnesse and bounty and was as general and discreet a Benefactor as any that age produced Anno 1557. he began and within five months finished the fair Conduit at Holborn-Bridge and carried the water in pipes of Lead more than two thousand yards at his own cost amounting to Fifteen hundred pound The total summe of his several gifts moderately estimated exceeded six thousand pounds He lies buried with his good works in Saint Faiths Church under Saint Pauls where this Inscription set up it seems by himself in his life time is fixed on a Brasse plate to a Pillar O Lamb of God which sin didst take away And as a Lamb wast offered up for sin Where I poor Lamb
and bred therein under Mr. Ricard Vines his School-master he was afterwards Scholar of Christs then Fellow of S. Johns in Cambridge and during the late Civil Wars was much conversant in the Garison of Newark where as I am informed he had the place of Advocate General A General Artist Pure Latinist Exquisite Orator and which was his Master-piece Eminent Poet. His Epithetes were pregnant with Metaphors carrying in them a difficult plainness difficult at the hearing plain at the considering thereof His lofty Fancy may seem to stride from the top of one Mountain to the top of another so making to it self a constant Level and Champian of continued Elevations Such who have Clevelandized indeavouring to imitate his Masculine Stile could never go beyond the Hermophrodite still betraying the weaker Sex in their deficient conceits Some distinguish between the Veine and Strain of Poetry making the former to flow with facility the latter press'd with pains and forced with industry Master Cleveland's Poems do partake of both and are not to be the less valued by the Reader because most studied by the Writer thereof As for his Anagram John Cleveland Heliconean Dew The difficult trifle I confess is rather well endevoured then exactly performed He dyed on Thursday morning the 29 of April 1658. at his Chamber in Greys Inne from whence his Body was brought to Hunsdon House and on Saturday being May day was buryed at Colledge Hill Church Mr. John Pearson his good friend preaching his Funeral Sermon He rendred this reason why he cautiously declined all commending of the party deceased because such praising of him would not be adequate to any expectation in that Auditory seeing such who knew him not would suspect it far above whilest such who were acquainted with him did know it much beneath his due desert The self same consideration shall put a period to my pen in his present Character only this I will adde that never so eminent a Poet was Interred with fewer if any remarkable Elegies upon him I read in an excellent Authour how one Joannes Passerativus professor of the Latine Tongue in the University of Paris being no bad Poet but Morose and conceited of himself forbad by his dying words under an Imprecation That his Herse should be burthened with bad funeral Verses Whereupon out of fear to offend his Ghost very few Verses were made upon him too much the modesty and charity of Mr. Cleveland by any such Injunction to obstruct his friends expressing their affection to his memory Be it rather imputed to the Royal party at that juncture of time generally in restraint so that their fancies may seem in some sort to sympathize with the confining of their persons and both in due season may be inlarged Of such Verses as came to my hand these were not the worst made by my good Friend since deceased Ye Muses do not me deny I ever was your Votary And tell me seeing you do daigne T' inspire and feed the hungry brain With what choice cates with what choice fair Ye Cleevelands fancy still repair Fond man say they why dost thou question thus Ask rather with what Nectar he feeds us But I am informed that there is a Book intended by the Poets of our age in the Honour of his Memory who was so eminent a Member of their Society Beńefactors to the Publick Sir JOHN POULTNEY Knight was born in this County at Poultney in the Parish of Misterton bred in the City of London and became four times Lord Mayor thereof He built a Colledge to the Honour of Jesus Corpus Christi for a Master and seven Chaplains in St. Laurence Church in Candleweek-Street in London in the 20. of Edward the Third which Church was after denominated of him St. Laurence Poultney He built the Parish Church of Alhallows the lesse in Thames Street and the Monastery of White Fryers in Coventry and a fair Chappel on the North Side of St. Pauls in London where he lyeth buryed who dyed 1349. the 24. year of Edward the third he was a great Benefactour to the Hospital of St. Giles by Holborn and gave many great Legacies to the relief of Prisoners and the Poor Since the Reformation READER If any demand of me the Names of the Natives of this County Benefactors to the Publick Since the Reformation all my Answer is Non sum Informatus and let the Court judge whether this be the fault of the Councel or of the Client and I doubt not but the next age will supply the defects hereof Only postliminio I have by the help of my good friend at last recovered one who may keep possession of the place till others be added unto him ROBERT SMITH Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London was born at Mercate Harborough in this County and became Comptroller of the Chamber of London and one of the four Attorneys in the Majors Court A painful person in his place witness the many remaining Monuments of his Industry whilst he acted in his Office betwixt the years 1609. and 1617. Nor was his Piety any whit beneath his painfulness who delivered to the Chamberlain of London seven hundred and fifty pounds to purchase Lands for the Maintenance of a Lecturer in the Town of his Nativity as also for several other pious uses as in the Settlement of those Lands are particularly expressed He dyed as I collect about 1618. Memorable Persons Know Reader that by an unavoidable mischance the two first following persons who should have been entred under the Topick of Souldiers are with no disgrace I conceive remembered in this place EDMOND APPLEBIE Knight was son to Iohn Applebie Esquire and born at Great Applebie whence their Family fetched their name and where at this day I hope they have their habitation He was a mighty man of Arms who served at the Battel of Cressy the 20. of K. Edward the Third where he took Mounsieur Robert d'n Mailarte a Nobleman of France Prisoner Now know though the pens of our home-bred Historians may be suspected of partiality yet English atcheivements acknowledged by French Authours such as Froizard is who taketh signal notice thereof commandeth belief Afterwards in the Eight year of Richard the Second he went into France with Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster to treat of a peace betwixt both Kingdomes Lastly in the Ninth of Richard the second he accompanied the said Duke and the Lady Constance his Wife Daughter aud Coheir of Peter King of Castile in his Voyage into Castile who then went over with a great power to invest himself in the said Kingdome which by Descent belonged to his Wife and was then usurped by Henry base Brother unto King Peter JOHN HERDVVICKE Esq born at Lindley in this County was a very Lowe Man stature is no standard of stoutnesse but of great Valour Courage and Strength This is he though the Tradition goeth by an unknown name by whose good conduct Henry Earl
Navar called Mortileto de Vilenos who had accused him of Treason to the King and Realm In which combat the Navarois was overcome and afterwards hang'd for his false accusation HENRY the Fourth 2. JOHN ROCHFORD Miles The same no doubt with him who was Sheriff in the 15. of K. Richard the Second I confesse there was a Knightly Family of this Name at Rochford in Essex who gave for their Arms Argent a Lyon Rampant Sable langued armed and crowned Gules quartered at this day by the Lord Rochford Earl of Dover by the Butlers and Bollons descended from them But I behold this Lincolnshire Knight of another Family and different Arms quartered by the Earl of Moulgrave whence I collect his heir matched into that Family Consent of time and other circumstances argue him the same with Sir John Rochford whom Bale maketh to flourish under King Henry the Fourth commending him for his noble birth great learning large travail through France and Italy and worthy pains in translating Iosephus his Antiquities Polychronicon and other good Authors into English RICHARD the Third 2. ROâ—…ERT DIMOCK Miles This Sir Robert Dimock at the Coronation of King Henry the Seventh came on horse back into VVestminster Hall where the King dined and casting his Gauntlet on the Ground challenged any who durst Question the Kings right to the Crown King Henry being pleased to dissemble himself a stranger to that Ceremony demanded of a stander by what that Knight said to whom the party returned He challengeth any man to fight with him who dares deny your Highnesse to be the lawful K. of England If he will not fight with such a one said the King I will And so sate down to dinner HENRY the Seventh 9. JOHN HUSEE This was undoubtedly the same person whom King Henry the Eigth afterwards created the first and last Baron Husee of Sleford who ingaging himself against the King with the rebellious Commons anno 1537 was justly beheaded and saw that honour begun and ended in his own person HENRY the Eighth 16. THOMAS BURGE Miles He was honourably descended from the Heir General of the Lord Cobham of Sterbury in Surry and was few years after created Baron Burge or Burough by King Henry the Eigth His Grandchild Thomas Lord Burge Deputy of Ireland and Knight of the Garter of whom before left no Issue Male nor plentiful Estate only four Daughters Elizabeth married to Sir George Brook Frances to the ancient Family of Copinger in Suffolk Anna Wife to Sir Drue Drury and Katharine married to ..... Knivet of Norfolk Mother to Sir John Knivet Knight of the Bath at the last Installment so that the honour which could not conveniently be divided was here determined King CHARLES 9. JERVASIUS SCROOP Miles He ingaged with his Majesty in Edge-hill-fight where he received twenty six wounds and was left on the ground amongst the dead Next day his Son Adrian obtained leave from the King to find and fetch off his Fathers Corps and his hopes pretended no higher then to a decent Interment thereof Hearty seeking makes happy finding Indeed some more commendedthe affection than the judgement of the Young Gentleman conceiving such a search in vain amongst many naked bodies with wounds disguised from themselves and where pale Death had confounded all complexions together However he having some general hint of the place where his Father fell did light upon his body which had some heat left therein This heat was with rubbing within few Minutes improved into motion that motion within some hours into sense that sense within a day into speech that speech within certain Weeks into a perfect recovery living more then ten years after a Monument of Gods mercy and his Sons affection He always after carried his Arme in a Scarfe and loss of blood made him look very pale as a Messenger come from the Grave to advise the Living to prepare for Death The effect of his Story I received from his own mouth in Lincolne-colledge The Farewel It is vain to wish the same Successe to every Husband man in this Shire as he had who some seven score years since at Harlaxton in this County found an Helmet of Gold as he was Plowing in the Field Besides in Treasure Trove the least share falleth to him who first finds it But this I not only heartily wish but certainly promise to all such who industriously attend Tillage in this County or else where that thereby they shall find though not gold in specie yet what is gold worth and may quickly be commuted into it great plenty of good grain the same which Solomon foretold He that tilleth his Land shall have Plenty of Bread IT is in effect but the Suburbs at large of London replenished with the retyring houses of the Gentry and Citizens thereof besides many Pallaces of Noble-men and three lately Royal Mansions Wherefore much measure cannot be expected of so fine ware The cause why this County is so small scarce extending East and West to 18 miles in length and not exceeding North and South 12 in the bredth thereof It hath Hertford-shire on the North Buckingham-shire on the West Essex parted with Ley on the East Kent and Surrey severed by the Thames on the South The ayr generally is most healtful especially about High-Gate where the expert Inhabitants report that divers that have been long visited with sickness not curable by Physick have in short time recovered by that sweet salutary ayr Natural Commodities Wheate The best in England groweth in the Vale lying South of Harrow-the-Hill nigh Hessen where providence for the present hath fixed my habitation so that the Kings bread was formerly made of the fine flower thereof Hence it was that Queen Elizabeth received no Composition money from the Villages thereabouts but took her Wheat in kinde for her own Pastry and Bake-house There is an obscure Village hereabouts called Perivale which my Author will have more truly termed Purevale an Honour I assure you unknown to the Inhabitants thereof because of the cleerness of the Corn growing therein though the Purity thereof is much subject to be humbled with the Mildew whereof hereafter Tamarisk It hath not more affinity in sound with Tamarind then sympathy in extraction both originally Arabick general similitude in leaves and operation onely Tamarind in England is an annual dying at the approach of Winter whil'st Tamarisk lasteth many years It was first brought over by Bishop Grindal out of Switzerland where he was exile under Queen Mary and planted in his Garden at Fulham in this County where the soile being moist and Fenny well complied with the nature of this Plant which since is removed and thriveth well in many other places Yet it groweth not up to be Timber as in Arabia though often to that substance that Cups of great size are made thereof Dioscorides saith it is good for the Tooth-ach as what is not and yet indeed
Esquire of Addington by Isabel his wife sister and at last sole heir to Henry Green of Drayton Esquire of whom formerly This Henry was afterwards Knighted and dying without Issue-male Elizabeth his daughter and co heir was married to John first Lord Mordant to whom she brought Draiton-house in this County and other fair lands as the partage of her portion NICHOLAS VAUX Mil. He was a jolly Gentleman both for Camp and Court a great Reveller good as well in a March as a Masque being Governour of Guines in Picardie whom King Hen. the eight for his Loyalty and Valour Created Baron of Harouden in this County Ancestor to Edward Lord Vaux now living This Sir Nicholas when young was the greatest Gallant of the English-Court no Knight at the marriage of Prince Arthur appearing in so costly an equipage when he wore a gown of purple velvet pight with pieces of gold so thick and massive that it was valued besides the silk and furs at a thousand pounds and the next day wore a Colar of S. S. which weighed as Goldsmiths reported eight hundred pounds of nobles Some will wonder that Empson and Dudley the Royal Promoters then in prime did not catch him by the Collar or pick an hole in his Gown upon the breach of some rusty penal sumptuary Statute the rather because lately the Earl of Oxford was heavily fined for supernumerous attendance But know that King Henry could better bear with 〈◊〉 then greatness in his Subjects especially when such expence cost â—…imself nothing and conduced much to the solemnity of his Sons Nuptials Besides such plate as wrought employed Artizans as massive retain'd its intrinsecal value with little loss either of the owners or Common-wealth HENRY the Eight 1 THOMAS PAR Mil. His former residence was at Kendal-Castle in Westmerland whence he removed into this Country having married Maud one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir Thomas Green of Green-Norton He was father to Queen Katharine Par which rendereth a probability of her nativity in this County and to William Marquiss of Northampton of whom hereafter 15 WILLIAM FITZ-WILLIAMS Sen. Mil. This must be the person of whom I read this memorable passage in Stows Survey of London Sir William Fitz-Williams the elder being a Merchant-Taylor and servant sometime to Cardinal Wolsey was chosen Alderman of Bread-street-Ward in London Anno 1506. Going afterward to dwell at Milton in Northamptonshire in the fall of the Cardinal his former Master he gave him kind entertainment there at his house in the Country For which deed being called before the King and demanded how he durst entertain so great an Enemy to the State his Answer was that he had not contemptuously or wilfully done it but onely because he had been his Master and partly the means of his greatest fortunes The King was so well pleased with his Answer that saying himself had few such servants immediately Knighted him and afterwards made him a Privy Counsellour But we have formerly spoken of the benefactions of this worthy Knight in the County of Essex whereof he was Sheriffe in the sixth of King Henry the eight 17 WILLIAM PAR Mil. I have cause to be confident that this was he who being Uncle and Lord Chamberlain to Queen Katharine Par was afterwards by King Henry the eight Created Baron Par of Horton Left two daughters onely married into the Families of Tressame and Lane The Reader is requested to distinguish him from his Name-sake Nephew Sheriffe in the 25. of this Kings reign of whom hereafter 21 JOHN CLARKE Mil. I find there was one Sir John Clarke Knight who in the fifth of Henry the eight at the Siege of Terrowane took prisoner Lewis de Orleans Duke of Longevile and Marquiss of Rotueline This Sir John bare for his paternal Coat Argent on a Bend Gules three Swans proper between as many Pellets But afterwards in memory of his service aforesaid by special command from the King his Coat armour was rewarded with a Canton Sinister Azure and thereupon a Demi-ramme mounting Argent armed Or between two Flowers de lices in Chief of the last over all a Batune dexter-ways Argent as being the Arms of the Duke his prisoner and by Martial-law belonging to him He lieth buried in the next County viz. in the Church of Tame in Oxfordshire where his Coat and cause thereof is expressed on his Monument If this be not the same with Sir John Clarke our Sheriffe I am utterly at a loss and desire some others courteous direction All I will adde is this If any demand why this Knight did onely give a parcel and not the entire Arms of the Duke his prisoner a learned Antiquary returns this satisfactory answer That he who â—…aketh a Christian Captive is to give but part of his Arms to mind him of charitable moderation in using his success intimating withall that one taking a Pagan prisoner may justifie the bearing of his whole Coat by the laws of Armory I must not conceal that I have read in a most excellent Manuscript viz. the View of Staffordshire made by Sampson Erderswicke Esquire That one William Stamford in that County had good land given him therein for taking the Duke of Longevile prisoner August the 16. in the fifth of King Henry the eight History will not allow two Dukes of Longevile Captives and yet I have a belief for them both that Sir John Clarke and William Stamford were causae sociae of his Captivity and the King remunerated them both the former with an addition of honour the later with an accession of Estate 23 WILLIAM SPENCER Miles DAVID SISILL Arm. 24 DAVID CECILL Arm. Sir William Spencer dying it seems in his Sherivalty David Sissill supplied the remainder of that and was Sheriffe the next year This David had three times been Alderman of Stamford part whereof called Saint Martins is in this County viz. 1504. 1515. and 1526. and now twice Sheriffe of the County which proves him a person both of Birth Brains and Estate seeing in that age in this County so plentiful of capable persons none were advanced to that office except Esquires at least of much merrit The different spelling of his name is easily answered the one being according to his extraction of the Sitsilts of Alterynnis in Herefordshire the other according to the vulgar pronunciation All I will adde is this that his Grand-child William Cecil afterwards Baron of Burghley and Lord Treasurer of England being born Anno 1521. was just ten years of age in the Sherivalty of this David his Grand-father 25 WILLIAM PAR Mil. He was son to Sir Thomas Par of whom before Ten years after viz. in the 35. year of his reign King Henry the eight having newly married his Sister Queen Katharine Par made him Lord Par of Kendall and Earl of Essex in right of Anne Bourcher his wife King Edward the sixth Created him Marquiss of Northampton Under Queen Mary
till sent to St. Johns then to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge whereof he was Fellow and there chosen Regius Professâ—…r one of the most profound School-Divines of the English Nation Afterwards by the Queens absolute mandate to end a contention betwixt two Corrivals not much with his will he was made Master of Katharine-hall For when Archbishop Whitgift joyed him of the place he returned that it was Terminus diminuens taking no delight in his preferment But his Grace told him That if the injuries much more the less courtesies of Princes must be thankfully taken as the Ushers to make way for greater as indeed it came to passe For after the death of Dr. Nowel he was by the especial recommendation of Sr. Fulke Grevil made Dean of St. Pauls Being appointed to preach before the Queen he profess'd to my Father most intimate with him that he had spoken Latin so long it was troublesome to him to speak English in a continued Oration He frequently had those words of the Psalmist in his mouth VVhen thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth surely every man is vanity I cite it the rather out of the new Translation something different from the old because he was so eminent an Instrument employed therein King James made him Bishop of Norwich where he was a discreet presser of Conformity on which score he got the ill will of many dis-affected thereunto and died Anno 1618. LEONARD MAW was born at * Rendlesham in this Connty a remarkable place Iassure you which though now a Country Village was anciently the Residence of the Kings of the East-Angles Where King Redwald a Mongrel Christian kept at the same time Altare Arulam the Communion Table and Altars for Idols He was bred in Cambridge where he was Proctor of the University Fellow and Master of Peter-house after of Trinity Colledge whereof he deserved well shewing what might be done in five years by good Husbandry to dis-ingage that Foundation from a great debt He was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was a Prince and waited on him in Spain by whom he was preferred Bishop of Bath and Wells He had the Reputation of a good Scholar a grave Preacher a mild man and one of Gentil Deportment He died Anno Domini 163. RALPH BROUNRIG D. D. was born at Ipswich of Parents of Merchantly condition His Father died in his Infancy and his Mother did not carelesly cast away his youth as the first Broachings of a Vessel but improved it in his Education at School till he was sent to Pembroke-hall in Cambridge and afterwards became Scholar and Fellow thereof King James coming to Cambridge was amongst others entertained with a Philosophy Act and Mr. Brounrig was appointed to perform the Joco-serious part thereof who did both to the wonder of the Hearers Herein he was like himself that he could on a sudden be so unlike himself and instantly vary his words and matter from mirth to solidity No man had more ability or less inclination to be Satyrical in which kind posse nolle is a rarity indeed He had wit at will but so that he made it his Page not Privy Councellour to obey not direct his Judgement He carried Learning enough in numerato about him in his pockets for any Discourse and had much more at home in his chests for any serious Dispute It is hard to say whether his loyal memory quick fancy solid judgement or fluent utterance were most to be admired having not only flumen but fulmen eloquentiae being one who did teach with Authority When commencing Bachelour in Divinity he chose for his Text Vobis autem c. It is given to you not only to beleeve but suffer in the behalf of Christ. A Text somewhat Prophetical to him who in the Sequele of his life met with affronts to exercise his Prudence and Patience being afterwards defied by some who almost Deified him before in whose Eyes he seemed the blacker for wearing white sleeves when 1641 made Bishop of Exeter I was present at his Consecration Sermon made by his good Friend Doctor Younge taking for his Text The waters are risen O Lord the waters are risen c. wherein he very gravely complained of the many invasions which Popular violence made on the Priviledges of Church and State This Bishop himself was soon sadly sensible of such Inundations and yet by the Procâ—…rity of his parts and piety he not only safely waded thorough them himself but also when Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge by his prudence raised such Banks that those overflowings were so not destructive as otherwise they would have been to the University He continued constant to the Church of England a Champion of the needful use of the Liturgie and for the Priviledges of Ordination to belong to Bishops alone Unmoveable he was in his principles of Loyalty witness this instance O. P. with some shew of respect unto him demanded the Bishops Judgement non plus't it seems himself in some business to whom he returned My Lord the best counsel I can give you is Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods with which free answer O. P. was rather silenced than satisfied About a year before his death he was invited by the Society of both Temples to be their Preacher admirably supplying that place till strong fits of the Stone with Hydropical Inclinations and other distempers incident to phletorick Bodies caused his death I know all Accidents are minuted and momented by Divine Providence and yet I hope I may say without sin his was an untimely death not to himself prepared thereunto but as to his longer life vvhich the prayers of pious people requested the need of the Church required the date of Nature could have permitted but the pleasure of God to which all must submit denied Otherwise he vvould have been most instrumental to the composure of Church differences the deserved opinion of whose goodness had peaceable possession in the hearts of the Presbyterian party I observed at his Funeral that the prime persons of all Perswasions were present whose Judgements going several wayes met all in a general grief for his decease He was buried on the cost of both Temples to his great but their greater honour The Reader is referred for the rest to the Memorials of his life written by the Learned Doctor John Gauden who preached his Funeral Sermon and since hath succeeded him both in the Temple and Bishoprick of Exeter His dissolution happened in the 67th year of his Age Decemb. 7 1659 and was buried the week following in the Temple Church States-men S â— NICHOLAS BACON Knight was born in this County not far from the famous Abbey of St. Edmunds Bury and I have read that his Father was an Officer belonging thereunto His name I assure you is of an Ancient Gentry in this Shire as any whatsoever He was
Commission where he met with some molestation He had three Brethren Ministers on the same token that some have said that these four put together would not make up the abilities of their Father Nor were they themselves offended with this Hyperbole to have the Branches lessened to greaten their Root One of them lately dead was benefic'd in Essex and following the counsel of the Poet Ridentem dicere verum Quis vetat What doth forbid but one may smile And also tell the Truth the while hath in a jesting way in some of his Books delivered much Smart-Truth of this present Times Mr. Samuel died 163. JOHN BOISE Born at Elmeseth in this County being son of the Minister thereof He was bred first in Hadley-School then in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge and was deservedly chosen Fellow thereof Here he as a Volonteer read in his bed a Greek Lecture to such young Scholars who preferred Antelucana studia before their own ease and â—…est He was afterwards of the Quorum in the translating of the Bible and whilst St. Chrysostome lives Mr. Boise shall not die such his learned pains on him in the edition of Sir Henry Savil. Being Parson of Boxworth in Cambridge-shire and Prebendary of Ely he made a quiet End about the beginning of our Warlike disturbances Romish Exile Writers ROBERT SOUTHWEL was born in this County as Pitseus affirmeth who although often mistaken in his locality may be believed herein as professing himself familiarly acquainted with him at Rome But the matter is not much where he was born seeing though cried up by men of his own Profession for his many Books in Verse and Profe he was reputed a dangerous enemy by the State for which he was imprisoned and executed March the 3 1595. Benefactors to the Publick ELIZABETH third daughter of Gilbert Earl of CLARE and wife to John Burgh Earl of Ulster in Ireland I dare not say was born at but surely had her greatest Honor from Clare in this County Blame me not Reader if I be covetous on any account to recover the mention of her Memory who Anno 1343 founded Clare-Hall in Cambridge since augmented by many Benefactors Sir SIMON EYRE son of John Eyre was born at Brandon in this County bred in London first an Upholster then a Draper In which Profession he profited that he was chosen Lord Mayor of the City 1445. On his own cost he built Leaden-Hall for a Common Garner of Corn to the City of squared stone in form as it now sheweth with a fair Chappel in the East side of the Quadrant Over the Porch of which he caused to be written Dextra Domini exaltavit me The Lords right hand hath exalted me He is elsewhere stiled Hoâ—…orandus famosus Mercator He left five thousand Marks a prodigious sum in that age to charitable uses so that if my sight mistake not as I am confident it doth not his bounty like Saul stands higher than any others from the shoulders upwards He departed this life the 18th of September Anno Domini 1459. and is buried in the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard-street London THOMAS SPRING commonly called the Rich Clothier was I believe born I am sure lived and waxed Wealthy at Laneham in this County He built the Carved Chappel of Wainscot in the North-side of the Chancel as also the Chappel at the South-side of the Church This Thomas Spring senior died Anno 1510 and lieth buried under a Monument in the Chappel of his own erection Since the Reformation WILLIAM COPPINGER born at Bucks-Hall in this County where his Family flourisheth at this day in a good esteem He was bred a Fish-monger in London so prospering in his Profession that he became Lord Mayor Anno 1512. He gave the half of his Estate which was very great to pious uses and relieving of the poor His bounty mindeth me of the words of Zacheus to our Saviour Behold Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him fourefold Demand not of me whether our Coppinger made such plentiful restitution being confident there was no cause thereof seeing he never was one of the Publicans persons universally infamous for extortion Otherwise I confess that that charity which is not bottom'd on Justice is but built on a foundred foundation I am sorry to see this Gentlemans ancient Arms the Epidemical disease of that Age substracted in point of Honour by the addition of a superfluous Bordure Sir WILLIAM CORDAL Knight Where ever he was born he had a fair Estate at Long-Melford in this County and lieth buried in that fair Church under a decent Monument We will translate his Epitaph which will perfectly acquaint us with the great Offices he had and good offices he did to posterity Hic Gulielmus habet requieÌ„ Cordellus avito Stemmate qui clarus clarior ingenio Hic studiis primos consumpsit fortiter annos Mox Causarum strenuus actor er at Tanta illi doctrina inerat facundia tanta Ut Parlamenti publica Lingua foret Postea factus Eques Reginae arcana Mariae Consilia Patriae grande subibat opus Factus est Custos Rotulorum urgente senecta In Christo moriens cepit ad astra viam Pauperibus largus victum vestemque ministrans Insuper Hospitii condidit ille domum Here William Cordal doth in rest remain Great by his birth but greater by his brain Plying his studies hard his youth throughout Of Causes he became a Pleader stout His learning deep such cloquence did vent He was chose Speaker of the Parliament Afterwards Knight Q. Mary did him make And Counsellor State-work to undertake And Master of the Rolls well worn with age Dying in Christ heaven was his utmost stage Diet and clothes to poor he gave at large And a fair Almshouse founded on his charge He was made Master of the Rolls November 5th the Fifth of Queen Mary continuing therein till the day of his death the 23th of Queen Elizabeth Sir ROBERT HICHAM Knight and Serjeant at Law was born if not at near Nacton in this County and was very skilful in our Common-Law By 〈◊〉 practice he got a great Estate and purchased the fair Mannor of Framlingham of the Earl of Suffolk Herein he met with many difficulties knots which would have made another mans Axe turn edge to hew them off so that had he not been one of a sharp Wit strong Brains powerful Friends plentiful Purse and indefatigable Diligence he had never cleared the Title thereof to him and his heirs I am willing to beleeve that gratitude to God who gave him to wade thorough so many Incumbrances and land safely at last on the peaceable possession of his Purchase was the main motive inclining him to leave a great part of his Estate to pious uses and principally to Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge He
a very great estate But what he got in few years he lost in fewer days since our Civil Warrs when the Parliament was pleased for reasons onely known to themselves to make him one of the examples of their severity excluding him pardon but permitting his departure beyond the seas where he dyed about the year 1650. Capitall Judges Sir NICHOLAS HYDE Knight was born at Warder in this County where his father in right of his wife had a long lease of that Castle from the family of the Arundels His father I say descended from an Antient Family in Cheshire a fortunate Gentleman in all his Children and more in his Grand-children some of his under-boughs out-growing the top-branch and younger children amongst whom Sir Nicholas in wealth and honour exceeding the heir of the family He was bred in the Middle-Temple and was made Sergeant at Law the first of February 1626. and on the eighth day following was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench succeeding in that Office next save one unto his Countryman Sir James Ley then alive and preferred Lord Treasurer born within two miles one of another and next of all unto Sir Randal Crew lately displaced Now though he entered on his place with some disadvantage Sir Randal being generally popular and though in those days it was hard for the same person to please Court and Country yet he discharged his office with laudable integrity and died 1631. Souldiers First for this County in general hear what an antient Author who wrot about the time of King Henry the second reporteth of it whose words are worthy of our translation and exposition Johannes Sarisburiensis de Nugis Curialium 6. cap. 18. Provincia Severiana quae moderno usu ac nomine ab incolis Wiltesira vocatur eodem jure sibi vendicat Cohortem Subsidiariam adjecta sibi Devonia Cornubia The Severian Province which by moderne use name is by the inhabitants called Wiltshire by the same right chalengeth to it self to have the Rere Devonshire and Cornwall being joyned unto it The Severian Province We thank our Author for expounding it Wiltshire otherwise we should have sought for it in the North near the Wall of Severus By the same right Viz. by which Kent claimeth to lead the Vanguard whereof formerly To have the Rere So translated by Mr. Selden from whom it is a sin to dissent in a Criticisme of Antiquity otherwise some would cavill it to be the Reserve Indeed the Rere is the basis and foundation of an Army and it is one of the chief of Divine promises The glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward We read how the Romans placed their Triarii which were Veteran souldiers behind and the service was very sharp indeed cum res rediit ad Triarios We may say that these three Counties Wiltshire Devonshire and Cornwall are the Triarii of England yet so that in our Author Wiltshire appears as principal the others being added for its assistance Here I dare interpose nothing why the two interjected Counties betwixt Wilts and Devon viz. Dorset and Summerset are not mentioned which giveth me cause to conjecture them included in Devonia in the large acception thereof Now amongst the many worthy Souldiers which this County hath produced give me leave to take speciall notice of HENRY D'ANVERS His ensuing Epitaph on his Monument in the Church of Dantsey in this Shire will better acquaint the Reader with his deserts then any character which my Pen can give of him Hâ—…re lyeth the body of Henry Danvers second son to Sir John Danvers Knight and Dame Elizabeth Daughter and Co-heir to Nevill Lord Latimer He was born at Dantsey in the County of Wilts Jan. Anno Dom. 1573. being bred up partly in the Low-Country-Wars under Maurice Earl of Nassaw afterward Prince of Orenge and in many other military Actions of those times both by Sea and by Land He was made a Captain in the Wars of France and there Knighted for his good Service under Henry the fourth the then French King He was imployed as Leiutenant of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Baron of Mountjoy in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth By King James the first he was made Baron of Dansey and Peer of this Realm as also Lord President of Munster and Governour of Guernsey By King Charles the first he was Created Earl of Danby made of his Privy Councell and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter In his latter time by reason of imperfect health considerately declining more active Imployments full of Honours Wounds and Days he died Anno Domini 1643. Laus Deo For many years before St. George had not been more magnificently Mounted I mean the solemnity of his feast more sumptuously observed then when this Earl with the Earl of Morton were installed Knights of the Garter One might have there beheld the abridgment of English and Scotish in their Attendance The Scotish Earl like Zeuxis his Picture adorned with all Art and Costliness whilst our English Earl like the plain sheet of Apelles by the Gravity of his habit got the advantage of the Gallantry of his Corrival with judicious beholders He died without Issue in the beginning of our Civil Wars and by his Will made 1639. setled his large Estate on his hopefull Nephew Henry D'Anvers snatch'd away before fully of age to the great grief of all good men Writers OLIVER of MALMESBURY was saith my Author iâ—… ipsius Monasterii terratorio natus so that there being but few paces betwixt his cradle and that Convent he quickly came thither and became a Benedictine therein He was much addicted to Mathematicks and to judicial Astrology A great Comet happened in his age which he entertained with these expressions Venisti Venisti multis matribus lugendum malum Dudum te vidi sed multò jam terribilius Angliae minans prorsus excidium Art thou come Art thou come thou evil to be lamented by many mothers I saw thee long since but now thou art much more terrible threatning the English with utter destruction Nor did he much miss his mark herein for soon after the coming in of the Norman Conqueror deprived many English of their lives more of their laws and liberties till after many years by Gods goodness they were restored This Oliver having a mind to try the truth of Poeticall reports an facta vel ficta is said to have tied Wings to his hands and feet and taking his rise from a Tower in Malmesbury flew as they say a â—…rlong till something failing him down he fell and brake both his Thighs Pity is it but that Icarus-like he had not fallen into the water and then OLIVER OL'VARIS nomina fecit aquis I find the like Recorded in the Ecclesiastical History of Simon Magus flying from the Capitol in Rome high in the Ayre till at last by the Prayers of Saint Peter he
the leaves of the Bayes and â—…y be withered to nothing since the erection of the Tomb but only rosated having a Chaplet of four Roses about his head Another Author unknighteth him allowing him only a plain Esquire though in my apprehension the Colar of S.S.S. about his neck speak him to be more Besides with submission to better judgements that Colar hath rather a Civil than Military relation proper to persons in places of Judicature which makes me guess this Gower some Judge in his old age well consisting with his original education He was before Chaucer as born and flourishing before him yea by some accounted his Master yet was he after Chaucer as surviving him two years living to be stark blind and so more properly termed our English Homer Many the Books he wrote whereof three most remarkable viz. Speculum Meditantis in French Confessio Amantis in English Vox Clamantis in Latine His death happened 1402. JOHN MARRE by Bale called MARREY and by Trithemius MARRO was born at Marre a village in this County three miles West from Doncaster where he was brought up in Learning Hence he went to Oxford where saith Leland the University bestowed much honour upon him for his excellent Learning He was by Order a Carmelite and in one respect it was well for his Memory that he was so which maketh John Balâ—… who generally falleth foul on all Fryers to have some civility for him as being once himself of the same Order allowing him subtilly learned in all secular Philosophy But what do I instance in home-bred Testimonies Know Reader that in the Character of our own Country Writers I prize an Inch of Forraign above an Ell of English Commendation and Outlandish Writers Trithemius Sixtus Senensis Petrus Lucius c. give great Encomiums of his Ability though I confesse it is chiefly on this account because he wrote against the Opinions of J. Wickliffe He died on the eighteenth of Mà rch 1407. and was buried in the Convent of Carmelites in Doncaster THOMAS GASCOIGNE eldest son to Richard the younger brother unto Sir William Gascoigne Lord Chief Justice was born at Huntfleet in this County bred in Baliol Colledge in Oxford where he proceeded Doctor in Divinity and was Commissioner of that University Anno Dom. 1434. He was well acquainted with the Maids of Honour I mean Humane Arts and Sciences which conducted him first to the presence then to the favour of Divinity the Queen He was a great Hieronymist perfectly acquainted with all the Writings of that Learned Father and in expression of his gratitude for the good he had gotten by reading his Woâ—…ks he collected out of many Authors and wrote the life of Saint Hierom. He made also a Book called Dictionarium Theologicum very useful to and therefore much esteemed by the Divines in that age He was seven and fifty years old Anno 1460. and how long he survived afterwards is unknown JOHN HARDING was born saith my Author in the Northern parts and I have some cause to believe him this Countrey-man He was an Esquire of ancient Parentage and bred from his Youth in Military Employment First under Robert Umfrevil Governour of Roxborough Castle and did good service against the Scots Then he followed the Standard of King Edward the fourth adhering faithfully unto him in his deepest distresse But the Master-piece of his service was his adventuring into Scotland not without the manifest hazard of his Life where he so cunningly demeaned himselfe that he found there and fetched thence out of their Records many Original Letters which he presented to King Edward the fourth Out of these he collected an History of the several Solemn Submissions publickly made and Sacred Oaths of Fealty openly taken from the time of King Athelstane by the Kings of SCOTLAND to the Kings of ENGLAND for the Crown of SCOTLAND although the Scotch Historians stickle with might and maine that such Homage was performed onely for the County of Cumberland and some parcels of Land their Kings had in ENGLAND south of TWEED He wrote also a Chronicle of our English Kings from BRUTUS to King EDWARD the fourth and that in English Verse and in my Judgement he had drank as hearty a draught of Helicon as any in his age He was living 1461. then very aged and I believe died soon after HENRY PARKER was bred from his infancy in the Carmelite Convent at Doncaster afterwards Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge Thence he returned to Doncaster and well it had been with him if he had staid there still and not gone up to London to preach at Pauls-Crosse where the subject of his Sermon was to prove That Christs poverty was the pattern of humane perfection and that men professing eminent sanctity should conform to his precedent Going on foot feeding on Barley-bread wearing seamless-woven-coats having no houses of their own c. He drove this nail so far that he touched the quick and the wealthy Clergy winched thereat His Sermon offended much as preached more as published granting the Copy thereof to any that would transcribe it For this the Bishop of London put him in prison which Parker patiently endured in hope perchance of a rescue from his Order till being informed that the Pope effectually appeared on the party of the Prelates to procure his liberty he was content at Pauls-Cross to recant Not as some have took the word to say over the same again in which sense the Cuckow of all Birds is properly called the Recanter but he unsaid with at least seeming sorrow what he had said before However fâ—…om this time we may date the decay of the Carmelites credit in England who discountenanced by the Pope never afterwards recruited themselves to their former number and honour but moulted their feathers till King Henry the eight cut off their very wings and body too at the Dissolution This Parker flourished under King Edward the fourth Anno 1470. Since the Reformation Sir FRANCIS BIGOT Knight was born aud well landed in this County Bale giveth him this testimony that he was Evangelicae veritatis amator Otherwise I must confess my self posed with his intricate disposition For he wrote a book against the Clergy Of IMPROPRIATIONS Had it been against the Clergy of Appropriations I could have guessed it to have proved Tithes due to the Pastors of their respective Parishes Whereas now having not seen nor seen any that have seen his book I cannot conjecture his judgment As his book so the manner of his death seems a riddle unto me being though a Protestant slain amongst the Northern Rebells 1537. But here Bale helpeth us not a little affirming him found amongst them against his will And indeed those Rebells to countenancé their Treason violently detained some Loyall Persons in their Camp and the Blind sword having Aciem not Oculum kill'd friend and foe in fury without distinction WILFRID HOLME was born in this County of Gentile
Extraction a Welch man immediately adding patria Herefordensis by his Country a Hereford-shire man We now for quietness sake resign him up wholly to the former Yet was he a Person worth contending for Lealand saith much in little of him when praising him to be Vir illustris Famâ Eraditione Religione He wrot severall Comments on Aristotle Peter Lumbard and the Revelalion He was chief of the Franciscans Convent in Hereford where he was buried in the raign of King Henry the fourth 1406. DAVID BOYS Let not Kent pretend unto him wherein his Surname is so Ancient and Numerous our Author assuring us of his British Extraction He studied in Oxford saith Lealand no less to his own Honour then the Profit of others reaping much benefit by his Books Having his Breeding at Oxford he had a Bounty for Cambridge and compassing the writings of John Barningham his Fellow-Carmelite he got them fairly transcribed in four Volumes and bestowed them on the Library in Cambridge where Bale beheld them in his Time He was very familiar understand it in a good way with Eleanor Cobham Dutchess of Gloucester whence we collect him at least a Parcell-Wickliffite Of the many books he wrot fain would I see that Intituled of Double Immortality whether intending thereby the Immortality of Soul and Body or of the Memory here and Soul hereafter I would likewise satisfie my self in his Book about the madness of the Hagarens whether the Mahometans be not ment thereby pretending themselves descended from Sarah when indeed they are the Issue of the Bond-woman He was Prefect of the Carmelites in Gloucester where he dyed 1450. Let me adde that his Surname is Latined Boethius and so Wales hath her David Boethius whom in some respects she may Vie with Hector Boethius of Scotland Since the Reformation Sir JOHN RHESE alias Ap Ryse Knight was born in Wales Noble by his Linage but more by his Learning He was well vers'd in the British Antiquities and would not leave a Hoof of his Countries Honour behind which could be brought up to go along with him Now so it was that Polydore Virgil that Proud Italian bare a Pique to the British for their Ancient Independency from the Pope Besides he could not so easily compass the Welch Records into his clutches that so he might send them the same way with many English Manuscripts which he had burnt to ashes This made him slight the Credit of Welch Authors whom oâ—… Sir John was a Zelot to assert being also a Champion to vindicate the story of King Arthur Besides he wrot a Treatise of the Eucharist and by the good words Bale bestoweth on him we believe him a Favorour of the Reformation flourishing under King Edward the sixth 1550. JOHN GRIFFIN was born in Wales first bred a Cistercian Friar in Hales-Abbey in Gloucester-shire After the dissolution of his Convent he became a Painfull and Profitable Preacher He suited the Pulpit with Sermons for all seasons having his Conciones Aestivales Brumales which he preached in English and wrot in Latine flourishing under King Edward the sixth Anno Domini 1550. HUGH BROUGHTON was born in Wales but very nigh unto Shrop-shire He used to speak much of his Gentility and of his Armes which were the Owles presaging as he said his Addiction to the study of Greek because those were the birds of Minerva and the Emblâ—…me of Athens I dare not deny his Gentile Extraction but it was probable that his Parents were fallen to great decay as by the ensuing story will appear When Mr. Barnard Gilpin that Apostolike man was going his annual journey to Oxford from his Living at Houghton in the North he spied by the way-side a Youth one while walking another while running of whom Mr. Gilpin demanded whence he came he answered out of Wales and that he was a going to Oxford with intent to be a Scholar Mr. Gilpin perceiving him pregnant in the Latine and having some smattering in the Greek Tongue carried him home to Houghton where being much improved in the Languages he sent him to Christs-colledge in Cambridge It was not long before his worth preferred him Fellow of the House This was that Broughton so famous for his skill in the Hebew a great Ornament of that University and who had been a greater had the heat of his Brain and Peremptoriness of his Judgement been tempered with more moderation being ready to quarrell with any who did not presently and perfectly imbrace his Opinions He wrote many books whereof one called The consent of times carrieth the generall commendation As his Industry was very Commendable so his Ingratitude must be condemned if it be true what I read that when Master Gilpin his Mecaenas by whose care and on whose cost he was bred till he was able to breed himself grew old he procured him to be troubled and molested by Doctor Barnes Bishop of Durham in expectation of his Parsonage as some shrewdly suspect At last he was fixed in the City of London where he taught many Citizens and their Apprentices the Hebrew Tongue He was much flocked after for his Preaching though his Sermons were generally on Subjects rather for Curiosity then Edification I conjecture his death to be about the year of our Lord 1600. HUGH HOLLAND was born in Wales and bred first a Scholar in Weâ—…minster then Fellow in Trinity-colledge in Cambridge No bad English but a most excellent Latine Poet. Indeed he was addicted to the New-old Religion New in comparison of Truth it self yet Old because confessed of long continuance He travailed beyond the Seas and in Italy conceiving himself without Ear-reach of the English let flie freely against the Credit of Queen Elizabeth Hence he went to Jerusalem though there he was not made or he would not own himself Knight of the 〈◊〉 In his return he touched at Constantinople where Sir Thomas Glover Embassador for King James called him to an account for his Scandalum Reginae at Rome and the former over freedome of his tongue cost him the confinement for a time in Prison Enlarged at last returning into England with his good parts bettered by learning and great learning increased with experience in travail he expected presently to be chosen Clerk of the Councell at least but preferment not answering his expectation he grumbled out the rest of his life in visible discontentment He made verses in description of the chief Cities in Europe wrot the Chronicle of Queen Elizabeths raign believe him older and wiser not railing as formerly and a book of the life of Master Camden all lying hid in private hands none publikely Printed This I observe the rather to prevent Plagearies that others may not impe their credit with stollen feathers and wrongfully with ease pretend to his painfull endeavours He had a competent estate in good Candle-rents in London and died about ' the beginning of the raign of King Charles The Farewell To take my Vale
Colledge Register in an 1577. * Camd. Brit. in Câ—…nsh †Idem ibidem * Camb. Brit. in this County * Mr. Walton his Complete Angler pag. 245. * Camb. Brit. in Midlesex * Parkingson pag. 285. * Rab. Glouc. cited by Mr. Selden in his notes upon Polyolbion in his notes upon the 12. Song * Malmes lib. de Pnotific 2. * Gâ—…dwin in his Catal. of Arch-Bishops of Canterbury * God in the Bishops of 〈◊〉 * At Bere Gamâ—… 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 * Bishop Hall in his assâ—…rting Episcopacy * Driven amay in the dialect of the West * The inheritance whereof is still possessed by his Family * Pro 〈◊〉 indignante hanc gloriam sibi areptam â—…amb Eliz. Anno 1590. * Camb. Eliz. Anno 1598. * Hic 〈◊〉 English Voyages Vol. 3. pag. 163. * Idem pag. 164. * Psal. 107. 23 * The Register of New Colledge * Stow in his Survey of London continued by How pag. 97. * Idem pag. 347. * So was I informed by Mr. William Swettenham being himselfâ—… born in 〈◊〉 eminently known an Under-teller in the Exchequer who for many years paid this pension * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Genâ—… pag. 〈◊〉 * Camb. Brit. in this Bishoâ—… Phil. 2. 15. * Camb. Brit. in this Bishoprick * Bale de scrip Brit. Cent. 6. Num. 1. * Master Fox would not put out the Feast of the Circumcision * All the remarkable passages of these four Lives are taken out of Bishop Godâ—… in his respective Catalogue of Bishops * 1 Tim. 3. 6. * Bale de scrip A g. Cent. 9. Num. 95. * In his Eliz. 〈◊〉 1559. * Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of VVinchester 〈◊〉 in Auâ—…ria * J. Pits de Aâ—…g scrip in Anno 1249. * Joh. Rouse of VVarwick * Ad Annum 1256. * Sâ—…r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his Arch-Bishops of Dublin * Reckoned up bâ—… â—… 〈◊〉 and J. Pits * Bishop Godwin in his Catalogue of Bishops * Dr. Thomas Goad in hâ—…s â—…dnsing his Sermon called Gratia disâ—… * Out of his pâ—…vate pedigrâ—… communicated unto me * Acts 17. 11. * Num. 11. 28. * 1 King 3. 22. * Johannes Bauhinus hâ—…st plant univers Tom. 2. lib. 19 cap. 5. * Johannes Bodeus in Theophrastum * See the Statute 1. Jacobi cap. 18. * So am I informed by Capt. Farmer of Newgate-Market Copy-holder of the Island * Pro. 31. 19. * Camdens Brit. in Essâ—… * It is generally conceived the body of King Harold * Festus lib. 9. see Mercators Atlas p. 298. * Weavers Fun. Mon. p. 641. * Alias Cogshall * In his Catal. of Religious houses in Essex * Now in the possession of the Earl of Warwick * J 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 703. * 〈◊〉 * Kilianus * Camden in Essâ—…x * Ric. Vâ—…tus Basing ad lib. 5. 〈◊〉 Bâ—…t 〈◊〉 26. * See Nizolius in Obs. on Tully on the word abuti †Thus Saint â—…erome Apostolicis stolicâ—… testimoniis abuâ—… quae jam 〈◊〉 ia gâ—…ntibusdivulgata * EnglishMartyrolog on Octob. 7. pag. 272. * De script Brit. Cent. 2. Num. 23. †De Ang. script in Anno 883. * These as the following observables are taken out of Mr. Foxes Acts and Mon. in their respective Martyrdomes * Fâ—…x Acts Mon. p. 〈◊〉 * Fox Acts and Mon. p. 2037. * Camdens Brit. in Essex * Godwin in his Catal. of Bishops * Idem in the Arch-bishops of Canterbury * Vitâ—… Abb. West M. S. * J. Philipot Cat. of Treasurers pag. 13. * Godwin in the Bishops of London * J. Philiâ—…ot Car. of Treasurers pag. 17. * Godwin in the Arch-bishops of Cant. in the life of Courtney * Tho. Walsingham in Anno 1395. * 〈◊〉 Sâ—…elt 〈◊〉 M. Sâ—… in the Mâ—…sters of St. Johns * Godwin in the Bishops of Peterborogh * Parker ut prius * Proved June 8. 1631. S N. * Stoâ—…s survey of London p. 146. A M P. * Bale cript Bâ—…t Cent. oct Num. 9 * Sir R. Baker in his Chroniclâ—… pag. 469. saith he was born â—…n Oxford-shire * Idâ—… ibidem * Camdens Eliz. Anno 1576. * Camdens Eliz. Anno 1577. * In my history of Cambridge S N. A M P. * Benefactors to the Publick in Cheshlre * Stows Annals in the raign of K. John * Of StandedMont-Fitchet in this County * Stow ut prius * Stow ut prâ—…us †Camd. Brit. in Essex * Stow ut prius * Weavers Fun. Mon. p. 623. * In Bib. Cot. in Arch Tarris Lond. 1 Pars Pat. An. 8. H. 4. m. 20. * I received the ensuing intelligence from his near Kinsman Mr. William Gilbert of Brental-Ely in Suffolk * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 3. pag. 250. Pitz. de Illâ—…str Ang. Aetat 13. pag. 274. * Pitz. de script Angl. Anno 1218. * De script Brit. Cent. 4. p. 302. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 4. Num. 11. compared with Pitts in Anno 1250. S. N. * Bale Num. 13. Pitz. 1259. * Sir John Sucling his verses on the right honorable and learned Earl of Monmouth * Mills his Cat. of honour p. 677. * J. Bale J. Pitz. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 7. Num. 84. * In libâ—… de sacramentis cap. 17. * De Ang. script in Anno 1430 * In his hist. at the end of his Booâ—… of Husbandry * Mark 15. 2. * R. Parker in Sceletos Cantabrigiensis in manuscript * See Suffolk in the title of Benefactours * 1 Kings 2. 25. * In the title of Souldiers * Abstract of the Chron of Dunm in Biblioth Cottón * Goodwin in his Catalogue of Bishops * Exemplefied in Weavers Funerall Monuments pa. 417. * Godwin in Ep Elien Anglicanae linguae omninoignarus * Mat. Paris Anno 〈◊〉 * Ad Annum 1245. * Verstâ—…gan in names of Contemp * Weavers Fun Mon. pag. 602. * Stows Survey of London in Faringdonward †Acts 19. 28. * Camdens Brit. in Middlesex * Acts 24. 27. * Stows Survey of London pag 90. * Idem Ibidem * In his book intitled Scriptores nostri tempores * Camdens Eliz. in Anno 1576. * Stow. Chroâ—… anno citat * 1 Sam 6. 11. * From whom Mr. Câ—…mbden in his Brit. doth dissent * Gen. 26. 12. * Ma h. 13. 8. * Hartlibs Legacy pag. 49. * Columella in bortulo * J. Minshew in his Dictionary in the word * Sir Francis Bacon in his Natural Hist. Cent. 2. Numb 148. * 1 Cor. 1. 15. * Mich. Drayton in his Poâ—… * Horatius * Carews Survey of Cornwall fol. 25. * William of Malmâ—…sbury in his Book of Bishops * Tituâ—… 1. 〈◊〉 * Actâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * In the 〈◊〉 of Prelates * Plautus in 〈◊〉 * Eccles. 10. 20 * Engl. Mar yâ—… in the 17 of July * Fox Act. and Mon. pag. 1027 * Heb. 9. 27. * 2 Cor. 11. 28 * Pag. 1030. * Sand. de Schism Aâ—…g in his Diary Anno 1581. month of March. * Luke 24.
* Joh. 4. 1. * Godwin in Car of Bishops of Canter pag. 147. * Maâ—… 15. 38. * Mat. 14. 21. * I Bale Mr. Parker in Ant. Brit. I Pits Bishop Godwin and Sir Henry Savile in his life prefac'd to his book de causá Dâ—…i * August de Grat. lib. a bit cap. 14. * Idem de civ D i lib. 5. cap. 9 * Godwin in the Arch. bishops of Câ—…t * Reader for the greater crediâ—… of this Couâ—…y I put there four Arch-bishâ—…p â—…ogether otherwife Bishop Burwosâ—… â—…olloing hereafter in time preceded the two latter * Weavers fun monument pag. 213. * Godwin on the Bishops of Lâ—…ncoln †â—… Philipot in his Catalogue of Chancelloâ—…rs * Godwin ut prius * 3 Joh. 12. * Mills his Catalogue of honour pag. 412. * Idem ibidem * Camdens ' Elizabeth in pag. 1592. * See fragmenta Regalia in his Character written by Sir Robert Naunton * Holiâ—…shed Stow Speed c. * Camdens Eliz. anno citato * Idem anno 1586. * Câ—…mdens Brit. in Sussex * Hâ—…luits Voyages part 3. pag 598. * Plutarch in his life REM * De Script Brit. Cent. 8 Num. 8 * In Anno 1443. * De Script Brit. Cent. 4. Num. 2. S. N. * De Script Brit. Câ—…nt 5. Num. 11. AMP. * In the Epist. Dedicatory before his Lectures on the Sacramâ—…nt * Mr. Leigh of religious and learned men pag. 100. * Extraneus Vapulans made by an Alter idem to Doctor Heylin pag. 167. * Mr. Spencer keeper of the Library at Jesus-colledge Pits de Ang. script Anno 1582. * 2 Kings 11. 14. * Pag. 796. * See his Epitaph in 〈◊〉 * Mills in Catalogue of hon pag. 418. * In his book of fishing 〈◊〉 and planting * Holinshed in 〈◊〉 Chronicle pag. 〈◊〉 * Camdeâ—…s Eliz. Anno 1580. * Stow his Cronicle in this year * 〈◊〉 Speed in his descript of Warwick-shire * Gen. 13. 10. * Nat. Hist. 〈◊〉 16. cap. 13. * Mr. Venour * John 3. 5. * Psalm 107. 35. * Spâ—…d in his Description of Warwick-shire * Out of which it is observed by Mr. M lls in his Catal. of Honour pag. 804. and Mr. Dugâ—…ale in his Earls of Warwick * 〈◊〉 in Probl. Cur polypus mutat coâ—…pus * Mr. Dugdale in his Illustrations of Warwick 〈◊〉 in the Catalogue of the 〈◊〉 thereof * Mâ—… Dugdale in 〈◊〉 illustrations of this County Psalm 91. 3. * Bishop Godwiâ—… in hiâ—… Catal of Cardin. pâ—…g 170. Psalm 49. 17. * Bishop Gâ—…dwin ut supra * Bishop Goâ—…win in his Caâ—…al of Cardin. * Camâ—…ens Briâ—… 〈◊〉 Warwick-sh * In 〈◊〉 life of Stratford * Idem Ibidâ—…m * Godwinâ—…n â—…n the Biâ—…hops of London * Brian Twin * Bâ—…le de Script Brit. * Fox Acts and Monum pag. 1588. anno 1555. * Camdens Eliz. Anno 15â—…9 * Idem Anno 1570. * Stows Survay of London p. 149. * 〈◊〉 cent 3. num 74. * Thomas Eccl stone in Chroniâ—…le of Franciscans * Bale de Script cent 4. num 12. * Bale de Scrip. Brit. Cent. 6. num 10. * pits de Scrip 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Acts 17. 24. * Song 13. p. â—…13 * In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Warâ—…-Shire * Mr. Adoniâ—…m 〈◊〉 who 〈◊〉 to leave larger instâ—…uctions of his 〈◊〉 life but I received them noâ—… * Dr. Goâ—…ge Pâ—…eface to Posthume works of Mr. Byfiâ—…ls S.N. * Pits de 〈◊〉 Ang. Script 〈◊〉 Anno 1612. †Mr Dugdale in his Illust. of Warwick-shire pag 4. 7. * Our Country-man Pits did foranize with long living beyond the Seas * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 19. * H. Holland Herologia 139. * See their Monument in the Church of Nâ—…ther-Eatendon * I suspect this Catalogue though taken out of Mr. Stow imperfect and that Sir William Hollis Lord Mayor and builder of 〈◊〉 was this Counâ—…y-man * Dr. Heylyn iâ—…â—…he Hist. and Raign of K Charles * J. Speed in the description of this County * Godwins Anâ—…ls of K. Edward the sixth in 〈◊〉 anno * In his Catal. of honour pag. 229. * Godwin in his Arch-bishop of York * Idem ibidem * Bishop Godwin in the 〈◊〉 of the Bishops of Carlile * Cam â—…ens Brit. in Cumberland * â—…anuscript Additions to Sir James Ware * Mr. S. Clarke in his live of Modeâ—…ne Divin 39â—… * Though Sussex where his Sirname is of good esteem may pretend unto him I am confident of his right Location * Sir Jo Davis in discourse of Ireland pag. 69. * R. Holinshed Irish Câ—…ron pag. 109. * Idem ibidem * See Vâ—…llare Anglica * Bale Pitz de Script Brit. A. M. P. * M.S. Hatcher of the Scholars thereâ—… * Though disputable I conceive them rightly placed since the Reformation * Life of Bernard 〈◊〉 wrote by Bishop 〈◊〉 pag. 2. * Camdens 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 * Gen. 2. 18. * Compare the Tables of Mr. Speed * Mr. Gregori's Opera Posthumâ—… pag. 95. c. * Written by Inigo Jones Esq. * Vitru lib. 5. * Mr. Dugdale in hiâ—… Allustration of Warwickshire pag. 335. * Bale de script Brit. 〈◊〉 1. Num. 83. * Cambd. Brit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Flowers of English Saints pag. 491. * Idem p. 492. * Polyc. lib. 6. cap. 9. * John Capgrove in vitâ—… 〈◊〉 Edithâ—… * Acts Mon. pag. 815. * Fox Act. and Mon. p. 1894. * Fox Act. and Mon. p. 2054. * See 〈◊〉 in Mem. Per. in this Shire * Fox Act. and Mon. p. 〈◊〉 * Bishop Godwin in his 〈◊〉 of Cardin. p. 171. †Pitz de Ang. script in Anno 1305. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 4. 〈◊〉 85. * Pitz de script Brit. Anno 1410. S. N. * Centuria 3. Num. 1. S. N. * Godwin in the Bishops of Winchester * Speed in hâ—…s Catal. of Religious houses in Will-shire * Bishop GodWin in his Bishops of Winchester * New-colledge Register in Anno 1459. * Godwin in the Bishops of Hereford * Sir John Harrington in his additionall supply to Bishop Godwin pag. 158. * So am I am informed by Mr. Anthony Holmes his Secretary still alive †Bishop Godwin in his 〈◊〉 of the Bishops of Rochester * Idem ibidem * In the life of Richard the second * Sir John Davis in Disc. o Ireland pag. 39. c. * J. Philipot in his 〈◊〉 of Lord Treasurers pag. 84. * See Kent in title 〈◊〉 †In his Notes on 〈◊〉 pag. 303. * Isa. 58. 8. * Pits de Illus 1. Angl. scripâ—… Anno 1060. * Idem ibidem * Abdiaâ—… 〈◊〉 Apost hist. lib. 1. Egesip 〈◊〉 3. cap. 2. Epiph. lib. Tom. 2. haeres 21. Antoâ—… chro part 1. tit 6. cap. 4. * Bale de script Bâ—…it Cent. 2. Num. 51. * In vitâ—… Roberti Canuti Cent. 3. Num. 4. * Bale de script Brit. Câ—…nt 3. Num. 28. * Ephes. 5. 19. * Bale de script Cent. 4. Num. 20. * 〈◊〉 Cent. 6. Num. 17. * 〈◊〉 de