night before the Fight which was this Jack of Norfolk be not too bold For Dickon thy Master is bought and sold Yet notwithstanding this warning this noble Duke continued firm to K. Richard and lost his Life in his quarrel The whole number slain in this Battle on K. Richard's side was about 1000 Persons Sir Wm. Catesby one of the chief Counsellors of K. Richard with divers others were two days after beheaded at Leicester This Battle was fought Aug. 20. 1485. continuing a little above two hours The Earl Knighted several persons in the Field and then kneeling down he rendred hearty Thanks to Almighty God for the Victory he had obtained and commanded all the wounded men to be cured whereat the People rejoycing clapt their hands and cried K. Henry K. Henry of which joy Sir W. Stanly taking opportunity he took the Crown of K. Richard which was found among the spoils in the Field and set it on the Earls Head as though he had been elected King by the voice of the People The Body of K. Richard after he was slain was script and left naked to the very skin not so much as a rag being left about him to cover his nakedness and being taken up was trussed behind a pursivant at Arms his Head and Arms hanging on one side the Horse and his Legs on the other thus all besmeared with Blood and dirt he was brought to the Gray Friars Church in Leicester and there for some time lay a miserable spectacle and afterward with small Funeral Pomp was there buried But K. Henry 7. afterward caused a Tomb to be set over the place with his Picture in Alabaster which at the suppression of that Monastery was utterly defaced since when his Grave overgrown with Nettles and Weeds is not to be found only the stone Chest wherein his Corps lay is now made a drinking Trough for Horses at a common Inn in Leicester and retaineth only the memory of this Monarchs greatness but his body is reported to have been carried out of the City and contemptuously laid under the end of Bow-Bridge near that Town it is likewise said that upon this Bridg there stood a stone of some height against which K. Richard as he passed toward Bosworth by chance struck his spur which a Witch or wise Woman observing she should say That where his spur struck his head should be broken as they say it was when he was brought back dead He lived 37 years and reigned two years and two months it is memorable that this Sir William Stanly who so seasonably saved K. Henries life and set the Crown on his head was about 11 years after upon pretence of some dangerous words beheaded at Tower-hill by order of the same King Henry Mr. Wanly writes that in St. Martins Church in Leicester there is this very remarkable Epitaph to be seen Here lies the body of John Heyrick of this Parish who died 1589. aged 76 years who lived with his Wife Mary in one House full 62 years and had issue by her 5 Sons and seven Daughters and in all that time never buried Man Woman nor Child though they were somtime 20 in Houshold the said Mary lived to 97 years and died 1611. She did see before her departure of her Children and Childrens Children and their Children to the number of 142. Matthew Paris relates of a Maid in Leicestershire who being exactly watched was found in seven years together neither to eat nor drink but only that on Sundays she received the Sacrament and yet continued fat and good liking which if true we may well believe that in the Resurrection our life may be maintained without meat or drink About Lutterworth in Leicestershire a Miller had murdered one in his Mill and privately buried him in a ground hard by this Miller removed into another Country and there lived a long space till at last guided by the Providence of God for the manifestation of his Justice he returned unto that place to visit some of his Friends while he was there the Miller who now had the Mill had occasion to dig deep in that very place where he found the Carkass of a man this known it pleased God to put it into their hearts to remember a Neighbour of theirs who 20 years before was suddenly missed and since that time not heard of and bethinking themselves who was then Miller of that Mill behold he was ready in Town not having been there for many years before this man was suspected thereupon examined without much ado confessed the Fact was accordingly executed for the same In 1660. Sep. 3. near Worthington in this County there happened a dreadful Whirlwind which tore up a great Tree by the Roots casting it four or five yards from the place rent off the great limbs of an Apple-Tree and threw down a House in the Street the Chappel was much shaken and the Chancel in danger of falling then it passed on with great force and noise to Worthington Hall where it overturned five Bay of Barn-building and a Gate-house it blew down a stack of Chimnies and hurried a man into the Garden who by catching hold of a Tree stayed himself at another Town it rent a House where a woman and three Children were miraculously preserved to which it brought a great Log of Wood no body knew from whence it carried away a Hive of Bees and a load of Thorns which could not be heard of and turned up 20 Load of Wood by the roots this whirlwind ran about three miles in length and not above 20 yards in breadth some said there were flames of fire seen in it Upon the 24. of January following between six and seven a clock at night there was a very great Earthquake in most parts of Leicestershire which came at first like a noise in the Air at great distance it shook the Houses very much and in some places men could hardly stand without holding the continuance thereof was about a quarter of an hour Near Lutterworth is a spring so cold that in a short time it turneth straw and sticks into stone John Wickliff was sometime Parson of Lutterworth Church a man of singular and polite wit and much conversant in the Scripture his bones were afterward taken up and burnt by the Papists Sir Robert Belknap Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in K. Richard 2. time was of this County and that K. having a design to destroy certain Lords sent for the Judges to Nottingham where the Kings many questions were in fine resolved into this Whether he might by his Regal Power revoke what was acted in Parliament to this all the Judges Sir William Skipwith alone excepted answered Affirmatively and subscribed it though this Belknap did it unwillingly as foreseeing the danger and putting to his Seal said these words There wants nothing now but an Hurdle an Horse and an Halter to carry me where I may suffer the death I deserve for if I had not
been told by some Wizards That he should never prosper after he had met a thing called Rugemont but it seems either the Devil or his Oracle spoke low or lisping being desirous to hide his Folly or Ignorance or that K. Richard having a guilty Conscience which is soon frighted mistook him seeing not Rugemont but Richmond the Title of K. Henry 7. was the utter Destruction of this Usurper In the Reign of K. Edw. 4. Sir John Hawksford one of the Lord Chief Justices living at Annory in this County a man of great a Estate and without Children fell into a deep Melancholy and one day calling to him the Keeper of his Park charged him with negligence in suffering his Deer to be stoln and thereupon commanded him That if he met with any one in his Night-walk that would not stand or speak he should not fail to kill him whosoever he were Having thus provided and intending to end his doleful Days he in a dark night conveyed himself secretly out of his house and walked alone in his Park the Keeper in his Circuit hearing one stirring and coming toward him asked who was there but no answer being made he commanded him to stand which when he would not do the Keeper shot him dead and coming to see who it was found it to be his Master In 1588. Twiford was burnt down occasioned by burning straw in a Chimney which fired the House and so the Town about one Afternoon the fury whereof was so great that in an hour and an half it consumed 400 Houses to the loss of an Hundred and fifty thousand pounds in Money Plate Merchandise Houshold-stuff and Houses Fifty persons Men Women and Children were consumed therein yet through Divine Providence an Almshouse with several poor people therein was preserved almost in the midst of the flames In the Year 1638. Oct. 21. being Sunday in the Parish Church of Withy Comb during Sermon time there happened a very great darkness which still increased so that they could not see to read soon after a terrible and fearful Thunder was heard like the noise of many great Guns accompanied with dreadful Lightning to the great amazement of the People the Darkness still increasing that they could not see each other when there presently came such an extraordinary flame of Lightning as filled the Church with Fire smoak and a loathsome smell like Brimstone a Ball of fire came in likewise at the Window and passed through the Church which so affrighted the Congregation that most of them fell down in their Seats some upon their knees others on their faces and some one upon another crying out of burning and scalding and all giving up themselves for dead Mr. George Lyde Minister of the Parish was in his Pulpit and though much astonished yet through Divine Mercy had no harm but was a sad spectator of the hurt and sufferings of others the Lightning seizing on his Wife and burning her Cloaths and many parts of her Body and another Gentlewoman by her in the same manner but her Maid and Child sitting at the Pue door had no hurt another Woman attempting to run out of the Church had her Cloaths set on fire and was miserably scorched and burnt and her Flesh torn off her back almost to the very bones another Woman had her flesh so torn and her Body so terribly burnt that she died the same Night One Master Hill had his head suddenly struck against the Wall in his seat with such violence that he dyed the same night no other hurt being observed his Son sitting by him received no hurt at the same Instance another man had his Head cloven his Skull rent into 3 pieces and his Brains thrown upon the ground whole the Hair of his Head through the violence of the blow stuck fast to a Pillar near him some Seats in the Body of the Church were turned upside down yet those which sate in them had little or no hurt One man going out of the Chancel door his Dog ran before him who was whirled about toward the door and fell down stark dead upon which the Master stepped back and was preserved The Church itself was much torn and defaced with the Thunder and Lightning a Beam whereof breaking in the midst fell down between the Minister and Clark and hurt neither the Steeple was much rent and it was observed where the Church was most rent there the least hurt was done among the People there were none hurt with the Timber or Stones but one Maid who it was judged was killed by the falling of a Stone which might easily happen since Stones were thrown down from the Steeple as fast as if it had been by an 100 Men A Pinnacle of the Tower being thrown down beat through into the Church The Pillar against which the Pulpit stood being newly whited was turned black and sulphury there were in all 3 persons killed and 62 hurt divers of them having their Linnen burnt though their outward Garments were not so much as singed The Lightning being past and the People in a terrible Maze a Gentleman in the Town stood up and said Neighbours in the name of God shall we venture out of the Church To whom the Minister answered Let us make an end with Prayer for it is better to dye here than in another place But the People looking about them and seeing the Church so terribly rent and torn over their heads durst not proceed in the publick Devotions but went out of the Church At the same time there were strange accidents else where for a bowling Ally near the Church-yard was turned into Pits and Heaps as if plowed And at Brixton near Plimouth at that time fell Hailstones as big as an ordinary Turkey-Egg some of 5 6 and 7 Ounces weight And it was discoursed that the like Judgment happened at Norton in Somersetshire the truth of these things was attested by the Minister and diverse Inhabitants present This County is divided into 33 Hundreds wherein are 32 Market Towns and 394 Parish Churches Out of it are elected 26 Parliament Men it is in the Diocess of Exeter and gives the Title of Earl to William L. Cavendish as Exeter doth to John L. Cecil DORSETSHIRE hath Devonshire on the West Somerset and Wiltshire on the North Hantshire on the East and the narrow Seas on the South It abounds in Wheat Cattle Wool Kersies and all other commodities necessary for the Life of Man Dorchester is the chief Market Town which was formerly walled whereof some part yet standeth especially upon the west and South sides the Tract or Trench whereof in the manner of a Quadrant contains 1700 paces but was destroyed by the Danes Other places are memorable for the Actions happening therein though nothing now but Ruines as Badbury now a Trench and decayed Castle only though sometimes the Court of the West-Saxon Kings such also is Cerne where Austin the Monk broke down the Altars and Idols of the Saxon God
English Tongue and the Bishop of Romes Power was by several Statutes abolished in England howeuer divers of the Popish Bishops and Clergy privately endeavoured to restore it again which he was alwaies aware of and therefore calling his Servants together he discovered to them in what a slippery condition he stood considering the variable affections of the King and the malice and subtlety of his Popish Adversaries and therefore required them to be very circumspect least by their default any quarrel might be pickt against him and soon after some false witnesses accused him of Heresy and of speaking some words against the King yet his Enemies durst not bring him to his answer nor try him by his Peers but procured an Act of Attainder whereby he was condemned before he was heard and the King not long after his death repented his hast wishing That he had his Cromwell alive again When he came upon the Scaffold at Towerhill he spake thus to the People I am come hither to die and not to purge my self as some perhaps may expect I should I am by the Law condemned to dye and I thank my Lord that hath appointed me this death for mine offences for I have alwaies lived a Sinner and offended my Lord God for which I ask him hearty forgiveness It is not unknown to many of you that I was a great Traveller and being but of mean Parentage was called to high Estate and now I have offended my Prince for which I heartily ask him forgiveness beseeching you to pray with me to Almighty God that he will forgive me And once again I desire you to pray for me that so long as life remaineth in this flesh I may waver nothing in my Faith Then kneeling down on his knees he made an excellent Prayer concluding thus Grant O most merciful Father that when death shall shut up the Eyes of my Body yet the Eyes of my Soul may still behold and look upon thee and when death hath taken away the use of my Tongue yet my heart may cry and say unto thee Lord into thy hands I commend my soul Lord Jesus receive my soul Amen Having ended his Prayer he made a Divine exhortation to those on the Scaffold and then quietly gave up his Spirit 1541. Upon his Monument was Ingraven Cromwell surnamed the Great whom Wolsey first raised from the Forge to eminent good Fortunes whom Henry 8. used as his Instrument to suppress the Popes Supremacy and to dissolve Religious Structures whom he advanced to the highest pitch of Honour and Authority whom he cast down suddenly and bereft both of Life and Dignities lies here Interred Surrey is divided into 13 Hundreds wherein are seven Market Towns besides Southwark which keeps the same with London 140 Parish Churches and is in the Diocess of Winchester It elects 14 Parliament Men and gives the Title of Earl to Henry L. Howard who is also Duke of Norfolk SVSSEX hath Surrey on the N. Kent on the E. the Sea on the S. and Hantshire on the W. The Soil is rich but ill for Travellers in the Winter the Land lying low and the ways being deep the middle Tract is adorned with Meadows Pastures and Cornfields the Sea-Coast with Hills called the Downs abundantly yielding both Corn and Grass and the Northside is overshadowed with Groves and thick Woods called the Weald where sometimes was the famous Wood called Andradswald 120 miles in length memorable for the death of Sigebert King of the West Saxons who being deposed was stabbed in this place by a Swine-heard Chichester in this County is a large and beautiful City very well walled about a little River running hard by it on the West It hath four Gates from whence the Streets lead directly and cross themselves in the middle where in a fair Market House of Stone supported with Pillars round about the Market is kept between the West and South Gates stands the Cathedral Church not very great but handsom and neat having a Spire Steeple of Stone rising a great height It is the residence of the Bishop and has often suffered by Fire It was first built by Cissa the second King of the South Saxons wherein he kept his Royal Court Lewes seems to contend with Chichester for Populousness largeness and buildings where King Athelstan appointed a Mint for his Money and William de Warren Earl of Surrey who came into England with William the Conqueror built a strong Castle and founded an Abby there It is recorded that Edw. 1. in the 8th year of his Reign 1282. sent out his Writ of Quo Warranto through England to examine by what Title men held their Lands and Estates which brought him in much mony till John E. Warren Successor to this William being called to shew his Title drew out an old rusty Sword and then said he held it by that and by that he would hold it till death which caused the King to desist from proceeding any further in that Project In King Henry 3. time the same John Earl Warren had the confidence to kill Zouch Allen Lord Chief Justice with his own hands upon the Bench in Westminster-Hall so much did he presume upon his great favour with the King In the Barons Wars with this King the Lords got into this Castle of Lewes and not far off fought a great Battle wherein the King had his Horse shot under him and was taken Prisoner with his Brother and Son In the year 1058. Harold putting to Sea in a small Boat for his pleasure from Boseham his Mannor in Sussex and having unskilful Marriners was driven upon the Coasts of Normandy where by Duke William he was detained till he had sworn to make him King of England if Edward the Consessor died without Children yet afterward without any regard to his Oath he placed himself on the Throne Duke William hereupon arrived at Pemsey and with his Sword revenged the Perjury of Harold at Battle in this County with such severity that there fell 67974 English Men that day the Conqueror putting himself thereby into full possession of the whole Kingdom over which he Reigned 22 years being victorious both at home and abroad but to discover the vanity of all earthly things it sometimes happens that some great Persons are not suffered to go to rest when their Bed is made and others are pulled out of those Lodgings whereof they had once taken peaceable possession as appears very fully in the following Relation No sooner had the soul of this victorious Prince William the Conqueror left his Body but that his dead Corps was abandoned by his Nobles and Followers and by his meaner Servants he was stript of Armour Vessels Apparel and all Princely Furniture his naked Body left upon the floor and his Funerals wholly neglected till one Harlwin a poor Country Knight undertook to carry his Corps to St. Stephens Church at Caen in Normandy which the dead King had formerly founded At his entrance into Caen the
John Heyward saith Dun was a famous Thief among others and Commander over the rest and of him the place was called Dunstable This County is divided into 9 Hundreds wherein are 10 Market Towns and 116 Parish Churches and is in the Diocess of London it Elects only 4 Parliament Men two for the County and two for the Town of Bedford and gives the Title of Earl to the Right Honourable William L. Russel BVCKING HAMSHIRE hath on the East Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire on the West Oxfordshire on the North Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire and on the South Hertfordshire it hath its name from the â—lenty of Beech-Trees which the Saxons called Bucken with which the Country was formerly so over-run that it was altogether impassable and became a refuge for Thieves and Robbers and occasioned that Proverb in this Country Here a Bush and there a Thief for which cause they were cut down In 1665. Jan. 20. about six a clock at night there was an Earthquake in some parts of Buckinghamshire which was attended with an unusual kind of noise in the Air but was quickly over it much frighted some People on the sudden to feel their Chairs and Stools quake under them and to hear Tables and such things to clatter in the rooms and the whole House to shake this Information saith Mr. Clark in his Examp. p. 2. I had from an honest Minister in that County K. William the Conqueror gave a Mannor and certain Yardlands in Buckinghamshire to a Person upon this Condition That the Possessor or Owner thereof should find Straw or Litter for the Kings Bed whensoever he came that way which shews what an alteration there is as to matter of Grandeur since that time The best and biggest bodied Sheep in England are in the Vale of Aylsbury in this County where it is nothing to give Ten pound or more for a Breed-Ram so that should a Forreigner hear the price thereof he would guess that Ram to be rather some Roman Engine of Battery than the Creature commonly so called I know not saith Dr. Fuller whether his Observation with the reason thereof be worth the inserting who first took notice that our Cattle for food are English when feeding in the Field but French when fed on in a Family as for example English 1. Sheep 2. Ox. 3. Calf 4. Hog 5. Pig French 1. Mutton 2. Beef 3. Veal 4. Bacon 5. Pork Whereof the Author assigns this Reason that after the Norman Conquest the French so Tyrannized over the English Tenants that they forced them to keep and feed their Cattel but the Mounsieurs eat all the good meat after it was killed and drest to their hands Forreigners much admire at our English Sheep because they do not as those in other Countries follow their Shepheards like a pack of Dogs but wander all abroad and the Popish Priests tell their ignorant Flocks That this disobedience of our Sheep happened to us because we have left their great Sheperd the Pope a very profound reason whereas our Sheep did the same long before our Separation from Rome because being freed from the fear of Wolves which infest their Flocks beyond Sea they feed safely in the Fields wanting neither Guide to direct them nor Guard to defend them Roger Wendover was born at a Market Town of that name in this County and was bred a Benedictine in St. Albans where he became the Kings Historian and it is observable that our English Kings had alwaies a Monk generally of St. Albans as being near London the Staple of News and Books to write the most remarkable Passages of their Reign and some add that their Chronicles were locked up in the Kings Library and were never suffered to be opened in that Kings nor his Sons life if so they had a great incouragement to be impartial not fearing a blow on their Teeth though coming near to the heels of Truth as being hereby in some kind tyed up from doing them any hurt this Roger began his Chronicle at the Conquest and continued it to 1235. which Matthew Paris and others carried down further after his death The Lady Hester Temple Wife to Sir Thomas Temple was born at Latimers in this County she had 4 Sons and 9 Daughters who lived to be Married and so exceedingly multiplied that this Lady saw Seven hundred extracted from her own Body Vives tells of a Village in Spain of about an 100 Houses whereof all the Inhabitants issued out of one certain old Man who then lived and says the Spanish Language did not afford â— name whereby the youngest should call the Elder â—â—nce they could not go above the Great Grandfathers â—ather but had the Off-spring of this Lady been conâ—racted into one place they were enough to have peopâ—ed a City of a competent proportion though her issue â—as not so long in Succession as broad in extent this â—ady died in 1656. Sir Edward Cook that famous comâ—entator of the Law was born in this Shire One time a Parliament was called and the Court Party being jeaâ—ous of Sir Edwards Activity against them as not having â—igested the discontent he had received from thence â—ereupon to prevent his Election as a Member and conâ—ine him to this County he was pricked Sheriff thereof he â—hereupon scrupled to take the Oath alledging many â—hings against it and particularly that the Sheriff is bound â—hereby to prosecute Lollards wherein the best Christiâ—ns may be included but no excuses would serve his â—urn he must serve the Office however his Friends beâ—eld it as an injurious degradation of him who had been â—ord Chief Justice to attend on the Judges at the Assizes Buckingham is the Shire Town of this County fruitâ—ully seated upon the River Ouse and was fortified formerly with Rampires and a strong Castle mounted on a â—igh Hill whereof nothing now remains but some small â—igns of such a place It is divided into 8 Hundreds wherein are 15 Market Towns 185 Parish Churches â—nd is in the Diocess of London out of it are Elected 14 Parliament Men For the County 2. Buckingham 2. Chipâ—in-Wiccomb 2. Alisbury 2. Agmondisham 2. Wendover 2. and Marlow 2. It gives Titles to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham and Robert Bruce Earl of Alisbury Lord When shall I be cleered Q. Emma goes blindfold barefoot over 9 Burning plowshares at Winchester Pa. 87. Upon Midsummer Eve 1626. a Codfish was brought to the Market in Cambridge and there cut up for Sale and in the Maw thereof there was found a Book in Twelves bound up in Canvas containing several Treatises of Mr. John Friths this Fish was caught upon the Coasts of Lin called Lindeeps by one William Skinner the Fish bei g cut open the Garbidge was thrown by which a Woman looking upon espied the Canvas and taking it out found the Book wrapped up in it which was much soiled and covered over with a kind of slime and congealed matter this was looked upon with great admiration and by Benjamin
done this I should have dyed for it and because I have done it I deserve death for betraying the Lords Yet it had been more for his credit to have adventured Martyrdom in defence of the Laws than to hazard the death of a Malefactor in the breach thereof but Judges are but men and most men desire to decline that danger which they think nearest to them but he and the other Judges were condemned for High-Treason in the next Wonder working Parliament and hardly had escaped death if the Queen had not earnestly interceeded for them The County of Leicester is divided into six Hundreds wherein are 200 Parish Churches and 12 Market Towns it is in the Diocess of Lincoln and gives the Title of Earl to Robert L. Sydney LINCOLNSHIRE hath Yorkshire on the North the German Ocean on the East Cambridge and Northampton Shires on the South and Leicestershire on the West it abounds in Fish Fowl Corn Cattle and Flax. Lincoln is the chief Place well inhabited and frequented It stands upon the side of a Hill where the River Witham bends his course Eastward and being divided into three small Channels watereth the lower part of the City in the highest part thereof is the Cathedral a stately structure being built throughout with singular and rare Workmanship especially the West end it is very ancient and had 50 Parish Churches in it whereof at this day only 15 remain besides the Minster In the year 1180. a great Earthquake overthrew many Buildings amongst which the Cathedral Church of Lincoln was rent in pieces by it about this time the Bishoprick of Lincoln was so long void that a certain Hermit of Tame prophecied there should be no more Bishops of Lincoln but he proved an untrue Prophet for after 16 years vacancy Geffery the Kings Bastard Son was preferred thereunto of whom it was said That he was more skilful in fleecing than feeding his Flock this Gallant Bishop would usually in discourse protest By the honour of his Father but one of the Kings Chaplains told him Pray Sir remember sometimes the honesty of your Mother as well as the Royalty of your Father he used to put in his Episcopal Seal The Seal of Geffery Son of the K. of England A poor Country Husbandman coming to Robert Grostead Bishop of Lincoln challenged kindred of him and thereupon desired him to prefer him to such an Office which he was very unfit for Cousen said the Bishop If your Cart be broken I will mend it if your Plough be old I will give you a new one or seed to sow your Land but a Husbandman I found you and a Husbandman I will leave you In 1537. King Henry the 8. by advice of the L. Cromwell sent abroad injunctions whereby the People were permitted to read the Bible and to have the Lords Prayer the Creed the Ten Commandments and all the Articles of the Christian Faith in English to be taught by all Parsons and Curates to their Parishioners which so inraged the stupid Papists that in Lincolnshire Twenty Thousand of them assembled together against whom the King himself went in Person who by persuasion winning their Chief Leaders brought the rest upon pardon to submit themselves but when he had himself done the work of mercy he afterward sent the Duke of Suffolk Sir John Russel and others to do the work of Justice who caused Nicholas Melton and a Monk who called himself Captain Cobler with 13 other Ringleaders of the Sedition to be apprehended and most of them executed In 1564. a monstrous Fish was driven on the shoar at Grimesby in this County being 19 yards in length his tail was 15 foot broad and six yards between his Eyes 15 men stood upright in his mouth to get the Oil. Job Hartop was born at Bourn in this County and went in 1568. with Sir John Hawkins his General to make discoveries in New Spain He was a Gunner in one of Queen Elizabeths Ships called The Jesus of Lubeck long and dangerous was his Voyage eight of his men being killed at Cape-Verd and the General himself wounded with poysoned Arrows but was cured by a Negro who drew out the Poyson with a clove of Garlick he first writ of that strange Tree which may be termed The Tree of Food affording a Liquor which is both meat and drink The Tree of Raiment yeilding Needles wherewith and Thred whereof Mantles are made The Tree of Harbour Tiles to cover Houses being made out of the solid parts thereof so that it beareth a self-sufficiency for mans maintenance Job was his name and patience was with him so that he may pass for a Confessor of this County for being with some others by this General left on land for want of Provisions after many miseries they came to Mexico he continued a Prisoner twenty three years that is 2 years at Mexico one year in the Contractation House in Sevil another in the Spanish Inquisition in Triana 12 years a Gally Slave four years with the Cross of St. Andrews at his back in the Everlasting Prison and three years a drudge to Hernando de Soria to so high a sum did the inventory of his sufferings amount so much of his patience now see the end the Lord made with him whil'st inslaved to the aforesaid Fernando he was sent to Sea in a Flemish Vessel which was afterward taken by an English Ship and so he was safely landed at Plymouth Dec. 2. 1590. And died soon after Sir William Mounson was extracted out of an Ancient Family in this Shire and was from his Youth bred in Sea Service wherein he attained to great perfection Queen Elizabeth having cleared Ireland of the Spanish Forces and desiring carefully to prevent a Relapse altered the Scene of War from Ireland to Spain from defending to invading and Sir Richard Levison being Admiral and Mounson Vice Admiral they in 1602. went to Portugal where without drawing a Sword they quite killed Trading on those Coasts no Ships daring to go in or out of their Harbours there they had Intelligence of a vast Carract ready to land in Sisimbria which was of 1600 Tun richly laden out of the East-Indies resolved to assault it though it seemed placed in an invincible posture of itself it was a Gyant in comparison of our Pigmy Ships and had in her 300 Spanish Gentlemen the Marquess De Sancta Cruce lay hard by with 13 Ships and all were secured under the Command of a strong and well fortified Castle but nothing is impossible to the English Valour and Gods blessing thereon After an hot dispute which lasted for some hours with the Invincible Arguments of Fire Sword the Carract was conquered the wealth taken therein amounting to the value of Ten Hundred Thousand Crowns of Portugal Account But though the Goods gotten therein might be valued the good gotten thereby was inestimable for ever after the Spaniards beheld the English with admiring Eyes and quitted the thoughts of Invasion this worthy Knight