more able child of more docility Docil the child Master of great ability At last he was prefered Bishop of Ely 1559. commendably continuing therein whatever causless malice hath reported to the contrary twenty one years and dying Anno Domini 1580. THOMAS BICKLEY was born at Stow in this County bred first Chorister then Scholar then Fellow in Magdalen-colledge in Oxford In the first of Edward the sixth his detestation of Superstition may rather be commended then his discretion in expressing it when before the publique abolishing of Popery at Evening-prayer he brake the consecrated Host with his hands and stamped it under his feet in the Colledge-chappel Afterwards he fled over into France living an exile at Paris Orleans all the reign of Queen Mary Returning into Eugland he became Chaplain to Arch-bishop Parker who preferred him Warden of Merton-colledge wherein he continued twenty years When pass'd the age of a man eighty years old he began the life of a Bishop and was rather contented then willing to accept the Bishoprick of Chichester * freely offered unto him Yet lived he eleven years therein and died ninety years of age April 30 1596. and had a most sumptuous funerall all the Gentry of the Vicinage doing their homage to the Crown of his old age which was foun'd in the way of truth He led a single life left an hundred pound to Merton-colledge and other moneys to pious uses JOHN KING was born at Warnhall nigh Tame in this County Robert King the last Abbot of Osney and first Bishop of Oxford being his great Uncle he was first Deane of Christ-church then Bishop of London being ful fraught with all Episcopal qualities so that he who endeavoureth to give a perfect account thereof will rather discover his own defects then describe this Prelates perfections He died Anno Dom. 1618. being buried in the Quire of Saint Pauls with the plain Epitaph of Resurgam and I cannot conceal this elegant Elegie made upon him Sad Relique of a blessed soul whose trust We sealed up in this Religious dust O do not thy low Exequies suspect As the cheap Arguments of our Neglect 'T was a commanded duty that thy Grave As little pride as thou thy self should have Therefore thy covering is an humble stone And but a word for thy inscription When those that in the same earth neighbour thee Have ââ¦ach his Chronicle Pedigree They have their waving Pennons and their flaggs Of Matches and Alliance formal Braggs Whenthou although from ancestors thou came Old as the Heptarchy great as thy name Sleepst there inshrin'd in thy admired parts And hast no Heraldry but thy deserts Yet let not them their prouder Marbles boast For they rest with less Honor though more cost Go search the world with your Mattokwound The groaning bosom of the patient ground Digg from the hidden veins of her dark womb All that is rare and precious for a tomb Yet when much treasure more time is spent You must grant his the Nobler Monument Whose faith standsore him for a Hearse hath The Resurrection for his Epitaph See more of the character of this most worthy Prelate in our Ecclesiasticall History anno 1620. wherein he died RICHARD MONTAGUE was born at Dorney where his Father was Vicar of the Parish within 3. miles of Eaton and so though not within the reach within the sight of that Staple Place for Grammar learning wherein he was bred Thence was he chosen successively Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge Fellow of Eaton Parson of Stanford Rivers in Essex Canon of Windsor Parson of Petworth elected Bishop of Chichester and at last of Norwich He spent very much in repairing his Parsonage-house at Petworth as also on his Episcopal house at Allingbourn near Chichester He was most exact in the Latin and Greek and in the Vindication of Tithes wrestled with the grand Antiquary of England and gave him a fair flat fall in the point of a Greek Criticisme taxing him justly for mistaking a God amongst the Aegyptians more then there was by making a Man amongst the Grammarians fewer then they should be He hath many learned works extant against the Papists some in English some in Latin and one called his Appello Caesarem which without his intent and against his will gave occasion of much trouble in the Land He began an Ecclesiasticall History and set forth his Apparatus and alas it was but an Apparatus though through no Default of his but defect of his Health sicknesse troublesome times and then death surprizing him Had it been finished we had had Church Annalls to put into the Ballance with those of Baronius and which would have swayed with them for Learning and weighed them down for Truth He dyed Anno Dom 1641. HENRY KING D. D. son to John King lately mentioned Bishop of London and his wife of the ancient family of the Conquests was born in this County in the ââ¦me town house and chamber with his father a locall Coincidence which in all considerable particulars cannot be parallel'd We know the Scripture-Proverb used in Exprobration As is the mother so is the daughter both wicked both wofull But here it may be said by way of thankfullness to God and honour to the persons As was the father so is the son both pious both prosperous till the calamity of the times involved the later Episcopacy Anno 1641. was beheld by many in a deep consumption which many hoped would prove mortal To cure this it was conceived the most probable cordiall to prefer persons into that Order not only unblameable for their life and eminent for their learning but also generally beloved by all disingaged people and amongst these King Charles advanced this our Doctor Bishop of Chichester But all would not do their Innocency was so far from stopping the mouth of malice that malice almost had swallowed them down her throat Since God hath rewarded his Patience giving him to live to see the Restitution of his Order David saith that the good Tree Man shall bring forth his fruit in due season so our Doctor varied his fruits according to the diversity of his age Being brought up in Christ-church in Oxford he delighted in the studies of Musiââ¦k and Poetry more elder he applyed himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity which his Printed Sermons on the Lords-prayer and others which he preached remaining fresh in the minds of his Auditors will report him to all posterity He is still living Anno Domini 1660. Writers on the Law Sir GEORGE CROOK Knight son of Sir John Crook and Elizabeth Unton his wife was born at Chilton in this County in the second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth bred first in Oxford then a double Reader in the Inner Temple Serjeant at Law and the Kings Serjeant Justice first of the Common-bench 22. Jacobi and then of the Upper-bench 4. Caroli His ability
Requests and at last Secretary of State for twenty years together He was a very zealous Protestant and did all good Offices for the advancement of true Religion and died the eighth of Septemb. 1644. Capital Judges and Writers on the Law JOHN STATHOM He was born in this County in the Raign of King Henry the sixth and was a learned man in the Laws whereof he wrote an Abridgement much esteemed at this day for the Antiquity thereof For otherwise Lawyers behold him as Souldiers do Bows and Arrows since the invention of Guns rather for sight than service Yea a Grandee in that Profession hath informed me that little of Stathom if any at all is Law at this day so much is the practice thereof altered whereof the Learned in that faculty will give a satisfactory accompt though otherwise it may seem strange that reason continuing alwayes the same Law grounded thereon should be capable of so great alteration The first and last time that I opened this Author I lighted on this passage Molendinarius de Matlock tollavit bis ââ¦Ã² quod ipse audivit Rectorem de eadem villa dicere in Dominica Ram. Palm Tolle tolle The Miller of Matlock took toll twice because he heard the Rectour of the Parish read on Palme Sunday Tolle Tolle i. e. crucifie him crucifie him But if this be the fruit of Latine Service to encourage men in Felony let ours be read in plain English Sir ANTHONY FITZ-HERBERT Son of Ralph Fitz-Herbert Esquire was born at Norbury in this County He was first the Kings Serjeant at Law and was afterwards in the fourteenth of King Henry the eighth made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas so continuing until the thirtieth year of the said King when he died He wrote the excellent Book De Natura Brevium with a great and laborious Abridgement of the Laws and a Kalendar and Index thereunto Monuments which will longer continue his Memory than the flat blew Marble stone in Norbury Church under which he lieth interred Sea-Men Sir HUGH WILLOUGHBY was extracted from a right worthy and ancient stock at Riseley in this County He was in the last year of the raign of King Edward the sixth employed for the North-East passage and by the King and Merchants of London made Captain General of a Fleet for Discovery of Regions and places unknown Their Fleet consisted of three Ships the Bona Esperanza Admiral of one hundred and twenty Tun the Edward Bonaventure whereof Richard Chancelour Pilot-Major of one hundred and sixty Tun and the Good Confidence of ninety Tun. A large Commission was granted unto them which Commission did not bear date from the year of our Lord but from the year of the World 5515. because in their long Voyage they might have occasion to present it to Pagan Princes They departed from Debtford May 10. 1553. and after much foul weather steered up North-North-East But on the second day of August a tempest arose and their ships with the violence of the Wind were much shattered and the Bonaventure scattered from the other two ships which never after saw it again Sir Hugh holding on his course descried a Land which for Ice he could not approach lying from Synam an Island belonging to the King of Denmark one hundred and sixty leagues being in Latitude seventy two Degrees This was then called Willoughby-land as well it might seeing it had neither then or since any Owner or Inhabitant pretending to the propriety thereof It appeareth by a Will found in the ship which was the Admiral in the pocket of a person of quality how in January 1554. Sir Hugh and most of his Company were then in health though all soon after froze to death in a River or Haven called Arzina in Lapland We are bound in charity to believe them well prepared for death the rather because they had with them a Minister Mr. Richard Stafford by name one of the twelve Councellors to manage the design who read constantly every morning and evening the English Service to those who were in the Admiral with the Bible and Paraphrases thereon So that this may be termed the first reformed Fleet which had the English Prayers and Preaching therein However seeing Nocumenta Documenta and that the Ship-wrecks of some are Sea-marks to others even this Knights miscarriage proved a direction to others As for the Bonaventure which answering its name was onely found by losing it self it returned safe and performed afterwards most excellent service in opening the Traffick to Muscovy Thus as the last Dog most commonly catcheth the Hare which other Dogs have turned and tired before so such who succeed in dangerous and difficult enterprises generally reap the benefit of the adventures of those who went before them As for Sir Hugh and his Company their Discoveries did thaw though their Bodies were frozen to death the English the Summer following finding a particular account of all passages of their voyages remaining entire in the Ship wherein they perished Lapland hath since been often surrounded so much as accosts the Sea by the English the West part whereof belongeth to the King of Sweden but the East moity to the Muscovite They were generally Heathen as poor in knowledge as estate paying their Tribute in Furres whose little Houses are but great ââ¦oles wherein generally they live in the ignorance of Money Here let me insert a passage to refresh the Reader after this long and sad story of a Custom in this barbarous Country from the mouths of credible Merchants whose eyes have beheld it It is death in Lapland to marry a Maid without her Parents or Friends consent Wherefore if one beare affection to a young Maid upon the breaking thereof to her friends the fashion is that a day is appointed for their friends to meet to behold the two young parties to run a Race together The maid is allowed in starting the advantage of a third part of the race so that it is impossible except willing of her self that she should ever be overtaken If the Maid overrun her Suitor the matter is ended he must never have her it being penal for the Man again to renew the motion of Marriage But if the Virgin hath an affection for him though at the first running hard to try the truth of his love she will without Atalantaes Golden Balls to retard her speed pretend some casualty and make a voluntary hault before she cometh to the mark or end of the race Thus none are compelled to marry against their own wills and this is the cause that in this poor Countrey the married people are richer in their own contentment than in other lands where so many forced Matches make fained Love and cause real unhappinesse Physicians THOMAS LINACER Doctor of Physick was born in the Town of ãâã bred in Oxford whence he afterwards travelled beyond the Seas residing chiefly at Rome and Florence Returning into England he brought Languages along
WADES-Mill Part of a Village lying two miles North thereof were so prodigiously rich as to countervail the wealth of LONDON The Fallacy lieth in the Homonymy of WARE here not taken for that Town so named but appellatively for all vendible Commodities We will not discompose the wit of this Proverb by cavilling that WEARE is the proper name of that Town so called anciently from the Stoppages which there obstruct the River But leave it as we found it and proceed HARTFORD-SHIRE Kindness This is generally taken in a good and grateful sense for the mutual return of favours received It being belike observed that the people in this County at entertainments drink back to them who drank to them parallel to the Latine Proverbs Fricantem refrica Manus manum lavat par est de merente bene bene mereri However sometimes Hartford-shire kindness may prove Hartford-shire cruelty and amount to no less then a Monopoly when this reciprocation of Favours betwixt themselves is the exclusion of all others from partaking thereof Princes WILLIAM second Son of King Edward the Third and Philip his wife took his Christian-name from his Grandfather William Earle of Henault and his Sirname of Hatfield from the place of his Nativity in this County where he was born the ninth of his Fathers Reign Anno Domini 1335. and expired within few dayes afââ¦er So that what I find written on the late Monument of a Noble Infant may also serve for his Epitaph Vivus nil poteram fari quin mortuus Infans Nunc loquor ut mortis sis memor atque vale Living I could not speak now dead I tel Thy duty think of death and so farewel It is uncertain where he was interred but most believe him buried at Westminster EDMUND of LANGLEY Fifth son to King Edward the Third and Queen Philip Was so sirnamed from Kings-Langley in this County the place of his Nativity He was created Earle of Cambridge in the Thirty sixth year of the Reign of his Father and Duke of York in the ninth year of his Nephew King Richard the Second He married Isabel daughter and Co-Heir of Peter King of Castile and lie buried at Langley together He had besides other Children of both Sexes to his eldest Son Richard Duke of York and he died Anno Dom. 1402. EDMUND of HADDAM Reader I presume thee to be so much a Gentleman as in courtesie to allow him a Prince who was Son to Queen Katherine by Owen Theodor her second husband womb-brother to King Henry the Sixth and Father to King Henry the Seventh That he was born in this County one may well be confident seeing there is no Haddam in any Shire of England save Hartford-shire alone I confesse therein three Villages of that name but sure no lesse then Great Haddam was the place of so eminent a Native He was solemnly created Earle of Richmond at Reading in the 31. of King Henry the Sixth Many good works no doúbt he did when living whose corps when buried saved from destruction the fair Cathedral of Saint Davids For his Monument in the midst of the Quire saith my Author as the Prebendaries told him spared their Church from defacing in the dayes of King Henry the Eighth I could wish all King Henries nearest relations had after their decease been severally so disposed preservatives from ruine rapine as the corps of Q. Katherin Dowager did as some say save the Church of Peterburgh But this ill agreeth with that which Brookes reporteth viz. That this Earl was buried in Carmarthen and because Vincent his professed adversary finding fault with him alwayes when any sometimes when no cause taketh no exception thereat I the more rely on his Testimony Onely it is possible that this Earle first enterred in Carmarthen might be afterwards for the more eminence of Sepulture removed to Saint Davids He died Anno Domini 1456. Saints Saint ALBAN though as Saint Paul a Roman by priviledge but Britton by Parentage was born in this County though many hundreds of years before Hartfordshire had its modern Name and Dimensions in the City of Verulam and was martyred for Christianity under Dioclesian An. 303. The cause and manner whereof with the Martyrdome of Saint Amphibalus hard by Rudborn I have so largely related in my Ecclesiastical History that as I will repeat nothing I can add nothing of consequence thereto Except any will conceive this to be remarkable that good Liquoras groweth naturally out of the ruinous walls of Verulam an old City the Mother of the New Town of Saint Albans as a skilful eye-witness Antiquary and zealous Protestant hath observed Had some Papist taken first notice hereof he might probably have made it a Miracle and assign the sanctitie of this place for the root of this Liquoras Martyrs It appeareth by the Maps that Africa lieth partly in the Torrid and partly in the Temperate Zone Nor is the wonder any at all considering the vastness thereof extending it self through many Degrees More strange it is that this small County should be partly in a Temperate viz. the Western part thereof subjected to the Bishop of Lincoln and partly in the Torrid Climate namely the Eastern Moity belonging to the Dioces of London which under Bonner was parched with persecution Yet not to make this Monster worse then he was though many in his Jurisdiction were much molested and though Tradition points the very place in Bishops Stortford where poor people were burnt at the stake yet my Book of Martyrs or Eyes or both be defective wherein I cannot recover the name of any particular person Pope NICHOLAS Son to Robert Break-spear a Lay brother in the Abbey of St. Albans fetcht his Name from Break-speare a place in Middlesex but was born at Abbots-Langley a Town in this County When a Youth he was put to such servile work in St. Albans Abbey that his ingenious Soul could not comport therewith Suing to be admitted into that house he received the repulse which in fine proved no mis-hap but a happy-miss unto him for going over into France he studied so hard and so happily at Paris that for his worth he was preferred Abbot of St. Rufus neer Valentia and afterward by Pope Eugenius the Third was made Bishop of Alba nigh Rome Adnatalis soli memoriam saith my Author that he who was refused to be Monachus Albanensis in England should be Episcopus Albanensis in Italy He was employed by the Pope for the conversion of the Norwegians and though Bale saith he were not Bale if he were not bitter Anti-christiano charactere Norwegios signavit yet his reducing them from Paganisme to Christianity in the Fundamentals was a worthy work and deserves true commendation He was afterwards chosen Pope of Rome by the name of Adrian the fourth There is a mystery more then I can fathome in the changing of his name Seeing his own font-name was a Papal one Yet he
the Abby Lands in Ireland for the Kings use a flower of the Crown which alone had made a Posey if continued thereunto But alas the Revenues of Abby Lands are as ãâã as their buildings nothing more than the rubbish thereof remaining in the Kings Exchequer He made a Law that no Children should be admitted to Church livings which importeth the frequency of that abuse in former times He perswaded O Neile O Brian c. to go over into England to surrender their lands into the Kings hands promising they should receive them again from him by Letters Patents with the Addition of Earls which was done accordingly At his desire the King conferred on them Houses nigh Dublin that residing there they might suck in Civility with the Court air These things thus setled he returned into England and died as I take it in the raign of King Edward the sixth Sir HENRY SIDNRY was son to Sir William Sidney of Pensherst in this County who by his own worth was advanced into the favour of Queen Elizabeth never a whit the lesse for marrying Mary Dudley sister to Robert Earl of Leicester he was by her made Knight of the Garter Lord President of Wales and for eleven years off and on Deputy of Ireland Now though generally the Irish are querelous of their Deputies what Patient for the present will praise his Chirurgion who soundly searcheth his sore yet Sir Henry left a good memory and the monuments of a good Governor behind him 1. He made Annaly a Territory in Loynsteresse by the Sept of Offerralles one entire Shire by it self called the County of Longford he likewise divided the Province of ââ¦onaght into six Counties 2. In a Parliament held the eleventh of Elizabeth he abolished the pretended and usurped Captain-ships and all extortions incident thereunto 3. He caused an Act to pass whereby the Lord Deputy was authorized to accept the surrenders of the Irish Seââ¦gniories and to re-grant estates unto them to hold of the Crown by English Tenures and Services 4. Because the inferiour sort of the Irish were poor and not Amesââ¦able by Law he provided that five of the best persons of every Sept should bring in all the persons of their surname to be justified by the Law 5. A Law was made that for the civil education of the youth there should be one Free Schoole at least in every Diocesse 6. To acquaint the people of Mounster and Conaght with the English Government again disused amongst them for two hundred years he instituted two Presidency Courts in those two Provinces 7. To augment the Revenues of the Crown he resumed and vested therein by the power of the same Parliament more than half the Province of Ulster upon the attainder of Shane O Neale 8. He raised Customs upon the principal Commodities of the Kingdom and reformed the abuses of the Exchequer by many good instructions from England 9. He established the Composition of the Pale in lieu of Purveyance and Sesse of Souldiers It must not be forgotten that he caused the Statutes of Ireland unto his own time to be printed and so saith my Author ex umbra in solem eduxit he brought them out of the shadow into the sun-shine Whereas formerly they were only in Manuscript a sad case that men should be obliged to the observation of those Laws scarce ever seen by one in an hundred subjected thereunto Being to leave Ireland Anno 1578. and now ready to go up into his Ship he took his leave thereof with the words of the Psalmist When Israel came out of Egypt and Jacob from a strange people rejoycing in heart that he came with a clear conscience from that dangerous employment He died at Worcester May the fifth 1586. and his Corps being brought to Pensherst were there solemnly interred amongst his Ancestors I will close his Life with this Encomium which I find in a Worthy Author His disposition was rather to seek after the Antiquities and the Weal-Publick of those Countries which he governed than to obtain lands and revenues within the same for I know not one foot of Land that he had either in Wales or Ireland Sir PHILIP SIDNEY Reader I am resolved not to part him from his Father such the Sympathy betwixt them living and dying both within the compass of the same year Otherwise this Knight in relation to my Book may be termed an Ubiquitary and appear amongst Statesmen Souldiers Lawyers Writers yea Princes themselves being though not elected in election to be King of Poland which place he declined preferring rather to be a Subject to Queen Elizabeth than a Soveraign beyond the Seas He was born at Pensherst in this County son to Sir Henry Sidney of whom before and Sisters Son to Robert Earl of Leicester bred in Christs Church in Oxford Such his appetite to Learning that he could never be fed fast enough therewith and so quick and strong his digestion that he soon turned it into wholsome nourishment and thrived healthfully thereon His homebred abilities travel perfected with forraign accomplishments and a sweet Nature set a glosse upon both He was so essential to the English Court that it seemed maimed without his company being a compleat Master of Matter and Language as his Arcadia doth evidence I confesse I have heard some of modern pretended Wits cavil thereat meerly because they made it not themselves such who say that his Book is the occasion that many pretious hours are otherwise spent no better must acknowledge it also the cause that many idle hours are otherwise spent no worse than in reading thereof At last leaving the Court he followed the Camp being made Governor of Flushing under his Uncle Earl of Leicester But the Walls of that City though high and strong could not confine the activity of his mind which must into the Field and before Zutphen was unfortunately slain with a shot in a small skirmish which we may sadly tearm a great battel considering our heavy losse therein His Corps being brought over into England was buried in the Quire of St. Pauls with general lamentation Sir FRANCIS WALSINGHAM Knight was born in this County wherein his Family long flourished at Chiselhurst though I read that originally they fetch their name from Walsingham in Norfolk He was bred in Kings Colledge in Cambridge and gave the King of ââ¦pain his Bible to the Library thereof As a traveller many years beyond the ãâã he learnt experience as an Agent he practised it there and after his return a Secretary of State he taught it to many Emisaries imployed under him None alive did better ken the Secretary Craft to get Counsels out of others and keep them in himself Mââ¦rvellous his ââ¦agacity in examining suspected persons either to make them confesse the truth or confound themselves by denying it to their detection Cunning his hands who could unpick the Cabinets in the Popes Conclave quick his ears who could hear at London what
For being with some other by this General for want of provisions left on land after many miseries they came to Mexico and he continued a Prisoner twenty three years viz Two years in Mexico one year in the Contractation-House in Civil another in the Inquisition-House in Triana twelve years in the Gallies four years with the Cross of St. Andrew on his back in the Everlasting-Prison and three years a drudge to Hernando de Soria to so high a summ did the Inventorie of his sufferings amount So much of his patience now see the end which the Lord made with him Whil'st enslaved to the aforesaid Hervando he was sent to Sea in a Flemish which was afterward taken by an English ship called the Galeon-Dudley and so was he safely landed at Portsmouth Decemb. the second 1590. And I believe lived not long after Sir WILLIAM MOUNSON Knight was extracted of an Antient 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 Scaene of the War from Ireland to Spaine from Defending to Invading Sir Richard Leveson was Admiral our Sir William Vice-Admiral Anno 1602. These without drawing a Sword Killed Trading quite on the Coasts of Portugal no Vessels daring to goe in or out of their Harbours They had Intelligence of a Caract ready to land in Sisimbria which was of 1600 Tun richly laden out of the East-Indies and resolved to assault it though it seemed placed in an Invincible Posture Of it self it was a Gyant in Comparison to our Pigmy Ships and had in her three hundred Spanish Gentlemen the Marquess de Sancta Cruce lay hard by with thirteen Ships and all were secured under the Command of a Strong and well fortified Castle But nothing is Impossible to Mars valour and Gods blessing thereon After a ââ¦aire dispute which lasted for some houres with Sillogismes of fire and sword the Caract was Conquered the wealth taken therein amounting to the value of Ten Hundred Thousand Crownes of Portugal Account But though the Goods gotten therein might be valued the Good gained thereby was Inestimable for henceforward they beheld the English with admiring eyes and quitted their thoughts of Invasion This worthy Knight dyed about the mid'st of the Reign of King Iames. Writers This County hath afforded many partly because so large in it self partly because abounding with so many Monasteries whereof two Mitred ones Crowland and Bardney the Seminaries of many Learned men Not to speak of the Cathedral of Lincoln and Embrio University of Stamford wherein many had their Education Wherefore to pass by Faelix Crowlandensis Kimbertus Lindesius and others all of them not affording so much true History as will fill a hollow quill therewith we take notice of some principal ones and begin with GILBERT of HOLLAND He took his name not as others from a single Town but a great part of ground the third part of this Tripartite County which in my apprehension argues his Diligence in preaching thereabouts But quitting his Native Land he was invited by the famous St. Bernard to go to and live with him at Clarvaulx in Burgundy where he became his Scholar Some will prize a Crum of Forreign Praise before a Loafe of English commendation as subject to partiality to their own Countrymen Let such hear how Abbot Trithemius the German commendeth our Gilbert Vir erat in Scripturis Divinis Studiosus egregie doctus ingenio subtilis clarus eloquio The Poets feigâ⦠that Hercules for a time supplyed the place of wearied Atlas in supporting the Heavens so our Gilbert was frequently substitute to St. Bernard continuing his Sermons where the other brake ââ¦ff from those words in lectulo meo per noctes c. unto the end of the book being forty six Sermons in style scarce discernable from St. Bernards He flourished anno Dom. 1200. and was buryed at Gistreaux in France ROGER of CROULAND was bred a Benedictine Monk therein and afterwards became Abbot of Friskney in this County He was the seventh man in order who wrote the Life of Thomas Becket Some will say his six elder Brethren left his Pen but a pitiful portion to whom it was impossible to present the Reader with any remarkable Novelty in so trite a subject But know that the pretended miracles of Becket daily multiplying the last Writer had the most matter in that kind He divided his book into seven Volumes and was full fifteen years in making of it from the last of King Richard the first to the fourteenth of King Iohn But whether this Elephantine Birth answered that proportion of time in the performance thereof let others decide He flourished anno Domini 1214. ELIASDE TREKINGHAM was born in this County at a Village so called as by the sequents will appear Ingulphus relateth that in the year of our Lord 870. in the Month of September Count Algar with others bid battle to the Danes in Kesteven a Third part of this County and worsted them killing three of their Kings whom the Danes buryed in a Village therein formerly called Laundon but after Trekingham Nor do I know any place to which the same name on the like accident can be applied except it be Alcaser in Africa where anno 1578. Sebastian the Portugal and two other Morish Kings were killed in one Battle I confess no such place as Trekingham appeareth at this day in any Catalogue of English Towns Whence I conclude it either a Parish some years since depoulated or never but a Churchlesse Village This Elias was a Monk of Peterborough Doctor of Divinity in Oxford a Learned man and great Lover of History writing himself a Chronicle from the year of our Lord 626 till 1270. at what time it is probable he deceased HUGO KIRKSTED was born at that well known Town in this County being bred a Benedictine-Cistercian-Bernardine A Cistercian is a Reformed Benedictine a Bernardine is a Reformed Cistercian so that our Hugh may charitably be presumed Pure as twice Refined He consulted one Serlo an aged man and one of his own Order and they both clubbing their pains and brains together made a Chronicle of the Cistercians from their first coming into England anno 1131. when Walter de Espeke founded their first Abby at Rivaax in York-shire Our Hugh did write Serlo did indict being almost an hundred years old so that his Memory was a perfect Chronicle of all remarkable Passages from the Beginning of his Order Our Hugo flourished anno Domini 1220. WILLIAM LIDLINGTON was born say some at that Village in Cambridge-shire at a Village so named in this County say others with whom I concur because he had his Education at Stamford He was by profession a Carmelite and became the Fifth Provincial of his Order in England Monasteries being multiplyed in that age Gerardus a Frenchman Master General
Rââ¦ward ãâã a Feild ãâã more safe and no less honourable in my Opinion Sir Ralph was of the second sort and the last which survived in England of that Order Yet was he little in stature tall not in person but performance Queen Eliz. made him Chanceââ¦our of the Dutchy During his last Embassie in Scotland his house at Standon in Herââ¦forashire was built by his Steward in his absence far greater then himself desired so that he never joyed therein and died soon after Anno 1587. in the 80 year of his age Howââ¦ver it hath been often filled with good Company and they feasted with great chear by the Hereditary Hospitality therein I must not forget how when this Knight attended his Master the Lord Cromwel at Rome before the English renounced the Papal power a ââ¦ardon wââ¦s granted not by his own but a Servants procuring for the Sins of that Famiââ¦y for three immediate Generations expiring in R. Sadlier Esquire lately dead which was extant but lately lost oâ⦠displaced amongst their Records and though no use was made thereof much mirth was made therewith Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Sir THOMAS FROVVICK Knight was born at Elinge in this County son to Thomas Frowick Esquire By his Wife who was Daughter and Heire to Sir John Sturgeon Knight giving for his Armes Azure three Sturgeons Or under a fret Gules bred in the study of our Municipal Law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on the 39 of September in the 18 year of the Reign of King Henry the seventh Four years he sate in his place accounted the Oracle of Law in his Age though one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed that Office He is reported to have dyed floridâ juventute before full forty years old and lyeth buryed with Joane his Wife in the Church of Finchley in this County the Circumscription about his Monument being defaced onely we understand that his death hapned on the seventeenth of October 1506. He left a large Estate to his two Daughters whereof Elah the Eldest was married to Sir John Spelman one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Grand-Father to Sir Henry that Renowned Knight Sir WILLIAM STAMFORD Knight was of Staffordian extraction Robert his Grand-Father living at Rowley in that County But William his Father was a Merchant in London and purchased Lands at Hadley in Middlesex where Sir William was born August 22. 1509. He was bred to the study of our Municipal Lawes attaining so much eminence therein that he was preferred one of the Judges of the Common Pleas His most learned Book of the Pleas of the Crown hath made him for ever famous amongst men of his own profession There is a Spirit of Retraction of one to his native Country which made him purchase Lands and his son settle himself again in Staffordshire this worthy Judge died August 28 and was buried at Hadley in this Shire in the last year of the Reign of Queen Mary 1558. Writers JOHN ACTON I find no fewer then seventeen Actons in England so called as I conceive Originally from Ake in Saxon an Oake wherewith antiently no doubt those Townes were well stored But I behold the place nigh London as the Paramount Acton amongst them Our Iohn was bred Doctor of the Laws in Oxford and afterwards became Canon of Lincolne being very able in his own faculty He wrote a learned Comment on the Ecclesiasticall Constitutions of Otho and Ottob one both Cardinalls and Legats to the Pope in England and flourished under King Edward the First Anno 1290. RALPH ACTON was bred in the University of Oxford where he attained saith my Author Magisterium Theologicum and as I understand Magister in Theologiâ is a Doctor in Divinity so Doctor in Artibus is a Master of Arts. This is reported to his eternall Commendation Evangelium regni Dei fervore non modico praedicabat in medijs Romanarum Superstitionum Tenebris And though somtimes his tongue lisped with the Siboleth of the superstition of that age yet generally he uttered much pretious truth in those dangerous days and flourished under King Edward the second Anno 1320. ROGER TVVIFORD I find eleven Towns so named in England probably from the confluence of two fords thereabouts and two in this County He was bred an Augustinian Friar studied in both Universities and became a Doctor in Divinity In his declining age he applyed himself to the reading of the Scripture and the Fathers and became a painfull and profitable Preacher I find him not fixed in any one place who is charactered Concionum propalator per Dioecesin Norvicensem an Itinerant no Errant Preacher through the Diocess of Norwich He was commonly called GOODLUââ¦K and Good-Luck have he with his honour because he brought good success to others and consequently his own welcome with him whithersoever he went which made all Places and Persons Ambitious and Covetous of his presence He flourished about the year of our Lord 1390. ROBERT HOVVNSLOVV was born in this County at Hownslow a Village well known for the Road through and the Heath besides it He was a Fryar of the Order of the Holy Trinity which chiefly imployed themselves for the redemption of Captives Indeed Locusts generally were the devourers of all food yet one kind of Locusts were themselves wholesome though course food whereon Iohn Baptist had his common repast Thus Fryers I confess generally were the Pests of the places they lived in but to give this order their due much good did redound from their endeavours For this Robert being their Provinciall for England Scotland and Ireland rich people by him were affectionately exhorted their Almes industriously collected such collections carefully preserved till they could be securely transmitted and thereby the liberty of many Christian Captives effectually procured He wrote also many Synodall sermons and Epistles of confequence to severall persons of quality to stir up their liberality He flourished sayes Pitseus Anno Dom. 1430. a most remarkable year by our foresaid Author assigned either for the flourishing or for the Funeralls of eleven famous writers yet so as our Robert is dux gregis and leads all the rest all Contemporaries whereas otherwise for two or three eminent persons to light on the same year is a faire proportion through all his book De illustribus Angliae scriptoribus Since the Reformation WILLIAM GOUGE Born at Stratford-Bow in this County bred in Kings Colledge in Cambridge where he was not once absent from publique service morning and evening the space of nine years together He read fifteen Chapters in the Bible everyday and was afterwards Minister of Blackfryers in London He never took a journey meerly for pleasure in all his Life he preached so long till it was a greater difficulty for him to go up into the Pulpit then either to make or preach a Sermon and dyed aged seventy nine years leaving
whence I conclude him an obscure person and this Lady rather married then match'd such the distance betwixt their degrees Probably this Cecily consulting her comfort more then her credit did it of design so to be beneath the jealousie of King Henry the seventh She left no children and the date of her death is uncertain CHARLES the second son to King Charles the first of Blessed Memory and Mary youngest daughter to Henry the fourth King of France was born at Saint James's May 29. 1630. Great was the general rejoycing thereat The University of Oxford congratulated his birth with printed Poems and it was taken ill though causelesly by some that Cambridge did not do the like for then the Wits of the University were sadly distracted into several Counties by reason of the plague therein And I remember Cambridge modestly excused herself in their Poem made the year after at the birth of the Lady Mary and it will not be amiss to insert and translate one Tetrastick made by my worthy friend Quod fuit ad nixus Academia muta priores ãâã ãâã Carolus aegra fuit Spe veniente novâ si tunc tacuisset amores Non tantùm morbo digna sed illa mori Prince Charles forgive me that my silent quill Joy'd not thy birth alas sore sick was I. New hopes now come had I been silent still I should deserve both to be sick and die His birth was accompanied with two notable accidents in the heavens The star Venus was visible all day long as sometime it falls out neer her greatest Elongation And two dayâ⦠after there was an Ecclipse of the Sun about eleven digits observed by the greatest Mathematicians And now Reader give me leave to be silent my self and present thee with the expressions of a most ingenious Gentleman To behold this babe heaven it self seemed to open one Eye more then ordinary Such Asterisks and Celelestial Signatures affixt to times so remarkable as this usually are ãâã prophetically hinting and pointing out somewhat future of eminent contingency Yea such have since been the occurrences in the life of this pious Prince that rightly considered they will appear not onely eminent above the common standard of actions but full of miracle and amazement He was on the 1. of January 1650. at Scoon Crowned King of Scotland Being before invaded by an Army under the conduct of O. C. Soon after quitting that Kingdome he marched for England and on the 3. of September 1651. nigh Worcester was fought and lost the day though he to use my Authors expression acted beyond the expectation of his friends and to the great applause of his very enemies Narrow search was made after his person yea a thousand pounds a bait his politique enemies made sure would have been bit at promised to such who should betray him Yet God whose Angels â⦠were his Life-guard miraculously preserving him out of the hands of his enemies he safely passed over into France to the Queen his mother During his continuance beyond the Seas great were the proffers tendered unto him if forsaking the Protestant Religion but alas as soon might the impotent waves remove the most sturdy rocks as they once unfix him such his constancy whom neither the frowns of his afflictions nor smiles of secular advantages could make to warp from his first principles At length his piety and Patience were rewarded by God with a happy restitution to his undoubted Dominions and he after a long and tedious exile landed at Dover May 25. 1660. to the great joy of his three Kingdomes A Prince whose vertues I should injure if endeavouring their contraction within so narrow a scantling And yet I cannot pass over that wherein he so much resembleth the King of Heaven whose Vicegerent he is I mean his merciful disposition doing good unto those who spightfully used and persecuted him And now it is my hearty prayer that God who appeared so wonderful in his Restauration would continue still Gracious to us in his Preservation confounding the plots of his adversaries that upon him and his posterity the Crown may flourish forever MARY eldest daughter of King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at Saint James's November 4. 1631. When her royal father out of his paternal love began to cast about for a fitting confort this Peerless Princess though tender in years rich in piety and wisdome made it her humble request she might be match'd as well in her religion as affection which happened answerable to her desires For not long after a marriage treated betwixt her and Count William of Nassau eldest son to Henry Prince of Orange was concluded and this royal pair wedded accordingly May 2. 1641. The February following having at Dover taken her leave of the King her Father the last time she ever saw him on earth she embarked for and within few days landed in Holland His Majesties affairs in England daily growing worse and worse at length the sad news of his horrid murder arrived at her eares this was seconded with the loss of her husband the Prince of Orange who deceased October 8. 1650. Yet such her signal patience that she underwent the weight of so many heavy afflictions sufficient to break the back of a mean Christian with a courage far surpassing the weakness of her sex But amidst these her calamities God was pleased to remember mercy blessing her the November ensuing with a hopeful son The complexion of the times being altered in England she came over to congratulate the happiness of her Brother his miraculous restitution When behold sickness arrests this royal Princess no bail being found by physick to defer the execution of her death which happened 1660. On the 31. of December following she was honourably though privately interred at Westminster in the Chappel of King Henry the seventh and no eye so dry but willingly afforded a tear to bemoan the loss of so worthy a Princess JAMES third son of King Charles and Queen Mary October was 13. 1633. born at Saint James's He was commonly stiled Duke of York though not solemnly created until January 27. 1643. At the rendition of Oxford he was taken Prisoner and some two years after through the assistance of one Colonel Bamfield made his escape landing safe in Holland Hence he went for France where he so prudently deported himself that he soon gained the favour and honour of the whole Court Yea such was this Princes valour and prowess that before arrived at the age of one and twenty years he was made Leiutenant General of the Forces of the King of France a thing which sounds highly to the esteem of this Duke being a sufficient argument as well of his Policy as Magnanimity seeing a wise head is equally required warily to consult as a stout heart resolutely to act for the due performance of that office This trust he discharged to the admiration of all atchieving so many Noble and Heroick exploits which rendred
Master Aylmer sate in the hind part whilst the Searchers drank of the Wine which they saw drawn out of the head or other end thereof Returning into England he was made Arch-Deacon of Lincoln and at last Bishop of London He was happy in a meet Yoke-fellow having a gratious Matron to his wife by whom he had many children and one son to which Arch-bishop Whitgift was Godfather and named him Tob-el that is The Lord is good in memorial of a great deliverance bestowed on this childs mother For when she was cast out of her Coach in London by a Mastiff casually seising upon the Horses she received no harm at all though very near to the time of her Travail Bishop Aylmer was well learned in the Languages a ready Disputant and deep Divine He was eighteen years Bishop of London and dying Anno 1594. in the 73. year of his age had this for part of his Epitaph which Bishop Vaugham sometimes his Chaplain afterwards his Successor made upon him Ter senos Annos Praesul semul Exul idem Bis Pugil in causa religionis erat Eighteen years Bishop and once Banish'd hence And twice a Champion in the Truths defence I understand it thus once a Champion in suffering when an Exile for religion and again in doing when chosen one of the disputants at Westminster against the Popish Bishops Primo Elizabethae except any expound it thus once Champion of the Doctrine against Papists and afterwards against the Discipline of the Non-Confromists none more stoutly opposing or more fouly belibelled of them God blessed him with a great estate the main whereof he left unto Samuel Aylmer his eldest son High-sheriff of Suffolk in the reign of King Charles and amongst his youngest sons all well provided for Doctor Aylmer Rector of Haddam in Hartfordshire was one of the most learned and reverend Divines in his generation JOHN TOWERS was born in this County bred Fellow of Queens-colledge in Cambridge and became Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton who bestowed on him the Benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire He was preferred Dean and at last Bishop of Peterborough He was a good actor when he was young and a great sufferour when he was old dying about the year 1650. rich onely in Children and Patience Nothing but sin is a shame in it self and poverty as poverty especially since our Saviour hath sanctified it by suffering it is no disgrace Capital Judges and Writers on the Law RALPH DE-HENGHAM so named from a fair Market-town in this County was made Lord Chief-justice of the Kings-bench in Michaelmas term in the second year of King Edward the first when the King was newly returned from the Holy-land He sate 16. years in that place saving that one Winborne was for a year or two interposed and at the general purging and garbling of the Judges which happened in the 18. year of the aforesaid King when all the Judges except two John de Metingham and Elias de Bekingham were cast out by the Parliament for their corruption fined banished and imprisoned then this Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks for bribery and ejected out of his place Some will say let him wither in silence why do you mention him amongst the Worthies of our Nation I answer Penitence is the second part of Innocence and we find this Ralph after his fine payed made Chief-justice of the Common-pleas sub recipiscendi fiducia under the confidence generally conceived of his amendment He died the next being the 19. year of the raign of King Edward the first he lies buried in the Church of Saint Paul where he hath or had this Epitaph Per versus patet hos Anglorum quod jacet hic flos Legum qui tuta dictavit vera statuta Ex Hengham dictus Radulphus vir benedictus One must charitably believe that he played a good after-game of integrity and if injoying longer life he would have given a clearer testimony thereof WILLIAM PASTON Esq. son of Clement Paston Esq. and Beatrix his wife sister and heir to Jeffry Sommerton Esq. was born at Paston in this County He was learned in the laws of this Realm and first was Serjeant to King Henry the sixth and was after by him preferred second Judge of the Common-pleas I confess having confined our Catalogue to Capital Judges or Writers on the Law he falls not under our method in the strictness thereof But I appeal to the Reader himself whether he would not have been highly offended with me had I in silence passed over a person so deserving his observation He was highly in favour with King Henry the sixth who allowed him besides the ordinary salary assigned to other Judges one hundred and ten marks Reader behold the Standard of money in that age and admire with two Gowns to be taken yearly out of the Exchequer as by the ensuing letters Patents will appear Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos Praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quod de gratia nostra speciali ut dilectus fidelis noster Willielmus Paston unus Justiti nostrorum de com Banco Statum suum decentius manu tenere expensas quas ipsum in officio pradicto facere oportebit sustinere valeat concessimus ei centum decem marcas percipiendum singulis annis ad scaccarium nostrum ad terminos Pasche Sancti Michaelis per equales Portiones duas robas per annum percipiendum unam videlicet cum Pellura ad festum Natalis Domini aliam cum Limra ad festum Pentecostes ultra feodum consuetum quamdiu ipsum Stare contigerit in officio supradicto In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes teste meipso apud Westminst XV. die Octobris anno regni nostri octavo What Pellura is I understand Furr but what Limra is if rightly written I would willingly learn from another though some are confident it is Taffata I wonder the less at these noble favours conferred on the said William Paston Judge for I find him in grace with the two former Kings being made Serjeant by King Henry the fourth and of ââ¦is counsel for the Dutchie of Lancaster and in the reign of King Henry the fifth he was in such esteem with Sir John Falstofe Knight that he appointed him one of his Feoffees whom he enabled by a writing under his hand to recover debts from the Executors of King Henry the fifth This William Paston married Agnes daughter and heir of Sir Edmond Berrey by which marriage the Pastons rightly quarter at this day the several Coats of Hetherset Wachesham Craven Gerbredge Hemgrave and Kerdeston and received both advancement in bloud and accession in estate This said VVilliam Paston died at London August 14. 1444. and lies buryed in Norwich so that his corps by a peculiar exception do straggle from the Sepulture of their Ancestors who
he was successively preferred by King Charles the first Bishop of Hereford and London and for some years Lord Treasurer of England A troublesome place in those times it being expected that he should make much Brick though not altogether without yet with very little Straw allowed unto him Large then the Expences Low the Revenues of the Exchequer Yet those Coffers which he found Empty he left Filling and had left Full had Peace been preserved in the Land and he continued in his Place Such the mildness of his temper that Petitioners for Money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his denialls they were so civilly Languaged It may justly seem a wonder that whereas few spake well of Bishops at that time and Lord Treasurers at all times are liable to the Complaints of discontented people though both Offices met in this man yet with Demetrius he was well reported of all men and of the truth it self He lived to see much shame and contempt undeservedly poured on his Function and all the while possessed his own soul in patience He beheld those of his Order to lose their votes in Parliament and their insulting enemies hence concluded Loss of speech being a sad Symptom of approching Death that their Final extirpation would follow whose own experience at this day giveth the Lie to their malicious Collection Nor was it the least part of this Prelates Honour that amongst the many worthy Bishops of our Land King Charles the first selected him for his Confessor at his Martyrdome He formerly had had experience in the case of the Earl of Strafford that this Bishops Conscience was bottom'd on Piety not Policy the reason that from him he received the Sacrament good Comfort and Counsell just before he was Murdered I say just before that Royal Martyr was Murdered a Fact so foul that it alone may confute the errour of the Pelagians maintaining that all Sin cometh by imitaââ¦ion the Universe not formerly affording such a Precedent as if those Regicides had purposely designed to disprove the Observation of Solomon that there is No new thing under the Sun King Charles the second Anno Domini 1660. preferred him Arch-bishop of Canterbury which place he worthily graceth at the writing hereof Feb. 1. 1660. ACCEPTUS FRUIN D. D. was born at in this County bred Fellow of Magdalen-colledge in Oxford and afterwards became President thereof and after some mediate preferments was by King Charles the first advanced Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and since by King Charles the second made Arch-bishop of York But the matter whereof Porcellane or China dishes are made must be ripened many years in the earth before it comes to full perfection The Living are not the proper objects of the Historians Pen who may be misinterpreted to flatter even when he falls short of their due Commendation the Reason why I adde no more in the praise of this worthy Prelate As to the Nativities of Arch-bishops one may say of this County many Shires have done worthily but SUSSEX surmounteth them all having bred Five Archbishops of Canterbury and at this instant claiming for her Natives the two Metropolitans of our Nation States-men THOMAS SACKVILL son and heir to Sir Richard Sackvill Chancellour and Sub-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Privy-Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth by Winifred his wife daughter to Sir John Bruges was bred in the University of Oxford where he became an excellent Poet leaving both Latine and English Poems of his composing to posterity Then studied he law in the Temple and took the degree of Barrister afterward he travelled into forraign parts detained for a time a prisoner in Rome whence his liberty was procured for his return into England to possess the vast Inheritance left him by his father whereof in short time by his magnificent prodigality he spent the greatest part till he seasonably began to spare growing neer to the bottom of his Estate The story goes that this young Gentleman coming to an Alderman of London who had gained great Pennyworths by his former purchases of him was made being now in the Wane of his Wealth to wait the coming down of the Alderman so long that his generous humour being sensible of the incivility of such attendance resolved to be no more beholding to Wealthy pride and presently turned a thrifty improver of the remainder of his Estate If this be true I could wish that all Aldermen would State it on the like occasion on condition their noble debtors would but make so good use thereof But others make him the Convert of Queen Elizabeth his Cosin german once removed who by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion Indeed she would not know him till he began to know himself and then heaped places of honour and trust upon him creating him 1. Baron of Buckhurst in this County the reason why we have placed him therein Anno Dom. 1566. 2. Sending him Ambassadour into France Anno 1571. into the Low-countries Anno 1586. 3. Making him Knight of the Order of the Garter Anno 1589. 4. Appointing him Treasurer of England 1599. He was Chancellour of the University of Oxford where he entertained Q. Elizabeth with a most sumptuous feast His elocution was good but inditing better and therefore no wonder if his Secretaries could not please him being a person of so quick dispatch faculties which yet run in the bloud He took a Roll of the names of all Suitors with the date of their first addresses and these in order had their hearing so that a fresh-man could not leap over the head of his senior except in urgent affairs of State Thus having made amends to his house for his mis-spent time both in increase of Estate and Honour being created Earl of Dorset by King James he died on the 19. of April 1608. Capitall Judges Sir JOHN JEFFRY Knight was born in this County as I have been informed It confirmeth me herein because he left a fair Estate in this Shire Judges genebuilding their Nest neer the place where they were Hatched which descended to his Daughter He so profited in the study of our Municipall-Law that he was preferred Secondary Judge of the Common-pleas and thence advanced by Queen Elizabeth in Michaelmas Terme the nineteenth of her Reign to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer which place he discharged for the Terme of two years to his great commendation He left one only Daughter and Heir married to Sir Edward Mountague since Baron of Boughton by whom he had but one Daughter Elizabeth married to Robert Barty Earl of Linsey Mother to the truly Honorable Mountague Earl of Linsey and Lord Great Chamberlain of England This worthy Judge died in the 21. of Queen Elizabââ¦h Souldiers The ABBOT of BATTLE He is a pregnant Proof that one may leave no Name and yet a good Memory behind him His Christian or Surname cannot be recovered out of our Chronicles which hitherto
come and learn of me Come we now to his sad Catastrophe Indeed the curious had observed that in the Scheme of his Nativity not onely the Dragons-tail was ready to promote abusive aspersions against him to which living and dead he hath been subject but also something malignant appears posited in Aquarius which hath influence on the leggs which accordingly came to pass For being twice imprisoned for what misdemeanor I know not by Radulphus the Emperor he endeavoured his escape out of an high window and tying his sheets together to let him down fell being a weighty man and brake his legg whereof he died 1595. I believe him neither so bad as some nor so good as others do character him all know how Separation is of great use amongst men of his profession and indeed if his pride and prodigality were severed from him he would remain a person on other accounts for his industry and experience in practical Philosophy worthy recommendation to posterity Writers FLORENCE of WORCESTER was probably born near certainly bred in that City one eminent in learning as any of his age and no less industrious Many books are extant of his making and one most usefull beginning at the Creation and continued till his death This he calleth Chronicum Chronicorum which some esteem an Arrogant Title and an Insolent defiance of all Authors before and after him as if as the Rose is flos florum so his were the Superlative Chronicle of all that are Extant But others meet with much modesty in the Title Chronicum Chronicââ¦rum as none of his own making but onely gathered both for Matter and Language out of others he being rather the Collector then the Originall Composer thereof He died Anno Domini 1119. JOHN WALLIS or WELSH is confessed natione Anglus which I observe to secure his nativity against Welch-claimes thereunto onely grounded on his Sur-name Yet I confess he might be mediatly of Welch-extraction but born in this County where the family of the Walshes are extant at this day in a worshipfull equipage where he became a Franciscan in Worcester Leaving Oxford he lived in Paris where he was common ly called Arbor vitae The tree of life Non absque insigni Servatoris blasphemia With no small blasphemy to our Saviour saith our Author But to qualifie the matter we take the expression in the same sense wherein Solomon calls a wholesome tongue a Tree of Life Yet might he better be termed the tree of knowledge of good and evil whose books amounting to no fewer then twenty volumes are not so practicall for their use as curious in their speculations In the ancient Libraries of Baliââ¦l and Oriel-Colledge most of his Manuscripts are reported extant at this day He died and was buried at Paris Anno Dom. 1216. ELIAS de EVESHAM was born in this County of good Parentage from whom as it seemeth by J. Bale he had expectancy of a fair estate This did not hinder him from being a Benedictine in the Abby of Evesham where he became a great Scholar and wrote an Excellent Chronicle Bale knoweth not where to place him with any certainty But Pitz not more knowing but more daring assigneth him to have flourished in the year 1270. WILLIAM PACKINGTON I confess two Villages the less and greater of this name in Warwick-shire and yet place this Packington here with no discredit to my self and greater grace to him For first I behold him as no Clergy-man commonly called from their Native Places but have reasons to believe him rather a Layman and find an Antient Family of his Name not to say Alliance still flourishing in this County He was Secretary and Treasurer to Edward the Black Prince and his long living in France had made the language of his Nurse more naturall to him then the tongue of his Mother Hence it was that he wrot in French the story of five English Kings King John Henry the third Edwards first second and third and a book of the Atchievements of the Black Prince He flourished Anno Dom. 1380. Since the Reformation Sir EDWIN SANDYS Son to Edwin Sandys D. D. was in all probability born in this County whilst his father was Bishop of Worcester He was bred in Cambridge and attained to be a most accomplished person I have known some pitifull in Affection but poor in Condition willing but unable to relieve one in greater want then themselves who have only gotten an empty Purse and given it to others to put their charity therein for the purpose aforesaid Such my case I can only present the Reader with a Place in this my Book for the Character of this worthy Knight but can not contribute any Coine of MEMOIRES or Remarkables to the furnishing thereof Only let me adde he was ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã right-handed to any great imployment and was as constant in all Parliaments as the Speaker himself being beheld by all as an Excellent Patriot faithfull to his Country without being false to his King in all transactions He was the Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced the Bermudaes the firmest though not the fairest Footing the English have in the West-Indies owing their happiness to his Care and Sandys Tribe is no contemptible Proportion therein He had a commanding Pen witness his work of the Religion of the Western World many in one Book so much matter is Stowed therein I have been informed that he bequeathed by his Will a Considerable Summe to the Building of a Colledge in Cambridge but Debts not coming in according to Expectation his good Intention failed in the performance thereof He died much lamented of all good Men about the year 1631. Romish Exile Writers RICHARD SMITH D. D. was born in this County bred in the University of Oxford where he became Kings Professor and was fit for that place in all things if as one of his own perswasion avoweth Non obstitisset Laterum debilitas Vocis exilitas The weaknes of his Sides and lowness of his Voice had no hindred him King Edward the sixth afterwards sent for Peter Martyr over to be his Professor in this University betwixt whom and Doctor Smith so great the Contest that waving all ingagements it is best to State it to the eye of the Reader as it is represented by Authors of both sides Pitz. de Script in Anno 1563. Petrum Martyrem apostatam Monachum Haeresis Zuvinglicanae sectatorem a Rege Edwardo sexto Oxonii in Cathedram Theologicam intrusum in publicis disputationibus haeresis convicit Cathedrââ¦m suam victor repetiit sed Rege obstante non impetravit In publick disputations he convicted Peter Martyr the Apostate Monke and a follower of the Zwinglian Heresie thrust in by King Edward the sixth into the Divinity Chair in Oxford and being Conquerer did require his own Chair to be restored him which he obtained not because the King
cured all Maladies and so in my apprehension gave a Supersedeas to the Practitioners in that Faculty and yet I find honourable mention made of Luke the beloved Physician But since I have wondred at my wondring thereat For that Communion of Goods was but tââ¦mporal for a short continuance and topical of a narrow compasse practised onely in Judea or thereabouts whilest the Churches amongst the Gentiles continued their propriety and particularly at Rome where Zenas had his Habitation and had work enough no doubt to exercise his Profession even amongst Christians themselves As for the Apostles they had not alwayes power at their own pleasure to work Miââ¦acles and cure diseases in all Persons no nor allwayes in themselves witnesse sick St. Paul receiving in himself the Sentence of Death but as they were directed for the glory of God and other occasions And therefore notwithstanding their miraculous Power St Luke might have plenty of Practice in his Profession Not was it probable that God the Authour of all Ingenuity would by the giving of the Gospel utterly extinguish any literal Calling which formerly had been publickly lawfully and needfully professed We have in our following Book given in the List of some Eminent LAVVYERS Civilians and Cannonists who have wrote on that Subject though we confess them very few in Number their Profession being lately undeservedly disgraced though now we congratulate the probability of the Restitution thereof to its former Dignity Sure I am in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth when an Embassadour was sent to Foreign PRINCES if it were an Affair of grand importance and more than a mere matter of magniââ¦ent complement some able Civilian as Doctor Hadden Dale Fletcher c. was joyned in Commission with the Noble-man imployed on that Embassie And as the Iron Doggs bear the burthen of the fuel while the Brasen-Andirons stand only for state to entertain the Eyes so the Negotiating part was loaded on the Civil ãâã whilest the Pomp-pageantry was discharged at the cost of the Noble-man Writers on Physick The Pââ¦ecept in the Apocrypha hath a Canonical Truth therein Honour the Physician for necessity sake and although King Asa justly received little benefit by them because of his preposterous addressing himself to them before he went to God and the. Woman in the Gospel troubled with the Issue reaped lesse ease by their Endeavours because God reserved her a Subject for his own Miraculous Cure yet in all Ages Millions have been cured by their Practice The Ancient Briââ¦tans who went without Cloathes may well be presumed to live without Physick Yet seing very Beasts know what is good for themselves the Dear the Cretan Dictamum and Toad his Antidote of plantaine sure they had some experimental Receipts used amongst them and left the rest to Nature and Temperance to cure The Saxons had those they termed Leaches or Bloud-letters but were little skilled in methodical practise Under the Normans they began in England and would we had ferch'd Physicians onely and not Diseases from France Yet three hundred years since it was no distinct Profession by it self but practiced by men in Orders witness Nicholas de Fernham the chief English Physician and Bishop of Durham Hugh of Evesham a Physician and Cardinal Grisant a Physician and Pope Yea the word Physician appears not in our Statutes till the days of King Henry the eight who incorporated their Colledge at London since which time they have multiplied and flourished in our Nation but never more and more learned then in our age wherein that Art and especially the Anatomical part thereof is much improved our Civil Wars perchance occasioning the latter We begin our Catalogue at Richardus Anglicus our first Physician flourishing Anno 1230. and continue to Doctor Harvey whom I may term Gulielmus Anglicus such honour he hath done England by his worthy Writings Thus wishing them all happy success in their Practice I desire a custome in France and other forreign parts naturalized in England where a Physician is liable to Excommunication if visiting a Patient thrice before he acquainteth a Priest of his sickness that so the Medicine for soul and body may go hand in hand together Chimistry Chimistry is an ingenious Profession as which by Art will force somewhat of worth and eminence from the dullest substance yea the obduras'st and hardest hearted body cannot but shed forth a tear of precious liquor when urged thereunto with its intreaties They may be termed Parcel-physicians every day producing rare experiments for the curing of many diseas es bu I must confess there occurs t few and of those few fewer Modern ones through the whole series of our Book Yet may we be said to have extracted the spirits I mean such as were eminent therein of this Profession being confident the judicious Reader will value one Jem before many Barly Corns and one Drop of a true extract before many Bottles of worthless water Chirurgery Necessary and ancient their Profession ever since mans body was subject to enmity and casualty For that promise A bone of him shall not be broken is peculiar to Christ. As for the other To keep them in all their ways that they dash not their foot against a stone though it be extended to all Christians yet it admitteth as other temporal promises of many exceptions according to Gods will and pleasure It seemeth by the Parable of the good Samaritan who bound up the Passengers wounds pouring in Oil and Wine that in that age ordinary persons had a general insight in Chirurgery for their own and others use And it is reported to the just praise of the Scotch Nobility that anciently they all were very dextrous thereat particularly it is written of James the fourth King of Scotland Quod vulnera scientissime tractaret He was most scilful at the handling of wounds But we speak of Chirurgery as it is a particular Mystery Professed by such as make a Vocation thereof Of whom we have inserted some eminent for their Writings or otherwise amongst Physicians and that as we hope without any offence seeing the healing of diseases and wounds were anciently one Calling as still great the Sympathy betwixt them many diseases causing wounds as Ulcers as wounds occasioning diseases as feavers till in process of time they were seperated and Chirurgions only consigned to the Manual Operation Thus wishing unto them the three Requisits for their practise an Eagles Eye a Ladies Hand ond a Lions Heart I leave them and proceed CHAP. X. Writers BEING to handle this Subject let not the Reader expect that I will begin their Catalogue from Fabulous Antiquity or rather fanciful Fabels For if the first Century of J. Bale or J. Pits their British Writers were Garbled four parts of five would be found to be Trash such as 1. Samothes Gigas 2. Magus Samotheus 3. Sarron Magius 4. Druys Sarronius 5. Bardus Druydius 6. Albion Mareoticus 7. Brytus Julius 8. Gerion
Augur 9. Aquila Septonius 10. Perdix Praesagus 11. Cambra Formosa 12. Plenidius Sagax c. Of these some never were men others if men never were Writers others if Writers never left Works continuing to our age though some Manuscript-Mongers may make as if they had perused them It is well they had so much modesty as not to pretend inspection into the Book of life seeing all other books have come under their Omnividencie We are content to begin our number at Gildas commonly surnamed the wise flourishing about the year 580. and are right gald to have so good a General to lead our Army of Writers taking it for a token of good success Now these Writers were either such who wrote before or since the Reformation of Religion The former again fall generally under a treble division as either Historians Philologists or Divines and we will insist a little on their several imployments Of Writers on Philology and Divinity Doctor Collens Kings Professor in Cambridge and that Oracle of Eloquence once founded his Speech made to entertain Strangers at the Commencement on the words of Saint Paul Salute Philologus and Olympas Under the former he comprised all persons persent eminent in Humane Learning under the later all skillful in Heavenly Divinity Indeed Philology properly is Terse and Polite Learning melior literatura married long since by Martianus Capella to Mercury being that Florid skill containing onely the Roses of learning without the prickles thereof in which narrow sense thorny Philosophy is discharged as no part of Philology But we take it in the larger notion as inclusive of all human liberal Studies and preposed to Divinity as the Porch to the Palace Having passed the Porch of Philology we proceed to the Palace of Divinity The Writers in this Faculty we distinguish into two sorts First Positive Divines such I mean whose works are either Comments on or else expositions of some portion of Sacred Writ Secondly School-men who have made it their business to Weave find Threads of nicer Distinctions Writers on History This is either Ecclesiastical or Civil Of both these England presenteth many but generally Moncks before the Reformation who too much indulging to Holy Fraud have farced their Books with many feigned miracles to the prejudice of truth However herein foreign Historians have been as guitly as English-men of the same Age witness the complaint of Mariana the Jesuit which one may justly wonder how it passed the Index Expurgatorius Quis enim negare possit Fastos Ecclesiasticos aliquando adulatione Temporum aut potius incuria hominum multis maculis contaminatos libris aliis quibus preces Ecclesiasticae ritusque sacrorum continentur multas fuisse inspersas confusasque fabulas commenta Addam nonnunquam in Templis reliquias dabias prophana Corpora pro sanctorum qui cum Christo in coelo regnant exuviis sacris fuisse proposita Est enim miserum negare non posse quid sit turpe confiteri at nescio quo pacto fictis saepe fabulis prae posteris mendaciorum nugis populus magis quam veritate ac synceritate capitur ea est mentis nostrae inanitas has sordes ubi semel irrepserunt in Ecclesiam sacrorum ritus libros Ecclesiasticos nobis fortassis dormientibus attrectare nemo audet mutive nemo ne impietatis suspicionem commoreat scilicet Religioni adversarius esse videatur Nor hath our Land been altogether barren of Historians since the Reformation having yielded some of as tall parts and large performances as any Nation in Christendome Besides these we have adventured to adde such as have been eminent in Poetry which may not unfitly be termed the binding of Proselites good behaviour tying it to the strict observation of time and measure Amongst these some are additioned with the Title of Laureat though I must consess I could never find the root whence their Bays did grow in England as to any solemn institution thereof in our Nation Indeed I read of Petrarch the pre-coetanean of our Chaucer that he was crowned with a Laurel in the Capitol by the Senate of Rome Anno 1341. as also that Frederic the third Emperour of Germany gave the Laurel to Conradus Celtes and since the Count Palatines of the Empire claime the priviledge solemnly to invest Poets with the Bays The branches hereof in all ages have been accounted honourable in so much that King James in some sort wav'd his crown in the two and twenty-shilling-pieces to wear the Laurel in his new twenty-shilling-pieces On the same token that a wag passed this jeast thereon That Poets being always poor Bays were rather the embleme of wit then wealth since King James no sooner began to wear them but presently he fell two shillings in the pound in publique valuation As for our English Poets some have assumed that style unto themselves as John Kay in his Dedication of The Seige of Rhodes to King Edward the fourth subscribing himself his humble Poet Laureat Others have in complement given the title to such persons as were eminent in that Faculty and nothing more usuall then to see their pictures before their Books and Statues on their Tombs ornamented accordingly However all this is done by civil courtesie or common custome no ceremonious creation in Court or University I write not this as if I grudged to Poets a whole grove of Laurel much less a sprig to incircle their heads but because I would not have any specious untruth imposed on the Readers belief Yet want there not those who do confidently averr that there is always a Laureat Poet in England and but one at a time the Laurel importing Conquest and Sovereignty and so by consequence soleness in that faculty and that there hath been a constant succession of them at Court who beside their salary from the King were yearly to have a tun of win as very essential to the heightning of fancy This last I conceive founded on what we find given to Geffery Chaucer Vigesimo secundo anno Richardi secundi concessum Galfrido Chaucer unum dolium vini per annum durante vitâ in portu Civitatis London per manus capitalis pincernae nostri But Chaucer besides his poetical accomplishments did the King service both in war and peace as Souldier and Embassadour in reward whereof this and many other boons were bestow'd upon him Musicians Musick is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into Time and Tune Such the extensiveness thereof that it stoopeth as low as bruit beasts yet mounteth as high as Angels For Horses will do more for a whistle then for a whip and by hearing their bells gingel away their weariness The Angels in Heaven imploy themselves in Musick and one ingeniously expresseth it to this effect We know no more what they do do above Save only that they Sing and that they Love And although we know not the Notes of their Musick we know what their Ditty is namely
whole year without any renewing after the Inter-Regnum Objection Such persons had better been omitted whereof many were little better then ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Though by good fortune they have loaded themselves with Thick clay and will be but a burden in your Book to the Readers thereof Answer All Wise men will behold them under a better Notion as the Pregnant proofs of the truth of 2. Proverbs not contradictory but confirmatory one to another Prov. 10. 22. Prov. 10. 4. The Blessing of the Lord maketh Rich. The hand of the Diligent maketh Rich. The one as the principal the other as the Instrumental cause and both meeting in the persons aforesaid For though some of them were the Younger Sons of Worshipful and Wealthy Parents and so had good Sums of Money left them Yet being generally of mean extraction They raised themselves by Gods Providence and their own Painfulness The City in this Respect being observed like unto a Court where Elder Brothers commonly spend and the younger gain an Estate But such Lord Maiors are here inserted to quicken the Industry of Youth whose Parents are only able to send them up to not to set them up in London For whaâ⦠a comfort is it to a poor Apprentice of that City to see the Prime Magistrate thereof Riding in his Majoralibus with such Pomp and Attendance which another day may be his hap and happiness Objection It commeth not to the share of one in twenty thousand to attain to that Honour and it is as impossible for every poor Apprentice in process of time to prove Lord Maior as that a Minum with long living mould become a Whale Answer Not so the later is an utter Impossibility as debarred by nature being Fishes of several kinds Whereas there is a Capacity in the other to arive at it which puts hopes the only Tie which keeps the heart from breaking into the hearts of all of the attainablenesse of such preferment to themselves Doctor Hutton Arch-bishop of York when he came into any Great Grammar School which he did constantly visit in his visitations was wont to say to the young Scholars Ply your Books Boys ply your Books for Bishops are old men and surely the possibility of such dignity is a great Encouragement to the Endévours of Students Lord Maiors being generally aged and always but Annual soon make Room for Succession whereby the Indevours of all Freemen in Companies are incouraged But if they should chance to fall short as unable to reach the Home of Honour I mean the Majoralty it self yet if they take up their Lodgings at Sheriffe Alderman and Common-Councellour with a good Està tè they will have no cause to complain I confess some Counties in our ensuing Discourse will appear Lord-Maior-less as Cumberland Dorset-shire Hant-Shire c. However though hitherto they have not had hereafter they may have Natives advanced to that Honour and it may put a lawful Ambition into them to contend who shall be their Leader and who should first of those Shires attain to that Dignity As lately Sir Richard Cheverton Skinner descended I assure you of a right antient and worshipful Family was the first in Cornwall who opened the Dore for others no doubt to follow after him Nor must it be forgotten that many have been Lord-Maiors Mates though never rémembred in their Catalogues viz. Such who by Fine declined that Dignity and as I am glad that some will Fine that so the Stock of the Chamber of London may be increased so am I glad that some will not fine that so the State of the City of London may be maintained I begin the observing of their Nativities from Sir William Sevenoke Grocer Lord Maior 1418. For though there were Lord Maiors 200. years before yet their Birth-places generally are unknown It was I confess well for me in this particular that Mr. Stow was born before me being herein the Heir of Endevours without any pain of my own For knowing that Cuilibet Artifici in sua Arte est credendum I have followed him and who him continued till the year 1633. at what time their Labours do determine Since which Term to the present year I have made the Catalogue out by my own Inquiry and friends Intelligence To speak truth to their due praise one may be generally directed to their Cradles though by no other Candle then the Light of their good works and Benefactions to such places CHAP. XIV A Catalogue of all the Gentry in ENGLAND made in the Reign of King HENRY the Sixth why inserted in our Book AFter we have finished the Catalogue of the worthy Natives of every Shire We present the Reader with a List of the Gentry of the Land sollemnly returned by select Commissioners into the Chancery thence into the Records in the Tower on this occasion The Commons in Parliament complained that the Land then swarmed with Pilours ââ¦obbers Oppressers of the People Man-stealers Fellons Outlaws Ravishers of Women Unlawful Haunters of Forrests and Parks c. Whereupon it was ordered for the suppressing of present and preventing of future mischeifs that certain Commissioners should be impowered in every County to summon all persons of Quality before them and tender them an Oath for the better keeping of the Peace and observing the Kings Laws both in themselves and Retainers Excuse me Reader if I be bold to inââ¦pose my own Conjecture who conceive what ever was intended to palliate the Businesse The Principal Intent was to detect and suppress such who favoured the Title of York which then began to be set on foot and afterwards openly claimed and at last obtained the Crown 2. Even-done Of the method general used in this Catalogue The first amongst the Commissioners is the Bishop of their Diocesse put before any Earl partly because he was in his own Diocesse partly because giving of Oaths their proper work was conceived to be of Spiritual cognisance Besides the Bishop when there were three as generally Commissioners the first of them was either an Earl or at least though often intituled but Chivaler an Actual Baron as will hereafter appear And which will acquaint us partly with the Peerage of the Land in that Age. Next follow those who were Knights for the Shire in the Parliament foregoing and if with the addition of Chivaler or Miles were Knights by dubbing before of that their Relation All Commissioners expressed not equal Industry and Activity in prosecution of their trust For besides the natural Reasons that in all Affairs some will be more rigorous some more Remiss by their own Temper some more some less fancyed their Imployment insomuch as we find some Shires 1. Over done as Oxford and Cambridge-Shires whose Catalogues are too much allayed descending to persons of meaner quality 2. Even done as generally the most are where the Returns bear a competent proportion to the Populousness and numerousnesse of the Counties 3. Under done as Shropshire York-shire Northumberland c. where
the Returns do not answer to the extent of those Shires 4. Not done Which I sadly confess and cannot help being Twelve in number as hereafter will appear I dare not conjecture the cause of this Casualty whether in such Shires the Oaths were never Tendred or tendred and not taken or taken and not returned or returned and not recorded or recorded and not preserved or preserved but misplaced in some Roll which hitherto it hath not been my hap to lite upon It is possible that some disgusted the Kings Design as who under the pretence of keeping the peace indevoured to smother and suppress such who should appear for the Title of York whereof more in the Respective Countyes May the Reader be pleased to take notice that in the Reign of Henry the Sixth de such a place began then to be left off and the addition of Knight and Squire to be assumed Yet because no Fashion can be generally followed at first such additions are used in the Returns of some Shires and neglected in others In some Counties we have the Names of a few Mechanicks returned with their Trades Brasier Smith Ironmonger c. Who no doubt were considerable either in themselves as Robustious Persons or in their Servants as Numerous or in their popular and tumultuous Influence of others And grant these passing under the name of Valecti whereof formerly it appears by the penalty imposed on their Recusancy of the Oath that they were substantial ãâã which stood and propably could make others go on their own Account Some Clergymen not only Regular as Abbots and Priors but secular Parochial priests are inserted in some Returns These some will say might well be omitted as nothing Informative to the Gentry of the Land because dead Stakes in the Hedge then unconcerned in posterity because forbidden marriage However I have here presented as I found them intending neither to mingle nor mangle conceiving that if I were found guilty either of Omissions or Alterations it might justly shake the credit of the whole Catalogue Indeed if the word Superstition importeth not Trespassing on Religion and if the bare signification be adequate to the Etymology thereof a Super Stando for standing in his own opinion too curiously on a thing which in the Judgement of others may not Merit so much Exquisitenesse I here voluntarily confess my self Superstitious in observing every Punctillo according to the Original May the Reader be pleased to take notice that in mens proper names some letters of like sound are confounded in vulgar pronunciation as V for F. Fenner and Venner K. and C. Kary and Cary F. and Ph. as Purfrey and Purphrey though the name be the same in both Sometimes the name is spelled not truly according to Orthography but according to the common speaking thereof which melteth out some essential Letters as Becham for Beauchamp Again there is such an allusion betwixt the forms of some letters nothing symbolyzing in sound that as they are written though not in ordinary in Record-hand they may easily be mistaken by Writer or Reader through the similitude of their Character as m e n f n l g w o u s r t y This hath put us many times to a stand and sometimes to a loss what letter it hath been But we have in all particulars conformed our Transcript to the original in all possible exactness though afterwards taking the boldness to interpose our opinion in our observations A later List might be presented of the English Gentry towards the end of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth but such would be subject to just exception For as the Gibeonites though by their mouldy bread and clouted Shooes pretending to a long peregrination were but of the Vicinage So most of those Gentry notwithstanding their specious claim to Antiquity will be found to be but of one Descent low enough in themselves did they not stand on the vantage ground heightned on the Rubbish of the Ruines of Monasteries CHAP. XV. Of SHIRE-REEVES or SHIRIFFES REEVE which hath much Affinity with the Dutch Grave signifieth an Officer to oversee and order being chief in the Shire In Latin Vice-comes or Vicecount And seeing shadows in effect are as ancient as the bodies they may be beleived as old as Counts and Counts as Counties and Counties as King Alfred who first divided England into Shires about the year of our Lord 888. The late fashion was that the Clerk of the Peace for each County in Michaelmas-Term presented to the Lord Cheif Justice of the Kings Bench sixe or more names of able persons for that Office The Lord Chief Justice calling the other Judges into the Exchequer Chamber where the Attorney General and the Sollicitour attends presented three out of that number unto the King out of which the King pricks one who stands Sheriffe of the County His Power is sufficiently known to suppress Riots secure Prisoners distrain for Debts execute Writs return the choice of Knights and Burgesses for Parliament empannel Juries attend the Judâ⦠ãâã the Execution of Malefactors c. Several Statutes have provided that no man should be Sheriffe in any County except he hath land sufficient in the same County to answer the King and his people And it is remarkable that since the beginning of that Office it appeareth not upon any Record that ever any Sheriffe pro tempore failed in his Estate but was responsible in his place Whereas it is too plain by sad Precedents that some Receivers being men of meaner estates have Sheriffes are bound to abide in their proper persons within the County that they may the more effectually attend their Office And in our Remembrance some great persons whose Activity in Parliament was suspected have been made Sheriffes to keep them out of harms way and confine them at home But later years have dispenced with such critical Niceties unreasonable that the Sheriffe himself should be a Prisoner in his own County allowing him more liberty on the providing of an able Deputy in his absence Though I will not avouch it true there may be somewhat of truth in their spiteful observation who maintain that the Shrevalty in ancient times was Honos sine Onere in the middle times Honos cum onere and in our days little better than Onus sine honore though â⦠trust the Office will now be restored to its former honour Honos sine onere An honour without a burden As when Prince Edward the first was for many years together High-Sheriffe of Bedford and Buckingham-shire and many prime Peers of the Land were Honorary Sheriffes gracing the place with accepting it living where they pleased themselves and appointing their Substitutes to transact the businesse of the County Honos cum onere An Honour with a burden From King Edward the Third till within our Remembrance For the principal Gentry in every shire of most ancient extractions and best Estates were deputed for that place keeping great Attendance and Hospitality
Fathers as if some Peculiar Blessing attended them whilst they continue therein Thus of the Prelatical Clergy we have Francis Godwin a Bishop the Son of a bishop and Doctor John King Son to his Reverend Father the Bishop of London And of other Clergy men we have three Generations of the wards in Suffolk As many of the Shutes in York shire no lesse painful then pious and able in their Professions Let me add that there were at one time 3 Fellows of Kings Colledge Sons of eminent Divines and afterwards Doctors of Divinity 1 Samuel Collings 2 Thomas Goad 3 William Sclater And I believe there were not severally in their Generations men more signal in their different Eminencies It is easie for any to guess out of what Quiver this Envenomed Arrow was first shot against the Children of Clergy men namely from the Church of Rome Who in their Jurisdiction forbid the Banes of all Clergymen against the Law of Nature Scripture and the practice of the Primitive Church And in other places unsubjected to their power bespatter the posterity of the Clergy with their scandalous Tongues Yet be it known unto them the Sons of English Priests or Presbyters may be as good as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals However because Antidotes may be made of poysons it is possible that Good may be extracted out of this false Report Namely if it maketh Clergy-men more careful to go before their Children with good Examples to lead them with good Instructions to drive and draw them if need so requireth with Moderate Correction seasonably used putting up both Drye and Wet Prayers to God for his Blessing on their children As also if it maketh the children of Clergy-men to be more careful by their circumspect lives to be no shame to the Memory and Profession of their Fathers CHAP. XXI General Rules for the AUTHOR and READERS Ease I Have ranked all persons under their respective Titles according to their Seniorities of the ages they lived in Good the method of the Sons of Jacob sitting down at the Table of their unknown brother Joseph the first according to his Birthright and the Youngest according to his Youth If therefore on this account a mean man take place of a mighty Lord the later as being dead I am sure will not and the Living Reader should not be offended thereat Of the Dates of Time annexed to the Persons and their Actions The Sun that Glorious Creature doth serve Mankind for a double use to lighten their Eyes with his Beams and Minds with his Motion The later is performed by him as appointed for Signs and for Seasons as he is the great Regulator of Time joynted into Years and Months carved into Weeks and Dayes minced into Hours and Minutes At what a sad loss are such who living in Lone Houses in a Gloomy Winter Day when the Sun doth not at all appear have neither the benefit of Watches Silent Clocks nor of Clocks Speaking Watches being ready oft-times to mistake Noon for Night and Night for Noon Worse Errors are committed by those who being wholy ignorant in Chronology set the Grand-children before their Grandfathers and have more HysteronProterons than of all other Figures in their Writings The Maxime He who distinguisheth well instructeth well is most true in the observing of the Distinction of time It will pose the best Clerk to read yea to spel that Deed wherein Sentences Clauses Words and Letters are without Points or Stops all continued together The like Confusion ariseth when persons and their actions are not distanced by Years nor pointed with the periods of Generations I have endevoured in my following work to Time Eminent Persons by one of these Notations First that of their Morning or Nativity the second that of their Noon or Flourishing the last that of their Night or Death The first is very uncertain many Illustrious Men being of obscure Extraction The second more conspicuous when Mens Lustre attracts many Eyes to take Notice of them Many see the Oake when grown especially if a standard of Remark whilst few if any remember the Acorn when it was set The last is not the least Direction as which is generally observed It cometh to pass somtimes that their Deaths acquaint us with their births viz. when attended on their Tomb with Intelligence of their age so that by going backward so many years from their Coffins we infallibly light on their Cradles Some Persons in our Works are notified by all of these Indications most with two and all with one of them When we find a Contest amongst Chronologers so that with the mutinous Ephesians some cry one thing and some another being as much dispersed in their Opinions as the Amorites in their Persons when defeated by Saul so that two of them were not left together in such a case I have pitched on that Date under correction of better judgements which seemed to me of greatest Probability An Apology for Qualificatives used and Blanks left in this History I approve the plain Country By-word as containing much Innocent Simplicity therein Almost and very nigh Have saved many a Lie So have the Latines their prope fere juxta circiter plus minus used in matters of fact by the most authentick Historians Yea we may observe that the Spirit of Truth it self where Numbers and Measures are concerned in Times Places and Persons useth the aforesaid Modificatives save in such cases where some mystery contained in the number requireth a particular specification thereof In times In places In persons Dan. 5. 33. Darius being about threescore and two years old Luk. 24. 13. From Jerusalem about sixty furlongs Exod. 12. 37. About six hundred thousand men on foot Luke 3. 23. Jesus began to be about thirty years of age Joh. 6. 19. Had rowed about five and twenty furlongs Act. 2. 41. Added to the church about 3 thousand ãâã None therefore can justly find fault with me if on the like occasion I have secured my self with the same Qualificatives Indeed such Historians who grind their Intelligence to the powder of fraction pretending to cleave the pin do sometimes misse the But. Thus one reporteth how in the Persecution under Dioclesian there were neither under nor over but just nine hundred ninety nine Martyrs Yea generally those that Trade in such Retail-ware and deal in such small parcells may by the ignorant be commended for their Care but condemned by the judicious for their ridiculous curiosity But such who will forgive the use of our foresaid Qualificatives as but limping and lamenesse will perchance not pardon the many blanks which occur in this Book accounting them no better then our Flat fallingto the ground in default of our Industry where they found their best preferment especially if Convents or Dignities of signal note as Henry of Huntington not born but Arch-Deacon there William of Malmsbury and Matthew of Westminster no Natives of those Towns but Monks of the Monasteries therein However
marryed by a Proxy a naked sword being in bed interposed betwixt him and her body to Alphons King of Arragon with all Ceremonies of State And indeed they proved but Ceremonies the substance soon ãâã the said King Alphons dying Anno Dom. 1292. before the Consummation of the Mââ¦rriage But soon after this Lady found that a Living Earl was better then a Dead King when Marryed to Henry the 3d. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of ãâã and Kings of Sicil are descended This Lady deceased in the seven and twentieth of her Fathers Reign Anno Dom. 1298. MARGARET third Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor in the 3d. year of her Fathers Reign 1275. When fifteen year old she was Marryed at Westminster July 9th 1290. to John the second Duke of Brabant by whom she had Issue John the third Duke of Brabant from whom the Dukes of Burgundy are descended MARY sixth Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor April the 12. 1279. being but ten years of Age she was made a Nun at Amesbury in Wilt-shire without her own and at the first against her Parents consent meerly to gratify Queen Eleanor her Grand-mother Let us pity her who probably did not pity her self as not knowing a vaile from a kerchief not understanding the requisites to nor her own fitness for that profession having afterwards time too much to bemoan but none to amend her condition As for the other Children of this King which he had by Eleanor his Queen probably born in this Castle viz. HENRY ALPHONSE BLANCHE Dying in their infancy immediately after their Baptism it is enough to name them and to bestow this joynt Epitapb upon them ââ¦leansed at Font we drew untainted Breath Not yet made bad by Life made good by Death The two former were buryed with their Brother John of whom before at Westminster in the same Tomb but where Blanche was interred is altogether unknown Edward the Third Son to Edward the Second and Queen Isabel was born at Windsor October 13. 1312. and proved afterwards a pious and fortunate Prince I behold him as meerly passive in the deposing of his Father practised on in his Minority by his Mother and Mortimer His French Victories speak both of his Wisdom and Valour and though the Conquests by King Henry the fifth were thicker atchieved in a shorter time His were broader in France and Scotland by Sea and Land though both of length alike as lost by their immediate Successours He was the first English King which Coined* Gold which with me amounts to a wonder that before his time all yellow payments in the Land should be made in foreign Coin He first stamped the Rose-Nobles having on the one side Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat And on the reverse his own image with sword and shield sitting in a ship waving on the Sea Hereupon an English Rhymer in the Reign of King Henry the sixth For four things our Noble she weth to me King Ship and Swerd and Power of the See He had a numerous and happy issue by Philippa his Queen after whose death being almost seventy years old he cast his affection on Alice Pieââ¦ce his Paramour much to his disgrace it being true what Epictetus returned to Adrian the Emperour asking of him what Love was In puero pudor in virgine rubor in soemina furor in juvene ardor in sene risus In a boy bashfulness in a maid blushing in a woman fury in a young man fire in an old man folly However take this King altogether at home abroad at Church in State and he had few equals none superiours He dyed Anno Dom. 1378. WILLIAM sixth Son of King Edward the third and Queen Philippa was born at Windsor Indeed his second Son born at Hatfield was of the same name who dyed in his infancy and his Mother had a fond affection for another William because her Fathers Brothers and a Conquering Name till his short Life also dying in his cradle weaned her from renewing her desire As for King Edwards female Children Isabel Joan Blanch Mary and Margaret there is much probability of their French and no assurance of their English Nativity HENRY the sixth Son to Henry the fifth was born in Windsor-Castle against the will of his Father by the wilfulness of his Mother He was fitter for a Coul then a Crown of so easie a nature that he might well have exchanged a pound of Patience for an ounce of Valour Being so innocent to others that he was hurtful to himself He was both over-subjected and over-wived having marryed Margaret the Daughter of Reinier King of Jerusalem Sicily and Arragon a Prince onely Puissant in Titles otherwise little able to assist his Son in Law Through home-bred Dissentions he not onely lost the foreign acquisitions of his Father in France but also his own inheritance in England to the House of York His Death or Murder rather happened 1471. This Henry was twice Crowned twice Deposed and twice Buryed first at Chertsy then at Windsor and once half Sainted Our Henry the seventh cheapned the price of his Canonization one may see for his love and buy for his money in the Court of Rome but would not come up to the summe demanded However this Henry was a Saint though not with the Pope with the People repairing to this Monument from the farthest part of the Land and fancying that they received much benefit thereby He was the last Prince whom I find expresly born at Windsor It seems that afterwards our English Queens grew out of conceit with that place as unfortunate for Royal Nativities Saints MARGARET ALICE RICH were born at Abbington in this County and were successively Prioresses of Catesby in Northampton-shire They were Sisters to St. Edmund whose life ensueth and are placed before him by the Courtesie of England which alloweth the weaker Sex the upper hand So great the Reputation of their Holiness that The former Dying Anno 1257. The latter 1270. Both were honoured for Saints and many Miracles reported by crafty were believed by Credulous people done at their shrine by their Reliques St. EDMUND Son to Edward Rich and Mabel his Wife was born at Abbington in Bark-shire and bred in Oxford Some will have Edmunds-Hall in that University built by his means but others more probably nam'd in his Memory He became Canon of Salisbury and from thence by the joynt-consent of Pope King and Monkes three cords seldom twisted in the sa ne Cable advanc'd Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where he sate almost ten years till he willingly deserted it partly because offended at the power of the Popes Legate making him no more then a meer Cypher signifying onely in conjunction when concurring with his pleasure partly because vexed at his polling and peeling of the English people so grievous he could not endure so general
Brigges ar ut prius  4 5 Ioh. Denton ar ut prius  5 6 Rich. Fines ar ut prius  REG. ELIZA   Anno   1 Edw. Ashfeld ar   2 Edw. Fabian ar   3 Ioh. Doyle ar  Or 2 Bendlets Az. 4 Hen. Norys ar ut prius  5 Ric. Wenman ar  Quarterly Gules Az. a Cross Patence Or. 6 Ioh. Croker ar Tame P. Ox. Argent on a Cheveron Engrailed Gules between 3 Crows as many Mullets Or pierced 7 Tho. Stafford ar ut prius  8 Christ. Brome   Henry IV. 2 THOMAS CHAUCER He was sole son to Geffery Chaucer that famous Poet from whom he inherited fair lands at Dunnington-Castle in this County and at Ewelme in Oxfordshire He married Maud daughter and coheir of Sir John Burwash by whom he had one only daughter named Alice married unto William de la Pole Duke of Suffolk He lyeth buried under a fair tomb in Ewelme Church with this inscription Hic jacet Thomas Chaucer Armiger quondam Dominus istius villae Patronus istius Ecclesiae qui obiit 18. die Mensis Novembris Anno Dom. 1434. Matilda uxor ejus quae obiit 28. mensis Aprilis Anno Domini 1436. Henry V. 1 THOMAS WIKHAM I behold him as kinsman and next heir to William Wykham that famous Bishop of Winchester to whom the Bishop left notwithstanding above six thousand pounds bequeathed by him in legacies for the discharge whereof he left ready mony one hundred pound lands a year As for his Arms viz. Argent two Cheverons Sable between three Roses Gules a most ingenious Oxfordian conceiveth those Cheverons alià s Couples in Architecture given him in relation to the two Colledges he built the one in Oxford the other in Winchester It will be no sin to suspect this no original of but a post-nate-allusion to his Armes who was whatever is told to the contrary though his parents were impoverished of a Knightly extraction But if it was his assigned and not hereditary Coat it will be long enough ere the Heraulds Office grant another to any upon the like occasion Henry VI. JOHANES GOWFRE Ar. No doubt the same with him who 2 do Hen. 5 nti was written John Golofre He is the first person who is styled Esquire though surely all who were before him were if not Knights Esquires at the least And afterwards this addition grew more and more fashionable in the Reign of King Henry the sixth For after that ââ¦ack Straw one of the grand founders of the Levellers was defeated the English Gentry to appear above the common sort of people did in all publick instruments insert theit Native or acquired Qualifications Edward IV. 8 JOHN HOWARD Miles He was son to Sir Robert Howard and soon after was created a Baron by this King and Duke of Northfolk by King Richard the third as Kinsman and one of the Heirs of Anne Dutchess of York and Northfolk whose Mother was one of the Daughters of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Northfolk Soon after he lost his life in his quarrell who gave him his honour in Bosworth field From him descended the Noble and Numerous family of the Howards of whom I told four Earls and two Barons sitting in the last Parliament of King Charles I have nothing else for the present to observe of this Name save that a great Antiquary will have it originally to be Holdward L. and D. being omitted for the easier pronunciation which signifieth the Keeper of any Castle Hold or Trust committed unto them wherein they have well answered unto their Name Did not Thomas Howard Earl of Surry well hold his ward by Land when in the reign of King Henry the eighth he conquered the Scots in Flodden-field and took James the fourth their King Prisoner And did not Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham hold his ward by Sea in 88. when the Armado was defeated But hereof God willing hereafter 15 HUMPHRY FOSTER Ar. This must be he consent of times avowing it who was afterwards Knighted and lyeth buried in Saint Martinâ⦠in the Fields London with the following inscription Of your charity pray for the soul of Sir Humphery Foster Knight whose body lyeth buried here in earth under this Marble-stone which deceased the 18. day of the Month of September 1500. on whose Soul sesu have mercy Amen Henââ¦y VII 8 ROBERT HARECOURT Miles Right ancient is this family in France having read in a French Herauld who wrote in the reign of King Edward the sixth that it flourished therein eight hundred years as by a Genealogy drawn by him should appear Of this Family for both give the same Coat at this day viz. Gââ¦les two Barrs Or a younger branch coming over at the Conquest fixed it self in the Norman Infancy at Staunton Harecourt in Oxfordshire And I find that in the reign of King ââ¦ohn Richard de Harecourt of Staunton aforesaid marrying Orabella daughter of Saer de Quincy Earl of Winchester had the rich manor of Bosworth in Leicester-shire bestowed on him for his wifes portion I cannot exactly distinguish the several Harecourts contemporaries in this County and Sheriffs thereof so as to assign them their severall habitations but am confident that this Robert Harecourt Sheriffe in the reign of King Henry the seventh was the same person whom King Edward the fourth made Knight of the Garter From him lineally descended the valiant Knight Sir Simon Harecourt lately slain in the wars against the Rebells in Ireland whose Son a hopefull Gentleman enjoys the Manor of Staunton at this day 15 JOHN BASKET He was an Esquire of Remark and martiall activity in his younger days who in some years after removed to Devenish in Dorsetshire to whom King Henry the eighth going over into France committed the care of that County as by his following Letter will appear Henry VIII By the King Trusty and Well-beloved We greet you well And whereas we at this time have written as well to the Sheriff of that Our Shire as also to the Justices of Our Peace within Our said Shire Commanding and straightly Charging that as well the said Sheriffs as the said Justices endeavour them for the keeping of Our Peace and the entertainment of Our Subjects in good quiet and restfullness durying the time of Our journey into the parties of beyond the Sea to the which We entend to dispose us about the latter end of this present month of May And forasmuch also as We have for your great ease spared you of your aettendance upon Us in Our said journey and left you at home to doe Us service in keeping of Our Peace and good Rule amongst Our said Subjects We Will thereforâ⦠and Command you that dureing the time of Our said absence out of this Our Realme ye have a speciall over-sight regard and respect as well to the Sheriff as to the said Justice how and in what diligence they do and execute
advanced thee to be a Bishop before many reverend persons and able Divines His expression licking the Chancery hath left Posterity to interpret it whether taxing him for Ambition liquorishly longing for that Place Or for Adulation by the soft smoothing of flatery making his way thereunto Or for Avarice licking it so that he gained great if good profit thereby As for his expression little Cleark it is plain it referred not to his stature but dwarfness in learning However all this would not perswade him into a resignation of his Bishoprick though it was not long before he lost both it and his life by a fall from a skittish-horse Anno Domini 1254. I find no Bishop born in this County since the Reformation and therefore we may go on in our propounded method Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Sir JOHN COKEYN Knight Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the reign of King Henry the fourth founded a worshipfull Family at and imparted his Sirname to Cokeyn-Hatley in this County But being convinced that he was born at Ashbourn in Derbyshire I have reserved his character for that County EDMOND WINGATE Esq. was a Native of this County whose family flourisheth at Hartington therein He was bred in Greys ãâã in the Study of our Common-law whereof he wrote besides others a Book Intitled The Reason of the Common-law and is lately deceased Writers JOHN of DUNSTABLE so called from a Market-town in this County wherein he was born If hitherto the Reader hath not it is high time for him now to take notice of a person of such perfection Indeed at first my Pen feared famishing finding so little since surfetting meeting so much of this man For this John of Dunstable was John of all Arts as appeareth by his double Epitaph one inscribed on his Monument the other written on his memory But be it premised of both that we will not avouch the truth of the Latine or quantity in these verses but present them here as we find them with all their faults and his vertues on whom they were made On his tombe in Saint Stephen's Wallbrook London Clauditur hoc tumulo qui ãâã pectore clausit Dunstable I Juris Astrorum conscius ille ......... ..... .... ãâã pondere ãâã Hic vir erat tua Laus tua Lux ãâã Musica Princeps Quique tuas fulces per ãâã sparserat Artes .......................................................... Suscipiant proprium ãâã ãâã sibi Cives The second made by John Wheathamsted Abbot of Saint Albans Musicus hic Michalus alter novus Ptolomaeus Junior ac Atlas supportans robore ãâã Pausat sub cinere melior vir de muliere Nunquam natus erat vitii quia labe carebat Et virtutis opes possedit unicus omnes Perpetuis annis celebretur fama Johannis Dunstable in pace requiescat hic sine fine What is true of the bills of some unconscionable Trades-men if ever paid over paid may be said of this hyperbolical Epitaphs if ever believed over believed Yea one may safely cut off a Third in any part of it and the remainder will amount to make him a most admirable person Let none say that these might be two distinct persons seeing besides the concurrence of time and place it would bank-rupt the Exchequer of Nature to afford two such persons one ãâã at once being as much as any will believe This Dunstable died an 1455. Sinee the Reformation GEORGE JOY was born in this County though the exact place be not expressed He was a great friend to Master Tindall and therefore perfectly hated by Woolsey Fisher and Sir Thomas Moor the perticulars of his sufferings if known would justly advance him into the reputation of a Confessor He translated some parts of the Bible into English and wrote many books reckned up by Bale notwithstanding many machinations against his life he found his Coffin where he fecht'd his Cradle in sua patria sepultus being peaceably buried in his native Country 1553. the last year of King Edward the sixth FRANCIS DILLINGHAM was born at Dean in this County and bred Fellow in Christ-Colledge in Cambridge He was an excellent Linguist and subtile Disputant My Father was present in the Bachillors-Scholes when a Greek Act was kept between him and William Alabaster of Trinity-Colledge to their mutuall commendation A disputation so famous that it served for an Aera or Epoche for the Scholars in that age thence to date their seniority He was afterwards chosen Anno 1607. to be one of the Translators of the Bible and being richly beneficed at Wilden in this County died a single man leaving a fair estate to his brother Master Thomas Dillingham who was chosen one of the late Assembly though for age indisposition and other reasons not appearing therein and for many years was the humble painfull and faithfull Pastor of Deane the place of his Nativity WILLIAM SCLATER was born at Layton-buzard in this County son to Anthony Sclater the Minister thereof for fifty years together who died well nigh an hundred years of age This William his son was bred in ãâã then in Kings Colledge in Cambridge where he commenced Bachillor and after many years discountinance Doctor of Divinity Hence he was invited to be ãâã at Walsal in Stafford-shire where he began his sermons afterwards printed on the three first Chapters of the Romans Afterwards John Coles Esquire of Sommerset-shire over-intreated him into the Western parts where he presented him Vicar of Pitmister Here he met with manifold and expensive vexations even to the Jeopardy of his life but by the goodness of God his own innocency and courage with the favour of his Diocesan he came off with no lesse honour to himself then confusion to his adversaries He was at first not well affected to the Ceremonies of the Church but afterwards on his profound studying of the point he was reconciled to them as for order and decency and by his example others were perswaded to conforme Constancy of studying contracted the stone upon him which he used to call flagellum studiosorum Nor was his health improved by being removed to a wealthier Living when John Lord Pawlet of Hinton at the instance of Elizabeth his Lady in whose inheritance it was a worthy favourer of piety and pious men preferred him to the rich Parsonage of Limpsam in Somerset-shire where indeed there was scarce any element good save the earth therein Whereupon for his own preservation he was re-perswaded to return to Pitmister there continuing till the day of his death which happened in the year of our Lord 1627. in the fifty one year of his age leaving many learned works behind him as his Comment on the Romans and on the Thessalonians Sermons at Pauls cross and the treatise of Tithes styled the Ministers portion with other posthume works some since set forth by more remaining in the hand of his son William Scalter Doctor of Divinity and Minister at London lately deceased
in his profession is sufficiently attested by his own Printed Reports Eight eminent Judges of the Law out of their knowledge of his great wisdome learning and integrity approving and allowing them to be published for the Common benefit He was against the Illegality of Ship-money both publickly in Westminster-hall and privately in his judgment demanded by the King though concluded to subscribe according to the Course of the Court by plurality of voices The Country-mans wit levelled to his brain will not for many years be forgotten That Ship-money may be gotten by Hââ¦ok but not by Crook though since they have paid taxes loins to the little finger and Scorpions to the Rod of Ship-money but whether by Hook or Crook let others inquire His piety in his equall and even walkings in the way of God through the several turnings and occasions of his Life is evidenced by his Charity to man founding a Chappel at Beachley in Buckingham-shire two miles at least distanced from the Mother-Church and an Hospitall in the same Parish with a liberall Revenue Considering his declining and decaying age and desiring to examine his Life and prepare an Account to the Supreme Judge he petitioned King Charles for a Writ of Ease which though in some sort denied what wise Mr. would willingly part with a good Servant was in effect granted unto him He dyed at Waterstock in Oxford shire in the eighty second year of his age Anno Dom. 1641. EDWARD BULTSTRODE Esq. born in this County bred in the studies of our municipall Laws in the Inner Temple and his Highness his Justice in North-wales hath written a book of divers Resolutions and Judgments with the reasons and causes thereof given in the Court of Kings-bench in the reigns of King James and King Charles and is lately deceased Souldiers Sir WILLIAM WINDSOR Knight I am confident herein is no mislocation beholding him an Ancestor to the right honourable Thomas Windsor Hickman Lord Windsor and fixed at Bradenham He was deputed by King Edward the third in the fourty seventh year of his reign Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which Country was then in a sad Condition For the King was so intent on the Conquest of France as a Land nearer fairer and due to him by descent that he neglected the effectuall reduction of Ireland This encouraged the Irish Grandees their O's and Mac's to Rant and Tyrant it in their respective seignieuries whilst such English who were planted there had nothing Native save their Surnames left degenerating by degrees to be Irish in their Habits Manners and Language Yea as the wild Irish are observed to love their Nurses or Fosters above their natural Mothers so these barbarizing English were more endeared to the interest of Ireland which fed then of England which bare and bred them To prevent more mischief this worthy Knight was sent over of whose valour and fidelity the King had great experience He contracted with the King to defray the whole charge of that Kingdome as appeareth by the instrument in the Tower for eleven thousand two hundred thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence per annum Now Sir William undertook not the Conquest but Custody of the Land in a defen sive war He promised not with a daring Mountebank to Cure but with a discreet Physician to ease this Irish Gout Indeed I meet with a passage in Froissard relating how Sir William should report of himself that he was so far from subduing the Irish he could never have access to understand and know their Countries albeit he had spent more time in the service of Ireland then any Englishman then living Which to me seems no wonder the Irish vermin shrowding themselves under the Scabs of their Bogs and Hair of their Woods However he may truly be said to have left that land much improved because no whit more impaired during those dangerous distractions and safely resigned his office as I take it in the first of K. Richard the second ARTHUR GRAY Baron of Wilton is justly reckoned amongst the Natives of this Shire whose father had his Habitation not at Wilton a decayed Castle in Hereford-shire whence he took his Title but at Waddon a fair house of his Family not far from Buckingham He succeeded to a small Estate much diminished on this sad occasion His father William Lord Gray being taken Prisoner in France after long ineffectuall soliciting to be because captivated in the publick service redeemed on the publick charge at last was forced to ransom himself with the sale of the best part of his Patrimony Our Arthur endeavoured to advance his estate by his valour being entered in Feats of war under his Martial father at the siege of Lieth 1560. where he was shot in the shoulder which inspirited him with a constant antipathy against the Scotch He was afterwards sent over Lord Deputy into Ireland anno 1580. where before he had received the Sword or any Emblemes of Command ut acrioribus initiis terrorem incuteret to fright his foes with his fierce beginning he unfortunately fought the rebels at Glandilough to the great loss of English blood This made many commend his Courage above his Conduct till he recovered his credit and finally suppressed the rebellion of Desmund Returning into England the Queen chiefly relied on his counsel for ordering our Land-forces against the Spaniards in 88. and fortifying places of advantage The mention of that year critical in Church differences about discipline at home as well as with foreign foes abroad mindeth me that this Lord was but a Back-friend to Bishops in all divisions of Votes in Parliament or Council-table sided with the Anti-prelatical party When Secretary Davison that State-Pageant raised up on purpose to be put down was censured in the Star-chamber about the business of the Queen of Scots this Lord Gray onely defended him as doing nothing therein but what became an able and honest Minister of State An ear-witness saith Haec fuse oratoriè animosè Greium disserentem audivimus So that besides bluntness the common and becoming eloquence of Souldiers he had a real Rhetorick and could very emphatically express himself Indeed this warlike Lord would not wear two heads under one Helmet and may be said always to have born his Beaver open not dissembling in the least degree but owning his own judgment at all times what he was He deceased anno Dom. 1593. Writers ROGER de WENDOVER was born at that Market-town in this County bred a Benedictine in St. Albans where he became the Kings Historian Know Reader that our English Kings had always a Monck generally of St. Albans as near London the Staple of news and books to write the remarkables of their reigns One addeth I am sorry he is a forrainer and therefore of less credit at such distance that their Chronicles were lock'd up in the Kings Library so that neither in that Kings nor his Sons life they were ever opened If so
Conjunction with other Doctors of the University By his Testament he gave the Rectory of Milton to the Colledge and dying on Saint Marks day 1610. lieth buried in a Vestery on the North-side of the Chappel JOHN GREGORY was born November 10. 1607. at Amersham in this County of honest though mean parents yet rich enough to derive unto him the hereditary infirmity of the gout which afflicted him the last twenty years of his life He was bred in Christ-church in Oxford where he so applied his book that he studied sixteen hours of the four and twenty for many years together He attained to be an exquisite Linguist and general Scholar his modesty setting the greater lustre on his learning His notes on Dr. Redleys book of Civil-law gave the first testimony of his pregnancy to the world and never did text and comment better meet together He was first Chaplain of Christ-church and thence preferred by Bishop Duppa Prependary of Chichester and Sarum and indeed no Church-preferment compatible with his age was above his deserts He died at Kidlington in Oxford-shire 1646. and was buried at Christ-church in Oxford I find a smart Epitaph made by a friend on his memory and it was in my mind as well valiantly consider the times as truly indited Ne premas Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jaeent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui te quovis vincet Idiomate At nè molestus sis Ausculta causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et avita Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatâ Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut capesceret Vade nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Opera Posthuma are faithfully set forth by his good friend John Gurgain and deservedly dedicated to Edward Bish Esquire one so able that he could charitable that he would and valiant that he durst relieve Master Gregory in his greatest distress SAMUEL COLLINS son to Baldwin Collins born in Coventry a pious and painfull preacher prodigiously bountifull to the poor whom Queen Elizabeth constantly called Father Collins was born and bred at Eaton so that he breathed learned aire from ãâã of his nativity Hence coming to Kings-colledge in Cambridge he was succesââ¦ively chosen Fellow Provost and Regius Professor One of an admirable wit and ãâã the most fluent Latinist of our age so that as Caligula is said to have sent ãâã souldiers vainly to fight against the tide with the same success have any encountred the torrent of his tongue in Disputation He constantly read his Lectures twice a week for above fourty years giving notice of the time to his Auditours in a ticket on the School-dores wherein never any two alike without some considerable difference in the critical language thereof When some displeased Courtier did him the injurious courtesie to preferre him downwards in point of profit to the Bishoprick of Bristol he improved all his friends to decline his election In these troublesome times affording more Preachers then Professors he lost his Church but kept his Chair wherein he died about the year 1651. WILLIAM OUGHTRED was though branched from a right ancient Family in the North born in the Town bred in the School of Eaton became Fellow of Kings-colledge and at last was beneficed by Thomas Earl of Arundel at Albury in Surrey All his contemporaries unanimously acknowledged him the Prince of Mathematicians in our Age and Nation This aged Simeon had though no Revelation a strong perswasion that before his death he should behold Christs anointed restored to his Throne which he did accordingly to his incredible joy and then had his Dimittis out of this mortal life June 30. 1660. Romish Exile Writers THOMAS DORMAN was born at Ammersham in this County being nephew unto Thomas Dorman of the same town A Confessour in the reign of King Henry the eighth True it is this his Uncle through weakness did abjure let us pity his who desire God should pardon our failings but was ever a cordial Protestant He bred this Thomas Dorman juniââ¦r at Berkhamsted-school founded by Dr. Incent in Hartfordshire under Mr. Reeve a Protestant School-master But this Dorman turn'd tail afterwards and became a great Romanist running over beyond the seas where he wrote a book intituled Against Alexander Nowel the English Calvinist J. Pits doth repent that he affordeth him no room in the body of his book referring him to his Appendix He flourished Anno 1560. Memorable Persons JOHN MATHEW Mercer son to Thomas Mathew was born at Sherington in this County Lord Mayor of London Anno Dom. 1490. He is eminent on this account that he was the first Bachelar that ever was chosen into that office Yea it was above a hundred and twenty years before he was seconded by a single person succeeding him in that place viz. Sir John Leman Lord Mayor 1616. It seemeth that a Lady Mayoresse is something more then ornamentall to a Lord Mayor their wives great portions or good providence much advantaging their estates to be capable of so high a dignity Dame HESTER TEMPLE daughter to Miles Sands Esquire was born at Latmos in this County and was married to Sir Thomas Temple of Stow Baronet She had four sons and nine daughters which lived to be married and so exceedingly multiplied that this Lady saw seven hundred extracted from her body Reader I speak within compass and have left my self a reserve having bought the truth hereof by a wager I lost Besides there was a new generation of marrigable females just at her death so that this aged vine may be said to wither even when it had many young boughs ready to knit Had I been one of her relations and as well enabled as most of them be I would have erected a monument for her thus design'd A fair tree should have been erected the said Lady and her Husband lying at the bottom or root thereof the Heir of the family should have ascended both the middle and top-bough thereof On the right-hand hereof her younger sons on the left her daughters should as so many boughs be spread forth Her grand-children should have their names inscribed on the branches of those boughs the great-grand-children on the twiggs of those branches the great-great-grand-children on the leaves of those twiggs Such as surviv'd her death should be done in a lively green the rest as blasted in a pale and yellow fading-colour Plinie who reports it as a wonder worthy the Chronicle that Chrispinus Hilarus Praelata pompa with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitol seventy four of his children and childrens children attending on him would more admire if admitted to this spectacle Vives telleth us of a Village in Spain of about an hundred houses whereof all the inhabitants were issued from one certain old man who then lived when as that Village was so peopled so as the name of propinquity how the youngest of the children should call him could not
therein but 12. years of age He was blessed with an happy memory insomuch that when D. D. he could say by heart the second Book of the Aeneads which he learnt at School without missing a Verse He was an excellent Preacher and becoming a Pulpit with his gravity He attended King James his Chaplaine into Scotland and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury Hear what the Author of a Pamphlet who inscribeth himself A. W. saith in a Book which is rather a Satyre then a History a Libell then a Character of the Court of King James for after he had slanderously inveighed against the bribery of those days in Church and State hear how he seeks to make amends for all King James's Court pag. 129 130. Some worthy men were preferred gratis to blow up their Buckingham and his party Fames as Tolson a worthy man paid nothing in fine or Pension and so after him Davenant in the same Bishoprick Yet these were but as Musick before every hound Now although both these persons here praised were my God-fathers and Uncles the one marrying the sister of the other being Brother to my Mother and although such good words seem a Rarity from so railing a mouth yet shall not these considerations tempt me to accept his praises on such invidious terms as the Author doth proffer them O! Were these worthy Bishops now alive how highly would they disdain to be praised by such a pen by which King James their Lord and Master is causelesly traduced How would they condemn such uncharitable commendations which are if not founded on accompanied with the disgrace of others of their order Wherefore I their Nephew in behalf of their Memories protest against this passage so far forth as it casteth Lustre on them by Eclipsing the credit of other Prelates their contemporaries And grant corruption too common in that kind yet were there besides them at that time many worthy Bishops raised to their dignity by their Deserts without any Simonicall complyances Doctor Townson had a hospitall heart a generous disposition free from covetousness and was always confident in Gods Providence that if he should dye his children and those were many would be provided for wherein he was not mistaken He lived in his Bishoprick but a year and being appointed at very short warning to preach before the Parliament by unseasonable ââ¦tting up to study contracted a Fever whereof he died and was buried in Westminster Abbey Anno Dom. 1622. THOMAS son to William WESTFIELD D. D. was born Anno Dom. 1573. in the Parish of Saint Maries in Ely and there bred at the Free-school under Master Spight till he was sent to Jesus-colledge in Cambridge being first Scholar then Fellow thereof He was Curate or Assistant rather to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of Saint Mary le Bow in Cheapside afterward Rector of Hornsey nigh and Great Saint Bartholomews in London where in his preaching he went thorow the four Evangelists He was afterwards made Arch-Deacon of Saint Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol a place proffered to and refused by him twenty five years before For then the Bishoprick was offered to him to maintain him which this contented meek man having a self-subsistence did then decline though accepting of it afterwards when proffered to him to maintain the Bishoprick and support the Episcopall dignity by his signall devotion What good opinion the Parliament though not over-fond of Bishops conceived of him appears by their Order ensuing The thirteenth of May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon information in the behalf of the Bishop of Bristoll that his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents it is Ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored to him and a safe conduct be granted him to pass with his family to Bristoll being himself of great age and a person of great learning and merit Jo. Wylde About the midst of his life he had a terrible sickness so that he thought to use his own expression in his Diary that God would put out the candle of his life though he was pleased onely to snuff it By his will the true Copy whereof I have he desired to be buried in his Cathedral Church neer the tombe of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof And as for my worldly goods Reader they are his own words in his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give and bequeath them all to my dear wife Elizabeth c. He protested himself on his death-bed a true Protestant of the Church of England and dying Junii 28. 1644. lyeth buried according to his own desire above mentioned with this inscription Hic jacet Thomas Westfield S. T. D. Episcoporum intimus peccatorum primus Obiit 25. Junii anno MDCXLIV Senio moerore confectus Tu Lector quisquis es vale resipisce Epitaphium ipse sibi dictavit vivus Monumentum uxor moestissima Elizabetha Westfield Marito desideratissimo posuit superstes Thus leaving such as survived him to see more sorrow and feel more misery he was seasonably taken away from the evil to come And according to the Anagram made on him by his Daughter Thomas Westfield I dwel the most safe Enjoying all happiness and possessing the reward of his pains who converted many and confirmed more by his constancy in his Calling States-men JOHN TIPTOFT son and heir of John Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his wife daughter and Co-heir of Edward Charlton Lord Powis by his wife Eleanor sister and Co-heir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this but in the confines of Bedford shire He was bred in Baliol-colledge in Oxford where he attained to great learning and by King Henry the sixth was afterwards created first Vice-count then Earl of Worcester and Lord Hââ¦gh Constable of England and by K. Edward the fourth Knight of the Garter The skies began now to lowre and threaten Civil Wars and the House of York fell sick of a Relapse Mean time this Earl could not be discourteous to Henry the sixth who had so much advanced him nor disloyall to Edward the fourth in whom the right of the Crown lay Consulting his own safety he resolved on this Expedient for a time to quit his own and visit the Holy-land In his passage thither or thence he came to Rome where he made a Latin speech before the Pope Piâ⦠the second and converted the Italians into a better opinion then they had formerly of the English-mens learning insomuch that his holiness wept at the elegancy of the Oration He returned from Christs sepulcher to his own grave in England coming home in a most unhappy juncture of time if sooner or later he had found King Edward on that Throne to which now Henry the sixth was restored and whose restitution was onely remarkable for the death of this worthy
Staffondshire The meaning is the Genââ¦ry in Cheshire find it more profitable to match within their County then to bring a Bride out of other ãâã 1. Because better acquainted with her birth and breeding 2. Because though her Portion perchance may be less the expence will be less to maintain her Such ãâã in ãâã County have been observed both a prolonger of worshipfull families and the ãâã of ãâã ãâã ãâã them seeing what Mr. Camden reported of the Citizens of ãâã is verified of the Cheshire Gentry they are all or an Alliance Cardinals WILLIAM MAKILESFIELD was saith my Author ãâã ãâã Bishop Godwin ãâã little ãâã ãâã ãâã in Civitate ãâã However I conceive him born in this ãâã finding a ãâã Market-town and Forrest therein so named though he was reputed a ãâã because ãâã in that Age was in the ãâã of Coventry and Lichfield But ãâã ãâã ãâã not swim against the stream I Remit the Reader to his Character in Warwickshire ãâã WILLIAM BOOTH was first bred in ãâã Inn in London in the studie of our Municipall Laws till he ãâã that profession on the proffer of a ãâã Place in Saint Pauls and took Orders upon him It was not long before he was ãâã Bishop of Letchfield and six years after translated to ãâã He expended much money ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã his ãâã ãâã ãâã and ãâã ãâã ãâã died and was buried in Saint Maries Chappell in Southwell 1464. LAURENCE BOOTH Brother but by another Mother to William aforesaid was bred and became Master of ãâã hall in ãâã and was Chancellour of that University He made the Composition ãâã the ãâã and ãâã colledge to their mutuall advantage and was an eminent ãâã to his own Colledge bestowing thereon all the ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Church amongst which was St. ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã the Colledge of a Pension of five pounds which he redeemed and and Conferred there on the ãâã and Patronage of Overton-Waterfield in Huntingtanshire As it is Gods so it is all ãâã ãâã method in ãâã ãâã Servants Be faithfull in a little and thou shalt rule over much Doctor Booth well performing his Chancellors Place in Cambridge was ãâã ãâã ãâã to ãâã ãâã ãâã to ãâã the fixth Well ãâã ãâã ãâã he was ãâã ãâã ãâã of King ãâã the fourth made Lord High Chancellor ãâã seems his ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã but ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Bishop of York and deserving well of both Sees For he built in the first the ãâã of ãâã colledge and ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã It must not be forgotten than this ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã till the day of his death and ãâã ãâã his ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã and Bishop ãâã not that they were ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã of the place but the place ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã with them as it is this day by the Right Reverend Father in God Benjamin Lany Lord Bishop of Peturborough This Arch-bishop died Anno Dom. 1480. JOHN BOOTH Brother to Laurence aforesaid Bachellor of Laws was consecrated Bishop of Exceter in the sixth of King Edward the fourth 1466. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in his Cathedral which in the judicious Eye of Bishop Godwin hath not his Equall in England Let me adde that though this be the fairest Chair the soft Cushion thereof was taken away when Bishop Vescy alienated the Lands thereof The worst was when Bishop Booth had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein so troublesome the times of the civil wars betwixt York and Lancaster So that preferring his privacy he retired to a little place of his own purchasing at Horsley in Hampshire where he dyed April the first 1478. and was buried in Saint Clements Danes London We must remember that these three Prelates had a fourth and eldest Brother Sir Roger Booth Knight of Barton in Lancashire Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevill third Earl of Westmerland And may the Reader take notice that though we have entred these Bishops according to our best information in Cheshire yet is it done with due reservation of the right of Lancashire in case that County shall produce better Evidence for their Nativities THOMNS SAVAGE was born at Maklefield in this County his Father being a Knight bred him a Doctor of Law in the University of Cambridge Hence was he preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York He was a greater Courtier then Clerke and most Dextrous in managing Secular Matters a mighty Nimrod and more given to Hunting then did consist with the Gravity of his Profession No doubt there wanted not those which taxed him with that Passage in Saint Jerome Penitus non invenimus in scripturis sanctis sanctum aliquem Venatorem Piscatores invenimus sanctos But all would not wean him from that sport to which he was so much addicted His provident Precedent spared his Successors in that See many pounds of needless expences by declining a costly instaulation being the first who privately was instauled by his Vicar Yet was he not Covetous in the least degree maintaining a most numerous Family and building much both at Scroby and Cawood Having sate seven years in his See he died 1508. his Body being buried at York his Heart at Maklefield where he was born in a Chapel of his own Erection intending to have added a Colledge thereunto had not death prevented him Since the Reformation WILLIAM CHADERTON D. D. Here I solemnly tender deserved thanks to my Manuscript Author charitably guiding me in the Dark assuring that this Doctor was ex praeclaro Chadertonorum Cestrensis comitatus stemmate prognatus And although this doubtfull Direction doth not cleave the Pin it doth hit the White so that his Nativity may with most Probability not prejudicing the right to Lancashire when produced here be fixed He was bred first Fellow then Master of Queens and never of Magdalen-colledge in Cambridge as Reverend Bishop Godwin mistaketh and chosen first the Lady Margarets then Kings Professor in Divinity and Doctor Whitacre succeeded him immediately in the Chair He was Anno 1579. made Bishop of Chester then of Lincoln 1594. demeaning himself in both to his great commendation He departed this life in April 1608. His Grand-child a virtuous Gentlewoman of rare accomplishments married to Mr. Joceline Esquire being big with child wrot a Book of advise since Printed and Intitled the Mothers Legacie to her unborn Infant of whom she died in travail WILLIAM JAMES D. D. was born in this County bred a Scholar in Christs-church in Oxford and afterwards President of the University Colledge He succeeded Bishop Mathews in the Deanary and Bishoprick of Durham He had been Chaplain to Robert Dudly Earl of Lecester and I hope I may lawfully transcribe what I read Sir J. Harrington view of the Church of England pag.
Egmund Leland for a reason immediately following nameth him William of Stamford but Egremont is the Orthography of his name from a small Market-town yet a Barony of the late Earls of Sussex in this Shire where he was born Quitting this cold Country he took his Progress into the South and fixing himself at Stamford became an Augustinian Eremite and proceeded Doctor of Divinity Going beyond the Seas he was by the Pope made Episcopus Pissinensiâ⦠some poor pitifull Bishoprick so that one would scarce trouble himself to find it out to have the profit thereââ¦f and therewith held the Suffragane-ship under Henry Beaufort Bishop of Lincoln Indeed that voluminous Diocess a full fourth part of England before Eli Peterborough and Oxford were cantoned out of it required a Co-adjutor Many are the learned works written by him and seeing he is Doubly qualified I thought fitter to repose him under the Topick of Writers then of Prelates being confident that he got more credit by his Books then profit by his Bishoprick He flourished under King Richard the second anno 1390. JOHN SKELTON was a younger branch of the Skeltons of Skelton in this County I crave leave of the Reader hitherto not having full instructions and preserving the undoubted Title of this County unto him to defer his character to Norfolk where he was Beneficed at Diss therein Since the Reformation RICHARD CRAKENTHORP D. D. was descended of an Ancient Family in this County as appeareth by their frequent being Sheriffs thereof He was bred Fellow of Queens-colledge in Oxford and afterwards in the first of King James went over Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent Embassadour to the King of Denmark and other prime Princes of Germany Here by use he got an easiness in the Latine tongue and correspondency with several persons of eminent Learning He was an excellent Logiciaâ⦠witness his work in that kind and became Chaplain in Ordinary to King James Rector of Black-Notley in Essex greater preferments expecting him had not his death prevented it Pliny observeth that Posthume Children born after the death of their Father and Caesars understand such who are cut out of the womb of their Mother prove very happy in success What reason soever Naturalists assign hereof Divines justly impute it to Gods goodness graciously remembring those Orphans which cannot remember their own Parents The Observation may be applyed to the Books of this worthy Doctor set forth after his death one called Vigilius Dormità ns in defence of the Emperour Justinian and a generall Councill held by him Anno 553. set forth by his Brother George Crakenthorp the other being an answer to the Manifesto of the Arch-bishop of Spalato set forth by that Learned Antiquary Dr. John Barkham and both of these Books finding an universall and gratefull reception among the Learned and Religious I cannot certainly fix the date of his death and be it here solemnly entred that Westmerland shall be unprejudiced if he were born as a most credible person hath informed me at NewBiggin in this County SALKELD was a branch of a Right Worshipfull Family in this County bred a Divine beyond the Seas but whether ãâã or Secular Priest I know not Coming over into England to Angle for Proselites it seems his Line broke and he was cast into prison Hence he was brought out and presented to K. James by whose Arguments and a Benefice bestowed on him in Somersetshire he became a Protestant This he used in all companies to boast of that he was a Royall Convert Nobisque dedit solatia victor And was it not a Noble thing Thus to be conquer'd by a King Indeed His Majesty in some of his works styleth him the Learned Salkeld which the other much vaunted of often telling it to such who well knew it before for fear they might forget it His preaching was none of the best and he retained some Popish though not Opinions Fancies to the day of his death I have heard much of his discourse more of his own praise then to his own praise in my judgement But his true character may be taken out of the Book he wrot of Angells He died about the year 1638. GERARD LANGBAIN D. D. was born at Kirk-Banton in this County bred first Fellow in then Provost of Queens-colledge in Oxford A skilfull Antiquary ingenious industrious and judicious in ââ¦is Writings as by his Works will appear Who so shall read over the History of thâ⦠Councill of Trent translââ¦ted out of Italian by Sir Nathaniel Brent will conceive it so compleat a Narration of all the concernments in that Council that nothing of consequence can be added thereunto Yet this his mistake will be confuted by perusing the Works set forth by Doctor Langbain of the dissent of the Gallican Churches from severall conclusions in that Council As his Brain was the Mother of some so was it the Midwife to other good books which he procured to be published Especially a book made by Sir John Cheeke concerning Rebellion and Loyalty seasonably reprinted in the beginning of our Civil Wars But alas such then was the noise of mens Animosities that the Still voice of Truth could not be heard amongst them More Excellent Tracts were expected from him particularly an Edition of Brian Twine with Additions concerning the Antiquity of Oxford when God was pleased almost in the midst of his days to put an end to his life Anno 1657. Benefactors to the Publick ROBERT EAGLESFIELD born in this County was a pious and learned man according to the rate of that age Chaplain and Confessor to Philippa Queen to King Ed ward the third He founded a fair Colledge in Oxford by the name of Queens-colledge for a Provost and twelve Fellows whom he ordered to sit in the Hall in purpura and that they should be attended on more Curiali He appointed that those of Cumberland and Westmerland should be proper for perferment in his Foundation rendring this reason why he reflected most on those Northern Counties Propter insolitam vastitatem melioris literaturae infrequentiam But prevented by death he finished not his intentions leaving onely to the Colledge the Mannor of Renwick in this County with the impropriation of Burgh under Stanmore and which I assure you was considerable most excellent Statutes To shew himself both Courtier and Scholar he ordered that in the Hall they should speak either Latine or French He bequeathed his Colledge to the honorary Patronage of the Queens of England and his Sur-name is still extant in this County in persons of quality but how to him related to me unknown He dyed about the year of our Lord 1370. Memorable Persons MAUD the Daughter of Thomas Lord Lucy Sister and Heir of Anthony Lord Lucy and Baron of Cokermouth the Widow of Gilbert Humfrevile Earl of Angus was the second Wife of Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland Who when she saw that she should dye without Issue gave to Earl Henry her husband the Castle and Honour of
from the Plough-practice in this County As for the Natives thereof generally they are dexterous in any imployment and Queen Elizabeth was wont to say of their Gentry They were all born Courtiers with a becomming confidence Natural Commodities Silver This formerly was found in great plenty in the Parish of Comb-Martin Miners be ing fetcht out of Derby-shire for the digging thereof in the Reign of King Edw. 1. which as appeareth by Record on the account of those trusted therein turned to a considerable profit In the two and twentieth Year of the Raign of King Edward the first William Wymondham accounted for two hundred and seventy pounds weight of Silver It was forged for the Lady Elianor Dutchesse of Barr and Daughter to the said King married the year before In the twenty third year of the said King was fined five hundred and twenty one pounds ten shillings weight In the four and twentieth year of his Raign there was brought to London in fined Silver in Wedges seven hundred and four pounds three shillings and one peny weight In the twenty fifth year of his Raign though three hundred and sixty Miners were impressed out of the Peak and Wales great was that years clear profit in Silver and Lead In the Raign of Edward the third it appeareth by the Record of particular Accountants that the profits of the Silver were very considerable towards the maintainance of the Kings great expences in the French War These Mines long neglected as I conjecture by reason of the Civil Wars bewixt York and Lancaster were re-entred on by an Artist in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth who presented a Silver Cup made thereof to the Earl of Bath with this Inscription In Martins-Combââ¦ng ââ¦ng lay I hid obscure deprest with grossest soil Debased much with mixed Lead till Bullmer came whose skill and Toil Reformed me so pure and clean as richer no where else is seen These Mines have not as yet recovered their former credit Though I understand that some are still pursuing this design and I do wish well to their endeavours Not that Private Men should lose by their Lead But the publick gain by their Silver Tinn God said to Israel by the mouth of his Prophet And I will take away all thy Tinn Sad the case of this County if so served But what went before Thy Silver is become Drosse It seemeth the Kings of Israel being reduced to poverty debased their Coine the last refuge of Princes adulterating it with Tinn and herein God promised that their Coine should be refined to the true Standard This thâ⦠litteral meaning of the Promise mistically importeth that God would restore the Primitive Purity of his Service purged from Errours and Vices In this mistical sense it will not be amisse to wish that God would take away the Tinn from Devon-shire seeing such taking it away may consist with the Continuance and Advance of the Metal therein As for their Litteral Tinn so plentiful herein I wish some Artifice might be found out hitherto unknown to sever the Gold and Silver from the Tinn without wasteing Till this be done I desire some invention might prepare Sea-coals for the melting thereof hereby much Wood would be saved and the Product of the Tinn not diminished and not so much wasted in the Blast which now they are fain to run over three or four times I am incouraged in the Feasibility thereof because a Learned Chymist no Emperick but well experimented affirmed that it may be done on his own knowledg by many trials which he hath made upon it Herrings These still are taken in great and were formerly in greater plenty in this County For I read of great quantities of them for six or seven years together taken at Limmouth until the Proctor as is said not contented with reasonable and indifferent Tythes vexed the Poor Fisher-men with unusual and extraordinary payments Whether since the God of Nature to condemn such covetousnesse hath with-drawn such store of Fish or whether the Fisher-men disheartned with such exactions with-drew their own Industry I know not This I know that light gains as in all other commodities so especially in Tythes of this nature make the heaviest purses But we shall speak more conveniently of Herrings in Norfolk Strawberries In Latine Fraga most toothsome to the Palate I mean if with Claret Wine or sweet Cream and so plentiful in this County that a Traveller may gather them sitting on Horse-back in their hollow High-wayes they delight to grow on the North side of a bank and are great coolers These small and sowre as growing wild having no. other Gardiner then Nature quickly acquire greatnesse and sweetnesse if transplanted into Gardens and become as good as those at Porbery in Somerset-shire where twenty pounds per annum thank the vicinity of Bristol have been paid for the Tythe thereof I would not wish this County the increase of these Berries according to the Proverb Cut down an Oak and set up a Strawberry Hurtberries In Latine Vaccinia most wholsome to the Stomack but of a very astringent Nature so plentiful in this Shire that it is a kind of Harvest to poor people whose Children nigh Axminster will earn 8 pence a day for a Moneth together in gathering them First they are green then red and at last a dark blew The whitest hands amongst the Romans did not disdain their Blacknesse witnesse the Poet Vaccinia nigra leguntur Nothing more have I to observe of these Berries save that the Antient and Martial Family of the Baskervills in Hereford-shire give a Cheveron betwixt three Hurts proper for their Arms. Manufactures Bone-lace Much of this is made in and about Honyton and weekly returned to London Some will have it called Lace à Lacinia used as a fringe on the borders of cloaths Bone-lace it is named because first made with bone since wooden bobbins Thus it is usual for such utensills both in the Latine and English Names gratefully to retain the memory of the first matter they were made of as Cochleare a Spoon whether made of Wood or Metal because Cockle-shells were first used to that purpose Modern the use thereof in England not exceeding the middle of the Raign of Queen Elizabeth Let it not be condemned for a superfluous wearing because it doth neither hide nor heat seeing it doth adorn Besides though private persons pay for it it stands the State in nothing not expensive of Bullion like other Lace costing nothing save a little thread descanted on by art and industry Hereby many children who otherwise would be burthensome to the Parish prove beneficial to their Parents Yea many lame in their limbs and impotent in their arms if able in their fingers gain a lively-hood thereby Not to say that it saveth some thousands of pounds yearly formerly sent over Seas to fetch Lace from Flanders The Buildings Bediford Bridg is a stately Structure and remarkable in many respects 1 It standeth
Perin in Cornwall The Angel Gabriel was very much beholding to him for instituting an Annual Festival unto Him observed as I humbly conceive only in his own Cathedral or own Diocesse at the most and least people shoââ¦ld complain of the dearnesse of their Devotion he left good Land to defray the cost of that Solemnity He is much blamed for compassing the Mannour of Bishops-Clift to his Church by indirect means to which I can say nothing but only observe that this small City within eighty Years did afford three eminent Prelates whereof two Episcopi in Patria the Natives thereof which will scarcely be paralell'd in any Place of the same proportion He died Anno 12. Writers JOSEPHUS ISCANUS was born at this City anciently called Isca from the River Isk now named Eske running thereby A golden Poââ¦t in a leaden Age so terse and elegant were his Conceipts and expressions This our English Maro had for his Mecenas Baldwin Archbishop of Canterbury But I revoke my words and desire to turn Maro into Cornelius Nepos under whose name the Dutch-men have lately printed a Poem made by this Josephus debello Trojano It soundeth much to a Mans honour even to be mistaken for another Man of eminency for though there may be much of error in the mistake there must be something of truth in the error especially with the judicious Yea in such case a general conformity betwixt the Persons is not enough to build the mistake on without some ãâã ãâã as here the affinity of phrase and fancy betwixt these two Poets This ãâã Nepos under whose name the Poems of this Josephus were printed flourished in the time of Tully Indeed I finde not any Poems made by him though having to that purpose perused all Scaliger de Arte ãâã as a most probable Authour But most sure it is that this Cornââ¦lius was most judicious in that Art because Valerius Catullus dedicated his Poem unto him as best able to pââ¦sse a learned censure thereon this Josephus Iscanus flourished under King John Anno 1210 being Arch-Bishop of Burdeaux I have nothing more to observe of him save what with the Readers pardon I cannot omit viz. that this Josephus alwayes minded me of another Josephus Iscanus I mean Joseph Hall lately Bishop of Exeter a witty Poet when young a painfull Preacher and solid Divine in his middle a patient Sufferer in his old age of whom God willing more in due place WILLIAM of Exeter was born in this City bred a Doctor of Divinity in Oxford and afterwards became ãâã of the ãâã in the place of his nativity Now in his age fome Franciscan Friers so praised the perfectiou of Poverty that they touched the Popes Coppy-hold of Inheritance For if Poverty was so essential to Piety Papal pomp and plenty must needs argue prophaneness In confutation hereof this William of Exeter undertook William of Ockam though indeed impar congressus betwixt them for Exeter a fair City did not more exceed Ockam a smal village in Surrey in beauty and building than that Ockam William excelled this Exeter William in parts and Learning however what he wanted in brains he had in a good back to assist him and William of Exeter with John the three and twentieth Pope of Rome was able to undertake any Authour of that age He flourished in the Year of our Lord 1330. under the Raign of King Edward the third Since the Reformation RICHARD MARTYN was born in this City and bred partly in the Court partly in the Inns of Court and at last ââ¦etook himself to the Study of the Law He was accounted one of the highest Witts of our Age and his Nation King James being much delighted with his facetiousnesse a quality which with other of his Abilities commended him to be chosen Recorder of London He is eminent as for many Speeches so especially for that he made in Parliament in the tenth year of King James when account was taken of Forty Gentlemen in the House which were not twenty and some of them not sixteen years of age Formerly said this Rââ¦order Martyn it was the custome of Old men to make Lawes for Young ones But now Nature is invaded and inverted seeing Young men enact Lawes to govern their Fathers He had an excellent Pen and wrote very much and the more the pitty that they are suppressed from publick use his death happened about the year 1616. WILLIAM MARTIN Kinsman to the aforesaid Recorder was born in this City and bred a Student in the Lawes of the Land He wrote a short and clear of the Kings of England since the conquest I have been credlbly informed that King James took some exceptions at a Passage therein sounding either to the derogation of his own Family or of the Scotch Nation which he took so tenderly that Mr. Martin was brought into trouble for the same and though he wethered out the Kings displeasure and was reconciled to his Majesty yet he never rââ¦covered his former chearfulnesse It seems that a Princes Anger is a disease which though cured is not cured grief for the same being conceived to hasten his death which happened about the year 1616. WILLIAM TUCKER was born in this City bred fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford and after became Doctor in Divinity Canon of Sarisbury Arch-deacon of Barnstable and Dean of Lichfield The purity of his Latine Pen procured his preferment writing and dedicating a Book to Queen Elizabeth de Charismate of our Kings of England their gracious healing the Evil being the best that I have seen on that Subject vindicating such cures from all imposture unlawfull Magick and from some French Writers bold usurpations who lay claim to it as originally belonging to their Kings alone Whereas under correction I conceive that the word Soveraign which properly importeth the Supream Majesty doth also in our English Tongue in a secondary sence signiââ¦ie what is cordial to cure and heal Diseases or sores ever since such sanative power hath been annexed to the Crown of England This Doctor may be said to have worn half a Miter seeing his Congee de-lire was signed if not sent to elect him Bishop of Glocester but afterwards by Order fââ¦om King James it was revoked on what occasion I list not to enquire I conjecture the date of his death was much about the Year 1617. JOHN BARKHAM born in this City was bred in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow Chaplain afterwards to Archbishop Bancroft and Parson of Bocking in Essex Much his Modesty and no lesse his Learning who though never the publique Parent of any was the carefull Nurse of many Books who otherwise had expired in their Infancy had not his care preserved them He set forth D. Crackenchorp his Posthume Book against Spalato and was helpfull to John Speed in the composing of his English History yea he wrote the whole Life of the Raign of King John which is the King of all the
places and at a place called Somervill near to Chappel which by the landing place as ye come from Altferrâ⦠to Chesil is in great abundance It is an assured remedy for the Yellow Jaundice openeth the obstructions of the Spleen c. Buildings The Houses of the Gentry herein are built rather to be lived in than to be looked on very low in their scituation for warmth and other conveniencies Indeed the rhime holds generally true of the English structures The North for Greatness the East for Health The South for Neatness the West for Wealth However amongst the Houses in this County Lullworth Castle and Sherburn-Lodge are most eminent escaping pretty well in the late war so that they have cause neither to brag nor complain Proverbs As much a kin as Lenson-hill to Pilsen-pen That is no kin at all It is spoke of such who have vicinity of habitation or neighbourhood without the least degree of consanguinity or affinity betwixt them For these are two high hills the first wholy the other partly in the Parish of Broad Windsor whereof once I was Minister Yet Reader I assure thee that Sea-Men make the nearest Relation betwixt them calling the one the Cow the other the Calf in which forms it seems they appear first to their fancies being eminent Sea-marks to such as sail along these Coasts And although there be many Hills interposing betwixt these and the Sea which seem higher to a land Traveller yet these surmount them all so incompetent a Judge and so untrue a Surveyor is an ordinary eye of the Altitude of such places Stab'd with a Byrdport Dagger That is hang'd or executed at the Gallowes The best if not the most Hemp for the quantity of ground growing about Byrdport a Market Town in this County And hence it is that there is an ancient Statute though now disused and neglected that the Cable Ropes for the Navy Royal were to be made there abouts as affording the best Tackling for that purpose Dorset-shire Dorsers Dorsers are Peds or Panniers carried on the backs of Horses on which Haglers use to ride and carry their Commodities It seems this homely but most useful implement was either first found out or is most generally used in this County where Fish-Jobbers bring up their Fish in such contrivances above an hundred miles from Lime to London Saints EDWARD son to Edgar King of England was in his Child-hood bred under the cruel correction of Elfrida his Mother-in-law who used for small faults to whip him with Wax-Candles In so much that it is reported it made such an impression in this young Princes memory that when a man he could not endure the sight of Wax-Candles But Edward afterwards outgrew his Mothers tuition and succeeded his Father in his Throne However such her ambition that advantaged with the others easiness of nature She managed most matter of State leaving her Son in-law little more than the bare title of Soveraign Not contented herewith and to derive the Scepter to her own Son Ethelred caused him to be stab'd at Corfe Castle in this County coming in a civil visit unto her His hidden ââ¦ody being miraculously discovered was first buried at Warham and thence removed to Shaftsbury which Town for a time was termed Saint Edwards from his interment His murder hapned about the year of our Lord 978. Cardinals JOHN MORTON was born at Saint Andrews Milborne in this County of a right Worshipful Family still extant therein He was bred in Oxford and after many mediate preferments made Bishop of Ely Anno 1578. Not long after when many groaned under the Tyranny of King Richard the third this Prelate first found out the design of marrying Elizabeth eldest daughter to Edward the fourth of the House of York to Henry Earl of Richmond the last who was left of the line of Lancaster Indeed the Earls title to the Crown was not enough to make a countenance therewith much less a claim thereto but as the Lady had a Title and wanted a man to manage it the Earl was man enough to manage any design but wanted a Title and pursuing this advice by Gods blessing he gained the Crown by the name of Henry the seventh In expression of his gratitude he made this Bishop Chancellor of England and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He was a great instrument in advancing a voluntary Contribution to the King through the Land perswading Prodigals to part with their money because they did spend it most and the Covetous because they might spare it best So making both extreams to meet in one medium to supply the Kings necessities who though prodigiously rich may be said always to need because never-satisfied This Bishop with vast cost cut a new Channel in the Fennes for the publick good but it neither answered his expectation nor expence He was magnificent in his buildings and bountiful to poor Scholars enjoyning his Executors to maintain twenty poor Scholars in Oxford and ten in Cambridge twenty years after his death which hapned in October 1500. Prelates JOHN STAFFORD Son to Humphrey Stafford sixth Earl of Stafford was born at Hooke in this County then a most stately House belonging to this Family and bred a Doctor of the Laws in Oxford he was afterwards Dean of the Arches and Dean of Saint Martins This was a fair Colledge near Aldersgate in London founded Anno 1056. by Ingelricus and Edvardus his Brother priviledged by our Kings of England with great immunities the cause of many and high contests betwixt this Colledge and the City of London Afterwards he was made Bishop of Wells and for eighteen years a continuance hardly to be parallel'd was Chancellor of England At last he was advanced Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and no Prelate his Peer in Biââ¦th and preââ¦erment hath either less good or less evil recorded of him He died at Maidstone 1452. and lies buried in Canterbury ROBERT MORTON was Brothers Son to Cardinal Morton of whom before whose Father had a fair Habitation at Saint Andrews Milborne in this County His relation to so good an Uncle mixed with his own merits preferred him to the Bishoprick of Worcester Of whom we have little more than the date of his consecration 1486. and of his Death 1497. He lieth buried in the body of Saint Pauls Church in London JAMES TURBERVIL or De turbida villa was born of a worshipful Family who long have lived in great account in this County â⦠First a Monk but afterwards brought up in New-Colledge in Oxford He was consecrated Bishop of Exeter 1556. and deserved right well of that See When he entred thereon it was most true what his Successor therein since said That the Bishop of Exeter was a Baron but a Bare one so miserably that Cathedral had been pilled and polled But Bishop Turbervil recovered some lost lands which Bishop Voysey had vezed and particularly obtained of Queen Mary the ââ¦estitution of the fair Manor of
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 ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã 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
Gospell He was a Zacheus for his Stature and with him tall in Piety and Charity He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxford on which account his memory is sacred to all posterity He died Anno Dom. 883. whose body was buried by one Barry his Scholar in Eynsebury since St. Neots in Huntington-shire and some say was afterwards removed to the Abby of Crouland Martyrs Of the forty four Martyrs in this Shire Three were most Remarkable 1. JOHN LAURENCE who at the Stake was permitted a Posture peculiar to himself For being so infeebled with long durance and hard usage that he could not stand he had a Chair allowed him and had the painfull ease to sit therein Nor must we forget how little Children being about the fire Cââ¦ied unto him God strengthen you God strengthen you which was beheld as a product of his providence who out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings ordained Strength as also it evidenced their Pious Education To say Hosanna is as soon learnt by children as go up thou Bald head if it be as surely taught unto them 2. THOMAS HAWKES Gentleman first brought into trouble for refusing to Christen his Child after the Popish fashion This man going to the Stake promised his friends to give them some solemn token of the clearness and comfort of his Conscience In performance where of whilst his body was burning he raised up himself and though having the sence having no fear of the Fire joyfully clapp'd his hands over his head to the admiration of all the beholders 3. ROSE ALLIN a Virgin who being in her Calling fetching Beer for her Bedrid Mother was intercepted by Justice or rather un-justice Tyrrell who with a Candle most cruelly burnt her wrists which her Fire-proof patience most constantly endured What was said of the Roman scaevola when he burnt his hand before Porcenna is more appliable to this Maid Manum amisit sed Palmam retinuit Tyrrell did this meerly by the Law of his List otherwise no statute except written on the back-side of the book did authorize him for so Tyrannicall an act Some days after the fire which here took Livery and seisin of her hand brought her whole body into the possession thereof Confessors RICHARD GEORGE Labourer of West-Barfold is most eminent amongst the many Confessors in this Shire For he had successively three wives whereof two were burnt and the third imprisoned for Religion viz. 1. Agnes George burnt at Stratford-Bow June 27. 1556. 2. Christian George burnt at Colchester May 26. 1558. 3. ........... George imprisoned in Colchester and escap'd by Queen Maries death Novemb. 17. 1558. Some who consult the dates of his wives deaths will condemn him for over-speedy marriage and the appetite to a new wife is not comely before the grief for the former be well digested Such consider not that their glorious death in so good a cause was the subject rather of his joy then grief and that being necessitated for his children sake to marry he was carefull as it appears to marry in the Lord. Nor did he thrust his wives into the fire and shrink back from the flames himself who being imprisoned in Colchester had followed his two first and gone along with his last to the Stake had not Divine Providence by Queen Maries death prevented it Cardinalls THOMAS BOURCHIER was son to Sir William Bourchier who though but an English Knight was a French Earl of Ewe in Normandy Created by King Henry the fifth and had a great estate in this County with many Mansion-houses Hawsted being the place of their principall residence where I presume this Prelate was born He was bred in the University of Oxford whereof he was Chancellour 1454. Dean of Saint Martins then successively Bishop of Worcester Ely Arch-bishop of Caââ¦terbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths A Prelate besides his high birth aforesaid and brotherhood to Henry Bourchier first Earl of Essex of that Surname remarkable on many accounts First for his vivacity being an old man and proportionably an older Bishop 1. Being consecrated Bishop of Worcester 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the sixth 2. Dying Arch-bishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of K. Henry the seventh Whereby it appeareth that he wore a Mitre full fifty one years a term not to be paralleld in any other person Secondly he saw strange revolutions in State the Civil-wars between Lancaster and York begun continued and concluded For though Bishop Morton had the happiness to make the match Arch-bishop Bourchier had the honour to marry King Henry the seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the fourth so that his hand first solemnly held that sweet posie wherein the White and Red Roses were tied together Thirdly for his wary compliance that he lost not himself in the labyrinth of such intricate times applying himself politiquely to the present predominant power However it may be said of him Praestitit hic Praesul nil tanto sanguine munere tempore dignum He left no monument to posterity proportionable what was an hundred pounds and a chest given to Cambridge to his great blood rich place and long continuance therein But this my Author imputeth unto the troublesomeness of the times seeing peace was no sooner setled and the land began to live but he died March 30. 1486. I know not what generous planet had then influence on the Court of Rome this I know that England never saw such a concurrence of noble Prelates who as they were Peers by their places were little less by their descent I behold their birth a good buttress of Episcopacy in that age able in Parliament to check and crush any Antiprelaticall project by their own relations But let us count how many were contemporaries with Thomas Bourchier from his first consecration at Worcester till the day of his death John Stafford son to the Earl of Stafford Arch-bishop of Canterbury Robert Fitz-Hugh Bishop of London Henry Beauford son to John Duke of Lancaster Bishop of Winchester William Gray son to the Lord Gray of Codnor Bishop of Ely Marmaduke Lumley extracted from the Lord Lumley Bishop of Lincoln Richard Beauchamp brother to the L. Saint Amand Bishop of Sarum Lionel Woodvile son to the Earl of Rivers Bishop of Sarum Peter Courtney extracted from the Earls of Devon Bishop of Exeter Richard Courtnee of the same extraction Bishop of Norwich John Zouch descended of the Lord Zouch Bishop of Landaffe George Novile brother to the make-Make-King Earl of Warwick Arch-bishop of York William Dudley son to the Lord Dudley Bishop of Durham William Piercy son to the Earl of Northumberland Bishop of Carlile But after the death of Bourchier I meet with but three Bishops of noble extraction viz. James Stanley Edmond Audley and Cardinall Pole However they were though of lower image of no less learning and religion Prelates RICHARD de BARKING took his name according to the Clergy-mens
without the Brittleness thereof soon Ripe and long Lasting in his Perfections He Commenced Doctor in Physick and was Physician to Queen Elizabeth who Stamped on him many Marks of her Favour besides an Annuall Pension to encourage his Studies He addicted himself to Chemistry attaining to great exactness therein One saith of him that he was Stoicall but not Cynicall which I understand Reserv'd but not Morose never married purposely to be more beneficiall to his Brethren Such his Loyalty to the Queen that as if unwilling to survive he dyed in the same year with her 1603. His Stature was Tall Cââ¦plexion Cheerfull an Happiness not ordinary in so hard a Student and retired a Person He lyeth buried in Trinity Church in Colchester under a plain Monument Mahomets Tombe at Mecha is said strangely to hang up attracted by some invisible Load-stone but the Memory of this Doctor will never fall to the ground which his incomparable Book De Magnete will support to Eternity Writers GERVASE of TILBURY born at that Village in this County since famous for a Cââ¦mpe against the Spaniards in 88. is reported Nephew to King Henry the second But though Nepos be taken in the Latitude thereof to signify Son to Brother Sister or Child I cannot make it out by the Door and am loth to suspect his coming in by the Window This Gervase may be said by his Nativity to stand but on one foot and that on tip toes in England being born on the Sea side at the mouth of Thames and therefore no wonder if he quickly convayed himself over into Forraign Parts He became Courtier and favorite to his Kinsman Otho the fourth Emperour who conferred on him the Marshal-ship of the Arch-bishoprick of Arles which proveth the Imperiall Power in this Age over some parts of Province an office which he excellently discharged Though his person was wholly conversant in Forraign Aire his Pen was chiefly resident on English Earth writing a Chronicle of our Land and also adding illustrations to Gââ¦ffrey Monmouth He flourished Anno 1210. under King John ADAM of BARKING no mean market in this County was so termed from the Town of his Nativity Wonder not that being born in the East of England he went West-ward as far as Sherborn where he was a Benedictine for his education it being as usuall in that age for Monkes as in ours for Husbandmen to change their soil for the seed that their grain may give the greater encrease He was a good Preacher and learned Writer and surely would have soared higher if not weighed down with the ignorance of the age he lived in whose death happened Anno 1216. RALPH of COGSHALL in this County was first Canon of Barnewell nigh Cambridge and afterwards turn'd a Cistertian Monke He was a man Incredibilis frugalitatis parsimoniae but withall of great learning and abilities These qualities commended him to be Abbot of Cogshall the sixth in order after the first foundation thereof where he spent all his spare hours in writing of Chronicles and especially of additions to Radulphus Niger Afflicted in health he resigned his place and died a private person about the year 1230. ROGER of WALTHAM was so called from the place of his Nativity I confess there be many Walthams in England and three in Essex but as in Herauldry the plain Coat speaks the bearer thereof to be the best of the house whiles the younger Brethren give their Armes with differences so I presume that Waltham here without any other addition of Much Waltham Wood-Waltham c. is the Chief in that kind viz. Waltham in this County within twelve Miles of London eminent in that Age for a wealthy Abby The merit of this Roger being saith Bale tersè nitidè eleganter eruditus endeared him to Fulke Basset Bishop of London who preferred him Canon of Saint Pauls He wrot many worthy works flourishing under King Henry the third Anno Domini 1250. JOHN GODARD wherever born had his best being at Cogshall in this County where he became a Cistercian Monke Great was his skill in Arithmetick and Mathematicks a Science which had lain long asleep in the World and now first began to open it's eyes again He wrot many certain Treatises thereof and dedicated them unto Ralph Abbot of Cogshall He flourished Anno Dom. 1250. AUBREY de VERE extracted from the right Honorable Earls of Oxford was born saith my Authors in Bonaclea Villa Trenovantum Three miles srom Saint Osith by which direction we find it to be Great Bentley in this County Now although a witty Gentleman saith that Noble-men have seldome any thing in Print save their Cloths yet this Aubrey so applyed his studies that he wrote a Learned Book of the Eucharist In his old age he became an Augustinian of Saint Osiths preferring that before other places both because of the pleasant retireness thereof and because his kindred were great Benefactors to that Covent witness their Donation de septem Libratis terrae thereunto This Aubrey the most learned of all Honorable Persons in that Age Flourished Anno Domini 1250. THOMAS MALDON was born at Maldon no mean Market Town in this County anciently a City of the Romans called Camulodunum He was afterwards bred in the University of Cambridge where he Commenced Doctor of Divinity and got great reputation for his Learning being a Quick Disputant Eloquent Preacher Solid in Defining Subtle in Distinguishing Clear in Expressing Hence he was chosen Prior of his own Monastery in Maldon where he commendably discharged his place till the day of his death which happened 1404. THOMAS WALDENSIS was son to John and Maud Netter who declining the Surname of his Parents took it from Walden the noted place in this County of his Nativity so much are they mistaken that maintain that this Waldensis his name was Vuedale and that he was born in Hant-shire In some sort he may be termed Anti-Waldensis being the most professed Enemy to the Wicklevites who for the main revived and maintained the Doctrine of the Waldenses Being bred a Carmelite in London and Doctor of Divinity in Oxford he became a great Champion of yet Vassall to the Pope witness his sordid Complement consisting of a conjunction or rather confusion and misapplication of the words of Ruth to Naomi and David to Goliah Perge Domine Papa perge quò cupis ego tecum ubicunque volueris nec deseram in Authoritate Dominorum meorum incedam in armis eorum pugnabo He was in high esteem with three succeeding Kings of England and might have changed his Coul into what English Miter he pleased but refused it Under King Henry the fourth he was sent a solemn Embassadour 1410. about taking away the Schismâ⦠and advancing an Union in the Church and pleaded most eloquently before the Pope and Segismund the Emperour He was Confââ¦ssor and Privy Councellour to King Henry the fifth who died in his
own drink afterwards SIMON LYNCH Son of William Lynch Gentleman was born at Groves in the Parish of ãâã in ãâã ãâã 1562 bred a Student in Queens Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards Bishop Aylmere his kinsman bestowed on him a small living then not worth above 40 ãâã per ãâã at North Weale nigh Epping ãâã this County and ââ¦ly said unto him Play Cousin with this a while till a better comes But Mr. Lynch continued therein the first and last place of his Ministry sixty four years The Bishop ââ¦terwards ãâã him Brent-Wood Weale three times better ãâã North ãâã to whom Mr. Lynch to use his own words return'd this answer That he ãâã the weal of his ãâã souls before any other weal whatsoever He lived sixty one years in wedlock with Elizabeth eane his wife He was an excellent house keeper ãâã yet provided well for his ten children He was buryed at North-Wale Annò ãâã 1656 Lord Mayors Name ãâã Place Company Time 1 William Edwards William Edwards Hoton Grocer 1471 2 Robert Basset Robert Basset Billenkei Salter 1475 3 Iohn Shaa Iohn Shaa Rochford Goldsmith 1501 4 Laurence Aylmer ãâã ãâã ãâã Draper 1507 5 William Baily Iohn ãâã Thackstead Draper 1524 6 ãâã Allen Richard ãâã Thackstead Mercer 1525 7 Richard Martin Thomas Martin Saffron Walden Goldsmith 1593 8 Thomas ãâã ãâã Skinner Walden Clothworker 1596 9 ãâã Dean George Deane MuchdunMowe Skinner 1628 The Names of the Gentry of this County Returned by the Commissioners in the ãâã year of King Henry the sixth 1433. Ralph Bishop of London or his ãâã generall the Bishop being absent beyond the ãâã Commissioners to take the ãâã Iohn Earl of Oxford Henry ãâã Chivaler Knights for the Shire Iohn Tyrill Chivaler Knights for the Shire Ioh. Mongom chiv Nich. Thorle chiv ãâã ãâã chiv Edm. Benst chiv Ioh. Fitz-Sim chiv Will. Golingh chiv Ludov. Ioh. ar Ioh ãâã ar Rob. Darey ar Tho. ãâã ar Edvar Torell ar Will. ãâã ar Tho. Rolf. Ioh. Teye arm Tho. Knevet ar Hen. Langley ar Georgii Langham ar Ricardi Fox ar Ioh. Helyon ar Tho. Batyll ar Tho. Henenyngh ar Ioh. Godmanston ar Rob. Hunte ar Ioh. Leventhorp jun. arm Tho. Barington ar Tho. Pynthon ar Tho. Pykenham ar Galf. Robell ar Hen. Chaterââ¦on ar Tho. Storkedale ar Will. Senklere ar Ioh. Godeston ar Rogeri Spyce ar Tho. Bendysh ar Hug. Nayllingh ar Tho. Rigedon Ricardi Priour Ioh. Green Ioh. Basset Rogeri Deyncourt Ioh. Poynes Ioh. Santon Ioh Malton Tho. Basset Ioh. Walchif Edm. Prest on Rob. Sudbury Ioh. Baryngton Wââ¦ll Ardale Nich. Mortimer Hen. Aleyn Rob. Weston Ioh. Chamber Tho. Chittern Will. Aleyn Ioh. Beche Rob. Priââ¦ur Ballivi Burgi Colcesteri Rich. Beamond Will. Gorge Balivi Burgi de Maldon Rob. Simond de Hatfield Tho. Hardekyn Tho. Mullyng Ioh. Gale de Farnham Ioh. Stodehawe Tho. Aldres Egidii Lucas Ioh. Stanford Rob. Wade Tho. Blosme Will. Gaââ¦ton Rob. Wright de Thurrok Ioh. Barowe Rob. Brook de Dedham Ioh. Stephââ¦nede de Elmestede Tho. Andrew Rich. Dykeleygh Will. Cony Ioh. Rouchestre Ioh. Marlere Rob. de Bury Tho. Stanes Ioh. à Benham de Witham Rich. Jocep Ioh. Berdefeld Tho. Brentys Tho. Selers Ioh. Boreham Rob. Seburgh Hen. Maldon Ioh. Caweston Th. Mars de Dunmow Ioh. Hereward de Thapstede Ioh. Fil. Will. Atte Fan de eadem Reg. Bienge de eadem Walt. Goodmay Will. Spaldyng Hug. Dorsete Rich. Atte More Radul Bonyngdon Tho. Barete Radul de Uphavering Ioh. Gobyon Will. Scargoyll Ioh. Shyunyng VVill. Higham Ioh. Riche Ioh. Veyle senioris Ioh. Hicheman Edm. Botere Ioh. VVestle VVill. Admond Ioh. Campion Rich. Sewale VValt Tybenham Ioh. Marshant de Peldon Rich. Eylotte Ioh. Baderok Ioh. VVayte de Branketre Ioh. Parke de Gestmyngthorp Will. Manwode Hen. Hoberd Rog. Passelewe Will. Atte Cherche Will. Reynold Ioh. Sailler Rich. Billingburgh Allani Bushe Ioh. Wormele Ioh. Glyne Rob. Ferthyng Mart. Stainer Rob. Beterythe Rob. Smyth de Waltham Observations Some part of this County lyeth so near London that the sound of Bow-bell befriended with tââ¦e wind may be heard into it A Bell that ringeth the Funerall Knell to the ancient Gentry who are more healthfull and longer-liv'd in Counties at greater distance from the City R. Bishop of London being absent beyond the Seas was Robert Fitz-Hugh who was twice sent Embassadour into Germany and once unto the Pope John Earl of Oxford was John de Vere second of that name and eleventh Earl of Oxford beheaded afterwards Anno 1462. in the fifth of King Edward the fourth for his Loyalty to the House of Lancaster HENRY BOURCHIER Here additioned Chivaler appears by all proportion of time and place the self same person who marryed Elizabeth sister to ââ¦ichard Plantaganet Duke of York and who by his Nephew King Edward the fourth was created Earl of Essex He dyed an aged person 1483 I conceive that his Father William Lord Bourchier Earl of Ewe in Normandy was living when this Henry Bourchier was chosen Knight for the shire a place usually conferred on the Eldest Sons of Peers in the life-time of their Fathers JOHN TEââ¦RYLL Chivaler Was chief of that family rich andnumerous in this County of exemplary note and principall regard Great Thorndon was the place of their sepulture where their Monuments to the Church both ruinous This name if still alive lies gasping in this County but continuing healthââ¦ull in Buchingham shire JOHN MOUNTGOMERY Chivaler I find him Supervisor to the Will of Sir Robert Darcy Anno 1469. and conceive that Surname since utterly extinct MAURICE BRUYN Chivaler He had his seat at South-Okenton From the two heirs generall of this family often married Charles Branden Duke of Suffolk the Tirells Berners Harlestons Heveninghams and others are descended A branch of the Heir-male removed into Hant-shire since into Dorset-shire where they subsist in a right Worshipfull equipage WILLIAM GOLDINGHAM Chivaler Though the great tree be blasted a small sprig thereof still sprouteth in this County JOHN DOREWARD Esq. He lived at Bocking-Doreward in this County and was Patron of the rich Parsonage therein which no ingenious person will envy to the worthy Incumbent Doctor John Gauden This John Doreward lieth buried in the Church with this inscription Hic jacet Johannes Doreward Armiger qui obiit xxx die Januar. Anno Domini Mil. cccc lxv Blancha uxor ejus quae obiit ... die Mens ... Anno Dom. Mil. cccc lx quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Claviger Aethereus nobis sit janitor almus ROBERT DARCY Ar. An ancient name in this County having Danbury whilst living for their residence and the Church in Maldon when dead for their Sepulture where there be many of their shamefully defaced Monuments This Robert Darcy afterwards Knighted by his Will made the fifth of October 1469. bequeathed his body to be buried in Alhallows-church in Maldon before the Alter where his father lyed in a Tombe of Marble He willed that forty marks should be disposed for Two thousand Masses four pââ¦nce a Masse to be said
He proceeded Mr. of Arts in New Colledge in Oxford And afterwards being Arch-Deacon of Lincoln was a Zealous Promoter of the Protestant Religion In the first of Queen Mary being a member of the Convocation his heart was hot within And while he was musing the fire kindled and he spake with his tongue which afterwards occasioned his Martyrdome If Papists account him a Distracted Man none will wonder who consider how the prophane Captaines of Israel called the Son of the Prophet a mad fellow And if some vehement expressions fell from him during his imprisonment his enemies Cruelty was the Cause thereof Seing ill usage which once made a dumb beast to speak may make a Sober man Overspeak in his passion But all his sufferings are reported by Mr. Fox so perfectly Perfectum est cui nihil addi potest that it is presumption for any to hope to make an essential Addition thereunto He was Martyred Anno Dom. 1555. Decemb. 18. KATHARINE GOVVCHES GUILLEMINE GILBERT PEROTINE MASSEY whose husband a Minister of Gods word was for fear fled out of the Island The first of these was the Mother a poor widdow of St. Peters Port in the Isle of Guernsey the other two her Daughters but maried women These in the reign of Queen Mary were noted to be much absent from the Church for which they were presented before Jaques Amy then Dean of the Island who finding them to hold opinions against the real presence in the Sacrament of the Altar condemned them to be burnt for Hereticks which was done accordingly July 18. 1556. Add to these an Infant without a Christian name and no wonder it is never named seeing properly it was never born but by the force of the flame burst out of his mothers belly Perotine Massey aforesaid This Babe was taken up by W. House a by-stander and by the Command of Elier Gosselin the Bailiff supreme Officer in the then absence of the Governour of the Island cast again into the fire and therein consumed to Ashes It seems this bloody Bailiff was minded like the Cruel Tyrant Commanding Canis pessimi ne catulum esse relinquendum though this indeed was no Dogge but a Lamb and that of the first minute and therefore too young by the Levitical Law to be sacrificed Here was a Spectacle without precedent a Cruelty built three generations high that Grandmother Mother and Grandchild should all suffer in the same Flame And know Reader these Martyrs dying in the Isle of Guernsey are here reckoned in Hampshire because that Island with Jersey formerly subordinate to the Arch-Bishop of Constance in Normandy have since the reign of Queen Elizabeth been annexed to the Diocess of Winchester Prelates William Wickham was born at VVickham in this County being the Son of John Perot and Sibel his wife over whose graves he hath erected a Chappel at Titchfield in this County and bred in the University of Oxford He was otherwise called Long from the height of his stature as my Authour conceives though since it may be applied to the perpetuity of his memory which will last as long as the world endureth for his two fair Foundations at OXFORD WINCHESTER Begun 1379. Finished 1386. Begun 1387. Finished 1393. The Charter of the Foundation of St. Maries-Colledge in Oxford was dated the 26. of November 1379. in his Manour in Southwarke sââ¦nce called VVinchester-House The Scholars entred thereunto about nine a clock on the 14. day of April in the same year The first Stone was laid March 26. at nine a clock in the morning in the 69. year of the age of the Founder  He died in the 37th year of his Consecration and 80th of his Age in the 5th year of the Reign of King Henry the Fourth and his Benefaction to Learning is not to be paralleld by any English Subject in all particulars JOHN RUSSELL was born in this County in the Parish of Saint Peters in the Suburbs of VVinchester He was bred Fellow of New-Colledge and when Doctor of Canon-Law was chosen Chancellor of Oxford Yea that Office annual before was first fixed on him as in Cambridge on Bishop Fisher for term of life By King EDWARD the Fourth he was advanced Bishop of Lincolne and by Richard the Third Ld. Chancellor of England having ability enough to serve any and honesty too much to please so bad a King And because he could not bring him to his bent when the Lord Hastings was killed this Bishop saith my Author was for a time imprisoned He died January the 30. Anno 1490. Leaving this Character behind him Vir fuit summa pietate ex rerum usu oppidò quà m prudens doctrina etiam singulari WILLIAM WARHAM was born at Ockley of Worshipful Parentage in this County bred Fellow and Doctor of the Lawes in New-Colledge imployed by King Henry the Seventh who never sent sluggard or fool on his errand to Margaret Dutches of Burgundy and by him advanced Bishop of London then Archbishop of Canterbury living therein in great lustre till eclipsed in power and profit by Thomas VVolsey Archbishop of Yorke It may be said that England then had ten Arch-Bishops if a figure and cypher amount to so many or else if it had but two they were Arch-Bishop Thomas and Arch-Bishop VVolsey drawing all causes to his Court-legatine whilest all other Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions in England kept a constant vacation This VVarham bare with much moderation contenting himself that as he had less honour so he had less envy and kept himself coole whilst VVolsey his screene was often scorched with just and general hatred In the case of K. Henry His divorce he was the Prime Advocate for Queen Katherine and carried it so cautiously that he neither betrayed the cause of his Client nor incurr'd the Kings displeasure Nor will any wonder that an Arch-Bishop of Canterbury did then plead before an Arch-Bishop of York seeing the King at the same time was summoned before His Subject He survived VVolsey's ruine but never recovered his former greatness blasted with a PRAEMUNIRâ⦠with the rest of the Clergy and the heavier because the higher in dignity He is said to have expended thirty thousand pounds in the repair of his Palaces the probable reason why he left no other publick Monuments though Arch-bishop twenty eight years dying Anno Domini 1533. ROBERT SHERBORN was born in this County and bred first in VVinchester and then in New Coll. was a great Schollar and prudent Man imployed in several Embassies by K. Henry the seventh and by him preferred Bishop first of St. Davids then Chichester Which Church he decored with many Ornaments and Edifices especially the South-side thereof Where On the one side On the other The History of the foundation of the Church with the Images of the Kings of England The Statues of all the Bishops of this See both those of Selcey and of Chichester He often inscribed
of the Sea c. I confesse the modern mystery of Watch-making is much completed men never being more curious to divide more carelesse to imploy their time but surely this was accounted a master-peece in that age His Sermons so indeared him to King Edward 6. that he preferred him whilst as yet scarce thirty six yeares of age to the Bishoprick of Rochester then of Winchester But alas these honor 's soon got were as soon lost being forced to fly into high Germany in the first of Queen Mary Where before he was fully fourty and before he had finished his Book begun against Thomas Martin in defence of Ministers marriage he died at Strasburg the 2. August 1556. And was buried there with great Lamentation RICHARD FLETCHER was born in this County Brother to Doctor Giles Fletcher the Civilian and Embassadour in Russia and bred in Bennet Colledge in Cambridge He was afterwards Dean of Peterborough at what time Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay to whom he made saith my Authour Verbosam Orationem a Wordy speech of her past present and future condition wherein he took more pains that he received thanks from her who therein was most concerned Hence he was preferred Bishop of Peterborough and at last of London my Authour saith he was Presul Splendidus and indeed he was of a comly presence and Queen Elizabeth knew full well Gratior est pulcro veniens è corpore virtus The Iewel vertue is more Grac'd When in a proper person Cas'd Which made her alwayes on an equality of Desert to reflect favourably on such who were of Graceful countenance and stature In one respect this Bishop may well be resembled to John Peckham Archbishop of Canterbury of whom I find this Character Quanquam gestu incessu saepeetiami n Sermone gloriosus videretur elatus animo tamen fuit benignissimo perquam comi Although he seemed a boaster and puffed up both in gesture and gaââ¦e and sometimes in his speech also yet was he of a loving disposition exceeding courteous Such a one was Bishop Fletcher whose pride was rather on him than in him as only gate and gesture-deep not sinking to his heart though causelesly condemned for a proud man as who was a good Hypocrite and far more humble than he appeared He married a Lady of this County who one commendeth for very vertuous which iâ⦠so the more happy she in her self though unhappy that the world did not believe it Sure I am that Queen Elizabeth who hardly held the second matches of Bishops excusable accounted his marriage a trespasse on his gravity whereupon he fell into her deep displeasure Hereof this Bishop was sadly sensible and seeking to lose his sorrow in a mist of smoak died of the immoderate taking thereof June the fifteenth 1596. BRIAN DUPPA D. D. the worthy Bishop of Winchester was born at Lewsham in in this County staying for farther instructions I am forced to deferre his life to our Additions States-Men Sir EDWARD POYNINGS Knight was in martial performances inferiour to none of his age and a Native of this County as from the Catalogue of the Sheriffs therein may be collected We will insist only on his Irish Action being employed by King Henry the seventh to conjure down the last walking Spirit of the House of York which haunted that King I mean Perkin Warbeck Having ferreted him out of Ireland he seriously set him self to reclaim that barbarous Nation to civility and in order thereunto passed an Act in Parliament whereby all the Statutes made in England bââ¦fore that time were enacted established and made of force in Ireland He caused also another Law to be made that no Act should be propounded in any Parliament in Ireland till first it had been transmitted into England approved there by the King and returned thence under his broad Seal Now though this Act seemeth prima facie prejudicial to the liberty of the Irish Subjects yet was it made at the request of the Commons upon just important cause being so sensible of the oppression and Laws imposed by private Lords for their particular ends that they rather referred themselves to the Kings Justice than to the merciless mercy of so many Masters Also to conform Ireland to England he procured the passing of an Act that the Irish Barons should appear in Parliament in their Robes which put a face of Grandeur and State on their Convention And indeed formalities are more than Formalities in matters of this nature essentiall to beget a veneration in barbarous people who carry much of their Brain in their Eyes He thriftily improved the Kings Revenues and obtained a Subsidy of twenty six shillings eight pence payable yearly for five years out of every six score Acres manured The worst was the burden fell on their backs whose Islands were most industrious whereby the Soveraign became not more wealthy but the Subjects more lazy the mischief being as apparent as the remedy impossible Many more large Laws of his making found but narrow performance viz. only within the Pale Nor was Henry the seventh though in title in trââ¦th Lord of all Ireland but by the favour of a Figure and large Synechdeche of a part for the whole These things thus ordered Sir Edward was recalled in to England created a Baron and dying in the beginning of King Henry the eight left a numerous natural but no legitimate issue Sir ANTHONY St. LEGER is rationally reputed a Kentish man though he had also a Devonshire Relation as will appear to such who peruse the Sheriffs of this County He was properly the first Vice-Roy of Ireland seeing shadows cannot be before their substance and in his Deputy-ship Henry the eight in the 33. year of his reign assumed the Title of King and Supream Head of the Church of Ireland To him all the Irish Nobility made their solemn submission falling down at his feet upon their knees laying aside their Girdles Skeines and Caps This was the fourth solemn submission of the Irish to the Kings of England and most true it is such seeming submissions have been the bane of their serious subjection For out of the Pale our Kings had not power either to Punish or Protect where those Irish Lords notwithstanding their Complemental Loyalty made their list the law to such whom they could over-power He caused also certain Ordinances of State to be made not altogether agreeable with the Rules of the Law of England a satisfactory reason hereof being given in the Preamble to them Quia nondum sic sapiunt leges Jura ut secundum ea jam immediate vivere regi possint Because the Irish as yet do not so savour the Laws of England as immediately to live after and be ruled by them Thus the greatest Statesmen must sometimes say by your leave to such as are under them not acting alway according to their own ability but others capacity He seized all
was whispered at Rome And numerous the spies and eyes of this Argus dispersed in all places The Jesuites being out-shot in their own Bow complain'd that he out-equivocated their equivocation having a mental reservation deeper and farther than theirs They tax him for making Heavenââ¦ow ââ¦ow too much to Earth oft-times borrowing a point of conscience with full intent never to pay it again whom others excused by Reasons of State and dangers of the times Indeed his Simulation which all allow lawful was as like to Dissimulation condemned by all good men as two things could be which were not the same He thought that Gold might but Intelligence could not be bought too dear The cause that so great a States man left so small an estate and so publick a person was so privately buried in Saint Pauls Anno Dom. 1590. His only Daughter Frances was successively matched to three matchlesse men Sir Phili Sidney Robert Earl of Essex and Richard Earl of Clanricard Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Sir JOHN FINEUX was by all probability born at Swinkfield in this County as I am informed from my good friend Mr. Thomas Fineux a descendant from him a place saith Mr. Cambden bestowed on his Ancestor by T. Criol a great Lord in Kent about the raign of King Edward the second I learned from the same Gentleman that he was eight and twenty years of age before he betook him to the study of the Law that he followed that profession twenty eight years before he was made a Judg and that he continued a Judge for twenty eight years whereby it appears that he lived fourscore and four years This last exactly agrees with Sir Henry Spelman making him continue Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench from the eleventh of King Henry the seventh until the seventeenth of King Henry the eight He was a great Benefactor unto Saint Augustines in Canterbury whose Prior William Mallaham thus highly commendeth him in a Manuscript Instrument Vir prudentissimus genere insignis Justitia praeclarus pietate refertus Humanitate splendidus charitate foecundus c. Now though some will say his Convent may well afford him good words who gave them good deeds yet I believe this Character of him can in no part be disproved He died about the year 1526. and lies buried in Christ Church in Canterbury who had a fair habitation in this City and another in Herne in this County where his Motto still remains in each window Misericordias Domini cantabo in Aeternum Sir ROGER MANWOOD born at Sandwich in this County applyed himselfe from his youth to the study of the Common Law wherein he attained to such eminency that by Queen Elizabeth he was preferred second Justice of the Common Pleas in which place he gave such proof of his ability and integrity that not long after in Hillary Term in the 21. of Queen Elizabeth he was made chief Baron of the Exchequer discharging that office to his ãâã Commendation full fourteen years till the day of his death He was much employed in matters of State and was one of the Commissioners who sate on the Trial of the Queen of Scots His Book on the Forest Laws is a piece highly prized by men of his Profession In Vacation time his most constant habitation was at Saint Stephens in Canterbury where saith my Author the poor inhabitants were much beholding to his bounteous liberality He erected and endowed a fair Free Schoole at Sandwich the place of his Nativity and died in the 35. of Queen Elizabeth Anno Dom. 1593. Sir HENRY FINCH Knight was born in this County of Right Worshipful Extraction their ancient sirname being Herbert a Family which had and hath an hereditary happinesse of Eminency in the study of the Laws He was Sergeant at Law to King James and wrote a Book of the Law in great esteem with men of his own profession yet were not his studies confined thereunto witnesse his Book of The calling of the Jews and all ingenious persons which dissent from his judgement will allow him learnedly to have maintained an error though he was brought into some trouble by King James conceiving that on his principles he advanced and extended the Jewish Commonwealth to the depressing and contracting of Christian Princes free Monarchies He was father unto Sir John Finch Lord Chief Justice and for a time Lord Keeper and Baron of Foreditch who is still alive Souldiers Kent hath so carried away the credit in all ages for Man-hood that the leading of the Front or Van-guard so called from Avant-guard or Goe on guard because first in marching in former times hath simply and absolutely belonged unto them I say absolutely for I find two other Shires contending for that place The best is it is but a Book-Combate betwixt learned Writers otherwise if real such a division were enough to rout an Army without other Enemy But let us see how all may be peaceably composed It is probable that the Cornish-men led the Van in the days of King Arthur who being a Native of Cornwall had most cause to trust his own Country-men But I behold this as a temporary honour which outlasted not his life who bestowed it The men of Archenfeld in Hereford-shire claimed by custom to lead the Van-guard but surely this priviledge was Topical and confined to the Welsh Wars with which the aforesaid men as Borderers were best acquainted As for Kent Cantia nostra primae cohortis honorem primos congressus hostium usque in Hodiernum diem in omnibus praeliis obtinet saith my Author Reader It may rationally be concluded that the ensuing Topick had been as large in this as in any County in England seeing it is bounded by the Sea on the East and South sides thereof had not the Author departed this life before the finishing of the same Seamen WILLIAM ADAMS was as his own Pen reporteth born at Gillingham in this County and take the brief account of his Life being the first Englishman who effectully discovered Japan Twelve years he lived at home with his Parents Twelve years he was Apprentice and Servant to Nich. Diggins a brave Seaman for some time he was Master of one of the Queens Ships Ten years he served the English Company of Barbary Merchants Fourteen years as I collect it he was employed by the Dutch in India For he began his Voyage 1598. Pilot to their Fleet of five Sail to conduct them to Japan and in order to the settlement of Trade endured many miseries He who reads them will concur with Cato and repent that ever he went thither by Sea whither one might go by Land But Japan being an Island and unaccessible save by Sea our Adams his discretion was not to be blamed but industry to be commended in his adventures He died at Firando in Japan about 1612. Civilians NICHOLAS WOTTON Son to Sir Robert was born at Bockton-Malherb in this
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 hereditaââ¦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
Cinque foil Or. 13 Edw. Trafford a. ut prius  14 Fran Holt arm  Arg. on a Bend Engrailed S. 3 Flower de Luce of the first 15 Rich. Holland a. ut prius  16 Will. Boothe ar  Arg. 3 ãâã heads Erased and Erected S. 17 Fran Holt arm ut prius  18 Rich. Bold arm  Argent a ãâã Rampant S. Io-zeenge of the Field Sables 19 Roâ⦠Dalton ar   20 Johan ãâã ãâã Party per Pale ãâã Az. and Or 6 Martlets counter chang'd Arg. a Mullet Sable 21 Rad Ashton ar *   22 Edw. Trafford m. ut prius  23 Joh. Byron miles  Argent 3. Bendlets Gules 24 ãâã Holland ut prius  25 Joh. Atherton ar ut prius  26 Edwar. Trafford ut prius  27 Tho. Preston ar ut prius  28 Richard Asheton ut prius  29 Johan Fleetwood ut prius  30 Tho. Talbot ar ut prius  31 Rich. Mollineux ut prius  32 Rich. Bold ar ut prius  33 Jac. Asheton ar ut prius  34 Edw. Fitton ar  Az. on a Bend Arg. 3. Garbs O. 35 Richard Asheton ut prius  36 Radulp. Asheton ut prius  37 Tho. Talbot arm ut prius  38 ãâã Holland ut prius  39 Rich. Molleneux ut prius  40 Richard Asheton ut prius  41 Rich. Houghton ut prius  42 Robert Hesketh ut prius  43 Cut. Halsall m.  Arg. 3. Griffins Heads Erazed A 44 Edward Trafford ut prius  K. James   Anno   1 Nic. Moseley mil.  S. a Chev. betw 3 Pick axes arg 2 Thom. Baker mil.   3 Edw. Fleetwood a. ut prius  4 Rich. Ashton mil. ut prius  5 Rob ãâã ar ut prius  6 Edw. Trafford m. ut prius  7 Roger. Nowell a.  Arg. 3. Cups covered S. 8 Johan Fleming a.   9 Cut. Halsall m. ut prius  10 Rob. Bindlose a. Borwick Quarterly per Fess indented G. on a Bend Or. 11 Rich. Shiââ¦born a.   12 Edw. Stanley ar  Arg. on a ââ¦end Az. 3. Stags heads caboshed Or. 13 Rolan Moseley a ut prius  14 Edw. Trafford m. ut prius  15 Ric. ãâã  S. 3 Weavers Shuttles Argent 16 Leonar Ashawe a   17 Edw. Moore ar  Vert. ten Trefoiles 4. 3. 2. and 1. Argent 18   19   20   21   22   23   24 K. CHARLES  Courteous Reader do not behold these Vacuities as the Effect of my Lazinesse Nor will I excuse my self by accusing of others The rather because In gratuitisnulla est Jnjusticia it was no wrong in any to deny what was bounty in them to bestow on me But know all my Industry and Importunity could not procure the seasonable sight of the Records of this County not kepâ⦠aâ⦠the rest in the Exchequer but in a proper place by themselves thereby to supply the Begining and Finishing of this our Catalogue 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   The Batails At Preston in Andernesse August 17. 1648. Duke Hambleton resolving to play an Aftergame of Loyalty entred England with an Army more numerous then well Disciplined Most beheld him as one rather cunning than wise yet rather wise than valiant However he had Officers who did Ken the War-craft as well as any of our Age. He would accept of no English Assistance so to engrosse all the work and wages to himself Some suspect his Officers trust was undermined or over-moneyed rather whilst others are confident they were betrayed by none save their own security Indeed the common Souldiers were perswaded that the conquest would be easy rather to be possessed then purchased their Van and Rear were many miles asunder and they met the resistance of Major General Lambert before they expected it Hâ⦠at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a Blow as setled or stund it though it reeled on some miles more Southward into Staffordshire where at Ulceter the Duke was taken prisoner and utterly defeated As for the Defeat of James Earl of Derby in this County at the end of August anno 1651. it amounted not to a Battle which properly is the Engagement of two formed Armies Whereas the forces of the Earl were sââ¦attered before fully ãâã red to a firm consistency Yet this had been a Battle if not prevented by the Vigilancy of Coll. Lilburn and others whose seasonable Service to the Parliament was not so great in it self as in the most considerable consequences thereof The Farewell I am informed that Pillyn-Mos is the Fountain of Fewell Turfe in this County and is conceived inexhaustible by the Vicinage May it prove so But if it should chance to fail may Gods Grace which the vulgar in their profane Proverb unequally yoak therewith I say may Gods Grace never be drained to those that stand in need thereof And because this County may be called the Cock-pit of Conseience wherein constant Combates betwixt Religion and Superstition may the Contest betwixt them prove like the Morning Twilight wherein after some equal Conflict betwixt them the Light gaineth the final Conquest of the Darkness One word more to this Shire and I have done Let me be the Remembrancer that Hugh of Manchester in this County wrote a Book in the Reign of K. Edward the first Intituled De Fanaticorum Deliriis Of the Doteages of Fanaticks At which time an Impostor had almost made Elianor the Queen mother mad by reporting the Posthume-miracles done by her Husband King Henry the Third till this our Hugh setled her judgement aright I could wish some worthy Divine with such Lancashire doth abound would resume this Subject and shew how Antient and Modern Fanaticks though differing much in their wild Fancies and Opinions meet together in a mutual madness and distraction LEIGESTERSHIRE LEICESTER-SHIRE This County is though not exquisitely circular in the form whilst Leicester the Shire-Town is almost the exact Center thereof and the River Soare Diameter-like divides it into two equal halfes Having Lincolne and Rutland-shire on the East Darby and Nottingham-Shire on the North Warwick-Shire on the West and Northampton-Shire on the South It extendeth from North to South thirty and three miles measured from the utmost Angle but exceedeth not twenty seven in the Breadth thereof Here ãâã avoid all offence we ãâã collect the Quality of this Soyle from a * Native thereof Who may be presumed exact in this Quadri-Partition South-West North West North East South-East Rich ground
they will not take twenty lines together from any Author without acknowledging it in the Margin conceiving it to be the fault of a Plagearie Yet the same Criticks repute it no great guilt to seize a whole Manuscript if they can conveniently make themselves the Masters though not Owners thereof in which Act none can excuse them though we have had too many Precedents hereof This Laurence died Anno Dom. 1410. BERTRAM FITZALIN Finding him charactered Illustri stemmate oriundus I should have suspected him a Sussex man and Allied to the Earls of Arundell had not another Author positively informed me he was patria Lincolniensis bred B. D. in Oxford and then lived a Carmelite in the City of Lincolne Here he built a faire Library on his and his freinds cost and furnish'd it with books some of his own making but more purchased He lived well beloved and dyed much lamented the seventeenth of March 1424. Writers since the Reformation EDMUND SHEFFEILD descended from Robert Sheffeild Recorder of London Knighted by King Henry the Seventh 1496 for his good Service against the Rebells at Black-Heath was born at Butterwick in the Isle of Axholm in this Country and was by King Edward the sixth Created Baron thereof Great his Skill in Musick who wrote a Book of Sonnets according to the Italian fashion He may seem Swan like to have sung his own Funeral being soon after Slaine or Murthered rather in a skirmish against the Rebells in Norwich first unhorsed and cast into a ditch and then Slaughtered by a Butcher who denyed him Quarter 1449. He was direct Anchester to the hopeful Earl of Moulgrave PETER MORVVING was born in this County and bred fellow of Magdalen Colledg in Oxford Here I cannot but smile at the great Praise which I Pitz bestoweth upon him Vir omni Latini sermonis elegantia bellè instructus qui scripta quaedam tum versu tum Prosa tersè nitidèque composuisse perhibetur It plainly appeareth he mistook him for one of his own perswasion and would have retracted this Caracter and beshrewed his own fingers for writing it had he known him to have been a most Cordial Protestant Nor would he have afforded him the Phrase of Claruit sub Philippo et Mariâ who under their Reigns was forced for his Conscience to fly into Germany where he supported himself by Preaching to the English Exiles I find not what became of him after his return into England in the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth ANTHONY GILBY was born in this County and bred in Christs Colledge in Cambridge where he attained to great skill in the three learned languages But which gave him the greatest Reputation with Protestants was that in the Reign of Queen Mary he had been an Exile at Geneva for his Conscience Returning into England he became a feirce fiery and furious opposer of the Church Discipline established in England as in our Ecclesiasticall History may appear The certaine date of his death is to me unknown JOHN FOX was born at Boston in this County and bred Fellow in Magdalen Colledg in Oxford He fled beyond the Seas in the Reign of Queen Mary where he set forth the first and least edition of the Book of Martyrs in Latine and afterwards returning into England inlarged and twice revised the same in our own language The story is sufficiently known of the two Servants whereof the one told his Master he would do every thing the other which was even Esop himself said he could do nothing rendering this reason because his former fellow servant would leave him nothing to do But in good earnest as to the particular subject of our English Martyrs Mr. Fox hath done every thing leaving posterity nothing to work upon and to those who say he hath overdone somthing we have returned our answer before He was one of Prodigious Charity to the poor seeing nothing could bound his bounty but want of mony to give away but I have largely written of his life and death in my Church History THOMAS SPARKS D. D. was born at South Sommercot in this County bred in Oxford and afterwards became Minister of Bleachley in Buckingham-shire An Impropriation which the Lord Gray of Wilton whose dwelling was at Whaddon hard-by Restored to the Church He was a solid Divine and Learned man as by his Works still extant doth appear At first he was a Non-conformist and therefore was chosen by that party as one of their Champions in the Conference of Hampton Court Yet was he wholy silent in that Disputation not for any want of Ability but because as afterwards it did appear he was Convinced in his Conscience at that Conference of the lawfullness of Ceremonies so that some accounted him King James's Convert herein He afterwards set forth a book of Unity and Uniformity and died about the year of our Lord 1610. Doctor TIGHE was born at Deeping in this County bred as I take it in the University of Oxford He afterwards became Arch Deacon of Middlesex and Minister of Alhallowes Barking London He was an excellent Textuary and profound Linguist the reason why he was imployed by King James in translating of the Bible He dyed as I am informed by his Nephew about the year of our Lord 1620. leaving to John Tighe his Son of Carby in this County Esquire an Estate of one thousand pounds a year and none I hope have cause to envy or repine thereat FINES MORISON Brother to Sir Richard Morison Lord President of Munster was born in this County of worshipfull extraction and bred a fellow in Peter-house in Cambridge He began his Travels May the first 1591 over a great part of Christendome and no small share of Turky even to Jerusalem and afterwards Printed his Observations in a large book which for the truth thereof is in good Reputation For of so great a Traveller he had nothing of a Traveller in him as to stretch in his reports At last he was Secretary to Charles Blunt Deputy of Ireland saw and wrote the Conflicts with and Conquest of Tyrone a discourse which deserveth credit because the Writers cye guide his pen and the privacy of his place acquainted him with many secret passages of Importance He dyed about the year of our Lord 1614. Benefactors to the Publique Having formerly presented the Reader with two Eminent ones Bishop Wainfleit Founder of New Colledge and Bishop Fox Founder of Corpus Christi in Oxford He if but of an ordinary appetite will be plentifully feasted therewith so that we may proceed to those who were Since the Reformation WILLIAM RATCLIFF Esq And four times Alderman of the Town of Stamford died Anno Dom. 1530. Gave all his Messuages Lands and Tenements in the Town to the Maintenance of a Free-School therein which Lands for the present yeild thirty pounds per Annum or there-abouts to a School-Master and Usher I am informed that an Augmentation was since
given to their stipend by William Cecil Lord Treasurer but it seems that since some Intervening accident hath hindered it from taking the true effect JANE CECIL Wife to Richard Cecil Esquire and co-heire to the worshipfull Families of Ekington and Wallcot was born in this County and lived the maine of her life therein Job speaking of parents deceased His Sons saith he come to honour and he knoweth it not but God gave this good woman so long a life abating but little of an hundred years that she knew the preferment of her Son William ââ¦ecil for many years in her life Lord Treasurer of England I say she knew it and saw it and joyed at it and was thankfull to God for it for well may we conclude her gratitude to God from her Charity to man At her own charges Anno 1561. She Leded and Paved the Friday Market Cross in Stamford Besides fifty pound given to the Poor and many other Benefactions Her last Will was made Anno Dom. 1588. But she survived some time after and lies buried in the same Vault with her Son in St. Martins in Stamford GEORGE TRIGG Gentleman was as I collect a Native of this County he gave Anno Dom. 1586 four hundred pounds to be lent out for ever upon good security without Interest to Poor young Trads-men and Artificers in Stamford He also bestowed a Tenement upon the Parson and Poor of St. Johns in the same Town RICHARD SUTTON Esquire was born at Knaith in this County bred a Souldier in his Youth and was somwhat of Pay-Master by his place much mony therefore passing through some did lawfully stick on his fingers which became the bottom of his future Estate He was afterward a Merchant in London and gained great Wealth therein Such who charge him with Purblindness in his soul looking too close on the earth do themselves acquit him from Oppression that though Tenax he was not Rapax not Guilty of Covetousness but Parcimony Indeed there was a Merchant his Comrage whose name I will Conceal except the great Estate he left doth discover it with whom he had Company in Common but their Charges were severall to themselves when his friend in Travell called for two Faggots Mr. Sutton called for one when his friend for half a pint of Wine Mr. Sutton for a Gill under-spending him a Moity at last Mr. Sutton hearing of his friends death and that he left but fifty thousand pounds Estate I thought said ââ¦e he would dye no Rich man who made such needless expences Indeed Mr. Suttons Estate doubled his and he bestowed it all on Charter-House or Suttons Hospitall This is the Master-peice of Protestant English Charity designed in his life Compleated after his death Begun Continued and finished with Buildings and Endowments Sinâ⦠Causa Socia soly at his Charges Wherein Mr. Sutton appears peerless in all Christendom on an equall Standart and Valuation of Revenue As for the Canker of Popish Malice endeavouring to fret this fair Flower we have returned plentifull Answers to their Cavells in our Ecclesiasticall History Mr. Sutton died Anno Dom. 1611. ROBERT JOHNSON was born at Stamford whereof Maurice his Father had been chiefe Magistrate He was bred in Cambridge and entring into the Ministry he was beneficed at Luffenham in Rutland at what time that little County was at a great losse for the education of the Children therein and Mr. Johnson endeavoured a remedy thereof He had a rare faculty in requesting of others into his own desire and with his arguments could surprise a Miser into charity He effectually moved those of the Vicinage to contribute to the building and endowing of Schools Money or Money worth Stones Timber Carriage c. not flighting the smalest guift especially if proportionable to the Givers Estate Hereby finding none he left as many Free Schools in Rutland as there were Market Towns therein One at Oakeham another at Uppingham well faced with buildings and lined with endowments Hitherto he was only a Nurse to the Charity of others erecting the Schools aforesaid as my Author observeth who afterwards proved a fruitful parent in his own person becoming a considerable Benefactor to Emanuel and Sidney Colledges in Cambridge And though never dignified higher then Archdeacon of Leicester he left an Estate of one thousand pounds per Annum which descended to his posterity He dyed about the year of our Lord 1616. FRANCES WRAY Daughter to Sir Chichester Wray Lord chief Justice was born at Glentworth in this County and married first unto Sir George St. Paul of this County and afterwards to Robert Rich first Earl of Warwick of that Sirname She was a Pious Lady much devoted to charitable actions though I am not perfectly instructed in the particulars of her Benefactions Only I am sure Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge hath tasted largely of her Liberality who dyed in the beginning of the Reign of King Charles Memorable Persons JAMES YORKE a Blacksmith of Lincolne and an excellent Workman in his Profession Insomuch that if Pegasus himself would wear shoes this man alone is fit to make them contriving them so thin and light as that they would be no burthen to him But he is a Servant as well of Apollo as Vulcan turning his Stiddy into a Study having lately set forth a Book of Heraldry called the Union of Honour containing the Arms of the English Nobility and the Gentry of Lincolne-shire And although there be some mistakes no hand so steady as alwayes to hit the Nail on the head yet is it of singular use and industriously performed being set forth Anno 1640. Lord Maiors  Name Father Place Company Time 1 John Stockton Richard Stockton Bratoft Mercer 1470. 2 Nicholas Aldwin Richard Aldwin Spalding Mercer 1499. 3 William Rennington Robert Rennington Bostone Fishmonger 1500. 4 William Forman William Forman Gainsborough Haberdasher 1538. 5 Henry Hoberthorn Christ. Hoberthorn Waddingworth Merchant-Tay 1546. 6 Henry Amcoates William Amcoates Astrap Fishmonger 1548. 7 John Langley Robert Langley Althrope Goldsmith 1576. 8 Iohn Allot Richard Allot Limbergh Fishmonger 1590. 9 Nicholas Raynton Robert Raynton Highington Haberdasher 1632. The Names of the Gentrie of this County returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth William Bishop of Lincoln Commissioners Lion de Welles Chivaler  Thomas Meres Knights of the Shire  Patricius Skipwith Knights of the Shire  Johannis Willoughby militis Roberti Ros militis Humfridi Littelbery armig Phillippi Tilney armigeri Johannis Copuldik armig Richardi Laund armigeri Willielmi Braunche armig Richardi Pynchebek Richardi Welby Richardi Benynington Willielmi Goding de Boston Gilberti Haltoft Will. Hughbert de Doning VVill. Quadring de Tofte Iohan. Pawlyn de Frampton VVill. VValcote de Spaldyng Thom. Overton de Swynshed Hug. Dandison de VVrangle Roberti Hughson de Boston Rich. Whiteb. de Gosberkirk Ioh. Docking de VVhaploade Will. Calowe de Holbetch Will. ââ¦awode de Whaploade Nich. Gyomer de
Saint John's then Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge His studies were suitable to his years when young a good Philosopher witness his book of Meteors afterwards his endeavours ascended from the middle region of the aire to the highest heavens when he bââ¦came a pious and solid Divine Now the Romanists seeing they could no longer blind-fold their Laitie from the Scriptures resolved to fit them with false spectacles and set forth the Rhemish Translation which by Doctor Fulke was learnedly confuted though he never attained any great preferââ¦ent in the Church Here it is worth our pains to peruse the immediate succession of Masters in Pembroke-hall because unparallel'd in any English Foundation Edm. Grindall Archp. of Cant. Mat. Hutton Archp. of York Jo. Whitgift Archp. of Cant. Jo. Young ãâã of Rochester William Fulke D. D. Lanc. Andrews Bp. of Winchester Sam. Harsnet Archp. of York Nic. Felton Bp. of Eely Here though all the rest were Episcopated Doctor Fulke was but Doctor Fulke still though a man of great merit This proceeded not from any disaffection in him to the Hierarchie as some would fain suggest but principally from his love of privacy and place of Margaret-Professour wherein he died Anno Dom. 1589. EDMOND SPENCER born in this City was brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge where he became an excellent Scholar but especially most haypy in English Poetry as his works do declare In which the many Chaucerisms used for I will not say affected by him are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes known by the learned to be beauties to his book which notwithstanding had been more salable if more conformed to our modern language There passeth a story commonly told and believed that Spencer presenting his Poems to Queen Elizabeth She highly affected therewith commanded the Lord Cecil Her Treasurer to give him an hundred pound and when the Treasurer a good Steward of the Queens money alledged that sum was too much then give him quoth the Queen what is reason to which the Lord consented but was so busied belââ¦ke about matters of higher concernment that Spencer received no reward Whereupon he presented this petition in a small piece of paper to the Queen in her Progress I was promis'd on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason Hereupon the Queen gave strict order not without some check to her Treasurer for the present payment of the hundred pounds she first intended unto him He afterwards went over into Ireland Secretary to the Lord Gray Lord Deputy thereof and though that his office under his Lord was lucrative yet got he no estate but saith my Author Pââ¦culiari Poetis fato semper cum paupertate conflictatus est So that it fared little better with him then with William Xilander the German a most excellent Linguist Antiquary Philosopher and Mathematician who was so poor that as Thuanus saith he was thought fami non famae scribere Returning into England he was robb'd by the Rebels of that little he had and dying for grief in great want Anno 1598. was honorably buried nigh Chaucer in Westminster where this Distick concludeth his Epitaph on hââ¦s monument Anglica te vivo vixit plausitque poesis Nunc moritura timet te moriente mori Whilst hââ¦iu didst live liv'd English poetry Which fears now thou art dead that she shall die Nor must we forget that the expence of his funeral and monument was defrayed at the sole charge of Robert first of that name Earl of Essex JOHN STOW son of Thomas Stow who died Anno 1559. grand-child to Thomas Stow who died 1526. both Citizens of London and buried in Saint Michaels in Cornhill was born in this City bred at learning no higher then a good Gramar-scholar yet he became a painful faithful and the result of both useful Historian Here to prevent mistake by the homonymie of names I request the Reader to take special notice of three brace of English writers 1. Sir Thomas commonly with the addition of De la More who lived under and wrote the life of King Edward the second 1. John Leland bred in Oxford the most exquisite Grammarian of his age who flourished Anno 1428. 1. John Stow a Benedictine Monke of Norwich Anno 1440. who wrote various Collections much cited by Caius in his history of Cambridge 2. Sir Thomas More the witty and learned Chancellour of England 2. John Leland bred in Cambridge the most eminent Antiquary under K. Henry the eight 2. John Stow this Londiner and Historian I confess I have heard him often accused that as learned Guicciardine is charged for telling magnarum rerum minutias he reporteth res in se minutas toys and trifles being such a Smell-feast that he cannot pass by Guild-hall but his pen must tast of the good chear therein However this must be indulged to his education so hard it is for a Citizen to write an History but that the fur of his gown will be felt therein Sure I am our most elegant Historians who have wrote since his time Sir Francis Bacon Master Camden c. though throwing away the basket have taken the fruit though not mentioning his name making use of his endeavors Let me adde of John Stow that however he kept tune he kept time very well no Author being more accurate in the notation thereof Besides his Chronicle of England he hath a large Survey of London and I believe no City in Christendome Rome alone excepted hath so great a volume extant thereof Plato was used to say that many good laws were made but still one was wanting viz. a law to put all those good laws in execution Thus the Citizens of London have erected many fair monuments to perpetuate their memories but still there wanted a monument to continue the memory of their monuments subject by time and otherwise to be defaced which at last by John Stow was industriously performed He died in the eightieth year of his age April 5. 1605. and is buried at the upper end of the North-Isle of the Quire of Saint Andrews-Undershaft His Chronicle since continued by another whose additions are the lively embleme of the times he writeth of as far short of Master Stow in goodness as our age is of the integrity and charity of those which went before it GILES FLETCHER was born in this City son to Giles Fletcher Dr. in law and Embassadour into Russia of whom formerly in Kent From Westminster-school he was chosen first Scholar then Fellow of Trinity colledge in Cambridge One equally beloved of the Muses and the Graces having a sanctified wit witness his worthy Poem intituled Christs Victory made by him being but Bachelour of Arts discovering the Piety of a Saint and Divinity of a Doctor He afterward applied himself to School-Divinity cross to the grain of his Genius as some conceive and attained to good skill therein When he preached at Saint Maries his
no wonder if the streams issuing thence were shallow when the fountain to feed them was so low the revenues of the Crown being much abated There is no redemption from Hell There is a place partly under partly by the Exchequer Court commonly called Hell I could wish it had another name seeing it is ill jesting with edge tools especially with such as are sharpened by Scripture I am informed that formerly this place was appointed a prison for the Kings debtors who never were freed thence untill they had paid their uttermost due demanded of them If so it was no Hell but might be termed Purgatory according to the Popish erronious perswasion But since this Proverb is applyed to moneys paid into the Exchequer which thence are irrecoverable upon what plea or pretence whatsoever As long as Megg of Westminster This is applyed to persons very tall especially if they have Hop-pole-heighth wanting breadth proportionable thereunto That such a gyant woman ever was in Westminster cannot be proved by any good witness I pass not for a late lying Pamphlet though some in proof thereof produce her Grave-stone on the South-side of the Cloistures which I confess is as long an large and entire Marble as ever I beheld But be it known that no woman in that age was interred in the Cloistures appropriated to the Sepultures of the Abbot and his Monkes Besides I have read in the Records of that Abby of an infectious year wherein many Monkes dyed of the Plague and were all buried in one Grave probably in this place under this Marble Monument If there be any truth in the Proverb it rather relateth to a great Gun lying in the Tower commonly call'd long Megg and in troublesome times perchance upon ill May day in the raign of King Henry the eighth brought to Westminster where for a good time it continued But this Nut perchance deââ¦erves not the Cracking Princes EDWARD the first was born in Westminster being a Prince placed by the posture of his nativity betwixt a weak Father and a wilful Son Yet he needed no such advantage for foils to set forth his ãâã worth He was surnamed Longshanks his step being another mans stride and was very high in stature And though oftimes such who are built four stories high are observed to have little in their cock-loft yet was he a most judicious man in all his undertakings equally wise to plot as valiant to perform and which under Divine Providence was the result of both happy in success at Sea at Land at Home Abroad in VVar in Peace He was so fortunate with his Sword at the beginning of his raign that he awed all his enemies with his Scabbard before the end thereof In a word he was a Prince of so much merit that nothing under a Chronicle can make his compleat Character EDWARD sole ââ¦on to King Henry the sixth and Margaret his Queen was born at Westminster on the 13 day of Octo. 1453. Now when his Father's party was totally and finally routed in the battail at Teuks-bury this Prince being taken prisoner presented to King Edward the fourth and demanded by him on what design he came over into England returned this answer That he came to recover the Crown which his Ancestos for three desents had no less rightfully then peaceably possessed An answer for the truth befitting the Son of so holy a Father as King Henry the sixth and for the boldness thereof becoming the Son of so haughty a Mother as Queen Margaret But presently King Edward dashed him on the mouth with his ãâã and his Brother Richard Crook-back stab'd him to the heart with his dagger A barbarous murder without countenance of justice in a legal or valour in a military way And his blood then shed was punished not long after Here I am not ashamed to make this observation That England had successively three Edwards all Princes of Wales sole or eldest sons to actual Kings Two dying violent all untimely deaths in their minority before they were possessed of the Crown viz. 1 Edward Son to Henry 6. stab'd In the Seventeenth years of his age 2 Edward Edward 4. stifled Tenth 3 Edward Richard 3. pined away Eleventh The murder of the second may justly be conceived the punishment of the murder of the first and the untimely death of the last of whom more in Yorkshire a judgement for the murder of the two former EDWARD eldest son of Edward the fourth and Elizabeth his Queen was born in the Sanctuary of Westminster November 4. 1471. His tender years are too soft for a solid character to be fixed on him No hurt we find done by him but too much on him being murthered in the Tower by the procurement of his Unckle Protector Thus was he born in a spiritual and kill'd in a temporal Prison He is commonly called King Edward the fifth though his head was ask'd but never married to the English Crown and therefore in all the Pictures made of him a distance interposed forbiddeth the banes betwixt them ELIZABETH eldest daughter of King Edward the fourth and Elizabeth his Queen was born in Westminster on the eleventh of February 1466. She was afterwards married to King Henry the seventh and so the two Houses of York and Lancaster united first hopefully in their Bed and aââ¦terwards more happily in their Issue Bââ¦sides her dutifulness to her husband and fruitfulness in her children little can be extracted of her personal character She dyed though not in Child bearing in Child-bed being safely delivered on Candlemas day Anno 1503 of the Lady Katharine and afterwards falling sick languished until the eleventh of February and then died in the thirty seventh year of her age on the day of her nativity She lieth buried with her husband in the Chappel of his erection and hath an equal share with him in the use and honour of that his most magnificent monument CECILY second daughter to King Edward the fourth by Elizabeth his Queen bearing the name of Cecily Dutchess of York her grand mother and god mother was born at Westminster In her Child-hood mention was made of a marriage betwixt her and James son to James the third Prince of Scotland But that Motion died with her father Heaven wherein marriages are made reserving that place for Margaret her eldest sisters eldest daughter She long led a single life but little respected of King Henry the seventh her brother in law That politick King knowing that if he had none or no surviving Issue by his Queen then the right of the Crown rested in this Cecily sought to suppress her from popularity or any publick appearance He neither preferred her to any ãâã Prince nor disposed of her to any prime Peer of England till at last this Lady wedded her self to a Linconshire Lord John Baron Wells whom King Henry advanced Viscount and no higher After his death my Author saith she was re-married not mentioning her husbands name
house of the Earl of Arundel at High-gate and was buried in Saint Michaels Church in Saint Albans Master Mutis his grateful servant erecting a Monument for him Since I have read that his grave being occasionally opened his scull the relique of civil veneration was by one King a Doctor of Physick made the object of scorn and contempt but he who then derided the dead is since become the laughing stock of the living Writers SULCARD of WESTMINSTER was an English-man by birth bred a Benedictine Monke He was one of an excellent wit meek disposition candid behaviour and in great esteem with King Edward the Conââ¦essor What Progress he made in learning may easily be collected from what is recorded in an old Manuscript In Westmonasterio vixerunt simul Abbas Eadwinus Sulcardus Coenobita Sed Sulchardus doctrina major erat He flourished Anno Domini 1070. under King William the Conquerour GILBERT of WESTMINSTER bred first Monkc then Abbot thereof He gave himself to the study of humane learning then of Divinity and through the guidance of Anselme Arch-bishop of Canterbury attained to great knowledge in the Scriptures Afterwards he studied in France visited Rome in his return from whence he is reported to have had a disputation with a learned Jew which afterwards he reduced into the form of a Dialogue and making it publique he dedicated it to Saint Anselme He dyed Anno 1117. and was buried in Westminster MATHEW of WESTMINSTER was bred a Monke therein and as accomplished a Scholar as any of his age Observable is the grand difference betwixt our English history as he found it and as he left it He found it like Polyphemus when his eye was bored out a big and bulky body but blind Memorable actions were either presented without any date which little informed or too many dates which more distracted the Reader Our Mathew reduced such confused sounds to an Articulate and intelligible voice regulating them by a double directory of time viz. the beginnings and deaths of all the Kings of England and Arch bishops of Canterbury He wrote one History from the beginning of the world to Christ a second from Christs Nativity to the Norman Conquest a third from thence to the beginning of King Edward the second augmenting it aââ¦terwards with the addition of his life and King Edward the thirds He named his book Flores Historiarum and if sometimes for it is but seldome he presenteth a flower less fragrant or blasted bud the judicious Reader is not tyed to take what he tenders but may select for his own ease a Nosegay out of the choicest flowers thereof He dyed about the year 1368. Since the Reformation BENIAMIN JOHNSON was born in this City Though I cannot with all my industrious inquiry find him in his cradle I can fetch him from his long coats When a little child he lived in Harts-horn-lane near Charing-cross where his Mother married a Bricklayer for her Second husband He was first bred in a private school in Saint Martins Church then in VVestminster school witness his own Epigram Camden most reverend Head to whom I owe All that I am in Arts all that I know How nothing's that to whom my Country owes The great renown and Name wherewith she goes c. He was Statutably admitted into Saint Johns-colledge in Cambridge as many years after incorporated a honorary Member of Christ-church in Oxford where he continued but few weeks for want of further maintenance being fain to return to the trade of his father in law And let not them blush that have but those that have not a lawful calling He help'd in the building of the new structure os Lincolns-Inn when having a Trowell in his hand he had a book in his pocket Some gentlemen pitying that his parts should be buried under the rubbish of so mean a Calling did by their bounty manumise him freely to follow his own ingenuous inclinations Indeed his parts were not so ready to run of themselves as able to answer the spur so that it may be truly said of him that he had an Elaborate wit wrought out by his own industry He would sit silent in learned company and suck in besides wine their several humors into his observation What was ore in others he was able to refine to himself He was paramount in the Dramatique part of Poetry and taught the Stage an exact conformity to the laws of Comedians His Comedies were above the Volge which are onely tickled with down right obscenity and took not so well at the first stroke as at the rebound when beheld the second time yea they will endure reading and that with due commendation so long as either ingenuity or learning are fashionable in our Nation If his later be not so spriteful and vigorous as his first pieces all that are old will and all that desire to be old should excuse him therein He was not very happy in his children and most happy in those which died first though none lived to survive him This he bestowed as part of an Epitaph on his eldest son dying in infancy Rest in soft peace and Ask'd say here doth lye Ben Johnson his best piece of Poetry He dyed Anno Domini 1638. And was buried about the Belfry in the Abby-church at VVestminster Masters of Musick CHRISTOPHER TYE Doctor of Musick flourished in the reign of King Henry the eight and King Edward the sixth to whom he was one of the Gentlemen of their Chappel and probably the Organist Musick which received a grievous wound in England at the disolution of Abbyes was much beholding to him for her recovery such his excellent skill and piety that he kept it up in credit at Court and in all Cathedrals during his life He translated the Acts of the Apostles into verse and let us take a tast of his Poetry In the former treatise to thee Dear friend Theophilus I have written the veritie Of the Lord Christ Jesus VVhich he to do and eke to teach Began untill the day In which the Spirit up did him fetch To dwell above for Aye After that he had power to do Even by the Holy Ghost Commandements then he gave unto His chosen least and most To whom also himself did shew From death thus to revive By tokens plain unto his few Even forty days alive Speaking of Gods kingdome with heart Chusing together them Commanding them not to depart From that Jerusalem But still to wait on the promise Of his Father the Lord Of which ye have heard me ere this Unto you make record Pass we now from his Poetry being Musick in words to his Musick being Poetry in sounds who set an excellent Composition of Musick of four parts to the several Chapters of his aforementioned Poetry dedicating the same to King Edward the sixth a little before the death of that good Prince and Printed it Anno Domini 1553. He also did compose many excellent Services and Anthems of four and
lost his life for the house of Lancaster and Petitioned King Edward to take off the sequestration from her Joynter Beauty is a good solicitress of an equal sute especially where youth is to be the judge thereof The King fell much inamored with her feature whilst the Lady put her self into a chast posture and kept a discreet distance neither forward to accept nor froward to decline his favonr She confessed her self too worthless to be his wife yet pleaded too worthy to be his wanton till at last the King was content to take her upon her own terms though a widow and his Subject She got more greatness then joy height then happiness by her marriage her husband keeping company with others for his pleasure her for posterity Nor was it long before the tempest of his lust drave him to another Shore which had a greater share in his affections This Lady liv'd to see the death of her husdand murder of her two sons restraint of her self and rest of her children And though her condition was altered and bettered by the marriage of her eldest daughter to King Henry the seventh yet that cunning King who always weighed his love in the ballance of policy was not over dutiful to her nor over-loving to her daughter She dyed Anno Domini 14 ... But her memory is most remarkable to posterity for finishing Queens-colledge in Cambridge wherein I had my first breding and for it and all therein shall ever have an unfeigned affection begun by Queen Margaret wife to King Henry the sixth an implacable enemy to her husband so that the two houses of Lancaster and York had their first amity in that Foundation a comfortable presage that in process of time they should be publikely and effectually united RICHARD PLANTAGENET son to Richart Plantagenet Duke of York was born at Fothinghay castle in this County He was somewhat rumpled in his Mothers womb which caused his crooked back otherwise handsome enough for a Soldier Ajax and Ulysses Valour and Eloquence met in his person having as well a tongue to flatter as an arm to fight He compassed the Crown by cruelty and the killing of his Nephews the two Sons of King Edward the fourth When King he made good Laws which never procured him the peoples love as who beheld vice for his native colour and virtue for his painted complexion on design to make himself popular He lost the Crown and his life in the battle of Bosworth where it may be verified of him what Livy saith of Hannibal when beaten by Scipio that in that fight he performed all the offices of a wise General and valiant Souldier onely fortune did not befriend him If any except that King Richard in this battle was too prodigal of his own person engaging it too far for a General his condition did excuse him herein with whom it was all one to dye as too survive Success His memory hath since met with a Modern Pen who hath not onely purged but praised it to the height and pity it is that so able an Advocate had not a more meriting person to his Client He was slain Anno Domini 1435. KATHARINE PAR daughter to Sir Thomas Par and last wife to King Henry the eighth may probably be presumed a Native of this Shire However to prevent cavils we resign her over to Westmerland where God willing we shall meet with her character Saints WERBURGH was daughter to Wolpher Prince of Mercia who had his chief Palace of Residence at Wedon in the Street in this County which place her father bestowed on her for her Portion She was bred a Nun under Saint Audery her Aunt and Abbess at Ely untill such time that she was able of herself to go alone without leading in a Monastical life Returning to Wedon she turned that place which had been her fathers Palase into a Monastery Besides Wedon she had the inspection of two other Monasteries Trekingham in Lincolnshire and Hamburge noted by my Author neer Ely in Cambridgeshire though no such place appear in any modern Maps or Catalogue She parted herself whilst living successively betwixt these three places But on her death-bed commanded her body to be buried at Hamburge when contrary to her Will it was carried to the Monastery of Trekingham and the gates thereof fast locked and carefully watched to keep so great a Treasure Reader if the day be as long with thee when thou readest as it was with me when I wrote the ensuing story time may the better be afforded for the perusal thereof My Author proceeds Eut see a wonder It were well if we could see whereas now by his leave we do but hear it They which were appointed to watch the same fell into a deep sleep so as the people of Hamburge coming in the night for the Body the gates both of the Monastery and Church were opened themselves without mens hands and taking it away without any resistance they interred it at Hamburge as before her death she requested Wonder not they were so ambitious for her body for as Werburgh was her name which by a great Antiquary is interpreted the Keeper or Conserver of a Burgh or Town so all presumed she would prove a Tutelary Patroness to the place which possessed her body seeing some have reported that she hath miraculously driven away all Geese from Wedon that they shall destroy no grain thââ¦reabout If this be true then as a certain Jupiter amongst the Heathens was called Jupiter ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Jupiter the flie-flapper who drave away those offensive Insects let this Saint hereafter be termed Werburga ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã the chaser away of noisome Geese which spoil grain grass and water where they come She died Anno Domini 675. her body was afterwards taken up and translated to Chester where Hugh Lupus somewhat after the Conquest built the fair Monastery of Saint Werburghs to her memory converted into a Cathedral by King Henry the eight Martyrs This County affordeth no Marian Martyrs thanks be to a good and Gracious God a meek and moderate man David Pool Bishop of Peterburough whom I here mention the more willingly not knowing where to fix his Nativity However Unus Homo nobis One Martyr we had not chargable on the Bishop but his bloudy Arch-Deacons account John Gurd of Syrsam a Shoo-maker burnt in Northampton As for Augustine Dudley Parson of Castor though some of his familly credibly informed me that he was Martyred yet on enquiry his fufferings amounted not to loss of life and therefore the less wonder that they escaped the drag-net of Master Fox's diligence Cardinals HENRY CHICHLEY was born at Higham Ferrers in this County and by the Author of Antiquitates Britanicae is avouched made Cardinal by the title of Saint Eusebius But because this appeareth not in his Epitaph on his Tombe wherein an exact inventory of all his dignities the truth thereof is
WILLIAM CATESBYE was born in this County where his family long flourished at Asby Saint Leger He was first advanced by VVilliam Lord Hastinges by whose countenance he came to the notice then favour of Richard the third though ill requiting it when betraying him who caused his preferment Take his character transcribing in this kind is safer then inditing from an Author above exception This Catesbye was a man well learned in the Laws of this Land and surely great pity it was that he had not had more truth or less wit If any object that being neither Lord Chief-Justice Chief-Baron nor any VVriter on the Law He falleth not under my Pen by the Charter of Method prefixed to this Catalogue know that though formerly none he was eminently all Officers in every Court of Judicature all the Judges shaking at his displeasure Witness the Libel which Collingborn made and which cost him his life for the same The Rat and the Cat and Lovel the Dog Do govern all England under the Hog The time of his death is uncertain but because we find him not molested in the raign of King Henry the seventh which had he survived surely had happened it is probable he died before his Patron and Preferrer King Richard the third Sir RICHARD EMPSON It is pity to part them seeing Empson may be called the Catesbye to King Henry the seventh as Catesbye the Empson to King Richard the third both Country-men eminent for having odious for abusing their skill in Law active for the Prince injurious to the people This Sir Richard was Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster and from a Sieve-makers son at Towceter in this County where he was born came to sift the estates of the most wealthy men in England For King Henry the seventh vexed that he had refused Columbus his profer whereby the VVest-Indies being found out fortunately fell to Ferdinand King of Spain resolved to discover Indies in England and to this purpose made Empson Promotor General to press the Penal-Statutes all over the land Impowred hereby this prolling Knight did grind the faces of rich and poor bringing the grist thereof to the King and keeping the toll thereof to himself whereby he advanced a vast estate which now with his name is reduced to nothing He united the two houses of York and Lancaster in the Kings Coffers taking no notice of parties or persons for their former good service but making all equally obnoxious to fines and forfeitures But in the beginning of the reign of King Henry the eight he was arraigned condemed and beheaded August the 17. 1510. Say not that Princes if sacrificing their Ministers to popular fury will want persons faithfully to serve them seeing such exemplary justice will rather fright Officers from false disserving them for in fine no real profit can redoun to the Soveraign which resulteth from the ruine of his Subjects I must not forget how there was an old man in VVarwickshire accounted very judicious in Judicial Astrology of whom Sir Richard Empson then in his prime did scoffingly demand VVhen the Sun would Change to whom the old man replyed Even when such a wicked Lawyer as you go to Heaven But we leave him to stand and fall to his own Master and proceed EDWARD MONTAGUE son of Thomas Montague born at Brigstocke in this County was bred in the Inner-Temple in the study of the Laws until his ability and integrity advanced him Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in the thirtieth of Henry the eight He gave for his Motto Equitas Justiae Norma And although equity seemeth rather to resent of the Chancery then the Kings-Bench yet the best justice will be worm-wood without a mixture thereof In his Times though the golden showers of Abby-lands rained amongst great men it was long before he would open his lap scrupling the acception of such gifts and at last received but little in proportion to others of that age In the thirty seventh of King Henry the eight he was made Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas a descent in honor but ascent in profit it being given to old age rather to be thrifty then ambitious In drawing up the Will of King Edward the sixt and setling the Crown on the Lady Jane for a time he swam against the tide and torrent of Duke Dudley till at last he was carried away with the stream as in our Church History is largely related Outed of his Judges Office in the first of Queen Mary he returned into Northamptonshire and what contentment he could not find in VVestminster-hall his Hospital-hall at Boughton afforded unto him He died Anno 1556. and lieth buried in the Parish-Church of VVeekely Sir AUGUSTIN NICOLLS Son to Thomas Nicolls Serjeant at Law was born at Eckton in this County Now though according to the rigor of our Fundamental Premises he cometh not within our Cognizance under this Title yet his merit will justifie us in presenting his Character He was bred in the study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such knowledge that Queen Elizabeth made him a King James his own Serjeant whence he was freely preferred one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas I say freely King James commonly calling him the Judge that would give no money Not to speak of his moral qualifications and subordinate abilities He was renowned for his special Judiciary Endowments Patience to hear both parties all they could say a happy memory a singular sagacity to search into the material circumstances exemplary integrity even to the rejection of gratuities after judgment given His forbearing to travail on the Lords day wrought a reformation on some of his own Order He loved plain and profitable Preaching being wont to say I know not what you call Puritanical Sermons but they come neerest to my Conscience The speech of Caesar is commonly known Oportet Imperatorem stantem mori which Bishop Jewell altered and applyed to himself Decet Episcopum concionanteÌ mori of this man it may be said Judex mortuus est jura dans dying in his calling as he went the Northern Circuit and hath a fair Monument in Kendall-church in Westmerland Sir ROBERT DALLINGTON Knight was born at Geddington in this County bred a Bible-clerk as I justly collect in Bennet-colledge and after became a School-master in Northfolk Here having gained some money he travailed over all France and Italy being exact in his observations and was after his return Secretary to Francis Earl of Rutland He had an excellent wit and judgement witness his most acurate Aporismes on Tacitus At last he was Knighted and preferred Master of the Charter-house where the School-master at his first entering wellcomed him with a Speech in Latine verse spoken by a School-boy but sure he was more then a Boy who indited it It is hard to say whether Sir Robert was more pleased or displeased with the last Distick therein Partem oneris vestri minimaÌ ne despice curam Nec Pueros
ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã for an hour or short time yet this Doctor had his hour measur'd him by a large glass continuing in publick esteem till the beginning of these Civil Wars when the times turn'd and he standing still was left to the censure of factious innovatours Most candid his disposition and if he had the infirmity of ingenious Persons to be Cholerick he prevented others checking it in him by checking it first in himself He suffered long imprisonment in Ely-house and the Tower for a Sermon he made when Vicechancellour of Cambridge and at last restored to his Liberty waited on his Majesty in the Isle of Weight He is here entred amongst the Bishops because profered Bristol but refused it and such who know least of his mind are most bold to conjecture the cause of it He sleighted not the smalness thereof because such his Manners Loyalty and Conscience that he would have thanked his Sovereign for an injury much more for a smaller courtesie Wherefore such onely shoot by the aime of their own fancies who report him to have said he would not wear a Bristol stone Sure I am that England had if any more able none more zealous to assert Episcopacy and let that suffice us that he esteemed the acceptance thereof in that juncture of time unsafe and unseasonable for himself he afterwards took the Deanary of Worcester though he received no profit the place received honour from him being the last who was entituled and indeed it was no more with that dignity Pity it is so learned a person left no monuments save a Sermon to Posterity for I behold that Posthume-work as none of his named by the Transcriber the Valley of Vision a Scripture expression but here mis-placed Valley it is indeed not for the fruitfulness but lowness thereof especially if compared to the high parts of the pretended Author but little vision therein This I conceived my self in Credit and Conscience concerned to observe because I was surprised to Preface to the Book and will take the blame rather then clear my self when my innocency is complicated with the accusing of others Dying about the year 1650. he was buried in his own Parish Church in Saint Peters Broad-street his ancient friend Doctor Jefferies of Pembrook-hall taking for his Text. My days are like a shadow that decline Thomas Rich and Richard Abdi Esquires his Executors and worthy friends ordering his funeral with great solemnities and lamentation Souldiers To speak of this County in general it breedeth most hardy men He who deduced the Merches so truly called from Mercke a limitary bound from frequent marching and warlike expeditions therein missed the word but hit the matter These Borderers have been embroyled in several Battles agtinst the Scotch witness the Battle of Chevy-chase whereof Sir Philip Sidney is pleased to make this mention Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more then with a Trumpet and yet it is sung but by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice then rude style which being so evil apparell'd in the dust and ââ¦bweb of that uncivil age what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar True it is the story is not true in the letter and latitude thereof no Earl of Northumberland being ever killed in Chevy-chase as by the perusall of the ensuing Catalogue will appear 1 Henry Percy the first Earl lost his life in a battle against King Henry the fourth Anno Domini 1408. 2. Henry Percy his Grand-child the second Earl was slain on the side of King Henry the sixth against King Edward the fourth Anno 1455. 3. Henry his Son taking part with K. Henry the sixth was slain at Touton-field in the first of King Edward the fourth 4. Henry his Son promoting a Tax for the King was kill'd in a tumultuous rout at Cockledge eighteen miles from York in the fourth of King Henry the seventh 5. Henry his Son died a natural death in the eighteenth of King Henry the eight 6. Henry his Son died peaceably at Hackney neer London the nine and twentieth of King Henry the eight in whose reign the Scene is laid for the aforesaid Trajedy in Chevy-chase This I thought fit to have said partly to undeceive people least long possession might create a Title in their belief to the prejudice of truth partly that the noble Family of the Percy 's what need a good head of hair wear a Perriwig for birth and valour equal to any subjects in Christendome should not be beholding to an untruth to commend their martial Atchievement Yet though there be more fancy in the vernish there is much faith in the ground-work of this relation presenting a four-fold truth to posterity First that on light causes heavy quarrels have happened betwixt the Scotch and English in the Borders Secondly that the Percy 's with other Families in this County mentioned in this Ballade were most remarkable therein Thirdly that generally the English got the better in these broils Lastly that for the most part they were Victories without Triumphs wherein the Conquerour might sigh for his Conquest so dear the price thereof Physicians WILLIAM TURNER was born at Morpeth in this County bred in the University of Cambridge where he became an excellent Latinist Grecian Oratour and Poet. He was very zealous in the Protestant Religion writing many books in the defence thereof and much molested for the same by Bishop Gardner and others he was kept long in durance and escaping at last by Gods Providence fled over beyond Sea At Ferrara in Italy he Commenced Doctor of Physick there gaining his degree with general applause He wrote a great Herball and a book of Physick for the English Gentry as also several Treatises of Plants Fishes Stones Mettals c. He went afterwards into Germany where he lived in great Credit and Practise and as I conjecture died there in the reign of Queen Mary Reader I conceive him worthy of thy special notice because he was both a Confessor and Physician qualifications which meet not every day in the same Person THOMAS GIBSON It is pity to part him from the former because symbolising in many particulars of concernment Both 1. Born in this County and in the same Town of Morpeth 2. Flourishing atthe self same time 3. Physicians by Profession and it is said of this Thomas that he did aegritudinum sanationes incredibiles Incredible cures of Diseases 4. Writing of the same Subject of the nature of Hearbs 5. Professed enemies to Popery This Thomas wrote many other Books and one Entituled The Treasons of the Prelates since the Conquest which work had it come to the hand of a modern Authour happily it might have much helped him in that Subject He was alive in the last of Queen Mary and Bale sendeth forth a hearty Prayer for the continuance of his heââ¦th and
happiness Writers RALPH FRESBOURNE was born in this County bred a Souldier Scholar Travailer being a man of great estate and at last turn'd a Frier He attended Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans into the Holy-land Here he came acquainted with the Friers living on Mount Carmel which were then much molested with the inrodes of Pagans Our Ralph pitying their condition and much taken with their sanctity and as some say miracles brought them over with him into England and built them an house at Holme nigh Alnwick in Northumberland In loco Carmelo Syriae non dissimili saith my Author In a place not unlike to Carmel in Syria Thus pence are like shillings and as Carmel had an Hill with the river Kishon running under it a Forrest beside it and the Mid-land-Sea some three miles from it so this had the river Alne a Park adjoyning and the German-Sea at the same distance But Northumberland was but a cold Carmel for these Friers who soon got themselves warmer nests in Kent Essex London and where not Multiplying more in England then in any other Country as Mantuan observeth and hath not ill expressed Cur apud Anglorum populos ita creverit audi Anglicus in Syrias veniens exercitus olim Achonem Tyrii positam prope litora ponti Quae priùs occurrit subit is oppresserat armis Hear why that they so much in England thriv'd th' English earst in Palestine arriv'd The City Acon on the shore of Tyre As next at hand with arms did soon acquire And after some verses interpos'd Ista duces tanta intuiti miracula secum In patriam duxere viros quibus arma negabant In laribus sedem Assyriâ⦠templa domosque Construxere novas Pauc is it a fââ¦ruit annis Relligio quasi virga solo depact a feraci Et veluti palmes robur translata recepit The Captains seeing so great wonders wrought These Friers with them into England brought What war deni'd at home they here anew Churches and Houses built In years but few Increasing twig-like set by happy band Or tree transplanted to a fruitful land This Ralph wrote Books of pious exhortations and Epistles and after he had been fourteen years provincial of his own Order died and was buried at Holme aforesaid Anno Domini 1274. JOHANNES SCOTUS We have formerly asserted the very Scociety of this Scotus his nativity to belong to England and have answered the objections to the contrary He was born at Dunston a village in the Parish of Emildon in this County as appeareth by a writing in a book of his in Merton-colledge wherein he was bred He was a Franciscan by Order and of such nimble and solid parts that he got the title of Doctor subtilis Hitherto all School-men were like the world before the building of Babel of one language and of one speech agreeing together in their opinions which hereafter were divided into two Regââ¦ments or Armies rather of Thomists and Scotists under their several Generals opposing one another Scotus was a great stickler against the Thomists for that sinful opinion that the Virgin Mary was conceived without sin which if so how came she to rejoyce in God her Saviour He read the Sentences thrice over in his solemn Lectures once at Oxford again at Paris and last at Colen where he died or was kill'd rather because falling into a strong fit of an Apoplexy he was interred whilst yet alive as afterwards did appear Small amends were made for his hasty burial with an handsome monument erected over him at the cost of his Order otherwise whether as Scot Scholar or Franciscan he had little wealth of his own in the Quire before the High Altar On his Monument are inscribed the names of fifteen Franciscans viz. three Popes and two Cardinals on the top and ten Doctors whereof six English on the sides thereof all his Contemporaries as I conceive He died Anno Dom. 1308. Benefactors to the Publick STEPHEN BROWN Grocer son of John Brown was born at Newcaste upon Tine in this County afterwards Knighted and made Lord Mayor of London 1438. In which year happened a great and general famine caused much by unseasonable weather but more by some Huckstering Husbandmen who properly may be termed Knaves in grain insomuch that wheat was sold for three shillings a bushel intollerable according to the standard of those times and poor people were forced to make bread of fern roots But this Sir Stephen Brown sent certain ships to Dantz whose seasonable return with Rye suddenly sunk grain to reasonable rates whereby many a languishing life was preserved He is beheld one of the first Merchants who in want of Corn shewed the Londoners the way to the Barn-door I mean into Spruseland prompted by charity not covetousness to this his Adventure He may be said that since his death he hath often relieved the City on the like occasion because as Symmachus well observeth Author est bonorum sequentium qui bonum relinquit exemplum ROBERT WOODLARKE was born saith my Author at Wakerly in this County True it is in my late Church History I have challenged him for Northamptonshire Because there is no VVakerly in Northumberland Because there is a VVakerly in Northamptonshire But on second thoughts I resige him clear to this County loth to higgle for a letter or two misprinted perchance in the name of a Town This VVoodlarke was the last of the first Original Fellows and third Provost of Kings-colledge in Cambridge He bought three tenements in Miln-street and by a Mortmain procured from King Edward the fourth erected of them a small Colledge by the name of Saint Katharines-hall As is the man so is his strength great matters cannot be expected from so private a person who never attained to any Prelatical preferment who was bountiful to his Foundation to the utmost of his ability Herein he stands alone without any to accompany him being the first and last who was Master of one Colledge and at the same time Founder of another This his Zoar hath since met with many worthy Benefactours who have advanced it to be considerable both in buildings and revenues The date of his death I cannot with any certainty affix Memorable Persons MACHELL VIVAN is a Scotish-man by his birth but because beneficed in this County so many years shall by the Readers leave pass for an English-man so far as to be here inserted The rather because he will minister to the present and future ages just matter of admiration as by the perusing of the ensuing letter from my credible friend well know in London where his surviving Father was not long since the Prime Magistrate thereof will appear There is an acquaintance of mine and a friend of yours who certified me of your desire of being satisfied of the truth of that relation I made concerning the old Minister in the North. It fortuned in my journey to
their Consciences As wise as a man of Gotham It passeth publickly for the Periphrasis of a Fool and an hundred Fopperies are feigned and fathered on the Town-folk of Gotham a Village in this County Here two things may be observed 1. Men in all Ages have made themselves merry with singling out some place and fixing the staple of stupidity and stolidity therein Thus the Phrygians were accounted the fools of all Asia and the Anvils of other mens wits to work upon serò sapiunt Phryges Phryx nisi ictus non sapit In Grecia take a single City and then Abdera in Thracia carried it away for Dull-heads Abderitanae pectora plebis habes But for a whole Countrey commend us to the Boetians for Block-heads and Baeotium ingcnium is notoriously known In Germany auris Baetava is taken by the Poet for a dull Ear which hath no skill in witty conceits 2. These places thus generally sleighted and scoffed at afforded some as witty and wise persons as the world produced Thus Plutarch himself saith Erasmus was a Baeotian and Erasmus a Batavian or Hollander and therefore his own copy-hold being touch'd in the Proverb he expoundeth auris Batava a grave and severe Ear. But to return to Gotham it doth breed as wise people as any which causelesly laugh at their simplicity Sure I am Mr. William de Gotham fifth Master of Michael-house in Cambridge Anno 1336. and twice Chancellor of the University was as grave a Governor as that Age did afford And Gotham is a goodly large Lordship where the ancient and right well respected Family of St. Andrews have flourished some hundreds of years till of late the name is extinct in and lands divided betwixt Female co-heirs matched unto very worshipful persons The little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man can England hath afforded many rare workmen in this kind whereof he may seem an Apprentice to Vulcan and inferiour onely to his Master in making the invisible Net who made a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten links which a Flea could draw But what this little Smith and great workman was and when he lived I know not and have cause to suspect that this of Nottingham is a periphrasis of Nemo Ou T is or a person who never was And the Proverb by way of Sarcasm is applied to such who being conceited of their own skill pretend to the atchieving of impossibilities Martyrs I meet with none within this County either before or in the Marian dayes imputing the later to the mild temper of Nicholas Heath Archbishop of York and Diocesan thereof Yet find we a Martyr though not in this yet of this County as a Native thereof here following THOMAS CRANMER was born at Arse lackton Speed calls it Astackton in this County and being bred in Jesus college in Cambridge became Archbishop of Canterbury and at last after some intermediate failings valiantly suffered for the Truth at Oxford An. Dom. 1556. March 22. Two hungry meals saith our English Proverb makes the third a gluttââ¦n This may also be inverted Two glutton meals require the third an hungry one fasting being then necessary lest Nature be surcharged If the Reader hath formerly perused Mr. Fox his Acts and Monuments and my Ecclesiastical History Cranmer his story is so largely related in those two books there is danger of his surfet if I should not now be short and sparing therein onely one memorable passage omitted by Mr. Fox and that 's a wonder I must here insert out of an excellent Author After his whole body was reduced into ashes his heart was found intire and untouch'd Which is justly alledged as an argument of his cordial integrity to the truth though fear too much and too often prevailed on his outward actions So that what the Holy Spirit recorââ¦eth of King Asa was true of him Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his dayes though good man he was guilty of many and great imperfections The like to this of Cranmer is reported of Zuinglius Quòd cadavere flammis ab hostibus tradito cor exuri non potuerit His foes making this a sign of the obduration and hardness of his heart his friends of the sincerity thereof And thus saith my moderate and learned Author Adeo turbat is odio aut amore animis ut fit in religionis dissensionibus pro se quisque omnia superstitiosè interpretatur Their minds being so disturbed with hatred or love as it comes to pass in dissentions of Religion every one interprets all things superstitiously for his own advantage The best is our Religion wherein it differs from Romish Errors hath better demonstration for the truth thereof than those Topical and Osier accidents lyable to be bent on either side according to mens fancies and affections Prelates since the Reformation WILLIAM CHAPPELL was born at Lexington in this County and bred a Fellow in Christs college in Cambridge where he was remarkable for the strictness of his Conversation No one Tutor in our memory bred more and better Pupils so exact his care in their Education He was a most subtile Disputant equally excellent with the Sword and the Shield to reply or answer He was chosen Provost of Trinity college in Dublin and afterwards Bishop of Corke and Rosse Frighted with the Rebellion in Ireland he came over into England where he rather exchanged than eased his condition such the wofulness of our civil wars He dyed Anno 1649. and parted his Estate almost equally betwixt his own Kindred and distressed Ministers his charity not impairing his duty and his duty not prejudicing his charity Capital Judges Sir JOHN MARKHAM descended of an ancient Family was born at Markham in this County and brought up in the Municipal Law till being Knighted by Edward the Fourth he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in the place of Sir John Fortescue These I may call the two Chief Justices of the Chief Justices for their signal integrity For though the one of them favoured the House of Lancaster the other of York in the Titles to the ââ¦rown both of them favoured the House of Justice in matters betwixt party and party It happened that Sir Thomas Cooke late Lord Mayor of London one of vast wealth was cast before hand at the Court where the Lord Rivers and the rest of the Queens Kindred had pre-devoured his Estate and was onely for Formalities sake to be condemned in Guild-hall by extraordinary Commissioners in Oyer and Terminer whereof Sir John Markham was not the meanest The Fact for which he was arraigned was for lending money to Margaret the Wife of King Henry the Sixth this he denyed and the single testimony of one Haukins tortured on the Rack was produced against him Judge Markham directed the jury as it was his place and no partiality in point of Law to do to find it onely Misprision of treason whereby Sir Thomas
could not enter except going sidelong at any ordinary door which gave the occasion to this Proverb But these Verdingales have been disused this fourty years whether because Women were convinced in their consciences of the vaââ¦ity of this or allured in their fancies with the novelty of other fashions I will not determine Chronica si penses cum pugnent Oxonienses Post aliquot meÌses volat ira per Angliginenses Mark the Chronicles aright When Oxford Scholars fall to fight Before many months expir'd England will with waâ⦠be fir'd I confesse Oxoniensis may import the broils betwixt the Townsmen of Oxford or Towns men and Scholars but I conceive it properly to intend the contests betwixt Scholars and Scholars which were observed predictional as if their animosities were the Index of the Volume of the Land Such who have time may exactly trace the truth hereof through our English Histories Sure I am there were shrewd bickerings betwixt the Southern and Northern men in Oxford in the reign of King Henry the third not long before the bloody War of the Barons did begin The like happened twice under King Richard the second which seemed to be the Van-curreer of the fatal fights betwixt Lancaster and York However this observation holds not negatively all being peaceable in that place and no broils at Oxford sounding the alââ¦rum to our late civil dissentions Princes RICHARD Son to King Henry the second and Queen Eleanor was the sixth King since the Conquest but second Native of England born in the City of Oxford Anno 1157. Whilest a Prince he was undutiful to his Father or to qualifie the matter over-dutiful to his Mother whose domestick quarrels he always espoused To expiaââ¦e his offence when King he with Philip King of France undertook a voyage to the Holy Land where thorough the Treachery of Templary cowardize of the Greeks diversity of the Climate distance of the place and differences betwixt Christian Princes much time was spent a mass of money expended many lives lost some honour atchieved but little profit produced Going to Palestine he suffered ship-wrack and many mischiefs on the coasts of Cyprus coming for England thorow Germany he was tost with a worse Land-Tempest being in pursuance of an old grudge betwixt them taken prisoner by Leopalduâ⦠Duke of Austria Yet this Coeur de Lion or Lion-hearted King for so was he commonly called was no less Lion though now in a Grate than when at liberty abating nothing of his high spirit in his behaviour The Duke did not undervalue this his Royal Prisoner prizing his person at ten years purchase according to the then yearly revenue of the English Crown This ransome of an hundred thousand pounds being paid he came home first reformed himself and then mended many abuses in the Land and had done more had not an unfortunate Arrow shot out of a besieged Castle in France put a period to his life Anno Dom. 1199. EDMUND youngest Son to King Edward the first by Queen Margaret was born at Woodstock Aug. 5. 1301. he was afterwards created Earl of Kent and was Tutor to his Nephew King Edward the third In whose raign falling into the tempest of false injurious and wicked envy he was beheaded for that he never dissembled his natural brotherly affection toward his Brother deposed and went about when he was God wot murdered before not knowing so much to enlarge him out of prison perswaded thereunto by such as covertly practised his destruction He suffered at Winchester the ninteenth of March in the fourth of Edward the third EDWARD Eldest Son of King Edward the third was born at Woodstock in this County and bred under his Father never abler Teacher met with an apter Scholar in Marshal Discipline He was afterwards termed the Black Prince not so called from his complexion which was fair enough save when Sun-burnt in his Spanish expedition nor from his conditions which were courteous the constant attender of Valour but from his atchievements dismal and black as they appeared to the eyes of his enemies whom he constantly overcame But grant him black in himself he had the fairest Lady to his Wife this Land and that age did afford viz. Joane Countess of Salisbury and Kent which though formerly twice a Widow was the third time married unto him This is she whose Gaââ¦ter which now flourisheth again hath lasted longer than all the Wardrobes of the Kings and Queens in England since the Conquest continued in the Knighthood of that Order This Prince died before his Father at Canterbury in the 46. year of his age Anno Dom. 1376. whose Maiden success attended him to the grave as never foyled in any undertakings Had he survived to old age in all probabilities the Wars between York and Lancaster had been ended before begun I mean prevented in him being a person of merit and spirit and in Seniority before any suspicion of such divisions He left two Sons Edward who died at seven years of age and Richard afterwards King second of that name both born in France and therefore not coming within the compass of our Catalogue THOMAS of Woodstock youngest Son of King Edward the third and Queen Philippa was sirnamed of Woodstock from the place of his Nativity He was afterward Earl of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester created by his Nephew King Richard the second who summoned him to the Parliament by the Title of the Kings loving Uncle He married Isabel one of the Co-heirs of Humphrey Bohun Earl of Essex in whose right he became Constable of England a dangerous place when it met with an unruly manager thereof But this Thomas was only guilty of ill tempered Loyalty loving the King well but his own humors better rather wilful than hurtful and presuming on the old maxime Patruus est loco Parentis An Uncle is in the place of a Father He observed the King too nearly and checked him too sharply whereupon he was conveyed to Calis and there strangled By whose death King Richard being freed from the causeless fear of an Uncle became exposed to the cunning Plots of his Cousin German Henry Duke of Lancaster who at last deposed him This Thomas founded a fair Colledge at Playsie in Essex where his body was first buried with all Solemnity and afterward translated to Westminster ANNE BEAUCHAMP was born at Cavesham in this County Let her pass for a Princess though not formally reductively seeing so much of History dependeth on her as Elevated Depressed 1. Being Daughter and in fine sole Heir to Richard Beaucamp that most Martial Earl of Warwick 2. Married to Richard Nevil Earl of Sarisbury and Warwick commonly called the Make-King and may not she then by a courteous proportion be termed the Make-Queen 3. In her own and Husbands right she was possessed of one hundred and fourteen Manors in several Shires 4. Isabell her eldest daughter was married to George Duke of Clarence and Anne her younger to Edward Prince of Wales son of
eos tantum ille qui ut habet Tsalmus 126. numerat multitudinem Stellarum omnibus eis nomina vocat St. BERTELIN was a Britton of a Noble Birth and lead an Eremitical Life in the Woods near Stafford anciently called Bethiney contracted it seems for Bertiliney something of solitariness still remaining in his Memory as being so alone it hath no memorable particulars of his accounts to accompany it WOLFADUS RUFFINUS It was pitty to part them seeing they were loving in their lives and in their death they were not divided They were sons to Wolââ¦erus the Pagan King of Mercia and a Tyrant to boot who hating Christianity and finding these times to profess privately to practice it was so enraged that nothing but their bloud would quench his anger Wolfadus was taken and martyred at Stone in this County Whilst his younger if not twin brother Ruffinus came little more behind him at his death then he started before him at his birth seeking to hid himself in a woody place where since the Chappel of Burnweston hath been built was there by his Herod-father found out and murthered They were by succeding ages rewarded with reputation of Saintââ¦ip This Massacre happened Anno Domini .... Cardinals REGINALD POLE was born at Stoverton Castle in this County Anno 1500. He was second son unto Sr. Richard Pole Knight of the Garter and Frater consobrinus a relation which I cannot make out in reference to him to Henry the Seventh His mother Margaret Countess of Salisbury was Neice to King Edward the Fourth and daughter to Geoââ¦ge Duke of Clarence This Reginald was bred in Corpus-Christi-Colledge in Oxford preferred afterward Dean of Exeter King Henry the Eighth highly favoured and sent him beyond the Seas allowing him a large Pension to live in an equipage suitable to his birth and alliance He studied at Padua conversing there so much with the Patricians of Venice that at last he degenerated into a perfect Italian so that neither love to his Country nor gratitude to the King nor sharp Letters of his Friends nor fear to lose his present nor hopes to get future preferments could perswade him to return into England but that his pensions were withdrawn from him This made him apply his studies the more privately in a Venetian-Monastery where he attained great credit for his Eloquence Learning and good Life Such esteem forreign Grandees had of his great Judgment that Cardinal Sadolet having written a large Book in the praise of Philosophy submitted it wholy to his Censure Pole as highly commended the Work as he much admired that a Cardinal of the Church of Rome would conclude his old age with writing on such a subject applying unto him the Verses of Virgil Est in conspectu Tenedos notissima fama Insula dives opum Priami dum regna manebant Nunc tantum sinus statio male fidacarinis From Troy may th'Ile of Tenedos bespide Much fam'd when Priams kingdom was in pride Now but a Bay where ships in danger ride These far fetch'd lines He thus brought home to the Cardinal that though Philosophy had been in high esteem whilst Paganisme was in the prime thereof yet was it but a bad Harbour for an aged Christian to cast his Anchor therein It was not long before he was made Deacon-Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary in Cosmedin by Pope Paul the Third who sent him on many fruitless and dangerous Embassies to the Emperour and the French King to incite them to War against King Henry the Eighth Afterwards he retired himself to Viterbo in Italy where his House was observed the Sanctuary of Lutherans and he himself became a racking but no thorough-paced Protestant In so much that being appointed one of three Presidents of the Council of Trent he endeavoured but in vain to have Justification determined by Faith alone During his living at Viterbo he carried not himself so cautiously but that he was taxed for begetting a base Child which Pasquil published in Latine and Italian Verses affixed in the season of liberty on his lawless pillar This Pasquil is an Authour eminent on many accounts First for his self-concealement being Noscens omnia notus nemini Secondly for his intelligence who can display the deeds of midnight at high noon as if he hid himself in the holes of their bedstaves knowing who were Cardinals Children better than they knew their Fathers Thirdly for his unpartial boldness He was made all of tongue and teeth biting what e're he touch'd and it bled what e're he bit Yea as if a General Council and Pasquil were only above the Pope he would not stick to tell where he trod his holy Sandals awry Fourthly for his longevity having lived or rather lasted in Rome some hundreds of years whereby he appears no particular person but a successive corporation of Satyrists Lastly for his impunity escaping the Inquifition whereof some assign this reason because hereby the Court of Rome comes to know her faults or rather to know that their faults are known which makes Pasquils converts if not more honest more wary in their behaviour This defamation made not such an impression on Poles credit but that after the death of Paul the Third he was at midnight in the Conclave chosen to succeed him Pole refused it because he would not have his choice a deed of darkness appearing therein not perfectly Italianated in not taking preferment when tendred and the Cardinals beheld his refusal as a deed of dulness Next day expecting a re-election he found new morning new minds and Pole being reprobated Julius the Third his professed enemy was chosen in his place Yet afterwards he became Alterius Orbis Papa when made Arch-bishop of Canterbury by Queen Mary He was a person free from passion whom none could anger out of his ordinary temper His youthful Books were full of the Flowers of Rhetorick whilst the withered stalkes are only found in the Writings of his old Age so dry their style and dull their conceit He died few hours after Queen Mary November the 17 Anno 1558. Prelates EDMUND STAFFORD was Brother to Ralph first Earl of Stafford and consequentially must be son to Edmund Baron Stafford His Nativity is rationally with most probability placed in this County wherein his father though Landed every where had his Prime Seat and largest revenues He was by King Richard the Second preferred Bishop of Exeter and under King Henry the Fourth for a time was Chancellour of England I meet with an Authour who doth make him Bishop first of Rochester then of Exââ¦ter and lastly of York But of the first and last altum silentium in Bishop Godwin whom I rather believe He was a Benefactor to Stapeltons-Inn in Oxford on a three-fold account viz. Of 1 Credit first calling it Exeter Colledge whereby he put an obligation on the Bishop of that See favourably to reflect thereon 2 Profit adding two Fellowships unto it and
1. William 2. Guy 3. Thomas 4. Thomas 5. Richard 6. Henry Such a series there was of successive undauntedness in that noble Family But if a better may be allowed amongst the best and a bolder amongst the boldest I conceive that Thomas the first of that name gave the chief occasion to this Proverbe of whom we read it thus reported in our Chronicles At Hogges in Normandy in the year of our Lord 1346. being there in safety arrived with Edward the third this Thomas leaping over ship-board was the first man who went on land seconded by one Esquire and six Archers being mounted on a silly Palfray which the suddain accident of the business first offered to hand with this company he did fight against one hundred armed men and in hostile manner overthrew every one which withstood him and so at one shock with his seven assistants he slew sixty Normans removed all resistance and gave means to the whole fleet to land the Army in safety The Heirs-male off this name are long since extinct though some deriving themselves from the Heirs-generall are extant at this day The Bear wants a Tail and cannot be a Lion Nature hath cut off the Tail of the Bear close at the Rump which is very strong and long in a Lion for a great part of the Lions strength consists in his Tail wherewith when Angry he useth to Flap and Beat himself to raise his Rage therewith to the Height so to render himself more Fierce and Furious If any ask why this Proverbe is placed in Warwick-shire Let them take the Ensuing Story for their satisfaction Robert Dudley Earl of Leiceââ¦er derived his Pedegree from the ancient Earls of Warwick on which Title he gave their Crest the Bear and Ragged Staffe and when he was Governour of the Low Countries with the high Title of his Excellency disusing his Own Coat of the Green-Lion with Two Tails he signed all Instruments with the Crest of the Bear and Ragged Staffe He was then suspected by many of his jealous adversaries to hatch an Ambitious design to make himself absolute Commander as the Lion is King of Beasts over the Low-Countries Whereupon some Foes to his faction and Friends to the Dutch-freedome wrote undeâ⦠his Crest set up in Publick places Ursa caret cauda non queat esse Leo. The Bear he never can prevail To Lion it for lack of Tail Nor is Uââ¦sa in the feminine meerly placed to make the Verse But because Naturalists observe in Bears that the Female is always the strongest This Proverb is applyed to such who not content with their Condition aspire to what is above their worth to deserve or Power to atchive He is true Coventry-blew It seems the best blews so well fixed as not to fade are died in Coventry It is applied to such an one who is fidus Achates a fast and faithfull friend to those that employ him Opposite hereunto is the Greek Proverb ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Ignavi vertitur color A Coward will change colour either for fear or falsehood when deserting those who placed confidence in him As for those who apply this Proverb to persons so habited in wickedness as past hope of amendment under favour I conceive it a secondary and but abusive sense thereof Princes ANNE NEVILL Daughter and Co heir to Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick was most probââ¦bly born in Warwick-castle She was afterward married with a great portion and inheritance to Edward Prince of Wales sole Son to King Henry the sixth A Prince neither dying of Disease nor slain in Battle nor executed by Justice but barbarously butchered by Richard Duke of Gloucester Was it not then a daring piece of Court-ship in him who had murthered her husband to make love unto her in way of marriage and was not his success strange in obtaining her having no ãâã to commend his person to her affection O the Impotency of the weaker sex to resist the battery of a Princely Suitor who afterward became King by his own ambition however her life with him proved neither long nor fortunate It happened that there was the muttering of a marriage between Henry Earl of Richmond and Elizabeth eldest Daughter to Edward the fourth so to unite the houses of Lancaster and York To prevent this King Richard the third intended to marry the Lady himself so methodicall he was in breaking the Commandements of the second Table First Honour thy Father and Mother when he procured his Mother to be proclaimed a harlot by a Preacher at Pauls Cross. Secondly Thou shalt not kill when he murthered his Nephews Thirdly Thou shalt not Commit adultery being now in pursuit of an incestuous Copulation Say not that this match would nothing confirme his title seeing formerly he had pronunced all the Issue of King Edward the fourth as Illegitimate for first that designe was rather indevoured then effected most men remaining notwithstanding this bastardizing attempt well satisfied in the rightfulness of their extraction Secondly they should or should not be Bastards as it made for his present advantage Tyrants always driving that nail which will goe though it go cross to those which they have driven before Lastly if it did not help him it would hinder the Earl of Richmond which made that Usurper half wild till he was wedded But one thing withstood his desires this Anne his Queen was still alive though daily quarrelled at and complained of her son being lately dead for barren and O what a loss would it be to nature it self should her husband dye without an heir unto his vertues Well this Lady understanding that she was a burthen to her husband for grief soon became a burthen to herself and wasted away on a suddain Some think she went her own pace to the grave while others suspect a grain was given her to quicken her in her journy to her long home Which happened Anno Dom. 1484. EDWARD PLANTAGââ¦NET Son to George Duke of Clarence may passe for a Prince because the last Male-heir of that Royal Family Yea some of his Foes feared and more of his Friends desired that he might be King of England His Mother was Isabel Eldest Daughter to Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick And he was born in Warwick-castle As his Age increased so the Jealousie of the Kings of England on him did increase being kept Close Prisoner by King Edward the fourth Closer by King Richard the third and Closest by King Henry the seventh This last being of a New Linage and Sirname knew full well how this Nation hankered after the Name of Plantagenet which as it did out-syllable Tuthar in the Mouths so did it out-vie it in the Affections of the English Hence was it that the Earl was kept in so strict Restraint which made him very weak in his Intellectuals and no wonder being so sequestred from human converse It happened a marriage was now in debate betwixt Prince Arthur and Katherine Daughter to Ferdinand King of
Lampreys but of excess in eating them and I am confident the Jews might surfet of Manna it self if eating thereof above due proportion Perry This is a Drink or a Counterfeit Wine made of Pears whereof plenty in this County though such which are least delicious for tast are most proper for this purpose Such the Providence of Nature to design all things for mans service Peter Martyr when Professor in Oxford and sick of a Feaver would drink no other liquor though it be generally believed both cold and windy except corrected with spice or some other addition Salt I have twice formerly insisted hereon and doe confess this Repetition to be flatly against my own Rules laid down for the regulating of this work save that the necessity of this Commodity will excuse it from any offence I beheld England as a long well-furnish'd Table and account three principal Salt-cellars set at distance thereon Worcester shire I fancy the Trencher Salt both because it is not so much in quantity though very considerable and because it is whiter finer and heavier then any other Chââ¦shire I conceive deserveth to be reputed the Grand-salt-cellar placed somewhat beneaââ¦h the middle whilst the third is the Salt of New-castle set far North at the lower end of the Table for the use of those who otherwise cannot conveniently reach to the former The usefulness of this not-duely-valued-blessing may be concluded from the Latine word Salarium so usuall in antient and modern Authors which importeth the entertainment or wages of Souldiers antiently paid chiefly if not only in Victuals and taketh its name by a Synecdoche fr om Sal or Salt as of all things most absolutely needfull without which condiment nothing can be wholesome nutriment I read in a modern Author describing his own County of Che-shire and measuring all things to the advantage thereof that There is no Shire in England or in any other Country beyond the seas where they have more then one salt-well therein neither at Droitwich in Worcester-shire is there more then one whereas in Che-shire there be four all within ten wiles together Here let me enter this Caveat in preservation of the right of Worcester-shire that many salt-fountains are found therein but stopped up again for the preservation of woods so that the making of salt at one place alone proceeds not from any Natural but a Politick restriction Nor must I forget how our German-Ancestors as Tacitus reports conceited such places where salt was found to be nearest to the heavens and to ingratiate mens pââ¦ayers to the gods I will not say founding their superstition on the mis-apprehension of the Jewish-worship Every sacrifice shall be salted with salt The Buildings I am sorry I have never seen the Cathedrall of Worcester so that I cannot knowingly give it a due commendation and more sorry to hear that our late Civil Wars have made so sad an Impression thereon The Market-towns are generally handsomely built and no Shire in England can shew a brace of them so neat and near together as Beaudley and Kiddermister in this County being scarcely two miles asunder Saints Saint RICHARD born at Wich alias Droitwich from which he took his name was bred in Oxford afterwards at Paris lastly at Bononia in Italy where for seven years together he heard and read the Canon-law Having thus first plentifully laid in he then began to lay out in his Lectures in that University and returning Home became Chancellor of Oxford then of Canterbury till at last chosen Bishop of Chichester He was a great Becketist viz. a stout opposer of Regal Power over Spiritual Persons on which and other accounts he wrot a Book to Pope Innocent the fourth against King Henry the third These his qualities with the reputation of his holy life so commended his memory to the notice of Pope Urban the fourth that seven years after his death viz. Anno 1260 he canonized him for a Saint It seems men then arrived sooner at the maturity oâ⦠Popish Saintship then now a days more distance being now required betwixt their death and canonization As for their report that the Wiches or Salt-pits in this County were miraculously procured by his prayers their unsavory lye hath not a graine of probability to season it it appearing by antient Authors that salt-wââ¦ter flowed there time out of mind beââ¦ore any sweet-milk was given by Mother or Nurse to this Saint Richard This County affording no Martyrs such the moderation of Bshop Pates let us proceed to Cardinals JOHN COMIN or Cumin It must cost us some pains but the merit of the man will quit cost to clear him to be of English extraction For the proof whereof we produce the testimony of Giraldus Cambrensis his contemporary and acquaintance who saith he was Viâ⦠Anglicus natione Hereby the impudent falsehood of John Demster the Scotish Historian doth plainly appear thus expressing himself Johannes Cuminus ex nobilissimo Comitum Buchaniae stemmate ortus Banfiae natus falsissimè inter Anglos reponitur cum ipse viderim quaedam ipsius nuper Parisiis scripta quibus suorum Popularium causam Pontifici Lucio commendavit in bibliotheca Pauli Petavii Senatoris Parisiensis John Cumin descended from the most noble stock of the Earls of Buchan born at Banfe is most falsely set down amongst the English seeing I my self lately saw some of his writings at Paris in the Library of Paulus Petavius Senator of Paris in which he recommended the cause of his Countrimen to Pope Lucius In plain English this Scotish Demster is an arrant rook depluming England Ireland and Wales of famous Writers meerly to feather his own Country therewith so that should he according to the Jewish Law be forced to make four-fold restitution for his felony he would be left poor enough indeed Besides Alexander Comin was Created first Earl of Buchan by King Alexander the second who began to raign Anno Dom. 1214. whereas Comin by the testimony of Demster himself died 1212. and therefore could not properly descend of their stock who were not then in being I cannot certainly avouch him a Worcester-shire man but know that he was bred a Monke at Evesham therein whence he was chosen the King procuring it à clero Dublinensi consonè satis concorditer Arch-bishop of Dublin He endowed Trinity-Church in Dublin with two and twenty Prebends and was made by Pope Lucius Cardinal of Saint Vellit in Italy HUGH of EVESHAM so called from the place of his Nativity in this County applyed himself to the Study of Physick with so good success that he is called the Phoenix in that Faculty Great also was his skill in the Mathematicks and especially in Astrology Some questions arising at Rome about Physick which consequencially were of Church government Pope Martin the fourth sent for our Hugh to consult with him who gave such satisfaction to his Demands that in requitall he Created him Cardinal
expressing her intention to confer it on Watson the foresaid Earl requested the contrary acquainting the Queen with the passage betwixt them how otherwise it would be two hundred pounds out of his way Nay then said the Queen Watson shall have it he being more worthy thereof who will give two hundred to decline then he who will give two thousand pounds to attain it I confess such who have read so much of the Corruption of the Earl of Leicester and heard so little of the Integrity of Watson will hardly credit this story which I am ready to believe and the rather because of this his Epitaph written on his Marble Monument in the Church of Saint Mary Overies D. Johannes Watson hujus Ecclesiâ⦠Winton Praebendarius Decanus ãâã deinde Episcopus prudentissimus pater vir optimus praecipuè erga inopes misericors obiit in Domino January 23. anno ââ¦tatis 63. Episcopatus quarto 1583. Nothing else have I to observe save that there were three Watsons Bishops in the raign of Queen Elizabeth Thomas of Lincoln our John of Winchester and Anthony of Chichester though I believe little allied together States-men Sir THOMAS COVENTRY Knight was born at Croone in this County Eldest Son to Sir Thomas Coventry Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. He was bred in the Inner Temple a student of the Laws and in the year 1618. was Treasurer of the said Temple and Atturney Generall to King James He was afterwards made Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England the first day of November in the first year of King Charles He was by the same King Created in the fourth of his raign April 10. Baron Coventry of Alesborough in this County An ingenious Gentleman in his History giveth him this Character in relation to his Keeper-ship that he injoyed that dignity fifteen years if it was not more proper to say that dignity enjoyed him This latter age affording none better qualified for the place Adding that he knew enough and acted conformable to his knowledge so that Captious Maliââ¦e ââ¦nds mute to blemish his fame To which we will only adde some few operative words taken out of his Patent when he was Created Baron Nos igitur in personâ Prââ¦dilecti per quam fidelis ãâã ââ¦stri Thomae Coventry Militis custodis magni sigilli nostri Angliae gratissima dignissima servitiâ⦠quae idem consiliarius noster tam Prââ¦charissimo Patri ãâã Jacobo Regi ãâã Memoriae per multos anââ¦s quam nobis ab ipsis Rââ¦gni nostri primis auspiciis fidelissimè prudentissimè praestitit impendit indiesque impendere non desistit nec non ãâã prudentiam strenuitatem dexteritatem integriââ¦tem industriam ãâã nos nostram coronam animo benigno regali intime recolentes constantiam fidelitatem ipsiâ⦠Thomae Coventry Militis c. In cujus rei c. T. R. apud Westm. decimo diâ⦠Aprilis Anno regni Regis Caroli 4. He died about the beginning of January 1639. before our Civill distempers began so that it is hard to say whether his Honourable Life or Seasonable Death was the greater favour which God bestow'd upon him I must not forget that it hath been observed that never Lord Keeper made fewer Orders which afterwards were Reversed then this Lord Coventry which some ascribe to his Discretion grounding most of his Orders on the Consent and Comprimise of the parties themselves interested therein whose hands so tyed up by their own Act were the more willing to be quiet for the future Writers on the Law Sir THOMAS LITLETON Knight Reader the Nimiety of my Cautiousness loath to prejudice the seeming right of any made me to bestow part of his Character on Staffordshire who since am convinced that he wholly and solely belongeth to this Shire as born at Frankley therein and I request the Reader to rectify some mistakes I formerly wrot by that which followeth He was a man remarkable in many respects First for his Extraction he was Son to Thomas Wescot Esquire and Elizabeth Litleton his wife who being a Double Inheritrix by her Father to the Litletons Mother to the Quatremains indented with Husband that her Heritable Issue should assume her Surname Say not her Husband might say Accepi dotem cognomen perdidi seeing it was done before his marriage by his free consent Besides we find even in Scripture it self Joab being constantly named the son of his Mother Zeruiah Secondly for his happiness that two great Kings had a great Sympathy to him who had an Antipathy each to other Henry the sixth whose Serjeant he was and rod Judge of the Northern circuit and Edward the fourth who made him a Judge and in his raign he rod the Northamptonshire Circuit Thirdly for his Exquisite skill in the Laws witness his Book of Tenures which though writ about two hundred years since yet at this day retaineth an Authentical reputation Insomuch that when in the raign of King James it came in question upon a Demuââ¦rer in Law whether the release to one Trespasser should be available or no to his Companion Sir Henry Hubbard and Judges Warberton Winch and Nicols his Companions gave Judgement according to the opinion of our Litleton and openly said that They would not have HIS CASE disputed or questioned Lastly for his happy posterity having left three families signally fixed and flourishing in this and the neighboring Counties of Stafford and Salop. And one saith very truely that these Quarter the Armes of many Matches after the best manner of quartering them other are scarce half-half-quartering them viz. they possess at this day good land on the same account Indeed the Lord Coke observeth that our Lawyers seldome dye either without Wills or Heirs For the first I believe it for our Common Lawyers will not have their Estates come under the Arbitrary dispose of a Civilian Judge of the Prerogative and therefore wisely prevent it For the second the Observation as qualified which Seldome may pass otherwise our Grand-fathers can remember Sir James Dier Lord Chief Justice and Periam Lord Chief Baron both dying without Issue His Book of Tenures hath since been Commented on by Sir Edward Coke his most Judicious Pen. Dic mihi num Textus vel Commentatio prestat Dicam ego tam Textus quam Commentatio prestat He died in the 21. year of King Edward the fourth and lyeth buried in the Cathedrall of Worcester having formerly constituted Doctor Alcock his faithfull friend and then Bishop of Worcestor Supervisor of his Will who saw it performed to all criticall particulars Souldiers RICHARD BEAUCHAMP Earl of Warwick was born at the Maââ¦or-house of Salwape in this County January the 28. 1381. King Richard the second and Richard Scroope then Bishop of Coventry afterwards Arch-bishop of York were his Godfathers A person so redoubted for Marshall Atchievements that the poeticall fictions of Hercules his labours found in him a reall
Commodity in this County not ââ¦ormerly omitted by me but pretermited till this Occasion Sure it is that the finest though this may seem a word of Challenge Cloth of England is made at Worcester and such I believe was that which Erasmus that great Critick who knew fine Cloth as well as pure Latine is calleth Pannus Britannicus Lempster Wool in the neighboring County of Hereford being here made into Pardon the Prolepsis till it be died the purest Scarlet YORK-SHIRE YORK-SHIRE hath the Bishoprick of Durham and Westmer land on the North Lancashire and a snip of Cheshire on the West Derby Notingham and Lincolnshire divided by Humber on the South and the German Ocean on the East thereof It extendeth without any Angular advantages unto a square of fourscore and ten miles adequate in all Dimensions unto the Dukedome of Wirtenberg in Germany Yea on due consideration I am confident that all the seven United Provinces cannot present such a square of solid Continent without any Sea interposed One may call and justify this to be the best Shire of England and that not by the help of the generall Katachresis of Good for Great a good blow good piece c. but in the proper acception thereof If in Tullies Orations all being excellent that is adjudged optima quae longissima the best which is the longest then by the same proportion this Shire partaking in goodness alike with others must be allowed the best Seeing Devonshire it self the next in largeness wisely sensible of the visible inequality betwixt them quits all claimes of corrivality as a case desperate and acknowledgeth this as Paramont in greatness Indeed though other Counties have more of the Warm Sun this hath as much as any of God's temporall blessings So that let a Survayer set his Center at Ponââ¦fract or thereabouts and take thence the Circumference of twenty miles he there will meet with a tract of ground not exceeded for any nor equalled for the goodness and plenty of some Commodities I would term it the Garden of England save because it is so far from the Mansion House I mean the City of London Insomuch that such sullen dispositions who do not desire to go thither only because of the great distance the same if settled there would not desire to come thence such the delight and pleasure therein Most true it is that when King Henry the eight Anno 1548. made his Progress to York Doctor Tonstall Bishop of Durham then attending on him shewed the King a Valley being then some few miles North of Doncaster which the Bishop avowed to be the richest that ever he found in all his travails thorough Europe For within 10. miles of Hasselwood the seat of the Vavasors there were 165. Mannor houses of Lords Knights and Gentlemen of the best quality 275. Severall Woods whereof some of them contain five hundred Acres 32. Parks and two Chases of Dear 120. Rivers and Brooks whereof Five be Navigable well stored with Salmon and other Fish 76. Water-mills for the Grinding of Corn on the aforesaid Rivers 25. Cole-mines which yield abundance of Fuell for the whole County 3. Forges for the making of Iron and Stone enough for the same And within the same limits as much sport and pleasure for Hunting Hawking Fishing and Fowling as in any place of England besides Naturall Commodities Geat A word of the name colour vertues and usefulness thereof In Latine it is called Gagates as different in nature as alike in name to the precious stone called Gagites onely found in an Eagles nest whence our English word Geat is deduced But be it remembred that the Agate vastly distinct from Geat is also named Gagates It is found in this County towards the sea side in the clefts of the rocks whose gaping chaps are filled up therewith It is naturally of a reddish and rusty colour till it becomes black and bright by polishing Indeed the lustre consists in the blackness thereof Negroes have their beauties as well as fair folk and vulgar eyes confound the inlayings made of black Marble polished to the height with Touch Geat and Ebony though the three former be stones the last a kind of wood The vertues of Geat are hitherto conceal'd It is the lightest of all solid not porous stones and may pass for the Embleme of our memories attracting trifles thereto and letting slip matters of more moment Rings are made thereof fine foyles to fair fingers and bracelets with beads here used for Ornament beyond sea for Devotion also small utensills as Salt-cellars and the like But hear how a Poet describes it Nascitur in Lycia lapis a prope gemma Gagates Sed geââ¦us eximium faecunda Britania mittit Lucidus niger est levis laevicssimusi idem Vicinas paleas trahit attritu calefactus Ardet aquâ lotus restinguitur unctus olivo Geat a stone and kind of gemm In Lycia grows but best of them Most fruitfull Britain sends 't is bright And black and smooth and very light If rubb'd to heat it easily draws Unto it self both chaffe and straws Water makes it fiercely flame Oyle doth quickly quench the same The two last qualities some conceive to agree better to our sea-coal then Geat whence it is that some stiffly maintain that those are the Brittish Gagates meant by forraign Authors and indeed if preciousness of stones be measured not from their price and rarity but usefulness they may be accounted precious But hereof formerly in the Bishoprick of Durham Alume This was first found out nigh Geââ¦burgh in this County some sixty years since by that worthy and learned Knight Sir Thomas Chaloner Tutor to Prince Henry on this occasion He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then elsewhere the Oakes broad-spreading but not deep-rooted with much strength but little sap the earth clayish variously coloured here White there Yellowish there Blew and the ways therein in a clear night glistering like glass symptoms which first suggested unto him the presumption of Minerals and of Alum most properly Yet some years interceded betwixt the discovery and perfecting thereof some of the Gentry of the Vicinage burying their estates here under earth before the Alum could be brought to its true consistency Yea all things could not fadge with them untill they had brought not to say stolÅ over three prime workmen in Hogsheads from Rochel in France whereof one Lambert Russell by name and a Walloon by birth not long since deceased But when the work was ended it was adjudged a Mine Royal and came at last to be rented by Sir Paul Pindar who paid yearly To The King 12500. The Earl of Moulgrave 01640. Sir William Penniman 00600. Besides large salaries to numerous Clarks and daily wages to Rubbish-men Rockmen Pit-men and House-men or Fire-men so that at one time when the Mines were in their Majesty I am credibly informed he had in pay no fewer then eight hundred by sea and land
not know and dare not too curiously inquire left I turn their mirth among themselves into anger against me Sure it is seated in a fruitful soyl and cheap Country and where good chear and company are the Premisses mirth in common consequence will be the Conclusion Which if it doth not trespass in time cause and measure Heraclitus the sad Philosopher may perchance condemn but Saint Hilary the good Father will surely allow Princes HENRY youngest son to William Duke of Normandy but eldest to King William the Conquerour by whom he was begotten after he was Crowned King on which politick ãâã he claim'd and gain'd the Crown from Duke Robert his eldest brother was Anno Dom. 1070. born at Selbey in this County If any ask what made his Mother travail so far North from London know it was to enjoy Her Husbands company who to prevent insurrections and settle peace resided many months in these parts besides his peculiar affection to Selby where after he founded a MitredAbby This Henry was bred say some in Paris say others in Cambridge and I may safely say in both wherein he so profited that he attained the Surname of Beauclerke His learning may be presumed a great advantage to his long and prosperous raign for thirty five years and upwards wherein he remitted the Norman rigour and restored to His subjects a great part of the English Laws and Liberties Indeed his princely vertues being profitable to all did with their lustre so dazle the eyes of his subjects that they did not see his personall vices as chiefly prejudicial to himself For he was very wanton as appeareth by his numerous natural issue no fewer then fourteen all by him publickly owned the males highly advanced the females richly married which is justly reported to his praise it being lust to beget but love to bestow them His sobriery otherwise was admirable whose temperance was of proof against any meat objected to his appetite Lampreys alone excepted on a surfeit whereof he died Anno Domini 1135. He had onely two children William dying before and Maud surviving him both born in Normandy and therefore omitted in our Catalogue THOMAS Fifth son of King Edward the first and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife was born at and surnamed from Brotherton a small Village in this County June 1. Anno Dom. 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolke and Earl Marshall of England He left no male-issue but from his females the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolke and from them the Earls of Arundel and Lords Berkeley are descended RICHARD PLANTAGENET Duke of York commonly is called Richard of Conisborrow from the Castle in this Shire of his nativity The Reader will not grudge him a place amongst our Princes if considering him fixed in his Generation betwixt an Antiperistasis of Royal extraction being Son to a Son of a King Father to the Father of a King Edmund of Langley Duke of York Richard Duke of York Fifth son to K. Edward 3. Father to King Edward 4. Besides he had married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer the true Inheritrix of the Crown But tampering too soon and too openly to derive the Crown in his Wives right to himself by practising the death of the present King he was taken and beheaded for treason in the raign of K. Henry the fifth EDWARD sole son to King Richard the third and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham near Richmond in this County and was by his father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a child of as much hopes as his Father a man of hatred But he consumed away of a suddain dying within a month of his Mother King Richard little lamenting the loss of either and presently projecting to repair himself by a new Marriage The untimely death of this Prince in respect of the terme to which by Naturall possibility he might have attained in his innocent age is generally beheld as a punishment on him for the faults of his Father The Tongue foreswears the Ears are cut off the Hand steals the Feet are stocked and that justly because both consisting of the same body And because Proles est pars parentis it is agreeable with divine justice to inflict on Children temporal judgements for defaults of their Parents Yet this judgment was a mercy to this Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of his Father Let me adde and a mercy also to all England For had he survived to a mans estate he might possibly have proved a wall of partition to hinder the happy union of the two houses of York and Lancaster Saints HILDA was daughter unto Prince Hererick nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland and may justly be counted our English Huldah not so much for sameness of sex and name-sounding similitude as more concerning conformities Huldah lived in a Colledge Hilda in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County Huldah was the Oracle of those times as Hilda of her age being a kind of a Moderatresse in a Saxon Synod or conference rather called to compromise the controversie about the celebration of Easter I behold her as the most learned English Female before the Conquest and may call her the She-Gamaliel at whose feet many Learned men had their education She ended her holy life with an happy death about the year of our Lord 680. BENEDICT BISCOP was born saith Pitz amongst the East Saxons saith Hierome Porter in Yorkshire whom I rather believe First because writing his life ex professo he was more concerned to be curious therein Secondly because this Benedict had much familiarity with and favour from Oswy King of Northumberland in whose Dominions he fixed himself building two Monasteries the one at the influx of the river Were the other at the river Tine into the sea and stocking them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Moncks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies In the former is driven on as great a Trade of Cheating as in any earthly Commodity in so much that I admire to meet with this passage in a Jesuite and admire more that he Met not with the Inquisition for writing it Addam * nonnunquam in Tem plis reliquias dubias profana corpora pro Sanctorum qui cum Christo in Coelo regnant exuviis sacris fuisse proposita He left Religion in England Braver but not better then he found it Indeed what Tully said of the Roman Lady That she danced better then became a modest woman was true of Gods Service as by him adorned the Gaudiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof He made all things according not to the Patern in the Mount with Mose's but the Precedent of Rome and his Convent being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed In a word I reverence his Memory
the Chequer and afterwards Treasurer of England and twice Embassadour to the King of France He deserved right well of his own Cathedrall and dying October 31. 1228. was buried under a Marble Tombe on the South-side of the Presbytery WILLIAM de MELTON was born in this County wherein are four villages so named and preferred therein Provost of Beverly and Canon then Arch-bishop of York He went to Avinion there to procure his Consecration I say to Avinion whither then the Court was removed from Rome and continued about threescore and ten years on the same token that those remaining at Rome almost starved for want of employment called this the seventy years captivity of Babilon Consecrated after two years tedious Attendance he returned into England and fell to finish the fair fabrick of his Cathedrall which John Roman had began expending seven hundred Marks therein His life was free from Scandall signall for his Chastity Charity Fasting and Praying He strained up his Tenants so as to make good Musick therewith but not break the string and surely Church-lands were intended though not equally yet mutually for the comfortable support both of Landlord and Tenants Being unwilling that the Infamy of Infidell should be fixed upon him according to the Apostles Doctrine for not providing for his family he bought three Mannors in this County from the Arch-bishop of Roan with the Popes Confirmation and setled them on his Brothers Son whose Descendant William Melton was High-sheriff of this County in the Fiftieth of King Edward the third There is a Place in York as well as in London called the Old-baly herein more remarkable then that in London that Arch-bishop Melton compassed it about with a great Wall He bestowed also much cost in adorning Feretrum English it the Bear or the Coffin of Saint William a Person purposely omitted by my Pen because no assurance of his English Extraction Arch-bishop Melton dyed after he had sate two and twenty years in his See Anno Domini 1340. Entombed in the Body of his Church nigh the Font whereby I collect him buried below in the Bottom of the Church that Instrument of Christian Initiation antiently advancing but a little above the Entrance into the Church HENRY WAKEFEILD is here placed with Assurance there being three Towns of that name in and none out of this County Indeed his is an Episcopall Name which might mind him of his Office the Diocess of Worcester to which he was preferred Anno 1375. by King Edward the third being his Field and he by his place to Wake or watch over it Nor hear I of any complaints to the contrary but that he was very vigilant in his Place He was also for one year Lord Treasurer of England Dying March 11. 1394. he lyeth covered in his own Church Ingenti marmore and let none grudge him the greatness of his Grave-stone if two foot larger then ordinary who made the Body of this his Church two Arches longer Westward then he found it besides a fair Porch added thereunto RICHARD SCROOPE son to the Lord Scroope of Bolton in this County brother to William Earl of Wilt-shire was bred a Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge attaining to be a man of great learning and unblamable life Nor was it so much his high extraction as his own Abilities causing him to be preferred Bishop first of Coventry and Lichfield then Arch-bishop of York Being netled with the news of his Earl-brothers Beheading he conjoyned with the Earl of Northumberland the Earl Marshall Lord Bardolph and others against King Henry the fourth as an Usurper and Invader of the Liberties of Church and State The Earl of Westmerland in outward deportment complied with him and seemed to approve a Writing wherein his main intentions were comprised so to Trepan him into his destruction Toling him on till it was too late for him either to advance or retreat the King with his Army being at Pontfract Bishop Godwin saith it doth not appear that he desired to be tried by his Peers and I believe it will appear that nothing was then Calmly or Judiciously transacted but all being done in an hurry of heat and by Martiall Authority The Executioner had five strokes at his Neck before he could sunder it from his Body Imputable not to his Cruelty but Ignorance it not being to be expected that one nigh York should be so dextrous in that trade as those at London His beheading happened Anno 1405. STEPHEN PATRINGTON was born in the Village so called in the East-riding of this County He was bred a Carmelite and Doctor of Divinity in Oxford and the three and twentieth Provinciall of his Order through out England for fifteen years It is incredible saith Leland what Multitudes of People crowded to his Sermons till his Fame preferred him Chaplain and Confessour to King Henry the fifth He was deputed of the King Commissioner at Oxford to enquire after and make Process against the Poor Wicklevites and as he was busyed in that employment he was advanced to the Bishoprick of Saint Davids Hence he was sent over to the Councill of Constance and therein saith Walsingham gave great Testimony of his ability Returning into England he was made Bishop of Chichester but dying before his Translation was finished 1417. was buried in White-fryars in Fleetstreet WILLIAM PEIRCY was Son to Henry Peircy second Earl of Northumberland of that Name and Eleanour Nevill his Wife Indeed the Son of a Publique Woman conversing with many men cannot have his Father certainly assigned and therefore is commonly called Filius Populi As a base child in the Point of his Father is subject to a shamââ¦full so is the Nativity of this Prelate as to the Place thereof attended with an Honorable Uncertainty whose Noble Father had so many houses in the Northern Parts that his Son may be termed a Native of North-England but placed in this County because Topliffe is the Principall and most Antient seat of this Family He was bred a Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge whereof he was Chancellour and had a younger Brother George Peircy a Clerk also though attaining no higher preferment then a Prebend in Beverly Our William was made Bishop of Carlile 1452. Master Mills erroneously maketh him afterwards Bishop of Wells and it is enough to detect the mistake without disgracing the Mistaker He died in his See of Carlile 1462. CUTHBERT TONSTALL was born at Hatchforth in Richmond-shire in this County of a most Worshipfull Family whose chief seat at Tonstall Thurland not far off and bred in the University of Cambridge to which he was in books a great Benefactor He was afterwards Bishop of London and at last of Durham A great Grecian Orator Mathematician Civilian Divine and to wrap up all in a word a fast friend to Erasmus In the raign of King Henry the eight he publiquely confuted the papall supremacy in a learned Sermon with various and solid arguments preached on
his own charge chased away the French-man relieved the English and took sixââ¦y of the French Prisoners He removed afterwards to Virginia to view those parts and afterwards came into England and obtained from King Charles who had as great an esteem of and affection for him as King James a Patent to him and his Heirs for Mary-land on the North of Virginia with the same Title and Royalties conferred on him as in Avalon aforesaid now a hopeful Plantation peopled with eight thousand English souls which in processe of time may prove more advantagious to our Nation Being returned into England he died in London April 15. 1632. in the 53. year of his age lying buried in the Chancel of S. Dunstans in the West leaving his Son the Right Honourable Cecil Calvert now Lord Baltemore heir to his Honour Estate and Noble Disposition THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of Strafford Deputy though Son to William Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse in this County Esq at his Sons birth afterward Baronet yet because born in Chancery-Lane and Christned April 22. Anno 1593. in Saint Dunstans in the West hath his Character in London Seamen ARMIGELL WAAD born of an ancient Family in York-shire as I am informed from his Epitaph on his monument at Hampstead in Midlesex wherein he is termed Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Regum Secretiori consilio ab epistolis which I took the boldnesse to interpret not Secretary but Clerk of the Councel Take the rest as it followeth in his Funeral Inscription Qui in maximarum Artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britannos Indicarum Americarum explorator primus Indeed he was the first Englishman that discovered America and his several voyages are largely described in Mr. Hackluite his Travels This English COLUMBUS had by two Wives twenty Children whereof Sir William Waad was the eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Councel to Queen Elizabeth This Armigel died June 20. 1568. and was buried as is aforesaid MARTIN FROBISHER Kt. was born nigh Doncaster in this County I note this the rather because learned Mr. Carpenter in his Geography recounts him amongst the famous men of Devonshire But why should Devon-shire which hath a flock of Worthies of her own take a Lamb from another County because much conversing therein He was from his youth bred up in Navigation and was the first Englishman that discovered the North way to China and Cathai whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it Silver or Gold Ore but which upon trial with great expence prov'd uselesse yet will no wise man laugh at his mistake because in such experiments they shall never hit the mark who are not content to ãâã it He was very valiant but withal harsh and violent faults which may be dispensed with in one of his profèssion and our Chronicles loudly resouââ¦d his signal service in Eighty Eight for which he was Knighted His last service was the defending of Brest-Haven in Britain with ten ships against a far greater power of Spaniards Here he was shot into the side the wound not being mortal in it self But Swords and Guââ¦s have not made more mortal wounds than Probes in the hands of carelesse and skillesse Chirurgeons as here it came to passe The Chirurgeon took out only the Bullet and left the bumbast about it behind wherewith the sore festered and the worthy Knight died at Plimoââ¦th Anno 1594. GEORGE CLIFFORD Lord Clifford Vescye c. Earl of Cumberland was son to Henry second Earl of that Family by his second Lady a person wholly composed of true Honour and Valour whereof he gave the world a clear and large demonstration It was resolved by the judicious in that age the way to humble the Spanish greatnesse was not by pinching and pricking him in the Low-Countries which only emptied his veins of such blood as was quickly re-filled But the way to make it a Cripple for ever was by cutting off the Spanish sinews of War his Money from the West Indies In order whereunto this Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost and adventured his own person therein being the best born Englishman that ever hazarded himselfe in that kind His Fleet may be said to be bound for no other Harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto I say touching whose design was not to enrich himself but impoverish the enemy He was as merciful as valiant the best metal bows best and left impressions of both in all places where he came Queen Elizabeth Anno 1592. honoured him with the dignity of the Garter When King James came first out of Scotland to York he attended him with such an equipage of Followers for number and habit that he seemed rather a King than Earl of Cumberland Here happened a contest between the Earl and the Lord President of the North about carrying the Sword before the King in York which office upon due search and enquiry was adjudged to the Earl as belonging unto him and whilest Cliffords Tower is standing in York that Family will never be therein forgotten His Anagram was as really as litterally true Georgius Cliffordius Cumberlandius Doridis regno clarus cum vi fââ¦lgebis He died 1605. leaving one Daughter and Heir the Lady Anne married to the Earl of Dorset of whom hereafter Physicians Sir GEORGE RIPLEY whether Knight or Priest not so soon decided was undoubtedly born at Ripley in this County though some have wrongfully entituled Surry to his Naââ¦vity That York-shire was the place of his birth will be evidenced by his relation of Kindred reckoned up by himself viz. 1. ãâã 2. Ripleâ⦠3. Madlay 4. VVilloughby 5. Burham 6. VVaterton 7. Flemming 8. Talboyes Families found in York-shire and Lincoln-shire but if sought for in Surrey to be met with at Nonesuch Secondly it appeareth by his preferment being Canon of Bridlington in this County and to clear all In patria Eboracensi saith my Author But Philemon Holland hath not only erroniously misplaced but which is worse opprobriously miscalled him in his description of Surrey In the next Village of Ripley was born G. de Ripley a ringleader of our Alchimists and a mystical Impostor Words not appearing in the Latine Britannia and therefore Holland herein no Translator of Cambden but traducer of Ripley Leaving this Land he went over into Italy and there studied twenty years together in pursuance of the Philosophers Stone and ââ¦ound it in the year 1470. as some collect from those his words then written in his Book Juveni quem diligit anima mea spoken by the Spouse Cant. 3. 4. so bold is he with Scripture in that kind An English Gentleman of good credit reported that in his travels abroad he saw a Record in the Isle of Malta which declares that Sir George Ripley gave yearly to those Knights of Rhodes
years together assistant to the English Arch Priest demeaning himself commendably therein he wrote many books and one whose title made me the more to mind it Vitam Martyrium D. Margaretae Clithoroae Now whether this D. be for Domina or Diva for Lady or Saint or both I know not I take her for some Gentlewoman in the North which for some practises in the maintenance of her own Religion was obnoxious to and felt the severity of our Laws This Mush was living in these parts Anno 1612. Benefactors to the Publick THOMAS SCOT was born at Roââ¦heram no obscure market in this County waving his paternall name he took that of Roââ¦heram from the place of his Nativity This I observe the rather because he was according to my exactest enquiry the last Clergy-man of note with such an assumed Surname which Custome began now to grow out of fashion and Clergy-men like other men to be called by the name of their fathers He was first Fellow of Kings-colledge afterwards Master of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge and Chancellour of that University here he built on his proper cost saving something help'd by the Scholars the fair gate of the School with fair walks on each side and a Library on the East thereof Many have mistaken this for the performance of King Richard the third meerly because his Crest the Boar is set up therein Whereas the truth is that Rotheram having felt the sharp Tuskes of that Boar when imprisoned by the aforesaid King for resigning the Great Seal of England to Queen Elizabeth the relict of King Edward the fourth advanced his Armes thereon meerly to engratiate himself He went thorough many Church preferments being successively Provost of Beverly Bishop of Rochester Lincoln and lastly Arch-bishop of York nor less was was his share in Civil honour first Keeper of the Privy Seal and last Lord Chancellour of England Many were his Benefactions to the Publique of which none more remarkable then his founding five Fellowships in Lincoln colledge in Oxford He deceased in the 76. year of his age at Cawood of the plague Anno Domini 1500. JOHN ALCOCKE was born at Beverly in this County where he built a Chappell and founded a Chantry for his parents He was bred a Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge and at last became Bishop of Ely his prudence appeared in that he was preferred Lord Chancellour of England by King Henry the seventh a Prince of an excellent palate to tast mens Abilities and a Dunce was no dish for his diet His piety is praised by the pen of J. Bale which though generally bitter drops nothing but honey on Alcocks Memory commending him for a most mortified man Given to Learning and Piety from his Child-hood growing from grace to grace so that in his age none in England was higher for holiness He turned the old Nunnery of Saint Radigund into a new Colledge called Jesus in Cambridge surely had Malcolm King of Scots first founder of that Nunnery survived to see this alteration it would have rejoyced his heart to behold Leudness and Laziness turned out for Industry and Piety to be put in their place This Alcock died October 1. 1500. And had Saintship gone as much by merit as favour he deserved one as well as his name-sake Saint John his predecessor in that See Since the Reformation The extent of this large Province and the distance of my Habitation from it have disabled me to express my desires suitable to the merit thereof in this Topick of Modern Benefactors which I must leave to the Topographers thereof hereafter to uspply my defaults with their diligence But let me forget my self when I doe not remember the worthy charitable Master ....... Harrison inhabitant of the Populous Town of Leeds so famous for the Cloath made therein Methinks I hear that great Town accosting him in the Language of the Children of the Prophets to Elisha Behold now the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us The Church could scarce hold half the inhabitants till this worthy gentleman provided them another So that now the men of Leeds may say with Isaack Rehoboth God hath made room for us He accepted of no assistance in the building of that fair Fabrick but what he fully paid for so that he may be owned the sole Founder thereof But all his Charity could not secure him from sequestration in our Troublesome Times All I will adde is this as he hath built a House for God may God in Scripture Phrase build a House for him I mean make him fruitfull and fortunate in his posterity Memorable Persons PAULINUS DE LEEDS born in this County where there be three Towns of that name in one Wapentake It is uncertain in which of these he was born and the matter is of no great concernment One so free from Simony and far from buying a Bishoprick that when a Bishoprick bought him he refused to accept it For when King Henry the second chose him Bishop of Carlisle and promised to increase the Revenue of that Church with three hundred mark yearly rent besides the grant of two Church livings and two Mannors near to Carlisle on the condition that this Paulinus would accept the place all this would not work him to imbrace so wealthy an offer The reasons of his refusall are rendred by no Author but must be presumed very weighty to overpoise such rich proffers on which account let none envy his name a Room in this my Catalogue He flourished about the year of our Lord 1186. WILLIAM DE LA POLE born at Ravensrode in this County was for wealth and skill in Merchandize inferiour to none in England he made his abode at Kingston upon Hull and was the first Mayor of that Town When K. Edward the third was at Antwââ¦rp and much necessitated for money no shame for a Prince always in War to be sometimes in want this William lent him many thousand pounds of gold In recompence whereof the King made him his Valect equivalent to what afterward was called Gentleman of the Bed-chamber and Lord Chief-Baron of his Exchequer with many other honours Amongst which this was one that he should be reputed a Banneret not that he was really made one seeing the flourishing of a Banner over his head in the field before or after a fight was a ceremony essentiall thereunto but he had the same precedency conferred upon him I find not the exact date of his death but conjecture it to be about the year 1350. Lord Mayor Name Father Place Company Time 1 William Eastfield William Eastfield Tickell Mercer 1429 2 John Ward Richard Ward Howdon Grocer 1484 3 William White William White Tickhill Draper 1489 4 John Rudstone Robert Rudstone Hatton Draper 1528 5 Ralph Dodmer Henry Dodmer Pickering leigh Mercer 1529 6 William Roch John Roch Wixley Draper 1540 7 Richard Dobbes Robert Dobbes Baitby Skinner 1551 8 William Hewet Edmund Hewet Wales
Cloth-worker 1559 9 John Hart Ralph Hart Sproston Court Grocer 1589 10 Richard Saltonstall Gilbert Saltonstall Hallyfax Skinner 1597 11 William Cravon William Cravon Apletreewick Merchant-Tayler 1610 The Names of the Gentry of this County Returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth John Arch-bishop of York Commissioners Richard Earl of Salisbury  Edmund Darel Knight Knights for the Shire Robert Hopton Knight Knights for the Shire Tho. Sayvell chiv Rob. Umbtred chiv Hen. Bonnflete chiv Radul Graystock chi Edm. Hastings chiv Radul Bulmer chiv Will. Plumton chiv Ioh. Sempest chiv Ioh. Melton chiv Edm. Talbot chiv Ioh. Saltvain chiv Will. Gascoigne chiv Ant. de Sancto Quintino arm Ioh. Constable de Halsham arm Will. Inhidby de Riplay Hen. Vavasor de Hesiwood arm Tho. Metham de Grymston arm Ioh. Perchay de Ritton arm Radul Pudsay de Craven arm Tho. Saltmarsh de Saltmarsh Tho. Nuthill de Riston ar Tho. Constable de Cotfosse ar Tho. Darcy de Newsted ar Nich. Ashton de Heton ar Alex. Lonnde de Southcave ar Will. Ardern de Belthorp ar Rich. Redmain de Harwod ar Will. Moncheux de Barnstone ar Ioh. Routh de Routh arm Tho. Gray de Barton arm Radul Stanfeld ar Rog. Tempest de Broughton ar Tho. Clarell de Steton senioris ar Will. Birton de Snapethorp ar Ioh. Manston de Manston ar Tho. Trollop de Carethorp ar Will. Hastings de Roncheby ar Ioh. Conyers de Cleveland ar Rob. Lambton de Nunthorp ar Ioh. Banaster de Wakefeld ar Rob. Pylkinton de Ayrenden ar Ioh. Midleton de Lonesdale ar Tho. Radecliffe de Bradley ar Tho. Redneyne de Lonesdale ar Will. Thorton de Lonesdale ar Tho. Manncell de Burford ar Iac. Metcalfe de Worsleydale ar Rob. Hynkersell de Parochia de Roderham Gent. Ioh. Hutton de Thrysk Yeom Will. de Stokdale de Richmondshire Yeo. Rob. Satyâ⦠de Rich. mondshire Yeom Bayn Tennand de Craven Yeom Tho. Goll de Grysthewayt Yeom Rog. Tenand de Longstrath Yeom Tho. Swelting dâ⦠Newhall in parochia de Spoford Yeom Here is a very slender return of Gentry hardly worth the inserting and bearing no proportion to the extent and Populousness of the Province The Reader may remember how the main design driven on in this Enquiry was whatever was pretended to detect such as favoured the Title of the House of York Now the Gentry of this County were generally addicted to that Party which made them so remiss in this matter slightly slubbering it over doing something for shew and nothing to purpose And this being the last Catalogue which occurreth in this kind we will here take Our farewell of the English Gentry The worst I wish our English Gentry is that by Gods blessing on their thrift they may seasonably out-grow the sad impressions which our Civil Wars have left in their estates in some to the shaking of their Contenument I could wish also that for the future they would be more carefull in the Education of their children to bring them up in Learning and Religion for I suspect that the observation of forraigners hath some smart truth therein that English-men by making their children Gentlemen before they are men cause they are so seldome Wise-men Indeed Learning whatever is fondly fancied to the contrary is no more a burden to the bearer thereof then it is cumbersome for one to carry his head on his own shoulders And seeing Gentry alone is no Patrimony which as the plain Proverb saith sent to Market will not buy a Bushell of Wheat it is good even for those of the best birth to acquire some Liberall quality which in case of casualty may serve them for a safe second and besteed them toward the attaining of a Livelyhood I could name the Scotch Nobleman who having lost his Land and Honour through the default of his father in the raign of King James maintained himself compleatly by the practice of Physick and Chimistry much in my mind to his commendation And it is reported to the praise of the Scotch Nobility that antiently they all were very dextrous at Surgery and particularly it is recorded of James the fourth King of Scotland quod vulnera scientissimè tractavit that he was most skilfull in handling of wounds It is good also for those of great Descent to acquaint themselves with Labour not knowing what evil may be on the Earth and the Romans all know did chuse their wise men not by their white but hard hands whence the name of Callidi took it's denomination But above all Religion is the greatest ornament without which all Emblemes of Ancestry are but Putamina Nobilitatis The husks and empty shells of Nobility Yea when a fair Coat of Armes belong to one of foul manners it is so far from being a Credit unto him that such Armes give the Lye to the bearer thereof as Tacitly upbraiding him for being unworthy of his own extraction Sheriffs HEN. II. Anno 1 Bartraneus de Bullemer for 9 years Anno 10 RECORDA MANCA to the end of this Kings raign RICH. I. Anno 1 Randul de Glanvil Anno 2 Osbert de Longo Campo Ioh. Marest Anno 3 Osbert de Longo Campo Anno 4 Hugo Burdulf Hugo de Bobi Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Idem Anno 7 Galfr. Episc. Ebor. Roger. de Batwent for 7 years JOH REX Anno 1 Galfr. filius Petri Ia. de Petem Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Will. de Stutevill Will Breto Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Galfr. filius Will. de Percy Rad. de Normanvite Anno 6 Rob. de Lasei Constabular Cestr. Rob. Walusis for 6 years Anno 12 Gilb. filius Remfr Hen. de Rademan sive Radanor for 4 years Anno 16 Rob. de Percy Hen. de Middleton Anno 17 Petr. filius Herberti Rich. de Hussebene HEN. III. Anno 1 Anno 2 Galfr. de Heonel Simon de Hales Anno 3 Idem Anno 4 Galf. de Nevill Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Galfr. de Nevill Simon de Hall Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Simon de Hall Anno 9 Eustacius de Ludham Anno 10 ââ¦dem Anno 11 Rob. de Rokefeld Anno 12 Idem Anno 13 ââ¦dem Anno 14 Will. de Stutevill Phil. de Assell Anno 15 Idem Anno 16 Idem Anno 17 Petr. de Rixall Anno 18 Brianus de Insula Anno 19 Ioh. filius Galfridi Anno 20 Idem Anno 21 Brianus filius Alani Roger. de Stapleton Anno 22 Idem Anno 23 Briand filius Alani Nich. de Molis Will de Middleton Anno 24 Nich. de Molis Anno 25 Iââ¦em Anno 26 Idem Anno 27 Hen. de Bada for 4 years Anno 31 Hen. Batthen Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Will. Daker Anno 34 Rob. de Creping Anno 35 Idem Anno 36 Will. Daker Anno 37 Rob. de Creping Anno 38 Will. de Horsenden Anno 39 Will. de Latymeâ⦠Anno 40 Will. de Latymer for 4
Chri. Hilliard ar  Az. a Cheveron betwixt 3 mullets Or. 13 Tho. Fairfax ar ut prius  14 Ioh. Dawney ar ut prius  15 Marm. Constable m. ut prius  16 Will. Bellasis mil. Newborogh Arg. a Cheveron Gu. betwixt 3 flower de luces Az. 17 Tho. Danby mil. ut prius  18 Tho. Boynton ar Barmstone Or. a Fess between 3 Cressents Gules 19 Will. Fairfax ar ut prius  20 Cl. Wondsworth ar Kirklington  21 Rich. Goodrich ar Ribton Arg. on a Fess G. twixt 2 Lions pas Gard. S. a flour de luce of the first between 2 Cressents O. Arg. a Lion Rampant Sable 22 Rad. Burcher ar   23 Rob. Stapleton mi.   24 Tho. Wentworth m. ut prius  25 Got. Gargrave mil. ut prius  26 Ioh. Hotham mil. ut prius  27 Bri. Stapleton ar ut prius  28 Hen. Constable m. ut prius  29 Rob. Aske  Or 3 Barralets Azure 30 Rich. Maleverer ut prius  31 Io. Dawney mil. ut prius  32 Phil. Constable ar ut prius  33 Rich. Goodrick ar ut prius  34 Will. Mallery Ripley Or a Lion Ramp queve forchee G. collard Ar. 35 Rad. Eure ar primogen Domini Eure ut prius  36 Fran. Vaughan ar ut prius  37 Chri. Hilliard ar ut prius  38 Fran. Boynton ar ut prius  39 Tho. Lassells ar  Sable a Cross Flurt Or. 40 Marm. Gââ¦imston ar  Arg. on a Fess Sable 3 mullets of 6 points Or. 41 Rob. Swift ar * Doncaster  42 Fran. Clifford ar ut prius * Or a Cheveron Varry twixt 3 Roebucks coursant proper 43 Will Wentworth ar ut prius  44 Tho. Strickland ar   45 Hen. Bellasis mil. ut priâ⦠ JAC. REX   Anno   1 Hen. Bellasis mil. ut prius  2 Rich. Gargrave m. ut prius  3 Will Banburgh m Howson Arg. a Pheon on a Cheife Sab. a Lion Passant of the first 4 Hen. Griffeth mil. ut prius  5 Tim. Hutton mil. Mask  6 Hug. Bethell mil. Alne Ar. a Cheveron between 3 Boars-heads ãâã S. 7 Fran. Hildsley mil.   8 Tho. Dawney mil. ut prius  9 Hen. Slingââ¦by mil.  See our Notes 10 Chri. Hilliard mil. ut prius  11 Geo. Savill m. bar ut prius  12 Io. Armitage ar Kerkles Az. a Lions-head Erased between 3 Croslets Or. 13 Edw. Stanhop mil.  Quarterly Ermine and Gules 14 Mith. Warton m. Beverly Or on a Cheveron Azâ⦠a Maââ¦let betwixt 2 Pheons of the first 15 Rob. Swift m. ut prius  16 Will. Alford mil. Bilton Gules 6 Pears and a Cheif Or. 17 Arth. Ingram m.  Erm. on a Fess Gu. 3 Escallops Or. 18 Tho. Odwer m. b.   19 Rich. Tempest mil. ut prius  20 Guid. Palmes mil. Lindley G. 3 flour de luces Arg. a Cheif Varry 21 Hen. Ienkins mil.   22 Rich. Cholmeley m. ut prius  CAR. REX   Anno   1 Tho. Wentworth ãâã ãâã ut prius  2 Tho. Norcliff mil. Manythorp Azure 5 Mascles in Cross Or a Cheif Erm. 3 Tho. Fairfax mil. ut prius  4 Math. Boynton mil. bar ut prius  5 Art Ingram jun. m. ut prius  6 Io. Gibson mil.   7 Tho. Laton mil. Lat n Aâ⦠a Cheveron betwixt 3 Cross. Crosleââ¦s Fetchee Sable 8 Arth. Robinson m. Newby  9 Mar. Wyvell mil. bar Custable Burton G 3 Cheverons braced Varry a Cheif Or. 10 Ioh Hotham m b. ut prius  11 Will. Pennyman b. Maske G. a Cheveron Erminâ⦠bewixt 3 Spear-heads Aââ¦g 12 Ioh. Ramsden mil Byram Ar. on a Cheu betwixt 3 flower de luces S. asmany Rames heads cooped of the first Henry IV. 8 THOMAS ROKEBY Mil. I may call him Sir Thomas junior in distinction from an Elder probably his Ancestor of his Name of whom in the 17. of King Edward the third This Sir Thomas in this year of his Sherivalty acquitted himself Loyall and Valiant against Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolfe who returning out of Scotland with considerable Forces began a War against the King both which Sir Thomas at Bareham-more in this County overcame and took Prisoners A service the more remarkable because performed by the sole assistance of this Shire and quenching the fire in the first spark he presented the King with a Cheap Suddain and Seasonable Victory Henry V. 8 HALVATHEUS MAULEVER Mil. Or Mal levorer in Latine Malus Leporarius or the Bad Hare-ââ¦unter A Gentleman of this County being to let slip a brace of Grey-hounds to run for a great wager Tradition is the Author so held them in the Swinge that they were more likely to strangle themselves then kill the Hare whereupon this Surname was fixed on his family I doubt not but many of this extraction are since as Dexterous in the Criticismes of hunting as any Nââ¦mrod whatsoever Henry VI. 11 HENRY BROMFLEET Miles In the next year he was sent with other Embassadors both of the Clergy and Layety to the Councill of Basill and after his return was by the King Created Lord Vescy in the right of his Mother Anastatia Daughter and Heir to William Atton Lord Vescy Mr. Camden observeth this Passage inserted in his Pattent unusual in that age Volumus vos Haerââ¦des vestros Masculos de corpore vestro legitimè Exeuntes Barones de Vescy ãâã Now though hereby the Barony of Vescy was intailed onely on his Heirs Male yet was the Kings Favour more extensive then his Patent in this Particular For this Henry leaving no Male-issâ⦠but Margaret his Sole Daughter and Heir married to John Lord Clifford father to Henry first Earl of Cumberland of that Sur-name She notwithstanding the Premises derived the Barony of Vescy into that Family which at this day they enjoy 22 EDMOND TALBOT Mil. This family of Talbots is though unrelated to the house of Shrewââ¦bury of right antient extraction seated in this Country ever since the time of King Henry the second As for this Edmond Talbot our present Sheriff who dyed in the first of ãâã Edward the fourth he was father to Sir Thomas Talbot one very zealous for the house of York and a servant to King Richard the third who bestowed an AÅnuity of 40 pounds by the year on him and his heirs for his good service as by the following Patent will appear Richardus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dom. Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem sciatis quod de gratia nostra speciali ac pro bono gratuito servitio quod dilectus serviens noster Thomas Talbot Miles in ââ¦aptur a magni adversarii nostri Henrici nuper de facto sed non de jure Regis Angliae nobis ac bonâ⦠Memoriae Regi Edwardi quarto
for many years by past were of any Eminency but either immediately or mediately were Apprentices unto him He was bred in York school where he was School-fellow with Guy Faux which I note partly to shew that Loyalty and Treason may be educated under the same Roof partly to give a check to the received opinion that Faux was a Fleming no Native English-man He was bred in Saint Johns-colledge in Cambridge and chosen Fellow thereof to a Fellowship to which he had no more Propriety then his own Merit before Eight Compââ¦titors for the place equally capable with himself and better befriended Commencing Doctor in Divinity he made his Position which though unusuall was Arbitrary and in his own power on his second Question which much defeated the expectatioâ⦠of Doctor Playfere replying upon him with some passion Commosââ¦i mihi stomachum To whom Morton return'd Gratulor tibi Reverende professor de bono tuo stomacho caenabis apud me hac nocte He was successively preferr'd Dean of Gloucester Winchester Bishop of Chester Coventry and Lichfield and Durham The Foundation which he laid of Forraign corre spondency with eminent persons of different perswasions when he attended as Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent by King James Embassadour to the King of Denmark and many Princes of Germany he built upon unto the Day of his Death In the late Long Parliament the displeasure of the House of Commons fell heavy upon him partly for subscribing the Bishops Protestation for their Votes in Parliament partly for refusing to resign the seal of his Bishoprick and baptizing a Daughter of John Earl of Rutland with the sign of the Cross two faults which compounded together in the judgement of honest and wise-men amounted to a High Innocence Yet the Parliament allowed him eight hundred pounds a year a proportion above any of his Brethren for his maintenance But alass the Trumpet of their Charity gave an uncertain sound not assigning by whom or whence this summe should be paid Indeed the severe Votes of the Parliament ever took full effect according to his observation who did Anagram it VOTED OUTED But their mercifull Votes found not so free performance However this good Bishop got a thousand pounds out of Goldsmiths-hall which afforded him his support in his old Age. The Neb of his Pen was unpartially divided into two equall Moyeties the one writing against Faction in defence of three Innocent Ceremonies the other against Superstition witness the Grand Impostor and other worthy works He solemnly proffered unto me pardon me Reader if I desire politiquely to twist my own with his Memory that they may both survive together in these sad times to maintain me to live with him which Courteous Offer as I could not conveniently accept I did thankfully ãâã Many of the Nobility deservedly honoured him though none more then John Earl of Rutland to whose Kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland he formerly ãâã been Chaplain But let not two worthy Baronets be forgotten Sir George Savill who so civilly paid him his purchased Annuity of two hundred pounds withall Proffered advantages and Sir Henry Yelveââ¦ton at whose house he dyed aged 95. at Easton-Manduit in Northampton shire 1659. For the rest the Reader is remitted to his life written largely and learnedly by Doctor John Barwick Dean of Durham States-men Sir ROBERT CAR was born in this City on this occasion Thomas Car his father Laird of Furnihurst a man of great lands and power in the South of Scotland was very active for Mary Queen of Scots and on that accompt forced to fly his land came to York Now although he had been a great inroder of England yet for some secret reason of State here he was permitted safe shelter duââ¦ing which time Robert his son was born this was the reason why the said Robert refused to be Naturalized by Act of our Parliament as needless for him born in the English Dominions I have read how his first making at Court was by breaking of his leg at a Tilting in London whereby he came first to the Cognizance of King James Thus a fair starting with advantage in the notice of a Prince is more then half the way in the race to his favour King James reflected on him whose Father was a kind of Confââ¦ssor for the cause of the Queen his Mother besides the Young Gentleman had a handsome person and a conveniency of desert Honors were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Sommerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. He was a well natured man not mischievous with his might doing himself more hurt then any man else For abate one foul fact with the appendance and consequences thereof notoriously known and he will appear deserving no foul Character to posterity but for the same he was banished the Court lived and dyed very privately about the year of our Lord 1638. Writers JOHN WALBYE was born in this City of honest Parentage He was bred an Augustinian Provinciall of his Order and Doctor of Divinity in Oxford A Placentious Person gaining the good-will of all with whom he conversed being also Ingenious Industrious Learned Eloquent Pious and Prudent Pitz writeth that after Alexander Nevell he was Chosen but never Confirmed Arch bishop of York an Honour reserved for Robert his Younger Brother of whom before But Bishop Godwin maketh no mention hereof which rendreth it suspicious The said Pitz maketh him actuall Arch-bishop of Dublin whilst Bale who being an Irish Bishop had the advantage of exacter Intelligence hath no such thing whence we may conclude it a Mistake The rather because this John is allowed by all to have died in this place of his Nativity 1393. Also I will adde this that though sharp at first against the Wickliffites he soon abated his own Edge and though present at a Council kept at Stanford by the King against them was not well pleased with all things transacted therein JOHN ERGHOM was born in this City an Augustinian by his profession Leaving York he went to Oxford where passing thorough the Arts he fixed at last in Divinity proving an admirable Preacher My Author tells me that sometimes he would utter nova inaudita whereat one may well wonder seeing Solomon hath said There is no nââ¦w thing under the Sun The truth is he renewed the custome of expounding Scripture in a typicall way which crouded his Church with Auditors seeing such ãâã preaching break 's no bones much pleased their fancy and little cross'd or curb'd their corruptions Indeed some but not all Scripture is capable of such comments and because metalls are found in Mountains it is madness to Mine for them in every rich Meadow But in expounding of Scripture when mens inventions out-run the Spirits intentions their swiftness is not to be praised but sawcyness to be punished This Erghom wrote many books and dedicated them to the Earl of Hereford the same with Edward Duke of Buckingham and flourished
under K. Henry the seventh Anno 1490. Since the Reformation RICHARD STOCK was born in this City bred Scholar of the house in Saint Johns-Colledge in Cambridge and designed Fellow of sidney though not accepting thereof He was afterwards Minister of All hallows Bredstreet in London by the space of thirty two years till the day of his death Where if in health he omitted not to Preach twice every Lords day with the approbation of all that were Judicious and Religious No Minister in England had his Pulpit supplyed by fewer Strangers Doctor Davenant afterwards Bishop of Sarum whose father was his parishioner was his constant Auditor while lying in London His Preaching was most profitable Converting many and Confirming more in Religion so that appearing with Comfort at the Day of Judgement he might say behold I and the Children that God hath given me He was zealous in his life a great Reformer of prophanations on the Sabbath prevailing with some companies to put off their wonted Festivalls from Mundays to Tuesdays that the Lords-day might not be abused by the preparation for such entertainments Though he preached oft in neighbouring Churches he never neglected his own being wont to protest That it was more Comfortable to him to win one of his own Parish then twenty others Preaching at Saint Pauls Cross when young it was ill taken at his mouth that he reproved the inequality of Rates in the City burdening the Poor to ease the Rich and he was called a Green head for his pains But being put up in his latter days to preach on the Lord Mayors Election and falling on the same subject He told them That a Gray head spake now what a Green-head had said before He dyed Aprill 20. Anno Domini 1626. with a great lamentation of all but especially of his Parishioners Memorable Persons JOHN LEPTON of York Esquire servant to King James undertook for a wager to ride six days together betwixt York and London being sevenscore and ten miles stylo vetere as I may say and performed it accordingly to the greater praise of his strength in acting then his discretion in undertaking it He first set forth from Aldersgate May 20. being Munday Anno Domini 1606. and accomplished his journey every day before it was dark A thing rather memorable then commendable many maintaining that able and active bodies are not to vent themselves in such vain though gainfull ostentation and that it is no better then tempting Divine Providence to lavish their strength and venture their lives except solemnly summoned thereunto by just necessity Lord Mayors Expect not Reader that under this Title I should present thee with a list of the Lord Mayors of this City born therein Onely to make this part conformable to the rest of my book know that I find one Native of this City Lord Mayor of London viz. Name Father Place Company Time 1 Martin Bowes Thomas Bowes York Goldsmith 1545 The Farewell To take our leaveof this Loyall City I desire that some Lucrative Trade may be set up therein to repair her former losses with advantage Mean time I rejoyce that the Archiepiscopat See is restored thereunto not despairing but that in due time if the Supream Authority adjudge it fit the Court of the Presidency of the North may be re-erected therein presuming the Country will be Eased and City Inriched thereby as the Loadstone which will atract much Company and by consequence Commodity thereunto Let me adde I am informed that Sir Thomas Widdrington a person accomplished in all Arts as well as in his own Profession of the Laws hath made great Progress in his Exact Description of this City Nor doe I more congratulate the happiness of York coming under so Able a Pen then Condole my own Infelicity whose unsuccessfull attendance hitherto could not compass speech with this worthy Knight Sure I am when this his work is set forth then indeed YORK SHALL BE what a City most compleatly Illustrated in all the Antiquities and Remarkables thereof FINIS THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES PSAL. 95. 4 5. In his hand are the deep places of the Earth the strength of the Hills is his also The Sea is his and he made it PROV 27. 25 26. The herbs of the Mountains are gathered The Lambs are for thy clothing and the Goats are the price of thy fields A NECESSARY PREFACE TO THE READER IT bare a debate in my serious consideration whether a Totall Omission or Defective Description of this Principality were to be preferred finding my self as Unable to do it Exactly as Unwilling to Pretermit it For First I never was in VVales and all know how necessary ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã is to accurateness herein Secondly I understand not their Language and cannot go to the Cost nor dare take the State of having an Interpreter King James was wont pleasantly to say that he cared not though he was poor himself so long as his Subjects were Rich as confident he could command their wealth on good conditions and a just occasion But indeed it matters not how meanly skil'd a Writer is so long as he hath Knowing and Communicative Friends my happiness in England who here am quite destitute of such assistance However on the other side a Totall Omission seemed very unhandsome to make a Cypher of this Large Principality Besides England cannot be well described without VVales such the Intimacy of Relation betwixt them three of our English Kings being born and many of Our Prime Atchievments being acted in VVales Wherefore I resolved to endeavour my utmost in the description thereof though sadly sensible in my self that my desires were as high as a Mountain but my performances would fall as low would they were half so fruitfull as the Vallies And here I humbly desire that the many faults by me committed may be like a Ball cast down and deaded on a soft Floor even to be buried in my own weakness to my own shame without the least Ripling or Rebounding to the disgrace of the VVelsh Country or Nation And my hope and desire is that these my weak pains will provoke others of more Ability to substitute a more Exact Description in the room thereof I had rather the Reader should take the name of that worthy Knight from Master Camden then from me who designing to build according to the Italian Mode of Architecture plucked down a good and convenient English-house preposterously destroying the one and never finished the other I hope the Reader will not be so uncharitable I will not say undiscreet but will allow our grains a subsistence till they will willingly vanish at the substitution of another In Doubtfull Nativities of Worthy Persons betwixt England and Wales I have not call'd for a sword to divide the controverted Child betwixt the two Mothers but have wholy resigned it to VVales partly out of desire of quietness not engage in a contest partly because I conceived England might better spare then
the artificial Tower thereof or for the Organs These were formerly most famous the more because placed in a Parochial no Cathedral Church for beauty bigness and tunableness though far short of those in worth which Michael Emperor of Constantinople caused to be made of pure Gold and beneath those in bigness which George the Salamitan Abbot made to be set up in the Church of his Convent whose biggest Pipe was eight and twenty foot long and four spans in compass The first Organ which was ever seen in the West of Europe was what was sent Anno 757. from Constantine the Grecian Emperor to Pipin King of France And their general use in Churches began about the year 828. I read that the form of this instrument was much improved by one Bernard a Venetian who was absolutely the best Musician in the World with addition of many Pipes thereunto What is become of Wrexham-Organs I know not and could heartily wish they had been removed into some Gentlemans house seeing such as accuse them for superstitious in Churches must allow them lawful in private places Otherwise such Moroso's deserve not to be owners of an articulate voice sounding thorough the Organ of a Throat But to return to the buildings in this County Holt Castle must not be forgotten How well ââ¦t is now faced and repaired without I know not I know when it was better lined within than any Subjects Castle I believe in Europe at that time viz. when in the possession of William Lord Stanley When the ready mony and plate therein besides Jewels and rich Houshold-stuff amounted unto forty thousand Marks got by the plunder of Bosworth field But as the River Dee running by this Castle is soon after swallowed up in the Irish Ocean so it was not long before this vast treasure upon the Owners attainder was confiscated into the Coffers of King Henry the seventh Prelates LEOLINE being born in the Marches he had a double name to notifie him to posterity One after the Welsh-mode à Patre Leoline ap Llewelin ap Yuyr the other according to the custom of the English Clergy à Patria Leoline de Bromfield a most fruitful tract of ground in this County Under King Edward the first Anno 1293. he was consecrated Bishop of Saint Asaph and deserved right well of that See by his manifold Benefactions appropriating some Churches to his Chapter As for a portion of Tithes in the Parish of Corwen appropriated to the Fabrick of the Church he reduced it to its former estate The first and last instance for Precedent I dare not call it which I have met with of a Church legally appropriated which reverted to its presentative propriety Had King Henry the eighth at the dissolution of Abbies followed this example the Church had been richer by many pounds the Exchequer not poorer by a penny I find also that he asked leave of King Edward the first to make a Will which may seem very strange whether it was a Court-complement or ex gratia cautela or because Welsh Bishops in that age might not Testamentize without Royal assent By his Will he bequeathed much of Plate rich Vests and Books to the Canons of that Church and his Chaplains dying Anno Dom. 1313. Since the Reformation GODFREY GOODMAN was born of wealthy Parentage in this County bred under his Uncle of whom hereafter in Westminster School then in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge where he commenced Doctor of Divinity successively preferred Pââ¦ebendary of Windsor Dean of Rochester and Bishop or ãâã He is ãâã joyned to the Prelates before though he lived long ãâã the Reformaââ¦on because he agreed with them in Judgement dying a professed Romanist as appeareth by his Will Yet the Adversaries of our Hierarchy have no cause to triumph thereat who ãâã charge Popish compliance on all his Order being able to produce of two hundred Bishops since Queen Elizabeth but this only instance and him a person of no great eminency not only disavowed by his fellow Prelates but imprisoned in the late Convocation for his erronious Opinions Indeed in this Discourse he would be constantly complaining of our first Reformers and I heard him once say in some passion That Bishop Ridley was a very Odde man to whom one presently returned he was an Odde man indeed my Lord for all the Popish party in England could not match him with his equal in Learning and Religion To give Goodman his due he was a harmless man hurtfull to none but himselâ⦠pitiful to the poor hospitable to his neighbours against the ruining of any of an opposite judgement and gave the most he left to pious uses He was no contemptible Historian but I confesse an under-match to Doctor Hackwell But I remember the Ring bequeathed to me in his Will with the Posie thereof Requiem Defunctis and therefore I will no longer be troublesome to his Memory who was made Bishop 1624. and some seven years since deceased in Westminster almost 80. years of age Writers since the Reformation VVILLIAM SALESBURY was born in this County where his family flourisheth at this day This Gentleman out of a love to his Native language Amor patriae ratione valentior omni composed a short English and Welsh Dictionary first privately presented to and approved by King Henry the eighth being a Tuthar by his Fathers side of Welsh extraction and then publickly printed Anno Dom. 1547. Some captious spirits will quarrel the usefulness thereof seeing the Welsh did not want and the English did not wish a Book of that natnre But let them know that it is useful for both Nations to the English for attaining to the VVelsh for retaining that Language Attaining For being an original Tongue an Antiquary is lame without it which I find by my own defect to understand the few of many remaining Monuments of that Nation Retaining That Tongue as well as others by disuse being subject not only to Corrupââ¦ion but Oblivion by the confession of the Natives of that Countrey Indeed all Dictionaries of Languages are very useful VVords bringing Matter to the Tongue and as Plato well observed ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã A Name or Word is an instrument of Instruction and ushereââ¦h Knowledge into our Understanding However seeing nothing can be begun and finisht at once Salesbury his Book as the first in this kind did rather essay than effect the work and since hath been completed by others He died about the year 1560. Benefactors to the Publick since the Reformation Sir THOMAS Son of RICHARD EXMEW was born at Rythin in this County Being bred in London a Goldsmith he thrived therein so well that Anno 1517. he was Lord Mayor thereof besides other Benefactions in his own Country and to Saint Mary Magdalen in Milk-street London where he lies buried He made the Water Conduit by London-wall at More-gate ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã so Pindar begins his Poems Water is a
him home and commanded him to surrender his acquests into his hands which done he received them again by re-grant from the King save that Henry reserved the City of Dublin for himself This Strongbow is he who is commonly called Domitor Hiberniae The Tamer of Ireland though the Natives thereof then and many hundred years after paid rather ââ¦erbal submission than real obedience to our English Kings Yea some of their great Lords had both the power and Title of Kings in their respective Territories witness the Preface in the Commission whereby King Henry the second made William Fitz. Adelme his Lieutenant of Ireland Archiepiscopis Episcopis Regibus Comitibus Baronibus omnibus fidelibus suis in Hibernia Salutem Where Kings are postposed to Bishops which speaketh them Royolets by their own ambition and by no solemn inauguration This Earl Richard died at Dublin 1177. and lieth buried in Trinity Church therein Sir ROGER WILLIAMS born of an ancient Family at Penrosse in this County was first a Souldier of Fortune under Duke D'Alva and afterwards successfully served Queen Elizabeth having no fault save somewhat over-free and forward to fight When a Spanish Captain challenged Sir John Norris to fight a single Combat which was beneath him to accept because a General This Roger undertook the Don. And after they had fought some time both Armies beholding them without any hurt they pledged each other a deep ââ¦raught of Wine and so friendly departed Another time at midnight he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma nigh Venloe slew some of the enemies and pierced to the Tent of the General as highly blamed by some for rashness as commended by others for his valour He bravely defended Slufe whilest any hope of help WILLIAM HERBERT Earl of Pembroke with Sir Richard Herbert his Brother were both undoubtedly born in this County but whether or no at Ragland Castle is uncertain Both valiant men and as fast Friends to King Edward the fourth as professed Foes to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick They gave the last and clearest evidence hereof in the Battel of Banbury where we find it reported that these two leading the Army of the Welsh with their Poll-Axes twice made way through the Battel oâ⦠the Northern men which sided with King Henry the sixth without any mortal wound There passeth a tradition in the Noble Family of the Herberts of Chierbury that this Sir Richard their Ancestor slew that day one hundred and forty men with his own hands which if done in charging some censure as an act of impossibility if after a rout in an execution as a deed of cruelty But others defend both truth and courage therein as done in passing and repassing through the Army Indeed Guns were and were not in fashion in that age used sometimes in sieges but never in field service and next the Gun the Poll-Ax was the mortal Weapon especially in such a Dead hanâ⦠as this Knight had with which Quot icti tot occisi He is reported also to be of a Giants stature the Peg being extant in Mountgomery Castle whereon he used to hang his Hat at dinner which no man of an ordinary height can reach with his hand at this day However both these brave brethren circumvented with the subtilty of their Foes Odds at any time may be bet on the side of treachery against valour were brought to Banbury beheaded and buried the Earl at Tinterne and Sir Richard at Abergaveny in this County Writers JEFFREY of Monmouth was born in and named from Monmouth He was also called ap Arthur from his Father as I suppose though others say because he wrote so much of King Arthur but by the same proporââ¦ion Homer may be termed Achillides and Virgil the Son of Aeneas Yea this Jeffrey by an ancienter title might be sirnamed ap Bruit whose story he asserteth He translated and compiled the various British Authors into one Volume I am not so much moved at William Newbourough calling this his book Ridicula sigmenta as that Giraldus Cambrensis his Countryman and as I may say Con-sub-temporary should term it Fabulosam historiam Indeed he hath many things from the British Bards which though improbable are not ipso facto untrue We know Herodotus nick-named by some Pater Fabularum is by others acknowledged to be Pater Historiarum The truth is that both Novelants and Antiquaries must be content with many falshoods the one taking Reports at the first rebound before come to the other raking them out of the dust when past their perfection Others object that he is too hyperbolical in praising his own Countrey A catching disease seeing Livy mounts Italy to the skyes and all other Authors respectively and why should that be mortal in our Monmouth what is but venial in others And if he be guilty in Mis-timing of actions he is not the onely Historian without company in that particular However on the occasion of the premisses his book is prohibited by his Holiness whilst the lying Legend is permitted to be read without controul Thus Rome loves questuosa non inutilia figmenta Falshoods whereby she may gain Some conceive it to be his greatest fault that he so praiseth the ancient Church in Britain making it Independent from the See of Rome before Austin the Monk came hither One maketh him a Cardinal which is improbable whilest it is more certain that he was Bishop of St. Asaph and flourished Anno 1152. THOMAS of Monmouth was probably born certainly bred and brought up in the chief Town of this County Nor doth it move me to the contrary because Pits calls him an Englishman Monmouth in that Age being a Frontier Garrison peopled with English Inhabitants It happened at this time many Jews lived in Norwich where their habitation was called Abrahams Hall though therein not practising the piety of that worthy Patriarch He out of conformity to Gods command sacrificed his one and onely son they contrary to his will in his Word crucified the child of another William by name His Sepulchre was afterwards famed for many miracles whereof this Thomas wrote an History and dedicated it to William de Turbes Bishop of Norwich though he lived above six score miles from the place of those strange performances But probably the farther the better Major è longinquo reverencia and miracles are safest reported and soonest believed at some competent distance He flourished Anno 1160. under King Henry the Second Benefactors to the Publick HENRY PLANTAGENET first Duke of Lancaster was born in Monmouth castle the chief seat of his Barony He is commonly sirnamed de torto collo or the wry-neck and by others the good Duke of Lancaster by which name we entitle him it being fitter to call men from what was to be praised than what to be pââ¦tied in them not from their natural defects but moral perfections His bounty commends him to our mention in this place being head of
the Dolphin who sent him a Barrel of Paris Tennis-Balls sending such English Balls that they proved to their great loss He died at Boys S. Vincent in France the last day of August Anno 1422. and was brought over with great solemnity and interred in Westminster Abby Prelates ELIAS de RADNOR GUILIELMUS de RADNOR Ijoyn them together for three Reasons First because Natives of the same Town understand it Old Radnor the new town of that name being built probably since their decease Secondly because Bishops of the same See Landaff Thirdly because eminent being eminent for Nothing the names and dates of their deaths the one May 6. 1240. the other June the 30. 1256. being all that learned Antiquary and their Successour Bishop Godwin could recover of their memories which dishearââ¦eth me from ââ¦arther enquiry after them For let them never look for a crop who sow that ground which so skilful an husband-man thought fit to lie fallow The Farewell It much affected me and I believe all others whose hearts are of flesh and blood what I read in an Author concerning the rigorous laws imposed on the observation of the Welsh For when Owen Glyndower-dwy inveigled by some well-skilled in Merlins Prophesies that the time was come wherein the Britains through his assistance should recover their ancient freedom and liberty raised a Rebellion making war upon the Earl of March the Heir apparent both to the Crown of England and Principality of Wales King Henry the fourth inraged at his proceedings enacted these ensuing Laws First That no Welshman should purchase Lands or be chosen Citizen or Burgess of any City Borough or Market Town nor be received into any Office of Mayor Bayliff Chamberlaine c. or to be of the Councel of any Town or to bear Armour within any City Besides that if any Welsh-man should impeach or sue an Englishman It was ordained he should not be convicted unless by the judgment of English Justices verdict of English Burgesses or by the Inquest of the English Boroughs where the suits lay Yea that all English Burgesses who married Welsh Women should be disfranchised of their Liberties No congregation or Council was permitted to the Welsh-men but by licence of the chief Officers of the same Seigââ¦ory and in the presence of the same Officers That no Victuals should be brought into Walls unless by the especial licence of the King and his Council That no Welshmen shouââ¦d have any Castle Fortress or House of Defence of his own or any other mââ¦ns to keep That no Welsh-man should be made Justice Chamberlaâ⦠Chancellor c. of a Castle Receivor Eschetor c. nor other Officer or Keeper oââ¦W Records â⦠nor of the Council of any English Lord. That no English man that in time to come should marry a Welsh-woman be put in any Office in Wales or in the Marches oâ⦠the same Now as I am heartily sorry that ever the Welsh were bound to the observance of so rigorous Laws so am I truly glad that at this day they are to the happiness both of England and Wales freed from the same Yea I shall constantly pray that God would be pleased to grant us of the Loins of our Soveraign one who may be born Prince of the one and after the though late decease of his Majesty King of the other FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO FULLER'S Worthies of England A. NAMES SHIRE PAGE ST Aaron Monm 50 Robert Abbot Surr. 82 George Abbot Surr. 83 Sir Roger Achley Shrop. 10 John Acton Middl. 104 Ralph Acton ib. 178 Sir Thomas Adams Shrop. 10 William Adams ib. 10 William Adams Kent 77 Adam de Marisco Somer 27 St. Adelme Wilt. 147 Pope Adrian IV. Hertf. 20 Agelnoth Kent 68 William Alabaster Suff. 70 â⦠Alan de Morton Berk. 104 Albericus de Veer Bedf. 121 b Alan of Lynne Norf. 256 Flaccus Albinus alias Alcuinus York 227 King Alfred Berk. 96 Alphred of Beverly York 205 Henry de Aldecheleia Staff 50 John Alcock York 214 Albricius of Lond. 216 Robert Aldricke Bucks 131 William Alley ib. 131 William Aldersea Ches 191 St. Alride Cumb. 217 St. Alkmund Derb. 231 James Altham Essex 347 William Alton Hant. 11 St. Alban Hertf. 19 St. Alnulphus Bedf. 115 c William Alan Lanc. 109 Edward Allin Lond. 223 Rose Allin Essex 323 Bertram Fitz-Allin Linc. 166 Thomas Allin Staff 42 John Amersham Buck. 135 St. Amphibalus Monm 50 Anderton Lanc. 119 Sir Edmund Anderson Linc. 161 Anderson Northumb. 310 Lancelot Andrewes Lond. 206 Thomas Andrewes Northamp 300 Richardus Anglicus Lond. 215 Laurentius Anglicus ib. 216 Anne D. to King Charles Westm. 229 Richard Angervile Suff. 29 Henry D'Anvers Wilt. 153 Sir Edmund Appleby Leicest 136 Thomas de Appleby Westmorl 137 Roger de Appleby ibid.  Sir Simon Archer Warw. 133 William Armyne Linc. 155 David Archidiaconus Bedf. 122 King Arthur Cornw. 201 Prince Arthue Hant. 4 John Arundle Cornw. 200   202 209 Thomas Arundell Suss. 103 St. Asaph Flint 38 Roger Ascham York 209 John Ashburnham Surrey 95 Thomas Askine Berk. 91 William Ascough Linc. 156 Anne Askewe ib. 155 Thomas Ashbourne Derby 236 Sir Thomas de Ashton Lanc. 122 John de Aston Staff 48 Sir Walter Aston ib. 50 Atwell Cornw. 202 Edmund Audley Staff 42 Sir Thomas Audley Essex 327 James Lord Audley Devon 258 John Aylmer Norf. 238 B. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Richard Badew Essex 335 John Badby Lond. 204 Sir Francis Bacon Westmin 241 Robert Bacon Oxf. 337 Sir Nicholas Bacon Suff. 62 75 Ralph Baines York 197 John Baconthorpe Norf. 255 William Baitman Norw 276 Sir Richard Baker Oxf. 338 John Bale Suff. 60 Thomas Bagnols Staff 44 Christopher Bambridge Westmorl 136 Bankinus Londin Lond. 217 Sir John Banks Cumb. 219 John Ball Oxf. 339 John Bancroft ib. 333 Richard Bancroft Lanc. 112 Ralph Baldock Herââ¦f 21 Sir Paul Bannyng Essex 347 Hugo de Balsham Camb. 160 Amias Bamfeild Devon 272 Richard Barnes Lanc. 110 William Barry Kent 94 Thomas Barrington Essex 340 John Barnston Chesh. 183 John Barkham Devon 276 Juliana Barnes Lond. 217 Richard de Barking Essex 325 Adam of Barking ib. 332 Thomas Barret ib. 340 a John Barret Norf. 258 John Barnet Hertf. 21 Edward Bash ib. 30 Richard de Baskervill Heref. 44 Sir James Baskervill ib. 46 John Barningham Suff. 69 Herbert de Basham Sussex 101 William Barlow ib. 103 Salephilax the Bard Wales 13 John of Basingsloke Hant. 10 b Valentine Barret Kent 94 John Basket Berk. 108 Thomas Basket Dorces 28â⦠John Basket Wilt. 163 Abbot of Battle Sussex 106 Walter de Baud Simon alii Essex 343 James Baynam Glocest. 354 Richard Basset Bedf. 121 John Basset Cornw. 210 Thomas Beckington Somers 23 Thomas Becket Lond. 203 Bede Durham 292 Sir Thomas Beigney Devon 265 Philip de la Beach Berk. 104 Margaret Beaufort Bedf. 115 Anne Beauchamp Oxâ⦠330 Richard Beauchamp Berk. 92  Worc. 171 Sir Edward Bellingham Westmorl 138 Thomas Bell Glocest. 362 Beavois Hant. 9
Devon 262 Roger Comes ibid. 268 Dr. John Cosen Durh. 295 Dr. Richard Cosen ibid. 296 Thomas Cole Berk. 97 Sir John Cokeyn Bedf. 116 Richard Cox Bucks 131 Samuel Collins ibid. 137 Ralph of Cogshall Essex 332 Henry Cotton Hants 7 Sir Robert Cotton Hunting 52 Sir Rowland Cotton Shrop. 16 William Cotton Lond. 206 Tââ¦omas Cotton Camb. 167 William Collet ibid. 161 John of Cornwaâ⦠Cornw. 203 Godfrey of Cornwall ibid.  Sir John Cornwall Shrââ¦p 15 Brian Cornwall Staff 53 Richard Conwail Heref. 46 Thomas Conisby Hertfâ⦠32 Sir Thomas Conisby Heref. 47 John Courcy Somers 25 John Collington ibid. 30 Thomas Coriat Somers 31 William Coppinger Suff. 71 Sir William Co dââ¦ll ibid. 7â⦠Eleanor Cobham Surr. 80 Richard Corbet ibid. 83 John Colââ¦on Norf 255 John Coupeland Northumb. 312 Richard Courtney Devon 252 William Courtney ibid. 250 Peter Courtney ibid. 253 Richard Crackanthorp Cumb. 221 Sir Randall Crew Chesh. 178 Randall Crew ibid. 184 William Crew ibid. ibid Thomas Crofts Suff. 75 James Cranford Warw. 128 Lyonel Cââ¦anfeild Lond. 211 Sir James Crofts Heref. 41 Thomas Cranley Surr. 81 Thomas Cranmer Nott. 316 Robert Crowley Northamp 290 Roger of Crowland Linc. 164 Thomas Cromwell Surr. 83 Sir Oliver Cromwell Hunt 54 Thomas Cromwell Cambr. 168 Sir Henry Cromwell ibid. 169 Sir George Crooke Buck. 133 John Croke ibid. 140 John Crane Camb. 160 William Crowmer Kent 95 Ralph Cudworth Lanc. 117 Henry Cuffe Somers 28 Bartholomew Culie Leic. 132 Thomas Curson Lond. 223 John Curd Northamp 283 Sir John Cuts Cambr. 168 Roger Curson Derb. 232 John Cut-cliffe Devon 263 Hugh Curwen alias Coren Westmor 140 John Cumin alias Comin Worc. 167 D. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Michael Dalton Camb. 159 Sir Robert Dallington Northamp 288 Sir Thomas Dacres Hertf. 32 Henry Danvers Wilt. 153 Mary Dale Somers 37 Samuel Daniel ibid. 28 Walter Daniel York 205 George Day Shrop. 5 William Day   Sir John Darell Berk. 111 James Davenant Lond. 207 Sir Humphrey Davenport Chesh. 178 John Damerell Devon 271 John of Darlington Durh. 295 Robert Darcy Essex 339 John Davies Heref. 40 Sir Robert Dennis Devon 272 Baldwin Devonius ibid. 274 Sir Edward Denny Hertf. 32 Robert Devereux Heref. 38 Walter Devereux ibid. 46  Caermar 28 John Dee Lanc. 116 John Delves Staff 53 Simon Dewes Suff. 75 David Archidiaconus Bedf. 122 Francis Dillingham ibid. 117 Sir James Dier Somers 25 John Digby Warw. 124 Richard of Devises Wilt. 155 John Diggons Hant. 14 Leonard Digges Kent 82 Daniel Dike Hertf. 28 Jeremiah Dike ibid.  Nicholas Dixon ibid. 29 Sir Wolstan Dixie Hunting 53 Sir Robert Dimock Line 174 Sir William Doddington Hants 14 Robert Dodford Northamp 290 Sir William Dormer Bedf. 126 Robert Dormer Bucks 141 Thomas Dorman ibid. 137 John Dod Chesh. 181 Thomas Dove Lond. 207 John Doreward Essex 339 Sir John Doderidge Devon 257 George Downham Chesh. 189 John Downham ibid. 191 John Donne Lond. 221 John Douland Westminst 244 Edmund Doubleday ibid. 245 Sir Robert Doyle Oxf. 345 Sir William Druery Suff. 63 Drugo Drury Norf. 272 Thomas Drax Warw. 125 Michael Drayton ibid. 126 John Driton Sussex 109 John Drusius Hants 12 Sir Francis Drake Devon 261 St. Dunstan Somers 21 William Dudley Staff 42 Edmund Dudley ibid. 43 John Dudley ibid. 44 53 Sir Robert Dudley Surr. 84 Augustin Dudley Northamp 283 John of Dunstable Bedf. 116 Arthur Ducke Devon 262 Brian Duppa Kent 73 James Duport Leic. 134 Richard Dugard Worc. 176 E. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Robert Eaglesfield Cumberl 222 Adam de Easton Heref. 36 St. Ealphage Kent 67 John Easday ibid. 99 Ealread of Rievaulx York 205 St. Ebba Northumb. 304 Thomas Ecklestone Chesh. 180 King Edward III. Berk. 88 Edward Son to King Edgar Dorset 278 King Edward I. Westmin 236 King Edward IV. Caernar 28 St. Edward the Confessor Oxf. 331 King Edward V. Westmin 337 King Edward VI. Middl. 178 Edward Son to Edward III. Oxf. 330 Edward Son to King Richard III. York 191 Edward Son to King Henry VI. Westmin 236 St. Edmund Berk. 89  Suff. 56 Edmund Son to King Henry VII Kent 66 Edmund Son to King Edward III. Hertf. 19 Edmund Son to King Edward I. Oxf. 330 Edmund of Hadham Hertf. 19 Thomas Edwardston Suff. 59 Sir Clement Edmunds Shrop. 6 Sr. Edwold Oxf. 331 St. Edburgh Hant. 4  Buck. 128 Thomas Eden Essex 336 Richard Edgcomb Devon 271 Sir Peter Edgeombe Cornw. 210 St. Edith Wilt. 147 William Edendon ibid. 150 John Ede Wales 15 St. Edilburge Essex 322 William Egremont Cumb. 220 Sir Thomas Egerton Chesh. 176 Eleanor Daughter to King Edward I. Berk. 88  Hants 4 Queen Elisabeth Kent 66 Elisabeth Daughter to King Edward IV. Westmin 237 Elisabeth Daughter to King Charles I. ibid. 239 Elisabeth Daughter to Earl of Clare Suff. 71 Elisabeth Daughter to King Edward I. Flint 37 Thomas of Ely Suff. 68 Hugh Elio Somers 35 Sir Thomas Eliot Camb. 168 Nicholas of Ely Camb. 152 Humphry Ely Heref. 41 St. Elfred Hunting 49 John of Eltham Kent 65 Bridget of Eltham ibid.  John Elryngton Middl. 188 Elvodugus Probus Flint 39 Sir Richard Empson Northamp 287 Wiââ¦liam Englebert Dorces 284 Samson Erderswick Staff 45 John Erghom York 230 William Essex Berk. 108 Henry de Essex Bedf. 121 Alexander of Esseby Somers 27 Nicholas Estwick Northamp 291 Ethelbert Heref. 35 St. Ethelburgh Essex 322 Sylvester de Everton Bedf. 116 John Eveââ¦sden Cambr. 157 Hugh of Evesham Worc. 168 Elias of Evesham  174 Walter of Evesham  176 Walter Eustathius York 195 Marbod Evan Wales 10 William Evans Monm 54 Sir Ralph Evars alias Eure York 222 Sir Thomas Exmew Denb 35 William of Exeter ãâã 275 Sir Simon Eyre Suff. 71 F. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Peter Fabell Middl. 186 Anthony Faunt ãâã 142 Robert Fabian Lond. 218 John Fastolfe Norf. 253 Eustathius de Fauconbridge York 195 Guido de Fairfax ibid. 199 Sir Nicholas Fairfax ibid. 222 Robert Farrar Caermar 27 Sir Jeffrey Fenton Notting 319 Edward Fenton ibid. 318 Roger Fenton Lanc. 116 John Fen Somers 29 Sir Richard Fenys Oxf. 345 Daniel Featly ibid. 340 Nicholââ¦s of Fernham Surr. 80 John Feckenham Worc. 177 Haimo of Feversham Kent 80 Besil Feriplace Berk. ââ¦10 Henry Filmer ibid. 90 Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert Derb. 253 Richard Fishacre alias ãâã Devon 263 Richard Fishbourn Hunt 53 Simon Fish Kent 69 John Fisher Leic. 141  York 194 Edward Fines Linc. 158 Sir Moile Finch Kent 96 Sir Henry Finch ibid. 76 Sir John Fineux ibid. ibid. Bertram Fitz-Allin Linc. 166 Robert Floyd alias Fludd Kent 78 Richard Fletcher Kent 72 Giles Fletcher ibid. 78  Lond. 221 John ãâã Northamp 288 Fleta or Fleet Lond. 212 Florence of Worcester Worc. 174 William Flowre Camb. 151 Humphry Foster Berk. 107 Humphry Forster ibid. 109 Humphry Foster Cumb. 218 John de Ford Devon 263 John Fowler Somers 36 Gilbert Foââ¦ot Devon 251 Robert Foliot ibid. iaeid Sir Henry Fortescue ibid. 256 Sir John Fortescue   Sir Adrian Fortescue Â
 Edward Fox Gloc. 355 Richard Fox Linc. 157 John Fox ibid. 167 Martin Fotherby ibid. 158 William de Folvil Leic. 133 John Freeman Northamp 301 Ralph Fresbourn Northumb. 307 St. Frideswide Oxf. 331 Valentine ãâã York 228 Edward Freese ibid. ibid. Sir Martin Frobisher ibid. 202 Acceptus Fruin Suss. 104 Sir Thomas Frowicke ãâã 183 Thomas Frowicke ibid. 188 William Fulke Lond. 219 Fu co de Breanââ¦ee Berk. 104 Stephen de Fulbuââ¦ne Camb. 152 Nicholas Fuller Hants 12 G. NAMES SHIRE PAGE William Gascoigne Bedf. 125 Thomas Gascoigne York 208 Sir William Gascoigne ibid. 199 Sir John Gates Essex 346 John de Gatesden Hertf. 24 ãâã of Gainsbo ough Linc. 155 Simon of Gaunt Lond. 205 Henry of Gaunt Linc. 153 Harvis Gadarn Montg 4 Thomas ãâã Shrop.  Stephen Ga diner Suff. 6 Christopher St. German Lond. 212 Richard George Essex 323 Sir Humphrey Gilbert ibid. 332 William Gilbert ibid. ibid. ãâã Gilbert ãâã 5 Gilââ¦ert of Westminst 242 John Gibbon Som. 29 Gââ¦bert of Sempringham Linc. 154 Thomas Gibson Northumb. 307 William Gisford Staff 46 Gildas the Wise Somers 27 Gildas the 4th Wales 13 Bernard Gilpin Westmor 139 Richard Gilpin ibid. 141 John Giles ãâã 24 Anthony Gilby Linc. 167 Giles de Bruse Breckn 23 Giraldus Cambrensis Pembr 57 Robert Glover Kent 82  Warw. 120 John Glover ibid. ibid. Bartholomew Glanvile Norf. 269 William Glyn Anglesey 19 Owen Glendowerwye Flint 39 Robert of Glocester Gloc. 358 Richard Duke of Glocester Cumb. 228 Edmund Gourney Norf. 258 John Goslin ibid. 275 Matthew Gournay Somers 25 Francis Godwin Northam 284 Thomas Godwin Berk. 92 Gabriel Goodman Denb 35 Godfrey Goodman ibid. 34 Katherine Gowches Hants 5 Roger Goad Buck. 136 Thomas Goad Cambr. 159 Godfrey Goldsborough ibid. 153 Sir Francis Godolphin Cornw. ãâã John Godard Essex 333 Nicholas Gorrham Hertf. 26 James Goldwell Kent 72 Thomas Goldwell   Thomas Goodrich Linc. 157 William Gouge Middl. 184 George Goring Surr. 96 John Gower York 207  Berk. 107 William Goldingham Essex 339 Sir Thomas Gresham Norf. 259 Henry Greene Northamp 297 Anne Greene Oxf. 34â⦠Wilââ¦m Grocirie Somers 36 Robert Grosthead Suff. 57 Sir Fââ¦lke Grevill Warw. 127 William de Grenvil Cornw. 199 Thomas Granvil ibid. 210 Sir Richard Greenvil ãâã 258 Henry Grey Beââ¦f 118 Lord Aââ¦thur Grey Buck. 134 William Gââ¦ey Derby 232 Lord Anthony Grey Durh. 299 Jane Grey Leicest 127 Katharine Grey   Mary Grey   John Griffin Wales 15 John Gregory Euck. 136 Arthur Gregory Doro. 284 Edmund Grindall Cumb. 218 John Grandesson Heref. 37 Richard of Gravesend Kent 71 John Gwent Wales 15 Edmund Guest York 198 John Gwin Berk. 91 John Gwillim Heref. 40 Gualo Britannus Wales 14 Guido de Mona Anglesey 18 H. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Sir James Hales Kent 69 Thomas Hale Somers 34 Hales Warw. 130 Alexander of Hales Gloe 358 Thomas of Hales ibid. 359 Richard Hale Hertf. 30 Edward Hall Lond. 219 Joseph Hall Leic. 129 Robert Halam Wilt. 149 John of Halifax alias Sacro Bosco York 206 Henry Hammond Surr. 85 John Hanvile Oxf. 336 James Harrington Rutl. 348 Sir John Harrington Somers 28 Lord John Harrington Warw. 130 Sir Robert Harecourt Berk. 107 Sir William Harper Bedf. 118 Walter Haddon Buck. 135 John Harman alias Vesty Warw. 122 John Harley Buck. 130 Richard Hampole alias Role York 193 John Harding ibid. 208 Richard Hackluit Heref. 39 Haimo of Hithe Kent 71 Haimo of Feversham ibid. 80 Edward Halsall Lanc. 120 William Harvey Kent 79 Jeffery de Harby Leic. 132 Robert de Harby ibid. 133 Meredith Hanmer Flint 39 William Hastings Leic. 141 Sir Edward Hastings   Francis Hastings ibid. 142 Sir Edward Harwood Linc. 162 Job Hartop ibid. 163 Thomas Haslewood Kent 81 Sir Christopher Hatton Northamp 285 Hugh Hatton Chesh. 186 Rawe Hayes Cornw. 202 Andrew de Harcla Cumb. 225 Elisabeth Hardwicke Derb. 237 Sir William Hankford Devon 255 Edmund of Haddam Hertf. 19 Sir William Hampton Gloc. 361 Thomas Hawkes Essex 323 Sir John Hawkewood ibid. 330 Samuel Harsnet ibid. 326 King Henry I. York 190 King Henry III. Hants 4 King Henry IV. Linc. 152 King Henry V. Radn 59 King Henry VI. Berk. 89 King Henry VII Pembr 56 King Henry VIII Kent 66 Henry Son to King Henry VIII Suff. 79 Henry Son to King Charles I. ibid. ibid. Henry Fitz-roy Son to K. Henry VIII Essex 321 Henry Bishop of Winch. and Card. Angl. Hunt 15 16. Henrietta Daughter to King Charles I. Devon 274 Charles Herle Cornw. 205 St. Herebert Cumberl 217 Sir William Herle Devon 255 George Herbert Montgom 46 Edward Herbert ibid. ibid. William Herbert Monm 52 Sir Anthony Fitz Herbert Derb. 233  Gloc. 356 St. Helen Essex 322 Roger of Hereford Heref. 39 Nicholas Hereford Wales 9 Martin Heton Lanc. 112 John Herdwick Leic. 137  York 194 Nicholas Heath Lond. 205 John Heiwood ibid. 221 Sir John Hewet Northam 301 Thomas Hereningham Essex 340 Julines Herring Montg 47 Thomas Hides Berk. 96 John of Hide Hants 10 11 Sir Nicholas Hide Wilt. 153 Sir Rowland Hill Shrop. 10 Haimo of Hithe Kent 71 Ralph de Hingham Norf. 249 Sir Oliver Hingham ibid. 253 John Higham Suff. 74 Sir Robert Hicham ibid. 72 Hilarius Bishop of Chichester Surr. 92 St. Hilda York 191 Alban Hill Wales 12 Sr. Hildetha Essex 322 Arthur Hildersham Cambr. 158 Sir John Howard Berk. 107 Thomas Howard Essex 328 William Howard Surr. 83 Charles Howard   Henry Howard Norf. 263 Queen Katharine Howard Lond. 202 Robert Holcot Northam 289 Gilbert of Holland Linc. 164 Thomas Holland Shrop. 9 Philem. Holland Warw. 127 Henry Holland Worc. 176 Hugh Holland Wales 16 John Holyman Buck. 130  Somers 34 Francis Holyoake Warw. 128 Wilfr Holme York 209 Robert Holgate ibid. 194 Lawrence Holebeck Linc. 166 Thomas Hoo Bedf. 124  Hertf. 32 Sir William Hollis Notting 323 James Hobart Norf. 258 Richard Holsworth Northumb. 305 John Hooper Somers 21 Sir William Horne Cambr. 160 Robert Horne Durh. 295 Richard Hooker Devon 264 Richard Howland Essex 326 George Horsey Hertf. 32 Thomas Howel Breck 23 John Hornby Linc. 165 Robert Hownslow Middl. 184 John Howson Lond. 207 Robert Hoode Notting 320 John Horminger Suff. 68 John Holbrook Surr. 85 Nicholas Hortresham Suss. 108 William Horeman Wilt. 156 Roger Hoveden York 206 William Hugh ibid. 209 St. Hugh Linc. 152 Hugh of Reading Berk. 95 Lawrence Humphred Buck. 136 John Hunt Wilt. 148 Gregory of Huntington Hunt 50 Henry of Huntington ibid. 51 Matthew Hutton Lanc. 111 Sir Richard Hutton Cumb. 219 Roger Hutchison Hertf. 27 Randal Hugden Chesh. 190 Richard Huloet Camb. 158 Sir John Huddlestone Camb. 168 Hucarius Levita Cornw. 202 Sir William Huser Linc. 160 John Huser ibid. 174 I. NAMES SHIRE PAGE William James Chesh. 175 Thomas James Hants 12 Richard Fitz-James Somers 23 John Fitz-James ibid. 24 James Son to King Charles I. Westmin 239 Thomas Jackson Durh. 297 Robert Jermin Suff. 75 John Jewell Devon 253 John Jegon
Essex 326 Jeffery Rutl. 348 Sir John Jefferey Sussex 105 Thomas Ilam Lond. 233 John Incent Hertf. 29 Sir Francis Inglesfeild Berk. 109 John Son to King Edward I. ibid. 88 Sir Oliver St. John Wilt. 152 Sir John St. John Bedf. 125 Oliver St. John ibid. ibid Hugh Johnes Wales 11 William Johnes Monm 53 Thomas Jones Lanc. 112 Benjamin Johnson Westmin 243 Thomas Johnson York 204 Robert Johnson Linc. 169 Joan Daughter to King Edward II. Lond. 201 Thomas Joyce Oxf. 332 George Joy Bedf. 117 Sir Ralph Josceline Hertf. 29 Joceline of Wells Somers 22 Josephus Iscanus Devon 274 Barthol Iscanus ibid. ibid. Roger of St. Ives Hunting 51 Sir Anthony Jud Kent 84 Robert Ivory Lond. 217 St. Justinian Pembr 57 William Juxton Sussex 104 K. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Katharine Daughter to King Henry III. Lond. 201 Katharine Daughter to King Henry VII ibid. 202 Katharine Daughter to King Charles I. Westmin 240 John Kendricke Berk. 97 St. Kenelme Gloc. 353 John Kemp Kent 69 Thomas Kempe ibid. 71 John of Kent ibid. 80 Henry Keble Lond. 233 Matthew Kellison Northamp 292 Richard Kendall Westminst 139 Sir Edward Kelley alias Talbot Worc. 172 St. Keyne Breckn 22 St. Kiby Cornw. 198 Kiltor ibid. 205 John King Buck. 132 Henry King ibid. ibid. Sir William Kingston Gloc. 368 Sir Anthony Kingston   Robert Kinaston Shrop. 16 John Kinyngham Suff. 68 Kidstone Lanc. 122 John Kite Lond. 205 Hugh Kirkstead Linc. 164 John of Killingworth Warw. 124 John de Kirkby Westmor 136 William Knight Lond. 205 Henry de Knighton Leicest 133 Sir Robert Knowles Chesh. 179 Sir Francis Knowles Oxford 334 335 Sir Henry Knowles   Sir William Knowles   Sir Robert Knowles   Sir Thomas Knowles   Lettice Knowles   Sir Thomas Kneisworth Cumb. 160 L. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Nicholas Latham Northamp 293 William Lawd Berk. 93 Roger Layburn Cumb. 218 Gerh. Langbane ibid. 221 Henry Langley Essex 339 Edmund of Langley Hertf. 19 Robert Langland Shrop. 8 Richard Laken ibid. 12 Richard Lanham Suff. 68 Robert Langton Westmor 140 Stephen Langton Kent 97 Simon Langton ibid. 99 Walter de Langton Leic. 128 Thomas Langton ibid. 133 John Laurence Essex 323 Arthur Lakes Hants 7 Sir Thomas Lakes ibid. 9 Lamfrid ibid. 10 William Lambe Kent 85 Hugh Latimer Leic. 127 William Laxton Northamp 293 William Lawes Wilt. 156 Blegabride Langauride Wales 13 Laurentius Anglicus Lond. 216 Thomas Legge Norf. 276 John Lewkenor Surr. 95 Francis Leigh Warw. 133 Thomas Leigh   Sir James Ley Wilt 152 Edward Lee York 194 Paulin de Leeds ibid. 215 John Lepton ibid. 231 Leoline Denb 34 John Leventhorpe Essex 340 Hucarius the Levite Cornw. 202 Hugh Legat Hertf. 26 Thomas Leaver Lanc. 115 William Lempster Heref. 39 Sir Anthony St. Leger Kent 73 William de Leicester Leic. 132 Robert de Leicester ibid.  Thomas Linacer Derb. 235 August Linsell Essex 326 Thomas de la Lynd Dorc. 284 Simon Lynch Essex 337  Kent 85 William Lyford Berk. 96 William Lynwood Linc. 156 William Lilly Hants 11 William Lidlington Linc. 164 Nicholas Lyra Lond. 217 Nicholas of Lynne Norf. 254 Alan of Lynne ibid. 256 Thomas Lydyate Oxf. 338 Edward Littleton Staff 42 Sir Thomas Littleton ibid. ibid.  Worc. 171 William de Lichfield Staff 45 John Lydgate Suff. 68 Herbert Losing Oxf. 332  Suff. 58 Adam Loftus York 198 William Longchamp Essex 342 John Lowe Worc. 168 Sir Richard Lovelace Berk. 110 Henry Longuile Buck. 141 Maud Lucy Cumb. 222 John Lucas Essex 347 Egid. Lucas ibid. 340 William de Lubbenham Leiâ⦠132 Thomas Lupsett Lond. 218 M. NAMES SHIRE PAGE John Marbeck Berk. 91 John Mason ibid. 93 Thomas Magnus Notting 320 Sir Henry Martin Lond. 214 Gregory Martin Suss. 111 Richard Martin Devon 275 William Martin   Alan de Marton Berk. 104 ãâã Daughter to King Edward I. Berk. 88 Philip Maââ¦pas Lond. 232 Queen Mary Kent 66 Mary Daughter to King Charles I. Westminst 238 Mary Daughter to King Edward I. Berk. 88 Mary Daughter to King Henry VIII Kent 66 Mary Daughter to King James ibid. 67 Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond Berk. 115 Maud Countess of Northumberland Cumb. 222 Simon Firz-Mary Lond. 228 Walter Male-clerk Cumb. 225 John Marre alias Marrey York 207 George Marsh Lanc. 108  Chesh. 188 John Marshal Worc. 175 Stephen Marshal Hunt 52 Adam of Marsh Somers 27 Matthew of Weââ¦minst 242 Tobias Matthew Somers 34 John May Suff. 61 Thomas May Suff. 110 John Matthew Buck. 137 Andrew Marvail Cambr. 159 Roger de Martivall Leic. 129 Hugh of Manchester Lanc. 114 Sir John Markham Notting 317 William Mansfield ibid. 318 John Maundrell Wilt. 148 Sir Halvatheus Maulever alias Mallevorer York 221  Warw. 120 William Makilsfeild Chesh. 174 Thomas Maldon Essex 333 Henry Marny ibid. 346 Sir Henry Maynard ibid. 347 Perotine Massey Hant. 5 John Mandevile Hertf. 26 Ralph of Maidenstan Kent 70 Sir Roger Manwood ibid. 76 Robert Mascall Shrop. 5  Sussex 113 Leonard Maw Suff. 61 Richard Mayo alias Mayhow Wilt. 150 Richard Mayhowe ibid. ibid. Oliver of Malmesbury ibid. 154 William of Malmesbury Walter de Merton Surr. 81 John de Metingham Suff. 64 St. Meliorus Cornw. 199 Joseph Mede Essex 334 Simon Mepham Kent 71 William de Melton York 195 Sir Christopher Metcalfe ibid. 222 Rowland Merrick Angles 19 Ambrose Merlin Carmar 29 Michell Wilt. 158 Sir Hugh Middleton Denb 36 David Middleton Chesh. 189 Sir Henry Middleton Walter Mildmey Essex 335 Thomas Milles Kent 82 Anthony Milemay Northamp 300 St. Milburgh Shrop. 3 Thomas Mitton ibid. 16 John of Milverton Somers 35 William Minors Staff 44 Sir Thomas More Lond. 208  Dorset 289 Margaret More Lond. 209 Peter Morwing Linc. 167 George Monox Lond. 233 Sir William Mounson Linc. 163 John Mordant Bedf. 105 Thomas Morton York 229 John Morton Dorset 279 Robert Morton Richard Montague Buck. 132 James Montague Northamp 284 Edward Montague ibid. 287 293 Sir Henry Montague ibid. 289 Guido de Mona Anglesey 18 George Mountaine York 199 Fines Morison Linc. 167 Sir Richard Morisin Essex 327 Sir John Mortimer Heref. 46 Edmund Mortimer Suff. 56 Lady Mohun Somers 30 William Mohun Cornw. 211 John Molle Devon 250 George Moncke ibid. 259 Thomas De la More Gloc. 358 Sââ¦r William Molineux Lanc. 113 John Mountgomery Essex 339 Jeââ¦y of Monmouth Monm 50,52 John of ibid. 50 Thomas of ibid. 53 Henry of Monmouth Radnor 59 John Mush York 213 Richard Mulcaster Westmor 139 N. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Sir Robert Naunton Suff. 64 Thomas of Newmarket Cambr. 153 John Newburgh Doro. 289 William of Newborough York 206 Cicely Nevilâ⦠Durh. 291 Bishop Ralph Nevill Bishop Alexander Nevill ibid. 293 Bishop Robert Nevill Bishop George Nevill Hugo de Nevill Essex 342 John de Nevill Thomas Nevile Kent 99 Anne Nevill Warw. 118 St. Neots Essex 323 Hugh of St. Neots Hant. 50 Humphrey Necton Suff. 67 Thomas Neale Gloc. 359 Richard Neile Westminst 241 Nesta Breck
Warw. 120 Henry of Sandwich Kent 71 Robert Samuel Suff. 58 William Sauter Lond. 203 Gilbert Segrave Leic. 128 Thomas Scroope Suff. 69 Richard Scroope York 196 Sir Jervas Scroop Linc. 174 Robert the Scribe York 205 Thomas Scott ibid. 214 John Scott Kent 95 William Scott ibid. 94 John Scotus Northumb. 307 Gilbert de Sempringham Linc. 154 William Sengham Lond. 216 John Selden Suss. 110 ãâã Sclater Bedf. 117 John Scrivener Buck. 129 Richard Senhouse Cumber 219 William Sevenoake Kent 84 John Seintleger ibid. 94 St. Sewall York 227 Thomas Seymore Wilt. 151 Edward Seymore   Jane Seymore ibid. 146 Sir Francis Seymore ibid. 164 Robert the Searcher alias Perscrutator York 207 Sertor of Wales Wales Wââ¦les William Shakespeare Warw. 126 Edmund Sheffield Linc 166 John Shorditch Middl. 188 Shamborn Norf. 264 Robert of Shrewââ¦bury Shrop. 4 Ralph of Shrewsbury Shrop. 4 Robert of Shrewsbury  8 Sir Anthony Shirly Sussex 107 Sir Robert Shirly   Sir Thomas Shirly  108 William Shirwood Durh. 297 Robert Sherboââ¦n Hants 6 John of Shepey Kent 71 Anthony Shugburgh Warw. 133 Nathaniel Shute York 211 Joââ¦ah Shute   Richard Sharpe Somers 34 William Siveyer Durh. 297 Edward Simonds Herââ¦f 28 Sir Henry Sidney Kent 74 Sir Philip Sidney  75 Francis Sidney  85 Humphrey Sidenham Somers 29 Richard Sibbs Suâ⦠69 Robert Skinner Northamp 285 John Skelton Cumb. 221  Norf. 257 Sir William de Skipwith bis Linc. 160 William Skipwith Leic. 142 John Skuish Cornw. 204 Sir James Skudamore Heref. 47 William Sleightholm York 193 Sir Henry Slââ¦gsby ibid. 223 Henry Smith Surrey 87 Sir Thomas Smith Berk. 94  Essex 328 John Smith Chesh. 179 William Smith  184 Miles Smith D. D. Heref. 38 Richard Smith Worc. 175 William Smith Lanc. 119 John Smith  120 Henry Smith Leic. 134 Robert Smith  136 Robert Southwell Suff. 71 Laurence Sommercote Suss. 108 Sophia Daughter to King James Kent 67 Robert Sommercoat Linc. 155 William of Somerset Wiââ¦t 154 Maurice Sommerset Somers 27 John Spicer Wilt. 148 John Spine Somers 35 Thomas Spring Suff. 71 John Speed Chesh. 181 John Sprint Gloc. 360 Miles Spencer ââ¦estmor 140 Edmund Spencer Lond. 219 William Spencer Northamp 299 Robert Spencer  300 Thomas Sparkes Linc. 167 Charles Stuart Son to James D. of York ââ¦stminst 240 John Still Linc. 158 Nicholas Stanford ibid. 165 Sir William Stamford ãâã 183 Sir Simon Steward Cambr. 169 Henry Stafford Breck 23  Staff 45 Edmund Stafford Staff 45 John Stafford   John Stafford Dorc. 279 Humphrey Stafford Leic. 141 Henry Standish Lanc. 109 John Standish  114 Thomas Stanley Staff 53 James Stanley Lanc. 109 John Stratford Warw. 121 Ralph Stratford   Robert Stratford   William Fitz-Stephens Lond. 216 John Stow ibid. 219 Alexander Strange ibid. 224 Egid. Strangwayes Dorces 289 Sir Humphrey Starkey Chesh. 177 John Stathom Derb. 233 John Stanbery Devon 253 Thomas Stapleton Suss. 111 Sir Robert Stapleton York 223 William of Strickland Westmor 137 Richard Stocke York 231 Simon Stocke Kent 80 Matthew Stoakes Buck. 135 Thomas Stuckely Devon 258 Walter de Stuchesly Gloc. 363 Thomas Sternhold Hants 11 Stumps Wilt. 157 Henry Sturmy ibid. 161 Sir Richard Sutton Chesh. 182 Richard Sutton Linc. 168 Sir George Summers Dorc. 282 Simon Sudbury alias Tibald Suff. 59 Richard Sulcard Westmin 242 T. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Sir John Talbot Shrop. 7 12 Richard Talbot ibid. 5 Sir Gilbert Talbot  16 Sir Edmund Talbot York 221 Sir Edward Talbot alias Kelley Worc. 172 Thomas Tarlton Staff 47 William Tavernour Oxf. 344 Rowland Tailour Suff. 57 Thomas Tailour York 210 Robert Testwood Berk. 96 Hester Temple Buck. 138 John Terer Chesh. 192 Alan of Tewksbury Gloc. 358 Thomas Thirlby Cambr. 153 Robert Thorne Somers 36 Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Warw. 123 Sir Arthur Throgmorton Northam 301 John Thornborogh Wilt. 151 Sir John Thin ibid. 164 Francis Thin Kent 82 St. Theliah Merion 43 Sir Rice ap-Thomas Carmar 27 Thomas of Woodstock Son to King Edward III. Oxf. 330 Thomas Son to Edward I. York 191 Thomas ap-William c. Flint 40 St. Theorithoid Essex 3ââ¦2 John Thorpe Norf. 257 Simon Thurway Cornw. 203 John Tiptoft Cambr. 155 Sir James Tirrel Cornw. 210 John Tyrril Essex 338 Gervase of Tilbury ibid. 332 Sir Frederick Tilney Linc. 161 Dr. Tighe ibid. 167 Christopher Tye Westmin 244 Thomas Tisdall Oxf. 341 St. Tibba Rutl. 347 Simon Tibald alias Sudbury Suff. 59 Cuthbert Tonstall York 197 Robert Tomson Hants 10 John Towers Norf. 149 Robert Townson Cambr. 153 Sir Roger Townsend Norf. 272 John Towers ibid. 249 Michael Tregury Cornw. 199 John Tregonwell ibid. 202 John Trevisa Cornw. 204 Bartholomew Traheron ibid. ibid. Nicholas Tremaine Devon 266 Andrew Tremaine   Edward Trotman Gloc. 356 Sir William Tracy ibid. ibid. Richard Tracy Gloc. 359 Sir Edmund de Trafford Lanc. 122 Elias de Trekingham Linc. 164 George Trigg ibid. 168 Trestram Middl. 186 Sir Thomas Tressam Northamp 300 Thomas Tressam   William Turner Northumb. 305 William Tucker Devon 275 John Tuckvile ibid. 276 James Turbervil Dorc. 279 Richard Turpin Leic. 133 Thomas Tusser Essex 334 Sir Brian Tuke ibid. 346 Roger Twiford Middl. 184 William Twisse Berk. 96 V. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Robertus de Vaus Cumber 225 Sir Nicholas Vaux Northamp 298 Walter Vaghan Wilt. 164 Richard Vaughan Carnar 31 Henry Vavasor York 222 Albericus de Veir Bedf. 121 Veal Corââ¦w 205 John Vernon Derb. 244 Sir Francis Vere Essex 331 Sir Horace Vere   Henry Vere   Aubrey de Vere ibid. 333 Henry Veer Northamp 298 Sir Robert Venile Norf. 252 John Vesty alias Harman Warw. 122 Richard Verney ibid. 133 George Villiers Leic. 130 Richard Vines ibid. 134 Machell Vivan Northumb. 308 Thomas Vipont Westmor 136 Robert de Vipont ibid. 141 Vinarius Capellanus Norf. 269 Richard Ulverston Lanc. 114 Sir Henry Umpton Berk. 94 Sir Edward Umnpton ibid. 110 John Underhill Oxf. 333 Thomas Underhill Warw. 130 Nicholas Upton Devon 264 St. Ursula Cornw. 199 W. NAMES SHIRE PAGE John Watson Worc. 170 Robert Watson Norw 276 John Warner Westmin 241 John Walch Linc. 174 Sertor of Wales Wales 10 Richard Walsh Worc. 181 John Wallis or Welsh ibid. 174 Henry Wakefield York 196 Armigell Waad ibid. 202 Robert Walby York 229 John Walby  230 Simon Ward ibid. 218 Samuel Ward Suff. 70  Durh. 298 John Walter Heref. 41 Walter Bishop of Carlisle Cumb. 225 Robert Fiââ¦z-Walter Essex 330 Matilda Fitz-Walter ibid. 336 Sir John Walter Shrop. 7 Richard of Wallingford Berk. 95 George Walker Lanc. 118 John of Waltham Essex 325 Roger of Waltham ibid. 333 Sir Isaac Wake Northamp 286 Nicholas Wadham Somers 30 * John 12. 8. * Gen. 30. 30. * Acts 6. 1. * Gen. 2. 12. * Psal. 107. 8. * Isay 55. 1. * Deut. 2. 28. * H. Huntington * Sir John Sidney Samuel Beauland on Neââ¦eius * Psal. 136. 4. * Acts 3. 41. * Reader in our following
Virg. Aeâ⦠lib. 1. juxta finem * ãâã in Helvidium * Camden in Cambridgeshire * ãâã Twin Ant. Acad. Ox. pag. 333. * Gulielmus Zoon * So Mr. Fox spells it in his Acts and Mon. pag. 1573. called Sââ¦il Well at this day * Gen. 6. 2. * There were but 3. more Maryred in this County whereof John Hullier Fellow of Kings-col was most remarkable * Sir James Ware in the Arch-bishops of Tuam * Ireland properly was no Kingdome till the time of K. Henry the eighth * Sir James ut prius * John Philipot in his Catal. of Chancellors pag. 23. * Idem in his Catalogue of Treasurers pag. 16. * Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Winchester a Godwin in the Catal. of Landaffe and Rochester b Idem in the Biposhs of Rââ¦chester c Bale pag. 576. and Pits pag. 625. * Bale de Script Ang. Cent. 7. Num. 60. * Idem i bidem * Bale maketh him to flourish under K. Henry the fourth * See his speech in Parliament Speed pag. * Godwin in the Bishop of Carlile * Mr. Martin beneficed neer Northampton * The particulars of this were procured for me by my worthy friend Mathew Gilly Esquire from Elizabeth the Bishops sole surviving daughter * Mills Cat. of Hon. pag. 1010. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 8. num 46. * Milles ut supra * Chronicon ââ¦o Bromton pag. 887. AMP. * Camdens Briâ⦠in Cambridgeshire * Pits de it Aug. dââ¦script pag. 3ââ¦8 * Bââ¦le dââ¦pt Brit. Cent. 4. Num. 48. * Bale descript Brit. Cent. 5. Num. 40. S. N. * Bale Descript. Brit. Cent. 5. Num. 88. * Cent. octa Num. 43. * Polychron lib. ult cap. 10. * Balâ⦠dââ¦ript Bâ⦠Cââ¦w 9. Num. 67. * So his son-in-law informed me * With Mrs. Skinner daughter to Sir Ed. Coke a very religious Gentlewoman * Henry of Huntington * Stows survay of London pag. 575. * This story is oâ⦠his own relation * Bale descript Bââ¦t Cent. oct Num. 77. * Idem ibidem * Misprinted Sir Robertââ¦n ââ¦n my Ecclesiasticall History * Lord Herbert in the life of K. Henry the 8 pag. 181. Amos 4. 7. * Vate Royall of Eng. pag. 19. * Camdens Brit. in Chââ¦shire * William Smith in his Vale Royal pag. 18. * In the wonders of Angle sea * ãâã Smith in his Vale-royal of England pag. 17. * Once Anno 14. and again Anno 1583. * See our Pro verbs in Kent * Holinshead Chron. pag. 489. * Stows Survey of London pag. 522. * Draytons Po lyalbion Song ãâã * â⦠Kings 19. 12. * In his Brit. in Ireland * Pitz de ãâã script pag. 388. â In his ãâã of Cardinals * In his Cata of Bishops of Exeter * Bishop Godâ⦠in the Arch bishop ãâã York â ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã * Idem ãâã â In his comment on the 90. ãâã * R. Parker in Scel Cant in the Masters of Queens-colledge * In his Cata. of the Bishops of Lincola Printed 1616. * In ãâã Cestriensi natus Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Durham * Sir J. Harrington pag. 206. * Luk. 8. 3. * Joh. 13. 29. * In his Elizabeââ¦h Anno 1596. * Bishop Williams * Alledââ¦'d by Sir Fââ¦a Bââ¦con in his Censure on the Earl of Som rset AMP. * Sir Hen. Sp. Gââ¦oss verbo justiciarius seems to assign him 1 Edw. 5. 1 Rich. 3. 1 Hen. 7. * In Sir Henry Spelm. ut prius John 12. * Acts 19. 24 * ãâã Brit. in Cheshire * Camden ibidem * Weavers Fun Mon. pag. 436 * Sir Wal. Rââ¦leigh Hist. of the World lib 5. pag. 545. * Lambertsââ¦er ââ¦er amb of Kent * ãâã ãâã in this County * So is it writ in the Table over ãâã tomb * William Smith Vale-royal pag. 16. * Pitz de scripâ⦠Brit. Anno 1340. * Bale Script Brit. Cent. 8. Num. 98. * Ang. Script Num. 992. * Mrs. Blackmore a Stationers wife in Pauls-Church-yard * In his description of Warwick-shire * Gen. 30. 36. * See Arch-bishop ushers Cron. * So my good friend Dr. Tates Principal of Brasen-Nose hath informed me * Mr. Hatcher in his Manuscript Catalogue of the Fellows of Kings-colledge * Fox Acts Mon. pag. 1958. * Mr. Haââ¦cher ut prius * Acts 10. 38. * Isaith 9. 3. * Will. Smith in his Vââ¦le pag. 18. * The Vale-Royal of England pag. 86. Idem pag. 199. * Vale royal of England written by Witt. Webb p. 22. * Christs-coll Register * Master John Spencer Library Keeper of Zion-colledge * Puââ¦chas his Piââ¦grims 1. part pag. 226. sââ¦q * Mat. 4. â⦠* Purchas his Pilgrims lib. 3. pag. 255. * Bale de script Brit. Gent. 6. Nuâ⦠1â⦠* Pits de Ang. Script pag. 690. * Script Brit. Ceut 9. Num. 17. * Pro. 20. 25. * Gal. 4. 4. * Mat. 12. 8. * In the Church behind the Exchange * Stows Suââ¦vey of London pag. 585. * Dâ⦠Willet in his Catalogue of good works since the Reformation pag. 1226. * Stows Survey of London pag. 1226. * Stow his Survey of London pag. 154. â Vale Royal of England pa. 207. * Ibidem * Carews Survey of Cornwall pag. 55. * Num. 11. 5. * Camdens Brit. in Cornwall * Polydore Virgil de Invent. Rerum in lib 3. Cap. 8. Pag. 251. * Virg. ãâã 6. * Lib. 3. Epig. 5â⦠* Cââ¦rew in his Sur. of Corn. pag. 100. * Cam English Brit. in Cornwall * Cââ¦ews Sur ãâã Cââ¦wall fol. 115. * Idââ¦m fol. 141. * ãâã lib. 8. cap. 3. â ãâã * ãâã lib. 3. cap. 5. Mela lib. 2. cap. 4. * ãâã Sur. of Cornwall fol. 126. * Caââ¦ew ãâã of Cornwall fol. 141. * See Master ãâã notes on Polyolbion pag. 131. * Rich. White of Basing-Stoke in Hist. Brit. Mart. and English Martyr on Octob. 21. * ãâã ãâã in Cata. Sanct. Brit. Anno Dââ¦m 411 * Carew Survey of Corn. fol. 59. * Godwin in the Arch-bish of York * Bââ¦le de Scrip. Brit. Cent. Oct. Num. 13. * Sir James Wââ¦re de scrip Hib. lib. 2. pag. 13â⦠* Idem de Arch epis Dublin pag. 30. * Garews Sââ¦r Corn. fol. 59. Bishop Godwin in the Bishops of Exeter Bishop Godwin ut prius * Stows Survey * Carew Survey of Cornwall fol. 59. * These cannot now be pretended an hinderance being put down by the long-lasting Parliament * Hamond L'Estrange Esq his Life of King Charles Reader in the last page I affirmed that Mr. Noy was no writer But since I am informed that there is a Posthume Book of his * Alomena wife to Amphitruo and Igern wife to Gââ¦loise Pr. of Cornwall * Draytons Polyolbion pag. 5. * Michael Cornubiensis * Joan. Sarishu de nugu Curial 5. cap. 18. * L Verulam in King Henry the seventh pag. 171. * Carew's survey of Cornwall * Carew in his survey of Cornwall sol 61. Speed Chron. pag. 780. *
performance 1. Being hardly 22. years old in the fift of King Henry the fourth at the Queens Coronation he Justed and Challenged all commers 2. He bid battle to Owen Glendour the Welch Rebell put him to flight and took his Bannor with his own hands 3. He fought a pitch'd field against the two Piercies at Shrewsbury and overcame them 4. In his passage to the Holy land whither he went on Pilgrimage he was challenged at Verona by an Italian Sir Pandulph Malacet to fight with him at three weapons viz. with Axes Arming Swords and Sharp Daggers whom he had slain at the second weapon had not some seasonably interceded 5. Fighting at Justs in France with Sir Collard Fines at every stroke he bare him back-ward to his horse and when the French suspected that he was tyed to his Saddle to confute their jealousies our Earl lighted and presently remounted 6. He was eminently active in the Kings victorious battles in France and might truely say Quorum pars ego magna fui 7. He was one of those whom King Henry the fifth sent to the Counsell of Constance whose whole retinue amounted unto eight hundred horse 8. Here he killed a Dutch Duke who challenged him Sigismond the Emperour and his Empress beholding it 9. The Empresse affected with his valour took the Badge from one of the Earls men being a plain Bear of Silver anâ⦠wore it on her shoulder But the next day our Earl presented her with a Bear which was his Crest made of Pearls and Precious Stones 10. Being sent by King Henry the fifth with a thousand men in armes to fetch Q. Katherine sole daughter to the King of France he fought with the Earls of Vendosm and Linosin killed one of them with his own hand routed the forces of five thousand men and brought the Lady whom he saw safely married to the King 11. He was by the said Kings Will appointed Governour to his son in his mââ¦no rity and made Lieutenant oâ⦠aââ¦l France 12. During his life our ââ¦uccess in France was progressive and retrograde aââ¦ter his death It must not be forgotten how Sigismond the Emperour coming into England told King Henry the fifth that no Christian King had such another Knight foâ⦠ãâã Nurture and Manhood He obtained leave of the King because in his Dominions that he might by Imperial Authority fix a Title of Honour upon him and caused him to be named the Father of Courtesie as indeed true courage and courtesie are undividuall Companions The last time he went over into Normandy he was tossed with a hideous Tempest so that despairing of life he caused himself to be bound for who could bind him against his will with his Lady and infant Son to the Main Mast on this design that having his Armour and Coat of Armes upon him he might thereby be known that such who should light on his corps if either noble or charitable might afford him a Christian buriall Yet he escaping the Tempest and landing safely in France dyed in his bed no usuall repose for so restless and active a spirit at Roan of a lingring disease April 30. 1439. and lieth buried in a most stately Tombe in a Chappel of the Collegiat Church of Warwick where his Epitaph graven in brasse is pointed with Bears serving for Commas Colons Periods and all distinctions thereof His deeds of Charity according to the devotion of those days were little inferior to the Atchievements of his valour Physitians and Chemists Sir EDWARD KELLEY alias TALBOT was born at Worcester as I have it from the Scheame of his Nativity graved from the original calculation of Doctor Dee Anno Domini 1555. August the first at four a clock in the afternoon the Pole being there elevated gr 52. 10. Thus Reader I hope that my exactness herein will make some reparation for my uncertainties and looser intelligence in the births of othââ¦r persons He was well studied in the mysteries of nature being intimaââ¦e wiââ¦h Doctor Dee who was beneath him in Chemistry but above him in Mathematicks These two are said to have found a very large quantity of Elixir in the ruins of Glassââ¦nbury Abby Indeed I have read how William Bird the Prior of the Bath left and lost the Elixir in the walls of his Priory and it may seem strange that what was lost at Bath was found at Glassenbury in the same County indeed but sixteen miles asunder But so long as Kelley had this treasure none need trouble themselves how or where he came by it Afterwards being here in some trouble he went over beyond the seas with Albertus Alasco a Polonian Baron who gave for his Armes the Hull of a ship having onely a Main-mast and a top without any tackling and gave for his Motto Deus dabit Vela God will send Sails But it seems this Lord had formeny carried too high a sail of whom a good Author reporteth that Aere alieno oppressuâ⦠clam recessit and now it seems sought to repair his fortunes by associating himself with these two Arch-chemists of England How long they continued together is to me unknown Sir Edward though I know not how he came by his Knight-hood with the Doctor fixed at Trebona in Bohemia where he is said to have transmuted a brass warming-pan without touching or melting onely warming it by the fire and putting the Elixir thereon into pure silver a piece whereof was sent to Queen Elizabeth He had great converse with Rodulphus the second Emperour I have seen a voluminous Manuscript in Sir Thomas Cotton his Library of the particulars of their mysterious proceedings where amongst many strange passages I find this ensuing monstrosity They kept constant intelligence with a Messenger or Spirit giving them advice how to proceed in their mysticall discoveries and injoyning them that by way of preparatory qualification for the same they should enjoy their Wives in common Though boggling hereat at first they resolved to submit thereunto because the Law-giver might dispence with his Laws in matters of so high a nature Hereby may the Reader guess the rest of their proceedings This probably might be the cause why Doctor d ee left Kelley and return'd into England Kelley continuing still in Germany ranted it in his expences say the Brethren of his own art above the sobriety befitting so mysterious a Philosopher He gave away in gold-wyer-rings at the marriage of one of his Maid-servants to the value of four thousand pounds As for the high conceit he had of his own skill in Chemistry it appeareth sufficiently in the beginning of his own works though I confess my self not to understand the Geberish of his language All you that fain Philosophers would be And night and day in Geber's kitchin broyle Wasting the chips of ancient Hermes Tree Weening to turn them to a precious Oyle The more you work the more you loose and spoil To you I say how learn'd so e're you be Go burn your Books and