Robe too little for the King and therefore sent in kindness to the Duke to wear grew weary of his life as disdaining to be mocked with his Brothers cast cloths and cursing the time of his unfortunate Nativity refused thenceforth to take any sustenance and so pined himself to death Sp. p. 445. 447. 452. It is reported of Henry Beauclerk that detaining the Kingdom from his brother Robert against his conscience that he stood more in fear of men whose favours he cunningly laboured to keep than of God whom he meant to please as he thought in building an Abbey for his satisfaction p. 447. Robert de Beliasme delighted in cruelty an example whereof he shewed on his own Son who being but a child and playing with him the Father for a pastime put his Thumbs in his childs Eyes and put out the balls thereof Id. p. 448. Guimundus the Kings Chaplain grieving that the Beauclerk bestowed his preferment on unworthy persons being on Rogation day to read that lesson of St. James It rained not on the earth III years and VI months it he purposely read it rained not one one one year and five one months All men laughing and wondring the King chid him and asked the reason Marry quoth he I see you bestow your preferment only on such as can read so which the King considering preferred him and was after more careful in his other Choices Speeds Hist 448. Prince William Son to the Beauclerk Richard his base Brother his Sister the Countess of Perch with many others to the number of one hundred and sixty persons perisht by ship-wrack coming from Normandy Of whom a writer speaks that God suffered not those unnatural wantons being Sodomiticâ labe fere omnes infecti to have Christian burial but were swallowed up by the Seas when her waves were most calm the Mariners in their drink striving to out-sail the Kings Ship dasht against a rock Id. p. 449. Beauclerk and the Pope at Gisory had an enterview where two youths of the Kings company Sons of the Earl of Mellent gravelled the Cardinals in disputing who had nothing to say but that there was more learning in the VVestern parts than they had thought Id. p. 449. Henry Beauclerk died at St. Dennis and was thence conveighed to Roan where he was emboweled salted and wrapped up in a Bulls hide to avoide the stench which was so intolerable that the Physitian who took out his brains was poisoned therewith and presently died whereupon it was observed that other Kings killed men in their lives but this when he was dead p. 452. Henry Fits Empress razed and cast down one thousand one hundred and fifteen Castles raised in the time of King Stephen 452. Maud the Empress to escape her enemies hands was laid in a Coffin as dead bound fast with Cords and so carried in a Horse-litter from the Devizes to Glocester and after being close girt in Oxford by King Stephen she clothed her self and her followers all in White and so in the Snow deceived the Sentinels and got safe to Wallingford Speeds Hist p. 461. King Lewes of France cast the Popes Bull whereby he required the Fruits of Vacancies of all Cathedral Churches in France into the fire saying That he had rather the Popes Bull should rost in the fire than his own soul fry in Hell p. 463. Eustace the Son of King Stephen having plundered the Monkes of Bury of their Corn and provision being set at Dinner the first bit he put into his mouth drove him into a Frenzy whereof he shortly after died p. 465. Henry the second besieging Bridgenorth had been slain with an arrow had not Hubert St. Clare cast himself between death and the King taking the arrow in his own bosome to preserve his Soveraign As Sejanus bare the ruins of a banqueting house with the peril of his life from the Emperor Tiberius p. 466. Henry de Essex Standard-bearer to Henry the second abandoning the Royal standard was challenged for it by Robert de Montford and in single battel at Reding vanquished was thereon shorn a Monk and shortly after died Id. p. 465. King Henry the second and Queen Elianor being Crowned at Worcester laid their Diadems on the high Altar as Godfry of Bulloigne would not wear a Crown of Gold at Hierusalem where Christ wore a Crown of Thorns 466. Henry the Second crowning in his life-time his Eldest Son and at the feast carrying the first dish The Arch-bishop of York saying in pleasaunce to the young King Rejoyce my fair Son for there is no Prince in the world hath such a Servitor attending on his Table as you The unnatural young man answered why wonder you at this My Father knows that he doth nothing that misbecomes him that his Father was royal born but of one side but our self are Royal born both by one side and other p. 470. Henry the second for the death of Becket submitted voluntarily to this Pennance he went three miles bare-foot so that much blood issued from his feet and received by way of discipline 80 lashes at the hands of Bishops and Monks on his bare flesh Speeds Hist p. 476. Henry the Son of Henry the second who had often rebelled against his Father when on his death-bed the Father fearing danger to himself would not come to see him but sent his ring in token of reconciliation he keeping the ring with many tears and confessing his fault at the approach of his death would needs be drawn out of his bed and laid upon another strewed with Ashes where he departed in a most penitent manner p. 478. When Hierusalem was first recovered by the Christians and when it was after fourscore years lost from the Christians a Frederick was Emperor and Vrban was Pope and Heraclius was Patriarch p. 479. When Henry the Second by the opposition of his Son Richard was fain to abandon Ments in Main he uttered these words against his Son That since he had taken from him that day the thing that he most loved in the world he would requite him for after that day he would deprive him of that thing in him which should best please a child viz. his heart and finding his Son John in the Catalogue of the Conspirators against him he bitterly cursed the hour of his birth laying Gods curse and his own upon his Sons which he would never recal for any perswasions of the Bishops and others p. 479. Henry the second being dead all his attendants fell to spoiling and left him naked of whom one saith Surely these Flies sought Honey these Wolves a Carcass They followed not the man but the spoil And when King Richard met his Fathers Corps the Corps fell fresh a bleeding p. 480. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln Visiting the Nunnery of Godstow finding a fair Herse-cloth over Rosamunds Tomb thought the Herse of a Harlot no fit spectacle for a Quire of Virgins to contemplate and therefore he caused her bones to be cast out of the Church
the Monastery of Pontiniacâ— and there excommunicates his suffâ—agan Bishops thence the King by threatning otherwise to expel all the Monks of that Order out of hi Kingdom gets him banish'd and sends all his kindred and well-willers out of England Becket had got the French â—ing and the Pope to back him but Lucius the Anti-Pope dying and Barborossa the Emperor being no friend to the Pope the King and Emperor treated to deal with the Cardinals to choose another Pope which the Pope fearing first made the Kings of England and France friends and then used the mediation of the French King to make up the difference between the King and Becket which after two or three attempts in vain Becket still adding in his submissions to the King Salvo Honore Dei which the King justly disliked because whatever displeased him he would affirm was against Gods Honour yet at last were made friends and the Arh-Bishop sent home but not fully restored till he behaved himself quietly a while at Canterbury which he promised but contrarily he immediately excommunicates the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishops of London and Salisbury and all that had any hand in the young Kings Coronation they complain to the King who was exceedingly troubled and cursed the time that he made him Arch-â—ishop or sent for him home and withal added that it was his chance ever to do for unthankful men otherwise some or other would have made this proud Priâ—st an example to all such troublesome pâ—rturbers of his Kingdom and State four Knights hearing these word resolve to kill him come to Canterbury on Innocents day and after â—hey had treated with him to be pliable to the Kings pleasure but to no purpose at evening they enter the Church and on the steps going up to the Quire they kill'd him The Monks immediately bury his body which was afterwards taken up and layd in a most sumptuous shrine in the East end of the Church at Canterbury The Pope hearing of this Massacre excommunicates the authors and consenters The King was fain to purge himself by Oath yet could not be absolved before he had done this strange Penance First he should pray devoutly at the shrine of this new Martyr Secondly that he should be whipt in the Chapter House receiving of every Monk one lash Thirdly that he should maintain two hundred Soldiers for the space of one year at Jerusalem and lastly revoke the declaration publisht at Clarendon that originally gave the occasion of this murther All this such were those times the King was fain to perform Bp. Godw. lives of the Bps. p. 95. Giraldas Cambrensis speaking concerning Baldwin the fourtâ— Archbishop of Canterbury gives him this Character that he was a better Monk than Abbot Bishop or Arch-bishop for which cause the â—ope in a certain letter greeted him thus Urban the Servant of the Servants of God to the most fervent Monk the zealous Abbot the Lukewarm Bishop and careless Arch-bishop greeting This Bishop would needs attend King Richard the first into the Holy Land and died at the Siege of Acon and gave all his goods to be divided amongst the Soldiers Id. p. 1â—0 King Richard the first being taken Prisoner by Leopald Arch-duke of Austria at what time the Sea of Canterbury was void effectually by his letters endeavoured and prevailed that Hubert Walter who had waited on him in his Warrs in the Holy land and was then Bishop of Salisbury might be advanced to the Arch-bishoprick While his Pall was fetching from Rome he went to Merton and professed himself a Monk He prevailed for a quarter part of the Revenues both of Clergy and Laity for one year which with the Plate and Ornaments of the Church then sold were to pay the Kings ransome being 150000 Marks The King at his return made him Lord Chancellor and Chief Justice of England and Governour of all his dominions who being before Arch-bishop and the Popes Legate wanted no Authority that was possible to be laid upon him In two years after his preferment he gatâ—ered to the Kings use 1100000 Marks devized the â—ssize of Bread Weights and Measures for Wine Oyl and Corn was a great House-keeper buâ—lt a Monastery at Derham in Northfolk where he was born Walled and Moated so as the Water encompassed the Tower of London encreased the Revenues of his Sea and procured divers privileges to it built a Chappel at Lambeth by the Monks of Canterburies consent hardly obtained and that not without this express condition that no Bishops should there be Consecrated nor Abbot admitted nor Order administred He lived twelve years Arch-bishop both beloved of Prince and people blamed for nothing but ambition in holding so many places of power Which temporal Offices on the Popes command he laid down divers years before his death which happened July 15th 1205. Id. p. 105. King John and the Monks of Canterbury rejoyced at Huberts death of whom it seems they stood in some Awe the King when he first heard of it used this expression Methinks quoth he I am now indeed King of England But the Event declared they had no great cause of Joy for upon a difference amongst the Monks who had made two Elections the Pope voiding both imposed upon the See of Canterbury one Stephen Langton a man of great worth had he orderly entred The King forbad him entrance into England the Pope hereon interdicts the whole realm during the time of which all divine service ceaâ—ed except baptism auricular Confession and administration of the Lords supper to such as lay at point of death and at last particularly excommunicates the King himself which he little regarded till he perceived the French King ready to Invade him and his own Subjects to desert him Whereupon he was necessitated to comply with the Pope to resign his â—rown and take it from him paying a yearly pension of a thousand Marks and at last was poysoned by a Monk Having first admitted the Arch-bishop into his Land and restored him his revenues the Arch bishop calls a Convocation at Osnias whither came a young man shewing the marks of wounds in his hands feet and side professing himself to be Jesus Christ and was accompanied by two Women whereof one professed herself the Virgin Mary the other Mary Magdalen But this Counterfeit Christ was for his pains really crucified Presently after he translates the bones of Becket with so great expense at the solemnity that neither he nor four of his successors were able to recover the debt it cast his See and Church into He first divided the Bible into Chapters in such sort as we now account them and died July the ninth 1228. Bp. Godw. p. 108. In the Raign of Henry the third many Italians had possessed themselves of the best benefices in England which being much spitted at certain mad fellows took upon them by force to thresh out their Corn every where and gave it away to the poor as also to rob and spoil them of
Grey at Pomfret had his own head stricken off by the command of Richard Protector at London the same day He was warned that morning by the Lord Stanley to fly his Horse twice or thrice stumbled going to the Tower though he told one Hastings a Pursuivant whom he met not above two hours before his death that he was never more merry nor in greater surety p. 705. Lambert Symnel who was set up as Richard Duke of York the second Son of Edw. the fourth to claim the English Crown after a terrible Battel fought in his quarrel was taken and by King Henry the seventh put first into his Kitchin to turn the Spits and was after advanced to be Falconer in which Office he lived and died Richard the third being as Galba reckoned a good Prince but a bad Man was unnaturally born his Mother being cut with his Feet forward and Teeth in his Head He was contented that Doctor Shaw in a Sermon at Pauls cross should proclaim his own Mother an Adulteress and his two elder Brothers Bastards that he might thereby strengthen his Title to the Crown by which dealing together with the wicked Murder of his two Innocent Nephews he became so hated that after his death the White Boar his Cognizance was torn down from every sign that his Memorial might perish as did the Moneys of Caligula which were all melted by the decree of the Senate Sp. Hist p. 706-725-737 That tempest that drove Philip King of Spain into England threw down the Golden Eagle from Pauls steeple which in its fall battered and broke down the Black Eagle in Pauls Church-yard which accident was held ominâ—us to the Imperial Family This King Philip the Emperors son shortly after dying As that lighting which struck the letter C out of Caesars name in his statue whence it was gathered that Caesar should live but a hundred dayes and then be called a God Aesar in the old Hetrurian Language so signifying which accordingly happened Sp. p. 76. A Cornish Smith being executed for a treasonable insurrection in the time of Henry the seventh comforted himself with this at his Execution that he hoped thereby his name and memory should be everlasting p. 754. The Earl of Kildare being at Hay with the Lieutenant of the Tower at Shuffleboard when a Mandate was brought for his Execution seeing the Lieutenant strucken into a suâ—dain sadness said By St. Bride Lieutenant there 's some mad game in that scrole but fall how it will this throw is for a huddle But the Lieutenant applying himself to the King Henry the eigth had a Countermand and the Earls life was saved p. 775. When the Pope held out his Toe to be kâ—st by the Earl of Wiltshire sent Embassador from Henry the eighth a Spaniel of the Earles caught his toe in his teeth the Embassador scorning to kiss after his Dog lost that especial favour profered to him Speeds Hist p. 782. The total number of the Ecclesiastical Benefices in England is eight thousand three hundred and twenty seven In VVales nine hundred and five In all nine thousand two hundred thirty and two In the year of our Lord 1524. upon certain predictions foreshewing a great deluge Prior Bolton of St. Bartholomews in London was so fearful that he built him an house upon the height of Harrow hill storing it with provisions necessary to keep himself from drowning p. 785. When Oliver Sinclere a man of mean extraction but favourite to King James the fifth of Scotland was by him declared General The Scots Nobility out of disdain forbare to fight and gave up themselves Prisoners to the English For grief of which the King shortly after died Edward the sixth was born of the Lady Jane Seymour her womb being cut and her life lost to save his on whom were made these verses Phoenix Jana jacet nato Phoenice dolendum Saecula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas Speed Hist p. 892. The fire Cross in Scotland is only set up in time of most extream danger unto which all men are to repair that are between sixteen and sixty p. 832. In the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred forty eight one Boyer Mayor of Bodwin in Cornwall having been active in a Rebellion Sir Anthony Kingston Provost Marshal sent word to him he would visit him at Dinner but before he sate down commanded the Mayor to cause a gallows to be set up and the Table taken away he willed the said Mayor to accompany him to the place and saw him hanged ere he departed Id. p. 832. In Cornwall dwelt a Miller who had been a busy doer in the Rebellion vvho knovving his danger willed his Man to take the name of his Master if any enquired for him Sir Anthony Kingston Provost Marshal came to the Mill enquired for the Master the Man in his name presented himself and was straight commanded to the Gallows The Servant then seeing the danger of death confest he was not the Master but the Man Well said the Knight Thou canst never do thy Master better Service than to hang for him and thereupon trust him up a the next tree Speeds Hist p. 833. The Lord Edward Seymor Protector condemned for Felony for coming Armed into the Kings Counsel neither by himself nor learned Counsel demanded his Clergy which would have saved his life p. 838. When Cranmer and others urged King Edward the sixth to let his Sister Mary to have Mass in her house the King having answered all their arguments and they not taking Nay burst forth into tears and sobbing desired them to be content Speed p. 839. Queen Mary was so affected with the loss of Calice that she was wont to say that the loss of Calice was written in her heart and might there be read when her body should be opened p. 856. The head of the Admiral Chastillon murthered in the Massacre at Paris was embalmed and sent by the Queen of France as an acceptable present to the Pope 856. Con O Neale sirnamed Bacco cursed all his Posterity in case they learned English sowed wheat or built them houses p. 863. Doctor Story a bloody persecutor in Queen Maries daies in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth was entrapped at Antwerp where he had got a Commission to search for English books all ships that came in by one Parker an English Merchant Whose Ship Story searching for Heretical books was clapt under Hatches brought into England and there executed for a Traytor Speeds Hist p. 87. Queen Elizabeth told Doctor Reinolds of CCC that her reading of Seneca de Clementia had done her much good but some would perswade her it had done her State as much harm p. 874. England was divided into Parishes by Honorius Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the year of our Lord 636 and there are 9285 Parishes under 27 Bishops whereof two are Metropolitans Canterbury and York in manner following Canterbury Bishopricks Shires Parishes Canterbury Kent 256. Rochester Kent 98. London Essex Middlesex Hartfordshire
entertained the Angels continued till the i me of Constantius the younger Id. p. 21. London was built three hundred fifty and six years before Rome in the time of Eli the high Priest Graftons Hist p. 36. King Locrine Brutus Son kept Estrildes his beautiful Concubine seven years in a secret cave at London and when he went to her gave out that he would make a secret sacrifice to the Gods On her he begat Habren whom Gwendolin his Wife together with her Mother threw into Severn and drowned and from the childes name commanded the River to be called Habren as the Welch now call it and by corruption Severn p. 39. King Bladad who founded Bathe having made himself VVings and intending to fly with them fell on the Altar of Apollo and bruised himself and therewith died Id. p. 47. In the time of Rivalio King of England it rained blood for three daies continually which bred an innumerable company of Flies and after was followed with a fearful pestilence Id. p. 49. Malmutius gave priviledge of Sanctuary to Temples Cities Carts and the four High-wayes which are called The Foss from Totness to Lincoln VVatlingstreet from Dover to Cardigan Erming street from St. Davids to Southampton Kickneld street from VVorcester to Tinmouth p. 54. 57. When Brennus besieged the Capitol the Ganders awakened the VVatch and saved it On which accasion the Romans long time after held a feast of Ganders the first day of June p. 59. When the Soldiers of Brennus had robbed the Temple of Apollo at Delphos his Army was destroyed by an Earth-quake and hail-stones and Brennus in despair slew himself p. 59. Morindus King of Brittain was slain by a Sea Monster whom he rashly would needs encounter with in the year of the VVorld three thousand six hundred fifty two Archigallo King of Brittain being deposed his Brother Elidurus was substituted King in his place who when he had raigned five years finding his Brother by chance in a VVood restored him again to his Crown Grafton p. 63. Ptolomeus Philodelphus King of Egypt being desirous to have the old Testament translated into Greek released freely a hundred thousand of the Jews that were captive gave great gifts and sent to Jerusalem for seventy Interpreters who coming to him in seventy daies finished it and were richly rewarded every one having given them three suits of apparel two talents of Gold and one Cup of one Talent of Gold and sufficient furniture for all their journeys and expences p. 63. In the daies of Eldadus King of Brittain there was a child born in Rome with four feet four hands four eyes as many ears and both Natures Id. p. 65. From Adam to Christ are three thousand nine hundred sixty three years six months and ten da s and from Christs birth one thousand six hundred and seventy three so that the VVorld hath endured five thousand six hundred thirty and six Grafton p. 74. Lucius the first Christian King in the year of Christ one hundred and eighty appointed VVestminster to be a Sanctuary Id. p. 83. Severus the Emperor built a Wall between Tine and the Sea which was one hundred twenty two miles long Id. p. 84. Donald the third King of Scots a cruel Tyrant never laught but when he heard of the discord and slaughter of his Nobles p. 87. Austin and his Mother praising God for his Conversion sung the Hymn Te Deum answering mutually p. 92. Vortiger having procured a guard of an hundred Picts to attend King Constance he made them drunk and laid open to them his own poverty and by secret wayes let them know his mind to have the King removed whom they wickedly slew and Vortiger for so doing put them all to death and usurped the Crown Grafton p. 95. Hengist the Saxon begg'd of King Vortiger so much ground as an Ox hide would compass which being granted he cut the Hide into small thongs and with the same measured out a large circuit of ground in Lindsey long after named Thong Castle p. 96. Vortimer caused his Sepulchre of Brass made spirewise to be set in that Port in Kent where the Saxons were commonly wont to arrive and his dead Corps to be laid in it to terrify the Saxons of which Saxons King Arthur in one day with his own hands slew 140 and Edolse at Stonehing with a stake â—o and got safe away to his Castle p. 99. 160. 106. In the Monastery of Bangor in the year five hundred forty six there were more than two thousand Monks that lived by the travail of their hands of whom one Etherfrid King of Northumberland kill'd twelve hundred at one time when they came to pray for the good speed of the Brittans Grafton p. 109. Pope Gregory writing an answer to Austins questions gave this determination That all goods that were given to the Church should be divided into four parts One to the maintenance of the Bishop and his houshould the second to the Clergy the third to the amendment of Churches and the fourth to the reliefe of poor people and works of mercy p. 114. Kenneth Keir King of Scotland commanded all Juglers Minstrels and scoffers to be banished as Vagabonds or else to find some honest occupation to live by p. 116. Elsteda the daughter of King Oswy was gigen by her Father to God with twelve Mannors on which to build twelve Abbeys Grafton p. 122. Glazing was first brought into England by Bennet a Monk about the year six hundred p. 122. Tiberius the Emperor beheaded one that had found out the Art of making Glass malleable saying That that Art would make Gold and other Metals of no value p. 123. Wilfred being deposed from the Arch-bishoprick of York applied himself to the Saxons and taught them fifteen years and instructed them in the Art of Fishing p. 124. In the raign of King Ino King of the West Saxons one Brightwoldus after he had been a long time dead was restored again to life and told many things of great wonder to many men whereby he caused great Alms and deeds of charity to be done Id. p. 127. Eugenius King of Scotland caused the Acts of his Ancestors to be committed to writing and that Historiographers should be found at the common cost Grafton p. 128. Before the Danes came into England in the daies of Brithricus King of the VVest Saxons in the year 779 as men walked in the streets Crosses like unto blood fell upon their clothes and blood like drops of Rain fell from Heaven p. 130. A grant of Land made by Athelstan in this short form I King Athelstan give unto Paulan Odham and Rodham as good and as fair as ever they mine were And thereto witness Maud my wife p. 147. When Dunstan held Ethelred being an Infant over the Font he defiled it with his ordure Whereon Dunstan sware by God and his Mother this child will be unkind to God and his Church Id. p. 160. When Seward Earl of Northumberland being sick of a
Flux saw that he should die he caused his Armor to be put upon him and so Armed and sitting in a Chair said Thus it becometh a Knight or man of honor to die and not lying in his bed as another mean man Grafton p. 181. Edward the Confessor was the first King of England that used by his touch to cure the Kings evil William the Conqueror had three Horses killed under him at Battel Abbey Field Id. p. 191. An Hide of Land containeth five yards and every yard containeth four Acres An Acre containeth forty perches in length and four in breadth And a Knights fee con aineth eight Hides which amount to one hundred and sixty Acres and is accompted a Plough Land Grafton 2. Vol. p. 16. Leofricus Duke of Mercia in the time of Edward the Confessor adorned the Church of Coventry with great riches of Gold Silver and Jewels insomuch that Robert William the Conquerors Chaplain being made Bishop thereof took from one beam in his Church the value of five hundred Marks A Tempest in the year one thousand and ninety in the raign of William Rufus blew down six hundred houses in London p. 23. William Rufus warring in Normandy when by his command an Army of twenty thousand men were gathered together at Hastings in Sussex ready to be transported he sent then word that every man paying ten shillings might return home as meaning to corrupt therewith Philip the French King to desert his brother Robert which accordingly was done and thereon Robert was fain to sue for Terms of Peace Id. p. 25. In the time of Rufus Bishopricks were bought and sold in England as other Merchandises also Priests used bushed and braided-heads and blazing clothes shining and Golden Girdles and gilt Spurs and many other enormities uncontrouled Grafton 2. Vol. p. 28. In the year one thousand one hundred and sixty were seen in England two Moons on Maunday Thursday the one in the East the other in the West and in the year one thousand one hundred and fifty six were seen two Suns and in the Moon a Red Cross about which time in Italy appeared three Suns by the space of three hours in the West and in the year following three Moons whereof the middle had a Red Cross overthwart noted as a token of the schisme among the Cardinals about the election of Alexander the third that endured twenty years As also in December in the year one thousand and two hundred in the raign of King John were seen in the Element about ten at night within the Province of York five Moons One in the East another in the West a third in the South another in the North and a fifth in the middle Hail fell as big as Hens Eggs and Spirits were seen flying in the Air like Birds with fire in their bills setting houses on fire as they flew And the last of October one thousand three hundred twenty and one the Sun for six hours together appeared as red as blood And in the year one thousand two hundred sixty and one in the raign of Henry the third the Thames was frozen so hard that men rode over on horse-back Grafton 2. Vol. p. 36. 51. 92. 98 138. 201. All Becket's Kinred both men and women were banished for his offence by Henry the second p. 68. Becket on Christmas day did excommunicate Robert de Brocke for cutting off the tail of one of his Horses the day before p. 71. When Pope Alexander trod upon the Emperor Fredericks neck the Quire blasphemously sung this verse Thou shalt walk upon the adder and the Basilisk and shall tread down the Lion and the Dragon p. 79. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century X. HEnry the second King of England never laid any Tax or tribute on his Subjects in all his raign and yet when he died left nine hundred thousand pounds in his Treasury Grafton Vol. 2. p 81. Robin Hood and little John who is reported to be fourteen foot high two Famous Thieves lived in the time of King Richard the first p. 85. Four hundred Jews at York in the time of Richard the first cut their Master veines and bled themselves to death p. 87. In the year one thousand two hundred twenty one the men of Cathness in Scotland burnt their Bishop because he cursed them for not paying Tithes for which cause the King of Scots hanged four hundred of the chief doers gelded their children and disinherited the Earl of that Country Id. p. 119. A Jew falling into a Privy at Tewksbury on Saturday for reverence of the day which is their Sabbath would not be taken forth The Earl of Glocester hearing of it commanded that he should not be taken out on the Lords day for reverence of the Christian Sabbath and on Munday morning he was found dead Grafton Vol. 2. p. 119. When Isabel Edward the seconds Wife was returning with an Army into England had they not been driven by a Tempest to a contrary Harbour they had all miscarried their Enemies waiting at the Port they intended to land at p. 20. Edward the third tempted the Chastity of the beautiful Countess of Salisbury and had an honorable repulse p. 214. King Edward the third having streightned Calice by a Twelve-months siege proffered mercy to all except six which should come forth with Halters about their necks and be left wholly to his dispose they coming he commanded them to be beheaded but upon the earnest intercession of his Queen and Nobles he forgave them who had all voluntarily proffered themselves to that danger to save their people p. 286. King Edward the third took Sir Eustace of Richmond Prisoner with his own hand and for his valiant behaviour in the encounter he set him at liberty and gave him a rich Chapelet of Pearls to were in remembrance of him Grafton Vol. 2. p. 291. Sir James Audely having behaved himself valiantly at the battel of Poytiers the Black Prince gave him five hundred Marks a year which he presently gave his four Esquires the Prince hearing of it confirmed his gift and gave him six hundred Marks more for himself p. 299. John King of France and Edw. the 3d King of England being together at Mass when the Pax was profered to be kissed both refused to kiss first and so instead of kissing the Pax they kissed each other p. 316. In the year one thousand four hundred and eleven the Thames flowed three times in one day of which Grafton gives the reason to be great Winds Rains and Frost p. 441. At the Council of Constance was assembled of Bishops Abbots and Doctors three hundred forty six of Noble men five hundred sixty four of Knights and Esq sixteen thousand besides Servants which not accounting the Townsmen were reckoned forty five thousand persons Id. 444. In the raign of Henry the fiftâ— there was a Bill put up in the Parliament at Leicester against the Temporalties of the Clergy That that which was devoutly given and disordinately spent might
Moguntinensis Treverensis Coloniensis Quilibet Imperii sit Cancellarius horum * Rhenis * Saxoniae Et Palatinus * dapifer Dux * portitor ensis * Brandeburgensis Marchio * Praepositus Camerae Pincerna Bohemus Hi statuunt dominum per omnia saecula summum Id. part 6. P. 7. Calixtus chosen Pope having taken Pope Benedict his opposer caused him to ride before him through the City of Rome on a Mule with his face towards the tail and holding it in his hand as a bridle and after cast him into Prison Id. part 6. R. 6. Epitaphium Henrici filii H. 5. Imperatoris Omnis honoris honos decor decus urbis orbis Militiae splendor gloria lumen apex Julius ingenio virtutibus Hector Achilles Viribus Augustus moribus ore Paris Fruct Temp. part 7. S. 3. Pope Gregory when Legate convented a Bishop before him that was suspected of Simony and said openly before all the people since the Bishop denied it and none could prove it Let mans Judgment cease for it's deceivable and let God dispose of it For certain it is that the Dignity of a Bishop is the gift of the Holy Ghost and whosoever buâ—es a Bishoprick sins against the Holy Ghost Then if thou Bishop didst not sin against the Holy Ghost say openly before all people Gloria patri filio Spiritui sancto And many times he began to say it but could never speak Spiritui sancto He was deposed from his Bishoprick and afterwards could speak it well enough Id. part 7. R. 3. John Comin was slain by Robert Bruise King of Scots before the Altar at Dunfrees whose blood in the stones cannot be washt away Id. part 7. X. 3. Boniface the eighth Pope entred as a Fox lived as Lion died like a Dog Fructus Temp. part 7. X. 6. The Emperor Henry the seventh was poisoned by a Frier in the Sacrament Id. part 7. Z. 3. When Sir Roger Mortimer was Prisoner in the Tower he made a great Feast to the Lieutenant apd all his Officers at which he gave them in their drink a sleepy potion that they slept two days and two nights and in the mean time he made his escape Id. part 7. Z. 3. At Halidon hill besides Berwick there were slain in one battel of the Scots thirty five thousand seven hundred and twelve and of the English but fourteen Id. part 7. A. 5. In the time of King Edward the third there reigned a great pestilence over most part of the World and from that time all that ever have been born have two cheeks teeth less than they had before Id. part 7. B. 4. King Richard the second in the year of his raign out of his displeasure against London removed the Courts and Terms from Midsummer till Christmas unto York Fructus Temp. part 7. E. 2. Eleven persons were pressed to death on London bridge by the throng of people that came from meeting King Richard the second in his return from France Id. part 7. E. 4. Thomas of Woodstock the good Duke of Glocester was smothered to death at Calice by the command of Richard the second between two feather-beds Id. part 7. E 4. In the year one thousand four hundred thirty four appeared three Suns at one time and anon followed the three-fold government of the Church The Pope The Council The Neutral and an Holy maid in Holland called Lidwith lived only by miracle not eating any meat Id. part 7. H. 8. The nine Orders of Angels are thus reckoned Angels Archangels Principates Potestates Virtues Dominations Thrones Cherubim Seraphim Polychronicon fol. 3. The Caspian hills are seven thousand paces in length but in breadth little more than a Cart-way Id. f. 8. In India the men have many wives and when the husband dieth the fairest and best beloved is buried with him which they esteem as the highest honour and preferment Id. f. 10. In the dead Sea a Lanthorn with a candle lighted swimmeth and floateth but if the light be quenched it sinketh nothing that hath life will sink as was tried by Vespasian who threw in two men bound together and yet they swam King Alexander intending to make War upon the Amazons they writ to him that they much wondred at him For if he were vanquished he should have great shame and if he were Conquerer he should have no Credit With which letter he was so convinced that he forbore to meddle with them sent for the Queen kept her as his Concubine forty dayes and sent her back with child by him Polycrhonicon fol. 17. The Shadow of Mount Athos reacheth seventy miles in length Id. f. 20. Bellerophons Image with his Horse made of Iron weighing fifteen thousand pound weight hung in the midst of a Temple in the air without chains or supporters only by the strength of Adamant or Loadstones that were in the Vaults and Arches that drew the Iron so every way that it might not move upwards nor downward nor sidewards but hang always in the middle Id f. 23. The Albestone when once set on fire can never be quencht or diminisht f. 23. In the North of Ireland is the land of Life where none die till they are carried out Id f. 35. In the Isle of Thule the six Summer months it's day and the six Winter months it's night Polycron f. 41. The Isle of Man was Judged to Brittain from Ireland because Venomous creatures are found therein Id f. 44. In Bohemia there is a beast called Boaz that hath no Horns but hath a large bag under his Chin wherein he gathereth water and in running heateth scalding hot and spouteth out on the Hunters and Hounds that pursue him and scaldeth them full sore A Maid the same day she was to be married turned into a Man and shortly after married a wife Id. f. 49. In the time of William the Conqueror there were in England forty five thousand and two Parish Churches Id. Ibid. What Hannibal said of the Romans that Ranulph of Chester saith of Englishmen that they could not be overcome but in their own Country Idem f. 56. The space between the hands stretched out which we call a Fathom is the just length of the body Polycronicon f. 57. In Africa there are some men that if they praise any thing it withereth and decayeth Id. f. 58. Trevisa tells of one Roger Bagge a very old man in Wotton Underhedge in Glocestershire that never spat or coughed in all his life f. 58. When there was War between the men of Thessaly and Athens an Oracle was given that the party whose Duke should be slain should have the better Codrus King of Athens disguised himself and went into the midst of his Enemies and so willingly occasioned his own death to get the Victory to his people f. 85. On Sardanapalus tomb by his own appointment was written So much I had as I eat and drank Id. f. 86. Licurgus having established his Laws bound the Lacedemonians by an Oath not to alter them till
of France having taken Cramyris his Eldest Son in battel who had rose in Rebellion against him as an example to all disobedient Children he enclosed him and his wife and Children in a House set it on fire and burned them in it Id. p. 91. Fredigund wife to King Chilperick resting on her bed her husband passing by with a little wand struck her upon the back the Queen not looking up and supposing the King gone a hunâ—ing said Landry why strikest thou me thus the King hearing these words made semblance as though he had not heard them but she perceiving it was the King for fear coâ—trived and procured his death the same day as he came from Hunting Id. p. 109. Brunchild the wife to Segebert the fourth Son of Lotharius the first King of France having been a great stickler in the French affairs and the death of no less than ten Princes was at last by the King and Peers of France condemned to be tied to a Wild Horse-tail by the hair of her head and so to be drawn till she was dead which accordingly was done Id. p. 131. Clodoveus Son of Dagobert King of France in a great dearth caused the Church of St. Dennis which his Father had covered with Plates of Silver to be covered with lead and the Silver given to the relief of the poor Id. p. 151. Aelfrid King of the VVest Saxons being naturally inclined to Incontinency praied that God would send him such a disease that might hinder his lust but not unfit him for the managing he affairs of his Kingdom And he accordingly had the disease called Ficus Fabian Hist 1. part p. 216. A noble man named Hebert having invited Charles the simple King of France to his Castle there treacherously murthered him Lewes the fifth his Son long time after attaining the Crown intends revenge Having convened his Nobles amongst which Hebert was one a Messenger brought him a letter which while he read and smiled his Nobles asked what that letter imported he told them that a Kinsman of his in England had acquainted him that a husbandman inviting his Lord to dinner treacherously slew him and desired to know of him what such a one deserved and since they were thus met he desired their opinion They all and Hebert amongst them adjudged him to a shameful death The King turning to Hebert told him Thou art the man who hast treacherously slain my Father and therefore I Judge thee out of thy own mouth and accordingly he was immediately executed Id. p. 237. King Edward Son of Edgar being slain by his step-mothers command and buried in VVimborn she intending to Visit him by way of Pilgrimage could not by any means make the Horse she rid on come nigh the place of his burial Fabian Hist 1. part p. 255. Robert Duke of Normandy being chosen King of Jerusalem hearing of the death of his Brother VVilliam Rufus King of England minding to succeed him refused Jerusalem but as Authors say for that refusal of providence never prospered after Id. 319. Philip the Eldest Son of Lewes Son of Philip King of France being a youth riding through the streets of Paris for his disport a Hog suddainly started up which frighted his Horse so that he threw him off with so great Violence that he died that night Id. p. 332. Emanuel Emperor of Constantinople when the VVestern Princes about the year one thousand one hundred and fifty went against the Saracens sold them Meal mingled with lime whereof many of the Christian Army perisht 341. King Henry the second returning out of Ireland when on VVhitsunday he was taking horse suddainly appeared unto him a Man of pale and wan colour barefoot in a white Kirtyl and said Sir King Christ greeteth thee well and commandeth thee strictly that no Market or servile work be holden upon the Sunday in the lands of thy Lordship out take what belongeth to the dressing of meat and if thou so dost all shall prosper with thee The King bad the Knight that held his Horse ask him whether he had dreamed this The man replied whether I have dreamed or no take thou heed of my saying that if thou mend not thy life thou shalt shortly hear such things as shall make thee sorry to thy lives end This spoken the man suddainly vanisht and the King not amending himself was unfortunate ever after Fabian Hist p. 349. Epitaphium H. 2. Regis Angli Sufficit hic tumulus cui non suffecerit Orbis Res brevis est ampla cui fuit ampla brevis Rex Henricus eram mihi plurima regna subegi Multiplicique modo Duxque Comesque fui Cui satis ad Votum non â—ssent omnia terrae Climata Terra modo sufficit octo pedum Qui legis haec pensa discrimina mortis in me Humanae speculum conditionis habe Quod potes instanter operare bonuÌ„ quia mundus Transit incautos mors inopina rapit Id. p. 356. Epitaphium Frederici Imper. Si probitas sensus Virtutis gratia census Nobilitas ortûs possent resistere morti Non foret extinctus Fredericus qui jacet intus Fabian Hist 2. Vol. p. 53. In the year of our Lord one thousand two hundred seventy two at Greenwich near London a Lamb was yeaned having two perfect bodies with all their members but one head Id p. 99. In the yeâ—r of our Lord one thousand two hundred eighty six a Woman in Switzerland was delivered of a Child that from the Navâ—l upwards had two compleat bodies and downward was but one and another woman bore a Child whose head and face was like a Man and all the rest of the body like a Lion Boniface the eighth minding to get the Popedom hired one of the Chamberlains to Coelestine the fifth who was a good and holy but simple man in the dead of the night to speak in a reed and say Coelestine if thou wilt be saved renounce this Pomp of the VVorld and serve me as thou didst before He having often heard the voyce took it for a Divine warning resigned the Popedom and would have retired into the VVilderness But Boniface fearing his restauration held him Prisoner and so used him that he shortly after died Id 158. The three wives of the three Sons of Philip the fair King of France which wives were Sisters Daughters to the Duke of Burgoigne were at one time accused of Spouse-breach the two eldest convict and the youngest was cleared the two wives put in Prison and the two paramours hanged The youngest vvas restored to her husband Charles after King of France but from him aftervvards divorced because her Mother vvas Godmother to her husband Fabian Vol. 2. p. 163. 189. In the third year of the raign of Philip the fifth of France the Provost of Paris having in his Prison a Picard a man of great riches vvhich vvas judged to be hanged The said Provost being hired thereunto vvith great Sums of Money took another Innocent Man and put