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A37219 A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent. J. D., Gent.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. 1686 (1686) Wing D38; ESTC R18713 93,900 252

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the Hemorrhoids A. D. 1154. and was buried at Feversham in Kent He had Issue Baldwin Eustace William Issue Maud Mary HENRY the Second Plantaginet the A. D. 1154. Son of Maud and Earl Geoffrey of Anjou was Crowned at Westminster This King went in Person against Lord Hugh de Mortimer and other Rebels where in the Siege of Bridgenorth he had been shot with an Arrow had not Hubert de St. An Example of true Loyalty Clare interposed and took the Arrow in his own bosom Tho. Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterbury made great disturbances in this Kings Reign he was at last murdered in the Cathedral at Canterbury and this was his Epitaph Quis moritur Praesul Cur Pro grege Qualiter Ense Quando Natali Quis locus Ara Dei. This King effected the Conquest of Ireland Ireland conquered and reformed the Irish Church This Kings Queen Eleanor and his Sons rose in Rebellions against him and were assisted by the French and Scotch Kings but he overcame them all He died in the Church at Chinon A. D. His Death 1189. and was buried at Font Everard His Issue were William Henry Richard Issue Jeoffrey Philip John Maud and Eleanor He had to his Concubine fair Rosamond Rosamond who was poisoned by the Queen in her Labyrinth at Woodstock which the King had built for her She had this Epitaph upon her Tomb Hic jacet in Tumba Rosamundi non rosa munda Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet King Henry divided England into Circuits England divided into Circuits appointing that two of his Judges should twice in a year in each Circuit administer Justice In the beginning of his Reign one Nicholas An English man elected Pope Breakspear an English-man was elected Pope by the name of Adrian the IV. RICHARD from his exceeding Valour A. D. 1189. sirnamed Coeur de Lion was Crowned at Westminster He spent great time in the Wars at the Holy Land where he did many noble exploits and as he was going conquered Cyprus where he solemnly took to Wife his beloved Lady Berengaria He died of the wound of an Arrow received His Death at the Siege of the Castle of Chaluz belonging to the Viscount of Limoges April 6th 1199. and was buried at Charron In the first year of his Reign he appointed First Lord Mayor Henry Fitz-Alwin to be the first Lord Mayor of London being formerly governed by Portgraves Now lived Robin Hood and Little John JOHN by the assistance of his Mother A. D. 1199. Eleanor was by the great Council of the Realm admitted King and was Crowned at Westminster His Reign throughout was attended with great Troubles either with the King of France Scotland or by Rebellion of his own Subjects He was at last poisoned at Swinshed Abbey His Death by an envenomed Cup presented to him by a Monk tasting first thereof himself so becoming the wicked Instrument of his own and Sovereign's death Octob. 19. 1216. He was buried at Worcester His Issue were Henry Richard Joan Issue Eleanor and Isabel. Now lived one Simon Thurvey who for Example his Pride in Learning especially for his Blasphemies against Moses and Christ became so utterly ignorant that he could hardly read a letter in a Book HENRY the Third at about ten years A. D. 1216. of Age was Crowned King the ninth day after his Father King John's decease The Noble Earl of Pembroke being by common consent of Peers and Prelates constituted Guardian of him during his Non-age This King was almost always at dissension His Troubles with his Barons He lost all his Rights beyond the Seas to His Losses the French King There were now at Oxford 15000 Students The number of S tudents now at Oxford whose names were in the Metriculation Book After he had gone through very many troubles he fell grievously sick at the Abbey of St. Edmund in Suffolk and there died His De ath and Issue A. D. 1272. whose Issue was Edward Edmund Richard John William Henry Margaret Beatrice and Catharine Richard Beor then Bishop of Sarum The bu ilding of Salisbury Ch●●rch built that stately Church at Salisbury which hath in it as many Windows as are days in the year as many Marble Pillars as hours as many Doors as Months Magna Charta containing the sum of Magna char●● first instituted all the written Laws of England was ordained in the ninth year of his Reign EDWARD the First sirnamed Longshanks A. D. 1272. at his Fathers Death was employed in the Holy Wars where he behaved himself very valiantly He grieved much at his Fathers death At his arrival into England he was most joyfully welcomed and with his dearest Eleanor was Crowned at Westminster The first of this Kings exploits was the Wales subdued subduing of Wales and made his Son Edward born at Caernarvan Prince thereof He was mighty inde●●tigable and successful in all his exploits He brought Scotland Scotland subjected wholly in subjection and was ever very well beloved of his Subjects This Heroick King died of a Dysentery His. Death at Burgh upon Sands A. D. 1307. and was buried at Westminster His Issue were John Henry Alphonso Issue who died before him Edward Thomas Edmund and ten Daughters EDWARD called Caernarvan so soon A. D. 1307. as his Father was dead repealed Pierce Gaveston who in his Fathers time for abusing the Prince's years with wicked vanities by common Decree was banished He sailed into France where at Bolein he was married to young Isabella Daughter to Philip the Fair. This Gaveston forementioned caused many His Dissensions with the Death of Gaveston dissensions being a very debauched man and the King wholly ruled by him He was thrice banished by Parliament the King still re-calling him but at last was Beheaded at Warwick Castle by Guy Earl of Warwick as an open Traytor to the Kingdom which caused a lasting hatred between the King and Nobles This opportunity Bruce King of Scotland took to set his Kingdom at liberty and at Bannoxburn gave King Edward the greatest overthrow that ever they gave the English and gained great spoils the English The English beaten by the Scots coming as for a Triumph having adorned themselves with all sorts of riches whereon the Scots made these Rhymes Long Beards heartless painted Hoods witless Gay Coats graceless make England thriftless Then in Pierce Gaveston's place the King advanced the Spencers Father and Son The Spencers advanced whose intolerable insolences seemed to exceed the others and caused more Civil Dissensions and Civil Wars in which One Earl and fourteen Lords suffered death After which the Spencers behaved themselves so exceeding Lordly that the Queen and discontented Nobles resolve to clear the World of them and the King found but few Friends because of the Mortal hatred that the People generally did bear to the Spencers so that his
part proving the weaker Spencer the elder was taken at the Siege of Bristol and there cut up alive and quartered The younger was taken with The death of the Spencers the King at the Abby of Neath in Wales which Spencer was ignominiously hanged The distressed King being now shut up in Prison at last yielded to resign the Crown The resignation of his Crown to his Son Edward whereupon Sir William Trussel in behalf of the whole Realm renounc'd all Allegiance to him A. D. 1327. His Issue were Edward John Joan and His Issue Eleanor EDWARD the Third was Crowned A. D. 1327. upon Candlemas-day Soon after Tho. de Gourney and John Mattrevers conveyed the old King from Kenelworth to Berkley Castle and there Murdered him by running a Death of Edward the Second burning Spit into his Body as he was easing Nature Sept. 22. 1327. His Body was buried at Gloucester To animate these Regicides Adam de Torleton Bishop of Hereford sent them this ambiguous Phrase by Mortimer Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est This King made Edw. Baliol King of Scots who did him Homage In the year 1327. died Charles the Fair King of France by whose death the Crown Edward the Third his Title to France devolved to Edward King of England in right of his Mother Queen Isabel who was Daughter to Philip the Fair and Sister to Charles the Fair. But the French pretending a Fundamental Law by which no Woman was inheritable to France sought to debar King Edward of his right receiving to the Crown Philip of Valois whose Father was younger Brother to Philip the Fair advancing the Brothers Son before the Daughters Son Whereupon King Edward went into France with a puissant Army His Expedition for his Right in France and over-ran all places in his way at last the French Army met him at Cressy in Ponthio lying between the Rivers of Some and Anthy being above 100000 men A bloody Fight ensued where the Black Prince King Edward's Son without the help of the Battel wherein his Father was which stood idle won so great a Victory of the French A great Victory that they slew of their party 11 great Princes and of Barons Knights and men of Arms above 1500. and of the Commons about 30000. Of the English not one man of Note or Honour was slain The Scots taking this Opportunity in Scots invade England favour of the French invaded England but were soon stopt their King David taken Prisoner and their chiefest Nobles slain After the King had taken many great places in France at last there was a Peace concluded though it continued not long ere the French broke the Agreement In revenge whereof King Edward entred His second Journey into France France with an Army and spoiled it where he came and after his return home he bestowed the Dutchy of Aquitain on the Black Prince commanding him to defend his right The Prince furnished with a gallant Army went to the chief City Bourdeaux and John King of France encountred him with a great Army having the odds of six to one notwithstanding the Victorious Prince discomfited the French Another great Victory by the Black Prince took Prisoners the King and his youngest Son and many great Lords and about 2000 Knights Esquires and Gentlemen bearing Armories slew 52 Lords and 1700 Knights and Gentlemen besides common Soldiers 6000. Shortly after he return'd home with his Prisoner King John and a while after these Conditions were agreed The Agreement upon That King John and his Heirs should have the Crown of France and Dutchy of Normandy and King Edward and his Heirs Aquitain and Santain and King John pay for his Ransom 500000 l. Sterling Not long after this the Martial Prince The death of the Black Prince Edward died on Trinity Sunday 1376. about his age 46 and was buried at Canterbury And his Father died soon after at Shene in The Kings Death and Burial His Issue Surrey A. D. 1377. and was buried at Westminster His Issue were Edward the Black Prince William Lionel John of Gaunt Edmund William of Windsor Thomas Isabel Joan Blanch and Margaret He was the founder of the Noble Order The first Order of the Garter of the Garter so entituled from the Garter he took up of the Countess of Salisbury's which slipt off in a Dance Also in his First Justices of the Peace first year was the Original of Justices of the Peace RICHARD the Second the Son of A. D. 1377. the Black Prince was Crowned King in the eleventh year of his Age but ere the Crown was settled on his Head the French braved it on the English Coasts and the Scots set fire on the Tower of Roxborough and through want of care in such who had the charge of State-matters in the Kings behalf things were declined to a shameful change and the glorious Atchievements of the two late Edwards fell under an Eclipse Jack Straw and Wat Tyler caused Straw Tyler great Rebellions but were supprest at last King Richard married the Lady Ann His Marriage Daughter to the Emperour Charles the IV. and a Truce was concluded with France After a great many Troubles by Civil Wars and Dissensions he was caused to His resignation of the Crown resign the Crown to the Duke of Lancaster Queen Ann Wife to King Richard first Womens first riding on sidefaddles taught English Women to ride on side-saddles before they rode astride and long train●● Gowns for Women HENRY the Fourth the Son of John A. D. 1399. Duke of Lancaster the fourth Son of King Edward the Third was Crowned at Westminster All that the old King said was I look not after such things but my hope is that after all this my Cousin will be my good Lord and Friend Many did strive to re-place Richard but to no purpose Death of King Richard And he at last died at Pontfract Castle by Hunger Cold and great Torments and was buried at Langley in Hartford-shire There was a great many Conspiracies afterwards against King Henry but they all came off with the worst and the Plotters thereby only hastened their own ruin The King died at London A. D. His Death and Issue 1413. His Issue were Henry Thomas John Humphrey Blanch and Philippa HENRY the Fifth of Monmouth whilest A. D. 1413. he was Prince did many things very incongruous to the greatness of his Birth yet when he had attained the Crown to begin a good Government he began at home banishing from Court those unruly Youths that had been his Consorts He began his Reign in all things very advisedly He sent into France to demand his Right and the Dauphin in derision sent him a Ton of Paris Tennis Balls But the King returned for Answer that he would shortly send him London Balls which should shake Paris Walls And soon after went with an His
are called White-spurs His paternal Coat is also bettered and the eldest Son of that Coat-Armour is ever an Esquire Esquires by Birth are the younger Sons By Birth of the Nobility as of Earls Viscounts and Barons and the eldest Sons of Knights their eldest Sons successively Those by Office are the Serjeants at By Office Law Sheriffs Escheators the Serjeant of every Office in the Court but these Dignities die with themselves and their Offices Of Knighthood in general and of the Knight-Batchelor OF the Distinctions by Knighthood Distinctions of Knights there are many in other Parts of the World but in England only these Knights-Batchelors Knights of the Bath Knights-Bannerets Knights-Baronets and Knights of the Garter This Titl●● coming to be a Reward 〈◊〉 Degree of Honour is thought to be in imitation of the Equestris Order in Rome to which men were only advanced for extraordinary Vertue and notable Merit who only were admitted to beautifie the Caparisons of their Horses and their Armour with Gold from whence they were called Equites aurati The usual Ceremony of late in Dubbing The Ceremony in Dubbing a Knight is a stroke over the Shoulder with a Sword with these words Sois Chivaler 〈◊〉 nom de Dieu by the King or some by his Commission though the Spur hath lately been observed also Landfrank Archbishop of Canterbury made William the 2d a Knight in his Fathers Time but the Name of Batchelor Knight Batchelors when first added to it seems not to have been till the 33d of Henry the 3d. Of the Knight of the Bath IT is ever to be observed that when the word Knight is found without any addition of Distinction it is meant by the Knight-Batchelor Of the Order of the Bath the first that are taken notice of is in Froissart who gives an account of 46 When first made by Henry the 4th but Mr. Selden is of an opinion they were long before The Honour is invested with a great deal of noble Ceremony too tedious to insert They are distinguished ordinarily by the Their Distinction 〈◊〉 of a red Ribbon cross the left 〈◊〉 as Knights of the Garter by the 〈◊〉 and have this Priviledge above all 〈◊〉 their Sons are free from Wardship Of Bannerets THIS was anciently an Order in France Manner of the Creation and except that in England they are not created by Patent nor the Title hereditary the same The Creation is almost the same with theirs by the solemn delivery of a Banner charged with the Arms of 〈◊〉 that is to be created and cutting off the end of a Pennon or Streamer to make it square into the shape of a Banner are called by some Equites vexilliarii This Knight is only made by the King By whom if present otherwise by the General only for his Deserts in the Field This Order was of so great estimation that divers Knights-Batchelors and Esquires served under them and by Decree of King James it is established That such as were made the King being personally present under his Standard displayed in an Army Royal in open War should take place before all Baronets Of Baronets THE Title of Baronet was erected by When first King James in the 9th year of his Reign He made divers on the 22d day of May the Proem or Argument being for to what end the propagating a Plantation in Ulster in Ireland to which the Aid of these Knights was ordain'd which was the Maintenance of 30 Souldiers in that Province for three years Their Titles were to descend to the Heirs male of their Body and to take place before all Knights-Batchelors Knights of the Bath and Knights Bannerets and that the Name of Baronet in all Writs Commissions and Styles should be added to his Sirname and that the addition of Sir should precede in all mentionings of his Name as the Title of Lady or Madam to the Wives of them and their Successors and that they should take place according to the date of their Patents inter se and so to their Successors They are created by Patent Of Barons THIS word Baron is most properly derived Whence from the word Baria in Greek which signifies Authoritas gravis This Honour of Baronage is of three The several kinds kinds By Tenure by Creation and by Writ Those by Tenure are Peers of the Land By Tenure and are the Barons spiritual Those by Writ are such as the King is By Writ pleased to summons to Parliament though but Gentlemen or Knights and is by some esteemed only temporary pro termino 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but this cannot be by reason of the great Ceremony at their Creation The Title is also allowed to be hereditary Since these two sorts of Barons in the Time of Richard the 2d hath another been established which is Barons by Patent and By Patent indeed more usual in our later Times than those by Writ Thus in case there want Heirs male it many times descends to the Heirs female though not to her Husband but to their Issue This Dignity though the youngest hath Priviledge also the Priviledges belonging to all the Lords of th●● Parliament As first in all Tryals of criminal Causes he is tryed by the Bench of Peers who all give Verdict not upon the●● Oaths but upon their Honour with a great many more Priviledges But note that Marquesses and Earls Sons their Fathers living have not these Priviledges A Baron must go after the Ancientry of His 〈◊〉 his Ancestors Creation and the Baroness his Wife must go after the same A Barons eldest Son shall have the Place of the Banneret their younger Sons precede Knights-Batchelors and their Daughters go according to their Fathers Creation The form of their Creation is too tedious Of a Bishop THEY are with us three ways Barons of the Realm By Writ by Patent and by Consecration They precede all under the degree of Viscount in the Parliament House always placed on the King's right Hand They cannot be indicted for any Crime without special licence from the King they have likewise very many Priviledges The Viscount THE word in Latin is Vice-comes and it is a degree between an Earl and Baron The Count or Earl HE is the same that in Germany they call Grave as Palsgrave Landgrave c. The Dignity is of divers kinds for an Earl acknowledging no Superior is equal to a Prince The Marquess THIS word Marquess at first was used Whence first to all Earls and Barons that were Lords Marchers or Lords of the Frontiers and came afterward into a special Dignity between that of Duke and Earl The Ceremony of Creation much the same with that of an Earl and the Title Hereditary Of the Duke 〈◊〉 is said to be called Duke à ducendo Whence so called from his leading an Army 〈◊〉 There is not any Creation required 〈◊〉 this Honour and note that in all 〈◊〉 degrees of Honour