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A38421	England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.		1682 (1682)	Wing E3027; ESTC R218203	95,213	312

There is a line goes along the back which is as it were fastned to the body by an overtwart thrid it is all spotted with black specks over the Tale and Fins 'T is a wholsom Fish and eats tender and short as a Perch This Fish is rarely taken in any other River and this is observable of it that when the Fish is angry the Fins stand up stiff and after its anger is over they fall flat again At St. Bennets in the Holm Cockles and Periwinckles are digged out of the Ground The Ground about Winterton is the Richest Fattest Rottenest and easiest to Plough of any in England Upon the Shoar of this Shire Jet and Amber are often found and sometimes Hawks are taken Northampton-Shire IS bounded on the East by Cambridge-shire On the West by Warwickshire On the South by Buckinghamshire And on the North by Lincolnshire and Leicestershire It containeth in length 55 miles In breadth 26 miles And in Circumference 125 miles The Air is Temperate good and wholsom The Soil is Champion Rich and fruitful and it is well peopled and is the seat of many Noble Families of this Kingdom The Chief Commodities of this Shire are Corn Cattel Sheep and Wood. It is in the Diocess of Peterborough and hath in it 326 Parishes Out of it are elected 9 Members which sit in Parliament Knights 2 Peterborough 2 Northampton 2 Brackley 2 Higham-Ferrers 1 Its Division is into 20 Hundreds viz. Nassaburge Willibrooke Corby Polbrook Navisford Huxloe Rothwell Guylesborrow Orlington Fansey Newbottle Grove Spelboe Hamfordshoe Higham ferryes Wymersley Towcester Warden Norton Cleley Sutton And in these Hundreds are 13 Market-Towns viz. Rothwell Mond Thrapston Tuesd Tonchester Tues Kings Cliff Tu. Wellingborough Wed. Brackley Wedn. Daventry Wed. Kettering Friday Northampton Satur. Peterborough Sat. Oundle Sat. Higham Ferrers Rockingham The principal place in this County is the Town of Northampton lying in the Latitude of 52 deg 14 min. It bears from London N. W. and is distant therefrom 54 miles Thus From London to Barnet 10. to St. Albans 20. to Dunstable 30. to Stony-stratford 34. to Northampton 54. But by more accurate admeasurement upon the Road it is found to be 65 miles This Town is seated at the meeting and confluence of two Rivers and saith Speed for Circuit Beauty and Building may be ranked with most of the Cities of this Land It hath formerly been built all of Stone and walled about with a high and strong Wall This Town is yearly Governed by a Mayor two Bailiffs 12 Magistrates a Recorder a Town-Clerk a Common Council of 48 Burgesses with 5 Sergeants to execute business The Arms of this Town of Northampton are Gules a Watch-Tower on a Hill Proper supported by 2 Lions Rampant Or. The Names of the Earls of Northampton since the Norman Conquest Siward E. of Northampton Simon Scutlis E. of Northampton William Bohun E. of Northampton Humphrey Bohun E. of Northamp Thomas Woodstock E. of Northamp Humphrey Stafford E. of Northamp William Parr M. Henry Haward E. of Northamp Will. Compton E. of N. Things Remarkable in this County Upon the 26th of July 1469. at Edgcot in this County upon Danes Moor a bloody Battel was fought by the Lords of the North their Captains being Sir John Comers and Robin of Risdale against K. Edward the 4th William Herbert E. of Pembrook was the King's General who together with his Brother Richard and Richard Woodvill Lord Rivers Brother to the Queen with his Son were all four there taken with other 10 Gentlemen and all of them carried to Banbury and there Beheaded There were also 5000 of their men slain the greatest part whereof were Welsh men After this Victory Robin of Risdale hasted to the King's Mannor House at Grafton and there surprized Earl Rivers the Queens Father and his Son John and had them Beheaded at Northampton The Town of Northampton hath three times felt the smart of Civil Dissention The first was in Anno 1106. by Robert William and Henry Brethren and Sons to the Conqueror who spoiled it and all the Countrey adjoyning The second was Anno 1263. by K. Henry the 3d. who surprized it against his Rebellious Barons and broke down the Walls thereof The third was Anno 1459. in which Town was taken K. Henry the 6th by the Earls of Warwick and March supporters of the Title of York wherein were slain Humphrey Stafford D. of Buckingham John Talbot E. of Shrewsbury and the Lords Beamount and Egremount with many more and the King was by the Lords conveyed to London From some Ascents in this County may be seen at one view 30 Parish-Churches and many more Windmils By Collyweston in this County Slate Stones are digged The River Nun runs by the South side of Peterborough in the middle of which saith William of Swaffham is a Gulf so deep and cold withal that in Summer time no Swimmer is able to Dive to the bottom of it and yet it is never frozen in Winter for there is a Spring in it whence the Water always rises and bubleth up which keeps it from freezing Northumberland THis County is bounded on the East by the German Ocean On the West by Cumberland On the South by the Bishoprick of Durham And on the North by Scotland It containeth in length 60 miles In breadth 40 miles And in Circumference 145 miles The Temperature of the Air of this Shire of it self is sharp and piercing but the German Ocean doth somewhat abate the edge of this sharpness and helps to dissolve the Snow and Ice The Soil is barren having neither fertility of Ground for Corn or Cattel it being naturally rough and hard to be manured But those parts by the Sea side and by the River Tyne good Husbanding of it hath made it reasonable fertile The principal Commodities are Sea-Coals Fish and Fowl It is in the Diocess of Durham and hath in it 460 Parishes Out of it are elected 8 Parliament Men. Knights 2 New-Castle upon Tyne 2 Morpeth 2 Berwick upon Tweed 2 Its Division is not into Hundreds but into 6 Wards In the County are 6 Market-Towns viz. 1 New-Castle Tues and Sat. 2 Hexam Tues 3 Morpeth Wednes 4 Weller Thurs 5 Alnewick Satur. 6 Barwick Sat. The Principal Town in this County is New-Castle lying in the Latitude of 55 deg 3 min. It bears from London N. by W. And is distant therefrom 212 miles Thus From London to Waltham-Cross 12 miles to Ware 20. to Royston 33. to Huntington 48. to Stamford 69. to Grantham 85. to Newark 95. to Tuxford 105. to Doncaster 123. to Ferrybridge 134. to Tadcaster 142. to York 150. to Burrough-bridge 163. to Northallerton 176. to Darlington 186. to Durham 200. to New-Castle 212. But being accurately measured upon the Road the distance is found to be 276. It hath in it 4 Churches and a strong VVall about it in which there are eight Gates It is much ennobled by the Haven which the River Tyne maketh being of that

an extraordinary height in comparison of what it flows in other parts of the English Shore Near unto Bristol are those famous Rocks known by the name of St. Vincent's Rocks very ragged and hanging over the River Avon where also is a Well of warm Water very pleasing to the taste whose Water is much commended for the cure of Ulcers c. it being taken inwardly and applied outwardly it cures Old Sores with very good success On the upper side of these Rocks of St. Vincent are digged out Pelna'd Stones commonly called Bristol Stones or Diamonds some 4 cornered others 6 cornered which saith Speed are so bright of colour as they may equalize Indian Diamonds but not so hard Westward of St. Vincent's Rock is another Rock in which are found Diamonds inclosed in a kind of reddish Flint in a wonderful manner and the Earth thereabouts is read also At Chedder near Axbridge is a Spring so plentiful of Water presently that it drives 12 Mills within a quarter of a mile of the head of it There was a Walnut Tree saith Cambden in Glastenbury Church-yard that did never put out Leaf till St. Barnabas Day and upon that very day it was very rank and full of Leaves Near unto Glastenbury in Wivall Park was a Hawthorn that upon Christmas-Day sprouted forth as if it were in May. There is a Church in Bristol called the Temple the Tower whereof shakes to and fro when the Bells ring so that it hath divided it self from the rest of the Building from the top to the bottom the breadth of 3 fingers and openeth and shutteth whensoever the Bell is rung Mendip Hills in this Shire afford great abundance of Lead In the 22 year of Q. Elizabeth a strange Apparition appeared in this County 60 Personages all cloathed in Black a furlong in distance from those that beheld them and after their appearing and a little while tarrying they vanished away But immediately another strange company in like manner colour and number appeared in the same place and they encountred one another and so vanished away And the third time appeared that number again all in bright Armour and encountred one another and so vanished away Affidavit was made of the truth of this by 4 honest men that saw it to be true before Sir George Norton In the year 1607. a mighty West Wind brought in the River Severn with such violence that in some places in Somersetshire and Gloucestershire the Waters grew higher than the tops of the Houses and 80 persons in Somersetshire were drowned and damages done to the value of 26 thousand pounds Staffordshire THis County is bounded on the East by Derbyshire and Warwickshire On the West by Shropshire and Cheshire On the South by Worcestershire And on the North by Cheshire It containeth in length 45 miles In breadth 28 miles And in Circumference 142 miles The Air of this Shire is very healthful yet in the North parts and Moorlands it is very sharp the Wind blowing sharp and the Snow lying long The Soil on the South parts is very rich and fruitful but the North more barren in respect of the Mines The Meadows are very fruitful being moistned with Springs and Rivers which run by them so that they be green in the midst of Winter and Woods it wanteth none witness the Cank The chief Commodities are Copper Lead Iron Alabaster and Pit-Coals It is in the Diocess of Litchfield and Coventry and hath in it 130 Parishes Out of it are elected 10 Parliament Men. Knights 2 Litchfield 2 Stafford 2 New-Castle under-Line 2 Tamworth 2 Its Division is into 5 Hundreds viz. Pyrehill Totmonslow Caddlestone Seisdon Offelwe And in these Hundreds are 18 Market-Towns viz. New-Castle under-Line Monday Stow Tu. Betles Tu. Pagets Browley Tu. Tutbury Tu. Walsall Tu. Ridgley Tu. Pankridge Tu. Brewood Tu. Littlefield Tu. Fr. Leeke Wed. Wolverhampton W. Vtoxiter W. Chickly Th. Burton on Trent Th. Ecleshall Friday Stafford Sat. Tamworth The principal City is Lichfield lying in the Latitude of 52 deg 50 min. Its bears from London N. W. and is distant therefrom 94 miles Thus From London to Barnet 10 miles to St. Albans 20. to Dunstable 30. to Stony-stratford 44. to Toceter 50. to Daventry 60. to Coventry 74. to Coleshill 82. to Lichfield 94. But by a more accurate admeasurement upon the Road it is found to be distant from London 118 miles This City of Lichfield was known by Beda by the name of Lucedfeld which Rosse doth interpret to be The Field of Dead Bodies for the number of Saints under the rage of Dioclesian there slain and for this cause it may be that the City bears for her Arms in an Escutcheon a Landskip with divers Martyrs in several manners Massacred But The Shire-Town is Stafford which is yearly Governed under 2 Bailiffs annually elected out of 21 Assistants called the Common-Council a Recorder a Town-Clerk and 2 Serjeants at Mace The Arms of this Town is Or on a Cheveron Gules a True-lovers knot of the first Ralph Stafford Earl of Stafford William Howard Viscount Stafford Things Remarkable in this County Upon the 23d of September Anno 1459. being the 38th year of K. Henry the 6th A bloody Battel was fought upon Blore-heath in this County by Richard E. of Salisbury in the quarrel of York against James Lord Audley General for K. Henry the 6th in which the Lord James was slain with many of the Gentry of Cheshire who in great favour had received the Young Prince's Livery of Swans and in his Right manfully fought and lost their lives namely Sir Hugh Venibles Sir Thomas Dutton Sir Richard Molineux Sir William Trowthek Sir John Leigh Sir John Donn and Sir John Edgerton Knights and of common Soldiers there were slain 2400. Also the two Sons of the E. of Salisbury were taken Prisoners and sent to Chester In Pensneth Castle saith Cambden is a Coal-Pit which was set on fire by a Candle through the negligence of a Digger the smoak of it is commonly seen and sometimes the Flame In this Shire they manure their Land with Lime The People about Wotton observe that when the VVind sits West it always produceth Rain But the East and South Wind here bring fair weather unless the Wind turn from the West into the South If the River Dove overflow its Banks and run into the adjacent Meadows in April it makes them extream fruitful This River uses to rise extreamly within 12 hours space but it will in 12 hours return again within its Banks But the River Trent being once up and over its Banks flows over the fields 4 or 5 days together ere the superfluous Water can get away The little River Hans runs under ground for three miles together Mr. Cambden saith that Necham speaks of a Lake in this County but says not where that foreshews things to come by its Roaring and no wild Beast will enter into it Gervase of Tilbury tells of a Lake called Mahall near Magdalen

352 January 25. Gloucester Edward 3 1312 1326 January 25. 51 5 301 June 21. Westminster Richard 2 1366 1377 June 21. 22 3 279 September 29. Westminster The Line of Lancaster Henry 4 1367 1399 September 29. 13 6 265 March 20. Canterbury Henry 5 1584 1412 March 20. 9 5 256 August 31. Westminster Henry 6 1421 1422 August 31. 38 6 218 March 4. Windsor The Line of York Edward 4 1442 1460 March 4. 23 1 195 April 9. Winchester Edward 5 1433 1471 April 9. 0 2 195 June 18. Not known Richard 3 1448 1483 June 18. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester The Families United Henry 7 1459 1485 August 22. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester Henry 8 1491 1508 April 22. 2 2 193 August 22. Leicester Edward 6 1537 1547 January 28. 37 10 132 June 28. Windsor Q. Mary 1518 1553 July 6. 6 5 125 July 6. Westminster Q. Eliz. 1533 1558 November 17. 44 4 76 March 24. Westminster The Union of the two Kingdoms James 1566 1602 March 24. 22 0 53 March 27. Westminster Charles 1 1600 1625 March 27. 23 11 30 January 30. Windsor Charles 2 1630 1648 January 30. Whom God grant long to Reign A CATALOGUE of the Peers and Nobility of England according to their Precedence Dukes James Duke of York and Albany Earl of Vlster Lord High Admiral of England the King 's only Brother Created Jan. 27. 1643. Rupert Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holdernesse Jan. 24. 1643. The Lord Chancellor Keeper Treasurer Privy Seal Take place of all the other Dukes Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Francis Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Christopher Monk Duke of Albemarle James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Henry Cavendish Duke of New-Castle Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton Marquesses Charles Pawlet Marq. of Winchester Henry Somerset Marq. of Worcester Henry Pierrepoint Marq. of Dorchester Earls The L. High Chamberlain of England Steward of the King's Houshold Chamberlain of the King's Houshold Take Place of all Earls in respect of their Places Aubry de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Anthony Grey Earl of Kent William Stanly Earl of Derby John Manours Earl of Rutland Theophil Hastings Earl of Huntington William Russell Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke Edward Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham James Howard Earl of Suffolk Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset and Middlesex James Cecill Earl of Salisbury John Cecill Earl of Excester John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester James Compton Earl of Northampton Edward Rich Earl of Warwick Holland Will. Cavendish Earl of Devonshire William Fielding Earl of Denbigh John Digby Earl of Bristol Charles Sackvill Earl of Middlesex and Dorset Gilbert Holles Earl of Clare Oliver St. John Earl of Bullingbrook Charles Fane Earl of Westmorland Robert Montague Earl of Manchester Charles Howard Earl of Berkshire John Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave William Leg Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers Robert Berty Earl of Lindsey John Cary Earl of Dover ex Charles Knollys Earl of Banbury Henry Mordant Earl of Peterborough Thomas Gray Earl of Stamford Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Caernarvan Mountjoy Blount Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield John Tufton Earl of Thanet Tho. Weston Earl of Portland Will. Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Nicholas Lerke Earl of Scarsdale John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Henry Jermin Earl of St. Albans Edw. Montague Earl of Sandwich James Butler Earl of Brecknock Henry Hyde Earl of Clarendon Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Robert Brukenel Earl of Cardigan Arthur Annesley Earl of Anglesey John Greenvill Earl of Bath Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle William Craven Earl of Crave Robert Bruce Earl of Aylesbury Richard Boyle Earl of Burlington Henry Bennet Earl of Arlington Anth. Ashly Cooper Earl of Shaftsbury George Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland Henry Howard Earl of Norwich William Herbert Earl of Powys Edw. Henry Lee Earl of Litchfield Charles Fitz-Charles Earl of Plymouth Thomas Leonard Earl of Sussex Thomas Osborn Earl of Darby John Maitland Earl of Gilford Lewis de Duras Earl of Feversham Charles Earl of Burford Viscounts Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Francis Brown Viscount Montague James Fiennes Viscount Say and Seale Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noel Viscount Cambden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg John Mordant Viscount Mordant George Savill Viscount Hallifax Robert Paston Viscount Yarmouth Francis Newport Viscount Newport of Bradford Barons George Nevill Lord Abergavenny James Touchet Lord Audly Charles West Lord De la Ware George Berkley Lord Berkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Montage Cogniers Darcy Lord Darcy and Meynel William Stourton Lord Stourton Henry Lord Sandys de la Vine Benj. Mildmay Lord Fitzwater Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Wingfield Cromwell Lord Cromwell Ralph Eure Lord Eure. Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Will. Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Pagett Lord Paget Charles North Lord North and Baron Grey of Rolston William Bruges Lord Shandois James Berty Lord Norris William Petre Lord Petre. Digby Gerard Lord Gerard of Gerard Bromley Charles Stanhop Lord Stanhop Henry Arundell Lord Arundel of Wardour Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Robert Grevill Lord Brook Edw. Montague Lord Mountague of Boughton Ford Grey Lord Grey of Wark John Roberts Lord Roberts John Lovelace Lord Lovelace John Pawlet Lord Pawlet William Maynord Lord Maynard George Coventry Lord Coventry James Lord Esrick Charles Mohun Lord Mohun William Boteler Lord Boteler Edw. Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seymore Lord Seymour Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carington Will. Widdrington Lord Widdrington Humble Ward Lord Ward Tho. Culpepper Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley John Lucas Lord Lucas John Bellasis Lord Bellasis Edw. VVatson Lord Rokingham Charles Gerard Lord Gerard of Brandon Gilbert Sutton Lord Lexinton Char. Kirkhaven Lord Wotton Marm. Langdale Lord Langdal Will. Croft Lord Croft dead John Berkley Lord Berkly of Stratton Denzil Holles Lord Holles Char. Cornwallis Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord De la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend John Crew Lord Crew John Frescheville Lord Frescheville Rich. Arundell Lord Arundel of Trerice Thomas Butler Lord Butler of Moor Park Thomas Clifford Lord Clifford of Chudley Richard Butler Lord Weston Charles North Lord Grey of Rollston and L. North of Cartlidge Heneage Finch Lord Daventry The Lords Spiritual Sancroft Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Rich. Sterne Arch-Bishop of York Isaac Barrow Bishop of St. Asaph Humphrey Lloyd Bishop of Bangor Peter Mew Bishop of Bath and Wells Guy Carleton Bishop of Bristol Edward Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle John Pierson Bishop of Chester Ralph Brideoake Bishop of Chichester Thomas Wood Bishop of Coventry Lichf William Lucie Bishop of St. Davids Nathanael Crew Bishop of Durham Peter Gunning Bishop of Ely Thomas Lamplugh Bishop of Excester John Prichard Bishop of Gloucester Herbert Crofts Bishop of Hereford VVilliam Lloyd Bishop of Landaffe Thomas Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Henry Compton Bishop of London Anthony Sparrow Bishop of Norwich John Fell Bishop of Oxford Joseph Henshaw Bishop of Peterborough John Dolben Bishop of Rochester Seth VVard Bishop of Salisbury George Morley Bishop of VVinchester James Fleetwood Bishop of VVorcester A CATALOGUE of all the Bishopricks in the two Provinces of Canterbury and York The Names of what Cities Shires or Counties are in each Diocess How many Parishes in each Diocess How many of them are Impropriations The Annual Revenue of each Bishoprick as it is in the Kings Book And how the Clergies Tenths are rated in each of them In the Province of CANTERBURY The Diocess of Canterbury Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Kent part 257 000 2816-17-09-1 0651-18-02-1 St. Asaph Part of Denbigh Flint Montgomery Merioneth Shropshire 121 000 0187-11-06-0 0186-19-07-3 Bangor All Carnarvan Anglesey Part of Denbigh Montgomery Merioneth 107 036 0131-16-04-0 0151-14-03-1 Bath and Wells Somersetshire all 388 160 0533-01-03-0 0353-18-00-3 Bristol Bristol City Dorsetshire all 236 064 0338-08-04-0 0353-18-00-3 Chichester Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Sussex all 250 112 0677-01-00-3 0287-02-00-3 Coventry and Lichfield All Darbyshire Staffordshire Part of VVarwickshire Shropshire 557 250 0559-18-02-3 0590-16-11-1 Eely All Cambridgeshire Eely Isle 141 075 2134-18-05-3 0384-14-09-1 St. Davids All Pembrookshire Cardiganshire Radnorshire Brecknockshire Part of Monmouth Hereford Montgomery Glamorgan 308 120 0457-01-10-3 0336-14-10-0 Excester All Devonshire Cornwall 604 239 0500-00-00-0 1200-15-02-0 Gloucester Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Gloucestershire all 267 125 0315-17-02-0 0358-15-00-0 Hereford Herefordshire all Shropshire part 313 136 0768-10-06-3 340-02-02-2 Landaffe Part of Glamorgan Monmouth 107 098 0154-14-01-0 155-05-04-0 Lincoln All Lincolnshire Leicestershire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Huntingdonshire Hertfordshire part 1255 577 0894-10-01-2 751-14-06-0 London All Middlesex Essex Part of Hertfordshire 622 189 1119-08-40-0 821-15-01-0 Norwich All Norfolk Suffolk 1181 385 0899-18-07-2 1117-13-00-1 Oxford Parishes Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Oxfordshire all 195 88 0354-16-04-2 255-08-00-0 Peterborough All Northamptonshire Rutlandshire 293 91 0414-19-11-0 520-16-08-0 Rochester Kent Part. 098 36 0358-03-02-1 222-14-06-3 Salisbury All Barkshire VViltshire 544 109 1367-11-08-0 901-08-01-0 Worcester VVorcester all VVarwickshire part 241 071 1049-17-03-3 228-00-00-0 Winchester All Surrey Southampton Isle of VVight Isle of Jersey Isle of Garnsey Sark and Ald. 362 131 2973-04-02-3 846-01-00-0 In the Province of YORK The Diocess of York   Impropriations Valuation l. s. d. q. Clergies Tenths l. s. d. q. Nottinghamshire Yorkshire part 581 336 1609-19-02-0 1113-17-09-3 Carlisse Cumberland part VVestmorland all 093 018 0530-04-11-2 0161-01-07-2 Chester All Cheshire Lancashire Part of Yorkshire Cumberland 256 101 0420-01-08-0 0435-12-00-0 Durham Durham all Northumberland part Yorkshire part 135 087 1821-01-05-1 0385-05-06-2 Man The Isle of Man 017 The Total Number of Dukes 11 Marquesses 3 Earls 73 Viscounts 11 Barons 66 Baronets 668 Arch-Bishops 2 Bishops 24 Principal Secretaries of State 2 Judges 12 Judges of the Court of Kings Bench 4 Judges of the Court of Common Pleas 4 Barons of Exchequer 4 Counties in England 39 Counties in VVales 13 Islands 8 Parliament Men 509 Hundreds 768 Market-Towns 713 Parishes 9241 FINIS

of the Air especially about the Town of Warwick The Soil is very Rich especially the Vale of Red Horse which hath a Red Earth and yieldeth great Plenty of Corn. The chief Commodities of this County are Wood Wool Iron and Malt. It is in the Diocesies of Lichfield and Worcester and in it are 158 Parishes Out of it are elected 6 Members to sit in Parliament Knights 2 Coventry 2 Warwick 2 Tamworth 2 Its Division is into 5 Hundreds viz. Hemlinglord Coventry Knightlow Barlichway Kington And in these Hundreds are 15 Market-Towns viz. Henley Monday Southam Mon. Sutton Cofield Mon. Aulcester Tues Symeton Tues Atherston Tues Colshill W. Stratford Thur. Bromicham Th. Coventry Frid. Warwick Sat. Shipton Sat. Rugby Sat. Nun Eaton Sat. Tamworth Sat. The Principal Town in this Shire is Warwick which lies in the Latitude of 52 deg 20 min. It bears from London N. W. And is distant therefrom 70 miles Thus From London to Coventry But by more accurate admeasurement upon the Road it is found to be distant from London 88 miles This Town of Warwick lyeth upon the Northwest side of Avon built by Gurgunstus 375 years before the Birth of Christ The Situation of this place is most pleasant upon a Hill rising from the River over which is a fair and strong Stone Bridge This Town is yearly Governed by a Bailiff 12 Brethren 24 Burgesses for Common Council a Recorder a Town-Clerk and one Sergeant their Attendant The Seal of this Town is a Castle triple-Towred having on the dexter side the Sun in its Glory and on the sinister side a Crescent or half Moon on the tops of the two fronting Towers of the Castle stand two Watchmen armed and their Arms extended with this Inscription upon the Ring of the Seal SIGILLUM BALLIVI BURGENSIUM WARWICI Although this be the Shire Town yet the City of Coventry must not be forgotten being a City for stately building inferiour to few and for a Wall about it transcending any other which Wall for the ill use they put it to in the Rebellion in the time of our late Soveraign Charles the First of blessed Memory was to the shame of their Citizens most justly rased to the ground the ruines thereof only remaining to put them in mind for the future of their Allegiance to their Soveraign These Citizens might have remembred that formerly for their offences offered to their Lord Leofrike they had their Priviledges infringed and themselves oppressed with many heavy Tributes until Godiva his Lady pitying their condition by uncessant importunities sued for their Peace of the Lord her Husband which at length he granted upon this Condition viz. That she should Ride naked through the face of the City and that openly at high noon day which she accordingly did And stripping her self of all her Garments looses the tresses of her hair which on every side so covered her nakedness that no part of her Body was uncivil to sight by which means she redeemed their former Priviledges I do not say but some Magistrates of this City have shewed greater respect to their Soveraigns for as I have heard that a Maior of Coventry riding before Queen Elizabeth she being in Progress to usher her into the City the weather being hot his Horse attempted to drink at the Foard but the Maior checking him several times the Queen called to him saying Mr. Maior Mr. Maior Let your Horse Drink But he modestly replied May it please your Majesties Horse to Drink first The City of Coventry is Governed yearly by a Maior and 2 Bailiffs And the Arms of the City is Party per Pale Gules and Vert upon a Hill Proper An Elephant Passant Argent with a Castle on his back Or. The Earls of Warwick since the first Constitution Henry of Nuburgh Earl of Warwick John Marshall Earl of Warwick John de Plesseis Earl of Warwick William Malduit Earl of Warwick Will. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick John Holland Earl of Warwick Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick George D. of Clarend Earl of Warwick John Dudly Earl of Warwick Robert Rich Earl of Warwick Things Remarkable in this Shire In the year 1469. At Wolney in this County K. Edward the 4th gathering his Forces together to recover his former Loss was suddenly surprized and taken Prisoner by his Brother George D. of Clarence and Richard the Stout E. of Warwick and thence conveyed to Middleham Castle in Yorkshire whence he suddenly escaped and came to London At Gofford Gate in the East part of Coventry hangs the Shield bone of a Wild Boar far bigger than the greatest Oxe bone it is very likely to be an Elephants with whose Snout as the tale goes the great Pit called Swainswell was turned up At Shugbury are found such Stones as are made mention of in Gloucestershire called Astroites or Star-Stones At Lemington a great distance from the Sea a Salt Spring ariseth At Menham-Regis are three Fountains which it should seem are streamed through a Vein of Allum The Water looks and tastes like Milk It procures Urine abundantly It is very Soveraign against the Stone And good to cure Green Wounds Ulcers and Impostumes Being drank with Salt it loosens the Body but with Sugar it maketh it Costive It turneth Wood into Stone saith Speed and saith my Author I my self saw some sticks that were fallen into it some part of them Ash and the other part Stone Westmoreland THis County is bounded on the East by Yorkshire and the Bishoprick of Durham On the West by Cumberland On the South by Lancashire And on the North by Cumberland It containeth in length 38 miles In breadth 33 miles And in Circumference 112 miles The Air of this County is sharp and piercing and not subject to gross Foggs and Vapours whereby the people are free from strange and infectious Diseases and are very healthful and live generally to great Ages The Soil is Moorish and Barren for the most part but the Southern part is the most fruitful The Principal Commodity this County affordeth is Cloath It is in the Diocesses of Chester and Carlisle and in it are 26 Parishes Out of it are elected 4 Members to sit in Parliament Knights 2 Appleby 2 Its Division is into 4 Wards and in them 8 Market-Towns viz. Burton Tues Ambleside Wed. Burgh Wed. Orton Wed. Kerby Laundale Th. Kerby Stephens Fri. Kendall Sat. Appleby Sat. Fardondike The principal Town in this County is Kendall lying in the Latitude of 54 deg 24 min. It bears from London N. W. by N. And is distant therefrom 201 miles Thus From London to Barnet 10 miles to St. Albans 20. to Dunstable 30. to Stony Stratford 44. to Daventry 60. to Coventry 74. to Coleshill 82. to Lichfield 94. Rugeley 99. to Stone 111. to New-Castle 116. to Warrington 136. to Wiggan 148. to Preston 162. to Garstang 172. to Lancaster 182. to Kendall 201. But by exact admeasurement upon the Road the distance is found to be 246 Miles This Town standeth