Family in France monarch H. 7. which is said to have flourished there 800 years Of this Family whose Arms is G. two Bars O. a younger Branch coming over at the Conquest fixed it self at Staunton Harecourt in Oxford-shire In the Reign of King Jo. Richard Harecourt of Staunton marrying Orabella Daughter of Saer de Quincy Earl of Winchester had the Mannor of Bosworth in Leicester-shire for his Wives Portion Robert Harecourt was made Knight of the Garter by E. 4. From him Lineally descended the Valiant Sir Simon Harecourt lately slain in the Wars against the Rebels in Ireland whose Son a hopeful Gentleman enjoys the Mannor of Staunton to this day Jo. Basket an Esquire of Remark and Martial Activity in his younger days and after removed to Devnish in Dorsetshire to whom he going into France committed the Care of that Country Will. Essex Ar. a worthy Man of great Command in this County monarch H. 6. whereof he was four times Sheriff and the first of his Family who fixed in Lambourn therein for he married Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir of Tho. Rogers of Benham whose Grand-father Jo. Rogers had married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Jo. Shotesbroke of Bercole in this County whose Ancestors had been Sheriffs in Bark-shire An. 4.5 and 6. E. 3. by whom he received a large Inheritance This Will afterwards Sir Will. was Son to Th. Essex Esquire Remembrancer and Vice-Treasurer to E. 4. who died Nov. 1. 1500 and lyeth buried in the Church of Kensington Middlesex He derived himself from Henry de Essex Bar. of Rawley and Standard-bearer of England and his Posterity have lately assumed his Coat viz. Arg. an Orle G. There was lately a Baron of this Family with Revenues of a Baron Humph. Foster Knight a Lover of Protestants in the most dangerous times and spake to the Quest in the behalf of Mr. Marbeck that good Confessor Yea he Confessed to Henry 8. that never any thing went so much against his Conscience as his attending by Command the Execution of three poor Men Martyred at Windsor Francis Inglefield Knight afterwards Privy-Councellour to Queen Mary monarch E. 6. and so zealous a Romanist that after her Death he left the Land with a most large Inheritance and lived for the most part in Spain He was a most industrious Agent to solicite the Cause of the Queen of Scots He was a great Promoter of and Benefactor to the English Colledge at Valladolid in Spain where he lyeth interred A Family of his Alliance is still Worshipful extant in this County Jo. Williams Knight was before the Expiration of the year of his Sherivalty made by Queen Mary monarch Queen Mary Lord Williams of Tame in Oxford In which Town he built a small Hospital and a very fair School He with Sir Henry Bennyfield were Joynt-keepers of the Lady Elizabeth whilst under Restraint being as Civil as the other was cruel to her Bishop Ridley when Martyred requested this Lord to stand his Friend to the Queen that those Leases might be confirmed which he had made to poor Tenants which he promised and performed accordingly Henry Norrice Son-in-Law to the Lord Williams aforesaid monarch Queen Elizab. was by Queen Elizabeth created Bar. of Norrice in Ricot in Oxford He was Son to Sir Henry Norrice who suffered in the Cause of Queen Anne Bullen Grand-Child to Sir Edward Norrice who married Friswide Sister and co-heir to the last Lord Lovell He was Father to the Martial Blood of the Norrices Elizabeth his Grand-Child sole Daughter and Heir unto Francis Norrice Earl of Bark-shire and Baroness Norrice was married to Edward Wray Esquire whose only Daughter Elizabeth Wray Baroness Norrice lately deceased was married unto Montague Bartue Earl of Lindsey whose Son a Minor is Lord Norrice at this day Edward Vmpton Knight this ancient Name was extinct in the days of our Fathers for want of issue Male and a great part of their Lands devolved by an Heir general to G. Puffen of Wadley Esquire whose Care is commendable in preserving the Monuments of the Vmptons in Farrington Church and restoring such as were defaced in the Civil War Besilius Fetiplace The Seat of the Family was at Lee thence called Besiles Lee in this County until Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Will. Bes last of the Name was married to Richard Fetiplace whose Great-grand-Child was named Besile to continue the Remembrance of their Ancestors Richard Lovelace Knight a brisk Gentleman in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth making use of Letters of Mart monarch King James had the Success to seize on a large Remnant of the King of Spains Fleet charged with Silver King Charles created him Lord Lovelace of Hurley Sir Jo. Darell Baronet Of which Order Note the Qualifications monarch King Charles Service and Dignity For the first 1. They were to be Men of honest Reputation 2. Descended at least of a Grand-father that bare Arms. 3. Having Estate of 1000 pounds a year two Thirds thereof at least in Possession the rest in Reversion expectant on one Life only holding in Dower or Joynture As to the Second 1. Each of them was to advance towards the planting of the Province of Vlster in Ireland with Money enough to maintain 30 Foot for three years after the Rate of eight pence a day for each Man 2. The first years Wages was to be paid down on the passing of their Patent the Remainder as they contracted with the Kings Commissioners Authorized to treat of and conclude the same For the last viz. their Dignity 1. They were to take place with their Wives and Children respectively immediately after the Sons of Barons and before all Knights-Batchelors of the Bath and Banneret save such Solemn ones as afterwards should be created in the Field by the King there Present under the Standard Royal displayed 2. The Addition of Sir was to be prefixed before their Names 3. The Honour was to be Hereditary and Knight-hood not to be denied to their eldest Sons of full Age if desiring it 4. There was added to their Arms a Bloody hand in a Canton or Escutcheon at their Pleasure The King did undertake that they should never exceed 200 and none were to be substituted upon a Vacancy And that no other new Order should be superinduced Battles Newbury I. 1643. Sept. 20. Earl of Essex having raised the Siege of Glocester and returning towards London was followed by the Kings Army both sides might be traced by a Tract of bloody Foot-steps especially at Auborn in Wilts where they had a smart Encounter At Newbury the Earl made a stand Here hap'ned a fierce Fight on the East side of the Town The Parliament was conceived to lose the most the King the most considerable Persons amongst whom the Earl of Carnarvon and Sunderland the Viscount Faulkland Collonel Morgan Victory and Loss was equally shared on both sides which were so filled with their Supper that the next day they had no Stomach for Breakfast but keeping their Stations were
the Bird the Bird extendeth his Legs and Wings going towards the Fowler till surprised in the Net But it is observed that the Foolisher the Fowl or Fish the finer the Flesh thereof Pippins very good about Kirton in Holland Note when they are graffed on a Pippin Stock they are called Renates There are very good Doggs in this County as Fleet-Hounds Grey-Hounds originally employed in the Hunting of Grays that is Brocks and Badgers Mastiffs for Bull and Bear the Sport being much affected therein especially near Stamford As for Buildings no County affords worse Houses or better Churches and these are made of Polished Stone imported from other Parts so that what might seem a Parodox is true here The further from Stone the better the Churches The Cathedral of Lincoln whose Floor is higher than the Roof of many Churches is a Magnificent Structure Three other Bishopricks viz. Ely Peterborough and Oxford were carved out of this Diocess Of the Houses of the Nobility Tattershall belonging to the Right Honorable the E. of Lincoln has been advanced by degrees to the modern Magnificence thereof Grimsthorp built by Ch. D. of Suff. to entertain H. 8. in his Progress into these Parts is now in the Possession of the Right Honorable E. of Lindsey For Wonders At Fishtoft no Mice or Rats are found insomuch that Barns built party per pale in this and the next Parish on one side are annoyed on the other side being Fishtoft Moiety are secured from this Vermin Some 140 years since at Harlaxton there was found turn'd up by one Ploughing the Ground a Golden Helmet of Antick-fashion studded with precious Stones probably of some prime Roman Commander It was presented to Q. Kath. Wife to H. 8. Proverbs 1. Lincoln-shire Bag-pipes which inspire the heavy Heels of Country Clowns overgrown with Hair and Rudeness probably the Ground work of the Poetical Fiction of Dancing Satyrs 2. As loud as Tom of Lincoln This Shire carries THE BELL from all other places in England 3. All the Carts that come to Crowland are shod with Silver Crowland being a Mossy Ground so that a Horse can hardly come to it 4. 'T is height makes Grantham Steeple stand awry This Steeple seems crooked to the beholders and Eminency exposeth the uprightest Persons to exception 5. As mad as the Baiting Bull at Stamford Will. E. Warren Lord of this Town in the time of K. Jo. standing upon the Castle Walls of Stamf. saw two Bulls fighting for a Cow in the Meadow till the Butchers Doggs pursued one of the Bulls running Mad clean through the Town The Earl being mightily pleased with the sight gave all those Meadows called the Castle Meadows where first the Bull Duel began for a Common to the Butchers of the Town after the first Grass was eaten on Condition that they find a Mad Bull the day six Weeks before Christmass for the continuance of that sport every year But as for the Sober Bull of Stamford he was not so freakish as to leave his Cow after such a fair riddance of his Horn-mad Corrival 6. He looks as the Devil over Lincoln Lincoln Minster being one of the Stateliest Structures in Christendom 't is supposed that the Devil of Malice if you please overlook'd this Church when first finished with a tetric Countenance as maligning Mens costly Devotion 7. He was born at Little Wittham A Charitable Periphrasis of a Fool tho probably the first Inventor of this Proverb was born near the same Village 8 Grantham Gruel 9 Grits and a Gallon of Water Appliable to those who multiply what is superfluous and omit what is necessary in their Discourse or Actions 9. They held together as the Men Marham when they lost their Common Ironicall that is they were divided c. Others take it to be an Expression of ill success Note This County is Famous for these here Natives Contemporaries in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Edward Clinton Lord Admiral William Cecil Lord Treasurer Jo Whitgift Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Peregrine Bartu Lord General in Fr. Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice Th. Wilson D. L. and Secretary of State Princes Henry eldest surviving Son of Jo. of Gaunt D. of Lancaster was born in the Castle of Bullinbrook He was Couragious Choleric and Ambitious cunning to catch careful to keep and industrious to improve all advantages Being disobliged by R. 2. he complotted with a good part of the Nobility to depose him whose Miscarriages ill success and Debauchery exposed him to their Fury After the Murder of King Richard Henry reigned with much opposition He persecuted the Wickliffites who had been patronized by his Father thereby to be ingratiated with the Clergy When Duke he wore on his head an Antick hood On his death-bed he complained of his Sufferings in Keeping nothing bewayling his sin in getting the Crown Fire and Faggot was kindled in his Reign in England to burn Pardon the Prolepsis poor Protestants and happy had it been had they been quenched at his death which hapned 1413. Saints St. Botolph probably of English Nativity lived at and gave Name to Botolphs Town corruptly Boston in this County Gilb. de Sempringham of Noble Extraction deformed in Body but of Subtil Wit and great Courage obtained Licence of the Pope to found those Hermophradite Convents of Monks and Nuns under one roof with no impregnable partitions 'T is said he saw 13 Convents 700 Monks 1100 Nuns of his Order of which the Convent Sempringham was the Prince residence He died 1189. Hugh born in Lincoln was stoln and crucified when 9 years of Age by the Jews in derision of Christ 1255. Martyrs Anne Aâ—kewe Daughter of Sr. William Knight was born at Kelsey in this County She went to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire July 16. 1546. V. Eccl History Cardinals Rob. Somercot a discreet and Learned man was made Cardinal of St. Stephens by Pope Greg. 9. An. 1231. He was a true Lover of his Countreymen the Cause that his Choler was twice raised when the Pope said in his presence that there was not a faithfull Man in England tho wisely he repressed his Passion After this Pope's death he was the foremost of the 3 Elects for the Papacy But the Italians were too hard for the Honest Englishman being made away by Poison in the Holy Conclave 1241. Prelates William of Ganesborough a Franciscan in Oxford was sent over by King E. 1. with Hugh of Manchester to Phil. King of France to demand reparation for some Dammages in Aquitain He was a mighty Champion of the Popes Infallibility And for his good service Pope Boniface 8. preferred him Bishop of Worcester 'T was a wag who said upon a Report of the close Imprisonment of Pope Urbane 8. Now it is true Papa non Potest errare that is the Pope cannot straggle This William died 1308. William Ayrmin descended of ancient Family still extant at Osgodby was Keeper of the Seal and Vice-Chancellor to King E. 2. 1319. and was about
Stubbornness distilled in him by other Popish Bishops who abused his good Nature He died of an Apoplexy 1559. Since the Reformation Jo. Vnderhill born in Oxford and bred in New Colledg was Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth and by her made Bishop of Oxford after that See had been Vacant 22 years He died 1592. and lyeth buried in Christ Church Jo. Bancroft born at Ascot was Mr. of Vniversity College in Oxford and setled the ancient Lands of that Foudation Being afterward Bishop of Oxford he renewed no Leases but let them run out for the Benefit of his Successor He obtained the Royalty of Shot-over for and annexed the Vicaridge of Cudsen to his Bishoprick where he built a fair Palace and a Chappel at the cost of 3500 l. But that Palace was reduced to its first Principles being burnt in the late Civil Wars He died 1640. Statesmen Sir Dudley Carleton Knight bred in Oxford was Secretary to Sir Ralph Winwood Ambassador in the Low Countries when King James resigned the Cautionary Towns to the States Here he added so great experience to his learning that afterwards King Charles I. employed him for 20 years together Ambassador in Venice Savoy and the Low-Countries And created him Baron of Imbercourt in Surrey then Visc Dorchester He married for his 2 d Wife the Daughter of Sir Hen. Glenham the Relict of Paul Visc Banning He succeeded the Lord Conway in the Office of Secretary of State He died 163. Souldiers Sir Jo. Norris a most accomplished General had 3 Horses is one day killed under him in a Battle against the Scots when in France he brought off a small handful of English from a great armful of Enemies fighting as he retreated so that always his Rear affronted the Enemies Having afterwards a great Command in Ireland he found it far harder to find out than fight his Enemies At last a great Lord of an opposite Party to Sir Jo. being made Lieuetenant of Ireland 't is conceived his working Soul broke the cask of his body as wanting a vent for his Grief and Anger for going up into his Chamber at the first hearing of the News he suddenly died 1597. His ancient Father dying soon after Upon the News of his death Queen Elizabeth wrote a Consolatory Letter to the Lady Marg. his Mother whom her Majesty used to call Her own Crow in which was this Endearing Expression If it be true that Society in Sorrow works diminution We do assure you by this true Messenger of our Mind that Nature can have stirred no more dolorous Affection in you as a Mother for a dear Son than Gratefulness of Memory of his Service past hath wrought in us his Soveraign an apprehension of Our miss for so Worthy a Servant His Father Hen. Lord Norris was descended from the Viscount Lovels and his Grandfather died in a manner Martyr for the Queens Mother Margaret aforesaid his Mother was Daughter to Jo. Lord Williams of Tame Keeper of Queen Elizabeth whilst in Restraint under her Sister and civil to Her in those dangerous days His eldest Brother William was Marshall of Barwick and Father to Francis afterwards Earl of Bark-shire He had 4 Brothers more viz. Sir Th. President of Munster who died of a small wound which being neglected turned to a Gangrene Sir Hen. who died about the same time in the same manner Maximilian who was slain in the War of Britain Then Sir Edw. who led the Front at the taking of the Groyn fought so valianly at the siege of Ostend and of all the 6 only survived his Parents Sir Fra. Knowlls Treasurer to the Queens Houshold and Knight of the Garter was descended from Sir Robert that Conquering Commander in France He was an Exile in the dayes of Queen Mary He married Cary Sister to Henry Lord Hunsdon and Cosen German to Queen Elizabeth having Mary Bullen for her Mother Thus the Husband was allied to the Queen in Conscience Fellow-sufferers for the Protestant cause the Wife in Kindred Their chief dwelling was Grays in this County Their Issue was Sir Hen. whose Daughter and Heir was married to the Lord Paget Sir W. Treasurer of the Houshold to King James by whom he was created Baron Knowlls 1603. Visc Wallingford 1616. and by Charles I. An. 1 regn Earl of Banbury Sir R. father to Sir Rob. of Greys now living Sir Fr. a Member of the late long Parliament since dead aged 99. Sir Th. a Commander in the Low Countries Lettice second Wife to R. Dudley Earl of Leicester and by a former Husband mother to R. Devereux Earl of Essex These 2 last mentioned Families being Contemporaries and High in State and Stomack often Justled together and no wonder if Oxford-shire wanted room for them when all England could not hold them together The Norrices were Sons of Mars and never out of military Employment The Knowlls were Mercurial conversing constantly at Court and were rather Valient men then any great Souldiers The Norrices got more Honour abroad the Knowlls more Profit at Home There was once a challenge passed betwixt them at certain exercises to be tried between the 2 Fraternities the Queen and their Aged Fathers being to be the Spectators and Judges till quickly it became a flat quarrel betwixt them which lasted for many years and the Knowlls are suspected to have done the Norrices bad offices which at last did tend to their mutual hurt Writers Jo Hanvile proceeded M. A. in Oxford then studied in Paris and travelled over most parts in Christendom He is commonly called Archithrenius or Prince of Lamentation He wrote a Book wherein he bemoaned the Vices of his Age. He flourished under King Jo. 1200 and died as some conceive a Benedictine of St. Albans Jo. of Oxford surnamed by Boethius à Vado Boum was owned by him as the next Historian to Jeffrey Monmouth in Age and Industry He was a great Anti-Becketist being Dean of old Sarum and Chaplin to H. 2. and was by him employed among others to give an account to the Pope of the Kings carriage in the business of Becket He was preferred An. 1175 Bishop of Norwich where he repaired his Cathedral lately defaced with fire and built a fair Alms-house He built also Trinity Church in Ipswich He died about 1200. Rob Bacon D. D in Oxford became a Dominican Frier was for his Sermons highly esteemed by Henry 3. He was Lepidus Cynicus and a most professed Enemy to Pet. Roach Bishop of Winchester He was a great Divine I behold him as the Senior of all the Bacons which like Tributary Streams disembogued themselves with all the credit of their actions into Roger Bacon who in process of time hath monopolized the Honour of all his sirname-sakes in Oxford This Rob. died 1248. Rob. of Oxford an Adorer of Aquinas his contemporary wrote against the College of Sorbonne He flourished under Henry 3. 1270. Jeffrey Chaucer born probably at Woodstock was a terse and elegant Poet the Homer of his Age and refined
Author saith that from Edge hill one may behold it as the Garden of Eden The Sheep here are very large especially about Warm-Leighton There is a plentiful growth of Ashes in the Woodland of this County and much Coal digged up at Bedworth As for Buildings Coventry sheweth two fair Churches yet such their vicinity that the Arch-Angel eclipseth the Trinity Then St. Maries in Warwick a beautiful Structure owes its life to the Monuments of the dead therein most being Earls of Warwick So numerous is the Church with its Appendances that the Minister can accommodate one Clergy-man of all dignities and degrees to repose them in several Chappels and Vestries by themselves Kenelworth had the strength of a Castle and beauty of a Princes Court a vast and withal a comely Structure the Porch being proportionable to the rest of the Fabrick It was demolished sincâ— the end of the Wars The Castle of Warwick overlooketh the Town being pleasantly Scituated on a rising Hill affording a very fine Prospect mostly of the Lands of the present Owner Robert Lord Brâ—â—k The Cross of Coventry all for Ornament nothing for Superstition was begun 1541 an 33. and finished 1544 36 Henry 8. at the sole cost of Sir William Hollis Lord Mayor of London great Grand-father to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clare The wonders of this County are that at Lemington within two Miles of Warwick there issue out within a stride of the Womb of the Earth two Springs the one salt and the other fresh On Friday April 17 1607. there happened in Coventry such an inundation no considerable Rain preceding that continued for the space of three hours wherein it overflowed more then 250 dwelling houses to the great dammage of the Inhabitants vanishing away as quickly as it did rise and note the City has no River near it save a small Brook over which generally one may make a Bridge with a stride As for Medicinal Waters there is at Newenham a Spring the water whereof drunk with Salt loosneth with Sugar bindeth the Body It is sovereign against Ulcers and Imposthumes and the Stone though Mr. Speed affirms that it turned Wood into Stoâ—e Proverbs I. He is the black Bear of Arden By this is meant Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick a grim person and surly of Resolution who in spite of all opposition caused the death of Pierce Gaveston that Minion of Edward 2. at a Hill within two Miles of Warwick Arden is a Forrest anciently occupying all the Wood-land part of this County 'T is applyed to such who without any other Authority then that of their Countenance or Disposition strike terrour into others II. As bold as Beauchamp Though there was a series of successive undauntedness in the Noble Family of the Earls of Warwick yet I conceive that Thomas first of that name gave the chief occasion to this Proverb He being arrived with King Edward 3. at Hogges in Normandy 1346. was the first man who landed and being followed by one Esquire and six Archers is reported to have fought against a 100 Armed men and in hostile manner to have overthrown every one who withstood him having at one shock slain 60 Normans and removed all resistance so that the Kings whole Army landed in safety The Heirs Male of this name are long since extinct though some deriving themselves from the Heirs general are extant at this day III. The Bear wants a Tail and cannot be a Lion This abated the jealousie the Dutch had of Robert Earl of Leicester descended from the ancient Earls of Warwick Governour of the Low-Countries being suspected to hatch a design of making himself Sovereign Commander over the Low-Countries whilst he diffused his own Coat of the green Lion with two Tails and sign'd all instruments with the Crest of the Bear and Ragged Staff Then it was that this Proverb was written under his Crest set up in publick places Vrsa caret caudâ non queat esse Leo. The Bear he never can prevail To Lion it for lack of Tail It is applyed to such who aspire to what is above their power to atchieve IV. He is true Coventry-blew It seems the best Blews are dyed in Coventry It is applyed to such an one who is a faithful Friend Princes Anne Nevil Daughter and coheir to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick was probably born in Warwick Castle She was Married to Edward Prince of Wales sole Son to Henry 6. afterwards murdered by Richard Duke of Glocester who took to Wife the same Anne She died for grief 1464 though others suspect a Grain was given her for the greater dispatch to another World Edward Plantag Son to George Duke of Clarence was the last Male Heir of the Royal Family His Mother was Isabella eldest Daughter to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick and he was born in Warwick-Castle Being kept close Prisoner by Edward 4. Richard 3. and Henry 7. he was rendred weak in his Intellectuals Upon the proposal of Marriage for Prince Arthur with Katharine Daughter of Ferdinand King of Spain this Edward was taken out of the way to the end all Titles might be cleared The Lady Katharine Dowager was wont to acknowledge the death of her two Sons an ill success of her match as Heavens judgment on her Family for the murdering of this Earl which happened 1499. Saints St. Wolstan born in Long Jetington was Bishop of VVorcester a man of great Candour and an opposer of the French fickleness and the Italian pride for which he was hated by VVilliam the Conqueror and Lanfrak Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and by them commanded to resign his Episcopalibus Upon this the Honest Bishop repaired to the Monument of Edward the Confessor and there offered up his Episcopal Habiliments These said he from you I received and to you I resign them This his plain dealing not only recovered his Bishoprick but also purchased to him the reputation of a Saint He was active in promoting VVilliam Rufus to the Kingdom in prejudice of his eldest Brother Robert Martyrs Laurence Saunders a Priest was Martyred in Coventry February 8. 1555. Robert Glove born at Mancetor Gentleman was Martyred in Coventry September 20. 1555 Cornel Bongey born at Coventry a Capper was Martyred at Coventry September 20 1555. Jo. Carles born at Coventry a Weaver was Martyred at the Kings Bench London Julius Palmer born at Coventry and bred in Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford was burnt in Newbury Confessors John Glover Brother to the aforementioned Robert escaped miraculously whilst his Brother without the intention of his enemies fell into their hands Cardinals VVilliam Macklesfield born 't is said in Coventry was made B. D. in Paris Dr. at Oxford and became General of the Dominican Order He was by Pope Benedict 11. created Cardinal with the Title of St. Sabine but dyed in London before his Cap was brought him yet this chief part of a Cardinal I mean the Cap was with great solemnity set on his Tomb. Peter Petow of an ancient Family flourishing
under his Uncle of whom hereafter in Westminster-School then in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where he Commenced D. D. was successively preferred Prebend of Windsor Dean of Rochester and Bishop of Glocester He lived since but was no friend to the Reformation constantly complaining of the first Reformers amongst whom he noted Ridley as a very Odd Man One being then present My Lord says he He was an Odde Man indeed for all the Popish Party in England could not match him with his equal in Learning and Religion He is the only instance amongst 200 Bishops since Queen Elizabeth who was Popishly affected He was a harmless man hurtful to none but himself pitiful to the Poor hospitable to his Neighbours against the ruining of any of an opposite Judgment and gave the most he left to pious uses He was no contemptible Historian He was made Bishop 1624. and dyed about 1655. in Westminster Writers since the Reformation William Salesbury born in this County where his Family flourisheth at this day composed an English and Weâ—sh Dictionary Printed 1547. He dyed 1560. Benefactors to the Publick since the Reformation Sir Thomas Son of Sir Richard Exmew was born at Rithin and bred in London a Goldsmith and was Lord Mayor thereof 1517. Besides Benefactions in his own Country and to St. Mary Magdalens in Milk-street London where he lyes buried he made the VVater-Conduit by London VVall at Moor-Gate Gabriel Goodman Son of Edward Goodman Esq was born at Rithin afterwards D. D. in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge and Dean of VVestminster for forty years The Bible was Translated into VVelsh on his cost He founded a School-house in Rythin with a competent Salary and erected an Almshouse therein for 12 poor people He repaired the House for the Minster there called the VVarden of Rythin furnishing it with Plate c. which were to descend to his Successors He purchased a fair House thereunto at Cheswick in Middlesex where with his own hands he set a fair row of Elmes for a Retiring place to the Masters and Scholars at VVestminster He was made one of the Executors of the Will of our English Nestor the Lord Treasurer Cecil for the disposing of great sums to charitable uses He dyed 1â—01 and is buried in the Collegiate Church of VVestminster whereof he so well deserved as of all England Mr. Cambden performing his perambulation about it on his Expences Sir Hugh Middleton Son of Sir Richard Middleton was born at Denbigh and bred in London This is that worthy Knight who fetcht into London VVater on his own cost more then 24 Miles encountring all the way with an Army of Oppositions grapling with Hills strugling with Rocks fighting with Forests till in defiance of difficulties he had brought his Project to Perfection A potent person and an idle Spectator struck in and by his greatness possessed a Moiety of the profit whilst the Honour thereof will remain Eternally fixed to the Memory of Sir Hugh Middleton Note Robert Earl of Leicester by his bounty advanced the Building of a new Church in Denbigh FLINT-SHIRE FLint-shire named from Flint formerly an eminent place therein hath the Sea on the North Shrop-shire on the South Cheshire on the East and Denbigh-shire on the West The smallest Shire in VVales Flint the Shire-Town is no Market Town no nor St. Asaph a City and Bishops See till made so very late But it is near to Chester the Market General of these parts and besides every Village hath a Market in it self as affording all necessary Commodities This County was Parcel of the County Palatine paying 2000 Marks called a Mize at the Change of every Earl of Chester until the year 1568. For then upon the occasion of one Thomas Radford committed to Prison by the Chamberlain of Chester this County disjoyned it self from the Earldom of Chester and united it self to the Principality though I cannot see how the one or the other could be done without an Act of Parliament Proverbs I. Mwy nag un bw a yro Ynghaer That is More then on Yugh-Bow in Chester Cheshire men have been very famous for Archery It is applyed to such who take other folks Goods for their own being mistaken with the similitude and resemblance Princes Elizabeth the 7th Daughter of King Edward 1. and Queen Lleanor was born at Ruthland Castle where antiently a Parliament was kept an Edward 1. This Princess at 14 years of Age was Married to John first of that Name Earl of Holland Zealand c. and after his death to Humfrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex High Constable of England by whom he had a numerous Issue She dyed 1316. and was buried in the Abby-Church of Saffron-Walden in Essex Saints Congellus or Comgallus is challenged by the Welsh for their Country-Man as being first Abbot of Banchâ—r in this County though Arch-Bishop Vsher makes him the first Abbot of Bangor in the North of Ireland He was one of a pious Life who wrote Learned Epistles and dyed an 600. Aet 85. St. Beno Instructor to St. Wenefride was it seems a good Chirurgeon to a Miracle who when VVenefride was beheaded by the Lustful Caradocus set her Head on again she living 15 years after Asaph born of Right Honourable Parentage was bred at Llan-Elvy under Mungo the Scotch Bishop of that place who had a Convent of 663 Monks almost the number of the Beast whereof 300 being more unlearned then the rest were employed in Husbandry Amongst the rest who attended Divine Service St. Asaph was eminently conspicuous for Piety and Learning insomuch that Mungo in Latine Quentigermu being called into his Country resigned both his Convent and Cathedral to him Here he demeaned himself with such Sanctity that Llan-Elvy was after his death called from him St. Asaph He was an assiduous Preacher having this Speech in his Mouth Such who are against the Preaching of Gods word envy Mans Salvation He is thought by some to have dyed about 569. After which his See was Vacant above 500 years until Jeffrey of Monmouth was placed there Prelates since the Reformation Richard Parry D. D. born at Ruthin was bred in Christs-Church in Oxford whence he was preferred Dean of Bangor and at last Bishop of St. Asaph consecrated December 30. 1604. Bishop Godwin being near to him in time and in his studies desireth to be his equal in other Episcopal Qualities Bishop Parry dyed 16. Souldiers Owen Glendower born in his ancient Patrimony of Glendower-Wye was bred in London a Student of the Common Law till he became a Courtier and Servant to King Richard 2. After whose death being in the wrong side of preferment he retired into Wales where there arose a difference between him and the Lord Gre of Ruthen about a Common which Owen by force recovered from Gre whom he killed Many spur'd his posting Ambition by telling him he was the true Heir to all North-Wales and now or never the time to regain it whereupon he brake into open Rebellion Being
4to History of Parismus History Gentle Craft 4to A TABLE of the most remarkable persons and things contained in this work THE end and matter of the Work Page 1 2 Legenda non semper Credenda Page 3 Canonization costly ibid. And best after mature deliberation Page 4 The Office of the Ancient Cardinals of St. Pauls ibid. The Constitution of Pope Paul II. concerning the Cardinals Hat Page 5 Cardinal Norfolk a rare if not single President ibid. The Clergy of Brittain the Glory of the World Page 6 The Antiquity of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Page 7 The value of that great Office Page 8 The Etymology and office of Lord High Admiral of England Page 9 King Henry VIII first assumed the Title of King of Ireland ibid. Sir Ed. Montague's choice Page 10 The first Circumnavigators of the World ibid. King Henry VIII his great skill in Musick Page 12 The Heads of Charity Visito Poto Cibo c. Page 13 A perswasive to Charity ibid. The dates and degrees of the English Reformation Page 14 Younger Sons are raised by their Virtue to the dignity of Lord Mayors of London Page 15 The first division of England into Shires Page 16 The Office of Sheriff ibid. Causes of the alteration of Sirnames Page 19 Bark-shire had no Earl till an 1607. Page 20 Popish Cavil some for Martin some for Luther Page 21 Instances of fortunate and eminent Sons of Clergy-men Page 22 Of the English Gentry by Nation and Profession Page 25 26 c. Of the Queens Majesty Page 28 Of the Kings Majesty Page 29 BARK-SHIRE Commodities Oaks Bark Trouts Page 31 The Beggars reason for going naked viz. all my Body is Face Page 32 Exposition of the Proverb When our Lady falls into our Lord's lap let England beware of a sad mishap Page 33 An observable Proverb relating to Ireland Page 37 The Lives of four Children of King Edward I. Page 37 38 The life of King Edward III. King Henry VI. Page 38 39 The life of St. Edmund Page 40 The early dawning of the Gospel in Barkshire Page 41 King Henry VIII his pity towards 3 Martyrs Page 42 Humanum est errare Answer to a great Cavil Page 43 Arch-Bishop Laud refused to be made Cardinal ibid. The life of Bishop Godwin Page 44 The life of Arch-Bishop Laud Page 45 The life of Sir John Mason who saw 5 Princes ibid. Of Sir Hen. Umpton Ambassadour His publick Challenge Page 46 47. The life of King Alfrede Page 50 Of Jo. Kendrick who gave above 20000 l. to the poor Page 51 Of Tho. Cole the rich Clothier of Reading ibid. The life of Sir Jo Howard Page 54 The lives of Sir Rob. Harcourt and Will. Essex Page 55 The lives of Sir Humphrey Foster Sir Francis Inglefield Sir John Williams and Henry Lord Norrice Page 56 The life of Richard Lord Lovelace Page 57 The Qualifications c. of Baronets ibid. Of the Battle of Newbury Page 58 BEDFORD-SHIRE Proverbs Page 60 The life of Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Darby Page 61 King Henry III. his smart reply to Sylvester of Carlile Page 62 The life of Henry Grey Earl of Kent Page 64 The life of John Mordant first Baron of Turvey Page 65 The life of Sir Francis Russel afterwards Earl of Bedford Page 68 BUCKINGHAM-SHIRE Proverbs Page 69 The life of St. Edburg ibid. A great Fiction about Sir Rumbald as I am a Christian Page 70 The life of Sir George Crook Lord Chief Justice of England Page 74 The lives of Sir William Windsor and Arthur Gray Bar. of Wilton ibid. Of the Noble and Antient name of the Cheneys Page 82 CAMBRIDGE-SHIRE Proverbs Page 83 The life of Thomas Westfield Bishop of Bristol Page 87 The life of Jo. Tiptoft Earl of Worcester ibid. The life of Matthew Paris Page 89 Will. Collet was Caterer to Selden c. Page 95 The life of Sir Edward North Baron of Catlidge The life of Sir Jo. Huddlestone CHESHIRE The Antiquity of that County Palatine Page 98 The Life of W. Booth Bishop of York and Lawrence and John his Brothers Page 100 101 The life of Bishop Chaderâ—on Page 102 The life of Bishop James ibid. The life of Sir Tho. Egerton Lord Chancellour of England Page 103 The life of the Lord Chief Justice Crew Page 104 The life of Sir Hugh Calveley Page 105 The life of Sir Robert Knowles ibid. The life of John Speed first Taylor then Historian Page 108 The life of Sir Jo. Brereton Page 110 The life of Sir Hugh Cholmley The Battle of Rowton-Heath Page 112 CHESTER The life of Bishop Dounham Page 114 The lives of David and Sir Henry Middleton Page 115 The life of Tho. Offley Page 117 Who three dishes had of daily Roast Page 117 An Egg an Apple and the third a toast Page 117 CORNWAL Commodities Diamonds Ambergrease Pilchards Tin Page 120 The wonders ibid. The life of Will de Greenvil Lord Chancellour of England Page 122 The life of Jo. Arundel Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Page 123 The life of W. Noy ibid. The life of King Arthur ibid. The Enterprize of Jo. Arundel of Trerice Page 124 Richard D. of Cornwal was High Sheriff of the County for term of his Life Page 128 The Battles of Liskerd and Stratton Page 130 CUMBERLAND Commodities Pearls black Lead Copper Page 132 The life of Arch-Bishop Grindal Page 135 The life of Sir Richard Hutton the honest Judge Page 136 The life of Sir Jo. Banks ibid. The life of Richard Crakenthorpe D. D. Page 136 The life of Maud Daughter to the Lord Lucy Page 139 Richard D. of Glocester Sheriff of this County Page 140 DERBY-SHIRE Commodities The best Lead Page 141 The punishment of stealing Oare twice ibid. The life of Cardinal Curson Page 142 The life of Phil. de Repingdon alias Rampington Page 143 The life of Bishop Cook ibid. The life of Sir Jo. Cook Secretary of State Page 144 The life of Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert ibid. The life of Sir Hugh Willoughby Page 145 The life of Thomas Linacer Page 146 The life of Elizabeth Hardwick Countess of Shrewsbury Page 147 DEVON-SHIRE The high Character of the Gentry given by Q. Eliz. Page 148 The wonders of the Pit and Hanging-Stone Page 149 The life of Cardinal Courtney Page 151 Bishop Foliot's encounter with the Devil ibid. The Character of Bishop Jewâ—â— Page 153 The life of D. Prideaux Bishop of Worcester Page 153 154 The life of Sir Arthur Chichester Page 154 The life of Lord Chief Justice Herle Page 155 The life of Sir Jo. Cary ibid. The life of the unfortunate Judge Hankford ibid. The life of Sir Jo. Fortescue Page 156 The life of Sir Lewis Pollard and Sir Jo. Doderidge ibid. The life of Sir Richard Greenvil Page 157 The life of James Lord Audley ibid. The life of the ambitious Tho. Stuckley Titular Earl of Wexford Page 158 The life of the most Noble General Monk Duke of Albermarl Page 159 The life of
purchased good Titles made sure Settlements and entail'd Thrift with their Lands on their Posterity Sir Edward Coke hath prevented my Pains and given in a List of such Principal Families 'T is admirable that there is not a great and Numerous House in England wherein there is not one Anciently or at this day Living thriving and flourishing by the Study of the Law Especially if to them be added those who have raised themselves in Courts of Judicature The City hath produced more then the Law in Number and some as broad in Wealth but not so high in Honour nor long lasting in time who like Landfloods soon come and soon gone have been dryed up before this Generation Yet many of these have continued in a certain Channel and carried a constant Stream The Church before the Reformation advanced many Families For tho Bishops might not marry they preferred their Brothers Sons to great Estates as the Kemps in Kent Peckhams in Sussex Wickhams in Hampshire Meltons in Yorkshire Since the Reformation some have raised their Families to a Knightly and Worshipful Estate as Hutton Bilson Dove Neil c. For Sheriffs Sandys in Worcester Cambridgeshire Westphaling in Herefordshire Elmar in Suffolk Rud in Carmarthenshire Of the inferiour Clergy Robert Johnson attain'd such an Estate that his Grandson was Pricked Sheriff of a County but declined the place as being a Deacon The Civil Law hath preferred few The most Eminent in that Faculty before the Reformation being Persons in Orders abstained from Marriage since the Reformation there are Worshipful Families raised thereby The professors of Civil Law were equally Contemned with Gods Ministers during the Civil Wars the Promoters whereof having a constant Pique at all Civility and Order But by the Return of our Brittish Sun those Clouds of Barbarity are dispelled and Regularity of Motion and good Order is introduced into the vast Sphere of his Dominion and the joyful Seasons of Peace and Plenty are by his kindly Influences restored Physick hath promoted more and that since the Reign of King Henry 8. Before whose time there was one a Doctor of Physick Father to Reginald first and last Lord Bray This Faculty hath much flourished the three last fifty years Sir William Buts Doctor Wendy and Doctor Hatcher have raised Worshipful Families thereby Some have rais'd themselves by Sea-service and Letters of Mart. Amongst those most remarkable the Baronets Family of Drakes in Devonshire sometimes Sheriffs there Some have raised themselves by their Attendance at Court here younger Brothers have found their Birth-right Many have advanced themselves by their Valour in Forraign Wars especially in France as the Knolls a Noble Family and the Caveleys often Sheriffs in Cheshire Clothing as it affords Coats to most People so it has given Arms and Gentility to many Families in this Land As on the Springs of High-Sheriffs in Suffolk The Countrey with her two full Breasts of Grasing and Tillage hath raised many Families Some have had two Strings to their Bow As the Chichlies in Cambridgeshire are Descendants from a Lord Major allied also Collaterally to an Arch-bishop of Canterbury We may observe how happy a Liberal Vocation has proved to Younger Brethren with which agree the School-Boys Exposition of these Verses Dat Galenus opes dat Justinianus Honores Cum Genus Species cogitur ire pedes The Study of Physick giveth Wealth The Study of Law giveth Honour When High-birth and Beauty having no other Calling is compelled to go on Foot Barkshire BARKSHIRE hath Wiltshire on the west Hampshire on the South Surrey on the East Oxford and Buckinghamshire on the North. 'T is in Form of a Lute the Belly towards the West the Neck extending to the East In length about forty Miles viz. from Coleshul to Windfor and about twenty Miles in the broadest part Very plentiful of Grass Grain Fish Fowl Wool and Wood c. The Natural Commodities are first Oakes of Trees Barkshire hath abundance in all kinds The Oaks in Windsor-Forrest as all other English Oak are the best 1. for firmness for when entred with Bullet it remaineth firm round about it whilst all the Oak does cowardly split about the passage 2. For convenience of Portage our four principal Forrests lying either on the Sea or Navigable Rivers viz. New-Forrest on the Sea Shire-wood on the Trent Dean on the Severn Windsor-Forrest on the Thames Secondly Bark Whence the Name of this County It is essential for making of good Leather for he that stays for Leather-shooes made without Bark may long time go Bare-foot Thirdly Trouts A dainty Fish being found in the swiftest Streams and on the hardest Gravel Of this kind there are Great and Good in the River of Kennet nigh Hungerford They are best in May and decline with the Buck. After their full growth they decay in goodness tho their Head still thrive Note a Hog-back and little Head is a sign any Fish is in season As for Manufactures the chief is Clothing For the Antiquity of it 1. Cloth is of the same date with the Civility of our Land indeed the Britains went naked which Custom a Beggar continuing gave a reason thereof by saying All my Body is Face 2. Fine narrow Cloth begun about 1. E. III. 3. Broad-cloth wherein the Wealth of England is folded up began in the Reign of Henry 8. Jack of Newbury 't is said was the first that introduced it Minerva was held the Foundress of Weaving so great is the ingenuity thereof For Buildings Windsor-Castle a Royal Seat ever since the Conquest brought to modern Beauty chiefly at the cost of E. 3. It is a Castle for Strength and a Palace for State and hath a Colledge Chappel and Alms-House In this Palace is most remarkable the Hall for Greatness Winchester-Tower for height and the Terrace on the North-side for Pleasure Nor boasteth it so much that it consisteth of two Great Courts as that it contained two Great Kings John of France and David of Scotland Prisoners therein together as also that it was the Seat of the Honourable Order of the Garter Many pleasant Seats are in this County on the Kennet and Thames which seem dutifully to attend at distance on Windsor-Castle as Alder-maston Ingle-field c. For Proverbs One is peculiar to this County viz. The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still Bray is a Village here named from the Bibroges ancient British Inhabitants The Vivacious Vicar living under Henry 8. Edward 6. Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth was a Papist then Protestant then Papist then Protestant again He found the Martyrs fire near Windsor too hot for his Temper and being Taxed for a Turn-coat Not so said he for I always kept my Principle to live and dye the Vicar of Bray General Proverb I. When our Lady falls into our Lords lap Then let England beware of a sad Mishap Al. Let the Clergy-man look to his Cap. This Prophecy about 130 years old implies that the Blessed Virgin offended with
by Heart the second Book of the Aeneads which he learnt at School without missing a Verse He was an excellent Preacher He attended King Ja. his Chaplain into Scotland and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury He was Hospital and Generous He dyed and was buried An. Dom. 1622. Th. Son to Will. Westfield D. D. born An. Dom. 1573. in Ely bred at Jes Coll. in Camb. where he was Fellow He was Assistant to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside after Rector of Horsney and great St. Barth Lond. where in his Preaching he went through the 4 Evangelists He was afterward made Arch-Deacon of St. Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol The Parl. had a good Opinion of him as appears by this Order 13. May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Com. for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Vpon information in the behalf of the B. of Bristol That his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents it is ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great Age and a Person of great Learning and Merit Jo. Wylde By his Will he desired to be buried in the Cathedral-Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop And as for my Worldly Goods the words of his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give c. to my Wife Eliz. He dyed June 28. 1644. and lyeth buried according to his own desire An Anagram made on him by his Daughter was Thomas Westfield I dwell the most safe Statesmen Jo. Tiptoft Son and Heir of Jo. Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Edw. Charlton Lord Powis by his Wife Eleanor Sister and Coheir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this County He was bred at Baliol-Coll in Oxf. where he attained to great Learning and by H. 6. was afterwards created first Viscount then Earl of Worcester and Lord High Constable of England and by E. 4. Knight of the Garter The Skies began to Lowre and Threaten Civil Wars and the House of York fell sick of a Relapse Mean time this Earl could not be discourteous to Hen. 6. who had so much advanced him nor disloyal to Edw. 4. in whom the Right of the Crown lay For an Expedient he quitted his own and visited the Holy-Land At Rome in his passage by an Elegant Latin Speech he drew the Admiration of all the Auditors and Tears from the Eyes of the Pope Pius II. He returned from Christs-Sepulchre to his own in England in an unhappy time if sooner or later he had found Edward on that Throne to which now H. 6 was restored and whose Restitution was only remarkable for the Death of this Worthy Lord. Treason was charged on him for secretly siding with King Edw. On this account he lost his life The Ax then did at one blow cut off more Learning in England then was left in the Heads of all the Surviving Nobility His Death hap'ned on St. Lukes day 1470. Edw. Lord Tiptoft his Son was restored by Edw. 4. Earl of Worcester but dying without Issue his Inheritance fell to his three Aunts Sisters to the Learned Lord aforesaid viz. 1. Philip married to Th. Lord Ross of Hamlake 2. Joan Wife of Sir Edm. Inglesthrop of Borough-green in this County 3. Joyce married to Sir Edw. Sutton Son and Heir of John Lord Dudley from whom came Edw. Sutton Lord Dudley and Knight of the Garter Jo. Cheeke Knight Tutor to Ed. 6. and Secretary of State born in Camb. Of him see our Church-History Souldiers When the rest of the East-Angles cowardly fled away in the Field from the Danish Army the Men of the County of Camb. did manfully resist whence it was that whilst the English did rule the praise of the People of Cambridgeshire did most eminently flourish At the coming of the Normans they made so stout a Resistance that the Conqueror who did fly into England was glad to creep into Ely Cambridgeshire-men commonly passed for a Proverb tho now like old Coyn almost grown out of request Indeed the Common-people have Robust bodies able to carry 8 Bushels of Barley on their Backs whereas 4 are found a sufficient Load for Men of other Counties and I doubt not but if there were occasion their Arms and Hands would appear to be as good as their Backs and Shoulders Writers Math. Paris probably born in this and bred-in the next County where the Name is right Ancient long before they were setled at Hildersham which accrued to them by their Marriage with the Daughter and Heir of the Buslers He was a Monk at St. Albans skilled in Poetry Oratory and Divinity as also in Painting Graving c. But his Genius chiefly disposed him to the Writing of Histories wherein he wrote a large Chronicle from the Conquest unto the year of our Lord 1250. where he concludes with this Distich Siste tui metas studii Mâ—â—â—â—aee quietas Nec ventura petas quae postera proferat aetas Matthew here cease thy Pen in peace and study on no more Nor do thou aim at things to come which next Age hath in store Yet resuming the Work he continued it to 1259. A catching disease with Authors my self being concerned to obey the importunity of others contrary to their own inclination His History is impartially and judiciously save whereby he indulgeth too much Monkish Miracles and no Writer so plainly discovereth the Pride Avarice and Rapine of the Court of Rome so that he seldom kisseth the Popes toe without Biting it The Papists insinuate a suspicion that such Reflections are forged but all the Candour imaginable has been used in the Editions of that Author first by Math. Parker and then and especially by Doctor Will. Wats This Matthew left off living and writing An. 1259. Tho he had sharp Nailes he had clean Hands strict in his own and striking at the loose Conversation of others and for his Eminent Austerity was not only employed by Pope Innocent 4. to visit the Monks in the Diocess of Norwich but also was sent unto Norway to reform the Discipline in Holni a fair Covent Helias Rubeus in Engl. Rous or Red bred D. D. in Camb. A great Courtier and Gracious with the King Wrote a Book contra Nobilitatem inanem 'T is thought he flourished about the year 1266. Jo. Eversden was bred a Monk in Bury-Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but his mounting above this mean Employ he buried himself in Pâ—â—try Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryars And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury An. 1336. there hap'ned a hideous Hericano levelling Trees Towers c. Yet went they out with a Calm at the time
the Reign of H. 8. Since the Reformation Rob. Brassy born at Bunbury i. e. Boniface-bury bred D. D. in Kings Coll. in Camb. whereof he was Provost Being Learned and Stout he Publickly protested against the Visitors of the University in the Reign of Queen Ma. as to his own Colledge thereby taking off the Edge of these Persecuting Commissioners When many Doctors of Camb. were resolved to sell their Right in Stâ—rbridge-fair for a Trifle to the Towns-men he dashed their designs which Manly Opposition prevented the Vice-Chancellours holding the Stirrup to the Mayor He dyed An. Dom. 1558. and lies buried on the South-side of the Chapple Geo. Palin born at Wrenbury was bred a Merchant in London free of the Company of Girdlers We may call his Benefactions the Golden-gridle of Charity for with our Saviour he went about doing good To Wrenbury he gave 200 pounds to purchase Lands for the relief of the poor For building an Alms-house in and about London 900 pounds To St. Johns Coll. in Camb. 300 l. To the Hospital of St. Th. in Southwark 50 l. To the Preachers at Pauls-Cross 200 l. Toward a Chime in Bow-Church 100 l. To six Prisons in and about London 60 l. To Brason nose-Coll in Oxf. two Scholarships to each yearly 4 l. To the Coll. of St. Jo. Bap. in Oxf. 2 Scholarships of the same value To Christ-Church-Hospital 300 l. To the Church and Poor of Wrenbury to buy them Gowns 70 l. c. He dyed about the beginning of the Reign of King Ja. Jo. Brereton Knight a Branch of that well spred-tree in this County one of the first Scholars of the Foundation of Sidney-Coll then having studied the Law went into Ireland and was at last made the Kings Serjeant therein Having got a good Estate he gave well nigh 3000 l. to Sidney-Coll after 40 years absence A pure Gift because 't was loaded with no Detrimental Conditions in the acceptance He dyed about the year 1633. Jo. Barnston D. D. born of an Ancient Family a Fellow of Brason-nose Coll. in Oxf. and Chapl. to Chanc. Egerton Being Judge of the Consistory when a Church-Warden was Sued for a Chalice stoln out of his House not the proper place of Custody Well said the Doctor I am sorry the Cup of Vnion should be the cause of difference among you I doubt not but either the Thief will out of Remorse restore it or some other as good will be sent unto you and according by his secret Charity the Doctor provided another He founded an Hebrew Lecture in Brasen-nose-Coll and dyed An. 1642. Memorable Persons Will. Smith an Ancient Surname in this County was made Pursuivant of Arms by the Name of Raugaragon He wrote a Geographical and Historical Description of this County set forth by Mr. Crew Will. Web. M. A. was Clerk of the Mayors Court in Chester and under-Sheriff in this County 13. Jac. He compiled a Descripton of Cheshire and Chestern Randel Crew Esquire second Son to Sir Clisby who was Son to Judge Crew drew an exact Map of Cheshire with his Pen which the Gravers skill could but little improve He went beyond the Seas where he was Assassinated by some French-men and honourably buried with general Lamentation of the English at Paris 1656. Noted Sheriffs An. 56. Hugh de Hatton monarch H. 3. whose Ancestors had Lands at Hatton in this County by the Grant of Will the Conq. From him is Lineally descended the Learned and Religious Sir Christ Hatton Knight of the Bath who set forth Pious Meditations on the Psalms created by King Ch. I. Bar. of Hatton in Kerby in Northamp The Original of the Conquerors Grant is in this Lords Possession and was preserved in the Civil-Wars tho his Library was then Plundred 3. Sr. Hugh Cholmly or Cholmondesly bought his Knighthood in the Field at Leigh in Scotland monarch Q. Ma. He was five times High-Sheriff of this County and sometimes of Flint-sh and for many years one of the two Dep. Lieutenants thereof He was President of the Marches of Wales under the Right honourable Sir Hen. Sidney Knight He was esteemed for 50 years a Father of his Country and dying An. 157 was buried in the Church of Malpass under a Tomb of Alabaster leaving a Son Heir to his Vertues and Estate Jo. Savage direct Anchestor to Sir Th. Savage Knight and Bar. created by King Ch. I. Baron Savage of Rock Savage in this County This Lord. a great Statesman married Eliz. Eldest Daughter and Coheir of Th. Lord Darcy of Chich. Viscount Colchester and E. of Rivers Honours entailed on his Posterity and now enjoyed by the Right Honourable Th. Savage E. of Rivers Battles Rowton-heath 1645. Sep. 24. His Majesty being informed that Col. Jones had seized the Suburbs and strong Church of St. Johns in Chester Marched Northward for the relief thereof Poins a Parliament-General pursued his Majesty At Rowton-heath within three Miles of Chester the Kings Army made a halt whilst his Majesty with some Prime Persons marched into the City Next day a fierce Fight hapned on the Heath betwixt the Kings and Poins's Forces the latter going off with the greater loss 'T was conceived that had the Royalists pursued the Single Enemy before they were recruited they had finally worsted him which Fatal Omission oppertunities omitting of no after-games proved their overthrow For next day Col. Jones drew out his Men into the Field so that the Royalists being charged on the Heath in Front and Rear and having no Foot were defeated before a considerable party of Horse designed for their Relief were sent from Chester who came too soon to engage themselves as they came too late to Succour their Friends Here fell the youngest of the three Noble Brethren who lost their Lives in the King's Service Bernard Steward Earl of Liechfield Chester CHester is a fair City on the North-side of the River Dee so Ancient that the first Founder thereof is forgotten much beholden to the Earls of Chester for Encrease and Ornaments The Walls thereof were lately in good repair especially betwixt the New-Tower and the Water-gate For An. 1569. a Personal Fight hap'ning betwixt the two Sheriffs thereof Rich. Massey and Pet. Lycherband they were fined to mend that part of the Wall The East-gate was committed formerly to the Custody of the Earl of Oxford Bride-gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water-gate to the Earl of Darby and North-gate to the Mayor of the City which is built in form of a Quadrant having four Streets that meet in the middle thereof affording a Pleasant Prospect Here under the Rows or Galleries a kind of Building peculiar to this City the Passengers may walk dry in wet Weather without coming into the Streets As for Buildings St. Werburges Church is a fair Structure whereof the Tower begun 1508. is unfinished built long before the Conquest and being ruined was repaired by Hugh Lupus first Earl It was afterwards made by King Hen. 8. one of his five Royal Bishopricks Oxf.
Arch-bishops Restoration then being poor he was made by Arundels means Bishop of Lond. and dyed 1404. Since the Reformation Rich. Howland born at Newport-Ponds consecrated Bishop of Peterborough dyed June 1600. Jo. Jegon born at Coxhall Mr. of Bennet-Coll and thrice Vice-Chancellour of the University of Camb. He was both Grave and Facetius The Mulcts of the Undergraduats were by him one time expended in new whiting the Hall of the Coll. Whereupon a Scholar hung up these Verses on the Skreen Dr. Jegon Bennet-Colledge Master Brake the Scholars-head and gave the Walls a Plaister To which the Doctor Annexed Knew I but the Wagg that writ these Verses in a Bravery I would commend him for his Wit but whip him for his Knavery He was made Bishop of Norwich by King Ja. as being mighty Zealous for the Church of England He dyed An. 1618. Sam. Haresnet born at Colchester was Bishop of Chich. then of Norw and at last Arch-bishop of York and Privy Councellor to King Ch. II. He founded and endowed a fair Grammer-School at Chigwell He bequeathed his Library to Colchester provided they were kept in a decent Room for the use of the Clergy of that Town He dyed An. 1631. Augustine Linsel D. D. born at Bumsted was exact in Greek Hebrew and all Antiquity 〈◊〉 was Bishop of Peterborough and thence removed to Hereford where he dyed 163 Statesmen Sir Th. Audley Keeper of the Great Seal 1532. was An 24. H. 8. made Knight of the Garter Lord Chancellour of England and Baron Audley of Audley End in this County He got a Grant of the Priory of the Trinity now Dukes Place in Ealdgate Ward Lond. the first that was dissolved He had one only Daughter who was Married to Th. last D. of Norfolk He dyed 1544. and was buried in the Church of Saffron Walden He founded and endowed Magd. Coll. in Camb. for the maintenance of able Poets Sir Rich. Morison Knight skilled in Languages and in the Laws was frequently employed Ambassadour by H. 8. and E. 6. unto Ch. 5. Emp. c. He began a Beautiful House a Cashobery but before he had finished it and after he had fled beyond the Seas he dyed in Strasburgh An. 1556. Sir Anth. Cook Knight Great-Grand-child to Sir Th. Lord Mayor of Lond. was born at Giddy-Hall He was one of the Governours to Ed. 6. whilst Prince His Daughters were Learned in Greek and Latine and Poetry of whom Mildred was Married to Will. Cecil Lord Treasurer and Ann to Nich. Bacon Lord Chanc. of England and Katherine to Hen. Killigrew This Kath. being unwilling her Husband Sir Hen. should be sent Ambassadour to France wrote to her Sister Mildred these Verses Si mihi quem cupio cures Mildreda remitti Tu bona tu melior tu mihi sola â—oror Sin male cunctando retines vel tranâ— Mare mittes Tu Mala tu pejor tu mihi nulla soror It si Connubiam tibi pax sit omnia loeta Sin mare Cecili nuntio bella Vale. This Sir Anth. dyed An. 1576. leaving a fair Estate to his Son Sir Th. Smith Knight born at Saffron-Walden was by order of King Hen. 8. brought up beyond the Seas He was afterwards Secr. of State to Queen Eliz. and a great Benefactor to both Universities He dyed An. 1577. Th. Howard second Son to Th. last D. of Norf. by Marg. Heir to Th. Lord Audle was by Queen Eliz. made Baron of Audley and Knight of the Garter and King Ja. who beheld his Father a State Martyr for the Queen of Scots An. 1. Regni advanced him Lord Chamberlain and Earl of Suff. any An. 12 Lord Treasurer of England When made Chancellour of the University of Camb. he answered the Orators Speech by telling him Tho he knew no Latine he knew the Sence to make him wellcome and that he would serve the Vniversity faithfully c. Upon which the Vice-Chanc Hasnet requested him to entertain King Ja. at Camb. which accordingly he did in a very Magnificent Manner at the expence of above 5000 l. Hence after his Death Th. his second Son Earl of Barkshire succeeded him in the Place He dyed at Audley-End An. 1626. being Grandfather to the Right Honourable Ja. Earl of Suff. Rich. Westory probably Son to Sir Jerom Sher. in this County An. 21. Eliz. impaired his Estate to improve himself with Publick Accomplishments and was no looser when made Chancellour of the Exchequer and An. 4. Car. I. Lord Treasurer of England He was created Earl of Portland An. 18. Car. I. and dyed An. 163 Capital Judges Sir Jo. Bramstone born at Maldon and bred in the Middle-Temple was by King Ch. I. made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. One accomplished with all Qualities requisite for a Person of his place Having Married Serj. Bruertons Widow he paid near 3000 l. to Sidney-Coll which that Serjeant bequeathed by his Will imperfect in it self and invalid in the Rigour of the Law His opinion was for Ship-money which cost him much trouble He dyed about 1646. Souldiers Rob. Fitz. Walter born at Woodham-Walters highly beloved by Rich. 1. and King Jo. until the latter banished him because he would not Prostitute his Daughter to his Pleasure The French entertain'd him joyfully till upon a Truce betwixt France and England an English Man Challenged any of the French and was answer'd and unhorsed by this Fitz-Walter Hereupon King Jo. sent for him and restored his Lands to him with License to repair his Castles and particularly Bainards-Castle in Lond. He was Vulgarly Stiled The Marshal of Gods Army and Holy-Church He dyed An. Dom. 1234. and lyeth buried in the Priory of Little-Dunmow Sir Jo. Haukewood Son to Gilbert a Tanner was born at Sible Heningham and bound an apprentice to a Taylor in Lond. Afterwards he served King E. 3. in the French Wars and was Knighted for his Valour Then he served the City and then Free-State of Florence which rewarded his Gallant Service with a Rich Statue and Sumptuous Monument wherein his Ashes remain honoured at this day He had a Son born in Italy Naturalized An. 7. H. 4. He dyed very Aged An. 1394. 18. R. 2. Th. Ratcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter and Earl of Suss was twice Deputy of Ireland A most Valiant Man by whose Diligence and Prudence the threatning Clouds of Rebellion were dispersed in his time Afterwards at the Court of England he opposed Rob. Earl of Leicester He dyed An. Dom. and was buried in the Church of St. Olives Hartfleet in London Sir Fr. Vere rigid in Nature and undaunted in dangers served on the Scene of all Christendom where War was acted One Master-piece of his Valour was at the Battle of New-port where he was attended by the Ragged Regiment Another was when for three years he defended Ostend against a strong Army He dyed in the beginning of the Reign of King Ja. His younger Brother Sir Horace had as much Courage and more Meekness so Pious that he first made his
He looks as if he had lived on Tewksbury Mustard It is spoken of such who have a severe or sad Countenance V. The Tracies have always wind in their Faces Founded on a false Tradition since Sir Will. Tracy was most active against four Knights who killed Th. Becket it is imposed on Tracies for Miraculous Penance that whither they go by Land or Water the Wind is ever on their Faces Saints Kenelme Son of Kenwolfe King of Mercia at 7 years of Age succeeded his Father but was shortly after killed by Quenrid his Sister and that Murder was wonderfully discovered if the Legend be true by a Dove that carried in Parchment notice thereof to Rome As for Quenrid when her Eyes fell out they Bloodied her Primer whilst her Brothers Corps was Solemnly buried at Winchcomb and had in holy Veneration Martyrs Jo. Baynham Esquire a Lawyer and a true Lover of the Gospel was by Sir Th. Moores Order whipt at a Tree in Chelsey then cruelly Rackt in the Tower in his sight after which he abjured But Recanting his Recantation he was after much cruel usage Burnt in Smithfield Prelates Tideman de Winchcomb was made by R. 2. Abbot of Benle Bishop of Landaff then of Worcester He was also the Kings Physician having a Plurality of Cures both in Number and Kind Jo. Chedworth Bishop of Lincoln was joyned in Commission by King Hen. 6. with the Bishop of Winch. to Regulate the Statutes of Eaton and Kings Colledges in Camb. He dyed An. 1471. Jo. Carpenter born at Westbury was Bishop of Worcester He could not procure to himself the Title of Bishop of Worcester and Westbury He dyed 1475. Th. Ruthal born in Chichester was made by King Hen. 7. Bishop of Durham and by H. 8. Privy Councellour He was grossly mistaken when in stead of a Breviate of the State of England which he had drawn up he presented H. 8. with his own Estate amounting to an invidious Sum viz. of 100000 l. his Enemy Card. Woolsey glad at the mistake told the King he knew now where a Mass of Money was in case he needed it This broke Ruthal's Heart who had paid the third part of the cost of making the Bridge of New-Castle over Tyne and intended many more Benefactions had not Death 1523 on this occasion surprised him Since the Reformation Edw. Fox born in Duresley was Almoner to King Hen. 8. He first brought Dr. Cranmer to the knowledge of the King He was afterwards Bishop of Hereford and was the Principal Pillar of the Reformation as to the Managery of the Politick part thereof Of the many Books he wrote that De differentiâ utriusque Potestatis was his Master-piece He was employed on several Embassies into France and Germany and dyed An. 1538. States-men Sir Ralph Butler Knight of the Garter and Lord Sudeley in this County was Lord Treasurer of Engl. He built Sudley-Castle the strongest and best Habitation of a Subject in Engl. Being Summoned by E. 4. and suspecting imprisonment he said It is thou Sudeley and not I that am a Traytor And so resigned the same into the Kings hands to procure his Liberty Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Anth. Fitz Herbert Justice of the Com. Pleas V. Derb. Edw. Trotman born at Cam. wrote an Abridgement of Sir Edw. Coke's Reports his Endeavours being well esteemed by the Learned in that Profession He was buried in the Temple-Church 1643. Souldiers Sir Will. Tracy of Todington a Gent. of high Birth State and Stomach much in favour with King Hen. 2. was the forwardest of the four Knights who killed Thomas Becket He had large Possessions in Dev. His intended Pilgrimages to Jerus for Penance were ever crossed with advers Winds He dyed An. 1180. Seamen Will. Winter Knight and Vice-Adm of Engl. assaulted the Fort of French in the Island of Inchkeith in Edenburgh Frith An. 1559. He with Sir Th. Smith demanded the Restitution of Calis 1567. He conducted a great Treasurer of the Genoa Merchants safely into the Netherlands in despite of the French opposing him 1568. He with Rob. Beale was sent into Zealand to demand the Restitution of some English Ships 1576. He did signal Service when the Sp. Fleet was fallen towards the Coast of Zealand 1588. Lidney-house the Seat of the Family had produced many more Mariners happy in Sea-Voyages Writers Osbern Claudian of Glouc. where he was a Benedictine Monk a Learned and Facetious Man wrote a Comment on the Pentateuch and on the Incarnation Nativity c. of Christ besides his Pan-Ormia and others Rob. of Glou. where he was a Monk was a Rhymer but good Historian flourishing under Hen. 2. and King Jo. 1200. Alan Abbot of Teuxbury was intimate with Th. Becket after whose decease he with three other of Becket's Evangelists wrote the History of his Mock-passion and Miracles He flourished under King Jo. An. 1200. Alex. of Hales as he followed Pet. Lombard so he did lead Th. Aquinas and other Schoolmen He was the first that wrote a Comment on the Sentences called the Sum of Divinity at the Instance of Pope Innoc 4. For his Services he had the Title of Doctor Irrefragabilis He dyed An. Dom. 1245. and was buried in Paris Th. de la More well descended was famous in Peace and War and brought honour out of Scotland on his Swords point being Knighted by E. 4 for his Valiant and Fortunate Service therein He wrote the Manner of Deposition of E. 2. to whom he bore a most Loyal Affection and did the best Service he could on that Fatal occasion He flourished An. 1326. Th. of Hales a Minorite promoted the Fabulous point of Purgatory with other Popish Positions under E. 3. 1340. Th. Neale born at Yate and bred in Oxf. where he was Prof. of Hebrew dedicated his Translation of some Rabbins to Card. Pole He was a Man of fearful Nature yet constant to the Rom. Persuasion being Chaplain to Bishop Bonner Papists admire him for his rare Judgment and Protestants for his strange Invention in first â—eigning Math. Parkers Consecration at the Nags-head in Cheapside He lived in Oxf. 1576. Since the Reformation Rich. Tracy Esquire born at Todington was Son to Sir Will. the Confessor to whose Zeal he succeeded and wrote in the defence thereof several Treatises in English amongst which was Preparations to the Cross He wrote Prophetically before the Reign of Queen Mary Note that An. 1626. there was amongst others a Treatise called A Preparation to the Cross found in the Belly of a Cod which was sold at Camb. Of which these Verses were written If Fishes thus do bring us Books then we May hope to equal Bodleys Library Yet after that some found the Cross in Camb. Sir Th. Overbury Knight born at Borton on the Hill and bred in Oxf. hath given a Proof of his Accomplishments in Poetry and Prose He was the first Writer of Characters in Engl. so far as I have observed He lost the favour of the Earl of Som.
knockt on the head as foolish Sidney was by his own forwardness and was restless till his return He was then in the Zenith of Reputation when he return'd Victorious from Cadiz tho he very quickly awakened the Queens jealousie by his Popularity His declination commenced upon his unfortunate Expedition into Ireland which with his absence from the Queen and his ensuing return to Court without leave were without any difficulty by his Enemies laid hold upon as a sure Foundation on which they might build the Earls Ruin and he himself did not a little contribute thereunto when he headed a Company of disaffected Persons who with their Swords in their Hands required that Evil Councellors might be removed from the Queen under that Pretence affording their zealous tho too weak assistance to the distressed Essex But the Gun-powder of their zeal did no other Execution than blow their own Heads up into a vain expectation of the Conquest of Terra incognita their Designs into a final disappointment and the once beloved Earl into the final displeasure of the Queen 1600. He was valiant liberal to Scholars and Souldiers nothing distrustful if not too confident of Fidelity in others Revengefulness was not bred but put into his Disposition When one flattered him to his Face for Valour No said he my Sins ever made me a Coward In a Word his failings were neither so foul nor so many but that the Character of a right worthy Man belongs to his Memory Writers Roger of Hereford bred in Camb. wrote a Book of Judicial Astrology and was skilful in Metalls c. by which he was acceptible to the Nobility He Flourished 1170. under H. 2. William Lemster D. D. in Oxford was a Franciscan He wrote Collations on the Master of Sentences and Questions in Divinity Since the Reformation Richard Hackluit of Ancient Extract bred in Oxford was Prebend of Westminster He set forth a Collection of the English Sea Voyages a work of great Honour in England He died in the beginning of King James leaving a fair Estate to his Son a Spend-thrift who said he had cheated the covetous Vsurer who had given him spick and span-new Money for the old Land of his Great Grand-Father Jo. Guillim of Welsh Extraction Born in this County was Pursuivant of Arms by the name of Portsmouth then Rouâ—eâ—roix He wrote that Learned Treatise called the Display of Heraldry of which one Writes But let me tell you this will be the harm In Arming others you your self disarm Sic vos non vobis c. He died about the end of King James Jo. Davies of Hereford was the great Master of the Pen in England for fast fair close and various Writing and could Flourish with his Fancy in Poetry as well as with his Pen. He died in the midst of the Reign of King James Romish Exile Writers Humphrey Ely Bred in Oxford was Professor of the Canon and Civil Laws at Pont-muss in Lorain He Died and was Buried there 1604. with two Epitaphs viz. He eased others of Poverty being himself almost pinched therewith and Wonder not that England is clouded with Heresies here her Son lies Benefactors Jo. Walter Born in Hereford Bred in London was Clerk of Drapers-Hall Having vowed he would give the surplusage of his Estate to Pious uses Accordingly he built and endowed a fair Alms-house in Southwark another at Newington both in Surrey on which and other Pious Uses he expended well nigh 10000 l. whereof 20 l. per an he gave to Hereford he died and was Buried at London 1656. Memorable Persons Rosamund Daughter of Walter Lord Clifford was a Mistress-piece of Beauty and therefore Concubine to H. 2. and Mother to William Longespee Earl of Salisbury King Henry is said to have Built a Labyrinth at Woodstock to hide this his Mistress from Jealous Juno Queen Eleanor who yet getting access to her caused her death She was Buried at Godstow-Nunnery near Oxford with this Epitaph Hîc jacet in Tumbâ Rosa Mundi non Rosa munda Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet Hugh Bishop of Lincoln caused her Bones to be scattered which afterwards were gathered by the Nuns and put into a perfumed Bag where they continued till the Reign of H. 8. An. 8. Rich. de Baskevil from a Town in Normandy so named monarch E. 2. Whose Ancestors immediately after the Conquest were Benefactors to the Abbey of Saint Peters in Glouc. Note This County had Sheriffs long before H. 2. 26. Walter Devereux Probably the same who Married Anne Daughter and Heir to William Lord Ferrers of Chartley monarch H. 6. and in her right was Created Lord Ferrers He was Father to John Lord Ferrers of Chartley who Married Cecily Sister to Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex and was Father to Walter Devereux Lord Ferrers Created Viscount Hereford by King Ed. 6. and was Father to Sir Richard Devereux Knight Father to Walter Devereux first Earl of Essex of that Family 14 Ja. Baskevile 18 Jo. Mortimer 19 Richiard de la Bere a Leash of Valiant Knight Batchelors were by H. 7. an 1. made Knights Bannerets monarch E. 4 11. Richard Cornwall Knight attended the Duke of Suffolk into France An. 15. H. 8. at what time they took the Town of Roy monarch H. 8. of which Sir Richard took possession Sir James Crofts was priviledged from being Sheriff monarch Q. Eliz. by his attendance on the Court and Camp For his supposed complyance with Wyate he was convicted of High-Treason under Queen Mary but was restored by Queen Elizabeth and made Governor of the Town and Castle of Barwick He behaved himself Valiantly at the Siege of Lieth yet in the Second assault when the English were worsted the blame fell on him as if he favoured the French and maligned the Lord Grey then General so that he was outed of his Government of Barwick yet he continued Privy-Councellor and Controller of the Houshold to the Queen He was one of the Commissioners in 88 to Treat with the Spaniard in Flanders His inheritance is lately devolved to Hen. Crofts D. D. and Dean of Hereford 40 Thomas Conisby Founded a place in Hereford for poor People 43 Jacob Scudamore was Father to Sir Jo. Created by King Charles Viscount Slego in Ireland This Lord was employed Leiger Ambassadour in France and during the Tyranny of the Protectorian times kept his secret Loyalty to his Soveraign Hospitality to his Family and Charity to the distressed Clergy Huntington-shire HVntington-shire is surrounded with Nothampton Bedford and Cambridge-shires and is hardly 20 miles in length The goodness of the Land may be collected from the plenty of Convents erected therein the fourth part of the whole having been Abbey-Land All England can hardly shew in so short a distance so pleasant a Park as Waybridge so fair a Meadow as Portsholme and so fruitful a Town for Tillage as Godmanchester all three situated within 3 miles Of Buildings Kimbolton-Castle was the Joynture of Q. Katherine Dowager
no place surviving to see his Sacred Function buried before his eyes He may be said to have died with the pen in his hand He was commonly called our English Seneca For his pure plain and full stile Not ill at Controversies more happy at Comments very good in his Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations In his Will he affirms that he does not hold Gods House a meer Repository for the dead bodies of the greatest Saints He died 1656. Statesmen Geo. Villiers born at Brooksby fourth Son to Sir Geo being debarred by his late Nativity from his Fathers Lands was maintain'd in France by his Mother till he returned one of the compleatest Courtiers in Christendom Sir Th. Lake Ushered him into the Court whilst the Lady Lucy Countess of Bedford led him by the one hand and William E. of Pembrook by the other about the same time that Somerset began to decline Soon after he was Knighted created successively Bar. Visc Villiers E. Marq. D. of Buckingham and Knight of the Garter and had the Offices of Master of the Horse and Admiral conferred upon him He married his Neeces to Honourable Persons thereby both gratifying his Kindred and fortifying himself with noble alliance King Charles had as high a kindness for the Duke as King James had Thenceforward he became Plenipotentiary in the English Court some of the Scotch Nobility making room for him by their seasonable departure out of this Life The Earl of Bristol was justled out the Bishop of Linc. cast flat on the floor the Earls of Pembrook and Carlile content to shine beneath him Holland behind him But tho he was the little God at Court he was the Great Divel in the Countrey being perfectly hated by the Commonalty and charged by them with all Miscarriages in Church and State John Felton apprehending himself injured stabbed the Duke to the heart at Portsmouth 1620. His person could not be charged with any blemish save that some Criticks conceived his brows somewhat over pendulous a cloud which in the Judgment of others was by the beams of his eyes sufficiently dispelled V. his Monument in the Chappel H 7 Capital Judges Sir Roh Belknap Chief J. of the Common Pleas An. 48. E. 3 was displaced An. 11 R. 2. For this King intending to make away certain Lords viz. his Uncle the Duke of Glouc. the Earls of Arund Warw. Darby Not. demanded of his Judges whether he might by his Regal power revoke what was acted in Parliament To this all the Judges answered affirmatively Sir William Skipwith onely excepted and subscribed it Belknap to that his subscription added these words There wants nothing but an hurdle an horse and an halter to carry me where I may suffer the death I deserve for if I had not done this I should have died for it and because I have done it I deserve death for betraying the Lords In the next Parlament all the Judges were arrested Sir Rob. Tresilian Chief J. of the Kings Bench executed and Belknap with others banished Sir Robert Catelin descended of the ancient Family of the Catelins in Northam was born at Biby An. 1. Eliz. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. He had aprejudice at all those who writ their Names with an alias which made a certain person ask him what exceptions his Lordship could take at Jesus Christ alias Jesus of Nazareth He died An. 16. Eliz. His Arms were Party par Cheveron Az. and O. which are quartered by the Right Honourable the Lord Spencer Earl of Sunderland this Judges Daughter and sole Heir being married to his Ancestor Some 40 years since a Gent. of his Name and Kindred had a Cause in Kings Bench to whom the Chief Justice therein said Your Kinsman my Predecessor was a great Lawyer My Lord replied the Gent. he was a very Honest man for he left a small Estate Writers William Leicester or De Montibus D. and Pr. D. in Oxford Eminent in Learning and beloved by the Nobility was known by the Name of Mr. William an Evidence sufficient to avouch his Magisteriality in all Learning He was Chanc. of Lincoln Church He flourished under King Jo. Rich. Belgrave wrote a Description of this County Theolog. Determinations and Ordinary Questions He was a Carmelite in Cambridge He flourished under E. 2. 1220. Rob. de Leic. a Fran. in Oxford was one that brought Preaching into Fashion in that age He wrote of the Hebrew and Rom. Chronological Computation He died at Lichfield 1348. Th. Ratcliffe an Augustinian in Leic. a Man of great parts wrote divers Books and flourished 1360. Barth Culie wrote of Generation and Corruption flourished under E. 3. William De. Lubbenham bred in Oxford Provincial of the Carmelites in Coventry wrote upon Aristotles Posteriors He died 1361. Jeffrey De Harby Provincial of the Augustines in Oxford and Confessor Privy Councellor to E. 3. wrote a Book in Praise of Poverty He died 1361. William De Folvill a Fran. in Cambridge maintani'd that Children under 18 might be admitted into Monastical Orders He died 1384. Hen. de Knighton Abb. of Leic. wrote his History from William the Conqeuror to R. 2. in whose time he died William Woodford a Fran. of profound Learning was depeuted by Th. Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury to confute Wickliffe's Opinions Th. Langton a Carmelite in London wrote Of their Ordinary Acts and Of the Trial of H. Crump D. D. c. He flourished under H. 4. 1400. Rob. de Harby a Carmelite in Linc. wrote Sermons of the Festivities of the Blessed Virgin He flourished 1450. Rich. Turpin born at Knaptoft was one of the Gentlemen in the English Garrison in Calais in Fr. in the Reign of H. 4. He wrote a Chronicle of his time and died 1541. Since the Refomation Hen. Smith called Silver-tongued was Preacher at St Clement Danes V. his Life writ by me Jo. Duport D. D. born at Shepshed thrice Vice-Chanc of the University of Cambridge was one of the Translators of the Bible He bestowed the perpetual Advowson of the Rectory of Harston on Je. Colledge He was happy in a Son Ja. Duport D. D. and Greek Prof. in Trinity Colledge He died 1617. William Burton Esq born at Lindley 1575 wrote an Alphabetical Description of the Towns and Villages in this County c. whose Younger Brother Robert Burton B. D. in Christ Church Oxford wrote the excellent Book called Democritus Junior of the Anatomy of Melancholy He died Rector of Segrave 1636. and had this Epitaph Paucis notus Paucioribus ignotus Hic jacet Democritus Junior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit Melancholia Rich. Vines M. A. born at Blazon and bred in Magd. Colledg in Cambridg was Schoolmaster of Hinckley then Minister of St Lawrence Jury in London Being the Champion he was called the Luther of his Party Employed by the Assembly in their Treaties at Vxbridg c. He forsook the Mastership of Pemb. Hall for refusing the Engagement Not a
that time taken Prisoner by the Scots who slew 4000 Men of the English Army being 8000 in all near the River Swale Afterward having recovered his Liberty he was made Chancellor of England and Bishop of Norwich An. 18. E. 2. He gave 200 l. to buy Lands to maintain Priests to say Mass for his Soul and died 1337. at Charing Cross nigh London 'T is he bestowed the Mannor of Silk Willoughby in this County on his Family which with other fair Lands is possessed by them at this day William Waynflet surnamed of the Town of his birth Son to Richard Pattin an ancient Esq whose Posterity remain at Barsloe in Darbyshire Founded Magd. College in Oxf. V. Eccl. Hist William Lynwood probably D. L. in Oxford was Chanc. to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Keeper of the Pr. Seal to H. 6. and was Employed on several Embassies to Sp. and Portug He wrote a Comment on the English Provincial Constitutions for which he was made Bishop of St. Dav. He died 1446. Will. Ascough D. L. descended of a worshipfull and ancient Family now living at Kelsey became Bishop of Sarum Confessor to H. 6. Jack Cade and his Crew many of them being his Tenants fell foul on this Bishop being a learned Pious and rich Man three Capital Crimes in a Clergy man They first plundred his Carriages of 10000 marks and then dragged himself from the high Altar to a hill hard by the Church and there barbarously murdered him tearing his bloody shirt in Pieces and leaving his stripped body stark naked the Place 1450 Sic concussa cadit Populari Mitra tumultu Protegat optamus nunce DIADEMA deus Richard Fox born at Grantham for the Publick good was very instrumental in bringing H. 7 to the Crown who made him Bishop of Winchester He was bred in Cambridge and afterwards in Oxford where he founded the Fair Colledg of Corp. Christi allowing to it 401 l. 18 s. 11 d. per An. He beautified his Cathedral and made decent Tombs for the Bodies of the Sax. Kings and Bishops there which were since barbarously demolished when blind with Age he felt Woolsey's puls beat violently through the extream desire he had of his civil or natural death and having defeated that Cardinals design to effect the first by rendring him obnoxious to the Kings displeasure and outing him of his See he yielded to the latter An. 1528. Since the Reformation Th. Goodrick of Kirby D. L. in Cambridg was employed in many Embassies and at last made Bishop of Ely by King Henry 8. and Lord Chancellor of England by King E. 6. Having resigned the place of Chancellour to Stephen Gardiner his Death was very seasonable for his own safety 1554. An. 1. Ma. Jo Whitgift born at Grimsby and bred in Cambridg was Bishop of Worcester then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury See my Eccl. History I meet with this Anagram Joannes Whitegifteus Non vi egit favet Jesus Indeed his politick patience was Blessed in a high Proportion Jo. Still D. D. born at Grantham was bred in Cambridg for which he was chosen to oppose all Comers for defence of the English Church when towards the end of Queen Elizabeth there was an unsucceeding motion of a Diet which should have been in Germany for composing Matters of Religion Then An. 1592 being the 2 d time Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells where he raised a great Estate from the Lead Mines in his time found in Mendip Hills and laid the Foundation of three Families leaving to each of them a considerable Revenue in a worshipfull Condition He gave 500 l. for the building of an Alms-houss in the City of Wells and dying 1607 he lyes buried in his own Cathedral Mart. Fotherby D. D. born at Great Grimsby of a good Family and bred in Cambridg was Preband of Canterbury then preferred by King Ja. Bishop of Salisbury Having begun a Treatise against Atheists he died 1619 Statesmen Edw. Fines Lord Clinton Knight of the Garter was Lord Adm. of England for above 30 years a Wise Valiant and Fortunate Gentleman The Master-piece of his service was in Mussleborough Field where the Victory over the Scots was from the Sea and an execution on the Land Queen Elizabeth created him Earl of Lincoln May 4. 1574. and indeed he had breadth to his heighth a sufficient Estate to support his Dignity He died 1585. and lyeth burâ—â—d at Windsor Th. Wilson D Lâ—bred in Cambridg was Tutor to H. and Ch. Brandons successively Dukes of Suff. He was made in the Raign of Q. Elizabeth Mr. of the Hospital of St Kath. the Quire which he took down as being probably past repairing He at last became Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth He died 15 Th. Lord Bury or Borough Grandson to Th. created Baron by King Henry 8 was born at Gainsborough He was sent Ambassador into Scotland 1593. to excuse Bothwel's lurking in England to advise the speedy suppressing of the Sp. Faction and to advance an effectual Association of the Protestants in that Kingdom for their Kings defence which was done accordingly He was made Deputy of Ireland An. 1597 Where after the expiration of a Months Truce with Tyrone he besieged the Fort of Black Water the Key of the County of Tyrone and took it by Force and presently followed a bloody Battel wherein the English paid dear for their Victory losing many worthy Men and amongst the two that were Foster brothers the strongest Irish Relation to the Eâ—rl of Kildary who so layd this â—oss to heart that he died soon after Tyrone rebeâ—eged Blackwater and the Lord Deputy endeavouâ—ing to relive it was struck with an untimely Death â—ote That it brake the Heart of the Valiant Sir â—o Norris who had promised the Deputies Place â—o himself as due to his Deserts when this Lord Burgh was superinduced to that Office William Cecil our English Nestor for Wisdom and Vivacity born at Burn was Secretary and Treaâ—urer for above 30 years together He steer'd the Court at his Pleasure and whilst the Earl of Leiceâ—ter would endure no Equal and Sussex no Superior â—herein he by siding with neither served himself with both You may easily imagine how highly the Wise Queen Elizabeth valued so great a Minister of â—tate Coming once to visit him when sick and beâ—ng much heightned with her Head Attire then â—n Fashion the Lord's Servant who conducted â—er throw the door May your Highness said he â—e pleased to stoop The Queen returned For your Master's sake I will stoop but not for the King of Spains All England in that Age was beholding to his Bounty as well as the Poor in Standford for whom â—e erected a fair Bead-house acknowledging under God and the Queen their Prosperity the Fruit of â—is Prudence This Worthy Patriot died in 77 â—ear of his Age Aug. 4. 1598. V. my Holy State Capital Judges Sir Will. de Skipwith made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer An. 35. E. 3. condemned Will.
Wickham B. of Winchester at â—he importunity of Jo. Gaunt D. of Lanc. whereupon the Bishops Temporals were seised and he denied access within 20 miles of the K. Court Sir Will. Skipwith Junior a Puisne Judge would not comply for the importunity of R. 2. nor the Example of his Fellow Judges An. 10 Regn. to allow That the King by his own Power might rescind an Act of Parliament May I move that every 4 th Link of the Collar of S S S Esses from St. Sim. Simplicius an uncorrupted Judge in the primitive times may mind the Judges of this Skipwith His Name hath flourished at Ormesby ever since his time in a very worshipful Condition Sir Will. Husee Knight of a worshipful Family in this County was made Lord Chief Justice of the K. Bench An. 21. E. 4. Afterwards upon a Question of great importance he with all the rest of the Judges unanimously resolved That the Knights and Burgesses formerly of the K. party attainted by due Course of Law should forbear to come into the House till a Law were passed for the Reversal of their Attainders but as to K. Hen. 7. who had been also Attainted That the Crown takes away all defects and Stops in Blood and that by the Assumption thereof the Fountain was cleared from all Attainders and Corruptions He died An. 10. H. 7. Sir Edm. Anderson Knight a younger Brother of a Gentile Extract at Flixborough was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas An. 24. Eliz. He censured Secr. Davison about the business of Q. of Scots for indiscretion telling him that he had done Justum non justé He checked Sir Edw. Coke the Q. Solicitor and H. Cuff who was arraigned about the rising of the E. of Essex for their Foolish Syllogismes used in Court He was a great Promoter of the Established Church Discipline and severe against Brownists He died An. 3. Jac. Souldiers Sir Fred. Tilney Knight resided at Boston A Man of mighty Stature and Strength He attended K. R. 1. An. 119 to the Siege of Acon in the Holy-Land 16 Knights are descended from in a direct Line successively till at last their Heir General being married to the D. of Norfolk put a period to the Lustre of that ancient Family Peregrine Berty L. Willoughby Son of Rich. and Kath. Dutchess of Suff. was born near Hidleberg in the Palatinate He gave good proofs of his Valour in France and the Low-Countreys and was at last made Governour of Barwick Not brooking the Obsequiousness of the Court he was wont to Say That he was none of the Reptilia which could creep on the Ground The Camp was his proper Element being a Gallant Souldier When one sent him a Challenge whilst he lay sick of the Gout he returned this Answer that altho he was lame of his hands and feet yet he would meet him with a piece of Rapier in his teeth Once he took a Genet mannaged for the War which was intended for a present to the King of Spain and was desired by a Trumpeter from the General to restore it offering this Lord 1000 l down for him or a 100 l. per An. during his Life at his own choice This Lord returned That if it had been any COMMANDER he freely would have sent him back but being an HORSE he loved him as well as the King of Spain himself and would keep him When he was at the Spaw in Lukeland for the Recovery of his health The Queen wrote to him a very kind Letter wherein she enjoyns him to an especial care to encrease and continue his Health and not to affect the satisfaction of his own private contentation beyond the attending on that which Nature and Duty challengeâ— from all Persons of his Quality and profession Inviting him in most gracious and obliging Terms as one of her Best and Noble Subjects to the Acceptance of some Employment at Home tending to his own Honour her Majesties Intrest and Security and the general Peace of the Kingdom at that time when a Second Spanish Invasion was expected His Parents fled in the Reign of Queen Mary beyond the Seas His Ancestors have flourished many years in this County where he was Baron of Willoughby in Right of his Mother He died 1601. Sir Edw. Harwood born nigh Burn was a Valiant Souldier and a Pious Man His having killed a Man in a private Quarel put a period to all his carnal Mirth No possible provocations could afterward tempt him to a Duell He refused all Challenges with more Honour than others accepted them it being well known that he would set his Foot as far in the Face of his Enemy as any Man alive He was one of the 4 standing Colonels in the Low Countreys and was shot at the Siege of Mastricht 1632. Seamen Job Haertop born at Bourn went An. 1568 with Sir Jo. Hawkins his General to make Discoveries in New Spain He was chief Gunner in the Ship called Jesus of Lubeck 8 of his Men were killed at Cope-verd and the General wounded with poisoned Arrows but was cured by a Negro drawing out the poison with a Clove of Garlick He wrote a Treatise of his Voyage wherein he makes mention of a Tree that affords a Liquor which is both meat and drink yields both Needles and thred and Tiles for Houses which may therefore be called the Tree of Food Raiment and Harbour Being with some other left on Land after many Miseries he came to Mexico and he continued a Prisoner 23 years of which time he was 12 years in the Gallies and 3 years a drudge to Hernando de Soria who then sent him to Sea in a Flemish which was afterwards taken by an English ship called the Galeon-Dudley that safely landed him at Portsmouth December 2. 1590. Sir William Mounson Knight of an ancient Family was made Vice-Admiral An. 1602. Sir Richard Leveson Ad. by whose Diligence and Valour Trading was Killed on the Coasts of Portugal and a Caract of 1600 Tun taken which had in her 300 Sp. Gentelmen and amounted to the Value of 1000000 Crowns of Portugall Account tho the Marquis de Sanctâ Cruce lay hard by with 13 Ships and all were secured under the Command of a strong Castle In the Dispute the Syllogismes of Fire and Sword which were used by the English tho the Premisses were opposed with the best Spanish Logic were â—nswered by the Opponent with a fair concessio◠〈◊〉 the Conclusion The Goods gotten in the Caraâ—â—ight be valued but the Good gained thereby was â—â—estimable for henceforward the Spanish beheld the English with Admiration and quitted their thoughts of Invasion This Worthy Knight died about the midst of the Reign of King James Writers Gilb. of Holland Preacher went to Clarvaulx in Burgundy where he was St. Bernard's Scholar He was a Judicious Learned and Eloquent man and one who studied much the Holy Scriptures Trithem He continued St. Bernard's Sermons He flourished An. 1200. and was buried in Gistreaux in
the Engish Tongue A great Mathematician Witness his Book de Sphaerâ He was living 1402. being Contemporary with Gower Since the Reformation Th. Lydgate born at Alkerton and bred in Oxford was Eminent for his Learning and Obscure for his Living An admirable Mathematician witness his Learned Treatises De Naturâ Coeli and de variis Annorum Formis c. He opposed the opinion of Scaliger and was by him jeered for a Prophet having somewhat traded in the Apocalyptical Divinity yet 't is said Lydgate had the best in the Contest He was Rector of Alkerton His low Condition may be imputed to these Causes 1. The Barrenness of his speculative Studies 2. His own Nature being inclined to Solitude 3. The death of P. Henry whose Library-Keeper he was 4. His Disaffection to Church Discipline and Ceremonies tho such wrong his Memory who represent him an Anabaptist His Modesty was as great as his want which he would not make known to any Sir W. Boswell and B. Williams were great Friends to him He died about 1644 Sir Richard Baker Knight was High Sheriff of this County An. 18. Jac. 1621. his Estate being encumbered he fled in his old Age for shelter to his studies and devotions He wrote an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and a Chronicle of our English Kings He died about the beginning of the Civil Wars W. Whateley born in afterwards Minister of Banbury and bred in Cambridge was a good Linguist Philosopher Mathematician and Divine He wrote a Book entitled the Bride-bush which is variously construed He died 1639. Jo. Balle born at Casfigton bred B. D. in Oxford was Preacher at Whitmore in Stafford-shire His Treatise of Faith cannot sufficiently be commended He was a Humble Pious and good Natured Christian When his friend having had a fall from a Horse said that he never had the like deliverance Yea said Mr. Balle and a hundred times when you never fell He hated all New Lights Living comfortably he relieved others charitably left his children competently and died piously 1640. W. Chillingworth born in Oxford and bred in Trinity College was a subtil Disputant Going beyond the Seas he was in some sort reconciled to the Church of Rome but returning afterwards into England in testimony of his true Conversion he wrote a Book entitled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation He was taken Prisoner by the Parliaments Forces at Arundel-Castle and safely conducted to Chichester where hard usage hastned his death Dan. Featly D. D. born in or near to Oxford made the Speech in Corpus-Christi-College at the Funeral of Dr. Reynalds He was good in the Schools and in the Pulpit and a happy disputant against Papists In the conference with F. Fisher who was caught in a Net cast by Dr. White Dr. Featly did help strongly to draw that Net to the shore He was in but it seems not of the late Assembley his body being with them but his heart at Oxford Being discovered he was imprisoned in the College at Chelsey where he died 1643. Jo. White originally from Hant-shire born at Staunton-St John and bred in Oxford was Minister at Dorchester for about 40 years in which time he expounded the whole Scripture once over and half over again That Town was enriched by his Wisdom Knowledge causing Piety Piety breeding Industry and Industry Plenty unto it A beggar then was not to be seen in the Town He absolutely commanded his own Passions and the Purses of the Parishoners and was free from Covetousness He had a Patriarchal influence both in Old and New-England Yet towards the end of his days Factions grew in his stock then disloyal persons would not pay the due respect to the Crown of his old Age. He was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines He married the sister of Dr. Burges by whom he left 4 Sons and died quietly at Dorchester 163. Benefactors to the Publick Th. Tisdall of Glimpton Esq dying 1610. bequeathed 5000 l. to Geo. Abbot then Bishop of London and others to purchase Lands for the maintainance of 7 Fellows and 6 Scholars which Money was expended for the purchase of 250 l. per An. and a new College was erected therewith by the Name of Pembroke College Th. gave many other charitable Legacies and deserved well of Abbington School founding an Usher therein Memorable Persons Anne Green a person unmarried having been executed at Oxford 1650. for killing her Child recovered perfect health Charitable people interpret her so miraculous preservation a Compurgator of her Innocence Noted Sheriffs An. 11. W. Taverner Arm. in the year of his Sherivalty came to Oxford monarch Q. Eliz. went up into the pulpit at St. Maries with a sword by his side and a gold chain about his neck where he made a Sermon to the University 18 Rob. Doyle Knight in whose year the Black Assizes were at Oxford wherein the Prisoners caused the death of the Judge Chief Baron Bell the Sheriff some of the Lawyers many of the Justices and most of the Jury besides other persons of Quality there present It was generally imputed to the stench of the Prisoners cloathes and bodies 31 W. Clarke Arm. Son to W. Sher. 10 Jac. and grandchild to Sir Jo. of Northam 21. Henry 8. 36. Rich. Fenys bred in Oxford was lineally desended from Ja. Lord Say and Seal Treasurer of England in the days of Henry 6. was created An. 1 Ja. Lord Say and Seal He died 1612. W. Fenys his eldest Son was since created Visc Say and Seal and is still alive An. 3. Rich. Wenmam was by King Charles I. created monarch K. Ch. I. first Baron of Wenman of Chilmaynam in the County of Dublin and then Visc Wenman of Tuant in the County of Galloway both in the Kingdom of Ireland Rutland-shire RVtland-shire the least County in England is both pleasant and fruitful and in Form almost Orbicular The name is q. Redland from the colour of the Soyl. As for Buildings Burgley on the Hill belonged formerly to the Lords Harringtons but since so beautified by the D. of Buckingham that it was inferiour to few for the House superiour to all for the Stable It was demolished in the Civil War Of Wonders this is one that this County had never an absolute or entire Abby therein producing only Okeham and Brook two small Appurtenances to Convents in other Counties The cause whereof seems to have been Ed. the Confessor's giving all Rutland to Westminster Church which tho rescinded by William the Conqueror yet other Convents perchance might be scrupulous to accept what once belonged to another Foundation Proverbs I. Rutland Raddleman A poor sort of Trader that sells red stones or Oker for the marking of sheep Saints St. Tibba a Saxon was in the times of Superstition reputed the Patroness of Hawking and worshipped as a second Diana she lived a Virgin and Anchoress at Dormundcaster and died with the reputation of holiness about 660. Benefactors to the Publick W. Brown Esq twice Alderman
Devotion with the pleasantness Wells to drive it with the solemnity thereof The West Front of Wells is a Master-piece of Art made of well proportioned imagery Vera Spirantia Signa As for the Civil Habitations in this County to pass by Dunstar Castle which hath a high Ascent and a goodly Prospect by Sea and Land Montague built by Sir Edward Philips Master of the Rolles is a most Magnificent Fabrick Hinton St. George the House of the Lord Paulet has every Stone in the Front shaped Doule-wayes in form of a Cart-nail and 't is said the owner thereof built it in a dear year on purpose to employ the more poor people thereupon The Wonder of this County is Wockey-hole in Mendip-Hills near Wells a Subterranean Concavity having spatious Vaults stony Walls creeping Labyrinths The water which incessantly dropped down from the Vault of the Rock was seen by some to turn to the Rock it self And the like transmutation is thought to be the Original of many Rocks As for Medicinal Waters Bath is well known the Waters whereof have much Bitumen soveraign against Obstructions Niter which strengthneth the operation of the former and Purgeth the Body of gross Humours and Sulphur which dries and is good for uterine effects Amongst the various Opinions concerning the heat of these Waters some do with great probability impute the same to the fermentation of several Minerals through which the Waters run The practice of taking the Waters inwardly in Broths c. beginneth to prevail The Right Honourable James Earl of Marleborough undertook to cover the Cross-Bath at his own cost and would others follow his Resolution it would effectually conduce to publick benefit and raise the credit of the place Proverbs I. Where should I be bore else then in Tanton deane A Peasant's bragg that place is indeed populous pleasant and so fruitful with the zun and zoil alone that it needs no manuring II. The Beggers of Bath Saints St. Dunstan born in and Abbot of Glassenbury was Bishop of London and Worcester Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and at last for his promoting of Monkery reputed a Saint He dyed 988. His skill in Smithery was so great that the Goldsmiths in London are Incorporated by the name of the Company of St. Dunstans See my Eccl. Hist Martyrs Jo. Hooper born in this County and bred in Oxford then beyond the Seas a great Scholar and Linguist was in the Reign of Edw. 6. Elected Bishop of Glocester but for a time scrupled the acceptance thereof as refusing the Oath of Supremacy which then enjoyned the receivers to a Conformity to the Kings Commands in what alterations soever he should afterwards make in Religion and also concluded with so help me God and all his Angels and Saints This was the occasion of the ensuing reforming of that Oath whilst the King dispensed with his present taking thereof He also scrupled the wearing of some Episcopal Habiliments but at last consented thereunto He held afterwards Worcester in Commendam with Glocester and having a double Dignity gave treble Diligence by Preaching Gods Word living piously and dying patiently being Martyred An. 1555. The only Native in this Shire who suffered for the Testimony of the Gospel Bishop Burn Bishop of Bath and Wells in the Reign of Q. Mary having persecuted no Protestants in his Diocess to death Prelates Joceline of Wells whereof he was Bishop He first changed the Stile of Bishop of Glaston used by his Predecessors into that of Bishop of Bath and Wells The Monks of Glassenbury purchased their exemption from his Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by parting with 4 fair Mannors to the See of Wells After his return from Exile for his obstinacy against King John he Beautified and Enriched the Cathedral Erected some new Prebends and to the use of the Chapter appropriated many Churches and gave 3 Mannors of great value to the Episcopal See He with Hugo Bishop of London was the joynt Founder of St. Jo. in Wells and on his own cost built two fair Chappels one at Wokey the other at Wells The Church of Wells was rather rebuilt then repaired by him He was Bishop 37 Years and Dyed 1242. His Effigies in Brass which was on his Tomb is since defaced Fulk of Samford was Treasurer of St. Pauls London and then by Papal-Bull declared Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1256. He dyed in his Mannor of Finglas 1271. and was Buried in the Church of St. Pat. whose Brother Jo. of Samford Dean of St. Pat. in Dublin and for a time Escheator of all Ireland was afterward chosen and by Edw. the 1st Confirm'd Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1284. For a time he was Chief Justice of Ireland and thence was sent with Anth. Bishop of Durham Ambassador to the Emperour whence returning he dyed in London 1294. his Body being carried over into Ireland was buried in St. Pat. Thomas Beckington born at Beckington bred in New-Colledge Dr. of the Laws and Dean of the Arches till by King Hen. 6. he was advanced Bishop of Bath and Wells He gave for his Rebus in allusion to his Name a burning Beacon to which he answered in his Nature being a burning and shining light He wrote a Book to prove the K. of England's Title to the Crown of France He spent 6000 Marks in repairing and adorning of his Palaces He was a Loyal Subject kind Kinsman and a good Master bequeathing 5 pound a piece to his Chief and 5 Marks a piece to his meaner Servants and 40 Shillings a piece to his Boys He was a Benefactor to Wells Church Winch. New Merton but chiefly Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford being little less than a second Founder thereof His Will was Confirmed under the Broad Seal of England He dyed 1464. Richard Fitz-James Dr. of Law was born at Redlinch of Ancient and Worshipful Extraction and bred at Mert. Coll. in Oxford where he built most Beautiful Lodgings repairing also St. Ma. in Oxford He was preferred successively Bishop of Rochester Chichester and London An excellent Scholar and Author of some Books not now Extant He was over busie with Fire and Faggot persecuting the poor servants of God in his Diocess He dyed 1512 and was buried in his Cathedral having contributed to the adorning thereof in a Chappel like Tomb of Timber since burnt down 1561 He was Brother to Fitz-James Lord Chief Justice Statesmen Sir Amias Poulet whose Grandfather put Cardinal Woolsey then but a School-Master in the Stocks was born at Hinton St. George He was Chancellour of the Garter Governour of Jersey and Gersney and Privy-Councellour to Q. Elizabeth who chiefly committed the keeping of Mary Q. of Scots to his fidelity He would not yield to Secretary Walsingham who moved him to suffer one of his servants to be bribed by the Agents of the Queen of Scots so to compass the better Intelligence He dyed 15. and was Buried in St. Martins in the Fields in London His Motto was Gardez la Foy keep your Faith or Allegiance Capital Judges Jo. Fitz-James born
King Edw. 4. and lyeth buried under a fair Monument in the Cathedral of VVorcester Edmund Dudley Esq was Son to John Dudley Esq second Son to John Sutton first Baron of Dudley though he was slandered by some as being the Son of a Carpenter He Married the Daughter and Heir of the Visc Lisle Being bred in the Study of the Laws he was made one of Puisne Judges and wrote an excellent book Entitled the Tree of the Common VVealth He was employed by K. Henry 7. to put his Penal Statutes in Execution which he did with severity cruelty and extortion K. Henry 8. resigned this Dudley and Sir Richard Empson his Partner to Justice so that they were made a Peace-Offering to popular anger 1510 being Executed at Tower-Hill Sir Thomas Bromley Knight was an 1. Mary made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench holding his place hardly a year Souldiers Jo. Bromley Esq branched from the Bromleys in Shropshire was born at Bromley He recovered the English Standard which was taken by the French at the battle near Corby in France In reward of his Valour King Henry 5. whose Arms he had followed in France made him a Knight Batchelor Captain of Dampfront and great Constable of Bossevile le Ross in France and granted by Letters Patent 40 pounds in Land a year to him and his Heirs Hugh Stafford Lord Bourchier having on the same account conferred on him a yearly Pension of 40 pound during his life Sir John dyed about the middle of the Reign of Hen. 6. John Dudley Duke of Northumberland Son to Edward Dudley Esq and would willingly be reputed of this County a descendant from the Lord Dudley therein He was a proper wise and valiant Man and generally till his last project prosperous But he was also notoriously wanton intolerably ambitious a constant dissembler prodigiously profuse so that he had sunk his Estate had he not met with a seasonable support of Abbey-Land King Henry 8. first Knighted him then Created him Visc Lisle Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland Under Queen Mary he contrived the setling of the Crown on Queen Jane his Daughter in Law for which Treason he was Executed an 1. Mary much bemoaned by Martial Men whom he had formerly endeared in his good service in the French and Scotish Wars He left two Sons who survived to great Honour Ambrose Earl of Warwick Heir to all that was good and Robert Earl of Leicester Heir to all that was great in his Father The Bagnols or Bagenhalts were formerly a Family of such remark in this County that before the Reign of Hen. 8. there scarce passed an ancient Evidence which is not attested by one of that Name And having for a time sunk into a low condition was afterwards restored to their genuine Lustre when Ralph and Nicholas Sons to John Bagnol of Newcastle in this County were both Knighted for their good service the one in Mussleborough Field the other in Ireland Their Sons Samuel and Henry were for their Martial merit advanced to the same degree Seamen William Minors Son to Richard Gent. of Hallenbury-Hall was born at Vttoxater who afterwards coming to London became so prosperous a Mariner that he hath safely returned eleven times from the East-Indies and now peaceably enjoyeth what he painfully hath gotten living in or near Hartford at this present year 1660. Writers John Stafford a Franciscan born in Stafford wrote a Latine History of England about 1380. W. de Lichfield D. D. and Rector of All-hallowes the Great in Thames-street London a Learned and Godly Man wrote many Books one Entituled The complaint of God unto sinful men There were found in his Study after his death 3083 Sermons of his own Writing He dyed an 1447. and was buried in the Quire of his own Church Robert Whittington born at Lichfield was an indifferent but conceited Grammarian He coped with W. Lillie and others in comparison of whom he was but a crackling Thorn Since the Reformation Henry Stafford Baron of Stafford was Son to Edw. Duke of Buckingham beheaded under K. Hen. 8. The Barony descended unforfeited to this Henry placed here not as a trans but a Cis-Reformation-man for translating the Book of Dr. Fox Bishop of Hereford a favourer of Luther into English Of the difference of the Power Ecclesiastical and Secular He dyed 1558 some Months before the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Sampson Erderswik Esq born at Sandon of Ancient and Worshipful Extraction was a Gentleman accomplished with all Noble Qualities Affability Devotion and Learning Being a great Antiquary he began a description Eâ—tituled a View of Stafford-shire an 1â—93 which hath directed me in matters of difficulty relating to 〈◊〉 County He repaired and new glazed the Church of Sandon wherein he Erected a Monument for himself with his Statue in Stone and lyeth now Interred dying April 11 1603. Of him Mr. Cambden sayes Venerandae Antiquitatis fuit Cultor Maximus Thomas Allen descended from Allanus de Buckenhole Lord of Buckenhole in the Reign of Edw. 2. was bred in Glocester-Hall in Oxford a most excellent Mathematician where he succeeded to the skill and scandal of Frier Bacon as accounted a Conjurer He was much in favour with Robert Earl of Leicester His Writings are detained in some private hands He dyed towards the end of K. James Edward Leigh of Rushwel-Hall Esq alive wrote Critica Sacâ—a with many other worthy Works which will make his judicious Industry known to Posterity Elias Ashmole Esq alive born in Litchfield a great Antiquary Chymist Herauld Mathematician John Lightfoot D. D. alive hath deserved well of the Churches of England for his exact insight in Hebrew and Rabbinical Learning Romish Exile Writers W. Gifford an extract of the Family of Chillington was a man of much motion Being bred in Oxford he went over to Lovain where he became B. D. whence going to Paris he was highly prized by H. Duke of Guise who made him Arch-Bishop of Rhemes and the Cardinal his Brother who gave him a Pension of 200 Crowns a year He became afterwards Dean of St. Pet. the Isle in Rome then Rector of the University of Rhemes and at last a Benedictine at Delaware in Lorain He founded a Convent for English Monks at St. Mallower in France and another at Paris for those of the same Profession He was alive 1611. Benefactors to the Publick Sir Stephen Jennings Lord Mayor of London built a fair School at Wolver-Hampton Another being erected by Mr. Tho. Allen at Vtceter Martin Noel Esq born in Stafford bred Scrivener in London built and largely endowed an Hospital in the Town of his Nativity the first considerable Fabrick of that kind in this County Memorable Persons Tho. Tarlton born at Condover in Shropshire Here he was in the Field keeping his Fathers Swine when a Servant of Robert Earl of Leicester passing this way was so highly pleased with his odd Answers that he brought him to Court where he became the most famous Jester
to Q. Eliz. When the Queen was out of humour he could undumpish her at his pleasure He prepared in some cases for the highest Favourits an advantagious access to her Majesty In a word he told the Queen more of her Faults then most of her Chaplains and cured her Melancholly better than all her Physicians Much of his Merriment lay in his Looks and Actions according to his Epitaph Hic situs est cujus poterat vox actio vultus Ex Heraclito reddere democritum His Jests never were prophane scurrilous nor satyrical as in which plurimum Salis nihil veneni He dyed about the end of Q. Eliz. James Sands of Horborn lived 140 and his Wife 120 years He outlived 5 Leases of 21 years which were made to him after his Marriage Walt. Parsons first an Apprentice to a Smith grew so tall that a hole was made for him in the Ground to stand therein to make him adequate with his Fellow-Workmen He afterwards was Porter to K. James a proper place seeing he might serve both for Tower and Spy to give notice upon occasion of the approach of the Kings Enemies He would make nothing to take two of the tallest Yeomen of the Guard like the Gizard and Liver under his Arms at once and order them as he pleased And his Valour was equal to his Strength He was proportionable in all parts and was of a good temper disdaining to do an injury to any single person Noted Sheriffs Hen. 6. An. 1. Ranul Com. Cestr and Henry de Aldicheleia This Henry was the first Lord Audley in this County and Founder of that Noble Family so long Famous for Martial Atchievments K. Henry 3. confirmed to him many Lands of his own Grant and the donation of others Of the latter kind were these following the most of them great Mannors Aldithlege Coulton Cold Norton Betleigh Shagbourn Stanweare Tunstal Chaderley Chell Normancot Nerle Brudnap Weston Hauskley Bagley Morton and Heleigh afterwards the prime Seat of the Lord Audley who also had great Lands in Devon-shire Their Heir Males sailing about the Reign of K. Henry 6. Joan one of their Heirs was Married to Sir John Touchet whose Son was Baron Audley Ancestor to the present Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven in Ireland Edw. 3. An. 18. John de Aston I have not met with a more Noble Family measuring on the Level of flat and un-advantaged Antiquity They have ever born a good respect to the Church and Learned Men ever since Roger de Molend Bishop of Litchfield in the Reign of Henry 3. gave Haywood in this County to Roger de Aston his Servant Son to Ralph and Father to Sir John aforenamed from whom are descended in a Lineal Succession Sir Thomas Sir Roger Sir Robert John Aston Esq Sir John Knight Banneret Sir Edward Sir Walter Sir Edward Sir Walter employed by K. James Ambassadour into Spain Hen. 6. An. 12. Thomas Stanley his true name was Audley for after that Adam youngest Brother to James Lord Audley had married the Daughter and Heir of Henry de Stanley William their Son assumed the Sirname of Stanley This Thomas seems to have been the same person whom K. Henry 6. made Lord Stanley Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold and who was Father to Thomas whom K. Henry 7. Created the first Earl of Derby 34. John Delves Esq afterwards Knighted was the last of his Ancient Family who were fixed in this County in the Reign of Edward 3. Helene his sole Daughter and Heir Married to Robert Sheffield Knight and Recorder of London Ancestor to the present Lord of Moulgrave Edw. 4. an 1. Walter Wrotesley was lineally descended from Sir Hugh one of the first Founders of the Noble Order of the Garter Hen 8. an 28. John Dudley was afterwards by Hen. 8. Created Duke of Northumberland K. Charles I. W. Bowyer lineally descended from Thomas who in the Reign of Richard 2. Married Katharine Daughter and Heir to Robert Knipersley The Bowyers of Sussex invited thither some 200 years since by an Earl of Northumberland are a younger of these in Stafford Battles At Hopton-Heath March 1643. a fierce Fight happened betwixt the Kings and the Parliaments Forces on a ground full of Cony-borroughs affording bad footing for the Horse The Royalists may be said to have got the day and lost the Sun which made it I mean the truly Loyal and Valiant Spencer Earl of Northampton leaving a grateful Memory and a Noble and Numerous Issue SUFFOLK SVffolk hath Norfolk on the North Cambridgeshire on the West the German Ocean on the East and Essex on the South It stretcheth from East to West 45 Miles though the general breadth be but 20 saving that is somewhat towards the Sea The Air thereof is esteem'd the best in England a small parcel near the Sea-side only excepted There is very good Cheese made in this County whereof the finest are very thin though yielding to the Butter made here which excells both in Quantity and Quality The Manufacture of Cloathing in this County hath been much greater and Clothiers richer heretofore then in these times Many stately Monuments having been formerly erected to their Memories and not one in those latter Seasons The County hath no Cathedral though generally fair Parish Churches It had formerly a most magnificent Abbey-Church in Bury with three lesser Churches waiting thereon in the same Church-yard of these but two are extant at this day being stately Structures It is generally avouched by all Authors that Mary youngest Sister to King Henry 8. Relict to Lewis 12. King of France afterwards Married to Ch. Brandon D. of Suffolk was buried in the Abbey-Church in Bury 1533. Yet her Corps could not protect that Church which was in few years after levelled to the ground I read not that her Body was removed nor doth any Monument remain here to her Memory The Town of Buâ—y is sweetly seated and fairly built especially since 1608. about which time it was defaced with a casual Fire The School a great Ornament to the Town was founded by K. Edw. 6. and is it self a Corporation now as well as ever flourishing under Mr. Stephens the able Master thereof Amongst the Houses of the Gentry long Melford late the House of the Countess of Rivers was the first Fruits of the plundering in England Then Sommerley-Hall nigh Yarmouth belonging to the Lady Wentworth is Beautified with pleasant Walks set with Firr-Trees verdant all the year As for others there are many handsome Houses in the Town of Ipswich which belong to Merchants Proverbs I. Suffolk Milk No County in England affords better II. Suffolk fair Maids III. Suffolk-stiles This belongeth both to Suffolk and Essex where there are troublesome Stiles to be clambred over IV. You are in the right way to Needham spoken of those who hasten to Poverty Needham is a Market Town in this County stocked as it happens with poor people Princes Edmund Mortimer Son to Roger
Experience though of a corpulent Body especially in his old Age so that he would be not only out of breath but also almost out of life with going to Westminster-Hall to the Star-Chamber According to his Motto Mediocria Firma he never attained because he never affected any great Estate He was not for invidious Structures but delighted in Domo Domino Pari such as was his house at Gorhambury in Hartford And therefore when Q. Elizabeth coming thither in Progress told him My Lord your house is too little for you no Madam said he But it is your Highness hath made me too great for my house He left rather a good then a great Estate to his Posterity whose eldest Son Sir Edward was the first Baronet of England He dyed Feb. 20. 1578. and lyeth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls In a Word he was a good man a grave Statesman a Father to his Country and a Father to Sir Francis Bacon Sir W. Drury descended of a Worshipful Family long flourishing at Haulsted answered his name Drury in Sax. Pearle in the pretiousness of his disposition clear and hard innocent and valiant His Youth he spent in the French Wars his middle in Scotland and his Old Age in Ireland He was Knight Marshal of Barwick at what time the French had possessed themselves of the Castle of Edenburgh in the Minority of King James Queen Elizabeth employed this Sir Will. with 1500 to besiege the Castle which service he right worthily performed reducing it within few dayes to the true Owner thereof He was appointed Lord President of Munster 1575. where he executed impartial justice in spight of the Opposers thereof entring Kerry with a competent Train of 140 Men with which he forced his Return through 700 Men belonging to the Earl of Desmond who claimed Kerry as a Palatinate peculiarly belonging to himself In the last year of his Life he was made Lord Deputy of Ireland dying at Waterford 1598. Sir Robert Naunton was descended from an ancient Family extant at or before the time of the Conquerour who rewarded the Chief of that Name for his Service with a great Inheritrix given him in Marriage whose Lands were then estimated at 700 pounds a year For a long time they were Patrons of Alderton in this County Sir Robert was bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of the University 1600. He wrote in his Youth I conjecture an excellent piece called Fragmenta Regalia He was afterwards sworn Secretary of State to King James Jan. 8. 1617. which place he discharged with great ability and dexterity during which one Wiemark was called to an Account for saying the Head of Sir Waltar Raleigh beheaded that day would do very well on the Shoulders of Sir Robert Naunton and having alleadged in his own Justification that two heads were better than one he was for the present dismissed Afterwards Wiewark being with other wealthy persons called on for a Contribution to St. Pauls first subscribed 100 pounds at the Council Table but was glad to double it after Mr. Secretary had told him two hundred were better then one Sir Robert dyed 163. leaving one Daughter who first was Married to Paul Visc Banning and after to the Lord Herbert eldest Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke Capital Judges Jo. de Metingham Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in the Reign of Edw. 3. When all the rest of the Judges an 18. Edw. 3. were fined and outed for Corruption this Jo. and Elias de Beckingham continued in their places whose innocence was of proof against all Accusations King Edw. 3. an 20. reg directed a Writ to him about the stinting of the number of the Apprentices and Atturneys at Law to 140 or thereabouts according to the discretion of this Judge and his Assistants whereof a certain number were to be provided out of every County what may better avail for their Court and the good of the people of the Land Sir Jo. Cavendish Knight born at Cavendish in this County where his Name continued untill the Reign of King Henry 8. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench an 46. Edw. 3. He dyed a violent death an 5. Rich. 2. on this occasion J. Raw a Priest contemporary with J. Straw and Wat Tyler advanced Robert Westbroom a Clown to be King of the Commons in this County having 50000 followers These for eight dayes together in savage sport caused the Heads of great persons to be cut off and set on Poles to kiss and whisper in one anothers ears Chief Justice Cavendish chanced to be then in the Country to whom they bare a double pique for his Honesty and Learning Besides they had lately heard that Jo. Cavendish his Kinsman had killed their Idol Wat Tyler in Smithfield Whereupon they drag'd the Reverend Judge with Sir Jo. of Camb. Prior of Bury into the Market place there and beheaded them whose innocent blood remained not long unrevenged by Spencer the Warlike Bishop of Norwich by whom this Rascal Rabble of Rebels was routed and ruined 1381. Sir Robert Broke a great Lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the Reign of Q. Mary wrote an excellent Abridgement of the Law His Posterity still flourish in a Worshipful Equipage at Nacton nigh Ipswich in this County Souldiers Sir Th. Wentworth of Nettlested descended from the Wentworths in York-shire was Created Baron Wentw. by King Henry 8. He was a Valiant Gentleman a Cordial Protestant and his Family a Sanctuary of such Professors By his means Jo. Bale was converted from a Carmelite The Memory of this Lord is much but unjustly blemished because Calis was lost the last of Q. Mary under his Government the manner thus The English being secure by reason of their late Conquest at St. Quintin and the Duke of Guise having notice thereof sat down before the Town on New-years day Next day he took the Forts of Rise-bank and Newnam-Bridge which 't is suspected were betrayed Within three dayes the Castle of Calis which commanded the City and was under the command of Sir Ralph Chamberlain was taken the French being first repulsed back by Sir Anth. Ager the only Man of note who was killed in the Fight entred the City the next day being Twelfth day Then resistance being in vain the Lord Wentworth Deputy thereof was forced to take what terms he could get that the Townsmen should depart though plundered to a groat with their Lives and himself with 49 more should remain Prisoners to be put to ransom Queen Mary might thank her self for losing this Key of France because hanging it at her side with so slender a string there being but 500 Souldiers effectually in the Garrison The Lord Wentworth was condemned for High-Treason during his absence but Queen Mary soon after dying he was tryed and acquitted by his Peers in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth though Sir Jo. Harlston Governour of Rise-bank and Sir Ralph Chamberlain Governour of Calis-Castle were both condemned but their
Rector of Tharfield in Hartford He was an excellent Hebrician He dyed 163. Samuel Ward was born at Haveril where his Father had been a Famous Minister according to his Epitaph Quo si quis scivit scitius Aut si quis docuit doctius At rarus vixit sanctius Et nullus tonuit fortius Grant some of knowledge greater store More Learned some in teaching Yet few in Life did Lighten more None thundered more in Preaching Sam. was bred in Sidn Colledge in Cambridge and became a great Scholar and excellent Preacher Being Minister in Ipswich he gained the Affections of the people by the tender care he had of them yet he had his Foes as well as Friends who complained of him to the High Com. where he met with some molestation He had three Brethren and it was said that these four put together would not make up the abilities of their Father nor were they offended with this Hyperbole One of them lately dead followed the Counsel of the Poet Ridentem dicere verum Quis vetat having in a jesting way delivered much smart truth of the times Sam. dyed 163. Jo. Boise born at Elmeseth bred in Cambridge was of the Quorum in Translating the Bible and whilst Chysostome lives Mr. Boise shall not dye such his learned pains on him in the Edition of Sir H. Savil. He dyed about the beginning of the Civil Wars Romish Exile Writers Robert Southwell wrote many Books and was reputed a dangerous Enemy to the State for which he was Imprisoned and Executed March 3. 1595. Benefactors to the Publick Elizabeth third Daughter of Gilb. Earl of Clare and Wife to Jo. Burgh Earl of Vlster in Ireland had her greatest Honour from Clare in this County She Founded Clare-Hall in Cambridge an 1343. Sir Simon Eyre born at Brandon first an Vpholster then a Draper in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1445 on his own cost built Leaden-Hall for a common Garner of Corn to the City He left 5000 Marks to charitable uses He dyed Sept. 18. an 1459. and is buried in the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard-Street London Th. Spring the rich Clothier was born I believe at Laveham He built the Carved Chappel of Wainscot on the North side of the Chancel as also the Chappel at the South side of the Church He dyed 1510 and lyeth buried in his own Chappel Since the Reformation W. Coppinger was born at Bucks-hall in this County where his Family flourisheth in good esteem He was bred a Fishmonger in London whereof he became Lord Mayor 1512. He gave the half of his great Estate to pious uses I am sorry to see this Gentleman's ancient Arms substracted in point of honour by the addition of a superfluous Bordure Sir W. Cordal Knight had a fair Estate in Long-Melford and was well descended He became a Barrister Speaker of the Parliament and Privy Counsellour and Master of the Rolls to Queen Mary He founded a fair Almshouse at Melford and left a large allowance to the poor for Diet and Cloaths He continued Master of the Rolls till the day of his death 23 Eliz. Sir Robert Hicham Knight and Serjeant at Law born at or near Nacton purchased the Mannor of Framlingham from the Earl of Suffolk and entered into the same after great and many intervening Obstacles He left a great part of his Estate to pious uses and principally to Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge He dyed a little before the beginning of the Civil Wars Memorable Persons Jo. Cavendish Esq born at Cavendish was servant to Richard 2. when Wat Tyler played Rex in London whom he in assistance of Sir W. Walworth Lord Mayor of London dispatched by giving two or three mortal wounds The beginning of the bustle was that Wat took it mightily in dudgeon that Sir Jo. Newton did not make a mannerly approach to him upon which the said Lord arrested Wat and wounded him with his Dagger Hence the Arms of London were augmented with a Dagger King Richards discretion appeared very much in appeasing the tumult which happened 1381. Sir Th. Cook Knight and Sir W. Capel Knight born the first at Lavenham the later at Stoke-Neyland were bred Drapers in London and were Lord Mayors of the City Sir Will. is reported after a large entertainment for King Henry 7. to have burnt many Bonds in which the King stood obliged to him and at another time to have drank a dissolved Pearl which cost him many hundreds in an Health to the King Sir Th. was in danger of his Life for lending Money in the Reign of K. Edw. 4 Both dyed in Age Honour and Riches these transmitted to their Posterity The Cooks flourishing at Giddy-hall and the Capels at Hadham in Hartford Note Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Capel was Married to Sir W. Pawlet Marquess of VVinchester and Mildred descended from Sir Th. Cook to VV. Cecil Lord Burleigh both their Husbands being Lord Treasurers of England Sir Tho. lyeth buried in the Church of Augustine Friars in London Sir VV. Capel in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange Noted Sheriffs Q. Eliz. An. 18. Jo. Higham Arm. the ancient Sirname of the Lords Montaign in France was descended from Sir Clem. a Potent Knight 20. Robert Jermin a pious Man and a great Benefactor to Emanuel Colledge and a potent man was Father to Sir Th. Privy Councellor and Lord Chamberlain to King Charles I. Grandfather to Tho. and Hen. Esq the younger of these being Lord Chamberlain to our present Queen Mary and sharing in her Majesties sufferings was by King Charles II. made Baron and Earl of St. Albans 23. Nich. Bacon Mil. was the first Baronet in England 36. Tho. Crofts Arm. was Grandfather to Crofts who was created Baron Crofts by K. Cha. II. Sir Simond Dewes was Grandfather to Adrian descended from the Lords of Kessel in Gelderland who came thence in the time of their Civil Wars in the Reign of Henry 8. He was bred in Cambridge and became a great Antiquary He observed that the Ordinances of the late long Parliament did in Bulk and Number exceed all the Statutes made since the Conquest He dyed about 1653. SURREY SVrrey hath Middlesex on the North Kent on the East Sussex on the South Hant and Bark-shire on the West It is very near a Square of 22 Miles the Skirts whereof are fruitful and the inward parts barren though generally the Air be clear and the ways clean Here is the most and best Fullers Earth digged up near Rygate It is worth four pence a Bushel at the Pit and the Transportation thereof is prohibited The County likewise affords good Trouts and VVall-nuts and the best Box growing about Darking In this Shire there is the best Gardening for Profit King James about the end of his Reign gave 2000 pounds to Sir Francis Crane to build a House at Morelack for setting up a Manufacture of Tapestry and one Francis Klein a German was the designer thereof and united the Italian and Dutch perfections
He was well reported of all Men and of the Truth it self He beheld with much Christian Patience those of his Order lose their Votes in Parliament much contempt poured on his Function whilst their Enemies hence concluded their final Extirpation would follow This Bishop was amongst others selected as Confessor to King Charles I. at his Martyrdom He formerly had had experience in the case of the Earl of Strafford that this Bishops Conscience was bottom'd on Piety the Reason that from him he received the Sacrament good Comfort and Counsel just before the perpetration of that horrid Murder a Fact so foule that it alone may confute the Errour of the Pelagians maintaining that all sin cometh by imitation the Vniverse not formerly affording such a precedent as if those Regicides had purposely designed to disprove the observation of Solomon that there is no new thing under the Sun King Charles II. an 1660 preferred him Arch-Bishop of Canterbury which place he worthily graceth at the Writing hereof Acceptus Fruin D. D. President of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford was by K. Charles I. advanced Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and since by K. Charles II. made Arch-Bishop of York and is now alive This County hath bred 5 Arch-Bishops of Canterbury at this instant claiming for her Natives the two Metropolitans of our Nation Statesmen Tho. Sackvil Son and Heir to Sir Richard Chancellour Sub-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Privy-Councellour to Queen Elizabeth by Winifred his Wife Daughter to Sir Jo. Bruges was bred in Oxford where he became an excellent Poet leaving both Latine and English Poems of his Composing to Posterity Then he became Barrister and afterwards in his Travels was for some time Prisoner at Rome whence returning to the possession of a fair Estate he wasted the greatest part thereof and afterwards being made as is reported to dance attendance on an Alderman of London who had gained great penny-worths by his former purchases of him he was sensible of the incivility and resolving to be no more beholding to Wealthy Pride he turned a thrifty improver of the Remainder of his Estate Others affirm that Queen Elizabeth his Cosin Germ. once removed diverted the torrent of his profusion by her frequent admonitions after which she made him Baron of Buckhurst in this County an 1566. Sent him Ambassadour into France 1571 into the Low Countries 1586. made him Knight of the Garter 1589. and Treasurer of England 1599. He was Chancellour of the University where he entertained Queen Elizabeth with a sumptuous Feast He was a person of so quick dispatch that his Secretaries seldom pleased him Thus having made amends to his house for his mispent time both in encrease of Estate and Honour being created Earl of Dorset by King James He dyed April 19. 1608. Capital Judges Sir Jo. Jeffrey Knight was preferred Secondary Judge of the Common Pleas thence advanced an 19. Elizabeth to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer He left one only Daughter and Heir Married to Sir Edward Montague since Baron of Boughton by whom he had but one Daughter Elizabeth Married to Robert Berty Earl of Linsey Mother to the truly Honourable Montague Earl of Linsey and Lord great Chamberlain of England This worthy Judge dyed an 21. Elizabeth Souldiers The Abbot of Battle after the French had invaded this County during the Non-age of King Richard 2. and the Dotage of his Council and taken the Prior of Lewis Prisoner Fortified Winchelsey effectually against the Enemy who in vain had attempted to storm the place and feared to venture a fair siege suspecting that they should be surrounded on all sides The Monsieurs therefore bid adieu to England and made for France as fast as they could An. Dom. 13 ... Sir W. Pelham Knight of an ancient and wealthy Family at Laughton was by Queen Elizabeth made Lord Chief Justice of Ireland betwixt the death of Sir W. Drury and the coming in of Arthur Gray Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In this juncture of time Desmond began his Rebellion 1579. inviting Sir W. Pelham to side with him who though he could not cure the wound for want of Force yet he kept it clean resigning the same in a recovering condition to the Lord Gray his Successor Afterwards he was Commander of the English Horse in the Low-Countries where he surprised Brabant Sir Anth. Shirley second Son to Sir Thomas set forth from Plimouth May 21. 1596. in a Ship called the Bevis of Southampton attended with six lesser Vessels His design for St. Thome was diverted by a Contagion occasioned by stinking Rain which within six hours after it fell turned to Maggots Turning therefore his course to America he took and kept the City of St Jago two dayes and nights with 280 Men wherein 80 were wounded in the service against 3000 Portugals Hence he made for the Isle of Fuego in the midst whereof was a Mountain Aetna-like always burning and the Wind did drive such a shower of Ashes upon them that one might have wrote his name with his Finger on the upper Deck Whence passing by the Island of Margarita he took St. Martha the Chief Town of Jamaica After much distress and desertion by the other Ships he returned into England Whose youngest Brother Sir Robert Shirley was entred by his Brother Anth. in the Persian Court. Here he performed so great service against the Turks that it drew the envy of the Persian Lords and love of the Ladies among whom one reputed a Kinswoman to the great Sophy was afterwards Married unto him and came over with him into England He much affected to appear in the Persian habit At last having as 't is said given the Persian Ambassadour a box on the ear upon some contest betwixt them they were sent both together into Persia to impeach one another Dr. Gough being joyned in Commission with Sir Robert but Neptune decided the Controversie before they came thither both of them dying on the Seas as I have been informed about the beginning of King Charles I whose eldest Brother Sir Tho. Shirley excited by the Atchievments of his two younger Brethren undertook Sea Voyages into Forreign parts to the great honour of his Nation but small enriching of himself As to the general performances of these three Brethren when Abatement is made for Poetical Embellishments contained in the Comedy made upon them c. the Remainder will speak them Worthies in their Generations Physicians Nich. Hostresham it seems from Horsham in this County a famous Physician wrote many Books amongst which one Contra dolorem Renum thus beginning A Stone is sometimes bred in the Kidneys c. Note this was long before Hops and Beer made therewith accounted by some the Original of the Stone in this Land were commonly used in England 1516. He having flourished 1443. Writers Lawrence Somercote was Can. of Chichester He studied the Law and went to Rome where through the favour of his Brother or Kinsman Robert Somercote Cardinal he was
here The best Tobacco-Pipes portable Chimneys are made at Amesbury in this County As for Buildings the Cathedral of Salisbury dedicated to the Blessed Virgin is paramount in this kind wherein the Doors and Chappels equal the Months the Winâ—dows the Days the Pillars of Marble the Hours of the year so that all Europe affords not such an Almanack of Architecture A Country-man viewing this Church said I once admired that there could be a Church that should have so many Pillars as there be hours in the year and now I admire more that there should be so many hours in the year as I see Pillars in this Church The Cross Isle is most beautiful the Spire Steeple is of great height and greater Workmanship I have been informed that some Forreign Artists beholding this building brake forth into tears which some imputed to their admiration others to their envy Of Monuments therein that of Edward Earl of Hartford is most Magnificent that of Helen Suavenburgh a Swede the Relict of William Marquess of Northampton is most commended for its Artificial plainness In the Nave of the Church there is a Monument of a little Boy in Episcopal Habiliments it having been fashionable in that Church in the depth of Popery that the Choristers chose a Boy of their Society to be a Bishop among them from St. Nicholas till St. Innocents day at night who did accordingly officiate in all things saying of Mass only excepted Of Civil Buildings in this County Long-leat the house of Sir James Thynne was the biggest and Wilton is the stateliest and the pleasantest for Gardens Fountains c. As for Salisbury the Citizens thereof have derived the River into every Street therein so that the City is like Venice a heap of Islets thrown together according to the Epitaph of Mr. Francis Hide a Native of this City who dyed Secretary unto the English Leiger in Venice Born in the English Venice thou didst dye Dear Friend in the Italian Salisbury The Wonders of this County are Stone-henge a Roman work consisting of four Equilateral Triangles inscribed within a Circle a double Portico and Architraves set without Morter 'T is conceived it was a Temple dedicated to Heaven being of a Circular form built on a Plain and being without a Roof The next is Knot Grass growing 9 Miles from Salisbury which is ordinarily 15 foot in length and sometimes 24 and being built many stories high from knot to knot it lyeth matted on the ground whence it is cut for Provender the knots whereof will fat Swine The Grass is conceived peculiar to this place Proverbs I. It is done according to the use of Sarum This Proverb began on this occasion Osmund Bishop of Sarum about 1090 made an Ordinal or Office which was generally received all over England all speaking the same words in their Liturgy It is now applyed to those persons which do and actions which are formally and solemnly done in so regular a way by Authentick precedents and patterns of unquestionable Authority that no just exception can be taken thereat Princes Margaret Plantagenet Daughter to George Duke of Clarence and Elizabeth Nevil eldest Daughter and co-heir of Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick was born August 14. 1473 at Farrley-Castle in this County She was Countess of Salisbury Heir to the Dutchess of Burgundy and Niece to King Edward 4. and Richard 3. and Mother to Cardinal Pole By Sir Richard a Knight of Wales and Cosin German to King Henry 7. she had amongst others Henry Lord Montague her eldest Son when he was accused for Treason she was charged to be privy thereunto in the Reign of King Henry 8. On the Scaffold as she stood she would not gratifie the Executioner with a prostrate posture of her Body The Executioner at last dragg'd her by the Hair gray with Age and may be truly said to have took off her Head an 23. Henry 8. seeing she would neither give it him nor forgive him the doing thereof Jane Seymore Daughter to Sir Jo. Knight honourably descended from the Lords Beauchamps was born probably at Wulfal and after was Married to King Henry 8. It is said that at her first coming to Court Queen Anne Bollen snatched at a Jewel Pendant about this Jane's Neck and hurt her own hand with the violence she used but it grieved her Heart more when she perceived it the King's Picture who from this day forward dated her own declining and the others ascending into her Husbands affection This Queen dyed some days after the Birth of Prince Edward her Son on whom this Epitaph Phaenix Jana jacet nato Phaenice dolendum Saecula Phaenices nulla tulisse duas Soon as her Phenix Bud was blown Root-Phenix Jane did wither Sad that no Age a brace had shown Of Phenixes together She dyed in her Husbands favour and was buried in the Quire of Windsor Chappel the King continuing in real mourning for her even all the Festival of Christmass Saints Adelme Son to Kenred Nephew to Ina King of the West Saxons after Forreign breeding was Abbot of Malmesbury 30 years He was the first Englishman who ever wrote in Latine the first that brought Poetry into England and the first Bishop of Sherburn He wrote a Book for the reducing the Britons to observe Easter according to the Church of Rome The Monks those Babylonish Masons have built such lying Wonders on his Memory and have vomited out such lies to his dishonour that the loudness thereof has reached to Heaven affirming that this Adelme by his Prayers stretched out a Beam of his Church cut too short by the Carpenter to the full proportion and that he at another time hung his Vestment on the Beams of the Sun which miraculously supported the same Coming to Rome to be Consecrated Bishop of Sherburn he reproved Pope Sergius his Fatherhood for being a Father indeed to a Bastard then newly born And returning home lived in great esteem till the day of his death which happened 709. His Corps was inshrined at Malmesbury and had in great Veneration Edith natural Daughter of King Edgar by the Lady Wolfhild was a devout Abbess of Wilton Being reproved by Bishop Ethelwold for her curious Attire she told him that God regarded the Heart more then the Garment and that sins might be covered as well under Rags as Robes 'T is said that after the slaughter of her Brother Edward holy Dunstan had a design to make her Queen of England so to defeat Ethelred the lawful Heir had she not declined the proffer She dyed 984 and is buried in the Church of Dioness at Wilton of her own building She was commonly called St Edith the younger to distinguish her from her Aunt of whom before Martyrs About 1503. there was a persecution of Protestants in deed in this County under Edmund Audley Bishop of Salisbury One Richard Smart being burnt at Salisbury for reading a Book called Wickliff's Wicket to one Thomas Stillman afterwards burnt in Smithfield But under cruel
Queens Train and in effect justâ—ed with her for precedence so that what betwixt the Train of the Queen and long Gown of the Dutchess they raised so much dust at the Court as at last put out the eyes of both thâ—ir Husbands and occasioned their Execution The Lord Thomas an 154â— the Lord Edward an 154. These two Bullworks of the Kings safety being demolished D. Dudley had the advantage the more easily to practice the destruction of King Edward 6. as is vehemently suspected Sir Oliver St. John Knight Lord Grandison c. was born of an Ancient and Honourable Family whose prime Seat was at Lediard Tragoze in this County Being bred in the Wars from his Youth he was by King James appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and vigorously pursued the Principles of his Predecessors for the civilizing thereof and first advanced it to considerable profit to his Master and Ireland which was the Land of Ire or Broyles for 400 years did now become the Land of Concord Being recalled into England he lived for many years in great repute and dying without issue left his Honour to his Sisters Son by Sir Edward Villiers but the main of his Estate to his Brothers Son Sir Jo. St. John Knight and Barronet Sir James Ley Knight and Baronet a younger Son of Henry Esquire of great Ancestry who served King Henry 8. at the Seige of Bollen was born at Taâ—ant and bred in Brazen-Nose-College and having studied the Laws was by King James made Lord Chief Justice in Ireland and practised the Charge the King gave him at his departure not to build his Estate on the Ruins of a miserable Nation making a good progress in civilizing that people by the unpartial execution of Justice After he was recalled King James made him Atturney of the Court of Wards Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench an 18. Reg. Lord Treasurer of England an 22. Baron Ley of Ley in Devonshire the same year King Charles I created him Earl of Marleburg in this County an 1. Reg. and Lord President of the Council in which place he dyed 1629. He was a person of great Gravity Ability and Integrity and as the Caspian Sea is observed neither to ebb nor flow so his Mind did not rise nor fall but continued the same constancy in all conditions Sir Francis Cottington Knight was born near Meer and bred when a Youth under Sir Stafford He lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become him He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his Parts above his Learning his Experience above his Parts his Industry above his Experience and some will say his success above all so that at the last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron Hanworth in Middlesex and Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great Estate but what he got in few years he lost in fewer dayes since the Civil Wars when the Parliament made him one of the examples of their severity excluding him pardon but permitting his departure beyond the Seas where he dyed about the year 1650. Capital Judges Sir Nicholas Hide Knight was born at Warder in this County where his Father in right of his Wife had a long Lease of that Castle from the Family of the Arundels His Father I say descended from an Ancient Family in Cheshire a fortunate Gentleman in all his Children and more in his Grandchildren his younger Children among whom Sir Nicholas in Wealth and Honour exceeding the Heir of the Family Having studied the Laws he was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench February the 9 th 1626. discharging his Office with great integrity and dyed 1631. Souldiers Henry D'anvers second Son to Sir John and Dame Elizabeth Daughter and Co-heir to Nevil Lord Latimer was born at Dantsey 1573. being bred under the Prince of Orange he was made a Captain in the Wars of France and there Knighted for his good service under Henry 4. the then French King He was Lieutenant of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the Army in Ireland under Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Baron of Mountjoy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by King James he was made Baron of Dantsey and Peer of this Realm as also Lord President of Munster and Governour of Guernsey By King Charles I. he was created Earl of Danby Privy-Councellour and Knight of the Garter He dyed 1643. without Issue leaving his Estate to his Nephew Henry D'anvers Writers Oliver of Malmesbury a Benedictine being much addicted to Mathematicks and to judicial Astrology upon the appearing of a Comet foretold the destruction of the Inhabitants of this Land which fell out accordingly at the Norman Conquest 'T is said he essayed the famous experiment of flying and taking his rise from a Tower in Malmesbury made his way in the Air for one Furlong then fell down and brake both his Thighs Having written some Books of Astrology he dyed 1060 five years before the Norman Invasion W. Summerset of Malmesbury where he was Canter and Library Keeper wrote a History of the Saxon Kings and Bishops until his own time He dyed 1142. and was buried in Malmesbury Robert Canutus born at Cricklade or Greeklade where anciently Greek was professed became Chief of the Canons of St. Fridswith in Oxford Having made a Garland of the Flowers of Pliny's Natural History he Dedicated the Book to King Henry 2. He wrote also Comments on the greater part of the Old and New Testament and flourished 1170. Richard of the Devises antiently divided between the King and Bishop of Salisbury was a famous Benedictine in Winchester He wrote a History of the Reign of Richard 1. under whom he flourished and an Epitome of the British affairs He dyed about 1200. Godwin of Salisbury Chanter of that Church wrote a Book of Meditations flourishing about 1256. Jo. of Wilton Senior an Augustine Friar studied in Paris A subtle disputant wrote many Sermons on several occasions flourishing under Edward 2. 1310. Jo. of Wilton Junior a Benedictine Monk in Westminster was an Elegant Latinist He wrote Metrical Meditations in imitation of St. Bernard and a Book Entituled the Dial of Wisdom He flourished under King Edward 3. Jo. Chylmark born at Chylmark and bred in Oxford was a great Philosopher and Mathematician being the Archimedes of his Age. He wrote many Mathematical Tractates and flourished under King Richard 2. 1390. Thomas Wilton D. D was first Chancellor then Dean of St. Pauls in London He sided with the Bishops whom the Poor Friars taxed for their pomp for he knew well enough that the Accusers opened the Coffers of all the Treasure in the Land by Feminine Confessions and abusing the Key of Absolution He wrote a smart Book on this subject Whether Friars in Health and Begging be in the State of Perfection Since the Reformation William Horeman bred in Kings-Colledge in Cambridge became Vice-Provost of Eaton The most general Scholar of his Age. Having
written of Orthography the Quantities of Syllables a Chronicle a Comment on Gabriel Biel On the divorce of King Henry 8. A Comment on Cato Varro c. He dyed 1535. and lyeth buried in the Chappel Masters of Musick William Lawes bred in Salisbury was of the Private Musick to King Charles I. He made several sorts of Musick for Voices and Instruments He disclaimed the covert and priviledge of the Office of Commissary and valiantly venturing his person was casually shot at the Siege of Chester The King commonly called him the Father of Musick He and his Brother were the Authors of the Composures of the Psalms He dyed 164. Benefactors to the Publick Thomas Stumps of Malmesbury an Eminent Clothier entertained as is said King Henry 8. and his Court-train coming unexpected with the plentiful Provision which was prepared for his Workmen who were forced to fast in the mean time He preserved Malmesbury Minster at the time of the general dissolution buying the same with a great sum of Money for the Townsmen by whom it was converted into a Parish Church He bought the Demesnes of Malmesbury Abbey for 1500 l. 2 s. ½ may there be many branches of such Stumps Memorable Persons Sutton of Salisbury a great Clothier in the time of King Henry 1. is by a mistake sâ—pposed to have bequeathed 100 l. to the Weavers of Salisbury which was not built till long after that King's time Michael Under-Sheriff to Sir Anthony Hungerford 1558. in the last of Queen Mary was a right Godly Man When the Writ de Haereticis Comburendis for the Execution of R. White and Jo. Hunt was brought to him instead of burning them he burnt the Writ and before the same could be renewed Dr. Geffrey the bloody Chancellour of Salisbury who procured it and Queen Mary were both dead Sir James Vicar Choral of the Church of Salisbury in the time of King Edward 6. was wholly addicted to the Study of Chymistry and pretended he had all his Skill by Inspiration He dyed about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth Noted Sheriffs Edward 3. An. 35. Henry Sturmy Lord of Woolfhall in this County Bailiff and Guardian of the Forrest of Savernake by right of Inheritance as all his Ancestors were from the time of King Henry 2. Their Hunters Horn is kept by the Seymours Dukes of Sommerset as a Monument of their descent from such noble Ancestors King Henry 6. An. 23. Jo. Basket Esquire had a dispensation from Pope Eugenius the 4th to choose a Confessor in the Parish of Salisbury who was impowred to commute his vowes of Pilgrimage to St. Peter Paul and James if he had made any such into other works of Piety Q. Elizabeth An. 11. Thomas Thin Mil. for his sudden Wealth was Summoned before the Councel some suggesting he had met with Tresor trove or used some indirect means He shewed that he had got the same by Marriage Industry and Frugality for the rest said he you have a good Mistriss Our Gracious Queen and I had a good Master the Duke of Sommerset Cambden saith that this Thomas was descended from the Ancient Family of the Bottevils 41. Walter Vaughan had for his Arms S. a Chev. betwixt three Childrens Heads cooped at the Shoulders Ar. their Peruques O. inwraped about their Necks with as many Snakes proper One of the Family is reported to have been born with a Snake about his Neck His Lands descended to Sir George a worthy Gentleman and after his issueless decease to a Brother of his who was born blind bred in Oxford and became Prebendary of Sarum K. Charles I. An. 1. Francis Seymour Mil. Grandchild to Edward Earl of Hartford and Brother to William Duke of Sommerset was by King Charles I. Created Baron of Troubridge in this County since for his Loyalty made Privy Councellour to King Charles II. and Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster Battles Lansdoune Fight was fought in the Confines of this County and Sommerset July 13. 1643. and it seemed not so much an entire Battle as a heap of Skirmishes hudled together It may be said Victus Victor uterque fuit The Parliaments Forces beat the Royalists back five times with much disorder Sir Bevil Greenvil being slain in the Head of his Pikes Major Lowre in the Head of his party of Horse yet the Kings Forces alleadge demonstration of Conquest that Prince Maurice and Sir Ralph Hopton remained in the Heads of their Troops all Night and next Morning found themselves possessed of the Field and of the dead as also of Three Hundred Armes and Nine Barrels of Powder the Enemy had left behind them Round way Fight Five dayes after Prince Maurice with the Earl of Carnarvan returning and the Lord Wilmot coming from Oxford with a gallant supply of select Horse charged the Parliaments Forces under the Conduct of Sir William Waller With him were the Horse of Sir Arthur Haslerigg so well Armed that each Souldier seemed an impregnable Fortification But these were so smartly charged by the Prince that they fairly forsook the Field leaving the Foot which in English Battles bear the heat of the day to shift for themselves In the mean time Sir Ralph Hopton hurt lately with the blowing up of Powder lay sick and sore in the Town of Devizes His men wanted Match whom Sir Ralph directed to beat and boyl their Bed-cords and marching forth they effectually contributed to the total routing and ruining of the Parliaments Foot which remained Note King Edgar freed this Land from Wolves May the Flocks of this County be also freed from two legg'd Wolves Spanish Ewes whereof one being formerly brought over into England brought with it the first general contagion of Sheep and Hunger-Rot the effect of an over dry Summer WORCESTER-SHIRE WOrcester-shire hath Stafford-shire on the North Warwick-shire on the West Glocester-shire on the South Hereford and Shrop-shire on the West Being of a Triangular form it stretcheth from North to South 22 Miles from South to North-West 28 and thence to her North-East point 28 Miles The natural Commodities are Lampreys in the River Severn then Perry a Wine made of Pears There is also fine Salt made in this County which is reputed the second Salt Cellar in England There are found here many Salt Fountains but stopped up again for the preservation of Woods As for the Buildings in this County the Cathedral of Worcester was much defaced in the Civil Wars The Market Towns are generally handsomely built and no Shire in England can shew a brace of them so neat and near together as Beaudly and Kidderminster in this County being scarcely two Miles asunder Saints St. Richard born at Wich alias Droitwich bred in Oxford and beyond the Seas became Chancellour of Oxford then of Canterbury till at last he was chosen Bishop of Chichester He was a great Becketist a stout Opposer of Regal Power over Spiritual Persons on which and other accounts he wrote a Book to Pope Innocent the 4th against King Henry
he was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in which Office he demeaned himself with great integrity It happened that a Servant of Prince Henry afterwards King Henry 5. was Arraigned before this Judge for Felony whom the Prince then present endeavoured to take away coming up in fury striking the Judge But he sitting without moving committed the Prince Prisoner to the Kings-Bench there to remain until the Pleasure of the King his Father were further known who when he heard thereof gave God thanks who at the same instant had given him a Judge who could minister and a Son who could obey Justice He dyed an 14. Henry 4. Guido de Fairfax Knight whose Name hath continued at Walton in this County more then 450 years was bred in the Study of the Law and became Serjeant thereof He favoured the House of York in those civil distempers yet was he by King Henry 7. advanced Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Roger Cholmley Knight natural Son to Lieutenant of the Tower under King Henry 7. was an 37. Henry 8. made Chief Baron of the Exchequer and an 6. Edward 6. Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench An. 1. Mary he with Sir Edward Montague Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas was committed to the Tower for drawing up the Will of King Edward 6. wherein his Sisters were disinherited whereupon Sir Roger was deprived of his Judges place though his Activity had amounted no higher then to a Subscription of the said Will. He built a free School of Brick at Highgate about 1564. Sir Christopher Wray Knight was born in the Parish of Bedal the motive which made his Daughter Frances Countess of Warwick scatter her Benefactions the thicker in that place His Ancestor came out of Cornwal where his Name is right ancient Being bred in the Law he was an 16. Elizabeth made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench He was moved by no Fear but that of the Judge of the World He was pro tempore Lord Privy Seal and sate Chief in the Court when Secretary Davison was Sentenced in the Star-Chamber concurring with the rest of the Commissioners to lay a fine on him His Benefaction to Magdalens-Colledge in Cambridge was both bountiful and seasonable We know who saith The righteous man leaveth an Inheritance to his Childrens Children and the well thriving of his third Generation may be an evidence of his well gotten Goods This worthy Judge dyed May the 8th an 34. Elizabeth Statesmen Sir Jo. Puckering Knight born at Flamborough-head being a second Son applyed himself to the Study of the Common Law and became the Queens Serjeant Speaker in the House of Commons and at last Lord Chancellour of England In the House of Lords he made a Speech against those that were called Puritans wherein he charges them with the open profession of disloyal and seditious Principles and affirms that they by this Separation of themselves from the Vnity of their Fellow Subjects and by abasing the Sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince do both joyn and concurr with the Jesuites in opening the door and preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion that is threatned against the Realm He dyed 1596. He is Charactred by Mr. Cambden in Elizabeth Vir integer His Estate is since descended his Male Issue failing on Sir Henry Newton who assumed the Sirname of Pâ—ckering and I can never be sufficiently thankful to him and his Relations Sir George Calvert Knight was born at Kiplin and bred first in Trinity-Colledge in Oxford then beyond the Seas He was Secretary to Robert Cecil Earl of Sarisbury Lord Treasurer of England Afterward he was made Clerk of the Councel and at last Principal Secretary of State to King James an 1619. Conceiving the Duke of Buckingham highly instrumental in his preferment he presented him with a Jewel of great value which the Duke returned again not owning any activity in his advancement whom King James ex mero motu reflecting on his Ability designed for the place which he resigned 1624. confessing to the King he was become a Roman Catholick so that he must either be wanting to his Trust or violate his Conscience King James continued him his Privy Councellour all his Reign and created him Lord Baltemore of Balt. in Ireland When Secretary he had a Grant from King James to him and his Heirs of a County Palatine of Avalon in the New-found-Land He built a fair House in Ferry Land in America and spent 25000 pounds in advancing the Plantation thereof consulting therein the enlargement of Christianity and the Kings Dominions After the death of King James he went twice in person to New-found-Land Here with two Ships manned at his own charge he chased away Monsieur D' Arade sent by the King of France to annoy the English Fishermen relieved the English and took 60 of the French Prisoners King Charles I. gave a Patent to him and his Heirs of Mary-Land on the North of Virginia with Royal Franchises He dyed in London April 15. 1632. and lyeth buried in St. Dunstans in the West leaving his Son the Right Honourable Cecil Calvert now Lord Baltemore Heir to his Honour Estate and Noble Disposition Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford Son to William Wentworth of Went. Woodhouse in this County was born in London which see Seamen Armigel Waad born of an ancient Family in Yorkshire was Clerk of the Counsel to Henry 8. and Edward 6. A man of great accomplishments employed in several Embassies and the first Englishman who discovered America He had by two Wives 20 Children whereof Sir William Waad was the eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Councel to Queen Elizabeth This Armigel dyed June the 20th 1568. and was buried at Hampstead in Middlesex Martin Forbisher Knight born nigh Doncaster was the first Englishman who first discovered the North way to China and Cathay whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it to be Silver Ore but it proved useless He was Valiant and Violent He was Knighted for his signal service in 88. Having with 10 Ships defended Brest-Haven in Britain against a far greater power of the Spaniards he was shot in the side His wound not being mortal in it self was rendred such by the unskilfulness of the Chirurgeon who having taken out the Bullet left the bombast behind wherewith the sore festered and the worthy Knight dyed 1594. George Clifford Lord Clifford Vescye c. Earl of Cumberland was Son to Henry second Earl of that Family by his second Lady A person wholly Composed of true Honour and Valour In order to the cuting off the Spanish Sinews of War their Money from the West-Indies this Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost and Adventured his own person therein being the best born Englishman that ever adventured himself in that kind His Fleet may be said to be bound for no other Harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in his passage thereunto
much Moderation At last he was Preacher at St. Magdalens Bermondsey being a solid Divine and a man made up of piety pity and patience He was visited with many and most acute diseases the Gout Stone and Ulcer in his Bladder and another in his Kidneys His Liberality knew no bottom but an empty Purse so bountiful he was to all in want He dyed 1654. and was buried in his own Parish All I shall add is this distick Whites ambo Whitehead Whitgift Whitakerus uterque Vulnera Romano quanta dedere Papae Romish Exile Writers Jo. Young was Fellow of St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge at first a parcel-Protestant Translating into English the Book of Arch-Bishop Cranmer of the Sacrament he became a zealous Papist and great Antagonist of Mart. Bucer and an able disputant He was Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge 1554 Master of Pemb. Hall Professor of Divinity and Rector of Landbeach nigh Cambridge but lost all his preferment an 1. Elizabeth being deprived and imprisoned He dyed 1579. Jo. Mush bred in the English-Colledge at Doway and in Rome whence returning into England he fished for Proselytes for 20 years together being for some considerable time imprisoned at last he procured his Enlargement In his time happened the Schisme betwixt the Jesuits and Priests which threatned Ruine to the Church of Rome Mush went to Rome about it and was very instrumental in Composing of those differences Returning into England he was assistant to the English Arch-Priest He wrote among other books Vitam Martyrium D. Margaretâ— Clithoreae Whether D. be for Domina or Diva Lady or Saint I know not I take her for some Gentlewoman in the North who for some practices in maintenance of her Religion became obnoxious to the severity of the English Law He lived 1612. Benefactors to the Publick Thomas Scot born at Rotheram which he assumed for his Name was Fellow of Kings-Colledge afterwards Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge and Chancellour of the University He built on his proper cost saving something helped by the Scholars the fair Gate of the School with fair Walks on each side and a Library on the East thereof This Thomas having felt the sharp tusks of the Boar when imprisoned by King Richard 3. for resigning the Great Seal of England to Queen Elizabeth the Relict of King Edward 4. he advanced that Kings Crest being the Boar on the aforesaid Gate meerly to ingratiate himself He was successively Provost of Beverly Bishop of Rochester Lincoln and lastly Arch Bishop of York Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellour of England Many were his Benefactions to the Publick of which none more remarkable then his founding 5 Fellowships in Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford He dyed at Cawood of the Plague 1500. Jo. Alcocke born at Beverly where he built a Chappel and Founded a Chantry for his Parents was D. D. in Cambridge and became Bishop of Ely and was preferred Lord Chancellour of England by King Henry 7. He turned the old Nunnery of St. Radegund Founded by Malcolm King of Scotland into a New Colledge called Jesus in Cambridge He was a Learned and Pious Man deceasing 1500. Since the Reformation Mr. Harrison of Leeds built a new Church in that Town the old one being too small for the numerous Parishoners Memorable Persons Paulinus de Leeds was so far from buying a Bishoprick that when a Bishoprick bought him he refused to accept it King Henry offering him the Bishoprick of Carlile with an Addition of 300 Marks to the yearly Revenue which he refused He flourished 1186. W. de la Pole born at Ravensford for Wealth and Skill in Merchandize inferiour to none in England resided at Kingston upon Hull He lent King Edward 3. many thousands of pounds in recompence whereof the King made him Valect i. e. Gent. of the Bed-Chamber and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer c. giving him the Precedency and Honour of a Knight Banneret though he was not made in the Field with the usual Ceremony He dyed about 1350. Noted Sheriffs Edward 2. An. 9. Simon Ward the Male line of his ancient Family expired in Sir Christopher Ward Standard bearer to King Henry 8. at Bolleign He lived at Grindal leaving three Daughters Married to the Families of Strickland Musgrave and Osborn Edward 3. An. 17. Thomas de Rokeby was twice 1351 and 1355 Lord Justice of Ireland He in part extirpated the damnable Custom of Coigne and Livery in that Kingdom whereby the Commander in Chief extorted from the people Horse-meat Mans meat and Money at pleasure without any satisfaction for the same This Custom was begun in the time of King Edward 2. by Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond In reference to which this Rokeby used to say that he would eat in Wooden dishes but would pay for his Meat Gold and Silver Henry 4. An. 8. Thomas Rokeby Junior Mil. overcame and took by the sole assistance of this Shire Prisoners Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Barldolfe who began War against the King Henry 5. An. 8. Halvatheus Maulever Mil. had his Sirname in Latine Malus Leporarius from his unskilfulness in hunting of the Hare Henry 6. An. 11. Henry Bromfleet Mil. was sent the year following with other Ambassadours to the Council of Basil and returning was created Lord Vescy in the right of his Mother And though in his Patent that Title was entailed on his Heir-Males only yet Margaret his sole Daughter and Heir Married to Jo. Lord Clifford Father to Henry first Earl of Northumberland of that Sirname derived the Barony into that Family which at this day they enjoy 22. Edmund Talbot Mil. though not related to the house of Shrewsbury was of a Family of ancient extraction ever since King Henry 2. He was Father to Sir Thomas one very zealous for the House of York and a servant to King Richard 3. who bestowed an Annuity of 40 pounds per Annum on him A Branch of these Talbots are removed into Lancashire and from those in York-shire Col. Thomas Talbot is descended Edward 4. Henry Vavasor Mil. It is observed of this Family that they never Married an Heir or buried their Wives The place of their habitation is called Hasel-Woâ—d out of which Mannor the stones were taken that built St. Maries Abbey in York Henry 8. An. 2. Radulphus Eure alias Evers Mil. was created Baron and Lord Warden of the Marches towards Scotland where he gave signal demonstrations of his Fidelity and Valour in resisting and opposing the Scots From him the present Lord Evers is descended 5. William Piercy Mil. was probably of the Family of the Piercy's-Hays whose ancient possession was Riton hard by the River Rhidals 23. Nicholas Fairfax Mil. the Sirname signifying Fair Hair had for his Motto Fare Fac Say Doe His Namesake Sir Nicholas of Bullingbrook was Knight of the Rhodes in the Reign of King Edward 4. being Charactred Cavaliero molto spiritoso e Prudente Q. Mary An. 3. Christopher Metcalfe Mil. attended on
Clarence President in his stead for the same No sooner was his Father dead but he reclaimed himself and became a Glory to his Country and a constant Terror to his Enemies yea and banished all his idle Companions from Court allowing them a competency for their subsistence When the Lord Chief Justice who had secured him when Prince for striking him for the Commitment of some of his lewd Companions he not only forgave him but rewarded his Justice In his Reign a Supplication was preferred that the Temporal Lands given to pious uses but abusively spent might be siezed on by the King This was wisely awarded by Chichley Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by putting the King on the design of recovering France Yea this King by his Valour reduced Charles 6. King of France to such a condition that he resigned his Kingdom into his hand and our King Henry 5. was accordingly Crowned in Paris King of France There the French found him as good or rather worse as his Promise which he made to the Dolphin who sent him a Barrel of Paris Tennis-Balls sending such English-Balls that they proved fatal to them He dyed at Boys St. Vincent ult Aug. 1422. and was brought over with great Solemnity and interred in Westminster-Abbey Saints St. Amphibalus a Citizen of Carlion See the Saints in Hereford St. Aaron a wealthy Citizen of Carlion was Martyred under Dioclesian the Emperour 30â— Note that the three first British Martyrs viz. Alban Amphibalus and Aaron have the first a Latine the second a Greek and the third an Hebrew Name St. Julius of Carlion suffered with Aaron aforesaid Note that Carlion now a small Town was once a great City reaching a Mile in length and comprehending St. Julian's a House of late Sir William Herbert's now a Mile distant from the Town Cardinals Geffery of Monmouth is avouched by some to have been made Cardinal but it is improbable that so much honour should be done unto him whilst living who was so solemnly disgraced after his death his Books being then publickly prohibited by the Court of Rome See Writers in this Shire John of Monmouth D. D. and Canon of Lincoln was chosen Bishop of Landaff 1296. after that See had been 7 years vacant He was a Learned and Pious Divine Besides other Benefactions to his See he procured the Rectory of Newland in the Forrest of Dean to be appropriated thereto But Bishop Kitchin afterwards impoverished the same more then all his Predecessors had endowed it in 400 years This John dyed April 8. 1322. and was buried in St Maries Chappel Walter Cantilupe Son to William the elder Lord Cuntilupe whose prime residence was at Abergavennie in this County was made by Henry 3. Bishop of Worcester He would not yield to the Popes Legate who complained of many Clergy-men keeping their Livings against the Canons intending to make room for the Popes Favourites or force such irregular incumbents to a Composition He was one of a keen nature whose two-edged spirit did cut on both sides against the King and Pope Against the former he sided with the Barons to whom he promised Heaven for the reward of their Rebellion against their Prince though it cost him an Excommunication from the Pope who was the more forward in denouncing that fatal Sentence against him because he had told Rusland his Legate coming hither 1255. that he would preferr him to be hang'd on the Gallows rather then ever consent to such expilation of the Church as aforesaid Lying on his deathâ—bed he was touched with true remorse for his disloyalty and obtained Absolution He dyed February 1267. whom I behold as Uncle to Thomas the Sainted Bishop of Hereford Souldiers Richard de Clare alias Strongbow born probably at Stringule Castle was Earl of Stringule and Pembrook A person of effectual performance It happened that Mac Murugh an 1167. being expelled his Territories for several Tyrannies by the Lords of Meath and Conaight repaired to King Henry 2. and invited him to Ireland That Politick King sent over this R. Strongbow with 1200 Men who possessed himself of the Ports of Leinster and Mounster with large Lands thereunto belonging insomuch that the King growing jealous of his greatness remanded him home and commanded him to surrender his Acquest into his hands which done he received them by regrant from the King save that Henry reserved the City of Dublin for himself This Strongbow is commonly called Domitor Hiberniae the Tamer of Ireland Yet some of the great Lords there did still retain the Power and Title of King Witness the Preface in the Commission whereby King Henry 2. made William Fitz-Adelme his Lieutenant of Ireland Archiepiscopis Episcopis Regibus c. Salutem This Earl dyed at Dublin 1177. Sir Roger Williams born of an ancient Family at Penross was first a Souldier of Fortune under the Duke of Alva and afterwards served Queen Elizabeth A man extreamly forward to Fight When a Spanish Captain challenged Sir John Norris to fight a single Combat which was beneath him to accept being a General this Roger undertook the Don. And after they had fought some time both Armies beholding them without any hurt they pledged each other a deep draught of Wine and so friendly departed Another time at mid-night he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma nigh Venloe slew some of the Enemies and pierced to the Tent of the General He bravely defended Sluse whilst any hope of help William Herbert Earl of Pembrook with Sir Richard his Brother were both valiant Men and as fast Friends to King Edward 4. as professed Foes to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick Leading the Army of the Welsh in the Battle of Banbury with their Poll-Axes they twice made way through the Battle of the Northern men which sided with King Henry 6. without any Mortal Wound There passeth a Tradition in the Noble Family of the Herberts of Chierbury that this Sir Richard their Ancestor slew that day 140 Men with his own hands in passing and repassing through the Army Guns not being then in fashion the Poll-Axe was the next Mortal Weapon especially in such a dead Hand as this Knight had He is reported also to be of a Giants Stature the Peg being extant in Montgomery Castle whereon he used to hang his Hat at dinner which no Man of an ordinary height can reach with his hand at this day However both these brave Brethren circumvented with the subtilty of their Foes Odds at any time may be bet on the side of Treachery against Valour were brought to Banbury beheaded and buried the Earl at Tinterne and Sir Richard at Abergaveny in this County Writers Jeffrey of Monmouth alias ap Arthur Translated and Compiled the various British Authors into one Volume He hath many things from the British Bards which though improbable are not therefore ipso facto untrue yet Humanum est errare and Tradition having run a great way from its clear Original may swell into a rapide Stream violently
The life and violent death of the Lord Chief Justice Cavendish ibid. The life of Sir Thomas Wentworth Page 784 Dr. Butler's Life Page 786 Scroop the Anchorite's life Page 788 The Tragedy of Roxana Page 789 Foundress of Clare-Hall in Cambridge Page 791 The occasion of the addition of the Dagger to the Arms of London Page 792 A Cordial testimony of Loyalty or a costly Pearl diffused in a Royal Health Page 792 SURREY Wherein the best Fullers Earth Page 794 Richmond and Non-such built by King Henry VII and VIII ibid Vertue of Epsom Waters ibid The life of Prince Henry Son to King Charles I. Page 795 The life of Arch-Bishop Cranley Page 796 The life of Bishop Parkhurst Page 797 The lives of Arch-Bishop and Bishop Abbot's Page 798 The life of Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Page 799 The life of Sir Robert Dudley Page 800 The life of William Ockham Page 801 The life of Dr. Hammond Page 802 The life of Dr. Sanders ibid. Elizabeth Weston a great Scholar Page 803 Of the Family of the Sackvills Page 805 The Family of the Ashburnhams ibid. The life of Sir Nicholas Carew Page 804 The life of George Goring Earl of Norwich Page 806 SUSSEX Plentiful in Iron Talk Page 807 The Manufactures are great Guns ibid. Arundel-Castle a Local Earldom Page 808 The life of Arch-Bishop Winchelsey Page 810 The life of Thomas Bradwardine Page 811 The life of the Lord Treasurer Burwash ibid. The lives of Dr. Barlow Bishop of St. Davids and Dr. Juxton Bishop of Hereford Page 812 The life of the Lord Treasurer Sackvil Page 813 The life of Judge Jeffrey Page 814 The life of Sir William Pelham Page 815 The life of Sir Anthony Shirley c. ibid. The life of Mr. Selden Page 818 The life of Dr. Stapleton Page 819 VVARWICK-SHIRE A sudden inundation in Coventry Page 823 The life of Anne Nevil Married to Edward Prince of Wales Page 825 The life of Edward Plantagenet Son to George Duke of Clarence ibid. The life of St. VVolstan ibid. The life of Cardinal Macklesfield Page 826 The life of Bishop Stratford Page 827 The supposed Original of the word Veize Page 828 The life of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Page 829 The life of Sir Edward Conway ibid. The life of John Digby Earl of Bristol ibid. The life of William Shakespear Page 831 The life of Sir Fulk Grevil Page 832 The life of John Lord Harrington Page 835 Edge-Hill Fight Page 836 WESTMORLAND The life of Queen Katharine Parr Page 838 The life of Cardinal Bambridge Page 839 A pleasant Adventure of the Knave of Clubâ— Page 841 The life of Bishop Potter Page 841 The life of Sir Edward Bellingham Page 842 Foundress of Appleby Hospital ibid. The Office of Sheriff made Hereditary Page 845 WILT-SHIRE The life of Margaret Plantagenet Countess of Salisbury Page 848 The life of Jane Seymore ibid. The life of St. Adelme Page 849 The life of St. Edith Page 850 The life of Cardinal VVinterburn Page 851 The life of Johannis Sarisburiensis Page 852 The life of the Lord Chancellour Edendon ibid. The life of Bishop Thornborough Page 853 The life of Edward Seymor Duke of Sommerset Page 854 The life of Sir Ol. St John Lord Grandison Page 855 The life of Sir Francis Cottington Page 856 The life of Sir Nicholas Hide ibid. Lansdown and Round-way Fights Page 862 VVORCESTER-SHIRE The life of St. Richard Page 864 The life of Bishop Bonner Page 866 The life of Sir Thomas Coventry Lord Keeper Page 867 The life of Judge Littleton Page 868 The life of Richard Beauchamp Earl of VVarwick Page 869 The life of Sir Edward Kelly Chymist Page 870 The life of Sir Edwin Sandys Page 872 VVorcester-Fight YORK-SHIRE The life of King Henry I. The life of Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Page 883 The life of St. Hilda or the English Huldah Page 884 The life of St. John of Beverly The life of St. Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Darby Page 885 The life of Cardinal Fisher Page 887 The life of Bishop Melton ibid. The life of Dr. Scroop Page 888 The life of Dr. Coverdale Page 890 The life of Arch-Bishop Loftus ibid. Prince Henry committed by Sir W. Gascoine Page 891 The life of the Lord Chief Justice VVray Page 892 The life of Lord Chancellour Puckering Page 893 The life of Sir George Calvert ibid. The life of the Lord Clifford Page 895 The life of Sir George Ripley Page 896 The life of Dr. VVhitacre Page 903 The Battle of Marston-Moor Page 910 YORK The life of Edward Freese The life of Bishop Morton Page 915 The life of Sir Robert Car Page 917 VVALES The Division thereof Page 921 Cardigan yields Royal Mines Page 922 Matthew Glin the supposed Author of Metheglin Page 923 The life of Cardinal Sertor The life of Mr. Broughton Page 930 The life of Hugh Holland ibid. ANGLESEY The Mother of VVales Page 931 BRECNOCK-SHIRE The wonder of Mouchy Denny Page 934 The life of Giles de Bruse Page 935 The life of Thomas Howel Bishop of Bristol Page 936 The life of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham ibid. The Protestation of Nesta ibid. CARDIGAN-SHIRE First reduced to the English Dominion Page 938 CARMARTHEN-SHIRE The Life of Bishop Ferrar Page 940 The life of Sir Rice ap Thomas Page 941 The life of VValter Devereux Earl of Essex ibid. The life of Merline CARNARVON-SHIRE The life of King Edward IV. Page 944 The life of Bishop Vaughan Page 946 DENBIGH-SHIRE The life of Leoline Bishop of St. Asaph Page 948 The life of Bishop Goodman The life of Sir Hugh Middleton Page 949 FLINT-SHIRE The smallest Shire in Wales Page 950 The life of Elizabeth Countess of Holland ibid. The life of St. Asaph Page 951 The life of Owen Glendower Page 952 Pilgrimages to St. Winifred's Well Page 954 GLAMORGAN-SHIRE The life of Sir Edward Carne Page 955 MERIONETH-SHIRE Wherein are comely Inhabitants Page 956 The life of St. Thelian Page 957 A Tribute of 300 Wolves Page 958 MONTGOMERY-SHIRE Where excellent Horses are bred ibid. The Life of George Herbert Page 959 The life of Edward Herbert Baron Cherbury Page 960 Hawis Gadarn a Lady of Remark ibid MONMOUTH-SHIRE Not subject to the Welsh Jurisdiction Page 962 The life of King Henry V. ibid. The life of Cantilupe Bishop of Worcester Page 964 The life of Richard Strongbow Page 965 The life of Sir Roger Williams ibid. The life of William Herbert Earl of Pembroke Page 966 The life of Jeffrey of Monmouth ibid. The life of Henry Plantagenet first Duke of Lancaster Page 967 The life of W. Johnes ibid. W. Evans put little Jeffrey in his Pocket Page 988 PEMBROKE-SHIRE Peopled by Flemings Page 969 The Life of Henry Tuthar ibid. The life of St. Justinian Page 971 The life of Giraldus Cambrensis ibid. RADNOR-SHIRE The rigorous Laws of King Henry IV. Enacted for the effectual suppression of Insurrections in Wales Page 974 Lib. 11. c. 6. * Rom. 16.11 * Mr. Dreyden Lord Bac. Ess p. 215. Cambd. Rem tit Moneyar Eng. Mart. Math. par Maâ—jor An. Dom. 1217. Fox Act. Mon. p. 817. Fox Act. mon. p. 1211. Fox Act. Mon. p. 1934. Math. West Flor. Hist AMP. Godwin Catalogue of Bishops of Bath c. Sir Jo. Hayward E. â— Stow E. 6. p. 612 Cambd. Eliz. S. N. Bale Scrip. Brit. cent 5. Numb 19. AMP. Math. 13.32 2 Sam. 23.19 S. N. Brit. Kent Shield of Wheath a Treatise 2. Bromp Chron. p. 887. AMP. Polyal AMP. Q. Q Q. * Car. Surw. of Cornw. Q. Bract. l. 3. Tract 2. De Mir. pecci Surv. Lond. Matth. 3. Q. A. M. P. S. N A. M. P. S. N. S. N. †The Pope assumes to himself his Name and Authority S. N. †In the beginning of the long Parliament S. N. * Gen. 4.22 S. N. AMP. REM AMP. AMP. S. N. AMP. AMP. AMP. * Mr. Jo. Gore REM REM REM REM AMP. S. N. S. N. * Is. 51.1 AMP. * Leaden AMP. * Stow p. 245. S. N. S. N. AMP. AMP. S. N REM AMP. S. N. * Jo. 3.12 REM S. N. * Speed of this County * Dr. Heyl. Hist of King Charles AMP. S. N. S. N. * Manuscr Libr. Cott. AMP. * Pitz de Scrip. Ang. p. 804. * Chron. 34.12 * Cant. 3.4 AMP. Hist of Irel.
age would admit An 1. Ed. 6. 3. When the same after the Marian interruption was resumed and more refined in the Reign of Q. El. The first of these I may call the Morning Star The Second the Dawning of the Day The third the rising of the Sun As to the Prelats and Writers in Q. Maries days their inclinations are discovered in their Writings and by their Actions CHAP. XII Memorable Persons THE former Heads were like Private Houses but this Topick is like a publick Inn admitting all Comers and Goers having any extraordinary not vicious Remark upon them Such therefore who are over under or beside the Standard of Common Persons for strength stature fruitfulness vivacity c. are lodged under this Head under which I also repose such Mechanicks who have reached a clear note above others in their Vocation and Eminent improvers of Arts being Founders of that Accession which they add thereunto CHAP. XIII Of Lord Mayors of London AFter the Death of the King the Lord Majors Office and Authority continues a whole year whereas most other Offices determine with the Kings Death Younger Sons are raised to this Dignity by their own Vertue which affords an Illustrious Example and gives the greatest Encouragement to all well-disposed Youth Some Shires are destitute of this Honourable Office tho 't is probable they may come to arrive at the Priviledge of Majorality for Sir Richard Chiverton Skinner descended of a right Ancient and Worshipful Family having been lately the first in Cornwal has opened the door there for others to follow after him Some in London have refused the Office and Fined and thereby have Charitably increased the Stock of the City CHAP. XIV Why a Catalogue of the English Gentry in the Reign of H. 6. is inserted in this Book IN the days of H. 6 under pretence of routing out Felons Outlaws c. Opposition was made to the House of York which was the Occasion that a List of Gentry was made As to the Method of the Catalogue among the Commissioners the Bishop of the Diocess is first put after whom follow Earls Barons Knights of the Shire Note here that in the time of H. 6 de such a place was left off and the addition of Knight or Squire was assumed tho not generally in all places CHAP. XV. Of Sheriffs SHeriff is a Reeve or Overseer of a Shire in Latin Vicecomes or Deputy of an Earl or Count who anciently presiding over a County gave names both to the Place and deputed Jurisdiction In the year 888. K. Alfred first divided England into Shires The Clerk of the Peace for each County in Mich. Term presents to the Lord Chief Justice six or more names of able Persons for the Office of Sheriff of whom three are presented to the King who pricks one to stand Sheriff for the County His Power is to suppress Riots secure Prisoners distrain for Debts execute Writs return Knights and Burgesses for Parliament empannel Juries attend the Judge see the Execution of Malefactors c. By 4. H. 4 5. Sheriffs are to abide within their Counties 'T is observed by some that anciently the Office of Sheriff was Honos sine onere in middle times Honos cum onere and in our days Onus sine Honore a burden without honour CHAP. XVI Of the Coats of Arms of Sheriffs ARms seem to have been Jure Divino to the Jews and their use is great both in War and Peace without them an Army neither has Method nor strikes terror and in peace Arms distinguish one Man from another Arms assumed according to one's fancy are but personal but Arms assigned by Princes are Hereditary The plainer the Coat is the more Ancient and Honourable two Colours are necessary and most highly honourable tho both may be blazoned with one word as Varrey formerly born by the Beauchamps of Hatch in Wiltshire and still quartered by the Duke of Somerset three are very honourable four Commendable five Excuseable more disgraceful One said of a Coat that it was so well Victualled that it might endure a Siege such was the Plenty and Variety of Fowl Flesh and Fish therein Or and Azure are the richest Argent and Sable the fairest Coats The Lion and Eagle are the most Honourable the Cross the most Religious bearing a Bend the best Ordinarie being a Belt athwart as a Fess is the same about the middle Herbs Vert being natural are better then Or. There are Reasons rendred for some bearings Thus whereas the Earls of Oxford anciently gave their Coat plain quarterly Gules and Or they took afterwards in the first a Mallet or Star Argent because the Chief of the House had a Falling-Star as is said alighting on his Shield as he was fighting in the Holy-land Now for the Arms of Sheriffs we have added them ever since the first of King Richard 2. I will conclude this Discourse with a Memorable Record Claus 5 H. 5. Membr 15 in the Tower The King to the Sheriff Health c. because there are divers Men as we are informed which before these times in the Voyages made by us have assumed to themselves Arms and Coat-Armours where neither they nor their Ancestors in times past used such Arms c. and Propound with themselves to use and exercise the same in this present Voyage which God willing we intend to make And altho the Omnipotent disposeth his favours in things Natural as he pleaseth equally to the Rich and Poor yet We willing that every one of our Liege Subjects should be Esteemed and Treated in due manner according to the Exigency of his State and Condition We Command thee that in every place within thy Bailiwick where by our Writ we have lately shewn you cause to be Proclaimed that no Man of what State Degree or Condition soever he be shall take upon him such Arms or Coats of Arms save he alone who doth possess or ought to possess the same by the right of his Ancestors or by Donation and grant of some who had sufficient power to assign him the same and that he that useth such Arms or Coats of Arms shall on the day of his Muster manifestly shew to such Persons assigned or to be assigned by us for that purpose by vertue of whose gift he enjoyeth the same those only excepted who carried Arms with us at the Battle of Agincourt under the penalties not to be admitted to go with us in our aforesaid Voyages under his Command by whom he is for the present retained and of the loss of his wages as also of the rasing out and breaking off the said Arms called Coat-Armours at the time of his Muster aforesaid if they shall be shewn upon him or found about him And this you shall in no case omit Witness the King at the City of New Sarum June the Sâ—cond CHAP. XVII Of the Alterations and Variations of Surnames SUrnames of Families have been altered and new Names assumed chiefly for Concealment in time of Civil
Of them was Privy-Councellor to four Sir Th. Smith Knight born in Abbington bred in the University of Oxf. God and himself raised him to the Eminency he attained unto unbefriended with any Extraction Emulating Sir Th. Smith Senior Secretary of State he had equalled him in Preferment if not prevented by Death This Sir Thomas was Master of the Requests and Secretary to King James He died Nov. 28. 1609. and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex under a Monument erected by his Lady Frances Daughter to William Lord Chandes and since the Countess of Exeter Souldiers Henry Vmpton Knight born at Wadley in this County was Son to Sir Edward Vmpton by Anne the Relick of Jo. Dudley Earl of Warwick and eldest Daughter of Edward Seymor D. of Somerset He was employed by Queen Elizabeth Ambassadour into France where in the Month of May An. 1592. being sensible of some injury offered by the D. of Guise to the Honour of the Queen of England he sent him this Challenge Forasmuch as lately in the Lodging of my Lord Du Mayne and in Publick elsewhere impudently indiscreetly and over boldly you spoke boldly of my Soveraign whose sacred Person here in this County I represent To maintain both by Word and Weapon her Honour which never was called in Question by people of Honesty and Vertue I say you have wickedly lyed by speaking so basely of my Soveraign and you shall do nothing else but lye whensoever you shall dare to tax her Honour Moreover that her Sacred Person being one of the most Complete and Vertuous Princess that lives in this World ought not to be evil spoken of by the Tongue of such a perfidious Traitor to her Law and Country as you are And hereupon I defie you and Challenge your Person to mine with such manner of Arms as you shall like or choose be it either on Horse-back or on Foot Nor would I have you to think any inequality of Person between us I being issued of as great a Race and Noble House everyway as your self So assigning me an indifferent place I will there maintain my Words and the Lie which I gave you and which you should not endure if you have any Courage at all in you If you consent not to meet me hereupon I will hold you and cause you to be generally held for the arrantest Coward and most slanderous Slave that lives in all France I expect your Answer I find not what Answer was returned This Sir Henry dying in the French Kings Camp before Lofear and his Corps brought over was buried in Farrington Church July 8. 1596. He had allowed him a Barrons Heirs because dying Ambassadour Leigier Writers Hugh of Reading quitted his Expectances of a fair Estate and embraced a Monastical life till at last he became Abbot of Reading He is highly commended by the Learned and writ a Book of Questions fetcht from the Scripture Roger of Windsor Chanter of the Convent of S. Albans was the Kings Historian He flourished An. Dom. 1235. Robert Rich Son to Edward and Mabel his Wife Brother of S. Edmund Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was born at Abbington in this County He wrote a Book of the Life Death and Miracles of his Brother and died about the year of our Lord 1250. Richard of Wallingford a Black-Smith's Son was bred at Merton-Colledge in Oxford a Monk at last Abbot of S. Albans where being a good Mathematician especially as to the Mechanick part thereof he made a Clock with much Pain more Cost and most Art Being a Calender as well as Clock shewing the Fixed Stars and Planets the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea c. but my Author did not inform me if the Canonical hours were mark't on the Clock He died An. Dom. 1326. Since the Reformation Henry Bullock probably born in this County where his Name appears in a Worshipful Estate He was bred a Fellow and Doctor of Divinity in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge a general Scholar familiar with Erasmus calling him Bovillum in his Epistles to him At Cardinal Wolsey's instance he wrote against Luther tho otherwise his Affections were biased to the Protestant Party When he died is unknown Will. Twis born at Spene an ancient Roman City bred at New-Colledge in Oxford and there became a General Scholar Good at plain Preaching better at Disputing and best in Living He became Preacher in Spinhamlands Towards his Death he was slighted by Sectaries it being usual for New-lights to neglect those who have born the heat of the Day His Latin Works speak him able in Controversie He was Moderate Prolocutor in the Assembly of Divines And dying in Holborn he was buried at Westminster An. Dom. 164 Will. Lyford born at Peysmer and bred at Magdalen-Coll in Oxf. Proceeded there Batchelour of Divinity 1631. He was also Fellow of that Foundation He was troubled in Conscience for having Resigned his place for Money to his Successour but before his Death he made Restitution He had a comely Countenance and modest Mind a Courteous Carriage and meek Spirit He was afterwards Preacher at Shirburn in Dorsetshire and tho both Pious and Painful he had his share of Obloquie from such factious Persons as could not abide the wholsome Words of sound Doctrine He dyed about 1652 tho his Memory lives in his Learned Works Romish Exile Writers Th. Hyde born at Newbury bred Master of Art in New-Coll in Oxf. was made Canon of Winchester and chief Master of the School there He with Jo. Martial about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. went beyond the Seas This Hyde is Charactered by one of his own profession to be A Man of upright Life of great Gravity and Severity He wrote a Book of Consolation to his Fellow Exile and dyed An. Dom. 1597. Benefactors to the Publick Alfrede the fourth Son to King Athelwolf born at Wantage An excellent Scholar tho he was past 12 years of Age before he knew one Letter He was a Curious Poet an Excellent Musician a valiant and successful Souldier fighting seven Battles against the Danes in one year at last Conquered them and reduced them to the Profession of Christianity He gave the first Institution or according to others the best Instauration to the University of Oxford A Prince who cannot be Painted to the Life without his Loss no Words reaching his Worth He divided 1. every natural day as to himself into 3 parts viz. 8 hours for his Devotion and 8 for Business and the remainder for Sleep and Refection 2. His Revenues into 3 parts one for War a second for his Court and the third for Pious uses 3. His Land into 32 Shires 4. His Subjects into Hundreds and Tithings consisting of 10 Persons mutually Pledges for their Good Behaviour He left Learning where he found Ignorance Justice where he found Oppression and Peace where he found Destraction And having Reigned 34 years he dyed and was buried at Winchester An. 901. He loved Religion more then
Superstition favoured Learned Men more then Lazie Manks which may be the cause he was not solemnly Sainted with other Saxon Kings who did not so much deserve Since the Reformation Pet. Chapman born at Cokeham bred an Iron-monger in Lond. at his Death bequeathed five pounds a year to two Scholars in Oxford as much to two in Camb. and five Pounds a year to the poor of the Town of his Nativity besides sixty Pounds to the Prisons of Lond. c. The time of his Death is unknown Jo. Kendrick born at Reading bred a Draper in Lond. His State may be compared to the Mustard-seed from a small encreasing to a prodigious bigness If Benefactors were digested as David's Worthies Mr. Kendrick would be if not the last of the first the first of the second three His Charity began at his Kindred proceeded to his Friends and Servants to whom he left large Legacies concluded with the Poor on whom he bestowed above 20000 Pounds Reading and Newbury sharing the deepest therein as appears by his Printed Will He dyed 30 Sept. 1624. and is buried in St. Christophers Lond. to the Curate of which Parish he gave 20 Pounds a year for ever Rich. Wightwick Batchellor of Divinity was Rector of East-Isley in this County His Benefice not very great may appear a Bishoprick by his Bounty to Pembroke-Coll in Oxf. to which he gave 100 Pounds a year for 3 Fellows and 4 Scholars When he dyed is unknown Memorable Persons Tho. Cole commonly called the Rich Clothier of Reading He is reported a Man of vast Wealth maintaining 140 Menial Servants besides 300 poor People whom he set on Work insomuch that his Wains with Cloth filled the High-way from Reading to Lond. to the stopping of King H. I. in his Progress which King gratified Cole with a Standard-yard the length of his Royal-Arm but the Truth is was the Arm of E. I. which was the Adequation of a Yard This whole story is uncertain yet Cole may be accounted Eminent in this kind Jo. Winscombe commonly called Jack of Newbury was indeed the most considerable Clothier England ever beheld He kept 100 Looms in his House each of them managed by a Man and a Boy In the Expedition to Flodden-field against Ja. King of Scotland he marched with 100 of his own Men well Mounted to shew that the Painful in Peace could be Valiant in War He Feasted King Hen. 8 and his first Queen Kath. at his own House yet extant at Newbury the Church of which he built from the Pulpit to the Tower Inclusively He dyed about 1520 some of his Name and Kindred of great Wealth in this County As to the Gentry in this County Will. Fachel or Vachel was right Ancient having an Estate in and about Reading And the Family of the Pusays is so Ancient that they were Lords of Pusay a Village near Faringdon long before the Conquest in the time of King Canutus holding their Lands by the Tenure of Cornage viz. by Winding of a Horn when the Enemies made their Approach which that King gave their Family and which their Posterity still Extant at this day do produce But generally the List of Sheriffs is the most Comprehensive Catalogue of the English Gentry Noted Sheriffs monarch R. I. Will. Briewere of mean Extraction yet he was such a Minion to King Rich. I. that he created him Baron of Odcomb in Somersetshire One Fulk-paynel gave this William the Town of Bridgwater that he might procure for him the King's favour which he had lost Seeing he left no Son partition was made of his Inheritance amongst his Daughters married into the Honourable Families of Breos Wake Mohun La-fert and Percy Phillip Son of Rob. and Alan de Marton joynt Sheriffs in this County Rog. Bishop of Covent Lich. Sher. in this County He was Surnamed de Molend monarch H. 3 aliàs Longespee and was Nephew to King Hen. III. Phil. de la Beach The Seat of this Family was at Aldworth monarch E. 2. where their Statues on their Tombs are yet extant They were most Valiant Men their Male issue was extinct in the next Kings Reign whose Heir General was marryed to the Ancient Family of Whitlock Th. Chaucer sole Son to Geffery Chaucer the Famous Poet monarch H. 4. from whom he inherited fair Lands at Dunning-Castle in this County and at Ewelme in Oxf. He married Maud Daughter and Coheir of Sir Jo. Burwash by whom he had Alice married to Will. de la Pole D. of Suffolk He lyeth buried under a fair Tomb in Ewelme Church with this Inscription Hic jacet Th. Chaucer Armiger quondam Dominus istius villae patronus istius Ecclesiae qui ob 13. Nov. An. Dom. 1434. Matilda uxor ejus quae ob 28. Apr. 1436. Th. Wickham Kinsman and next heir to Will. VVickham that famous Bishop of VVinchester monarch H. 5. who notwithstanding above 6000 pounds bequeath'd in Legacies left to Thomas 600 pound Lands a year As for his Arms viz. Arg. 2 Cheverons S. between 3 Roses G. The most ingenious Sir Isaac VVake conceiveth those Cheverons or Couples in Architecture given him in Relation to the two Colledges he built in Oxford and VVinchester Jo. Gowfere or Golofre monarch H. 6. the first who is Styled Esquire as he was Sheriff This Addition grew afterwards more fashionable for after that Jack Straw one of the Grandfounders of the Levellers was defeated the English Gentry to appear above the Mobile did in all publick Instruments insert their Native or acquired Qualifications Sir Jo. Howard Knight Son to Sir Rob. Howard monarch E. 4. soon after was Created a Baron by Edw. IV. and Duke of Norfolk by King Rich. III. as Kinsman and one of the Heirs of Anne Dutchess of York and Norfolk whose Mother was one of the Daughters of Th. Mowbray Duke of Norfolk Soon after he lost his Life in Bosworth-field in the Quarrel of him who had given him his Honour From him descended the Noble and Numerous Family of the Howards of whom four Earls viz. Arundel Notingham Suffolk and Barkshire and two Barons viz. Mowbray and Estrick sat in the last Parliament of King Ch. I. Verstegan the great Antiquary will have their Name to be Holdward that is Keeper of a Castle or Trust and they have well answered unto their Name Did not Th. Howard Earl of Surrey well Hold his ward by Land when in the Reign of King H. 8. he Conquered the Scots in Floddon-field and took James IV their King Prisoner And did not Charles Howard afterward Earl of Nottingham hold his ward by Sea in 88. when the Armado was defeated Humph. Foster Ar. Afterward Knighted lies Buried in St. Martins in the Fields Lond. with this Inscription Of your Charity pray for the Soul of Sir Humphrey Foster Knight whose body lies buried here in Earth under this Marble Stone who deceased 18 Sept. 1500. On whose Soul Jesu have mercy Amen Robert Harecourt Knight right Ancient is this
of his Estate and gave the King and others what remained thereof not regarding Sir H. Grey his Brother by a 2 d. Venter of Wrest in this County who therefore declined the Honour Thus the Earldom of Kent lay asleep in the Family of the Greys almost 50 years viz. from 15. H. 8 till 13 of Queen Eliz. when she advanced Reginald Grey Grandfather to Sir H. Grey aforesaid who had Recruited himself with Revenues to be Earl of Kent An. 1571. Reginald dying Childless within the year Hen. his Brother the Subject of our present description succeeded to this Honour A Person truly Noble expending the Income of his own Estate and his Ladies Joynture Mary the Relict of Edw. E. of Darby in Hospitality He was a Cordial Protestant on the same Token that being present at the Execution of Queen of Scots when she requested the Nobility there to stand by and see her Death he fearing something of Superstition hardly assented thereunto On the other side he was as far removed from Faction deserving the Character given him by Mr. Cambd. A Person highly Honoured with all the Ornaments of true Nobility He left no Issue except some will behold him in some sort Parent of Sidney-Coll in Camb. as one of the Executors to the Foundress thereof who both proved and improved her Will besides her Personal Benefaction thereunto And being the Surviving Executor he did Perpetuate the Fellowships formerly Temporary according to his Trust He dyed An. 1613. Fr. Cleark Knight born at Eaton-soton in the Lordship called the Paersonage A Noble Benefactor to Sidney-Coll augmenting all the Scholarships of the Foundation and erecting a fair Range of Buildings So skilful he was that he computed to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing thereof He founded four new Fellowships The Gift was felt before the Giver a meer Stranger was seen He dyed An. Dom. 163. Memorable Persons A Woman lived dyed and is buried at Dunstable where is her Epitaph who had 19 Children at 5 Births viz. 3.3.3.5 and 5. Noted Sheriffs The Family of the Blundells whereof Sir Edw. Blundel behaved himself right Valiantly in the Expedition to the Isle of Ree Rich. Basset and Albericus de Veer The last of whom was made monarch M. 2. by Maud the Emp. E. of Oxford And the first was his under-Sheriff in this County Hen. de Essex Bar. de Raleigh in Ess and Hereditary Standard-bearer of England He in the Battle at Coleshul in Flintsh between the English and the Welsh casting away his Courage and Banner together occasioned a great overthrow of the English and was therefore challenged in Combat by Rob. de Momford Knight and by him overcome in Duel His Inheritance was forfeited to the King and he himself made a Honourable Retreat into a Convent and under a Coul betwixt Shame and Sanctity blushed out the Remainder of his Life Dav. Archdeacon whose Ancestors probably having been Ecclesiasticks left him that Surname Rob. Braybrook and Hen. Fil. Hen. Br. and Rob. Pater monarch K. Jo. A loving Reciprocation of Sheriff and under Sheriff betwixt Father and Son Under-Sheriff to his Father that was his Duty Under-Sheriff to his Son that was his Courtesie Indeed I can Name one under-Sheriff to his own Father being a Gent. of right Worthy Extraction and Estate which Son afterwards became Lord Ch. Justice and Treasurer of England Edward Eldest Son to the King A great Honour to this Shire and Buck. where he was Sheriff for five years together monarch H. 3. Yea the Imperial Crown found him in that Office when it fell unto him Barthol de Fowen being under-Sheriff Th. Hoo. A famous Man whom King Hen. 6 made Knight of the Garter and Lord Hoo and Hastings monarch H. 6. He left four Daughters thus Married 1. Anne to Sir Jeffrey Bullen 2. Eleanor to Sir Rich. Carew 3. Jane to Rob. Cople Esquire 4. Eliz. to Sir Jo. Devenish From the first of these was Queen Eliz. descended Some of the issue Male were lately extant in Hartfordshire Jo. Wenlock was returned Knight of the Town of his Principal Residence to the Parl. 12. H. 6. and afterwards created Bar. of Wenlock and Knight of the Garter fought Valiantly and lost his Life in the Battle of Teuxbury He dyed without Issue and his Estate came to E. 4. From his Cousin and Heir-general the Lauleys in Shropshire are descended Sir Jo. St. John Knight Father Son and Grandson were of the same Name and Dignity The Father monarch H. 7. Sheriff in the time of H. 7. was Son to Sir Oliver St. John by Marg. Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Jo. Beauchamp She was afterwards Married to Jo. D. of Somerset to whom she bare Margaret Mother to King Hen. 7. Will. Gascoine was a younger Brother of Ganthorp-house in Yorkshire and was setled at Cardington in this County by marrying the Inheretrix thereof He was afterwards twice Sheriff under H. 8. Knighted and Comptroller of the House of Cardinal Woolsey A rough-Man preferring rather to profit than please his Master The Prelates Wisdom knowing Thrift to be the Fuell of Magnificence often advised with this his Servant His Name and Estate are Extinct in this County Jo. Mordant Ar. of Ancient Extraction monarch H. 8. married one of the Daughters and Heirs of Hen. Vere of Addington in Northamptonshire By Aged Persons he was remembred by the Name of John of the Woods I was born under the shadow and felt the warmth of them So great a Master was he of Timber in that County besides large Possessions in Essex and elsewhere King Hen. 8. owning him deservedly for a Wise Man created him Bar. Mordant of Turvey Will. Windsor Knight descended from Walt. Fitz Otho Castle keeper of Windsor in the time of Will the Conquerour and was by King H. 8. created Bar. Windsor of Bradenham in Buckinghamshire Ancestor to the present Lord Windsor descended from him by an Heir general so that Hickman is his Surname Fr. Russel Knight Son to Jo. Lord Russel afterwards Earl of Bedford monarch E 6. Succeeding his Father in his Honour so great was his Hospitality that Queen Eliz. was wont to say of him That he made all the Beggars He founded a small School at Wobourn and dying in great Age and Honour was buried at Cheneys 1585. Oliver St. John Ar. By Queen Eliz. made Lord St. John of Bletso in this County and left two Sons who succeeded him to this Honour First John whose only Daughter Anne was married to Will Lord Esfingham was Mother to Eliz. now Count. Dowager of Peterborough his Second Son Oliver blessed with a Numerous Issue and Ancestor to the present Earl of Bullingbrook Will. Dormer Knight was Son to Rob. by Jane Newdigate his Wife monarch Q Ma. He had by Mary Sidney his Wife a Daughter married to the Count of Feria when he came over hither with King Phil. This Count under pretence to visit his Sick Lady remaining here did very earnestly move a Match
Felton B. of Ely his Father in Law was a Limner the best of our Age employed into Italy to purchase Pictures for E. of Arundel Returning by Marseilles and his money failing him he used to walk a long time with a swift pace on the Exchange there every Morning and Evening A civil Monsieur observing him told him That if Will. would convert his Reciprocal into a Progressive Motion directed to his own Country he would provide him a light Habit and competent Money for a Footman To which Proposal consenting he footed it through France being more than 500 English Miles and returned safely into England Where he was generally employed to make the Initial Letters in the Patents of Peers c. He was an Excellent Herauld by the Title of and which was the Crown of all a very Honest Man Exemplary his Patience in Sickness tho a Complication of Diseases seized on him He dyed at the Herauld Office 1649. Noted Sheriffs monarch H. 8. Th. Eliot Mil. born some say in Suff. had his Habitation in this County being well skilled in Greek and Latine he was the Author among other excellent Books of Defensorium Bonarum Mulierum or the defence of good Women an excellent Latine and English Dictionary the Stock on which B. Cooper grafted his Dictionary He dyed 1546. and was buried at Carlton in this County Th. Cromwel Ar. made Baron of Okeham was Chancellour of the University Edward North Mil. skilled in the Law and an able Manager of Publick Affairs was employed in the Court of Augmentation Made by Queen Ma. Baron of Catlidge in this County A considerable Benefactor to Peter-house in Camb. where under his Picture there is this Distich Nobilis hic vere fuerat si Nobilis ullus Qui sibi principium Nobilitatis erat He was Father to Roger Lord North and Great-Grand-Father to Dudley Lord North now surviving monarch E. 6. Jo. Huddleston Mil. To whom Queen Mary came privately when Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen to Saltston and rid thence behind his Servant the better to disguise her self to Framlingham-Castle She afterwards made him her Privy-Councellor and among other Great Boones bestowed the bigger part of Cambridge-Castle then much ruined upon him with the Stones whereof he built a fair House in this County I behold his Family as Branched from the Huddlestons in Cumb. Jo. Cuts Mil. A most Bountiful House-Keeper monarch Q. El. to whose House Queen Eliz. whilst there was Peace with Spain consigned the Spanish Ambassador in the Sickness at London This Spaniard being first Scandalized at the Knights short Surname was afterwards very well satisfyed with his large Entertainment Where note that the Spanish Gentlemen have generally long names tho short Commons Hen Cromwell Mil. Son to Rich. Cromwell Esquire Sher. 32 H. 8. to whom his Valour and Activity so endeared him as he bestowed on him so much Abbey-land in this County as at this day is worth 20000 Pounds a year He was not allied tho acquainted with Th. Lord Cromwell the Mauler of Monasteries Cromwell the pretended protected Grand-Child to this Sheriff having on a certain occasion owned that that Lord was not related to his Family in the least degree Jervase Clifton Knight By King Ja. created Baron of Leighton had a fair Estate at Barrington in Som. whence he removed to Huntingtonshire on his match with the Sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Hen. Darcy of Leighton-bromswold Kath. sole Daughter to Jervase was married to Esme Steward D. of Lennox to whom she bare the truly Illustrious James D. of Richmond monarch K. Ja. Sim. Steward Knight lived after he was knighted a Fellow-Commoner in Trinity-hall The sixth in lineal descent from John Steward who married Talmach a Maid of Honour to Queen Joan and Swore allegience to H. 4. Cheshire CHeshire lyeth in form of an Axe having Lanc. on the North Darby and Staff on the East Shropshire on the South Denbigh Flintshire and the Irish Sea on the West the longest part 44 and the broadest 25 Miles The County was reputed a Palatinate before the Conquest and it is much to Lanc. in that honour being related to Che. as the copy to the original being Palatinated but by E. 3 Granting that the D. of Lanc. should have Regal Jurisdiction So fully and freely as the Earl of Chester And whereas Records are written in the Comon Law Contra Coronam Dignitatem Regis â—n this County they run thus Contra Dignitatem gladii Cestriae It aboundeth with all Necessaries for Mars life All the Rivers here either rise or through some Pool And of Lakes of this Cheshire abounds and therefore has great plenty of Carps Tenches Trouts Eels The Gentry are Remarable for their Numerousness Antiquity many of their Ancestors being fixed here before the Conquest their Loyalty and Hospitality One said pleasantly that it appears they are good House-keepers by the Wheaton-sheaves so frequently given in their Coats of Arms The Original whereof was in Conformity to Hugh Kivelios the fifth Earl who gave Az. 6. Garbs or Sheaves O. Natural Commodities are Salt Cheese whence some say is the Word Cheshire 9. Chees-shire Whereof the best of England is made here yet are not their Cows Housed in the Winter Milstones great and good in Mowcop-hill For Buildings Beestones-Castle situated on a steep Hill carried away the credit Erected by Raynulf the third Earl of Chester a beautiful structure levelled to the ground since the late Wars of which Leland Prophesies a Restauration As for Wonders it is said there is a Pool adjoyning to Brereton wherein great Logs of Timber are seen to swim for certain days together before the Death of any Heir of that House but I have heard this contradicted by the Right Honourable Lord Brereton now living who told me that lately some Persons concerned in the Event upon observation of the Critical time could not behold the prodigy and that the time of the motion of those Logs is as uncertain as the Original cause of loosness is Proverbs I. Cheshire chief of Men which Challenge the Men of Cornwall or Kent are ready to Answer But rather than any difference shall arise Wise-men will allow of many Chiefs Indeed the Cestrians have in all their Undertakings demeaned themselves Valiantly King Rich. II in dangerous times sent for 2000 of them to attend him and in time a suspicious Parl. the Number was doubled Pity it was their Valour was once wasted against themselves in the Terrible Battle beteen H. 4. and H. Piercy Sirnamed Hotspur Of which Drayton There Dutton Dutton kills a Done doth kill a Done One side fought for Mortimer who should be King by Right the other for H. 4. who was Actually so The Loyalty of the first side is not so much impeached by the Voice of Fame as it is disproved by Voice of the Law which Supposes Treason may be committed against one that is only a King de facto which Limitation was more Applicable to R. 3. than it
held the Suffragans-Ship under Hen. Beaufort B. of Lincoln He left behind him many Learned Books He flourished under King R. 2. An. 1390. Jo. Skelton See his Character in Norf. Since the Reformation Rich. Crakenthorpe D. D. descended of an Ancient Family bred Fell. in Queens Coll. in Oxf. An. 1. Jac. went over Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent Ambassadour to the King of Denmark Here he attained to a great easiness in the Latine Tongue and kept Correspondency with Persons of Eminent Learning He was an excellent Logician witness his Work in that kind and became Chaplain in Ord. to King Ja. and Rector in Black-Notley in Ess His Posthume Works viz. Vigilius dormitans in defence of Justinian the Emp. and the Answer to the Manifesto of the Arch-bishop of Spalato find an Universal and Grateful Reception Salkeld a Branch of a Worshipful Family bred beyond the Seas either Jesuit or secular Priest Coming over into England to angle for Proselites his Line broke and he was cast in Prison Whence being brought to King Ja. by his Arguments with a Benefice bestowed on him in Som. he became a Protestant He was not a little proud that that King was pleased to Stile him the Learned Salkeld See his true Character in the Book he wrote of Angels He dyed 1638. Gerard Langbain D. D. born at Kirk-Banton bred first Fellow then Provost of Queens Coll. in Oxf. A Skilful Antiquary and ingenious in his Writings In his Works concerning the Dissent of the Gallican Churches from the Council of Trent he makes it appear that the History of that Council is not so compleat as is generally believed He dyed young An. 1657. Benefactors Rob. Eaglesfield Pious and Learned in that Age Chapl. and Confessor to Philippa Queen to King E. 3. founded Queens Coll. in Oxf. for a Provost and 12 Fellows appointing that those of Cumberland and Westm should be proper for Preferment in his Foundation Alledging that those Counties were Desert Places and the Minds of the Inhabitants uncultivated But prevented by Death he only left to this Colledge the Mannor of Renwick in this County with the impropriation of Burgh under Stanmore He ordered that in the Hall they should speak either Latin or French He bequeathed his Colledge to the Honorary Patronage of the Queens of England He dyed about the year 1370. Memorable Persons Maud Daughter of Th. Lord Lucy and Heir of Anth. Lord Lucy and Bar. of Cokermouth the Widow of Gilb. Humphrevile Earl of Angus was the second Wife of Hen. Piercy E. of Northum Who when she saw that she should die without Issue gave to E. Hen. her Husband the Castle and Honour of Cokerworth c. upon Condition that his Issue should bear the Arms of the Lucies viz. G. 3. Lucies or Pikes Hauriant Arg. quartered with their own Arms of the Percies and incorporated into one Coat in effect and for it levyed a fine in the Court of R. 2. This promise the Piercies have bonâ fide performed She dyed about 1382. Noted Sheriffs An. 21. Rob. de Vaus al. de Vaux or de Vallibus a right Ancient Family monarch K. Hen. 2. still extant in this County Beu-Castle Church is thought to have been of their erection This Rob. was Father to Jo. de Vallibus on whose Loyalty and Valour K. Hen. 3. relied The Lord Vaux of Harrowd of Northamton-sh doth hence fetch his Extraction An. 8. Walt Epis. Carliel no great Clerk monarch H. 3. Being made Lord Treasurer of England he avowed his Accounts even when justly charged with 100 pound debt to the Exchequer upon which he resigned his Bishoprick and became a Fryar at Oxf. where he dyed 1248. An. 2. Andr. de Harcla monarch E. 2. behaved himself right handsomely in the Service of King E. 2. especially at the Battle of Borough-bridge where he killed Humph. Bohun Earl of Heref. and took Th. Plantagenet Earl of Lanc. c. Prisoners In reward whereof he was created Earl of Carlile and had the Isle of Man bestowed upon him But he turned Apostate from his Allegiance and lest the Nobility should by secret Sympathy suffer in his disgraceful Death the Earl was first parted from the Man and his Honour severed from his Person by a solemn Degradation having his Knightly Spurs hew'd off which done he was hang'd drawn and quartered 16. Rich. Duke of Glouc. had a Labell for the difference of his Arms monarch E. 4. tho he was but third Son to the King for in his own Ambition he was not only the Eldest but the only Child of his Father as it appeareth by his project not long after to Bastardize both his Brethern And now did he begin to take this County in his way to the Crown by securing it in the time of his Shirivalty in order to his higher Advancement 21. Th. Wharton by H. 8. Created first Lord Wharton of Wharton in Westmerl gave the Scots such a Blow at Solemn Moss that K. Ja. 5. soon after dyed for Sorrow thereof monarch H. 8. The Scots then preferred rather to be taken Prisoners than to fight under their distasted Genera Ol. Saint-clere a Man of Low-birth and Highpride Derbyshire DErbyshire hath Yorkshire on the North Notinghamsh on the East Leic. on the South and Staff and Cheshire on the West The River South Darwent falling into Trent runneth through the middle thereof It is in length 38 Miles and 29 Miles in the broadest part thereof The South and East thereof are very Fruitful whilst the North part called the Peak is Poor above and Rich beneath the Ground Yet is the fair Pasture near Haddon belonging to the Earl of Rutland so Rich that one proferred to surround it with Shillings to purchase it which because to be set Side-ways not Edgeways was refused Of Natural Commodities there is in this County the best Lead in England The Miners as a particular Common-wealth are Governed with Laws peculiar to themselves often confirmed by Act of Parl. Of which Laws one is this 16 E. 1. c. 2. That whosoever Stealeth Oar twice shall be fined and the third time struck through hit Hand with a Knife unto the haft into the Stow and shall there stand untill Death or loose himself by cutting off his Hand As for Buildings there is Chatsworth erected by the Magnificent Lady Eliz. Cavendish Countess of Shrewsbury A Stately Structure upon the Bank of Darwent The Garden on the backside with an Artificial Rock compleateth the place with all Pleasure Of Wonders the Chief is Maim or Mam Tor that is the Mother-Hill from which incredible heaps of Sandy Earth fall yet it is not visibly diminished And Buxtom Well dedicated to St. Anne sending forth both cold and warm Water by which Queen Mary Queen of Scots received much refreshing of which Mr. Hobbs Huc Mater fieri cupiens accedit inanis Plenaque discedit puto nec veniente Marito Where Wives may breed tho desperately Barren Sans Husbands help as Conies in a Warren
Becket And afterwards promoted to the See of Hereford He wrote amongst others a Book of the Sacrament of the Old Law There was also one Hugh Foliot Arch-Deacon of Shrewsbury and Bishop of Hereford Will. Brewer born in this County or in Som. made Bishop of Exeter 1224. was sent to conduct Isabel Sister to King Hen. 3. to be Married to Fred. the Emp. whom he afterwards attended to the Holy-Land In his See he founded a Dean and 24 Prebendaries allowing the latter four Pounds a year He dyed An. 1244. Will. de Ralegh Canon of St. Pauls then successively Bishop of Norwich and Winch. tho King Hen. 3. opposed his Election to the last but the Pope presented by Raleigh with 600 Marks did the Work This great Expence made him run in Debt When the Priest brought the Eucharist to him lying on his Death-Bed he would rise out of his Bed to meet him saying I have need to come to thee and cometh thou to me He dyed An. 2249. Rich. Courtney allied to the Earl of Devonshire A Man of great Learning and skilled in the knowledge of both Laws Was at the instance of King H. 5. preferred Bishop of Norwich An. 1413. being highly favoured by the Prince and beloved of the People He dyed of a Flux at the Siege of Harflew in Normandy in the second year of his Consecration and was buried in Westminster Ja. Cary was at Rome made Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards at Florence of Exeter being then as good a See as Lichfield He dyed at Florence 1419 having enjoyed neither Jo. Stanbury born in the Farm of Church-hill in the Parish of Bratton bred a Carmelite in Oxf. was a Man of great Learning King Hen. 6. made him the first Provost of Eaton being much ruled by him in ordering that his new Foundation Being kept from the Bishoprick of Norwich by Will de la Pool D. of Suffolk he was made Bishop of Bangor An. 1453. and afterwards Bishop Hereford He very Loyally adhered to King H. 6. in all his Adversity and was taken Prisoner in the Battle of Northampton being the Kings Confessor and Consequently tyed to Personal Attendance He dyed An. 1474. and was buried at Ludlow Pet. Courtney Son to Sir Ph. Courtney was born at Powderham He was first Arch-Deacon then Bishop of Exeter where he finished the North-Tower and gave Peter Bell thereunto He was Translated to Winchester An. 1486. Since the Reformation Jo. Jewel born at Buden a Farm possessed above 200 years by his Ancestors Was admitted into Merton-Coll at 15 years of Age and having touched at all Humane Arts he Landed at Divinity He was after his return into England from Germany preferred Bishop of Salisbury Of him may be said Nomen Omen Jewel was his Name and Precious his Vertues V. Eccl. Hist Jo. Prideaux born at Hartford and bred Scholar and Fell. of Exeter-Coll in Oxf. Canon of Christ-Church and above 30 years Professor in that University An excellent Linguist and of a becoming Festivity of so admirable a Memory that he retained what ever he Read The Welsh have a Proverb He that hath a good Memory giveth fâ—w Alms remembring what and to whom he had given before but this Doctor Crossed this Proverb with his constant Charity to all in want His Learning was admired by Forreigners He would forgive the greatest Injury upon the least shew of the Parties Sorrow Episcopacy in England being grievously wounded by Malevolent Persons King Ch. I. conceived that the best Wine and Oyl that could be poured into those Wounds was to select Persons of known Learning unblameable lives to supply the vacant Bishopricks amongst whom Dr. Prideaux was made Bishop of Worcester But alas all in vain such the Fury of the times He dyed 1650. Of whom amongst others these Verses were made Desineâ— mirari caecos errasse tot Ignes In Promptu causa est Lux Prideauxus obit He was Honourably interred at Bredon in Worc. Statesmen Sir Arth. Chichester Knight descended of an Ancient Family dwelling at Rawley spent his Youth first in the University then in the French and Irish Wars where by his Valour he was effectually assistant first to Plough that Barbarous Nation by Conquest and then to Sow it with Seeds of Civility when by King Ja. made Lord Deputy of Ireland where in his first year he Established two new Circuits for Justices of Assize viz. in Connaught and Munster He reduced the Mountains on the South of Dublin into the County of Wicklow So observant his Eye over the Actions of suspected Persons that Tyrone was heard to complain that he could not drinks a full Carouse of Sack but the State was within few Hours Advertised thereof Being made a Lord and called home he was sent Ambassadour to the Emperor When he was besieged in the City of Manichine which he Seasonably Victualled by Count Tilley he sent him word that it was against the Law of Nations to besiege an Ambassadour Tilley returned That he took no notice of that the Lord Chichester replyed to the Messenger Had my Master sent me with as many hundred men as he has sent me on fruitless Messages your General should have known that I had been a Souldier as well as an Ambassadour He dyed An. 162 Capital Judges Sir Will. Herle Knight was made An. 1. of King E. 3. Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench in Hill Term and Chief-Justice of the Com. Pleas Jan. 29. before the end of the said Term. He dyed about 9 of E. 3. He was owner of Illfracombe in this County the Mannor whereof was held by his Issue till the Reign of King Hen. 7. A Family of his Name and I believe of his Linage hath a Worshipful Existence in Cornwall Sir John Cary Knight born at Cockington was made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer An. 10. R. 2. For his Loyalty to his Master he lost his Office Goods and Lands An. 1. H. 4. Yet afterwards King H. 5. restored all his Estate to his Son Sir Rob. Cary upon his vanquishing a certain vain Glorious Champion of Arragon This Judge dyed An. 1404. Sir Will. Hankford born at Amerie was made Chief-Justice of the Kings Bench An. 1. H. 5. which place he adorned with great Learning and Integrity Afterwards being discontented he charged the Keeper of his Deer-Park to shoot any Man he should find there and stood not being spoken unto The next night being dark he presents himself and refusing to stand the Keeper accordlingly Shot him dead This hapned An. 1422. Sir Jo. Fortescue born of a right Ancient Family whose Motto is Forte Scutum salus Ducum was Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of England whose Learned Commentaries on the Law make him Famous to all Posterity Another Sir Jo. Fortescue was Privy Councellor Overseer of Queen Eliz. her Liberal Studies and Chancellour of the Exchequer and Dutchy of Lanc. Sir Hen. Fortescue was a Valiant Commander under H. 5. in the French Wars by whom he was made Governour
recommended by Phil. King of Castile Father to Ch. 5. Emp. to Hen. 7. as a Person of Great Abilities he could see more with his one Eye than many others could do with two King Hen. 8. made him Comptroller of the Houshold and Privy Councellor and An. 1538. erected him Lord Russel and made Keeper of the Privy Seal A good share of the Golden Showre of Abbey-Lands fell into his Lap. King E. 6. who made him Earl of Bedford sent him down to suppress the Western Commotion and relieve Exter which he performed with great Wisdom Valour and Success He dyed 1554 and was buried at Cheineys in Buck. Sir Rich. Bingham born at Bingham's Melcom descended from Will de Bingham who held Lands in this County in the days of H. 3. was at the Siege of St. Quintin in Fr. the sacking of Lieth in Scotland served in Candy under the Venetians against the Turks then returned into the Netherlands His Judgment was much relied upon in 88 about ordering the Land-Army in Tilbery-Camp He was a Man of great Valour and Success in all his Undertakings Being afterwards president of Connaugh in Ireland he drove away O Rork that dangerous Rebel But his Actions there being represented to Queen Eliz. as cruel he was outed of his Offices and kept in Restraint till Tyrone troubled Munster then he was sent Marshal of Ireland and General of Leinster and had in all Probability suppressed that Rebel if he had not been prevented by Death at Dublin His Monument is at Westminster Abbey Sea-men Rich. Clerk of Weymouth Master of the Delight An. 1583. went with Sir Humph. Gilbert for the discovery of Noremberg but his Ship was cast away 70 Leagues from Land The Company got into the Ship-boat having but one Oar and continued there four days without eating any thing save the Weeds they found in the Sea After five Days Rowing a Spanish Ship meeting them brought them to Biscay The Visitors of the Inquisition were diverted by the Masters favour after which Rich. and his Company came by France into England Geo. Summers Knight born in or near Lyme first discovered the Bermuda's nam'd the Summer Islands He was a Lamb on Land and a Lyon at Sea He dyed about 1610. Note that amongst 12 of Th. Cavendishes Men who were killed by the Spaniards at Cape Quinterno four of them belonged to this County viz. Will. Kingman in the Admiral Will. Biet of Weymouth in the Vice-Ad Hen. Blacknals of Weym and Will. Pit of Sherburn in the Hugh-Gallant The Survivours being 15 in Number revenged their Death upon 25 Spaniards and in spite of above a 100 remaining Spaniniards watered at the aforesaid Cope Civilians Sir To. Ryves Dr. of the Laws was born at Little Langton a General Scholar and pure Latinist Witness his Book of Sea-Battles Afterwards he was made the Kings Advocate and indeed he had been formerly Advocate to the King of Heaven in his Book entitled the Vicars Plea a Treatise of much Law Learning Reason and Equity We have good proof of his Valour in the late Wars He dyed about 1652. Benefactors to the Publick since the Reformation Rob. Rogers born at Poole was Leather-Seller in Lond. dying a Batchelor bequeathed 333 l. for building of Alms-houses in Pool 150 l. for Prisoners neither Athists nor Papists 20 Nobles a Man 100 l. for poor Preachers to each Man 10 pound 100 l. to decay'd Artificers charged with Wife and Children 400 l. to the Merchant Adventurers for the relief of old and support of young Free-men 500 l. to Christs-Hospital 600 l. to Erect Alms-houses in and about Lond. 200 l. for a weekly Dole of Bread to the Poor 400 l. to the Leather-Sellers in trust for maintaining of two Scholars in each University c. He dyed An. 1601. and lies buried in Christ-Church in Lond. Memorable Persons Th. de la Lynd Gent. kill'd a White Hart in Blackmore-Forrest which King Hen. 3. had reserved for his own Chase Hereupon he and the whole County for not opposing him was fined and the fine is paid into the Exchequer at this day by the Name of White-Hart-Silver Arth. Gregory of Lyme could force the Seal of a Letter with admirable Art Secr. Walsingham made great use of him about the Pacquets sent to Queen Mary of Scotland for his Service therein had he a Pension paid him He dyed at Lyme about the beginning of the Raign of King Ja. Will. Englebert born at Sherborne was an incomparable Ingineer much used in 88 and had 100 Marks Pension paid him yearly which he proffer'd to wave for a License to serve Forraign Princes but was denied He dyed at Westminster about 1634. Noted Sheriffs 8. Jo. Newburgh monarch H. 5. The Family of the Newburgs derive their Pedigree from a younger Son of H. the first Earl of Warwick of the Norman-line and 't is said they held Winfret with the whole Hundred by the Gift of Hen. 1. by the Service of Chamberlain in Chief of the King and under the Reign of Edw. 1. by Grand-Searjeanty viz. by holding the Laver for the King to wash in upon his Coronation day 4. Egidius Strangways Thomas was the first Advancer of this Family in this County monarch H. 8. whose Heirs built a fair Seat at Milbery Th. More Knight dwelt at Melplash having in a Frolick let loose many Malefactors was glad to procure a Pardon by the Mediation of Will. Pawlet Lord Treasurer afterwards Marq. of Winch. to whose Son Sir Thomas he gave his Daughter in Marriage Durham DVrham a Bishoprick hath Northumb. on the North Yorkshire on the South the Germ. Sea on the East and Cumberl and Westm on the West in form Triangular After the Bishop had been deprived of his Vote in the House of Lords the People for some years had no Representatives in Parliament Princes Cicely Nevil youngest Daughter and Child to Ralph Earl of Westmerland who had 21 was married to Rich. D. of York and beheld her Eldest Son Edward King of England and enriched with a Numerous Postery Yet were her Afflictions great for she saw her Husband kill'd in Battle her second Son Geo. D. of Clarence cruelly Murdred Edward her Eldest Son cut off by his intemperance in his Prime His two Sons Butcherd by their Uncle Richard who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Under all she carried a Steady Soul and lived to see Eliz. her Grand-Child Married to Hen. 7. She lived 35 years a Widow and dyed An. 10 of that King and was buried with her Husband in the Quire Fortheringhay-Church in Northam Which Quire being demolished in the days of King Hen. 8. their Bodies lay in the Church-Yard without any Monument until Queen Eliz. coming thither in Progress gave order that they should be interred in the Church and two Tombs to be Erected over them The Dutchess Cicely had a Pardon from Rome hanging about her Neck plainly Legible She was a bountiful Benefactress to the Queens Coll. in Camb. Saints Venerable Bede
of Richmond He was Knighted made Chanc. of the Dutchy and Created Lord Marny by H. 8. His Daughter and Heir was Married to Th. Howard Visc Bindon 6. Will. Fitz Williams Ar. afterwards Knight bequeathed 100 l. to poor Maids Marriages monarch H. 8. 40 pounds to the University 50 l. to mending of the High-ways betwixt Chigwell and Copers-hall 25. Brian Tuke Knight was Treasurer of the Chamber to H. 8. He lies buried in St. Marg. in Lothbury Lond. Lealand says he was a very Eloquent Man and Bale affirms he wrote Observations on Chaucer c. 3. Sir Jo. Gates monarch E. 6. descended from Sir Geffrey Marshal of Calis and Capt. of the Isle of Wight who dyed An. 1477. is charged with Sacrilege and engaging in the Title of Queen Jane for which he was beheaded An. 1. Ma. 1553. 1. Ralph Rowlet Knight monarch Q. Eliz. Married one of the Daughters of Sir Anth. Cook His Family is extinct his Daughter Marrying into the Honourable Family of the Maynards 12. Ja. Altham Esquire whose Arms were Pally of 6. Erm. and Az. on a Chief G. a Lyon Ramp O. was Ancestor to now living at Mark-hall made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Ch. II. whose Accomplished Civility addeth much to the Honour of his Family Hen. Maynard Knight Father to Will who was bred in St. Jo. Coll. in Camb. where he founded a Logick Professor and Created Bar. of Wicklow in Irel. and Easton in this County monarch K. Ja. whose Son Will. Lord Maynard hath been so Noble an Encourager of my Studies that my Hand deserveth to wither when my Heart passeth him by without a Prayer for his good success 15. Paul Banning Knight and Bar. afterwards Visc Banning of Sudbury left a large Estate now discendible to the Wives of the Marq. of Dorchester Visc Grandison the Lord Dacres of the South and Hen. Murry Esquire of the Bed-Chamber to King Ch. I. Jo. Lucas Esquire equalling his Extraction with his Vertues monarch K. Ch. was at Oxf. made Baron by King Ch. I. The Battles Tho now in this County yet the Siege of Colchester must not be forgotten Know then that the Remnant of the Royalists routed in Kent with much difficulty recovered this County and not being able to march farther or bid Battle to their Numerous Enemies sheltered themselves in Colchester which in few days they fortifyed above imigination tho the Stone outside of the Wall remained ruinous Nor was it General Fairfax they feared so much as General Famine having too much of the best Sauce and too little of the worst meat insomuch that they were forced to make Mutton of those Creatures which kill Sheep and Beef of Cattle which never wore Horns till they were forced to submit to the worst of Conditions Here those two worthy Knights Sir Ch. Lucas and Sir Geo. Lisle the one eminently a whole Troop of Horse the other a Company of Foot were cruelly Sentenced and shot to Death whose Bodies have since had a Civil Resurrection restored to all possible outward honour by Publick Funeral Solemnities Note that An. 1581. in the Hundred of Dengy and An. 1648. in the Hund. of Rochford an Army of Mice shaved off the Grass at the bare Roots which withered to dung was infectious to Cattle The March following numberless Flocks of Owls from all parts flew thither and destroyed them Gloucestershire GLoucestershire hath Worc. Warw. on the North and Wilt. on the East Som. on the South Heref. with the River Wye on the West and is in length 48 miles in the broadest part 28. The Severn runneth through it 'T is said this County was much more fruitful in former times than it is now Tho it affords not the best Tillage yet for Pasturage there is Land near Slimbridge where in the Spring time let it be bit to the Roots as is reported a Wand laid along therein over-night will be covered with new grown Grass by the next Morning Which being represented to King Ja. in other Terms viz. that the Wand could not be seen next morning he replyed I know a place in Scotland where if a Horse be left over Night he cannot be seen in the Morning But the difference is Palpable between long Grass and long Fingers or betwixt the Grass stealing out of the Earth without and a Mans stealing of a Horse with a Felonious intent The Natural Commodities in this County are Tabacco which grew formerly about Winchcomb but is since prohibited by Act of Parliament Oak the best in England is in Dean-Forrest in this County In the Reign of Queen Eliz. the Spaniard sent an Ambassadour over purposely to get Oak destroyed privately in Engl. The next is Steel which was made in abundance by Sir Basil Brooke who had a Patent prohibiting the importation of Forraign Steel but it was afterwards revoked The Manufactures are Cloathing as good as any in England the best Wool growing on Cots-wood-Hills in this County Mustard the best in Engl. at Tewksbury Then Wine formerly growing here witness the places called the Vineyards and in this Shire there were Rent-wines paid in great Proportions Sider a Liquor more proper for the English Climat Of Buildings The Abbey since Cathedral Church of Gloucester is a Beautiful Fabrick consisting of a continued Window-work where if you speak against a Wall softly another shall hear your Voice better a good way off then near hand occasioned probably by some hollow behind the Wall The City is bound by Act of Parl. to maintain and repair this Church As for Civil Structures our late Wars laid a Finger on Barkeley their Arms on Sudeley Castle but their Loynes on Cambden-house one of the newest and neatest in Engl. built by Baptist Hicks Visc Cambden pressed down to the Foundation As for Wonders there are frequently found at Aldersey Oysters Cockles c. of Stone which are Lusus Naturae and cannot in reason be supposed to have been real Fish The Higre that is the confluence of fresh and Salt Water in the Severn which is attended with terrible Flashings and Noise so that that River may seem to be troubled with a Fit of the Mother The last is a kind of devouring Bird coming in the Harvest-time tho seldom into this County which can cut an Apple at one Snap with its long Bill which Rapacious Creature drinks up Hogsheads of Sider at the first hand Proverbs I. As sure as God's in Gloucestershire This probably was superstitiously inferred from the Multitude of Abbeys formerly Extant in this County II. You are a Man of Duresley This is taken for one who breaks his word I hope the Inhabitants of Duresley will resolve to confute this Proverb by their Practice whatsoever was the first occasion thereof III. It is long in coming as Cotswold Barley It is applyed to such things as are slow but sure The Corn on the Wowlds being exposed to the Winds is backward at first but afterwards overtakes the forwardest in this County IV.
born in Verulam was Martyred under Dioclesian An. 303. Note that there grows good Liquoras on the ruinous Walls of that City Popes Nicholas Son to Rob. Breakspear born at Abbots-Langley was Lay-brother in the Abbey of St. Albans He was afterwards Pope of Rome by the Name of Adrian 4. having recommended himself to the Chair by his converting the Norwegians He was Choakt with a Fly 1158. Whose Nephew Boso was made Cardinal 1155. Prelates Richard de Ware al. Warren was made Abbot of Westminster 1260 and afterwards Treasurer of England to E. 1. He made that Pavement at Westminster which is a Master-piece of Art He died 1283. Ralph Baldock wrote a History of England and was made B. of London by E. 1. He gave above 200 l to repair the East part of St. Pauls where upon clearing the Foundation there were a great number of Heads of Oxen found which probably had been sacrificed to Diana He died 1313. Jo. Barnet was made B. of Worc. then translated to Bath and Wells hence to Ely and was Lord Treasurer of England He died 1373. Th. Rudburn was Chancellour of the University of Oxf. 1420. A great Scholar and Mathematician His mildness procured him the Love of persons of Honour He built a Tower over the Gate of Merton Coll. He wrote a Chron. of England and was B. of St. Dav. He flourished 1419. Statesmen Sir Edw. Waterhouse Knight born at Helmsted-bury of an ancient Family since the time of H. 3. His Father was Auditor to H. 8. who foretold that this Edward when but a Child would be the Crown of all his Fathers Children and a Man of great Honour and Wisdom fit for the Service of Princes And accordingly he grew in the Favour of great Persons and Knowledge of the Affairs of State Walt. Devereux E. of Essex lying on his death-Bed said to him Oh my Ned farewell thou art the faithfullest and friendliest Gentleman that ever I knew Sir Jo. Perrot Dep. of Ireland would do nothing in State-Affairs without him He was afterwards in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Knighted then made Privy-Councellor for Ireland and Chancellor of the Exchequer therein Where he was highly instrumental in modelling the Shires as they now are He boldly signed the Instrument wherein the Earl of Desmond was proclaimed Traitor when other Privy-Councellours dreading the Earls greatness durst not do the same He died at Wood-Church 1591. leaving no Issue Henry Cary Visc of Faulkland in Scotland was born at Aldnam A most accomplished Gentleman and compleat Courtier He was made by K. James Dep. of Ireland He married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Bar. of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxf. He died 1620. Souldiers Sir Henry Cary was made by Q. Elizabeth Lord Chamb. Baron of Hunsden He said to his Servants when they had drawn their Swords in his Quarrel against one Mr. Colt You Rogues may not I and my Neighbour change a Blow but you must interpose His custom in Swearing and Obscenity in Speech tho it may induce some of the Modern improvers of such Liberal Arts to Swear He was a fine Gentleman yet it made him seem a worse Christian than he was and a better Knight of the Carpet then he could be He might have been with the Queen whatsoever he would himself but would be no more then what he was preferring enough above a Feast in that Nature He was a Man of great Candour Loyalty and Courage The first Northern Commotion was suppressed by him after which the Queen sent him a Congratulatory Letter in which she highly commended his Wisdom Valour and Fidelity When he lay on his death-Bed the Queen was pleased to give him a Visit and caused a Patent for the Earldom of Wiltshire be drawn up and the Robes to be made and both to be laid upon his Bed But this Lord whose Dissimulation was as his Latine Madam said he seeing you counted me not worthy of this Honour whilst I was living I count my self unworthy of it now I am dying He deceased 1596. and lyeth buried in Westminster-Abbey being the direct Ancestor to the Earls of Dover and Monmouth Physicians Jo. Giles born at St. Albans was Physician to Philip K. of France then D. D. and the first English Dominican Rob. Grosthead B. of Linc. lying on his death-Bed sent for him and expected double comfort from him He died 1253. Writers Alex. Nequam was born in St. Albans to the Abbot of which he wrote for Admission Si vis veniam Sin autem tu autem To whom the Abbot return'd Si vis venias Si Nequam nequaquam One Philip accosts Nequam thus Et niger nequam cum sis cognomine Nequam Nigrior esse potes Nequior esse nequis To whom Nequam rejoyn'd Phi nota faetoris lippus malus omnibus horis Phi malus Lippus totus malus ergò Philippus Yet Nequam was Miraculum ingenii He was Canon of Exeter and lyes buried at Worcester William of Ware was Instructor to Jo. Duns Scotus He flourished under H. 3. 1270. Jo. Mandevile Knight born at St. Albans wrote his own Wonderful Itinerary through Afric c. He was wont to say of that Age Virtue is gone the Church is despised the Clergy doe err the Devil reigns and Simon is his Deputy He died 1370. Nicholas Gorham a Dominican bred in Merton Colledge in Oxford spent his life in France He commented almost on all the Scriptures He died at Paris 1400. Jo. Whethamstead was Abbot of St. Albans in the adorning of which Church he spent above 6000 pounds On the North side of the Church he set up the Statues of those Heathen Philosophers who had testified of the Incarnation of Christ Having written above 80 Treatises he died 1440. Jo. Bourchier Baron Berners of an Honourable Family whose ancient Seat was Tharfield in this County For his good Service in mauling Michael Joseph the Black-smith leader of the Cornish Rebells against K. Henry 7. 1496 he was made Chief Governour of Calis He translated many and wrote some Books He was the second Author the Lord Tiptoft being the first since the decay of Learning He died 1532. 'T is said the Berners Estate is descended to the Knyvets in Norf. Since the Reformation Th. Cartwright of St. Jo. Coll. in Cambridge whence he fled in Q. Maries time was Marg. Professor in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth He was the Champion of the Presbyterian Party He died An. 1603. Arthur Capel Esquire of Hadham was by Charles 1. created Baron 1641. After the surrender of Oxford he retired to his House from whence he went to Colchester His Loyalty to his Master was proof against all Batteries and Sollicitations of his Enemies He was beheaded 1648. Undaunted on the Scaffold Hence one alluding to his Arms a Lyon Ramp in a field G. betwixt 3 Crosses made these following Lines Thus Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a field of blood He wrote a
therefore preferred B. of Lond. 1259. He died 1261 and was buried in his own Cathedral Hen. of Sandwich Arch-Deac of Oxf. was Consecrated B. of Lond. 1263. Ho joyn'd with the Barons against H. 3. for which he was Excommunicated by Othobon the Pope's Legate He danced attendance at Rome almost 7 years before he could procure his Absolution He died 1273. and was buried in St. Pauls Rich. of Graves-End made B. of London An. 1282. first founded a Convent of Carmelits at Malden in Ess He died at Fulham 1303. Sim. Mepham bred in Oxf. was Arch-bish of Cant. in the Reign of E. 3. He sued the Monks of Cant. in the Court of Rome which Suit cost him 700 l. He made a magnificent Visitation of the Diocess South of Thames till he was resisted by Grandison B. of Exeter with whom the Pope sided This broke Mepham's heâ—rt 1333. Haymo of Hithe B. of Roch. An. 12. E. 2. to whom he was Confessor erected the great Hall at his Palace in Halling and erected and endowed the Hosp of St. Barth in Hithe He resigned his Bishoprick before his death which happened 1355. Whose Successor Jo. of Shepey was Treasurer of England and died 1360. Will. Read built and furnished a Library in Mert. coll He was by E. 3. preferred B. of Chich. He erected a Famous Castle at Amberley in Suss He died 1385. Th. Kemp B. of Lond. saw the wars between York and Lanc. begun continued and ended He curiously arched and leaded the Divinity Schools in Oxford and built the Cross nigh the Church of St. Pauls He died 1489. Ja. Goldwell born at Great Chart was Dean of Salisbury Secr. to E. 4 and at last B. of Norwich He repaired the Church of Great Chart and founded a Chappel on the South side thereof He died 1498. Th. Goldwell was by Q. Ma. preferâ—ed B. of St. Dav. and in the Reign of Q. Eliz. he went to Rome where he procured Indulgences to such as should go in Pilgrimage to St Winifrid's Well in his Diocess Since the Reformation Jo. Poynet was an exact Grecian and expert Mathematician He presented H. 8. with a curious Dial shewing with the Hours of the Day the Change of the Moon the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea c. He was made B. of Roch. then of Winch. but was forced to fly into high Germ. An. 1. Ma. Where before he had finished his Book begun against Th. Martin in defence of Ministers Marriage he died 1556. Rich. Fletcher Dean and B. of Peterborough and at last B. of Lond. made a Speech to Q. Mary of Scots before her death He was a Man of Graceful Countenance and therefore favoured by Q. Eliz. tho he fell into her displeasure for entering into a second Marriage and that with a Lady of none of the best reputation He died with Grief 1596. Brian Duppa D. D. the Worthy B. of Winch. was born at Lewsham Statesmen Sir Edward Poynings a Brave Souldier ferreted Perkin Warbeck out of Ireland monarch H. 7. and being a great Politician he passed an Act of Parl. in that Kingdom whereby All the Statutes made in England before that time were made of Force in Ireland and that no Act should be propounded in any Parl. in Ireland till first it be transmitted to England approved there by the King and returned thence under the broad Seal After his Return into Engl. he was created Baron and died in the beginning of H. 8. Sir Anth. St. Leger was properly the first Vice-Roy in Ireland seeing during his Deputy-ship H. 8. An. 33. assumed the Title of King of Ireland To him all the Irish made their Solemn Submission yet they obtained from him some relaxation of the Laws of England He seised all the Abbey-Lands in Ireland for the King's use He made a Law that no Children should be admitted to Church-Livings He Perswaded O Neil and O Brian to come over to England and do Homage to the King and procure the Title of Earls He died in the Reign of E. 6. Sir Hen. Sidney Son to Sir Will. of Penherst was by Q. Eliz. made Knight of the Garter Lord Pres of Wales and Dep. of Ireland where he made Annaly a Shire by the Name of the County of Longford In a Parl. 11 Eliz. he abolished the Usurped Captain-ships c. He caused an Act to pass whereby the Lord Deputy was authorized to accept the surrenders of the Irish Seigniories with power of regranting the same c. He provided that 5 of the best persons of every Sept should bring in all the persons of their surname to be justified by Law A Law was made that there should be a Free-School in every Diocess He vested in the Crown more then half of the Province of Vlster upon the Attainder of Shane O Nale He raised Customs upon the principal Commodities and reformed the Abuses of the Exchequer in that Kingdom He also established the Composition of the Pale in lieu of Purveyance and sesse of Souldiery and caused the Statutes in his own time to be printed He died at Worcester 1586. Having sought the Weal-Public more then his own private Advantage Whose Son Sir Phil. Sidney born at Pensherst Sisters Son to Rob. E. of Leicester bred in Christ-Church in Oxf. was a Gentleman of great Accomplishments and a sweet Nature Being in Election to be K. of Poland he chose rather to be a Subject to Q. Eliz. than a Soveraign beyond the Seas He was so essential to the English Court that it seemed maimed without his Company being a compleat Master of Matter and Language as his Arcadia doth evidence At last leaving the Court he followed the Camp being made Governour of Flushing under the E. of Leic. But the Walls of that City could not confine the Activity of his Mind which must into the Field where before Zutphen he was slain with a Shot in a small Skirmish which we may sadly term a Great-Battel considering our heavy loss therein His Corps being brought over into Engl. was buried in the Quire of St. Pauls Sir Fr. Walsingham Knight originally descended from the Walsinghams in Norf. was bred in K. Coll. in Camb. and gave the K. of Spain's Bible to the Library thereof after he had attained to great Experience by many Years travel beyond the Seas he was made Secretary of State Marvellous his Sagacity in examining suspected persons either to make them confess the Truth or confound them by denying it to their detection Cunning his Hands who could unpick the Cabinets in the Popes Conclave quick his Ears who could hear at London what was whispered at Rome And numerous the Spies and Eyes of this Argus dispersed into all places The Jesuites being out-shot in their own Bow complained that he out-equivocated their Equivocation having a mental Reservation deeper than theirs They tax him for making Heaven bow too much to Earth oftentimes borrowing a point of Conscience with full intent never to pay it again whom others excused by Reasons of State
this Knight wrote a Solid Treatise of the difference between King and Parliament Th. Charnock born in the Isle of Thanet writes of his own Book of the Philosophers Stone For satisfying the Minds of the Students in this Art Then thou art worth as many Books as will lie in a Cart. An. 1555. all his Work carried on in pursuit of that Stone fell on fire and he himself 3 years after was by a Gentleman that owed him a grudge prest a Souldier for the relieving of Calice and this unluckily fell out when he was within a Month of his Reckoning to be delivered by the acquest of that immortal Elixir from Poverty and Contempt those unsupportable Appurtenances of Mortality He saved nothing but the CAPUT MORTUUM and now his own projecting Head is dead Fr. Thinne was a Herauld by the Title of Lancaster about the end of Q. Eliz. afforded great assistance to Holinshed in his Works Rob. Glover born at Ashford was Pursuivant Procullis and then Som. Herauld He attended the E. of Derby when he carried the Garter into France to K. Hen. 3. He began a Catalogue of the English Nobility with their Arms c. He died 1583. and was buried in St Giles Lond. Whose Sister 's Son Th. Miles born at Ashford set forth his Uncles Catalogue of Honour He was Employed from Q. Eliz. to H. 4. K. of France and discharged his Trust with so great Fidelity and incredible celerity that in memory of his Service he had given him for the Crest of his Arms a Chappeau with Wings to denote the Mercuriousness of this Message He died An. 16 Jo. Philpot born at Faulkston was first Pursuivant Extraord by the Title of Blanch Lion then in Ordinary by name of Rouge Dragon and afterwards Somerset Herauld He made Additions to the second Edition of Mr Cambden's Remains and deserved highly well of the City of Lond. proving in a Learned Book that Gentry doth not abate with Apprentiship but only sleepeth during the time of their Indentures and awaketh again when they are expired He contributed to the setting forth the aforesaid Catalogue He died 1645. and was buried in Bennet Pauls-Wharf Th. Playford was chosen Marg. Professor in Camb. 1597. 'T is said Self-conceit a Chronical Disease in others was in him an Acute Distemper that violently seised his intellectuals He died 160â— and lyeth buried in St. Botolphs in Camb. Jo. Bois D. D. descended from Jo. de Bosco who entred England with Will the Conq. was Dean of Cant. Famous to Posterity for his Postils in defence of our Liturgy So pious his Life that his Adversaries were offended that they could not be offended therwith A great Prelate in the Church did bear him no good Will for mutual Animosities betwixt them whilst Gremials in the University the reason perchance that he got no higher Preferment He died about the year 1625. Benefactors to the Publick Sir Jo. Philpot whose Family hath long resided at Vpton Court was bred a Grocer in Lond. whereof he was Mayor 1378. He set forth a Fleet An. 2. R. 2 at his own cost to repress the Insolence of one John Mercer a Scoâ— who was taken with all his Ships arid rich Plunder therein Two years after he conveyed an English Army into Britain in Ships of his own hiring and with his own Money released more then 1000 Arms there which the Souldiers had formerly engaged for their Victuals The Nobility accused him for acting without a Commission Yea Pro tantorum sumptuum praemio vâ—niam vix obtinuit Will. Sevenock born in Sevenock gave 7 Acorns for his Arms which if they grow as fast in the Field of Herauldry as in the Common Field may be presumed to be Oaks at this day He was Grocer in and An. 1419 Lord Mayor of Lond. He founded at Sevenoc a fair Free-School for poor peoples Children and an Alms-house or 20 men and women which at this day is well maintained Since the Reformation Sir Andr. Jud. born at Tunbridge and bred Skinner in Lond. whereof he was Lord Mayor An. 1551. He built an Alms-House nigh Sr Helens in Lond. and a stately Free-School at Tunbridge submitting it to the care of the Company of Skinners who have expended of their own money 4000 l. in maintainance of it c. Will. Lamb Esq a Gent. of the Chappel to K. Hen. 8. was born at Sutton Valens where he erected an Alms-House and a well endowed School An. 1557 he began and within 5 months finished the fair Conduit at Holburn Bridge and carried the water in Pipes of Lead more than 2000 yards at his own cost amounting to 1500 l. The total sum of his several gifts moderately estimated exceed 6000 l He died about 1580. and lyes buried in St Faiths Church under St Pauls Frances Sidney Aunt to the Renowned Sir Philip was born probably at Penherst She bestowed on the Abbey-Church of Westminster a Salary of 20 l. per An. for a Divinity Lecture and Founded Sidney Sussex Coll. in Camb. She was Relict of Tho. Ratcliffe E. of Sussex She died childless An. 1588. Sir Fr. Nethersole Orator of the University of Camb. was preferred to be Ambassadour to the Princes of the Vnion and Secretary to the Lady Eliz. Q. of Bohemia it is hard to say whether he was more remarkable for his doings or sufferings in her behalf He married Lucy eldest Daughter of Sir Hen. Goodyear of Polesworth in Warw. by whose encouragement he hath founded and endowed a very fair School at Polesworth aforesaid and is still living Memorable Persons Simon Linch Gent. born at Groves V. Essex Mary Waters born at Lenham had at her decease lawfully Descended from her 367 Children 16 of her own body 114 Grand-children 228 in the 3 d. Generation and nine in the fourth She died 1620. A Gentlewoman now alive being in extream Agony of Soul held a Venice-glass in her hand and said I am as surely Damned as this glass is broken which she immediately threw with violence to the ground yet was it taken up again sound and entire The Gentlewoman took no comfort thereat but afterwards it pleased God she recovered from her sad condition This she her self told to Th. Morton Bishop of Durham from whose Mouth I have received this Relation In the days of Q. Mary she used to visit the Prisons and comfort and relieve the Confessors therein She was present at the Burning of Mr. Bradford She died 1620. Nicholas Wood born at Halingborne had the Caninus Appetitus and could eat a whole Hog at a sitting at another time 30 dozen of Pigeons He died 1630. An ingenious Yeoman in this County used to Plough two Furrows at once with two Ploughs curiously joyned Noted Sheriffs An. 1. Hubert de Burgo late Lord Lieutenant to K. Jo. and L. Ch. J. of England monarch H. 3. In this Year of his Sherivalty he not only valiantly defended the Castle of Dover against Lewis the French Kings Son but also in a Naval conflict overthrew a
Shotesham bred in King's Colledg in Cambridge then in Trin. Hall being afterwards Chancellor of the University A great Scholar Witness his Learned Dispensative against the Poison of supposed Prophesies dedicated to Sir Fr. Walsingham He lived privately in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth till King James advanced him in Honour and Wealth creating him Baron of Marnehill in Dors Earl of Northampton Lord Privy Seal Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Knight of the Garter He founded and endowed an Hospital for 12 poor Women and a Governour at Rising in this County Another for 12 poor Men and a Governour at Clun in Shrop. another at Greenwich in Kent for a Governour and 20 poor men of which 8 are to be chosen out of Shotesham He died 15 June 1614. and was buried in the ancient Chappel of the Castle of Dover Memorable Persons Sharnborn born at and Lord of Sharnbourn a Mannor in this County which Mannor William the Conquerour conferred on Warren a Norman Souldier Sharborn traversed his Title and being a Norfolk-man durst go to Law with the Conqueror and question the Validity of his Donations Yea he got the better of the Suit and the Kings Grant was adjudged void This is pressed by many to prove that King William tho in name was in deed no Conqueror but came in by Composition to keep the Laws of England Sharborn was lately aliened the Heirs Males being extinct to a worthy Person Fr. Ash Esquire who hath setled it on Emanuel College Noted Sheriffs An. 14. Philip Calthrope a Facetious Gentleman monarch H. 7. when he understood that Jo. Drakes a Shoe-maker had bought some of the same French Tawney that himself had provided for a Gown commanded his Taylor to cut his Gown full of Holes which purged Drakes of his Proud Humour that he wou'd never be of the Gentlemans Fashion again An. 29. Edm. Windham whose Grandmother was Daughter to Jo. Howard D. of Norf. struck Mr. Clere monarch H. 8. a Gentleman of his own Country in the Kings Tennis Court For this he was arraigned in the great Hall at Greenwich and had Judgment to lose his right-hand He desired that the King of Mercy would be pleased to take his left-hand and spare his right for therewith said he I may be hereafter able to do his Grace Service The King being informed hereof granted his full Pardon He made his promise good to E 6. by whom he was Knighted endeavouring to suppress Kets Rebellion in this County till at last it proved a Task above his Strength to perform Th. Woodhouse Mil. descended from Honourable Ancestors monarch Q. Mary many of whom were employed in State Affairs viz. Rob. Treasurer was summoned to Parliament by E. 3 Jo. was Servant and Executor to Hen. 5. Sir Will. was Vice Ad. of the English Fleet in Masleborough Field Philip active at the taking of Cadiz and Knighted there by the Earl of Essex And ever since there hath been a Military inclination in this Family which hath manifested it self on several occasions An. 18. Drugo Drury Arm. afterwards Knighted monarch Q. Eliz. was joyned in Commission with Sir Amias Paulet to keep Ma. Q. of Scots Both were nicknamed Puritans by the ill-natur'd Roman Catholicks An. 5. Roger Townsend Baronet a Religious Gentleman expending his Soul in Piety and Charity monarch K. Charles a Lover of God his Service aâ—d Servants restored Impropriations to the Churâ—h to some Hundreds per An. He married Mary Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere of Tilbury by whom he had Sir Horace created Baon at the Coronation of K. Ch. II. Norwich NOrwich is a Pleasant and Populous City the first with the Inhabitation of Trees the latter with the Plantation of People The pleasantness of the City was not a little advanced by the Dutchmen who first garnished it with curious Flowers As for Manufactures Stuffs were first brought hither by the Dutch who were expelled their Country by the Cruelty of the D. of Alva Of these Stuffs there was one formerly called Stand-far-off which discovered its coursness when near to the Eye another called Perpetuano from the lasting thereof Satinisco Bombicino Italiano c. Norwich hath beaten Sudbury out of distance in the Race of trading Of the Buildings the Cathedral is spacious tho the Roof in the Cioysters be most commended Amongst private Houses the D. of Norfolk's Palace is the greatest I ever saw in any City out of London Here is a covered Bowling-Alley The Bishops Palace formerly a fair Structure was lately unleaded and new covered with Tyle Whereon a Wagg Thus Palaces are altered we saw John Leyden now Wat Tyler next Jack Straw Physicians Jo. Goslin Master of Caius Colledge in Camb. Proctor of the University and twice Vice-Chancellour thereof a greet Scholar and Reg. Prof. of Physick was strict in pressing the Statutes of the University and it being then highly penal for a Scholar to wear Boots in the University there was a Student undertook for a Wager to address himself booted to the Vice-Chancellor craving his advice for a Numness in his Leggs the Vice-Chancellor prescribed him a Receit and dismissed him very civilly This Youth a cunning Gibeonite covering at the same Instant his Leggs with his Boots and his Boots with his Leggs escaped the punishment that was due in that case Dr. Goslin was a Worthy Benefactor to Kath. Hall bestowing thereon the fair Bull-Inn of considerable value He died 1625. Jo. Caius Fellow in Gonvil-Hall in Camb. travelled into Italy and wrote several Trea. there After his Return he was Physician to Q. Mary and improved Gonvil-Hall into a College He wrote an Excellent Book of the Antiquity of Cambridge and another De Canibus His Epitaph is FUI CAIUS Since the Reformation Rob. Watson was Skilled in the Laws and Steward of the House to Arch-Bishop Cranmer Having frequently disputed with Papists during his Imprisonment for Religion he wrote after his enlargement an Elegant Latin Treatise wherein he relateth the Accidents of his Life Benefactors to the Publick Will. Baitman bred in Cambridge Arch-Deacon then B. of Norwich in the Reign of E. 3. enjoyned Penance to Rob. Lord Morley for stealing of his Deer and made him perform the same in the Cathedral of Norwich notwithstanding the Kings threatning Letters to the contrary He erected Trinity-Hall Colledge in Cambridge for the Study of the Canon and Civil Laws He removed Gonvil-Hall to a more convenient place building and setling the Revenues thereof according to the Will of the Founder King Ed. 3. resolving to follow his Title to the Crown of France sent this Bishop to the Pope to acquaint him with his Intentions In which Embassy he died at Avignon 1354. Since the Reformation Th. Legg Master of Gonvil-Hall in Cambridge was Doctor of Law and Arches one of the Masters in the Chancery twice Vice-Chancellor of the University He was well skilled in Antiquity He wrote a Tragedy of the Destruction of Jerus which was filched from him by a Plagiary
before it was acted In the acting of a Tragedy he had formerly written of R. 3. Jo. Palmer afterward Dean of Peterborough who personated K. Rich. therein had his head so possessed with a Prince-like Humor that ever after he did what he then acted in his prâ—digal Expences Dr. Legg bequeathed 600 l. for the building of the East-Part of his College He died An. 1607. Northamptonshire NOrthampton-shire a long narrow Inland County stretched from the N. E. to S. W. bordereth on 9 several Counties viz. on the E. Camb. Hunt on the W. Warwick-shire on the N. Linc. Rutl. and Leic. on the S. Bedford Buckingham and Oxford It is a fruitful and populous County as any in England Here there is very little Wast Ground so that this Shire is an Apple without Core or Rind All the Rivers therein are bred there which argues the elevation of the Ground The Language of the Inhabitants is very proper There is a Heath in this County nigh to Stamford which hath variety of very rare Plants growing upon it The Natural Commodities besides Grass Corn c. are Salt-Peter most whereof is found in Dove-Houses and most Dove-houses in this great Corn-County Then Pigeons in Hebrew Jonah which comes from a Root which signifies to spoil and destroy They are thought to be the Causers of Dearth and are indeed devouring Innocents This Shire needs no Manufactures yet the Town of Northampton may be said to stand chiefly on other Mens Leggs where if not the best the most and cheapest Boots and Stockins are bought in England Upon Trial of the Cloth Manufacture in this County their Cloth ran very course tho their Wool be fine Among Buildings the Cathedral of St. Peter challengeth the precedency of all in England for a Majestick Western Front of Columel-work The Cloysters of this Cathedral were lately pulled down to repair the Body thereof As for civil Structures Holdenby-House built by Sir Christopher Hatton once a stately Structure is now demolished Next Burleigh-House nigh Stamford built by W. Lord Cecil is a House of great State and Magnificence Withorpe built by Th. Cecil E. of Exeter to retire to as he pleasantly said out of the Dust whilst his great House of Burleigh was a sweeping Castle-Ashbey the Noble Mansion of the E. of Northampton was most beautiful before a casual Fire deformed part thereof Besides these there be many others no County in England yielding more Noblemen no Noblemen in England having fairer Habitations The Wonder of this Shire is that within the Demesnes of Baughton the Barony of the Right Honorable Edward Lord Montague there is a Spring which is conceived to turn Wood into Stone As for Medicinal Waters Wellinborough-Well was very famous in the daies of Queen Mary who lay many weeks thereat Proverbs I. The Mayor of Northampton opens Oysters with his Dagger This Town being 80 miles from the Sa Sea-Fish may be presumed stale therein II. He that must eat a buttered Faggot let him go to Northampton Because it is the dearest Town in England for fuel Princes Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Richard Woodvill by the Lady Jaquet his Wife formerly the Relict of Jo. D. of Bedford was born at Grafton-Honour She was Widow to Sir Jo. Grey who lost his life for the House of Lancaster and petitioned King Edward to take off the sequestration from her Joynture She afterwards became the Royal consort of that King tho it was not long before the Tempest of his lust drove him to another Shore which had a greater share in his Affections This Lady lived to see the Death of her Husband Murder of her 2 Sons and the rest of her Children and tho her Daugh. was afterwards married to H. 7. that King was not over dutiful to her nor over-loving to her Daughter She died An. 14 She finished Queens College in Cambridge where I had my first breeding begun by Queen Marg. Wife to Henry 6 an implacable Enemy to her Husband so that the 2 Houses of York and Lancaster had their first Amity in that Foundation Rich. Plantagenet Crook-back Son to Rich. D. of York was born at Fothinghay Castle Valour and Eloquence met in his Person He compassed the Crown by Cruelty and the Killing of his Nephews the 2 Sons of Edward 4. When King he made good Laws He lost the Crown and his life in the Battle of Bosworth An. 1435. having performed in the Fight all the Offices of a Wise General and Valiant Souldier He knew it was all one for him to die as to survive success Kath. D. to Sir Th. Par and last Wife to Henry 8. was probably born in this County See Westmerland Saints Werburgh D. to Wolpher Prince of Merica was a Nun at Ely whence returning to Wedon formerly her Father's Palace she turn'd that place into a Monastery She had also Juridiction over the Monastery of Trekinghan in Linc. where she was buried the Gates of which place are fabulously reported to have open'd of themselves when the Men of Hamburge which was also within her Jurisdiction came for her Corps to bury it according to the direction given in her Will. 'T was presumed that Werburgh al. Wardburgh would prove a Tutelary Patroness of the Town or place which possessed her body Some have reported that she hath driven awry all Geese from Weden that they shall destroy no Grain thereabout She died An. 675. her body was afterward translated to Chester where H. Lupus built the Monastery of St. Werburghs converted into a Cathedral by Henry 8. Martyrs Jo. Curd a Shoemaker burnt in Northampton An. 1557. whose Blood was not chargeable on the Bishop but his bloody Arch-Deacons account Cardinal Henry Chichley born at Higham-Ferrers is said to have been made Cardinal by the Title of St. Eusebius Prelates Rich. and Adam of Northampton were both Bishops in Ireland the former Consecrated Bishop of Fernose 1282. died 1304. The later Consecrated 1322. died 1346. having first seen his Cathedral burnt by the Rebels W. le Zouch Son to Lord Zouch was born at Haringwort from Dean he became Arch-Bishop of York to whose care Edward 3. going into France committed the care of the North. This Arch-Bishop soon after bid Battle to David King of Scots at Durham on St. Luke's Eve whereon the Scotch King found such a Fast that he had little list to feast the day following being routed and taken Prisoner Hence a Poet of that Age Est Pater invictus sicco de Stipite dictus Zouch in French signifying the dry stump of a stick However his Family flourished as a Green-tree till withered in our memory when Edward the last Lord Zouch died without Issue male in the beg of King Charles This Prelate began a beautiful Chappel on the South-side of his Cathedrial He died and was buried before the Altar of St. Edmond 1352. Rob. Braybrooke was made Bishop of London 1381. and afterward Chancellour of England He died 1404. and was buried in the Chappel of St. Mary Lionell
of Stamford was descended from the ancient Family of the Browns of Toll-Thorp in this County He built the beautiful Steeple with a great Part of the Church in Stamford where he lyeth buried He erected An. 1493. the Old Bead-house in that Town to which he gave the Mannor of Swayfeld worth 400 l. per An. c. Since the Reformation Jo. Harington Senior son to Sir Ja. was born at Exton the residence of that ancient Family He divided his eminent Hospitality betwixt Rutland and Warwick-shire He was a grand benefactor to Sidney-College King Ja. created him Baron of Exton his Lady was Governess to Princess Elizabeth whom this Lord afterwards attended when she went over to be married to Frederick Prince Palatine after which he died at Wormes in Germany 1613. The Lord Jo. his Son did not survive him a year both of them signally eminent the one a Pattern for all good Fathers the other for all gracious Sons Thus the Male issue of that Honorable Family expired Memorable Persons Jeffrey born in Okeham never arrived at a full ell in stature tho his Father was a proper man and was presented to the Dutchess of Buckingham as a very great Rarity being then but a foot and a half in height and a very well proportioned dwarf about 9 years of Age. The Dutchess raised him to a considerable degree of Eminency when after many special marks of her Favour she caused him to be presented in a cold baked pye to King Charles and Queen Mary at an Entertainment Hence living at Court he grew so high that he lookt not down upon his Father until by a sound correction at the Kings command his Mind was reduced into somewhat nearer proportion with his Body He was a Captain in the Army in the late civil Wars and afterwards went over to wait on the Queen in France He shot one Mr. Crofts who had prvoked and accounted him the object rather of his contempt than Anger whereupon he was imprisoned And so I take my leave of Jeffery the least Man of the least County in England Noted Sheriffs An. 16. Christopher Brown Arm. came with King Henry 7. monarch Q. Eliz. and assisted him against King Richard 3. for which good Service King Henry 8. by Letters Patents Granted to Francis Brown Son of this Sheriff That he should not be impanelled on any Jury nor serve in Office of Sheriff or Escheator in any County and also that he should be covered in the Kings presence Tolethorpe the chief place of residence at this day of Christopher Brown Esq who bore the Office of Sheriff in this County 1647 was by Deed conveyed to Jo. Brown by Th. Burton Knight An. 15. Edward 3. There was Brown Lord Mayor of London 1479. the Son of Jo. Brown of Oakham Shrop-shire SHrop-shire hath Cheshire on the North. Stafford-shire on the East Worcester Hereford and Radnor-shire on the South Montgomery and Denby-shire on the West It is in length 34 and in breadth 26 miles A large and lovely County generally fair and fruitful plentifully producing all things necessary for mans sustenance but chiefly abounding with Iron and Coale at Mendip Bedworth c. As for Manufactures the County has none her Original but is supplied with Welsh-Freeses brought to Oswastre the Staple of that commodity For Buildings Shrop-shire may seem on the West divided from Wales with a Wall of continued Castles Mr. Speed who alloweth 186 Castles in England accounteth 32 in this County which having been formerly serviceable whilst Shrop-shire was the Verge of English Dominions are now neglected this Shire being almost in the midst of England since Wales was annexed thereunto Of the Houses of the Gentry many are Fair and handsome none amount to an extraordinary Eminency In this Shire there is a Spring at Pitchford which hath an oyly matter upon the Water thereof which being Bituminous is a great comfort to the Nerves Proverbs I. He that fetcheth a Wife from Shrewsbury must carry her into Stafford-shire or else must live in Cumberland That is a Shrew must be beaten with a Staff c. II. The Case is altered quoth Plowden 'T is said that Plowden a great Lawyer of this County being of the Romish Perswasion some Setters trapanned him pardon the Prolepsis to hear Mass but afterwards Plowden understanding that the Pretender to Officiate was no Priest but a Lay-man on design to make a Discovery O! the Case is altered quoth Plowden No Priest no Mass Princes Richard Plantagenet Second Son to King Ed. 4. and Eliz. his Queen was born at Shrewsbury 1472. He was created Duke of York and affianced to Anne Daughter and Heir to Jo. Mowbray D. of Norfolk but before the Nuptials were Solemnized his cruel Uncle the Duke of Glocester married him to a Grave in the Tower of London The obscurity of his Burial gave the advantage to the report that he lived in Perkin Warbeck one of the Idols which put Henry 7. to some Danger and more Trouble before he could finally suppress him Geo. Plantag Youngest Son to E. 4. and Eliz. his Queen was born at Shrewsbury and lived but a very short time being like Plautus his Solstitial Flower Qui repentinò ortus repentinò occidit Saints St. Milburgh Daughter to Meroaldus Prince of Mercia gave the fair Mannor of Wenlock in this County which was assigned to her for his Portion to the Poor and living a Virgin she built a Monastery in the same place answering her Name which being interpreted is Good to Burgh or Town She died about 664. Some 400 years after in the Reign of W. the Conqueror her Corps discovered by Miracles wrought thereby is said to have been taken up sound and uncorrupted St. Oswald King of Northumberland was slain by Penda the Pagan King of the Mercians at a place called after his name Oswaldstre in this County 635. He had been always Pious and exceeding charitable to the Poor His Arm cut off it seems from the rest of his Body remained said Bede whole and incorrupted kept in a Silver Case in St. Pet. Church at Bamborough whilst his Corps was first buried at Peterborough and afterwards in the Danish Persecution translated to Bergen in Flanders where it still remaineth The 5 th of August in our Calender was consecrated to his Memory save that the Thanksgiving for Gowrie's Conspiracy made bold to justle him out all the Reign of King James Confessors Th. Gataker a Branch of an ancient Family at Gataker-Hall in this County from the time of King Edward the Confessor was bred in the Temple and afterwards present at the Examination of persecuted People in the Reign of Queen Mary Their hard usage made him pity their persons and admirable Patience to approve their Opinions His Parents perceiving his inclination used all possible means to divert the same by sending him beyond the Seas and providing liberally for him then these proving ineffectual by recalling his Person and reducing his Allowance all which would
that Usurper in that House of Humphrey Banaster who for 1000 l. betrayed the Duke to the Sheriff 3. Gilb. Talbot Mil. Son to Jo. 2 d. Earl of Shrewsbury of that name assisted Hen. of Richmond afterwards K. Hen. 7. with 2000 men well appointed most of them Tennants and Retainers to his Nephew Geo. E. of Shrewsbury at the Battle of Bosworth-Field For his good Service K. Hen. rewarded him with fair Lands at Grafton in Worc. made him Governour of Calis in France and Knight of the Garter and from him the present E. of Shrewsbury is descended I conceive it was his Son to whom K. Hen. 8. fearing a surprise wrote briefly and peremptorily that he should instantly fortifie the Castle of Calis To whom Governor Talbot as briefly replied That he could neither fortifie nor fiftifie without Money An. 45. Roger Owen Mil. was a Worthy Son to a Worthy Father Sir Th. Chief J. of the Com. Pleas. monarch Q Eliz. He was a Member of Parl. 11 Jac. when a great Man there cast a grievous and general Aspersion on an English Clergy using this Expression Quo genere hominum nihil est putidius This Sir Rog. appeared a Zelot in their defence and not only removed the Bastard calumny from their dores but also carried the Falshood home to the true Father and urged it shrewdly against the Person who in that place first revived the Aspersion An. 14. Rowl Cotton Mil. was a valiant and active Gent. so strong as if he had been nothing but Bones monarch K. James so nimble as if he had been nothing but Sinews An. 2. Rich. Newport Mil being Faithful to the King in his lowest Condition monarch K. Ch. I. was rewarded with the Title of Baron of High-Arcâ—l in this County 1642. His Son Fr. Lord Newport adorneth his Honour with Learning and other natural Accomplishments Note This County was visited with the Sweating Sickness which first began and twice raged in the Town of Shrewsbury the Cure was found to be the keeping the Patient in the same posture wherein he was seised without Food or Physick and such who weathered out the Disease for 24 hours did certainly escape SOMMERSET-SHIRE SOmmerset-shire hath the Severn Sea on the North Glocester-shire on the North East Wilt-shire on the East Dorset-shire on the South and Devonshire on the West It is named from Sommerton the most ancient Town in the County It reacheth from East to West 55 and from North to South 42 Miles It is generally Fruitful 'T is said there are several single Acres in this Shire which may serve a good round Family with Bread for a Year as affording a Bushel of Wheat for every Week therein There is plenty of the best Lead for Shot digged out of Myndyp-Hills by the benefit whereof vast sums of Money were advanced to the Bishops of Bath and Wells since the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Bishop Still having had the Harvest Bishop Montague the Gleanings and Bishop Lake the Stubble thereof and yet considerable was the profit of Lead to him and his Successors In Myndip-Hills there is also found plenty of Lapis Calaminaris good for clearing of the sight which mixed with Copper doth make Brass and yet is not worth above six pence in the pound It was discovered about the time when Copper-Mines were re-discovered in Cumberland The best and biggest Cheese in England are made at Chedder in this County The Rich and Poor of a Parish joyn their Milk for the making of Corporation Cheeses of which the Proprietors are Tennants in Common Woad groweth naturally in this County especially about Glassenbury The use thereof was either ancient among the Britains for a black wash to render their Faces terrible to their Enemies or modern as a ground-colour for dying It greatly impaireth the ground it groweth on The Gentry and Commonalty of thiâ— County are much affected with Bull-baiting for which purpose there are very good Mastiffs though chiefly useful for necessary defence as being good Porters Note Prince Henry An. 1602. allowd a pension for the maintenance of a Mastiff which had worsted a Lyon and gave Order That he that had fought with the King of Beasts should never after encounter any inferiour Creatures When 100 Mastiffs were sent from England to the Pope a Cardinal hearing the Letter read mistook the Latin Molossos for so many Mules yet since that word does almost sound Mule-asses you may imagine the Cardinal had neither good Latiâ—â— nor English in not laying his Bull equally on both the kinds of these Beasts of burden The Manufactures here are Taunton Serges which were much sent into Spain before the Civil War As for Buildings the Churches of Bath and Wells are most eminent and constitute one See The Church of Bath was begun by Oliver King Bishop of this Diocess in the Reign of Hen. 7. and the West end most curiously Cut and Carved with Angels on Jacob's Ladder After his decease it stood a long time neglected whence these Verses were written on the Church-wall with a Charcoal O Church I wail thy woful plight Whom King nor Cardinal Clark or Knight Have yet restored to ancient right Alluding to the aforesaid Bishop King and his 4 Successors in 35 years viz. Card. Woolsey Card. Adrian Bishop Clark and Bishop Knight It felt the Hammers which knocked down the Abbeys The Townsmen were not willing to buy the Church so cheap as 500 Marks as it was proffered by the Commissioners fearing to be thought to couzen the King so that the purchase might come under the compass of concealed Lands Hereupon the Glass Iron Bells and Lead which last amounted to 480 Tun provided for the finishing thereof were sold and sent beyond the Sea and as some say lost by shipwrack In the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Collections were made all over the Land for the repairing thereof though they proved inconsiderable Only Mr. Billet who was I think Executor to W. Cecil Lord Burleigh disbursed good sums to that end A Stranger wrote on this Structure Be blith fair Kirck when Hempe is past Thine Olive that all winds did blast Shall flourish green for Age to last The parcel Popish Author who subscribed himself Cassadore expected the finishing of this Church at the return of their Religion and lookt for this after the Reigns of Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mary K. Philip and Q. Eliz. This Church was finished by James Montague Bishop of this See who removed the Lead from the Bowels of the Earth to the Roof of the Church which is both spacious and specious the most lightsome as ever I beheld The parable of Jotham the name of the first Founder Judg. 9.8 is most curiously wrought in this Church When Oliver the Usurper was Commander in chief in this Land some beheld him as the Olive mentioned in the Parable till he was once blasted Root and Branches The Cathedral of Wells is greater and darker then the other so that Bath may seem to draw
a Cistertian in Ford Abbey and bred in Oxford was Abbot of Wells Some Books he Dedicated to Reginald Bishop of Bath and flourished 1193. Alexander of Essebie the Prince of English Poets in his Age put our English Festivals into Verse and wrote the History of the Bible with the Lives of some Saints in an Heroick Poem He became Prior of Esseby-Abbey and flourished under Hen. 3. 1220. Adam of Marsh born probably at Brent-marsh was D. D. in Oxford Robert Grosthead and he joyntly compared the Scripture being afterwards Franciscan Frier in Worcester he furnished the Library thereof with excellent Manuscripts He flourished 1257. Hugo de Belsham his Corrival got the Bishoprick of Ely from him Since the Reformation H. Cuffe born at St. George Hinton was Fellow of Merton-Colledge in Oxford and Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom he engaged in his Rising an 1600. being Arraigned at Westminster he was cast 〈◊〉 being proved against him that whilst Essex was in Consultation with his Complices this Cuffe had for promoting that Plot alleadged this Verse out of Lucan Viribus utendum est quas fecimus Arma ferenti Omnia dat qui justa negat For which he suffered He wrote an excellent Book of the difference of the Ages of Man Jo. Harrington Knight had a fair Estate at Kelston near Bath was Master of St. John's Colledge and afterwards one of the most ingenious Poets of the English Nation witness his Translation of Orlando Furioso out of Italian c. Being at an Ordinary in Bath with some Gentlemen of greater Estates than himself the Maid that waited at Table attended him with a particular observance and being demanded the reason I understand said she you are a very witty man and if I should displease you in any thing I fear you would make an Epigram of me He made an Addition to Bishop Godwins Catalogue of Bishops He left a fair Estate to a Learned and Religious Son and dyed about the middle of the Reign of K. James His Father suffered Imprisonment and lost One Thousand Pound for carrying a Letter to the Lady afterward Queen Eliz. from whom his Mother was sequestred as an Heretick and all by Gardiner's means Samuel Daniel born near Taunton was an exquisite Poet and a Judicious Historian witness his Lives of the English Kings since the Conqueror untill Edw. 3. He was servant in Ordinary to Q. Anne In his old Age he rented a Farm in VVilt-shire and dyed about the end of K. James Humphrey Sidenham born at Dalverton of an Ancient and Worshipful Family was bred a Fellow in Wadham Colledge So eminent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongued Sidenham He wrote learned Sermons of which that called the Athenian Babler was most remarkable He dyed 1650. Romish Exile Writers Jo. Gibbon leaving the Land was by Pope Greg. 13. made Canon in the Church of Bonn he was afterwards Rector of the Jesuits-Colledge in Triers He wrote a Book in which he endeavoured to prove that the Pope was not Antichrist He dyed 1589. Rob. Person bred in Oxford whence he was expelled for his Viciousness went to Rome whence he returned with Campian to preserve this Nation 1589. Some of his own party offended with his ill-nature intended to resign him to the Queens Officers He was Satyrical and so much of a Politician as to provide for his own saftety who would look on direct give ground abet on other Mens hands but never plaid so as to adventure himself into England He wrote a shrewd Book of the Succession to the English Crown setting it forth under the Name of Dolman He had an Authoritative influence on all the English Catholicks He was 23 years Rector of the Colledge at Rome where he dyed 1610. Jo. Fen born at Montacute and Batchelour of the Laws in Oxford fled into Flanders thence into Italy whence returning he fixed at Lovain He wrote many and Translated more books and dyed 1613. Note there lived a rigid Non-Conformist of his Sirname about Coventry who in his latter Will and Testament rail'd against the Hierarchy Jo. Collington bred in Oxford was taken with Campian and Condemned but being Reprieved after some Travel he advanced his Religion in England for 30 years together He was alive 161◠Benefactors to the Publick The Lady Mohun obtained from her Husband Jo. Lord Mohun of Dunstor so much ground for the Commons of the Town of Dunstor as she could in one day compass about going on her naked Feet She dyed as is conjectured in the Reign of Hen. 5. Since the Reformation Nich. Wadham of Merrifieild Esq having great length in his Extraction breadth in his Estate and depth in his Liberality Marryed Dorothy Daughter to the Secretary Sister to the first Lord Peters His Hospital house was an Inn at all times a Court at Christmas This worthy Pair being Issuless Erected the Colledge of VVadham in Oxford His Estate after his Death descended to Strangwayes Windham VVhite c. He was buried in the Church of Ilminster Phil. Biss of a worthy Family at Spargrave Commenced D. D. in Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford and was Arch-Deacon of Taunton He bequeathed his Library consisting of so many Folio's as were valued at One Thousand Pound to VVadham-Colledge then newly Founded One Epitaph made on him begins Bis fuit hic natus c. in allusion to his Name He dyed about 1614. Memorable Persons Sir Jo. Champneis born at Chew bred Skinner in London and Lord Mayor thereof 1535. was the first private Man who in his house next Cloth-VVorkers-Hall built a Turret to oversee his Neighbours in the City which delight in his Eye was punished with blindness some years before his Death Tho. Coriat born at Odcombe and bred in Oxford A great Grecian carried Folly which the Charitable call Merriment in his Face and had a Head in form like an inverted Sugar-loaf He lay alwayes in his Cloaths to save both labour and charge in shifting Prince Henry allowed him a Pension and kept him for his Servant Sweet-meats and Coriat made up the last course at all Entertainments being the Courtiers Anvil to try their Wits upon sometimes he returned the Hammers as hard knocks as he received His Book called Coriat's Crudities is not altogether useless Being hardy he undertook to travel on foot to the East-Indies and dyed in the midst of his Journey Noted Sheriffs An. 14. Jo. Paulet Arm. an Accomplisht Gentleman monarch K. James and bountiful House-keeper was by King Charles I. Created Baron Paulet of Hinton St. George in this County whose Right Honourable Son and Heir Jo. Lord Paulet now succeedeth in that Barony Modern Battles The Skirmish at Martials-Elm 1642. made much noise in Mens Ears a Musket gave a greater report then a Canon since and is conceived to have first broken the Peace of the Nation As for the Encounter at Lang-Port where the Kings Forces under the Lord Goring were defeated July 12 1645 it was rather a Flight than
delinquency in our Civil Wars STAFFORD-SHIRE STafford-shire hath Cheshire on the North-West Darby-shire on the East and North-East Warwick-shire and Worcester-shire on the South and Shrop-shire on the West It lyeth from North to South in form of a Lozenge in length 40 and in breadth 26 Miles A most pleasant and fruitful County wherein Beau-desert is the beautiful Barony of the Lord Paget The best Alabaster in England is found about Castle-Hay in this County The great Manufacture here is Nails As for Buildings the neat Church of Lichfield was ruined in the Civil Wars 'T is said of the Close of Lichfield that the Plague which long had raged therein did abate at the first shooting of a Cannon at the siege thereof Of Civil Buildings Tutbury-Castle is a stately Structure affording a large and brave Prospect It was formerly the Seat of the Lord Ferrars Earl of Derby and was forfeited to Hen. 3. by Robert de Ferrars Earl of Darby who had sided with Simon Mumford against that King because he did not advance a Fine of 5000 pounds at the time appointed The English Clergy willing to relieve Jo. the Son of this Earl Robert were commanded to the contrary under the paâ—n of the Popes Curse Tutbury was annexed to the Dutchy of Lancaster and some small matter was restored to John Dudley Castle high and pleasantly seated and in the Reign of King Edw. 6. well built was adorned by John Dudley Duke of Northumberland who claiming the Title thereof had thrust out John Sutton Lord Dudley a weak man and entangled with Debts who therefore got the Name of Lord Quondam But after the Execution of that Duke Queen Mary restored Edward the Son of the aforesaid poor Lord. Proverbs I. In April Doves Flood is worth a Kings good Dove is a River parting this and Derby-shire much batling the Meadows thereof II. Wotton under Weaver where God came never Though it is probable that Wotton is a dismal place covered with Hills from the light of the Sun yet this Proverb set off with such a dark ground does the more plainly discover its own profane Complexion Saints There was a Grand Massacre committed by the Pagans under Dioclesian on the Christians in Britain and elsewhere particularly in the place where Lichfield now standeth whose names and numbers are utterly unknown St. Bertelin a Brittan of Noble Birth lived an Eremite in the Woods near Stafford anciently called Bithiney Wolfadus and Ruffinus loving in their Lives in their Death they were not divided They were Murdered by their Bloody Father the Pagan King of Mercia There is the Chappel of Burnweston built in a Woody place whither Ruffinus had fled for a while from his Fathers fury Cardinals Reginald Pole born at Stoverton-Castle 1500 was second Son to Sir Richard Knight of the Garter and nearly related to King Henry 7. His Mother Margaret Countess of Salisbury was Neice to King Edw. 4. and Daughter to George Duke of Clarence He was bred in Corpus-Christi Colledge in Oxford preferred afterwards Dean of Exeter King Henry 8. allowing him a Pension sent him beyond the Seas He studied at Padua conversed much with the Patricians of Venice and in fine became a perfect Italian and could not be prevailed upon by the King or his Friends to return to England whereupon his Pension was withdrawn Living afterwards in a Venetian Monastery he attain'd great Credit for his Eloquence Learning and good Life It was not long before he was made Deacon Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary in Cosmedin by Pope Paul 3. who sent him Ambassadour to the Emperour and the French King to incite them to War against K. Hen. 8. Afterwards he retired to Viterbo in Italy where his House was the Sanctuary of Lutherans and he himself became a Racking but no through paced Protestant Insomuch that being appointed one of the three Presidents of the Council of Trent he endeavoured to have Justification determined by Faith alone During his living at Viterbo he was taxed for begetting a Bastard which Pasquil Published in Verses affixed to his Pillar That Blade being made all of Tongue and Teeth would not stick to tell where the Pope trod his Holy Sandals awry Yet he had some Relation to the Beast in the Apocalyps in that under the Name of Pasquil there has been a successive Corporation of Satyrists After the death of Paul 3. Pole was at midnight in the Conclave chosen to succeed him the refusal whereof under the notion of a deed of darkness was by the Italians lookt upon as a piece of dulness in our Cardinal Next day expecting a re-Election he saw Julius 3. his professed Enemy chosen in his place Yet afterwards he became Alterius Orbis Papa when made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by Queen Mary He was a Person free from Passion His Youthful Books are full of the Flowers of Rhetorick whilst those of his old Age are dry and dull He dyed few hours after Q. Mary November 17. 1558. Prelates Edmund Stafford Brother to Ralph first Earl of Stafford and Son to Edmund Baron of Stafford was by King Rich. 2. preferred Bishop of Exeter and under King Henry 4. was Chancellor of England He added two Fellowships to Stapletons-Inn in Oxford first named by him Exeter-Colledge and setled Lands for the maintenance and made good Statutes for the good order of the same He dyed 1419 and was buried in his own Cathedral W. Dudley Son of John Baron Dudley of Dudley-Castle in this County and bred in Vniver Colledge in Oxford became Dean of Windsor and afterwards Bishop of Durham He dyed at London 1483 and was buried in VVestminster Edmund Audley Son to the Lord Audley of Heyley in this County whose Sirname was Touchet was bred in Oxford where he built the Quire of St. Maries adorning it with a Musical Organ He was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Hereford and at last of Salisbury He dyed at Ramsbury 1624 and was buried in his own Cathedral in a Chappel of excellent Artifice of his own Erection Lawyers Sir Thomas Littleton Knight was Son to Thomas VVestcote Esq and Elizabeth Littleton his Wife He was bred in the Study of the Laws in the Inner Temple and became Serjeant and Steward of the Court of the Marshal-sea of the Kings Houshold to Henry 6. By Edw. 4. an 6 reg he was made one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas and an 15. reg Created Kt. of the Bath He deserved as well of our Common as Justinian of the Civil Law whose Book of Tenures is counted Oraculous in that kind Commented upon by the Learned Sir Edward Coke He Married Joan Daughter and Coheir of W. Boerly of Bromsecraft Castle in Salop by whom he had three Sons Founders of three Families still flourishing 1. William fixed at Frankley in this County where his Posterity is eminently extant 2. Richard whose Issue remain at Pillerton-Hall in Shropshire 3. Thomas whose Linage continues in Worcestershire This Reverend Judge dyed an 21. of
been presented to him as another Maid was would have left no room for that Kings inquisitiveness in asking if she could spin as he did in the case of the other who could Speak and Write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew Noted Sheriffs Edw. 3. An. 1. Andrew Sackvil The Family of the Sackvils is as ancient as any in England taking their Name from Sackvil a Town of their Possession in Normandy Before this time Sir Robert Sackvil Knight younger Son of Herbran was fixed in England and gave the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolk to the Abbey of St. John de Bap. in Colchester about the Reign of Will. Rufus Sir Jo. his Son was one of the Assistance to 25 Peers appointed to see the Liberties of Magna Charta performed whose Son Richard was a principal Baron of whose house Hubert de Avesty held some Lands whose Granchild Sir Jordan was taken Prisoner at the Battle of Emesham in the Reign of Henry 3. for siding with the Barons against him whose Son Andrew the Kings Ward was imprisoned in Dover an 3. Edw. 1. and afterwards by the Kings command Married Ermyntide a Lady of the Houshold of Queen Eleanor whereby he regained a great part of his Inheritance which had been formerly forfeited whose Son Andrew first above mentioned was Ancestor to the truly Honourable Rich. now E. of Dorset Note Surrey and Sussex generally had distinct Sheriffs until the Reign of Edw. 2. when they were united then again divided an 9 Eliz. united an 13. divided agin an 12. K. Charles I. Rich 2. An. 19. Jo. Ashburnham was Ancester to Sir Jo. who Married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Tho. Beaumont afterwards Created Viscountess Cramond in Scotland and had by her 2 Sons John of the Bed Chamber to K. Charles I. and II. and William Cofferer to his Majesty who will build their Name a story higher to Posterity And note this Family is of stupendious Antiquity the chief whereof was Sheriffs of Sussex and Surrey 1066 when VV. Duke of Normandy invaded England to whom K. Harauld wrote to assemble Posse â—omitatuum to make resistance against that Duke And the eminency hath equalled the Antiquity thereof having been Barons of England in the Reign of King Henry 3. Hen. 6. An. 29. Jo. Lewkenor afterwards Knight with 3000 others were slain in the Battle of Teuksbury valiantly fighting under P. Edward Son to K. Hen. 6. Hen. 7. An. 12. Math. Brown Arm. was Ancestor though not in the direct Line to Sir Anthony Standard-bearer of England second Husband of Lucy fourth Daughter to Jo. Nevel Marquess Montacute and Grand-father to Sir Anthony whom Q. Mary created Visc Montacute and whom Q. Eliz. much esteemed direct Ancestor to the right Honourable the present Visc Montacute who has a place and Vote in Parliament by an express clause in his Patent but otherwise no particular Title of a Baron Hen. 8. An. 10. Nich. Carew Mil. a jolly Gentleman was made Knight of the Garter by and Master of the Horse to Hen. 8. He built the fair house at Beddington in this County which by the advantage of the water is a Paradise of Pleasure 'T is said K. Hen. 8. being then at Bowls gave this Knight opprobrious Language betwixt jest and earnest to whom the other returned a stout Answer that was inconsistent with his Allegiance which cost him his Life The last of this Sirname adopted a Throgmorton on condition to assume the Name and Arms of Carew From him is Lineally descended Sir Nich. Carew Knight who I confidently hope will continue and encrease the Honour of his ancient Family Edw. 6. An. 1. Tho. Carden Mil. was 5 years before Endited for Heresie but K. Henry preserved him with some others of his Privy Chamber being in the same circumstances Q. Eliz. An. 20. George Goring whose names sake Sir George Goring was by Charles I. created Baron of Hurst Per-point in Sussex and afterwards Earl of Norwich He was the only instance of a Person of Honour who found Pardon for his Loyalty to his Sovereign Afterwards going beyond the Seas he was happily instrumental in advancing the Peace betwixt Spain and Holland and since the Restauration of K. Charles II. he was made Captain of his Majesties Guard Note that about 140 years ago one Mr. Clark hearing that the Market-house of Farnham in this County begun by him was not generally approved of but liked by some and disliked by others who found fault with the Model thereof and discouraged the Workmen caused this Distich to be writ in that House You who do like me give Money to end me You who dislike me give Money to mend me I wish the Advice may be practised all overt his County SUSSEX SVssex hath Surrey on the North Kent on the East the Sea on the South and Hantshire on the West It extendeth along the Sea 60 miles in length though not exceeding 20 in breadth A fruitful County though very dirty for Travellers All the Rivers in this County have their Fountains and Falls therein It is sufficient Evidence of the plenty of this County that the Toll of the Wheat Corn and Malt growing or made about and sold in the City of Chichester doth amount yearly at a half-penny a Quarter to 60 pounds and upwards Of Commodities Iron is plentiful in this County It is to be hoped that for the preservation of Woods a way may be found out to Chark Sea-coal in such manner as to render it useful for the making of Iron Then Talk produced in great abundance in this County is an excellent white Wash and a great astringent There is a Bird called Wheat-Ears so named because fattest when Wheat is ripe which is peculiar to this County a fine Bird though in season only in the heat of Summer A certain Gentleman concluded a great Lord a man of very weak parts because once he saw him at a Feast feed on Chickens when there were Wheat-Ears on the Table This County aboundeth with more Carpes then any other in England and is eminent for an Arundel Mullet a Chichester Lobster a Shelsey Cockle and an Amerly Trout The Manufactures are great Guns made of the Iron in this County A Monk in Mentz some 300 years since is generally reputed the first Founder of them when about the same time a Souldier found out Printing Jo. Oaven was the first Englishman who in England cast Brass Ordnance an 1535 Peter Baud a Frenchman an 1. Edw. 6. was the first who in England cast Iron Ordnance Tho. Johnson servant to Peter improved his Masters Art He dyed about 1600. There is also plenty of Glass made in this County and the Workmen thereof are much encreased since 1557 A certain Lord living near Cambridge upon his Petition got from Queen Elizabeth a grant of all the Plate in that University upon condition to find Glasses for the Scholars the performance of which condition at first and at all times after upon the casual or wilful breaking of the Glasses would
for a long time at Chesterton was a Franciscan afterwards Cardinal being created by Pope Paul 3. 1557. who also made him Legat a Latere and Bishop of Salisbury Queen Mary in favour to Cardinal Pole prohibited this Legats entrance into her Court He dyed in France 1558. Prelates John Stratford Son of Robert and Isabel was born at Stratford and preferred by the Pope Bishop of VVinchester whereupon falling into the displeasure of Richard 2. for a time he took it in so ill part that he forsook that King whilst in his extremity This cost him the displeasure of Queen Mother and Edward 3. till at last converted by his Constancy they turned their frowns into smiles upon him When Arch Bishop of Canterbury he furnished the King with great sums at his first setting forth for France but when the King afterwards sent for another supply instead of Coyn the Bishop sent him Counsel whereat the King returning into England was so highly offended that the Bishop was fain to pass his publick Purgation in Parliament by which he was restored to the Reputation of his innocence He built and bountifully endowed a beautiful Colledge in Stratford He dyed 1348 having been a Man of great Charity Meekness and Moderation Whose Kinsman Ralph Stratford was born in Stratford where he built a Chappel to the Honour of St. Thomas He was first Canon of St. Pauls and afterwards Bishop of London 1539 about which time there being a most grievous Pestilence in London this Bishop bought a piece of ground nigh Smithfield for the burial of the dead and named the same No-mans-land He dyed 1355 whose Brother Robert Stratford was in the Reign of Edward 3. made Bishop of Chichester being then Chancellour of Oxford and of all England He compremised a bloody contest and difference that arose about that time betwixt the South and North parts of that University He with his Brother Arch-Bishop being accused for favouring the French were afterwards freed from that false aspersion He dyed at Allingbourn 1362. John Vesty alias Harman Dr. of Law was born at Sutton Colefield bred in Oxford was a vivacious person He was appointed to celebrate Divine Service at Sutton aforesaid an 20. Henry 6. was Vicar of St. Michaels Church in Coventry 23 Henry 7. Dean of the Royal Chappel Tutor to the Lady Mary and President of VVales under Henry 8. and being advanced to be Bishop of Exeter an 11. of that King which Bishoprick he so destroyed that Bishop Hall his Successor complaineth that the following Bishops were Barons but Bare-ones indeed Some affirm the word Veize that is in the VVest to drive away with a Witness had its original from his profligating of the Lands of his Bishoprick He robbed his own Cathedral to pay a Parish Church Sutton in this County whereon he bestowed many Benefactions and built 51 houses He intended also but in vain to fix the Cloth Manufacture of Devonshire in the aforesaid Town He quitted his Bishoprick not worth the keeping in the Reign of Edward 6. He dyed being 103 years old in the Reign of Queen Mary and was buried in Sutton with his Statue Mitred and Vestred Since the Reformation Jo. Bird born in Coventry and bred a Carmelite at Oxford was the Provincial of his Order For his smart Sermon against the Primacy of the Pope preached before Henry 8. he was preferred Bishop of Bangor in VVales then of Chester in England Pitz saith he returned to the Vomit of Popery which I cannot believe though he might be guilty of a passive compliance as appears by his telling Mr. Haukes Protestant about the time of his Examination I would not wish you to go to far He dyed 1556. Statesmen Sir Nich. Throckmorton Knight fourth Son of Sir George of Coughton was bred beyond the Seas Under Queen Mary he was Arraigned for Treason complyance with VVyat and hardly escaped Queen Elizabeth employed him her Lieger in France and Scotland He was of the opposite party to Burleigh Lord Treasurer He was Chamberlain of the Exchequer and chief Butler of England which offices yielded him no considerable profit He dyed at Supper with eating of Salades not without suspicion of poyson the rather because happening in the House of no mean Artist in that Faculty Robert Earl of Leicester He dyed 1570 and lyeth buried in St. Katharine Cree-Church in London Edward Conway Knight was Son to Sir Jo. Knight Lord and Owner of Ragleigh in this County who was made by Robert Earl of Leicester Governour of the English Auxiliaries in the Vnited Provinces Governour of Ostend being a man of great skill in Military affairs His Son succeeding to his Fathers Wisdom and Valour was by King James made Principal Secretary of State and by him created Lord Conway of Ragleigh in this County and afterwards by King Charles I. Visc Killultagh in the County of Autrim Lastly an 30. Car. I. Visc Conway of Conway in Carnarvan shire He dyed 1630. Jo. Digby Baron of Sherborn and Earl of Bristol was employed by King James in several Embassies to Forreign Princes But his managing the Matchless Match with Spain was his Master-piece After the great Contest betwixt him and the Duke of Buckingham he fell into the Kings displeasure during which he was very popular with most of the Nation And the King was afterwards graciously pleased to reflect upon him at the beginning of the Long Parliament as one best able to give him the safest Counsel in those dangerous times but how he incensed the Parliament so far as to be excepted Pardon I know not After the surrender of Exeter he went over into France where he met with that due respect in Forreign which he missed in his Native Country He was a Cordial Champion of the Church of England He dyed in France 1650. Writers Walter of Coventry where he was a Benedictine was a Man as â—ale affirms worthy of immortal Memory and excelled in two Essential Qualities of an Historian Faith and Method being only guilty of coursness of Style From the beginning of the Britons he wrote a Chron. to his own time He flourished 1217. Vincent of Coventry born in Warwick was a Franciscan in Cambridge He was the first of his Order who applyed himself to Academical Studies and became publick Professor in Cambridge He set a Copy to the Carmelites left some Books to Posterity and dyed 1250. Jo. of Killingworth was bred in Oxford an excellent Philosopher Astronomer and Physician He was Father and Founder to all the Astronomers in that Age being a Star of the first Magnitude amongst those of that Faculty He flourished 1360. W. of Coventry where he was a Carmelite being lame in his Hip was called Claudus Conversus Conversus being properly one who is condemned or turned to servile work in the Monastery He preferred Charity to pilgrimages and wrote several Books flourishing 1360. Jo. Rouse born at Warwick and descended from the Rouses of 〈…〉 great 〈◊〉 of Learning in Oxford whence 〈…〉 a
Lords of the Privy Council at Dublin of whom Bishop Coren a Principal produced a Card for his Commission and was imprisoned for the affront After his enlargement he was very willing to make a reparation by getting the Commission renewed in England but was prevented by the Queens death Bishop Coren conformed with the first to the Reformation of Queen Elizabeth being ever sound in his heart He was for some time Chief Justice and Chancellour of Ireland till he quitted all his Dignities in Exchange for the Bishoprick of Oxford which being attended with more quiet was more welcome to him in his old Age. He dyed 1567. Barnaby Potter was born within the Barony of Kendal 1578. and bred in Queens Colledge in Oxford whereof he became Provost He was Chaplain in Ordinary to Prince Charles being accounted at Court the Penitential Preacher and by King Charles I. was preferred Bishop of Carlile He was commonly called the Puritanical Bishop and they said of him in the time of King James that Organs would blow him out of the Church which I do not believe the rather because he loved Vocal Musick and could bear his own part therein He was a constant Preacher and performer of Family duties of a weak Constitution Melancholly lean and a hard Student He dyed in Honour being the last Bishop that dyed a Member of Parliament 1642. Statesmen Sir Edward Bellingham Knight of an Ancient and Warlike Family was Servant of the Privy Chamber to King Edward 6. who sent him over Deputy of Ireland He first extended the English pale proceeding against the Irishry in a Martial course by breaking the Moors and Connors two Rebellious Sexts He built the Forts of Leix and Offaly to secure his new Acquisition and had setled the English Plantations therein had he not been suddenly revoked before two years were expired His Souldiers never knew whither they went till they were come whither they should go Thus he surprized the rude Earl of Desmond brought him to Dublin reformed him in Civility sometimes making him to kneel an hour together before he knew his Duty till he became a new man in his behaviour This Earl all his Life after highly honoured him and at every Meal would pray to God for good Sir Edward Bellingham When the Deputy returned into England he cleared himself of many faults laid to his charge recovering the King's favour and had been sent over Deputy again save that he excused himself by indisposition of Body and dyed not long after Writers Richard Kendal an excellent Grammarian and Schoolmaster extracted a Quintessence from a vast number of Latine Grammars and boasted like a conceited Pedant that Latine only to be elegant which was made according to his Rules He flourished under Henry 6. Since the Reformation Bernard Son of Edward Gilpin Esquire was born at Kentmire 1517. and bred in Queens Colledge in Oxford He disputed against Mr. Hooper who was afterwards Martyred when indeed he did follow his Argument with his Affections He afterwards became a zealous Protestant He was Rector of Houghton in the North and boarded in his house 24 Scholars the greater number poor mens Sons upon whom he bestowed Meat Drink Cloth and Education He kept a Table for his Parishioners every Sunday from Michaelmas to Easter He commended a Marryed life in Clergy-men himself living and dying a Batchelour He bestowed 500 pounds in the building and endowing of his School He was accounted a Saint in the Judgments of his very Enemies if he had any such Being full of Faith and good works he was put in his Grave as a heap of Wheat in due time swept into the Garner dying March 4. 1583. Aet 66. Richard Mulcaster of ancient Extraction was born in this County or Cumberland and bred in Kings Colledge in Cambridge afterwards in Oxford He was chosen the first Master of Merchant Taylors School in London where his Scholars profited so well that the Merchant Taylors intended to fix him as his Desk to their School till death should remove him This he perceived and therefore gave for his Motto Fidelis servus perpetuus Asinus but after 25 years he was made Master of Pauls School Such his Discipline that the Indulgence of Parents rather encreased then mitigated his severity on their offending Children He was Plagosus Orbilius and which quallified the matter unpartial Amongst the many excellent Scholars which he bred Bishop Andrews was most remarkable At last quitting the place he became Parson of Stanford Rivers and dyed about the middle of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Christopher Potter D. D. Kinsman to Bishop Potter was bred in and Provost of Queens Colledge in Oxford He was Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles I. and Dean of Worcester one of a sweet nature comely Presence courteous Carriage devout Life and deep Learning He wrote an excellent Book Entituled Charity mistaken answered by a Jesuit against whom Mr. Chillingworth took up the Cudgels He dyed in the beginning of the Civil War Benefactors to the Publick Robert Langton and Miles Spencer Doctors of Law joyntly built a fair School at Appleby Robert was bred in and a Benefactor to Queens Colledge in Oxford owing the Glasing of many Windows therein to his Beneficence on which Windows he caused his Sirname to be made in this manner viz. Long or Lang ton Anne Clyfford sole Daughter and Heir to George Earl of Northumberland Wife to Richard Earl of Dorset then to Philip Earl of Pembrock and Montgomery had her greatest Estate in the North She built and endowed a most beautiful Hospital at Appleby in this County and is still living Memorable Persons Richard Gilpin who was enfeoffed in the Lordship of Kent-mire-hall by the Baron of Kendal for his singular deserts killed the wild Bore that raging in the Mountains adjoyning much endammaged the Country people whence it is that the Gilpins give the Bore in their Arms. Note that in the Reign of King Edward 1. the Hereditary Sherivalty of this County was conferred on the Lord Clifford who married Sibel eldest Daughter to Robert de Vipont Henry Lord Clifford was by Henry 8. an 1525. Created Earl of Cumberland and when Henry the 5th Earl of that Family dyed lately without issue male the Honour of the Hereditary Sherivalty reverted unto Anne the third Daughter of George Clifford the third Earl of Cumberland the Relict of Richard Earl of Dorset and since of Philip Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery by whom she had two Daughters the elder Married to the Earl of Thanet and the younger Married to James Earl of Northampton WILT-SHIRE WIlt-shire hath Glocester-shire on the North Bark-shire and Hamp-shire on the East Dorset-shire on the South and Somerset-shire on the West From North to South it extendeth 39 Miles being in bredth 29. and in circumference 139-miles A pleasant County and of great variety It is plentiful in all English Commodities especially in Wool the Manufacture of Clothing being vigorously pursued and very good Whites made
Bishop Capon Wilt-shire affordeth these Marian Martyrs Jo. Spicer Free-Mason William Coberly Taylor in Kevel burnt in Salisbury 1556. John Maundrel Husbandman Confessors John Hunt and Richard White Husbandmen at Marleborough were persecuted in Salisbury 1558 and being condemned to dye were little less then miraculously preserved as will appear hereafter Alice Coberly Wife to William Coberly forenamed failed in her Constancy The Jaylors Wife of Salisbury heating a Key fire hot and laying it in the Grass spake to this Allice to bring it unto her in doing whereof she pitiously burnt her hand and cryed out O said the other if thou canst not abide the burning of a Key how wilt thou endure thy whole Body to be burnt at the Stake whereat the said Alice revoked her opinion Cardinals Walter Winterburn born at Sarisbury and bred a Dominican Frier was an excellent Scholar and a skilful Casuist a quality which recommended him to be Confessor to King Edward 1. Pope Benedict 11. made him being 79 years of Age Cardinal of St. Savin upon the news of the death of Maklesfield at London who dyed before the Cap was sent him and this Walter 's Cap being not enjoyed one year was never a whit the worse for wearing for having made a journey to Rome to procure it in his return home he left it and the World and was buried at Genoa but his Corps afterwards brought over was interred in London 1305. Robert Halam is reported to have been born of the Royal Blood of England He was bred in and Chancellour of Oxford 1403. and was Arch-Deacon of Canterbury then Bishop of Salisbury at last made Cardinal June 6. 1411. He was one of them who represented the English Clergy both in the Council of Pisa and Constance in which last Service he dyed 1417. in Gotleby Castle Prelates Johannes Sarisburiesis a Restorer of Learning in most kinds whereof himself was most eminent He was Companion to Thomas Becket in his Exile but not in his disloyalty for which he sharply reproved him He was highly in favour with Pope Eugen 3. and Adrian 4. and yet no Author in that Age hath so pungent passages against the Pride and Covetousness of the Court of Rome For in his Polycrat he sayes Scribes and Pharisees sit in the Church of Rome His Legates do so swaggeâ— as if Satan were gone forth from the Face of the Lord to scourge the Church They eat the sins of the people with them they are clothed and many ways riot therein Who dissent from their Doctrine are condemned for Hereticks or Schismaticks c. He was generally esteemed a pious man and was by King Henry 2. made Bishop of Chartres in France where he dyed 1182. Richard Poor Dean of Sarisbury was first Bishop of Chester then of Sarisbury He removed his Cathedral most inconveniently seated for want of water c. to a place called Merry field since Sarisbury where he laid the Foundation of that stately Structure which he lived not to finish He was afterwards removed to Durham Pious was his life and peaceable his end April 2. an 1237. His Corps was buried at Tarrent in Dorset-shire in a Nunnery of his own founding and some of his Name and probably of his Alliance are still extant in this County William Edendon born at Edendon and bred in Oxford was by Edward 3. made Bishop of Winchester and Lord Treasurer of England He then first caused â—roats and half Groats to be made with some abatement of the weight He was afterwards made Lord Chancellour and erected a stately Convent for Bonhomes at Edendon in this County valued at the dissolution at 521 l. 12. s. 5 d. ½ per Annum Some condemn him for robbing St. Peter to whom with Swithin Winchester Church was dedicated to pay all Saints to whom Edendon Convent was consecrated suffering his Episcopal Palaces to decay whilst he raised up his new Foundation Whereupon after his death his Executors were sued for Dilapidations by his Successor William Wickham an excellent Architect who recovered of them 1662 l. 10 s. besides his Executors were forced to make good the standing stock of the Bishoprick which in his time was impaired viz. Oxen 1556 Weathers 4717 Ewes 3521 Lambs 3521 Swine 127. He dyed 1366 and lyeth buried under a fair Monument of Alabaster near to the Quire Richard Mayo born nigh Hungerford of good Parentage whose Sirname is since extinguished was bred in and President of Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford He was sent by King Henry 7. into Spain an 1501 to bring over the Lady Katharine to be Married to Prince Arthur After his return he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Hereford He dyed 1516 and was buried under a Magnificent Monument in his Church Since the Reformation John Thornborough B. D. born in Salisbury and bred in Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford was a man of goodly Presence By Queen Elizabeth he was made Dean of York and Bishop of Lymrick in Ireland where he had a wonderful deliverance For an upper Floor in an old Castle wherein he his Wife and Children lay did fall down in the dead hour of the night into his Room and rested on some Chests after it had crushed Cupboards and Tables c. without hurting any living Creature An. 1. Jac. he was Consecrated Bishop of Bristol holding his other places in Commendam with it and from thence was Translated to Worcester Being a great Chymist he presented King James with an Extraction which was reputed a preserver of Health and prolonger of Life though as for the Bishop himself I conceive that his merry heart was his best Elixir Dying exceeding Aged An. Dom. 164. John Buckbridge born at Dracot was bred in Oxford where he became D. D. and President of St. Johns-Colledge He was afterwards Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate and on the 9th of June 1611 he was Consecrated Bishop of Rochester He wrote a Learned Book against John Fisher De Potestate Papae in Temporalibus He was afterwards preferred Bishop of Ely He dyed 163. and was buried in the Church of Bromly in Kent Statesmen Edward and Thomas Seimor Sons of Sir John Kt. of Wolful are here joyn'd because they were only then invincible whilst they were united in Affection First Edward Seimor Duke of Sommerset Lord Protector and Treasurer of England being the eldest Brother succeeded to a fair Inheritance He was a valiant Souldier for Land-service fortunate and generally beloved by Martial men a man of great Candour and Affability He Married Anne Daughter of Sir Edward Stanhop Knight a Lady of an high Mind and undaunted Spirit His younger Brother Thomas Seimor made Baron of Sudley by the favours of his Nephew King Edward 6. obtained a great Estate Being well experienced in Sea Affairs he was made Lord Admiral of England He was reserved and more cunning in his Carriage He Married Queen Katharine Par the Widow of King Henry 8. Very great the Animosities betwixt their Wives the Dutchess refusing to bear the
3. Wherefore after his death he was Canonized by Pope Vrban the 4th As for their Report that the Wiches or Salt Pits in this County were miraculously procured by the Prayers of this Holy Man their unsavoury lie hath not a grain of probability to season it it appearing by antient Authors that Salt-water flowed there time out of Mind before sweet Milk was given by Mother or Nurse to this St. Richard Cardinals Jo. Cumin bred a Monk at Eversham in this County was by the Kings procurement chosen Arch-Bishop of Dublin and afterwards by Pope Lucius created Cardinal of St. Vellit in Italy Hugh of Evesham so applyed himself to the Study of Physick that he became the Phenix in that Faculty great was his skill in the Mathematicks and Astrology Having satisfied Pope Martin the 4th in some matters of great difficulty he was by his Holiness made Cardinal of St. Laurence 1280. Seven years after he was poysoned though Cicaonius to palliate the business said he dyed of the Plague Prelates Wulstan of Brandsford was Prior of Worcester and built a most beautiful Hall in his Convent Hence he was preferred Bishop of Worcester 1338. He was Verus Pontifex in the Grammatical Notation thereof building a fair Bridge at Brandsford over the River Teme He dyed 1349. Jo. Lowe an Augustine Friar in Wich was presented to St Asaph and afterwards made Bishop of Rochester He preserved many Manuscripts and bestowed them on the Magnificent Library which he furnished at St. Augustines in London which Library vanished away at the dissolution with the fine Steeple of that Church one person who shall be Nameless imbezelling both Books and Buildings to his private profit Edmund Bonner alias Savage was Son of Jo. Savage Priest Son to Sir Jo. Knight of the Garter and Privy Councellour to King Henry 7. His Mother Concubine to this Priest was sent out of Cheshire to cover her shame and lay down her Burden at Elmley in this County where this bouncing Babe Bonner was born Being Dr. of Laws he was employed by King Henry 8. in several Embassies beyond the Seas at which time he was Bonner was not Bonner being as yet meek and a great Cromwelite Not long after he was Consecrated Bishop of London Under King Edward 6. being deputed to Preach publickly concerning the Reformation his frigid and faint Expressions concerning the same occasioned his deprivation and Imprisonment Then it was when one jearingly saluted him Good morrow Bishop Quondam that Bonner as tartly returned Good morrow Knave semper Being restored under Queen Mary he caused the death of twice as many Martyrs as all the Bishops in England besides justly occasioning these Verses made upon him No Body speaking to Bonner All call thee Cruel and the Spunge of Blood But Bonner I say thou art mild and good Under Queen Elizabeth he was deprived and secured in his Castle I mean the Marshalsea in Southwark for as that Prison kept him from doing hurt to others it kept others from doing hurt to him being so Universally odious he had been stoned in the Streets if at Liberty The Oath being tendred to him by Horn then Bishop of Winchester he pleaded for himself that Horn was no lawful Bishop which occasioned the ensuing Parliament to confirm him and the rest of his Order to all purposes and intents After ten years Imprisonment he dyed 1569. and was buried in the Church-yard of St. George in Southwark But enough of this Herostratus who burnt so many living Temples of the Holy Ghost yet let me add one thing that being a very Corpulent Man a Constitution that argues rather a Plethorie then a Cacochymie or ill humour he seems by his cruelty to have done violence to his own disposition seeing the temper of the Mind commonly followes that of the Body But Quid non Religio potuit suadere Malorum Since the Reformation Jo. Watson born at Bengeworth was Prebendary then Dean and afterwards Bishop of Winchester 'T is said he being 60 years of Age proffered the Earl of Leicester 200 l. to be excused from the Bishoprick which the Queen understanding Nay then said she Watson shall have it he being more worthy thereof who will give 200 l. to decline then he who will give 2000 l. to attain it There were three Watsons Bishops in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Thomas of Lincoln our Jo. of Winchester and Anthony of Chichester He dyed 15. and was buried in the Church of St. Mary Overies Statesmen Sir Thomas Coventry Knight born at Croone was eldest Son to Sir Thomas Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. He was bred in and Treasurer of the Inner Temple 1618. Being first Attorney General to King James he was afterwards made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal November an 1. Car. I. by whom he was created an 4. Reg. Baron Coventry of Alesborough in this County He enjoyed the dignity of Lord Keeper fifteen years if it was not more proper to say that dignity enjoyed him This latter Age affording none better qualified for the place The Patent whereby he was created Baron makes mention of his most worthy Services to King James and King Charles I. his Prudence Courage Dexterity Integrity and Industry manifested towards the King and his Crown He dyed January 1639. before the Civil Wars Never Lord Keeper made fewer Orders which were afterwards reversed His being firmly grounded on the consent of the Parties Writers on the Law Sir Thomas Littleton Knight born in Frankley was Son of Thomas Wescot Esquire and Elizabeth Littleton his Wife and two great Kings had a great Sympathy to him who had an Antipathy each to other Henry 6. whose Serjeant he was and rode Judge of the Northern Circuit and Edward 4. who made him a Judge and in his Reign he rode the Northampton Circuit His Book of Tenures witnesseth his deep skill in the Laws and retains at this day an Authentical Reputation Insomuch that when in the Reign of King James it came in question upon a Demurrer in Law whether a Release to one Trespasser should be available or no to his Companion Sir Henry Hubbard and Judges Warberton Winch and Nicols his Companions gave judgment according to the opinion of our Littleton and openly said That they would not have his Case disputed or questioned He left three Families signally flourishing in this and the Neighbouring Counties of Stafford and Salop. This Judge and the Judicious Lord Coke who Commented on his Tenures were the two great Luminaries of the Law of England He dyed an 21. Edward 4. and lyeth buried in the Cathedral of Worcester See more of him in Stafford-shire Souldiers Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick born at the Mannor house of Salwape Jan. 28. 1381. was a person so redoubted for Martial Atchievments that Hercules his Labours found in him a real performance 1. Being hardly 22 years old an 5. Henry 4. at the Queens Coronation he Justed and Challenged all Comers 2. He bid Battle to
was of proof against any Meat objected to his Appetite Lampreys only excepted on a Surfeit whereof he dyed 1135. He had only two Legitimate Children William dying before and Maude surviving him both born in Normandy Thomas fifth Son of King Edward 1. and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife was born at and Sirnamed from Brotherton a Village in this County June the 1st 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England He left no Male Issue but from his Females the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and from them the Earls of Arundel and the Lords Berkley are descended Richard Plantag Duke of York commonly called Richard of Connisborough from the Castle in this Shire of his Nativity was Grandchild to King Edward 3. He Married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer the true Inheritrix of the Crown But tampering too soon and too openly to derive the Crown in his Wives Right to himself by practising the death of the present King he was taken and beheaded for Treason in the Reign of King Henry 5. Edward sole Son to King Richard 3 and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham in this County and was by his Father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a Child of as much Hopes as his Father a Man of Hatred But he consumed away on a sudden dying within a Month of his Mother A Judgment on his Father a Mercy to the Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of him who begot him and a Mercy to all England for had he survived to a Mans Estate he might possibly have proved a Wall of Partition to hinder the Happy Vnion of the two Houses of York and Lancaster Saints St. Hilda Daughter to Prince Hererick Nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland lived in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County and was the Oracle of her Age being a kind of Moderatrix in a Sax. Synode held about the Celebration of Easter The most Learned English Female before the Conquest the She-Gamaliel at whose Feet many Learned Men had their Education This our English Huldah ended her holy life with a happy death 680. St. Benedict Biscop fixed himself in the Dominions of Oswy King of Northumberland and built two Monasteries the one at the influx of the River Were the other at that of the River Tine into the Sea and stockt them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Monks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies He left Religion in England braver but not better then he found it the Gawdiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof His Monastery being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed Being struck with the dead Palsie his Soul retired into the Vpper Rooms of his Clay Cottage much employed in Meditation until the day of his death which happened 703. St. John of Beverly born at Harpham was 33 years and upwards Arch-Bishop of York being bred under Hilda aforesaid and after under Theodorus the Grecian and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Venerable Bede his Scholar wrote his Life and supposed Miracles Being Aged he resigned his Arch-Bishoprick and retired to Beverly where he had Founded a Colledge for which he procured the Freedstool a Sanctuary from King Athelstan He dyed May 7. 722. and was buried in the Porch of his Collegiate Church A Synode held at London 1416. assigned the day of his death an Anniversary Solemnity to his Memory Thomas Plantag was Earl of Darby Lancaster Leicester a popular person and a great enemy to the two Spencers Minions to King Edward 2. who being hated as Devils for their Pride no wonder if this Thomas was honoured as a Saint or Martyr by the common sort Indeed he must be a good Chymist who can extract Saint out of Malefactor and our Chronicles generally behold him put to death for Treason against King Edward 2. But let him pass for a Provincial though no National or Loyal Saint seeing he did not Travel far enough for Romish and too far for English Canonization His beheaded Martyrdom happened at Pontfret 1322. Note Lord Herb. in the Life of King Henry 8. speaking of Reliques The Bell of St. Guthlack and the Felt of St. Thomas of Lancaster both Remedies for the Head-ach must mean this St. Thomas seeing there is no other English of the Name found in any English Martyrology Richard Role alias Hampole from the place of his Holy Life Death and Burial was a Hermite of strict Life He wrote many Books of Piety which I prefer before his Prophetical Predictions as but a degree above Almanack Prognostications He threatned the sins of the Nation with future Judgments and his Predictions if hitting were heeded if missing not marked Having spoken much against the Covetousness of the Clergy of that Age he dyed 1349. Jo. Birlington born in Birlington and bred in Oxford became Canon in the Convent of Birlington where he grew Eminent for exemplary Holiness He refused at first the Office of Prior counting himself unworthy thy thereof but upon the second proffer accepted of it 'T is said Martha and Mary were compounded in him being as pious so provident to husband the Revenues of his house to the best advantage A She-Ancorist accosting him thus Jesus is my Love and you so honour him in your heart that no earthly thing can distract you He replyed I came hither to hear from you some saving and savoury discourse but seeing you begin with such idle talk farewel He dyed 1379. being reputed though I think not Canonized a Saint whose Friend W. Slightholme asked of his friend Jo. aforesaid what might be the reason the Devil appeared so seldom in their dayes c. To whom Jo. replyed We are grown so remiss in Godliness that the Devil needs not put himself to such pains seeing less and lighter Temptations will do the deed William is reported to have been one of singular Piety and to have wrought many Miracles at his Tomb after his death which happened 1380. A certain Maid resisting the sollicitations of a Bravo was by him Murdered her Head being set up on a Yew-Tree at Horton called now Halifax The silly people conceited that the Veins which in form of little threds spread themselves betwixt the Bark and the Body of the said Tree were the very Hairs of the Virgins Head to whom they flocked in Pilgrimage Note the prevalency of Opinion Her reputation for being a Saint is transmitted to Posterity though her name be lost Martyrs The County and generally the Province of York escaped from Popish Persecution which under Gods goodness may be imputed to the tempers of their four succeeding Arch-Bishops Thomas Woolsey who was more Proud then Cruel Edward Lee who persecuted to Imprisonment none to Death save two Robert Holgate who was a parcel-Protestant Nicholas Heath a meek and moderate Man And as there
were no Martyrs so were there no Confessors which are Martyrs in the bud Cardinals Jo. Fisher born in Beverly and bred in Michael House in Cambridge whereof he was first Chancellour became Bishop of Rochester He was accessary to the dissembling of Elizabeth Barton the Holy Maid of Kent He opposed King Henry's Divorce and Title of Supream Head of the Church procured a Cardinals Cap from the Pope and forfeited his own Head to the King being beheaded 1535. Having been tryed by an ordinary Jury and not by his Peers Prelates Eustathius de Fauconbridge was chosen Bishop of London an 6. Henry 3. 1222. He was Chief Justice then Chancellour of the Exchequer and afterterwards Treasurer of England and twice Ambassadour to the King of France He dyed October 31. 1228. and was buried in the Presbytery W. de Melton Prov. of Beverly and Canon then Arch-Bishop of York Being Consecrated at Avignon and returning into England he expended 700 Marks in the finishing of his Cathedral His Life was free from scandal signal for his Chastity Charity Fasting and Praying He bought 3 Mannors from the Arch-Bishop of Roan with the Popes Confirmation and setled them on his Brothers Son He compassed about the Old Baily in York with a great Wall He dyed 1340. and was buried in his own Church Henry Wakefield preferred Bishop of Worcester by King Edward 3. 1375. was for one year Lord Treasurer of England dying March 11. 1394. he was buried in his own Church which before his death he had enlarged R. Scroope Son to the Lord Scroope and brother to William Earl of Wilt-shire was D. D. in Cambridge a man of great Learning and unblameable life He was preferred Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield then Arch-Bishop of York Being netled with the News of his Brothers beheading he joyned with the Earl of Northumberland and others against King Henry 4. The Earl of Westmorland complyed with him in appearance till he had trepanned him It doth not appear that he desired to be tryed by his Peers if he was dealt with therein but odly the Executioner served him as odly in having 5 stroaks at his Neck before he could sunder it from his Body an 1405. Stephen Patrington born in Patrington was a Carmelite D. D. in Oxford and Provincial of his Order in England and afterwards Chaplain and Confessor to King Henry 5. by whom he was deputed a Commissioner to proceed against the Wicklevites and during that service he was made Bishop of St. Davids Hence he was sent over to the Council of Constance returning into England he was advanced Bishop of Chichester but dying before his Translation was finished was buried in White Friers in Fleet-street VVilliam Peircy Son to Henry Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor his Wife whose principal Seat was Topliff in this County was D. D. in and Chancellour of Cambridge and made Bishop of Carlile 1452. He dyed 1462. Cuthbert Tonstal born at Hatchforth in Richmond-shire in this County of a Worshipful Family at Tonstal Thurland was bred in Cambridge to which he was in Books a great Benefactor He was afterwards Bishop of London and at last of Durham a great Linguist Mathematician and Divine and a fast Friend to Erasmus In the Reign of King Henry 8. he publickly confuted the Papal Supremacy in a learned Sermon 1539. but returned to his errour in the Reign of Edward 6. continuing therein an 1. Elizabeth for which he was deprived of his Bishoprick He shewed Mercy when in Power and found it in his Adversity He dyed a Prisoner at Lambeth 1560. Ralph Baines Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge was an excellent Linguist Going over into France he became Hebrew Professor at Paris He wrote a Comment on the Proverbs in three Volumes and Dedicated it to Fr. 1 st King of France Returning into England he was by Queen Mary made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in which Diocess he caused great Persecution He was deprived of his Bishoprick an 1. Elizabeth and dying he was buried in St. Dunstans 1560. Since the Reformation Thomas Bentham Fellow of Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford renounced Popery an 1. Mary He assisted Henry Bull one of the same Colledge to wrest out of the hands of the Choristers the Censer when about to offer their Superstitious Incense Flying into Germany he lived at Basil Preacher to the English Exiles Towards the end of Queen Mary he was secretly sent over to be Superintendent of the London Conventicle the only true Church in the time of Persecution where with all his caution he hardly escaped An. 2. Elizabeth he was Consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield He dyed February the 21st 1578. Edmund Guest born at Afferton was D. D. in Kings-Colledge in Cambridge He was Almoner to Queen Elizabeth by whom he was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Salisbury Having written many Books he dyed 1578. Miles Coverdale bred in Cambridge became an Augustine Frier but afterwards quitting that Profession he went into Germany he laboured greatly in Translating of the Bible and writing other Books He was made D. D. at Tubing and returning into England was made Bishop of Exeter by King Edward 6. An. 1. Mary he was imposed though saved from Martyrdom by the Mediation of Fred. King of Denmark Being enlarged he went over into Germany whence in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England but not to Exeter He was one of those who solemnly Consecrated Matthew Parker Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at Lambeth He dyed 1588. and lyes buried in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange Adam Loftus bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where he Commenced D. D. was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Sussex Lord Deputy of Ireland and was first made Arch-Bishop of Armagh an 1562. and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1567 At last being made Chancellour of Ireâ—and he discharged that place with singular Ability and â—ntegrity until the day of his death He was a principal Procurer of and a profitable Agent in the Foundation of the University of Dublin being the first Honorary Master thereof whilst he was Arch-Bishop if not Chancellour of Ireland He dyed April 5. 1605. and was buried in the Church of St. Pat. having been Arch-Bishop almost 43 years George Mountaine bred in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge was Chaplain to the Earl of Essex whom he attended in his Voyage to Cales being indeed a man of great Valour He was afterwards made Dean of Westminster then successively Bishop of Lincoln and London whilst residing in the latter he would often pleasantly say that of him the Proverb would be verified Lincoln was and London is and York shall be which came to pass accordingly when he was removed to the Arch-Bishoprick of York He was a good Benefactor to Queens-Colledge whereon he bestowed a fair piece of Plate called Poculum Charitatis with this Inscription incipio and Founded two Scholarships therein Capital Judges Sir William Gascoine born at Ganthorp studied in the Inner Temple and being Knighted an 1. Henry 4.
and setled a vast Territory on Sybil her sole Daughter Married afterwards to Milo Earl of Hereford Note that when Mr. Speed in pursuance of his Description of England passed this County 8 persons who had been Bayliffs of Brecknock gave him courteous entertainment CARDIGAN-SHIRE CArdigan-shire is washed on the West with the Irish Sea and parted from Merioneth-shire by the River Dovi from Brecknock-shire by Tovy and on the South from Carmarthen and Pembroke-shire by Tyvy Being in form like a Horn wider towards the North and has a Cornu-copia universal plenty This County though remotest to England was soonest reduced to the English Dominion as being nearer to the Sea which afforded a more convenient passage to the English who were potent in Shipping and invaded this County in the Reign of VVilliam Rufus and Henry 1. bestowed the same entirely upon VVilliam de Clare In former times plenty of Bevers did breed in the River Tyvy in this County Proverbs I. Talaeth Talaeth that is Fine Fine When Roderick divided Wales betwixt his three Sons he ordered that each of them should wear upon his Bonnet or Helmet a Coronet of Gold set with pretious Stones called in British Talaeth and they from thence Ytri trwysâ—c Talaethioc that is three Crowned Princes Now it is applyed to the uppermost part of the head attire of Children yea the English men have that which they call the Crown of a Cap. II. Bâ— Arthur and 〈◊〉 That is Arthur was not but whilst he was 'T is Honourable for old Men if they can truly say we have been brave Fellows III. Ne Thorres Arthur Nawdd gwraig that is King Arthur did never violate the refuge of a woman For that King was the Mirrour of Manhood By the Woman 's Refuge many understand her Tongue and no valiant Man will revenge her words with his blows IV. Calen y Sais wrah Gimro That is the Heart of an Englishman towards a Welshman This was invented whilst England and Wales were at deadly Feude and is applyed to such who are possessed with prejudice or only carry an outward complyance with Cordial Affection V. Ni Cheitw Cymbro oni Gollo That is the Welshman keeps nothing until he hath lost it When the British recovered their lost Castles from the English they doubled their diligence and valour keeping them more tenaciously then before VI. A fo Pen bid Bont That is He that will be a Head let him be a Bridge This is of a fictitious Original Benigridan a Welsh General is said to have carried his Army one by one we must imagine on his back over a River in Ireland where there was neither Bridge nor Ferry These Proverbs are generally used in VVales Note that in this Principality of VVales there was an ancient Play wherein the stronger put the weaker into a sack whence the English By-word He is able to put him up in a Bag. VII Na difanco y Beriglawr That is Vilifie not thy Parish Priest This may be lookt upon as a true penitential Proverb since the Citizens of Llan-Badern-Vaure that Lland-Badern the great cruelly slew their Bishop which City and Bishoprick afterwards dwindled into nothing CARMARTHEN-SHIRE CArmarthen-shire hath Pembroke-shire on the West the Severn Sea on the South Cardigan-shire on the North Brecknock and Glamorgan-shire on the East This County being not so Mountainous as others in Wales affords plenty of Grain Grass Wood and Fish Here there is a place called Golden Grove belonging to the Right Honourable Richard Vaughan Baron of Emelor in England and Earl of Carbery in Ireland who plentifully relieved many eminent Divines during the late Sequestration 'T is said that in this Maritime-shire there is a Fountain which ebbs and flows conformable to the Sea There are likewise here strange Subterranean Vaults conceived the Castles of routed people in the Civil Wars Martyrs Robert Ferrar an English man a prime Martyr of this County was a Man not unlearned but somewhat indiscreet or rather uncomplying so that he may be said with St. Lawrence to be broyled on both sides being persecuted both by Protestants and Papists He was preferred Bishop of St. Davids by the Duke of Sommerset then Lord Protector who was put to death not long after Some conceived that the Patrons fall was the Chaplains greatest guilt and encouraged his Enemies against him Of these two were afterwards Bishops in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth viz. Thomas Young Arch-Bishop of York and Rowland Merrick Bishop of Banger Souldiers Sir Rice ap Thomas Knight little less then a Prince in his Country was called by the Author of Praelia Anglorum the Flower of the Britains He repaired to King Henry 7. lately landed at Milford Haven with contemptible Forces with a considerable accession of choice Souldiers marching with them to Bosworth-Field where he right valiantly behaved himself He was in reward of his good service made Knight of the Garter He rebuilt Emeline in this County and called it New-Castle being one of his Principal Seats and one of the latest Castles in Wales In the 4th year of King Henry 8. he conducted 500 Horse at the Siege of Therouene VValt de Devereux Son of Devereux and Cicely his VVife sole Sister to Thomas Bourchier last Earl of Essex was born in the Town of Carmarthen and by Queen Elizabeth Created Earl of Essex in Right of his Mother Being a Martial Man he Articled with Queen Elizabeth to maintain such a proportion of Souldiers at his own cost and to have the fair Territory of Clandebuy in the Province of Vlster in Ireland for the Conquering thereof To maintain his Army he sold his fair inheritance in Essex Over he goes into Ireland with a noble Company of Kindred and Friends supernumerary Volunteers above the proportion of Souldiers agreed upon Sir W. Fitz-Williams Lord Deputy of Ireland suspecting to be Eclipsed by this great Earl sollicits the Queen to maintain him in full power of his place Hereupon it was Ordered that the Earl should have his Commission from this Lord Deputy which with much importunity and long attendance he hardly obtained and that with no higher Title then Governour of Vlster After many impressions not over successfully made in Vlster he was by the Lord Deputy remanded into the South of Ireland where he spent much time to little purpose From Munster he was sent back into Vlster where he was forbidden to follow his blow and use a Victory he had gotten Yea on a sudden stript out of his Commission and reduced to be Governour of 300 Men. He embraced all these Changes with prodigious constancy Pay-days in Ireland came very thick Moneys out of England very slow his Noble Associates began to withdraw common Men to mutiny so that the Earl himself was at the last recalled home Not long after he was again sent over with the Title of Earl Marshal of Ireland where he fell into a strange looseness not without suspicion of Poyson and dyed 1576. Aet 36. His Soul he piously resigned
to God his Lands much impaired descended to his Son Robert His Body being brought over was buried in Carmarthen His Widow Lady was soon remarried to Robert Earl of Leicester His Father and Grandfather dyed about the same time of their Age viz. the 36th year to which his Son Robert never attained Writers Ambrose Merlin born at Carmarthen is reported to have had an Incubus to his Father pretending to a pedigree older then Adam even from the Serpent himself VVe will allow the Serpent to be Father to his own Child I mean this monstrous Lie about Merlin's Birth Many are his pretended Prophesies whereof the British have a very high esteem though their own Proverb says Namyn Dduw nid oes dewin that besides God there is no Diviner Indeed Merlin's Prophesies did much mischief when his Interpreters put Owen Glendower on his Rebellion against King Henry 4. perswading him the time was come wherein he should recover the Welsh Principality which occasioned the making of cruel Laws against the British Nation Some maintain Merlin to have been a great Chymist and that his Prophesies are to be expounded naturally not Historically One of his Prophesies cited by Giraldus Cambrensis hit the mark indeed Being this The sixth shall overturn the Walls of Ireland and reduce their Countries into a Kingdom Accomplished under King James the sixth when their Fastnesses Irish Walls were dismantled and Courts of Justice set up in all the Land CARNARVON-SHIRE CArnarvon-shire hath the Irish Sea on the West Anglesey divided by Menaifret on the North Denby-shire on the East and Merioneth-shire on the South All the Markets are Sea Towns being five in number The Natives hereof submitted at last to the English who were never more put to it then in the Invasion thereof which for natural strength exceeds any part of the Principality It is sufficiently plentiful and Snow-down-hills therein are fruitful of Wood Cattle Fowl besides Fish in the Pools which are interposed Where there was as Giraldus Cambrensis affirms a Floating Island and a strange kind of Fishes found with one eye Proverbs I. Craig Eriry or Snow-don will yield sufficient Pasture for all the Cattle of Wales put together This is hyperbolical importing the extraordinary fruitfulness of the place II. Diâ—nge ar Gluid a boddi ar Gonway That is to scape Clude and be drown'd in Conâ—ay Parallel to the Latine Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim Princes Edward the fourth but first surviving Son of King Edward 1. and Queen Eleanor was born at Carnarvâ—n April 25. 1284. No Prince ever ascended the English Throne with greater or used it with less advantage to himself The VVelsh generally accepted him for their Prince as being Crowned Prince of VVales before he was born in their Country the King his Father having caused a Crown to be set on Queen Eleanor's Belly when she was big with this Prince As this gave the Britaâ—â—s a full interest in so it begat in them a particular veneration for the succeeding English Monarchs This Edward succeeding to a VVise and Victorious Father did strange himself from his Subjects and in effect subjected himself to Pierce Gaveston his French Minion and after his Execution to the two Spencers Englishmen yet equally odious for their insolence Hence it was that he first lost the love of his Subjects then of his Queen the vacuity of whose Bed was quickly filled up then his Crown then his Life being Murdered at Berkley Castle September 22. 1327. Saints The Corps of 20000 Saints are said to be interred in a small Island called Berdsey lying within a Mile of the South promontory of this County It is I confess more facile to find Graves therein for so many Saints then Saints for so many Graves Statesmen Jo. VVilliams born in Aber-Conwy bred Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University was preferred Dean of VVestminster Bishop of Lincoln Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and at last Arch-Bishop of York He dyed March 25. 1649. See my Eccl. Hist Prelates since the Reformaâ—ion Richard Vaughan born at Nuffrin or else at Etrin was bred in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge became successively Bishop of Bangor Chester and London a very Corpulent Man but Spiritually minded an excellent Preacher and pious Liver A pleasant man in discourse especially at his Table using frequently this expression At Meals be glad for sin be sad and indeed he was a Mortified man Nothing could tempt him to betray the Rights of the Church to Sacrilegious hands not sparing sharply to reprove some of his own Order on that account He dyed March 30. 1607. I will add according to an Epigram which was made upon and directed to him Facienda docuit docenda fecit Having been none of those unhappy men Qui sciunt non docent or Qui docent non vivunt Henry Roulands bred in Oxford was Consecrated Bishop of Bangor November 12. 1598. He bought 4 new Bells for the Tower of St. Asaph whereof the biggest cost 100 pounds He also gave to Jesus-Colledge in Oxford means for the maintenance of two Fellows He dyed 1615. Note Speed's Maps of this County as also of Denby and Flint-shire are not divided with points into several Hundreds seeing the Author could not procure the same out of the Sheriffs Books fearing lest the Riches of their Shire should be further fought into by revealing such particulars DENBIGH-SHIRE DEnbigh-shire hath Flint-shire Cheshire and Shrop-shire on the East Montgomery and Merioneth-shire on the South Carnarvon-shire on the West being from East to West 31. and from North to South 20 Miles The East part of this County is fruitful but in the West the Husbandman may be said to fetch his Bread out of the fire fertilizing their ground with the Ashes of burnt Turfs There is plenty of Rye or Amelcorn in this County Of Buildings the Church of Wrexham is a fair and spatious Structure having a stately Tower without and Organs within it Note that Organs were brought into general use in Churches about the year 828. and much improved by Bernard a Venetian and an incomparable Musician But to proceed Holt Castle was possessed by William Lord Stanley whose ready Money and Plate therein besides Jewels and Rich Houshold-stuff amounted to 4000 Marks got by the plunder of Bosworth field Upon the Owners Attainder it was Confiscated into the Coffers of King Henry 7. Prelates Leoline ap Llewelin ap Ywyr or Leoline de Brontfield was born in the Marches Under King Edward 1. he was Consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 1293. and afterwards appropriated some Churches to his Chapter He reduced a portion of Tithes in the Parish of Corwen appropriating to the Church to its former Estate He askâ—d leave of King Edward 1. to make his Will whereby he bequeathed much of his Plate rich Vests and Books to the Canons of that Church and his Chaplains dying 1313. Since the Reformation Godfrey Goodman born of Wealthy Parentage bred