and other antiquities hee could finde there Leofricke was sonne to the Earle of Kent and after being chosen to be Archbishop of Canterburie he refused it this Abbot in a time of dearth solde all the Iewels of his Church to buy bread for the poore After him succeeded Alfricke Leostan Frâ—theric Paul In this Abbot were giuen to the Monastery of Saint Albanes the Celles of Wallingford of Tinnemuth of Bealvare of Hertford and Binham Richard who liued in the time of William Rusus when the Cell of Saint Marie de Wymonaham or Windham in Norfolke was giuen vnto this Abbey beeing sounded by William de Albeney father to William de Albeney first Earle of Arundell Gaufridus who founded the Nunnery of Sopwell therby on the other side of the riuer founded and so called vpon this occasion two poore women hauing built themselues a small cabben liued in that place a very austere life praying and seruing God with great deuotion and for that they liued for the most part with no other sustenance saue bread and the water of a Well there wherein they vsed to soppe or dippe their bread it had saith mine Author a Monke sometime of that Abbey the name of Sopwell Then Radulphus Robert Simon Garmus Iohn William c. Off a gaue to this his Abby of Saint Albans these towns following viz. Thei l Edelâ—â—â—â—â— Wiclesfield Cagesâ—o cum suis Berechund Rikeâ—aresworth Bacheworth Crokâ—leie Michelfield Britchwell Watford Bilsey Merdell Haldenham Sprâ—t Enefeild Stâ—â—â—â—â—â— Hâ—â—â—â—â—ted Winelesham Biscopscoâ— Câ—dâ—â—â—dune and Mildâ—â—dune Egelsride his sonne and successour gaue Sandruge and Penefield Alfrickâ— Abbot of this Church after Archbishop Leofrick his brother gaue Kingesbury Câ—ealdwich Westwic Flamsted Nortâ—â—â— Râ—â—â—â—hang Wâ—â—â—â—field Birstan and Vpton AEthelwold Bish. of Dorchester gaue Girshuna Cuicumba Tyme Aegelwin Redburne ThuangnaÌ„ Lingley Grenburga One Tholfe gaue Estune and Oxaw One Sexi gaue Hâ—chamsted One Haâ—dh gaue Newhaâ— and Beandise Therefeld a religious woman gaue Sceanlâ—a Bridel Aegelwina another gaue Batesden Offal and Standune One Aegelbert gaue Craniford Aâ—â—an Cutesham Winsimus gaue Esenden Osulsus and his wife gaue Stâ—dham and Wilsinâ—â— others Walden Cudicote Scephal Bethell with sundry other Celles Churches and goodly possessions of me vnnamed If I should set you downe the inestimable wealth consisting in Plate Iewells Bookes costly Hangings Altar-cloathes and the like which by our English Kings Nobilitie and others haue from the foundation vnto the dissolution with the sundry priuiledges this Abby had I should weary my selfe with writing and you with reading but I omit them hauing onely proposed a mirrour to the eyes not of the Church pillars of ancient but the Church pillers of our times The Auncestors of this Noble family were Frenchmen borne taking their Surname of a Towne in Normandy called Sackuill whereof they were Lords and came into England to the aide of Duke William the Conquerour as appeareth by an auncient Manuscript or Chronicle of Brittaine now in the Custody of Mr. Edward Gwinn where he is called a Chiefetaine and is the seauenth man ranked in a Catalogue of names there for as it may be obserued out of Mr. Camdens Remaines that the better sort about the time of the Conquest began to take vp Surnames so againe they were not setled amongst the common people vntill the Raigne of King Edward the second He moreouer affirmeth that the most ancient and of best account were deriued from places whereof this name of Sackuill is one and to adde yet more vnto it Ordericus Vitalis the Monke in his Normane story saith that Herbrann de Sackuill was liuing in the time of William the Conquerour being father of three Noble Knights Iordan William and Robert de Sackuill and of a vertuous and beautifull Ladie named Auice who was married to Walter Lord of Alfage Hugleuill by whom shee had issue Iordan L. of Alfage Hugleuill that married Iulian the daughter of one Godsâ—all who came into England with Q. Adelize of Loâ—â—ine the Wife to King Henry the first After whose death the said Queene married to William de Albency Earle of Arundell from whom the now Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surry and Earle Marshall of England is descended S. Iordan de Sackuill Knight the eldest sonne was Sewer of England by the gift of the said Conquerour but liued and died in Normandy S. Robert de Sackuill Knight the yonger sonne liued in England and gaue together with his body the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolkeâ— to the Abbey of Sâ— Iohn Baptist in Colchester leauing issue a son named Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill a very eminent man in the time of King Richard the first as appeareth by a Charter of the said King made to the Monkes of Bordesâ—ey in Buckinghamshiere Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill that obtained of King Iohn a Friday Market weekely and a Faire once a yeare in his Towne of Sackuill in Normandy as saith the Kings Publike Records in the Tower of Lâ—â—don Holiinshed fol. 186. doth there ranke Iordan de Sackuill as a Baron calling him one of the assistants to the 25. Peeres of this Realme to see the Liberties of Magna Charta confirmed And for further proofe that they were men of no meane â—anke it is apparent in the Red booke of the Excheaquer in the 12. and 13. yeeres of the said Kings Raigne in these words Hubertus de Anestie tenes 2. food in Anestie parua Hornmcad dimid 〈◊〉 in Anestie de Honore Richardâ— de Sackâ—yle Agaiâ—e Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill Knight grandâ— childe to the said Iordan de Sackuill was taken prisoner at the battaile of Eâ—esham for siding with the Barons against King Henry the third in the 49. yeare of His Raigne whose sonne and heire named Andrew Sackuill being vnder age at the time of his fathers death and the Kings Waâ—d was like wise imprisoned in the Castle of Deuer Ann. 3. Eâ—n 1. and afterward by the speciall command of the said King did marry Ermynâ—â—de an Honourable Ladie of the houshold to Queene 〈◊〉 or whereby he not onely gained the Kings fauour but the greatest part of his Inheritance againe From whom the aforesaid Richard Earle of Dorset with Sâ— Edward Sackuill Knight of the Bathe his brother and others are descended one of whose Auncestors by marrying a daughter and co-heire of Rase de Denn sonne of Rodbert Pincerna that held the Lordship of Buckhurst with diuers other Mannors and Lands in Sussex about the time of the Normain Conquest In right of which marriage they haue euer since continued Lords of the said Mannor of Buckhurst with diners other Manors and Lâ—nds in Sussex c. Which William Earle of Devonshâ— was sonne of Sâ— William Cavendish of Chattesworth in the said Countie of Derby knight Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight Edward the sixt and Queene Marie by his wife Elizabeth daughter of lohn Hardwick of Hardwick Esquire The Auncestors of this Noble Familie called themselues Gâ—râ—ms whose issue
life Beleeue you with Chrysostome that the ignorance of the Scriptures is the beginning and fountaine of all euill That the word of God is as our Sauiour calleth it the key of knowledge which giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse And rather let the pious and good King Alphonsiâ—s be a president vnto you and to all Nobilitie who read ouer the Bible nor once nor twice but foureteene times with the Postils of Lyra and Burgensis containing thrice or foure times as much in quantitie and would cause it to be caried ordinarily with his Scepter before him whereon was engrauen Pro lege Grege And that worthy Emp. great Champion of Christendome Charlemaigne who spent his daies of rest after so mnay glorious victories obtained of the Saracens in Spain the Hunnes Saxens Gothes and Vandals in Lumbardie and Italy with many other barbarous Nations whereof milions fell vnder his Sword in reading the holy Scriptures and the workes of the Fathers especially S. Augustine and his bookes De Ciuitate Dei in which hee tooke much delight Whom besides it is recorded to haue beene so studious that euen in bed he would haue his Pen and Inke with Parchment at his Pillow readie that nothing in his meditation nothing might ouer-slip his memorie and if any thing came into his mind the light being taken away a place vpon the wall next him was thinly ouer-laid withâ—Waxe whereon with a brasen pin he would write in the darke And we reade as oft as a new King was created in Israel he had with the ornaments of his kingly dignitie the Booke of the Law deliuered vnto him signifying his Regall authoritie was lame and defectiue except swaied by Piety and Wisedome contained in that booke Whereunto alludeth that deuice of Paradine an Image vpon a Globe with a sword in one hand and a booke in the other with Ex vtroque Caesar and to the same purpose another of our owne in my Minerua Britannâ— which is a Serpent wreathed about a Sword placed vpright vpon a Bible with the word Initium Sapiemia CHAP. 6. Of stile in speaking and writing and of Historie SInce speech is the Character of a man and the Interpreter of his mind and writing the Image of that that so often as we speak or write so oft we vndergoe censure and iudgement of our selues labour first by all meanes to get the habit of a good stile in speaking and writing as well English as Latine I call with Tully that a good and eloquent stile of speaking Where there is a iudicious fitting of choise words apt and graue Sentences vnto matter well disposed the same being vttered with a comely moderation of the voyce countenance and gesture Not that same ampullous and Scenical pompe with emptie furniture of phrase wherewith the Stage and our pettie Poeticke Pamphlets sound so big which like a net in the water though it feeleth weightie yet it yeeldeth nothing since our speech ought to resemble wherin neither the curiousnesse of the Picture or faire proportion of Letters but the weight is to be regarded and as Pluâ—arch saith when our thirst is quenched with the drinke then we looke vpon the ennameling and workmanship of the boule so first your hearer coueteth to haue his desire satisfied with matter ere hee looketh vpon the forme or vinetrie of words which many times fall in of themselues to matter well contriued according to Horace Rembeâ—â— dispositam vel verba invita feqâ—untur To matter well dispos'd words of themselues do fall Let your stile therefore bee furnished with solid matter and compact of the best choise and most familiar words taking heed of speaking or writing such words as men shall rather admire then vnderstand Herein were Tiberiuâ— M. Anteâ—ie and Mâ—cenas much blamed and iested at by Augustus himselfe vsing euer a plaine and most familiar stile and as it is said of him Verbum insolens tanquam scopulum effugiens Then sententious yea better furnished with sentences then words and as Tully willeth without affectation for as a King said Dum tersiari studemus eloquendi formula subterfugit nos clanculùm apertus ille familiaris dicendi modus Flowing at one and the selfe same height neither taken in and knit vp too short that like rich hangings of Arras or Tapistry thereby lose their grace and beautie as Themistocles was wont to say not suffered to spred so farre like soft Musicke in an open field whose delicious sweetnesse vanisheth and is lost in the ayre not being contained within the walles of a roome In speaking rather lay downe your words one by one then powre them forth together this hath made many men naturally slow of speech to seem wisely iudicious and be iudiciously wise for beside the grace it giueth to the Speaker it much helpeth the memorie of the hearer and is a good remedie against impediment of speech Sir Nicholas Bacon sometime Lord Chancellor of England and father to my Lord of S. Albâ—nâ—s a most eloquent man and of as sound learning and wisedome as England bred in many Ages with the old Lord William Burgbley Lord Treasurer of England haue aboue others herein beene admired and commended in their publique speeches in the Parliament house and Starre-Chamber for nothing drawes our attention more then good matter eloquently digested and vttered with a gracefull cleere and distinct pronuntiation But to be sure your stile may passe for currant as of the richest alloy imitate the best Authors as well in Oratorie as Historie beside the exercise of your owne Inuention with much conference with those who can speak well nor bee so foolish precise as a number are who make it Religion to speake otherwise then this or that Author As Longolius was laughed at by the learned for his so apish and superstitious imitation of Tully in so much as hee would haue thought a whole Volume quite matred if the word Possibile had passed his pen because it is not to be found in all Tullie or euery Sentence had not sunke with esse posse videatur like a peale ending with a chime or an Amen vpon the Organes in Paules For as the young Virgin to make her fairest Garlands gathereth not altogether one kind of Flower and the cunning Painter to make a delicate beautie is forced to mixe his Complexion and compound it of many Colours the Arras-worker to please the eyes of Princes to be acquainted with many Histories so are you to gather this Hony of Eloquence A gift of heauen out of many fields making it your owne by diligence in collection care in expression and skill in digestion But let me leade you forth into these all-flowrie and verdant fields where so much sweete varietie will amaze and make you doubtfull where to gather first First Tullie in whose bosome the Treasure of Eloquence seemeth to haue beene locked
cassocke and affecteth the wearing of the richest iewels the French huge feathers Scarlet and gold lace the English his armes rich and a good sword the Italians pride is in his Neapolitan Courser the Germanes and low Dutch to be dawbed with gold and pearle wherein say they there is no losse except they be lost But herein I giue no prescripon I now come to your diet wherein be not onely frugall for the sauing of your purse but moderate in regard of your health which is empaired by nothing more then excesse in eating and drinking let me also adde Tobacco taking Many dishes breede many diseases dulleth the mind and vnderstanding and not onely shorten but take away life We reade of Augustus that he was neuer curious in his diâ—t but content with ordinary and common viandes And Cato the Censor sayling into Spaine dranke of no other drinke then the rowers or slaues of his owne galley And Timotheus Duke of Athens was wont to say whoÌ„ Plato invited home to him to supper they found theÌ„selues neuer distempered Contrary to our Feastmakers who suppose the glory of entertainment and giuing the best welcome to consist in needelesse superfluities and profuse waste of the good Creatures as Scylla made a banquet that lasted many dayes where there was such excessiue abundance that infinite plenty of victualls were throwne into the Riuer and excellent wine aboue forty yeares old spilt and made no account of but by surfetting and banquetting at last he gat a most miserable disease and dyed full of lice And Caâ—sar in regard of his Lybian triumph at one banquet filled two and twenty thousand roomes with ghests and gaue to euery Citizen in Rome ten bushels of wheate and as many pounds of oyle and besides three hundred pence in mony We reade of one Smyndirides who was so much giuen to feasting and his ease that hee saw not the Sunne rising nor setting in twenty yeares and the Sybarites forbad all Smiths and knocking in the streetes and what thing soeuer that made any noise to bee within the City walls that they might eate and sleepe whereupon they banished cocks out of the city and invented the vse of chamberpots and bad women a yeare before to their feasts that they might haue leisure enough to make themselues fine and braue with gold and Iewels Aboue all learne betimes to auoide excessiue drinking then which there is no one vice more common and reigning and ill beseeming a Gentleman which if growne to an habit is hardly left remembring that hereby you become not fit for any thing hauing your reason degraded your body distempered your soule hazarded your esteeme and reputation abased while you sit taking your vnwholesome healthes vt iam vertigine tectum Ambulet geminis exsurgat mensa lucernis Vntill the house about doth turne And on the board two candles seeme to burne By the Leuiticall law who had a glutton or a drunkard to their Sonne they were to bring him before the Elders of the City and see him stoned to death And in Spainâ— at this day they haue a law that the word of him that hath beene convicted of drunkennesse shall not bee taken in any testimony Within these fiftie or threescore yeares it was a rare thing with vs in England to see a Drunken man our Nation carrying the name of the most sober and temperate of any other in the world But since we had to doe in the quarrell of the Netherlands about the time of Sir Iohn Norrice his first being there the custome of drinking and pledging healthes was brought ouer into England wherein let the Dutch bee their owne Iudges it we equall them not yea I thinke rather excell them Tricongius and the old Romanes had lawes and statutes concerning the Art of drinking which it seemes are reuiued and by our drunkards obserued to an haire It being enacted that he who after his drinks faltered not in his speech vomited not nâ—yther reeled if he dranke off his cups cleanâ—ly seek not his wind in his draughs spit not left nothing in the pot nor spilt any vpon the ground he had the prize was accounted the brauest man If they were contented herewith it were well but they daily inueâ—t new and damnable kinds of carrowâ—ing as that in North-holland and Frizeland though among the baser sort of vpsiâ— Monikedam which is after you haue drunke out the drinke to your friend or companion you must breake the glasse full vpon his face and if you misse you must drinke againe whence proceede quarrelling reâ—iling and many times execrable murthers as Alexander was slain in his drunkennesse and Domitius Nero's father slew Liberius out right because he would not pledge him a whole carrowse and hence arise most quarrells among our gallant drunkards vnto whom if you reade a lecture of sobrietie and how in former ages their forefathers dranke water they sweare water is the frogges drinke and ordained onely for the driuing of milles and carrying of boates Neither desire I you should be so abstemious as not to remember a friend with an hearty draught since wine was created to make the heart merry for what is the life of man if it want wine Moderately taken it preserueth health comforteth and disperseth the naturall heate ouer all the whole body allayes cholericke humours expelling the same with the sweate c. tempereth Melancholly And as one saith hath in it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a drawing vertue to procure friendship At your meate to be liberall and freely merry is very healthy and comely and many times the stranger or guest will take more content in the chearelinesse of your countenance then in your meate Augustus the Emperour had alwayes his mirth greater then his feasts And Suctonius saith of Titus Vespasians Sonne he had euer his table furnished with mirth and good company And the old Lord Treasurer of England Lord William Burghley how emploied soeuer in State affaires at his table hee would lay all businesse by and bee heartily merry Charles the Great vsed at his meates to haue some History read whereof hee would afterwards discourse And Francis the first King of France would commonly dispute of History Cosmography Poetry His Maiesty our Soueraigne altogether in points and profound questions of Diuinity When I was in Virocht and liued at the table of that Honourable Gentleman Sir Iohn Ogle Lord Gouernour whither resorted many great Schollers and Captaines English Scottish French and Dutch it had beene enough to haue made a Scholler or Souldier to haue obserued the seuerall disputations and discourses among many strangers one while of sundry formes of battailes sometime of Fortification of fireworkes History Antiquities Heraldrie pronunciation of Languages c. that his table seemed many times a little Academic In your discourse be free and affable giuing entertainment in a sweete and liberall manner and with a cheerefull courtesie
in processe of time assumed to themselues the Surname of Cavendish as being Lords of the Towne and Mannor of Cavendish in Suffolke out of which familie disbranched that famous Trauailer Mr. Thomas Cavendish who was the third that trauailed about the world whose voyage you shall finde set downe at large in the English Discouerers written by Mr. 〈◊〉 It is borne by the name of Hobart and was the proper Coate of Sir Iames Hobart Knight Atturney Generall vnto King Henry the seauenth a right good man withall of great learning and wisedome hee builded the Church of Loddâ—n and Saint Olaues commonly called Saint Toolies bridge in the County of Norfolke This worthy Knight lyeth buryed vnder a faire monument in the middle I le on the Northside in Christs Church in Norwich But it is now borne with the Coate of Vister by the gift of King Iames vnto him as a Barronet by the Honourable and Nobly minded Sir Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas of Blickling in the County of Norfolke whose vprightnesse in Iustice and loue to his country hath like his owne Starre communicatiue of it selfe dispersed the fairer beames into all places Râ—x dilect◠〈◊〉 sâ—o Roberto de Woodhouse Archidiacone de Richmâ—nd Thesaâ—rario sâ—o salutem Negotiaâ—os statum regni contingentia c. vobis mandamus â—irmiter iâ—iungentes quod omnibus alijs praterâ—issis c. Beside I haue sâ—ene the will of King Henry the fourth and Heâ—rie the fifth where one was a gentleman of Henry the fourth's chamber and by his will made one of his executors as also he was to Henry the fifth who wrote his letter to the Pâ—ior and Chapter of the Church of the Trinitie in Norwich to giue him leaue to build himselfe a Chappell in their Church So that from time to time they haue held an Honourable place and at this day are worthy stayes and pillars of Iustice in their Countries Nor must I heere let fall the worth of two sons of this Gentleman Sir Thomas Woodhouse Knight who marryed Blanch Sister to the right Honourable Henry now Viscount Rochfâ—rt and Master Roger Woodhouse his brother Gentlemen not onely learned but accomplished in what euer may lend Lustre to worth and true gentilitie This was also the Coate of Sir Thomas Louell Knight of the Garter made by King Henrie the seuenth of whose hoâ—se hee was Treasurer and President of the Counsell This Sir Thomas Louell was a fift sonne of Sir Ralphe Louell of Barton Bendish in the Countie of Norfolke This his Coate with the Garter about it standeth ouer Lincolnes Inne Gate He founded the Nunnery of Halliwell where was also his house on a wall of which not maâ—y yeares since was to be read this inscription All ye Nuns of Halliwell Pray ye both day and night For the Soule of Sir Thomas Louell Whom Harry the 〈◊〉 made Knight It appeareth also that Sir William Louell Lord Morley was Knight of the Garter for in Morley Church the seate of his Baronnie is yet remaining in a Glasse window which I haue seene this Coate with the Garter about it This Coate Armour is verie ancient as is proued by sundry bookes of Armes Church windowes and seuerall deeds wherof I haue seene two bearing date Anno 18. Richard the 2. with seales of this very Coate fixed thereunto with this inscription about the same viz Sigillum Robertide Ashfield as also another deed bearing date Anno 3. Henrie the fixt made from Robert the sonne of Iohn Ashfeild of Stow-Langton Esquire to Simon Finchanâ— and Iohn Whitlocke with a faire Seale of red Waxe whereupon was a Griffâ—â— Sâ—iant with his wings displayed ouer whose body is this Armes with this inscription about the whoâ—e Seale viz S. Robertide Ashfeild Armig. The aboue named Robert Ashfeild builded the Church of Stow Langton in the Quire whereof which I haue seene hee lyeth butied vnder a faire Marble he was seruant vnto the blacke Prince whom he followed in his warres in France This Coate is thus borne by Sir lohn Ashfeild Knight sole heire of that Family now Gentleman of the bedde Chamber to Prince Charles This ancient name and family of Crow was anciently of Suffolke for about the time of K. Edward the 4. Thomas Crow of Suffolke the elder purchased Bradsted in Kent whose sonne Thomas Crow the yoâ—ger married Ioane the onely daughter and heire of Nicholas Boare son of Iohn sonne of Richard Boare that married Lora the daughter of Simon Stocket of Bradsted in Kent The aforesaid Ioane brought to Thomas her husband his house called Stockets with a Chancell built by the aboue named Simon Stockets as appeareth by a French deede tempore Edw. 2. As also a house and certaine land called Boars by whom shee had issue Iohn Crow the elder father of Henry Crow father of William Crow of Bradsted Esq. who married Anne the second daughter and coheire of Iohn Sackuill of Chiddingleigh in Sussex Esq. The said Mannor of Chiddingleigh hath beene in the possession of the Sackuills aboue three hundred yeeres and at this day is part of the inheritance of the Right Honorable Richard Sackuill Earle of Dorset and Baron of Buckâ—urst which William Crow and Annâ— his wife hath issue Sackuill Crow their sonne and heire now liuing with others This Coate of Talbot belongeth vnto the Right worshipfull Master Thomas Talbot Doctour of the Ciuill Law of Miliers Hall in Wimâ—ndham in the Countie of Norfolke a very learned and honest Gentleman If you would proceede further in blazonry and the true knowledge of the desâ—â—â—ts of our English Nobility I refer you to that exact iust and elaborate worke of my singular and learned friend Master Augustine Vincent Rouge-croix very shortly to be publishedâ— which let it be vnto you of all that haue written in that kinde instar omnium So I referre you henceforward to your priuate reading and obseruation CHAP. 14. Of Exercise of the Body I Now from your priuate studie and contemplation bring you abroad into the open fields for exercise of your Body by some honest recreation since Aristotle requireth the same in the Education of Nobilitie and all youth Since the mind from the Ability of the Body gathereth her strength and vigor Anciently by the Ciuill Law these kinds of Exercises were onely allowed of that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are the exercise of Armes by single combate as running at Tilt-barrians c. coiting throwing the hammer sledge and such like Running iumping leaping and lastly wrestling for the first it is the most Noble those Epithites of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue beene the attributes of Kings and Princes whose delight in auncient times was to ride and mannage great horses Hereby you are ennabled for command and the seruice of your Country And what saith Tullis can bee more glorious then to bee able to preserue and