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A tale of tvvo swannes VVherein is comprehended the original and increase of the riuer Lee commonly called Ware-riuer: together, with the antiquitie of sundrie places and townes seated vpon the same. Pleasant to be read, and not altogether vnprofitable to bee vnderstood. By W.V.
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Vallans, William.
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STC 24590; ESTC S111492
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chiefe Lordes sonnes of Britaine and Cornewall where Zepherinus then Bishop priuily instructed him in the fayth of Christ which at his returne he taught to Albon in such sort that openly professing the same they were in the time of the ãâã Dââ¦sian ââ¦th martired Wherof you may reade in Gââ¦ldas and Bede After this the Citie was yet in good estate vntill the time of the ãâã when Octâ⦠and Oesa taking it for their refuge were besieged by Vther Pendragon wâ⦠brake the ââ¦es and defaced it Aââ¦ter this by Lââ¦tle and Litle it langââ¦shed so that it became a deane or harbour of theeues and ãâã vntill King Offa about the yeare of our Lord 793. ââ¦ded an Aââ¦ey in honor of S. A bon in a place calld ãâã hencefoââ¦rth the olde citie decaied and S. Aââ¦bons flourished And Alfricke the seuenth Abbot of the house bought the fishing pond of the King and for that the Fishermen dayly endoââ¦aged the religious people it was with great ââ¦st drayââ¦ed made drie There remaineth at this day a street in S. Albons called Fishpoââ¦le street and for that there hath bene fouââ¦d about the Citie AAnchors keles of beates old nailes and such trash some haue supposed the Thames to haue runne that way which errour grewe by corruption of Gyldas booke where he mentioneth of S. Albons death but it is not so but heare what ancient recordes doo testifie concerning the same In the tune of Kââ¦ng Edgar when Aegelred was Abbot he caused the ruines of Verolane to be searched the vaultes to bee vncouered and the pauements to be digged vp where he found Pillers peeces of antique worke thresholds door-frames pillers for windowes of fine masonrie worke some of Porphyrte some Touch some Alablaster all which were verte conuenient for his purpose besides hee found sockets of Lattyn and of brasse with diuers other thinges which hee reserued towardes the foundation of a new abbey which he intended to build But being preuented by death Edmerus his successor digged againe and found Idols Altars richly couered Iugs and cruses wiââ¦h puts some of wood some stone and some gold artificially wrââ¦ught and caââ¦ed And proceeding farther hee found pots of gold siluer and some of brasse some with coyne and some with bones and ashes of such as haue bene burned or buried all which were reseruââ¦d and the mettels melted and kept for this new ãâã which ãâã at last ãâã was ãâã ãâã great store of ââ¦ges and ââ¦old pââ¦leges and the new towne of S. Albons dayly more and more increased famous as well for the ãâã as also for two notââ¦ble ãâã ãâã fought there ãâã ãâã the ãâã betwixt the two great hââ¦uses of Yorkâ⦠and ãâã Thus much of Veroââ¦ne whereof more might be said which for ãâã saâ⦠ãâã Bishopâ⦠Hatfield or Hethfield Iohn Morton bishop of Ely builded thââ¦re a house which nowe belongeth to her ãâã ãâã ãâã as Leland ãâã belonged once to thâ⦠ãâã ãâã Berââ¦yers from theâ⦠to the Howards Thâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã suspectââ¦g that a towâ⦠of the house would ââ¦all by reason of the height tooke downe a part therof And king Henrie the eight making an exchange with the Duke newly reedââ¦ed the house sincâ⦠whose time it is honââ¦red with the title of a Barâ⦠which Henry Cary Lord Chamberlaine of her Muestâ⦠houshold ââ¦efetenant of Northfolke and Suffolke and Captaine of Barwike at this day enioyeth Hartford called by Antonine the Romans Durocobriuas the ãâã or Welââ¦en callââ¦ed waââ¦er Duâ⦠Coâ⦠Briua ãâã ãâã them as also ãâã the ãâã ãâã signifieth ouer the water as Briua Odera Briua Iââ¦ara which signifie passages ouer riuers of the same name The Saxons called it Herudford as in one booke remaining with Iohn Stowe a diligent ââ¦earcher and ââ¦reseruer of antiââ¦ties it is written Hââ¦ford Bedâ⦠in the fourth booke of his ãâã history ââ¦neth how Theodorus Archbishop of Canterbâ⦠held ãâã ãâã or proââ¦ciall counsell at Herudford Anno. 670. but now it is corruptly as I thinke called Hartford which Leland interpreteth Cerâ⦠vadâ⦠the toord of ãâã it hath ãâã in olde time of good account as well by ãâã of the ãâã also of the ãâã the Castel was ãâã first by Edââ¦ard ãâã in the ninth yeare of his raige as Henry Hunââ¦gton saith whose wordes ãâã ãâã Anno. ãâã sui construxâ⦠Hââ¦refordium castrum noâ⦠ãâã sed pulcheriââ¦um tamen inter ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã sed clarissima tamen This castle hath ãâã ãâã by the Clares and then by the Dukes of Lancaster for Roger de Clare in Henry the second his time was created Erle of Hartford And Robert Fitzwalter that came of the same house in king Steuens time did boldly affirme that the keeping of the Castle did of right belong vnto him Henry the third gaue the Castle with the honour belonging to it to William Ualence Erle of Penbroke Anno. 1247. After it fell to the Dukes of Lancaster who vsed to lodge at it verie often In the yeare of our Lord 1357 the Queene of Scottes sister to king Edward the third departed this life lying at Hartford with her sister in law the Queene of England and in the yeare 1458 for a fray made in Fleetestreet in London the king sent the principals of Clifford Furniuall and Barnardes In as prisoners to Hartford castle King Henry the sixt vsed often to keepe his Christmas there and to conclude king Edward the sixt was nursed and schooled there The priorie was builded by Ralfe Lord Lymesoy who came into England with William the Conquerour and was as the Monkes reported his sisters sonne The townesmen of late haue procured to themselues a new corporation and haue on the Saterday a good market and euery yeare three faires In Edward the 3. time as I haue seene in an olde record they had two markets in the weeke and but two fayres In the time of Henry the eight viz. 1507 there was a paper Mill at Hartford and belonged to Iohn Tate whose father was Mayor of London Waltham a market towne the Abbay was builded by king Harold who shortly after hee had built it was slaine by William the conqueror his mother with great and earnest siââ¦e obtained his body and intoumbed the same in the Abbay Aelners Crosse coÌmonly called Waltham crosse K. Henry the first set it vp in memory of his wife who died in Lincolnshire and wheresoeuer her body was caried there hee erected a crosse with the armes of England Castile and Pontoys geuen ââ¦n the same of which the crosse in Chepe and Charing crosse be two of the fayrest TO HIS BELOUED FATHER IOHN Valans W. U. wisheth the grace of God with health and prosperitie THe dutie deare Father I owe vnto you the regard of my promise together with the remeÌbrance of your reasonable request doo not a litle mooue me to write a few words concerning the matter whereof at my being with you last weââ¦th certaine of our friendes talked Aâ⦠ãâã am well
land as fast as they could to Quatbridge sending their wiues and children againe into east England After this the king departed and the Londoners and Countrimen seeing the Danes were gone burst downe their Holdeâ⦠and got some of their ships backe againe to London and the rest they burned and brake all to peeces But here peraduenture you will aske me howe I shoulde come by the knowledge of these thinges beeing done so many hundred yeares agoe To this I answere that in things that were done long before any man that is now liuing can remember wee must credit that our Fathers haue committed to writing concerning the same And in my opinion the neerer the reporter liueth to those times in which the thinges he speaketh or writeth of were done the more credite is to bee geuen to him And as concerning this matter it is confirmed by the reporte of a verie auncient reuerent and and learned Wryter namely Asserus Meneuensis Bishop of Saint Dauies that liued in the verie selfe same time when these thinges were done and Maryanus Scotus who liued and wrote a chronicle at least 500. yeares ago as Florentinus a Monk of Worcester who continued it doth witnesse and declare Besides diuers others of great antiquitie and credite as Henry of Huntington Mathew of Westminster and manie moe who dââ¦e all confirme that which is before declared Besides there remayneth yet the ruines of an old Castle or Fort betweene Hartford Castle and the Mill which I doe vndoubtedly beleeue was the verie selfe same Fort that the Danes builded Moreouer O. Crosse did credibly enââ¦rine me that at y e building of Stansted bridge there were found within the riuer peeces of broken ships or Craets nayles and other thinges which seemed to belong to some great shippes or vessels All which thinges considered together with the parting of the streame before remembred me thinkes should be sufficient to confirme your minde and cause you to beleeue that there haue bene ships at Ware and Hartford Hereunto may bee added that it was a common vse of the Danes to row or drawe vp their ships into some smaller creeke or riuer where that they might ride all winter with least danger And time worketh some alteration both by water and by land y t where great riuers did somtimes run nowe it is vtterlie drie and in stead of maine waters we haue goodly florishing Meades And in like sort where goodly cities and castels some times did stand there now groweth corne For examples of this we need not seeke farre since y t in London not aboue 277. yeeres ago namely in the yeere of our Lord 1300. when Henry Waleys was Mayor of the citie there ran a riuer through Walbrook w t two bridges ouer it whereof William Iordan and Iohn de Beuer were maisters and gouernours What is become of the riuer Wer. that ran by S. Albons of which the great city that in old time stood there took the name and was called Werlamchester whereof Leland in his coÌmentaries maketh mention concerning cities the diligent reader of chronicles shal meet with y e names of many of which ther is at this day no rubbish nor ruin to be seen as Andres Chester y t stood in Sussex on y e edge of the great wood called Andreds weale of Iââ¦hancester y t stood in the ãâã Panta iâ⦠Essex ãâã of inââ¦nite ââ¦e of which as I sayd therâ⦠is left nâ⦠tââ¦ken but as the Poet saith Est ãâã vbâ⦠ãâã Thus haue you heard deare father both the doings of the Danes not only in Engl ââ¦ut ââ¦lso what they made in those ãâã of the ââ¦d wherof ââ¦e talked and where you dwel There ãâã now to write ãâã ââ¦ou as ãâã ãâã ãâã how kââ¦g ãâã is ãâã Ware was built ââ¦nd in what ââ¦ges dââ¦ies the same was ââ¦e of which I ãâã to say no more then that which hath bene alreadie written by such as haue in their histories and chroââ¦les made meââ¦tion oâ⦠sââ¦h ãâã as were builded by king Edward ãâã abouteâ⦠ãâã ãâã I cannot but much mislikâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã that affirme that the towne of Hartford was ãâã by king Edward the ââ¦rst before the conquesh Seemâ⦠ãâã by the very wordes of Huntington it appeareth that it was ââ¦ut the Castell that he builded for we read in Beda his histoââ¦y ãâã a counsel of Bishops that was bâ⦠at Hartford lââ¦g befâ⦠Edwardes time this castle I meane of Hartford was builded ãâã the yeare of our Lord ââ¦12 by Edward the sââ¦e of king Alâ⦠and two yeares after hee builded a towââ¦e ââ¦n the North ãâã of Lee which is the same thââ¦t I doe take ãâã be Ware and wââ¦s in hand when Witham in Essex was also begâ⦠ãâã ãâã yeââ¦res since Thus much father for this time I thougâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã vnto you concerning this matter ââ¦thing doubâ⦠buâ⦠ãâã herereafter when all thinges be finished that by ãâã of the Lord Treasurer maister Fanshaw and other ãâã mâ⦠ãâã in hard for the amendement and scââ¦ing ãâã riuer you and I both shall see though not shippes yet ãâã bââ¦g boates and vessels passe too and fro betwââ¦xt London ãâã Ware to the commoditie and profite of the whole countrey whââ¦h God graunt Your obedient sonne W. Vallans FINIS The first arme of increase The second The third A riâ⦠let or rill The fifth The sixth The seuenth 1588. Thebals Hartfoord Lee. Caister ãâã Ware Thames Seuerne Humââ¦er Trent Cynthia Verolane Bishops Hatfield oâ⦠Hethfield Hââ¦don Hartfoord Waltham Aââ¦lnors Crosse.