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A43536 Erōologia Anglorum. Or, An help to English history Containing a succession of all the kings of England, and the English-Saxons, the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the arch-bishops, bishops, dukes, marquesses, and earles, within the said dominions. In three tables. By Robert Hall, Gent. Peter Heylyn, 1600-1662. 1641 (1641) Wing H1713; ESTC R216457 108,040 378

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the L. K. Edw. gave it to his son surnamed the black Prince since the which time the eldest sons of the Kings of England whether it be by birth or by the death of their Elder brothers are ipso facto Dukes of Cornwall without any creation and are at age to sue their livery how young soever Whom with their predecessors we shall marshall thus Dukes and Earles of Cornwall   1 Robert of Morton E of Cornwal 1087 2 Wil. de Morton     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1140 3 Reginald Fitz-Harry base son unto K. Hen. the first     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚   4 Iohn second son of K. H. the 2. 1227 5 Rich. Plantagenet 2 son of K. Iohn K. of the Romans 1272 6 Edw. Plantagenet son of Rich.     ✚ ✚ ✚   7 Piers Gaveston     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1336 8 Iohn of Eltham 2 son of Edw. 2. 1336 9 Edw. the black Prince 1357 10 Rich of Burdea●x eldest son of the black Prince * 1399 11 Hen. of Monmouth eldest son of H. the 4. * 1422 12 H of Windsore eld son of H. 5. * 1453 13 Edwof West eld son of H. 6. * 1470 14 Edwof West eld son of ●dw 4. * 1483 15 Edw. of West eld son of Rich. 3. * 1487 16 Arthur eld son of K. H. 7. * 1503 17 Hen. 2 son of K. H. 7. * 1537 18 Edw. eld son of K H 8. * 1602 19 Hen eld son of K Iomes * 1612 20 Char 2 son of K Iames. * 1630 21 Charles eld son of our dread Sover●●●n● now being An. 1641. * COVENTRY COventry is a faire and goodly City within the limits of Warw●ck shire but now within the County of Warwi●k heretofore called so from the Convent by which and the translating of the See Epi●copal● from Lichf●ild hither it grew exceeding rich and wealthy And though it now hath neither Convent nor Episcopall See more than in ruine and in title it still continues its old wealth being the best City of mart and trade in all these parts commodiously built and seated and more than ordinarily frequented for an Inland Towne It belonged once unto the ●arles of Chester and afterward by many meane conveyances to Iohn of Eltham Earle of Cornwall and so this place became annexed unto that Earldome Nor lost it any thing but rather gained much by that annexation Henry the 6. laying unto it certaine the adjacent Villages and making it with them a County corporate cleerely distinct from that of Warwick It is now one of the honourary titles of the Duke of Buckingham George Marquesse of Buckingham being created Duke of Bukingham and Earle of Coven●y by letters patents bearing date in May 21 Iac. and for the remnant of his life he and since him his son enjoyed both the title of Dukes of Buckingham and Earles of Coventry 1623 1 Georges Villiers Marquesse of Buckingham 1628 2 George Villiers now Duke of Buckingham and Earle of Coventry 1641. CVMBERLAND CVmberland is the furthest Country of England on the Northwest side antiently part of the Brigantes It is called Cumbria in the Latine and Cumbrorum ●erra as being inhabited by the true and naturall Britans who in their own language are cald Kymri when as the residue of these Northern parts had yeelded to the conquering Saxon. A Countrey for the situation of it neither unpleasant nor unprofitable the Valleis yeelding corne sufficiently the Mountaines breeding great flocks of sheep the Meeres replenished with all kind of wild foule and the adjoyning Sea affording a variety of excellent fish It conteineth in it not above 58 Parish Churches but very many Chappels of Ease as big and large as any Parish Of these there are 9 Market Townes whereof the chiefe next Carlile for dispatch of busines is that of Perith wherein they hold their Sessions and Assises Late was it ere this County became an Earldome viz. when as K. H. the 8. bestowed the stile and dignity of Earle of Cumberland upon Henry Lord Clyfford whose issue still continue Earles of Cumberland 1525 1 Henry L Clifford created Earle of Cumber 17 of K. H. 8. Iun. 18. * 1542 2 Henry Clifford 1569 3 George Clifford 1605 4 Francis Clifford 1640 5 Henry Clifford Now Earle of Cumberland 1641. DANBY DAnby is an ancient Castle in the hundred or Wapontake of Cleveland in the North-riding of York-shire seated neare to a large Parke and a goodly chase of the same name It belonged anciently unto the L. Latimer and was sold with other lands belonging to that Family unto Ralph Nevill Earle of Westmerland who forth with gave the same to his son Sir George Nevil whom K. H. the 6. not long after summoned to the Parliament by the name of Lord Latimer His issue male failing in Qu Elizabeths times and the Estate being divided betweene his two daughters and coheires this Castle with the lands adjoyning fell unto the share of his daughter Mary who being married to Sir Iohn Danvers of Wil●sh was by him mother of S Hen. Danvers created by K. Iames L. Danvers of Dan●eser and by our Sovereigne now being the first E of Danby 1629 1 Henry L. Danvers of Dantesey cr E. of Danby Feb. 7. 10 Car. now living Anno 1641. DARBY DArbyshire is a part of the Coritani and tooke that name of Darby the chief town thereof A Town conveniently seated on the River of Derwent beautified with five Parish Churches a goodly stone Bridg and a large Market-place and no lesse famous for Good Ale than Banbury for Cakes and Che●se Finally the Town is well traded and of good resort and is the usuall place of holding Sessions and Assisses for all the County The Countrey of the East and South parts well manured and fruitfull yeelding a very spacious and pleasing prospect both out of Tutbury Castle and that of Boulsover The West part which they call the Peak is not so pleasing to the eye though possible as profitable to the purse being rich in iron lead and coales which it yeelds abundantly and grazing multitudes of sheep on the Mountaine tops It containes in it 106 Parish Churches of the which 8 be Market●towns the chiefe thereof being Darby as before is said the Catalogue of whose Earls now followeth Earles of Darby 1199 1 William de Ferrars 1247 2 Wil. de Ferrars 1254 3 Wil. de Ferrars 4 Robert de Ferrars     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1131 5 Edm of Lancaster 2 sonne to King Henry the 3. after which time this title was continued in the house of Lancaster 1338 6 Henry of Lancaster son of Henry Earle of Lancaster cr Earle of Darby in his fathers life 11. Edw. 3. * 1386 7 Henry of Bullingbroke sonne of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster cr Earle of Darby in his fathers life 9 Ric. 2. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1485 8 Thomas Lord Stanley cr Earle of Darby by King Henry the 7. L. Constable * 1503 9 Tho. Stanley 1521 10 Edward Stanley * 1572 11 Henry Stanley * 1593 12
of Matravall It was bestowed by Roderick Mawr in his division of Wales on Mervyn his youngest son and did continue in his line a long time together but much afflicted and dismembred by the Princes of Northwales who cast a greedy eye upon it The first Prince of it was called Mervyn but we have no good constat of his successors the last that held it all entire was Meredith ap Blethin who divided it betweene his two sonnes Madoc and Gryffith of the which Madoc died at Winchester Anno 1160. and Gryffith was by Henry the first of England created Lord Powys the residue of Powys-land which pertained to Madoc depending still upon the fortune of North-Wales The Lords of Powys A. Ch.       1 Gryffith ap Meredith   2 Owen Cynelioc   3 Gwenwynnin   4 Gryffith ap Gwenwynnin   5 Owen ap Gryffith 6 John Charleton one of the Bed-chamber to King Edward the second married H●wys daughter of Owen ap Gryffith 1353 7 John Charleton Lord Powys 1360 8 John Charleton Lord Powys 1374 9 John Charleton Lord Powys 1401 10 Edward Charleton Lord Powys 1420 11 Henry Grey nephew of Edward Lord Powys by his daughter Iane created Earle of Tanquerville by King H. 5.   12 Richard Gray Lord Powys   13 John Gray Lord Powys   14 John Gray Lord Powys   15 Edward Gray the last Lord Powys of the race of Mervyn sonne of Roderick King of Wales 1629 16 William Herbert of Red-castle sonne of Edward second sonne of William Herbert Earle of Pembroke created Lord Powys 5. Car. Apr. 2. now living 1641. Kings and Lords of MAN THe Isle of MAN is situate so equally betweene England and Ireland that once it was a controversie unto the which it appertained but was in fine adjudged to England in that some venemous wormes brought hither did not furthwith die which kinde of creatures the nature of the Irish soyle will by no meanes brooke It was once subject unto the crowne and Kingdome of Northumberland but from them taken by the Danes Norwegians and other people of the North in their irruptions on these parts who having mastered it ordained therein a Pe●it King of their owne Nation who thus succeeded one another A. Ch.   Kings of MAN 1065 1 Godred the sonne of Syrrie 1066 2 Fingall sonne of Godred 1066 3 Godred the sonne of Harald 1082 4 Lagman eldest sonne of Godred 1089 5 Dopnald sonne of Tade 1098 6 Magnus King of Norway 1102 7 Olave third sonne of Godred 1144 8 Godred sonne of Olave 1187 9 Reginald base sonne of Godred 1226 10 Olave the lawfull sonne of Godred 1237 11 Herald sonne of Olave 1249 12 Raignald II. brother of Harald 1252 13 Magnus II. brother of Raignald 1266 14 Magnus King of Man being deceased without issue Alexander third King of the Scots partly by conquest and par●ly by money paied to the Norwegians brought this and all the rest of the Westerne Isles under his obedience After this time it was sometimes dependant on the Crowne of Scotland and sometimes on England according as their fortunes varied till in the end it was regained finally from the Scots by William Montacute Earle of Salisbury who was descended from the ancient Kings of Man and by him after sold to the Lord Scrope on whose attainder it fell unto the Crowne of England and changed Lords as followeth Kings and Lords of MAN of English bloud A. Ch.     1340 1 William Earle of Sal●sbury K. 1395 2 William Lord Scrope K. 1399 3 Henry Earle of Northumberland Lord. 1403 4 William Lord Stanley Lord of Man   5 John Lord Stanley Lord of Man   6 Thomas Lord Stanley Lord of Man   7 Thomas Lord Stanley Lord of Man created Earle of Darbie by K. Henry 7. 1503 8 Thomas Stanley Earle of Darby Lord of Man 1521 9 Edward Stanley Earle of Darby Lord of Man 1572 10 Henry Stanley Earle of Darby Lord of Man 1593 11 Ferdinando Stanley Earle of Darby Lord of Man 1604 12 William Stanley now Earle of Darby and Lord of Man 1640. Lords and Kings THe Isle of Wight abutting on the coast of Hampshire was taken from the English by William Fitz-Osborne Earle of Hereford in the time of William Duke of Normandy and King of England who thereupon became the first Lord therof After whose death the proscription of his sonne Roger it fell unto the Crowne and was by Henry the second bestowed upon the family of the Ryvers Earles of Devon On the extinction of which line it fell againe unto the Crowne in the time of King Edward the first and in the same hath since continued giving the title onely of one King and one Lord to two Potent subjects Now for the Lords and King they are these here following A. Ch.       1 William Fitz-Osborne Earle of Hereford 1072 2 Roger de Breteville Earle of Hereford   3 Richard de Ryvers Earle of Devon   4 Baldwin de Ryvers Earle of Devon 1154 5 Richard de Ryvers Earle of Devon 1161 6 Baldwin de Ryvers Earle of Devon 7 Richard de Ryvers Earle of Devon   8 William de Ryvers Earle of Devon 1216 9 Baldwin de Ryvers Earle of Devon 1245 10 Baldwin de Ryvers Earle of Devon 1261 11 Isabell sister to Earle Baldwin and wife to William de Fortibu● surrendred up her interest in this Iland to King Edward the first 1445 12 Henry Beauchamp Earle of Warwick Anno 23. of Henry 6. was crowned King of the Isle of Wight and shortly after made Duke of Warwick 1466 13 Richard Lord Wideville Earle Ryvers made by King Edward 4. Lord of the Wight THE SECOND TABLE OR A CATALOGVE OF All the Bishops which have governed in the Church of England and VVales since the conversion of the SAXONS Together with the honourary Offices which they or any of them have enjoyed in the civill government Divided into two parts Printed at London 1641. THE PREFACE TO THE ENSUING CATALOGUE of Arch-Bishops and Bishops THE ●aith of Christ being here planted as ●aith Gilda● tempore summo Tiberii Caesaris towards the latter end of Tiberius Caesar was as it seemes concealed and hidden ●ill the time of Lucius who publikely making profession of it procured three Archiepiscopall seates to be erected at Yorke Caer-Leon upon Vsk and London for the North West and Southerne parts and suffragan Bishops to be allotted and assigned unto each of them Of these and their successors wee have little Constat onely some foot-steps in some places whereby we may discerne the ruine of religion which had beene made here by the Saxons But when the Saxons were converted to the Christian faith they grew more zealous of the same then formerly they had beene a verse from it and gave it suddenly a generall and unanimous admittance Which being done that part of England which was then in their possession was divided into the two Provinces of Cante●bury and Yorke the ancient Britons
on the vacancie thereof they nominate their designed Bishop unto the King who having given his Royall assent dismisseth him to the Arch-Bishop of Yorke for his consecration This is perhaps the reason why the Bish. of Man is no Lord of Parliament because not at the Kings disposing none having suffrage in that house but those that hold immediately of the King himselfe nor is it reason that they should Whether the Bishop of this Isle was anciently a Su●●ragan to the See of Yorke I can hardly say I finde ordered in the Act of Parliament 33. H. 8. c. 31. wherein the Bishoprick of Chester was made a member of that Province that that of Man should be reputed of it also which may perhaps perswade one that it was otherwise before The Diocese hereof containeth onely 17 Parishes of the which five are Market Townes the rest Villages the people of them all being very conformable unto the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England Now for the Bishops of this See I can meete with few and therefore shall desire those who are more conversant in the businesse of this Isle to supply this want and make a perfect catalogue of the Bishops of Man out of the fragments here ensuing Bishops of Man   ✚ ✚ ✚ A. Ch.     Michael Bishop of Man 1203 Nicolas 1217 Reginald 1257 Richard Bishop of Man dedicated the Church of S. Maries in Russin   ✚ ✚ ✚   He●●● Mann who died Anno 1556   John Merick   George Lloyd removed to Chester An.   1604.   Forster   Parry now Bishop of Man 1641. THE THIRD TABLE OR A CATALOGVE OF All the Dukes Marquesses and Earles which have been in England since the first entrance of the NORMANS TOGETHER With the honourary Offices which they or any of 〈◊〉 have enjoyed in their severall times The Preface to the ensuing Catalogne of Dukes Marquesses and Earles THe Kings of England as they are the fountaine of all authority and jurisdiction in their owne Dominions so are they the foun●aine also of all civill honour which they dispose of and dispence as to them seemes best King● have so much of God in them whose Deputies they are on earth as many times where they finde merit and desert to raise the poore out of the dust that they may set them with the Princes even with the Princes of their people Now for their honourary attributes which by our Kings have beene conferred upon their Subjects the ancientest are those of Earle and Baron the Kings of England of the Norman race not giving unto any the stile of Duke untill that Edw. the third created his sonne Edward the black Prince Duke of Cornwall Anno 1336. As for the title of Marquesse that was made honourary by King Richard the second who first created his great favourite Robert de Vere then Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublyn as afterwards he made his Cosen German Iohn de Bausort one of the sonnes of Iohn of Gaunt by Katherine Swinfort then Earle of Somerset the first Marquesse Dorset But that of Earles hath beene as ancient in this Kingdome as the line of Normandy William the Conqu●r●r advancing many to that honour at his first en●●ance on this State both to reward them for their service and oblige them to him Of which ranke were the Earles of Arund●ll Chester Cornwall Kent Oxford with some others Anno 1067. being the next yeere after he attained the Kingdome Which with the other Earles of ancient creation were commonly endowed de tertio denario placitorum Comitatus with the third penny of the pleas of that County wherof they were Earles the other two parts being accompted by the Sheriffe the Vice-Comes into the Exchequer for the Kings use And though we mean to go no lower in our following Catalogue then the stile of Earle yet by the way we may take notice that Viscount here became an honourary title in the time of K. H. 6. who in the 18. of his raigne advanced Sir Iohn Beaum●nt unto that honour and gave him place above all Barons as Richard 2. gave his new Marquesses precedencie before all Earles Now at the ennobling of deserving persons into these high dignities it is and hath beene of later times the custome of the Kings of England to give unto them some set pension for the support of their estate which is now generally brought unto this proportion that Viscounts have a fee of 20. markes Earles of 20. li. Marquesses of 40. markes and Dukes of 40. li. assigned unto them out of some part or other of the Kings revenues Which bounty I observe not to have beene used in the creation of a Ba●on excepting onely that it pleased his sacred Majesty now being when hee created the righ● honourable Montjoy Blount now Earle of Newport L. Montjoy of Thurleston in the County of Darby to give unto him and his heires a fee of 20. markes per annum which I note here by reason of the singularity and rarenesse of it Nor have the Kings of England beene ●●customed to frame new honourary titles for the advancement of those men which are dear unto them but to preferre them before others of the same honourary ranke and order Henry the sixth bearing especiall affection unto Henry Beauchamp Earle of Warwick first made him the prime Earle of England or Praecomes Angliae And when he after made him Duke of Warwick hee ordered him to have precedencie next after the Duke of Norfolke and before the Duke of Buckingham The ●ame King Henry making his halfe-brother Edmund of H●dham Earle of Richmond gave him the place above all Earles and next of all unto the Dukes Thus did King Iames of blessed memory conferre upon the Earle of N●●tingham on his surrendry of the place and Office of Lord Admirall the seniority and precedencie of the Mowbraies out of which house he was extracted during the life of the said Earle And thus his sacred Majesty now being when he created the right honourable the Vis●ount Walling ford Earle of Banbury gave him precedencie before all Earles created since his Majesties happy comming to the Crowne And in the Patent of creation of the right honourable the Lord Montjoy 3. Can there was a clause of precedencie inserted before all the Barons of that yeere by which hee forthwith had the place both of the Lord Craven and the Lord Falconbridge though created before him So absolute a power have our English Monarchs in the dispensing of their honours and ma●shalling those persons whom they have advanced to these high dignities As for the Female sex they have no reason to complaine that they have beene neglected or omitted in the distributing of these honourary rewards and dignities some of them having had the happinesse to taste the bounty of the Prince in the highest honours For thus the Lady Margaret d● Brotherton daughter of Thomas of Brotherton Earle of Norfolke was by King Richard the second made Dutchesse of Norfolke Anno
Forest yeelding speciall opportunity and delight for Hunters the chiefe Town of it had the name of Hunter downe we now call it Huntingod● with very little variation The Towne commodiously seated upon the northern bank of the River Ouse rising unto the No●th on the ascent of an hill adorned with foure parish Churches and had a little A●bey once founded by Maud the Emper. and Eustace Lovelos● the ruines of the which and of a far●e more ancient Castle built by King Edward the older Anno 917 are yet to be seene This County con●●ineth in it five other market Townes besides the shire-Towne and 79 Parishes in the whole and did become an Earldome presently on the Norman Conquest as it hath ever since continued in these Earles of Huntingdon ●068 1 Waltheof     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1075 2 Simon de Senlys married Maud the daughter of Waltheof     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚   3 David Pr. of Scotland 2 husband of Maud. 1138 4 Henry sonne of David King of Scots     ✚ ✚ ✚   5 Simon de S. Lyz.     ✚ ✚ 1152 6 Malcolm King of Scots sonne of Hen.   7 Wil. after K. of Scots 1174 8 Simon de S. Lys E. 1190 9 David 3 son of Henry 1219 10 Iohn le Scot son of David     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1337 11 Wil. de Clinton     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1377 12 Guiscard d●Angolesme ✚     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1388 13 Iohn Holland L. high Chamb. 1400. 1416 14 Iohn Holland D. of Exet. ✚ 1447 15 Hen. Hol. D of Exon.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1474 16 Tho. Grey Marq. Dorset     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1479 17 Wil. Herb.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1529 18 George Lord Hastings created Earle of Huntingdon by King H. the 8. 1544 19 Fr. Hastings ✚ 1560 20 Hen. Hastings ✚ 1595 21 Geo. Hastings   22 Henry Hastings now Earle 1639. KENDALL KEndall is the name of a Town in Westm●rland called also Cand●le and Kirk by Candals as being seated in a dale neere the river Can. The Town built in the manner of a Crosse two long and broad streets crossing one another a Town of great resort trade especially for woollen cloaths which they make there in great abundance and thence vent through all parts of England This Town hath been an antient Barony descending from the Talboyses to the Breoses or Bruces by them unto the Rosses of Wark some of whose line a●tained the title of ● Rosse of Kendal so to distinguish them from the Lord Roos of Hamlake and so at last unto the Parres to one of which it gave the title of Baron of Kendall as it hath done before of E. to others of more note and eminency which are these that follow   1 Iohn D. of Bedford 3 son unot K. H. 4 Regent of France and E. of Kendall ✚     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚   2 Iohn D. of ●omerset E. of Kend. ✚     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1446 3 Iohn de Foix cr E. of Kend. by K. H. 6 since which those of that Family do write themselves ●●rles of Longueville and Kendall   ✚ ✚ ✚ 1539 4 William Parre Knight created Lord Parre of Kendall 30 Henry the 8. March 9 created after Earle of Ex. by King Henry the 8. and Marques●e of Northampton by King Edward the 6 the rights and interests of which house are now devolved unto the He●berts Earles of Pem●roke descending from the Lady Anne sister and heire of the said Lord Parre KENT KEnt in Latine Ca●●um so called as being seated in the Canton or Corner of the kingdome is a very rich and pleasant Countrey lying between the T●ames and the narrow Seas A Contrey very good for corne and fit for pasturage according to the severall plots and parts thereof and wondrous full of fruitfull and well-ordered Orchards from whence the City of London is supplied with most sort of fruit The Villages and Towns stand exceeding thick bei●g in all 398 Parishes besid●s lesser Hamlets which make up the two Diocesses of Canterbury and Rochester It hath also divers safe Roades and sure Harbours for ships and those exceeding well defended with Forts and Castles Caesar when he arrived in k●nt found here 4 kings for so they cal'd the Chiefes of the principall Families and gives this testimony of the people that they were the most courteous and civill of all the Britan● In the declining of whose Empire Vor●iger gave this Countrey unto the Saxons who being Heathens when the rest of the I●●e were Christians gave an occasion to the Proverb of Kent and Christ●ndome At that time it was made a Kingdome as in the entrance of the Normans it was made an Earldom and so it hath continued in the p●rsons of these Earles of Kent 1067 1 Odo B of B●ieux halfe brother to the Conq. L. Ch. Iust. L. Tr.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1141 2 Wil. of Ypre●     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1227 3 Hub de Burgh L. Ch Iust.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1321 4 Edm. of Wood stock son to K. E. 1. 1330 5 Edm. Plantag 1333 6 Iohn Plantag     ✚ ✚ ✚   7 Tho Hol. married the La. Ioane of Kent daugh of Edm. of Wood. ✚ 1360 8 Tho. Holland 1397 9 Tho. Hol. D. of Surrey ✚ 1400 10 Edm. Hol. L. Adm.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1461 11 Wil. Nevill L. Falconbridge     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1464 12 Edm. Grey L Rut●yn L. Tr. cr E. of Kent by K. Edw. 4.   13 Geo. Grey 1506 14 Rich. Grey died 1523. 1571 15 Reginald Grey 1572 16 Henry Grey 1613 17 Charles Grey   18 Hen. Gr●y 1639 19 Anthony Grey Clerk Parson of ●urbage in the County of Leicester grand-child of Anthony 3 son of George Grey E. of Kent now living an●o 1641. KINGSTON KIngston is the name of a well known and eminent Town in the East Riding of York-shire which standing on the mouth of the river Hull where it doth fall into the Humber is better known amongst us by the name of Hull A town indeed of no antiquity being first built by Edward the ● who liking the situation of the place compounded for it with the Abbot of Meaux to whom it formerly belonged and there built the town and caused it to be called Kingston It rose up in a little time to great reputation so that for faire and sumptuous buildi●gs strong blockhouses well furnished ships wealth of trade it is become the most remarkable town for merchandise in these parts of Eng. Michael de la Pole the first E. of Suffolk of that Family being son of Wil. d● la Pole a rich merchant here obtained great priviledges for the place whi●h his successors as they grew in favour did i●crease and multiply and in the dayes of H. 6 ●il E. Marq. and D of Suffolk procured it to bee made a County incorporate as our Lawyers phrase it Of late dayes of a County it became the Earldome of 1628 1 Rob. Pierrepont Visc. Newark cr
cr E. of Norwich a Car. Aug. 24. Mort sans issue masle NOTTINGHAM NOttinghamsh antiently was a part of the Coritani well watred with the river of Trent and many other pleasant streames The people generally divide it into the sand and the clay that being the E. part taking up the forrest of Sherwood famous for Rob. Hood and his companions this being the South and Eastern part more fruitfull and more fit for corne and throughout well furnished both with wood and coale It conteineth in it 168 Parishes of which the chiefe and that from whence the shire takes name is Nottingham A Town well seated on the Trent though very high up on an hill which overlookes it for buildings and faire streets and a spatious market place not giving way to many Cities But that which gave the greatest ornament unto it was indeed the Ca●●le a Royall and magnificent building which for strength statelinesse and command of prospect may justly challenge the precedency of the best in Eng. Of Mortime●s hole there who was hence haled to his executiō and of the long imprisonment which David K. of Scots here suffred the people are as good as a common Chronicle and intermixe too not afew Fables with the truth of story But that which we have good record for without fraud or fiction is that it hath af●orded in successive Ages these Lords and Earles of Nottingham   1 Wil. Peverell L. of the honour of Nottingham   2 Wil. Peverell L.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1141 3 Rob. de Ferrers married Margar. daughter of Wil. Peverell     ✚ ✚ ✚   4 Iohn after K. of Eng.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1377 5 Iohn L. Mowbray 1382 6 Tho. Mow. E. Mar. after D. of Nor. 1400 7 Tho. Mow. E. M. and D. N. 1405 8 Iohn Mow. E. M. and D N. * 1432 9 Iohn Mow. E. M. and D. N. * 1461 10 Iohn Mow. E. M and D. N. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1475 11 Rich. D. of York 2 son of K Edw. 4 married the La. Anne sole child of Iohn D of Norf. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1483 12 Wil. L. Berkley descended from the L Isab. daugh of Tho. 1 D. of Nor. E. of Nott. 1597 13 Charles L. How of E●●ing L. Adm. de●cended by the house of Nor. from the Mow.   14 Charles How now E. of Nottin Anno 1641. OXFORD OXford-shire is a part of the Dobuni situated North-ward of the Thames which parteth it all along from Berkshire A plentifull and fruitfull Countrey wherein the plaines are garnished with cornefields and meadows the hils well covered with woods and the downes with sheep and wanting in no kind of pleasure which either hawke or hound can afford a Gentleman It conteines in it being no great circuit 270 Parish Churches and 10 market townes the chiefe of which in name and beauty giving denomination to the County is the famous City and Vniversity of Oxford A faire and goodly City both for site and building whether one look on the magnificence of the publique structures or the compacted uniformity of private houses And sure it may be said without immodesty and heard without dislike or envy that for the statelinesse of the Schooles and publique Library the bravery and beauty of particular Colledges all built of faire and polished stone the liberall endowments of those houses and notable incouragements of industry and learning in the salary of the Professors in most Arts and Sciences it is not to be parallelled in the Christian world and for the number of her studens and the well ordering of those Students by good laws and ordinances not to be equalled by any but her sister Cambridge From whence it had the name of Oxford is adhuc sub judice whether of Vadum Isidos the ford of Ouse or Isis on whose banks it stands and so called Ousford or Vada boum the ford of Oxen as the Greeks had their Bosphori in former times I determine not Suffice it that this name is very antient and that it antiently hath beene an Vniversity or seat of learning in which respect it hath co-evity with that of Paris if not priority above it as being refounded by K. Alf●ed Anno 806 after it had been overborne a while by the Danish fury Colledges it conteine●h in all 18. Hals for students 6 and about 13 Paris● Churches It is moreover a see 〈◊〉 and it hath withall received no small honour from the noble 〈◊〉 of the Veres who now for 20 generations 〈◊〉 been Earles of Oxford 1067 1 Edgar Atheling     ✚ ✚ ✚   2 Aubrey de Ver● L. high Chamb. 1146 3 Aubrey de Vere L. high Ch. 1214 4 Rob. de Vere L. high Ch. 1233 5 Hugh de Vere L. high Ch. 1263 6 Rob. de Vere L. high Ch. 1295 7 Rob de Vere L. high Ch. 1331 8 Iohn de Vere L. high Ch. 1358 9 Tho. de Vere L high Ch. 1310 10 Rob. de Vere D. of Ireland 1393 11 Aubrey de Vere 1400 12 Rich. de Vere * 1415 13 Iohn de vere 1462 14 Iohn de Vere L. high Ch. * 1512 15 Iohn de Vere L. high Ch. 1526 16 Iohn de Vere * 1539 17 Iohn de Vere L. high Ch. 1562 18 Edw de Vere L. high Ch. 1604 19 Hen. de Vere L. high Ch. 1624 20 Rob. de Vere 1632 21 Aubrey de Vere now Earle of Oxon 1641 PEMBROKE PEmbrok-shire was inhabited of old by the Dimetae a Countrey quite surrounded by the Sea save where it joyneth unto Cardigan and Carmarthen shires A Countrey plentiful in corne and Cattell not destitute of pit-coale and which is far above the rest as Giraldus tels us considering that it is so neare to Ireland of a temperate and wholesome Aire It conteines in it 140 Parish Churches and 5 Markets that which is most of note being Milford renowned for its safe and capacious haven But that from which it takes denomination is the town of Pembrok seated upon a forked arme of Milford haven and in the best part of all the Countrey A town consisting principally of one long street on a long narrow point of rock and hath within the wals there of two Churches The Earles hereof in former times were County Palatines and passed al things that concerned that County under the seale of the Earldom And it continued so untill the reigne of H. 8. when as Wales was reduced to England and the authority of the great Lords there dissolved by Parliament Since which the Earles of Pembrok have been meerely titular as of other places and of each sort were these in their severall Ages the Marq. and Earles of Pembrok 1139 1 Gilb. de Calre 1149 2 R●c de Clare sirnamed Strongbow     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1199 3 Wil. Mar. married Isabel daughter and heire of Rich Strongbow 1219 4 Wil. Marsh and L. chiefe Iustice. 1231 5 Ric. Marsh. 1234 6 Gilb. Marsh. 1242 7 Walt. Marsh. 1245 8 Anselm Marsh.     ✚ ✚ ✚
1398. And thus the Lady Anne Bullen daughter of Thomas Earle of Wil●s was by King Henry 8 made Marchionesse of Pembroke Anno 1532 as was the Lady Margaret daughter of Georg● D. of Clarence created Countesse of Salisbury by the same King Henry Anno 1514 Thus also the Lady Elizabeth Finch being by King Iames created Viscountesse M●idstone was by our gracious Sove●a●gne Lord now being created Countesse of Winchelsey Anno 1628. the dignity entailed on the heires males of her body hegotten And finally thus was the Lady Elizabeth Richardson wife of Sir Thomas Richardson Lord Chiefe Justice created Baronesse Cramont by his Majesty now re●gning not to say any thing of the Lady Mary Fane Baronesse Despencer or of the Lady Margaret Lennard Ba●onesse Dacres of the South being restitutions rather then creations Now for the method which I am to use in this following Catalogue it shall be after the most naturall of the Alphabet as being of most ease and speediest use in finding what we have a minde to looke for And in the same I shall lay downe the just successions of and in each severall title premising first a brief description of the plac● denominating together with the yeere of Christs nativity wherein each severall Duke Earle or Marquesse either succeeded in the place or was advanced unto the same I also shall report in briefe on what pretext of bloud such and such men attained those honours which they have enjoyed If any neernesse or descent of bloud was pretended by them and where a family breakes off and a new comes in that I have marked with a few crosses thus ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ I have observed also who and how many of each title have managed any of the great and honourary Offices in the Common-wealth as those of Lord high Steward Lord high Chamberlaine Lord ●●●●table Lord Admirall Lord Chancellour Lord Treasurer Lord Chiefe Justice or Lord Privie Seale together with the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlaine of hi● Majesties houshold and the LL. Presidents of Yorke and Wales and Chancellours or either o● the Universities Such of them as have had the honour to be admitted into the Order of the Garter I have noted with this littl●●sterisme * And all this I have done 〈…〉 much brevity as was possible 〈◊〉 nothing in this place but a Nomenc●●tor a 〈◊〉 and naked Catalogue of names and ho●ours for the more easie understanding of o●r English History which was the matter which first moved me to compose 〈◊〉 Tables As for the order of precedencie of the men themselves that are thus dignified and advanced as now they stand that is to be accounted from and by the seniority of their creations in their severall series save that a course was tooke in Parliament 31. H. 8. c. 10. for placing those above the rest which were entrusted with the greatest Offices of State and Court. As viz. that of the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord President Lord Privie Seale Lord Constable Lord high Chamberlaine Lord Admirall Lord Marshall together with the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlaine of his Majesties houshold Which manner of precedencie being it is personall as unto the men and hath no reference to their place and titl●● 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 with the times according as they 〈…〉 and favour with their 〈◊〉 and Soveraign● But for the places which have given 〈◊〉 and title to Dukes Marquesses or Earles and for the men that have beene honoured with those titles they are th●se that follow taking along such Lords and Viscounts as have ●eene dignified with and by the selfe-same titles and no more but those Saint Albans S. Albans is the fairest and the goodliest town in the County of Hertford It arose out of the ruines of old Verulamium a towne more strong and ancient ●arre as being the strongest Fort of all the Britaines in the time of Caesar though not hai●e so beautifull It took both name original Grandour from Alban once a Citizen of Verulamium who suffering Martyrdome for the faith of Christ during the persecution of Dioc●●●ian had first a faire Church built in memoriall of him in that very place or if you will Ecclesia mirandi operis atque ejus martyrio condigna in the Authors language Bedae hist. lib. 1. c. 7 But this Church and towne of Verulam being both destroyed in those fierce warres which were betweene the Saxons and the Britains Offa the great and puissant K. of the Mercians built not farre off from the old seate a Monastery to the honour of Saint Alban endowed it with a great revenue and many goodly priviledges as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall This in short time improved the Monastery into a towne the Abbat in regard of his great possession● and jurisdiction correspondent drawing no ordinary con●●●ence of all sorts of people Pope Adrian borne at A●bats-Langley about five miles off added this honour to the place that as Saint Alban was the first Martyr of the Engllsh nation so should the Abbat have precedencie of all English Abbats This house was valued at the suppression at 2510. li. 6. s. 1. d. per annum and was surrendred into the hands of Sir Thomas Pope Doctor Petre and Master Cavendish for the use of K. H. 8. Decemb. 5. Anno 1639. The Abby Church being a stately and magnificent fabrick is le●t standing still townesmen purchasing the same at the price of 400. li. and turning it into a Parish Church as it now remaines For the great battels fought about this towne and in the very streets thereof between the two contending houses of York and Lancaster I leave you to the common Chronicles The persons which it hath ennobled are these that follow Viscounts and Earles 1620 1 Francis Bacon L. Verulam and L. Chan. of England created Visc. S. Albans Jan. 18. 1628 2 Rich. de Burgh E. of Clan-Ricard in the Kingd of Irel creat E. of S. Albans Aug. 23 1636 3 Vlike de Burgh E of S. Albans and Clan-Ricard now living 1641. Anglesey ANglesey is an Iland of North-Wales situate over against Carna●vonshire from which it is divided by a narrow straight called in the Latines Mona by the Britains Mon but being conquered by the English obtained the name of Anglesey as one would say the Iland of the English-men It is exceeding fruitfull both in corne and cattell from whence the Welch are liberally stored with both And therefore it is said proverbially Mon mam Cymbri that Anglesey is the mother of Wales It was the ancient seate of the Druides and brought with no small difficulty under the command of the Romans by Iulius Agricola the people fighting here ut pro aris focis for their religion and their gods It containeth in it 74. Parishes the principall wherof is named Beau●arish being at this time the head towne of ●he shire and Aberfraw now an obscure and ●omely place but anciently the Royall seate ●f the Kings of North-Wales The persons which it hath given title
to are onely these Earles of Anglesey ●624 1 Ch●●stop Villiers brother of Geo. D. of Buck. created F. of Angles Sept. 24. ●630 2 Charles Villiers now living 1641. ARundell is the name of an ancient towne and Castle in the County of Sussex pleasantly seated neare the river of Arun whence it was called Arundale or A●untina va●●●● in some Latine Authors The Castle of great fame and strength but farre more famous for the Lords and Earles therof then the strength or beauty A place in this farre different from the rest of England the title of the Earle of Arundell being annexed unto the Castle honour and signeurie of Arundell and going along with the possession of the same as was adjudged in that great controversie between Sir Iohn Fitz-Alan being in possession of the Castle against Iohn-Mowbray● of Norfolke being the right heire in the nearest degree The Earles here of in regard that by ancient Charter they had had the ●ertium denarium or the second penny of the Plees of Sussex and that they sometimes had their residence and abode in Chichester as the chiefe City of that County are in some old Charters ●alled Earles of Sussex and in some others Earles of Chichester That which was theirs most properly hath stayed longest by them and is of late increased by the addition of th● titles and dignities of the Baronies of Fitz-Alan Clun Oswaldstree and Mal●raver● with divers other lands tenements and here ditaments annexed unto the title name an● dignity o● Earle of Arundell by speciall Act 〈◊〉 Parliam An. 3. Car. R. the noble personage which have borne this title are these that fol●low Earles of Arundell 1067 1 Rog. Montgomery 1091 2 Hugh de Montgomery 1098 3 Rob. de Montgomery devested of this honour An. 1102.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚   4 William de Albeney 1189 5 Will. de Albeney 1196 6 Will. de Albeney 1199 7 Will. de Albeney 1224 8 Hugh de Albeney died 1243.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1289 9 Rich. Fitz-Alan descended of the Lady Isabell sister of Hugh de Albeney 1301 10 Edm. Fitz-Alan 1326 11 Rich. Fitz-Alan * 1375 12 Rich. Fitz-Alan L. Tr. L. Adm. 1397 13 Tho. Fitz-Alan L. Tr. died 1416. * 1434 14 John Fitz-Alan L. Mal●ravers * 1439 15 Will. Fitz-Alan * 1487 16 Tho. Fitz-Alan 1524 17 Will. Fitz-Alan * 1543 18 Henry Fitz-Alan Ch. of Oxford *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1579 19 Philip Howard son of Tho. D. of Norfolk the La. Mary Fitz-Alan 1604 20 Tho. Howard now E. of Arund and Surry and E. Marshall of Engl. Anno 1641. AVmerle or A●bemarle is the name of a small town and territory in the Dukedome of Normandy It belonged heretofore to Stephen the sonne of Odo des●●nded from the Earles of Champagne whom William the Conquerer made Earle of Albema●le as being the sonne of his halfe sister by the mothers side and gave unto him for the further maintenance of his estate the territory of Holder●●sse in Yorkeshire This title hee enjoyed and left the same to his posterity who enjoyed it also And when his issue failed the Kings of England honoured others with it though they had long since lost their estate in Normandy the Dukes and Earles whereof take thus in order Dukes and Earles of Aumerle 1095 1 Stephen sonne of Odo Earle of Bloys 1128 2 Will. le Gros.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1182 3 Will. de Magnaville E. of Essex Hawys daught of Will le Gros.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1191 4 Will. de Fortibus 1196 5 Will. de Fortibus 1244 6 Will. de Fortibus 1258 7 Tho. de Fortibus     ✚ ✚ ✚   8 Tho. of Woodstock D. of Gloc. *     ✚ ✚ ✚   ✚ ✚ ✚ 1378 9 Edw. Plantagenet D. L. Adm. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1412 10 Tho. D. of Clarence E. *     ✚ ✚ ✚   11 Rich. Beauchamp E. of Warwick created Earle of Aumerle by King Henry 6. BAnbury is a towne in Oxfordshire the second both for wealth and beauty in all that County Most famous in our common Chronicles for the great battell there-by fought betweene the two great houses of Lancaster and Yorke in which the victory fell to the Eare of Warwick then chie●e of the Lancastrian party who forthwith tooke King Edward prisoner of that name the fourth now forlorne and hopelesse It was not long since much wasted by a devouring fire but very well repaired and beautified and still is as it hath beene anciently cas●o conficiendo notissimum as Camden notes it a towne much famed for the best and most delicate sort of Cheeses It never had but one Earle and he 1626 1 William L. Knollys Visc. Wallingford created E of Banbury Aug. 18. and died Anno 1631. BAthe is the fairest and the principall City in all Somersetshire seated in a very low Plaine and round about environed with hils very high and steepe from whence come many rivulets and fresh-water springs to the great commodity of the people But that which brings most wealth unto the place are not the waters from without but those waters which are within sending up from them much thinne vapours and a strong sent withall which springs are very medicinable unto many maladies Three of these springs there are in all the waters of the which being received in large and fitting receptacles for the publick use they call the Kings Bath the crosse Bath and the hot Bath From bathing in these waters it was called the Bath and thence Batho●ia in the Latine unlesse perhaps you rather thinke that bathing tooke its hint from hence and that this place tooke name from Badon or mons Bado●icus not far off as certainely Caer Badon the old Britain● called it The Greeks and Latines gave it names according to the nature and condition of the waters or the Baths there being it being called by Ptolomee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hot waters by An●oninus ●quae solis the waters of the Sunne on ●he selfe same reason Of the ●aire Church here we have spoke already in our description of the Bishoprick which being ruined amongst other Monasteries in the time of K. H. 8. hath of late times beene as it were reedified but certainely repaired and beautified and made 〈◊〉 for use by the great costs of Bishop Montague a late Bishop there Earle it had none untill the time of H. 7. since it hath had divers whose names and times we now present you Earles of Bathe 1486 1 Philibert de Chandew     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1536 2 John Bourchier Lord Fitz-Wa●in created E. of Bathe by H. 8. July 10. 1539 3 John Bourchier 1561 4 William Bourchier   5 Edward Bourchier 1638 6 Henry Bourchier now E. of Bathe Anno 1641. BEdford is one of those three Counties which anciently were possessed by the Cattieuc●lani the Countrey indifferently well provided of all necessaries both for foode and fewell It taketh denomination from the chiefe town thereof called Bedford or
in the old Saxon Bedanford i.e. Beds or Innes at the Ford. A towne conveniently seated on both sides of a river which runneth through it well built and populous as having in it no lesse then five Churches But the chiefe commendations which it hath is for the antiquity and strength thereof as being a towne of no small note and consequence Anno 572. when as Cuthwulf the Saxon vanquished the Britain● in the open feild and became Master of the Countrey The Castle here being counted very strong and almost impregnable brought no small mischeife to the place being a peece much aimed at by all those in the former times which either pretended to the Crown or bate armes against it But all the fortifications being demolished in the reigne of K. H. 3. the people have since lived in quiet and the chiefe reputation of it now consisteth in this that it hath given the title of Dukes and Earles to these persons following being in their severall ages Dukes and Earles of Bedford 1365 1 Ingelram de Cow●y E. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1414 2 John son of Henry 4. L. Adm. Const. and Regent of Fr. D. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1470 3 George Nevill D     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1485 4 Jasp. de Hatfeild E. of Pembroke halfe brother to King H. 6. D. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1549 5 John L. Russell L. Pr. and L. Adm. created E of Bedford by Edw. 6. * 1554 6 Francis Russell 1585 7 Edward Russell 1628 8 Francis Russell now Earle 1641. BErkley is the name of a noble and an ancient family dispersed in many places of this Kingdome They tooke this name from Berkley Cas●●● situate neare the Severne bankes in the County o● Gloucester of which they were made Barons by King H. 2. Whereas before that time they were called Fitz-Harding as being descended from one Robert Fitz-Harding of the bloud 〈◊〉 of the Danes Which Robert Fitz-Harding by the name of Robertus f●●ius Ha●dingi 〈◊〉 Reg●● Dacae is joyned as a Co-founder with 〈◊〉 H 2 of the Cathedrall Church of Bristoll but then a Monastery onely as doth appeare by an inscription over the gate of the said Church William L. Berkley of this house being descended from the Mowbraies who amongst other titles were Earles of Nottingham was in the yeere 1482. created Visc. Berkley by King Richard 3. afterwards Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall by King H. 7. and finally created Marqu Berkley by the same King H. A●no 1509. But dying without issue all those titles ended with him that of the Lord Berkley still continuing in the line collaterall Visc. and Marqu Berkley 1509 1 Will. L. Berkley created Viscount Berkley by King R. 3. was created Marqu Berkley by K. H. 7. mort sans issue BErkshire was anciently in the Saxon times called Berro●schire which name the learned Antiquary Master Camden out of Asserius Menevensis deriveth from Berroc a certaine Forrest where grew good store of Box to which the people used in the time of danger to retire themselves I lieth conveniently all along the bankes of the river of Thames which serves them well for the conveyance of their corne fewell and other commodities to the City of London and containeth in it 140. Parishes of the which 12. are Market townes the chiefe Reading and Abington But that which gives most lustre to it is the royall Palace and Castle of Windsore the principall seate and residence of the most honourable order of the Garter and indeed the most magnificent mansion of the Kings of England Camden in his description of this County doth conclude it thus Thus much of Barksh which as yet hath given the title of Earle to no man And true it was when he so said it But since it hath bestowed that title on these Earles of Berks. 1620 1 Francis L. Morrys crea E of Berkshire Jan. 28. mort sans issue masle     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1625 2. Tho. Howard Visc. Andover created E. of Berksh Feb. 7. now living Anno 1641. BRIDGEWATER BRidgewater but more properly and in the old records Burgh-Walter that is Walters Burgh so called of Walter de Duaco who came in with the Normans had faire lands given him in these parts by the Conquerour is a town of Somerset-shire A great and populous town it is descending by the Chaworths to the Dutchy of Lancaster and was by Hen. 8. the heire of the Lancastrian family adorned with the tlitle of Earledome which hee bestowed on Sir Henry D●wbeney son of that Giles Dawbeney who came in with King Hen. 7. from Britaine in France and was by him made his L. Chamberlaine and Knight of the Garter Which Henry dying without issue this title lying long a sleep was afterward awakened in another family ordeined to be a seminary for the Earles of Bridgewater A. Ch.     1538 1 H●nry L. D●wbeney created Earle of Bridgewater 30. H. 8.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1617 2 Iohn Egerton Visc. Brackly created ● of Bridgewater May 15 L. President of Wal●s now living Anno 1641. BRISTOL BRistol the third in ranke of the Cities of England is situate on the rivers of F●ome and Avon not far off from the entrance of the Severne into the Oc●an In that regard it stands commodiously for trade and trafick the ships with full sayle comming up into the bosome of the City and verily the Cityzens there are wealthy Merchants and trade into the most part of the world with good faith and fortune Part of it stands in Somersetsh and part in Gloc●ster shire though they account themselves of neither being a County in it selfe incorporate and independent upon any other than its own Officers A town exceeding populous and exceeding cleanly there being sinks and sewers made under ground for the conveyance of all filth and nastinesse which by them passeth into the rivers The Castle of it once was a place of strength and in it K. Stephen was kept a prisoner by Maud the Empresse but now not able to defend it selfe from the ruines of time Churches it hath in it and thereto adjoyning to the number of 18 or thereabouts whereof the fairest and most memorable next to the Cathedrall of which we have already spoken in our description of the Bishoprick is S. Ma●ies of Radcliffe without the wals esteemed to be the fairest Parish Church in England yet however it hath long been a town of Fame it is not full an hundred yeares since it was made a Bishops see But lesse since it became a title of nobility viz. not till King Iames conferred the honour of Earle of Bristol on 1622 Iohn L. Digby of Sherborne cr E. of Bristol Sept. 15. Iac 20. now living 1641. BVCKINGHAM BVckingham is another of the three Counties which were once the seate of the Cat●ieuchlani and is supposed to take that name from Bucken that is Beech-trees with which the Countrey is well stored It is generally a very rich and plentifull soyle equally
good for corne and grazing and lieth al along on the banke of the Thames confronting Bark-shire It conteines in it 185 Parishes eleven of the which are market townes and amongst them the chiefe in name is Buckingham the head town of the County A town of no great note when it was at the best but more considerable heretofore than at the present being once fortified with a Castle now hardly to bee found in the very ruines as also with a rampire and certaine sconces built for defence thereof against the Danes now more invisible than the Castle The greatest honour it can chalenge is that it hath given titles of the highest honour to many a brave and worthy personage as well of the bloud Royall as of other families who by the Kings of England have been hence denominated Dukes Marq. and Earles of Buckingham   1 Walter Giffard E.   2 Walter Giffard     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1164 3 Richard Strongbow Earle of Pembroke     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1377 4 Thom. of Woodstock D. of Glouc. L Constab●e * 1397 5 Humfrey Plantagene● died 1400.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1444 6 Humfrey Stafford D.L. Constable descended from a daughter of Thom of Woodstock * 1460 7 Henry Stafford D.L. Consta. * 1468 8 Edw. Stafford D.L. Consta. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1616 9 George visc Villiers or Earle of Buck. 14 Iac. Ian. 5. Marq. Buck. Iac. 17. Ian. 10. and finally D. of Buck. 21. Iac. May 1623. Lord Admirall and Ch. Camb. * 162● 10 Geo. Villiers now Duke 1641. BVLLINGBROKE BVlling broke is an antient town in Lincolnshire heretofore belonging to the Lacies E. of Lincolne and by the marriage with Alice daughter and heire of Hen. Lacy E. of Lincolne to Thomas E. of Lancaster this with the residue of the lands of Lincolne became united and incorporated with those of Lancaster The greatest fame thereof was for a Castle built there by William of Romara E. of Lincoln but much more famous in succeeding times in that it was the birth place of K. H. 4. surnamed according to the fashion of that age of Bullingbroke It hath beene almost eversince his time one of the honours as we call it of the crown of England but never made an honorarie title unto any family untill K Iames conferred it on Sr. Oliver S. Iohns who possibly might affect to bee thence denominated as fetching his descent from the Lad●e Margaret Beauchamp grand-mother to King Henry the 7. the heire of the Lancastrian Family Earle of Bullingbroke 1624 1 Oliver L. S. Iohn of Bletho created E. of Bullingbroke Iac. 22. Dec. 28. Nowliving 1641. CAMBRIDGE CAmbridge-shire was once part of the pos●essions of the old Iceni and takes that name from Cambridge the chiefe town thereof and that derived either from the old town called Camb●ritum which Antoninus mentions in this tract or else as other have conceived from a bridge built on the river cam on whose banks it ●tandeth A town that hath beene long since dedicated unto learning here being a publique Schoole erected An. 630 or thereabouts by Sebert King of the East Angles and that ad morem Cantuariorum as it is in Beda But Schooles and studies being overthrown by the Danish fury it lay long forlorne and discontinued till it beganne to flourish under the calmer times of the Normans government that is to say about the middle of the reign of K. H. the first the 3 K of the Norman Kings Nor was it long before that of a famous Schoole or Schola illustris as we phrase it now it did become as famous an Vniversity Robert de Remington affirming that in the reigne of Edward the 1 it was made an Vniversity such as Oxford is by the Court of Rome There are now 16 Colleges and Hals endowed replenished with such store of students that unlesse it be in her sister Oxford the like are not found in all Europe But we must leave this speculation of it as an Academy and look upon it next as a title of honour in which consideration we shall find it no lesse fortunate than we did before in these Earles of Cambridge   1 William de Meschines son to Randolph E of Chester     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1342 2 Iohn de ✚ Hainal● uncle to Qu. Philip wife of Edw. 3.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1349 3 William Marq of Iuliers     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1362 4 Edm. of Langley D. of York * 1401 5 Edw. Plantagenet D. of York * 1414 6 Rich. de Conisburgh 2 son of Edm. of Langley     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1619 7 Iames marq. Hamilton cr Earle of Cambridge 17. Iac. Iun. 15. Lord Steward * 1625 8 Iames Marq. Hamilton Master of the horse and now E. of Cambridge 1641 * CARLILE CArlile is the principall City in the County of Cumb●rland situate in the furthest part of the Kingdome toward Scotland on the Westerne marches fortified with a Citadel and sundry Bulwarks for a defence against the Scots as standing in a place of most advantage for the securing of that border It flourishedheretofore in the time of the Romans and was by them called Lugu-vallum as standing on the Trench or Vallum Picticum the Picts wall as our stories call it made by the Romans to defend their Province from the Picts and Scots So that it seemes of old to have been the boundary betweene the nations though the Northumbers after in the Saxon times enlarged their Empire to the banks of Dunb●itton Fryth From whence or when it fi●st was called Carl●le our Authors say not but by that name and in the Latin by Ca●l●olum it h●th long been known The Danes consumed it into ashes and it lay unrepaired in rubbish til the time of Willi●m Rufus who rebuilt it Since which by the accession of the Episcopall See erected there by H. the first who succeeded Rufus it came to be of wealth and cre●it and hath given the title of an Earldome to two severall Families wh●ch being of a different quality have in as different times beene Earles of Carlile Earles of Carlile 1321 1 Andrew de Harcla     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1622 2 Iames Hay Visc. Doncaster created E. of Carlile 18. Iac. Sept. 17 1636 3 Iames Hay now E. of Carl●le 1641. CARNARVON CArnarvon is a shire of North-wales butting upon the Irish seas and pa●ted f●om the Isle of Anglesey by a streit or Fretum A mountainous and rocky Countrey but the defects thereof are plentifully supplyed by the Isle adjoyning It tooke name from Carnarvon the chiefe town there of heretofore very strongly wailed and for●ified with a faire Castle Edward the 2. K. of England was here borne and hence according to the custome of those times entituled Edward of CARNARVON For the occasion of it I refer you to the common Chronicles The Princes of Wales had in this place their Chancery and Exchequet for all North-Wales which was no small improvement to it Earle it had never any till the present Age in
which our Soveraigne Lord now reigning conferred that title on 1628 1 Rob. L. Dormer of Wing created E. of Carnarvon 4. Car. Aug. 2. now living Anno 164● CHESTER CHester is the principall City of Cheshire antiently part of the Cornavii The Country not so plentifull in corne as in fish and cattell but fruitfull in no one thing more than the production of ancient Gentry of which it can still shew more antient Families than any one County in the Kingdome The City built in form of a quadrant fouresquare is enclosed with a wall that taketh up more than 2 miles in compasse and hath 11 Parishes the houses being very faire and well built and having all along in the chief streets before the doors a kind of galleri● through which a man may walk dry from one end to the other Seated it is upon the river of Dee on which to shew his splendor and magnificen●e K. Edgar was once rowed by 7 petie ●ings of the Scots and Britans to the great joy of the beholders The Earles hereof were anciently accounted Palatines William the Conquerour giving this Earldome to Hugh Lupus a noble Norman to be holden as fre●ly by his sword as the King himselfe held England by his own And though it be now and hath long beene incorporated into the Patrimony regall yet it still holds the rights and privileges of a County Palatine and hath for the administration thereof a Chamberlaine a Iustice for the Common● plees of the Crown two Barons of the Exchequer a Sheriffe an Eschetour and other Officers to the great case of all the countryin expedition of their businesse The Palatines hereof before it came into the Crown are these here following Earles of CHESTER 1067 1 Hugh sirnamed Lupus 1103 2 Richard son of Hugh     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1120 3 Randolph de Meschines 1129 4 Randolph de Gernoniis 1153 5 Hugh Kivilioc son of Randolph 1181 6 Randol Blondeville son of Hugh     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1233 7 Iohn le Scot sonne to the Lady Maud eldest sister of Randolph     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1245 8 Edw. eldest son of K H. 3.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1255 9 Simon de Montford Earle of Leicester after whose death Chesler was laid unto the Crowne and hath beene since united to the Principality of Wales so that who list to see the residue of the Earles of Chester shall find them in the former Catalogue of the Princes of Wales which have beene of the Royall bloud of England CHESTERFEILD CHesterfield is a town of Darbysh commonly called Chester●eild in Scardale A towne which by the ruines of it doth seem to be of good antiquity and therefore likely to have had some more ancient name which seemes to be now buried in those ruines or by continuance of time quite worne out and lost It glorieth much of being made a free Burrough in the time of K. Iohn and for the battaile fought hard by between K. Henry the 3 and his rebellious Barons in which Rob. de Ferrers Earle of Darby being taken prisoner lost his Estate and Dignity though not his life But that in which it hath most cause to glory is that from an ordinary Market Town it is become the seate of an Earldome the stile and title of Earle of Chesterfeild being conferred by our dread Soveraigne now being upon 1628 1. Philip Lord Stanhop of Shelford or Earle of Chesterfeild 4 Car. Aug. 4 and is now living Anno 1640. CLARE CLARENCE CLare is an ancient Town on the edge of Suffolk where it joyneth to Essex seated not far off from the banks of the river Stoure by which the Counties are divided A Town that hath not any thing whereof to boast the Castle and the Collegiall Church being both in rubbish but that it gave both name and title unto that noble Family si●named De Clare who in their times were Earles of Hartford Clare and Gloucester But the male issue of these Clares being failed Lio●el the 3 sonne of K. Edw. the 3. having married the sole daughter and heire of William de Burgh E. of Vlster in Ireland begotten on the body of Elizabeth one of the sisters and coheires of Gilbert de Clare who died Anno 1291 the last E. of Clare and Glocester of that name was made Duke of Clarence the termination of the title being only changed not the place denominating And from the change thus made which I note only by the way the second king of Armes is surnamed Clarentieux as apperteining formerly to the Dukes of Clarence whom with the Earles preceding and succeeding take in order thus Dukes and Earles of Clarence 1139 1 Gilbert E. of Clare 1152 2 Roger de Clare 1174 3 Richard de Clare after whose death this title lay long drowned in that of Gloucester     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1362 4 Lionel D. of Clarence 2 son to K. Edw. the 3.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1411 5 Tho. D. of Clarence 2 son to K. H. the 4. L. Admirall     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1461 6 Geo. D. of Clarence brother to K. Edw. the 4 L Constable     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1624 7 Iohn Hollys Lord Houghton cr E. of Clare Com. Suffolk 22. Iac. Nov. 2. 1638 8 Iohn Hollys now Earle of Clare 1641. CLEVELAND CLeveland is a wapon-take or hundred in the northriding of York-shire taking that name as Camden tels us of the steepe banks which we call Clyffes which run all along the side thereof and at the foot of which the Countrey spreadeth into a plaine ful of fertile fields It seemeth to be a place of a faire extent as being one of those 3 Arch-deaconries into which the whole County is divided and doth give the title of an Earle to 1625 1 Thomas L. Wentworth created E. of Cleveland 1 Car. Feb. 7. who doth still enjoy it An. 1641. CORNWALL COrnwall is the most western part of England and takes denomination from the shape and fashion of it being like an horne which the old Britans called Kern as now the Welch call the countrey Kernaw The people of it are a remainder generally of the antient Britans whose language for much of it they do still retaine although by intermixture of the Saxons not easie to be understood by the Welch themselves The Countrey very mountainous as Wales is also and therefore of the lesse accesse to the Conquering Saxons but the sea-costs well beautified with goodly townes able to set to Sea a good Fleet of shippes And for the mountaines they doe recompence their defects without by their abundant wealth within as being very full of mines of tinne which yeelds great profit to the Countrey and furnisheth most parts of Christendome with that commodity The Earles of Cornwall heretofore gave great immunities and liberties to those that laboured in these mines and when this Earldome fell again unto the Crown Edw. the 3 erected a L. Warden of the Stannaries to have the government thereof And at that time of its reverting to the Crown
Ferdin Stanley 1594 13 William Stanl●● Earle of Darby 1641. * DENBIGH Denbigh-shire is one of the shires of Northwales heretofore appertaining to the Ordevices The Countrey very mounteinous and as barren generally though by the paines and industry of the husband-man it be made in some parts very fruitfull The chiefe towne Denbigh is well seated on the banks of the river Istrad which from thence runneth into the Cluyd the fairest river of this countrey A town well peopled and inhabited especially since it became the head of the county which was not till the 27 of Hen. the 8. what time the five new shires were added to the rest in Wales of which this was one But before that it was the head town of the Barony of Denbigh being conceived to be one of the goodliest territories in all England as having more Gentlemen holding thereof in fee and by service than any other Lords it hath had good store and of severall Families but none of them a Parliamentary Peere in reference hereunto till these later times Of late it hath given title both of Lord and Earle to two severall Families viz. to these Lords and Earles of Denbigh 1564 1 Rob. Dudley created B. of Denbigh E. of Leicester Eliz. 6. Sept. 29.   ✚ ✚ ✚ 1622 2 William Visc. Feilding created Earle of Denbigh 20. Iac. Sept. 14 Master of the Wardrobe and now living 1641. DEVONSHIRE DEvonshire is the most Western Countrey of all England excepting Cornwall together with the which it made up the possession of the old Danmon i. It is called Devi●an by the Cornish Britans that is the country of Low-valleies because the people dwel for the most part beneath in vales From thence the Saxons had their Devenshire and the Latin●s borrow their Devonia A countrey harborous on either side with commodious Havens enriched with inexhaustable mines of tinne beautified with fresh and pleasant meadows shaded again in other parts with greater store of woods and very well replenished with Towns and Villages whereof it reckoneth in the whole 394 Parishes and therein 37 Market townes of good note and trade The countrey of it selfe not so fit for corne but that the toyle and travaile of the plou●●●an supplies that defect and addes unto it both by cost and industry what it wants by Nature Earles it hath had of severall Families of which the Rivers and the Courtneys held the title long as now the Cavendishes may doe who have possession of it in the third generation But how long any of them held it and who they were that interloped wee shall best see by looking over the particular Names and Families of the Earles of Devonshire   1 Ric. de Rivers or Riparis 1106 2 Baldwin de Rivers 1154 3 Ric. de Rivers 1161 4 Baldw. de Rivers   5 Rich. de Rivers   6 Wil. de Rivers 1216 7 Baldw. de Rivers 1245 8 Baldw. de Rivers     ✚ ✚ ✚   9 Wil. de Fortibus husband of Isabel sister of the last Baldw.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1335 10 Hugh Courtney next heire of Isabel de Fortibus 1340 11 Hugh Courtney 1378 12 Edw. Courtney 1418 13 Hugh Courtney 1421 14 Tho. Courtney 1461 15 Hen. Courtney     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1469 16 Humfrey L. Stafford of Southwick made E. of Devon by K. Edw. the 4.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1469 17 Iohn Courtney slaine at Tewksbury 1487 18 Edw. Courtney * 1509 19 Wil. Courtney 1525 20 Henry Courtney Marquesse of Exeter * 1553 21 Edw. Courtney died 1556.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1603 22 Charles Blount Lord Montjoy created E. of Devon by K. Iames.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1618 23 Wil. Lord Cavendish of Hardwick created E of Devonshire 10 Iac. Aug. 20. 24 Wil. Cavendish   25 Wil. Cavendish now E. of Devonshire 1641. DORSET THe County of Dorset abbutteth upon that of Devonshire having the Sea up on the South and Somersetshire upon the North. It was inhabited hertofore by the Durotriges and was all the land they did inhabit The aire good and of an healthfull constitution the soyle fat and rich in many places and where in that it is defective it yelds good store of woods and pasture The Country generally very pleasant in her situation as being no lesse beholding to the inner land Rivers than the bordering Ocean the one yeelding merchandise from far the other the commodity of conveyance to most parts thereof and both of them good store of fish It conteines in it 248 Parishes and in them 18 Market-Townes the chiefe of which in name is Dorcester as that which doth denominate the whole Country and tooke that name it selfe from the Durotriges whom before I spake of unlesse you rather think that it comes from Dur●ium which Ptolomy placeth in this tract A Towne not famous for much els than that it hath long been and doth still continue the honorary title of these Noble personages which have beene severally Marquesses and Earles of Dorset   1 Osmund de Sees E.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1397 2 Iohn Beaufort Marquesse Lord Admirall *   3 Thomas Beaufort Earle Duke of Exeter Lord Chancellor and L. Adm. * 1444 4 Edmund Beaufort Earle and Marquesse * 1454 5 Hen. Beaufort Marq. 1462 6 Edm. Beaufort Marq.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1474 7 Tho. Grey Marq. * 1494 8 Tho. Grey Marq. * 1530 9 Hen. Grey Marq. D. of Suff. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1603 10 Tho. S●ckvill L. Buckhurst created E. of Dorset 10. Iac. March 13 L. Tres. and Chanc. of Oxf. * 1608 11 Rob. Sackvill 1609 12 Rich. Sackvill 1625 13 Edw. Sackvill now E. and Lord Chamberlain unto the Queen 1641. DOVER DOver is a well knowne and famous Town both for the Haven and the Castle for the security and renown of which and the convenient si●uation of it over against France it hath long beene accounted one of the Cinque Ports Seated it is in the very South-East point of Kent from whence a man may easily discerne the coast of F●ance as being but 34 miles distant The ●own stands in the bottom between the clyffes very warme and safe the Castle mounted up aloft both to comand and to defend it A place indeed of such impregnable strength and so great importance that Philip King of France when L●wys his son being called in hither by the factious Barons against their Soveraigne L. King Iohn had gotten many Townes and Forts but yet could not get the mastery of this peece despised all saying verily my son hath not one foot of land in England if he be not master of Dover Castle It now gives title of an Earle to 1627 3 Henry Cary Visc. Rochfort created E of Dover 3 Car. Mart. 8 and is now living 1641. ESSEX ESsex was anciently perteining to the East Saxons and made a chiefe part of their Kingdome hence it took the name Before it did belong to the Tr●nobantes A Countrey large in compasse fruitfull of corne and other sorts
E. of Kingston upon Hull 4. Car. Iuly 25 who is now living Ann● 1641. LANCASTER LAncashi●e or the County Palatine of Lancaster was heretofore a part of the Brigants and lieth upon the Irish●ea ●ea to the North of Ch●shire The ground accounted not so fert●le as in other places fitter for oates and such leane corne than wheate or barley And yet it is observed with all that in t●ose parts thereof in which the husbandman is not wanting to it in cost and labour that there it yeldeth corne in a very good measure The ayre ther●of may seem to be very healthfull and one would easily co●jecture so by the complexion of the people which ar● faire and beautifull And yet the Country is not much inhabited as in the n●ighbouring shires about them there being in so large a quantity of ground as this shire con●aines not above 36 Parishes though indeed many Chappel● of Ease equall to P●rishes elsewhere for multitudes of people It takes name from the Town of Lancas●e● or more truly L●ncaster seated upon the banks of the river L●nc whence it had the name the Saxons adding Ceaster as in other places for the ●ermination The Town not very well peopled nor much frequented and yet of that authority and credit that it gives name to all the County and hath obteined this priviledge from K. Edw. the 3 that the Sessions and Assises should be held in no other place What Lords and Governours it had in the former times we regard not here The first time it became an Earldome was when K. H. 3 conferred that title on his 2 son Edm. and it was destin●te to greatnesse in the first foundation there being layed unto it at the ve●y first besides this County the whole con●iscated estates of the E●rles of Leices●er and Darby and the B●rony of Monmouth And into this by marriages accrewed in time the great estates of Wil. de Fortibus E. of A●merl● and Lord of Holdernesse 〈◊〉 and other goodly lands in Frances the Earldome of Lincoln and good part of that of Salisbury the Lorships of Ogmore and Kidwelly in Wales which were once the Chaworths Iohn of Ga●nt a d●d hereunto the Castles and Honours of Hertford and Thickhill and his son B●lling broke a moyetie of the lands of ●ohun being ● of Here●ord Essex and Northampton so that it was the greatest patrimony as I verily thinke of any subject Prince in Christendome Lancaster finally was made a County Palatine by K Edward the 3 and hath been hounoured with the●e Dukes and Earles of Lancaster 1267 1 Edm. ●lantagenet 2 son of K Hen. the 3 E. of Lanc. 1295 2 Tho. Plantagenet 1324 3 Hen. Planta 1345 4 Hen. Planta first D of L.   ✚ ✚ ✚ 1361 5 Iohn of Gaunt son of K. Edw. the 3 married the La. Blanch daughter of H. D. of Lanch ●399 ● Hen. of Bullingbroke son of Iohn of Gaunt after K. of Eng. by whom this County Palatine and all the lands and honors belonging and incorporate into the Dutchy of Lancaster were brought unto the Crown of Eng. though governed as an Estate apart then by its proper Officers as it continued til the time of K. Edw. the 4 who did appropriate it to the Crown and dissolved the former government thereof to which it was restored again by K. H. 7 and so still remaineth under the guidance of the Chancellor and other Officers of the same LEICESTER LEicester-shire is a part of the Coritani and ●ooke that name from Leicester the chiefe town thereof a town indifferent large and of a reasonable handsom building and as wel●raded as most inland towns that want as this the benefit of a navigable river It had once a very faire Collegiate Church within it a faire Abbey close unto 〈◊〉 and a strong Castle therewithall but all these the iniquity and inju●y ●f time hath ruined Only the Hospitall of all the antient edifices stands still undefaced As for the Countrey hence denominated it beares corne good pl●nty but is bare of woods the want of which is well supplyed with pit-coale with which the North part of the Country doth store al the rest It cō●eineth in the whole 200 Parishes and of them 12 are market Towns the biggest as in bulke being Leicester so in title too as that which hath beene honored even before the ●onquest with the stile and reputation of an Earldome and hath continued it till now in the names and families of these Earles of Leicester 1057 1 Algar the Saxon.   2 Edwyn died 1071.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1103 3 Rob. de Bellomont 1118 4 Rob. de Bellomont 1167 5 Rob. de Beaumont L. S●ew 1190 6 Rob. de Beaum. L. high Stew.     ✚ ✚ ✚   7 Simon de Montf married Amicia sister and coheire to the last E. Ro. E. of Lei. and L high Stew. 1239 8 Simon de Mont. L. high St●w     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1267 9 Edm. E. of Lanc. L. high Stew. 1295 10 ●ho E. of Lanc. L. high St●w 1324 11 Hen. ● of Lanc. L. high Stew. 1345 12 Hen. D. of Lanc. L. high Stew. ✚     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1360 13 Wil of Bavaria E. of Heinalt married the La. Maud of Lanc.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1361 14 Io. of Gaunt D. of Lan. L. Stew. ✚ 1399 15 Hen. D. of Lanc. L. high Stew. ✚     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1564 16 Rob. Dudley L. Denbigh L. S. and of the house to Q. E. died 1588. ✚ 1618 17 Rob Sidney Vise Li●le descended of a sister of the last Rob. E. of Leicest was by K. Iames cr E. of Leic. Aug. 2.   18 Robert Sidney now Earle of Leices Ambassadour extraordinary with the K of France Anno 1641. LINCOLN LIncoln-shire antiently belonged to the Core●ani A very large and spacious Countrey extending almost 60 miles in length and some 30 in breadth within which compasse are included 630 Parish Churches and of them 30 market Towns It is accounted very kindly ground for the yeeld of corn and feeding of cattell and furnished in the lower part thereof with good store of fowle which from hence are conveied to London in great abundance It takes name from the principall City by Ptolomy and Antonin● called Lindum and after by the Saxons Lind●colline either because it stands on so high an hill from the Latine Collis or that it had been formerly some Roman Colony A Town of great renown and strength in the times of the Britans and in the Normans time as saith William of Malmesbury it was one of the best peopled Cities of England a place of merchandise and traffick for al commers both by sea and land insomuch that 〈◊〉 then Bishop of Dorc●s●er thought fitting to translate hither his Episcopall see From this opinion it then had first began the Proverb that Lincoln was London is c. The Bishops of Lincoln what and how they were we have seen already We will now look a while on the Ea●les of Lincoln ●140
1 Wil. de Romara E. of Lincoln     ✚ ✚ ✚   2 Gilb. de Gaunt 1216 3 Gilb. de Gaunt     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1218 4 Randal de Meschines E. of Che. whose grand-father halfe brother unto Wil. de Romara by the mothers side     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1232 5 Iohn ●acy descended by his mother from E. Randall 1251 6 Henry de Lacy whose daughter Alice was married unto Tho. E. of Lancaster and settled all her lands upon that Family     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1354 7 Hen. D. of Lanc * ●361 8 Iohn of Gaunt D. of Lanc. * 1399 9 Hen. of Bullingbroke D. of Lanc. after K. of Eng.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1467 10 ●ohn de la Pole son and heire of Iohn D. of Suffolke     ✚ ✚ ✚ ●525 11 Henry Brandon son and heire of Charl●s D. of Suffolk   ✚ ✚ ✚ 1572 12 Edward Fenys Lord Clinton Lord Admirall created Earle of Lincolne by Queen Elizabeth 1585 13 Hen. Fenys 1616 14 Tho. Fenys 1618 15 Theophilus Fenys now Earle of Lincoln 1641. LINDSEY LIndsey is one of the 3 parts of Lincolnshire the other 2 being Holland which we spake of lately and Kesteven not yet become an honourary title as the others are It conteineth all the Northerne parts thereof from the river Witham unto Humber and from the Ocean to the Trent Happy above the rest not in bignesse only but that in this part stands the City of Lincoln the chiefe denominator of the County which being the antienly called Lindum as before I said gave to this part the name of Lindsey for by that name of Lindsey it is now the Earldome of 1626 1 Robert Bertu Lord Willoughby of Eresby and Lord great Chamberlaine of England created E. of Lindsey 2 Car. Novemb. 29 now living 1641 MANCHESTER MAnchester is a good Town of Lancashire situate on the hithermost part thereof where it joyneth to the County of Darby A Town of very great antiquity known to the Emperour Antonine by the name of Manc●nium part of which name it still retaines And still it carrieth a good accompt and far excels the Towns lying round about it both for the beautifull shew it carrieth and the resort unto it of the neighboring people and which allures them thither the great trade of Cloathing Manchester Co●tons being famous in all drapers shops It is remarkable also in those parts for the large Market place for a faire Church and for the Colledge which last being founded first by the Lord De la Ware was afterwards refounded or confirmed by Qu. Eliz. consisting fo a Warden and certaine fellows which notwithstanding it is y●t more famous in being made the honorary title of 1625 1 Henry Montague Vise Mandevi cr E. of Manch ● Car. F●● 7 b●ing then L President of the Councel now L. Privy Seale Anno 1641. MARCH March is a name of different nature from the rest before as being neither Towne nor County Vnder that name of March or of Marches rather our Ancestors did comprehend those ba●able grounds between Wales and Eng. for governance whereof and the repressing of the insolencies of either side there were certaine Lords and Potent men whose lands lay nearest to these parts which were called Lords Marchers who had great power and jurisdiction in their severall quarters Amongst these were the Mortimers of Wigmore men of great authority who after were advanced above the rest and made Earles of March. And it continued in that Family untill it fell by marriage to the house of York and so by Edw. the 4 to the Crown of Eng. Nor was it long before the authority of the Lords Marchers was extinguished quite by the uniting of Wales to E● either making new shires of the said March ground such as are Monmouth Brecknoch Radnor Denbigh and Montgomcry or laying it unto the old for which consult the Act of Parliament 27 H. 8. cap. 26. However the title of E. of March is revived again only translated from the house of Mortimer to that of Stewart out of which houses have been successively these Earles of March 1327 1 Rog. L. Mortimer of Wigmore * 1354 2 Roger Morti. 1359 3 Edm. Morti. 1381 4 Rog. Morti. 1399 5 Edm. Morti.     ✚ ✚ ✚   6 Edw. Plantagenet son of Rich. D. of York and after K. of Eng. of that name the 4.   7 Edw. eldest son of K. Edw. 4. ●     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1619 8 Esme Steward L. Aubigny created E. of March 17 Iac. Iun 7. after D. of Lennox * 1624 9 Iames D. of Lennox and Earle of March Anno 1641. * MARLEBVRGH MArleburgh is a Town in the North-east part of Wilt-shire seated not far off from the head of the river Kenet which runneth thence to Hung●rford and Newbury and so by Reading into the Thames The Towne called antiently Cunetio in Antonino's Itinerarium as the river was but by the Normans in whose time this Town revived out of the ruines of the old it was called Marleburgh as being seated in a chaulky soyle which in some places still we call by the name of Marle A Town stretched out from East to West upon the pendant of an hill and had a Castle once belonging unto Iohn sirnamed Sans t●rre who afterwards was K. of England which is still famous in our Law books for a Parliament there held 52. H. 3 in which were made the ●tatutes from hence called of Marleburgh right necessary for the peace and tranquility of the people as is affirmed in the preamble unto the same Our Soveraigne at his Coronation made it yet more notable in making it th● honour as it was the neighbour of 1625 1 Iames L. Ley L. Tr. cr E. of Marleburgh 1 Car. Feb 7. 1628 2 Henry Ley.   3 Iames Ley now E. of Marleburgh Anno 1641. MARSHALL THe title of E. Ma●shall is different from the rest of England all of the which the title of Earle Rivers excepted only are locall or denominated from some place this only personall the residue being only honorary this honorary and officiary both together Antiently they that had this office were only Marshals of the Kings house according as the same is now discharged by the Knights Marshall But in succeeding times it grew to be a place of great power and honour as it still continueth At first they had the title of L. Marshall only Rich. the 2 was the first who by letters Pa●ents advanced them to the dignity of Earles Marshals and with all gave them power to beare a staf●e of gold enammeled black at both ends with the Kings Armes on the upper end and their own Armes on the lower whereas before that time the Marsh●ls had no other than a wooden staffe as other the Great Officers have at Court Before this time they were L. Ma●shals only as before I said For howsoever the title of E. Marshall and Comes Marescallus doth many times occurre in our antient histories Yet I conceive that
it was only given them then by the cour●esie or curiality of England because the Office in those dayes was vested in the person of none but Earles as by the like mistake or courtesie we find the title of Comes Seneschallus and Comes Constabularius in some old Records the manour of Hamsted Marshall in the County of Berkshire was held of old by Grand Sergianty of the Kings of England conditioned that the Grantees should for ever be the K. Marshals according as the Offices of Steward Constable and Lord High Chamberlaine in those times were granted What the authority and jurisdiction is of this great Officer we regard not here it being our undertaking only to lay down the names of those as many at lest as I have met with in my reading which in their severall times have borne the title of Lords and Earles Marshall 1135 1 Gilbert de Clare L. Marshal created E of Pembrok by K. Stephen Anno 1139. 1149 2 Richard de Clare sirnamed Strongbow E. of Pemb. and L. Marsh. died Anno 1176. 1176 3 Iohn sirnam●d Marshall fr●m this Office which was conferred on him by K. H. 2 upon the death of Rich. E. of Pemb. 4 William Marshall L. Marshall the grand-child of the former Iohn who having married Isabel daug and heire of Ric. Strongbow was cr E of Pemb. by K. Io. An. 1201 1219 5 William Marshall the younger E. of Pemb. 1231 6 Rich Marsh. E. of Pemb. 1234 7 Gilb Marsh. E. of Pemb. 1242 8 Wal. Marsh. E. of Pemb. 1245 9 Anselm Marsh. E. of Pemb. 1245 10 Roge● Bigot E. of Norfolk L. Marshall in right of Maud his mother one of the sisters and heires of the 5 last Marshals 1269 11 Roger Bigot Earle of Norfolke whose estate being confiscated to the Crown came after his decease to the K. hands 1307 12 Robert de Clyfford made Lord Marshall by K. Edw. 2 duran●e benep●acito   13 Nicolas de Seagrave 1315 14 Thomas de Brotherton Earle of Norfolk was in the 9. of Edw. 2. made L. Marsh. 1388 15 Margaret daughter and heire of Thom. de Brotherton is often honored with the title of La. Marsh. and was afterwards cr Dutch of Norf.   16 Wil. de Montacute   17 Tho. Beauchamp   18 Edmund Mortimer did severally and successively discharge the Office of L. Marsh. but whether as Deputies for the La. Marga. ●●ndum planè constat 1377 19 Henry Lord Percy L. Marsh. at the coronation of K Rich. 2.     Earles Marshall 1383 20 Tho. L. Mowbray ● of Notingh nephew unto the Lady Marg. by her daughter Eliz. was made the first E. Marsh. by K. Rich. 2 and was after D. of Norfolk 1398 21 Tho. Holland E. of Kent and D. of Surrey was made E. Marsh upon the banishment of the D. of Norfolk 1399 22 Tho. L. M●wb E. of Noting did on his fathers death at Venice assume the title of E Marsh. but the office was exercised by   23 Ralp Nevill E. of Westmerland made L. M of En. by K. H. 4. for terme of life in the beginning of his r●igne 1412 24 Iohn L. Mowb. brother of Tho. E. M. was by K H 5. restored unto the title of E. of Notingham and E. M and by K. H. 6. to that of Norfolk 1432 25 Iohn L. Mowb. D. of Norf. E. Mar.   26 Iohn L. Mo. D. of Nor. E. M.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1476 27 Ric. D. of York 2 son of K. Edw. 4 was by his Father cr D. of N. and ● Marsh. and after married Anne daughter and heire of the last Mow. D of Norfolk 1483 28 Iohn L. How descended from the L. Tho. Mow. first D. of Norf. cr D. of Norf. and E. Marsh. by K. Rich. 3. 1486 29 Wil. L. Berkley E. of Notingham descended from another daughter of the said first D. of Norfolk cr E. Marsh. by K. H. 7. and Marq. Barkeley 1497 30 Hen. D. of York the 2 son of K. Hen 7. cr E. M. by his Father was after K. of Eng. 1509 31 Tho. How Earle of Surrey son of Ioh. L. How D. of Norfolk was by K H. 8. cr first E. M and afterwards restored to the Duk. of Norfolk 1546 32 Tho. How D. of Norfolk and E. Marsh. attainted An. 1546. 1547 33 Edw. Seymour D. of Somerset And L. Protector of K Edw. the 6 was in the said Kings time cr E. Marshall 1553 34 Tho. D. of Norfolk and E Marsh. restored unto his bloud and honours by Q. Mary 1554 35 Thomas Howard D. of Nor. and E. Marsh. beheaded 1571. 1572 36 Geo Talbot E of Shrewsbury E. M. died anno 1590. 1597 37 Rob. d'Evreux E. of Essex and E. Mar. died anno 1601.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1603 37 Edw. Somerset E. of Worcester executed the office of Earl Marshall at the Coronation of K. Iames after which time the Office was a long time executed by Commission 1621 38 Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey grand son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk by his son Philip Earle of Arundell was by King Iames created Earle Marshall as hee still continueth Anno 1641. MIDDLESEX MIddlesex is a part of the Trinobantes lying upon the banks of the river T●ames A Coun●y not so large as others but far more remarkable for sumptuous houses wel-built villages a fertile soyle and temperate aire and which addeth most unto it for the great Cities of London and Westminster which are seated in it and for the constant residence of the Court the Receptacle and aboade of the Kings of Eng. who have made this County happy above others with their Royall mansions Whitehall and Hampton Court Somerset house and S. Iames still in the possession of the Crown Enfeild and Hanworth aliened now have either been the chiefe aboades or retiring places of our Kings and Princes In which regard the Kings of Eng. antiently as Camden notes it vouchsafed the title of Middlesex unto none neither D. Marq. E. nor B. although I know not by what popular error the Citizens of London reckoned the L. Major elect for E. of Middlesex Which whatsoever ground it had hath none now to stand on that title being not long since bestowed on 1622 1 Lionel L. Cranfeild L. Tr. of Eng. cr E. of Middlesex 20 Iac. Sep. 17. now alive Anno 1641. MONMOVTH MOnmouth-shire is the neerest shire of Wales though it desires rather to be accounted a part of England and is indeed included in the circuit of the English Iudges It lieth upon the North of the river Sev●n there where it groweth into a Sea the East parts full of grasse and woods the West somewhat hilly and stony withall yet not unprofitable to the husbandman if he be not wanting to himselfe It takes name from the chiefe Town Monmouth and that from being seated on the mouth of the River Mu●ow there where it shootes into the Wye It was the Barony once of Iohn L. of Monmouth on whose attaindure it was
setled in the house of Lancas●er from whom it after did receive great priviledges and immunities which they still enjoy Henry the fift son unto King Henry the fourth the first of the Lancastrian Family was in this place borne which shewes that noble Family so highly prized it to make it their dwelling and was from hence called Henry of Monmouth That one particular enough to renown the place and therefore we shall adde no more It is b●longing still to the house of Lancaster as to the possession being dependant on the Dutchy and not much aliened from it as unto the title the Caries which derive themselves from Lancaster by the line of Somerset being now honoured with the title of Earles of Monmouth 1625 1 Robert Lord Cary of Leppington created E. of Monmouth ● Car Feb. 7. 1639 2 Robert Cary now Earle of Monmouth now living Anno 1641 MONTACVTE MOntacute is the name of a very antient illustrious Family so called from Montacute a sharp ●ill in the South parts of Somerset● shire between Evill and Martok The place called Biscopeston by the Saxons but by the E. of Moriton brother by the mothers side to William the Conquerour who built a Castle on the top of it it was called Montacute It afterwards gave name to that noble Family as before I said who being Lords hereof came after to be Earles of Salisbury and since in other Families but descending from them hath been the honorary stile and appellation of these Marq. Lords Visc. Montacute 1461 1 Iohn Nevill grandchild of Thom. Mont●cute E. of Salis cr L. Mon. 1 Edw. 44. and after Marq. Monta. Anno 1470.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1504 2 Hen. Pole great granchild of Rich Nevill the elder brother of the said Iohn L. Mont.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1553 3 Antho. Brown descen from the La. Lucy daugh of Ioh. Mar. Mont. cr Visc. Mont. 1 Ma● Sept. 2. 1592 4 Anth. Brown Visc. Monta.   5 Anth. Brow now living An. 1641. MONTGOMERY MOntgomery-shire is one of the new shires of Wales taken out of the March-grounds by K. H. 8. Anno 27 of his reigne so called ●rom the Town and Castle of Montgomery that from Roger de Montgomery a noble Norman Earle of Shrewsbury who winning much ●and herabouts from the Welch first built it to secure his Conqu It standeth not for from the banks of the river Severne upon the rising of a rock from whence it hath a very free prospect into a pleasant plaine that lyeth beneath it The Family of the Herberts is very much diffused and of great authority in this Country out of which Family 1605 Philip Herbert 2 son of Hen. Earle of Pembrok was cr E. of Montgomery 3 Iac. May 4 and is now also E. of Pembrok and L. Cham. An. 1641. MOVLGRAVE MOulgrave is an antient Castle in the north riding of York-shire situate neare unto the sea and not far from Whitbay First built it was by Peter de Mouley or de malo lacu in the Latine in the time of Rich. 1 and being in his eye a very beautifull pile was by him called Moult-Grace but being a greivous yoke to the neighbour inhabitants was by them called Moult-grave by which name and no other now the world takes notice of it It continued in his line for seven generations and all of them called Peters too and then the issue male failing it passed through severall Families by the heires generall and now belong●th to the Sheffeilds out of which house 1625 1 Edm. L. Sheffeild L. President of the North was cr E. of Moulgrave 1 Car. Feb. 7 and is still alive Anno 1641. NEWCASTLE NEw-Castle is the hithermost town of all Northumberland and the chiefe of the North seated upon the further banke of the river Tine which is there so deep and well fenced withall that it giveth a very safe station to the tallest ships It standeth on the declining of a very steep hill adorned with 4 Churches fortified with strong wals beautified with goodly buildings A town of very great resort especially by reason of the trade of Sea cole which is conveyed hence to all parts of the Kingdome and many other parts of Christendome It rose out of the ruines of old Gabrosentum and had this new name from a Castle built by Robert son of Wil. the Conq. And thriving by the benefit and entercourse of trade became at length of such reputation that by K. H. 6. it was made a County incorporate as we use to say and finally thought worthy to give the honour of an E to 1623 1 Ludowick D. of Lennox and E. of Richmond cr E. of Newcastle 2 Iac. in May.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1627 2 Wil. Cavendish Visc. Mansfield cr E of Newcastle 3 Car Mar. 7. Now Gover. and Gent. of the Bedchamber of the Prince his high A. 1641 NEWPORT NEwport is the chiefe Town of the Isle of Wight called in times past Medena afterwards Novus burgus de Meden and by us now Newport A Town well seated and much frequented and withall populous in it selfe which most ariseth from the benefit of a little haven capable of vessels of the smaller burden which com● up to the very key For government within it hath a Major and Burgesses being made a Corporation by K. Ia●es and for a further lustre to it in the world abroad it pleased our Soveraigne L. K. Charles to create 162● Montjoy Blount Lord Montjoy E. of Newport 3 Car. Aug. 3 who is now Master of the Ordnance and of the Counsell for warre Ann● 1641. NORFOLK NOrfolk is the greatest County of Eng. next to Yorksh. but far 〈◊〉 populous than that as comprehending in the whole 660 Parish Churches of which 27 are market towns It antiently was a part of the Iceni and next the Northern part of the Kingdome of the East-Angles from whence it had the name of Northfolk as hath the Southern people of it the name of Southfolk The soyle according to the variety of places is of different nature in some fat rank and full of moysture in others very light and sandy yet so that one contributing unto the other and the sea giving help to both it is very plentifull country for corne sheep and fish The people notably industrious both for plough and manufactures insomuch that one shall hardly see a begger throughout all the Countrey And yet which makes the merveile much the greater they are notable wranglers well versed and studied in the quirks of Law and consequently create more work for the Assises than almost all the circuit else But then it is observed withall that this disposition hath brought some reputation with it as furnishing the Courts of Ius●ice with many an eminent man in the laws of Eng. and yeelding generally the best breed of Lawyers It is observed by a great antiquary of this Kingd that in this County are ●oo Families of antient Gentry which never were attainted of high treason which if
1247 9 William de Valence halfe brother to King Henry the 3 whose wife was daughter of a sister of Ans. Marshall 1296 10 Aymer de Valence     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1341 11 Lawrence Hastings who married the Lady Isabell de Valence 1348 12 Iohn Hastings * 1373 13 Iohn Hastings     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1414 14 Humf. D. of Glocester     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1447 15 Wil. de la Pole D of Suff.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1452 16 Iasp. of Hatfeild half brother to K. H. 6 after D. of Bedf. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1468 17 Wil Herbert * 1469 18 Wil. Herbert   ✚ ✚ ✚ 1479 19 Edw. Prince of Wales son of K. Edw. 4.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1532 20 Anne Bolen Marchionesse of Pemb. wife of K. H. 8.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1551 21 Wil. Herb. L. Steward crea E. of Pemb. by K. Edw. 6. * 1570 22 Hen. Herbert * 1601 23 Wil. Herb. L. Steward and Chan. of Oxon. * 1630 24 Philip Herb. now E. of Pembrok and Montgom and L. Chamberlaine 1641. * PETERBVRGH OF Peterburgh as it is an Epi●copall see we have spoke already and have not much to adde of it as it hath the title of an Earldom It standeth in the very nooke or angle of Northampton-shire where formerly had been a gulfe or whirle poole of exceeding depth but made firme ground by Wolpher K. of the Mercians when with great paines and diligence he laid the foundation of the Church A Town but for the Church of no great note as standing out of the way for trade and traffick and seated in no plausible place whether one look to health or pleasure Yet by occasion of the Abbey in the former times and now by reason of the Bishop there it drawes resort of people for dispatch of businesse hath a large marketplace a faire Parish Church and 2 handsome streets Of late unto the Ecclesiasticall relation of it is joyned an honourary it pleasing he Kings Majesty that now is to create 1627 Iohn L. Mordant E. of Peterburgh 3 Car. March 9. who now enjoyes that title Anno 1641. PORTLAND POrtland was once a little Island but now adjoyneth to the mainland of Dorset-shire lieth full against the good town of Weymouth and seemes to take th●s name from Port a noble Saxon who about the yeare 703 infested and annoyed these Coasts and made here his station It is not above 7 miles in compasse and very scatteringly inhavited but plentifull enough of corne and good for pastures On the East side it hath a Church on the North a Castle which seems to guard the entrance of Weymouth haven But however it was in former times it is now remarkable it gave and gives the stile of Earle 1632 1 Richard Lord Weston L. high T● created Earle of Portland Feb. 15. 8 Car. 1635 2 Hier. Weston now E. of Portland Anno 1641. RICHMOND RIchmond-shire is no County of it selfe but a part of York-shire lying towards the North-west with rugged rocks and swelling mountaines whose sides in some places beare good grasse the bottomes underneath not being unfruitfull and in the hils themselves are found good mines of lead and pit-coale The chiefe Town of the whole is Richmond of a small circuit in the wals but by reason of the Suburbs lying out in length very well peopled and frequented A Town first built by Alane E. of Bretagne the first E. here after the entrance of the Normans who fenced it with a wall and a most strong Castle the better to assure these parts against the English and having finished the same according to his own content gave it the name of Richmount as a place equally participating of strength and beauty It standeth on the banks of the river of Swale which with a mighty noise runneth underneath it A River reputed very sacred by antient English for that in it Paul●nus the first Archb. of ●orke baptized in one day above 100●0 men besides women and children The Earles of Bretagne for a long time together continued in the title and possession of this Cou●trey Since it hath been bestowed upon other Families who in their severall times have been adorned with the stile of Dukes and Earles of Richmond   1 Alan the Red E. of Bretagne 1093 2 Alan the black E. of Breta   3 Steph. E. of Bret. 1104 4 Alan E. of Bret. 1166 5 Conan D. of Bret.     ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1170 6 Geof Plantag son of K. H. 2 married Const. daught of Conan 1186 7 Arthur the son of Geof     ✚ ✚ 1201 8 Guido Visc. of Touars 2 husband of Constance     ✚ ✚ ✚   9 Randolph of Chester 2 husband of Constance     ✚ ✚ ✚   10 Peter of Dreux D. of Bret.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1241 11 Pet. of Savoy unckle to Qu. Eleon wife of H. 3.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1268 12 Iohn de Dreux D. of Bret. 1305 13 Iohn de Dreux D. of Bret.   14 Iohn de Bret. E. of Richm. 1334 15 Iohn de Dreux D. of Bret.   16 Iohn de Montf D. of Richm.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1341 17 Iohn of Gaunt after D. of Lanc.     ✚ ✚ ✚   18 Iohn de Montf sirnamed the valiant D. of Bret. and E. of Rich.     ✚ ✚ ✚   19 Ralph Nevill E. of Westm. cr E. of Rich for term of life *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1425 20 Iohn D. of Bedford *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1452 21 Edm. of Haddam halfe brother to K. H 6.   22 Hen. E. of Rich. after K. of Eng.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1525 23 Hen. Fitz-Roy base son of H. 8. D. of Rich. and Somerset L. Adm. *     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1613 24 Lodow. D. of Lennox crea E. of Richm. 11 Iac. Oct. 9. and after D. of Rich. 1623 May L. Stew. RIVERS THe title of Earle Rivers is of different nature from all the rest of England those being locall that of E. Marsh. excepted and this nominall those taking their denomination from some speciall place and this from an illustrious Family The antient name was Redve●s or de Ripariis thence it came to Rivers At first they were but Barons of Plimpton in the County of Devon after they came to bee Earles of Devonsh which title 8 of them enjoyed successively and then the masculine issue failing the name and patrimony both were lost amongst the females or heires generall From some of these as I conjecture came S. Rich. Woddeville whom first K. H. 6. advanced unto the honourable title of L Rivers and after Edw. 4. marrying his daughter advanced him higher and made him E. Rivers Which title ending in the 3 E. of this name and Family was since again revived in the honourable houses of Darcy and Savage this last deriving a descent hereto by the line of Worcester Huntington from one of the daught and coheires of the first E. Rivers whom and his successors
great enriching of the Country and benefit to all the Kingd It took this name from Somerton once the most famous and considerable in all the County now a small market Town of no note nor credit but for a faire of Cattell which is kept there yearely in which respect Ass●rius calls it Comitatum Somertunensem or Somertonsh But by the name of Somerset it is now best known and by that name hath given the honorary title of Dukes and Earles to   1 Wil. de de Mohun E.     ✚ ✚ ✚   2 Wil. Long-espee E. of Salisb. and Somerlet     ✚ ✚ ✚   3 Reginald de Mohun     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1396 4 Iohn Beaufort eldest son of Iohn of Gaunt by his 3 wife E. 1409 5 Henry Beauf. 1419 6 Iohn Beauf. D. of Somer 1442 7 Edm Beauf. E. and D. 1454 8 Hen. Beauf. D. 1462 9 Edm. Beauf.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1499 10 Edm. 3 son of K. H. 7.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1525 11 Hen. Fitz-Roy base son of K. H. 8. D. of Somer Rich.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1546 12 Edw. Seym L. Pro. of K. E. 6. D.     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1614 13 Rob. Carre Visc. Rochester cr E of Somer 12 Iac. now living 1641. SOVTHAMPTON SOuthampton is the 2 Town of Hamp-shire in bignesse and circuit but not inferiour to the first for wealth and riches A Towne commodiously seated on an arme of the sea and capable of ships of burden to the very Keie the opportunity whereof hath made it very faire and populous as having in it 5 Churches for Gods publique service fenced with strong wals and a double ditch and to secure the haven with a right strong Castle which now time hath ruined It standeth on the banks of the river of Anton which rising about Andover runs here into the Sea from whence it had the name of Southampton and by that name hath given denomination to the whole Countrey though generally it be called Hamp-shire A Country rich in all commodities both of sea and land and in the upper parts thereof those which are farthest from the sea of a very pure and excellent aire It conteines in it 253 Parishes many of which have Chappels of ease as big as Parish besids those in the Isle of Wight which is reckoned for a part of Hantshire To return back unto the Town which though it bee within the County yet is a County in it self for which it stands beholding to K. H. 6. And both before and since hath been counted worthy to be the highest honourary title of Dukes and Earles to 1067 1 Beauvois of Hampton that famous Soldier so much talked of     ✚ ✚ ✚ 1●27 2 William Fitz-Williams Lord Adm. *   ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ 1547 3 Thomas Wriothe●●ey Lord Chancellour created Earle of South by K. Edw. 6. * 1550 4 Henry Wriothesley 1581 5 Henry Wriothesley * 1624 6 Thomas Wriothesley now Earle 1641. STAFFORD STaffordsh apperteined antiently to the Cornubii a potent people in these parts which afterwards by Beda were called Angli mediteranei or the midland Englishmen A Countrey on the north part full of hils and woods on the South stored with coales and mines of iron and in the middle part where it is watred with the Trent bravely adorned with meadows faire fields of corn It conteineth in it 120 villages with Parish Churches the City or Episcopal see of Lichfeild 12 other market Towns of which the chief is Staff on the river of Owe the head Town of the shire which from thence taketh name A Town exceedingly beholding to the Barons of Staf. who were once Lords hereof and were hence denominated who both procured it to be made a Burrough with ample priviledges by K. Iohn and also fenced it with a wall save where it was secured by a large poole of water on the East and North. And on the other side the Town by way of thankfull retribution honored that noble Family with the stile of E. who were from hence entituled in their severall ages Earles Lords and Visc. of Stafford 1353 1 Ralph Stafford E. * 1372 2 Hugh Staff 1383 3 Tho. Staff   4 Wil. Staff   5 Edm. Staff * 1403 6 Hen. Staff D. of Bucking * 1444 7 Hum. Staff E. 1460 8 Hen. Staff D. of Buck. * 1486 9 Edw. Staff D. of Buck. * 1521 10 Hen. Staff L.   11 Edw. Staff L.   12 Hen. Staff L. who dying An. 1639 the Family of the Staffords died also with him and is quite extinguished 1640 13 Wil. How Knight of the Bath 2 son of Tho. E. of Arundel and Surrey having to wife a sister of the last L. Staff was by his Majesty now being cr Visc. Staff in Nov. 1640 and is now living Anno 1641. STAMFORD STamford is the hithermost Town of Lincoln-sh seated upon the river W●lland by which it is there parted from Northampton-sh It standeth in that part thereof which is called Kesteven of which it is the principall town A town well peopled and of great resort conteining about 7 Parish Churches But that wh●ch gives it most renown is that upon some quarrell and contention between the Southern and Northern men in the Vniversity of Oxford the Scholle●s in the reign of King Edw. 3 removed hither and here held publiqueschooles of al sorts of learning Nor did they leave the place or return again untill they were commanded so to do by the Kings Proclamation and thereupon it was ordeined in the Vniversity that the ●chollers in the taking of their degrees should make oath not to reade publiquely at Stamford to the prejudice of Oxford Neverthelesse the Town still flourished in trade and merchandise and doth now give the title of an Earle to 1628 Hen. L. Grey of Groby cr E. of Stamf. 3 Car. March 26 now living Anno 1641. STRAFFORD STrafford or Strasforth is the name of a Wapontake or hundred in the West-riding of York-shire and lieth on the South therof where it abutteth on the Counties of Nottingham and Darby A territory of a large extent conceived to be almost as big as the whole County of Rutland and in it comprehending the good towns of Sheafeld Rotheram Doncaster and the honour of Tickhil besides many smaller Villages and Hamlets The antient Family of the Wentworths out of which cometh the Earle of Cleveland have long flourished here and have their seate at Wentworth-Wood house and many a faire and large possession in this Wapontake In which consideration it was selected purposely for the highest title of 1639 Tho. Visc Wentworth L. Newmerch and ●versley and L. Deputy of Ireland cr E. of Stafford and Baron of Raby with great solemnity at Whitehall 15 Car. Ian 12 and shortly after L. Lieut. of Ireland SVffolk was antiently part of the Iceni and afterwards together with Cambridg-sh and Norfolk made up the Kingdome of the East Angles of which this being the Southerne part gave to the Count. and the people