by Heart the second Book of the Aeneads which he learnt at School without missing a Verse He was an excellent Preacher He attended King Ja. his Chaplain into Scotland and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury He was Hospital and Generous He dyed and was buried An. Dom. 1622. Th. Son to Will. Westfield D. D. born An. Dom. 1573. in Ely bred at Jes Coll. in Camb. where he was Fellow He was Assistant to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside after Rector of Horsney and great St. Barth Lond. where in his Preaching he went through the 4 Evangelists He was afterward made Arch-Deacon of St. Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol The Parl. had a good Opinion of him as appears by this Order 13. May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Com. for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Vpon information in the behalf of the B. of Bristol That his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents it is ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great Age and a Person of great Learning and Merit Jo. Wylde By his Will he desired to be buried in the Cathedral-Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop And as for my Worldly Goods the words of his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give c. to my Wife Eliz. He dyed June 28. 1644. and lyeth buried according to his own desire An Anagram made on him by his Daughter was Thomas Westfield I dwell the most safe Statesmen Jo. Tiptoft Son and Heir of Jo. Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Edw. Charlton Lord Powis by his Wife Eleanor Sister and Coheir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this County He was bred at Baliol-Coll in Oxf. where he attained to great Learning and by H. 6. was afterwards created first Viscount then Earl of Worcester and Lord High Constable of England and by E. 4. Knight of the Garter The Skies began to Lowre and Threaten Civil Wars and the House of York fell sick of a Relapse Mean time this Earl could not be discourteous to Hen. 6. who had so much advanced him nor disloyal to Edw. 4. in whom the Right of the Crown lay For an Expedient he quitted his own and visited the Holy-Land At Rome in his passage by an Elegant Latin Speech he drew the Admiration of all the Auditors and Tears from the Eyes of the Pope Pius II. He returned from Christs-Sepulchre to his own in England in an unhappy time if sooner or later he had found Edward on that Throne to which now H. 6 was restored and whose Restitution was only remarkable for the Death of this Worthy Lord. Treason was charged on him for secretly siding with King Edw. On this account he lost his life The Ax then did at one blow cut off more Learning in England then was left in the Heads of all the Surviving Nobility His Death hap'ned on St. Lukes day 1470. Edw. Lord Tiptoft his Son was restored by Edw. 4. Earl of Worcester but dying without Issue his Inheritance fell to his three Aunts Sisters to the Learned Lord aforesaid viz. 1. Philip married to Th. Lord Ross of Hamlake 2. Joan Wife of Sir Edm. Inglesthrop of Borough-green in this County 3. Joyce married to Sir Edw. Sutton Son and Heir of John Lord Dudley from whom came Edw. Sutton Lord Dudley and Knight of the Garter Jo. Cheeke Knight Tutor to Ed. 6. and Secretary of State born in Camb. Of him see our Church-History Souldiers When the rest of the East-Angles cowardly fled away in the Field from the Danish Army the Men of the County of Camb. did manfully resist whence it was that whilst the English did rule the praise of the People of Cambridgeshire did most eminently flourish At the coming of the Normans they made so stout a Resistance that the Conqueror who did fly into England was glad to creep into Ely Cambridgeshire-men commonly passed for a Proverb tho now like old Coyn almost grown out of request Indeed the Common-people have Robust bodies able to carry 8 Bushels of Barley on their Backs whereas 4 are found a sufficient Load for Men of other Counties and I doubt not but if there were occasion their Arms and Hands would appear to be as good as their Backs and Shoulders Writers Math. Paris probably born in this and bred-in the next County where the Name is right Ancient long before they were setled at Hildersham which accrued to them by their Marriage with the Daughter and Heir of the Buslers He was a Monk at St. Albans skilled in Poetry Oratory and Divinity as also in Painting Graving c. But his Genius chiefly disposed him to the Writing of Histories wherein he wrote a large Chronicle from the Conquest unto the year of our Lord 1250. where he concludes with this Distich Siste tui metas studii Mâ—â—â—â—aee quietas Nec ventura petas quae postera proferat aetas Matthew here cease thy Pen in peace and study on no more Nor do thou aim at things to come which next Age hath in store Yet resuming the Work he continued it to 1259. A catching disease with Authors my self being concerned to obey the importunity of others contrary to their own inclination His History is impartially and judiciously save whereby he indulgeth too much Monkish Miracles and no Writer so plainly discovereth the Pride Avarice and Rapine of the Court of Rome so that he seldom kisseth the Popes toe without Biting it The Papists insinuate a suspicion that such Reflections are forged but all the Candour imaginable has been used in the Editions of that Author first by Math. Parker and then and especially by Doctor Will. Wats This Matthew left off living and writing An. 1259. Tho he had sharp Nailes he had clean Hands strict in his own and striking at the loose Conversation of others and for his Eminent Austerity was not only employed by Pope Innocent 4. to visit the Monks in the Diocess of Norwich but also was sent unto Norway to reform the Discipline in Holni a fair Covent Helias Rubeus in Engl. Rous or Red bred D. D. in Camb. A great Courtier and Gracious with the King Wrote a Book contra Nobilitatem inanem 'T is thought he flourished about the year 1266. Jo. Eversden was bred a Monk in Bury-Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but his mounting above this mean Employ he buried himself in Pâ—â—try Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryars And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury An. 1336. there hap'ned a hideous Hericano levelling Trees Towers c. Yet went they out with a Calm at the time
preferred Bishop of Coventry and Lich. An. 1496 thence Translated to his native Diocess of Exeter He dyed at Lond. An. 1503 and lieth buried in St. Clem. Danes Capital Judges and Writers on the Law There is a Tradition that a Giant with a Black-bill in his Hand standeth at Polston-bridge ready to knock down all the Lawyers that should offer to plant themselves in Cornwall The truth is there have been but few here Eminent in that Faculty Yet have we Will. Noy born in this County bred in Lincolns-Inn a most sedulous Student constantly conversant with Ancient Records verifying his Anagram W. Noy I Moyl in Law He was for many years the stoutest Champion for the Subjects Liberty until King Ch. entertained him to be his Attorney 'T was an ingenuous Expression he used when the Goldsmiths of Lond. at the Pixe or Weighing Gold in the Star-Chamb pretended the Scales exact to the two hundreth part of a Grain I should be loath said he that all my Actions should be weighed in those Scales Souldiers King Arthur Son to Vther Pendragon was born at Tintagel in this County and proved afterwards Monarch of the Britains He may be termed the British Hercules 1. For his Illegetimate Birth 2. His painful life one painful for his 12 Labours the other for his 12. Victories against the Saxons 3. His Violent death as Lamentable tho more Honourable being Murdred by Mordred As for his Round-Table there is very little of Probability in it The Cornish men having always esteemed Men of Valour ever made up that Martial Kings Van-guard but afterwards in the time of Canutus they were appointed to make up the Rear of our Armies But it is to be pityed that these People misguided by their Leaders have so often abused their Valour in Rebellions and particularly in the Reign of H. 7. at Black-Heath where they did the greatest Execution with their Arrows reported to be the length of a Taylors-yard However they have since plentifully repaired their Credit by their Exemplary Valour and Loyalty in the late Civil-Wars Souldiers Jo. Arundel of Trerice Esquire 14. H. 8. took Prisoner Duncan Camble a Scot accounted their Admiral by his Country-men a Pirat by the English and a Valiant man by all in a Sea-fight This Valiant Enterprize represented with Advantage by the D. of Norfolk to the King was by him highly praised and rewarded Civilians Jo. Tregonnel born in this County and bred in Oxf. where he proceeded Dr. of the Laws He was employed to be Proctor for King H. 8. in the Cause of his Divorce from Queen Kath. Dowager and being Dextrous and Diligent in that Service he was rewarded by Knight-hood and a Pension of 40 Pound a year And afterwards resigning that and paying down 1000 pounds he got a Grant of the Demesne and Site of Middleton a Mitred Abby in Dors possessed at this day by his Posterity He dyed about the year 1540 and is buried under a fair Monument in Middleton-Church Physicians Atwell Parson of St. Tue well seen in the Theorie and happy in the Practice of Physick He mostly for all Diseases Prescribed Milk and often Milk and Apples He bestowed his pains gratis on the Poor and taking moderately from the Rich left one half of what he received in the Houses he visited As for the profits of his Benefice he poured it out with both hands in Pious Uses He lived about the year 1602. Writers Hucarius the Levite lived at St. Germans in this County a Pious and Learned Man Eminent in his Function of Divine Service and wrote 110 Homilies besides other Books He flourished 1040. Jo. Cornwall Studied at Rome and was Familiar with Pope Alex. 3. He wrote against Pet. Lumbard that Master of Sentences a Book called De homine Assumpto He also wrote a Book of Philosophy and Heresies He flourished under King Hen. 2. An. 1170. Sim. Thurway first bred in the English Universities then in Paris admired for his Logick firm Memory and Fluent Expression yet most Profanely he advanced Aristotle above Moses and himself above both He lost at one instant both Reason and Speech a judgment adequate to his Crime 1201. Mich. Blannpayn was bred in Oxf. and Paris A good Rhyming Poet as any of that Age. In defence of Cornwall against Hen. of Normandy he has this Verse Piscibus Stanno nusquam tam fertilis Ora. But his Vein lying more in Satyr he gives this Character of his foresaid Antagonist Est tibi Gamba Capri crus Passeris latus Apri Os Leporis catuli Nasus dens gena Muli Frons Vetulae tauri Caput color undique Mauri His Argumentis quibus est Argutia Mentis Quod non à Monstro differs satis hìc tibi monstro He flourished An. 1350. Godfrey of Cornwall bred a Doctor in Paris and Oxf. and afterwards a Carmelite of no mean esteem He wrote a Book against the Constituting of two Provincials of that Order in England This Solemn Doctor flourished An. 1310. Jo. Trevisa born at Caradock bred in Oxf. was Vicar of Berkley in Glouc. and Chaplain to Thomas Lord Berkley at whose instance he Translated the Bible into English without leave of his Holiness or Authority from a Publick Council whose Translation is as much better than Wicklifs as worse than Tyndals He dyed about the year 1400. Since the Reformation Jo. Skâ—ish Secretary to Card. Woolsey wrote a Chronicle out of many several Authors He flourished An. 1530. Bartholomew Traheron well descended and bred in Oxf. and beyond Seas After which he became Library-Keeper to E. 6. and Dean of Chichester In the 1. of Queen Mary he passed unto Germany and there lived by his Pen 1556. Rich. Carew Esquire Son to Th. Carew and Eliz. Edgecombe was born at Anthony of right Worshipful Parentage and honoured his Extraction with his Learning He was bred a Gentleman-Commoner of Oxf. where being but 14 years old and yet three years standing he disputed Extempore before the Earls of Leicester and Warw. with the matchless Sir Ph. Sidney He is celebrated by Cambden for his judicious Description of Cornwall set forth 1602. He dyed about the middle of the Reign of King James He or his Son is said to have introduced the use of Gambadoes in the West which serve both for Boots and Stirrups Ch. Herle descended of a Worshipful Family and bred in Exeter-Coll was at last Richly Beneficed in Lanc. A good Scholar and esteemed by his Party a deep Divine and after the Death of D. Twis President of the Assembly He dyed about 1655. Memorable Persons Jo. Bray Tenant to Mr. Rich. Carew carried upon his Back An. 1608. at one time by the space well near of a Butt-length six Bushels of Wheaten-meal and upon them all the Miller a Lubber of 24 years of Age. Jo. Roman the Cornish Milo so used to Burdens in his Child-hood that when a Man he would bear the whole Carcase of an Ox and yet never tugged thereat Veal
age would admit An 1. Ed. 6. 3. When the same after the Marian interruption was resumed and more refined in the Reign of Q. El. The first of these I may call the Morning Star The Second the Dawning of the Day The third the rising of the Sun As to the Prelats and Writers in Q. Maries days their inclinations are discovered in their Writings and by their Actions CHAP. XII Memorable Persons THE former Heads were like Private Houses but this Topick is like a publick Inn admitting all Comers and Goers having any extraordinary not vicious Remark upon them Such therefore who are over under or beside the Standard of Common Persons for strength stature fruitfulness vivacity c. are lodged under this Head under which I also repose such Mechanicks who have reached a clear note above others in their Vocation and Eminent improvers of Arts being Founders of that Accession which they add thereunto CHAP. XIII Of Lord Mayors of London AFter the Death of the King the Lord Majors Office and Authority continues a whole year whereas most other Offices determine with the Kings Death Younger Sons are raised to this Dignity by their own Vertue which affords an Illustrious Example and gives the greatest Encouragement to all well-disposed Youth Some Shires are destitute of this Honourable Office tho 't is probable they may come to arrive at the Priviledge of Majorality for Sir Richard Chiverton Skinner descended of a right Ancient and Worshipful Family having been lately the first in Cornwal has opened the door there for others to follow after him Some in London have refused the Office and Fined and thereby have Charitably increased the Stock of the City CHAP. XIV Why a Catalogue of the English Gentry in the Reign of H. 6. is inserted in this Book IN the days of H. 6 under pretence of routing out Felons Outlaws c. Opposition was made to the House of York which was the Occasion that a List of Gentry was made As to the Method of the Catalogue among the Commissioners the Bishop of the Diocess is first put after whom follow Earls Barons Knights of the Shire Note here that in the time of H. 6 de such a place was left off and the addition of Knight or Squire was assumed tho not generally in all places CHAP. XV. Of Sheriffs SHeriff is a Reeve or Overseer of a Shire in Latin Vicecomes or Deputy of an Earl or Count who anciently presiding over a County gave names both to the Place and deputed Jurisdiction In the year 888. K. Alfred first divided England into Shires The Clerk of the Peace for each County in Mich. Term presents to the Lord Chief Justice six or more names of able Persons for the Office of Sheriff of whom three are presented to the King who pricks one to stand Sheriff for the County His Power is to suppress Riots secure Prisoners distrain for Debts execute Writs return Knights and Burgesses for Parliament empannel Juries attend the Judge see the Execution of Malefactors c. By 4. H. 4 5. Sheriffs are to abide within their Counties 'T is observed by some that anciently the Office of Sheriff was Honos sine onere in middle times Honos cum onere and in our days Onus sine Honore a burden without honour CHAP. XVI Of the Coats of Arms of Sheriffs ARms seem to have been Jure Divino to the Jews and their use is great both in War and Peace without them an Army neither has Method nor strikes terror and in peace Arms distinguish one Man from another Arms assumed according to one's fancy are but personal but Arms assigned by Princes are Hereditary The plainer the Coat is the more Ancient and Honourable two Colours are necessary and most highly honourable tho both may be blazoned with one word as Varrey formerly born by the Beauchamps of Hatch in Wiltshire and still quartered by the Duke of Somerset three are very honourable four Commendable five Excuseable more disgraceful One said of a Coat that it was so well Victualled that it might endure a Siege such was the Plenty and Variety of Fowl Flesh and Fish therein Or and Azure are the richest Argent and Sable the fairest Coats The Lion and Eagle are the most Honourable the Cross the most Religious bearing a Bend the best Ordinarie being a Belt athwart as a Fess is the same about the middle Herbs Vert being natural are better then Or. There are Reasons rendred for some bearings Thus whereas the Earls of Oxford anciently gave their Coat plain quarterly Gules and Or they took afterwards in the first a Mallet or Star Argent because the Chief of the House had a Falling-Star as is said alighting on his Shield as he was fighting in the Holy-land Now for the Arms of Sheriffs we have added them ever since the first of King Richard 2. I will conclude this Discourse with a Memorable Record Claus 5 H. 5. Membr 15 in the Tower The King to the Sheriff Health c. because there are divers Men as we are informed which before these times in the Voyages made by us have assumed to themselves Arms and Coat-Armours where neither they nor their Ancestors in times past used such Arms c. and Propound with themselves to use and exercise the same in this present Voyage which God willing we intend to make And altho the Omnipotent disposeth his favours in things Natural as he pleaseth equally to the Rich and Poor yet We willing that every one of our Liege Subjects should be Esteemed and Treated in due manner according to the Exigency of his State and Condition We Command thee that in every place within thy Bailiwick where by our Writ we have lately shewn you cause to be Proclaimed that no Man of what State Degree or Condition soever he be shall take upon him such Arms or Coats of Arms save he alone who doth possess or ought to possess the same by the right of his Ancestors or by Donation and grant of some who had sufficient power to assign him the same and that he that useth such Arms or Coats of Arms shall on the day of his Muster manifestly shew to such Persons assigned or to be assigned by us for that purpose by vertue of whose gift he enjoyeth the same those only excepted who carried Arms with us at the Battle of Agincourt under the penalties not to be admitted to go with us in our aforesaid Voyages under his Command by whom he is for the present retained and of the loss of his wages as also of the rasing out and breaking off the said Arms called Coat-Armours at the time of his Muster aforesaid if they shall be shewn upon him or found about him And this you shall in no case omit Witness the King at the City of New Sarum June the Sâ—cond CHAP. XVII Of the Alterations and Variations of Surnames SUrnames of Families have been altered and new Names assumed chiefly for Concealment in time of Civil
purchased good Titles made sure Settlements and entail'd Thrift with their Lands on their Posterity Sir Edward Coke hath prevented my Pains and given in a List of such Principal Families 'T is admirable that there is not a great and Numerous House in England wherein there is not one Anciently or at this day Living thriving and flourishing by the Study of the Law Especially if to them be added those who have raised themselves in Courts of Judicature The City hath produced more then the Law in Number and some as broad in Wealth but not so high in Honour nor long lasting in time who like Landfloods soon come and soon gone have been dryed up before this Generation Yet many of these have continued in a certain Channel and carried a constant Stream The Church before the Reformation advanced many Families For tho Bishops might not marry they preferred their Brothers Sons to great Estates as the Kemps in Kent Peckhams in Sussex Wickhams in Hampshire Meltons in Yorkshire Since the Reformation some have raised their Families to a Knightly and Worshipful Estate as Hutton Bilson Dove Neil c. For Sheriffs Sandys in Worcester Cambridgeshire Westphaling in Herefordshire Elmar in Suffolk Rud in Carmarthenshire Of the inferiour Clergy Robert Johnson attain'd such an Estate that his Grandson was Pricked Sheriff of a County but declined the place as being a Deacon The Civil Law hath preferred few The most Eminent in that Faculty before the Reformation being Persons in Orders abstained from Marriage since the Reformation there are Worshipful Families raised thereby The professors of Civil Law were equally Contemned with Gods Ministers during the Civil Wars the Promoters whereof having a constant Pique at all Civility and Order But by the Return of our Brittish Sun those Clouds of Barbarity are dispelled and Regularity of Motion and good Order is introduced into the vast Sphere of his Dominion and the joyful Seasons of Peace and Plenty are by his kindly Influences restored Physick hath promoted more and that since the Reign of King Henry 8. Before whose time there was one a Doctor of Physick Father to Reginald first and last Lord Bray This Faculty hath much flourished the three last fifty years Sir William Buts Doctor Wendy and Doctor Hatcher have raised Worshipful Families thereby Some have rais'd themselves by Sea-service and Letters of Mart. Amongst those most remarkable the Baronets Family of Drakes in Devonshire sometimes Sheriffs there Some have raised themselves by their Attendance at Court here younger Brothers have found their Birth-right Many have advanced themselves by their Valour in Forraign Wars especially in France as the Knolls a Noble Family and the Caveleys often Sheriffs in Cheshire Clothing as it affords Coats to most People so it has given Arms and Gentility to many Families in this Land As on the Springs of High-Sheriffs in Suffolk The Countrey with her two full Breasts of Grasing and Tillage hath raised many Families Some have had two Strings to their Bow As the Chichlies in Cambridgeshire are Descendants from a Lord Major allied also Collaterally to an Arch-bishop of Canterbury We may observe how happy a Liberal Vocation has proved to Younger Brethren with which agree the School-Boys Exposition of these Verses Dat Galenus opes dat Justinianus Honores Cum Genus Species cogitur ire pedes The Study of Physick giveth Wealth The Study of Law giveth Honour When High-birth and Beauty having no other Calling is compelled to go on Foot Barkshire BARKSHIRE hath Wiltshire on the west Hampshire on the South Surrey on the East Oxford and Buckinghamshire on the North. 'T is in Form of a Lute the Belly towards the West the Neck extending to the East In length about forty Miles viz. from Coleshul to Windfor and about twenty Miles in the broadest part Very plentiful of Grass Grain Fish Fowl Wool and Wood c. The Natural Commodities are first Oakes of Trees Barkshire hath abundance in all kinds The Oaks in Windsor-Forrest as all other English Oak are the best 1. for firmness for when entred with Bullet it remaineth firm round about it whilst all the Oak does cowardly split about the passage 2. For convenience of Portage our four principal Forrests lying either on the Sea or Navigable Rivers viz. New-Forrest on the Sea Shire-wood on the Trent Dean on the Severn Windsor-Forrest on the Thames Secondly Bark Whence the Name of this County It is essential for making of good Leather for he that stays for Leather-shooes made without Bark may long time go Bare-foot Thirdly Trouts A dainty Fish being found in the swiftest Streams and on the hardest Gravel Of this kind there are Great and Good in the River of Kennet nigh Hungerford They are best in May and decline with the Buck. After their full growth they decay in goodness tho their Head still thrive Note a Hog-back and little Head is a sign any Fish is in season As for Manufactures the chief is Clothing For the Antiquity of it 1. Cloth is of the same date with the Civility of our Land indeed the Britains went naked which Custom a Beggar continuing gave a reason thereof by saying All my Body is Face 2. Fine narrow Cloth begun about 1. E. III. 3. Broad-cloth wherein the Wealth of England is folded up began in the Reign of Henry 8. Jack of Newbury 't is said was the first that introduced it Minerva was held the Foundress of Weaving so great is the ingenuity thereof For Buildings Windsor-Castle a Royal Seat ever since the Conquest brought to modern Beauty chiefly at the cost of E. 3. It is a Castle for Strength and a Palace for State and hath a Colledge Chappel and Alms-House In this Palace is most remarkable the Hall for Greatness Winchester-Tower for height and the Terrace on the North-side for Pleasure Nor boasteth it so much that it consisteth of two Great Courts as that it contained two Great Kings John of France and David of Scotland Prisoners therein together as also that it was the Seat of the Honourable Order of the Garter Many pleasant Seats are in this County on the Kennet and Thames which seem dutifully to attend at distance on Windsor-Castle as Alder-maston Ingle-field c. For Proverbs One is peculiar to this County viz. The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still Bray is a Village here named from the Bibroges ancient British Inhabitants The Vivacious Vicar living under Henry 8. Edward 6. Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth was a Papist then Protestant then Papist then Protestant again He found the Martyrs fire near Windsor too hot for his Temper and being Taxed for a Turn-coat Not so said he for I always kept my Principle to live and dye the Vicar of Bray General Proverb I. When our Lady falls into our Lords lap Then let England beware of a sad Mishap Al. Let the Clergy-man look to his Cap. This Prophecy about 130 years old implies that the Blessed Virgin offended with
of his Estate and gave the King and others what remained thereof not regarding Sir H. Grey his Brother by a 2 d. Venter of Wrest in this County who therefore declined the Honour Thus the Earldom of Kent lay asleep in the Family of the Greys almost 50 years viz. from 15. H. 8 till 13 of Queen Eliz. when she advanced Reginald Grey Grandfather to Sir H. Grey aforesaid who had Recruited himself with Revenues to be Earl of Kent An. 1571. Reginald dying Childless within the year Hen. his Brother the Subject of our present description succeeded to this Honour A Person truly Noble expending the Income of his own Estate and his Ladies Joynture Mary the Relict of Edw. E. of Darby in Hospitality He was a Cordial Protestant on the same Token that being present at the Execution of Queen of Scots when she requested the Nobility there to stand by and see her Death he fearing something of Superstition hardly assented thereunto On the other side he was as far removed from Faction deserving the Character given him by Mr. Cambd. A Person highly Honoured with all the Ornaments of true Nobility He left no Issue except some will behold him in some sort Parent of Sidney-Coll in Camb. as one of the Executors to the Foundress thereof who both proved and improved her Will besides her Personal Benefaction thereunto And being the Surviving Executor he did Perpetuate the Fellowships formerly Temporary according to his Trust He dyed An. 1613. Fr. Cleark Knight born at Eaton-soton in the Lordship called the Paersonage A Noble Benefactor to Sidney-Coll augmenting all the Scholarships of the Foundation and erecting a fair Range of Buildings So skilful he was that he computed to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing thereof He founded four new Fellowships The Gift was felt before the Giver a meer Stranger was seen He dyed An. Dom. 163. Memorable Persons A Woman lived dyed and is buried at Dunstable where is her Epitaph who had 19 Children at 5 Births viz. 3.3.3.5 and 5. Noted Sheriffs The Family of the Blundells whereof Sir Edw. Blundel behaved himself right Valiantly in the Expedition to the Isle of Ree Rich. Basset and Albericus de Veer The last of whom was made monarch M. 2. by Maud the Emp. E. of Oxford And the first was his under-Sheriff in this County Hen. de Essex Bar. de Raleigh in Ess and Hereditary Standard-bearer of England He in the Battle at Coleshul in Flintsh between the English and the Welsh casting away his Courage and Banner together occasioned a great overthrow of the English and was therefore challenged in Combat by Rob. de Momford Knight and by him overcome in Duel His Inheritance was forfeited to the King and he himself made a Honourable Retreat into a Convent and under a Coul betwixt Shame and Sanctity blushed out the Remainder of his Life Dav. Archdeacon whose Ancestors probably having been Ecclesiasticks left him that Surname Rob. Braybrook and Hen. Fil. Hen. Br. and Rob. Pater monarch K. Jo. A loving Reciprocation of Sheriff and under Sheriff betwixt Father and Son Under-Sheriff to his Father that was his Duty Under-Sheriff to his Son that was his Courtesie Indeed I can Name one under-Sheriff to his own Father being a Gent. of right Worthy Extraction and Estate which Son afterwards became Lord Ch. Justice and Treasurer of England Edward Eldest Son to the King A great Honour to this Shire and Buck. where he was Sheriff for five years together monarch H. 3. Yea the Imperial Crown found him in that Office when it fell unto him Barthol de Fowen being under-Sheriff Th. Hoo. A famous Man whom King Hen. 6 made Knight of the Garter and Lord Hoo and Hastings monarch H. 6. He left four Daughters thus Married 1. Anne to Sir Jeffrey Bullen 2. Eleanor to Sir Rich. Carew 3. Jane to Rob. Cople Esquire 4. Eliz. to Sir Jo. Devenish From the first of these was Queen Eliz. descended Some of the issue Male were lately extant in Hartfordshire Jo. Wenlock was returned Knight of the Town of his Principal Residence to the Parl. 12. H. 6. and afterwards created Bar. of Wenlock and Knight of the Garter fought Valiantly and lost his Life in the Battle of Teuxbury He dyed without Issue and his Estate came to E. 4. From his Cousin and Heir-general the Lauleys in Shropshire are descended Sir Jo. St. John Knight Father Son and Grandson were of the same Name and Dignity The Father monarch H. 7. Sheriff in the time of H. 7. was Son to Sir Oliver St. John by Marg. Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Jo. Beauchamp She was afterwards Married to Jo. D. of Somerset to whom she bare Margaret Mother to King Hen. 7. Will. Gascoine was a younger Brother of Ganthorp-house in Yorkshire and was setled at Cardington in this County by marrying the Inheretrix thereof He was afterwards twice Sheriff under H. 8. Knighted and Comptroller of the House of Cardinal Woolsey A rough-Man preferring rather to profit than please his Master The Prelates Wisdom knowing Thrift to be the Fuell of Magnificence often advised with this his Servant His Name and Estate are Extinct in this County Jo. Mordant Ar. of Ancient Extraction monarch H. 8. married one of the Daughters and Heirs of Hen. Vere of Addington in Northamptonshire By Aged Persons he was remembred by the Name of John of the Woods I was born under the shadow and felt the warmth of them So great a Master was he of Timber in that County besides large Possessions in Essex and elsewhere King Hen. 8. owning him deservedly for a Wise Man created him Bar. Mordant of Turvey Will. Windsor Knight descended from Walt. Fitz Otho Castle keeper of Windsor in the time of Will the Conquerour and was by King H. 8. created Bar. Windsor of Bradenham in Buckinghamshire Ancestor to the present Lord Windsor descended from him by an Heir general so that Hickman is his Surname Fr. Russel Knight Son to Jo. Lord Russel afterwards Earl of Bedford monarch E 6. Succeeding his Father in his Honour so great was his Hospitality that Queen Eliz. was wont to say of him That he made all the Beggars He founded a small School at Wobourn and dying in great Age and Honour was buried at Cheneys 1585. Oliver St. John Ar. By Queen Eliz. made Lord St. John of Bletso in this County and left two Sons who succeeded him to this Honour First John whose only Daughter Anne was married to Will Lord Esfingham was Mother to Eliz. now Count. Dowager of Peterborough his Second Son Oliver blessed with a Numerous Issue and Ancestor to the present Earl of Bullingbrook Will. Dormer Knight was Son to Rob. by Jane Newdigate his Wife monarch Q Ma. He had by Mary Sidney his Wife a Daughter married to the Count of Feria when he came over hither with King Phil. This Count under pretence to visit his Sick Lady remaining here did very earnestly move a Match
Learning and weighed them down for Truth Hen. King D. D. Son to the forementioned Jo. King Bishop of Lond. and his Wife of the ancient Family of the Conquests born where his Father was And as was the Father so was the Son Pious and prosperous till the Calamities of the time involved him In order to the cure of the seeming Consumption of Episcopacy An. 41. Men of unblamable Life and Eminent Learning were Elected Bishops amongst whom King Ch. advanced this our Doctor Bishop of Chichester yet was not the Mouth of Malice stopp'd which having a Damnable Appetite was ready to swallow them down at a Morsel Since God hath rewarded his Patience giving him to live to see the Restitution of his Order In his Youth he delighted in Musick and Poetry when elder he applyed himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced Age fixed on Divinity and his Printed Sermons on the Lords Prayer c. will report him a Man that brought forth his Fruit in due Season Writers on the Law Sir Geo. Crook Knight Son to Sir Jo. and Eliz. Vmpton his Wife was born at Chilton An. 2. Eliz. bred first in Oxford then a double Reader in the Inner Temple and the Kings Serjeant Justice of the Com. Pleas 22. Jac. then Chief Justice of England 4. Car. His Ability is sufficiently attested by his Reports His judgment was against Ship-money The Country-man said That Ship-money may be gotten by Hook but not by Crook His Piety is evidenced by his Charity building a Chappel at Beachley in Buck. and a Hospital in the same Parish with a liberal Revenue When old he sued out a Writ of Ease and afterward dyed at Waterstock in Oxford-shire 82. Aet An. Dom. 1641. Edw. Bultstrode Esquire bred in the Study of the Municipal Laws in the Inner Temple and Justice in North-wales hath written a Book of Reports of Judgments given in the Kings Bench in the Reigns of King Ja. and King Ch. and is lately deceased Souldiers Sir Will. Windsor Knight Ancestor to the right honourable Th. Windsor Hickman Lord Windsor and fixed at Bradenham He was deputed by E. 3. in his 47 year Lord Lieutenant of Ireland when in Broyls the Irish Tyrannizing and the English degenerating into their Manners He contracted with the King for 11213 pounds 6 shillings 8 d. a year to defray the whole charge of that Kingdom and undertook the Custody of the Land in a defensive War and used discretion with his Lance in abating the Irish Feaver Yet the Scabs of their Boggs and Hair of their Woods that gave the Natives Shelter afforded him no access He resigned his Office 1. R. 2. Arth. Gray Bar. of Wilton whose Father had his Habitation at Waddon near Buck. had but a small Estate left him by his Father Will. Lord Gray who had spent the best part of his Patrimony to redeem himself being Prisoner in France Our Arth. intending to advance his Fortune by his Valour followed the War under his Father and was present at the Siege of Lieth 1560 where being shot in the Shoulder he was inspirited with an Antipathy against the Scots Being Lord Liuetenant of Ireland An. 1580. before he had received the Sword or any Emblems of Command he unfortunately fought the Rebels at Glandilough to the great loss of English Blood Yet recovering his Credit he finally suppressed the Rebellion of Desmond Returning into England the Queen relyed chiefly on his Counsel for ordering our Land-forces against the Spaniards in 88. a year Critical for Church-differences which this Lord would have been glad to have seen decided in favour of the Anti-prelatical party He was the only Man defended Secret Davison censured in the Starr-Chamb about the business of the Queen of Scots in which defence he shewed both great Courage and Eloquence And was always ingenuous accounting Candour an Essential of true Nobility An. Dom. 1593. Writers Roger de Wendover Benedictine of St. Albans and the Kings Historian It having been a Custom that a Monk of St. Albans should be called to that Service The Chronicles being finished were lockt up in the days of the King and his Son This Rog. began his Chron. at the Conquest continuing it till the Year 1235. and 19 H. 3. tho it is now Father'd upon Math. Paris who made some Addition to the same Jo. Amersham Monk in St. Alb. so intimate with Jo. Wheathamsted Abbot thereof that they two were as One justifying against Priscian the saying Duo Amici Vixit in eodem Conventu Amersham caressed his Friend whilst living and Shielded Wheathamsted when dead against the Darts of his inveterate Enemies the Monks He flourished An. Dom. 1450 Math Stokes born in the Town and bred in the School of Eaton until he was admitted into Kings Coll. in Camb. An. Dom. 1531. He afterwards was Fellow there and at last Esq Bedle and Register of the Vniversity He collected a Catalogue of the Chancellours Vice-ch and Proctors with great Industry and Fidelity A Zealous Papist tho he lived many years in the Reign of Queen Eliz. Since the Reformation Walt. Haddon born of a Knightly Family in this County bred at Eaton afterwards Fell. of K. Coll. where he proceeded Doctor of Law and was the Kings Professor in that Faculty chosen Vice-Chancellour of Camb. 1550. then President of Magd. Coll. in Oxf. which place he waved in the days of Queen Ma. and sheltered himself in obscurity Queen Eliz. made him one of her Masters of Requests and employed him in several Embassies beyond the Seas Her Majesty being demanded whether she preferred him or Buchanan for Learning returned Buchananum omnibus antepono Haddonum nemini postpono Indeed he was a most Eloquent Man and a pure Ciceronian in his Stile as appears by his Writings He lies buried in Christ-Church Lond. Lawrence Humphred bred in Magd. Coll. in Oxf. a General Scholar able Linguist deep Divine pious to God humble in himself Charitable to others In the Reign of Queen Ma. he fled into Germ. where he was Fellow-Commoner with Mr. Jewel whose Life he wrote in all his Sufferings Here he Translated Origen de Rectâ Fide and Philo de Nobilitate out of Greek Returning into England in the Reign of Queen Eliz. he was made President of Magd. Coll. in Oxf. and Dean of Winchester Tho he scrupled some Ceremonies yet he was much molested in his Colledge with a Party of Fierce Non-Conformists He dyed Anno Dom. 1589. Roger Goad born at Houton admitted Scholar in Kings Coll. in Camb. 1555. Afterwards was School-master in Surrey but being made rather to Govern Men then Boys he was thence Elected into the Provost-ship of Kings Coll. wherein he remained 40 years He was thrice Vice-Chancellour of Camb. a Grave Sage and Learned Man By his Testament he gave the Rectory of Milton to the Colledge and dying on St. Marks day An. 1610. he lyeth buried in a Vestry on the North-side of the Chappel Jo. Gregory born Nov. 10. 1607. at Amersham
of Mean and Honest Parents and bred in Christ-Church in Oxf. where he Studied 16 hours a day for many years together A general Scholar and Exquisite Linguist his Modesty setting the greater Lustre oâ— his Learning His Notes on Doctor Redleys Book of Civil-Law gave the first Testimony of the Pregnancy of his Parts He was first Chapl. of Christ-Church then Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum He dyed 1646. and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxf. His Posthume Works are set out by Jo. Gurgam dedicated to Edw. Bishop Esquire who relieved Gregory in his greatest Distress Sam. Collins Son to Baldwin Preacher Prodigiously Bountiful to the Poor whom Queen Eliz. called constantly Father Collins born and bred at Eaton Hence successively chosen Fellow Provost and Regius Professor of K. Coll. in Camb. Of admirable Wit and Memory and a most fluent Latinist Of his Lectures which he constantly read twice a Week for 40 years together there were not two which did not Critically differ He used all his Friends to decline his Election to the Bishoprick of Bristol as being in profit inferiour to the place he enjoyed In these troublesome times he lost his Church but kept his Choir wherein he dyed about 1651. Will. Oughtred branch'd from a right Ancient Family in the North born and bred in Eaton becamâ— Fell. of K. Coll. and at last Beneficed by Th. Earl Arundel at Albury in Surrey Prince of Mathematicians in our Age and Nation This Aged Simeon had a strong Persuasion that he should behold Christs anointed restored to his Throne which he did to his incredible Joy and then had his Dimittis out of this mortal life June 10. 1660. Romish Exile Writers Th. Dorman born at Amersham Nephew to Th. Dorman a Confessor in the Reign of H. 8. and Cordial Protestant tho through weakness he did abjure the Realm This Th. junior was bred at Barkhamsted-School founded by Doctor Incent in Hartfordshire under Mr. Reeve a Prot. School-master but this Dorman turn'd tail and becoming a great Romanist fled beyond the Seas where he wrote Against Alex. Nowel the English Calvanist He flourished An. 1560. Memorable Persons Jo. Mathew Mercer Son to Th. Mathew was born at Sherington Lord Mayor of London An. Dom. 1490. the first Batchelor that ever was chosen into that Office a singular Example for above 120 years when Sir Jo. Leman also Batchelor enjoyed the same Dignity 1616. Dame Hester Temple Daughter to Miles Sands Esq was born at Latmos and Married to Sir Th. Temple of Stow Baronet She had four Sons and nine Daughters who Married and Multiplyed exceedingly insomuch that she saw 700 Extracted from her Body Which Off-spring if contracted into one place had been enough to have peopled a City of Competent Proportion Noted Sheriffs Jo. Croke Ar. afterwards Knighted monarch Q. Eliz. Son of Sir Jo. Croke one of the six Clerks in Chanc. The Name was assumed by their Ancestors for that of Le Blount which they concealed in the Civil Wars between York and Lanc. As for this Sir John Sher. of Buck. he was fortunate in an Issue happy in the knowledge of our Municipal-Law Of whom Sir Jo. Croke his eldest Son Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parl. 43. Eliz. received this Elogium from her Majesty That he had proceeded therein with such Wisdom and Discretion that none before him had deserved better Rob. Dormer Ar. Jun. 10. 1615. made Baronet by King Ja. and 30 of the same Month Baron Dormer of Wing in this County His Grand-child Robert was An. 4. King Ch. I. created Viscount Ascot and Earl of Carnarvan and lost his Life fighting for him who gave him his Honour in the first Battle of Newbury Being a little before his Death desired to make a Suit to the King he replyed I will not dye with a Suit in my Mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery he had Charles now Earl of Canarvan Edw. Bulstrod Ar. Whose Arms are Ancient viz. S. a Buckhead Ar. attired O. shot the Nose with an Arrow of the 3. headed and featherd of the 2. a Cross patee fitchee betwixt the attire O. Hen. Longvile Ar. Had to his 4 th Son Sir Mich. Longvile who Married Susan sole Daughter to H. Earl of Kent Now when the Issue in a direct line of that Earldom failed in our memory Mr. Selden proved that the Barony of Ruthyn parcel of the Earldom ought to descend to the Son of the said Sir Michael and thereupon he sat as Baron Ruthyn in the late long Parl. His sole Daughter and Heir was Married to Sir Henry Yelverton of Earton in the County of Northampton Baronet a worthy Gent. of fair Estate Benedict Winchcombe whose Arms I represent in gratitude to the Memory of his Ancestor so well deserving of Newbury monarch K Ja. viz. Az. on a Chev. engrail'd between 3 Birds O. as many Cinqfoiles of the 1. on a chief of the 2. a fl de luce between 2. Spears-heads of the 1. Edward Coke Knight the English Trebonianus monarch K. Ch. famous for his Comments on the Common-Law The Court-party to prevent his Election as a Member of Parliament got him prickt Sheriff whose Oath he scrupled to take because amongst other things the Sheriff is bound thereby to prosecute the Lollards wherein the best Christians may be included but no excuse could serve so that his Friends must behold him who had been Lord Chief Justice attend on the Judges of the Assises Francis Cheney Knight A noble Ancient Name There was a Family of the Cheneys flourishing in Kent giving for their Arms Az. 6. Lyons Ramp Arg. a Canton Ermin Of this House was Hen. Cheney High-Sheriff of this County and Bedf. An. 7. Eliz. and not long after created by her Baron of Tuddington in Bedf. tho in his Youth wild and venturous witness his playing at Dice with Hen. 2. King of France from whom he won a Diamond of great worth at a cast and being demanded what shift he would have made to repair himself in case he had lost the cast I have said the young Cheney in an Hyperbolical Brave Sheeps-tails enough in Kent with their Wool to buy a better Diamond then this His reduced Age afforded the befitting fruits of Gravity and Wisdom And this Lord deceased without Issue As for Sir Fr. Cheney Sher. he was Father to Charles Cheney Esquire who by his Exquisite Travelling hath Naturalized Forreign Perfection to himself and is Exemplarily happy in a Vertuous Lady Jane Daughter to the truly Noble Will Marquess of New-Castle and by her of hopeful Posterity Cambridgeshire CAmbridgeshire hath Lincolnshire on the North and Suffolk on the East Essex and Hartfordshire on the South Huntington and Bedfordshire on the West in length 35 in breadth not full 20 Miles Plentiful in Provision the South part of Bread and Beer and the North of Cattle The Grain here is so good that it outselleth
others in 6 pence in the Bushel The late draining of the North part of the County was not very grateful to the poor knowing that it is Felony to take another Mans Bullock from his Pasture but a Trespass of an inferiour Nature to take a Pike out of his Fish-pond An. 1659. the Country suffered a great loss by an Inundation upon the dissolution of a great Snow yet their Industry prevented a Relapse into their former Condition The Northern-part is called the Isle of Ely or Eely from the abundance and goodness of Eeles there with which the Courts of the Kings of England were Anciently supplyed Of other Natural Commodities there are a great many Hares and lately there was a Hare-park nigh New-Market preserved for the Kings Game There is also plenty of Saffron which was at first planted in Essex Willows abound in the Isle of Ely affording Fuel for their Fire of which Tree it is a by-word in this County that the profit of Willows will buy the Owner a Horse before that by other Trees he can pay for his Saddle Manufactures here are Paper and Baskets Of Buildings Cambridge is the chief credit of this County as the University is of Cambridge which may be said a Town in an University as Oxford is an University in a Town in Camb. the Colledges being more separated from the Town have the better Conveniency of Walks and Gardens Ely-Minster in this Town a great Beauty has a Lanthorn which is a Master-piece of Architecture wherein the labour of 20 years and 52094 Pounds 18 Shillings 10 Pence â— 2 2 4 was expended When the Bells ring the Wood-work thereof openeth the perfection of structure and exactly chocketh into the Joynts again Rare also is the Art in the Chappel of St. Maries the Pattern of that in Kings Coll. in Camb. And in Bishop Wests Chappel the Master-Masons of King Ja. upon narrow inspection found finer work therein than in King Hen. 7 his Chappel at Westminster Wonders The Devils-ditch an Artificial Wonder conceited by the Country People to be made by the Devil tho it be the Work of some of the Kings of the East-Angles probably made to divide and defend their Dominions from the Kingdom of Mercia or possibly to employ the People and to divert them from insurrections Proverbs I Cambridge requires all to be equal The same degree levelling all Scholars so that the Seniority of years ought not to make any difference II. Cambridgeshire Camels Probably the Fen-men stalking on Stilts may be so called from their apparent big Stature III. A Boisten Horse and a Cambridge Master of Art are a couple of Creatures that will give way to no body It shews store of Spirit when a Man will not be put out of his way for every Swelling emptiness that meets him therein IV. A Henry-Sophister So they are called who after 4 years standing stay themselves from Commencing Bachelors of Art to render themselves in some Colledges more capable of Preferment For after the Suppression of Monasteries by King Hen. 8. Learning was at a loss and the University stood at a gaze what would become of her Hereupon many Students stayed themselves some 2 3 some 4 years as who would see how their Degrees before they took them should be rewarded and maintained Martyrs Will. Flower born at Snow-hill bred first a Monkâ— Ely became afterwards a Secular Priest and Protestant and after many Removals fixed at last 〈◊〉 Lambeth He then contracted the Guilt of an aboâ—minable Act by wounding a Popish Priest dangerously with a Wood-knife so that his Blood spirted iâ—to the Chalice Of this having solemnly repenteâ— he was put to Death for the Testimony of the Truth His right hand before he went to the Stake was cut off by order of the Judges for his Barbarous fact Yet tho his right hand suffered as a Malefactor then wanted not those who maintained that Martyr be longs to the rest of his Body Prelates Steph. de Fulborn was made Bishop of Waterford and Lord Treasurer of Ireland and after Arch-bishop of Tuam and twice Lord Chief Justice of that Kingdom He dyed 1288. and was buried in Trinity-Church in Dublin Nich. of Ely obtruded by the bold Barons as Chancellour on H. 3. but by him displaced yet appearing a Man of Merit was by him advanced into the Office of Lord Treasurer and made Bishop of Worcester then of Winchester Here he sate 12 years and that Cathedral may challenge his Interment having his Heart inclosed in a Wall tho his Body be buried at Bâ—averly in Surry 1280. Will. of Bottlesham Contract Botsam of the Town so called the Nursery of refined Wits affording a Triumvirate of Learned Men born there viz. this Will. Jo. and Nich. Bottlesham Will. was by the Pope made Bishop of Bethlehem in Syria then 1385 of Landaff thence removed to Rochester A famous Preacher Confessor to R. 2. and a learned Writer Once a Fellow of Pembâ—hall he dyed 1399. Jo. bred in Peter-house in Camb. to which and to the whole University he was Benefactor Chaplain to Th. Arundel Arch-bishop of Cant. by whose means he had been preferred to the See of Rochester if Johns Death had not prevented the same 1401. Nicholas a Carmelite bred in Camb. afterward removed to Paris where in Sorbon he commenced Dr. of Divinity Returning to Camb. he became Prior of the Carmelties since Queen Colledge whereby he wrote many Books Buried in his own Covent 1435. These three were Contemporaries Th. of New-Market or Th. Merks of this County bred in Camb. An Excellent Humanist and Divine having left some learned Books to Posterity advanced to be Bishop of Carlile Famous for his Loyalty to R. 2. was at last confined to a Titular Grecian Bishoprick by H. 4. He dyed about 1405. Th. Thirlby Doctor of Laws born in the Town and bred in the University of Camb. Very able in his Faculty and more than once employed in Embassies by H. 8. who preferred him Bishop of Winchester the Land of which See he wasted with this success that his Name and Alliance is Extinct From Winchester he was removed to Norwich from thence to Ely His Vice was rather Prodigality than Cruelty for he wept at Arch-bishop Cranmer's Degradation After the Death of Queen Ma. he was as Violent in his Opinions but not so Violent in his Expressions always devoted to Queen Ma. but never invective against Queen Eliz. He lived in free Custody dyed and is buried at Lambeth 1570. Since the Reformation Godfrey Goldsborough born in Camb. bred in Trinity-Coll and afterwards Fellow thereof At last was Consecrated Bishop of Gloucester 1598. One of the second set of Prot. Bishops after those in the Marian Days and before those who come within our memory He gave 100 Marks to Trinity-Coll and dyed An. 1604. Rob. Townson D. D. born in Camb. and bred a Fellow in Queens Coll. being admitted at 12 years of Age. Of so happy a memory that when D. D. he could say
of the Dissolution This John flourished under King E. 3. and dyed about the year 1338. Rich. Wetherset commonly called of Cambridge where he was Chancellour A great Scholar and deep Divine it being said That he conformed his Divinity to Scripture and not to the Rules of Philosophy He flourished under E. 3. An. 1350. Will. Caxton of Caxton a diligent and learned Man bred beyond the Seas and lived 30 years in the Court of Marg. Dutchess of Burgundy Sister to King E. 4. whence I conclude an Anti-Lancastrian He continued Polychronicon unto the end of that King with good judgment and fidelity He Collected and Printed all Chaucer's Works and on many Accounts deserved well of Posterity and dyed about 1488. Since the Reformation Rich. Huloet born at Wishich and brought up in good learning He dedicated to Th. Goowrich a Book called The English and Latine A. B. C. a Book which probably related to the Elemental Grounds of Religion He flourished An. Dom. 1552. Jo Richardson born of Honest Parents at Linton bred first Fell. of Emanuel then Master of St. Peters and at last of Trinity-Coll in Camb. where he was Regius Professor No dull Man as some supposed For at an Extraordinary Act of Divinity at Camb. before King Ja. strongly alledged in opposition to Doctor Davenant then Answerer vigorously pressed the practice of St. Ambrose Excommunicating of Theodosius the Emperor insomuch that the King in some Passion returned profectò fuit hoc ab Ambrosio insolentissimè factum To whom Doctor Richardson rejoyned Responsum verè Regium Alexandro dignum hoc non est Argumenta dissolvere sed dissecare And so sitting down he desisted from dispute He was employed one of the Translators of the Bible being a most excellent Linguist He dyed An. 1621. Andr. Willet D. D. born at Ely bred Fellow of Christs-Coll in Camb. succeeded his Father in the Parsonage of Barley in Hartfordshire and became Prebendary of Ely Bountiful above his Nobility notwithstanding his numerous Issue Admirable his Industry in his Synopsis Comments c. His Death hast'ned by a fall by which his Neck was broken hapned 1621. Sir Th. Ridley Knight Doctor of the Laws born at Ely bred at Eaton was Fellow of Kings-Coll in Camb. A general Scholar He was afterwards Chancellour of Winchester and Vicar General to the Archbishop of Cant. His Book called the view of Ecclesiastical Laws has embalm'd his Memory to Posterity He dyed Jan. 22. 1629. Arth. Hildersham born at Strechworth descended by his Mothers-side from the Blood-Royal being great-great-Grand-child to Geo. Duke Clarence Brother to E. 4. Yet being bred in Christs-Coll he entred into the Ministry He dyed An. Dom. 163. Vid. Eccl. Hist R. Parker born in Ely Son to Mr. Parker Arch-Deacon there who refused the Bishoprick was bred in and became Fellow of Caius-Coll an excellent Herauld Historian and Antiquary Author of the Manuscript called Scletos Cantabrigiensis which is fleshed with much Matter and hath furnished me with the Nativities of several Bishops who were Masters of Colledges Which Book I heartily wish Printed for the good of Posterity I disclaim Pol. Virgils who burnt rare English Manuscripts of History after he had served his own turn with them Mich. Dalton Esquire bred in the Study of the Municipal-Law in Lincolns-Inn His Gravity graced the Benches of Justice in this County where his Judgement deservedly passed for an Oracle in the Law having enriched the World with two excellent Treatises called the Office of Sheriffs and the Justices of Peace Here note that King Ja. first made such Justices in Scotland He dyed before the Civil Wars in England Th. Goad D. D. Son to Rog. Goad for above 40 years Provost in Kings-Coll bred a Fellow under his Father then Chaplain to Arch-bishop Abbot Rector of Hadley in Suff. Prebendary of Cant. A great and General Scholar exact Critick Historian Poet Schoolman and Divine Of a commanding presence an uncontroulable spirit impatient of opposition loving to steer the Discourse being a good Pilot to that purpose of all the Company he came in He dyed about 1635. Andr. Marvail born at Mildred and bred Master of Arts in Trinity Coll. in Camb. was afterwards Minister of Hull Facetious in discourse Grave in his Carriage an excellent Preacher using all due Study before-hand he was wont to say he would cross the Proverb which called Saturday the working-day and Monday the holy-day of Preachers He was drown'd in Humber 1640. His Excellent Comment on St. Peter is desired Benefactors to the Publick Hugo de Balsham Founder of Peter-house in Camb. the first built Colledge in England and finished it 1284. and bestowed much Land upon it He sat 28 years in the Bishoprick of Ely and dyed the 6 of June 1286. Sir Will. Horn Salter Son to Th. born at Snail-well Knighted by King Hen. 7. 1487. was Lord Mayor of London He gave bountifully to the Preachers of St. Pauls-cross and bestowed 500 Marks to the mending of the High-ways between Camb. and London Sir Will. Son to Jo. Purcase born at Gamlingay bred Mercer in London and Lord Mayor thereof 1497. caused Morefieds under the Walls to be made plain ground to the great pleasure since to the great profit of the City Sir Th. Son of Jo. Knesworth a Fishmonger in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1505. appointed the Water-Conduit at Bishop-gate to be built Note Cambridgeshire in the compass of 18. years affordeth 3 Lord Mayors and Benefactors which no other Shire ever produced Since the Reformation Jo. Creane born at Wisbeech bred an Apothecary in Camb. very diligent in his Youth He lived and dyed in Doctor Butler's Family to whom he left the main Body of his Estate Having a large heart he annually very Nobly treated all the Oxford-men at the Commencement At his Death he gave 3000 Pounds to Charitable uses bestowing the house he lived in after his Wifes death on the publick Professor of Physick To Wisbeech he gave 100 pound to build a Town-hall besides what he gave to Cambridge Lin Ipswich He left 100 pound to be lent Gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good Fish and Fowl to the University He bequeathed to Doctor Wren B. of Ely and Doctor Brownrigg B. of Exeter 100 pounds a piece by his Will and as much by the Codicil annexed thereunto Besides his concealed Charities his hands were always open to all the destressed Royalists He dyed in May 1650. Memorable Persons Will. Collet born at Over bred a Clerk in London was made Keeper of the Records in the Tower of unparalelled Dexterity in that Office he abominated their Course who by a Water would refresh a Record to make it useful for the present and useless ever after nor would he practise with a Pen on any old Writing under pretence of mending it He may be called Caterer to Selden and other Antiquaries He dyed 1644. Edward Norgate Son to Rob. D. D. of Bennet-Coll and bred by Nich.
was to H. 4. II. Better Wed over the Mixon than over the Moor. Over the Mixon that is at home Mixon being the Compost in the Yards of good Husbands The meaning is the Gentry in Cheshire find it more profitable to Match within their County than to bring a Bride out of other Shires being more easily acquainted and put to less Charge at home Cardinals Will. Makilsfield probably born in this County tho reputed a Conventrian because then Cheshire was in the Diocess of Coventry and Liech See his Character in Warwickshire Prelates Will. Booth first bred in Greys-Inn in London in the Study of Com. Law till upon proffer of a Chancellours place in St. Pauls he took orders Afterwards consecrated Bishop of Liechfield and six years after Translated to York and after twelve years dyed and was buried in St. Maries Chappel in Southwell 1464. Lawr. Booth half Brother to Will was bred and became Master of Pemb. Hall in Camb. and was Chancellour of that University He made the Composition between the University and the K. Coll. and was an Eminent Benefactor to his own bestowing thereon all the Tenements since Alienated betwixt it and St. Botolphs Church amongst which was St. Thomas Hostle He Exonerated the Colledge of a Pension of five Pounds which he redeemed and conferred thereon the mannor and Patronage of Overton Waterfield in Hunt He was preferred Chancellor to Marg. Queen to H. 6. and An. 13 E. 4. made Lord High Chancellor it seems his Publick Spirit was neither for York nor Lanc. but England having first been Bishop of Durham afterwards Arch-bishop of York and built in the first the Gate of Aukland-Colledge and bought for the latter the Mannor Baterfed nigh London He kept the Master-ship of Pemb. Hall till the day of his Death that place being Ambitious of his Patronage Jo. Booth Brother to Lawr. aforesaid Batchelor of Laws was consecrated Bishop of Exeter An. 6. E. 4. 1466. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in his Cathedral which hath not its equal in England but the softest Cushion belonging to it was taken away when Bishop Vescy Alienated the Lands thereof When the Bishop had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein such were the troubles arising from the Wars between York and Lanc. Therefore retiring to his Private Habitation at Horsley in Hampshire he dyed 1478. and was buried in St. Clem. Danes in London These three Brothers had an eldest Brother Sir Roger Booth Knight of Barton in Lanc. Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevil third Earl of Westmerland Th. Savage born at Maklefield His Father a Knight bred a Doctor of Law in Camb. Hence he was preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York A greater Courtier than Clerk dextrous in managing secular Affairs a mighty Huntsman He was the first who was privately installed by his Vicar He maintained a Numerous Family and built much at Scroby and Cawood He dyed 1508. his Body being buried at York his heart at Maklefield in a Chappel of his own Erection Since the Reformation Will. Chaderton D. D. of worthy Extraction in this County bred a Fellow and Mr. of Queens Coll. in Camb. and chosen first the Lady Margarets then the Kings professor in Divinity to whom Doctor Whitaker succeeded Made Bishop of Chester An. 1579. then of Lincoln 1594. He dyed 1608. His Virtuous Grand-Daughter married to Mr. Jocelin Esquire writ The Mothers Legacy to her unborn Infant and dyed in Travel Will. James D. D. born in this County and bred in Christs-Church in Oxf. was President of the University Colledge and Dean and Bishop of Durham He had been Chaplain to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester and Ministred Comfort to him near the hour of Death He was a Principal means of recovering Durham-house to his See which House was granted by E. 6. to the Lady afterwards Queen Eliz. for Term of Life and lay neglected till Bishop James regained it and repaired the Chappel to his great cost He once entertained Queen Eliz. very much to her Satisfaction Otherwise it was with a following Bishop of that See being reproved by King Ja. for some neglect of his Officers he Survived that reproof not a full Twelve-month Jo. Richardson born in this County of a most Worshipful and Ancient Family bred in the University of Dublin where he was Graduated Doctor in Divinity and afterwards was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland in the late Rebellion he came over into England A Grave Man and good Divine verifying the Rule Bonus Texturius bonus Theologus for he carried a Concordance in his Memory The Larger Annotations especially on Ezekiel an Elaborate Work Challenge him in a great measure for the Author Our Bishop who had been relieved had his bounty to bestow on others and by his Will bequeathed a considerable Legacy to the Colledge of Dublin He dyed An. 1658. Aet 74. Statesmen Sir Thomas Egerton Knight extracted from an Ancient Family in this County so Eminent a Lawyer that Queen Eliz. made him her Solicitor then Master of the Rolls then Keeper of the Great Seal An. 38 of of her Reign A man of great Wisdom and Gravity quick Wit solid Judgment ready Vtterance and great integrity An. 1. Jac. he was made Lord Chancellor the same in effect with Lord Keeper and of Lord Elismer he was created Viscount Brackley 1616. Great was the Contention for many years together betwixt this Lord of Equity and Sir Edw. Coke the Oracle of Justice at Westminster-Hall His civil Death by Resignation hap'ned a few days before his Natural Death after which his Body was buried in Duddleston in this County He left a fair Estate to his Son who was afterwards Created Earl of Bridgewater When he observed King James to be profuse to the Scots he advised him to preserve his Crown-lands seeing he or hâ—s Successors might meet with Parliaments which would not supply his occasions but on such Conditions as would not be very acceptable It was an ordinary Speech with him Frost and Fraud end in Foul. He dyed 1616. Capital Judges Sir Humph Starkey probably born in this County so skilled in the Law that he was preferred Bar. of the Exchequer about 〈◊〉 Hâ—e 7. Whereas that Age was justly complaining of the Extortions of the Kings Officers as Empson and Dudley c. nothing of that nature is laid to his charge He dyed An. ult H. 7. was buried in Leonard Shore-ditch Where his Epitaph begins Orate Sir Hen. Bradshaw Knight so noted a Lawyer that An. 6. E. 6. he was Ch. Bar. of the Exchequer demeaning himself therein to his great Commendation I have cause to conceive that this Judge was outed of his place 1. Ma. finding no more mention of him Sir Randel Crew so great a Lawyer that 22 Jac. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. and therein served two Kings tho scarce two years in his Office with great Integrity He declared his Judgment against the
did Madam said she she cannot do ill while she is with my Husband and I begin to grow Jealous they are so great together Upon which the Queen gave Order that the Queen of Scots should be removed into the Custody of others and 't is probable the Earl thought himself well rid of her whose Custody was both Chargeable and Dangerous to him There is a Free-School in Derby built by that Corporation endowed with 60 pounds a year in which I believe Mr. Fletcher thrice Bayliff of that Town was very Instrumental 'T is a noted Priviledge of that Town that none of the Townsmen pay Toll at Lond. tho in some cases the Londoners pay Toll at Derby Stow relates that divers well disposed Citizens of Lond. desirous as yet not to be named being born in or near to Ashburn in the Peak in the County of Derby combining their loving Benevolence together have Builded there a Free-School-house with convenient Lodgings for a Master and Liberal Maintenance allowed thereto Noted Sheriffs Jo. Vernon monarch H. 8. Arm. related possibly to Sir Geo. Vernon who in the beginning of Queen Eliz. for his vast Revenues and Retinue was called King of the Peak and left two Daughters Coheirs Eliz. married to Sir Jo. Manners Ancestor to the present Earl of Rutland and Marg. to Th. Stanley a younger Son of the House of Darby Yet the Alliance of this John in this and the Neighbouring Counties will remember their Motto Ver non semper floret Devonshire DEvonshire hath the Narrow-Sea on the South the Severn on the North Cornwall on the West Dorset and Som. on the East The second County in England for greatness and bears a Square of fifty Miles And generally answers in Fruitfulness to the Spur of Industry The Natives are generally Dexterous in any Employment and Queen Eliz. was wont to say of their Gentry They were all born Courtiers with a becoming Confidence The Natural Commodities are Silver formerly found in great plenty in the Parish of Comb-Martin in the Reign of E. 1. but the Mines lay long neglected and were re-entred upon in the Reign of Queen Eliz. by an Artist who presented a Silver Cup made thereof to the Earl of Bath The next is Tinn in great plenty I wish there were an Artifice to Sever the Gold and Silver from the Tinn without wasting Till this be done I desire some Invention might prepare Sea-coals for the melting thereof for the saving of Wood and of the Tinn it self Herrings were formerly taken in great plenty at Limmouth The Manufactures are Bone-lace made at Honyton and weekly returned to Lond. As for Buildings there is Bediford-Bridge a stately Structure far from the Road consisting of 24 Pears is said to have been finished by Sir Theobald Greenvil the Goldneyes and Oketenets As for Houses of the Gentry Wenbury-house is almost Corrival with Greenwich it self for the pleasant Prospect thereof For Wonders there is in the Parish of North Taunton a Pit but in the Winter a Pool maintained commonly by the fall of Rain-Water which yet before the Death of a Prince or other Accident of great importance as an Insurrection c. has been observed to overflow its Banks even in a dry Season The next is the Hanging-stone upon which a Thief resting with a Sheep tyed about his Neck was Strangled the Sheep strugling and getting over the Stone on the further side The Gubbings are a kind of Scythians within England Exempt from Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Civil Order who have all things in common and multiply without Marriage living by Stealth and securing themselves by their swiftness Proverbs I. To Devonshire Ground that is to improve Ground by paring off the Top-Turf and burning it II. A Plimouth Cloak i. e. a Staff For Gentlemen Landing there if unprovided have leisure to repair to the next Wood to cut a Staff when they are unable to recruit themselves with Cloths III. He may remove Mort-Stone which is a Huge Rock in Mortbay which the people merrily say none can remove save such who are Masters of their Wives IV. First hang and draw then hear the Cause by Lidford Law There was a Court of Stanneries formerly kept at Lidford which I believe to be traduced by the Proverb Saints Wenefride Boniface born at Kirton was employed by Pope Greg. 2. to convert the Germans of whom he Baptised 100000. He was killed at Borne in Friesland An. 755. Whose Nephew Willibald descended of high Parentage was also profitable in the German Conversion He was made Bishop of Eystet in Germany and dyed in Peace An. 781. Martyrs Agnes Prest lived at Northcot in Cornwall and was indicted before W. Stanford Judge of the Assise An. 2. and 3. P. and M. Her own Husband and Children being her greatest Persecuters from whom she fled because they would force her to go to Mass But being presented to the Bishop of Exeter she was by him Condemned for denying the Sacrament of the Altar after which she refused Money from well affected People saying She was to go to that City where Money had no Mastery She was burnt without the Walls of Exeter in Soâ—henhay Nov. 1558. Aet 54. Confessors Jo. Molle born in or near South-Molton bred in France where he became perfect in the Language spent his Youth in Military Employments and in his reduced Age was made an Examiner in the Court of Th. Lord Burgley and President of the North. Afterward being Governour to the Lord Ross he went to Rome with him where that Lord was Courted and Mr. Molle imprisoned in the Inquisition the Priests in vain hacking at the Root of his Constancy He continued 30 years in Prison and dyed 1638. Aet 81. Cardinals Will. Courtney born probably at Okehampton Son to Hugh Courtney Earl of Devonshire was successively Bishop of Heref. Winch. and Cant. and at last made Cardinal by the Pope A great Opposer of John of Gaunt Wickliffs Patron Prelates Rob. Chichester descended from a Noble Family still flourishing at Rawleigh was first Dean of Sarisbury then Bishop of Exeter He bestowed much Money in Building and Adorning his Cathedral He dyed and was buried 1150 on the South side of the High Altar Gilb. Foliot born at Tamerton-Foliot Abbot of Glouc. then Bishop of Heref and Lond. He was observed when a Common-Brother to inveigh against the Prior when Prior against the Abbot when Abbot against the Pride and Laziness of Bishops but when he himself was Bishop all was well However the less he then had in Satyrs the more he had in Elegies afterwards bemoaning the badness of the Age he lived in He is said to this Challenge of Satan O Gilberte Foliot dum revolvis tot tot Deus tuus est Ashtarot to have returned this Answer Mentiris Daemon qui est Deus Sabaoth est ille meus He was a Loyal Man and a great Enemy to Becket's pride He dyed 1187. Whose Cousin was Rob. Foliot Arch-deacon of Oxf. was first Tutor to
Becket And afterwards promoted to the See of Hereford He wrote amongst others a Book of the Sacrament of the Old Law There was also one Hugh Foliot Arch-Deacon of Shrewsbury and Bishop of Hereford Will. Brewer born in this County or in Som. made Bishop of Exeter 1224. was sent to conduct Isabel Sister to King Hen. 3. to be Married to Fred. the Emp. whom he afterwards attended to the Holy-Land In his See he founded a Dean and 24 Prebendaries allowing the latter four Pounds a year He dyed An. 1244. Will. de Ralegh Canon of St. Pauls then successively Bishop of Norwich and Winch. tho King Hen. 3. opposed his Election to the last but the Pope presented by Raleigh with 600 Marks did the Work This great Expence made him run in Debt When the Priest brought the Eucharist to him lying on his Death-Bed he would rise out of his Bed to meet him saying I have need to come to thee and cometh thou to me He dyed An. 2249. Rich. Courtney allied to the Earl of Devonshire A Man of great Learning and skilled in the knowledge of both Laws Was at the instance of King H. 5. preferred Bishop of Norwich An. 1413. being highly favoured by the Prince and beloved of the People He dyed of a Flux at the Siege of Harflew in Normandy in the second year of his Consecration and was buried in Westminster Ja. Cary was at Rome made Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards at Florence of Exeter being then as good a See as Lichfield He dyed at Florence 1419 having enjoyed neither Jo. Stanbury born in the Farm of Church-hill in the Parish of Bratton bred a Carmelite in Oxf. was a Man of great Learning King Hen. 6. made him the first Provost of Eaton being much ruled by him in ordering that his new Foundation Being kept from the Bishoprick of Norwich by Will de la Pool D. of Suffolk he was made Bishop of Bangor An. 1453. and afterwards Bishop Hereford He very Loyally adhered to King H. 6. in all his Adversity and was taken Prisoner in the Battle of Northampton being the Kings Confessor and Consequently tyed to Personal Attendance He dyed An. 1474. and was buried at Ludlow Pet. Courtney Son to Sir Ph. Courtney was born at Powderham He was first Arch-Deacon then Bishop of Exeter where he finished the North-Tower and gave Peter Bell thereunto He was Translated to Winchester An. 1486. Since the Reformation Jo. Jewel born at Buden a Farm possessed above 200 years by his Ancestors Was admitted into Merton-Coll at 15 years of Age and having touched at all Humane Arts he Landed at Divinity He was after his return into England from Germany preferred Bishop of Salisbury Of him may be said Nomen Omen Jewel was his Name and Precious his Vertues V. Eccl. Hist Jo. Prideaux born at Hartford and bred Scholar and Fell. of Exeter-Coll in Oxf. Canon of Christ-Church and above 30 years Professor in that University An excellent Linguist and of a becoming Festivity of so admirable a Memory that he retained what ever he Read The Welsh have a Proverb He that hath a good Memory giveth fâ—w Alms remembring what and to whom he had given before but this Doctor Crossed this Proverb with his constant Charity to all in want His Learning was admired by Forreigners He would forgive the greatest Injury upon the least shew of the Parties Sorrow Episcopacy in England being grievously wounded by Malevolent Persons King Ch. I. conceived that the best Wine and Oyl that could be poured into those Wounds was to select Persons of known Learning unblameable lives to supply the vacant Bishopricks amongst whom Dr. Prideaux was made Bishop of Worcester But alas all in vain such the Fury of the times He dyed 1650. Of whom amongst others these Verses were made Desineâ— mirari caecos errasse tot Ignes In Promptu causa est Lux Prideauxus obit He was Honourably interred at Bredon in Worc. Statesmen Sir Arth. Chichester Knight descended of an Ancient Family dwelling at Rawley spent his Youth first in the University then in the French and Irish Wars where by his Valour he was effectually assistant first to Plough that Barbarous Nation by Conquest and then to Sow it with Seeds of Civility when by King Ja. made Lord Deputy of Ireland where in his first year he Established two new Circuits for Justices of Assize viz. in Connaught and Munster He reduced the Mountains on the South of Dublin into the County of Wicklow So observant his Eye over the Actions of suspected Persons that Tyrone was heard to complain that he could not drinks a full Carouse of Sack but the State was within few Hours Advertised thereof Being made a Lord and called home he was sent Ambassadour to the Emperor When he was besieged in the City of Manichine which he Seasonably Victualled by Count Tilley he sent him word that it was against the Law of Nations to besiege an Ambassadour Tilley returned That he took no notice of that the Lord Chichester replyed to the Messenger Had my Master sent me with as many hundred men as he has sent me on fruitless Messages your General should have known that I had been a Souldier as well as an Ambassadour He dyed An. 162 Capital Judges Sir Will. Herle Knight was made An. 1. of King E. 3. Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench in Hill Term and Chief-Justice of the Com. Pleas Jan. 29. before the end of the said Term. He dyed about 9 of E. 3. He was owner of Illfracombe in this County the Mannor whereof was held by his Issue till the Reign of King Hen. 7. A Family of his Name and I believe of his Linage hath a Worshipful Existence in Cornwall Sir John Cary Knight born at Cockington was made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer An. 10. R. 2. For his Loyalty to his Master he lost his Office Goods and Lands An. 1. H. 4. Yet afterwards King H. 5. restored all his Estate to his Son Sir Rob. Cary upon his vanquishing a certain vain Glorious Champion of Arragon This Judge dyed An. 1404. Sir Will. Hankford born at Amerie was made Chief-Justice of the Kings Bench An. 1. H. 5. which place he adorned with great Learning and Integrity Afterwards being discontented he charged the Keeper of his Deer-Park to shoot any Man he should find there and stood not being spoken unto The next night being dark he presents himself and refusing to stand the Keeper accordlingly Shot him dead This hapned An. 1422. Sir Jo. Fortescue born of a right Ancient Family whose Motto is Forte Scutum salus Ducum was Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of England whose Learned Commentaries on the Law make him Famous to all Posterity Another Sir Jo. Fortescue was Privy Councellor Overseer of Queen Eliz. her Liberal Studies and Chancellour of the Exchequer and Dutchy of Lanc. Sir Hen. Fortescue was a Valiant Commander under H. 5. in the French Wars by whom he was made Governour
recommended by Phil. King of Castile Father to Ch. 5. Emp. to Hen. 7. as a Person of Great Abilities he could see more with his one Eye than many others could do with two King Hen. 8. made him Comptroller of the Houshold and Privy Councellor and An. 1538. erected him Lord Russel and made Keeper of the Privy Seal A good share of the Golden Showre of Abbey-Lands fell into his Lap. King E. 6. who made him Earl of Bedford sent him down to suppress the Western Commotion and relieve Exter which he performed with great Wisdom Valour and Success He dyed 1554 and was buried at Cheineys in Buck. Sir Rich. Bingham born at Bingham's Melcom descended from Will de Bingham who held Lands in this County in the days of H. 3. was at the Siege of St. Quintin in Fr. the sacking of Lieth in Scotland served in Candy under the Venetians against the Turks then returned into the Netherlands His Judgment was much relied upon in 88 about ordering the Land-Army in Tilbery-Camp He was a Man of great Valour and Success in all his Undertakings Being afterwards president of Connaugh in Ireland he drove away O Rork that dangerous Rebel But his Actions there being represented to Queen Eliz. as cruel he was outed of his Offices and kept in Restraint till Tyrone troubled Munster then he was sent Marshal of Ireland and General of Leinster and had in all Probability suppressed that Rebel if he had not been prevented by Death at Dublin His Monument is at Westminster Abbey Sea-men Rich. Clerk of Weymouth Master of the Delight An. 1583. went with Sir Humph. Gilbert for the discovery of Noremberg but his Ship was cast away 70 Leagues from Land The Company got into the Ship-boat having but one Oar and continued there four days without eating any thing save the Weeds they found in the Sea After five Days Rowing a Spanish Ship meeting them brought them to Biscay The Visitors of the Inquisition were diverted by the Masters favour after which Rich. and his Company came by France into England Geo. Summers Knight born in or near Lyme first discovered the Bermuda's nam'd the Summer Islands He was a Lamb on Land and a Lyon at Sea He dyed about 1610. Note that amongst 12 of Th. Cavendishes Men who were killed by the Spaniards at Cape Quinterno four of them belonged to this County viz. Will. Kingman in the Admiral Will. Biet of Weymouth in the Vice-Ad Hen. Blacknals of Weym and Will. Pit of Sherburn in the Hugh-Gallant The Survivours being 15 in Number revenged their Death upon 25 Spaniards and in spite of above a 100 remaining Spaniniards watered at the aforesaid Cope Civilians Sir To. Ryves Dr. of the Laws was born at Little Langton a General Scholar and pure Latinist Witness his Book of Sea-Battles Afterwards he was made the Kings Advocate and indeed he had been formerly Advocate to the King of Heaven in his Book entitled the Vicars Plea a Treatise of much Law Learning Reason and Equity We have good proof of his Valour in the late Wars He dyed about 1652. Benefactors to the Publick since the Reformation Rob. Rogers born at Poole was Leather-Seller in Lond. dying a Batchelor bequeathed 333 l. for building of Alms-houses in Pool 150 l. for Prisoners neither Athists nor Papists 20 Nobles a Man 100 l. for poor Preachers to each Man 10 pound 100 l. to decay'd Artificers charged with Wife and Children 400 l. to the Merchant Adventurers for the relief of old and support of young Free-men 500 l. to Christs-Hospital 600 l. to Erect Alms-houses in and about Lond. 200 l. for a weekly Dole of Bread to the Poor 400 l. to the Leather-Sellers in trust for maintaining of two Scholars in each University c. He dyed An. 1601. and lies buried in Christ-Church in Lond. Memorable Persons Th. de la Lynd Gent. kill'd a White Hart in Blackmore-Forrest which King Hen. 3. had reserved for his own Chase Hereupon he and the whole County for not opposing him was fined and the fine is paid into the Exchequer at this day by the Name of White-Hart-Silver Arth. Gregory of Lyme could force the Seal of a Letter with admirable Art Secr. Walsingham made great use of him about the Pacquets sent to Queen Mary of Scotland for his Service therein had he a Pension paid him He dyed at Lyme about the beginning of the Raign of King Ja. Will. Englebert born at Sherborne was an incomparable Ingineer much used in 88 and had 100 Marks Pension paid him yearly which he proffer'd to wave for a License to serve Forraign Princes but was denied He dyed at Westminster about 1634. Noted Sheriffs 8. Jo. Newburgh monarch H. 5. The Family of the Newburgs derive their Pedigree from a younger Son of H. the first Earl of Warwick of the Norman-line and 't is said they held Winfret with the whole Hundred by the Gift of Hen. 1. by the Service of Chamberlain in Chief of the King and under the Reign of Edw. 1. by Grand-Searjeanty viz. by holding the Laver for the King to wash in upon his Coronation day 4. Egidius Strangways Thomas was the first Advancer of this Family in this County monarch H. 8. whose Heirs built a fair Seat at Milbery Th. More Knight dwelt at Melplash having in a Frolick let loose many Malefactors was glad to procure a Pardon by the Mediation of Will. Pawlet Lord Treasurer afterwards Marq. of Winch. to whose Son Sir Thomas he gave his Daughter in Marriage Durham DVrham a Bishoprick hath Northumb. on the North Yorkshire on the South the Germ. Sea on the East and Cumberl and Westm on the West in form Triangular After the Bishop had been deprived of his Vote in the House of Lords the People for some years had no Representatives in Parliament Princes Cicely Nevil youngest Daughter and Child to Ralph Earl of Westmerland who had 21 was married to Rich. D. of York and beheld her Eldest Son Edward King of England and enriched with a Numerous Postery Yet were her Afflictions great for she saw her Husband kill'd in Battle her second Son Geo. D. of Clarence cruelly Murdred Edward her Eldest Son cut off by his intemperance in his Prime His two Sons Butcherd by their Uncle Richard who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Under all she carried a Steady Soul and lived to see Eliz. her Grand-Child Married to Hen. 7. She lived 35 years a Widow and dyed An. 10 of that King and was buried with her Husband in the Quire Fortheringhay-Church in Northam Which Quire being demolished in the days of King Hen. 8. their Bodies lay in the Church-Yard without any Monument until Queen Eliz. coming thither in Progress gave order that they should be interred in the Church and two Tombs to be Erected over them The Dutchess Cicely had a Pardon from Rome hanging about her Neck plainly Legible She was a bountiful Benefactress to the Queens Coll. in Camb. Saints Venerable Bede
and dangers of the Times He thought that Intelligence could not be bought too dear the Cause that so great a Statesman left so small an Estate and that so Publick a Person was so privately buried in St. Pauls An. 1590. His only Daughter Frances was successively matched to three matchless Men Sir Philip Sidney Rob. E. of Essex and Richard Earl of Clanricard Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Sir Jo. Fineux born probably at Swinkfield bestowed on him by Th. Criol a Lord in the Reign of E. 2. was for 24 years L. Ch. J. of the K. Bench. viz. from 11 H. 7. to 17. H. 8. He was a great Benefactor to St. Augustines in Cant. and was of great Prudence Justice Piety and Humanity He died about 1526. and lyes buried in Christ-Church in Cant. Sir Rog. Manwood born at Sandwich was by Q. Eliz. preferred second Justice of the Com. Pleas and afterwards Chief Bar. of the Exchequer He was one of the Commissioners who sate on the Trial of the Q. of Scots He wrote a Learned Book of the Forrest Laws He erected and endowed a Free-School at Sandwich and died An. 35 Eliz. 1593. Sir Hen. Finch Knight of Right Worshipful Extraction the ancient Surname being Herbert was Serj. at Law to K. James and wrote a Book of the Law which is much esteemed He wrote also another learned Book of the Calling of the Jews by which he was brought into some trouble K. James conceiving that Sir Hen. advanced the Common-Wealth of the Jews to the depressing Christian Monarchies He was Father unto Sir Jo. Finch L. Ch. J. and for a time Lord Keeper and Baron of Fore-ditch Souldiers In former times the leading of the Front in Armies absolutely belonged to the Men of Kent When the Cornish had that priviledge in the time of K. Arthur it was only Temporary and when the Men of Archenfeld in Herâ—ford-sh prescribed to have it that was only local as being confined to the Welsh Warrs Seamen Will. Adams born at Gillingham served the English Company of Barbary Merchants 10 years and was for 14 years Employed by the Dutch in India Being Pilot to their Fleet of 5 Sail he conducted them to Japan being the first English-man who effectually discovered that Island and in order to the settlement of Trade endured many Miseries He died at Firando in Japan 1612. Civilians Nich. Wotton Son to Sir Rob. was born at Bockton-Malherb He was the first Dean of 2 Metrapol Churches of Cant and York and of those Cathedrals Also Privy Councellour to 4. Successive Soveraigns K. Hen. 8. E. 6. Q. Ma. Q. Eliz. was Employed 13 several times in Embassies to Forreign Princes He refused the Arch-Bishoprick of Cant. He died An. 1566. and was buried in Cant. Giles Fletcher D. L. and Brother to Rich. B. of Lond. was a most Excellent Poet Commissioner into Scotl. Germ. and the Low Countrys for Q. Eliz. and her Ambassador into Russia Secretary of Lond. and Master of the Court of Requests His Russian Embassy to settle the English Merchandise was his Master-piece to Theodore Juanowich D. of Muscovia He came thither in 88. when some Hollanders envying the free Trade of the English had done them bad Offices and when a false report was generally believed that the Spanish Armado had worsted the English Fleet. Yet our Doctor demeaned himself with such Cautiousness that he procured many priviledges for the English Merchants exemplified in Mr. Hackluit Having returned home he gave God hearty Thanks for being rid out of the power of that Barbarous Prince and wrote a Book called The Russian Common-wealth the printing whereof was not permitted by Q. Eliz. Physicians Rob. Floyd of a Knightly Family was bred in Oxf. and beyond the Seas A great Philosopher and Physician He was of the Order of the Rosa-Crucians His Books are Mystical as his Discourses were He died An. 1637. Will. Harvey born at Folkston and bred in Caius-Coll in Camb. where he proceeded Dr. of Physick 5 years also he studied at Padua He was afterwards Physician to Ch. 1. and was not only Dr. Medicinae but Dr. Medicorum For this was he who first found out the Circulation of the Blood Tho he lived a Batchelor he may be said to have left three hopefull Sons to Posterity his Books 1. De Circulatione Sanguinis 2. De Generatione 3. De Ovo This Dr. had made a good progress in laying down a Practice of Physick conformable to his Thesis of the Circulation of blood but was plundred of his Papers in the Civil War Yet Posterity will acknowledge the improvements of this opinion as Superstructures on his Foundations and thankfully pay the fruit to his Memory He hath since been a second Linacre and great Benefactor to the Colledge of Physicians at Lond. He died An. Dom. 1657. Writers Jo. of Kent was sent Legate by Pope Innoc. 4. into Engl. He flourished 1248. Haimo of Feversham went to Paris where he was inter Aristotelicos Aristotelissimus He was Provincial then General of the Franciscan Order in Engl. when on his death-Bed he received a Visit from the Pope He died 1260. Having first corrected the Roman Breviary Sim. Stock lived an Hermite in a hollow Tree whence his name tho B. D. of Oxf. He left behind him many superstitious Books Being 80 years of Age he had a Revelation that before his Death he should behold a Holy Order of Carmelites come out of Syria which fell out accordingly Simon coming out of his Oak to meet them which is as true as that he was fed 7 years with Manna in Mount Carmel Th. Haslewood an Augustinian Frier in Leeds a good Scholar and fruitful Historian He flourished under E. 2. 1321. in a Manuscript in Librar Cotton he mentions how Edw. the Black Prince took K. Jo. of Fr. Captive vanquished Hen. an Usurper in Spain and restored Peter K. of Spain Since the Reformation Sir Th. Wiat Senior Knight was born at Allington-Castle Being Servant to H. 8. he fell into his disfavour about the business of Q. Anne Bullen till by his Innocence Industry and Discretion he extricated himself He was one of great Learning admirable Ingenuity and answered his Anagram Wiat a Wit He translated David Psalms into English Metre Of him Leland Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And Royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wiat both of them doth Coast In whom all graceful Eloquence doth meet Being sent Ambassador by Hen. 8. to Ch. 5. Emp. before he took shipping he died of the Pestilence An. 1541. Leonard Diggs Esq one of excellent Learning and deep Judgment was very skilful in Architecture and Fortification He printed his Tectonicon Prognostick general Stratiotick c. He flourished 1556 and died I think about the beginning of Q. Eliz. His Learning seems to run in the Blood of his Family Witness Sir Dudley Diggs of Chilham-Castle made Mr. of the Rolls 1636. whose Abilities will be in perpetual remembrance And the Son of
this Knight wrote a Solid Treatise of the difference between King and Parliament Th. Charnock born in the Isle of Thanet writes of his own Book of the Philosophers Stone For satisfying the Minds of the Students in this Art Then thou art worth as many Books as will lie in a Cart. An. 1555. all his Work carried on in pursuit of that Stone fell on fire and he himself 3 years after was by a Gentleman that owed him a grudge prest a Souldier for the relieving of Calice and this unluckily fell out when he was within a Month of his Reckoning to be delivered by the acquest of that immortal Elixir from Poverty and Contempt those unsupportable Appurtenances of Mortality He saved nothing but the CAPUT MORTUUM and now his own projecting Head is dead Fr. Thinne was a Herauld by the Title of Lancaster about the end of Q. Eliz. afforded great assistance to Holinshed in his Works Rob. Glover born at Ashford was Pursuivant Procullis and then Som. Herauld He attended the E. of Derby when he carried the Garter into France to K. Hen. 3. He began a Catalogue of the English Nobility with their Arms c. He died 1583. and was buried in St Giles Lond. Whose Sister 's Son Th. Miles born at Ashford set forth his Uncles Catalogue of Honour He was Employed from Q. Eliz. to H. 4. K. of France and discharged his Trust with so great Fidelity and incredible celerity that in memory of his Service he had given him for the Crest of his Arms a Chappeau with Wings to denote the Mercuriousness of this Message He died An. 16 Jo. Philpot born at Faulkston was first Pursuivant Extraord by the Title of Blanch Lion then in Ordinary by name of Rouge Dragon and afterwards Somerset Herauld He made Additions to the second Edition of Mr Cambden's Remains and deserved highly well of the City of Lond. proving in a Learned Book that Gentry doth not abate with Apprentiship but only sleepeth during the time of their Indentures and awaketh again when they are expired He contributed to the setting forth the aforesaid Catalogue He died 1645. and was buried in Bennet Pauls-Wharf Th. Playford was chosen Marg. Professor in Camb. 1597. 'T is said Self-conceit a Chronical Disease in others was in him an Acute Distemper that violently seised his intellectuals He died 160â— and lyeth buried in St. Botolphs in Camb. Jo. Bois D. D. descended from Jo. de Bosco who entred England with Will the Conq. was Dean of Cant. Famous to Posterity for his Postils in defence of our Liturgy So pious his Life that his Adversaries were offended that they could not be offended therwith A great Prelate in the Church did bear him no good Will for mutual Animosities betwixt them whilst Gremials in the University the reason perchance that he got no higher Preferment He died about the year 1625. Benefactors to the Publick Sir Jo. Philpot whose Family hath long resided at Vpton Court was bred a Grocer in Lond. whereof he was Mayor 1378. He set forth a Fleet An. 2. R. 2 at his own cost to repress the Insolence of one John Mercer a Scoâ— who was taken with all his Ships arid rich Plunder therein Two years after he conveyed an English Army into Britain in Ships of his own hiring and with his own Money released more then 1000 Arms there which the Souldiers had formerly engaged for their Victuals The Nobility accused him for acting without a Commission Yea Pro tantorum sumptuum praemio vâ—niam vix obtinuit Will. Sevenock born in Sevenock gave 7 Acorns for his Arms which if they grow as fast in the Field of Herauldry as in the Common Field may be presumed to be Oaks at this day He was Grocer in and An. 1419 Lord Mayor of Lond. He founded at Sevenoc a fair Free-School for poor peoples Children and an Alms-house or 20 men and women which at this day is well maintained Since the Reformation Sir Andr. Jud. born at Tunbridge and bred Skinner in Lond. whereof he was Lord Mayor An. 1551. He built an Alms-House nigh Sr Helens in Lond. and a stately Free-School at Tunbridge submitting it to the care of the Company of Skinners who have expended of their own money 4000 l. in maintainance of it c. Will. Lamb Esq a Gent. of the Chappel to K. Hen. 8. was born at Sutton Valens where he erected an Alms-House and a well endowed School An. 1557 he began and within 5 months finished the fair Conduit at Holburn Bridge and carried the water in Pipes of Lead more than 2000 yards at his own cost amounting to 1500 l. The total sum of his several gifts moderately estimated exceed 6000 l He died about 1580. and lyes buried in St Faiths Church under St Pauls Frances Sidney Aunt to the Renowned Sir Philip was born probably at Penherst She bestowed on the Abbey-Church of Westminster a Salary of 20 l. per An. for a Divinity Lecture and Founded Sidney Sussex Coll. in Camb. She was Relict of Tho. Ratcliffe E. of Sussex She died childless An. 1588. Sir Fr. Nethersole Orator of the University of Camb. was preferred to be Ambassadour to the Princes of the Vnion and Secretary to the Lady Eliz. Q. of Bohemia it is hard to say whether he was more remarkable for his doings or sufferings in her behalf He married Lucy eldest Daughter of Sir Hen. Goodyear of Polesworth in Warw. by whose encouragement he hath founded and endowed a very fair School at Polesworth aforesaid and is still living Memorable Persons Simon Linch Gent. born at Groves V. Essex Mary Waters born at Lenham had at her decease lawfully Descended from her 367 Children 16 of her own body 114 Grand-children 228 in the 3 d. Generation and nine in the fourth She died 1620. A Gentlewoman now alive being in extream Agony of Soul held a Venice-glass in her hand and said I am as surely Damned as this glass is broken which she immediately threw with violence to the ground yet was it taken up again sound and entire The Gentlewoman took no comfort thereat but afterwards it pleased God she recovered from her sad condition This she her self told to Th. Morton Bishop of Durham from whose Mouth I have received this Relation In the days of Q. Mary she used to visit the Prisons and comfort and relieve the Confessors therein She was present at the Burning of Mr. Bradford She died 1620. Nicholas Wood born at Halingborne had the Caninus Appetitus and could eat a whole Hog at a sitting at another time 30 dozen of Pigeons He died 1630. An ingenious Yeoman in this County used to Plough two Furrows at once with two Ploughs curiously joyned Noted Sheriffs An. 1. Hubert de Burgo late Lord Lieutenant to K. Jo. and L. Ch. J. of England monarch H. 3. In this Year of his Sherivalty he not only valiantly defended the Castle of Dover against Lewis the French Kings Son but also in a Naval conflict overthrew a
the Land After his return he was again haunted at Mortlack with the same scandal but he gave such satisfaction of the lawfulness and usefulness of his Studies that the Queen besides many New-years gifts presented him Warden of Manchester All his Books speak him a Learned Man He died about 1 year of King James Roger Fenton D. D. in Camb. was a Pious Minister in St. Steph. Walbrook London He wrote a Treatise against Usury He had set about studying Dr. Felton's Funeral Sermon who lay at the point of Death Yet it pleased God this Dr. recovered and preached Dr. Fenton's according to a former mutual agreement betwixt them that the Surviver should Preach the others Funeral Sermon He died 1615. Robert Balton born at Blackborne had the 6 Properties of a good Scholar viz. good natural parts a Faithful Memory Curiosity using withal Study Labour and Attention He could speak the Greek and Lattin as well as English and that Stilo imperatorio He was chosen a Disputant before King James and acquitted himself with great applause He was afterwards Rector of Broughton He died 1631. Jo Weaver bred in Cambridge an Antiquary composed a Book of Funeral Monuments in the Diocess of Canterbury Roch Lond. and Norwich He died about 1634. Ja Cudworth D. D. and an excellent Preacher finished some of Mr Perkins's Works Lawr. Chaderton Lawyer was a Convert from the Romish Religion which when his father a rich Gentleman heard he sent him a groat in a poak to go a begging therewith He was one of the four Representatives of the Nonconformists in Hampton Court Conference and afterwards a Translator of the Bible having preached one time for two hours space he concluded That he would no longer trespass upon their patience at which the hungry people cryed out For Gods sake go on which obliged him to an Extempore-continuance After he had commenced D. D. he died 1640. Geo. Walker born at Hauxhead having the small-Pox in his childhood the standers by expecting his dissolution started up out of a Trance with this ejaculation Lord take me not away till I have shewed forth thy Praises which made his parents devote him to the Ministery after his recovery His Sermon printed against the profanation of the Sabbath c. procured him much trouble and 2 years Imprisonment He died 1651. Romish Exile Writers Edw. Rishton M. A. in Doway and priest in Rome 1580. at his return to England was three years Prisoner He died of the Plague at St. Manhow 1585. Th. Worthington well descended was bred at Doway B. D. and sent into England in 88. where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London He commenced D. D. at Triers He wrote Notes on the Old Testament which came out in English at Rhemes Anderton a Learned Popish Priest scurvily disappointed Mr. Bolton his Prosylite who was to go over with him to the English Seminary Benefactors to the Publick Will. Smith born at Farmeworth preferred by H. 8 B. of Lich. Cov. president of the Marches Founded a Hosp and School at Lich. and a School at Farmeworth allowing 10 l. per An. Salary for the Master He founded Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford before the finishing of which he died 1513. Molineux a preacher about the time of H. 8. descended of the House of Softon built the Church there and Houses for Schools about the Church Yard and made the great Wall about Mag. Colledge in Oxford Edw. Halsall Esquire Chamberlain of the Exchequer at Chester founded a Free School in Halstall Th. West younger Brother to the Lord de la Ware and Parson of Manchester became Heir to that Barony For a Marriage-License from the Pope he built a Colledge for Priests in Manchester Since the Reformation Jo. Smith finding Magd. Coll. in Cambridge poor and empty left it rich and full of Scholars having served it all his life and bequeathed to it 600 l. at his Death Geo. Clarke Haberdasher a devout Man dying Issueless before the late Civil Wars left to the Poor 100 l. per An. in Lands lying in Crompsal Humph. Chetham a Pious and prosperous Man was High Sheriff of this County 1635. He gave by his Will 7000 l. to buy a Fee-simple Estate of 420 l. per an for the Education of 40 poor Children in Manchester at School from about 6 till 14 years of Age. He gave 1000 l. for Books to a Library and 100 l. to prepare a place for them He bequeathed 200 l. to buy Books for the Churches of Manchester Bolton c. He gave the remainder of his Estate above 2000 l. Debts c. being paid to the encrease of the Books in the Library Memorable Persons Sir Edm. de Trafford and Th. de Ashton Knights descended of great Wealth and Reputation were Famous Chymists They procured a Patent from K. Henry 6. for trying their pretended Skill in turning base Metalls into Gold Rich. Rothwell is said to have dispossessed Jo. Fox near Nott. of the Divel there passing betwixt them a large Dialogue He died 1627. The Battels At Preston in Anderness Aug. 7. 1648. D. Hamilton entered England with an Army Most beheld him as one rather cunning than Wise yet rather Wise than Valiant However he had Officers what did Ken the geat of feighting as wee l as ony of oor Age. He would accept of no English assistance Their Van and Rear were many Miles asunder and they met the resistance of Maj. Gen. Lambert before they expected it He at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a blow as stunn'd it tho it reeled on some Miles more Southward into Stafford-shire where at Vlcester the Duke was taken prisoner and utterly defeated As for the defeat of Ja. E. of Derby ult Aug. 1651. it amounted to no Battel by reason of the Vigilancy of Coll. Lilburn and others This County may be called the Cock-pit of Conscience by reason of the constant Combats therein betwixt Religion and Superstition A certain Impostor had almost made Eleanor Q. Mother mad by reporting the Posthume Miracles done by her Husband H. 3. till Hugh of Manchester of whom before settled her judgment aright Leicester-shire LEicester-shire is almost circular in form the Town of Leic. being the Center and the River Soare the Diameter thereof Having Linc. and Rut. on the E. Darby and Nott. on the N. Warw. on the W. and Northam on the S. in length 33 and in breadth 27 miles The South W. parts abound in Corn the North. W. in Wood. The rest of the County having sufficiency of both The natural Commodities are Beans about Barton in the Beans where they appear like a Forrest in the time of Harvest Cole digged up at Cole-Orton which warms Cold-Orton another Village together with the whole County Of Buildings the Parish Church of Bottsford is very fair and large with a high Spire Steeple At the suppression of the Abbeys many ancient Monuments of the Albanies and Roses were removed hither out of the Priory of Beaver by the Command
no place surviving to see his Sacred Function buried before his eyes He may be said to have died with the pen in his hand He was commonly called our English Seneca For his pure plain and full stile Not ill at Controversies more happy at Comments very good in his Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations In his Will he affirms that he does not hold Gods House a meer Repository for the dead bodies of the greatest Saints He died 1656. Statesmen Geo. Villiers born at Brooksby fourth Son to Sir Geo being debarred by his late Nativity from his Fathers Lands was maintain'd in France by his Mother till he returned one of the compleatest Courtiers in Christendom Sir Th. Lake Ushered him into the Court whilst the Lady Lucy Countess of Bedford led him by the one hand and William E. of Pembrook by the other about the same time that Somerset began to decline Soon after he was Knighted created successively Bar. Visc Villiers E. Marq. D. of Buckingham and Knight of the Garter and had the Offices of Master of the Horse and Admiral conferred upon him He married his Neeces to Honourable Persons thereby both gratifying his Kindred and fortifying himself with noble alliance King Charles had as high a kindness for the Duke as King James had Thenceforward he became Plenipotentiary in the English Court some of the Scotch Nobility making room for him by their seasonable departure out of this Life The Earl of Bristol was justled out the Bishop of Linc. cast flat on the floor the Earls of Pembrook and Carlile content to shine beneath him Holland behind him But tho he was the little God at Court he was the Great Divel in the Countrey being perfectly hated by the Commonalty and charged by them with all Miscarriages in Church and State John Felton apprehending himself injured stabbed the Duke to the heart at Portsmouth 1620. His person could not be charged with any blemish save that some Criticks conceived his brows somewhat over pendulous a cloud which in the Judgment of others was by the beams of his eyes sufficiently dispelled V. his Monument in the Chappel H 7 Capital Judges Sir Roh Belknap Chief J. of the Common Pleas An. 48. E. 3 was displaced An. 11 R. 2. For this King intending to make away certain Lords viz. his Uncle the Duke of Glouc. the Earls of Arund Warw. Darby Not. demanded of his Judges whether he might by his Regal power revoke what was acted in Parliament To this all the Judges answered affirmatively Sir William Skipwith onely excepted and subscribed it Belknap to that his subscription added these words There wants nothing but an hurdle an horse and an halter to carry me where I may suffer the death I deserve for if I had not done this I should have died for it and because I have done it I deserve death for betraying the Lords In the next Parlament all the Judges were arrested Sir Rob. Tresilian Chief J. of the Kings Bench executed and Belknap with others banished Sir Robert Catelin descended of the ancient Family of the Catelins in Northam was born at Biby An. 1. Eliz. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. He had aprejudice at all those who writ their Names with an alias which made a certain person ask him what exceptions his Lordship could take at Jesus Christ alias Jesus of Nazareth He died An. 16. Eliz. His Arms were Party par Cheveron Az. and O. which are quartered by the Right Honourable the Lord Spencer Earl of Sunderland this Judges Daughter and sole Heir being married to his Ancestor Some 40 years since a Gent. of his Name and Kindred had a Cause in Kings Bench to whom the Chief Justice therein said Your Kinsman my Predecessor was a great Lawyer My Lord replied the Gent. he was a very Honest man for he left a small Estate Writers William Leicester or De Montibus D. and Pr. D. in Oxford Eminent in Learning and beloved by the Nobility was known by the Name of Mr. William an Evidence sufficient to avouch his Magisteriality in all Learning He was Chanc. of Lincoln Church He flourished under King Jo. Rich. Belgrave wrote a Description of this County Theolog. Determinations and Ordinary Questions He was a Carmelite in Cambridge He flourished under E. 2. 1220. Rob. de Leic. a Fran. in Oxford was one that brought Preaching into Fashion in that age He wrote of the Hebrew and Rom. Chronological Computation He died at Lichfield 1348. Th. Ratcliffe an Augustinian in Leic. a Man of great parts wrote divers Books and flourished 1360. Barth Culie wrote of Generation and Corruption flourished under E. 3. William De. Lubbenham bred in Oxford Provincial of the Carmelites in Coventry wrote upon Aristotles Posteriors He died 1361. Jeffrey De Harby Provincial of the Augustines in Oxford and Confessor Privy Councellor to E. 3. wrote a Book in Praise of Poverty He died 1361. William De Folvill a Fran. in Cambridge maintani'd that Children under 18 might be admitted into Monastical Orders He died 1384. Hen. de Knighton Abb. of Leic. wrote his History from William the Conqeuror to R. 2. in whose time he died William Woodford a Fran. of profound Learning was depeuted by Th. Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury to confute Wickliffe's Opinions Th. Langton a Carmelite in London wrote Of their Ordinary Acts and Of the Trial of H. Crump D. D. c. He flourished under H. 4. 1400. Rob. de Harby a Carmelite in Linc. wrote Sermons of the Festivities of the Blessed Virgin He flourished 1450. Rich. Turpin born at Knaptoft was one of the Gentlemen in the English Garrison in Calais in Fr. in the Reign of H. 4. He wrote a Chronicle of his time and died 1541. Since the Refomation Hen. Smith called Silver-tongued was Preacher at St Clement Danes V. his Life writ by me Jo. Duport D. D. born at Shepshed thrice Vice-Chanc of the University of Cambridge was one of the Translators of the Bible He bestowed the perpetual Advowson of the Rectory of Harston on Je. Colledge He was happy in a Son Ja. Duport D. D. and Greek Prof. in Trinity Colledge He died 1617. William Burton Esq born at Lindley 1575 wrote an Alphabetical Description of the Towns and Villages in this County c. whose Younger Brother Robert Burton B. D. in Christ Church Oxford wrote the excellent Book called Democritus Junior of the Anatomy of Melancholy He died Rector of Segrave 1636. and had this Epitaph Paucis notus Paucioribus ignotus Hic jacet Democritus Junior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit Melancholia Rich. Vines M. A. born at Blazon and bred in Magd. Colledg in Cambridg was Schoolmaster of Hinckley then Minister of St Lawrence Jury in London Being the Champion he was called the Luther of his Party Employed by the Assembly in their Treaties at Vxbridg c. He forsook the Mastership of Pemb. Hall for refusing the Engagement Not a
that time taken Prisoner by the Scots who slew 4000 Men of the English Army being 8000 in all near the River Swale Afterward having recovered his Liberty he was made Chancellor of England and Bishop of Norwich An. 18. E. 2. He gave 200 l. to buy Lands to maintain Priests to say Mass for his Soul and died 1337. at Charing Cross nigh London 'T is he bestowed the Mannor of Silk Willoughby in this County on his Family which with other fair Lands is possessed by them at this day William Waynflet surnamed of the Town of his birth Son to Richard Pattin an ancient Esq whose Posterity remain at Barsloe in Darbyshire Founded Magd. College in Oxf. V. Eccl. Hist William Lynwood probably D. L. in Oxford was Chanc. to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Keeper of the Pr. Seal to H. 6. and was Employed on several Embassies to Sp. and Portug He wrote a Comment on the English Provincial Constitutions for which he was made Bishop of St. Dav. He died 1446. Will. Ascough D. L. descended of a worshipfull and ancient Family now living at Kelsey became Bishop of Sarum Confessor to H. 6. Jack Cade and his Crew many of them being his Tenants fell foul on this Bishop being a learned Pious and rich Man three Capital Crimes in a Clergy man They first plundred his Carriages of 10000 marks and then dragged himself from the high Altar to a hill hard by the Church and there barbarously murdered him tearing his bloody shirt in Pieces and leaving his stripped body stark naked the Place 1450 Sic concussa cadit Populari Mitra tumultu Protegat optamus nunce DIADEMA deus Richard Fox born at Grantham for the Publick good was very instrumental in bringing H. 7 to the Crown who made him Bishop of Winchester He was bred in Cambridge and afterwards in Oxford where he founded the Fair Colledg of Corp. Christi allowing to it 401 l. 18 s. 11 d. per An. He beautified his Cathedral and made decent Tombs for the Bodies of the Sax. Kings and Bishops there which were since barbarously demolished when blind with Age he felt Woolsey's puls beat violently through the extream desire he had of his civil or natural death and having defeated that Cardinals design to effect the first by rendring him obnoxious to the Kings displeasure and outing him of his See he yielded to the latter An. 1528. Since the Reformation Th. Goodrick of Kirby D. L. in Cambridg was employed in many Embassies and at last made Bishop of Ely by King Henry 8. and Lord Chancellor of England by King E. 6. Having resigned the place of Chancellour to Stephen Gardiner his Death was very seasonable for his own safety 1554. An. 1. Ma. Jo Whitgift born at Grimsby and bred in Cambridg was Bishop of Worcester then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury See my Eccl. History I meet with this Anagram Joannes Whitegifteus Non vi egit favet Jesus Indeed his politick patience was Blessed in a high Proportion Jo. Still D. D. born at Grantham was bred in Cambridg for which he was chosen to oppose all Comers for defence of the English Church when towards the end of Queen Elizabeth there was an unsucceeding motion of a Diet which should have been in Germany for composing Matters of Religion Then An. 1592 being the 2 d time Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells where he raised a great Estate from the Lead Mines in his time found in Mendip Hills and laid the Foundation of three Families leaving to each of them a considerable Revenue in a worshipfull Condition He gave 500 l. for the building of an Alms-houss in the City of Wells and dying 1607 he lyes buried in his own Cathedral Mart. Fotherby D. D. born at Great Grimsby of a good Family and bred in Cambridg was Preband of Canterbury then preferred by King Ja. Bishop of Salisbury Having begun a Treatise against Atheists he died 1619 Statesmen Edw. Fines Lord Clinton Knight of the Garter was Lord Adm. of England for above 30 years a Wise Valiant and Fortunate Gentleman The Master-piece of his service was in Mussleborough Field where the Victory over the Scots was from the Sea and an execution on the Land Queen Elizabeth created him Earl of Lincoln May 4. 1574. and indeed he had breadth to his heighth a sufficient Estate to support his Dignity He died 1585. and lyeth burâ—â—d at Windsor Th. Wilson D Lâ—bred in Cambridg was Tutor to H. and Ch. Brandons successively Dukes of Suff. He was made in the Raign of Q. Elizabeth Mr. of the Hospital of St Kath. the Quire which he took down as being probably past repairing He at last became Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth He died 15 Th. Lord Bury or Borough Grandson to Th. created Baron by King Henry 8 was born at Gainsborough He was sent Ambassador into Scotland 1593. to excuse Bothwel's lurking in England to advise the speedy suppressing of the Sp. Faction and to advance an effectual Association of the Protestants in that Kingdom for their Kings defence which was done accordingly He was made Deputy of Ireland An. 1597 Where after the expiration of a Months Truce with Tyrone he besieged the Fort of Black Water the Key of the County of Tyrone and took it by Force and presently followed a bloody Battel wherein the English paid dear for their Victory losing many worthy Men and amongst the two that were Foster brothers the strongest Irish Relation to the Eâ—rl of Kildary who so layd this â—oss to heart that he died soon after Tyrone rebeâ—eged Blackwater and the Lord Deputy endeavouâ—ing to relive it was struck with an untimely Death â—ote That it brake the Heart of the Valiant Sir â—o Norris who had promised the Deputies Place â—o himself as due to his Deserts when this Lord Burgh was superinduced to that Office William Cecil our English Nestor for Wisdom and Vivacity born at Burn was Secretary and Treaâ—urer for above 30 years together He steer'd the Court at his Pleasure and whilst the Earl of Leiceâ—ter would endure no Equal and Sussex no Superior â—herein he by siding with neither served himself with both You may easily imagine how highly the Wise Queen Elizabeth valued so great a Minister of â—tate Coming once to visit him when sick and beâ—ng much heightned with her Head Attire then â—n Fashion the Lord's Servant who conducted â—er throw the door May your Highness said he â—e pleased to stoop The Queen returned For your Master's sake I will stoop but not for the King of Spains All England in that Age was beholding to his Bounty as well as the Poor in Standford for whom â—e erected a fair Bead-house acknowledging under God and the Queen their Prosperity the Fruit of â—is Prudence This Worthy Patriot died in 77 â—ear of his Age Aug. 4. 1598. V. my Holy State Capital Judges Sir Will. de Skipwith made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer An. 35. E. 3. condemned Will.
With that Hospital D. of Glocester but since his death it imports to be dinnerless to walk in St. Pauls whilst others dine it having been supposed that D. Humphrey was buried there tho he was indeed buried in St. Alb. 12. I will use you as bad as a Jew This had its Original at the Old-Jury in London where the Jews were intollerably abused by the English especially on Shrove-Tuesday 13. Good Manners to except my Lord Mayor of Lond. 14. I have dined as well as my Lord Mayor of London That is as contentedly 15. Aâ— old as Pauls Steeple That is only about 1040 years of Age. 16. He is only fit for Ruffians-Hall Well-Smithfield now the Horse-Market was formerly so called There the Hectors did meet for Trial of Skill at Sword and Buckler but since that desperate Traitor Rowland York first used thrusting with Rapiers that Sport is disused and the Prov. only appliable to quarrelsom people 17. A Loyal heart may be landed under Traitors-Bridge Q. Eliz. was compelled to go under that Bridge when she was sent Prisoner to the Tower 18. To cast Water into the Thames 19. He must take him a House in Turn-again Lane This in old Records is called Wind-again-Lane and lyeth in the Parish of St. Sepulchres and in it there is no through-passage It is applied to those who take sinister Courses 20. He may whet his Knife on the Threshold of the Fleet. It is applied to those who being out of Debt may defie Arrests and are in no danger of Imprisonment in the Fleet or elsewhere 21. All goeth down Gutter-lane A small Lane in the City otherwise Guthurum-lane Appliable to great Gluttons and Drunkards 22. As Lame as St. Giles Cripple-gate St. Giles a Noble Athenian being Lame waved all cure for his greater Mortification It is spoken of such who for some light hurt or out of Laziness lagg behind 23. You are all for the Hustings The Hustings is the highest Court in London so called from the French word Haulser to lift up The Proverb is spoken of those who are lifted up with the Wings of Pride and Ambition above the Level of their Birth and Estate Princes Kath. 3d. Daughter to K. Hen. 3d. and Q. Eleanor was born at London 1252. on St. Kath. Day She dyed in her very infancy Wak't from the Womb she on this World did peep Dislik't it clos'd her eyes fell fast asleep She lyeth buried at Westminster Joan Eldest Daughter of King Edward 2. and Queen Elizabeth was born in the Tower of London about 1316 and was married to Dav. 2. King of Scotland She did good offices betwixt the 2 Kingdoms and was therefore called Joan Make-Peace Dying without Issue at London she was buried in Gâ—ey-Friers Kath. Youngest Daughter to King Henry 7. and Elizabeth his Queen was born in the Tower of London Feb. 2. 1503. dying few days after On whose Innocence and short life this Epitaph might be written Here lâ—eth SHE was born and cry'd Liv'd a few days fell sick and dy'd Much differing from that of an Ancient Man Here lyes the Man was born and cry'd Liv'd 60 years fell sick and dy'd Anne Bollen Daughter of the Lord Th. Bollen Earl of Wilt-shire was Probably born in London and became 2 d Wife to H. 8. after he had made her Marchioness of Pembroke She was accomplished in Body Vertuous in Mind and a great Promoter of the Gospel The Inconstancy of her Husband's Affection is conceived by most moderate Men her chiefest Crime and cause of her death 1536. Kath. Howard Daughter to the Lord Edm. Howard Son to Th. D. of Norfolk was probably born in London and became 5th Wife to Henry 8. Whom you may imagine thus speaking on his Death-bed Three Kates 2 Nans and one dear Jane I Wedded One Spanish one Dutch and 4 English Wives From 2 I was Divorced 2 I beheaded One Died in Childbirth and one me survived 'T is said the Incontinency of this Kath. cost her her Life The greatest good the Land got by this Match was general leave to marry Cousin-Germans She was beheaded 1540. Saints St. Sedd born in London was very instrumental in the Conversion of the Mircians St. Wulsine a Benedictine Monk was Ab. of Westminster then translated to be Bishop of Sherburne in Dorset-shire whence he drove all the secular Priests as became a Champion for Monastical life He is said to have seen Heaven open in the instant of his departure out of this Life 985. Th. Becket a Merchants Son was born in London in the place where now Mercers-Chappel is erected He was slain on Innocents-day in his own Church of Canterbury 1170. many Vows were made by superstitious Pilgrims to his Shrine The Papists in favour of Vows of that Nature tamper to corrupt Holy Writ as in the Vulgar Lat. Prov. 20.25 Ruina est homini Devorare Sancta c. Which they read Ruina est homini Devorare Sanctos It is a snare to a man who often maketh Vows to Saints and after Vows retracteth them See my Ecc. Hist Martyrs William Sautre al. Chatris Parish-priest of St. Osiths London was the first English Wickliffite who wast put to Death for his Opinion He was charged with a relapse into Heresie after Abjuration He was convicted in a Provincial Councel of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and burnt in Smith-field about Feb. 28. 1400. The close of the Arch-Bishops Sentence of Degradation when Sautre was committed over to the Secular Court endeth with this expression Beseeching the Court aforesaid that they will receive favourably the said William c. which was nothing but Cruelty in Masquerade Jo Badby an Artificer in Black Friers London was burnt about 1401. Hen. Prince of Wales afterwards King Henry 5 being present at his execution promised him a Pardon and a Pension on his Recantation all which Badby refused He was put in an empty Tun and the fire put there in at the first feeling whereof he cryed Mercy Mercy of God which Prince Henry mistaking for a kind of Revocation of his Opinions profered him the same Condition a second time which Badby again refused and was Martyred Prelates Sim. of Gaunt born in London was preferred B. of Salisbury by Edward 1. 1298. He gave the first leave to the Citizens thereof to fortifie that place with a Ditch and Walls and no less was his care of the Church than of the City making good Statutes whereby it was ordered even unto our Age. He died about 1315. Jo. Kite born in London bred in Oxford sent Ambassador into Spain made a Titulary Arch-Bishop and at last Bishop of Carlisle He lyeth in the Church of Stepney William Knight bred in Oxford was Secretary to Henry 8. and first employed to the Pope to mention the Matter of his Divorce After his Return he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells In Wells he built a stately Cross to secure poor people from the Weather He died 1547. Nic. Heath one of St. Anthonies
to the Lord Dacres Lord Wotton Sir Peter Temple of Stow Barronet and Sir Ed. Partridge 3. Jo. Freeman was a most bountiful Benefactor to Clare-Hall in Cambridge giving 2000 l. to the founding of Fellowships and Scholar-ships therein He died without Issue 12. W. Wilmer Arm. the first Pensioner in Sidney-Colledge to which he was a Benefactor An. 7. Jo. Hewet Baronet tho he had no Land in this County monarch K. Charles the Shrivalty was imposed upon him because he had offended a great Courtier Northumberland NOrthumberland hath Durham on the S. Cumberland on the S. W. the German Ocean on the E. and Scotland on the N. and W. parted with the River Tweed and Cheviot Hills It is somewhat of a Pyramidal Form whose Base extendeth to above 40. and Shaft ascendeth to 50 miles The Soyl is not very fruitful but is improved more and more daily An 4. Jac. many Gentlemen in this County challenged their hereditary right in the Bounds betwixt the two Kingdoms which had been formerly neglected The Buildings in this County are either Castles or Castle-like able to resist a tumultuary incursion Proverbs I. To carry Coals to Newcastle That is to busy ones self in a needless employment II. From Berwick to Dover 300 miles over That is from one end of the Land to the other III To take Hectors Cloak That is to deceivce a friend who confideth in his faithfulness 'T is said that one Hector Armstrong of Harlaw betrayed his friend Th. Piercy Earl of Northumberland for mony and afterwards fell into so great poverty and contempt that he durst not go abroad IV. We will not lose a Scotâ—â— That is We will lose nothing how inconsiderable soever The Proverb began during the Enmity betwixt the 2 Kingdoms V. A Scotish Mist may wet an Englishman to the skin That is small mischiefs in the beginning if not seasonably prevented may prove very dangerous VI. A Scotish-man and a Newcastle grindstone travil all the World over Occasioned by the curiosity of the one and the goodness of the other VII If they come they come not and if they come not they come That is if the Borderers came the Cattle of the Vicinage came not home from their Pasture but were by them intercepted c. The 4 following Proverbs are Scotish VIII Lang or ye cut Faulkland-Wood with a penknife It is spoken of such means which are insufficient for the effecting of any end or design IX He is an Aberdeen 's man taking his word again Aberdeen is a Town in the County of Mar in Scotland X. He was born in August This is said to be meant as a Periphrasis of a liquorish person A Yule Feast may be quat at Pasche That is Christmass-cheer may be digested and the Party hungry again at Easter Saints St. Ebba Daughter to Edilfrid King of Northum was Prioress of Coldingham in Scotland She with others cut off their Noses that their Beauty might be no bait to the lustfull Danes She flourished 630. Prelates since the Reformation Geo. Carleton born at Norham bred in Oxford was one of the 4 Divines sent by King James to the Synod of Dort He was Bishop of Landaff afterwards of Chichester A man of good affections solid Judgment and clear Invention He wrote amongst others 2 Treatises called A Thankfull Remembrance of Gods mercy and a Confutation of Judicial Astrology When Young he was grave in his manners so when old he was youthful in his parts even to his death which hapned An. 1. Ch. Valentine Cary born at Barwick extracted from the Cary's Barons of Hunsdon was bred in Cambridg where he was Vice-Chancellor An. 1612. He was preferred Dean of St Pauls and at last Bishop of Exeter A compleat Gentleman and excellent scholar Tho some Contest hapned betwixt him and the City of Exeter yet he was bountiful above expectation in relieving the poor thereof when it was visited with the Sickness He died 1626. and lyes buried in St Pauls London Rich. Holeworth D. D. born at Newcastle bred in Cambridg Rector of St Peter in the Poor in London Arch-deacon of Huntington at last Mr. of Emanuel Colledg incurred the Censures of Factious Innovators in London at the beginning of the Civil wars Most candid his disposition being wont to check himself when in Passion He was imprisoned for a Sermon he preached in Cambridg After he had procured his Liberty he waited on his Majesty in the Isle of Wight He was Proffered the Bishoprick of Bristol but refused it Some shoot by the aim of their own fancies who report him to have said He would not wear a Bristol-stone Tho he was a zealous assertor of Episcopacy he esteemed the acceptance of that Bishopprick unsafe and unseasonable He afterwards took the Deanry of Worcester The Treatise called the Valley of Vision is in all probability none of his Dying about 1650 he was buried in St. Pet. Broadstreet Souldiers This County breedeth most hardy Men. The Borderers have been embroyled in several Battles against the Scotch Witness the Battel of Chevy chase An. 29 Henry 8. about which time Henry Earl of Northumberland died peaceably at Hackney near London tho reported to be slain in that battle Physicians W. Turner born at Morpeth bred in Cambridge was a general Scholar and very zealous in the Protestant Religion writing much in the defence thereof and much molested for the same by Bishop Gardner and others After long imprisonment he escaped and fled beyond the Seas At Ferrara in Italy he commenced Dr. in Physick He wrote a great Herbal and a Book of Physick for the English Gentry besides several other Treatises He died in Germany as I conjecture in the Reign of Queen Mary Whose Contemporary and fellow Confessor Th. Gibson born at Morpeth wrote a Book of Herbs as also a Treatise entitled The Treasons of the Prelates since the Conquest He was alive in the last of Queen Mary Writers Ralph Frechbourne bred a Souldier Scholar Traveller became at last a Frier He attended Rich. Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans into the Holy land whence he brought the Carmelites into England and built for them a House at Holme in Northumberland He wrote Books of pious Exhortations and Epistles and after he had been 14 years Provincial of his Order died and was buried at Holme 1274. Johannes Scotus born at Dunston a Franciscan Frier got the Title of Doctor Subtilis He maintained against the Thomists that the Blessed Virgin was conceived with sin He died of a sit of an Apoplexy at Colen Benefactors to the Publick Stephen Brown Grocer was born at Newcastle afterwards Knighted and made Lord Mayor of London 1438. In which year happened a Great Famin caused much by unseasonableness of weather but more by some Huckstring husbandmen who properly may be termed Knaves in Grain Sir Stephen sent some ships to Dantz whose seasonable return with Rye suddainly sunk grain to reasonable rates whereby many a languishing life was preserved He was
of Stamford was descended from the ancient Family of the Browns of Toll-Thorp in this County He built the beautiful Steeple with a great Part of the Church in Stamford where he lyeth buried He erected An. 1493. the Old Bead-house in that Town to which he gave the Mannor of Swayfeld worth 400 l. per An. c. Since the Reformation Jo. Harington Senior son to Sir Ja. was born at Exton the residence of that ancient Family He divided his eminent Hospitality betwixt Rutland and Warwick-shire He was a grand benefactor to Sidney-College King Ja. created him Baron of Exton his Lady was Governess to Princess Elizabeth whom this Lord afterwards attended when she went over to be married to Frederick Prince Palatine after which he died at Wormes in Germany 1613. The Lord Jo. his Son did not survive him a year both of them signally eminent the one a Pattern for all good Fathers the other for all gracious Sons Thus the Male issue of that Honorable Family expired Memorable Persons Jeffrey born in Okeham never arrived at a full ell in stature tho his Father was a proper man and was presented to the Dutchess of Buckingham as a very great Rarity being then but a foot and a half in height and a very well proportioned dwarf about 9 years of Age. The Dutchess raised him to a considerable degree of Eminency when after many special marks of her Favour she caused him to be presented in a cold baked pye to King Charles and Queen Mary at an Entertainment Hence living at Court he grew so high that he lookt not down upon his Father until by a sound correction at the Kings command his Mind was reduced into somewhat nearer proportion with his Body He was a Captain in the Army in the late civil Wars and afterwards went over to wait on the Queen in France He shot one Mr. Crofts who had prvoked and accounted him the object rather of his contempt than Anger whereupon he was imprisoned And so I take my leave of Jeffery the least Man of the least County in England Noted Sheriffs An. 16. Christopher Brown Arm. came with King Henry 7. monarch Q. Eliz. and assisted him against King Richard 3. for which good Service King Henry 8. by Letters Patents Granted to Francis Brown Son of this Sheriff That he should not be impanelled on any Jury nor serve in Office of Sheriff or Escheator in any County and also that he should be covered in the Kings presence Tolethorpe the chief place of residence at this day of Christopher Brown Esq who bore the Office of Sheriff in this County 1647 was by Deed conveyed to Jo. Brown by Th. Burton Knight An. 15. Edward 3. There was Brown Lord Mayor of London 1479. the Son of Jo. Brown of Oakham Shrop-shire SHrop-shire hath Cheshire on the North. Stafford-shire on the East Worcester Hereford and Radnor-shire on the South Montgomery and Denby-shire on the West It is in length 34 and in breadth 26 miles A large and lovely County generally fair and fruitful plentifully producing all things necessary for mans sustenance but chiefly abounding with Iron and Coale at Mendip Bedworth c. As for Manufactures the County has none her Original but is supplied with Welsh-Freeses brought to Oswastre the Staple of that commodity For Buildings Shrop-shire may seem on the West divided from Wales with a Wall of continued Castles Mr. Speed who alloweth 186 Castles in England accounteth 32 in this County which having been formerly serviceable whilst Shrop-shire was the Verge of English Dominions are now neglected this Shire being almost in the midst of England since Wales was annexed thereunto Of the Houses of the Gentry many are Fair and handsome none amount to an extraordinary Eminency In this Shire there is a Spring at Pitchford which hath an oyly matter upon the Water thereof which being Bituminous is a great comfort to the Nerves Proverbs I. He that fetcheth a Wife from Shrewsbury must carry her into Stafford-shire or else must live in Cumberland That is a Shrew must be beaten with a Staff c. II. The Case is altered quoth Plowden 'T is said that Plowden a great Lawyer of this County being of the Romish Perswasion some Setters trapanned him pardon the Prolepsis to hear Mass but afterwards Plowden understanding that the Pretender to Officiate was no Priest but a Lay-man on design to make a Discovery O! the Case is altered quoth Plowden No Priest no Mass Princes Richard Plantagenet Second Son to King Ed. 4. and Eliz. his Queen was born at Shrewsbury 1472. He was created Duke of York and affianced to Anne Daughter and Heir to Jo. Mowbray D. of Norfolk but before the Nuptials were Solemnized his cruel Uncle the Duke of Glocester married him to a Grave in the Tower of London The obscurity of his Burial gave the advantage to the report that he lived in Perkin Warbeck one of the Idols which put Henry 7. to some Danger and more Trouble before he could finally suppress him Geo. Plantag Youngest Son to E. 4. and Eliz. his Queen was born at Shrewsbury and lived but a very short time being like Plautus his Solstitial Flower Qui repentinò ortus repentinò occidit Saints St. Milburgh Daughter to Meroaldus Prince of Mercia gave the fair Mannor of Wenlock in this County which was assigned to her for his Portion to the Poor and living a Virgin she built a Monastery in the same place answering her Name which being interpreted is Good to Burgh or Town She died about 664. Some 400 years after in the Reign of W. the Conqueror her Corps discovered by Miracles wrought thereby is said to have been taken up sound and uncorrupted St. Oswald King of Northumberland was slain by Penda the Pagan King of the Mercians at a place called after his name Oswaldstre in this County 635. He had been always Pious and exceeding charitable to the Poor His Arm cut off it seems from the rest of his Body remained said Bede whole and incorrupted kept in a Silver Case in St. Pet. Church at Bamborough whilst his Corps was first buried at Peterborough and afterwards in the Danish Persecution translated to Bergen in Flanders where it still remaineth The 5 th of August in our Calender was consecrated to his Memory save that the Thanksgiving for Gowrie's Conspiracy made bold to justle him out all the Reign of King James Confessors Th. Gataker a Branch of an ancient Family at Gataker-Hall in this County from the time of King Edward the Confessor was bred in the Temple and afterwards present at the Examination of persecuted People in the Reign of Queen Mary Their hard usage made him pity their persons and admirable Patience to approve their Opinions His Parents perceiving his inclination used all possible means to divert the same by sending him beyond the Seas and providing liberally for him then these proving ineffectual by recalling his Person and reducing his Allowance all which would
not do He afterwards studied Divinity and became Pastor of St. Edmunds in Lumbard-street London where he died An. leaving Th. his learned Son of whom formerly among the Writers in London heir to his Pains and Piety Prelates Rob. of Shrewsbury preferred B. of Bangor in the Reign of K. Jo. 1197. was afterward taken Prisoner in his own Cathedral Church by the King waging War against Leoline P. of Wales and enjoyned to pay 300 Hawks for his Ransom which was more considerable than a Brace of Grey-Hounds the late Ransom of an English Noble-man in the Reign of King Ch. I. About that time the Men of Norway possessed the Isle of Anglesea could best provide him the best and the most Besides in Pembrook-shire there were Aryes of Peregrines which bred in great plenty This Bishop ordered by his Will that he should be buried in the middle of the Market place of Shrewsbury This may be imputed either to his Humility or fear of future Sacriledge during the Wars betwixt the English and Welsh He died 1215. Rob. Burnel Son to Rob. and Brother to Hugh Lord Burnel whose prime Seat was at Acton-Burnel-Castle in this County was by E. 1. preferred B. of Bath and Wells and first Treasurer then Chancellor of England He caused the Court of Chancery to be kept at Bristol for the more convenient management of the Welsh affairs Having acquired great Riches he is supposed to have rebuilt for his Heirs the Castle of Acton Burnel on his own expence as he built for his Successors the beautiful Hall at Wells the biggest Room of any Bishops Palace in England pluckt down by Sir Jo. Gabos afterwards executed for Treason in the Reign of E. 6. after a good settlement of the English and Welsh affairs this Bishop was employed in some business about Scotland in the Marches whereof he died 1292. and was buried in his own Cathedral Walter de Wenlock Abbot of Westminster was Treasurer of England to E. 1. He died at Periford in Gloc. 1307 and was buried in his Church at Westminster where Abbas Walterus non fuit Austerus is part of his Epitaph Rob. of Shrewsbury was An. 3. E. 3. preferred Bishop of Bath and Wells Being consecrated without the Popes privity he paid a large sum to expiate his presumption He bestowed on his Cathedral a Chest Port-cullis-like barred with iron able to hold out a siege in the view of such as beheld it which notwithstanding was forced open by some Thieves in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth He erected and endowed a spacious Structure for the Vicars-Choral of his Cathedral to inhabit together Having made such a Palace for his Vicars he was necessitated in some sort to enlarge the Bishops Seat which he beautified and fortified Castle-wise He disafforrested Mendip and died 1363 being buried in his Cathedral where his Statute is done to the life Rob. Mascal born probably and a Carmelite in Ludlow was bred in Oxford and became for his Piety and Learning Confessor to King Henry 4. and Councellour to Henry 5. He was one of the 3 English Prelates which went to and one of the 2 which returned alive from the Council of Constance He died 1416. being buried in the Church of White-friers London to which he had been a great Benefactor Rich. Talbot of honourable Parentage was brother to Jo. first Earl of Shrewsbury He was consecrated Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Irland 1417. and was Privy Councellour to Henry 5 and 6. twice Chief Justice and once Chancellour of Ireland He founded 6 Petty Canons and 6 Choristers in his Church and wrote a Book against Ja. Earl of Ormond wherein he detected his abuses during his Lieutenancy in Ireland He died 1449. and lyeth buried in St Patricks in Dublin He had refused the Arch-Bishoprick of Armagh tho a higher place Geo. Day Provost of King's College in Cambridge was preferred Bishop of Chichester 1543. A pertinacious Papist who tho he made some kind of recantation which is entered in the Diary of E. 6. yet either the same was not satisfactory or else he relapsed into his errours again for which he was deprived but restored again by Queen Mary He died 1556. Whose Brother Since the Reformation W. Day a Zealous Protestant bred in Cambridge requested of his Brother some Mony to buy books c. therewith and was answered with this denial That he thought it not fit to spend the Goods of the Church on him who was an Enemy of the Church Yet he found a Friend nearer than a Brother He was Proctor of Cambridge 1558. and afterwards was made by Queen Elizabeth Prov. of Eaton Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Winchester and having enjoyed that See scarcely a whole year he died 1596. Statesmen Sir Th. Bromley born at Bromley of a right ancient Family was Solicitor Gen. to Queen Elizabeth before he was 40 and afterwards Lord Chancellour of England 1579. before he was 50 years old of great Learning and Integrity He died 1587. Learning in Law may seem to run in the Veins of that name which since hath had a Baron of the Exchequer of his Alliance Sir Clem. Edmunds born at Shrawardine and bred in Oxford generally skilled in all Arts and Sciences Witness his Translation of and Illustrations on Caesar's Commentaries was Clerk of the Council to King James Knighted by him and at last preferred Secretary of State tho he acted not therein being prevented by death happening 16. He lyes buried at Preston in Northam were he purchased a fair estate which his Grandchild doth possess at this day Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Edmond Plowden Arm. born at Plowden wrote learnedly on the Common Law He was a man of eminent Integrity He was Treasurer for the Honerable Company of the Middle Temple An. 1572. when their Magnificent Hall was built He being a good advancer thereof He died 1584. and lyes buried in the Quire of Temple Church in London Sir Jo. Walter Son to Edm. Chief Justice of S. Wales was born at Ludlow An eminent Lawyer and Judge When a Pleader he suffered not good men to be born down by slanderers poor men by more Potent Learned men by the ignorant Sir Jo was passionate Judge Walter was most Patient and grave and mery enough for a Judge as he told Judge Denham He was outed of his place when Chief Baron of the Exchequer about the illegality of the Loan as I take it He was a great Benefactor to Jesus College in Oxford and died 1630. in the Parish of Savoy bequeathing 20 l. to the poor thereof Edward Litleton born at Mounslow was Eldest Son to Sir Edward one of the Justices of the Marches and Chief Justice of N. Wales He was bred in Christ Church in Oxford where he proceeded Batchelor of Arts. He was preferred one of the Justices of N. Wales Recorder of London and Sollicitor to King Charles I. and afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Privy Councellour thence advanced to be Lord Keeper and
Baron of Mounslow He died in Oxford and was buried in Christs-Church 1645. Souldiers Sir Jo. Talbot born at Blackmore was Lord Talbot and Strange from his paternal Extraction Lord Furnival and Verdon by Marriage with Joan Daughter of Th. de Nevil and E. of Shrewsbury in England and Weisford in Ireland by creation of King Henry 6. This is that Talbot so famous for his Sword or rather whose Sword was so famous for his Arm that used it A Sword with bad Latin upon it viz. Sum Talboti pro vincere inimicos meos but good steel within it which constantly conquered where it came insomuch that the bare Fame of his approach frighted the French from the Siege of Burdeaux Being victorious for 24 years together success failed him at last charging the Enemy near Castilion on unequal termes where he was slain with a Shot July 17. 1453. The Victories of the English in France were buried with the Body of this Earl which lyes at White-Church in this County Whose Son Sir Jo. Talbot Visc Lisle in right of his Mother was slain with his Father who had advised him by an escape to reserve himself for future fortune but he craved to be excused and would not on any termes be perswaded to forsake his Father He surpassed Emilius the Roman General who being pressed with Hanibal's Forces was resolved to die and not come again under the Judgment of the People of Rome in that Sir Jo. was young unhurt and able to escape and in no wise answerable for the daies misfortune Aemilius old grievously wounded and accountable for the overthrow received Writers Rob. of Shrewsbury wrote the Life and Miracles of St. Winfride He flourished 1148. Dav. of Chirbury born in Chirbury a Carmelite and according to Leland a Famous Divine was made B. of Drummore in Ireland His Writings were either few or obscure He died and was buried at Ludlow 1420. Since the Reformation Rob. Langeland a Protestant in Judgment tho he lived 150 years before the general Reformation was born at Mortimer's Clibery bred a Priest and one of the first followers of Wickliffe wanting neither Wit nor Learning Witness his Book entituled The Vision of Pierce Plough-man highly commended by Mr. Selden He flourished under Edward 3. An. 1369. Th. Churchyard born in Shrewsbury about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth wrote a Book in Verse of the Worthiness of Wales taking in Shrop-shire He died about 11 Elizabeth 1570. His Epitaph being Come Alecto lend me thy Torch To find a Church-Yard in a Church-Porch Poverty and Poetry his Tomb doth enclose Wherefore good Neighbours be merry in Prose Th. Holland D. D. born in the Marches of Wales bred in and Rector of Exeter Colledge in Cambridge was so much addicted to Study that the Scholar in him almost devoured all other Relations and being well acquainted with the Fathers succeeded Dr. Lawr. Humphride in the place of Regius Professor His solemn Valediction of the Fellows when occasion was I commend you to the Love of God and to the hatred of Popery and Superstition His Extemporaries were often better than his premeditations He died 1612. and was buried in Oxford Abraham Whelock born in White-Church Parish Arabick Professor and Minister of St. Sepulchres in Cambridge admirable his knowledge in the Oriental Tongues amongst the Western he was well versed in the Saxon. Witness his Edition of Bede He translated the New Testament into Persian and printed it hoping that it might tend to the Conversion of that Country He died 1654. Benefactors to the Publick Sir Roger Achley born at Stanwardine was Mayor of London 1511. Observing that poor People who never have more than they need will sometimes need more than they have pepared Leaden-Hall the Common-Garner and stored up much Corn therein collecting from the present Plenty a relief against an ensuing Famine Since the Reformation Sir Rowland Hill born at Hodnet was a Mercer in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1549. He gave maintainance to a fair school at Drayton in thâ—s County which he built and endowed besides 600 l. to Christs-Church Hospital c. He forgave at his death all his Tenants in his mannors of Aldersey and Sponely a years Rent and enjoyned his Heirs to make them new Leases of 21 years for 2 years Rent He built two Bridges of stone containing 18 Arches in both besides Cawseys c He died 15 Sir Th. Adams Knight born at Wem bred a Draper in became Lord Mayor of London 164 A man who drank of the bitter waters of Meribah without making a bad face thereat He gave the House of his Nativity to be a Free-School with liberal endowment W. Adams Esq born at Newport bred a Haberdasher in London where he fined for Alderman founded a School-house in Newport with a Library and Lodgings for a Master and Usher the one having 60 l. the other 30 l. salary per An. with a Tarras on the top 2 Almshouses near to the School with competent maintainance On which School the following Verses were made Some Cottage-Schools are built so low The Muses there must groveling goe Here whilst Apollo's harp doth sound The sisters Nine may dance around And Architects may take from hence The Pattern of Magnificence Long may this Worthy person live to see his Intentions compleated Memorable Persons Th. Parre born at Alberbury lived above 150 years verifying his Anagram Th. Parre Most rare hap being born in the Reign of E. 4. 1483. he was 2 months before his death brought up by Th. Earl of Arundel a great Lover of Antiquities to Westminster He slept away most of his time and is thus Charactred by an eye witness of him From head to heel his body had all over A Quick-set thick-set natâ—ral hairy cover Change of Air and Diet tho to the better with the trouble of many Visitants are conceived to have accelerated his death which happened Westminster November 15. 1634. and was buried in the Abbey-Church all present at his burial doing homage to this our aged Th. de Temporibus Noted Sheriffs An. 9. Nich de Sandford This ancient Name is still extant in this County monarch R. 2 amongst those who compounded for their reputed delinquency in our late Civil Wars Fr. Sandford Esq paid 459. a Gentleman excellently skilled in Fortification Jo. Cornwall Mil. descended from Rich. Earl of Cornwall and King of the Almains monarch H. 4. was a man of prosperous Valour under Henry 5. in France He built a Fair House at Amp-hil in Bedford-shire He was created by King Henry 6. Baron of Fanhop and Knight of the Garter and faithfully adhered to that King after the Crown forsook him Continuing till the Raign of E. 4. he was by him dispossessed of his lands in Bedford of which he said pleasantly That not he but his fine House at Amp-hill was guilty of High Treason An. 1. Th. Mitton in obedience to the Kings Command monarch R. 3. apprehended the D. of Buckingham the grand Engineer to promote
Devotion with the pleasantness Wells to drive it with the solemnity thereof The West Front of Wells is a Master-piece of Art made of well proportioned imagery Vera Spirantia Signa As for the Civil Habitations in this County to pass by Dunstar Castle which hath a high Ascent and a goodly Prospect by Sea and Land Montague built by Sir Edward Philips Master of the Rolles is a most Magnificent Fabrick Hinton St. George the House of the Lord Paulet has every Stone in the Front shaped Doule-wayes in form of a Cart-nail and 't is said the owner thereof built it in a dear year on purpose to employ the more poor people thereupon The Wonder of this County is Wockey-hole in Mendip-Hills near Wells a Subterranean Concavity having spatious Vaults stony Walls creeping Labyrinths The water which incessantly dropped down from the Vault of the Rock was seen by some to turn to the Rock it self And the like transmutation is thought to be the Original of many Rocks As for Medicinal Waters Bath is well known the Waters whereof have much Bitumen soveraign against Obstructions Niter which strengthneth the operation of the former and Purgeth the Body of gross Humours and Sulphur which dries and is good for uterine effects Amongst the various Opinions concerning the heat of these Waters some do with great probability impute the same to the fermentation of several Minerals through which the Waters run The practice of taking the Waters inwardly in Broths c. beginneth to prevail The Right Honourable James Earl of Marleborough undertook to cover the Cross-Bath at his own cost and would others follow his Resolution it would effectually conduce to publick benefit and raise the credit of the place Proverbs I. Where should I be bore else then in Tanton deane A Peasant's bragg that place is indeed populous pleasant and so fruitful with the zun and zoil alone that it needs no manuring II. The Beggers of Bath Saints St. Dunstan born in and Abbot of Glassenbury was Bishop of London and Worcester Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and at last for his promoting of Monkery reputed a Saint He dyed 988. His skill in Smithery was so great that the Goldsmiths in London are Incorporated by the name of the Company of St. Dunstans See my Eccl. Hist Martyrs Jo. Hooper born in this County and bred in Oxford then beyond the Seas a great Scholar and Linguist was in the Reign of Edw. 6. Elected Bishop of Glocester but for a time scrupled the acceptance thereof as refusing the Oath of Supremacy which then enjoyned the receivers to a Conformity to the Kings Commands in what alterations soever he should afterwards make in Religion and also concluded with so help me God and all his Angels and Saints This was the occasion of the ensuing reforming of that Oath whilst the King dispensed with his present taking thereof He also scrupled the wearing of some Episcopal Habiliments but at last consented thereunto He held afterwards Worcester in Commendam with Glocester and having a double Dignity gave treble Diligence by Preaching Gods Word living piously and dying patiently being Martyred An. 1555. The only Native in this Shire who suffered for the Testimony of the Gospel Bishop Burn Bishop of Bath and Wells in the Reign of Q. Mary having persecuted no Protestants in his Diocess to death Prelates Joceline of Wells whereof he was Bishop He first changed the Stile of Bishop of Glaston used by his Predecessors into that of Bishop of Bath and Wells The Monks of Glassenbury purchased their exemption from his Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by parting with 4 fair Mannors to the See of Wells After his return from Exile for his obstinacy against King John he Beautified and Enriched the Cathedral Erected some new Prebends and to the use of the Chapter appropriated many Churches and gave 3 Mannors of great value to the Episcopal See He with Hugo Bishop of London was the joynt Founder of St. Jo. in Wells and on his own cost built two fair Chappels one at Wokey the other at Wells The Church of Wells was rather rebuilt then repaired by him He was Bishop 37 Years and Dyed 1242. His Effigies in Brass which was on his Tomb is since defaced Fulk of Samford was Treasurer of St. Pauls London and then by Papal-Bull declared Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1256. He dyed in his Mannor of Finglas 1271. and was Buried in the Church of St. Pat. whose Brother Jo. of Samford Dean of St. Pat. in Dublin and for a time Escheator of all Ireland was afterward chosen and by Edw. the 1st Confirm'd Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1284. For a time he was Chief Justice of Ireland and thence was sent with Anth. Bishop of Durham Ambassador to the Emperour whence returning he dyed in London 1294. his Body being carried over into Ireland was buried in St. Pat. Thomas Beckington born at Beckington bred in New-Colledge Dr. of the Laws and Dean of the Arches till by King Hen. 6. he was advanced Bishop of Bath and Wells He gave for his Rebus in allusion to his Name a burning Beacon to which he answered in his Nature being a burning and shining light He wrote a Book to prove the K. of England's Title to the Crown of France He spent 6000 Marks in repairing and adorning of his Palaces He was a Loyal Subject kind Kinsman and a good Master bequeathing 5 pound a piece to his Chief and 5 Marks a piece to his meaner Servants and 40 Shillings a piece to his Boys He was a Benefactor to Wells Church Winch. New Merton but chiefly Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford being little less than a second Founder thereof His Will was Confirmed under the Broad Seal of England He dyed 1464. Richard Fitz-James Dr. of Law was born at Redlinch of Ancient and Worshipful Extraction and bred at Mert. Coll. in Oxford where he built most Beautiful Lodgings repairing also St. Ma. in Oxford He was preferred successively Bishop of Rochester Chichester and London An excellent Scholar and Author of some Books not now Extant He was over busie with Fire and Faggot persecuting the poor servants of God in his Diocess He dyed 1512 and was buried in his Cathedral having contributed to the adorning thereof in a Chappel like Tomb of Timber since burnt down 1561 He was Brother to Fitz-James Lord Chief Justice Statesmen Sir Amias Poulet whose Grandfather put Cardinal Woolsey then but a School-Master in the Stocks was born at Hinton St. George He was Chancellour of the Garter Governour of Jersey and Gersney and Privy-Councellour to Q. Elizabeth who chiefly committed the keeping of Mary Q. of Scots to his fidelity He would not yield to Secretary Walsingham who moved him to suffer one of his servants to be bribed by the Agents of the Queen of Scots so to compass the better Intelligence He dyed 15. and was Buried in St. Martins in the Fields in London His Motto was Gardez la Foy keep your Faith or Allegiance Capital Judges Jo. Fitz-James born
at Redclinch of an Ancient Family was by Hen. 8. made Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench He sate one of the Assistants when Sir Thomas More was Arraigned for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and was shrewdly put to it to save his own Conscience and not incurr the Kings displeasure declaring himself upon demand in these words My Lords all by St. Gillian I must needs confess that if the Act of Parliament be not unlawful then the Indictment is not in my Conscience insufficient He dyed An. 30. Hen. 8. and his Family doth still flourish at Lewson in Dorsetshire Sir Jo. descended from his Brother Alured has strongly encouraged my weak Endeavours Jo. Portman Knight of Worshipful Extraction at Portmans-Orchard was An. 2. Mary made Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in which Office it seems he dyed A Baron of his Name and Lineage flourisheth at this day with a plentiful Estate Dav. Brook Knight born at Glassenbury Son to Jo. Brook Esq Serjeant at Law to Hen. 8. was an 1. Mary made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer He Married Katharine Daughter of Jo. Lord Chandois but dyed without Issue James Dier Knight born at Roundhill an 1. Elizabeth was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas continuing therein 24 years At the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk an 1572. This Judge declared that Duke could have no Councill assigned him for matter of Fact and that the Council of Humphry Stafford in the Reign of Hen. 7. which was pleaded by the Duke had been granted only as to point of Law His Reports evidence his great Abilities He dyed an 25. Eliz. though Married without Issue There is a house of a Baronet descended from his Elder Brother at great Stoughton in Hunt Sir Jo. Popham of most ancient descent was born at Huntworth when a Youth he was stout and well skilled at Sword and Buckler and wild enough in his Recreations Afterwards he applyed himself to a more profitable Fencing the Study of the Common Laws wherein he became Eminent He was preferred the Queens Attorney and afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England He deposed upon his Oath in open Court at the Tryal of the Earl of Essex an 1600. that he had been violently detained at the Earls house by his Military men there Assembled which some conceived tantamount to an Imprisonment Note the rarity of the Precedent He cut asunder the Knot of Northern Robbers and others with the Sword of Justice He represented effectually to King James the inconvenience of frequent Pardons He used exemplary severity against Male-Factors shunning the dangerous Rock of Cruel Mercy whereby the Lives of many Thousands were preserved He dyed 16. Souldiers Jo. Courcy Baron of Stoke-Courcy was the first Englishman who invaded and subdued Vlster in Ireland therefore Created Earl thereof He was afterwards surprized by Hugh Lacy corrival for his Title sent over into England and imprisoned by King John in the Tower of London Sometime after he was commanded by the King to fight a French man in decision of a Controversie about the Title of a French Castle the King of France being Present but the Monsieur being informed that Courcy was a monstrous Eater and concluding his Courage to be proportionable to his Stomach wisely declined the Combat The English Champion was fain to give proof of his strength another way in the presence of the two Kings sundring a Steel Helmet at one blow into two pieces and striking the Sword so deep into the Block whereon the Helmet lay that none but himself could pull it out again being observed to look sternly before and in the giving of the blow he was demanded why he looked so exceeding fierce Had I said he missed my blow I would have killed the Kings and all in the place This was in no wise displeasing to the Kings being highly in good humour both because they were confident Courcy now was not so ill natur'd as his words did import and also because the words appeared to be some necessary Evaporations of that violent Ferment of his Blood which had produced in him a propensity to give an Vniversal demonstration of his Strength by making the deepest Impression on the strongest Mettal or otherwise leaving no reserve of Spirits to actuate the Organs of his Speech for any Expression of his Allegiance at that time yet by that great Action he seems to have declared himself in a most eminent manner the Kings Man and to have antedated the performance of that Homage which the Lord Courcy Baron of Ringrom the second of Ireland was of course bound to do Hence it is that these Barons claimed a priviledge after their first Obeisance to be covered in the Kings Presence His Devotion was equal to his Valour being a great Founder and endower of Religious houses yet he turn'd the Church of the Holy Trinity in Down into the Church of St. Pat. for which 't is said he was condemned never to return into Ireland though attempting it 15 several times but repelled with soul weather He dyed in France about 1210. Math. Gournay was born at Stoke under Hambden where his Family hath flourished since the Conquest and there built both a Castle and a Colledge He was the Honour of his house In the Reign of Edw. 3. he fought at the Siege of Algier and Benemazin against the Saracens at Ingen Poictiers Sluce and Cressy against the French and at Nazaran under the Black Prince in Spain His Armour was beheld by Martial men with much civil veneration with whom his faithful Buckler was a Relique of esteem He dyed in Peace Aged 96 years about the beginning of Rich. 2. and was buried in the Church of Stoke Seamen Sir Amias Preston of an Ancient Family at Cricket an 88. seized on the Admiral of the Galiasses wherein the Governour with most of his Men were burnt or killed An. 1595 he took the Isle of Puerto Santo and the Isle of Cochi surprized the Fort and Town of Coro sack'd the City of St. Jago put to ransom the Town of Cumana and entred Jamaica all in the West-Indies and returned home safely He sent a Challenge to Sir Walter Raleigh then Privy Councellor which was by him refused Sir Walter having a Wife and Children and a fair Estate and Sir Amias being a private and single Person though of good Quality Besides Sir Walter condemned those for ill Honours where the Hangman gives the Garland These two Knights were afterwards reconciled and Sir Amias dyed about the beginning of the Reign of King James Writers Gildas the Wise was born in Bath He was also sirnamed the Querulous because the little we have of his Writing is only an Historical Complaint against the sins and sufferings of the Age he lived in calling the Clergy Mountains of Malice the Britans generally the Ink or stain of the Age. Dr. Gerard Vossius does by a mistake attribute the Comedy of Aulularia in Plautus to this Gildas He dyed about 570. Maurice Somerset born in Sommerset-shire
a Cistertian in Ford Abbey and bred in Oxford was Abbot of Wells Some Books he Dedicated to Reginald Bishop of Bath and flourished 1193. Alexander of Essebie the Prince of English Poets in his Age put our English Festivals into Verse and wrote the History of the Bible with the Lives of some Saints in an Heroick Poem He became Prior of Esseby-Abbey and flourished under Hen. 3. 1220. Adam of Marsh born probably at Brent-marsh was D. D. in Oxford Robert Grosthead and he joyntly compared the Scripture being afterwards Franciscan Frier in Worcester he furnished the Library thereof with excellent Manuscripts He flourished 1257. Hugo de Belsham his Corrival got the Bishoprick of Ely from him Since the Reformation H. Cuffe born at St. George Hinton was Fellow of Merton-Colledge in Oxford and Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom he engaged in his Rising an 1600. being Arraigned at Westminster he was cast 〈◊〉 being proved against him that whilst Essex was in Consultation with his Complices this Cuffe had for promoting that Plot alleadged this Verse out of Lucan Viribus utendum est quas fecimus Arma ferenti Omnia dat qui justa negat For which he suffered He wrote an excellent Book of the difference of the Ages of Man Jo. Harrington Knight had a fair Estate at Kelston near Bath was Master of St. John's Colledge and afterwards one of the most ingenious Poets of the English Nation witness his Translation of Orlando Furioso out of Italian c. Being at an Ordinary in Bath with some Gentlemen of greater Estates than himself the Maid that waited at Table attended him with a particular observance and being demanded the reason I understand said she you are a very witty man and if I should displease you in any thing I fear you would make an Epigram of me He made an Addition to Bishop Godwins Catalogue of Bishops He left a fair Estate to a Learned and Religious Son and dyed about the middle of the Reign of K. James His Father suffered Imprisonment and lost One Thousand Pound for carrying a Letter to the Lady afterward Queen Eliz. from whom his Mother was sequestred as an Heretick and all by Gardiner's means Samuel Daniel born near Taunton was an exquisite Poet and a Judicious Historian witness his Lives of the English Kings since the Conqueror untill Edw. 3. He was servant in Ordinary to Q. Anne In his old Age he rented a Farm in VVilt-shire and dyed about the end of K. James Humphrey Sidenham born at Dalverton of an Ancient and Worshipful Family was bred a Fellow in Wadham Colledge So eminent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongued Sidenham He wrote learned Sermons of which that called the Athenian Babler was most remarkable He dyed 1650. Romish Exile Writers Jo. Gibbon leaving the Land was by Pope Greg. 13. made Canon in the Church of Bonn he was afterwards Rector of the Jesuits-Colledge in Triers He wrote a Book in which he endeavoured to prove that the Pope was not Antichrist He dyed 1589. Rob. Person bred in Oxford whence he was expelled for his Viciousness went to Rome whence he returned with Campian to preserve this Nation 1589. Some of his own party offended with his ill-nature intended to resign him to the Queens Officers He was Satyrical and so much of a Politician as to provide for his own saftety who would look on direct give ground abet on other Mens hands but never plaid so as to adventure himself into England He wrote a shrewd Book of the Succession to the English Crown setting it forth under the Name of Dolman He had an Authoritative influence on all the English Catholicks He was 23 years Rector of the Colledge at Rome where he dyed 1610. Jo. Fen born at Montacute and Batchelour of the Laws in Oxford fled into Flanders thence into Italy whence returning he fixed at Lovain He wrote many and Translated more books and dyed 1613. Note there lived a rigid Non-Conformist of his Sirname about Coventry who in his latter Will and Testament rail'd against the Hierarchy Jo. Collington bred in Oxford was taken with Campian and Condemned but being Reprieved after some Travel he advanced his Religion in England for 30 years together He was alive 161◠Benefactors to the Publick The Lady Mohun obtained from her Husband Jo. Lord Mohun of Dunstor so much ground for the Commons of the Town of Dunstor as she could in one day compass about going on her naked Feet She dyed as is conjectured in the Reign of Hen. 5. Since the Reformation Nich. Wadham of Merrifieild Esq having great length in his Extraction breadth in his Estate and depth in his Liberality Marryed Dorothy Daughter to the Secretary Sister to the first Lord Peters His Hospital house was an Inn at all times a Court at Christmas This worthy Pair being Issuless Erected the Colledge of VVadham in Oxford His Estate after his Death descended to Strangwayes Windham VVhite c. He was buried in the Church of Ilminster Phil. Biss of a worthy Family at Spargrave Commenced D. D. in Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford and was Arch-Deacon of Taunton He bequeathed his Library consisting of so many Folio's as were valued at One Thousand Pound to VVadham-Colledge then newly Founded One Epitaph made on him begins Bis fuit hic natus c. in allusion to his Name He dyed about 1614. Memorable Persons Sir Jo. Champneis born at Chew bred Skinner in London and Lord Mayor thereof 1535. was the first private Man who in his house next Cloth-VVorkers-Hall built a Turret to oversee his Neighbours in the City which delight in his Eye was punished with blindness some years before his Death Tho. Coriat born at Odcombe and bred in Oxford A great Grecian carried Folly which the Charitable call Merriment in his Face and had a Head in form like an inverted Sugar-loaf He lay alwayes in his Cloaths to save both labour and charge in shifting Prince Henry allowed him a Pension and kept him for his Servant Sweet-meats and Coriat made up the last course at all Entertainments being the Courtiers Anvil to try their Wits upon sometimes he returned the Hammers as hard knocks as he received His Book called Coriat's Crudities is not altogether useless Being hardy he undertook to travel on foot to the East-Indies and dyed in the midst of his Journey Noted Sheriffs An. 14. Jo. Paulet Arm. an Accomplisht Gentleman monarch K. James and bountiful House-keeper was by King Charles I. Created Baron Paulet of Hinton St. George in this County whose Right Honourable Son and Heir Jo. Lord Paulet now succeedeth in that Barony Modern Battles The Skirmish at Martials-Elm 1642. made much noise in Mens Ears a Musket gave a greater report then a Canon since and is conceived to have first broken the Peace of the Nation As for the Encounter at Lang-Port where the Kings Forces under the Lord Goring were defeated July 12 1645 it was rather a Flight than
King Edw. 4. and lyeth buried under a fair Monument in the Cathedral of VVorcester Edmund Dudley Esq was Son to John Dudley Esq second Son to John Sutton first Baron of Dudley though he was slandered by some as being the Son of a Carpenter He Married the Daughter and Heir of the Visc Lisle Being bred in the Study of the Laws he was made one of Puisne Judges and wrote an excellent book Entitled the Tree of the Common VVealth He was employed by K. Henry 7. to put his Penal Statutes in Execution which he did with severity cruelty and extortion K. Henry 8. resigned this Dudley and Sir Richard Empson his Partner to Justice so that they were made a Peace-Offering to popular anger 1510 being Executed at Tower-Hill Sir Thomas Bromley Knight was an 1. Mary made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench holding his place hardly a year Souldiers Jo. Bromley Esq branched from the Bromleys in Shropshire was born at Bromley He recovered the English Standard which was taken by the French at the battle near Corby in France In reward of his Valour King Henry 5. whose Arms he had followed in France made him a Knight Batchelor Captain of Dampfront and great Constable of Bossevile le Ross in France and granted by Letters Patent 40 pounds in Land a year to him and his Heirs Hugh Stafford Lord Bourchier having on the same account conferred on him a yearly Pension of 40 pound during his life Sir John dyed about the middle of the Reign of Hen. 6. John Dudley Duke of Northumberland Son to Edward Dudley Esq and would willingly be reputed of this County a descendant from the Lord Dudley therein He was a proper wise and valiant Man and generally till his last project prosperous But he was also notoriously wanton intolerably ambitious a constant dissembler prodigiously profuse so that he had sunk his Estate had he not met with a seasonable support of Abbey-Land King Henry 8. first Knighted him then Created him Visc Lisle Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland Under Queen Mary he contrived the setling of the Crown on Queen Jane his Daughter in Law for which Treason he was Executed an 1. Mary much bemoaned by Martial Men whom he had formerly endeared in his good service in the French and Scotish Wars He left two Sons who survived to great Honour Ambrose Earl of Warwick Heir to all that was good and Robert Earl of Leicester Heir to all that was great in his Father The Bagnols or Bagenhalts were formerly a Family of such remark in this County that before the Reign of Hen. 8. there scarce passed an ancient Evidence which is not attested by one of that Name And having for a time sunk into a low condition was afterwards restored to their genuine Lustre when Ralph and Nicholas Sons to John Bagnol of Newcastle in this County were both Knighted for their good service the one in Mussleborough Field the other in Ireland Their Sons Samuel and Henry were for their Martial merit advanced to the same degree Seamen William Minors Son to Richard Gent. of Hallenbury-Hall was born at Vttoxater who afterwards coming to London became so prosperous a Mariner that he hath safely returned eleven times from the East-Indies and now peaceably enjoyeth what he painfully hath gotten living in or near Hartford at this present year 1660. Writers John Stafford a Franciscan born in Stafford wrote a Latine History of England about 1380. W. de Lichfield D. D. and Rector of All-hallowes the Great in Thames-street London a Learned and Godly Man wrote many Books one Entituled The complaint of God unto sinful men There were found in his Study after his death 3083 Sermons of his own Writing He dyed an 1447. and was buried in the Quire of his own Church Robert Whittington born at Lichfield was an indifferent but conceited Grammarian He coped with W. Lillie and others in comparison of whom he was but a crackling Thorn Since the Reformation Henry Stafford Baron of Stafford was Son to Edw. Duke of Buckingham beheaded under K. Hen. 8. The Barony descended unforfeited to this Henry placed here not as a trans but a Cis-Reformation-man for translating the Book of Dr. Fox Bishop of Hereford a favourer of Luther into English Of the difference of the Power Ecclesiastical and Secular He dyed 1558 some Months before the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Sampson Erderswik Esq born at Sandon of Ancient and Worshipful Extraction was a Gentleman accomplished with all Noble Qualities Affability Devotion and Learning Being a great Antiquary he began a description Eâ—tituled a View of Stafford-shire an 1â—93 which hath directed me in matters of difficulty relating to 〈◊〉 County He repaired and new glazed the Church of Sandon wherein he Erected a Monument for himself with his Statue in Stone and lyeth now Interred dying April 11 1603. Of him Mr. Cambden sayes Venerandae Antiquitatis fuit Cultor Maximus Thomas Allen descended from Allanus de Buckenhole Lord of Buckenhole in the Reign of Edw. 2. was bred in Glocester-Hall in Oxford a most excellent Mathematician where he succeeded to the skill and scandal of Frier Bacon as accounted a Conjurer He was much in favour with Robert Earl of Leicester His Writings are detained in some private hands He dyed towards the end of K. James Edward Leigh of Rushwel-Hall Esq alive wrote Critica Sacâ—a with many other worthy Works which will make his judicious Industry known to Posterity Elias Ashmole Esq alive born in Litchfield a great Antiquary Chymist Herauld Mathematician John Lightfoot D. D. alive hath deserved well of the Churches of England for his exact insight in Hebrew and Rabbinical Learning Romish Exile Writers W. Gifford an extract of the Family of Chillington was a man of much motion Being bred in Oxford he went over to Lovain where he became B. D. whence going to Paris he was highly prized by H. Duke of Guise who made him Arch-Bishop of Rhemes and the Cardinal his Brother who gave him a Pension of 200 Crowns a year He became afterwards Dean of St. Pet. the Isle in Rome then Rector of the University of Rhemes and at last a Benedictine at Delaware in Lorain He founded a Convent for English Monks at St. Mallower in France and another at Paris for those of the same Profession He was alive 1611. Benefactors to the Publick Sir Stephen Jennings Lord Mayor of London built a fair School at Wolver-Hampton Another being erected by Mr. Tho. Allen at Vtceter Martin Noel Esq born in Stafford bred Scrivener in London built and largely endowed an Hospital in the Town of his Nativity the first considerable Fabrick of that kind in this County Memorable Persons Tho. Tarlton born at Condover in Shropshire Here he was in the Field keeping his Fathers Swine when a Servant of Robert Earl of Leicester passing this way was so highly pleased with his odd Answers that he brought him to Court where he became the most famous Jester
Experience though of a corpulent Body especially in his old Age so that he would be not only out of breath but also almost out of life with going to Westminster-Hall to the Star-Chamber According to his Motto Mediocria Firma he never attained because he never affected any great Estate He was not for invidious Structures but delighted in Domo Domino Pari such as was his house at Gorhambury in Hartford And therefore when Q. Elizabeth coming thither in Progress told him My Lord your house is too little for you no Madam said he But it is your Highness hath made me too great for my house He left rather a good then a great Estate to his Posterity whose eldest Son Sir Edward was the first Baronet of England He dyed Feb. 20. 1578. and lyeth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls In a Word he was a good man a grave Statesman a Father to his Country and a Father to Sir Francis Bacon Sir W. Drury descended of a Worshipful Family long flourishing at Haulsted answered his name Drury in Sax. Pearle in the pretiousness of his disposition clear and hard innocent and valiant His Youth he spent in the French Wars his middle in Scotland and his Old Age in Ireland He was Knight Marshal of Barwick at what time the French had possessed themselves of the Castle of Edenburgh in the Minority of King James Queen Elizabeth employed this Sir Will. with 1500 to besiege the Castle which service he right worthily performed reducing it within few dayes to the true Owner thereof He was appointed Lord President of Munster 1575. where he executed impartial justice in spight of the Opposers thereof entring Kerry with a competent Train of 140 Men with which he forced his Return through 700 Men belonging to the Earl of Desmond who claimed Kerry as a Palatinate peculiarly belonging to himself In the last year of his Life he was made Lord Deputy of Ireland dying at Waterford 1598. Sir Robert Naunton was descended from an ancient Family extant at or before the time of the Conquerour who rewarded the Chief of that Name for his Service with a great Inheritrix given him in Marriage whose Lands were then estimated at 700 pounds a year For a long time they were Patrons of Alderton in this County Sir Robert was bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of the University 1600. He wrote in his Youth I conjecture an excellent piece called Fragmenta Regalia He was afterwards sworn Secretary of State to King James Jan. 8. 1617. which place he discharged with great ability and dexterity during which one Wiemark was called to an Account for saying the Head of Sir Waltar Raleigh beheaded that day would do very well on the Shoulders of Sir Robert Naunton and having alleadged in his own Justification that two heads were better than one he was for the present dismissed Afterwards Wiewark being with other wealthy persons called on for a Contribution to St. Pauls first subscribed 100 pounds at the Council Table but was glad to double it after Mr. Secretary had told him two hundred were better then one Sir Robert dyed 163. leaving one Daughter who first was Married to Paul Visc Banning and after to the Lord Herbert eldest Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke Capital Judges Jo. de Metingham Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in the Reign of Edw. 3. When all the rest of the Judges an 18. Edw. 3. were fined and outed for Corruption this Jo. and Elias de Beckingham continued in their places whose innocence was of proof against all Accusations King Edw. 3. an 20. reg directed a Writ to him about the stinting of the number of the Apprentices and Atturneys at Law to 140 or thereabouts according to the discretion of this Judge and his Assistants whereof a certain number were to be provided out of every County what may better avail for their Court and the good of the people of the Land Sir Jo. Cavendish Knight born at Cavendish in this County where his Name continued untill the Reign of King Henry 8. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench an 46. Edw. 3. He dyed a violent death an 5. Rich. 2. on this occasion J. Raw a Priest contemporary with J. Straw and Wat Tyler advanced Robert Westbroom a Clown to be King of the Commons in this County having 50000 followers These for eight dayes together in savage sport caused the Heads of great persons to be cut off and set on Poles to kiss and whisper in one anothers ears Chief Justice Cavendish chanced to be then in the Country to whom they bare a double pique for his Honesty and Learning Besides they had lately heard that Jo. Cavendish his Kinsman had killed their Idol Wat Tyler in Smithfield Whereupon they drag'd the Reverend Judge with Sir Jo. of Camb. Prior of Bury into the Market place there and beheaded them whose innocent blood remained not long unrevenged by Spencer the Warlike Bishop of Norwich by whom this Rascal Rabble of Rebels was routed and ruined 1381. Sir Robert Broke a great Lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the Reign of Q. Mary wrote an excellent Abridgement of the Law His Posterity still flourish in a Worshipful Equipage at Nacton nigh Ipswich in this County Souldiers Sir Th. Wentworth of Nettlested descended from the Wentworths in York-shire was Created Baron Wentw. by King Henry 8. He was a Valiant Gentleman a Cordial Protestant and his Family a Sanctuary of such Professors By his means Jo. Bale was converted from a Carmelite The Memory of this Lord is much but unjustly blemished because Calis was lost the last of Q. Mary under his Government the manner thus The English being secure by reason of their late Conquest at St. Quintin and the Duke of Guise having notice thereof sat down before the Town on new-New-years day Next day he took the Forts of Rise-bank and Newnam-Bridge which 't is suspected were betrayed Within three dayes the Castle of Calis which commanded the City and was under the command of Sir Ralph Chamberlain was taken the French being first repulsed back by Sir Anth. Ager the only Man of note who was killed in the Fight entred the City the next day being Twelfth day Then resistance being in vain the Lord Wentworth Deputy thereof was forced to take what terms he could get that the Townsmen should depart though plundered to a groat with their Lives and himself with 49 more should remain Prisoners to be put to ransom Queen Mary might thank her self for losing this Key of France because hanging it at her side with so slender a string there being but 500 Souldiers effectually in the Garrison The Lord Wentworth was condemned for High-Treason during his absence but Queen Mary soon after dying he was tryed and acquitted by his Peers in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth though Sir Jo. Harlston Governour of Rise-bank and Sir Ralph Chamberlain Governour of Calis-Castle were both condemned but their
Judgment was remitted This Lord played in a manner Rubbers when his Head lay at Stake and having lost the fore recovered the after-game He dyed very Aged 1590. Seamen Th. Cavendish of Trimley Esq intending forreign discoveries on his own cost Victualled and Furnished three Ships the least of Fleets viz. the Desire Admiral 120 Tuns the Content Vice-Admiral 40 and the Hugh-Gallant Rere-Admiral 40 Tuns all three man'd with 123 and setting to Sea from Plymouth July 21. 1586. Entring the mouth of the Magellan Straits 7 Jan. following where they suffered great hunger Mr. Cavendish named a Town there Port-Famine The Spaniards intending to fortifie the Straits and engross the passage were smitten with such a Mortality that scarce 5 of 500 did survive On Feb. 24. they entred the South Sea and frequently landed as they saw occasion Many their Conflicts with the Natives more with the Spaniards coming off gainers in most and savers in all encounters that at Quinterno excepted April 1. 1587. when they lost 12 men of aâ—â—ount the cause that they afterwards sunk the Rere-Admiral for want of Men to manage her Of the many prizes he took the St. Anne was the most considerable being the Spanish Admiral of the S. Sea of 700 Tuns and 190 Men. There were 122000 Pezos each worth 8 shillings of Gold with other Rich Lading as Silks and Musk. Mr. Cavendish landed the Spaniards and left them plentiful Provisions Surrounding the East-Indies and returning for England the Content whose Men were mutinous stayed behind Mr. Cavendish safely landing at Plymouth Sept. 9. 1588. Amongst his Men three most remarkable Mr. John Way their Preacher Mr. Th Fuller of Ipswich their Pilote and Mr. Fr. Pretty of Eyke in this County who wrote the History of their Voyage Thus having circumnavigated the whole Earth let his Ship be no longer termed the Desire but the Performance He was the third Man and second Englishman of such universal undertakings In his next Voyage begun 26 August 1591. he was severed from his Company the November following near Port-desire by him formerly so named in the Megellan-Straits and never seen or heard of afterwards Physicians W. Butler born at Ipswich was Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge where he became the Aesculapius of our Age. He was the first Englishâ—man who quickned Galenical Physick with a touch of Paracelsus Being excellent at the instant discovery of a cadaverous face at the first sight of sick Prince Henry he got himself out of the way knowing himself to be Prince of Physicians he would be observed accordingly Complements would prevail nothing with him intreaties but little surely threatnings would do much and a witty jeer would do any thing Neatness he neglected into slovenliness and accounted cuffs to be manacles He made his humoursomness to become him wherein some of his Profession have rather aped then imitated him who kept the tenour of the same surliness to all persons He was a good Benefactor to Clare-Hall and dyed 1621 he was buried in the Chancel of St. Maries in Cambridge leaving nothing to his only Brother because he had turned Papist beyond the Seas VVriters Humphrey Necton a Carmelite in Norw and the first D. D. of his Order in Cambridge flourished under Hen. 3. and Edw. 1. and dyed 1303. Jo. Horminger Travelling in Italy where he heard some Italians villifie England as being only fruitful of a barbarous people wrote in her defence an Epitome of the Commodities thereof and after his return Of the Profit and Pleasure of England He flourished 1310. Th. of Ely born in Monks-Ely was a Carmelite the second D. D. of his Order in Cambridge He travelled over the Seas and kept Lectures at Bruges in Flanders till his death about 1320. Rich. Lanham a Carm. in Ipswich and D. D. in Oxford was a great Adversary to the Wicklevites His Learning is attested by the Books he left to Posterity Some say he was beheaded by the Rebellious Crew of Wat Tyler others that he dyed a natural death at Bristol 1381. Jo. Kinyngham a Carm. in Ipswich then bred in Oxford was prefect of his Order in England and Ireland Confessor to Jo of Gaunt and his Lady He was the first who encountred Wickliffe in the Schools of Oxford and disputed with great ingenuity and modesty whereupon his good Antagonist praâ—ed heartily that his Judgment might be convinced He dyed 1399. and was buried at York Jo. Lydgate born at Lydgate was a Benedictine in St. Edmund Bury the best Author of his Age in Poetry and Prose He wrote of himself as follows I wear a habite of Perfection Although my Life agrees not with the same c. He dyed about 1444. and was buried in his own Convent Jo. Barningham born at Barningham was a Carm. in Ipswich and D. D. in Oxford and in Sorbon the Cock-pit of Controversies He had a subtile Wit and was a great Master of Defence in Schools both to guard and hit He wrote 4 fair Volumes He dyed 1448. Jo. of Bury an Augustinian in Clare and D. D. in Cambridge was Prov. of his Order through England and Ireland and a great Opposer of Wicklevites flourishing 1460. Th. Scroope born at Bradley but descended from the Lord Scroope in Yorkshire was a Benedictine a Carmelite in Norwich then an Anchorite 20 years afterwards by papal dispensation Bishop of Drummore in Ireland and at last an Anchorite again yet using once a Week to walk on his bare Feet and Preach the Decalogue in the Villages round about About 1425. being cloathed with Sackcloth and girt about with an Iron Chain he cry'd out in the Streets That new Jerusalem was shortly to come down c. Rev. 21. and that with great Joy he saw the same in the Spirit Th. Waldensis the great Anti-VVicklivite offended thereat protested it was a great scandal to the Church Scroop lived very nigh 100 years being accounted a Holy man He was buried at Leâ—â—offe 1491. Since the Reformation Rich. Sibs born nigh Sudbury was Fellow in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge afterwards Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn whence he was chosen Master of St. Kath. Hall in Cambridge which he found in a low condition but left replenished with Scholars beautified and better endowed He was most eminent for Christian humility Of all points of Divinity he most pressed that of Christs Incarnation or Humility the true Original whence he copied his own He dyed 1631. W. Alabaster born at Hadley was Fellow in Trin. Colledge in Cambridge a most rare Poet witness his Tragedy of Roxana so admireably Acted in that Colledge and so pathetically that a Gentlewoman present thereat at the hearing of the last words thereof Sequar Sequar so hideously pronounced fell distracted and never after recovered her Senses He was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex in Calis Voyage where he staggered in his Religion and afterwards turned Papist though he returned both to his Religion and Country where he was made Preb. of St. Pauls and
most delicious place within a mile of Warwick he wrote the Antiquities of Warwick a Chronicle of the English Kings and a History of the two Universities He was as good at his Pensil as Pen being an excellent Limner He dyed 1491. Since the Reformation W. Perkins born at Marston bred Fellow of Christs-Colledge became Preacher of St. Andrew in Cambridge See of him in my Holy State He dyed 1602. Tho. Drax D. D. born at Stonely and bred in Christs-Colledge in Cambridge was a pious Man and an excellent Preacher He Translated all the Works of Mr. Perkins into Latine He was beneficed nigh Harwich in Essex and dyed 1616. The Family of the Drax flourished a long time at Wood-hall in York-shire and after various Changes hath recovered and encreased its former lustre in Sir James Drax who hath merited much of the English Nation in bringing the Sugars and other Commodities of the Barbadoes to their perfection William Shakespeare born at Stratford was in some sort a Compound of three eminent Poets viz. Martial Ovid and Plautus the Comedian The two first were Charactered in a Verse made by Queen Elizabeth coming into a Grammar School Persius a Crab-staff Bawdy Martial Ovid a fine VVag. Though the Genius of this our Poet was jocular he could be solemn and serious when occasion required as appears by his Tragedies so that He aclitus himself might afford to smile at his Comedies and Democritus scarce forbear to sigh at his Tragedies His Learning being very little Nature seems to have practised her best Rules in his production Many were the witty Combates betwixt him and Benjamin Johnson who like a Spanish Gallion was built far higher in Learning solid but slow in his performances whilst Shakespeare like an English Man of War less in bulk but lighter in Sailing could turn with all Tides tack about and take advantage of all Winds by the quickness of his wit and invention He dyed 16. and was buried at Stratford Michael Drayton born at Athelston was a pious Poet a Temperate man and a good natured Companion He changed his Laurel for a Crown of Glory 1631. and was buried in Westminster-Abbey Sir Fulke Grevil Knight Son to Sir Fulke Senior of Becham Court was bred in Cambridge He came to Court back'd with a fair Estate in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth He was a good Scholar and a great Friend to Learned Men Bishop Overal chiefly owed his preferment to him and Mr. Cambden tasted largely of his Liberality His Studies were most in Poetry and History as his works do witness King James created him Baron Brook of Beauchamp-Court as descended from the sole Daughter and Heir of Edward VVilloughby the last Lord Brook He was murdered 16. by a discontented servant who conceiving himself not soon or well enough rewarded first wounded his Master mortally and afterwards dispatched himself He lyeth buried in Warwick Church under a fair Monument whereon he is styled Servant to Queen Elizabeth Councellour to King James and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney dying unmarried his Barony descended on his Kinsman Robert Grevil Lord Brook Father to the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brook Nich. Byfield bred in Queens Colledge in Oxford entring into the Ministery was invited into Ireland But being wind-bound at Chester and having preached there with great approbation he was chosen Minister in the City being afterwards informed that his going over to Ireland would have been labour in vain He maintained the strict observation of the Lords day against Mr. Breerwood He was afterwards Minister of Isleworth in Middlesex where he Preached for 15 years together twice every Lords day and expounded Scripture every Wednesday and Fryday He dyed of the Stone in his Bladder which being taken out after his death was weighed and measured being 33 ounces and more in length 13 inches and above in measure about the breadth almost 13 inches and about the edge 15 and ½ Being of solid substance to look upon like Flint He was buried at Isleworth Philemon Holland bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge a Doctor in Physick and fixed himself in Coventry He was the Translator General of his Age of whom one saith Holland with his Translations doth so fill us He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus Many of his Books he wrote with one Pen whereon he himself versifies With one sole Pen I writ this Book made of a Grey Goose Quill A Pen it was when I it took and a Pen I leave it still He Translated Cambden's Britannia with many excellent Additions and was himself Translated to a better Life 16 ... Francis Holyoake born at Whitacre was Minister of Southampton He set forth Rider's Dictionary and dyed 16 ... James Cranford born at Coventry and bred in Oxford was beneficed in Northampton-shire afterwards Minister of St. Christophers in London A learned and pious man and a painful Preacher of much Humility Moderation and Charity Having sadly sympathized with the Sufferings of Church and State he dyed 1657. Romish Exile Writers William Bishop Son probably to John a Protestant and Patron of Brails in this County went first to Rhemes then to Rome whence being sent back into England he was siezed on and committed by Secretary Walsingham to the Marshalsey After 3 years beâ—ng banished the Land he became a Doctor of Sorbon Afterwards he returned into England and for nine years laboured in the Popish Harvest And after another visit to his Holiness he returned to his Station till he was imprisoned at London At last being enlarged he went to Paris The Papists cry him up for a Glorious Confessor of the Popish Faith who if any goodness in him should also be a thankful Confessor of the Protestant Charity permitting him twice to depart Prison Benefactors to the Publick Hugh Clapton born at Stratford and bred a Mercer in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1491. built at Stratford a stately and long Stone Bridge of many Arches over the â—von many other Charities he bestowed and deceased 1496. Since the Reformation Hales Esquire sounded and endowed a fair Grammar School in Coventry the Priory of which he had purchased from King Henry 8. Jo. Lord Harrington born at Combe-Abbey was no less Pious then Noble He began the Fashion of a diary wherein he registred his daily failings Being a wise Accomptant he used that method of Christian Arithmetick in numbering his dayes with such exactness that it seems he had but one day to account for and repent of before his death He was a most bountiful Benefactor to Sidney-Colledge He dyed in his prime and unmarried being the last Male of that Honourable Family as one complains by way of Anagram Johannes Dominus Harringtonius insignis erat Ah! Vnus Honor Domi. He left his two Sisters his Heirs Lucy Married to Edward Earl of Bedford and Anne who by Sir Robert Chichester had a Daughter Anne married to Thomas Earl of Elgin and Mother to Robert Lord Bruce who is at this day Heir apparent to no
small part of the Lands but actually possessed of a large share of the Vertues of his great Uncle Memorable Persons Thomas Vnderhill Esquire was born at Neaher-Eatendon lived with his Wife 65 years having by her 13 Sons and 7 Daughters in Worshipful Equipage which was rendred illustrious by their Exemplary Hospitality She dyed in July and he in October following 1603. Noted Sheriffs Q. Eliz. An. 27. An. Shugburg Arm. The Sirname of the Family is right ancient in the place of their Name and Habitation giving for their Arms the Stones Astroites in Herauldry reduced to Mullets which they most resemble found within their Mannor K. James An. 2. Richard Verney Mil. hunted the Powder-Traytors taking desperate courses after the discovery of their Plot out of this into the next Shire of Worcester 16. Francis Leigh Mil. was Created Baron of Dunsmore and afterwards Earl of Chichester by King Charles I. His eldest Daughter and Heir was Married to Thomas Earl of Southampton his younger to George Villiers Visc Grandison K. Charles I. An. 12. Thomas Leigh Mil. was Created by Charles I. Baron of Stoneleigh in this County and he is happy in his Son Sir Thomas Leigh who undoubtedly will dignifie the Honour which descendeth unto him The Battle on October 3. 1642. The Fight at Edge-Hill was very terrible no fewer then Five Thousand Men slain upon the place the Prologue to a greater Slaughter if the dark night had not put an end to that dispute The Victory went on the Kings side who though he lost his General yet he kept the Field and possessed himself of the dead Bodies and not so only but he made his way open unto London and in his way forced Banbury Castle in the very sight as it were of the Earl of Essex who with his flying Army made all the hast he could towards the City that he might be there before the King to secure the Parliament The King afterwards entred triumphantly into Oxford with no fewer then 120 Colours taken in the Fight Yet here many of the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire fell with the Earl of Linsey their Country-man and had not some miscarriage happened here the Royalists had totally in all probability routed their Enemies WESTMORLAND WEstmorland hath Cumberland on the West and North Lancashire on the South Durham and York-shire on the East thereof Iâ— is in length from North to South 30 Miles and in breadth 24. The County is neither stored with Arable Grounds nor Pasturage the principal profit that the people of this County raise unto themselves is by Cloathing Speed mentions but one Religious House in this County though it has several Kirks As for Manufactures Kendal Cottons are famous all over England Note the Clothiers of Kendal were the first Founders of Sturbridge Fair. Proverbs I. Let Uter-Pendragon do what he can the River Eden will run as it ran Tradition reporteth that Vter-Pendragon designing to Fortifie the Castle of Pendragon in this County invited in vain the River Eden to forsake her old Channel The Proverb is applyable to such who offer a Rape to Nature by endeavouring to abrogate any of her Established Lawes to divert her course or invert her method Princes Katharine Daughter of Sir Thomas Par was born at Kendal-Castle which descended to her Father from the Brusses and Râ—sses of Werk She was first Married to John Nevil Lord Latimer and afterward to King Henry 8. She was a great Favourer of the Gospel and would earnestly argue for it Once politick Gardiner had almost got her into his Clutches had not Divine Providence delivered her Yet a Jesuit who was neither Confessor nor Privy-Councellour to the King tells us that the King intended if longer surviving to behead her for an Heretick She was afterwards Married to Sir Thomas Seymour Baron of Sudeley and Lord Admiral and dyed in Child-bed of a Daughter 1548. Cardinals Cristopher Bambridge born near Appleby was bred Doctor of Law in Queens Colledge in Oxford He was afterwards Dean of York Bishop of Durham and at last Arch-Bishop of York Being employed an Ambassadour to Rome he was an active instrument to procure King Henry 8. to take part with the Pope against Lewis King of France for which good service he was created Cardinal of St. Praxis A little after falling out with his Steward Rivaldus de Medena an Italian and caâ—eing him for his faults the Italian in short poysoneâ— him July 14. 1511. He was buried in the Hospital of the English at Rome Prelates Thomas Vipont descended of those ancient Barons who were Hereditary Lords of this County was by the Canons of Carlile elected their Bishop though King Henry 3. with great importunity why not Authority commended John Prior of Newbury to them He enjoyed his place but one year and dyed 1256. John de Kirby born at Kirkby Lansdale or Stephens was first Canon afterwards Bishop of Carlile 1332. He with the Assistance of Thomas Lucy and Robert Ogle persons of prime power in those parts fighting in an advantagious place utterly routed and ruined the Scots who invaded England with an Army of 30000 Men under the Conduct of William Douglas and had taken and burnt Carlile He dyed 1353. Thomas de Appleby was legally chosen Bishop of Carlile yet he durst not own the choice till he had obtained his Confirmation from the Court of Rome He was consecrated 1363 and deceased 1395. Robert de Appleby went over into Ireland and there became Prior of St. Peter near Trimme hence he was by the Pope preferred Bishop of Ossory in that Kingdom He dyed 1404. W. of Strickland descended of a right Worshipful Family was elected Bishop of Carlile yet Robert Read was by King Richard 2. and the Pope preferred to the place which affront Strickland bore with much moderation He was afterwards during a vacancy chosen again and Consecrated Bishop of Carlile 1400. For the Town of Perith in Cumberland he cut a passage from the Town into the River Petteril for the conveyance of Boatage into the Irish Sea He dyed 1419. Nich. Close born at Bibreke was one of the six Original Fellows whom King Henry 6. placed in his new Colledge Kings Colledge in Cambridge having committed the building of that house to his fidelity He was first Bishop of Carlile then of Lichfield where he dyed within a year after his Consecration viz. an 1453. Since the Reformation Hugh Coren was made by Queen Mary Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Ireland his Predecessor having been deprived for being married 'T is very observable that no person in that Kingdom suffered death for their Religion in Queen Maries dayes Indeed an 3. Mary a Pursevant was sent with a Commission into Ireland to impower some eminent persons to proceed with Fire and Faggot against poor Protestants On he went to Chester where his Hoste a Protestant having an inkling of the matter stole the Commission putting the Knave of Clubs in the room thereof Some weeks after he appeared before the
Queens Train and in effect justâ—ed with her for precedence so that what betwixt the Train of the Queen and long Gown of the Dutchess they raised so much dust at the Court as at last put out the eyes of both thâ—ir Husbands and occasioned their Execution The Lord Thomas an 154â— the Lord Edward an 154. These two Bullworks of the Kings safety being demolished D. Dudley had the advantage the more easily to practice the destruction of King Edward 6. as is vehemently suspected Sir Oliver St. John Knight Lord Grandison c. was born of an Ancient and Honourable Family whose prime Seat was at Lediard Tragoze in this County Being bred in the Wars from his Youth he was by King James appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and vigorously pursued the Principles of his Predecessors for the civilizing thereof and first advanced it to considerable profit to his Master and Ireland which was the Land of Ire or Broyles for 400 years did now become the Land of Concord Being recalled into England he lived for many years in great repute and dying without issue left his Honour to his Sisters Son by Sir Edward Villiers but the main of his Estate to his Brothers Son Sir Jo. St. John Knight and Barronet Sir James Ley Knight and Baronet a younger Son of Henry Esquire of great Ancestry who served King Henry 8. at the Seige of Bollen was born at Taâ—ant and bred in Brazen-Nose-College and having studied the Laws was by King James made Lord Chief Justice in Ireland and practised the Charge the King gave him at his departure not to build his Estate on the Ruins of a miserable Nation making a good progress in civilizing that people by the unpartial execution of Justice After he was recalled King James made him Atturney of the Court of Wards Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench an 18. Reg. Lord Treasurer of England an 22. Baron Ley of Ley in Devonshire the same year King Charles I created him Earl of Marleburg in this County an 1. Reg. and Lord President of the Council in which place he dyed 1629. He was a person of great Gravity Ability and Integrity and as the Caspian Sea is observed neither to ebb nor flow so his Mind did not rise nor fall but continued the same constancy in all conditions Sir Francis Cottington Knight was born near Meer and bred when a Youth under Sir Stafford He lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become him He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his Parts above his Learning his Experience above his Parts his Industry above his Experience and some will say his success above all so that at the last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron Hanworth in Middlesex and Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great Estate but what he got in few years he lost in fewer dayes since the Civil Wars when the Parliament made him one of the examples of their severity excluding him pardon but permitting his departure beyond the Seas where he dyed about the year 1650. Capital Judges Sir Nicholas Hide Knight was born at Warder in this County where his Father in right of his Wife had a long Lease of that Castle from the Family of the Arundels His Father I say descended from an Ancient Family in Cheshire a fortunate Gentleman in all his Children and more in his Grandchildren his younger Children among whom Sir Nicholas in Wealth and Honour exceeding the Heir of the Family Having studied the Laws he was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench February the 9 th 1626. discharging his Office with great integrity and dyed 1631. Souldiers Henry D'anvers second Son to Sir John and Dame Elizabeth Daughter and Co-heir to Nevil Lord Latimer was born at Dantsey 1573. being bred under the Prince of Orange he was made a Captain in the Wars of France and there Knighted for his good service under Henry 4. the then French King He was Lieutenant of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the Army in Ireland under Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Baron of Mountjoy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by King James he was made Baron of Dantsey and Peer of this Realm as also Lord President of Munster and Governour of Guernsey By King Charles I. he was created Earl of Danby Privy-Councellour and Knight of the Garter He dyed 1643. without Issue leaving his Estate to his Nephew Henry D'anvers Writers Oliver of Malmesbury a Benedictine being much addicted to Mathematicks and to judicial Astrology upon the appearing of a Comet foretold the destruction of the Inhabitants of this Land which fell out accordingly at the Norman Conquest 'T is said he essayed the famous experiment of flying and taking his rise from a Tower in Malmesbury made his way in the Air for one Furlong then fell down and brake both his Thighs Having written some Books of Astrology he dyed 1060 five years before the Norman Invasion W. Summerset of Malmesbury where he was Canter and Library Keeper wrote a History of the Saxon Kings and Bishops until his own time He dyed 1142. and was buried in Malmesbury Robert Canutus born at Cricklade or Greeklade where anciently Greek was professed became Chief of the Canons of St. Fridswith in Oxford Having made a Garland of the Flowers of Pliny's Natural History he Dedicated the Book to King Henry 2. He wrote also Comments on the greater part of the Old and New Testament and flourished 1170. Richard of the Devises antiently divided between the King and Bishop of Salisbury was a famous Benedictine in Winchester He wrote a History of the Reign of Richard 1. under whom he flourished and an Epitome of the British affairs He dyed about 1200. Godwin of Salisbury Chanter of that Church wrote a Book of Meditations flourishing about 1256. Jo. of Wilton Senior an Augustine Friar studied in Paris A subtle disputant wrote many Sermons on several occasions flourishing under Edward 2. 1310. Jo. of Wilton Junior a Benedictine Monk in Westminster was an Elegant Latinist He wrote Metrical Meditations in imitation of St. Bernard and a Book Entituled the Dial of Wisdom He flourished under King Edward 3. Jo. Chylmark born at Chylmark and bred in Oxford was a great Philosopher and Mathematician being the Archimedes of his Age. He wrote many Mathematical Tractates and flourished under King Richard 2. 1390. Thomas Wilton D. D was first Chancellor then Dean of St. Pauls in London He sided with the Bishops whom the Poor Friars taxed for their pomp for he knew well enough that the Accusers opened the Coffers of all the Treasure in the Land by Feminine Confessions and abusing the Key of Absolution He wrote a smart Book on this subject Whether Friars in Health and Begging be in the State of Perfection Since the Reformation William Horeman bred in Kings-Colledge in Cambridge became Vice-Provost of Eaton The most general Scholar of his Age. Having
3. Wherefore after his death he was Canonized by Pope Vrban the 4th As for their Report that the Wiches or Salt Pits in this County were miraculously procured by the Prayers of this Holy Man their unsavoury lie hath not a grain of probability to season it it appearing by antient Authors that Salt-water flowed there time out of Mind before sweet Milk was given by Mother or Nurse to this St. Richard Cardinals Jo. Cumin bred a Monk at Eversham in this County was by the Kings procurement chosen Arch-Bishop of Dublin and afterwards by Pope Lucius created Cardinal of St. Vellit in Italy Hugh of Evesham so applyed himself to the Study of Physick that he became the Phenix in that Faculty great was his skill in the Mathematicks and Astrology Having satisfied Pope Martin the 4th in some matters of great difficulty he was by his Holiness made Cardinal of St. Laurence 1280. Seven years after he was poysoned though Cicaonius to palliate the business said he dyed of the Plague Prelates Wulstan of Brandsford was Prior of Worcester and built a most beautiful Hall in his Convent Hence he was preferred Bishop of Worcester 1338. He was Verus Pontifex in the Grammatical Notation thereof building a fair Bridge at Brandsford over the River Teme He dyed 1349. Jo. Lowe an Augustine Friar in Wich was presented to St Asaph and afterwards made Bishop of Rochester He preserved many Manuscripts and bestowed them on the Magnificent Library which he furnished at St. Augustines in London which Library vanished away at the dissolution with the fine Steeple of that Church one person who shall be Nameless imbezelling both Books and Buildings to his private profit Edmund Bonner alias Savage was Son of Jo. Savage Priest Son to Sir Jo. Knight of the Garter and Privy Councellour to King Henry 7. His Mother Concubine to this Priest was sent out of Cheshire to cover her shame and lay down her Burden at Elmley in this County where this bouncing Babe Bonner was born Being Dr. of Laws he was employed by King Henry 8. in several Embassies beyond the Seas at which time he was Bonner was not Bonner being as yet meek and a great Cromwelite Not long after he was Consecrated Bishop of London Under King Edward 6. being deputed to Preach publickly concerning the Reformation his frigid and faint Expressions concerning the same occasioned his deprivation and Imprisonment Then it was when one jearingly saluted him Good morrow Bishop Quondam that Bonner as tartly returned Good morrow Knave semper Being restored under Queen Mary he caused the death of twice as many Martyrs as all the Bishops in England besides justly occasioning these Verses made upon him No Body speaking to Bonner All call thee Cruel and the Spunge of Blood But Bonner I say thou art mild and good Under Queen Elizabeth he was deprived and secured in his Castle I mean the Marshalsea in Southwark for as that Prison kept him from doing hurt to others it kept others from doing hurt to him being so Universally odious he had been stoned in the Streets if at Liberty The Oath being tendred to him by Horn then Bishop of Winchester he pleaded for himself that Horn was no lawful Bishop which occasioned the ensuing Parliament to confirm him and the rest of his Order to all purposes and intents After ten years Imprisonment he dyed 1569. and was buried in the Church-yard of St. George in Southwark But enough of this Herostratus who burnt so many living Temples of the Holy Ghost yet let me add one thing that being a very Corpulent Man a Constitution that argues rather a Plethorie then a Cacochymie or ill humour he seems by his cruelty to have done violence to his own disposition seeing the temper of the Mind commonly followes that of the Body But Quid non Religio potuit suadere Malorum Since the Reformation Jo. Watson born at Bengeworth was Prebendary then Dean and afterwards Bishop of Winchester 'T is said he being 60 years of Age proffered the Earl of Leicester 200 l. to be excused from the Bishoprick which the Queen understanding Nay then said she Watson shall have it he being more worthy thereof who will give 200 l. to decline then he who will give 2000 l. to attain it There were three Watsons Bishops in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Thomas of Lincoln our Jo. of Winchester and Anthony of Chichester He dyed 15. and was buried in the Church of St. Mary Overies Statesmen Sir Thomas Coventry Knight born at Croone was eldest Son to Sir Thomas Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. He was bred in and Treasurer of the Inner Temple 1618. Being first Attorney General to King James he was afterwards made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal November an 1. Car. I. by whom he was created an 4. Reg. Baron Coventry of Alesborough in this County He enjoyed the dignity of Lord Keeper fifteen years if it was not more proper to say that dignity enjoyed him This latter Age affording none better qualified for the place The Patent whereby he was created Baron makes mention of his most worthy Services to King James and King Charles I. his Prudence Courage Dexterity Integrity and Industry manifested towards the King and his Crown He dyed January 1639. before the Civil Wars Never Lord Keeper made fewer Orders which were afterwards reversed His being firmly grounded on the consent of the Parties Writers on the Law Sir Thomas Littleton Knight born in Frankley was Son of Thomas Wescot Esquire and Elizabeth Littleton his Wife and two great Kings had a great Sympathy to him who had an Antipathy each to other Henry 6. whose Serjeant he was and rode Judge of the Northern Circuit and Edward 4. who made him a Judge and in his Reign he rode the Northampton Circuit His Book of Tenures witnesseth his deep skill in the Laws and retains at this day an Authentical Reputation Insomuch that when in the Reign of King James it came in question upon a Demurrer in Law whether a Release to one Trespasser should be available or no to his Companion Sir Henry Hubbard and Judges Warberton Winch and Nicols his Companions gave judgment according to the opinion of our Littleton and openly said That they would not have his Case disputed or questioned He left three Families signally flourishing in this and the Neighbouring Counties of Stafford and Salop. This Judge and the Judicious Lord Coke who Commented on his Tenures were the two great Luminaries of the Law of England He dyed an 21. Edward 4. and lyeth buried in the Cathedral of Worcester See more of him in Stafford-shire Souldiers Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick born at the Mannor house of Salwape Jan. 28. 1381. was a person so redoubted for Martial Atchievments that Hercules his Labours found in him a real performance 1. Being hardly 22 years old an 5. Henry 4. at the Queens Coronation he Justed and Challenged all Comers 2. He bid Battle to
much Moderation At last he was Preacher at St. Magdalens Bermondsey being a solid Divine and a man made up of piety pity and patience He was visited with many and most acute diseases the Gout Stone and Ulcer in his Bladder and another in his Kidneys His Liberality knew no bottom but an empty Purse so bountiful he was to all in want He dyed 1654. and was buried in his own Parish All I shall add is this distick Whites ambo Whitehead Whitgift Whitakerus uterque Vulnera Romano quanta dedere Papae Romish Exile Writers Jo. Young was Fellow of St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge at first a parcel-Protestant Translating into English the Book of Arch-Bishop Cranmer of the Sacrament he became a zealous Papist and great Antagonist of Mart. Bucer and an able disputant He was Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge 1554 Master of Pemb. Hall Professor of Divinity and Rector of Landbeach nigh Cambridge but lost all his preferment an 1. Elizabeth being deprived and imprisoned He dyed 1579. Jo. Mush bred in the English-Colledge at Doway and in Rome whence returning into England he fished for Proselytes for 20 years together being for some considerable time imprisoned at last he procured his Enlargement In his time happened the Schisme betwixt the Jesuits and Priests which threatned Ruine to the Church of Rome Mush went to Rome about it and was very instrumental in Composing of those differences Returning into England he was assistant to the English Arch-Priest He wrote among other books Vitam Martyrium D. Margaretâ— Clithoreae Whether D. be for Domina or Diva Lady or Saint I know not I take her for some Gentlewoman in the North who for some practices in maintenance of her Religion became obnoxious to the severity of the English Law He lived 1612. Benefactors to the Publick Thomas Scot born at Rotheram which he assumed for his Name was Fellow of Kings-Colledge afterwards Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge and Chancellour of the University He built on his proper cost saving something helped by the Scholars the fair Gate of the School with fair Walks on each side and a Library on the East thereof This Thomas having felt the sharp tusks of the Boar when imprisoned by King Richard 3. for resigning the Great Seal of England to Queen Elizabeth the Relict of King Edward 4. he advanced that Kings Crest being the Boar on the aforesaid Gate meerly to ingratiate himself He was successively Provost of Beverly Bishop of Rochester Lincoln and lastly Arch Bishop of York Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellour of England Many were his Benefactions to the Publick of which none more remarkable then his founding 5 Fellowships in Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford He dyed at Cawood of the Plague 1500. Jo. Alcocke born at Beverly where he built a Chappel and Founded a Chantry for his Parents was D. D. in Cambridge and became Bishop of Ely and was preferred Lord Chancellour of England by King Henry 7. He turned the old Nunnery of St. Radegund Founded by Malcolm King of Scotland into a New Colledge called Jesus in Cambridge He was a Learned and Pious Man deceasing 1500. Since the Reformation Mr. Harrison of Leeds built a new Church in that Town the old one being too small for the numerous Parishoners Memorable Persons Paulinus de Leeds was so far from buying a Bishoprick that when a Bishoprick bought him he refused to accept it King Henry offering him the Bishoprick of Carlile with an Addition of 300 Marks to the yearly Revenue which he refused He flourished 1186. W. de la Pole born at Ravensford for Wealth and Skill in Merchandize inferiour to none in England resided at Kingston upon Hull He lent King Edward 3. many thousands of pounds in recompence whereof the King made him Valect i. e. Gent. of the Bed-Chamber and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer c. giving him the Precedency and Honour of a Knight Banneret though he was not made in the Field with the usual Ceremony He dyed about 1350. Noted Sheriffs Edward 2. An. 9. Simon Ward the Male line of his ancient Family expired in Sir Christopher Ward Standard bearer to King Henry 8. at Bolleign He lived at Grindal leaving three Daughters Married to the Families of Strickland Musgrave and Osborn Edward 3. An. 17. Thomas de Rokeby was twice 1351 and 1355 Lord Justice of Ireland He in part extirpated the damnable Custom of Coigne and Livery in that Kingdom whereby the Commander in Chief extorted from the people Horse-meat Mans meat and Money at pleasure without any satisfaction for the same This Custom was begun in the time of King Edward 2. by Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond In reference to which this Rokeby used to say that he would eat in Wooden dishes but would pay for his Meat Gold and Silver Henry 4. An. 8. Thomas Rokeby Junior Mil. overcame and took by the sole assistance of this Shire Prisoners Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Barldolfe who began War against the King Henry 5. An. 8. Halvatheus Maulever Mil. had his Sirname in Latine Malus Leporarius from his unskilfulness in hunting of the Hare Henry 6. An. 11. Henry Bromfleet Mil. was sent the year following with other Ambassadours to the Council of Basil and returning was created Lord Vescy in the right of his Mother And though in his Patent that Title was entailed on his Heir-Males only yet Margaret his sole Daughter and Heir Married to Jo. Lord Clifford Father to Henry first Earl of Northumberland of that Sirname derived the Barony into that Family which at this day they enjoy 22. Edmund Talbot Mil. though not related to the house of Shrewsbury was of a Family of ancient extraction ever since King Henry 2. He was Father to Sir Thomas one very zealous for the House of York and a servant to King Richard 3. who bestowed an Annuity of 40 pounds per Annum on him A Branch of these Talbots are removed into Lancashire and from those in York-shire Col. Thomas Talbot is descended Edward 4. Henry Vavasor Mil. It is observed of this Family that they never Married an Heir or buried their Wives The place of their habitation is called Hasel-Woâ—d out of which Mannor the stones were taken that built St. Maries Abbey in York Henry 8. An. 2. Radulphus Eure alias Evers Mil. was created Baron and Lord Warden of the Marches towards Scotland where he gave signal demonstrations of his Fidelity and Valour in resisting and opposing the Scots From him the present Lord Evers is descended 5. William Piercy Mil. was probably of the Family of the Piercy's-Hays whose ancient possession was Riton hard by the River Rhidals 23. Nicholas Fairfax Mil. the Sirname signifying Fair Hair had for his Motto Fare Fac Say Doe His Namesake Sir Nicholas of Bullingbrook was Knight of the Rhodes in the Reign of King Edward 4. being Charactred Cavaliero molto spiritoso e Prudente Q. Mary An. 3. Christopher Metcalfe Mil. attended on