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
Of them was Privy-Councellor to four Sir Th. Smith Knight born in Abbington bred in the University of Oxf. God and himself raised him to the Eminency he attained unto unbefriended with any Extraction Emulating Sir Th. Smith Senior Secretary of State he had equalled him in Preferment if not prevented by Death This Sir Thomas was Master of the Requests and Secretary to King James He died Nov. 28. 1609. and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex under a Monument erected by his Lady Frances Daughter to William Lord Chandes and since the Countess of Exeter Souldiers Henry Vmpton Knight born at Wadley in this County was Son to Sir Edward Vmpton by Anne the Relick of Jo. Dudley Earl of Warwick and eldest Daughter of Edward Seymor D. of Somerset He was employed by Queen Elizabeth Ambassadour into France where in the Month of May An. 1592. being sensible of some injury offered by the D. of Guise to the Honour of the Queen of England he sent him this Challenge Forasmuch as lately in the Lodging of my Lord Du Mayne and in Publick elsewhere impudently indiscreetly and over boldly you spoke boldly of my Soveraign whose sacred Person here in this County I represent To maintain both by Word and Weapon her Honour which never was called in Question by people of Honesty and Vertue I say you have wickedly lyed by speaking so basely of my Soveraign and you shall do nothing else but lye whensoever you shall dare to tax her Honour Moreover that her Sacred Person being one of the most Complete and Vertuous Princess that lives in this World ought not to be evil spoken of by the Tongue of such a perfidious Traitor to her Law and Country as you are And hereupon I defie you and Challenge your Person to mine with such manner of Arms as you shall like or choose be it either on Horse-back or on Foot Nor would I have you to think any inequality of Person between us I being issued of as great a Race and Noble House everyway as your self So assigning me an indifferent place I will there maintain my Words and the Lie which I gave you and which you should not endure if you have any Courage at all in you If you consent not to meet me hereupon I will hold you and cause you to be generally held for the arrantest Coward and most slanderous Slave that lives in all France I expect your Answer I find not what Answer was returned This Sir Henry dying in the French Kings Camp before Lofear and his Corps brought over was buried in Farrington Church July 8. 1596. He had allowed him a Barrons Heirs because dying Ambassadour Leigier Writers Hugh of Reading quitted his Expectances of a fair Estate and embraced a Monastical life till at last he became Abbot of Reading He is highly commended by the Learned and writ a Book of Questions fetcht from the Scripture Roger of Windsor Chanter of the Convent of S. Albans was the Kings Historian He flourished An. Dom. 1235. Robert Rich Son to Edward and Mabel his Wife Brother of S. Edmund Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was born at Abbington in this County He wrote a Book of the Life Death and Miracles of his Brother and died about the year of our Lord 1250. Richard of Wallingford a Black-Smith's Son was bred at Merton-Colledge in Oxford a Monk at last Abbot of S. Albans where being a good Mathematician especially as to the Mechanick part thereof he made a Clock with much Pain more Cost and most Art Being a Calender as well as Clock shewing the Fixed Stars and Planets the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea c. but my Author did not inform me if the Canonical hours were mark't on the Clock He died An. Dom. 1326. Since the Reformation Henry Bullock probably born in this County where his Name appears in a Worshipful Estate He was bred a Fellow and Doctor of Divinity in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge a general Scholar familiar with Erasmus calling him Bovillum in his Epistles to him At Cardinal Wolsey's instance he wrote against Luther tho otherwise his Affections were biased to the Protestant Party When he died is unknown Will. Twis born at Spene an ancient Roman City bred at New-Colledge in Oxford and there became a General Scholar Good at plain Preaching better at Disputing and best in Living He became Preacher in Spinhamlands Towards his Death he was slighted by Sectaries it being usual for New-lights to neglect those who have born the heat of the Day His Latin Works speak him able in Controversie He was Moderate Prolocutor in the Assembly of Divines And dying in Holborn he was buried at Westminster An. Dom. 164 Will. Lyford born at Peysmer and bred at Magdalen-Coll in Oxf. Proceeded there Batchelour of Divinity 1631. He was also Fellow of that Foundation He was troubled in Conscience for having Resigned his place for Money to his Successour but before his Death he made Restitution He had a comely Countenance and modest Mind a Courteous Carriage and meek Spirit He was afterwards Preacher at Shirburn in Dorsetshire and tho both Pious and Painful he had his share of Obloquie from such factious Persons as could not abide the wholsome Words of sound Doctrine He dyed about 1652 tho his Memory lives in his Learned Works Romish Exile Writers Th. Hyde born at Newbury bred Master of Art in New-Coll in Oxf. was made Canon of Winchester and chief Master of the School there He with Jo. Martial about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. went beyond the Seas This Hyde is Charactered by one of his own profession to be A Man of upright Life of great Gravity and Severity He wrote a Book of Consolation to his Fellow Exile and dyed An. Dom. 1597. Benefactors to the Publick Alfrede the fourth Son to King Athelwolf born at Wantage An excellent Scholar tho he was past 12 years of Age before he knew one Letter He was a Curious Poet an Excellent Musician a valiant and successful Souldier fighting seven Battles against the Danes in one year at last Conquered them and reduced them to the Profession of Christianity He gave the first Institution or according to others the best Instauration to the University of Oxford A Prince who cannot be Painted to the Life without his Loss no Words reaching his Worth He divided 1. every natural day as to himself into 3 parts viz. 8 hours for his Devotion and 8 for Business and the remainder for Sleep and Refection 2. His Revenues into 3 parts one for War a second for his Court and the third for Pious uses 3. His Land into 32 Shires 4. His Subjects into Hundreds and Tithings consisting of 10 Persons mutually Pledges for their Good Behaviour He left Learning where he found Ignorance Justice where he found Oppression and Peace where he found Destraction And having Reigned 34 years he dyed and was buried at Winchester An. 901. He loved Religion more then
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
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
of Th. E. of Rutland Then the Stone Tower built by William Lord Hastings at Ashby de la Zouch hath something Monarchical in Height Strength and Workmanship above the ordinary Aristocracy of Fabricks Also the Fair Palace built at Broadgate by Th. Grey Marq. of Dorset challengeth the preheminence above the rest As for Wonders There is a Village in this County called Charleton Curly and all that are born therein have an harsh and ratling kind of Speech and cannot well pronounce the Letter R. Which in all probability proceeds from a peculiar Intemperature of the Elements in that place There was a Fellow of Trin. Coll. likely a Native of Charleton composed a Speech of competent length without any R therein which he could not pronounce his Speech having no Room for ERROURS seeing there was an errour in his Speech Proverbs 1. Bean-belly Leicester-shire for Plenty 'T is a merry saying Shake a Leicester-shire Yeoman by the Collar and you shall hear the Beans rattle in his Belly tho at the same time they may have good Silver ringing in their Pockets 2. If Bever have a Cap You Churles of the Vale look to that That is when Clouds hang over Bever-Castle it is a signe of much Rain c. Princes Jane Grey eldest Daughter of Hen. D. of Suff. by Fr. Bandon eldest Daughter to Mary second Sister to K. Hen. 8. was born at Broadgate near Leicester She lived many pious but few pleasant days whose Soul was never out of the Non-age of Afflictions till death made her of full years to inherit Happiness Whilst a Child her Father 's was to her an House of Correction nor did she write Woman sooner than she did subscribe Wife and in obedience to her Parents was unfortunately matched to the Lord Guilford Dudley a pious Gentleman but Son to an Ambitious Father She was Proclaimed but never Crowned Queen living in the Tower longer a Captive than a Queen Her Family by snatching at a Crown which â—as not lost a Coronet which was their own She suffered on Tower-hill 1554 5 Feb. 12. Kath. Grey 2 d. Daughter to Henry D. of Suffolk was married to the Lord Herbert Son to the Earl of Pembroke who knowing the Case altered with that Family brake the Marriage quite off Thus she became a Heraclita or Lady of Lamentation The Roses of whose cheeks looked very wan and pale tho they wanted not for watering Afterward Ed. Seymour E. of Hertford married her privately without the Queens Licence and concealed it till her pregnancy discovered it The English Proverb It is good to be near a Kin to land holdeth in private Patrimonies not Titles to Crowns Q. Elizabeth beheld her with a jealous eye unwilling she should match either Forreign Prince English Peer or any person whatsoever The E. of Hartford being fined 15000 l. was imprisoned with his Lady in the Tower and severely forbidden her company By bribing the Keeper he bought what was his own his Wives Embraces and had by her a surviving Son Edw. Ancestor to the Right Honorable the D. of Som. She died Jan. 26. a Prisoner in the Tower 1567 after 9 years Durance therein Whose Sister Mary Grey the Youngest Frighted with the infelicity of her two elder Sisters forgot her Honour to remember her Safety and married one whom She could love and none need fear Martin Kayes of Kent Esq Serjeant Porter and died without Issue 20 Ap. 1578. Martyrs Hugh Latimer born at Thurcaston in his first Sermon before King Ed. 6. declared his own Pedigree to this effect My Father was a Yeoman who had a Farm of 3 or 4l a year kept 100 Sheep and six Servants and my Mother milked 30 Kine He did find the King an HARNESS which I remember I buckled on with himself and his Horse when he went to Black-heath field He kept me to School or else I had not been able to Preach before the King's Majesty now He married my Sisters with 5l a piece so that he brought them up in Godliness and the fear of God He kept Hospitality for poor Neighbours and some alms and all this did he of the same Farm where he that now hath it payeth 16l p. an and more and is not able to do any thing for his Prince for himself nor for his Children or give a cup of Drink to the Poor He was bred in Cambridg and converted under God by Mr. Bliney from a violent Papist to a zealous Protestant He was afterwards made Bishop of Worc. and 4 years after outed for refusing to subscribe the 6. Art He onely of the Bishops of the new Learning in the time of H. 8. urged that two Abbeys at the least in every Diocess of considerable Revenues might be preserved for the maintenance of Learned Men therein And swiming a good while against the stream he was at last carried away with the Current He was Martyred at Oxford 1555. Prelates Gilb. Segrave born at Segrave and bred in Oxford succeeded a Kinsman who on his death-Bed recommended him in the Provost's place of St. Sepulâ—hers in York and afterwards was Bishop of Londdon He died 1317. Walt. de Langton born at West-Langton made by E. 1. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and Treas of English He lost the Favor of E. 2. for reproving him when as yet but Prince for his debauchery and tho he never wholly regained that Princes good Will 't is said the surplusage of the People's affection to him did fill up that blank Prodigious his bounty in building and endowing his Cathedral He died 1321 and was buried in the Chappel of St. Ma. of his own erection Rog. de Martival Son of Sir Aukitell Mar. whose Arms were Ar. a cinque-foil S. was born at Nowsley He was First Arch-Deacon of Leic. then Dean of Linc. and at last Bishop of Salisbury in the Reign of E. 2. 1315. He was the last heir male of his Race and Founded a Colledge at Nowsley for a Warden and certain Brethren His Estate descended to Joyce-de Mart. his Sister married to Sir Ralph Hastings lineal Ancestor to the now Earl of Hunt and the Hazleriggs are at this day Possessors of the Mannor of Newsley He died 1329. Rob. Wivil well descended born at Stanton Wivil was made Bishop of Salisbury 1329. tho both a Dunce and a Dwarfe He impleaded William Montague E. of Salisbury in a Writ of Right for the Castle of Salisbury and it had been tried by a Combat of their two Champions had not the King interposed and ordered that the Bishop should pay 2500 marks for the quiet Possession of the Castle Since the Reformation Joseph Hall born at Ashby de la Zouch and bred in Em. Colledg in Cambridg maintained there with a Flourishing wit That the World groweth Old He was Minister at Halsted in Suffolk where his Little Catechisme did much good He became D. D. and was at the Synod of Dort and was preferred first Dean of Worc. then Bishop of Ex. then of Norwich then of
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
are Assessors with the Popes Priests who are Assistants and Deacons Qui serviunt Servo Servorum Dei who are Attendants on his Holiness The Bishops are seven viz. Bishop of 1 Hostia 2 Sabine 3 Porto 4 Alba 5 Preneste in which three last places these Englishmen respectively have been Bishops viz. R. Kilwardby Nic. Breakspeare Bernar. Anglicus and Sim. Langham 6 Rufine 7 Tusculane Cardinal Priests are accounted twenty eight amongst whom Steph. Langhton was Card. of St. Chrysogon An. 1212. Tho. Woolsey of St. Cecily 1515. John Morton of St. Anastasia 1493. Will. Alan of St. Martin in the Mount 1587. Ancherus 1261 and Chr. Bambridge 1511 of St. Praxis Boso of St. Crosses Jerusalem 1156. Rob. Curson 1211 and Rob. Summercote 1234 of St. Steph. in Mount Celius Th. Bourchier of St. Cyriacus in the Baths Rob. Pullen of St. Eusebius 1144. Boso of St. Puntiana 1160. John Fisher of St. Vitalis 1535. Of Cardinal Deacons there are sixteen whereof Boso was the only Englishman and Card. of St. Cosmus and Damian Their habit is Scarlet Pope Paul II. made it Penal for any beneath their Order in Rome to wear a Red hat The Cardinal-Bishops took place of the Emperour before his Coronation and of other Kings The Popes were to be chosen by and out of that Order The Cardinal-Deacons were oftentimes elected to the Popedom before the Cardinal-Priests There is at this day a Brother of the late Duke of Norfolk enjoys the Title and Dignity of Cardinal 'T is alledged by some that Englishmen being of a different Religion from his Holiness and in a manner exiles abroad and not furnished with sufficient Estates are therefore seldom honoured with that Dignity which has been fatal to several Englishmen for Card. Mackelsfield was buried four Months before his Cap was brought him Card. Sertor died in Italy in the juncture of time inter pileum Datum Susceptum Card. Fisher when his Cap was come to Calis had his head strucK off at Tower-Hill Card. Somercot was Poysoned in the Conclave to prevent his Election to the Popedom Card. Evosham was sent the same way on the same occasion Card. Bambridge was Poisoned at Rome by one of his Servants being an Italian As for Prelates the Catalogue shall begin about the time of King H. 3. And continue to the 1. El. CHAP. V. Since the Reformation SUch Prelates are the same with the last mentioned in Title but not in Tenure in Dignity tho not in Doctrine holding their Places of the King and professing the Protestant Religion these Hundred and thirty years Amongst these many are allowed even by Malice it self for their Living Preaching and Writing to have been the Champions of Truth and Vnity verifying the Observation of Forreigners That the Clergy of Brittain is the Glory of the World These Prelats we digest in five Companies under their respective Arch-Bishops 1 Arch-Bishop Cranmer's 2 Arch-Bishop Parker's 3 Arch-Bishop Whitgift's 4. Arch-Bishop Abbot's 5. Arch-Bishop Juxton's whose Chairs were shaken in the late Troubles I know the Man to whom Mr. Charles Herle President of the Assembly said somewhat insultingly I tell you news last Night I buried a Bishop dashing more at his Profession then Person in Westminster Abby to whom the other replyed Sure you buried him in hope of Resurrection CHAP. VI. Of States-men UNder this head I intend to Write of those who have been by their Princes Favor preferred to the Offices and Dignities of Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer of England Lord Admiral of England Secretary of State to whom some Lord Deputies of Ireland are added The word Chancellour is derived by some à Cancellendo from Cancelling things amiss and mitigating the rigour of the Common Law by the Rules of Equity The Chancellour is the highest Officer of the Land and his Jurisdiction is either ordinary in the exercise of which he is to proceed according to the Laws and Customs of the Realm or Extraordinay and as to this he proceeds Secundùm Aequum Bonum in the Court of Conscience where three things are to be judged Covin Accident and Breach of Confidence Cook Jurisd of Courts He also keeps the Great Seal As for the Antiquity of the Office King Ethelred appointed the Abbot of Elye Quatenus Ecclesiam de Elye extunc et semper in Regis Curia Cancellarii ageret Dignitatem which albeit it was void in Law to grant the Chancellourship in Succession yet it proveth that then there was a Court of Chancery The Lord Keeper is in effect the same with the Lord Chancellour save that some will have the Lord Chancellors Place ad terminum Vitae and the Lord Keepers ad placitum Regis Sure it is that because Nicholas Heath late Arch-Bishop of York and Chancellour of England was still alive tho outed of his Office Sir Nich. Bacon was made Lord Keeper and in his time the Power of the Keeper was made equal with the Authority of the Chancellour by Act of Parliament The Catalogue begins with Sir Tho. Moor before whom Clergy-Men were Chancellours and these are entered under the Title of Eminent Prelats As for the Lord Treasurer His Office was ever beheld as a Place of great Charge and Profit One well skill'd in the Perquisits thereof said The value of the place was worth some thousands of Pounds to him who after Death would go instantly to Heaven twice as much to him who would go to Purgatory and a Nemo scit to him who would adventure to go to a worse place The Catalogue begins at Will. Lord Paulet Marquess of Winchester because before him Clergy-Men generally enjoyed the Dignity As to Secretaries of State there are two of them Principal Secretary and the Secretary of State the first for Forraign the other for Domestick business as some would have it their Salaries were in the late Kings time some two hundred Pounds a Piece and five hundred Pounds apiece for Intelligence and secret Service the Catalogue begins with Th. Cromwel in the reign of H. 8. Lord Admiral follows the Original of which word is Amir in Arabick a Prince and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek belonging to the Sea the Occasion of the composition of the two Languages seems to be the extent of the Sultans Dominions in the time of the Holy War from Sinus Arabicus to the North Eastern part of the Midland-Sea where a Barbarous kind of Greek was spoken and we do not mend the matter in pronouncing Admiral for Amiral There was a Triumvirate of Admirals for the North South and West The Jurisdiction of the first reached from the Mouth of the Thames to the outmost Orcades and had Yarmouth for his prime residence The second from the Thames Mouth to the Lands end his station at Portsmouth The third from the Lands end to the Hebrides his station Milford Haven Rich. Fitz Allen Earl of Arundel was made the first Admiral of all England John Vere Earl of Oxford was 1. H. 7 Admiral of England and kept
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
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
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
He looks as if he had lived on Tewksbury Mustard It is spoken of such who have a severe or sad Countenance V. The Tracies have always wind in their Faces Founded on a false Tradition since Sir Will. Tracy was most active against four Knights who killed Th. Becket it is imposed on Tracies for Miraculous Penance that whither they go by Land or Water the Wind is ever on their Faces Saints Kenelme Son of Kenwolfe King of Mercia at 7 years of Age succeeded his Father but was shortly after killed by Quenrid his Sister and that Murder was wonderfully discovered if the Legend be true by a Dove that carried in Parchment notice thereof to Rome As for Quenrid when her Eyes fell out they Bloodied her Primer whilst her Brothers Corps was Solemnly buried at Winchcomb and had in holy Veneration Martyrs Jo. Baynham Esquire a Lawyer and a true Lover of the Gospel was by Sir Th. Moores Order whipt at a Tree in Chelsey then cruelly Rackt in the Tower in his sight after which he abjured But Recanting his Recantation he was after much cruel usage Burnt in Smithfield Prelates Tideman de Winchcomb was made by R. 2. Abbot of Benle Bishop of Landaff then of Worcester He was also the Kings Physician having a Plurality of Cures both in Number and Kind Jo. Chedworth Bishop of Lincoln was joyned in Commission by King Hen. 6. with the Bishop of Winch. to Regulate the Statutes of Eaton and Kings Colledges in Camb. He dyed An. 1471. Jo. Carpenter born at Westbury was Bishop of Worcester He could not procure to himself the Title of Bishop of Worcester and Westbury He dyed 1475. Th. Ruthal born in Chichester was made by King Hen. 7. Bishop of Durham and by H. 8. Privy Councellour He was grossly mistaken when in stead of a Breviate of the State of England which he had drawn up he presented H. 8. with his own Estate amounting to an invidious Sum viz. of 100000 l. his Enemy Card. Woolsey glad at the mistake told the King he knew now where a Mass of Money was in case he needed it This broke Ruthal's Heart who had paid the third part of the cost of making the Bridge of New-Castle over Tyne and intended many more Benefactions had not Death 1523 on this occasion surprised him Since the Reformation Edw. Fox born in Duresley was Almoner to King Hen. 8. He first brought Dr. Cranmer to the knowledge of the King He was afterwards Bishop of Hereford and was the Principal Pillar of the Reformation as to the Managery of the Politick part thereof Of the many Books he wrote that De differentiâ utriusque Potestatis was his Master-piece He was employed on several Embassies into France and Germany and dyed An. 1538. States-men Sir Ralph Butler Knight of the Garter and Lord Sudeley in this County was Lord Treasurer of Engl. He built Sudley-Castle the strongest and best Habitation of a Subject in Engl. Being Summoned by E. 4. and suspecting imprisonment he said It is thou Sudeley and not I that am a Traytor And so resigned the same into the Kings hands to procure his Liberty Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Anth. Fitz Herbert Justice of the Com. Pleas V. Derb. Edw. Trotman born at Cam. wrote an Abridgement of Sir Edw. Coke's Reports his Endeavours being well esteemed by the Learned in that Profession He was buried in the Temple-Church 1643. Souldiers Sir Will. Tracy of Todington a Gent. of high Birth State and Stomach much in favour with King Hen. 2. was the forwardest of the four Knights who killed Thomas Becket He had large Possessions in Dev. His intended Pilgrimages to Jerus for Penance were ever crossed with advers Winds He dyed An. 1180. Seamen Will. Winter Knight and Vice-Adm of Engl. assaulted the Fort of French in the Island of Inchkeith in Edenburgh Frith An. 1559. He with Sir Th. Smith demanded the Restitution of Calis 1567. He conducted a great Treasurer of the Genoa Merchants safely into the Netherlands in despite of the French opposing him 1568. He with Rob. Beale was sent into Zealand to demand the Restitution of some English Ships 1576. He did signal Service when the Sp. Fleet was fallen towards the Coast of Zealand 1588. Lidney-house the Seat of the Family had produced many more Mariners happy in Sea-Voyages Writers Osbern Claudian of Glouc. where he was a Benedictine Monk a Learned and Facetious Man wrote a Comment on the Pentateuch and on the Incarnation Nativity c. of Christ besides his Pan-Ormia and others Rob. of Glou. where he was a Monk was a Rhymer but good Historian flourishing under Hen. 2. and King Jo. 1200. Alan Abbot of Teuxbury was intimate with Th. Becket after whose decease he with three other of Becket's Evangelists wrote the History of his Mock-passion and Miracles He flourished under King Jo. An. 1200. Alex. of Hales as he followed Pet. Lombard so he did lead Th. Aquinas and other Schoolmen He was the first that wrote a Comment on the Sentences called the Sum of Divinity at the Instance of Pope Innoc 4. For his Services he had the Title of Doctor Irrefragabilis He dyed An. Dom. 1245. and was buried in Paris Th. de la More well descended was famous in Peace and War and brought honour out of Scotland on his Swords point being Knighted by E. 4 for his Valiant and Fortunate Service therein He wrote the Manner of Deposition of E. 2. to whom he bore a most Loyal Affection and did the best Service he could on that Fatal occasion He flourished An. 1326. Th. of Hales a Minorite promoted the Fabulous point of Purgatory with other Popish Positions under E. 3. 1340. Th. Neale born at Yate and bred in Oxf. where he was Prof. of Hebrew dedicated his Translation of some Rabbins to Card. Pole He was a Man of fearful Nature yet constant to the Rom. Persuasion being Chaplain to Bishop Bonner Papists admire him for his rare Judgment and Protestants for his strange Invention in first â—eigning Math. Parkers Consecration at the Nags-head in Cheapside He lived in Oxf. 1576. Since the Reformation Rich. Tracy Esquire born at Todington was Son to Sir Will. the Confessor to whose Zeal he succeeded and wrote in the defence thereof several Treatises in English amongst which was Preparations to the Cross He wrote Prophetically before the Reign of Queen Mary Note that An. 1626. there was amongst others a Treatise called A Preparation to the Cross found in the Belly of a Cod which was sold at Camb. Of which these Verses were written If Fishes thus do bring us Books then we May hope to equal Bodleys Library Yet after that some found the Cross in Camb. Sir Th. Overbury Knight born at Borton on the Hill and bred in Oxf. hath given a Proof of his Accomplishments in Poetry and Prose He was the first Writer of Characters in Engl. so far as I have observed He lost the favour of the Earl of Som.
born in Verulam was Martyred under Dioclesian An. 303. Note that there grows good Liquoras on the ruinous Walls of that City Popes Nicholas Son to Rob. Breakspear born at Abbots-Langley was Lay-brother in the Abbey of St. Albans He was afterwards Pope of Rome by the Name of Adrian 4. having recommended himself to the Chair by his converting the Norwegians He was Choakt with a Fly 1158. Whose Nephew Boso was made Cardinal 1155. Prelates Richard de Ware al. Warren was made Abbot of Westminster 1260 and afterwards Treasurer of England to E. 1. He made that Pavement at Westminster which is a Master-piece of Art He died 1283. Ralph Baldock wrote a History of England and was made B. of London by E. 1. He gave above 200 l to repair the East part of St. Pauls where upon clearing the Foundation there were a great number of Heads of Oxen found which probably had been sacrificed to Diana He died 1313. Jo. Barnet was made B. of Worc. then translated to Bath and Wells hence to Ely and was Lord Treasurer of England He died 1373. Th. Rudburn was Chancellour of the University of Oxf. 1420. A great Scholar and Mathematician His mildness procured him the Love of persons of Honour He built a Tower over the Gate of Merton Coll. He wrote a Chron. of England and was B. of St. Dav. He flourished 1419. Statesmen Sir Edw. Waterhouse Knight born at Helmsted-bury of an ancient Family since the time of H. 3. His Father was Auditor to H. 8. who foretold that this Edward when but a Child would be the Crown of all his Fathers Children and a Man of great Honour and Wisdom fit for the Service of Princes And accordingly he grew in the Favour of great Persons and Knowledge of the Affairs of State Walt. Devereux E. of Essex lying on his death-Bed said to him Oh my Ned farewell thou art the faithfullest and friendliest Gentleman that ever I knew Sir Jo. Perrot Dep. of Ireland would do nothing in State-Affairs without him He was afterwards in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Knighted then made Privy-Councellor for Ireland and Chancellor of the Exchequer therein Where he was highly instrumental in modelling the Shires as they now are He boldly signed the Instrument wherein the Earl of Desmond was proclaimed Traitor when other Privy-Councellours dreading the Earls greatness durst not do the same He died at Wood-Church 1591. leaving no Issue Henry Cary Visc of Faulkland in Scotland was born at Aldnam A most accomplished Gentleman and compleat Courtier He was made by K. James Dep. of Ireland He married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Bar. of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxf. He died 1620. Souldiers Sir Henry Cary was made by Q. Elizabeth Lord Chamb. Baron of Hunsden He said to his Servants when they had drawn their Swords in his Quarrel against one Mr. Colt You Rogues may not I and my Neighbour change a Blow but you must interpose His custom in Swearing and Obscenity in Speech tho it may induce some of the Modern improvers of such Liberal Arts to Swear He was a fine Gentleman yet it made him seem a worse Christian than he was and a better Knight of the Carpet then he could be He might have been with the Queen whatsoever he would himself but would be no more then what he was preferring enough above a Feast in that Nature He was a Man of great Candour Loyalty and Courage The first Northern Commotion was suppressed by him after which the Queen sent him a Congratulatory Letter in which she highly commended his Wisdom Valour and Fidelity When he lay on his death-Bed the Queen was pleased to give him a Visit and caused a Patent for the Earldom of Wiltshire be drawn up and the Robes to be made and both to be laid upon his Bed But this Lord whose Dissimulation was as his Latine Madam said he seeing you counted me not worthy of this Honour whilst I was living I count my self unworthy of it now I am dying He deceased 1596. and lyeth buried in Westminster-Abbey being the direct Ancestor to the Earls of Dover and Monmouth Physicians Jo. Giles born at St. Albans was Physician to Philip K. of France then D. D. and the first English Dominican Rob. Grosthead B. of Linc. lying on his death-Bed sent for him and expected double comfort from him He died 1253. Writers Alex. Nequam was born in St. Albans to the Abbot of which he wrote for Admission Si vis veniam Sin autem tu autem To whom the Abbot return'd Si vis venias Si Nequam nequaquam One Philip accosts Nequam thus Et niger nequam cum sis cognomine Nequam Nigrior esse potes Nequior esse nequis To whom Nequam rejoyn'd Phi nota faetoris lippus malus omnibus horis Phi malus Lippus totus malus ergò Philippus Yet Nequam was Miraculum ingenii He was Canon of Exeter and lyes buried at Worcester William of Ware was Instructor to Jo. Duns Scotus He flourished under H. 3. 1270. Jo. Mandevile Knight born at St. Albans wrote his own Wonderful Itinerary through Afric c. He was wont to say of that Age Virtue is gone the Church is despised the Clergy doe err the Devil reigns and Simon is his Deputy He died 1370. Nicholas Gorham a Dominican bred in Merton Colledge in Oxford spent his life in France He commented almost on all the Scriptures He died at Paris 1400. Jo. Whethamstead was Abbot of St. Albans in the adorning of which Church he spent above 6000 pounds On the North side of the Church he set up the Statues of those Heathen Philosophers who had testified of the Incarnation of Christ Having written above 80 Treatises he died 1440. Jo. Bourchier Baron Berners of an Honourable Family whose ancient Seat was Tharfield in this County For his good Service in mauling Michael Joseph the Black-smith leader of the Cornish Rebells against K. Henry 7. 1496 he was made Chief Governour of Calis He translated many and wrote some Books He was the second Author the Lord Tiptoft being the first since the decay of Learning He died 1532. 'T is said the Berners Estate is descended to the Knyvets in Norf. Since the Reformation Th. Cartwright of St. Jo. Coll. in Cambridge whence he fled in Q. Maries time was Marg. Professor in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth He was the Champion of the Presbyterian Party He died An. 1603. Arthur Capel Esquire of Hadham was by Charles 1. created Baron 1641. After the surrender of Oxford he retired to his House from whence he went to Colchester His Loyalty to his Master was proof against all Batteries and Sollicitations of his Enemies He was beheaded 1648. Undaunted on the Scaffold Hence one alluding to his Arms a Lyon Ramp in a field G. betwixt 3 Crosses made these following Lines Thus Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a field of blood He wrote a
the Nation and advantage of the Protestant Religion Those Vseful Instruments remaining in safer Custody will serve upon occasion to pair the Nails if not to cut the Fingers of Sanctified Ambition From this Library Secretaries of State c. have recovered lost Originals This Sir Robert was a Man of publick Spirit it being his principal endeavour in all Parliaments wherein he served so often that the Prerogative and Priviledge might run in their due Channel and in truth he did cleave the Pin betwixt the Soveraign and the Subject He was wont to say that He had the least share in himself whilst his Country and Friends had the greatest Interest in him He died at his House in Westminster May 6. An. 1631. Aet 61. Tho one may truly say his Age was adequate to the continuance of the Creation Such was his exact Skill in all Antiquity By Eliz. Daughter and Coheir of William Brocas Esquire he had only one Son Sir Th. now living who by Margaret Daughter to the Lord Will. Howard Grand-child to Th. D. of Norf. hath one Son Ja. Cotton Esquire and 2 Daughters Lucie and Frances The Posthume Works of this Worthy Knight are lately set forth to the great profit of Posterity Steph. Marshall born at God-Manchester and bred in Eman. Coll. in Camb. was Minister at Finchfield in Ess and after long discontinuance B. D. in Camb. To the long Parliament he was in their Fasts and Preaching their Trumpet in their Sickness their Confessor in their Assembly their Councellour in their Treaties their Chaplain and in their Disputations their Champion He was of so supple a Soul that he brake not a joynt yea sprained not a Sinew in all the alteration of Times and his Friends put all on the account not of his unconstancy but Prudence who in his own Practice as they conceive reconciled the various Lections of St. Pauls Precept Rom. 12.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serving the Lord and the times He is said on his death Bed to have given full satisfaction to such who formerly suspected his sincerity to the Presbyterian Discipline dying An. 1655. He was buried in the Abbey of Westm Exile Romish Writers Rich. Broughton born at Great Steuckley bred and made Priest at Rhemes in Fr. was afterward in England made Assistant to the English Arch-Priest in propagation of the Roman Catholick Cause He wrote an English Ecclesiastical Hist from the first planting of the Gospel to the coming in of the Saxons He was living in the latter end of K. James Benefactors Ambrose Nicholas born at Needenworth Salter then Lord Mayor in London 1576. founded 12 Alm-houses in Mungwel-Street with competent maintenance Sir Wolstan Dixie born at Catworth Skinner then Lord Mayor in London 1585. gave 600 l. to Eman. Coll. in Camb. to the founding of a Fellowship erected a Free-School at Bosworth in Leic. and endowed it where his Family flourish at this day in worshipfull Estate Rich. Fishbourn Gent. born in Hunt gave 2000 l. for the buying of Impropriations in the North and setling a preaching Ministery where most want thereof he bequeathed as much to the Company of Mercers and the same sum to Huntington with 1000 Marks to Christ-Church Hosp He professed on his death-Bed that to his Knowledge he had got no part of his goods unjustly having got it in the Service of Sir Baptist Hicks after Visc Cambden Memorable Persons Sir Oliver Cromwell Knight Son to Sir Hen. Knight of Hinching Brooke gave K. James and his Court a prodigious entertainment He was an upright dealer Sir Jo. Leamon Lord Mayor of London having bought the fair Mannor of Warboise of him affirmed that it was the cheapest Land that ever he bought and yet the dearest that ever Sir Oliver sold None that bought of him was ever put to a three pence Charge to make good his Title He was very Loyal always beholding the Vsurpation and Tyranny of Nephew and Name-sake with Hatred and Contempt He died 1654. Kent KEnt a Kingdom in the Sax. Heptarchie hath the Thames on the N. the Sea on the E. and S. Surrey and Sussex on the W. in length 53 Miles and in breadth 26. A considerable part of the County is called Weald that is Wood-land Ground the Inhabitants whereof are called Wealdish Men. The general goodness of the Soyl may be gathered from the greatness of the Kentish breed of Cattle The natural Commodities are Cherries first planted here by K. Hen. 8. Saintfoine or Holy Hay a great Fertilizer of Barren Ground Trouts at Forditch Weld or Wold a Seed sown with Barley and peeping out of the Earth when this is cut The use of it is to dy the best Yellow Then Madder for making Reds and Violets whereof there are Crop-Madder betwixt 4 and 5 l. the Hundred Vmber owe between 3 and 4 l. and Pipe or fat-Madder about 1 l. 10 s. It was some 2 years since sown by Sir Nich. Crisp at Debâ—ford The next is Flax the best in England The Manufactures are Cloth in great credit Thread at Maidston As for Buildings the Cathedral of Rochester hath a venerable aspect of Antiquity The Kings Palaces here are 3. viz. 1. Greenwich affording a most pleasant Prospect 2. Eltham not altogether so wholsome and 3 Otford which Arch-bishop Warham did so enlarge and adorn that Cranmer his Successor was in some sort forced to exchange it with H. 8. on no gainful Conditions Cobham the House of the late D. of Richmond and the fair Mansion House of Sir Edward Hales Baronet when finished will carry away the credit from all the Buildings in this County A Wonderful Accident hapned Aug. 4. 1585 in the Hamlet of Mottingham in a Field belonging to Sir Percival Hart. Betimes in the Morning the Ground began to sink 3 great Elm Trees were suddenly swallowed into the Pit and before 10 of the clock no part of them could be discerned the Concave being suddenly filled with Water The Hole was above 50 Fathoms deep Ten yards distance from that place there was another piece of ground sunk in like manner Of Ships the most best and biggest are built at Woolwich and Winter near Chattam The great SOVERAIGN built at Dulwich a Lieger Ship for State is the greatest Ship our Island ever saw I am informed that the Mystery of Shipwrights for some discents hath been preserved successively in Families of whom the Pets about Chattam are of singular regard Queen Eliz. erected a Navy-Royal continued and encreased by her Successors of the best Ships ever Europe beheld whereas before her time our Kings hired Vessels from Hamburgh Lubeck and Genoa The Model of our great Ships primitively were our own and we have improved the Patterns of those Frigots that were taken from the Dunkerkers in the daies of the D. of Buck. Lord Admiral 2 of which still survive in his Majesties Navy by the Name of Providence and Expedition The Navy-Royal exceeds all other Kingdomes and States in Europe for 1. Swiftness 2. Strength
Piggs i.e. Scholar of that School in London then bred in Cambridge was Almoner to Henry 8. and by him preferred Bishop first of Roch. then of Worc. deprived by Edward 6. restored by Queen Mary who advanced him Arch-Bishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England A moderate Man yet infected with the Popish Bishops he refused the Oath of Supremacy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth for which he was deprived He led a pious Life on his own Lands at Cobham in Surry whither Queen Elizabeth came often to visit him He died about 1566. Since the Reformation Jo. Young D. D. was born in Cheapside and bred in Cambridge was Bishop of Rochester and refused the See of Norwich saying It was not so easie for an old man since the Cushion was taken away from it Meaning since Dr. Scambler had scambled away the Revenues thereof He died An. 1605 and lyeth buried at Bromly Church in Kent Will. Cotton D. D. born in London bred in Cambrigde was made B. of Exeter Nov. 12. 1598. during his sitting there Mr. Snape came out of Gersey and plentifully sowed the seeds of Non-conformity in his Diocess which the Vigilancy of this Prelate seasonably plucked up Being enfeebled with the Apoplexy which deprived him of his Speech some days before his death so that he could only say Amen Amen he was rendred obnoxious to this malicious cavil That he lived like a Bishop and dyed like a Clark He died 1621. and was buried in the Quire of Exeter Lancelot Andrews D D. bred in Cambridge was an unimitable Preacher of whom Bishop Felton said I had almost marr'd my own natural Trot by endeavouring to imitate his artificial Amble See my Eccl. Hist He died 1626. Th. Dove D. D. was made by Q. Eliz. Dean of Norwich An. 1589 then Bishop of Peterborough 1101. He died 1630 having raised his Family to a Knightly degree Jo. Howson bred in Oxf. was made B. of Oxford 1619. His Book of Divorce with his Sermons agaist Popery and his Stating of the Popes Supremacy in 4 Sermons to clear himself from the Imputation of Popery have made him Famous to all Posterity Being translated to Durham he died 1631 and was buried in St. Paul's London Jo. Davenant D. D. Son to Jo. of Davenant Lands in Essex was Master of Q. Colledge in Cambridge He gave his Negative voice at an Election against a Kinsman Cosen said he I will satisfie your Father that you have Worth but not Want enough to be one of our Society Returning from the Synod of Dort he was elected B. of Sarum 1621. Praefuit qui Profuit was the Motto written in most of his Books He was humble in himself and charitable to others Being invited by B. Field and not pleased with some roisting Company he embraced the next opportunity of departure When B. Field proffered to light him with a Candle down Stairs My Lord said he let us lighten others by our unblameable Conversation He was a Man of great Candour and Sincerity who hated Flattery from his Child-hood He dyed 1641 and was buried in his own Cathedral Math. Wren was bred in Cambridge where at an Extraord Philof Act. before K. Ja. he noted the Prerogative of the King's Hounds by vertue whereof they could lawfully do that for which other Dogs were beaten He preached a Sermon on Amoz 5.24 let Judgment run down like Waters a little before the Draining of the Fens suspected detrimentalto the University He was B. of Norwich and Ely He was imprisoned by the Long Parliament almost 15 years and his Cause never heard He died 1661. Statesmen Sir Th. More Son to Sir Jo. one of the Justices of the K. Bench was bred in Oxford He became Barrister and Judge in the Sheriff of London's Court and never took a Fee from the Poor or Widow c. Being Member of the House of Commons he obstructed H. 7. about Money for the Marriage of his Daughter Marg. a Courtier telling the K. that a Beardless Boy had obstructed his desires K. Hen. 8. coming to the Crown Knighted him and made him Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster then Lord Chancellor of England He demeaned himself with great Integrity Refusing a complyance about the Queens Divorce he resigned his Place It was against his Mind that any should suffer for their Consciences He rather soiled his Fingers than dirted his Hands in the matter of the Holy Maid of Kent He used to say that his Natural Temper was so tender that he could not endure a Philip yet he suffered 16 Months Imprisonment for refusing the Oath of Supremacy When the Lieutenant of the Tower told him he was sorry his Commons were no better I like said Sir Th. your diet very well and if I dislike it I pray turn me out of Doors He was beheaded 153. He left but 100 l. per An. Estate having perfectly hated Covetousness as appears by his refusing of 4 or 5000 l. offered him by the Clergy Of his Latine Books Vtopia is the most considerable His Daugh. Marg. for all Learning and Languagues the Miracle of her Age was for her secresie entrusted by her Father with his most important Affairs Erasmus hath dedicated some Epistles to her Being well red in the Fathers she mended a depraved Place in St. Cyprian nisi vos sinceritatis making it Nervos Sinceritatis She translated Eusebius out of Greek which because done before was not Printed She bought her Fathers Head and kept it for a Relique till she was Questioned before the Council for the same Th. Wriothesley Knight of the Garter was bred in Cambridge He became an Eminent Lawyer He was by Henry 8. created Baron of Tichborne 1543 and a year after Chancellor of England From which Place being afterwards removed by Edward 6. he was created Earl of Southampton He died 1550 and lyes buried at St. Andrews in Holbourn William Paget Knight Privy Councellor to 4 successive Princes King Henry 8. made him Secretary and employed him Ambassador to Ch. 5. Emperor and the King of France King Edward 6. made him Chancellor of the Dutchy Comptroller of his House and created him Baron of Beaudesert Queen Mary made him Keeper of the Privy-Seal Queen Elizabeth dispenced with his attendance at Court in favour to his great age and highly respected him Duke Dudley in the daies of King Edward ignominiously took from him the Garter of the Order quarrelling that by Extraction he was not qualified for the same no wonder if his Pride wrongfully snatched a Garter from a Subject whose Ambition endeavoured to deprive 2 Princes of a Crown This was restored to him by Queen Mary as to a person who by his Prudence had merited much of the Nation He died 1563. and was buried in Lichfield Th. Wentâ—orth of York-shire parentage was bred in Cambridge became a Champion Patriot on all occasions and seemed to have a casting voice in the House of Commons He was created Bar. and Visc Wentworth Earl of Strafford and
that of the Lord Capel was the least that the Anatomist ever beheld whence ' its inferred That contracted Spirits act with the greatest vigorousness This Jo. was termed the Resolute Dr. He equally disliked Scepticks of none and unconstant people successively of all Opinions He groped after more light than he saw saw more than he durst speak of spake of more than he was thank'd for by those of his superstitious Order He died 1346. Jo. Colton born at Tirington was Chaplain to W. Bateman Bishop of Norwich and first Master of Gonvil-Hall in Cambridge For his Learning and Piety he was by Henry 4 preferred Arch. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland He was employed to Rome in the Schisme between Pope Vrb 6. and Clem. 7. which occasioned his writing a Learned Treatise De Causâ Schismatis and another De Remedio ejusd It seems he resigned his Arch-Bishoprick before his death which hapned 1404. Alan of Lynne in Cambridge then a Carmelite in Lynne made Indexes of 33 Writers he perused among which were Augustin Anselm and Aquinas He Flourished 1420. William Wells born probably at Wells in this County Provincial of the Augustinian Order in Lynne D. D. in Cambridge was an industrious Man and good Writer He died and was buried at Lynne 1421. Jo. Thorpe born in Thorpe was a Carmelite at Norwich and Dr. at Cambridge Being a great Logician he wrote a Book entitled the Labyrinth of Sophismes and another called the Rule of Consequences for which he got the Title of Doctor Ingeniosus not Ingenuus having a pound of Wit for a Drachm of good nature and being a Violent Persecutor of W. White and other Wicklevites He died 1440. and lyeth buried at Norwich Jo. Skelton Minister at Dis in Norf. stiled himself the Kings Orator and Poet Laureat Erasmus in a Letter to Henry 8. stileth him Britannicarum Literarum Lumen Decus Besides a Satyrical Wit using biting discourse scornfull laughter and bitter Jests which was unhappy to light on three Noli me tangere's viz. the Rod of a School-Master the Couls of Friers and the Cap of a Cardinal The first gave him a lash the second deprived him of his livelyhood the third almost outed him out his life W. Lilly with whom he fell foul paid him sufficiently when he told him That whilst he was Ambitious of the Reputation of a Learned Poet he was neither Learned nor a Poet. The Friers instigated Nix Bish of Norwich to suspend this Skelton from his Benefice for keeping a Concubine And Cardinal Woolsey his too Potent Enemy being charged by him with too much truth so persecuted him that he was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster In his Restraint he died 1529. and was buried in St. Marg. Chap. with this Epitaph Jo. Sceltonus Vates Pierius hîc situs est On his death bed he declared he had kept the aforesaid supposed Concubine in notion of a Wife Since the Reformation Jo Barret born at Lynne bred a Carmelite in Cambridg in an ignorant and ambitious Age was stoped by Arch-Bishop Cranmer for Insufficiency Afterwards having plyed his Book hard he became an admirable Scholar and having Commenced Dr. was Preacher in Norwich always making honourable mention of Dr. Cranmer 'T is charitably believed that tho complying in the times of Persecution he returned to the truth in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Edm. Gourney bred B. D. in Cambridge was Preacher in this Shire An excellent Scholar and innocently humorous When I was collecting the Witnesses of the Truth in all Ages even in the times of Popery It is needless saith he for I know that I am desended from Adam tho I cannot prove my Pedigree from him Yet he was born of as good a Family as any in Norf. He wrote 2 learned Treatises against Transubstantiation and of the 2 d. Commandment He died in the beginning of the Civil Wars Benefactors to the Publick Godfrey Bollen Knight Son to Jeffrey born at Sale was Lord Mayor of London An. 1457. By his Will he bequeathed liberally to Prisons and Hospitals c. Besides he gave 1000 l. to poor Housholders in London and 200 l. to those in Norfolk He was Great-Grandfather by the Mothers side to Q. Eliz. Ja. Hobart Attorney Gen. and of the Privy Council to and Knighted by H. 7. besides his many Benefactions to his Parish-Church in London built a fair Bridge over the River Wareney betwixt this County and Suffolk and a firm Causey there by c. There are 3 Houses of his Issue in this County Andr. Perne born at Bilney Mr. of Pet. House Protector and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge and Dean of Ely founded a Fellowship and Scholarships in his Colledge and encreased the Library with many rare Manuscripts In the daies of Queen Mary he was the Skreen to keep off the Fire of Persecution from many poor Protestants so that by his Means no Gremial of the University was Martyred therein Indeed he altered his Religion 4 times in 12 years from the last of H. 8. to 1. Elizabeth a Pap. a Prot. a Pap. a Prot. and was a bending tho no smarting Willow guilty of Compliance not Cruelty Being very Facetious he called a Clergy-man Fool who indeed was little better who returned that he would complain thereof to the Bishop of Ely Do sayes the Dean when you please and my Lord Bishop will Confirm you Yet at last he himself 't is said was Heart-broken with a Jest of the Queens Jester who Arch-Bishop Whitgift and Dr. Pern being present dissuaded her Majesty from going abroad in a wet day Heaven says he Madam dissuades you it is cold and wet And Earth dissuades you it is moist and dirty Heaven dissuades you this heavenly Man Arch-Bishop Whitgift and Earth dissuades you your Fool Clod such a Lump of Clay as my self And if neither will prevail with You here is one that is neither Heaven nor Earth but hangs betwixt both Dr. Perne and he also dissuades you He died soon after at Lambeth Since the Reformation Sir Th. Gresham bred a Mercer and Merchant in London the Wealthiest Citizen in England of his Age Founded 2 stately Fabricks the Old Exchange a kind of Colledge for Merchants and Gresham College a kind of Exchange for Scholars As Vessels of Massy Gold need no burnishing whilst Vessels that are only gilded are set off therewith So let lesser Donations be set off with Rhetorical Praises whilst those of this Knight are resplendent without any adventitious Lustre He died 21 Nov. 1579. Sir William Paston Knight whose Ancestors were bountifull to the Abbeys of Saint Bennet in Holme and Bromholme in this County erected a fair School with 30 l. per An. at Northwalsham in this County He married Frances the daughter of Sir Th. Clear of Stokesby and was great-grandfather to Sir William the bountiful Promoter of all my weak endeavors Henry Howard Youngest Son of Henry Earl of Surrey and Brother to Th. last D. of Norfolk was born at
Shotesham bred in King's Colledg in Cambridge then in Trin. Hall being afterwards Chancellor of the University A great Scholar Witness his Learned Dispensative against the Poison of supposed Prophesies dedicated to Sir Fr. Walsingham He lived privately in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth till King James advanced him in Honour and Wealth creating him Baron of Marnehill in Dors Earl of Northampton Lord Privy Seal Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Knight of the Garter He founded and endowed an Hospital for 12 poor Women and a Governour at Rising in this County Another for 12 poor Men and a Governour at Clun in Shrop. another at Greenwich in Kent for a Governour and 20 poor men of which 8 are to be chosen out of Shotesham He died 15 June 1614. and was buried in the ancient Chappel of the Castle of Dover Memorable Persons Sharnborn born at and Lord of Sharnbourn a Mannor in this County which Mannor William the Conquerour conferred on Warren a Norman Souldier Sharborn traversed his Title and being a Norfolk-man durst go to Law with the Conqueror and question the Validity of his Donations Yea he got the better of the Suit and the Kings Grant was adjudged void This is pressed by many to prove that King William tho in name was in deed no Conqueror but came in by Composition to keep the Laws of England Sharborn was lately aliened the Heirs Males being extinct to a worthy Person Fr. Ash Esquire who hath setled it on Emanuel College Noted Sheriffs An. 14. Philip Calthrope a Facetious Gentleman monarch H. 7. when he understood that Jo. Drakes a Shoe-maker had bought some of the same French Tawney that himself had provided for a Gown commanded his Taylor to cut his Gown full of Holes which purged Drakes of his Proud Humour that he wou'd never be of the Gentlemans Fashion again An. 29. Edm. Windham whose Grandmother was Daughter to Jo. Howard D. of Norf. struck Mr. Clere monarch H. 8. a Gentleman of his own Country in the Kings Tennis Court For this he was arraigned in the great Hall at Greenwich and had Judgment to lose his right-hand He desired that the King of Mercy would be pleased to take his left-hand and spare his right for therewith said he I may be hereafter able to do his Grace Service The King being informed hereof granted his full Pardon He made his promise good to E 6. by whom he was Knighted endeavouring to suppress Kets Rebellion in this County till at last it proved a Task above his Strength to perform Th. Woodhouse Mil. descended from Honourable Ancestors monarch Q. Mary many of whom were employed in State Affairs viz. Rob. Treasurer was summoned to Parliament by E. 3 Jo. was Servant and Executor to Hen. 5. Sir Will. was Vice Ad. of the English Fleet in Masleborough Field Philip active at the taking of Cadiz and Knighted there by the Earl of Essex And ever since there hath been a Military inclination in this Family which hath manifested it self on several occasions An. 18. Drugo Drury Arm. afterwards Knighted monarch Q. Eliz. was joyned in Commission with Sir Amias Paulet to keep Ma. Q. of Scots Both were nicknamed Puritans by the ill-natur'd Roman Catholicks An. 5. Roger Townsend Baronet a Religious Gentleman expending his Soul in Piety and Charity monarch K. Charles a Lover of God his Service aâ—d Servants restored Impropriations to the Churâ—h to some Hundreds per An. He married Mary Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere of Tilbury by whom he had Sir Horace created Baon at the Coronation of K. Ch. II. Norwich NOrwich is a Pleasant and Populous City the first with the Inhabitation of Trees the latter with the Plantation of People The pleasantness of the City was not a little advanced by the Dutchmen who first garnished it with curious Flowers As for Manufactures Stuffs were first brought hither by the Dutch who were expelled their Country by the Cruelty of the D. of Alva Of these Stuffs there was one formerly called Stand-far-off which discovered its coursness when near to the Eye another called Perpetuano from the lasting thereof Satinisco Bombicino Italiano c. Norwich hath beaten Sudbury out of distance in the Race of trading Of the Buildings the Cathedral is spacious tho the Roof in the Cioysters be most commended Amongst private Houses the D. of Norfolk's Palace is the greatest I ever saw in any City out of London Here is a covered Bowling-Alley The Bishops Palace formerly a fair Structure was lately unleaded and new covered with Tyle Whereon a Wagg Thus Palaces are altered we saw John Leyden now Wat Tyler next Jack Straw Physicians Jo. Goslin Master of Caius Colledge in Camb. Proctor of the University and twice Vice-Chancellour thereof a greet Scholar and Reg. Prof. of Physick was strict in pressing the Statutes of the University and it being then highly penal for a Scholar to wear Boots in the University there was a Student undertook for a Wager to address himself booted to the Vice-Chancellor craving his advice for a Numness in his Leggs the Vice-Chancellor prescribed him a Receit and dismissed him very civilly This Youth a cunning Gibeonite covering at the same Instant his Leggs with his Boots and his Boots with his Leggs escaped the punishment that was due in that case Dr. Goslin was a Worthy Benefactor to Kath. Hall bestowing thereon the fair Bull-Inn of considerable value He died 1625. Jo. Caius Fellow in Gonvil-Hall in Camb. travelled into Italy and wrote several Trea. there After his Return he was Physician to Q. Mary and improved Gonvil-Hall into a College He wrote an Excellent Book of the Antiquity of Cambridge and another De Canibus His Epitaph is FUI CAIUS Since the Reformation Rob. Watson was Skilled in the Laws and Steward of the House to Arch-Bishop Cranmer Having frequently disputed with Papists during his Imprisonment for Religion he wrote after his enlargement an Elegant Latin Treatise wherein he relateth the Accidents of his Life Benefactors to the Publick Will. Baitman bred in Cambridge Arch-Deacon then B. of Norwich in the Reign of E. 3. enjoyned Penance to Rob. Lord Morley for stealing of his Deer and made him perform the same in the Cathedral of Norwich notwithstanding the Kings threatning Letters to the contrary He erected Trinity-Hall Colledge in Cambridge for the Study of the Canon and Civil Laws He removed Gonvil-Hall to a more convenient place building and setling the Revenues thereof according to the Will of the Founder King Ed. 3. resolving to follow his Title to the Crown of France sent this Bishop to the Pope to acquaint him with his Intentions In which Embassy he died at Avignon 1354. Since the Reformation Th. Legg Master of Gonvil-Hall in Cambridge was Doctor of Law and Arches one of the Masters in the Chancery twice Vice-Chancellor of the University He was well skilled in Antiquity He wrote a Tragedy of the Destruction of Jerus which was filched from him by a Plagiary
Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench An. 30. H. 8. His Motto was Equitas Justitiae Norma In his time tho the Golden Showers of Abby-Lands rained amongst great Men it was long before he would open his lap scrupling the acception of such Gifts and at last received but little in proportion to others An. 37. H. 7. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas a descent in Honour but ascent in profit In drawing up the Will of E. 6. and setling the Crown on Lady Jane for a time he swam against the Tide and Stream of D. Dudley till at last he was carried away with the Stream Outed of his Office An. 1. Mary he found that Contentment in his Hospital-Hall in Northampton-shire which he could not find in Westm Hall He died An. 1556. and lyeth buried in the Church of Weekley Sir Augustine Nicolls born at Eckton was freely made by K. James one of the Judges of the Com. Pleas. That K. commonly called him the Judge that would give no money He was renowned for his Patience to hear both Parties all they could say a happy Memory and singular Sagacity to search into the material circumstances and exemplary Integrity even to the rejection of Gratuities after Judgment given He forbearing to Travel on the Lords Day wrote a Reformation on some of his own Order He loved Plain and profitable preaching being wont to say I know not what you call Puritanical Sermons but they come nearest to my Conscience He died as he went the Northern Circuit and lyeth buried in Kendall-Church in Westmorland Sir Robert Dallington born at Geddington bred a Bible-Clerk in Bennet-Colledg He was afterwards a School-Master in Norf. and after having travelled Secretary to Francis Earl of Rutland His accurate Aphorisms on Tacitus witness his Excellent Wit and Judgment At last he was Knighted and preferred Mr. of the Charter-House At the end of a Latin Speech spoken by a School-Boy with which he was welcomed to that Hospital there was a Distick to this effect Do not the least part of your trust disdain Nor grudge of Boyes to take the Care again He died An. 162. Jo. Fletcher Son of Rich. D. D. had an excellent Wit He with Fr. Beaumont Esq like Castor and Pollux most happy when in conjunction raised the English to equal the Athenian and the Roman Theatre Beaumont being the Ballast of Judgment Fletcher the Sail of Phantasie both compounding a Poet to Admiration Meeting once in a Tavern to contrive the rude draught of a Tragedy Fletcher undertook to kill the King therein his words being overheard by a Listner he was accused of High Treason till the mistake soon appearing that the Plot was only against a Dramatick and Scenical King all wound off in Merriment Fletcher surviving his Partner wrote good Comedies himself tho inferiour to the former and no wonder if a single thred was not so strong as a twisted one He died as I am informed of the Plague An. 1. Car I. 1625. Sir Hen. Montague Grandson to Sir Edward Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was born at Boughton He raised himself as was foretold in his Childhood above the rest of his Family by the pregnancy of his parts He was bred in Christ's Colledge in Cambridge then in the Middle Temple He became Serjant at Law was Knighted by King James 1602. and was Recorder of London made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench 1616. Lord Treasurer of England 1620. created Baron of Kimbolton and Visc Mandevile afterwards Earl of Manchester made President of the privy Councel then Lord Privy Seal at which time he brought the Court of Requests into such repute that what was formerly called the Almes-Basket of the Chancery had in his time well nigh as many Suits and Clients as the Chancery it self His Motto was Movendo non mutando me His Meditations on Life and death written in time of his health may be presumed to have left good impressions on him preparatory for his death which hapned 164. Writers Jo. of Northampton in lat Jo. Avonius a Carmelite an Eminent Mathematician wrote a Book entitled The Philosophers Ring a Perpetual Almanack a Masterpiece of that Age. He flourished 1340. Robert Holcot born in Holcot and bred in Oxford became a Dominican in Northam A learned and prudent Man He wrote many famous Treatises He died of the plague 1349 at Northam before he had finished his Lectures on Ecclesiastes Note The Plague about that time so raged in England that our Chroniclers affirm scarce a tenth person of all sorts was left alive Robert Dodford born at Dodford was a Benedictine Monk in Ramsey He wrote Postills on the Proverbs which the envy of time hath intercepted from us He flourished about 1370. Pet. Peteshull an Augustinian in Oxford disliking his Order procured a dispensation to relinquish it and became Honorary Chaplain to Pope Vrbain 6. He afterwards promoted the Doctrine of Wickliffe and in his Exposition of the Prophesie of Hildegardes so taxed the pride and laziness of all Friers that his Book was burnt and himself fled to escape the same Fate He flourished 1390. Since the Reformation Robert Crowley bred in Oxford confuted Miles Hogheard who wrote against the poor Protestants He fled to Frankford in the Reign of Queen Mary and in the Reign of Q. Eliz. was made Vicar of St. Giles without Cripple-gate London where he lyes buried having died 1588. Eusebius Paget born at Cranford and bred in Oxford was commonly called the Golden Sophister He was Minister in London and wrote an excellent book called the History of the Bible and Catechism of the 40 short Questions Ja. Preston D. D. born in Heyford and bred in Cambridge was so far from Eminency before he commenced Master of Arts that he was but a little above Contempt Soon after his skill in Philosophy rendred him to the general respect of the University He was the greatest Pupil-manager in England The Duke used him to work the Puritan Party then most active in Parliament to his compliance And tho this Dr. was most powerfull with them he was at last found useless to the intended Purpose He was therefore called by one the Court Comet blazing for a time and fading soon afterwards He was a perfect Politician and used Lapwing-like to flutter most on that place which was furthest from his eggs He had perfect command of his Passion with the Caspian Sea never ebbing nor slowing and would not alter his composed Pace for all the whipping which Satyrical Wits bestowed on him He never had Wife or Cure of Souls and leaving a plentiful no invidious estate died 1628. Th. Randolph born at Hougton was bred Fell. in Trinity College in Cambridg The Muses may seem not only to have Smiled but to have been tickled at his Nativity such the Festivity of his Pomes of all sorts He died 163 Nick. Estwick B. D. born at Harowden and bred in Cambridg was 40 years Parson of Warton
the Engish Tongue A great Mathematician Witness his Book de Sphaerâ He was living 1402. being Contemporary with Gower Since the Reformation Th. Lydgate born at Alkerton and bred in Oxford was Eminent for his Learning and Obscure for his Living An admirable Mathematician witness his Learned Treatises De Naturâ Coeli and de variis Annorum Formis c. He opposed the opinion of Scaliger and was by him jeered for a Prophet having somewhat traded in the Apocalyptical Divinity yet 't is said Lydgate had the best in the Contest He was Rector of Alkerton His low Condition may be imputed to these Causes 1. The Barrenness of his speculative Studies 2. His own Nature being inclined to Solitude 3. The death of P. Henry whose Library-Keeper he was 4. His Disaffection to Church Discipline and Ceremonies tho such wrong his Memory who represent him an Anabaptist His Modesty was as great as his want which he would not make known to any Sir W. Boswell and B. Williams were great Friends to him He died about 1644 Sir Richard Baker Knight was High Sheriff of this County An. 18. Jac. 1621. his Estate being encumbered he fled in his old Age for shelter to his studies and devotions He wrote an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and a Chronicle of our English Kings He died about the beginning of the Civil Wars W. Whateley born in afterwards Minister of Banbury and bred in Cambridge was a good Linguist Philosopher Mathematician and Divine He wrote a Book entitled the Bride-bush which is variously construed He died 1639. Jo. Balle born at Casfigton bred B. D. in Oxford was Preacher at Whitmore in Stafford-shire His Treatise of Faith cannot sufficiently be commended He was a Humble Pious and good Natured Christian When his friend having had a fall from a Horse said that he never had the like deliverance Yea said Mr. Balle and a hundred times when you never fell He hated all New Lights Living comfortably he relieved others charitably left his children competently and died piously 1640. W. Chillingworth born in Oxford and bred in Trinity College was a subtil Disputant Going beyond the Seas he was in some sort reconciled to the Church of Rome but returning afterwards into England in testimony of his true Conversion he wrote a Book entitled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation He was taken Prisoner by the Parliaments Forces at Arundel-Castle and safely conducted to Chichester where hard usage hastned his death Dan. Featly D. D. born in or near to Oxford made the Speech in Corpus-Christi-College at the Funeral of Dr. Reynalds He was good in the Schools and in the Pulpit and a happy disputant against Papists In the conference with F. Fisher who was caught in a Net cast by Dr. White Dr. Featly did help strongly to draw that Net to the shore He was in but it seems not of the late Assembley his body being with them but his heart at Oxford Being discovered he was imprisoned in the College at Chelsey where he died 1643. Jo. White originally from Hant-shire born at Staunton-St John and bred in Oxford was Minister at Dorchester for about 40 years in which time he expounded the whole Scripture once over and half over again That Town was enriched by his Wisdom Knowledge causing Piety Piety breeding Industry and Industry Plenty unto it A beggar then was not to be seen in the Town He absolutely commanded his own Passions and the Purses of the Parishoners and was free from Covetousness He had a Patriarchal influence both in Old and New-England Yet towards the end of his days Factions grew in his stock then disloyal persons would not pay the due respect to the Crown of his old Age. He was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines He married the sister of Dr. Burges by whom he left 4 Sons and died quietly at Dorchester 163. Benefactors to the Publick Th. Tisdall of Glimpton Esq dying 1610. bequeathed 5000 l. to Geo. Abbot then Bishop of London and others to purchase Lands for the maintainance of 7 Fellows and 6 Scholars which Money was expended for the purchase of 250 l. per An. and a new College was erected therewith by the Name of Pembroke College Th. gave many other charitable Legacies and deserved well of Abbington School founding an Usher therein Memorable Persons Anne Green a person unmarried having been executed at Oxford 1650. for killing her Child recovered perfect health Charitable people interpret her so miraculous preservation a Compurgator of her Innocence Noted Sheriffs An. 11. W. Taverner Arm. in the year of his Sherivalty came to Oxford monarch Q. Eliz. went up into the pulpit at St. Maries with a sword by his side and a gold chain about his neck where he made a Sermon to the University 18 Rob. Doyle Knight in whose year the Black Assizes were at Oxford wherein the Prisoners caused the death of the Judge Chief Baron Bell the Sheriff some of the Lawyers many of the Justices and most of the Jury besides other persons of Quality there present It was generally imputed to the stench of the Prisoners cloathes and bodies 31 W. Clarke Arm. Son to W. Sher. 10 Jac. and grandchild to Sir Jo. of Northam 21. Henry 8. 36. Rich. Fenys bred in Oxford was lineally desended from Ja. Lord Say and Seal Treasurer of England in the days of Henry 6. was created An. 1 Ja. Lord Say and Seal He died 1612. W. Fenys his eldest Son was since created Visc Say and Seal and is still alive An. 3. Rich. Wenmam was by King Charles I. created monarch K. Ch. I. first Baron of Wenman of Chilmaynam in the County of Dublin and then Visc Wenman of Tuant in the County of Galloway both in the Kingdom of Ireland Rutland-shire RVtland-shire the least County in England is both pleasant and fruitful and in Form almost Orbicular The name is q. Redland from the colour of the Soyl. As for Buildings Burgley on the Hill belonged formerly to the Lords Harringtons but since so beautified by the D. of Buckingham that it was inferiour to few for the House superiour to all for the Stable It was demolished in the Civil War Of Wonders this is one that this County had never an absolute or entire Abby therein producing only Okeham and Brook two small Appurtenances to Convents in other Counties The cause whereof seems to have been Ed. the Confessor's giving all Rutland to Westminster Church which tho rescinded by William the Conqueror yet other Convents perchance might be scrupulous to accept what once belonged to another Foundation Proverbs I. Rutland Raddleman A poor sort of Trader that sells red stones or Oker for the marking of sheep Saints St. Tibba a Saxon was in the times of Superstition reputed the Patroness of Hawking and worshipped as a second Diana she lived a Virgin and Anchoress at Dormundcaster and died with the reputation of holiness about 660. Benefactors to the Publick W. Brown Esq twice Alderman
Experience though of a corpulent Body especially in his old Age so that he would be not only out of breath but also almost out of life with going to Westminster-Hall to the Star-Chamber According to his Motto Mediocria Firma he never attained because he never affected any great Estate He was not for invidious Structures but delighted in Domo Domino Pari such as was his house at Gorhambury in Hartford And therefore when Q. Elizabeth coming thither in Progress told him My Lord your house is too little for you no Madam said he But it is your Highness hath made me too great for my house He left rather a good then a great Estate to his Posterity whose eldest Son Sir Edward was the first Baronet of England He dyed Feb. 20. 1578. and lyeth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls In a Word he was a good man a grave Statesman a Father to his Country and a Father to Sir Francis Bacon Sir W. Drury descended of a Worshipful Family long flourishing at Haulsted answered his name Drury in Sax. Pearle in the pretiousness of his disposition clear and hard innocent and valiant His Youth he spent in the French Wars his middle in Scotland and his Old Age in Ireland He was Knight Marshal of Barwick at what time the French had possessed themselves of the Castle of Edenburgh in the Minority of King James Queen Elizabeth employed this Sir Will. with 1500 to besiege the Castle which service he right worthily performed reducing it within few dayes to the true Owner thereof He was appointed Lord President of Munster 1575. where he executed impartial justice in spight of the Opposers thereof entring Kerry with a competent Train of 140 Men with which he forced his Return through 700 Men belonging to the Earl of Desmond who claimed Kerry as a Palatinate peculiarly belonging to himself In the last year of his Life he was made Lord Deputy of Ireland dying at Waterford 1598. Sir Robert Naunton was descended from an ancient Family extant at or before the time of the Conquerour who rewarded the Chief of that Name for his Service with a great Inheritrix given him in Marriage whose Lands were then estimated at 700 pounds a year For a long time they were Patrons of Alderton in this County Sir Robert was bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of the University 1600. He wrote in his Youth I conjecture an excellent piece called Fragmenta Regalia He was afterwards sworn Secretary of State to King James Jan. 8. 1617. which place he discharged with great ability and dexterity during which one Wiemark was called to an Account for saying the Head of Sir Waltar Raleigh beheaded that day would do very well on the Shoulders of Sir Robert Naunton and having alleadged in his own Justification that two heads were better than one he was for the present dismissed Afterwards Wiewark being with other wealthy persons called on for a Contribution to St. Pauls first subscribed 100 pounds at the Council Table but was glad to double it after Mr. Secretary had told him two hundred were better then one Sir Robert dyed 163. leaving one Daughter who first was Married to Paul Visc Banning and after to the Lord Herbert eldest Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke Capital Judges Jo. de Metingham Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in the Reign of Edw. 3. When all the rest of the Judges an 18. Edw. 3. were fined and outed for Corruption this Jo. and Elias de Beckingham continued in their places whose innocence was of proof against all Accusations King Edw. 3. an 20. reg directed a Writ to him about the stinting of the number of the Apprentices and Atturneys at Law to 140 or thereabouts according to the discretion of this Judge and his Assistants whereof a certain number were to be provided out of every County what may better avail for their Court and the good of the people of the Land Sir Jo. Cavendish Knight born at Cavendish in this County where his Name continued untill the Reign of King Henry 8. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench an 46. Edw. 3. He dyed a violent death an 5. Rich. 2. on this occasion J. Raw a Priest contemporary with J. Straw and Wat Tyler advanced Robert Westbroom a Clown to be King of the Commons in this County having 50000 followers These for eight dayes together in savage sport caused the Heads of great persons to be cut off and set on Poles to kiss and whisper in one anothers ears Chief Justice Cavendish chanced to be then in the Country to whom they bare a double pique for his Honesty and Learning Besides they had lately heard that Jo. Cavendish his Kinsman had killed their Idol Wat Tyler in Smithfield Whereupon they drag'd the Reverend Judge with Sir Jo. of Camb. Prior of Bury into the Market place there and beheaded them whose innocent blood remained not long unrevenged by Spencer the Warlike Bishop of Norwich by whom this Rascal Rabble of Rebels was routed and ruined 1381. Sir Robert Broke a great Lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the Reign of Q. Mary wrote an excellent Abridgement of the Law His Posterity still flourish in a Worshipful Equipage at Nacton nigh Ipswich in this County Souldiers Sir Th. Wentworth of Nettlested descended from the Wentworths in York-shire was Created Baron Wentw. by King Henry 8. He was a Valiant Gentleman a Cordial Protestant and his Family a Sanctuary of such Professors By his means Jo. Bale was converted from a Carmelite The Memory of this Lord is much but unjustly blemished because Calis was lost the last of Q. Mary under his Government the manner thus The English being secure by reason of their late Conquest at St. Quintin and the Duke of Guise having notice thereof sat down before the Town on New-years day Next day he took the Forts of Rise-bank and Newnam-Bridge which 't is suspected were betrayed Within three dayes the Castle of Calis which commanded the City and was under the command of Sir Ralph Chamberlain was taken the French being first repulsed back by Sir Anth. Ager the only Man of note who was killed in the Fight entred the City the next day being Twelfth day Then resistance being in vain the Lord Wentworth Deputy thereof was forced to take what terms he could get that the Townsmen should depart though plundered to a groat with their Lives and himself with 49 more should remain Prisoners to be put to ransom Queen Mary might thank her self for losing this Key of France because hanging it at her side with so slender a string there being but 500 Souldiers effectually in the Garrison The Lord Wentworth was condemned for High-Treason during his absence but Queen Mary soon after dying he was tryed and acquitted by his Peers in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth though Sir Jo. Harlston Governour of Rise-bank and Sir Ralph Chamberlain Governour of Calis-Castle were both condemned but their
he was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in which Office he demeaned himself with great integrity It happened that a Servant of Prince Henry afterwards King Henry 5. was Arraigned before this Judge for Felony whom the Prince then present endeavoured to take away coming up in fury striking the Judge But he sitting without moving committed the Prince Prisoner to the Kings-Bench there to remain until the Pleasure of the King his Father were further known who when he heard thereof gave God thanks who at the same instant had given him a Judge who could minister and a Son who could obey Justice He dyed an 14. Henry 4. Guido de Fairfax Knight whose Name hath continued at Walton in this County more then 450 years was bred in the Study of the Law and became Serjeant thereof He favoured the House of York in those civil distempers yet was he by King Henry 7. advanced Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Roger Cholmley Knight natural Son to Lieutenant of the Tower under King Henry 7. was an 37. Henry 8. made Chief Baron of the Exchequer and an 6. Edward 6. Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench An. 1. Mary he with Sir Edward Montague Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas was committed to the Tower for drawing up the Will of King Edward 6. wherein his Sisters were disinherited whereupon Sir Roger was deprived of his Judges place though his Activity had amounted no higher then to a Subscription of the said Will. He built a free School of Brick at Highgate about 1564. Sir Christopher Wray Knight was born in the Parish of Bedal the motive which made his Daughter Frances Countess of Warwick scatter her Benefactions the thicker in that place His Ancestor came out of Cornwal where his Name is right ancient Being bred in the Law he was an 16. Elizabeth made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench He was moved by no Fear but that of the Judge of the World He was pro tempore Lord Privy Seal and sate Chief in the Court when Secretary Davison was Sentenced in the Star-Chamber concurring with the rest of the Commissioners to lay a fine on him His Benefaction to Magdalens-Colledge in Cambridge was both bountiful and seasonable We know who saith The righteous man leaveth an Inheritance to his Childrens Children and the well thriving of his third Generation may be an evidence of his well gotten Goods This worthy Judge dyed May the 8th an 34. Elizabeth Statesmen Sir Jo. Puckering Knight born at Flamborough-head being a second Son applyed himself to the Study of the Common Law and became the Queens Serjeant Speaker in the House of Commons and at last Lord Chancellour of England In the House of Lords he made a Speech against those that were called Puritans wherein he charges them with the open profession of disloyal and seditious Principles and affirms that they by this Separation of themselves from the Vnity of their Fellow Subjects and by abasing the Sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince do both joyn and concurr with the Jesuites in opening the door and preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion that is threatned against the Realm He dyed 1596. He is Charactred by Mr. Cambden in Elizabeth Vir integer His Estate is since descended his Male Issue failing on Sir Henry Newton who assumed the Sirname of Pâ—ckering and I can never be sufficiently thankful to him and his Relations Sir George Calvert Knight was born at Kiplin and bred first in Trinity-Colledge in Oxford then beyond the Seas He was Secretary to Robert Cecil Earl of Sarisbury Lord Treasurer of England Afterward he was made Clerk of the Councel and at last Principal Secretary of State to King James an 1619. Conceiving the Duke of Buckingham highly instrumental in his preferment he presented him with a Jewel of great value which the Duke returned again not owning any activity in his advancement whom King James ex mero motu reflecting on his Ability designed for the place which he resigned 1624. confessing to the King he was become a Roman Catholick so that he must either be wanting to his Trust or violate his Conscience King James continued him his Privy Councellour all his Reign and created him Lord Baltemore of Balt. in Ireland When Secretary he had a Grant from King James to him and his Heirs of a County Palatine of Avalon in the New-found-Land He built a fair House in Ferry Land in America and spent 25000 pounds in advancing the Plantation thereof consulting therein the enlargement of Christianity and the Kings Dominions After the death of King James he went twice in person to New-found-Land Here with two Ships manned at his own charge he chased away Monsieur D' Arade sent by the King of France to annoy the English Fishermen relieved the English and took 60 of the French Prisoners King Charles I. gave a Patent to him and his Heirs of Mary-Land on the North of Virginia with Royal Franchises He dyed in London April 15. 1632. and lyeth buried in St. Dunstans in the West leaving his Son the Right Honourable Cecil Calvert now Lord Baltemore Heir to his Honour Estate and Noble Disposition Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford Son to William Wentworth of Went. Woodhouse in this County was born in London which see Seamen Armigel Waad born of an ancient Family in Yorkshire was Clerk of the Counsel to Henry 8. and Edward 6. A man of great accomplishments employed in several Embassies and the first Englishman who discovered America He had by two Wives 20 Children whereof Sir William Waad was the eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Councel to Queen Elizabeth This Armigel dyed June the 20th 1568. and was buried at Hampstead in Middlesex Martin Forbisher Knight born nigh Doncaster was the first Englishman who first discovered the North way to China and Cathay whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it to be Silver Ore but it proved useless He was Valiant and Violent He was Knighted for his signal service in 88. Having with 10 Ships defended Brest-Haven in Britain against a far greater power of the Spaniards he was shot in the side His wound not being mortal in it self was rendred such by the unskilfulness of the Chirurgeon who having taken out the Bullet left the bombast behind wherewith the sore festered and the worthy Knight dyed 1594. George Clifford Lord Clifford Vescye c. Earl of Cumberland was Son to Henry second Earl of that Family by his second Lady A person wholly Composed of true Honour and Valour In order to the cuting off the Spanish Sinews of War their Money from the West-Indies this Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost and Adventured his own person therein being the best born Englishman that ever adventured himself in that kind His Fleet may be said to be bound for no other Harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in his passage thereunto
the Judges of York with 300 Horsemen all of his own Name and Kindred well mounted and suitably attired This Family was accounted the most numerous of any in England an 1607. He stocked the River Yower nigh his house with Crevishes Q. Eliz. An. 4. George Bowes Mil. had a great Estate in this County and greater in Durham He was besieged by the Northern Rebels an 1569. in Bernards-Castle which he delivered upon condition they might depart with their Armour After the suppression of the Rebels their Execution was committed to his care wherein he was severe unto Cruelty many well meaning people having been in their simplicity drawn in under a pretence of doing the Queen service These Sir George hung up by Scores by the Office of his Marshalship and had hung more if Mr. Bernard Gilpin had not interceeded for their Lives 23. Robert Stapleton Mil. descended from Sir Miles one of the first Founders of the Garter and Sheriff 29. Edward 3. met the Judges with 140 Men in suitable Liveries and was a very comely and eloquent Man equally charming both the senses of Discipline the Eyes and the Ears He married one of the Co-heirs of Sir Henry Sherington by whom he had a numerous Posterity 42. Francis Clifford Ar. succeeded his Brother George in the Earldom of Cumberland a worthy Gentleman made up of all honourable Accomplishments He was Father to Henry the 5th and last Earl of that Family whose sole Daughter and Heir was married to the Right Honorable the then Lord Dungarvon since Earl of Cork 45. Henry Bellasis Mil. was by King Charles I. created Baron Fauconbridge of Yarum as since his Grandchild by his eldest Son is made Visc Fauconbridge Jo. Bellasis Esquire who in the Garrison of Newark and elsewhere hath given ample testimony of his Valour and all noble Qualities is since advanced to the dignity of a Baron K. James An. 9. Henry Slingsby Mil. of an ancient Family whose Armes are Quarterly the first and the fourth G. a Chev. between two Leopards Heads and a Hutchet or Bugle Arg. the second and the third Arg. a Griffin Surgeant S. supprest by a Fess G. 11. George Savil Mil. and Bar. was of a Numerous Wealthy and Ancient Family of which Sir Jo. Savil was lately created Baron Savil of Pomfraict and his Son since Earl of Sussex K. Charles Sir Marmaduke Langdale was Sheriff 1641. who might have said as to the Kings side of Northern Actions Paâ—s ego magna fui But as for his raising of the Siege of Pomfraict felt before seen by the Enemy it will appear Romance-like to Posterity with whom it will find Plus Famae quam Fidei King Charles II. created him a Baron the Temple of Honour being of due open to him who had passed through the Temple of Vertue The Battles That at Marston-Moor July 2. 1644 was our English Pharsalian Fight to the Loyal Cavaliers Prince Rupert having raised the Siege at York drew out his Men into the Moor with intention to fight the Enemy though his Souldiers were weary and the expected Recruits were not come and besides if the Parliaments Army had been then let alone such were their Animosities that they had fallen foul among themselves had not the Prince preparing to fight them cemented their differences to agree against a General Enemy But the Prince was not informed of such differences But being pressed by the Kings Command to fight the Enemy speedily and having received Intelligence that the Enemy had the day before sent away 7000 Men who yet returned before the Fight he proceeded so far that it was too late to draw off the Parliaments Forces necessitating them to fight and about four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Battle began Some causlesly complain on the Marquess of New-castle that he drew not his Men soon enough according to his Orders out of York to the Prince's succour Such consider not that Souldiers newly relieved from a 9 weeks Siege will a little indulge themselves The Lord General Goring so valiantly charged the left Wing of the Enemy that they fairly forsook the Field General Leslie with his Scotish Army ran away more than a York-shire Mile and a Wee-Bet Fame with her Trumpet sounded their Flight as far as Oxford the Royalists rejoycing with Bonefires for the Victory But within few dayes their Bayes by a mournful Metamorphosis were turned into Willow For Cromwel with his Cuirassires did the work of that day Some suspected Collonel Hurry lately converted to the Kings side for foul play herein for he divided the Kings old Horse into small Bodies alledging this way the best way to break the Scotish Lanciers But those Horse alwayes used to charge together were much discomposed with this new Mode Besides a right Valiant Lord severed with a Ditch from the Enemy did not attend till the Foe forced their way unto him The Van of the Kings Foot being led up by the truly Honourable Collonel John Russel impressed with unequal numbers and distanced from seasonable succour became a Prey to their Enemy The Marquess of Newcastles white Coats who were said to bring their Winding sheet about them into the Field after thrice firing fell to it with the But-ends of their Muskets and were invincible till mowed down by Cromwel's Cuirassiers they were almost all slain Great was the Execution of that day Cromwel commanding his Men to give no Quarter Various the numbering of the slain of both sides yet I meet with none mounting them above 6. or sinking them beneath 3000. I remember no Person of Honour slain on the Kings side save the hopeful Lord Cary eldest Son to the Earl of Monmouth But on the Parliaments side the Lord Didup a lately created Baron was slain on the same token that when King Charles said that he hardly remembred that he had such a Lord in Scotland one returned that the Lord had wholly forgotten that he had such a King in England Soon after more then 60 Royalists of prime Quality removed themselves beyond the Seas so that hence forward the King's Affairs in the North were in a languishing Condition YORK YORK is an ancient City built on both sides of the River Ouse joyned with a Bridge of one Arch the largest in England Here the Roman Emperours had their Residence Severus and Valer. Constantius their death What it sacketh of London in bigness and beauty of Buildings it hath in cheapness and plenty of Provisions Of Manufactures it challengeth none peculiar to it self They send course Cloath to Hamborough and have Iron Flax c. in return But the Trade which is indeed but driven at York runneth of it self at Hull which of a Fishers Town is become a City's Fellow within 300 years being the Key of the North. As for the Buildings of York the Cathedral was built by Jo. Romaine William Melton and Jo. Thoresbury successive Arch-Bishops thereof the Family of the Piercy's contributing Timber of the Vavasors Stone thereunto It is famous
The life and violent death of the Lord Chief Justice Cavendish ibid. The life of Sir Thomas Wentworth Page 784 Dr. Butler's Life Page 786 Scroop the Anchorite's life Page 788 The Tragedy of Roxana Page 789 Foundress of Clare-Hall in Cambridge Page 791 The occasion of the addition of the Dagger to the Arms of London Page 792 A Cordial testimony of Loyalty or a costly Pearl diffused in a Royal Health Page 792 SURREY Wherein the best Fullers Earth Page 794 Richmond and Non-such built by King Henry VII and VIII ibid Vertue of Epsom Waters ibid The life of Prince Henry Son to King Charles I. Page 795 The life of Arch-Bishop Cranley Page 796 The life of Bishop Parkhurst Page 797 The lives of Arch-Bishop and Bishop Abbot's Page 798 The life of Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Page 799 The life of Sir Robert Dudley Page 800 The life of William Ockham Page 801 The life of Dr. Hammond Page 802 The life of Dr. Sanders ibid. Elizabeth Weston a great Scholar Page 803 Of the Family of the Sackvills Page 805 The Family of the Ashburnhams ibid. The life of Sir Nicholas Carew Page 804 The life of George Goring Earl of Norwich Page 806 SUSSEX Plentiful in Iron Talk Page 807 The Manufactures are great Guns ibid. Arundel-Castle a Local Earldom Page 808 The life of Arch-Bishop Winchelsey Page 810 The life of Thomas Bradwardine Page 811 The life of the Lord Treasurer Burwash ibid. The lives of Dr. Barlow Bishop of St. Davids and Dr. Juxton Bishop of Hereford Page 812 The life of the Lord Treasurer Sackvil Page 813 The life of Judge Jeffrey Page 814 The life of Sir William Pelham Page 815 The life of Sir Anthony Shirley c. ibid. The life of Mr. Selden Page 818 The life of Dr. Stapleton Page 819 VVARWICK-SHIRE A sudden inundation in Coventry Page 823 The life of Anne Nevil Married to Edward Prince of Wales Page 825 The life of Edward Plantagenet Son to George Duke of Clarence ibid. The life of St. VVolstan ibid. The life of Cardinal Macklesfield Page 826 The life of Bishop Stratford Page 827 The supposed Original of the word Veize Page 828 The life of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Page 829 The life of Sir Edward Conway ibid. The life of John Digby Earl of Bristol ibid. The life of William Shakespear Page 831 The life of Sir Fulk Grevil Page 832 The life of John Lord Harrington Page 835 Edge-Hill Fight Page 836 WESTMORLAND The life of Queen Katharine Parr Page 838 The life of Cardinal Bambridge Page 839 A pleasant Adventure of the Knave of Clubâ— Page 841 The life of Bishop Potter Page 841 The life of Sir Edward Bellingham Page 842 Foundress of Appleby Hospital ibid. The Office of Sheriff made Hereditary Page 845 WILT-SHIRE The life of Margaret Plantagenet Countess of Salisbury Page 848 The life of Jane Seymore ibid. The life of St. Adelme Page 849 The life of St. Edith Page 850 The life of Cardinal VVinterburn Page 851 The life of Johannis Sarisburiensis Page 852 The life of the Lord Chancellour Edendon ibid. The life of Bishop Thornborough Page 853 The life of Edward Seymor Duke of Sommerset Page 854 The life of Sir Ol. St John Lord Grandison Page 855 The life of Sir Francis Cottington Page 856 The life of Sir Nicholas Hide ibid. Lansdown and Round-way Fights Page 862 VVORCESTER-SHIRE The life of St. Richard Page 864 The life of Bishop Bonner Page 866 The life of Sir Thomas Coventry Lord Keeper Page 867 The life of Judge Littleton Page 868 The life of Richard Beauchamp Earl of VVarwick Page 869 The life of Sir Edward Kelly Chymist Page 870 The life of Sir Edwin Sandys Page 872 VVorcester-Fight YORK-SHIRE The life of King Henry I. The life of Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Page 883 The life of St. Hilda or the English Huldah Page 884 The life of St. John of Beverly The life of St. Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Darby Page 885 The life of Cardinal Fisher Page 887 The life of Bishop Melton ibid. The life of Dr. Scroop Page 888 The life of Dr. Coverdale Page 890 The life of Arch-Bishop Loftus ibid. Prince Henry committed by Sir W. Gascoine Page 891 The life of the Lord Chief Justice VVray Page 892 The life of Lord Chancellour Puckering Page 893 The life of Sir George Calvert ibid. The life of the Lord Clifford Page 895 The life of Sir George Ripley Page 896 The life of Dr. VVhitacre Page 903 The Battle of Marston-Moor Page 910 YORK The life of Edward Freese The life of Bishop Morton Page 915 The life of Sir Robert Car Page 917 VVALES The Division thereof Page 921 Cardigan yields Royal Mines Page 922 Matthew Glin the supposed Author of Metheglin Page 923 The life of Cardinal Sertor The life of Mr. Broughton Page 930 The life of Hugh Holland ibid. ANGLESEY The Mother of VVales Page 931 BRECNOCK-SHIRE The wonder of Mouchy Denny Page 934 The life of Giles de Bruse Page 935 The life of Thomas Howel Bishop of Bristol Page 936 The life of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham ibid. The Protestation of Nesta ibid. CARDIGAN-SHIRE First reduced to the English Dominion Page 938 CARMARTHEN-SHIRE The Life of Bishop Ferrar Page 940 The life of Sir Rice ap Thomas Page 941 The life of VValter Devereux Earl of Essex ibid. The life of Merline CARNARVON-SHIRE The life of King Edward IV. Page 944 The life of Bishop Vaughan Page 946 DENBIGH-SHIRE The life of Leoline Bishop of St. Asaph Page 948 The life of Bishop Goodman The life of Sir Hugh Middleton Page 949 FLINT-SHIRE The smallest Shire in Wales Page 950 The life of Elizabeth Countess of Holland ibid. The life of St. Asaph Page 951 The life of Owen Glendower Page 952 Pilgrimages to St. Winifred's Well Page 954 GLAMORGAN-SHIRE The life of Sir Edward Carne Page 955 MERIONETH-SHIRE Wherein are comely Inhabitants Page 956 The life of St. Thelian Page 957 A Tribute of 300 Wolves Page 958 MONTGOMERY-SHIRE Where excellent Horses are bred ibid. The Life of George Herbert Page 959 The life of Edward Herbert Baron Cherbury Page 960 Hawis Gadarn a Lady of Remark ibid MONMOUTH-SHIRE Not subject to the Welsh Jurisdiction Page 962 The life of King Henry V. ibid. The life of Cantilupe Bishop of Worcester Page 964 The life of Richard Strongbow Page 965 The life of Sir Roger Williams ibid. The life of William Herbert Earl of Pembroke Page 966 The life of Jeffrey of Monmouth ibid. The life of Henry Plantagenet first Duke of Lancaster Page 967 The life of W. Johnes ibid. W. Evans put little Jeffrey in his Pocket Page 988 PEMBROKE-SHIRE Peopled by Flemings Page 969 The Life of Henry Tuthar ibid. The life of St. Justinian Page 971 The life of Giraldus Cambrensis ibid. RADNOR-SHIRE The rigorous Laws of King Henry IV. Enacted for the effectual suppression of Insurrections in Wales Page 974 Lib. 11. c. 6. * Rom. 16.11 * Mr. Dreyden Lord Bac. Ess p. 215. Cambd. Rem tit Moneyar Eng. Mart. Math. par Maâ—jor An. Dom. 1217. Fox Act. Mon. p. 817. Fox Act. mon. p. 1211. Fox Act. Mon. p. 1934. Math. West Flor. Hist AMP. Godwin Catalogue of Bishops of Bath c. Sir Jo. Hayward E. â— Stow E. 6. p. 612 Cambd. Eliz. S. N. Bale Scrip. Brit. cent 5. Numb 19. AMP. Math. 13.32 2 Sam. 23.19 S. N. Brit. Kent Shield of Wheath a Treatise 2. Bromp Chron. p. 887. AMP. Polyal AMP. Q. Q Q. * Car. Surw. of Cornw. Q. Bract. l. 3. Tract 2. De Mir. pecci Surv. Lond. Matth. 3. Q. A. M. P. S. N A. M. P. S. N. S. N. †The Pope assumes to himself his Name and Authority S. N. †In the beginning of the long Parliament S. N. * Gen. 4.22 S. N. AMP. REM AMP. AMP. S. N. AMP. AMP. AMP. * Mr. Jo. Gore REM REM REM REM AMP. S. N. S. N. * Is. 51.1 AMP. * Leaden AMP. * Stow p. 245. S. N. S. N. AMP. AMP. S. N REM AMP. S. N. * Jo. 3.12 REM S. N. * Speed of this County * Dr. Heyl. Hist of King Charles AMP. S. N. S. N. * Manuscr Libr. Cott. AMP. * Pitz de Scrip. Ang. p. 804. * Chron. 34.12 * Cant. 3.4 AMP. Hist of Irel.