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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32793	Anthologia historica containing fourteen centuries of memorable passages and remarkable occurrents, collected out of the English, Spanish, Imperial, and Jewish histories, and several other authors, and writers.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing C3793; ESTC R6733	198,797	474

R. Baker p. 73. Sir VVilli●m H●wkesford Knight one of the Chief Justices under Edward the fourth who dwelt at Annory in Devonshire a man of great Possessions fell into such a degree of Melancholy that one day he called unto him his keeper charging him with negligence in suffering his Deer to be stollen and thereupon commanded him that if he met any man in his Circuit at night that would not stand or speak he should not spare to kill him whosoever he were The Knight having thus laid his foundation and meaning to end his doleful daies in a certain dark night conveighed himself secretly out of his own house and walked alone in his Park The Keeper in his night walk hearing one stirring and coming towards him asked who was there but no ans●er made he willed him to stand w●ich when he would not doe the Keeper shot and killed him and coming to see who it was found it to be his Master Id. p. 300. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century XIV HEnry Earl of Essex having let fall and lost the Kings Standard was shorn a Monk and put into the Abbey of Reding and his lands seised to the Kings use Sir Rich. Baker p. 76. When King Henry the second of England and Lewes of France met between Tarwin and Arras there suddainly happened a Thunderbolt to lig●t between them which made them break off their Conference and at another Meeting the like accident again happened Id. Ibid. Certain Fellows having cut off Arch-bishop Beckets Horses Tails after that fact all their Children were born with Tails like Horses and t●is continued long in their posterity Id. p. 82. In the raign of Henry the second there came into England thirty Germans Men and Women who called themselves Publicans who denied Matrimony the Sacraments and other Articles who being obstinate the King commanded to be marked with a hot Iron and whipped which they took patiently the Captain called Gerard singing Blessed are ye when men hate you when they had been whipt they were thrust out of doors in Winter where they died with cold and Hunger no man daring to relieve them Sir R. Baker When Richard the first had made Hugh Pudsey Bishop of Durham and for a great sum sold him the Earldom he said merrily amongst his Nobles Do not ye think me a cunning man that of an old Bishop can make a young Earl Id. p. 90. When King John in a pursuit of love to a daughter of Robert Fitz-water called Maud the fair had received a repu●se she not consenting to the Kings lust he is said to send a Messenger to give her poyson in a poched Egg whereof she died Id. p. 101. When Jeffry Fitz Peter Justitiar of England died who while he lived kept King John in some awe the King hearing of it sware that he was now at length King of England and with great rejoycing said Now when this man comes to Hell let him salute the Archbishop Hubert whom certainly he shall find there Idem p. 103. King John hanged up twenty and eight Welsh pledges for the falseness of their Friends Id. p. 103. A Jew refusing to lend King John Money the King caused every day one of his great teeth to be plucked out by the space of seven dayes and then he was content to give the King ten thousand Marks of Silver that the one tooth which he had left might not be pulled out p. 106. King John by the Monks Historians is represented as an Atheist for saying that after he was reconciled to God and the Pope never any thing prospered with him And that having kill'd a fat Buck should say See how this Deer prospered yet never heard Mass and that sending for aid to the King of Morocco he promised to turn Mahometan Sir Ri. Baker p. 109. In King Johns time there fell Hail-Stones as big as Goose Eggs. 109. One Simon Tharvey a great Scholar for his pride in learning became at last so utterly ignorant that he hardly could read a letter in the Book Id. p. 110. Matthew Paris relates that in the time of King John a Maid in ●eicestershire being exactly watched was found in seven years not to eat or drink but only that on Sundays she received the Communion and yet continued full and in good liking Id. p 131. Simon Montford gave King Henry the third the Lye to his face and that in the presence of all the Lords of whom the King stood in fear for passing on the Thames and suddainly taken with a terrible storm he put on shore on the next stairs w●ich happened to be at Durham house where Montford then lay who coming down to the King told him he need not fear the danger was past No said the King I fear not the thunder so much as I do thee Id. p. 133 Edward the first being Prince and playing when young with a friend at Chess in the midst of his game without any apparent occasion he removed himself from the place where he sate when suddainly there fell from the roof of the House a great Stone which if he had stayed in his place but never so little had beaten out his brains 138. Edward the first calling a Parliament at Salisbury admitted no Church-men in it and Edward the third at another called but four Bishops and five Abbots Id. 133. 185. John Earl of Warren being called on to shew by what Title he held his Land drew out an old rusty Sword and then said He held his Land by that and by that would hold it to his death Id. 146. King Edward the first prohibited Sea-coal to be burned in London and the Suburbs for avoiding the noysome Smoak Sir Rich. Baker p. 147. In a Synod in Edward the firsts da●s it was enacted that no Ecclesiastical person should have more than one benefice with cure of Souls Ibid. In the sixteenth year of Edward the first it chanced at Gascoin that as the King and Queen sate in their ●hamber upon a Bed talking together a Thunder-bolt coming in at a Window behinde them passed betwixt them and slew two of their Gentlemen that stood before them p. 148. In the eigth year of Edward the second a Parliament ordained by reason of a dearth that an Ox fatted with grass should be sold for fifteen shillings fatted with Corn for twenty The best Cow for twelve shilings A fat Hog of two years old for three shillings and four pence A fat sheep shorn one shillings and two pence unshorn one shilling and eight pence A fat Goose two pence half-peny A fat Capon two pence a fat Hen one penny But after this law provisions grew so scarce men not willing to sell that the law was quickly reversed Id. p. 160. When ●dward the third and Philip de Valoys their Armies stood encampt one against another a Hare starting out before the head of the French Army caused a great shoot to be made whereupon they who saw not the Hare but only heard the shoot

Grey at Pomfret had his own head stricken off by the command of Richard Protector at London the same day He was warned that morning by the Lord Stanley to fly his Horse twice or thrice stumbled going to the Tower though he told one Hastings a Pursuivant whom he met not above two hours before his death that he was never more merry nor in greater surety p. 705. Lambert Symnel who was set up as Richard Duke of York the second Son of Edw. the fourth to claim the English Crown after a terrible Battel fought in his quarrel was taken and by King Henry the seventh put first into his Kitchin to turn the Spits and was after advanced to be Falconer in which Office he lived and died Richard the third being as Galba reckoned a good Prince but a bad Man was unnaturally born his Mother being cut with his Feet forward and Teeth in his Head He was contented that Doctor Shaw in a Sermon at Pauls cross should proclaim his own Mother an Adulteress and his two elder Brothers Bastards that he might thereby strengthen his Title to the Crown by which dealing together with the wicked Murder of his two Innocent Nephews he became so hated that after his death the White Boar his Cognizance was torn down from every sign that his Memorial might perish as did the Moneys of Caligula which were all melted by the decree of the Senate Sp. Hist p. 706-725-737 That tempest that drove Philip King of Spain into England threw down the Golden Eagle from Pauls steeple which in its fall battered and broke down the Black Eagle in Pauls Church-yard which accident was held omin●us to the Imperial Family This King Philip the Emperors son shortly after dying As that lighting which struck the letter C out of Caesars name in his statue whence it was gathered that Caesar should live but a hundred dayes and then be called a God Aesar in the old Hetrurian Language so signifying which accordingly happened Sp. p. 76. A Cornish Smith being executed for a treasonable insurrection in the time of Henry the seventh comforted himself with this at his Execution that he hoped thereby his name and memory should be everlasting p. 754. The Earl of Kildare being at Hay with the Lieutenant of the Tower at Shuffleboard when a Mandate was brought for his Execution seeing the Lieutenant strucken into a su●dain sadness said By St. Bride Lieutenant there 's some mad game in that scrole but fall how it will this throw is for a huddle But the Lieutenant applying himself to the King Henry the eigth had a Countermand and the Earls life was saved p. 775. When the Pope held out his Toe to be k●st by the Earl of Wiltshire sent Embassador from Henry the eighth a Spaniel of the Earles caught his toe in his teeth the Embassador scorning to kiss after his Dog lost that especial favour profered to him Speeds Hist p. 782. The total number of the Ecclesiastical Benefices in England is eight thousand three hundred and twenty seven In VVales nine hundred and five In all nine thousand two hundred thirty and two In the year of our Lord 1524. upon certain predictions foreshewing a great deluge Prior Bolton of St. Bartholomews in London was so fearful that he built him an house upon the height of Harrow hill storing it with provisions necessary to keep himself from drowning p. 785. When Oliver Sinclere a man of mean extraction but favourite to King James the fifth of Scotland was by him declared General The Scots Nobility out of disdain forbare to fight and gave up themselves Prisoners to the English For grief of which the King shortly after died Edward the sixth was born of the Lady Jane Seymour her womb being cut and her life lost to save his on whom were made these verses Phoenix Jana jacet nato Phoenice dolendum Saecula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas Speed Hist p. 892. The fire Cross in Scotland is only set up in time of most extream danger unto which all men are to repair that are between sixteen and sixty p. 832. In the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred forty eight one Boyer Mayor of Bodwin in Cornwall having been active in a Rebellion Sir Anthony Kingston Provost Marshal sent word to him he would visit him at Dinner but before he sate down commanded the Mayor to cause a gallows to be set up and the Table taken away he willed the said Mayor to accompany him to the place and saw him hanged ere he departed Id. p. 832. In Cornwall dwelt a Miller who had been a busy doer in the Rebellion vvho knovving his danger willed his Man to take the name of his Master if any enquired for him Sir Anthony Kingston Provost Marshal came to the Mill enquired for the Master the Man in his name presented himself and was straight commanded to the Gallows The Servant then seeing the danger of death confest he was not the Master but the Man Well said the Knight Thou canst never do thy Master better Service than to hang for him and thereupon trust him up a the next tree Speeds Hist p. 833. The Lord Edward Seymor Protector condemned for Felony for coming Armed into the Kings Counsel neither by himself nor learned Counsel demanded his Clergy which would have saved his life p. 838. When Cranmer and others urged King Edward the sixth to let his Sister Mary to have Mass in her house the King having answered all their arguments and they not taking Nay burst forth into tears and sobbing desired them to be content Speed p. 839. Queen Mary was so affected with the loss of Calice that she was wont to say that the loss of Calice was written in her heart and might there be read when her body should be opened p. 856. The head of the Admiral Chastillon murthered in the Massacre at Paris was embalmed and sent by the Queen of France as an acceptable present to the Pope 856. Con O Neale sirnamed Bacco cursed all his Posterity in case they learned English sowed wheat or built them houses p. 863. Doctor Story a bloody persecutor in Queen Maries daies in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth was entrapped at Antwerp where he had got a Commission to search for English books all ships that came in by one Parker an English Merchant Whose Ship Story searching for Heretical books was clapt under Hatches brought into England and there executed for a Traytor Speeds Hist p. 87. Queen Elizabeth told Doctor Reinolds of CCC that her reading of Seneca de Clementia had done her much good but some would perswade her it had done her State as much harm p. 874. England was divided into Parishes by Honorius Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the year of our Lord 636 and there are 9285 Parishes under 27 Bishops whereof two are Metropolitans Canterbury and York in manner following Canterbury Bishopricks Shires Parishes Canterbury Kent 256. Rochester Kent 98. London Essex Middlesex Hartfordshire