was of proof against any Meat objected to his Appetite Lampreys only excepted on a Surfeit whereof he dyed 1135. He had only two Legitimate Children William dying before and Maude surviving him both born in Normandy Thomas fifth Son of King Edward 1. and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife was born at and Sirnamed from Brotherton a Village in this County June the 1st 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England He left no Male Issue but from his Females the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and from them the Earls of Arundel and the Lords Berkley are descended Richard Plantag Duke of York commonly called Richard of Connisborough from the Castle in this Shire of his Nativity was Grandchild to King Edward 3. He Married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer the true Inheritrix of the Crown But tampering too soon and too openly to derive the Crown in his Wives Right to himself by practising the death of the present King he was taken and beheaded for Treason in the Reign of King Henry 5. Edward sole Son to King Richard 3 and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham in this County and was by his Father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a Child of as much Hopes as his Father a Man of Hatred But he consumed away on a sudden dying within a Month of his Mother A Judgment on his Father a Mercy to the Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of him who begot him and a Mercy to all England for had he survived to a Mans Estate he might possibly have proved a Wall of Partition to hinder the Happy Vnion of the two Houses of York and Lancaster Saints St. Hilda Daughter to Prince Hererick Nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland lived in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County and was the Oracle of her Age being a kind of Moderatrix in a Sax. Synode held about the Celebration of Easter The most Learned English Female before the Conquest the She-Gamaliel at whose Feet many Learned Men had their Education This our English Huldah ended her holy life with a happy death 680. St. Benedict Biscop fixed himself in the Dominions of Oswy King of Northumberland and built two Monasteries the one at the influx of the River Were the other at that of the River Tine into the Sea and stockt them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Monks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies He left Religion in England braver but not better then he found it the Gawdiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof His Monastery being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed Being struck with the dead Palsie his Soul retired into the Vpper Rooms of his Clay Cottage much employed in Meditation until the day of his death which happened 703. St. John of Beverly born at Harpham was 33 years and upwards Arch-Bishop of York being bred under Hilda aforesaid and after under Theodorus the Grecian and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Venerable Bede his Scholar wrote his Life and supposed Miracles Being Aged he resigned his Arch-Bishoprick and retired to Beverly where he had Founded a Colledge for which he procured the Freedstool a Sanctuary from King Athelstan He dyed May 7. 722. and was buried in the Porch of his Collegiate Church A Synode held at London 1416. assigned the day of his death an Anniversary Solemnity to his Memory Thomas Plantag was Earl of Darby Lancaster Leicester a popular person and a great enemy to the two Spencers Minions to King Edward 2. who being hated as Devils for their Pride no wonder if this Thomas was honoured as a Saint or Martyr by the common sort Indeed he must be a good Chymist who can extract Saint out of Malefactor and our Chronicles generally behold him put to death for Treason against King Edward 2. But let him pass for a Provincial though no National or Loyal Saint seeing he did not Travel far enough for Romish and too far for English Canonization His beheaded Martyrdom happened at Pontfret 1322. Note Lord Herb. in the Life of King Henry 8. speaking of Reliques The Bell of St. Guthlack and the Felt of St. Thomas of Lancaster both Remedies for the Head-ach must mean this St. Thomas seeing there is no other English of the Name found in any English Martyrology Richard Role alias Hampole from the place of his Holy Life Death and Burial was a Hermite of strict Life He wrote many Books of Piety which I prefer before his Prophetical Predictions as but a degree above Almanack Prognostications He threatned the sins of the Nation with future Judgments and his Predictions if hitting were heeded if missing not marked Having spoken much against the Covetousness of the Clergy of that Age he dyed 1349. Jo. Birlington born in Birlington and bred in Oxford became Canon in the Convent of Birlington where he grew Eminent for exemplary Holiness He refused at first the Office of Prior counting himself unworthy thy thereof but upon the second proffer accepted of it 'T is said Martha and Mary were compounded in him being as pious so provident to husband the Revenues of his house to the best advantage A She-Ancorist accosting him thus Jesus is my Love and you so honour him in your heart that no earthly thing can distract you He replyed I came hither to hear from you some saving and savoury discourse but seeing you begin with such idle talk farewel He dyed 1379. being reputed though I think not Canonized a Saint whose Friend W. Slightholme asked of his friend Jo. aforesaid what might be the reason the Devil appeared so seldom in their dayes c. To whom Jo. replyed We are grown so remiss in Godliness that the Devil needs not put himself to such pains seeing less and lighter Temptations will do the deed William is reported to have been one of singular Piety and to have wrought many Miracles at his Tomb after his death which happened 1380. A certain Maid resisting the sollicitations of a Bravo was by him Murdered her Head being set up on a Yew-Tree at Horton called now Halifax The silly people conceited that the Veins which in form of little threds spread themselves betwixt the Bark and the Body of the said Tree were the very Hairs of the Virgins Head to whom they flocked in Pilgrimage Note the prevalency of Opinion Her reputation for being a Saint is transmitted to Posterity though her name be lost Martyrs The County and generally the Province of York escaped from Popish Persecution which under Gods goodness may be imputed to the tempers of their four succeeding Arch-Bishops Thomas Woolsey who was more Proud then Cruel Edward Lee who persecuted to Imprisonment none to Death save two Robert Holgate who was a parcel-Protestant Nicholas Heath a meek and moderate Man And as there
3. Beauty 4. Seamen 5. Advantagious Weapons 6. Provision 7. Contrivance lastly Government Of Medicinal Waters Tunbridge-Wells are said to be discovered by a Footman to a Dutch Lord observing the Water to be in tast like to the Spaw in Germany Proverbs 1. A Kentish Yeoman That is a Plain Man of Plentiful Estate 2. A Knight of Cales a Genentleman of Wales and a Laird of the North-Country a Yeoman of Kent with his yearly Rent will buy them out all three Knights of Cales were made by Rob. E. of Essex An. 1596. to the number of 60 some whereof were Men of mean Fortunes 3. A Man of Kent This relates to the Liberty or Courage of the Kentish Men. As for the first they know not the Tenure of Villanage as to the latter ever since the time of Canutus till H. 2. they had the Precedency of marching in our English Armies to lead the Van. 4. Neither in Kent nor Christendom 'T is said that H. 4. of Fr. Mustering his Souldiers at the Siege of a City found more Kentish Men therein then Forreigners of all Christendom besides which being but 70 years since cannot be the Original of this Prov. more ancient in use Of England or English Christendom Kent was first converted to the Faith This seems to be the true Original of the â—â—overb According to some it is the Periphrasis of no where Kent being the best place of England Christendom of the World 5. Kentish Long-Tailes There 's a Fable of the Pagans tying Fish-tails to St. Austins backside whilst he was preaching in revenge whereof real tails grew to the hinder-parts of the offenders Some would found the Prov. on this Miracle but the Scene of that Lying Wonder was pretended many Miles off near Cerne in Dors But I conceive it a Note of Disgrace which by Forreigners was first cast upon the English in general For when there hapned a difference in Palestine betwixt Rob. Brother of Lewis K. of Fr. and Will. Longespee E. of Salisbury hear how the French-men insulted O the Cowardliness of these fatal Long-tails How happy how clean would this our Army be were it but purged from Tails and Long-tails Math. Par. p. 790. That the English were hereby nicked appears by the Reply of the Earl The Son of my Father shall press thither to day whither you shall not dare to approach his Horse-tail Some will have the English so called from the Bag they wore behind their Backs whist the Monsieurs had their Lacqueys to carry their Baggage The Proverb continues still in Kent likely because it lyes nearest to France Others will have the Kentish so called from dragging Bows of Trees behind them which afterwards they advanced above their Heads and so partly Cozened partly Threatned K. Will. the Conq. to continue their ancient Customs 6 Kentish Gavel-kind A Custom whereby Lands are equally divided among all the Sons and in default of such among the Daughters that is Give all Kind Kind signifying a Child in the Low-Dutch This practice was derived to our Saxons from the ancient Germans An. 18. H. 6. there was not above 40 Persons in Kent but all their Land was held by this Tenure But on the Petition of divers Gentlemen this Custom was altered by Act of Parl. 31. H. 8. and the Kentish Lands for the most part reduced to an Uniformity with the rest of England 7. Dover Court all Speakers and no Hearers Expressing a tumultuous Court once kept at Dover and implying all irregular Conferences c. 8. The Father to the Bough The Son to the Plough That is tho the Father be Executed for his Offence the Son shall nevertheless succeed to his Inheritance and hold it by the same Services by which his Father did hold the same tho the Goods and Chattels be forfeited But this holds only in Felony and Murder and not in the Case of Treason nor peradventure in Piracy which belongs to the Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty Neither doth it hold where the Offendor will not abide his lawful Tryal For in these Cases the real Estate of the Offendor shall be forfeited 9. Tenterdens Steeple is the Cause of the Breach in Goodwyn Sands It is used in derision when one assigns for the Cause of any Acccident that which is ridiculous and impertinent This Proverb was at first a serious assertion of an old Man of Kent for said he those Sands were firm Lands before that Steeple was built which ever since were overflown with Sea Water And some affirm that the Money which was collected for the Fencing of East Banks against the Eruptions of the Sea was commuted by the B. of Roch. to the Building of Tenterden Steeple By which diversion of the collection the Sea afterwards brake in upon Goodwyn Sands 10. A Jack of Dover that is Food that is unsavoury by reason of frequent dressing Crambe biâ—cocta and is appliable to such who use Tautologies Princes Jo. Eltham 2 Son to K. Ed. 2. by Isab his Queen was born at Eltham and afterwards created E. of Cornwall A Spritely Gentleman He died in the prime of his Age in Scotland An. 10. E. 3. After him all the Younger Sons of Kings were created Dukes except exspiring in their Infancy Bridget of Eltham 4 th Daugh. of K. Ed. 4. and Eliz. his Q. was a Nun at Dartford in this County founded by K. E. 3. Edmund youngest Son to K. Hen. 7. and Eliz. his Q. was born at Greenwich 1495. He was created D. of Som. and died in his Infancy An. 15. H. 7. 1500 at Bish Hatfield in Hartf which then was the Nursery for the Kings Children Henry VIII Son of K. H. 7. born at Greenwich was a Prince in whom great Vertues and no less Vices were in a manner equally contemperated Pol. Virg. He was a Man of an Uncomptrolable Spirit carrying a Mandamus in his Mouth sufficiently sealed when he put his Hand to his Hilt He awed all into Obedience which was Great in a King and Necessary in a Father of his Countrey In a Play of K. Hen. VIII there was a Weak whining Boy that personated that King One of his Fellow Actors perceiving him to Act rather like a Mouse then a Man told him if you speak not HOH with a better Spirit your Parliament will not grant you a penny of Money He died Jan. 28. 1546. v. Lord Herbert's Hist Q. Mary Eldest Daughter to K. Hen. 8. and Q. Kath. of Sp. was born at Greenwich Feb. 18. 1518. She derived a Great Spirit from her Father and her Devotion from her Mother She attained to the Crown by complying with the Gentry of Norf. and Suff. promising them to continue Religion as Established by K. Ed. 6. after the breach of which Promise she never prospered losing successively the Hearts of her Subjects the hopes of a Child the Company not to say Affection of her Husband the City of Calais her Mirth her Health and her Life which ended Nov. 17. 1558. Q.
differences betwixt Christian Princes much time was spent a Mass of Money expended many lives lost some Honour atchieved but little Profit produced Going to Palestine he suffered Shipwrack and many Mischiefs on the coasts of Cyprus coming for England through Germany he was tossed with a worse Land-Tempest being in pursuance of an old grudge betwixt them taken Prisoner by Leopold D. of Austria yet this Caeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted King for so was he commonly called was no less Lion tho now in a Grate then when at Liberty abating nothing of his high Spirit in his Behaviour The Duke did not undervalue his Royal Prisoner prizing his Person at 10 years purchase according to the then yearly Revenue of the English Crown This Ransom of 100000 pounds being paid he came home first reformed himself and then mended many abuses in the Land He was afterwards shot with an Arrow in France 1199. Edmund Youngest Son to King Edward 1. by Queen Marg. was born at Woodstock Aug. 5. 1301. He was afterwards created E. of Kent and was Tutor to his Nephew King Edward 3. In whose Reign he was beheaded at Winchester March 19. for that he never dissembled his Brotherly affection towards his Brother deposed and went about when he was murdered before not knowing so much to enlarge him out of Prison perswaded thereunto by such as covertly practised his Destruction Edward Eldest Son of King Edward 3. was born at Woodstock and bred under his Father in Martial Discipline He was afterwards called the Black Prince from his Atchievements dismal and black as they appeared to the eyes of his Enemies whom he constantly overcame He married Joan Countess of Salisbury and Kent whose Garter which now flourisheth again hath lasted longer than all the Wardrobes of the Kings and Queens of England since the Conquest continued in the Knighthood of that Order This Prince died before his Father at Cant. An. 46. Aet An. Dom. 1376. whose Maiden success attended him to the Grave as never soiled in any undertakings He left 2 Sons Edward and Richard afterward King both born in France Th. of Woodstock Youngest Son of E. 3. and Queen Philippa was Earl of Buck. and Duke of Gloc. created by his Nephew King Rich. who summoned him to Parliament He married Isabel Daughter of Humphrey Bohun E. of Essex in whose Right he became Constable of England He observed the King too nearly and checked him too sharply whereupon he was conveyed to Calis and there Strangled By whose Death King Richard being freed from the causless fear of an Unkle became exposed to the cunning Plots of his Cosen German Henry Duke of Lancaster who at last deposed him This Th. founded a fair Colledge at Playsie in Essex where he was afterwards buried his Body having been since translated to Westminster Anne Beauchamp born at Cavesham was Daughter to Rich. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and married to Rich. Nevil Earl of Sarisbury and Warwick commonly called the Make-King In his own and her Husband 's right she was possessed of 114. Manners Isa her eldest Daughter was married to Geo. Duke of Clarence and Anne her younger to Edward Prince of Wales Son of H. 6. and afterwards to King Richard 3. Her Husband being killed at Barnet fight all her Land by Act of Parliament was setled on her 2 Daughters Being attainted on the account of her Husband she was forced to flye to the Sanctuary at Beauly in Hant-shire and thence to the North where she lived privately and in a mean condition Saints St. Frideswide was born in Oxford being Daughter to Didan the Duke thereof 'T is said that one Algarius a young Noble man was struck blind upon his attempting her Chastity She was afterwards Abbess of a Monastery erected by her Father in the same City which since is become part of Christs Church where her body lyeth buried An. 1. Eliz. the Scholars of Oxford took up the body of the Wife of Pet. Martyr who formerly had been disgracefully buried in a dung-hill and interred it in the Tomb with the dust of this Saint with this Inscription as Saunders affirms Here lyes Religion with Superstition and there was more than 800 years betwixt their several deaths St. Frideswide dying 739 and is remembred in the Romish Calender on 19 Oct. St. Edwold Younger brother to St Edmond King of the E. Angles so cruelly Martyred by the Danes and after his death Edwold being his right Heir declined the Crown and retired to Cornhouse-Monastery at Dorchester where he was interred and had in great veneration for his reputed Miracles after his death which happened 871. St. Edward the Confessor was born at Islip He was afterwards King of England whose Reign was attended with Peace and Prosperity Famous for the first founding of Westminster-Abbey and for many other worthy Atchievements He lived and dyed Single never carnally conversing with St. Edith his Queen which opened a Door for forreign Competitors and occasioned the Conquest of this Nation He died 1065. and lyeth buried in Westminster-Abbey Cardinals Robert Pullen or Bullen came over from Paris in the Reign of Henry 1. when Learning ran low in Oxford He improved his utmost power with the King and Prelates for the restoring thereof He is said to have begun to read the Scriptures at Oxford which were grown out of fashion in England Afterwards Pope Innocent courteously sent for him to Rome Celestine created him Cardinal of St. Eusebius 1144. Lucius 2. made him Chancellor of the Church of Rome He died about 1150. Th. Joyce or Jorce a Dominican and D. D. in Oxford became Provincial of his Order Afterwardes Pope Clement 5. created him Cardinal of St. Sabine He had 6 Brethren Dominicans who altogether were by one uncharitably resembled to the 7. Sons of Seeva which were Exorcists however they may be termed a Week of Brethren whereof this Rubricated Cardinal was the Dominical Letter There want not those who conceive great Vertue in the youngest Son of these seven and that his touch was able to cure the Popes Evill Th. flourished 1310. and he lyes buried in his Convent in Oxford Prelates Herbert Losing born in Oxford Son of an Abbot gave 1900 l. to King William Rufus for the Bishoprick of Thetford having also purchased his Fathers preferment Hence the Verse Filius est Praesul Pater Abbas Simon uterque both being guilty of Simony Herbert afterwards went to Rome no such clean washing as in the water of Tyber and returned thence as free from fault as when first born Thus cleansed from the Leprosie of Simony he removed his Bishoprick from Thetford to Norwich laid the first Stone and in effect finished the fair Cathedral therein and built 5 beautifull Parish Churches He died 1119. See Suff. Owen Oglethorp Pres of Magdalen Colledg Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Carlile in the Reign of Queen Mary crowned Queen Elizabeth which the rest of his Order refused to do and by her deprived for his ensuing
Author saith that from Edge hill one may behold it as the Garden of Eden The Sheep here are very large especially about Warm-Leighton There is a plentiful growth of Ashes in the Woodland of this County and much Coal digged up at Bedworth As for Buildings Coventry sheweth two fair Churches yet such their vicinity that the Arch-Angel eclipseth the Trinity Then St. Maries in Warwick a beautiful Structure owes its life to the Monuments of the dead therein most being Earls of Warwick So numerous is the Church with its Appendances that the Minister can accommodate one Clergy-man of all dignities and degrees to repose them in several Chappels and Vestries by themselves Kenelworth had the strength of a Castle and beauty of a Princes Court a vast and withal a comely Structure the Porch being proportionable to the rest of the Fabrick It was demolished sincâ— the end of the Wars The Castle of Warwick overlooketh the Town being pleasantly Scituated on a rising Hill affording a very fine Prospect mostly of the Lands of the present Owner Robert Lord Brâ—â—k The Cross of Coventry all for Ornament nothing for Superstition was begun 1541 an 33. and finished 1544 36 Henry 8. at the sole cost of Sir William Hollis Lord Mayor of London great Grand-father to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clare The wonders of this County are that at Lemington within two Miles of Warwick there issue out within a stride of the Womb of the Earth two Springs the one salt and the other fresh On Friday April 17 1607. there happened in Coventry such an inundation no considerable Rain preceding that continued for the space of three hours wherein it overflowed more then 250 dwelling houses to the great dammage of the Inhabitants vanishing away as quickly as it did rise and note the City has no River near it save a small Brook over which generally one may make a Bridge with a stride As for Medicinal Waters there is at Newenham a Spring the water whereof drunk with Salt loosneth with Sugar bindeth the Body It is sovereign against Ulcers and Imposthumes and the Stone though Mr. Speed affirms that it turned Wood into Stoâ—e Proverbs I. He is the black Bear of Arden By this is meant Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick a grim person and surly of Resolution who in spite of all opposition caused the death of Pierce Gaveston that Minion of Edward 2. at a Hill within two Miles of Warwick Arden is a Forrest anciently occupying all the Wood-land part of this County 'T is applyed to such who without any other Authority then that of their Countenance or Disposition strike terrour into others II. As bold as Beauchamp Though there was a series of successive undauntedness in the Noble Family of the Earls of Warwick yet I conceive that Thomas first of that name gave the chief occasion to this Proverb He being arrived with King Edward 3. at Hogges in Normandy 1346. was the first man who landed and being followed by one Esquire and six Archers is reported to have fought against a 100 Armed men and in hostile manner to have overthrown every one who withstood him having at one shock slain 60 Normans and removed all resistance so that the Kings whole Army landed in safety The Heirs Male of this name are long since extinct though some deriving themselves from the Heirs general are extant at this day III. The Bear wants a Tail and cannot be a Lion This abated the jealousie the Dutch had of Robert Earl of Leicester descended from the ancient Earls of Warwick Governour of the Low-Countries being suspected to hatch a design of making himself Sovereign Commander over the Low-Countries whilst he diffused his own Coat of the green Lion with two Tails and sign'd all instruments with the Crest of the Bear and Ragged Staff Then it was that this Proverb was written under his Crest set up in publick places Vrsa caret caudâ non queat esse Leo. The Bear he never can prevail To Lion it for lack of Tail It is applyed to such who aspire to what is above their power to atchieve IV. He is true Coventry-blew It seems the best Blews are dyed in Coventry It is applyed to such an one who is a faithful Friend Princes Anne Nevil Daughter and coheir to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick was probably born in Warwick Castle She was Married to Edward Prince of Wales sole Son to Henry 6. afterwards murdered by Richard Duke of Glocester who took to Wife the same Anne She died for grief 1464 though others suspect a Grain was given her for the greater dispatch to another World Edward Plantag Son to George Duke of Clarence was the last Male Heir of the Royal Family His Mother was Isabella eldest Daughter to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick and he was born in Warwick-Castle Being kept close Prisoner by Edward 4. Richard 3. and Henry 7. he was rendred weak in his Intellectuals Upon the proposal of Marriage for Prince Arthur with Katharine Daughter of Ferdinand King of Spain this Edward was taken out of the way to the end all Titles might be cleared The Lady Katharine Dowager was wont to acknowledge the death of her two Sons an ill success of her match as Heavens judgment on her Family for the murdering of this Earl which happened 1499. Saints St. Wolstan born in Long Jetington was Bishop of VVorcester a man of great Candour and an opposer of the French fickleness and the Italian pride for which he was hated by VVilliam the Conqueror and Lanfrak Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and by them commanded to resign his Episcopalibus Upon this the Honest Bishop repaired to the Monument of Edward the Confessor and there offered up his Episcopal Habiliments These said he from you I received and to you I resign them This his plain dealing not only recovered his Bishoprick but also purchased to him the reputation of a Saint He was active in promoting VVilliam Rufus to the Kingdom in prejudice of his eldest Brother Robert Martyrs Laurence Saunders a Priest was Martyred in Coventry February 8. 1555. Robert Glove born at Mancetor Gentleman was Martyred in Coventry September 20. 1555 Cornel Bongey born at Coventry a Capper was Martyred at Coventry September 20 1555. Jo. Carles born at Coventry a Weaver was Martyred at the Kings Bench London Julius Palmer born at Coventry and bred in Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford was burnt in Newbury Confessors John Glover Brother to the aforementioned Robert escaped miraculously whilst his Brother without the intention of his enemies fell into their hands Cardinals VVilliam Macklesfield born 't is said in Coventry was made B. D. in Paris Dr. at Oxford and became General of the Dominican Order He was by Pope Benedict 11. created Cardinal with the Title of St. Sabine but dyed in London before his Cap was brought him yet this chief part of a Cardinal I mean the Cap was with great solemnity set on his Tomb. Peter Petow of an ancient Family flourishing
but none more then John Earl of Rutland to whose Kinsman Roger Earl of Rut. he had formerly been Chaplain Sir George Savil civilly paid him his purchased Annuity of 200 pounds He dyed at Easton Manduit in Northampton-shire the House of Sir Henry Yelverton 1659. Aet 95. Statesmen Sir Robert Car Son to Thomas Laird of Funihurst in the South of Scotland who being active for Mary Queen of Scots was thereupon forced to fly to York was born in this City and therefore he afterwards refused to be Naturalized by Act of Parliament as needless to him being born in the English Dominions 'T is reported that his first making at Court was by breaking of his Leg at Tilting in London whereby he came first into the cognizance of King James who reflected on him whose Father had been a kind of Confessor for the Cause of the Queen his Mother Besides the young Gentleman had a handsome Person and a conveniency of desert Honours were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Sommerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque Ports c. He was a good natur'd Man doing himself more hurt then any Man else For abating one foul Fact with the Consequences thereof notoriously known and he will appear deserving no foul Character to Posterity but for the same he was banished the Court lived and dyed very privately about 1638. Writers Jo. Walbye an Augustinian Provincial of his Order and D. D. in Oxford was a complaisant person being Ingenious Industrious Learned Eloquent Pious and Prudent Though sharp at first against the Wicklevites he soon abated his own edge and though present at a Council held at Stanford by the King against them was not well pleased with all things transacted therein He dyed in York 1393. Jo. Erghom an Augustinian went to Oxford and became an admirable Preacher He renewed the custom of Expounding Scripture in a Typical way which crowded his Church with Auditors being more pleased then edified therewith He wrote many Books and Dedicated them to the Earl of Hereford the same with Edward Duke of Buckingham and flourished under King Henry 7. 1490. Since the Reformation Richard Stock bred in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge was Minister of All-hallowes Breadstreet in London by the space of 32 years till the day of his death where if in Health he omitted not to Preach twice every Lords day with the approbation of all that were Judicious and Religious Dr. Davenant was his constant Auditor whilst lying at London He prevailed with some Companies to put off their wonted Festivals from Mondays to Tuesdays that the Lords day might not be abused by the preparation for such Entertainments Though he Preached often in Neighbouring Churches he never neglected his own being wont to protest That it was more comfortable to him to win one of his own Parish then twenty others Preaching at St. Pauls Cross when young it was ill taken that he reproved the inequality of Rates in the City burdening the Poor to ease the Rich and he was called a Green-Head for his Pains But being put up in his latter dayes to Preach on the Lord Mayors Election and falling on the same Subject he told them That a Gray-Head spake now what a Green-Head said before He dyed April 20. 1626. THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES Nec Perfecte nec Perfunctorie THIS Principality hath the Severn-Sea on the South Irish Ocean on the West and North England on the East divided by a Ditch drawn from the Mouth of Dee to the Mouth of Wie From East to West it is 100 and from North to South 120 Miles The foresaid Ditch is called Claudh-Offa because made by King Offa who Enacted that what Welsh-man soever was found on the East side of this Ditch should forfeit his Right Hand a Law long since Cancelled And the Loyal and Valiant Welsh have for many Ages past enjoyed the same Priviledges with other Subjects of the King of England It was divided into three parts by Roderick the Great about the year 877. and allotted to his three Sons 1. North-Wales 2. Powis 3. South-Wales Whose Princes chiefly resided at 1. Aberfrow 2. Mathraval 3. Dynefar This Division proved the Confusion of Wales whose Princes were always at War not only against the English but mutually with themselves to enlarge and defend their Dominions Of these Three north-North-Wales was the Chief being left to Mervin eldest Son to Roderick aforesaid the Princes whereof by way of Eminency were stiled the Princes of Wales and sometimes Kings of Aberfrow paid to the King of London yearly 63 pounds by way of Tribute the same sum being like wise paid to the said King by the Princes of Powis and south-South-Wales However South-Wales called by the Natives Deheubarth i. e. the Right-side because nearer the Sun was of the three the largest richest and most fruitful But this Country being constantly infested with the Invasions of the English and Flemings had North-Wales preferred before it as more entire and better secured from such Annoyances Hence it is that the Welsh-Tongue retaineth the purity thereof only in North-Wales The Soil mostly rising up into Hills and Mountains is of a lean and hungry Nature yet is the ill quality recompenced by the good quantity thereof Whence it was that a Worshipful Knight in Wales who had a fair Estate therein said to an English Gentleman who bragged that he had in England so much Ground worth 40 Shillings an Acre You have 10 yards of Velvet and I have 200 of Frize I will not exchange with you However there are in Wales most pleasant Meadows along the sides of Rivers and as the sweetest Flesh is said to be nearest the Bones so most delicious Vallies are interposed betwixt these Mountains The Inhabitants are Healthful Strong Swift and Witty which is imputed to the clear and wholsome Air of the Mountains the cleanly and moderate Diet of the people and the hardness whereunto they are inured from their infancy Of Natural Commodities there is Silver whereof Cardigan-shire yields Royal Mines in these Mountains viz. Comsomelock Tallabant Gadarren Bromfloid Geginnon and Cummerrum The Romans began to Mine here as appears by their Coynes found therein working in Trenches about 24 Fathom deep and found plenty of Lead The Danes and Saxons wrought 100 Fathom deep and found great plenty of the same till their Works were drown'd with water Customer Smith about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth discovered Silver in Comsomelock After his death the design was prosecuted and more perfected by Sir Hugh Middleton Knight Coyning the Silver to his great Charge as his Predecessor had done at the Tower After whose death Sir Francis Godolphin of Cornwal Knight and Thomas Bushel Esquire undertook the Work King Charles I. granted to them power of Coinage at Aberrusky in that County Thomas Bushel Sir Francis dying and Comsomelock being deserted adventured on the other five Mountains and at last these Mines yielded 100 pounds a Week besides Lead amounting to
Countries fail she plentifully feedeth them with Provision and is said to afford Corn enough to sustain all Wales Nor is she less happy in Cattle then Corn. II. Crogging Crogging The Original of this by word was in dayes of King Henry 2. who had many men slain by the Welsh at Croggen-Castle The English afterwards used it as a Provocative when they had the Welsh at an advantage It is now without cause uttered in disgrace of the Welsh though originally it was expressive of their Honour Prelates Guido de Mona that is of Anglesey was Bishop of St. Davids and Lord Treasurer of England under King Henry 4. though the Parliament moved that no Welshman should be a State Officer in England He dyed 1407. Arthur Bulkley Bishop of Bangor though bred Dr. of the Laws never read or forgot the Chapter de Sacrilegio for he spoyled the Bishoprick and sold the five Bells being so over-officious that he would go down to the Sea to see them Shipped He was suddenly deprived of his sight and dyed 1555. William Glyn D. D. bred in and Master of Queens-Colledge in Oxford was an 2. Mary preferred Bishop of Bangor An excellent Scholar being constant to his own and not cruel to opposite judgments he caused no persecution in his Diocess He dyed an 1. Elizabeth whose Brother Jeffrey Dr. of Laws built and endowed a Free School at Bangor Since the Reformation Rouland Merrick Dr. of Laws was born at Bodingan bred at Oxford where he became Principal of New-Inn-hall and afterwards a Dignitary in the Church of St. Davids He procured the imprisonment of Robert Ferrar his Diocesan in the dayes of King Edward 6. who was afterwards Martyred in the Reign of Queen Mary Mr. Merrick was Consecrated Bishop of Bangor an 2. Elizabeth 1559. He was Father to Sir Gilly Merrick Knight who lost his life for engaging with the Earl of Essex 1600. Lancelot Bulkley was born of a then Right Worshipful since Honourable Family one of whose fair Habitations is near Beumaris He was bred in Brazen-Nose-Colledge in Oxford and afterwards became first Arch-Deacon and then Arch-Bishop of Dublin October 3. 1619. Soon after he was made by King James one of his Privy Counsel in Ireland He dyed about 16. Seamen Madoc Son to Owen Gwineth ap Griffith ap Conan and Brother to Dav. Prince of north-North-Wales was born probably at Aberfraw then the principal Palace of their Royal residence He 1170. made a Voyage Westward and probably those names of Cape de Breton Norvinberg and Pengwin in part of the Northern America were Reliques of his discovery BRECKNOCK-SHIRE BRecknock-shire hath Radnor-shire on the North Cardigan and Carmarthen-shire on the West Glamorgan-shire on the South Hereford and Monmouth-shire on the East In length 28 and in breadth 20 miles The fruitfulness of the Vallies in this Shire maketh amends for the barrenness of the Mountains Brecknock the chief Town hereof doth at this present time afford the Title of an Earl to James Duke of Ormond the first that ever received that Dignity About 400 years since a Daughter of Gilb. and Maud Becket and Sister to Thomas Becket was by King Henry 2. bestowed in Marriage on one Butler an English Gentleman Him King Henry sent over into Ireland and endeavouring to expiate Beckets blood rewarded him with large Lands so that his Posterity were created Earls of Ormond In this County there is plenty of Otters in Brecknock Meer the Wool whereof is much used in making of Beavers As for Wonders 't is reported by Speed that Cloaks Hats and Staves cast down from the top of an Hill called Mouchy Denny or Cadier Arthur and the North-East Rocks would never fall but were with the air and wind still returned back and blown up again nor would any thing descend save a Stone or some metallin substance When the Meer Lynsavathan within two Miles of Brecknock hath her frozen Ice first broken it yields a thundering noyse and there is a Tradition that where that Meer spreadeth its waters stood a fair City till swallowed up by an Earthquake which is not improbable first because all the Highways of this County do lead thither secondly Ptolemy doth place in this Tract the City Loventrium which Mr. Cambden could not recover and therefore likely to be drown'd in this Pool the rather because Levenny is the name of the River running by it Saints St. Canoch Cadock Sons and Keyne Daughter to Braghan King builder and namer of Brecknock who had 24 Daughters all Saints though only St. Keyne survived flourished about 492. of whom St. Cadock is reported a Martyr and all had in high Veneration amongst the people of South-Wales St. Clintanke was King of Brecknock It happened that a Noble Virgin gave it out That she would never Marry any man except the said King who was so zealous a Christian A Pagan Souldier purposely to defeat her desire killed this King who left behind him the reputation of a Saint Prelates Giles de Bruse born at Brecknock was Son to William de Bruse Baron of Brecknock a prime Peer in his time This Giles became Bishop of Hereford and in the Civil Wars sided with the Nobility against King John on which account he was banished but at length returned and recovered the Kings favour His Paternal Honour and Inheritance was devolved upon him and from him after his death transmitted to his Brother Reginald who Married the Daughter of Leoline Prince of Wales His Effigies on his Tomb in Hereford Church holdeth a Steeple in his hand whence it is concluded that he built the Belfree of that Cathedral He dyed 1215. Since the Reformation Thomas Howel born at Nangamarch bred Fellow of Jesus-Colledge in Oxford became a most meek man and excellent Preacher His Sermons like the waters of Siloah did run softly gliding on with a smooth stream King Charles I. made him Bishop of Bristol He dyed 1646. leaving many Orphan Children behind him I have been told that the Honourable City of Bristol hath taken care for their comfortable Education Statesmen Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham set up King Richard on the Throne endeavouring afterwards in vain to depose him the King compassing him into his clutches through the treachery of Humphrey Banister the Dukes own Servant the Sheriff siezing him in Shrop-shire where he was digging of a Ditch in a disguise He was beheaded at Sarisbury without any Legal Tryal 1484. Memorable Persons Nesta Daughter to Gruffin Prince of Wales and Wife to Bernard of Newmarch a Noble Norman and Lord by Conquest of this County was an Harlot to a young Gentleman Mahel her Son having got this Stallion into his hands used him very hardly wherewith Nesta being madded came into open Court and on her Oath before King Henry 2. publickly protested that Mahel was none of Newmarch his Son but begotten on her in Adultery This if true spake her dishonesty if false her perjury true or false her Peerless impudency Hereby she disinherited Mahel
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.
2500 l. besides Jewels Writers Lamfrid of Winch. a Famous Doctor flourished 980. Wolston of Winch. a Learned good and Eloquent Man tho his Eloquence was confined to Poetry flourished An. 1000. Jo. of Rasingstoak Arch-Deac of Leic. went to Athens where he heard the Lectures of Constantine a Noble Woman not 20 years old of the Mysteries of Nature He was the first Restorer of Greek in Engl. He was the Author of many Works and dyed 1252. Jo. of Hide wrote Of the patience of Job and of his own Convent besides Homilies He flourished An. 1284. Will. Lillie born at Odiam Mr. of St. Pauls School wrote a Lat. Grammer revised by Erasmus He flourished An. 1522. Will. Alton a Dominican in his Sermons avouched the Blessed Virgin tainted with Original Sin He flourished An. 1330. Since the Reformation Mich. Reneger bred in Oxf. wrote a Book in defence of Ministers Marriage Th. Sternhold was Servant to H. 8. and a Legatee in his Will by which 100 Marks were left to him as Groom of the Robes He was also one of the Bed-Chamber to E. 6. He Translated 37 Psalms into English Meeter which with the rest have been called by some Geneva Giggs and 't is no wonder Libellous Verses or Songs were made on the Translaters of the Psalms seeing Drunkards made them on David the Author thereof He dyed An. 1549 before the Reign of Queen Ma. Dav. Whitehead bred in Oxf. fled in the days of Queen Ma. into Frankford where he was in great esteem In the Reign of Queen Eliz. he refused the Arch-bishoprick of Cant. out of a desire of Privacy and the Master-Ship of Hospital of the Savoy which had he been disaffected to the Government he might have accepted without Subscription but would not affirming he could live plentifully on the Preaching of the Gospel Being a great Divine he was chosen 1. Eliz. one of the Disputants against the Popish Bishops His many Books extant testify his Learning and Religion When the Queen told him She loved him the better because he was unmarried In truth Madam said he with a Conscientious Bluntness I love you the worse because you are unmarried He dyed An. Dom. 1571. Nich. Fuller Minister of Allington was an Excellent Linguist and his Books found good regard beyond the Seas where they were reprinted Drusius charged him for being his Plagiary tho Mr. Fuller had never seen any of his Works He was Eminent for his Humility and dyed 1626. Th. James born in the Isle of Wight D. D. and Keeper of the Library in Oxf. was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parl. of Oxf. 1 Car. where he made a Motion that some might be Commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all English Libraries for detecting Popish Editions He was Sub-Dean of Wells and dyed 1628. Ch. Butler wrote a Book of Musick an English Grammer and a Treatise of Bees whence were made these Lines Aut a Consiliis Apibus Butlere fuisti Aut a Consiliis est Apis ipsa tuis He was a Pious Man painful Preacher and solid Divine Witness his Book of the Marriage of Cousen Germans approved by Dr. Prideaux He dyed about 1640. Romish Exile Writers Rich. White born at Basingstoak proceeded Dr. of the Laws in Padua were he was afterwards Regius Professor He wrote amongst other Books a British and English History He was made Priest and was alive at Doway 1611. Jo. Pits D. D. born near Alton after much Writing and Travelling was Confessor to the Dutchess of Cleve One Book of his de Illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus survived him having caused all the rest to be Buried with himself And because that single Book Treated of a Subject handled by many he with his Base sets off this Treble viz. Pits the Drone Leland the Bee and Bale the Wasp make up Three He was at first Nephew to Sanders and at last Dean of Liverdunâ— in Lorrain where he dyed 1616. Benefactors since the Reformation Sir Will. Doddington Sher. of this County An. 3. Jac. restored to the Church the Impropriations which be held The Almighty God Polished him with the sharp Instruments of Affliction He dyed about 1638. Jos Diggons a Dutch-man lived at Whetham became Barrester and by his Will bequeathed to Clare-hall in Camb. where he had been bred his Real Estate to the value of 130 l. per An. for the founding of Fellowships c. He dyed 1658. Memorable Persons One at Stockbridge made a Plough which drawn by Dogs and managed by one Man could Till in one Day nigh an Acre of Light-ground in this County But these were brought up to their Trade I have heard of a Race of Beagles about Portsmouth that were Artists in hunting of Moles tho they had never served an Apprentiship Note that H. Ep. Winton Cardinalis Angliae An. 1445. was Son of Jo. of Gaunt and the Popes Legate or General who led an Army into Bohemia Hertford-shire HErtford-Shire is so called from Hertford the chief City therein which gives a Hart c. for its Arms it hath Essex on the E. Middlesex on the S. Buckingham on the W. Bedford and Cambridge on the N. and is almost a Square of 20 Miles The Garden of England for Delight The Soyle tho fittest for a crop of Wood bears good Grain Of Buildings 1. Theobalds once in greatest Credit was built by Sir William Cecil Lord Treasurer of England and by his Son exchanged with K. James for 2. Hatfield-house which was at first the Bishops of Ely then the Kings afterwards the Earls of Salisbury and is inferior to none in England being proud of the adjoyning Vineyard the English Tempe Of Medicinal Waters there is one Well near Barnet that springs from Allomveins The Water coagulateth Milk and the Curd thereof is an excellent Plaister for green Wounds Proverbs 1. Hertford-shire clubs and clouted Shoon 2. Hertford Hedge-hogs Whereof there is plenty in this County whose nudling on the Earth may serve as a Metaphor for Covetousness 3. Hertford-shire kindness This is taken for a mutual return of Favours Princes William Second Son of K. E. 3. was born at Hatfield An. 9. E. 3. 1335. and died within a few days after Edmund of Langley Fifth Son to E. 3. was created Earl of Cambridge An 36. E. 3. and Duke of York An. 9. R. 2. He married Isabel Daughter and Coheir of Peter K. of Castile and they lye buried at Langley together He had Richard Duke of York to his eldest and died An. 1402. Edmund of Haddam Son to Q. Katherine by Owen Theodor half-brother to H. 6. and Father to H. 7. was solemnly created Earl of Richmond at Reading An. 31. H. 6. He died 1456. 'T is said the fair Cathedral of St Davids was spared in the days of H. 8. for the Monument of this Prince which was in the Quire as the Church of Peterborough was saved by the Corps of Q. Katherine Dowager Others say the Earl was buried at Carmarthen Saints St. Alban
to Trin. Coll. In the visitation of Camb. he was very active in burning the bones of Bucer being then Elect B. of Chichester He no sooner put on his Episcopal Ring but presently began to wash his hands in the blood of poor Martyrs An. 1. Eliz. he was deprived He dyed in Restraint 1560. Since the Reformation Ja. Pilkinton D. D. of ancient Family before the Conquest when the chief of them then sought for disguised himself a Thresher has for his Motto Now thus now thus in allusion to the head of the Flail or to himself embracing the safest condition for the present He was bred in Camb. and fled an 1. Mar. into Germ. where he wrote a Comment on Ecclesiastes and both the Epistles of St. Peter After his return he was preferred an 1. Eliz. B. of Durham And 9 years after the Northern Rebels came to Durham and tore the English Liturgy The Bishop had fared no better if they had found him When the Rebellion was suppressed the Bishop commenced a Suit against Q. Eliz. for the Lands and Goods of the Rebels attainted in the Bishoprick as due to him But the Parliament interposing on special consideration pro hoc tempore Adjudged them to the Queen He died 1576. Edwin Sandys was born at Conisby v. Eccl. Hist Rich. Barnes born at Bolde and bred in Oxf. was Suffr B. of Nott. then B. of Carlile 1570 and at last of Durham A Man of good Nature but abused by his Credulity and Affection to his Brother Jo. Chancellor of his Diocess who permitting base and dishonest persons to escape Scot-free for a piece of Money was the cause of good Mr. Gilpins's suspension yet the Bp. restored him afterwards and thus accosted him Father Gilpin I acknowledge you are fitter to be B. of Dur. then my self to be Parson of this Church of yours I ask forgiveness for my errors passed Forgive me Father I know you have hatched up some Chickens that now seek to pick out your eyes but so long as I shall live Bp. of Dur. be secure no man shall injure you He died in 88. Jo. Woolton born at Wiggin fled in Q. Maries daies and after his Return was made Bishop of Exeter 1579. He endited Letters full of Wisdom and Piety not 2 hours before his death An. 1593. His daughter was married to Fr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford Mathew Hutton Marg. Professor and B. D. 1561 was chosen Bishop of Durham 1589. Translated to York 1594. He died 1605. V. Eccl. Hist He gave 100 marks to Trinity College in Cambridge and Founded a Hospital at Wareton in this County A learned and Pious Prelate Martin Heton Canon of Christ Church was made Bishop of Ely by Q. Elizabeth 't is supected he used Simoniacal compliance He was the best House-keeper in that See within Mans remembrance He died 1609. leaving two Daughters married in those Knightly Families of Fish and Filmer Rich. Bancroft bred in Camb. was made by Q. Elizabeth B. of Lond. by K. James Arch-bishop of Cant. A great Statseman and grand Champion of Church Discipline He was so habituated to the Poisons of malicious Tongues that they became Food unto him Once a Gentleman presented to him a Libel which he found pasted on his Door Who nothing moved thereat Cast it said he to 100 more which lye here on a heap in my Chamber Many a Lye-bel or loud Lye was made upon him He cancelled his first Will wherein he left much to the Church whereof a Scurrillous Pen He who never repented of doing Ill Repented that once he had made a God Will. Whereas indeed suspecting a popular violence on Cathedrals and fearing an Alienation of what was bequeathed unto them he thought fit to cancell his own to prevent others cancelling his Testament For by his second Will he gave the Library at Lambeth to the University of Cambridge in case the Archiepiscopal See should be extinct Which Clause secured that Library in the late Wars He died An. 1610. and lyeth buried at Lambeth Th. Jones bred in Cambridge commenced D. D. in Dublin and was made B. of Meath 1584. and one of the Privy Council to Q. Elizabeth in Ireland He was translated to be Arch-bishop of Dublin 1605. and by K. James made Chanc. of Ireland Sir Roger his Son was by K. Charles created Viscount Renelaugh Rich. Parr bred in Oxford was preferred B. of Man by the E. of Darby Lord thereof He died 16 Souldiers Sir Will. Molineux Knight of Sefton was at the Battel of Navarret in Spain made Knight Banneret by Ed. the Black Prince An. 1367. He died at Cant. 1372. Whose descendant Sir Will. Molineux Junior flourishing under H. 8. brought the strength of this County to the Succour of the D. of Norfolk with whom he performed signal service in Flodden-field Writers Hugh of Manchester first a Dominican then a Franciscan having discovered an Impostor wrote a Book de Fanaticorum deliriis dedicating the same to E. 1. who sent him Ambassador to Philip K. of France to demand Lands which were detained from him in Aquitain He died 1294. Rich. Vlverston a great Antiquary bred at Oxford wrote a Book entituled the Articles of Faith He died probably about 1434. Th. Penketh D. D. in Oxford so deep a Scotist and of so great a Memory that had all the Books of Scotus been lost he was reported by Forraigners able to restore them every word He was Professor at Padua and after his return Provincial of the Augustinians in England He died and was buried in London 1487. Jo. Standish wrote a Book against the Translation of the Bible into English and presented it to the Parliament He died 1556 near the end of Q. Mary Since the Reformation Th. Leaver B. D. in Cambridge fled in the Marian days and became Pastor of the English Exiles at Arrow in Switz He wrote a Book entitled The right path way to Christ He died after his return into England 1558. Will. Whitaker born at Holme died 1596. V. Eccl Hist Alexander Nowell born at Read of a Knightly Family and bred in Oxford narrowly escaped being catched by Baner whilst he himself was catching of Fish being conveyed beyond the Seas by one Fr. Biwyer Merch. and leaving behind him a Bottle of Ale on the Grass which afterwards was found no Bottle but a gun such the sound at the opening thereof which is believed the Original of Bottle-Ale in Engl. Returning An. 1 Elizabeth he was made Dean of St Pauls and for his Meekness Learning Prudence and Piety the then Parliament enioyned him to make a Catechisme for publick use He was Confessor to Q. Elizabeth He gave 200 l per An. to maintain 13 Scholars in Brazen-nose College He died at 90 years of age not decayed in sight 1601. Joh. d ee Dr. in Oxford was an excellent Mathematician and well skilled in natural Magick and therefore by ignorant people suspected to be a Conjurer which occasioned the seising of his Library and his leaving 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
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
of Stamford was descended from the ancient Family of the Browns of Toll-Thorp in this County He built the beautiful Steeple with a great Part of the Church in Stamford where he lyeth buried He erected An. 1493. the Old Bead-house in that Town to which he gave the Mannor of Swayfeld worth 400 l. per An. c. Since the Reformation Jo. Harington Senior son to Sir Ja. was born at Exton the residence of that ancient Family He divided his eminent Hospitality betwixt Rutland and Warwick-shire He was a grand benefactor to Sidney-College King Ja. created him Baron of Exton his Lady was Governess to Princess Elizabeth whom this Lord afterwards attended when she went over to be married to Frederick Prince Palatine after which he died at Wormes in Germany 1613. The Lord Jo. his Son did not survive him a year both of them signally eminent the one a Pattern for all good Fathers the other for all gracious Sons Thus the Male issue of that Honorable Family expired Memorable Persons Jeffrey born in Okeham never arrived at a full ell in stature tho his Father was a proper man and was presented to the Dutchess of Buckingham as a very great Rarity being then but a foot and a half in height and a very well proportioned dwarf about 9 years of Age. The Dutchess raised him to a considerable degree of Eminency when after many special marks of her Favour she caused him to be presented in a cold baked pye to King Charles and Queen Mary at an Entertainment Hence living at Court he grew so high that he lookt not down upon his Father until by a sound correction at the Kings command his Mind was reduced into somewhat nearer proportion with his Body He was a Captain in the Army in the late civil Wars and afterwards went over to wait on the Queen in France He shot one Mr. Crofts who had prvoked and accounted him the object rather of his contempt than Anger whereupon he was imprisoned And so I take my leave of Jeffery the least Man of the least County in England Noted Sheriffs An. 16. Christopher Brown Arm. came with King Henry 7. monarch Q. Eliz. and assisted him against King Richard 3. for which good Service King Henry 8. by Letters Patents Granted to Francis Brown Son of this Sheriff That he should not be impanelled on any Jury nor serve in Office of Sheriff or Escheator in any County and also that he should be covered in the Kings presence Tolethorpe the chief place of residence at this day of Christopher Brown Esq who bore the Office of Sheriff in this County 1647 was by Deed conveyed to Jo. Brown by Th. Burton Knight An. 15. Edward 3. There was Brown Lord Mayor of London 1479. the Son of Jo. Brown of Oakham Shrop-shire SHrop-shire hath Cheshire on the North. Stafford-shire on the East Worcester Hereford and Radnor-shire on the South Montgomery and Denby-shire on the West It is in length 34 and in breadth 26 miles A large and lovely County generally fair and fruitful plentifully producing all things necessary for mans sustenance but chiefly abounding with Iron and Coale at Mendip Bedworth c. As for Manufactures the County has none her Original but is supplied with Welsh-Freeses brought to Oswastre the Staple of that commodity For Buildings Shrop-shire may seem on the West divided from Wales with a Wall of continued Castles Mr. Speed who alloweth 186 Castles in England accounteth 32 in this County which having been formerly serviceable whilst Shrop-shire was the Verge of English Dominions are now neglected this Shire being almost in the midst of England since Wales was annexed thereunto Of the Houses of the Gentry many are Fair and handsome none amount to an extraordinary Eminency In this Shire there is a Spring at Pitchford which hath an oyly matter upon the Water thereof which being Bituminous is a great comfort to the Nerves Proverbs I. He that fetcheth a Wife from Shrewsbury must carry her into Stafford-shire or else must live in Cumberland That is a Shrew must be beaten with a Staff c. II. The Case is altered quoth Plowden 'T is said that Plowden a great Lawyer of this County being of the Romish Perswasion some Setters trapanned him pardon the Prolepsis to hear Mass but afterwards Plowden understanding that the Pretender to Officiate was no Priest but a Lay-man on design to make a Discovery O! the Case is altered quoth Plowden No Priest no Mass Princes Richard Plantagenet Second Son to King Ed. 4. and Eliz. his Queen was born at Shrewsbury 1472. He was created Duke of York and affianced to Anne Daughter and Heir to Jo. Mowbray D. of Norfolk but before the Nuptials were Solemnized his cruel Uncle the Duke of Glocester married him to a Grave in the Tower of London The obscurity of his Burial gave the advantage to the report that he lived in Perkin Warbeck one of the Idols which put Henry 7. to some Danger and more Trouble before he could finally suppress him Geo. Plantag Youngest Son to E. 4. and Eliz. his Queen was born at Shrewsbury and lived but a very short time being like Plautus his Solstitial Flower Qui repentinò ortus repentinò occidit Saints St. Milburgh Daughter to Meroaldus Prince of Mercia gave the fair Mannor of Wenlock in this County which was assigned to her for his Portion to the Poor and living a Virgin she built a Monastery in the same place answering her Name which being interpreted is Good to Burgh or Town She died about 664. Some 400 years after in the Reign of W. the Conqueror her Corps discovered by Miracles wrought thereby is said to have been taken up sound and uncorrupted St. Oswald King of Northumberland was slain by Penda the Pagan King of the Mercians at a place called after his name Oswaldstre in this County 635. He had been always Pious and exceeding charitable to the Poor His Arm cut off it seems from the rest of his Body remained said Bede whole and incorrupted kept in a Silver Case in St. Pet. Church at Bamborough whilst his Corps was first buried at Peterborough and afterwards in the Danish Persecution translated to Bergen in Flanders where it still remaineth The 5 th of August in our Calender was consecrated to his Memory save that the Thanksgiving for Gowrie's Conspiracy made bold to justle him out all the Reign of King James Confessors Th. Gataker a Branch of an ancient Family at Gataker-Hall in this County from the time of King Edward the Confessor was bred in the Temple and afterwards present at the Examination of persecuted People in the Reign of Queen Mary Their hard usage made him pity their persons and admirable Patience to approve their Opinions His Parents perceiving his inclination used all possible means to divert the same by sending him beyond the Seas and providing liberally for him then these proving ineffectual by recalling his Person and reducing his Allowance all which would
I say touching whose design was not to enrich himself but impoverish the Enemy He left Impressions of his Valour and Mercy in all places where he came Queen Elizabeth an 1592. honoured him with the Dignity of the Garter When King James came first out of Scotland to York he attended him with such an Equipage that he seemed rather a King then Earl of Cumberland Here happened a Contest between the Earl and the Lord President in the North about carrying the Sword before the King in York which Office was finally adjudged to the Earl as belonging to him and whilst Clifford's Tower is standing in York that Family will never be forgotten His Anagram was as really as literally true Georgius Cliffordius Cumberlandius Doridis regno clarus cum vi fulgebis He dyed 1605. leaving one Daughter and Heir the Lady Anne Married to the Earl of Dorset Physicians Sir George Ripley born at Ripley was Canon of Bridlington in this County He went over into Italy and there studied 20 years together in pursuance of the Philosophers Stone and found it an 1470. as some collect from his words Inveni quem diligit Anima mea An English Gentleman of good credit reported that he saw a Record in the Isle of Malta which declares that Sir George Ripley gave yearly to those Knights of Rhodes 100000 pounds towards maintaining of the War against the Turks This vast Donation might easily induce one to think that he was Eques Auratus though indeed never more then Sir Priest and Canon of Bridlington Returning home he became a Carmelite-Anchorite at Boston in Lincoln shire where he wrote 25 Books his Compound Alchymy carrying away the credit of all the rest It makes mention of the 12 Gates leading to the making of the Philosophers Stone viz. Calcination Solution Separation Conjunction Putrefaction Congelation Cibation Sublimation Fermentation Exaltation Multiplication Projection But all this was but a Project with a Termination for because things did not answer his expectation I understood by my Author's Information that Sir George made afterwards a solemn Recantation He dyed about 1492. Thomas Johnson born near Hull was an Apothecary in London the best Herbalist in his Age. He made Additions to Gerard He was of great Modesty as being both more Learned and Valiant then he pretended to be After he was made Honorary Doctor in Oxford he performed a dangerous piece of service at Basing-house at the Siege of which he afterwards lost his Life on the Loyal side in the late Wars 1644. Writers Alphred of Beverly bred in Cambridge and Treasurer of the Convent at Beverly wrote a Chronicle from Brutus to the time of his own death which happened 1136. W. of Rievaulx a Monk of Rushford wrote an History of his own Age and dyed 1146. St. Ealread the Pious and Learned Abbot of Rivaulx was intimate with Dav. King of Scotland and many persons of prime Quality He had an active Soul which he employed for the benefit of the publick He is generally accounted the English St. Bernard and wrote de Virginitate Mariae de Abusionibus Claustri He refused several Bishopricks c. proffered to him and dyed 1166. Whose Deacon Walter Daniel trod in his Masters foot-steps and wrote on the same subject De Virginitate Mariae He flourished under King Henry 2. and was buried in his own Abbey Robert the Scribe Prefect of the Canons Regulars at Bridlington was extolled by Erasmus for his fair and fast Writing Having left many Books to Posterity he dyed about 1180. and was buried in his Convent Peter of Rippon Canon of that Colledge wrote a Book of the Life and Miracles of St. Wilfred the Founder thereof There was a narrow place in his Church through which chaste persons might easily pass whilst the incontinent did stick therein Many suspected persons did prick their credit who could not thred his Needle I confess there might be some such narrow place the occasion as well as Touch-stone of incontinency over which this Inscription had been proper Aut inveniam aut faciam Libidinosas The Steeple of this Church was blown down the fall whereof beat down the Chancel Peter flourished 1190. under King Richard 1. W. of Newborough born at Bridlington was Canon Regular of Newborough A fierce little Man He charged Jeffrey of Monmouth with Forgery and denies that there ever was such a Man as King A thur c. 'T is said he was out of humour because Dav. Prince of Wales denied him the See of St Asaph So it seems for William himself can tell an incredible story and therefore its likely he would not have charged a Falshood upon another for the sake of Truth only He affirmeth That in the place of the slaughter of the English nigh Battaile in Sussex if peradventure it be wet with any small showre presently the Ground thereabouts sweateth forth very Blood though it be the quality of the Soyl naturally reddish and nothing else He flourished under King John 1200. Roger Hoveden of an Illustrious Family bred in the Study of the Civil and Canon Laws became a most accomplished Courtier under King Henry 2. He is the chief if not sole Lay-Historian of his Age writing a Chronicle beginning where Bede ended continuing the same until the fourth of King John by which Chronicle King Edward 1. did partly clear his Title to the Crown of Scotland He flourished 1204. Jo. of Halifax commonly called De Sacro Bosco was bred in Oxford then in Paris the prime Mathematician of his Age. All Students of Astronomy enter into that Art through the door of his book De Sphaerâ He dyed an 1256. Robert the Searcher a Dominican great Mathematician and Philosopher is reported to have lighted his Candle at the Devils Torch to seek after such secrets as he did desire Witness his Book of Ceremonial Magick He flourished under King Edward 2. 1326. Thomas Castleford was a Benedictine in Pontfract whereof he wrote an History from a Ask a Saxon the first Proprietor to the Lacies from whom that Lordship descended to the Earls of Lancaster He flourished about 1326. Jo. Gower born at Stitenham of a Knightly Family was first a Student in the Law then a Poet and was the first Refiner of the English Tongue But it seems he was made a Judge in his old Age. He may be called the English Homer having grown stark blind with Age. He wrote amongst other Books Speculum Meditantis in French Confessio Amantis in English Vox Clamantis in Latine He dyed 1402. Jo. Marre born at Marre bred in Oxford a Carmelite of great Learning was praised by Trithemius and others chiefly for his writing against J. Wickliffe He dyed 1407. and was buried in Doncaster Thomas Gascoigne younger Brother to Sir William Lord Chief Justice was born at Huntfleet and bred D. D. in Bal. Colledge in Oxford He was Commissioner of that University 1434. He was a great follower of St. Hierom whose Life he wrote He Composed a
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
half as much Coyned at Aberrusky aforesaid The Pence Groats Shillings Half-Crowns c. of this Silver had the Ostrich Feathers the Arms of Wales stamped on them The Civil Wars discomposed all the Work I will add no more but only make mention of that ingenious invention whereby the Miners are supplyed with fresh Air This is done by two Mens blowing wind with a pair of Bellows on the outside of Adit into a Pipe of Lead daily lengthned as the Mine is made longer whereby the Candle in the Mine is daily kept burning and the diggers recruited constantly with a sufficiency of breath There is Lead found in many places of Wales but in Carnarvan-shire the best Plenty of Goats are bred here especially in Montgomery-shire As for Manufactures the British generally bearing themselves high on the account of their gentile extraction are better pleased in the employment of their Valour then Labour and therefore there are only those few that follow Frieze of which Henry Prince of Wales having a Suit and being checkt by a bold Courtier for wearing the same many Weeks together Would said he that the Cloth of my Country would last alwayes Then Cheese very tender and palatable the Pedigree whereof was by one merrily derived thus Adam's nawn Cusson was her by her Birth Ap Curds ap Milk ap Cow ap Grass ap Earth Lastly Metheglen derived by the Welsh from their nown Countryman Matthew Glin the first Inventor though others will have this word of Greek extraction from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 contracted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is a Compound of Water Honey c. being most wholsome for Mans Body Pollio Romulus being 100 years of Age told Caesar that he had preserved his Vigour of Mind and Body Intus Mulso foris Oleo by taking Metheglen inward and Oyl outward It is the same in kind with but much stronger then Mede Queen Elizabeth who by the Tudors was of Welsh descent much loved this her Native Liquor As for the Buildings generally they are like those of the old Britains neither big nor beautiful the Italian humour of building having not affected not to say infected the British Nation Hoelldha Prince of Wales about the year 800. built a House for his own Residence of White-hurdles or Watling therefore called Ty Gwin White-House or White-Hall if you please However there are brave Buildings in VVales though not Welsh Buildings which the English Erected therein as Bridles to the Country Proverbs I. His VVelsh Blood is up and 't is no wonder that a very ancient Shentleman should digest his losses with great difficulty II. As long as a VVelsh Pedigree nay and as high too seeing commonly a VVelsh Gentleman can presently climb up into a Princely Extraction III. Give your Horse a VVelsh-Bait That is a stop on the top of the Mountains where the poor Palfrey is forced to make a shift with Chameleon's Commons the clear Air. This Principality was Modelled into Shires in the Reign of King Henry 8. The General Catalogue that follows is of those who were VVelsh though extant before such Division into Shires Princes They are very Ancient and Numerous yet Cambden observes they never had any Coin of their own Confessors Walter Brute born in VVales a Sinner Layman Husbandman and a Christian they are his own words in a certain Protestation which he made was bred in Oxford Being accused to the Bishop of Hereford he by a solemn Subscription submitted himself principally to the Evangely of Jesus Christ to the determination and general Councils of Holy Kirk to Austin Ambrose Jerome and Gregory and to his Bishop as a Subject ought to his Bishop It seems this Brute was one of the first who was vext for Wickliffisme Nicholas Hereford probably of British extraction D. D. in Oxford and a secular Priest opposed Transubstantiation maintained that Clergy-men ought to be subject to their respective Princes that Monks and Friers ought to live by their own Labour That all ought to rule themselves by the Word of God He with Philip Repington was made to recant his Opinions at St. Pauls Cross in London 1382. After which Repington proving a Persecutor of his party was made Bishop of Lincoln and afterwards made a Cardinal Hereford being not so forward was imprisoned with John Purvey his Partner by Arch-Bishop Arundel Reginald Peacock D. D. in Kings-Colledge in Oxford was Bishop first of St. Asaph then of Chichester For 20 years together he favoured the Opinions of Wickliffe and wrote much in defence thereof until in a Synode held at Lambeth by Thomas Boucher Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1457. he was made to recant at Pauls Cross his Books being burnt before his eyes confuted with seven solid Arguments thus reckoned up Authoritate Vi Arte Fraude Metu Terrore Tyrannide Some believe that he recanted his recantation others that he was privily made away in Prison Cardinals Sertor of Wales by some named Fontanerius Valassus was General of the Franciscans 1339. then Bishop of Massile and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Ravenna He was made Cardinal by Pope Innocent 6. but dyed before he received his Cap. Among many Books he wrote a Comment on St. Austin De Civit. Dei He dyed at Padua in Italy and was therein buried in the Church of Saint Anthony Prelates Marbod Evanx went over into France when the Danes were harassing this Land There he became Bishop of Renes He wrote the Book called Carmina Sententiosa flourishing 1050. Walter de Constantiis Arch-Deacon of Oxford was preferred Bishop of Lincoln then Arch-Bishop of Rohan by King Richard 1. whom he attended into the Holy-Land by Sea and Land Insomuch that some will have him Sirnamed from his constancy to his Master in all conditions He effectually suppressed the Tyranny of William Longchamp Bishop of Ely He afterwards interred King Richard at Font-Everard and invested King John with the Principality of Normandy and dyed about 1206. Caducanus Bishop of Bangor left his Bishoprick and became a Cistertian Monk in Monasterio Durensi and being no less happy then industrious in his endeavours wrote a Book of Sermons and another called Speculum Christianorum He dyed under the Reign of King Henry 3. 1225. Since the Reformation Hugh Johnes Batchelour of the Laws in Oxford was made Bishop of Landaffe May 5. 1566. The first Welsh-man who for the last 300 years was Bishop thereof He dyed and was buried at Matherne November 5. 1574 Dr. Philips bred in Oxford was preferred Bishop of Man He Translated the Bible into the Manks-Tongue by the assistance of some of the Islanders and namely Sir Hugh Cavol Minister of the Gospel and lately Vicar of Kirk-Michael though that work was never put to the Press the Ministers there being forced to read the Scriptures to the people out of the English in the Manks-Tongue Physicians Robert Recorde well descended was bred in Oxford where he proceeded Dr. of Physick He wrote five famous Treatises viz. of Arithmetic Astrology
to God his Lands much impaired descended to his Son Robert His Body being brought over was buried in Carmarthen His Widow Lady was soon remarried to Robert Earl of Leicester His Father and Grandfather dyed about the same time of their Age viz. the 36th year to which his Son Robert never attained Writers Ambrose Merlin born at Carmarthen is reported to have had an Incubus to his Father pretending to a pedigree older then Adam even from the Serpent himself VVe will allow the Serpent to be Father to his own Child I mean this monstrous Lie about Merlin's Birth Many are his pretended Prophesies whereof the British have a very high esteem though their own Proverb says Namyn Dduw nid oes dewin that besides God there is no Diviner Indeed Merlin's Prophesies did much mischief when his Interpreters put Owen Glendower on his Rebellion against King Henry 4. perswading him the time was come wherein he should recover the Welsh Principality which occasioned the making of cruel Laws against the British Nation Some maintain Merlin to have been a great Chymist and that his Prophesies are to be expounded naturally not Historically One of his Prophesies cited by Giraldus Cambrensis hit the mark indeed Being this The sixth shall overturn the Walls of Ireland and reduce their Countries into a Kingdom Accomplished under King James the sixth when their Fastnesses Irish Walls were dismantled and Courts of Justice set up in all the Land CARNARVON-SHIRE CArnarvon-shire hath the Irish Sea on the West Anglesey divided by Menaifret on the North Denby-shire on the East and Merioneth-shire on the South All the Markets are Sea Towns being five in number The Natives hereof submitted at last to the English who were never more put to it then in the Invasion thereof which for natural strength exceeds any part of the Principality It is sufficiently plentiful and Snow-down-hills therein are fruitful of Wood Cattle Fowl besides Fish in the Pools which are interposed Where there was as Giraldus Cambrensis affirms a Floating Island and a strange kind of Fishes found with one eye Proverbs I. Craig Eriry or Snow-don will yield sufficient Pasture for all the Cattle of Wales put together This is hyperbolical importing the extraordinary fruitfulness of the place II. Diâ—nge ar Gluid a boddi ar Gonway That is to scape Clude and be drown'd in Conâ—ay Parallel to the Latine Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim Princes Edward the fourth but first surviving Son of King Edward 1. and Queen Eleanor was born at Carnarvâ—n April 25. 1284. No Prince ever ascended the English Throne with greater or used it with less advantage to himself The VVelsh generally accepted him for their Prince as being Crowned Prince of VVales before he was born in their Country the King his Father having caused a Crown to be set on Queen Eleanor's Belly when she was big with this Prince As this gave the Britaâ—â—s a full interest in so it begat in them a particular veneration for the succeeding English Monarchs This Edward succeeding to a VVise and Victorious Father did strange himself from his Subjects and in effect subjected himself to Pierce Gaveston his French Minion and after his Execution to the two Spencers Englishmen yet equally odious for their insolence Hence it was that he first lost the love of his Subjects then of his Queen the vacuity of whose Bed was quickly filled up then his Crown then his Life being Murdered at Berkley Castle September 22. 1327. Saints The Corps of 20000 Saints are said to be interred in a small Island called Berdsey lying within a Mile of the South promontory of this County It is I confess more facile to find Graves therein for so many Saints then Saints for so many Graves Statesmen Jo. VVilliams born in Aber-Conwy bred Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University was preferred Dean of VVestminster Bishop of Lincoln Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and at last Arch-Bishop of York He dyed March 25. 1649. See my Eccl. Hist Prelates since the Reformaâ—ion Richard Vaughan born at Nuffrin or else at Etrin was bred in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge became successively Bishop of Bangor Chester and London a very Corpulent Man but Spiritually minded an excellent Preacher and pious Liver A pleasant man in discourse especially at his Table using frequently this expression At Meals be glad for sin be sad and indeed he was a Mortified man Nothing could tempt him to betray the Rights of the Church to Sacrilegious hands not sparing sharply to reprove some of his own Order on that account He dyed March 30. 1607. I will add according to an Epigram which was made upon and directed to him Facienda docuit docenda fecit Having been none of those unhappy men Qui sciunt non docent or Qui docent non vivunt Henry Roulands bred in Oxford was Consecrated Bishop of Bangor November 12. 1598. He bought 4 new Bells for the Tower of St. Asaph whereof the biggest cost 100 pounds He also gave to Jesus-Colledge in Oxford means for the maintenance of two Fellows He dyed 1615. Note Speed's Maps of this County as also of Denby and Flint-shire are not divided with points into several Hundreds seeing the Author could not procure the same out of the Sheriffs Books fearing lest the Riches of their Shire should be further fought into by revealing such particulars DENBIGH-SHIRE DEnbigh-shire hath Flint-shire Cheshire and Shrop-shire on the East Montgomery and Merioneth-shire on the South Carnarvon-shire on the West being from East to West 31. and from North to South 20 Miles The East part of this County is fruitful but in the West the Husbandman may be said to fetch his Bread out of the fire fertilizing their ground with the Ashes of burnt Turfs There is plenty of Rye or Amelcorn in this County Of Buildings the Church of Wrexham is a fair and spatious Structure having a stately Tower without and Organs within it Note that Organs were brought into general use in Churches about the year 828. and much improved by Bernard a Venetian and an incomparable Musician But to proceed Holt Castle was possessed by William Lord Stanley whose ready Money and Plate therein besides Jewels and Rich Houshold-stuff amounted to 4000 Marks got by the plunder of Bosworth field Upon the Owners Attainder it was Confiscated into the Coffers of King Henry 7. Prelates Leoline ap Llewelin ap Ywyr or Leoline de Brontfield was born in the Marches Under King Edward 1. he was Consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 1293. and afterwards appropriated some Churches to his Chapter He reduced a portion of Tithes in the Parish of Corwen appropriating to the Church to its former Estate He askâ—d leave of King Edward 1. to make his Will whereby he bequeathed much of his Plate rich Vests and Books to the Canons of that Church and his Chaplains dying 1313. Since the Reformation Godfrey Goodman born of Wealthy Parentage bred
forcing Rubbish into its own Channel which shall render the waters thereof impenetrable by the Eye and ungrateful to the Palate His Book is prohibited by his Holiness whilst the lying Legend is permitted to be read without controul If Jeffrey be guilty of mistakes they are such as make not for the Popes advantage He was Bishop of St. Asaph and flourished 1152. Thomas of Monmouth wrote an History of St. William the Child that was Crucified by the Jews in Norwich in hatred of our Saviour He flourished 1160 under King Henry 2. Benefactors to the Publick AMP. Henry Plantagenet first Duke of Lancaster was born in Monmouth Castle the chief Seat of his Barony He is commonly Sirnamed the Wryneck and by others more rightfully the good Duke of Lancaster He was Head of the Guild of Corpus-Christi in Cambridge and the first Founder of a Colledge so called in that University Indeed the Land was little he conferred thereon but great the Countenance of so eminent a person in procuring and setling their Mortmain He dyed 1361. and was buried in the Collegiate Church at Leicester which he Founded Blanche his only Daughter which had Issue was Married to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Since the Reformation W. Johnes born in Monmouth was forced thence for not being able to pay 3 s. and 4 d. Flying to London he became first a Porter and then a Factor and going over into Hamborough made such a Vent for Welsh Cottons that what he found Drugs at home he left Dainties beyond Sea He Founded a fair School in Monmouth allowing 50 pounds yearly for the Master with 100 pounds Salary to a Lecturer besides a Stately Almshouse for 20 poor Folk each of them having 2 Rooms and a Garden with half a Crown a Week All which Benefactions he submitted to the oversight of the Honourable Company of Haberdashers in London who at this day right worthily discharge their trust herein He dyed 16 Memorable Persons William Evans was two yards and an half in height being Porter to King Charles I. He was somewhat lame knocking his Knees together and going out squalling with his Feet yet made he a shift to Dance in an Antimask at Court where he drew little Jeffrey the Dwarf out of his Pocket He dyed 163 Note this was made a Shire an 27. Henry 8. but not solemnly setled till 5 years after An. 1607. the Moor in this County sustained by the breaking in of the Severn Sea PEMBROKE-SHIRE PEmbroke-shire is surrounded on all sides with the Sea save on the North-East where it boundeth on Cardigan and the East where it butteth on Carmarthen-shire 'T is very plentiful of all things necessary for Man's livelyhood and the East part thereof is the pleasantest place in all Wales It affordeth plenty of Fish especially about Tenby-y-Piscoid having its name from the abundance thereof A part of this County is peopled by Flemings placed there by King Henry 1. to defend the Land given them against the Welsh and their Country is called Little England beyond Wales In this County there is a Breed of very good Faulcons called Peregrines King Henry 2. passing hence into Ireland cast off a Norway Goshawk at one of these but the Goshawk taken at the source by the Faulcon soon fell down at the Kings Foot which performance in this ramage made him yearly send hither for Eyesses Of Buildings the Cathedral of St. David is most eminent begun by Bishop Peter in the Reign of King John The Roof thereof is higher then any in England It acknowledged subjection neither to Rome nor Canterbury till the Reign of King Henry 1. Princes Henry Tuthar Son to Edmund Earl of Richmond and Margaret his Lady was born at Pembroke in the Reign of King Henry 6. When a young man he lived in Exile in France where he contracted a permanent habit of Frugality Having vanquished King Richard 3. in Bosworth-field and Married Elizabeth eldest Daughter to King Edward 4. He Reigned King of England by the name of Henry 7. He is generally conceived a most politick Prince yet many think his judgment failed him when refusing the proffer of Columbus for discovering of America but such his wariness he would not tamper with costly Contingencies He was the first King who secretly sought to abate the formidable greatness the Parent of many former English Rebellions in the English Peerage Hereby he taught the Commons to claim Jurisdiction by the name of Priviledge and made them able in time to contest with Sovereignty He survived his Queen by whom he had the best Title to the Crown about five years His greatest fault was grinding his Subjects with grievous exactions He was most Magnificent in those Structures he left to Posterity amongst which his Devotion to God is seen in two Chappels the one at Cambridge the other at Westminster His Charity to the poor in the Hospital of the Savoy his Magnificence to himself in his own Monument of guilded Copper and his vanity to the World in building a Ship called the Great Harry of equal cost say some with his Chappel which soon after sunk into the Sea He much employed Bishops in his service finding them honest and able He deceased at Richmond April 22. 1509. and was buried in his Magnificent Chappel at Westminster having prohibited by his Will the Interment of any person or persons whatsoever therein save those of the Royal Blood Saints Justinian a Noble Briton with his own inheritance built a Monastery in the Island of Ramsey in this County where many Monks lived happily under his Jurisdiction until three of them murdered him in hatred of his Sanctity about 486. His Body was brought to Menevia and there interred by St. David and since much famed for supposed Miracles Writers Giraldus Cambrensis whose Sirname was Barry and some say Fitz-Girald was born at Tenby being Son to William Barry an Englishman by his Wife Angareth Daughter of Nesta Daughter of Rhese Prince of south-South-Wales He was Nephew to David the second Bishop of St. David by whom he was made Arch-Deacon of Brecknock He was wont to complain that the English did not love him because his Mother was a Welsh-woman and the Welsh did hate him because his Father was an Englishman though by his excellent Writings he deserved of England well of Wales better and of Ireland best of all making a Topographical description of all three But acting in the last as a Secretary under King John with great industry and expence Having Travelled to Jerusalem he wrote De Mirabilibus Terrae Sanctae Having had ill success at Court he attained to no considerable Dignity For a long time no preferment was proffered him above a beggarly Bishoprick in Ireland At last the See of St. David was the highest place he attained Giraldus himself tells us the true reason thereof that he was ever beheld oculo novercali because being a Welshman by the surer side and then such the antipathy of the English that they