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A70258
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Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.
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G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)
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1670
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Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183
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Memorabilia Mundi OR Choice Memoirs OF THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD By G. H London Printed for the Author and are to be sold by F. Smiih at the Elephant and Castle without Temple-Bar 1670. To the Right Honourable John Earl of Dover Viscount Rochford Lord Hunsdon c. MY LORD I Approach your Lordship with the same hardiness as they who satisfie themselves that the sincerity of the Giver may attone for the little value of the gift having learnt this presumption from History where I find that great Princes have look'd kindly upon mean oblations and thereby rendred the generosity of their acceptance more illustrious by the duty and obedience of the Presenters Nor with this trick of moral story would I be thought to wind your Lordship into the reception of a trifle but that I carry a braver design in it that is on this occasion to make a publick acknowledgment of the many and great favours and of one especially above the rest the overflow of your nobleness which you have been pleas'd to confer upon your unworthy servant For my Lord the sense of them hitherto bounded within the narrow knowledge of my meanness hath seem'd to me a kind of guilty concealment and almost tantamount to a denyal of them till I was able to render this happy and open declaration to the world of an humble and obsequious gratitude for those favours done me and so done that your generous affability in disspensing them may for ever condemn the rough custom of the age whose haughty state in doing kindnesses does most commonly turn their bread into stone And though I know that thanks alone is no payment sterling yet since to the greatest Beings for the greatest and most lasting benefits we can scarce make any better return I hope it will not seem strange if I present your Lordship the memory of your own goodness to pay your self For where the obligation exceeds possibility of requital the sawsiness of attempting to satisfie is infinitely worse than the humble acknowledgment of still owing My Lord I offer to your view a piece that dare not stand the test of your Judgment but would humbly shelter near your goodness which when your Lordship takes breath from your other more weighty both publick and private affairs may serve to entertain you in the less serious part of the day The matter is least mine the form composure I may own a whole share in so the Bulloin of the Indies if the allusion be not presumptuous becomes the Kings coin after it has receiv'd his stamp image And as after viewing the scatter'd pleasures of a large and fair Garden some satisfaction is receiv'd from the contracted scent and beauty of a posie so if I have here at all justified the comparison whatever error may have past in the choice or ordering of the flowers I hope your Lordship will pardon to My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most grateful Servant G. H. TO THE Most Accomplish'd LADY Mrs. DOROTHY RIVERS Madam SInce for Persons of Your Quality and Merit it is usual to suffer Afflictions of this Nature there is now a necessity that you undergo Your Fate which is so much the sadder in that all those Excellencies which in you shine in their Meridian and might command Reverence from the most Savage World serve only to incourage my Rudeness and with me to become accessory to your own Persecution But it may be Madam after an humble Acknowledgment of the guilt that Goodness of Yours which excepts no Sinners may be gain'd to think the Crime Venial and that particular Condescension which hath heretofore showr'd Obligations upon Your most humble Servant may stretch out Your saving Hand to receive a Present that would live onely in and by Your favour 'T is true Madam that the Worthlesseness of the Present might very well have dispirited the boldest attempt in this kind had I not considered that I should thereby better Consult for Your Glory when the World shall take notice that my greatest Ambition hath been not to raise Trophies to my self by Writing well but only to pay my just and respectful Devoirs and that by publishing Your Names and Vertues I might shew a Pattern of all that is Excellent and Good which Madam if I should strive to embellish with what Art of Words can add to render any thing Illustrious yet would all fall far below the Dignity of the Subject and I should be constrain'd at length to leave it as altogether unaffable If then Madam what is wanting to the true payment of Justice and Obligation to Your Vertues Your Goodness will allow my Zeal of owning to supply please to accept this trifle as the best Testimony I can at present make of it which when receiv'd into Your choice Closet and sometime turn'd over by Your fair Hands when you please to give Your own quainter thoughts leave to rest will give me just cause to call my self the happyest man living and for ever fix me Madam Your most humble and most obedient Servant G. H. TO THE READER I Present you Reader with a novelty which if your pallate be not wholly vitiated may generally relish well with you For the variety of the matter you may call it a kind of Olio the seasoning of which hath cost me both time and expence and though it be not of the choicest rarities it is done at least according to the best of my skill If by this slender attempt I may provoke any better able more handsomely and regularly to couch a subject attended with so much both profit and pleasure I think I have done the kind and industrious part of the world no ill office who will though but for this reason let pass without rigid and supercilious Censure the mean Essay of him whose ardor to serve them hath rendred him less seeing in the examination of his own ability Yet would I not be conceiv'd to know my self and value my pains so little but that I may merit some thanks at least from the well tempered measurers of mens intentions however some there will be and those not a few whom I could wish because I love my self well might be won to my side but I fear my single talent of perswasion will never be able to gain them for being ill-natured and therefore doing nothing themselves but mischief they carry an intense hatred to those that would humbly do good nay though it be done never so perfectly What quarter then my poor offering being sensible to how many exceptions it may be lyable is like to find among them I well know but have heart enough not much to fear especially hoping among the Candid Ingenious such reception as will amply remunerate me for all the ill usage I may meet with elsewhere Here is a tast then to you kind Reader I speak it of what in so useful a Subject might be performed by a more judicious pen Analects of the
redeem it at a price with Money In witness whereof there are many Horse-shooes nailed upon the Shire-hall door some of large size and ancient fashion Leicester-shire KIng Richard the third vid. Crouch-back Richard the Usurper who from the City of Leicester set forth in one day in great Pomp and in battel-aray to keep the Crown sure upon his own helmet in a sore fought field yielded both it and his life unto the Head and Hands of Henry of Richmond his Conquerour and the next day was brought back like a Hog naked and torn and with contempt without tears obscurely buryed in the Gray-Fryers in this City whose suppression hath suppressed the Plot place of his Grave and only the Stone-Chest wherein he was laid a drinking trough now for Horses in a common Inn retaineth the Memory of that great Monarchs Funeral And so did a Stone in the Church and Chappel of St. Maries inclose the Corps of the proud and pontifical Cardinal Wolsey who had prepared for himself a far more richer Monument Lutterworth Where the famous John Wickliffe Englands Morning-Star dispersed the clouds of all Papistical darkness by preaching the Gospel in that his charge and stile of his Pen so piercing in power that the Man of sin ever since hath been better known to the world Lincoln-shire THis Country affordeth great Plenty of Fowl and Fish exceeding any other in the Realm wherein at some times and season of the year hath been taken in Nets In August at one draught above three thousand Mallards and other Fowls of the like kind At Harlaxton was plowed up a brazen Vessel wherein was inclosed a Golden Helmet of an ancient fashion set with precious stones which was presented to Katherine of Spain Wife and Dowager to King Henry the eight At Bullingbrooke was King John poysoned by Simon a Monk of Sâ—â—nsted Abbey and of Queen Eleanor wife to King Edward the first the Mirrour of Wedlock and Love to the Commons who at Harby near Bullingbrooke his Birth place ended her life Nottingham-shire IN this Town are many strange Vaults hewed out of the Rocks and those under the Castle of an espâ—cial note one for the story of Christs passion engraven in the Walls and cut by the hand of David the second King of Scots whilst he was therein detained prisoner Another wherein the Lord Mortimer was surprized in the Non-age of King Edward the third ever since bearing the name of Mortimers Hole these have their stairs and several rooms made artificially even out of the Rocks as also in that Hill are dwelling Houses with winding stairs windows chimneys and room above room wrought all out of the same Rock Darby-shire THings of strange note are the hot water Springs bursting forth of the ground at Buxton where out of the Rock within the compass of eight yards nine Springs arise eight of them warm but the ninth very cold These run from under a fair square building of free stone and about threescore paces off receive another hot Spring from a well near unto which another very cold Spring bubled up daily experience sheweth they are good for the stomach and sinews and very pleasant to bathe the body in Not far thence is Elden hole the Waters that trickle from the top of that Cave which indeed is very spacious but of a low and narrow entrance do congeal into stone and hang as Ickles in the roof very white and somewhat Christal-like And seven miles thence upon a Mounted hill standeth a Castle under which there is a hole or Cave in the ground of a marvellous capacity which is commonly called the Devils Arse in the Peak Shrop-shire hath nothing remarkable The County Palatine of Chester CHeshire having been made a Principality by Richard the 2d and styled himself Prince of Chester King Henry the 3d. gave it to his eldest Son Prince Edward against whom Lewlin Prince of Wales gathered a mighty Band and with them did the Country much harm even unto the Cities gates With the like Skar Fiers it had oft times been afrighted which they lastly defenced with a Wall made of the Welsh mens heads on the South side of Dee in Hanbridge Chester in the days of King Edgar was in most flourishing Estate wherein he had the Homage of eight other Kings who rowed his Barge from St. Johns to his Pallace himself holding the Helm as their Supreme Lancashire BY the civil Wars of York and Lancaster was bred and brought forth that bloudy division and fatal strife of the Noble Houses which for many years together molested the peace and quiet of the Land and defiled the earth with bloud there were thirteen fields fought and three Kings of England one Prince of Wales twelve Dukes one Marquess eighteen Earls one Viscount and three and twenty Barons besides Knights and Gentlemen lost their lives in the same yet at last by the happy Marriage of Henry the seventh King of England next heir to the house of Lancaster with Elizabeth Daughter and heir to Edward the fourth of the house of York the White and red Roses were conjoyned in the happy uniting of those two divided Families York-shire HAlifax once called Horton and touching the alteration of the name this pretty story is related of it namely that a Clerk for so they call him being far in Love with a Maid and by no means either of long praises or large promises able to gain like affection at her hands when he saw his hopes frustrate and that he was not like to have his purpose of her turned his love into rage and cut of the Maids head which being afterwards hung upon an Ewe tree common people counted it as an hallowed Relique till it was rotten And afterward such was the credulity of that time it maintained the opinion of reverence and Religion still for the people resorted thither on Pilgrimage and perswaded themselves that the little veins that spread out between the bark and body of the Ewe-tree like fine threds were the very hairs of the Maids head Hereupon it was called by this name Haligfax or Haly-fax that is Holy-hair Under Knaushrouh there is a Well called Dropping-well in which the Waters spring not out of the veins of the earth but distil and trickle down from the Rocks that hang over it it is of that vertue and efficacy that it turns Wood into Stone for what Wood soever is put into it will be shortly covered over with a stony bark and be turned into stone as hath been often observed St. Wilfrids Needle a place very famous in times past for the narrow hole in the close vaulted room under the ground by which womens honesties were wont to be tryed for such as were chaste pass through with much facility but as many as had plaid false were miraculously held fast and could not creep through The West Riding of York-shire THose Mountains near unto Richmond on the top whereof are found certain stones much like unto seawinkles Cockles and