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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

Earldoms of Guyen and Poictou by Elbiner his wife and a great part of Ireland by conquest towards the latter end of his Reign he was much troubled with the unnatural Rebellion of his Sons He dyed the sixth day of July Anno 1189. and Reigned twenty four years and seven months lacking eleven days Richard the first for his valor and magnanimous courage sirnamed Coeur de Lion he with a most puissant Army warred in the Holy-Land where by his acts he made his name very famous overcoming the Turks in several Battels whom he had almost driven out of Syria he also took the Isle of Cyprus which he afterwards exchanged for the Title of King of Jerusalem after many worthy atchievements performed in those Eastern parts returning homewards to defend Normandy and Aquitain against the French he was by a Tempest cast upon the Coast of Austria where he was taken prisoner and put to a most grievous Ransom finally he was slain at the siege of Chaluz in France by a shot from an Arbalist the use of which warlike Engine he first shewed to the French whereupon a French Poet made these Verses in the person of Antropos Hoc volo non alia Richardum marte perire Ut qui Francigenis Balistae primitus usum Tradidit ipse sui rem primitus experiatur Quamque aliis docuit in se enim sentiat artis It is decreed thus must great Richard die As he that first did teach the French to dart An Arbalist 't is just he first should try The strength and taste the Fruits of his own Art In his days lived those Outlaws Robin Hood Little John c. King John next succeeded or rather usurped the Crown his eldest Brothers Son Arthur of Britain being then living He was an unnatural Son to his Father and an undutiful subject to his Brother neither sped he better in his own Reign the French having almost gotten his Kingdom from him who on the Popes curse came to subdue it with whom joyned many of his Subjects by which the Land was brought to much misery Finally after a base submission to the Popes Legat he was poysoned by a Monk at Sw●nested-Abby after he had reigned seventeen years and five months lacking eight days and lyeth buried at Worcester Henry the third Son to King John against whom the rebellious Barons strongly warred yet however he expelled the intruding French out of England confirmed the Statutes of Magna Charta and having reigned fifty six years and twenty eight days was buried at Westminster of which Church he built a great part Edward the first sirnamed Long-shanks who warred in the Holy-Land where he was at the time of his Fathers death a most Heroick magnanimous Prince he awed France subdued Wales and brought Scotland into subjection disposing of the Crown thereof according to his pleasure he brought from thence the Regal Chair still reserved in Westminster-Abby he was a right vertuous and fortunate Prince Reigned thirty four years seven months and odd days and lyeth buried at Westminster Edward the second a most dissolute Prince hated of his Nobles and contemned by the vulgar for his immeasurable love to Pierce Gaveston and the two Spencers on whom he bestowed most of what his Father had purchased with his Sword as one writeth in these Verses Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand Albania Gascoyn Cambria Ireland That young Carnarvon his unhappy Son Should give away all that his Father won He having Reigned nineteen years six months and odd days was deposed and Edward his eldest Son Crowned King Edward the third that true pattern of vertue and valor was like a rose out of a Bryar an excellent Son of an evil Father he brought the Scots again to a formal obedience who had gained much on the English in his Fathers life time laid claim to the Crown of France in right of his Mother and in pursuance of his Title gave the French two great overthrows taking their King prisoner with divers others of the chief Nobility he took also that strong and almost impregnable Town of Callice with many other fair possessions in that Kingdom Reigned fifty years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Richard the second Son to Edward the black Prince the eldest Son of King Edward the third an ungovern'd and dissolute King He rejected the sage advice of his Grave Counsellors was most ruled by his own self-will'd passions lost what his Father and Grand-father had gained and at last his own life to the Lancastrian faction in his time was that famous or rather infamous rebellion of Wat Taylor and Jack Straw He having Reigned twenty two years three months and odd days was deposed and murdered at Pomfret Castle Henry the fourth Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster third Son to Edward the third obtained the Crown more by force than by lawful succession he was a wise prudent Prince but having gotten the Crown unjustly was much troubled with insurrection of of the subjects which he having quieted surrendred to fate having reigned thirteen years six months and odd days and was buried at Canterbury Henry the fifth who from a dissolute vicious Prince became the mirror of Kings and pattern of all Heroick performance he pursued his Title to the Crown of France bear the French at Agin Court and was in a Parliament of their Nobility Clergy and Commons ordained Heir apparent to the French Crown but lived not to possess it dying in the full carrier of his victories at Vincent Boys in France and was brought over into England and buried at Westminster He Reigned nine years five months and odd days Henry the sixth sirnamed of Windsor his birth-place of whom it was prophesied that What Henry of Monmouth had won which was his Father Henry of Windsor should lose He was a very pious Prince and upheld his State during the life of his Unkles John Duke of Bedford and Humphrey of Glocester after whose deaths the Nobility growing factious he not only lost France to the French but England and his life to the Yorkish faction He having reigned thirty eight years was overthrown by Edward Earl of March descended by the Mothers side from Lionel Duke of Clarence second Son to King Edward the third was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Cherlsey since removed to Windsor Edward the fourth a prudent politick Prince He after nine bloody Battels especially that of Tawton in which were slain of the English thirty six thousand on both sides was at last quietly seated in his dominions of England and Ireland Reigned twenty two years one month and odd days and was buried at Windsor Edward the fifth his Son a King proclaimed but before his Coronation was murdered in the Tower Richard the third brother to Edward the fourth was Crowned King ascending to the same by steps of blood murdering King Henry the sixth and Prince Edward his Son 3.

by 32 pints and 16 quarts The Measure of Wine Oyl and Honey A Tun of Wine is two Pipes or Butts three Punchions 4 Hogsheads six Tierces eight Barrels fourteen Rundlets 152 Gallons 504 Pottles 1008 quarts 2016 pints and nore that one gallon of Wine contains 8 pound of Troy weight Measures of Grain All kind of Grain is measured by Troy weight of which eight pounds makes a gallon whereof are made pints quarts pottles gallons pecks half Bushels Bushels strikes Cornooks quarters and Lasts Now a Last is ten quarters twenty Cornooks forty strikes eighty Bushels 160 half Bushels 320 pecks 647 gallons 1280 pottles 2560 quarts and 5120 pints Of Iron and Lead Iron is counted by the pound hundred and Tun of which a Tun is 200 or 224 pound Lead is reckoned by the pound hundred and Fodder a Fodder is nineteen hundred and a half at a 122 to the hundred Tin Copper and Latten have 112 pounds to the hundred Of F●sh Ling Cod or Haberdine have 124 to the hundred Herings are counted by the hundred thousands and Lasts a Last is 10000 every thousand 1200 and every hundred 120. to the hundred Of Paper and Parchment A Bale of Paper is ten Ream a Ream is twenty quires and every quire twenty five sheets A Roll of Parchment is five dozen and a dozen twelve Skins Of Wool A Last of Wool is twelve sacks a sack is two weyes a wey is six Tod and a half a Tod is two stone a stone is fourteen pound and a clear is half a stone so that a Last of wool contains 312 stone or 156 Tods Of Fuel Fuel according to the Statute is sized in to shids billets faggots and coals a shid is to be four foot long besides the carfe and according as they are marked or notche so is the proportion or compass set which they should be about as if they have 1 2 3 4 or 5 notches then should they be in compass in the midst 16 23 28 33 or 38 inches and so of the rest accordingly Billets are to be three foot long whereof there should be three sorts as the single a cast and a cast of two the first seven inches and a half about the next ten and the third fourteen inches Faggots must be three foot long and the band besides the knot 24 inches and made round for flat faggots be much less though all of one compass about The sack of coals contains four Bushels How things be numbred Sables Martins Minks Jenits Filches and Greys have four Skins in the timber Cony Kid Lamb Budge and Cat have five score to the hundred Goat-skins are fifty to the Kip and tann'd-Calve skins twelve to the dozen Leather is numbred by Hides Dickers and Lasts a Last is twenty Dickers and a Dicker ten Hides How Money is numbred in England The least piece of money with us is a farthing whereof two makes a half-penny four of them a penny four pence makes a groat twelve of them a shilling five shillings a Crown six shillings eight pence a Noble two Nobles makes a Mark three Nobles a Pound The five shillings or Crown of silver weigheth just an ounce Avoirdupois The Measures of England Three barly-corns makes an inch twelve inches a fooot three foot a yard five yards and a half a pearch four pearches in breadth and ten in length a Rood and four Roods make an Acre An English mile is 8 furlongs 88 scores 320 pearches 1056 paces 408 Ells 1560 yards 5280 feet 63360 inches and 190080 barly-corns in length The compass of the Earth is 360 degrees whcih makes 21700 Italian miles 5400 common German mils and 4320 miles of Suevia The Principal Rivers of England Thames Severn Trent Avon Tweed d ee Ouse Dane Medway Merry Humbar Weamer Tine Weaner Isis Countrey Proverbs used in discourse YOung men think old men to be fools but old men know young men to be fools Love me and love my Hound Marriage and hanging go by destiny To day a man to morrow a Cuckold He that marries a Widow and two Children marries three Thieves Fair words makes fools feign Hot love is soon cold Make a Coward fight and he will kill the Devil Near is my Petticoat but nearer is my Smock Sorrow quits no scores A Ship and a Woman always trimming A Woman and a Glass always in danger Fire is a good Servant but a bad Master A rouling stone nere gathers moss To a fair day open you window Building and marrying of Children are two great wasters Dally not with money nor women Too much familiarity breeds contempt Burnt Children dread the fire when old fools will play with the coals The nearer the Church the further from God A Brief Chronology of the times wherein these famous men lived THeseus the founder of Athens Anno Mundi 2716 Romu●us the founder of Rome Anno Mundi 3198 Homer the Father of the Poets Anno Mundi 3150 Solon the Lawgiver to Athens Anno Mundi 3421 Plato the Philosopher Anno Mundi 3675 Diogenes the Cynick Anno Mundi 3684 Aristotle the Philosopher Anno Mundi 3686 Alexander the Great Anno Mundi 35●● Marcus Tullius Cicero Anno Mundi 387● Cato Uti●an Anno Mundi 3890 Virgil Prince of Latine Poets Anno Mundi 3999 Constantine the Great Anno Domini 306 George Castriot vulgarly called Scanderbeg Anno Domini 1453 St. Augustine Anno Domini 401 St. Anselm Bishop of Cant. Anno Domini 1280 St. Bernard Anno Domini 1131 St. Chrysostome Anno Domini 401 Tamberlain the Great Anno Domini 1403 Erasmus Anno Domini 1529 Martin Luther Anno Domini 1521 John Guttenbergh that invented Printing Anno Domini 1442 FINIS