A MOST CHOICE Historical Compendium Fitted for the use of all Ingenious and Inquisitive Persons WHO Are curious to know what wonderfull Events have come to pass for almost 1000 Years under the Figure 8 from 818. to 1688. Inclusive Wherein is briefly Comprised The Life and Death Rise and Fall of Kings Queens Noblemen Clergymen Warriors and several famous Poets With many other Curious Remarks and Observations not here mention'd Written in a Plain method by A. M. Gent. London Printed for John Weld at the Crown near Temple-Bar in Fleet street 1692. TO THE READER THE best and must infallible Guide we have upon Earth The Holy Writ informs us that the wife and Omnipotent Creator of the World was pleased to set out six days to finish that vast piece of work and blessed the Seventh day and hallowed it Yet afterward when the wickedness of Mankind increased to that heighth as to provoke the same Creator to destroy his works again by a Flood He commanded Noah to build an Ark for the preservation of all manner of Beasts Fowle and Fish c. Noah had also a precept to enter the House of Safety and to take along with him his Family which in all amounted but to eight persons Out of which number the whole earth was repopulated and replenished to the incredulous number of Millions of Persons already known and found out to this day and finding many memorable passages happening under that number in many places abroad especially in our own Kingdom of England and that also in very late years the last being 1688. I shall here present to thy unbyassed Judgment many Heroick actions done by our own Countrymen both at Home and Abroad The Rise and Fall the Birth and Death the conferring of Honour and Preferment and also the Degrading of many persons both Divines Lawyers Warriers and Seamen Lords Knights Gentlemen and Private men some of a low degree and some famous Poets born and bred in the English Climate and all these begun or ended under the figure of eight and no other As for example England was first so called by Egbert a Saxon King in 818. Ethelbert another Saxon King began his Reign 858. And many more English Kings and Queens so likewise Sir Hugh Calveley Sir Walter Raleigh and many other persons very remarkable in their Lives and Fortunes continuing on the same to this wonder-working year 1688. as thou mayst see in this Treatise fully explain'd Here is also presented to thy veiw the Spanish Armadoe consisting of what Ships and other preparations in 1588. the Murder of King Charles the first The Death of Vsurping Oliver The death of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey The Popish Plot. The publishing of a Birth of the Prince of Wales The landing of the Prince of Orange The departure of King James and his Q. c. out of the Kingdom of England and also an account of other matters included in the aforesaid years very profitable both for present and future Generations and in these later years being matter of fact and truly stated and demonstrated may be a good Copy to write after learning there by to carry our selves steadily and wisely in our several stations both in times of War and Peace Prosperity and Adversity Now if any one should ask thee why I took no other figure to end in tell him it would have swelled the Book to a greater Price intending this only portable for the Pocket and for such as are not willing to go to a higher rate and if that answer is not sufficient let them take the other eight remaining figures and use to their best advantage and pleasure if this Tract finds good acceptance it may be an encouragement for a second adventure after the same way and method for the future However at present I will no longer detain thee in the Porch but open a passage into a fair Field full of variety and pleasure desiring thee to reap the same by perusal of these my pains and willing endeavours Vale. A CHOICE And most useful COMPENDIUM ENgland was first so called by Egbert a Saxon King who began his Reign in 818. Ethelbert another Saxon King began his Reign in 858. Alfred another Saxon King first divided England into Shires in the year 888. Organs were brought into general use in Churches about the year 828 and much improved by Bernard a Venetian and an incomparble Musician Herbert de Boshâ—â— was a Manubus unto Tho. Becket at whose Martyring he was present and had the discretion to make no resistance he wrote the story of his Master's death Going over into Italy he was by Pope Alex. 3. made Archbishop of Beneventum and in Decemb. 1178. created Cardinal St. Agelnoth the Good Archbish of Cant. is said to have given at Rome 100 Talents of Silver and one of Gold for the Arm of St. Augustine B of Hippo. He expended much in repairing his Cathedral lately destroyed by the Danes assisted therein by the bounty of King Canutus He dyed 1038. Walt Episc Carliel no great Clerk being made Lord Treasurer of England he avowed his Accounts even when justly charged with a 100 l. Debt to the Exchequer upon which he resigned his Bishoprick and became a Fryer at Oxford where he dyed 1248. Where note that some persons will descend from a higher to lower degree to obtain pardon for sin Edward Son to Edgar K. of England was in his Infancy whipt by Elfrida his Mother-in-Law with wax Candles so that afterward he could never indure the sight of any such Candles when he was King Elfrida managed for the most part all the Affairs of State and afterwards caused this Edward to be stab'd at Corse Castle whither he had come to visit her An. 978. intending by that murther to make way for her Son Ethelred to the Kingdom He was buried at Shaftsbury which was formerly called St. Edwards Matthew Gournay Born at Stoke under Hambden Somer where his family hath flourished since the Conquest and there built both a Castle and a College He was the honour of his House in the Reign of Edw. 3 d. He fought at the Siege of Algiers and Benemazin against the Saracens at Ingen Poictiers Sluee Cressy against the French and at Nazaran under the Black Prince in Spain His Armour was beheld by martial men with much civil veneration with whom his faithful Buckler was a relique of esteem He dyed in peace aged 90. odd years an 1378. Steph. Langton born in England bred in Paris was one of the greatest Scholars of the Christian world in his age He was consecrated Cardinal of St. Chrysogone then by the Pope intruded Archbishop of Cant. in defiance of King John he wrote coâ—ments on all the old and some of the new Testament He first divided the Bible into Chapters which Robert Stephens a Frenchman subdivided into Verses Langton divided also the Kingdom of England reducing King John to sad extremities He dyed and was buried at Canterbury an 1220. Stephen de Fulborn
was made Bishop of Waterford and Lord Treasurer of Ireland and after Archbishop of Tuam and twice Lord Chief Justice of that Kingdom He dyed an 1288. and was buried in Trinity Church in Dublin St. Dunstan born in and Abbot of Glassenbury was Bishop of London and Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury and for promoting of Monkery was reputed a Saint His skill in Smithery was so great that the Goldsmiths in London are incorporated by the name of the Company of St. Dunstans He dyed Anno 988. He was the strictest of the Clergy against the marriages of Priests in his life time Sewald bred in Oxford was Scholar to St. Edward who was wont to say to him Sewald Sewald thou wilt have many afflictions and dye a Martyr Nor did he miss much of his mark therein though he met with peace and plenty at first when Archbishop but afterwards opposing the Pope who intruded one Jordan an Italian to be Dean of York he was for his contempt Excommunicated Note that at the same time there were 300 benefices possessed by Italians who did not only teach in the Church but misteach by their lascivious and debauched conversations Let us now return to Sewald who never returned into the Popes favour but dyed of grief in the state of Excommunication An. 1258. yet was he reputed a Saint in vulgar estimation Eleanor Eldest Daughter to King Ed. I. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor afterwards was married by Proxy a naked sword interposing between her and his body to Alphons King of Arragon who dyed before the consummation of marriage The Princess was afterwards married to H. 3. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of Anjou and Kings of Sicil are descended She dyed An. 1298. Edward III. Son to Ed. II. and Queen Isabel born at Windsor a pious and fortunate Prince was Passive in deposing of his Father practised on in his minority by his Mother and Mortimer His French Victories speak both of his Wisdom and Valour and though the conquests by H. 5. were thicker his were broader in France and Scotland though both in length a like as lost by by their immediate Successors He was the first English King that coyned Gold He first stamped the Rorse Nobles having on one side Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat and on the Reverse his own Image with a Sword and Sheild sitting in a Ship waving on the Sea He had a numerous and happy Issue by Philippa his Queen after whose death being almost 70 years old he cast his assections on Alice Pierce his Paramour to his dishonour it being true what Epictetus returned to Adrian the Emperor asking of him what love was In puero pudor in virgine Rubor in Foemina furorin Juvene Ardor in sene Risus In a Boy Bashfulness in a Maid Blushing in a Woman Fury in a young Man Fire in an Old Man Folly However this King had few equals none superiours for Wisdom Clemency and Courage He dyed An. Dom. 1378. Wulstan of Brandsford was Prior of Worcester and built a most beautifull Hall in his Convent Hence he was preferred Bishop of Worcester 1338. He was verus pontisex in the Grammatical notation thereof building a fair Bridge at Brandsford over the River Teme and dyed not long after Jo. Eversden was breda Monk in Bury Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but mounting himself above this mean imploy he buried himself in Poetry Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryers And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury a few years before his death there hapened a hideous Hurricane levâ—lling Trees Towers yet went they out with a clam at the time of the dissolution He dyed 1338. Anno 1378. Note that in this year in the Reign of Richard II. the Sussexians of Rye and Winchel-sea imbarked for Normandy and afterwards entred by night into a Towncalled Peter's Port took all such Prisoners who were able to pay ransom and safely returned home with their spoils amongst which were some Bells the French had formerly taken from the Towns in this County which they lately invaded It was a worthy advice which William Earl of Arundel gave to his Son Henry Fitz-Allen never to trust his Neighbours the French which I would commend to the inhabitants of this County and indeed now and forever to all England John Stratford of Stratford Warwickshire being born there was preferred by the Pope to the Bishopr of Winchest whereupon falling into the displeasure of Richard II. for a time he took it in so ill part that he forsook that King whilst in his extremity this cost him the displeasure of the Queen Mother and Edw. III. till at last converted by his constancy they turned their frowns into smiles upon him When he was Archbishop of Cant. he furnished the King with great sums of money at his first seting forth for France But when the King sent to him again for another supply instead of Coyn the Bishop sent him Counsel whereat the King returning into England was so highly offended that the Bishop was forced to pass his publick purgation in Parlia by which he was restored to the reputation of his Innocence He built and bountifully endowed a Beautiful Colledge in Stratford He dyed Anno 1348. having been a man of great charity meekness and moderation Ralph Straford his Kinsman was Bishop of London and there being a grievous Pestilence there this Bishop bought a piece of Land for the burial of the Dead lying near Smithfield called No mans Land Eustathius de Fauconbridge was chosen Bishop of London An. 6. Hen. III. He was chosen Chief Justice then Chancellor of the Exchequer and afterwards Treasurer of England and twice Ambassador to the King of France He dyed October 31. 1228. and was buried in the Presbytery Maurice Chamnee bred a Fryer in the Charter-House He only escaped when 18 of his Order lost their lives by him written for refusing the Oath of supremacy 'T is said he warped to the will of H. 8. to preserve his Covent from destruction He dyed beyond the Seas about 1580. Sir Amias Preston of an ancient Family at Cricket in Somerset An. 88. seized on the Admiral of the Galiasses wherein the Governour with most of his men were burnt or killed He took the Town of Puerto Sancto and the Isle of Cochi surprized the Fort and Town of Coro sacked the City of St. Jago put to Ransom the Town of Cumana and entred Jamaica all in the West Indies and returned home safely He sent a challenge to Sir Walter Raleigh the Privy Counsellor which was by him refused having a Wife and Children and a fair Estate and Sir Amias being a private and single Person though of good quality because Sir Walter condemned those for ill humours where the Hangman gives the Garland These two Knights were reconciled afterwards and Sir Amias dyed about the
he procured Indulgences to such as should go in Pilgrimage to St. Winifreds Well in his Diocess Robert Brassy born at Bunbury i. e. Boniface-bury in Cheshire bred D. D. in King's Colledge in Cambridge whereof he was Provost being learned and stout he publickly protested against the Visitors in Q. Mary's Reign as to his own College thereby taking off the edg of these persecuting Commissioners When many Doctors of Cambridge were resolved to sell their Right in Sturbridg-Fair for a trifle to the Towns-men he dashed their designs which manly opposition prevented the Vice-Chancellor's holding the Stirrup to the Mayor He died Ann. Dom. 1558. and lies buried on the South-side of the Chapel Thomas Stuckley was a younger Brother of an ancient and worshipful Family near Illfracomb in Devon one of good parts and great ambition having spent his Patrimony and undertaking the Plantation of Florida he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth That he preferred rather to be Soveraign of a Mole-hill than the highest Subject to the greatest King in Christendom and that he was assured he should be a Prince before his Death I hope said the Queen I shall hear from you when you are stated in your Principality I will write unto you quoth Stuckley In what Language said the Queen He returned In the Stile of Princes To our dear Sister His fair project being blasted for lack of Money he went into Ireland where missing the preferment he expected he went over with treacherous intent into Italy There he wrought himself with ineredible dexterity into the very bosom of Pope Pius 5. vaunting that with 3000 Soldiers he could beat all the English out of Ireland The Pope loading him with the Titles of Baron of Ross Visc Murrough Earl of Wexford Marq. of Lemster furnished him with 800 Soldiers paid by the King of Spain for the Irish Expedition But Stuckley chose rather to accompany Sebastian King of Portugal with 2 Moorish Kings into Africa where behaving himself valiantly with his 800 Men in the Battel of Alcaser he was slain An. 1578. In vain he had given good counsel to these furious Kings to refresh their faint Soldiers before the Fight for rushing on after their first Landing they buried themselves together in the same ruin A fatal Fight wherein one day was slain Three Kings that were and one that would be fain Agnes Prest lived at Northcot in Cornwall and was indicted before W. Stanford Judge of the Assize an 2. 3. P. and Mary her own Husband and Children being her greatest persecutors from whom she fled because they would force her to Mass but being presented to the Bishop of Exeter she was condemned for denying the Sacrâ—ment of the Altar after which she refused money from all well affected people saying she was going to that City where money had no mastery she was burnt without the Walls of Exeter in Sothonhay Nov. 558. ag 54. Tho. 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 dyed after his return into England 1558. Hen. Stafford Baron of Stafford was Son to Ed. Duke of Buckingham beheaded under Hen. 8. the Barony descended unforfeited to this Henry placed here not as a trans but a cis reformation man for translating the book of Dr. Fox Bishop of Hereford favourer of Luther into English of the differences of power Ecclesiastical and Secular He dyed 1558. some months before the beginning of Queen Elizabeth Peter Petow of an ancient Family flourishing for a long time at Chesterton was a Franciscan afterwards Cardinal being created by Pope Paul III. who also made him Legat a latere and Bishop of Salisbury Queen Mary in favour to Cardinal Poole prohibited this Legat's entrance into her Court He died in France 1558. Thomas Savage born at Macklesfield in Cheshire his Father a Knight bred in Cambridge a Doctor of Law Hence he was preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York A greater Courtier than Clerk dextrous in managing secular Affairs a mighty Hunts-man He was the first who was privately installed by his Vicar He maintained a numerous Family and built much at Sâ—roby and Cawood in Yorks He died 1508. his Body being buried at York his Heart at Macklesfield in a Chapel of his own Erection Godfrey Gouldsbrough born in Cambridge bred in Trinity-College and afterwards Fellow thereof at last was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester 1598. one of the second sett of Protestant Bishops after those in the Marian days and before those who come within our Memory He gave 100 Marks to Trinity College and died some Months after Sir Will. Drury descended of a worshipful Family long flourishing at Hantstead in Suffolk answered his name Drury in Sax. Pearle in the preciousness of his disposition clear and hard valiant and innocent His Youth he spent in the French Wars his middle in Scotland and his old Age in Ireland He was Knight-Marshal of Berwick at which time the French had possessed themselves of the Castle of Edenburgh in the minority of King James Queen Elizabeth imployed this Sir William with 1500 Men to besiege the Castle Which service he worthily performed in reducing it in few days to the right owner thereof He was appointed Lord President of Munster where he executed impartial Justice in spite of the Owners thereof Entring Kerry with a competent train of 140 Men with which he forced his return through 700 Men belonging to the Earl of Desmond who claimed Kerry as a Palatinate peculiarly to himself In the last Year of his Life he was made Lord-Deputy of Ireland dying at Waterford 1598. Tho. Cavendish Esq of Trimley Suffolk intending Foreign Discoveries on his own cost victualled and furnished three Ships the least of Fleets viz. The Desire Admiral 120 Tuns the Content Vice-Admiral 40 and the Hugh-Gallant Reer-Admiral 40 Tuns all three man'd with 123 Men and setting to Sea from Plimouth July 21. 1586. entred the mouth of the Magellan-Straits 7 January following where they suffered much hunger Mr. Cavendish named a Town there Port-Famine The Spaniards intending to fortifie the Straits and engross the passage were smitten with such a Mortality that scarce 5 of 500 did survive On Feb. 28. they entred the South-Sea and frequently landed as they saw occasion Many were their conflicts with the Natives more with the Spaniards coming off gainers in most and savers in all Encounters that in Quinterno excepted April 1. 1587. where they lost 12 men of account the cause that they afterwards sunk the Reer-Admiral for want of men to manage her Of the many Prizes he took the St. Anne was the most considerable being the Spanish Admiral of the South-Sea of 700 Tun and 190 Men there were 122000 Pezos each worth 8 Shill of Gold with other rich Lading as Silks and Musk. Mr. Cavendish landed the Spaniards and left them plentiful Provisions surrounding the East-Indies and
the Roads very clear and quiet for the Prince's Horse to march at their leisure and come for London which by easie Marches in few days was accomplishâ—â— to the great joy and rejoying of England But before his Highness would arrive at White-hall to prevent disorders by tumults or otherways which might have been raised by the Romanists and other disaffected persons residing and busying themselves in and about London and Westminster he was pleased to send three or more Lords to the King that he would be pleased to withdraw his person and his Guards to Windsor or any other place where his Majesty should make choice of And withall upon the word of a Prince his Majesty should be secured from all fear and danger This message came to the King about 11. or 12. a Clock in the Night which being delivered the King presently prepared himself and withdrew into Kent with a party of his Guards to Rochester This was his first leaving White-hall December 10th and going to Feversham in Kent was retaken and brought back to London in great state and rejoycing by his Subjects and the Prince did appoint some of his own Guards half Protestants and half Papists which latter went to Mass with him and had liberty to go where he pleased the Guard being charged by the Prince to that very purpose The Priests thinking themselves in a snare which indeed did of right belong to them made the King very uneasie and perswaded him to go away a second time which was done 18. Decemb. and going into Kent with his Guards which the King himself commanded took shipping with a party with him dismissing his Guards whom by gratuities he requited and so sailed into France without any disturbance Now let any indifferent and unbyassed person judge if the King was forced by any rough or unmannerly means or actions to leave his Kingdom being upon 23. of December His Queen with her new found out Relation went away from White-hall upon Decemb. 9. accompanied with Count Dada Father Peters and some Ladies of Honour and Gentlewomen to wait upon her person with good store of Household-goods Jewels and Treasure and also landed safely in France where the French King was pleased after his compliments passed to provide for her according to her Royal quality The King going away as I told you upon the 18. day Upon the same day the Prince entred into St. James Palace his whole Army marching with him increased by this time to above 20000 and being very much wearied by their long marches and the winter Season was all except sufficient Guards sent into winter Quarters into the adjacent Counties but especially Southwark Westminster and the Suburbs were filled with sufficient numbers of them The Army being thus provided with Quarters the Prince was pleased to assemble a General Council consisting of Lords Spiritual and Temporal Gentlemen and Lawyers in which Assembly the Prince was desired to send out his several Precepts to all Counties Cities and Borough-Towns in England and Wales these precepts was directed to the several Coroners in their respective Counties for at this time the Sheriffs of most Counties were not setled and as these Coroners so the Mayors and Sheriffs of Cities and divers Corporations were required to give notice to all in their several Jurisdictions at certain days prefixed and at such places as they should judge convenient and there to make choice of Able Persons and Gentlemen of known integrity to appear such a day at Westminster in thâ— two Houses of Parliament which accordingly was performed and received the Nomination of a Convention But bâ—fore this meeting the Prince was pleased to send for over into England his Royal Consort Mary Princess of Orange this Convention after some weeks taking into consideration the distracted and unsetled condition of the Nation wanting a Head and power to restore the said Nation into its pristine Glory and Safety by the advice of the best Lawyers and Statesmen and by search of many former Precedents wherein it did plainly appear that in all reason this Convention so generally chosen by the consent of the Commons of England might be stiled the Parliament of England to all intents and purposes And accordingly under that denomination all matters of State and concerns of the Publick were transacted And taking into their consideration the departure of King James out of the Kingdom after many arguments Pro and Con. it was agreed that by such departure out of the Kingdom without any compulsion but his own free accord he had absolutely abdicated his Kingdom and it was absolutely necessary the Crown should be conferred on the next lawful Heir which was without any further arguing adjudged to be Mâ—ry Princess of Orange Nevertheless the Parliament wisely searching into the State of the Kingdom into what great dangers it was relapsed both by reason of open Enemies and seeming bosom-Friends at home the Devilish Intreagues of that deadly hater of Christians and almost all Mankind Lewis the French King for preventing these mischievous designs now on Foot against England Scotland and Ireland it was Voted by Both Houses of Parliament Nemine contradicente that the Prince of Orange should be invested in the Crown with his Lady and so made King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland with all other Dominions thereunto belonging and they were immediately Proclaimed at Whitehall-Gate Temple-Bar and the Royal Exchange with the usual Solemnities and with great signs of rejoycing and satisfaction to all sober People and then Proclamations were sent down into all the Counties of England to the same purpose which was performed with great joy and alacrity as appeared by their many Bonsires Ringing of Bells and several other demonstrations of gladness they would take up several Sheets of Paper if they were to be fully mentioned in this small Treatise and for the Coronation of this blessed Pair it falls not under my figure Yet I hope the Readers Patience will hold out till April 11th in the next ensuing year where in other Writings he may be sure to satisfie himself in the truth of the whole Proceedings Scotland knowing very well all the several transactions of England and being well approved by them take the same measures and tread in the same steps calling together the States of the Land being the Nobility Gentry and other Degrees amongst them and being assembled were likewise named a Convention and afterwards a Parliament who presently addressed themselves to our King and humbly beg'd his Protection and Proclaimed William and Mary their King and Queen according to the Scottish Custom and after a little time came to London tendâ—ing their Crown by Commissioners to their Majesties which was accepted very graciously Poor distressed Ireland however the major but in the genuine sence the better part thereof would have willingly and chearfully followed the former Examples of England and Scotland but the Commands of the late King James the crafty Projects of the French King the fly
beginning of King James Rob. de Leic a Frank in Oxford was one that brought Preaching into fashion in that Age He wrote of the Hebrew and Roman Chronological Computation He died at Lichfield 1348. Sir John Philpot whose Family hath long resided in Vpton-Court in Kent was bred a Grocer in London whereof he was Mayor 1378. He set forth a Fleet in the Reign of â— 2. at his own cost to repress the Insolence of one John Mercer a Scot who was taken with all his Ships and rich Plunder therein Two Years after he conveyed an English Army into Britain in Ships of his own hiring and with his own Money released more than 1000 Arms there which the Soldiers had formerly engaged for their Victuals The Nobility accused him for acting without a Commission yea pro tantorum sumptuum prâ—mio veniam vix obtinuit That is He searcely obtained his Pardon by a great charge and by râ—ward and gifts Sir Hugh Calvely born at Calvely in Cheshire of whom 't is said He could feed as much as two and fight as much as ten men his strong Appetite would digest any thing but an injury so that killing a Man is reported the cause of quitting his Country and going for France where he became such an excellent Soldier that he converted the most difficult Atchievements into easie performances by martial Valour He was one of 30 English in France who in a Duel encountered as many Britains He revenged the Blood of the English who whilst his hands were tied behind him were slain before his Face An. ult E. 3. 'T was he that after an unfortunate Voyage of the English Nobility An. 1. R. 2. took Barkbulloign and 25 other French Ships besides the Castle of Mark lately lost and by him recovered and the next Year he spoiled Estaples with the Plunder of which he inriched the Calicians He married the Queen of Arragon whose Arms are quartered on his Tomb. He died 1388. John Booth Bachelor of Law was consecrated Bishop of Exeter An. 6. Ed. 4. He built the Bishops Chair or Seat in its Cathedral which hath not his equal in England but the sofest Cushion belonging to it was taken away when Bishop Vescy alienated the Lands thereof When the Bishop had finished this Chair he could not quietly sit down therein such were the troubles arising from the Wars between York and Lancast therefore retiring to his private Habitation at Horsley in Hampshire He died 1478. and was buried in St. Clement Danes in London There was an elder Brother Sir Rog. Booth of Barton in Lincolnshire Father of Margaret Wife of Ralph Nevil third Earl of Westmoreland Theorithoid a holy Nun at Barkin in Essex after her death was reputed a Saint She died 678. This Nunnery was valued 1000 l. yearly rent at the dissolution in Henry 8. Sim of Gaunt born in London was preferred Bishop of Salisbury by Ed. 1. He gave the first leave to the Citizens thereof to fortifie that place with a Ditch and Walls 1298. And no less was his care of the Church than of the City making good Statutes whereby it was ordered even unto our Age. Henry eldest Son to King John born at Winchester An. 1208. was a pious but poor King He was at first postponed to King Lewis of France afterwards imbroiled with the Barons Wars and imprisoned yet at last he obtained a comfortable old Age by the means of his Son Prince Edward He would be governed by those he knew wiser than himself the main cause of his peaceable death and pompous burial in the Abbey of Westminster of his own foundation Philip de Repton became D. D. in Oxford a great Asserter of the Doctrine of Wickliff but he recanted and became a Persecutor wherefore he was termed by those he molested Rampington He was made Abbot of Leicester Chancellor of Oxford Bishop of Lincoln An. 1408. and was created by Pope Gregory 12. Card. of St. Nerius c. though he had solemnly sworn he would make no more Cardinals 'till the Schism in Rome were ended He resigned his Bishoprick after 12 Years possession Will. White a Wicklevite and the first married Priest since the Pope's solemn prohibition thereof was constant to his calling and was as a Partridge daily on the Wing removing from place to place he was seized condemned and burnt at Norwich 1428. As for Marian Martyrs those in this Shire suffered either by the cruelty of Griffin Bishop of Rochester or Thornton Suffragan of Dover William Gray Son to the Ld. Gray of Codnor was as honourable He first studied in Baliol Coll. in Oxford then at Ferrara in Italy where he was an Auditor of Guarinus of Verona He was made by H. 6. Proâ—urator in the Court of Rome and was freely elected to the Bishoprick of Ely by Edw. 4. He was Lord Treasurer the last Clergy Man that ever was preferred to that Office until Bishop Juxton in our days enjoyed it He died 1478. and lies buried in the Church of Ely Will. Caxton of Caxton a diligent and learned Man bred beyond the Sea and lived 30 Years in the Court of Mary Dutchess of Burgundy Sister to K. Edw. 4. He continued Polychronicon unto the end of that King with good Judgment and Fidelity He collected and printed all Chaucers Works and on many accounts deserved well of Posterity and died 1488. Stephen Brown Grocer was born at Newcastle afterwards Knighted and made Lord Mayor of London 1438. In which Year happened a great Famine caused much by unseasonableness of Weather but more by some huckstering Husbandmen who may be properly called Knaves in Grain Sir Stephen sent some Ships to Dantzick whose seasonable return with Rye suddenly sunk Grain to reasonable rates whereby many a languishing Life was preserved He was one of the first Merchants who in want of Corn shewed the Londoners the way to the Barn-Door I mean into Spruceland Edw. Fox born in Duresly in Gloucestershire was Almoner to King H. 8. he first brought Dr. Cranmer to the knowledge of the King He was afterwards Bishop of Hereford and was the principal Pillar of the Reformation as to the managerie of the politick part thereof Of the many Books he wrote that De differentia utriusque potestatis was his master-piece He was imployed on several Embassies into France and Germany and died Anno 1538. Mary Groy the youngest Daughter of Henry Duke of Suffolk frighted with the infelicity of her two elder Sisters forgot her honour to remember her safety and married one whom she could love and none need fear Martin Kayes of Kent Esq Serjeant-Porter and died without Issue 20. Ap. 1578. James Goldwel born at great Chart in Kent was Dean of Salisbury Secr. to Edw. 4. and at last Bishop of Norwich He repaired the Church of great Chart and founded a Chapel on the South-side thereof he died 1598. His Brother Thomas by Qu. Mary was preferred Bishop of St. Davids and in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth he went to Rome where
He dyed in honour being the last Bishop that dyed a Member of Parliament Roger Ascham born at Kerby-wick and bred in St. John's College in Cambridge was Orator and Greek Professor of the University and in an 1. Mary wrote Letters to 40 odd several Princes the meanest whereof was a Cardinal Traveling into Germany he was familiar with John Sturmius after his return he was teacher to the Lady Eliz. to whom after she was Queen he became Secretary for her Latine Letters he was an honest man a good Archer and much delighted with Cock-fighting His Latine stile was facile and fluent witness his Letters His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a Book good for Young Men his Schoolmaster for Old and his Epistles for all men He dyed in Decemb. 1568. and was buried in St. Sepulchres in Lond. Tho. Benham Fellow of Magdalens coll in Oxford renounced Popery an 1. Mariae he assisted Hen. Bull one of the College to wrest out of the hands of the Choristers the censer when about to offer their superstitious Incense flying into Germany he lived at Basil Preacher to the English Exiles towards the end of Queen Mary he was secretly sent over to be Superintendant of the London Conventicle the only true Church in the time of Persecution where with all his caution he hardly escaped In an 2. of Queen Eliz. he was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield He dyed in Febr. 1578. Frances Sidney Aunt to the renowed Sir Philip she bestowed on the Abby Church of Westminster a Salary of 20 l. per annum for a Divinity Lecture and founded Sidney Suss coll in Cambr. She was Relict of Tho. Ratcliff Earl of Sussex She dyed childless 1588. Sir Nich. Bacon Knight born not far from St. Edm. Bury of a very ancient family and bred in Ben. college in Cambr. in which he built a beautiful Chapel after he had studied the Common Law was made Attorny to the Court of Wards when he was preferred Lord Keeper of the Great Seal An. 1. Eliz. 1558. He married Ann second Daughter to Sir Ant. Cook of Giddy Hall in Essex Governour to K. Edw. 6. Queen Elizabeth relied on him as her Oracle in Law who that he might clear the point of her Succession derived her right from a Statute which allowed the same tho' there was a Statute which made the Q. illegitimate in the days of her Father remained unrepealed the rather because Lawyers maintain That a Crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof Armigel Waad born of an ancient family in Yorkshire was Clerk of the Counsel to Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. a man of great accomplishments imployed in several Embassies and the first Englishman who discovered America He had by two Wifes 20 children whereof Sir Wil. Waad was the Eldest a very able Gentleman and Clerk of the Council to Q. Eliz. this Armigel dyed in June an 1568. and was buried at Hampstead in Middlesex Martin Forbisher Knight born nigh Doncaster Yorkshire was the first Englishman who first discovered the North way to China and Cathay whence he brought great store of black soft Stone supposing it to be silver Ore but it proved useless He was valiant and violent He was Knighted for his signal service in an 88. having with 10 Ships defended Brest Haven in Brittain against a far greater power of the Spaniards he was shot in the side his wound not being mortal in it self was rendred such by the unskillfulness of his Chirurgion who having taken out the bullet left the Bombast behind wherewith the sore festred and the worthy Knight dyed Michael Under-Sheriff to Sir Anthony Hungerford comit Wilts 1558. in the last of Queen Mary was a right godly man When the Writ de Haereticis comburendis for the Execution of R. White and Jo. Hunt was brought to him instead of burning them he burnt the Writ and before the same could be renewed Dr. Geffery the bloody Chancellour of Salisbury who procured it and Q. Mary were both dead Edm. Guest Born at Asserton Yorkshire was D. D. in Kings College in Cambridge He was Almoner to Queen Eliz. by whom he was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Salisbury having written many books he dyed 1578. Henry Rowlands bred in Oxford was consecrated Bishop of Bangor 1598. he bought four new Bells for the Tower of St. Asaph whereof the biggest cost 100 l. he also gave to Jesus College in Oxford Means for the maintenance of two Fellows Katharine Daughter of Sir Tho. Par was born at Kendal Castle which descended to her Father from the Brusses and Rosses of Werk She was first married to John Nevil Lord Latimer and afterwards to K. H. 8. She was a great favourer of the Gospel and would earnestly argue for it Once politick Gardiner had almost got her into his clutches had not Divine Providence delivered her yet a Jesuit who was neither Confessor nor Privy Counsellour to the King tells us that the King intended if longer surviving to behead her for an Heretick She was afterwards married to Sir Thomas Seymour Baron of Sudley and Lord Admiral and dyed in childbed of a Daughter 1548. Henry 8. Son of Hen. 7. born at Greenwich was a Prince in whom great Vertues no less Vices werein a manner equally contemperated he was a man of an uncontroulable spirit carrying a Mandamus in his Mouth sufficiently seated when he put his hand to his Hilt he awed all to his obedience which was great in a King and necessary in a Father of his Country In the Play of K. Hen. 8. there was a weak whining Boy that personated that King one of his fellow Actors perceiving him to act more like a Mouse than Man told him if you speak not Hoh with a better Spirit your Parliament will not grant you a penny of Money He came to the Crown in 1508. Many were the acts and changes in his Reign He dissolved as many Monasteries and Religious Houses as amounted yearly to 1865 12 l. besides the two Universities and divers Monasteries which were undervalued And though the Pope stiled him Defender of the Faith by reason of a Book he writ against Martin Luther yet he rejected his Holiness and made himself supreme without him And Sir Tho. Moor and Bishop Fisher lost their Heads because they refused the Oath of Supremacy and yet this King as appears by the six Articles enacted by Parliament against the Protestants called the Cat with six Tailes viz. 1. That after the words of confirmation or consecration the real and natural body and blood of Christ as he was conceived and Crucified was in the Sacrament and no other substance consisting in the form of Bread and Wine besides the substance of Christ God and Man 2. That Communion in both kinds was not necessary unto Salvation the Flesh only in the form of Bread sufficient 3. That the Priests after they had received Orders might not marry by the Law of God 4. That the Vows of
conception and that God by the earnest intercession of the blessed Lady had heard their Prayers and granted their desires in sending them a Son and indeed they knew it was a Son before the 10th day of June above-mentioned now this tradition was handed about to the great and indeed all places in England by Letters and otherways And yet for all this specious and gilded information if you would certainly know the truth of this great birth and state you will be forced to take their tradition and bâ—lieve it as they believe it be it true or not true yet as I said before every one is left to his own choice For if this blind huddled business should have been acted more in the light and in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and other persons of quality of the Princess's Religion it would have given full-satisfaction to all the now unsettled doubtful wavering and ever-disbelieving Persons of England and settled a firm belief upon future Generations The King soon after great râ—joâ—cings and illuminations for tâ—iâ— nâ—w Deodatus perceiving at a distance a great storm arising in the East applies himself to raise several nâ—w Forcâ—s of Horse Dragoons and Foot and sends to the Earl of Tyrconnel then Governour of Ireland for 4000 or more of the Irish Foot which was sent accordingly into England very likely and able and war-like Men and coming up to London was very well approved of by all the King's Officers but the Inhabitants had a prejudice against them for the Irish had got an ill name and was not well spoken of though to do them Justice in part of London and in the City of Westminster they carried themselves very civilly in their respective Quarters Now it was observed by the Politicians of War that these Irish sent out of Ireland from the adjacent parts of Londonderry did so much comfort and encourage that City as to make it hold out so long and to that extremity and if that 4000 so detached had remained in Ireland that City in all probability and reason had been either taken or surrendred to the late King James who in this Summer 88 had formed a Campaigne on Hounsloe-heath Horse and Foot to the number of betwixt 16 or 18000. where we must leave them at present in their Tents with their several pieces of Canon and take notice how the King was equipping his Ships at Sea to make a formidable Fleet and made choice of the Lord Dartmouth as a chief Officer to muster up his Seamen for most of them had a great kindness for that Lord who made it his business and gathered up many Seamen and after a little time manned out several Ships to Sea but in this time the poor Seamen being as it were spirited on board and knew not what cause they were to fight for they begun by degrees to consider and at last take the boldness upon them to ask their Captains upon what design they were upon and who they must encounter withal The Captains gave them such dark and aenigmatical answers as gave them no satisfaction Upon which some of the Ships whole Crew came upon the Decks and as one man told their several Officers That they would not fight for the Papists but always stand for and maintain the Prâ—testant Religion Which unhappy news for King James was carried to him by the Lord Dartmouth The King was much discomposed with the hearing thereof but made no great outward appearance about it at present The King 's next design was to take off the Penal Laws and Test and for that purpose a Parliament was to be called to sit at Westminster and many crafty Courtiers being Papists or so inclined was with suitable instructions sent down into the several Countys and Burroughs of England and Wales to prepare such Members as would throw over-board the Test and Penal Laws at one sitting but this took as little effect as the former for the King hearing by his Agitators in the Country how that they could not make a party there prevalent enough to throw down the two Bulwarks it so was ordered that the designed Parliament never me together Then the King's Council where Father Peters was always of the Quorum put the King himself to examine those of his menial Servants and those that held Offices under His Majesty as the Great Seal Privy Seal Secretaries of State Mr. Attorney and Mr. Sollicitor-General the Gentlemen of the Green Cloth and all the Officers in White-Hall the Commissioners of the Customs and Fire-hearths these and many others were all to give an account of their opinions of the Penal Laws and Test and then being Closeted by the King they gave in their private verdict in that place if they would not condescend to take away the two aforesaid Bars their Offices and Preferments was ipso facto taken from them By this â—ly practice many Lords and Gentlemen and many other inferior Officers wâ—â— cashiered and many of the red â—â—â—ter men substituted in their places but in all this the King gained but little ground for the number obliged and the disobliged were still equal Yet they would not let the King rest here but they persuade him to closet all his Judges of Westminster which accordingly he did and found some of them according to his wish the rest stoutly opposed and was presently displaced and some mean Lawyers and mean Persons but Papists or popishly affected mounted up into their seats at the several Courts in Westminster Hall By this project the King lost the hearts of his Subjects for these new Judges were so mean in birth some in breeding some in learning and all of them ignorant of the Law so that by their illiterate practice the Law was quite buried For Sir John Maynard that old Serjeant of the Law told King William That if His Majesty had not come as he had out-lived many good Lawyers so he should have out-lived the Law it self And the reason was plain for these new erected Judges did all agree in this maxime That any penal or statute Law whatsoever and though made and confirmed by the three Estates yet the King by vertue of his Prerogative Royal had power to dispence with it and what is that dispensation but by the arbitrary will and pleasure of the Prince all Laws are abrogated and all penalties thereof remitted And the King taking these Judges opinion in this matter for good Law upon this false bottom the King offered to admit and many Zealots accepted places both Military and Civil without taking the Oaths and Test and every one under that circumstance is liable to pay 500 l. And hereby all Corporations was new transformed Papists made Mayors and Aldermen Governours of the Forts and Castleâ— Captains at Sea Colonels and other Officers of Land-Forces Obadiah Walker set up some few weak Proselytes at Oxford in despite of Authority and indeed the Tempest did arise higher for Magdalen College refusing to
admit some persons by Mandamus from the King contrary to Law and the Statutes of their College were ejected themselves viz. Dr. Hough Dr. Fairfax c. Magdalen College at Cambridge had also part of the storm for not admitting by Mandamus whereby Dr. Peachel then Vice Chancellâ—r was suspended ex beneficio during the King's pleasure being then either President or Master Some Clergy were also preserred to â—ishopricks viz. Dr. Parker to be â—ishop of Oxford Dr. Waâ—son bishop of Bangor Dr. Cartwright Bishop of Chester by the King's Dispensation not taking the Oaths and Test By these examples you may plainly perceive that the Law was perfectly buried Not omitting the Reverend Henry Compton Lord Bishop of London who was by an arbitrary and unjust sentence suspended ex officio contrary to the Canon and Civil Law and Dr. Sharp Dean of Norwich and Vicar of St. Giles's in the Fields was silenced from Preaching without any form of Law but indeed was willing to obey his Ordinarie and so ceased pro tempore in his Ministerial Function In this Year also the Pope was pleased to send over into England his Nunciâ— Count Dada a Venetian a man of great Abilities and a comely Person being very graciously received by the King and highly treated by the Courtiers well respected by the Ladies of the greatest qualities and by the ignorant Bigots admired and adored and the more by reason here had not been one resident among us for above a hundred years before this time for the Law is very severe both in receiving or treating any of that nomination and if an act of Grace had not obliterated most Offences that great Entertainment in the â—ity of London and several other miscarriages by several persons of good note had been deeply punished These are the most remarkable passages which happened in this part of the year being the latter end of September and part of October and now see what follows after And for that purpose pray recall to mind that I told you in some few precedent Pages That the King perceived a great Storm arising in the East and by this time it was got over the Pampus and the English Seas and upon the Downs and so was driven on all along upon our Coasts by Dover and Portsmouth and other Ports 'till it safely alighted or indeed arrived at Torbay not many Miles distant from the City of Exeter upon the 5th of November and though it was esteemed and called a storm by some few yet it was a most joyful and golden Shower to most People of England and as that day was formerly noted under God's great Mercy and Goodness to deliver us from destruction intended by that horrid Powder Plot This day now will make England truly sensible that by the same infinite goodness we are made free from the slavery of Popery Arbitrary Government and many other imminent Judgments which would undoubtedly have fallen upon us And now let me tell you what this happy and joyful arrival was and first it produced that Magnanimous Heroick Noble Vndaunted Martial and Victorious William Nassau Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland The Forces that landed with him were as follow viz. Foot 10692. Horse 3660 In all 14352. Ships being Men of War of the second and third rate 65. Flyboats 500. Pinks 60. Fire-ships 10. In all 635. This Fleet and Army through the coldness of the late season of the year their long Voyage by adverse Winds upon the Sea and perhaps the Prince's first intention to have landed in another part of the Kingdom had sustained some loss and was much wearied and weakned and many was sick yet was forced to wade through the Water to some considerable deepness at their Landing After which the Prince was pleased to march to Exeter for his head Quarters the whole Army being there or very near it and it being a large and plentiful City sufficient Provisions was made for the Prince and all his Forces the Prince stayed there some Days expecting hourly with great impatience what Nobility Gentry Gentry and other Forces would resort to him and join with his Army after some few days before his hopes was quite withered there appeared in his Royal Presence the Lord Colchester the Lord Cornbury c. Colonel Godfrey and others and by degrees several other Lords and Gentlemen who carried along with them very good and effectual men to augment the Army and as the Prince advanced his Army increased This news came presently to King James from the first landing who was daily and hourly precisely informed of their several Movements and Advances toward what places But the main design of the Prince was bâ—lieved by all for London which sell out accordingly The King in the junctuâ—e of these affairs was in grâ—at amasement for some of his Army nay some of his Life-Guard had deserted and went over to the Prince yet the King trusted to his Army especially to the Irish the rest being English some Scotch and some few French being all mustred together with several Trains of Artillery drawn out of the Tower and in a Martial manner marched away on the Roads towards their Enemies the Prince likewise doing the same in hopes to encounter with them after a little marching but in his marching the Prince was pleased to put forth several Declarations whereby the end and intentions of the Prince's coming into England with his Army was fairly and clearly discovered to the people and with such satisfactory reasons therein inserted that all on a sudden the people desired his Royal presence especially in London and Westminster both being places convenient to turn the Tyde of Affairs if there had been any occasion Within six days the Kings Army was marched to Salisbury the chief Rendezvouz the Princes Army being about 20 or 30 miles distant from them and there happened betwixt several of their Parties and Forlorn-hopes some small encounters and skirmishes but very few taken or slain of either side the Kings Army or at least the main Body lay still at and about Sarum the Princes Army drawing nearer to that place insomuch that the King daily expected a Battle but on a sudden the Scene was changed for a Rumour only coming to the King that the Prince's Army was ready at hand to fall upon his the King forthwith without calling a Council of War or any other consideration left them in great hast and disorder and returned to London the Army being thus deserted by the King whether for want of a good Cause for the love they bore to the Protestant Religion or their good will and opinion for the Prince of Orange Besides an Order given to the Earl of Feversham for their Disbanding the great expected Battel was ended before it begun the Kings Army flying away or at the best easily retreating when no enemy pursued after them it seemeth they had read or at least heard of Mr. Hobbs's self-preservation This supposed terrible Army being removed leaving
after Queen Mary Novemb. 17. 1558. at Lambeth Sir John Cavendish Knight born at Cavendish in Suffolk where his name continued untill the Reign of King Henry 8. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench anno 46 Edw. 3. he died a violent death an 5 Rich. 2. on this occasion J. Raw Priest contemporary with J. Straw and Wat. Tyler advanced Robert Westbroom a Clown to be King of the Commons in this County having 50000 Followers these for eight days together in savage sport caused the Heads of Great Persons to be cut off and set on Poles to kiss and whisper in one anothers ears Chief Justice Cavendish chanced to be then in the Country to whom they bare a double Pique for his honesty and learning besides they had heard that John Cavendish his Kinsman had killed their Idol Wat. Tyler in Smithfield whereupon they drag'd the Reverend Judge with Sir John of Cambridge Prior of Bury to the Market-place and there beheaded them whose innocent bloud remained not long unrevenged by Spencer the warlike Bishop of Norwich by whom this Rascal Rabble of Rebels was rooted and ruined Leonard Maw was born at Rendlesham in Suffolk antiently the Residence of the Kings of E. Angles where King Redwald kept at the same time a Communion-Table and Altars for Idols was Master of Peter-House then of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and in five years disengaged that Foundation from a great Debt He was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was Prince and waited on him in Spain by whom he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells a good Scholar grave Preacher mild man and gentile in his deportment He died in 1638. and left some of his Estate to Mr. Simon Maw of Epworth in Lincolnshire Sir Fulk Grevil Kt. Son to Sir Fulk Senior of Beckam-Court Warw. was bred in Cambridge He came to Court backt with a fair Estate in the Reign of Queen Eliz. He was a good Scholar and a great friend to learned Men. Bishop Overall ow'd his Preferment chiefly to him and Mr. Camden tasted largely of his liberality His Studies were most in Poetry and History as his Works do witness King James created him Baron Brook of Beauchamp Court as descended from the sole Daughter and Heir of Edward Willoughby the late Lord Brook He was murdered 1608. by a discontented Servant who conceived himself not soon or well enough rewarded first wounded his Master mortally and afterwards dispatched himself He lieth buried in Warwick Church under a fair Monument whereon he is stiled Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellor to King James and Friend to Sir Phillip Sidney dying unmarried his Barony descended on his Kinsman Robert Grevil Lord Brook Father to the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brook Thomas Morton was Son to a famous Mercer reputed the first in York and allied to Cardinal Morton Archbishop of Canterbury He was bred in York-School with that Arch-Traitor Guy Faux and afterwards in St. Johns College in Cambridge and for his merit was chosen Fellow thereof before eight Competitors commencing D. D. He made his Position on his second Question contrary to the expectation of Dr. Playford replying upon him with some Passion commovisti mihi stomachum to whom Morton replied Gratulor tibi Reverende Professor de bono tuo stomacho coenabis mecum hac nocte He was successively preferred Dean of Gloucester Winchester Bishop of Chester Coventry and Lichfield and Durham The Foundation which he laid of foreign Correspondency with eminent Persons of different Perswasions when he attended as Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent by King James Embassador to the King of Denmark c. he built upon to the day of his Death In the late Long Parliament the displeasure of the House of Gommons fell heavy upon him partly for subscribing the Bishops Protestation for their Votes in Parliament partly for refusing to resign the Seal of his Bishoprick and baptizing a Daughter of John Earl of Rutland with the Sign of the Cross two faults which compounded together in the judgment of wise and honest men amounted to an high innocence yet the Parliament allowed him 800 l. a year a proportion above his brethren for his Maintenance but the Trumpet of their Charity gave an uncertain sound not assigning by whom or whence this sum should be paid Indeed the Severe Votes of Parliament ever took full effect according to his observation who did Anagram it Voted Outed But their merciful Votes found not so free performance However this good Bishop got 1000 l. out of Goldsmiths-Hall which afforded him support in his old Age. He wrote against Faction in defence of three innocent Ceremonies and against Superstition in his Treatise called the Grand Impostor Many of the Nobility deservedly honoured him but none more than John Earl of Rutland to whose Kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland he had formerly been Chaplain Sir George Savil civilly paid him his purchased annuity of 200 l. He died at Easton Manduit in Northamptonshire the House of Sir Henry Yelverton aged near 98. George Paling born at Wrenbury in Cheshire was bred a Merchant in London Free of the Company of Girdlers We may call his Benefactions The golden Girdle of Charity for with our Saviour He went about doing good To Wrenbury he gave 200 l. to purchase Lands for the relief of the Poor For building of an Alms-House in and about London 900 l. To St. Johns College in Cambridge 300 l. To the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark 50 l. To the Preachers at St. Pauls Cross 200 pounds Toward a Chime in Bow-Church 100 pounds To six Prisons in and about London 60 pounds To Brasen-Nose College in Oxford two Scholarships to each yearly 4 pounds To the College of St John Baptist in Oxford two Scholarships of the same value To Christs-Church-Hospital 300 l. To the Church and Poor of Wrenbury to buy them Gowns 70 pounds He died 1608. James Pilkington D. D. of an 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 his Flail or to himself embracing the safest condition for the present He was bred in Cambridge and fled an 1. of Mariae into Germany where he wrote a Comment on Ecclesiastes and the Epistles of St. Peter after his return he was made Bishop of Durham 1558 and nine 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 suppress'd the Bishop commenced a Suit against Queen 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 adjudg'd them to the Queen and after eight years of the Rebellion he died in peace John Easday of most honourable Extraction bred in Cambridge was Dean of Canterbury He was the first Clergy-man who carried Tidings of