Vice-Chancellour of the University of Camb. He was both Grave and Facetius The Mulcts of the Undergraduats were by him one time expended in new whiting the Hall of the Coll. Whereupon a Scholar hung up these Verses on the Skreen Dr. Jegon Bennet-Colledge Master Brake the Scholars-head and gave the Walls a Plaster To which the Doctor Annexed Knew I but the Wagg that writ these Verses in a Bravery I would commend him for his Wit but whip him for hâ—â— Knavery He was made Bishop of Norwich by King Ja. â—… being mighty Zealous for the Church of Englâ—â—â— He dyed An. 1618. Sam. Haresnet born at Colchester was Bishop 〈◊〉 Chich. then of Norw and at last Arch-bishop of 〈◊〉 and Privy Councellor to King Ch. II. He fouâ—â— and endowed a fair Grammer-School at Châ—…gwell 〈◊〉 bequeathed his Library to Colchester provided they were kept in a decent Room for the use of the Clâ—â—gy of that Town He dyed An. 1631. Augustine Linsel D. D. born at Bumsted was eâ—…act in Greek Hebrew and all Antiquity He was Bishop of Peterborough and thence removed to Hoâ—…ford where he dyed 163. Statesmen Sir Th. Audley Keeper of the Great Seal 1532 was An. 24. H. 8. made Knight of the Garter Loâ—… Chancellour of England and Baron Audley of 〈◊〉 End in this County He got a Grant of the Priâ—… of the Trinity now Dukes Place in Ealdgate Wâ—… Lond. the first that was dissolved He had one 〈◊〉 Daughter who was Married to Th. last D. of Nâ—…â—…olk He dyed 1544. and was buried in the Church â—…f Saffron Walden He founded and endowed Magd. â—…oll in Camb. for the maintainance of able Poets Sir Rich. Morison Knight skilled in Languages and in the Laws was freâ—…uently employed Ambassadour by H. â—… and E. 6. unto Ch. 5. Emp. c. He began a Beauâ—…iful House a Cashobery but before he had finished it â—…nd after he had fled beyond the Seas he dyed in Strasâ—…urgh An. 1556. Sir Anth. Cook Knight Great-Grand-child to Sir â—…h Lord Mayor of Lond. was born at Giddy-Hall â—…e was one of the Governours to Ed. 6. whilst â—…rince His Daughters were Learned in Greek and â—…atine and Poetry of whom Mildred was Marriâ—…d to Will. Cecil Lord Treasurer and Ann to Nich. â—…acon Lord Chanc. of England and Katherine to Hen. Killigrew This Kath. being unwilling her Husband â—…ir Hen. should be sent Ambassadour to France wrote â—…o her Sister Mildred these Verses Si mihi quem cupio cures Mildreda remitti Tu bona tu melior tu mihi sola Soror Sin male cunctando retines vel trans Mare mittes Tu Mala tu pejor tu mihi nulla soror It si Connubiam tibi pax sit omnia loeta Sin mare Cecili nuntio bella Vale. This Sir Anth. dyed An. 1576. leaving a fair Estate â—…o his Son Sir Th. Smith Knight born at Saffron-Walden was by order of King Hen. 8. brought up beyond â—…e Seas He was afterwards Secr. of State to Queen â—…iz and a great Benefactor to both Universities He yed An. 1577. Th. Howard second Son to Th. last D. of Norf. by Marg. Heir to Th. Lord Audle â—â— by Queen Eliz. made Baron of Audley and Kâ—â—â— of the Garter and King Ja. who beheld his Farâ—â—â— a State Martyr for the Queen of Scots An. 1. Regâ—â— advanced him Lord Chamberlain and Earl of Sâ—â— any An. 12 Lord Treasurer of England Whâ—â— made Chancellour of the University of Camb. he â—â—swered the Orators Speech by telling him Thy â—â— knew no Latine he knew the Sence to make him welcome and that he would serve the University fâ—â—â—fully c. Upon which the Vice-Chanc Hasneâ—… â—â— quested him to entertain King Ja. at Camb. â—â—â— accordingly he did in a very Magnificent Manâ—â— at the expence of above 5000 l. Hence after â—… Death Th. his second Son Earl of Bark shire â—â—ceeded him in the Place He dyed at Audley-â—â— An. 1626. being Grandfather to the Right Honourâ—â—â— Ja. Earl of Suff. Rich. Westory probably Son to Sit â—…rom Sher. in this County An. â—â— Eliz. impaired his Estate to improâ—â— himself with Publick Accomplishments and was â—â— looser when made Chancellour of the Excheâ—â—â— and An. 4. Car. l. Lord Treasurer of England â—â— was created Earl of Portland An. 18. Car. l. and dyed An. 163 Capital Judges Sir Jo. Bramstone born at Maldon and bred in â—â— Middle-Temple was by King Ch. I. made Lâ—â— Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. One accomplâ—…ed with all Qualities requisite for a Person of his pâ—â— Having Married Serj. Bruertons Widow he paid 3000 l. to Sidney-Coll which that Serjeant beâ—…ueaâ—… by his Will imperfect in it self and invalid â—â— â—â—gour of the Law His opinion was for Ship-moâ—â— which cost him much trouble He dyed about â—…46 Souldiers Rob. Fitz. Walter born-at Woodham-Walters highbeloved by Rich. 1. and King Jo. until the latter â—…ished him because he would not Prostitute his â—…ughter to his Pleasure The French entertain'd â—…n joyfully till upon a Truce betwixt France and â—â—gland an English Man Challenged any of the â—…nch and was answer'd and unhorsed by this Fitzâ—…lter Hereupon King Jo. sent for him and reâ—…red his Lands to him with License to repair his â—…stles and particularly Bainards-Castle in Lond. He â—…s Vulgarly Stiled The Marshal of Gods Army and â—…ly-Church He dyed An. Dom. 1234. and lyeth â—â—ied in the Priory of Little-Dunmow Sir Jo. Haukewood Son to Gilbert a Tanner was â—…n at Sible Heningham and bound an apprentice to â—…aylor in Lond. Afterwards he served King E. 3. the French Wars and was Knighted for his Valour â—…en he served the City and then free-Free-State Florence which rewarded his Gallant Service with â—…ich Statue and Sumptuous Monument wherein â—â— Ashes remain honoured at this day He had a Son â—…nin Italy Naturalized An. 7. H. 4. He dyed very â—…ed An. 1394. 18. R. 2. Th. Ratcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter and Earl of Suss â—â— twice Deputy of Ireland A most Valiant Man whose Diligence and Prudence the threatning â—…uds of Rebellion were dispersed in his time Afâ—â—â—wards at the Court of England he opposed Rob. â—…l of Leicester He dyed An. Dom. and was â—…ied in the Church of St. Olives Hartsleet in Lonâ—â—â— Sir Fr. Vere rigid in Nature and undaunted iâ— dangers served on the Scene of all Christendom wher War was acted One Master-piece of his Valor was at the Battle of New-port where he was atteâ—â—ed by the Ragged Regiment Another was wheâ— for three years he defended Ostend against a stroâ—â— Army He dyed in the beginning of the Reign 〈◊〉 King Ja. His younger Brother Sir Horace had as mâ—â—â— Courage and more Meekness so Pious that he 〈◊〉 made his Peace with God before he went out to Wâ—â— with Man He always tun'd his Temper to a Tâ—â— pitch He was the first Baron of King Ch. I. 〈◊〉 Creation Some years after coming to Court he 〈◊〉 suddenly sick and speechless so that he dyed befâ—â—â— Night An. Dom. 163 Both lived
consideration in this Case first According to the aforesaid Statute Such Crimes as were afterwards to be declared Treasonable ought to be of like Nature with those Treasons which are specified in the said Act. Secondly If the Parliament had made those Misdemeanors Constructive Treason before that my Lord Strafford had committed them he could have had no colour for the Plea he made But seeing where there is no Law there is no Transgression my Lord of Strafford at the time of his Misdemeanours committed was guilty of no Treason and if it was possible for him to become guilty of the same ex post facto I leave to the Learned to determine The Parliament provided his Condemnation should not pass into Precedent Some hours before his suffering he fell fast asleep alledged by his Friends as an Evidence of the clearness of his Conscience He was beheaded 1641. He hath an everlasting Monument in the great Character given him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Med. 2. p. 6. I looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentelman whose Abilities might make a Prince rather affraid than ashamed in the greatest Affairs of State c. King Charles II. hath made his Son a Knight of the Garter Lyonel Cranfield Merchant Man of a great Sense was made by King James Lord Treasurer Baron of Cranfield and Earl of Middlesex Having lost the Treasurers Place by the means of the D. of Buckingham into whose displeasure he had fallen he was wont to say that the way to preserve Life was to get to be Lord Treasurer of England for they never dye in their Place which was true for 4 Successions He was a Wise and Good Man He dyed about 1644. Writers on the Law Fleta who being in the Fleet wrote an Excellent Treatise of the Common Law before the 14. R. 3. He lived about the end of E. 2. and beginning of E. 3. Christopher St. German of an ancient Family read constantly a Chapter in the Bible every night to his Family lived and dyed unmarried without the least spot on his Reputation gave Counsel and Help to all his People gratis He was excellently skilled in the Civil Canon and Common Law and Scripture Witness his Book of Doctor and Student In his several Works he plainly appeareth a Champion for the Reformation He lived to be above 80 years Old dying 1593. and was buried at St Alphage London William Rastal one of the Justices of the Kings Bench wrote the Life c. of his Uncle More and made a Comment on the Statutes of England Being a zealous Papist he fled in the Raign of Edward 6. into Flanders where he wrote against Bishop Jewel He died 1565. Souldiers Sir Th. Roper the Surname formerly Furneaux Son to Th. Servant to Queen Elizabeth was Page to Sir Jo. Norrice and was Captain of a Foot Company at 16 years of Age. Being Privy Councollour and having acquired the Reputation of a Valiant Souldier by his Services in Connaught Ulster in Ireland and Brest in France in his Voyage to Portugal at Bergen in the Netherlands c. he was An. 3. Car. created Baron of Bauntree and Visc Baltinglasse in Ireland When in Ireland he put himself in Irish Tronzos and was imitated by other English-men which easie Habit tended to the more effectual execution on their Enemies He died at Ropers Rest 164. and was buried in St. Jo. Church in Dublin Civilians Sir Hen. Martin Knight bred in Oxford a great Civilian and an Eminent Advocate in the High Court of Commission and afterwards Judge of the Prerogative Court and also of the Admiralty so that as King James said pleasantly He was a mighty Monarch in his Jurisdiction over Sea and Land He died 1642. Physicians Richardus Anglicus bred first in Oxford became afterwards in Paris one of the most Eminent Writers in the Profession of Physick He Flourished 1230. Jo. Phreas bred in Oxford was afterward an Auditor of Guarinus in Ferrara He read Physick successively at Ferrara Florence Padua and Rome Pope Paul 2. made him Bishop of Bath and Wells but he died of Poison as is thought before his Consecration 1465. Andr. Borde bred I think in Oxford was Physician to Henry 8. His Book the first written of that Faculty in English was dedicated to the Colledg of Physicians in London He died in the Reign of Queen Mary Writers Nothelmus of London Bishop of London then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury wrote the Gests of Greg. the Great c. which are inserted in Bede's Church-History He died 736. William Fitz-Stephen descended of Norman Nobility was a Monk in Canterbury He wrote amongst others a Latin Book of the Description of London He flourished 1190. Albricius of London wrote a work of the Original of Heathen Gods He flourished 1217. William Sengham poor but Witty wrote de Fide and Legibus affirming the Gospel of Christ to be the onely Law for the Salvation of men about the time that a Book called The Eternal Gospel or rather the Infernal Gospel was obtruded on the World by the Friers He flourished 1260. Laurentius Anglicus bred in Paris opposed the Mock-Gospel of the Friers and wrote against False Preachers but afterwards being frightned with the Popes Thunderbolts he cowardly recanted He flourished An. 1260. Nich. Lyra a Jew by Nation and born probably in the Old Jury was converted by some Franciscans He vigorously confuted the Jews He wrote Commentaries on all the Old and New Testament keeping close to the Text therefore uncharitable the Censure Lyra delirat tho sometimes he may be wide of the mark He dyed in Paris 1340. Bankinus of London an Augustinian Frier a Violent Opposer of the Wicklevites was stopped some think Killed by the Violence of an Earthquake when ready to dispute against them in a publick Council He flourished 1382. Robert Ivory D. D. in Cambridge and President Gen. of the Carmelites adorned the Library of White Friers with his own and other Books and dyed 1392. Juliana Barnes of an ancient and Illustrious Family the Diana of her Age for Hunting c. of which with Hawking and Fishing she wrote 3 Treatises She wrote also a Book of Heraldry She flourished 1460 under H. 6. Robert Fabian Sheriff of London 1493. wrote 2 Chronicles 1. From Brutus to the death of Henry 2. another from the 1. of King Richard to the death of King Henry 7. He was an Excellent Poet. A modern Master-wit in the contest betwixt the Poets of our Age maketh Apollo to adjudge the Laurell to an Alderman of London because to have most wealth was a sign of most wit But had the Scene of this Competition been laid 140 years since c. Apollo would have given the Laurel to this our Alderman He died 1512 and was buried at the Church of Alhallows After his death Cardinal Woolsey caused them to burn all the Copies of his Book which he could come by because therein he had made too clear Discovery of the Revenues of the
Singer in Windsor-Quire There â—…ap'ned a Contest betwixt him and another of that Society Singing an Anthem together to the Virgin Mary Rob. Philips on the one side of the Quire â—… Redemtrix Salvatrix Rob. Testwood on the other side Non Redemtrix nec Salvatrix Whoever â—…ad the better then God be thanked the Nons have got now the better of the Os in England He was also accused for diswading the People from Pilgrimages and for striking off the Nose of the Image of our Lady Hen. Palmer Church-Warden of Windsor who had Articled against their Superstitious Vicar for Heretical Doctrine When an account was given of the patient Death of these three to King Hen. VIII he was pleased to say Alass poor Innocents This was Pity but could be no Protection yet by this Occasion others were preserved This storm blown over Barkshire enjoyed peace for twelve years viz. from An. Dom. 1544. till 1556 when Doctor Jeffrey the Cruel Chancellour of Sarisbury renewed the Troubles of Nembury and caused the Death of Julins Palmer See his Character being born in Coventry in Warwickshire John Gwin Th. Askin All three Burnt July 16. 1556. in the Sandpits near Newbury enduring the Fire with such incredible Constancy that it confounded their Foes and confirmed their Friends in the Truth Confessors John Marbeck a skilful Organist in Windsor-Quire who not perfectly understanding the Latin Tongue did out of the Latin with the help of the English Bible make an English Concordance commended highly by Bishop Gardiner yea by King Hen. VIII saying He was better employed than those Priests who accused him Marbick was a very Zealous Protestant of so sweet a Nature all good Men did love and few bad Men did hate him Yet he was Condemned An. 1544. on the Stat. of the six Articles to be Burnt at Windsor but was pardoned some say for the Love Gardiner bore to him some that his Accusers out of Remorse of Conscience procured his Pardon others that they intended to reserve him for a discovery of others 'T was a pardonable mistake of Mr. Fox in affirming this Marbeck was burnt which he afterwards amended Some Cavil and tell us That Many who were burnt in Fox's time in the Reign of Queen Mary drank Sack in the days of Queen Elizabeth but Humanum est errare Protestants disclaim infallibility and will reclaim their Errors when known Robert Bennet Lawyer in Windsor a zealous Professor of the true Religion when Mr. Testwood was Condemned was sick of the Plague in the Prison of the Bishop of London and by that means preserved receiving a Pardon after his recovery Cardinals This County affordeth one who might have been a Cardinal but would not viz. William Laud who at the proffer said That the Church of Rome must be first mended before he would accept any such Dignity Prelates Will. Reading a learned Benedictine employed by King Henry II. in many Embassies and by him promoted to the Arch-Bishoprick of Bourdeaux where he died in the Reign of King Richard I. John de Bradfield or De Lato Campo born likely at Bradfield in Berks. He was Chanter and Bishop of Rochester He had another Sur-name viz. De Hoe but the same Character viz. A man of honest Conversation good Learning and Moderation in all things Richard Beauchamp Brother to William Beauchamp Bar. of St. Amaud of Widehay in this County was bred Doctor in the Laws and became Bishop first of Hereford then of Salisbury He was Chancellour of the Garter which Office descended to his Successours Windsor-Castle the Seat of that Order being in the Diocess of Salisbury He built a beautiful Chappel on the South-side of St. Marries Chappel in his own Cathedral where he lyeth buried His death hap'ned An. Domini 1482. Since the Reformation Tho. Godwin born at Oakingham in this County was of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford maintained there for a time by the Bounty of Doctor Layton Dean of York till at last he was chosen Fellow of the Colledge Afterwards he was School-Master of Barkley in Gloucestershire then he studied Physick which proved Beneficial to him when forbidden to teach School in the Raign of Queen Mary Bonner threatning him with Fire and Faggot caused him often to obscure himself He was an Eloquent Preacher Tall and Comely in person which much indeared him to Queen Elizabeth For eighteen years together he was one of the Select Chaplains which Preached in Lent before her Majesty He was first Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford then Dean of Canterbury and at last Bishop of Bath and Wells Being Aged and Diseased he was necessitated for a Nurse to marry a second Wife which was represented to the Queen to his disgrace as if he had married a Girl of Twenty But the Earl of Bedford intervening Madam said he to her Majesty I know not how much the Woman is above Twenty but I know a Son of hers is but little under Forty He died at Oakingham of a Quartane Feaver Nov. 19. 1590. And lyeth buried â—…nder a Monument in the South-side of the Chancel Th. Ramme born at Windsor was admitted in Kings â—…olledge in Cambridge An. Dom. 1588. whence he was Chaplain first to Robert Earl of Essex then to Charles Lord Mountjoy both Lord Lieutenants in Ireland afterwards he was made Bishop of Fernos and Laghlin â—…n that Kingdom both peaceably enjoyed An. 1628. Will. Lawd born at Reading in this County of hoâ—…est Parents bred in S. John's Colledge in Oxford whereof he became President Successively Bishop of â—… David's Bath and Wells London and at last Arch-Bishop of Canterbury One of low Stature but high â—…arts piercing Eyes chearful Countenance whereâ—…n Gravity and Pleasantness were well compounded â—…dmirable in his Naturals unblameable in his Morals being very strict in his Conversation Impartial posterity will allow his Name to be reposed among the Heroes of England seeing such as behold his expence on S. Paul's as but a Cypher will assign his other Benefactions a very valuable Signification viz. His erecting and endowing an Alms-house in Reading his encreasing of Oxford Library with Books and S. John's Colledge with beautiful Buildings He was beheaded Jan. 10. 1644. States-men Sir John Mason Knight born at Abbington where â—…he was Benefactor to a beautiful Alms-house bred in All-Souls in Oxford King Henry VIII coming hither was so highly pleased with an Oration Mr. Mason made unto him that he instantly gave Order for his Education beyond the Seas as confident he would prove an able Minister of State He was Privy-Councellour to Henry 8. and Edward 6. One maketh him Secretary of State Another but Master of thâ—… Requests He continued Councellor to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth to whom he was Treasurer of the Houshold and Chancellor of the University of Oxford He having no Child adopted his Nephew He was a Man of Gravity and great Learning He died 1566 and lyeth buried in the Quire of S. Paul's a part oâ—… whose
King Hen. 3. to be Married to Fred. the Emp. whom he afterwards attended to the Holy-Land In his See he founded a Dean and 24 Prebendaries allowing the latter four Pounds a year He dyed An. 1244. Will. de Ralegh Canon of St. Pauls then successively Bishop of Norwich and Winch. tho King Hen. 3. opposed his Election to the last but the Pope presented by Raleigh with 600 Marks did the Work This great Expence made him run in Debt When the Priest brought the Eucharist to him lying on his Death-Bed he would rise out of his Bed to meet him saying I have need to come to thee and cometh thou to me He dyed An. 2249. Rich. Courtney allied to the Earl of Devonshire A Man of great Learning and skilled in the knowledge of both Laws Was at the instance of King H. 5. preferred Bishop of Norwich An. 1413. being highly favoured by the Prince and beloved of the People He dyed of a Flux at the Siege of Harflew in Normandy in the second year of his Consecration and was buried in Westminster Ja. Cary was at Rome made Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards at Florence of Exeter being then as good a See as Lichfield He dyed at Florence 1419 having enjoyed neither Jo. Stanbury born in the Farm of Church-hill in â—…e Parish of Bratton bred a Carmelite in Oxf. was 〈◊〉 Man of great Learning King Hen. 6. made him â—â—e first Provost of Eaton being much ruled by him 〈◊〉 ordering that his new Foundation Being kept â—â—om the Bishoprick of Norwich by Will de la Pool 〈◊〉 of Suffolk he was made Bishop of Bangor An. â—…453 and afterwards Bishop Hereford He very â—…oyally adhered to King H. 6. in all his Adversity â—â—d was taken Prisoner in the Battle of Northampton â—â—ing the Kings Confessor and Consequently tyed to â—…ersonal Attendance He dyed An. 1474. and was â—…uried at Ludlow Pet. Courtney Son to Sir Ph. Courtney was born 〈◊〉 Powderham He was first Arch-Deacon then â—…ishop of Exeter where he finished the North-Tower â—…nd gave Peter Bell thereunto He was Translated to Winchester An. 1486. Since the Reformation Jo. Jewel born at Buden a Farm possessed above â—…00 years by his Ancestors Was admitted into Merâ—…on-Coll at 15 years of Age and having touched at â—…ll Humane Arts he Landed at Divinity He was â—…fter his return into England from Germany preferred Bishop of Salisbury Of him may be said Nomen Omen Jewel was his Name and Precious his Vertues V. Eccl. Hist Jo. Prideaux born at Hartford and bred Scholar and Fell. of Exeter-Coll in Oxf. Canon of Christ-Church and above 30 years Professor in that University An excellent Linguist and of a becoming Festivity of so admirable a Memory that he retained what ever he Read The Welsh have a Proverb He that hath a good Memory giveth few Alms remembring what and to whom he had given before but this Doctor Crossed this Proverb with his constant Câ—â—â—rity to all in want His Learning was admired by Forreigners He would forgive the greatest Injury upon the least shew of the Parties Sorrow Episcopacy in England being grievously wounded by Malevolent Persons King Ch. I. conceived that the best Wine and Oyl that could be poured into those Wounds was to select Persons of known Learning unblameable lives to supply the vacant Bishopricks amongst whom Dr. Prideaux was made Bishop of Worcester But alas all in vain such the Fury of the times He dyed 1650. Of whom amongst others these Verses were made Desine mirari caecos errasse tot Ignes In Promptu causa est Lux Prideauxus obit He was Honourably interred at Bredon in Worc. Statesmen Sir Arth. Chichester Knight descended of an Ancient Family dwelling at Rawley spent his Youth first in the University then in the French and Irish Wars where by his Valour he was effectually assistant first to Plough that Barbarous Nation by Conquest and then to Sow it with Seeds of Civility when by King Ja. made Lord Deputy of Ireland where in his first year he Established two new Circuits for Justices of Assize viz. in Connaught and Munster He reduced the Mountains on the South of Dublin into the County of Wicklow So observant his Eye over the Actions of suspected Persons that Tyrone was heard to complain that he could not drink a full Carouse of Sack but the State was within few Hours Advertised thereof Being made a Lord and called home he was â—…ent Ambassadour to the Emperor When he was â—…esieged in the City of Manichine which he Seasonaâ—…ly Victualled by Count Tilley he sent him word â—…hat it was against the Law of Nations to besiege an Ambassadour Tilley returned That he took no notice of â—…hat the Lord Chichester replyed to the Messenger Had my Master sent me with as many hundred men as he has sent me on fruitless Messages your General should have â—…nown that I had been a Souldier as well as an Ambassadour He dyed An. 162. Capital Judges Sir Will. Herle Knight was made An. 1. of King E. 3. Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench in Hill Term and Chief-Justice of the Com. Pleas Jan. 29. before the end of the said Term. He dyed about 9 of E. 3. He was owner of Illufracombe in this County the Mannor whereof was held by his Issue till the Reign of King Hen. 7. A Family of his Name and I believe of his Linage hath a Worshipful Existence in Cornwall Sir John Cary Knight born at Cockington was made Chief Bar. of the Exchequer An. 10. R. 2. For his Loyalty to his Master he lost his Office Goods and Lands An. 1. H. 4. Yet afterwards King H. 5. restored all his Estate to his Son Sir Rob. Cary upon his vanquishing a certain vain Glorious Champion of Arragon This Judge dyed An. 1494. Sir Will. Hankford born at Amerie was made Chief-Justice of the Kings Bench An. 1. H. 5. which place he adorned with great Learning and Integrity Afterwards being discontented he charged the Keeper of his Deer-Park to shoot any Man he should find there and stood not being spoken unto The next night being dark he presents himself and refusing to stand the Keeper accordingly Shot him dead This hapned An. 1422. Sir Jo. Fortescue born of a right Ancient Family whose Motto is Forte Scutum salus Ducum waâ—… Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of England whose Learned Commentaries on the Law make him Famous to all Posterity Another Sir Jo. Fortescue was Privy Councellor Overseer of Queen Eliz. her Liberal Studies and Chancellour of the Exchequer and Dutchy of Law Sir Hen. Fortescue was a Valiant Commander under H. 5. in the French Wars by whom he was made Governour of Meux in Berry Sir Adrian Fortescâ—â— Porter of Calice came over with Hen 7. by whoâ—… he was Created Knight Banneret Sir Hen. Fortescue was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland highly esteemed for his many Vertues especially for his Sincerity in so tempting a place Sir Lewis Pollard of Kings Nimet Serj.
brought up under him He delighted in and wrote a Book of Solitary Life He was reputed a Saint and there is a Church at Exeter dedicated to his Memory Gildas the fourth studied in Ireland He wrote of the Wonders and first Inhabitants of Britain King Arthur c. of Perceval and Lancelot He flourished 860. Blegabride Langauride a great Scholar and Dr. of both Laws was Arch-Deacon of the Church of Landaffe He to the Honour of his Country and use of Posterity Translated the Laws of Howel the most modest King of Wales and flourished 914. Salephilax the Barde set forth a Genealogy of the Britains and flourished 920. Gwalterus Calenius Arch-Deacon of Oxford highly prized for his great Learning went over into Britain in France and thence retrieved an ancient Manuscript of the British Princes from Brutus to Cadwalader and Communicated the same to Jeffrey of Monmouth to be Translated by him into Latine He continued the same Chronicle for 400 years together till his own time He flourished 1120. under King Henry 1. Gualo Britannus was from his youth a Servant to the Muses and a lover of Poetry His Pen fell foul on the Monks writing invectives against their wantonness impostures and covetousness with such caution that he incurred no danger thereby He flourished 1170. under King Henry 2. William Breton a great Scholar and deep Divine was as some affirm a Franciscan at Grimsby in Lincoln-shire He wrote besides many other Books an Exposition of all the hard words in the Bible and such the reputation thereof that in the Controversie betwixt Standish Bishop of St. Asaph and Erasmus the former appeals to Breton's Book about the interpretation of a place in Scripture He dyed at Grimsby an 1356. Utred Bolton travelled to Durham in troublesome times and there became a Benedictine The prompt ness and pleasantness of his parts commended all things that he did or said Coming to Oxford in the heat of the difference betwixt Wickliffe and his Adversaries he agreed in some things with him Whereupon one Jordan a Dominican falling foul upon him he expressed himself more openly for Wickliffe especially in that his smart Book Proveris Monachis With which Jordan was so incensed that he used his utmost endeavour to get Bolton Excommunicated who flourished under King Richard 2. 1330. Jo. Gwent a Franciscan in Oxford became Provincial of his Order throughout all Britain He wrote a Learned Comment on Lombard's Common places and was a man of admirable prudence He dyed at Hereford 1348. Jo. Ede a Learned and Religious Man wrote several Comments on Aristotle Peter Lombard and the Revelation He was chief of the Franciscans Convent in Hereford where he was buried in the Reign of King Henry 4. 1408. David Boys in Latine Boethius studied in Oxford He procured the Writings of Jo. Barningham and bestowed them on the Library in Cambridge He was befriended by Eleanor Cobham Dutchess of Glocester whence we collect him at least a parcel Wickliffite He wrote amongst many others a Book of double Immortality and another about the madness of the Hagarens He was Prefect of the Carmelities in Glocester where he dyed 1450. Since the Reformation Sir Jo. Rhese alias Ap Ryse Knight Noble by his Lineage but more by his Learning was well versed in the British Antiquities and was a zealous Assertor of the credit of Welsh-Authors against Pol. Virgil. He wrote a Treatise of the Eucharist and was a favourer of the Reformation flourishing under King Edward 6. 1550. Jo. Griffin first a Cistertian in Hales-Abbey in Glocester became a Preacher after the dissolution of his Convent Preaching many Sermons in English and writing them in Latine He flourished under Edward 6. an 1550. Hugh Broughton of gentile but poor Parents was sent by Mr. Gilpin to Christs-Colledge in Cambridge of which he became Fellow He was famous for his skill in the Hebrew a great Ornament to that University He was somewhat hot and peremptory in his Opinions He wrote many Books whereof one called the Consent of Times carrieth the general commendation 'T is reported that he procured Mr. Gilpin his Maecenas to be molested by Dr. Barnes Bishop of Durham in expectation of his Parsonage as some shrewdly suspect At last being fixed in London he taught many Citizens and their Apprentices the Hebrew Tongue His Sermons were rather curious then edifying which was the cause that he had numerous Auditors He dyed about 1600. Hugh Holland Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge was an excellent Latine Poet Being disaffected to the Protestant Religion he Travelled into Italy where he let fly freely against the credit of Queen Elizabeth Whence he went to Rome and in his return he touched at Constantinople where Sir Thomas Glover Ambassadour for King James called him to an account for his Scandalum Reginae and imprisoned him for some time Being enlarged he returned into England where missing of preferment he grumbled out the rest of his Life in visible discontentment He made Verses in description of the chief Cities in Europe wrote the Chronicle of Queen Elizabeths Reign and a Book of the Life of Mr. Cambden which were never Printed He had a competent Estate in good Candle-rents in London and dyed about the beginning of the Reign of King Charles I. ANGLESEY ANglesey in Latine Mona that is the English Island is surrounded on all sides with the Irish Sea save on the South where a small Fret called Menai sundreth it from the Welsh Continent having 20 Miles in the length and 17 in the breadth thereof It is seemingly barren and really fruitful affording plenty of good Wheat and Mill-stones to grind it There are several Trees digged up here out of marish places which are firm and fit for Timber They are black within as Ebony and are used by Carvers for inlaying Cupboards c. Yea Hasle-nuts are found under ground with sound Kernels in them Proverbs I. Mon Mam Cymbry that is Anglesey is the Mother of Wales because when other 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 Croâ—…ging 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
Hooper ibid. The life of Joceline Bishop of Wells Page 744 The life of Thomas Beckington Bishop of Bath and Wells ibid. The life of Sir Amias Poulet Page 745 The decision of Lord Chief Justice Fitz-James Page 746 The life of Sir John Popham Page 747 The life of the valiant Courcy Earl of Ulster ibid. Sir Amias Preston's Challenge to Sir Walter Rawlelgh Page 749 Ferguson Senior or Henry Cuffee Page 750 The life of Sir John Harrington Page 751 Silver-tongued Sidenham Page 751 The Life of Robert Person Page 752 Coriat's Picture Page 754 The Skirmish at Martials Elm ibid. BRISTOL Bristol Milk a Remedy against Crudities Page 754 Hugh Eliot first discovered the New found Land Page 756 The life of Thomas Norton the Chymist Page 757 The life of W. Grocine Page 758 Dr. White Founder of Sion-Colledge Page 759 STAFFORD-SHIRE Wherein is found good Alabaster Page 760 The Life of Cardinal Pole Page 761 The life of Sir Thomas Littleton Judge Page 763 The life of Dudley Sir Richard Empson's Partner Page 764 The life of Sir John Bromley ibid. The life of John Dudley Duke of Northumberland Page 765 The Bagnols ibid. SUFFOLK The life of Edmund Mortimer Page 773 The life of St. Edmund King of the East-Angles Page 774 The life and death of Dr. Taylor ibid. The strange circumstances of the death of Robert Samuel Page 775 Cardinal Woolsey Founder of Christ-Colledge in Oxford Page 776 The life of Bishop Gardiner Page 778 The life of Bishop Brownrig Page 780 The life of Sir Nicholas Bacon Page 781 The life of Sir William Drury Lord Deputy of Ireland Page 782 The life of Sir Robert Naunton Secretary of State Page 783 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 Clubs 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 VVâ—…les 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
Recorder of Leâ—…d He is Eminent for the Speech he made in Parl. An. 10. Jac. when account was taken of 40 Gentlemen in the House of Commons which were not 20 and some of them not 16 years of Age. Formely said the Recorder Martyn it was the Custom of Old Men to make Law â—…o young ones but now Nature is invaded and inverted seeing young Men Enact Laws to govern their Fathers He dyed 1616. Whose Kinsman Will. Martyn bred a Student in the Laws were a Treatise Of the Kings of England since the Conqueâ—â— By a Passage in which reflecting on the Royal 〈◊〉 or the Scotch Nation he irrecoverably lost King â—â— his Favour He dyed 1616. Will. Tucker D. D. Dean of Lichfield wrote a Book de Charismate Of the Kings of England their Gracious healing of the Evil dedicating the same to Queen Eliz. in which he vindicated such Cures from Imposture and the Usurpation of the French c. His Congee d'elire was signed to Elect him Bishop of Glocester but it was revoked by King James so that the Doctor may be said to have worn half a 〈◊〉 Jo. Berkham set forth Doctor Crackenthorp his â—â—stâ—â—ume Works and was helpful to Jo. Speed in Composing his English History yea he wrote the whole Life and Reign of King John which of all iâ—… that Book is the most profoundly Pen'd Mr. Gâ—â—lim in his Heraldry was much beholden to the Doctor 's Emendations He was a greater Lover of Coyns than Money That excellent Collection in Oxf. Library was his Gift to the Arch-bishop before the Arch-bishop gave it to the University He dyed 1641. Benefactors Joan Tuckvile Widow procured the Possession and Consecration of a Parcil of Ground for the interment of such as were Executed at Heavy-tree allowing Land to buy a Shroud for every one of them She dyed about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. Dorsetshire DOrsetshire hath Devonshire on the West Som. and Wiltshire on the North Hampshire on the East and the Narrow-Sea on the South in length 40 and in the broadest part 26 Miles It aboundeth with all the necessaries for Man's Life has plenty of Sheep Timber Freestone nor wanteth it Veins of Marble in the Isles of Purbeck There is also Salt made in this County and it can cloth it self with its own Wool of which Broad-Cloth is here made And to all this an excellent Air and the Conveniency of Navigation The Natural Commodities are Tenches abounding in the River Stowre Tobacco-Pipe-Clay carried to Lond. from Poole and the Isle of Wight and at Lond. it is worth 30 Shillings the Tun. Hemp betwixt Bemister and Byrd-port Wild-Madder at Hod-Hill c. For Buildings Lulworth-Castle and Sherburn-Lodge are most Eminent Indeed the Rhyme holds true Generally of English Structures The North for Greatness the East for Health The South for Neatness the West for Wealth Proverbs I. As much a Kin as Lenson-hill to Pilsen-peâ—… Spoken of those who are Neigbours and no Relations The first of these two Hills is wholly the other partly in the Parish of Broad-Windsor when of once I was Minister yet Sea-men make a Relation betwixt them calling the one the Cow and the other the Calf as being Eminent Sea-marks II. Stab'd with a Byrdport Dagger That is Hang'd the best Hemp growing about Byrdport III. Dorsetshire Dorsers i. e. Panniers Saints Edward Son to Edgar King of England was in his Infancy whipt by Elfrida his Mother-in-law with Wâ—…r Candles so that afterwards he could never endure 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 Corfe-Castle whither he had come to visit her An. 978. Intending by that Murder to make way for her Son Ethelred to the Kingdom He was buried at Shaftsbury which formerly was called St. Edwards Cardinals Jo. Morton born at St. Andrews Milborne of a Worshipful Family still Extent was made Bishop of â—…y 1578. He proposed the Marriage of Eliz Eldest â—…aughter to E. 4. of the House of York to Hen. Earl Richmond H. 7. of the House of Lanc. which â—…liance this Earl did account his surest Title to the â—…rown The Bishop was made by that King Chanâ—â—llour of England and afterwards Arch-bishop of â—…ant He was a great Instrument in advancing a Voâ—â—ntary Contribution to the King through the Lands â—…ersuading Prodigals to part with their Money beâ—â—use they did spend it most and the Covetous beâ—â—use they might spare it best This Bishop with â—…ast cost cut a new Channel in the Fennes He enâ—…oyned his Executors to maintain 20 poor Scholars in â—…xf and 10 in Camb. 20 years after his Death which â—…ap'ned 1500. Prelates Jo. Stafford Son to Humph. 6th Earl of Staff was born at Hooke made Bishop of Wells and was 18 years Chancellour of England and at last Arch-biâ—…hop of Cant. He dyed at Maidstone 1452. Rob. Morton Brother to Card. Morton was made by his Means Bishop of Worcester 1486. He dyed 1497. and lyeth buried in St. Pauls in Lond. Ja. Turbevil of a Worshipful Family in this County was made Bishop of Exeter 1556. at which time it was said he was a Baron but a Bare one so miserably had that Cathedral been Polled Yet â—…he obtained amongst other Lands the Restitution of the fair Mannor of Crediton or Kiron from Queen Mary which was again alienated in the Reigâ—… of Queen Eliz. This Bishop staved off Persecutiâ—â— from those of his Jurisdiction He was deprived iâ—… the beginning of Queen Eliz. Since the Reformation Th. Winniffe born at Sherborne D. D. Chapl. â—â— Prince Henry for a passage in his Sermon about â—â—domer was committed close Prisoner to the Toâ—â— and during his imprisonment a Great Lord begg'd â—â— Church-preforment No said King Ja. I 〈◊〉 not thus to part with the Man At which the Lord â—â— he intended only to try the Kings Resolution â—â— that he knew the Doctor to be a Man of great â—â—rit He was chosen Bishop of Lincoln 1642. He dyed An. 1654. and was buried at Lamburn in â—â— the Conclusion of his Epitaph being Anima hee raâ—â—â—ta in coelos non Laudationem quaerit sed Imitationem â—â— the same place had his Father been buried Souldiers Th. Basket Esquire of Divelish much confided iâ—… for his Wisdom and Valour by King Hen. 8. He wâ—â— commonly called Little Mr. Basket the Great Souldier He dyed about 1530. Jo. Russel born at Kingston-Russel bred beyond the Sea was a Man of great Accomplishment and was recommended by Phil. King of Castile Father to Ch. 5. Emp. to Hen. 7. as a Person of Great Abilities he could see more with his one Eye than many others could do with two King Hen. â—… made him Comptroller of the Houshold and Privy Councellor and An. 1538. erected him Lord Russel and made Keeper of the Privy Seal A good sharâ—… of the Golden Showre of Abbey-Lands fell into his â—â—ap King E. 6. who
whither they go by Land or Watâ—… the Wind is ever on their Faces Saints Kenelme Son of Kenwolfe King of Mercid at â—… years of Age succeeded his Father but was shorâ—â— after killed by Quenrid his Sister and that Murdâ—… was wonderfully discovered if the Legend be trâ—â— by a Dove that carried in Parchment notice therâ—â— to Rome As for Quenrid when her Eyes fell out tâ—â— Bloodied her Primer whilst her Brothers Corps 〈◊〉 Solemnly buried at Winchcomb and had in holy â—â—neration Martyrs Jo. Baynham Esquire a Lawyer and a true Lorâ—… of the Gospel was by Sir Th. Moores Order whâ—â—â— at a Tree in Chelsey then cruelly Rackt in the Toâ—â— in his sight after which he abjured But Recaâ—â—ing his Recantation he was after much cruel usaâ—â— Burnt in Smithfield Prelates Tideman de Winchcomb was made by R. 2. Abbot of Benle Bishop of Landaff then of Worcester He was also the Kings Physician having a Plâ—â—â—lity of Cures both in Number and Kind Jo. Chedworth Bishop of Lincoln was joyned in â—â—mission by King Hen. 6. with the Bishop of Winch. â—…egulate the Statutes of Eaton and Kings Colledges â—…amb He dyed An. 1471. â—…o Carpenter born at Westbury was Bishop of Worâ—â— He could not procure to himself the Tiâ—â— of Bishop of Worcester and Westbury He dyed â—…5 â—…h Ruthal born in Chichester was made by King â—… 7. Bishop of Durham and by H. 8. Privy Counâ—…our He was grossly mistaken when in stead of â—…reviate of the State of England which he had â—…wn up he presented H. 8. with his own Estate â—…unting to an invidious Sum viz. of 100000 l. Enemy Card. Woolsey glad at the mistake told King he knew now where a Mass of Money 〈◊〉 in case he needed it This broke Ruthal's Heart 〈◊〉 had paid the third part of the cost of making Bridge of New-Castle over Tyne and intended â—â—y more Benefactions had not Death 1523 this occasion surprised him Since the Reformation â—…Edw Fox born in Duresley was Almoner to King 〈◊〉 8. He first brought Dr. Cranmer to the knowâ—…ge of the King He was afterwards Bishop of â—…eford and was the Principal Pillar of the Reforâ—…tion as to the Managery of the Politick part â—…reof Of the many Books he wrote that De â—…erentiâ utriusque Potestatis was his Master-piece was employed on several Embassies into France â—… Germany and dyed An. 1538. States-men Sir Ralph Butler Knight of the Garter and lâ—… Sudeley in this County was Lord Treasurer of â—… He built Sudley-Castle the strongest and best Hâ—…tion of a Subject in Engl. Being Summoned bâ—…â—… and suspecting imprisonment he said It is toâ—… deley and not I that am a Traytor And so resâ—… the same into the Kings hands to procure his lâ—…ty Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Anth. Fitz Herbert Justice of the Com. Pleas Derb. Edw. Trotman born at Cam. wrote an Abriâ—…ment of Sir Edw. Coke's Reports his Endeavourâ—…ing well esteemed by the Learned in the Profeâ—… He was buried in the Temple-Church 1643. Souldiers Sir Will. Tracy of Todington a Gent. of â—… Birth State and Stomach much in favour â—… King Hen. 2. was the forwardest of the four Kniâ—… who killed Thomas Becket He had large Posseâ—… in Dev. His intended Pilgrimages to Jerus â—…or â—…nance were ever crossed with advers Winds â—… dyed An. 1180. Seamen Will. Winter Knight and Vice-Adm of Engl. aâ—â—ted the Fort of French in the Island of Inchâ—â—â—â— Edenburgh Frith An. 1559. He with Sir Th. Sâ—â— demanded the Restitution of Calis 1567. He â—… â—…cted a great Treasurer of the Genoa Merchants â—…ely into the Netherlands in despite of the French â—…posing him 1568. He with Rob. Beale was sent inâ—… Zealand to demand the Restitution of some English â—…ps 1576. He did signal Service when the Sp. â—…et was fallen towards the Coast of Zealand 1588. â—…dney-house the Seat of the Family had produced maâ—… more Mariners happy in Sea-Voyages Writers Osbern Claudian of Glouc. where he was a Beneâ—…stine Monk a Learned and Facetious Man wrote Comment on the Pentateuch and on the Incarnatiâ—… Nativity c. of Christ besides his Pan-Ormia and â—…hers Rob. of Glou. where he was a Monk was a Rhymer â—…t good Historian flourishing under Hen. 2. and â—…ng Jo. 1200. Alan Abbot of Teuxbury was intimate with Th. â—…cket after whose decease he with three other of â—…cket's Evangelists wrote the History of his Mockâ—…ssion and Miracles He flourished under King Jo. â—…n 1200. Alex. of Hales as he followed Pet. Lombard so he â—…d lead Th. Aquinas and other Schoolmen He was â—…e first that wrote a Comment on the Sentences calâ—…d the Sum of Divinity at the Instance of Pope Inâ—…c 4. For his Services he had the Title of Doctor â—…refragabilis He dyed An. Dom. 1245. and was â—…ried in Paris Th. de la More well descended was famous in Peace â—…d War and brought honour out of Scotland on â—…s Swords point being Knighted by E. 4. for his Vaâ—…ant and Fortunate Service therein He wrote the â—…anner of Deposition of E. 2. to whom he bore a most Loyal Affection and did the best Service could on that Fatal occasion He flourished An. 13â—… Th. of Hales a Minorite promoted the Fabâ—â— point of Purgatory with other Popish Positions â—â—der E. 3. 1340. Th. Neale born at Yate and bred in Oxf. wâ—â— he was Prof. of Hebrew dedicated his Transâ—…on of some Rabbins to Card. Pole He was a 〈◊〉 of fearful Nature yet constant to the Rom. Perâ—…sion being Chaplain to Bishop Bonner Papist aâ—…mire him for his rare Judgment and Protestantâ—… his strange Invention in first feigning Math. Paâ—… Consecration at the Nags-head in Cheapside Hâ—…ved in Oxf. 1576. Since the Reformation Rich. Tracy Esquire born at Todington was Soâ—… Sir Will the Confessor to whose Zeal he succeeded 〈◊〉 wrote in the defence thereof several Treatises English amongst which was Preparations to the Crâ—â— He wrote Prophetically before the Reign of Qâ—â—â— Mary Note that An. 1626 there was among others a Treatise called A Preparation to the Crâ—â— found in the Belly of a Cod which was sold at Câ—â— Of which these Verses were written If Fishes thus do bring us Books then we May hope to equal Bodleys Library Yet after that some found the Cross in Camb. Sir Th. Overbury Knight born at Borton on tâ—â— Hill and bred in Oxf. hath given a Proof of 〈◊〉 Accomplishments in Poetry and Prose He was tâ—â— first Writer of Characters in Engl. so far as I hâ—â— observed He lost the favour of the Earl of Sâ—â— â—…dissuading him from keeping Company with a 〈◊〉 Wife of another Person of Honour He was â—…mitted to the Tower for refusing to be imployed â—…assadour to Russia His strict Restraint encouâ—â—d his Enemies to Practise his Death which was â—…oyson effected 1615. For which the Earl was â—â—shed the Court and others were executed â—… Sprint bred in Oxf. and Minister of Thornbury â—â—me a Conformist of a great Dissenter and wrote â—…assander Anglicanus
Edburgh Daughter to King E. the Elder at three years of Age took you may believe it if you will the N. Testament leaving Jewels presented joyntly by her Father a great Argument of Radical Piety afterwards she would steal the Nuns Socks and restore them washed and anointed She dyed 920. some of her Bones lying at Winchester or Wilâ—…on were Translated to Pilshore in Worc. Martyrs Jo. Philpot well descended was Arch-Deac of Lincoln and a Zealous Promoter of the Prot. Religion For some Words he used in the Convocation he was Martyred An. 1555. Kath. Gowches and her two Daughters Guillemine Gilbert and Perotine Massey for absenting from the Church and denying the Real presence were burnt for Hereticks An. 1556. Add to these the Infant that by the force of the Fire burst of of his Mothers Belly Perotine aforesaid whose Husband was a Minister of Gods Word The Babe being taken out of the Fire was thrown in again by the command of Eliez Gosselin Bailiff of the Isle of Guersney where this hapned Prelates Will. Wickham the Long Son to Sir Jo. Perrâ—â— Long his Name and Long lasting his Memory while the World endures for his 2 Foundations at Oxf. and Winchester in the first founding St. Maries Coll. He dyed An. 5. Hen. 4. Jo. Russel born at Winchester was Chanc. of Oxf. for Term of his Life By E. 4. he was made Bishop of Lincoln and by R. 3. Lord Chanc. of England but opposing the Lord Hastings Death he was imprisoned He dyed An. 1490. leaving behind him the Reputation of a Pious Prudent and Learned Man Will. Warham born at Ockley of Worshipful â—…arentage was employed by H. 7. to Marg. Dutchess of Burgundy and by him advanced Bishop of Lond. then Arch-bishop of Cant. but was Eclipsed by Woolsey who had more Honour and more Envy Being Prime Advocate for Queen Kath. in the matter of her Divorce he carried it so prudently that he neither betrayed the cause of his Client nor incurred the Kings displeasure He fell into a Pramunire with the rest of the Clergy and is said to have spent 3000 l. in repair of his Places He dyed An. 1533. Rob. Sherborn was employed Ambassadour by H. 7. and by him made Bishop of St. Dav. then Chich. which Church he adorned When 90 years of Age he resigned and dyed An. 1536. Jo. White was Bishop of Lincoln then of Winch. upon which Bishoprick he entered upon condition to pay Card. Pole a yearly Pension of 1000 l. He wrote an Elegy on the Eucharist to prove the Corporal presence and Preached the Funeral Sermon of Queen Mary wherein reflecting on Queen Eliz. he incurred her just displeasure Whereupon he was imprisoned till his Death An. 1560. Since the Reformation Th. Bilson born in Winch. was Bishop of Worc. then of Winch. As Reverend and Learned a Prelate as England ever afforded Witness his Works Of the Perpetual Government of Christs Church and of Christs descent into Hell The new Translation of the Bible was by King Ja. command ultimately committed to his and Dr. Smith's Bishop of Glouc. perusal He dyed 1618. Hen. Cotton born at Warblington was Pr. Counsellor to E. 6. and God-son to Queen Eliz. who preferred him Bishop of Salisbury and pleasantly said that formerly she had blessed many of her God-sons but now her God-son should bless her Another Cotton about the same time being Consecrated Bishop of Exeter the Queen added that she hoped she had well Cottoned the West By Patience his Wife he had 19 Children and dyed 1615. Arth. Lakes born in Southampton was Dean of Worc. and Bishop of Bath and VVells He answered St. Pauls Character of a Bishop only he had no Wife When Mr. of St. Crosses he encreased the Diet c. of the poor Brethren When Bishop he kept 50 Servants in Charity He was in fine a Pattern of Piety He dyed An. 1602. States-men Richard Rich Knight well descended was Sollicitor to H. 8. Upon his deposition chiefly Sir Th. More was beheaded Under Cromwell he was a lesser Hammer to knock down Abbeys some of which stuck justly to his Fingers By E. 6. he was made Lord Chanc. of Engl. Being an opposer of D. Dudley he resigned his Office by Prevention having got a fair Estate at Lees-Abbey in Ess whereof he was Baron He dyed in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz being direct Ancestor to the Right Honourable Ch Rich now Earl of Warwick Will Pawlet was Bar. of Basing and Marq. of Winch. in this County descended from the Powlets in Som. 'T is said that coming to Court upon trust he prosper'd more than any Subject since the Conquest living in the Harvest of Estates viz. the time of the Dissolution of the Abbeys He was Servant to H. 7. and for 30 years Treasurer to H. 8. E. 6. Queen Ma. and Queen Eliz. The latter in some sort owed their Crown to his Counsel his Policy being the Principal Defeater of D. Dudley's design to Disinherit them Having seen 103 of his Descendants he dyed An. Dom. 1571. Aet 97. Sir Th. Lakes born in Southampton was Secr. of Estate to King Ja. He could Endite Write and Discourse at the same time He was resembled to the Ship Swift-sure and was withal one of great Secrecy a learned and good Man He was one of the three Noble Hands who first led Mr. Geo. Villers into the favour of King Ja. Yet he incurred the Kings Displeasure for the Offences of his Relations tho the King even then gave him this Publick Eulogie in open Court That he was a Minister of State fit to serve the greatest Prince in Europe Souldiers Beavois Earl of Southampton in the time of W. Conqueror was vanquished with his English and Welsh Army by the Normans near to Carclis's from whence he fled to Carlile Note Beavoisses Sword in Arundel Castle is less than that of E. 3. in Westminster-Church Sea-men Sir Jo. Wallop well descended provoked with Prior John's Piracy Landed in Normandy with 800 Men Burnt 21 Towns with Divers Ships Wherefore his Arms may appear prophetical viz. Arg. a Bend-unde i. e. Wave S. Rob. Tomson Merch. born in Andover made a Voyage for the Discovery of Nova Hispania of which with the City Mexico he wrote a Description He was imprisoned in Mex then in Spain for speaking against Saint-worship And after his Enlargement he was confined to Donna Maria de la Barrera a Spanish Lady with whom he had in Marriage 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
of Sharnbourn a Mannor in this County which Mannor William the Conquerour conferred on Warren a Norman Souldier Sharborn traversed his Title and being a Norfolk-man durst go to Law with the Conqueror and question the Validity of his Donations Yea he got the better of the Suit and the Kings Grant was adjudged void This is pressed by many to prove that King William tho in name was in deed no Conqueror but came in by Composition to keep the Laws of England Sharborn was lately aliened the Heirs Males being extinct to a worthy Person Fr. Ash Esquire who hath setled it on Emanuel College Noted Sheriffs An. 14. Philip Calthrope a Facetious Gentleman when he understood that Jo. Drakes a Shoe-maker had bought some of the same French Tawney that himself had provided for a Gown commanded his Taylor to cut his Gown full of Holes which purged Drakes of his Proud Humour that he wou'd never be of the Gentlemans Fashion again An. 29. Edm. Windham whose Grandmother was Daughter to Jo. Howard D. of Norf. struck Mr. Clere a Gentleman of his own Country in the Kings Tennis Court For this he was arraigned in the great Hall at Greenwich and had Judgment to lose his right-hand He desired that the King of Mercy would be pleased to take his left-hand and spare his right for therewith said he I may be hereafter able to do his Grace Service The King being informed hereof granted his full Pardon He made his promise good to E 6. by whom he was Knighted endeavouring to suppress Kets Rebellion in this County till at last it proved a Task above his Strength to perform Th. Woodhouse Mil. descended from Honourable Ancestors many of whom were employed in State Affairs viz. Rob. Treasurer was summoned to Parliament by E. â—… Jo. was Servant and Executor to Hen. 5. Sir Will. was Vice Ad. of the English Fleet in Mosteborough Field Philip active at the taking of Cadiz and Knighted there by the Earl of Essex And ever since there hath been a Military inclination in this Family which hath manifested it self on several occasions An. 18. Drugo Drury Arm. afterwards Knighted was joyned in Commission with Sir Amias Paulet to keep Ma. Q. of Scots Both were nicknamed Puritans by the ill-natur'd Roman Catholicks An. 5. Roger Townsend Baronet a Religious Gentleman expending his Soul in Piety and Charity a Lover of God his Service aâ—…d Servants restored Impropriations to the Church to some Hundreds per An. He married Mary Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere of Tilbury by whom he had Sir Horace created Baon at the Coronation of K. Ch. II. Norwich NOrwich is a Pleasant and Populous City the first with the Inhabitation of Trees the latter with the Plantation of People The pleasantness of the City was not a little advanced by the Dutchmen who first garnished it with curious Flowers As for Manufactures Stuffs were first brought hither by the Dutch who were expelled their Country by the Cruelty of the D. of Alva Of these Stuffs there was one formerly called Stand-far-off which discovered its coursness when near to the Eye another called Perpetuano from the lasting thereof Satinisco Bombicino Italiano c. Norwich hath beaten Sudbury out of distance in the Race of trading Of the Buildings the Cathedral is spacious tho the Roof in the Cloysters be most commended Amongst private Houses the D. of Norfolk's Palace is the greatest I ever saw in any City out of London Here is a covered Bowling-Alley The Bishops Palace formerly a fair Structure was lately unleaded and new covered with Tyle Whereon a Wagg Thus Palaces are altered we saw John Leyden now Wat Tyler next Jack Straw Physicians Jo. Goslin Master of Caius Colledge in Camb. Proctor of the University and twice Vice-Chancellour thereof a greet Scholar and Reg. Prof. of Physick was strict in pressing the Statutes of the University and it being then highly penal for a Scholar to wear Boots in the University there was a Student undertook for a Wager to address himself booted to the Vice-Chancellor craving his advice for a Numness in his Leggs the Vice-Chancellor prescribed him a Receit and dismissed him very civilly This Youth a cunning Gibeonite covering at the same Instant his Leggs with his Boots and his Boots with his Leggs escaped the punishment that was due in that case Dr. Goslin was a Worthy Benefactor to Kath. Hall bestowing thereon the fair Bull-Inn of considerable value He died 1625. Jo. Caius Fellow in Gonvil-Hall in Camb. travelled into Italy and wrote several Trea. there After his Return he was Physician to Q. Mary and improved Gonvil-Hall into a College He wrote an Excellent Book of tho Antiquity of Cambridge and another De Canibus His Epitaph is FUI CAIUS Since the Reformation Rob. Watson was Skilled in the Laws and Steward of the House to Arch-Bishop Cranmer Having frequently disputed with Papists during his Imprisonment for Religion he wrote after his enlargement an Elegant Latin Treatise wherein he relateth the Accidents of his Life Benefactors to the Publick Will. Baitman bred in Cambridge Arch-Deacon then B. of Norwich in the Reign of E. 3. enjoyned Penance to Rob. Lord Morley for stealing of his Deer and made him perform the same in the Cathedral of Norwich notwithstanding the Kings threatning Letters to the contrary He erected Trinity-Hall Colledge in Cambridge for the Study of the Canon and Civil Laws He removed Gonvil-Hall to a more convenient place building and setling the Revenues thereof according to the Will of the Founder King Ed. 3. resolving to follow his Title to the Crown of France sent this Bishop to the Pope to acquaint him with his Intentions In which Embassy he died at Avignon 1354. Since the Reformation Th. Legg Master of Gonvil-Hall in Cambridge was Doctor of Law and Arches one of the Masters in the Chancery twice Vice-Chancellor of the University He was well skilled in Antiquity He wrote a Tragedy of the Destruction of Jerus which was filched from him by a Plagiary before it was acted In the acting of a Tragedy he had formerly written of R. 3. Jo. Palmer afterward Dean of Peterborough who personated K. Rich. therein had his head so possessed with a Prince-like Humor that ever after he did what he then acted in his prodigal Expences Dr. Legg bequeathed 600 l. for the building of the East-Part of his College He died An. 1607. Northampton-shire NOrthampton-shire a long narrow Inland County stretched from the N. E. to S. W. bordereth on 9 several Counties viz. on the E. Camb. Hunt on the W. Warwick-shire on the N. Linc. Rutl. and Leic. on the S. Bedford Buckingham and Oxford It is a fruitful and populous County as any in England Here there is very little Wast Ground so that this Shire is an Apple without Core or Rind All the Rivers therein are bred there which argues the elevation of the Ground The Language of the Inhabitants is very proper
translated into Latin He died 1618 and lyeth buried in the Church of Bath Fr. Godwin Son to Th Bishop of Bath and Wells was born at Hanningham 1561. and became D. D. in Christs-Church in Oxford Sub-Dean of Exeter and afterwards Bishop of Landaffe An. 40 Eliz. 1601. He was a good Man grave Divine skilfull Mathematician pure Latinist and incomparable Historian to whose painful Endeavors the whole Church Militant is much beholding He was translated by King James to Hereford and died in the Reign of King Charles An. 162. Jo. Owen born at Burton Latimers where his Father was Minister was bred in Jesus-College in Cambridg where he commenced D. D. and was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was a Prince King Charles being troubled with 2 Competitors advanced this modest Doctor to the Bishoprick of St. Asaph to end the contest He outlived his Vote in Parliament and survived to see all Contempt cast on his Order which he bare with Moderation and died 164. Rob. Skinner D. D. born at Pisford and bred in Oxford became a Preacher in London and Dean of Hence he was preferted Bishop of Brist then of Oxford and is still and long may he be living Statesmen Sir Christopher Hatton born at Holdenby of an ancient Family was beloved of the Queen for his handsom Dancing better for his Proper Person and best of all for his Abilities The Queen at last preferred him Lord Chancellor of England He by his Power and Prudence convinced some sullen Serjeants who thought him not throughly learned in the Laws of their Errours and his own Abilities His Zeal for the Discipline of the Church of England gave the first being to a scandalous report that he was Popishly affected It brake his heart that the Queen rigorously demanded the present Payment of some Arrears and falling into a mortal Disease he could not be recovered by the Queens broth 's which some affirm her Majesty brought to him with her own hands He died 1591. and was buried in the Quire of St. Paules Sir W. Fitz-Williams born at Milton married the Sister of Sir Henry Sidney Lord Dep. of Ireland where himself was 5 times Dep. and when Walt. Earl of Essex was sent over Governour of Ulster he took his Commission from this Sir W. then Lord Dep. He was Serviceable towards the reduction of that Kingdom in raising a Composition in Munster and in setling the Possessions of the Lords and Tenants in Monohan His Vigilancy was most conspicuous in 88. when the routed Armado in its return dared not to land in Ireland except against their Wills when driven by tempest when they found the Shore worse than the Sea unto them Some impute the Irish Rebellion which afterwards brake out to this Deputies Severity in imprisoning suspected Persons for concealed Spanish Goods tho this gave only the Irish a Mantle for their intended Wickedness He died An. 15 ... Sir Isaack Wake honorably descended was bred in Oxford where he was Orator of the Univ. He was afterwards Secretary to Sir Dudley Charleton Secretary of State and from his was advanced into the Kings service and employed Ambassadour to Venice where he neglected his own Commodity to attend his Majesties Imployment the reason that he died only rich to his own Conscience He was afterwards appointed Leiger for France and designed Secretary of State had not Death prevented him at Patis He was accomplished with all Qualifications requisite for publick Employment King Charles allowed the Expences for his Funeral and at his Majesties Command his Corps was brought over to England and buried in the Castle of Dover An. 16 ... Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Martin de Pateshull was made Justice of the Common Pleas An. 1. H. 3. AMP. He was 4th Dean of St. Pauls Sir Tho. Billing dwelt at Ashwell was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench An. 6. E 4. Whose Lands have since by the Lovils descended to the Shirlies He married for his 2d Wife Mary Daughter and Heir of Robert Nosenham of Conington in Hunt the Relict of W. Cotten whose Issue possess her Inheritance at this day and she lyeth entombed in Westminster Sir W. Catesbye whose Family flourished at Ashby St. Leger was advanced by W. Lord Hastings into the Notice and Favour of Richard 3. tho ill requiting it when betraying him who caused his Preferment He was a man well Learned in the Laws of the Land and sure great pity it was that he had not had more Truth or less Wit He was eminently all Officers in every Court of Judicature Witness the Libell which Collingborn made and which cost him his Life for the same The Rat and the Cat and Lovel the Dog Do Govern all England under the Hog He died probably before the end of R. 3. Sir Richard Empson another Catesbye was eminent for having odious for abusing his skill in the Law active for his Prince injurious to the People He was Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and from a Sieve-maker's Son at Towceter in this County where he was born came to sift the Estates of the wealthiest Men in England For Henry 7. vexed that he had refused Columbus his proffer whereby the West Indies fortunately discovered fell to Ferd. King of Spain resolved to discover Indies in England and to this purpose made Empson Promoter General to press the Penal Statutes all over the Land Impowred hereby this prolling Knight did grind the faces of the Rich and Poor bringing the grist thereof to the K. and keeping the Toll thereof to himself whereby he advanced a vast Estate which now with himself is reduced to nothing He united the Houses of York and Lanc. in the Kings Coffers taking notice of no person for his good service but making all equally obnoxious to Forfeitures This Empson scoffingly demanding of a Judicial Astrologer in Warw. When the Sun would change Even then said the Astrologer when such a wicked Lawyer as you go to Heaven In the beginning of H. 8. he was beheaded 1510. Edw. Mountague born at Brigstock was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench An. 30. H. 8. His Motto was Equitas Justitiae Norma In his time tho the Golden Showers of Abby-Lands rained amongst great Men it was long before he would open his lap scrupling the acception of such Gifts and at last received but little in proportion to others An. 37. H. 7. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas a descent in Honour but ascent in profit In drawing up the Will of E. 6. and setling the Crown on Lady Jane for a time he swam against the Tide and Stream of D. Dudley till at last he was carried away with the Stream Outed of his Office An. 1. Mary he found that Contentment in his Hospital-Hall in Northampton-shire which he could not find in Westm Hall He died An. 1556. and lyeth buried in the Church of Weekley Sir Augustine Nicolls born at Eckton was freely made by K. James one of the
He was cruel against the Wicklevites but was a Zealous Asserter of the English Liberties in opposition to the Popes Usurped Supremacy Great his zeal to promote Learning as appears by 3 Colleges erected and endowed at his expence and procurement One with an Hospital at Higham-Ferrers St. Bernards in Oxford afterwards bettered by Sir Th. White into St. John's Colledg and All-Souls in Oxford Having continued in his See 29 years He died 1443. William Laxton of Oundle was bred a Grocer in London whereof he was Lord Mayor 1544. He founded and endowed a fair School and Alms-house at Oundle in this County well maintained at this day by the Company of Grocers He died 1556. Since the Reformation Nic. Latham born at Bridgstock was Minister at Barn-Wells He founded several small Schools with Salaries in Country Villages and founded a most beautifull Almshouse at Oundle He died 1620. Edward Montague Baron of Baughton a pious peacable and hospitable Patriot was a Bountiful Benefactor to Sidney-Colledg and built and endowed an Alms-house at Weekley in this County He was Honourable at Court and beloved in the Country tho he never affected popularity being wont to say Do the common sort of people 19 Courtesies together and yet you may lose their love if you do but go over the stile before them He died in restraint in the Savoy on the account of his Loyalty to his Soveraign 164 ... Memorable Persons A Sexton of the Cathedral of Peterborough interred 2 Queens Kath. Dowager and Mary of Scotland more than 50 years interceding betwixt their 2 sepultures He buried also 2 generations of people that lived in the place Noted Sheriffs An. 16. Rich. Widevil al. Woodvil married Jaquet Dutchess of Bedford of most ancient extraction malicious therefore the Cavil of Rich. Duke of York That the Family was made Noble which was not worth a Noble Yea 't is very probable that all the ancient Nobility of England are derived from his Daughters 23. Hen. Green of another Family than those of Green Norton built Draiton House in this County He had one Daughter and Heir Constance married to Jo. Stafford E. of Wilt. to whom she bare Edward who died without Issue so that her Inheritance devolved unto the Family of the Veres An. 1. Hen. Vere Arm. a jolly Gentleman both for Court and Camp a great Reveller good as well at a March as Masques being Governour of Guines in Picardie was created by H. 8. Baron of Harouden Ancestor to Edw. Lord Vau. now living He was a great Courtier and appeared in costly Equipage wearing on the Marriage day of P. Arthur a Gown worth above 1000 l. and the day following a Collar of S S worth 800 l. The solemn occasion of this Gallantry was that which hindred Eâ—â—son from taking this Gentleman by the Collar and picking a Hole in his Gown upon the breach of some rusty penal Sumptuary Statute An. Th. Par. removed from Kendal-Castle in Westmerland into this County upon his marrying Maud Daughter of Sir Th. Green of Green-Norton He was Father to Q. Kath. Par and to W. Marquiss of Northam 15. W. Fitz-Williams Sen. Mil. first a Merchant-Taylor and Servant to Cardinal Woolsey was Alderman in London 1506. Afterwards upon his entertainment of his Mr. Woolsey at Milton in Northamptonshire the King being displeased therewith demanded how he durst harbour so great an Enemy to the State his Answer was That he had done it because he had been his Master and partly the means of his greatest Fortunes The K. was so well pleased with his Answer that saying himself had few such Servants immediately Knighted him and afterwards made him a privy Councellor 17. W. Par Uncle to Queen Kath. Par was by H. 8. created Baron Par of Horton 21. Jo. Clarke Mil. An. 5. H. 8. at the Siege of Terrowane took Prisoner Lewis de Orleans D. of Longevile for which service he got the Arms of that Duke viz. a Canton sinister Az. and thereupon a Demi-Ram mounting Ar. armed O. betwixt 2 Flower de Luces in Chief of the last over all a Batune dexter-ways Ar. 24. Dav. Cecil was Grandfather to W. Cecil Baron of Burleigh and Lord Treasurer of England 25. W. Par Mil. brother to Q. Kath. Par was made Lord Par of Kendal and E. of Essex in the right of Anne Bourcher his Wife King Ed. 6. created him Marq. of Northampton under Queen Mary he was condemned for siding with Queen Jane but pardoned and restored by Q. Eliz. He was skilled in Musick and wanted not for Valour tho unsuccessful in his employment against Ket He died 1571 without issue An. 1. Th. Tressam Mil. for his activity in bringing Q. Mary to the Crown was by her made Prior of St. Jo. in Jerusalem An. 6. Edm. Brudenell Arm. afterwards Knighted was a great Antiquary and seems to have entailed his Abilities on Th. Lord Brud of Stoughton 15. Th. Tressam Arm. Knighted 18 Eliz. built the Market-House at Rothwell For his Zeal to the Popish Religion he was confined to Wisbich Castle 20. Th. Cecil Mil. Son to Sir Will Bar. of Burleigh was created E. of Exeter and married Dorothy Daughter to the Lord Latimer These joyntly bestowed 108 l. per An. on Clare-hall in Cambridge 34. Anth. Milemay Esq was Knighted by Q. Eliz. and sent Ambassador into France 43. Rob. Spencer Knight descended from the Spencers Earls of Glocester and Winchester was An. 1. Jac. created Baron Spencer of Wormleiton in Warw. speaking in Parliament of the Valour of their English Ancestors in defending the Liberties of the Nation your Ancestors said the Earl of Arundel were keeping of Sheep when those Liberties were defended The other returned And yours were then in plotting of Treason He was sent by K. James to Frederick Duke of Wirtenberge to present him with the Garter An. 2. Arth. Throgmorton Knight whose Sister was married to Sir Walt. Raleigh an ingenious Gentleman left his Estate to his 4 Daughters married to the Lord Dacres Lord Wotton Sir Peter Temple of Stow Barronet and Sir Ed. Partridge 3. Jo. Freeman was a most bountiful Benefactors to Clare-Hall in Cambridge giving 2000 l. to the founding of Fellowships and Scholar-ships therein He died without Issue 12. W. Wilmer Arm. the first Pensioner in Sidney-Colledge to which he was a Benefactor An. 7. Jo. Hewet Baronet tho he had no Land in this County the Shrivalty was imposed upon him because he had offended a great Courtier Northumberland NOrthumberland hath Durham on the S. Cumberland on the S. W. the German Ocean on the E. and Scotland on the N. and W. parted with the River Tweed and Cheviot Hills It is somewhat of a Pyramidal Form whose Base extendeth to above 40. and Shaft ascendeth to 50 miles The Soyl is not very fruitful but is improved more and more daily An. 4. Jac. many Gentlemen in this County challenged their hereditary right in the Bounds betwixt the two Kingdoms which had
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 West minster 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. Mannors 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 Sceva 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 Stubbornness distilled in him by other Popish Bishops who abused his good Nature He died of an Apoplexy 1559. Since the Reformation Jo. Underhill born in Oxford and bred in New Colledg was Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth and by her made Bishop of Oxford after that See had been Vacant 22 years He died 1592. and lyeth buried in Christ Church Jo. Bancroft born at Ascot was Mr. of University College in Oxford and setled the ancient Lands of that Foundation Being afterward Bishop of Oxford he renewed no Leases but let them run out for the Benefit of his Successor He obtained the Royalty of Shotover for and annexed the Vicaridge of Cudsen to his Bishoprick where he built a fair Palace and a Chappel at the cost of 3500 l. But that Palace was reduced to its first Principles being burnt in the late Civil Wars He died 1640. Statesmen Sir Dudley Carleton Knight bred in Oxford was Secretary to Sir Ralph Winwood Ambassador in the Low Countries when King James resigned the Cautionary Towns to the States Here he
Hugh Lord Burnel Whose prime Seat was at Acton-Burnel-Castle in this County was by E. 1. preferred B. of Bath and Wells and first Treasurer then Chancellor of England He caused the Court of Chancery to be kept at Bristol for the more convenient management of the Welsh affairs Having acquired great Riches he is supposed to have rebuilt for his Heirs the Castle of Acton Burnel on his own expence as he built for his Successors the beautiful Hall at Wells the biggest Room of any Bishops Palace in England pluckt down by Sir Jo. Gabos afterwards executed for Treason in the Reign of E. 6. after a good settlement of the English and Welsh affairs this Bishop was employed in some business about Scotland in the Marches whereof he died 1292. and was buried in his own Cathedral Walter de Wenlock Abbot of Westminster was Treasurer of England to E. 1. He died at Periford in Gloc. 1307 and was buried in his Church at Westminster where Abbas Walterus non fuit Austerus is part of his Epitaph Rob. of Shrewsbury was An. 3. E. 3. preferred Bishop of Bath and Wells Being consecrated without the Popes privity he paid a large sum to expiate his presumption He bestowed on his Cathedral a Chest Port-cullis-like barred with iron able to hold out a siege in the view of such as beheld it which notwithstanding was forced open by some Thieves in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth He erected and endowed a spacious Structure for the Vicars-Choral of his Cathedral to inhabit together Having made such a Palace for his Vicars he was necessitated in some sort to enlarge the Bishops Seat which he beautified and fortified Castle-wise He disafforrested Mendip and died 1363 being buried in his Cathedral where his Statute is done to the life Rob. Mascal born probably and a Carmelite in Ludlow was bred in Oxford and became for his Piety and Learning Confessor to King Henry 4. and Councellour to Henry 5. He was one of the 3 English Prelates which went to and one of the 2 which returned alive from the Council of Constance He died 1416. being buried in the Church of White-friers London to which he had been a great Benefactor Rich. Talbot of honourable Parentage was brother to Jo. first Earl of Shrewsbury He was consecrated Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Irland 1417. and was Privy Councellour to Henry 5 and 6. twice Chief Justice and once Chancellour of Ireland He founded 6 Petty Canons and 6 Choristers in his Church and wrote a Book against Ja. Earl of Ormond wherein he detected his abuses during his Lieutenancy in Ireland He died 1449. and lyeth buried in St Patricks in Dublin He had refused the Arch-Bishoprick of Armagh tho a higher place Geo. Day Provost of King's College in Cambridge was preferred Bishop of Chichester 1543. A pertinacious Papist who tho he made some kind of recantation which is entered in the Diary of E. 6. yet either the same was not satisfactory or else he relapsed into his errours again for which he was deprived but restored again by Queen Mary He died 1556. Whose Brother Since the Reformation W. Day a Zealous Protestant bred in Cambridge requested of his Brother some Mony to buy books c. therewith and was answered with this denial That he thought it not fit to spend the Goods of the Church on him who was an Enemy of the Church Yet he found a Friend nearer than a Brother He was Proctor of Cambridge 1558. and afterwards was made by Queen Elizabeth Prov. of Eaton Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Winchester and having enjoyed that See scarcely a whole year he died 1596. Statesmen Sir Th. Bromley born at Bromley of a right ancient Family was Solicitor Gen. to Queen Elizabeth before he was 40 and afterwards Lord Chancellour of England 1579. before he was 50 years old of great Learning and Integrity He died 1587. Learning in Law may seem to run in the Veins of that name which since hath had a Baron of the Exchequer of his Alliance Sir Clem. Edmunds born at Shrawardine and bred in Oxford generally skilled in all Arts and Sciences Witness his Translation of and Illustrations on Caesar's Commentaries was Clerk of the Council to King James Knighted by him and at last preferred Secretary of State tho he acted not therein being prevented by death happening 16. He lyes buried at Preston in Northam were he purchased a fair estate which his Grandchild doth possess at this day Capital Judges and Writers on the Law Edmond Plowden Arm. born at Plowden wrote leaâ—…-nedly on the Common Law He was a man of eminent Integrity He was Treasurer for the Honerable Company of the Middle Temple An. 1572. when their Magnificent Hall was built He being a good advancer thereof He died 1584. and lyes buried in the Quire of Temple Church in London Sir Jo. Walter Son to Edm. Chief Justice of S. Wales was born at Ludlow An eminent Lawyer and Judge When a Pleader he suffered not good men to be born down by slanderers poor men by more Potent Learned men by the ignorant Sir Jo was passionate Judge Walter was most Patient and grave and mery enough for a Judge as he told Judge Denham He was outed of his place when Chief Baron of the Exchequer about the illegality of the Loan as I take it He was a great Benefactor to Jesus College in Oxford and died 1630. in the Parih of Savoy bequeathing 20 l. to the poor thereof Edward Litleton born at Mounslow was Eldest Son to Sir Edward one of the Justices of the Marches and Chief Justice of N. Wales He was bred in Christ Church in Oxford where he proceeded Batchelor of Arts. He was preferred one of the Justices of N. Wales Recorder of London and Sollicitor to King Charles I. and afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Privy Councellour thence advanced to be Lord Keeper and Baron of Mounslow He died in Oxford and was buried in Christs-Church 1645. Souldiers Sir Jo. Talbot born at Blackmore was Lord Talbot and Strange from his paternal Extraction Lord Furnival and Verdon by Marriage with Joan Daughter of Th. de Nevil and E. of Shrewsbury in England and Weisford in Ireland by creation of King Henry 6. This is that Talbot so famous for his Sword or rather whose Sword was so famous for his Arm that used it A Sword with bad Latin upon it viz. Sum Talboti pro vincere inimicos meos but good steel within it which constantly conquered where it came insomuch that the bare Fame of his approach frighted the French from the Siege of Burdeaux Being victorious for 24 years together success failed him at last charging the Enemy near Castilion on unequal termes where he was slain with a Shot July 17. 1453. The Victories of the English in France were buried with the Body of this Earl which lyes at White-Church in this County Whose Son Sir Jo. Talbot Visc Lisle in right of his Mother was slain with his Father
and afterwards lived about the Court. Being an Elegant Poet he Translated Lucan into English some affirm that he took some disgust at Court because his Bays were not gilded enough nor his Verses rewarded by King Charles I. according to his Expectation He afterwards wrote on History of this State in the beginning of the Civil Wars He died suddenly in the night 1652. Jo. Selden born at Salvington within the Parish of East Terring was Son to Jo. by his Wife Margaret Daughter and Heir of Tho. Barker of Rushington descended from a Knightly Family in Kent He was bred in Hart hall in Oxford then in the Inner Temple in London where he attained great skill in the Law and all Antiquity He traced all the dimensions of Arts and Languages as appear by the many and various Works which he hath written whereof Lay-Gentlemen prefer his Titles of Honour Lawyers his Mare Clausum Antiquaries his Spicilegium ad Eadmerum Clergy-men like best his Book de Diis Syris and worst his History of Tithes For which Book having been called to an account before the High Commission 't is said that afterwards he was no Friend to Bishops never affecting the Men nor cordially approving their Calling But it is certain Mr. Selden did in a Letter to Arch-Bishop Laud express his unfeigned contrition for setting forth of the said Book of Tithes That which afterwards Entituled him to a general popularity was his pleading with Mr. Noy for an Habeas Corpus for such Gentlemen who were imprisoned for refusal of the Loan He had very many Ancient and Modern Coyns and dyed exceeding Wealthy His large and excellent Library is now reposited Bodly within a Bodly in the matchless Library of Oxford Romish Exil'd Writers George Martin born at Macfield bred in Oxford was Tutor to Phil. Earl of Arundel Son to Tho. Duke of Norfolk After he had Travelled to Rome he became Professor of Divinity in the English Colledge of Rhemes He wrote much in defence of the Romish Faith one of his Books being Entituled A Detection of Corruptions in the English Bible He dyed 1582. and was buried in St. Stephens Church in Rhemes Tho. Stapleton born at Henfield of a very good Family was observed by those of his own Perswasion to have been born in the same Year and Month wherein Sir Thomas More was beheaded as if Divine Providence had purposely drop'd from Heaven an Acorn in place of the Oak that was fell'd He was bred in New-Colledge in Oxford and became Canon of Chichester which place he quitted an 1. Eliz. and having fled beyond the Seas he became Catechist at Doway which Office he having discharged to his commendation he was preferred Kings Professor of Divinity in Lovain and was 40 years together undertaker General against all Protestants Dr. Whitaker Professor in Cambridge experimentally professed that Bellarmine was the fairer and Stapleton the shrewder Adversary He dyed and was buried in St. Peters in Lovain 1598. Benefactors to the Publick since the Reformation Richard Sackvil Eldest Son of Thomas Earl of Dorset had his Barony if not his Birth at Buckhurst A Learned Gentleman to whom the Greek and Latine were as familiar as his own Native Tongue Succeeding his Father in that Earldom he enjoyed his Dignity not a full year He erected a Colledge at East Greensted in this County for 31 poor people to serve Almighty God therein endowing the same with 330 pounds a year out of all his Lands in England By Margaret sole Daughter to Tho. Duke of Norfolk he left two surviving Sons Richard and Edward of admirable parts successively Earls after him and dying was buried in Withiham in this County Memorable Persons John Henry and Thomas Palmer were Sons to Edward Palmer Esquire of Angmarine by his Wife Daughter to one Clement of Wales who for his effectual assisting of King Henry 7. from his Landing at Milford Haven untill the Battle of Bosworth was brought by him into England and rewarded with good Lands in this and the next County It happened that their Mother being a full fourthnight inclusively in Labour was on Whitsunday delivered of John her eldest Son on the Sunday following of Henry her second Son and the Sunday next after of Thomas her third Son These three were Knighted for their Valour by King Henry 8. They have a Worshipful and numerous Posterity in Sussex and Kent amongst whom Sir Roger Palmer Aged 80 years lately deceased and Cofferer to the late King averred the Truth of the aforesaid Relation Leonard Mascal of Plumsted was the first who brought over into England from beyond the Seas Carps and Pippins about an 5. Henry 8. 1514. W. Withers being a Child of about 11 years of Age an 1581. lay in a Trance 10 dayes without any sustenance and at last coming to himself uttered to the standers by many strange Speeches inveighing against Pride Covetousness and other outragious sins Note that an 1378 in the Reign of Richard 2. the Sussexians of Rye and Winchelsey embarqued for Normandy and afterwards entered by night into a Town called Peters Port took all such Prisoners who were able to pay ransome and safely returned home with the Spoil 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 recommend to the Inhabitants of this County WARWICK-SHIRE WArwick-shire hath Leicester and Northamptonshire on the East Oxford and Glocester-shire on the South Worcester on the West and Staffordshire on the North thereof It extends 33 Miles from North to South and 26 from East to West This County is the Heart but not the Core of England The Woodland thereof may want what the Fieldon affords As for the pleasure thereof an 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 since 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 Brook The Cross of Coventry all for Ornament
built and bountifully endowed a beautiful Colledge in Stratford He dyed 1348 having been a Man of great Charity Meekness and Moderation Whose Kinsman Ralph Stratford was born in Stratford where he built a Chappel to the Honour of St. Thomas He was first Canon of St. Pauls and afterwards Bishop of London 1539 about which time there being a most grievous Pestilence in London this Bishop bought a piece of ground nigh Smithfield for the burial of the dead and named the same No-mans-land He dyed 1355 whose Brother Robert Stratford was in the Reign of Edward 3. made Bishop of Chichester being then Chancellour of Oxford and of all England He compremised a bloody contest and difference that arose about that time betwixt the South and North parts of that University He with his Brother Arch-Bishop being accused for favouring the French were afterwards freed from that false aspersion He dyed at Allingbourn 1362. John Vesty alias Harman Dr. of Law was born at Sutton Colefield bred in Oxford was a vivacious person He was appointed to celebrate Divine Service at Sutton aforesaid an 20. Henry 6. was Vicar of St. Michaels Church in Coventry 23 Henry 7. Dean of the Royal Chappel Tutor to the Lady Mary and President of VVales under Henry 8. and being advanced to be Bishop of Exeter an 11. of that King which Bishoprick he so destroyed that Bishop Hall his Successor complaineth that the following Bishops were Barons but Bare-ones indeed Some affirm the word Veize that is in the VVest to drive away with a Witness had its original from his profligating of the Lands of his Bishoprick He robbed his own Cathedral to pay a Parish Church Sutton in this County whereon he bestowed many Benefactions and built 51 houses He intended also but in vain to fix the Cloth Manufacture of Devonshire in the aforesaid Town He quitted his Bishoprick not worth the keeping in the Reign of Edward 6. He dyed being 103 years old in the Reign of Queen Mary and was buried in Sutton with his Statue Mitred and Vestred Since the Reformation Jo. Bird born in Coventry and bred a Carmelite at Oxford was the Provincial of his Order For his smart Sermon against the Primacy of the Pope preached before Henry 8. he was preferred Bishop of Bangor in VVales then of Chester in England Pitz saith he returned to the Vomit of Popery which I cannot believe though he might be guilty of a passive compliance as appears by his telling Mr. Haukes Protestant about the time of his Examination I would not wish you to go to far He dyed 1556. Statesmen Sir Nich. Throckmorton Knight fourth Son of Sir George of Coughton was bred beyond the Seas Under Queen Mary he was Arraigned for Treason complyance with VVyat and hardly escaped Queen Elizabeth employed him her Lieger in France and Scotland He was of the opposite party to Burleigh Lord Treasurer He was Chamberlain of the Exchequer and chief Butler of England which offices yielded him no considerable profit He dyed at Supper with eating of Salades not without suspicion of poyson the rather because happening in the House of no mean Artist in that Faculty Robert Earl of Leicester He dyed 1570 and lyeth buried in St. Katharine Cree-Church in London Edward Conway Knight was Son to Sir Jo. Knight Lord and Owner of Ragleigh in this County who was made by Robert Earl of Leicester Governour of the English Auxiliaries in the United Provinces Governour of Ostend being a man of great skill in Military affairs His Son succeeding to his Fathers Wisdom and Valour was by King James made Principal Secretary of State and by him created Lord Conway of Ragleigh in this County and afterwards by King Charles I. Visc Killultagh in the County of Autrim Lastly an 30. Car. I. Visc Conway of Conway in Carnarvan shire He dyed 1630. Jo. Digby Baron of Sherborn and Earl of Bristol was employed by King James in several Embassies to Forreign Princes But his managing the Matchless Match with Spain was his Master piece After the great Contest betwixt him and the Duke of Buckingham he fell into the Kings displeasure during which he was very popular with most of the Nation And the King was afterwards graciously pleased to reflect upon him at the beginning of the Long Parliament as one best able to give him the safest Counsel in those dangerous times but how he incensed the Parliament so far as to be excepted Pardon I know not After the surrender of Exeter he went over into France where he met with that due respect in Forreign which he missed in his Native Country He was a Cordial Champion of the Church of England He dyed in France 1650. Writers Walter of Coventry where he was a Benedictine was a Man as Bale affirms worthy of immortal Memory and excelled in two Essential Qualities of an Historian Faith and Method being only guilty of coursness of Style From the beginning of the Britons he wrote a Chron. to his own time He flourished 1217. Vincent of Coventry born in Warwick was a Franciscan in Cambridge He was the first of his Order who applyed himself to Academical Studies and became publick Professor in Cambridge He set a Copy to the Carmelites left some Books to Posterity and dyed 1250. Jo. of Killingworth was bred in Oxford an excellent Philosopher Astronomer and Physician He was Father and Founder to all the Astronomers in that Age being a Star of the first Magnitude amongst those of that Faculty He flourished 1360. W. of Coventry where he was a Carmelite being lame in his Hip was called Claudus Conversus Conversus being properly one who is condemned or turned to servile work in the Monastery He preferred Charity to pilgrimages and wrote several Books flourishing 1360. Jo. Rouse born at Warwick and descended from the Rouses of Brinkloe attained to great eminency of Learning in Oxford whence retiring himself to Guisecliffe a most delicious place within a mile of Warwick he wrote the Antiquities of Warwick a Chronicle of the English Kings and a History of the two Universities He was as good at his Pensil as Pen being an excellent Limner He dyed 1491. Since the Reformation W. Perkins born at Marston bred Fellow of Christs-Colledge became Preacher of St. Andrew in Cambridge See of him in my Holy State He dyed 1602. Tho. Drax D. D. born at Stonely and bred in Christs-Colledge in Cambridge was a pious Man and an excellent Preacher He Translated all the Works of Mr. Perkins into Latine He was beneficed nigh Harwich in Essex and dyed 1616. The Family of the Drax flourished a long time at Wood-hall in Yorkshire and after various Changes hath recovered and encreased its former lustre in Sir James Drax who hath merited much of the English Nation in bringing the Sugars and other Commodities of the Barbadoes to their perfection William Shakespeare born at Stratford was in some sort a Compound of three eminent Poets viz. Martial Ovid and Plautus the
Wye which cutteth overthwart the West corner of this Shire where meeting with some stones which impede its motion on a sudden for want of ground to glide on hath a violent downfal which place is termed Raihader Gowy that is the Fall of Wye Hereupon he supposeth it not improbable that the Englishmen forged that word for the name of this Shire terming it Radnor-shire Prelates Elias and Guilielmus de Radnor were both born in Old Radnor both Bishops of Landaff and both eminent being eminent for nothing the former dying May 6. 1240. the latter June 30. 1256. Note when Owen Glyndower-dwy inveigled by some skilled in Merlin's Prophesies that the time was come wherein the Britains through his assistance should recover their ancient Liberty raised a Rebellion making War against the Earl of March Heir apparent to the Crown of England and Principality of Wales King Henry 4. enraged at his proceedings Enacted these rigorous Lawes ensuing First That no Welshman should purchase Lands nor be chosen into any Office in City or Town c. or bear Armour within any City Besides if a Welshman should sue an Englishman it was ordained that he should be tryed and judged by Englishmen That all English Burgesses who Married Welshwomen should forfeit their Liberties No Congregation or Council was to be permitted to the Welsh but in presence of the Officers of the Seigniory That no Victuals should be brought into Wales unless by the License of the King and Council That no Welshman should have any Castle c. That no Welshman should be capable of any Office of State or in any Court of Judicature and that no Englishman Marrying a Welsh woman should enjoy any Office in Wales FINIS A TABLE of the most remarkable persons and things contained in this work THE end and matter of the Work Page 1 2 Legendâ—… non semper Credenda Page 3 Canonization costly ibid. And best after mature deliberation Page 4 The Office of the Ancient Cardinals of St. Pauls ibid. The Constitution of Pope Paul II. concerning the Cardinals Hat Page 5 Cardinal Norfolk a rare if not single President ibid. The Clergy of Brittain the Glory of the World Page 6 The Antiquity of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Page 7 The value of that great Office Page 8 The Etymology and office of Lord High Admiral of England Page 9 King Henry VIII first assumed the Title of King of Ireland ibid. Sir Ed. Montague's choice Page 10 The first Circumnavigators of the World ibid. King Henry VIII his great skill in Musick Page 12 The Heads of Charity Visito Poto Cibo c. Page 13 A perswasive to Charity ibid. The dates and degrees of the English Reformation Page 14 Younger Sons are raised by their Vertue to the dignity of Lord Mayors of London Page 15 The first division of England into Shirec Page 16 The Office of Sheriff ibid. Causes of the alteration of Sirnames Page 19 Bark-shire had no Earl till an 1607. Page 20 Popish Cavil some for Martin some for Luther Page 21 Instances of fortunate and eminent Sons of Clergy-men Page 22 Of the English Gentry by Nation and Profession Page 25 26 c. Of the Queens Majesty Page 28 Of the Kings Majesty Page 29 BARK-SHIRE Commodities Oaks Bark Trouts Page 31 The Beggars reason for going naked viz. all my Body is Face Page 32 Exposition of the Proverb When our Lady falls into our Lord's lap let England beware of a sad mi shap Page 33 An observable Proverb relating to Ireland Page 37 The Lives of four Children of King Edward I. Page 37 38 The life of King Edward III. King Henry VI. Page 38 39 The life of St. Edmund Page 40 The early dawning of the Gospel in Barkshire Page 41 King Henry VIII his pity towards 3 Martyrs Page 42 Humanum est errare Answer to a great Cavil Page 43 Arch-Bishop Laud refused to be made Cardinal ibid. The life of Bishop God win Page 44 The life of Arch-Bishop Laud Page 45 The life of Sir John Mason who saw 5 Princes ibid. Of Sir Hen. Umpton Ambassadour His publick Challenge Page 46 47. The life of King Alfrede Page 50 Of Jo. Kendrick who gave above 20000 l. to the poor Page 51 Of Tho. Cole the rich Clothier of Reading ibid. Of Jack of Newbury Page 52 The life of Sir Jo Howard Page 54 The lives of Sir Rob. Harcourt and Will. Essex Page 55 The lives of Sir Humphrey Foster Sir Francis Inglefield Sir John Williams and Henry Lord Nottice Page 56 The life of Richard Lord Lovelace Page 57 The Qualifications c. of Baronets ibid. Of the Battle of Newbury Page 58 BEDFORD-SHIRE Proverbs Page 60 The life of Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Darby Page 61 King Henry III. his smart reply to Sylvester of Carlile 62 The life of Henry Grey Earl of Kent Page 64 The life of John Mordant first Baron of Turvey Page 65 The life of Sir Francis Russel afterwards Earl of Bedford Page 68 BUCKINGHAM-SHIRE Proverbs Page 69 The life of St. Edburg ibid. A great Fiction about Sir Rumbald as I am a Christian Page 70 The life of Sir George Crook Lord Chief Justice of England Page 74 The lives of Sir William Windsor and Arthur Gray Bar. of Wilton ibid. Of the Noble and Antient name of the Cheneys Page 82 CAMBRIDGE-SHIRE Proverbs Page 83 The life of Thomas Westfield Bishop of Bristol Page 87 The life of Jo. Tiptoft Earl of Worcester ibid. The life of Matthew Paris Page 89 Will. Collet was Caterer to Selden c. Page 95 The life of Sir Edward North Baron of Catlidge The life of Sir Jo. Huddlestone CHESHIRE The Antiquity of that County Palatine Page 98 The Life of W. Booth Bishop of York and Lawrence and John his Brothers Page 100 101 The life of Bishop Chaderton Page 102 The life of Bishop James ibid. The life of Sir Tho. Egerton Lord Chancellour of England Page 103 The life of the Lord Chief Justice Crew Page 104 The life of Sir Hugh Calveley Page 105 The life of Sir Robert Knowles ibid. The life of John Speed first Taylor then Historian Page 108 The life of Sir Jo. Brereton Page 110 The life of Sir Hugh Cholmley The Battle of Rowton-Heath Page 118 CHESTER The life of Bishop Dounham Page 114 The lives of David and Sir Henry Middleton Page 115 The life of Tho. Offley Who three dishes had of daily Roast An Egg an Apple and the third a toast Page 117 CORNWAL Commodities Diamonds Ambergrease Pilchards Tin Page 120 The wonders ibid. The life of Will de Greenvil Lord Chancellour of England Page 122 The life of Jo. Arundel Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Page 123 The life of W. Noy ibid. The life of King Arthur ibid. The Enterprize of Jo. Arundel of Trerice Page 124 Richard D. of Cornwal was High Sheriff of the County for term of his Life Page 128 The Battles of Liskerd and Stratton Page 130