returned For your Masters sake I will stoop but not for the King of Spains This worthy Patriot departed this life in the seventy seventh year of his Age August the 4th 1598. Capitall Judges Sr. WILLIAM de SKIPVVITH was bred in the study of the Laws profiting so well therein that he was made in Trinity Terme Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the thirty fifth continuing therein untill the fortieth of the Reign of King Edward the third I meet not with any thing memorable of him in our English Histories except this may pass for a thing remarkable that at the importunity of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster this Sr. William condemned William Wichkam Bish. of Winchester of Crimes rather powerfully objected then plainly proved against him whereupon the Bishops Temporalls were taken from him and he denied access within twenty miles of the Kings Court. I confess there is a Village in the East riding of Yorkshire called SKIPWITH but I have no assurance of this Judge his Nativity therein though ready to remove him thither upon clearer information Sr. WILLIAM SKIPVVITH Junior He was inferior to the former in place whom I behold as a Puisne Judge but herein remarkable to all posterity That he would not complie neither for the importunity of King Richard the second nor the example of his fellow Judges in the 10th year of that Kings Reign to allow that the King by his own power might rescinde an Act of Parliament Solus inter impios mansit integer Gulielmus Skipwith * Miles Clarus ideo apud Posteros And * shined the brighter for living in the midst of a crooked Generation bowed with fear and favour into Corruption I know well that the Collar of S. S. S. or Esses worn about the necks of Judges and other persons of Honor is wreathed into that form whence it receiveth its name Chiefly from Sanctus Simon Simplicius an uncorrupted Judge in the Primitive Times May I move that every fourth link thereof when worn may mind them of this SKIPVVITH so upright in his judgment in a matter of the highest importance Having no certainty of his Nativity I place him in this County where his name at Ormesby hath flourished ever since his time in a very worshipfull equipage Sr. WILLIAM HUSEâ—… Knight was born as I have cause to believe in this County where his name and Familie flourish in a right worshipfull equipage He was bred in the study of our Municipall Law and attained to such eminencie therein that by King Edward the fourth in the one and twentieth of his Reign he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. King HENRY the seventh who in point of policy was onely directed by himself in point of Law was chiefly ruled by this Judge especially in this question of importance It hapned that in his first Parliament many Members thereof were returned who being formerly of this Kings partie were attainted and thereby not legal to sit in Parliament being disabled in the highest degree it being incongruous that they should make Laws for others who themselves were not Inlawed The King not a little troubled therewith remitted it as a case in Law to the Judges The Judges assembled in the Exchequer Chamber agreed all with Sr. VVilliam Husee their Speaker to the King upon this Grave and safe opinion mixed with Law and convenience that the Knights and Burgesses attainted by the course of Law should forbear to come into the House till a Law were passed for the reversall of their attainders which was done accordingly When at the same time it was incidently moved in their Consultation what should be done for the King himself who likewise was attainted the rest unanimously agreed with Sr. VVilliam Husee that the Crown takes away all defects and stops in blood and that by the Assumption thereof the fountain was cleared from all attainders and Corruptions He died in Trinity Term in the tenth year of King Henry the 7th Sr. EDMUND ANDERSON Knight was born a younger brother of a Gentile extract at Flixborough in this County and bred in the Inner Temple I have been informed that his Father left him 1000 l. for his portion which this our Sr. Edmund multiplyed into many by his great proficiency in the Common Law being made in the twenty fourth of Queen Elizabeth Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. When Secretary Davison was sentenced in the Star Chamber for the business of the Queen of Scots Judge Anderson said of him that therein he had done * justum non juste and so acquitting him of all malice censured him with the rest for his indiscretion When H. â—…uff was arraigned about the Rising of the Earl of Essex and when Sr. Edward Coke the Queens Solicitor opposed him and the other answered Syllogistically our Anderson sitting there as Judge of Law not Logick checked both Pleader and Prisoner ob stolidos Syllogismos for their foolish Syllogismes appointing the former to press the Statute of King Edward the third His stern countenance well became his place being a great promoter of the established Church-discipline and very severe against all Brownists when he met them in his Circuit He dyed in the third of King James leaving great Estates to several sons of whom I behold Sr. Francis Anderson of Euworth in Bedfordshire the eldest whose son Sr. John by a second Wife Audrey Butler Neece to the Duke of Buckingham and afterwards married to the Lord Dunsmore in VVarwickshire was according to some conditions in his Patent to succeed his Father in Law in that honour if surviving him This I thought fit to insert to vindicate his memory from oblâ—…vion who being an hopefull Gentleman my fellow Colleague in Sidney Colledge was taken away in the prime of his youth Souldiers Sr. FREDERICK TILNEY Knight had his chief Residence at Bostone in this County He was a man of mighty stature and strength above the Proportion of ordinary persons He attended King Richard the first Anno Dom. 1190. to the Seidge of Acon in the Holy Land where his Atcheivements were such that he struk terror into the Infidels Returning home in safety he lived and died at Terington nigh Tilney in Norfolk where the measure of his incredible stature was for many 〈◊〉 preserved Sixteen Knights flourished from him successively in the Male line till at last their Heir generall being married to the Duke of Norfolk put a period to the Lustre of that ancient family PEREGRINE BERTY Lord Willoughby Son of Richard Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk Reader I crave a dispensation that I may with thy good leave trespass on the Premised Laws of this Book his name speaking his foraign Nativity born nigh Hidleberg in the Palatinate Indeed I am loath to omit so worthy a Person Our Histories fully report his valiant Atcheivements in France and the Netherlands and how at last he was made Governour of
Indeed I read of a Company of â—…hysicians in Athens called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they would take no Money of their Patients and our St. German was of their Judgement as to his Clients 5. Ability being excellently skill'd in Civil Caxon and Common Law so that it was hard to say wherein he excelled Add to these his skill in scripture witnesse his Book called The Doctor and Student where the former vics Divinity with the Lâ—…w of the later 6. Industry he wrote several works wherein he plainly appeareth not only a Favourer of but Champion for the Reformation 7 Vivacity Lâ—…ving to be above eighty years old and dying anno Dom. 1593. was buryed at St. Alphage London near Criplegate WILLIAM RASTAL was born in this City Sisters Son to Sir Thomas More and was bred in the Study of our Common Law and whoever readeth this passage in Pitz. will thence conclude him one of the two Chief Justices of England Pitz. de Ang. Script Aetat 16. anno 1565. Factus est Civilium Criminalium causarum alter ex duobus per Angliam supremis Judicibus whereas in deed he was but one of the Justices of the Kings Bench yet his Ability and Integrity did capacitate him for higher preferment being also a person of Industry He wrote the Life and set forth the Works of his Uncle More made a Collection of and Comment on the statutes of England Great was his Zeal to the Roâ—…ish Religion flying into Flanders with the changing of his Countrey under King Edward the Sixth he changed the nature of his Studies but then wrote worse Books on a better subject I mean Divinity He undertook Bishop Juel as much his over match in Divinity as Rastal was his in the common Law The Papists are much pleased with him for helping their cause as they conceive and we are not angry with him who hath not hurt ours in any degree He dyed at Lovain 1565. and lyeth buryed with his Wife in the same Tomb and this Epitaph may be bestowed on him Rastallus tumulo cum conjuge dormit in uno Unius carnis Pulvis unus erit Know that Winifrid Clement his Wife was one of the greatest Female Scholars an exact Grecian and the Crown of all most pious according to her perswasion Souldiers No City in Europe hath bred more if not too many of late and indeed we had had better Tâ—…adesmen if worse Souldiets I dare not adventure into so large a Subject and will instance but in one to keep possession for the rest submitting my self to the Readers censure whether the Parties merit or my private Relation puts me on his Memorial Sir THOMAS ROPER Son of Thomas Roper Servant to Queen Elizabeth was born in Friday Street in London whose Grandfather was a younger Son of the House of Heanour in Derby shire Indeed Furneaux was the ancient name of that Family until Richard Furneaux marryed Isald the Daughter of ..... Roper of Beighton in the County of Derby Esquire and on that Consideration was bound to assume the name of Roper by Indenture Dated the Sâ—…venth of Henry the Sixth This Sir Thomas Going over into the Lowe Countries became Page to Sir John Norrice and was Captain of a Foot Company at sixteen years of age what afterwards his Martial performances were to avoid all suspicion of Flattery to which my Relation may incline me I have transcribed the rest out of the Original of his Patent Cum Thomas Roper Eques auratus è Secretioribus Concilliariis nostris in regno nostro Hyberniae jampridem nobis Bellicae virtutis Splendore clarus innotuerit Utpote qui quam plurimis rebus per eum in nuperrimo bello hujus Regni fortiter gestis praeclarum Nomen Strenui Militis prudentis Ducis reportavit Cujus virtus praecipuè in recessu in Provinciâ nostrâ Conaciae prope Le Boyle emicuit ubi paucissimis admodum equestribus ingentes equitum turmas per Regni Meditullia hostiliter grassantes fortiter aggressus Ita prudentiâ suâ singulari receptui cecinit ut non modo se suos sed etiam totum exercitum ab ingenti periculo Liberavit hostesque quam plurimos ruinae tradidit Qui etiam cum Provincia nostra Ultoniae bello deflagaverat ob exploratam animi fortitudinâ—…m ab honoratissimo Comite Essexiae exercitus tunc imperatore unius ex omnibus designatus fuit ad Duellum eum Makal uno ex fortissimis Tyronentium agminum ducibus suscipiendum nisi praedictus Makal duello praedicto se exponere remisset Cumque etiam praedictus Thomas Roper in nuperrimo Bello apud Brest in Regno Gallie se maximis periculis objiciendo sanguinem suum effundendo Fortitudinem suam invictam demonstravit Qui etiam in expeditione Portugalenci se fortiter ac honorifice 〈◊〉 ac etiam apud Bergen in Belgio cum per Hispanos obsideretur invictissimae fortitudinis juvenem in defensione ejusdem se praebuit Qui etiam in expugnationis Kinsalensis die primus 〈◊〉 juxta 〈◊〉 propissime constitutus fuerat Hispanesque ex eo oppido sepius eodem die 〈◊〉 fortissime felicissimeque ad maximam totius exercitus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 profligavit Sciatis igitur quod nos intuitu praemissorum Dominum Thomam Roper millitem c. Whereas Thomas Roper Knight one of our Privy Councellors of our Kingdome of Ireland long since hath been known unto us famous with the Splendor of his Warlike vertue As who by the many Atchievements valiantly performed by him in the late War of this Kingdome hath gained the eminent Repute both of a stout Souldier and a discâ—…eet Commander whose Valour chiefly appeared in his Retreat near Le Boyle in â—…ur Province of Conaught where with very few horse he undantedly charged great Troops of the Horse of the Enemy who in a Hostile manner forraged the very Bowels of the Kingdome and by his Wisdome made such a singular retreat that he not only saved himself and his men but also delivered the whole Army from great danger and slew very many of his Enemies Who also when our Province of Ulster was all on Fire with war being one out of many was for the tryed resolution of his mind chosen by the Right Honorable the E. of Essex then General of the Army to undertake a Duel with Makal one or the stoutest Captains in the Army of Tyrone had not the said Makal declined to expose himself to the appointed Duel And also when the aforesaid Thomas Raper in the late war in the Kingdome of France at Brest by exposing himself to the greatest perils and sheding of his own bloud demonstrated his courage to be unconquerable Who also iâ—… the voyage to Portugal behaved himself valiantly and honorably as also at Bergen in the Nether-lands when it was besiedged by the Spaniards approved himself a young man of 〈◊〉 valour in the defence thereof Who also in the day wherin Kinsale was assaulted was
him renow'd throughout the Christian world Yet such the bafeness and ingratitude of the French that concluding a Peace with O. C. the Usurper of England they wholy forgot his former services and consented to the expulsion of this Prince and his royal brothers out of that Kingdome 〈◊〉 valour cannot long lye neglected soon was he courted by Don John de Austria into Flanders where in the action at Dunkirk he far surpassed his former deeds often forgetting that he was a Prince to shew himself a true souldier such his hazarding his person really worth ten thousand of them to the great molestation of his true friends Since God out of his infinite love to the English hath safely returned this Duke to his native Country where that he may long live to be the joy and delight of the whole Nation I shall constantly beg of God in my daily devotions ELIZABETH second daughter of King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at Saint James's Anno 1635. on the 28. day of December She proved a Lady of parts above her age the quickness of her mind making recompence for the weakness of her body For the remainder of her life I will my hold peace and listen to my good friend Master John Buroughs thus expressing himself in a letter unto me The Princess Elizabeth with her Brother Henry Duke of Glocester being by order of parliament to be removed to Carisbroke-castle in the Isle of Wight where his Most Excellent Maiesty was lately a Prisoner were accordingly received by Mr. Anthony Mild may from the Earl and Countess of Leceister at Penshurst in Kent and began their unwilling journey on Friday 9. of August 1650. On the 16. of the same Month they were first lodged in Carisbroke-castle aforesaid The Princess being of a melancholy temper as affected above her age with the sad condition of her Family fell sick about the beginning of September following and continuâ—… 〈◊〉 for three or four days having onely the Advise of Doctor Bignall a worthy and able 〈◊〉 of Newport After very many rare ejaculatory expressions abundantly demonstrating her unparalelled Piety to the eternal honour of her own memory and the astonishment of those who waited on her she took leave of the world on Sunday the eighth of the same September Her body being embalmed was carefully disposed of in a Coffin of Lead and on the four 〈◊〉 twentieth of the said Month was brought in a Borrowed Coach from the Castle to the Town of Newport attended thither with her few late Servants At the end of the 〈◊〉 the Corps were met and waited on by the Mayor and Aldermen thereof in their formalities to the Church where about the middle of the East part of the Chancel in Saint Thomas 〈◊〉 Chappel her Highness was interr'd in a small Vault purposely made with an Inscription of the date of her death engraved on her Coffin The 〈◊〉 of Norway where a Winters day is hardly an hour of clear light are the 〈◊〉 of wing of any Foul under the firmament nature teaching them to bestir themselves to lengthen the shortness of the time with their swiftness Such the active piety of this Lady improving the little life alloted her in running the way of Gods Commandeâ—… 〈◊〉 third daughter to King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at 〈◊〉 James's March 17. Anno Domini 1637. She was a very pregnant Lady above 〈◊〉 and died in her infancy when not full four years old Being minded by those 〈◊〉 her to call upon God even when the pangs of death were upon her I am not able saith she to say my long prayer meaning the Lords-prayer but I will say my short one Lighten mine eyes O Lord lest I sleep the sleep of death this done the little lamb gave up the ghost KATHARINE fourth daughter to King Charles the first and Queen Mary was born at White hall the Queen-Mother then being at Saint James's and survived not above half an hour after her baptizing So that it is charity to mention her whose memory is likely to be lost so short her continuance in this life The rather because her name is not entred as it ought into the Register of Saint Martins in the fields as indeed none of the Kings children save Prince Charles though they were born in that Parish And hereupon a story depends I am credibly informed that at the birth of every child of the King born at Whitehall or Saint James's full five pounds were ever faithfully paid to some unfaithful receivers thereof to record the names of such children in the Register of Saint Martins But the money being embâ—…iled we know by some God knows by whom no memorial is entred of them Sad that bounty should betray any to such baseness and that which was intended to make them the more solemnly remembred should occasion that they should be more silently forgotten Say not let the children of mean persons be written down in Registers Kings children are Registers to themselves or all England is a Register to them For sure I am this common confidence hath been the cause that we have been so often at a loss about the nativities and other properties of those of Royal extraction CHARLES STUART son to the Illustrious James Stuart Duke of York by Anne daughter to the Right Honourable Edward Hide Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour of England and Frances his Lady descended of the Ancient Family of the Aylesburies High-sheriffs for many years together of Bedford and Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Edward the second and third was born at Worcester-house 22. day of October 1660. and christened by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert L. Bishop of London his Majesty and George Duke of Albemarle being his God-fathers and Mary the Queen-mother his God-mother He was declared Duke of Cambridge a title which to the great honour of that University for these four hundred years hath been onely conferred either on forraign Princes or persons of the Royal Bloud This Princely infant dyed May 5. 1661. Saints Saint WULSY being a man reputed when living and reported when dead of great vertue and innocency Was by Saint Dunstan created the first Abbot of Westminster where he lived many years very exemplary for his conversation untill his death which happened Anno Dom. 960. Then was his body buried in the same Monastery and the 26. day of September was kept by the Citizens of London with great Veneration of his miracle-working memory Martyrs I meet with none in this City and in my mean Judgment it is most observable that London having two Pages as I may term them attending it viz. Westminster and Southwark both joyned to it in buildings should be so different from it in condition in London we have no room to hold Martyrs in the other two no Martyrs to take up any room Inquiring the cause thereof we find these three places though contiguous not to say
the River of Ouse Anno 1399. parted asunder the water from the Fountain standing still and those towards the Sea giving way so that it was passable over on foot for three miles together not without the astonishment of the beholders It was an Ominous Prefage of the sad Civil Wars betwixt the two houses of York and Lancaster There is a Rivolet in this County though confining on Buckingham-shire near a Village called Aspeley and takes the strange operation thereof from his Pen who though a Poet is a credible Author The Brook which on her bank doth boast that earth alone Which noted of this I le converteth wood to stone That little Aspeleys earth we anciently instile 'Mongst sundry other things A wonder of the I le But by his leave there is an other of the same nature in Northampton-shire which because lesse known I will there enlarge my self on that Subject Proverbs As plain as Dunstable Road. It is applyed to things plain and simple without either welt or guard to adorne them as also to matters easie and obvious to be found without any difficulty or direction Such this Road being broad and beaten as the confluence of many leading to London from the North and North-west parts of this Land As crooked as Crawley brook This is a nameless brook arising about Wobourn running by Crawley and falling immediately into the Ouse But this proverb may better be verifyed of Ouse it self in this Shire more Maeandrous then Maeander which runneth above eighty miles in eighteen by land Blame it not if sensible of its sad condition and presaging its fall into the foggy fens in the next County it be loth to leave this pleasant place as who would not prolong their own happiness The Baylife of Bedford is coming This Proverb hath its Originall in this but Use in the next County of Cambridge The River Ouse running by is called the Baylife of Bedford who swelling with rain snow-water and tributary brooks in the winter and coming down on a suddain arresteth the I le of Ely with an inundation But I am informed that the Drayners of the fenns have of late with incredible care cost art and industry wrested the Mace out of this Bayliffs hand and have secured the Country against his power for the future Princes MARGARET BEAUFORT Countess Richmond and Derby No person of judgement or ingenuity will find fault with her Posture under this Title who was Great-great-grand-child to King Edward the third and Mother to King Henry the seventh besides her almost incredible Alliance to so many forreign Princes Thus Reader I am confident I have pleased thee as well as my self in disposing her in this place And yet I am well assured that were she alive she would half-offended hereat be more contented to be ranked under another and lower Topick of Benefactors to the Publick yea if left to her own liberty would chuse that Reposing Place for her memory This is not onely most consonant to her humility and charity desiring rather to be Good then Great but also conformable to her remarkable expression according to the devotion of those darker days that if the Christian Princes would agree to march with an Army for the recovery of Palestine she would be their Landress This is she who besides a Professor of Divinity place in both Universities founded the two fair Colledges of Christs and Saint Johns in Cambridge By the way be it observed that Cambridge hath been much beholden to the strength of bounty in the weaker Sex Of the four Halls therein two viz. Clare and Pembroke were as I may say feminine foundations and of the 12. Colledges one third Queens Christs Saint Johns and Sidney owe their Original to worthy women Whereas no female ever founded Colledge in Oxford though bountifull Benefactors to many seeing Queens Colledge therein though commended to the Queens of England for its successive Patronesses had R. Eglesfield for the effectual founder thereof And Cambridge is so far from being ashamed of she is joyfull at and thankfull for such charity having read of our Saviour himself that Mary Magdalen and Joanna and Susanna and many other women ministred unto him of their substance But this worthy Lady Margaret being too high for a mean man to commend is long since gone to the great God to reward dying in the beginning of the reign of her Grand-child King Henry the eight Saints AINULPHUS of Royal British bloud was an holy Hermit who waving the vanities of this wicked world betook himself in this County to a solitary life renowned for the Sanctity or rather Sanctimony thereof The age he lived in is not exactly known but sure it is that Ainulphs-bury a Town in the confines of This and Huntington-shire was erected in his memory part whereof corruptly called Ainsbury is extant at this day and the rest is disguised under the new name of Saint Neots Martyrs THOMAS CHASE an ancient and faithfull labourer in God's vineyard led his life most in Buckingham-shire but found his death in this County long kept in durance and hanged at last in the Bishops prison at Wobourn His Executioners to palliate their murder and asperse his Memory gave it out that he had destroyed himself A loud lye seeing he was so loaden with Chaines that he could not lift up his own body But the clearing hereof must be remitted to that day wherein all things done in secreet shall be made manifest His martyrdome happened in the reigne of King Henry the seventh Anno Domini 1506. Prelates SILVESTER de EVERTON for so is he written in the Records of Carlile though Eversden and Everseen in other books which are most to be credited as passing under the pens of the best and to his particular the most knowing Clearks no doubt took his name from Everton a Village in this but the confines of Cambridge Shire He was a man memorable for his preferment and very able to discharge the Lay-part thereof receiving the Great Seal Anno the 29. of King Henry the third 1246. and is commended for one most cunning in customes of Chancery The same year he was chosen Bishop of Carlile though demurring on the acceptance thereof conscious to himself perchance as unqualified his consecration was deferred untill the next year He with the rest of the English Bishops addressed themselves to King Henry the third and boldly enough Requested-Required of him that all forreigners and 〈◊〉 persons might be put out of their Bishopricks Now as to the point of insufficiency the King singling out this Silvester thus bespake him Et tu Silvester Carliolensis qui diu lambens Cancellariam Clericorum meorum Clericulus extitisti qualiter post-positis multis Theologis personis reverendis te in Episcopum sublimavi omnibus satis notum est And thou Silvester of Carlile who so long licking the Chancery was the little Clark of my Clergy-men it is sufficiently known to all how I
in his profession is sufficiently attested by his own Printed Reports Eight eminent Judges of the Law out of their knowledge of his great wisdome learning and integrity approving and allowing them to be published for the Common benefit He was against the Illegality of Ship-money both publickly in Westminster-hall and privately in his judgment demanded by the King though concluded to subscribe according to the Course of the Court by plurality of voices The Country-mans wit levelled to his brain will not for many years be forgotten That Ship-money may be gotten by Hâ—…ok but not by Crook though since they have paid taxes loins to the little finger and Scorpions to the Rod of Ship-money but whether by Hook or Crook let others inquire His piety in his equall and even walkings in the way of God through the several turnings and occasions of his Life is evidenced by his Charity to man founding a Chappel at Beachley in Buckingham-shire two miles at least distanced from the Mother-Church and an Hospitall in the same Parish with a liberall Revenue Considering his declining and decaying age and desiring to examine his Life and prepare an Account to the Supreme Judge he petitioned King Charles for a Writ of Ease which though in some sort denied what wise Mr. would willingly part with a good Servant was in effect granted unto him He dyed at Waterstock in Oxford shire in the eighty second year of his age Anno Dom. 1641. EDWARD BULTSTRODE Esq. born in this County bred in the studies of our municipall Laws in the Inner Temple and his Highness his Justice in North-wales hath written a book of divers Resolutions and Judgments with the reasons and causes thereof given in the Court of Kings-bench in the reigns of King James and King Charles and is lately deceased Souldiers Sir WILLIAM WINDSOR Knight I am confident herein is no mislocation beholding him an Ancestor to the right honourable Thomas Windsor Hickman Lord Windsor and fixed at Bradenham He was deputed by King Edward the third in the fourty seventh year of his reign Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which Country was then in a sad Condition For the King was so intent on the Conquest of France as a Land nearer fairer and due to him by descent that he neglected the effectuall reduction of Ireland This encouraged the Irish Grandees their O's and Mac's to Rant and Tyrant it in their respective seignieuries whilst such English who were planted there had nothing Native save their Surnames left degenerating by degrees to be Irish in their Habits Manners and Language Yea as the wild Irish are observed to love their Nurses or Fosters above their natural Mothers so these barbarizing English were more endeared to the interest of Ireland which fed then of England which bare and bred them To prevent more mischief this worthy Knight was sent over of whose valour and fidelity the King had great experience He contracted with the King to defray the whole charge of that Kingdome as appeareth by the instrument in the Tower for eleven thousand two hundred thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence per annum Now Sir William undertook not the Conquest but Custody of the Land in a defen sive war He promised not with a daring Mountebank to Cure but with a discreet Physician to ease this Irish Gout Indeed I meet with a passage in Froissard relating how Sir William should report of himself that he was so far from subduing the Irish he could never have access to understand and know their Countries albeit he had spent more time in the service of Ireland then any Englishman then living Which to me seems no wonder the Irish vermin shrowding themselves under the Scabs of their Bogs and Hair of their Woods However he may truly be said to have left that land much improved because no whit more impaired during those dangerous distractions and safely resigned his office as I take it in the first of K. Richard the second ARTHUR GRAY Baron of Wilton is justly reckoned amongst the Natives of this Shire whose father had his Habitation not at Wilton a decayed Castle in Hereford-shire whence he took his Title but at Waddon a fair house of his Family not far from Buckingham He succeeded to a small Estate much diminished on this sad occasion His father William Lord Gray being taken Prisoner in France after long ineffectuall soliciting to be because captivated in the publick service redeemed on the publick charge at last was forced to ransom himself with the sale of the best part of his Patrimony Our Arthur endeavoured to advance his estate by his valour being entered in Feats of war under his Martial father at the siege of Lieth 1560. where he was shot in the shoulder which inspirited him with a constant antipathy against the Scotch He was afterwards sent over Lord Deputy into Ireland anno 1580. where before he had received the Sword or any Emblemes of Command ut acrioribus initiis terrorem incuteret to fright his foes with his fierce beginning he unfortunately fought the rebels at Glandilough to the great loss of English blood This made many commend his Courage above his Conduct till he recovered his credit and finally suppressed the rebellion of Desmund Returning into England the Queen chiefly relied on his counsel for ordering our Land-forces against the Spaniards in 88. and fortifying places of advantage The mention of that year critical in Church differences about discipline at home as well as with foreign foes abroad mindeth me that this Lord was but a Back-friend to Bishops in all divisions of Votes in Parliament or Council-table sided with the Anti-prelatical party When Secretary Davison that State-Pageant raised up on purpose to be put down was censured in the Star-chamber about the business of the Queen of Scots this Lord Gray onely defended him as doing nothing therein but what became an able and honest Minister of State An ear-witness saith Haec fuse oratoriè animosè Greium disserentem audivimus So that besides bluntness the common and becoming eloquence of Souldiers he had a real Rhetorick and could very emphatically express himself Indeed this warlike Lord would not wear two heads under one Helmet and may be said always to have born his Beaver open not dissembling in the least degree but owning his own judgment at all times what he was He deceased anno Dom. 1593. Writers ROGER de WENDOVER was born at that Market-town in this County bred a Benedictine in St. Albans where he became the Kings Historian Know Reader that our English Kings had always a Monck generally of St. Albans as near London the Staple of news and books to write the remarkables of their reigns One addeth I am sorry he is a forrainer and therefore of less credit at such distance that their Chronicles were lock'd up in the Kings Library so that neither in that Kings nor his Sons life they were ever opened If so
Cokermouth with many other Mannors in Copeland and Westmerland with condition that his Issue should bear her Armes of the Lucies viz. Gules three Lucies or Pikes Hauriant Argent quartered with their own Armes of the Percies And for it levyed a Fine in the Court of King Richard the second Hitherto verbatim out of Master Mills But by his favour his words are not sufficiently expressive of the agreement betwixt them The Earl conditioned not onely to quarter the Armes of the Lucies as the Percies now quarter many more besides viz. Poynings Fitz-Pain Brians c. but he also covenanted as in the words of the Instrument Deferre quateriatim To bear them quarterly with his own Armes incorporated into one Coat in effect This promise the Percys have bona fide perform'd preserving so near a relation between the two Coats that in a manner Mutuò se ponunt auferunt so that if Either Both always appear together This Lady is entred amongst Memorable Persons partly because of her harmless device to perpetuate her memory partly because of her great affection to her Husband She but a second and no wife of his youth bringing him no children and having no doubt heirs of her own name and blood though she were barren would be bountifull to endow that Family with possessions which she could not enrich with posterity Say not the Percys profit was the Lucies loss for what saith the Scripture Is it not lawfull for me to doe what I will with mine own She died about the year of our Lord 1382. Lord Mayors I find none of this County nor is the wonder great if it be true what Credible persons have informed me that there are no Carriers the Post from Carlile is excepted which immediately come from this County to London It seems Cumberland is Terra suis contenta bonis neither proud of the Gayety nor covetous of the Money of London The Names of the Gentry of this County Returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth Marmaduke Bishop of Carlile Commissioners Thomas de Dacre de Gilsland William Legh Chivaler Knights for the Shire William Laton Armiger Knights for the Shire Tho. Barnby Prioris Carlioli Will. Reddekar Abbatis de Holm Tho. Stanley Abbatis de Wederhill Rog. Kirkeby Prioris de Seynt Beys Alex. Walton Prioris de Lanecost Rich. Hodleston Crist. Culwan Sheriff Pet. Tilioll Ioh. Penyngton Ioh. Skelton Ioh. Lamplewe Nich. Radclyff Mil. Hen. Fenwyk Hug. de Louther Will. Stapleton Ioh. Broughton Tho. Culwen Tho. Delamore Geor. Warthwyk Will. Twates Ioh. Eglisfeld sen. Will. Martindale sen. Ioh. Hoton Hug. Forster Ioh. de Skelton Will. Thirskeld Will. Louther de Rosa Ioh. de Denton Will. Arlosch Rich. de Kirkebride Will. Dykes Tho. de Stanewikes Ioh. Blanerhasset Tho. Aglanbly Tho. Appulby Tho. Salkeld Tho. Beuchamp Rol. Vaux Ade de Denton Tho. Grane Tho. Hethryngton Tho. de Sandes Ioh. Swynburn Ioh. Eglisfeld junio Rich. Eglisfeid Will. Martyndail junioris Ioh. Culwen Tho. Senenhans Will Osmonderlawe Will. Lowther de Crokdaile Nich. Irton Alex. Heighmore Ioh. Rybton Rob. Bristow Will. Aglanby Ioh. Louther de Alwardby Nioh Stanle Tho. Wodhall Will. Hodliston de Copland Rob. Scot de Caldebeke Will. Denton Majoris Karlioli Will. Cardoile Tho. Frankyssh Ballivi ibidem Tho. Delmore Will. Kelet Ioh. Graneson Galf. Barre Ioh. Middilham Ioh. Person de Lowswater Pet. Iakson de eadem Rich. Bristow Leo. Howchonson Will. Redman Tho. Rickman de Cokyrmouth Baker This is a comfortable Catalogue for one delighting in Ancient Families to practice upon It is the observation of Vitruvius alledged and approved by Master Cambden that Northern-men advancing Southward Non possunt durare sed disolvuntur Cannot endure the heat but their strength melteth away and is disolved whilst Southern-people removing Northward Non modo non laborant immutatione loci valetudinibus sed etiam confirmantur Are not only not subject to sickness through the change of place but are the more confirmed in their strength and health Sure I am that Northern Gentry transplanted into the South by Marriage Purchase or otherwise doe languish and fade away wiâ—…hin few generations Whereas Southern men on the like occasions removing Northward acquire a setlement in their Estates with long continuance Some peevish natures delighting to comment all things into the worst sence impute this to the Position of their Country as secured from sale by their distance from London the staple place of pleasure whilst I would willingly behold it as the effect and reward of their discreet thrift and moderate expence Two thirds of this Catalogue of Cumberland being still extant and the third extinct for lack of Issue and not Estate Sheriffs of Cumberland HEN. II. Anno 1 Hildretas Anno 2 RECORDA MANCA Anno 3 Anno 4 Anno 5 Rob. Fitz. Troit for 14 years Anno 19 Idem Adam filius ejus Anno 20 Adam filius Rob. Trutts Anno 21 Rob. de Vaus Anno 22 Anno 23 Rob. Tâ—…utt Adam filius â—…jus pro eo Anno 24 Rob. de Vallibus Anno 25 Idem Anno 26 Rob. de Vallibus Rog. de Legeire Anno 27 Rob. de Vallibus â—…or 4 years Anno 31 Hug. de Morwich Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Idem Nich. Frater ejus RICH. I. Anno 1 Will. de Aldelin for 9 years JOH REX Anno 1 Will. de Stuteivill Johan Laleman Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Will. de Stutevill Phus. Escrar Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Rog. de Lasy Constabut Cestrie Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Rog. de Lasy Constabut Cestrie Walt. Marescallus for 4 years Anno 12 Hug. de Nevill for 4 years Anno 16 Rob. de Ros Alanus Candebeâ—… HEN. III. Anno 1 Walt. Mauclere for 7 years Anno 8 Walt. Ephus Carliol Rob. filius Will. de Hampton for 7 years Anno 15 Walt. Ephus Carliol Tho. filius Johannis Anno 16 Idem Anno 17 Tho. de Muleton for 4 years Anno 21 Will. de Dacre for 12 years Anno 33 Ioh. Daylock for 8 years Anno 41 Will. Com. Albemarl Remigius de Todington for 5 years Anno 46 Eustachius de Bayloel for 5 years Anno 51 Eustachius de Baylloet Mathe. de Ebor. for 4 years Anno 55 Rad. de Dacre EDW. I. Anno 1 Rob. Carliol Ephus Math. Cordil Roger. de Pocklington Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Rob. de Hampton Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Ioh. de Windeburne Anno 7 Mich. de Neilbigging Ad. Newbegin Gil. Cureweune Anno 8 Idem Anno 9 Idem Anno 10 Rob. de Brus for 4 years Anno 14 Mich. de Arcla Arcla for 12 years Anno 26 Will. de Mulecaster for 5 years Anno 31 Ioh. de Lucy Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Will. de Mulcaster Anno 34 Idem EDW. II. Anno 1 Alex. de Wastwenthoyte Anno 2 Andreas de Harcla for 4 years Anno 6 Andr. de Harcla Alex. de
daily out of the Nonage of their Years and Vassallâ—…ge of their Errours He died in Dublin Robert Usher soon after Bishop of Kildare preached his Funeral Sermon on that Text Behold a true Israelite wherein there is no guile shewing how he was truly a Nathaniel Gods Gift and a Carpenter a Wise Builder of Gods House until the Dissolution of his Own Tabernacle about the year 1636. Benefactors to the Publick PETER BLUNDELL of Tiverton in this County was a Clothier by his Profession and through Gods Blessing on his Endeavours therein raised unto himself a fair Estate Nor was he more painful and industrious in gaining then Pious aud Prudent in disposing thereof erecting a fair Free-School in the Town of his Nativity By his Will he bequeathed thereto a competent maintenance together with conveniency of Lodging for a Master and Usher And lest such whose Genius did encline and Parts furnish them for a further Progresse in Learning should through want of a Comfortable Subsistency be stopped or disheartned he bestowed two Scholarships and as many Fellowships on Sidney Colledge in Cambridge carefully providing that the Scholars bred in his School at Tiverton should be elected into the same I cannot attain to a certainty in the Time of his Death though it be thought to have happened about the year 1596. WILLIAM BURGOIN Esquire must not be forgotten finding this his Epitaph on his Marble Stone in the Church of Arlington Here lies Will. Burgoin a Squire by discent Whose death in this World many People lament The Rich for his love The Poor for his Almes The Wise for his Knowledge The Sick for his Balmes Grace he did love and Vice conroul Earth hath his body and Heaven his Soul He died on the Twelfth day of August in the Morning 1623. as the Inscription on his said Tomb doth inform us Memorable Persons HENRY de LA POMERAY lived at and was Lord of Berry-Pomeray in this County This Henry taking heart at the imprisonment of Richard the First by Leopaldus Duke of Austria surprized and expulsed the Monkes out of Michaels-Mount in Cornwal that there he might be a petty Prince by himself But being ascertained of his Soveraignes inlargement and fearing deserved death to prevent it he laid violent hands on himself as Roger Hoveden doth report But the Descendants from this Pomeray make a different relation of this accident affirming that a Serjeant at Armes of the Kings came to his Castle at Berry-Pomeray and there received kind entertainment for certain dayes together and at his departure was gratified with a liberal reward In counter-change whereof he then and no sooner revealing his long concealed errand flatly arrested his Host to make his immediate appearance before the King to answer a capital crime Which unexpected and ill carried Message the Gentleman took in such despight that with his Dagger he stabbed the Messenger to the heart Then despairing of pardon in so superlative an offence he abandoned his home and got himself to his Sister abiding in the Island of Mount-Michael in Cornwal Here he bequeathed a large portion of his land to the religious people dwelling there to pray for the redeeming of his soul and lastly that the remainder of his estate might descend to his heir he caused himself to be let blood unto death JOHN de BEIGNY Knight lived Lord of Ege-Lifford in this County who having been a great Travailer and Souldier in his youth retired home married and had three Sons in his reduced Age. Of these the third put himself on Forraign Action in the War against the Saracens in Spain whereof Fame made a large report to his Fathers great contentmâ—…nt which made him the more patiently dispence with his absence But after that death had bereft him of his two elder Sons he was often heard to say Oh that I might but once embrace my Son I would be contented to die presently His Son soon after returning unexpectedly the old man instantly expired with an extasie of Joy An English Father I see can be as passionate as the Italian Mother which died for Joy after the return of her Son from the Battail of 〈◊〉 Thus if all our randome desires should hit the Mark and if Heaven should alwayes take us at our word in our wishes we should be tamed with our Wild prayers granted unâ—…ous us and be drowned in the Deluge of our own Passions This Knight as I take it flourished under King Edward the Third CHILD Whose Christian Name is unknown was a Gentleman the last of his Family being of ancient extraction at Plimstock in this County and great Possessions It happened that he hunting in Dart-More lost both his Company and way in a bitter Snow Having killed his Horse he crept into his hot bowels for warmâ—…h and wrote this with his bloud He that findes and brings meto my Tombe The Land of Plimstock shall be his doom That nâ—…ght he was frozen to death and being first found by the Monkes of Tavâ—…stock they with all possible speed hasted to interre him in their own Abby His own 〈◊〉 of Plimstock hearing thereof stood at the Ford of the River to take his Body from them But they must rise early yea not sleep at all who over-reach Monkes in matter of profit For they cast a slight Bridge over the River whereby they carried over the Corps and interred it In avowance whereof the Bridge a more Premeditate Structure I believe in the place of the former Extempore Passage is called Guils Bridge to this day And know Reader all in the Vicinage will be highly offended with such who either deny or doubt the credit of this common Tradition And sure it is that the Abbot of Tavistock got that rich Manor into his Possession The exact Daâ—…e of this Childs Death I cannot attain NICHOLAS ANDREW TREMAINE were Twins and younger Sons to Thomas Tremaine of 〈◊〉 in this County Esquire Had they preceded Hypocrates in time posterity would have presumed them the sympathising Twins whereof he maketh so large mention Such their likenesse in all lineaments they could not be distinguished but by their several habits which when they were pleased on private confederacy to exchange for disport they occasioned more mirthful mistakes than ever were acted in the Amphitruo of Plautus They felt like pain though at distance and without any intelligence given they equally desired to walk travail sit sleep eat drink together as many credible Gentry of the Vicinage by relation from their Father will attest In this they differred that at New-haven in France the one was a Captain of a Troop the other but a private Souldier Here they were both slain 1564 death being pitiful to kill them together to prevent the lingering languishing of the Surviver Lord-Mayors Never one of this Office was a Devon-shire man by birth on my best enquiry Whereof some assigne these reasons 1 The Distance of the Place whose Western part is removed from London Two
Gospell He was a Zacheus for his Stature and with him tall in Piety and Charity He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxford on which account his memory is sacred to all posterity He died Anno Dom. 883. whose body was buried by one Barry his Scholar in Eynsebury since St. Neots in Huntington-shire and some say was afterwards removed to the Abby of Crouland Martyrs Of the forty four Martyrs in this Shire Three were most Remarkable 1. JOHN LAURENCE who at the Stake was permitted a Posture peculiar to himself For being so infeebled with long durance and hard usage that he could not stand he had a Chair allowed him and had the painfull ease to sit therein Nor must we forget how little Children being about the fire Câ—…ied unto him God strengthen you God strengthen you which was beheld as a product of his providence who out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings ordained Strength as also it evidenced their Pious Education To say Hosanna is as soon learnt by children as go up thou Bald head if it be as surely taught unto them 2. THOMAS HAWKES Gentleman first brought into trouble for refusing to Christen his Child after the Popish fashion This man going to the Stake promised his friends to give them some solemn token of the clearness and comfort of his Conscience In performance where of whilst his body was burning he raised up himself and though having the sence having no fear of the Fire joyfully clapp'd his hands over his head to the admiration of all the beholders 3. ROSE ALLIN a Virgin who being in her Calling fetching Beer for her Bedrid Mother was intercepted by Justice or rather un-justice Tyrrell who with a Candle most cruelly burnt her wrists which her Fire-proof patience most constantly endured What was said of the Roman scaevola when he burnt his hand before Porcenna is more appliable to this Maid Manum amisit sed Palmam retinuit Tyrrell did this meerly by the Law of his List otherwise no statute except written on the back-side of the book did authorize him for so Tyrannicall an act Some days after the fire which here took Livery and seisin of her hand brought her whole body into the possession thereof Confessors RICHARD GEORGE Labourer of West-Barfold is most eminent amongst the many Confessors in this Shire For he had successively three wives whereof two were burnt and the third imprisoned for Religion viz. 1. Agnes George burnt at Stratford-Bow June 27. 1556. 2. Christian George burnt at Colchester May 26. 1558. 3. ........... George imprisoned in Colchester and escap'd by Queen Maries death Novemb. 17. 1558. Some who consult the dates of his wives deaths will condemn him for over-speedy marriage and the appetite to a new wife is not comely before the grief for the former be well digested Such consider not that their glorious death in so good a cause was the subject rather of his joy then grief and that being necessitated for his children sake to marry he was carefull as it appears to marry in the Lord. Nor did he thrust his wives into the fire and shrink back from the flames himself who being imprisoned in Colchester had followed his two first and gone along with his last to the Stake had not Divine Providence by Queen Maries death prevented it Cardinalls THOMAS BOURCHIER was son to Sir William Bourchier who though but an English Knight was a French Earl of Ewe in Normandy Created by King Henry the fifth and had a great estate in this County with many Mansion-houses Hawsted being the place of their principall residence where I presume this Prelate was born He was bred in the University of Oxford whereof he was Chancellour 1454. Dean of Saint Martins then successively Bishop of Worcester Ely Arch-bishop of Caâ—…terbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths A Prelate besides his high birth aforesaid and brotherhood to Henry Bourchier first Earl of Essex of that Surname remarkable on many accounts First for his vivacity being an old man and proportionably an older Bishop 1. Being consecrated Bishop of Worcester 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the sixth 2. Dying Arch-bishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of K. Henry the seventh Whereby it appeareth that he wore a Mitre full fifty one years a term not to be paralleld in any other person Secondly he saw strange revolutions in State the Civil-wars between Lancaster and York begun continued and concluded For though Bishop Morton had the happiness to make the match Arch-bishop Bourchier had the honour to marry King Henry the seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the fourth so that his hand first solemnly held that sweet posie wherein the White and Red Roses were tied together Thirdly for his wary compliance that he lost not himself in the labyrinth of such intricate times applying himself politiquely to the present predominant power However it may be said of him Praestitit hic Praesul nil tanto sanguine munere tempore dignum He left no monument to posterity proportionable what was an hundred pounds and a chest given to Cambridge to his great blood rich place and long continuance therein But this my Author imputeth unto the troublesomeness of the times seeing peace was no sooner setled and the land began to live but he died March 30. 1486. I know not what generous planet had then influence on the Court of Rome this I know that England never saw such a concurrence of noble Prelates who as they were Peers by their places were little less by their descent I behold their birth a good buttress of Episcopacy in that age able in Parliament to check and crush any Antiprelaticall project by their own relations But let us count how many were contemporaries with Thomas Bourchier from his first consecration at Worcester till the day of his death John Stafford son to the Earl of Stafford Arch-bishop of Canterbury Robert Fitz-Hugh Bishop of London Henry Beauford son to John Duke of Lancaster Bishop of Winchester William Gray son to the Lord Gray of Codnor Bishop of Ely Marmaduke Lumley extracted from the Lord Lumley Bishop of Lincoln Richard Beauchamp brother to the L. Saint Amand Bishop of Sarum Lionel Woodvile son to the Earl of Rivers Bishop of Sarum Peter Courtney extracted from the Earls of Devon Bishop of Exeter Richard Courtnee of the same extraction Bishop of Norwich John Zouch descended of the Lord Zouch Bishop of Landaffe George Novile brother to the Make-King Earl of Warwick Arch-bishop of York William Dudley son to the Lord Dudley Bishop of Durham William Piercy son to the Earl of Northumberland Bishop of Carlile But after the death of Bourchier I meet with but three Bishops of noble extraction viz. James Stanley Edmond Audley and Cardinall Pole However they were though of lower image of no less learning and religion Prelates RICHARD de BARKING took his name according to the Clergy-mens
1550. few years before the beginning of Queen 〈◊〉 many being 〈◊〉 and so 〈◊〉 armed by his useful 〈◊〉 It must not be forgotten how during my abode in Cambridge on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1626. a Book was â—…ound in the belly of a Cod brought into the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 containing therein three 〈◊〉 whereof the 〈◊〉 and largest was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Crosse. It was wrapped about with Canvasâ—… and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fish plundred plâ—…ndred out of the pocket of some Ship-wracked Seaman The Wits of the 〈◊〉 made themselves merry thereat one making a long Copy of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on whereof this Dystiâ—… I remember If 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do bring us Books then we May hope 〈◊〉 Bodlyes Library But whilest the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 themselves herewith the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beheld iâ—… as a sad 〈◊〉 And some who then little looked for the 〈◊〉 have 〈◊〉 found it in that plâ—… This Book was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Author 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But no such Book 〈◊〉 in Bale though â—…y accurate to give â—…s a Catalogue of his Writings Whereby we 〈◊〉 it was the same made by this Richard 〈◊〉 to which another Treatise was annexed 〈◊〉 one to die made 〈◊〉 by our Tracy who himself 〈◊〉 about an hundred years since Sir THOMAS OVERBURY Knight Son to Sir Nicholas Overbury one of the Judges of the Marches was born at Borton on the Hill in this County bred in Oxford and attained to be a most accomplished Gentleman which the happiness of his Pen both in Poetry and Prose doth declare In the later he was the first writer of Characters of our Nation so far as I have observed But if the great parts of this Gentleman were guilty of Insolency and Petulancy which some since have charged on his Memory we may charitably presume that his reduced age would have corrected such juvenile extravagancies It is questionable whether Robert Carre Earl of Somerset were more in the favour of King James or this Sir Thomas Overbury in the favour of the Earl of Somerset until he lost it by disswading that Lord from keeping company with a Lady the Wife of another person of Honour as neither for his credit here or comfort hereafter Soon after Sir Thomas was by King James designed Embassadour for Russia His false friends perswaded him to decline the employment as no better than an Honourable Grave Better lie some dayes in the Tower than more months in a worse prison A Ship by Sea and a barbarous cold Country by land Besides they possessed him that within a small time the King should be wrought to a good opinion of him But he who willingly goes into a prison out of hope to come easily out of it may stay therein so long till he be too late convinced of another judgment Whilest Sir Thomas was in the Tower his Refusal was represented to the King as an Act of high contempt as if he valued himself more than the Kings service His strict restraint gave the greater liberty to his enemies to practise his death which was by poyson performed Yet was his Blood legally revenged which cost some a violent and others a civil death as deprived of their Offices The Earle was soon abated in King Jame's affection O the short distance betwixt the cooling and quenching of a Favourite being condemned and banished the Court. The death of this Worthy Knight did happen Anno Dom. 1615. JOHN SPRINT was bred a Student in Christ Church in Oxford and was afterward beneficed at Thornbury in this County a grave and godly Divine but for a long time much disaffected to the Ceremonies of the Church It happeened that Mr. Burton Arch-Deacon of Gloucester his Collegiate and Contemporary took him to task perswading him seriously to study the point which he promised and performed accordingly He put In the one Scâ—…le In the other The Wo pronounced to such who preach 〈◊〉 the Gospel and dissert their Flocks on pretended scrupulosity The nature of Ceremonies when things indifferent are enjoyned by lawfull Authority Weighing both exactly in the ballance of his judgment he found the former to preponderate concluding it unlawful for any on such â—…count to leave or lose the exercise of his Miniâ—…erial Function Hereupon he not only conformed for the future 〈◊〉 also wrote a Book dedicated to Arch-Deacon Burton called Casâ—…der Angâ—…anus to perswade others to conformity He died as I am informed â—…bout thirty years ago JOHN WORKMAN was born about Lasbury in this County where his Father was a servant to Sir Tho. Escourt He was bred in Oxford and afterwards became for many years the pioâ—…s and painfull Preacher at Gloucester being conformable to Church Discipline both in judgement and practise and in very deed It happened that some pressed super-â—…nonical Ceremonies and such sesqui-Conformists made Mr. Workman turn first but a semiConformist and then by degrees to renounce all Conformity He was prosecuted by G. G. his 〈◊〉 for preaching to the disparagement of the Blessed Virgin Mary though he pleaded his words were only these That the Papists painted her more like a Curtesan than a modest Maid Hereupon he was silenced and not suffered to teach Schoole seeing Sheâ—… and Lambs differ not in hind but age At last his good Priâ—…nd Dr. Baud furnishing him with instructions he turned Phyâ—… and 〈◊〉 unable to preservâ—… his Pattents in liâ—…e he could well prepare them for death He died about the year 1636. We have put them in Parallels not so much because living at the same time in the same County as because the one from disliking came to approve the other from approving to dislike Conformity though both no doubt did follow the dictates of their consciences RICHARD CAPEL was born as I am informed in the City of Gloucester whereof his Father was Alderman and left him a good temporal estate he was bred Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he had many Pupils of good qualitie and among the rest Mr. William Pemble whose Books he set forth and as I remember finished his imperfect Comment on Zachary Leaving the Colledge he was presented by Mr. Stephens to a good benefice in this County where he made his excellent Book Of Temptations full fraught with practical Piety so that what judicious person soever readeth it will experimentally say unto him as once the Lawyer to our Saviour Master thou hast well spoken it carrieth in it such a Truth by the confession confession his Conscience One thing he hath irrefragably proved That there is no Temptation which a man is subject to but what might be suggested by our own corruption without any injection of Satan We have an English expression The Devil he doth it the Devil he hath it where the addition of Devil amounteth only to a strong denial equivalent to he doth it not he hath it not My opinion is if the phrase took not the original from yet is it applyable to our common and causeless accusing of Satan with our
and Gaping Chincks the Heraulds of its downfall deeming with my self that I discovered as Physicians in our Bodies do cadaverosam faciem ruinosam therein But it rejoyced me when coming there this last year to find it so well amended by the soveraign medicine of Gold or Silver charitably applyed by its good Bishop I wish all Cathedrals in England sick of the same distemper as quick and happy a recovery HARTFORD-SHIRE is so called from Hartford the chief Town therein as Hartford so termed from the Ford of Harts a Hart Couchant in the waters being the Armes thereof Which convinceth me that HART not HERTFORD-SHIRE is the Orthography of this County It hath Essex on the East Middlesex on the South Buckingham shire on the West Bedford and Cambridge shire on the North thereof It might be allowed a Square of 20. miles save that the Angular Insinuations of other Counties prejudice the Entireness thereof I have been informed from an ancient â—…stice therein that one cannot be so advantagiously placed in any part of this Shire but that he may recover another County within the riding of five miles It is the garden of England for delight and men commonly say that such who buy a house in Hartfordshire pay two years purchase for the aire thereof It falls short in Fruitfulness of ESSEX adjoyning thereunto to which it was also annexed under one Sheriff and one Eschetor till after the Reign of King Edward the Third And Paynfull Norden writes a bold Truth For deep feedings or Sheep pastures I take notice of few and those especially about Knebworth To speak of the Soyle as indeed it is most generally for my part I take it but a barren Countrey in respect of some other Shires Indeed this Forrestie-Ground would willingly bear nothing so well as a Crop of Wood. But seeing Custome is another Nature it hath for many years been contented to bring forth good Grain perswaded thereunto by the Industrious Husbandman Surely no County can shew so fair a Bunch of Berries for so they term the fair Habitations of Gentlemen of remark which are called Places Courts Halls and Mannors in other Shires This County affording no peculiar Commodity nor Manufacture We may safely proceed to other Observations when first we have given the due commendation to the Horses of this Shire Their Teames of Horses oft times deservedly advanced from the Cart to the Coach are kept in excellent equipage much alike in colour and stature fat and fair such is their care in dressing and well-feeding them I could name the place and person Reader be not offended with an innocent digression who brought his servant with a Warrant before a Justice of Peace for stealing his grain The man brought his five horses tailed together along with him alledging for himself That if he were the Theefe these were the Receivers and so escaped The Buildings THEOBALDS did carry away the credit built by Sir William beautified by Sir Robert Cecil his Son both Lord Treasurers of England The last exchanged it too wise to do it to his Losse with King James for Hatfield-house which King deceased therein March 27. 1625. Yea This House may be said to decease about its grand Climacterical some sixty three years from the finishing thereof taken down to the ground for the better partage among the Soldiery Anno 1651. and from the seat of a Monarch is now become a little Common-wealth so many intire Tenements like Splinters have flown out of the Materials thereof Thus our Fathers saw it built we behold it unbuilt and whether our Children shall see it re-built he only knows who hath written There is a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together Hatfield-house was first the Bishops of Ely then the Kings afterwards by exchange the Earls of Salisbury For Situation Building Contrivance Prospect Air and all accommodations inferiour to none in England Within a little mile thereof lyeth a place called the Vineyard where nature by the Midwifery of Art is delivered of much pleasure So that the Reader must be a Seer before he can understand the perfection thereof Had this place been in Graecia or nigh Rome where the luxuriant fancies of the Poets being subject-bound improve a Tree into a Grove a Grove into a Forrest a Brook into a River and a Pond into a Lake I say had this Vineyard been there it had disinherited Tempe of its honour and hence the Poets would have dated all their delights as from a Little Paradise and Staple-place of earthly pleasure Medicinal Waters One hath lately been discovered neer Barnet in a Common as generally sanative springs are found in such places as if nature therein intimated her intention designing them for publique profit not private employment it is conceived to run thorough veines of Alome by the taste thereof It coagulateth milk and the curd thereof is an excellent plaister for any green wounds besides several other operations But as Alexander was wont to applaud Achilles not as the most valiant but the most fortunate of men having Homer to trumpet forth his actions so are these waters much advantaged with the vicinitie of London whose Citizens proclame the praise thereof And indeed London in this kind is stately attended having three Medicinal Waters within one dayes Journy thereof The Catalogue of the Cures done by this Spring amounteth to a great number in so much that there is hope in process of time the Water rising here will repaire the blood shed hard by and save as many lives as were lost in the fatal Battel at Barnet betwixt the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster Hartford-shire Proverbs HARTFORD-SHIRE Clubs and clouted shoon Some will wonder how this Shire lying so near to London the Staple of English Civilitie should be guiltie of so much Rusticalness But the finest Cloth must have a List and the pure Pesants are of as course a thread in this County as in any other place Yet though some may smile at their clownishness let none laugh at their Industry the rather because the high-shoon of the Tenant payes for the Spanish-Leather-Boots of the Landlord HARTFORD-SHIRE Hedge-Hogs Plenty of Hedge-Hogs are found in this High woodland-County where too often they suck the Kine though the Dayry-maid conne them small thanks for sparing their pains in milking them A creature alwayes in his posture of defence carrying a Stand of Pikes on his back so that if as well victualled as armed he may hold out a seige against any equal opposition If this Proverb containeth any further reflection on the People in this County as therein taxed for covetousness and their constant nudling on the Earth I will not so understand it as hoping and believing this to be a false Application WARE and WADES-Mill are worth all LONDON This I assure you is a Master-piece of the Vulgar wits in this County wherewith they endeavour to amuse Travellers as if WARE a thorough-fare-Market and
making I behold his as the second accounting the Lord Tiptoft the first noble hand which since the decay of Learning took a Pen therein to be Author of a Book He dyed on the 16. of March 1532. and is buryed in the great church in Calice And I have read that the estate of the Berners is by an Heir-general descended to the Knyvets of â—…shwelthorp in Norfolk Since the Reformation ROGER HUTCHINSON was born in this County and bred Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge where he was very familiar with Mr. Roger Askam who disdained Intimacy with Dunces And as this is euough to speak him Scholar so it is a sufficient Evidence to an Intelligent Jury to prove him Protestant that being commended by Bale for writing a book in English of the Image of God he is wholly omitted by John Pits He flourished Anno Dom. 1550. and probably dyed in the happy Reign of Edward the sixth before the following persecution THOMAS CARTVVRIGHT was born in this County and was admitted in St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge Anno 1550. In the Reign of Queen Mary he left the University being probably one of those Scholars which as Mr. Fox observeth went alias were driven away from this Colledge all at one time and betook himself to the service of a Counsellour Here he got some skill in the Common-Law which inabled him afterwards to fence the better for himself by the advantage thereof In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he returned to Cambridge was chosen Fellow first of St. Iohns then of Trinity How afterwards he was made Margaret Professour outed thereof for his Non-conformity travelled beyond Seas returned home became the Champion of the Presbyterian partie is largely related in our Ecclesiastical History Onely I will add that the Non conformists not a greeing which of them where there is much choice there is no choice should answer Dr. Whitgifts Reply I read that Mr. Cartwright at last was chosen by lot to undertake it It seems the Brethren concluded it of high and holy concernment otherwise I know what Mr. Cartwright hath written of the appeal to Lots Non nisi in rebus gravioribus alicâ—…jus magni momenti ad sortis judicium recurrendumm maxime cum per sortem Deus ipse in judicio sedeat One saith for riches he sought them not and another saith that he dyed rich and I beleive both â—…ay true God sometimes making Wealth to find them who seek not for it seeing many and great were his Benefactors He dyed and was buryed in Warwick where he was Master of the Hospital Anno. 1603. DANIEL DIKE was born at Hempstead in this County where his Father was a Minister silenced for his Non-conformity He was bred in ....... Colledge in Cambridge and became afterwards a profitable Labourer in Gods Vineyard Witness besides his Sermons his worthy books whereof that is the Master-peice which treateth of the deceitfulnesse of mans heart wherein he layes down directions for the Discovery thereof As also how in other Cases one may be acquainted with his own Condition seeing many men lose themselves in the Labyrinths of their own hearts so much is the Terra incognita therein This Book he designed for his pious Patron John Lord Harrington But alas when the Child was come to the Birth there was no strength to bring forth before the Book was fully finished the Author thereof followed his honourable Patron into a better World so that his Surviving brother of whom immediately set it forth And to the Lady Lucy Countesse of Bedford the Lords Sister the same was dedicated A Book which will be owned for a Truth whilst men have any badness and will be honoured for a Treasure wilst men have any goodnesse in them This Worthy man dyed about the Year 1614. JEREMIAH DIKE his Younger Brother was bred in Sidney Colledge in Cambridge beneficed at Epping in Essex one of a chearful Spirit And know Reader that an Ounce of Mirth with the same degree of Grace will serve God farther then a pound of Sadnesse He had also a gracious heart and was very profitable in his Ministry He was a Father to some good Books of his own and a Guardian to those of his Brother whose Posthume Works he set forth He was one peaceable in Israel And though no Zelot in the practice of Ceremonies quietly submitted to use them He lived and dyed piously being buryed in his own Parish-Church Anno Dom. 1620. ARTHUR CAPEL Esquire of Hadâ—…m in this County was by King Charls the first created a Baron 1641. He served the King with more Valour and Fidelity then Success during the Civil Wars in the Marches of Wales After the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house in this Shire and was in some sort well cured of the so then reputed Disease of Loyalty when he fell into a Relaps by going to Colcbester which cost him his life beheaded in the Palace Yard in Westminster 1648. In his Life time he wrote a book of Meditation published since his death wherein much judicious piety may be discovered His mortified mind was familiar with afflictions which made him to appear with such 〈◊〉 Resolution on the Scaffold where he seemed rather to fright Death then to be frighted with it Hence one not unhappily alluding to his Arms a Lyon Rampant in a Field Gules betwixt three Crosses thus expresseth himself Thus Lion-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with crosses in a Field of Blood A Learned Dr. in Physick present at the opening and embalming of him and Duke Hambleton delivered it at a publike Lecture that the Lord Capels was the least Heart whilst the Dukes wâ—…s the greatest he ever beheld Which alâ—…o is very proportionable to the Observation in Philosophy that the Spirits contracted in a lesser model are the cause of the greater courage God hath since been the Husband to His Widow who for her goodnesse may be a Pattern to her Sexe and Father to his Children whom not so much their Birth Beauty and Portions as Vertues married to the best Bloods and Estates in the Land even when the Royalists were at the lowest condition EDVVARD SYMONDS born at Cottered in this County was bred in Peter House in Cambridge where he commenced Master of Arts afterwards Minister of Little Rayne in Essex a man strict in his Life and profitable in his preaching wherein he had a plain and piercing faculty Being sequestred from his Living for siding with the King with David 1 Sam. 23. 13. He went wheresoever he could go to Worcester Exeter Barnstable France and lastly returned to London He wrote a Book in VINDICATION OF KING CHARLES and was Instrumental in setting forth his Majesties book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pens were brondished betwixt him and Mr. Stephen Marshal though all was fair betwixt them before his Death For Mr. Symonds visited him lying in his bed at Westminster told him Had I taken you for a
and returning in the Raign of King Edward the sixâ—… became a Preacher of London He and Mr. Hooper were the two greatest Sticklers against Ceremonies though otherwise allowing of Episcopal Government He was the first Martyr who suffered in Smithfield in Queen Maries dayes and led all the rest of whom we may truly say that if they had not beâ—…n flesh and blood they could not have been burnt and if they had been no more then flesh and blood they would not have been burnt The Non-Conformists account it no small Credit unto them that one of their Opinion as who would not flinch from the faith was chosen by Divine Providence the first to encounter the fire Such may remember that no Army is all FRONT and that as constant did come behinde as went before Had those of an opposite judgment been called first they had come first to the stake and in due time the defenders of Ceremonies were as substantial in their Sufferings This John Rogers was martyred Febr. 4. 1555. JOHN BRADFORD was born at * Manchester in this County and bred first a Lawyer in the Inns of Court and for a time did solicite Suits for Sr. John Harrington afterwards saith my * Authour ex Rixoso Causidico mitissimus Christi Apostolus going to Cambridg a man in maturity and ability the University by special Grace bestowed on him the Degree of Master of Art and so may he be said to Commence not only per saltum but per volatum The Jesuit doth causlesly urge this his short standing for an Argument of his little understanding whereas he had alwayes been a hard Student from his youth and his Writings and his Disputings give a sufficient Testimony of his Learning It is a demonstration to me that he was of a sweet temper Because Parsons who will hardly afford a good VVord to a Protestant saith that he seemed to be of a more soft and milde nature than many of his fellowe 〈◊〉 Indeed he was a most holy and mortified man who secretly in his closet would so weep for his sinnes one would have thought he would never have smiled again and then appearing in publick he would be so harmlesly pleasant one would think he had never wept before But Mr. Fox his pains have given the pens of all Posterity a VVrit of ease to meddle no more with this Martyr who suffered Anno Dom. 1555. GEORGE MARSH was born at Dean in this County bred a good Scholar in a Grammer-School and then lived in the honest condition of a Farmer after the death of his wife he went to Cambridge where he followed his Studies very close and afterwards solemnly entring into Orders became a profitable Preacher and Curate to Mr. Lawrence Sanders the worthy Martyr Causlesly therefore doth Parsons asperse him that he of a Farmer turned a Preacher as if he had done it immediately with many of our Age leaping from the plough to the pulpit concealing his Academical breeding such is the Charity of his jesuitical reservation As little is his Charity for condemning him for answering 〈◊〉 and fearfully at first to such who examined him about the Sacrament of the Altar seeing the said Marsh condemned himself for doing it as therein too much consulting carnal Respects to save his life as appears in Mr. Fox whence the Jesuite fetcheth all his Information But Marsh made amends for all these failings with his final constancy being both burnt and scalded to death having a barrel of pitch placed over his head an accent of cruelty peculiar to him alone when he was martyred at VVestchester Apr. 24. 1555. Cardinals WILLIAM ALAN was born in this County saith my Authour nobilibus parentibus of 〈◊〉 Parentage He was bred in Oriel Colledg in the University of Oxford and became Head of Sâ—… Maries Hall therein Then going beyond the Seas he became Kings 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 Cannon of Cambray and Rhemes and at last by Pope Sixtus Quint us made Cardinal priest of Martins in Rome 1587. and deserved his Red Hat by his good Service the year after against his Native Country But hear what Different Characters two Authours of several perswasions bestow upon him PITZEU 〈◊〉 ANO. Script page 792. GODWIN in his Catalogue of Cardinals page 479. He was somewhat above an ordinary man in Stature comely of Countenance composed in his Gaâ—…e affable in all Meetings and for the Gifts of his Mind Pious Learned Prudent Grave and though of Great Authority Humble modest meek patient peaceable in a word beautified and adorned with all kinds of Virtues He was the last of our English Cardinals in time and first in wickedness deserving not to be counted among English men who as another Herostratus to atchieve himself a name amongst the Grandees of Earth endeavoured to fire the Church of England the Noblest without envy be it spoken in the Christian World so that his memory deserveth to be buried in oblivion He collected the English Exilâ—…s into a Body and united them in a COLLEDG first at Doway then at Rhemes so great an Advancer that we may behold him as Founder of that Seminary He â—…yed at Rome Anno 1594. and preferred rather to be buried in the English School than in the Church of St. Martins which gave him the Title of Cardinal Prelates HUGH OLDHAM born in this County at Oldham a Village some fix miles from Manchester bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge was no ill Scholar and a good Man most pious according to and above the Devotion of the Age he lived in he was afterwards Bishop of Exeter a Foe to a Monkish Superstition and a Friend to University Learning Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford and Corpus-Christi Colledge therein will for ever bear witnesse of his bounty to advance Religion and Learning Besides the Town of Manchester have good cause to remember him who founded and endowed a School therein with large Revenue appointing the Warden of the Colledge therein Caput Scholae This Bishop having a tough contest with the Abbot of Tavestock was excommunicated for refusing to stand to the decision of the Court of Rome He had formerly built a Chapel in the South side of his Cathedrall and dying excommunicate on the aforesaid account was Buried not in the very Church but brink thereof and body of the Wall He dyed Anno Dom. 1520. JAMES STANLEY D. D. brother of Thomas Earl of Darby was born in this County and was by K. Henry the seaventh his kinsman by marriage preferred Bishop of Ely 1506. a man more memorable than commendable who never resided at his own Cathedral I can partly excuse his living all the Summer with the Earl his Brother in this County but must condemn his living all the Winter at his Mannour at Somersham in Huntingtonshire with one who was not his sister and wanted nothing to make her his Wife save mariage However if Jehu allowed a Burial to his most profest Enemy on this account that
of Richmond afterwards King Henry the seventh in the Battel of Bosworth got the advantage of Ground Wind and Sun each singly considerable but little lesse then an Army in themselves when all put together Besides he assisted him with the service of many men and great horses He dyed One Thousand Five Hundred and Eleven leaving six Daughters and Coheirs and was buryed at Non-eaton in Warwick-shire IOHN POULTNEY born in Little Shepey was herein remarkable that in his sleep he did usually rise out of his bed dresse him open the Dores walk round about the Fields and return to his Bed not wakened sometimes he would rise in his sleep take a â—…taff Fork or any other kind of VVeapon that was next his hand and therewith lay about him now striking now defending himself as if he were then encountred or charged with an adversary not knowing being awaked what had passed He afterwards went to Sea with that famous but unfortunate Sir Hugh Willoughby Knight and was together with all the Fleet frozen to death in the North East passage about NOVA ZEMBLA HENRY NOEL Esq I will incur the Readers deserved displeasure if he appear not most memorable in his Generation He was younger Son to Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby in this County who for Person Parentage Grace Gesture Valour and many other excellent parts amongst which Skill in Musick was of the first rank in the Court. And though his Lands and Livclyhood were small having nothing known certain but his Annuity and Pension as Gentleman to Queen Elizabeth yet in state pomp magnificence and expences did ever equalize the Barons of great worth If any demand whence this proceeded the Spanish Proverb answers him That which cometh from above let no man question Being challenged by an Italian Gentleman to play at Baloun he so heat his blood that falling into a Feaver he dyed thereof and by Her Majesties appointment was buryed in the Abbey of Westminster and Chapel of St. Andrew anno 1596. Lord Maiors  Name Father Place Company Time 1 Geffrey Fielding William Fielding Lutterworth Mercer 1452 2 William Heriot Iohn Heriot Segrave Draper 1481 3 Robert Billesdon Alex Bilsesdon Queeningsborough Haberdasher 1483 4 Christoph. Draper Iohn Draper Melton-Mowbray Ironmonger 1566 5 George Bolles Thomas Bolles Newbold Grocer 1117 Sheriffs of Leicester and Warwick-Shire HEN. II. Anno 1 Geffrey Clinton Anno 2 Robert Fitz Hugh Anno 3 Robert Fitz Hugh Anno 4 William de Bello Campo Robert Fitz Hardulph Anno 5 â—…ertram de Bulmer Raph Basset Anno 6 Raph Basset Anno 7 W. Basset for Raph his Br. Anno 8 Robert Fitz Geffrey William Basset Anno 9 Willam Basset Anno 10 Rap. Glanvil W. Basset Anno 11 William Basset for 5 years Anno 16 Bert. de Verdun for 10. Anno 26 Raph de Glanvil Bertram de Berder Anno 27 Raph de Glanvil Bert. de Perdun Arn. de Burton Arn. de Barton Adam de Aldedelega Anno 28 Raph de Glanvil Adam de Aldedelega Bertram de Verdun A. de Barton Anno 29 Idem Anno 30 Raph de Glanvil Bertram de Verdun Anno 31 Raph de Glanvil Michael Belet Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Idem RICH. I. Anno 1 Michael Belet Anno 2 Hugh Bishop of Coventry Anno 3 Hugh â—…ardolph Hugh Clarke Anno 4 Hugh Bp. Coventry Gilbert de Segrave Reginald Basset Anno 5 Reginald Basset Anno 6 Regin Basset Gilbert Segrave Anno 7 Regin Basset Williel Aubein Gilb. Segrave Anno 8 Regin Basset Anno 9 Regin Basset Williel Aubein Gilbert â—…egrave Anno 10 Rob. Harecourt King JOHN Anno 1 Regin Basset Anno 2 Robert Harecourt Anno 3 Rob. Harecourt Godfry de Lâ—…ege Anno 4 William de Cantelupe Robert de Poyer Anno 5 Robert Poyer Anno 6 Hugh Chaucomber for 4 years Anno 10 Robert Roppest Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 William de Cantelupe Rob. Poyer Anno 13 Rob. Poyer for 5 years HEN. III. Anno 2 Will. de Cantelupe Phil. Kniton Anno 3 Philip de Kniton Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Will. de Cantelupe Will de Luditon Anno 6 Will. de Luditon Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 John Russell John Winterborne Anno 9 Rob. Lupus Anno 10 Idem Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 Will. Stutewill Will Ascellis Anno 13 Will. Ascellis Anno 14 Stephen de Segrave Will Edmonds Anno 15 Will. Edmonds Anno 16 Idem Anno 17 Steph. de Segrave Joh. de Riparas Anno 18 Raph Bray Anno 19 Raph. Fitz Nichol. Raph. Brewedon Anno 20 Raph. Will Erleg Anno 21 Will. de Lucy Anno 22 Idem Anno 23 Hugh Pollier Philip Ascett Anno 24 Hugh Pollier for 8 years Anno 32 Baldwin Paunton Anno 33 Idem Anno 34 Philip Murmuny Anno 35 Idem Anno 36 Idem Anno 37 Will. Maunsel for 4 y. Anno 41 Alan Swinford Anno 42 Anketill Martivaus Anno 43 Idem Anno 44 Will. Bagot for 12 years Anno 56 Will. Morteyn Will Bagot EDVV. I. Anno 1 William Mortimer Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Idem Anno 4 William Hanelin Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 Idem Anno 7 Tho. de Hasele Robert Verdon Anno 8 Robert Verdon Osb. Bereford for 5 years Anno 13 Rob. Verdon Osbert Bereford Tho. Farendon Anno 14 Idem Anno 15 Tho. Farendon Foulk Lucy Anno 16 Foulk Lucy Anno 17 William Bonvill Anno 18 Idem Anno 19 Stephen Baber Anno 20 Idem Anno 21 Steph. Baber Will de Castello Anno 22 Will. de Castello for 5 years Anno 27 John Broughton Anno 28 Idem Anno 29 Philip Gayton Anno 30 Idem Anno 31 John Deane Richard Herehus Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Idem Anno 34 Richard Whitnere Anno 35 Idem EDVV. II. Anno 1 John Deane Geffrey Segrave Anno 2 Richard Herthull Anno 3 Idem Anno 4 John Deane Anno 5 Idem Anno 6 John Olney Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 William Trussell Anno 9 Idem Anno 10 Walter Beauchamp Anno 11 Walt. Beauchamp Will Nevill Anno 12 Ralph Beler Anno 13 William Nevill Anno 14 Thomas le Rous. Anno 15 Idem Anno 16 Anno 17 Hen. Nottingham Rob. Morin Oliver Walleis Anno 18 Idem Anno 19 Idem EDVV. III. Anno 1 Roger Aylesbury Anno 2 Thomas Blancfront Anno 3 Robert Burdet Anno 4 Rob. Burdet Roger la Zouch Anno 5 Roger Aylesbury Anno 6 Idem Anno 7 Hen. Hockley Roger la Zouch Anno 8 Roger la Zouch for 7 years Anno 15 William Peito Anno 16 Robert Bereford Anno 17 John Wallis Anno 18 Idem Anno 19 Tho. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick for 25 years Anno 44 John Peach Anno 45 William Catesby Anno 46 Richard Harthull Anno 47 Roger Hillary Anno 4â—… John Boyvill Anno 49 John Burdet Anno 50 VVilliam Breton Anno 51 Richard Harthull Sheriffs of Leicester and Warwick
On the South 1. Cambridgeshire 3. Warwickshire 4. Lincolnshire 7. Bedfordshire 2. Huntingtonshire  5. Rutland 8. Buckinghamshire   6. Leicestershire 9. Oxfordshire It is as fruitful and populous as any in England insomuch that sixteen several Towns with their Churches have at one view been discovered therein by my eyes which I confess none of the best and God grant that those who are sharper sighted may hereafter never see fewer Sure I am there is as little wast ground in this as in any County in England no Mosses Mears Fells Heaths Whitering but a Beauty spot which elsewhere fill so many Shires with much emptiness Northamptonshire being an Apple without Core to be cut out or Rind to be pared away Northamptonshire challengeth that all the Rivers running through or by it are its Natives as bred in it which argueth the elevation and height of the ground thereof which I believe no other County in England can say Besides it lendeth two considerable Rivers Avon to Warwick and Cherwell to Oxfordshire The language of the common people is generally the best of any Shire in England A proof whereof when a Boy I received from a hand-labouring-man herein which since hath convinced my Judgement We speak I believe said he as good English any Shire in England because though in the singing Psalms some words are used to make the Meeter unknown to us yet the last translation of the Bible which no doubt was done by those learned men in the best English agreeth perfectly with the common speech of our Country Know Reader that Doctor Bowle my worthy friend and most skilful Botonographist hath taken notice of a Heath in this County nigh to Stamford whereof he giveth this commendation as fine a place for variety of rare Plants as ever I beheld Who I am sure hath seen in this kind as much both here and beyond the Seas as any of his age and profession Natural Commodities Now though this Shire shares as largely as any in those profits which are generall to England Grass Corn Cattle c. Yet it is most eminent for Salt-peter In latine Sal Petrae rather so called because exudat è petris it usually sweats out of rocks then because it is wrought up at the last to a rocky or a stony consistency Some conceive it utterly unknown to the ancients which learned Hoffman will not allow onely it was disguised unto them under the name of Sal nitrum though our modern use was unknown unto them that Pulvis nitrosus or Gun-powder might be made thereof It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what will easily take fire the best Test of the goodness thereof But why is Salt-peter common to all Counties insisted on in Northamptonshire Because most thereof is found in Dove-houses and most Dove-houses in this great Corn County Yet are not those Emblemes of innocency guilty in any degree of those destructions which are made by that which is made thereof All that I will adde of Salt-peter is this I have read in a learned Writer that Salt-peter-men when they have extracted Salt-peter out of a floor of earth one year within three or four years after they find more generated there and do work it over again Pigeons These of all fowls live most sociably in a Common-wealth together seeing their government is not as Bees Monarchical They are generally reported without gall understand it their gall is not sequestred into a distinct vessel as in other creatures Otherwise we find the effects thereof in their animosities among themselves whose Bills can peck as well as kiss as also if their Crops be not clearly drawn in the bitterness of their flesh They are most swift in flight and the steerage of their Tails conduceth much to their steddy mounting upright An envious man having caught his neighbours Pigeons in a Net feeding on his Stack pluck'd off their Tails and let them go Which though they could fly forward home yet were soon after found dead in the Dove coat famished for want of food as unable to fly up perpendicularly and so out at the Lover Pigeons against their wills keep one Lent for seaven weeks in the year betwixt the going out of the old and growing up of the new grain Probably our English would be found as docible and ingenious as the Turkish Pigeons which carry letters from Aleppo to Babilon if trained up accordingly But such practices by these Wingposts would spoil many a Foot-post living honestly by that painful vocation I find a grievous Indictment drawn up against the poor Pigeons for felony as the grand plunderers of grain in this Land My Author computing six and twenty thousand Dove-houses in England and Wales and allowing five hundred pair in each House four bushels yearly for each pair hath mounted the annual wast they make to an incredible sum And if the moity of his proportions hold true Doves may be accounted the causers of dearth and justly answer their Etimology in Hebrew Jonah which is deduced from a root signifying to spoil or to destroy The Advocates for Pigeons plead that they pick up such loose corn which otherwise would be lost and uselesly troden into the earth that probably Divine Providence which feedeth the fowls by some natural instinct directeth them to such grain which would be barren and fruitless that their dung incredibly fruitful for the manuring of ground abundantly recompenseth the spoil done by them However if Pigeons be guilty of so great stealth they satisfie the law for the same being generally kill'd for mans meat and a corrected-pigeon let blood under both wings is both pleasant and wholesome nourishment The Manufactures This County can boast of none worth naming whereof this the reason sufficient the fruitfulness thereof in Corn Grass and what not necessary for nature for it 's plentiful subsistance The Elder Brother who hath the inheritance of his own to maintain him need not to be bound an Apprentice let the younger turn Trades-man and inlarge his narrow portion by his inaustry It is enough for Northamptonshire to sell their Wooll whilst that other Countrys make cloath thereof I speak not this though it be my Native â—…ountry to praise Northamptonshire men for not using but that Northamptonshire men may praise God for not needing Manufactures However the Town of Northampton may be said to stand chiefly on other mens Leggs where if not the best the most and cheapest boots and stockens are bought in England I am credibly informed by a good friend that the Manufacture of Cloathing hath by prudent and able persons been endeavoured effectually understand me in design not success in this County and yet though fine their Wool their Cloath ran so coarse it could not be sold without loss Thus God hath innated every Country with a Peculiar Genius and when Art crosseth Nature neither succeed but both exceed where both concurre Buildings As Saint Peter hath the Primacy of all the other Apostles
in this kind then ours but they are the more Ingenious and Industrious School-master of the lesson of publick advantage making every place in their Province to have access unto every place therein by such cheap transportation NORTHUMBERLAND hath the Bishoprick of Durham seperated by the river Dervent running into Tine on the South Cumberland on the South-west the German Ocean on the East Scotland on the North and West parted with the river Tweed Cheviot-hills and elsewhere whilst our Hostility with the Scots Mutuo Metu with Mutual Fear now turned into Mutual Faith both Nations knowing their own and neither willing to invade the bounds of others It is somewhat of a Pyramidal Form whose Basis objected to the South extendeth above 40. whilst the shaft thereof narrowing Northward ascendeth to full 50. miles Nature hath not been over indulgent to this County in the fruitfulness thereof yet it is daily improved since to use the Prophets expression they have beat their Swords into Plough-shares and Spears into Pruning-hooks and surely such Plough-shares make the best furrows and such comfortable Pruning-hooks cut with the best edge It must not be forgotten how before the uniting of England and Scotland there lay much wast ground in the Northern part of this County formerly disavowed at lestwise not owned by any onely to avoid the charges of the common defence But afterwards so great sudden and good the alteration that the Borders becoming safe and peaceable many Gentlemen inhabiting therabouts finding the antient wast ground to become very fruitful in the fourth of King James put in their claimes and began to contend in Law about their Bounds challenging their Hereditary right therein The Buildings One cannot rationally expect fair Fabricks here where the Vicinity of the Scots made them to build not for state but strength Here it was the rule with ancient Architects what was firm that was fair so that it may be said of the Houses of the Gentry herein Quot mantiones tot munitiones as either being all Castles or Castle-like able to resist though no solemn siege a tumultary incursion Before we come to the Worthies of this County be it premised that Northumland is generally taken in a double acception First as a County whose bounds we have fore-assigned and secondly as a Kingdome extending from Humber to Edenborough-frith and so taking in the Southern-part of Scotland Here then we have an oportunity to cry quits with Demster the Scotish Historian and to repair our selves of him for challenging so many English-men to be Scots Should we bring all them in for Northumberlanders which were born betwixt Berwick and Edenborough whose nativities we may in the rigor of right justifie to be English if born therein whilst the tract of ground was subjected to the Saxon Heptarchy But because we will have an unquestionable title to what we claim to be ours we are content to confine our selves to Northumberland in the County-Capacity thereof Proverbs To carry Coals to Newcastle That is to do what was done before or to busy ones self in a needless imployment Parallel to the Latine Aquam mari infundere Sidera Coelo addere Noctuas Athenas To carry Owles to Athenes which place was plentifully furnished before with fowle of that feather From Berwick to Dover three hundred miles over That is from one end of the land to the other Semnable the Scripture expression From Dan to Ber-sheba Such the Latine Proverbs A carceribus ad metam A capite ad calcem when one chargeth thorough an employment from the beginning to the end thereof To take Hectors cloake That is to deceive a friend who confideth on his faithfulness and hereon a story doth depend When Thomas Piercy Earl of Northumberland Anno 1569. was routed in the Rebellion which he had raised against Queen Elizabeth he hid himself in the house of one Hector Armestrong of Harlaw in this County having confidence he would be true to him who notwithstanding for money betrayed him to the Regent of Scotland It was observed that Hector being before a rich man fell poor of a sudden and so hated generally that he never durst go abroad insomuch that the Proverb to take Hectors cloak is continued to this day among them when they would express a man that betrayeth his friend who trusted him We will not lose a Scot. That is we will lose nothing how inconsiderable soever which we can save or recover Parallel to the Scripture expression VVe will not leave an Hooffe behind us This Proverb began in the English borders when during the enmity betwixt the two Nations they had little esteem of and less affection for a Scotch-man and is now happily superseded since the Union of England and Scotland into Great Britain A Scottish mist may wet an English-man to the skin That is small mischeifs in the beginning if not seasonably prevented may prove very dangerous This limitary Proverb hath its original in these parts where mists may be said to have their fountain North but fall South of Tweed arising in Scotland and driven by the winds into England where they often prove a sweeping and soaking rain Sure I am our late Civil War began there which since hath wet many an English-man in his own hearts blood and whether at last the Scotch have escaped dry that is best known to themselves A Scotish-man and a Newcastle-grind-stone travail all the world over The Scots Gentry especially when young leave their Native land hard their hap if losers by their exchange and travail into foreign parts most for maintenance many for accomplishment Now no ship sets safe to sea without a Carpenter no Carpenter is able without his tools no tools useful without a Grind-stone no Grind-stone so good as those of Newcastle Some indeed are fetch'd from Spain but of so soft a grit that they are not fit for many purposes Hence it is that these Grind-stones though mostly in motion may be said fixed to ships as most necessary thereunto If they come they come not And If they come not they come We must fetch an Oedipus from this County to expound this riddling Proverb customary in the wars betwixt the Crowns of England and Scotland For the cattle of people living hereabout turn'd into the common pasture did by instinct and custome return home at night except violently intercepted by the Free-booters and Borderers who living between two Kingdomes owned no King whilst Vivitur ex rapto Catch who catch may Hence many in these parts who had an herd of kine in the morning had not a cow-tail at night and alternatly proved rich and poor by the trade aforesaid If therefore these Borderers came their cattle came not if they came not their cattle surely returned Now although a sprigg of these Borderers hath lately been revived disguised under the new name of Moss-Troopers yet the union of the two Kingdomes hath for the main knock'd this Proverb out of joynt never I hope
eos tantum ille qui ut habet Tsalmus 126. numerat multitudinem Stellarum omnibus eis nomina vocat St. BERTELIN was a Britton of a Noble Birth and lead an Eremitical Life in the Woods near Stafford anciently called Bethiney contracted it seems for Bertiliney something of solitariness still remaining in his Memory as being so alone it hath no memorable particulars of his accounts to accompany it WOLFADUS RUFFINUS It was pitty to part them seeing they were loving in their lives and in their death they were not divided They were sons to Wolâ—…erus the Pagan King of Mercia and a Tyrant to boot who hating Christianity and finding these times to profess privately to practice it was so enraged that nothing but their bloud would quench his anger Wolfadus was taken and martyred at Stone in this County Whilst his younger if not twin brother Ruffinus came little more behind him at his death then he started before him at his birth seeking to hid himself in a woody place where since the Chappel of Burnweston hath been built was there by his Herod-father found out and murthered They were by succeding ages rewarded with reputation of Saintâ—…ip This Massacre happened Anno Domini .... Cardinals REGINALD POLE was born at Stoverton Castle in this County Anno 1500. He was second son unto Sr. Richard Pole Knight of the Garter and Frater consobrinus a relation which I cannot make out in reference to him to Henry the Seventh His mother Margaret Countess of Salisbury was Neice to King Edward the Fourth and daughter to Geoâ—…ge Duke of Clarence This Reginald was bred in Corpus-Christi-Colledge in Oxford preferred afterward Dean of Exeter King Henry the Eighth highly favoured and sent him beyond the Seas allowing him a large Pension to live in an equipage suitable to his birth and alliance He studied at Padua conversing there so much with the Patricians of Venice that at last he degenerated into a perfect Italian so that neither love to his Country nor gratitude to the King nor sharp Letters of his Friends nor fear to lose his present nor hopes to get future preferments could perswade him to return into England but that his pensions were withdrawn from him This made him apply his studies the more privately in a Venetian-Monastery where he attained great credit for his Eloquence Learning and good Life Such esteem forreign Grandees had of his great Judgment that Cardinal Sadolet having written a large Book in the praise of Philosophy submitted it wholy to his Censure Pole as highly commended the Work as he much admired that a Cardinal of the Church of Rome would conclude his old age with writing on such a subject applying unto him the Verses of Virgil Est in conspectu Tenedos notissima fama Insula dives opum Priami dum regna manebant Nunc tantum sinus statio male fidacarinis From Troy may th'Ile of Tenedos bespide Much fam'd when Priams kingdom was in pride Now but a Bay where ships in danger ride These far fetch'd lines He thus brought home to the Cardinal that though Philosophy had been in high esteem whilst Paganisme was in the prime thereof yet was it but a bad Harbour for an aged Christian to cast his Anchor therein It was not long before he was made Deacon-Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary in Cosmedin by Pope Paul the Third who sent him on many fruitless and dangerous Embassies to the Emperour and the French King to incite them to War against King Henry the Eighth Afterwards he retired himself to Viterbo in Italy where his House was observed the Sanctuary of Lutherans and he himself became a racking but no thorough-paced Protestant In so much that being appointed one of three Presidents of the Council of Trent he endeavoured but in vain to have Justification determined by Faith alone During his living at Viterbo he carried not himself so cautiously but that he was taxed for begetting a base Child which Pasquil published in Latine and Italian Verses affixed in the season of liberty on his lawless pillar This Pasquil is an Authour eminent on many accounts First for his self-concealement being Noscens omnia notus nemini Secondly for his intelligence who can display the deeds of midnight at high noon as if he hid himself in the holes of their bedstaves knowing who were Cardinals Children better than they knew their Fathers Thirdly for his unpartial boldness He was made all of tongue and teeth biting what e're he touch'd and it bled what e're he bit Yea as if a General Council and Pasquil were only above the Pope he would not stick to tell where he trod his holy Sandals awry Fourthly for his longevity having lived or rather lasted in Rome some hundreds of years whereby he appears no particular person but a successive corporation of Satyrists Lastly for his impunity escaping the Inquifition whereof some assign this reason because hereby the Court of Rome comes to know her faults or rather to know that their faults are known which makes Pasquils converts if not more honest more wary in their behaviour This defamation made not such an impression on Poles credit but that after the death of Paul the Third he was at midnight in the Conclave chosen to succeed him Pole refused it because he would not have his choice a deed of darkness appearing therein not perfectly Italianated in not taking preferment when tendred and the Cardinals beheld his refusal as a deed of dulness Next day expecting a re-election he found new morning new minds and Pole being reprobated Julius the Third his professed enemy was chosen in his place Yet afterwards he became Alterius Orbis Papa when made Arch-bishop of Canterbury by Queen Mary He was a person free from passion whom none could anger out of his ordinary temper His youthful Books were full of the Flowers of Rhetorick whilst the withered stalkes are only found in the Writings of his old Age so dry their style and dull their conceit He died few hours after Queen Mary November the 17 Anno 1558. Prelates EDMUND STAFFORD was Brother to Ralph first Earl of Stafford and consequentially must be son to Edmund Baron Stafford His Nativity is rationally with most probability placed in this County wherein his father though Landed every where had his Prime Seat and largest revenues He was by King Richard the Second preferred Bishop of Exeter and under King Henry the Fourth for a time was Chancellour of England I meet with an Authour who doth make him Bishop first of Rochester then of Exâ—…ter and lastly of York But of the first and last altum silentium in Bishop Godwin whom I rather believe He was a Benefactor to Stapeltons-Inn in Oxford on a three-fold account viz. Of 1 Credit first calling it Exeter Colledge whereby he put an obligation on the Bishop of that See favourably to reflect thereon 2 Profit adding two Fellowships unto it and
hath done more good or more harm As for Guns it cannot be denied that though most behold them as Instruments of cruelty partly because subjecting valour to chance partly because Guns give no quarter which the sword sometimes doth yet it will appear that since their invention victory hath not stood so long a Neuter and hath been determined with the loss of fewer lives Yet do I not believe what Souldiers commonly say that he was curs'd in his Mothers belly who is kill'd with a Cannon seeing many prime persons have been slain thereby Such as desire to know the pedigree and progress of great Guns in England may be pleas'd to take notice 1. Anno 1535. John Oaven was the first English-man who in England cast brass Ordnance Cannons Culverings c. 2. Peter Baud a French-man in the first of King Edward the sixth was the first who in England cast Iron-Ordnance Falcons Falconers Minions c. 3. Thomas Johnson covenant-servant to Peter aforesaid succeeded and exceeded his Master casting them clearer and better He died about 1600. Some observe that God hath so equally divided the advantage of weapons between us and Spain that their steel makes the best swords our iron the most usefull Ordnance Glass Plenty hereof is made in this County though not so fine as what Tyre afforded fetch'd from the river Belus and the Cendevian Lake nor so pure as is wrought at Chiosa nigh Venice whereof the most refined falls but one degree short of Chrystall but the course glasses here serve well enough for the common sort for vessels to drink in The work-men in this mystery are much encreased since 1557. as may appear by what I read in an Author writing that very year As for Glass-makers they be scant in this land Yet one there is as I doe understand And in Sussex is now his habitation At Chiddingsfoldâ—…e â—…e works of his occupation These brittle commodities are subject to breaking upon any casualty and hereupon I must transmit a passage to posterity which I received from an Author beyond exceptions A noble man who shall be nameless living not many miles from Cambridge and highly in favour with the Earl of Leicester begg'd of Queen Elizabeth all the plate of that University as useless for Scholars and more for State then Service for Superfluity then Necessity The Queen granted his suit upon condition to find glasses for the Scholars The Lord considering this might amount to more then his Baronry would maintain except he could compass the Venetian Artist who as they say could make Vitra sine vitio fragilitatis pellucida yea could consolidate glass to make it malleable let his petition which was as charitable as discreet sink in silence By the way be it observed that though course glass-making was in this County of great antiquity yet The first making of Venice-glasses in England began at the Crochet Friers in London about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by â—…ne Jacob Venaline an Italian The Buildings Chichester Cathedral is a fine fabrick built after it had been twice consumed with fire by Bishop 〈◊〉 the second of the Name about the year 1193. Country folk are confident in their tradition that the Master-workman built Sarisbury and his Man the Church of Chichester and if so sâ—…quitur Dominum non Passibus aequis But Pâ—…oportion of Time confuteth the conceit seeing Sâ—…ffride flourished under King John and Bishop Poor the Founder of Sarisbury lived much later undeâ—… King Henâ—…y the third Now though 〈◊〉 bestowed the Cloth and Making on the Church Bishop Sherborn gave the Trimming and best Lace thereto in the reign of King Henry the seventh I am sorry I can follow the Allegory so far being 〈◊〉 that now it is not only Seam ript but Torn in the whole-cloth having lately a great part thereof fallen down to the ground Arundel Castle is of great esteem the rather because a Local-Earldome is cemented to the wallâ—… thereof Some will have it so nâ—…med from Arundel the Horse of Beavoice the great Champion I confess it is not withont precedence in Antiquity for Places to take names from Horses meeting with the Promentory Bucephalus in Peleponesus where some report the Horse of Alâ—…xander buried and Bâ—…llonius will have it for the same cause called Cavalla at this day But this Castle was so called long before that Imaginary Horse was foled who cannot be fancied elder then his Master Beavoice flourishing after the Conquest long before which Arundel was so called from the river Arundâ—…unning â—…unning hard by it â—…etworth the house of the Earls of Northumberland is most famous for a stately Stable the best of any Subjects in Christendome Comparisons must move in ther own â—…pheres and Princes only are meet to measure with Princes tell me nâ—…t â—…herefore of the Duke of Saxony his Stable at Dresden wherein are â—…n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and eight horses of service with a Magazene out of which he can Arme thirty thousand Horse and Foot at a days warning that Elector being the most Potent Prince in the Empire But is not the proportion fair that â—…etworth Stable affordeth standing in state for threescore horse with all necessary accommodations Wonders Expect not here I should insert what William of Newbury writeth to be recounted rather amongst the Untruâ—…hs then Wonders viz. That in this County not far from Bâ—…ttail-Abby in the Place where so great a slaughter of the English-men was made after any shower presently sweateth forth very frâ—…sh blood out of the Earth as if the Evidence thereof did plainly declare the voice of Bloud there shed and crieth still from the Earth unto the Lord. This is as true as that in white chalky Countries about Baldock in Hartford shire after rain run rivolets of Milk Neither being any thing else then the water discoloured according to the Complexion of the Earth thereabouts Proverbs He is none of the Hastings This Proverb though extended all over England is properly reduceable to this County as Originated there for there is a Haven Town named Hastings therein which some erroneously conceive so called from hast or speed because William the afterwards Conqueror Landing there did as Mathew Paris saith with Hast or Speedily erect some small Fortification But sure it is that there is a Noble and Antient family of the Hastings in this Land I will not say first taking their Name from this Town who formerly were Earls of Pembroke and still are of Huntington Now men commonly say they are none of the Hastings who being slow and slack go about business with no agility Such they also call dull Dromedaries by a foul mistake meerly because of the affinity of that name to our English word Dreaming applied to such who go slowly and sleepily about their Employment Whereas indeed Dâ—…omedaries are Creatures of a Constant and Continuing Swiftness so called from the Greek word Dremo to Run and are the 〈◊〉 for travell for the Eastern
School Thus Dunces poring looks Menâ—… not themselves but onely marre their Bnoks How vast the difference 'twixt wise and fool The Master makes the Scholar not the School 6. With rich conditions ROME did You invite To purchase You their ROYALL PROSELYTE An emptysoul's soon tempted with full Coffers Whilst You with sacred scorn refus'd their proffers And for the FAITH did earnestly CONTEND Abroad which now You do at Home DEFEND 7. Amidst all Storms Calm to Your Self the while Saddest Afflictions You did teach to smile Some faces best become a Mourning Dress And such Your Patience which did grace Distress Whose Soul despising want of worldly pelf At lowest ebbe went not beneath it Self 8. GOds JUSTICE now no longer could dispence With the Abusing of His PROVIDENCE To hear SUCCESSE his APPROBATION styl'd And see the Bastard brought against the Child SCRIPTURE by such who in their own excuse Their Actings 'gainst His Writings did produce 9. The Pillar which Gods people did attend To them in night a constant Light did lend Though Dark unto th' Egyptians behind Such was brave MONCK in his reserved mind A Riddle to his Foes â—…e did appear But to YOU and Himselfe Sense plain and clear 10. By Means unlikely God atchives his End And crooked ways straight to his Honour tend The great and antient Gates of LONDON Town No Gates no City now are voted down And down were cast O happy day for all Do date our hopefull rising from their fall 11. Mens loyal Thoughts conceiv'd their Time was good But Gods was best Without one drop of Bloud By a dry Conquest without forraign hand Self-hurt and now Self-healed is Our Land This silent Turn did make no noise O strange Few saw the changing all behold the Change 12. So Solomon most wisely did conceive His Temple should be STIL BORN though ALIVE That stately Structure started from the ground Unto the Roof not guilty of the sound Of Iron Tool all noise therein debarr'd This Virgin-Temple thus was sâ—…en not heard 13. TH' impatient Land did for Your presence long England in swarms did into Holland throng To bring Your Highness home by th' Parliament Lords Commons Citizens Divines were â—…ent Such honour Subjects never had before Such honour Subjects never shall have more 14. Th' officious Wind to serve You did not fail But scour'd from West to East to fill Your Sail And fearing that his Breath might be too rough Prov'd over-civil and was scarce enough Almost You were becalm'd amidst the Main Prognostick of Your perfect peacefull Raign 15. Your Narrow Seas for Forraigners do wrong To claim them surely doth the Ditch belong Not to the common Continent but Isle Inclosed did on You their Owner smile Not the least loss onely the NASEBY mar'ls To see her-self now drowned in the CHARLES 16. You land at Dover shoals of People come And KENT alone now â—…eems all CHRISTEN DOM. The Cornish Rebels eight score Summers since At BLACK-HEATH fought against their lawful Prince Which dolefull place with hatefull Treason stain'd Its Credit now by Loyalty regain'd 17. Great LONDON the last station You did make You took not it but LONDON You did take And now no wonder Men did silence break When Conduits did both French and Spanish speak Now at WHITE-HALL the Guard which You attends Keeps out Your Foes God keep You from Your Friends 18. THe Bells aloud did ring for joy they felt Hereafter Sacriledge shall not them melt And round about the Streets the Bonfires blaz'd With which NEW LIGHTS Fanatiques were amaz'd The brandisht Swords this Boon begg'd before Death Once to be 〈◊〉 then buried in the Sheath 19. The Spaniard looking with a serious Eye Was forc'd to trespass on his Gravity Close to conceal his wondring he desir'd But all in vain who openly admir'd The French who thought the English mad in mind Now fear too soon they may them Sober find 20. The Germans seeing this Your sudden Power Freely confess'd another Emperour The joyful Dane to Heav'ns cast up his Eyes Presuming suffering Kings will â—…ympathize The Hollanders first in a sad suspence Hop'd that Your Merty was their Innocence 21. LOng live Our Gracious CHARLES Second to none In Honour who ere sate upon the Throne Be You above Your Ancestors renown'd Whose Goodness wisely doth Your Greatness bound And knowing that You may be What You would Are pleased to be onely What You should 22. EUROP's Great ARBITRATOR in Your choice Is plac'd of Christendom the CASTING VOICE Hold You the Scales in Your Judicious Hand And when the equal Beam shall doubtfull stand As You are pleased to dispose one Grain So falls or riseth either France or Spain 23. As Sheba's Queen defective Fame accâ—…s'd Whose niggardly Relations had abus'd Th' abundant worth of Solomon and told Not half of what she after did behold The same Your case Fame hath not done You right Our Ears are far out-acted by our Sight 24. Your SELF 's the Ship return'd from forreign Trading England's Your Port Experience the Lading God is the ` Pilot and now richly fraught Unto the Port the Ship is safely brought What 's dear to You is to Your Subjects cheap You sow'd with pain what we with pleasure reap 25. The Good-made Laws by You are now made Good The Prince and Peoples right both understood Both being Bank'd in their respective Station No fear hereafter of an Inundation Oppression the KINGS-EVIL long indur'd By others caus'd by YOU alone is cur'd And here my Muse craves her own nunc dimittis never to make Verses more and because she cannot write on a better will not write on another Occasion but heartily pray in Prose for the happiness of her Lord and Master And now having taken our Vale of verses let us therewith take also our Farewell of Worcester-shire The Farewell I read in a good Author how the State of Lunenburg in Germany whose chief revenues arise from the sale of salt prohibited poor people the benefit thereof Whereupon Divine Providence offended that a Monopoly was made of his mercy stopped the flowing of those Salt-springs for a time till the Poor were restored to their paxtage therein I am not particularly instructed what share the Poor have in the Salt of this Shire not knowing how their interest is stated therein But I presume the concernments of the Poor are well cared for and all things equally ordered betwixt them and Rich-people grounding my confidence on the long and large continuance of the Salt-pits amongst them All I will adde is this I shall pray that they may indeavour for spirituall-soul-savoriness that their speech may be always with grace seasoned As for the Loyal City of Worcester which deserves a particular Farewell by it self I heartily desire that God would be pleased to restore unto it the years which the Locust Caterpillar and Palmer-worm have devoured And how quickly can he doe it as by infinite other ways so by blessing the Clothing the Staple