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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37219	A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent.	J. D., Gent.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing D38; ESTC R18713	93,900	252

at the Siege of Guns first used Callice first made use of Guns About this Time Philip King of France First Daulphin of France died leaving his Son John to succeed him in the beginning of whose Reign Humbert Prince of Daulphin dying without Issue made him his Heir and thereupon Charles King John's Son was made first Daulphin of France Sir John Midsterworth Knight about this Defrauding Souldiers punished Time was hanged drawn and quartered at Tyburn for Treason by him committed in defrauding Souldiers of their Wages There was an Offer made to King Edward The Value of Callice to leave him 1400 Towns and 3000 Fortresses in Aquitain upon condition he would render Callice and what he held in Picardy In the 45th year of this King in a Parliament The Clergy grant a Tax at Westminster the Clergy granted him 50000 l. to be paid the same year and the Laity as much which was levied by setting a certain rate of 5 l. 15 s. upon every Parish which were found in the 37 Shires to be eight thousand six hundred Some say this King instituted the Order Knight of the Garter first of Knight of the Garter This King caused all Pleas in Law Law first pleaded in English which were before in French now to be made in English that the Subject might understand the course of the Law In this Time at the instance of the Londoners Apparel for Whores an Act was made That no common Whore should wear any Hood except striped with divers colours nor Furs but Garments reversed the wrong side outwards This King also was the first that created Dukes first created Dukes of whom Henry of Bullingbrook Earl of Lancaster created Duke of Lancaster in the 27th year of his Reign was the first but afterward he erected Cornwal into a Dutchy and conferred it upon the Prince after which Time the King 's eldest Son used always to be Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal and Earl of Chester In the 22d year of his Reign a contagious A wonderful Pestilence Pestilence arose in the East and South Parts of the World and spread it self all over Christendom and coming at last into England it so wasted the People that scarce the 10th Person of all sorts were left alive There died in London some say in Norwich between the 1st of January and the 1st of July 57374 Persons In Yarmouth in one year 7052 Men and Women before which Time the Parsonage there was worth 700 Marks a year and afterwards was scarce worth 40 l. a year This Plague began in London about Alhollantide in the year 1348 and continued till the year 1357 where it was observed that those who were born after the beginning Decrease of Teeth in men of this Mortality had but twenty eight Teeth whereas before they had two and thirty In this King's Time a Frost lasted from A great 〈◊〉 the midst of September to the Month of April In the 11th year of his Reign there was Plenty of all things so great Plenty that a quarter of Wheat was sold at London for two Shillings a fat Ox for a Noble a fat Sheep for Six-pence five Pidgeons for a penny a fat Goose for Two-pence a Pig for a penny and other things after that rate In this King's Time lived the so much Chaucer famed Sir Geoffry Chaucer the famous English Poet. NOTABLE EVENTS In the Reign of King RICHARD the II. IN the beginning of this King's Reign A. D. 1377. A noble Act of a Citizen of London one Mercer a Scottish Pirat committing many Outrages upon the Seas against the English Merchants a Citizen of London one John Philpot at his own Charges set forth a Fleet and in his own Person encountring Mercer took him and all his Ships About this Time one Sir John Annesley A Combat between Katrington and Annesley Knight accused Thomas Katrington Esq for betraying the Fortress of St. Saviour to the French which Katrington denying at the suit of Annesley a solemn Combat is permitted to be between them at which Combat the King and all the great Lords were present The Esq Katrington was a man of a mighty stature the Knight Annesley a little man yet through the justness of his Cause after a long Fight the Knight prevailed and Katrington the day after the Combat died After the Rebellion of Wat Tyler and 〈◊〉 executed for Treason Jack Straw in this King's Time Sir Robert Tresilian Lord Chief Justice being appointed to sit in Judgment against the Offenders 1500 being found guilty were all executed The manner of Knighting in these days Manner of Knighting thus They caused him to put a Basenet upon his Head and then the King with a Sword in both his Hands struck him strongly upon the Neck This King added the Dagger to the Arms of London This King for a considerable time kept the Great Seal in his own hands The French in this King's Time designing The French prepare a Navy of 1287 Ships to invade England presuming no less than to make a Conquest of it prepared 1287 Ships but the Attempt as it was impertinent signified nothing A Parliament in this King's Time declared The King obliged to attend the Parliament to the King That by an old Ordinance it was enacted that if the King should absent himself 40 days not being sick from his Parliament the Houses might lawfully break up and return home This King being at dissention with his Lords could procure none to fight against them 'T is almost wonderful what is related of A strange Accident in a Family the Family of the Hastings Earls of Pembroke that for many Generations the Sons never saw the Fathers the Fathers being always dead before the Sons were born In this King 's 13th year a Royal Just A noble Justing was proclaimed to be holden within Smithfield in London which being published many Strangers came hither of the most noble Families of Europe At the day appointed there issued out of the Tower about three a Clock in the afternoon 60 Coursers apparelled for the Justs and upon every one an Esquire of Honour riding a soft pace after them came forth almost 40 Ladies of Honour mounted on Palfreys and every Lady led a Knight with a Chain ofGold and so they came riding through the Streets of London to Smithfield where the Just held 24 days At this Time in a Parliament the Duke A Bastard legitimated by Parliament of Lancaster caused to be legitimated the Issue he had by Catharine Swinford before he married her of whom Thomas Beaufort was created Earl of Somerset In a Parliament about this Time the What Articles first to be handled in Parliament Judges gave their opinions that when Articles are propounded by the King to be handled in Parliament if other Articles be handled before those are determined that it is Treason in them that do it A

generally believed to have its Original from a Disease wherein such as sneezed died But though it hath been much used both amongst the Graecians and Romans yet is it no Argument that this was the first Rise of it Now the Reason of this might be because Sternutation is taken as a very good sign For Sneezing being properly a motion of the Brain suddenly expelling through the Nostrils what is offensive unto it it cannot but afford some evidence of its Vigor and therefore saith Aristotle Those that hear it honour it as a sign of Sanity in the diviner Part. And this he illustrates from the Practice of Physicians who in Persons near their Death do use such Medicines as provoke unto Sneezing and if that Faculty awaketh they conceive hopes of Life and with Gratulation receive the signs of Safety CHAP. X. Of the Jews THAT the Jews stink naturally that is that in their Race and Nation there is an evil Savour is a received Opinion we know not how to admit Though we will acknowledge that certain Odours attend on Animals no less than certain Colours and pleasant Smells are found in divers Animals and in some more richly than in Plants as the Parde the Civet-cat Gazela and many sorts of Monkeys Upon the Consult of Reason there will be found no easie assurance to fasten a material or temperamental Propriety upon any Nation much more will it be difficult to make out this Assertion in the Jews whose Race however pretended to be pure must needs have suffered inseparated Commixtures with Nations of all sorts But should we concede there were such a National Unsavouriness in any People yet should we find the Jews less subject hereto than any for they observe a spare and simple Diet whereby they prevent the generation of Crudities which should be the chief Cause of it Likewise they avoid all Copulation either in the Uncleanness of themselves or Impurity of their Women which not so much being observed amongst us many times causes the Off-spring to be weak and sickly From which likewise learned Men derive the Cause of Pox and Meazles Lastly It is not in the least observable by those that traffick with them or have been amongst great Assemblies of them CHAP. XI Of Pigmies THAT there is a dwarfish sort of People called Pigmies whose Stature is comprehended in one Cubit or as some will have it two Foot or three Spans not singly but nationally considering them though hereof Affirmations be many and Testimonies frequent yet that there ever was such a Race or Nation upon exact and confirmed Testimonies o●● strictest Enquiry receives no satisfaction For though many learned Men speak hereof yet were they 〈◊〉 Relators and the primitive Author 〈◊〉 Homer who made this Fancies for Similies to delight the Ear. Again Many professed Enquirers have rejected it as Strabo Julius Scaliger Eustathius and several others All which conclude the Story fabulous and a poetical Account of Homer The End of the Fourth Book The Fifth Book Of many things questionable as they are commonly described in Pictures CHAP. I. Of the Picture of the Pelican THE Pelican is in every place pictured opening her Breast with her Bill and feeding her young ones with Blood distilled from her as likewise it is set forth in the Crest and Escutcheon of many noble Families Notwithstanding upon Enquiry we find no mention hereof in ancient Zodiographers and such as have particularly discoursed upon Animals as Aristotle Aelian Pliny Solinus and many more who never leave out Proprieties of such a nature They also much differ in the Picture by an erroneous Representation for in its proper Colour it is inclining to white about the bigness of a Swan with a A description of a Pelican long flat Bill palmipedous like a Swan lastly it hath under its Bill a Chowl or Bag of Capacity almost beyond credit wherein it receiveth Oysters Cockles Scollops and other testaceous Animals which being not able to break it retains until they open and vomiting them up takes out the Meat contained CHAP. II. Of the Picture of Dolphins THAT they are crooked is a common conceived Tenent to be their natural and proper Figure But to speak strictly In their natural Figure they are straight as Scaliger plainly affirmeth and ocular Enquiry informeth CHAP. III. Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve HErein the Serpent is often described with humane Visage as it is delivered by Beda and others But nevertheless it is a Conceit not to be admitted and the plain and received Figure is that which better Reason embraced And whereas it is thought she would be amazed to hear a Serpent speak some conceive she might not yet be certain that only Man was priviledged with Speech CHAP. IV. ANother Mistake there might be in the delineating our first Parents as their Posterity with Navels Which is observed in many old Draughts which cannot be allowed except the Creator affected Superfluities or ordained Parts without Use or Office For the use of the Navel is to continue the Infant unto the Mother and by the Vessels thereof to convey its Aliment and Sustention which after Birth the Midwife cutteth off from whence ensueth that complicated Nodosity we usually call the Navel So that it cannot be well imagined at the Creation of Adam who immediately issued from the Artifice of God CHAP. V. Of the Pictures of Eastern Nations and the Jews at their Feasts especially our Saviour at the Passover COncerning the Pictures of the Jews and Eastern Nations at their Feasts concerning the Gesture of our Saviour at the Passover who is usually described sitting upon a Stool or Bench at a square Table in the midst of the Twelve may make great doubt and though they concede a Table-gesture will hardly allow this usual way of Session It is very certain that many Nations used the way of Accubation at Meals as the Persians and Parthians with several others and likewise formerly the Romans As for their Gesture or Position The The ancient Position of the Body at Feasts Men lay down leaning on their left Elbow their Back being advanced by some Pillow the second lay so with his Back towards the first that his Head attained about his Bosom and the rest in the same order For Women they sat sometimes distinctly with their Sex sometimes promiscuously with the Men according to Affection or Favour as is delivered by Juvenal Gremio jacuit nova nupta mariti That this Discumbency at Meals was in use in the days of our Saviour is probable from several Speeches of his expressed in that phrase as Luke 14. Cum invitatus fueris ad huptias non discumbas in primo loco and beside many more The End of the Fifth Book The Sixth Book Of sundry common Opinions Cosmographical and Historical CHAP. I. Concerning the beginning of the World that the time thereof is not precisely to be known as men generally suppose COncerning the World and its temporal Circumscriptions who