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A40672	The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.; History of the worthies of England	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1662 (1662)	Wing F2441; ESTC R6196	1,376,474	1,013

confess it was somewhat too soon for one with safety and truth to treat of such a Subject Indeed I could instance in some kind of course Venison not fit for food when first killed and therefore cunning Cooks bury it for some hours in the Earth till the rankness thereof being mortified thereby it makes most palatable meat So the memory of some Persons newly deceased are neither fit for a Writers or Readers repast untill some competent time after their Interment However I am Confident that unpartial Posterity on a serious review of all Passages will allow his Name to be reposed amongst the HEROES of our Nation seeing such as behold his expence on St. Pauls as but a Cypher will assign his other Benefactions a very valuable Signification viz. his erecting and endowing an Almes-house in Reading his increasing of Oxford Library with Books and St. Johns Colledg with beautifull buildings He was beheaded Jan. 10. 1644. States-men Sir JOHN MASON Knight was born at Abbington where he is remembred among the Benefactors to the beautifull Almes-house therein bred in All souls in Oxford King Hènry the eighth coming thither was so highly pleased with an oration Mr. Mason made unto Him that he instantly gave order for his education beyond the seas as confident he would prove an able Minister of State This was the politick discipline of those days to select the pregnancies of either Universities and breed them in forraign parts for publique employments He was Privy-Councellour to King Henry the eighth and K. Edward the sixth One maketh him His Secretary of State which some suspect too high another but Master of the Requests which I believe as much beneath him He continued Councellor to Q. Mary and Q. Elizabeth to whom he was Treasurer of the Household and Chancellor of the University of Oxford Mr. Camden gives him this true character Vir fuit gravis atque eruditus which I like much better then that which followeth so far as I can understand it Ecclesiasticorum Beneficiorum incubator maximus Surely he could be no Canonical Incumbent in any Benefice not being in Orders which leaveth him under the suspicion of being a great ingrosser of long leases in Church-livings which then used to be let for many years a pityful pension being reserved for the poor Curate Thought possibly in his younger time he might have Tonsuram primam or be a Deacon which improved by his great power might qualify at least countenance him for the holding of his spiritual promotions He died 1566. and lieth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls over against William Herbert first Earl of Pembroke and I remember this Distick of his Long Epitaph Tempore quinque suo regnantes ordine vidit Horum a Consiliis quatuor ille fuit He saw five Princes which the scepter bore Of them was Privy-Councellour to Four It appears by His Epitaph that he left no Child of his own Body but adopted his Nephew to be his Son an Heir Sir THOMAS SMITH Knight was born at Abbington bred in the University of Oxford God and himself raised him to the eminency he attained unto unbefriended with any extraction He may seem to have had an ingenuous emulation of Sir Tho. Smith senior Secretary of State whom he imitated in many good qualities and had no doubt equalled him in preferment if not prevented by death He attained only to be Master of the Requests and Secretary to K. James for His Latine Letters higher places expecting him when a period was put to his life Novemb. 28. 1609. He lieth buried in the Church of Fullkam in Middlesex under a monument erected by his Lady Frances daughter to William Lord Chandos and since Countess of Exeter Souldiers HENRY UMPTON Knight was born as by all Indications in the Heralds Office doth appear at Wadley in this County He was Son to Sir Edward Umpton by Anne the Relick of John Dudley Earl of Warwick and the Eldest Daughter of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset He was imployed by Queen Elizabeth Embassadour into France where he so behaved himself right stoutly in her behalf as may appear by this particular In the Moneth of March Anno 1592. being sensible of some injury offered by the Duke of Gwise to the honour of the Queen of England he sent him this ensuing challenge For as much as lately in the Lodging of my Lord Du Mayne and in publick elsewhere Impudently Indiscreetly and over boldly you spoke badly of my Soveraign whose sacred Person here in this County I represent To maintain both by word and weapon her honour which never was called in question among people of Honesty and Vertue I say you have wickedly lyed in speaking so basely of my Soveraign and you shall do nothing else but lie whensoever you shall dare to taxe her honour Moreover that her sacred Person being one of the most complete and Vertuous Princess that lives in this world ought not to be evil spoken of by the Tongue of such a perfidious Traytor to her Law and Country as you are And hereupon I do defy you and challenge your Person to mine with such manner of Arms as you shall like or choose be it either on horse back or on foot Nor would I have you to think any inequality of Person between us I being issued of as great a Race and Noble house every way as your self So assigning me an indifferent place I will there maintain my words and the Lie which I gave you and which you should not endure if you have any Courage at all in you If you consent not meet me hereupon I will hold you and cause you to be generally held for the arrantest coward and most slanderous slave that lives in all France I expect your Answer I find not what answer was returned This Sir Henry dying in the French Kings Camp before Lofear had his Corps brought over to London and carryed in a Coach to Wadley thence to Farington where he was buryed in the Church on Tuesday the 8. of July 1596. He had allowed him a Barons Hearse because dying Ambassadour Leigier Writers HUGH of READING quitted his expectances of a fair Estate and sequestring himself from worldly delights embraced a Monastical life till at last he became Abbot of Reading Such who suspect his sufficiency will soon be satisfied when they read the high Commendation which Petrus Bloesensis Arch Deacon of Bath one of the greatest Scholars of that Age bestoweth upon him He wrote a Book of no Trival Questions fetcht out of the Scripture it self the reason why I. Bale generally a back-friend to Monks hath so good a Character for him who flourished Anno Dom. 1180. ROGER of WINDSOR was undoubtedly born in this Town otherwise he would have been called Roger of St. Albans being Chanter in that Convent Now in that Age Monks were reputed men of best Learning and most leasure The cause why our English Kings alwaies choose one of

clear evidence to the contrary this Henry Marny Esquire shall pass with me for him who was then Servant afterwards Executor to the Kings Mother the Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond The very same who afterwards was Knighted made Chancellor of the Dutchy and Created Lord Marny by King Henry the eighth and whose daughter and sole heir Elizabeth was with a fair inheritance married to Thomas Howard Viscount Bindon 14 JOHN CHRISTMAS Ar. Such will not wonder at his Surname who have read the Romans cognominated Ja●…arius Aprilis c. Yea Festus himself is well known in Scripture probably so called from being born on some solemn festivall the occasion no doubt of this Sheriffs Surname at the first If the name be extinct in Essex it remaineth in other Counties and the City of London where ...... Christmas Esquire a great promoter of my former and present endeavours must not by me be forgotten Henry VIII 6 WILLIAM FITZ-WILLIAMS Ar. I cannot exactly design his habitation but conceive it not far from Waltham Abby in the South west part of this County because he bequeathed 50. pounds to mend the High-ways betwixt Chigwell and Copers-hall He was afterwards Knighted by King Henry the eighth on a worthy occasion whereof hereafter in his Sheriffalty of North-hampton-shire in the 15. of King Henry the eight He bequeathed 100. pounds to poor Maids Marriages 40. pounds to the University c. and delivering a Catalogue of his Debtors into the hands of his Executors he freely forgave all those over whose names he had written Amore Dei remitto 25 BRIAN TUKE Knight He was Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight as appears by his Epitaph and dying Anno 1536. lyeth buried with Dame Grissel his wife deceasing two years after him under a fair Tombe in the North Isle of the Quire of Saint Margarets in Lothbury London Lealand giveth him this large commendation that he was Anglicae linguae eloquentiâ mirificus Bale saith that he wrot observations on Chaucer as also against Polidore Virgill for injuring the English of whom then still alive he justly and generously demanded reparations though since his unresponsable memory can make us no satisfaction Edward VI. 3 Sir JOHN GATES He was descended from Sir Geffry Gates Knight who as appears by his Epitaph in the Church of High-Eastern bought the Mannor of Garnets in that parish of one Koppenden Gentleman This Sir Geffry was six years captain of the Isle of Wight and Marshall of Callis and there kept with the Pikards worschipfull Warrys Reader it is the Language of his Epitaph And died Anno Dom. 1477. As for this Sir John Gates Knight descendant from the said Sir Jeffry he is heavily charged with Sacriledge in our Histories and ingaging with John Dudley Duke of Northumberland in the Title of Queen Jane he was beheaded the 22. of August the first of Queen Mary 1553. Queen Elizabeth 1 RALPH ROWLET Knight He married one of the learned daughters of Sir Anthony Cook Sister to the wives of the Lord Chancellour Bacon and Treasurer Cecill His family is now Extinct one of his daughters marrying into the then Worshipfull since honorable family of the Mainards and with her devolved a fair inheritance 12. JAMES ALTHAM Esq. His Armes casually omitted in our List were Pally of six Ermin and Azure on a Chief Gules a Lyon rampant Or. His Name-sake and direct Descendent now living at Markhall made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles the second addeth with his accomplished civility to the Honor of his Ancestors King James 1. HENRY MAINARD Kt. He was Father to William Maynard bred in Saint John's Colledge in Cambridge where he founded a Logick Professor created Baron of Wicklow in Ireland and Easton in this County whose Son William Lord Maynard hath been so noble an encourager of my Studies that my Hand deserveth to wither when my Heart passeth him by without a prayer for his good successe 15. PAUL BANNING Kt. and Bar. No doubt the same Person who afterwards was created Viscount Banning of Sudbury His Son was bred in Christ-Church of most hopeful parts descended from the Sackvils by the Mother-side and promising high Performance to his Country but alas cut off in the prime of the prime of his life He left two Daughters which though married left no Issue so that his large estate will be divided betwixt the children of his four Sisters Wives to the Marquess of Dorchester Viscount Grandison the Lord Dacres of the South and Henry Murrey Esq of the Bed-Chamber to King Charles King Charles 12. JOHN LUCAS Esq This worthy Person equalling his Extraction with his Vertues was at Oxford made Baron by King Charles the first I understand he hath one sole Daughter to whom I wish a meet Consort adequate to her Birth and Estate seeing the Barony began in this Lord is suspicious in him to determine The Battels Though none in this County the heart of the Eastern Association yet the siege Anno 1648. of Colchester must not be forgotten Know then that the Remnant of the Royalists routed in Kent with much difficulty recovered this County the Parliliaments Forces pursuing them March much farther they could not such their weariness and want of Accommodation bid Battel to their numerous Foes they durst not which was to run in the Jaws of ruine wherefore they resolved to shelter themselves for a time in Colchester Reader pardon a Digression Winchester Castle was by the Long-Parliament ordered to be made UNTENABLE but the over-officious malice of such who executed the Order wilfully mistaking the word made it UNTENANTABLE To apply the Distinction to 〈◊〉 All men beheld it as Tenantable full of faire Houses none as Tenable in an hostile way for any long time against a great Army But see what Diligence can do in few days they fortified it even above imagination Indeed the lining of the Wall was better than the faceing thereof whose Stone outside was ruinous but the in-side was well filled up with Earth which they valiantly maintained Nor was it General Fairfax they feared so much as General Famine that grand Conqueror of Cities having too much of the best Sauce and too little of the worst Meat Insomuch that they were fain to make Mutton of those Creatures which kill She●…p and Beefe of Cattel which never wore Horns till they were forced to submit to the worst but best they could get of Conditions Here those two worthy Knights Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle the one eminently a whole Troop of Horse the other a Company of Foot were cruelly sentenced and shot to Death whose bodies have since had a civil Resurrection restored to all possible outward Honour by publick Funerall Solemnities The Farewell I wish the sad casualties may never return which lately have happened in this County The one 1581. in the Hundred of Dengy the other 1648. in the Hundred of Rochford and Isle

Sir VVilliam was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Richard the Third He married one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Thomas Butler Earl of Ormond by whom besides four Daughters married into the Worshipful and Wealthy Families of Shelton Calthrop Clere and Sackvil he had Sir Tho. Boleyn Earle of VViltshire of whom hereafter 10. JOH PEACH Arm. This year Perkin VVarbeck landed at Sandwich in this County with a power of all Nations contemptible not in their number or courage but nature and fortune to be feared as well of Friends as Enemies as fitter to spoil a coast than recover a country Sheriff Peach knighted this year for his good service with the Kentish Gentry acquitted themselves so valiant and vigilant that Perkin sh●…unk his horns back again into the shell of his ships About 150. of his men being taken and brought up by this Sheriff to London some were executed there the rest on the Sea Coasts of Kent and the neighbouring Counties for Sea-marks to teach Perkin's people to avoid such dangerous shoars Henry the Eighth 5 JOH NORTON Mil. He was one of the Captains who in the beginning of the Raign of King Henry the eight went over with the 1500. Archers under the conduct of Sir Edward Poynings to assist Margaret Dutchesse of Savoy Daughter to Maximillian the Emperour and Governesse of the Low-Countries against the incursions of the Duke of Guelders where this Sir John was knighted by Charles young Prince of Castile and afterwards Emperor He lieth buried in Milton Church having this written on his Monument Pray for the souls of Sir John Norton Knight and Dame Joane his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Norwood Esq who died Febr. 8. 1534. 7. THOMAS CHEYNEY Arm. He was afterward knighted by King Henry the Eighth and was a spriteful Gentleman living and dying in great honour and estimation a Favourite and Privy Counsellor to four successive Kings and Queens in the greatest ●…urn of times England ever beheld as by this his Epitaph in Minster Church in the Isle of Shepey will appear Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Cheyney inclitissimi ordinis Garterii Miles Guarduanus quinque Portuum ac Thesaurarius Hospitii Henrici octavi ac Edwardi sexti Regum Reginaeque Mariae ac Elizabethae ac eorum in secretis Consiliarius qui obiit mensis Decembris Anno Dom. M. D.L.IX ac Reg. Reginae Eliz. primo 11. JOHN WILTSHIRE Mil. He was Controller of the Town and Marches of Calis Anno 21. of King Henry the Seventh He founded a fair Chappel in the Parish of Stone wherein he lieth entombed with this Inscription Here lieth the bodies of Sir John Wiltshire Knight and of Dame Margaret his Wife which Sir John died 28. Decemb. 1526. And Margaret died of Bridget his sole Daughter and Heir was married to Sir Richard VVingfield Knight of the Garter of whom formerly in Cambridge-shire 12. JOHN ROPER Arm. All the memorial I find of him is this Inscription in the Church of Eltham Pray for the soul of Dame Margery Roper late VVife of John Roper Esquire Daughter and one of the Heirs of John Tattersall Esquire who died Febr. 2. 1518. Probably she got the addition of Dame being Wife but to an Esquire by some immediate Court-attendance on Katharine first Wife to King Henry the Eighth King James 3. MOILE FINCH Mil. This worthy Knight married Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas Heneage Vice Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth and Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster She in her Widowhood by the special favour of King James was honoured Vicoun●…ess Maidston unprecedented save by One for this hundred years and afterwards by the great Grace of King Charles the First created Countesse of VVinchelsey both Honors being entailed on the Issue-male of her Body to which her Grand-Child the Right Honourable Heneage lately gone Embassador to Constantinople doth succeed The Farewell Having already insisted on the Courage of the Kentish-men and shown how in former Ages the leading of the Van-guard was intrusted unto their magnanimity we shall conclude our Description of this Shire praying that they may have an accession of Loyalty unto their Courage not that the Natives of Kent have acquitted themselves less Loyal than those of other Shires but seeing the one will not suffer them to be idle the other may guide them to expend their Ability for Gods glory the defence of his Majesty and maintenance of true Religion CANTERBURY CANTERBURY is a right ancient City and whilest the Saxon H●…ptar chy flourished was the chief seat of the Kings of Kent Here Thomas Becket had his death Edward surnamed the Black Prince and King Henry the Fourth their Interment The Metropolitan Dignity first conferred by Gregory the Great on London was for the Honour of Augustine afterwards bestowed on this City It is much commended by William of Malmesbury for its pleasant scituation being surrounded with a fertile soil well wooded and commodiously watered by the River Stoure from whence it is said to have had its name Durwhern in British a swift River It is happy in the vicinity of the Sea which affordeth plenty of good Fish Buildings CHRIST CHURCH First dedicated and after 300. years intermission to Saint Thomas Becket restored to the honour of our Saviour is a stately structure being the performance of several successive Arch-Bishops It is much adorned with glasse Windows Here they will tell you of a foraign Embassador who proffered a vast price to transport the East Window of the Quire beyond the Seas Yet Artists who commend the Colours condemn the Figures therein as wherein proportion is not exactly observed According to the Maxime Pictures are the Books painted windows were in the time of Popery the Library of Lay men and after the Conquest grew in general use in England It is much suspected Aneyling of Glass which answereth to Dying in grain in Drapery especially of Yellow is lost in our age as to the perfection thereof Anciently Colours were so incorporated in Windows that both of them lasted and faded together Whereas our modern Painting being rather on than in the Glass is fixed so faintly that it often changeth and sometimes falleth away Now though some being only for the innocent White are equal enemies to the painting of Windows as Faces conceiving the one as great a Pander to superstition as the other to wantonnesse Yet others of as much zeal and more knowledge allow the Historical uses of them in Churches Proverbs Canterbury-Tales So Chaucer calleth his Book being a collection of several Tales pretended to be told by Pilgrims in their passage to the Shrine of Saint Thomas in Canterbury But since that time Canterbury-Tales are parallel to Fabulae Milestae which are Charactered Nec verae nec verisimiles meerly made to marre precious time and please fanciful people Such are the many miracles of Thomas Becket some helpful though but narrow as only for private conveniency

Master Aylmer sate in the hind part whilst the Searchers drank of the Wine which they saw drawn out of the head or other end thereof Returning into England he was made Arch-Deacon of Lincoln and at last Bishop of London He was happy in a meet Yoke-fellow having a gratious Matron to his wife by whom he had many children and one son to which Arch-bishop Whitgift was Godfather and named him Tob-el that is The Lord is good in memorial of a great deliverance bestowed on this childs mother For when she was cast out of her Coach in London by a Mastiff casually seising upon the Horses she received no harm at all though very near to the time of her Travail Bishop Aylmer was well learned in the Languages a ready Disputant and deep Divine He was eighteen years Bishop of London and dying Anno 1594. in the 73. year of his age had this for part of his Epitaph which Bishop Vaugham sometimes his Chaplain afterwards his Successor made upon him Ter senos Annos Praesul semul Exul idem Bis Pugil in causa religionis erat Eighteen years Bishop and once Banish'd hence And twice a Champion in the Truths defence I understand it thus once a Champion in suffering when an Exile for religion and again in doing when chosen one of the disputants at Westminster against the Popish Bishops Primo Elizabethae except any expound it thus once Champion of the Doctrine against Papists and afterwards against the Discipline of the Non-Confromists none more stoutly opposing or more fouly belibelled of them God blessed him with a great estate the main whereof he left unto Samuel Aylmer his eldest son High-sheriff of Suffolk in the reign of King Charles and amongst his youngest sons all well provided for Doctor Aylmer Rector of Haddam in Hartfordshire was one of the most learned and reverend Divines in his generation JOHN TOWERS was born in this County bred Fellow of Queens-colledge in Cambridge and became Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton who bestowed on him the Benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire He was preferred Dean and at last Bishop of Peterborough He was a good actor when he was young and a great sufferour when he was old dying about the year 1650. rich onely in Children and Patience Nothing but sin is a shame in it self and poverty as poverty especially since our Saviour hath sanctified it by suffering it is no disgrace Capital Judges and Writers on the Law RALPH DE-HENGHAM so named from a fair Market-town in this County was made Lord Chief-justice of the Kings-bench in Michaelmas term in the second year of King Edward the first when the King was newly returned from the Holy-land He sate 16. years in that place saving that one Winborne was for a year or two interposed and at the general purging and garbling of the Judges which happened in the 18. year of the aforesaid King when all the Judges except two John de Metingham and Elias de Bekingham were cast out by the Parliament for their corruption fined banished and imprisoned then this Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks for bribery and ejected out of his place Some will say let him wither in silence why do you mention him amongst the Worthies of our Nation I answer Penitence is the second part of Innocence and we find this Ralph after his fine payed made Chief-justice of the Common-pleas sub recipiscendi fiducia under the confidence generally conceived of his amendment He died the next being the 19. year of the raign of King Edward the first he lies buried in the Church of Saint Paul where he hath or had this Epitaph Per versus patet hos Anglorum quod jacet hic flos Legum qui tuta dictavit vera statuta Ex Hengham dictus Radulphus vir benedictus One must charitably believe that he played a good after-game of integrity and if injoying longer life he would have given a clearer testimony thereof WILLIAM PASTON Esq. son of Clement Paston Esq. and Beatrix his wife sister and heir to Jeffry Sommerton Esq. was born at Paston in this County He was learned in the laws of this Realm and first was Serjeant to King Henry the sixth and was after by him preferred second Judge of the Common-pleas I confess having confined our Catalogue to Capital Judges or Writers on the Law he falls not under our method in the strictness thereof But I appeal to the Reader himself whether he would not have been highly offended with me had I in silence passed over a person so deserving his observation He was highly in favour with King Henry the sixth who allowed him besides the ordinary salary assigned to other Judges one hundred and ten marks Reader behold the Standard of money in that age and admire with two Gowns to be taken yearly out of the Exchequer as by the ensuing letters Patents will appear Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos Praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quod de gratia nostra speciali ut dilectus fidelis noster Willielmus Paston unus Justiti nostrorum de com Banco Statum suum decentius manu tenere expensas quas ipsum in officio pradicto facere oportebit sustinere valeat concessimus ei centum decem marcas percipiendum singulis annis ad scaccarium nostrum ad terminos Pasche Sancti Michaelis per equales Portiones duas robas per annum percipiendum unam videlicet cum Pellura ad festum Natalis Domini aliam cum Limra ad festum Pentecostes ultra feodum consuetum quamdiu ipsum Stare contigerit in officio supradicto In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes teste meipso apud Westminst XV. die Octobris anno regni nostri octavo What Pellura is I understand Furr but what Limra is if rightly written I would willingly learn from another though some are confident it is Taffata I wonder the less at these noble favours conferred on the said William Paston Judge for I find him in grace with the two former Kings being made Serjeant by King Henry the fourth and of ●…is counsel for the Dutchie of Lancaster and in the reign of King Henry the fifth he was in such esteem with Sir John Falstofe Knight that he appointed him one of his Feoffees whom he enabled by a writing under his hand to recover debts from the Executors of King Henry the fifth This William Paston married Agnes daughter and heir of Sir Edmond Berrey by which marriage the Pastons rightly quarter at this day the several Coats of Hetherset Wachesham Craven Gerbredge Hemgrave and Kerdeston and received both advancement in bloud and accession in estate This said VVilliam Paston died at London August 14. 1444. and lies buryed in Norwich so that his corps by a peculiar exception do straggle from the Sepulture of their Ancestors who

gent. VVillielmi Orme gent. Hugonis Greneway gent. Humfridi Clerkeson Rogeri Bealchier VVillielmi Sondbache Johannis Brennere Richardi Vicarus Johannis VVylot Thomae Bowyer Johannis Ruggeley Petri Goldsone Nicholai Flaxale Thomae Brette Thomae Neweno Richardi Banastre VVillielmi Fouke Rogeri Milnes Richardi Bisheton Roberti Onowyne Roberti Berdusmore Humfridi VValker of Kestren VVillielmi Bowdel of the Mere VVillielmi Sherred VVillielmi Broke Henrici Monyfold Stephani Bagonnal Thomae Glyfe Hug●…nis Bertam Sheriffs HEN. II. Anno 1 Milo de Gloucest Anno 2 Robertus de Stafford for 6 years together Anno 8 Alex. Clericus for 18 years together Anno 26 Thomas Noel for 8 years together RICH. I. Anno 1 Thomas Noel Anno 2 Tho. de Cressewel Anno 3 Hugo Coventriensis Episc. Robertus filius Walleram Anno 4 Hugo Coventr Episcopus Rober. de Humant frater ejus Anno 5 Hugo Episcop Coventr Richardus Maresse Anno 6 Hugo Bardulfe Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Hugo de Caucombe for 2 years together JOH Regis Anno 1 Galfr. filius Petri Tho. de Erdington for 5 years together Anno 6 Tho. Erdington Robertus de alta Ripa Anno 7 Idem Anno 8 Tho. de Erdington for 9 years together HEN. III. Anno 1 Ranul Com. Cestr. Hen. de Aldicheleia for 4 years together Anno 5 Ranul Comes Cest. Phil. de Kinton for 3 years together Anno 8 Ranul Com. Cestr. Anno 9 Joh. Bonet for 3 years together Anno 12 Hen. de Aldich Robertus de Leia Anno 13 Hen. de Aldich Will de Bromley for 4 years together Anno 17 Robertus de Haga for 4 years together Anno 21 Joh. Extraneus Robertus de Acton Anno 22 Joh. Extraneus for 10 years together Anno 32 Thomas Corbet Anno 33 Idem Anno 34 Rober. Grendon for 6 years together Anno 40 Hugo de Acovere Anno 41 Hugo de Acovere Anno 42 Will. Bagod for 3 years together Anno 45 Will. de Covereswel Jac. de Aldahell Anno 46 Jaco de Aldahell for 7 years together EDW. I. Anno 1 Radul de Mortuo Mari for 3 years together Anno 4 Bogo de Knovil for 3 years together Anno 7 Rogerus Springhuse for 7 years together Anno 14 Rogerus Springhuse Lionine Ramesley for 3 years together Anno 17 Robertus Corbet Anno 18 Will. Tictely for 6 years together Anno 24 Radul de Schirle for 3 years together Anno 27 Thomas Corbet Anno 28 Idem Anno 29 Richardus de Harleigh Anno 30 Idem Anno 31 Walter de Beysin Anno 32 Idem Anno 33 Johannes de Acton Anno 34 Johannes de Dene Anno 35 Idem EDW. II. Anno 1 Rogerus Trumwinne Anno 2 Johannes Extraneus Anno 3 Hugo de Crofts Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Hugo de Andecle for 3 years together Anno 8 Will. de Mere. Anno 9 Rogerus de Cheyne Anno 10 Rogeri Trumwinne Anno 11 Idem Anno 12 Robertus de Grendon for 3 years together Anno 15 Johannes de Swinerton Anno 16 Idem Anno 17 Henricus de Bishburn for 3 years together EDW. III. Anno 1 Johannes de Hinkele Henricus de Bishburn Anno 2 Idem Anno 3 Johannes de Hinkele Anno 4 Idem Anno 5 Henricus de Bishburn Anno 6 Idem Anno 7 Richardus de Peshal Anno 8 Idem Anno 9 Johannes de Hinkeley Anno 10 Simon de Ruggeley Anno 11 Richardus de Peshal Simon de Ruggeley for 4 years together Anno 15 Adam de Peshal Anno 16 Thomas de Swinerton Anno 17 Idem Anno 18 Johannes de Aston Anno 19 Henr. Com. Derby for 17 years together Anno 36 Johannes de Swinerton Anno 37 Robertus de Grendon Anno 38 Johannes de Perton Anno 39 Philippus de Lutteley for 4 years together Anno 43 Henricus Pius Anno 44 Johannes de Perton Anno 45 Idem Anno 46 Johannes de Gresley Anno 47 Nicholaus de Stafford Anno 48 Johannes de Verdon Anno 49 Johannes Bassey Anno 50 Nicholaus de Stafford Anno 51 Petrus de Careswel Anno 52 Walterus de Hopton Anno 53 Willielmus de Canereswel HENRY the Third 1 Ranul Com. Cestr. Henr. de Aldicheleia This Henricus of Aldicheleia was the first Lord Audley in this County and Founder of that Noble Family so long famous for Martial Atchievements I meet with a Record extant in the Tower too long to transcribe wherein King Henry the Third confirmed unto him not only many Lands of his own Donation but what other persons of quality in this County had bestowed on him 1 Nich. de Verdun gave him Aldithlege 2 Hugh de Lacy gave him Coulton 3 Eutropius Hastang gave him Cold Norton 4 Will. de Betleigh gave him Betleigh 5 Harvey de Stafford gave him Heleigh 6 Egidius Erdington gave him Shagbourn 7 Herbert Rusbin gave him Stanweare 8 Eugenulphus Greasly gave him Tunstal Chaderley 9 Alice his Wife gave him Chell Normancot 10 Margaret Strange gave him Nerle Brudnap 11 Alice Hartoate gave him Weston 12 Joan Noel gave him Weston 13 Peter Morton gave him Hauksley Bagley and Morton All or most of these were great Mannors cum pertinentiis What man of men was this Henry that so many of both Sexes should center in their bounty upon him was it for fear or love or a mixture of both But I have no calling to inquire into the cause thereof and if they were pleased to give none will blame him for receiving them Heleigh the fifth Mannor here mentioned was afterwards the prime Seat of the Lord Audley who also had great Lands in Devon-shire where formerly we have spoken of him Their heir-Males failing about the reign of King Henry the Sixth Joan one of their heirs was married to Sir John Tutchet whose son Sir John assumed the Title of Baron Audley and was Ancestor to the present Lord Audley Earl of Castle-haven in Ireland EDWARD the Third 18 John de Aston I have not met with a more Noble Family measuring on the Level of flat and un-advantaged Antiquity They have euer borne a good respect to the Church and Learned Men and not without just reason seeing Roger de Molend Bishop of Litchfield in the reign of King Henry the Third gave Haywood in this County Rogero de Aston Valecto suo to Roger de Aston his servant This Roger was son to Ralph Aston and father unto Sir John Aston whose succession is thus ordered 1 Sir John Aston afore-named 2 Sir Thomas Aston his son 3 Sir Roger Aston his son 4 Sir Robert Aston his son 5 John Aston his son Esq. 6 Sir John Aston his son Knight Banneret 7 Sir Edward Aston his son 8 Sir Walter Aston his son 9 Sir Edward Aston his son 10 Sir Walter Aston his son This last Sir Walter was employed by King James Embassador unto Spain He married Gertrude sole daughter of Sir Thomas Sadler of Standon in Hartford-shire

  16 Ioh. Agard arm     17 Ed. Mosely Bar.   Sable on a Cheveron betwixt 3 Mallets Argent as many Mullets Gules 18     19 Simon* Rudgeley     20   * Argent on a Chev●… Sable 3 Mullets of the first 21     22 Th. Kynnersley armiger   Azure 〈◊〉 de crosses croslet a lion rampant Argent RICHARD the Second 1 BRIAN CORNWAL He 〈◊〉 also this year Sheriff of Shrop-shire so that the two adjacent Counties were under his inspection 4 ROGER de WIRLEY When I observe how this Gentleman is fixed in his Generation I cannot satisfie my self whether he lived nearer unto his Ancestor Rober●… de Wirley who flourished in this County under King Henry the 2d if not before or whether he approached nearer unto his Descendent S●… John Wirley that learned Knight now living at Hampsteade In my Arithmetick he is equally distanced from them both HENRY the Sixth 12 THOMAS STANLEY His true name was Audley For after that Adam youngest Brother to James Lord 〈◊〉 had married the daughter and heir of Henry de Stanley William their son assumed the sir-name of Stanley transmitted it to his posterity As for this Thomas Stanley till I be clearly convinced to the contrary he shall pass with me for the same person whom King Henry the Sixth made Lord Stanley Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland and Lord Chamberlain of his Household and father unto Thomas Stanley whom King Henry the Seventh created the first Earle of Derby 34 JOHN DELVES Esq. He is the last of that Ancient Family appearing in this Catalogue who were fixed in this County in the reign of King Edward the Third This Sir John Delves for he was afterwards Knighted left one daughter and sole heir called Helene married unto Sir Robert Sheffield Knight and Recorder of London Ancestor unto the present Earl of Moulgrave EDWARD the Fourth 1 WALTER WROTESLEY He was lineally descended from S●… Hugh Wrotesley one of the first Founder of the most Noble Order of the Garter HENRY the Eighth 28 JOHN DUDLEY I had thought his Ambition had been too high to come under the Roof of such an Office and discharge the place of a Sheriff But know that as yet Sir John Dudley was but Sir John Dudley a Plain but powerful Knight who not long afterwards viz. the 38th of King Henry the Eighth was created Viscount Lisley and then Earl of Warwick in the first of King Edward the sixth and in the fifth of the said King Duke of Northumberland However now he waited at Assizes on the Itinerant Judges who afterwards made all the Judges of the Land Justice Hales alone excepted attend on him and dance after the Pipe of his pleasure when the Instrument was drawn up Testament I can hardly term it whereby the two Sisters of King Edward the sixth were dis-inherited King CHARLES 3 WILLIAM BOWYER Knight Thomas Bowyer his Ancestor from whom he is lineally descended did in the reign of King Richard the Second marry Katharine daughter and heir of Robert Knipersley of Knipersley in this County with whom he had a fair Inheritance The Bowyers of Sussex invited thither some 200 years since by an Earl of Northumberland are a younger Branch from these in Stafford-shire BATTLES At Hopton Heath in this County in March 1643 a fierce fight happened betwixt the Kings and Parliaments Forces on a ground full of Cony-borroughs therefore affording ill footing for the Horse But an equal disadvantage on both sides is no disadvantage on either The Royalists may be said to have got the Day and lost the Sun which made it I mean the truly Loyal and Valiant Spencer Earl of Northampton though still surviving as in his grateful memory so in his Noble and Numerous Issue no less deservedly honoured by others then mutually loving amongst themselves The Farewel To take our Vale of Stafford-shire I wish that the Pit-coal wherewith it aboundeth may seasonably and safely be burnt in their Chimnies and not have their burning antedated before they be digg'd out the Bowels of the Earth The rather because I have read how in the year 1622 there was found a Coal-mine actually on fire between Willingsworth and Weddesbury in this County I find not by what casualty this English Aetna was kindled nor how long it did continue And although such combustions be not so terrible here as in the South of Italy where the sulphureous matter more inrageth the fury of the fire yet it could not but cause much fright and fear to the people thereabouts SUFFOLK hath Norfolk on the North divided with the Rivers of Little Ouse and Waveny Cambridge-shire on the West the German Ocean on the East and Essex parted with the River Stoure on the South thereof From East to West it stretcheth fourty five miles though the general breadth be but twenty saving by the Sea-side where it runneth out more by the advantage of a Corner The Air thereof generally is sweet and by the best Physicians esteemed the best in England often prescribing the Receit thereof to the Consumptionish-Patients I say generally sweet there being a smal parcel nigh the Sea-side not so excellent which may seem left there by Nature on purpose to advance the purity of the rest Naturall Commodities Cheese Most excellent are made herein whereof the finest are very thin as intended not for food but digestion I remember when living in Cambridge the Cheese of this County was preferred as the best If any say that Scholars palates are incompetent Judges whose hungry appetites make course Diet seem delicates unto them let them know that Pantaleon the Learned Dutch Physician counted them equal at least with them of Parma in Italy Butter For Quantity and Quality this County doth excel and venteth it at London and elsewhere The Child not yet come to and the old Man who is past the use of Teeth eateth no softer the Poor Man no cheaper in this Shire the Rich no wholesomer food I mean in the morning It was half of our Saviours Bill of Fare in his Infancy Butter and Hony shall he eat It is of a Cordial or if I may say Antidotal Nature The story is well known of a Wife which desiring to be a Widow incorporated Poison in the Butter whereon her Husband had his principal repast The poor man finding himself strangely affected repaired to a Physician who by some Symptomes suspecting poison demanded of his Patient which was his chiefest Diet. The sick man told him that he fed most constantly on Butter Eat Butter still return'd the Physician which hitherto hath saved your Life for it corrected the poison that neither the malignity thereof nor the malice of the wife could have their full operation Manufactures Cloathing Here it will not be amiss to insert a passage which I meet with in an Industrious Antiquary as relating to the present subject The Manufacture of Cloathing in this

he was successively preferred by King Charles the first Bishop of Hereford and London and for some years Lord Treasurer of England A troublesome place in those times it being expected that he should make much Brick though not altogether without yet with very little Straw allowed unto him Large then the Expences Low the Revenues of the Exchequer Yet those Coffers which he found Empty he left Filling and had left Full had Peace been preserved in the Land and he continued in his Place Such the mildness of his temper that Petitioners for Money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his denialls they were so civilly Languaged It may justly seem a wonder that whereas few spake well of Bishops at that time and Lord Treasurers at all times are liable to the Complaints of discontented people though both Offices met in this man yet with Demetrius he was well reported of all men and of the truth it self He lived to see much shame and contempt undeservedly poured on his Function and all the while possessed his own soul in patience He beheld those of his Order to lose their votes in Parliament and their insulting enemies hence concluded Loss of speech being a sad Symptom of approching Death that their Final extirpation would follow whose own experience at this day giveth the Lie to their malicious Collection Nor was it the least part of this Prelates Honour that amongst the many worthy Bishops of our Land King Charles the first selected him for his Confessor at his Martyrdome He formerly had had experience in the case of the Earl of Strafford that this Bishops Conscience was bottom'd on Piety not Policy the reason that from him he received the Sacrament good Comfort and Counsell just before he was Murdered I say just before that Royal Martyr was Murdered a Fact so foul that it alone may confute the errour of the Pelagians maintaining that all Sin cometh by imita●…ion the Universe not formerly affording such a Precedent as if those Regicides had purposely designed to disprove the Observation of Solomon that there is No new thing under the Sun King Charles the second Anno Domini 1660. preferred him Arch-bishop of Canterbury which place he worthily graceth at the writing hereof Feb. 1. 1660. ACCEPTUS FRUIN D. D. was born at in this County bred Fellow of Magdalen-colledge in Oxford and afterwards became President thereof and after some mediate preferments was by King Charles the first advanced Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and since by King Charles the second made Arch-bishop of York But the matter whereof Porcellane or China dishes are made must be ripened many years in the earth before it comes to full perfection The Living are not the proper objects of the Historians Pen who may be misinterpreted to flatter even when he falls short of their due Commendation the Reason why I adde no more in the praise of this worthy Prelate As to the Nativities of Arch-bishops one may say of this County many Shires have done worthily but SUSSEX surmounteth them all having bred Five Archbishops of Canterbury and at this instant claiming for her Natives the two Metropolitans of our Nation States-men THOMAS SACKVILL son and heir to Sir Richard Sackvill Chancellour and Sub-Treasurer of the Exchequer and Privy-Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth by Winifred his wife daughter to Sir John Bruges was bred in the University of Oxford where he became an excellent Poet leaving both Latine and English Poems of his composing to posterity Then studied he law in the Temple and took the degree of Barrister afterward he travelled into forraign parts detained for a time a prisoner in Rome whence his liberty was procured for his return into England to possess the vast Inheritance left him by his father whereof in short time by his magnificent prodigality he spent the greatest part till he seasonably began to spare growing neer to the bottom of his Estate The story goes that this young Gentleman coming to an Alderman of London who had gained great Pennyworths by his former purchases of him was made being now in the Wane of his Wealth to wait the coming down of the Alderman so long that his generous humour being sensible of the incivility of such attendance resolved to be no more beholding to Wealthy pride and presently turned a thrifty improver of the remainder of his Estate If this be true I could wish that all Aldermen would State it on the like occasion on condition their noble debtors would but make so good use thereof But others make him the Convert of Queen Elizabeth his Cosin german once removed who by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion Indeed she would not know him till he began to know himself and then heaped places of honour and trust upon him creating him 1. Baron of Buckhurst in this County the reason why we have placed him therein Anno Dom. 1566. 2. Sending him Ambassadour into France Anno 1571. into the Low-countries Anno 1586. 3. Making him Knight of the Order of the Garter Anno 1589. 4. Appointing him Treasurer of England 1599. He was Chancellour of the University of Oxford where he entertained Q. Elizabeth with a most sumptuous feast His elocution was good but inditing better and therefore no wonder if his Secretaries could not please him being a person of so quick dispatch faculties which yet run in the bloud He took a Roll of the names of all Suitors with the date of their first addresses and these in order had their hearing so that a fresh-man could not leap over the head of his senior except in urgent affairs of State Thus having made amends to his house for his mis-spent time both in increase of Estate and Honour being created Earl of Dorset by King James he died on the 19. of April 1608. Capitall Judges Sir JOHN JEFFRY Knight was born in this County as I have been informed It confirmeth me herein because he left a fair Estate in this Shire Judges genebuilding their Nest neer the place where they were Hatched which descended to his Daughter He so profited in the study of our Municipall-Law that he was preferred Secondary Judge of the Common-pleas and thence advanced by Queen Elizabeth in Michaelmas Terme the nineteenth of her Reign to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer which place he discharged for the Terme of two years to his great commendation He left one only Daughter and Heir married to Sir Edward Mountague since Baron of Boughton by whom he had but one Daughter Elizabeth married to Robert Barty Earl of Linsey Mother to the truly Honorable Mountague Earl of Linsey and Lord Great Chamberlain of England This worthy Judge died in the 21. of Queen Elizab●…h Souldiers The ABBOT of BATTLE He is a pregnant Proof that one may leave no Name and yet a good Memory behind him His Christian or Surname cannot be recovered out of our Chronicles which hitherto

precious extraction to King James reputed a great preserver of health and prolonger of life He is conceived by such helps to have added to his vigorous vivacity though I think a merry heart whereof he had a great measure was his best Elixar to that purpose He died exceeding aged Anno Dom. 164. JOHN BUCKRIDGE was born at Dracot nigh Marleborough in this County and bred under Master Mullcaster in Merchant-Taylors school from whence he was sent to Saint Johns-colledge in Oxford where from a Fellow he became Doctor of Divinity and President thereof He afterwards succeeded Doctor Lancelot Andrews in the Vicaridge of Saint Giles Criplegate in which Cure they lived one and twenty years a piece and indeed great was the Intimacy betwixt these two learned Prelates On the ninth of June 1611. he was Consecrated Bishop of Rochester and afterwards set forth a learned Book in opposition of John Fisher De potestate papae in Temporalibus of which my Author doth affirm Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckerigium cujus argumentis si quid ego video ne à mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur He was afterwards preferred Bishop of Ely and having Preached the Funerall Sermon of Bishop Andrews extant in Print at the end of his works survived him not a full year dying Anno Dom. 163. He was decently Interred by his own appointment in the Parish-church of Bromly in Kent the Manner thereof belonged to the Bishoprick of Rotchester States-men EDWARD SEIMOR and THOMAS SEIMOR both Sons of Sir John Seimor of Wolfull Knight in this County I joyn them together because whilst they were united in affection they were invinsible but when devided easily overthrown by their enemies Edward Seimor Duke of Sommerset Lord Protector and Treasurer of England being the Elder Brother succeeded to a fair Paternal inheritance He was a valiant Souldier for Land-service fortunate and generally beloved by Martiall men He was of an open nature free from jealousie and dissembling affable to all People He married Anne Daughter of Sir Edward Stanhop knight a Lady of a high mind and haughty undaunted spirit Thomas Seimor the Younger Brother was made Barron of Sudley by offices and the favours of his Nephew K. Edward the sixth obtained a great Estate He was well experienced in Sea affairs and made Lord Admirall of England He lay at a close posture being of a reserved Nature and was more cunning in his Carriage He married Queen Katharine Parr the Widdow of King Henry the eighth Very great the Animosities betwixt their Wives the Dutchess refusing to bear the Queens Train and in effect justled with her for Precedence so that what betwixt the Train of the Queen and long Gown of the Dutchess they raised so much dust at the Court as at last put out the eyes of both their husbands and occasioned their Executions as we have largely declared in our Ecclesiasticall History The Lord Thomas Anno 154. The Lord Edward Anno 154. Thus the two best Bullworks of the safety of King Edward the sixth being demolished to the ground Duke Dudley had the advantage the nearer to approach and assault the Kings Person and to practice his destruction as is vehemently suspected Sir OLIVER SAINT JOHN Knight Lord Grandison c. was born of an ancient and honourable family whose prime seat was at Lediard-Tregoze in this County He was bred in the warrs from his youth and at last by King James was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and vigorously pursued the principles of his Predecessours for the civilizing thereof Indeed the Lord Mountjoy reduced that Country to obedience the Lord Chichester to some civility and this Lord Grandison first advanced it to considerable profit to his Master I confess T. Walsingham writeth that Ireland afforded unto Edward the third thirty thousand pound a year paid into His Exchequer but it appears by the Irish-records which are rather to be believed that it was rather a burden and the constant revenue thereof beneath the third part of that proportion But now the Kingdome being peaceably settled the income thereof turned to good account so that Ireland called by my Author the Land of Ire for the constant broiles therein for 400. years was now become the Land of Concord Being re-called into England he lived many years in great repute and dying without issue left his Honour to his Sisters son by Sir Edward Villiers but the main of his estate to his Brothers son Sir John Saint John Knight and Baronet Sir JAMES LEY Knight and Baronet son of Henry Ley Esquire one of great Ancestry who on his own cost with his men valiantly served King Henry the eighth at the siedge of Bullen was born at Tafant in this County Being his fathers sixth son and so in probability barred of his inheritance he indeavoured to make himself an Heir by his Education applying his book in Brasen-nose-colledge and afterwards studying the Laws of the Land in Lincolns-Inn wherein such his proficiency King James made him Lord Chief Justice in Ireland Here he practised the charge King James gave him at his going over yea what his own tender Conscience gave himself namely Not to build his Estate on the ruines of a miserable Nation but aiming by the unpartial execution of Justice not to enrich himself but civilize the People he made a good Progress therein But the King would no longer lose him out of his own Land and therefore recalled him home about the time when his fathers inheritance by the death of his five elder brethren descended upon him It was not long before Offices and Honour flowed in fast upon him being made by King James King Charles 1. Aturney of the Court of Wards 2. Chief Justice of the Upper Bench 18. of his raign Jan. 29. 3. Lord Treasurer of England in the 22. of his raign Decemb. 22. 4. Baron Ley of Ley in Devonshire the last of the same Month. 1. Earl of Marleburg in this County immediately after the Kings Coronation 2. Lord President of the Councell in which place he died Anno Domini 1629. He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and as the Caspian Sea is observed neither to ebb nor flow so his mind did not rise or fall but continued the same constancy in all conditions Sir FRANCIS COTTINGTON Knight was born nigh Meer in this County and bred when a youth under Sir ........ Stafford He lived so long in Spain till he made the garbe and gravity of that Nation become his and become him He raised himself by his naturall strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience above his parts his industry above his experience and some will say his success above all so that at the last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex and upon the resignation of Doctor Juxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also

a very great estate But what he got in few years he lost in fewer days since our Civil Warrs when the Parliament was pleased for reasons onely known to themselves to make him one of the examples of their severity excluding him pardon but permitting his departure beyond the seas where he dyed about the year 1650. Capitall Judges Sir NICHOLAS HYDE Knight was born at Warder in this County where his father in right of his wife had a long lease of that Castle from the family of the Arundels His father I say descended from an Antient Family in Cheshire a fortunate Gentleman in all his Children and more in his Grand-children some of his under-boughs out-growing the top-branch and younger children amongst whom Sir Nicholas in wealth and honour exceeding the heir of the family He was bred in the Middle-Temple and was made Sergeant at Law the first of February 1626. and on the eighth day following was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench succeeding in that Office next save one unto his Countryman Sir James Ley then alive and preferred Lord Treasurer born within two miles one of another and next of all unto Sir Randal Crew lately displaced Now though he entered on his place with some disadvantage Sir Randal being generally popular and though in those days it was hard for the same person to please Court and Country yet he discharged his office with laudable integrity and died 1631. Souldiers First for this County in general hear what an antient Author who wrot about the time of King Henry the second reporteth of it whose words are worthy of our translation and exposition Johannes Sarisburiensis de Nugis Curialium 6. cap. 18. Provincia Severiana quae moderno usu ac nomine ab incolis Wiltesira vocatur eodem jure sibi vendicat Cohortem Subsidiariam adjecta sibi Devonia Cornubia The Severian Province which by moderne use name is by the inhabitants called Wiltshire by the same right chalengeth to it self to have the Rere Devonshire and Cornwall being joyned unto it The Severian Province We thank our Author for expounding it Wiltshire otherwise we should have sought for it in the North near the Wall of Severus By the same right Viz. by which Kent claimeth to lead the Vanguard whereof formerly To have the Rere So translated by Mr. Selden from whom it is a sin to dissent in a Criticisme of Antiquity otherwise some would cavill it to be the Reserve Indeed the Rere is the basis and foundation of an Army and it is one of the chief of Divine promises The glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward We read how the Romans placed their Triarii which were Veteran souldiers behind and the service was very sharp indeed cum res rediit ad Triarios We may say that these three Counties Wiltshire Devonshire and Cornwall are the Triarii of England yet so that in our Author Wiltshire appears as principal the others being added for its assistance Here I dare interpose nothing why the two interjected Counties betwixt Wilts and Devon viz. Dorset and Summerset are not mentioned which giveth me cause to conjecture them included in Devonia in the large acception thereof Now amongst the many worthy Souldiers which this County hath produced give me leave to take speciall notice of HENRY D'ANVERS His ensuing Epitaph on his Monument in the Church of Dantsey in this Shire will better acquaint the Reader with his deserts then any character which my Pen can give of him H●…re lyeth the body of Henry Danvers second son to Sir John Danvers Knight and Dame Elizabeth Daughter and Co-heir to Nevill Lord Latimer He was born at Dantsey in the County of Wilts Jan. Anno Dom. 1573. being bred up partly in the Low-Country-Wars under Maurice Earl of Nassaw afterward Prince of Orenge and in many other military Actions of those times both by Sea and by Land He was made a Captain in the Wars of France and there Knighted for his good Service under Henry the fourth the then French King He was imployed as Leiutenant of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Baron of Mountjoy in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth By King James the first he was made Baron of Dansey and Peer of this Realm as also Lord President of Munster and Governour of Guernsey By King Charles the first he was Created Earl of Danby made of his Privy Councell and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter In his latter time by reason of imperfect health considerately declining more active Imployments full of Honours Wounds and Days he died Anno Domini 1643. Laus Deo For many years before St. George had not been more magnificently Mounted I mean the solemnity of his feast more sumptuously observed then when this Earl with the Earl of Morton were installed Knights of the Garter One might have there beheld the abridgment of English and Scotish in their Attendance The Scotish Earl like Zeuxis his Picture adorned with all Art and Costliness whilst our English Earl like the plain sheet of Apelles by the Gravity of his habit got the advantage of the Gallantry of his Corrival with judicious beholders He died without Issue in the beginning of our Civil Wars and by his Will made 1639. setled his large Estate on his hopefull Nephew Henry D'Anvers snatch'd away before fully of age to the great grief of all good men Writers OLIVER of MALMESBURY was saith my Author i●… ipsius Monasterii terratorio natus so that there being but few paces betwixt his cradle and that Convent he quickly came thither and became a Benedictine therein He was much addicted to Mathematicks and to judicial Astrology A great Comet happened in his age which he entertained with these expressions Venisti Venisti multis matribus lugendum malum Dudum te vidi sed multò jam terribilius Angliae minans prorsus excidium Art thou come Art thou come thou evil to be lamented by many mothers I saw thee long since but now thou art much more terrible threatning the English with utter destruction Nor did he much miss his mark herein for soon after the coming in of the Norman Conqueror deprived many English of their lives more of their laws and liberties till after many years by Gods goodness they were restored This Oliver having a mind to try the truth of Poeticall reports an facta vel ficta is said to have tied Wings to his hands and feet and taking his rise from a Tower in Malmesbury flew as they say a ●…rlong till something failing him down he fell and brake both his Thighs Pity is it but that Icarus-like he had not fallen into the water and then OLIVER OL'VARIS nomina fecit aquis I find the like Recorded in the Ecclesiastical History of Simon Magus flying from the Capitol in Rome high in the Ayre till at last by the Prayers of Saint Peter he

marryed by a Proxy a naked sword being in bed interposed betwixt him and her body to Alphons King of Arragon with all Ceremonies of State And indeed they proved but Ceremonies the substance soon 〈◊〉 the said King Alphons dying Anno Dom. 1292. before the Consummation of the M●…rriage But soon after this Lady found that a Living Earl was better then a Dead King when Marryed to Henry the 3d. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of 〈◊〉 and Kings of Sicil are descended This Lady deceased in the seven and twentieth of her Fathers Reign Anno Dom. 1298. MARGARET third Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor in the 3d. year of her Fathers Reign 1275. When fifteen year old she was Marryed at Westminster July 9th 1290. to John the second Duke of Brabant by whom she had Issue John the third Duke of Brabant from whom the Dukes of Burgundy are descended MARY sixth Daughter of King Edward the first and Queen Eleanor was born at Windsor April the 12. 1279. being but ten years of Age she was made a Nun at Amesbury in Wilt-shire without her own and at the first against her Parents consent meerly to gratify Queen Eleanor her Grand-mother Let us pity her who probably did not pity her self as not knowing a vaile from a kerchief not understanding the requisites to nor her own fitness for that profession having afterwards time too much to bemoan but none to amend her condition As for the other Children of this King which he had by Eleanor his Queen probably born in this Castle viz. HENRY ALPHONSE BLANCHE Dying in their infancy immediately after their Baptism it is enough to name them and to bestow this joynt Epitapb upon them ●…leansed at Font we drew untainted Breath Not yet made bad by Life made good by Death The two former were buryed with their Brother John of whom before at Westminster in the same Tomb but where Blanche was interred is altogether unknown Edward the Third Son to Edward the Second and Queen Isabel was born at Windsor October 13. 1312. and proved afterwards a pious and fortunate Prince I behold him as meerly passive in the deposing of his Father practised on in his Minority by his Mother and Mortimer His French Victories speak both of his Wisdom and Valour and though the Conquests by King Henry the fifth were thicker atchieved in a shorter time His were broader in France and Scotland by Sea and Land though both of length alike as lost by their immediate Successours He was the first English King which Coined* Gold which with me amounts to a wonder that before his time all yellow payments in the Land should be made in foreign Coin He first stamped the Rose-Nobles having on the one side Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat And on the reverse his own image with sword and shield sitting in a ship waving on the Sea Hereupon an English Rhymer in the Reign of King Henry the sixth For four things our Noble she weth to me King Ship and Swerd and Power of the See He had a numerous and happy issue by Philippa his Queen after whose death being almost seventy years old he cast his affection on Alice Pie●…ce his Paramour much to his disgrace it being true what Epictetus returned to Adrian the Emperour asking of him what Love was In puero pudor in virgine rubor in soemina furor in juvene ardor in sene risus In a boy bashfulness in a maid blushing in a woman fury in a young man fire in an old man folly However take this King altogether at home abroad at Church in State and he had few equals none superiours He dyed Anno Dom. 1378. WILLIAM sixth Son of King Edward the third and Queen Philippa was born at Windsor Indeed his second Son born at Hatfield was of the same name who dyed in his infancy and his Mother had a fond affection for another William because her Fathers Brothers and a Conquering Name till his short Life also dying in his cradle weaned her from renewing her desire As for King Edwards female Children Isabel Joan Blanch Mary and Margaret there is much probability of their French and no assurance of their English Nativity HENRY the sixth Son to Henry the fifth was born in Windsor-Castle against the will of his Father by the wilfulness of his Mother He was fitter for a Coul then a Crown of so easie a nature that he might well have exchanged a pound of Patience for an ounce of Valour Being so innocent to others that he was hurtful to himself He was both over-subjected and over-wived having marryed Margaret the Daughter of Reinier King of Jerusalem Sicily and Arragon a Prince onely Puissant in Titles otherwise little able to assist his Son in Law Through home-bred Dissentions he not onely lost the foreign acquisitions of his Father in France but also his own inheritance in England to the House of York His Death or Murder rather happened 1471. This Henry was twice Crowned twice Deposed and twice Buryed first at Chertsy then at Windsor and once half Sainted Our Henry the seventh cheapned the price of his Canonization one may see for his love and buy for his money in the Court of Rome but would not come up to the summe demanded However this Henry was a Saint though not with the Pope with the People repairing to this Monument from the farthest part of the Land and fancying that they received much benefit thereby He was the last Prince whom I find expresly born at Windsor It seems that afterwards our English Queens grew out of conceit with that place as unfortunate for Royal Nativities Saints MARGARET ALICE RICH were born at Abbington in this County and were successively Prioresses of Catesby in Northampton-shire They were Sisters to St. Edmund whose life ensueth and are placed before him by the Courtesie of England which alloweth the weaker Sex the upper hand So great the Reputation of their Holiness that The former Dying Anno 1257. The latter 1270. Both were honoured for Saints and many Miracles reported by crafty were believed by Credulous people done at their shrine by their Reliques St. EDMUND Son to Edward Rich and Mabel his Wife was born at Abbington in Bark-shire and bred in Oxford Some will have Edmunds-Hall in that University built by his means but others more probably nam'd in his Memory He became Canon of Salisbury and from thence by the joynt-consent of Pope King and Monkes three cords seldom twisted in the sa ne Cable advanc'd Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where he sate almost ten years till he willingly deserted it partly because offended at the power of the Popes Legate making him no more then a meer Cypher signifying onely in conjunction when concurring with his pleasure partly because vexed at his polling and peeling of the English people so grievous he could not endure so general

Brigges ar ut prius   4 5 Ioh. Denton ar ut prius   5 6 Rich. Fines ar ut prius   REG. ELIZA     Anno     1 Edw. Ashfeld ar     2 Edw. Fabian ar     3 Ioh. Doyle ar   Or 2 Bendlets Az. 4 Hen. Norys ar ut prius   5 Ric. Wenman ar   Quarterly Gules Az. a Cross Patence Or. 6 Ioh. Croker ar Tame P. Ox. Argent on a Cheveron Engrailed Gules between 3 Crows as many Mullets Or pierced 7 Tho. Stafford ar ut prius   8 Christ. Brome     Henry IV. 2 THOMAS CHAUCER He was sole son to Geffery Chaucer that famous Poet from whom he inherited fair lands at Dunnington-Castle in this County and at Ewelme in Oxfordshire He married Maud daughter and coheir of Sir John Burwash by whom he had one only daughter named Alice married unto William de la Pole Duke of Suffolk He lyeth buried under a fair tomb in Ewelme Church with this inscription Hic jacet Thomas Chaucer Armiger quondam Dominus istius villae Patronus istius Ecclesiae qui obiit 18. die Mensis Novembris Anno Dom. 1434. Matilda uxor ejus quae obiit 28. mensis Aprilis Anno Domini 1436. Henry V. 1 THOMAS WIKHAM I behold him as kinsman and next heir to William Wykham that famous Bishop of Winchester to whom the Bishop left notwithstanding above six thousand pounds bequeathed by him in legacies for the discharge whereof he left ready mony one hundred pound lands a year As for his Arms viz. Argent two Cheverons Sable between three Roses Gules a most ingenious Oxfordian conceiveth those Cheverons aliàs Couples in Architecture given him in relation to the two Colledges he built the one in Oxford the other in Winchester It will be no sin to suspect this no original of but a post-nate-allusion to his Armes who was whatever is told to the contrary though his parents were impoverished of a Knightly extraction But if it was his assigned and not hereditary Coat it will be long enough ere the Heraulds Office grant another to any upon the like occasion Henry VI. JOHANES GOWFRE Ar. No doubt the same with him who 2 do Hen. 5 nti was written John Golofre He is the first person who is styled Esquire though surely all who were before him were if not Knights Esquires at the least And afterwards this addition grew more and more fashionable in the Reign of King Henry the sixth For after that ●…ack Straw one of the grand founders of the Levellers was defeated the English Gentry to appear above the common sort of people did in all publick instruments insert theit Native or acquired Qualifications Edward IV. 8 JOHN HOWARD Miles He was son to Sir Robert Howard and soon after was created a Baron by this King and Duke of Northfolk by King Richard the third as Kinsman and one of the Heirs of Anne Dutchess of York and Northfolk whose Mother was one of the Daughters of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Northfolk Soon after he lost his life in his quarrell who gave him his honour in Bosworth field From him descended the Noble and Numerous family of the Howards of whom I told four Earls and two Barons sitting in the last Parliament of King Charles I have nothing else for the present to observe of this Name save that a great Antiquary will have it originally to be Holdward L. and D. being omitted for the easier pronunciation which signifieth the Keeper of any Castle Hold or Trust committed unto them wherein they have well answered unto their Name Did not Thomas Howard Earl of Surry well hold his ward by Land when in the reign of King Henry the eighth he conquered the Scots in Flodden-field and took James the fourth their King Prisoner And did not Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham hold his ward by Sea in 88. when the Armado was defeated But hereof God willing hereafter 15 HUMPHRY FOSTER Ar. This must be he consent of times avowing it who was afterwards Knighted and lyeth buried in Saint Martin●… in the Fields London with the following inscription Of your charity pray for the soul of Sir Humphery Foster Knight whose body lyeth buried here in earth under this Marble-stone which deceased the 18. day of the Month of September 1500. on whose Soul sesu have mercy Amen Hen●…y VII 8 ROBERT HARECOURT Miles Right ancient is this family in France having read in a French Herauld who wrote in the reign of King Edward the sixth that it flourished therein eight hundred years as by a Genealogy drawn by him should appear Of this Family for both give the same Coat at this day viz. G●…les two Barrs Or a younger branch coming over at the Conquest fixed it self in the Norman Infancy at Staunton Harecourt in Oxfordshire And I find that in the reign of King ●…ohn Richard de Harecourt of Staunton aforesaid marrying Orabella daughter of Saer de Quincy Earl of Winchester had the rich manor of Bosworth in Leicester-shire bestowed on him for his wifes portion I cannot exactly distinguish the several Harecourts contemporaries in this County and Sheriffs thereof so as to assign them their severall habitations but am confident that this Robert Harecourt Sheriffe in the reign of King Henry the seventh was the same person whom King Edward the fourth made Knight of the Garter From him lineally descended the valiant Knight Sir Simon Harecourt lately slain in the wars against the Rebells in Ireland whose Son a hopefull Gentleman enjoys the Manor of Staunton at this day 15 JOHN BASKET He was an Esquire of Remark and martiall activity in his younger days who in some years after removed to Devenish in Dorsetshire to whom King Henry the eighth going over into France committed the care of that County as by his following Letter will appear Henry VIII By the King Trusty and Well-beloved We greet you well And whereas we at this time have written as well to the Sheriff of that Our Shire as also to the Justices of Our Peace within Our said Shire Commanding and straightly Charging that as well the said Sheriffs as the said Justices endeavour them for the keeping of Our Peace and the entertainment of Our Subjects in good quiet and restfullness durying the time of Our journey into the parties of beyond the Sea to the which We entend to dispose us about the latter end of this present month of May And forasmuch also as We have for your great ease spared you of your aettendance upon Us in Our said journey and left you at home to doe Us service in keeping of Our Peace and good Rule amongst Our said Subjects We Will therefor●… and Command you that dureing the time of Our said absence out of this Our Realme ye have a speciall over-sight regard and respect as well to the Sheriff as to the said Justice how and in what diligence they do and execute

Our Commandement comprised in Our said Letters And that ye also from time to time as ye shall see meet quickly and sharply call upon them in Our name for the execution of Our said Commandement and if you shall find any of them Remiss or Negligent in that behalf We will that ye lay it sharply to their charge Advertising that in case they amend not their defaults ye will thereof Advertise Our Councell rem●…ining with Our dearest Daughter the Princess and so We charge you to do indeed And if Our said Sheriffe or Justice or any other Sheriffe or Justice of any Shire next to you upon any side adjoyning shall need or require your Assistance for the Execution of Our said Commandements We Will and Desire you that what the best power ye can make of Our Subjects i●… Harneys ye be to them Aiding and Assisting from time to time as the Case shall require Not failing hereof as you intend to please Us and as We specially tru●…t you Given under Our Signet at Our Manor of Greenwich the 18. day of May. Henry VIII 1 WILLIAM ESSEX Ar. He was a worthy man in his generation of great command in this County whereof he was four times Sheriffe and the first of his family who fixed at Lambourn therein on this welcome occasion He had married Elizabeth daughter and sole heir of Thomas Rogers of Benham whose Grandfather John Rogers had married Elizabeth daughter and heir of John Shote●…broke of Bercote in this County whose ancestors had been Sheriffs of Barkeshire in the fourth fifth and sixth of King Edward the third by whom he received a large inheritance Nor was the birth of this Sir William for aferwards he was Knighted beneath his estate being Son unto Thomas Essex Esquire Remembrancer and Vice-Treasurer unto King Edward the fourth who dyed November 1. 1500. lyeth buried with a plain Epitaph in the Church of Kensington Middlesex He derived himself from Henry de Essex Baron of Rawley in Essex and Standard-Bearer of England as I have seen in an exact Pedigree attested by Master Camden and his posterity have lately assumed his Coat viz. Argent an Orle Gules There was lately a Baronet of this family with the revenues of a Baron but * riches endure not for ever if providence be not as well used in preserving as attaining them 24 HUMPHRY FORSTER Knight He bare a good affection to Protestants even in the most dangerous times and spake to the Quest in the behalf of Master Marbeck that good 〈◊〉 yea he confessed to King Henry the third that never any thing went so much against his Conscience which under his Graces authority he had done as his attending the execution of three poor men Martyred at Windsor Edward VI. 1 FRANCIS INGLEFIELD Mil. He afterwards was Privy-Councellor unto Queen Mary and so zealous a Romanist that after her death he left the land with a most large inheritance and lived for the most part in Spain He was a most industrious agent to solicite the cause of the Queen of Scots both to his Holiness and the Catholick King As also he was a great Promotor of and Benefactor to the English Colledge at Valladolit in Spain where he lyeth interred in a family of his alliance is still worshipfully extant in this County Queen Mary 1 JOHN WILLIAMS Miles Before the year of his Sherivalty was expired Queen Mary made him Lord Williams of Tame in Oxfordshire In which town he built a small Hospitall and a very fair School He with Sir Henry Bennyfield were joynt-Keepers of the Lady Elizabeth whilst under restraint being as civil as the other was cruel unto Her Bishop Ridley when martyred requested this Lord to stand his friend to the Queen that those Leases might be confirmed which he had made to poor Tenants which he promised and performed accordingly His great estate was divided betwixt his two daughters and coheirs one married to Sir Henry Norrice the other to Sir Richard Wenman Queen Elizabeth 4 HENRY NORRICE Ar. Son-in-law to the Lord Williams aforesaid He was by Queen Elizabeth created Baron Norrice of Ricot in Oxfordshire it is hard to say whether this tree of honour was more remarkable for the root from whence he sprung or for the branches that sprang from him He was Son to Sir Henry Norrice who suffered in the cause of Queen Anne Bullen Grandchild to Sir Edward Norrice who married Fridswide sister and coheir to the last Lord Lovell He was Father though himself of a meek and mild disposition to the Martiall brood of the Norrices of whom hereafter Elizabeth his great Grandchild sole Daughter and heir unto Francis Norrice Earl of Barkshire and Baroness Norrice was married unto Edward Wray Esquire whose only Daughter Elizabeth Wray Baroness Norrice lately deceased was married unto 〈◊〉 Bertue Earl of Lindsey whose Son a Minor is Lord Norrice at this day Sheriffs of Barkeshire alone Name Place Armes REG. ELIZA     Anno     9 Edw. Unton mil. Wadley 〈◊〉 on a Fess Eng. Or twixt 3 Spear-Heads Arg. a Hound cursant S. collered Gu. 10 Io. Fetiplace ar Chilrey G. 2 Chev. Argent 11 Will. Forster ar Aldermerston Sable a Chev betw 3 Arrows Arg. a Chev. 12 Will. Dunch ar Litlewitnā Or 〈◊〉 2 Toures in 〈◊〉 a flour de Lice in Base Arg. 13 Ioha Winchcomb Budebury   14 Hen. Nevill mil. Billingber   15 Tho. Essex ar Lamborn 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 Erm. betw 3 Eagles Arg. 16 Ric. Lovelace ar Hurley Gules on a chiefe indented Sable three Marvets Or. 17 Anth. Bridges ar HemstedMarshal   18 Thom. Parry ar   See our Notes 19 Io. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut prius   20 Tho Stafford ar Bradfeld Or a Chev. Gul. Canton Er. 21 Tho. Stephans ar     22 Hum 〈◊〉 ar ut prius   23 Tho. Bullock ar 〈◊〉 Gules a Chev. twixt three Bulls-heads Ar. armed Or. 24 Tho Read ar Abington G. a Saltyre twixt 4 〈◊〉 Or. 25 〈◊〉 Molens ar Clapgate   26 Be. Fetiplace ar ut prius   27 Edw. Fetiplace ar ut prius   28 Chri. Lillcot ar Rushcomb Or. 2 〈◊〉 vairry Arg. Sable 29 Edm. Dunch ar ut prius   30 Thom. Parry ar ut prius   31 Tho. 〈◊〉 ar Shaw Azure a Fess 〈◊〉 inter 〈◊〉 Or. 32 Iohan. 〈◊〉 ar     33 Rich. Ward ar     34 Fr. Winchcombe ut prius   35 Hum. Forster ar ut prius   36 Ricar Hide ar S. Denchw Gules 2 Chev●…rons Arg. 37 Hen. Nevill ar ut prius   38 Edm. Wiseman ar Stephenton Sable a Chev. twixt 3 Bars of Spears Arg. 39 Chri. Lidcotte mi. ut prius   40 Hen. Pool mil.     41 Tho. Reede mil. ut prius   42 Sa. Backhouse ar Swallofield   43 Ioha Norris mil.     44 Ed. Fetipl●… mil. ut prius   Ed. Dunch ar 〈◊〉 Ja. ut prius   JAC. REX     Anno     1 Edm. Dunch ar

cause valiantly fighting in the battle of Teuxbury It is charity to enter this memorial of him the rather because he died without issue and his fair estate forfeited to King Edward the fourth was quickly scattered amongst many Courtiers but from his Cousin and Heire-general the Lauleys in Shropshire are lineally descended Henry VII 17 Sir JOHN SAINT JOHN Mil. There were three Sir John Saint Johns successively in the same family since their fixing in this County 1. The father this year Sheriffe being son to Sir Oliver Saint John by Margaret daughter and sole heir to Sir John Beauchamp This Margaret was afterwards married to John Duke of Somerset to whom she bare Margaret Mother to King Henry the seventh 2. The son Sheriffe in the seventh year of King Henry the eighth 3. The grand-child Sheriffe in the third of Edward the sixth and father to Oliver the first Lord Saint John This we insert to avoid confusion it being the general complaint of Heraulds that such Homonymie causeth many mistakes in pedigrees 22 WILLIAM GASCOIGNE Much wondering with my self how this Northem Name stragled into the South I consulted one of his Family and a good Antiquary by whom I was informed that this William was a Younger Brother of Gauthorpe house in York-shire and was settled at Cardinton nigh Bedford in this County by Marrying the Inheritrix thereof He was afterwards twice Sheriffe under King Henry the eighth Knighted and Controler of the House of Cardinall Woolsey A rough Gentleman preferring rather to profit then please his Master And although the Pride of that Prelate was sar above his Covetousnesse yet his Wisedome well knowing Thrift to be the Fuell of Magnificence would usually disgest advice from this his Servant when it plainly tended to his own Emolument The Name and which is worse the Essate is now quite extinct in this County Henry VIII 1 JOHN MORDANT Ar. He was extracted of a very Ancient parent in this County and married one of the Daughters and Heirs of Henry Vere of Addington in Northampton-shire whereby he received a great Inheritance being by Aged persons in those parts remembred by the name of John of the Woods Reader I was born under the shadow and felt the warmth of them so great a Master he was of Oaks and Timber in that County besides large possessions he had in Essex and elswhere King Henry the eight owning him deservedly for a very wise man created him Baron Mordant of Turvey 29 WILLIAM WINDSOR Mil. He was descended from Walter Fitz Otho Castle-keeper of Windsor in the time of King William the Conqueror and was by King Henry the eighth created Baron Windsor of Bradenham in Buckingham-shire Ancestor to the present Lord Windsor descended from him by an Heir-general so that Hickman is his Surname E●…ward VI. 1 FRANCIS RUSSEL Mil. He was Son to John Lord Russel afterward Earl of Bedford Succeeding his Father in his honour so great was his Hospitality that Queen Elizabeth was wont to say pleasantly of him That he made all the beggars He founded a small School at Wobourne and dying in great age and honour was buried at Cheneys 1585. 5 OLIVER SAINT JOHN Ar. He was by Queen Elizabeth made Lord Saint John of Bletso in this County and left two sons who succeeded to his honour First John whose onely daughter Anne was married to William Lord Effingham and was mother to Elizabeth now Countess Dowager of Peterborough His second son was Oliver blessed with a numerous issue and Ancestor to the present Earl of Bullinbrook Queen Mary 1 WILLIAM DORMER Mil. He was son to Sir Robert Dormer Sheriffe the 14. of K. Henry the 8. by Jane Newdigate his wife which Lady was so zealous a Pap●…st that after the death of Q. Mary she left the land and lived beyond the Seas This Sir William by Mary Sidney his wife had a daughter married to the Count of Feria when he came over hither with King Philip. This Count under pretence to visit his sick Lady remaining here did very earnestly move a match betwixt King Philip his Master and Queen Elizabeth which in fine took no effect He the●… also mediated for Jane Dormer his Grand-mother and some other fugitives that they might live beyond the Seas and receive their revenues out of England which favour the Queen though not fit to indulge whereat the Count was so incensed ●…hat he moved Pope Pius the fourth to excommunicate Her though his wife did with all might and maine oppose it Sheriffs of this County alone Name Place Armes REG. ELIZA     Anno     17 〈◊〉 Rotheram Es. Farly Vert 3 Roe bucks tripping Or a Baston Gul. 18 Ioh 〈◊〉 ●…ewelbury G. a Salter engrailed Arg. 19 Ge. Kenesham Es. Temsford   20 Ioh. Spencer Esq Cople   21 Nich. Luke Esq. Woodend Ar. a Bugle-horn S. 22 Hen. Butler Esq. Biddenhā G. a Fess Cho●…kee Ar. S. betw 6 Cross 〈◊〉 Ar. 23 Ioh. Tompson Es. Crawley   24 Ric. Conquest Es. Houghton Q. Ar. S. a Labelw th 3 points 25 Lodo. Dive Esq. Brumham Parte per Pale Ar. et G. a Fess Az. 26 Ioh. Rowe Esq Ric. Charnock Es. Holeot Ar. on a Bend S. 3 Crosses Croslet of the field 27 Oliv. St. John Es.   Ar. on a Chief G. 2 Mullets Or. 28 Ric. Charnock Es. ut prius   29 Will. Butler Esq. ut prius   30 Rad. Astry Esq. Westning Barr●…wavee of six Ar. Az. on a Chief G. 3 Bezants 31 Oliv. St. John Es. ut prius   32 Ge Rotheram Es. ut prius   33 Exp. Hoddeson Es. ut prius   34 Will. Duncombe Batlesden Party per Chev. count●…r Flore G. Arg. 3 Talbots-heads Erazed countercharged 35 Nich. Luke Esq. ut prius   36 Ioh. Dive Esq ut prius   37 Wil. Gostwick Es. Willingtō Arg. a Bend G. cotized S. twixt 6 C●…rnish chaughes proper on a chief Or 3 Mullets vert 38 Ric. Conquest Es. ut prius   39 Tho. Cheney Esq. Sundon   40 Edr. Rateliffe Kt. Elstow Arg. a Bend engrailed S. 41 W●…ll Butler Esq ut prius   42 Ioh. Crost Kt.     43 Ric Charnocks Es. ut prins   44 Geo. Francklyn Malvern   45 Ioh. Dive Kt. ut prius   JAC. REX     Anno     1 Ioh. Dive Kt. ut prius   2 Ioh. Leigh Esq.     3 Edr. Sands Kt. Eaton   4 Fran. Anderson E. Eworth Arg. a Cheveron twixt 3 Cross-Croslets S. 5 Tho. Snagge Kt. Marson   6 Edw Mord●…nt Es. Ockley A●…a a Chev. 〈◊〉 3 Estoyles S. 7 Tho. Ancell Esq. Barford G. on a Saltier Or betw 4 Bezants a Malcel of the first 8 Fran Ventres Kt. Campton Azu a lutie beewaot 2 Bendswavy Arg. 9 Rob. Sandy Esq.     10 Wil. Beecher Esq. Hooberry   11 Ric. Sanders Esq. Marson Parte per Ch. Ar. S. 3 Elephants heads Erazed ceunterchanged 12 Edw. Duncombe ut prius   13 Will. Plomer

Conjunction with other Doctors of the University By his Testament he gave the Rectory of Milton to the Colledge and dying on Saint Marks day 1610. lieth buried in a Vestery on the North-side of the Chappel JOHN GREGORY was born November 10. 1607. at Amersham in this County of honest though mean parents yet rich enough to derive unto him the hereditary infirmity of the gout which afflicted him the last twenty years of his life He was bred in Christ-church in Oxford where he so applied his book that he studied sixteen hours of the four and twenty for many years together He attained to be an exquisite Linguist and general Scholar his modesty setting the greater lustre on his learning His notes on Dr. Redleys book of Civil-law gave the first testimony of his pregnancy to the world and never did text and comment better meet together He was first Chaplain of Christ-church and thence preferred by Bishop Duppa Prependary of Chichester and Sarum and indeed no Church-preferment compatible with his age was above his deserts He died at Kidlington in Oxford-shire 1646. and was buried at Christ-church in Oxford I find a smart Epitaph made by a friend on his memory and it was in my mind as well valiantly consider the times as truly indited Ne premas Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jaeent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui te quovis vincet Idiomate At nè molestus sis Ausculta causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et avita Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatâ Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut capesceret Vade nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Opera Posthuma are faithfully set forth by his good friend John Gurgain and deservedly dedicated to Edward Bish Esquire one so able that he could charitable that he would and valiant that he durst relieve Master Gregory in his greatest distress SAMUEL COLLINS son to Baldwin Collins born in Coventry a pious and painfull preacher prodigiously bountifull to the poor whom Queen Elizabeth constantly called Father Collins was born and bred at Eaton so that he breathed learned aire from 〈◊〉 of his nativity Hence coming to Kings-colledge in Cambridge he was succes●…ively chosen Fellow Provost and Regius Professor One of an admirable wit and 〈◊〉 the most fluent Latinist of our age so that as Caligula is said to have sent 〈◊〉 souldiers vainly to fight against the tide with the same success have any encountred the torrent of his tongue in Disputation He constantly read his Lectures twice a week for above fourty years giving notice of the time to his Auditours in a ticket on the School-dores wherein never any two alike without some considerable difference in the critical language thereof When some displeased Courtier did him the injurious courtesie to preferre him downwards in point of profit to the Bishoprick of Bristol he improved all his friends to decline his election In these troublesome times affording more Preachers then Professors he lost his Church but kept his Chair wherein he died about the year 1651. WILLIAM OUGHTRED was though branched from a right ancient Family in the North born in the Town bred in the School of Eaton became Fellow of Kings-colledge and at last was beneficed by Thomas Earl of Arundel at Albury in Surrey All his contemporaries unanimously acknowledged him the Prince of Mathematicians in our Age and Nation This aged Simeon had though no Revelation a strong perswasion that before his death he should behold Christs anointed restored to his Throne which he did accordingly to his incredible joy and then had his Dimittis out of this mortal life June 30. 1660. Romish Exile Writers THOMAS DORMAN was born at Ammersham in this County being nephew unto Thomas Dorman of the same town A Confessour in the reign of King Henry the eighth True it is this his Uncle through weakness did abjure let us pity his who desire God should pardon our failings but was ever a cordial Protestant He bred this Thomas Dorman juni●…r at Berkhamsted-school founded by Dr. Incent in Hartfordshire under Mr. Reeve a Protestant School-master But this Dorman turn'd tail afterwards and became a great Romanist running over beyond the seas where he wrote a book intituled Against Alexander Nowel the English Calvinist J. Pits doth repent that he affordeth him no room in the body of his book referring him to his Appendix He flourished Anno 1560. Memorable Persons JOHN MATHEW Mercer son to Thomas Mathew was born at Sherington in this County Lord Mayor of London Anno Dom. 1490. He is eminent on this account that he was the first Bachelar that ever was chosen into that office Yea it was above a hundred and twenty years before he was seconded by a single person succeeding him in that place viz. Sir John Leman Lord Mayor 1616. It seemeth that a Lady Mayoresse is something more then ornamentall to a Lord Mayor their wives great portions or good providence much advantaging their estates to be capable of so high a dignity Dame HESTER TEMPLE daughter to Miles Sands Esquire was born at Latmos in this County and was married to Sir Thomas Temple of Stow Baronet She had four sons and nine daughters which lived to be married and so exceedingly multiplied that this Lady saw seven hundred extracted from her body Reader I speak within compass and have left my self a reserve having bought the truth hereof by a wager I lost Besides there was a new generation of marrigable females just at her death so that this aged vine may be said to wither even when it had many young boughs ready to knit Had I been one of her relations and as well enabled as most of them be I would have erected a monument for her thus design'd A fair tree should have been erected the said Lady and her Husband lying at the bottom or root thereof the Heir of the family should have ascended both the middle and top-bough thereof On the right-hand hereof her younger sons on the left her daughters should as so many boughs be spread forth Her grand-children should have their names inscribed on the branches of those boughs the great-grand-children on the twiggs of those branches the great-great-grand-children on the leaves of those twiggs Such as surviv'd her death should be done in a lively green the rest as blasted in a pale and yellow fading-colour Plinie who reports it as a wonder worthy the Chronicle that Chrispinus Hilarus Praelata pompa with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitol seventy four of his children and childrens children attending on him would more admire if admitted to this spectacle Vives telleth us of a Village in Spain of about an hundred houses whereof all the inhabitants were issued from one certain old man who then lived when as that Village was so peopled so as the name of propinquity how the youngest of the children should call him could not

therein but 12. years of age He was blessed with an happy memory insomuch that when D. D. he could say by heart the second Book of the Aeneads which he learnt at School without missing a Verse He was an excellent Preacher and becoming a Pulpit with his gravity He attended King James his Chaplaine into Scotland and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury Hear what the Author of a Pamphlet who inscribeth himself A. W. saith in a Book which is rather a Satyre then a History a Libell then a Character of the Court of King James for after he had slanderously inveighed against the bribery of those days in Church and State hear how he seeks to make amends for all King James's Court pag. 129 130. Some worthy men were preferred gratis to blow up their Buckingham and his party Fames as Tolson a worthy man paid nothing in fine or Pension and so after him Davenant in the same Bishoprick Yet these were but as Musick before every hound Now although both these persons here praised were my God-fathers and Uncles the one marrying the sister of the other being Brother to my Mother and although such good words seem a Rarity from so railing a mouth yet shall not these considerations tempt me to accept his praises on such invidious terms as the Author doth proffer them O! Were these worthy Bishops now alive how highly would they disdain to be praised by such a pen by which King James their Lord and Master is causelesly traduced How would they condemn such uncharitable commendations which are if not founded on accompanied with the disgrace of others of their order Wherefore I their Nephew in behalf of their Memories protest against this passage so far forth as it casteth Lustre on them by Eclipsing the credit of other Prelates their contemporaries And grant corruption too common in that kind yet were there besides them at that time many worthy Bishops raised to their dignity by their Deserts without any Simonicall complyances Doctor Townson had a hospitall heart a generous disposition free from covetousness and was always confident in Gods Providence that if he should dye his children and those were many would be provided for wherein he was not mistaken He lived in his Bishoprick but a year and being appointed at very short warning to preach before the Parliament by unseasonable ●…tting up to study contracted a Fever whereof he died and was buried in Westminster Abbey Anno Dom. 1622. THOMAS son to William WESTFIELD D. D. was born Anno Dom. 1573. in the Parish of Saint Maries in Ely and there bred at the Free-school under Master Spight till he was sent to Jesus-colledge in Cambridge being first Scholar then Fellow thereof He was Curate or Assistant rather to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of Saint Mary le Bow in Cheapside afterward Rector of Hornsey nigh and Great Saint Bartholomews in London where in his preaching he went thorow the four Evangelists He was afterwards made Arch-Deacon of Saint Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol a place proffered to and refused by him twenty five years before For then the Bishoprick was offered to him to maintain him which this contented meek man having a self-subsistence did then decline though accepting of it afterwards when proffered to him to maintain the Bishoprick and support the Episcopall dignity by his signall devotion What good opinion the Parliament though not over-fond of Bishops conceived of him appears by their Order ensuing The thirteenth of May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon information in the behalf of the Bishop of Bristoll that his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents it is Ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored to him and a safe conduct be granted him to pass with his family to Bristoll being himself of great age and a person of great learning and merit Jo. Wylde About the midst of his life he had a terrible sickness so that he thought to use his own expression in his Diary that God would put out the candle of his life though he was pleased onely to snuff it By his will the true Copy whereof I have he desired to be buried in his Cathedral Church neer the tombe of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof And as for my worldly goods Reader they are his own words in his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give and bequeath them all to my dear wife Elizabeth c. He protested himself on his death-bed a true Protestant of the Church of England and dying Junii 28. 1644. lyeth buried according to his own desire above mentioned with this inscription Hic jacet Thomas Westfield S. T. D. Episcoporum intimus peccatorum primus Obiit 25. Junii anno MDCXLIV Senio moerore confectus Tu Lector quisquis es vale resipisce Epitaphium ipse sibi dictavit vivus Monumentum uxor moestissima Elizabetha Westfield Marito desideratissimo posuit superstes Thus leaving such as survived him to see more sorrow and feel more misery he was seasonably taken away from the evil to come And according to the Anagram made on him by his Daughter Thomas Westfield I dwel the most safe Enjoying all happiness and possessing the reward of his pains who converted many and confirmed more by his constancy in his Calling States-men JOHN TIPTOFT son and heir of John Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his wife daughter and Co-heir of Edward Charlton Lord Powis by his wife Eleanor sister and Co-heir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this but in the confines of Bedford shire He was bred in Baliol-colledge in Oxford where he attained to great learning and by King Henry the sixth was afterwards created first Vice-count then Earl of Worcester and Lord H●…gh Constable of England and by K. Edward the fourth Knight of the Garter The skies began now to lowre and threaten Civil Wars and the House of York fell sick of a Relapse Mean time this Earl could not be discourteous to Henry the sixth who had so much advanced him nor disloyall to Edward the fourth in whom the right of the Crown lay Consulting his own safety he resolved on this Expedient for a time to quit his own and visit the Holy-land In his passage thither or thence he came to Rome where he made a Latin speech before the Pope Pi●… the second and converted the Italians into a better opinion then they had formerly of the English-mens learning insomuch that his holiness wept at the elegancy of the Oration He returned from Christs sepulcher to his own grave in England coming home in a most unhappy juncture of time if sooner or later he had found King Edward on that Throne to which now Henry the sixth was restored and whose restitution was onely remarkable for the death of this worthy

with great reputation He was afterwards a Commander in the French-war under King Edward the third where in despight of their power he drove the people 〈◊〉 him like sheep destroying Towns Castles and Cities in such manner and number that many years after the sharp points and Gable end of overthrown houses cloven asunder with instruments of war were commonly call'd KNOWLES HIS MITRES The last piece of his servrce was performed in suppressing Wat Tiler and his Rebells Then I behold aged Sir Robert buckling on his armonr as old Priam at the taking of Troy but with far better success as proving very victorious and the Citizens of London infranchized him a member 〈◊〉 of in expression of their thankfulness His Charity was as great as his Valour and he rendred himself no less loved by the English then feared of the French He gave bountifully to the building of Rochester-bridge founding a Chappel and Chantery at ●…he East end thereof with a Colledge at 〈◊〉 in Yorkshire where Constance his Lady was born endowing it with one hundred and eighty pounds per annum He died at his 〈◊〉 of Scon●…-Thorp in Norfolk in peace and honour whereas 〈◊〉 generally set in a cloud being at least ninety years of age for he must be 〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 years old when Anno●…52 ●…52 he was a Generall under K. Ed●… 〈◊〉 third and he 〈◊〉 untill the 〈◊〉 of August 1407. being buried in White-Friers in London to which he had been a great benefactour JOHN SMITH Captain was 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 County as Master Arthur Smith his Kins man and my School-master did inform me But whether or no related unto the Worshipfull Family of the Smiths at 〈◊〉 I know not He spent the most of his life in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 First in Hungary under the Empe●… fighting against the Turks Three of which he himself killed in single Duells and therefore was Authorized by 〈◊〉 King of Hungary to bear three Turks-heads as an Augmentation to his Armes Here 〈◊〉 gave intelligence to a besieged City in the night by significant 〈◊〉 works formed in 〈◊〉 in legible Characters with many strange performances the Scene whereof is laid at such a distance they are cheaper credited then confuted From the Turks in Europe he passed to the Pagans in America where towards the latter end of the Raign of Queen Elizabeth such his Perills Preservations Dangers Deliverances they seem to most men above belief to some beyond Truth Yet have we two witnesses to attest them the Prose and the Pictures both in his own book and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the Herauld to publish and proclaime them Two Captains being at dinner one of them fell into a large relation of his own atchivements concluding his discourse with this question to his fellow And pray Sir said he what service have you done To whom he answered Other men can tell that And surely such reports from strangers carry with them the greater reputation However moderate men must allow Captain Smith to have been very instrumentall in setling the plantation in Virginia whereof he was Governour as also Admiral of New-England He led his old age in London where his having a Princes mind imprison'd in a poor mans purse rendred him to the contempt of such who were not ingenuous Yet he efforted his spirits with the remembrance and relation of what formerly he had been and what he had done He was buried in Sepulchres-Church-Quire on the South-side thereof having a ranting Epitaph inscribed in a table over him too long to transcribe Onely we will insert the first and last verses the rather because the one may fit Alexanders life for his valour the other his death for his religion Here lies one conquer'd that hath conquer'd Kings Oh may his soul in sweet Elysium sleep The Orthography Poetry History and Divinity in this Epitaph are much alike He on the 21. of June 1631. Physicians If this county hath bred no Writers in that faculty the wonder is the less if it be true what I read that if any here be sick They make him a posset and tye a kerchieff on his head and if that will not mend him then God be mercifull to him But be this understood of the common people the Gentry having the help no doubt of the learned in that profession Writers THOMAS ECLESTONE A Village in Broxtone Hundred was born in this County bred a Franciscan in Oxford Leland saith of him that under the conduct of prudence and experience he contended with many paces to pierce into the Penetrales of Learning He wrote a book of the succession of Franciscans in England with their works and wonders from their first coming in to his own time dedicating the same to not G. Notingham the Provinciall of his Order but to his friend and Fellow-Frier his mortified mind it seems not aiming at honour therein He wrote another Book intituled De impugnatione Ordinis su●… per Dominicanos Of the assaults which the Dominicans made on his Order These two sorts of Friers whipping each other with their Cords or Knotted Girdles to the mutual wounding of their reputations He died Anno Domini 1340. Since the Reformation RALPH RADCLIFFE was born in this County who travelling Southward fixed himself at Hitching in Hertfordshire where he converted a demolished house of the Carmelites into a Publique Grammar-school He here erected a fair stage whereon partly to entertain his Neighhours and partly to embolden his Scholars in pronuntiation many interludes were acted by them Pitz. praiseth him being a School-master that he confined himself to his own profession not medling with Divinity and yet amongst his books he reckoneth up a Treatise of the Burning of Sodome and another of the Afflictions of Job Nor must we forget his book entitled de triplice Memoriâ of the Threefold Memory which though I never met with any that saw it may probably be presumed of the Water Wax Iron Memory receiving things very somewhat very hardly easily   retaining them no a little long Time He flourished under the raign of King Edward the sixth Anno Domini 1552. and it is likely he died before the raign of Queen Mary JOHN SPEED was born at Farrington in this County as his own Daughter hath informed me he was first bred to a handicraft and as I take it to a Taylor I write not this for his but my own disgrace when I consider how far his Industry hath outstript my Ingenious Education Sir Fulk Grevill a great favourer of Learning perceiving how his wide soul was stuffed with too narrow an occupation first wrought his inlargement as the said Author doth ingeniously confess Whose merits to me-ward I do acknowledge in setting this hand free from the daily imployments of a manuall Trade and giving it his liberty thus to express the inclination of my mind himself being the procurer of my present Estate This

  4 Edw. Stanley bar ut prius   5 Tho. Leigh esq ut prius   6 Pet. Dutron esq ut prius   7 Tho. Stanley esq ut prius   8 Ric. Brereton es ut prius   9 Edw. Fitton esq ut prius   10 Pet. Venables ut prius   11 Tho. Ashton bar ut prius   12 Will. Leigh esq ut prius   13 Tho. 〈◊〉 bar Duddingtō Arg. a Cheveron 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or betwixt 3 Gadds of stteel S. 14 Tho. Cholmley ut prius   15 Phil. Manwaring ut prius   16 Tho. Powell bar Berkenhad Sable 3 Roses Arg. 17 Ioh. Billot esq   Arg. on a Chief G. 3 Cinque foils of the Field 18 Hug. Calvely k. ut prius   19 Tho. Leigh esq ut prius   20 Ri. Gravenor ba. ut prius   21 Rob. Totton esq Winthaw Quarterly Arg. G. 4 Crescents counter changed 22 Hen. Brood esq     Reader if thou discoverest any difference in the Method betwixt this and the other Catalogue of Sheriffs impute it to this cause that whilst I fetched the Rest from the Fountain in the Exchequer I took these out of the Cestern I mean the Printed Book of Vale-royal I presume that the Sheriff who is last named continued in that Office all that Intervale of years till his Successor here nominated entred thereon The Reader may with the more confidence relie on their Armes imparted unto me by Mr. Daniel King who to me really verifieth his own Anagram DANIEL KING I KIND ANGEL And indeed he hath been a Tutelar one to me gratifying me with whatsoever I had need to use and he had ability to bestow Henry III. 56 HUGH de HATTON King William the Conquerer bestowed Lands on one of his Name and Ancestors at Hatton in this County From him is Lineally descended that Learned and Religious witness his pious meditations on the Psalmes Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath created by King Charles the first Baron Hatton of Kerby in Northampton-shire The Original of this grant of the Conquerors is still in this Lords Possession preserved in our Civil Wars with great care and difficulty by his vertuous Lady On the same token that her Lord patiently digested the plundring of his Library and other Rarities when hearing the welcome tidings from his Lady that the said Record was safely secured Queen Mary 3 Sir HUGH CHOLMLY or CHOLMONDELEIGH This worthy person bought his Knight-hood in the field at Leigh in Scotland He was five times High-sheriffe of this County and sometimes of Flintshire and for many years one of the two sole deputies Leiutenants thereof For a good space he was Vice-President of the Marches of Walles under the Right Honorable Sir Henry Sidney Knight conceive it during his abscence in Ireland For Fifty years together he was esteemed a Father of his Country and dying Anno 157. was buried in the Church of Mallpasse under a Tombe of Allabaster with great lamentation of all sorts of people had it not mitigated their Mourning that he left a Son of his own name Heir to his Vertues and Estate 2 JOHN SAVAGE Ar. I behold him as the direct Ancestor unto Sir Thomas Savage Kt. and Baronet Created by K. Charles the first Baron Savage of Rock savage in this County This Lord a very prudent States-man married Elizabeth eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Thomas Lord Darcy of Chich Viscount Colchester and Earl of Rivers Honours entailed on his Posterity and now injoyed by the Right Honorable Thomas Savage Earl Rivers The Battles Rowton heath 1645. Sept. 24. His Majesty being informed that Colonel Jones had seized the Suburbs and Strong Church of St. Johns in Chester advanced Northward for the relief thereof Poins one of the Parliaments Generalls pursued his Majesty At Rowton-heath within 3. miles of Chester the K. Army made an Halt whilst his Majesty with some prime persons marched into the City Next day a fierce Fight happened on the Heath betwixt the Kings and Poinses Forces the latter going off with the greater loss Judicious Persons conceive that had the Royalists pursued this Single Enemy as yet unrecruited with additional strength they had finally worsted him which Fatall omission opportunities admit of no after-games proved their overthrow For next day Col. Jones drew out his men into the field so that the Royalists being charged on the Heath in Front and Rear were put to the worst the whole body of whose Army had Wings without Legs Horse without Foot whilst the Parliament was powerfull in both Immediatly after a considerable Party of Horse the Lord Byron Governour of the City being loth to part with any Foot as kept to secure the Kings person came out of Chester too late to succour their defeated Friends and too soon to engage themselves Here fell the Youngest of the three Noble Brethren who lost their lives in the King service Bernard Stuart Earl of Leichfield never sufficiently to be lamented The Farewell To take my leave of Cheshire I could wish that some of their hospitality were planted in the South that it might bring forth fruit therein and in exchange I could desire that some of our Southern delicacies might prosperously grow in their gardens and Quinces particularly being not more pleasant to the palate then restorative of the health as accounted a great cordiall The rather because a native of this County in his description thereof could not remember he ever saw Quince growing therein CHESTER is a fair City on the North-east side of the River Dee so ancient that the first founder thereof is forgotten much beholding to the Earls of Chester and others for Increase and Ornaments The Walls thereof were lately in good repair especially betwixt the New-tower and the Water-gate For I find how Anno 1569. there was a personal fight in this City betwixt the two Sheriffs thereof viz. Richard Massey and Peter Lycherband who shall keep peace if aged Officers break it who deservedly were fined for the forfeiting of their gravity to repair that part of the Wall It seems it is more honour to be keeper of a gate in Chester then a whole City elsewhere seeing Eastgate therein was committed to the c●…ody formerly of the Earl of Oxford Bridgegate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Watergate to the Earl of Da●…by and Northgate to the Mayor of the City It is built in the form of a Quadrant and is almost a just Square the four Cardinal Streets thereof as I may call them meeting in the middle of the City at a place called the Pentise which affordeth a Pleasant Prospect at once into all Four Here is a property of building peculiar to the City called the Rows being Galleries wherein Passengers go dry without coming into the Streets having Shops on both sides and underneath The fashion whereof is somewhat hard to conceive it is therefore worth their pains who have Money and Leasure to make their own Eyes the Expounders of the manner thereof The

happened hath been shewn to some eminent Lawyers riding that Circuit which are yet alive However no violent impression is intimated in this his peaceable Epitaph on his Monument in Amerie Church Hic jacet Will. Hankford Miles quondam Capitalis Justiciarius Domini R. de Banco qui obiit duodecimo Die Decembris Anno Domini 1422. cujus c. His Figure is portraied kneeling and out of his mouth in a Label these two sentences do proceed 1 Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam 2 Beati qui custodiant judicium faciunt justitiam omni tempore No charitable Reader for one unadvised act will condemn his Memory who when living was habited with all requisites for a person of his place Sir JOHN FORTESCUE was born of a right Ancient and Worthy Family in this County first fixed at Wimpstone in this Shire but since prosperously planted in every part thereof They give for their Motto Forte Scutum Salus Ducum and it is observable that they attained eminency in what Profession soever they applyed themselves In the Field In Westminster Hall In the Court. Sir HEN FORTESCUE a valiant and fortunate Commander under King Henry the Fifth in the French Wars by whom he was made Governour of Meux in Berry Sir HEN. FORTESCUE was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and justly of great esteem for his many vertues especially for his sincerity in so tempting a place Sir JOHN FORTESCUE that wise Privy Councellor Overseer of Queen Elizabeth her Liberal Studies And Chancellor of the Exchequer and Dutchy of Lancaster Sir ADRIAN FORTESCUE Porter of the Town of Calice came over with King Henry the Seventh and effectually assisting him to regain the Crown was by him deservedly created Knight Banneret Sir JOHN FORTESCUE our present Subject Lord Chief Justice and Chancellour of England in the Raign of King Henry the Sixth whose learned Commentaries on the Law make him famous to all posterity   Sir LEWIS POLLARD of Kings Nimet in this County Sergeant of the Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the time of King Henry the Eighth was a man of singular knowledg and worth who by his Lady Elizabeth had Eleven Sons whereof four attained the honour of Knighthood Sir Hugh Sir John of Ford. Sir Richard Sir George who got his honour in the defence of Bullen All the rest especially John Arch Deacon of Sarum and Canon of Exeter were very well advanced Eleven Daughters married to the most potent Families in this County and most of them Knights So that what is said of Cork in Ireland that all the Inhabitants therein are Kinne by this Match almost all the Ancient Gentry in this County are allied The Portraiture of Sir Lewis and his Lady with their two and twenty Children are set up in a Glasse Window at Nimet-Bishop There is a Tradition continued in this Family that the Lady glassing the Window in her husbands absence at the term in London caused one child more then she then had to be set up presuming having had one and twenty already and usually conceiving at her husbands coming home she should have another child which inserted in expectance came to passe accordingly This memorable Knight died Anno 1540. Sir JOHN DODERIDG Knight was born at ...... in this County bred in Exeter Colledg in Oxford where he became so general a Scholar that it is hard to say whether he was better Artist Divine Civil or Common Lawyer though he fixed on the last for his publick Profession and became second Justice of the Kings Bench. His soul consisted of two Essentials Ability and Integrity holding the Scale of Justice with so steady an hand that neither love nor lucre fear or flattery could bow him on either side It was vehemently suspected that in his time some gave large sums of money to purchase places of Judicature And Sir John is famous for the expression That as old and infirm as he was he would go to Tyburn on foot to see such a man hang'd that should proffer money for a place of that nature For certainly those who buy such Offices by whole sale must sell Justice by retail to make themselves savers He was commonly called the Sleeping Judg because he would sit on the Bench with his eyes shut which was onely a posture of attention to sequester his sight from distracting objects the better to lissen to what was alledged and proved Though he had three Wives successively out of the respectful Families of Germin Bamfield and Culme yet he left no issue behind him He kept a Hospital House at Mount-Radford neer Exeter and dying Anno Domini 1628. the thirteenth day of September after he had been seventeen years a Judg in the seventy third year of his age was interred under a stately Tomb in our Ladys Chappel in Exeter To take my leave of the Devonian Lawyers they in this County seem innated with a Genius to study Law none in England Northfolk alone excepted affording so many Cornwal indeed hath a Famine but Devon-shire makes a Feast of such who by the practice thereof have raised great Estates Three Sergeants were all made at one Call●… Sergeant Glanvil the Elder Dew and Harris of whom it was commonly said though I can nor care not to appropriate it respectively One Gained as much as the other two Spent Gave One Town in this Shire Tavistock by name furnisheth the Bar at this present with a Constellation of Pleaders wherein the biggest Stars Sergeant Glanvil who shineth the brighter for being so long eclipsed and Sergeant Maynard the Bench seeming sick with long longing for his sitting thereon As it is the Honour of this County to breed such able Lawyers so is it its happinesse that they have most of their Clients from other Shires and the many Suits tried of this County proceed not so much from the Litigiousnesse as Populousnesse of her Inhabitants Souldiers Sir RICHARD GREENVIL Knight lived and was richly landed at Bediford in this County He was one of the Twelve Peers which accompanied Robert Fitz-Haimon in his expedition against the Welsh when he overthrew Rhese ap Theodore Prince of South-Wales and Justine Lord of Glamorgan and divided the conquered Countrey betwixt those his Assistants This Sir Richard in my apprehension appears somewhat like the Patriarch Abraham For he would have none make him rich but God alone though in his partage good land was at Neath Nidum a City in Antoninus in Glamorgan-shire allotted unto him Indeed Abraham gave the tenth to God in Melchisedeck and restored the rest to the King of Sodom the former proprietary thereof This Knight according to the Devotion of those darker dayes gave all to God erecting and endowing a Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Neath for Cistertians bestowing all his military Acquests on them for their maintenance so that this Convent was valued at 150 li. per. annum at the dissolution Thus having finished and setled this foundation he

Per Cheveron Arg. and purple a Lion Rampant counterchanged 10 Edw Gyles 〈◊〉     11 George Smith miles     12 John Specot miles ut prius   13 John Gefford arm   Sab. 3 Lozenges in Fess 〈◊〉 14 George Southcoate ut prius   15 Thomas Heale ar ut prius   16 War●… Heale 〈◊〉 ut prius   17 Christ Savo●… y miles     18 〈◊〉 Heale 〈◊〉 ut prius   19 Edmond Parker ar ut prius   20 Edm. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut prius   21 Henry Tottle arm   Azure on a bend Argent cottised Or. a Lion passant Sa. 22 Simon Leach     King CHARLES I.     〈◊〉     1 〈◊〉 Fry armig Yarty Vert 3 Horses in pale cur arg 2 John Northcoate A.   Arg. 3 Croslets bendwaise 〈◊〉 3 Waler Young arm     4 Henry Rouswel mil. Fordabbey   5 John Davy armiger   Arg. a Cheveron Sab. 〈◊〉 3 Mullets Gules peirced 6 Henry Ashford arm Ashforde Arg. three Pine-apples Vert twixt 2 Cheveronels Sable 5 Edward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anery ●…arty per Cheverons Azu and Erm ●… Stags heads cabos 〈◊〉 8 〈◊〉 Drake Bar. Buckland Sab. a Fess. 〈◊〉 between the 2 pole Starrs Arg. alias a 〈◊〉 wings elevated 〈◊〉 Ermine a Lion passant Gules ut prius 9 ●…ohn 〈◊〉 ar ut prius   10 Thomas Drew miles     11 Thomas Heale Ba. Fleet   12 Dennys Roll 〈◊〉 ut prius   13 Thomas VVise arm ut prius   14 John Poole 〈◊〉 ut prius   15 Nichol 〈◊〉 m Oxon Or 2 Barrs Gules 16 Nicholas Putt 〈◊〉 Arg. a Lion rampant impounded within a Muscle Sable Richard Collums a   Azure a Cheveron Ermine bebetwixt 3 Pellicans vulning themselvs Or. 17 Edmond 〈◊〉 ut prius   18 Henry Careye ut prius   19 John Acland armi ut prius   20 Richard Greenvile ut prius   21 Francis Drake miles ut prius   22     RICHARD II. 1. JOHN DAMEREL Throwely in Dartmore his chief 〈◊〉 came to his Family by match with the eldest Daughter and coheir of 〈◊〉 who married AVIS sole Heir to Sr. William le Prouze in the raign of K. Edward the second her Two younger Sisters being married to North-coat and Wibery amongst whom a great Inheritance was divided And by Writ of Particion sued out in the 14 of K. Edward the third * Throwley fell to the share of Damerel HENRY VII 2. RICHARD EDGECOMB He was a Knight and memorable in his Generation For being zealous in the Cause of Henry Earl of Richmond afterwards K. Henry the 7. he was in the time of K. Richard the 3. so hotly persued and narrowly searched for that he was forced to hide himself in his thick Woods at his House at 〈◊〉 in Cornwal Here extremity taught him a suddain Policy to put a stone in his cap and tumble the same into the water whilest these Rangers were fast at his heels who looking down after the noise and seeing his cap swimming thereon supposed that he had desperately 〈◊〉 himself and deluded by this honest fraud gave over their farther persuit leaving him at liberty to shift over into Britain Nor was his gratitude lesse than his ingenuity who in remembrance of his delivery after his return built a Chappel lately extant in the place where he lurked and lived in great repute with Prince and People King Henry the seventh rewarded his Loyalty by bestowing the Castle of Totnes in this Countyupon him EDWARD VI. 1. PETER CAREW Miles This active Gentleman had much adoe to expedite himself and save his life being imprisoned for his compliance with Sr. Thomas Wyate Afterwards he did signal service in the Irish Warrs This Memorial remaineth for him Viro Nobilissimo D. PETRO CAREW Equiti Aurato Est hoc structum Monumentum Qui obiit Rosae in Laginiâ Hyberniae 27 Novembris Sepultus autem Waterfordiae 15 Decembris 1575. Terra Cadav●…r habet The rest of the Epitaph is not legible Queen ELIZABETH 11. ROBERT DENNIS Miles This worthy Knight Anno 1592. erected a fair Almes-House in the Suburbs of Exeter for 12 poor Aged Men allowing to each a plot of ground for an Herber and 12 Pence weekly This Family so ancient in this County deriving its Name and Original from the DANES is now extinct the Heir-general being married into the House of the ROLLES 45. AMIAS BAMPFIELD Arm. Right ancient and worthy his extraction especially since one of his Ancestors married one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of the Lord Semaur or de sancto Mauro whereby a fair Inheritance at South-Molton in this County accrewed into this Family in which Church this Amias with his Father lyeth interred and their joynt-Epitaph will acquaint us with the numerosity of their Issue then living or dead Twelve of Seventeen are not of Fifteen are Eleven Proceeding from this stock praise be to God in Heaven However Pottimore near Exeter is their prime Habitation and hath been ever since the time of K. Edward the first witnesse this Inscription on a Monument in that Church Hic ●…acet Joh. Bampfield Agnes Uxorejus Pater Mater Will Bampfield qui hanc Ecclesiae Maximam Campanam fieri fecerunt 1310. As for Sr. Coplestone Bampfield now Sheriffe of this County and so cordial to the Kings Cause in the worst of times he doth by his Vertues add a New Lustre to his ancient extraction King CHARLES 12 DENNIS ROLLS Arm. His Mother was Coheir to Sr. Thomas Dennis Knight of right ancient extraction As for this worthy Esquire I remember the old Sentence Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine on which account I forbear further praise of him He was the last of his House not in the sence wherein Salust is called altimus suae domus because he lavished away all his Lands in Luxury but God denyed his Male-Issue to attain to Mans estate The Farewell I am most credibly informed that a Rock lately so lately that as yet it is not named hath been discovered by an Hamburger being Master of a ship who made the first report thereof on his own Oath and the oaths of all in his company to the Corporation of Seamen at the Trinity-house nigh London It lyeth one league off from the START in Devonshire It is more then suspicious that many hundreds have here had their silent Deaths never landing to relate the cause of their destruction For it is very dangerous for a Ship that draweth above eleven or twelve foot water if it should chance to strike upon it at a low water with an indifferent Sea It is the more dangerous because Picked the form thereof so that if you chance to heave one cast upon it the next cast shall be no less than fourteen or fifteen fathome water I am sorry if the Discoverer hereof met not with a proportionable Reward understanding that he had made a better Bargain if he had addressed himself first to the Dutch most

their own Country Well it were if this good old custome were resumed for if where God hath given Talents men would give but Pounds I mean encourage hopefull Abilities with helpfull Maintenance able persons would never be wanting and poor men with great parts would not be excluded the Line of preferment This Sir Thomas was afterwards Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and a grand benefactor to both Universities as I have formerly declared at large He died Anno Domini 1577. THOMAS HOWARD wherever born is justly reputed of this County wherein he had his first honour and last habitation He was second son to Thomas last Duke of Norfolk but eldest by his wife Margaret sole heir to Thomas Lord Audley Queen Elizabeth made him Baron of Audley and Knight of the Garter and King James who beheld his father a State-Martyr for the Queen of ●…ots in the first of his raign advanced him Lord Chamberlain and Earl of Suffolk and in the twelfth of his raign July 12. Lord Treasurer of England He was also Chancellour of Cambridge loving and beloved of the University When at his first coming to Cambridge Master Francis Nethersole Orator of the University made a Latine Speech unto him this Lord returned though I understand not Latine I know the Sence of your Oration is to tell me that I am wellcome to you which I believe verily thank you for it heartily and will serve you faithfully in any thing within my power Doctor Hasnet the Vice-chancellour laying hold on the Handle of so fair a Proffer requested him to be pleased to Entertain the King at Cambridge a Favour which the University could never compass from their former great and wealthy Chancellours I will do it saith the Lord in the best manner I may with the speediest conveniency Nor was he worse then his word giving his Majesty not long after so Magnificent a Treatment in the University as cost him five thousands pounds and upwards Hence it was that after his death Thomas his second son Earl of Bark-shire not suing for it not knowing of it was chosen to succeed him losing the place as some suspected not for lack of voices but fair counting them He died at Audley end Anno Domini 1626. being Grand-father to the right Honourable James Earl of Suffolk RICHARD WESTON I behold him son to Sir Jerome Weston Sheriff of this County in the one and fourtieth of Queen Elizabeth and cannot meet with any of his relations to rectifie me if erronious In his youth he impaired his estate to improve himself with publique accomplishment but came off both a saver and a gainer at the last when made Chancellor of the Exchequer and afterwards upon the remove of the Earl of Marlburrough July 15. in the fourth of King Charles Lord Treasurer of England But I hear the Cocks crow proclaiming the dawning day being now come within the ken of many alive and when mens memories do arise it is time for History to haste to bed Let me onely be a Datary to tell the Reader that this Lord was Created Earl of Portland February 17. in the eight of King Charles and died Anno Domini 163. being father to the right Honorable Jerome now Earl of Portland Capitall Judges Sir JOHN BRAMSTONE Knight was born at Maldon in this County bred up in the Middle-Temple in the study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench One of deep learning solid judgement integrity of life gravity of behaviour in a word accomplished with all qualities requisite for a Person of his place and profession One instance of his integrity I must not forget effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant Bruerton of whom formerly bequeathed by Will to Sidney-colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel Ward informed me the gife was invalid in the Rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramstone who married the Serjeants Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a Farthing and the legal setling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times the delivering his judgement on the Kings side in the case of Ship ●…oney cost him much trouble The posting Press would not be perswaded to stay till I had received farther instructions from the most Hopefull sons of this worthy Judge who died about the year 1646. Souldiers ROBERT FITZ-WALTER It is observable what I read in my Author that in the raign of King John there were three most eminent Knights in the land 〈◊〉 for their prowess viz. Robert Fitz-Roger Richard Mont-F●…chet and this Robert Fitz-Walter Two of which three a fair proportion fall to be natives of this County This Robert was born at Woodham-walters and behaved himself right 〈◊〉 on all occasions highly beloved by King Richard the first and King John untill the later banished him the land because he would not prostitute his daughter to his pleasure But worth will not long want a Master the French-King joyfully entertained him till King John recalled him back again on this occasion five-years truce being concluded betwixt the two Crowns of England and France an English-man challenged any of the French to just a course or two on horse-back with him whom Fitz-Walter then o●… the French party undertook and at the first course with his great spear fell'd horse and man to the ground Thus then and ever since English-men generally can be worsted by none but English-men Hereupon the King next day sent for him restored his lands with license for him to repair his Castles and particularly Bainards-castle in London which he did accordingly He was styled of the common-people The Marshall of Gods Army and Holy-Church He died Anno Domini 1234. and lieth buried in the Priory of Little-Dunmow Sir JOHN HAWKEWOOD Knight Son to Gilbert Hawkewood Tanner was born in Sible heningham This John was first bound an apprentice to a Taylor in the City of London but soon turned his needle into a sword and thimble into a shield being pressed in the service of King Edward the third for his French Wars who rewarded his valour with Knighthood Now that mean men bred in manuall and mechanick trades may arrive at great skill in Martiall performances this Hawkewood though an eminent is not the onely instance of our English nation The heat of the French Wars being much remitted he went into Italy and served the City of Florence which as yet was a Free State Such Republiques preferred forrainers rather then natives for their Generalls because when the service was ended it was but disbursing their pay and then disbanding their power by cashering their Commission such Forraigners having no advantage to continue their

command and render themselves absolute because wanting an interest in alliances and relations Thus a single Stake if occasion serves is sooner plucked up then a tree fastned to the earth with the many fibrae appendant to the root thereof Great the gratitude of the State of Florence to this their Generall Hawkewood who in testimony of his surpassing valour and singular faithfull service to their State adorned him with the Statue of a man of armes and sumptuous Monument wherein his ashes remain honoured at this present day Well it is that Monument doth remain seeing his Coenotaph or honorary tombe which sometimes stood in the Parish Church of Sible-heningham arched over and in allusion to his name berebussed with Hawkes flying into a Wood is now quite flown away and abolished This Sir John Hawkewood married Domnia daughter of Barnaby the warlike brother of Galeasius Lord of Millain father to John the first Duke of Mallain by whom he had a son named John born in Italy made Knight and naturalized in the seventh year of King Henry the fourth as appeareth by the Record Johannes filius Johannis Haukewood Miles natus in partibus Italiae factus indigena Ann. 8. Hen. 4. mater ejus nata in partibus transmarinis This valiant Knight dyed very aged Anno 1394. in the eighteenth of King Richard the second his friends founding two Chantreys to pray for his and the souls of John Oliver and Thomas Newenton Esquires his military companions and which probably may be presumed born in the same County THOMAS RATCLIFF Lord Fitz-walter second Earl of Sussex of that Surname twice Lord Deputy of Ireland was a most valiant Gentleman By his prudence he caused that Actuall Rebellion brake not out in Ireland and no wonder if in his time it Rained not war there seeing his diligence dispersed the clouds before they could gather together Thus he who cures a disease may be the skilfubest but he that prevents it is the safest Physician Queen Eliz●…beth called him home to be her Lord Chamberlain and a constant Court faction was maintained betwixt him and Robert Earl of Leicester so that the 〈◊〉 and the Leicesterians divided the Court whilst the 〈◊〉 as neuters did look upon them Sussex had a great Estate left him by his Ancestors Leicester as great given or restor'd 〈◊〉 by the Queen 〈◊〉 was the hones●… man and greater Souldier 〈◊〉 the more faceit 〈◊〉 and deep Politician not for the generall good but his particular profit Great the 〈◊〉 betwixt them and what in vain the Queen endeavoured death performed taking this Earl away and so the competition was 〈◊〉 New-Hall in this County was the place if not as I believe of his Birth of his principall Habitation He dyed .... ... And lyeth buried in the Church of Saint Olives Hartstreet London Sir FRANCIS and Sir HORACE VERE sons of Geffrey Vere Esquire who was son of John Vere the 〈◊〉 Earl of Oxford were both born in this County though severall places He●…ngham Castle Colchester Tilbury juxta clare be by sundry men assigned for their Nativity We will first consider them severally and then compare them together Sir FRANCIS was of a fiery spirit and rigid nature undaunted in all dangers not over valuing the price of mens lives to purchase a victory therewith He served on the Scaene of all Christendome where war was acted One masterpiece of his valour was at the Battle of Newport when his Ragged Regiment so were the English then called from their ragged Cloths help'd to make all whole or else all had been lost Another was when for three years he defended Ostend against a strong and numerous Army surrendering it at last a bare skeliton to the King of Spain who paid more years purchase for it then probably the world will endure He dyed in the beginning of the raign of King James about the year of our Lord 16 ... Sir HORACE had more meekness and as much valour as his Brother so pious that he first made his peace with God before he went out to war with man One of an excellent temper it being true of him what is said of the Caspian Sea that it doth never 〈◊〉 nor Flow observing a constant Tenor neither 〈◊〉 nor depressed with success Had one seen him r●…turning from a victory he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day and had he beheld him in a retreat he would have collected him a Conqueror by the chearfulness of his spirit He was the first Baron of King Charles his Creation Some years after coming to Court he fell suddenly sick and speechless so that he dyed before night Anno Domini 163. No doubt he was well prepared for death seeing such his vigilancy that never any Enemy surprised him in his quarters Now to compare them together such their Eminency that they would hardly be parallell'd by any but themselves Sir Francis was the elder Brother Sir Horace lived to be the older man Sir Francis was more feared Sir Horace more loved by the Souldiery The former in Martiall discipline was oftimes Rigidus ad ruina●… The later seldome exceeded Adterrorem Sir Francis left none Sir Horace no Male issue whose four Co-heirs are since matched into Honorable families Both lived in War much Honored dyed in Peace much Lamented HENRY VERE was son of Edward Vere the seventeenth Earl of Oxford and Anne Trentham his Lady whose principall habitation the rest of his patrimony being then wasted was at Heningham Castle in this County A vigorous Gentleman full of courage and resolution and the last Lord Chamberlain of England of this Family His sturdy nature would not bow to Court-Compliants who would maintain what he spake spake what he thought think what he apprehended true and just though sometimes dangerous and distastefull Once he came into Court with a great Milk-white Feather about his hat which then was somewhat unusuall save that a person of his merit might make a fashion The Reader may guess the Lord who said unto him in some jeer My 〈◊〉 you weare a very fair feather it is true said the Earl and if you mark it there 's ●…e'r a T●…int in it Indeed his family was ever Loyall to the Crown deserving their Motto VERO NIL VERIUS Going over one of the four Engish Colonells into the Low Countries and endeavouring to raise the Siedge of Bxeda he so over-heat himself with Marching Fighting and Vexing the design not succeeding that he dyed few days after Anno Domini 16 ... He married Diana one of the Co-heirs of William Earl of Exeter afterwards married to Edward Ea●…l of Elgin by whom he left no issue Physicians WILLIAM GIL●…T was born in Trinity Parish in Colchester his Father being a Counsellour of great Esteem in his Profession who first removed his family thither from Clare in Suffolk where they had resided in a Gentile Equipage some Centuries of Years He had saith my informer the Clearness of Venice Glass

Philosopher Rhetorician and Poet so true it is what Tully observeth Omnes artes quae ad humanitatem pertinent habent quoddam commune vinculum quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur Besides he was a deep Divine as his Books do evidence He was Canon of Exeter and upon what occasion I know not came to be buryed at Worcester with this Epitaph Eclipsim patitur sapientia sol sepelitur Cui si par unus minus esset flebile funus Vir bene discretus in omni more facetus Dictus erat Nequam vitam duxit tamen aequam Wisdom's eclips'd Sky of the Sun bereft Yet less the loss if like alive were left A man discreet in manners debonair Bad name black face but carriage good and fair Others say he was buryed at St. Albans where he found repulse when living but repose when dead WILLIAM of WARE born in that thorough fair Town twenty miles from London was a Franciscan bred first in Oxford then in Paris Now because some may slight the praise of Bale or Pits as testes domesticos Englishmen commending Englishmen know that John pious Mirandula highly extolleth this de Ware though miscalling him John as ambitious to have him his Name-sake He was Instructor to John Duns Scotus And if the Scholar to such height did reach Then what was he who did that Scholar teach He flourished under King Henry the third Anno 1270. and is supposed to be buryed in Paris JOHN MANDEVILE Knight born at St. Albans in this County Heir to a fair estate he applied himself first to the reading of the Scriptures then to the study of Physick wherein he attained to great perfection afterwards to travel for thirty four years together and at last like another Ulysses returning home was quite grown out of Knowledge of all his friends He wrote a Book of his own Itinerary thorough Africa the East and North part of Asia containing variety of Wonders Now though far Travellers are suspected in their relations to wander from the Truth yet all things improbable are not impossible and the Readers ignorance is sometimes all the Writers falshood He used to complain of the Church corruptions in his Age being wont to say Virtus cessat Ecclesia calcatur Clerus errat Daemon regnat Simonia Dominatur He dyed Anno Dom. 1372. buryed say some in the Convent of the Williamites at Leige in Germany which St. Albans will not allow claiming his Burial as well as his Birth where a Ryming Epitaph is appendant on a Pillar neer the supposed place of his Enterment NICHOLAS GORHAM a Dominican We cannot blame the Frenchmen if desirous to gain so great a Scholar to be their Countryman nor must the French blame us if loath to lose what is duly and truly our own Three things are pretended to countenance his French Nativity 1. His Long living and dying at last in that Land 2. The preferment●…e ●…e got there being Confessor to the King of France which may seem a Place of too much Privacy to be conferred on a Forraigner 3. The great credit and esteem which his Writings have gained in France where his Manuscript-works are extant in many Libraries These Pleas are over-ballanced with a like Number to attest his English Extraction Ham in Gorham is notoriously known for no French but a Saxon ordinary termination of a Town 2. Gorham was a Village nigh St. Albans in this County where Gorham-berry the Mannor-house thereof is extant at this day The Register of Merton Colledge in Oxford mentioneth the admission of this Nicholas Gorham a student in their Foundation Add to all these that Learned Leland and other English Antiquaries have always challenged him for their Countryman Indeed He was an English-man Francised who going over into France a young man spent the rest of his life there Many and Learned are his Books having Commented almost on all the Scriptures and give me leave to say no Hands have fewer spots of pitch upon them who touched the superstition of that Age he lived in He dyed and was buryed at Paris about the year of our Lord 1400. I will only add that since we have had another Nicholas of Gorham though not by his birth by his habitation as famous for a States-man as the former for a Divine I mean Sir Nicholas Bacon whose dwelling was at Gorham-berry aforesaid HUGH LEGAT born in this County bred in Oxford at last became a Benedictine in the Abbey of St. Albans Being much delighted in Meditation he wholly employed himself in commentary on 1. John of Hanwell his Books of Lamentation 2. Boetius of Consolation Thus his Soul may be presumed well poized betwixt plumbum plumam a Weight and a Wing to supresse and support it He flourished Anno 1400. JOHN WHETAMSTEAD was born at Wheatamstead in this County not so famous for the production of the best Wheat whence the place hath its Name as for this John VVhetamsted who hath his Name from that place He was bred at the Priory at Tinmouth in Northumberland a long stride I assure you from the place of his Birth to which he bequeathed a Challice of Gold He was afterwards Abbot of St. Albans and the sixth of that Christian name Vast were his expences in adorning of that Church exceeding six thousand pounds * Two Criticismes in his Buildings I cannot omit one that on the North-side of his Church which he enlightned with new VVindowes he set up the statues of those Heathen Philosophers which had testified of the Incarnation of Christ. 2. That in a little Chappel he set up the similitudes of all the Saints whose Christian names were John with his own picture and this Prayer in a Distick that though unworthy he might have a place with his Namesakes in Heaven Besides he procured from Humfrey the good Duke of Glocester his great Mecenas who was buried at St. Albans a suite of Vestments worth 3000. Marks and the Mannor of Pembroke in South-wales Many are the Books which he left to posterity being counted no fewer then fourscore and odd several Treatises and dyed about the year 1440. JOHN BOURCHIER Baron Berners was Son of John Bourchier Baron Berners in the Right of Margery his Wife Daughter of Sir Richard Berners of VVesthorsley in Surrey Yet had that Honourablo Family of the Berners an ancient Habitation at Tharfield in this County which with some probability insinuateth the Birth of this noble Gentleman therein He was a martial man well seen in all Military Discipline and when Michael Joseph the Black-Smith lead the Cornish Rebells against King Henry the seventh Anno 1496. no man did better service then this Lord in their suppression for which he was made cheif Governour of Calice Having there gotten a repose who formerly had been a far Traveller and great Linguist He * translated many Books out of French Spanish and Italian besides some of his own

Edw. Gardner ar Thunderidge Per pale O G. on a F. 2 Mascles betw 3 Hinds pass 〈◊〉 5 VVill. Hoe Ar. Hoe Quarterly Sable and Argent 6 Johan Boteler m. ut prius   7 Rich. Hale arm ut prius   8 Hen. Cogshil ar     9 VVill. Plomer ar Radwell Vert a Chev. betw 3 Lions heads erased Or Billited Gules 10 VV. Prestley ar   S. a Chever Ar. charged with 3 Anchors of the field betw as many Lions Or each issuant out of a Tower of the second 11 VVil. Leaman ar North-hal Az. a Fess betw 3 Dolphins Ar. 12 Rad. Freeman ar Aspden Azure 3 〈◊〉 Argent 13 T. Coningsby 〈◊〉 ut prius   14 Th●… Hewet ar Pesso-bury Sable a Cheve counter battellee betw 3. Owles Argent 15 Johan Gore ar Gilsden Gules a Fess betwixt 3 〈◊〉 16 Atth. Pulter ut prius Fitchee Or. 17     18 Joh. Gerrard Bar.     19 Joh. Gerrard Bar.     20 Cha. Nodes Ar.     QUEEN ELIZABETH 14. GEORGE HORSEY The Horseys had a free and competent estate at Digswell in this County where they had lived long in good Esteem It hapned that Sir John Horsey of Clifton in the County of Dorset whose two daughters were married into the Families of Mohune and Arnold wanting an Heir-Male settled the main of his estate which was very great on Ralph the son of this George Horsey His Father advised this Ralph his son newly augmented with the addition of so great an Estate that in case he should have any occasion to sell lands not to part with his Hartford-shire Inheritance which had continued so long in the Family but rather to make sale of some Dorset-shire land But the young Gentleman ill-advised sold this his Patrimony first of all For which the rest of his means probably prospered no whit the better Not one foot thereof remaining at this day to his posterity I write not this to grieve any of his surviving Relations but to instruct all in obedience to their Parents lawful commands 16. HEN. COCK Arm. He was afterward knighted and 〈◊〉 to Q. Elizabeth and King Iames who lay at his house May the second at his first coming out of Scotland to London where so abundant entertainment that no man of what condition soever but had what his appetite desired which made the K. at his departure heartily thank the good Knight for his great expences This Sir Henry's daughter was married to the Lord Delaware 44. EDWARD DENNY Knight was High Sheriffe of this Countie when King Iames coming from Scotland passed through it He was attended on by 140 men sutably apparell'd and well mounted with whom he tendred his service to the King presenting also his Majesty with a gallant Horse rich saddle and furniture But before the year of his Shreivalty was expired King James created him Baron Denny of Waltham and another supplyed the remainder thereof KING JAMES 2. GORGE PURIENT Arm. Let me doe my best ● devoir and last office to preserve the memorie of an ancient now expired family Digswell I presume was the place of their living because of their interments therein whereof this most remarkable Hic jacent Joannes Perient Armiger pro corpore Regis Richardi secundi Penerarius ej●…sdem Regis Et Armiger etiam Regis Hen. quarti Et Armiger etiam Regis Henrici quinti Magister Equitum Johanne filie Regis Navar Reginae Angliae qui obiit ....... Johanna uxor ejus quondam capitalis Domicilla ....... que obiit xxiv Anno Dom. M. ccccxv ........ Surely he was a man of merit being Penon or Ensign-bearer to one Esquire of the body to three successive Kings and Mr. of the Horse to one of their Queens to whom his wife was chief Lady of Honour THOMAS DACRES Miles mort He was one of the three Sheriffes in this County who within the compasse of ten years died in their Shrievalties as by this Catalogue may appear He was Grand-child unto Robert Dacres Esqu one of the Privy Council to King Henry the Eighth THOMAS HOE This most ancient name which formerly had Barons thereof is now expiring in the Male line This Gentlemans sole daughter being married unto ....... Kete of London THOMAS CONISBY Armiger When one told him that his potent adversarie had prevailed to make him Sheriffe I will not said he keep a man the more or a dog the fewer on that account The Farewell I am sorry to hear that the fair Font of solid Brasse brought out of Scotland and bestowed by Sir Richard Lea on the Abbey Church in St. Albons is lately taken away I could almost wish that the plunderers fingers had found it as hot as it was when first forged that so these theives with their fault might have received the deserved punishment thereof Had it bin return'd to the place whence it was taken to serve for the same use the matter had not bin so much but by an usual Alchymy this Brass is since turned into Silver But let us not so much condole the late losing of the Font as congratulate our still keeping of Baptisme which if some men might have their minds should utterly be denied to all Infants I wish all Infants to be christned in this County and elsewhere though not so fair a Font fair water and which is the best of all the full concurrence of Gods Spirit effectually to compleat the Sacrament unto them HEREFORD-SHIRE hath Worcester-shire and Shrop-shire on the North Glocester shire on the East Monmouth-shire on the South Brecknock and Radnor-shires on the West In form it is almost circular being from North to South measured to the best improvement 35. miles though from East to West not altogether so much There cannot be given a more effectual Evidence of the healthful aire in this Shire then the vigorous vivacity of the inhabitants therein Many aged folk which in other countries are properties of the chimneyes or confined to their beds are here found in the feild as able if willing to work The ingenious Serjeant Hoskin gave an intertainment to King Iames and povided ten aged people to dance the Morish before him all of them making up more then a thousand yeares So that what was wanting in one was supplied in another A nest of Nestors not to be found in another place This County doth share as deep as any in the Alphabet of our English Commodities though exceeding in VV. for VVood VVheat VVooll and VVater Besides this Shire better answereth as to the sound thereof the name of Pomerania then the Dukedome of Germany so called being a continued Orchard of Apple trees whereof much Sider is made of the use whereof we have treated of before There is a Tract in this County called Gylden Vale And if any demand how much gold is to be found therein know that even as much as in Chrusaroas or Golden stream the river of Damascus so called from the

saved is a penny gained the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them Learned Leland looks on this ●…ong as a Benefactor to posterity in that he saved many Hebrew books of the Noble Library of Ramsey Say not such preserving was purloyning because those books belonged to the King seeing no conscience need to scruple such a nicety Books though so precious that nothing was worth them being in that juncture of time counted worth nothing Never such a Massacre of good Authours some few only escaping to bring tidings of the Destruction of the rest Seeing this Yong is inserted by Bale and omitted by Pits I collect him to savour of the Reformation As for such who confound him with Iohn Yong many years after Master of Pembrook-Hall they are confuted by the different dates assigned unto them this being his Senior 30 years as flourishing Anno Dom. 1520. JOHN WHITE brother to Francis White Bishop of Ely was born at Saint Neots in this County bred in Caius Colledge in Cambridge wherein he commenced Master of Arts. He did not continue long in the University but the University continued long in him so that he may be said to have carried Cambridge with him into Lancashire so hard and constant in his study when he was presented Vicar of Eccles therein Afterwards Sir Iohn Crofts a Suffolk Knight being informed of his abilities and pittying his remote living on no plentiful Benefice called him into the South and was the occasion that King Iames took cognizance of his worth making him his Chaplain in Ordinary It was now but the third moneth of his attendance at Court when he sickned at London in Lumbard-street dyed and was buried in the Church of S. Mary Woolnoth 1615. without any other Monuments save what his learned works have left to posterity which all whohave either learning piety or Ingenuity do yea must most highly cōmend Sir ROBERT COTTON Knight and Baronet son to Iohn Cotton Esquire was born at Cunnington in this County discended by the Bruces from the bloud Royall of Scotland He was bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where when a youth He discovered his inclination to the studie of Antiquity they must Spring early who would sprout high in that knowledge and afterwards attained to such eminency that sure I am he had no Superiour if any his equal in the skill thereof But that which rendred him deservedly to the praise of present and future times yea the wonder of our own and forreign Nations was his collection of his Library in Westminster equally famous for 1. Rarity having so many Manuscript Originals or else copies so exactly Transcribed th●…t Reader I must confesse he must have more skill then I have to distinguish them 2. Variety He that beholdeth their number would admire they should be rare and he that considereth their rarity will more admire at their number 3. Method Some Libraries are labyrinths not for the multitude but confusion of Volumes where a stranger seeking for a book may quickly loose himself whereas these are so exactly methodized under the heads of the twelve Roman Emperours that it is harder for one to misse then to hit any Author he desireth But what addeth a luster to all the rest is the favourable accesse thereunto for such as bring any competency of skill with them and leave thankfulness behind them Some Antiquaries are so jealous of their books as if every hand which toucheth wo●…ld ravish them whereas here no such suspition of ingenious persons And here give me leave to register my self amongst the meanest of those who through the favour of Sir Thomas Cotton inheriting as well the courtesie as estate of his Father Sir Robert have had admittance into that worthy treasury Yea most true it is what one saith That the grandest Antiquaries have here fetcht their materials Omnis ab illo Et Camdene tua Seldeni gloria crevit Camden to him to him doth Selden owe Their Glory what they got from him did grow I have heard that there was a design driven on in the Popes Conclave after the death of Sir Robert to compasse this Library to be added to that in Rome which if so what a Vatican had there been within the Vatican by the accession thereof But blessed be God the Project did miscarry to the honour of our Nation and advantage of the Protestant Religion For therein are contained many privaties of Princes and transactions of State insomuch that I have been informed that the Fountains have been fain to fetch water from the stream and the Secretaries of State and Clerks of the Council glad from hence to borrow back again many Originals which being lost by casualty or negligence of Officers have here been recovered and preserved He was a man of a publick spirit it being his principal endevour in all Parliaments wherein he served so often That the prerogative and priviledge might run in their due channel and in truth he did cleave the pin betwixt the Soveraign and the Subject He was wont to say That he himself had the least share in himself whilest his Country and Friends had the greatest interest in him He died at his house in Westminster May the 6. Anno Domini 1631. in the 61. year of his Age though one may truely say his age was adequate to the continuance of the ●…reation such was his exact skill in all antiquity By Elizabeth daughter and co-heire of William Brocas Esquire he had onely one son Sir Thomas now living who by Margaret daughter to the Lord William Howard Grandchild to Thomas Duke of Norfolke hath one son Iohn Cotton Esquire and two daughters Lucie and Francis The Opera posthuma of this worthy Knight are lately set forth in one Volume to the great profit of posterity STEPHEN MARSHALL was born at God-Manchester in this County and bred a Batchellour of Arts in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge Thence he went very early a Reaper in Gods Harvest yet not before he had well sharpned his Sickle for that service He became Minister at Finchfield in Essex and after many years discontinuance came up to Cambridge to take the degree of Batchelour of Divinity where he performed his exercise with general applause In the late long lasting Parliament no man was more gracious with the principal Members thereof He was their Trumpet by whom they sounded their solemn Fasts preaching more publick Sermons on that occasion then any foure of his Function In their Sickness he was their Confessor in their Assembly their Councellour in their Treaties their Chaplain in their Disputations their Champion He was of so supple a soul that he brake not a joynt yea sprained not a Sinew in all the alteration of times and his friends put all on the account not of his unconstancy but prudence who in his own practice as they conceive Reconciled the various Lections of Saint Pauls precept serving the Lord and the Times And although some severely

that is Give all kind kind signifying a Child in the low Dutch This practice as it appeares in Tacitus was derived to our Saxons from the ancient Germans Teutonibus priscis patrios succedit in agros Mascula stirps omnis ne foret ulla potens 'Mongst the old Teuch lest one o'retop his breed To his Sire's land doth every son succeed It appeareth that in the eighteenth year of King Henry the sixth there were not above fourty persons in Kent but all their land was held in this tenure But on the petition of divers Gentlemen this custome was altered by Act of Parliament in the 31. of King Henry the eighth and Kentish-lands for the most part reduced to an uniformitie with the rest in England DOVER-COURT All speakers and no hearers There is a Village in Essex not far from Harwich called Dover-Court formerly famous for a Rood burnt in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth But I take it here to be taken for some Tumultuous Court kept at Dover the Consluence of many Blustering Sea-men who are not easily ordered into awful attention The Proverb is applyed to such irregular conferences wherein the People are all Tongue and no Eares parallel to the Latine Proverb Cyclopum Respublica being thus charactered that therein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Father to the Bough The Son to the Plough That is though the Father be executed for his Offence the Son shall neverthelesse succeed to his Inheritance In this County if a Tenant in Fee-simple of Lands in Gavel-kind commit Felony and suffer the judgement of Death therefore the Prince shall have all his Chattels for a forfeiture But as touching the Land he shall neither have the Escheat of it though it be immediately holden of himself nor the Day year and Wast if it be holden of any other for in that case the Heir notwithstanding the offence of his Ancestor shall enter immediately and enjoy the lands after the same Customes and services by which they were holden before In assurance whereof the former Proverb is become Currant in this County But this Rule holdeth in case of Felony and of Murther onely and not in case of Treason nor peradventure in Piracy and other Felonies made by Statutes of later times because the custome cannot take hold of that which then was not in being It holdeth moreover in case where the offender is justiced by Order of Law and not where he withdraws himself after the fault cōmitted and will not abide his lawful trial TENTERDENS Steeple is the Cause of the Breac●… in Goodwyn Sands It is used Commonly in derision of such who being demanded to render a reason of some inportant Accident assign Non causam pro causa or a Ridiculous and improbable cause thereof and hereon a story depends When the Vicinage in Kent met to consult about the Inundation of Goodwyn sands and what might be the Cause thereof an Old man imputed it to the building of Tenterden Steeple in this County for those sands said he were firme Lands before that steeple was built which ever since were overflown with Sea-water Hereupon all heartily laughed at his unlogical Reason making that the effect in Nature which was only the consequent in time not flowing from but following after the building of that steeple But One story is good till another is heard Though this be all whereon this Proverb is generally grounded I met since with a * supplement thereunto It is this Time out of mind mony was constantly collected out of this County to fence the East bancks thereof against the eruption of the Seas And such Sums were deposited in the hands of the Bishop of Rochester But because the Sea had been very quiet for many years without any encroachings The Bishop commuted that money to the building of a Steeple and endowing of a Church in Tenterden By this diversion of the Collection for the maintenance of the Banks the Sea afterwards brake in upon Goodwyn Sands And now the old man had told a rational tale had he found but the due favour to finish it And thus sometimes that is causelesly accounted ignorance in the speaker which is nothing but impatience in the Auditors unwilling to attend the end of the discourse A Jack of Dover I find the first mention of this Proverb in our English Ennius Chaucer in his Proeme to the Cook And many a Jack of Dover he had sold Which had been two times hot and two times cold This is no Fallacy but good Policy in an houshould to lengthen out the Provision thereof and though lesse toothsome may be wholsome enough But what is no false Logick in a Family is false Ethicks in an Inn or Cooks-shop to make the abused Guest to pay after the rate of New and Fresh for meat at the second and third hand Parallel to this is the Latine Proverb crambe bis cocta crambe being a kind of Colewort which with vinegar being raw is good boiled better twice boiled noysome to the Palat and nauceous to the stomach Both Proverbs are appliable to such who grate the ears of their Auditors with ungratefull Tautologies of what is worthlesse in it selse tolerable as once uttered in the notion of Novelty but abominable if repeated for the tediousnesse thereof Princes JOHN of ELTHAM Second Son to King Edward the Second by Isabell his Queen was born at Eltham in this County He was afterwards created Earle of Cornwal A spritely Gentleman and who would have given greater evidence of abilities if not prevented by death in the prime of his age He dyed in Scotland in the tenth yeare of the reign of King Edward the Third Be it observed that hitherto the younger Sons to our English Kings were never advanced Higher than Earls Thus Richard Second son to King Iohn never had higher English Honour then the Earle of Cornwel though at the same time he were King of the Romans But this Iohn of Eltham was the last Son of an English King who dyed a plain Earl the Title of Duke coming a●…erwards into fashion Hence it was that all the younger Sons of Kings were from this time forwards Created Dukes except expiring in their infancy BRIDGET of ELTHAM fourth Daughter of K Edward the fourth and Elizabeth his Q. was born at Eltham in this County Observing her three eldest Sisters not over happy in their husbands she resolved to wed a Monastical life and no whit ambitious of the place of an Abbess became an ordinary votary in the Nunnery at Dartford in this County founded by K. Edward the 3. The time of her death is uncertain but this is certain that her dissolution hapned some competent time before the dissolution of that Nunnerie EDMUND youngest Son to King Henry the 7. and Elizabeth his Queen bearing the name of his Grand-father Edmund of Haddam was born at Greenwich in this County 1495. He was by his Father created Duke of Somerset and he dyed before he was full

Bobbing   17 Edw Scot ar ut prius   18 John Sidley Bar. ut prius   19 Tho. Roberts mil. b. Glastenb   20 George Fane mil. ut prius   21 Ioh Hayward mil. Hollingbor   22 Tho. Hamond mil. Brasted Arg. ●…n a Cheveron engrailed betwixt 3 martlets Sable as many cinque foils Or. CAROL I.     Anno     1 Isa. Sidley m. bar G●… Chart. ut prius 2 Basilius Dixwel ar Folkston Ar. a Che. G bet 3 flow de lys S 3 ●… dw Engham mil. Goodnestō Arg. a Chev. Sab. betw 3 Ogresses a Chief Gules 4 VVill. Campion m Combwel   5 Rich. Brown ar Singleton ut prius 6 Rob. Lewkner mil. Acris Azure three Cheverons Arg. 7 Nich. Miller ar Crouch   8 Tho. Style bar Watringb ut prius 9 Ioh. Baker bar ut prius   10 Edw. Chute ar Surrendē   11 VVil. Culpeper bar ut prius   12 Geo. Sands mil. ut prius   13 Tho. Hendley mil Courshorn   14 Edw. Maisters mil. E. Langdō   15 David Polhill ar Otford   16 Iacob Hugeson ar Lingsted   17 VVil Brokman m. Joh. Honywood m. Bithborow Evington   18     19     20 Ioh. Rayney bar     21 Edw Monins bar Waldershāe Court Azure a Lion passant betwixt 3 Escalops Or. 22 Ioh. Hendon mil.     Richard the Second 5. ARNOLD SAVAGE He was a Knight and the third Constable of Queenborough-Castle He lieth buried in Bobbing Church with this Inscription Orate specialiter pro animabus Arnoldi Savage qui obiit in vigil Sancti Andreae Apost Anno 1410. Domine Joanne uxoris ejus quae fuit fil c. The rest is defaced 16. GULIELMUS BARRY In the Parish Church of Senington in this County I meet with these two sepulchral Inscriptions Orate pro anima Isabelle quondam uxoris Willielmi Barry Militis Hic jacet Joanna B●…rry quondam uxor Willielmi B●…rry Militis There is in the same Church a Monument whereupon a man armed is pourtrayed the Inscription thereon being altogether perished which in all probability by the report of the Parishioners was made to the memory of Sir William Barry aforesaid Henry the Fourth 6 VALENTINE BARRET He lieth buried in the Parish Church of Lenham in this County under a Grave-stone thus inscribed Hic jacet Valentine Barret Arm. qui obiit Novemb. 10. 1440. Cecilia uxor ejus quae obiit Martii 2. 1440. quorum animabus Henry the Sixth 7. WILLIAM SCOT He lieth buried in Brabo●…ne Chu●…ch with this Epitaph Hic jacet Willielmus Scot de Braborne Arm. qui obiit 5. Febr. 1433. cujus anim Sis testis Christe quod non jacet hic lapis iste Corpus ut ornetur sed spiritus ut memoretur Quisquis eris qui transieris sic perlege plora Sum quod eris fueramqu●… quod es pro me precor ora His Family afterwards fixed at Scots Hall in this County where they flourish at this day in great reputation 9. JOHN SEINTLEGER I find him entombed in Ulcombe Church where this is written on his Grave Here lieth John Seintleger Esq and Margery his Wife sole Daughter and Heir of James Donnet 1442. Wonder not that there is no mention in this Catalogue of Sir Thomas Seintleger a Native and potent person in this County who married Anne the Relict of Henry Holland D. of Exeter the Sister of K●…ng Edward the Fourth by whom he had Anne Mother to Thomas Manners first Earle of Rutland For the said Sir Thomas Seintleger was not to be confided in under King Henry the Sixth and afterwards when Brother-in-law to King Edward the Fourth was above the Office of the Sherivalty 16. RICHARDUS WALLER This is that renowned * Souldier who in the time of Henry the Fifth took Charles Duke of Orleans General of the French Army Prisoner at the Battel of Agin-Court brought him over into England held him in honorable restraint or custody at Grome-Bridge which a Manuscript in the Heralds Office notes to be twenty four years In the time of which his recess he newly erected the house at Grome-Bridge upon the old Foundation and was a Benefactor to the repair of Spelherst Church where his Armes ●…emain in stone-work over the Church porch but lest such a signal piece of service might be entombed in the Sepulchre of unthankful forgetfulnesse the Prince assigned to this Ri●…hard Waller and his Heirs for ever an additional Crest viz. the Arms or Escoucheon of France hanging by a Label on an Oak with this Motto affixed Haec Fructus Virtutis From this Richard Sir William VValler is lineally descended 23. WILLIELMUS CROWMER This year happened the barbarous Rebellion of Iack Cade in Kent This Sheriff unable with the posse Comitatus to resist their numerousness was taken by them and by those wild Justicers committed to the Fleet in London because as they said and it must be so if they said it he was guilty of extortion in his Office Not long after these Reformers sent for him out of the Fleet made him to be brought to Mile-end where without any legal proceedings they caused his head to be smitten off and set upon a long pole on London bridge next to the Lord Say aforesaid whose Daughter he had married 38 JOHN SCOT Arm. Et vicissem Vic. I understand it thus that his Under-Sheriff supplied his place whilest he was busied in higher affairs He was knighted much trusted and employed by King Edward the Fourth I read in a Record Johannes Scot Miles cum C. C. Soldariis ex mandato Domini Regis apud Sandwicum pro salva custodia ejusdem The aforesaid King in the twelfth year of his raign sent this Sir Iohn being one of his Privy Councel and Knight Marshall o●… Calis with others on an Embassie to the Dukes of Burgundy and Britain to bring back the Earls of Pembroke and Richmona whose escape much perplexed this Kings suspicious thoughts But see his honourable Epitaph in the Church of Braborne Hic jacet magnificus ac insignis Miles Joha●…nes Scot quondam Regis domus invictissimi Principis Edwardi quarti Controll nobilissima integerrimaque Agnes uxor ejus Qui quidem Johannes obiit Anno 1485. die mens Octob. 17. Richard the Third 3. RICHARDUS BRAKENBURY Mil. WILLIELMUS CHENEY The former was of an ancient extraction in the North. I behold him as nearly allied if not Brother to Sir Robert Brakenbury Constable of the Tower who dipped his fingers so deep in the blood of King Edward the Fifth and his Brother It concerned King ●…ichard in those suspitious times to appoint his Confident Sheriff of this important County but he was soon un-Sheriffed by the Kings death and another of more true Integrity substituted in his room Henry the Seventh 5. WILL. BOLEYN Mil. He was Son to Sir Ieffery Boleyne Lord Mayor of London by his Wife who was Daughter and co-heir to Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings This

and bred therein under Mr. Ricard Vines his School-master he was afterwards Scholar of Christs then Fellow of S. Johns in Cambridge and during the late Civil Wars was much conversant in the Garison of Newark where as I am informed he had the place of Advocate General A General Artist Pure Latinist Exquisite Orator and which was his Master-piece Eminent Poet. His Epithetes were pregnant with Metaphors carrying in them a difficult plainness difficult at the hearing plain at the considering thereof His lofty Fancy may seem to stride from the top of one Mountain to the top of another so making to it self a constant Level and Champian of continued Elevations Such who have Clevelandized indeavouring to imitate his Masculine Stile could never go beyond the Hermophrodite still betraying the weaker Sex in their deficient conceits Some distinguish between the Veine and Strain of Poetry making the former to flow with facility the latter press'd with pains and forced with industry Master Cleveland's Poems do partake of both and are not to be the less valued by the Reader because most studied by the Writer thereof As for his Anagram John Cleveland Heliconean Dew The difficult trifle I confess is rather well endevoured then exactly performed He dyed on Thursday morning the 29 of April 1658. at his Chamber in Greys Inne from whence his Body was brought to Hunsdon House and on Saturday being May day was buryed at Colledge Hill Church Mr. John Pearson his good friend preaching his Funeral Sermon He rendred this reason why he cautiously declined all commending of the party deceased because such praising of him would not be adequate to any expectation in that Auditory seeing such who knew him not would suspect it far above whilest such who were acquainted with him did know it much beneath his due desert The self same consideration shall put a period to my pen in his present Character only this I will adde that never so eminent a Poet was Interred with fewer if any remarkable Elegies upon him I read in an excellent Authour how one Joannes Passerativus professor of the Latine Tongue in the University of Paris being no bad Poet but Morose and conceited of himself forbad by his dying words under an Imprecation That his Herse should be burthened with bad funeral Verses Whereupon out of fear to offend his Ghost very few Verses were made upon him too much the modesty and charity of Mr. Cleveland by any such Injunction to obstruct his friends expressing their affection to his memory Be it rather imputed to the Royal party at that juncture of time generally in restraint so that their fancies may seem in some sort to sympathize with the confining of their persons and both in due season may be inlarged Of such Verses as came to my hand these were not the worst made by my good Friend since deceased Ye Muses do not me deny I ever was your Votary And tell me seeing you do daigne T' inspire and feed the hungry brain With what choice cates with what choice fair Ye Cleevelands fancy still repair Fond man say they why dost thou question thus Ask rather with what Nectar he feeds us But I am informed that there is a Book intended by the Poets of our age in the Honour of his Memory who was so eminent a Member of their Society Beńefactors to the Publick Sir JOHN POULTNEY Knight was born in this County at Poultney in the Parish of Misterton bred in the City of London and became four times Lord Mayor thereof He built a Colledge to the Honour of Jesus Corpus Christi for a Master and seven Chaplains in St. Laurence Church in Candleweek-Street in London in the 20. of Edward the Third which Church was after denominated of him St. Laurence Poultney He built the Parish Church of Alhallows the lesse in Thames Street and the Monastery of White Fryers in Coventry and a fair Chappel on the North Side of St. Pauls in London where he lyeth buryed who dyed 1349. the 24. year of Edward the third he was a great Benefactour to the Hospital of St. Giles by Holborn and gave many great Legacies to the relief of Prisoners and the Poor Since the Reformation READER If any demand of me the Names of the Natives of this County Benefactors to the Publick Since the Reformation all my Answer is Non sum Informatus and let the Court judge whether this be the fault of the Councel or of the Client and I doubt not but the next age will supply the defects hereof Only postliminio I have by the help of my good friend at last recovered one who may keep possession of the place till others be added unto him ROBERT SMITH Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London was born at Mercate Harborough in this County and became Comptroller of the Chamber of London and one of the four Attorneys in the Majors Court A painful person in his place witness the many remaining Monuments of his Industry whilst he acted in his Office betwixt the years 1609. and 1617. Nor was his Piety any whit beneath his painfulness who delivered to the Chamberlain of London seven hundred and fifty pounds to purchase Lands for the Maintenance of a Lecturer in the Town of his Nativity as also for several other pious uses as in the Settlement of those Lands are particularly expressed He dyed as I collect about 1618. Memorable Persons Know Reader that by an unavoidable mischance the two first following persons who should have been entred under the Topick of Souldiers are with no disgrace I conceive remembered in this place EDMOND APPLEBIE Knight was son to Iohn Applebie Esquire and born at Great Applebie whence their Family fetched their name and where at this day I hope they have their habitation He was a mighty man of Arms who served at the Battel of Cressy the 20. of K. Edward the Third where he took Mounsieur Robert d'n Mailarte a Nobleman of France Prisoner Now know though the pens of our home-bred Historians may be suspected of partiality yet English atcheivements acknowledged by French Authours such as Froizard is who taketh signal notice thereof commandeth belief Afterwards in the Eight year of Richard the Second he went into France with Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster to treat of a peace betwixt both Kingdomes Lastly in the Ninth of Richard the second he accompanied the said Duke and the Lady Constance his Wife Daughter aud Coheir of Peter King of Castile in his Voyage into Castile who then went over with a great power to invest himself in the said Kingdome which by Descent belonged to his Wife and was then usurped by Henry base Brother unto King Peter JOHN HERDVVICKE Esq born at Lindley in this County was a very Lowe Man stature is no standard of stoutnesse but of great Valour Courage and Strength This is he though the Tradition goeth by an unknown name by whose good conduct Henry Earl

you again therein VVe have a little been troubled with the smale Pox which hath l●…tted us to write hitherto ●…ut now we have shaken that quite away Thus fare you well at Greenwich the third of May Anno 1552. EDVVARD VVe have received your Letters dated at Rhemes the fourth of this instant by which we understand how the French King doth mean now to set forth a new Army to resist the Emperour and that for that cause you think you cannot yet ask leave to return without suspition till this bray do cease In which thing we like your opinion very well and the rather because you may peradventure see more things in this short journey if so be it that the Emperor doth march towards you then you have seen all the while you have been there Neverthelesse as soon as his businesse is once over past you with Mr. Pickerings advice may take some occasion to ask leave for this VVinter to come home because you think there shall few things more be done then have been already in such manner and form as we have written in our former Letters VVe pray you also to advertise for how long time you have received your Diets Bartholomew Campaigne hath been paid six VVeeks agon till the last of September and we would be very glad to know whether you have received so much at his Factors hands More we have not to advertise you and therefore we commit you to God From Hampton Court the 7. of October anno Dom. 1552. Martyrs Smithfield neer London being Bonners Shambles and the Bone-fire Generall of England no wonder if some sparks thereof were driven thence into the Vicenage at Barnet Izlington and Stratford Bow where more then twenty persons were Martyred as in Mr. Fox doth appear Nor must we forget Mr. John Denley burnt at Uxbridge who began to sing a Psalm at the Stake and Dr. Story there present caused a prickley fagot to be hu●…led in his face which so hurt him that he bled therewith Now the singing Nightingale needed no Thorn but only the sleeping one to awake it We may beleive that this Martyrs Prick-song indeed made good melody in the Ears of the God of Heaven Prelats RICHARD NORTHALL was saith my Author born in this County adding moreover Praetoris Londinensis ejusdem cognominis ut fertur filius But take Pretor either for Major or Sheriffe and no such man appeareth in Stow his exact survay of London so that one may thence safely conclude the Negative no such person in those places though probably he might hold some other eminent office in that City By the way the applying the names of Roman Magistrates to our English Officers wherein every one followeth their own fancy in assigning the correspondency hath cau●…ed much uncertainty in matters of this nature But we willingly believe this Robert of wealthy extraction though he became a Carmelite and afterward Chaplain to King Richard the second who for his good Preaching preferred him Bishop of Ossory for a time Chancelour of Ireland and at last Arch-Bishop of Dublin He wrote a Set of Sermons for the whole year lived much beloved for his learning and virtues and died no less lamented Anno Dom. 1397 on the 20 day of July Since the Reformation WILLIAM WICKHAM born at Enfield in this County bred in Kings-Colledge was Bishop first of Lincolne then of Winchester where he may be termed William Wickham junior in distinction of his name-sake and predecessor one equal to any of his Order in piety and painfullnesse though little of him extant in print superiour to all in patience dying Anno 1596 of the Strangury when he had not made water for fourteen days together This mindeth me of an usuall prayer amongst the modern Jews had they no worse customes their company would be wellcome unto us praising God as well for their vents of ejection as mouths for the admission of nourishment Souldiers FALCATIUs or FULKE de BRENT was a Middlesex-man by his Nativity whose family so flourished th●…rein in former ages remaining in a meaner condition to this day that an Antiquarie will have the rivolet Brent which denominateth Brentford so named from them which is preposterous in my opinion believing them rather named from the rivolet This FULK was a Minion to King John whose dangers indeared Martial-men unto him who the more to oblige his fidelity gave him in marriage Margaret the Daughter of Warrin Fitz Gerald his Chamberlaine late Wife to Baldwin de Rivers many muttering thereat and the Ladie her self it seems not well satisfied therewith as beneath her deserts Hereupon our Author Lex connectit eos amor concordia lecti Sed lex qualis amor qualis cōcordia qualis Lex exlex amor exosus concordia discors Now both of them be'ng brought into a Bed By law and love and concord joyned are What law what love what cōcord did them wed Law lawless loath'd love concord which did jarr This Fulke was highly in favour with King Henry the third who by the valour of this his Generall obtained the great Victory at Lincolne But afterwards when the Land was setled in peace Fulke found himself less respected set by and not set by hung up like the Axe when it hath hew'n all the hard timber on the wall unregarded He endeavoured therefore to embroile the Nation in a new War and like a dishonest Chirurgion willfully to blister the sound flesh into a sore to gaine by the cureing thereof This not succeeding all being weary of civil warr he presuming on the Kings Lenitie and his own merit accounting himself too high to come under the roofe of any Law committed many outrages of felonies and murders He was esteemed too bad to live such his present desperateness yet too good to be put to death such his former deserts and therefore as an expedient between both he was condemn'd to perpetuall banishment He went to Rome none had more need to confess his faults where he lived obscurely died miferably and was buried ignobly Anno 1226. Sir RALPH SADLIER Son of Sadlier Esquire was born at Hackney in this County where he was heir to a fair Inheritance He first was Servant to the Lord Cromwell and by him advanced into the service of King Henry the eighth A Prince judicious in men and meat and seldome deceived in either who made him cheife Secretary of State He was much knowing and therefore most imployed in the Scotch affairs much complicated with State Intricacies which he knew well to unfold It is seldome seen that the Pen and Sword Goun and Corselet meet eminently as here in the same person For in the Battle of Muscleborow he or●…ered and brought up our scattered Troops next degree to a rout 〈◊〉 them to fight by his own example and so for his valour was made a Knight Bannaret Of these two kinds one by way of encouragement made before the other by way of

Thomae Malton Iohannis Drayton Willielmi Swanlond Willielmi Norton Iohannis Barnvile Richardi Richmond Roberti Oliver Willielmi Bray Roberti Foster Henrici Filingsley Iohannis Bronn Roberti Charyngworth Richardi Skarburgh Richardi Bronn Iohannis e Elryngton VVillielmi Brokherst Iohannis Danyell What is generally true of the Gentry in all Counties that being in continuo fluxu Labitur labetur in omne volubilis aevum is most true in this County where the Stream thereof runneth most rapid to make more speedy room for Succession so that the Gentry in Middlesex seem Sojourners rather then Inhabitants therein Is it not strange that of the thirty three forenamed Families not three of them were extant in the Shire one hundred and sixty years after viz. anno Dom. 1593. as appeareth by the alphabetical Collection set forth by Mr. Norden in that year I impute the brevity as I may term it of such Gentry in this County to the Vicinity of London to them or rather of them to it and hope that Worshipful Families now fixed in Middlesex will hereafter have longer continuance THOMAE a CHALETON Militis I can hardly believe him of the same Family R. being slipped out in the Writing thereof with Thomas Carleton who dyed anno Domini 1447. being buryed under a much defaced Monument in EdmontonChurch and whom the Inhabitants deliver by Tradition to have been a man of great command in this County THOMAE b FROVVYK He was Owner of Gunners-Bury in the Parish of Great Eling wherein he lyes buryed and was Father of famous Judge Frowyk of whom before WILLIELMI c WROTH Ancestor to Sir Henry VVrot●… still living at Durance whose great Grandfather Sir Thomas VVroth fled over for his Religion into Germany in the Reign of Queen Mary and it is observable that he who then went away for his Conscience hath alone of all this Catalogne his name remaining in this County As for VVilliam VVroth mentioned in this Catalogue he was Son to VVill. VVroth Esquire who dyed the 20. of March the Ninth of Henry the Fourth who was the Son of Iohn VVroth who married Maud sole Daughter unto Thomas Durand by whom the house of Durands was devolved unto him JOHN SHORDYCHE So called from Shorditch on the North of Bishops Gate in London whereof he was Owner as also of the Mannor of Hackney I say Shorditch so named here in the twelfth of King Henry the Sixth and some hundred years before quasi Shorditch or the Ditch that was the Sewer or publick Drain to the North-East part of the City Hereby appeareth the Vanity of their Conceits who will have it so called from Iane Shore the Minion of Edward the Fourth reported to dye here pitifully as much pitied though not relieved in the Reign of King Richard the Third Reader Be pleased to take notice that though Mr. Norden in his Survey of this County passeth over this Sirname in Silence yet the Progeny of this Iohn Shorditch hath still a confiderable estate at Icknam therein JOHANNIS e ELRYNGTON These had an house sometimes at Neusdon in this County but are since extinct and the last that I find of the name was Iohn Elryngton Filycer of the City of London and Keeper of the Records of the Common Pleas who dying 1504. is buryed with an Inscription in Hackney Church The Sheriffs Some perchance may expect that in conformity to other Counties I should here insert the Sheriffs of Middlesex reserving those of London to the Descr●…ption of that City These proceed on an old vulgar error that the Sheriffs aforesaid have their several Jurisdictions divided accordingly Whereas indeed both are jointly and equally Sheriffs of London and Middlesex having not only concurrent but united power in all places Nor know I any difference betwixt them save that he who is first chosen taketh place and he who liveth the neerest to the Tower hath the Poultrie the other VVood street-Counter assigned to his Service But more of them in London All I will add is this the Gentry in Middlesex have herein a priviledge above any County in England that they are not Eligible except also they be Freemen of London to be Sheriffes of this Shire which doth cut off from them the occasion of much expences The Battells Brandford Fight 1642. November the 12. It began on the South west side of the Town near Zion house some execution being done by Great Guns and a Boat on the Thames with many therein sunk and Capt. Quarles an active Citizen on the Parliament side drowned before he could recover the Shore Soon was the Scene of this Tragedy removed to the North of the Town near Acton and the Kings Forces fell fiercely on the Regiment of Collonel Denzil Hollis then present in Parliament and put them to the Worst Here the Welsh under Sir ....... Salisbury their Leader made true the Greek Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that Flyeth will fight again 〈◊〉 These who shewed swift heels at Edgehill ●…attle use as stout Arms as any in this Fight For formerly they were little better then Naked whereas since they had recovered armour to fence their bodies and Resolutions to arme their Minds Next day being Sunday marched out the Militia of London but both Armies may be said to have kept the Sabboth faceing each other without any considerable action It is incredible how many Cart Loads of Victuals were carried out from London enough to have feasted their Souldiers for some days and fed them for some Weeks In the Evening the Kings Forces drew off towards Kings Town The Number of the slain on both sides amounted not to a thousand and the Reputation of the Victory on the Kings Side was more then the effect thereof for then the Royalists did Nose and Beard the Populous City of London and did Triumphare though not In sub Hostico Indeed the accession of Citizens to the King answered not Rational expectation Wealth though Loyal being always Fearful and Loath to hazzard a certain Estate This is most sure that many Scores of Prisoners taken by the King were by him freely dismissed without other Ransome then a strict Oath to serve no more against him Now what Oath office is kept in London I know not nor what Pope therein had power to dispence with so sacred an Obligation But these met with such Confessors who seemingly satisfied them in the Violation of this Oath so that some Weeks after they appeared on the same side as fierce as before The Farewell This County is much infested with the Mildew That it is I know to my Cost but could not purchase the knowledge what it is much lesse how it might be prevented at the same Price though having diligently enquired into the Name and Nature thereof Some will have it called Mildew quasi Maldew or Illdew others Meldew or Hony-dew as being very sweet oh how lushious and noxious is Flattery with the Astringency thereof causing an Atrophy a Consumption in the Grain His

from VVolstan de Paston who three years after the Conquest came into England to VVilliam Earl of Glandwill were all interred at Paston He lest rich revenues to John Paston Esquire his eldest son who married Margaret daughter and heir of John Mautby and no mean Estate to VVilliam his second surviving son who married Anne daughter to Edmond Duke of Somerset Sir EDWARD COKE Knight son of Robert Coke Esquire and of VVinefred Knightly his wife was born at Mileham in this County bred when ten years of age at Norwich-school and thence removed to Trinity-colledge in Cambridge After four years continuance there he was admitted into Cliffords-Inn-London and the year following entered a Studient of the Municipal-law in the Inner-Temple Such his proficiency therein that at the end of six years exceeding early in that strict age he was call●…d to the Bar and soon after for three years chosen Reader in Lyons-Inn Here his learned Lectures so spred forth his fame that crouds of Clients sued to him for his counsel and his own suit was the sooner granted when tendering his affections in order to marriage unto Briget daughter and Co-heir of John Paston Esquire She was afterwards his incomparable wife whose Portion moderately estimated Viis modis amounted unto thirty thousand pounds her vertues not falling under valuation and she enriched her husband with ten children Then began preferment to press upon him the City of Norwich chusing him Recorder the County of Norfolk their Knight to Parliament the Queen her Speaker therein as also successively her Solicitor and Attorney King James honoured him with Knighthood and made him Chief Justice first of the Common-Pleas then of the Kings-Bench Thus beginning on a good bottome left him by his father marrying a wife of extraordinary wealth having at the first great and gainful practice afterwards many and profitable Offices being provident to chuse good penny-worths in purchases leading a thrifty life living to a great age during flourishing and peaceable times born as much after the Persecution under Queen Mary as dying before our Civil Wars no wonder if he advanced a fair estate so that all his sons might seem elder brethren by the large possessions left unto them Some falsly character him a back-friend to the Church and Clergy being a grand benefactour to the Church of Norwich who gratefully under their publique seal honoured him with the ensuing testimony Edwardus Coke Armiger saepius in multis difficillimis negotiis Ecclesiae nostrae auxiliatus est nuper eandem contra Templorum Helluones qui dominia maneria haereditamenta nostra devorare sub titulo obscuro Concelatum dicunt sponte suâ nobis insciis sine mercede ullâ legittimè tutatus est atque eandem suam nostri defensionem in perpetuam tantaerei memoriam quam posterorum si opus fuerit magna cum industria scriptis redegit nostrae Ecclesiae donavit As for the many Benefices in his own Patronage he freely gave them to worthy men being wont to say in his Law-language that he would have Church-livings pass by Livery and Seisin not Bargain and Sale Five sorts of people he used to fore-design to misery and poverty Chemists Monopolizers Concelers Promoters and Rythming Poets For three things he would give God solemn thanks that he never gave his body to physick nor his heart to cruelty nor his hand to corruption In three things he did much applaud his own success in his fair fortune with his wife in his happy study of the laws and in his free coming by all his Offices nec prece nec pretio neither begging nor bribing for preferment His parts were admirable he had a deep judgment faithful memory active fancy and the jewel of his mind was put into a fair case a beautiful body with a comely countenance a case which he did wipe and keep clean delighting in good cloaths well worne and being wont to say that the outward neatness of our bodies might be a Monitor of purity to our souls In his pleadings discourse and judgements he declined all Circumlocutions usually saying The matter lies in a little room In all places callings and jurisdictions he commended modesty and sobriety within their boundaries saying If a River swells beyond its Banks it loseth its own Channel If any adverse party crossed him he would patiently reply If another punisheth me I will not punish my self In the highest Term of business he made Vacation to himself at his Table and would never be perswaded privately to retract what he had publikely adjudged professing he was a Judge in a Court and not in a Chamber He was wont to say No wise man would do that in prosperity whereof he should repent in adversity He gave for his Motto Prudens qui Patiens and his practise was accordingly especially after he fell into the disfavor of King James The cause hereof the Reader may find in our English Chronicles whilst we behold how he employed himself when retired to a private life when he did frui suo infortunio and improv'd his loss to his advantage He triumphed in his own innocency that he had done nothing illegally calling to mind the Motto which he gave in his rings when made Serjeant Lex est tutissima Cassis The Law is the safest Helmet And now he had leisure to peruse what formerly he had written even thirty books with his own hand most pleasing himself with a Manual which he called his Vade mecum from whence at one view he took a prospect of his life pass'd having noted therein most remarkables His most learned and laborious works on the Laws will last to be admired by the judicious posterity whilst ●…ame hath a trumpet left her and any breath to blow therein His judgement lately passed for an Oracle in Law and if since the credit thereof hath causelesly been questioned the wonder is not great If the Prophet himself living in an incredulous age found ●…ause to complain Who hath believed our Report it need not seem strange that our licentious times have afforded some to shake the authenticalness of the Reports of any earthly Judge He constantly had prayers said in his own house and charitably relieved the poor with his constant almes The foundation of Suttous-hospital when indeed but a foundation had been ruined before it was raised and crush'd by some Courtiers in the hatching thereof had not his great care preserved the same The Free-school at Thetford was supported in its being by his assistance and he founded a School on his own cost at Godwick in this County It must not be forgotten that Doctor Whitgift afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury was his Tutor who sent unto his Puple when the Queens Atturney a fair New Testament with this message He had now studied Common-law enough let him hereafter study the Law of God Let me adde to this that when he was under a cloud at Court and outed of his Judges place

saved his lands though heavily fined and life though long imprisoned The King was highly displeased at him and vowed he should never sit on the Bench any more And here I hope it will not trespass on the grave character of this Judge to insert a modern and pleasant passage being privy my self to the truth thereof A Lady would traverse a suit of Law against the will of her husband who was contented to buy his quiet by giving her her will therein though otherwise perswaded in his judgment the cause wold go against her This Lady dwelling in the Shire-town invited the judge to dinner and though thrifty enough of her self treated him with s●…mptuous entertainment Dinner being done and the cause being called the judge clearly gave it against her And when in passion she vowed never to invite any Judge again Nay Wife said he vow never to invite a just Judge any more Well King Edward was so vexed that Sir Iohn Markham was outed of his Chief-justice-ship and lived privately but plentifully the remainder of his life having fair lands by Margaret his wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Simon Leke of Cotham in this County besides the Estate acquired by his Practice and paternal Inheritance Seamen EDWARD FENTON Brother to Sir Jeffrey Fenton of whom hereafter was born in this County whose nature inclined him wholly to Sea-service and disdaining to go in a trodden path he was ambitious to discover unknown passages His Atchievements in this nature are related at large in Mr. Hackluit and excellently contracted in an Epitaph on his Monument in Depthford Church in Kent erected by the Right Honourable Roger Earl of Corke who married his Brothers daughter Memoriae perenni Edwardi Fenton Reginae Elizabethae olim pro corpore Armigeri Jano O-Neal ac post eum Comite Desmoniae in Hibernia turbantibus fortissimi Taxiarchi qui post lustratum improbo ausu Septentrionalis Plagae Apochryphum mare excussas variis peregrinationibus inertis Naturae latebras Anno 1588. in celebri contra Hispanos Naumachia meruit Navis Praetoriae Navarchus Obiit Anno Domini 1603. Some dayes after the death of Queen Elizabeth Observe by the way how God set up a generation of military men both by Sea and Land which began and expired with the Reign of Queen Elizabeih like a suit of clothes made for her and worn out with her For Providence designing a peaceable Prince to succeed her in whose time martial men would be rendred useless so ordered the matter that they all almost attended their Mistress before or after within some short distance unto her grave Writers WILLIAM MANSFEILD named no doubt from and born at that noted Market Town in this County was bred a Dominican and for his skill in Logicks Ethicks Physicks and Metaphysicks in his Age highly applauded And because some prize a Dram of Forraign before a pound of Home-bred praise know that Leander Bononiensis though mistaking his Name Massettus giveth him the Appellation of Inclytus Theologi●… Professor He defended Thomas Aquinas against Henricus Gandavensis though both of them were dead long before and got great Credit thereby Bale who is not usually so civil in his expressions saith that he did strow branches of Palms before Christs Asse which if so was I assure you no bad employment He flourished Anno Dom. 1320. WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM was first Prebendary then Chanter of York bred an Augustinian and fourteen years the Provinciall of his Order Resigning which place he went on some great employment to Rome and returning thence by Genoa fell sick and recovered of the Plague being therein a Monument of Divine Mercy to prove that disease though in it self Mortale not alwayes Mortiferum Amongst the many Books he wrote his Concordance on the Evangelists was most remarkable which I behold as a Leading-piece in that kind though since it hath met with many to follow it A worthy work to shew the Harmony betwixt those four Writers though it hath met with many to decry the design being accounted by Some Impossible Others Unnecessary As if there were Contradictions herein past reconciling whose opinion cannot be reconciled with Piety seeing the four Gospels are Indited by one and the same Spirit of Unity and Verity of Truth and Concord whilst in two sentences really contrary one must be false of necessity As if it were nothing but the reconciling of those who never fell out Whereas indeed there are many seeming oppositions therein to raise the reputation thereof Intellecta ab omnibus sunt neglecta a plurimis and some necessary difficulty becomes Scripture to quicken our prayers pains and patience to understand it Bale giveth him this Lukewarme call it hot because coming from his mouth commendation non omnino impius in voluminibus quae composuit He dyed and was buryed at Lecester Anno Dom. 1336. ROBERT WORSOP was born saith Bale in the County mistaken for the Di●…cese of York seeing Worsop is notoriously known to be in Nottingham-shire He was bred an Augustinian in the convent of Tick-Hill not far from Doncaster where he wrote many Books the one called the Entrance of the Sentences Bale saith that at last he was made a Bishop not naming his Diocese and no such Prelate appearing in our English Catalogue it rendereth it suspicious that either he was some Suffragan or some Titulary Bishop in Greece He dyed and was buryed at Tick Hill about the year 1360. Since the Reformation Sir JEFFREY FENTON Knight born in this County was for twenty seven years Privy-Counsellour in Ireland to Queen Elizabeth and King James He translated the History of Francis Guicciardine out of Italian into English and Dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth he deceased at Dublin October 19. 1608. and lyeth buryed in St. Patricks Church under the same Tombe with his Father-in Law Dr. Robert Weston sometimes Chancellour of Ireland JOHN PLOUGH was born in this County a pious and learned Minister of the Word who for his conscience fled over into Basil in the Reign of Queen Mary It happened that a Book came over into the hands of the English Exiles written against the Marriage of Ministers by one Miles Hoggard a silly Hosier in London but highly opinioned of his learning It was debated amongst the English whether this Book should be passed over with neglect or answered And here the Reader is requested to pardon this digression as proper enough for my profession Solomon hath two Proverbs the one immediately succeeding yet seemingly crossing the other Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like ●…nto him Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit Some will have the first precept given to Magistrates who are not to make their Authoitry cheap by ingaging against fools and the later to belong to all Christians O ther 's distinguish that an answer according to his folly may be twofold by way of

then would appear in publick to converse with his Friends whereof Dr. Cowel and Mr. Camden were principal Some tax him to smack of the Old Cask as resenting of the Romish Religion but they have a quicker Palat●…than than I who can make any such discovery In his old Age he turn'd Husbandman and Rented a Farm in Wiltshire nigh the Devises I can give no account how he thrived thereupon For though he was well vers'd in Virgil his fellow Husbandman-Poet yet there is more required to make a rich Farmer than only to say his Georgicks by heart and I question whether his Ita●…ian will fit our English Husbandry Besides I suspect that Mr. Daniel his fancy was too fine and sublimated to be wrought down to his private profit However he had neither a Bank of wealth or lank of want living in a competent condition By Justina his wife he had no child and I am unsatisfied both in the Place and Time of death but collect the latter to be about the end of the reign of King James HUMPHRY SIDENHAM was born at Dalverton in this County of a most Ancient and Worshipful Family bred Fellow of Wadham Colledge so Eloquent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongued Sidenham But let his own printed Sermons and especially that called the Athenian Babler set forth his deserved praise who died since our Civil distempers about the year 1650. Romish-exile Writers JOHN GIBBON was undoubtedly born in this County though herein Pitts presents us with an untoward and left-handed direction Patrica Somersetensis Diocesis Wintoniensis Now either W●…nchester is imprinted for Wells or he was born in this County in some peculiar belonging to Winchester which See hath large revenues about Taunton Leaving the Land for his Religion Pope Gregory XIII collated on him a Canons place in the Church of Bonn. This he soon quitted and became Rector of the Jesuits Colledge in Triers he wrote a Book against G. Schon Professor at Heydelberge in vindication that the Pope was not Antichrist Being indisposed in health his hearing of the defeat of the Spanish Armado was no cordial unto him and died Anno 1589. ROBERT PERSON was born in this County bred in Baliol-Colledge in Oxford till for his viciousness he was expelled thence with disgrace Running to Rome and there finishing the course of his studies he with Campian were the first brace of English Jesuits who returned hither 1589 to preserve this Nation Two years after he escaped hence and got beyond the Seas One of a troublesome spirit wherewith some moderate Romanists were so offended that during his abode here they once resolved to resign him up to the Queens Officers He had an ill natured Wit biassed to Satyricalnesse A great States-man and it was not the least part of his policy to provide for his own safety who would look on direct give ground abet on other mens hands but never plaid so as to adventure himself into England He wrote a shrewd Book of the Succession to the English-crown setting it forth under the false name of Dolman a dulsecular Priest guilty of little Learning and less policy dedicating the same to the Earl of Essex He had an authoritative influence on all English Catholicks nothing of importance being agitated by them but Person had a finger hand arm therein He was for 23 years Rector of the Colledge at Rome where he died Anno Dom. 1610. JOHN FEN was born at Montacute in this County bred in New-Colledge in Oxford where he proceeded Bachelour in Laws continuing there till Anno Dom. 1562 for his Popish activity he was ejected by the Queens Commissioners Then for a time he lived Schoolmaster at St. Edmunds-bury till outed there on the same account Hence he fled over into Fl●…nders thence into Italy whence returning at last he was fixed at Lovain He wrote many and translated more Books living to finish his Jubile or Fiftieth year o●… exile beyond the Seas where he died about the years of our Lord 1613. Let me add that this John Fen mindeth me of another of the same surname and as violent on con●…rary principles viz. Humphrey Fen a non-conformist Minister living about Coventry who in the preface to his last Will Made such a Protestation against the Hierarchy and Ceremonies that when his Will was brought to be proved the Preface would not be suffered to be put amongst the Records of the Court as which indeed was no Limb but a Wen of his Testament JOHN COLLINGTON was born in this County bred in Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford Going beyond the Seas and there made Priest he returned into England and with Campian was taken cast into the Tower of London and condemned but afterwards reprieved enlarged and sent beyond the Seas Hence he returned and for 30 years together zelously advanced his own Religion being Assistant to the two Arch-Priests and he himself supplied the Place in the vacancy betwixt them He could not but be a very aged Man who though in restraint was alive 1611. Benefactors to the Publik The Lady MOHUN Reader know I can surround the Christian Names of her ne●…rest Relations Her Husband was John the last Lord Mohun of Dunstor Her eldest daughter Philip married to Edward Duke of York her second Elizabeth to William Montacute Earl of Salisbury her youngest Maud matcht to the Lord Strange of Knockyn bu●… her own Christian Name I cannot recover However she hath left a worthy memory behind her chiefly on this account that she obteined from her Husband so much good ground for the Commons of the Town of Dunstor as she could in one day believe it a Summer one for her ease and advantage compasse about going on her naked feet Surely no Ingenious Scholar beheld her in that her charitable perambulation but in effect vented his wishes in the Poets expression Ah! tibi nè teneras tellus secet aspera plantas The certain date of her death is unknown which by proportion is conjectured in the reign of King Henry the Fifth Since the Reformation NICHOLAS WADHAM of Merrifield in this County Esq. had great length in his extraction breadth in his Estate and depth in his liberality His Hospital house was an Inn at all times a Court at Cristmas He married Dorothy daughter to the Secretary sister to the first Lord Peters Absolom having no children reared up for himself a Pillar to perpetuate his name This Worthy pair being Issueless erected that which hath doth and will afford many Pillars to Church and State the uniform and regular nothing defective or superfluous therein Colledge of Wadham in Oxford Had this worthy Esquire being a great Patron of Church-Livings annexed some Benefices thereunto which may be presumed rather forgotten than neglected by him it had for compleatenesse of Fabrick and endowment equalled any English Foundation If he was which some suggest a Romanist in his Judgement his charity is the more commendable to build

Rex     Anno     1 Edw. Rogers arm ut prius   2 Ioh. Windham mil. Orchard Azure a Cheveron betwixt 3 Lions ●…ds erased Or. 3 Tho. Horner arm ut prius   4 Ioh. Por●…man arm ut prius   5 Edw. Hext miles Ham Or a Castle betwixt 3 Pole-Axes Sable 6 Edw. Gorges mil. Wraxal Masculy Or and Azure 7 Geo. Lutterel arm ut prius   8 Francis Baber arm Chew Mag. Arg. on a Fess Gules 3 Falcons heads erased of the first 9 Io. Rodney mil. Hugo Smith miles ut pr●…s     As●…ton Gules on a Cheveron betwixt 3 Cinquefoil●…s Or pierced as many Leopa●…ds heads Sable 10 Rob. Hendley ar Leigh Az●…a Lion Ramp Arg. crowned Or within a border of the second Entoy●…e of 8 Torteauxes 11 Nat. Still arm     12 Ioh. Horner mil. ut prius   13 Barth Michel m. Ioh. Colls ar   Partee per Fess G. S. a C●…v Ar. betwixt 3 Swans proper 14 Ioh. Paulet arm Hinton S. Geor. Soble 3 Swords in py●… A●…gent 15 Rob. Hopton arm ut prius   16 Theod Newton m. ut prius   17 Io. Trevilian arm Ne●…combe Gu●…s a Demi-ho●…se Arg●…nt ill●…ing out of the ●…aves of the Sea 18 Hen. Hendley ar ut prius   16 Marmad Gēnings a ut prius   20 Edw. Popham ar   Argent on a chief Gul●…s 2 Bu●…ks heads Or. 21 VVill. ●…ancis ar ut prius   22 Th. VVindham ar ut prius   CAR. Rex     Anno     1 Rob. Philip●… mil. Montacute Arg. a Ch●…veron btween 3 〈◊〉 G●…s 2 Ioh. Symmes arm Pounsford Azure 3 Scallops in Base Or. 3 Ioh. Latch a●…m Langford ●…r on a fess Wavy 3 〈◊〉 Or between as many 〈◊〉 G. 4 Ioh. Stowel miles ut prius   5 Tho. Thynne mil. WILT-Sh Barree of 10 Or and S●…ble 6 Fr. Dodington m. Loxton Sable 3 Hunters horns Arg●… 7 Th. Lutter●…l arm ut prius   8 VVill. VValrond ar ut prius   9 Ioh. Carew miles   Or 3 Lions passant Sable ar-med and Lang●… Gul. 10 Hen. Hodges arm Hasilbe●…e Or 3 Cressants and in a Canton 11 Ioh. Baster arm AMP. Sa. a D●…cal Crown of the first 12     13     14 VVill. Evvens ar   Sable a Fess between 2 flower de Luces Or. 15     16     17 Bellum nobis     18 haec Otia     19 fecit     20     21     22 Rich. Cole arm Nailsle Partee per Pale Ar. G a Bull pass countrechanged King JAMES 14 JOHN PAULET Armiger He was son to Sr. Anthony Paulet Governour of Jersey by the sole daughter of Henry Lord Norrice being the sole sister to the Brood of many Martial Brethren A very accomplisht Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful housekeeper so that King Charles consigned Monsieur Soubize unto him who gave him and his retinue many months liberal entertainment The said King afterwards created him Baron Paulet of Hinton St. George in this County descended to him from the Denbaudes the ancient owners thereof He married Elizabeth the daughter and sole Heir of Christopher Ken of Ken-Castle in the same Shire Esquire whose right honourable son and heir John Lord Paulet now succeedeth in that Barony Modern Battles None have been fought in this County which come properly under this Notion Indeed the Skirmish at Martials Elm something military and ominous in the name thereof fought 1642 made much Noise in mens eares a Musket gave then a greater Report than a Canon since And is remembred the more because conceived first to break the Peace of this Nation long restive and rusty in ease and quiet As for the encounter at Lang-port where the Kings Forces under the Lord Goring were defeated by the Parliaments July 12 1645 It was rather a Flight than a Fight like the Battle of Spurres fought many years since the Horse by their speed well saving themselves whilst the poor Foot pawned in the place paid dearly for it And hence forward the Sun of the Kings cause declined verging more more Westward till at last it set in Cornwal and since after a long and dark night rose again by Gods goodness in the East when our Gracious Sovereign arrived at Dover The Farewel May he who bindeth the Sea in a girdle of sand confine it within the proper limits thereof that Somerset-shire may never see that sad accident return which hap'ned here 1607. When by the irruption of the Severn-Sea much mischief was more had been done if the West-wind had continued longer with the like violence The Country was overflown almost 20 mil. in length and 4 in breadth and yet but 80 persons drowned therein It was then observeable that creatures of contrary natures Dogs Hares Foxes Conies Cats Mice getting up to the tops of some hills dispensed at that time with their antipathies remaining peaceably together without sign of fear or violence one towards another To lesson men in publick dangers to depose private differences and prefer their safety before their revenge BRISTOL more truly Bright-Stow that is Illustrious or Bright dwelling answers its Name in many respects Bright in the situation thereof conspicuous on the rising of a Hill Bright in the Buildings fair and firm Bright in the Streets so cleanly kept as if scoured where no Carts but sledges are used but chiefly Bright for the Inhabitants thereof having bred so many eminent Persons It standeth both in Somerset and Glocest●…-shires and yet in neither it being a Liberty of it self divided into two parts by the River Avon conjoyned with a Bridge which being built on both sides counterfeiteth a continued street for which strangers at the first sight do mistake it The houses of the Merchants herein are generally very fair and their Entries though little and narrow l●…ad into high and spatious Halls which Form may mind the Inhabitants thereof of their passage to a better place Naturall Commodities Diamonds These are the Stars of the Earth though such but dimme ones which St. Vincents Rock near to this City doth produce Their Price is abated by their paleness and softnesse to which we may add their Number and Nearness For were they but few and far fetched their value would be advanced They are not those Unions Pearles so called because thrifty Nature only affordeth them by one and one seeing that not only Twins but Bunches and Clusters of these are found together Were this Rock of raw Diamonds removed into the East-Indies and placed where the Beams of the Sun might sufficiently concoct them probably in some hundreds of years they would be ripened into an Orient perfection All I will add is this a Lady in the reign of Queen Elizabeth would have as patiently digested the Lye as the wearing of False Stones or Pendants of counterfeit Pearl so common in our Age and I could wish it were the worst piece of hypocrisy in Fashion Manufactures Gray-Sope I

Ioh. Palmer arm ut prius   36 Ioh. Thetcher arm     37 Ioh. Dawtree mil. ut prius   38 Ioh. Sackvile arm ut prius   EDVV. VI.     Anno     1 Thom Carden mil.     2 Ioh. Scott armig ut prius   3 Nich. Pelham mil. ut prius   4 VVill. Goring m. ut prius   5 Rob. Oxenbrigg ●… ut prius   6 Anthon. Brown m. ut prius   Rex PHIL. MAR. Reg     Anno     1 Tho. Saunders mil. chartwood Sable a Cheveron between 3 Bulls heads A●…g 2 Ioh. Covert arm ut prius   3 VVill. Saunders ar ut prius   4 Edw. Gage mil.   Gyronne of four Az. and Arg a Saltire Gules 5 Ioh. Ashburnham ut prius   6 VVill. Moore arm ut prius   Regin ELIZ.     Anno     1 Tho. Palmer mil. ut prius   2 Ioh. Colepeper ar   ●…rg a Bend engrail●…d Gules 3 Joh. Stidolf arm   Arg. Or a Chief Sable 2 Wolves heads Erased Or. 4 Hen. Goring arm ut prius   5 Will. Gresham     6 Rich. Covert arm ut prius   7 Antho. Pelham ar ut prius   8 Will. Dawtree arm ut prius   This year the 2 Counties were divided Sheriffs of Surrey alone Name Place Amre●… 9 Franc. Carew ar ut prius   10 Hen. We●…on mil. ut prius   11 Thom. Lifeld ar ut prius   12 Tho. Brown arm ut prius   This year the two Counties were again united under one Sheriff Name Place Amre●… 13 Ioh. Pelham arm ut prius   14 Tho Palmer mil. ut prius   15 Fran. Shirley arm ut prius   16 Ioh. Rede arm Rich. Polsted     17 Hen Pelham arm ut prius   18 Will. Gresham ar ut prius   19 Tho. Shirley mil ut prius   20 Georg. Goring ar ut prius   21 Will. Moore mil. ut prius   22 Will. Morley arm ut prius   23 Edw. Slifeld arm     24 Tho. Brown mil. ut prius   25 Walt. Covert arm ut prius   26 Tho. Bishop arm Parham Argent on a Bend cottised Gules 3 Bezauts 27 Rich. Bostock ar   Sable a Fesse Humet A●…g 28 Nich. Parker ar     29 Rich. Brown arm ut prius   30 Ioh. Carrell arm Harting Argent 3 Bars and as many Martlets in Chief Sable 31 Thom. Pelham a. ut prius   32 Hen. Pelham arm ut prius   33 Rob●… Linsey arm   Or an Eagle displayed Sable beaked and membred Az. a Chief Varry 34 Walt. Covert mil. ut prius   35 Nich. Parker mil.     36 Will. Gardeux a.     37 Rich. Leech arm     38 Edm. Culpeper a. ut prius   39 Georg. Moore arm ut prius   40 Jam. Colebrand a. Botham Az. 3 Levels with Plummets O. 41 Tho. Eversfeld a. Den Erm. on a Bend S. 3 Mullets O. 42 Edm. Boier arm Camberwel Sur. O. a Bend varry betwixt 2 Cottises Gules 43 Thom. Bishop arm ut prius   44 Ioh. Ashburnham ut prius   45 Rob. Lynsey ut prius   JAC. Rex     Anno     1 Rob. Linsey arm ut prius   2 Hen. Goring mil. ut prius   3 Edw. Culpeper mil ut prius   4 Tho. Hoskings mil.     5 Hen. Morley arm ut prius   6 Georg. Gunter mil.   Sable 3 Gantlets within a Border Or. 7 Thom. Hunt miles     8 Ioh. Lountesford   Az. a Cheveron betwixt 3 Boares Or Coupe Gules 9 Edw. Bellingham 〈◊〉 prins   10 Wil. Wignall a Tandrigde Sur. Azure on a Cheveron Or betwixt 3 Ostriges 3 Mullets Gules 11 Edw. Goring arm ut prius   12 Ioh. Willdigos m.     13 Rola Tropps Mor Ioh. Morgan m.     14 Ioh. Shirley mile ut prius   15 Ioh. Middleton a.     16 Ioh. Howland mil. Shatham Arg. 2 Bars and 3 Lions Ramp in Chief Sable 17 Nich. Eversfeld a. ut prius   18 Rich. Michelborne     19 Franc. Leigh mil. ut prius   20 Tho. Springet m.     21 Ben. Pelham mil. ut prius   22 Amb. Browne arm ut prius   CAROLUS Rex     Anno     1 Edr. Alford arm   G. 6 Pears 3 2 1 a chief O. 2 Tho. Bowyer arm Leghthorn Suss. Or a Bend Vary betw 2 Cotises G 3 Edw. Jourden arm Gatwik S. an Eagle displaied betw 2 Bendlets Ar. a Canton si●…ster Or. 4 Steph. Boord mil.     5 Anth. May arm●…ger   G. a Fesse between 8 Billets Or. 6 Will. Walter mil. Wimbl●… Az. a Fesse indented Or between 3 Eagles Argent 7     8 Ioh●… Chapman m.     9 Rich. Evelyn arm Wotton Az. a G●…yphon passant Chief O. 10 Will Culpeper ar ut prius   11 Will. Morley mil. ut prius   When I look upon these two Counties it puts me in mind of the Epigram in the Poet. Nec cum te possum vivere nec sine te Neither with thee can I well Nor without thee can I dwell For these two Shires of Surrey and Sussex generally had distinct Sheriffs until the Reign of King Edward the Second when they were united under One. Then again divided in the ninth of Queen Elizabeth united in the thirteenth divided again in the twelfth of King Charles and so remain at this day but how long this condition will continue is to me unknown seeing neither conjunctim nor divisim they seem very well satisfied Sheriffs of this Connty alone Name Place Amre●… King CHARLES     Anno     12 Antho. Vincent mil. Stock'd Azure 3 Quarterfoils Argent 13 Abernn   14 Iohan Gresham mil     15 Ioh. Howland mil. ut prius   16 Tho. Smith armig     17 Georg. Price arm     18     19 Edru Jorden arm ut prius   20 Mathe. Brand mi     21     22 Will. VVymondsal mil. Putnie   RICHARD the Second 19 JOHN ASHBURNHAM My poor and plain Pen is willing though unable to add any lustre to this Family of stupendious Antiquity The Chief of this name was High Sheriffe of Sussex and Surrey Anno 1066. when WILLIAM Duke of Normandy invaded England to whom King Harauld wrote to assemble the Posse Comitatunm to make effectuall resistance against that Foreigner The Original hereof an Honourable Heir-Loome worth as much as the Owners thereof would value it at was lately in the Possession of this Family A Family wherein the Eminency hath equalled the Antiquity thereof having been Barons of England in the Reign of King Henry the Third The Last Sr. John Ashburnham of Ashburnham married Elizabeth Beaumont Daughter of Sr. Tho. Beaumont afterwards by especiall Grace created Viscountess Crawmount in Scotland and bare unto him two Sons John of the Bed-chamber to King CHARLES the first and second and William Cofferer to his

bestowed should be pleased to provide a fair and firm Fabrick to receive it but now is reposited Bodly within a 〈◊〉 in the matchless Library of Oxford Romish Exil'd Writers GREGORY MARTINE was born at Macfield in this County bred contemporary with Campian Fellow of Saint Johns-colledge in Oxford He was chosen by Thomas Duke of Northfolk to be Tutor to his Son Philip Earl of Arundell and well discharged his trust therein Going afterwards beyond the Seas and living some time in Doway and Rome he fixed at last in the English-colledge at Rhemes where he was Professor of Divinity As he was Papall both in his Christian and Surname so was he deeply dyed with that Religion writing many Books in the defence thereof and one most remarkable intituled A Detection of the corruptions in the English Bible Athaliah did craftily to cry out first Treason Treason when she was the greatest Traitor her self and this Martine conscious of the many and foul corruptions in his own Rhemish translation politickly complained of the Faults in our English Bible He d●…ed the 28. of October 1582. and lyeth buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephens in Rhemes THOMAS STAPLETON was born at Henfield in this County as Pitts his familiar friend doth informe us Object not that it is written on his Tomb at Saint Peters at Lovaine Thomas Stapletonus qui Cicestriae in Anglia Nobili loco Natus Chichester there not being taken restrictively for the City but extensively for the Diocess His bare Sirname is sufficient proof of his Gentile Birth Those of his own perswasion please themselves much to observe that this Thomas was born in the same year and month wherein Sir Thomas Moor was beheaded as if Divinè Providence had purposely dropped from Heaven an Acorn in place of the Oake that was ●…ell'd He was bred in New colledge in Oxford and then by the Bishop Christopherson as I take it made Cannon of Chichester which he quickly quitted in the First of Queen Elizabeth Flying beyond the Seas he first fixed at Doway and there commendably performed the Office of Catechist which he discharged to his commendation Reader pardon an Excursion caused by just Grief and Anger Many counting themselfs Protestants in England do slight and neglect that Ordinance of God by which their Religion was set up and gave Credit to it in the first Reformation I mean CATECHISING Did not nor Saviour say even to Saint Peter himself feed my Lambs feed my heep And why Lambs first 1. Because they were Lambs before they were Sheep 2. Because if they be not fed whilst Lambs they could never be Sheep 3. Because She●…p can in some sort feed themselves but Lambs such their tenderness must either be fed or famished Our Stapleton was excellent at this Lamb-feeding from which Office he was afterwards preferred Kings Professor of Divinity in Lovain and was for fourty years together Dominus ad Oppositum the Undertaker-General against all Protestants Dr. Whitacre Professor in Cambridge experimentally profest that Bellarmine was the fairer and Stapleton the shrewder adversary His preferment in mine Eye was not proportionable to his Merit being no more then Cannon and Master of a Colledge in Lovain Many more admired that Stapleton mist then that Allen got a Cardinals Cap equalling him in Strictness of Life exceeding him in Gentility of Birth and Painfulness of Writing for the Romish Cause Such consider not that Stapletons Ability was drowned with Allens Activity and one Grain of the Statesman is too heavy for a pound of the Student Practical Policy in all Ages beating Pen-pains out of distance in the Race of Preferment Stapleton died and was buried in St. Peters in Lovain Anno 1598. Benefactors to the Publick Reader let not the want of Intelligence in me be mis-interpreted want of munificence in the natives of this County finding but one most eminent and him since the Reformation RICHARD SACKVILL Eldest son of Thomas Earl of Dorcet by Cecilly his Wife had his Barony if not his Birth at Buckhurst in this County A Gentleman of Singular learning in many Sciences and Languages so that the Greek and Latine were as familiar unto him as his own native Tongue Succeeding his father in that Earldom he enjoyed his dignity not a full year as lacking seven Weeks thereof Yet is there no fear that the shortness of his Earlship will make his Name forgotten having erected a Monument which will perpetuate his Memory to all Posterity viz. A Colledge at East-greensted in this County for one and Thirty poor people to serve Almighty God therein Endowing the same with three hundred and thirty pounds a Year out of all his Land in England By Margaret sole daughter to Thomas Duke of Norfolk he left two surviving sons Richard and Edward both Persons of admirable parts successively Earls after him and dying 1608. was buried at Withiham in this County Memorable Persons JOHN PALMER HENRY PALMER THOMAS PALMER Sons unto Edward Palmer Esq. of Angmarine in this County A Town so called as I am informed from Aqua Marina or the water of the sea being within two Miles thereof and probably in former Ages neerer thereunto Their Mother was daughter to one Clement of Wales who for his effectuall assisting of King Henry the seventh from his landing at Milford-haven untill the Battle of Bosworth was brought by him into England and rewarded with good Lands in this and the next County It happened that their Mother being a full fortnight inclusively in Labour was on Whitsunday delivered of John her eldest son on the sunday following of Henry her second son and the sunday next after of Thomas her third son This is that which is commonly called Superfoetation usuall in other Creatures but rare in Women the cause whereof we leave to the disquisition of 〈◊〉 These Three were knighted 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 by King 〈◊〉 the eighth who never laid his sword on his Shoulders who was not a Man so that they appear as remarkable in their suc●…esse as their Nativities The truth hereof needeth no other Atrestation then the generall and uncontrolled Tradition of their no lesse worshipfull then Numerous posterity in Sussex and Kent Amongst whom I instance in Sir Roger Palmer aged 80. years lately deceased and 〈◊〉 to our late King averring to me the faith hereof on his Reputation The exact date of these Knights deaths I cannot attain LEONARD 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 in this County being much delighted in gardening mans Original vocation was the 〈◊〉 who brought over into England from beyond the seas Carps and Pippins the one well cook'd delicious the other cordial and restorative For the proof hereof we have his own word and witness and did it it seems about the Fifth year of the reign of King Henry the eighth Anno Dom. 1514. The time of his death is to me unknown WILLIAM WITHERS born at Walsham in this County being a Child of Eleven years old did Anno 1581. lye

the Baron of Kendal 〈◊〉 his singular deserts ●…oth in Peace and War This was that Richard 〈◊〉 who s●…w the wild Bore that raging in the Mountains 〈◊〉 as sometimes that of Erimanthus much indamaged the Country people whence it is that the Gilpins in their Coat Armes give the Bore I confess the story of this Westmerland-Hercules soundeth something Romanza like However I believe it partly because so reverend a pen hath recorded it and because the people in these parts need not feigne foes in the fancy Bears Bores and Wild beasts who in that age had real enemies the neighbouring Scots to encounter Lord Mayors Name Father Place Company Time 1 Cuthbert Buckle Christopher Buckle Bourgh Vintner 1593 Sheriffs I find two or three Links but no continued chain os Sheriffs in this County untill the 10. of K. John who bestowed the Baily-week and Revenues of this County upon Robert Lord Vipont ROBERT de VIPONT the last of that Family about the raign of K. Edward the first left two daughters 1. Sibel married to Roger Lord Clifford 2. Idonea the first and last I meet with of that Christian-name though proper enough for women who are to be meet helps to their husbands married to Roger de Leburn Now because honor nescit dividi Honour cannot be divided betwixt Co-heirs and because in such cases it is in the Power and Pleasure of the King to assign it entire to which he pleased the King Conferred the Hereditary Sheriffalty of this County on the Lord Clifford who had Married the Eldest Sister I●… hath ever since continued in that honorable family I find Elizabeth the Widdow of Thomas Lord Clifford probably in the Minority of her son Sheriffess as I may say in the sixteenth of Richard the second till the last of K. Henry the fourth Yet was it fashionable for these Lords to depute and present the most Principal Gentry of this Shire their Sub-Vicecomites Under-sheriffs in their Right to order the affairs of that County I find Sir Thomas Parr Sir William Parr Ancestors to Q. Katherin Parr as also Knights of the Families of the Bellingams Musgraves c. discharging that office so high ran the Credit and Reputation thereof Henry Lord Clifford was by K. Henry the eight Anno 1525. Created Earl of Cumberland and when Henry the fift Earl of that family died lately without Issue male the Honour of this Hereditary Sheriffalty with large Revenues Reverted unto Anne the sole daughter of George Clifford third Earl of Cumberland the Relict of Richard Earl of Dorset and since of Phillip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery by whom she had two daughters the Elder married to the Earl of Thanet and the younger married to James Earl of Northampton The Farewell Reader I must confess my self sorry and ashamed that I cannot do more right to the Natives of this County so far distanced North that I never had yet the opportunity to behold it O that I had but received some intelligence from my worthy friend Doctor Thomas Barlow Provost of Queens-colledge in Oxford who for his Religion and Learning is an especiall ornament of Westmerland But Time Tide and a PrintersPress are three unmannerly things that will stay for no man and therefore I request that my defective indeavours may be well accepted I learn out of Master Camden that in the River Cann in this County there be two Catadupae or Waterfalls whereof the Northern sounding Clear and Loud foretokeneth Fair Weather the Southern on the same Terms presageth Rain Now I wish that the former of thesemay be Vocall in Hay-time and Harvest the latter after Great Drought that so both of them may make welcome Musick to the Inhabitants VVILT-SHIRE WILT-SHIRE hath Gloucester-shire on the North Berk-shire and Hampshire on the East Dorset-shire on the South and Summerset-shire on the West From North to South it extendeth 39. Miles but abateth ten of that Number in the breadth thereof A pleasant County and of great Variety I have heard a Wise man say that an Oxe left to himself would of all England choose to live in the North a Sheep in the South part hereof and a Man in the Middle betwixt both as partaking of the pleasure of the plain and the wealth of the deep Country Nor is it unworthy the observing that of all Inland Shires no ways bordered on Salt-water this gathereth the most in the Circumference thereof as may appear by comparing them being in compass one Hundred Thirty and Nine Miles It is plentifull in all English especially in the ensuing Commodities Naturall Commodities Wooll The often repetition hereof though I confess against our rules premised may justly be excused Well might the French Embassadour return France France France reiterated to every petty title of the King of Spain And our English Wooll Wooll c. may counterpoize the numerous but inconsiderable Commodities of other Countries I confess a Lock thereof is most contemptible Non flocci te facio passing for an expression of the highest neglect but a quantity thereof quickly amounteth to a good valuation The Manufactures Clothing This Mystery is vigorously pursued in this County and I am informed that as MEDLEYS are most made in other Shires as good WHITES as any are woven in this County This mentioning of Whites to be vended beyond the Seas minds me of a memorable contest in the raign of King James betwixt the Merchants of London and Sir William Cockain once Lord Mayor of that City and as Prudent a Person as any in that Corporation He ably moved and vigorously prosecuted the design that all the Cloth which was made might be died in England alledging that the wealth of a Country consisteth in driving on the Naturall Commodities thereof through all Manufactures to the utmost as far as it can go or will be drawn And by the Dying of all English cloth in England Thousands of poor People would be imployed and thereby get a comfortable subsistence The Merchants returned that such home-dying of our cloth would prove prejudiciall to the sale thereof Forreigners being more expert then we are in the mysterie of fixing of Colours Besides they can afford them far cheaper then we can much of dyingstuff growing in their Countries and Forraigners bear a great aff●…ction to White or Virgin cloth unwilling to have their Fancies prevented by the Dying thereof insomuch that they would like it better though done worse if done by themselves That Sir William Cockain had got a vast deal of Dying-stuff into his own possession and did drive on his own interest under the pretence of the Publick good These their Arguments were seconded with good store of good Gold on both sides till the Merchants prevailed at last A Shole of Herrings is able to beat the Whale it self and Clothing left in the same condition it was before Tobacco pipes The best for shape and colour as curiously sized are made at Amesbury in this County They may be

the Water is this That whether Husband or VVife come first to drink thereof they get the mastery thereby St. CLINTANKE was King of Brecknock a small Kingdom for an obscure King though eminent with some for his Sanctity Now it happened that a noble Virgin gave it out that she would never marry any man except the said King who was so zealous a Christian. Such as commend her good choice dislike her publick profession thereof which with more Maiden-like modesty might have been concealed But see the sad successe thereof A Pagan Souldier purposely to defeat her desire kild this King as he was one day a hunting who though he lost his life got the reputation of a Saint and so we leave him The rather because we find no date fixed unto him so that the Reader may believe him to have lived even when he thinks best himself Prelates GILES de BRUSE born at Brecknock was Son to William de Bruse Baron of Brecknock and a prime Peer in his Generation This Giles became afterwards Bishop of Hereford and in the Civil Wars sided with the Nobility against King John on which account he was banished but at length returned and recovered the Kings favour His Paternal Inheritance by death it seems of his elder Brother was devolved unto him being together Bishop and Baron by descent and from him after his death transmitted to his Brother Reginald who married the Daughter of Leoline Prince of Wales If all this will not recover this Prelate into our Catalogue of Worthies then know that his Effigies on his Tomb in Hereford Church holdeth a Steeple in his hand whence it is concluded that he built the Belfree of that Cathedral as well he might having so vast an estate His death happened Anno 1215. Since the Reformation THOMAS HOWEL was born at Nangamarch in this County within few miles of Brecknock bred Fellow of Jesus Colledge in Oxford and became afterwards a meek man and most excellent Preacher His Sermons like the waters of Siloah did run softly gliding on with a smooth stream So that his matter by a lawful and laudable felony did st●…al secretly into the hearts of his hearers King Charls made him the last Bishop of Bristol being consecrated at Oxford He died Anno Dom. 1646. leaving many Orphan children behind him I have been told that the honourable City of Bristol hath taken care for their comfortable education and am loath to pry too much into the truth thereof lest so good a report should be confuted States-Men HENRY STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham Though Humphrey his Father had a fair Castle at and large lands about Stafford whereof he was Earl yet his Nativity is most probably placed in this County where he had Brecknock-Castle and a Principality about it This was he who with both his hands set up Richard the third on the Throne endeavouring afterwards with his hands and teeth too to take him down but in vain He was an excellent Spoaks-man though I cannot believe that his long Oration to perswade the Londoners to side with the Usurper was ever uttered by him in terminis as it lieth in Sir Thomas Mores History Thus the Roman Generals provided themselves of Valour and Livy as he represented them stocked them with Eloquence Yet we may be well assured that this our Duke either did or would have said the same and he is the Orator who effects that he aimeth at this Duke being unhappily happy therein Soon after not remorse for what he had done but revenge for what King Richard would not do denying his desire put him on the project of unravelling what he had woven before But his fingers were entangled in the threads of his former Web the King compassing him into his clutches betrayed by Humphrey Banister his Servant The Sheriff seised this Duke in Shropshire where he was digging a ditch in a Disguise How well he managed the Mattock and Spade I know not this I know that in a higher sense He had made a Pit to disinherit his Soveraign and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he had made being beheaded at Sarisbury without any legal Tryal Anno 1484. Memorable Persons NESTA Hunger maketh men eat what otherwise they would let alone not to say cast away The cause I confesse wanting matter to furnish out our Description inviting me to meddle with this Memorable not Commendable Person 1. She was Daughter to Gr●…ffin Prince of Wales 2. VVife to Bernard de Neumarch a Noble Norman and Lord by Conquest of this County 3. Mother to Mahel an hopeful Gentleman and Sibyl his Sister 4. Harlot to a young man whose name I neither do nor desire to know It happened Mahel having got this Stallion into his power used him very hardly yet not worse than he deserved Nesta madded hereat came in open Court and on her Oath before King Henry the second publickly protested no Manna like revenge to malicious minds not caring to wound their Foes though through themselves that Mahel was ●…e of Neumarch his Son but begotten on her in Adultery This if true spake her dishonesty if false her perjury true or false her peerless impudency Hereby she disinherited her Son and setled a vast Territory on Sibyl her sole Daughter married afterwards to Milo Earl of Hereford The Farewell When Mr. Speed in pursuance of his Description of England passed this County no fewer than Eight who had been Bayliffs of Brecknock gave him courteous entertainment This doth confirm the Character I have so often heard of the Welsh Hospitality Thus giving them their due praise on just occasion I hope that the British Reader will the better digest it if he find some passages altogether as true as this though nothing so pleasing to Him in our following Farewells CARDIGAN-SHIRE CARDIGAN-SHIRE is washed on the West with the Irish Sea and parted from the neighbouring Shires by Rivers and the Reader will be careful that the similitude of their sounds betray him not to a mistake herein 1. Dovi severing it on the North from Merioneth-shire 2. Tovy on the East from Brecknock-shire 3. Tyvy on the South from Carmarthen and Pembroke-shlre My Author saith the form thereof is Horn-like wider towards the North and I may say it hath a Corn●…-Copia therein of all things for mans sustenance especially if industry be used This County though remotest from England was soonest reduced to the English Dominion whilest the Countries interposed maintained their liberty The reason whereof was this The English being far more potent in shipping than the Welsh found it more facile to saile over the Mountains of Water so the Surges of the Sea are termed by the Poet than march over the Mountains of Earth and by their Fleet invaded and conquered this County in the reign of Rufus and Henry the first bestowed the same entirely upon Gilbert de Clare Natural Commodities Bevers Plenty of these formerly did breed in the

Devon 262 Roger Comes ibid. 268 Dr. John Cosen Durh. 295 Dr. Richard Cosen ibid. 296 Thomas Cole Berk. 97 Sir John Cokeyn Bedf. 116 Richard Cox Bucks 131 Samuel Collins ibid. 137 Ralph of Cogshall Essex 332 Henry Cotton Hants 7 Sir Robert Cotton Hunting 52 Sir Rowland Cotton Shrop. 16 William Cotton Lond. 206 T●…omas Cotton Camb. 167 William Collet ibid. 161 John of Cornwa●… Cornw. 203 Godfrey of Cornwall ibid.   Sir John Cornwall Shr●…p 15 Brian Cornwall Staff 53 Richard Conwail Heref. 46 Thomas Conisby Hertf●… 32 Sir Thomas Conisby Heref. 47 John Courcy Somers 25 John Collington ibid. 30 Thomas Coriat Somers 31 William Coppinger Suff. 71 Sir William Co d●…ll ibid. 7●… Eleanor Cobham Surr. 80 Richard Corbet ibid. 83 John Col●…on Norf 255 John Coupeland Northumb. 312 Richard Courtney Devon 252 William Courtney ibid. 250 Peter Courtney ibid. 253 Richard Crackanthorp Cumb. 221 Sir Randall Crew Chesh. 178 Randall Crew ibid. 184 William Crew ibid. ibid Thomas Crofts Suff. 75 James Cranford Warw. 128 Lyonel C●…anfeild Lond. 211 Sir James Crofts Heref. 41 Thomas Cranley Surr. 81 Thomas Cranmer Nott. 316 Robert Crowley Northamp 290 Roger of Crowland Linc. 164 Thomas Cromwell Surr. 83 Sir Oliver Cromwell Hunt 54 Thomas Cromwell Cambr. 168 Sir Henry Cromwell ibid. 169 Sir George Crooke Buck. 133 John Croke ibid. 140 John Crane Camb. 160 William Crowmer Kent 95 Ralph Cudworth Lanc. 117 Henry Cuffe Somers 28 Bartholomew Culie Leic. 132 Thomas Curson Lond. 223 John Curd Northamp 283 Sir John Cuts Cambr. 168 Roger Curson Derb. 232 John Cut-cliffe Devon 263 Hugh Curwen alias Coren Westmor 140 John Cumin alias Comin Worc. 167 D. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Michael Dalton Camb. 159 Sir Robert Dallington Northamp 288 Sir Thomas Dacres Hertf. 32 Henry Danvers Wilt. 153 Mary Dale Somers 37 Samuel Daniel ibid. 28 Walter Daniel York 205 George Day Shrop. 5 William Day     Sir John Darell Berk. 111 James Davenant Lond. 207 Sir Humphrey Davenport Chesh. 178 John Damerell Devon 271 John of Darlington Durh. 295 Robert Darcy Essex 339 John Davies Heref. 40 Sir Robert Dennis Devon 272 Baldwin Devonius ibid. 274 Sir Edward Denny Hertf. 32 Robert Devereux Heref. 38 Walter Devereux ibid. 46   Caermar 28 John Dee Lanc. 116 John Delves Staff 53 Simon Dewes Suff. 75 David Archidiaconus Bedf. 122 Francis Dillingham ibid. 117 Sir James Dier Somers 25 John Digby Warw. 124 Richard of Devises Wilt. 155 John Diggons Hant. 14 Leonard Digges Kent 82 Daniel Dike Hertf. 28 Jeremiah Dike ibid.   Nicholas Dixon ibid. 29 Sir Wolstan Dixie Hunting 53 Sir Robert Dimock Line 174 Sir William Doddington Hants 14 Robert Dodford Northamp 290 Sir William Dormer Bedf. 126 Robert Dormer Bucks 141 Thomas Dorman ibid. 137 John Dod Chesh. 181 Thomas Dove Lond. 207 John Doreward Essex 339 Sir John Doderidge Devon 257 George Downham Chesh. 189 John Downham ibid. 191 John Donne Lond. 221 John Douland Westminst 244 Edmund Doubleday ibid. 245 Sir Robert Doyle Oxf. 345 Sir William Druery Suff. 63 Drugo Drury Norf. 272 Thomas Drax Warw. 125 Michael Drayton ibid. 126 John Driton Sussex 109 John Drusius Hants 12 Sir Francis Drake Devon 261 St. Dunstan Somers 21 William Dudley Staff 42 Edmund Dudley ibid. 43 John Dudley ibid. 44 53 Sir Robert Dudley Surr. 84 Augustin Dudley Northamp 283 John of Dunstable Bedf. 116 Arthur Ducke Devon 262 Brian Duppa Kent 73 James Duport Leic. 134 Richard Dugard Worc. 176 E. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Robert Eaglesfield Cumberl 222 Adam de Easton Heref. 36 St. Ealphage Kent 67 John Easday ibid. 99 Ealread of Rievaulx York 205 St. Ebba Northumb. 304 Thomas Ecklestone Chesh. 180 King Edward III. Berk. 88 Edward Son to King Edgar Dorset 278 King Edward I. Westmin 236 King Edward IV. Caernar 28 St. Edward the Confessor Oxf. 331 King Edward V. Westmin 337 King Edward VI. Middl. 178 Edward Son to Edward III. Oxf. 330 Edward Son to King Richard III. York 191 Edward Son to King Henry VI. Westmin 236 St. Edmund Berk. 89   Suff. 56 Edmund Son to King Henry VII Kent 66 Edmund Son to King Edward III. Hertf. 19 Edmund Son to King Edward I. Oxf. 330 Edmund of Hadham Hertf. 19 Thomas Edwardston Suff. 59 Sir Clement Edmunds Shrop. 6 Sr. Edwold Oxf. 331 St. Edburgh Hant. 4   Buck. 128 Thomas Eden Essex 336 Richard Edgcomb Devon 271 Sir Peter Edgeombe Cornw. 210 St. Edith Wilt. 147 William Edendon ibid. 150 John Ede Wales 15 St. Edilburge Essex 322 William Egremont Cumb. 220 Sir Thomas Egerton Chesh. 176 Eleanor Daughter to King Edward I. Berk. 88   Hants 4 Queen Elisabeth Kent 66 Elisabeth Daughter to King Edward IV. Westmin 237 Elisabeth Daughter to King Charles I. ibid. 239 Elisabeth Daughter to Earl of Clare Suff. 71 Elisabeth Daughter to King Edward I. Flint 37 Thomas of Ely Suff. 68 Hugh Elio Somers 35 Sir Thomas Eliot Camb. 168 Nicholas of Ely Camb. 152 Humphry Ely Heref. 41 St. Elfred Hunting 49 John of Eltham Kent 65 Bridget of Eltham ibid.   John Elryngton Middl. 188 Elvodugus Probus Flint 39 Sir Richard Empson Northamp 287 Wi●…liam Englebert Dorces 284 Samson Erderswick Staff 45 John Erghom York 230 William Essex Berk. 108 Henry de Essex Bedf. 121 Alexander of Esseby Somers 27 Nicholas Estwick Northamp 291 Ethelbert Heref. 35 St. Ethelburgh Essex 322 Sylvester de Everton Bedf. 116 John Eve●…sden Cambr. 157 Hugh of Evesham Worc. 168 Elias of Evesham   174 Walter of Evesham   176 Walter Eustathius York 195 Marbod Evan Wales 10 William Evans Monm 54 Sir Ralph Evars alias Eure York 222 Sir Thomas Exmew Denb 35 William of Exeter 〈◊〉 275 Sir Simon Eyre Suff. 71 F. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Peter Fabell Middl. 186 Anthony Faunt 〈◊〉 142 Robert Fabian Lond. 218 John Fastolfe Norf. 253 Eustathius de Fauconbridge York 195 Guido de Fairfax ibid. 199 Sir Nicholas Fairfax ibid. 222 Robert Farrar Caermar 27 Sir Jeffrey Fenton Notting 319 Edward Fenton ibid. 318 Roger Fenton Lanc. 116 John Fen Somers 29 Sir Richard Fenys Oxf. 345 Daniel Featly ibid. 340 Nichol●…s of Fernham Surr. 80 John Feckenham Worc. 177 Haimo of Feversham Kent 80 Besil Feriplace Berk. ●…10 Henry Filmer ibid. 90 Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert Derb. 253 Richard Fishacre alias 〈◊〉 Devon 263 Richard Fishbourn Hunt 53 Simon Fish Kent 69 John Fisher Leic. 141   York 194 Edward Fines Linc. 158 Sir Moile Finch Kent 96 Sir Henry Finch ibid. 76 Sir John Fineux ibid. ibid. Bertram Fitz-Allin Linc. 166 Robert Floyd alias Fludd Kent 78 Richard Fletcher Kent 72 Giles Fletcher ibid. 78   Lond. 221 John 〈◊〉 Northamp 288 Fleta or Fleet Lond. 212 Florence of Worcester Worc. 174 William Flowre Camb. 151 Humphry Foster Berk. 107 Humphry Forster ibid. 109 Humphry Foster Cumb. 218 John de Ford Devon 263 John Fowler Somers 36 Gilbert Fo●…ot Devon 251 Robert Foliot ibid. iaeid Sir Henry Fortescue ibid. 256 Sir John Fortescue     Sir Adrian Fortescue  

Essex 326 Jeffery Rutl. 348 Sir John Jefferey Sussex 105 Thomas Ilam Lond. 233 John Incent Hertf. 29 Sir Francis Inglesfeild Berk. 109 John Son to King Edward I. ibid. 88 Sir Oliver St. John Wilt. 152 Sir John St. John Bedf. 125 Oliver St. John ibid. ibid Hugh Johnes Wales 11 William Johnes Monm 53 Thomas Jones Lanc. 112 Benjamin Johnson Westmin 243 Thomas Johnson York 204 Robert Johnson Linc. 169 Joan Daughter to King Edward II. Lond. 201 Thomas Joyce Oxf. 332 George Joy Bedf. 117 Sir Ralph Josceline Hertf. 29 Joceline of Wells Somers 22 Josephus Iscanus Devon 274 Barthol Iscanus ibid. ibid. Roger of St. Ives Hunting 51 Sir Anthony Jud Kent 84 Robert Ivory Lond. 217 St. Justinian Pembr 57 William Juxton Sussex 104 K. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Katharine Daughter to King Henry III. Lond. 201 Katharine Daughter to King Henry VII ibid. 202 Katharine Daughter to King Charles I. Westmin 240 John Kendricke Berk. 97 St. Kenelme Gloc. 353 John Kemp Kent 69 Thomas Kempe ibid. 71 John of Kent ibid. 80 Henry Keble Lond. 233 Matthew Kellison Northamp 292 Richard Kendall Westminst 139 Sir Edward Kelley alias Talbot Worc. 172 St. Keyne Breckn 22 St. Kiby Cornw. 198 Kiltor ibid. 205 John King Buck. 132 Henry King ibid. ibid. Sir William Kingston Gloc. 368 Sir Anthony Kingston     Robert Kinaston Shrop. 16 John Kinyngham Suff. 68 Kidstone Lanc. 122 John Kite Lond. 205 Hugh Kirkstead Linc. 164 John of Killingworth Warw. 124 John de Kirkby Westmor 136 William Knight Lond. 205 Henry de Knighton Leicest 133 Sir Robert Knowles Chesh. 179 Sir Francis Knowles Oxford 334 335 Sir Henry Knowles     Sir William Knowles     Sir Robert Knowles     Sir Thomas Knowles     Lettice Knowles     Sir Thomas Kneisworth Cumb. 160 L. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Nicholas Latham Northamp 293 William Lawd Berk. 93 Roger Layburn Cumb. 218 Gerh. Langbane ibid. 221 Henry Langley Essex 339 Edmund of Langley Hertf. 19 Robert Langland Shrop. 8 Richard Laken ibid. 12 Richard Lanham Suff. 68 Robert Langton Westmor 140 Stephen Langton Kent 97 Simon Langton ibid. 99 Walter de Langton Leic. 128 Thomas Langton ibid. 133 John Laurence Essex 323 Arthur Lakes Hants 7 Sir Thomas Lakes ibid. 9 Lamfrid ibid. 10 William Lambe Kent 85 Hugh Latimer Leic. 127 William Laxton Northamp 293 William Lawes Wilt. 156 Blegabride Langauride Wales 13 Laurentius Anglicus Lond. 216 Thomas Legge Norf. 276 John Lewkenor Surr. 95 Francis Leigh Warw. 133 Thomas Leigh     Sir James Ley Wilt 152 Edward Lee York 194 Paulin de Leeds ibid. 215 John Lepton ibid. 231 Leoline Denb 34 John Leventhorpe Essex 340 Hucarius the Levite Cornw. 202 Hugh Legat Hertf. 26 Thomas Leaver Lanc. 115 William Lempster Heref. 39 Sir Anthony St. Leger Kent 73 William de Leicester Leic. 132 Robert de Leicester ibid.   Thomas Linacer Derb. 235 August Linsell Essex 326 Thomas de la Lynd Dorc. 284 Simon Lynch Essex 337   Kent 85 William Lyford Berk. 96 William Lynwood Linc. 156 William Lilly Hants 11 William Lidlington Linc. 164 Nicholas Lyra Lond. 217 Nicholas of Lynne Norf. 254 Alan of Lynne ibid. 256 Thomas Lydyate Oxf. 338 Edward Littleton Staff 42 Sir Thomas Littleton ibid. ibid.   Worc. 171 William de Lichfield Staff 45 John Lydgate Suff. 68 Herbert Losing Oxf. 332   Suff. 58 Adam Loftus York 198 William Longchamp Essex 342 John Lowe Worc. 168 Sir Richard Lovelace Berk. 110 Henry Longuile Buck. 141 Maud Lucy Cumb. 222 John Lucas Essex 347 Egid. Lucas ibid. 340 William de Lubbenham Lei●… 132 Thomas Lupsett Lond. 218 M. NAMES SHIRE PAGE John Marbeck Berk. 91 John Mason ibid. 93 Thomas Magnus Notting 320 Sir Henry Martin Lond. 214 Gregory Martin Suss. 111 Richard Martin Devon 275 William Martin     Alan de Marton Berk. 104 〈◊〉 Daughter to King Edward I. Berk. 88 Philip Ma●…pas Lond. 232 Queen Mary Kent 66 Mary Daughter to King Charles I. Westminst 238 Mary Daughter to King Edward I. Berk. 88 Mary Daughter to King Henry VIII Kent 66 Mary Daughter to King James ibid. 67 Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond Berk. 115 Maud Countess of Northumberland Cumb. 222 Simon Firz-Mary Lond. 228 Walter Male-clerk Cumb. 225 John Marre alias Marrey York 207 George Marsh Lanc. 108   Chesh. 188 John Marshal Worc. 175 Stephen Marshal Hunt 52 Adam of Marsh Somers 27 Matthew of We●…minst 242 Tobias Matthew Somers 34 John May Suff. 61 Thomas May Suff. 110 John Matthew Buck. 137 Andrew Marvail Cambr. 159 Roger de Martivall Leic. 129 Hugh of Manchester Lanc. 114 Sir John Markham Notting 317 William Mansfield ibid. 318 John Maundrell Wilt. 148 Sir Halvatheus Maulever alias Mallevorer York 221   Warw. 120 William Makilsfeild Chesh. 174 Thomas Maldon Essex 333 Henry Marny ibid. 346 Sir Henry Maynard ibid. 347 Perotine Massey Hant. 5 John Mandevile Hertf. 26 Ralph of Maidenstan Kent 70 Sir Roger Manwood ibid. 76 Robert Mascall Shrop. 5   Sussex 113 Leonard Maw Suff. 61 Richard Mayo alias Mayhow Wilt. 150 Richard Mayhowe ibid. ibid. Oliver of Malmesbury ibid. 154 William of Malmesbury Walter de Merton Surr. 81 John de Metingham Suff. 64 St. Meliorus Cornw. 199 Joseph Mede Essex 334 Simon Mepham Kent 71 William de Melton York 195 Sir Christopher Metcalfe ibid. 222 Rowland Merrick Angles 19 Ambrose Merlin Carmar 29 Michell Wilt. 158 Sir Hugh Middleton Denb 36 David Middleton Chesh. 189 Sir Henry Middleton Walter Mildmey Essex 335 Thomas Milles Kent 82 Anthony Milemay Northamp 300 St. Milburgh Shrop. 3 Thomas Mitton ibid. 16 John of Milverton Somers 35 William Minors Staff 44 Sir Thomas More Lond. 208   Dorset 289 Margaret More Lond. 209 Peter Morwing Linc. 167 George Monox Lond. 233 Sir William Mounson Linc. 163 John Mordant Bedf. 105 Thomas Morton York 229 John Morton Dorset 279 Robert Morton Richard Montague Buck. 132 James Montague Northamp 284 Edward Montague ibid. 287 293 Sir Henry Montague ibid. 289 Guido de Mona Anglesey 18 George Mountaine York 199 Fines Morison Linc. 167 Sir Richard Morisin Essex 327 Sir John Mortimer Heref. 46 Edmund Mortimer Suff. 56 Lady Mohun Somers 30 William Mohun Cornw. 211 John Molle Devon 250 George Moncke ibid. 259 Thomas De la More Gloc. 358 S●…r William Molineux Lanc. 113 John Mountgomery Essex 339 Je●…y of Monmouth Monm 50,52 John of ibid. 50 Thomas of ibid. 53 Henry of Monmouth Radnor 59 John Mush York 213 Richard Mulcaster Westmor 139 N. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Sir Robert Naunton Suff. 64 Thomas of Newmarket Cambr. 153 John Newburgh Doro. 289 William of Newborough York 206 Cicely Nevil●… Durh. 291 Bishop Ralph Nevill Bishop Alexander Nevill ibid. 293 Bishop Robert Nevill Bishop George Nevill Hugo de Nevill Essex 342 John de Nevill Thomas Nevile Kent 99 Anne Nevill Warw. 118 St. Neots Essex 323 Hugh of St. Neots Hant. 50 Humphrey Necton Suff. 67 Thomas Neale Gloc. 359 Richard Neile Westminst 241 Nesta Breck

Warw. 120 Henry of Sandwich Kent 71 Robert Samuel Suff. 58 William Sauter Lond. 203 Gilbert Segrave Leic. 128 Thomas Scroope Suff. 69 Richard Scroope York 196 Sir Jervas Scroop Linc. 174 Robert the Scribe York 205 Thomas Scott ibid. 214 John Scott Kent 95 William Scott ibid. 94 John Scotus Northumb. 307 Gilbert de Sempringham Linc. 154 William Sengham Lond. 216 John Selden Suss. 110 〈◊〉 Sclater Bedf. 117 John Scrivener Buck. 129 Richard Senhouse Cumber 219 William Sevenoake Kent 84 John Seintleger ibid. 94 St. Sewall York 227 Thomas Seymore Wilt. 151 Edward Seymore     Jane Seymore ibid. 146 Sir Francis Seymore ibid. 164 Robert the Searcher alias Perscrutator York 207 Sertor of Wales Wales W●…les William Shakespeare Warw. 126 Edmund Sheffield Linc 166 John Shorditch Middl. 188 Shamborn Norf. 264 Robert of Shrew●…bury Shrop. 4 Ralph of Shrewsbury Shrop. 4 Robert of Shrewsbury   8 Sir Anthony Shirly Sussex 107 Sir Robert Shirly     Sir Thomas Shirly   108 William Shirwood Durh. 297 Robert Sherbo●…n Hants 6 John of Shepey Kent 71 Anthony Shugburgh Warw. 133 Nathaniel Shute York 211 Jo●…ah Shute     Richard Sharpe Somers 34 William Siveyer Durh. 297 Edward Simonds Her●…f 28 Sir Henry Sidney Kent 74 Sir Philip Sidney   75 Francis Sidney   85 Humphrey Sidenham Somers 29 Richard Sibbs Su●… 69 Robert Skinner Northamp 285 John Skelton Cumb. 221   Norf. 257 Sir William de Skipwith bis Linc. 160 William Skipwith Leic. 142 John Skuish Cornw. 204 Sir James Skudamore Heref. 47 William Sleightholm York 193 Sir Henry Sl●…gsby ibid. 223 Henry Smith Surrey 87 Sir Thomas Smith Berk. 94   Essex 328 John Smith Chesh. 179 William Smith   184 Miles Smith D. D. Heref. 38 Richard Smith Worc. 175 William Smith Lanc. 119 John Smith   120 Henry Smith Leic. 134 Robert Smith   136 Robert Southwell Suff. 71 Laurence Sommercote Suss. 108 Sophia Daughter to King James Kent 67 Robert Sommercoat Linc. 155 William of Somerset Wi●…t 154 Maurice Sommerset Somers 27 John Spicer Wilt. 148 John Spine Somers 35 Thomas Spring Suff. 71 John Speed Chesh. 181 John Sprint Gloc. 360 Miles Spencer ●…estmor 140 Edmund Spencer Lond. 219 William Spencer Northamp 299 Robert Spencer   300 Thomas Sparkes Linc. 167 Charles Stuart Son to James D. of York ●…stminst 240 John Still Linc. 158 Nicholas Stanford ibid. 165 Sir William Stamford 〈◊〉 183 Sir Simon Steward Cambr. 169 Henry Stafford Breck 23   Staff 45 Edmund Stafford Staff 45 John Stafford     John Stafford Dorc. 279 Humphrey Stafford Leic. 141 Henry Standish Lanc. 109 John Standish   114 Thomas Stanley Staff 53 James Stanley Lanc. 109 John Stratford Warw. 121 Ralph Stratford     Robert Stratford     William Fitz-Stephens Lond. 216 John Stow ibid. 219 Alexander Strange ibid. 224 Egid. Strangwayes Dorces 289 Sir Humphrey Starkey Chesh. 177 John Stathom Derb. 233 John Stanbery Devon 253 Thomas Stapleton Suss. 111 Sir Robert Stapleton York 223 William of Strickland Westmor 137 Richard Stocke York 231 Simon Stocke Kent 80 Matthew Stoakes Buck. 135 Thomas Stuckely Devon 258 Walter de Stuchesly Gloc. 363 Thomas Sternhold Hants 11 Stumps Wilt. 157 Henry Sturmy ibid. 161 Sir Richard Sutton Chesh. 182 Richard Sutton Linc. 168 Sir George Summers Dorc. 282 Simon Sudbury alias Tibald Suff. 59 Richard Sulcard Westmin 242 T. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Sir John Talbot Shrop. 7 12 Richard Talbot ibid. 5 Sir Gilbert Talbot   16 Sir Edmund Talbot York 221 Sir Edward Talbot alias Kelley Worc. 172 Thomas Tarlton Staff 47 William Tavernour Oxf. 344 Rowland Tailour Suff. 57 Thomas Tailour York 210 Robert Testwood Berk. 96 Hester Temple Buck. 138 John Terer Chesh. 192 Alan of Tewksbury Gloc. 358 Thomas Thirlby Cambr. 153 Robert Thorne Somers 36 Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Warw. 123 Sir Arthur Throgmorton Northam 301 John Thornborogh Wilt. 151 Sir John Thin ibid. 164 Francis Thin Kent 82 St. Theliah Merion 43 Sir Rice ap-Thomas Carmar 27 Thomas of Woodstock Son to King Edward III. Oxf. 330 Thomas Son to Edward I. York 191 Thomas ap-William c. Flint 40 St. Theorithoid Essex 3●…2 John Thorpe Norf. 257 Simon Thurway Cornw. 203 John Tiptoft Cambr. 155 Sir James Tirrel Cornw. 210 John Tyrril Essex 338 Gervase of Tilbury ibid. 332 Sir Frederick Tilney Linc. 161 Dr. Tighe ibid. 167 Christopher Tye Westmin 244 Thomas Tisdall Oxf. 341 St. Tibba Rutl. 347 Simon Tibald alias Sudbury Suff. 59 Cuthbert Tonstall York 197 Robert Tomson Hants 10 John Towers Norf. 149 Robert Townson Cambr. 153 Sir Roger Townsend Norf. 272 John Towers ibid. 249 Michael Tregury Cornw. 199 John Tregonwell ibid. 202 John Trevisa Cornw. 204 Bartholomew Traheron ibid. ibid. Nicholas Tremaine Devon 266 Andrew Tremaine     Edward Trotman Gloc. 356 Sir William Tracy ibid. ibid. Richard Tracy Gloc. 359 Sir Edmund de Trafford Lanc. 122 Elias de Trekingham Linc. 164 George Trigg ibid. 168 Trestram Middl. 186 Sir Thomas Tressam Northamp 300 Thomas Tressam     William Turner Northumb. 305 William Tucker Devon 275 John Tuckvile ibid. 276 James Turbervil Dorc. 279 Richard Turpin Leic. 133 Thomas Tusser Essex 334 Sir Brian Tuke ibid. 346 Roger Twiford Middl. 184 William Twisse Berk. 96 V. NAMES SHIRE PAGE Robertus de Vaus Cumber 225 Sir Nicholas Vaux Northamp 298 Walter Vaghan Wilt. 164 Richard Vaughan Carnar 31 Henry Vavasor York 222 Albericus de Veir Bedf. 121 Veal Cor●…w 205 John Vernon Derb. 244 Sir Francis Vere Essex 331 Sir Horace Vere     Henry Vere     Aubrey de Vere ibid. 333 Henry Veer Northamp 298 Sir Robert Venile Norf. 252 John Vesty alias Harman Warw. 122 Richard Verney ibid. 133 George Villiers Leic. 130 Richard Vines ibid. 134 Machell Vivan Northumb. 308 Thomas Vipont Westmor 136 Robert de Vipont ibid. 141 Vinarius Capellanus Norf. 269 Richard Ulverston Lanc. 114 Sir Henry Umpton Berk. 94 Sir Edward Umnpton ibid. 110 John Underhill Oxf. 333 Thomas Underhill Warw. 130 Nicholas Upton Devon 264 St. Ursula Cornw. 199 W. NAMES SHIRE PAGE John Watson Worc. 170 Robert Watson Norw 276 John Warner Westmin 241 John Walch Linc. 174 Sertor of Wales Wales 10 Richard Walsh Worc. 181 John Wallis or Welsh ibid. 174 Henry Wakefield York 196 Armigell Waad ibid. 202 Robert Walby York 229 John Walby   230 Simon Ward ibid. 218 Samuel Ward Suff. 70   Durh. 298 John Walter Heref. 41 Walter Bishop of Carlisle Cumb. 225 Robert Fi●…z-Walter Essex 330 Matilda Fitz-Walter ibid. 336 Sir John Walter Shrop. 7 Richard of Wallingford Berk. 95 George Walker Lanc. 118 John of Waltham Essex 325 Roger of Waltham ibid. 333 Sir Isaac Wake Northamp 286 Nicholas Wadham Somers 30 * John 12. 8. * Gen. 30. 30. * Acts 6. 1. * Gen. 2. 12. * Psal. 107. 8. * Isay 55. 1. * Deut. 2. 28. * H. Huntington * Sir John Sidney Samuel Beauland on Ne●…eius * Psal. 136. 4. * Acts 3. 41. * Reader in our following

descrip Hibern pag. 127. * Dr. Hatchers Manuscript of the Fellows of Kings Co●…ledge in Cambridge * G●…dwin in his Catalogue of the Bishops of VVinchester * Norden in his Descript. of Middlesex * Mat. VVestm * Mat. Paris in Anno 1226. * Bale descrip Brit. c. 4. n. 66. * Bale de scrip Brit. c. 5. n. 13. * Idem Ibidem AMP. * Bale de scrip Brit. c. 7. n. 17. * Bale de Scrip. Brit. Pitzeus * These Memoires are extracted out of the Sermon preached at his Funeral * Norden in his sec. Brit. p. 22. * Stows Survey of London * J. Norden in Description of Middlesex * Stow his Annals * Norden in Hertfordshire * Camd. Brit. in Hertfordshire * So blazoned by Peacham in his practice of Blazonry pag. 186. * At the Funeral of King James * From his own Letter Printed in Dt. Hakewill his Apology pag. 242. * In his 〈◊〉 Brit. pag. 42. * Ex bundello Inquisitionum Anno 2. Regis Hen. 5. num 4. in Turre Lond. * Idem pag. 37. * 1 Kings 8. 37. * In his Adage Rh●…dii Sacrificium * Gen. 3. 7. * Fit-Stevens in his Description of London * Dr. Hac will in his Apology pag. 〈◊〉 * It now hangeth in the Painted Chamber * Lord Verulam in his 〈◊〉 * Num. 23. 22. * Job 39. 9. * Psal. 22. 10. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reem * 〈◊〉 34. 7. * Tho. Browne Dr. of Physick in his Enquiries into vulgar Errors B. 3. cap. 23. * Hollingshead chron p. 1105. * Idem p. 1126. * Stows chron pag. 624. who saith they were fined 500. l. a peice * Camd. Brit. in Suffolk * Minshews Diction in the word Cockney * Proverb by David Ferauson Minist●…r at 〈◊〉 * Stows Survey p. 175. * Psal. 49. 11. * Stows Survey of London pag. 190. * Stows Survey of London pag. 269. * Stows Survey of London pag. 75. * Idem p. 368. * Deut. 28. 37. 1 Kings 9. 7. Jer. 24. 9. * Juven Sat. * Stows Survey of London pag. 87. * Continuer of Stows Annals pag. 1024. * Camd. Eliz. in Anno. 1587. * Joh. 21. 18. * Fox Acts and Monuments pag. 2092. * Stows Chron. in An. notato * Idem in Anno notato * J. Heywood in his Epigrams num 69. * Stows Survey of London pag. 427. * Stows Survey of London Pag. 338. * Arist. moral l. 3. * Tit. 1. 12. * Stows Survey of London pag. 32. * Acts 3. 2. * Mr. Richard Smith still living quondam Seneschallus Curiae Sancti-Motus antedi●… * Speeds Chronicle pag. 551. * Speeds Chro. pag. 576. * Others apply it to Joan Daughter to K. John wife to Alexander the 2. King of Scotland * Luke the 8. 3. * Camdens Remains A M P. A M P. * Hierom Porter Lives of the Saints pag. 25. * Hierom ●…ter in his flowers of the lives of Engl. Saints Janury 8. * Augustine Epist. 68. * Epist. 127. Retract lib. 2. cap. 5. * De 〈◊〉 cap. 9. tit cod cap. 4. in Sexto * Socrates de Chrysostomo lib. 6. cap. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lat 19. * Hypodigma Neustriae Anno 1401. pa. 158. * Rot. Parl 2 H. 4. num 116. * Fox Acts and Monuments pag. 517. * Tom. 4. Anno 386. num 23. * Fox Acts and Monuments pag. ●…22 Gen. 41. 49. * 1. Bale 1. Pitz. and Bish. Godwin in the Bishops of Salisbnry * Godwin in the Bishops of Carlisle * Register of that Colledge in anno 1493. * Lord Herbert in the Life of Hen. 8. p. 216. * Stows Survey of London * Idem Ibidem * Rich. Hall in the Life of Bishop Fisher. * So am I informed by Sir John Young his Grandchild * Edward Cotton D. D. his son * Mr. Thursby * See more of h●…m in my Church History * So am I informed by his own Daughter the Widow of famous Master Farnaby since remarried to Mr. Cole in Suf●…olk * H. Holland in his Printed Additions to Bishop Godw. * M. John ●…ore aft●…rwards kn●…ghted of Gilesden in Hertfordshire * Gen. 47. 29. * Amos 5. 24. * Psal. 42. 7. * Acts 16. 39. * The Summe hereof is taken out of his Printed Life rare to be had written by a Nephew of his more fairly and unpartially then any would expect from so near a relation * Mr. More in the Lif●… of his Grandfather * Pag. 405. * Idem p. 359. * This is acknowledged by J. Costerus and Pamelion on that place * The house of his Nativity is called Gartercourt ●… Pag. 200. * Out of the Heraulds Visitation of Stafford-sh * See Edmund Dudley in our Discription of Stafford-sh * ●…md Eliz. anno 1563. * Register of St. Dunstans * Acts 12. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Med. 2. pag. 6. * Register of the Parish of St. Michael Bassinghall * Lib 1. cap. 30 * Sratutes 14. Edw. 3. cap. 4. * Cowels Interp. de verbo Fleta * Bale de scrip Brit. c. 8. n. 75. * Dugdale in his 〈◊〉 of Warwickshire illust ated p. 212. REM * In tractatu q uinto de ejus Artis Scriptoribus * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 3. Num. 92. Pits in Anno 1230. * 〈◊〉 de script Brit. Cent. 8. Num. 38. * Idem ibidem * 1 King 4. 33. * Prov. 22. 4. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 2. Num. 8. REM * De script Brit. Cent. 4. Num. 17. REM * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 4. Num. 30. * See more hereof in the life of John Driton in Sussex * Pro. 24. 16. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 5. Num. 12. * In his Comment on the 2. and again on the 9. chap. of Gen. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 6. Num. 96. REM * Bale Cent. 8. Num 33. * De arte 〈◊〉 liber Hype●…Criticus capite sexto * Bale Cent. 8. Num. 62. J. 〈◊〉 Anno 1512. * Sir John Suckling * Exemplified in Stow's Surv. pag. 214. * Bale ut prius * Bal●… Pits * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 8. Num. 74. * Base ut prius * In this City Ti●…le Writers on the Law * Stow his Survay pag. 92. * Ha●…chers M. S. of K. Col. * Bale de script Brit. Cent. 9. * Stows Survay p. 276. * Parker in his Scheliton Cant. * Camb. Eliz. in Anno 1598. * Camd. El●…z in Anno 1598. * Obi●… Virourm doct An. 1576. * In his own Survey of London continued after his death pag. 152. * So was I informed by Mr. Jo. Rainsey who married his Relict * Pi●…z de Ang. Script Anno 1556. * In his 5 hun of Epig. num 100. * Pitz. in Anno 1581. * Pitz. de script Ang. in Anno 1581. * Idem ibidem * In the Princes report of the first days conference fol. 1. * Camb. in his Eliz. An. 1580. John Cheston George Carter