and after his return was preferred Dean of Westminster then Bishop of Salisbury He was Hospital and Generous He dyed and was buried An. Dom. 1622. Th. Son to Will. Westfield D. D. born An. Dom. 1573. in Ely bred at â—…es Coll. in Camb. where he was Fellow He was Assistant to Bishop Felton whilst Minister of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside after Rector of Horsney and great St. Barth Lond. where in his Preaching he went through the 4 Evangelists He was afterward made Arch-Deacoh of St. Albans and at last Bishop of Bristol The Parl. had a good Opinion of him as appears by this Order 13. May 1643. From the Committee of Lords and Com. for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon information in the behalf of the B. of Bristol That his Tenants refuse to puy him his Rents it is ordered by this Committee that all profits of his Bishoprick be restored and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great Age and a Person of great Learning and Merit Jo. Wylde By his Will he desired to be buried in the Cathedral-Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop And as for my Worldly Goods the words of his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give c. to my Wife Eliz. He dyed June 28. 1644. and lyeth buried according to his own desire An Anagram made on him by his Daughter was Thomas Westfield I dwell the most safe Statesmen Jo. Tiptoft Son and Heir of Jo. Lord Tiptoft and Joyce his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Edw. Charlton Lord Powis by his Wife Eleanor Sister and Coheir of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent was born at Everton in this County He was bred at Baliol-Coll in Oxf. where he attained to great Learning and by H. 6. was afterwards created first Viscount then Earl of Worcester and Lord High Constable of England and by E. 4. Knight of the Garter The Skies began 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 Hen. 6. who had so much advanced him nor disloyal to Edw. 4. in whom the Right of the Crown lay For an Expedient he quitted his own and visited the Holy-Land At Rome in his passage by an Elegant Latin Speech he drew the Admiration of all the Auditors and Teart from the Eyes of the Pope Pius II. He returned from Christs-Sepulchre to his own in England in as unhappy time if sooner or â—â—ter he had found Edward on that Throne to which now H. 6. was restored and whose Restitution was only remarkable for the Death of this Worthy Lord. Treason was charged on him for secretly siding with King Edw. On this account he lost his life The Ax then did at one blow cut off more Learning in England then was left in the Heads of all the Surviving Nobility His Death hap'ned on St. Lukes day 1470. Edw. Lord Tiptoft his Son was restored by Edw. 4. Earl of Worcester but dying without Issue his Inheritance fell to his three Aunts Sisters to the Learned Lord aforesaid viz. 1. Philip married to Th. Lord Ross of Hamlake 2. Joan Wife of Sir Edm. Inglesthrop of Borough green in this County 3. Joyce married to Sir Edw. Sutton Son and Heir of John Lord Dudley from whom came Edw. Sutton Lord Dudley and Knight of the Garter Jo. Cheeke Knight Tutor to Ed. 6. and Secretary of State born in Camb. Of him see our Church-History Souldiers When the rest of the East-Angles cowardly fled away in the Field from the Danish Army the Men of the County of Camb. did manfully resist whence it was that whilst the English did rule the praise of the People of Cambridgeshire did most eminently flourish At the coming of the Normans they made so stout a Resistance that the Conqueror who did fly into England was glad to creep into Ely Cambridgeshire-men commonly passed for a Proverb tho now like old Coyn almost grown out of request Indeed the Common-people have Robust bodies able to carry 8 Bushels of Barley on their Backs whereas 4 are found a sufficient Load for Men of other Counties and I doubt not but if there were occasion their Arms and Hands would appear to be as good as their Backs and Shoulders Writers Math. Paris probably born in this and bred in the next County where the Name is right Ancient long before they were setled at Hildersham which accrued to them by their Marriage with the Daughter and Heir of the Buslers He was a Monk at St. Albans skilled in Poetry Oratory and Divinity as also in Painting Graving c. But his Genius chiefly disposed him to the Writing of Histories wherein he wrote a large Chronicle from the Conquest unto the year of our Lord 1250. where he concludes with this Distich Sistetui metas studii Matthaee quietas Nec ventura petas quae postera proferat atas Matthew here cease thy Pen in peace and study on no more Nor do thou aim at things to come which next Age hath in store Yet resuming the Work he continued it to 1259. A catching disease with Authors my self being concerned to obey the importunity of others contrary to their own inclination His History is impartially and judiciously save whereby he indulgeth too much Monkish Miracles and no Writer so plainly discovereth the Pride Avarice and Rapine of the Court of Rome so that he seldom kisseth the Popes toe without Biting it The Papists insinuate a suspicion that such Reflections are forged but all the Candour imaginable has been used in the Editions of that Author first by Math. Parker and then and especially by Doctor Will. Wats This Matthew left off living and writing An. 1259. Tho he had sharp Nailes he had clean Hands strict in his own and striking at the loose Conversation of others and for his Eminent Austerity was not only employed by Pope Innocent 4. to visit the Monks in the Diocess of Norwich but also was sent unto Norway to reform the Discipline in Holui a fair Covent Helias Rubeus in Engl. Rous or Red bred D. D. in Camb. A great Courtier and Gracious with the King Wrote a Book contra Nobilitatem inanem T is thought he flourished about the year 1266. Jo. Eversden was bred a Monk in Bury-Abby whereof he was Cellerer or Caterer but his mounting above this mean Employ he buried himself in Poetry Law and History whereof he wrote a fair Volume from the beginning of the World Being a Monk he was not fond of Fryars And observeth that when the Franciscans first entred Bury An. 1336. there hap'ned a hideous Hericano levelling Trees Towers c. Yet went they out with a Calm at the time of the Dissolution This John flourished under King E. 3. and dyed about the year 1338. Rich. Wetherset commonly called of Cambridge where he was Chancellour A great
Edburgh Daughter to King E. the Elder at three years of Age took you may believe it if you will the N. Testament leaving Jewels presented joyntly by her Father a great Argument of Radical Piety afterwards she would steal the Nuns Socks and restore them washed and anointed She dyed 920. some of her Bones lying at Winchester or Wilâ—…on were Translated to Pilshore in Worc. Martyrs Jo. Philpot well descended was Arch-Deac of Lincoln and a Zealous Promoter of the Prot. Religion For some Words he used in the Convocation he was Martyred An. 1555. Kath. Gowches and her two Daughters Guillemine Gilbert and Perotine Massey for absenting from the Church and denying the Real presence were burnt for Hereticks An. 1556. Add to these the Infant that by the force of the Fire burst of of his Mothers Belly Perotine aforesaid whose Husband was a Minister of Gods Word The Babe being taken out of the Fire was thrown in again by the command of Eliez Gosselin Bailiff of the Isle of Guersney where this hapned Prelates Will. Wickham the Long Son to Sir Jo. Perrâ—â— Long his Name and Long lasting his Memory while the World endures for his 2 Foundations at Oxf. and Winchester in the first founding St. Maries Coll. He dyed An. 5. Hen. 4. Jo. Russel born at Winchester was Chanc. of Oxf. for Term of his Life By E. 4. he was made Bishop of Lincoln and by R. 3. Lord Chanc. of England but opposing the Lord Hastings Death he was imprisoned He dyed An. 1490. leaving behind him the Reputation of a Pious Prudent and Learned Man Will. Warham born at Ockley of Worshipful â—…arentage was employed by H. 7. to Marg. Dutchess of Burgundy and by him advanced Bishop of Lond. then Arch-bishop of Cant. but was Eclipsed by Woolsey who had more Honour and more Envy Being Prime Advocate for Queen Kath. in the matter of her Divorce he carried it so prudently that he neither betrayed the cause of his Client nor incurred the Kings displeasure He fell into a Pramunire with the rest of the Clergy and is said to have spent 3000 l. in repair of his Places He dyed An. 1533. Rob. Sherborn was employed Ambassadour by H. 7. and by him made Bishop of St. Dav. then Chich. which Church he adorned When 90 years of Age he resigned and dyed An. 1536. Jo. White was Bishop of Lincoln then of Winch. upon which Bishoprick he entered upon condition to pay Card. Pole a yearly Pension of 1000 l. He wrote an Elegy on the Eucharist to prove the Corporal presence and Preached the Funeral Sermon of Queen Mary wherein reflecting on Queen Eliz. he incurred her just displeasure Whereupon he was imprisoned till his Death An. 1560. Since the Reformation Th. Bilson born in Winch. was Bishop of Worc. then of Winch. As Reverend and Learned a Prelate as England ever afforded Witness his Works Of the Perpetual Government of Christs Church and of Christs descent into Hell The new Translation of the Bible was by King Ja. command ultimately committed to his and Dr. Smith's Bishop of Glouc. perusal He dyed 1618. Hen. Cotton born at Warblington was Pr. Counsellor to E. 6. and God-son to Queen Eliz. who preferred him Bishop of Salisbury and pleasantly said that formerly she had blessed many of her God-sons but now her God-son should bless her Another Cotton about the same time being Consecrated Bishop of Exeter the Queen added that she hoped she had well Cottoned the West By Patience his Wife he had 19 Children and dyed 1615. Arth. Lakes born in Southampton was Dean of Worc. and Bishop of Bath and VVells He answered St. Pauls Character of a Bishop only he had no Wife When Mr. of St. Crosses he encreased the Diet c. of the poor Brethren When Bishop he kept 50 Servants in Charity He was in fine a Pattern of Piety He dyed An. 1602. States-men Richard Rich Knight well descended was Sollicitor to H. 8. Upon his deposition chiefly Sir Th. More was beheaded Under Cromwell he was a lesser Hammer to knock down Abbeys some of which stuck justly to his Fingers By E. 6. he was made Lord Chanc. of Engl. Being an opposer of D. Dudley he resigned his Office by Prevention having got a fair Estate at Lees-Abbey in Ess whereof he was Baron He dyed in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz being direct Ancestor to the Right Honourable Ch Rich now Earl of Warwick Will Pawlet was Bar. of Basing and Marq. of Winch. in this County descended from the Powlets in Som. 'T is said that coming to Court upon trust he prosper'd more than any Subject since the Conquest living in the Harvest of Estates viz. the time of the Dissolution of the Abbeys He was Servant to H. 7. and for 30 years Treasurer to H. 8. E. 6. Queen Ma. and Queen Eliz. The latter in some sort owed their Crown to his Counsel his Policy being the Principal Defeater of D. Dudley's design to Disinherit them Having seen 103 of his Descendants he dyed An. Dom. 1571. Aet 97. Sir Th. Lakes born in Southampton was Secr. of Estate to King Ja. He could Endite Write and Discourse at the same time He was resembled to the Ship Swift-sure and was withal one of great Secrecy a learned and good Man He was one of the three Noble Hands who first led Mr. Geo. Villers into the favour of King Ja. Yet he incurred the Kings Displeasure for the Offences of his Relations tho the King even then gave him this Publick Eulogie in open Court That he was a Minister of State fit to serve the greatest Prince in Europe Souldiers Beavois Earl of Southampton in the time of W. Conqueror was vanquished with his English and Welsh Army by the Normans near to Carclis's from whence he fled to Carlile Note Beavoisses Sword in Arundel Castle is less than that of E. 3. in Westminster-Church Sea-men Sir Jo. Wallop well descended provoked with Prior John's Piracy Landed in Normandy with 800 Men Burnt 21 Towns with Divers Ships Wherefore his Arms may appear prophetical viz. Arg. a Bend-unde i. e. Wave S. Rob. Tomson Merch. born in Andover made a Voyage for the Discovery of Nova Hispania of which with the City Mexico he wrote a Description He was imprisoned in Mex then in Spain for speaking against Saint-worship And after his Enlargement he was confined to Donna Maria de la Barrera a Spanish Lady with whom he had in Marriage 2500 l. besides Jewels Writers Lamfrid of Winch. a Famous Doctor flourished 980. Wolston of Winch. a Learned good and Eloquent Man tho his Eloquence was confined to Poetry flourished An. 1000. Jo. of Rasingstoak Arch-Deac of Leic. went to Athens where he heard the Lectures of Constantine a Noble Woman not 20 years old of the Mysteries of Nature He was the first Restorer of Greek in Engl. He was the Author of many Works and dyed 1252. Jo. of Hide wrote Of the patience of Job and of his own
vindication of Musick in Churches Page 422 The Life of Simon Langton ibid. LANCASHIRE The Inhabitants generally devout Page 424 Fishing with Spades ibid. The life and death of John Rogers Page 425 The life and death of John Bradford ibid The life of Cardinal Alan Page 426 The life of Bishop Barnes Page 428 The life of Arch-Bishop Bancroft Page 429 The 6 Properties of a good Scholar Page 432 The trance of George Walker an infant Page 433 Mr. Chetham's Benefactions Page 434 The Battle of Preston Page 435 LEICESTER-SHIRE Where the inhabitants of a certain Village have a ratling kind of speech Page 437 The life of Jane Katharine and Mary Grey ibid. The life and death of Latimer Page 439 The life of Bishop Langton Page 440 The life of Roger de Martival ibid. The life of Dr. Hall Page 441 The life of the Duke of Buckingham ibid. The life of Judge Belknap Page 442 The life of the Lord Chief Justice Cateline Page 443 The life of W. Burton Page 445 The life of Richard Vines ibid. The life of John Cleaveland Page 446 Sir John Poultney's Benefactions ibid. The Pectoral Bird of Thomas Burdet and the occasion of his death Page 448 LINCOLN-SHIRE Foolish Fowls have fine flesh Page 450 The life of King Henry IV Page 453 The Lives of Gilb. de Sempringham and Cardinal Somercote Page 454 A Remark on the imprisonment of Pope Urb. 8 Page 455 The life and cruel death of W. Ascough D. L. Page 456 The life of Bishop Fox ibid. Arch-Bishop Whitgifts Anagram Page 457 The life of Edward Fines Earl of Lincoln Page 458 The life of Thomas Lord Bury ibid. The life of the Lord Treasurer Cecil Page 459 The life of Judge Skipwith Page 460 The life of the Lord Chief Justice Husee ibid. The life of J. Anderson ibid. The life of Peregrine Berty Lord Willoughby Page 461 The Trie of Food Raiment and Harbour Page 463 The life of Sir W. Mounson ibid. The Benefactions of R. Sutton Esq Page 467 The Blacksmiths Book of Herauldry Page 468 MIDDLESEX Commodities and Manufactures Page 470 Proverbs Page 471 The life of King Edward VI. ibid. A custom of the Jewes Page 472 The benefactions of Alice Wilkes Page 475 The benefactions of Sir Julius Caesar ibid. Branford Fight Page 477 LONDON The Millers Riddle applyed to the Thames Page 479 The Fire that happened on the Bridge ibid. Proverb Page 481 The Life and death of W. Sautre Page 486 The life of Arch-Bishop Heath Page 487 The life of Bishop Cotton Page 488 The life of Dr. Davenant Bishop of Sarum Page 489 The life of Bishop Wren The life of Sir Thomas More Page 490 Sir W. Paget Chancellour to 4 successive Princes Page 491 The life of the Earl of Strafford ibid. A politick Cordial Page 493 The life of Sir Thomas Roper Page 494 The life of Edmund Spencer Page 497 Campian's Life Page 499 An Innocent She-Pope Page 500 The Founder of Dulwich Colledge Page 501 WESTMINSTER Eastminster what Page 503 The Life of King Edward I. c. Page 505 The Birth and Character of the King's Majesty Charles II. Page 506 The Birth and Character of His Royal Highness James Duke of York Page 507 The life of Mary Princess of Orange ibid. The life of Princess Elizabeth Page 508 The life of Princess Anne Page 509 The life of Princess Katharine ibid. The life of Prince Charles ibid. The life of Bishop Warner Page 510 The life of Sir Francis Bacon ibid. The life of Benjamin Johnson Page 512 NORFOLK Mr. Aylmer took Sanctuary in a Wine-Butt Page 516 The life of Sir Edward Coke Page 518 The life of Sir Clement Paston Page 522 Dr. Thorp's Life Page 524 The life of John Skelton ibid. D. Perne a notorious Trimmer mortally wounded with a Jest Page 527 The benefactions of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton Page 528 The punishment of striking within the Verge Page 529 NORWICH Dr. Goslin's Life Page 531 NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE The chief Town stands on other Mens Legs Page 534 The County abounds with Nobility ibid. The life of Queen Elizabeth Wife to Edward II. Page 355 The life of King Richard Crookback Page 536 The life of St. Werburgh ibid. The life of W. lt Zouch Page 537 The life of Francis Godwin Bishop of Hereford Page 539 The life of Sir Christopher Hatton ibid. The life of Sir W. Fitz-Williams Page 540 The life of Sir Isaac Wake ibid. The life of Sir W. Catesbye Page 541 The life of Sir Richard Empson ibid. The life of Lord Chief Justice Montague Page 542 The life of Sir Augustine Nicols Page 543 The life of Sir Robert Dallington ibid. The life of John Fletcher Page 549 The life of Sir Henry Montague ibid. The life of Dr. Preston Page 546 The benefactions of Henry Chichley Page 547 The life of Ed. Montague Baron of Baughton Page 548 An instance of Gratitude Page 550 NORTHUMBERLAND Charity reversed inflanced in St. Ebba Many are chast that they may preserve their Noses She parted with her Nose that she might preserve her Chastity One breeds Teeth at 110 years of Age Page 557 NOTTINGHAM-SHIRE Where is the best Liquorish Page 558 The life and death of Arch-Bishop Cranmer Page 559 The life of Sir John Markham Page 560 The life of Robin Hood Page 561 OXFORD-SHIRE A description of the University Page 573 The life of King Richard Caeur de Lion Page 576 The life of Prince Edmund Page 577 The life of Edward the Black Prince Page 578 The life of Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester Page 578 The life of Anne Beauchamp Countess of Sarisbury ibid. The life of St. Frideswide Page 579 The life of St. Edwold ibid. The life of St. Edw. the Confessor Page 550 The life of Cardinal Pullen ibid. The life of Cardinal Joyce ibid. The life of Bishop Bancroft Page 582 The life of Sir Dudley Carleton ibid. The life of Sir John Norris ibid. The life of Sir Francis Knowls Page 584 The life of Thomas Lydgate Page 586 Anne Green hang'd and recovered Page 579 RUTLAND-SHIRE A large description of a small Gentleman Page 582 SHROP-SHIRE The life of Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Page 584 The life of St. Oswald Page 585 The life of Thomas Gataker Page 586 The life of Robert of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bangor ibid. The life of Robert Burnel Chancellour of England Page 587 The life of Robert of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath and Wells ibid. The life of Arch-Bishop Talbot Page 588 The life of Lord Chancellour Bromley Page 589 The life of Sir John Walter Page 590 The life of Edward Littleton Lord Keeper ibid. The life of the Martial Talbot Page 591 The life of Old Parr Page 594 The life of Sir Roger Owen Page 596 SOMMERSET-SHIRE Lapis Calaminaris found here Page 797 The best Mastiffs bred here Page 740 The Parable of Jotham misapplyed Page 741 The properties of the waters of Bath Page 742 St. Dunstan's Life Page 743 The life of Bishop
Hooper ibid. The life of Joceline Bishop of Wells Page 744 The life of Thomas Beckington Bishop of Bath and Wells ibid. The life of Sir Amias Poulet Page 745 The decision of Lord Chief Justice Fitz-James Page 746 The life of Sir John Popham Page 747 The life of the valiant Courcy Earl of Ulster ibid. Sir Amias Preston's Challenge to Sir Walter Rawlelgh Page 749 Ferguson Senior or Henry Cuffee Page 750 The life of Sir John Harrington Page 751 Silver-tongued Sidenham Page 751 The Life of Robert Person Page 752 Coriat's Picture Page 754 The Skirmish at Martials Elm ibid. BRISTOL Bristol Milk a Remedy against Crudities Page 754 Hugh Eliot first discovered the New found Land Page 756 The life of Thomas Norton the Chymist Page 757 The life of W. Grocine Page 758 Dr. White Founder of Sion-Colledge Page 759 STAFFORD-SHIRE Wherein is found good Alabaster Page 760 The Life of Cardinal Pole Page 761 The life of Sir Thomas Littleton Judge Page 763 The life of Dudley Sir Richard Empson's Partner Page 764 The life of Sir John Bromley ibid. The life of John Dudley Duke of Northumberland Page 765 The Bagnols ibid. SUFFOLK The life of Edmund Mortimer Page 773 The life of St. Edmund King of the East-Angles Page 774 The life and death of Dr. Taylor ibid. The strange circumstances of the death of Robert Samuel Page 775 Cardinal Woolsey Founder of Christ-Colledge in Oxford Page 776 The life of Bishop Gardiner Page 778 The life of Bishop Brownrig Page 780 The life of Sir Nicholas Bacon Page 781 The life of Sir William Drury Lord Deputy of Ireland Page 782 The life of Sir Robert Naunton Secretary of State Page 783 The life and violent death of the Lord Chief Justice Cavendish ibid. The life of Sir Thomas Wentworth Page 784 Dr. Butler's Life Page 786 Scroop the Anchorite's life Page 788 The Tragedy of Roxana Page 789 Foundress of Clare-Hall in Cambridge Page 791 The occasion of the addition of the Dagger to the Arms of London Page 792 A Cordial testimony of Loyalty or a costly Pearl diffused in a Royal Health Page 792 SURREY Wherein the best Fullers Earth Page 794 Richmond and Non-such built by King Henry VII and VIII ibid Vertue of Epsom Waters ibid The life of Prince Henry Son to King Charles I. Page 795 The life of Arch-Bishop Cranley Page 796 The life of Bishop Parkhurst Page 797 The lives of Arch-Bishop and Bishop Abbot's Page 798 The life of Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Page 799 The life of Sir Robert Dudley Page 800 The life of William Ockham Page 801 The life of Dr. Hammond Page 802 The life of Dr. Sanders ibid. Elizabeth Weston a great Scholar Page 803 Of the Family of the Sackvills Page 805 The Family of the Ashburnhams ibid. The life of Sir Nicholas Carew Page 804 The life of George Goring Earl of Norwich Page 806 SUSSEX Plentiful in Iron Talk Page 807 The Manufactures are great Guns ibid. Arundel-Castle a Local Earldom Page 808 The life of Arch-Bishop Winchelsey Page 810 The life of Thomas Bradwardine Page 811 The life of the Lord Treasurer Burwash ibid. The lives of Dr. Barlow Bishop of St. Davids and Dr. Juxton Bishop of Hereford Page 812 The life of the Lord Treasurer Sackvil Page 813 The life of Judge Jeffrey Page 814 The life of Sir William Pelham Page 815 The life of Sir Anthony Shirley c. ibid. The life of Mr. Selden Page 818 The life of Dr. Stapleton Page 819 VVARWICK-SHIRE A sudden inundation in Coventry Page 823 The life of Anne Nevil Married to Edward Prince of Wales Page 825 The life of Edward Plantagenet Son to George Duke of Clarence ibid. The life of St. VVolstan ibid. The life of Cardinal Macklesfield Page 826 The life of Bishop Stratford Page 827 The supposed Original of the word Veize Page 828 The life of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Page 829 The life of Sir Edward Conway ibid. The life of John Digby Earl of Bristol ibid. The life of William Shakespear Page 831 The life of Sir Fulk Grevil Page 832 The life of John Lord Harrington Page 835 Edge-Hill Fight Page 836 WESTMORLAND The life of Queen Katharine Parr Page 838 The life of Cardinal Bambridge Page 839 A pleasant Adventure of the Knave of Clubs Page 841 The life of Bishop Potter Page 841 The life of Sir Edward Bellingham Page 842 Foundress of Appleby Hospital ibid. The Office of Sheriff made Hereditary Page 845 WILT-SHIRE The life of Margaret Plantagenet Countess of Salisbury Page 848 The life of Jane Seymore ibid. The life of St. Adelme Page 849 The life of St. Edith Page 850 The life of Cardinal VVinterburn Page 851 The life of Johannis Sarisburiensis Page 852 The life of the Lord Chancellour Edendon ibid. The life of Bishop Thornborough Page 853 The life of Edward Seymor Duke of Sommerset Page 854 The life of Sir Ol. St John Lord Grandison Page 855 The life of Sir Francis Cottington Page 856 The life of Sir Nicholas Hide ibid. Lansdown and Round-way Fights Page 862 VVORCESTER-SHIRE The life of St. Richard Page 864 The life of Bishop Bonner Page 866 The life of Sir Thomas Coventry Lord Keeper Page 867 The life of Judge Littleton Page 868 The life of Richard Beauchamp Earl of VVarwick Page 869 The life of Sir Edward Kelly Chymist Page 870 The life of Sir Edwin Sandys Page 872 VVorcester-Fight YORK-SHIRE The life of King Henry I. The life of Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Page 883 The life of St. Hilda or the English Huldah Page 884 The life of St. John of Beverly The life of St. Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Darby Page 885 The life of Cardinal Fisher Page 887 The life of Bishop Melton ibid. The life of Dr. Scroop Page 888 The life of Dr. Coverdale Page 890 The life of Arch-Bishop Loftus ibid. Prince Henry committed by Sir W. Gascoine Page 891 The life of the Lord Chief Justice VVray Page 892 The life of Lord Chancellour Puckering Page 893 The life of Sir George Calvert ibid. The life of the Lord Clifford Page 895 The life of Sir George Ripley Page 896 The life of Dr. VVhitacre Page 903 The Battle of Marston-Moor Page 910 YORK The life of Edward Freese The life of Bishop Morton Page 915 The life of Sir Robert Car Page 917 VVALES The Division thereof Page 921 Cardigan yields Royal Mines Page 922 Matthew Glin the supposed Author of Metheglin Page 923 The life of Cardinal Sertor The life of Mr. Broughton Page 930 The life of Hugh Holland ibid. ANGLESEY The Mother of VVâ—…les Page 931 BRECNOCK-SHIRE The wonder of Mouchy Denny Page 934 The life of Giles de Bruse Page 935 The life of Thomas Howel Bishop of Bristol Page 936 The life of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham ibid. The Protestation of Nesta ibid. CARDIGAN-SHIRE First reduced to the English Dominion Page 938 CARMARTHEN-SHIRE The Life of Bishop Ferrar Page 940 The life of Sir Rice ap Thomas
ENGLISH WORTHIES IN CHURCH AND STATE Anglorum Speculum WORTHIES OF ENGLAND In Church and State Alphabetically digested into the several SHIRES and COUNTIES therein contained WHEREIN Are Illustrated the Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Persons since the Conquest to this present Age. ALSO An account of the Commodities and Trade of each Respective County and the most flourishing Cities and Towns therein LONDON Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge and William Thackary at the Angel in Duck-lane 1684. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Here present you with an abstract of the Lives and Memoir's of the most famous and Illustrious Personages of this Realm since the Conquest to this present time for order sake I have digested it Alphabetically into the several Shires and Counties contained in this Kingdom which I hope will find a kind acceptance there being nothing of the same method now Extant Dr. Fuller in his large History in Folio did go a great way in this matter but here is included the Lives of many more eminent Heroes and generous Patrons which I hope their memory may survive in succeeding Ages this being done with that brevity which may be more beneficial to the Reader Here you have the Original or rise of most of the Eminent Families in this Kingdom Also an Epitome of the most material matters in Church and State containing the Lives of the most Eminent Fathers in the English Church and the most Flourishing Statesmen in the latter times Also the most famous Authors as well Divine as Historical together with the Lives of the most Memorable Persons in the Law Mathematicks Geographers Astronomers Poets c. which have made this Kingdom known throughtout the World I need not inlarge or give any further Incomium upon this subject but referr you to the Table first and then to the Book it self which I hope will find that kind acceptance that may ingage me in some further procedure that may please my Countrymen which I shall alwayes endeavour to do in plainness and brevity to the Readers satisfaction and in the mean time am Yours to command G. S. An Abstract OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND CHAP. I. The Design of the Work THE Rooms of the House being described by others 't is my intention to describe the Furniture viz. the Commodities with the Persons of Quality c. of the several Shires of England But it may be asked Cui bono To what â—od end I Answer 1. To gain some Glory to God 2. To reserve the Memories of the Dead 3. To present examples to the Living 4. To entertain the Reader with delight 5. To procure some honest profit to my self The matter is either Real viz. The Commodities and Observables of every County or Personal the Characters of those worthy Men who were Natives thereof CHAP. II. The Real Topicks insisted on in the Respective Counties 1. THE Native Commodities Of which if any be general to all England it is entered in that County where there was the first or else the most and best of that kind 2 The Manufactures Admirable for Rarity and Variety Of which such as are not properly Natural but Mixed are promisouously placed 3 Medicinal Waters Wonderful for Colour Tast Odour Sound Heat Weight Motion and Effects The last is proper for my Pen. 4. The Wonders or Rarities which are Transiem or Permanent The Wonders of England are as considerable for kind as those of other Countries 5. The Buildings of which the Churches are most admirable 6. Local Proverbs and there are Six essentials of a Proverb that it be Short Plain Common Figurative Ancient and True I have only insisted upon the most considerable Local Proverbs that suggest to us some Historical Hint and have declined all such as are Narrow Frivolous Scurrillous and Scandalous 7. Medicinal herbs which if rare and very useful are placed next the Medicinal Waters in the respective Counties CHAP. III. Of the first Quaternion of Persons Viz. 1. Princes since the Conquest 2. Saints who generally may be divided into those of Fiction Faction Superstition or Real existence 3. Martyrs 4. Confessors FOr the First I take notice of the Legitimate Issue as to Saints I am sorry that the Lives of some of them are so darkened with Needless if not false Illustrations to their Dishonour and the Detriment of Church History which has arisen from the Ignorance or Disingenuity of the Writers of their Lives or for want of true matter or for hope of gain or lastly for this that they saw it pleased the People Whence it is true what Melchior Canus says I speak it to my grief that the Lives of the Philosophers are more gravely Written by Laertius than Saints are by Christians Our Catalogue contains only English Saints wherefore Anselm is left out as being a French-Man since whom the Pope has been very sparing to confer the Honour of Saintship because the multitude of Saints abates Veneration and would overcharge the Calender that already labours with the Sacred burden besides the charge of Canonization is great and his Holiness unwilling to bestow it gratis and lastly Protestants shrewdly suspect that some unworthy Persons have been served with the Dignity by that Servant of the Servants of God therefore none are Canonized while their Memories are on the Must immediately after their Deaths before the same be fined in the Cask with some competent time As to the third viz. Martyrs who have lost their Lives for the Testimony of a fundamental Truth those our Land hath produced are either Brittains who suffered under Dioclesian or Saxons Massacred by the Danes or lastly English Martyred by the Papists since the year 1400. I shall treâ—â— of the last the two former being done already For the last viz. Confessors they are such who have lost all but Life for the truth and escaped Martyrdom very narrowly who were as Wax ready for the Signature of Death But Threatned folks Live long yea threatned Elijah by Gods Miraculous Providence never died CHAP. IV. Of Popes Cardinals and Prelates before the Reformation THere have been four Popes Englishmen and but six Germans tho Germany be five times bigger then England which boasts of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury formerly accounted Pope of England As for Cardinals they were anciently no more then Curats made by Bishops as well as by the Pope For there were founded anciently in the Church of St. Pauls two Cardinals chosen by Dean and Chapter out of the twelve petty Cannons whose Office was to look to those of the Quire to give the Eucharist to the Minister of that Church and his Servants to hear Confessions appoint Penance and to commit the Dead to convenient Sepulture and two of them lie buried in the Church of St. Faiths This Custom of Cardinal-making was in many other Countries but afterwards was appropriated to Rome where they are divided into Bishops who are
consist XIV England a good Land and a bad People A â—…rench Proverb 't is well they being such Admirers â—…f their own will allow any goodness to another Country XV. The High Dutch Pilgrims when they beg they â—…ing the French whine and cry the Spaniards curse wear and blaspheme the Irish and English steal This is Spanish The Italians are not mentioned because they seldom go out of their Country There was occasion to make Felony highly Penal in England to restrain the Pezantry somewhat addicted â—…hereunto but may Honesty in themselves and Charity in others hinder the Progress and prevent the Consequences of that Sneaking Trade Princes John Eldest Son of King E. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor dyed in his Infancy 1273. in ult H. 3. and was buried August 8. in West minâ—â—er under a Marble Tomb inlaid with his Picture â—…n an Arch over it Eleanor Eldest Daughter to King Ed. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor An. Dom. 1266. Afterwards was Married by Proxy a Naked Sword interposed between her and his Body to Alphonâ—… King of Arragon who dyed An. 1292 before the Consummation of Marriage This Princess was afterwards Married to Hen. 3. Earl of Berry in France from whom the Dukes of Anjou and Kings of Sicil are descended She died in 27th year of her Fathers Reign Anno Dom. 1298. Margaret third Daughter of E. 1. and Queen Eleanor born at Windsor An. 3. E. 1. 1275. At fifteen she was Marryed at Westminster July 9. 1290. to John II. Duke of Brabant by whom she had John Issue III. Duke of Brabant from whom the Dukes of Burgundy are descended Mary sixth Daughter of King Ed. and Queen El. born at Windsor April 12. 1279. at 10 years of Age was made a Nun at Amesbury in Wiltshire meerly to gratifie Queen Eleanor her Grand-mother The other Children of this King probably born in this Castle viz. Henry Alphonse Blanche dyed in their Infancy who Cleansed at Font did draw untainted Breath Not yet made bad by Life made good by Death The two former were buried with their Brotheâ—… John at Westminster in the same Tomb but where Blanche was interr'd is unknown Edward III Son to E. 2. and Queen Isab born aâ—… Windsor Oct. 13. 1312. a Pious and Fortunate Prince was Passive in the deposing of his Father Practised â—â— in his Minority by his Mother and Mortimer Hâ—… French Victories speak both of his Wisdom and Valour And tho the Conquests by H. 5. were thicker his were broader in France and Scotland thâ—… both in length alike as lost by their immediate Successors He was the first English King which Coyâ—â— â—â— Gold He first stamped the Rorseâ—…obles having on one side Iesus autem â—â—nsiens per medium illorum ibat and â—â— the Reverse his own Image with Sword and Shield siting in a Ship Waving on the â—â—a Hereupon was made the English Rhym in the â—…eign of H. 6. For four things our Noble sheweth to me King Ship and Swerd and Power of the Sea â—…e had a Numerous and Happy Issue by Phillippa â—â—s Queen after whose Death being almost 70 years â—â—d he cast his Affection on Alice Pierce his Paraâ—…our to his Dishonour it being true what Epictetus â—…eturned to Adrian the Emperour asking of him â—…hat Love was In Puero Pudor in Virgine Ruâ—…r in faeminâ Furor in juvene Ardor in Sene â—…isus In a Boy bashfulness in a Maid blushing â—â— a Woman fury in a young-Man fire in an â—â—d Man folly However this King had few Equals one Superiors for Wisdom Clemency and Courage â—…e died An. Dom. 1378. William Sixth Son to E. 1. and Queen Phil. born â—â— Windsor He had a Brother born at Hatfield of â—…he same Name who died in his Infancy as this â—…illiam also did As for King Edwards Female Chilâ—…ren Isabel Joan Blanch Mary and Margarâ—…t â—…is believed they were born in France Henry VI Son to H. 5. born at Windsor was 〈◊〉 for a Coul than Crown of so easie a Nature that â—…e might well have Exchanged a pound of 〈◊〉 â—…r an ounce of Valour He Marryed Margaret Daughâ—…er of Reinier King of Jerusalem Sicily and Arragâ—â— â—…uissant only in Titles Through Home-bred Disâ—…entions he not only lost the Forreign Acquisstions of the Father in France but also his own Inheritance in England to the House of York Her Death or Murder rather happened 1471. This Henry waâ—… twice Crowned twice Deposed and twice Burieâ—… first at Chestry then at Windsor and once halâ—… Sainted Our Hen. VII cheapned the price of hiâ—… Canonization but would not come up to the Suâ—… demanded However this Henry was a Saint with the People repairing to his Monument from thâ—… farthest part of the Land He was the last Prince whom I find expresly born at Windsor It seemâ—… that afterwards our English Queens grew out oâ—… Conceit with that place as unfortunate for Royaâ—… Nativities Saints Margaret Alice Rich born at Abbington in this County and were successively Prioress of Catesby in Northamptonshirâ—… They were Sisters to St. Edmund The former dying An. 1257. the latter 1270. Both were Honoured for Saints and many Miracleâ—… were reported done at their Shrine St. Edmund Son to Edw. Rich and Mabel his Wife born at Abbington and bred in Oxford Edmunds-Hall in that University which probably was not built by but Named iâ—… Memory of him He was Canon of Salisbury and afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury but after 10 years deserted this Function being offended at the Ambition and Extortion of the Popes Legate iâ—… England he therefore going into France sighed ouâ—… the Remainder of his Life at Pontiniack some say at Soiffons where he dyed An. 1240. Pope Innocenâ—â— IV Canonized him 6 years after his Death that as some affirm he might not be tormented with his â—…host Lewis King of France a year after tranâ—â—ated his Corps and three years after that beâ—â—owed a most Sumptuous Shrine of Gold Silver and â—…hrystal upon it And the 16 of Nov. is the Festival â—…ppointed for his Memorial Martyrs At Newbury in this County there were 6 or 7 score Persons being â—…etrayed by a Lewd Person whom they â—…dmitted into their Society Abjured and besides â—…here were three or four burnt whose Names tho â—…ot known are no doubt written in the Book of Life The day of the Gospel dawned as soon in this Counâ—â—y as in any place of England The Honour of the â—…eniority in this kind belongs to Newbury the Moâ—…ive used by Doctor Will. Twit to quicken the pace of his Parishoners there that Town as he said â—…eing the first Fruits of the Gospel in England At Windsor of a Company of Godly Persons there â—…our were Arraigned and Condemned by Commisâ—…ioners whereof three were put to Death viz. Anth. Parsons Priest being fast'ned to â—…he Stake he laid a good deal of Straw â—…n his Head saying This is God's Hat â—… am now Arm'd like a Souldier of Christ Rob. Testwood a
Epitaph in English is thus He saw five Princes which the Scepter bore Of them was Privy-Councellor to four Sir Th. Smith Knight born in Abbington bred in thâ—… University of Oxf. God and himself raised him to the Eminency he attained unto unbefriended with any Extraction Emulating Sir Th. Smith Senior Secretary of State he had equalled him in Preferment if not prevented by Death This Sir Thomas was Master of the Requests and Secretary to King James He died Nov. 28. 1609. and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex under a Monument erected by his Lady Frances Daughter to William Lord Chandes and since the Countess of Exeter Souldiers Henry Umpton Knight born at Wadley in this County was Son to Sir Edward Umpton by Anne the Relick of Jo. Dudley Earl of Warwick and eldest Daughter of Edward Seymor D. of Somerset He was employed by Queen Elizabeth Ambassadour into France where in the Month of May An. 1592. being sensible of some injury offered by the Dâ—… of Guise to the Honour of the Queen of England hâ—… sent him this Challenge Forasmuch as lately in the â—…dging of my Lord Du Mayne and in Publick elsewhere pudently indiscreetly and over boldly you spoke boldly my Soveraign whose sacred Person here in this â—…unty I represent To maintain both by Word and â—…eapon her Honour which never was called in Question people of Honesty and Vertue I say you have wickly lyed by speaking so basely of my Soveraign and you all do nothing else but lye whensoever you shall dare to 〈◊〉 her Honour Moreover that her Sacred Person â—…eing one of the most Complete and Vertuous Princess at lives in this World ought not to be evil spoken of the Tongue of such a persidious Traitor to her Law and â—…ountry as you are And hereupon I desie you and Chalâ—â—ge your Person to mine with such manner of Arms you shall like or choose be it either on Horse-back or on â—…ot Nor would I have you to think any inequality of â—…erson between us I being issued of as great a Race and â—…oble House every way as your self So assigning me 〈◊〉 indifferent place I will there maintain my Words and â—…e Lie which I gave you and which you should not enâ—â—re if you have any Courage at all in you If you conâ—â—nt not to meet me hereupon I will hold you and cause â—…u to be generally held for the arrantest Coward and most â—…anderous Slave that lives in all France I expect your Answer I find not what Answer was returned This â—…r Henry dying in the French Kings Camp before Loâ—…ar and his Corps brought over was buried in Farâ—…ngton Church July 8. 1596. He had allowed him Barrons Heirs because dying Ambassadour Leigier Writers Hugh of Reading quitted his Exâ—…ectances of a fair Estate and embraâ—…ed a Monastical life till at last he became Abbot of Reading He is highly commendeâ—… by the Learned and writ a Book of Questions fetch from the Scripture Roger of Windsor Chanter of the Convent of â—â— Albans was the Kings Historian He flourished Aâ—… Dom. 1235. Robert Rich Son to Edward and Mabel his Wife Brother of S. Edmund Arch-Bishop of Canterbury waâ—… born at Abbington in this County He wrote a Boâ—â— of the Life Death and Miracles of his Brother aâ—â— died about the year of our Lord 1250. Richard of Wallingford a Black-Smith's Son waâ—… bred at Merton-Colledge in Oxford a Monk at last Aâ—…bot of S. Albans where being a good Mathematiciâ—… especially as to the Mechanick part thereof he maâ—â— a Clock with much Pain more Cost anâ—… most Art Being a Calender as well â—… Clock shewing the Fixed Stars and Plâ—…nets the Ebbing and Flowing of the Seâ—… c. but my Author did not inform â—â— if the Canonical hours were mark't on the Clock Hâ—… died An. Dom. 1326. Since the Reformation Henry Bullock probably born in thâ—â— County where his Name appears in Worshipful Estate He was bred Fellow and Doctor of Divinity in Queens-Colledge â—… Cambridge a general Scholar familiar with Erasmiâ—… calling him Bovillum in his Epistles to him At Cardinal Wolsey's instance he wrote against Luther the otherwise his Affections were biased to the Protestaâ—â— Party When he died is unknown Will. Twis born at Spene an ancient Roman City bred at New-Colledge in Oxford and there became general Scholar Good at plain Preaching better â—…t Disputing and best in Living He became â—…reacher in Spinhamlands Towards his Death he was â—…ighted by Sectaries it being usual for New-lights â—…o neglect those who have born the heat of the Day â—…is Latin Works speak him able in Controversie He was Moderate Prolocutor in the Assembly of Diâ—…ines And dying in Holborn he was buried at Westâ—…inster An. Dom. 164. Will. Lyford born at Peysiner and bred at Magdalenâ—…oll in Oxf. Proceeded there Batchelour of Divinity â—…631 He was also Fellow of that Foundation He â—…as troubled in Conscience for having Resigned his â—…lace for Money to his Successour but before his Death he made Restitution He had a comely Counâ—…enance and modest Mind a Courteous Carriage and â—…eek Spirit He was afterwards Preacher at Shirâ—…urn in Dorsetshire and tho both Pious and Painful â—…e had his share of Obloquie from such factious Perâ—…ons as could not abide the wholsome Words of â—…ound Doctrine He dyed about 1652 tho his Memory lives in his Learned Works Romish Exile Writers Th. Hyde born at Newbury bred Master of Art â—… New-Coll in Oxf. was made Canon of Winchester â—…nd chief Master of the School there He with â—…o Martial about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. went beyond the Seas This Hyde is â—…haractered by one of his own profession to be A Man of upright Life of great Gravity and Severity â—…e wrote a Book of Consolation to his Fellow Exâ—…e and dyed An. Dom. 1597. Benefactors to the Publick Alfrede the fourth Son to King Athelwolf born at Wantage An excellent Scholar tho he was past 12 years of Age before he knew one Letter He was a Curious Poet an Excellent Musician a valiant and successful Souldier sighting seven Battles against the Danes in one year at last Conquered them and reduced them to the Profession of Christianity He gave the first Institution or according to others the best Instauration to the University of Oxford A Prince who cannot be Painted to the Life without his Loss no Words reaching his Worth He divided 1. every natural day as to himself into 3 parts viz. 8 hours for his Devotion and 8 for Business and the remainder for Sleep and Refection 2. His Revenues into 3 parts one for War a second for his Court and the third for Pious uses 3. His Land into 32 Shires 4. His Subjects into Hundreds and Tithings consisting of 10 Persons mutually Pledges for their Good Behaviour He left Learning where he found Ignorance Justice where he found Oppression and Peace where he found Destraction And having Reigned 34 years he dyed
Scholar and Exquisite Linguist his Modesty setting the greater Lustre on his Learning His Notes on Doctor Redleys Book of Civil-Law gave the first Testimony of the Pregnancy of his Parts He was first Chapl. of Christ-Church then Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum He dyed 1646. and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxf. His Posthume Works are set out by Jo. Gurgam dedicated to Edw. Bishop Esquire who relieved Gregory in his greatest Distress Sam. Collins Son to Baldwin Preacher Prodigiously Bountiful to the Poor whom Queen Eliz. called constantly Father Collins born and bred at Eaton Hence successively chosen Fellow Provost and Regius Professor of K. Coll. in Camb. Of admirable Wit and Memory and a most fluent Latinist Of his Lectures which he constantly read twice a Week for 40 years together there were not two which did not Critically differ He used all his Friends to decline his Election to the Bishoprick of Bristol as being in profit inferiour to the place he enjoyed In these troublesome times he lost his Church but kept his Choir wherein he dyed about 1651. Will. Oughtred branch'd from a right Ancient Family in the North born and bred in Eaton became Fell. of K. Coll. and at last Beneficed by Th. Earl Arundel at Albury in Surrey Prince of Mathematicians in our Age and Nation This Aged Simeon had a strong Persuasion that he should behold Christs anointed restored to his Throne which he did to his incredible Joy and then had his Dimittis out of this mortal life June 10. 1660. Romish Exile Writers Th. Dorman born at Amersham Nephew to Th. Dorman a Confessor in the Reign of H. 8. and Cordial Protestant tho through weakness he did abjure the Realm This Th. junior was bred at Barkhamsted-School founded by Doctor Incent in Hartfordshire under Mr. Reeve a Prot. School-master but this Dorman turn'd tail and becoming a great Romanist fled beyond the Seas where he wrote Against Alex. Nowel the English Calvanist He flourished An. 1560. Memorable Persons Jo. Mathew Mercer Son to Th. Mathew was born at Sherington Lord Mayor of London An. Dom. 1490. the first Batchelor that ever was chosen into that Office a singular Example for above 120 years when Sir Jo. Leman also Batchelor enjoyed the same Dignity 1616. Dame Hester Temple Daughter to Miles Sands Esq was born at Latmos and Married to Sir Th. Temple of Stow Baronet She had four Sons and nine Daughters who Married and Multiplyed exceedingly insomuch that she saw 700 Extracted from her Body Which Off-spring if contracted into one place had been enough to have peopled a City of Competent Proportion Noted Sheriffs Jo. Croke Ar. afterwards Knighted Son of Sir Jo. Croke one of the six Clerks in Chanc. The Name was assumed by their Ancestors for that of Le Blount which they concealed in the Civil Wars between York and Lanc. As for this Sir John Sher. of Buck he was fortunate in an Issue happy in the knowledge of our Municipal-Law Of whom Sir Jo. Croke his eldest Son Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parl. 43. Eliz. â—… received this Elogium from her Majesty That he had proceeded therein with such Wisdom and Discretion that none before him had deserved better Rob. Dormer Ar. Jun. 10. 1615. made Baronet by King Ja. and 30 of the same Month Baron Dormer of Wing in this County His Grand-child Robert was An. 4. King Ch. I. created Viscount Ascot and Earl of Carnarvan and lost his Life fighting for him who gave him his Honour in the first Battle of Newbury Being a little before his Death desired to make a Suit to the King he replyed I will not dye with a Suit in my Mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery he had Charles now Earl of Canavan Edw. Bulstrod Ar. Whose Arms are Ancient 〈◊〉 S. a Buckhead Ar. attired O. shot the Nose with and Arrow of the 3. headed and featherd of the 2. a Cross pâ—…tee fitchee betwixt the attire O. Hen. Longvile Ar. Had to his 4th Son Sir Mich. Longvile who Married Susan sole Daughter to H. Earl of Kent Now when the Issue in a direct line of that Earldom failed in our memory Mr. Selden proved that the Barony of Ruthyn parcel of the Earldom ought to descend to the Son of the said Sir Michael and thereupon he sat as Baron Ruthyn in the late long Parl. His sole Daughter and Heir was Married to Sir Henry Yelverton of Earton in the County of Northampton Baronet a worthy Gent. of fair Estate Benedict Winchcombe whose Arms I represent in gratitude to the Memory of his Ancestor so well deserving of Newbury viz. Az. on a Chev. engrail'd between 3 Birds O. as many Cinqfoiles of the 1. on a chief of the 2. a fl de luce between 2. Spears-heads of the 1. Edward Coke Knight the English Trebonianus famous for his Comments on the Common-Law The Court-party to prevent his Election as a Member of Parliament got him prickt Sheriff whose Oath he scrupled to take because amongst other things the Sheriff is bound thereby to prosecute the Lollards wherein the best Christians may be included but no excuse could serve so that his Friends must behold him who had been Lord Chief Justice attend on the Judges of the Assises Francis Cheney Knight A noble Ancient Name There was a Family of the Cheneys flourishing in Kent giving for their Arms Az. 6. Lyons Ramp Arg. a Canton Ermin Of this House was Hen. Cheney High-Sheriff of this County and Bedf. An. 7. Eliz. and not long after created by her Baron of Tuddington in Bedf. tho in his Youth wild and venturous witness his playing at Dice with Hen. 2. King of France from whom he won a Diamond of great worth at a cast and being demanded what shift he would have made to repair himself in case he had lost the cast I have said the young Cheney in an Hyperbolical Brave Sheeps-tails enough in Kent with their Wool to buy a better Diamond then this His reduced Age afforded the befitting fruits of Gravity and Wisdom And this Lord deceased without Issue As for Sir Fr. Cheney Sher. he was Father to Charles Cheney Esquire who by his Exquisite Travelling hath Naturalized Forreign Perfection to himself and is Exemplarily happy in a Vertuous Lady Jane Daughter to the truly Noble Will Marquess of New-Castle and by her of hopeful Posterity Cambridgeshire CAmbridgeshire hath Lincolnshire on the North and Suffolk on the East Essex and Hartfordshire on the South Huntington and Redfordshire on the West in length 35 in breadth not full 20 Miles Plentiful in Provision the South part of Bread and Beer and the North of Cattle The Grain here is so good that it outselleth others in 6 pence in the Bushel The late draining of the North part of the County was not very grateful to the poor knowing that it is Felony to take another
Tradition that a Giant with a Blackâ—â—â—l in his Hand standeth at Polston-bridge ready to â—…ock down all the Lawyers that should offer to â—â—ant themselves in Cornwall The truth is there â—â—ve been but few here Eminent in that Faculty Yet â—â—ve we Will. Noy born in this County bred in Lincolnsâ—…n a most sedulous Student constantly conversant â—…ith Ancient Records verifying his Anagram W. Joy I Moyl in Law He was for many years the â—…outest Champion for the Subjects Liberty until â—â—ing Ch. entertained him to be his Attorney 'T was â—…n ingenuous Expression he used when the Goldâ—…miths of Lond. at the Pixe or Weighing Gold in the â—…tar-Chamb pretended the Scales exact to the two â—…undreth part of a Grain I should be loath said â—â—e that all my Actions should be weighed in those Scales Souldiers King Arthur Son to Uther Pendragon was born â—…t Tintagel in this County and proved afterwards Monarch of the Britains He may be termed the British Hercules 1. For his â—…llegetimate Birth 2. His painful life one painful for his 12 Labours the other for his â—…2 Victories against the Saxons 3. His Violent death as Lamentable tho more Honourable being Murdâ—â— by Mordred As for his Round-Table there is veâ—â— little of Probability in it The Cornish men having aâ—…ways esteemed Men of Valour ever made up thâ—… Martial Kings Van-guard but afterwards in thâ—… time of Canutus they were appointed to make â—â— the Rear of our Armies But it is to be pityed thâ—… these People misguided by their Leaders have â—â— often abused their Valour in Rebellions and partiâ—â—larly in the Reign of H. 7. at Black-Heath where they did the greatest Execution with their Arrows reported to be the length of a Taylors-yard However they have since plentifully repaired their Credit by their Exemplary Valour and Loyalty in the late Civil-Wars Souldiers Jo. Arundel of Trerice Esquire 14. H. 8. toâ—… Prisoner Duncan Camble a Scot accounted their Admiral by his Country-men a Pirat by the English and a Valiant man by all in a Sea-fight This Valiaâ—â— Enterprize represented with Advantage by the D. of Norfolk to the King was by him highly praised and rewarded Civilians Jo. Tregonnel born in this County and bred in Oxf. where he proceeded Dr. of the Laws He was employed to be Proctor for King H. 8. in the Cause of his Divorce from Queen Kath. Dowager and being Dextrous and Diligent in that Service he was rewarded by Knight-hood and a Pension of 40 Pound â—… year And afterwards resigning that and paying down 1000 pounds he got a Grant of the Demesâ—â— and Site of Middleton a Mitred Abby in Dors posâ—â—sed at this day by his Posterity He dyed about 〈◊〉 year 1540 and is buried under a fair Monument Middleton-Church Physicians â—â— Atwell Parson of St. Tue well seen in the Theorie â—â—d happy in the Practice of Physick He mostly for 〈◊〉 Diseases Prescribed Milk and often Milk and Apples He bestowed his pains gratis on the â—oor and taking moderately from the Rich left â—he half of what he received in the Houses he viâ—â—ted As for the profits of his Benefice he poured out with both hands in Pious Uses He lived about â—he year 1602. Writers Hucarius the Levite lived at St. Germans in this county a Pious and Learned Man Eminent in his â—unction of Divine Service and wrote 110 Homilies â—esides other Books He flourished 1040. Jo. Cornwall Studied at Rome and was Familiar with Pope Alex. 3. He wrote against Pet. Lumbard â—hat Master of Sentences a Book called De homine Assumpto He also wrote a Book of Philosophy and Heresies He flourished under King Hen. 2. An. â—170 Sim. Thurway first bred in the English Universities â—hen in Paris admired for his Logick firm Memoâ—y and Fluent Expression yet most Profanely he advanced Aristotle above Moses and himself above both He lost at one instant both Reason and Speech a judgment adequate to his Crime 1201. Mich. Blaunpayn was bred in Oxf. and Paris A good Rhyming Poet as any of that Age. In dâ—…fence of Cornwall against Hen. of Normandy he 〈◊〉 this Verse Piscibus Stanno nusquam tam fertilis Ora. But his Vein lying more in Satyr he gives this Character of his foresaid Antagonist Est tibi Gamba Capri crus Passeris latus Api Os Leporis catuli Nasus dens gena Muli Frons Vetulae tauri Caput color undique 〈◊〉 His Argumentis quibus est Argutia Mentis Quod non à Monstro differs satis hic tibi monstâ—… He flourished An. 1350. Godfrey of Cornwall bred a Doctor in Paris and Oxf. and afterwards a Carmelite of no mean esteem He wrote a Book against the Constituting of two Provincials of that Order in England This Solemâ—… Doctor flourished An. 1310. Jo. Trevisa born at Caradock bred in Oxf. was Vicar of Berkley in Glouc. and Chaplain to Thomas Lord Berkley at whose instance he Translated the Bible into English without leave of his Holiness or Authority from a Publick Council whose Translation is as much better than Wicklifs as worse than Tyndals He dyed about the year 1400. Since the Reformation Jo. Skuish Secretary to Card. Woolsey wrote a Chronicle out of many several Authors He flourished An. 1530. Bartholomew Traheron well descended and bred it Oxf. and beyond Seas After which he became Library Keeper to E. 6. and Dean of Chichester In the of Queen Mary he passed unto Germany and there â—…d by his Pen 1556. Rich. Carew Esquire Son to Th. Carew and Eliz. gecombe was born at Anthony of right Worshipâ—â— Parentage and honoured his Extraction with Learning He was bred a Gentleman-Commoner of â—…f where being but 14 years old and yet three â—…rs standing he disputed Extempore before the â—…rls of Leicester and Warw. with the matchless Sir â—â— Sidney He is celebrated by Cambden for his juâ—…ious Description of Cornwall set forth 1602. He â—…ed about the middle of the Reign of King James â—â— or his Son is said to have introduced the use of â—…mbadoes in the West which serve both for Boots and â—â—rups Ch. Herle descended of a Worshipful Family and â—…ed in Exeter-Coll was at last Richly Beneficed in â—…nc A good Scholar and esteemed by his Party â—…eep Divine and after the Death of D. Twis â—â—esident of the Assembly He dyed about 1655. Memorable Persons Jo. Bray Tenant to Mr. Rich. Carew carried upâ—â— his Back An. 1608. at one time by the space â—…ell near of a Butt-length six Bushels of Wheatenâ—…al and upon them all the Miller a Lubber of 24 years of Age. Jo. Roman the Cornish Milo so used to Burdens in â—…s Child-hood that when a Man he would bear â—…e whole Carcase of an Ox and yet never tugged â—…ereat Veal an old Man of Bodmin was in â—…e Mechanical Arts what Georgias of â—…eontium vaunted of the Liberal Sciences ignorant in â—…one Edw. Bone of Ladock Servant to Mr. Courtâ—â—â— tho Deaf and Dumb from his Cradle could leâ—… and express
parts adjoyning to the Sea are called the Hundreds of Essex and Vulgar Wits will 〈◊〉 you that the Stock of poor people in these part is Five Hundred Cows which is no more than five The Natural Commodities are Saffron about Wâ—â—den Oysters the best in England bred near â—â—â—â—…hester King Ja. was wont to say he was a 〈◊〉 at Man that first adventured on the Eating of them â—…ops which are said to grow best where Vines will â—â—t grow and are wholesome if unmixed c. acâ—…ording to Stat. 1. Jac. c. 18. Puits in the Puit-Island â—â—ar Harwick a kind of Birds which are delicate â—…ood when fatted As for Manufactures Bays â—…ays and Serges are made in Colchester Coxal c. â—…nd there is Gun-powder made in Mills erected on â—â—e River Ley between Waltham and Lond. Of â—…uildings 1. Audley-End built by Th. Howard Earl â—…f Suff. is the best Subjects House in this Island 2. â—…ew-hall built by the Ratcliffs Earls of Suss â—…ought by Geo. Villiers D. of Buck. surpasses for the â—…leasant approach thereunto and the adjoyning Parks â—… Copt-Hall or Coppice-Hall seated on a Hill in â—…he midst of a Park was built by the Abbot of Walâ—…am and enlarged by Sir Th. Heneage In which â—…here is the most Proportionable Gallery in England An. 1639. a Hericano forced the Stones of the great East-Window like Pellets quite through this Galâ—…ery in length 56 Yards Dr. Jackson about the same â—…ime observed the like Wind as Ominous and Preâ—…aging our Civil Dissentions To proceed to more Wonders the huge Bones which were digged out â—…t the Ness near Harwich were generally thought to be Bones of Men tho it be more probable they were Bones of Elephants brought over by the Emperor Claudius The Story of the Anatomy of Bones in the Abbey of Waltham-Cross which being touched in one part fell all into Powder is confirmed by Publick Fame with several instances of the like Nature Proverbs I. Essex miles that is very long Miles Comparatively to those of Middlesex II. Essex Calveâ—… the fattest fairest and finest in Engl. III. The Weavers Beef of Colchester That is Sprats the Weavers Food such Beef-eaters and such Beef being numerous in and about that City IV. Jeering-Coxhall it was true by way of Catachresis in Queen Maries daies for then the Inhabitants of that Town were very serious some in suffering and others in shifting Martyrdom V. He may fetch a flitch of Bacon fâ—â—â— Dunmoe It was a Custom formerly that whoever did swear before the Prior of the Convent a Dunmoe That they never made any Nuptial Transgression might demand a Gammon of Bacon Princes Hen. Fitz. Roy Natural Son to H. 8. and the Lady Talbois was born at Black-more Mannor An. 1519. He was created Earl of Nottingham and D. of Richmond Bastard in him was not Boes art i. e. an abject Nature but Besteaerd the best disposition since he purchased a Reputation by his Martial Activity and Learning He Married Mary Daughter to Th. D. of Norf. and dyed An. 1536. and was buried in Framlingham in Suff. Saints St. Helen was born at and Daughter to Coel King of Colchester She was Mother of Constantine the first Christian Emperor and is famous to all Posterity for finding out Christs-Cross on Mount Calvary Hence the Arms of Colchester a Cross enragled between our Crowns By the Pagans she was Nick-named â—…abularia she having found the Stable of Christs-Nativity Whose Son St. Constantine was born at Colchester V. Eccl. â—…ist St. Ethelburgh Sister to Erkenwald Bishop of Lond. â—…as Abbess of the Nunery of Barking where she â—…d an Austere Life and dyed 676. Whose Sister Hildetha succeeded her and dyed 700. Theorithoid a Holy Nun of the same place dyed 678. Edilburge â—â— Wife to Ina King of the West Saxons a Nun at Barking was reputed a Saint after her Death An. â—…40 Wolfhild a Barking Nun dyed An. 989. This Nunery was valued at 1000 l. yearly rent at the Dissolution St. Ofith Daughter to the King of the E. Angles was abbess of a Monastery of her own founding at Chich. She was beheaded by the Danes about 870. â—…fter which she was able to carry her own head no further than 3. furlongs and if St. Deni's carried â—…is head further you may imagine his was the lighter Head of the two St. Neots firstan Eremite in Cornw. then a proâ—…itable Preacher of the Gospel a Zaccheus for Staâ—…ure and Piety He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxf. for which his Memory is sacred to all Posterity He dyed An. 883. â—…nd was buried at Eynsbury since St. Neots in Hunt Martyrs Jo. Lawrence being very feeble had a Chair at the Stake the little Children crying God strengthen â—…ou Th. Hawkes Gent. having promised to give his Friends a Token of the comfort of his Conscience whilst burning raised himself up and clapped his Hands over his Head to the Admiration of all the beholders Rose Allin a Virgin endured the Burning of her Wrists with incredible Patience as afterwards the burning of her Body with a Christian Constancy These are the most Noted of 44 Martyrs in the Shire Confessors Rich. George Labourer of West-Barfold Of thâ—â— several Wives he had two of them were Burâ—â— and himself the third imprisoned for Religion Hâ—â— Burning was prevented by Queen Maries Death Cardinals Th. Bourcher Brother to Hen. first Earl of Eâ—â— was successively Bishop of Worc. Ely Arch-bishop 〈◊〉 Cant for 51 years by the Title of St. Cyriâ—â—◠〈◊〉 the Baths He married H. 7. to the Daughter â—â— E. 4. and applyed himself Politickly to the Powâ—â— of that Prince Yet 't is said Praestitit hic praesul nil tanto sanguine dignum What was 100 pounds and a Chest given by 〈◊〉 to Camb. He saw the Civil Wars between York aâ—â— Lanc. begun continued and concluded Many Noble Prelates were his Contemporaries and after his decease Cardinal Pole a Man of Noble Extraction Prelates Rich. de Barking became Abbot of Westminster and â—…ouncellor to Hen. 3. Ch. Baron of the Exchequer â—â—d Lord Treasurer of England He dyed An. 1246. â—â—d was buried in Westm Church Jo. de Chesill was Bishop of Lond. and twice Chanâ—…ellour and afterwards Lord Treasurer of Engâ—…and Jo. Waltham Mr. of the Rolls Keeper of the Pr. â—…eal and Bishop of Salisbury was Excommunicated â—…y Courtney Arch-bishop of Cant. for refusing to be â—…isited by him after the Popes death Yet he dyed â—…ord Treasurer and was by R. 2. his Order buried â—…mongst the Kings in Westm. 1395. Roger Walden a poor Mans Son was Dean of York â—…nd at last Treasurer of England during the Exile of Th. Arundel Arch-bishop of Cant. he called Synods c. in that See till the Arch-bishops Restorationâ—… â—…hen being poor he was made by Arundels means Bishop of Lond. and dyed 1404. Since the Reformation Rich. Howland born at Newport-Ponds consecrated Bishop of Peterborough dyed June 1600. Jo. Jegon born at Coxhall Mr. of Bennet-Coll and thrice
should Preach the others Funeral Sermon He died 1615. Robert Balton born at Blackborne had the 6 Properties of a good Scholar viz. good natural parts a Faithful Memory Curiosity using withal Study Labour and Attention He could speak the Greek and Lattin as well as English and that Stilo imperatorio He was chosen a Disputant before King James and acquitted himself with great applause He was afterwards Rector of Broughton He died 1631. Jo Weaver bred in Cambridge an Antiquary composed a Book of Funeral Monuments in the Diocess of Canterbury Roch Lond. and Norwich He died about 1634. Ja Cudworth D. D. and an excellent Preacher finished some of Mr Perkins's Works Lawr. Chaderton Lawyer was a Convert from the Romish Religion which when his father a rich Gentleman heard he sent him a groat in a poak to go a begging therewith He was one of the four Representatives of the Nonconformists in Hampton Court Conference and afterwards a Translator of the Bible having preached one time for two hours space he concluded That he would no longer trespass upon their patience at which the hungry people cryed out For Gods sake go on which obliged him to an Extempore-continuance After he had commenced D. D. he died 1640. Geo. Walker born at Hauxhead having the small-Pox in his childhood the standers by expecting his dissolution started up out of a Trance with this ejaculation Lord take me not away till I have shewed forth thy Praises which made his parents devote him to the Ministery after his recovery His Sermon printed against the profanation of the Sabbath c. procured him much trouble and 2 years Imprisonment He died 1651. Romish Exile Writers Edw. Rishton M. A. in Doway and priest in Rome 1580. at his return to England was three years Prisoner He died of the Plague at St. Manhow 1585. Th. Worthington well descended was bred at Doway B. D. and sent into England in 88. where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London He commenced D. D. at Triers He wrote Notes on the Old Testament which came out in English at Rhemes Anderton a Learned Popish Priest scurvily disappointed Mr. Bolton his Prosylite who was to go over with him to the English Seminary Benefactors to the Publick Will. Smith born at Farmeworth preferred by H. 8 B. of Lich. Cov. president of the Marches Founded a Hosp and School at Lich. and a School at Farmeworth allowing 10 l. per An. Salary for the Master He founded Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford before the finishing of which he died 1513. Molineux a preacher about the time of H. 8. descended of the House of Softon built the Church there and Houses for Schools about the Church Yard and made the great Wall about Mag. Colledge in Oxford Edw. Halsall Esquire Chamberlain of the Exchequer at Chester founded a Free School in Halstall Th. West younger Brother to the Lord de la Ware and Parson of Manchester became Heir to that Barony For a Marriage-License from the Pope he built a Colledge for Priests in Manchester Since the Reformation Jo. Smith finding Magd. Coll. in Cambridge poor and empty left it rich and full of Scholars having served it all his life and bequeathed to it 600 l. at his Death Geo. Clarke Haberdasher a devout Man dying Issueless before the late Civil Wars left to the Poor 100 l. per An. in Lands lying in Crompsal Humph. Chetham a Pious and prosperous Man was High Sheriff of this County 1635. He gave by his Will 7000 l. to buy a Fee-simple Estate of 420 l. per an for the Education of 40 poor Children in Manchester at School from about 6 till 14 years of Age. He gave 1000 l. for Books to a Library and 100 l. to prepare a place for them He bequeathed 200 l. to buy Books for the Churches of Manchester Bolton c. He gave the remainder of his Estate above 2000 l. Debts c. being paid to the encrease of the Books in the Library Memorable Persons Sir Edm. de Trafford and Th. de Ashton Knights descended of great Wealth and Reputation were Famous Chymists They procured a Patent from K. Henry 6. for trying their pretended Skill in turning base Metalls into Gold Rich. Rothwell is said to have dispossessed Jo. Fox near Nott. of the Divel there passing betwixt them a large Dialogue He died 1627. The Battels At Preston in Anderness Aug. 7. 1648. D. Hamilton entered England with an Army Most beheld him as one rather cunning than Wise yet rather Wise than Valiant However he had Officers whae did Ken the geat of feighting as wee l as ony of oor Age. He would accept of no English assistance Their Van and Rear were many Miles asunder and they met the resistance of Maj. Gen. Lambert before they expected it He at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a blow as stunn'd it tho it reeled on some Miles more Southward into Stafford-shire where at Ulcester the Duke was taken prisoner and utterly defeated As for the defeat of Ja. E. of Derby ult Aug. 1651. it amounted to no Battel by reason of the Vigilancy of Coll. Lilburn and others This County may be called the Cock-pit of Conscience by reason of the constant Combats therein betwixt Religion and Superstition A certain Impostor had almost made Eleanor Q. Mother mad by reporting the Posthume Miracles done by her Husband H. 3. till Hugh of Manchester of whom before settled her judgment aright Leicester-shire LEicester-shire is almost circular in form the Town of Leic. being the Center and the River Soare the Diameter thereof Having Linc. and Rut. on the E. Darby and Nott. on the N. Warw. on the W. and Northam on the S. in length 33 and in breadth 27 miles The South W. parts abound in Corn the North. W. in wood The rest of the County having sufficiency of both The natural Commodities are Beans about Barton in the Beans where they appear like a Forrest in the time of Harvest Cole digged up at Cole-Orton which warms Cold-Orton another Village together with the whole County Of Buildings the Parish Church of Bottsford is very fair and large with a high Spire Steeple At the suppression of the Abbeys many ancient Monuments of the Albanies and Roses were removed hither out of the Priory of Beaver by the Command of Th. E. of Rutland Then the Stone Tower built by William Lord Hastings at Ashby de la Zouch hath something Monarchical in Height Strength and Workmanship above the ordinary Aristocracy of Fabricks Also the Fair Palace built at Broadgate by Th. Grey Marq. of Dorset challengeth the preheminence above the rest As for Wonders There is a Village in this County called Charleton Curly and all that are born therein have an harsh and ratling kind of Speech and cannot well pronounce the Letter R. Which in all probability proceeds from a peculiar Intemperature of the Elements in that place There was a Fellow of Trin. Coll. likely a Native of
Clergy Th. Lupset Greek Prof. at Oxford was known unto Erasmus He was diverted from Divinity by Woolsey He was in favour with Hen. 8. and died of a Consumption 1532. in Lond. and buried at St. Alphage Since the Reformation Jo. Rastal Printer undertook to prove Purgatory by Reason He was a Good Mathematician and made a Comedy of Europe Asia and Africa He wrote a Book against Jo. Frith which he afterwards recanted and a Book of the Terms of the Law and an Index to J. Fitz-Herbert He was Father to Rastal the Famous Lawyer He died and was buried at London 1536. Edw. Hall bred in K. College became a Judge in the Sheriffs Court He wrote an elegant Hist of the Warrs of York and Lanc. He died 1547 and was buried in St. Sithes Church Will. Fulke D. D. and Marg. Professor in Camb. when Young wrote a Book of Meteors Being a solid Divine he confuted the Rhemish Translation of the Bible He died 1589. Edm. Spencer bred in Camb. A great Poet who imitated Chaucer 'T is said that he presented Q. Eliz. with a Poem with which she was so well pleased that she commanded the Lord. Treasurer Cecil to give him 100 l. and when he alledged that Sum was too much then give him Quoth the Q. what is Reason but being delayed he presented these Lines to the Queen I was promised on a time To have Reason for my Rhyme From that time unto this Season I receiv'd nor Rhyme nor Reason Hereupon the Q. gave strict Order for the present payment of 100 l. He was afterwards Secretary to the Lord Gray Deputy of Ireland He was an Excellent Linguist Antiquary Philosopher Mathematician yet so poor as being a Poet that he was thought Fami non Famae scribere Returning into England he was robb'd by the Rebels of that little he had and dying for Grief in great Want 1598 was honourably buried nigh Chancer in Westminster The expence of his Funeral and Monument was defrayed at the sole charge of Rob. first of that Name E. of Essex Jo. Stow bred at learning no higher then a good Grammar-Scholar became an useful Historian and very accurate in the Notation of Time Besides his Chron. of England he hathwritten a large Survey of London He died 1605 and lyeth buried in the Quire of St. Andr. Undershaft There was another of his Name a Monk of Norwich 1440. Giles Fletcher equally loved of the Muses and Graces wrote a Poem entitled Christs Victory Having commenced D. D. he became Preacher first in St. Maries then in Suff. where being flighted by his clownish Parishioners he fell into Melancholy and died in a short time 162. His Brother Phineas of Cambridge wrote an excellent Poem called The Purple Island c. Jo. Donne a Man of excellent Wit large Travail and choice Experience in his reduced Age became D. D. and Dean of St. Pauls He died 1631. and lyeth buried in St. Pauls His Life is written by Mr. Isaac Walton Romish Exile Writers Jo. Heiwood writes of himself that he applied Mirth more then Thrift many mad Plays and did few good Works His Jests were biting He printed English Proverbial Epigrams and his pleasant Monumenta Literaria After the Death of Q. Mary who highly favoured him he fled for Religion He died 156. Whose Son Jasper a Jesuit was executed in the Reign of Q. Eliz. Maurice Chamnee bred a Frier in the Charterhouse He only escaped when 18 of his Order lost their lives by him written for refusing the Oath of Supremacy 'T is said he warped to the Will of H. 8. to preserve his Convent from Destruction He dyed beyond the Seas 1581. Edm. Campian bred in Oxf. being Deacon of the Protestant Church he renounced that Order and fled beyond the Seas A Man of great Parts and no less Ostentation Coming over into England with Father Parsons to reduce it to the Church of Rome he fetched over many Neuters before to his perswasion by his Ten Reasons in pure Latine and pithily penned He was quickly caught by the Setters of Secretary Walsingham imprisoned examined on Matters of State and saw rather than felt the Rack but a while after he was engaged in 4 solemn Disputations in the Chappel in the Tower to make good a bold Challenge he had made against all Protestants concerning Scripture the Church the Sacrament and Justification and 't is said whatever Questions he there answered that he answered not the general expectation of his own Party He was executed 1581. Benefactors to the Publick Th. Pope Knight Architect under God of his own Fortune employed under the Lord Cromwell an Instrument of the second magnitude got his share at the dissolution of the Abbeys and refunded a considerable proportion for what he received for the Building endowing of Trin. Coll. in Oxf. He died about the beginning of the Reign of Q. Eliz. There are in Oxford-shire many descendants from him continuing in aworshipful Estate the Chief of the Family being the E. of Down in Ireland on the same token that K. James came in Progress to the House of Sir Pope Knight when his Lady was lately delivered of a Daughter who was presented to K. James with this Paper of Verses See this little Mistress here Did never sit in Peter 's Chair Or a Tripple Crown did wear And yet she is a Pope No Benefice she ever sold Nor did dispence with Sins for Gold She hardly is a Sevenight Old And yet she is a Pope No King her Feet did ever kiss Or had from her worse Look then this Nor did she ever hope To Saint one with a Rope And yet she is a Pope A Female Pope you 'l say A Second JOAN No sure she is Pope Innocent or none Th. Curson Armorour being much afflicted with a sad Accident one having shot another in his Shop tho during his absence resolved to give all his Estate to pious uses and accordingly disposed of some hundreds of pounds for the use of the poor in Alhallows Lumbard-Street where he was born and other Parishes He died 16 Edw. Allin a Stage-Player and Roscius of our Age built a fair Colledge at Dulwich in Kent for the relief of poor people The Poor of his native Parish of St. Botolph-Bishopsgate have a priviledge to be provided for therein before others Thus he who out-acted others in his Life out-did himself before his death which hapned An. 16 Will. Plat Son to Sir Hugh Grandson to Sir Rich. Alderman of London was bred in St. Jo. Coll. in Camb. He bequeathed thereunto Lands to maintain Fellows at 30 l. and Scholars at 10 l. per An. so many as the Estate would extend to Between the said Collonel and Jo. Plat Clerk Heir to Will there was a Composition made of 4 Scholars at 10 l. and 2 Fellows at 50 l. per An. William also gave 30 l. yearly to the Poor of Hornsey and High-gate with a Lecture founded therein He died 1637. Alex. Strange B. D. of
Judges of the Com. Pleas. That K. commonly called him the Judge that would give no money He was renowned for his Patience to hear both Parties all they could say a happy Memory and singular Sagacity to search into the material circumstances and exemplary Integrity even to the rejection of Gratuities after Judgment given He forbearing to Travel on the Lords Day wrote a Reformation on some of his own Order He loved Plain and profitable preaching being wont to say I know not what you call Puritanical Sermons but they come nearest to my Conscience He died as he went the Northern Circuit and lyeth buried in Kendall-Church in Westmorland Sir Robert Dallington born at Geddington bred a Bible-Clerk in Bennet-Colledg He was afterwards a School-Master in Norf. and after having travelled Secretary to Francis Earl of Rutland His accurate Aphorisms on Tacitus witness his Excellent Wit and Judgment At last he was Knighted and preferred Mr. of the Charter-House At the end of a Latin Speech spoken by a School-Boy with which he was welcomed to that Hospital there was a Distick to this effect Do not the least part of your trust disdain Nor grudge of Boyes to take the Care again He died An. 162. Jo. Fletcher Son of Rich. D. D. had an excellent Wit He with Fr. Beaumont Esq like Castor and Pollux most happy when in conjunction raised the English to equal the Athenian and the Roman Theatre Beaumont being the Ballast of Judgment Fletcher the Sail of Phantasie both compounding a Poet to Admiration Meeting once in a Tavern to contrive the rude draught of a Tragedy Fletcher undertook to kill the King therein his words being overheard by a Listner he was accused of High Treason till the mistake soon appearing that the Plot was only against a Dramatick and Scenical King all wound off in Merriment Fletcher surviving his Partner wrote good Comedies himself tho inferiour to the former and no wonder if a single thred was not so strong as a twisted one He died as I am informed of the Plague An. 1. Car I. 1625. Sir Hen. Montague Grandson to Sir Edward Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was born at Boughton He raised himself as was foretold in his Childhood above the rest of his Family by the pregnancy of his parts He was bred in Christ's Colledge in Cambridge then in the Middle Temple He became Serjant at Law was Knighted by King James 1602. and was Recorder of London made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench 1616. Lord Treasurer of England 1620. created Baron of Kimbolton and Visc Mandevile afterwards Earl of Manchester made President of the privy Councel then Lord Privy Seal at which time he brought the Court of Requests into such repute that what was formerly called the Almes-Basket of the Chancery had in his time well nigh as many Suits and Clients as the Chancery it self His Motto was Movendo non mutando me His Meditations on Life and death written in time of his health may be presumed to have left good impressions on him preparatory for his death which hapned 164 ... Writers Jo. of Northampton in lat Jo. Avonius a Carmelite an Eminent Mathematician wrote a Book entitled The Philosophers Ring a Perpetual Almanack a Masterpiece of that Age. He flourished 1340. Robert Holcot born in Holcot and bred in Oxford became a Dominican in Northam A learned and prudent Man He wrote many famous Treatises He died of the plague 1349 at Northam before he had finished his Lectures on Ecclesiastes Note The Plague about that time so raged in England that our Chroniclers affirm scarce a tenth person of all sorts was left alive Robert Dodford born at Dodford was a Benedictine Monk in Ramsey He wrote Postills on the Proverbs which the envy of time hath intercepted from us He flourished about 1370. Pet. Peteshull an Augustinian in Oxford disliking his Order procured a dispensation to relinquish it and became Honorary Chaplain to Pope Urbain 6. He afterwards promoted the Doctrine of Wickliffe and in his Exposition of the Prophesie of Hildegardes so taxed the pride and laziness of all Friers that his Book was burnt and himself â—…led to escape the same Fate He flourished 1390. Since the Reformation Robert Crowley bred in Oxford confuted Miles Hogheard who wrote against the poor Protestants He fled to Frankford in the Reign of Queen Mary and in the Reign of Q. Eliz. was made Vicar of St. Giles without Cripple-gate London where he lyes buried having died 1588. Eusebius Paget born at Cranford and bred in Oxford was commonly called the Golden Sophister He was Minister in London and wrote an excellent book called the History of the Bible and Catechism of the 40 short Questions Ja. Preston D. D. born in Heyford and bred in Cambridge was so far from Eminency before he commenced Master of Arts that he was but a little above Contempt Soon after his skill in Philosophy rendred him to the general respect of the University He was the greatest Pupil-manager in England The Duke used him to work the Puritan Party then most active in Parliament to his compliance And tho this Dr. was most powerfull with them he was at last found useless to the intended Purpose He was therefore called by one the Court Comet blazing for a time and sading soon afterwards He was a perfect Politician and used Lapwing-like to flutter most on that place which was furthest from his eggs He had perfect command of his Passion with the Caspian Sea never ebbing nor flowing and would not alter his composed Pace for all the whipping which Satyrical Wits bestowed on him He never had Wife or Cure of Souls and leaving a plentiful no invidious estate died 1628. Th. Randolph born at Hougton was bred Fell in Trinity College in Cambridg The Muses may seem not only to have Smiled but to have been tickled at his Nativity such the Festivity of his Pomes of all sorts He died 163. Nick. Estwick B. D. born at Harowden and bred in Cambridg was 40 years Parson of Warton then of Botsworth a pious and judicious Divine His Works witness his great Worth He died 1657. Romish Exile Writers Math. Kellison born at Harowden was Kings Professor and Rector of the University in Rhemes He wrote a Book to King James another against Sutliff with many more and was living 1611. Benefactors to the Publick Hen. Chichley born at Higham Ferrers and bred in Oxford was sent by Henry 4. to the Council of Pisa 1409 and by the Popes own hand was consecrated Bishop of St. Davids at Vienna and thence was advanced Arch-Bishop of Canteroury by Henry 5. Which Wise King having a shrewd design against the Abbeys was diverted with vast sums of Mony paid by the Clergy to maintain his Wars in France He refused a Cardinals Cap proffered to him in the Reign of Henry 6. being loath as some think to be junior to Cardinal Beaufort of Winchester who had often disobliged him
Robert were commanded to the contrary under the pain of the Popes Curse Tutbury was annexed to the Dutchy of Lancaster and some small matter was restored to John Dudley Castle high and pleasantly seated and in the Reign of King Edw. 6. well built was adorned by John Dudley Duke of Northumberland who claiming the Title thereof had thrust out John Sutton Lord Dudley a weak man and entangled with Debts who therefore got the Name of Lord Quondam But after the Execution of that Duke Queen Mary restored Edward the Son of the aforesaid poor Lord. Proverbs I. In April Doves Flood is worth a Kings good Dove is a River parting this and Derby-shire much batling the Meadows thereof II. Wotton under Weaver where God came never Though it is probable that Wotton is a dismal place covered with Hills from the light of the Sun yet this Proverb set off with such a dark ground does the more plainly discover its own profane Complexion Saints There was a Grand Massacre committed by the Pagans under Dioclesian on the Christians in Britain and elsewhere particularly in the place where Lichfield now standeth whose names and numbers are utterly unknown St. Bertelin a Brittan of Noble Birth lived an Eremite in the Woods near Stafford anciently called Bithiney Wolfadus and Ruffinus loving in their Lives in their Death they were not divided They were Murdered by their Bloody Father the Pagan King of Mercia There is the Chappel of Burnweston built in a Woody place whither Ruffinus had fled for a while from his Fathers fury Cardinals Reginald Pole born at Stoverton-Castle 1500 was second Son to Sir Richard Knight of the Garter and nearly related to King Henry 7. His Mother Margaret Countess of Salisbury was Neice to King Edw. 4. and Daughter to George Duke of Clarence He was bred in Corpus-Christi Colledge in Oxford preferred afterwards Dean of Exeter King Henry 8. allowing him a Pension sent him beyond the Seas He studied at Padua conversed much with the Patricians of Venice and in fine became a perfect Italian and could not be prevailed upon by the King or his Friends to return to England whereupon his Pension was withdrawn Living afterwards in a Venetian Monastery he attain'd great Credit for his Eloquence Learning and good Life It was not long before he was made Deacon Cardinal by the Title of St. Mary in Cosmedin by Pope Paul 3. who sent him Ambassadour to the Emperour and the French King to incite them to War against K. Hen. 8. Afterwards he retired to Viterbo in Italy where his House was the Sanctuary of Lutherans and he himself became a Racking but no through paced Brotestant Insomuch that being appointed one of the three Presidents of the Council of Trent he endeavoured to have Justification determined by Faith alone During his living at Viterbo he was taxed for begetting a Bastard which Pasquil Published in Verses affixed to his Pillar That Blade being made all of Tongue and Teeth would not stick to tell where the Pope trod his Holy Sandals awry Yet he had some Relation to the Beast in the Apocalyps in that under the Name of Pasquil there has been a successive Corporation of Satyrists After the death of Paul 3. Pole was at midnight in the Conclave chosen to succeed him the refusal whereof under the notion of a deed of darkness was by the Italians lookt upon as a piece of dulness in our Cardinal Next day expecting a re-Election he saw Julius 3. his professed Enemy chosen in his place Yet afterwards he became Alterius Orbis Papa when made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by Queen Mary He was a Person free from Passion His Youthful Books are full of the Flowers of Rhetorick whilst those of his old Age are dry and dull He dyed few hours after O. Mary November 17. 1558. Prelates Edmund Stafford Brother to Ralph first Earl of Stafford and Son to Edmund Baron of Stafford was by King Rich. 2. preferred Bishop of Exeter and under King Henry 4. was Chancellor of England He added two Fellowships to Stapletons-Inn in Oxford first named by him Exeter-Colledge and setled Lands for the maintenance and made good Statutes for the good order of the same He dyed 1419 and was buried in his own Cathedral W. Dudley Son of John Baron Dudley of Dudley-Castle in this County and bred in Univer Colledge in Oxford became Dean of Windsor and afterwards Bishop of Durham He dyed at London 1483 and was buried in VVestminster Edmund Audley Son to the Lord Audley of Heyley in this County whose Sirname was Touchet was bred in Oxford where he built the Quire of St. Maries adorning it with a Musical Organ He was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Hereford and at last of Salisbury He dyed at Ramsbury 1624 and was buried in his own Cathedral in a Chappel of excellent Artisâ—…ce of his own Erection Lawyers Sir Thomas Littleton Knight was Son to Thomas VVestcote Esq and Elizabeth Littleton his Wife He was bred in the Study of the Laws in the Inner Temple and became Serjeant and Steward of the Court of the Marshal-sea of the Kings Houshould to Henry 6. By Edw. 4. an 6 reg he was made one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas and an 15. reg Created Kt. of the Bath He deserved as well of our Common as Justinian of the Civil Law whose Book of Tenures is counted Oraculous in that kind Commented upon by the Learned Sir Edward Coke He Married Joan Daughter and Coheir of W. Boerly of Bromsecraft Castle in Salop by whom he had three Sons Founders of three Families still flourishing 1. William fixed at Frankley in this County where his Posterity is eminently extant 2. Richard whose Issue remain at Pillerton-Hall in Shropshire 3. Thomas whose Linage continues in Worcestershire This Reverend Judge dyed an 21. of King Edw. 4. and lyeth buried under a fair Monument in the Cathedral of VVorcester Edmund Dudley Esq was Son to John Dudley Esq second Son to John Sutton first Baron of Dudley though he was standered by some as being the Son of a Carpenter He Married the Daughter and Heir of the Vise Lisle Being bred in the Study of the Laws he was made one of Puisne Judges and wrote an excellent book Entitled the Tree of the Common VVealth He was employed by K. Henry 7. to put his Penal Statutes in Execution which he did with severity cruelty and extortion K. Henry 8. resigned this Dudley and Sir Richard Empson his Partner to Justice so that they were made a Peace-Offering to popular anger 1510 being Executed at Tower-Hill Sir Thomas Bromley Knight was an 1. Mary made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench holding his place hardly a year Souldiers Jo. Bromley Esq branched from the Bromleys in Shrepshire was born at Bromley He recovered the English Standard which was taken by the French at the battle near Corby in France In reward of his Valour King Henry 5. whose Arms he had followed in France
Employments he was made Bishop of Winchester Being Secret in all his own Acts of Cruelty he often chid Bonner calling him Ass though not so much for killing poor people as for not doing it more cunningly He chiefly contrived the six Articles Gardiner's Creed which caused the death of many and trouble of more Protestants He had almost cut off Queen Kath. Par and prevented Queen Elizabeth from being Queen had not Divine Providence preserved them He throughly complyed with Henry 8. opposed K. Edw. 6. by whom he was imprisoned and deprived acted all under Q. Mary by whom he was restored and made Lord Chancellour of England He is reported to have avowed at his death Justification by the Merits of Christ only He dyed at Whitehall of the Gout Nov. 12. 1555 and was buried in the Quire leaving as is said 4000 Marks in ready Money behind him He improved his power with Queen Mary to restore some Noble Families formerly depressed viz. Some descendant from the Duke of Norfolk the Arundels of Warder-Castle and the Hungerfords Since the Reformation John Bale born at Covie and bred in Jesus-Colledge in Oxford was a Carmelite in Norwich He was converted to be a Protestant by the means of Thomas Lord Wentworth He wrote a Book de Scriptoribus Britannicis He was Bishop of Ossory in Ireland an 1552. whence on the death of Edw. 6. he fled some of his servants being slain before his eyes and in his passage over the Seas was taken Prisoner ransom'd and safely arrived in Switzerland Under Q. Eliz. he was made only Prebendary of the Church of Canterbury being probably a person more learned then discreet fitter to write then govern as unable to command his own Passion and Biliosus Balaeus passeth for his true Character He dyed at Canterbury 1563. and was buried in the Cathedral Church therein John May bred in Cambridge was Consecrated Bishop of Carlile September 27. 1577. and dyed in April 1598. John Overal D. D. born at Hadley was Regius Professor in Cambridge and Master of Kath. Hall afterwards Dean of St. Pauls He was by King James employed in the New Translation of the Bible and made Bishop of Norwich where he was a discreet presser of Conformity He dyed 1618. Leonard Maw born at Rendlesham antiently the Residence of the Kings of the E. Angles where K. Redwald kept at the same time a Communion Table and Altars for Idols was Master of Peter House then of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and in 5 years disengaged that Foundation from a great debt He was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was a Prince and waited on him in Spain by whom he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells A good Scholar grave Preacher mild man and gentile in his deportment He dyed 163. Ralph Brownrig D. D. born in Ipswich was the Son of a Merchant He was Fellow of Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge where he to the wonder of the hearets performed the Joco-serious part of a Philosophy Act before King James no man had more ability or less inclination to be Satyrical His Wit was Page and not Privy Councellor to his Judgment He had a Loyal Memory quick Fancy solid Judgment and fluid Utterance being not only flumen but fulmen Eloquentia When Commencing B. D. he chose for his Text Phil. 1. 29. To you it is given not only to believe but suffer somewhat Prophetical to him being afterwards affronted and defied by some who almost Deified him before in whose Eyes he seemed the blacker for wearing white Sleeves when 1641. made Bishop of Exeter Dr. Young Preaching his Consecration Sermon on this Text The Waters are risen c. complained of the many invasions which Popular Violence had made on the Rights and Priviledges of Church and State This Bishop himself was soon sadly sensible of such Inundations and yet by the procerity of his parts and piety he not only safely waded through them himself but also when Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge by his Prudence raised such Banks that those overflowings were not so destructive as otherwise they would have been to the University He continued constant to the Church of England a Champion of the needful use of the Liturgy and for the priviledges of Ordination to belong to Bishops alone Being unmoveable in his Principles of Loyalty he told Oliver the Usurper demanding his Advice in a matter of great difficulty My Lord the best Counsel I can give you is give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods with which free Answer O. C. was rather silenced then satisfied A little before his death he was Minister of both Temples He dyed December 7. 1659. Aet 67. The deserved Opinion of his goodness had peaceable possession in the hearts of the Presbyterian-Party and at his Burial the prime persons of all perswasions were present Dr. Jo. Gauden wrote the Memorials of his Life and hath since succeeded him in the Temple and Bishoprick of Exeter Statesmen Sir Nich. Bacon Knight born not far from St. Edmund Bury of a very ancient Family and bred in Ben. Colledge in Cambridge in which he built a beautiful Chappel after he had studied the Common Law was made Atturney to the Court of Wards whence he was preferred Lord Keeper of the Great Seal an 1. Eliz. 1558. He Married Anne second Daughter to Sir Anth. Cook of Giddy-Hall in Essex Governour to King Edw. 6. Queen Elizabeth relyed upon him as her Oracle in Law who that he might clear the Point of her Succession derived her Right from a Statute which allowed the same though there was a Statute whereby the Queen was made illegitimate in the days of her Father remained unrepealed the rather because Lawyers maintain that a Crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof He was a Man of rare Wit and deep Experience though of a corpulent Body especially in his old Age so that he would be not only out of breath but also almost out of life with going to Westminster-Hall to the Star-Chamber According to his Motto Mediocria Firma he never attained because he never affected any great Estate He was not for invidious Structures but delighted in Domo Domino Pari such as was his house at Gorhambury in Hartford And therefore when Q. Elizabeth coming thither in Progress told him My Lord your house is too little for you no Madam said he But it is your Highness hath made me too great for my house He left rather a good then a great Estate to his Posterity whose eldest Son Sir Edward was the first Baronet of England He dyed Feb. 20. 1578. and lyeth buried in the Quire of St. Pauls In a Word he was a good man a grave Statesman a Father to his Country and a Father to Sir Francis Bacon Sir W. Drury descended of a Worshipful Family long flourishing at Haulsted answered his name Drury in Sax. Pearle in the pretiousness of his disposition clear and hard innocent and valiant His
plain Bear of Silver and wore it on her Shoulder But the next day our Earl presented her with a Bear which was his Crest made of Pearls and Precious Stones 10. Being sent by King Henry 5. with 1000 Men in Arms to fetch Queen Katharine sole Daughter to the King of France he sought with the Earls of Vendosme and Limosin killed one of them with his own hand routed the Forces of 5000 Men and brought the Lady whom he saw safely Married to the King 11. He was by the said Kings Will appointed Governour of his Son in his Minority and made Lieutenant of all France 12. During his Life our success in France was progressive and retrograde after his death Sigismund the Emperor coming into England told King Henry 5. that no Christian King had such another Knight for Wisdom Nurture and Manhood and by Imperial Authority with the Kings consent caused him to be named The Father of Courtesie Being tossed with a great Tempest in his last Voyage to Normandy and despairing of Life he caused himself his Lady and infant Son to be bound to the main Mast on this design that being known by his Armour and Coat of Arms upon him he might have a Christian Burial Yet he dyed afterwards in his Bed at Roan April 30. 14. 9. and lyeth buried in a Chappel of the Collegiate Church of Warwick having a most stately Tomb. His Deeds of Charity were little inferiour to the Atchievments of his Valour Physicians and Chymists Sir Edward Kelley alias Talbot born at Worcester was reported to have joyntly found with Dr. d ee a great quantity of Elixir in the Ruins of Glassenbury Abbey That Doctor having Calculated Sir Edward's Nativity might possibly by some Mystical Equations find out the place of that Elixir They afterwards fixed at Trebona in Bohemia where Sir Edward being a skilful as well as fortunate Chymist is said to have transmuted a Brass warming Pan by warming it by the fire and putting the Elixir thereon into pure Silver a piece whereof was sent to Queen Elizabeth These two Sir Edward and Dr. Dee kept constant Intelligence with a Spirit giving them advice how to proceed in their mystical discoveries and enjoyning them by way of preparatory qualification for the same they should enjoy their Wives in common Though bogling hereat at first they resolved to submit thereunto because the Law-giver might dispense with his Laws in matters of so high Nature Upon this 't is thought Dee left his Companion to rant it in Germany who trusting too much to his Treasure spent extravagantly 4000 pounds on Rings which he gave away at the Marriage of one of his Maid-servants Being highly conceited of his Skill he gives Advice to all Lovers of Chymistry in these words To you I say how Learned soever you be Go burn your Books and come and learn of me According to the malignant position of Aquarius which hath influence on the Legs observed in the Scheme of his Nativity Being imprisoned by Radulphus the Emperour and endeavouring to escape out of an high Window by a pair of Sheets tyed together he fell and brake his Leg whereof he dyed 1595. From this Compound Chymist if you separate his Sublimate and Precipitate that is his Pride and Prodigality there will remain an experienced Philosopher worthy recommendation to Posterity Writers Florence of Worcester being learned and industrious wrote Chronicum Chronicorum from the Creation till his death happening 1119. Jo. Wallis or Welsh a Franciscan in VVorcester was bred in Oxford then in Paris where he was commonly called the Tree of Life though the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil had been more proper he having written 20 Volumes of curious speculations He dyed and was buried in Paris 1216. Elias de Evesham a Benedictine born of good Parentage flourished about 1270. VV. de Packington a Layman was Secretary and Treasurer to Edward the black Prince Having lived long in France and acquired an exactness in the Language he wrote in French the Story of five English Kings John Henry 3. Edward 1. 2. and 3. and a Book of the Atchievments of the Black Prince He flourished 1380. Since the Reformation Sir Edwin Sandys Son to Edw. D. D. and Bishop of VVorcester was bred in Cambridge and attained to be a most accomplished person right handed to any great Employment and constant in all Parliaments as the Speaker himself being beheld by all as an excellent Patriot He was Treasurer to the Undertakers for the VVestern Plantations the Bermudaes owing their happiness to his care and Sandys Tribe is no contemptible proportion therein He had a Commanding Pen Witness his Book of the Religion of the VVestern World I have been informed that he bequeathed a considerable Sum to the building of a Colledge in Cambridge but Debts not coming in according to expectation his good intention failed in the performance thereof He dyed 1631. Romish Exile Writers Richard Smith D. D was bred in Oxford where he was the Kings Professor till King Edward 6. sent for Pet. Martyr to supply that place betwixt whom and Smith there was great contest But in the Reign of Queen Mary Peter Martyr was glad to fly from that University and make room for the old pretender Thus we see that in such Controversies as were betwixt them it mattered little who were the disputants whilst the prevalent power was the Moderator Dr. Smith flying again into the Low Countries became Dean of St. Peter in Doway and the first Professor in the University founded therein He dyed 1563. Jo. Marshal born at Dalisford was bred at New-Colledge in Oxford where he proceeded Batchelour of Laws and was second Master of VVinchester School Flying an 1. Elizabeth he became Canon of Lisle in Flanders He wrote a Book against Jo. Calfield an English Protestant At his death he bequeathed a Ring with a rich Stone to adorn a piece of the Cross in his Cathedral and dyed 1597. Robert Bristow fled from Oxford to Lovain whence he repaired to the English Colledge at Doway where he was the first Priest being the Right hand of Cardinal Allen who made him Prefect of that Colledge Going to Rhemes he wrote a book say the Papists Against foolish Fulk who indeed was a Grave and Godly Divine He returned for his Health into his Native Country where having the good hap to miss that which cureth all diseases he dyed in his bed at London 1582. Henry Holland Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Oxford fled over to Doway where he took the degree of Batchelour of Divinity and Order of Priesthood Hence removing to Rhemes he assisted as my Author saith Traductioni Bibliorum in the traduceing Translating of the Bible He was living 1611. Masters of Musick VValter of Evesham a Benedictine Monk and eminent Musitian wrote a Learned Book in that Faculty He flourished under King Henry 3. 1240. Benefactors to the Publick Richard Dugard B. D. born at Grafton Fliford was Fellow of
Sidney-Colledge An excellent Grecian and general Scholar old when young such his gravity in Behaviour and young when old such the quickness of his Endowments He bestowed on the Colledge 120 pounds for some perpetual use for the Master and Fellowes and 10 pounds for Books for the Library At last he was Rector of Fullebey in Lincoln-shire where by his Piety and Diligence he procured his own security He dyed 1653. and lyes buried in his Chancel Memorable Persons Jo Feckenham born of poor Parents in Feckenham-Forrest being a Benedictine at Evesham received at the time of the dissolution an Annual Pension of about 20 pounds which maintained him in Oxford where he attained to Eminency in Learning He was imprisoned in the Reign of Edward 6. made Abbot of VVestminster by Queen Mary with whom he was very gracious laying out all his Interest with her to procure pardon of the faults or mitigation of the punishments for poor Protestants By Queen Elizabeth he was highly honoured and proffered as is currantly traditioned the See of Canterbury which he refused and was kept in easie restraint By his bounty he gained the good will of all persons He dyed very Aged in VVisbich Castle about 1585. Henry Bright born in VVorcester where he was for 40 years School Master excellently skilled in and Communicative of the Latine Greek and Hebrew Languages and Canon of the Cathedral Church of VVorcester He dyed 1626 being buried in the Cathedral I behold him placed by Divine Providence in this City in the Marches that he might equally Communicate the lustre of Grammar Learning to Youth both of England and VVales Noted Sheriffs Henry 7. An. 3. Jo. Savage Mil. was made Kt. of the Garter and Privy Councellour to King Henry 7. And he or his Son removed into Cheshire and Married the Heir General of the ancient Family of the Bostocks and was Ancestor to the present Earl of Rivers Henry 8. An. 8. VV. Compton Mil. was highly favoured by the King in whose Court no Layman Charles Brandon excepted was equal to him His Son Peter Married into the Right Honourable Family of Shrewsbury and his Grandson Sir Henry Compton was one of the three H. C. Henry Cary Henry Compton and Henry Cheney who were made Barons by Queen Elizabeth and Ancestor to James Earl of Northampton Q Eliz. An. 19. Jo. Russel Ar. afterwards Knighted had a great quarrel with Sir Henry Berkley so that great blood-shed was like to have ensued at the Sessions of Worcester but Dr. Whitgift Bishop of Worcester wisely prevented the same requiring both parties with their Friends to come well guarded to his Palace where disarming them he put a Conclusion to that Affray having used perswasions and threatnings to good effect 36. Jo. Packington Mil. being a fine but no assiduous Courtier drew the Curtain between himself and the light of the Queens favour and then death overwhelmed the remnant and utterly deprived him of recovery And they say of him that had he brought less to the Court then he did he might have carried away more then he brought for he had a time of it but was no good husband of opportunity King James An. 12. Richard Walsh Ar. afterwards Knighted followed the Powder-Traytors ferreted out of Warwick-shire by Sir Richard Verney out of the bounds of this County till they took covert in the house of Stephen Littleton at Hallbach in Stafford-shire and not standing on the Punctilio of exceeding his Commission in a case wherein the Peace of the Kingdom was so highly concerned prosecuted his Advantage and beset the house round about till both the Rights were killed in the place Catesby and Piercy slain with one Bullet Rookwood and Winter wounded and all the rest apprehended The Battles Worcester Fight September the 3d. 1651. His Majesty on the 1st of August foregoing began his March from Edenburgh into England not meeting with any considerable opposition those at Warrington being put to flight by his presence until he came to Worcester His Army consisted of 12000 effectual fighting Men whereof 2000 English the rest Scotch Men but neither excellently Armed nor plentifully stored with Ammunition whilst the Parliaments Forces under Cromwel more then doubled that number wanting nothing but a Good Cause that an Army could wish or desire The Royalists chief Strength consisted in two passes they possessed over the River of Severn which proved not advantagious according to expectation for the Enemy found the River fordable elsewhere and the Bridge and Pass at Uptern though valiantly defended by Major General Massey who received a shot in his hand was forced by Lambert pouring in unequal Numbers on the King's Forces Besides Cromwel finished a Bridge of Boards and Planks over the main River with more Celerity and less Resistance then could have been expected in a matter of such importance Then began the Battle wherein his Majesty to remember His Subjects good forgot His own safety and gave an incomparable Example of Valour to the rest by Charging in his own Person This was followed by few to the same degree of Courage or Danger but imitated in the greatest measure by the Highlanders fighting with the Butt-ends of their Muskets when their Ammunition was spent But new Supplies constantly charging them and the main Body of the Scotch Horse not coming up in due time from the City to his Majesties Relief his Army was forced to retreat in at Sudbury-Gate in much disorder If there were which some more then whisper false and foul play in some persons of Principal Trust as they have had a great space seasonably God grant them his Grace sincerely to Repent for their treacherous retarding the Happiness prolonging and encreasing the Troubles of the Best of Monarchs and Three Great Nations Sure it is here were slain the Flower of the Scotish Loyal Gentry with the most Illustrious William formerly Earl of Lannerick Duke of Hamilton As for Common Souldiers some few who escaped had a longer Life to have a sadder Death wandring in the Country till other Mens Charity and their own Strength began to fail them Since how God hath conducted his Royal Majesty through Labyrinths of many difficulties to the Peaceable Possession of his Throne is notoriously known to the Wonder of the World YORK-SHIRE YOrk-shire hath the Bishoprick of Durham and Westmorland on the North Lancashire and a snip of Cheshire on the West Darby Nottingham and Lincoln-shire on the South and the German Ocean on the East thereof It is a Square of 90 Miles each side of equal dimensions with the Dukedom of Wirtenberg in Germany If the Goodness of this County which is not inferiour to others be drawn into the greatness thereof the product will be a denomination of the best Shire in England Besides in respect of the goodness and plenty of some Commodities it might be termed the Garden of England save that it is too far from the Mansion-house I mean the City of London Dr. Tonstal Bishop of Durham shewed
Reign of King Henry 5. Edward sole Son to King Richard 3 and Anne his Queen was born in the Castle of Midleham in this County and was by his Father created Prince of Wales A Prince who himself was a Child of as much Hopes as his Father a Man of Hatred But he consumed away on a sudden dying within a Month of his Mother A Judgment on his Father a Mercy to the Prince that he might not behold the miserable end of him who begot him and a Mercy to all England for had he survived to a Mans Estate he might possibly have proved a Wall of Partition to hinder the Happy Union of the two Houses of York and Lancaster Saints St. Hilda Daughter to Prince Hererick Nephew to Edwin King of Northumberland lived in a Convent at Strenshalt in this County and was the Oracle of her Age being a kind of Moderatrix in a Sax. Synode held about the Celebration of Easter The most Learned English Female before the Conquest the She-Gamaliel at whose Feet many Learned Men had their Education This our English Huldah ended her holy life with a happy death 680. St. Benedict Biscop fixed himself in the Dominions of Oswy King of Northumberland and built two Monasteries the one at the influx of the River Were the other at that of the River Tine into the Sea and stockt them in his life time with 600 Benedictine Monks He made five Voyages to Rome and always returned full fraught with Reliques Pictures and Ceremonies He left Religion in England braver but not better then he found it the Gawdiness prejudicing the Gravity thereof His Monastery being but the Romish Transcript became the English Original to which all Monasteries in the Land were suddenly conformed Being struck with the dead Palsie his Soul retired into the Upper Rooms of his Clay Cottage much employed in Meditation until the day of his death which happened 703. St. John of Beverly born at Harpham was 33 years and upwards Arch-Bishop of York being bred under Hilda aforesaid and after under Theodorus the Grecian and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Venerable Bede his Scholar wrote his Life and supposed Miracles Being Aged he resigned his Arch-Bishoprick and retired to Beverly where he had Founded a Colledge for which he procured the Freedstool a Sanctuary from King Athelstan He dyed May 7. 722. and was buried in the Porch of his Collegiate Church A Synode held at London 1416. assigned the day of his death an Anniversary Solemnity to his Memory Thomas Plantag was Earl of Darby Lancaster Leicester a popular person and a great enemy to the two Spencers Minions to King Edward 2. who being hated as Devils for their Pride no wonder if this Thomas was honoured as a Saint or Martyr by the common sort Indeed he must be a good Chymist who can extract Saint out of Malefactor and our Chronicles generally behold him put to death for Treason against King Edward 2. But let him pass for a Provincial though no National or Loyal Saint seeing he did not Travel far enough for Romish and too far for English Canonization His beheaded Martyrdom happened at Pontfret 1322. Note Lord Herb. in the Life of King Henry 8. speaking of Reliques The Bell of St. Guthlack and the Felt of St. Thomas of Lancaster both Remedies for the Head-ach must mean this St. Thomas seeing there is no other English of the Name found in any English Martyrology Richard Role alias Hampole from the place of his Holy Life Death and Burial was a Hermite of strict Life He wrote many Books of Piety which I prefer before his Prophetical Predictions as but a degree above Almanack Prognostications He threatned the sins of the Nation with future Judgments and his Predictions if hitting were heeded if missing not marked Having spoken much against the Covetousness of the Clergy of that Age he dyed 1349. Jo. Birlington born in Birlington and bred in Oxford became Canon in the Convent of Birlington where he grew Eminent for exemplary Holiness He refused at first the Office of Prior counting himself unworthy thereof but upon the second proffer accepted of it 'T is said Martha and Mary were compounded in him being as pious so provident to husband the Revenues of his house to the best advantage A She-Ancorist accosting him thus Jesus is my Love and you so honour him in your heart that no earthly thing can distract you He replyed I came hither to hear from you some saving and savoury discourse but seeing you begin with such idle talk farewel He dyed 1379. being reputed though I think not Canonized a Saint whose Friend W. Slightholme asked of his friend Jo. aforesaid what might be the reason the Devil appeared so seldom in their dayes c. To whom Jo. replyed We are grown so remiss in Godliness that the Devil needs not put himself to such pains seeing less and lighter Temptations will do the deed William is reported to have been one of singular Piety and to have wrought many Miracles at his Tomb after his death which happened 1380. A certain Maid resisting the sollicitations of a Bravo was by him Murdered her Head being set up on a Yew-Tree at Horton called now Halifax The silly people conceited that the Veins which in form of little threds spread themselves betwixt the Bark and the Body of the said Tree were the very Hairs of the Virgins Head to whom they flocked in Pilgrimage Note the prevalency of Opinion Her reputation for being a Saint is transmitted to Posterity though her name be lost Martyrs The County and generally the Province of York escaped from Popish Persecution which under Gods goodness may be imputed to the tempers of their four succeeding Arch-Bishops Thomas Woolsey who was more Proud then Cruel Edward Lee who persecuted to Imprisonment none to Death save two Robert Holgate who was a parcel-Protestant Nicholas Heath a meek and moderate Man And as there were no Martyrs so were there no Confessors which are Martyrs in the bud Cardinals Jo. Fisher born in Beverly and bred in Michael House in Cambridge whereof he was first Chancellour became Bishop of Rochester He was accessary to the dissembling of Elizabeth Barton the Holy Maid of Kent He opposed King Henry's Divorce and Title of Supream Head of the Church procured a Cardinals Cap from the Pope and forfeited his own Head to the King being beheaded 1535. Having been tryed by an ordinary Jury and not by his Peers Prelates Eustathius de Fauconbridge was chosen Bishop of London an 6. Henry 3. 1222. He was Chief Justice then Chancellour of the Exchequer and afterterwards Treasurer of England and twice Ambassadour to the King of France He dyed October 31. 1228. and was buried in the Presbytery W. de Melton Prov. of Beverly and Canon then Arch-Bishop of York Being Consecrated at Avignon and returning into England he expended 700 Marks in the finishing of his Cathedral His Life was free from scandal signal for his Chastity Charity Fasting
and Praying He bought 3 Mannors from the Arch-Bishop of Roan with the Popes Confirmation and setled them on his Brothers Son He compassed about the Old Baily in York with a great Wall He dyed 1340. and was buried in his own Church Henry Wakefield preferred Bishop of Worcester by King Edward 3. 1375. was for one year Lord Treasurer of England dying March 11. 1394. he was buried in his own Church which before his death he had enlarged R. Scroope Son to the Lord Scroope and brother to William Earl of Wilt-shire was D. D. in Cambridge a man of great Learning and unblameable life He was preferred Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield then Arch-Bishop of York Being netled with the News of his Brothers beheading he joyned with the Earl of Northumberland and others against King Henry 4. The Earl of Westmorland complyed with him in appearance till he had trepanned him It doth not appear that he desired to be tryed by his Peers if he was dealt with therein but odly the Executioner served him as odly in having 5 stroaks at his Neck before he could sunder it from his Body an 1405. Stephen Patrington born in Patrington was a Carmelite D. D. in Oxford and Provincial of his Order in England and afterwards Chaplain and Confessor to King Henry 5. by whom he was deputed a Commissioner to proceed against the Wicklevites and during that service he was made Bishop of St. Davids Hence he was sent over to the Council of Constance returning into England he was advanced Bishop of Chichester but dying before his Translation was finished was buried in White Friers in Fleet-street VVilliam Peircy Son to Henry Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor his Wife whose principal Seat was Topliff in this County was D. D. in and Chancellour of Cambridge and made Bishop of Carlile 1452. He dyed 1462. Cuthbert Tonstal born at Hatchforth in Richmondshire in this County of a Worshipful Family at Tonstal Thurland was bred in Cambridge to which he was in Books a great Benefactor He was afterwards Bishop of London and at last of Durham a great Linguist Mathematician and Divine and a fast Friend to Erasmus In the Reign of King Henry 8. he publickly confuted the Papal Supremacy in a learned Sermon 1539. but returned to his errour in the Reign of Edward 6. continuing therein an 1. Elizabeth for which he was deprived of his Bishoprick He shewed Mercy when in Power and found it in his Adversity He dyed a Prisoner at Lambeth 1560. Ralph Baines Fellow of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge was an excellent Linguist Going over into France he became Hebrew Professor at Paris He wrote a Comment on the Proverbs in three Volumes and Dedicated it to Fr. 1st King of France Returning into England he was by Queen Mary made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in which Diocess he caused great Persecution He was deprived of his Bishoprick an 1. Elizabeth and dying he was buried in St. Dunstans 1560. Since the Reformation Thomas Bentham Fellow of Magdalens-Colledge in Oxford renounced Popery an 1. Mary He assisted Henry Bull one of the same Colledge to wrest out of the hands of the Choristers the Censer when about to offer their Superstitious Incense Flying into Germany he lived at Basil Preacher to the English Exiles Towards the end of Queen Mary he was secretly sent over to be Superintendent of the London Conventicle the only true Church in the time of Persecution where with all his caution he hardly escaped An. 2. Elizabeth he was Consecrated Bishop of Caventry and Lichfield He dyed February the 21st 1578. Edmund Guest born at Afferton was D. D. in Kings-Colledge in Cambridge He was Almoner to Queen Elizabeth by whom he was preferred Bishop of Rochester then of Salisbury Having written many Books he dyed 1578. Miles Coverdale bred in Cambridge became an Augustine Frier but afterwards quitting that Profession he went into Germany he laboured greatly in Translating of the Bible and writing other Books He was made D. D. at Tubing and returning into England was made Bishop of Exeter by King Edward 6. An. 1. Mary he was imposed though saved from Martyrdom by the Mediation of Fred. King of Denmark Being enlarged he went over into Germany whence in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England but not to Exeter He was one of those who solemnly Consecrated Matthew Parker Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at Lambeth He dyed 1588. and lyes buried in St. Bartholomews behind the Exchange Adam Loftus bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where he Commenced D. D. was Chaplain to Robert Earl of Sussex Lord Deputy of Ireland and was first made Arch-Bishop of Armagh an 1562. and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Dublin 1567. At last being made Chancellour of Ireland he discharged that place with singular Ability and Integrity until the day of his death He was a principal Procurer of and a profitable Agent in the Foundation of the University of Dublin being the first Honorary Master thereof whilst he was Arch-Bishop if not Chancellour of Ireland He dyed April 5. 1605. and was buried in the Church of St. Pat. having been Arch-Bishop almost 43 years George Mountaine bred in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge was Chaplain to the Earl of Essex whom he attended in his Voyage to Cales being indeed a man of great Valour He was afterwards made Dean of Westminster then successively Bishop of Lincoln and London whilst residing in the latter he would often pleasantly say that of him the Proverb would be verified Lincoln was and London is and York shall be which came to pass accordingly when he was removed to the Arch-Bishoprick of York He was a good Benefactor to Queens-Colledge whereon he bestowed a fair piece of Plate called Poculum Charitatis with this Inscription incipio and Founded two Scholarships therein Capital Judges Sir William Gascoine born at Gauthorp studied in the Inner Temple and being Knighted an 1. Henry 4. he was made Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in which Office he demeaned himself with great integrity It happened that a Servant of Prince Henry afterwards King Henry 5. was Arraigned before this Judge for Felony whom the Prince then present endeavoured to take away coming up in fury striking the Judge But he sitting without moving committed the Prince Prisoner to the Kings-Bench there to remain until the Pleasure of the King his Father were further known who when he heard thereof gave God thanks who at the same instant had given him a Judge who could minister and a Son who could obey Justice He dyed an 14. Henry 4. Guido de Fairfax Knight whose Name hath continued at Walton in this County more then 450 years was bred in the Study of the Law and became Serjeant thereof He favoured the House of York in those civil distempers yet was he by King Henry 7. advanced Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Roger Cholmley Knight natural Son to Lieutenant of the Tower under King Henry 7. was an 37. Henry 8. made
found it an 1470. as some collect from his words Inveni quem diligit Anima mea An English Gentleman of good credit reported that he saw a Record in the Isle of Malta which declares that Sir George Ripley gave yearly to those Knights of Rhodes 100000 pounds towards maintaining of the War against the Turks This vast Donation might easily induce one to think that he was Eques Auratus though indeed never more then Sir Priest and Canon of Bridlington Returning home he became a Carmelite-Anchorite at Boston in Lincoln shire where he wrote 25 Books his Compound Alchymy carrying away the credit of all the rest It makes mention of the 12 Gates leading to the making of the Philosophers Stone viz. Calcination Solution Separation Conjunction Putrefaction Congelation Cibation Sublimation Fermentation Exaltation Multiplication Projection But all this was but a Project with a Termination for because things did not answer his expectation I understood by my Author's Information that Sir George made afterwards a solemn Recantation He dyed about 1492. Thomas Johnson born near Hull was an Apothecary in London the best Herbalist in his Age. He made Additions to Gerard He was of great Modesty as being both more Learned and Valiant then he pretended to be After he was made Honorary Doctor in Oxford he performed a dangerous piece of service at Basing-house at the Siege of which he afterwards lost his Life on the Loyal side in the late Wars 1644. Writers Alphred of Beverly bred in Cambridge and Treasurer of the Convent at Beverly wrote a Chronicle from Brutus to the time of his own death which happened 1136. W. of Rievaulx a Monk of Rushford wrote an History of his own Age and dyed 1146. St. Ealread the Pious and Learned Abbot of Rivaulx was intimate with Dav. King of Scotland and many persons of prime Quality He had an active Soul which he employed for the benefit of the publick He is generally accounted the English St. Bernard and wrote de Virginitate Mariae de Abusionibus Claustri He refused several Bishopricks c. proffered to him and dyed 1166. Whose Deacon Walter Daniel trod in his Masters foot-steps and wrote on the same Iubject De Virginitate Mariae He flourished under King Henry 2. and was buried in his own Abbey Robert the Scribe Prefect of the Canons Regulars at Bridlington was extolled by Erasmus for his fair and fast Writing Having left many Books to Posterity he dyed about 1180. and was buried in his Convent Peter of Rippon Canon of that Colledge wrote a Book of the Life and Miracles of St. Wilfred the Founder thereof There was a narrow place in his Church through which chaste persons might easily pass whilst the incontinent did stick therein Many suspected persons did prick their credit who could not thred his Needle I confess there might be some such narrow place the occasion as well as Touch-stone of incontinency over which this Inscription had been proper Aut inveniam aut faciam Libidinosas The Steeple of this Church was blown down the fall whereof beat down the Chancel Peter flourished 1190. under King Richard 1. W. of Newborough born at Bridlington was Canon Regular of Newborough A fierce little Man He charged Jeffrey of Monmouth with Forgery and denies that there ever was such a Man as King Arthur c. 'T is said he was out of humour because Dav. Prince of Wales denied him the See of St Asaph So it seems for William himself can tell an incredible story and therefore its likely he would not have charged a Falshood upon another for the sake of Truth only He affirmeth That in the place of the slaughter of the English nigh Battaile in Sussex if peradventure it be wet with any small showre presently the Ground thereabouts sweateth forth very Blood though it be the quality of the Soyl naturally reddish and nothing else He flourished under King John 1200. Roger Hoveden of an Illustrious Family bred in the Study of the Civil and Canon Laws became a most accomplished Courtier under King Henry 2. He is the chief if not sole Lay-Historian of his Age writing a Chronicle beginning where Bede ended continuing the same until the fourth of King John by which Chronicle King Edward 1. did partly clear his Title to the Crown of Scotland He flourished 1204. Jo. of Halifax commonly called De Sacro Bosco was bred in Oxford then in Paris the prime Mathematician of his Age. All Students of Astronomy enter into that Art through the door of his book De Spharâ He dyed an 1256. Robert the Searcher a Dominican great Mathematician and Philosopher is reported to have lighted his Candle at the Devils Torch to seek after such secrets as he did desire Witness his Book of Ceremonial Magick He flourished under King Edward 2. 1326. Thomas Castleford was a Benedictine in Pontfract whereof he wrote an History from a Ask a Saxon the first Proprietor to the Lacies from whom that Lordship descended to the Earls of Lancaster He flourished about 1326. Jo. Gower born at Stitenham of a Knightly Family was first a Student in the Law then a Poet and was the first Refiner of the English Tongue But it seems he was made a Judge in his old Age. He may be called the English Homer having grown stark blind with Age. He wrote amongst other Books Speculum Meditantis in French Confessio Amantis in English Vox Clamantis in Latine He dyed 1402. Jo. Marre born at Marre bred in Oxford a Carmelite of great Learning was praised by Trithemius and others chiefly for his writing against J. Wickliffe He dyed 1407. and was buried in Doncaster Thomas Gascoigne younger Brother to Sir William Lord Chief Justice was born at Huntfleet and bred D. D. in Bal. Colledge in Oxford He was Commissioner of that University 1434. He was a great follower of St. Hierom whose Life he wrote He Composed a Theological Dictionary much esteemed by Divines in that Age. He was 5â—… years old an 1460. Jo. Harding Esquire of ancient Parentage was bred a Souldier doing good service at Roxborough-Castle against the Scots and following the Standard of King Edward adhered to him in his deepest distress He adventured into Scotland not without the manifest hazard of his Life where he so cunningly demeaâ—…ed himself that he found there and fetched thence out of their Records many Original Letters which he presented to Edward 4. Out of these he Collected an History of the several Solemn Submissions publickly made and Oaths of Fealty publickly taken from the time of King Athelstan by the Kings of Scotland to the Kings of England for the Crown of Scotland though the Scots affirm that such Homage was only taken for Cumberland and some parcels held of England on the South of Tweed He wrote also a Chronicle of the English Kings from Brutus to King Edward 4. He was living 1461. Henry Parker a Carmelite at Doncaster and D. D. in Cambridge Preached a Sermon
the Cinque Ports c. He was a good natur'd Man doing himself more hurt then any Man else For abating one foul Fact with the Consequences thereof notoriously known and he will appear deserving no foul Character to Posterity but for the same he was banished the Court lived and dyed very privately about 1638. Writers Jo. Walbye an Augustinian Provincial of his Order and D. D. in Oxford was a complaisant person being Ingenious Industrious Learned Eloquent Pious and Prudent Though sharp at first against the Wicklevites he soon abated his own edge and though present at a Council held at Stanford by the King against them was not well pleased with all things transacted therein He dyed in York 1393. Jo. Erghom an Augustinian went to Oxford and became an admirable Preacher He renewed the eustom of Expounding Scripture in a Typical way which crowded his Church with Auditors being more pleased then edified therewith He wrote many Books and Dedicated them to the Earl of Hereford the same with Edward Duke of Buckingham and flourished under King Henry 7. 1490. Since the Reformation Richard Stock bred in St. Johns-Colledge in Cambridge was Minister of All-hallowes Breadstreet in London by the space of 32 years till the day of his death where if in Health he omitted not to Preach twice every Lords day with the approbation of all that were Judicious and Religious Dr. Davenant was his constant Auditor whilst lying at London He prevailed with some Companies to put off their wonted Festivals from Mondays to Tuesdays that the Lords day might not be abused by the preparation for such Entertainments Though he Preached often in Neighbouring Churches he never neglected his own being wont to protest That it was more comfortable to him to win one of his own Parish then twenty others Preaching at St. Pauls Cross when young it was ill taken that he reproved the inequality of Rates in the City burdening the Poor to ease the Rich and he was called a Green-Head for his Pains But being put up in his latter dayes to Preach on the Lord Mayors Election and falling on the same Subject he told them That a Gray-Head spake now what a Groen-Head said before He dyed April 20. 1626. THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES Nec Perfecte nec Perfunctorie THIS Principality hath the Severn-Sea on the South Irish Ocean on the West and North England on the East divided by a Ditch drawn from the Mouth of Dee to the Mouth of Wie From East to West it is 100 and from North to South 120 Miles The foresaid Ditch is called Claudh-Offa because made by King Offa who Enacted that what Welsh-man soever was found on the East side of this Ditch should forfeit his Right Hand a Law long since Cancelled And the Loyal and Valiant Welsh have for many Ages past enjoyed the same Priviledges with other Subjects of the King of England It was divided into three parts by Roderick the Great about the year 877. and allotted to his three Sons 1. North-Wales Whose Princes chiefly resided at 1. Aberfrow 2. Powis Whose Princes chiefly resided at 2. Mathraval 3. South-Wales Whose Princes chiefly resided at 3. Dynefar This Division proved the Confusion of Wales whose Princes were always at War not only against the English but mutually with themselves to enlarge and defend their Dominions Of these Three North-Wales was the Chief being left to Mervin eldest Son to Roderick aforesaid the Princes whereof by way of Eminency were stiled the Princes of Wales and sometimes Kings of Aberfrow paid to the King of London yearly 63 pounds by way of Tribute the same sum being like wise paid to the said King by the Princes of Powis and South-Wales However South-Wales called by the Natives Deheubarth i. e. the Right-side because nearer the Sun was of the three the largest richest and most fruitful But this Country being constantly infested with the Invasions of the English and Flemings had North-Wales preferred before it as more entire and better secured from such Annoyances Hence it is that the Welsh-Tongue retaineth the purity thereof only in North-Wales The Soil mostly rising up into Hills and Mountains is of a lean and hungry Nature yet is the ill quality recompenced by the good quantity thereof Whence it was that a Worshipful Knight in Wales who had a fair Estate therein said to an English Gentleman who bragged that he had in England so much Ground worth 40 Shillings an Acre You have 10 yards of Velvet and I have 200 of Frize I will not exchange with you However there are in Wales most pleasant Meadows along the sides of Rivers and as the sweetest Flesh is said to be nearest the Bones so most delicious Vallies are interposed betwixt these Mountains The Inhabitants are Healthful Strong Swift and Witty which is imputed to the clear and wholsome Air of the Mountains the cleanly and moderate Diet of the people and the hardness whereunto they are inured from their infancy Of Natural Commodities there is Silver whereof Cardigan-shire yields Royal Mines in these Mountains viz. Comsomelock Tallabant Gadarren Bromfloid Geginnon and Cummerrum The Romans began to Mine here as appears by their Coynes found therein working in Trenches about 24 Fathom deep and found plenty of Lead The Danes and Saxons wrought 100 Fathom deep and found great plenty of the same till their Works were drown'd with water Customer Smith about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth discovered Silver in Comsomelock After his death the design was prosecuted and more perfected by Sir Hugh Middleton Knight Coyning the Silver to his great Charge as his Predecessor had done at the Tower After whose death Sir Francis Godolphin of Cornwal Knight and Thomas Bushel Esquire undertook the Work King Charles I. granted to them power of Coinage at Aberrusky in that County Thomas Bushel Sir Francis dying and Comsomelock being deserted adventured on the other five Mountains and at last these Mines yielded 100 pounds a Week besides Lead amounting to half as much Coyned at Aberrusky aforesaid The Pence Groats Shillings Half-Crowns c. of this Silver had the Ostrich Feathers the Arms of Wales stamped on them The Civil Wars discomposed all the Work I will add no more but only make mention of that ingenious invention whereby the Miners are supplyed with fresh Air This is done by two Mens blowing wind with a pair of Bellows on the outside of Adit into a Pipe of Lead daily lengthned as the Mine is made longer whereby the Candle in the Mine is daily kept burning and the diggers recruited constantly with a sufficiency of breath There is Lead found in many places of Wales but in Carnarvan-shire the best Plenty of Goats are bred here especially in Montgomery-shire As for Manufactures the British generally bearing themselves high on the account of their gentile extraction are better pleased in the employment of their Valour then Labour and therefore there are only those few that follow Frieze of which Henry Prince
CUMBERLAND Commodities Pearls black Lead Copper Page 132 The Life of Arch-Bishop Grindal Page 135 The life of Sir Richard Hutton the honest Judge Page 136 The life of Sir Jo. Banks ibid. The life of Richard Crakenthorpe D. D. Page 136 The life of Maud Daughter to the Lord Lucy Page 139 Richard D. of Glocester Sheriff of this County Page 140 DERBY-SHIRE Commodities The best Lead Page 141 The punishment of stealing Oare twice ibid. The life of Cardinal Curson Page 142 The life of Phil. de Repingdon alias Rampington Page 143 The life of Bishop Cook ibid. The life of Sir Jo. Cook Secretary of State Page 144 The life of Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert ibid. The life of Sir Hugh Willoughby Page 145 The life of Thomas Linacer Page 146 The life of Elizabeth Hardwick Countess of Shrewsbury Page 147 DEVON-SHIRE The high Character of the Gentry given by Q. Eliz. Page 148 The wonders of the Pit and Hanging-Stone Page 149 The life of Cardinal Courtney Page 151 Bishop Foliot's encounter with the Devil ibid. The Character of Bishop Jewel Page 153 The life of D. Prideaux Bishop of Worcester Page 153,154 The life of Sir Arthur Chichester Page 154 The life of Lord Chief Justice Herle Page 155 The life of Sir Jo. Cary ibid. The life of the unfortunate Judge Hankford ibid. The life of Sir Jo. Fortescue Page 156 The life of Sir Lewis Pollard and Sir Jo. Doderidge ibid. The life of Sir Richard Greenvil Page 157 The life of James Lord Audley ibid. The life of the ambitious Tho. Stuckley Titular Earl of Wexford Page 158 The life of the most Noble General Monk Duke of Albermarl Page 159 The life of W. Wilford Page 160 The life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert Page 161 The life of Sir Walter Rawleigh who would demonstrate the errours of his Traducers a posteriori ibid The life of the famous Hooker Page 163 The life of the Lord Pomery Page 164 Nich. and Andr. Tremane twins alike in all lineaments c. Page 165 The Stratagem of Sir Richard Edgecomb Page 166 EXETER The Fatal Castle of Rugemont Page 167 The life of Princess Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans Page 168 The Character of the famous Iscanus Bishop of Exeter ibid. DORSET-SHIRE Commodities Salt Tobacco-pipe Clay wild madder Page 171 The Life of St. Edward Son to King Edgar ibid. The life of Arch-Bishop Morton Page 173 The life of Arch-Bishop Stafford ibid. The life of Bishop Turbevil ibid. The life of the valiant Sir Richard Bingham Page 175 The Original of White-Hart-Silver Page 177 The descent of the Newburgs ibid. DURHAM The life of Cicely Nevil Daughter to the E. of Westmerland Page 178 The life of Venerable Bede Page 179 The life of John Wickliffe Page 180 The lives of the Nevils ibid. The life of Bishop Horn and Bishop Cosen ibid. The life of Anthony Lord Gray and Rector of Burbach Page 183 ESSEX Where Vulgar wits are said to multiply exceedingly Page 184 The Commodities Page 185 The life of Henry Fitz-Roy Son to Henry VIII Page 186 The life of St. Helen ibid. The Miracle of St. Osith Page 187 The life of Arch-Bishop Bourcher Page 188 The life of the facetious Dr. Jegon Page 189 The life of the Lord Chancellour Audley Page 190 The life of Sir Anthony Cook famous for his learned Daughters ibid. The life of Tho. Howard Earl of Suffolk Page 191 With his Magnificent Entertainment of King James Page 192 The life of Tho. Ratcliffe Earl of Suffolk Page 193 The life of Sir Francis Vere Page 194 The life of Tho. Waldensis Page 195 The Character of Francis Quarles ibid. The life of Joseph Mede Page 196 The life of Sir Walter Mildmey Page 197 The supposed occasion of the Barons War ibid. The Siege of Colchester Page 200 GLOCESTER-SHIRE King James his Observation of fruitful Pastures Page 202 Commodities Tobacco Steel Syder ibid. The Legend of St Kenelme Page 204 Bishop Ruthal's satal mistake Page 205 The life of Bishop Fox ibid. Local Treason or a Treasonable Castle Page 206 Neal's invention of Nags Head Page 208 A treatise sauâ—…a 〈◊〉 the belly of a Cod ibid. The life of Sir Thomas Overbury ibid. The fatal effects of Fear Page 212 HANT-SHIRE Commodities Honey c Page 213 The Life of King Henry I Page 214 The life of P. Arthur Brother to King Henry VIII ibid. The life of St. Edburg Page 215 The death of Katharine Gouches ibid. The life of Sir Richard Rich Page 218 The life of W. Pawlet Marquess of Winchester ibid. King James his Character of Sir Thomas Lakes ibid. Whitehead's blunt Repartee to Q. Elizabeth Page 221 The base of a Treble Character viz. Pits the Drone Page 222 A Plough drawn by dogs Page 223 HERTFORD-SHIRE Is the Garden of England The life of Edmund Earl of Richmond Page 370 The life of Pope Nicholas ibid. King Henry VIII his prediction concerning Sir Ed. Waterhouse Page 371 The life of Sir Henry Cary Page 372 The life of Alexander Nequam Page 373 The Character of Thomas Cartwright Page 375 The life of the Loyal Lord Capel ibid. Thomas Conisby's Resolution Page 377 HEREFORD-SHIRE Of a good Air Page 377 The wonder of Bone-well ibid. Appearance of two Parelion's ibid. Thomas Cantilupe the last Canonized Englishman Page 378 The Life of Card. de Easton The severe punishment of several Cardinals Page 379 The fatal Riddle concerning King Edward ibid. The Life of the Earl of Essex Page 380 The Spend-thrifts Requiem Page 382 Woodstock Labyrinth Page 383 A Religious President for Perfuming ibid. The life of Sir James Crofts Page 384 HUNTINGTON-SHIRE Protestant Nunnery Page 386 The life of St. Elâ—…led Page 387 The life of Bishop White Page 388 A through-paced Poet Page 389 The life of Sir Robert Cotton the great Antiquary ibid. The life of Stephen Marshal B. D. Page 391 Cromwel's Uncle Page 392 KENT Of the Royal Navy and Navigation Page 394 Proverbs Page 395 The life of King Henry VIII Page 398 The life of Q. Mary ibid. The life of Q. Elizabeth Page 399 King James in his Prayer resolved to have respect to the Virgin Mary Page 400 The lives of Princess Sophia and Prince Charles ibid. The life of St. Elphage 〈◊〉 The fatal death of Judge Hales Page 402 The life of Cardinal Kemp ibid. The life of Sir Edward Poynings Page 405 The life of Sir Anth. St. Leger Page 406 The life of Sir Henry Sidney ibid. The life of Sir Philip Sidney Page 407 The life of Sir Francis Walsingham ibid. The life of Sir Henry Finch Page 409 W. Adams the first effectual discoverer of Japan ibid. The life of Dr. Harvey Page 411 The Life of the Loyal Sir Thomas Wiat Page 412 Charnock's Miscarriage Page 413 The life of Dr. Bois Page 414 Sir John Philpot's Fleet Page 415 A strange account of a Woman in despair Page 417 Sir Tho. Cheney Privy Councellour to four Soveraign Princes Page 419 CANTERBURY The Life of Arch-Bishop Langton Page 421 A