and other antiquities hee could finde there Leofricke was sonne to the Earle of Kent and after being chosen to be Archbishop of Canterburie he refused it this Abbot in a time of dearth solde all the Iewels of his Church to buy bread for the poore After him succeeded Alfricke Leostan Frâ—theric Paul In this Abbot were giuen to the Monastery of Saint Albanes the Celles of Wallingford of Tinnemuth of Bealvare of Hertford and Binham Richard who liued in the time of William Rusus when the Cell of Saint Marie de Wymonaham or Windham in Norfolke was giuen vnto this Abbey beeing sounded by William de Albeney father to William de Albeney first Earle of Arundell Gaufridus who founded the Nunnery of Sopwell therby on the other side of the riuer founded and so called vpon this occasion two poore women hauing built themselues a small cabben liued in that place a very austere life praying and seruing God with great deuotion and for that they liued for the most part with no other sustenance saue bread and the water of a Well there wherein they vsed to soppe or dippe their bread it had saith mine Author a Monke sometime of that Abbey the name of Sopwell Then Radulphus Robert Simon Garmus Iohn William c. Off a gaue to this his Abby of Saint Albans these towns following viz. Thei l Edelâ—â—â—â—â— Wiclesfield Cagesâ—o cum suis Berechund Rikeâ—aresworth Bacheworth Crokâ—leie Michelfield Britchwell Watford Bilsey Merdell Haldenham Sprâ—t Enefeild Stâ—â—â—â—â—â— Hâ—â—â—â—â—ted Winelesham Biscopscoâ— Câ—dâ—â—â—dune and Mildâ—â—dune Egelsride his sonne and successour gaue Sandruge and Penefield Alfrickâ— Abbot of this Church after Archbishop Leofrick his brother gaue Kingesbury Câ—ealdwich Westwic Flamsted Nortâ—â—â— Râ—â—â—â—hang Wâ—â—â—â—field Birstan and Vpton AEthelwold Bish. of Dorchester gaue Girshuna Cuicumba Tyme Aegelwin Redburne ThuangnaÌ„ Lingley Grenburga One Tholfe gaue Estune and Oxaw One Sexi gaue Hâ—chamsted One Haâ—dh gaue Newhaâ— and Beandise Therefeld a religious woman gaue Sceanlâ—a Bridel Aegelwina another gaue Batesden Offal and Standune One Aegelbert gaue Craniford Aâ—â—an Cutesham Winsimus gaue Esenden Osulsus and his wife gaue Stâ—dham and Wilsinâ—â— others Walden Cudicote Scephal Bethell with sundry other Celles Churches and goodly possessions of me vnnamed If I should set you downe the inestimable wealth consisting in Plate Iewells Bookes costly Hangings Altar-cloathes and the like which by our English Kings Nobilitie and others haue from the foundation vnto the dissolution with the sundry priuiledges this Abby had I should weary my selfe with writing and you with reading but I omit them hauing onely proposed a mirrour to the eyes not of the Church pillars of ancient but the Church pillers of our times The Auncestors of this Noble family were Frenchmen borne taking their Surname of a Towne in Normandy called Sackuill whereof they were Lords and came into England to the aide of Duke William the Conquerour as appeareth by an auncient Manuscript or Chronicle of Brittaine now in the Custody of Mr. Edward Gwinn where he is called a Chiefetaine and is the seauenth man ranked in a Catalogue of names there for as it may be obserued out of Mr. Camdens Remaines that the better sort about the time of the Conquest began to take vp Surnames so againe they were not setled amongst the common people vntill the Raigne of King Edward the second He moreouer affirmeth that the most ancient and of best account were deriued from places whereof this name of Sackuill is one and to adde yet more vnto it Ordericus Vitalis the Monke in his Normane story saith that Herbrann de Sackuill was liuing in the time of William the Conquerour being father of three Noble Knights Iordan William and Robert de Sackuill and of a vertuous and beautifull Ladie named Auice who was married to Walter Lord of Alfage Hugleuill by whom shee had issue Iordan L. of Alfage Hugleuill that married Iulian the daughter of one Godsâ—all who came into England with Q. Adelize of Loâ—â—ine the Wife to King Henry the first After whose death the said Queene married to William de Albency Earle of Arundell from whom the now Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surry and Earle Marshall of England is descended S. Iordan de Sackuill Knight the eldest sonne was Sewer of England by the gift of the said Conquerour but liued and died in Normandy S. Robert de Sackuill Knight the yonger sonne liued in England and gaue together with his body the Mannor of Wickham in Suffolkeâ— to the Abbey of Sâ— Iohn Baptist in Colchester leauing issue a son named Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill a very eminent man in the time of King Richard the first as appeareth by a Charter of the said King made to the Monkes of Bordesâ—ey in Buckinghamshiere Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill that obtained of King Iohn a Friday Market weekely and a Faire once a yeare in his Towne of Sackuill in Normandy as saith the Kings Publike Records in the Tower of Lâ—â—don Holiinshed fol. 186. doth there ranke Iordan de Sackuill as a Baron calling him one of the assistants to the 25. Peeres of this Realme to see the Liberties of Magna Charta confirmed And for further proofe that they were men of no meane â—anke it is apparent in the Red booke of the Excheaquer in the 12. and 13. yeeres of the said Kings Raigne in these words Hubertus de Anestie tenes 2. food in Anestie parua Hornmcad dimid 〈◊〉 in Anestie de Honore Richardâ— de Sackâ—yle Agaiâ—e Sâ— Iordan de Sackuill Knight grandâ— childe to the said Iordan de Sackuill was taken prisoner at the battaile of Eâ—esham for siding with the Barons against King Henry the third in the 49. yeare of His Raigne whose sonne and heire named Andrew Sackuill being vnder age at the time of his fathers death and the Kings Waâ—d was like wise imprisoned in the Castle of Deuer Ann. 3. Eâ—n 1. and afterward by the speciall command of the said King did marry Ermynâ—â—de an Honourable Ladie of the houshold to Queene 〈◊〉 or whereby he not onely gained the Kings fauour but the greatest part of his Inheritance againe From whom the aforesaid Richard Earle of Dorset with Sâ— Edward Sackuill Knight of the Bathe his brother and others are descended one of whose Auncestors by marrying a daughter and co-heire of Rase de Denn sonne of Rodbert Pincerna that held the Lordship of Buckhurst with diuers other Mannors and Lands in Sussex about the time of the Normain Conquest In right of which marriage they haue euer since continued Lords of the said Mannor of Buckhurst with diners other Manors and Lâ—nds in Sussex c. Which William Earle of Devonshâ— was sonne of Sâ— William Cavendish of Chattesworth in the said Countie of Derby knight Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eight Edward the sixt and Queene Marie by his wife Elizabeth daughter of lohn Hardwick of Hardwick Esquire The Auncestors of this Noble Familie called themselues Gâ—râ—ms whose issue
their childish capacities that what together with the sweetnesse of libertie varietie of companie and so many kinds of recreation in Towne and Fields abroad being like young Lapwings apt to be snatched vp by euery Buzzard they prooue with Homers Willow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as good goe gather Cockles with Calignlas people on the Sand as yet to attempt the difficulties of so rough and terrible a passage Others againe if they perceiue any wildnesse or vnstaiednesse in their Children are presently in despaire and out of all hope of them for euer prouing Schollers or fit for any thing else neither consider the Nature of youth nor the effect of time the Phisition of all But to mend the matter send them either to the Court to serue as Pages or into France and Italy to see fashions and mend their manners where they become ten times worse These of all other if they bee well tempered prooue the best mettall yea Tulli◠as of necessitie desireth some aboundant ranknesse or superfluitie of wit in that yong-man he would choose to make his Orator of Vellem saith he in adolescente aliquod redundans quod amputem I wish in a yong man something to spare and which I might cut off This taken away ere degenerate with luxurious abundance like that same ranke vine the Prophet Ieremie speaketh of you shall finde the heart divino sain editum and sound timber within to make Mercurie of qui non fit ex quouis lign◠as the prouerbe saith And some of a different humour will determine euen from the A B C. what calling their children shall take vpon them and force them euen in despight of Nature like Lycurgus his whelpes to runne contrarie courses and to vndertake professions altogether contrarie to their dispositions This saith Erasmus is peccare in genium And certainly it is a principall point of discretion in parents to be throughly acquainted with and obserue the disposition and inclination of their children and indeed for euery man to search into the addiction of his Genius and not to wrest nature as Musitians say out of her key or as Tullie saith to contend with her making the Spaniel to carrie the Asses loade which was well obserued by the Lacedamonians and ancient Romanes in laying forth instruments of sundry occupations before their children at a certaine age they to choose what liked them best and euer after to take vpon them that profession whereunto they belonged How many are put by worldly and couetous fathers inuita Minerua to the studie of the lawes which studie I confesse to be Honourable and most deseruing who notwithstanding spend most of their time euen in Diuinitie at the Innes of he Court and how many Divines haue we I appeale to the Courts heires of their fathers friends or purchased advousons whom the buckram bagge would not better beseeme then the Bible being neuer out of law with their parishioners following their Suites and Causes from Court to Court Terme to Terme no Atturney more In like manner I haue knowne many Commanders and worthy Gentlemen aswell of our owne Nation as strangers who following the warres in the field and in their Armes haue confessed vnto me Nature neuer ordained them for that profession had they not fallen accidentally vpon it either through death of friends harshnesse of Masters and Tutors thereby driuen from the Vniuersitie as an Honorable friend of mine in the Low Countries hath many times cōplained vnto me or the most common mischiefe miserablenesse of greedie parents the ouerthrow and vndoing of many excellent and prime wits who to saue charges marrie a daughter or preferre a yonger brother turne them out into the wide world with a little money in their purses or perhaps none at all to seeke their Fortunes where Necessitie deiects and besots their spirits not knowing what calling or course to take enforceth them desperate to begge borrow or to worse and baser shiftes which in their owne natures they detest as hell to goe on foote lodge in Ale-houses and fort themselues with the basest companie till what with want and wandring so long in the Circle at last they are vpon the center of some hill constrained to say as Hercules between his two pillars Non vlterius Much lesse haue parents now a daies that care to take the paines to instruct and reade to their children themselues which the greatest Princes and noblest personages haue not beene ashamed to doe Octauius Augusins Caesar read the workes of Cicero and Virgil to his children and nephewes himselfe Anna the daughter of Alexi◠the Grecian Emperour was by her father so instructed that while shee was yet a yong and goodly Ladie shee wrote of her selfe a very learned and authentique Historie of the Church Aemilius Paulus the sonne who so brauely ended his daies at Cannas when his Colleague forsooke him seeing the fauour of the State not inclineable towards him left the Citie and onely spent his time in the Countrey in teaching his owne children their Latine and Greeke notwithstanding he daily maintained Grammarians Logicians Rhetoricians Painters Caruers Riders of great horses and the skilfullest Huntsmen he could get to instruct and teach them in their seuerall professions and qualities The three daughters of euer-famous Sr. Thomas Moore were by their father so diligently held to their booke notwithstanding he was so daily emploied being L. Chauncelor of England that Erasmus saith he found them so readie and perfect in Liuie that the worst Scholler of them was able to expound him quite through without any stop except some extraordinarie and difficult place Quod me saith he aut mei similem esset remoraturum I shall not neede to remember within memorie those foure sisters the learned daughters of Sr. Anthonie Cooke and rare Poetresses so skilfull in Latine and Greeke beside many other their excellent qualities eternized alreadie by the golden pen of the Prince of Poets of our time with many other incomparable Ladies and Gentlewoman in our land some yet liuing from before whose faire faces Time I trust will draw the curtaine Lastly the fault may be in the Scholler himselfe whom Nature hath not so much befriended with the gift of vnderstanding as to make him capable of knowledge or else more vniust disposed him to sloath or some other worse inbred vice Marcus Cicero albeit hee was the sonne of so wise so eloquent and so sober a father whose very counsell and companie had beene enough to haue put learning and regard of well liuing into the most barbarous Gete and had Crattippus so excellent a Philosopher to his Reader at Athens yet by the testimony of Pliny he proued so notorious a drunkard that he would ordinarily drinke off two gallons of Wine at a time and became so debauched euery way that few of that age exceeded him Sundry the like examples might be produced in our times but one of this nature is too many Others
life Beleeue you with Chrysostome that the ignorance of the Scriptures is the beginning and fountaine of all euill That the word of God is as our Sauiour calleth it the key of knowledge which giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse And rather let the pious and good King Alphonsiâ—s be a president vnto you and to all Nobilitie who read ouer the Bible nor once nor twice but foureteene times with the Postils of Lyra and Burgensis containing thrice or foure times as much in quantitie and would cause it to be caried ordinarily with his Scepter before him whereon was engrauen Pro lege Grege And that worthy Emp. great Champion of Christendome Charlemaigne who spent his daies of rest after so mnay glorious victories obtained of the Saracens in Spain the Hunnes Saxens Gothes and Vandals in Lumbardie and Italy with many other barbarous Nations whereof milions fell vnder his Sword in reading the holy Scriptures and the workes of the Fathers especially S. Augustine and his bookes De Ciuitate Dei in which hee tooke much delight Whom besides it is recorded to haue beene so studious that euen in bed he would haue his Pen and Inke with Parchment at his Pillow readie that nothing in his meditation nothing might ouer-slip his memorie and if any thing came into his mind the light being taken away a place vpon the wall next him was thinly ouer-laid withâ—Waxe whereon with a brasen pin he would write in the darke And we reade as oft as a new King was created in Israel he had with the ornaments of his kingly dignitie the Booke of the Law deliuered vnto him signifying his Regall authoritie was lame and defectiue except swaied by Piety and Wisedome contained in that booke Whereunto alludeth that deuice of Paradine an Image vpon a Globe with a sword in one hand and a booke in the other with Ex vtroque Caesar and to the same purpose another of our owne in my Minerua Britannâ— which is a Serpent wreathed about a Sword placed vpright vpon a Bible with the word Initium Sapiemia CHAP. 6. Of stile in speaking and writing and of Historie SInce speech is the Character of a man and the Interpreter of his mind and writing the Image of that that so often as we speak or write so oft we vndergoe censure and iudgement of our selues labour first by all meanes to get the habit of a good stile in speaking and writing as well English as Latine I call with Tully that a good and eloquent stile of speaking Where there is a iudicious fitting of choise words apt and graue Sentences vnto matter well disposed the same being vttered with a comely moderation of the voyce countenance and gesture Not that same ampullous and Scenical pompe with emptie furniture of phrase wherewith the Stage and our pettie Poeticke Pamphlets sound so big which like a net in the water though it feeleth weightie yet it yeeldeth nothing since our speech ought to resemble wherin neither the curiousnesse of the Picture or faire proportion of Letters but the weight is to be regarded and as Pluâ—arch saith when our thirst is quenched with the drinke then we looke vpon the ennameling and workmanship of the boule so first your hearer coueteth to haue his desire satisfied with matter ere hee looketh vpon the forme or vinetrie of words which many times fall in of themselues to matter well contriued according to Horace Rembeâ—â— dispositam vel verba invita feqâ—untur To matter well dispos'd words of themselues do fall Let your stile therefore bee furnished with solid matter and compact of the best choise and most familiar words taking heed of speaking or writing such words as men shall rather admire then vnderstand Herein were Tiberiuâ— M. Anteâ—ie and Mâ—cenas much blamed and iested at by Augustus himselfe vsing euer a plaine and most familiar stile and as it is said of him Verbum insolens tanquam scopulum effugiens Then sententious yea better furnished with sentences then words and as Tully willeth without affectation for as a King said Dum tersiari studemus eloquendi formula subterfugit nos clanculùm apertus ille familiaris dicendi modus Flowing at one and the selfe same height neither taken in and knit vp too short that like rich hangings of Arras or Tapistry thereby lose their grace and beautie as Themistocles was wont to say not suffered to spred so farre like soft Musicke in an open field whose delicious sweetnesse vanisheth and is lost in the ayre not being contained within the walles of a roome In speaking rather lay downe your words one by one then powre them forth together this hath made many men naturally slow of speech to seem wisely iudicious and be iudiciously wise for beside the grace it giueth to the Speaker it much helpeth the memorie of the hearer and is a good remedie against impediment of speech Sir Nicholas Bacon sometime Lord Chancellor of England and father to my Lord of S. Albâ—nâ—s a most eloquent man and of as sound learning and wisedome as England bred in many Ages with the old Lord William Burgbley Lord Treasurer of England haue aboue others herein beene admired and commended in their publique speeches in the Parliament house and Starre-Chamber for nothing drawes our attention more then good matter eloquently digested and vttered with a gracefull cleere and distinct pronuntiation But to be sure your stile may passe for currant as of the richest alloy imitate the best Authors as well in Oratorie as Historie beside the exercise of your owne Inuention with much conference with those who can speak well nor bee so foolish precise as a number are who make it Religion to speake otherwise then this or that Author As Longolius was laughed at by the learned for his so apish and superstitious imitation of Tully in so much as hee would haue thought a whole Volume quite matred if the word Possibile had passed his pen because it is not to be found in all Tullie or euery Sentence had not sunke with esse posse videatur like a peale ending with a chime or an Amen vpon the Organes in Paules For as the young Virgin to make her fairest Garlands gathereth not altogether one kind of Flower and the cunning Painter to make a delicate beautie is forced to mixe his Complexion and compound it of many Colours the Arras-worker to please the eyes of Princes to be acquainted with many Histories so are you to gather this Hony of Eloquence A gift of heauen out of many fields making it your owne by diligence in collection care in expression and skill in digestion But let me leade you forth into these all-flowrie and verdant fields where so much sweete varietie will amaze and make you doubtfull where to gather first First Tullie in whose bosome the Treasure of Eloquence seemeth to haue beene locked
cassocke and affecteth the wearing of the richest iewels the French huge feathers Scarlet and gold lace the English his armes rich and a good sword the Italians pride is in his Neapolitan Courser the Germanes and low Dutch to be dawbed with gold and pearle wherein say they there is no losse except they be lost But herein I giue no prescripon I now come to your diet wherein be not onely frugall for the sauing of your purse but moderate in regard of your health which is empaired by nothing more then excesse in eating and drinking let me also adde Tobacco taking Many dishes breede many diseases dulleth the mind and vnderstanding and not onely shorten but take away life We reade of Augustus that he was neuer curious in his diâ—t but content with ordinary and common viandes And Cato the Censor sayling into Spaine dranke of no other drinke then the rowers or slaues of his owne galley And Timotheus Duke of Athens was wont to say whoÌ„ Plato invited home to him to supper they found theÌ„selues neuer distempered Contrary to our Feastmakers who suppose the glory of entertainment and giuing the best welcome to consist in needelesse superfluities and profuse waste of the good Creatures as Scylla made a banquet that lasted many dayes where there was such excessiue abundance that infinite plenty of victualls were throwne into the Riuer and excellent wine aboue forty yeares old spilt and made no account of but by surfetting and banquetting at last he gat a most miserable disease and dyed full of lice And Caâ—sar in regard of his Lybian triumph at one banquet filled two and twenty thousand roomes with ghests and gaue to euery Citizen in Rome ten bushels of wheate and as many pounds of oyle and besides three hundred pence in mony We reade of one Smyndirides who was so much giuen to feasting and his ease that hee saw not the Sunne rising nor setting in twenty yeares and the Sybarites forbad all Smiths and knocking in the streetes and what thing soeuer that made any noise to bee within the City walls that they might eate and sleepe whereupon they banished cocks out of the city and invented the vse of chamberpots and bad women a yeare before to their feasts that they might haue leisure enough to make themselues fine and braue with gold and Iewels Aboue all learne betimes to auoide excessiue drinking then which there is no one vice more common and reigning and ill beseeming a Gentleman which if growne to an habit is hardly left remembring that hereby you become not fit for any thing hauing your reason degraded your body distempered your soule hazarded your esteeme and reputation abased while you sit taking your vnwholesome healthes vt iam vertigine tectum Ambulet geminis exsurgat mensa lucernis Vntill the house about doth turne And on the board two candles seeme to burne By the Leuiticall law who had a glutton or a drunkard to their Sonne they were to bring him before the Elders of the City and see him stoned to death And in Spainâ— at this day they haue a law that the word of him that hath beene convicted of drunkennesse shall not bee taken in any testimony Within these fiftie or threescore yeares it was a rare thing with vs in England to see a Drunken man our Nation carrying the name of the most sober and temperate of any other in the world But since we had to doe in the quarrell of the Netherlands about the time of Sir Iohn Norrice his first being there the custome of drinking and pledging healthes was brought ouer into England wherein let the Dutch bee their owne Iudges it we equall them not yea I thinke rather excell them Tricongius and the old Romanes had lawes and statutes concerning the Art of drinking which it seemes are reuiued and by our drunkards obserued to an haire It being enacted that he who after his drinks faltered not in his speech vomited not nâ—yther reeled if he dranke off his cups cleanâ—ly seek not his wind in his draughs spit not left nothing in the pot nor spilt any vpon the ground he had the prize was accounted the brauest man If they were contented herewith it were well but they daily inueâ—t new and damnable kinds of carrowâ—ing as that in North-holland and Frizeland though among the baser sort of vpsiâ— Monikedam which is after you haue drunke out the drinke to your friend or companion you must breake the glasse full vpon his face and if you misse you must drinke againe whence proceede quarrelling reâ—iling and many times execrable murthers as Alexander was slain in his drunkennesse and Domitius Nero's father slew Liberius out right because he would not pledge him a whole carrowse and hence arise most quarrells among our gallant drunkards vnto whom if you reade a lecture of sobrietie and how in former ages their forefathers dranke water they sweare water is the frogges drinke and ordained onely for the driuing of milles and carrying of boates Neither desire I you should be so abstemious as not to remember a friend with an hearty draught since wine was created to make the heart merry for what is the life of man if it want wine Moderately taken it preserueth health comforteth and disperseth the naturall heate ouer all the whole body allayes cholericke humours expelling the same with the sweate c. tempereth Melancholly And as one saith hath in it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a drawing vertue to procure friendship At your meate to be liberall and freely merry is very healthy and comely and many times the stranger or guest will take more content in the chearelinesse of your countenance then in your meate Augustus the Emperour had alwayes his mirth greater then his feasts And Suctonius saith of Titus Vespasians Sonne he had euer his table furnished with mirth and good company And the old Lord Treasurer of England Lord William Burghley how emploied soeuer in State affaires at his table hee would lay all businesse by and bee heartily merry Charles the Great vsed at his meates to haue some History read whereof hee would afterwards discourse And Francis the first King of France would commonly dispute of History Cosmography Poetry His Maiesty our Soueraigne altogether in points and profound questions of Diuinity When I was in Virocht and liued at the table of that Honourable Gentleman Sir Iohn Ogle Lord Gouernour whither resorted many great Schollers and Captaines English Scottish French and Dutch it had beene enough to haue made a Scholler or Souldier to haue obserued the seuerall disputations and discourses among many strangers one while of sundry formes of battailes sometime of Fortification of fireworkes History Antiquities Heraldrie pronunciation of Languages c. that his table seemed many times a little Academic In your discourse be free and affable giuing entertainment in a sweete and liberall manner and with a cheerefull courtesie