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A66695	Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3062; ESTC R11630	186,957	324

that day proved so cold that they could not stir out of their Tent. The same day there came two Ships of Hull into the Sound who knowing that some men had been left there the Year before being very desirous to know whether they were dead or alive the Master manned forth a Shallop to go as near the Shore as they could and so over the Ice to the Tent when these men came near unto it they haled them with the usual Word at Sea crying Hey to which one of them in the Tent answered again Hoe which sudden Answer almost amazed them all but perceiving them to be the very men left there with joyful Hearts they embraced one another and so coming into the Tent they shewed the Hull-men the curtesie of the House giving them some Venison which was roasted four months before and a Cup of cold Water which for Novelty sake they kindly accepted of After a little Discourse these eight men resolved to leave their Tent and to go with them to their Ship where they were welcomed after the heartiest and kindest English manner and so they staid with them till the London Fleet came which was three days after at which time they went aboard the Admiral in which Captain William Goodler was who made them very welcome and gave order that they should have any thing which was in the Ship that might do them good he gave them Apparel also to the value of twenty pounds so that after fourteen days refreshment they grew all perfectly well but when some of them went to their own Master that had left them there he fell foul upon them calling them Run-a-ways with other harsh Terms far enough from the Civility of an honest man Thus they continued in the Fleet until the 20th of August at which time with joyful Hearts they set Sail thorow the foaming Ocean and though sometimes crossed with contrary Winds yet at last they came safely to an Anchor in the River of Thames and the Muscovy Merchants dealt very well by them The Names of those eight Men thus left in Green-land William Fakely Gunner Edward Pelham Gunner's Mate that wrote this Story John Wise and Robert Goodfellow Seamen Thomas Ayers Whale-cutter Henry Bet Cooper John Daws and Richard Kellet Land-men A notable Story of Edgar King of England how he was by his chief Favourite circumvented of the fair Lady Elfrida and how afterwards the King was revenged of him for the same THis Edgar sirnamed the Peaceable the thirtieth Monarch of the English men was a Prince endowed with a great many Vertues and as many Vices and of all Vices most to Lasciviousness of which the Chronicles relate many Examples we shall only instance in one which for the variety of the matter deserveth to be recorded unto Posterity Fames lavish Report of beauteous Elfrida the Paragon of her Sex and Wonder of Nature the only Daughter of Ordgarus Duke of Devonshire sounded so loud in those Western parts that the Eccho thereof was heard into King Edgar's Court and entered his Ears which ever lay open to give his Eyes the Scope of Desire and his wanton thoughts the Reins of Will to try the Truth whereof he secretly sent his Minion or Favourite Earl Ethelwold of East-Anglia who well could judge of Beauty and knew the Dyet of the King with Commission that if the Pearl proved so orient it should be seized for Edgar's own wearing who meant to make her his Queen and Ordgarus the Father of a King Ethelwood a jolly young Gallant posted into Devonshire and guest-wise visited Duke Ordgarus his Court where seeing the Lady surpassing the Report blam'd Fame's over-sight for sounding her Praise in so base and leaden a Trumpet and wholly surprized with her Love himself began to wooe the Virgin yea and with her Father's good liking so as the King would give his Assent Earl Ethelwold returning related that the Maid indeed was fair but yet her Beauty much augmented by babling Reports and neither her Feature or Parts any wise befitting a King Edgar mistrusting no Rival in his Love nor dreaming false Fellowship in Wooing did with a slight Thought pass over Elfrida and pitch'd his Affections the faster another way Earl Ethelwold following the Game now on Foot desired Edgar's Assistance to bring it to a stand pretending not so much for any liking to the Lady as to raise his own Fortunes by being her Father's Heir to which the King yielded and ignorant of what had passed sollicited Ordgarus in the behalf of his Minion Ethelwold The Duke glad to be shrouded under the favour of such a Favourite willingly consented and his Daughters Destiny 's assured to Earl Ethelwold The Marriage solemnized and the Fruits thereof a short time enjoyed the Fame of her Beauty began to be spread and that with a larger Epithet than formerly it had been whereupon Edgar much doubting of double dealing laid his Angle fair to catch this great Gull and bearing no shew of wrong or suspect invited himself to hunt in his Parks and forthwith repairing into those parts did not a little grace his old Servant to the great Joy of Ordgarus the Duke But Ethelwold mistrusting the cause of his coming thought by one Policy to disappoint another and therefore revealing the truth to his Wife how in his Proceedings he had wronged her Beauty and deceived his Sovereign requested her loving assistance to save now his endangered Life which lay in her power and of the means he thus adviseth Like as said he the richest Diamond rough and uncut yields neither sparkle nor esteem of great Price nor the Gold unburnished gives better Lustre than the base Brass so Beauty and Feature clad in mean Aray is either slightly looked at with an unfixed Eye or is wholly unregarded and held of no Worth for according to the Proverb Cloath is the Man and Man is the Wretch then to prevent the thing that I fear and is likely to prove my present Ruine and thy last Wrack conceal thy great Beauty from King Edgar's Eye and give him Entertainment in thy meanest Attires let them I pray thee for a time be the nightly Curtains drawn about our new nuptial Bed and the daily Clouds to hide thy splendant Sun from his sharp and too too piercing sight whose Vigour and Rayes will soon set his waxen Wings on Fire that ready are to melt at a far softer Heat Pitch thou seest defileth the hand and we are forbid to give occasion of Evil veil then thy Fairness with the Scaffs of Deformity from his over-lavish and unmastered Eye for the fairest Face draws ever the Gaze if not the Attempts and Natures Endowments are as the Bush for the Wine which being immoderately taken doth surfeit the Sense and is again cast up with as loathing a Tast Of these Dregs drunk Amnon after his fill of fair Thamer Herod of Miramy and Aeneas of Dido yea and not to seek Examples far off King Edgar's variation in his unstedfast

his Arms kissed him and promised him large Rewards if he would live in his Court but he with much Thankfulness refusing to receive any besought the King that he would not disclose what he had said in regard his Resolution was to continue in that Pilgrims state and so they there parted with Tears From whence the Earl bent his Course towards Warwick and coming thither not known of any for three days together took Alms at the hands of his own Lady as one of those twelve poor People unto which she daily gave Relief her self for the Safety of him and her and the Health of both their Souls And having rendred thanks to her he repaired to an Hermite that resided amongst the shady Woods hard by desiring by Conference with him to receive some Spiritual Comfort where he abode with that holy Man till his Death and then succeeded him in that Cell and continued the same course of Life for the space of two Years after but then discerning Death to approach he sent to his Lady their Wedding Ring by a trusty Servant wishing her to take care of his Burial adding also that when she came she should find him lying dead in the Chappel before the Altar and moreover that within fifteen days after she her self should depart this Life Whereupon she came accordingly and brought with her the Bishop of the Diocess as also many of the Clergy and other People and finding his Body there did honourably interr it in that Hermitage and was her self afterwards buried by him leaving her paternal Inheritance to Reynburn her only Son Which departure of our famous Guy hapned in the Year of our Lord 929. and of his own Age the 70. The Life of St. Patrick the Irish Apostle SAint Patrick was born in the Marches between England and Scotland in a Town by the Sea-side named Eiburn whose Fathers name was called Calphurnius a Deacon and Son to a Priest his Mother named Couches was Sister to St. Martin that famous Bishop of Tours in France Patrick of a child was brought up in Learning and well instructed in the Faith being much given to Devotion The Irish-men in those dayes assisted with some Scots and Picts were become arch-Pirates greatly disquieting the Seas about the Coasts of Britain and used to sack little small Villages that lay scatteringly along the shore and would lead away the Inhabitants captive home into their Countrey And as it chanced Patrick being a Lad of sixteen years old and a Scholar then in Secular Learning was taken among others and became Slave to an Irish Lord called Macbuaine from whom after the term of six years he redeemed himself with a piece of Gold which he found in a Clod of Earth that the Swine had newly turned up as he followed them in the time of his Captivity being appointed by his Master to take charge of them and keep them And as Affliction commonly maketh men Religious the regard of his former Education had stamped in him such remorse and humility that being thenceforth weaned from the World he betook himself to Contemplation ever lamenting the want of Grace and Truth in that Island and alluring one of that Nation to bear him company for exercise sake he departed thence and got him into France ever having in his mind a desire to see the Conversion of the Irish People whose Babes yet unborn seemed to him in his dreaming from forth their Mothers Wombs to call for Christendom In this purpose he sought out his Uncle Martin by whose means he was placed with Germanus the Bishop of Auxerre continuing with him as Scholar or Disciple for the space of forty Years all which time he bestowed in the study of Holy Scriptures Prayers and such godly Excercises Afterwards being renowned thorough the Latine Church for his Wisdom Vertue and Learning he went to Rome bearing Letters with him in his Commendation from the French Bishops unto Pope Celestine to whom he uttered his whole Mind and Secret Vow which long before he had conceived as touching Ireland Celestine invested him Arch-Bishop and Primate of the whole Island set him forward with all Favour he could bringing him and his Disciples onward to their Country In the twenty third Year of the Emperour Theodosius the younger being the year of our Lord 430 Patrick landed in Ireland and because he spake the Tongue perfectly and withal being a reverend Personage in the eyes of all Men many listened and gave ear to his preaching And the rather because as some Writers have recorded he confirmed his Doctrine with divers Miracles of which that called St. Patricks Purgatory is most remarkable the description of which out of Giraldus Cambrensis an eminent Irish Author take as followeth In the Parts of Ulster saith he there is a Pool or Lake which environeth an Island in the one part whereof there standeth a Church much enlightned with the brightsome recourse of Angels the other part is ugly and gastly as it were a Bedlam alotted to the visible Assemblies of horrible and grisly Bugs This part of the Island containeth nine Caves and if any dare be so hardy as to take his lodging a Night in one of them strait these Spirits claw him by the back and tug him so ruggedly and toss him so crabbedly that now and then they make him more frank of his Bum than of his Tongue a payment correspondent to his entertainment This place is called St. Patrick's Purgatory of the Inhabitants for when St. Patrick laboured the Conversion of the People of Ulster by setting before their eyes in great heat of Spirit the Creation of the World the Fall of our Progenitors the Redemption of man by the blessed and precious blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ the certainty of Death the Immortality of the Soul the general Resurrection the day of Judgment the Joyes of Heaven the Pains of Hell how that at length every man small and great young and old rich and poor King and Keisar Potentate and Pesant must either through God's gracious mercy be exalted to the one to flourish in perpetual Felicity or through his unsearchable Justice tumbled down to the other to be tormented in eternal misery These and the like grave and weighty Sentences wherewith he was abundantly stored so far sunk into their Hearts as they seemed very flexible in condescending to his Doctrine so that some proof of his strange preaching could have been verified whereupon without farther delay they spake to the Prelate after this manner Sir As we like of your preaching so we dislike not of our Liberty you tell us of many gew gaws and strange Dreams you would have us to abandon Infidelity to cage up our Liberty to bridle our Pleasure for which you promise us for our toyl and labour a Place to us as unknown so as yet uncertain You sermon to us of a Dungeon appointed for Offenders and Miscreants indeed if we could find that to be true we should the sooner be