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A70258
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Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.
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G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)
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Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183
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was unsightly their necks was hung with Chains and Carkaneths their Arms wreathed with many Bracelets and over their side garments the Shag Rug Mantles purfled with a deep fringe of divers colours both Sexes accounting idleness their only liberty and ease their greatest riches In Warâ— they were forward and fought with Battle-axes whose bearers were called Galloglasses the common souldier but lightly armed who served with darts and sharp skeines their Trumpet was a Bag-pipe and word for encounter Pharroh which at the first Onset with great acclamation they uttered and he that did not was taken into the Air and carryed into the Vale of Kerry where transformed as they did believe he remained until he was hunted with hounds from thence to his home For the dying and dead they hired Women to mourn who expostulated with the sick why he would die and dead at his Funeral such out-crys were made such clapping of hands such howlings and gestures that one would think their sorrows unrecoverable holding the opinion of Pythagoras for their souls departed Their Diet in necessity was slender feeding upon Water-cresses Roots Mushrooms Shamroh Butter tempered with Oatmeal Milk Whey yea and raw fish the bloud being crushed out their use was also to let their Kine bloud which standing a while and coming to Jelly with Butter they did eat as a very good dish Out of the Description of the Civil Wars fought in England Wales and Ireland FRance felt the heavy hands of Edward and Henry our English Kings when the one of them at Poictiers took Prisoners John King of France and Philip Sirnamed the hardy his son the other Henry the fifth at Azincourt in a bloudy battel took and slew four thousand Princes Nobles Knights and Esquires even all the flower of France as their own writers have declared And at Paris the Crown of France was set upon Henry the 6 th his Head homage done unto him by the French that Kingdom made subject and their Flower deluces quartered with our Lions of England An enterprize remaining fresh in Memory of Philip date King of Spain against our Dread Soveraign Queen Elizabeth in the year 1588. attempting by his invincible Navy as he thought and so termed under the Conduct of the Duke of Medina Celi which with great Pride and Cruelty was intended against us arrived on our Coasts to Englands Invasion and Subversion had yet nevertheless here in the narrow Seas the one part of his Fleet discomfited taken and drowned and the other part forced to their great shame in poor Estate to make a fearful and miserable flight about the Coast of Ireland homeward so that of 158 great ships furnished for War came to their own Coast of Spain but few and those so torn and beaten by the English Canons that it was thought they were unserviceable for ever and eleven of their Ensigns or Banners prepared for Triumph and Pride in Conquest were contrariwise to their dishonour shewed at Pauls Cross and in other places of this Realm Out of the Description of the Turkish EMPIRE WE will take notice of their Religion how it is a meer Couzenage thrust upon the filly people by the impious subtilty of one Mahomet whose story is well worth our knowledge and may cause us to commiserate the desperate Estate of those ignorant yet perverse and bloudy Antichristians His place of Birth is questioned whether he were a Cirenick an Arabian or Persian it is not yet fully decided certain enough it is he was of base Parents his Father some say a Worshipper of Devils and his Mother a faithless Jew betwixt them they sent into the World a pernicious deceiver which none but two such Religions could have made up In the year 597. when he had been for a while thus instructed by his distracted Parents poverty and hope to improve his Fortunes perswaded him from his Native soil to live for another while among true professed Christians where he received so much knowledge of the Word and light of the Gospel as to pervert it to his destruction and ruine of many Millions of souls In his first adventurous travels abroad he fell into the hands of theevish Saracens which sold him to a Jewish Merchant and he imployed him to drive his Camels through Egypt Syria Palestine and other forrain Countries where he still gathered farther instructions of that truth which he intended to abuse His wickedness first brake forth into fraud open Theft and Rapine and other sins of highest rank in which he continued and seduced others till the death of his Master and after marryed his Aged but rich Mistress He had means now to act his malicious purposes and wealth to countenance his exceeding Pride which would not be satisfied with a lower Ambition then to be called a Prophet of God This he began to practice by the Counsel of one Sergius a Monk who being cast out for Heresie from Constantinople betook himself into Arabia and joyned in with Mahomet to make up this mischief perfect see now their Juggling There wanted no craft betwixt them to make use of his worst actions to gull the simple For when by his debaucht drinking and gluttony he was fallen into an Epilepsie and in his fits lay Bear like grovelling and foaming upon the Earth as one without sense he pretended an Exta-like swoon wherein his soul was wrapped from his body in which he converst with Gabriel an Angel from Heaven To make this familiarity with God the more to be believed he had bred up a Dove to take her meat from his ear which he most blasphemously professed to be the Holy Ghost who in such times and in that shape infused the prophesies which he was to preach Lastly what they in their wicked fancies had conceived and meant to propagate they digested into a Volume and called it the Alcoran For this too they had a trick that it might seem to have been sent from Heaven into the hands of Mahomet and to this purpose he had himself fed up a tame Bull which by custom became so familliar that no sooner he heard the voice of his Master but he would straight run cast the head in his lap and use his wanton dalliance as with a Fellow Betwixt the horns of this Bull had he fastned the Alcoran and conveyed him into a by-place near where he had assembled the Multitude at a set time to expect a wonderful Miracle from Heaven that might confirm his Prophecy The Scene thus ordered on the sudden he lift up his voice and made a loud cry which no sooner the beast heard but he brake his way through the Press over-turned many of the Spectators which now stood at a gaze and gently laid his horns and book in the bosom of this false couzener which he with much ceremony and feigned Reverence received and in their presence opening the Volume began to interpret the chief of their Laws which for hereafter they were to observe Circumcision he allowed and with the
at Battle when the hazard of England was tryed in one days fight and Harold the King gave place to his Conqueror by losing his life among sixty seven thousand nine hundred seventy four English men besides whose bloud so spilt gave name to the place in French Sangue Lac. And the Soil after Rain becoming of a reddish colour caused William of Newbery to write that if there fell any small sweet showers in the place where so great a slaughter of the English was made presently sweateth forth very fresh bloud out of the Earth as if the evidence thereof did plainly declare the voice of bloud there shed and cryed still from the Earth unto the Lord. William the Bastard Duke of Normandy making his claim to the Crown of England by Affinity Adoption and Promise arrived at a Port in Sussex called Pensey with 896 ships furnished for War the 28 th of September in the year 1066. And the 14th of October following being Saturday near Hastings in the same County joyned Battel with Harold King of England who in the Field Valiantly fighting was there slain by the shot of an Arrow into his brains and with him dyed his two Brethren and 67974 men besides The place where they fought ever since doth in Memory thereof bear the name of Battel where the Heptarchy of the Saxons was brought to their last Period Having all their Laws altered their Nobles displaced and all men disherited all seized into the Normans hand who made himself Lord of all and on the day of Christ his Nativity in the same year was Crowned at Westminster King of England which he governed the space of 20 years 8 Months and 16 days But Places of other Note in this County is that from Basham Earl Harold taking the Sea for his delight in a small Boat was driven upon the Coast of Normandy where by Duke William he was retained till he had sworn to make him King after Edward Confessors Death which Oath being broken the Bastard arrived at Pensey and with his Sword revenged that perjury SURREY THis County is stored with many Princely Houses yea and five of His Majesties so Magnificently built that of some she may well say no Shire hath none such as is None-such indeed And were not Richmond a fatal place of Englands best Princes it might in Esteem be ranked with the Richest For therein dyed the great Conqueror of France King Edward the third the beautiful Anne Daughter to Charls the Fourth Emperour and intirely beloved Wife to King Richard the second the most wise Prince King Henry the seventh and the Barest of her Sex the Mirrour of Princes Queen Elizabeth the Worlds Love and Subjects Joy In Chertsey Abbey King Henry the sixth who was deposed and made away in the Tower of London was first Interred without all Funeral Pomp but for his holy life was imputed a Saint and lastly translated and Intombed at Windsor Hant-shire NEar Ringwood from God and peoples service to Beast and Luxury thirty six Parish Churches were converted and pulled down by the Conqueror and thirty miles of circuit inforrested for his Game of Hunting Wherein his Sons Richard and Rufus with Henry the second son to Duke Robert his first felt by hasty death the hand of Justice and Revenge For in the same Forrest Richard by a blasting of a pestilent Air Rufus by a shot taken for a Beast and Henry as Absalom hanged by a bough came to their untimely ends At so dear a rate the pleasure of Dogs and harbour for Beasts were bought in the bloud of these Princes In the City of Winchester was Richard and Rufus Interred their bones by Bishop Fox were gathered and shrined in little gilt Coffers fixed upon a wall in the Quire where still they remain carefully preserved The Wars betwixt Maud the Empress intituled Lady of England unto whom all the Nobility had sworn Allegiance And King Stephen Earl of Bolloign her Cousin German was prosecuted with such variable Fortunes in many conflicts on both parts that Stephen himself was by her taken Prisoner and retained in Irons with other extremities used But the success of War altering Maud the Empress to save her own life adventured through the Host of her Enemy laid in a Coffin fained to be dead and so was carryed in a Horse-Litter from Winchester to Lutegershall Vices and Glocester and thence to Oxford whence the year following she escaped as dangerously by deceiving the Scout Watch in a deep Snow Anno 1141. Wight Island IT is reported that in the year 1176. and twenty three of King Henry the second that in this Island it rained a shower of bloud which continued for the space of two hours together to the great wonder and amazement of the people that beheld it with fear Devonshire FRom the Port of Plymouth Sir Francis Drake that potent Man at Sea setting forth in the year 1577. In the space of two years and ten Months did compass the circle of the Earth by Sea Henry Holland Grand-Child to John Holland half Brother to King Richard the second siding with Lancaster against Edward the fourth whose Sister was his Wife was driven to such misery as it is reported that he was seen all torn and bare-footed to beg his living in the Low-Countries and lastly his body was cast upon the shore of Kent as if he had perished by shipwrack so uncertain is Fortune in her endowments and the state of Man notwithstanding his great Birth Cornwall BEsides the abundance of Fish that do suffice the Inhabitants the Pilchard is taken who in great Skuls swarm about the Coast whence being transported to France Spain and Italy yield a yearly Revenue of gain unto Cornwall There are Rocks that are not destitute of Gold nor Silver yea and Diamonds shaped and pointed Angle-wise and smoothed by nature her self whereof some are as big as Walnuts inferiour to the Orient only in blackness and hardness Memorable matters for Antiquity and strangeness of sight are these at Boskenna is a Trophy erected which are eighteen stones placed round in compass and pitched twelve foot each from others with another far bigger in the very center These do shew some Victory there attained either by the Romans or else King Athelstone At the foot of the Rocks near unto St. Michaels Mount in the Memory of our Fathers were digged up Spear-heads Axes and Swords of Brass wrapped in Linne the Weapons that the Cimbrians and ancient Britains anciently used There also the Wring-Cheese doth shew it self which are huge Rocks heaped one upon another and the lowest of them the least fashioned like a Cheese lying pressed under the rest of those Hills which seemeth very dangerous to be passed under But near to Pensans and unto Mounts-bay a far more strange Rock standeth namely Main-Amber which lyeth mounted upon others of meaner size with so equal a counterpoize that a Man may move it with the push of his finger but no strength remove it out of his