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A14575	The order and vsage of the keeping of a parlement in England, and The description of tholde and ancient cittie of Fxcester [sic]. Collected by Iohn Vovvel alias Hooker gentleman; Order and usage of keeping of the parlements in England	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601. Discription of the cittie of Excester. aut	1575 (1575)	STC 24887; ESTC S119300	57,649	106

it was feared either that the people must yéeld to the enemye or perish with famin How beit the Magistrates though sory in such destesse yet hauing a speciall regarde of their dutie toward the Prince and their charge to the common welth left no meanes vnsought to quiet the people and stay them in their deutye and obidience Wherfore comforting the people with fair promises and liberall reléeuing their necessities did in such sort and order handle the matter that euery body with one assent was resolued in hope of some spéedy reléef to abide the end and in no wise to giue place to the ●●●mye but to continue faithful to the Prince and trusty to ●heir common welth And yet in the meane while the gouernours left no deuises and prouisions which might be for the reléefe and comfort of the poore hungrye bellyes wherfore the corne and Meale consumed they caused of course and olde refused Bran bread to be moulded vp in clothes for otherwise it would not stick togither Also they caused some excurtions to be made out of the Cittie for the praying and taking of such Cattel as were néer about the walles which béeing taken was distributed emong the poor Likewise the Prisoners in captiuitie were contented to be fatisfied with such victualles as could bée prouided and albeit mannes nature can scarcely abide to féed vpon the flesh of a Horse yet these poor men were fed therwith and wel contented The noble King and Councel aduertised of this distresse did at length after .xxxv. dayes send the honorable S. Iohn Russel Knight Lord Russel Lord priuy Seale and afterwards Earle of Bedford with a company and band of Souldiers who after sundry conflicts had with the enemyes came to this Cittie the vj. of August reskewing and deliuering the same from the enemye and set them at libertie For the which as God was moste worthy of all praise and glory so is the same his deliueraunce at this present had in perpetuall memory the vj. of August béeing a holy day in the remembraunce therof Thus this little Cittie which in antiquitie is not inferiour to other hath from time to time felt the smartes and chaūges of all times and indured great troubles daungers extremities and perilles and yet God regarding their faith obediēce to their Prince and common welth before all other sacrifices hath defended an preserued them alwaies rewarding them with immortall Fame for which his great benefits his name be praised for euer and euer The sundry and seuerall names of the Ci●● of Excester and the interpretation of the same COrinea or Corinia is the first and eldest name of this Cittie and so named by Corineus who ariuing with Brutus into this lād and seasing or taking lād vpon these west parteꝭ was by brutus Lord of the same And he then building Cittie as is thought called it by his owne name Corinia whiche béeing so then is this Cittie one of the first Townes or Cittyes buylded by the Brittons in this land Cayrpenhuelgoite is compounded of foure woords Cayr is a Fortresse or a walled Town pen is a hed or the chéef of any thing hovvel is good luck prosperitie or knowledge goyed is wood a forest or timber woork now these put togither after the English phrase is the prosperouse chéef Town in the wood Penhaltcayr is compounded of thrée woords Pen is the hed or chéef halt is high a top of hil or the brim or edge of a thing cayr is a Town walled or a Fortresse these put togither doo signify the hed Town or Cittie vpon the Hil. Pencayr is compounded of two woords of Pen and Cayr which signify the cheef Cittie Cayrruthe Cayrrith is compounded of Cair and Rith Rith is tawnish or a dark red and so it signifyeth the red town Cittie or Fort. Cayrriske is likewise a compound of two words Iske signifieth a fresh water also a quil or a wing but in this place it is the name of the Riuer which fléeteth by the Cittie and so 〈◊〉 signifieth the Cittie of Iske Isca was also the name of the Town and Isaca the name of the Riuer which fleeteth by it as Ptolomeus and certain latter writers folowing him doo suppose write though it should séeme rather the Cittie to be called Isaca and the Riuer Isca Muncketon was so called by the Saxons but vpon what reason it dooth not appeer others thē that they did at their comming chaunge and alter the names of all or moste parte of places in this land giuing new names either of Townes or places of the Contrey from whēce they came or of their owne deuise or els King Etheldred or King Edgar when they had builded eche of them a Monastery for Muncks did giue that name Exeter was the name which King Adelstane gaue vnto it when he soiourned in this Town calling it so of the riuer Exe and then it is to say Exeterra the town or soyle of Exe. Exancestre is thought to be so called by the Saxons who commonly and for the moste parte named such Fortes and holdes as they buylded by this woord Cestria as Cicestria Dorcestria Osestria and many other like for Cestir in the Saxon tung is a Forte a Town or a Cittie Excestrum or Excestre is the name moste now in vse and so named as some write of the Riuer whiche they write to be named Excestrum Brutus Cadwalader Corinnia Cairpenhulgoit Penhaltcair Pencayr Cayrruth Cayrriske king Coil Bale Muncketon Adlestane Exeterra Excestre Exancestre Caesar. Courtney Churche of Exon. Ethelvvolphus Etheldred Edgar Canutus S. Edward Leofricus Aruiragus Edvvin Cadvvalline Alphred Svveno VVilliam Cōquerer king Stephen Baldwin Ridiuers King Richard Duke of York Duke of Glocestre Vere Delapole Lord Dinham Lord Fitzvvarren Baron of Carevve Duke of Clarence Neuel erle of VVarvvick king Henry King Edvvard

ii burgesses Christes Church ii burgesses Ipswich ii burgesses Dunwich ii burgesses Oteford ii burgesses Aldborough ii burgesses Sudbury ii burgesses Ey ii burgesses Welles ii burgesses Taunton ii burgesses Bridge water ii burgesses Minhed ii burgesses Horsham ii burgesses Midhurst ii burgesses Lewes ii burgesses Shereham ii burgesses Brember ii burgesses Steyning ii burgesses East Gréenstéed ii burgesses Arundel ii burgesses Apleby ii burgesses Wilton ii burgesses Hindon ii burgesses Heytesbury ii burgesses Westbury ii burgesses Calue ii burgesses Deuises ii burgesses Chipenham ii burgesses Malmesbury ii burgesses Bodwin the great ii burgesses Ludgarsail ii burgesses Olde Salisbury ii burgesses W●tton basset ii burgesses Marleborough ii burgesses Wiche ii burgesses Warwick ii burgesses Mongomery i burgesse Radnor i burgesse Dinghby i burgesse Pembrook i burgesse Cardigan i burgesse Flint i burgesse Carmarthan i burgesse Carnaruan i burgesse Brecknock i burgesse Cardiffe i burgesse Bew moris i burgesse Harford west i burgesse As the King by aduancing any man to the honor of a Baron dooth inlarge and augmēt the number of the Lords of the higher house so dooth he also increace the number of the lower house when he dooth make and erect any new Countie or incorporate any Borough or Town so that in his letters Pattents hée dooth nominate them by the name of a Burgesse And therfore when so euer the King dooth call his high Court of Parlement the writs of summons must be sent out for choosing of Knights in the new Counties and Burgesses in the new incorporated Boroughs or Townes aswel as to the other olde and auncient Citties and Townes and euery of them shall upon such summons bée bound to appéer and haue the ful priuiledges belonging to a Knight or a Burgesse of the Parlement Post mortem vita ¶ THE DISCRIPtion of the Cittie of Excester COLLECTED AND GAthered by Iohn Vowel alias Hooker gentleman and Chamberlain of the same Cittie Floret virtus in aeternum THE DISCRIPTION OF the Cittie of Excester collected and gathered by Iohn Vowel alias Hooker gentleman and Chamberlain of the same Cittie EXcester or Exeter is a famouse and ancient Cittie béeing the Metropole and Emporium of the west parts of England scituated in the Prouince called Deuonia which is Deuonshéer Of the first foundation therof by reason of the sundry inuations of forrain and straunge nations and of their hostilities and mortall warres in burning and destroying this Cittie there remaineth no certain memoriall neither emong the records of the said Cittie nor yet in any other writer But moste certain it is that it was first builded by the Brutes or Britons for the names which they gaue vnto it are yet at these presents had in remembraunce as wel emong the Cronographers of this Realme as also emong the Cornish people who sometimes were one with this Prouince but are now in a Prouince of them selues and borderers to this béeing the remanent of the blood of Brutus For when Cadwalader King of this land by reason of a great famin and Pestilence was inforced to forsake the same and flée into little Britain which now is vnder the dicion of the French King diuers and moste parte of his people fled also some into Wales and some into Cornwall wher euer sithēce they and after them their posteritie haue remained and continued The olde Cronographers serchers and writers of antiquities doo finde that this Cittie was called Corinia and therof the Monastary of this Cittie was called Ecclesia Coriniensis whiche name if it were first giuen as it should seem by Corineus who after the ariuall of Brutus into this land was made the first Duke of these two Prouinces of Deuon and Cornwall and who thē after his owne name called it Corinia but now Corinibia wherof this Cittie euer hath béen and is the Metropolie and Emporium and alwaies parcel sometimes of the kingdome then of the Duchie after wardes of the Earledome and now again the Duchie of Cornewall out of all dout it is of no lesse antiquitie then the said names doo importe The Britons in their tung call it by sundry and diuers names The first and eldest in remembraunce in their spéech is Cairpenhulgoyte that is to say the prosperous chéef Town in the wood as it dooth appéer by Geffery of Monmoth and Ponticus Virimus It was also called Penhaltcayr that is to say the chéef Cittie or Town vpon the hil as appéereth in the trauerse betwéen the Bishop Dean and Chapter of this Cittie and the Mayor and comminaltie of the same in a long sute concerning their liberties But the names which the Cornish people doo at these presents remember retain are Pencayr Cayrruthe Cayrriske Pencayr is to say the chéef Cittie Cayrruthe signifieth the red Cittie taking that name of the soyle of the ground whervpon it is situated which is red Cayrryske is the Cittie of Iske béeing so called and taking his denomination of the Riuer whiche fléeteth by the said Cittie called in Brittish Iske And of this name Houedon in his Cronicle maketh mentiō saying thus Anno domini 877. Excercitus danorum ab warham nocte quadam federe dirupto ad Exancester diuerterunt quod brittannice dicitur Caerwiske Ptolomeus the famose Astronomer who was about the yéer of our Lord. 162. Coel béeing King of this land nameth the Cittie Isca and the Riuer Isaca And Bale the sercher of antiquities folowing the same opinion dooth also name the Cittie Isca and the in habitant or dweller therin Iscanus But vnder correction and with reuerence be it said a man may think that Ptolomeus béeing in Alexandria and so farre distant from this Realme was happely misinformed or els the Printer mistaken because it is moste likely that the Riuer should be called Isca according to the Brittish spéech in those dayes when it was called Isca which name by trāsposing of two middle letters dooth yet remain being now named Icla or Ecsa. But whatsoeuer Ptolomeus or Baleus censures and iudgements be heerin it is moste certain that the names which the Britons gaue were of longest continuance and this Cittie called by their dominations by the space of xv hundred yéeres vntil the comming of the Saxons the Pictes and Scots into this Realme whiche was about the yéer of our Lord 450 for they as they preuailed and conquered did alwaies alter and chaunge the names of all places and Townes accounting it a great parte of their glory and renown to giue new names of their owne deuice or of their owne natiue Contries for so write the Cronographers Picti Scoti Angli Daci et Normandi in hac insula rerum potiti cuncta immutarunt pro trophaeis habentes Locis a se deuictis noua imponere nomina Wherfore as of all other Citties and Townes few excepted so of this also they chaunged and altred the olde names and called it Muncketon by which name it was so called