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A37219	A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent.	J. D., Gent.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing D38; ESTC R18713	93,900	252

raising Rebellions against him but was overthrown and hiding himself in one Banister's House by Shrewsbury He for hope of gain betray'd his Master the Duke who was thereupon taken and beheaded but Banister was justly punished from Heaven Henry Earl of Richmond afterwards came into England where he rais'd a small Army and met King Richard near Market-Bosworth in Leicestershire where King Richard was slain King Richard slain and his Army discomfited Aug. 22. 1485. HENRY the VII Earl of Richmond was Son to Margaret Countess of Richmond and A. D. 1485. Derby Daughter to John Duke of Somerset Son to John Earl of Somerset Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster 4th Son of Edward the III. Octob. 30. he was Crowned at Westminster A. D. 1486. Jan. 18th he married the His Marriage Lady Elizabeth eldest Daughter of King Edward the IV. and so ioyn'd the two Families of York and Lancaster Yet by this means Peace was not so well secured but that there were several Rebellions by Lambert Symnel and others amongst whom Symnel and Peterkin was one Peterkin under the Name of Rich. Plantaginet second Son of King Edward the IV. But this Impostor was at last taken and executed at Tyburn The King falling sick of a consuming His Death Issue Disease died April 22. A. D. 1509. His Issue Arthur who died before himself Henry Edmund Margaret Elizabeth Mary King Henry left at his death 1800000 l. in His Riches and Buildings ready money he built the Palace at Richmond and the Chappel at Westminster HENRY the VIII was born at Greenwich A. D. 1509. June 22. 1491. His Youth was so trained up in Literature that he was accounted the most learned Prince in Christendom June 25. 1509. he was crowned at Westminster with his Queen Catharine This King went with an Army into His Expedition into France France and recovered many of his Rights but at last by the procurement of the Pope there was a Peace concluded A. D. 1571. was Evil May-day wherein Evil May-day the Prentices of London made an Assault upon the Strangers and Foreigners John Lincoln being the chief of them was hanged and the rest pardoned About A. D. 1528. King Henry began to call in question the lawfulness of his Marriage with Queen Catharine who was Daughter to Ferdinand King of Spain and ha●● been married to P. Arthur his elder Brother and soon after she was divorced from him Also soon after the haughty Cardinal Woolsey was deposed of his Dignities Woolsey he died at Leicester-Abby After this King Henry took upon him the Pope's Authority and Supremacy in England and all persons were prohibited from appealing or making any Payments to Rome A. D. 1533. Novemb. 14. was King Henry His 2d Marriage married to Ann Bullen Daughter to Sir T. Bullen Earl of Wiltshire and on Septemb Lady Eliz. born 7th following was born the Princess Elizabeth And A. D. 1535. the Queen was accused of Incest and Adultery with her own Brother George Lord Rochford And May The Queen beheaded 19. 1536. the Queen was beheaded upon a Scaffold erected on the Green within the Tower 'T is with good ground thought that the Queens death was procured by Popish Instruments because she much favoured His 3d. Marriage the Protestant Divines The next day the King was married to the Lady Jane Seymour Daughter of John Seymour Kt. About this time began to flourish Tho. Cromwell a Blacksmiths Son of Putney who in a short time was ordained Vicar-General over the Spirituality This Great Cromwell procured it to be enacted in Parliament That the Lords Prayer Creed and Ten Commandments should be read in the English Tongue He also caused the Churches to be purged of Images and the Monasteries to be suppressed to the King's use for which Reasons there arose several Rebellions but were all suppre●●ed A. D. 1540. Jan. 6th was King Henry His 4th Marriage married to the Lady Ann Sister to the Duke of Cleve but they were soon after divorced Now was the Great Cromwell attainted for Treason and Heresie and beheaded on Tower-Hill Then did the King marry the Lady Catharine His 5th Marriage Howard who was beheaded afterwards for Adultery And now likewise were very many great Men put to death for Religion A. D. 1547. and Jan. 28th King Henry His Death yielded to death's imperial stroak whose Body with great solemnity was buried at Windsor His Wives were Catharine Ann Wives Bullen Jane Seymour Ann of Cleve Catharine Howard and Catharine Parr His Issue Henry which lived not two Issue months another Son not named and Mary these by Catharine of Spain Elizabeth and a Son still-born by Ann Bullen Edward by Jane Seymour His natural Issue Henry Fitz-Roy King Henry by Act of Parliament assumed First King of Ireland the Title of King of Ireland former Kings of England bearing only the style of Lords thereof 'T is said that now Turkey Carps Hops Pickarel and Beer came into England all in a year EDWARD the 6th was born but not A. D. 1547. without the death of his Mother A. D. 1537. Octob. 12. A. D. 1547. Feb. 20. he was crowned at Westminster Edward Lord Seym●●ur his Uncle was made Protector over his Minority The first thing that was done was the purging all Churches of Images for which Commissioners were appointed This caused Rebellions but they were soon supprest One of these Rebels being a Miller he will'd his Man to be Master in his turn The Man that was hanged for his Master and when the King's Officer Sir Anthony Kingston called for the Master of the House the Man in his Name presented himself whom Sir Anthony straight commanded to the Gallows which the Man hearing would be Master no longer but Sir Anthony said Well thou canst never do thy Master better service than to hang for him and so he was truss'd up on the next Tree This King was a great Enemy to Popery Protestancy founded and was the first Founder of the true Protestant Religion in England He died His Death and Burial of a Consumption July 6th 1553. and was interred in St. Peter's Chappel at Westminster He was a Prince of great Learning and of a vast Memory very merciful and zealous for the Reformed Religion The Lady JANE GREY was now by the A. D. 1553. last Will of Edward proclaimed Queen But the Tide soon turn'd and Queen Mary succeeded to the Crown promising to embrace the Gospel as King Edward had established it but afterwards being petitioned to perform her promise herein she both punished the Writer and answered they should one day well know that they being but Members should not direct her their Head She removed the Protestant Protestancy again abolished Bishops placing Papists in their Places she was crowned at Westminster The Lady Jane Grey was beheaded on Tower-hill and many more great Men for the reform'd

Expedition into France Army into France and first of all took Harflew Sept. 22. 1414. Then went to Agencourt on Octob. 24. where the French had pitched with six some say ten times the number of the English whereupon the King offered to part and surrender what he had won but the French would not yield making sure account of Victory had prepared a Chariot for the Captive King and all other things for that purpose The Battel beginning King Henry encouraged his Souldiers and with their small company the English won the day having every man his Prisoner Of the English A wonderful Victory were slain the Duke of York Earl of Suffolk two Knights one Squire and 28 private Souldiers Of the French were slain 4000 Princes Nobles Knights and Esquires and 10000 common Souldiers and more than these taken After which he came home and in a short time returned there with another Army where at last he was Proclaimed Regent of France and had He is Proclaimed Regent of France His Marriage Homage sworn to him and his Marriage with the Lady Catharine was with all Solemnity celebrated at Troyes After which he hastes into England with his Queen and in a short time after he went into France again where he had not been long before His Death Burial and Issue he fell sick of a burning Fever and Flux whereof he died Aug. 31. 1422. and was buried at Westminster His Issue was only Henry of Windsor HENRY the Sixth of Windsor was A. D. 1422. Crowned about the eighth Month of his Age. The Government of England was committed to Humphrey Duke of Gl●●ucester and the Regency of France to John Duke of Bedford under whom things succeeded very prosperously In his time was that Famous French Shepherdess Joan of Lorrain Joan de Lorrain who put on Mans Apparel and opposed the English with great success but was at last taken and was burnt for Sorcery A. D. 1435. that Famous Patriot and General John Duke of Bedford died at Paris after which the English began to change their Affairs there for the worse and lost most of their strong Holds At last there was a Peace concluded between the two Kings A. D. 1444. was King Henry married His Marriage with Margaret Daughter to the Duke of Anjou and Lorrain after which the Kings Fortune declined both in England and France The Queen ruling all contrived the death of Duke Humphrey who was the only man that had hitherto kept things in His Troubles order by his Prudence By this time were all the English Fortunes in France lost The Duke of York raising many Rebellions in England and at last in a great Battel at St. Albans the Kings greatest Friends were most slain and himself taken After which York created himself Protector of England and by degrees works out the Kings ancient Counsellors yet many stood up for the King and many great Battels were fought Fortune favouring sometimes one and then another at last the Duke himself was slain by the Queens Forces near Wakefield And now his Son Edward Earl of March maintains his Quarrel The Queens Forces recover the King again howbeit the L●●ndoners Proclaimed the Earl Earl of March Proclaimed King His Issue of March King of England King Henry's Issue was only Edward He was a Prince free from Pride very devout chaste and modest He built Eaton College and Kings College in Cambridge The Art of Printing was found out in Printing first in England Germany by John Guttenburg and brought into England by Will. Caxton a Mercer of London who first practised the same in the Abby at Westminster A. D. 1471. EDWARD the IV. eldest Son to Richard A. D. 1461. Duke of York began to reign in the 20th year of his Age at which time Henry had many Friends who sought to re-settle him on his Throne On June the 28th was His Coronation Edward crowned and soon after King Henry and his Son Edward dis-inherited of their Claim to the Crown by Act of Parliament He takes to Wife the Lady Elizabeth Marriage Grey the Relict of his mortal Enemy Sir John Grey slain at the Battel of St. Albans who was crowned at Westminster May 26. 1465. But this his Marriage below himself was much to his disadvantage by making the Earl of Warwick formerly his very good Friend a strong Rebel against him who took the King Prisoner but the King made his Escape again But afterwards the Earl of Warwick drove him out of the Land and made Henry again King After which King Edward returns and in a Battel upon Gladmore the Great Warwick fighting couragiously was slain Death of the Earl of Warwick and King Henry again put into the Tower Afterwards Queen Margaret was defeated and King Henry's Son Edward taken and brought before the King where he speaking boldly was knock'd down and murdered Soon after Queen Margaret was taken and not long after the crook-back'd Duke Death of King Henry of Gloucester stabb'd harmless King Henry to the heart whose Body was buried at Chertsey in Surrey A. D. 1483. King Edward fell into a His Death and Burial dangerous and deadly Sickness whereof April the 9th he died and was buried at Windsor in the new-Chappel whose Foundation himself had laid 'T is said of him that he was just and merciful in Peace fierce in War and very familiar with his Subjects His Issue were Edward Richard His Issue George Elizabeth Cicely Ann Briget Mary Margaret and Catharine EDWARD the V. the eldest Son of King A. D. 1483. Edward the IV. being but 12 years of Age when his Father died was committed to the government of his Uncle Sir Anthony Woodville a worthy Person which much troubled Richard Duke of Gloucester his Enemy who sought his Life that thereby he might come to the Crown By evil Suggestions he wrought upon the greatest Men to take his part against the old Queen and as the King was coming to London to be crowned with a small Company he seiz'd those about him and imprisoned Sir Anthony Woodville amongst the rest Then brought the King to London pretending to be his Friend and there was made his Protector after which he got the Duke of York the King's Brother out of Sanctuary from the Queen and caused many of the chief Nobles to be barbarously massacred and instead of King Edward caused himself to be crowned King RICHARD the III. Son of Richard Duke A. D. 1683. of York was born with all his Teeth and Hair to his Shoulders which foreshew'd his monstrous Proceedings July the 6th he was crowned King at Westminster soon after which he caused the young King and Edward the V. and Brother murdered his Brother to be most inhumanely massacred But King Richard lived most miserably ever after being without the least quiet of Conscience and soon after the Duke of Buckingham his greatest Favourite proved his greatest Enemy

are called White-spurs His paternal Coat is also bettered and the eldest Son of that Coat-Armour is ever an Esquire Esquires by Birth are the younger Sons By Birth of the Nobility as of Earls Viscounts and Barons and the eldest Sons of Knights their eldest Sons successively Those by Office are the Serjeants at By Office Law Sheriffs Escheators the Serjeant of every Office in the Court but these Dignities die with themselves and their Offices Of Knighthood in general and of the Knight-Batchelor OF the Distinctions by Knighthood Distinctions of Knights there are many in other Parts of the World but in England only these Knights-Batchelors Knights of the Bath Knights-Bannerets Knights-Baronets and Knights of the Garter This Titl●● coming to be a Reward 〈◊〉 Degree of Honour is thought to be in imitation of the Equestris Order in Rome to which men were only advanced for extraordinary Vertue and notable Merit who only were admitted to beautifie the Caparisons of their Horses and their Armour with Gold from whence they were called Equites aurati The usual Ceremony of late in Dubbing The Ceremony in Dubbing a Knight is a stroke over the Shoulder with a Sword with these words Sois Chivaler 〈◊〉 nom de Dieu by the King or some by his Commission though the Spur hath lately been observed also Landfrank Archbishop of Canterbury made William the 2d a Knight in his Fathers Time but the Name of Batchelor Knight Batchelors when first added to it seems not to have been till the 33d of Henry the 3d. Of the Knight of the Bath IT is ever to be observed that when the word Knight is found without any addition of Distinction it is meant by the Knight-Batchelor Of the Order of the Bath the first that are taken notice of is in Froissart who gives an account of 46 When first made by Henry the 4th but Mr. Selden is of an opinion they were long before The Honour is invested with a great deal of noble Ceremony too tedious to insert They are distinguished ordinarily by the Their Distinction 〈◊〉 of a red Ribbon cross the left 〈◊〉 as Knights of the Garter by the 〈◊〉 and have this Priviledge above all 〈◊〉 their Sons are free from Wardship Of Bannerets THIS was anciently an Order in France Manner of the Creation and except that in England they are not created by Patent nor the Title hereditary the same The Creation is almost the same with theirs by the solemn delivery of a Banner charged with the Arms of 〈◊〉 that is to be created and cutting off the end of a Pennon or Streamer to make it square into the shape of a Banner are called by some Equites vexilliarii This Knight is only made by the King By whom if present otherwise by the General only for his Deserts in the Field This Order was of so great estimation that divers Knights-Batchelors and Esquires served under them and by Decree of King James it is established That such as were made the King being personally present under his Standard displayed in an Army Royal in open War should take place before all Baronets Of Baronets THE Title of Baronet was erected by When first King James in the 9th year of his Reign He made divers on the 22d day of May the Proem or Argument being for to what end the propagating a Plantation in Ulster in Ireland to which the Aid of these Knights was ordain'd which was the Maintenance of 30 Souldiers in that Province for three years Their Titles were to descend to the Heirs male of their Body and to take place before all Knights-Batchelors Knights of the Bath and Knights Bannerets and that the Name of Baronet in all Writs Commissions and Styles should be added to his Sirname and that the addition of Sir should precede in all mentionings of his Name as the Title of Lady or Madam to the Wives of them and their Successors and that they should take place according to the date of their Patents inter se and so to their Successors They are created by Patent Of Barons THIS word Baron is most properly derived Whence from the word Baria in Greek which signifies Authoritas gravis This Honour of Baronage is of three The several kinds kinds By Tenure by Creation and by Writ Those by Tenure are Peers of the Land By Tenure and are the Barons spiritual Those by Writ are such as the King is By Writ pleased to summons to Parliament though but Gentlemen or Knights and is by some esteemed only temporary pro termino 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but this cannot be by reason of the great Ceremony at their Creation The Title is also allowed to be hereditary Since these two sorts of Barons in the Time of Richard the 2d hath another been established which is Barons by Patent and By Patent indeed more usual in our later Times than those by Writ Thus in case there want Heirs male it many times descends to the Heirs female though not to her Husband but to their Issue This Dignity though the youngest hath Priviledge also the Priviledges belonging to all the Lords of th●● Parliament As first in all Tryals of criminal Causes he is tryed by the Bench of Peers who all give Verdict not upon the●● Oaths but upon their Honour with a great many more Priviledges But note that Marquesses and Earls Sons their Fathers living have not these Priviledges A Baron must go after the Ancientry of His 〈◊〉 his Ancestors Creation and the Baroness his Wife must go after the same A Barons eldest Son shall have the Place of the Banneret their younger Sons precede Knights-Batchelors and their Daughters go according to their Fathers Creation The form of their Creation is too tedious Of a Bishop THEY are with us three ways Barons of the Realm By Writ by Patent and by Consecration They precede all under the degree of Viscount in the Parliament House always placed on the King's right Hand They cannot be indicted for any Crime without special licence from the King they have likewise very many Priviledges The Viscount THE word in Latin is Vice-comes and it is a degree between an Earl and Baron The Count or Earl HE is the same that in Germany they call Grave as Palsgrave Landgrave c. The Dignity is of divers kinds for an Earl acknowledging no Superior is equal to a Prince The Marquess THIS word Marquess at first was used Whence first to all Earls and Barons that were Lords Marchers or Lords of the Frontiers and came afterward into a special Dignity between that of Duke and Earl The Ceremony of Creation much the same with that of an Earl and the Title Hereditary Of the Duke 〈◊〉 is said to be called Duke à ducendo Whence so called from his leading an Army 〈◊〉 There is not any Creation required 〈◊〉 this Honour and note that in all 〈◊〉 degrees of Honour