I will therefore crave leave to transcribe what followeth out of a short but worthy work of my honoured friend confident of the Authenticall truth thereof The Fight was very terrible for the time no fewer then five thousand men slain upon the place the Prologue to a greater slaughter if the dark night had not put an end unto that dispute Each part pretended to the victory but it went clearly on the Kings side who though â—…e lost his Generall yet he kept the Field and possessed himself of the dead bodies and not so oâ—…ely but he made his way open unto London and in his way forced Banbury Castle in the very sight as it were of the Earl of Essex who with his flying Army made all the hast he could towards the City that he might be there before the King to secure the Parliament More certain signs there could not be of an absâ—…lute victory In the Battel of Taro between the Confederates of Italy and Charles the eight of France it happened so that the Confederates kept the Field possest themselves of the Camp Baggage and Artillery which the French in their breaking through had left behind them Hereupon a dispute was raised to whom the Honour of that day did of right belong which all knowing anâ—… impartiall men gave unto the French For though they lost the Field their Camp Artillery and Baggage yet they obtained what they fought for which was the opening of their way to France and which the Confederates did intend to deprive them of Which resolution in that case may be a ruling case to this the King having not onely kept the Field possest himself of the dead bodies pillaged the carriages of the enemy but forcibly opened his way towards London which the enemy endeavoured to hinder and finally entred triumphantly into Oxford with no fewer then an hundred and twenty Coâ—…ours taken in the Fight Thus far my friend Let me adde that what Salust observeth of the Conspirators with Cateline that where they stood in the Fight whilst living they covered the same place with their Corpes when dead was as true of the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire with the Earl of Linsey their Country man Know also that the over-soon and over-far pursuit of a flying Party with Pillaging of the Carriages by some who prefer the snatching of wealth before the Securing of Victory hath often been the Cause why the Conquest hath slipped out of their fingers who had it in their hands and had not some such miscarriage happened here the Royalists had totally in all probability routed their Enemies The Farewell I cannot but congratulate the happiness of this County in having Master William Dugdale now Norrey my wrothy Friend a Native thereof Whose Illustrations are so great a work no Young Man could be so bold to begin or Old Man hope to finish it whilst one of Middle-Age fitted the Performance A well chosen County for such a Subject because lying in the Center of the Land whose Lustre diffuseth the Light and darteth Beames to the Circumference of the Kingdome It were a wild wish that all the Shires in England where described to an equall degree of perâ—…ection as which will be accomplished when each Star is as big and bright as the Sun However one may desire them done quoad speciem though not quoad gradum in imitation of Warwickshire Yet is this hopeless to come to pass till mens Pains may meet with Proportionable Incouragement and then the Poets Prediction will be true Sint Maecenates non desint Flacce Marones Virgiliumque tibi vel tua Rura dabunt Let not Maeceâ—…asses be Scant And Maroes we shall newer Wanâ—… For. Flaccus then thy Country-field Shall unto thee a Virgil yield And then would our Little divided World be better described then the Great World by all the Geographers who have written thereof VVESTMERLAND WESTMERLAND hath Cumberland on the West and North Lancashire on the South Bishoprick and Yorkshire on the East thereof From North to South it extendeth thirty miles in length but is contented in the breadth with twenty four As for the soil thereof to prevent exceptions take its description from the pen of a credible Author It is not commended either for plenty of Corn or Cattle being neither stored with arable grounds to bring forth the one nor pasturage to breed up the other the principal profit that the people of this Province raise unto themselves is by clothing Here is cold comfort from nature but somewhat of warmth from industry that the land is barren is Gods pleasure the people painfull their praise that thereby they grow wealthy shews Gods goodnâ—…ss and calls for their gratefulness However though this County be sterile by general Rule it is fruitfull by some few exceptions having some pleasant vales though such ware be too fine to have much measure thereof In so much that some Back-friends to this County will say that though Westmerland hath much of Eden running clean through it yet hath little of Delight therein I behold the barrenness of this County as the cause why so few Frieries and Convents therein Master Speed so curious in his Catalogue in this kind mentioning but one Religious house therein Such lazy-folk did hate labour as a house of Correction and knew there was nothing to be had here but what Art with Industry wrested from Nature The Reader perchance will smile at my curiosity in observing that this small County having but four Market Towns three of them are Kirkby-Stephens Kirkby-Lonsdale Kirkby-Kendale so that so much of Kirk or Church argueth not a little Devotion of the Ancestors in these parts judiciously expressing it self not in building Convents for the ease of Monks but Churches for the worship of God The Manufacture Kendall Cottons are famous all over England and Master Camden termeth that Town Lanificii gloria industria praecellens I hope the Townâ—…men thereof a word is enough to the wise will make their commodities so substantiall that no Southern Town shall take an advantage to gain that Trading away from them I speak not this out of the least distrust of their honesty but the great desire of their happiness who being a Cambridge-man out of Sympathy wish well to the Clothiers of Kendall as the first founder of our Sturbridge-fair Proverbs Let Uter-Pendragon do what he can The River Eden will run as it ran Tradition reporteth that this Uter-Pendragon had a design to fortifie the Castle of Pen-Dragon in this County In order whereunto with much art and industry he invited and tempted the River of Eden to forsake his old chanell and all to no purpose The Proverb is appliable to such who offer a rape to Nature indeavouring what is cross and contrary thereunto Naturam expellas Furcâ licet usque recurret Beat Nature back 't is all in vain With Tines of Fork 't will come again However Christians have not onely some hope but comfortable assurance that they
Wild Beast I would not have rouzed you in your Den. He was very conscientious in discharging his calling Being once requested by me to preach for me he excused himself for want of competent warning and when I pleaded that mine being a Country Parish would be well pleased with his performance I can saith he content them but not mine own conscience to preach with so little preparation he dyed ahout Anno Dom. 1649. and was buryed in St. Peters Pauls Wharf in London Benefactors to the Publique NICHOLAS DIXON Parson for thirty years together of Cheshunt in this County He was also Clerk of the Pipe-Office belonging to the Exchequer See we here why the Officers of that place as also those of the Chancery were called Clerks because Priests in Orders with Cure of Souls did formerly discharge those Offices He was also Under-Treasurer and at last Baron of the Chequer when partly by his own bounty and partly by Collection of others He builded the Parish Church of Cheshunt and that I assure you is a very fair one with a Chancel to the Virgin Mary Now for an Affidavit for the proof hereof The Reader is referred to this his Epitaph inscribed in Cheshunt Chancel more to be respected for the truth then wit thereof O miserere Jesu famuli Dixon Nicolai â—…ui brevis hospitium tumulus pâ—…stat satis amplum Istud qui Fanum ter denis Rexerat annis Ad cujus fabricam Bursas proprias alienas Solvit allexit quo crevit in ardua Templum Pulchrum cancellum tibi dat pia Virgo novellum Dum laudaris eo famulo suffragia praestes Clericus hic Pipae subthesaurarius inde Baro Scaccarii se iuste gessit ubique Pacem pauperibus dans cedat divitis iras Larga manus relevat quos pauperies fera pressit Anno Milleno C. quater bis bis deca Christi Octavo moriens mutans terrestria caelis Octobris Luce ter denâ transit ad astra Auxiliare prece qui perlegis haec Nicholao Ut sibi cum sanctis praestetur vita perennis The word Rexerat doth intimate that Cheshunt was then a Rectorie or Parsonage though since impropriated and made a Vicarage What a deal of doe does this pitiful Poet make with words at length and Figures and Latine and Greek to describe the date of his death which if I understand his signes aright was October the thirtieth one thousand four hundred fourty eight Sir RALPH JOSCELINE son to Jefferie Josceline was born at Sabridgworth in this County bred a Draper in London whereof he was twice Mayor Once Anno 1464 and ere the end of that year was made Knight of the Bath by King Edward the Fourth in the Field saith my Author But seeing there is more of the Carpet then of the Camp in that Order it is more probable what another writes that he was invested Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Elizabeth Queen to the King aforesaid He was Mayor again Anno 1476. when he corrected the Bakers and Victuallers of the City and by his diligence were the walls thereof repaired Walls now a mere complement serving more for the dividing then the defending of the City 〈◊〉 that as some forreign Cities cannot be seen for the walls here the walls cannot be seen for the City Sad were the case of London if not better secured with bones within then stones about it Thâ—…s Sir Ralph died October the 25. Anno 1478. and was buried in the Church of Sabridgeworth JOHN INCENT son of Robert Incent and Katharine his wife was born at Berkhamsted in this County He was afterwards a Doctor of Law and advanced Anno 1543. when Richard Sampson was preferred Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Dean of Saint Pauls This John probably invited by the example of another John his mediate predecessour Collet Dean of Pauls Founded a fair Free-school in the Town of his Nativity procuring it confirmed by act of Parliament allowing the Master twenty the Usher ten pounds Per annum He died as I collect in the beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth Sir THOMAS WHITE son to Thomas White was born at Rixmansworth in this County and afterwards bred a Merchant-Taylor in London of which Citie he was Lord Mayor An. Dom. 1553. He first built Glocester-Hal and afterwards built and endowed St. Johns Colledge in Oxford the Seminarie of many flourishing wits He bestowed also a vaâ—… summe of money on several Corporations to be imployed circularly for the benefit of the poor Freemen therein Ionce intended to have presented the Reader with an exact particular of his Benefactions till seasonably I reversed my Resolution on this consideration Amongst the Jewes it was an injury for one removed further off in blood to do the Office of a Kinsman to the childless Widow until the next of Kin had first disclaimed his interest therein as in the Case of Ruth most plainly appeared A son I am sure is nearer then a Nephew therefore it is a more proper performance for one bred in Oxford to Collect the particulars of his Bounty who whither soever he went left the Finger-marks of his Charity behind him Then for me distanced a degree farthrr off by my Education in another Universitie Since the Reformation RICHARD HALE Esquire was born at Cudicot in this County and bred a Grocer in the Ciry of London Where his industrious Endeavours were so blessed that in a little time he got a great Estate Wherefore in Expression of his Gratitude to God the giver thereof He Founded a very fair School allowing fourty pounds a year to the Master thereof at Hartford in this County A place very prudently chosen for such a purpose First because the prime Town in his Native Shire Secondly great the want of a School in that populous place And lastly because most pure the Aire thereof so that Parents need not fear their Childrens loss of health for the gaining of Learning He died Anno Dom. 16 0. Whose wealthy Family do still flourish with worth and worship at Kings-Walden in this County EDWARD BASH Knight was born at Aldnam in this County in the Mannor-House then belonging to the noble Family of the Caries whereof Francis his Mother afterwards married to George Earle of Rutland was descended He was an hearty Gentleman and a good English Housekeeper keeping a full Table with solid dishes on it and welcome guests about it And one may tearm him a valiant man who durst be Hospital in these dangerous dayes Whilest living he was a Benefactor to Peter-house in Cambridge wherein he was bred a Fellow Commoner And at his death bequeathed more thereunto the particulars whereof I have not yet attained He gave also twenty ponnds per annum for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster at Stansted in this County where he had his constant habitation He died Anno Dom. 1605. Many other Benefactours this Shire hath of late afforded and amongst them one born in Chessunt
 4 Edw. Stanley bar ut prius  5 Tho. Leigh esq ut prius  6 Pet. Dutron esq ut prius  7 Tho. Stanley esq ut prius  8 Ric. Brereton es ut prius  9 Edw. Fitton esq ut prius  10 Pet. Venables ut prius  11 Tho. Ashton bar ut prius  12 Will. Leigh esq ut prius  13 Tho. 〈◊〉 bar DuddingtoÌ„ Arg. a Cheveron 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or betwixt 3 Gadds of stteel S. 14 Tho. Cholmley ut prius  15 Phil. Manwaring ut prius  16 Tho. Powell bar Berkenhad Sable 3 Roses Arg. 17 Ioh. Billot esq  Arg. on a Chief G. 3 Cinque foils of the Field 18 Hug. Calvely k. ut prius  19 Tho. Leigh esq ut prius  20 Ri. Gravenor ba. ut prius  21 Rob. Totton esq Winthaw Quarterly Arg. G. 4 Crescents counter changed 22 Hen. Brood esq   Reader if thou discoverest any difference in the Method betwixt this and the other Catalogue of Sheriffs impute it to this cause that whilst I fetched the Rest from the Fountain in the Exchequer I took these out of the Cestern I mean the Printed Book of Vale-royal I presume that the Sheriff who is last named continued in that Office all that Intervale of years till his Successor here nominated entred thereon The Reader may with the more confidence relie on their Armes imparted unto me by Mr. Daniel King who to me really verifieth his own Anagram DANIEL KING I KIND ANGEL And indeed he hath been a Tutelar one to me gratifying me with whatsoever I had need to use and he had ability to bestow Henry III. 56 HUGH de HATTON King William the Conquerer bestowed Lands on one of his Name and Ancestors at Hatton in this County From him is Lineally descended that Learned and Religious witness his pious meditations on the Psalmes Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath created by King Charles the first Baron Hatton of Kerby in Northampton-shire The Original of this grant of the Conquerors is still in this Lords Possession preserved in our Civil Wars with great care and difficulty by his vertuous Lady On the same token that her Lord patiently digested the plundring of his Library and other Rarities when hearing the welcome tidings from his Lady that the said Record was safely secured Queen Mary 3 Sir HUGH CHOLMLY or CHOLMONDELEIGH This worthy person bought his Knight-hood in the field at Leigh in Scotland He was five times High-sheriffe of this County and sometimes of Flintshire and for many years one of the two sole deputies Leiutenants thereof For a good space he was Vice-President of the Marches of Walles under the Right Honorable Sir Henry Sidney Knight conceive it during his abscence in Ireland For Fifty years together he was esteemed a Father of his Country and dying Anno 157. was buried in the Church of Mallpasse under a Tombe of Allabaster with great lamentation of all sorts of people had it not mitigated their Mourning that he left a Son of his own name Heir to his Vertues and Estate 2 JOHN SAVAGE Ar. I behold him as the direct Ancestor unto Sir Thomas Savage Kt. and Baronet Created by K. Charles the first Baron Savage of Rock savage in this County This Lord a very prudent States-man married Elizabeth eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Thomas Lord Darcy of Chich Viscount Colchester and Earl of Rivers Honours entailed on his Posterity and now injoyed by the Right Honorable Thomas Savage Earl Rivers The Battles Rowton heath 1645. Sept. 24. His Majesty being informed that Colonel Jones had seized the Suburbs and Strong Church of St. Johns in Chester advanced Northward for the relief thereof Poins one of the Parliaments Generalls pursued his Majesty At Rowton-heath within 3. miles of Chester the K. Army made an Halt whilst his Majesty with some prime persons marched into the City Next day a fierce Fight happened on the Heath betwixt the Kings and Poinses Forces the latter going off with the greater loss Judicious Persons conceive that had the Royalists pursued this Single Enemy as yet unrecruited with additional strength they had finally worsted him which Fatall omission opportunities admit of no after-games proved their overthrow For next day Col. Jones drew out his men into the field so that the Royalists being charged on the Heath in Front and Rear were put to the worst the whole body of whose Army had Wings without Legs Horse without Foot whilst the Parliament was powerfull in both Immediatly after a considerable Party of Horse the Lord Byron Governour of the City being loth to part with any Foot as kept to secure the Kings person came out of Chester too late to succour their defeated Friends and too soon to engage themselves Here fell the Youngest of the three Noble Brethren who lost their lives in the King service Bernard Stuart Earl of Leichfield never sufficiently to be lamented The Farewell To take my leave of Cheshire I could wish that some of their hospitality were planted in the South that it might bring forth fruit therein and in exchange I could desire that some of our Southern delicacies might prosperously grow in their gardens and Quinces particularly being not more pleasant to the palate then restorative of the health as accounted a great cordiall The rather because a native of this County in his description thereof could not remember he ever saw Quince growing therein CHESTER is a fair City on the North-east side of the River Dee so ancient that the first founder thereof is forgotten much beholding to the Earls of Chester and others for Increase and Ornaments The Walls thereof were lately in good repair especially betwixt the New-tower and the Water-gate For I find how Anno 1569. there was a personal fight in this City betwixt the two Sheriffs thereof viz. Richard Massey and Peter Lycherband who shall keep peace if aged Officers break it who deservedly were fined for the forfeiting of their gravity to repair that part of the Wall It seems it is more honour to be keeper of a gate in Chester then a whole City elsewhere seeing Eastgate therein was committed to the câ—…ody formerly of the Earl of Oxford Bridgegate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Watergate to the Earl of Daâ—…by and Northgate to the Mayor of the City It is built in the form of a Quadrant and is almost a just Square the four Cardinal Streets thereof as I may call them meeting in the middle of the City at a place called the Pentise which affordeth a Pleasant Prospect at once into all Four Here is a property of building peculiar to the City called the Rows being Galleries wherein Passengers go dry without coming into the Streets having Shops on both sides and underneath The fashion whereof is somewhat hard to conceive it is therefore worth their pains who have Money and Leasure to make their own Eyes the Expounders of the manner thereof The
strength thereof and wise conduct of their General The Loyal English did rather gaze on than pray for him as ignorant of his intentions and the Apostle observeth that the private man knoweth not how to say Amen to what is spoken in an unknown Language Now the scales began to fall down from the eyes of the English Nation as from Saul when his sight was received sensible that they were deluded with the pretences of Religion and Liberty into Atheisme and Vassallage They had learnt also from the Souldiers whom they so long had quartered to cry out One and All each Shire setting forth a Remonstrance of their grievances and refusing farther payment of Taxes Lambert cometh forth of London abounding with more outward advantages than General Monk wanted Dragon like he breathed out nought but fire and fury chiefly against the Church and Clergy But he met with a Saint George who struck him neither with sword nor spear but gave his Army a mortal wound without wounding it His Souldiers dwindled away and indeed a private person Lambert at last was little more must have a strong and long hand on his own account to hold an whole Army together The Hinder part of the Parliament sitting still at Westminster plied him with many Messengers and Addresses He returned an answer neither granting nor denying their desires giving them hope too little to trust yet too much to distrust him He was an absolute Riddle and no ploughing with his Heifer to expound him Indeed had he appeared what he was he had never been what he is a Deliverer of his Countrey But such must be as dark as midnight who mean to atchieve Actions as bright as Noon-day Then was he put on the unwellcome Office to pluck down the Gates of London though it pleased God that the Odium did not light on him that acted but those who imployed him Hence forward he sided effectually with the City I say the City which if well or ill affected was then able to make us a happy or unhappy Nation Immediately followed that TURN of our TIMES which all the World with wonder doth behold But let us not look so long on second causes as to lose the sight of the Principal Divine Providence Christ on the Crosse said to his Beloved Disciple behold thy Mother and said to her behold thy Sonne Thus was he pleased effectually to speak to the hearts of the English Behold your Soveraign which inspirited them with Loyalty and a longing desire of his presence saying likewise to our Gracious Soveraign Behold thy Subjects which encreased his ardent affection to return and now blessed be God both are met together to their mutual comfort Since the Honours which he first deserved have been conferred upon him compleated with the Title of the Duke of Albemarle and Master of his Majâ—…sties Horse c. Nor must it be forgotten that he carried the Scepter with the Dove thereupon the Emblem of Peace at the Kings Coronation But abler Pens will improve these Short Memoires into a large History Sea-men WILLIAM WILFORD was a Native nigh Plymouth in this County a valiant and successeful Sea-man It happened in the Raign of King Henry the Fourth that the French out of Britain by a sudden Invasion burnt sixteen hundred Houses in Plymouth if there be not a mistake in the figures which I vehemently suspect Sure it was a most sad desolation remembred at this day in the division of Plymouth whereof the one part is called the Britons-side the other the Old-Town But let the French boast their gain when the Game is ended which now was but began This fire enflamed all the English and especially our Wilford with desire of revenge Within a short time he made them to pay besides costs and charges more than sixfold damages by taking forty ships on the Coast of Britains and burning as many at Penarch besides many Towns and Villages for six leagues together I collect the death of this W. Wilford to be about the beginning of the Raign of King Henry the Fifth Sr. HVMPHREY GILBERT or Jilbert or Gislibert was born at Green-way in this County the pleasant Seat of his Family for a long continuance He was famous for his knowledg both by Sea and Land In the year 1569 he valiantly and fortunately served in Ireland Afterwards he led nine Companies to the assistance of the Hollanders In the year 1583 he set forth with five ships to make discoveries in the North of America where he took Sezin and Possession of New-Found-Land according to the Ancient Solemn Ceremony of cutting a Turf for the Crown of England He resolved to adventure himself in his Return in a Vessel of sorty Tun. And with two ships the onely remains of five did make for England In the instant of their winding about I may confidently report what is generally in this County averred and believed A very great Lion not swimming after the manner of a Beast with the motion of his feet nor yet diving sometimes under water and rising again as Porpyces and Dolphins do but rather gliding on the water with his whole body except legs in sight shunned not the ship nor the Marriners who presented themselves in view but turning his head too and fro yawning and gaping wide made a horrible roaring It is conceived no Spectrum or Apparition but a real fish seeing we read that such like a Lion in all lineaments was taken at Sea Anno 1282. and presented to Pope Martin the Fourth Instantly a terrible Tempest did arise and Sir Humphrey said cheerfully to his companions We are as neer Heaven here at Sea as at Land Nor was it long before his ship sunck into the Sea withal therein though the other recovered home like Jobs Messengers to bring the tydings of the destruction of their companions This sad accident happened 158. ....... COCK I am sorry I cannot add his Christian Name and more sorry that I cannot certainly avouch his Nativity in this County though inclined with many motives to believe it being a Cock of the Game indeed For in the Eighty eight Solus Cockus Anglus in sua inter medios hostes navicula cum laude periit And whereas there was not a noble Family in Spain but lost either Son Brother or Nephew in that Fight this Cock was the onely man of note of the English who fighting a Volanteer in his own ship lost his life to save his Queen and Countrey Unus homo nobis pereundo restituit rem Pity it is his memory should ever be forgotten and my Pen is sensible of no higher preferment then when it may be permitted to draw the Curtains about those who have died in the bed of Honour Sir FRANCIS DRAKE Having formerly in my Holy State written his life at large I will forbear any addition and onely present this Tetrastrick made on his Corps when cast out of the Ship wherein he died into the Sea Religio quamvis Romana
Gospell He was a Zacheus for his Stature and with him tall in Piety and Charity He moved King Alfred to found or restore the University of Oxford on which account his memory is sacred to all posterity He died Anno Dom. 883. whose body was buried by one Barry his Scholar in Eynsebury since St. Neots in Huntington-shire and some say was afterwards removed to the Abby of Crouland Martyrs Of the forty four Martyrs in this Shire Three were most Remarkable 1. JOHN LAURENCE who at the Stake was permitted a Posture peculiar to himself For being so infeebled with long durance and hard usage that he could not stand he had a Chair allowed him and had the painfull ease to sit therein Nor must we forget how little Children being about the fire Câ—…ied unto him God strengthen you God strengthen you which was beheld as a product of his providence who out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings ordained Strength as also it evidenced their Pious Education To say Hosanna is as soon learnt by children as go up thou Bald head if it be as surely taught unto them 2. THOMAS HAWKES Gentleman first brought into trouble for refusing to Christen his Child after the Popish fashion This man going to the Stake promised his friends to give them some solemn token of the clearness and comfort of his Conscience In performance where of whilst his body was burning he raised up himself and though having the sence having no fear of the Fire joyfully clapp'd his hands over his head to the admiration of all the beholders 3. ROSE ALLIN a Virgin who being in her Calling fetching Beer for her Bedrid Mother was intercepted by Justice or rather un-justice Tyrrell who with a Candle most cruelly burnt her wrists which her Fire-proof patience most constantly endured What was said of the Roman scaevola when he burnt his hand before Porcenna is more appliable to this Maid Manum amisit sed Palmam retinuit Tyrrell did this meerly by the Law of his List otherwise no statute except written on the back-side of the book did authorize him for so Tyrannicall an act Some days after the fire which here took Livery and seisin of her hand brought her whole body into the possession thereof Confessors RICHARD GEORGE Labourer of West-Barfold is most eminent amongst the many Confessors in this Shire For he had successively three wives whereof two were burnt and the third imprisoned for Religion viz. 1. Agnes George burnt at Stratford-Bow June 27. 1556. 2. Christian George burnt at Colchester May 26. 1558. 3. ........... George imprisoned in Colchester and escap'd by Queen Maries death Novemb. 17. 1558. Some who consult the dates of his wives deaths will condemn him for over-speedy marriage and the appetite to a new wife is not comely before the grief for the former be well digested Such consider not that their glorious death in so good a cause was the subject rather of his joy then grief and that being necessitated for his children sake to marry he was carefull as it appears to marry in the Lord. Nor did he thrust his wives into the fire and shrink back from the flames himself who being imprisoned in Colchester had followed his two first and gone along with his last to the Stake had not Divine Providence by Queen Maries death prevented it Cardinalls THOMAS BOURCHIER was son to Sir William Bourchier who though but an English Knight was a French Earl of Ewe in Normandy Created by King Henry the fifth and had a great estate in this County with many Mansion-houses Hawsted being the place of their principall residence where I presume this Prelate was born He was bred in the University of Oxford whereof he was Chancellour 1454. Dean of Saint Martins then successively Bishop of Worcester Ely Arch-bishop of Caâ—…terbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths A Prelate besides his high birth aforesaid and brotherhood to Henry Bourchier first Earl of Essex of that Surname remarkable on many accounts First for his vivacity being an old man and proportionably an older Bishop 1. Being consecrated Bishop of Worcester 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the sixth 2. Dying Arch-bishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of K. Henry the seventh Whereby it appeareth that he wore a Mitre full fifty one years a term not to be paralleld in any other person Secondly he saw strange revolutions in State the Civil-wars between Lancaster and York begun continued and concluded For though Bishop Morton had the happiness to make the match Arch-bishop Bourchier had the honour to marry King Henry the seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the fourth so that his hand first solemnly held that sweet posie wherein the White and Red Roses were tied together Thirdly for his wary compliance that he lost not himself in the labyrinth of such intricate times applying himself politiquely to the present predominant power However it may be said of him Praestitit hic Praesul nil tanto sanguine munere tempore dignum He left no monument to posterity proportionable what was an hundred pounds and a chest given to Cambridge to his great blood rich place and long continuance therein But this my Author imputeth unto the troublesomeness of the times seeing peace was no sooner setled and the land began to live but he died March 30. 1486. I know not what generous planet had then influence on the Court of Rome this I know that England never saw such a concurrence of noble Prelates who as they were Peers by their places were little less by their descent I behold their birth a good buttress of Episcopacy in that age able in Parliament to check and crush any Antiprelaticall project by their own relations But let us count how many were contemporaries with Thomas Bourchier from his first consecration at Worcester till the day of his death John Stafford son to the Earl of Stafford Arch-bishop of Canterbury Robert Fitz-Hugh Bishop of London Henry Beauford son to John Duke of Lancaster Bishop of Winchester William Gray son to the Lord Gray of Codnor Bishop of Ely Marmaduke Lumley extracted from the Lord Lumley Bishop of Lincoln Richard Beauchamp brother to the L. Saint Amand Bishop of Sarum Lionel Woodvile son to the Earl of Rivers Bishop of Sarum Peter Courtney extracted from the Earls of Devon Bishop of Exeter Richard Courtnee of the same extraction Bishop of Norwich John Zouch descended of the Lord Zouch Bishop of Landaffe George Novile brother to the Make-King Earl of Warwick Arch-bishop of York William Dudley son to the Lord Dudley Bishop of Durham William Piercy son to the Earl of Northumberland Bishop of Carlile But after the death of Bourchier I meet with but three Bishops of noble extraction viz. James Stanley Edmond Audley and Cardinall Pole However they were though of lower image of no less learning and religion Prelates RICHARD de BARKING took his name according to the Clergy-mens
Cinque foil Or. 13 Edw. Trafford a. ut prius  14 Fran Holt arm  Arg. on a Bend Engrailed S. 3 Flower de Luce of the first 15 Rich. Holland a. ut prius  16 Will. Boothe ar  Arg. 3 〈◊〉 heads Erased and Erected S. 17 Fran Holt arm ut prius  18 Rich. Bold arm  Argent a 〈◊〉 Rampant S. Io-zeenge of the Field Sables 19 Roâ—… Dalton ar   20 Johan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Party per Pale 〈◊〉 Az. and Or 6 Martlets counter chang'd Arg. a Mullet Sable 21 Rad Ashton ar *   22 Edw. Trafford m. ut prius  23 Joh. Byron miles  Argent 3. Bendlets Gules 24 〈◊〉 Holland ut prius  25 Joh. Atherton ar ut prius  26 Edwar. Trafford ut prius  27 Tho. Preston ar ut prius  28 Richard Asheton ut prius  29 Johan Fleetwood ut prius  30 Tho. Talbot ar ut prius  31 Rich. Mollineux ut prius  32 Rich. Bold ar ut prius  33 Jac. Asheton ar ut prius  34 Edw. Fitton ar  Az. on a Bend Arg. 3. Garbs O. 35 Richard Asheton ut prius  36 Radulp. Asheton ut prius  37 Tho. Talbot arm ut prius  38 〈◊〉 Holland ut prius  39 Rich. Molleneux ut prius  40 Richard Asheton ut prius  41 Rich. Houghton ut prius  42 Robert Hesketh ut prius  43 Cut. Halsall m.  Arg. 3. Griffins Heads Erazed A 44 Edward Trafford ut prius  K. James   Anno   1 Nic. Moseley mil.  S. a Chev. betw 3 Pick axes arg 2 Thom. Baker mil.   3 Edw. Fleetwood a. ut prius  4 Rich. Ashton mil. ut prius  5 Rob 〈◊〉 ar ut prius  6 Edw. Trafford m. ut prius  7 Roger. Nowell a.  Arg. 3. Cups covered S. 8 Johan Fleming a.   9 Cut. Halsall m. ut prius  10 Rob. Bindlose a. Borwick Quarterly per Fess indented G. on a Bend Or. 11 Rich. Shiâ—…born a.   12 Edw. Stanley ar  Arg. on a â—…end Az. 3. Stags heads caboshed Or. 13 Rolan Moseley a ut prius  14 Edw. Trafford m. ut prius  15 Ric. 〈◊〉  S. 3 Weavers Shuttles Argent 16 Leonar Ashawe a   17 Edw. Moore ar  Vert. ten Trefoiles 4. 3. 2. and 1. Argent 18   19   20   21   22   23   24 K. CHARLES  Courteous Reader do not behold these Vacuities as the Effect of my Lazinesse Nor will I excuse my self by accusing of others The rather because In gratuitisnulla est Jnjusticia it was no wrong in any to deny what was bounty in them to bestow on me But know all my Industry and Importunity could not procure the seasonable sight of the Records of this County not kepâ—… aâ—… the rest in the Exchequer but in a proper place by themselves thereby to supply the Begining and Finishing of this our Catalogue 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   The Batails At Preston in Andernesse August 17. 1648. Duke Hambleton resolving to play an Aftergame of Loyalty entred England with an Army more numerous then well Disciplined Most beheld him as one rather cunning than wise yet rather wise than valiant However he had Officers who did Ken the War-craft as well as any of our Age. He would accept of no English Assistance so to engrosse all the work and wages to himself Some suspect his Officers trust was undermined or over-moneyed rather whilst others are confident they were betrayed by none save their own security Indeed the common Souldiers were perswaded that the conquest would be easy rather to be possessed then purchased their Van and Rear were many miles asunder and they met the resistance of Major General Lambert before they expected it Hâ—… at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a Blow as setled or stund it though it reeled on some miles more Southward into Staffordshire where at Ulceter the Duke was taken prisoner and utterly defeated As for the Defeat of James Earl of Derby in this County at the end of August anno 1651. it amounted not to a Battle which properly is the Engagement of two formed Armies Whereas the forces of the Earl were sâ—…attered before fully 〈◊〉 red to a firm consistency Yet this had been a Battle if not prevented by the Vigilancy of Coll. Lilburn and others whose seasonable Service to the Parliament was not so great in it self as in the most considerable consequences thereof The Farewell I am informed that Pillyn-Mos is the Fountain of Fewell Turfe in this County and is conceived inexhaustible by the Vicinage May it prove so But if it should chance to fail may Gods Grace which the vulgar in their profane Proverb unequally yoak therewith I say may Gods Grace never be drained to those that stand in need thereof And because this County may be called the Cock-pit of Conseience wherein constant Combates betwixt Religion and Superstition may the Contest betwixt them prove like the Morning Twilight wherein after some equal Conflict betwixt them the Light gaineth the final Conquest of the Darkness One word more to this Shire and I have done Let me be the Remembrancer that Hugh of Manchester in this County wrote a Book in the Reign of K. Edward the first Intituled De Fanaticorum Deliriis Of the Doteages of Fanaticks At which time an Impostor had almost made Elianor the Queen mother mad by reporting the Posthume-miracles done by her Husband King Henry the Third till this our Hugh setled her judgement aright I could wish some worthy Divine with such Lancashire doth abound would resume this Subject and shew how Antient and Modern Fanaticks though differing much in their wild Fancies and Opinions meet together in a mutual madness and distraction LEIGESTERSHIRE LEICESTER-SHIRE This County is though not exquisitely circular in the form whilst Leicester the Shire-Town is almost the exact Center thereof and the River Soare Diameter-like divides it into two equal halfes Having Lincolne and Rutland-shire on the East Darby and Nottingham-Shire on the North Warwick-Shire on the West and Northampton-Shire on the South It extendeth from North to South thirty and three miles measured from the utmost Angle but exceedeth not twenty seven in the Breadth thereof Here 〈◊〉 avoid all offence we 〈◊〉 collect the Quality of this Soyle from a * Native thereof Who may be presumed exact in this Quadri-Partition South-West North West North East South-East Rich ground
of Saint Laurence 1280. But so great the envy of his Adversaries at his preferment that seven years after he was put to death by Poyson and let none say he might have foreseen his Fate in the Stars seeing Hell and not the Heavens brooded that design Neither say Physician cure thy self seeing English Antidotes are too weak for Italian Poysons But Cicaonius to Palliate the business saith he died of the Plague and thus I believe him of the Plague of Hatred in the hearts of such who contrived his death Which happened Anno Domini 1287. Prelates WULSTAN of BRAUNDSFOED was born at Brandsford in this County and afterwards became Prior equivalent to Dean in other foundations of Worcester He deserved well of his Covent building a most beautifull Hall therein Hence was he preferred Bishop of Worcester 1338. the first and last Prelate who was born in that County and dyed in that See He was Verus Pontifex in the gramaticall notation thereof building a fair bridge at Braundsford within three miles of Worcester over the river Teme on the same token that it is misprinted Tweed in Bishop Godwin which made me in vain to look for Braundsford in Northumberland He dyed August 28. 1349. JOHN LOWE was born in this County bred an Augustinian Frier at Wich therein afterwards he went to the Universities and then setled himself in London Hence he was preferred by King Henry the sixth to Saint Asaph and thence was removed desiring his own quietness from one of the best Bishopricks in Wales to Rochester the meanest in England He was a great Book-monger and on that score Bale no friend to Friers giveth him a large Testimonial that Bishop Godwin borroweth from him the first and last in that kind the whole character of his commendation and this amongst the rest Opuscula quaedam scripsit purgatis auribus digna He deserved well of posterity in preserving many excellent manuscripts and bestowing them on the Magnificent Library which he furnished at Saint Augustines in London But alas that Library at the Dissolution vanished away with the fine Spire-steeple of the same Church oh the wide swallow of sacriledge one person who shall be nameless imbezelling both books and buildings to his private profit He dyed Anno Dom. 1467. and lieth buried in his own Cathedral over against Bishop Merton under a Marble monument EDMUND BONNER alias SAVAGE He had to his Father John Savage a Priest richly beneficed and landed in Cheshire son to Sir John Savage Knight of the Garter and Privy Councellor to King Henry the seventh His Mother Concubine to this Priest a dainty dame in her youth a jolly woman in her age was sent out of Cheshire to cover her shame and lay down her burthen at Elmeley in this County where this bouncing babe Bonner was born The history of his life may be methodized according to the five Princes under whom he lived He was born under King Henry the seventh and bred a Batchelor in the Laws in Broadgates-hall in Oxford Under King Henry the eight he was made Doctor of Laws Arch-deacon of Leicester Master of the faculties under Arch-bishop Cranmer and employed in severall Embassies beyond Seas All this time Bonner was not Bonner being as yet meek mercifull and a great Cromwellite as appeared by some tart printed Repartees betwixt him and Bishop Gardiner Indeed he had sesqui corpus a Body and Halfe but I hope that Corpulency without Cruelty is no sin towards his old age he was over-grown with fat as Master Fox who is charged to have persecuted Persecutors with ugly pictures doth represent him Not long after he was consecrated Bishop of London Under King Edward the sixth being deputed to preach publickly concerning the Reformation his faint and frigid expressions thereof manifested his mind rather to betray then defend it which cost him a deprivation and imprisonment Then it was when one jeeringly saluted him Good morrow Bishop quondam to whom Bonner as tartly returned Good morrow Knave semper Being restored under Queen Mary to his Bishoprick he caused the death of twice as many Martyrs as all the Bishops in England besides justly occasioning the verses made upon him Si fas caedendo caelestia scandere cuiquam Bonnero coeli maxima porta patet NEMO ad BONNERUM Omnes Episcopum esse te dicunt malum Ego tamen Bonnere te dico bonum If one by shedding blood for bliss may hope Heavens widest gate for Bonner doth stand op'e NO BODY speaking to BONNER All call thee cruell and the spunge of blood But Bonner I say thou art mild and good Under Queen Elizabeth he was deprived and secured in his Castle I mean the Marshallsea in Southwark for as that prison kept him from doing hurt to others it kept others from doing hurt to him being so universally odious he had been stoned in the streets if at liberty One great good he did though not intentionally accidentally to the Protestant Bishops of England For lying in the Marshalsea and refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy tendred to him by Horn then Bishop of Winchester he pleaded for himself that Horn was no lawfull Bishop which occasioned the ensuing Parliament to confirme him and the rest of his order to all purposes and intents After ten years soft durance in all plenty his face would be deposed for his whole body that he was not famished enjoying a great temporall Estate left him by his Father He dyed 1569. and was buried saith Bishop Godwin in Barking Church-yard amongst the theeves and murderers being surely a mistake in the Printer Allhallows Barking being on the other side the Thames nothing relating to the Marshalsea And I have been credibly informed that he was buried in the Church-yard of S. Georges in Southwark But so long as Bonner is dead let him chuse his own grave where he will be buried But enough if not too much of this Herostratus who burnt so many living temples of the Holy Ghost and who had he not been remembred by other writers had found no place in my history Since the Reformation JOHN WATSON was born at Bengeworth in this County where some of his name and relations remain at this day bred I believe in Oxford and afterwards became Prebendary then Dean of Winchester Hence he was advanced Bishop of that See and the ensuing passage which I expect will meet with many infidels though to me credibly attested will acquaint us with the occasion thereof and suspecting the Bishoprick of Winchester when vacant would be offered unto him Dean Watson aged sixty years and desirous to lead a private life in the sickness of Bishop Horn privately promised the Earl of Leicester in that Age the Dominus fac multum if not totum in the disposall of Church Dignities two hundred pounds that he might not be made Bishop of Winchester but remain in his present condition The Bishoprick falling void and the Queen
Good ar   9 Ioh. Keyt ar   10 Ioh. Savage ar ut prius  11 Will. Russell bar ut prius  12 Ioh. Rows mil ut prius  13 Edw. Dingley ar ut prius  14 Tho. Greaves ar   15 Ioh. Winford ar   16   18   19   1   20   21   22   Queen Elizabeth 19. JOHN RUSSELL Ar. The same Gentleman no doubt who was afterwards Knighted and betwixt whom and Sir Henry Berkeley was so deadly a quarrell as that great blood-shed was likely to have ensued at the Sessions in Worcester by reason of their many friends and followers ingaged therein But Doctor Whitgift then Bishop of Worcester and Vice-President of Wales in the absence of Sir Henry Sidney then in Ireland wisely prevented it by providing a strong watch at the gates and about the City and requiring them to bring both parties with their attendance well guarded to his Palace Here he caused them all to the number of four or five hundred to deliver their weapons into his own Servants custody and after two hours pains taken sometimes in perswading and otherwhiles in threatning them he made them so good friends that they both attended him hand in hand to the Town-hall where in amitie and love they performed the service of their Country 36. JOHN PACKINGTON Mil. It is now good manners for me to hold my peace and listen to a Privy-Councellor thus describing his character He was a Gentleman of no mean family of form and feature no ways disabled a very fine Courtier and for the time which he stayed there which was not lasting very high in the Queens grace But he came in and went out and though disassiduity drew the curtain between himself and the light of her favour and then death overwhelmed the remnant and utterly deprived him of recovery And they say of him that had he brought less to the Court then he did he might have carried away more then he brought for he had a time of it but was no good husband of opportunity King James 2. RICHARD WALSH Ar. I find him called in our Chronicles perchance by a Prolepsis Sir Richard Walsh Yea I find him stiled so by him who best might because he made him so Knighting him for his good service In his Sheriffalty the Powder-Traitors sereted out of Warwick-shire by Sir Richard Verney were as fiercely followed by Sir Richard Walsh out of the bounds of this County till they took covert in the house of Stephen Littleton at Hallbach in Stafford-shire This discreet Sheriff not standing on the punctilio of exceeding his Commission in a case wherein the peace of the Kingdome was so highly concern'd prosecuted his advantage and beset the house round about till both the Wrights were kill'd in the place Catesby and Percy slain with one bullet Rookwood and Winter wounded all the rest apprehended The Battles Worcester Fight Many smart Skirmishes have happened in this County and near this City We onely insist on that Fatall Fight September the third 1651. Know then as Introductory thereunto that His Majesty on the first of August foregoing began his March from Edenbrough into England not meeting with any considerable Opposition those at Warrington being soon put to flight by his Presence untill he came to Worcester His Army consisted of twelve thousand effectuall Fighting men whereof two thousand English the rest of the Scottish Nation but neither excellently Armed nor plentifully stored with Ammunition whilst the Parliament Forces under Cromwell more then doubled that Number wanting nothing but a Good Cause that an Army could wish or desire The Royalists Cheifest strength consisted in two Passes they possessed over the River of Severn which proved not advantagious according to expectation For the Enemy found the River Fordable elsewhere and the Bridge and Pass at Uptrn though valiantly defended by Major Generall Massey who received a shot in his hand was forced by Lambert powring in unequall Numbers on the Kings Forces Besides Cromwell finished a Bridge of Boards and Plancks over the main River with more Celerity and less Resistance then could have been expected in a matter of such importance Then began the Battle wherein His Majesty to remember his subjects Good forgot his own Safety and gave an incomparable example of Valour to the rest by Charging in his Own Person This was followed by few to the same degree of danger but imitated in the greatest measure by the Highlanders fighting with the But-ends of their Muskets when their Ammunition was spent But new supplies constantly Charging them and the Main Body of the Scotch Horse not coming up in due time from the City to His Majesties relief his Army was forced to retreat in at Sudbury-gate in much disorder If there were which some more then whisper false and foul Play in some Persons of Principall Trust as they have had a great space seasonably God grant them his Grace sincerely to repent for their Treacherous retarding the happiness prolonging and increasing the Miseries of a Gracious King and three great Nations Sure it is here were slain the Flower of the Scottish Loyal Gentry with the most Illustrious William formerly Earl of Lanerick Duke of Hamilton As for Common Souldiers some few who escaped had a longer life to have a sadder death wandring in the Country till other mens Charity and their own Strength failed them Since how God hath conducted His Majesty miraculously through Laberynths of many Difficulties to the Peaceable Possession of his Throne is notoriously known to the wonder of the world Here my Muse heartily craveth leave to make an Humble address to His Majesty depositing at his feet the ensuing PANEGYRICK 1. AT Wor'ster great Gods goodness to our Nation It was a Conquest Your bare Preservation When ' midst Your fiercest foes on every side For Your escape God did a LANE provide They saw You gonc but whether could not tell Star-staring though they ask'd both Heaven and Hell 2. Of forraign States You since have studied store And read whole Libraries of Princes o're To You all Forts Towns Towers and Ships are known But none like those which now become Your OWN And though Your Eyes were with all Objects fill'd Onely the Good into Your Heart distill'd 3. Garbling mens manners You did well divide To take the Spaniards wisdome not their pride With French activity You stor'd Your Mind Leaving to them their Ficklenesse behind And soon did learn Your Temperance was such A sober Industry even from the Dutch 4. But tell us Gracious Soveraign from whence Took You the pattern of Your Patience Learn't in Afflictions School under the Rod Which was both us'd and sanctifi'd by God From Him alone that Lesson did proceed Best Tutor with best Pupil best agreed 5. We Your dull Subjects must confess our crime Who learnt so little in as long a time And the same
King James 9 HENRY SLINGSBY Mil. The Armes of this Antient and Numerous Family to large too be inserted in our List are as followeth Quarterly the First and Fourth Gules a Cheveron between two Leopards-heads and a Hutchet or Bugle Argent The Second and Third Argent a Griffon Surgeant Sable supprest by a Fess Gules 11 GEORGE SAVILL Mil. Bar. This is the last mention of this Numerous Wealthy and Antient Family which I find in this Catalogue and here Reader to confess my self unto thee my expectation is defeated hoping to find that vigorous Knight Sir John Savill in this Catalogue of Sheriffs But it seems that his constant Court-attendance being Privy-Councellour to King Charles priviledged him from that imployment untill by the same King he was Created Baron Savill of Pomfraict as his Son since was made Earl of Sussex I hear so high commendation of his house at Houley that it disdaineth to yield precedency to any in this Shire King Charles 12 JOHN RAMSDEN Mil. The Reader will pardon my Untimely and Abrupt breaking of this Catalogue for a reason formerly rendred Onely let me adde that the Renowned Knight Sir Marmaduke Langdale was Sheriff 1641. He without the least Self-attribution may say as to the Kings side of Northern Actions Pars Ego magna fui But as for his Raising the Siege of Pomfraict felt before seen by the Enemy it will sound Romanza-like to Posterity with whom it will find Plus famae quam fidei No wonder therefore if K. Charles the second Created him a Baron the Temple of Honour being of due open to him who hath passed through the Temple of Vertue The Battles Many Ingagements as much above Skirmshes as beneath Battles happened in this Shire But that at Marston-moor July 2. 1644. was our English Pharsalian Fight or rather the Fatall Battle of Cannae to the Loyal Cavaliers Indeed it is Difficult and Dangerous to present the Particulars thereof For one may easier doe right to the Memories of the Dead then save the Credits of some Living However things past may better be found fault with then amended and when God will have an Army Defeated Mistakes tending thereto will be multiplied in despite of the greatest care and diligence Know then that Prince Rupert having fortunately raised the Siege at York drew out his Men into the Moor with full intention to fight the Enemy Discreet Persons beholding the Countenance of the present affairs with an unpartiall Eye found out many Disswasives for the Prince to hazard a Battle 1. He had done his Work by relieving York let him Digest the Honour thereof and grasp at no more 2. His wearied Souldiers wanted refreshing 3. Considerable Recruits were daily expected out of the North under Colonel Clavering Adde to all these that such were the present Animosities in the Parliament Army and so great their Mutuall Disatisfactions when they drew off from York that as a prime Person since freely confest if let alone they would have fallen foul amongst themselves had not the Prince preparing to fight them Cemented their Differences to agree against a Generall Enemy But a Blot is no Blot if not hit and an Advantage no Advantage if unknown though this was true the Prince was not informed of the differences aforesaid However he did not so much run out of his own Ambition of Honour as answer the Spur of the Kings Command from whom he had lately received a Letter still safe in his Custody speedily to fight the Enemy if he had any Advantage that so he might spare and send back some Supplies to his Majesties perplexed occasions at Oxford Besides the Prince had received certain Intelligence that the Enemy had the Day before sent away seven thousand Men now so far distanced that they were past possibility of returning that day The former part hereof was true the latter false confuted by the great Shout given this day in the Parliaments Army at the return of such forces unto them But now it was too late to draw off the Parliament forces necessitating them to fight A Summers Evening is a Winters Day and about 4. a Clock the Battle began Some causelesly complain on the Marquess of New-castle that he drew not his men soon enough according to his Orders out of York to the Prince his seasonable succour Such consider not that Souldiers newly relieved from a Nine weeks Siege will a little Indulge themselves Nor is it in the power of a General to make them at such times to March at a Minutes warning but that such a Minute will be more then an Hour in the length thereof The Lord Generall Gorâ—…ng so valiantly charged the left Wing of the Enemy that they fairly forsooke the Field Generall Lâ—…slie with his Scottish ran away more then an York-shire mile and a Wee-bit Fame with her Trumpet sounded their flight as far as Oxford the Royalists rejoycing with Bonfires for the Victory But within few days their Bays by a mournfull Metamorphosis were turned into Willow and they sunk the lower in true sorrow for being mounted so high in Causeless Gladness For Cromwell with his Curassires did the work of that Day Some suspected Colonel Hurry lately converted to the Kings party for foul play herein for he divided the Kings Old Horse so valiant and victorious in former fights into small Bodies alledging this was the best way to break the Scottish Lanciers But those Horse always used to charge together in whole Regiments or greater Bodies were much discomposed with this new Mode so that they could not find themselves in themselves Besides a right valiant Lord severed and in some sort secured with a Ditch from the Enemy did not attend till the foe forced their way unto him but gave his men the trouble to pass over that Ditch the occasion of much disorder The Van of the Kings foot being led up by the truely honorable Colonel John Russell impressed with unequall numbers and distanced from seasonable succour became a Prey to their Enemy The Marquess of New-castles White-coats who were said to bring their Winding sheet about them into the field after thrice firing â—…ell to it with the But ends of their Muskets and were invincible till mowed down by Cromwells Carassires with Jobs Servants they were all almost slain few escaping to bring the Tidings of their overthrow Great was the Execution on that Day Cromwell commanding his Men to give no quarter Various the numbering of the slain of both sides yet I meet with none mounting them above six or sinking them beneath three thousand I remember no Person of honour slain on the Kings side save the hopefull Lord Cary eldest Son to the E. of Monmouth But on the Parliaments side the Lord Didup a lately created Baron was slain on the same Token that when King Charles said that he hardly remembred that he had such a Lord in Scotland one returned that the Lord had wholly forgotten that he had such a King in England
for many years by past were of any Eminency but either immediately or mediately were Apprentices unto him He was bred in York school where he was School-fellow with Guy Faux which I note partly to shew that Loyalty and Treason may be educated under the same Roof partly to give a check to the received opinion that Faux was a Fleming no Native English-man He was bred in Saint Johns-colledge in Cambridge and chosen Fellow thereof to a Fellowship to which he had no more Propriety then his own Merit before Eight Compâ—…titors for the place equally capable with himself and better befriended Commencing Doctor in Divinity he made his Position which though unusuall was Arbitrary and in his own power on his second Question which much defeated the expectatioâ—… of Doctor Playfere replying upon him with some passion Commosâ—…i mihi stomachum To whom Morton return'd Gratulor tibi Reverende professor de bono tuo stomacho caenabis apud me hac nocte He was successively preferr'd Dean of Gloucester Winchester Bishop of Chester Coventry and Lichfield and Durham The Foundation which he laid of Forraign corre spondency with eminent persons of different perswasions when he attended as Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent by King James Embassadour to the King of Denmark and many Princes of Germany he built upon unto the Day of his Death In the late Long Parliament the displeasure of the House of Commons fell heavy upon him partly for subscribing the Bishops Protestation for their Votes in Parliament partly for refusing to resign the seal of his Bishoprick and baptizing a Daughter of John Earl of Rutland with the sign of the Cross two faults which compounded together in the judgement of honest and wise-men amounted to a High Innocence Yet the Parliament allowed him eight hundred pounds a year a proportion above any of his Brethren for his maintenance But alass the Trumpet of their Charity gave an uncertain sound not assigning by whom or whence this summe should be paid Indeed the severe Votes of the Parliament ever took full effect according to his observation who did Anagram it VOTED OUTED But their mercifull Votes found not so free performance However this good Bishop got a thousand pounds out of Goldsmiths-hall which afforded him his support in his old Age. The Neb of his Pen was unpartially divided into two equall Moyeties the one writing against Faction in defence of three Innocent Ceremonies the other against Superstition witness the Grand Impostor and other worthy works He solemnly proffered unto me pardon me Reader if I desire politiquely to twist my own with his Memory that they may both survive together in these sad times to maintain me to live with him which Courteous Offer as I could not conveniently accept I did thankfully 〈◊〉 Many of the Nobility deservedly honoured him though none more then John Earl of Rutland to whose Kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland he formerly 〈◊〉 been Chaplain But let not two worthy Baronets be forgotten Sir George Savill who so civilly paid him his purchased Annuity of two hundred pounds withall Proffered advantages and Sir Henry Yelveâ—…ton at whose house he dyed aged 95. at Easton-Manduit in Northampton shire 1659. For the rest the Reader is remitted to his life written largely and learnedly by Doctor John Barwick Dean of Durham States-men Sir ROBERT CAR was born in this City on this occasion Thomas Car his father Laird of Furnihurst a man of great lands and power in the South of Scotland was very active for Mary Queen of Scots and on that accompt forced to fly his land came to York Now although he had been a great inroder of England yet for some secret reason of State here he was permitted safe shelter duâ—…ing which time Robert his son was born this was the reason why the said Robert refused to be Naturalized by Act of our Parliament as needless for him born in the English Dominions I have read how his first making at Court was by breaking of his leg at a Tilting in London whereby he came first to the Cognizance of King James Thus a fair starting with advantage in the notice of a Prince is more then half the way in the race to his favour King James reflected on him whose Father was a kind of Confâ—…ssor for the cause of the Queen his Mother besides the Young Gentleman had a handsome person and a conveniency of desert Honors were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Sommerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. He was a well natured man not mischievous with his might doing himself more hurt then any man else For abate one foul fact with the appendance and consequences thereof notoriously known and he will appear deserving no foul Character to posterity but for the same he was banished the Court lived and dyed very privately about the year of our Lord 1638. Writers JOHN WALBYE was born in this City of honest Parentage He was bred an Augustinian Provinciall of his Order and Doctor of Divinity in Oxford A Placentious Person gaining the good-will of all with whom he conversed being also Ingenious Industrious Learned Eloquent Pious and Prudent Pitz writeth that after Alexander Nevell he was Chosen but never Confirmed Arch bishop of York an Honour reserved for Robert his Younger Brother of whom before But Bishop Godwin maketh no mention hereof which rendreth it suspicious The said Pitz maketh him actuall Arch-bishop of Dublin whilst Bale who being an Irish Bishop had the advantage of exacter Intelligence hath no such thing whence we may conclude it a Mistake The rather because this John is allowed by all to have died in this place of his Nativity 1393. Also I will adde this that though sharp at first against the Wickliffites he soon abated his own Edge and though present at a Council kept at Stanford by the King against them was not well pleased with all things transacted therein JOHN ERGHOM was born in this City an Augustinian by his profession Leaving York he went to Oxford where passing thorough the Arts he fixed at last in Divinity proving an admirable Preacher My Author tells me that sometimes he would utter nova inaudita whereat one may well wonder seeing Solomon hath said There is no nâ—…w thing under the Sun The truth is he renewed the custome of expounding Scripture in a typicall way which crouded his Church with Auditors seeing such 〈◊〉 preaching break 's no bones much pleased their fancy and little cross'd or curb'd their corruptions Indeed some but not all Scripture is capable of such comments and because metalls are found in Mountains it is madness to Mine for them in every rich Meadow But in expounding of Scripture when mens inventions out-run the Spirits intentions their swiftness is not to be praised but sawcyness to be punished This Erghom wrote many books and dedicated them to the Earl of Hereford the same with Edward Duke of Buckingham and flourished