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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	carlisle_n	earl_n	sable_a	49	3	16.1893	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38421	England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.		1682 (1682)	Wing E3027; ESTC R218203	95,213	312

themselves In St. Cleere's-Parish in Cornhil there are upon a Plain 6 or 8 Stones such as are upon Salisbury-Plain which like them too will be mistaken in their telling so that when they are told over again they will be found either more or less than before At Hall near Foy is a Fagot all of one piece of Wood naturally grown so and it is wrapped about with a Band and parted at the ends into 4 Sticks one of which Sticks is subdivided into two others It was carefully preserved many years by the Earl of Devon being reckoned as a fore-token of his Progeny for his Estate is now come into the hands of 4 Cornish Gentlemen one of whose Estates is divided between two Heirs In Landers Park there grows an Oak that bears Leaves speckled with white and another the like in East Hundred called Painters Oak There are 2 Lakes near St. Agnes Hill in one of them Fish will live and thrive but not in the other By Helford is a great Rock lying upon the ground the top whereof is hollow which holdeth water and ebbs and flows as the Sea doth Mainamber a very great Rock in this Shire lyes or resteth upon other smaller Rocks and the push of a finger will sensibly move it to and fro but all the force which men can use cannot move it from its place About 40 years since upon the Shore of this Shire was found by a Fisherman a huge mass of Ambergrease Among the many Ports Bays and Havens this Countrey hath about it that of Falmouth is so copious that 100 Ships may therein ride at Anchor apart by themselves so that from the tops of their highest Masts they shall not see each other and yet lye all safe under wind At Boskenna is a Trophy erected which are 18 Stones placed round pitched 12 foot each from other and another in the Centre far bigger than the rest to shew some Victory there obtained by the Romans or K. Athelston In many Places hereabouts are pieces of Armour both for Horse and Man digged out of the ground Cumberland IS bounded on the East by Northumberland and Westmorland On the West by the Irish Sea On the South by Westmorland and Lancashire and on the North by Scotland It containeth in length 56 Miles in breadth 32 Miles and in Circumference 173 Miles The Air is sharp and piercing but is much mitigated by the Northern Hills which break the Storm and falling Snow The Soil is fertile for the most part both for Corn and Cattle and the Maritime places are well furnished with Fish and Fowl and the Rivers bear a kind of Muscle that beareth Pearl The chief Commodities are Sheep Copper Brass Cole Fowl Fish Cloath and Black Lead It is in the Diocess of Chester and Carlisle and hath in it 58 Parishes Out of it are Elected 6 Members to sit in Parliament Knights 2 Carlisle 2 Cockermouth This County is not divided into Hundreds the former In it are contained 15 Market-Towns Cockermouth Mond Wigton Tuesday Brampton Tuesday Perith Tuesday Bootle Wednesday Whitehaven Thurs Ireby Thursday Kirk-swald Thurs Longtown Thursday Aston Moor Saturday Carlisle Saturday Egremont Saturday Ravenglas Saturday Keswick Saturday Abbeyholm Saturday The chief City in this Shire is Carlisle lying in the Latitude of 55 deg 0 min. Bearing from London N. N. W. and distant therefrom 2●● Miles Thus To Warington 136. To Lanca●● 187. To Kendall 203. To Carlisle 235. But 〈◊〉 more accurate admeasurement upon the Ro●● 301 Miles This City is pleasantly seated betwixt the 〈◊〉 Rivers Eden Petterell and Cand. In the days 〈◊〉 Egfrid K. of Northumberland was walled about and again defaced by the Danes and so con●●nued 200 years till the time of K. Rufus w●● rebuilt the Castle and placed therein a Colo●● of Flemings This County hath formerly been strengthen●● with 25 Castles which were dissolved by K●●● Henry the 8th The Earls of Carlisle since the first Constitution are Hen. Clifford Earl of Cumberland Marcatus Earls of Carlisle Ron. Meschems Earls of Carlisle Andrew Harkley Earls of Carlisle James Hay Earls of Carlisle Charles Howard Earls of Carlisle Prince Rupert Duke of Cumberland The Coat Armor of the City Carlisle is Argent a Castle between two Roses Or In a Chief Gules a Lyon Passant Gardant of the second The Base Wavy Argent and Sable The Principal things remarkable in this County are The Picts Wall extending through the main Land from Sea to Sea built all of Stone it was 8 foot broad and 12 high and from the West Seat to the mouth of Tine in length near 100 Miles ascending and descending over great Crags and high Hills the track whereof in many places is yet to be seen At the end of every thousand Paces there was erected a Watch-Tower in which Soldiers were kept for the securing of the same At Salcelds upon the River Eden is a Trophy of Victory erected called by the Inhabitants Long Meg and her Daughters This Monument consists of 77 Stones each 10 foot high above ground and one of them namely Long Meg is 15 foot high Skiddaw-Hill riseth up with two mighty high heads and beholds Scruffell-Hill in Scotland By the mists rising and falling upon this Hill they foresee the change of weather and signifie the same by this Proverb If Skiddaw have a Cap Scruffell wots full well of that In this County there are two other exceeding high Hills viz. Lavvellin and Casticand Upon the Shore of this Shire Trees are many times at Low water discovered by the blowing of the Wind which at other times are covered with Sand. And Trees without Boughs are often digged out of the mossy places which in the Summer time the Countrey People discover by the direction of the dew for the dew never stands upon those places under which these Trees lye Upon the Picts Wall grow Vulnerary Plants which the Scotch Chirurgeons make annual journies to gather which they suppose were first planted by the Romans Derbyshire IS bounded on the East by Nottinghamshire On the West by Staffordshire On the South by Leicestershire And on the North by Yorkshire It containeth in length 34 Miles In breadth 26. And in Circumference 130 Miles The temperature of the Air of this Shire as most of the Inland Counties of England are is very wholsom The Soyl in the South and East Parts very rich but the North and West Parts very hilly with a black and mossy barren ground These two different Soils are severed by the River Derwent the Water whereof in some places is made black by the Earth it passeth by The Commodities of this Shire are Milstones Crystal Alabaster Whetstones And in the Peak Pit-Cole Iron and Lead It is in the Diocess of Lichfield and Coventry and hath in it 106 Parishes Out of it are elected 4 Parliament Men. Knights 2 Derby 2 Its Division is into Six Hundreds viz. Highis Peak Hund. Scarsdale Hund. Workesworth Hund. Appletree Hund. Ofap Hund. Reppington Hund. And