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<P>ENGLAND DESCRIBED: Or the &s;everal COUNTIES &amp; SHIRES thereof briefly handled.</P>
<P>Some things al&s;o premi&s;ed, to &s;et forth the Glory of this NATION.</P>
<P>By <HI>Edward Leigh</HI> E&s;quire, M^r of Arts of <HI>Magdalen-Hall</HI> in <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>A. M.</HI> for <HI>Henry Mar&s;h</HI> at the Signe of the <HI>Princes-Arms</HI> in <HI>Chance|ry-lane,</HI> near <HI>Fleetstreet,</HI> 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE Right Wor&s;hipfull, AND HIS Honoured Friend S^r <HI>ROBERT PYE.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is blamed in our <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI> that they are apt too much to admire Foreigne Countreys and Commodities; and exotick Fa&s;hions al&s;o, becau&s;e they are either igno|rant
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of, or do not &s;ufficiently prize the Excellencies of their own native Soil; and herein the old Proverb of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> is verified, <HI>They never know when they are well.</HI> VVe have little cau&s;e (I thinke) to envy any other Countrey, if we rightly under&s;tand our own happy condition. I have in my <HI>Prolegomena</HI> written encomia&s;tically of this Nati|on; and in the <HI>Book</HI> have &s;poken &s;nccinctly of each Coun|ty. Were the Subject well
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handled, I &s;uppo&s;e it would be a plea&s;ing Argument to you who have &s;een a great part of <HI>England.</HI> However you will (I hope) excu&s;e my boldne&s;&s;e in prefixing your Name to this worke, &s;ince I was willing to te&s;tifie here|in, how much I am beholding to you for your many great Civilities and Courte&s;ies to me and mine. I have heard you often &s;ay, Though you had a great Office many yeers, and was Executor al&s;o to three eminent Per&s;ons of the Nobi|lity,
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yet you &s;carce ever had any complaint again&s;t you for Mi&s;carriages in your Place, or a Suit at Law with any (one excepted) in your whole life. The&s;e, with a plentifull E&s;tate, and a healthfull Con&s;titution of Bo|dy are mercies, and lay a &s;tronger Obligation upon you, to be carefull to plea&s;e and honour that God, who hath been &s;o propitious to you.</P>
<P>Your exciting of others, and your own munificence al&s;o to &s;o good a VVork, as
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to the edifying of a &s;pecious Chappel, for the &s;olemn wor&s;hip of God, and &s;etling al&s;o a compe|tent Maintenance for a Mini|&s;ter, is laudable. Your prudent avoiding Sureti&s;hip (though you were &s;olicited by two Royal Per|&s;ons to be bound for them) is con&s;onant to Scripture-Rules. But <HI>(Sir)</HI> in your declining Age, it will be your wi&s;dome now, and comfort hereafter, to lay up your trea&s;ures in Heaven, to mortifie all inor|dinate affections, and to &s;ecure your intere&s;t in Chri&s;t. <HI>Nu&s;|quam
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tuta foelicitas ubi periclitatur aeternitas.</HI> A man is never &s;afe, till his everla&s;ting condition be well provided for. I &s;hall not en|large herein, but &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elf,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE> 
<SIGNED>Your obliged and thankfull<LB>
Friend and Servant<LB>
<HI>Edward Leigh.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>TO THE CANDID READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Did intend the publi&s;h|ing of this fir&s;t Book of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> or <HI>Seve|ral Counties of</HI> England, together with another of <HI>The Kings of</HI> England. But the Book|&s;eller de&s;ired to put forth this fir&s;t alone.</P>
<P>I have made much u&s;e of <HI>Cam|den,</HI> and if I could have added to his Chorography, &s;ome new and me|morable things of each County, which he had not ob&s;erved, I &s;hould have thought it might have been u&s;efull for a native <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> and Foraign|er.
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Perhaps I have not been able to make additions to him in every County; but I hope I have in&s;ert|ed &s;ome &s;pecial things in the whole over and above what he (travelling over mo&s;t part of the Land for that purpo&s;e) hath publi&s;hed. I have per|u&s;ed <HI>Andre du Che&s;ne</HI> his <HI>Hi&s;toire generale de Angleterre d'E&s;co&s;&s;e, &amp; d' Irlande,</HI> Councellor and Geographer to the King of <HI>France;</HI> and al&s;o <HI>Draytons Polyolbion,</HI> with M. <HI>Seldens Illustrations.</HI> Tho&s;e that have writ|ten of any Counties or Cities of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> as <HI>Burton</HI> of <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire, Dug|dale</HI> of <HI>Warwick&s;hire, King</HI> of <HI>Che|&s;hire, Nordens Speculum Britanniae,</HI> his brief De&s;cription of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Har|ford&s;hire, Lambert</HI> and another of <HI>Kent; Crews Surveigh</HI> of <HI>Cornwall; Stows De&s;cription of London; Somners</HI> of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and <HI>Nevils</HI> of <HI>Norwich;</HI> we having onely as yet the De&s;crip|tion of tho&s;e three Cities. I made u&s;e al&s;o of <HI>Lelands Itinerary,</HI> a Ma|nu&s;cript written to <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth, and his Comment in <HI>Cygneam Can|tionem;</HI> M. <HI>Burtons</HI> Notes on <HI>Anto|ninus</HI>
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his Itinerary. I have confined my &s;elf to <HI>England,</HI> not medling with <HI>Wales, Ireland</HI> or <HI>Scotland.</HI> I have in the <HI>Prolegomena</HI> related &s;ome things which may make the Nation illu&s;tri|ous, and al&s;o acquaint Strangers with the <HI>Politia</HI> or Government thereof. I have lately received from M. <HI>Du|gard</HI> a learned Mini&s;ter in <HI>Warwick|&s;hire,</HI> and Rector of <HI>Barford,</HI> a me|morable ob&s;ervation concerning the Family of the <HI>Fairfaxes</HI> there, the like whereto is &s;carce to be found in any &s;acred or prophane Writer, which coming too late to in&s;ert in <HI>Warwick|&s;hire,</HI> I thought good to mention here.</P>
<P>The matchle&s;&s;e Family of the <HI>Fair|faxes</HI> in <HI>Barford,</HI> two miles from <HI>Warwick,</HI> wherein there are four Ge|nerations, and three of them double, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>Samuel Fairfax,</HI> a child of almo&s;t twelve years of age.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Elizabeth:</HI> his Father and Mother.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Eleonor:</HI> his Grand-father and Grandmother.</ITEM>
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4. <HI>Richard</HI> and <HI>Alice:</HI> his great Grandfather and great Grandmother.</ITEM>
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<P>Not one of the&s;e three pairs hath been twice married: and every pair of them is an honour to marriage. They all for divers yeares mo&s;t lo|vingly dwelt together in one hou&s;e, and ate together at one Table. At la&s;t they are divided in habitations, but not in affections. The younge&s;t pair with their children live at <HI>Wib|taft,</HI> in the furthe&s;t part of the Coun|ty, nigh unto <HI>High-cro&s;&s;e:</HI> the other two pair in <HI>Barford.</HI> The great Grandfather is above four&s;core yeares of age; a very proper and lu&s;ty man; an hone&s;t and loving neigh|bour; and one that hath born the Office of High-Con&s;table. The mo&s;t remarkable of the&s;e particulars have been put into this Latine Epi|gramme by the pre&s;ent Rector of <HI>Barford.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Mirabilis <HI>Fairfaxiorum</HI> Familia, quae e&s;t <HI>Barfordiae,</HI> &s;ecundo lapide &agrave; Polemopoli, &s;ive <HI>Warwico.</HI></HEAD>
<L>Quartus in aetheream <HI>Fairfaxius</HI> editur <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Octob. 18^t^h, 1647.</NOTE> auram,</L>
<L>Patris, Avi, Proavi, gaudia mag|na &s;ui.</L>
<L>Hos tegit una domus cum terna uxore maritos,</L>
<L>Un&aacute;que alit lautis men&s;a benigna cibis.</L>
<L>Non magis unanimes n&ocirc;runt haec &s;ecula mentes,</L>
<L>Est bis corporibus mens velut una tribus.</L>
<L>T&oacute;tque ex conjugibus bis vincla jugalia nemo</L>
<L>Nexuit: &amp; nemo nexa &s;oluta cupit.</L>
<L>More columbarum laetatur conjuge conjux.</L>
<L>De&s;eruit rugas nec juvenilis amor.</L>
<L>Hi&s;ce tribus Paribus <HI>Barfordia</HI> jure &s;u|perbit.</L>
<L>Nampar his Paribus quis locus alter habet?</L>
<SIGNED>Tho. Dugard. <HI>Art. Mag. Rector</HI> Barf.</SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The &s;ame in <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>Fairfax</HI> the Fourth is born <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Octob. 18.</NOTE>, a gallant Boy:</L>
<L>Fathers, Grandfathers, great Grand-fathers great joy.</L>
<L>Under one roof the&s;e dwell with their three Wives,</L>
<L>And at one Table eat what Heaven gives.</L>
<L>Our times a &s;weeter Harmony have not known.</L>
<L>They are &s;ix Per&s;ons, yet their hearts but one.</L>
<L>And of the&s;e &s;ix, as none hath hitherto</L>
<L>Known Marriage twice, &s;o none de&s;ires to do.</L>
<L>Mate is to mate what deare&s;t Dove to Dove.</L>
<L>Even grande&s;t wrinkles are top-full of love.</L>
<L>In the&s;e three Pairs <HI>Barford</HI> may ju&s;tly glory.</L>
<L>What other place can parallel this Story?</L>
<SIGNED>Th. Dugard.</SIGNED>
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Some parts of this Nation &s;ub&s;i&s;t upon Mines and Cole; others upon Manefacture: Some upon Corn; others upon the Profits of Cattle: <HI>London</HI> and the Sea-Ports upon Exportation and Importation. M. <HI>Wrens</HI> Monarchy a&s;&s;erted, <HI>chap.</HI> 8.</P>
<P><HI>Wileboord</HI> an <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> was the fir&s;t Bi&s;hop of <HI>Utrect,</HI> he is called the Apo|&s;tle of <HI>Zeland,</HI> for having there preacht and planted the Chri&s;tian Faith, as al&s;o in the Provinces next adjoyning. <HI>Ver|&s;tegans</HI> Etymologies of our <HI>Saxon</HI> Pro|per Names.</P>
<P>Willebrodus <HI>Britannus fuit, Fri|&s;io&s;que primus Christianae Religionis initiis imbuit.</HI> Bertius <HI>in Tab. Geog. Contract.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall detain thee no longer, but &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elf</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy hearty Well-willer<LB>
<HI>Edward Leigh.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>PROLEGOMENA.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_EUrope</HI> the lea&s;t of the four parts of the World (yet the mo&s;t populous and eminent for Arts and Armes) is divided in|to <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Bertii</HI> Europae Uni|ver&s;alis De|&s;cript.</NOTE> &s;everal Nations and Countreys, <HI>Al|bion</HI> or <HI>Great-Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Rhetia, Vindelicia, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Sarmatia, Dacia, Mae&s;ia</HI> and <HI>Greece.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Britain</HI> or <HI>Britanny,</HI> which al&s;o is <NOTE PLACE="marg">Britannia, quae Ptol. <HI>Albion,</HI> in|&s;ula maxima <HI>Europae</HI> in oce|ano <HI>Galliae</HI> ob|ver&s;a. <HI>Ferrarii</HI> Lexicon. Geo|graphicum. Vide <HI>Twini</HI> Comment. derebus. <HI>Albioniois, Britannicis.</HI> L. 1. p. 9, 10, 11, 12. Mun&s;teri Co&s;mog. univer&s;. l. 2. <HI>Camd. Britan.</HI> pag. 1. <HI>Britanniam</HI> omnium in&s;ularum quas continet terrarum or|bis: nobili&s;&s;imam e&s;&s;e, &amp; multis retr&ograve;, &s;eculis extiti&s;&s;e, cunctorum jam poen&egrave; literis ac linguis percrebuit, &s;ive naturam loci, &s;itu&s;ve &s;peciem atque pulchritudinem &s;pectes, &s;ive gentis rerumque &agrave; gente ge&s;tarum magnitudinem. <HI>Nevvilli Norvicus.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Albion,</HI> the mo&s;t famous I&s;land, with|out compari&s;on, of the whole world. It is &s;eated as well for air as &s;oil, in a
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right fruitfull, and mo&s;t milde place. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Britain</HI> was ge|nerally called the great I&s;land. See <HI>Burtons</HI> Annotat. on <HI>Clements fir&s;t Epi&s;t. to the</HI> Corinth.</NOTE> The air &s;o kinde and temperate, that not only the Summers be not exce&s;&s;ive hot, by rea&s;on of continual gentle windes that abate their heat (which as they refre&s;h the fruits of the earth, &s;o they yeeld a mo&s;t whol&s;om and plea&s;ing contentment both to man and bea&s;t:) but the Winters al&s;o are pa&s;&s;ing milde: for therein falling often with &s;till &s;howers (to &s;ay nothing of the Air it &s;elf, &s;omewhat thick and gro&s;&s;e) di&s;|&s;olveth the rigour of the cold &s;o; and withall the Sea which compa&s;&s;eth it, with moderate warmth, doth comfort the Land in &s;uch wi&s;e, as that the cold with us is much more remi&s;&s;e than in &s;ome parts of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Italy.</HI></P>
<P>It is now called <HI>England,</HI> in Latine <HI>Anglia,</HI> in French <HI>Angle-terre.</HI></P>
<P>Of the &s;everal Etymologies of which word, &s;ee <HI>Hi&s;toire d' Angle-terre Par Du Che&s;ne, l. 6. p.</HI> 195. And <HI>Mun&s;ters Univer&s;al Go&s;mography, l.</HI> 2.
<Q><L>Britanniam la&s;civiae</L>
<L>Culparier just&egrave; negas?</L>
<L>Tamen fateri cogeris</L>
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Qu&ograve;d in&s;ula e&s;t, non continens.</L>
<BIBL><HI>Hugenii</HI> Epig. l. 6.</BIBL></Q></P>
<P><HI>Great Britain</HI> (con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland)</HI> contains one thou&s;and eight hundred thirty &s;ix miles in com|pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>This I&s;land (as <HI>Camden, Twine, Ver&s;tegan</HI> imagine) was broken off from the Continent of <HI>France.</HI> See <HI>Twine, De Rebus Britannicis.</HI></P>
<P>The Bodies of the Inhabitants are of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Omnium Eu|ropae populo|rum bellico|&s;i&s;&s;imi &amp; &s;tre|nui&s;&s;imi &s;unt Britanni. <HI>Bodin</HI> in Meth. Hi&s;t. c. 5. de recto Hi&s;tor. judicio.</NOTE> an excellent Con&s;titution, their De|meanour right courteous, their Na|tures gentle, and their Courage mo&s;t hardy and valiant, who&s;e Manhood by exploits atchieved both at home and abroad, is famou&s;ly renowned thorow the whole world.</P>
<P>King <HI>Edward</HI> the third, and his <NOTE PLACE="marg">Quam exi&s;ti|matis fui&s;&s;e Galliae faciem, auditores cum <HI>Edvardus</HI> III. Angliae Rex, <HI>Philippum</HI> Va|le&s;ium Gallia|rum Regem ad Cre&s;&s;iacum vi|cit? Ubi inter|empti Gallo|rum circiter XXX. millia &amp; inventi inter Cadavera <HI>Jo|annes</HI> Rex Bo|hemiae, decem Principes, octoginta Barones, mille ducenti Equites, flos totius Nobilitatis Galliae; <HI>Philippus</HI> autem vix fug&acirc; eva&s;it, qui noctu ad urbem <HI>Brayum</HI> deveniens, Praefecto ad portas quaeren i; <HI>Qui va la?</HI> Mi&s;erabili voce re&s;pondit: <HI>La Fortune de France. Achillis</HI> Con&s;ul|tatio de principatu inter provincias Europae. Vide <HI>Humfredi. Lhyd.</HI> Fragmentum Commentarioli Britannicae De&s;criptionis prop. fin. Terra Gallica frequens &s;uit tam pretium quam &s;cena fortitudinis Anglicanae, praeliaque de <HI>Cre&s;&s;ey, Poictiers, Agincourt</HI> aeterna manent &s;tupendae no&s;tratium victoriae monimenta. Praefat. ad expeditio|nem in Ream In&s;ulam. Vide plura ibid.</NOTE> Sonne did bear their victorious Arms thoroughout all <HI>France.</HI> King <HI>Henry</HI> the Sixth was crowned King of <HI>France</HI> at <HI>Paris.</HI></P>
<P>Our famous Kings <HI>Henry</HI> the Fifth, <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. and K. <HI>Henry</HI> the Eight, were the mo&s;t worthie&s;t Warriers that our Nati|on ever had. Sir <HI>Roger Williams</HI> his brief
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Di&s;cour&s;e of Warre, <HI>pag.</HI> 37. See <HI>pag.</HI> 8, 9. &amp; 58. <HI>Phil. de Commines Hi&s;t. l. 6. c.</HI> 2, 3.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Francis,</HI> and Sir <HI>Horatio Vere,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Morgan,</HI> Sir <HI>John</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Spelman.</HI> A&s;pilogiam. <HI>p.</HI> 95.</NOTE> <HI>Norris,</HI> by their &s;ingular knowledge in military affairs, and exploits mo&s;t valiantly and fortunately atchieved in the Low-Countreys, have added exceeding much honour and glo|ry to them&s;elves. See Dr. <HI>Dillinghams Veres Commentaries.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Roger Williams</HI> al&s;o was a famous Commander. <NOTE PLACE="marg">His name and fame was dreadfull to the French people ab&s;ent, in&s;omuch that women in <HI>France</HI> to fear their young children, would cry, The <HI>Tal|bot</HI> cometh, the <HI>Talbot</HI> cometh. Grafton <HI>in</HI> Henry <HI>the &s;ixth.</HI> See <HI>Speed</HI> there.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>John</HI> Lord <HI>Talbot</HI> Earl of <HI>Shrews|bury</HI> marched four and twenty years to|gether
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with victorious arms over a <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Johannes Tal|botus</HI> Comes Salopien&s;is vir clari&s;&s;imus, forti&s;&s;imu&s;que, cujus virtute populi Angli|cani nomen maxim&egrave; Gal|lis formidolc|&s;um extiterat. <HI>Polyd. Verg.</HI> Ang. Hi&s;t. l. 23.</NOTE> great part of <HI>France. Camden</HI> cals him <HI>Englands Achilles.</HI> See <HI>Froi&s;&s;arts</HI> Chron. <HI>c.</HI> 130. of the victory of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> at the great battel of <HI>Cre&s;&s;y.</HI></P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Bedford</HI> was Regent of <HI>France,</HI> and being &s;lain in a battel on Land before <HI>Veronil,</HI> was buried in <HI>Roan,</HI> and together with him all the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mens good fortune in <HI>France.</HI> Who&s;e Monument, when <HI>Charles</HI> the Eighth King of <HI>France</HI> came to &s;ee, and a Nobleman &s;tanding by, advi&s;ed him <HI>to ra&s;e it: Nay,</HI> an&s;wered he, <HI>let him re&s;t in peace now being dead, of whom in warre, whiles he lived all</HI> France <HI>had dread.</HI></P>
<P>Mar&s;hal <HI>Biron</HI> &s;aid, <HI>He liked not the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>March (being beaten by the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sir</HI> Clement Edmunds <HI>in his ob&s;ervations, on</HI> Cae&s;ars <HI>Commentaries, &s;aith,</HI> We got mo&s;t of our victories from the <HI>French</HI> by our good Archers. <HI>See Sir</HI> Tho|mas Elyoth <HI>Governour,</HI> pag. 83. <HI>And</HI> A&s;chams <HI>Toxophilus,</HI> l. 1. p. 29. Bello &s;unt merepidi optimi &s;agittarii. <HI>Bertius</HI> De&s;cript. Angl.</NOTE> <HI>Drumme) it was &s;o &s;low:</HI> Sir <HI>Roger Williams</HI> an&s;wer'd him, <HI>That yet it had gone through all</HI> France. See the Di&s;|cour&s;e of the National Excellencies of <HI>England,</HI> Part 1. Chap. 1. Of the Warres of the <HI>Britains,</HI> and their
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Courage. <HI>Chap.</HI> 3. Of the <HI>Dani&s;h</HI> In|va&s;ion. <HI>Chap.</HI> 4. Of the <HI>Norman</HI> Con|que&s;t. <HI>Chap.</HI> 5. Of Warres with <HI>Spain. Chap.</HI> 6. Of Warres with <HI>France. Chap.</HI> 7. Of Warres with the &s;even|teen Provinces. <HI>Chap.</HI> 8, 9. Of Warres with <HI>Scotland. Part 2. Chap.</HI> 2. Of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Courage.</P>
<P>Our wooden Walls, the Ships, are a great &s;afety to this Nation. The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Navy is the &s;tronge&s;t in the world. What &s;ervice did our Ships do us in 88?</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Francis Drake,</HI> and after him <HI>Thomas Candi&s;h</HI> E&s;quire, within the &s;pace of three yeers and three moneths, travelled about the Globe of the whole Earth.</P>
<P>This I&s;le hath pre&s;cribed in all ages for the Dominion <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>See</HI> Dees Briti&s;h Monar|chy.</NOTE> of the Seas that in|compa&s;&s;e it. <HI>Vide Seldeni Mare clau|&s;um.</HI> lib. 2. c. 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31, 32.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Richard Grenvile</HI> in a Ship of <NOTE PLACE="marg">He is called by the <HI>Spaniards</HI> yet Don <HI>Rich|ard of the Greenfield,</HI> and they fright their children with him. <HI>Vide</HI> Camd. <HI>Annal. rerum An|glic. part. 4. p.</HI> 40.</NOTE> Queen <HI>Elizabeths,</HI> fought again&s;t a great Navy of <HI>Spaniards.</HI> This &s;ingle
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ve&s;&s;el was fought with in turns by fif|teen other great Ships, whereof the great St. <HI>Philip</HI> of 1500 Tuns, Prince of the twelve Sea-Apo&s;tles was one: It &s;unk two of their be&s;t Ships, and killed a thou&s;and men. It was &s;unk at la&s;t, having fir&s;t to the full an&s;wered its name.</P>
<P>Without vanity our Nation may <NOTE PLACE="marg">Habingtons <HI>History of</HI> Edw. <HI>the</HI> 4th. p. 134. <HI>See more there.</HI> Fuere viri &s;emper in in|&s;ula eruditi&s;&s;i|mi, qui tan|quam doctri|narum riv<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">li ab illo fonte decurrentes, non modo Angliam, &s;ed Galliam quo|que mellifluo di&s;ciplinarum nectare irrigarunt. <HI>Polyd.</HI> ver. hi&s;t. Arg. p. 15. Vide <HI>l.</HI> 4.</NOTE> a&s;&s;ume to it &s;elf the prai&s;e, con&s;idering the narrow limits of the I&s;land, to have produced as many Scholars, admira|ble in all degrees of knowledge, as any Countrey on this &s;ide the <HI>Alpes. Beda, Bradwardine, Scotus, Wicliffe, Ockam, Baconthorp, Joannes de &s;acro Bo&s;co, Cuthbert Tun&s;tall, Pool, Colet, Lilie, Linacer, Pacaeus, Fi&s;her, More, Staple|ton, Leland, Camden, Juel, Whitaker, Rainolds.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Philip Sidney,</HI> a man of excellent parts, learned and valiant.</P>
<P>Our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mens pronunciation of the Latine tongue is condemned much by Outlandi&s;hmen.</P>
<P>A Herald brought a Letter of Defi|ance
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from the King of <HI>England</HI> in very good language, and &s;o excellently well penned, that I am per&s;waded it was never of Engli&s;h mans doing. <HI>Phil. de Comin.</HI> in his Hi&s;tory, <HI>lib. 4. ch.</HI> 5.</P>
<P>They write good Latine, though <HI>Car</HI> hath written an Oration, <HI>De Scriptorum Britannicorum pauci|tate.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>Edward</HI> the Thirds time there was a Letter directed to the Pope in <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Letter is in <HI>Wal&s;ingham.</HI></NOTE> ju&s;tification of making it Trea&s;on, to bring in Papal provi&s;ions, which was &s;o excellently penn'd, as did not on|ly move admiration, but a&s;toni&s;hment. <HI>Cito po&s;t Rex direxit Papae illam fa|mo&s;am Epi&s;tolam pro libertate Eccle|&s;iae contuenda, quam prae&s;entibus duxi|mus in&s;erendam.</HI> Wal&s;ing. Hi&s;t. Angl. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. p. 161.</P>
<P>There are &s;undry opinions, whence this word <HI>Britain</HI> had the original de|rivation. <HI>Camden</HI> di&s;likes that from <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Camd.</HI> Brit. p. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.</NOTE> <HI>Brutus.</HI></P>
<P>Some &s;ay, It is mo&s;t probably deri|ved <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> qui pri|mus <HI>Romano|rum</HI> hujus in|&s;ulae nomen</NOTE> from <HI>Brit,</HI> which in the ancient <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> &s;ignifies <HI>painted,</HI> and the word
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<HI>Tain,</HI> &s;ignifying a Nation; the <HI>Bri|tains</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">litteris com|mendavit, eam <HI>Britanniam</HI> ap|pellavit, quem omnes fer&egrave;, Latini Scrip|tores &s;ecuti, idem nomen haud muta|vere. Com|mentarioli. Britan. De&s;crip. Fragmentum per <HI>Llhyd.</HI> Ille <HI>Brutus</HI> &s;ive <HI>Brito</HI> (&s;ic enim nominandus erat, ut ex ejus nomine, <HI>Britanniae</HI> aliquo pacto dicta videretur) fertur &agrave; principio in&s;ulae potitus im|perio, ac <HI>Britannorum</HI> gentis autor fui&s;&s;e, nec diu deinde vi&s;us in terris. <HI>Polyd. Verg.</HI> Angl. Hi&s;t. lib. 1. Fama perrebuit, an verax ne&s;cio, (nec virorum magnorum, Nennii, Galfridi Monume|then&s;is, Pontici Virunnii, Alexandri Nechamii, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> nec non <HI>Joh. Lelandi</HI> horum omnium acerrimi defen&s;oris, patrocinio indiget) <HI>Brutum Albanium</HI> (quem volunt <HI>A&s;canii Trojani Albae Italorum</HI> con|ditoris nepotem) <HI>Britanniam</HI> aut <HI>Albionem</HI> cum &s;uis occupa&s;&s;e; hinc antiquitus (ut aiunt) &agrave; <HI>Bruto</HI> nomen obtinuit. <HI>Wheloci</HI> notae in <HI>Bed.</HI> Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;. Gentis. Angl. l. 1. Vide <HI>Seldeni</HI> Praefat. ad Analecta Anglo-Britan. <HI>Anglia</HI> Oceani Polygonia in&s;ula, quam <HI>Britanniam</HI> vocant &agrave; <HI>Bruto</HI> Trojanorum duce, qui profugus in hanc terram venit, vidit, vicit. <HI>Adolphi</HI> &agrave; Daus vita <HI>Elizabethae.</HI></NOTE> u&s;ed to di&s;colour and paint their bodies, that they might &s;eem more terrible in the eyes of their ene|mies.</P>
<P><HI>Camden</HI> in his <HI>Britannia,</HI> p. 26, 27. &s;eems rather to incline to this Ety|mology.</P>
<P><HI>Brith</HI> &s;ignifieth blew-coloured, <HI>&s;c.</HI> with woad, hence <HI>Britons.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Greeks</HI> gave to this I&s;le the name <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Camd.</HI> Brit. p. 23, 24. <HI>Albion</HI> ab albe|dine rupium ab au&s;tro al|barum, dici quidam vo|lunt, quale quid <HI>Albion</HI> in &s;ummitate montis Alpium apud Strabo|nem prae &s;e fert. <HI>Wheloci</HI> notae in <HI>Bedae</HI> Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;. Gentis Anglo|rum, <HI>lib. 1. cap.</HI> 1. Vide <HI>Polyd. Verg.</HI> Angl. Hi&s;t. lib. 1. Vide <HI>RR.</HI> Armach. Primord. Ec|cle&s;. Brit. pag. 721. &amp; 733. <HI>Albion</HI> ab Al|bione Nep<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> u|ni filio ibidem regnante &s;ic appella~ta. Circa annum mundi 2220. Quod ver&ograve; aliqui eam ab albis rupibus, &s;ic vocatam affirmant, ridiculum e&s;t: mirorque viros alias per&s;pi|caces, in tanta luce connivi&s;&s;e, omniumque locorum &amp; hominum nomina Etymologiis Latinis ob&s;u&s;care: Cum omnibus con&s;tat Lati|nos minimam Italiae partem tunc temporis po&s;&s;edi&s;&s;e. Com|mentarioli Britannicae De&s;cript. Fragmenta, Auctore <HI>Humfredo Lhyd.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Albion</HI> for difference &s;ake. Seeing they have in fabulous wi&s;e named <HI>Italy He&s;peria</HI> of <HI>He&s;perus</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>At|las; France Gallatia</HI> of a &s;onne of <HI>Polyphemus:</HI> I cannot otherwi&s;e be|lieve,
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but in the &s;ame vein al&s;o of fa|bling, they called this I&s;land <HI>Albion,</HI> of <HI>Albion Neptunes</HI> &s;onne: which thing <HI>Perottus</HI> and <HI>Lilius Giraldus</HI> have put down in writing. Unle&s;&s;e a man would derive it rather of <GAP DESC="foreign">, which as <HI>Fe&s;tus</HI> witne&s;&s;eth, in Greek &s;ignifieth <HI>white,</HI> whence the <HI>Alpes</HI> al&s;o have their appel|lation: for it is environed with white Rocks.</P>
<P><HI>England</HI> is called <HI>Albion ab albis rupibus,</HI> whereby it is &s;pecially con&s;pi|cuous: So was an I&s;le in the <HI>Indian-</HI>Sea called <HI>Leucas</HI> white. <HI>Seld.</HI> on <HI>Drayt. Polyolb.</HI> Song fir&s;t.</P>
<P>This Etymology is di&s;liked by <HI>Lhoyd,</HI> but defended by Sir <HI>John Price,</HI> in his Defence of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Hi&s;tory.</P>
<P><HI>England</HI> bears a great &s;way in the affairs of <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
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<HI>Speed</HI> in his Chronicle &s;aith, The great affairs of <HI>Europe</HI> mainly depended <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ita illa qua&s;i Heroina, &amp; honoraria ar|bitra inter Hi|&s;panos, Gal|los &amp; ordines &s;edit, ut illud patris u&s;urpare potuerit. <HI>Cui Adhaereo prae|e&s;t.</HI> Et verum &s;it quod ille &s;crip&s;it, Galliam &amp; Hi&s;paniam e&s;&s;e qua&s;i lances in Europae libra, &amp; Angliam lingulam &s;ive libripendem. <HI>Camd.</HI> Annal. rerum Anglic par. prim. p 271.</NOTE> upon the Directions of Queen <HI>Eliza|beth,</HI> who &s;itting at the Helm of the Ship, arbitrated and guided their e&s;tates both in Peace and Warre. See more there to this purpo&s;e in his 9th Book, chap. 24. p. 880.</P>
<P>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> have been very help|full to the <HI>Netherlands</HI> in their warres, and atchievers of the greate&s;t exploits among&s;t them.</P>
<P><HI>Hein&s;ius</HI> in his Oration made after the taking of the <HI>Bu&s;&s;e</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Anglorum &s;anguine &s;tat haec re&s;publica,</HI> This Commonwealth &s;tands by the bloud of the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>The fir&s;t of all Provinces this I&s;land of <HI>Britain,</HI> by common con|&s;ent, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Britanno|rum inac|ce&s;&s;a Ro|manis lo|ca Chri|&s;to ver&ograve; &s;ubdita. <HI>Tertul.</HI> adver&s;. Jud. cap. 7.</NOTE> received the Chri&s;tian Faith.</P>
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The glorious Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gildas</HI> te&s;tis e&s;t, <HI>Britannos</HI> jam inde ab initio orti E|vangelii, Chri|&s;tianam rece|pi&s;&s;e religio|nem. <HI>Polyd. Verg.</HI> Hi&s;t. Angl. l. 2. Vide <HI>R R.</HI> Armach. in Primord. An|tiquitat. Britan. p. 3. &amp; 27. &amp; 740. &amp; erudi|ti&s;&s;imum D. <HI>Hen. Spelm.</HI> in apparatu. Concil. Brit. pag. 12. &amp; <HI>God|winum</HI> De prima Britanniae no&s;trae ad fidem Chri&s;tianam con|ver&s;ione.</NOTE> (&s;aith <HI>Gildas Albanius,</HI> &s;urnamed the Wi&s;e, the mo&s;t ancient of our <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Hi&s;torians) which fir&s;t appeared to the world in the later time of <HI>Tiberius Cae|&s;ar,</HI> did even then &s;pread his bright beams upon this frozen I&s;land of <HI>Bri|tain.</HI> And it is generally received for a truth, that <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> of <HI>Arimathea</HI> laid the foundation of our faith at <HI>Gla&s;ten|bury.</HI></P>
<P>He that hath written of Honour Mi|litary and Civil, <HI>lib. 4. cap.</HI> 19. &s;aith, The chief place of Honour and Prece|dency in <HI>Europe</HI> appertaineth to the Kings of <HI>England.</HI> And one of the rea&s;ons he gives is, Becau&s;e the King and people of <HI>England</HI> received the Go&s;pel and Chri&s;tian Faith before <HI>France</HI> or <HI>Spain.</HI></P>
<P>There have been more Kings and Princes of the Bloud Royal, Confe&s;&s;ors and Martyrs in <HI>England,</HI> than in any one Province in <HI>Europe. Fa&s;ciculus temporis.</HI></P>
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See <HI>Gainsfords</HI> Glory of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> Chap. 21. &amp; 27. concern|ing our famous Kings here, and of famous Kings and Princes that came hither.</P>
<P><HI>Claudia Rufina</HI> of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Nati|on is celebrated by the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4. 21.</NOTE> and al&s;o by <HI>Martial.</HI></P>
<P>It is apparent that this I&s;land had the fir&s;t Chri&s;tian King in the world, and clearly in <HI>Europe.</HI> If priority of time <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Spelman.</HI> Epi&s;t. Ded. ad Lib. de Concil. Seldens <HI>Illu&s;t. of</HI> Drayt. Poly|olb. <HI>Song</HI> 8.</NOTE> &s;wayed it, and not cu&s;tome (derived from a communicable attribute given by the Popes) that name of Mo&s;t Chri&s;tian &s;hould better fit our Sove|reigns than the <HI>French.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Vide</HI> Polyd. Verg. <HI>Angl. Hi&s;t. l. 2. p.</HI> 41.</P>
<P>We had al&s;o the fir&s;t Chri&s;tian Em|perour <NOTE PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Selden</HI> &s;aith there al&s;o, that <HI>Con&s;tan|tine</HI> the Great was born here.</NOTE> <HI>Con&s;tantine.</HI></P>
<P>The fir&s;t King that ever renounced the Popes Supremacy was King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t King that ever wrote again&s;t the Pope, to prove him to be the Antichri&s;t, was King <HI>James.</HI></P>
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<HI>England</HI> hath been an <HI>A&s;ylum</HI> for the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Regina <HI>Eliza|betha</HI> Prote|&s;tantibus in Gallia &s;ubve|nit, Gallo&s;que in Angliam confugientes nullo non humanitatis genere pro&s;equuta e&s;t, ut etiam &amp; Belgas, quorum magna multitudo, Albano nihil ni&s;i Caedem &amp; &s;anguinem &s;pirante, in Angliam ut in a&s;ylum &s;e recepe|rant. Qui Reginae permi&s;&s;u Norwici, Colce&s;triae, Sandwici, Maid&s;tonae, &amp; Hamptonae &s;edes po&s;uerant magno &s;an&egrave; Angliae emo|lumento. Artem enim conficiendi leviden&s;as quas <HI>Bayes</HI> &amp; <HI>Sayes</HI> vocant, &amp; id genus alia linea &amp; lanea varia textura primi in Angli|am intulerunt. <HI>Camd.</HI> Annal. rerum Anglic. pars prima. p. 148. Vide <HI>Humfredum</HI> de nobil. l. 2. p. 252, 253, 254.</NOTE> di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prote&s;tants of other Coun|treys.</P>
<P>The Armes of <HI>England</HI> are three <NOTE PLACE="marg">Leones tres aureos gradi|ente&s;que, ori|bus obver&s;is, in &s;cuto puniceo ge&s;tabant Re|ges Angliae; <HI>&amp; eorum ad ex|emplum, leo|nes frequen|ti&s;&s;im&egrave; no&s;tris in clypeis vi|dere e&s;t.</HI> Bi&s;&s;aei <HI>notae in</HI> &V;ptonum. Polydorus Vergilius, Wilielmo, <HI>quem vocant, Conque&s;tori,</HI> Tres Leones accomodat jubatos aureos in clypeo rubeo. Sed &amp; tribus etiam liliis <HI>(ut hodi&egrave; &s;olet)</HI> commixtos: <HI>oblitus lilia ab</HI> Edwardo <HI>tertio, accedente jam Gallia, fui&s;&s;e an|nexa.</HI> Spelman. <HI>A&s;pilogia p.</HI> 44.</NOTE> Lions pa&s;&s;ant gold in a field gewls. The Lion &s;ignifies fortitude and ge|nero&s;ity.</P>
<P>Three <HI>Flour-delices</HI> were &s;ince that time annexed thereto by <HI>Edward</HI> the Third, by rea&s;on of his claime to the Crown of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>The State is Monarchical.</P>
<P>A Kingdom of a perfect and happy <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sub&s;idium vo|camus quod &s;ingulis capite cen&s;is viritim pro ratione bonorum &amp; agrorum imponitur. Ver&ugrave;m nec haec, nec illa taxatio (quindenarum &amp; decimarum) unquam imponi|tur ni&s;i ex ordinum con&s;en&s;u in Parliamento. <HI>Camd.</HI> Annal. rerum Angl. par. 1. p. 80.</NOTE>
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compo&s;ition, wherein the King hath his full Prerogative, the Nobles all due re|&s;pects, and the People, among&s;t other ble&s;&s;ings, perfect in this, that they are ma&s;ters of their own purpo&s;es, and have a &s;trong hand in the making of their own Laws.</P>
<P>Of all Seniories in the world that I know, the Realme of <HI>England</HI> is the Countrey where the Commonwealth is be&s;t governed, the People lea&s;t op|pre&s;&s;ed, and the fewe&s;t buildings and hou&s;es de&s;troyed in Civil Warre, and the lot of misfortune falleth upon them that be authours of the Warre. <HI>Phil. de Commin. Hi&s;t. l. 5. c.</HI> 18.</P>
<P><HI>England</HI> is not &s;ubject to Imperial and Romane Lawes, as other King|doms are, but retaineth her ancient Laws.</P>
<P>It is governed by the Municipal or Common Law, a Law proper to the Nation.</P>
<P>The Commonalty of <HI>England</HI> is the be&s;t Commonalty in the world, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Engli&s;h|men</HI> are the be&s;t &s;hot in the world, &s;aith <HI>Philip de Commines</HI> l. 1. c. 3. p. 10.</NOTE> the be&s;t Infantry, or Foot-&s;ouldiers, in
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whom the principal &s;trength of an Ar|my con&s;i&s;ts.</P>
<P>It was once the &s;aying, That the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sir</HI> Walt. Ral. <HI>Hist. See</HI> Gainsfords Englands Glo|ry, <HI>Chap. 24. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> And Sir</HI> Fran|cis Bacons <HI>Hi&s;tory of</HI> Hen|ry the Se|venth, <HI>pag.</HI> 74.</NOTE> Husbandry and Yeomandry of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> were the free&s;t men in the world.</P>
<P>The Merchant of <HI>England</HI> &s;urpa&s;&s;eth all other Nations. See <HI>Gainsfords Glo|ry of</HI> England, <HI>ch.</HI> 26.</P>
<P><HI>England</HI> aboundeth with all &s;orts of Cattel, except A&s;&s;es, Mules, Ca|mels and Elephants. No Countrey yeeldeth &s;uch plenty of Beeves and Sheep.</P>
<P>A Countrey alwayes mo&s;t tempe|rate. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Britannia bea|ti&s;&s;ima e&s;t in|&s;ularum, foe|cunda frugi|bus &amp; arbori|bus, copio&s;a rivis &amp; nemo|ribus, jucunda volucrum &amp; ferarum vena|tibus, ferax a|vium multi fluviis, &amp; diver&s;i generis terra; mari, &amp; fluviis alendis autem mira pecoribus, &amp; jumentis, Fluviis abun|dat
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valde pi&s;|co&s;is, fontibus praeclara copi|o&s;is: Et qui|dem praecipu&egrave; i&s;icio redundat &amp; anguilla, nec non &amp; halecia, &amp; o&s;trea mire in ea redundant. <HI>Huntingd.</HI> Hi&s;t. lib. 1. Ager non &s;terilis, &s;ed mir&egrave; foecundus e&s;t, excepto quod merum non gignat, nec illic largo vinea pube&s;cat foetu. Genus ho|minum non &s;olutum, non agre&s;te, &s;ed maxime cultum, qui per to|tum terrarum orbem, vel literis, vel armis clari habentur. Non &s;i|lebo luculentam corporis pulchritudinem qua cunctas gentes &amp; na|tiones vincunt. <HI>Adolphi</HI> &agrave; Dans vita <HI>Elizabethae.</HI> Vide plura ibid.</NOTE> The Air is thick, and &s;o it is much &s;ubject to winds, clouds and rain: and therefore in regard of the thickne&s;&s;e of the Air, it is neither oppre&s;t with too much heat, or too much cold.</P>
<P>It is &s;omewhat cloudy. <HI>Gunda|more</HI> being here, bid the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Po&s;t, when he came to <HI>Spain</HI> commend him to the Sunne, for he had not &s;een him a great while, and in <HI>Spain</HI> he &s;hould be &s;ure to find him.</P>
<P>The Ocean which beateth upon the Coa&s;t of this I&s;land abound|eth with all manner of Fi&s;h.</P>
<P>There are no where in all the world, either more dainty Oi&s;ters, or greater &s;tore.</P>
<P>The &s;oil is fruitfull in Mines of Lead, Iron, Tin and other Minerals; e&s;pecially <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Spaniard <HI>boa&s;ting of his Countreys Ci|trons, Orenges, Olives, and &s;uch like, Sir</HI> Roger Williams <HI>an|&s;wered him;</HI> yea, but <HI>(&s;aid he)</HI> in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> we have dainty Veal, and well fed Capons to eat with this &s;auce, and many delicate di&s;hes wor|thy the name of &s;u&s;tenance indeed. <HI>Gainsfords</HI> Glory of <HI>England,</HI> lib. 2. chap. 13.</NOTE> it abounds in Coal, a nece&s;&s;ary and rich Commodity. It is repleni&s;hed al&s;o with all &s;orts of Grain, with Medows and Pa&s;tures, in which innumerable flocks of Cattel feed.</P>
<P><HI>Cardan</HI> exhorted <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth, to plant Olives, and was fully per|&s;waded they would pro&s;per in this I&s;land.</P>
<P>Many places in <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> and el&s;ewhere in <HI>England,</HI> are called Vine|yards, &s;eeing it hath afforded Wine; and &s;urely it may &s;eem to proceed ra|ther
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from the Inhabitants idlene&s;&s;e, than any di&s;temperature and indi&s;po&s;ition of the Aire, that it yeeldeth none at this day. <HI>Camd. Brit. in Gloce&s;ter|&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>Hant&s;hire</HI> he &s;aith, We had Vines in <HI>Britain,</HI> &s;ince <HI>Probus</HI> the Emperours time, rather for &s;hade than fruit.</P>
<P>The People are tall of &s;tature, well-favoured, and fair countenanced, for the mo&s;t part gray-eyed. The women mo&s;t fair and beautifull, do go very de|cently and comely attired. We feed mo&s;twhat on fle&s;h. The drink which we u&s;e, and do make of malt, is in deed very good, whol&s;ome and plea|&s;ant.</P>
<P>There are more Parks, Fore&s;ts, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>England</HI> a great mi&s;tre&s;&s;e of Hunting.</NOTE> Cha&s;es in <HI>England,</HI> than are found in all Chri&s;tendom be&s;ide.</P>
<P>At this day there are 9285. Pari&s;hes in the Kingdom.</P>
<P>There is in no place of the world <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ortel.</HI> Theat. Orbis terra|rum.</NOTE> greater and larger Dogs, nor better Hounds.</P>
<P>That the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Hounds and Ma|&s;tives excell tho&s;e of other Nati|ons. See <HI>Burtons</HI> Comment. on <HI>An|toninus
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Itin.</HI> pag. 219, 220.</P>
<P>Of all the Doggs in <HI>Europe</HI> ours <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Camd.</HI> Brit. in <HI>Hant&s;hire. See him al&s;o in</HI> Middle&s;ex. Molo&s;&s;i nullibi terrarum prae|&s;tantiores &s;ae|viore&s;que &s;unt. <HI>Lucae de Lind.</HI> De&s;cript. Or|bis.</NOTE> bear the name. They were in mo&s;t re|que&s;t, both for tho&s;e baitings in the Amphitheaters, and al&s;o in all other publick huntings among the Ro|manes.</P>
<P><HI>Magna&abque; taurorum fracturi colla Britanni.</HI></P>
<P>Claudian.</P>
<P>The Cock is a bold and &s;tout Bird, and will fight valiantly with his adver|&s;aries, and pre&s;ently crows when he obtains victory. See <HI>Pliny, lib. 29. cap.</HI> 4.</P>
<P>The Cocks al&s;o there give not over the fight till death parts them.</P>
<P>There are three principal Rivers in <HI>England, Thames</HI> in the South-Ea&s;t, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sunt duo flu|mina caeteris clariora. Ta|me&s;is &amp; Sa|brina qua&s;i duo brachia Britaniae, per quae &s;ibi &s;uas &amp; alienas effert &amp; infert divitias. <HI>Hun|tingd.</HI> Hi&s;t. l. 1. Tame&s;is fluviorum omnium, qui Britanniam al|luunt facile princeps. <HI>Lel.</HI> praefat. in Cygn. Cant.</NOTE> <HI>Severn</HI> in the South-We&s;t, <HI>Trent</HI> a Northern River.</P>
<P><HI>I&s;is</HI> the principal and Prince of all <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tame <HI>and</HI> I&s;is meet neer <HI>Wal|lingford</HI> in <HI>Bark&s;hire,</HI> as <HI>Jordan</HI> is com|pounded of <HI>Jor</HI> and <HI>Dan.</HI></NOTE> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Rivers, afterward enter|taineth
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<HI>Tame,</HI> and by a compound word is called <HI>Tame&s;is.</HI>
<Q><L>His ita compo&s;itis, hinc Plantageneta re|gre&s;sus</L>
<L>Fluctibus aequoreis trajectis venit in arcem,</L>
<L>Urbis Londini, quam praeterlabitur amnis</L>
<L>Pi&s;co&s;us Thame&s;is, famae celeberrimus inter</L>
<L>Albionis rivos.&mdash;</L>
<BIBL><HI>Oclandi</HI> Anglorum Praelia.</BIBL></Q></P>
<P>The <HI>Thames</HI> &s;welleth with the acce&s;&s;e of the flowing tide of the Sea, about Lx <HI>Italian</HI> miles by water from his mouth. Neither to my knowledge is <NOTE PLACE="marg">Camd. <HI>Brit.</HI> in <HI>Surrey.</HI> See more there.</NOTE> there any other River in all <HI>Europe,</HI> that for &s;o many miles within Land feeleth the violence of the Ocean forcing and ru&s;hing in upon it, and &s;o driving back and with-holding his waters, to the ex|ceeding great commodity of the Inha|bitants bordering thereupon.</P>
<P>The &s;econd River of <HI>England</HI> is <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sabrina Ta|citus.</NOTE> <HI>Severn,</HI> the head of it is the Hill <HI>Plinlimon</HI> in <HI>Montgomery-&s;hire.</HI> He
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&s;lowly wandereth through this Shire, <HI>Shrop&s;hire, Worce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> and la&s;t of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Camd.</HI> Brit. <HI>in</HI> Montgomery-&s;hire.</NOTE> all <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> infu&s;ing a certain vital moi&s;ture into the &s;oil every where as he pa&s;&s;eth, untill at length he mildely di&s;chargeth him&s;elf into the <HI>Severn-</HI>&s;ea.</P>
<P><HI>Trent</HI> by his due right challengeth to him&s;elf the third place among all the Rivers of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>It runneth out of two Fountains be|ing neer neighbours together in the North part of <HI>Stafford&s;hire</HI> among the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Camd. <HI>Brit.</HI> in Stafford&s;hire.</NOTE> Moors. Certain unskilfull, and idle headed, have dreamed, that it was &s;o named of <HI>Trente</HI> a <HI>French</HI> word, which &s;ignifieth <HI>Thirty,</HI> and thereupon al&s;o have feigned, that thirty Rivers runne into it, and as many kinds of fi&s;hes live therein.</P>
<P>We have more glorious Univer&s;i|ties, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vigent duo Gymna&s;ia al|terum apud <HI>Oxonium</HI> &s;upra <HI>Thame&s;im,</HI> alterum <HI>Cantabrigiae</HI> non long&egrave; ab <HI>Elien&s;is</HI> urbis paludi|bus In haec ingenuorum adole&s;centium ingens numerus ad per|di&s;cendas liberales di&s;ciplinas concurrit: profe&s;&s;oribus enim &s;ti|pendia, alimentaque di&s;cipulis antiqu&acirc; Regum liberalitate, &amp; opti|morum Anti&s;titum te&s;tamentis per&s;olvuntur. <HI>Paul. Jov.</HI> Britanniae De&s;criptio.</NOTE> Colledges, Schools and Churches,
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than any Nation of the world.</P>
<P>There are two famous Univer&s;i|ties <NOTE PLACE="marg">See my Book of Religion and Learning.</NOTE> in <HI>England, Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cam|bridge.</HI></P>
<P>Five great Schools in <HI>England, We&s;t|min&s;ter, Eaton, Winche&s;ter, Pauls</HI> and Merchant-Taylors School.</P>
<P>For Churches Doctor <HI>Heylin</HI> in his Geography &s;hews which are the be&s;t.</P>
<P>It is famous beyond Seas al&s;o for <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lana Anglica verum fuerit Belis <HI>Vellus Aureum,</HI> cui Inclytus ille militaris <HI>Ordo Velleris Aurei,</HI> &s;uam originem &amp; Burgundiae Duces magnas opes debuerunt. <HI>Camd.</HI> Annal. rerum Angl. pars. prima. pag. 90.</NOTE> its fine Wooll, which is our golden Fleece.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t con&s;iderable Ports on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide of the I&s;land, are <HI>New-ca&s;tle, Hull, Lynne, Yarmouth, Harwich, Col|chester, Sandwich;</HI> on the South-&s;ide lies <HI>Plymouth;</HI> on the We&s;t, <HI>Che|&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>Our Language con&s;i&s;ts partly of <HI>French, Dani&s;h, Saxon</HI> and <HI>Picti&s;h</HI> Language.</P>
<P>The <HI>Engli&s;h-Saxon</HI> Tongue came in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Anglicum I|dioma non &s;o|lum Belgico &amp; Alemannico, &s;ed etiam Graeco &amp; He|braico in mul|tis convenire in&s;picienti &s;a|cile patebit. <HI>Seldeni</HI> Praefat. ad Analecta Anglo Brit. Saxonica lin|gua eo olim in honore fuit (fort&egrave; quod &egrave; Graeco pluri|ma retuli&s;&s;et) ut docti&s;&s;imo ipfi <HI>Bedae</HI> An|glo-Saxoni inter laudes detur, fui&s;&s;e doctum in Saxonica lingua. <HI>Spelm.</HI> Praefat. ad lib. de Concil. Vide plura ibid.</NOTE> by the <HI>Engli&s;h-Saxons</HI> out of <HI>Germany,</HI>
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who valiantly and wi&s;ely performed here all the three things, which imply a full conque&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> the alteration of Lawes, Language and Attire. <HI>Camd. Remains.</HI></P>
<P>He &s;aith al&s;o there, that our Tongue is as copious, pithy and &s;ignificative, as any other Tongue in <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
<P>There is in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> as true &s;trains of Eloquence, as &s;trong and fine ex|pre&s;&s;ions, as elaborate and &s;olid pieces of fancy, as in any Language what&s;o|ever. <HI>Howels In&s;truct. for Travel. Sect.</HI> 12.</P>
<P><HI>George</HI> (commonly called St. <HI>George)</HI> was the Patron, both of our Nation, and of the mo&s;t honourable Order of Knighthood in the world.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t and la&s;t Here&s;ie that ever troubled this I&s;land was inbred by <HI>Pelagius;</HI> but that was among&s;t the <HI>Britons,</HI> and was &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by the zeal of the <HI>Saxons,</HI> who liked no|thing of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> breed, and for who&s;e &s;ake it &s;uffered more happly
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then for the foulne&s;&s;e of the opi|nion.</P>
<P>The &s;weating &s;ickne&s;&s;e call'd for <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Polyd. Verg.</HI> Ang. Hi&s;t. l. 26. in <HI>Henrico</HI> 7^t^i^m^o, pag. 568. <HI>Speeds</HI> Chron. <HI>in</HI> Edw. 6.</NOTE> the propriety by which it &s;eized on the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation chiefly, <HI>Sudor Anglicus.</HI></P>
<P>It followed onely <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> in forrain Countreys, no other people in|fected therewith.</P>
<P>There is a good cour&s;e taken to &s;ecure this Land from forreigne In|va&s;ion by burning of Beacons.</P>
<P><HI>Beacon</HI> of the old word <HI>Beacnian,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Specula.</HI> Lamb. Peram|bul. of <HI>Kent.</HI></NOTE> that is, to &s;hew by a &s;igne; for the&s;e many hundred years they have been in great reque&s;t, and much u&s;ed among us: in &s;ome places by heaping up a deal of wood, in others by barrels full of pitch fa&s;tened to the top of a Ma&s;t or Pole in the highe&s;t places of the Coun|trey, at which by night &s;ome do al|wayes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Camden <HI>in</HI> Hant&s;hire.</NOTE> watch, that by burning the pitch the enemies coming may be &s;hewed to all the neighbour inhabitants. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Scots</HI> in &s;uch danger command the fire-cro&s;&s;e to be carried (an ancient cu&s;tome in ca&s;es of importance) which was two fire-brands &s;et in fa&s;hion of a Cro&s;&s;e, and pitched upon the point of a spear. Sir <HI>Richard Bakers</HI> Chron. in the Reigne of King <HI>Edward</HI> the <HI>6^t^h.</HI></NOTE></P>
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This Realme was fir&s;t divided into Circuits by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Second, who appointed twice in the year, that two of the mo&s;t grave and learned Jud|ges of the Land, &s;hould in each Cir|cuit admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice in the chief or head Towns of every Countrey. Of the&s;e Judges one &s;itteth on matters criminal, concerning the life and death of malefactours; the other in actions per&s;onal, concerning Title of Lands, Debts, or the like, between party and party.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Circuit heretofore did com|prehend the Counties of <HI>Wilts, Somer&s;et, Devon</HI> and <HI>Southampton.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;econd contained the Coun|ties of <HI>Oxford, Berks, Gloce&s;ter, Mun|mouth, Hereford, Worce&s;ter, Salop</HI> and <HI>Stafford.</HI></P>
<P>The third had in it, the Coun|ties of <HI>Surrey, Kent, E&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Hart|ford.</HI></P>
<P>The fourth con&s;i&s;ted of the Shires of <HI>Buckingham, Bedford, Hunting|don, Cambridge, Norfolk</HI> and <HI>Suf|folk.</HI></P>
<P>The fifth of the Shires, of <HI>Nor|thampton,
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Rutland, Lincoln, Not|tingham, Darby, Leice&s;ter</HI> and <HI>War|wick.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ixth and la&s;t, of the Shires of <HI>York, Durham, Northumberland, Cum|berland, We&s;tmerland</HI> and <HI>Lanca&s;ter.</HI> So that in the&s;e &s;ix Circuits are num|bered thirty eight Shires. The two remaining are <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Che&s;hire:</HI> whereof the fir&s;t is exempted, becau&s;e of its vicinity to <HI>London;</HI> and the &s;e|cond as being a County Palatine, and having peculiar Judges and Coun&s;ellors to it &s;elf.</P>
<P>The &s;even Kingdoms, <HI>Kent, South-Saxia,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Saxon</HI> Heptarchy. This I&s;land most flouri&s;hed then, and in the Con|querours time it was farre better inhabited then at the pre&s;ent.</NOTE> <HI>We&s;t-Saxie, Ea&s;t-Saxia, Nor|thumberland, Mercia</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;t-Anglia,</HI> were governed by &s;o many &s;everal Kings.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ethelbert <HI>was King of</HI> Kent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sebert <HI>of</HI> Ea&s;t-Saxon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Erpenwald <HI>of the</HI> Ea&s;t-Angle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edwine <HI>of</HI> Northumberland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kingill <HI>of</HI> We&s;t-Saxon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Peada <HI>of</HI> Mercia.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ethelwolf <HI>of the</HI> South-Saxon.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>King <HI>Alfred</HI> ordained the Divi|&s;ion of Shires, Hundre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">, and
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<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So named, becau&s;e there were ten per|&s;ons in each of them, whereof each was &s;urety for others good abearing. <HI>Lamberts</HI> Perambulat. of <HI>Kent.</HI></NOTE> Tithings, that every <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> living legally, might be of a certain Hundred or Tithing, out of which he was not to remove without &s;e|curity.</P>
<P>There are one and fourty Shires in <HI>England,</HI> every Shire con&s;i&s;ting of &s;o many Hundreds, and eve|ry Hundred of a number of Boroughs, Villages, or Tithings.</P>
<P><HI>England</HI> was divided into &s;even Kingdomes by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> after into <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Totius Angliae</HI> (de <HI>Aluredo</HI> Rege &s;ic &s;cri|bit Ingulphus Abbas Crou|landen&s;is) <HI>pagos &amp; Provincias in comitatus primus omnium commutavit.</HI> Comi|tatus in Centurias &amp; in decimas divi&s;it, ut omnis indigena lega|lis in aliqua centuria &amp; decima exi&s;teret. <HI>Seldeni</HI> Janus An|glorum.</NOTE> Provinces, Shires, or Shares, and Coun|treys by <HI>Alured.</HI></P>
<P>In the&s;e Shires there is appointed in trouble&s;ome times a Deputy under the King, to &s;ee that the Commonwealth &s;u&s;tain no hurt.</P>
<P>Now every year, &s;ome one of the Gentlemen Inhabitants, is made Ruler
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of the County wherein he dwelleth, whom we call in Latine <HI>Vicecomitem,</HI> as one would &s;ay, the Deputy of the <HI>Comes,</HI> or Earl, and in our tongue She|riff. It is his duty to gather the com|mon moneys of the Prince in his Coun|ty, to collect and bring into the Exche|quer all fines impo&s;ed, even by di&s;trein|ing: to be attendant upon the Judges, and to execute their commandments: to a&s;&s;emble and empanel the twelve men, which in cau&s;es do enquire of the Fact, and make relation thereof, and give in their Verdict to the Judges (for Judges with us &s;it upon the right onely of a cau&s;e, and not upon the fact) to &s;ee condemned per&s;ons execut&egrave;d, and to examine and determine certain &s;mal|ler actions.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="treatise">
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<HEAD>OF THE Several Counties <HI>IN</HI> ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CAmden</HI> begins with <HI>Corn|wall,</HI> and ends with <HI>Northumberland,</HI> I &s;hall mention the Counties of <HI>England,</HI> rather ac|cording to the Letters of the Alphabet.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Barkshire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called in Latine <HI>Berkeria.</HI> It is bounded upon the Ea&s;t with <HI>Surrey,</HI> upon the North with the River of <HI>Thames</HI> from <HI>Buckingham&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Ox|ford&s;hire</HI>
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upon the We&s;t with <HI>Wilt|&s;hire,</HI> and upon the South with <HI>Hant|&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Abbendune</HI> or <HI>Abington,</HI> &s;o called <NOTE PLACE="marg">Abbay Town.</NOTE> of the <HI>Abbay,</HI> rather than of one <HI>Ab|ben</HI> an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Eremite of the Abby there. See <HI>Mona&s;ticon Anglicanum,</HI> pag. 97.</P>
<P><HI>Farendon</HI> famous now for a Mercate there kept.</P>
<P><HI>Wadley.</HI> It is &s;ituate in a vale, though <NOTE PLACE="marg">The vale of the white Hor&s;e, is a very fruitfull vale, and full of Gentry, it is both in <HI>Bark|&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Wilt|&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> not &s;o fertile a &s;oil, as &s;ome vales af|ford, yet a mo&s;t commodious &s;ite, whol&s;ome, in a delicious air, a rich and plea&s;ant &s;eat.</P>
<P><HI>Newbury,</HI> as much as the <HI>Newburgh,</HI> a fair Town, well &s;eated in a Champion plain.</P>
<P><HI>Reading</HI> of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> word <HI>Redin,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A very ancient Town, and the be&s;t Town of all <HI>Barkshire. Lelands</HI> Itine|rary MS. to <HI>H.</HI> 8. Others &s;ay <HI>Abington.</HI></NOTE> which &s;ignifieth Fearn (that growing here plentifully) excelleth all other Towns of this Shire in fair &s;treets, and goodly hou&s;es: for wealth al&s;o of the Town&s;men, and their name in making of Cloath. There is a very great Market.</P>
<P><HI>Maidenhead,</HI> &s;o named of the &s;u|per&s;titious wor&s;hipping of I wot not
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what <HI>Briti&s;h Maidens-Head.</HI> Camd. <HI>Brit.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Maidenhead</HI> or <HI>Maidenhith. Hith</HI> in the old <HI>Saxon</HI> did &s;ignifie a Wharf, Haven, or Landing-place. It had its name from the Wharf or Ferry, be|longing at that time to &s;ome neigh|bouring Nunnery, or to &s;ome private Maidens dwelling thereabout, who then received the profits of it. So <HI>Queen-Hith</HI> in <HI>London</HI> took that ap|pellation, becau&s;e the profits of the Wharf were anciently accounted for to the Queens of <HI>England.</HI> Dr. <HI>Hey|lins</HI> Animadver&s;. on the Church. Hi&s;t. of <HI>Brit. lib. 1. p.</HI> 20. See <HI>Camden</HI> of <HI>Maiden-bradly</HI> in <HI>Wilt&s;hire,</HI> fol. 243.</P>
<P><HI>Winde&s;ore,</HI> A Royal Ca&s;tle and Hou&s;e of the Kings, with the Town <NOTE PLACE="marg">New Wind&s;ore&punc; Oppidum anti|quum, nobile, magnificum, &amp; &s;itu denique tam amaenum, ut cum alio quocunque jure optimo de palma conten|dat, quam &amp; mihi vel in ip&s;o ca&s;tri vertice quo &s;ol splendi|dius &s;an&egrave; nihil a&s;picit, decenti&s;|&s;im&egrave; ge&s;tare vi|detur. <HI>Lel.</HI> Comment. in Cyg. Cant.</NOTE> adjoyning.</P>
<P>A Princes Seat cannot have a more plea&s;ant &s;ituation. For from a high Hill that ri&s;eth with a gentle a&s;cent, it enjoyeth a mo&s;t delightfull Pro&s;pect round about.</P>
<P>With the plea&s;antne&s;&s;e of this place, Princes were allured, very often to
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retire them&s;elves hither: and here was <HI>Edward</HI> the Third that mo&s;t pui&s;&s;ant King borne: who here built new out of the ground a mo&s;t &s;trong Ca&s;tle, in big|ne&s;&s;e equal to a pretty City, fortified with Ditches and Bulwarks made of &s;tone: and forthwith after he had &s;ub|dued the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Scots,</HI> held at one and the &s;elf &s;ame time <HI>John</HI> King of <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>David</HI> King of <HI>Scotland</HI> pri&s;oners together in the &s;ame.</P>
<P>In this place King <HI>Edward</HI> the Third, for to adorn Martial Prowe&s;&s;e with Ho|nours, the Guerdon of Vertue, or|dained the mo&s;t Noble Order and So|ciety <NOTE PLACE="marg">See <HI>Hi&s;toire d' Angle-terre.</HI> Par Du Che&s;|ne, l. 15. p. 670, 671, 672,</NOTE> of Knights, whom he called Knights of the Garter: who wear on their left Legge, &s;omewhat under the knee a Blew Garter, with the&s;e golden Letters in <HI>French, HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENS'E,</HI> Shame to him that evil thinks, and fa&s;ten the &s;ame with a Buckle of Gold, as with the Band of a mo&s;t inward Society, in token of Concord and Unity, that there might be among them a certain Con&s;ociation and Communion of Ver|tues.</P>
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Some attribute the original of it un|to the Garter of the Queen, or rather <HI>Joan</HI> Counte&s;&s;e of <HI>Salisbury,</HI> a Lady of incomparable beauty, which fell from her as &s;he danced, and the King took up from the floor: for when a number of Nobles and Gentlemen &s;tanding by laughed thereat, he made <NOTE PLACE="marg">Camd. <HI>Britan|in</HI> Barkshire.</NOTE> an&s;wer again, <HI>That &s;hortly it would come to pa&s;&s;e, that Garter &s;hould be in high honour and e&s;timation.</HI> This is the mo&s;t common, and mo&s;t received report.</P>
<P>There is a Book entituled, <HI>Catechi&s;|mus ordinis Equitum Perifcelidis,</HI> writ|ten long &s;ince by <HI>Belvaleti,</HI> the Popes Nuncio here, and publi&s;hed in the year 1631. by <HI>Bo&s;quierus:</HI> wherein the Authour makes an Allegory on the whole habit of the Order, the Matter, Colour, Fa&s;hion, Wearing, to the ve|ry Girdle. Dr. <HI>Heylins Antidotum Lin|colnien&s;e.</HI> Sect. 3. ch. 10.</P>
<P>The mightie&s;t Princes in Chri&s;ten|dome, <NOTE PLACE="marg">An Order ve|rily of all the Orders of the Chri&s;tian world (if it be to be compared with any other) mo&s;t an|cient and mo&s;t famous. <HI>Milles</HI> of Nobil. Polit. and Civil. <HI>p.</HI> 88. The Order of the Garter exceeds in maje&s;ty, honour and fame, all chi|valrous Orders in the world. <HI>Selden.</HI> Illu&s;trat of <HI>Drayt.</HI> Polyolb. 16th Song. See more there, and <HI>Lel. Com. in cygn. Cant.</HI> and <HI>Seld.</HI> Tit. of Hon. 4^t^o, pag. 363.</NOTE>
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reputed it among&s;t their greate&s;t honour to be cho&s;en and admitted into this Company: and &s;ince, the fir&s;t In|&s;titution thereof, there have been al|ready received, and enrolled into this Order, which con&s;i&s;teth of &s;ix and twenty Knights, two and twenty Kings, or thereabout; be&s;ides our Kings of <HI>England,</HI> who are named So|vereigns thereof: to &s;peak nothing of Dukes, and others of mo&s;t high calling, very many.</P>
<P>The Founders of the Order, which in tho&s;e dayes for &s;tout courage and war|like Prowe&s;&s;e, had few or no Peers, and were in that regard advanced to that honour.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Edward <HI>the Third King of</HI> England.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward <HI>his elde&s;t Sonne, and Prince of</HI> Wales.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry <HI>Duke of</HI> Lanca&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Beauchamp <HI>Earl of</HI> War|wick.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Peter Copit de la Bouche.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ralph <HI>Earl of</HI> Stafford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William de Montacute <HI>Earl of</HI> Sari&s;|bury.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Mortimer <HI>Earl of</HI> March.</ITEM>
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John <HI>Lord</HI> Li&s;le.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Bartholomew de Burgher&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> John Beauchamp.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John <HI>Lord</HI> Mohun <HI>of</HI> Dun&s;tere.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Hugh Courtne.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Thomas <HI>and Sir</HI> Otho Holland.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> John Gray <HI>of</HI> Codnor.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Richard Fitz Simon.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Miles Stapleton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Thomas Walle.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Hugh Wrothe&s;ly.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Neel Lorenge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> John Chandos. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vir pugnaci&s;&s;i|mus <HI>Joannes Chandos</HI> Peri|&s;celidis eques primarius, Gal|li&s;que propter &s;ummam virtu|tem &s;ub <HI>Ed.</HI> 3. bellator noti&s;&s;i|mus. <HI>Spelman.</HI> A&s;pilogia.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> James Audley.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Henry E&s;wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Sanchio Dampredicourt.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Walter Pavely.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>There is an honourable Family of Barons, &s;urnamed of <HI>Wind&s;ore.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Eaton</HI> is hereto adjoyned by a wood|en Bridge over the <HI>Thames,</HI> and in it a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Splendor loci omnis in &s;cholae publica, quam erexit Vindeli|&s;orae in alum|nos, Rex<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">longe pientior, quam fortunatior. <HI>Lelandi</HI> Com|ment. in Cygne|am Cantionem.</NOTE> fair Colledge, and a famous School of good literature, founded and built by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Sixth: wherein be&s;ides the Provo&s;t, eight Fellows, and the &s;inging Chori&s;ters, there are three&s;core Scholars, in&s;tructed in Grammar, and in due time preferred to the Uni|ver&s;ity
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of <HI>Cambridge.</HI></P>
<P>It containeth twenty Hundreds, twelve Market Towns, and an hundred and forty Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Bedford&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P><HI>BEdford</HI> is the principal Town, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bedfordia,</HI> the River <HI>Ou&s;e</HI> runs thorow the Town in the midde&s;t.</NOTE> whereof the Shire al&s;o taketh name.</P>
<P>A Town to be commended more for the plea&s;ant &s;ituation, and antiquity thereof, then for beauty or large|ne&s;&s;e, although a man may tell five Churches in it.</P>
<P><HI>Hockley</HI> in the <HI>Hole,</HI> &s;o named of the miry way in Winter time, very trouble|&s;ome to travellers: for the old <HI>Engli&s;h|men</HI> our Progenitors called deep mire <HI>Hock</HI> and <HI>Hocks.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Dun&s;table.</HI> This Town &s;eated in a <NOTE PLACE="marg">A tale of vain credit is repor|ted of <HI>Dun&s;ta|ble,</HI> that it was built to bridle the out|ragiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of a thief named <HI>Dun,</HI> by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Fir&s;t: but cer|tain it is, the place was formerly held by the Romans. <HI>Speed.</HI> Yet Sir <HI>John Hay|ward</HI> in the Life of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Fir&s;t, <HI>pag</HI> 282. &s;aith, <HI>Dun</HI> was a famous thief among&s;t others, commander over the re&s;t, and of him the place was called <HI>Dun&s;table.</HI></NOTE> Chalky ground, well inhabited, and full of Innes, hath four &s;treets an&s;wer|ing to the four quarters of the world: in every one of which there is a
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large Pond of &s;tanding water, for the publique u&s;e of the Inhabi|tants.</P>
<P>It contains ten Market Towns, an hundred and &s;ixteen Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Buckingham&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT brings forth Beech-trees plenti|tifully, <NOTE PLACE="marg">There is a Countrey in <HI>Germany</HI> bear|ing Beech-trees, named <HI>Buchonia,</HI> and with us a Town in <HI>Nor|folk</HI> called <HI>Buckenham,</HI> fruitfull of Beech.</NOTE> which the <HI>Engli&s;h Saxons</HI> in elder times called <HI>Bucken,</HI> whence <HI>Buckingham</HI> the chief Town, and &s;o the whole Shire took the name from Beech-trees.</P>
<P>The Countrey generally is of a rich plentifull &s;oil, and pa&s;&s;ing full of inha|bitants, who chiefly imploy them&s;elves in grazing of Cattel, there is &s;tore of Mutton and Beef.</P>
<P><HI>Chiltern</HI> got that name according to
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the very nature of the &s;oile of Chalkie Marle, which the anci|ent <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> termed <HI>Cylt</HI> or <HI>Chilt.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Marlow</HI> a pretty Town of no mean credit, taking name of the &s;aid Chalk commonly termed <HI>Marle:</HI> which be|ing &s;pread upon Corn-ground eaten out of heart with long tillage doth quicken the &s;ame again; &s;o as that after one yeers re&s;t it never lieth fallow, but yeeldeth again to the Husband|man his &s;eed in plentifull mea|&s;ure.</P>
<P><HI>High Wickham</HI> or <HI>Wicombe</HI> rather from the turning of the River <HI>Thames,</HI> the <HI>Germane Saxons</HI> term any winding reach of River and Sea, a Wick, and Comb a low valle. This Town for largene&s;&s;e and fair building is equal to the greate&s;t Town in this Shire, and in that it hath a Maior for the Head Magi&s;trate.</P>
<P><HI>Colbroke-Pontes</HI> is parted into four <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pontes</HI> in <HI>France</HI> and our <HI>Tunbrige,</HI> and others are &s;o called of Brid|ges.</NOTE> chanels, over which &s;tand as ma|ny Bridges for the commodity of pa&s;&s;engers, whence it tooke its name.</P>
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<HI>Hamden</HI> gave name to an ancient and well &s;pread Family in the&s;e parts. Some &s;ay, one of that name was High-Sheriff when <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour came into <HI>England.</HI> There is part of&punc; the Hou&s;e at great <HI>Hamden</HI> yet &s;tanding, which hath been built ever &s;ince the time of <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour.</P>
<P>They have ancient Records, one of which runs thus, <HI>Osbert Hamden Lord of Great Hamden, one of the Commi&s;si|oners for expul&s;ion of the Danes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ailesbury</HI> a fair Market Town, com|pa&s;&s;ed about with many mo&s;t plea&s;ant green Medows and Pa&s;tures, of which the whole Vale is termed the <HI>Vale of Ailesbury.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;cot</HI> the principal man&s;ion hou&s;e of the <HI>Dormers,</HI> from whence de&s;cended the Dutches of <HI>Feria</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> and others of noble note.</P>
<P><HI>Stony Stratford,</HI> named &s;o of <HI>Stones,</HI> the <HI>Streetway,</HI> and a <HI>Fourd.</HI> The hou&s;|es are built of a certain rough &s;tone, which is digged forth in great abundance at <HI>Caver&s;ham</HI> hard by, and it &s;tandeth upon the publick &s;treet, commonly called <HI>Watling-&s;treet,</HI> which was a mi|litary
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high-way made by the <HI>Romans,</HI> and is evidently to be &s;een yet beyond the Town with the Bank or Cau&s;ey thereof, and hath a ford, but now hard|ly pa&s;&s;able.</P>
<P><HI>Newport-Painel</HI> &s;o called of Sir <HI>Ful|cod Painel</HI> the Lord thereof.</P>
<P>Here are an eleven Market Towns, and an hundred and eighty five Pa|ri&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Cambridge&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CAmbridge&s;hire</HI> is famous for fi&s;h and fowl.</P>
<P><HI>Cambridge</HI> a mo&s;t famous Mart and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cambridge</HI> and <HI>Huntington&s;hire</HI> have but one Sheriff.</NOTE> Store-hou&s;e of good Literature and Godline&s;&s;e, &s;tandeth upon the River <HI>Cam,</HI> which turning into the Ea&s;t, di|videth it into two parts, and hath a Bridge over it, whence aro&s;e the name <HI>Cambridge.</HI></P>
<P>Neither is there wanting any thing here, that a man may require in a mo&s;t flouri&s;hing Univer&s;ity, were it not that
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the Air is &s;omewhat unhealthfull, ari|&s;ing as it doth out of a fenny ground hard by.</P>
<P>There are &s;ixteen Colledges in it.</P>
<P><HI>Saint Ides</HI> is one of the famou&s;e&s;t Markets of <HI>England,</HI> it &s;erves &s;everal Counties.</P>
<P>The <HI>I&s;le of Ely.</HI></P>
<P>There are &s;everal Etymologies of it given by <HI>Camden.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ely</HI> a Bi&s;hops See <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Sedes e&s;t &amp; Cathedra Epi&s;|copalis. Ip&s;um &s;olum fertilitate omnes alias Angliae regiones adaequat, ple|ra&s;que &s;uperat; pa&s;cua &s;ucculento virent gramine, agri den&s;o laetantur &s;e|gete, prata aquis irrigua luxuriant. Sed alia e&s;t ubertas nobilior, in qua mihitriumphare videtur, triginta concionatores &s;imul floruerunt, qui ex oppido &s;olo natales &s;uos derivarent; quod de nulla alia civitate, <HI>Lon|dino</HI> excepto, affirmari po&s;&s;e credo. <HI>Willeti</HI> Epi&s;tola Dedicat. ad lib. 2. <HI>Samuelis.</HI> Vide plura ibid.</NOTE>, the City hath an unwhol&s;ome Air by rea&s;on of the fens round about, although it be &s;eated &s;omewhat higher.</P>
<P>Hard under <HI>Cambridge</HI> Ea&s;tward neer <NOTE PLACE="marg">It begins on the 8th of <HI>Sep|tember,</HI> and la&s;ts about a fortnight. It is called <HI>Sturbridge-</HI>Fair.</NOTE> unto <HI>Sture,</HI> a little brook, is kept every yeer in the Moneth of <HI>September,</HI> the greate&s;t Fair of all <HI>England,</HI> whether you re&s;pect the multitude of buyers and &s;ellers re&s;orting thither, or the &s;tore of Commodities there to be vented.</P>
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Neer unto <HI>Cambridge</HI> on the South-Ea&s;t &s;ide, there appear aloft certain high Hils called <HI>Gogmagog.</HI> On the top of them is a very large Fort, en|trenched, &s;trengthened with a three-fold Rampire.</P>
<P><HI>Wisbich</HI> among&s;t Fennes and waters.</P>
<P>It hath eight Market Towns, and an hundred and &s;ixty three Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Che&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is very plea&s;ant and plenteous in <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Che&s;hire</HI> chief of men; <HI>Lanca&s;hire</HI> fair women. King of <HI>Che|&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> all things needfull for mans u&s;e, and therefore had the name of the <HI>Vale Royal of England</HI> from <HI>Edward</HI> the Fir&s;t.</P>
<P>The Gra&s;&s;e and Fodder there is of that goodne&s;&s;e and vertue, that Chee&s;|es are made there in great number, of a mo&s;t plea&s;ing and delicate ta&s;te, &s;uch as all <HI>England</HI> again affordeth not the like; no, though the be&s;t dayriwomen other|wi&s;e, and skilfulle&s;t in Chee&s;-making be had from hence.</P>
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This Region hath alwayes bred more Gentry than the other Coun|treys in <HI>England:</HI> For you have not in all <HI>England</HI> again any one Pro|vince be&s;ide, that in old time either brought more valorous Gentlemen into the field, or had more families in it of Knights degree.</P>
<P>The <HI>Breretons, Manwarings</HI> and <HI>Ve|nables</HI> are the mo&s;t noble Families in that County.</P>
<P>On the South-&s;ide it is hemmed in with <HI>Shrop&s;hire,</HI> on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide with <HI>Stafford&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Darby&s;hire,</HI> on the North with <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> and on the We&s;t with <HI>Denbigh</HI> and <HI>Flint|&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>The River <HI>Dee,</HI> called in Latine <HI>De|va,</HI> breeding very great plenty of <HI>Sal|mons,</HI> ari&s;eth out of two fountains in <HI>Wales,</HI> and thereof men think it took the name: for <HI>Dwy</HI> in their tongue &s;ig|nifieth two.</P>
<P>This River no &s;ooner is entered into <HI>Che&s;hire,</HI> but it pa&s;&s;eth by <HI>Banchor,</HI> a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Yet <HI>Banchor</HI> is in <HI>Flint&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> famous Mona&s;tery. It fo&s;tered and brought up (as &s;ome write) the mo&s;t wicked Arch-heretique <HI>Pelagius,</HI> who
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injuriou&s;ly derogating from the grace of God, troubled a long time the we&s;t Church with his pe&s;tiferous Doctrine. <HI>Pro&s;per Aquitanus</HI> in this Ver&s;e of his, termeth him the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Adder,
<Q><L>Pe&s;tifero vomuit coluber &s;ermone Bri|tannus.</L></Q>
<Q><L>A <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Snake, with venemous tongue,</L>
<L>Hath vomited his poi&s;on &s;trong.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Che&s;ter</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It is chiefly one &s;treet, of very mean building. <HI>Lel. Itin.</HI></NOTE> or <HI>We&s;t-Che&s;ter,</HI> of the We&s;t &s;ituation.
<Q><L>Ce&s;tria de ca&s;tris nomen qua&s;i castria &s;ump&s;it.</L></Q></P>
<P>This City built in form of a qua|drant, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ce&s;tria</HI> Epi&s;|copalis magnifi|ca, &amp; cele|berrima Angliae urbs, amplitu|dine, &s;uperbo aedificiorum ni|tore, &amp; culti&s;|&s;imorum hortorum elegantia commendata, duo pa&s;&s;uum millia, in cir|cuitu colligit. Eccle&s;ias Parochiales novem, &amp; Cathedralem elegan|tem exhibet praeter loca alia &s;acra, ut hospitalia, &amp; no&s;ocomia re|ligioni nuncupata. <HI>Georgius Bruin.</HI> Theat. &V;rbium praecipuarum to|tius mundi.</NOTE> four &s;quare, is enclo&s;ed with a wall that taketh up more then two miles in compa&s;&s;e, and hath eleven Pari&s;hes.</P>
<P>Neer unto the River &s;tandeth the Ca&s;tle upon a rocky Hill, built by the
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Earls: where the Courts Palatine, and the A&s;&s;izes, as they call them, are kept twice a year.</P>
<P>The Hou&s;es are very fair built, and along the chief &s;treets are Galleries or Walking-places, they call them Rows, having &s;hops on both &s;ides, through which a man may walk dry from one end to another.</P>
<P>It is called the County Palatine of <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> becau&s;e the Earls thereof had Royalties and Princely priviledges be|longing to them, and all the Inhabi|tants owed Allegiance and Fealty to them as they did to the King.</P>
<P>One <HI>Hugh Wolf</HI> was made Earl of <HI>Che&s;ter</HI> by <HI>William</HI> the Fir&s;t, and the County given him in Fee, <HI>Tenendum &s;ibi &amp; Haeredibus it a vere ad Gladi|um &s;icut ip&s;e Rex tenebat Angliam ad Coronam.</HI> And as the King, &s;o he for his Heirs had their Barons, by that name &s;pecially known.</P>
<P>King <HI>Edgar</HI> in magnificent manner triumphed over the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Princes. For &s;itting him&s;elf in a Barge at the fore-deck, <HI>Kennadie</HI> King of the <HI>Scots, Malcoline</HI> King of <HI>Cumberland, Macon</HI>
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King of <HI>Mann,</HI> and of the I&s;lands, with all the Princes of <HI>Wales,</HI> brought to do homage, and like Watermen working at the Oar, rowed him along the River <HI>Dee,</HI> in a triumphant &s;hew, to his great glory, and joy of the be|holders.</P>
<P>King <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh made it a County by it &s;elf incorporate.</P>
<P><HI>Bunbury</HI> contractly &s;o called, or <HI>Bo|niface-Bury, Boniface</HI> was the Patron Saint there.</P>
<P><HI>Bee&s;ton-</HI>Ca&s;tle hath a wall of a great circuit.</P>
<P>Here are very famous Salt-pits, or Salt-wiches, five or &s;ix miles di&s;tant <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Salinae Anglic&egrave;,</HI> The Wiches, <HI>videlicet</HI> Nan|tovicum, Nor|tovicum, &amp; Dirtovicum, <HI>in quibus locis &s;al puri&s;&s;imus conficitur.</HI> Leland. <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> ex|celleth for white &s;alt, not only all other Shires in <HI>England,</HI> but al&s;o all other Countreys be|yond the Seas. <HI>King of Che&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> a&s;under, where brine or &s;alt water is drawn out of pits, which they boile over the fire, to make &s;alt thereof. The&s;e were known unto the <HI>Romanes,</HI> and from hence was u&s;ually paid the Cu&s;tome for &s;alt, called <HI>Salarium.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nantwich, Middle-wich, Nortwich:</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nantwich,</HI> which the River <HI>Wever</HI> fir&s;t vi&s;iteth, is reputed the greate&s;t and
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faire&s;t built Town of all this Shire after <HI>Chester.</HI> It is called the <HI>White-wich</HI> or <HI>Salt-pit,</HI> becau&s;e the white&s;t &s;alt is there boiled.</P>
<P><HI>North-wich</HI> is called the Black-&s;alt pit.</P>
<P><HI>Congleton</HI> a Mercat Town, famous for Gloves, Pur&s;es and Points of Leather.</P>
<P><HI>Kinderton</HI> the old &s;eat of the ancient race of the <HI>Venables,</HI> who ever &s;ince the fir&s;t coming in of the <HI>Normans</HI> have been of name and reputation here, and commonly are called Barons of <HI>Kinder|ton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brereton</HI> hath given Name to the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>A rebus</HI> of a Brier and a Tun.</NOTE> wor&s;hipfull, ancient and numerous Fa|mily of the <HI>Breretons</HI> Knights.</P>
<P>Before any Heir of this Hou&s;e of the <HI>Breretons</HI> dieth, there are &s;een in a Pool adjoyning, bodies of trees &s;wimming for certaine dayes toge|ther, &s;o <HI>Camden,</HI> but &s;ome deny this.</P>
<P><HI>Middle-wich,</HI> there are two Wels of &s;alt water parted one from the other by a &s;mall brook.</P>
<P><HI>Maclesfield</HI> one of the faire&s;t Towns of this County.</P>
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<HI>Lee</HI> from whence there is a Family bearing the &s;ame &s;urname, that is not <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Adlington</HI> the chief &s;eat of that race of <HI>Leighs</HI> of <HI>Ad|lington,</HI> which is one of the great names of Gentry in this County, whereof the&s;e have had a very ancient continuance here from ma|ny Knights and E&s;quires, down to the pre&s;ent owner Sir <HI>&V;rian Leigh</HI> Knight. <HI>King of Che&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> only of gentle bloud, and of e&s;pecial note, but al&s;o farre and fairly propaga|ted into a number of branches. <HI>Camd Britan.</HI></P>
<P><HI>High Leigh</HI> in <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> I think gave Names to all the renowned Races of that Name in this County. Two di|&s;tinct De&s;cents of the &s;ame Name have their &s;eats in the &s;ame place, and there have continued in a long &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of their Ance&s;tors, Knights and E&s;quires of much worth: one is <HI>Thomas Leigh,</HI> the other is <HI>Peter Leigh</HI> E&s;quires. <HI>King of Che&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lime</HI> in <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> a great Family of the Name of the <HI>Leighs,</HI> of whom there have been many famous Knights, Sir <HI>Peter</HI> now the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or thereof. <HI>King of Che&s;hire.</HI>
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<L>Nor thou magnanimous <HI>Leigh</HI> mu&s;t not be left <NOTE PLACE="marg">In <HI>Richard</HI> the Seconds reign, this was Ance|&s;tor of S^r <HI>Peter Leigh</HI> of <HI>Lime</HI> in <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> that now is.</NOTE></L>
<L>In darkne&s;s, for thy rare fidelity;</L>
<L>To &s;ave thy faith, content to lo&s;e thy head:</L>
<L>That reverent head, of good men honored.</L>
<BIBL>Daniels <HI>Second Book of Civil Warres.</HI></BIBL></Q></P>
<P><HI>Cholmunde&s;ton</HI> or <HI>Cholme&s;ton</HI> ancient|ly the Lands of the <HI>Leighs</HI> of <HI>Ru&s;hall</HI> in <HI>Stafford&s;hire. King of Che&s;hire,</HI> pag. 74.</P>
<P>It containeth thirteen Market Towns, and &s;ixty eight Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Cornwall.</HEAD>
<P>IT extends in length to about &s;eventy miles, the breadth in the large&s;t place pa&s;&s;eth not thirty. <HI>Carews Sur|veigh of Cornwall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Speed</HI> computes the length &s;ixty miles, and the breadth forty.</P>
<P>It is called by later Writers <HI>Cornubia</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cornwallia,</HI> The farthe&s;t Shire of <HI>Eng|land</HI> we&s;t|wards, &s;o cal|led from <HI>Cornu Galliae,</HI> being ca&s;t out into the Sea, with the &s;hape of a Horn. <HI>Carews</HI> Surveigh of <HI>Cornwall. Vide</HI> Polyd. Verg. <HI>Camden</HI> in the clo&s;e of <HI>Corn|wall</HI> com|mends that <HI>Carew,</HI> and acknowledg|eth he received much light from his De|&s;cription of this Countrey.</NOTE> in Latine, of all <HI>Britain</HI> it doth bear
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mo&s;t We&s;tward, becau&s;e it waxeth &s;maller and &s;maller in manner of an Horn, and runneth forth into the Sea, with little promontories, as if they were Horns on every &s;ide. Others would have it &s;o called of one <HI>Corin,</HI> and do call it <HI>Corinea. Camd. Brit.</HI></P>
<P>There is digged here wonderfull &s;tore of Tin, yeelding exceeding much profit and commodity, whereof are made hou&s;hold Pewter ve&s;&s;els, which are u&s;ed thorowout many parts of <HI>Eu|rope</HI> in &s;ervice of the Table, and for their glittering brightne&s;&s;e, compared with &s;ilver-plate.</P>
<P><HI>Terra admodum &s;terilis, fructum magis ex cultorum indu&s;tria, quam ex &s;ua bonitate praebet: &s;ed fert uberius plumbum nigrum &amp; album, hoc e&s;t, &s;tannum, in quo effodiendo maxim&egrave; con&s;i&s;tit vita incolarum.</HI> Polyd. Verg. <HI>Angl. Hi&s;t. l.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>The Kings of <HI>England,</HI> and Dukes of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> in their times have re&s;er|ved to them&s;elves a praeemption of Tinne (by the opinion of the learn|ed in the Law) as well in regard of the Propriety, as being chief Lords
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and Proprietaries; as of their Royal Prerogative.</P>
<P>Not only Tin is here found, but there|with al&s;o Gold and Silver; yea and Dya|monds &s;haped, and pointed angle-wi&s;e, &s;moothed al&s;o by Nature it &s;elf: where|of &s;ome are as big as Wall-nuts, and inferiour to the orient Dyamonds, in blackne&s;&s;e and hardne&s;&s;e only.</P>
<P>So plentifull is this Countrey of grain, although not without great toil of the Husbandman, that it hath not only &s;ufficient to maintain it &s;elf, but al|&s;o affordeth often times great &s;tore of Corn into <HI>Spain.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides a mo&s;t rich Revenue and Commodity they have by tho&s;e little Fi&s;hes that they call <HI>Pilchards,</HI> which &s;warming, as one would &s;ay, in migh|ty great skuls about the &s;hores from <HI>July</HI> unto <HI>November,</HI> are there taken, garbaged, falted, hanged in the &s;moke, laid up, pre&s;&s;ed, and by infinite num|bers carried over into <HI>France, Spain,</HI> and <HI>Italy,</HI> unto which Countreys they be very good chaffer, and right wel|come merchandize, and are there named <HI>Fumados.</HI></P>
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<HI>Michael</HI> a <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> Poet, and of Rhy|mers in his time the chie&s;, hath the&s;e Ver&s;es of <HI>Cornwall.</HI>
<Q><L>Non opus e&s;t ut opes numerem quibus e&s;t opulenta,</L>
<L>Et per quas, inopes &s;u&s;tentat non opu|lenta:</L>
<L>Pi&s;cibus &amp; &s;tanno nu&s;quam tam fertilis ora.</L></Q></P>
<P>The people thre are civil, valiant, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> are a race of men, &s;tout of &s;tomack, migh|ty of body and limb, which live hardly in a barren coun|trey. S^r <HI>Francis Bacon</HI> in his Hi&s;t. of <HI>H.</HI> 7^t^h.</NOTE> hardy, well pitcht in &s;tature, brawny and &s;trong limbed: &s;uch as for wre&s;t|ling (to &s;peak nothing of that manly exerci&s;e, and feat of hurling the Ball, which they u&s;e) &s;o farre excell, that for &s;light and clean &s;trength toge|ther, they ju&s;tly winne the prize and prai&s;e from other Nations in that behalf.</P>
<P><HI>Godolphin-Hill</HI> right famous for plen|tifull veins of Tin, but much more re|nowned in regard of the Lords thereof, bearing the &s;ame name, who with their vertues have equalled the ancientne&s;&s;e of that Hou&s;e and Linage. That name in the <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> Language came of a <HI>white Eagle,</HI> and this Family hath anciently
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born for their Arms in a Shield Gules, an <HI>Aegle</HI> di&s;played Argent, between three Flower-deluces of the &s;ame Shield.</P>
<P><HI>Falemouth-Haven</HI> is as noble as <HI>Brundu&s;ium</HI> it &s;elf in <HI>Italy:</HI> of exceed|ing great capacity; for it is able to re|ceive an hundred Ships, which may ride therein &s;o apart by them&s;elves, that out of never an one of them the top of anothers Ma&s;t can be &s;een: and mo&s;t &s;afe withall under the wind, by rea&s;on that it is enclo&s;ed on every &s;ide with brims of high ri&s;ing banks.</P>
<P>The Gullet on either hand, as well for the defence and &s;afety of the place, as for terrour to enemies, is fortified with Block-hou&s;es: to wit, the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Maudit</HI> Ea&s;tward, and toward the We&s;t, the Fort <HI>Pendinaes,</HI> both built by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth.</P>
<P><HI>Foy</HI> a Town mo&s;t renowned in for|mer ages, for Sea fights: which the ve|ry Arms of the Town do witne&s;&s;e, as being compounded of the Cinque-ports Arms.</P>
<P><HI>Pad&s;tow</HI> a pretty Market Town, &s;o called &s;hort for <HI>Petrockstow</HI> of one <HI>Petroch</HI> a <HI>Britan,</HI> canonized a Saint
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by the people: who &s;pent his dayes here in the &s;ervice of God.</P>
<P><HI>Edward</HI> the Third erected <HI>Cornwall</HI> into a Dukedome, and inve&s;ted <HI>Ed|ward</HI> his Sonne, a Prince mo&s;t ac|compli&s;hed with Martial Prowe&s;&s;e, in the yeer of Chri&s;t, 1336. <HI>Duke of Cornwall, by a Wreath on his Head, a Ring upon his Finger, and a &s;ilver Verge.</HI></P>
<P>Since which time, the King of <HI>Eng|lands</HI> elde&s;t Sonne is reputed Duke of <HI>Cornwall</HI> by birth.</P>
<P><HI>Laun&s;ton</HI> the chief Town.</P>
<P>The <HI>Promontory</HI> named the Lands end, the mo&s;t We&s;tern point of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>It containeth nine Hundreds, two and twenty Market Towns, an hundred &s;ixty and one Pari&s;hes.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Cumberland.</HEAD>
<P>IT took the name of the Inhabitauts, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The places every where bear Briti&s;h names.</NOTE> who were the true and natural <HI>Bri|tans,</HI> and called them&s;elves in their own language <HI>Kumbri.</HI></P>
<P>This Countrey although it be &s;ome|what with the colde&s;t, as lying farre North, and &s;eemeth as rough by rea|&s;on of Hils, yet for the variety thereof it &s;mileth upon the beholders, and gi|veth contentment to as many as tra|vel it.</P>
<P>Of all the Shires we have, it is ac|counted the be&s;t furni&s;hed with the <HI>Ro|man</HI> Antiquities. <HI>Burtons</HI> Comment. on <HI>Antoninus</HI> his Itin. <HI>p.</HI> 13.</P>
<P>At <HI>Newlands</HI> there are copper or bra&s;&s;e Mines. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Black-lead is al&s;o found there.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Skiddaw-Hill</HI> is very high.
<Q><L><HI>Skiddaw, Lauvellin,</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;ticand,</HI></L>
<L>Are the highe&s;t hils in all <HI>England.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Two other Hils in that Tract.</NOTE></L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Solway Frith,</HI> &s;o called of <HI>Solway</HI> a
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Town in <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;tanding upon it.</P>
<P>Under this Burgh, within the very Frith where the &s;alt water ebbeth and floweth, the <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> and <HI>Scoti&s;h,</HI> by report of the Inhabitants, fought with their Fleets at full Sea, and al&s;o with their Hor&s;emen and Footmen at the ebbe.</P>
<P>Hard by the Riveret <HI>Dacor,</HI> &s;tandeth <HI>Dacre-</HI>Ca&s;tle, of &s;ignal note, becau&s;e it hath given &s;urname to the honourable Family of the Barons <HI>Dacre.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Carlile.</HI> This ancient City is for|tified with &s;trong walls of &s;tone, <NOTE PLACE="marg">In Latine <HI>Car|leolum.</HI></NOTE> with a Ca&s;tle, and Citadel, as they terme it.</P>
<P>Here begun <HI>Picts-</HI>wall, or &s;imply by <NOTE PLACE="marg">It flouri&s;hed in the time of the <HI>Romans,</HI> as di|vers tokens of Antiquity now and then dig|ged up there, and the famous mention of it in tho&s;e dayes do &s;ufficiently prove.</NOTE> way of excellency, <HI>The Wall,</HI> the limit of the <HI>Roman</HI> Province, continued through this Countrey, and <HI>Northum|berland,</HI> and ending in Walls-end.</P>
<P>Here are nine Market Towns, and fifty eight Pari&s;hes.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Darby&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is a plentifull Countrey, there are many Minerals, and &s;everal kinds of Stones.</P>
<P><HI>Darby</HI> is the chief Town of all this Shire, a Town of good trade.</P>
<P>There be five Churches in it: Of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The foundati|on of it was laid by young men and maids, and part of it built by them, as ap|pears in letters there on the Steeple.</NOTE> which the greate&s;t named <HI>All-Hallows,</HI> dedicated to the memory of <HI>All-Saints,</HI> hath a Tower-&s;teeple, that for height, and &s;ingular fine Workman&s;hip excel|leth.</P>
<P>They had a famous Mini&s;ter there one <HI>Chappel,</HI> which was brother to him that was of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> and went after|ward into <HI>Ireland.</HI> He did much good in <HI>Darby.</HI> When King <HI>James</HI> came thither a witty Butcher in the Town &s;aid thus to him,
<Q><L>Jemmy, for a <HI>Chappel</HI> and a Steeple</L>
<L>We may compare with any people.</L></Q></P>
<P>The A&s;&s;izes are there kept for the
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whole Shire, and the be&s;t nappy Ale is brewed there, in two places e&s;pecially. It is the ancient and peculiar drink of the <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> and <HI>Britains,</HI> and very whol|&s;ome.</P>
<P><HI>Henry</HI> of <HI>Aurenches</HI> the <HI>Norman</HI> Arch-Poet to King <HI>Henry</HI> the Third, merrily je&s;ted on it in the&s;e Ver&s;es.
<Q><L>Ne&s;cio quid Stygiae mon&s;trum conforme paludi,</L>
<L>Cervi&s;iam plerique vocant: nil &s;pi&s;sius illa</L>
<L>Dum bibitur, nil clarius e&s;t dum mingi|tur, unde</L>
<L>Con&s;tat, quod multas faeces in ventre relinquit.</L> </Q>
<Q><L>Of this &s;trange drink, &s;o like to Sty|gean lake,</L>
<L>(Mo&s;t terme it Ale) I wot not what to make:</L>
<L>Folk drink it thick, and pi&s;&s;e it pa&s;&s;ing thin,</L>
<L>Much dregs therfore mu&s;t needs remain within.</L></Q></P>
<P>The wealth of this Town con&s;i&s;teth
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much of buying of Corn, and &s;elling it again to the mountains: for all the In|habitants are a kind of Badgers.</P>
<P><HI>Thomas Linaker</HI> the famous Scholar was born here, and &s;o was Mr. <HI>Cotton</HI> the famous Mini&s;ter of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Wilmot</HI> neer it.</P>
<P><HI>Che&s;terfield</HI> a Market Town.</P>
<P>The <HI>Peak</HI> (which &s;ignifieth to ap|pear aloft) is &s;evered from <HI>Stafford|&s;hire</HI> by the <HI>Dove</HI> a mo&s;t &s;wift and clear River.</P>
<P>It is plentifull of Lead, al&s;o <HI>Stibium</HI> or <HI>Antimony.</HI> Mill-&s;tones likewi&s;e are here hewed out, as al&s;o Grinde-&s;tones and Whet-&s;tones, to give an edge un|to iron tools. <NOTE PLACE="marg">In Anglia e&s;t Ca&s;trum quod dicitur <HI>Pech,</HI> in quod am mon|te &s;itum; in cujus montis latere e&s;t foramen aper|tum, de qu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;icut de quad am fistula, ventus non modicus &s;aepe &s;pirat; cujus Dominus dictus <HI>Gulielmus Penerelli,</HI> cum in animalibus dives e&s;|&s;et, &amp; &s;ubulcus ejus unam gravid am &s;uem in pa&s;cuis ami&s;i&s;&s;et, pro ip&s;a quaerenda dictum for amen intravit, quod tamen nec dum aliquis per&s;cru|tatus fuerat. Cum ergo per opaca for aminis percurri&s;&s;et, tandem in lo|cum lucidum devenit, &s;cilicet in Camporum planitiem &s;patio&s;am: ad quam ingre&s;&s;us; Me&s;&s;ores colligentes maturas &s;egetes reperit, inter quos &s;uem perditam, quae &s;uculas ediderat, adinvenit Habito ergo verbo cum praepo&s;ito terrae illius, &s;cropham recepit, &amp; dimi&s;&s;us ab illis, ip&s;am nove grege per idem &s;oramen ad domum Domini &s;ui reduxit.</NOTE></P>
<P>Under the old Ca&s;tle, called the Ca|&s;tle in the <HI>Peak,</HI> there is a Cave or Hole within the ground, called the <HI>Devils
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Ar&s;e, Devils Ar&s;e in Peak,</HI> that gapeth <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mira res ait <HI>Gerva&s;ius</HI> (qui apparet Angli|cus fui&s;&s;e, vel multum in An|glia commora|tus) de me&s;&s;ibus &s;ubt&egrave;rraneis ve|nerat, &amp; in no&s;tro hemi|&s;pherio hyemalia frigora videt. <HI>Pet. Berchor.</HI> Deduct. Moral. De Anglia.</NOTE> with a wide mouth, and hath in it many turnings and retiring rooms.</P>
<P>This Hole is reckoned one of the wonders of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>There are &s;everal other wonders in the <HI>Peak.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;hburn</HI> in the <HI>Peak.</HI></P>
<P>There is a place called <HI>Elden-Hole,</HI> which lies two miles di&s;tant from <HI>Ca&s;tle|ton</HI> a Town in the high <HI>Peak,</HI> it is with|in the <HI>Peak</HI> Fore&s;t, it de&s;cendeth di|rectly down into the earth, it is about thirty yards long, and fifteen yards broad at the top of it, but is much &s;traighter when it cometh fourty yards deep. You may &s;ee into it about &s;ixty yards, being as farre as the light which cometh in at the mouth of the Hole will give light to &s;ee: it is fearfull to look into, being a face of rock on each &s;ide. About &s;ixty years &s;ince one Mr. <HI>Henry Cavendi&s;h</HI> (elde&s;t brother to Sir <HI>Charles Cavendi&s;h)</HI> who had &s;pent all his dayes in travel, had been at <HI>Je|ru&s;alem,</HI> and &s;everal other parts of the world, and hearing of this place, came to it, and cau&s;ed Engines to be made
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or to let a man into the Hole, which being done, one <HI>George Bradley</HI> of the <HI>Peak</HI> Fore&s;t was let down in a rope four&s;core yards. And then another Engine was made to let him go further, and from thence he was let down four|&s;core yards further, and at the end thereof a third Engine was made whereby he was let down almo&s;t four|&s;core yards further, at the top of the rope was fa&s;tened a Bell, which he was to ring if he could go no further, or would return back; when he was let down almo&s;t the third four&s;core yards, he rung the Bell, and being drawn up, he was much affrighted, remained &s;peechle&s;&s;e for a time, and was &s;truck with lamene&s;&s;e; but after he recovered his &s;peech, he declared, that as he de|&s;cended down, were bones of Deer, Sheep, and other Cattel, and al&s;o of men, and that he was affrighted, but how, or in what manner he could not tel; he lived &s;everal years, but never was in perfect memory, nor &s;ound of his limbs.</P>
<P>Within the Town of <HI>Buxton,</HI> there is a Bath called <HI>Buxton-Well</HI> which cu|reth very many Di&s;ea&s;es. There are
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two &s;prings of water, the one within a hand breadth of the other, the one is very hot, the other cold as ice.</P>
<P>There are eight Market Towns, &s;ix Hundreds, and an hundred and &s;ix Pa|ri&s;hes in this County.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Den&s;hire, <HI>OR</HI> Devon&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>A Countrey harborous on either <NOTE PLACE="marg">In Latine <HI>De|vonia. Devonia nobi|lium ingeniorum ferax.</HI> Camd. The commodi|ties of this &s;hire Cloath, Ker|fies, Lead, Sil|ver, Load&s;tone</NOTE> &s;ide with commodious Havens, enriched with Tin-mines, e&s;pecially We&s;tward; garni&s;hed with plea&s;ant medows, &s;ightly with great &s;tore of woods, and pa&s;&s;ing well repleni&s;hed with Towns and buildings.</P>
<P>There is not any place almo&s;t in all <HI>England,</HI> where the ground requireth greater charges. For in mo&s;t parts thereof it groweth in manner barren, if it be not over-&s;trewed and mingled
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with a certain &s;and from the Sea, which is of great efficacy to procure fertility, by quickening, as it were, and giving life unto the Glebe: and therefore in places far from the &s;hore it is bought at a dear rate.</P>
<P>On <HI>Teave</HI> a little River <HI>Teavi&s;tock,</HI> commonly <HI>Tavi&s;toke</HI> fluori&s;heth, a Town in times pa&s;t famous for the Ab|bay there.</P>
<P>Of the River <HI>Plime,</HI> the Town adjoyning to it, is called <HI>Plimmouth,</HI> &s;ometimes named <HI>Sutton.</HI></P>
<P>Of late time it became of a poor fi&s;h|er Village to be a great Town, and for the number of Inhabitants grown to that pa&s;&s;e (as now it is to be &s;een) that it may be compared with a City.</P>
<P>Such is the commodiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Haven, which without &s;triking &s;ail ad|mitteth into the bo&s;ome thereof the talle&s;t Ships that be, and doth harbour them very &s;afely, and is &s;ufficiently for|tified again&s;t ho&s;tility.</P>
<P>The whole Town is divided into four Wards, governed by a Maior, ordain|ed there by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Sixth, and
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under him every Ward had in times pa&s;t a Captain &s;et over it, each of them likewi&s;e had his inferiour Offi|cers.</P>
<P>The Circuit of this Town is not great, but much renowned it is among forrain Nations: and not &s;o much for the comodious Haven, as the va|lour of the Inhabitants in Sea-&s;ervices of all &s;orts. From hence was Sir <HI>Fran|cis Drake</HI> that famous Knight, and mo&s;t skilfull man at Sea. In the year 1577. putting to Sea from hence, he entered into the Straits of <HI>Magellane,</HI> and in two years and ten moneths, thorow many alternative varieties of Fortune, God being his guide, and Valour his Confort, was the next after <HI>Magellae|nus,</HI> that &s;ailed round about the world. Whereupon, one wrote thus unto him,
<Q><L><HI>Drake,</HI> peragrati novit quem terminus orbis,</L>
<L>Quem&abque; &s;emel mundi vidit uter&abque; polus.</L>
<L>Si taceant homines, facient te &s;idera no|tum,</L>
<L>Sol ne&s;cit comit is immem&ograve;r e&s;&s;e &s;ui.</L></Q></P>
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<HI>Plimpton</HI> a Mercate Town, well fre|quented.</P>
<P><HI>Dertmouth</HI> a Port Town, by rea&s;on <NOTE PLACE="marg">At the mouth of the River <HI>Dert.</HI> The mouth is the place where any Ri|ver finds a pa&s;&s;age out, either into the Sea, or into another greater River; which in Latine is termed <HI>o&s;tium,</HI> or a gate, <HI>Septem o&s;tia Nili,</HI> Seven mouths, by which it fals into the mediterranean. This gave the name to ma|ny Cities and Towns in <HI>England,</HI> as <HI>Dartmouth, Plimmouth, Port&s;|mouth, Yarmouth, Weymouth, Axmouth,</HI> with many others. <HI>Carpenters</HI> Geog. <HI>l.</HI> 2. ch. 9.</NOTE> of the commodious Haven, defended with two Ca&s;tles much frequented by Merchants, and furni&s;hed with good &s;hipping.</P>
<P><HI>Exce&s;ter,</HI> &s;o called from the River <NOTE PLACE="marg">In Latine <HI>Exo|nia: Ptolomee</HI> calleth it <HI>I&s;ca.</HI></NOTE> <HI>I&s;c,</HI> and by the <HI>Saxons Ex.</HI> It is a Bi&s;hops See. It is &s;ituate upon a little Hill, gently ari&s;ing with an ea&s;ie a&s;|cent to a pretty height, environed about with Ditches, and very &s;trong Walls, and containeth in circuit a mile and an half, having Suburbs running out a great way on each &s;ide. In it there are fifteen Pari&s;h Churches, and in the very highe&s;t part thereof, neer the Ea&s;t-gate, a Ca&s;tle called <HI>Rugemont,</HI> at this day commended for nothing el&s;e, but the antiquity and &s;ituation there|of: For it commandeth the whole
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City and Territory about it, and hath a very plea&s;ant pro&s;pect into the Sea.</P>
<P><HI>Jo&s;eph I&s;canus</HI> was born here, and from hence took his &s;urname, a Poet <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bartholomae|us,</HI> qui quod in lucem editus e&s;&s;et <HI>Exoniae</HI> (quae civitas antiquitus <HI>I&s;ca</HI> dicitur appella|ta) <HI>I&s;canus</HI> e&s;t cognomina|tus, in <HI>Exoni|en&s;em</HI> Epi&s;co|pum con&s;ecra|tus fuit; in utraque Philo&s;ophia, tam humana &s;cilicet, quam divina, vir non me|diocriter eruditus. <HI>Godw.</HI> de Prae&s;ul. Ang. Comment.</NOTE> of a mo&s;t excellent wit, who&s;e writings were &s;o well approved, as that they had equal commendation with the Works of ancient Poets. For his Poeme of the <HI>Trojan</HI> Warre was divulged once or twice in <HI>Germany</HI> under the name of <HI>Cornelius Nepos.</HI></P>
<P>The Civil Government of this City is in the power of four and twenty per|&s;ons: out of whom there is from year to year a Maior elected; who with four Bailiffs ruleth here the State. This City hath three Dukes.</P>
<P><HI>Taw&s;toke</HI> a very ancient Towne, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Berstable</HI> upon the Taw na|vigable here for great ve&s;|&s;els.</NOTE> for elegant building and frequency of people, held chiefe in all this Coa&s;t.</P>
<P>The Inhabitants (for the mo&s;t part) are Merchants, who in <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spain</HI> trade and traffick much. Out of
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this Towns School, there i&s;&s;ued two right learned men, and mo&s;t renowned <NOTE PLACE="marg">See <HI>Carpenters</HI> Geog. <HI>l. 2. c.</HI> 15. the famous men of <HI>Devon|&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> Divines, <HI>John Jewel</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Sa|lisbury,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Harding</HI> the pub|lick Profe&s;&s;our in <HI>Lovain,</HI> who mo&s;t hotly contended, and wrote learnedly one again&s;t the other, concerning the truth of Religion.</P>
<P>This Shire containeth thirty three Hundreds, thirty &s;even Market Towns, three hundred and ninety four Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Dor&s;et&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is bounded on the North-&s;ide with <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Wilt&s;hire,</HI> on the We&s;t with <HI>Devon&s;hire,</HI> and &s;ome part of <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire,</HI> on the Ea&s;t with <HI>Hamp&s;hire:</HI> On the South part, where it carrieth the greate&s;t length, it lieth all open to the Sea.</P>
<P>Some &s;ay, there are within &s;ix miles compa&s;&s;e round about <HI>Dorche&s;ter,</HI> three hundred thou&s;and Sheep.</P>
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It is a fruitfull &s;oyl, and a great Ship Countrey.</P>
<P><HI>Lime</HI> a little Town &s;ituate upon a deep Hill, &s;o called of a &s;mall Ri|ver of the &s;ame name running hard by.</P>
<P><HI>Shaftsbury</HI> a Town of note.</P>
<P><HI>Baurtport,</HI> or more truly <HI>Birtport,</HI> is placed between two &s;mall Rivers which there meet together. In re&s;pect of the &s;oil yeelding the be&s;t Hemp, and skill of the people for making Ropes and Cables for Ships, it was provided by a &s;pecial Statute, to remain in force for a certain &s;et time, that Ropes for the Na|vy of <HI>England</HI> &s;hould be twi&s;ted no where el&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Portland</HI> an I&s;land, &s;o called of one <HI>Port</HI> a noble <HI>Saxon,</HI> who <HI>Anno</HI> 703. infe&s;ted and &s;ore annoyed the&s;e Coa&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Weymouth</HI> a little Town upon the mouth of <HI>Wey</HI> a &s;mall River; over again&s;t which on the other &s;ide of the Bank &s;tandeth <HI>Kings-Melcomb,</HI> divi|ded from the other only by the Haven between.</P>
<P><HI>Pool</HI> in calm weather, when the wa|ters
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are &s;till, re&s;embleth a Pond, whence it receiv'd its name. A Mercat Town exceeding rich and wealthy, beautified with goodly Hou&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Frau</HI> or <HI>Frome,</HI> the greate&s;t and mo&s;t famous River of all this tract.</P>
<P><HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> is the head Town of the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Durnovaria</HI> the River pa&s;&s;age or Ferry.</NOTE> whole Shire, and yet is neither great nor beautifull. It hath but three Pari&s;h Churches.</P>
<P>The <HI>Fore&s;t of White-Hart.</HI> When King <HI>Henry</HI> the Third came hither to hunt, and had taken other Deer, he &s;pared a mo&s;t beautifull and goodly White Hart, which afterwards <HI>T. de la Lynde</HI> a Gentleman of this Coun|trey, with others in his company took and killed. But the King put them to a grievous Fine of money for it, and the very Lands which they held pay <NOTE PLACE="marg">Camden.</NOTE> even to this day every yeer by way of Amercement a peece of money into the Exchequer, which is called <HI>White-Hart &s;ilver.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Shirburn</HI> Town or Ca&s;tle is &s;ited in <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Fons limpidus,</HI> or <HI>clarus.</HI> Pure fountain or clear Well.</NOTE> the hanging of an Hill, a plea&s;ant and proper &s;eat: It is the mo&s;t populous and be&s;t haunted Town of this Country,
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and gaineth exceeding much by cloath|ing.</P>
<P>It containeth thirty four Hundreds, eighteen Market Towns, and two hun|dred and fourty eight Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Durham <HI>or</HI> Dure&s;me.</HEAD>
<P><HI>DUre&s;me</HI> the chief Town, in Latine <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bi&s;hoprick of</HI> Durham. Durham Du|nelmen&s;is civi|tatis &amp; Eccle|&s;iae indita e&s;t appellatio &agrave; <HI>Dun,</HI> quod montem, &amp; <HI>Holm,</HI> quod lingua <HI>Saxonica</HI> in&s;ulam amnicam &s;ignificat, quia Coquedus fluvius per Maeandrum in &s;e qua&s;i reductus, montem ab omni fer&egrave; parte circumluit (qua&s;i in&s;ulam molitus) in quo <HI>Dunel|mum</HI> (Anglice <HI>Durham)</HI> &s;itum e&s;t. <HI>Godwin.</HI> de Prae&s;ul. Ang. Comment.</NOTE> <HI>Dunelmum,</HI> a County Palatine, and a Bi&s;hops See.</P>
<P>It is &s;eated on high, it is &s;haped in form of an Egge.</P>
<P>The River <HI>Tei&s;e</HI> or <HI>Tei&s;is,</HI> common|ly <HI>Tees,</HI> boundeth the South part of this County.</P>
<P>It fir&s;t beateth upon <HI>Bernard-</HI>Ca|&s;tle, built and &s;o named by <HI>Ber|nard Balliol</HI> the great Grand-fathers
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Father of <HI>John Balliol</HI> King of the <HI>Scots.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hartle-Poole</HI> a good Towne of Trade, and a &s;afe Harbour for fi&s;h|ing.</P>
<P>By the <HI>Tine</HI> there is &s;ituate a memo|rable Town called <HI>Gate&s;head,</HI> or <HI>Goate&s;|head:</HI> The common people think it is farre more ancient than <HI>New-Ca&s;tle</HI> it|&s;elf.</P>
<P>This name was given unto this place by occa&s;ion of &s;ome Inne that had a <HI>Goat&s;-head</HI> for the Sign.</P>
<P><HI>Jarrow,</HI> the native &s;oil of venerable <HI>Bede.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thomas Wol&s;ey</HI> Cardinal, who in his high pro&s;perity wanted nothing but moderation, and <HI>Cuthbert Tun|&s;tall,</HI> who for &s;ingular knowledge in the be&s;t Sciences, &s;incere holine&s;&s;e of life, a &s;ingular Ornament to his native Countrey, were Bi&s;hops of <HI>Durham.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>E&s;&s;ex.</HEAD>
<P>A Countrey large in compa&s;&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg">It is famous for the Mini|&s;try, <HI>Dike</HI> of <HI>Epping,</HI> and <HI>Rogers</HI> of <HI>Ded|ham,</HI> who&s;e pi|cture is there|in the Church.</NOTE> fruitfull, full of Woods, plen|tifull of Saffron, and very wealthy: encircled, as it were, on the one &s;ide with the main Sea, on the other with Fi&s;h-full Rivers, which al&s;o do afford their peculiar Commodities in great abundance.</P>
<P>The Air is temperate and plea&s;ant, only towards the waters &s;omewhat agu|i&s;h, in&s;omuch that in one Hundred they will ask a &s;tranger merrily, <HI>Whether the Bayliff of the Hundred hath yet arre&s;t|ed him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Waltham</HI> Fore&s;t of the Town <HI>Wal|tham.</HI> It was &s;tored very full with Deer, that for their bigne&s;&s;e and fat|ne&s;&s;e withall, have the name above all other.</P>
<P><HI>Rochford,</HI> it hath given name to an Hundred. It is agui&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Rumford,</HI> the glory whereof de|pendeth
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on a Swine Mercat.</P>
<P><HI>Brent-wood</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Enger&s;tone</HI> a Town of note for no|thing el&s;e but the Mercat and Innes for travellers.</P>
<P><HI>Chensford</HI> a good big Town &s;ituate in the heart of the Shire between two Rivers: Of note onely for the A&s;|&s;izes.</P>
<P><HI>Coge&s;hall</HI> a Mercate Town.</P>
<P><HI>Maldon</HI> for the number of the Inha|bitants, <NOTE PLACE="marg">An ancient Colony of the <HI>Romans,</HI> called <HI>Camalodunum.</HI></NOTE> and the bigne&s;&s;e, it is worthi|ly counted one of the principal Towns in all <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and in Records named, <HI>The Burgh of Maldon.</HI> It is a Haven commodious enough, and for the big|ne&s;&s;e very well inhabited, being but one e&s;pecial &s;treet de&s;cending much about a mile in length, upon the ridg of an Hill an&s;werable to the terminati|on of <HI>Dunum,</HI> which &s;ignified <HI>an hilly and high &s;ituation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> a proper and fine Bur|rough, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The chiefe&s;t Town of the Shire. Many have thought it was &s;o called from a Colony in the <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">man</HI> time placed there, rather from <HI>Coln</HI> the River whereon it &s;tands, as <HI>Lincolne</HI> from the River <HI>Lune. Burtons</HI> Commentary on <HI>Antoninus</HI> his Itine|rary through <HI>Britain.</HI> It is famous for Oi&s;ters and candied Eringo|roots, and Cloth.</NOTE> well traded, and plea&s;antly &s;eat|ed,
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as being &s;ituate upon the brow of an Hill, &s;tretching out from We&s;t to Ea&s;t, walled about, beautified with &s;e|veral Churches, &s;ome of which were lately demoli&s;hed.</P>
<P>The Inhabitants affirm, that <HI>Flavia Julia Helena</HI> the Mother of <HI>Con&s;tan|tine</HI> the Great was borne and bred there.</P>
<P><HI>Harewich</HI> a mo&s;t &s;afe Road, whence it hath the name. The Town is not great, but well peopled, fortified by Art and Nature.</P>
<P><HI>Walden of Saffron</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Crocum ad cor exhilaran|dum, &amp; &s;e|dandos dolores utile, cujus forta&s;&s;e non e&s;t ubique terra|rum qu&agrave;m in agris <HI>E&s;&s;exio, Suffulcio,</HI> &amp; <HI>Cantabrigi|enfi,</HI> tam uber proventus. <HI>Twini</HI> de Rebus Britan. Comment. lib. 2. pag. 138.</NOTE> called <HI>Saffron Walden,</HI> among the fields looking mer|rily with mo&s;t lovely Saffron. A very good Mercat Town.</P>
<P>Here Sir <HI>Thomas Smith,</HI> Secretary to Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> a wi&s;e and learned man was born.</P>
<P><HI>Audley-end,</HI> a magnificent Hou&s;e built by the Earl of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> where there is a &s;pacious and very broad Gal|lery.</P>
<P><HI>Barrington-Hall,</HI> where dwelleth
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that right ancient Family of the <HI>Ba|ringtons.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lees-Abbey</HI> now the Seat of the right Honourable Lord <HI>Rich,</HI> Baron <HI>Lees,</HI> and Earl of <HI>Warwick.</HI></P>
<P>It contains twenty Hundreds, one and twenty Market Towns, and four hundred and fifteen Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>ON the We&s;t-&s;ide butteth on <HI>Mon|mouth&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Hereford&s;hire;</HI> on the North on <HI>Worce&s;ter&s;hire;</HI> on the Ea&s;t upon <HI>Warwick&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Oxford&s;hire</HI> both; on the South with <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>A plea&s;ant Countrey, and fruitfull in Corn, Wooll, Apples and Pears, and <HI>Severn</HI> full of Salmon.</P>
<P>Commonly through all <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> there is good plenty of Corn, Pa&s;ture and Wood, &s;aving in <HI>Cote&s;wold,</HI> where the great flocks of Sheep be, and yet in &s;ome places there groweth fair Corn. <HI>Lelands</HI> Itinerary.</P>
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<HI>Fore&s;t of Dean,</HI> or <HI>Dean-Forest</HI> was <NOTE PLACE="marg">It had this name of <HI>Dean</HI> a little Town adjoyning.</NOTE> wholly be&s;pread with thick tall Wood.</P>
<P>It is between two navigable Rivers <HI>Wie</HI> and <HI>Severn.</HI></P>
<P>It was a wonderfull thick Fore&s;t, and in former ages &s;o dark and terri|ble, by rea&s;on of crooked and winding wayes, as al&s;o the gri&s;ly &s;hade therein, that it made the Inhabitants more fierce, and bolder to commit robbe|ries. Since that rich Mines of Iron were here found out, tho&s;e thick woods began to wax thinne by little and little.</P>
<P><HI>Tewksbury.</HI> It is a great and fair Town, having three Bridges to pa&s;&s;e over, &s;tanding upon three Rivers, fa|mous for the be&s;t Mu&s;tard. One may carry it in bals a long way.</P>
<P><HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> the head City of this <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Bi&s;hops See.</NOTE> Shire.</P>
<P>It lieth &s;tretched out in length over <HI>Severne:</HI> on that &s;ide where it is not watered with the River, it hath in &s;ome places a very &s;trong Wall for defence. A proper and fine City both for number of Churches, and for the buildings.</P>
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Above the Quire, in an Arch of this Church, there is a Wall built in forme of a Semi-circle full of Corners, with &s;uch an artificial devi&s;e, that if a man &s;peak with never &s;o low a voice at the one part thereof, and ano|ther lay his ear to the other being a good way di&s;tant, he may al&s;o hear eve|ry &s;yllable.</P>
<P><HI>Cot&s;wold,</HI> it took its name of Woulds and Cotes, that is Hils and Sheep|folds.</P>
<P>Here feed in great numbers, flocks of Sheep long necked, and &s;quare of bulk and bone, by rea&s;on of the hilly and large &s;ituation of their pa&s;turage: who&s;e Wooll being mo&s;t fine and &s;oft is had in pa&s;&s;ing great account among all Nations.</P>
<P><HI>Barkly</HI> honoured with a Ca&s;tle, whereof the Lord <HI>Barklies</HI> are enti|tuled.</P>
<P><HI>Camden</HI> a Mercat Town well peo|pled, and of good re&s;ort. Near unto it &s;tandeth <HI>We&s;ton,</HI> where there is a fair Hou&s;e which maketh a goodly &s;hew, built by <HI>Ralph Sheldon</HI> for him and his po&s;terity.</P>
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<HI>Hales</HI> in late time a mo&s;t flouri&s;hing Abbey, and de&s;erving commendation for breeding up of <HI>Alexander of Hales</HI> a great Clerk, and &s;o deeply learned above all others in that &s;ubtil Divinity of the Schoolmen, as he carried away the &s;urname of <HI>Doctor Irrefr agabilis,</HI> the <HI>Doctor ungain &s;aid,</HI> as he that could not be gain-&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>Winchelcomb</HI> a great Town, and well inhabited.</P>
<P><HI>Cyrencester</HI> a famous Mercat Town, both for Corn upon the Monday, and for Wooll and Yarn on the Friday.</P>
<P><HI>Bibery.</HI> There is a &s;pring under the &s;ide of a Hill which is &s;o forcible, that it &s;erves to drive a Mill about a &s;tones ca&s;t from it.</P>
<P><HI>Strowd,</HI> whence the name of <HI>Strowd|water,</HI> where are multitudes of rich Clothiers, fair building, and famous al|&s;o for dying of Cloaths, by rea&s;on of the nature of the water.</P>
<P>It containeth thirty Hundreds, two hundred and eighty Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Hant&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>ON the We&s;t it hath <HI>Dor&s;et&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Wilt&s;hire;</HI> on the South the Ocean to bound it: on the Ea&s;t it joyneth to <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Surrey,</HI> and on the North it bordereth upon <HI>Bark&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>A &s;mall Province it is, fruitful in Corn, rich in plenteous Pa&s;ture, and for all com|modities of &s;ea mo&s;t wealthy and happy.</P>
<P>Wools, Cloathes and Iron are the general Commodities of this Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Ringwood</HI> a well frequented Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>New-Fore&s;t.</HI> King <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Nor|mandy</HI> pulled downe all the Townes, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Either that the <HI>Normans</HI> might have more &s;e|cure arrival in|to <HI>England,</HI> or for the plea|&s;ure he took in hunting.</NOTE> Villages, Hou&s;es, and Churches farre and neare, ca&s;t out the poore Inhabitants, and when he had &s;o done, brought all within thir|ty miles compa&s;&s;e, or thereabout, into a Fore&s;t and Harbour for wilde Bea&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Hur&s;t-</HI>Ca&s;tle commandeth Seaward every where.</P>
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<HI>South-hanton</HI> a Town populous, rich <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Antona au&s;tra|lis,</HI> Northam|pton <HI>Antona Borealis,</HI> &s;o called for the South &s;ituati|on of it.</NOTE> and beautifull, from whom the whole Shire deriveth her name.</P>
<P><HI>Andover.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Winche&s;ter</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Its &s;ituation is fruitfull and plea&s;ant, in a Valley under Hils. Wina Winto|nien&s;is</HI> primus extitit Anti&s;tes, neque tamen civitati nomen dedit, quod &s;tolide &s;atis nonnulli augu|rantur, Ab an|tiquis Britan|nis Caerguen|tia olim apel|lata, qua&s;i Civiras Guen|ta; &agrave; Saxoni|bus (quod idem &s;onat) <HI>Wentche&s;ter, Wentance&s;ter</HI> &amp; <HI>Wintonce&s;ter</HI> nuncupata e&s;t, unde no&s;tra <HI>Wintonia.</HI> Godw. De Prae&s;ul. Arg. Comment. &V;rbs vini vel vinifera, qua&s;i dicas mu|nitio vel fortificatio ubi crevit optimum vinum in Britannia, appellata e&s;t. Celebris fuit haec civitas olim, <HI>Arthurii</HI> procerum men&s;a rotunda, occidentalium Saxonum regia &amp; &s;epulchris, Epi&s;copali &s;ede, lanarum cu&s;todia &amp; mercatu, <HI>Henrici</HI> tertii favore &amp; frequenti prae&s;entia, in|&s;tructi&s;&s;imo <HI>Wickami</HI> Epi&s;copi Collegio. <HI>Twini</HI> De Rebus Britannic. Comment. lib. 2. pag. 116, 117.</NOTE> in Latin <HI>Wintonia;</HI> a Ci|ty flouri&s;hing even in the <HI>Romans</HI> times.</P>
<P>It is indifferently well peopled and frequented, having plenty of water, by rea&s;on of the River conveyed divers wayes into it; it containeth about a mile and half in circuit within the Wals: which open at &s;ix Gates, and have eve|ry one of them their Suburbs reaching forth without a good way. It is adorn|ed with magnificent Churches, and a Bi&s;hops See. There is a fair Colledge which <HI>William Wickham</HI> Bi&s;hop of this See, built for a School, out of which, both for Church and Commonwealth, there ari&s;eth a mo&s;t plentifull increa&s;e of right learned men.</P>
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In this Colledge, one Warden, ten Fellows, two Schoolma&s;ters, three|&s;core and ten Scholars, with divers others are plentifully maintained.</P>
<P><HI>Pote&s;mouth,</HI> that is, the mouth of the Haven. A place always in time of warre well frequented. It is fortified with a Wall made of Timber, and the &s;ame well covered over with thick Banks of earth: There is nothing wanting that a man would require in a mo&s;t &s;trong and fenced place. Of the Gari&s;on Souldi|ers, &s;ome keep watch and ward both night and day at the Gates: Others upon the Tower of the Church, who by the ringing or &s;ound of a Bell give warning how many Hor&s;e or Foot are coming, and by putting forth a Ban|ner &s;hew from what Quarter they come.</P>
<P><HI>Ba&s;ing stoke</HI> a Mercat Town well fre|quented.</P>
<P><HI>Ba&s;ing</HI> is near it, the Seat of the Mar|que&s;&s;es of <HI>Winche&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Odiam</HI> a Borough corporate, belong|ing in times pa&s;t to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Win|che&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>William Lilie</HI> the great Grammarian
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was born here. He was the fir&s;t Ma&s;ter of <HI>Pauls</HI> School.</P>
<P>There are in this Shire two hun|dred and fifty three Pari&s;hes, eigh|teen Market Towns, and forty Hun|dreds.</P>
<P>To this County of <HI>Southampton</HI> be|longeth the <HI>I&s;le of Wight, Vecta,</HI> or <HI>Vectis In&s;ula.</HI></P>
<P>This I&s;le, between Ea&s;t and We&s;t in <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vectis In&s;ula,</HI> forma Ovo &s;i|millima &agrave; litto|re alibi &s;eptem alibi duobus pa&s;&s;uum milli|bus di&s;tans Neoportus uni|cum in&s;ulae Emporium. E&s;t &amp; Ca&s;trwn Caerbro, id e&s;t, Ca&s;&s;ium tractus, anti|quitatem Britannicam referens. <HI>Lhyd.</HI> Comment. Britann. De|&s;cript. Fragmentum.</NOTE> an old form, &s;tretcheth out twenty miles in length; and &s;preadeth in the mid&s;t, which is broade&s;t, twelve miles. So <HI>Camden.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Leland</HI> &s;aith, it is ten miles broad.</P>
<P>The Ground (to &s;ay nothing of the Sea full of Fi&s;h) con&s;i&s;teth of a very fruitfull &s;oil, it breeds every where &s;tore of Coneys, Hares, Partridges and Phea&s;ants. It hath one little Fore&s;t, and two Parks repleni&s;hed with Deer, for game and hunting plea&s;ure. Through the mid&s;t thereof runnes a long tract of Hils, yeelding plenty of
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Pa&s;ture and Forrage for Sheep. The Wooll of which, next unto that of <HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Cotte&s;wold,</HI> is e&s;teem|ed be&s;t, and in &s;pecial reque&s;t with Clothiers, whereby there groweth to the Inhabitants much gaine and profit.</P>
<P>There are thirty &s;ix Towns, Villa|ges, and Ca&s;tles: which for Eccle&s;ia|&s;tical Juri&s;diction belonged to the Bi|&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> and for Civil Go|vernment to the County of <HI>South-hanton.</HI></P>
<P>It armeth four thou&s;and men exerci|&s;ed by their Captains.</P>
<P>The Inhabitants of this I&s;le were wont merrily to make their boa&s;t, <HI>That their ca&s;e was happier than all others, becau&s;e they had neither hooded Monks, nor cavilling Lawyers, nor yet crafty Foxes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Newport</HI> is the principal Mercat Town of the whole I&s;le.</P>
<P><HI>Caresbrook</HI> an old Ca&s;tle is in the ve|ry heart and mid&s;t of the I&s;le.</P>
<P><HI>Brading</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Newton</HI> and <HI>Yarmouth</HI> have their Maiors, and &s;end Burge&s;&s;es to the Parlia|ment.</P>
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<HI>Sauham-</HI>Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>The Inhabitants of the I&s;le being naturally mo&s;t warlike, bold and ad|venturous, are through the diligence and care of the Captain of the I&s;le, confirmed &s;o by continual exerci&s;e in &s;trength and military Di&s;cipline, that they exactly know before-hand with their Peeces to &s;hoot point-blank, and not mi&s;&s;e the Mark, to keep their ranks, to march orderly and in ray, to ca&s;t their &s;quadrons, if need be, clo&s;e into a ring, to di&s;play and &s;pread the &s;ame at large, to take pains, to runne and ride, to endure both Sunne and du&s;t, and fully to performe what&s;oever warfare doth re|quire.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e Souldiers thus trained, the I&s;le it &s;elf is able to bring forth into the field four thou&s;and: and at the in&s;tant for all a&s;&s;ayes appointed, there are three thou&s;and more of mo&s;t expert and pra|cti&s;ed Souldiers out of <HI>Hant&s;hire,</HI> and two thou&s;and be&s;ide out of <HI>Wilt&s;hire,</HI> to be ever pre&s;t and in readine&s;&s;e for the defence of the I&s;le.</P>
<P>That all ho&s;tile Forces what&s;oever
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might be with&s;tood more &s;peedily and with greater facility, the whole Coun|trey is divided into eleven parts, and every of them hath their &s;everal Cen|toner or Centurion, their Vinton al&s;o, Leaders (as it were) of twenty, their great peeces of Ordnance, their Senti|nels and Warders, who keep Watch and Ward at the Beacons &s;tanding on the higher grounds: their Po&s;ts al&s;o or Runners, whom by an old name, grown almo&s;t out of u&s;e, they terme &s;till Hoblers, who pre&s;ently give intel|ligence of all occurrents to the Captain and Governour of the I&s;le.</P>
<P><HI>Ve&s;pa&s;ian</HI> was the fir&s;t that brought it into &s;ubjection, whiles he &s;erved as a private per&s;on under <HI>Claudius Cae&s;ar.</HI></P>
<P>This I&s;le had a noble Family, named <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nobili&s;&s;ima Li&s;leiorum fa|milia, <HI>D'or au chef d' azur, trois lyons ram|pans del premier.</HI> Ex hac gente non|nulli olim ad Comitia Parliamentaria, cum reliquis Regni Bar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">nibus evocati fuerunt. <HI>Bi&s;&s;aei</HI> Notae in <HI>Uptonum.</HI> p. 48.</NOTE> <HI>De In&s;ula,</HI> or <HI>Li&s;le,</HI> out of which in the Reign of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Second, one was &s;ummoned unto the Parliament by the name of Sir <HI>John Li&s;le,</HI> of the <HI>I&s;le of Wight.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Hereford&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>THis County lieth round in com|pa&s;&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg">This and <HI>Mon|mouth&s;hire</HI> have been now long reckoned a|mong the Counties of <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> as it were a Circle, it is bounded on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide with <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire;</HI> on the South with <HI>Monmouth&s;hire;</HI> on the We&s;t-&s;ide with <HI>Radnoc</HI> and <HI>Brecknot&s;hire;</HI> and on the North with <HI>Shrop&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>For three <HI>W. W. W.</HI> Wheat, Wooll and Water <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">There are &s;undry &s;weet and fre&s;h Ri|vers, the chief|e&s;t whereof are the <HI>Wye, Lug</HI> and <HI>Ma|now.</HI></NOTE> it yeeldeth to no Shire of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>This Countrey is reputed the Orch|ard of <HI>England.</HI> From the greate&s;t per&s;ons to the poore&s;t cottager, all ha|bitations are encompa&s;&s;ed with Orch|ards and Gardens; and in mo&s;t places the hedges are enriched with rows of Fruit-trees, Pears or Apples, Gennet|moyles, or Crab-trees. <HI>Worce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> is more proper for Pears and Cherries; <HI>Hereford&s;hire</HI> for Apples.</P>
<P><HI>Hereford&s;hire Orchards, a Patern for all England.</HI> By <HI>J. B.</HI></P>
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<HI>Bradwardin-</HI>Ca&s;tle gave both origi|nal and name to that famous <HI>Thomas Bradwardin</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> who for his variety of knowledge, and profound Learning, was in that age ter|med, <HI>The profound Doctor.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hereford</HI> is the chief City of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Bi&s;hops See.</NOTE> Shire, it is &s;eated among mo&s;t plea&s;ant Medows, and as plentifull Corn-fields, compa&s;&s;ed almo&s;t round about with Rivers. On the North-&s;ide and the We&s;t with one that hath no name; on the South-&s;ide with <HI>Wye,</HI> which ha&s;ten|eth hither out of <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> upon the River <HI>Lug.</HI> The greate&s;t name and fame that it hath at this day is of the Wooll in the Territo|ries round about it, <HI>(Lem&s;ter</HI> Ore they call it) which &s;etting a&s;ide that of <HI>Apu|lia</HI> and <HI>Tarentum</HI> all <HI>Europe</HI> counteth to be the very be&s;t.
<Q><L>Where lives the man &s;o dull, on <HI>Britains</HI> furthe&s;t &s;hore,</L>
<L>To whom did never &s;ound the name of <HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> Ore:</L>
<L>That with the Silk-worms web for &s;mal|ne&s;&s;e doth compare:</L>
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Wherein, the winder &s;hews his workman|&s;hip &s;o rare.</L>
<L>As doth the Fleece excell, and mocks her loo&s;er clew;</L>
<L>As neatly bottom'd up as Nature forth it drew;</L>
<L>Of each in high'st accompt, and rec|koned here as fine,</L>
<L>As there th' Appulian Fleece, or dainty Tarentyne.</L>
<BIBL>Draytons Polyolbion 7th Song.</BIBL></Q></P>
<P>In <HI>Apulia</HI> and the upper <HI>Calabria</HI> of <HI>Italy,</HI> the Wool hath been famous for fine&s;t excellence: in&s;omuch that for pre&s;erving it from the injury of earth, bu&s;hes and weather, the Shepherds u&s;ed to clothe their Sheep with skins; and indeed was &s;o chargeable in the&s;e and other kind of pains about it, that it &s;carce requites the co&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Seld.</HI> Illu&s;trat. of <HI>Drayt. Polyolb.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brameyard</HI> upon the River <HI>Frome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ledbury</HI> under <HI>Malvern-</HI>Hils.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o &s;o renowned for Wheat and Bread of the fine&s;t Flour, that <HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> Bread, and <HI>Weabley</HI> Ale are grown unto a common Proverb. By rea&s;on of the&s;e
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Commodities the Mercates at <HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> were &s;o frequented, that they of <HI>Here|ford</HI> and <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> complaining, that the confluence of people thither impair|ed their Mercates, procured that by Royal Authority the Mercat day was changed.</P>
<P>There are an hundred and &s;eventy &s;ix Pari&s;hes, eight Market Towns, and an eleven Hundreds in this County.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Hertford&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>FAmous for a good Air, and fair Hou&s;es of Gentlemen, and Wheat.</P>
<P>It lieth on the Ea&s;t, and partly on the South-&s;ide of <HI>Bedford&s;hire:</HI> The We&s;t-&s;ide is enclo&s;ed with <HI>Bedford&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Buckingham&s;hire:</HI> the South with <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> the Ea&s;t with <HI>E&s;sex,</HI> and the North with <HI>Cambridge&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>A rich Countrey in Corn, Fields, Pa&s;tures, Medows, Woods, Groves, and clear Riverets. There is &s;carcely
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another Shire in all <HI>England</HI> that can &s;hew more good Towns in &s;o &s;mall a compa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>In <HI>Ware</HI> in this County, there is</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The Head of the River that runs into <HI>Tames.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. A great Bed which is about three yards at lea&s;t every way about, at both the &s;ides and ends.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Roi&s;ton</HI> a Town well known, it is very famous, and pa&s;&s;ing much frequent|ed for Malt.</P>
<P>It parts four Shires, <HI>Cambridge&s;hire, Bedford&s;hire, Hertford&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Hunting|ton&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;hwell, The Well</HI> or <HI>Fountain among the a&s;hes,</HI> where there is a &s;ource of the &s;prings bubling out of a &s;tony bank over&s;hadowed on every &s;ide with tall a&s;hes, from whence there floweth at certain Veins, continually running &s;uch &s;tore of water, that forthwith being carried within banks, it carrieth a &s;tream able to drive a Mill, and all of a &s;ud|den, as it were, groweth to a good big River.</P>
<P><HI>Whetham&s;sed</HI> a Town plentifull in Wheat, whence it took its name;
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which place <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Whetham&s;ted</HI> there born, and thereof named, a man in King <HI>Henry</HI> the Sixth his dayes much renowned by his due de&s;ert of learning, made of more e&s;timation.</P>
<P><HI>Bi&s;hops-Hatfield</HI> in times pa&s;t belong|ing to the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Ely,</HI> whence it <NOTE PLACE="marg">Godwin. <HI>de Prae&s;ulibus Ang.</HI> &s;aith, it is reported that <HI>Bradwardine</HI> was here born.</NOTE> was named <HI>Bi&s;hops-Hatfield,</HI> which <HI>John Morton</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ely</HI> re-edified. The Earle of <HI>Salisbury</HI> hath an Hou&s;e there.</P>
<P>There were &s;even Parks in the Man|nor of <HI>Hatfield.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hertford,</HI> it hath given name to the whole County, and is reputed the Shire Town, it is ancient.</P>
<P><HI>Hode&s;don</HI> a fair thorow fare.</P>
<P><HI>Saint-Albans.</HI> It was famous for no|thing <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide R. <HI>U&s;&s;eri.</HI> de Britannic. Eccle&s;. primord. cap. 7.</NOTE> &s;o much as bringing forth <HI>Alban</HI> a Citizen of &s;ingular holine&s;&s;e and faith in Chri&s;t, who when <HI>Diocle&s;ian</HI> went about by exqui&s;ite torments to wipe Chri&s;tian Religion quite out of the memory of men, was the fir&s;t in <HI>Bri|tain</HI> that with invincible con&s;tancy and re&s;olution &s;uffered death for Chri&s;t his &s;ake. Whereupon he is called our <HI>Ste|phen,</HI> and the Protomartyr of <HI>Britain.</HI></P>
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<HI>Fortunatus Presbyter</HI> the Poet wrote thus of him,
<Q><L>Albanum <HI>egregium faecunda Britannia profert.</HI></L></Q>
<Q><L>Fruitfull <HI>Britain</HI> bringeth forth</L>
<L><HI>Alban</HI> a Martyr of high worth.</L></Q></P>
<P>The Abbey of St. <HI>Albans</HI> was the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>L.</HI> Herberts Henry <HI>the 8th. See&punc;</HI> Mona&s;ticon Anglicanum.</NOTE> fir&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> whether becau&s;e <HI>A|drian</HI> the Fourths Father called <HI>Break|&s;pear</HI> was Monk there, or from Saint <HI>Alban</HI> him&s;elf Proto-martyr of <HI>Eng|land.</HI></P>
<P>This Town was rai&s;ed out of the ruins of <HI>Verolamium,</HI> it is a fair and large Town.</P>
<P><HI>Redborne</HI> or <HI>Red water</HI> is &s;eat|ed upon that common and military high-way, which we call <HI>Watling-&s;treet.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ham&s;ted</HI> a little Mercat Town cal|led <HI>Hehan Ham&s;ted</HI> &s;ituate among the the Hils by a Riveret-&s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Kings-Langley,</HI> in which was born, and thereof tooke name, <HI>Edmund Langley</HI> King <HI>Edward</HI> the Third his
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Sonne, and Duke of <HI>York.</HI></P>
<P>Over again&s;t <HI>Kings-Langley,</HI> in a manner, there is <HI>Abbots-Langley,</HI> &s;o called, becau&s;e it belonged to the Ab|bots of St. <HI>Albanes:</HI> wherein was born <HI>Nicholas</HI> &s;urnamed <HI>Break&s;pear,</HI> after|wards Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> known by the name of Pope <HI>Hadrian</HI> the fourth, who&s;e breath was &s;topped in the end with a Flie that flew into his mouth.</P>
<P><HI>Watford</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Welwen.</HI> Here the murder of the <HI>Danes</HI> began, when they were general|ly murdered; and it was &s;o called, be|cau&s;e the weal of that Countrey (as was then thought) was there fir&s;t wone. But who well con&s;iders the &s;equele of the &s;tory, &s;hall find little weal that en&s;ued of this deed. <HI>Graftons Chron.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rickemau&s;worth</HI> al&s;o a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Cai&s;hobery.</HI> Here Sir <HI>Richard Meri|&s;in</HI> Knight, a great learned man, and who had been u&s;ed in Emba&s;&s;ages to the mightie&s;t Princes under King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth, and King <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth
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began to build an Hou&s;e, which Sir <HI>Charles</HI> his Sonne fini&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Bernet</HI> famous for the Bea&s;t Mercat there kept.</P>
<P>This County hath an hundred and twenty Pari&s;hes, eight Hundreds, and eighteen Market Towns.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Huntingdon&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT confineth Northward and Ea&s;t|ward upon <HI>Cambridge&s;hire,</HI> South|ward upon <HI>Bedford&s;hire,</HI> We&s;tward up|on <HI>Northampton&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>A Countrey good for Corn and Til|lage: and toward the Ea&s;t, where it is fenny, very right and plentifull for the feeding of Cattel: el&s;where right plea|&s;ant, by rea&s;on of ri&s;ing Hils and &s;hady Groves.</P>
<P><HI>Kimbolton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Saint-Neots,</HI> commonly called <HI>Saint-Needs,</HI> &s;o named of one <HI>Neotus,</HI> a man both learned and holy; who travailed all his life time in propagating of Chri|&s;tian Religion.</P>
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<HI>Ainsbury,</HI> it was named <HI>Ainulphsbu|ry</HI> of one <HI>Almulph</HI> likewi&s;e, an holy and devout man, which name continu|eth &s;till al&s;o in one part of it.</P>
<P><HI>Huntingdon,</HI> in the publick Seale <HI>Hunter&s;dune, Leland</HI> cals it <HI>Venanto|dunum,</HI> the Hill or down of Hunters. This is the chief Town of all this Shire, to which it hath given al&s;o the name.</P>
<P><HI>Godmanche&s;ter</HI> a very great Coun|trey Town, and of as great name for Tillage; &s;ituate in an open ground, of a light mould, and bending for the Sunne. There is not a Town in all <HI>England</HI> which hath more &s;tout and lu|&s;ty Husbandmen, or more Ploughs a going: For, they make their boa&s;t that they have in former time received the Kings of <HI>England,</HI> as they pa&s;&s;ed in their progre&s;&s;e this way, with nine|&s;core Ploughs, brought forth in a ru&s;tical kinde of pomp, for a gallant &s;hew.</P>
<P>When King <HI>James</HI> came fir&s;t into <HI>England,</HI> here the Bailiffs of the Town pre&s;ented him with &s;eventy Teem of Hor&s;es, all traced to fair new Ploughs, in &s;hew of their Husbandry, of which
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when his Maje&s;ty demanded the rea&s;on, he was an&s;wered, That it was their an|cient Cu&s;tome, when&s;oever any King of <HI>England</HI> pa&s;&s;ed thorow their Town, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Howes</HI> Chron.</NOTE> &s;o to pre&s;ent him. Be&s;ides they added, That they held their Lands by that Te|nure, being the Kings Tenants. His Maje&s;ty took it well, and bad them u&s;e well their Ploughes, being glad he was Land-lord of &s;o many good Husband|men in one Town.</P>
<P><HI>Saint-Ives</HI> of <HI>Ivo</HI> a <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Bi&s;hop, who (as they write) about the year of Chri&s;t 600, travelled thorow <HI>England,</HI> preached diligently the Word of God, and to this Town, wherein he left this life, left al&s;o his name.</P>
<P><HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> a wealthy Abbey.</P>
<P>In this little Shire are numbred &s;e|venty eight Pari&s;hes, four Hundreds, and &s;ix Market Towns.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Kent.</HEAD>
<P>THis name <HI>Cantium,</HI> and the name <HI>Kent,</HI> was given by rea&s;on of the form and &s;ituation. The <HI>Helvetian</HI> Countreys were called by the <HI>French Cantons.</HI> This Countrey by the old Geographers is called <HI>Angulus,</HI> an an|gle, or corner of Land. Or of the <HI>Bri|ti&s;h</HI> word <HI>Cainc,</HI> they call their great woody Fore&s;t in <HI>Stafford&s;hire</HI> yet <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lamb. <HI>Peram|bulat. of</HI> Kent. <HI>See</HI> Kilbourns <HI>Surveigh of</HI> Kent, <HI>p. 2. Cantium,</HI> quod amaeni&s;&s;ima &amp; humani&s;&s;ima&punc; Britanniae ha|bita &s;emper fuit provincia, ad au&s;trum So|lemque Orien|tem Oceano Germanico, ad aquilonem uber|rimo Thame&s;i fluvio, ad Oc|cidentem Sur|ra, ac Su&s;&s;exia provinciis, quas Angli comita|tus appellant, cingitur. Haec &amp; agrorum fe|racitate faecun|da, populoque genero&s;o ac po|tenti referta, plures urbes, villa&s;qae in lo|cis ob aquas &amp; &s;ylvas, vicinas humanae habitationi commodioribus condidit, &amp; ob maritimos portus, quas multos habet, peregrinorum con&s;uetudine, Galliaeque vicinitate ma|gis <GAP DESC="foreign">, quam reliquae hujus In&s;ulae regiones &agrave; Scriptoribus perhi|betur. Quibus item rationibus, &amp; moribus cultier, &amp; opibus ditior jure exi&s;timatur. <HI>Antiquitates Britannieae,</HI> pag. 33. Britannos <HI>Cae|&s;ar,</HI> maxim&egrave; Cantios, long&egrave; omnium humani&s;&s;imos vocat, &amp; eam huma|nitatem illis fraudi fui&s;&s;e, &amp; belli <HI>Cae&s;ariani</HI> cau&s;am extiti&s;&s;e apparet, quod prae&s;idia Gallis <HI>Cae&s;aris</HI> ho&s;tibus &s;ubmi&s;erint, &amp; eos adventantes &s;ubinde amico ac peropportunos profugio exceperint. <HI>Humfredus</HI> De Nobil. lib. 2.</NOTE> <HI>Kanc.</HI></P>
<P>It is the plea&s;ante&s;t Countrey of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>This Region extendeth it &s;elf in length from We&s;t to Ea&s;t fifty miles; and from South to North &s;ix and twenty.</P>
<P>The upper part of it, they &s;ay is healthfull, but not &s;o wealthy: the middle they account both healthfull and plentifull: the lower they hold to be wealthy, but not healthy; as which
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for a great part thereof is very moi&s;t.</P>
<P>It is every where almo&s;t full of Me|dows, Pa&s;tures and Corn-fields: a|bounding wonderfully in Apple-trees, and Cherry-trees al&s;o: the Trees are planted after a direct manner one again&s;t another by &s;quare, mo&s;t plea&s;ant to be|hold.</P>
<P>It hath Villages and Towns exceed|ing thick and well peopled, &s;afe Rodes and &s;ure Harbours for Ships, with &s;ome veins of Iron and Marle: but the Air is &s;omewhat thick, and &s;omewhere foggy, by rea&s;on of vapours ari&s;ing out of the waters.</P>
<P>The Revenues of the Inhabitants are greater both by the fertility of the &s;oil,
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and al&s;o by the neighbourhood of a great City, of a great River, and the main Sea.</P>
<P>This County is enriched with two Cities and Bi&s;hops Seas, &s;trengthened with twenty &s;even Ca&s;tles, graced with four of the Kings Hou&s;es, traded with four and twenty Market Towns, and beautified with many &s;tately Build|ings.</P>
<P><HI>Camden</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> pag. 324. &s;aith, The <HI>Kenti&s;hmen</HI> had priviledge to leade the Van in all Battels for their valour &s;hewed again&s;t the <HI>Danes.</HI></P>
<P>Among&s;t our old <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> the <HI>Kenti&s;h|men</HI> had the honour due to them al|wayes of being in the Vant-guard, and tho&s;e of <HI>Wilt&s;hire,</HI> with <HI>Corn|wall</HI> and <HI>Devon&s;hire</HI> in the Rere, which they all might challenge by the con|tinuall worth of their performance. Mr. <HI>Seldens</HI> Preface to his Titles of Ho|nour.</P>
<P>The <HI>Sueuians</HI> had anciently preroga|tive, <HI>In omni expeditione Regis Teuto|nici, exercitum praecedere, &amp; primi committere.</HI> Id. ib.</P>
<P>The meaning of that common Pro|verb,
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<HI>Kent and Chri&s;tendome,</HI> was, that it <NOTE PLACE="marg">Not that <HI>Kent</HI> was conceived di&s;tinct from Chri&s;tendome. <HI>Kilburns</HI> Sur|vey of <HI>Kent.</HI> p. 5.</NOTE> was famous as <HI>Kent,</HI> and famous as Chri|&s;tendom.</P>
<P>This was the fir&s;t of the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy, and no one Coun|ty of <HI>England</HI> had a King of it &s;elf, but this.</P>
<P>They are the mo&s;t civilized people of the Nation.</P>
<P>It is plentifull of Fowl and Fi&s;h of all &s;orts. Fertile Lands, Fruit, Grain, Wood.</P>
<P>When <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour came in, the Yeomanry of <HI>Kent</HI> at <HI>Suave&s;-comb,</HI> carrying before them in their hands, every one a great green Bough, repre&s;enting afarre off a mo|ving Wood, yeelded them unto <HI>Willi|am</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">It is agreed by all men, that there were never any bondmen (or villains, as the Law calleth them) in <HI>Kent. Lamberts</HI> Per|ambulat. of <HI>Kent.</HI> The tenures of Land here are as free te|nures as any in <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> the Conquerour, upon this condi|tion, that they might retain their anci|ent Cu&s;toms unviolated, and e&s;pecially that which they call <HI>Gavelkind,</HI> that is, <HI>Give all kinne,</HI> by which they are not &s;o bound by Copy-hold, Cu&s;tomary|tenures, or Tenant-right, as in other parts of <HI>England,</HI> but in manner every man is a Free-holder, and hath &s;ome part of his own to live upon.</P>
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For Lands of this nature are equally divided among the Male children, or if there be no Sonnes, among the Daugh|ters. By vertue of this al&s;o, they are at full age, and enter upon their Inheri|tance when they come to be fifteen years old: and it is lawfull for them to alienate and make it over to any one, either by Gift, or by Sale, without the Lords con&s;ent. By this likewi&s;e, the Sonne (though their Parents were <NOTE PLACE="marg">The father to the Bough, and the &s;on to the Plough.</NOTE> condemned for Felony or Murder) &s;uc|ceeds them neverthele&s;&s;e in &s;uch kind of Lands.</P>
<P>After this, <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour, that he might more firmly a&s;&s;ure to him&s;elf <HI>Kent,</HI> which is the very Key of <HI>England,</HI> placed a <HI>Con&s;table</HI> over <HI>Dover-Castle,</HI> the mo&s;t important Ca|&s;tle of <HI>England,</HI> and according to the ancient order of the <HI>Romans,</HI> made him al&s;o <HI>Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports.</HI> The&s;e be they, <HI>Ha&s;tings, Dover, Hith, Rumney</HI> and <HI>Sandwich,</HI> unto which, <HI>Winchel&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Rie</HI> are joyned, as prin|cipal <NOTE PLACE="marg">Oppidum <HI>Win|chil&s;eum</HI> olim vento, frigori, &amp; ponto obnoxi|um, unde ei nomen obvenit. <HI>Twini</HI> Comment. De Rebus Brittanuicis. lib. 1. pag. 25.</NOTE> Ports, and other &s;mall Towns as
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<HI>Members.</HI> Which becau&s;e they are bound to &s;erve in the Warres by Sea, enjoy many great immunities: they are free from paiment of Sub&s;idies; and from Ward&s;hip of their children, as touching the body, they are not &s;ued in any Court, but within their own Towns; and of the Inhabitants there|in, &s;uch as they call <HI>Barons,</HI> at the Co|ronation of Kings and Queens &s;upport the Canopies over them, yea, and have a Table by them&s;elves that day &s;pread, and furni&s;hed on the Kings right hand. And the <HI>Lord Warden</HI> him&s;elf, who is alwayes one of the Nobility of mo&s;t approved tru&s;t, hath within his Juri&s;|diction the Authority of <HI>Chan|cellour</HI> and <HI>Admirall</HI> in very many ca&s;es, and enjoyeth other rights be|&s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Depe-ford</HI> a mo&s;t famous Ship-dock, where the Kings Ships are built, and &s;uch as are decayed, repaired: there is al&s;o a good Store-hou&s;e, and an Incorporation ordained for the u&s;e of the Navy.</P>
<P><HI>Green-wich,</HI> that is, the <HI>Green-Creek,</HI> for the Creek of a River in
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the old <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> tongue was called <HI>Wic.</HI></P>
<P>A place of very great name by rea|&s;on of the Kings Hou&s;e there, and be|cau&s;e Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> was here borne.</P>
<P><HI>Barclay</HI> the <HI>Scot</HI> in his <HI>Icon animo|rum,</HI> commends <HI>Green-wich</HI> Tower for one of the be&s;t Pro&s;pects in <HI>Europe,</HI> to &s;ee <HI>London</HI> on the one &s;ide, the <HI>Thames,</HI> Ships, and plea&s;ant Medows on the other:</P>
<P><HI>Eltham</HI> a retiring place likewi&s;e of the Kings, but unwhol&s;ome by rea&s;on of the Moor.</P>
<P><HI>Seven-oke,</HI> &s;o called (as men &s;ay) of &s;even exceeding great Oaks now cut down. Which commendeth Sir <HI>Wil|liam Sevenok</HI> an Alderman of <HI>London,</HI> who being a foundling and brought up here; and therefore &s;o named, built herein gratefull remembrance an Ho&s;|pital and a School.</P>
<P><HI>Dartford</HI> upon the River <HI>Darent,</HI> a great Mercat Town well frequented, and well watered.</P>
<P><HI>Grave&s;-end,</HI> &s;o called, as the <HI>Gere|ve&s;-end;</HI> that is, the limit of the <HI>Gere|ve</HI>
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or <HI>Reve.</HI> A Town as well known as any other in <HI>England,</HI> for the u&s;ual pa&s;&s;age by water between it and <HI>Lon|don. Henry</HI> the Eight rai&s;ed two Block-hou&s;es here, and two other oppo&s;ite on <HI>E&s;sex-</HI>&s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Tunbridge</HI> the Town of Bridges.</P>
<P><HI>Maid&s;tone</HI> the Shire Town: a large, fair, &s;weet and populous Town.</P>
<P><HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> may glory in her im|pregnable Fortification by the Navy Royal.</P>
<P><HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> &s;ignifies as much as <HI>Ca&s;trum</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Bi&s;hops See.</NOTE> <HI>in rupe,</HI> the Camp or Station on the Rock. All places ending in <HI>Che&s;ter</HI> ari&s;e from the ruines of the old <HI>Romane Ca&s;tra. Burt.</HI> Comment. on <HI>Antoninus</HI> Itin. through <HI>Brit.</HI></P>
<P>The I&s;land <HI>Shepey,</HI> or the <HI>I&s;le of Sheep:</HI> It feedeth mighty great Floks of Sheep; it is plentifull in Corn, but &s;carce of Woods, containeth twenty one miles in compa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Queen-Borough-</HI>Ca&s;tle, King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the Third built it, and &s;o named it in honour of his Queen.</P>
<P><HI>Tenham</HI> the Parent (as it were) of all the choi&s;e fruit Gardens and Or|ards
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of <HI>Kent,</HI> and the mo&s;t large and delight&s;ome of them. Thirty Pari&s;hes thereabout, are repleni&s;hed with Cher|ry-gardens, and Orchards beautifully di&s;po&s;ed in direct lines.</P>
<P>As for Orchards of Apples and Gar|dens of Cheries, and tho&s;e of mo&s;t de|licious and exqui&s;ite kinds that can be, no part of the Realm (that I know) hath them either in &s;uch quantity and number, or with &s;uch art and indu&s;try &s;et and planted. <HI>Lamb.</HI> Perambulat. of <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P>Among&s;t the&s;e is <HI>Fever&s;ham</HI> very commodiou&s;ly &s;ituate.</P>
<P><HI>Reculver</HI> of name for the &s;alt &s;avou|ry Oi&s;ters there dregged, and for a Min|&s;ter.</P>
<P>The Oi&s;ters here do as farre &s;urpa&s;&s;e tho&s;e of <HI>Whit&s;taple,</HI> as the&s;e do the re&s;t of this Shire in &s;avoury &s;altne&s;&s;e. <HI>Lamb Perambul of Kent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Canterbury</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Durovernum olim, nunc Cantuaria. Cantuaria urbs est Archiepi&s;copalis &amp; Metropolitica, quae ut antiquitate it a peramaena &s;itus jucunditate multis Angliae urbibus, &s;ed &amp; dignitate praefertur. Nam Cantuarien&s;is Archiprae&s;ul totius Angliae primatum obtinet. <HI>Georgius Bruin.</HI> in Tabulis urbium Praecipuarum totius mundi.</NOTE> the chief City of this County, ancient and famous no doubt <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Bi&s;hops See.</NOTE> in the <HI>Romans</HI> time.</P>
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The Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury</HI> was called <HI>Totius Angliae Primas;</HI> the Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>York, Angliae Primas;</HI> with|out any further addition.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;elme</HI> (for recompence of the &s;er|vice he had done in oppugning the mar|riage of Prie&s;ts, and re&s;i&s;ting the King for the inve&s;titure of Clerks) was by Pope <HI>Urbane</HI> endowed with this acce&s;&s;i|on of honour, that he and his Succe&s;|&s;ours, &s;hould from thenceforth have place in all General Councels, at the Popes right foot, who then &s;aid withall, <HI>Includemus hunc in orbe no&s;tro, tanquam alterius orbis Papam.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Canterbury</HI> is one of the famou&s;e&s;t Cities in <HI>England:</HI> It hath had a rare <NOTE PLACE="marg">See M^r <HI>Somner</HI> of <HI>Canterbury.</HI></NOTE> Cathedral, though now much ruina|ted by rea&s;on of the&s;e later times.</P>
<P>The Cathedral is in the mid&s;t of the City, a fair Church, the body of which is within a little as large as <HI>Pauls</HI> in <HI>London;</HI> between the body and the Quire a very high Steeple, where hang|eth a Bell, called by the name of <HI>Bell-Harry,</HI> being one of them which King <HI>Henry</HI> brought out of <HI>France.</HI> There is al&s;o in this Steeple four Spires much
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like to <HI>Sepulchres</HI> in <HI>London.</HI> There is on each &s;ide of the great We&s;t|gate two other Steeples, the one cal|led <HI>Dun&s;ton-</HI>&s;teeple, the other, <HI>Ar|nold-</HI>&s;teeple, in each of which are a very plea&s;ant ring of Bels. In the &s;ame Cathedral there was the famou&s;|e&s;t Window that ever was known in <HI>England,</HI> for which there was offered (as &s;ome &s;ay) by the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Em|ba&s;&s;adour 10000^l^b, being the whole Hi&s;tory of Chri&s;t from his Nativity to his Sufferings, but is now battered to pieces. In the Quire of this Cathe|dral is buried Prince <HI>Edward,</HI> called the Black Prince, who&s;e Monument is there of bra&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The Dean and Prebends had very fair Hou&s;es within the bounds of the &s;aid Cathedral, which was like a little City, and &s;o much power formerly, that the Maiors Sword was not &s;uf|fered to be held up within the Gates of the Deanry. There is underneath this Cathedral a great Congregation of <HI>French</HI> living in the City; and the <HI>Dutch</HI> al&s;o have a Church in that place which was called the Bi&s;hops Pa|lace.</P>
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Within the bounds of the &s;aid Dean|ry there is a free School, called, <HI>The Kings School,</HI> wherein are two Ma|&s;ters, and many Scholars (formerly wearing Gowns) that are there brought up, and many from thence &s;ent to the Univer&s;ity. There was one School|ma&s;ter <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>M^r</HI> John Ludd.</NOTE> &s;ome years before he died, af|firmed, he had had thirty &s;even Ma&s;ters of Arts of his bringing up.</P>
<P>There are many Churches in the Ci|ty and Suburbs.</P>
<P>There are two Markets a week.</P>
<P>The Maior and Aldermen are cloa|thed in Scarlet, and they keep the Se&s;&s;ions in the &s;ame City. The City is walled, and hath a Mote about it, the Wall being &s;o broad that two or three men may go a-bre&s;t, with gal|lant Watch hou&s;es, called Citadels, all built with flint-&s;tone.</P>
<P>There was an old Ca&s;tle, but it hath been for many years demoli&s;hed, and &s;ome of the Works (or Forts) are yet &s;tanding, that were when the <HI>Danes</HI> came in, one or two of which were made u&s;e of when the la&s;t ri&s;ing was there.</P>
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There are two Ho&s;pitals in the City, one for Ancient people, and the other for Children.</P>
<P>The <HI>I&s;le of Thanet,</HI> it is eight miles long, and four broad, a right fertile &s;oil.</P>
<P><HI>Goodwin-Sands</HI> a &s;andy dangerous place.</P>
<P>In the Reign of <HI>William</HI> the Second, certain Lands in <HI>Kent,</HI> which did once <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Haywards</HI> Life of <HI>William</HI> the 2^d.</NOTE> belong to <HI>Godwin</HI> Earl of <HI>Kent,</HI> were overflowed and covered with &s;and, which to this day do bear the name of <HI>Godwins</HI> Sands.</P>
<P>See <HI>Kilburns</HI> Survey of <HI>Kent,</HI> pag. 262, 263. How <HI>Tenterden</HI> Steeple was &s;aid to be the cau&s;e of <HI>Goodwins</HI> Sands.</P>
<P><HI>Sandwich</HI> one of the Cinque Ports.</P>
<P><HI>Dover.</HI> The Town is &s;eated be|tween high Cliffs, more famous for <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dubris. <HI>One of the Cinque Ports.</HI> A Dovero ad Caletum mari|timum ex altera parte in Gallia oppidum &s;ecun|dis ventis &s;pi|rantibus, quatuor horis brevi&s;&s;imus fit trajectus. <HI>Antiqu. Britann.</HI></NOTE> the commodiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Haven, (&s;uch as it is) and for ready pa&s;&s;age in|to <HI>France,</HI> then for any elegance or great trade.</P>
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There is a mo&s;t &s;tately Ca&s;tle like unto a pretty City, fortified &s;trongly with Bulwarks, and many a Tow|er.</P>
<P>It is the &s;tronge&s;t hold of all <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and mo&s;t commodious for the <HI>French.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sandgate-Ca&s;tle,</HI> and <HI>Satlwood,</HI> a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Hith,</HI> it &s;ignifies an Haven or Harbour, one of the Cinque Ports.</P>
<P><HI>Rumney-mar&s;h</HI> a fruitfull &s;oil, it feed|eth a number of Herds of Cattel &s;ent <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>One of the Cinque Ports. It containeth 24000 Acres.</HI> Lamb. <HI>Peram|bul. of</HI> Kent. Quis quae&s;o hodi&egrave; credat, magnam partem illius prati &s;iv&egrave; Planiciei no|bis nunc Rumnen&s;is mar&s;hii, id e&s;t, Romani maris, nomine dictae, fui&s;&s;e quondam altum Pelagus, &amp; mare Velivolum? &V;bi tot ovium greges ob|errant: tot pecorum armenta pa&s;cuntur tot juga bovum arant: tanti foeni copia qvotannis conficitur: tot templa in divinum cultum con&s;truun|tur: tot familiae foventur: denique unde tot pingues pecudes in macel|lis veniunt, ut non modo univer&s;um Cantium hujus locis commoda &s;en|tiat, verum etiam civitas Londinum non nihil emolumenti inde percipiat. <HI>Twini</HI> Comment. De Rebus Britan. <HI>l. 1. p.</HI> 31.</NOTE> hither from the furthe&s;t parts of <HI>Wales,</HI> and <HI>England</HI> to be fatted.</P>
<P>There is at <HI>Bil&s;ington</HI> a Priory built by <HI>John Maun&s;el.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Weaver</HI> in his Funeral Monuments &s;aith, He &s;aw a Pedigree of the <HI>Maun|&s;els</HI> from <HI>Philip de Maun&s;el,</HI> who
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came in with the Conquerour, untill the&s;e our times.</P>
<P><HI>Wie.</HI> Here was born <HI>John Kemp</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and one of the great Benefactors to the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P>He was Bi&s;hop of <HI>Roche&s;ter, Chiche|&s;ter</HI> and <HI>London,</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>York</HI> fir&s;t, and afterward of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> twice made Cardinal.
<Q><L>Bis primas, ter Prae&s;es, &amp; bis Cardine functus.</L></Q></P>
<P>This Province hath three hundred ninety eight Pari&s;hes, and &s;ixty four Hundreds.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Lanca&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is a large, populous and well wood|ed Countrey.</P>
<P>The County Palatine of <HI>Lancaster</HI> (famous for the four <HI>Henries,</HI> the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
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Kings of <HI>England,</HI> derived from <HI>John Gaunt</HI> Duke of <HI>Lanca&s;ter)</HI> is upon the South confined and parted by the River <HI>Mer&s;ey,</HI> from the County Palatine of <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> the County of <HI>Darby&s;hire</HI> bordering upon the Ea&s;t; the large Countrey of <HI>York&s;hire,</HI> together with <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> and <HI>Cumberland,</HI> being her kind neighbours upon the North, and the Sea called <HI>Mare Hibernicum</HI> im|bracing her upon the We&s;t.</P>
<P>Their Kine and Oxen have goodly Heads and fair &s;pread Hornes, and are in body well proportionate withall.</P>
<P><HI>Warringdon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rochdale</HI> a Mercate Town well fre|quented.</P>
<P><HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> a Town of great anti|quity, from <HI>Main</HI> a <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> word which &s;ignifieth a <HI>Stone:</HI> It is &s;eated upon a &s;tony hill, and beneath the Town, there are mo&s;t famous quarries of &s;tone.</P>
<P>It farre excelleth the Towns lying round about it, for the beautifull &s;hew it carrieth, for re&s;ort unto it, and for cloathing: in regard al&s;o of the Mer|cate
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place, the fair Church and Col|ledge.</P>
<P><HI>John Bradford</HI> the famous Martyr was born here.</P>
<P><HI>Letherpool</HI> or <HI>Lirpool,</HI> &s;o named of the water &s;preading it &s;elf in manner of a Pool: whence there is a convenient pa&s;&s;age over into <HI>Ireland,</HI> and much fre|quented, and in that re&s;pect more noto|rious than for any antiquity.</P>
<P><HI>Ocmeskirk</HI> a Mercate Town, well known by rea&s;on of the Sepulture there, of the <HI>Stanleys</HI> Earls of <HI>Derby,</HI> who&s;e chief &s;eat <HI>Latham,</HI> is hard by, a &s;tately hou&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Wiggin</HI> a Corporation with a Maior and Burge&s;&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Bolton</HI> upon the River <HI>Irwell.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Pre&s;ton</HI> a great fair Town, and well <NOTE PLACE="marg">Prie&s;ts-Town.</NOTE> inhabited.</P>
<P><HI>Hornby</HI> a fair Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> the chief Town of this <NOTE PLACE="marg">Or <HI>Lonca&s;ter</HI> from the Ri|ver <HI>Lone.</HI></NOTE> Region.</P>
<P>There are thirty &s;ix Pari&s;hes in this Shire, but tho&s;e very populous and &s;pa|cious, &s;ix Hundreds, and fifteen Market Towns.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT hath bordering upon it on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide, both <HI>Rutland&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Lincoln&s;hire;</HI> on the North <HI>Notingham</HI> and <HI>Derby&s;hire;</HI> and <HI>Warwick&s;hire</HI> on the We&s;t; and on the South-&s;ide lieth <HI>Northampton.</HI></P>
<P>The whole Shire yeeldeth great abundance of Peas and Beans more than any other Country, in&s;omuch that there is an old by-word of the &s;ame, common|ly known to all men, <HI>viz. Leice&s;ter|&s;hire Bean-Belly.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Burtons</HI> De&s;cript. of <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>The South-Ea&s;t-&s;ide of this Shire is exceeding rich ground, yeelding great increa&s;e of Corn in abundance of all kinds, &amp; affordeth many good and large Sheep-Pa&s;tures, breeding a Sheep to that height and goodne&s;&s;e; &s;o that (as I have credibly heard) neither <HI>Lem&s;ter</HI> nor <HI>Cot&s;would,</HI> can exceed them, if one re&s;pect either largene&s;&s;e of the body,
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finene&s;&s;e of the Wooll, or goodne&s;&s;e of the breed. <HI>Id. ib.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Leice&s;ter</HI> &s;tandeth upon the River <HI>Leire,</HI> now called <HI>Sore,</HI> it &s;ignifies the City &s;tanding upon the River <HI>Leir.</HI> It is a Town of great antiquity, and &s;tand|eth in the center and heart of the Shire, bearing the proportion of an heart, and being in the very mid&s;t and heart of the Land.</P>
<P>It is &s;ituate in a mo&s;t rich, delicate and plea&s;ant &s;oyl, and delicious air; it wants only a navigable River.</P>
<P><HI>Harborow</HI> a Town famous for a Fair of Cattel there kept.</P>
<P><HI>Carleton,</HI> all that are born there, whe|ther it be by a peculiar property of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Carlton-Curlew</NOTE> &s;oyl, or of the water; or el&s;e by &s;ome other &s;ecret operation of nature, have <NOTE PLACE="marg">They cannot prenounce the letter <HI>R. Camd. Brit.</HI> And <HI>Burtons</HI> De&s;cript. of <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> an ill favoured, untunable, and har&s;h manner of &s;peech, fetching their words with very much ado, deep from out of the throat, with a certain kind of whar|ling.</P>
<P><HI>Lutterworth</HI> a Mercat Town, it hath <NOTE PLACE="marg">Bi&s;hop <HI>Latimer</HI> was al&s;o born at <HI>Thurca&s;ton</HI> in <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> a fair Church. That famous <HI>John Wic|liffe</HI> was &s;ometimes par&s;on of this Church, a man of a &s;ingular, polite,
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and well wrought wit, mo&s;t conver&s;ant al&s;o in the holy Scripture.</P>
<P>Neer to this Town there is a Spring &s;o call'd, that within a &s;hort time turneth &s;traws and &s;ticks into &s;tones.</P>
<P><HI>Cathorp.</HI> It came to one <HI>Cook,</HI> a Mer|chant of the Staple in the time of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth, who&s;e Daughter and Heir was married to <HI>William Harper</HI> of <HI>Ru|&s;hall</HI> in the County of <HI>Stafford,</HI> and from thence by de&s;cent, to <HI>Leigh.</HI> It was not many years &s;ince belonging to Sir <HI>Edward Leigh</HI> of <HI>Ru&s;hall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Burtons</HI> De&s;cript. of <HI>Leicester&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hinkley.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Burton-Lazers,</HI> &s;o called from a fa|mous Ho&s;pital, which was there found|ed for the u&s;e of Leprous people, to who&s;e Ma&s;ter all the le&s;&s;er hou&s;es of that kind were &s;ubordinate, as he him|&s;elf was to the Ma&s;ter of the <HI>Lazers</HI> at <HI>Hieru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bo&s;worth,</HI> an ancient Mercat Town. Here <HI>Henry</HI> Earl of <HI>Richmond</HI> with a &s;mall power, encountred in pitch-field with King <HI>Richard</HI> the Third, and over|came and &s;lew him, and then with joy|full acclamations was proclaimed King
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in the very mid&s;t of &s;laughtered bodies round about.</P>
<P><HI>A&s;hby de la Zouch,</HI> a mo&s;t plea&s;ant <NOTE PLACE="marg">It was &s;o cal|led of the <HI>Zouches,</HI> &s;ome|times Lords thereof. <HI>Burtons</HI> De&s;cript. of <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire&punc;</HI></NOTE> Lord&s;hip now of the Earls of <HI>Hunting|don,</HI> but belonging in times pa&s;t to the noble Family <HI>De la Zouch.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cole-Overton</HI> or <HI>Orton,</HI> famous for Pit-coal. It is &s;o called of the Cole|mines which are there in great abun|dance.</P>
<P><HI>Mount-Sorehill,</HI> famous only for a Mercat there kept.</P>
<P><HI>Lough-borough</HI> a Mercat Town, next Town to <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI> in this Shire: whe|ther a man regard the bigne&s;&s;e or build|ing thereof, or the plea&s;ant Woods about it.</P>
<P><HI>Melton-Mowbray</HI> a Mercat Town, bearing name of the <HI>Mowbrayes</HI> &s;ome|times Lords thereof.</P>
<P>Within this Shire are two hundred Pari&s;h Churches, &s;ix Hundreds, and twelve Market Towns.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Lincoln&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>A Very large Countrey, reaching <NOTE PLACE="marg">The large&s;t next <HI>Yorkshire.</HI></NOTE> almo&s;t three&s;core miles in length, and carrying in &s;ome places above thirty miles in bredth: pa&s;&s;ing good for yeeld|ing of Corn, and feeding of Cattel; well furni&s;hed and &s;et out with a great number of Towns, and watered with many Rivers.</P>
<P>The Dioce&s;&s;e here is the large&s;t of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>After three Bi&s;hopricks were taken out of it, it containeth four whole Counties, and parts of two, u&s;ually thus expre&s;t, it had under it two B^s, two H^s, two L^s.</P>
<P>The whole Shire is divided into three <NOTE PLACE="marg">It is well &s;to|red with all kind of provi|&s;ion, it abounds with fi&s;h and fowl.</NOTE> parts, whereof one is called <HI>Holland:</HI> a &s;econd <HI>Ke&s;teuen;</HI> and the third <HI>Lind|&s;ey.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Crowland</HI> or <HI>Croyland,</HI> a raw and muddy Land, as <HI>Ingulph</HI> the Abbot of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The roof of the Church is richly guilt.</NOTE> this place interprets it, a Town former|ly
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of good note among the Fenne-peo|ple. It is &s;eated like unto <HI>Venice.</HI> In the Moneth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> they have &s;ome|times &s;pread a Net, and at once drawn three thou&s;and Mallards: and they u&s;e to term the&s;e Pools or watery Plots of theirs their Corn-fields. In regard of this their taking of Fi&s;h and Fowl, they paid yearly in times pa&s;t to the Abbot three hundred pounds of our money, and after &s;o much to the Crown.</P>
<P><HI>Spalding</HI> a fair Town, enclo&s;ed round about with Riverets.</P>
<P><HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> a famous Town, &s;tanding on <NOTE PLACE="marg">M^r <HI>John Fox</HI> the Authour of the Acts and Monuments was born here.</NOTE> both &s;ides of the River <HI>Witham,</HI> which hath over it a wooden Bridge of a great heigth, well frequented by means of a commodious Haven unto it: the Mar|ket place is fair and large, and the <NOTE PLACE="marg">There are &s;o many &s;teps in the &s;teeple from the bot|tom to the top as there are dayes in the years.</NOTE> Church maketh a goodly &s;hew, as well for the beautifull building as the great|ne&s;&s;e thereof: the Tower-&s;teeple of it, which ri&s;eth up to a mighty height, doth &s;alute pa&s;&s;engers and travellers a great way off, and giveth direction al&s;o to the Sailers.</P>
<P>In the Coat of <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> for the Corpo|ration there are three Crowns relating
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to the three Kingdoms, the Cre&s;t a Ramme lying upon a Wool-&s;ack, the Ram &s;ignifying the great Sheep-walks in the fens round about, and the Wool-&s;ack, that it was a Staple-town. The Supporters of the Coat are two Mare|maids, &s;ignifying, that it is a Port-Town.</P>
<P><HI>Stanford,</HI> it was built of rough &s;tone, whence it hath the name.</P>
<P>A Town well peopled, and of great re&s;ort, endowed al&s;o with &s;undry im|munities, and walled about. It is <NOTE PLACE="marg">At the <HI>George</HI> there is one of the faire&s;t Inns of <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> beautified with &s;even Pari&s;h Churches, or thereabout, and &s;heweth an old Ho|&s;pital.</P>
<P><HI>Belvoir</HI> or <HI>Beauvoir-Ca&s;tle,</HI> &s;o called of the fair Pro&s;pect, mounted upon the top of a good &s;teep Hill. It belongs to the Earl of <HI>Rutland.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Vale of Bever,</HI> a very plea&s;ant place lieth under the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>The <HI>Vale of Bevell</HI> barren of Wooll, is large and very plentifull of good Corn and Gra&s;&s;e, and lieth in three Shires, <HI>Leice&s;ter, Lincoln,</HI> and much in <HI>Nottingham&s;hire. Lelands</HI> Itine|rary.</P>
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<HI>Grantham</HI> a Town of good re&s;ort, adorned with a School built by <HI>Richard Fox</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> and with a fair Church, having a Spire-&s;teeple of a mighty height.</P>
<P><HI>Lincolne.</HI> This City is large, well <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lincolnia.</NOTE> inhabited and frequented, it &s;tandeth upon the &s;ide of an Hill, and thence hath its name from its &s;ituation, or be|cau&s;e it hath been a Colony.</P>
<P>There are fourteen Churches, the Min&s;ter is a fair one, and in one of the Steeples there is a very great Bell rung <NOTE PLACE="marg">The greate&s;t Bell of <HI>Eng|land.</HI></NOTE> by &s;ixteen men, called great <HI>Tom of Lincoln.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Camden</HI> honourably mentions two learned Bi&s;hops of <HI>Lincoln, Robert Gro&s;thead,</HI> and his Ma&s;ter <HI>Thomas Cooper.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wainfleet,</HI> it bred <HI>William Wainfleet</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI> a worthy Prelate, <NOTE PLACE="marg">He was great with <HI>Henry</HI> the 6^t^h, he built a Free-School at <HI>Wainflet,</HI> his name was <HI>Patten</HI> of the wor&s;hipfull fa|mily of which he was de|&s;cended.</NOTE> founder of <HI>Magdalen-</HI>Colledge in <HI>Ox|ford,</HI> a man that &s;ingularly well de&s;er|ved of learning.</P>
<P><HI>Alford</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Castor</HI> an ancient Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Mercate-Ra&s;in,</HI> &s;o called of a Mercat there well re&s;orted unto.</P>
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<HI>Gainsborrow</HI> a Market Town &s;tanding upon the River of <HI>Trent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Grimsby</HI> an old Market Town. Here was Archbi&s;hop <HI>Whitgift</HI> born.</P>
<P>There are in this Shire &s;ix hundred and thirty <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">More than in <HI>Yorkshire.</HI></NOTE> Pari&s;hes, thirty and one Hun|dreds, and thirty Market Towns.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Middle&s;ex.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;evered from <HI>Buckingham&s;hire</HI> by the River <HI>Cole;</HI> on the We&s;t-&s;ide, from <HI>Hertford&s;hire;</HI> on the North-&s;ide by a known crooked limit; from <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> on the Ea&s;t with the River <HI>Lea,</HI> from <HI>Surrey</HI> and <HI>Kent</HI> on the South by the <HI>Thames.</HI></P>
<P>It is a &s;mall Shire, in length not twenty miles, in circuit not above &s;eventy miles, yet for the fertility thereof it may compare with any other Shire: for the &s;oil is excellent fat, fer|tile and full of profit. <HI>Nordens Speculum Britaniae.</HI></P>
<P>For Air pa&s;&s;ing temperate, and for &s;oyl fertile, with &s;umptuous hou&s;es, and
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pretty Towns on all &s;ides plea&s;antly beautified, and every where offer|eth to the view many things memo|rable.</P>
<P><HI>Uxbridge</HI> full of Innes, it &s;tretcheth out in length.</P>
<P><HI>Harrow-hill,</HI> the highe&s;t Hill of all this Country, under which Southward there lie for a long way together, ex|ceeding rich and fruitfull fields, e&s;peci|ally about <HI>He&s;ton</HI> a &s;mall Village, that yeeldeth &s;o fine flour for manchet that a long time it hath &s;erved for the Kings mouth.</P>
<P><HI>Hampton-Court</HI> a Royal Palace of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The chiefe&s;t at this day of all the Kings hou|&s;es.</NOTE> the Kings, a work of admirable mag|nificence, built out of the ground by <HI>Thomas Wol&s;ey</HI> Cardinal, in o&s;tentati|on <NOTE PLACE="marg">A City rather in &s;hew then the Palace of a Prince: and for &s;tately port and gorgeous building not inferiour to any in <HI>Europe. Weavers</HI> Mo|num.</NOTE> of his riches. It was enlarged and fini&s;hed by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth &s;o amply, as it containeth within it five &s;everal inner Courts pa&s;&s;ing large, en|vironed with very fair buildings wrought right curiou&s;ly, and goodly to behold.</P>
<P>The neate&s;t pile of all the Kings hou&s;es. <HI>Godwins</HI> Annal.</P>
<P>It is called <HI>Hampton-Court, Hampton</HI>
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of the Pari&s;h of <HI>Hampton,</HI> which &s;tandeth not farre thence: <HI>Court</HI> in regard of the Maje&s;ty and princely beauty. There are two Parks, the one of Deer, the other of Hares. <HI>Nordens Speculum Britaniae.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thi&s;tleworth,</HI> or <HI>I&s;leworth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brentford</HI> a fair thorow-fare and fre|quent Mercat.</P>
<P><HI>Fulham</HI> the place of Fowls, where the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Londons</HI> hou&s;e was.</P>
<P><HI>Chel&s;ey</HI> a place garni&s;hed with fair and &s;tately hou&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>London</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It is mo&s;t &s;weetly &s;itu|ate upon the <HI>Thames,</HI> &s;erved with all kind of nece&s;&s;aries mo&s;t commo|diou&s;ly. The air health full, it is populous, rich and beau|tifull. <HI>Nordens Speculum Bri|tanniae.</HI></NOTE>, the Epitome or Breviary of all <HI>Britain,</HI> the &s;eat of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Empire, and the King of <HI>Englands</HI> chamber.</P>
<P>King <HI>Luds</HI> re-edifying <HI>Troinovant</HI> (fir&s;t built by <HI>Brute)</HI> and from thence leaving the name of <HI>Caer Lud,</HI> after|wards turned (as they &s;ay) into <HI>London,</HI> is not unknown, &s;carce to any that hathbut lookt on <HI>Ludgates</HI> inner Fronti&s;piece.</P>
<P><HI>Seld.</HI> Illu&s;trat. of the eighth Song of <HI>Drayt. Polyolb.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Georgius Braun</HI> or <HI>Bruin</HI> in his <HI>Thea|trum Praecipuarum totius mundi urbium,</HI> in three great Volumes in Folio, men|tions
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<HI>London</HI> in the fir&s;t place of his fir&s;t Volume.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Robert Dallington</HI> in his view of <HI>France;</HI> comparing the City of <HI>Paris</HI> with <HI>London,</HI> &s;aith, That <HI>Paris</HI> is the greater, the fairer built, and the better &s;ituate: <HI>London</HI> is the richer, the more populous, the more ancient.</P>
<P><HI>Howell</HI> in his <HI>Londinopolis</HI> makes a parallel of it, with the other great Ci|ties of the world, and &s;o doth <HI>Gainsford</HI> in his Glory of <HI>England, lib. 2. ch.</HI> 17.</P>
<P>For the &s;pace of above one thou&s;and five hundred four&s;core and &s;ix years it hath flouri&s;hed more for the &s;tateline&s;&s;e and magnificence of her goodly build|ings, for the large extent of her bounds and juri&s;diction, for the Religion and civility of her Inhabitants, for the Wi&s;dome and Honour of her Magi|&s;trates, for the profe&s;&s;ion of Arms, all good Letters and Arts, not to &s;peak of her Traffique and Commerce with all Countreys and Ports of the known world, more than any other knowne City what&s;oever throughout all Chri|&s;tendom. <HI>Burtons</HI> Comment. on <HI>Anto|nin.</HI> his <HI>Itin.</HI> through <HI>Britain,</HI> pag. 154,
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155. See more there, and 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164. See al&s;o M. <HI>Calamy</HI> and M. <HI>Hardie</HI> his Sermon preacht before the <HI>London|ers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Caput atque Metropolis totius in&s;u|lae Trinovantum &s;ive Londinium &s;ive Londinum, urbs potens &amp; amaena, quam fluviorum Rex Thame&s;is pererrat.</HI> Adol|phi a Dans <HI>vita</HI> Elizabethae.
<Q><L>Quicquid habet miri Memphis, pretiive Corinthus,</L>
<L>Illion antiquum, Graecia magnificum,</L>
<L>Roma ecquid &s;anctum, Campania deli|ciarum,</L>
<L>Subtile Hetru&s;ci, &s;plendidulum He&s;perii:</L>
<L>Quicquid opum Venetis, doctrinae quic|quid Athenis,</L>
<L>Metropolis Britonum dicat id omne &s;uum.</L>
<BIBL>Stradlingi <HI>Epig.</HI> l. 1. p. 1.</BIBL></Q></P>
<P><HI>Tacitus, Ptolomee,</HI> and <HI>Antonine</HI> call it <HI>Londinium; Ammianus Lundi|num,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;ta,</HI> the Inhabitants <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>It is &s;ituate in a rich and fertile &s;oyl,
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abounding with plentifull &s;tore of all things, and on the gentle a&s;cent and ri|&s;ing of an Hill, hard by the <HI>Thames</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">It is conveni|ent for &s;ituati|on, hath a no|ble Bridge, na|vigable Ri|ver. 2. Strictly go|verned. 3. Opulent, hath abund|ance of all kinds of pro|vi&s;ion. 4. Ancient, and enjoyeth many Immunities. Of S^t <HI>Pauls</HI> Cathedral. See M^r <HI>Dugdales</HI> Hi&s;tory, and of the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Pauls. Londinum copia negotiatorum &amp; commeatu valde celebre.</HI> Tacitus.</NOTE> &s;ide, which by his &s;afe and deep chanel able to entertain the greate&s;t Ships that be, daily bringeth in &s;o great riches from all parts, that it &s;triveth at this day with the Mart Towns of Chri&s;tendom for the &s;econd prize, and affordeth a mo&s;t &s;ure and beautifull rode for &s;hipping.</P>
<P>King <HI>James</HI> being di&s;plea&s;ed with the City, becau&s;e &s;he would not lend him &s;uch a Summe of Money, he told the Lord Maior and Aldermen one day, <HI>That he would remove his own Court, with all the Records of the Tower, and the Courts of</HI> We&s;tmin|&s;ter-Hall <HI>to another place,</HI> with further expre&s;&s;ions of his Indignation; The Lord Maior calmly heard all, and at la&s;t an&s;wered, <HI>Your Maje&s;ty hath pow|er to do what you plea&s;e, and your Ci|ty of</HI> London <HI>will obey accordingly; but &s;he humbly de&s;ires, that when your
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Majesty &s;hall remove your Courts, you would be plea&s;ed to leave the Thames behind you.</HI></P>
<P>It is for Antiquity honourable.</P>
<P><HI>Ammianus Marcellinus</HI> called it in his times, and that was twelve hundred yeers ago, an old Town: and <HI>Cornelius Tacitus</HI> in like manner, who lived in <HI>Nero</HI> his dayes, 1540. years &s;ince, re|ported it to have been <HI>a place very fa|mous for fre&s;h trade, concour&s;e of Mer|chants, and great &s;tore of victuals, and all things nece&s;&s;ary.</HI></P>
<P>The Tower of <HI>London,</HI> a mo&s;t fa|mous and goodly Citadel, encompa&s;&s;ed round about with thick and &s;trong Wals, full of lofty and &s;tately Turrets, fenced with a broad and deep ditch, furni&s;hed al&s;o with an Armoury or Ma|gazine of warlike Munition, and other buildings be&s;ides: &s;o as it re&s;embleth a big Town.</P>
<P>The Tower containeth a Kings Pa|lace, a Kings Pri&s;on, a Kings Armou|ry, a Kings Mint, a Kings Wardrobe, a Kings Artillery. <HI>Gainsford.</HI></P>
<P>In the yeer 1235. <HI>Frederick</HI> the Em|perour &s;ent to <HI>Henry</HI> the Third three
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Leopards in token of his Regal Shield of Arms, wherein three Leopards were pictures, &s;ince which time tho&s;e Lions and others have been kept in a part of this Bulwark, now called the Lions Tower, and their Keeper there lodged. <HI>Stows</HI> Survey of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>There are twelve chief Companies out of which the Lord Maior is to be an|nually cho&s;en.</P>
<P>Twelve Innes ordained for Students <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Inner-Temple</HI> is the mother and mo&s;t ancient of all the other hou&s;es of Court, <HI>Burtons</HI> De&s;cript. of <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> of our Common Law, whereof four being very fair and large, belong to the Judicial Courts, the re&s;t unto the Chan|cery.</P>
<P>Herein &s;uch a number of young Gentlemen do &s;o painfully ply their Books and &s;tudy the Law, that for fre|quency of Students it is not inferiour either to <HI>Angiers, Cane,</HI> or <HI>Orleans</HI> it &s;elf, as Sir <HI>John Forte&s;cue</HI> in his &s;mall Treati&s;e of the Laws of <HI>England</HI> doth witne&s;&s;e. The &s;aid four principal Hou|&s;es, are the <HI>Inner-Temple,</HI> the <HI>Middle-Temple, Grayes-Inne,</HI> and <HI>Lincolns-Inne.</HI></P>
<P><HI>John Leland</HI> the famous Antiquary was born in <HI>London,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Andrews,</HI>
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Mr. <HI>Gataker,</HI> M. <HI>Calamy,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas More. Chaucer, Edmund Spen&s;er</HI> the fa|mous <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Poets were born in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>If any City in the world may at this day be called, as <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> once was, a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr <HI>Reynolds</HI> Sions prai&s;es.</NOTE> <HI>City of Truth, a holy Mountain,</HI> in re|gard of the Doctrine of truth and holi|ne&s;&s;e preached therein, then certainly <HI>London</HI> may. In&s;omuch that Foraign|ers, <HI>Hungarians, Germans, Batavians,</HI> others learn our Language, and come over to this City, that they may hear our Preachers, and read our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Di|vines.</P>
<P><HI>London-Bridge</HI> is an admirable Workman&s;hip of &s;tone hewen out of <NOTE PLACE="marg">This work, <HI>viz.</HI> the Arch|es, Chappel, and &s;tone|bridge over the <HI>Thames</HI> was thirty three yeers in building. <HI>Stow.</HI></NOTE> the Quarry, upon nineteen Arches, be|&s;ides the Draw-bridge, and is furni&s;h|ed on both &s;ides with pa&s;&s;ing fair hou&s;es joyning one to another in manner of a &s;treet, that for bigne&s;&s;e and beauty it may worthily carry away the prize from all the Bridges in <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
<P>The whole City is divided into &s;ix and twenty Wards: and the Councel of the City con&s;i&s;ted of as many anci|ent men, named of their age in our tongue Aldermen, as one would &s;ay
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Senatours, who each one have the over-&s;eeing and rule of his &s;everal Ward.</P>
<P>The chief Magi&s;trate is the Lord Maior and two Sheriffs, whereof the one is called the Kings, the other the Cities Sheriff.</P>
<P>In <HI>Henry</HI> the Sixths Reign <HI>Godfrey Bolein</HI> was Lord Maior of <HI>London</HI> (be|ing the Ance&s;tor of two renowned and virtuous Queens of <HI>England, Anne</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Speeds <HI>Chron.</HI></NOTE> &s;econd wife to King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth, and <HI>Elizabeth</HI> their Daughter) through who&s;e great vigilancy and providence, the City &s;tood &s;o well guarded, that the Kings peace was dutifully kept, not|with&s;tanding the great Lords of both the Factions <HI>(Yorki&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Lanca|&s;trians)</HI> were with &s;o great Troops of followers lodged within, and about the &s;ame.</P>
<P>In <HI>Edward</HI> the Thirds Reign, <HI>Henry</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Stows</HI> and <HI>Speeds</HI> Chron. in <HI>Edw.</HI> the 3^d.</NOTE> <HI>Picard</HI> Maior of <HI>London,</HI> in one day &s;umptuou&s;ly fea&s;ted four Kings, <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the Third King of <HI>England, John</HI> King of <HI>France,</HI> the King of <HI>Cyprus</HI> then arrived in <HI>England, David</HI> King of <HI>Scots.</HI></P>
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See the courage and piety of a Lord Maior in King <HI>James</HI> his time in <HI>Wil|&s;ons</HI> Hi&s;tory of <HI>Great-Britain,</HI> p. 106.</P>
<P>The Merchants meeting place &s;tand|ing upon Pillars, which the common <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Thomas Gre|&s;hamus</HI> Cives Londinen&s;is, Mercator Re|gius, &amp; ex or|dine Equestri, qui patriae orna|mento, &amp; Mer|catorum u&s;ui Pery&s;tillium pulcherrimum (Excambiam Regium <HI>Eliza|betha</HI> nomina|vit) Londini extruxit, &amp; aedes, quas in urbe habuit ampli&s;&s;imas bonarum litera|rum profe&s;&s;ioni dicavit, con|&s;titutis in ii&s;|dem Sacrae Theologiae, Ju|ris Civilis, Me|dicinae, A&s;tro|nomiae, Geome|triae &amp; Rheto|ricae praelectio|nibus cum hone|&s;tis &s;alariis. <HI>Camd.</HI> Annal. rerum Anglic. pars <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="2 letters">. p. 286. Vide etiam pag. 189.</NOTE> people call the <HI>Bur&s;e,</HI> and Queen <HI>Eli|zabeth</HI> with a &s;olemn Ceremony named, <HI>The Royal Exchange,</HI> was &s;et up by Sir <HI>Thomas Gre&s;ham</HI> Citizen and Knight; a magnificent work, whether you re&s;pect the Model of the build|ing, the re&s;ort of Merchants from all Nations thither, or the &s;tore of wares there. Which Sir <HI>Thomas Gre&s;ham,</HI> being withall an exceeding great lover of Learning, con&s;ecrated a mo&s;t &s;paci|ous hou&s;e his own habitation to the fur|therance of Learning, and in&s;tituted the Profe&s;&s;ours of Divinity, Law, Phy|&s;ick, A&s;tronomy, Geometry, and Mu|&s;ick, with liberal Salaries and Stipends, to the end that <HI>London</HI> might be a place, not only furni&s;hed with all kind of Traf|fick, but al&s;o with the Liberal Arts and Sciences.</P>
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There is al&s;o a fair and goodly Libra|ry in <HI>Sion-</HI>Colledge, containing an hun|dred twenty and one foot in length, and above five and twenty foot in breadth.</P>
<P>In the Reign of King <HI>James, Robert</HI> Earl of <HI>Salisbury,</HI> cau&s;ed to be erected <NOTE PLACE="marg">The new Ex change.</NOTE> a &s;tately building in the <HI>Strand,</HI> which upon <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the tenth of <HI>April,</HI> in the yeer 1609. was begun to be richly fur|ni&s;hed with Wares; and the next day after, the King, the Queen and Prince, with many great Lords and Ladies came to &s;ee, and then the King gave it the name of <HI>Britains Bur&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> was called in times pa&s;t <HI>Thorney,</HI> of <HI>Thorns,</HI> now <HI>Westmin&s;ter</HI> of the We&s;t &s;ituation, and the Mona|&s;tery.</P>
<P>A City of it &s;elf, having its peculiar Magi&s;trates and Priviledges.</P>
<P>It is renowned for the Abbey Church, the Hall of Ju&s;tice, and the Kings Palace.</P>
<P>This Church is famous e&s;pecially by <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mona&s;terium We&s;tmonasteri|en&s;e Regum an|gliae inaugurati|one, &s;epultura, &amp; In&s;ignium Regalium custodia celeberrimam. <HI>Camd.</HI> Annal. rerum An|glic. par. 1^o. p. 60. Vide plura ibid. &amp; Monasticon Anglicanum, p 55, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> rea&s;on of the Inauguration and Sepul|ture of the Kings of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<HI>William</HI> the Conquerour and <HI>Matil|da</HI> his wife were fir&s;t crowned at <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter,</HI> and &s;ince them all other Kings and Queens of this Realm have been there crowned. <HI>Stows</HI> Surveigh of <HI>Lon|don.</HI></P>
<P>It is a Church of very fair Work|man&s;hip, &s;upported with &s;undry rows of Marble Pillars, a peece of work that co&s;t fifty yeers labour in building.</P>
<P>It was founded by King <HI>Edward</HI> the Confe&s;&s;our.</P>
<P>King <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh for the Bu|rial of him&s;elf and his children, adjoyn|ed thereto in the Ea&s;t end a Chappel of admirable elegancy: <HI>Leland</HI> calleth it, The wonder of the world, all the curi|ous and exqui&s;ite work that can be de|vi&s;ed, is there compacted.</P>
<P>It is reported, That the Chappel <NOTE PLACE="marg">L. <HI>Herb. Henry</HI> the 8th.</NOTE> co&s;t ten thou&s;and pound, or as others &s;ay fourteen thou&s;and pound.</P>
<P>There is a Collegiate Church, and famous School: Forty Scholars in their due time are preferred to the Univer&s;i|ties.</P>
<P>Here are buried the Prince of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Poets <HI>Geffrey Chaucer:</HI> as al&s;o he that
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for pregnant wit, and an excellent gift in Poetry of all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Poets came neer|e&s;t unto him <HI>Edmund Spen&s;er.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I&s;aac Ca&s;aubone.</HI></P>
<P><HI>William Camden Clarenceux</HI> King of Arms.</P>
<P><HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-</HI>Hall is the greate&s;t Hall in <HI>England,</HI> and the very <HI>Praetorium,</HI> or Hall of Ju&s;tice. In this are the Ju|dicial <NOTE PLACE="marg">Neer hereunto are the two Hou&s;es of Par|liament.</NOTE> Courts, the <HI>Upper-Bench,</HI> the <HI>Common-Pleas,</HI> and the <HI>Chancery;</HI> and in places neer thereabout, the <HI>Starre-Chamber,</HI> the <HI>Exchequer, Court of Wards,</HI> and <HI>Court of the Dutchy of Lanca&s;ter.</HI> In which at certain &s;et times (we call them Terms) Cau&s;es are yeerly heard and tried.</P>
<P>This Judgement Hall King <HI>Richard</HI> the Second built out of the ground, as appeareth by his Arms engraven in the &s;tone-work, and many arched beams.</P>
<P>There are a hundred twenty and one Churches, more than <HI>Rome</HI> it &s;elf can &s;hew.</P>
<P><HI>Redcliff,</HI> &s;o called of the <HI>Red cliff,</HI> a pretty fine Town and dwelling place of Sailers.</P>
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<HI>Enfield-Cha&s;e</HI> a place much renown|ed for hunting.</P>
<P>In this County without the City of <HI>London</HI> are reckoned Pari&s;hes much about &s;eventy three, with the City, Liberties, and Suburbs an hundred twen|ty and one.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Monmouth&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is enclo&s;ed on the North-&s;ide with the River <HI>Munow</HI> that &s;eparateth it from <HI>Hereford&s;hire:</HI> on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide with <HI>Wye</HI> running between it and <HI>Glo|ce&s;ter&s;hire:</HI> on the We&s;t with the River <HI>Remmey,</HI> which &s;evereth it from <HI>Glamor|gan&s;hire;</HI> and on the South with the <HI>Se|vern.</HI></P>
<P>The Ea&s;t part is full of Gra&s;&s;e and Woods: the We&s;t is &s;omewhat hilly and &s;tony, yet not unthankfull to the Husbandman.</P>
<P><HI>Monmouth</HI> the chief Town of the Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Munow</HI> and <HI>Wye</HI> at their confluence
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do compa&s;&s;e it almo&s;t round about, and give it the name. On the North-&s;ide, where it is not defended with the Ri|vers, it was fortified with a wall and ditch. In the mid&s;t of the Town, hard by the Mercat place &s;tandeth a Ca&s;tle, which (as it is thought) <HI>John</HI> Baron of <HI>Monmouth</HI> built. It was the Birth place of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fifth that triumpher over <HI>France,</HI> and the &s;econd Ornament of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation.</P>
<P>It glorieth al&s;o that <HI>Geffrey Ap Ar|thur,</HI> or of <HI>Munmouth,</HI> Compiler of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Hi&s;tory was born and bred there: a man well skilled in Antiquities, but (as it &s;eemeth) not of antique cre|dit; &s;o many toyes and tales he every where enterlaceth out of his owne brain, as he was charged while he lived.</P>
<P><HI>Chepstow</HI> a famous Town, and of good re&s;ort, &s;ituate upon the &s;ide of an Hill, ri&s;ing from the very River, forti|fied round about with a Wall of a large circuit, which includes within it both Fields and Orchards. It hath a ve|ry &s;pacious Ca&s;tle &s;ituate over the River.</P>
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<HI>Strighall</HI> Ca&s;tle, it belongs to the Earls of <HI>Pembroke.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sudbroke,</HI> the Church whereof cal|led <HI>Trinity-</HI>Chappel &s;tandeth neer the Sea, a moor for many miles together.</P>
<P><HI>Abergenny,</HI> It is fortified with Wals, and a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>This Shire containeth Pari&s;h Church|es an hundred twenty &s;even.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Northfolk <HI>or</HI> Norfolk.</HEAD>
<P>PEople of the North.</P>
<P>It is a Region large and &s;pacious, and in manner all thorowout a plain champi|on, unle&s;&s;e it be where there ri&s;e gently &s;ome pretty Hils; pa&s;&s;ing rich, exceeding full of Sheep, and &s;tored with Coneys, repleni&s;hed likewi&s;e with a great num|ber of populous Villages: for be&s;ides twenty &s;even Mercat Towns, it is able to &s;hew Villages and Countrey Towns &s;ix hundred twenty and five, watered with divers Rivers and Brooks, and not altogether de&s;titute of Wood.</P>
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A man may collect the goodne&s;&s;e of the ground by this, that the Inhabitants <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ex infima plebe non pauci repe|riuntur quin &s;i nihil litium &s;it, lites tamen ex ip&s;is Juris api|cibus &s;erere cal|leant. <HI>Camde|nus.</HI></NOTE> are of a pa&s;&s;ing good complexion, to &s;ay nothing of their exceeding wily wits, and the &s;ame right quick in the in&s;ight of our Common Laws: in&s;omuch as it is counted, the only Countrey for be&s;t Lawyers.</P>
<P>One &s;aith, that three hundred and forty <HI>ni&s;i prius</HI> were tried there at one A&s;&s;izes.</P>
<P>It is a plea&s;ant Countrey for &s;ports, Hawking and Hunting.</P>
<P><HI>Thetford</HI> the Ford of <HI>Thet,</HI> of good <NOTE PLACE="marg">There are three Church|es.</NOTE> bigne&s;&s;e, yet it hath but few Inhabi|tants.</P>
<P><HI>Harle&s;ton</HI> a good Mercat.</P>
<P><HI>Norwich</HI> a famous City by rea&s;on of the wealth, number of Inhabitants, the re&s;ort of people, fair buildings, and many fair Churches (it containeth thirty two Pari&s;hes, and fourty two Chappels and Churches) the painfull indu&s;try of the Citizens, and their cour|te&s;ie unto &s;trangers.</P>
<P>The Market, Cro&s;&s;e and Cloi&s;ter of the Cathedral there, are the faire&s;t in <HI>England.</HI></P>
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It is plea&s;antly &s;ituate on the &s;ide of an Hill, compa&s;&s;ed about with &s;trong Wals, (in which are orderly placed ma|ny Turrets, and twelve Gates) unle&s;&s;e it be on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide, where the River is a fence thereto..</P>
<P>It is three miles about. The Arms of the City are the <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> and <HI>Lion.</HI></P>
<P>A City who&s;e Antiquity <HI>Alexander</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;rbs nunc am|pla e&s;t, nobilis florens, celebris, &amp; civitatum omnium &s;ecun|dum Londinum (univer&s;i Reg|ni Emporium) multo maxima augu&s;ti&s;&s;ima&abque;. <HI>Nevilli Nor|vicus. No one Shire of</HI> England <HI>hath three &s;uch Towns as</HI> Norwich, Linn <HI>and</HI> Yarmouth. Speed.</NOTE> <HI>Nevil</HI> hath mo&s;t learnedly and elegant|ly &s;et down in Latine.</P>
<P>It hath been long famous for the an|cient cloathes, or &s;tuff, called Wor|&s;ted, but hath lately abounded in varie|ty of weaving through the invention and indu&s;try of the <HI>Dutch</HI> and <HI>French Flemmings</HI> which inhabit there in great numbers.</P>
<P>There is a great Hou&s;e there of the Duke of <HI>Norfolks,</HI> now the Earl of <HI>Arundels,</HI> where there are very fair Granaries, and the be&s;t Bowling-alley in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>There is al&s;o an Ho&s;pital, where an hundred of men and women are main|tained.</P>
<P><HI>Matthew Parker</HI> was born here.</P>
<P><HI>Yarmouth</HI> a very convenient Haven,
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and as fair a Town, beautifully built, and well fenced, both by the natural &s;trength of the place, and al&s;o by the skilfull indu&s;try of mans art.</P>
<P>It hath but one Church, yet the &s;ame is very large, having a high Steeple to adorn it. It is famous for fi&s;hing and merchandizing.</P>
<P>There are two long Streets in it, each of them a mile long, one called the <HI>Dean-&s;treet,</HI> the other the <HI>Key:</HI> There is al&s;o another Street, called the <HI>Mid|dle-&s;treet,</HI> and many rows, as they call them after the manner of <HI>Holland.</HI> There is al&s;o a fair Market place.</P>
<P><HI>Holt</HI> a Town &s;o called of an <HI>Holt</HI> or tuft of trees, and for the Mercat well&punc; known.</P>
<P><HI>Aile&s;ham</HI> a Mercat Town of good re&s;ort.</P>
<P><HI>Worsted,</HI> where the &s;tuff wor&s;ted in &s;o great reque&s;t among&s;t our Ance&s;tors was fir&s;t made; and hence &s;o named, as <HI>Dornicks, Camery, Calecut,</HI> had in like manner their denominations from the places where they were fir&s;t invented and made.</P>
<P><HI>Wal&s;ingham.</HI> This Village is very
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famous by rea&s;on of the be&s;t Saffron growing there.</P>
<P>The Family of the <HI>Wal&s;inghams</HI> Knights, fetched fir&s;t their name and original from hence: out of which hou&s;e flouri&s;hed that Sir <HI>Francis Wal|&s;ingham</HI> Secretary to Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> a man as of deep in&s;ight, &s;o al&s;o of as rare and painfull indu&s;try in the weigh|tie&s;t affairs of the Realm.</P>
<P><HI>Lynne</HI> peradventure &s;o named of the waters broad &s;preading. So <HI>Lynne</HI> im|ports in the <HI>Welch</HI> tongue.</P>
<P>This is a large Town encompa&s;&s;ed with a deep Trench and Wals, for the mo&s;t part thereof divided by two &s;mall Rivers that have fifteen Bridges, or thereabout over them. It is called old <HI>Linne,</HI> and <HI>Linnum Regis,</HI> that is, <HI>Kings Linne;</HI> yet by rea&s;on of the &s;afe Haven which yeeldeth mo&s;t ea&s;ie ac|ce&s;&s;e, for the number al&s;o of the Mer|chants there dwelling, and thither re|&s;orting, for the fair and the goodly hou&s;es, the wealth al&s;o of the Town&s;|men, it is doubtle&s;&s;e the principal Town of this Shire, except <HI>Norwich</HI> onely.</P>
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<HI>Mer&s;hland,</HI> a little moi&s;t Mer&s;h-Countrey, as the name implieth, a &s;oil &s;tanding upon very rich and fertile mould, and breeding abundance of Cattel: in&s;omuch as that in a place commonly called <HI>Tilney&s;meth</HI> there feed much about thirty thou&s;aud Sheep.</P>
<P>In this Province there be Pari&s;h Churches about &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty.</P>
<P>In <HI>Norfolk</HI> and <HI>Suffolk</HI> there are more Pari&s;hes than in any other Counties, &s;ix hundred and odde in <HI>Norfolk,</HI> and above five hundred in <HI>Suffolk.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Northampton&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>THis County is &s;ituate in the very middle and heart (as it were) of <HI>England.</HI> On the Ea&s;t lie <HI>Bedford</HI> and <HI>Huntingdon&s;hires.</HI> On the South <HI>Buc|kingham</HI> and <HI>Oxford&s;hires:</HI> We&s;tward <HI>Warwickshire:</HI> Northward <HI>Rutland|&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Lincoln&s;hire,</HI> &s;eparated from it by <HI>Avon</HI> the le&s;&s;e, and <HI>Welland</HI> two Rivers.</P>
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It is a champion Countrey, exceed|ing populous, and pa&s;&s;ing well furni&s;h|ed with Noblemens and Gentlemens Hou&s;es, repleni&s;hed al&s;o with Towns and Churches; in&s;omuch as in &s;ome places there are twenty, and in others thirty Seeples with Spires or &s;quare Towers within view at once.</P>
<P>The &s;oil very fertile both for Tillage and Pa&s;ture, yet nothing &s;o well &s;tored with Woods, unle&s;&s;e it be in the fur|ther and hither &s;ides. But in every place, as el&s;where al&s;o in <HI>England,</HI> it is over-&s;pread, and (as it were) be&s;et with Sheep.</P>
<P><HI>Brakley</HI> a place full of Brake or Fern, the Students of <HI>Magdalen&punc;</HI> Colledge in <HI>Oxford,</HI> u&s;e the Colledge there for a re|tiring place.</P>
<P><HI>Torce&s;ter,</HI> &s;o called of Towrs. It hath a large Church in it.</P>
<P>Hard by at <HI>Eston-Ne&s;&s;ont</HI> there is a <NOTE PLACE="marg">There is the earlie&s;t Park of <HI>Eng|land.</HI> The King was went to have veni&s;on thence before he had it out of his own Parks.</NOTE> fair and beautifull Hou&s;e belonging to the Knightly Family of the <HI>Farmers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sacy-Fore&s;t</HI> &s;tored with Deer, and fit for game.</P>
<P><HI>Avon</HI> a general name of all Rivers. This <HI>Aufona</HI> or <HI>Nen</HI> is a notable River,
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which after a &s;ort runneth through the middle part of this Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Dantrey</HI> is a through-fare Town, well known at this day by rea&s;on of the Innes there.</P>
<P><HI>Fawe&s;ly</HI> where have dwelt a long time the <HI>Knightleys</HI> de&s;cended from tho&s;e more ancient <HI>Knightleys</HI> of <HI>Gnow&s;hall</HI> in the County of <HI>Stafford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wedon</HI> in the &s;treet. It is a pretty through-fare &s;et on a plain ground, and much celebrated by Carriers, becau&s;e it &s;tandeth hard by the famous way there commonly call'd of the peo|ple <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Of that, and the other fa|mous wayes in <HI>England,</HI> &s;ee <HI>Burtons</HI> Com|men. on <HI>Antoni|nus</HI> his Itinera|ry through <HI>Bri|tain.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Watlingstreet. Lelands</HI> Itine|rary.</P>
<P><HI>Holdenby-Hou&s;e,</HI> a fair patern of &s;tate|ly and magnificent building.</P>
<P><HI>Northampton,</HI> &s;o called from its &s;itu|ation upon the North-bank of the Ri|ver <HI>Aufon.</HI> The City for Hou&s;es is very fair, for circuit of good largene&s;&s;e, and walled about: and from the Wall there is a goodly Pro&s;pect every way to a wide and &s;pacious plain Coun|trey.</P>
<P>There are &s;even Pari&s;h Churches within the Wals, whereof the Church
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of <HI>Alhallows</HI> is principal, &s;tanding in the heart of the Town, and is large and well builded. <HI>Lelands</HI> Itinerary.</P>
<P>Mercat <HI>Wellingborow.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Kettering</HI> a Mercat Town well fre|quented.</P>
<P><HI>Higham-Ferrers.</HI> The excellent or|nament of this place was <HI>Henry Chich|ley</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He was brought up in <HI>New-</HI>Colledge in <HI>Oxford,</HI> where he pro|ceeded Doctor of Law.</NOTE> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> who built <HI>All-Souls</HI> Colledge in <HI>Oxford,</HI> and another here, where he placed &s;ecular Clerks and Prebendaries, and withall an Ho&s;pital for the poor.</P>
<P><HI>Oundale,</HI> there is a fair Church, and a Free-School for the in&s;truction of children, and an Alme&s;-hou&s;e for poor people.</P>
<P><HI>Fothering-hay</HI> Ca&s;tle, environed on every &s;ide with mo&s;t plea&s;ing medows.</P>
<P>Here <HI>Mary</HI> Queen of <HI>Scots</HI> was be|headed.</P>
<P><HI>Upton,</HI> &s;o called, becau&s;e it is highly &s;ituate.</P>
<P><HI>Peterborow,</HI> becau&s;e the Mona&s;tery <NOTE PLACE="marg">Petriburgus, <HI>or</HI> Petropolis.</NOTE> was dedicated to Saint <HI>Peter.</HI> See <HI>Mo|na&s;ticon Anglicanum,</HI> p. 63.</P>
<P><HI>Baibroke</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Rockingham</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P>
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<HI>Welledon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Maxey</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>There belong unto this Shire three hundred twenty &s;ix Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Nottingham&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is limited Northward with <HI>York|&s;hire,</HI> We&s;tward with <HI>Darby&s;hire,</HI> and in &s;ome parts with <HI>York&s;hire,</HI> and on the South-&s;ide with <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HI> The South and Ea&s;t parts thereof are made more fruitfull by the noble and famous River <HI>Trent,</HI> with other Riverets re&s;ort|ing unto it.</P>
<P>The Fore&s;t of <HI>Shirewood</HI> in the We&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ab arborum pro|ceritate, &amp; in frequentia ve|prium, <HI>Lym|pida Sylva</HI> noto &s;atis nomine di|citur. <HI>Twini</HI> Comment.</NOTE> part &s;tretcheth out a great way. It yeeldeth &s;tore of wood to maintain fire. It hath a grea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> number of Fallow-Deer, yea and Stags with their &s;tately branch|ing heads feeding within it.</P>
<P><HI>Mansfield</HI> there is a great Mercat pa&s;&s;ing well &s;erved, and as well fre|quented. The fir&s;t Earl of <HI>Mansfield</HI> in <HI>Germany</HI> was one of King <HI>Arthurs</HI>
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Knights of the Round-Table, born and bred at this <HI>Mansfield.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nottingham</HI> (the principal Town, which hath given name unto the Shire) is &s;eated on the &s;ide of an Hill. The Town for the natural &s;ite thereof is right plea&s;ant: as where, on the one hand lie fair and large Medows by the Rivers-&s;ide; on the other, ri&s;e Hils with a gentle and ea&s;ie a&s;cent: and is plentifully provided of all things be&s;ide, nece&s;&s;ary for mans life.</P>
<P>It is both a large Town and well buil|ded for Timber and Plai&s;ter, and &s;tand|eth &s;tately on a climbing Hill. It hath a fair Market place and &s;treet. The Ca|&s;tle &s;tandeth on a rocky Hill on the We&s;t-&s;ide of the Town, and <HI>Line</HI> Riveret goeth by the roots of it. <HI>Le|lands</HI> Itinerary.</P>
<P>For largene&s;&s;e, for building, for three fair Churches, a pa&s;&s;ing &s;pacious and beautifull Mercat place, and mo&s;t &s;trong Ca&s;tle, it maketh a goodly &s;hew.</P>
<P><HI>Newark,</HI> as one would &s;ay, the new work, of the new Ca&s;tle. Here King <HI>John</HI> fini&s;hed the mo&s;t weari&s;om cour&s;e of his trouble&s;om life.</P>
<P><PB N="149" REF="83">
<HI>Little-borough,</HI> a little Town indeed, and truly an&s;wering to the name.</P>
<P><HI>Worken&s;op</HI> a Town well known for the Liquorice that there groweth, and pro&s;pereth pa&s;&s;ing well.</P>
<P><HI>Blithe</HI> a famous Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Wollerton</HI> a fair Hou&s;e built by Sir <HI>Francis Willoughby.</HI></P>
<P>There are in this County an hundred &s;ixty eight Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Northumberland.</HEAD>
<P>THe Ground it &s;elf for the mo&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Nobility and Gentry of the North, are of great antiquity, and can produce more ancient Families, then any other part of <HI>England,</HI> many of them Gentry before the Conque&s;t; the re&s;t came in with <HI>Willi|am</HI> the Con|querour.</NOTE> part is rough, and hard to be ma|nured, &s;eemeth to have hardened the Inhabitants, whom the <HI>Scots</HI> their neigh|bours al&s;o made more fierce and hardy, while &s;ometimes they keep them exer|ci&s;ed in warres, and other whiles in time of peace intermingle their manners among them, &s;o that by the&s;e means they are a mo&s;t warlike Nation, and excellent good Light-hor&s;e men. And whereas they addicted them&s;elves whol|ly
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to Arms; there is not a man among&s;t the better &s;ort, that hath not his little Tower or Pile: and &s;o it was divided into a number of Baronies: the Lords whereof in times pa&s;t before King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the Fir&s;t his dayes went common|ly under the name of Barons, although &s;ome of them were of no great living. But a wi&s;e and politick devi&s;e this was of our Ance&s;tours, to cheri&s;h and main|tain Martial Prowe&s;&s;e among them in the marches of the Kingdome, if it were nothing el&s;e, but with an honou|rable bare Title.</P>
<P>Toward the Sea and <HI>Tine,</HI> by dili|gence and good Husbandry it becom|eth very fruitfull; but el&s;e where it is more barren, rough, and (as it were) unmanurable. And in many places Sea-coles are digged up in great plenty to the great gain of the Inhabitants, and commodity of others.</P>
<P><HI>Thrilwale</HI> Ca&s;tle, not great, but &s;trongly built.</P>
<P><HI>Otterburn,</HI> where there was a field mo&s;t valiantly fought between the <HI>Scots</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> in which the Victory waved alternatively too and fro three or four
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times, and fell in the end to the <HI>Scotti&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Axelodunum.</NOTE> <HI>Hexham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>New-Castle</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So called, becau&s;e <HI>Robert de Curtois</HI> Son of <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour built there a new Ca&s;tle out of the ground again&s;t the neighbouring <HI>Scots.</HI></NOTE> <HI>upon Tine,</HI> the very eye of all the Towns in the&s;e parts, en|nobled by a notable Haven, which <HI>Tine</HI> maketh, being of that depth, that it beareth very tall Ships, and &s;o defend|eth them, that they can neither ea&s;ily be to&s;&s;ed with tempe&s;ts, nor driven up|on &s;hallows and &s;helves. It is &s;ituate on the ri&s;ing of an Hill. It is adorned with four Churches, and fortified with mo&s;t &s;trong walls, which have &s;even Gates in them, with many Towers.</P>
<P>It is wealthy, partly by entercour&s;e of traffick with the <HI>Germans,</HI> and part|ly by carrying out Sea-coles, wherewith this Countrey aboundeth, both into foraign Countreys, and al&s;o into other parts of <HI>England.</HI>
<Q><L>Portus, Ca&s;trum, Carbo, Salmo, Salina, Molaris,</L>
<L>Murus, Pons, Templum, Schola &s;unt novi gloria Ca&s;tri.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Hur&s;t. A Sylva nomen accepit, nec aliunde &s;ejactat, quam a minaci Ca&s;tello. Lel.</HI> Comment. <HI>in Cygn. Cant.</HI></P>
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<HI>Tinmouth-Castle,</HI> a &s;tately and &s;trong Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Morpeth</HI> a famous little Town.</P>
<P><HI>Morpith-Ca&s;tle,</HI> &s;o called, from the death of the <HI>Picts</HI> in that place.</P>
<P><HI>Withrington</HI> an ancient Ca&s;tle, which gave the name unto the <HI>Withringtons</HI> Gentlemen of good Birth, and Knights, who&s;e valour in the war hath been from time to time remarkable.</P>
<P><HI>Warkworth</HI> a proper fair Ca&s;tle. There is a Chappel wonderfully built out of a Rock hewen hollow, and wrought without beams, rafters, or any pieces of Timber.</P>
<P><HI>Alnwick</HI> or <HI>Anwick,</HI> a Town enno|bled <NOTE PLACE="marg">Alnevicum.</NOTE> by the victory of the <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> over the <HI>Scots,</HI> and fortified with a good|ly Ca&s;tle. The Earls of <HI>Northumberland</HI> kept their Court at that Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Emildon.</HI> Here was born <HI>John Duns,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">In <HI>Dun&s;ton</HI> a little village within the Pa|ri&s;h of <HI>Emil|don.</HI></NOTE> called <HI>Scotus,</HI> becau&s;e he was de&s;cend|ed of <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> bloud, who being brought up in <HI>Merton-</HI>Colledge at <HI>Oxford,</HI> be|came wonderfull well learned in Logick, and in that crabbed and intricate Divi|nity of tho&s;e dayes: yet as one &s;till doubtfull and unre&s;olved, he did over|ca&s;t
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the truth of Religion with mi&s;ts of ob&s;curity. And with &s;o profound and admirable &s;ubtilty, in a dark and rude &s;tile, he wrote many Works, that he de&s;erved the title of the <HI>Subtile Doctor:</HI> and after his own name erected a new Sect of the <HI>Scoti&s;ts.</HI> But he died piti|fully, being taken with an Apoplexy, and over-ha&s;tily buried for dead; whiles upon return of life, nature (though too late) was about to di&s;cu&s;&s;e the vio|lence of the di&s;ea&s;e: and he, making means in vain by a lamentable noi&s;e for help, after he had a long time knocked his head again&s;t the Grave-&s;tone, da&s;h|ed out his own brains, and at la&s;t yeeld|ed up his vital breath.</P>
<P><HI>Norrham</HI> or <HI>Northam.</HI> There is a Ca&s;tle upon the top of an high &s;teep Rock, and fortified with a trench.</P>
<P><HI>Berwick</HI> the utmo&s;t Town in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Berwicus.</NOTE> and the &s;tronge&s;t hold in all <HI>Bri|tain.</HI> It is well neer compa&s;&s;ed about with the Sea. and <HI>Twede</HI> together.</P>
<P>Upon the We&s;t parts of <HI>Northum|berland,</HI> the <HI>Picts-Wall</HI> is; in &s;ome of the wa&s;te ground the Wall is to be &s;een of great height, and almo&s;t whole.</P>
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The <HI>Roman Britains</HI> being continu|ally mole&s;ted by the often incur&s;ions of the barbarous people called <HI>Picts.</HI> The Emperour <HI>Severus</HI> built a Wall of &s;tone, <NOTE PLACE="marg">An hundred miles long.</NOTE> with great wi&s;dome and indu&s;try to &s;trengthen the Northern parts of <HI>Bri|tain,</HI> again&s;t the many inrodes of the <HI>Picts.</HI> At every miles end of this Wall was a Tower, and in the Wall a Pipe of Mettal betwixt the Tower or Senti|nel-hou&s;es, that &s;o &s;oon as a man had &s;et his mouth to this Pipe, they might hear through all the Sentinels, where the enemy was, and &s;o in a &s;hort time giving warning from one end of the Wall to the other.</P>
<P>There are about fourty &s;ix Pari&s;hes in <HI>Northumberland.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Oxford&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>ON the We&s;t-&s;ide it joyneth upon <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire;</HI> on the South, which way it runneth out farthe&s;t in breadth, it is di&s;&s;evered from <HI>Bark&s;hire</HI>
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by the River <HI>I&s;is</HI> or <HI>Tamis;</HI> Ea&s;tward it bordereth upon <HI>Buckingham&s;hire;</HI> and Northward where it endeth point|ed, in manner of a Cone, or Pine|apple, hath <HI>Northamton&s;hire</HI> of one &s;ide, and <HI>Warwick&s;hire</HI> on the other&s;ide, con|fining with it.</P>
<P>It is a fertile Countrey and plentifull&punc; wherein the plains are garni&s;hed with Corn-fields and Medows, the Hils be|&s;et with Woods, &s;tored in every place not only with Corn and Fruits, but al|&s;o with all kind of Game for Hound or Hawk; and well watered with fi&s;h-full Rivers.</P>
<P><HI>Hoch-Norton,</HI> for the ru&s;tical beha|viour of the Inhabitants in the age a|fore-going, it grew to be a Proverb, when folk would &s;ay of one rudely de|meaning him&s;elf, and unmannerly after an Hoggi&s;h kind, <HI>That he was born at Hocknorton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Woodstock</HI> a woody place. Here is one of the Kings Hou&s;es full of &s;tate and magnificence, built by King <HI>Henry</HI> the Fir&s;t, who adjoyned al&s;o thereunto a very large Park compa&s;&s;ed round a|bout with a &s;tone wall, which <HI>John
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Ro&s;&s;e</HI> writeth to have been the fir&s;t Park <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Wedgenock</HI> Park in <HI>War|wickshire</HI> is one of the mo&s;t ancient Parks in <HI>Eng|land.</HI></NOTE> in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Our Hi&s;torians report, that King <HI>Henry</HI> the Second being enamoured up|on <HI>Ro&s;amond Clifford,</HI> a Dam&s;el &s;o fair, &s;o comely and well-favoured without compari&s;on, that her beauty did put all other women out of the Princes mind; in&s;omuch as &s;he was termed <HI>Ro&s;a mundi,</HI> the Ro&s;e of the world; and to hide her out of the &s;ight of his jealous <HI>Juno</HI> the Queen, he built a Labyrinth in this Hou&s;e, with many inextricable wind|ings, backward and forward: which notwith&s;tanding is no where to be &s;een at this day.</P>
<P>She was buried at <HI>God&s;tow</HI> with this Epitaph in Rhyme.
<Q><L>Hic jacet in tumba Ro&s;a mundi, non Ro|&s;a munda,</L>
<L>Non redolet, &s;ed olet, quae redolere &s;olet.</L></Q></P>
<P>The Town it &s;elf having nothing at all to &s;hew, glorieth yet in this, that <HI>Jeffrey Chaucer</HI> our <HI>Engli&s;h Homer</HI> was there bred and brought up.</P>
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<HI>Banbury</HI> a fair large Town. It is fa|mous <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Nunc autem conficiendo Ca|&s;eo noti&s;&s;imum.</HI> So <HI>Camden.</HI> Dr <HI>Holland</HI> engli&s;heth that thus. Now the fame of this Town is for Zeal, Chee&s;e and Cakes. Though that is but an unhand&s;ome conjunction, and there is no ground for it in <HI>Camden,</HI> yet in Mr <HI>Wheatlyes</HI> time (to my knowledge) it was famous for zeal, and I hope is &s;o now.</NOTE> for Chee&s;e and Cakes.</P>
<P><HI>Hanwell,</HI> where the Family of <HI>Cope</HI> hath flouri&s;hed many yeers in great and good e&s;teem.</P>
<P><HI>Broughton,</HI> the &s;eat of my Lord <HI>Say</HI> and <HI>Sele.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I&s;lip</HI> the native place of that King <HI>Edward,</HI> whom for his religious piety and continency, our Ance&s;tours and the Popes vouch&s;afed the name of <HI>Edward</HI> the Confe&s;&s;or.</P>
<P><HI>Oxford</HI> a fair and goodly City, whe|ther <NOTE PLACE="marg">Oxonia <HI>or</HI> Oxo|nium. Quodcunque habuit ab initio nomen, pulcher|rimum &amp; &s;a|luberrimum ha|bet &s;itum regio|nemque, omnia nece&s;&s;aria affa|tim mini&s;tran|tem, bonarum&abque; litterarum celeberrimam &s;cholam, ut omnes, qui alias Europae Acade|mias adierunt, facil&egrave; agno&s;cunt. <HI>Lhyd.</HI> Com. Brit. De&s;crip. Fragment.</NOTE> a man re&s;pect the &s;eemly beauty of private hou&s;es, or the &s;tately magnifi|cence of publick buildings, together with the whol&s;ome &s;ite or plea&s;ant pro|&s;pect thereof. It was from its &s;ituati|on in ancient times, called <HI>Bello &s;itum.</HI></P>
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<HI>I&s;idis vadum Saxonice Ou&s;eford, &amp; Ou&s;enford, corrupte Oxford. Hi&s;toria circumfertur adfirmans hanc urbem olim ab amaenitate &s;it&ucirc;s Bello&s;itum di|ctum fui&s;&s;e:</HI> Joannes Ro&s;&s;us <HI>hinc edo|ctus, hoc idem affirmat.</HI> Let. <HI>Comment. in Cygn. Cant.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Oxonien&s;is Univer&s;itas Schola &s;e|cunda Eccle&s;iae, imo Eccle&s;iae funda|mentum.</HI> Matthew Paris <HI>Hi&s;t. Angl. pag.</HI> 945.</P>
<P>In the Councel of <HI>Vienna,</HI> it was or|dained that there &s;hould be erected Schools for the Hebrew, Greek, Ara|bick and Chaldaean Tongues, in the &s;tudies of <HI>Paris, Oxford, Bonony</HI> and <HI>Salamanca,</HI> as the mo&s;t famous of all others, to the end that the knowledge of the&s;e Tongues might by effectual in&s;truction be throughly learned.</P>
<P>Here are 17 Colledges, and 7 Hals.</P>
<P><HI>Dorche&s;ter,</HI> a Town known in times pa&s;t to the <HI>Romans. Vide</HI> Lel. <HI>Comment|in Cygn. Cant.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Henley upon Tamis,</HI> The Inhabitants of it for the mo&s;t part are watermen.</P>
<P>This County containeth two hun|dred and eighty Pari&s;h Churches.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>Richmond&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT takes the name from a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t of it lieth very high, with ragged Rocks, and &s;welling Mountains, who&s;e &s;loping &s;ides in &s;ome places bear good Gra&s;&s;e, the bottom and Valleys are not altogether unfruitfull. The Hils them&s;elves within, are &s;tored with Lead, Pit-coal and Copper.</P>
<P><HI>Nappa</HI> an hou&s;e built with Turrets, and the chief &s;eat of the <HI>Medcalfs,</HI> thought to be not long &s;ince the greate&s;t Family for multitude of the &s;ame name, in all <HI>England:</HI> For I have heard that Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Medcalf</HI> Knight, and the top of this kindred being of late High-Sheriff of the Shire, accompanied with three hundred men of the &s;ame Hou&s;e all on Hor&s;e-back, and in a Live|ry, met and received the Ju&s;tices of A&s;&s;izes, and &s;o brought them to <HI>York.</HI> So <HI>Camden.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bolton-Ca&s;tle,</HI> a &s;tately Ca&s;tle.</P>
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<HI>Richmond,</HI> the chief Town of the Countrey, well peopled and fre|quented.</P>
<P><HI>Hourby-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P>There are contained in this Shire an hundred and four Pari&s;hes be&s;ides Chappels.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Rutland&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is the lea&s;t County of all <HI>England.</HI> Lying in form almo&s;t round like a circle, it is in compa&s;&s;e &s;o farre about, as a Light-hor&s;man will ride in one day.</P>
<P>It was called <HI>Rutland,</HI> as one would <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rutlan-</HI>Ca&s;tle in <HI>Wales</HI> is &s;o named, being built on a &s;hore of red earth.</NOTE> &s;ay <HI>Red-land,</HI> the Earth in this Shire is every where red, and &s;o red that even the Sheeps fleeces are thereby coloured red: the <HI>Engli&s;h-Saxons</HI> called Red in their tongue <HI>Roet</HI> and <HI>Rud.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Uppingham</HI> a place upon an high a&s;|cent, whence that name was impo&s;ed, a well frequented Mercat Town.</P>
<P>The <HI>Vale of Catmo&s;e</HI> a field full of Woods.</P>
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<HI>Okeham</HI> is in the mid&s;t of it, &s;o called from Oaks.</P>
<P>This &s;mall Shire hath Pari&s;h Church|es fourty eight.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Shrop&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>ON the Ea&s;t-&s;ide it hath <HI>Stafford|&s;hire;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Commitatus Salopien&s;is.</NOTE> on the We&s;t <HI>Mongomery|&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Denbigh&s;hire;</HI> on the South-&s;ide <HI>Worce&s;ter, Hereford</HI> and <HI>Radnor|&s;hires,</HI> and on the North <HI>Che&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>It is repleni&s;hed with Towns and Ca|&s;tles &s;tanding thick on every &s;ide, in regard of repelling and repre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Wel&s;hmen</HI> in the Marches bordering hereupon. Whence our Ance&s;tours by an ancient word, named the Confines of this Shire toward <HI>Wales,</HI> the March|es, becau&s;e they were Bounds and Li|mits between the <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> and divers Noblemen in this Tract were called <HI>Barons of the March,</HI> and <HI>Lords Marchers,</HI> who had every one in their Territory a certain peculiar juri&s;diction,
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and in their own Courts mini&s;tred Law unto the Inhabitants, with &s;undry Pri|viledges and Immunities.</P>
<P><HI>Bi&s;hops-Ca&s;tle,</HI> &s;o called, becau&s;e it belonged to the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Hereford,</HI> who&s;e Dioce&s;&s;e and Juri&s;diction was large in this Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Clun-Ca&s;tle,</HI> &s;o called from the River <HI>Clun.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ludlow,</HI> it &s;tandeth upon an Hill, a Town more fair than ancient.</P>
<P><HI>Bridgnorth,</HI> &s;o called of <HI>Burgh</HI> or <HI>Bur|rough,</HI> and <HI>Morfe</HI> (heretofore a Fore&s;t) ad|joyning. A Town fortified with Walls, a Ditch, a &s;tately Ca&s;tle, and the <HI>Severn:</HI> &s;eated al&s;o upon a Rock, out of which the wayes leading into the upper part of the Town were wrought out.</P>
<P><HI>Wenlock,</HI> now known for the Lime.</P>
<P><HI>Huck&s;tow-Fore&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Routon-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tong-Ca&s;tle,</HI> there is a Bell for the bigne&s;&s;e of it very famous in all tho&s;e parts adjoyning.</P>
<P><HI>Draiton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wem.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Morton-Corbet,</HI> a Ca&s;tle of the <HI>Corbets. Shrewsbury</HI> the famou&s;e&s;t Town of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Salop <HI>in Latine</HI> Salopia.</NOTE>
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this Shire, it &s;tandeth mo&s;t plea&s;antly.</P>
<P>It is &s;eated upon an Hill of a reddi&s;h Earth, and <HI>Severn,</HI> having two very fair Bridges upon it. Neither is it &s;trengthened only by nature, but forti|fied al&s;o by Art; it is like a Hor&s;e-&s;hoe in the opening place. There is a &s;trong &s;tately Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>It is a fair and goodly City well fre|quented and traded, full of good mer|chandize, <NOTE PLACE="marg">It hath a fair Library and School-hou&s;e&punc; and Brew|hou&s;e.</NOTE> and by rea&s;on of the Citizens painfull diligence, with Cloth making, and Traffique with <HI>Wel&s;hmen,</HI> rich and wealthy. For, hither (almo&s;t) all the Commodities of <HI>Wales</HI> do conflow (as it were) to a common Mart of both Nations.</P>
<P>It is inhabited both with <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> &s;peaking both Languages.</P>
<P>One of the rarities there is their Cakes, &s;uch as cannot be made &s;o well in any other place of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Shrawerden Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Knocking-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>O&s;we&s;tre,</HI> a little Town enclo&s;ed with <NOTE PLACE="marg">So called from <HI>O&s;wald</HI> King of the <HI>Nor|thumbers:</HI></NOTE> a Ditch and a Wall, fortified al&s;o with a pretty Ca&s;tle, in it there is great Traf|fick of <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> Cottons.</P>
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<HI>Whittington-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Whit-Church,</HI> or <HI>Album Mona&s;terium.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Elle&s;mer</HI> a little Territory, but rich and fruitfull.</P>
<P>In this Region there are about an hundred and &s;eventy Pari&s;hes.</P>
<P>It had the great Lawyer, <HI>Ployden;</HI> the rich Squire <HI>Thin;</HI> the great Hebrician, <HI>Broughton;</HI> the &s;trong man, the Baron of <HI>Burford;</HI> the witty Je&s;ter, <HI>Tarleton.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Somer&s;et&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>THis County is very large and weal|thy: The North-&s;ide whereof the <HI>Severn</HI> Sea beateth upon: The We&s;t part confineth with <HI>Den&s;hire:</HI> in the South it bordereth fir&s;t upon <HI>Devon|&s;hire,</HI> and then upon <HI>Dor&s;et&s;hire:</HI> Ea&s;t|ward upon <HI>Wilt&s;hire:</HI> and North-Ea&s;t upon part of <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;oil very rich, yeelding for the mo&s;t part thereof pa&s;&s;ing great plenty both of Pa&s;ture and Corn, and yet not without &s;tony Hils: exceeding popu|lous,
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and full of Inhabitants: furni&s;hed al&s;o with commodious Havens, and Ports &s;ufficiently.</P>
<P>As it is &s;oul, &s;o it is fruitfull, which makes them comfort them&s;elves with this Proverb, <HI>What is wor&s;t for the Ri|der is be&s;t for the Abider.</HI></P>
<P>This name grew from <HI>Somerton,</HI> a <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>A&s;&s;erius,</HI> an an|cient Writer calleth this Countrey al|wayes <HI>Somer|tunen&s;is,</HI> that is, <HI>Somertun&s;hire.</HI></NOTE> famous Town in ancient time, and of all others in the Shire mo&s;t frequented.</P>
<P><HI>Dun&s;ter-Castle</HI> is enclo&s;ed round about with Hils, &s;aving to the Sea|ward, built by the <HI>Mohuns,</HI> a right no|ble and mighty Family, which flouri&s;h|ed from the very Conquerours dayes, (under who&s;e Reign that Ca&s;tle was built) unto the time of King <HI>Richard</HI> the Second.</P>
<P><HI>Cheder,</HI> famous for five things:</P>
<P>1. Chee&s;e. 2. <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">U&s;ed about Cloath.</NOTE> Teazers. 3. Garlick. 4. Mills: there is a &s;pring whereby ma|ny Mils are turned about. 5. Cliffs, a great Rock cleft a&s;under.</P>
<P><HI>Evel</HI> a great Market Town.</P>
<P><HI>We&s;t-Camalet</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;t-Camalet,</HI> or <HI>Queens-Camalet</HI> two Towns.</P>
<P><HI>Winecaunton</HI> a great Market.</P>
<P><HI>Ilche&s;ter,</HI> there is a Market there kept.</P>
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<HI>Montacute,</HI> fo termed, becau&s;e the Hill ri&s;eth up by little and little to a &s;harp point. It hath given name to that right honourable Family of <HI>Mon|tacute.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Longport</HI> a Market Town well fre|quented.</P>
<P><HI>Wellington</HI> a pretty Market Town. Sir <HI>John Popham</HI> dwelt here, a man of an ancient wor&s;hipfull Hou&s;e, and with|all a mo&s;t upright Ju&s;ticer, and of &s;ingu|lar indu&s;try.</P>
<P><HI>Taunton</HI> or <HI>Thonton</HI> from the River <HI>Thone.</HI> A very fine and proper Town, and mo&s;t plea&s;antly &s;eated, one of the eyes of the Shire. The Countrey here mo&s;t delectable on every &s;ide with green medows; flouri&s;hing with plea|&s;ant Gardens and Orchards, and reple|ni&s;hed with fair Mannor-hou&s;es, won|derfully contenteth the eyes of the be|holders.</P>
<P><HI>Athelney</HI> a pretty I&s;land, a place fa|mous for King <HI>Alfreds</HI> &s;hrouding him|&s;elf therein, when the <HI>Danes</HI> had brought all into broil.</P>
<P><HI>Somerton</HI> the Shire Town in times pa&s;t. There is kept a Fair of Oxen,
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and other Bea&s;ts from <HI>Palm-Sunday</HI> untill the mid&s;t of <HI>June,</HI> with much re&s;ort of people; the Countreymen all thereabout are very great Gra&s;iers, Breeders, and Feeders of Cattel.</P>
<P><HI>Bridgwater</HI> a great and populous Town; King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth adorned it with an Earldom.</P>
<P><HI>Bruiton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Gla&s;sy I&s;le,</HI> &s;o called, <HI>Propter amnem &s;cilicet qua&s;i vitrei coloris in mari&s;co circumfluentem&punc; Mona&s;ticon Ang|licanum. Vide plura ibid.</HI></P>
<P>Here flouri&s;hed the famous Abbey of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gla&s;tonia Mo|na&s;terium vide|rint parentes no&s;tri, ampli|tudine, ac mag|nitudine per|paucis in uni|ver&s;a Europa (quantum au|tumo) po&s;tpo|nendum. <HI>Godwinus</HI> De Conver&s;ione Britanniae ad Christianam Religionem. Vide plura ibid. Et Mona&s;ticon Anglicanum, <HI>p.</HI> 1, 2, &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Glastenbury,</HI> the beginning whereof is very ancient, fetched even from that <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> of <HI>Arimathaea,</HI> who enterred the body of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and whom <HI>Philip</HI> the Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Gauls,</HI> &s;ent into <HI>Britain</HI> for to preach Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>See <HI>Dees Briti&s;h Monarchy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ochy hole</HI> a <HI>Cave,</HI> or <HI>Den</HI> far within <NOTE PLACE="marg">Of <HI>Ogo</HI> a <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> word which betokeneth <HI>Den.</HI></NOTE> the ground, wherein are to be &s;een cer|tain Pits and Riverets.</P>
<P><HI>Congerbury,</HI> &s;o named of one
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<HI>Congar,</HI> a man of &s;ingular holine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>This County is famou&s;ed by three Cities, <HI>Bath, Wells</HI> and <HI>Bristow.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wells</HI> a little City with an Epi&s;copal <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Fontanen&s;is Eccle&s;ia,</HI> Foun|tain Church.</NOTE> See, &s;o called of the Springs or Wells, which boyl up there.</P>
<P>For multitude of Inhabitants, for fair and &s;tately Buildings, it may well and truly challenge the preheminence of all this Province. It hath a goodly Church and Colledge. The Church it &s;elf all thorowout is very beautifull, but the Fronti&s;piece thereof in the We&s;t|end, is a mo&s;t excellent and goodly piece of Work indeed, for it ari&s;eth up &s;till from the foot to the top all of Ima|gery, in curious and antique wi&s;e wrought of &s;tone carved, and embow|ed right artificially, and the Cloi&s;ters adjoyning very fair and &s;pacious.</P>
<P>A gorgeous Palace of the Bi&s;hops, built in manner of a Ca&s;tle, fortified with Walls, and a Mote &s;tandeth hard by, Southward; and on the other &s;ide fair hou&s;es of the Prebendaries.</P>
<P>In the Reign of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fir&s;t <HI>Jo|hannes de Villula</HI> of <HI>Tours</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> being elected Bi&s;hop, tran&s;lated his See
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to <HI>Bath,</HI> &s;ince which time the two Sees growing into one, the Bi&s;hop beareth the title of both, &s;o that he is called, <HI>The Bi&s;hop of Bath and Wells.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Selwood,</HI> a Wood thick of Trees, whereof the Countrey adjoyning is cal|led <HI>Selwood&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bathe</HI> of the hot Bathes in times pa&s;t, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bathonia.</HI> &V;rbs non mode antiqua verum etiam celebris Romanorum Monumentis multis, liquid&ograve; in muris compa|ret, qua itur &agrave; porta meridio|nali ad borea|lem. <HI>Lelandi</HI> Comment. in Cygneam Can|tionem. Vide <HI>John&s;o|num</HI> De urbe; &amp; Thermis Ba|thonicis.</NOTE> callid in Latine <HI>Aquae calidae.</HI></P>
<P>It is &s;eated low in a plain, environed round about with Hils almo&s;t all of one height, out of which certain rilles of fre&s;h River waters continually de&s;cend into the City, to the great commodity of the Citizens. Within the City it &s;elf there bubble and boil up three Springs of hot water, of a Blewi&s;h or Sea-colour, thin vapours, and ri&s;ing up from thence a kind of &s;trong &s;ent withall, by rea&s;on that the water is dril|led and &s;trained through veins of Brim|&s;tone, and a clammy kind of earth, called <HI>Bitumen,</HI> which Springs are very medicinable, and of great vertue to cure bodies over-charged and benum|med with corrupt humours. For, by their heat they procure &s;weat, and &s;ubdue the rebellious &s;tubbornne&s;&s;e of the &s;aid humours.</P>
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From eight of the clock in the fore|noon unto three in the afternoon, they are in a manner &s;calding hot, and do work: and being thus troubled, ca&s;t up from the bottom certain filth; during which time they are &s;hut: neither may any body go into them, untill by their fluces they clean&s;e them&s;elves, and rid away that filthine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e three the Cro&s;&s;e-Bath (&s;o called of a Cro&s;&s;e &s;tanding upright in old time in the mid&s;t of it) is of a very mild and temperate warmth; and hath twelve &s;eats of &s;tone about the brink or border thereof, and is enclo&s;ed within a wall.</P>
<P>The &s;econd, di&s;tant from this not fully two hundred foot, is much hotter; whence it is termed hot Bath. The&s;e two are in the mid&s;t of a &s;treet on the We&s;t-&s;ide of the City.</P>
<P>The third, which is the greate&s;t, and after a &s;ort in the very bo&s;om and heart of the City, is called, the <HI>Kings Bath,</HI> neer unto the Cathedral Church, wal|led al&s;o round about, and fitted with two and thirty &s;eats of arched work; wherein men and women may &s;it apart,
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who when they enter in put upon their bodies linnen garments, and have their guides.</P>
<P>This City hath flouri&s;hed as well by cloathing, as by rea&s;on of u&s;ual con|cour&s;e thither for health twice every yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Bri&s;tow.</HI> This City &s;tanding partly in <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> and partly in <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hires,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Bi&s;hops See, and famous Port.</NOTE> is not to be reputed belonging to this or that, having Magi&s;trates of its own, and being of it &s;elf entire, and a County in|corporate.</P>
<P>It is &s;ituate &s;omewhat high between <HI>Avon,</HI> and the little River <HI>Frome,</HI> &s;uf|ficiently defended with Rivers and For|fications together. So fair to behold by rea&s;on of buildings, as well publick as private, that it is fully corre&s;pondent to the name of <HI>Brightstow.</HI> With com|mon <HI>Sews</HI> or <HI>Sinks</HI> (they call them <HI>Goutes)</HI> &s;o made to runne under the ground, for the conveyance and wa&s;hing away of all filth, that for cleanline&s;&s;e and whol&s;omne&s;&s;e a man would not de|&s;ire more: whereupon there is no u&s;e here of carts: &s;o well furni&s;hed with all things nece&s;&s;ary for mans life, &s;o popu|lous,
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and well inhabited withall, that next after <HI>London</HI> and <HI>York,</HI> it may of all Cities in <HI>England</HI> ju&s;tly challenge the chief place.</P>
<P>For the mutual intercour&s;e of traffick and the commodious Haven, which ad|mitteth in Ships under &s;ail into the very bo&s;om of the City, hath drawn people of many countreys thither.</P>
<P>The Citizens them&s;elves are rich Merchants, and traffick all over <HI>Eu|rope,</HI> yea, and make Voyages at Sea &s;o farre as into the mo&s;t remote parts of <HI>America.</HI></P>
<P>The mo&s;t beautifull Church there is S. <HI>Maries</HI> of <HI>Radcliff</HI> without the Wals, into which there is a &s;tately a&s;cent upon many &s;tairs; &s;o large withall, &s;o finely and curiou&s;ly wrought, with an arched roof over head of &s;tone artificially em|bowed, a &s;teeple al&s;o of an exceeding height, that it &s;urpa&s;&s;eth in many de|grees all the Pari&s;h-churches in <HI>Eng|land.</HI></P>
<P>There is hard by, another Church al&s;o, which they call the <HI>Temple,</HI> the Tower whereof, when the Bell rings, &s;haketh to and fro, &s;o as it hath cloven
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and divided it &s;elf from the re&s;t of the building, and made &s;uch a chink from the bottom to the top, as that it gapeth the breadth of three fingers, and both &s;hutteth and openeth when&s;oever the Bell is rung.</P>
<P>S. <HI>Vincents</HI> Rock, &s;o full of Dia|monds, that a man may fill whole &s;trikes or bu&s;hels of them. They are not &s;o much &s;et by, becau&s;e they are plente|ous: in bright and tran&s;parent colour they match the <HI>Indian-</HI>Diamonds, if they pa&s;&s;e them not: in hardne&s;&s;e only they are inferiour to them.</P>
<P>In this County are numbered three hundred eighty five Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Stafford&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT hath on the Ea&s;t <HI>Warwick&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Darby&s;hire;</HI> on the South-&s;ide <HI>Wor|ce&s;ter&s;hire;</HI> and We&s;tward <HI>Shrop&s;hire</HI> bordering upon it; reacheth from South to North in form of a Lozeng, broad|er in the midde&s;t, and growing narrow|er
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at ends. The North part is full of Hils, and &s;o le&s;&s;e fruitfull: the middle being watered with the River <HI>Trent</HI> is mo&s;t plentifull, clad with woods and embrodered gallantly with Corn-fields and Medows: as is the South port like|wi&s;e, which hath Coals al&s;o digged out of the earth, and Mines of Iron.</P>
<P>There are the&s;e Rivers in <HI>Stafford|&s;hire, Sow</HI> which runneth by <HI>Stafford, Dove, Peru</HI> a little River by <HI>Pencridge, Charnet, Blith, Tame.</HI> The River <HI>Trent</HI> ari&s;eth in Collonel <HI>Boyers</HI> Park, and <HI>Dove</HI> pa&s;&s;eth thorow part of it; <HI>Severn</HI> pa&s;&s;eth thorow &s;ome part of the Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Stourton Ca&s;tle</HI> &s;tands upon the Ri|ver <HI>Stour</HI> in the very confines with <HI>Wor|ce&s;ter&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Dudley-Ca&s;tle</HI> did &s;tand upon an Hill, named &s;o of one <HI>Dudo,</HI> or <HI>Dodo</HI> ah <HI>Engli&s;h Saxon.</HI> It is now demoli|&s;hed.</P>
<P>Under this lieth <HI>Pen&s;neth-Chace,</HI> wherein are many Cole-pits.</P>
<P><HI>Pate&s;hall</HI> a &s;eat of the <HI>A&s;tleys</HI> de&s;cen|ded from honourable Progenitors.</P>
<P><HI>Wrote&s;tley,</HI> the habitation of Sir <HI>Wal|ter
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Wrote&s;ly</HI> who&s;e Father was Sir <HI>Hugh Wrote&s;ly.</HI> In the Parlour window among divers of the Arms of the An|ce&s;tours of that Family there is one Sir <HI>Hugh Wrote&s;ley</HI> mentioned, who for his approved valour was made by King <HI>Edward</HI> the Third Knight of the Garter at the fir&s;t In&s;titution, and &s;o accounted one of the Founders of the &s;aid honourable Order.</P>
<P><HI>Chellington</HI> a fair Hou&s;e and Mannor of the ancient Family of the <HI>Giffards.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brewood</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Weston.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Theoten-Hall,</HI> by interpretation, the habitation of Heathens or Pagans, at this day <HI>Tetnal.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ulfrunes-Hampton,</HI> &s;o called of <NOTE PLACE="marg">In <HI>Henry</HI> the 7^t^h his time <HI>Stephen Gen|nings</HI> Maior of <HI>London</HI> found|ed a free Grammar-School there, where he was born.</NOTE> <HI>Wulfruna</HI> a mo&s;t devout woman, who enriched the Town (called before &s;imply <HI>Hampton)</HI> with a religious Hou&s;e, it is now corruptly called <HI>Wul|ver Hampton.</HI></P>
<P>For an In-land Town, there is a fa|mous Market for Cattel and Corn.</P>
<P><HI>Weddsborow,</HI> there is Sea-coal.</P>
<P><HI>Wal&s;al,</HI> a little Mercat Town, a mile <NOTE PLACE="marg">There is a Corporation.</NOTE> by North from <HI>Weddesbury.</HI></P>
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There are many Smiths, Peuterers and Bit-makers. There is a Park of that name half a mile from the Town.</P>
<P>There are many Lime-pits neer the Town.</P>
<P><HI>Draiton-Ba&s;&s;et,</HI> the &s;eat of the <HI>Ba&s;|&s;ets.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tamworth,</HI> a Town &s;o placed in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">So called from <HI>Tame</HI> the Ri|ver running be&s;ide it.</NOTE> confines of the two Shires, that the one part which belonged &s;ometime to the <HI>Mirmions,</HI> is counted of <HI>Warwick|&s;hire;</HI> the other which pertained to the <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> of <HI>Stafford&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>Here is a fair Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>At <HI>Falke&s;ley-Bridg</HI> that <HI>Roman</HI> High-way <HI>Watlingstreet,</HI> entereth into this Shire, and cutting it through (as it were by a &s;trait line) goeth We&s;tward into <HI>Shrop&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wall,</HI> &s;o called of the reliques of an old Wall there remaining, and taking up much about two acres of ground.</P>
<P><HI>Penck-ridge,</HI> &s;o named of the River <HI>Penck,</HI> famous for an Hor&s;e-Fair, which the Lord of the place <HI>Hugh Blunt</HI> ob|tained of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Second.</P>
<P><HI>New-Ca&s;tle under Lyme.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Trentham.</HI></P>
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<HI>Stone</HI> a Mercat Town, which having the beginning in the <HI>Saxons</HI> time, took the name of the Stones, which our An|ce&s;tours after a &s;olemn &s;ort had ca&s;t on a heap, to notifie the place where <HI>Wol|pher</HI> the <HI>Heatheni&s;h</HI> King of the <HI>Merci|ans,</HI> mo&s;t cruelly &s;lew his two Sonnes <HI>Wulfald</HI> and <HI>Rufin,</HI> becau&s;e they had taken upon them the profe&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P><HI>Sandon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cankwood,</HI> or <HI>Fore&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Gerards-Bromley</HI> an Hou&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Cheb&s;ey.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Eccle&s;hall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Raunton</HI> a Mona&s;tery.</P>
<P><HI>Stafford,</HI> neer unto which there was a Ca&s;tle upon an Hill, now demo|li&s;ht.</P>
<P>It is the head Town of the whole Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Ticks-Hall,</HI> the dwelling place of the <HI>Astons,</HI> a Family which for Antiquity, Kinred and Alliance, is in the&s;e parts of great name.</P>
<P><HI>Chartley,</HI> there is a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Beaude&s;ert,</HI> the Hou&s;e of the Lord <HI>Paget.</HI></P>
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<HI>Lichfield.</HI> This City is low &s;eated, of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cadaverum Campus.</HI> The field of dead bodies, a number of Chri&s;tians was there martyr|ed under the Emperour <HI>Die|cle&s;ian.</HI></NOTE> good largene&s;s, and fair withall, divided into two parts with a &s;hallow pool of clear water: which parts notwith&s;tanding joyn in one by the means of two Bridges or Cau&s;eys made over, that have their &s;luces, to let out the water.</P>
<P>It was beautified with a very goodly Cathedral Church, which being round about compa&s;&s;ed with a fair Wall Ca|&s;tle-like, and garni&s;hed be&s;ides with fair Hou&s;es of Prebendaries, and with the Bi&s;hops Palace al&s;o, mounting upon high with three Pyramids or Spires of &s;tone, making an elegant &s;hew, and for elegant and proportional build|ing it did yeeld to few Cathedral Chur|ches, but is now demoli&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Burton upon Trent,</HI> a famous Market, the Bridge there hath 38 Arches.</P>
<P><HI>Blithfield</HI> a fair Hou&s;e of the ancient Family of the <HI>Bagots.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Needwood-Forest</HI> was very large.</P>
<P><HI>Moorland,</HI> &s;o called, becau&s;e it ri&s;eth <NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;mall Coun|trey bare and cold, it keep|eth &s;now ly|ing upon it a good while.</NOTE> higher into hils and mountains, and is le&s;s fruitfull, which kind of places we call Moors.</P>
<P><HI>Leek</HI> a well known Market Town.</P>
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<HI>Wotton,</HI> a little Countrey Village there lying under <HI>Weverhill.</HI>
<Q><L><HI>Wotton</HI> under <HI>Wever</HI></L>
<L>Where God came never.</L></Q></P>
<P>This fond Rime the neighbour Inha|bitants u&s;e of it. Yet in &s;o hard a &s;oil it breedeth and feedeth bea&s;ts of large bulk, and fair &s;pread.</P>
<P>The River <HI>Dow</HI> or <HI>Dove</HI> doth &s;wiftly runne along the mo&s;t part of the Ea&s;t-&s;ide of this County, and &s;eparateth it from <HI>Darby&s;hire,</HI> if it chance to &s;well above the banks, and overflow the Me|dows in <HI>April,</HI> it maketh them &s;o fruit|full that the Inhabitants u&s;e commonly to chant this joyfull note;
<Q><L>In <HI>April Doves</HI> flood</L>
<L>Is worth a Kings good.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Utce&s;ter,</HI> it is &s;ituate upon the &s;ide of an Hill with a gentle a&s;cent: a Town <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Market Town. D^r <HI>Lightfoot</HI> was born there.</NOTE> more rich in gay flowring Medows, and in Cattel, than fair built.</P>
<P><HI>Tutbury-Castle</HI> in times pa&s;t large and &s;tately.</P>
<P>There are accounted an hundred and thirty Pari&s;hes in this Shire.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<PB N="180" REF="99">
<HEAD>Suffolk.</HEAD>
<P>IT hath on the We&s;t-&s;ide <HI>Cambridge|&s;hire;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Southfolk</HI> or people in re|&s;pect of <HI>Nor|folk.</HI></NOTE> on the South the River <HI>Stour,</HI> which divideth it from <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide the <HI>German-</HI>Sea, and on the North two little Rivers, <HI>ou&s;e</HI> the lea&s;t, and <HI>Waveney,</HI> which flowing out (as it were) of the &s;ame fountain, runne divers wayes, and &s;ever it apart from <HI>Norfolk.</HI></P>
<P>It was famous for worthy Mini&s;ters in the very beginning of Reformation. In the entrance of Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> to the Crown, it was moved at the Coun|cil-Table, <HI>Whether it was not dangerous</HI> (for &s;ome Politick re&s;pects) <HI>to alter the Religion before e&s;tabli&s;hed?</HI> Sir <HI>Nicho|las Bacon</HI> (who was of the County of <HI>Suffolk)</HI> demanded, <HI>Which was the true Religion acccording to Scripture, the Prote&s;tant or Popi&s;h?</HI> it being an|&s;wered, the Prote&s;tant, <HI>Leave that to God then</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>to defend it.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="181" REF="99">
It is a large Countrey and full of Ha|vens, of a fat and fertile &s;oil (unle&s;&s;e it be Ea&s;tward) being compounded of Clay and Marle, by means whereof there are every where mo&s;t rich and goodly Corn-fields, with Pa&s;tures as battable for grazing and feeding of Cattel.</P>
<P>Great &s;tore of Chee&s;es are there made, which to the great commodity of the Inhabitants are vented into all parts of <HI>England:</HI> nay into <HI>Germany, France</HI> and <HI>Spain</HI> al&s;o.</P>
<P>There are al&s;o Woods and Parks.</P>
<P><HI>New-Market</HI> a Town lately built, as the very name imports.</P>
<P>Here lieth out a great way round about, a large plain, named of this Town, <HI>New-Market-Heath,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of a &s;andy and barren ground, yet green withall.</P>
<P>There are great Ditches, called, <HI>The Devils Ditches.</HI></P>
<P><HI>St. Edmunds-Bury,</HI> or <HI>Bury,</HI> a renown|ed Town.</P>
<P>A place for &s;ituation and whol&s;ome|ne&s;&s;e of air &s;o excellent, that <HI>Camden</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Sol non vidit urbem &s;itu ele|gantiorem.</HI>
<PB N="182" REF="100">
Many of the Gentry live there.</P>
<P>There are two Churches in one Churchyard, where there are Lectures &s;everal dayes in the week.</P>
<P>Here was born <HI>Richardus de Bury</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Here Bi&s;hop <HI>Steven Gardi|ner</HI> was born.</NOTE> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Durham,</HI> the Governour of <HI>Edward</HI> the Third when young, and fa|mous e&s;pecially for a work which he entituled <HI>Philobiblos,</HI> in the Preface of which he confe&s;&s;eth, <HI>Ec&s;tatico quodam librorum amore potenter &s;e abreptum.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Godw.</HI> de Prae|&s;ul. Ang. Com|ment.</NOTE> He was well acquainted with <HI>Petrark</HI> the <HI>Italian,</HI> and other learned men of that age. <HI>Bradwardine</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and <HI>Richard Fitzralph, Armachanus, Walter Burleigh, Robert Halcot,</HI> and other mo&s;t famous men of that age were his Chaplains.</P>
<P><HI>Lidgate</HI> a &s;mall Village, yet in this re&s;pect not to be pa&s;&s;ed over in &s;ilence, becau&s;e it brought into the world <HI>John Lidgate</HI> the Monk, who&s;e wit may &s;eem to have been framed and &s;hapen to the very Mu&s;es them&s;elves: &s;o brightly re&s;hine in his <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ver&s;es, all the plea&s;ant graces and elegancies of &s;peech, according to that age.</P>
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<HI>Clare</HI> a noble Village, it gave name <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Stoke Clare</HI> the Dukes of <HI>Clarence.</HI></NOTE> to the right noble Family of the <HI>Clares,</HI> Earls of <HI>Clare.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sudbury,</HI> that is, the <HI>South-Burgh,</HI> it is populous and wealthy by rea&s;on of cloathing there.</P>
<P><HI>Mont-chen&s;ie.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nettle&s;ted.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Offton</HI> the Town of <HI>Off a</HI> King of the <HI>Mercians.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lancham</HI> a pretty Mercat.</P>
<P><HI>Hadley</HI> a Town of good note for ma|king of cloaths.</P>
<P><HI>Higham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bentley.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Walpet,</HI> that is, the Wolves-pit, a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Stow</HI> and <HI>Needham</HI> two little Mercat Towns.</P>
<P><HI>Ip&s;wich</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A large, &s;weet, well watered Town, a Town in Orchards. Here was born Cardinal <HI>Wol|&s;ey,</HI> of whom &s;ee a pithy de|&s;cription in <HI>Herberts Hen|ry</HI> the 8^t^h, pag. 314, 315.</NOTE> a fair Town re&s;embling a City, &s;ituate in a ground &s;omewhat low: which is the Eye of this Shire, as having an Haven commodious enough; fenced in times pa&s;t with a trench and rampire, of good trade and &s;tored with wares, well peopled and full of Inhabitants, adorned with twelve Churches, and with goodly large and &s;tately E|difices,
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plentifull in &s;hipping.</P>
<P><HI>Mendle&s;ham,</HI> there is a Market and Fair.</P>
<P><HI>Ufford</HI> the &s;eat in times pa&s;t of <HI>Robert de Ufford</HI> Earl of <HI>Suffolk.</HI></P>
<P>The roof of this Church and other parts of the Quire are curiou&s;ly engra|ven with &s;undry kinds of Works and Pictures, all burni&s;ht and guilt with gold.</P>
<P><HI>Weevers</HI> Ancient Funer. Mon.</P>
<P><HI>Rendeli&s;ham,</HI> that is, <HI>Rendils</HI> Man|&s;ion place.</P>
<P><HI>Woodbridge</HI> a little Town beautified with fair hou&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Framlingham-Ca&s;tle,</HI> a very fair and beautifull Ca&s;tle, fortified with Bank, Ditch, and Walls of great thickne&s;&s;e, wherein are thirteen Towers; and in|wardly furni&s;hed with buildings right commodious and nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P><HI>Parrham</HI> a little Town; Barons <HI>Wil|loughbey</HI> of <HI>Parrham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Oreford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Aldburgh,</HI> that is, the old Burgh, or the Burgh upon the River <HI>Ald.</HI> An Har|bour very commodious for Sailers and Fi&s;hermen, and thereby well frequented.</P>
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<HI>Dunwich,</HI> it lieth now de&s;olate.</P>
<P><HI>Blithborow</HI> a &s;mall Town, it hath a Mercat and a Fair.</P>
<P><HI>Southwold</HI> a Town well frequented through the benefit of an Haven.</P>
<P><HI>Wingfield,</HI> it hath given name to an ancient and renowned Family.</P>
<P><HI>Dunnington</HI> the habitation of the an|cient Family of the <HI>Rou&s;&s;es.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Heuningham</HI> the re&s;idence of a Fa|mily of that name of very great Anti|quity.</P>
<P><HI>Hale&s;worth</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Hoxon,</HI> ennobled by rea&s;on of King <HI>Edmunds</HI> Martyrdom.</P>
<P><HI>Brome,</HI> there dwelt a long time the Family of <HI>Cornwalleis</HI> of Knights de|gree: of whom Sir <HI>John Cornwalleis</HI> was Steward of <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth his hou&s;hold while he was Prince; and his Sonne Sir <HI>Thomas,</HI> for his wi&s;dom and faithfulne&s;&s;e became one of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">he Privy-Councel to Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> and Controller of her Royal Hou&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Eaye</HI> an I&s;land.</P>
<P><HI>Beddingfield,</HI> it gave the name to an ancient and wor&s;hipfull Family.</P>
<P><HI>Flixton,</HI> or <HI>Felixton,</HI> &s;o named of
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<HI>Faelix</HI> the fir&s;t Bi&s;hop of the&s;e parts.</P>
<P><HI>Mettingham,</HI> where there is a Ca|&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Luthingland</HI> of <HI>Luthing</HI> the Lake.</P>
<P><HI>Comerley</HI> Town.</P>
<P><HI>Burgh-Ca&s;tle,</HI> now ruined.</P>
<P><HI>Sommerly-Hall,</HI> my Lady <HI>Wentworths</HI> Hou&s;e, famous for fair Walks and Ponds. There is one long Walk en|compa&s;&s;ed with Fir-trees on each &s;ide.</P>
<P>The Pari&s;hes in this County amount to the number of five hundred &s;eventy five.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Surrey.</HEAD>
<P>FRom the We&s;t it boundeth partly upon <HI>Bark&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Hant&s;hire;</HI> from the South upon <HI>Su&s;&s;ex;</HI> and from the Ea&s;t on <HI>Kent;</HI> toward the North it is watered with the River <HI>Tames,</HI> and by it divided from <HI>Middle&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P>It is a Countrey not very large, yet wealthy enough, where it beareth up|on <HI>Thames,</HI> and lieth as a plain and
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champion Countrey. It is likened by &s;ome unto a cour&s;e freeze garment with a green gard, or to a cloath of great &s;pinning, and thin woven, with a green li&s;t about it, becau&s;e the inner part is but barren, the outward edge or skirt more fertile.</P>
<P><HI>Chert&s;ey</HI> a kind of I&s;land.</P>
<P><HI>Fernham,</HI> &s;o named of much Fern growing in that place.</P>
<P><HI>Guildford</HI> a Mercat Town well fre|quented, and full of fair Innes.</P>
<P><HI>Ockam,</HI> where that great Philo&s;opher and Father of the nominals <HI>William de Ockham</HI> was born, and whereof he took that name, as of the next Village <HI>Rip|ley, George Ripley</HI> a ring-leader of our Al|chymi&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Oatlands</HI> a fair hou&s;e of the Kings: neer unto which <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> pa&s;&s;ed over <HI>Tames</HI> into the Borders of <HI>Ca&s;sivelaunus.</HI> For <NOTE PLACE="marg">See more in <HI>Camdens Bri|tania</HI> there.</NOTE> this was the only place where a man might in times pa&s;t go over the <HI>Tames</HI> on foot, and that hardly too, which the <HI>Britains</HI> them&s;elves improvidently bewrayed unto <HI>Cae&s;ar.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ockley,</HI> &s;o named of Oaks.</P>
<P><HI>Rhiegate,</HI> the Rivers cour&s;e.</P>
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<HI>Holm-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Beckworth-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Effingham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Kingstone</HI> a very good Mercat Town <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The Kings Town.</HI> Regio-dunum Tame&s;inam &s;ic dictum quod ad Tame&s;ini fluvii ripam &s;itum &s;it. <HI>Lel.</HI> Kings Kingston upon the Thames, <HI>&s;o called to di|&s;tingui&s;h it from</HI> Kingston upon Hull <HI>in</HI> Yorkshire.</NOTE> for the bigne&s;&s;e, and well frequented. It had beginning from a little Town more ancient then it of the &s;ame name. In which, when <HI>England</HI> was almo&s;t ruinated by the <HI>Dani&s;h</HI> Warres, <HI>Aethel|&s;tan, Edwin</HI> and <HI>Ethelred</HI> were crown|ed Kings upon an open &s;tage in the Market place, whence it was called <HI>Kingston.</HI> Leland. <HI>Comment. in Cygn. Cant.</HI> Camd. <HI>Brit.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Shene,</HI> &s;o called of its &s;hining bright|ne&s;&s;e, now <HI>Richmond,</HI> wherein the mo&s;t mighty Prince King <HI>Edward</HI> the Third, when he had lived &s;ufficiently both to glory and nature, died.</P>
<P>King <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh built it, and gave it that name of <HI>Richmond,</HI> of the Title he bare, being Earl of <HI>Richmond,</HI> before he obtained the Crown of <HI>Eng|land.</HI> He had &s;carce fini&s;hed this new work, when in this place he yeeld|ed unto Nature, and ended his Life. Here Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> al&s;o died.</P>
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<HI>None-&s;uch</HI> a retiring place of the Prin|ces, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Quanta illic Romanae anti|quitaris aemula|tio? Quantum &s;pecio&s;ae pictu|rae? Quantum auri? Quantum denique omnia genera orna|mentorum. Diceres Coelum e&s;&s;e &s;tellis in|terpolatum. <HI>Lel.</HI> Comment. in Cygn. Cant.</NOTE> and &s;urpa&s;&s;eth all other hou&s;es round about: which King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth, in a very healthfull place cal|led <HI>Cuddington</HI> before, &s;elected for his own delight and ea&s;e, and built with &s;o great &s;umptuou&s;ne&s;&s;e and rare work|man&s;hip, that it a&s;pireth to the very top of o&s;tentation for &s;hew: &s;o as a man may think, that all the skill of Archi|tecture is in this one piece of work be|&s;towed, and heaped up together. So many Statues and lively Images there were in every place, &s;o many wonders of ab&s;olute Workman&s;hip, and Workes &s;eeming to contend with <HI>Roman</HI> Anti|quities, that mo&s;t worthily it might have this name that it hath of <HI>None-&s;uch.</HI>
<Q><L>Hane quia non habeant &s;imilem laudare Britanni,</L>
<L>Saep&egrave; &s;olent, nullique parem, cognomine dicunt.</L></Q>
<Q><L>The <HI>Britains</HI> oft are wont to prai&s;e this place: For that through all</L>
<L>The Realm they cannot &s;hew the like, and <HI>None-&s;uch</HI> they it call.</L></Q></P>
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The Hou&s;e was environed about with Parks full of Deer, it had &s;uch dainty and delicate Orchards, &s;uch Groves adorned with curious Arbours, &s;o pretty quarters, Beds and Alleys, &s;uch Walks &s;o &s;hadowed with Trees, that it was exceeding plea&s;ant.</P>
<P><HI>Wandle</HI> a clear Riveret full of the be&s;t Trouts.</P>
<P><HI>Woodcot</HI> a pretty Town.</P>
<P><HI>Croidon,</HI> there was the Archbi&s;hops hou&s;e of <HI>Canterbury:</HI> There are Char|coals.</P>
<P><HI>Bedington</HI> a fair hou&s;e, beautified with a delightfull &s;hew of plea&s;ant Gar|dens and Orchards.</P>
<P><HI>Addington.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Aguilon</HI> &s;ituate in a mo&s;t fertile &s;oil.</P>
<P><HI>Merton.</HI> It is famous for the Statute of <HI>Merton,</HI> enacted here in the 21. of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Third, and al&s;o for <HI>Walter de Merton</HI> Founder of <HI>Merton</HI> Colledge in <HI>Oxford,</HI> borne and bred here.</P>
<P><HI>Wimbledon,</HI> there is a goodly Hou&s;e, beautifull for building, and delectable for fair profpect, and right plea&s;ant Gardens, built in the year 1588. when
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the <HI>Spani&s;h Armado</HI> made &s;ail upon the coa&s;t of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wandle&s;worth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Putney. Thomas Cromwell</HI> Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> in the Reign of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth, was born there.</P>
<P><HI>Bater&s;ey.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Batter&s;ega. Nomen loco in|ditum ut ego conjicio ex cym|bis.</HI> Leland. <HI>Comment. in Cygn. Cant.</HI> A low or clay|i&s;h rode or hide. The South|work or build|ing, becau&s;e it &s;tandeth South ove again&s;t <HI>London,</HI> the Suburbs wh&egrave;reof it may &s;eem in &s;ome &s;ort to be.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Lambeth. Canutus</HI> the Hardy King of <HI>England</HI> there amid&s;t his cups yeeld|ed up his vital breath.</P>
<P>It was the Palace of the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Southwark,</HI> the <HI>Burrough of South|work,</HI> the mo&s;t famous Mercat Town and place of Trade in all this Shire. It is large and populous. In the Reign of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth, it was annexed to the City of <HI>London,</HI> and is at this day taken for a member (as it were) of it.</P>
<P><HI>Sterborow-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P>This County hath in it an hundred and forty Pari&s;h Churches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<PB N="192" REF="105">
<HEAD>Su&s;&s;ex.</HEAD>
<P>THe Region of the South <HI>Saxons,</HI> a word compounded of the &s;ite thereof Southward, and of the <HI>Sax|ons,</HI> who in their <HI>Heptarchy</HI> placed here the &s;econd Kingdom. It is above three|&s;core miles long, and &s;omewhat above twenty miles broad.</P>
<P>It lieth upon the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Ocean all Southward with a &s;trait &s;hore (as it were) farre more in length than breadth: How be it it hath few har|bours, by rea&s;on that the Sea is dange|rous for &s;helves, and therefore rough and troublous, the &s;hore al&s;o it &s;elf full of Rocks.</P>
<P>The Sea-coa&s;t of this Countrey, hath green Hils on it, mounting to a greater height, called the <HI>Downs,</HI> which be|cau&s;e they &s;tand upon a fat chalk, or kind of Marle, yeeldeth corn abun|dantly.</P>
<P>The middle tract, garni&s;hed with
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Medows, Pa&s;tures, Corn-fields and Groves, maketh a very lovely &s;hew.</P>
<P>The hithermore and northern &s;ide thereof is &s;haded mo&s;t plea&s;antly with Woods, like as in times pa&s;t the whole Countrey throughout, which by rea|&s;on of the Woods was hardly pa&s;&s;able. The Wood <HI>Andrad&s;wald</HI> taking the name of <HI>Anderida</HI> the City next ad|joyning, took up in this quarter, a hundred and twenty miles in length, and thirty in bredth.</P>
<P>It is full of Mines in &s;undry places, where for the making and fining where|of there be Furnaces on every &s;ide, and a huge deal of Wood is yeerly &s;pent, to which purpo&s;e divers Brooks in ma|ny places are brought to runne in one chanel, and &s;undry Medows turned in|to Pools and Waters, that they might be of power &s;ufficient to drive Ham|mer-mils, which beating upon the iron, re&s;ound all over the places adjoyn|ing.</P>
<P><HI>Bo&s;eham</HI> a place environed round about with Woods, and the Sea to|gether.</P>
<P><HI>Chiche&s;ter</HI> lieth in a champion plain&punc; <NOTE PLACE="marg">In Latine <HI>Cice|&s;tria.</HI></NOTE>
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A City large enough, and walled about, built by <HI>Ci&s;sa</HI> a <HI>Saxon</HI> the &s;e|cond King of this Province, and of him &s;o named. It hath four Gates opening to the four Quarters of the World: from whence the &s;treets lead directly, and cro&s;&s;e them&s;elves in the mid&s;t, where the Market is kept; a fair &s;tone Market place, &s;upported with Pillars round about.</P>
<P>The Church it &s;elf is not great, but very fair and neat, having a Spire-&s;teeple of &s;tone, ri&s;ing up pa&s;&s;ing high.</P>
<P><HI>Sel&s;ey</HI> the I&s;le of <HI>Sea-Calves,</HI> now <NOTE PLACE="marg">Called Seals.</NOTE> famous for good Cockles, and full Lob|&s;ters.</P>
<P><HI>Amberley,</HI> there is a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Arundel.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Petworth</HI> a hou&s;e of my Lord of <HI>Nor|thumberland,</HI> where there is a very fair &s;table.</P>
<P><HI>Hor&s;eham</HI> an indifferent Market.</P>
<P><HI>Michel-grove,</HI> that is, <HI>Great-Grove.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Old Shoreham</HI> a Village.</P>
<P><HI>Stening</HI> a great Market, and at certaine &s;et dayes much frequent|ed.</P>
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<HI>Lewes,</HI> this for frequency of people <NOTE PLACE="marg">It is the Shire Town.</NOTE> and greatne&s;&s;e, is reputed one of the chiefe&s;t Towns of the County, it is &s;eated upon a ri&s;ing almo&s;t on every &s;ide. There are &s;ix Churches in the Town.</P>
<P><HI>High-hills,</HI> called the <HI>Downs,</HI> which for rich fertility giveth place to few val|leys and plains.</P>
<P><HI>Pem&s;ey</HI> or <HI>Perem&s;ey</HI> Mar&s;h of <HI>Pe|ven&s;ey,</HI> the next Towne adjoy|ning,</P>
<P><HI>Her&s;t-Mounceaux.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;hburnham,</HI> it gave the name to a Family of great Antiquity.</P>
<P><HI>Hastings.</HI> It is accounted the fir&s;t of the Cinque-Ports.</P>
<P><HI>Winchel&s;ey</HI> a fair Town.</P>
<P><HI>Rhie,</HI> a very commodious Haven: <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ripa.</NOTE> There is an u&s;ual pa&s;&s;age from hence in|to <HI>Normandy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Echingham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bodiam</HI> a Ca&s;tle belonging to the an|cient Family of the <HI>Leaknors.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;hdown-Fore&s;t,</HI> under which &s;tand|eth <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Baron</HI> Buck|hur&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>Buckhur&s;t,</HI> the Habitation of the ancient Hou&s;e of the <HI>Sackviles.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Waterdown-Fore&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="196" REF="107">
This Province containeth Pari&s;hes three hundred and twelve.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Warwick&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is bounded on the Ea&s;t-&s;ide with <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sanders, Glover</HI> and manyother Martyrs &s;uffer|ed in <HI>War|wickshire.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Northampton&s;hire, Leice&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> and the <HI>Watlingstreet</HI> way: on the South with <HI>Oxford&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Gloce&s;ter|&s;hire;</HI> on the We&s;t for the greate&s;t part with <HI>Worce&s;tor&s;hire;</HI> and on the North-&s;ide with <HI>Stafford&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>It is divided into a plain champion, and a woody Countrey: which parts the River <HI>Avon,</HI> running crookedly from North-Ea&s;t to South-We&s;t, doth after a &s;ort &s;ever one from the other.</P>
<P><HI>Edge-hill.</HI></P>
<P>There is the Vale of the <HI>Red-hor&s;e,</HI> &s;o termed from a &s;hape of a Hor&s;e cut out in a red Hill by the Countrey peo|ple hard by.</P>
<P><HI>E&s;senhull.</HI> It takes its name from the &s;ituation, &s;tanding Ea&s;tward from
<PB N="197" REF="107">
<HI>Monk&s;-Kirby,</HI> and upon a ri&s;ing ground.</P>
<P><HI>Pillerton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Shipston</HI> a Mercat of Sheep in times pa&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Kinton</HI> a Mercat of Kine.</P>
<P><HI>Compton in the Hole,</HI> becau&s;e it lieth hidden under the Hils, thence a noble Family hath taken the name.</P>
<P><HI>Shugbury,</HI> &s;tones re&s;embling little &s;tars are there found, which the Lords of the place &s;urnamed thereupon, have long &s;hewed in their Coat-armour.</P>
<P><HI>Southam</HI> a Mercate Town well known.</P>
<P><HI>Leamington</HI> a Mercat Town, &s;o cal|ed of <HI>Leame</HI> a &s;mall Brook that wandereth through this part of the Shire.</P>
<P><HI>Chesterton</HI> the Habitation of that an|cient Family of the <HI>Peitoes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rugby</HI> a Mercat chiefly for Butch|ers.</P>
<P><HI>Newenham Regis,</HI> Kings <HI>Newenham,</HI> to di&s;tingui&s;h it from <HI>Newenham Pad|dox,</HI> the King was anciently po&s;&s;e&s;t of it. There are whol&s;ome Wells.</P>
<P><HI>Upton,</HI> &s;o called, becau&s;e it &s;tands upon an a&s;cent.</P>
<P><PB N="198" REF="108">
<HI>Bagginton,</HI> which belonged &s;ometime to the <HI>Bagots.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Stoneley</HI> a &s;tony place.</P>
<P><HI>Warwick</HI> is the principal Town of the whole Shire. It &s;tandeth over the Ri|ver <HI>Avon</HI> upon a &s;teep and high Rock, and all the Pa&s;&s;ages into it are wrought out of the very &s;tone.</P>
<P>It &s;tands in a dry and fertile &s;oil, ha|ving the benefit of rich and plea&s;ant Medows on the South part, with the lofty Groves and &s;pacious thickets of the woodland on the North.</P>
<P>It hath a very &s;trong Ca&s;tle, the &s;eat in times pa&s;t of the Earls of <HI>Warwick,</HI> The Town it &s;elf is adorned with fair hou&s;es.
<Q><L>A place of &s;trength and health in the &s;ame Fort</L>
<L>You would conceive a Castle and a Court,</L>
<L>The Orchards, Gardens, Rivers, and the Air</L>
<L>May with the Trenches, Rampires, Walls compare.</L>
<L>It &s;eems no art, no force can intercept it,</L>
<L>As if a Lover built, a Souldier kept it.</L>
<BIBL><HI>D.</HI> Corbets Iter Boreale.</BIBL></Q></P>
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<HI>Blacklow-Hill,</HI> here <HI>Piers de Gave|ston</HI> was by the Nobles of the Kingdom beheaded.</P>
<P><HI>Charl-Cot</HI> the habitation of the re|nowned ancient Family of the <HI>Lucies</HI> Knights, which place long ago de|&s;cended hereditarily to them from the <HI>Charlcots.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Stratford upon Avon</HI> a little Mer|cate Town; there is a &s;tone Bridge &s;upported with fourteen Arches.</P>
<P><HI>Bitford</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Studly-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Coughton</HI> the principal man&s;ion hou&s;e of the <HI>Throckmortons.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Beauchamps-Court,</HI> &s;o named of Ba|ron <HI>Beauchamp</HI> of <HI>Powick.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Henley</HI> a pretty Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Aulcester</HI> a &s;mall Mercat of Wares and trade, but much frequented for the Corn-Fair there holden.</P>
<P><HI>Wroxhall,</HI> there is a little Priory.</P>
<P><HI>Killingworth,</HI> there is a mo&s;t ample, beautifull and &s;trong Ca&s;tle, encom|pa&s;&s;ed all about with Parks.</P>
<P><HI>Bremicham</HI> or <HI>Bremingham</HI> full of Inhabitants, and re&s;ounding with Ham|mers and Anvils, for the mo&s;t of them
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are Smiths. The lower part thereof &s;tandeth very wateri&s;h, the upper ri&s;eth with fair buildings.</P>
<P><HI>Sutton-Coldfield.</HI> It &s;tandeth in a <NOTE PLACE="marg">It &s;tands South of <HI>Lichfield.</HI></NOTE> wooddy, and on a churli&s;h hard &s;oil, but in an excellent air, and full of all man|ner of plea&s;ures. There is a Grammar-School.</P>
<P><HI>Cole&s;hull,</HI> &s;o called from the River <HI>Cole.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Maxstock-Ca&s;tle</HI> is neer to it.</P>
<P><HI>Meriden.</HI> This place &s;ituated upon <HI>London-</HI>road, hath from &s;ome Innes and Ale-hou&s;es built for the receipt of Pa&s;&s;engers, grown of late times to the credit of a Village.</P>
<P><HI>Coventry.</HI> It is a City very commo|diou&s;ly <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Coventria qua&s;i Coventus tri|um,</HI> a Covent of three &s;orts of Monks.</NOTE> &s;eated, large, &s;weet and neat, fortified with a &s;trong Wall, and &s;et out with right goodly hou&s;es: among which there ri&s;e up on high two Chur|ches of rare workman&s;hip, &s;tanding one hard by the other, and matched (as it were) as concurrents, the one con&s;e|crated to the <HI>Holy Trinity,</HI> the other to Saint <HI>Michael.</HI> One and the &s;elf &s;ame Bi&s;hop carried the name both of <HI>Coven|try</HI> and <HI>Lichfield.</HI></P>
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<HI>Leofrick</HI> the fir&s;t Lord of this City being much offended and angry with the Citizens, oppre&s;&s;ed them with mo&s;t heavy Tributes, which he would remit upon no other condition, at the earne&s;t &s;uit of his Wife <HI>Godina,</HI> unle&s;&s;e &s;he would her &s;elf ride on hor&s;e-back naked through the greate&s;t and mo&s;t inhabited &s;treet of the City: which &s;he did in|deed, and was &s;o covered with her fair long Hair, that (if we may believe the common &s;ort) &s;he was &s;een of no body, and thus &s;he did &s;et free her Citizens of <HI>Coventry</HI> from many paiments for ever.</P>
<P>At <HI>Gosford-</HI>Gate there hangeth to be &s;een a mighty great Shield-bone of a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Or rather of an Elephant, being not &s;o little as a yard in length. <HI>Speed.</HI></NOTE> wild Bore, which <HI>Guy</HI> of <HI>Warwick</HI> &s;lew in hunting, when he had turned up with his &s;nout a great pit or pond, which is now called <HI>Swan&s;ewell,</HI> but <HI>Swine&s;well</HI> in times pa&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Au&s;ley-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Caledon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Whitmore-Park.</HI> Though it be for the mo&s;t part woody, yet is in &s;ome places &s;o moori&s;h, as that the ground
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beareth nothing but mo&s;&s;e; which be|ing in one place white, gave occa&s;ion (doubtle&s;&s;e) for its name.</P>
<P><HI>Dugd.</HI> Antiq. of <HI>Warwick&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Willowby,</HI> becau&s;e of the <HI>Willows.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ce&s;ter-over,</HI> neer unto which the High port-way <HI>Watlingstreet.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nun-Eaton,</HI> or <HI>Eaton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mance&s;ter</HI> a very &s;mall Village.</P>
<P><HI>Ather&s;tone</HI> a Mercat Town of good re&s;ort.</P>
<P><HI>Merival.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Polle&s;worth.</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Nether&s;ole</HI> a <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> Gentleman of an ancient hou&s;e, &s;ometimes Oratour to the Uni|ver&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> Secretary to the Queen of <HI>Bohemia</HI> hath erected a <NOTE PLACE="marg">See M^r <HI>Dug|dales</HI> Antiq. of <HI>Warwickshire</HI> illu&s;trated.</NOTE> School-hou&s;e there.</P>
<P>In this County there are an hundred and fifty eight Pari&s;h Churches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>VVe&s;tmerland.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o called, becau&s;e it lieth all of <NOTE PLACE="marg">We&s;tmaria, We&s;tmorlandia.</NOTE> it among Moors and high Hils, and was for the mo&s;t part unmanured. Such barren places the Northern <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> call Moors: and <HI>We&s;t-moreland</HI> is a <HI>We|&s;tern-moori&s;h</HI> Countrey.</P>
<P>It is bounded on the We&s;t and North-&s;ide with <HI>Cumberland;</HI> on the Ea&s;t with <HI>York&s;hire,</HI> and the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Durrham.</HI></P>
<P>The Barony of <HI>Kendale</HI> and <HI>Candale</HI> of the River <HI>Can,</HI> which running tho|row upon &s;tones, cutteth thorow it.</P>
<P><HI>Kendale-Kirke</HI> by <HI>Kendale,</HI> a Town of very great Trade and re&s;ort, with two broad and long &s;treets cro&s;&s;ing the one over the other, and a place for ex|cellent cloathing, and for indu&s;try &s;o &s;urpa&s;&s;ing, that in regard thereof it car|rieth a great name. For, the Inhabitants <NOTE PLACE="marg">There were Lords al&s;o of <HI>Kendale.</HI></NOTE> have great traffique and vent of their wollen Cloaths throughout all parts of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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In the River <HI>Can</HI> are two water-falls, where the waters have a downfall, with a mighty noi&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Kirkby-Lon&s;dale,</HI> whither all the <NOTE PLACE="marg">From the Ri|ver <HI>Lone.</HI></NOTE> people round about repair to Church and Mercat.</P>
<P><HI>Wharton-Hall,</HI> the &s;eat of the Barons <HI>Wharton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Kirkby-Stephen</HI> a Mercat Town well known.</P>
<P><HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> there are two little Vil|lages of that name, which gave name unto that martial and warlick Family of the <HI>Mu&s;graves.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Burgh</HI> under <HI>Stanemore</HI> a &s;mall poor Village fenced with a little Fortre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Apelby</HI> memorable for its antiquity <NOTE PLACE="marg">Aballaba.</NOTE> and &s;ituation onely. It &s;tandeth in a plea&s;ant &s;ite, encompa&s;&s;ed for the mo&s;t part with the River <HI>Eden;</HI> for its anti|quity it de&s;erves to be counted the chief Town of the Shire. The Ca&s;tle is the <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Se&s;&s;ions and A&s;&s;izes are there kept</NOTE> common-Goal for malefactours.</P>
<P><HI>Whellep-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brougham.</HI></P>
<P>In this Shire are contained &s;ix and twenty Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
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<HEAD>VVilt&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>IT is altogether a mediterranean or <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Wiltonia</HI> of <HI>Wilton</HI> &s;ome|time the chief Town, and of the River <HI>Willy</HI></NOTE> midland Countrey. It is enclo&s;ed with <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire</HI> on the We&s;t, <HI>Berk|&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Hamp&s;hire</HI> on the Ea&s;t; on the North with <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire;</HI> on the South with <HI>Dor&s;et&s;hire,</HI> and a part of <HI>Hamp&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>A region, which as it breedeth a number of warlike and hardy men, who in old time with <HI>Cornwall</HI> and <HI>Den&s;hire</HI> together challenged by rea&s;on of their manhood, and martial prowe&s;&s;e the prerogative of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army, of that Regiment which &s;hould &s;econd the main Battel; &s;o it is exceeding fertile, and plentifull of all things; yea, and for the variety thereof pa&s;&s;ing plea&s;ant and delight&s;ome.</P>
<P><HI>Wan&s;dike</HI> a Dike of wonderfull work, ca&s;t up for many miles together.</P>
<P>The <HI>Saxons</HI> made it as a limit to di|vide the two Kingdom of the <HI>Mercians</HI>
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and <HI>We&s;t-Saxons</HI> a&s;under: For this was the very place of Battel between them, while each &s;trove one with another, to enlarge his Dominions.</P>
<P><HI>Greeklade,</HI> &s;o called of Greek Phi|lo&s;ophers, as &s;ome are ready to believe; who (as the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Oxford</HI> report|eth) began there an Univer&s;ity, which afterwards was tran&s;lated to <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Camdens Britan.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Crecolada non in&s;ignis olim ut vulgus indo|ctum &s;omniat, Grecanicis &s;cholis. <HI>Lel.</HI> Comment. in Cygn. Cant. Vide <HI>Burtoni</HI> Graec. Ling. hi&s;t. p. 52. Et <HI>God|win.</HI> de Prae&s;ul. Ang. Comment. de <HI>Theodoro</HI> Archiepi&s;c. Cant. p. 61.</NOTE></P>
<P>This (though <HI>Leland</HI> di&s;likes) other learned men approve.</P>
<P>See M. <HI>Seldens</HI> Illu&s;trat. of <HI>Draytons Polyolb.</HI></P>
<P><HI>High-worth</HI> highly &s;eated, and well known.</P>
<P><HI>Wood-Town</HI> or <HI>Wotton-Ba&s;&s;et.</HI> It hath his primitive name from <HI>Wood,</HI> the ad|dition proves, that it belonged to the noble Hou&s;e of the <HI>Ba&s;&s;ets.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Malmesbury,</HI> a very neat Town, and hath a great name for cloathing.</P>
<P>See <HI>Monasticon Anglicanum,</HI> p. 49. of the Mona&s;tery here.</P>
<P><HI>Maidulphi Urbs,</HI> that is, <HI>Maidulphs</HI> City, and afterwards &s;hort <HI>Malmesbury. Aldelme</HI> the chief of <HI>Maidulphs</HI> Di&s;ci|ples
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being elected, his Succe&s;&s;our built there a very fair Mona&s;tery, and was him&s;elf the fir&s;t Abbot thereof. He was canonized a Saint, and on his Fe|&s;tival day, there was here kept a great Fair, at which u&s;ually there is a Band of armed men, appointed to keep the peace among &s;o many re&s;orting thither. He was the fir&s;t of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, who wrote in Latine, and that taught <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> the way how to make a La|tine Ver&s;e.
<Q><L>Primus ego in Patriam mecum, mod&ograve; vita &s;uper&s;it,</L>
<L>Aonio rediens deducam vertice Mu&s;as.</L></Q></P>
<P>This Mona&s;tery among other famous Clerks, &amp; great Scholars, brought forth <HI>William</HI> &s;urnamed thereof <HI>Malmesburi|en&s;is,</HI> unto whom for his learned indu|&s;try, the Hi&s;tory of <HI>England</HI> both Civil and Eccle&s;ia&s;tical are deeply indebted.</P>
<P><HI>Colne</HI> an old little Town &s;ituate upon a &s;tony ground, having in it a fair Church to commend it.</P>
<P><HI>Chippenham,</HI> of note at this day for <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cyppanus</HI> in the <HI>Saxon</HI> tongue is <HI>to</HI> buy, <HI>and</HI> Cyppen a buyer, <HI>as with us</HI> Cheapen <HI>and</HI> Chapman.</NOTE> the Market there kept. There is now
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nothing worth the &s;ight but the Church, built by the Barons <HI>Hunger|ford,</HI> as appeareth every where by their Coats of Armes &s;et up there|on.</P>
<P><HI>Co&s;ham</HI> a little Village.</P>
<P><HI>Ca&s;tle-Comb</HI> an old Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Leckham</HI> the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the noble Family of the <HI>Bainards.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lacock</HI> a Mona&s;tery.</P>
<P>The Ca&s;tle <HI>De Vies,</HI> the <HI>Devizes,</HI> built by <HI>Roger</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Salisbury.</HI> He built al&s;o the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Malmesbury</HI> and <HI>Shireburn.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Trubridge,</HI> that is, a &s;ure and tru&s;ty Bridge in great name and pro&s;perity by rea&s;on of cloathing, and &s;heweth the remains of a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Bradford,</HI> &s;o named of a broad Ford.</P>
<P><HI>Long-Leat,</HI> the dwelling place of the <HI>Thins,</HI> a very fair, neat and elegant hou&s;e in a foul &s;oil.</P>
<P><HI>Maiden-Bradley.</HI> A Maiden infected with the Lepro&s;ie, founded an hou&s;e here for Maidens that were Lepers.</P>
<P><HI>Stourton</HI> the &s;eat of the Lords <HI>Stour|ton,</HI> &s;o called of the River <HI>Stour.</HI></P>
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<HI>Wermin&s;ter</HI> exceeding much fre|quented for a round Corn-Market.</P>
<P><HI>Sarisbury-Plains,</HI> they are but rarely inhabited, and had in late time a bad name, for robberies there committed.</P>
<P><HI>Heitesbury</HI> an ancient Man&s;ion place of the Family of <HI>Hungerford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Yanesbury-Castle</HI> a very large war|like Fence or Hold, fortified with a deep and double Ditch.</P>
<P><HI>Wardour</HI> a proper fine Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Hindon,</HI> a quick Market.</P>
<P><HI>Wilton,</HI> &s;o called from the River <HI>Willey,</HI> a place well watered, and &s;ome|time the head Town of the whole Shire, which thereof took the name. It is now a &s;mall Village, having a Maior for the head Magi&s;trate, and in it a fine Hou&s;e of the Earls of <HI>Pembroke.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Salisbury.</HI> There is a &s;tately and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sarisburia. Roger</HI> of <HI>Sali&s;|bury</HI> built this &s;tately Church al&s;o. The Cathedral was longer in building than the Jews Temple, for it was above fifty years in building, and do you not think the Founders did intend, by proportioning the Doors to the Moneths, and the Windows to the Dayes, and the Pillars to the Hours of the Year, that you &s;hould learn this in&s;truction? <HI>Not a Moneth, nay not a Day, nay not an Hour &s;hould be let pa&s;&s;e without &s;omething of Religion.</HI> M^r <HI>An|ne&s;ley</HI> on 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 12. 32.</NOTE> beautifull Min&s;ter, which with an ex|ceeding high &s;pired Steeple, and dou|ble
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cro&s;&s;e-I&s;les on both &s;ides. The Windows in the Church, as they rec|kon them, an&s;wer ju&s;t in number to the dayes, the Pillars great and &s;mall, to the hours of a full yeer, and the gates to the twelve Moneths.
<Q><L>Mira Canam, Soles quot continet annus, in un&acirc;</L>
<L>Tam numero&s;a, ferunt, aede, fene&s;tra micat.</L>
<L>Marmorea&s;que capit fu&s;as tot ab arte columnas,</L>
<L>Compren&s;as horas quot vagus annus habet.</L>
<L>Totque patent portae, quot men&s;ibus annus abundat,</L>
<L>Res mira, at ver&acirc;res celebrata fide.</L>
<BIBL>Daniel Rogers.</BIBL></Q></P>
<P>It hath a Cloi&s;ter for largene&s;&s;e and fine workman&s;hip inferiour to none: whereunto joyneth the Bi&s;hops Palace, a very fair and goodly hou&s;e: and on the other &s;ide a high bell Tower, and pa&s;&s;ing &s;trong withall, &s;tanding by it &s;elf apart from the Min&s;ter, every &s;treet is watered.</P>
<P>It is the &s;econd City in all this
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Tract well inhabited and frequented, plentifull of all things, e&s;pecially of Fi&s;h, adorned with a very &s;tately Market place, wherein &s;tandeth their common Hall of Timber work, a very beautifull Edifice. It boa&s;teth chiefly of <HI>John</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">It had al&s;o Bi|&s;hop <HI>Abbot</HI> and <HI>Davenant.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Jewel</HI> long &s;ince Bi&s;hop there, a wonderfull great and deep Divine, a mo&s;t &s;tout and earne&s;t maintainer of our Reformed Religion again&s;t the Adver|&s;aries by his learned Books.</P>
<P><HI>Clarindon</HI> a very large and goodly Park very fit for the keeping and feed|ing of wild bea&s;ts.</P>
<P>About &s;ix miles from <HI>Salisbury</HI> in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Our old Hi&s;to|rians termed it for the great|ne&s;&s;e <HI>Chorea Gigantum,</HI> the Gyants dance. Our Country|men reckon this for one of our miracles.</NOTE> the Plains before named, is to be &s;een a huge and mon&s;trous peece of work <HI>Stone-henge.</HI> Within the circuit of a Ditch, there are erected in manner of a Crown, in three ranks or cour&s;es one within another certain mighty and un|wrought Stones, whereof &s;ome are eight and twenty foot high, and &s;even foot broad; upon the heads of which, others like overthwart peeces do bear and re&s;t cro&s;&s;e-wi&s;e, with &s;mall tenents and morte&s;is, &s;o as the whole frame &s;eemeth to hang.</P>
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<HI>Everly-Warren,</HI> a Warren of Hares. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Leporarium.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Savernac-Fore&s;t</HI> of great name for plenty of good game, and for a kind of <HI>Ferne</HI> there, that yeeldeth a mo&s;t plea|&s;ing &s;avour. In remembrance where|of, their Hunters-horn of a mighty bigne&s;&s;e, and tipt with &s;ilver, the Earl of <HI>Hertford</HI> keepeth unto this day, as a Monument of his Progenitors.</P>
<P><HI>Atibury</HI> an uplandi&s;h Village.</P>
<P><HI>Rockley</HI> a little Village.</P>
<P><HI>Kenet.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Marleborow.</HI> It was mo&s;t famous by <NOTE PLACE="marg">Of <HI>Marga marle,</HI> which we u&s;e in &s;tead of dung to ma|nure our grounds. It lieth near a chaulkie-hill, which our Ance&s;tours be|fore they bor|rowed this name Chaulk of the Latine word <HI>Calx,</HI> named <HI>Marle.</HI></NOTE> rea&s;on of a Parliament there holden, wherein by a general con&s;ent of the States of the Kingdome there a&s;&s;em|bled, a Law pa&s;&s;ed for the appea&s;ing of all Tumults, commonly called, <HI>The Statute of Marleborow.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ramesbury</HI> a pretty Village, which hath pretty Medows about it.</P>
<P><HI>Littlecot,</HI> a place worthy to be re|membred, becau&s;e of the late Lord thereof Sir <HI>John Popham,</HI> who being the chief Judge in the Kings-Bench, executed Ju&s;tice again&s;t malefactours to his high prai&s;e and commenda|tion.</P>
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This County containeth in it three hundred and four Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>Worce&s;ter&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>SO called of the principal Town in it. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Wigornien&s;is Comitatus.</NOTE></P>
<P>Here are many Salt-pits, which the old <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> in their Language na|med <HI>Wiches.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Warwick&s;hire</HI> confineth on the Ea&s;t of this County, <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> on the South, it is bounded We&s;tward with <HI>Hereford&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Shrop&s;hire;</HI> North-Ea&s;t with <HI>Stafford&s;hire;</HI> it hath &s;o tem|perate an air, and &s;o favourable &s;oil, that for healthfulne&s;&s;e and plenty, it is not inferiour to the neighbour Coun|treys, and in one part for dainty Chee&s;e &s;urpa&s;&s;eth them. It yeeldeth &s;tore of Pears, of which they make a ba&s;tard kind of Wine called <HI>Pyrry,</HI> which they drink very much, although it be (as other drinks of that kind) both cold and full of wind.</P>
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In every place there are &s;weet Ri|vers, which afford a great abundance of the mo&s;t delicate kind of fi&s;hes.</P>
<P><HI>Severn</HI> that noble and renowned Ri|ver carrieth his &s;tream along, through the mid&s;t of the Shire from North to South; and <HI>Avon</HI> that cometh down out of <HI>Warwick&s;hire</HI> to meet with <HI>Se|vern,</HI> watereth the South-part there|of.</P>
<P><HI>Beawdly,</HI> worthily &s;o called for the beautifull &s;ite thereof, &s;tandeth mo&s;t plea&s;antly upon the hanging of an Hill, and hovereth over the River on the We&s;t-&s;ide: on late dayes well known for the admirable talne&s;&s;e of Trees growing in the Fore&s;t of <HI>Wyre</HI> ad|joyning, which now in manner be all gone.
<Q><L>Delicium rerum Bellus Locus, undique floret</L>
<L>Fronde Coronatus Virianae tempore Sylvae,</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Kiddermin&s;ter</HI> a fair Town, and hath a great Mercat of all Commodities, well frequented, parted in twain by
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little River <HI>Stowre</HI> that runneth tho|row it. There is a very beautifull Church.</P>
<P><HI>Hertlebury-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Holt-Ca&s;tle,</HI> &s;o called of a very thick wood there.</P>
<P><HI>Frankeley</HI> the Family of the <HI>Little|tons,</HI> planted by <HI>John Littleton,</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>We&s;tcote</HI> the famous Lawyer, Ju&s;tice in the Kings-Bench in the time of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Fourth, to who&s;e Treati&s;e of Tenures the Students of our Com|mon-Law are no le&s;&s;e beholden, then the Civilians to <HI>Ju&s;tinians</HI> In&s;ti|tutes.</P>
<P><HI>Brome&s;grove</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Grafton.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Droitwich,</HI> &s;ome term it <HI>Durtwich,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;num e&s;t &s;atis mirabile, quia aqua illa per medium an|num e&s;t &s;al&s;a, &s;cilicet &agrave; na|tivitate Domini u&s;que ad fe&s;tum &s;ancti <HI>Johannis</HI> Bapti&s;tae, per aliud ver&ograve; medium temporis e&s;t dulcis. Sed quod mira|bilius e&s;t pro illo tempore quo e&s;t &s;ali nece&s;&s;aria, &s;i non hauritur, &s;uper|fluit, per aliud ver&ograve; temporis vix &s;emper excre&s;cit. <HI>Gerva&s;.</HI> in lib. de Ociis imperialibus citat<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">r <HI>Pet. Bechor.</HI> Reduct. Moral. l. 13. c. 3. De Anglia.</NOTE> of the Salt-pits, and the wetti&s;h ground on which it &s;tandeth, where three foun|tains yeelding plenty of water to make &s;alt of, divided a&s;under by a little Brook of fre&s;h water pa&s;&s;ing between, by a
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peculiar gift of nature &s;pring out: out of which mo&s;t pure white Salt is boiled for &s;ix Moneths every year, <HI>viz.</HI> from Mid-&s;ommer to mid-winter, in many &s;et furnaces round about.</P>
<P><HI>Richard De la Wich</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Chi|che&s;ter</HI> was here born, whom Pope <HI>Ur|ban</HI> the fourth canonized for a Saint.</P>
<P><HI>Fekenham-Fore&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> the principal City of this <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vigornia <HI>and</HI> Wignornia.</NOTE> Shire, an ancient and beautifull place. It &s;tandeth in a place ri&s;ing &s;omewhat with a gentle a&s;cent, by the Rivers-&s;ide that hath a fair Bridge with a Tower over it, it is well and &s;trongly walled. There are fair and neat Hou&s;es, many Churches. It is a Bi&s;hops See. The Cathedral Church is a pa&s;&s;ing fair and &s;tately building, adorned with the Mo|numents and Tombs of King <HI>John, Arthur</HI> Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and divers of the <HI>Beauchamps.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Powick,</HI> famous for Cherries.</P>
<P><HI>Hanley-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Upton</HI> a Mercate Towne of great name.</P>
<P><HI>Malvern-Hills,</HI> great and high Moun|tains, which for the &s;pace of &s;even
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miles, or thereabout, do (as it were) by degrees ri&s;e higher and higher, di|viding this Shire from the County of <HI>Hereford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bredon-Hills</HI> farre le&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Elme&s;ley-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wa&s;hborn</HI> a Village, whence came the &s;urname to a very ancient and wor&s;hip|full Family in this Tract.</P>
<P><HI>Eove&s;ham,</HI> &s;o called, as the Monks write, of one <HI>Eoves,</HI> Swinherd to <HI>Egwin</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Worce&s;ter.</HI> A very proper Town &s;ituate upon an Hill ari|&s;ing from the River. A Town well known for the Vale under it, named thereof, <HI>The Vale of Eve&s;ham,</HI> which for plentifull fertility hath well de&s;er|ved to be called the Granary of all the&s;e Countreys; &s;o good and plentifull is the ground in yeelding the be&s;t Corn abundantly.</P>
<P><HI>Charlton,</HI> now the &s;eat of the <HI>Ding|leyes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>O&s;wald&s;low-Hundred,</HI> &s;o called of <HI>O&s;wald</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> who obtained it for him&s;elf of King <HI>Ed|gar.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;tines-Oke,</HI> at which <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI>
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the Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI> and the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Britain</HI> met, and after they had di&s;puted and debated the matter hotly for a good while touch|ing the Celebration of <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> preach|ing Gods Word al&s;o to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, and of admini&s;tring Bapti&s;me according to the Rites of the <HI>Roman</HI> Church; in the end, when they could not agree they departed on both &s;ides with di&s;contented minds, upon their di&s;&s;enting opinions.</P>
<P>There are in this Shire an hundred fifty and two Pari&s;hes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="county">
<HEAD>York&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>THe County of <HI>York,</HI> the greate&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Some &s;ay, it is as big as the twelve Coun|ties in <HI>Wales.</HI></NOTE> Shire by farre of all <HI>England,</HI> is thought to be in a temperate mea&s;ure fruitfull. If in one place there be &s;tony and &s;andy barren ground, in ano|ther place there are for it Corn-fields, as rich and fruitfull; if it be void and de&s;titute of woods here, you &s;hall find
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it &s;hadowed there with mo&s;t thick Fo|re&s;ts: So providently u&s;eth nature &s;uch a temperature, that the whole Coun|trey may &s;eem by rea&s;on al&s;o of that variety more gracefull and delecta|ble.</P>
<P>It is farre greater and more nume|rous in the circuit of her miles, then any Shire of <HI>England.</HI> The length extended from <HI>Hart-Hill</HI> in the South to the mouth of <HI>Tees</HI> in the North is neer unto &s;eventy miles; the breadth from <HI>Flambrough-head</HI> to <HI>Horn-Ca&s;tle</HI> upon the River <HI>Lun</HI> is eighty, the whole circumference three hundred and eight miles. <HI>Speed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Helm&s;ley</HI> a Mannor in <HI>Yorkshire</HI> hath two Parks and a Cha&s;e in it, it is &s;aid to be about an hundred fourty &s;ix miles compa&s;&s;e, it had fourty thou&s;and timber Trees, and two hundred Acres of wood. There are many Free-hold|ers there.</P>
<P>It is famous for Wool, Gra&s;ing, Corn, Rivers and Fountains. There are the <HI>Gips</HI> upon <HI>York&s;hire Woolds,</HI> which in the drought of Summer, when all other Springs &s;eem to be
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dried up, bur&s;t out and ri&s;e up five or &s;ix yards plum height, and &s;o fall down into the Dales, and make a little River, by which the Towns neer thereto refre&s;h their Cattel, when the Valley &s;prings fail.</P>
<P>On the North-&s;ide it hath the Bi|&s;hoprick of <HI>Durham,</HI> which the River <HI>Tees</HI> with a continued cour&s;e &s;eparateth from it: On the Ea&s;t-&s;ide the <HI>Germane</HI> Sea lieth &s;ore upon it: and the South-&s;ide is enclo&s;ed fir&s;t with <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Darby&s;hire;</HI> then with <HI>Nottingham&s;hire,</HI> and after with <HI>Lincoln&s;hire,</HI> where that famous arm of the Sea <HI>Humber</HI> floweth between, into which all the Rivers well neer that water this Shire empty them|&s;elves (as it were) into their common receptacle.</P>
<P>The whole Shire is divided into three parts: which according to the three Quarters of the world are cal|led, <HI>The We&s;t-Riding, The Ea&s;t-Ri|ding, The North-Riding. We&s;t-Riding,</HI> for a good while is compa&s;&s;ed in with the River <HI>Ou&s;e,</HI> with the bound of <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> and with the South limits of the Shire, and beareth toward the
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We&s;t and South. <HI>Ea&s;t-Riding,</HI> look|eth to the Sunne-ri&s;ing, and the O|cean, which together with the River <HI>Derwent</HI> enclo&s;eth it. <HI>North-Riding</HI> reacheth Northward, hemmed in (as it were) with the River <HI>Tees</HI> with <HI>Derwent</HI> and a long race of the River <HI>Ou&s;e.</HI></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="region">
<HEAD>We&s;t-Riding.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Sheafield</HI> a Town of great name for the Smiths therein, fortified al&s;o with a &s;trong and ancient Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Rotheram</HI> glorieth in <HI>Thomas Rothe|ram</HI> &s;ometimes Archbi&s;hop of <HI>York,</HI> a wi&s;e man, bearing the name of the Town, being born therein, and a &s;in|gular Benefactor thereunto.</P>
<P><HI>Connisborrow</HI> an ancient Ca&s;tle &s;eated upon a Rock.</P>
<P><HI>Dan-Castre.</HI> There is the fair Church <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Scots</HI> call it <HI>Don-Ca&s;tle</HI> from the River <HI>Don.</HI></NOTE> of S. <HI>Georges.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tickhill</HI> an old Town, fenced with as old a Ca&s;tle, large enough, but ha|ving only a &s;ingle Wall about it.</P>
<P><HI>Hatfiele-Chace,</HI> a great game and hunting of red Deer.</P>
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<HI>Halifax</HI> a mo&s;t famous Town. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Holy-hair.</HI> The <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> dwelling be|yond <HI>Trent,</HI> called the hair of the Head <HI>Fax.</HI> There is al&s;o a Family in this Countrey of Gentlemen, named <HI>Fair|fax,</HI> of the fair bu&s;h of their Hair.</NOTE></P>
<P>This place is become famous as well among the multitude by rea&s;on of the Law there, whereby they beheaded &s;traitwayes who&s;oever are taken &s;teal|ing: as al&s;o among&s;t the learned: for they report that <HI>Johannes de Sacro Bo&s;co</HI> the Authour of the Sphere, was here born: yet more famous it is, for the greatne&s;&s;e of the Pari&s;h, which rec|koneth eleven Chappels; whereof two are Pari&s;h-Chappels, and to the number of twelve thou&s;and people therein.</P>
<P><HI>Halifax</HI> Nuts are &s;poken of prover|bially, <HI>All &s;hels and no kernels.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Dewsborough</HI> &s;eated under an high Hill.</P>
<P><HI>Wakefield</HI> a Town famous for Cloa|thing, for greatne&s;&s;e, for fair build|ing, a well frequented Mercat, and a Bridge, upon which King <HI>Edward</HI> the Fourth erected a beautifull Chap|pel, in memorial of tho&s;e that lo&s;t their lives there in battel.</P>
<P><HI>Sandall-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P>The Tract lying here round about for a great way together, is called the
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Seigniory or Lord&s;hip of <HI>Wakefield,</HI> and hath alwayes for the Steward one of the better &s;ort of Gentlemen dwel|ling thereby.</P>
<P><HI>Medley,</HI> &s;o called for the &s;ituation (as it were) in the mid&s;t between two Rivers.</P>
<P><HI>Skipton,</HI> it lieth hidden and enclo|&s;ed among &s;teep Hils, as <HI>Latium</HI> in <HI>Italy,</HI> which <HI>Varro</HI> &s;uppo&s;eth to have been &s;o called, becau&s;e it lieth clo&s;e un|der <HI>Appenine</HI> and the <HI>Alps.</HI></P>
<P>The Town (for the manner of their building among the&s;e Hils) is fair e|nough, and hath a very proper and &s;trong Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Leeds</HI> a rich Town by rea&s;on of Cloathing.</P>
<P><HI>Winwidfield,</HI> a name given it from a victory.</P>
<P><HI>Pontfret,</HI> the <HI>Normans</HI> of a broken <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pontefract.</HI> A <HI>French</HI> name brought in by the <HI>Lacies Normans,</HI> for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> word of bro|ken bridge. <HI>Lelands</HI> Itine|rary.</NOTE> Bridge, named it in <HI>French Pontfract.</HI> It is &s;eated in a very plea&s;ant place, which bringeth forth Liquorice and Skirworts in great plenty, adorned al|&s;o with fair buildings, and hath to &s;hew a &s;tately Ca&s;tle, as a man &s;hall &s;ee, &s;ituate upon a Rock, no le&s;&s;e
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goodly to the eye, then &s;afe for the defence, well fortified with Ditches and Bulwarks.</P>
<P><HI>Shirburn</HI> a little Town, but well in|habited.</P>
<P><HI>Aberford</HI> a little Village, famous on|ly for making of Pins, which by wo|mens judgment are e&s;pecially commend|ed as the be&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>He&s;&s;elwood</HI> the principal &s;eat of that worthy and right ancient Family of the <HI>Vava&s;ours,</HI> who by their Office (for the Kings Valva&s;ors in times pa&s;t they were) took to them this name.</P>
<P><HI>Peters-po&s;t</HI> a famous quarry of &s;tone, &s;o called, becau&s;e with the &s;tones hew|ed out of it, by the liberal Grant of the <HI>Vava&s;ors,</HI> that &s;tately and &s;umptuous Church of S. <HI>Peters</HI> at <HI>York</HI> was re-edified.</P>
<P><HI>Harewood-Ca&s;tle</HI> of good &s;trength.</P>
<P><HI>Wetherby</HI> a Mercat Town of good note.</P>
<P><HI>Tadcaster,</HI> it is &s;ituate upon a Port high-way.</P>
<P><HI>Rippley</HI> a Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Knasborrow-Castle,</HI> &s;ituate upon a mo&s;tragged and rough Rock, whence
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al&s;o it hath the name. There is a Well under it which turns wood into &s;tone, within two miles of it is the <HI>Spaw,</HI> which makes women conceive that were barren before, and cures many di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>Within three miles of <HI>Knarsborough</HI> are the &s;tinking Wells, which come out of a mineral of Brim&s;tone, and do many cures, e&s;pecially for Worms, the Scurvy and Itch.</P>
<P><HI>Rippon.</HI> There is a very fair Church, which with three high Spire-&s;teeples doth welcome tho&s;e that come to the Town.</P>
<P><HI>Burrow-Bridge</HI> a little Town, &s;o cal|led of the Bridge that is made over the River.</P>
<P><HI>Pyramides,</HI> four huge &s;tones of pyra|midal form in three divers little fields, they were monuments of victory ere|cted by the <HI>Romans,</HI> hard by the high &s;treet that went this way.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Eboracum, Eburacum</HI> is derived from the River <HI>&V;r&eacute;</HI> by <HI>&V;re,</HI> or a long the &s;ide of <HI>&V;re.</HI> See <HI>Burtons</HI> Com|ment. on <HI>Anton.</HI> his Itin. p. 60, 61. why it is called <HI>Ebora|cum;</HI></NOTE> <HI>York.</HI> This is the &s;econd City of <HI>England,</HI> the faire&s;t in all this Coun|trey, and a &s;ingular &s;afeguard and orna|ment both, to all the North parts. A plea&s;ant place; large and &s;tately, well
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fortified, beautifully adorned as well with private as publick buildings, rich, populous; and it hath an Archiepi&s;co|pal See.</P>
<P><HI>Ure,</HI> which now is called <HI>Ou&s;e,</HI> flow|ing with a gentle &s;tream from the North part Southward cutteth it in twain, and divideth it (as it were) in|to two Cities, which are conjoyned with a &s;tone Bridge, having one mighty Arch.</P>
<P>The We&s;t part, nothing &s;o populous, is compa&s;&s;ed in with a very fair Wall, and the River together, four &s;quare|wi&s;e, and giveth entrance to tho&s;e that come thither at one only Gate, named <HI>Mikel-Barre, The great Gate.</HI> From which a long Street, and a broad, reacheth to the very Bridge, and the &s;ame Street be&s;et with pro|per Hou&s;es, having Gardens and Orchards planted on the back-&s;ide on either hand, and behind them fields even hard to the Walls, for exerci&s;e and di&s;ports.</P>
<P>The Ea&s;t-&s;ide, wherein the Hou&s;es &s;tand very thick, and the Streets be narrower, in form re&s;embleth (as it
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were) a lentill, and is fortified al&s;o with very &s;trong Walls; and on the South-Ea&s;t defended with the deep chanel of <HI>Fo&s;&s;e&punc;</HI> a muddy River; which entring into the heart of the City by a blind way, hath a Bridge over it, with hou&s;es &s;tanding upon it, &s;o clo&s;e ranged one by another, that any man would judge it, to be not a Bridge, but a continued Street; and &s;o a little lower runneth into <HI>Ou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>There is a Cathedral Church de|dicated to Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> an excellent fair and &s;tately Fabrick, neer unto which there is the Princes Hou&s;e, com|monly called, <HI>The Mannour.</HI></P>
<P><HI>York</HI> was a Colony of the <HI>Romans,</HI> as appeareth both by the authority of <HI>Ptolomee</HI> and <HI>Antonine;</HI> and al&s;o by a peece of Money coined by the Empe|rour <HI>Severus,</HI> in the rever&s;e whereof we read,
<Q><P>COL. EBORACUM LEG. VI. VICTRIX.</P></Q></P>
<P><HI>Severus</HI> had his Palace in this City, and here at the hour of death gave up his la&s;t breath, with the&s;e words: <HI>I entered upon a State every way trouble|&s;ome,
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and I leave it peaceable even to the</HI> Britains.</P>
<P><HI>Valerius Constantius</HI> &s;urnamed <HI>Chlo|rus,</HI> an Emperour &s;urpa&s;&s;ing in all Ver|tue and Chri&s;tian Piety, ended his life al&s;o in this City, and was deified.</P>
<P>This Emperour begat of his former Wife <HI>Helena, Con&s;tantine</HI> the Great, who was pre&s;ent in <HI>York</HI> at his Fathers la&s;t ga&s;p, and forthwith proclaimed Emperour.</P>
<P><HI>York</HI> was in great e&s;timation in tho&s;e dayes, &s;ince the <HI>Romane</HI> Emperours Court was there held.</P>
<P>Our own Countrey Writers record, That this City was by <HI>Con&s;tantius</HI> adorned and graced with an Epi&s;copal See. <HI>Alcwin</HI> of <HI>York</HI> Schoolma&s;ter to <HI>Charles</HI> the Great, fir&s;t Founder of the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Paris,</HI> and the &s;ingular ho|nour of this City.</P>
<P>From <HI>Paulinus</HI> the fir&s;t Archbi&s;hop, con&s;ecrated in the Year of our Redem|ption 625. there have &s;itten in that See three&s;core and five Archbi&s;hops, unto the Year 1606. in which D^r <HI>Tobie Matthew</HI> a mo&s;t Reverend Prelate, for the Ornaments of Vertue and
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Piety, for learned Eloquence, and con|tinual exerci&s;e of Teaching, was tran|&s;lated hither from the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Durham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cawood</HI> a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Selby</HI> a little Town, well peopled, and of good re&s;ort; where King <HI>Henry</HI> the Fir&s;t was born.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="region">
<HEAD>East-Riding.</HEAD>
<P>It is the &s;econd part of this Region, it lieth Ea&s;tward from <HI>York.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Stanford-Bridge,</HI> of the Battell there fought, it is called <HI>Battle-Bridge.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wre&s;hill</HI> a proper and &s;trong Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Howden</HI> a Mercat Town, it hath given name to a little Territory adjoyn|ing, called of it <HI>Howden&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Metham,</HI> it gave both &s;urname and habitation al&s;o to the ancient Hou&s;e of the <HI>Methams.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Humber</HI> an arm of the Sea, where|of al&s;o the Countrey beyond it, by a general name was called <HI>Northum|berland.</HI></P>
<P>It is one of the broade&s;t arms of the
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Sea, and be&s;t &s;tored with Fi&s;h in all <HI>Britain.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wighton</HI> a &s;mall Town of Husbandry well inhabited.</P>
<P><HI>Drifield</HI> a Village well known by rea&s;on of the Tomb of <HI>Alfred</HI> that mo&s;t learned King of <HI>Northumberland;</HI> and the Mounts that are rai&s;ed here and there about it.</P>
<P><HI>Beverley</HI> a great Town, very popu|lous and full of Trade.</P>
<P><HI>John</HI> &s;urnamed <HI>de Beverley,</HI> Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>York,</HI> a man both godly and learned, after he had given over his Bi&s;hoprick, as weary of this world, came hither, and ended his life in con|templation, about the Year of our Re|demption, 721.</P>
<P><HI>Cottingham,</HI> a Countrey Town of Husbandry.</P>
<P><HI>Kingston upon Hull,</HI> but commonly <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings-Town built by King <HI>Edward</HI> the Fir&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>Hull.</HI></P>
<P>For &s;tately and &s;umptuous Buildings, for &s;trong Block-hou&s;es, for well fur|ni&s;hed Ships, for &s;tore of Merchants, and abundance of all things, it is become now the mo&s;t famous Town of Mer|chandize in the&s;e parts.</P>
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The Town is a County incorporate by it &s;elf.</P>
<P><HI>Headon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Patrington.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> from whence the honourable Family of the Barons <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> took their name.</P>
<P><HI>Keln&s;ey</HI> a little Village.</P>
<P><HI>Con&s;table-Burton,</HI> &s;o called of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">There are al&s;o high and low <HI>Burton</HI> hou&s;es.</NOTE> Lords thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Sureby.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bridlington.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="region">
<HEAD>North-Riding.</HEAD>
<P>This carrieth a very long Tract with <NOTE PLACE="marg">Or the North|part of this Countrey.</NOTE> it (though not &s;o broad) for three&s;core miles together, even as far as to <HI>We&s;t|morland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Scarborough-Ca&s;tle</HI> a goodly and fa|mous Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>Within it there is <HI>Ting-tong-Wells</HI> which go two miles under the earth toward an Hill, called <HI>Weapne&s;s,</HI> in which pa&s;&s;age there is an Iron-gate, and by that way the people in the time of Civil Wars brought in their Goods and Cattel, and &s;o &s;upplied the Ca&s;tle.</P>
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The <HI>Hollanders</HI> and <HI>Zelanders</HI> u&s;e to take marvellous plenty of Herrings up|on this Coa&s;t, and make a very gainfull Trade thereof, having anciently fir&s;t obtained Licence by an ancient Cu&s;tom out of this Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Cliveland,</HI> it taketh that name of &s;teep Banks, which we call Cliffs; for there runne all along the &s;ide thereof cliffie Hils.</P>
<P><HI>Sken-grave</HI> a little Village much be|nefited by taking great &s;tore of Fi&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Kilton-Ca&s;tle</HI> within a Park.</P>
<P><HI>Skelton-Ca&s;tle</HI> appertaining to the ancient Family of the Barons <HI>Brus,</HI> who derive their De&s;cent from <HI>Robert Brus</HI> the <HI>Norman.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wilton-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Yare</HI> a Mercat Town well known.</P>
<P><HI>Stoke&s;ley</HI> a little Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Gisburgh</HI> a &s;mall Town very plea&s;ant and delightfull.</P>
<P><HI>Ounsbery-Hill,</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;ebery-Topping,</HI> it mounteth up a mighty height, and maketh a goodly &s;hew a farre off, &s;o often as the Head therof hath his cloudy Cap on, lightly there followeth rain: whence they have a proverbial Rhime,
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<L>When <HI>Ro&s;ebery-Topping</HI> wears a Cap,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Cliveland</HI> then beware a clap.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Kildale</HI> a Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Pickering</HI> a good big Town belong|ing to the Dutchy of <HI>Lancaster,</HI> &s;i|tuate upon an Hill, and fortified with an old Ca&s;tle: unto which a number of &s;mall Villages lying there round about do appertain: whence the Countrey adjoyning is common|ly called <HI>Pickering-Lith; The Li|berty of Pickering and Forest of Pic|kering.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Kirkby-Mor&s;ide</HI> it lieth hard unto the Hils, whereof it had that name, a famous Mercat Town.</P>
<P><HI>Rhidal</HI> a goodly, plea&s;ant and plen|tifull Vale, adorned with three and twenty Pari&s;h Churches, through the mid&s;t whereof runneth the River <HI>Rhie.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Malton</HI> a Mercat Town well known and frequented for Corne, Hor&s;|es, Fi&s;h, and implements of Hu&s;|bandry.</P>
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<HI>Newborrough</HI> a famous Abbey unto which we are indebted for <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Newborrough,</HI> a learned and diligent Wri|ter of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Hi&s;tory.</P>
<P><HI>Gilling-Castle</HI> belongs unto that ancient and wor&s;hipfull Family, which of their fair bu&s;h of Hair got their name <HI>Fairfax.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Fore&s;t of Galtres,</HI> notorious for a &s;olemn Hor&s;e-running, wherein the Hor&s;e that out-runneth the re&s;t hath for his prize a little golden Bell.</P>
<P><HI>Sherry-Hutton</HI> a fair Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Hinderskell</HI> a little Ca&s;tle: Others call it <HI>Hundred-skell</HI> of a number of Fountaines that &s;pring up and ri&s;e there.</P>
<P><HI>Northallerton&s;hire,</HI> a little Countrey watered with the Riveret <HI>Wisk,</HI> and taking the name of <HI>Northalverton</HI> a Town having in it on Saint <HI>Bartholo|mews</HI> day a great Fair of Kine and Oxen.</P>
<P>In this County there are four hun|dred and fifty nine Pari&s;hes, under which are very many Chappels, for num|ber of Inhabitants equal unto great Pa|ri&s;hes.</P>
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