From yo varietie of their name written in ould evidencies all theis conjectures are probable.

Birthe and death are equally y^e gifts of nature ; he y^t is of other minde shall never be quiet.

Peers Ewood, with many other gentlemen thereaboutes, had land given uvto them at y^e same time by Adam de Berrye, y^e charters of which donations are yet extant. Theis charters are anciently calld books, and signe of a free tenure.

HIGH holtt of woods, or haye enclosed with woods,
Or woddie Isle surrownded with fierce floods
Thy antique bounds; from whence so ere thou haue
Thy name, I blesse y^e, Heywoods wombe and graue,
The board and bed vnto thy ofspringe be
Kinde of their seasons with tranquillitie.
Thou bookland Heywood, lett each aged Sire
To well growne children y^e with lightsomme fire
Deliver gift of Berries Lord, when pejres
Rejoicd in men, not onely in their steeres

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Theis were not chief Lords, but free men, whoe after griew to great worshippe. whence Chaucer in his character of y^e Frankelin-
Atsessions there was he Lord and sire.
Full ofte there he was Knight of y^e shire.

And towne-devouring sheepe, about y^e date
When second Harrie mightye was of state.
The Lords him followd to y^e wars, and they
With their bolde Francklins dowbted not y^e day
Of battle, men each other knowing voyd of strife,
Honour resolvd to winne, or laye their life.
Fulchis of Crew in Chesshire, thy braue worde
Once spoken doth to after times afford
Worthy example: when in dismall fight
A horse was offerd to secure thy flight

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And leave thy fellowes to it bloodie field,
If their stoute couradge did refuse to y^eeld,
Thy wordes were, " Hether, trustie friends, we came,
And, if we doe not gaine, weele looze no fame
Goodwives of Nantwitch and their daughters shall
Nere houle aboute me for their kindreds fall."
So he, so Talbot, Frances terrour, dide,
Because they would not from their fellowes ride.
Such times were those which never heard y^e crye,
" Break open ranks for now my Lord doth flye."

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Such is yo tradition of him at Crewe once his Lordshippe now in y^e possession of Sr Ran-dall Crewe. Every stone speaks y^e manner of Talbot's death. Theis Talbots before their Erldom were auncient rich Barons of this kingdome whence of one of them tis sayd, ditissimus baro totius Angliae, and so no doubt but they came brauely attended into y^e wars.

Free lords free tenants lou'd ; againe they trye
To loue their Lords m life and memorie.
Ashton of Middleton, to y^e I went
From my deere Heywood once, and there I spent
One space of leasure, to behould and see
The fairenesse of thy Beate and courtesie,
In which we kiudely fed, slept, rose againe
Next day, with other views to eutertaine
Free welcomme, and summe miles beyond thy home
Mounted vppon thy horses we did rome,

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Quà causà Deus Ro-manos secundü quandã formam terrenae civita. tis bones adjuverit ad antiqui imperii gloriam consequendam. - dedit mercedem bonis Roma-nor artibus terrenam gloriam excellentissimi imperij. Aug. Civ. Dei.

Nic. Bergier à. French Lawyer hath written a lardge historie of their Roman high wayes.

Vnder thy guidance, to it Roman wage
High cast yet standing, as perchance it laye
From Yorclk to Chester. Austins voice is true,
Empire condignly was to Romans due.
Our wayes are gulphs of durte and mire, which none
Scarce ever passe in summer withoute moane;
Whilst theirs through all y^e world were no lesse free
Of passadge then y^e race of Wallisee,
Ore broken moores, deere mosses, lake and fenne,
Now worcks of Giants deemd, not arte of men.

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Peradventure thence in y^e North a Roman forte is calld Reising-ham. Reus, or Rese in Dutch signifies à giant, and our ould storyes say in a mistake from hence yt giants aun-ciently inhabited this land and built their citties vppon high hills.

Aunciently people did not vse to borye in yo citties In much lesse so frequently in churches. Luthers advise in this point is not only civill but allso preservable to y^e health of citties. See allso of this William Zepper in his ecelesiasti-call policye how monas-ticall avarice brought
funerall,s to yo church. See Rivet aud Beza.

On theis their stages stood their forts and tombes ;
They were not oriely streets luft halydoms
So did their buisnesse speede, and armyes flye
From East to West like lightning in the Skye.
Now go we to y^e church of Middleton,
To finde out there summe glorye of our owne.
At chardge of those good men, whoe went out far
In suite of our braue Ashton to the warre,
There stands it painted windowe, where I weene
The shove of their departure may be seene :

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The excellent prince Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk with bowe-men of Englaud sleve King Jamye, with many .L Noble Scotte against Floddon hill, in which battell y^e stout archers of Chesshyre aud Lancashire for one day bestowed to y^e death for their Prince and Counerye sake hath gotten immortall name aud praise forever. Aschatn in his Schoolc of Shootinge.

Of y^e wearing haire long or short Galen hatte i verie tine discours. See allso.Lycurgus pro-verb of it in Plutarch. terribile quiddam prie se fert densa Gallor et Scythaï capillitiït Clem. Alex.

The Lord and Ladve first in skarlett ; then
One neere attending of y^e chiefest men ;
Their garments long, his short and bliew, behinde
The chaplaine of y^e warfare you may finde
In robe of y^e same colour, for to say
Before an altar praiers of y^e daye
On bended knees; him followe neighbours bould,
Whoe doe bent* bowies on their left showlders hould,
Their girdle sheaft with arrowes ; as y^e squire
So are they all, courtmantells in attire

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With such camarades as those of which Larroue speakes y^e com-mendation in his militarie discourses, all our auncient wars were fought, aud so it conti-m:ed I believe vntill y^e dissolution of Abbyes, vppon y^e lubbers of which pressing beganne to be sufferd. They were so many fitt for no civill course of life y^e Bishop Hooper in a sermon complainer, how twentie men could hardly passe safe to-;;ether vppon y^e high wayes. The former ser-vice was y^either hy te-nure or by agremen t, whence in yt pell office are y^et mttnie obligations extant betwixt y^e King y^e Nobles and Gentrye of y^e Land.

Of blewe ; like Greeks in Trojan warre, their haire
In curler long dangling makes y^e semblance faire
And sterne ; each hath his name, and people tell
That on ve same lands noiv their children dwell
As yet so called. Larroue, thy camarades
Of ruen their were, which feare would never shades
Of death in warlike service; Agincourt,
Cressy, Poitiers, and Floddon field reporte
Their mightye acts, such as were never donne
Greater by Roman or ve Macedon.

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* Our great Sires were so farre from pressing to warre yt King Edward y^e 3, in y^e first volume of Froissard, cap. 206, speakes thus to his souldiers at Do-vore vppon their depar-turefor France. que son intention etoit teille qüil vouloit pas-ser outre au royaume de France, sans jamais rappasser, jusques a tant quil auroit fin de guerre on paix à sa sul-fisance,ou à son grand honeur: ou il mourroit en la peine : et s'il avoit entre eux, qui a ne vousissent entendre, il leur prioit qu'ils s'en vousissent retourner.

Fillos quatn prim[[ mtas patiebatur more Francorü equitare, armis ac venationfbus ex-erceri fecit: filias verõ lanificio assuescere, co-logne ac fuso, ne per ociü torpescerent operam intendere, atque ad oein honestatem erudiri jusset. Egin-hartus de vitaet rebus gestis Ca roll Magni. See allso Vives de xpiana finmina. Sed fmminam saith he, nullo modo placet mihi artiü qum manibus tractantur im-peritamesse: ac neprin-cipem quidem, ant Re-ginam. Quidenimalitnd potius aget ant melius vacua domesticis nego-ciis? Confabulabitur acilicet cum viris nut alijs fauninis. Quibus de rebus? semper lo-quetur? nunquam con-ticescet? At cogitabit qum? teler est cogita-tus fmminm ac fere von-stans vagus,perigrinus, nescio qua lubricitate devolvetur sua, etc.

Were I y^e, gentle Ashton, their should be
In pourtrait honour of my pedigree
I would in statue or in table make
A commelye niew remembrance for their sake,
And lett the state learne from my Auncestrye
What course is fittest deeds of warre to trye,
Not men of meanest ranke, whoe prest putt on
Withoute il shirte il poore mandillion,
Whoe in despaire of life more* willing gee
Vnto y^e gibbett then against y^e foe.

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Middleton, adieu ! y^e setting sunne doth trace
Far to y^e West, and wee to Heywood pace,
Where dairie worck goes forward, fairies spinne,
And of their ferrs good housewife praises winne.
Ladyes of Courte and Cittie dames, not fleere,
Because I praise my virgins for this gheere
This worck, this gheere, if storyes do not faine,
Was donne by daughters of great Charlemaine
This doing keepes them in a liuely heate,
And still preserves a stomack to good meate

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They are not lazie, queazie, wanting breath,
Nor in a wan fainte palenesse bourding death;
They coven not as you to clove their tripes
With coles, Tome, asshes, foule tobacco pipes
Happinesse attends them if they marrye,
And comme lovers whoe not lone to varye :
I wish lone constant.

Let us varie sportes
Whoe are at leasure, and seeke view resortes
For recreation. Ormeschurch and y^e Meales
Are our next jorney, we direct no weales

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Both christian and heathen writers mention y^e reverence of y^e sea unto y? sands, but God's providence needs not any such weake proofes. The sand and peobles are indeede roveld up by y^e sea and so aboute Winchelsey, Dele, and many other places y^e sea doth as it were make a fence a-gainst it self. Chrysos-tome vses y^e worde of reverence and Dlinutius Felix says neerely, mari intende, legelitoris stringitur. But to those whoe haue viewed y^e site of sea and landtis apparant yt if God had not made other fenses of high rocks and shores, a reverence of sands would not keepe y^e seas from drowning all.

Of state, to hinder our delight. y^e guize
Of those chaffe sands, which doe in mountaines rize,
On shore is pleasure to behould, which Hoes
Are calld in Worold : windie tempest blowes
Them up in heapes : tis past intelligence
With me how seas doe reverence
Vnto y^e sands; but sands and beach and peobles are
Cast up by roveling of y^e wanes a ware
To make against their deluge, since the larke
And sheepe within feede lower then y^e marke

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Of each high flood. Heere through y^e wasshie shole~
We spye an owld man wading for y^e soles
And flukes and rayes, which the last morning tide
Had stayd in nets, or did att anchor ride
Vppon his hooks; him we fetch vp, and then
To our goodmorrowe, " Welcomme gentlemen,"
He sagd, and more, "you gentlemen at ease,
Whoe money hane, and goo where ere you please,
Are never quiett ; wearye of y^e daye,
You now comme Nether to drive time away

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Must time be driven ? longest day with vs
Shutts in to soone, as never tedious
Vnto our buisnesse ; making, mending nett,
Preparing hooks and baits, wherewith to gett
Cod, whiting, place, vppon y^e sandie shelvs,
Where with to feede y^e markett and our selvs."
Happie ould blade, whoe in his youth had binne
Roving at sea when Essex Cales did winne,
So now he lines. If any Busshell will
Line west the world, withoute projecting skill

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Of Ermitage, he shall not neede to seeke
In rocks or Calve of Man an ember weeke
Heere at y^e deserte Meales he maye, vnknowne,
Bread by his owne paines getting, line alone
Withoute it tallott or à page to dresse
Or bring bought mente unto his holinesse.
But haste we back to Ormeskircke, least, I feare,
Our friends departe, and leaue vs in y^e reare;
And home to Heywood, whence I joy to tell
Our next niew Sallie to y^e holye well,

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Gilbert de stone being for y^e time a trimme man of his penne was sollicited by y^e Monks there to write their founders or saints life when he required summe memories of him, they had none at -.in. Wherefore in a letter of his, he says tis no matter, for he would write them notwith-standing a fine legend after y^e manner of Tho-mas of Canterburye, and certainly moste le-gends are written after yo manner of Gilbert.

Foure miles beyond Flint castle, where our age
Doth y^et behould h doting pilgrimadge.
Authors, yt legends write and holye tales
Without book, say yt whilom dwelt in Wales
An amorous young prince calld Caradoc,
The sonne of Alaine, born of Royal stock,
Enflamd of lone of fairest Winefride,
Lord Thebith's daughter, whoe had promised
Vppon Beulions preaching, to line aye
A votall virgin till hir dying daye.

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But, when hir parents veto church were gonne,
Into y^e house came Caradoc anonne,
And, as he found hir setting by y^e fire
Vndrest, he quickly opend his desire.
To which she mildely sayd, "pray, Sir, lett be,
Yntill my parents from y^e church you see
Returnd ; you are yo prince, and soone may gaine
Their good consent to make their daughter raigne
A Queene by mariadge : better cloathes I will
In y^e mante while putt on, for to fulfill

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Your lawfull pleasure." To hir chamber so
She went, and soone doth through it posterne goe
To save hir self. She fled, he did pursue;

Lone grieve to rage, and forth his swoard he driew,
With which at one blowe, with an angrie looke
Ilir lonely head he from hir bodye tooke.
The head fell downe, and tumbling rowled was
Into y^e Temple where y^e priest said mass
Beunous was y^e priest ; so ghastly sight
Sett him and all y^e people in it fright

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* See Euseb. de prepar. lib. 4, cap. 2, for the Ethnic and now Roman superstition (loe much agree. Cogita vero ipse tecu.saithhe, exempla vetera repetendo, quam isti sæpe, enm affectæ valetudinis hominibus, robur, vitam, salutern-que promisissent, iisque postea non secus ac dijs fides haberetur, paulo post ingenti pecuniæ vi ex hoc affiatæ divinitus mercaturæ genere cor-rogatà, quales tandem essent manifestë depre-hensü fuerit, imposto-res scilicet ac circulato-res, non auteindij etno decepti a,b ijs homines infaustü exitum habil-issent. Quid porrõ atti-net dicere, ne popula-ribus quidem suis, et ejnsdem secnm civitatis indigenis vates egregios quicquam præsidij vel opis atlerre, cum infini-t os ibidem videas morbis Leborantes, daudos, cæ-cos ac toto sæp o corpore mutilatos? Quid verõ in causa fuerit, cur pere-grinis quidem homilui bUs, et ex longinquà - regione venientibus re-rnrn meliornm spes quasdam vmbratiles ac fucatas ostenderent ei-vibus autem populari-busque suis non item, quibuscurn tamen eos vtpote domesticis ami-ac civibus deriva-tum ex numinum præ-sentia bonum cotnmu nicare oporteret; nisi quõd extraneos homines veteratoriæ calliditatis ignaros facilius in erro-rem, quam alios sibi notos ac familiares im-pellerent, quippe qui artis huius imperiti non essent, sed vsitatæ ludificationis optime conscij ? And hence it is yt St. Godric and St. Thomasarespydtohave made a bargame yt God-ricshould cure y^e south, and Thomas y^e North peoples diseases. But for truth Harrye y^e eight cured bothe their impostures.

Yet takes he vp y^e head, and marches on
Vnto the body with procession.
Curse falls on Caradoc, and he with it
Doth vanish forthwith to infernall pitt.
The holye man doth often kisse hir face,
And then it aptly on hir body place.
Bothe coverd are with mantle, till he goe
Againe to church and end his masse belowe,
First breathing in hir nostrills ; by which breath,
At their returne, she raised is from death

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As from a sleepe, he praiyng, and y^e men
Whoe there came with him, saying, " Lord, Amen;"
And raised is as perfitt as before,
Saving yt all hir after life she wore
A circle in y^e,juncture white as milke,
Which seemd to view it thread of finest silke
And so, not loozing aught but in her name,
She thence from Breulla Winefride became.
With Britaines wen is white; but stained red
Still are y^e stones where ravisht was hir hed

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From of hir bodye in à fountaine cleere,
Which at this cruell deede did first apeere,
Since curing each disease, each sore and grief
In those which of this Ladle seene relief.
Reade Surius and Baronius, whoe more
From Thomas Asaphs Bishop keepes in store.
But Capgraue says, and truth he says I weene,
All things y t are related are not seene.
Nay, here we see,* y^e lame, y^e halt, y^e blinde,
Bothe rich and poore, no health can ever finde,

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See Gabriell Powell in his annotations vp-pon Giraldns bis sur-veye of wales.

Of Elerius and Ro-bertus Salopiensis see Ilion Bale; &c.

And manye pilgrims dye vppon y^e place,
Whoe on their bare feete seeke hir healing grace,
Nay, nothing of the name of Winefride
Is in Geraldus or Galfridus read,
Whoe y^e survaye did write and y^e storie
Of their deere Wales, in which they glorie.
Theis learned clercks of Wales of hir kniew naught,
Or wand such tales as Salope Robert brought ;
They neither him nor y^et Elerius cite,
Though sunlme men say they bothe of hir did write.

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There is an other spri jig ten miles distant from winefrides well, where are fownd stones in great number spotted in y^e saine manner, summe of which Al;. Tredescant sheaves giv-en unto him by Sr Jhon Trever, as theis springs staine their peobles red so wellingborowe wa-ters make things y^el-lowe, and bothe haue their cause from nature not historye.

But here to Templers cell were monkes put in
Vnder our seconde Edward: then beginne
Theis craftie tables: stories they invent;
They purchase pardons which from Rome are sent;
They builde a structure, chappell, cloysters rowed
Aboute y^e well; to put of cloathes they founde
A joining roome : in seventh Harryes time
And in Queene Maries, with such toyes they chime
Much people in with coyne to buye no health,
But to encrease their Greene-field Abbyes wealth.

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The smocks which now for bathing we doe hire,
Were then belike theis monks rent and desire.
From natures secretts poets storyes faine ;
Naught ell of poets doe theis monks retaine.
This faire cleere springe, which courses through y^e hills
Conveys summe mettall tincture in hir rills,
Which they make staine of blood.

But now the tide
Hath left the saudes, and we to Chester ride,
Chester a Roman station, where are fownd
As y^et summe of their reliques vnder grownd.

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The Romans hypocausts did vse, where heate
Of fire putt vnder made them kindely sw eate
Aboue ; y^e bricks of such worke, lardge and square,
In knowing Whitbyes house preserved are.
Theis drie baths were of antique times y^e cure,
Which doe in many countryes still endure,
And from my owne experience to be plaine,
I thinke no waters are so soveraigne.
Of bucks and does, strainge beasts with peeled crowne,
Were whilom manye cloysters in y^e towne.

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For is it not pittie yt pe oore wenches should putt to y^e shifte of abortions molaes and so manye murders of their owne infants, as this forct Virginitie did enforce them to. See Vlrick's epistle to Pope Nicholas and y^erepen-tance of Gregorie y^e g'reat in this point after he had fownd six thou-sand infants' heads in y^e foing of his fish-ponds; see more of this m Honorius Augusto-duii. and Clemangis.

'T was well contriued ; when Friers were so nighe,
I hope no sisters did of molaes dye,
Of which disease y^e Jew Amatus sure
Hath writt as well y^e pittie as y^e cure.
Fond fall imposture ! can mans wisedomme haine
The streames of Dee from gliding to y^e manne ?
Three miles from Chester lyes h common heath,
Famous as yet with people for y^e death
Of Bangor Monkes, Whoe came to blesse y^e fight

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Ethelbert did put Ethelfride upon y^e ac-tion by y^e instigation of Austin y^e bloodie moncke as it is clecre out of y^e translation of Belle by King Alfred into y^e Saxon tounge, howsoever y Lattin co-pies haue it now quam-vis ipsa jam multo ante tempore ad ca3les-
tia regna translato. see Lisle in his Mine. See i\lason and .lewell. There was a great con-spiracie of religion to destroye y^e Britanes, and to this way allso Gildas was no small traitour.

Of Brockmail Chesters Consul, put to flight
By Ethelfride Northumbrian king: from farre
He came, incited to it bloodie warre
By Ethelbert y^e king of Kent, to slaye
The Christian Brittaines scorning to obeye
The pride of Rome in Austin, whoe with slight
Had made that foolish prince his proselyte.
Malice, rage, murder, and confusion
Markes use of Romish superstition
Rome plants in blood, blood makes her thrive wee see;
The Turke to Christians is more milde then shee.

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They came with their flags and crosses and having converted hire vnto his wives religion, he surrenders to them yo whole power of Can-turbury and retires him-self to Roculvers in Tenet, inciting blood and warre vpon y^e Brit-ain.s whoe would not submitt themselves to y^e insolent pride of y^e Roman church. The Brittaiues vnder y^e Ro-mans subsisted still botho in lignage and landguadge, but y^e sax-on Christianitie de-stroyed both men and wordes, according to yo Monks counsell veto Philip king of France, yt he showld destroye :111 y^e Greeks books as well as their persons. See in Malmesburiensis à consideration of theis Saxons whether they were better men in their Christianitie or their gentilitie, for I much dowbte whether Rome makes Christianitie or manners.

America, thy wofull tragedie,
Was not more fell then this of Brittanie
In lignage and in landguadge. Austins worde
From Catnys to y^e Mount putts all to swoard.
Foule sorceresse of Rome, I leaue thy heape
Of bloodie crimes to God's revendge and threape.
" Penigent, Pendle hill, Ingleborough,
Three such hills be not all England thorough."
I long to climb up Pendle ; Pendle stands,
Rownd cop, survaijng all y^e whde moore lands,

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As Comineus says of Princes they would not be extreme vppon their subjects if they did be-lieve yt God tooke cog-nizance of their actions. So I say of judges. If they did thincke there were a nivell no earthly hope or feare could make them doe such things as in severall ages times complain of them. Andhoweverthe truth be, those poore wretches finde pittfe and apologie from inanye. Whence Ewich yt fee physician of Breme. hnpiæ vene-ficæ qua., vulgõ stryges appelhuntur,gravem qui-dern pænam merentur, et si multis in locis m-mis teinerë, et nonmin-quam illegitiinë Liceat
mihi id hoc loco obiter dicere, sati,s. enimhanc causam hotle viri cru-diti disceptarunt tract-ari consueverunt, frigi-dam ant potins focü suff'undente Alolocho qui talibus 1)olocaustis delectari solet.

And Malkins Toure, a little cottage, where
Reporte makes caitive witches meete to sweare
Their homage to y^e divell, and contrive
The deaths of men and beasts. Lett whoe will dive
Into this banefull search, I wonder much
If judges sentence with belief on such
Doth passe : then sure thy would not for lewd* gaine
Bad clients fauour, or putt good to paine
Of long pursuite ; for terrour of y^e fiend
Or lone of God they would glue causes end

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An alewife so called. she bath y^e borne of plentie according to all.

With equall justice. y^et I doe confesse,
Needs must strainge phansies poore ould wines possesse
Whoe in those desert mystic moores doe liue
Hungrie and colde, and scarce see priest to giue
Them ghostlye counsell. Churches farre doe stand
In lay mens hands, and chappells haue no land
To cherish learned Curates, though Sir Jhon
Doe preach for foure pounds vnto Haselingdon.
Such y^eerely rent, with right of begging corne,
Makes Jhon it sharer in my Ladyes horne

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You may see this at a place calld yc stocks in Worold.

Lib. v. de bello Gallico he says. Materiacujus-que genoris, vt in Gallia est, præter faguro atque abietem. Anditseemes Cæsar did enquire all things of y^e Countrye when in ye same place he could say Nascitur ib! plumbü album in mediterraneis regioni-bus. And theis mines were after much urd by y^e Romans, whence at Castelton a Roman sepulcher lately found had much led ore in it.

Torellius Sarayna. Coropius, Palissi, and divers others have writt of this subject. Seeallso Fulgosius. Mr. Rowlt allso of Pertenhall in Bedfordshire hath y^e rigg bone of a whale petrifled found. vnder y^e arches of St. Neots bridge. he now vses it for a saltseller. See many like things in y^e cabbinets of Hubbart and Tredescant, y^e later of whoe hath binne my fellowe traveller. For y^e yvorie foø•nd in yc northerne partes of y^e Russian Empire tir y^e constant relation of y^e woodmen there whoe goo forth at certaine times to kill bearer wolves etc. and y^e Em-perour Rodolph's lapi-darie Anselmus Boetius
writes of y^e petrified unicornes borne, which is y^e borne of a fish, manic of which it seems y^e fluds buried in y^e maure land.

He drinks and prayer, and fortie y^eeres this life
Leading at home keepes children and it wife.
Theis are y^e wonders of our carelesse dayes:
Small store serves him whoe fbr y^e people prayer.
But greater wonder calls me hence: y^e deepe
Love spongie mosses y^et remembrance keepe
Of Noahs flood: on numbers infinite
Of firre trees swaines doe in their cesses light ;
And in summe places, when y^e sea doth bate
Downe from y^e shoare, tis wonder to relate

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* See of theis things more in Septalius his treatise de margaritis, and Wernberus de ad-mirandis Hungariæ a. quis.

See Thevet's cosmo-graphye where he bath a speciall discourse of y^e vnicorne. But I doubt not but yt a,ars se he and his cke are deceivd in rig it for a land it, when our North-. and Greenland overies have proovd horud beast to be a ,e in Aschams epis-howyewieer Greeks

ye storye of St. rge but for a resein-ice, although now a long time they shippt him as a man i pestle and gospel hollyday, for all ch there is no more rant than y^e meere nd. According vnto ch at this daye they we pilgrims y^e verie •e where y^e Kings ghter was deleverd y^e dragon slaine eim. See Mounsieur nis his relation, and ;r itineraries of y^e re lands. wherefore aye not vnseemely zllel St. George with it Sundaye in y^e th casement of :kharn Church.

How many thowsands of theis trees now stand
Black broken on their rootes, which once Brie land
Did cover, whence turfs Neptune yeelds to shove
He did not allways to theis borders flowe.
We reade in Cesar yt no firre trees griew
Within this Isle, if what he write be triew.
But sure I am, yt growing heere, or sent
With storme of seas, theis are an argument
That God, offended with earths crimes, did raine
Till all once drownd was in a hurling maine.

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Hence, tis* Sarayna, yt on hills we finde
And inland quarries things of sea borne kinde,
Wilks, cockles, oysters: threescore miles from wale
Of sea at Conyngton was fownd à whale
Vppon it high downer, whose ribs and bones
With chance and time were turned into stones ;
And ofte earths bosomme y^eelds y^e rich prizd hornes
Of counter-poyson sea-fish unicornes.
What shall I speake of southerne yvorie
Which y^et seas vast doth in Pechora lye ?

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Such changes doe from y^e great deluge syringe,
And fire shall all to y^e oulde Chaos bringe.
Meane while y^e works of nature and of arte
To view and weigh, it is my pleasinge parte.
I Hubberts and Tredescants ernest prize,
Who not of second notions doe devize,
Where endles prate doth vainlye beate y^e care,
But to no worth our vnderstanding reare.
At Norton Abbye, now yo Brookses land,
Twice big as life Saint Christopher doth stand, ;

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One giant stone, and in Hale chappell wee
Againe him painted with saint George do see
In y^e East windowe. Hylin, lett thy penne
Once more from hence prooue yt theis shows were men
And I from Wickham, if he be not nesh,
Will fetch Saint Sunday to make vp a lesh
Of retrivd Saints; and George for Sunday stand,
Or els he feates y^e strong Maypolian band.
Such things I sawe and thought, in Lancashire,
At Heywood hall to trading Rachdale neere. ,

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My safe bould harbour Heywood, much I owe
Of praise and thanks to y^e where ere I goo.
I love y^e men, y^e countrye, and y^e fare,
And wish heere my poore fortunes setled were,
Far from y^e courtes ambition, citties strife,
Reposd in silence of a countrye life,
Amongst y^e Dingles and y^e Apennines,
Whose safetye gaue occasion to ould lines
Thus riming, " When all England is alofte
Then happie they whose dwelling's in Christ's crofte,"

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Bothe auncient and moderne writers mention springs ebbing and flowing like y^e sea, but they are deceivd. They indeede have vn-certaine spaces of run-ning and ceasing, but no constant course with yo sea: inwalesseeyelike.

And where thincke you this crofte of Christe showld be
But midst Ribchesters Ribble and Mercy ?
My passadge hether I not liste to tell,
Though then I sawe Saint Anne of Buckstones well
Hot with a chimney; for springs colde and warme
Rising together doe y^e bathing harme.
At Casteltoun y^e waters nature strainge,
Which in same day doe (livers vertues chainge,
Long-sownding Elden hole, and Pooles vast cane,
The leadmens grooues who lines of mole-warps haue,

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The Howorths are a gentle familie according to Aristotle, because they haue had apXaLov aNoirrop being in Edw. y^e 1, time pre-ferd to be Lords of Howorth castle. y^et in parliamentarie pardon of Henrye y^e sixts time y^e words runue thus, Relaxivimus Thomm de Haworth in corrï Lane. yoman alias dcõ Thorne de Haw de Rachedale in corn Lane. yoman, alias dcõ Th. de Haw. de Todmerden in coür Lane. yoman, alias dcõ Th. de Haw. de Tod-mardene in com. Lanc. gentilrnan, quocumque nomine censeatur omni-rnodas transgressiones. otherwise as themselves reporte they haue an-other name, at their comming in with y^e conquerour.

The loftie Winyates, and wall-tiding springe,
His worships breetch and mystes, I leaue to singe ;
I leaue, because I finde my Muse to weake
To sing with arte y^e wonders of y^e Peke.
To my two hoasts of honour, Chetwyn, Crewe,
Whose feates and bountyes our returne did viewe ;
To y^e young heyre of Speke, in Stevens right
Whose old Sire did y^e standards battle fight,
And from whose house and name of late were scene
Two chiefs of warre vnto our mayden Queene ;

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Of Novellus Tricon-gins a Milanese read Plinie, lib. 14, cap. 22. accordingly this gentle-mans armes are for surne hundreds of y^eeres y^e three cups. But y^e ver-tues and auncient de-meanes of their house glue them a fairre glo-rie. So yt I should not willingly fetch their pedigree from a drunkard and y^e cups may rather be a signe of hos-pitalitye, three Chris-mas cups for Noelle in FrenclrsignifiethChrist-mas of which name there be allso gentle families.

To Rigby of y^e Hut, where to our cheere
We plentie had of clarett ale and beere ;
To Sander Butterworth, whoe ledd me cleane
Through all yo cataracts of Healo dene ;
To Robin* Howorth, from whose familie
Great Noble peers derive their progenie ;
To Roman Novell, Ashton of Penkith,
Ireland of Hale, to all my Heywods, with
Brock, Holcroft, Holt, this journall poeme sends
Greeting and faire observance: - so it ends.

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