Britain, or A chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the ilands adjoyning, out of the depth of antiquitie beautified vvith mappes of the severall shires of England: vvritten first in Latine by William Camden Clarenceux K. of A. Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland Doctour in Physick: finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry additions by the said author.

[ A]

DENSHIRE.

THe neerer or hithermore region of the Danmonians, that I speake of, is now commonly called Denshire, by the Cornish-Bri∣taines Deuinan, and by the Welsh Britaines Duffneint, that is, Low valleies, for that the people dwell for the most part be∣neath [ B] in vales: by the English Saxons Deven-〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, whereof grew the Latine name Devonia, and by that contraction, which the vulgar people useth, Denshire; and not of the Danes, as some smatterers of meane knowledge most stifly maintaine: a countrey which as it exten∣deth it selfe both waies wider than Cornwall, so is it harborous on either side with more commodious Havens, no lesse inriched with tin mines, especially West-ward; garnished with pleasanter medowes, sightly with greater store of woods, and passing well replenished with Townes, and buildings. But the soile in some places againe, is as leane, and barren: which not withstanding yieldeth fruit to the Husbandman plen∣teously, [ C] so that he be skilfull in husbandry, and both can take paines, and be able with∣all to defray the cost. Neither is there in all England almost any place where the ground requireth greater charges:* 1.1 For, in most parts thereof it groweth in manner barren, if it be not overstrewed, and mingled with a certaine sand from the Sea, which is of great efficacie to procure fertilitie, by quickning, as it were, and giving life unto the glebe: and therefore in places far from the shore it is bought at a deare rate.

In describing of this region, I will first travell over the West-side, as the river Ta∣mara runneth along, and then the South coast which bordereth on the Ocean: From whence by the Easterne bounds where it confineth upon Dorset, & Sommerset shires, I will returne backe unto the Northern, which is hemmed in with the Severne Sea.

Tamar which divideth these two shires, first on this part receiveth into it from [ D] the East a rivelet called Lid, which passeth by Coriton, and K. Sidenham small town∣lets, but which have given surnames to ancient, and worshipfull families, to Lidstow a little mercate Towne, and Lidford, now a small village, but in ancient time, a famous Towne, which in the yeare 997. was most grievously shaken, and dispoiled by the fu∣rious rage of the Danes, (which as it is written in that booke, whereby William the First tooke the survey and value of England) was not wont to be rated and asceased at any other time, nor otherwise than London was. That little river Lid, here at the bridge, gathered into a streight, and pent in between rocks, runneth downe amaine, and holloweth the ground daily more and more so deepe, that his water is not seene; only [ E] a roaring noise is heard to the great wonder of those that passe over.

Beneath it,* 1.2 Tamar receiveth Teave a little river, on which Teavistok, commonly cal∣led Tavistoke flourisheth, a town in times past famous for the Abbey there, which Or∣dulph, the son of Ordgare Earle of Devonshire, (admonished by a vision from heaven) built about the yeare of our Saviour Christ Dcccclxj. a place, as William of Malmes∣burie describeth it, Pleasant in regard of the groves standing so conveniently about it, and of the plenteous fishing there, for the handsome and uniforme building also of the Church, for the sewers from the river passing downe along by the houses of office, which runne with such a force of their owne, that they carry away with them all the superfluitie they find. Saint Rumon is much spoked of, and lies as Bishop there. There is to be seene also in the same Ab∣bey, the Sepulchre of that Ordgar before named: and the huge bignesse of his sonnes tomb, [ F] who was called Ordulph, is thought to be a rare thing worth the sight: for he was a man of a mighty stature giant like, and of exceeding great strength, as who was able to burst in sun∣der the bars of great gates, and to stride over the rivelet there, ten foote broad; if ye list to believe the said William. But scarcely had this Abbey stood thirty yeare after it was first founded, when the Danes in their spoyling rage burnt it to the ground: yet it flou∣rished againe, and by a laudable ordinance, lectures therein were kept of our anci∣ent

language (I meane the English Saxon tongue) which continued even to our fa∣thers [ A] daies;* 1.3 for feare lest the said language (a thing that now is well neere come to passe) should be forgotten. Tamar having thus received the Teave, draweth now very neere unto his mouth, where he and the river Plime together fall into the Ocean: of which river the Towne adjoyning to it,* 1.4 is called Plimmouth: sometime named Sut∣ton: and seemeth to have consisted of two parts. For, we read in the Parliamentary Acts, of Sutton * 1.5 Vautort, and Sutton Prior, because it belonged partly to the family of the Vautorts, and partly to the Prior. Of late time it became of a poore fisher village to be a great Towne, and for the number of Inhabitants growne to that passe, (as now it is to be seene) that it may bee compared with a Citie. Such is the commodious∣nesse [ B] of the haven, which without striking saile admitteth into the bosome thereof the tallest ships that be, & doth harbour them very safely, as well within Tamar as Plime, and beside against hostilitie sufficiently fortified: For, before the very midst of the ha∣vens mouth, lieth S. Michaels Isle, strongly fortified both by nature, and art: as for the haven it selfe at the very Towne, it hath fortifications on both sides, and is chained over when need requireth, having on the South side a Pier against it, and upon an hill next adjoyning a Castle built, as it is thought, by the * 1.6 Vautorts. The whole Towne is divided into foure * 1.7 Wards, governed by a * 1.8 Major, ordained there by K. Henry the Sixth, and under him every ward had in times past a Captaine set over it, each of them likewise had his inferiour officers. As touching that fabulous wrestling betweene [ C] Corinaeus,* 1.9 and Gogmagog the Giant in this place, let it suffice to set downe a verse or two out of Architrenius concerning the same, and the Westerne Giants.

Hos, auidum belli robur Corinaeus Averno Praecipitis misit, cubitis ter quatuor altum Gogmagog Herculeâ suspendit in aere luctâ; Anthaeum{que} suum scopulo detrusit in aequor. Potavitque dato Thetis ebria sanguine fluctus, Diuisum{que} tulit mare corpus, Cerberus umbram. These martiall monsters, Giants strong, by Corinaeus slaine; With Gogmagog twelve cubits high, a combat did remaine: [ D] Whom up he hang'd twixt heaven and earth, (thus once Alcides hung Antaeus fell) and from the rock into the Sea him flung. His bloud gave Thetis the waves to drinke (her selfe therewith was drunke) His grisly ghost had Cerberus, when body torne was sunke.

As for that rock, from whence, they say, this Giant was cast down, it is now called the Haw: a very hill standing between the Town and the Ocean: on the top whereof, which lieth spred into a most pleasant plaine, there is a right delectable, and goodly prospect every way, and for the use of Sailers a very faire Compasse erected. The cir∣cuit of this Town not great, but much renowned it is among forraine nations: and not so much for the commodious haven, as the valour of the Inhabitants in sea services of [ E] all sorts.* 1.10 For (to say nothing of all others) from hence was Sir Francis Drake that fa∣mous Knight, and most skilfull man at sea in our daies; who first (as I have heard himselfe relate) to repaire the losses which he had sustained at the Spaniards hands, for two yeares space together with victorious successe held and kept the Bay of Mexico as it were besieged, and travailed over the * 1.11 Isthmus of Dariena: From whence when he had once beheld the South sea (as the Spaniards call it) as another Themistocles stirred up with the Trophees of Miltiades, thought hee should have neglected him∣selfe, his country, and his owne glory, unlesse he sailed over it, which continually pre∣sented it selfe as an object to his adventurous mind. In the yeare therefore 1577. put∣ting to sea from hence, he entred into the streits of Magellan, and in two yeares and [ F] ten moneths, through many alternative varieties of fortune, God being his guide, and valour his consort, was the next after Magellanus, that sailed round about the world. Whereupon, one wrote thus unto him.

Drake, pererrati novit quem terminus orbis, Quem{que} semel mundi vidit uter{que} polus.

[ A] Si taceant homines, facient te sidera notum, Sol nescit comitis immemor esse sui. Sir Drake, whom well the worlds end knows, which thou did'st compasse round: And whom both poles of heaven once saw, which North and South doe bound: The Starres above will make thee knowne, if men here silent were, The Sunne himselfe cannot forget his fellow-travailler.

The rest of his noble exploits, and of others who descended from hence taking ex∣ample by him, flourished in glorious atchivements by sea, seeing it belongs not to this place, let Historians record in writing. Neither have I ought else to say more of [ B] this Towne, but that in the raigne of William * 1.12 Rufus, there flourished heere one Ealphege, a learned and married Priest. For, untill the yeare 1102. Priests in England were not forbidden to have their wives.* 1.13 Then, Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury violently forced both the sacred Scripture, and nature also, as our writers in those daies doe complaine, and namely, Henry of Huntingdon expresly of Anselme in these termes: He prohibited English Priests to have wives, who before-time were not prohibited. Which, as some thought to be a matter of greatest puritie: so others againe tooke it to be most perilous, lest while by this meanes they aimed at cleannesse above their power, they should fall into horrible uncleannesse, to the exceeding great shame of Christianitie.

More inward in the country, and yet not farre from the water of Plim, is Plimpton [ C] seated, a mercate Towne, well frequented, where the remnants, and deformed ruines of a Castle shew themselves: of which many men have holden as our Lawyers terme it, in Castle guard; for it was the chiefe seat of the Redversies, or the Riparii, (for both we read) who were Barons of Plimpton, and Earles of Denshire. Next unto this, stood Plimpton S. Mary, the glorie whereof then fell to decay, when as not long since the Colledge there of Canons was dissolved, which William Warlewast, Bishop of Ex∣ceter, in old time had founded. More, Eastward you see Modburie, a little Towne, which acknowledgeth it selfe to appertaine to the ancient and right worshipfull fa∣mily of the Campernulphs, Knights, who also are called in old Deeds De campo Ar∣nulphi, [ D] but commonly Champernouns, which received much advancement and repu∣tation by the heire of the Uautorts.

From Plims mouth,* 1.14 where the South shore of this region beginneth, the countrey runneth along with a large and great front as farre as to Stert, a cape or promontorie (for, so the word in the English Saxon tongue signifieth) but so soone as the shore hath drawne it selfe back land-ward, the river Dert breaketh out, which arising from the inward part of the country runneth downe apace, through certaine leane and high grounds, called thereupon Dertmore, (wherein of late were Lode stones found) and carrieth downe with it certaine grit, and sand out of the Tin-mines, (which by little and little choke up the channell) through the Forrest of Dortmore, where David [ E] of Sciredun held lands in Sciredun, and Siplegh, by this tenure or service, to find two ar∣rowes, when the King his soveraigne Lord should come to hunt in that Forrest: From thence by Dertinton▪ a Baronie sometimes of the Martins, who were Lords of Keimes in Wales,* 1.15 it holdeth in his streame unto Totnes. Which being an ancient lit∣tle Towne standing pendant upon the fall of an hill, East, and West, flourished some∣time in great honour. It paid no * 1.16 tribute, as we find in Doomesday, the survey-book of England, but when Exceter paid; and then it yielded xl. d. and did service, if any expediti∣on marched by land, or went by sea: and Totnes, Barnestaple and Lidford served and paid, as much as Exceter. King John granted unto it power to chuse a Major for the chiefe Magistrate: Edward the First enriched it with sundry liberties; and about that time it was fortified with a Castle by the Zouches, as the Inhabitants are perswaded. The [ F] possession it was in times past of one Iudaël, surnamed De Totnais; afterwards of William Briwer a right noble personage, by one of whose daughters it came to the Breoses, and from them by a daughter likewise to George De * 1.17 Cantelupo, Lord of A∣bergeveny, whose sister Melicent wedded unto Eudo De la Zouch,* 1.18 brought it in by her marriage to the family of the Barons La Zouches: and theirs it was, untill that John, Lord Zouch being attaint and proscribed, because hee tooke part with King Richard

the Third, Henry the Seventh bestowed it franckly (as I have heard say) upon Peter [ A] Edgecombe a noble and wise gentleman. Adjoyning to this towne is Berie Pomerie, so called of the Pomeries a right noble house in those parts, which a little more East∣ward, and somewhat farther from the river side, had a very proper Castle of their owne. These derive their pedigree from Radulph Pomerie, who in William Conque∣rors time held Wich, Dunwinesdon, Brawerdine, Pudeford, Horewood, Toriland, Hele∣com, and this Berie, &c. Of this Totnes, the strond or shore adjoyning, was called in old time Totonese: where (as the British Historie saith) Brutus the founder of the British nation first landed, and Havillanus, as a Poet, relying thereon versified in this wise: [ B]

Inde dato cursu, Brutus comitatus Achate, Gallorum spoliis cumulatis navibus aequor Exarat, & superis, aura{que} faventibus usus, Littora foelices intrat Totonesia portus. Thence hoising sailes with Gaulish spoiles the fleet fraight sea doth take Our Brutus with his trustiest friend; and through waves way doth make: The Gods lookt cheerefull on his course, the wind he had at will; At Totnesse shore, that happy haven, arriv'd he and stood still.

But, that river Dert, whereof I spake, having passed beyond Totnes bridge, at which it leaveth whole heape of sands brought downe by his streame from out of [ C] the Tin mines, hath for prospect on both sides, nothing but fruitfull fields, untill hee come all weary with his long course, to his mouth; over which upon an hill reaching forth in length,* 1.19 standeth Dertmouth a Port Towne, by reason of the commodious haven, defended with two Castles, much frequented with Merchants and furnished with very good shipping. A Major it hath, by the grant of King Edward the Third. For Lords it acknowledged long since the Zouches, Nicolas of Teukesbury, and the Bri∣ents, according to the variable change of the times: and hath sundry times defended it selfe stoutly against the French: but especially in the yeare of Christ 1404. Mon∣sieur De Castell, a Frenchman, who by his men of warre and piracies had stopped all intercourse of traffique in those parts, and burnt Plimmouth, whiles hee invaded this place, was by women, and country people intercepted, and slaine with all his compa∣nie. [ D] And heere I must not passe over in silence Stoke Fleming that lieth hard by,* 1.20 and which taking that name of a noble man of Flanders, sometime Lord thereof, came by the daughter of Mohun to the Carewes.

From this place, as the shore giveth backe Northward, the sea followeth in upon it, and by that meanes with a large and spacious creeke, which taketh about ten miles in circuit maketh a bay, called now Torbay: a very safe rode and harbour for ships when the South-west wind is aloft;* 1.21 and hath fast by it a little village so called, where sometime the Briewrs dwelt, and built a religious house, who in the daies of King Ri∣chard the First,* 1.22 and King John, were men of great renowne and revenue: and after∣ward the habitation it was of the Wakes. Neere unto it is Cockington, where the fami∣ly [ E] of the Caries (a different house from that of the Carewes) hath flourished a long time in great honour and estimation;* 1.23 out of which the Barons of Hunsdon, concerning whom I will speake more in due place, are descended. A little higher appeares in sight Hacombe,* 1.24 the habitation in old time of Sir Iordan Fitz-Stephen Knight, surnamed of this place, de Hacombe: by whose daughter and heire Cecilie, it came into the fami∣lie of the Archdeacons; From which likewise by Hugh Courtney in processe of time, it was devolved upon the Carewes,* 1.25 whose house in these parts is reputed very wor∣shipfull, and spred into many branches. For, Jane the daugther of the said Hugh, and heire to her mother, being joyned in mariage to Nicolas Baron Carew, brought him many children: and when the eldest of them, named Thomas, used not his mother [ F] with such dutifull respect as a sonne ought, she made a conveyance of that great, and wealthy inheritance to her three younger sonnes (from whom those three families of the Carews, de Hacombe, Anthony, and Bery are sprung) and to Iohn Vere, a sonne that she had by a second husband, from whom the Earles of Oxford are issued.

[ A] Then meet you with Teignemouth a little village at the mouth of the river Teigne, whereof it hath also the name: where the Danes that were sent before to discover the scituation of Britaine,* 1.26 and to sound the landing places, being first set a shore about the yeare of Salvation 800. and having slaine the governour of the place, tooke it as an ominous good token of future victorie; which indeed afterward they followed with extreme crueltie through the whole Island. More inward, neere unto the source of the river Teigne is Chegford seated, where flourished sometime the noble family of the Prows: then Chidley, which gave the name to that great house, and linage of the Chidleyes: and next unto the very mouth thereof, Bishops Teignton, so called because [ B] it belonged to the Bishops; in which because there was a Sanctuarie, Iohn Grandison descended out of Burgundy, Bishop of Exceter, as presaging what would ensue in future time built a very faire house, to the end that his Successors (these are the very words of his testament) might have a place whereon to leane, and lay their heads, if happi∣ly their Temporalities should be seized into the Kings hands. But so farre was it off that his purpose tooke effect, that his successors have not onely lost that house, but also beene quite desseized now well neere of all the rest.

About six miles from thence, the river * 1.27 Isc, whereof Ptolomee maketh mention, which the Britaines call Isc, and the English-Saxons Ex, with a large channell run∣neth into the Ocean. Whether it tooke this name of Iscaw, that signifieth in the Bri∣tish [ C] tongue Elders trees, I wot not. Some fetch it from Reeds, which the Britaines call Hesk,* 1.28 wherewith Northerne nations, (and such are the Britaines) thatched, and covered their houses, yea and fastened together, as it were, with soder, the joynts of their ships. But considering that there be no reeds heere found, I am not hasty to give credit thereto. This river hath his head, and springeth first in a weely, and bar∣ren ground named Exmore, neere unto Severn sea, a great part whereof is counted within Sommersetshire:* 1.29 and wherein, there are seene certaine monuments of anticke worke, to wit, Stones pitched in order, some triangle wise, others in a round circle: and one among the rest with an Inscription in Saxon letters, or Danish rather, to di∣rect those (as it should seeme) who were to travaile that way. Now this Ex or Isc be∣ginning [ D] his course first from thence Southward by Twifordton,* 1.30 so called of two foords, but commonly Teverton, a Towne standing much upon clothing, to the great gaine, and credit thereof, passeth forward through a faire country of good, and fertile fields, and is augmented with two especial rivelets, Creden from the West, and Columb from the East. Upon Creden in the Primitive Church of the Saxons, there flouri∣shed an Episcopall See, in a Towne of the same name, anciently called Cridiantun, now by contraction Kirton: where that Winifride or Boniface was borne, who converted the Hessians, Thuringers, and Frisians of Germany unto Christ, and for that was ac∣counted the Apostle of Germany, and canonized a Saint. At this present, it is of no great reckoning, but for a small market, and the Bishop of Exceter his house there: [ E] but within our fathers remembrance of much greater name, and request it was for a Colledge there of twelve Prebendaries, who now are all vanished and gone. The river Columb that commeth from the East, passeth hard by Columbton, a little Towne bearing his name: which King Alfred by his Testament, bequeathed to his younger sonne:* 1.31 and neere unto Poltimore the seate of that worshipfull, and right ancient family of Bampfield,* 1.32 intermingleth it selfe with the waters of Ex. And now by this time, Isc or Ex growing bigger, and sporting himselfe, as it were, with spreading into many streames, very commodious for mils, hieth apace, and commeth close to the Citie of Excester, unto which he leaveth his name: whereupon Alexander Necham writeth thus, in his Poem of Divine sapience:

[ F] Exoniae fama celeberimus Iscianomen Praebuit, — To Excester, Ex a River of fame (First Iscia call'd) impos'd the name.

This Citie Ptolomee calleth ISCA, Antoninus ISCA DVNMONIORVM, for DAN∣MONIORVM; others (but falsely) Augusta, as if the second Legion Augusta had there

beene resident; Whereas, wee shall shew hereafter that it kept station, and residence in * 1.33 ISCA SILVRVM. The English Saxons termed it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and Monketon, of [ A] the Monks, at this day it is called Excester, in Latine Exonia, in British Caerisk, Cae∣auth, and Pencaer, that is, a head or principall Citie. For Caer, (to tell you once for all) with our * 1.34 Britans is as much to say, as a Citie, whereupon they use to name Jeru∣salem, Caer Salem; Lutetia or Paris, Caer Paris; Rome, Caer Ruffaine. Thus Carthage in the Punick tongue, was called, as Solinus witnesseth, Cartheia, that is, the new Citie. I have heard likewise, that Caer in the Syriack tongue, signified, a Citie. Now seeing that the Syrians, as all men confesse, peopled the whole world with their Colonies, it may seeme probable, that they left their tongue also to their posteritie, as the mother [ B] of all future languages. This Citie, as saith William of Malmesbury, albeit the soile ad∣joyning bee wet, foule and wealie, scarce able to bring forth hungry oates, and many times emptie huskes without graine in them, yet by reason of the statelinesse of the place, the riches of the Inhabitants, and frequent concourse of strangers, all kind of traffique, and com∣merce of merchants is there so fresh, that a man can aske there for no necessary, but hee may have it. Scituate it is on the Eastward banke of the river Ex, upon a little hill gently arising with an easie ascent to a pretty heighth, the pendant whereof lieth East, and West, environed about with ditches, and very strong walles, having many turrets orderly interposed, and containeth in circuit a mile and a halfe, having suburbs run∣ning out a great way on each side. In it there are xv. Parish-Churches, and in the [ C] very highest part thereof, neere the East gate, a Castle called Rugemont, sometime the seat of the West Saxon Kings, and afterwards of the Earles of Cornwall: but at this day commended for nothing else, but the antiquitie and scituation thereof. For it commandeth the whole Citie, and territorie about it, and hath a very pleasant pro∣spect into the sea. In the East quarter of the City, is to be seen the Cathedrall Church in the midst of many faire houses round about it, founded as the private history of the place witnesseth, by King Athelstan in the honour of Saint Peter, and replenished with Monks: which Church at length Edward the Confessor after he had remoo∣ved some of the Monks from thence to Westminster, and translated thither the Bi∣shops Sees of Cornwall, and Kirton, adorned with Episcopall Dignitie, and made [ D] Leofrike the Britan first Bishop there: whose Successours augmented the Church both with Edifices, and also with revenues: and William Bruier the ninth Bishop af∣ter him, when the Monks were displaced, brought in a Deane, and twentie and foure Prebendaries. In which age flourished Joseph Iscanus borne heere, and from hence taking his surname, a Poet of most excellent wit, whose writings were so well ap∣proved, as that they had equall commendation with the works of ancient Poets: For, his Poem of the Trojan war, was divulged once or twice in Germanie under the name of Cornelius Nepos.* 1.35

When this Citie * 1.36 Isca came under the Roman Jurisdiction it appeareth not for certaine: For, so farre off am I from thinking that Vespasian wonne it, (as Geffrey [ E] of Monmouth affirmeth) what time as he warring in Britaine under Claudius the Em∣perour, was shewed by the Destinies unto the world, that I thinke it was then scarce∣ly built. Yet in the time of the Antonines, it may seeme to have beene well knowne: for hither, and no farther this way did Antonine specifie any place in his way-faring book. It came not fully to the English-Saxons hands before the 465. yeare after their entrance into Britain.* 1.37 For, at that time Athelstane expelled the Britans quite out of the Citie, who before had inhabited it in equall right with the Saxons, yea, and drave them beyond Tamar, and then fortified the Citie round about with a rampire, and wall of fouresquare stone, and other bulwarks for defence. Since which time, ma∣ny benefits by the Kings have beene bestowed upon it, and among the rest, as we read [ F] in William the Conquerours * 1.38 booke, This Citie paide no tribute, but when London, Yorke, and Winchester paide, and that was halfe a marke of silver for a souldiers service. And when there was any expedition set out either by sea or land, it served in proportion to five hides. It hath beene likewise from time to time much afflicted, once spoiled and sore shaken, by the furious outrages of the Danes, in the yeare of our redemp∣tion

[ A] 875. but most grievously by Suen the Dane in the yeare 1003. at which time by the treacherie of one Hugh a Norman Governor of the citie, it was raced and ruined along from the East gate to the West. And scarcely began it to flourish againe, when William the Conquerour, most straightly beleaguered it: when the Citizens in the meane while thought it not sufficient to shut their gates against him, but malapart∣ly let flie taunts, and flouts at him: but when a piece of their wall fell downe, by the speciall hand of God, as the Historians of that age report, they yielded immediatly thereupon. At which time, as we find in the said survey-booke of his, The King had in this Citie three hundred houses: it paid fifteene pounds by the yeare, and fortie houses were [ B] destroyed after that the King came into England. After this it was thrice besieged, and yet it easily avoided all: First, by Hugh Courtney Earle of Denshire in that civill warre betweene the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke: then, by Perkin Warbecke that imaginarie, counterfeit and pretended Prince, who being a young man of a very base condition, faining himselfe to be Richard Duke of Yorke, the second sonne of King Edward the Fourth, stirred up dangerous stirres against Henrie the Seventh: thirdly, by seditious Rebels of Cornwall, in the yeare of Christ 1549: at which time the Citizens, most grievously pinched though they were with scarcitie of all things, continued neverthelesse in their faith and allegeance, untill that Iohn Lord Russell, [ C] raised the siege, and delivered them.

But Excester received not so great damage at these enemies hands, as it did by cer∣taine dammes, which they call Weares, that Edward Courtney Earle of Denshire, taking high displeasure against the Citizens, made in the river Ex, which stop the passage so, that no vessell can come up to the Citie; but since that time all mer∣chandize is carried by land from Topesham three miles off. And albeit it hath beene decreed by Act of Parliament,* 1.39 to take away these Weares, yet they continue there still. Hereupon, the little Towne adjoyning is call Weare, being aforetime named, Heneaton: which was sometime the possession of Augustine de Baa: from whom in right of inheritance it descended to Iohn Holland, who in his signet which my selfe [ D] have seene bare a Lion rampant,* 1.40 gardant among flowers de Lys. The civill govern∣ment of this Citie is in the power of foure and twenty persons: out of whom there is from yeare to yeare a Major elected; who with foure Bailiffes ruleth heere the State. As touching the Geographicall description of this place, the old tables of Oxford have set downe the longitude thereof to bee nineteene degrees, and eleven scruples: the latitude fiftie degrees, and fortie scruples or minutes.

This Citie;* 1.41 that I may not omit so much, hath had three Dukes. For, Richard the Second of that name, King of England, created Iohn Holland Earle of Huntingdon and his brother by the mothers side, the first Duke of Excester: whom Henrie the Fourth deposed from this dignitie, and left unto him the name onely of Earle of Hun∣tingdon: [ E] and soone after for conspiracie against the King he lost both it and his life by the hatchet. Some few yeares after, Henry the Fifth set in his place Thomas Beaufort of the house of Lancaster,* 1.42 and Earle of Dorset, a right noble and worthy warriour. When he was dead leaving no issue behind him, John Holland sonne of that aforesaid John, (as heire unto his brother Richard who died without children, and to his father both) being restored to his bloud, by the favour and bounty of King Henry the Sixth recovered his fathers honor; and left the same to Henry his sonne, who so long as the Lancastrians stood upright, flourished in very much honor; but af∣terwards when the family of Yorke, was a float and had rule of all, gave an example to teach men, how ill trusting it is to great Fortunes. For this was that same Henry, Duke of Excester,* 1.43 who albeit he had wedded King Edward the Fourth his sister, was [ F] driven to such miserie, that he was seene all tottered, torne, and barefooted to begge for his living in the Low countries. And in the end after Barnet field fought, wherein he bare himselfe valiantly against Edward the Fourth, was no more seene, untill his dead bodie (as if he had perished by Shipwracke) was cast upon the shore of Kent. A good while after this, Henry Courtney, Earle of Denshire, the sonne of Ka∣tharine daughter to King Edward the Fourth, was advanced to the honour of Mar∣quesse

of Excester by Henry the Eighth,* 1.44 and designed heire apparant. But this Mar∣quesse [ A] as well as the first Duke was by his high parentage, cast into a great tempest of troubles, wherein as a man subject to suspitions, and desirous of a change in the State, he was quickly overthrowne. And among other matters because he had with money, and counsell assisted Reginald Poole (afterwards Cardinall) then a fugitive; practising with the Emperour and the Pope, against his owne Country, and the King who had now abrogated the Popes authoritie; he was judicially arraigned, and being condem∣ned, with some others,* 1.45 lost his head. But now of late by the favour of King Iames, Thomas Cecill Lord Burleigh, enjoyeth the title of Earle of Excester, a right good man, and the worthy sonne of so excellent a father, being the eldest sonne of William [ B] Cecill Lord Burleigh, high Treasurer of England, whose wisedome for a long time was the support of peace, and Englands happy quietnesse.

From Excester, going to the very mouth of the River, I find no monument of Antiquitie, but Exminster, sometime called Exanminster, bequeathed by King El∣fred to his younger sonne;* 1.46 and Pouderham Castle built by Isabell de * 1.47 Ripariis, the seat long time of that most noble family of the Courtneys, Knights: who being lineally descended from the stocke of the Earles of Denshire, and allied by affinitie to most honorable houses, flourish still at this day, most worthy of their descent from so high Ancestors. Under Pouderham, Ken a pretty brooke entreth into Ex, which riseth neere Holcombe,* 1.48 where in a Parke is a faire place built by Sir Thomas Denis, whose [ C] family fetcheth their first off-spring and surname from the Danes, and were ancient∣ly written Le Dan Denis, by which name the Cornish called the Danes. But lower upon the very mouth of the river on the other banke side, as the name it selfe doth testifie,* 1.49 standeth Exanmouth; knowne by nothing else but the name, and for that some fishermen dwelt therein.

* 1.50More Eastward, Otterey, that is, The River of Otters, or River-Dogs, which we call Otters, as may appeare by the signification of the word, falleth into the sea; which runneth hard under Honnyton,* 1.51 a Towne not unknowne to those that travell into these parts, and was given by Isabell, heire to Earles of Devonshire, to King Edward the First, when her issue failed: and doth import his name to certaine places. Among [ D] which these are of greatest note: above Honnyton, Mohuns Ottery, the possession in times past of the Mohuns, from whom by right of marriage it came to the Carews: beneath Honyton Saint Maries Otterey, so called of Saint Maries Colledge, which Iohn Grandison Bishop of Excester founded, who drew the whole estates of all the Clergie men in his Diocesse to himselfe. For he perswaded them in their Wils to give up, and make over all that they had unto his hands, as who would bestow the same to godly uses, in endowing Churches, and in building of Hospitals, and Colledges therewith, which verily he (by report) performed accordingly very devoutly.

From the mouth of this Otterey, the shore runneth Eastward with many winding reaches, and turning creekes, by Budley, Sidmouth, and Seaton, famous Ports in times [ E] past, but now the havens there are so choked up with sand, brought in with the reci∣procall course of the tides, and heaped up against them, that they have almost utter∣ly lost all that benefit.* 1.52 As for Seaton, I would ghesse it to bee that MORIDVNVM, which Antoninus speaketh of, and is placed betweene DVRNOVARIA and ISCA, (if the booke be not faultie) and called in Peutegerius table by a name cut short, RIDV∣NVM, considering both the distance, and the signification of the name. For, Mori∣dunum in the British tongue is the very same that Seaton in English, to wit, A Towne upon an hill by the Sea.* 1.53 Hereto adjoyneth Wiscomb, a Towne memorable in this respect that in it there dwelt William Lord Bonevill, whose heire Cecilie by her mariage brought the titles of Lord Bonevill,* 1.54 and Harington with a goodly inheritance in these [ F] parts, unto Thomas Grey Marquesse Dorset.

Under these Townes the River Ax dischargeth it selfe at a very small chan∣nell, after it hath passed downe by Ford, where Adelize daughter to Baldwine of Okchampton,* 1.55 founded an Abbey for Cistercian Monkes, 1140. and by Axanminster, a Towne renowned in the ancient Histories onely for their Tombes of the Saxon

[ A] Princes, who were slaine in that bloudy battell at Brunaburg, and translated hither; and scituate it is in the very frontire and limit of this Province. Neere unto which Reginald Mohun of Dunster, unto whom the Mannour of Axminster in right of inhe∣ritance fell by the Fourth daughter of William de Briewr,* 1.56 built the Abbey of Newen∣ham in the yere of Grace 1246. Hence the East-bound runneth crookedly north-west∣ward, by villages of no fame toward Severn side; along w^ch now let us take our way.

From Cornwall the first shore in this shire that stretcheth out it selfe in length to the Severn Sea,* 1.57 is by Ptolomee called, THE PROMONTORIE OF HERCVLES, and retaineth still some little remnant of that name, being called at this day Herty∣poinct, [ B] and hath in it two pretty townes, Herton, and Hertlond, famous in old time for the reliques of that holy man Saint Nectan.* 1.58 In honour of whom there was erected heere a little Monasterie, by Githa Earle Goodwins wife, who had this Nectan in especiall reverence,* 1.59 for that she was perswaded, that for his merits her husband had escaped the danger of shipwracke in a violent and raging tempest. Howbeit after∣wards, the Dinants, who also are named Dinhams, that came out of Bretagne in France, whose demeans, as in ••ee it was, were counted the founders thereof: and from them descended Baron Dinham,* 1.60 Lord high Treasurer of England, under K. Henry the Se∣venth, by whose sisters, and heires, the inheritance was divided between Lord Zouch, Bourchier Fitz-warin, Carew, and Arundell.

[ C] The name of this Promontorie hath given credit to a very formall tale, That Hercules (forsooth) came into Britaine,* 1.61 and vanquished here I wot not what Giants. But if it be true as * 1.62 Mythologers affirme, that there was never any Hercules, but that by him the power of humane wisedome is understtod, whereby wee overcome pride, lust, envie, and such like monsters: or if, according to the Gentiles divinitie, by Hercules they meane the Sunne, and by those twelve Labours, endured and per∣formed by Hercules, the twelve signes of the Zodiack, which the Sunne in his yearely course passeth through; what it is they say, let them looke to it themselves. But for mine owne part, I willingly believe that there was an Hercules, nay, I could be con∣tent to grant with Varro, that there were of them fortie and three, all whose acts were [ D] ascribed to that Hercules, who was the sonne of Alcmena; yet can I not perswade my selfe, that ever Hercules came hither, unlesse haply hee sailed over the Ocean in that Cup which God Nerius had given him, whereof Athenaeus maketh mention. But you will say, that Franciscus Philelphus in his Epistles, and Lilius Giraldus in his Hercules, averre no lesse. Pardon mee, I pray you; these latter writers may well moove mee, but they are not able to remoove mee, considering that Diodorus Si∣culus, who went on with the Greekish historie in order, even from the most remote, and first records of all Antiquitie, in plaine termes affirmeth, that neither Hercules, nor Father Bacchus went ever into Britaine. I am therefore verily perswaded, that [ E] the name of Hercules even to this place, came either through the vanitie of Greekes, or from the superstitious Religion of Britaines. For, as these beeing a most warlike Nation themselves, had valiant men in marvellous admiration, and as highly esteemed of such as vanquished Monsters: so, the Greekes againe, what∣soever was any where stately, and magnificent, that they referred to the glory of Hercules: and because hee had beene a great traveller, such as travelled were wont to offer sacrifice unto him; and to him likewise consecrate the places where they first arrived. Hereof came Hercules-rocke in * 1.63 Campania, Hercules Hauen in * 1.64 Liguria, Her∣cules Grove in Germanie: hence likewise, the Promontories of Hercules in Mauritania, Galatia, and Britaine.

As the shore giveth backe againe from this Promontorie of Hercules, the two [ F] Rivers, Towridge, and Taw, which are the onely Rivers in this north part of the Coun∣tie, discharge themselves into the sea at one mouth. Towridge springing not farre from Henry poinct above said, runneth South-Eastward, and taking into him the river Ock, whereof Ock-hampton a little market towne tooke the name, where Baldwine the Vicount had his Castle in William the Conquerour time (as appeareth out of Domesday booke) from whom it descended to the Courtneys; suddenly turning

his channell maketh way Northward,* 1.65 insulating in a manner Potheridge the Mansion [ A] of the Familie, surnamed, Monke. Happily for that some one of them being a professed Monke by dispensation to continue his house, returned to temporall state; as that Noble house in France surnamed Archevesque, that is, Archbishop, tooke that name to continue the memorie that one of the Progenitours of an Archbishop, re∣turned by dispensation to be a Temporall man. Certainely, whencesoever the name came, it is ancient, and they have worshipfully matched, and not long since with one of the daughters of Arthur Plantagenet, Vicount Lisley, naturall sonne to King Ed∣ward the Fourth. Hence Towridge hastneth to Tourington▪ which it giveth name unto,* 1.66 standing over it in a great length upon the brow of a little hill: by Bediford al∣so, [ B] a towne of right good name for the frequent resort of people, and number of Inha∣bitants, as also for a goodly stone bridge, with arched worke, where straight waies it windeth it selfe into the Taw. This Taw breaking forth out of the very midst and hart of the shire, first runneth downe by Chimligh a little market towne, not far from Chet∣tlehampton a small Village, where Hyertha, canonized a Shee-Saint, lay interred: from thence having passed by Tawton, where Werstane, and Putta, the first Bishops of Denshire had their See, about the yeare of our Lord 906. and Tawstoke over a∣gainst it,* 1.67 now the seate of the right honourable Earle of Bathe, it maketh haste to Berstaple. Reputed this is a very ancient Towne, and for elegant building, and frequen∣cie of people held chiefe in all this coast, scituate amidst hilles in forme of a semicircle [ C] upon the river, being as it were, a diameter. Which River at every change and full of the Moone, by the swelling of the Ocean, overfloweth the fields so, as the very Towne it selfe seemeth to be a demie Island: but when, (as one saith) * 1.68 the sea reengor∣geth it selfe backe againe into the sea, it is so shallow, creeping betweene sands and shelves, as it hardly beareth smaller vessels. On the south side it hath a stately bridge built by one Stamford a Citizen of London: In the North part, where North Ewe a little river or brooke runneth, are seene the reliques of a Castle, which by the com∣mon report, King Athelstane, but (as others say) Iudaël of Totenais built: for the kee∣ping, and defence whereof certaine Lands adjoyning thereabout, are held in Castle∣guard. It had sometimes a wall about it, but now there remaine scarce any small to∣kens thereof: The said Iudaël of Totenais received it in free gift in fee of King Willi∣am [ D] the First: after him the Tracies held it for a long time: then, the Martins: after whom in the raigne of King Richard the Second, it came to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntingdon, who afterwards was Duke of Excester; and last of all it fell to the Crowne. But Queene Mary gave the Mannour to Thomas Marrow, whose son sold it away. In K. William the First his daies, as we find in Domesday booke, It had with∣in the Burgh fortie Burgesses, and nine without. King Henrie the First, endowed it with many priviledges, and King John with more. A Major, and two Bailiffes for a long time it had: but Queene Mary ordained there a Major, two Aldermen, and a Coun∣sell of twentie and foure. The Inhabitants (for the most part) are Merchants, who in France, and Spaine trade, and traffique much. Neither must this be passed over with [ E] silence, that out of this Towns-Schoole, their issued two right learned men, and most renowned Divines,* 1.69 John Jewell Bishop of Sarisbury, and Thomas Harding the pub∣like professour in Lovain, who most hotly contended, and wrote learnedly one against the other, concerning the truth of Religion.

* 1.70From hence, the river Ta•• saluting (as it were) Ralegh, which in times past had noble Lords of that name, but now is the possession of a right worshipfull house, sur∣named Chichester: and afterwards encreased by Towbridge water, falleth into the Se∣verne Sea,* 1.71 but it mee••eth nor with Kinwith Castle, whereof Asserius maketh men∣tion. For, here abou•• such a Castle there was of that name, for scite of the ground about it, very safe on every side, save onely on the East quarter: at the which in the [ F] yeare of Christ, ••70. Hubba the Dane, who with many slaughters and overthrowes had harried the English Nation, was (with many other Danes) slaine. And thereupon the place afterwards was called by our Historiographers; Hubbestow. And then it was that the Englishmen wan the Danes banner,* 1.72 called, Reafan. Which, I note there∣fore

[ A] the rather, because it may be gathered out of a pretty tale in Asserius Meneven∣••is, who hath delivered these things in writing, that the Danes bare in their Ensigne a Raven wrought (by report) in needle-worke, by the daughters of Lothbrooke, that is, Leather-breech, the Dane, with such an opinion of good lucke, as they thought that it never should be wonne.

After this, nothing there is to bee seene upon this coast but Ilfarcomb, a good and sure rode for ships, and Comb-Marton bordering hard upon it: under which, old mines of lead, not without veines of silver, have of late beene discovered. As for this word Comb,* 1.73 (to observe so much once for all) which is an usuall adjection to names of pla∣ces [ B] in this tract, it signifieth, a low scituation, or a Vale: and derived it may seeme to be of Kum a British word, that betokeneth the same: and the French men in their tongue retaine it still in the very same sense, from the ancient Gallique language, the same with old British.

More South-East from hence,* 1.74 and neere unto Somersetshire Bampton, sometimes Baentun, sheweth it selfe: which under William the Conquerour befell unto Walter de Doway,* 1.75 with other right large and faire lands else-where: of whose posteritie Iuli∣ana an Inheritrix, married to William Paganell, commonly Paynell, bare * 1.76 Fulk de Bampton: and he begat William, and Christian the wife of Cogan of Ireland whose posteritie succeeded in the possession thereof; for that the issue of the said William [ C] died without children. But from the Cogans, the possession descended at length he∣reditarily unto the Bourchiers now Earles of Bathe, by an heire of Hancford, who had married likewise an heire of the Lord Fitz-warin.

In the prime and infancie of the Normans Empire,* 1.77 (to say nothing of Hugh the Norman whom Queene Emnia had before time made Ruler over this countrey) King William the First ordained one Baldwine to be the hereditarie Sheriffe, or Vi∣count of Denshire, and Baron of Okchampton: after whom succeeded in that honour Richard his sonne,* 1.78 who died without issue male. Then, King Henrie the First, be∣stowed upon Richard de * 1.79 Redveriis, First Tiverton, and afterwards the honour of Plimp∣ton [ D] with other places appurtaining thereto: and consequently created him Earle of Denshire, by granting unto him the third penie of the yearely revenues growing out of the same Coun∣tie. Now the revenue of the Countie which in those daies was due to the King, was not above thirtie marks: out of which, the said Earle tooke unto him for his part, ten markes yearely. After this hee obtained of the said King, the Isle of Wight: whereupon stiled hee was, Earle of Denshire, and Lord of the Isle. Hee had a Sonne named Baldwin, who siding with Maude the Empresse against King Stephen was banished the Realme. Howbeit, Richard his Sonne recovered this honour of his Fathers: and hee left be∣hind him two Sonnes, Baldwin, and Richard, who in order successively were Earles of Denshire, and died without issue. The honour therefore reverted backe againe [ E] to their unkle by their fathers side, named, William, surnamed, de Vernon, because he was there borne. This William begat Baldwin, who departed this life before his father: yet before his death, he had begotten of Margaret, daughter to Gwarin Fitz-Gerold, Baldwine the third of that name, Earle of Denshire. This Baldwin had two children, to wit, Baldwin the last Earle out of this family, that died without issue 1261. who changed the Ghryphon, clasping and crushing a little beast, (which mark his Ancestours used in their seale) into a Scutcheon, or with a Lyon rampant, azur, and * 1.80 Isabell, who being espoused to William * 1.81 de Fortibus, Earle of Albemarle, bare to him a Sonne, named Thomas, who died soone after, and Avellina a daughter ma∣ried to Edmund Earle of Lancaster, whom she mightily enriched, with the inheri∣tance of her father, and died issulesse. After some time, King Edward the Third, by his [ F] letter missive onely,* 1.82 without any other complement of ceremonies, created Hugh Courtney, Earle of Devonshire, and linked as cousin, and next heire to the said Isabel. For he commanded him by vertue of those missives, to use that title, and by a precept to the high Sheriffe of the Shire, commanded he should be so acknowledged. Regi∣nald Courtney was the first of this family that came into England, brought hither by King Henry the Second, and by him advanced with the marriage of the heire of

the Baronie of Okchampton, for that he procured the marriage betweene the said King, [ A] and Eleonor his heire of Poictu and Aquitaine. But whether hee was branched from the house of Courtney before it was matched in the bloud royall of France, or after which our Monks affirme, but Du Tillet Keeper of the Records of France doubt∣eth, I may say somewhat in another place. After the first Earle Hugh, succeeded his sonne Hugh; whom Edward his Grand-child, by Edward his Sonne followed, who died before him; and when he died, he left it to his sonne Hugh: and hee likewise to Thomas his sonne, who died in the thirtieth and sixth yeare of King Henry the sixth his raigne. The said Thomas begat three sonnes, namely, Thomas, Henrie, and Iohn: whose estate during the heate of those mortall dissensions betweene the houses [ B] of Lancaster and Yorke, was much tossed and shaken, whiles they stood resolutely and stiffely for the Lancastrians. Thomas taken at Towton field, was beheaded at Yorke: Henry his brother, and Successour seven yeares after, dranke of the same cup at Salisburie.* 1.83 And although King Edward the Fourth, advanced Sir Humfrey Staf∣ford of Suthwicke to the Earledome of Denshire, who within three moneths revol∣ting from King Edward his advancer most ingratefully, was apprehended, and with∣out processe executed at Bridg water: yet Iohn Courtney aforesaid, the youngest brother, would not leave this title, but with his life, which hee lost in the battell of Tewksbury. For a long time after, this family lay in some sort obscured: yet under King Henrie the Seventh, it reflourished: for, hee advanced againe Edward Courtney, [ C] the next heire male unto the honors of his Progenitors. He begat William Earle of Devonshire, who matched in wedlocke with Katherine, daughter to King Edward the Fourth: of whom he begat Henry Earle of Devonshire, and Marquesse withall of Excester, who under King Henry the Eighth, lost his head, as we have now shewed: whose Sonne Edward was restored againe by Queene Mary, a most noble young Gentleman, and of passing good hope, but he died an untimely death at Padua in Italie: for, the best men (as saith Quadrigarius) are of least continuance. In the fortieth and sixth yeare after his death,* 1.84 King Iames gave the honorable title of Earle of Devonshire, to Charles Blunt Lord Mountjoy, and Lieutenant Generall of Ireland; which title he affected, as descended from a Cosin, and heire of Humfrey Stafford Earle of Devonshire. Hee was a worthy personage, as well for martiall prowesse, and ornaments of learning, as [ D] for ancient nobilitie of birth: for that he had recovered Ireland into the former good estate, by driving out the Spaniards, and by subduing or enforcing the Rebels to sub∣mission: Him (I say) he created Earle of Devonshire, him hee heaped with favours, and according to the bountifull munificence of a King mightily enriched. But within a small while, death envied him the fruition both of honour and wealth, which hee enjoyed as few yeares, as his Predecessour Humfrey Stafford did moneths.

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There be contained in this Countie Parish-Churches 394.

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Notes

• * 1.1

  Sand, making grounds fruit∣full.
• * 1.2

  Tavistoke. The Charter of the foun∣dation.
• * 1.3

  Lectures of the Saxon tongue.
• * 1.4

  Plimmouth. 13. Henry 4.
• * 1.5

  De valle tarta.
• * 1.6

  Valle tortis, ••ive de valle torta.
• * 1.7

  Custodias.
• * 1.8

  Praetor.
• * 1.9

  Gogmagog.
• * 1.10

  Francis Drake.
• * 1.11

  Narrow passage.
• * 1.12

  Rous.
• * 1.13

  The first ti•• that Priests were forbid∣den marriag••
• * 1.14

  Stert Caud•• in Dutch a Taile.
• * 1.15

  Totnes.
• * 1.16

  Non geld••
• * 1.17

  Cantlow.
• * 1.18

  Lord Zo•• called usu••
• * 1.19

  Dertmouth.
• * 1.20

  Stoke Fle∣ming.
• * 1.21

  Briew.
• * 1.22

  See Sommer∣setshire.
• * 1.23

  Carie of Cockington.
• * 1.24

  Hacombe.
• * 1.25

  The familie of the Carews.
• * 1.26

  Danes when they first en∣tred Britaine.
• * 1.27

  The River Ex.
• * 1.28

  Plinie.
• * 1.29

  Anticke stones.
• * 1.30

  Tiverton.
• * 1.31

  Poltimore.
• * 1.32

  Ex.
• * 1.33

  Caer Leon or Vske in Monmouth shire. Excester.
• * 1.34

  Welchmen. Caer, what it signifieth.
• * 1.35

  Cornel. Nepos.
• * 1.36

  Excester.
• * 1.37

  William Malmesbury.
• * 1.38

  Domesday.
• * 1.39

  Weare.
• * 1.40

  Ch. 24. Ed. 3
• * 1.41

  Dukes of E••cester.
• * 1.42

  See the Ear•••• of Dorset.
• * 1.43

  Philip Comi••••us, cap. 50.
• * 1.44

  Marquesse of Excester.
• * 1.45

  1605.
• * 1.46

  Pouderham.
• * 1.47

  Redvers or Rivers.
• * 1.48

  Holcombe. Burnet.
• * 1.49

  Exmouth.
• * 1.50

  Otterey.
• * 1.51

  Honnyton.
• * 1.52

  Moridunum.
• * 1.53

  Wiscomb.
• * 1.54

  See in Som∣merset shire.
• * 1.55

  Axminster.
• * 1.56

  The Register of Newen∣ham.
• * 1.57

  Hercules his Promontory.
• * 1.58

  Saint Nectan.
• * 1.59

  William of Malmesbury.
• * 1.60

  Dinham.
• * 1.61

  Whether ever Hercules came into Britaine.
• * 1.62

  Expounders of Morall Tales.
• * 1.63

  Terra di La∣viro.
• * 1.64

  Riviera di Genoa.
• * 1.65

  Poderidge.
• * 1.66

  Bediford.
• * 1.67

  Iohn Hooker of the Bishops of Excester. Berstable.
• * 1.68

  Se aequor re∣fundit in ••quor.
• * 1.69

  John Jewell. Thomas Har∣ding.
• * 1.70

  Ralege.
• * 1.71

  Kinvith.
• * 1.72

  The Danes Banner.
• * 1.73

  Comb, what i•• signifieth. Nicotius.
• * 1.74

  Bampton.
• * 1.75

  Paganelli, or Painels.
• * 1.76

  Fulconem.
• * 1.77

  Earles of D••••vonshire.
• * 1.78

  Register of Ford Abbey.
• * 1.79

  Redvers or Rivers.
• * 1.80

  Called, Is••••bella de Forti∣bus.
• * 1.81

  Called, Is••••bella de Forti∣bus.
• * 1.82

  Claus. 9. Edw. tertii. M. 35. ••••. dorso.
• * 1.83

  9. Edward the Fourth.
• * 1.84

  1603.