The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.

HENRY the Seventh.

12 MATTHEW BROWN, Armiger.] I would be highly thankfull to him (Gratitude is the Gold wherewith Schollars honestly discharge their Debts in this kinde) who would inform me how Sr. Anthony Brown (a younger Branch of this Family) stood related to this Sheriffe. I mean, that Sr. Anthony, Standard-bearer of England, second Husband to Lucy, fourth Daughter to John Nevell, Marquess Montacute, and Grandfather to Sr. Anthony Brown, whom Queen Mary created Viscount Montacute. He was a zealous Romanist, for which Queen Mary loved him much the more, and Queen Elizabeth no whit the less, trusting and employing him in Embassies of High Consequence, as knowing, he embraced his Religion, not out of politick Designe, but pure Devotion. He was

direct Ancestour to the Right Honourable the present Viscount Mountacute.

This Viscount, is eminently but not formally a Baron of the Land, having a Place and Vote in Parliament, by an express clause in his Patent, but otherwise no particular Title of a Baron: This I observe, for the unparallel'd rarity thereof, and also to confute the peremptory Position of such, who maintain, that only actual Barons sit as Peers in Parliament.