A help to English history containing a succession of all the kings of England, the English Saxons, and the Britans : the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, the Isle of Wight : as also of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, and bishops thereof : with the description of the places from whence they had their titles : continued with a supplement, and enlarged with the names and ranks of the viscounts and barons to the year 1652.
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A help to English history containing a succession of all the kings of England, the English Saxons, and the Britans : the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, the Isle of Wight : as also of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, and bishops thereof : with the description of the places from whence they had their titles : continued with a supplement, and enlarged with the names and ranks of the viscounts and barons to the year 1652.
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Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
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London :: Printed for Abel Roper ...,
1652.
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Church of England -- Bishops -- Chronology.
Nobility -- Great Britain -- Chronology.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Chronology.
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"A help to English history containing a succession of all the kings of England, the English Saxons, and the Britans : the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, the Isle of Wight : as also of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, and bishops thereof : with the description of the places from whence they had their titles : continued with a supplement, and enlarged with the names and ranks of the viscounts and barons to the year 1652." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43537.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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BRISTOL.
BRistol the third in ranke of the Cities of England, is situate on the rivers of Frome and Avon, not far off from the entrance of the Severne into the Ocean. In that regard it stands commodioussy for trade and trafick, the ships with full sayle comming up into the bosome of the City; and verily the Ci∣tyzens there are wealthy Merchants, and trade into the most part of the world with good faith and fortune. Part of it stands in Somersetsh. and part in Glocester shire, though they account themselves of neither: being a County in it selfe incorporate, and inde∣pendent upon any other than its own Offi∣cers. A town exceeding populous, and ex∣ceeding cleanly: there being sinks and sewers made under ground, for the con∣veyance of all filth and nastinesse, which by them passeth into the rivers. The Castle of it once was a place of strength, and in it K. Stephen was kept a prisoner by Maud the Empresse: but now not able to defend it selfe from the ruines of time. Churches it hath in it, and thereto adjoyning, to the number of 18, or thereabouts, whereof the fairest and most memorable, next to the Ca∣thedrall (of which we have already spoken in our description of the Bishoprick, is S. Maries of Radcliffe, without the wals, esteemed to be the fairest Parish Church in England, yet however it hath long been a town of Fame;
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it is not full an hundred yeares, since it was made a Bishops see: But lesse since it be∣came a title of nobility, viz. not till King James conferred the honour of Earle of Bri∣stol, on
1622
Iohn L. Digby of Sherborne, cr. E. of Bristol, Sept. 15. Jac. 20. now li∣ving 1641.
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