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Memorable Persons.
John, Henry and Thomas Palmer, were Sons to Ed∣ward Palmer Esquire, of Angmarine, by his Wife, Daughter to one Clement of Wales, who for his effectu∣al assisting of King Henry 7. from his Landing at Mil∣ford Haven, untill the Battle of Bosworth, was brought by him into England, and rewarded with good Lands in this and the next County. It happened that their Mother, being a full fourthnight inclusively in Labour, was on Whitsunday delivered of John her eldest Son, on the Sunday following, of Henry her second Son, and the Sunday next after, of Thomas her third Son. These three were Knighted for their Valour by King Henry 8. They have a Worshipful and numerous Posterity in Sussex and Kent, amongst whom, Sir Roger Palmer, Aged 80 years, lately deceased, and Cofferer to the late King, averred the Truth of the aforesaid Rela∣tion.
Leonard Mascal, of Plumsted, was the first who brought over into England, from beyond the Seas, Carps and Pippins, about an. 5. Henry 8. 1514.
W. Withers, being a Child of about 11 years of Age, an. 1581. lay in a Trance 10 dayes, without any sustenance, and at last, coming to himself, uttered to the standers by, many strange Speeches, inveighing against Pride, Covetousness, and other outragious sins.
Note, that an. 1378, (in the Reign of Richard 2.) the Sussexians (of Rye and Winchelsey) embarqued for Normandy, and afterwards entered by night, into a Town called Peters Port, took all such Prisoners who were able to pay ransome, and safely returned home