Anglorum speculum, or, The worthies of England in church and state alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained : wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age : also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.

Princes.

Richard, Son to H. 2. and Queen Eleanor (was

the 6th. King since the Conquest) born in Oxford, 1157. Whilst a Prince he was undutiful to his Father, or to qualifie the Matter, over-dutiful to his Mother, whose Domestick Quarrels he always espoused. To exp•…•…ate his offence, when King, he with Philip King of France undertook a Voyage to the Holy-Land, where through the Treachery of Templary Cowardise of the Greeks, diversity of the Climate and differences betwixt Christian Princes, much time was spent, a Mass of Money expended, many lives lost, some Honour atchieved but little Profit produced. Going to Palestine, he suffered Shipwrack and many Mischiefs on the coasts of Cyprus; com∣ing for England through Germany, he was tossed with a worse Land-Tempest, being (in pursuance of an old grudge betwixt them) taken Prisoner by Leo∣pold, D. of Austria; yet this Caeur de Lion, or Lion-Hearted King (for so was he commonly called) was no less Lion (tho now in a Grate) then when at Liberty, abating nothing of his high Spirit in his Behaviour. The Duke did not undervalue his Royal Prisoner, prizing his Person at 10 years pur∣chase, according to the (then) yearly Revenue of the English Crown. This Ransom of 100000 pounds being paid, he came home; first reformed himself, and then mended many abuses in the Land. He was afterwards shot with an Arrow in France, 1199.

Edmund, Youngest Son to King Edward 1. by Queen Marg. was born at Woodstock, Aug. 5. 1301. He was afterwards created E. of Kent, and was Tu∣tor to his Nephew King Edward 3. In whose Reign he was beheaded at Winchester, March 19. for that he never dissembled his Brotherly affection towards his Brother deposed, and went about when he was murdered before, (not knowing so much),

to enlarge him out of Prison, perswaded thereunto by such as covertly practised his Destruction.

Edward, Eldest Son of King Edward 3. was born at Woodstock and bred under his Father in Martial Discipline. He was afterwards called the Black Prince, from his Atchievements dismal and black, as they appeared to the eyes of his Enemies whom he constantly overcame. He married Joan Coun∣tess of Salisbury and Kent, whose Garter (which now flourisheth again) hath lasted longer than all the Wardrobes of the Kings and Queens of England, since the Conquest, continued in the Knighthood of that Order. This Prince died before his Father at Cant. An. 46. Aet. An. Dom. 1376. whose Mai∣den success attended him to the Grave, as never soiled in any undertakings. He left 2 Sons Edward and Richard afterward King, both born in France.

Th. of Woodstock, Youngest Son of E. 3. and Queen Philippa, was Earl of Buck. and Duke of Gloc. crea∣ted by his Nephew King Rich. who summoned him to Parliament. He married Isabel Daughter of Humphrey Bohun E. of Essex, in whose Right he be∣came Constable of England. He observed the King too nearly and checked him too sharply; whereupon he was conveyed to Calis and there Strangled. By whose Death King Richard being freed from the causless fear of an Unkle, became exposed to the cunning Plots of his Cosen German, Henry Duke of Lancaster, who at last deposed him. This Th. founded a fair Colledge at Playsie in Essex, where he was afterwards buried, his Body having been since translated to West minster.

Anne Beauchamp, born at Cavesham, was Daugh∣ter to Rich. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, and marri∣ed to Rich. Nevil, Earl of Sarisbury and Warwick, commonly called the Make-King. In his own and

her Husband's right she was possessed of 114. Man∣nors. Isa. her eldest Daughter was married to Geo. Duke of Clarence, and Anne her younger to Ed∣ward Prince of Wales. Son of H. 6. and afterwards to King Richard 3. Her Husband being killed at Barnet fight, all her Land by Act of Parliament was setled on her 2 Daughters. Being attainted on the account of her Husband, she was forced to flye to the Sanctuary at Beauly in Hant-shire, and thence to the North, where she lived privately and in a mean condition.