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.

Henry, youngest Son to William Duke of Norman∣dy, but eldest to King William the Conquerour, was born at Selby, 1070. (where his Father Founded an Abbey) and afterwards gained the Crown from D. Ro∣berts his eldest Brother. He was bred in Cambridge and Paris, where he so profited, that he attained the Sirname of Beau-Clerke. He Reigned 35 years, and upwards, remitted the Norman Rigour, and restored to his English Subjects, a great part of the English Laws and Liberties. His Princely Vertues were at∣tended with some Amorous Extravagancies, as appears by his numerous Natural Issue, no fewer then 14, all by him publickly owned; the Males highly advanced, the Females richly Married. His Sobriety otherwise was admirable, whose Temperance was of proof a∣gainst any Meat objected to his Appetite, Lampreys

only excepted, on a Surfeit whereof he dyed, 1135. He had only two Legitimate Children, William, dying before, and Maude surviving him, both born in Nor∣mandy.

Thomas, fifth Son of King Edward 1. and the first that he had by Margaret his second Wife, was born at, and Sirnamed from Brotherton, a Village in this County, June the 1st. 1300. He was created Earl of Norfolk, and Earl Marshal of England. He left no Male Issue; but from his Females, the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk, and from them the Earls of Arun∣del, and the Lords Berkley are descended.

Richard Plantag. Duke of York, commonly called Richard of Connisborough, from the Castle in this Shire of his Nativity, was Grandchild to King Edward 3. He Married Anne, Daughter and sole Heir to Edward Mortimer, the true Inheritrix of the Crown; But tam∣pering too soon, and too openly to derive the Crown, in his Wives Right, to himself, by practising the death of the present King, he was taken and behead∣ed for Treason, in the Reign of King Henry 5.

Edward, sole Son to King Richard 3, and Anne his Queen, was born in the Castle of Midleham, in this County, and was by his Father created Prince of Wales. A Prince, who himself was a Child of as much Hopes, as his Father a Man of Hatred. But he consumed a∣way on a sudden, dying within a Month of his Mother. A Judgment on his Father, a Mercy to the Prince, that he might not behold the miserable end of him who begot him; and a Mercy to all England, for had he survived to a Mans Estate, he might possibly have pro∣ved a Wall of Partition, to hinder the Happy Union of the two Houses of York and Lancaster.