Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.

Bark-shire.

IN Reading, in the Collegiate Church of the Abbey, King Henry the first and Queen (lay both veiled and Crown∣ed) with their Daughter Maud the Em∣press, called the Lady of England, were Interred, as the private History of the place avoucheth.

But of far greater Magnificence and State is the Castle of Windsor: A most Princely Pallace and Mansion of His Majesty. In this Castle was King Ed∣ward the third born, and here held at one and the same time Prisoners, John King of France, and David King of Scot∣land. Neither was it ever graced with greater Majesty then by the Institution of the most Honourable Order of the Garter, the invention thereof some as∣cribe to be from a Garter falling from his Queen, or rather from Joan Coun∣tess of Salisbury, a Lady of an uncom∣parable beauty, as she danced before

him, whereat the by-standers smiling, he gave the impress to check all evil con∣ceits: and in Golden Letters imbellish∣ed the Garter with this French Posie; Honi Soit Qui Maby Pense. The Princely Chappel of Windsor is graced with the bodies of Henry the 6th. and Edward the 4th. Kings of England; the one of Lan∣caster, the other of York, as also King Henry the 8th. lyeth there Interred.

Finch-hampsted: For wonder inferi∣our to none, where (as our Writers do witness) that in the year a thousand one hundred, a Well boiled up with streams of bloud, and fifteen days together con∣tinued that Spring, whose Waters made red all others where they came; to the great amazement of the beholders.