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

Glocester-shire.

THe Inhabitants in some parts of this shire, injoy a private cu∣stom to this day, that the Goods and Lands of condemned persons fall unto the Crown, but only for a year and a day, and then return to the next Heirs, contrary to the custom of all England besides.

Glocester City: In this Church the unfortunate Prince, King Edward the se∣cond under a Monument of Alablaster doth lye, who being murdered at Barkly Castle, by the cruelty of French Isabel his Wife was there Intombed. And not far from him another Prince as unfortu∣nate; namely, Robert Curthoise the El∣dest son of William the Conquerour, lyeth in a painted Wooden tomb in the midst of the Quire, whose eyes were pluckt out in Cardiff Castle, wherein he was kept prisoner twenty six years, with all contumelious indignities, until

through extream Anguish he ended his life.

Barkley Castle, where King Edward the second was through his Fundament run into his bowels with a red burning spit.

Tewkesbury the fatal period of King Henry the sixth his Government, and the wound of the Lancastrian cause; for in a Battel there fought in 1471. Prince Edward the only Son of King Henry, had his brains dashed out in a most shameful manner, the Queen his Mother taken prisoner, and most of the Favourites slain and beheaded. And at Alderley a little Town standing eight miles from the Se∣vern, upon the hills to this day are found Cockles, Periwinckles, and Oisters of sollid stone: which whether they have been shell-fish and living Creatures, or else the sports of Nature in her Works. Let the Natural Philosophers dispute and Judge.