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

Out of the Description of the Civil Wars fought in England, Wales, and Ire∣land.

FRance felt the heavy hands of Ed∣ward and Henry our English Kings, when the one of them at Poictiers took Prisoners John King of France, and Philip Sirnamed the hardy, his son; the other (Henry the fifth at Azincourt in a bloudy battel took and slew four thousand Princes, Nobles, Knights and Esquires, even all the flower of France, as their own writers have declared. And at Paris the Crown of France was set up∣on Henry the 6th. his Head, homage done unto him by the French, that Kingdom made subject, and their Flower deluces quartered with our Lions of England.

An enterprize remaining fresh in Me∣mory, of Philip date King of Spain, against our Dread Soveraign Queen Elizabeth,

in the year 1588. attempting by his in∣vincible Navy as he thought, and so termed, under the Conduct of the Duke of Medina Celi, which with great Pride and Cruelty was intended against us, arrived on our Coasts to Englands Invasion and Subversion, had yet never∣theless, here in the narrow Seas, the one part of his Fleet discomfited, taken, and drowned, and the other part forced to their great shame, in poor Estate, to make a fearful and miserable flight a∣bout the Coast of Ireland homeward, so that of 158 great ships furnished for War, came to their own Coast of Spain but few; and those so torn and beaten by the English Canons, that it was thought they were unserviceable for ever, and eleven of their Ensigns or Banners prepared for Triumph and Pride in Conquest, were contrariwise to their dishonour shewed at Pauls Cross, and in other places of this Realm.