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

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

Author

G. H.

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London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by F. Smiih [i.e. Smith] ...,

1670.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honourable John Earl of Dover, Viscount Rochford, Lord Hunsdon, &c.
• TO THE Most Accomplish'd LADY, Mrs. DOROTHY RIVERS.
• TO THE READER.
• ERRATA.
• Memorable things Noted in the DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD.
  • AFRICA.
  • EƲROPE.
  • AMERICA.
  • GREECE.
  • GERMANY.
  • BOHEMIA.
  • FRANCE.
  • The Low-Countries.
  • Spain.
  • ITALY.
  • HUNGARY.
  • DENMARK.
  • POLAND.
  • PERSIA.
  • Bermudas ISLAND.
  • In the Sommer Islands.
  • Out of the Description of Great Britain, these Stories following are Remarkable and Pleasant.
    • KENT.
    • SUSSEX.
    • SURREY.
    • Hant-shire.
    • Wight Island.
    • Devonshire.
    • Cornwall.
    • Sommerset-shire.
    • Wilt-shire.
      • Aurelius Ambrosus buryed at Ston∣heng, Anno 500.
    • Bark-shire.
    • Middlesex.
    • Essex.
    • Suffolk.
    • Hereford-shire.
    • Bedford-shire.
    • Buckingham-shire.
    • Oxford shire.
    • Glocester-shire.
    • Hereford-shire
    • Worcester-shire.
    • Warwick-shire.
    • Northampton-shire.
    • Rutland-shire.
    • Leicester-shire.
    • Lincoln-shire.
    • Nottingham-shire.
    • Darby-shire.
    • The County Palatine of Chester.
    • Lancashire.
    • York-shire.
    • The West Riding of York-shire.
    • The North and East Riding.
    • The Bishoprick of Durham.
    • Cumberland.
    • Northumberland.
    • Man Island.
    • Holy Island.
    • Farn Isle.
    • Garnsey.
    • Jersey.
    • Caermarden-shire.
    • Glamorgan-shire.
    • Monmouth.
    • Brecknock-shire.
    • Radnor-shire.
    • Cardigan-shire.
    • Merioneth-shire.
    • Denbigh-shire.
    • Flint-shire.
    • Carnaervon-shire.
    • Anglesea-Island.
  • Out of Scotlands General Description.
  • Out of the Description of Ireland.
  • Out of the Description of the Civil Wars fought in England, Wales, and Ire∣land.
  • Out of the Description of the Turkish EMPIRE.
  • China.
  • Out of the Description of the Kingdom of TARTARY.
• A GENTLEMAN In his Travels TO BOHEMIA,
  • The City of Hamburgh. The priviledges of their grand hang-man.
  • Their manner of executing Thieves and Murtherers upon the Wheel▪ I shall name one for a president.
  • There manner of beheading.
  • Strange Torments and varieties of deaths.
  • A Pretty Story.
  • Hamburgh a free City.
  • The Womens Habit.
  • Men and Women draw Carts, their Office.
  • The Lawyer a bad Trade.
• THE Lamentable Destruction, OF THE Ancient and Memorable City and Temple OF JERUSALEM; Being destroyed by Vespasian, and his Son Titus.
• THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.