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Sir Will. Skipwith, Junior a Puifne Judge, would not comply for the importunity of R. 2. nor the Example of his Fellow Judges (An. 10 Regn.) to allow, That the King by his own Power might refcind an Act of Parliament. May I move that every 4th. Link of the Collar of SSS Effes, (from St. Sim. Simplicius an uncorrupted Judge in the primitive times) may mind the Judges of this Skipwith. His Name hath flourished at Ormesby, ever fince his time, in a very worshipful Condition.

Sir Will. Hufee, Knight of a worshipAMP. ful Family in this County, was made Lord Chief Juftice of the K. Bench An. 21. E. 4. Afterwards,upon a Question of great importance, he, with all the reft of the Judges, u nanimoufly refolved, That the Knights and Burgeffs (formerly of the K. party) attainted by due Courfe of Law, fhould forbear to come into the Houfe, till a Law were paffed for the Reversal of their Attainders, but (as to K. Hen. 7. who had been alfo Attainted) That the Crown takes away all defects, and Stops in Blood, and that by the Affumption thereof, the Fountain was cleared from all Attainders and Corruptions. He died An. 10. H. 7.

Sir Edm. Anderfon Knight, a younger Brother of a Gentile Extract at Flixborough was made Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, An. 24. Eliz. He cenfured Secr. Davifon (about the business of Q. of Scots) for indifcretion; telling him, that he had done Fuftum non jufté. He checked Sir Edw. Coke, the Q. Solicitor, and H. Cuff (who was arraigned about the rifing of the E. of Effex) for their Foolish Syllogifmes ufed in Court. He was a great Promoter of the Established Church Difcipline, and fevere against Brownists. He died An. 3. Jaç,

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Souldiers.

Sir Fred. Tilney, Knight refided at Boston. A Man of mighty Stature and Strength. He attended K. R. 1. An. 119 to the Siege of Acon in the Holy-Land. 16 Knights are defcended from in a direct Line fucceffively, till at laft their Heir General being married to the D. of Norfolk put a period to the Luftre of that ancient Fami

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Peregrine Berty, L. Willoughby, Son of Rich. and Kath. Dutchefs of Suff. was born near Hidleberg in the Palatinate. He gave good proofs of his Valour in France and the Low-Countreys, and was at laft made Governour. of Barwick, Not brooking the Obfequionfness of the Court, he was wont to Say That he was none of the Reptilia, which could creep on the Ground. The Camp was his proper Element, being a Gallant Souldier. When one fent him a Challenge, whilst he lay fick of the Gout, he returned this Answer, that altho he was lame of his hands and feet, yet he would meet him with a piece of Rapier in his teeth.Once he took a Genet mannaged for the War, which was intended for a prefent to the King of Spain and was defired by a Trumpeter from the General, to reftore it, offering this Lord 1000l down for him, or a 1ool. per An. during his Life, at his own choice. This Lord returned, That if it had been anyCOMMANDER,he freely would have sent him back, but being an HORSE, he loved him as well as the King of Spain himself, and would keep him. When he was at theSpam in Lukeland for the Recovery of his health, The Queen wrote to him a very kind Letter

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wherein the enjoyns him to an especial care to encrease and continue his Health, and not to affect the fatisfaetion of his own private contentation, beyond the attending on that which Nature and Duty challenges from all Perfons of his Quality and profeffion. Inviting him (in moft gracious and obliging Terms) as one of her Best and Noble Subjects, to the Accep tance of fome Employment at Home, tending to his own Honour, her Majefties Intreft and Security and the general Peace of the Kingdom, at that time when a Second Spanish Invafion was expected. His Farents fled in the Reign of Queen Mary beyond the Seas. His Ancestors have flourished many years in this County, where he was Baron of Willoughby in Right of his Mother. He died 1601.

Sir Edw. Harwood, born nigh Burn, was a Valiant Souldier and a Pious Man. His having killed a Man in a private Quarel put a period to all his carnal Mirth. No poffible provocations could afterward tempt him to a Duell; He refufed all Challenges with more Honour than others accepted them, it being well known that he would fet his Foot as far in the Face of his Enemy, as any Man alive. He was one of the 4 ftanding Colonels in the Low Countreys, and was fhot at the Siege of Mastricht 1632.

Seamen.

Job Hartop, born at Bourn went An. 1568 with Sir Fo. Hawkins his General, to make Discoveries in New Spain. He was chief Gunner in the Ship called Jefus of Lubeck, 8 of his Men were killed at Cope-verd and the General wounded with poisoned Arrows, but was cured by a Negro drawing out the poifon with a Clove of Garlick He wrote a Trea

tife of his Voyage, wherein he makes mention of a Tree that affords a Liquor which is both meat and drink, yields both Needles and thred and Tiles for Houfes; which may therefore be called the Tree of Food, Raiment and Harbour. Being with some other left on Land after many, Miferies, he came to Mexico, and he continued a Prisoner 23 years, of which time he was 12 years in the Gallies, and 3 years a drudge to Hernando de Soria, who then fent him to Sea in a Flemish, which was afterwards taken by an Englifh fhip called the Galeon-Dudley, that fafely landed him at Portsmouth December 2. 1590.

Sir William Mounfon, Knight of an ancient Family was made Vice-Admiral An. 1602. (Sir Richard Levefon Ad. (by whofe Diligence and Valour Trading was Killed on the Coafts of Portugal, and a Caract of 1600 Tun taken (which had in her 300 Sp. Gentelmen, and amounted to the Value of 1900000 Crowns of Portugall Account) tho the Marquis de Sanctâ Cruce lay hard by with 13 Ships, and all were fecured under the Command of a ftrong Caftle. In the Difpute, the Syllogifmes of Fire and Sword which were used by the English, (tho the Premiffes were oppofed with the beft Spanish Logic were answered by the Opponent, with a fair conceffion in the Conclufion. The Goods gotten in the Caract might be valued, but the Good gained thereby was Ineftimable, for henceforward the Spanish beheld the English with Admiration, and quitted their thoughts of Invafion. This Worthy Knight died about the midft of the Reign of King James..

Writers

Gilb. of Holland, Preacher went to Clarvaulx in Burgundy where he was St. Bernard's Scholar. He was a Judicious, Learned and Eloquent man, and one who studied much the Holy Scriptures. Trithem. He continued St. Bernard's Sermons. He flourished An. 1200 and was buried in Giftreaux in France. Rog. of Crowland, a Benedictine, then Ab. of Frifkney, wrote the Life of Th. Becket. He flourifhed 1214.

Elias de Trekingham, a Monk of Peterbo o ugh, D. D. in Oxford a learned Man and a Lover of Hiftory, wrote a Chronicle from 626 till 1270.

Hugh Kirksted, a Bernardine Monk (with one Serlo(made a Chronicle of the Cifternians from their firft coming into England. when Walter,d'Efpeke first founded their Abbey at Rivaux York-fh. He flourifhed 1220.

Will. Lidlington, a Carmelite and Provincial of his Order in England refufing to fubfcribe to the decifions of the Synode at Narbone, was excommunicated and banished from his Native Country. Then he lived at Paris and at laft was preferred Prov. of the Carmelites in Palestine. Yet he died in England and was buried at Stamford. 1390.

Nich. Stanford, a Bernardine a smart, folid and judicious Writer in that Age flourished 1310.

Fo. Bloxham, had great Employment under E. 2. in Embassies; an acute Man, tho the Country Folk in this County, when they intend to Character a Dull Perfon, ufe to fay of him That he was born at Bloxham, the Town of his Nativity. He flou rifhed 1331.