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Shee onely high, herself debas't,

A lady onely faire and chast.

Concerning Sir Guy of Warwick, of whom there goe so many prety tales, who in single fight overcame here that Danish giant and Golias, Colbrand: and of Waltheof Earle of Huntingdon, thata was here beheaded, where afterwards stood Saint Giles chapell: as also of that excellent Hospital of Saint Crosse there adjoyning, founded by Henrie of Blois brother to King Stephen and Bishop of this City, and augmented by Henrie Beaufort Cardinall, I neede not to speake: seeing every man may read of them in the common Chronicles.

As touching the Earles of Winchester, to say nothing of Clyto the Saxon whom the Normans deprived of his auncient honour King John created Saier Quincy, Earle of Winchester, who used for his armes a militare belt, they call it a Fesse, with a labell of seaven as I have seene upon his seales. After him succeeded Roger his sonne, who bare, Gueules seaven Mascles voided, Or: but with him that honour vanished and went away, seeing hee died without issew male. For, hee married the eldest daughter and one of the coheires of Alan Lord of Galloway in Scotland by a former wife, in right of whom hee was Constable of Scotland. Hee had by her three onely daughters, the first married to William de Ferrarijs Earle of Derbie, the second to Alan de la Zouch, the third to Comine Earle of Bucqhanan in Scotland. A long time after Hugh le Dispencer, having that title bestowed upon him for terme of his life, by King Edward the second whose minion he was and onely beloved, fel[t], together with his sonne, what is the consequence of Princes extraordinary favours: For both of them envied by most were by the furious rage of the people put cruelly to shamefull death. And long it was after this, that through the bounty of King Edward the fourth, Lewis of Bruges a Netherlander Lord of Gruthuse, Prince of Steinhuse &c. Who had given him comfort and succour in the Netherlands, when hee was fled his native country, received his honour with Armes resembling those of Roger Quincy in these words Azur a dix Mascles D'or en orme d'un Canton de nostre propre Armes d'Engleterre, cest savour, de Goul un Leopard passant d'or, armee d'azur.

All which, after King Edwards death, hee yeelded up into the hands of Henrie the seaventh. But lately within our memorie King Edward the sixth, honoured Sir William Powlet Lord Treasurer of England, Earle of Wilshire, and Lord Saint John of Basing, with a new title of Marquesse of Winchester. A man prudently pliable to [the] times, raised not sodainly but by degrees in Court, excessive in vast informous buildings; temperat in all other things, full of yeares for he lived ninetie seaven years and fruitfull in his generation, for hee saw one hundred and three issued from him by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir William Capell Knight. And now his grand-child William enjoieth the said honours: For the Geographicall position of Winchester, it hath beene observed by former ages to bee in longitude two and twenty degrees and latitude fiftie one.

From Winchester more Eastward the river Hamble at a great mouth emptieth it selfe into the Ocean. Beda calleth it Homelea, which, as he writeth, by the lands of the Intae entreth into Solente: for so termeth he that frith our narrow sea, that runneth between the Isle of Wight & the maine land of Britaine: in which the tides at set houres rushing in with great violence out of the Ocean at both ends, and so meeting one another in the mids, seemed so strange a matter to our men in old time, that they reckoned it among the wonders of Britaine. Whereof, read heere the very words of Beda. The two tides of the Ocean which about Britaine breake out of the vast Northen Ocean daily encounter and fight one against another, beyond the mouth of the river Homelea: and when they have ended their conflict, returne back, from whence they came and run into the Oceane. Into this Frith that little river also sheadeth it selfe, which having his head neere Warnford, passeth betweene the Forrests of Waltham (where the Bishop of Winchester hath a goodly house), and of Beere, wherby is Wickham a mansion of that auncient familie of Vuedal and then by Tichfield, sometime a little monastrie founded by Petre de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester where the mar