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Post tenebras lucem, sed nondum hora.
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The first table alphabeticall Conteining an absolute extract of such names and matters as the description of Britaine and England doth afford, by present view whereof the reader may iudge what frutefull knowledge is to be gathered out of the same: collected by Abraham Fleming.

A.

  • ABbeie of Bangor now plo|wed ground, 83, a 30
  • Abbeie of Founteins famous how seated, 94, b 60
  • Abbeie of moonks Benedictine suppressed, 103, a 60
  • Abbeie of O [...]ncie by whom and wherevpon it was begun to be built, 149, a 10
  • Abbeis in France how manie, 139, b 10
  • Aber in Brittish is the mouth or fall of euerie riuer, 68, b 20
  • Abertaw the Brittish name of Berstable. 65, b 60
  • Abstinence of the north Bri|tons, 166, a 60
  • Adamant stones, 239, b 20
  • Adder in the Saxon toong de|scribed Atter, 228, a 10. b. 60
  • Admerall, and the reason of the name, 200, b 60
  • Adulterie. ¶ Sée Fornication and Whoredome.
  • Aegypt how manie cities it cõ|teined, now decaied, 193, a 40
  • Aeuum. ¶ Sée Age.
  • Age of thirtie & thrée score, &c. yeares, and what Epaminon|das said thereof, 115, b 20
  • Age in Latine Seculũ or Aeuũ and what that word signifi|eth, 244, b 10
  • Aid forren and the hurt there|of, 6, b 10, 20, &c.
  • Aitites stone, 239, b 20
  • Alabaster white where to be had, 235, a 40
  • Albania how first called Scot|land, 117, b 60. What it con|teined as Brute left it, 116, b 20. The portion of Albanac|tus the yoongest son of Bru|tus, 92, b 60. Diuided by Fer|gus among his capteins and soldiers, 118, a 10
  • Albanact the yoongest sonne of Brute had Albama giuen him, 116, b 10. He is slaine, & his death reuenged by his brethren, 117, a 20
  • Albion how long he gouerned Britaine, and by whome he was slaine, 4, a 10. He with a companie of [...]is race procée|ding from Cham, 5, b 10. He & Bergion ioined powers a|gainst Hercules, 4, a 40. His name died not, though he were slaine in fight, 4, b 10
  • Albion the name of Britaine, & why so called as some coniec|ture, 3, b 10. The ancient reli|giõ vsed therin, 19, a 10. The name thereof how long it re|mained, 4, b 10. How long it was so called, 4, b 10. The name of it better knowne to the Gréeks than that of Bri|taine, 5, a 10. What sundrie natiõs had dwelt in it, 5, a 50 ¶ Sée Britaine & England.
  • Alchumie a mettall worthie to be banished out of England, 238, b 40
  • Alcluide a famous citie, 88, a 50 Anciẽt & how seated, 191, a 40
  • Alder growing in England whose barke serueth to die blacke, 213, b 10
  • Aldermarie church in London why so named. 113, a 60
  • Alderware a town about Tame and why so named, 113, a 60
  • Ale diuerslie termed for the strẽgth, 202, a 60. What slights are vsed for the vtterance of it, 170, a 60
  • Alen the east and west, riuers described, 90, b 30
  • Alexander ouerthrew and kil|led a lion, 226, b 10
  • Alexander Phereus and his dog, 231, b 10
  • Alfrijc the seuenth abbat of S. Albons, 192, b 20
  • Alfred first diuided England into shires, 153, a 50. King of Northumbers and the place of his buriall, 93, b 10. His death laid to earle Goodwins charge, and how he was slaine, 132, b 10
  • Alkes and Ures, 226, b 60
  • Alps, and that sundrie cities & holdes were placed among them, 4, a 60
  • Alps or hils of Snowdonie, no lesse famous than the trans|marine Alps, 80, b 10
  • Alume: note, 236, b 10
  • Amber great store to be had in certeine Ilands of Scot|land, 43, b 60. Amber a kind of geat stone, 239, a 40
  • Amber riuer described, 97, b 60
  • Amcolme & Witham riuers of which goeth a byword, 100, b 10
  • Amneie riuer his course. 47, b 40. ¶ Sée Riuers.
  • Amphibologie of the woord Swords, 78, a 10
  • Anandale taketh his name of the riuer Anand, 88, a 40
  • Ancarig or Crowlãd Ile, why so called, 103, a 10
  • Ancaster séemeth to haue béene a great thing, 217, b 20
  • Anchors of wood cõmon to the Gothlanders & others, 3, b 60
  • Ancres bore great sway in time past in Ancarig, 103, a 10
  • Andredeschester, 217, b 10
  • Andrew Boord writ of fanta|sticall Englishmen. 172, a 10
  • Angles one of the six nations that came with the Saxons into Britaine, 5, a 30
  • Angles land one of the names of Britaine, 5, a 20
  • Angleseie why so named, 36, b 10. Cut from Wales by wor|king of the sea, 35, b 60. Lost in the conquerors time and recouered againe in William Rufus time, 36, b 10. Fullie as great as the Wight, 36, a 10
  • Angusian king of Scots bea|reth king Arthurs sword be|fore him in signe of homage, 120, b 10
  • Anselme archbishop of Can|turburie pretending an vn|willingnesse to be placed in that sée, 133, a 60
  • Anthropophagi of the Irish in Britaine, 6, a 10
  • Anti [...]onie, 236, b 10
  • Antiquities found in sundrie places of England. 216, b 60 217, 218
  • Antoninus his thorow fares, 249, a 30
  • Ape an enimie to yong children. 227, a 60
  • Apparell of clergie men in En|gland, 139, a 10. And of the laie people. 171, b 60
  • Arcadian dogs. 232, a 20
  • Archbishop of Canturburies title and office at kings coro|natiõs, &c. 132, a 10. He crow|neth the king, 134, b 60. Bée|reaued of his pall, 143, a 10.
  • Archbishop of yorks authoritie extended thorough out all Scotland, 120, b 10. Fighteth against the king of Scots, 126, b 60. Crowneth ye quéene whose perpetuall chapleine he is, 134, b 60. His chappell called Cawood, and the vse thereof, 95, a 50
  • Archbishop Cranmer of Can|turburie spitefullie abused as being thought an ostler, 152, a 20
  • Archbishop of London named Fastidius, 27, b 40
  • Archbishop Richard of Can|turburie misliked exemption of clergimen from the court & councell, 135, a 60
  • Archbishop Robert of Cantur|burie a Norman. 7, a Am|bitious and malicious. 132, a 60. Expelled out of Eng|land, 7, a 50
  • Archbishops authoritie at the first equall, 134, b 60. Thrée in Britaine in times past, 131, b 30
  • Archbishops of London their names, 140, b 60. So manie as are extant to be had from the faith first receiued, 147, a 10.
  • Archbishoprike of Caerlheon vtterlie extinguished, 131, b 30. Of London translated to Canturburie, 131, b 30. Of yorkes restitution, circuit, and valuation. 145, a 60
  • Archbishopriks in France how manie. 139, b 10
  • Archdeacõrie of Canturburies iurisdiction, 140, b 10. Of S. Albons, 141, a 40
  • Archdeacons vnder bishops & called the bishops eies, their office, 135, b 20. Belonging vnto the bishoprike of Lon|don foure, 141, a 20
  • Archerie. ¶ Sée Bowes.
  • Archflamines (like bishops) cõ|stituted, 117, b 40. Conuerted into bishops, 118, b 50
  • Armie of able men that Eng|land can leauie, 198, a 60
  • Armour and munition in Eng|land, 198, a 10. Differing from that of other nations, and wherin it consisteth, 198, a 60
  • Armorie of the prince and of the nobilitie, 199, a 20
  • Arnold sir Nicholas knight bred the best horsses in Eng|land, 220, b 60
  • Arthur the great held a parle|ment at Chester, 73, b 50. His feast roiall held at Caerleon, whereat were present all the king his subiects, 120, b 10. His bodie higher by two foot than anie mans that came to sée it, 10, b 30. His last and fa|tall conflict, & where fought. 65, a 10
  • Artificers diet, 167, b 50
  • Arundell Iohn archbishop of Cãturburie fled to Rome for feare of his head, 134, b 20
  • Arundell towne and the castell so named of the riuer Arun. 54, a 60
  • Ash commeth vp naturallie of it selfe euerie where in Eng|land, 213, a 50
  • Aspe growing in England, whereof fletchers d [...] make their arrowes, 213, b 10
  • Asses none yéeldeth England, 220, b 60
  • Athelstane K. of Britaine sub|dued Scotlãd wholie & gaue land therof by déed, 121, b 60
  • Athelstane chéefe priuileger of Berstable, 65, b 60
  • Athelstane ouerthroweth thou|sands of aliens at Seton in Deuonshire, 59, a 20
  • Atheniens, when they began their yeare, 244, a 10
  • Atteinct, 155, b 60 156, a 10
  • Atturnies multiplied how in|conuenient, 156, a 10
  • Atwater the bishops purpose in beginning to clense the Fosse dike, 100, b 40
  • EEBO page image 710 Augustine the moonke his con|uerting of the Saxons from Paganisme, 27, a 20. One and twentie hundred moonks slaine in his quarell, 35, b 40
  • Auon riuer, and his course de|scribed, 57, a 60
  • Auon riuer the third by sundrie occasions growne famous, 67, b 10
  • Auon or Nene riuer giueth Hampton his name, 101, b 60
  • Ax riuer in Summersetshire described, 58, b 60
  • Ax riuer the secõd of that name described, 67, a 50

B.

  • BAdgers in Englãd, 225, b 30 Ba [...]iffes office, 155, a 60
  • Ba [...]nards castell, when and by whom builded, 195, b 30
  • Baldwine archbishop of Can|turburie, 226, b 60
  • Bangor bishopriks erectiõ, cir|cuit, and valuation, 145, a 30
  • Bangor monasterie now plou|ghed ground, 83, a 30
  • B [...]nke of Chesill & the strange nature thereof, 58, b 10
  • Baptisme without préests. 41, a 20. Ministred to a great sort at once, 43, b 50
  • Banneret an order of knights, 162, a 30
  • Bards and whervpon they had their name, 21, a 30. Degene|rate from their first instituti|on, 21, a 40. A name contemp|tuouslie ascribed to idiots & fooles, 21, a 50
  • Bardus the fift king of ye Celts 21, a 10. A Celtike word and what it signifieth, 21, a 50
  • Barnacles generation verie strange, 222, b 60. Great plen|tie in Mona and Ireland, being neither fish nor flesh, 38, a 40. Their generation by di|ligent inquirie partlie know|en, 38, a 50
  • Barnet & Sullomaca all one or no [...] far in sunder, 191, b 10
  • Baro a word yet in vse, and commonlie pronounced Bar|nes, 157, b 10
  • Baron whereof he beareth his name, & his dignitie, 157, a 60. Who is so [...], 158, b 10
  • Baron chéefe lord of excheker, 157, b 20
  • Barons in England how ma|nie, 165, a 20
  • Barrie Iland went fiftie yeers ago for ten pounds, 75, b 10. And of certeine strange noi|ses to be heard at a ri [...]t ther|of, 129, b 40
  • Bath how called in the Romãs time, 190, b 50. And of the an|cientnes of the same, 215, b 10
  • Bath and Welles counted but one citie, 189, b 30
  • Bath bishoprikes erection, cir|cuit, and valuation, 142, a 20
  • Baths hot, with their number, names, & colour of their wa|ter, &c. 216, a 30. Whether na|turall or artificiall, 215, b 10. 216, a 10
  • Baths cold in Summerset|shire, 214, b 40. ¶ Sée Welles.
  • Battell first on the water that euer was fought. 3, b 60
  • Battell cruell betwéene H [...]r|cules, Albion, and Bergion, &c. 4, a 50
  • Battell on Bloreheath. ¶ Sée Bloreheath, Conflict, and Warre.
  • Beasts sauage in England, 225, a 40. Uenemous. 227, b 60
  • Beauchampe Henrie crowned king of Wight, &c. 31, b 60
  • Becket Thom. writeth proud|lie to king Henrie the se|cond. 133, b 30
  • Beda a famous préest & where he was brought vp. 91, a 40 b 10. Where he was borne and dwelt, 91, a 10. The first doctor that euer was in Cã|bridge, 150, b 10
  • Béere and the maner of brew|ing thereof, 169, b 30. What water best to make it, 170, a 40. March béere, 167, b 40. ¶ Sée Ale.
  • Bées how ingendered, 228, b 40. ¶ Sée Honie.
  • Beggers termed idle, who they be, 183, a 30, 60
  • Belforrest his opinion touching the name Anglia, 5, a 40. He maketh but [...]oure parts of the earth, 1, b 30
  • Beline & Bren part the whole empire betwixt them, 117, b 30
  • Belines gate, 195, b 60
  • Belus a riuer: note. 187, b 60
  • Bendishes gentlemen of an an|cient and seruiceable house, 106, b 40
  • Bendish hall cousined from the Bendishes by the moonks of Feuersham, 106, b 40
  • Benedict bishop the moonke, 187, b 40
  • Benefices in England so small that they will not mainteine a scholar much lesse a learned man, [...]36, b 10. Di [...]se waies fléesed, 136, b 20. 137, a 10. Tenths paid out of thẽ year|lie to the prince, 136, b 30. Two by dispensa [...]ion how they may be held, 136, a 60. A direction for patrons to be|stow them well in ye vacancie, 151, a 10. ¶ Sée Ministers.
  • Bergion reigned ouer the Or|chades as supreame lord, 4, a 40. He and Albion slaine by Hercules. 4, a 10. ¶ Sée Al|bion.
  • Berill [...]n vse of glasse for win|dowes. 188, a 10
  • Bernicia otherwise called Nor thumberland. 120, b 20. ¶ See Brenicia & Northumberlãd.
  • Berstable [...] somtime wal|led with foure gates: note. 65, b 60
  • Berwike yéelded vp to ye king of England without resi|stance, 127, a 10. Woone by the Scots but not the castell, 126, b 60
  • Berwike vpõ Twéed by whom builded, 118, a 50
  • Biston. ¶ Sée Castell
  • Beuer no where to be found in Britaine, but in ye riuer Tei|fie, 79, a 50. His hinder féet and taile supposed to be fish, 225, b 60
  • Beuerleie how called in old time, and how it came to the present name, 93, b 20
  • Beuerleie Iohn the first doctor that euer was in Oxford, 150, b 10. First teacher of di|uinitie in Oxford, 93, b 20
  • Birds: ¶ Sée Fowles.
  • Bishop first of the Ile of Man, 38, b 20. But a bishops sha|dow, and why, 38, b 20. Of the Orchades whose sée is at Pomona 42, b 40. Of Shire|burne slaine in the battell of Athelstana, 95, a 30. Of Win|chester perpetuall prelat to the honorable order of the garter, 141, b 10
  • Bishop and his clerks, certeine dangerous rockes, so named, 78, b 50
  • Bishops in their anciencie as they sat in parlement An. 5. reg. Elisab. 165, a 60. They prech diligẽtlie, though their predecessors in times past were occupied in temporall affaires, 135, a 60. They are called honorable, 157, b 40. And lords 50. Greatlie estée|med in times past, 158, a 10. Their liuings fléesed, & sun|drie actions of theirs against this spitefull age defended, 139, a 30. Italiãs fiue succée|ded each other in Worcester sée, 142, b 20. Of Durham sometimes earls Palantine, 145, b 40. Of Lichfield for a while called bishops of Che|ster, 143, a 10. Of London so manie as are extant to be had from the faith first receiued, 147, a 30. Thrée chiefe in Britaine, 24, a 20. Preferred from the pulpit to the kéeping of the kings wardrobe, 142, b 50. ¶ Sée Clergie.
  • Bishoprike of London why cal|led honorable, 147, b 60. In the Ile of Man and whose donation, 146, a 60
  • Bishoprikes in England their erections and their seuerall circuits, &c, 140, a 50. Their tenths & to what sums they yearelie amounted, 146, a 30. Under the sée of Canturbu|rie twentie one, and Yorke, foure, 135, a 10. They beare the names of cities, and why, 192, b 40. Ouerthrowne and now out of name, which in old time were famous, 146, b 20. Bought & sold as other mea|ner liuings, 137, b 30. Thrée thorough out all this land, 118, b 60. How manie in En|gland with archbishoprikes, 189, b 20. In Wales their e|rection, circuit, & valuation, 145, a 10. In France how manie, 139, b 10
  • Bitumen, 236, b 20
  • Blackne [...]e and of what bredth the sea is there, 3, a 20
  • Blockehouses. ¶ Sée Castels.
  • Bloreheath battell betwéene Henrie the sixt and the duke o [...] Yorke purposed, but not ex|ecuted. 69, b 50
  • Bloud stone. 2 [...]9, b 20
  • Bodge [...]s suborned and licen|ced: note. 202, b 30
  • Bodinus & whense he deriueth the name Albion. 3, b 10
  • Bones of dead men of greater stature thã is credible found in Godmancester, 102, b 60 ¶ See Giants.
  • Bores nature, & how he is to be hunted being wild, 226, b 20. Tame made brawne, 221, b 60
  • Borsholder, 154, a 20
  • Botes guided by the ferri|men by a rope without ores, 58, b 20. What number of them & water men are kept and mainteined vpon the Thames, 47, a 60. Made of rushes & reeds, 3, b 60
  • Bowes long of great vse some|times in Englãd. 198, a 50, 60 ¶ Sée Archerie.
  • Brackleie sometimes a noble towne, now scarse a good vil|lage, 102, a 60
  • Brackwort. 169, b 60
  • Brawne of the bore, wherein note the termes, 222, a 40. A meat not vsuallie knowne to strangers, 221, b 60. Eaten in Lent by a papist that tooke it to be fis [...], 222, a 10
  • Bread why it holdeth not out the size, 168, b 10. Of diuerse sorts, 168, b 10. Not looked vnto tither for ye size or s [...]e, 202, a 40
  • Brenucham towne by what ar|tificers chieflie mainteined. 97, a 10
  • Brennicia aliàs Northumber|land a kingdome, 16, b 60. Whereof it sometime tooke that name. 89, a 10
  • Brennich riuer whereof Bren|nicia kingdome tooke ye name 89, a 20
  • Brereton blockes neuer séene, but against some mischéefe to befall to that house. 67, b 20
  • Bride riuer mouth naturallie placed betwéene two hils, fit for a hauen. 58, b 40
  • Bridge of London a continuall stréet situate ouer ye Thames, 47, a 50. Of Rochester by whome begun and by whome finished, 52, b 60. Of Uske ouerthrowne by the rage of a riuer, 74, a 60
  • Bricke burning a decaie of wood, 234, b 50
  • Bristow how called in the Ro|mans time, 190, b 60. Bishop|rike thereof, erection, circuit, and valuat [...]on, 144, b 50.
  • Britaine when not cut frõ the maine by Noahs floud, 225, b 30. The first conquest therof, 3, a 60. The gospell preached there and by whome, 23, a all. Diuided by ye Romans into fiue prouinces, 17, b 30. The manifold alterations and cõ|uersions of the estate therof, since the time of Samothes, 28, a 10. How it lieth from the maine, 2, a 60. Unto what por tion of the earth it is refer|red. 2, a 60. Why called Albi|on (as some cõiecture) 3, b 10. Ships wrought of wicker sometime vsed in it, 3, b 60. The kings therof from Sa|mothes to Brute, and so for|wards, 17, 18, 19. Of Paules presence there, 23, a 10. It hath néed of no nation but of it selfe, 237, a 50. Subdued by Iulius Cesar, 118, b 30. Edgar king thereof rowed in a barge by six or seuen kings, 122, b a 60. Inioied by Brute & his posteritie during two and fiftie descents, 118, a 10. Why named the great, 118, [...] 40. The souereingtie thereof how it remaineth to the prin|ces of the same, 116, b 50 Of the people there, their consti|tution of bodie, age, &c. 114 a 60. 115, a 10. How first diui|ded into thrée portions, 116, a 10. Generallie commended in an ancient monument, 112, a 20. The foure high waies sometime made in it by the princes of the same, 112, a 40. The aire, so [...]le, and commodi|ties thereof, 108, b 30. Under the Celts thrée hundred and one and fourtie yeares. 3, b 10. The distance of it from the maine, 3, a 20. Called Ualen|tia, 5, a 20. The name of it knowne to some of ye Gréeks, 5, a 10. The longitude & lati|tude thereof, 2, b 20. A long while called Samothea, 3, a 60. The anciẽt names of it, [...], a 50. Promontories thereof, 3, a 10. The forme of it three cornerd, 2, b 60. Uariance a|mong EEBO page image 711 writers about the cõ|passe therof, 2, b 40. A parcell of it inhabited sometime by the Irish, 6, a 10. Pestered with manie sorts of people, 5, b 30. What sundrie people and nations setled themselues in it, 5, 6, 7, &c. Called Angles land by an edict, 5, a 20. Ilãds to be seene vpon the coasts of it, 29, b 30. The first prouince that receiued the gospell ge|nerallie, 24, b 20. Into how manie kingdoms it hath bin diuided, 14, 15, 16. What nati|ons came with the Saxons into it, 5, a 30. At the first one entier kingdome, 14, b 50. How soone inhabited after the diuision of the earth, 5, a 10. The differing opinions of men touching the name of it, 4, b 20 Whether it were some|time parcell of the maine, 4, b 50. How long it was called Albion, 4, b 10. Deliuered of a tyrant by Hercules, 4, a 60. ¶ Sée Albion, England, Picts, Romans, & Scots.
  • Britons diuided this Iland in|to cantreds, 153, a 50. Their abstinence, 166, a 60. They had some vse of Logike and Rhetorike from the Galles, 20, a 60, b 10. The speach of ye ancient sort and of the Celts much alike, 12, b 40. They & the Celtes indifferentlie cal|led Cimbri, 13, a 10. They are driuen into Wales & Corne|wall by the Saxons, &c: 6, b 30. Diligent and readie in pe|degrées, 13, a 60, b 10. Their industrie in the vse and appli|cation of the benefits of their countrie, 111, b 20. Defended against their slanderers, 115, a 10, b 10. Ualourous, 114, b 10. The constitution of their bodies, 114, a 60. Their slight building, 187, a 20. ¶ Sée Welshmen.
  • Brookes. ¶ Sée Riuers.
  • Bruing. ¶ Sée Béere.
  • Brute the sonne of Syluius ar|riueth in Britaine with his ships, 5, b 10. What time he arriued in Britaine, 4, b 10. He surueieth all Britaine, 116, a 10. He diuided all Bri|taine to his thrée sonnes, 116, a 50. From whense he learned his religiõ, 22, a 60. His death the maner thereof not certein|lie knowen, 116, a 30. Inter|red at his new citie, 116, b 30
  • Bruton Iohn bishop of Here|ford kéeper of ye kings ward|robe, 142, b 50.
  • Bucchanan partlie followeth the error of Goropius about Britaine, 3, b 10
  • Bucke, & what names he hath before he be so called, 226, a 30
  • Buckingham & Bedfordshires haue the riuer Clée rising in their verie confines, 102, b 20
  • Buckhurst lord ambassador to the French king in Henrie the seuenths time, 231, a 30
  • Bubali olim in Anglia, 208, a 10
  • Building and furniture of hou|ses in England described, 187 a 10. With stone now cõmon|lie vsed, 234, b 40. New & cu|rious deuises vsed therein, 212, b 10. Quarries of stone seruing thereto, 234, b 20
  • Buildings in Englãd of what manner, 109, b 10
  • Buls wild sometimes in Eng|land, 225, b 10
  • Burchier sir Rafe knight his deuise of casting alabaster in moolds, 235, a 60
  • Burgesses & citisens, 162, b 60. Ancient maner of buriall in Angleseie, 36, b 60
  • Burials of the kings of Ire|land, 40, a 20
  • Burials of the kings of Scot|land, 40, a 20
  • Burrow, 154, a 20
  • Burrow kind what kind of cu|stome, 180, b 20
  • Burrowes how they were wal|led about with stone walles, 217, b 60. And to what vse the Britons put them, 218, a 10
  • Buttermen and the cause that butter riseth in the price, 203, b 30
  • Buxston baths. 214, b 30

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