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5: 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.
Snippet: 1 of 22 (1587, Volume 5, p. 709) 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.
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- 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