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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.
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- CAesar made a fabber of En|glish pearle, 239, a 60
- Caim an English saint and of his effectuall praiers, 68, a 30
- Cair Carador a strong place of incamping, 195, a 50
- Cairmarden how called in the Romans time, 191, a 10
- Caius de canibus Anglicis, 229, b 50
- Calaminarie stones, 239, b 20
- Calcedonie stone, 239, b 20
- Calendar of England how it might be the more perfect, 244, a 30, 60
- Calendar Romane, 242, b 60. Papisticall in vse in the ar|ches, 182, a 20. Generallie cor|rected by the pope, 244, a 50
- Calendar of the greatest faires in England, 245, a 10. Of the greatest trauelled thorow|fares and townes in Eng|land, 247, a 40
- Calends of the moneth conse|crated to Iuno, & the reason of the name, 243, a 10
- Calice a towne in Picardie, & how far distant from Rome, 3, a 20
- Camelon the principall citie of Picts, ouerthrowne by Iu|lius Cesar, 118, b 30
- Camber the second sonne of Brute had Cambria giuen, 116, a 60
- Cambria why so called, 68, b 10 A peninsula or byland, now named Wales, 116, a 60
- Cambridge how called in the Romans time, 191, a 20. Uni|uersitie erected by Sigibert, 144, a 50. Fortie six miles frõ London, 148, b 20. Not long since burned, 148, b 60. Col|leges with their founders names, 151. Kings col|lege chappell of what stone it is builded, 234, b 60. ¶ Sée Uniuersities.
- Candels of tallow eaten vp of an Isleland gentlewoman, 231, b 50
- Candida casa, 146, b 60
- Cane stone, 234, b 60
- Cantaber a Spaniard begun the vniuersitie of Cãbridge, 148, a 60
- Cãting. ¶ Sée Pedlers Frẽch.
- Canturburie how called in the Romans time, 190, a 60. The chiefe citie of the kingdome of Kent, 16, a 50. One of the two onlie prouinces now of Eng|land, 131, a 30. Bishoprikes vnder the said sée twentie one 135, a 10. Bishop of Rochester crossebearer in times past to the archbishop of the said sée, 140, b 30. Archbishoprike when and by whom first ere|cted, & the circuit of the same, &c. 140, a 60. Archbishops of the popish stampe, proud, am|bitious, contentious, &c. 132, 133
- Canutus lawes for his forrest, 206, b 50. 207, a 10. He was a glutton, 170, b 40. His autho|rising of the clergie to punish whoredome, 185, a 60
- Capons made of gelded cocks a practise brought in by the Romans, 223, a 40
- Caradocks a linage of great ho|nor, antiquitie and seruice, 69, a 30
- Carcer Aeoli an hole so called in old time, 67, a 50
- Cardans fond opinion touching dogs become woolues, and woolues dogs, 232, a 30. His report of Henrie the eight, 196, b 10
- Carduus benedictus, 209, a 60
- Carleill how called in the Ro|mans time, 190, b 30. Some|times named Cairdoill, 146, a 20. Standeth betwéene two streames or riuers, 88, a 10. The bishopriks erection, cir|cuit, and valuation, 146, a 10
- Carolus Clusius, 210, a 10
- Carpenters of England high|lie cõmended, 188, a 40. They passe in their new frames the finest of old, 212, a 60
- Carpes latelie brought into England and later into the Thames, 46, b 20
- Carthamus bastard saffron, 234, a 60
- Castell of Bungie & Leicester, &c: when & by whom defaced, 195, a 20. Of Bestons prophe|sie, 195, a 10. Of Cambridge higher than that of Oxford, 148, b 60
- Castels and holds in England, 194, a 40. Manie & by whom sometimes builded, 194, b 10. What and where mainteined, 194, b 40. The ruine of manie cities, 194, a 50. The cause of their ruine & decaie, 194, b 30. At Cambridge and Oxford by whom builded, 149, a 10
- Cathnesse how far distant from England, 113, b 30
- Cattell kept for profit, 219, a 40. Somtimes féed vpon saffron, 232, b 10. In England of di|uerse sorts, 110, b 20
- Caues wherein are hals, cham|bers, & all offices of houshold cut out of hard rocke, 130, a 30
- Cawood castell belonging to the archbishop of yorke, 95, a 50
- Celts properlie called Galles, 12, b 50. Britaine vnder them thrée hundred fortie and one yeares, 3, b 10. Whether they spake Gréeke or no, 12, b 50. They & the Britons indiffe|rentlie called Cimbri, 13, a 10
- Chalke in some places sold by the pound, 187, a 60
- Cham notwithstanding his lewdnes made a god, 21, b 40. The doctrine of him and his disciples, 21, b 30. What reli|gion his posteritie brought o|uer into Britaine, 21, b 50, 60. 22, a all.
- Chamberleine. ¶ Sée Innes.
- Chancellor lord of England his dignitie, 164, b 40
- Chanons of old Sarum togi|ther by the eares: note, 57, a 10
- Chapell of the kings college of what stone it is builded, 234, b 60
- Chapmen. ¶ Sée Innes.
- Charles the fourth emperour glased church windows with geat stone, 239, a 40
- Chase and parke how they dif|fer, 206, a 10
- Chases & what beasts to them properlie belonged, 206, a 20
- Chedderhole or Chedder rocke in Summersetshire an Eng|glish woonder, 129, b 20
- Chelme [...]ford or Chelmerford so named of the riuer Chelmer, 107, a 50
- Cherwort, ¶ Sée Béere.
- Chesill riuer described, being like a narrow banke: note. 58, b 10
- Chester how called in the Ro|mans time and when it was an vniuersitie, 190, b 20. How seated, why called Caerleon or Ciuitas legionum, and how statelie in old time, 73, b 50. Raced to the ground and not since reedified, 35, b 40. Bi|shoprikes erection, circuit, and valuation, 145, b 30
- Chestershire & Lancastershire diuided by the riuer Tame, 84, a 20
- Cheuiot hils twentie miles in length, 109, a 60
- Chichester how called in the Romans time, 190, b 60. Bi|shoprike when first begun, & the circuit therof, &c. 141, a 50
- Chimnies now manie, in times past few, 188, b 30
- Chipping Walden, why so na|med, 206, b 20
- Christians spared from the fu|rie of the sword, 121, b 10
- Chronicles of Barnwell, 113, a 40. Of Burton, 23, b 10. Of Cogshall, 12, a 60
- Chrysocolla, 236, b 20
- Chrystall stone, 239, b 20
- Church of England more bene|ficiall to the princes coffers than the state of the laitie, 137 b 10. The ancient & present estate thereof, 131, a 30. It is become the asse whereon eue|rie market man is to ride and cast his wallet, 137, a 60. Lands of it and college pos|sessions pried after by ding|thrifts, 152, b 20. Whether that which Lucius builded at London stood at Westmin|ster or in Cornehill, 24, a 60. That of S. Martins turned into a barne, 56, b 60. ¶ Sée Uniuersitie.
- Churches in England scowred and cleansed from all relikes of idolatrie, and how beauti|full, 138, b 30. Priuileges granted to them and church|yards, 197, b 50. Stone in times past was vsed and de|dicated to the building of thẽ, 234, b 30. The old estate of cathedrall churches, 139, b 40 Exercises kept in them, 135, a 50. Why so called, 135, a 10. In part conuerted into mar|kets & shops, & why, 135, a 50. Churches collegiat diuers in England, 151, b 20. Parish churches whervpon they be|gan & were erected, 135, a 40. Exercises vsed ordinarilie in them, 138, a 10. Decaied in Lelands time, 193, b 60. In Lincolne fiftie two in times past, 193, b 40. In France how manie, 139, b 10. ¶ Sée Clergie and Parishes.
- Cicester how called in the Ro|mans time, 190, b 40
- Cidmouth hauen wherof so na|med, 59, a 40
- EEBO page image 712 Cinnabarum, 236, b 20
- Cities that stood in this land in the Romans time, 190, a 50 When first builded and multi|plied, 190, a 20, Greater in times past when husbandmẽ were also citizens, 190, a 30. That send knights, citizens, burgesses, and barons to the parlemẽt, 174, b 40. Souther|lie builded were ancient, faire & great, 189, b 40. That stood in this land in the Romans time, 190, a 50 Ancient so de|caied as that their ruines are no where to be séene, 191, a 30. The names of them in Eng|land, 192, b 10. ¶ Sée Towns
- Citizens & burgesses, 162, b 50
- Claie of diuerse sorts occupied in building, 187, a 50
- Clarens duchie whense it had the denomination, 105, b 20
- Claudia Rufina a British la|die, 23, a 60
- Cle hils in Shropshire, 109, a 60
- Clée riuer rising in the verie consines of Buckingham & Bedfordshire, 102, b 20
- Clergie of England reuerentlie thought of in forren regions, 158, a 40. Fauourable in pu|nishing whoredome, 185, b 10
- Clergie men vsed kings as they listed, 133, 134. Had the best wine in old time, 167, b 30. Immunitie of them greater vnder idolatrie than vnder the gospell, 20, b 40. ¶ Sée Préests.
- Clocks, 241, a 60
- Cloten inheritor to the whole empire, and why he diuided it, 117, a 60
- Cloth carried out to be shorne, &c. 236, a 60
- Clothworkers starue and beg, 236, b 10
- Cobham lord Iohn begun to build Rochester bridge, 52, b 60
- Cobham Thomas bishop of Worcester: note, 142, a 60
- Co [...]ll traitorouslie slaine in his bed, 117, b 60
- Coines forren both of gold and siluer, 219, a 10. Of England in times past & now present, 218, a 50, ¶ Sée Monie and Romans.
- Colchester in old time called Ca|malodunum, 106, a 10. Wan by the Romans, 107, b 10. Whe|ther so named of the riuer Coine or Colonia Romano|rum, 106, a 30. How called in the Romans time, 190, b 10. Named a long time Colonia, 217, b 60
- Colemines, 236, b 40
- Colewort medicinable, 209, b 50
- Colonie what it is, 191, b 40
- College. ¶ Sée Uniuersitie.
- Collet Iohn deane of Paules founder of Paules schoole, 147, b 40
- Combat betwéene Corineus & Gomagot. 8, b 50. ¶ Sée Con|flict.
- Comes. ¶ Sée Earle.
- Commons in England to what vse they serued, and how their vse is peruerted, 112, a 10. Incroched vpon by the erec|ting of tenements, 112, b 40.
- Complaint first tendered out of England to Rome, 7, a 60
- Complexions of people accor|ding to the climat where they dwell, 114, b 30
- Conies so fat, that the grease of one weied six or seuen oun|ces, 110, b 40
- Conflict betwixt churchmẽ cal|led The holie conflict, 57, a 10 Hot & bloudie betwixt Athel|stane and certeine aliens at Seton in Deuonshire, 59, a 20
- Conquest of England attemp|ted in Atheistans times, but withstood, 59, a 20. A seuenth of England out of the north prophesied, 8, a 30. Diuerse since duke Williams time, that prospered not, 8, a 10, 20
- Consigne quéene of Bithenia torne in péeces of a mastife, 231, a 40
- Constables high and petie their offices, 155, b 10
- Contention gréeuous betwéene the king of England & Lild bishop of Elie: note, 143, b 10
- Coopers, 236, b 20
- Copiholders oppressed, 189, a 40
- Copper, 238, b 20
- Corbridge sometimes inhabited by the Romans, 91, a 10
- Corineus twelue cubits high, that is, eightéene foot, 8, b 50
- Cormorants about the Ile of Elie, 227, b 50
- Corne in England and other kinds of graine, 110, a 60. What obseruations are kept in the countrie for the price thereof the yeare following, 203, a 30. What great abuse is suffered therin both for price, &c. 202, b 10, 203, a 10
- Cornwall called the promonto|rie of Helenus, and why, 34, b 30. The Britons call it Cer|niw, 14, a 50. The bredth of it & Deuonshire, 66, a 30
- Corrall white, 239, b 30.
- Counties. ¶ Sée Shires.
- Court of England alwaies kept where the prince lieth, 196, a 50. Punishment of such as smite within the bounds of it forbidden, 197, a [...]0
- Court kept at Kings hill in Rochford after midnight: note. 156, b 10
- Courts of some princes beyond sea compared vnto hell, 196, b 60, 197, a 10
- Courts of chancerie at Yorke & Ludlow, 181, a 40
- Courtiers of England the best learned and worst liuers, 196, a 60
- Cranmer archbishop of Can|turburie supposed to be an ostler: note, 152, a 20
- Créekes noted by seasaring men for their benefit vpon ye coasts of England, 108, a 10. ¶ Sée Hauens and Riuers.
- Crocus (in English Saffron) with the occasion of the name, 232, b 30
- Crokers, or saffron mens ob|seruation, 233, b 40
- Crosses of wood foũd about Ha|lidon, & how they came there, 130, b 60
- Crowdon hils reaching to the borders of Scotlãd, 109, a 50
- Crowes car [...]ẽ, 227, b 30. White, 223, b 20. Tame crowes of a tinminer & a shoomaker with strange tales of them, 238, a 20, 50
- Crowne of gold the first that was euer worne in this na|tion, 117, b 10
- Cubit geometricall, 9, a 40
- Cumberland and Westmerland by what riuer beũded, 86, d 20
- Custome of Hali [...]x, 185, b 20. ¶ Sée Law.
- Curres. ¶ Sée D [...]gs.
- Cymbri of likelihood came out of Britaine, 13, a 30
- Cynike yeare: note, 244, a 20