of Yorkshire, [See Bishop Gibfon's Camden, 28 edit. col. 913.] Called Calaterinum Nemus, in the year 1607.

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" 'Twas famous (he says) for a yearly horserace wherein the prize for the horse that "won, was a golden bell."

'Tis mention'd by Skelton, Poet Laureat to King Henry the VIIIth, Works, published 1736. p. 9.

"Thus ftode I in the frythy forest of Galtry "Enfowked with fylt of the myry mose.". ·Sc. 5. p. 277. Archbishop of York to Prince John of Lancaster.

York. Will you thus break your faith?
Lanc. I pawn'd you none :

I promised you redress of thefe fame grievances,
Whereof you did complain:

Same guard these traytors to the block of death.] For the truth of this, and the foregoing fcene, fee Hall, Holinfhed, and other historians.

To this breach of faith, and death of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, one of our English hiftorians, Clement Maydestone, ascribes several misfortunes to King Henry the Fourth, and observes, among others, that he was ftruck with a leprofy; and that his body in the conveyance of it to Canterbury, was thrown overboard; and his (a) coffin only buried with great folemnity. Sc. 8.

(a) Poft mortem ejufdem Regis accidit quoddam mirabile, ad prædicti Domini Riçardi, Archipræfulis gloriam declarandam, et æternæ memoriæ commendandam.

Nam

Sc. 8. p. 284.

Though it doth work as strong as aconitum.] Aconitum was the fame with the napellus, wolfs bane, or monkshood. See an account of it's operation.

Dr. Mead's Mechanical Account of poyfons, 2d edit. p. 131.

Nam infra triginta dies poft mortem dicti Regis, Henrici Quarti, venit quidam vir de familiâ ejufdem, ad domum Sanctæ Trinitatis de Houndeslow, vefcendi caufâ ; et cum in prandio fermonicarentur circumftantes de probitate morum ipfius Regis; refpondit prædictus vir cuidam armigero, vocato Thoma Maydftone, in eadem menfâ tunc fedenti. Si fuerit vir bonus, novit Deus; fed hoc veriffimè fcio, quod cum a Weftmonafteria corpus ejus verfus Cantuariam, in parva naviculâ portaretur ibidem fepeliendum; ego fui unus de tribus perfonis, qui projecerunt corpus ipfius in mare, inter Berkingum, et Gravesend: et addidit cum juramento; tanta tempeftas ventorum, et fluctuum irruit fuper nos, quod multi nobiles fequentes, nos in naviculis octo in numero difperfi funt; ut vox morti periculum evaferunt. Nos vero qui eramus cum corpore in desperatione vitæ noftræ pofiti, cum affenfû projecimus illud in mare; et facta eft tranquilitas magna. Ciftam vero in quâ jacebat panno deaurato coopertam, cum maximo honore Cantuaria deportavimus, et fepelivimus eam. Dicant ergo monachi Cantuariæ, quod fepulchrum Henrici Regis Quarti eft apud nos, non corpus: ficut dixit Petrus de Sancto David, act. 2°. Deus omnipotens eft teftis et judex: quod ego Clemens Maydeftone vidi virum illum, et audivi ipfum jurantem patri meo Thoma Maydeftone, omnia prædicta fore vera.

Clemens Maydeftone de Martirio Ricardi Scrope, Archiep. Ebor.
Wharton's Anglia Sacra, par. z. p. 372.

"I have

In fome cafes it was of use.

"I have heard (fays Ben Jonson (in Sejanus's. "FALL, p. 352.) that aconite being timely taken, hath a healing might against the fcorPlinii Nat. Hift. lib. 27.

pion's stroke." cap. 2. de aconito.

Sc. 9. p. 286. Clar. The river bath thrice
flow'd, no ebb between,

And the old folk (time's doting chronicles)
Say, it did fo, a little time before,

That our great grandfire, Edward fick'd and dy'd.] Mr. Seymour in his Survey of London, and Weftminifter, vol. 1. p. 30. makes mention of this incident, giving an account of the many remarkable ebbings, and flowings of the river Thames. "On the 12th of October 1411, [the "twelfth year of the reign of Henry IVth] the "Thames flowed thrice in one day." This was two years before the King's death, he dying the 29th day of March 1413.

There are feveral inftances of the Thames, and other rivers being dry. Both the rivers Medway, and the Thames, dry for fome miles in the year 1114. Stow's Annals, p. 138. The Thames in the year 1158. Stow's Annals, p. 149. The river near Harold in Bedfordshire in the year 1399. Echard's Hift. of England, vol. 1. p. 407.See likewife Stow's Ann.

Sc. 9. p. 286.

Glou. This apoplex will certainly be his end.]
Apoplexy. Folio 1632.

Sc. 11. p. 291. King Henry to the Prince of Wales.

K. Hen.

K. Hen. O my poor kingdom, fick with civil blows!

When that my care could not withhold thy riots,
What wilt thou do, when riot is thy care?
O, thou wilt be a wilderness again;
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants.]

Wolves were very common in England and Wales, till beyond the middle of the tenth century, when King Edgar, in order to destroy, and rid the land of them, instead of the tribute imposed on the Prince of Wales, by King Athelstan, appointed (a) Ludwall, then Prince of Wales, to pay him yearly three hundred wolves.

To this Spenfer alludes, Shepherds Calender, September.

Hobbinol.

"Fie on thee, Diggon, and all thy foul "leafing;

"Well is it known, that fith the Saxon King, "Never was wolf feen many nor fome, "Nor in all Kent, nor in Christendom;

"But the fewer wolves (the footh to fain) "The more been the foxes that here remain." And Mr. Somervil.

"Not lefs at land

(a) Sunt qui fcribunt Ludwallum Cambria Principem pendiffe annuatim Edgaro Regi 300 luporum tributi nomine, atque ita annis quatuor, omnem Cambriam atque adeo omnem Angliam orbaffe lupis.

Jo. Caius de Canibus Britannicis, p. 6.

"His

"His royal cares; wife, potent, gracious [King Edgar.]

"Prince!

"His fubjects from their cruel foes he faved,
"And from rapacious favages their flocks.
"Cambria's proud Kings (tho' with reluctance)
"paid

"Their tributary wolves; head after head,
"In full account, 'till the woods yield no more,
"And all the rav'nous race extinct is loft.

"In fertile pastures, more fecurely graz'd
"The focial troops and foon their large
"increase

"With curling fleeces whiten'd all the plains.
"But yet alas! the wily fox remain'd
"A fubtle, pilf'ring foe, proling around
"In midnight shades, and wakeful to destroy
"In the full fold, the poor defenceless lamb,

&c."

The Chace, Book III. 12. &c. From this, 'came the term of wolf's head, when any man was outlaw'd by the King's mouth, his head was call'd a wolf's head, and any man might flay him.

See King Edward's Laws Ecclefiaftical, 1114. 1. 7. Johnson's Collection of Ecclefiaftical Laws, vol. I.

Sc. 11. p. 292. Prince Henry to the crown.
The care on thee depending

Hath fed upon the body of my father,

Therefore thou beft of gold, art worst of gold;
Other, lefs fine of carrat, is more precious,
Preferving life in medicine potable.]

Alluding