Iter lancastrense Author:Richard James Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ITER LANCASTRENSE RICHARDI JAMESII. From j vnru'tio of thi-ir name written in -uldevidencieaall theis conjectures are probable. Birthe and death are equ... more »ally y (riftu of nature: he yt is of other minde shall never be quiet. Peers Ewood, with many other gentlemen thereaboutes, bad land pten rnto them at ye nme time by Adam ae Bem-e, ye charters of which donations are yet extant . Theis charters are anciently calid books, and signe of a free tenure. Theis were not chief Lords, but free men, whoe after griew to great worshippe. Whence Chaucer in his character of y" Frank el in — Atseasionsthere was he Lord and Sire. Poll ofte there he was Knight of y Shire. High holtt of woods, or haye enclosed with woods, Or woddie Isle surrownded with fierce floods Thy antique bounds; from whence so ere thou haue Thy name, I blesse ye, Heywoods wombe and graue, The board and bed vnto thy ofspringe be Kinde of their seasons with tranquillitie. Thou bookland Heywood, lett each aged Sire To well growne children ye with lightsomme fire Deliver gift or Berries Lord, when pejres Rejoicd in men, not onely in their steeres 10 And towne-devouring sheepe, about ye date When second Harrie mightye was of state. The Lords him followd to ye wars, and they With their bolde Francklins dowbted not ye day Of battle, men each other knowing voyd of strife, Honour resolvd to winne, or laye their life. Fulchis of Crew in Chesshire, thy braue worde Once spoken doth to after times afford Worthy example : when in dismall fight A horse was oflIerd to secure thy flight 20 Sim li is ye tradition of him at Crewe once his Lordshlppe now in ye possession of S; Randan Crewe. Every stone speaks ye manner of Talbot's death. Theis Talbots before thei...« less