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mersett. But then it pleased the Lord to send such a violent and sudden tempest upon them, as destroyed them all so that, as Ovid saith of the Sea where Icarus was drowned,

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So may I say of King Swanus his fleet, drowned at Swanawick atias Swanesey, (i. e.) Swanus-Sea,

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Swanus to Sane-Sea waters gave their name.

The 8th, and last invasion in these parts, was at 3 Mynehead by a fleet of Weltehmen, in the 49th year of King Henry the 3. Anno Domini 1265, set forth by Matt. *Paris, but the Antecendents and Consequents &c. to compleate this storie, being collected out of severall places of this Author, and dulie composed, the whole will sound thus. King Henry the third and his Barons, having long contended the one for the other, against certaine privilidges and prerogatives claymed by the King, and denied by the Barons, at last their differences were composed in a Parliament at Oxford, where the King himself, and his eldest sonne Prince Edward, solemnly swore to the due observation of all the particulers of the agreement; but afterward the King, by the instigation of evill Counsellours, repented of the said Oath, and because he would not be esteemed a perjured person, sued, and easily obtained, an absolution from the

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said Oath of the Pope; but Prince Edward did not ac cept of the said absolution, and so raised an Army against his Barons, and they another against the King, making Simon de Monte forti, Earl of Leicester, their Generall, who gave the King Battell, routed his Armie, tooke him and Prince Edward Prisoners, detained, or rather enter tained, the King as a Royall Prisoner with himself wi thersoever he went, and sent Prince Edward Prisoner to Hereford Castle, where he being permitted to recreate himself, by raceing with Noble men in a large meadow, adjoyning to the Citie, he tempted them to run their horses so often, that his own and their horses being tired, and he having

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STONE-HENGE.

By the same anonymous Author.

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WANDER Witt of Wiltshire, rambling to Rome to gaze at Antiquities, and there skrewing himself into the company of Antiquaries, they entreated him to illustrate unto them, that famous Monument in his Country, called Stonage. His Answer was, that he had never seen, scarce ever heard of, it. Whereupon, they kicked him out of doors, and bad him goe home, and see tonage; and I wish all such sopicall Cocks, as slight these admired Stones, and other our domestick Monuments (by

2 So called à monendo. Goldm. Dic.

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