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REVIRICABLE PERSONS.

IiXTKACT FROM AN IIiSCOKICAL DICTIONARY,
(1I THE
MOST REMARKABLE PERSONS IN ENGLAND AND
WALES.--Publiih.l in 11192.
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(Continued from a ruiner Paper.)
JACK CADY.
Captain and ringleader of the rebels in Kent. He
seas born in Ireland, and named himself Joseph Mor-
timer, cousin to the Duke of York, but lived in Sus-
sex, with Sir Thomas Deere. He brought a great
number of Kentish men to Blackheath, and there
kept the field above a month. He drew up his
complaints, and the causes of the Assembly of the
Commons of Kent on Blackheath, and sent to the
King, in fifteen articles, to redress and reform the
grievances of the nation. After several skirmishes,
and loss of many men on both sides, the King issued
forth a proclamation, for taking the said Cade, and
his gang. Whereupon Alexander Eden, a Gentle-
man of Kent, took Cade in a garden in Sussex, at
Hothfield, and slew him, in 1450, for which he was
made Keeper of the Castle at Rochester.

MADOC,

Brother to David, Prince of North Wales, born
probably at A berfraw, made a sea voyage westward
in the year 1170; and probably those names of
Cape de Breton and Pengwin, in part of the Nurth-
ern America, were reliques of his discovery.

OLIVER 07 m•LmseetY,

A BenediAine Monk, being muSaddiEted to ma-
thematics. and to judicial astrology, upon the ap-
pearing of a comet, foretold the destritaion of the
inhabitants of this land ; wlich fell out accordingly
at the Norman conquest. It is said that he essayed
the famous experiment of flying ; and taking his rise
horn a tower ct Malmesbury, made his way in the
air for one furlong, then fell down and brake both
his taiglss. Having writ some books of astronomy,
he died in 1060, five years before the Norman in-
♦asion.
STEPHEN MARSHALL, •
Born at God-manchester, in Huntingdonshire,
Bachelor of Divinity in Cambridge, was Minister at
Finchfield, in Essex. To the long Parliament, I*
was in their fasts and preaching, their trumpet ; in
their sickness, their confessor ; in their assembly,
their counsellor ; in their treaties, their chaplain ;
and in their disputations, their champion. lie was
of so iv 'pie a soul, that he brake not a joynt, •ea,
sprained not a sinew, in all the alttrations of
times; Serving the Lord and the times."—He
died in 1655.

AMBROSE MERLIN,
Born at Carmarthen, in Wales. Many are his pre-
tended propliecie, whereof the British have a very
high esteem, though their own proverb says, that
Besides God there is no diviner." Stone ni tin-
Lain Merlin to have been a great chemist, and that
his prophecies-are to be expounded natttrill.v.
was a great mathematician : but hi, writiags me
dangerous. He was fainous in 4.10.
DAVID MIDDLETOa,
Born in Chester city ; one of those who effenually
contributed his assistance, to the making or new
discoveries both in the Fast and West Indies, where-
of you may see his printed relation. His dangers
wine great and many, among cannibals and croco-
diles, yet at last he did settle the English trade at.
l CIO.
SIR lIL.NRV MIDDLETON, icier.
Younger brother, as 1 take it, to the former, un-
derwent also great pains and troubles, in advancing
the English ti aide. Remat kAble was his voyage into
the Red Sea, where he was told to land by the trea-
cherous Al.; I, and had eight of Lis men barbarously
slain, hirne.f and seven more chained up by the
necks. Tile prete:lce was, because that port was the
door of the Holy City, and it is carnal for any Chris-
tian to come so near thereunto. Then he was sent
to the Basha, who gave him leave to sail eastward,
where he repaired (with the Indians) his losses sus-
tained by the Forks Though he died in !tit!, yet
his name will survive, whilst Middleton Cay ap-
peareth in the maps.

OYORGE NONE,
Highly descended in Deionshire, commenced
Captain in the Martial University, the Low Coun-
tries, not per %alien., but from a private soldier. Be.
ing Governor of Scotland, from whence he took a
proipea of our English affairs, he resolved to restore
the King. To that end, hiving seemed Scotland in
faithful hards,he entered England with a strong army
and wise condua, so that he gave Lamhert's army
a mortal wound. The Parliament plied Monk with
many addresses, but his answer still neither granted
nor denied their desires ; he was an absolute riddle.
Indeed, had lie appeared what he was, he had never
been what he pinyed. Having pulled down the
gates cf London, immediately followed that turn of
our times, and King Charles 11. was recalled back.
For this great aaion, George Monk was made Duke
of Albemarle, and Master of His Majesty's Horse.
lie died in 1672.

MAROURLT MORI,
Daughter of Sir Thomas, was the miracle of her
age, for all learning and languages. For her se-
cresie, she was intrusted by her father with his most
important secrets. Erasmus has deiicated some
epistle.: to her. Iteing well read in the fathers, she
mended this depraved place in St Cyprian, Nisi 1704
Ronerritalit, making it, Memos s erilatis. She trans.
hated Eusebius nut of Greek. She buried the body
of her lather, and bought his head r.f the executioner,
and kept it for a relique, till she WAS questioned be-
fore the Council for toe same ; hut she answered with
so much prudence, that they discharged her; and she
comforted herself with reading.

lIVILLIA V 14011 ELL,
Some time a Chyrurgeon of good credit at Ban-
bnry, in Oxfordshire, became so notorious an im-
postor, as to marry six wives all living at once, and
to personate Humphrey Wickham, Esq. at Swikley,
in the same county, at a baker's house in the Strand,
in i.ondow, to cheat the said baker of a fortnight's
lutlging and bread. Here falling sick, he made his
last will and testament, and with a stupendious con-
fidence, largely cantoned out of that worthy gen-
tleman's estate, vast legacies to his landlord, and so
died, having received the Sacrament, to the amaze-
ment of all; ISA.

1 IT. PATRICE,
Surnamed the Great, by Bede, war born in Pem-
brokeshire, South Wales, where, being taken, and sold
to Mullin, King of the North parts ut Irelaad, they