Desiderata curiosa = or A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history ... . [13 H. 8.]i z. His father, Mr. Richard Cecill of Burghley in the countic of Northampton efquire, wasprincipal officer of the robes, in the tyme of King Henry the eight. A place, though noweelleemd but meane, yet, at that time, of good account. 3. For then the king did ordinaryly make himfelf ready in the robes [or chamber fo called;]where Mr. Cecill being chief, & a wife, difcrcet man, was in great favour with the kinge ; whogave him both countenance and lyvinge j as ap
Desiderata curiosa = or A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history ... . [13 H. 8.]i z. His father, Mr. Richard Cecill of Burghley in the countic of Northampton efquire, wasprincipal officer of the robes, in the tyme of King Henry the eight. A place, though noweelleemd but meane, yet, at that time, of good account. 3. For then the king did ordinaryly make himfelf ready in the robes [or chamber fo called;]where Mr. Cecill being chief, & a wife, difcrcet man, was in great favour with the kinge ; whogave him both countenance and lyvinge j as appeared by the port Mr. Cecill lyved in, not I. • Egt GnUflmui Cedl naiut fum apui Burn !h com. He was called William, as I take it, from the chriftian I. !1, . wl •^^*» »«??> I><«ini 1520. Lord name of his grandfather William Heckington of Biirne Burnley • .MS. Dury. aforefaid efq. &, I prefume, born in his faid grandfa- He waj alfo baptized at Bumc. Du^J. Bare;:, vil. thcrg houfe there. F. F. 11. f. 406.« Lcwj* 4». f. 90. nowe TheMonumrntofty^//////a/ LCtv/ CtA7. SftAir/tA^ //f/r Sj//^//-. Lib. I. DESIDERATA CURIOS A. nowe ufual by officers in that place. For it was then no fmall preferment or reputation in theworld, to have the favourable countenannce of fo bountifiill, magnificent a prince as he was, 4. This Mr, Richard Cccill was a gentleman defccndcd from the Cecills of Haukcrennes inWhales, a very antient houfe; my felf haveing lene manie antient, auchentique writings andevidences, provinge many lyncall dcfcents, evne to himfelf (the coppies whereof I have in mycuftodie to ihewe) &am afTured fewe menn in England can fhcwe more pregnaunt & authenti-call proofes for derivation of [their*] dilcent, then are extant for aprovinge this truth of his*pedigree, by manie fcveral evidences & records, proving every difcent; a thinge not ufuall tobe 5. But, if this weare not fo, or that his faid proofes failed ; yet was he [a] gentleman. For,befides that hi
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