the name._]

[Note i: _The Armes of the towne of Huntingdon, first so named of
a place where Hunters met._]

[Stanza 70]

Northampton[k] with a Castle seated high,
Supported by two Lyons thither came;
The men of [l]Rutland, to them marching nie,
In their rich Ensigne beare an Ermine Ram,
And [m]Lestershire that on their strength relye,
A Bull and Mastiue fighting for the game.
Lincolne[n] a Ship most neatly that was lim'd
In all her Sailes with Flags and Pennons trim'd.

[Note k: _The armes of the towne._]

[Note l: _From the aboundance of wooll in that tract._]

[Note m: _A sport more vsed in that Shiere from ancient time, then
in any other._]

[Note n: _For the length that it hath vpon the Germane Ocean._]

[Stanza 71]

Stout[a] Warwickshire, her ancient badge the Beare,
Worster[b] a Peare-Tree laden with the Fruit,
A Golden Fleece and[c] Hereford doth weare,
Stafford[d] a Hermet in his homely sute,
Shropshire[e] a Falcon towring in the Ayre,
And for the Shiere whose surface seems most brute,
Darby, an Eagle sitting on a Roote,
A swathed Infant holding in her foote.

[Note a: _The Beare and ragged Staffe, the ancient Armes of that
Earledome._]

[Note b: _For the aboundance of fruit more there then in any other
tract._]

[Note c: _The finenesse of the wooll of Lemster in that Shiere._]

[Note d: _Many Hermites liued there in the woods in times past, it
being all forrestie._]

[Note e: _Expressing the loftinesse of the mountaines in that
Shiere, on which many Hawkes were wont to airy._]

[Stanza 72]

Olde[f] Nottingham, an Archer clad in greene,
Vnder a Tree with his drawne Bowe that stood,
Which in a checkquer'd Flagge farre off was seene:
It was the Picture of olde Robin Hood,
And[g] Lancashire not as the least I weene,
Thorough three Crownes, three Arrowes smear'd with blood:
Cheshiere a Banner very square and broad,
Wherein a man vpon a Lyon rode.

[Note f: _That famous out-law liued much in that Country, and is
yet by many places there celebrated._]

[Note g: _Accounted euer the best Archers in England._]

[Stanza 73]

A flaming Lance, the[h] Yorkshiere men for them,
As those for Durham neere againe at hand,
A Myter crowned with a Diadem:
An Armed man, the men of[i] Cumberland:
So[k] Westmerland link'd with it in one Stem,
A Ship that