Excipitur puteo, structis non æquiparando,
Sed qui fortuito quovis ornatior ortu est.
Inde soluta fluit, nisi quæ fundo retinetur
Lata duos cubitos, tres longa, unumque profunda.
Unum dico suo quando contenta liquore
Subsidet, at binos quando hospite tollitur unda.
Labra reclinatæ signabat saxea ripe
Linea, quam latices ipsi fecere tumentes,
Subnigris saxis modo detumuisse reperti.
Ergo cessatos iterum expectare labores
Tædet, & improbius visum est. Discedere prorsus
Admotis properamus equis. Jam jamque abeuntes
Concussis revocamur aquis. Liquidosque videmus
Attolli latices; sensimque irrepere saxis.
Jamque fere pleno saltabat fervida fonte
Lympha, velut rabidus cum subditur ignis aheno,
Nescia stare loco, refugit sævum unda metallum,
Cum juxta fontem, condicto rivulus ortu
Erumpit subitò, super infusoque liquore,
Præstat aquæ solitos auctæ contingere fines.
Quò perducta, iterum decrescit, & illico rivi
De super immissi restinguitur impetus, & quæ
Respuerat, repetit sitiens sua pocula Tellus.
Distracti laticis pars effluit altera ripis
Fontis; pertuso infertur pars altera fundo.
Furtaque muscosis erepta levissima saxis,
Graminaque & paleam & tenuis præsegmina chartæ,
Sive aliud quicquam parvâ superabile lymphâ
Injicimus, rediens infert in viscera terræ,
Jamque humili fonti, proprius vix constitit humor,
Cum redeunt fluctus; iterum ceu febre laborat
Unda instante tremens tota æstuat; auctaque lymphis
Externis iterum* tropicam contingere metam
Sufficit, accepto velans sua littora fluctu;
Atque iterum residet. Sed nos vetat† umbra morari,
Umbra giganteas mentita Colossica formas
Maturamus iter, sed quærimus inter eundum,
Conamurque, omni collato discere signo,
Abdita quæ tantum concivit causa tumultum.
Nam neque Salsedo, neque quid commune marinis,
His reperitur aquis; Phoebes nil imputat astro
Fons hic, temporibus nec tollitur (ut mare) certis ;
Estibus his nullam præfigit Ephemeris horam.
Ergo quid in causâ est? Paucis sic accipe. Prodit
Quæ tellure cavâ, fontique illabitur unda
Advena, non istuc proprio delata canali
Pervenit, atque volens alienos occupat ortus,
Sed dum ductricis sequitur vestigia lymphæ,
Longinquosque petit, per terræ viscera, fontes,
Intrat in angustis subeunda meatibus antra.
Huc quoties humor tumefactâ defluit undâ,
Præcipitique aditum comprendit flumine totum,
Protinus aura locum conclusa tuetur; aquisque
Pernegat ingressum, nec habens quo cedere, pugnat.
Utque est deprensâ nihil obfirmatius aurâ,
* Quo provecta solebat decrescere. Solis jam occidentis.
Sustinet urgentes exili corpore lymphas,
Tum, conferta velut si portis irruat arctis
Turba, hærent, ipso defixi in limine, primi;
Quæ sequitur stat pro foribus stipata caterva,
Parsque urget socios, alias dilabitur & pars
Quæsitura vias: exclusus defluus humor
Intumet, impatiensque moræ, expatiatur, & errans
Fertur in hunc fontem, lentarum impulsor aquarum.
Hinc fit post magnos guttis pluvialibus imbres
Transmissis, æstus fieri crebros, & in horas,
Fluctum (ut nunc) vicibus tolli, & subsidere ternis.
Sed post continuis tellurem ardoribus ustam,
Vix semel in toto cerni hæc miracula mense.
Jam nostros fugiens visus, auriga diei
Antipodas tota lustrabat lampade; nobis
Languida succensæ præbebant lumina nubes.
Et simul ad celebrem tepidis deponimur undis
Buxtonam. Divæ sacer est fons inclytus Annæ :
Ambas miscet aquas calidæ gelidæque ministra
Tellus; sulphureisque effundit pharmaca venis.
Hæc resoluta senum confirmat membra trementum,
Et refovet nervos lotrix hæc lympha gelatos.
Huc infirma regunt baculis vestigia claudi;
Ingrati referunt baculis vestigia spretis.
Huc, mater fieri cupiens, accedit inanis,
Plenaque discedit puto, nec veniente marito.
Excipitur, ferme quadrato fonte, serena
Nascens unda, & quinque pedes vehit alta natantes.
Spectator muris, & tecto excluditur imber.
Hospitioque eadem gratissima balnea nostro
Conjungit foribus paries communis apertis.
Ergo placet, coquitur dum cespite cæna cremato,
Defessos lymphis refovere tepentibus artus.
Protinus exuti, nitidis illabimur undis,
Nudaque perspicuis velamus corpora lymphis.
Nunc facie prona namus; nunc nare supini
Tentamus. Bibimus.* Nec enim omnia possumus omnes.
Postquam vexatis per totam fluctibus horam
Lusimus; egressi siccis lodicibus udi
Induimur. Mox quisque suo vestimur amictu,
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* Indocti nare, aquam imbibimus. Interrogatis, an apponi placeret. Ovilla elixa, jusculo extracta.
Nondum vulgares Cælo dimoverat ignes,
Cùm somno excusso tepidis immergimur undis
Rursus, & inficimur penitus medicante liquore
Jam dibaphi; atque iterum rorantia corpora lectis
Reddimus, & nonà de somno surgimus horâ.
Unica restabat, verum dignissima visu,
Haud procul hinc Spelunca Poli, sic dicta Caverna.
Insignis latro Polus, &, si credere famæ
Debemus, furi par Caco, & forte coævus.
Hac usus latebra consuevit vivere rapto;
Atque viatores spoliandos ducere in antrum.
Verum & ei solenne fuit conjungere furtis
Cædem; sic texit scelera authoremque Caverna.
Hanc inspecturi penitus, ductore perito
Cæcarum assumpto imâ sub tellure viarum,
Eximus, pedites collem petimusque virentem,
Distantem nostrâ vix passus, mille tabernâ.
Ipsas ad montis radices, concava tellus
Prostratis aditum pertusa foramine præbet
Exiguo, minus at præmissis invia* plantis.
Omnes cancrino gressu, sumptâque lucernâ
Quisque suâ, tandem transmittimur, erigimurque
Antrum, horrendum, informe, ingens aperitur. Et atra
Divisa in partes nox dissilit atrior ambas.
Asperaque apparet Latronis, & horrida Saxis
Regia. Percussum rutilo micat igne lacunar.
Progredimur. Pedibusque admoto lumine cautis,
Saxa ingentia, roscida, lubrica, & ardua scansu,
Libera, corruitura semel, nunc ergo timenda,
Saxosæque feros montes vallesque Cavernæ
Transimus; fluviumque suas qui dissipat undas
Cæcus in objectas impingens murmure rupes.
Qui scandet rauco surgentem a flumine montem,
Ille licet sudetque pedesque manusque fatiget,
Dissita ab introitu stadiis tribus, ultima opaci
Pertinget (multo nobis audacior) Antri.
Speluncam hanc credas habitatam Gorgone primùm
Anguicomâ, & versa in rigidum sic omnia saxum,
Nam lapis est, quodcunque vides. Laquearibus altis
Quæ sicci tibi terga Suis pendere videntur,
Dentibus haud cedent. Durum sunt utraque saxum.
Non est ille Leo, Leo, quamvis erigat hirta
Colla juba, sedeatque antri ferus incola cæci,
Sed fulvus lapis. Ille Senex qui rupibus aspris
Innisus recubat cubito, pars rupis & ipse est.
Quæque lacunari scintillant Astra micante,
Sunt nitidi illotâ gemmantes luce lapilli:
Guttaque quæ saxi mucro nunc pendet acuti,
Numquid & illa lapis? lapis illa vel est, vel erit mox:
Admoti exceptam digito deprendimus esse
Nec lapidem, nec aquam, verum media inter utrumque
Natura, qualique tenax humore farina.
Detinet intentos dumt transfuga lympha, lucernæ,
Curta perplexâ suadent exire Cavernâ.
Sed prius ad lævam remeantes, undique saxo
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Obductum plano, furis, nulloque madentem
Rore, Poli thalamum, lecti, lasanique capacem,
Inspicimus. Superis tum demum reddimur oris.
Jam tepido fessos sudore rigaverat artus,
Scandendique gravis labor, & formido cadendi.
Reptantumque manus obleverat humida tellus.
Verum ante ora specus turba officiosa, lavandis
Præbebat manibus permistam floribus undam.
Scilicet exigitur tacitè pro munere nummus.
Recte. Namque hærent sordes ut cunque lavemur
Ni (quamquam levicis) referatur gratia donis.
Omnia jam Pecci Miracula vidimus Alti,
Buxtonamque iterum perlatis, & citò pransis
Adducuntur equi, nos qui inter nubila vectos,
Sollicitè que
decem numerantes millia passùm,
Per non insignes Chelmarton, Sheldon, & Ashford,
Ad Chatsworth referunt celerem Deroentis ad undam.
A List of the High-Sheriffs for the County of Derby.*
1459 William Fitz Herbert, of Norbury, esq.
60 Robert Clifton, of Clifton, Notts. esq.
EDWARD IV.
61 Richard Willoughby, esq.
62 Sir John Stanhope, of Shelford, Notts.
63 Ditto
64 Sir Robert Strelley, knight
65 Sir Philip Oker, of Oakeover, knight
66 Nicholas Fitzherbert, of Norbury, esq.
67 Nicholas Kniveton, of Mercaston, esq.
68 Sir Robert Clifton, of Clifton, knight
69 Sir H. Perpoint, of Holm Perpoint, knight
70 William Blount, esq.
71 Sir H. Perpoint, of Holm Perpoint, knight
Printing first brought into England by William
Caxton
72 Gervas Clifton, esq.
73 John Curzon, of Kedleston, esq.
74 Philip Oker, of Okeover, esq.
75 Sir Henry Statham, of Morley, knight
76 William Basset, of Brailsford, esq.
77 Rad. Pole, of Radborne, esq.
Plague in London, 38,000 persons died
78 Gervas Clifton, esq.
79 John Babington, of Dethick, esq.
80 Sir Robert Markham, knight
81 Robert Eyre, esq.
82 Car Pilkington, esq.
83 Sir Gervas Clifton, knight
84 John Curzon of Kedleston, esq.
HENRY VII.
85 Nicholas Montgomery, esq.
86 Sir John Byron, knight
87 John Curzon, of Kealeston, esq.
88 Gervas Clifton, esq.
89 John Leek, of Sutton, Derbyshire, esq.
Plague in London
90 Nich. Kniveton, sen. of Mercastor, esq.
The assizes for the counties of Derby and Nottingham, were held at Nottingham till the reign of Henry III. From this time to the year 1566, they were held at Derby and Nottingham alternately. At the latter period an Act was passed for allowing a sheriff to each county.
13 George Chaworth, esq.
14 Roger Minors, esq.
15 Sir William Mercing, knight Coaches first used in England 16 Sir John Zouch, knight 17 Robert Brown, esq. 18 Sir Br. Stapulton, knight 19 Sir John Markham, knight 20 Sir Godfrey Foljambe, knight 21 Sir John Cockayne, knight 22 Sir William Perpoint, knight 23 John Vernon, esq. 24 Sir John Vernon, knight
25 Sir Godfrey Foljambe, knight 26 Sir John Markham, knight
27 John Vernon, esq.
28 Sir John Byron, knight
29 Nicholas Strelley, esq.
30 Sir Thomas Cockayne, knight
51 Sir Henry Sacheverel, knight 32 William Cosfin, esq.
33 John Hercy, esq.
34 Sir Anthony Babington, knight
71 Sir Peter Fretcheville, of Staveley, knight 72 Sir John Zouch, of Codnor, knight
73 Sir Francis Leake, of Kirk-Hallam, knight 74 Sir Humphry Bradbourn, of Hough, knight 75 German Pole, of Radborne, esq.
76 John Manners, of Nether-Haddon, esq.
77 Francis Wortley, of Wortley, esq.
78 William Basset, of Blore, esq.
79 Godfrey Foljambe, of Aldwarke, esq.
80 Sir Thomas Cockayne, of Ashborne, knight 81 Sir John Zouch, of Codnor, knight 82 John Harpur, of Calke, esq.
A frost continued thirteen weeks 81 Francis Curzon, of Kedleston, esq. 85 John Manners, of Whitwell, esq. 86 Godfrey Foljambe, of Walton, esq. 87 Humphry Dethick, of Dethick, esq. 88 Thomas Gresley, of Drakelow, esq.
War with Spain-armada destroyed 89 William Basset, of Blore, esq. 90 Francis Cockayne, of Ashborne, esq. 91 John Rhodes, of Barlbrough, esq.
92 William Cavendish, of Doveridge, esq.
93 George Curzon, of Kedlestou, esq.
94 John Manners, of Nether-Haddon, esq.
Plague in London, which carried off a fourth
part of its inhabitants
95 Henry Sacheverel, of Morley, esq.
96 John Willoughby, of Risley, esq.
97 Edward Cockayne, of Ashborne, esq.
98 Francis Fitzherbert, of Norbury, esq.
99 Ditto
Rebellion of the Irish under Tyrone 1600 Sir Francis Leake, of Kirk-Hallam, knight 1 Ditto
2 Sir John Fitzherbert, of Tissington, knight
3 Sir Thomas Gresley, of Drakelow, knight
Queen Elizabeth died March 24
4 Henry Willoughby, of Risley, esq. Peace with Spain, August 18.-Plague in London carried off one fourth of its inhabitants.
5 Sir Peter Fretcheville, of Staveley, knight
6 Sir John Harpur, of Swarkstone, knight
7 Sir Richard Harpur, of Littleover, knight
8 Henry Cavendish, of Doveridge, esq.
9 John Curzon, of Kedleston, esq.
10 Thomas Burdett, of Foremark, esq.
11 Sir George Fullwood, of Middleton, knight
12 Sir Henry Leigh, of Egginton, knight
13 Sir Thomas Reresby, of Ashover, knight
14 Sir William Kniveton, of Norton, knight
15 Henry Agard, of Foston, esq.
16 John Bullock, of Darley Abbey, esq. 17 Francis Mundy, of Markeaton, esq.
18 Sir Roger Manners, of Whitwell, knight
19 Godfrey Thacker, of Repton, esq.
20 John Millward, of Broadlow Ash, esq.
21 Thomas Eyre, of Hassop, esq.
22 Jacinth Sacheverel, of Morley, esq.
23 Henry Hunloke, of Wingerworth, esq.
He died, and Sir Gilbert Kniveton, of Bradley,
served the year out
24 Sir John Fitzherbert, of Tissington, knight His father was sheriff at the death of the queen and coronation of king James I. He at the death of king James I. and coronation of king Charles I.-War with Spain
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