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A07894	A briefe chronicle, of the successe of times, from the creation of the world, to this instant· Containing, the originall & liues of our ancient fore-fathers, before and after the Floude, as also, of all the monarchs, emperours, kinges, popes, kingdomes, common-weales, estates and gouernments, in most nations of this worlde: and how in alteration, or succession, they haue continued to this day.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1611 (1611)	STC 18263; ESTC S112963	308,814	636

three yeares Antiochus Grypus the sonne of Demetrius hauing vanquished and slaine Alexander Zebin in battell raigned 29. yeares During which time his Brother Antiochus the Cyzicenian made warre vpon him without intermission After the death of this Antiochus Grypus mightie troubles were in Syria for some time because they of the royall race were in continuall warres killing and ma●sacring one another Vntill such time as one Antiochus the sole remainder of that race dying without any successor Tigranes K. of Armenia inuaded this great kingdom wherevpon he was not long after surprized by the Romaines vnder the conduct of Pompey and the Countrey was then reduced into the forme of a Prouince the yeare of the Citty of Rome 693. Of Egypt and the Succession of the Kings there raigning PTolomeus Lagus Soter the most excellent man of all Alexanders Captains was made King raigned fortie yeares ouer Egypt Theophrastus Zeno Theocritus and Menander then liuing and the Romaines made Warre agaynst Pyrrhus Read more of this King in Iustine lib. 13 14 15. Orosius lib. 3 cap. 23. Fergusius was the first king of Scotland Ptolome Philadelphus raigned 38. yeares He first appointed that great Library in Alexandria and caused the Bookes of the Bible to be translated into the Gréeke tongue by the seauentie two Interpreters Aristeus Phalaris Chrisyppus Carneades and Aratus then liued and at Rome happened the first Punick warre Regulus Ptolomey the Liberall husband to his owne Sister raigned 26. yeares At Rome then grew the second Punick War and then liued the Scipioes Fabius Maximus and Marcellus Hanniball was vanquished by Scipio Affricanus the eldest And in this time liued the Authour of the Booke of Wisedome Ptolomey the Parricide raigned 17. yeares He slew his Mother and his Sister who also was his wife At Rome began the warre of Macedon against King Phillip and the war of Asia against the great Antiochus and Hanniball the Fugitiue Then liued great Cato Ennius Neuius Plautus Panetius And Iesus the Sonne of Syrach Author of the Booke of Ecclesiasticus Simon the Iust being Byshop of the Iewes Ptolomey Epiphanes vnder the tutelage of the Romaines raigned 24. yeares The Brethren Macchabees did then valiantly withstande Antiochus the most cruell Tyraunt of Syria his great repentance is to be read in the second Booke of Macchabees the ninth Chapter Ptolomey called Matricide raigned 35. yeares Paulus Aemilius hauing taken the Persian king made Macedon a Prouince to the Romaynes Then happened the third Punicke Warre The warre of Achaia and of Numantia in Spain vnder Scipio Affricanus the younger and Lelius Terence then liuing Ptolomey the Liberall otherwise called Physcus a verie detestable man beeing Brother to Ptolomy the Matricide raigned nine twentie yeares He married his Brothers wife and afterward her Daughter The Sects of the Pharisies Sadduces and Esseans then arose At Rome was the seruile warre And the lawes for actions of the field by the Gracchi Ptolomey Alexander hauing expelled his brother Lathyrus raigned seauentéene yeares Afterward he was thrust out himselfe by his owne people for the death of Cleopatra a wicked woman At Rome was the Iugurthine warre and three Sunnes visibly séene in this time Functius doth attribute these seauentéene yeares and this raigne to Ptolomey Lathyrus preferring him before Ptolomey Alexander Ptolomey Lathyrus beeing repealed to rule againe raigned eightéene years At Rome was the Cimbrian warre Mithridates warre and the ciuill warre betwéene Marius and Sylla Then li Lucullus Antonius and Crassus Orators Lucretius the Poet Varro Sylla dominéered cruelie who retyring himselfe to liue sollitarilie in the fields dyed of Vermine engendred in his owne bodie Ptolomey Aule●es raigned thirty yeares Being excluded by his owne people vnder Pompeyes authority he was reseated by Gabinius Pompey ouer-came Hieras and Sertorius the Pyrates as also Tigranes and Mithridates Then was the conspiracy of Cataline Caesar vanquished the ●aules Cicero liued in exile and Crassus was foyled by the Partheans Ptolomey Dionysius the last King raigned 8. yeares he caused great Pompeyes head to bée cut off Then liued Catullus Hortensius Salust Diodorus Siculus Cato Vtican M. Lepidus Marcellus and Marke Anthony Cleopatra helde the kingdome a-while with her Brother and afterward wholly by her selfe two and twentie yeares Shee vnderstanding that Marke Anthonie was vanquished by Augustus slew her selfe Now was the ciuil warre between Pompey and Caesar And that goodly Library that contained two hundred thousand Volumes was burned in this time Plutarch in vit Antoni The Monarchy of the Caesars or Romaines IVlius Caesar a very gracious Prince and one of the Worlds chiefest Captaines raigned fiue yeares He vanquished Pompey and his confederates Ptolomy hee slew restored Cleopatra his friend Sister to Ptolomy to the kingdom of Aegypt Returning home to Rome he was slaine in the Senate house by Brutus Cassius and other Conspirators Dioscorides then liued but if you would haue more of Caesars life read Suetonius Florus in the life of Caesar Octauius Augustus the last Nephew of Iulius by the Sisters side and his adopted Sonne raigned 56. yeares he was happy in war moderate in peace and liberall to euery one Then liued Virgill Horace Tibullus Propertius Vitruuius Mecenas And then dyed Cleopatra and her husband Marke Anthony Aegypt being then reduced into a Prouince Herod a stranger fauoured by Augustus was then King of Iudea So the Scepter being wholly taken from Iuda Iesus Christ God and man the Sauiour of the world was then borne of a Virgin in Bethlehem according to the Prophesies of Iacob Genes 49 Esay 7 Micheas 5. Iesus Christ came in the yeare of Augustus forty two and of the world 3963. Ouid was then in exile the Citty of Lyons founded and then liued Titus Liuius Valerius Maximus Strabo and Francus King of the Sicambrians in the lower Allemaigne Aquila Tuberus Galba Labeus and Caius were then Law-giuers or Law-Makers Herod the great murderer of Innocents and there were numbred then at Rome foure hundred sixty foure thousand men Claudius Tiberius the Sonne of Liuia afterward Wife to Augustus raigned 23. yeares beginning very well but proouing afterward to bée most wicked Iesus Christ for our saluation was then crucified in Hierusalem vnder Pilate the Prouost of Iudea he said that A good Shepheard should clip his Sheepe and not deuour them C. Caligula Sonne of Germanus a most wicked Man raigned thirtéene yeares This beast the ruine of men made himselfe to bee adored as God hee poysoned his Vnckle Tiberius and defloured all his Sisters leauing them then to others like abusing T. Claudius Vnckle of Caligula and Monster of Men raigned fouretéene yeares He preferred Nero before his owne Son by the treason of whom hee was poysoned with a Mushrome Messalina his first wife peerelesse in all labricity and wickednes then flourished And Saint Peter the Apostle liued reported

the sonne of Seuerus and Iulia borne at Milaiu After the Parthian warre wherein he wan great fauour was called Caesar Antoninus in the life time of his father Op. Macrinus with his sonne Diadumenus raigned one yeare Both the one and other had their heads smitten off by their men of warre Macrinus was learned and seuere but withall detestable and craftie causing his predecessor to be murdred Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalus the Bastard of Caracalla who was a dishonest whore-hunter and most abhominable in life beside gaue great estates to wicked Bawds Pandors Iesters c. And being generally despised he was slaine by his souldiors in the fourth year of his raigne both his owne bodie and his mothers being dragd along the stréets and cast into the common laystall Alexander Seuerus raigned peacebly without e●●usion of bloud 13. years He was a good prince and did vtterly forbid the selling of Offices Vlpianus Paulus Pomponius Alphenens Affricanus Callistratus and other excellent Ciuill Lawyers the schollers of Papinian then liued with Dion the Historian and Philostratus The Kingdome of the Persians was then founded by Artaxerxes and after transported to the Sarazens and now commanded by the Sophi Maximinus a persecutor of the Christians raigned three yeares Being at first but a silly shepheard he was made Emperor by the Souldiors without authority of the Senate and then by them slaine Gordianus a Prince of a Noble spirite with his sonne named Gordianus the younger a good Prince raigned six yeares and was slaine by Phillip his successor In his time was a woonderfull Ecclipse of the Sunne Read I. Capitolinus who placeth also Pupienus and Balbinus created by the Senate with Gordianus the elder Pupienus Maximus a new man and sonne to a Smith gaue himselfe alwaies to vertue and Military seruices prouing fortunate against the Polonyans and Germans M. Caelius Babynus and Pupienus after they had béene Consuls and that the Gordians were slaine in Affryca were created Emperors by appointment of the Senate against Maximinus and both of them were vndeseruedly slaine Gordianus the second yongest sonne of Gordianus by his daughter born at Rome was slain in a sedition of souldiers by Phillip Prefect of the Pretorians C. Valens Hostilianus is not placed in this ranke by some Historians because immmediately he died smitten with the Pestilence so that scarsly there remaineth any memory of him Phillip an Arabian by Nation was the first Christian of the Caesars and raigned fiue yeares He gaue by his Testament all his rightes and treasures to Pope Fabian And heere began the riches of the Roman Church Hee was likewise slaine by his successour as he had kilde his Predecessour Decius Triaan a persecuter of the Christians reigned two yeares S. Saturnine the Byshop was martyred at Tholouse S. Laurence Hippolita Cecily Agatha and Appollina Q. Herennius Hetruscus is not by any Historian placed among the Emperours Neuerthelesse in this ranke is his picture found in the booke of Hubert Goltzius and there it is recorded of him that he was the sonne of Decius that he was slaine in Hungaria in a Battel againste the Gothes Vibius Gallus with his sonne Volusianus reigned two yeares Being persecutors of the Church were both slain by the souldiors At this time there was such a contagious pestilence and almost so generally dispearsed that in many places there was left no Creature liuing This pestilence continued fiftéene yeares and séemed to be partly occasioned thorough the wicked gouernment of this Emperor Aemilianus Lybienus borne in Mauritania in his yong yeares followed Armes and soon after he was made Emperor He was slain at Spoleta being aged 40. yeares Licinius Valerianus with his sonne Galien persecuting the Church raigned fiftéene yeares He was Captiue to Sapor King of Persya whoe vsed him as a footstool when he mounted on horsbacke S. Cyprian and S. Cornelia were then martyred Porphirius wrote against the Christians The thirty Tyrants vsurped the Empyre Read Trebellius Polyo c. S. Paul the first Hermite began the solitary life Galien the son of Valerian suffered the Christians to liue in quiet and reigned nine years alone after that his father was ledde captiue into Persia by Sapor He was excéeding wise but addicted to Lust Saloninus Valerianus the sonne of Galien was slain with his Father being retired to Millain and was but ten yeares old Cassius Labienus Posthumus from beeing a simple souldior attained to great dignities and being in France was made Emperor in the time of Galien where he was slaine Flauius Claudius of whom yssued the familie of the Constantines a good Prince of Noble lignage and highly estéemed reigned two yeares Dyonisius being then Pope deuided the Diocesses and Parishes of the Christians Tom. 1. de Concil Iamblicus Plotinus and Iuven●us priest reduced the foure Gospels into Hexameter verses Aurelius Quintillius brother to Claudius after the death of his brother was saluted as Emperor by the Senate and slaine 17. daies after Valerius Aurelianus a cruell man reigned six yeares He tormented the Christians and repulsed the Franconians entring out of Germanie into Gaul He was the first that wore an Emperial Crowne a louer of Military discipline and one that rigorously punnished the vices of his Souldiors He vanquished Zenobia a very Warlike Lady holding the Empyre of the East Tacitus was slain the sixt moneth of his empyre This good Prince caused the books of Cornelius Tacitus to be receiued into all Libraries The Manicheans began from the time of Aurelianus to infect the Church Annius Florianus brother to Tacitus being desirous to raigne vsurped the Empyre as by inheritance but in a short time hee was slaine at Tharsus by his souldiors Probus a good Prince the Author of peace in the high and lower Germany or Almain reigned six yeares and foure moneths He said That hee had no need of Warriors hauing no enemies and that the souldior not doing any thing ought not to eate vp publike prouision Carus a good and wise Prince reigned two yeares with his sonnes Carinus and Numerianus two brethren of very different nature The first was most wicked and full of cruelty The other full of goodnesse valour and knowledge Then liued Volcatius Herodian Lampridius Spartianus Pollio Vopiscus and Capitolinus Historians Dioclesian with Maximianus Herculius reigned 20. yeares he was a most cruell persecutor of the Christians and would haue himselfe to be worshipped Katharine Lucy Agnes Barbus Sebastian Vincent Cosmo and Damian and innumerable other Martyrs through the world in his raigne to the number of 17. M. were put to death in thirty daies Valerius Maximus sir-named Herculius a man of fierce and cruell nature was very outragious in lust especially with his owne Sisters blockish in giuing councell without ciuillity and gouernment and therfore had Dioclesian to assist him in the Empire Constantius Chlorus father of Constantine and Galerius the one gouerned in the East the