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A29174	An inquiry into the remarkable instances of history and Parliament records used by the author of The unreasonableness of a new separation on account of the oaths, whether they are faithfully cited and applied.	Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.	1690 (1690)	Wing B4193; ESTC R7290	59,327	44

and advancing his Son Vortimer he cites Mat. West Anno Domini 454. But in the whole Story there is not one Syllable of a Secret League in Mat. West in that or in any other following Year What he cites in the Margin is in Mat. West HISTORY To prevent the Easiness Supinity Luxury and Effeminacy of all People the Ignorance Avarice Debauchery and Simony of the Clergy and an universal lapse of the Nobility and People into notorious Extravagancies and Impieties and to repel the Violences and hinder the Incursions and Invasions of the Picts and Scots Vortigern held a Counsel of his Great Men and Nobles being excited thereto by the Noise and Clamours of the People wherein by General consent it was agreed to call the Saxons out of Germany to their aid Who no sooner received the Invitations from the Britains by special Messengers but easily granted what they themselves had a Thousand * Gildas pag. 46 47 48 49. times wished for Vortigern excited by the noysiness of his People about the Publick State asked the Advice of his Great Men and it pleased them all to call the English and Saxons out of Germany Mighty in Arms Vagabonds without Habitations with prospect of a double Profit that they might easily conquer their Enemies and that hitherto being void of Habitations they might esteem it a vast benefit to inhabit a nasty Soil or Poor Country But they were not to attempt any thing against the Britains because the memory of the Advantage they received by coming thither would soften and reduce their natural Ferity or Barbarity The Advice was allowed and there were sent into Germany Envoys very considerable Men and such as worthily represented the Nation The Germans hearing what they had a Thousand times wished for * Malms fol. 3. b. n. 10.20 c. they enter'd at first with great Joy † Ibid. n. 40. 50. and Favour of the People but finding they cheated them and came for their Estates when it was too late they would have * Ibid. f. 4. a. n. 20. expell'd them They leagued with the Scots whom they were sent for to expel pretending they were not sufficiently rewarded and provided for c. and with their Assistance wasted burnt and spoiled all Cities and Countries from the East to the West Sea † Gild c. 24. p. 55 56. Part of the Story cited by this Author tho he mentions only Mat West is from Geofry of * Fol. 48. b. Monmouth the most Fabulous Historian if he be worthy to be called so extant amongst the English and therefore it may be supposed this Tale is brought in by a side Wind and father'd upon Mat. West Lues acerrima acrior mox hostium novorum i. e. Anglorum est sequuta Flor. Wigorn f. 541. Ann. Dom. 446. Quos Britanni unanimi consilio cum Rege suo Vortigerio quasi Defensores Patriae ad se invitandos eligerunt sed statim Impugnatores Expugnatores senserunt A more sharp than the sharpest of Plagues followed which was of the new Enemies the English whom the Britains by Unanimous Counsel and Advice with their King Vortigern had chosen to be invited to them as Defenders of the Country but they presently proved Assaulters of it and Conquerors The Saxon Chronology speaks to the same purpose * Anno. 446 447 And the late Dean of St. Paul's agrees with and approves of these Relations of the Britains joyning with their King Vortigern in calling in the Saxons in his learned Book of the Antiquities of the British Churches Pag. 304. 317 318 The Author's Words ibid. p. 13. In the Saxon times Sigebert King of the West Saxons in the time of the Heptarchy was complain'd of for misgovernment and for changing their Laws for his own ends but when he persisted in his way there was a Convention of the Nobility and People convenerunt Nobiles regni cum populo universo saith Mat. West and they declared themselves free from Allegiance to him and chose Kineulfus in his room * Cum autem modi● omnibus male tractaret eos legesque a tecessorum suorum propter co●modum suum vel d● pravaret vel mutaret Mat. West A. 〈◊〉 756. He Hunt l. ● p. 196. The following words here omitted in both Authors are Kineulfus Juvenis egregius de Regiâ stirpe oriundus electus est in Regem HISTORY Both Hen. of Hunt and from him Mat. West have this Story But 't is otherwise reported and by Florence of Worcester † Fol. 57 An. Dom 755. Kineulfus de Prosapiâ Regis Cerdicii oriundus auxilium sibi ferentibus West-Saxonicis Primatibus Regem illorum Sigebertum ob multitudinem suorum factorum iniquorum regno exterminavit loco ejus regnavit Kineulphus of the Stock of Cerdic who was the first Saxon King by the assistance of the West Saxon Noblemen for the multitude of his wicked Actions that was Kineulf's pretence and without doubt a Common Good tacked to it expell'd Sigebert the Kingdom except out of Hampshire and he reigned in his stead Almost the same relation is in the Saxon Annals Kineulfus West-Saxonum primatibus adjutus Sigeberti regnum pro malefactis suis totum quidem exceptâ Hamtonensium provinia occupavit Kineulf by the help of the West Saxon Nobility usurped or possest himself of Sigebert's whole Kingdom for his misdeeds except Hampshire * Saxon. Chron. A. D. 755. Whence Kineulf is also derived from Cerdic the Founder of the West Saxon Kingdom This was in the time of the Heptarchy when the petty Kings Earls and Pretenders to his Government took all Opportunities and Pretences to destroy and overturn one another And it was the Action and Contrivance of Kineulf assisted by the rebellious and mutinous Subjects of Sigebert that thrust him out of his Kingdom Malmsbury hath it thus Arripuit regnum Sigebertus vir apud suos saevitiâ immanis idemque foris ignavia perinfamis quocirca omnium odio conspirante post annum Solio deturbatus meliori locum fecit † l. 1. fol. 7. ● n. 20.30 Suscepit regni gubernacula Kienulphus clarus ille quidem morum compositione militiaeque gestis Sigebert invaded or seized the Throne a man very cruel at home and abroad very infamous for Sloth and Cowardise wherefore he was hated of all Men and after one Year being dethroned made way for a better Kineulf famous for his good Temper and Military Actions undertook the Government In these three most Authentick and Ancient Histories there is nothing of a Convention of the Nobles and People or an Election of Kineulf but they affirm that both he and Sigebert whom he dethroned invaded the Government by Force or Fraud and entered upon it by indirect means and by such it was to be kept and for that reason the People hated Sigebert The Author's Words p. 14. In the Kingdom of Mercia Beornredus for not governing by the Laws was by a Convention of