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A06137	The first part of the diall of daies containing 320. Romane triumphes, besides the triumphant obelisks and pyramydes of the Aegyptians, the pillers, arches, and trophies triumphant, of the Græcians, and the Persians, with their pompe and magnificence: of feastes and sacrifices both of the Iewes and of the Gentils, with the stately games and plaies belonging to these feastes and sacrifices, with the birthes and funeral pomps of kinges and emperours, as you shall finde more at large in the 2. part, wherein all kind of triumphes are enlarged. By Lodowick Lloid Esquire.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1590 (1590)	STC 16621; ESTC S108766	125,621	204

Souldiour and from a Souldiour became an Emperour who raigned three yeares then was slaine he and his sonne being a verie childe 240. C. Iulius Caesar entred into Rome from mount Albanus with great pompe and triumphe vpon this day 727 years after the building of Rome in the which yeare hee also was slaine Leo the sonne of Martianus the Empepor was chosen emperor of the East after his father vpon this day 457. Editta Wife to Otto the Emperor died vpon this day and was buried at Magdenburge 948. Henrie the eight king of England died vpon this day leauing a sonne behind him his successor Edward the sixt 1547. Lusitania a countrey of Spaine was so shaken with an Earthquake that much harme and great losse of it ensued at what day the Cittie of Ulisbone fell prostrate to the grounde 1531. Upon this daye in Rome was builded a temple and dedicated vnto Castor and Pollux 270 yeares after the building of Rome Polycarpus Bishop of Smyrna Pionicus and diuerse others after much constancie and bouldnesse were martired vnder Antoninus Verus 150. Of Polycarpus death Euseb. writeth very strange things read 3. booke and 15. chap. of his martirdome in Smyrna Sextus Apuleus proconsul of Rome had his triumph granted him out of Spaine vnder Octauianus the Emperour 727 yeares after the building of Rome The 27. Daie COcceus Nerua the thirteenth emperor of Rome who succeeded that deadly tyrant Domitianus after that hee had raigned almost two yeares died vpon this day at Rome 66. This Emperour aduaunced the publike weale behaued himselfe verie soberlie vpright and courteous and yet stoute and manfull he adopted after him a good man to gouerne named Traianus for it was hard to finde a good Emperour then in Rome and harder for a good Emperor to liue in Rome such treacherie and tirannie raigned thē that one Caesar kiled an other and one Emperor destroied another that the empire continued not aboue 400 yeares but was carried from Rome to Constantinople Henricus the s●nne of Fredericus Barbarossa king of the Romanes was married to Constantia daughter to Rogerus king of Sicilia of whome Fredericus the second was borne Seffanus and Constantinus both then Emperors were apprehended and taken by Constantinus the some of Leo and put into a Monasterie being shauen like Friers both head and beard Upon this day by the commaundement of Charles the fift a speach was had concerning religion fiue yeares after the first controuersie at Ratis●one in Germanie but because of the busines and warre ensuing it tooke no effect 1546. Stumpf. affirmeth that vpon this day a great battell was fought betweene the Tigurines and Heluetians at V●ila a towne in Germanie Vitilianus Bishop of Rome died as vpon this daye 670. after he had beene elected 14. yeares this bishop brought into the Romane Church the Organes and musicke Licosth in his bookes of woonders saith that vpon this day appeared two golden pillers the one on the right hand of the sunne and the other on the left 1704. Ignatius bishop of Antioche suffered martirdome vnder Arcadius the Emperor this Ignatus committed his Church to Policarpus bishop of Smyrna The 28 Day VPon this day Charles the Great King of Fraunce and the first of that name of a Frenchman was made Emperour of Rome by Pope Leo this brought the Empire from Rome into Germanie and hauing doone many great exploits after he had erected Colledges Schooles in Bononia Papia and Lutetia died at Aquisgrane in the 46. yeare of his raigne Of this Charles the great the Frenchmen haue their cheefe antiquitie in matters touching the roialtie and dignity of their inaugurations of their kings and of the buriall of their princes the solemnitie of either began by this king and from his time whose Eusignes and reliques are left as monuments to be vsed at the coronation of the Kings of Fraunce at this daye as I haue written in the generall inauguration and crowning of their kings Alexius the 4. emperor of Constantinople was slaine vppon this day 124. Lu. Cornelius Dolabella triumphed ouer the Lusitanians and Spaniads 6●5 yeares after the building of Rome Mari. Scotus saith that vpon this daye 1079. a terrible battaile was fought in Germany by a place called Fladechies where countie Manfridus with many others died A terrible earthquake was heard ouer all Siria vppon this day at what time many townes and manie thousands of people perished Cedrenus in his chronicles of the Greekes 746. Pascalis was elected pope of Rome without the consent of Lewes surnamed Pius king of Fraunce and also Emperour of Rome Upon this day at Darmset by the riuer of Rhine a great solemnitie of the nobles and peers of Germanie with running at tilt and at barriers and other games was celebrated 1496. Amongest the old and auncient Romanes the feast called Equitia was solemnly wont to be celebrated and kept in Mars his field at Rome sometime in Circo Maximo For this feast Equitia they had certaine plaies and games where horses and Mules some lose and some bound together and shoult so run in Circo Maximo Some vsed one race some vsed another These mules and horses made such a sport at Rome that while this play was celebrated Romulus caused the Sabine virgins to be rauished for the which cause great warres grew betweene the Romanes and the Sabines and in memorie of this Romulus appointed the feast called Consualia The 29 daie AS vppon this day the auncient Romanes were woont to create their kinges and euerie yeare they celebrated a solemne feast in memorie of their Kinges The solemnitie of inauguration and crowning of the Kings of Rome I did write in my other Booke Aurelianus Emperour of Rome borne in Ponnonia after he had subdued the Gothes vanquished the French men tamed Egypt and recouered both the East and West countries vnder his dominion and empire of Rome and triumphed ouer Zenobia Queene of Palmeria after he slue Odenatius the king her husband And after manie other famous exploits done he vsed Solons law called Amnistian which Thrasybulus reuiued in Athens after the banishment of the thirtie tyrantes and was as vpon this day slaine by his owne seruants betweene Constantinople and Heraclia some referre it to the fourth of Februarie ●76 Likewise Dagobertus Magnus king of France died at Spinetum of the f●ixe on this day 645. Philippus the 28. emperour of Rome and the first of that name with his sonne named also Philippus were slaine in one daie the elder at Verona the yonger at Rome after they had raigned seauen yeares as Mar. Scot. affirmeth but Eutrop. sayeth 5. yeares Batildis the wife of Clodoueus the second of that name king of Fraunce died at Paris 670. Isabella the wife of Edward the second king of England after manie broiles threw her husband the king into prison and caused her sonne named also Edward being

Souldiers after he had ranne through all kinde of preferment in the field Emperour 517 who as vpon this daye did adopt to the Empire his sisters sonne named Iustinianus in the ninth yeare of his raig●e and dyed within foure moneth after he was a good Christian and rooted out the heresie or the Arians and Ne●torians Conradus the third of that name king of Bonaria borne in Sue●ia nephew to Henrie the fourth being his daughters sonne was by the consent of all Princes of Germanie elected E●perour vpon this day 1139. he made a voiage into Asia against the Saraze●s but returned without any thing doone by meanes of treason at home by a wicked man named Manuell who succeeded after him by treason in the Empire as Onoph and Iustine affirmeth As vpon this day 1081. Alectius surnamed Comnenus was elected to succeed Nicephorus the Emperour who after he had ended many battailes he erected an Hospitall for p●●re fatherlesse children and also a free schoole to be there instructed and brought vp after they were able to come from the H●spitall Clephis king of the Longobardes was slaine in Papia by the Italians 568. ●or before this time they had determined with Albonius there to inuade Italie foure yeares before this king Clephis was slaine Maunt Ae●na in Sicilia was so shaken with an earthquake that the fire that flamed therewith out of this hill destroyed and burned many places at what time the monasterie of S. Leo was vtterlye spoiled and consumed as vpon this daye 1536. Rome was taken vpon this daye by Alaricus king of the Gotes after he had continued his siege two yeares 414 after Christ as Pau. Aemilius in his first booke setteth downe at large Sigismundus king of Polonia died when hee had raigned 42. yeares 1548. after whome succeeded also his sonne Sigismundus Some also hold opinion that our Sauiour Christ came vpon this day to Bethania and called Lazarus from his graue where he had beene foure dayes dead and buried and he liued after as Mar. Scotus affirmeth 24 yeares but he borroweth of the Rabbies all this vncertaine coniecture of the time for the Iewes will be ignorant in nothing The 2 daie VPon this day the old Romanes celebrated a solemne feast with great ceremonies in memorie of Quirinus who was borne vpon this day at what time the Romanes kept the feast Lupercalia with great solemnitie Christ after hee raised Lazarus from the graue would not enter to Ierusalem which was 15 furlonges distant from Bethania for the Iewes hearing of these miracles tooke councell how they might kill him and therefore Iesus went to Ephraim a Cittie fiue miles distant from Bethanie Iane the wife of Philip surnamed pulcher king of Fraunce the 45 king in number died vpon this day 1304. This queene was the onelie daughter of Henrie King of Nauarre Honorius the fourth of that name was elected Pope of Rome as vpon this day at Perusium this pope builded many houses vpon the mount Auentine and assigned to manie poore men certaine Gownes and clothes called Album amictum It is written that a Iew being baptized vpon this day against his will presentlie put fire in his owne house tooke his wife and his children out and ran vp and downe in the streets saying alowd and crying out I am a Iewe I am a Iew and no christian his house being burned and 40 houses more in Constantia by the meanes of this his furie 1349. The 3 daie VPon fridaie before the feast of Aester Christ Iesus our sauiour suffred his passion as vppon this daie by whose death death was swallowed vp and the power of Sathan ouerthrowen Henricus the second king of Fraunce and Philip which is now king of Spaine after many years of warre at length concluded peace vpon this day 1559. Eulalius in a schisme against Bonifacius then Bishop of Rome was elected bishop and Bonifacius rebelled as on this day This Bonifacius while yet he was ●ishop which was 3. yeares and foure monethes ordained that none should bee allowed a priest before he were 30 yeares of age Pub. Posthumius Tubertus Consul then at Rome triumphed ouer the Sabines 250. after the building of Rome This was one of the first triumphes in Rome after the kinges were banished at what time in their triumphes they vsed no such solemnitie and pompe as they did after as to bee drawen in chariots so sumptuouslie with four elephantes or with four white Steedes or with such pompe and roiall solemnitie or in wearing purple robes and triumphant garments neither yet crowned with garlands nor with any great magnificence which was after among them practised The godly Ezechias king of Iuda as some write repaired the temple as vppon this day and therein prepared oblations and sacrifices to please the Lord at what time hee continued therein 8. daies instructing the people and sanctifying of the temple The 4. Day AGrippa Menenius surnamed Lanatns fellow Consull to Posthumius Tubertus in the selfe same yeare 250. after the building of Rome triumphed ouer the Sabines and made also his triumph the next day after Tubertus his fellow ouer the Sabines Liuie said that they both had their triumphs graunted by the senators in one day ouer the Sabines they rode not in chariots but were brought with serieants and officers before them and with such pompe as was vsed in those daies for then they triumphed but within Italie The greatnes of the Romanes triumph grew by the warres of Africa which was the first after they had conquered Italie The 5 Daie PLaies and games called Megalesia were celebrated as vppon this day in the honour of Cibeles the mother of the goddes the sacrifices and solemnities done to this goddesse in the the temple at Rome were vsed in the 27. of March as you before haue read yet some referre these plaies to the last of March but plaies are vsedmanie times as occasion serueth The Israelits vpon this day with their captaine Iosua passed through the flood Iordane at what tyme the water dried before them as the red sea did in the time of Moses and Aaron and Iordane stood still vntil the priests had brought the Arke through the riuer vnto the other side at which time the waters came againe together The Iues as on this day yearly prouided a male lamb of a yeare old without anie spot or blemish on him for the feast of Easter which they kept on y ● 14. daie of their moneth Nisan then they kill him and take part of his blood and strike it on the two side poastes and vppon the vpper dore post of the howse where this lambe should bee eaten God ordained this sacrifice as a token and a pledge of their deliuerance Lotarius sonne to Lodowick surnamed Pius the 24. king of Fraunce and the second emperour of Rome of a French man being then king of Italie by his father thither sent was vppon

the riuer of Almono the sacred ceremonies were called Megalesia sacra This Berecynthia was called Pessinuntia to whome M. Iunius Brutus builded a temple dedicated those games and plaies called Megalenses ludi which should bee plaide in the spring time before the Idol of Pessinuntia by the finest and gallentest yongmen within Rome piched and chosen out by the Alcidebes the matrons of the cittie were cheefe in those plaies in their most sumptuous apparrell for in these playes were moddest shamefast chaste and honest actions vsed gesture Phocas the Emperour by the conspiracie of certaine that sought the Empire was slaine and vpon the same day Heraclius was elected in his roome Emperour yet Scotus referreth this murther vnto the nineteenth of Aprill in the yeare 611. Iohn Valesius the 50 king of Fraunce and father to Charles the fift surnamed the wise dyed as vpon this daye at London in England 1364. Lu. Posthumius Megellus the second time that hee was Consul at Rome with great pompe and glorie triumphed ouer the Samnits and ouer the Hetruscans by the appointment of the Senators 459 yeares after the building of Rome vpon the which selfe same daye 734. triumphed Lu. Cornelius Balbus ouer the Affricans in the beginning of the raigne of Augustus Caesar for the triumphe of those Consuls in those dayes were much obscured for the dignitie of the Consuls was defaced through the glorie of the Emperours who tooke from the Consuls all pompe and glory to set foorth their owne triumphes Upon this day 169. Lu. Septimius Seuerus was borne in a Towne called Lepus which was in Tripolinata a Prouince of Affricke This Emperour willed all men to call him Pertinax for the great zeale and goodwill which hee bare vnto him which Pertinax was slaine by Iulianus This Seuerus the Emperour by his victories ouer the Parthians and Arabians was surnamed both Parthicus and Arabicus Gregorie the eleuenth Pope of Rome died as vppon this day vnder this Pope all the Townes of Italie which were in subiection to the Pope reuolted and therefore this bishop remoued his seat from Fraunce into Rome againe The 8. daie FOr the space of thirtie daies the Israelites lamented much the death of Moses in the plaine of Noab vppon this day for after that God shewed all the land of Canaan hee went to the plaine of Moab to the top of mount Nebo where hee died and no man knoweth his graue to this day In Rome as vppon this day great solemnities of ceremonies and sacrifices were had and celebrated vnto Ianus in the temple of Concord in the temple of Health in the temple of Peace and in the temple of Ceres by all the women and matrons of the Cittie of Rome Aelius Pertinax the 26. Emperour of Rome when hee had raigned but 80 daies being a verie aged man was slaine in an vprore which fell among the gard through the reason of Iulianus who succeded him in the Empire notwithstanding some saie otherwise 194. Mar. Atil Regulus triumphed ouer the Samnites and ouer the Uolscanes I do not meane the great triumph which Regulus got ouer the Africanes when he s●ue 18 thousand enemies and tooke prisoners 5000. men when hee had receiued vnder his obeisance 73. cities and tooke 8. elephantes and sent them to Rome this was vpon an other day of which I shall speake of in an other place 459. Albertus marques of Brabenburge the scourge of Germanie with long warres manie yeares was borne vppon this day 1520 at which time died Henrie Glareanus poet Laure●tus in Friburge a towne in Germanie 1563. Aron and his two sonnes Madan and Abiliu remained at the dore of the taber●acle seauen daies and seauen nights and perfourmed that which Moses commaunded him from the spirit of God 2455. yeares after the creation of the world The 29 Day VPon this day Iosua the second Iudge of Israell that succeeded Moses sent out of Sichim two men to view Iericho and to spy the land at what time Rahab the harlot acknowledged the God of Israel and lodged the two Israelites and hid them from the king of Iericho who sought to kill them C. Claudius the 5. Emperour of Rome sonne to Drusus which was brother to Tiberius and vncle by the fathers syde to Caligula after he had raigned 13. yeares and 9. moneths hee was poisoned by his owne wife in the yeare of our Lord 41. Lectisternium a feast among the Pa●nims in the honour of Iupiter Iuno and Minerua at what time sumptuous ritch beddes were spred in the Temples in the which their Images and Idols dect with all kindes of chaines of gould crownes garlands beset with Iewels and pearles were first laied in most magnificent and roiall manner with all ceremonies and solemnities in these gorgeous beds and a great feast celebrated with musick and mirth before them And after in the residue of the beds which were made within the temple as many as mightlie and eate and bare companie with their gods thinking themselues happie that they in this feast in their temples accompaniing their Idols had the fruition of so sacred a feast The Rabbies do affirme that as at this time our Sauiour Iesus Christ came to raise vp Lazarus from death at what time he came to Iericho and by the way gaue sight to the blind man and lodged in Zachaeus the publicans house The 30. Day THe French chronicles affirme that vppon this day the great and bloody victorie of Edward duke of Yorke fell which afterward was called Edward the fourth king of England Frederick the third being arch●uke of Austria was crowned emperour and raigned almost 54. yeares he was also vpon this day elected and crowned king of the Romans as Nauclerus saith but Cuspinianus who best knew y e state of Austria referreth this to the first day of Ianuarie It is not much to bee maruelled that writers contend for daies syth they in greatest causes varie much in yeares vetustas erroris plena and there●ore I repeat sometime histories that I wrot before The 31 Daie THe old Romans vppon thes day vsed solemne sacrifice and oblation to the moone vpon mount Auenti●e with such rites and ceremonies as the Augurers and high bishops had obserued for all ceremonies and sacrifice were by Numa Pomp. from the nimph Aegiria and also after Numa in the time of Torquine the prowd the booke of Sibill which were kept by the 3. magistrates called triumveri were full of these supersticious vaine ceremonies and sacrifices which the Romanes much honowred Ti. Pomp. Atticus died vpon this day 12. yeares after his frend M. Cicero was slaine by Hierenius and Popilius by y ● procurement of M. Antonius who likewise was ouerthrowen with his frend Cleopatra queene of Egipt by Oct. Augustus in this yeare that Pomp. Atticus died at what time ended the wars in Rome after the building of the citie of Rome 722. Henrie the first of

that name King of Fraunce died of a wounde that he got with running at Tilt on this day after hee had raigned 12 yeares after whom succeeded his sonne Franciscus the second of that name Pantaleon affirmeth that Franciscus the first raigned 32. yeares 1557. Alphonsus king of Spaine 1259 was by the Princesse of G●rmanie elected to the empire which he refused for then the empire had bin void of an emperour 17. yeares which was the time of interegnum at what time Richard the Duke of Cornewall sonne to the king of England was crowned king of Rome of this time and of the certeintie thereof as Functius saieth writers do much varie Henricus the fourth of that name Emperour of Germanie was vpon this day being then the feast of Aester by Pope Clement the third as Functius saieth by Pope Steeuen the ninth crowned emperour who ranged 50. yeares whose wife named Bertha vsed the gouerment at her pleasure for she was the empresse and emperour Melancthon saieth in his chronicles that saint Ierom died on this day 420 at Betheme yet Volateranus affirmeth it 30. of September in the yeare of our Lord 442. Nehemias came vppon this day with letters from Artaxerxes to Hierusalem for the repairing of the Temple and also for the building vp of the walles of Hierusalem againe In the moneth Munychion among the Egiptians called Pharme Menede● K. of Egypt ended his great and wonderous tombe which for the rarenesse thereof was called a Labyrinth the patterne whereof Dedalus brought with him from Egipt vnto Creet where he builded the like to king Minos It was hard for any that entred into this Labyrinth to come out thence without a guide This Labyrinth was made a place of buriall for the kinges of Egyptlineallie descending from the bodie of Menedes and not for others in so much that the kinges of Egypt afterwardes contended who should excell in these woorkes some in Labyrinthes some in building of Piramides and some in building of monsterous great Temples for their burials as the priestrs of Vulcan affirme in their sacred bookes at Memphis that 43. of the most a●ncient kings of Egypt were buried in these Pyramides of the which number 17. remained vntill the time of Ptolomi the sonne of ●agi one of the souldiers of the great Alexāder This was the first king of the Ptolomeis after the name of Pharaos for the first kinges of Egypt from Menas time vntil the time of 52. kings we haue as litle to write of as we haue of the first anciēt kings of Assiria The names of the Triumphes solemnized in Rome within the moneth of March and by whome 1 P. Valer. Publicola 2 L. Aemil. Mamertimus 3 L. Cornel. Lentulus 4 Q. Luctatius Cerco 5 M. Claud. Marcellus 6 A. Manl. Torqua Atticus 7 L. Papyrius 8 C. Fabricius Luscinius 9 C. Papyr Maso 10 L. Aemil. Papus 11 Cn. Manl. Volso 12 T. Manl. Torquatus 13 L. Aemil. Papus 14 C. Flamineus Nepos 15 L. Conel Scipio 16 C. Flamineus 17 Pub. Furius 18 Manlius Volso 19 M. Valerius Coruus 20 M. Pomp. Matho 21 M. Valer. Maximus 22 C. Conelius Scipio 23 L. Posthumi Megell●s 24 L. Conel Balbus 25 M. Atil Regulus The names of the solemne feasts and sacrifices within the moneth of Marche Munichia Matronalia Quinquatria Bachanalia Iunonalia Equiria Liberalia Quinquaria Minerualia Hylaria Megalesia These games and plaies called triumphant plaies vowed games must of neces●itie bee celebrated and solemnized after any great triumphe together with the feast Tri●mphale Epulum which is also a feast appointed in the Capitoll belonging alwaies vnto any great triumphe Ludi Votiui Ludi Triumphales Ludi Natalitij Finis mensis Martij Of the moneth of Aprill which with the Iewes is called Nisan their first moneth with the Athenians called Thargelion their eleauenth moneth and With the Aegiptians Pharmute their eight moneth The first Daie THis moneth of April is called of the Iewes Nisan which is the first moneth with the Hebrues for the Iewes beginneth their yeare in this moneth in the old time this moneth was of the Romans consecrated vnto Venus at what time they celebrated a feast called Vernalia where the Romanes vsed sacrifice and solemine ceremonies vnto Venus bedeckt with garlands made of diuers flowres on their heads and mirtle branches in their handes Likewise the women and matrones of Rome washed and bathed themselues in sweete water and with garlands of mirtle crowned came vpon this day to the temple of Fortune and offered oblations and sacrifice with Frankencense and other sweete odors for their husbandes good successe and euents in warres In like order the auncient Greekes had vpon this day two great solemne feasts the one called Thargelia festa celebrated with many ceremonies vnto Apollo and vnto Diana according to the manner of the Gretians the other feast called Apaturia solemnized with diuers kinde of sacrifices vnto the goddesse Venus In Rome vpon this day Sempronius Blesus when he was Consul at Rome triumphed ouer the Affricans at what time woone many cities and though hee suffered shipwracke in his returne from Affrike to Rome with great riches and spoile yet the Senators graunted him to come with a triumphe into the Cittie of Rome 500 yeares after the bulding of the Cittie Q. Martius Philippus Consul of Rome made a braue entrie into Rome with great pompe and honor triumphing ouer the Hetruscans a people of Italy before the first warres of the Romans against the Carthaginians eight yeares for at this time the Romanes had enough to doe at home by meanes of the warres of the Tarentines Samnits Latens and of other nations about them Also on this day Ser. Caruilius Max. being Consul then at Rome triumphed most solemnely ouer the Sardintans 519. Tacitus the 34. Empero●r of Rome after he had raigned but sixe moneths dyed by an vprore among the Souldiers the most common death that then happened to the Emperours of Rome one preuenting an other by treason that in 277 yeares 34 Emperours raigned in Rome as Onoph affirmeth but Iustine saith that Tacitus died of a feauer at Tarsus but I leaue contention Valens was by his brother Valentinianus made Emperour of Constantinople to gouerne ioyntlie the Empire vpon this daye 367. This was a cruell persecutor of the Christians for he commaunded that 80. Christians should be drowned that were sent to him frō the other Christians to entreat for mercie and fauour but Valeus being most worthyly afterward wounby the Gothes and flyeng from the battell so wounded to a little cottage in a podre village was burned most miserablie by the Gothes in his cottage where hee hid himselfe His brother Valentinianus had no better end for both were cruell Emperours Iustinus Thrax a base man borne who was first a Swineheard and then a heardman and afterward became to bee a Souldiour who after by manye euents of warres was made by the

battaile geuen on the Sea ouer whom he with great commēdation triumphed cum nauali triumpho Mahomet the second of that name and the 6 emperour of the Turkes the onely scourge that plagued the Christians and also the only t●rant that afflicted Asia who did much augment his empire as vppon this day againe the third time hee laied siege to Rhodes and yet failed of his purpose and was forced to passe with his armie to Apulia The Heluetians being in warre with their next neighbours gaue them battaile at Lauppen a cittie in the Confines of Heluetia ouerthrew them and slue them to the number of three hundreth 1338. The 22 daie PHilip the sunne of Frederick surnamed Barbarossa and the first Frederick of that name after his great warres against Alsatia Argentina and Thuringia taking some repose in the castle of Bamberga was there traiterouslie slaine by Otto the County of U●ietelspatch to the great grief of al Germanie after he had raigned 9. yeares 1208. The mariage of Philip king of Spaine was solemnly celebrated as vpon this daie at Paris in Fraunce vnto Elizabeth daughter to Henrie the second but Functius saith the first of that name king of Fraunce with great pompe roialtie magnificence in the which feast 8. daies after the marriage Henrie king of Fraunce was slaine by apeece of a staffe which brake ran through his eie into the braine pan as hee was running at T●●t 1559. The 23. daie AS vppon this day the Romanes vsed to sende mutuall presentes one to another and to salute their neighbours with diuers kind of sweet sauours as ginger peper suger and such like and likewise they gathered all kind of hearbs in the honor of Vulcan and after this they met togither with manie ceremonies and did great sacrifice vnto fire for the sauegard and t●ition of their young children The famous victorie of Hanniball ouer the Romanes at Thrasimenum in Perusia was such that Flaminius the consul was killed and fifteene thousand more slaine in the field and almost so manie taken this battail was so fiercly fought on both sides that a great earthquake which was at that instant ouerthrew some cities and turned mighty streams of riuers against their course and did manie terrible thinges besides yet they were so earnest in fight that nether parties felt it but the moane and lamentation was such in Rome for so great an ouerthrow that they recorde this day as one of their chiefe vnfortunate daies and this happened by the ouer●ight and rashnes of Flaminius the Consul Otto the first of that name Emperour of Germanie and sonne to Henrie the first duke of Saxonie and after crowned king of Germany maried y ● daughter of one Edmundus King of England this Otto ouerthrew the Bauarians and gaue the Hungarians such a terribl battaile at the riuer of Licum that 3. kinges were taken by Otto and hanges at that ouerthrow he after made warres vppon the Bohmians wasted and spoiled B●hemia an● tooke their citties thence hee entred into Italie and lated siege to Rome and the gates were opened to him at what time he tooke the pope Benedictus the 5. from his papacie and restored Leo the 7 to his form●r estate The Turkes againe inuaded the Ile of Melitia and in the time of Solyman the tenth emperour laid hard siege to the castle of Mercurie where Caelius affirme that manie thousands on either syde were at that Turkish armie slaine 1565. A●ulphus ●ount●e of Nassau was elected Emperour of Germany this Adulphus for his ambitious dealing against Albertus duke of Austria sonne to Rodolphus the Emperor which was well esteemed and beloued with all the ●lates of Germanie whome this Adulphus by all ambitious meanes sought to banishe and to driue him from Austria but he was therefore deposed from his Empire after he had raigned ●ixe yeares and with all the consents of the Princes of Germanie Albertus Duke of Austria was as vpon this day placed in his roome 1298. This day of Onoph●●us and others is set downe to be the 27 of Iu●e As vpon this day died that noble and valiant Gretian Pericles cheefe gouernour of Athens after Themillocles whose victories and triumphes were such that hee had nine ●euerall monuments equall in number to the nine victories which hee got in nine great battels set vp in diuerse places some in Athens some in other places of Greece but especially in Ceramicus which was a place appointed by the Athenians to honour Conquerours with triumphant arches and pillers with their names therevpon ingrauen with letters of gould whereby he merited by his victories lenitie iustice and diuers other vertues to be surnamed Olymphus The 24 Day A Great solemne feast at Rome at the which they vsed much deuotion wit● sacrifice and many religious ceremonies to the goddesse Fortune as vpon this day they trimmed their shippes vpon the riuer Tyber with sundrie garlands and crowned their toppes with lawrell mirtle and Oken boughes in token of Triumphes and victories and there they banqueted and feasted with all pleasant mirthe and melodie Asdrubal brother vnto Hanniball being sent for to come from Spaine into Italie by his brother Hanniball fell into the handes of Appius Claudius Nero by an ambushment laid for him where he was slaine manfully fighting for himself his head was brought and throwne before Hannibals tents his armie slaine and taken and a great quantitie of treasure was brought to Rome this Asdruball has plagued the Romaines in Spaine and slue both the Scipios which had beene long conquerours for the Romans in Spaine of whom I shall speake when I came to the time of their dealings Warres being proclaimed against the Carthaginians by Scipio Affricanus and by Masinissa king of Numidia who had ioyned friendship with the Romanes this Masinissa being 92 yeares ould gaue an ouerthrow to king Syphax on this day this Masinissa left behind him 44 sonnes and appointed Scipio Affricanus whom he deerelie loued to be ouerseer and to distribute his kingdome as it pleased him amongst them 609 yeares after Rome was builded Vespasian the ten emperour of Rome a good and a vertuous man after he had raigned nine yeares and liued 69. yeares died in a manour of his owne among the Sabines of the Flixe as vpon this day 81 yeares after Christ. The Sarazens as vpon this day 1083 had a great battaile giuien them by the Spaniards in the territories of Granata in Spaine at what time by chaunce not lookt for an armie of Englishmen entred fresh into the battaile whereby the Sarazens were ouerthrowne this the French Chronicles allow and Pantal in his fift booke affirmeth Cazimirus Duke of Massonia was crowned king of Polande with solemne pompe and great magnificence as vpon this day being then vpon the feast of S. Iohn Baptist 1448. So also was Henrie the eight king of England and his wife Katherine Dowger crowned at

Westminster in the yeare of Lord 1532. Iohn Baptist was borne as vpon this day but I finde great contrauersie heerein amongst writers The 25 daie THe 25 daye of Iune beginneth the fourth moneth of the Iewes called Tamutz and the first daye of the moneth Tamutz Henrie the fourth emperour of Germanie gaue a great ouerthrowne on this daye to Rodulphus duke of Sueuia and king of Italie whome Pope Gregorie the seauenth called also Hildebrandus who reuoulting against Henrie the 4. crowned Emperour and against all the states of Germanie that betweene them both began great warres and diuers terrible battels the first at Fladenhen the second at the flood Ellestra the third at Merseburge a towne in Saxonia where Rodulphus was ouerthrowne and his armie scattered and slaine with no lesse losse to Henrie the victorie onely excepted 1080. Ludouicus Gallorum Delphinus duke of Aquitania and sonne to Charles the sixt surnamed Beneamatus was made king of Apulia by pope Iohn the 24 of that name and the lawfull king Ladislaus was by the Pope reiected This Dolphin of Fraunce married Margaret the daughter of Iames king of Scotland and within a while after died after whom succeeded Iohn his brother in Apulia Iohanna the sister of Ladislaus succeeded 1436. The most of the pri●ces of Germanie being protestants professed the Gospell and confessed the same before Charles the fift emperour at Augusta as vpon this day in the assembly of the Peeres of Germanie for Martin Luther had disputed and opened the treacherie of Papacie in diuerse townes of Germanie and had wrote in the defence of the Gospell 1●●0 The 17 Daie AS 〈◊〉 this day Ancharsis the philosopher after he had traue●● Egipt Greece and other places returning into the countrie of Scithia againe being excellently well learned he liking the religion of Greece better then Scythia vowed to the mother of the gods that if he sailed safe to Scythia that h● would celebrate hir feast day and offer sacrifice after the manner of the Cyzecenians which he performed in Scythia in a wo●die place called Hyllaea not farre from Achilles race there Anacharses was spyed in his Grecian robe with his Thyrsis in his hand with such madde ceremonies as are in the sacrifice of Orgies after the manner of the Grecians Saulus the king of Scythia being his owne vnckle as Herodot saith was brought to the place who finding Anacharsis occupyed in the Grecians ceremonies shot him through with an arrow and slew him so that the Scythians cannot abide to heare of the name of Anacharsis for that he followed the Grecians supersticious ceremonies Iulianus Apostata the Emperour a great persecutor of the Christians a man excellentlye well seene in the Greeke tongue and learned in the liberall sciences he was likened by Eutrop. to Marcus Antonius in many things after he spoiled Ass●ria and had vanquished the Parthians and returning from thence a conquerou● was slaine in the sixt of the calende of Iuly after he had raigned seuen yeares 366 it is of others otherwaies written as I said before read Ammianus In the moneth of Pauni Sesostris king in Aethiopia which kingdome he subdued erected vp many pillers within Egipt as triumphes of his victories according to the Egiptians custome and manner of triumphes cleane contrarie to the Lacedemonians who by the lawe of Li●urgus were forbidden to make any monument of their victories within G●●ece in marble brasse or Iu●rie for that it would mooue ciuill warres and stirre more enuie and discorde betweene Cittie and Ci●●ie or betweene tribe and tribe it was also among the Romans that no triumphe might be had for any victorie gotten by ciuill warres for they refused therein to triumphe both Marius and Silla and after Caesar and Pompey and at last Augustus and Antonie for the best and the greatest conqueror hath no cause of triumphe in c●●ill warres The 27. Day CAius Marius a noble Romane was borne as vpon this day this Marius was Consull at Rome 7. times of whose triumphes and victories during that time you shall reade them in their places and in their time Likewise C● Carbo who was Con●ull at that time in Rome with Marius when ciuil warres were betweene Silla and Marius and slaine in that yeare of his Consulship by Pompei the great being then but a yong man was also borne with Marius as vpon this daie Romulus b●●lded a Temple at Rome to Iupiter S●ator in that place where hee sta●ed when he fled from the Sabines who had then secretlie entred into Rome through the treacherie of Tarpe●a to reuenge the rauishment of their daughters and young Sabine virgins who were entised and deceaued by Romulus then Romulus being forced with shame to flie lifted vp his hand to heauen and praised Iupiter to staie the flight of his people and they staied vppon a sudden and in that place Romulus builded a temple as vppon this day to Iupiter the staier backe of Romulus and of his people Iouinianus after the death of Iulian the Apostata was by the consent of the armie in Persea chosen as vppon this day to haue the administration and rule of the Empire a verie good Prince and a religious Emperour for hee instituted that the tithes should bee paied to the Churches how be it hee had litle good successe for hee fell sicke and died within eight moneths after 365. As vpon this daie died Martianus at Constantinople in the seauenth yeare of his raigne He from a meane souldier first in Lidia became emperour of all Greece hee recouered the Em●●e being much tro●led and also weakned at that time hee as●●aged the furie of the Par●●ians and subdued the Uandoles and vanquished Attila king of the Gotes and concluded peace with all countries for hee loued peace and would often say Arma non induamus dum pace potiri possumus 458. The 28. daie AFter that Theseus had reduced all things in order and had reformed Athens and remoued Iudges and Magistrates to a greatter state to whom hee builded a councell hall long before Areopagyts who were before the A●ph●ctions and after that Theseus had brought all into one corporation hee instituted a great feast and common sacrifice for al the countrie of Attica called Panathenaea This was the onely greatest feast among the Athenians to this feast no straunger might come and therefore hee appointed another feast in Athens for straungers the 16. of Iune called Metoichia In the moneth Pauni in the Cittie of Bubasti in Egypt a great feast is celebrated in the honor of Diana to this feast they came from all partes of Aegipt men and women some by sea and some on foot the men cum tibijs dauncing and reioicing through euerie towne as they trauell through the countrie the the women crepitacula tenentes in like maner sing daunce some clapping their handes togither some with one noise and some with another with such antick to●es and