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The famous and renowned history of the nine worthies of the world ... giving a true historical account of their glorious lives, victories, and deat[hs].
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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Hellen a British Princess he claimed a Succession to the Roman Empire and would e're long come with an Army to Rome subdue it and make it Tributary to Britain which stout Answer so dashed the Legate that he return'd much troubled and some write but upon what Certainty I know not that this King passed the Seas with a Fleet of 1000 Sail of Ships and a mighty Army subduing France Germany the Netherlands and Italy Soon after the Saxons were expelled Loth King of the Picts dyed and the Britains unwilling a Stranger should Reign over them in a manner by their Importunity compelled King Arthur to exclude Mordred now King Pictland from the Succession and to Adopt Constantine the Son of Cador Duke of Cornwal a valiant and virtuous young Man which Disappointment so vexed Mordred that after many threatning Messages finding no Redress he raised the Power of his whole Kingdom to which many Scots joyned themselves and ravaged the Northern Parts slaying and burning all in his way And tho' several Bishops on either Part laboured for a Reconciliation they could not prevail so that to decide the Controversie a dreadful Battle was fought near the River Humber and the Britains being entangled among the Bogs and Quagmires a Place that had been ever fatal to them tho' they fought like Lions yet in the end both Kings with most of their Nobles being slain with 20000 Picts and Scots and 30000 Britains the Day fell to the Picts and Scots by a crafty Device of a Scot who getting among the Britains cryed in the British Tongue Our King and his Nobles are slain every Man shift for himself which wrought such a Fear in the Army that it fell in Rout before there was any Cause for it and this Loss was so great that neither Nation recovered it in many Years The Body of King Arthur being found covered with the Heaps he had slain was honourably buried in Glastenbury Church-yard in Summersetshire and after his Death the Saxons came again and drove the Britains into the Mountains taking strong Possession of all the plain Country The Life and Glorious Actions of Charlemagne or Charles the Great who restored the Roman Empire in the West WHen the barbarous Nations as Goths Huns Sarazens Vandels Lumbards c. had torn the Roman Empire in pieces and divided it among themselves grievously Persecuting all that professed the Name of Christ GOD hearing the Cries and Groans and seeing the abundant Tears of his afflicted People raised them up Deliverers And first Charles Martell a French Prince who taking Courage to rescue his oppressed Country raised an Army of 60000 French and Germans who gave Battle to Abderamen a King of the Sarazens who had over run Franco with an Army of 400000 Men and overthrew him with the slaughter of 375000 of his Men and found him overwhelmed with a Heap of the Slain and tho' not wounded his Men in their Flight from the pursuing French Men pressed him to Death and soon after overthrew with great Slaughter another King of the Sarazens who was coming to Aid the former with an Army of 300000 Men utterly driving the Sarazens out of France and Germany for which worthy Service after his Death his Son Pepin a valiant Prince was made King and Childrick a lazy vicious Prince of the Race of Pharamond laid aside This Man did many great Actions much enlarging his Kingdom and dying divided his vast Dominions between his two Sons viz. Charles or Charlemagne and Caroloman the first being crowned at Wormes and the last at Soissons but long they agreed not for Charles being of a mild Temper and Caroloman of a turbulent Spirit he laboured to supplant him and to that end after some Contests he joyned with the Enemies of Charles went to Rome under a Pretence of Devotion labouring to make the Pope his Friend and to League himself to Didier a powerful King of the Lombards in Italy which wrought much Trouble to Charles from the Lombard and Pope But within three Years after his being crowned Caroloman dyed and then after strugling with some Rebels the whole Inheritance fell to Charles who warred with the Saxons Bavarians and other Nations sixteen Years and overcame them making them his Tributaries And when Didier the King of the Lombards went to Rome and hanged the Pope's two Secretaries for siding with Charles and caused the Pope to be deposed Charles having over come the Sons of Caroloman who raised Disturbances in France to put themselves in Possession of their Father's Estate he raised an Army and passing the Alps entered into Italy and in two great Battles defeated the Lombards besieging them and their King in Pavia which was soon surrendred to him and Didier their King was sent Prisoner to Lyons in France and so ended the Lombard Kingdom in Italy which had long flourished and been the Terror of all that Country and for this great Service Pope Adrian in a Councel held at Rome decreed That Charles should have a Right of Disposing of all the Ecclesiastical Benefits that became Vacant throughout Christendom Charles no sooner returned into France but Aldegise Son to Didier raised Commotions in Italy by the Helpe of Rogand to whom Charles had given the Country of Friuli but by the Care and Vigilence of the French Governours Rogan was taken and by the King's Command lost his Head which ended the Sedition And being now at Leasure he resolved to War on the Sarazens and Moors who coming over to Africa had strongly possessed themselves of all Spain and overthrew them in several Battles taking the Cities of Pampelona and Saragosa and many other strong Places putting those he found therein to the Sword for their Cruelty towards the Christians but Agoland a Sarazen King taking the Advantage of streight Passages in the Mountains fell upon Milon the Brother of Charles and slew him with most Part of his Army and elevated with this Victory he marched into France and besieged Agen in Gascoine but Charles soon overtook him yet his Troops with long Marches were so weary that they were not at that time in a Condition to fight yet Agoland propos'd a Way to decide the Difference viz. That a Troop on either Party should fight it out and the Sarazen promised to turn Christian if his was beaten and his Troop being worsted and mostly slain he did become a Christian in Shew but seeing the King at Dinner and a Table in the same Room at which many poor Men fed of the King's Bounty he demanded what they were to which Charles answered They were God's Ministers Nay then said the impious Sarazen your God must needs be very poor himself seeing his Ministers are so very poor and contemtible and so departed But Charles to be revenged of him followed him into Spain overthrew him in a great Battle and brought away his Head as a Trophy of his Victory Thus this great Man having extended his Dominions very largely was by Pope Leo whom he
Senate fled with the greater Part of the Inhabitants whereupon he 〈…〉 without Resistance and was received by his Friends with joyful Acclamations then he seiz'd on the vast Treasure sent by all Nations as Tribute in the Temple of Saturn enriching his Soldiers and having settled Affairs and hearing Pompey was gathering forces in Greece and other Easter Countries he hasted after him with Part of his Army leaving Mark Anthony with the rest in Calabria who lingering behind Caesar impatient of Delay in a stormy Night stole from his Army and in a little Fisher-boat passed the Seas to fetch them a Danger the meanest of his Soldiers would not have ventured And then having his full Army after some Skirmishes and taking of Towns and drawing a Bullwark about Pompey's Army of fifteen Miles in Circuit both Armies upon the Plains of Thessaly joyned in a dreadful Battle where Crastinus an old Soldier crying out O Caesar I shall so behave my self this Day praise me alive or dead threw the first Pile and was himself slain being run through the Mouth with a Sword In this Battle Caesar as in all others was victorious most of the Senators and noble Romans with 40000 others being slain and Pompey fled to Egypt for Succour from King Ptolomy and being invited on Shore with great Promises of Kindness was treacherously slain e're he landed by Achilles and Septinus and his Head cut off and that Embalmed for Caesar's fight but he coming into Egypt not only detested the base Murther but wept over the Head causing it with the Body honourably to be buried But soon Phatinus and others of the Court conspired to take his Head but by his Courage and Fortune were prevented by his firing the Ship-house and swimming to his own Fleet after which he conquered all Egypt and the King in his Flight being drown'd in the River Nilus he made Cleopatra his Sister Queen and begot on her a Son named Cesaria afterwards slain by the Command of Octavius Augustus Having settled Affairs in Egypt he overthrew Pharnaces who had rebelled in Asia and in the Field of Thapsus in Africa in a bloody Battle overthrew Cipio the Roman General and Juba King of Mauritania who joyned his Forces with him Then coming to Rome had all the Honours he could wish heaped on him But Pompey's Son raising a War in Spain drew him thither where in the fatal Battle of Munday he overthrew them Then returning to Rome was decreed by the Senate Perpetual Dictator ever Augustus and Father of his Country had Temples and Statues erected to his Honour and without Controul whatever he pleased But attempting to be made a King that he might overcome the Parthians Brutus and Cassius with other Senators conspired against him and though several unlucky Dreams and Omens fore-run his Death as his Dreaming he was taken up into the Clouds and shook Hands with Jupiter his Wife 's dreaming the Night before he was slain she found him stabbed and bloody in her Arms a little Wren flying with a Laurel-branch to Pompey's Theatre was pulled to pieces by other Birds and all the Sacrifices appearing unlucky yet undaunted he went to the Senate-house and pocketed by the way a Scrole presented him unread that revealed the whole Conspiracy but no sooner had he taken his Seat but Cimber rudely took him by the Shoulders and the rest stabbed him with twenty three Wounds he in vain resisting such a Multitude And thus this Worthy never overcome but always fortunate in Wars fell a Sacrifice to the inraged Gown-men but his Death was severely revenged on them IV. The famous Life and Renowned Acts Joshua Captain General of the Israelites who subdued thirty Kings with the whole Land of Canaan AFter Moses by the mighty Hand of God with many Signs and Wonders had brought the Children of Israel out of their Egyptian Bondage fed and instructed them forty Years in the Wilderness he having Notice to prepare for his Death by the Appointment of God chose Joshua the Son of Nun to succeed him as Captain General of the People and utterly to subdue the Canaanites on the other side Jordan as he had done on this side When going up into Mount Abarim Moses died and was buried by God in a Valley least the Israelites who had a great Veneration for him knowing the Place of his Burial should have builded an Alter there and committed Idolatry in Worshipping him Upon Notice that Moses was dead Joshua encamped two Days before the River Jordan and on the third the Priests entered with the Ark of God when immediately the Waters retreated and stood like a Wall on either Hand so that the whole Army whilst the Priests stood in the middle passed over on dry Ground and then they took twelve Stones according to the Tribes and raised as a Monument to succeeding Ages And no sooner were the Priests come out of the River but the Waters returned to their full Forces before And the Princes of the Tribe of Gad and Rhuben and the Half Tribe of Manasses to whom the Land of the Amorites being the seventh Part of Canaan fell as a Lot of Inheritance having sent 50000 fighting Men to assist their Brethren in conquering the rest Joshua sent Spies to Jerico to view that strong fenced City who had been destroyed upon Notice of their coming had not Rahab the Harlot hid them under Bundles of Linnen till the Search was over and then let them down by the Wall in a Basket so they escaped to Joshua by which good Office she saved herself and her Houshold when the City was utterly destroyed for Joshua immediately went against it and by the command of God the Priests encompassed it six Days blowing Trumpets of Rams-horns and on the seventh Day seven times when by the mighty Power of God the Walls fell flat to the Ground and the whole Army marching into the City destroy'd all the People Rahab and her Houshold accepted and burnt it with Fire laying up the rich Spoil as the First-fruits of their Victory as a Dedication to God Almighty except a Wedge of Gold and a rich Babilonian's Garment which Achan with-held and hid in his Tent but going against Aii a strong fenced City and the Men of Israel being there discomfitted and thirty of them slain this Fraud was discovered to be the Cause of it and Achan stoned to Death after which they took Aii and put all to the Sword except the King who taken alive was hanged on a Tree as the like also they did by the City of Bethel and the rich Spoil was divided amongst the People The Gibeonites who dwelt in a Town near Jerusalem hearing how Joshua destroyed all before him dealt craftily sending Ambassadours pretendedly from a far Country wearing old Shooes and Cloaths with rent Bottles and mouldy Bread to make a League which they did but for this Deceit they were nevertheless punished by being made Slaves to hew Wood and draw Water for the Camp And