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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

third moneth of his raigne was led captiue into Egypt and his Brother constituted king in his place by the king of Egypt Iocim raigned eleauen yeares For his abhominations he was chained and led captiue to Babylon by Nabuchadonoser the great king of the Assyrians Tarquinius Priscus was fift king of the Romains In Greece then liued Sapho Stesichorus Pherecydes Draco Solon and others of the Sages Ioachim otherwise called Ieconias being 18. yeares old and besiedged by the Assyrians yeelded himselfe with his Mother his Princes and the greater part of his people to Nabuchadonoser and was transported into Babylon where in prison he begat Salathiell Father to Zorobabell then liued Ezechiell Baruch and Daniell Sedechias his Vnckle was constituted king in the place of Ieconias by Nabuchadonoser by whom after the eleuenth yeare of his raigne hée was taken as a Rebell his eyes were pluckt out and then he was led with the rest of the people to Babylon In this time the Temple and City of Ierusalem was miserably burned by the Assyrians Then happened that lamentable captiuity of Babylon fore-told by the Prophets and continued seauentie yeares all which was occasioned by the contempt of Gods word false Doctrine and auarice in the Priests and Prophets conioyned with the tirrany of their Kings and sinnes of the people but especially idolatry as appeareth in Ieremy Cap. 19 22 23 29 32. Baruch 6. Ezechiell 13 22. And then was this great Nabuchadonoser for his arrogancie thrust out of his kingdome and fed with the Beasts Seruius Tullius was sixt King of the Romaines Croesus in Lydia Balthazar in Babylon and for abusing the Vessels of the Temple hee was slaine The kingdome then deuolued to Darius the Medean Vnckle of Cyrus King of Persia and Medea The Monarchy of the Caldeans Assyrians or Babylonians NAbuchadonoser the great King of Babylon in the 24. yeare of his raign and of the world 3362. was he that established the great and first Monarchy described with that of the Persians Grecians and Romaines by Daniell compared to the head of gold and to the Eagle flying It endured but seauenty eight yeares in three Kings and he that raigned longest it was but 43 yeares Euilmerodach whom Herodotus calleth Labynitus raigned thirty yeares Thales Clito Pittacus Bias Cleobulus and Periander wisemen of Greece are all referred to this time And it is an error to seperate them otherwise as some haue done Solo● being the most ancient Balthazar the contemner of God and renewer of the olde Caldean idolatry abolished before abusing in his feasts those vesselles which had bin taken from the temple of Ierusalem and making a mockery at the true God of the Iewes was put to death by the Medes and Persians who possessed them-selues of the Monarchy in the tenth yeare of his raigne There is great difficulty about this Monarchie which cannot heere bee declared The Monarchy of the Persians CYrus sent home the Iewes into their country with Zerobabell their condu●er to repayre the Temple He made warre against the Scythians for the space of sixtéene yeares in which time raigned his Son C●mbyses Daniell then foretolo the passion of Iesus Christ and the desolate ruine of Ierusalem vnder Vespasian after seauenty Wéekes were passed ouer which were 490. yeares after the repayration of the Citty Tarquine the proude for the violation of Lucretia was then chased out of Rome Consulles were created the year 244. after the building of Rome Cyrus raigned 29. yeares Read more of Cyrus his sonne Herodotus lib. 1 3. Xenophon 8. Cambyses raigned alone eight yeeres being a cruell man he slew his Brother and Sister and caused a Iudges skin to be flayed off because hee had iudged falsely Pythagoras the great Phylosopher sailed into Egypt to learne Diuinity and to Babylon for Astrologie and the course of the starres Many doo referre the History and ouerthrow of Holofernes to this time but according to Genebrard it is reputed to the time of Nabuehadonoser Darius the sonne of Hidaspes otherwise called Ahasuerus the husband of Hester raigned 36 yearee He entred into Greece with sixe hundred thousand fighting men afterward vanquished Miltiades being accompanied onely with eleuen thousand men Coriosanus the Romaine was now put into exile and Esope composed his booke of Fables Now liued also Anacharsis An●ximenes and Herac●●●us Phylosophers Anaximander invented the Horo●oge and Spheare strong Milo was in this time Read more of Darius in Herodotus and Iustine Lib. 1. Xerxes raigned twenty yeares Hee assayled the Grecians with a far greater Army then that his Father had which was repulsed by Themisto●les In meane while his Sonne Artaxerxes hold the Kingdome by whose commaundement E●●r●s restored the Common-weale of the le●es and Nehemias by strong hande repayred the walles of the Citty Now liued C●mon Aristedes and Pindarus the Poet as also Pericles that wise and valiant Athenian Captaine of whom read more in his life set downe by Plutarch Artaxerxes or Darius Long-hand helde the kingdom aboue twentie yeares Now did the ten men write the law of the twelue tables at Rome and now liued Empedocles Sophocles Gorgias Anacreon Democritus Euclides Hippocrares and Herodotus Greece became diuided into two factions by reason of a great contentious war Read more thereof in Thucidides Xenophon Darius the Bastard raigned 19. years in whose time liued Socrates Aristophanes Thucidides Alcibiades Lysander Conon Epaminondas Architas Timon Dionisius of Siracusa the Tyrant And now was the kingdome of the Sicambrians and Francus in Franconia according to Trithemius where raigned forty Kings Artaxerxes Mnemon raigned fortie yeares and exercised acts of Armes with his Brother Cyrus Thrasibulus chased the Lacedemonian Tyrants out of Athens Rome was taken by the Gaules vnder the conduct of Brennus that bold warriour Then liued Xenophon the Captaine Phylosopher and Orator Plato Phocion Isocrates Polybius Praxiteles Metasthenes Camillus and Crates Occhus a most cruell Tyrant raigned sixe and twenty yeares Phillip King of Macedon oppressed the liberty of all Greece At Rome was then Curtius Torquatus Decius Corinnus the hundred and sixty Matron Sorceresses Iadus was High-Pr●est of the Iewes and then liued Berosus the Historian Arses or Arsaces raigned thrée yeares His tyrrannicall actions were the cause that all the race of great Cyrus perished Alexander the great the Son of Phillip then vanquished and demolished the Citty of Thebes And then were Demosthenes Diogenes and Epicurus Darius the last King was ingrateful and disloyall hee was also ouer-come by Alexander in the sixt yeare of his raigne The Samnites then subdued the Romaines and then was Ceius Papyrius Cursor M. Curius Dentatus triumphing in his humility of minde refused the treasures of the Samnites and he would neither be vanquished in warre nor corrupted with money Valer. Max. lib. 2. cap. 3. The Monarchy of the Graecians ALexander the great hauing one onely Army of

that were in Ierusalem chose F. Ermingard d'Aps to bee their Mayster The second day of October in the same yeare the Citty of Hierusalem was submitted to the power of Saladine 88. yeares two months and seauentéene daies after that it was deliuered by Godfrey of Bullen from the handes of the Infidels Frederick the first sirnamed Barbarossa then holding the Empire of the West and Isaac the Angell that of the East at Constantinople Vrbane the third beeing Pope of Rome and Phillip the second called Augustus Gods Gift and Conquerour raigning in Fraunce Then were expulsed out of Hierusalem the Knightes Hospitallers Templers and al the Latine Christians of which Christians the Hospitallers redéemed from captiuity of the barbarous to the number of two thousand with their Money All the Churches of the cittie were then polluted and prophaned except the Temple of the Resurrection which was bought with a great summe of Money by the Christians of the East After the losse of Hierusalem the Knights Hospitalers were continually in Armes faithfully assisting the Christian Princes that had put on Crosses for the recouery of the holy Land and did actions of high desert at the siedge of Ptolomais which after a long siedge of thrée yeares was regayned from the Infidels by the Christians the twelft day of Iuly 1191. And in that Citty the Knights of Saint Iohn kept then their ordinary aboad and residence And in the verie same yeare the Christians wonne a notable victorie against the Barbarians and Saladine theyr chiefe wherein they were worthily assisted by the knightes Hospitallers and Templers The yeare following beeing 1192. in Winter dyed Ermingard d'Aps the great maister in the cittie of Ptolomais and then was chosen in his place 11 Geoffrey de Duisson In his time there was truce taken for fiue yeares betwéene the Christians that were in the holy Land and Saladine by which meanes many Lords and Gentlemen of diuers Nations who had worne the Crosse and gotten great store of goodes and possessions returned home to their Countries and gaue their goods to the Brotherhood of saint Iohn which greatly did augment their renennewes And after the death of Henry Earle of Champaigne the Hospitallers and Templers remayned gouernours and administrators of the kingdome of Hierusalem howbeit that by the fewer number of Christians there abiding election was made of Amaury de Lusignan who had succéeded the king of Ierusalem in the kingdome of Cyprus with consent of the Patriarch the Prelats and Barons of the Realme in the yeare 1194. when soone after died Duisson the Great-Maister and then succéeded him by election 12 F. Alphonso of Portugall a knight of the Order of Saint Iohn and of the Royall house of Portugall though it dooth not appeare certainely to what king he was Sonne He made very worthy and commendable statutes whereof to this day there are some inuiolably kept But because he was of too stiffe nature ouer-rough surely and seuere hee encurred the hatred of the greater part of the Knights Hospitallers Which was the cause that hee renounced his Maistershippe and shipt himselfe for returne home to Portugall in the same yeare of his election But he dyed the first day of March in the yeare 1207. 13 The same yeare that Alphonso renounced the Great Maistershippe to wit in the yeare 1194. Geoffrey le Rat who was Graund-Pryour of Fraunce was chosen Mayster And Saladine then dying his Sonne Noradine Lord of Alepo succéeding him About this time Simon Earle of Montfort was sent by King Phillip Augustus with an Army into Syria where finding much disorder he tooke truce for tenne yeares with the Infidels in the yeare 1198. In the time of this tranquile estate there chanced a great difference betwéene the Knights Hospitallers and Templers grounded on this occasion The Hospitallers complayned that the Templers had enterprised too farre vppon their iurisdiction with much contempt and violation thereof Which quarrell after manie rough encounters and skirmishes was appeased accorded by the interposition of king Amaury the Patriarches of Antioch and Hierusalem and other Princes and Christian Prelats who comprimitted this difference in the name of Innocentius the third which fell out very successiuely For after that God the onely Staffe and stay of all affaires in the holy Land had permitted this friendly vnity betwéen these two millitary Orders of Knight-hood King Amaury of Lusignan so preuailed that the Great Mayster and Knights of Saint Iohn might liue with him in the Isle of Cyprus where hee graunted the gouernment of the Kingdome to them In the yeare 1205. King Amaury dyed so did Quéene Isabell who appointed her Daughter Mary which she had by Conrade of Monferrat to be her heire and he left her to be tutoured and guided by the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers In the yeare 1260. Geoffrey le Rat the Great Mayster dyed and then succéeded him 14 Guerin de Montagu of the language of Auuergne who with the Knights of his order ayded Lyuon King of Armenia against the Turkes and Barbarians that had intruded into his Kingdome In recompence whereof he gaue them the citty of Salef with the castles of Camard and new castle and their dependances Hee likewise recommended his heire and Kingdome to the Knightes of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn which guift was confirmed by the Pope the fift of August 1209. Then were Iohn de Brienna and Mary his Wife Heire to the Kingdome crowned King and Quéene of Hierusalem At length in the yeare 1230. Guerin the great Maister died in the citty of Ptolomais and during his tyme all the Christians affaires in the holy Land depended very much vppon the Knightes Hospitalers and Templers who albeit they had many contentions betwéen them yet did they still agrée together in all matters against the Infidels After him succeeded 15 One F. Gerin of whom no other name is found remembred Richard Duke of Cornewal and Brother to Henrie then King of England arryued soone after in Palestine with an Army of forty thousand men and did many worthy actions there The great Maister also and his knights with him bearing him company fought valiauntly against the Corasmine Infidelles There the saide Mayster was taken and sent as a Prisoner to the Soldane of Egypt where he died and in his place the Knights of S. Iohn elected in the citty of Ptolomais for their great Maister 19 Bertrand de Comps in the time of Pope Innocent the fourth and when the Generall Counsell was called at Lyons 1245. This great Maister was present in a furious battaile fought against the Turcomans that wasted all the country about Antioch in the month of August 1248 where hauing receiud sundry deadly wounds he ended his daies And in the Citty of Ptolomais on the 24. of Aug. was elected as Great maister 17. Peter de Villebride In his time Lewes K. of France called S. Lewes tooke on him the crosse against the Infidels with

him and accompanied with manie other Traytours leuied a great Army wherein Pope Gregory tooke part with them and then they compelled their Father to come and submit himselfe to their mercy bereauing him of his imperiall Ornaments and giuing him the habite of a Monke they caused him to be strictly guarded in the Abbey of Saint Medard de Soissons His Wife they sent as an exile into Italy and his Sonne Charles as a Prisoner to Prouence The Lordes of Fraunce and Allemaigne béeing vnwilling to suffer that such shame and indignity should bee done to an Emperour in the following yeare they gaue him his liberty bringing his Wife and Son againe vnto him Lothaire chéefe causer of his Fathers captiuity was glad to fly thence into Italy The Emperor constrayned his Sonnes to séeke his mercy and then hée fréely forgaue them At Mayence hée dyed hauing raigned twenty sixe yeares and was interred at Metz. 26 In the yeare 843. Charles the Baulde Sonne of Lewes the Méeke was made King by a diuision or partage made with his Bretheren Charles remained King of France Lewes king of Germany and Lothaire had Italy with the Empire Prouence and Austrasia whereof he made a Dutchy calling it Lorraine after his owne name Before the saide partage they had a great battaile néere to Auxerre wherein almost all the Nobility of France lost their liues Which was the cause that the Normans who were risen vnder conduct of two valiant leaders were become Maisters well-néere of all France but in the ende they were expelled by the King who was ●rowned Emperour by Pope Iohn after the decease of his Nephew Lewes the Son of Lothaire In this time he became very high minded contemning the French manner of habite an● wearing the Graecian fashion with a Dalmatian garment hanging down to his héels beside other strange pompous attires Hauing raigned two yeares in the Empire he was poysoned by his Phisition dying at Mantua and buried at Verceillis but seauen years after his body was transported to S. Denis He raigned in all 38. yeares 27 Lewes the second sirnamed the Stutter or Stammerer Sonne of Charles the Bauld succéeded his Father both in the Empire and Kingdome in the yeare 879. Charles the Bauld had thrée sons the first was named Charlon whose eyes hee caused to bee puld out in regard of his wicked gouernment The second was called Charles who dyed before him And the third was this Lewes sir-named the Stammerer because his tongue was somewhat short and made him to falter in his spéech Pope Iohn came into France being escaped out of prison because he● stood against the crowning of Charles le Gros Sonne to Lewes of Bauaria Emperour He Crowned King Lewes the Stutter Emperour which hée enioyed not long in regard of his sicklynesse for he dyed in the second yeare of his raigne leauing his Wife Richeult Sister to the King of England and who was returned home to her Brother great with Child of a Son that was afterward called Charles the Simple He appointed as his Guardian Odo Sonne to the Earle of Aniou hoping great comfort of the fruit in her Womb. Hee left also two Bastard Sons Lewes and Carlon During his raigne the Normans were valiantly repulsed hee lyeth buried at Compeigne 28 Carlon and Lewes the illegitimate sons of Lewes le Begue were Kings after his decease in the yeare 881. not hauing any other heire to succéed him Some sought to giue the kingdom to Boson King of Prouence and others to Charls the Emperor king of Germany Carlon Lewes neuerthelesse were crowned Kings and carried themselues valiantly against the Normans who for fiue years space made very great enterprises on France In the battaile which they had néere to Chinon they fought manfully vpon the riuer of Vienna there nine thousand were slaine beside them that were drowned in flight They expelled also the fore-named Boson and Charls the Emperor séeking to make themselues Kinges of France These two brethren died strangely Lewes pursuing a wilde Beare with his Iaueling was shot thorow with an arrow which one of his traine did let fly at the beast so he died in the 4. yeare of his raigne Carlon died a yeare after as vnluckily for hee being one day very pleasant on horse-back galloping after a faire Damsell who ran for her safety into a small Country cottage he not staying his horse nor minding the impossibility of his passage brake his necke at the doors entrance Now because he was the eldest and suruiued his Brother the name of King is atttibuted to him as if that he had raigned alone They were both buried at S. Denis 29 Lewes the third sirnamed Fai-neant Do nothing after the death of Carlon his Father was made King in the yeare 886. This man being altogether carelesse albeit hee hadde a great number of men which his Father had assembled to resist the Normans who wasted the kingdome very much would not vse any resistance but like one fearefull and negligent made agréement with them and promised to giue them 12. thousand pounds of Money yearely till twelue yeares should bee expired Whereuppon the French disdaining to bée tributary to the Normans deposed the said Doe nothing and made him a shauen Monke at Saint Denis And the rather they did it because he had taken a Nunne from Challes S. Baudour néere Paris married her whether she would or no. To resist the Normans the French sent for Charles le Gros Emperor of Rome Nephew also to Charles the bald and him they made King The Normans kept Paris besiedged with forty thousand men who were in such sort foyled as not a man of them escaped aliue Neuerthelesse to containe them in some more moderation hee made alliance and agréement with their Dukes Which raised such strange garboiles in the Realme so displeased the people and incensed them with such hatred against him that they expulsed him both out of the Empire and Kingdome and hee dyed in a poore Village of Suauba very poore and miserably Yet the fiue yeares of this raigne are attributed to him and not to Lewes Doe nothing 30 Odo or Eudes Sonne to Robert Earle of Angiers was made King in the yeare 891. after Charles le Gros by aduise of the Princes albeit hee was not of the race of Charlemaigne but onely Tutour to Charles the Simple and he was preferred by Arnould the Emperour successour to Charles le Gros who would haue had the Kingdome himselfe During his raigne the Normans breaking their agréement made with Charles le Gros began to warre againe much more cruelly then before and now the second time besiedged Paris But Odo carried himselfe so vndauntedly that he ouer-came them manie times In this while certaine Barons of the Realme had sent for Charles the Simple into England and Crowned him King of Fraunce at the age of fouretéene yeares Odo who

King of Bulgaria affiancing him vnto hir sister wherby both he and his Subiects were conuerted to the Christian Religion At length Michaell being able to guide the reynes of the Empyre his mother Theodora entred into Religion and left him to rule alone in the yeare 856. Michaell the sonne of Theophilus succéeded his father in his infancy his mother and Gouernesse Theodora holding for him the Empire of Constantinople But when Michaell grew to greter strength hee tooke the charge of the Empire himselfe whereto his mother gladly consented He more resembled his Graundfather then his Father both in negligence and prodigallity spending great riches which his warres brought him in He was sometimes so addicted to the Circeiensian sports as hardly he could be drawne from them He made Basilius the Macedonian his equall companion in the Empyre by whome hee was soone after slaine hauing reigned eleauen yeares nine moneths and fiue daies after that his mother Theodora had entred into Religion which with his former time of rule compleated 25. yeares ten moneths and fourtéen daies Basilius of Macedon who had slaine the Emperor Michaell entred presently vpon the empire of Constantinople and was receiued and approoued of all in the Imperiall Pallace When hee was a yong infant he had bin brought among other captiues to Constantinople to be there sold Neuerthelesse he was in the end Emperor and Fortune so fauoured him that his children and his childrens children were also Emperors after him First of all he caused those summes of monie to be restored backe againe which Michaell his Predecessor had prodigally giuen away and so they were deliuered into the Treasurie He instituted his thrée sonnes heyres to the Empire He had many battailes against the Sarazins still proued victorious Many Iewes and Scythians by his meanes receiued the Christian faith yet such was his hard hap to bee slaine in hunting by a Hart that ran his hornes into his bellie Leo the sixt of that name sirnamed the Philosopher began his raigne in the yeare 886. first with the helpe of the Turkes he vanquished the Bulgarians who had reuolted from him but soon after being abused by the Turkes thorow vaine suggestions he sustained great losse Notwithstanding he failed not to leauy an Army against the Sarazins whereby vnder the conduct of Nicetus he brought away a triumphant Victorie He was very vigillant ouer the Common-weal and oftentimes would walke alone in the night disguised in habit only to try his watches who did beate him soundly and also carried him to prison whom the next day he rewarded both with money and honors Alexander brother to Leo the forenamed Emperour suc●éeded him in the Empire Hee was quite contrary in manners both to Basilius his father and Leo his brother for he was of badde gouernment giuen wholy to his pleasures and committed the charge of his State affaires to Flatterers and Iesters who were his daily complices and companions in all naughty and wicked actions He died of a fluxe of bloud issuing from his Nose and priuy-members after he had gurmandized and excessiuely played at the Tennis For mounting in an extreame heat vpon his horsse and violently stretching himselfe hee brake a veine whereof he died Constantine the seauenth sonne to Leo the sixt of whom we haue already spoken was at the age of seauen yeares left by his father vnder the care and charge of his mother Zoa And he began to holde the Empire of Constantinople after his forenamed Vnckle Alexander the yeare of our Saluation 906. A certaine man named Romanus Lecapenus made great resistance against him for space of 26. yeares and purposed to deiect him quite But in the end Lecapenus was seized by his owne sonnes and shut vp into a Monastery for he was the sole cause that Zoa the mother of Constantine was likewise made a recluse in a Monasterie Now when the sonnes of Lecapenus had deuised to doe the like to Constantine as they had done vnto their father the same stratagem happened to themselues and they were inclosed in a Monastery So Constantine recouered his Empire which he gouerned alone very sufficiently suppressing some Tyrants and inducing diuers Princes of the Turkes to the Christian Faith He made learning to shine in Greece and left a Booke vnto his sonne discoursing the affaires of the Empire which the Venetians do yet kéepe as an especiall Iewell He raigned fourtéen yeares with his mother Zoa with Lecapenus 26. yeares and about fifteene yeares alone which was in all néere 55. yeares Romanus Lecapenus a man of base descent wrought so much trouble to Constantine the seauenth in his Empire that he was constrained to receiue him as companion in the Imperiall dignity in the yeare 920. and Constantine accepted his daughter Helena in marriage But neyther the sac●ed Oath which he had sworne vnto him nor yet the néere alliance in kindred with Constantine could restraine him from vsurpation of the Empire for himselfe and Christopher his son but he sought to thrust Constantine wholy out of all But he was deceiued in his owne disseigns for vpon the bad successe in warre which he had against the Bulgarians and Simeon their Duke he was taken by his owne sonnes Stephen and Constantine who despoiled him of his Emperie and carried him to a Monastery in a néere neighbouring Island there to pl●te the Philosopher alone by himselfe Then practising to worke the like deuice vpon Constantine Fortune turned hir back towards them and in the same snare which they laid for another themselues were cunningly caught for they were shut vp within a Monastery and so Constantine remained a peaceable Emperour Romanus the yong sonne of Constantine the 7. held the Empire of Constantinople after his Father But he was gouerned vnder the disposition and order of Nicephorus Phocas This Emperor Romanus excluded his mother and his sisters who in gréefe and despight that they should fall from so great pompe and estate concluded to support the●r weake condition by the worst meanes that could be euen the prostitution of their bodies And as for him he being addicted to sports and Epicu●isme died poisoned Nicephorus Phocas ruled the Empire of Constantinople in the yeare 963. He fought often very fortunatly against the Sarazins who vsurpingly held Calabria Scicily Cyprus Candy and Cilicia which at this day is called Caramania In Scicily the affaires were not well mannaged by his Committées and Lieutenants But concerning himselfe he recouered Cilicia and the greater part of Asia for a good beginning And soone after he went powerfully vpon Antioche which hee surprised in the night and forced the Sarazins to fly for refuge This man was hated of all his Subiects because that vnder the coulour of Warre which he then had he laide great Imposts exactions and polings vpon them He caused also a corrupt kind of money to be forged and diminished likewise the waight by meanes whereof being so out of fauour with the

and the Turkes daily repulsed and chased albeit they were an hundred thousand fighting men and the Army consisted of 160. Saile The Great maister was much succoured by Messire Antoine d'Aubusson his Brother Vicount of Montelis who was a great Warriour and a most skilfull Captaine he was elected Captaine Generall for the besiedged In fewe daies the Turkes gaue thrée thousand and seauen hundred shot with the Cannon against the Citty Wals and a maruailous assault was made of forty thousand Turks who neuerthelesse were valiantly resisted albeit the Great Maister receiued in this fight fiue great woundes one whereof was thought to bée deadly In the end so worthily were the assaylants withstood that they were enforced to raise their siedge hauing lost a great number of theyr Souldiers and the Army of Turkes returned with mighty shame and disgrace to Constantinople after they had besiedged the Citty for the space of 89. dayes After this siedge Mahomet the second concluded to com in person to Rhodes whereupon a generall assembly of the Knightes was made But the death of Mahomet hindered this designe and his Sonnes Baiazeth and Zizime performed the Warre after the decease of their Father which gaue some breathing time of rest to the Knights of Rhodes And yet Zizime in person came to assist the Great Mayster with-drawing himselfe to Rhodes in the yeare 1482. where he was receiued with great honour and from thence conducted into France In the time of this Great Maister d'Aubusson the statutes of the Order were reformed and brought into one volume peace being concluded betwéen the Knights and the Great Turk Baiazeth The Great Maister was made a Cardinall by Pope Innocent the eight and Legate also into Asia with honour of Legate and Generall of the leagued Army against the Turke Finally he dyed at Rhodes An. 1503. the third day of Iuly full of honour and reputation and was interred with great Funerall pompe He had liued 80. yeares thrée moneths and foure daies and gouerned the Order twenty seauen yeares and sixtéene daies 40 There were 387. Knightes assembled at Rhodes when the Great Maister d'Aubusson dyed who elected for his successor Emery d'Amboise Brother to George d' Amboise Cardinall and Legate in France Arch-Bishop of Rouen He was a French-man by birth and great Priour of France at the time of his election Guy de Blanchefort comming into France to accompany him in his voyage to Rhodes where hée was receiued with much applause and reioycing because the Kinges of France and Spaine hadde written very fauourable Letters on his behalfe to the Knights of the order Hee was no sooner there arriued but hee helde a generall Chapter wherein was concluded that a sumptuous tomb of Brasse should be made for the deceased Cardinall Great Maister In the yeare following they obtained a very famous and nauall victory against the Soldane of Egypt vnder the conduct of Phillip de Villiers of the Isle Adam a French Knight of the order and afterward he was great Maister But this Maister Emerie d'Amboise dyed at Rhodes An. 1512. 41 And the same yeare 410. of the knights were assembled at Rhodes where they chose Guy de Blanchefort borne in Auuergne and Nephew to the deceased Maister d'Aubusson to be Great Maister In his time the generall Laterane Councel was holden at Rome where Fabritio Carretto Admiral and Procurator for the Order of Rhodes was Captaine of the Guard to the saide Councell This great Maister de Blanchefort embarking himselfe at Nicea in Prouence to make for Rhodes was surprized by the way with a dangerous sicknesse wherof hee dyed the 24. of Nouember a yeare and two daies after his election 42 In his stead Fabritio de Carretto borne in Geneway and an Italian by language was treated Great Maister in an assembly helde at Rhodes the fifteenth of December 1513. where were then present 550. Knightes of the Order the said Carretto hauing formerly béen Admiral of Rhodes In the yeare 1516. peace was made betwéene the Knights of Sain● Iohn and Tomombeus Soldane of Egypt successor to Campson Gaury who but a short while before was slaine in a battaile wherein Selim Emperour of the Turkes had the victory against him And Tomombeus was as vnfortunate for in the yeare 1517. he was taken and strangled at one of the Portes of the great Cayre by the appointment of Selim. And this was the cause that the great Maister fortifyed the Isle of Rhodes to his vttermost power sending Ambassadours to the Christian Princes to let them vnderstand the great victoryes of Selim the sooner to take order for sending succour But Selim dying his son Sultan Soliman succéeded him and in Ianuary 1521. the Great Mayster Carretto finished his daies at Rhodes leauing great prouision and Munition for warre which soone after did seruice to his successor 43 Phillip de Villiers of the Isle Adam great Priour of France and there borne where because hee also was at the time of his election Gabriell de Pomereux great Commander was chosen Lieutenant to the great Maister till hée came The very same yeare of his election the twenty two day of Ianuary 1521. Sultan Soliman resolued to besiedge the Isle of Rhodes executing the last will of his Father Selim whereof the Great Maister being aduertised hee made his preparation by all possible meanes to withstand the Turkes enterprise Diligently did hee strengthen the Citty of Rhodes sending for supply into Christendome which as then hée could not haue by reason of the warre happening betwéene Frances the first King of France and the Emperor Charles the fift In the month of Iune 1522. began the memorable siedge of the Cittie of Rhodes which was besiedged with an Army of two hundred thousand Turkes and afterward the army encreased to thrée hundred thousand men The besiedged defended themselues most couragiously and very worthy exploits of warre were there performed especially by the Great Maister who during the siedge did neuer put off his Armour The assaylants were in many attemptes repulsed and in one of them twentie thousand Turks remained dead in the place Soliman hauing then a purpose to raise his siedge but that there were some close Traytours who hindered him from so dooing and yet they did not escape vnpunished At length the Great Mayster receiuing no succour was enforced to surrender the Cittie vppon composition the twenty foure day of December 1522. the Turkes hauing lost more then an hundered thousand men Soliman would néedes sée the Great Maister and when he beheld him tears issued from his eyes in méere compassion of him So the first day of Ianuary 1523. the Great Maister with 50. sayle departed from Rhodes and tooke his way towards Candie after that the Isle of Rhodes had beene in the power of the Knights Hospitallers for the space of 213. years to wit from the yeare 1309. to the ende of the yeare 1522. After this losse of Rhodes the great Maister and his valiant Religious

the first Heretique was then condemned by him Then was the first Councel holden at Ierusalem and then also was the first Persecution 2 Linus the sonne of Herculanus born at Volterra in Tuscane was said to be the Disciple to S. Peter and his Coadiutor He held the Sée eleuen yeares fiue Moneths and twelue dayes And had his head smitten off vnder Nero. 3 Clement the son of Romain Faustinus first Priest of the Romain Church was designed by S. Peter his successour He was banished to Pontus and was drowned hauing an Anchor fastened about his necke He held the Sée xij Moneths eleuen daies Sede vacante xiij daies 4 Cletus son to Emilianus the Romaine was martyred vnder Domitian He held the See xij yeares one moneth eleuen daies Menander Ebion and Cerinthus were then Hereticks And the second Persecution The first Age. IN this first Age liued wrote Philo the Iew Dionisius Areopagita Iosephus and S. Ignatius In this Age were two seuerall Persecutions of the Church The first vnder Nero the second vnder Domitian 5 Anacletus sonne to Autiochus the Athenian a Priest of the Romain Church was martired vnder Nerua and Traian He held the See nine yeares two moneths ten daies Vacante thirteen daies 6. Euaristus a Greeke Son of Iudas the Bethleemite Iew was martyred vnder Traiane Hée held the Sée nine yeares ten months two daies vacante xix dayes Saturnine Basilides and Isidorus Heretickes liued then And then was the third persecution 7 Alexander Sonne of Romaine Alexander was Martird vnder Traian He held the Sée seuen yeares ten Months two daies vacante xxv daies 8 Sixtus Son of Romaine Pastor a Priest of the Romaine Church● was Martyred vnder Adrian He held the Sée ten yeares thrée Moneths and xxj daies vacante foure daies Then liued Carpocrates Epiphanes and Prodicus author of the Gnosticke Hereticks The fourth persecution 9 Telesphorus a Gréeke sonne to Anachoretus Priest of the Romaine Church was martyred vnder Adrian He held the Sée eleuen years thrée moneths xxij daies vac foure daies Aquila of Pontus the Heretick then liued 10 Higinus a Gréeke son to an Athenian Philosopher was Priest of the Romain Church vnder the Empire of Antoninm He held the see 4. yeares thrée moneths foure daies vac 4. daies 11 Pius of Aquilea sonne to Ruffinus Priest of the Romain church vnder Antoninus He disputed concerning the feast of Easter at Laodicia He held the See nine yeares thrée Monethes foure daies vacante foure daies Then were hereticks Valentinus and his Disciples Marcus Secundus Bassus Colarbasus and Heracleo 12 Anicetus a Syrian the sonne of Iohn martired vnder the Emperour Antonius verus Hee held the Sée nine yeares foure monethes xiij daies vacante xvij daies 13 Sother sonne to Concordius a Natiue of Fundi vnder Verus He held the Sée nine years iij. months two daies Vacante xxi daies Then was Tatian of whom came the Excratites Seuerus and Ammonius Hereticks 14 Eleutherius of Nicopolis sonne to Habundius was Deacon of the Romain Church vnder Commodus He held the Sée xv yeares iij. moneths two daies Vacante fiue daies Montanus the Phrygian Author of the Cataphriges Theod. Themist Alexander and Symmachus Heretiques then liuing 15 Victor an Affricane borne the Sonne of Foelix vnder the Emperor Pertinax Hee helde the Sée ten yeares thrée months ten daies vacante xxi dayes A Synod was then at Rome some Counsels in Palestine concerning Easter Theodotus Aesclapiodothus Hermopilus and Apollonides were then Heretiques 16. Zephyrinus a Romaine borne Sonne to Habundius vnder Antonius Caracalla Hee held the Sée seauen yeares seauen months ten daies vacante sixe dayes 17. Calixtus Sonne to Domitius a Romayne was martired vnder Aurelius Seuerus He helde the Sée sixe yeares one month tenne daies Vacante vi dayes Then was the fift persecution The second Age. 2 In this second Age liued Iustine the Phylosopher and Martir Dionisius Byshoppe of Corinth S. Policarpus S. Ireneus Clemens Alexandrinus and Tertullian In which Age were thrée persecutions one vnder Traiane the second vnder Marcus Antoninus and the thirde vnder Seuerus 18 Vrbane Sonne to Pontianus a Romaine martired vnder Alexander Hee helde the Sée foure yeares ten months twelue dayes vacante one month 19 Pontianus a Romaine borne and sonne to Capurnius dyed in exile in Sardignia vnder Alexander He held the Sée nine yeares fiue moneths two daies Vacante x. daies 20 Antherus a Greeke by birth son to Romulus martired vnder Maximinus Hee helde the Sée fiue yeares one month twelue daies Vacante xiij daies Then was the sixt persecution 21 Fabian a Romaine sonne to Fabius vnder Maximinus He held the Sée fifteene yeares eleuen dayes Vacante six daies Gordianus Phillip and Decius were then martired The Aelchefites and Nouatus chiefe of the Nouatians with some Arabian Heretickes were then A Counsel was holden at Rome against Nouatus The seuenth persecution 22 Cornelius a Romaine son to Castinus Priest of the Romaine Church and martyred vnder Decius and Gallus He held the See two yeares two months three daies Vacante one moneth and three daies Then was the Nouatian Anti-pope and first schisme in the Church Two Sinodes were held in Affrica against Nouatian The sée being vacant a Synode was held at Rome concerning them that had denied the Faith 23 Lucius a Romain and sonne to Porphirius was martyred vnder Gallien and Valerian He held the Sée three yeares three moneths iij. daies Vacante one month v. daies Two councels were held at Carthage one concerning the doubt whether Heretiques ought to bee rebaptized and the other about baptizing of Infantes Two other Councels were likewise in Asya vpon the doubt whether Heretiques were to be receiued comming to resipiscence or knowledge of their error Now was the eight Persecution 24 Stephen a Romain sonne to Iulius Archdeacon of the Romain Church martyred vnder Valerian and Gallien He held the Sée 7. years fiue Moneths and ij daies vacante xxij daies A Synode was held in Affrica against Basilides and Martiall two renegate Bishops 25 Sixtus the second an Athenian borne son to a Phylosopher and martyred with S. Laurence vnder Valerian and Gallien He helde the Sée two years ten months xxiij daies vacante one moneth fiue dayes Then were liuing Noëtus and Sabellius Author of the Sabellian heresie with the heretick Paule of Samosata 26 Denis or Dionisius a Monke vnder Claudius the Emperour He held the Sée sixe yeares two moneths foure daies vac six daies Nepos the Heretick then renewed the Chiliastes Two Synodes were at Antioch against Paule of Samo sata And a Synode at Rome for the cause of Denis of Corinth 27 Felix a Romain son of Constantius martyred vnder Aurelian He held the see 4. yeares thrée moneths xv daies vacan fiue daies The ninth Persecution 28 Eutichianus sonne to Maximus borne at Luna in Tuscane martired vnder Aurelian Tacitus and Florian Emperors He held the Sée one yeare

of a prize so signale and beneficiall to all christendome Pope Anastasius the fourth gaue and granted verie great priuiledges to the Order of these Knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem the first day of Nouember in the same yeare exempting them from the iurisdiction and controule of the East Ecclesiasticall Prelates which was the cause of great troubles betwéene the Bishops of the country there and the knights of this order albeit the Pope and his Cardinals maintained them still stoutly Some haue held that this Great M. Raymond was a Florentine but the most credible opinion is that hee was a French-man a Natiue of Daulphine issued of a verie Noble house called du Puy whereof namelie ●acques Bosius the Italian who hath amplie written the historie of this order is an ingenuous witnesse Hee died in the yeare 1160. with this reputation that hee had bin a man of good and vertuous life fearing god valiant wise and aduised in the affaires of the world and one wel approued in warlicke exercises 3 After that Raymond was deceased there succéeded in the Maister-ship and gouernment of the Order F. Auger de Balben of whome there is found nothing deseruing memorie but that in his time died King Baldwin the third who was not onlie much bemoaned of the christians but likewise of the Infidelles who saide That the Christians had iust cause to lament for the death of Baldwine because they had lost a Prince that had not his equall in the world This Great-Maister Auger after he had gouerned his charge in peace and repose about thrée yeares died in the yeare 1163. 4 Arnold de Comps was next elected Mayster in his place who was a man of great spirite valour and councell And in short time after his election he entered into Egypt with Amaulrie the new King of Hierusalem who made warre vpon the Califfe of Egypt because he refused to continue and pay the anuall tribute wherein hée had bound himselfe to King Baldwine the third for a perpetuall payment to the Kinges of Hierusalem Arnold after he had with great wisedom and courage gouerned the Hospitall of S. Iohn about foure yeares died in the yeare 1167. and then succeeded him 5 Gilbert d'Assaly or de Sailly who was of stout mind and so liberall that hee flowed in bounty especially to his Souldiers so that he fel into great expences and wasted the whole treasure of the house Insomuch that hee was enforced to borrow Money at interest with conditi●ion that if he tooke from the Infidels the Citty of Belbeis anciently called Pelusium he should stand acquitted to his Brother-hood as indéed he did and victoriously performed his promise the third day of Nouember 1168. In which yeare he held a Chapter generall in Hierusalem where perceiuing that he was greatly indebted and had charged the Hospitall with more than an hundred thousand Crownes of méere debts beeing also much grieued that his attemptes found not equall Issue to his high desires hee determined to renounce his great Maistership which he did in the yeare 1169. 6 By his resignation or renunciation rather another Knight was chosen Great Maister named F. Gastus or Castus of whom there is nothing found that makes to any purpose of this our briefe History And the breuity of his time of gouernment was the cause by reason he was not a full yeare in the charge but dyed in the very same yeare of his election and had 7 F. Ioubert a very religious man for his successor who in the yeare 1176. ioyned himselfe with Phillip Earle of Flanders that was then come into Syria to assist King Baldwine the fourth against Saladine who had a very powerfull Army miraculously vanquished by the Christians that were but few in number in the moneth of Nouember 1177. at which time the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander the third were reconciled together At length Saladine with-drew himselfe from the Countrey of Damas in the year 1179. And then dyed Ioubert Maister of the Hospitallers a man very charytable to the poore and sickly It is saide that méere conceite of griefe to behold so manyfestly the ruine of christian affaires in Syria with the shamefull and damageable truce made betwéene the King of Ierusalem and the Earle of Tripoli by his example with Saladine was the onely cause of abridging his dayes hauing gouerned the Order of Saint Iohn about tenne yeares 8 In his stead was elected Roger de Molins a man of high discretion and courage In his time happened a great dissention betwéene the Prince of Antioche and the Patriarch of the said place and this Roger was chosen to be mediator of peace and agréement betwéene them which followed in the yeare 1181. This Roger with Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem and Arnald de Trogo Master of the Knights Templers was sent by the King of Hierusalem in quality of an Ambassador into the West to require ayde of the Christian Princes These Ambassadours were kindly entertained by the Emperour King Phillip Augustus Gods gift sirnamed the Conquerour the Kings of Sicily England and Hungary they returned back againe into Syria all but the Maister of the Templers who dyed by the way In the yeare 1187. the Earle of Tripoli being leagued and confederated with Saladine graunted him passage and reléeued his Army with victuals And Saladine hauing besiedged the citty of Ptolomais the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers ioyning together disordered the whole Army and Roger the great Mayster fighting valiantlie there dyed with the fall of his Horse vpon him and smothered in his Armour as also being much troden on with the enemies Horses His body being afterward found among the dead was buried with great woe and sorrow And notwithstanding this losse of the great Maister yet the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers won the day of battaile against the Turkes and Sarrazins of whom died then in the field about fiftéen thousand the first day of May in the yeare 1187 After whom 9 F. Garnier of Naples in Syria which was the ancient cittie of Sichem in Canaan was elected great Maister In his time was a bloudy battaile fought betwéene the Christians and Infidels wherein the King of Hierusalem named Guy de Lusignan was taken Prisoner with the very chiefe Lordes of his Kingdome It is said also that the Christians had then the true Crosse in the battell but it was taken from them by the Infidels and almost all the Knightes of Hierusalem and the Templers were one part slaine in the battaile and the rest beheaded in cold bloud F. Garnier after he had fought verie manfully yet being mortally wounded in many places of his body by the goodnesse and swiftnes of his Horse escaped into the Citty of Ascalon where ten daies after hee departed into a better life the fouretéenth of Iuly hauing béene great Maister but two months and sixe daies 10 The twenty day of the saide moneth of Iuly 1187. the Knights

because they were the first that forsooke their owne natiue Countrey which was called Gothia or Gothland signifying a good Land it béeing a Northerne Prouince of Germanie This Land abounded in Graine Fruites Cattle Woodes Riuers Mettals but especially in Copper and Skinnes seruing for Furres At all times and as yet at this day is to be discerned the Kingdom of Swessia or Sweuia hath bin comprized vnder the Dominion of the Gothes As the Countrey was fertile in fruites euen so were the Women thereof likewise in Children for as they were strong and of great stature so had they vsually two Children at a birth which was the cause then and so it yet continueth that they had and haue more people then can wel liue together the Country not being sufficient to find sustenance for so many In like manner they are very great féeders much more then they that liue in the Easterne or Meridionall partes The Gothes perceiuing and aduisedly pondering on this vrgent case they leuied the more part of the youngest and strongest men of their Countrey to the number of thrée hundred thousand and married such as were not to ridde themselues of the charge of Daughters as well as of Sonnes for the Countrey ordinarily abounded in the Feminine more then in the Masculine Sexe So being well prouided of all necessaries for warre and leauing a chiefe commander at home of the Royal linage they wandred abroad through the fields to win by power or compasse by loue some new habitation wherein to liue Many Authors and among the rest Trebellius sayth that the first tidings of this their straiing was vnder the raigne of the Emperour Flauius Claudius about the yeare of Iesus Christ 272. And that they passed thorough Allemaign Hungary Thrace Greece Gaule and into Italy They lost many battailes and wonne likewise as many against the Romaines and other people maintaining themselues so well that they raigned in Italie euen in despight of the Italians and Emperours the space of seauentie one yeares as Procopius auoucheth At length they went into Spaine whence afterward they would not remooue For the Catholique Kinges of Spaine that then raigned by succession and raigne yet to this present were issued from the race and line of their Kinges who were indéed very generous people Now it is not to bee imagined that in regard of such a mightie leuy of men the Countrey of Gothia or Gothland or the neighbouring borders remained without Inhabitants or the rule of Kinges For there were then left behinde so many as the Land was able to nourish who had their Kinges in authority ouer them and strength sufficient to withstand any inuasion of the Countrey As for the conquering Armyes abroad they continued in Honour for a very long time albeit they lost great store of men in battailes encounters surprisals and passages of Riuers yet were these disaduantages still supplied by the daily birth of Children among them because they had their wiues in all places with them Perhaps some strangers mingled among thē who wearing their habits learning their language holp still to supply the fri● of this people Such as haue bin named Ostrogoths were people issued of the same country of Gothia or Gotteland frō a place which is yet cald Ostrogothia the principall Citties whereof are Sche●ng and Lincopt They vsed to warre alone by themselues being separate from the Goths yet ranging the world according as they did The Westrogothes in like manner came out of a Country cald Westrogothia among whom the chéefest Citties to this day are Scaris and Vernen Wisigoths or Bisigoths came foorth of a Countrey named Visbi the principall Cittie whereof i● yet called Visbi I was the more willing to make this discription because I haue heard of diuers who are but slenderly experienced in Cosmography that do tearme those Ostro●goths to bee Gothes Orientall or of the East and the Westrogoths Occidentall Gothes or dwelling in the West and so contrarywise of the other Albeit they were all descended and came out of the kingdome of Gothia or Gotteland as Munster hath very well obserued The Vandales in the erronious iudgement of Procopius a Gréeke Authour are said to bée of the same Nation and that all the people of Goths Vandales Alains Hunnes and others whom I am hereafter to describe were deriued out of one and the same Land and were comprehended all vnder the Name of Sauromates or Sarmates and haue no other difference but by the names of their Captaines or Kinges But I must maintaine against him that the land of the Vandales is distant from Gotheland aboue the space of two hundered leagues and therefore they cannot bee one people with the Gothes True it is that this Nation is Septentrionall or in the North as the others are and is a Maritime Countrey named yet to this day Vandalia but as I haue already saide very farre off the one from the other This people did almost as much hurt to the Romaine Empire as the Gothes did for ioyning diuers other people with them as the Alaines Suabes Franconians they trauerssed the Rheine Gauderichus béeing then their King and passing among the Gaules wasted and spoyled them very greatlie Then went they into Spaine and tooke possession in despight of the Gothes of the Countrey adioyning to the Kingdome of Granado which to this day is called Vandalia or by corrupting the Worlde Vandelusia albeit the Spanyards mince it more nicely and nick-name it to be Andalusia But to bee bréefe they were thrust foorth of Spayne wholly in the yeare 431. vnder another of their Kings named Gensericus and passed thence into Asia where they raigned 76. years From thence they were compelled in the seauenth yeare of the Emperor Iustinian Anno Dom. 528. by the valour of one of his Captaines named Belisarius The Hunnes departed also out of their Countrey for the selfe-same cause as the Gothes did about the yeare one hundred sixty eyght onely to séeke some Land where they might liue after the Scythians Religion making first choyce of Pannonia where they alwayes so strongly kept and guarded it till after their owne name it was called Hungaria This people came from that part of Scythia which is tearmed Hunos no long distance from the Riuer Tanais but it is a miserable estate at this day and vnder subiection of the Moscouite Hauing vsurped Pannonia they kept it manfully against the Romaines and two hundred yeares after Attila theyr King accompanied with some people of Allemaigne as Bohemians Gepides or Girpides Schlesites Werlies Thuringians Goths Ostrogothes and others making in all about the number of sixe hundred thousand men passed through Allemaigne which they much endamaged Then went he into France where hee lost a battaile in which perished a great number of his men this battel was giuen him by the Romans Gaules and certaine Goths allied together and he lost as some Authors