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A39396	Cambria triumphans, or, Brittain in its perfect lustre shevving the origen and antiquity of that illustrious nation, the succession of their kings and princes, from the first, to King Charles of happy memory, the description of the countrey, the history of the antient and moderne estate, the manner of the investure of the princes, with the coats of arms of the nobility / by Percie Enderbie, Gent.	Enderbie, Percy, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing E728; ESTC R19758	643,056	416

themselves together they so moved David the Lord of Denbigh to be at unity with prince Lhewelin and to take pitty upon their affliction and misery that he being agreed with his brother became their Captain year 1281 This reconciliation consisted chiefly in this that David should never after serve the King of England as he had done before but become his utter enemy who laid siege to the castle of Hawarden and took Roger Clifford a noble Knight slaying all that resisted The Welsh impatient of servitude and after spoyling all the country he with his brother the prince laid siege to the Castle of Ruthlan the King hearing of this hasted thither with a great army to raise the siege whereupon the prince retreated with his army Seek to recover their liberty Aberystwyth castle built by the King taken Godwin in Canterbury fol. 77. Also the same time Rees the son of Maelgon and Gruffith ap Meredith ap Owen which other noble men of Southwales too● the castle of Aberystwyth and divers other castles in the Country spoyling and plundering all the Kings people that inhabited thereabouts Therefore the King sent the Archbishop of Canterbury to confer with the prince and his brethren but he returned without doing any good so that he denounced an excommunication this Archbishops name was Jehn Beckham who as B. Godwin saith took great pains in labouring a peace between K. Edw. l. and prince Lhewelin of Wales unto whom he went in person and travailed long with him but all in vain Articles sent from the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to be intimated to Lhewelin Prince of Wales and to the People of the same Country 1 Because we came to those parts for the spiritual and temporal health of them whom we have ever loved well as divers of them have known 2. That we came contrary to the will of the Lord our King whom our said coming as is said doth much offend 3 That we desire beseech them for the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ that they would come to an unity with the English people and to the peace of our Lord the King which we intend to procure them as well as we can 4. We will them to understand that we cannot long tarry in those quarters 5. We would that they considered that after our parting out of the Country they shall not perhaps find any that will so tender the preferring of their cause as we would do if it pleased God with our mortal life we might procure them an honest stable and firm peace 6. That if they do contemn our petition and labour we do intend forthwith to signifie their stubbournesse to the high Bishop and the Court of Rome for the enormity that many wayes happeneth by occasion of this discord this day 7. Let them know that unlesse they do quickly agree to a peace that war shall be aggravated against them which they shall not be able to sustain for the Kings power encreaseth daily 8. Let them understand that the realm of England is under the special protection of the See Apostolick and the See of Rome loveth it better then any other kingdom 9. That the said See of Rome will not in any wise see the state of the Realm of England quaile being under a special protection 10. That we much lament to hear that the Welshmen be more cruel then Saracens for the Saracens when they take christians they keep them to be redeemed for money but they say that the Welshmen by and by do kill all they take and are only delighted with blood and some time cause to be killed them whose ransom they have received 11. That whereas they were ever wont to be esteemed and to reverence God and Ecclesiastical persons they seem much to revolt from that devotion moving sedition and war and committing slaughter and burning in the holy time which is a great injury to God wherein no man can excuse them 12. We desire That as true Christians they would repent for they cannot long continue their begun discord if they had sworn it 13. We will That they signifie unto us how they will or can amend the trouble of the Kings peace and the hurt of the Common-wealth 14. That they signifie unto us How peace and concord may be established for in vain were it to form peace to be daily violated 15. If they say That their Laws or Covenants be not observed that they do signifie unto us what those be 16. That granting it That they were injured as they say which we in no wayes do know they which were Judges in the cause might so have signified to the Kings Majesty 17. That unless they will now come to peace they shall be resisted by decree and censure of the Church The Answer of Prince Lhewelyn to the above-written Articles To the most Reverend Father in Christ the Lord John by Gods grace Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England his humble and devote son Lhewelyn Prince of Wales and Lord of Snowdon sendeth Greeting With all Reverend Submission and Honour we yield our most humble and hearty thanks unto your Fatherhood for the great and grievous pains which at this present for the love of us and our Nation you have sustained and so much the more we are beholden unto you for that besides the Kings pleasure you would venture to come to us In that you request us to come to the Kings peace we would have your Holiness to know That we are most ready and willing to the same so that our Lord the King will duely and truely observe and keep towards us and ours Moreover although we would be glad of your continuance in Wales yet we hope there shall not be any delay in us but that peace which of all things we most desire and wish for may be forthwith established and rather by your travel and procurement than by any other mens so that it shall not be needful to complain unto the Pope of our wilfulness neither do we despise your Fatherhoods requests and painful travel but with all hearty reverence according to our duty do accept the the same neither yet shall it be needful for the Lord the King to use any force against us seeing we are ready to obey him in all things our Rights and Laws as aforesaid reserved And although the Kingdom of England be under the special protection of the See of Rome and with special love regarded by the same yet when the Lord the Pope with the Court of Rome shall understand of the great dammages which are done unto us by the Englishmen to wit The Articles of the peace concluded and sworn unto violated and broken the robbing and burning of Churches the murthering of Ecclesiastical persons as well religious as secular the slaughter of women great with child the children sucking at their mothers breasts the destroying of Hospitals and Houses of Religion killing the men and women professed in the Holy Places and even before

he after addeth thereunto Hermanius Sehedelius addeth also how he went into Rhetia with Emerita his Sister and near unto the City Augusta converted the Curienses unto the Faith of Christ and there likewise being put to death in Castro Martis lyeth buried in the same Town where his feast is held upon the third day of December The Curienses converted to the faith by a Brittain That Schedelius erreth not herein also the ancient monuments of the said Abbey whereof he was the original beginner do yield sufficient testimony beside an Hymne made in the commendation intituled Gaude Lucionum c. The said Schedelius setteth down likewise that his sister Emerita was martyred in Trine castle neer unto the place where the said Lucius dwelled and the same Authour saith further that he converted all Bavaria and Rhetia between the Alps and this narration is confirmed by Gaspar Bruchius thus Bavaria and Rhetia converted to Christianity by a Brittain St. Lucius which preached to the Germans was born of the regal race among the Brittains and propogating the faith of Christ came out of Brittainy into Germany and preached first at Salisbury then at Austburg from whence he was cast out by the Infidels there and then went with his sister St. Emerita to the City of Chur where preaching again both he and his sister Emerita were martyred by the Pagans St. Lucius at Chur in the castle of Mars and St. Emerita at Trine Castle Lucius and Emerita being thus by means of the Roman Emperours Dioclesian and Maximian both banished and martyred to make all sure in their proceedings they detained Constantine the other child as Hostage at their command and placed here in Brittain none to bear office but such as were Pagans ready to execute the cruel and savage resolutions of that bloody persecuting Tyrant against the holy christians here These things thus compleated the state of Brittain by such means was now brought into the same condition for persecution with other nations or rather worse the number of christians being here then far greater both in respect it was a christian Kingdom and so had both more christian inhabitants then other nations and by the immunities and priviledges it should have enjoyed many christians of other regions fled and resorted hither in hope of quiet and security from persecution This violent storme of persecution raging through the whole Roman Empire acted many tragical Scaenes in this Isle Harding in his Chronicle saith Hard. c. 57. f. 41 The Emperour Dioclesian Into Brittaon sent Maximian This Maximian to sirname Hercelius A Tyrant false that Christenty annoyd Through all Brittain a work malicious The Christen folk felly and sore destroyed And thus the people with him foul accloyed Religious men the Priests and Clerks all Women with child and bedrid folk all Children sucking upon their their Mothers pappis The mothers also without any pitty And children all in their mothers lappis The Creples eke and all the Christentee He killed and slew with full great cruelty The Churches brent all books and ornaments Bells Relicks that to the Church appends Dioclesian came to the Empire in the year of Christ 282 and did within two years after begin his most cruel persecution the first that felt the heavy but yet most blessed stroak here in Brittain was St. Allan Dicetus Dean of St. Pauls London doth set down this persecution in Brittain in the year of Christ 287. The old manuscript Annals of Winchester say that S. Allan in the eight year of Dioclesian Maximian was put to death and the same antiquities tell us that the Monks of Winchester were martyred by the Officers of Dioclesian in the second year of his reign and their Church then destroyed Godwin a late Bishop as he citeth from some Antiquities of that Church saith this happened in the year of Christ 289. and addeth that at this time Dioclesian endeavouring to root out Christian Religion in Brittain not only killed the professours of the same Mr Br. f. 415. Hollen Hist of Engl. l. 4. but also pulled down all churches anywhere consecrated to the exercise thereof The instruments of Dioclesian herein were Quintus Bassianus Hircius Alectus Gallus as the most principal with others of inferior degrees and Mamertinus the Panegyrist hath avouched to Maximian the persecutor before that he was here in Brittain in his own person which is confirmed by our own Antiquaries Adding further that he persecuted in the Occidental parts by commission from Dioclesian John Lydgat l. 8. so testifieth John Lydgate the Monck of Bury with others Ant. Brit. Antiq. in tit S. Alb. Cadgrave in eodem St. Alban our first Martyr was rather descended of Noble Roman then Brittish blood but probably both of Roman and Brittish blood his abode and dwelling was at Caermunip or Verulam where all professed Roman Paganisme and there he entertained either for old acquaintance for they were both Knighted at the same time in Rome or hospitality sake as being a man eminent and by some stiled High Steward of the Brittains St. Amphibalus but when he began to speak of Jesus Christ the son of God and incarnate for mans redemption he was so farr off from being a christian that he had scarce heard of Christ before but said this testimony of Christ was strange unto him and St. Amphibalus more particularly declaring the mysteries of Christs Nativity Passion Resurrection and Ascension Alban was yet so far from believing that he told St. Amphibalus he was mad to preach such things that understanding did not apprehend nor reason allow and if the Citizens of that place did know what he spake concerning Christ they would most cruelly put him to death and feared much that he would fall into trouble before he could go forth of his house But what the preaching of St. Amphibalus prevailed not in his earnest prayer and watching obtained of God for Alban For as the old Brittish writer of his life living in that time relateth this History St. Amphibalus watching in prayers all the night following a strange and admirable vision appeared to Alban wherewith he being exceedingly terrified and perplexed presently rose and went to St. Amphibalus thus declaring his vision and desiring the exposition thereof in this order and these words O my friend if these things which thou preachest of Christ are true I beseech thee be not afraid to tell unto me the true meaning of my dream or vision I did attend and behold a Man came from Heaven whom a great and innumerable multitude of Men apprehended and laid divers kinds of Torments upon him his hands were bound with cords his body worne with whips and grievously torne his body hanged upon a cross and his hands stretched cross upon it The Man which was thus tortured was naked and had no shoes upon his feet His hands and feet were pierced with nails his side thrust through with a spear and as it seemed to me

titular Prince but possessed of large Territories and finding great plenty of Treasure congested by his wary and careful Predecessours was not close-fisted but with a liberal hand imparts a large Proportion to men of Action and gallant Resolution and determines once more to hazard both life and fortunes with his Brother rather then lose Albania The sons of Mars and fierce youthful spirits applaud their Princes gallant Resolution and each equipps himself to the rank of his birth and height of his desire Bellinus hearing of these great and warlike Preparations like a prudent Prince perceives this threatning cloud to bend its course towards Brittany and therefore seeing he cannot prevent the coming thereof makes such provision that wheresoever it shall disgorge it self it may do as slender hurt as may be thus he stands in a readinesse with Weapons to receive this menacing storm with the point of his Sword Brennus maugre all oppositions arrives with his Navy These heavy tidings pierce the very soul of Connuvenna or Conwenna the poor afflicted Mother whose affectionate love was equally divided betwixt her dearest children and having long time been deprived of the tender imbracements of her younger Son carried with the most Noble passion of love she casts her self betwixt the Brothers and with most bitter sighes and floods of tears shews those brests which once they both had suckt she pleads commands intreats nay begs to make them friends An ancient Poet in few Verses makes Conwenna to speak thus Proh dolor hic quid erit quid Vos mea viscera turbat Fraternas a cies quae mala causa movet Tota tenere nequit modo vos Brittannia quondam Quos tenuit venter unicus iste meus Non vos maternae lachrimae sparsique capilli Nec quae suxistis ubera nuda movent Oh Heavens I my Sons why do you let me see your naked swords unsheath'd for butchery Cannot you two in one great Kingdome live my narrow Womb life to you both did give Behold my Tears my Locks with Age grown Gray the Breasts you suck't then cast your swords away The brothers with this unlookt for spectacle stand gazing each at other which Convenna wisely perceiving takes time fast by the fore-top and prosecutes her complaints with the very depth of sorrow and rising up with a discreet motherly compassion now embraceth the one now the other and never leaves till she locks them close in the Armes of a most firm and brotherly reconciliation and so as it were hand in hand to the amazement of both Armies but unspeakable joy of the overjoy'd Convenna they came to Troynovant where after a due setling of the affairs of Brittaine those forces who not long before were mortal Foes are now become confederates and fellow souldiers and uniting strength to strength a new employment is set on foot Gallia is the mark aim'd at at which they level so directly that as Gaufride they sayled into a part of Gallia burning and wasting the Country without regard or pitty and in short time subdued a large proportion not only of Gallia but also Italy and Germany As yet Belmus and Brennus according to Gaufride were together and performed many worthy deeds and feats in Armes but because Livius makes only mention of Brennus in the Roman Histories I suppose Belinus was again returned for Brittany his own Kingdome leaving the managing of what followed to his brother What hereafter I shall speak of Brennus I have collected out of Plutark in the life of Camillus whose words translated by Sir Thomas North Kt. are these Now as touching the Gaules they came of as they say the CELTAE whose country being not able to maintaine the multitudes of them they were driven to go seek after other countries to inhabit in and there were amongst them many thousands of young men of service and good souldiers but yet more women and little children by a great number of those people some of them went towards the North Sea passing the Mountaines Riphei and did dwell in the extreme parts of Europe others of them remained between the Mountaines Pirenei and the Mountaines of the Alpes near unto the Senones and the Celtorii there they continued a long time untill they fortuned in the end to tast of the wine which was first brought out of Italy to them which drink they found so good and were so delighted in it that suddenly they Armed themselves and taking their Wives and Children with them they went directly towards the Alpes to go seek out the Countrey that brought forth such fruit judging all other Countries in respect of that to be but wild and barren It is said that the first man that did bring wine to them and did procure them to passe into Italy was a Noble man of Thuscany called Arron and otherwise of no ill disposed Nature how be it he was subject to this misfortune following He was Tutor to an Orphan Child the richest that was in that time in all the Countrey of Tuscany and of complexion wondrous fair he was called Lucumo This Orphan was brought up in Arrons house of a Child and though he was grown to state yet he would not depart from him feigning he was well and to his liking but indeed the cause was that he loved his Mistress Arrons wife whom secretly he had enjoyed a long time and she him that made him like his continuance there Howbeit in the end love having so possessed them both that neither party could withdraw from other much lesse conceale it The young man stole her away by force from him and so kept her Arron put the matter in suite but he prevailed not for Lucumo over-weighed him with Friends Money Gifts and Charges which he took so grievously that he left his Countrey and having heard talk of the Gauls he went unto them and was their guide to bring them unto Italy So they conquered at their first coming all that Countrey which the Tuscans held in old time beginning at the foot of the mountains and stretched out in length from one Sea to the other which invironeth Italy as the names themselves do witness for they call yet that Sea which looketh unto the North the Adriatick Sea by reason of a City built some time by the Tuscans which was called Adria The other which lieth directly over against the South is called the Tuscane Sea all that Country is well planted with trees and hath goodly pleasant pastures for beasts and cattel to feed in and is notably watered with goodly running Rivers There was also at that time eighteen fair great Cities all of them very strong and well seated as well to inrich the Inhabitants by Traffick as to make them live delicately for pleasure All these Cities the Gauls had won and had expulsed the Tuscans but this was done long before time Now the Gauls being entred further into Tuscany did besiege the City of Clusium thereupon the Clusians seeking ayd of the Romans besought them