so vnauisedly that with them he gathered the ilwill of the Brutans To haue is not the rule but to get well a mans glorie is not in mony but the glory of mony is in a man Their vertue or fortitude is in Victories Bassian and the Brutans slew Geta and the Romanes by night Maximinian ouerranne great partes of Gallia and Germania Octauy ouerthrew Traherne and the Romanes three legions neere Winchester and made them flie euen into Albany and pursued them into Westmerland Gracian being sent into the field from Maximinian ouercame Guany the Duke of the Huns and Melga the Duke of the Pictes and kept this Land from their furor by the helpe of the Brutans Coil Earle of Colchester which hee built rose against Asclepiodate and slew him and was made king Battels Bassian was able to endure all the pains of war a right Emperour for the campe The Brutans seeing the valiant wit of Carasse made him their king in spite of the Romans rather then they would yeeld to Roome they dyed in battell Death is better then slauery among enemies Constantine the first armed himselfe with the Brutans and fought against Maxentius did he not good among them to doe them the more mischiefe as the Philistines suspected Dauid who was a true saint of God Conan Meriadocke made war with Maximinian at diuers times because hee was a Roman O it is an hard bone to digest Rome which counteth all birdes dawes besides her owne chickens the man that hath another maister beside himselfe in his owne house is beside himselfe or else I beleeue he shalbe set beside his cushion at the last Magnanimitie Maximinian called Armorica Litle Brutany in honour of Brutans because they conquered it that a man winneth is his owne a man may call his owne possession by what name it pleaseth him new Lordes will haue newe names for their newe landes Octauy being appointed king in the absence of Constantine and hearing that Constantine was then made Emperor of Rome thought verily that he had enough to do in Roome though hee medled not with Brutany and tooke the Crowne to himselfe and chased the Romanes vp and downe in the land and played Rex with them at all handes to redeeme his Countrey from thraldome as hee counted it Home is for the homeborne Their vice or extreme fortitude is in Ambition Carasse a Brutan of lowe birth of a high heart but a venturous man a very hardydardy in deede as euer liued keeping the Hauens and playing the Sea captaine aspired to the kingdome and got it both by greater promises then hee coulde perperforme and by gathering more bankrupts ruffians to his side then he could keepe and contemning all noble and great men in the Land there was but one way with him and that was in his head onely all was one with him so that one might be all selfe-loue was selfewill and both were for himselfe Abiection of minde When Coil the third saw that Constantius was come from Roome with a great armie he feared and graunted him tribute and peace and euery thing els to be out of danger yet the most danger and damage in graunting these A babies wit in a kings estate The Brutans being afflicted by the Picts two times promised the Romanes a tribute to helpe them then they submitted themselues to Aldroene of little Brutany that he might succour them O Heauens where was olde Brutanie now where but in the Sea as a dead sea Whale THE TIMES OF THESE Romano-Brutans AFter there had been a king for 15. yeares space in which time Clemens Alexandrinus liued the Prophets were translated into Greeke Bassian began his Raigne in the yeare of the world 4179. and raigned 6. yeares in this time Papinian the great Ciuilian Chauncellor to Seuerus flourished Carasse began in the yeare 4185 and ruled 8. years in this time Origen began to shew himselfe Tertullian flourished Alectus beganne in the yeare 4193. and raigned sixe yeares about this time Zephirine chaunged the Communion cuppe into glasse for more decency which had been of wood commonly Asclepiodate began 4199. and ruled 30. yeares now Calistus appointed the 4. Ember weekes for the 4. quarters Vrban ordained that diuine vessels should be gold or siluer Coil the third began 4238. and raigned 27. yeares now Philip was the first christened Emperour Cyprian was martyred Decius the persecuter was swallowed of a quagmire Paul the first Hermite liued Constantius began 4265. and ruled 30. yeares in his time Eutychian bishop of Roome buried 300. martyrs with his owne hands Carus the Emperour was killed with lightning the Citty Spira in Germany was built Constantine the first began 4295. and raigned ten yeares nowe 20000. Christians were burnt in a Church on Christmas day at night Arnobius was famous Octauy beganne 4305. and ruled 54. yeares now Siluester refused to weare a golden Crowne which great Constantine offered him the great Nicene Councell was held Lactantius and Hilary were famous Moonkes beganne in Antonie the Hermite and Nuns in Marcella and Sophronia Constantinople was built Maximinian began in the yeare 4359. and raigned 8. yeares about this time Athanasius and Basilius flourished the Thalmud of the Iewes was compiled by Rabbi Iohanan Iulian the Apostata and Libanius raged Gracian began 4367. and ruled 4. yeares now Epiphanius wrote against heretickes Vphila found out the Gotes Letters or a b c about this time Gregory Nazianzene and Ambrose flourished So the Gouernement of these Brutanoromans continued for the space of 183. yeares but heere was no certaine Ruler in Brutany for 36. yeares after THE SIXT GENEALOGY OF Brutan Kinges THe Brutans chose Constantine the second the sonne of Aldroene king of litle Brutany for their king and he raigned ouer them and begat three sonnes the first was Constancie the second Aurely the third Vter but then Credulity slew him Constancie the eldest son succeeded his father but died without issue for Doltishnesse and Treason slewe him and Force lifted vp Vortiger to the kingdome but Self-will sharpned him so that the people hated him and by plaine might created his sonne Vortimer their king then Wichery puld him downe and Insinuation restored Vortiger yet Right and Vengeance at last destroyed him then Common Consent made Aurely the second son of Constantine the second a king but the diuels Art slew him and he dyed without issue so Vter the third son of Constantine succeeded him in the kingdome and begat vppon Igerne his wife or rather concubine Arthur the king who raigned and left no seede behind him then Constantine the third the sonne of Cador a Cornish Duke Arthurs coosin was made king but lasted not for Conan his kinsman slew him and became king begat Vortipory who liued and dyed without issue then Malgo the nephew of Conan raigned as king hee was of stature and personage the goodliest among all men of his time but left no Royall seede behinde him thus Carency got the kingdome by the goodwill of
so corrupted his minde and sense with wordes gifts that he consented to poyson his Lord and so hee did Conan loued quarrellours aboue other men he made away his owne vncle that should haue bin king and slew his two sonnes Ethelfride Duke of Northumberland massacred 1200. moonks of Bangor in a beastly immanitie to please Ethelbert king of Kent which had offered praiers to God against him Carencie was so giuen to ciuill warres that he loued them aboue all other acts wherby he fell into such hatred that hee was not able to stand against the Saxons Out of all question it is extreame madnesse to admit any strangers into our countrey that are eyther more militar or more politick then the commonaltie vnlesse it be for a time and then away with them or they be kept in their boundes with certaine companie and neither see nor heare more then belongeth to strangers what shuld strangers but be vsed strangely they pretend pouertie but they intend to weaken our land they flie for religion but they foster heresies draffe is their errand but drinke they would either they are diuels in their owne likenesse or else they are Angels with the entrals of Diuels foolish pitty destroyeth the Cittie prouide for the weakest the strongest can saue it selfe the malignant hand will spoyle the impotent people when it cannot spill the bloud of Nobles but if Hares wurry Hounds and Harts be wounded of Ferrets then is the world turnd vpside downe the Hunters are vile keepers and the keepers are vilest men Let Brutans be fedde and taught as is meete for them and let my life go if they make not their ennemies round about them like Hares and Ferrets which euer auoyd the presence of men Their vertue or temperance is in Life and maners the Clergy in the time of Cadwallin behaued themselues so soberly and fatherly in all points that they were honoured of most men insomuch that as they went too and fro in the streetes and other places the people would kneele downe to them and aske them their blessing and gaue them whatsoeuer they demanded Wordes Berine Bishop of Dorchester conuerted Kingelist the king of the Westsaxons and christened him which he could neuer haue done without most temperate and well seasoned speech by the like moderation Pauline conuerted Edwine king of Northumberland to the christian faith Melite Bishop of Caerlud conuerted Sebert king of Essex to Christian religion The Clergy of Kent delt so with their king Ercombert that he puld downe the Temples of his false Gods and kept the Lent fast and became a Christian When the Brutan Bishops saw that Austin took vpon him as their soueraigne they would not resist him presently but stayd a while to see his life and behauiour and then to vse them therafter either frendly or aduersly Liberalitie When Ethelfride had put away his wife being great with childe Cadwan receiued her into his Court and kept her honourably till shee was deliuered and so long after as shee would Osuald Duke of Bernicia liked so wel of Cedda Bishop of Winchester that hee gaue him land to build and Abbey thereon The more is giuen for the promotion of Gods Maiesty the more he giueth to our benefite Their vice or intemperance is in Loue When Ronowen had saluted Vortiger with a golden cup of wine and desired him to drinke of it he beheld her bewtie and was presently so inamored of her that he could not be quiet till he had put away his owne wife by whom he had three sons and married her and for her sake loued Saxons more then Brutans he lay with his owne daughter to haue issue of her but in vaine Vter fell in loue with Igerne the wife of Gorleis Duke of Cornewall and slewe him at his castell Tintagel and tooke her to wife Malgo fel into the sinne of Sodom and lost all that he had gotten aforetime let not sense rule reason Liberalitie Vortiger entertained Hengist and Horsus with their three ships he gaue them y e hire of souldiers he bestowed the Ile of Tenet vpon them hee graunted Hengist so much ground as hee could compasse with a buls hide he took away the Earldom of Kent from Garangon and gaue it him Anger Constantine the third siue one of Mordreds sonnes for rebelling against him euen in the Minster of Winchester the other for the same cause in the temple at Caerlud Dionote Abbot of Bangor would not yeeld to Austin because he was of another Prouince neither would he preach to the Saxons because they spoyled the land do Ethelbert king of Kent what he could vnto him The vertue or iustice is in Rewarding Constantine the second receiued the crowne and rule of Brutanie by a couenant that hee made with the Brutans when he deliuered them from the tyranny of the Picts When Aurely remembred how fast the Brutans resorted vnto him and Vter at their landing at Totnes and how truely they serued him in his warres did them one good turne for another and repaired their temples and houses which the Saxons destroyed and restored their religion to them againe Deuiding In the time of Carency it was determined at Worcester by a Councell of the chiefest men That the goodes of the Church should be bestowed on the Bishops their Clergy the Churches the poore people and then Gregory the great appointed the two Archbishops of Brutany at Caerbrank and Caerkent The Archbishop of S. Dauids had vnder thim these 7. Bishops Hereford Cardiff Landaff Bangor S. Asaph Worcester Morgan Punishing The Pictes to reuenge the death of the 100. Picts that garded Constance made war agaynst Vortiger the friends of Constance deuised to ouerthrow him for the death of their Prince thus he was tossed vp and downe the land that hee could not be safe The Brutans seeing Vortigers extreame affection toward the Saxons deposed him when hee was taken prisoner by Hengist they forsooke him Aurely and Vter burnt him to ashes in his Castle The Bishops refused Austin by the aduise of an old Anchorite who iudged him no man of God which vsed his brethren like his seruants Cadwan slew Edwine and Osricke and Eufricke Saxon kinges for the bloud of the Brutans which they had poured out like water on euery side of the Realme Burials Vortimer was buried solemnly at Caerlud Aurely Vter were buried at Stoneheng in Salsbury plaine Arthur was buried in the valley of Glascenbury Constantine the third at Stoneheng Vortipory Vortiger Malgo and Carency were not orderly buried for their vile liues Cadwan died in war and was buried accordingly Constance deserued his faire buriall Their vice or iniustice is in Couetousnesse Vortiger forgetting his loyaltie to his Prince abused him intollerably and got him by his own consent the strongest Castels and best treasure that he had he euer defended the 100. Pictes what naughtinesse soeuer they committed in the Court. Vnthankfulnesse the Brutans being desired by Vortimer on his death bed to bury his body at
the hauen where the Saxons vsed to land in a sepulchre of brasse spire like to put them in feare with the remembrance of him and his acts eyther neglected his will or forgat it O vniust men that take such a farewell of their friends Vter died by force of poyson at Verulam in Hertfordshire neere S. Albons Constantine and Constance the father and his sonne were not buried after the maner of Princes I haue not that peculiar regard of places nowe which I had before partly by reason of forenamed causes and partly in that they are sufficiently set foorth in these morall tables I desire heerein and euer a quiet iudgement and then I doubt not of any censurer but he will speake fairely Yet I must leaue euery man to himselfe to doe as he is caused in his deliberatiue and considerate insight If I omit some histories of Saxons I do but my duetie what haue I to do with them vnlesse it were to make them tributary to Brutans otherwise let their owne men commend them if they wil I owe them no seruice by writing or speaking Yet I haue named some of the Saxons though I doe it more for their sakes with whome they dwelt then for any merite of their owne Let them lye in dead forgetfulnesse like stones that haue desired or doe desire the trouble of Brutanie let their names be cleane put out and not come among the righteous When men play the parts of beasts let them go among the numbers of cattell in Zoography and keepe their fit place An ape must not come among Churchmen Serpentes must not dwell in chambers of Counsell make bates are not in case to cōuerse in the dwellings of peaceable Lords who can abide to haue a deformed mocker with hys distorted mouthes a venimous hisser with his noysom breath a rayling stage player with his trifling actions for his companion Arise ye sonnes of Ebranke and yee kinsmen of true auncient Brutans and make those stone-hearted creatures know that they are made to be your seruants and drudges let not any double forked toong perswade you that Brutanie is vnder any part of the earth THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS BEtweene the death of Gracian and the raigne of Constantine the second were about 36. yeares passed ouer in Brutanie without a Ruler In this time Theodosius was excommunicated by Ambrose for murder Ierome and Austin and Gouldmouth flourished Claudian the Poet was famous Siricius Bishop of Roome forbad Priests to marry Constantine the second began to raigne in the yeare of the world 4407. and raigned ten yeares in this time the Goths and Hunnes inuaded Italy and possessed it the Vandals entred into Spaine and spoiled it the first Councell was set against Pelagius the heretick a Brutan Constancy began in the yeare 4417. ruled 5. yeares In this time Ierome died S. Alban was martired at Moguntia Saluian the teacher of Bishops flourished in Massilia Burgundians were conuerted to christian religion Vortiger began to rule 4422. and ruled 16. yeares Then Vortimer beganne 4438. and ruled 7. yeares In this time Austin died Cyrill S. Patricke and Cassian flourished Theodosius founded a generall Schoole at Bononia Attila with 500000. souldiers spoyled the Romans horribly and all partes where he went Clodoue the first famous king of Fraunce liued Vortiger began to rule again 4445. ruled 9. years Aurely began 4454. and raigned 19. yeares in this time Genserick with the Vandals subdued Roome the Venetians began to dwell in their Ilands where they dwell now Mamertus a Bishop inuented Letanies Hilary of Roome adorned Churches with gold siluer Vter began 4473. and ruled 16. yeares in this time Honorick the son of Genserick banished 334. Bishops and Priestes out of Africke and slew many thousand christians but at last he was eaten vp of wormes Fulgentius the Bishop of Hispalis flourished Theodoricke the king of Gothes did many noble and vertuous acts in Italy and builded decayed places Arthur began 4489. and raigned 26. yeares in which time S. Patricke dyed in Scotland being 62. yeares old Theodorick would not suffer the Romans to practise any feates of war or to haue any weapons for feare they should rebell Cassiodore of a Senatour became a Moonke Constantine the third began 4515. and ruled 3. years at this time Gildas the Brutan liued surnamed Sapiens Boethius the Christian Philosopher liued and was martired Conan beganne 4518. and raigned 3. yeares in this time Symmachus the Roman prelate tooke vpon him to be supreme ruler and iudge of all Councels in Christendome Vortipory beganne 4521. and ruled 4. yeares now Clodoue the French king vowed christianisme and was baptised Olympius an Arrian for blaspheming the Trinitie was slame with lightning from heauen Malgo began 4525. and raigned 35. yeares now Iustinus the Emperour was first crowned by the Roman Bishop Iustinianus made the Codex of the ciuill law Tribonianus disposed the Digests of the same law S. Benedict and his sister Scholastica wrought woonders Priscian liued Carency began 4560. and ruled 3. yeares but after his death the Brutans had no king for 24. yeares space till Cadwan was made king now Totilas the tyrant of the Gothes raged in Italy and Narses sent from the Emperour slew him the nation of the Hunnes was almost vtterly extinguished in Greece by the Emperor Armenij receiued Christian faith Cadwan began 4587. and raigned 22. yeares in this time S. Brigit the Scot was famous Gregory of Roome called himselfe Seruaunt of Seruauntes the Latine toong was not vsed in Roome because all men conuersed there Cadwallin began 4609. and ruled 48. yeares now Heraclius slew Phocas and got the Empire and married his sisters daughter the Arabians receiued the law of Mahomet and were called Saracens Isidore Bishop of Hispalis liued Sabinianus Bishop of Roome appointed bels to distinguish the times of the day Honorius spoiled the Temple of Romulus to build the Temple of Saint Peter Cadwallader began 4657. and ruled 12. yeares in this time the Saracens got great part of Africk Martin of Roome constituted that his Clergy should vowe chastitie or loose their liuings Thus these kinges raigned 238 yeares I omit the interraignes before Constantine the second and Cadwan one was 36. yeares the other 24. yeares THREE SVPPOSES OF A STVdent concerning Historie The first Suppose A Nobleman or Captaine of men despiseth common matters in his own person he desireth to find in himselfe the commendable singularities of singular men in all ages he would be loquent as Mithridates that could speake 22. languages he would be eloquent as Orpheus that could perswade the Diuels and men as he listed hee would be logicall as Ramus that coulde iudge euerie mans writings and not be deluded by any writer he would be arithmeticall as Pythagoras that was admirable by the knowledge of Numbers he would be geometricall as Arithimedes that compassed many great matters by the misterie of proportions he would be astrologicall in all questions as Stoflerinus