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An exact abridgement of the general history of the world from the creation to the year 1685 / by the accurate pen of a learned historian.
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Ferrar, Richard.
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expelled him shamefully He fled into Gaule to Constantine Constantius Chlorus the Father of Constantine being dead in great Britain his Son had there been Constantin Emperor saluted Emperor by the Army then having past into Gaule he was there acknowledged with the same Title his Wife Minervina was then dead by whom he had a Son named Crispus he not only received Maximinian into his favour but made him his Father-in-law by marrying his Daughter Fausta But Maximinian having taken measures to seduce the Army of Constantine his own Daughter to whom he had imparted his designs discovered it to her Husband so the Traytor was obliged to fly but being followed very close he was at last taken in the City of Marseilles where he was strangled either by Maximinian strangled the command of Constantine or that he strangled himself out of Despair From Christ 309. In the mean time Maxentius was Master of Rome and all Italy where he exercised very great Tyrannies especially against the Bishop of Rome Christians he put to death Marcellus Successor to Marcellinus but Eusebius who succeeded Marcellus died of a fit of Sickness at the end of two Years having held the See but two Years From Christ 311. The 〈◊〉 agaiâ—sâ— Constantin and Maxentius The Vision of the Cross The Romans wearied with the Tiranny of Maxentius sent for Constantine to help them It is said that being on his way he beheld the Vision of a Cross shining with a most glorious Light that appeared to him in the Air at Noon-day with an Inscription that promist him Victory which made him send for Rheticius Bishop of Autune he having seen the same Vision near that City so that by the care of that Holy Bishop Constantin being fully instructed in the truth of Christianity made publick profession of it all the Cities of Italy which he found in his way surrendered voluntarily At his approach to Rome there was a Bloody Battle between him and Maxentius in which after a vigorous Resistance Maxentius was overcome Maxentius ' s Death Constantin Emperor and slain so that Constantine was received with Triumph at Rome and with a general Joy was acknowledged Emperor throughout the Western parts It was in this remarkable year that the Roman Indiction began which was the The Roman Indiction Revolution of Fifteen Years beginning at the year of Rome 1065 the number that makes Seventy one Fifteens After the Death of Severus Maximinian Galerus had created Caesar Licinius his old Caesar Licinius Companion in Arms a little while after Galerus died of the lousie Disease so the Empire was divided between Constantine who had all the Western parts except Illyria and Panonia Licinius was master of Greece and Thrace and Maximin possest the Provinces of Asia Licinius having espoused Constantia the Sister of Constantine these two Emperors made an Edict in favour of the Christians The Death of Maximin Maximin continuing to persecute them till at length he died at Tharsus of a languishing Disease The Provinces under his Government fell to Licinius then Constantine and Licinius condemned by an Edict the memory of Maximin as a Tyrant From Christ 314. Dioclesian died the Year before of a natural Dioclesians ' s Death Distemper as some Write or as others will have it that he poisoned himself out of despair to find the Christians were so much favoured by the two Emperors Melchiades Bishop of Rome died the same Bishops of Rome Year he had been appointed with some other Bishops of Italy by Constantine to examine The Donatists the Schism of the Donatists in Africk who refus'd to acknowledge Cecilian Bishop of Carthage because he had been put in the place of Mensurius accused to have delivered the Books of Holy Writ to the Idolaters during the Persecution Constantine employed the following ten The Exploits of Constantine Years in several Expeditions against the Barbarians who attack'd the Frontier Provinces of the Empire in all which he succeeded with great Glory For he defeated them in all Rencounters so that they were disabled to make any further Attempts against him Licinius who had only favoured the Christians in Complaisance to Constantine discovered at length his Aversion to them Whereupon Constantine took that occasion The Quarrel between Constantine and Licinius to fall out with him This Rupture brought them to a Battle in which Licinius was overcome Constantine pardoned him because he was his Brother-in-Law But Licinius finding himself freed from this first Misfortune raised another Army and was again defeated near Chalcedon At that time Constantine compell'd him to resign his part of the Empire The Vanquish'd taking it for a Favour that the Conqueror had given him his Life suffering him to live at Thessalonica But as he could not be satisfied to live in Peace and as he still endeavoured by his secret Practices to set up his Party again Constantine ordered him to be strangled The Death of Licinius From Christ 324. Thus Constantine Reigned sole Emperor Constantine sole Emperor acknowledg'd as well in the East as in the West The Empire being then at Peace Constantine applied himself to make Justice and Piety flourish and endeavoured to give that Peace and Quiet to the Church she had not 'till then enjoyed having been not only turmoil'd abroad by the Persecutions of Idolaters but harrass'd at home by the Opinions of Hereticks particularly of those who were called Arrians from Arrius the Heretick the Name of Arrius a Priest of Alexandria an Enemy to the Divinity of Jesus Christ To redress this intestine Disorder of the The Council of Nice Church Constantine commanded a Council to be assembled of a great Number of Bishops in the City of Nice in Bythinia From Christ 325. There they condemned the Errors of Arrius condemned Arrius and consequently made Canons of Discipline and Ecclesiastical Polity Particularly they ordained the Paschal Cycle The Paschal Cycle or the Golden Number called the Golden Number containing the Lunary Revolutions compleated in Nineteen Years to the end that by that all the Churches might regulate their Celebration of Easter This Year was fatal to the Family of Constantine by the Death of Crispus whom The Death of Crispus the Son of Constantine Constantine had by Minervina his first Wife Fausta his second Wife having in vain sollicited this young Prince to gratifie the Passion she had for him His refusal made her to accuse him of solliciting her Chastity Constantine unadvisedly believing her put his Son to Death and after that did the like to Fausta having discovered her The Death of Fausta his Wife Treachery by putting her into a Bath which he caused to be heated boyling hot And this to comfort his own Mother Helena afflicted to extremity for the Death of her Grand-child In the mean time Christianity flourisht Christianity receiv'd under the Protection of this mighty Prince insomuch that powerful Nations
long Siege surrendred upon honourabe terms to the Elector of Brandenburgh Stetin taken by the Elector of Brandenburgh Gâ—â—nt sarrâ—ndred to the French The City of Ghent surrendred to the King of France Phillipsburgh besieged by the Imperialists was taken by composition Admiral De Ruyter engaging with thâ— French in the Mediterranean received his deaths Wound and died in the Bed of Honour The denth of Admiral de Ruyter in the seventy year of his Age. The Danes in conjunction with the Hollanders did beat the Swedish Fleet consisting of 40 Men of War and then landing in Schonen took several Towns from the Swedes But in the midst of their Victories near Helmstade were defeated by the Swedes with a great loss And after that they lost a second Battel to the Swedes near the City of Lunden where after a bloody Fight above 9000 Men were killed on both sides A Battel between the Prince of Orange Cambray and St. Omers taken by the French and the Duke of Orleans at Mount Cassel After which Cambray and St. Omers were taken by the French Cardinal Benedict Odescalchi was chose Pope in the room of Clement X. who died Popes in the 87th year of his Age. He assumed the name of Innocent XI And it was said that Donna Olimpia a cunning Woman and powerful in the Court of Rome prepared the way for him to that Dignity From Christ 1676. The Swedes did again defeat the Danes in a terrible Conflict near Landscroone On the other side the Danes overcame the Swedes in a Sea-Fight and took several of their Men of War A Peace concluded at Nâ—meghen between Luxemburgh quitted the Siege of Mons. the French and the Dutch The Prince of Orange forced the Duke of Luxemburgh to quit the Siege of Mons. Dr. Oats made the first discovery of the Popish Plot upon which Sir Edmundsbury The death of St. Edmundsbury Godfrey Coleman hang'd Messina submitted to the Spaniard The peace between France Spain Godfrey was murthered and one Coleman who called himself the Duke of York's Secretary was executed at Tyburne as were afterwards several others Messina in Sicily wearyed with the French Government submitted it self to the Spanish Monarchy From Christ 1678. The Peace between France and Spain concluded at Nimeghen proclaimed in both Kingdoms A most grievous Persecution of the Hugonet's in France The King of Spain married the Daughter The K. of Spain married the D. of Orleans Daughter of the Duke of Orleans which displeased the Emperor A great disorder in England by reason of several Persons who did second Dr. Oats in the further discovery of the Popish The D. of York sent into Flanders and after into Scotland Plot while the lower House of Parliament used all their endeavours to disinherit the Duke of York for being a Papist Upon which the Duke was sent out of the way first into Flanders then into Scotland From Christ 1679. The Elector Palatin built a new Church at Fredericksberg which was dedicated to Concord and consecrated by a Lutheran Doctor with whom were joined a Roman Catholick Priest and a Calvinist Minister The King of France by sundry Acts of Hostility committed in Alsatia the Palatinate and in the Bishoprick of Treves disturbed the Peace concluded but the year before The Duke of Mantua sold the strong Casal â—old to the French Lord Stafford beheaded Town of Casal to the French The Lord Stafford being found guilty of High Treason by his Peers was Beheaded upon Tower-Hill Charles Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Prince Elector was created Knight of the Garter and installed at Windsor The Parliament sate at Oxford but was on a sudden dissolved The death of Don John of Austria Don John of Austria departed this life From Christ 1680. A Diet held at Francfort on the Mayne where the Articles of the Treaty at Nimegen in Controversy were argued with the King of France who made slight of that Treaty and had offered several Injuries to the Princes bordering upon the Rhyne for contrary to his Faith given he seized Strasburgh took by the French on Strasburgh and caused the Cathedral to be consecrated a-new by the Bishop of Furstemberg for the use of the Roman Catholicks The Hugonots by reason of their being The Hugonots came 〈◊〉 England so cruelly persecuted did fly out of France into England and Holland The Hungarians were promis'd their freedom with the restitution of their Liberties by the Emperor But the free Exercise of their Religion being denied them by the persuasions of the Jesuites those promises came to nothing The Pope was angry with the King of France for assuming the Collation of Ecclesiastical Benefices upon which the Gallican Clergy being assembled gave their Opinions for the King A Peace between the Emperor of Morocco A peace between the Emperor of Morocco and the King of England and the King of England for four years An Ambassador from Muscovy arrived in England And in the same year also came another Embassy from the King of Fâ—z and Morocco and a Peace was concluded with the Mâ—â—rs The death of Thomas Thynne 〈◊〉 Count Conningsmark caused Thomas Thynn Esq to be basely murthered Conningsmark was acquitted but his Accomplices were Hang'd From Christ 1681. In the Diet of Francfort the Affair of the Reunions unjustly challeng'd by the King of France began to be disputed with the French Ambassadors but because the French Ambassadors refused to treat with the Germans in the Latin Tongue according to custom but persisted to give in their Memorials in the French Language the Diet broke up reinfecta The King of Denmark Elector of Brandenburg and the Bishops of Cologne and Munster enâ—er into a mutual League which many interpreted to be done in favour of the King of France The King of France ordered the Walls of the City King of France took the City of Orange The Gallican Decree against the Pope of Orange to be pull'd down and took the Principality from the lawful possessor the Prince of Orange The Galâ—â—an Clergy assembl'd at Paris decree in opposition to the Court of Rome that the Pope had no power to absolve Subjects from their Oath of Fidelity to their Sovereign that a universal Council was above the Pope that the Popes Authority was limited by the Canons of the Church and that the Pope was not infallible The Great Duke of Muscovy being removed by The Death of the great Duke of Muscovy Count Teckley submitted to the Turks Four Bantam Ambassadors poyson after many Tumults and Slaughters his two Sons agreed to divide the Empire between â—em Count Teckly did put himself under the protection of the Turks and possessed himself of Cassâ—via 〈◊〉 and the Fort of Villeck Four Bantam Ambassadors arrived at London and two of them Knighted by King Charles The Morocco Ambassador entertain'd at Oxford Prince Rupert Prince Palatine of the Rhine died of a Fever and Plurify in the sixty third year of his Age. From Christ 1682. 〈◊〉 besieged by the Tâ—rks and the Siege raised The death of prince Rupert Vienna besieâ—ed by the Turks by the King of Poland in conjunction with the Duke of Lorrain At the same time the King of Poland and the Duke of Lorrain pursued the flying â—nemy and defeated them on a bloody Battel near Baâ—can after which follow'd the surrender of Graâ— Because the Spaniaâ—d rejected the Demandâ— of the French the King of France fell upon Oudenard and Oudenard and Dixmude took by the French P. George of Denmark married to the Lady Ann. Dixmude and took them Prince George of Denmark arrived at Whitehall and was marryed to the Lady Ann the younger Daughter of the Duke of York Judgment given against the ancient Charter of the City of London in the King's Bench Court From Christ 1683. The Emperor King of Poland and the Republic of Venice enter into a League against the Turks A Truce for twenty years between the Emperor the States of the Empire and the King of France consented to by the Emperor provided it should be no way prejudicial to the Treaties of Westphalia and Nimeghen A Truce also concluded for the same Term between the States General and the French King contrary to the Advice of the Spaniard Swede and others The French Bomb the flourishing City of Genoa The French Bomb Genoa The Tyde ran strong against all that had stood up for the ancient Liberties of England and all the Corporations Cities and Towns in the Kingdom were forced to surrender their Charters and accept of new ones from the Court. The death of King Charles II. Charles II. died at Whitehall as it was said of an Apoplexy and the same day James Duke of York was proclaimed King in his room FINIS