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A05076	An epitome of chronicles Conteyninge the whole discourse of the histories as well of this realme of England, as al other cou[n]treys, with the succession of their kinges, the time of their reigne, and what notable actes they did ... gathered out of most probable auctours. Firste by Thomas Lanquet, from the beginning of the worlde to the incarnacion of Christe, secondely to the reigne of our soueraigne lord king Edward the sixt by Thomas Cooper, and thirdly to the reigne of our soueraigne Ladye Quene Elizabeth, by Robert Crowley. Anno. 1559.	Lanquet, Thomas, 1521-1545.; Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594. aut; Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588. aut	1559 (1559)	STC 15217.5; ESTC S108255	485,101	678

the fyre whiche also ingendred the world possessynge it the Scithians in the originall of bothe begynnynges were the more anciente For if the fyre fyrste possessed all thynges whiche by lyttell and lytell quenched gaue place to the earth there was no place so soone disseuered from the fyre by the colde of wynter as the northe in so muche as nowe there is no lande so vehement colde Aegypt and al the east was very long ere they were temperate bycause that nowe they be euen seared with the feruent heat of the sonne Or yf all the erthe at the firste was couered wyth waters certes the highest partes the waters assuagynge were fyrst discouered and in the lowest groundes dyd longest abyde and the sooner that euerye parte of the earthe was dry so muche the sooner began it to bryng foorth lyuynge creatures But Sc●thia is soo hyghe ouer all other countreys that all waters seeme there to sprynge and falle into the greate meere Meotis from whence it runneth into the seas of Pontus and Aegypt Which Aegypt of long time hath ben defended with the cares and charges of so manye kynges fortified with so greate bankes agaynst the violence of watres trenched out with so many dyches that where the water is kepte out in one place it may be receiued in another coulde not be inhabited onlesse Nilus were helde out can not seme to be of any antitiquitie but rather appeareth to be a la●e countrey either by the heapynges of kynges or els by the castynge vp of the mudde of Nilus By these argumentes the Aegyptians beynge ouercome the Scithya is alwaye haue ben reputed the more ancient people amonge the Gentyles But nowe I wyll leaue to wryte of the vayne fantasye of the Ethnykes whyche I haue here sette foorth to the intent that the reders maye perceyue the blynde iudgmente of theym whyche wythout the knowledge of god and his scryptures woulde define the origynall of man And here consequentlye I wyll begynne my fyrst booke with the creation of man accordynge as it is sette foorth in the holy scryptures the aucthoritee and certayntee whereof is moste sure whiche I wyll continue vntill the tyme of Abraham durynge whiche tyme the worlde stode without prescript administracion or certayne lawe but onely was ledde by the lawe of nature For in thys hystorye I shall vse this order and shall deuide my booke into thre ages of the whiche the fyrste shall conteyne those thinges that were done betweene the tyme of Adam and Abraham the seconde frome Abraham vnto the comynge of Christ and the thirde frome the incarnacion of Christ vnto this present tyme. ¶ The fyrst parte of Lanquettes Chronicle THE holye scryptures dooe shewe that whan the heauen the earth and all the furnytures therof were created on the syxte daye Adam the mooste excellente of all creatures was by God almyghty made of the slyme of the earthe who breathed into him the breathe of lyfe and the soule wherby he was made like vnto the image of god The yere of the worlde 1 The yere before Christe 3682 Unto this moste perfecte man god gaue suche grace that without any instructions but onely with the indowmentes of his origynall ryghtuousnes he was foorthewyth perfectly seene and learned in all the lyberall artes He was inspired also wyth the knowledge of the natures of all herbes trees mettalles stones byrdes beastes fysshes wormes and all other creatures Moreouer vnto hym God gaue power ouer all thynges that were on the earthe and in the sea so that vnto all beastes fowles fyshes and wormes Adam dyd geue a propre and a conuenient name accordyng to the natures of theym euen as they be called at this daye Than was he broughte by the almyghty lorde into the pleasaunte place of Paradyse replenyshed with all pleasure The felicitye of whiche place S. Augustine dooeth in thys wyse descryue Man lyued in Paradyse as he wolde howe longe he willed that whiche God cōmanded he lyued hauyng the fruicyon of god by whyche goodnesse he was good he lyued without any necessitie beyng in his power so alwayes to haue lyued Meate was ready that he shulde not hunger drynke that he would not thyrst the wood of lyfe that age shulde not dyssolue hym In hys flesshe was perfecte healthe in hys mynde no lesse tranquillytie As in Paradyse is neyther heate ne colde so in his inhabitantes is no offence of good will nothyng at all sorowfull nothyng vainely glad The true ioye was continued by God towarde whome out of a pure herte issued charitye concorde of mynde watching of the bodye and without anye laboure the custody of the commaundement There he myght ocupye hym selfe not for any necessitie but only for recreacion Where he receyued 〈…〉 that of all the trees in Paradyse he 〈…〉 eate so that he absteined frō the tre of the knowlage of good euil Th● God perceiuing that as yet ther was no creature made like vnto a man which might be an helper and companion vnto him he forth with caste Adam into a slumber and toke a ryb out of hys syde fyllyng the place with fleshe wherof he made the woman and brought her vnto hym whome whan Adam sawe he saied This is nowe bone of my bones and fleshe of my fleshe she shal be called woman because she is taken out of the man vvher fore man shall forsake his father and mother and shall cleane vnto his vvyfe and they shal be tvvo in one fleshe The lorde blessed the m and sayed Encrease and multiply and fyll the erth and subdue it ▪ and be ye lorde ouer the fyshes in the see the foules of the ayre and all beastes that moue on the earth But man whan he was in this hygh felicitye coulde not perceyue it for thorough the craft of the enuious serpent whyche a lyttle before for his outragious pryde was dryuen out of heauen and the prouocatyon of the woman he transgressed the commaundemente gyuen to hym by god wherfore they were driuen out of paradyse and made subiecte to deathe synne and all kyndes of misery for the earth was restreygned that it shulde no more bringe forth fruites of it selfe but by sweat and paynfull labors they shoulde leade their lyues Than came syckenesse vppon theym and heate and could began to assayle theyr tender bodyes For whan thei began to synne god dyd open the power of Sathan and agaynst hym of the seede of the woman he promised that Christe shuld come and destroy the power of Sathan and deliuer vs free from death and synne Thys was the fyrst declaracion of the gospell whyche began the kyngdome of Christe and the Churche And so Adam and Eua tooke comforte of the promyse of Chryste and of these two persons the churche beganne ¶ After that they were thus exiled out of paradyse the holy scriptures do testifye that thei broughte forth chyldren and that Cayn was their fyrste begotten and after many other Abell These two bretherne were the founders of two

contrary cityes Babell and Hierusalem by the one is vnderstande confusyon and by the other the vysion of peace Their father taughte theim to feare god and worshyp hym with sacryfyces Cayne was of an vnhappy dysposicion geuen vnto all vices and was the firste that tylled the earthe he offered alwayes the mooste vyle thynges vnto god Abell the yonger was of contrary condycions he gaue hym selfe to vertue and in all thynges that he wente about he thought god to be present his occupacion was in kepynge of beastes and gaue vnto god the best of all thynges For in theyr sacryfices his offryng with fyer descendyng from heauen was foorthwith consumed but his brothers remayned vntouched Wherfore Cayn perceyuynge that his brother was of God preferred before hym with malyce and disdeine therat stirred slewe hym In this hystorye is declared the anger and furye of the deuyll and also the infirmitye and weakenes of man besydes the greuous and ernest sentences of the iudgemente of God and of the terrible vengeance of god for the effusyon of bloude whyche were to long to recite in thys place ¶ After that Cayne the fyrste murderer fled from his father he builded the fyrste cytie in the orient and named it Enoch after the name of his fyrst sonne Hys chyldren inuented al kyndes of craftes and sciences Fynally he was punyshed for the murder that he commytted and perysshed by suche a kynde of deathe ¶ Iuball the son of Lamech by Ada his wyfe first made the portatyne tentes for to feede his cattell ordered hys flockes disseuerynge the shepe from the gotes and founde out the certayne time whan the rammes shoulde be put to the ewes and taught it other ¶ Tuball his brother a man of singuler wytte inuented the science of musyke by the strokes and noyse of the hammers of his brother Tubalcayn whych was a smyth For delyting in the sound of the hammers by the weight of theim he perceyued the proporcyons and tunes that the hammers gaue and thereby deuysed the pryncyples of musike ¶ Tubalcayn their brother and sonne of Lamech by hys other wyfe Sela fyrst inuented the fyndynge out of mettall and the workyng therof ¶ Noema also founde out the vse of wolle wyth the cardyng spynnyng and weauynge therof ¶ After the death of Abell and exile of Cayn Adam whā he was an C.xxx yeres of age The yere of the worlde 131 The yere before Christe 3831 begate Seth who gaue him selfe to vertue and to encrease and sette foorthe the glorye of god Of this Seth the holy fathers were begotten whose posterytie continued but the posterytie of Cain was destroied in the vniuersall floud Iosephus wryteth that Adam and Seth made two columnes or pillours one of brasse the other of stone for they foreseynge an exterminacion of all thynges to be one by the power of fyre the other by the vyolence and greatnesse of the waters graued therin those thynges whiche they hadde inuented wyth the prophecyes by the whyche the woor●e of God myghte be preserued so that they shoulde remayne as a perpetuall mounment to theyr successors to declare what had been doone He wryteth furthermore that they diuyded the yeare into .xii. monethes and fyrste obserued and taught the course of the celestiall bodyes For it is vnpossible that mans wyt coulde attayne to the vnderstandyng of so hyghe and diffycile thynges excepte god had shewed the knowlage therof ¶ Seth in the .105 yere of his lyfe begat Enos He began to call vppon the name of the lorde The yere of the worlde 136 The yere before Christe 3727 What of thys Dyd not his father and graundfather call vpon the lord Was there euer any iust man that called not vpon him Wherfore that was that properly attributed to him onely whyche is commune to all good men Because after S. Augustyne there ought to be vnderstande in Enos the felowshyppe of godly men because he lyued not after the power of the worldly felicytie but accordynge to the wyll of god ¶ Caynan was borne in the .91 yeare of the lyfe of hys father Enos The yere of the worlde 326 The yere before Christe 3637 he is the fourthe in order of the fathers from Adam ▪ in the genealogy of the ryghtuous men but begotten in the thirde generation For in the fyrste generacyon Seth was borne in the seconde Enos in the chyrde Caynan in the forthe Malalehell in the fyfte Iared in the syxt Enoch in the seuenth Mathusalem in the eighte Lamech and in the nynth was Noe borne who is the tenth to Adam For proprely accordyng to the mynde of S. Augustine the begynnng of Adam was no generacion but a formacyon Neuerthelesse the plasmacion of Adam is reckned among the generacions where he is accompted in the fyrst Seth in the second and so consequently whyche maner is more vsed ¶ In the 70. yere of hys lyfe Caynan begat Malalehell The yere of the worlde 379 The yere before Christe 3567 That whyche Macrobius doeth onely a trybute vnto the Egypcians shulde haue ben more better attrybuted to the Hebrues Amonge whome ther was alwayes a certayne course of the yere whyche by the circuitie of the same was obserued The yeere was than of .xii. monethes as it is nowe the moneth conteyned that tyme as it dothe now the hole course of the moone the daye lykewyse of .xxiiii. houres wherby worthely is refused the errours of them whiche woulde the yeres of that age to be .x. tymes shorter than they be nowe which the holy icrypture testifieth to hee false The floud began in the .vi. C. yeere of the lyfe of Noe in the .xvii. daye of the seconde moneth and cessed the .xx. daye of the same moneth in the yeere folowynge in whiche place the .xi. monethe is read Whereby it appereth that there was no fewer monethes in a yeare than there be nowe And as they lyued than muche loneger than we do nowe so it is playne that they had farre greater bodyes than we haue nowe Sayncte Augustyne writeth that he hym selfe sawe in Utica the thicke to the of a man of so excedynge greatnesse that it myghte well haue made a hundred of our teeth And there he alledgeth the sentence of Pliny that the longer that tyme passeth the lesser bodyes shall be ingendred ¶ Malalehell in the .lxv. yeere of hys lyfe begate Iared The yere of the worlde 461 The yere before Christe 3502 It hathe been of longe tyme in questyon whether the fathers of this auncyent tyme were so longe wythout chyldren vntyll they were borne whiche be named in the genelogie whan that the writer of this holy hystorye intended to come to the birth and life of Noe notynge the tyme by successyon of generacyons he onely recited those frome whom Noe was linially descended ¶ Iared in the .262 yere of his age begat Enoche There were two Enoches one the fyrst sonne of Cayn The yere of the worlde 623 The yere before Christe 3340 the other the seuenth in the