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A05300	The laboryouse iourney [and] serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes antiquitees geuen of hym as a newe yeares gyfte to Kynge Henry the viij. in the. xxxvij. yeare of his reygne, with declaracyons enlarged: by Iohan Bale	Leland, John, 1506?-1552.; Bale, John, 1495-1563. aut	1549 (1549)	STC 15445; ESTC S108451	38,192	130

that it may be more permanent and farther knowne then to haue it engraued in syluer or brasse I entend by the leaue of God within the space of xij moneths folowyng such a descripcion to make of your realme in wryttinge that it shall be no mastery after for the grauer of painter to make the lyke by a perfect example ¶ Iohan Bale Not only haue this notable wryter and specyall frynde to Englande collected the monumentes of learnynge hystorical knowledge as is afore rehearced but also hath searched oute by his syx yeares labour al hauēs crekes ryuers mountaines hethes valleyes woodes cities townes holdes wyth suche other lyke after a most wonderful sort And to make vnto vs an orderly rehersal of the same he consequently gaue him selfe to the compylinge of a boke whome in the margende he thus intitled Liber de Topographia Britāniae primae a boke concerninge the descripcyon of y e first Britayne Yf this worke were not yet fully accomplished as the matter is now in doubte by reason of his troublous dysease great pytie it were but his labours shoulde come to some learned mannes hande that he mighte laudably finish it to the commē vse And although it were not so exactly folowed as he hath begunne it yet shoulde he be worthy perpetual memory in thys noble nacion for his good wyll and diligence Many noble workes we reade of that were left vnperfyght as their fyrst authors were preuented of deathe yet for theyr vtilite they haue bene fynished by other good mē As now in oure tyme the Epitome of Chronicles begunne by Thomas Lanquet was laboriously folowed and profytably ended by Thomas Couper a man worthy of cōtinual prayse for so studiouse labours The lyke also may be sayd of hym that brought to lyghte the great worke of Edwarde Halle The Lord dayly prosper so profytable affayres ¶ Iohan Leylande Yea and to wade further in thys matter where as now almost no man can wele gesse at the shaddow of the auncyent names of hauens ryuers promontories hilles woodes cities townes castelles and varyete of kyndes of people that Cesar Liui Strabo Diodorus Fabius Pictor Pomponius Mela Plinius Cornelius Tacitus Ptolomeus Sextus Rufus Ammianus Marcellinus Solinus Antoninus and dyuerse other make mencyon of I trust so to opē this wyndow that the lyght shal be seane so long y t is to say by y e space of a whole thousād yeares stopped vp the old glory of your renoumed Britaine to reflorish through the worlde ¶ Iohan Bale Folowinge hys most profytable processe for the syngular bewtye of Englande he calleth agayne to lyuely memory the auncyent names of cyties townes castelles hylles hauens ryuers and suche lyke whiche haue bene longe buryed in obliuion and had vtterly perished had not those noble wryters whome he here recyteth reserued them in their worthie workes to oure behoue Muche more are we bounde in that poynt to these foren authors than to al oure owne Hystorianes sens the worldes beginninge And whether we maye iustly ascrybe that to the neglygence of oure forefathers eyther els to the churlyshenesse of them which hath vnnaturally witholden them so longe tyme from vs I leaue it to be iudged of them that shal reade this treatise In this kinde of writinge haue Leylande plenteously done his part in Commentario Cygneae cantionis in Elencho antiquorum nominum and in Syllabo dictionum ueterum besydes hys other labours whiche we most desierously loke for at the handes of som worthy man that wyl shewe his natural harte therin to hys countrey Greatly is this vnwont maner of stodie ac●epted now a dayes amonge mē of knowledge and much was vsed of S. Hierome and Lactantius and is so wele exemplyfyed in the sacred scriptures as in the profane hystories of the nacions For Moses calleth Bethlehē Ephrata Ge. xxxv so doth Dauid and Micheas Psal. cxxxi Mic. v. Because that olde name shoulde neuer growe out of knowledge The cyty that Mathew calleth Cesarea Philippi Mat. xvi is named in the olde lawe Lesen and Laisa Iosue xix and Esa. x. Constantynople of olde wryters is called Bizantium Roma Latium and London Trenouantum At this wyll the Papistes and sectaryes laugh scornefully whiche neyther delyte in kynge nor contrey but only seke by subtyltees to vpholde their owne fylthy fleshe in the wicked kyngedome of Antichrist ¶ Iohan Leylande This done I haue matter at plenty already prepared to this purpose that is to saye to wryte an hystorie to the whiche I entende to adscribe this title de Antiquitate Britannica or els ●iuilis historia And this worke I entende to dyuyde into so many bokes as ther be shires in Englande and shyres great dominions in wales So that I esterne that thys volume wyl enclude a fyfty bokes wherof eche one seuerally shall conteyne the beginninges encreases and memorable actes of the chiefe townes and castelles of the prouince allotted to it ¶ Iohan Bale By this fulfilleth he hys former promyse which is to clarifye those thinges that oure negligent predecessours by more then a thousand yeares space had dyuersely darkened He hath prepared to our vse a most noble Chronicle of the Antiquitees of Brytaine called the Cyuile hystorie and conteyninge fyfty bokes Therin hath euery shire both of Englande and wales hys particulare boke comprehendyng theyr orygynalles and contynuall successes bothe of their peoples and gouernours In thē may euery Englysh man and walshe man as in a clere mirrour seuerally beholde the memorable actes prouysiōs commodytees and buyldynges of his owne natyue shyre in it selfe All the Chronicles of this noble realme which hathe bene made afore thys age what though their authors for the more part were men pythely learned yet at the syghte herof wyll apere but mistes and shadowes For neyther obserued they thys most decent order nor yet declared in so ample maner matters so necessary and so manye in nombre Lete vs therfore moste ernestly praye vnto God the moste plenteouse geuer of all good gytfes that this noble worke be not cast away by som cruel caterpiller or papyst which disdayneth to further hys owne nacion neither yet that it be destroyed by an ignoraunt keper or an ydel possessor But that it may fortunably lighte into the handes of suche a good stuarde of hys as is learned and louynge to his nacion that our natural bretherne and contrey men may ones tast of the swetnesse of so precyouse a frute and not therof be depryued to their inestymable discommodyte ¶ Iohan Leylande Then I entende to dystrybute in to syx bokes suche matter as I haue already collected concernynge the Isles adiacent to your noble realme and vndre your subieccion Wherof iij. shal be of these Isles Vecta Mona and Menauia somtime kingedomes ¶ Iohan Bale Consequently hath he herin stretched fourth his hande to the foren Iles parteynynge to this nacyon

Cambrius Claudia Rufina Constantinus magnus Maildulphus Scotus Aldelmus Bladunius Thobias Cantianus Bedas Girwinus Daniel Wentanus Flaccus Albinus Ioānes Erigena Odo Seuerus Iosephus Denouius and a grat sort more in the Greke tungue were very notable The nūbre of good Latyne autours within thys realme were to lōge at thys tyme to be rehearced besydes the infynyterable of the barbarouse and brawlyng sentencyoners These he for hys part and I for my part haue moste plenteously descrybed with the dyuersyte of matters in their workes cōprehended ¶ Iohan Leylande And as touchyng hystorycall knowledge there hath bene to the nombre of a full hundreth or mo that from tyme to tyme hath with great dylygēce and no lesse faythe wolde to God wyth lyke eloquence perscribed the actes of your moste noble predecessours and the fortunes of thys your realme so incredyblye great that he that hath not seane and throughlye redde theyr workes can lytle pronounce in thys parte ¶ Iohan Bale Now cometh he in with the talke of hystoryanes and chronyclers of Englande whyche hath by all ages most plenteously described the noble actes and fortunes of the same The nombre of them after hys reckenynge cometh to more than a full hundreth great pytie it is that we haue not abroade those worthye and auncyent monumentes of oure predecessours Lete no man fynde faulte with thys their nombre for though it be great at the fyrst shewe apereth incredyble to them whych haue not trauayled in that kynde of stodye yet I perfyghtly knowe it to be true and also reported here wyth y e least If we lose y e treasure of these authors herin cōtayned by the malyce or els flouthfull neglygence of thys wycked age whych is muche geuen to the destruccyon of thynges memorable we maye wele lamente and saye wyth the noble clarke Erasmus of Roterdame Wyth muche payne I absteyne from wepynge sayth he in a certen Epystle so oft as I in readynge the Cataloges of olde writers do beholde what profyghtes yea what pusaunce ayde and confort we haue lost My grefe is also augmented so oft tymes as I call to remembraunce what yll stuffe we haue in stede of their good writynges We fynde for true hystoryes most fryuolouse fables and lyes that we myghte the sonner by the deuyls suggestion fall into moste depe errours and so be lost for not beleuynge the truthe ij Tessa ij ¶ Iohan Leylande Wherfor after that I had perpended the honest and profytable studyes of these hystoryographers I was totallye enflamed wyth a loue to se throughlye all those partes of thys your opulent and ample realme that I hadde redde of in the aforsayd wryters In so muche that all my other occupacyons intermytted I haue so traueled in your domynions both by the see coastes and the myddle partes sparynge neyther labour nor costes by the space of these vi yeares past that there is almost neyther cape nor baye hauen creke or pere ryuer or confluence of ryuers breches washes lakes meres fenny waters mountaynes valleys mores hethes forestes woodes cyties burges castels pryncypall manor places monasteryes and colleges but I haue seane them and noted in so doynge a whole worlde of thynges verye memorable ¶ Iohan Bale Se what worthy trauayle this learned man hath taken here ▪ for the many folde commodytees of hys naturall cōtrey as a naturall frynde to the same Fyrst he perused the profytable monumentes of thys great nombre of olde wryters and by the serche of them his studyouse harte was enflamed to procede yet farther For after he had redde them ouer he toke vpon hym a verye laboryouse iourney ouer all the realme euery waye both by see and by lande by the space of vi yeares that he might knowe the costes therof as wele by practyse as by speculacyon and therby geue instruccions to other Marke herin his laboriouse and fruteful doinges and ye shal fynde him no lesse profytable to vs in the descrypcion of this particular nacyon that were Strabo Pliny Ptholome and other Geographers to their perusers in the pycturinge out of the vniuersall worlde No smal dyscommodyte were it now to this lande yf these his worthy labours should after any yll sort perishe For out of them myght mē of sondry occupienges fatch most wonderful knowledge for their necessary affayres euery where Consydre a multitude of thinges here named yf all their specialtees were broughte fourth ones into lyght as he hath collected them together it woulde apere one of the greatest wonders that euer yet was seane in this regyon The heauenly father graunt the conseruacyon of them ¶ Iohan Leylande Thus instructed I trust shortly to se the tyme that like as Carolus Magnus had amōg his treasures thre large and notable tables of syluer rychely enameled one of the fyte and descripcion of Constantynople an other of the site and figure of the magnificent citie of Rome and the third of the descripcion of the worlde So shall your Maiestie haue thys your worlde and impery of Englande so sett fourthe in a quadrate table of syluer yf God sende me lyfe to accomplyshe my beginning that your grace shall haue ready knowledge at the fyrst sighte of many right delectable fruteful and necessary pleasures by contemplacion therof as often as occasyon shall moue yow to the syghte of it ¶ Iohan Bale Folowinge the example of Charles the great which had not only the chefe cities of the Greke and Latyne Empires but also the whole worlde in syluer tables artificially ingraued thys Leyland after long dyscourse set forth in portiture a ryght descripcion of this noble ylande according to that he hath seane But whether he perfourmed hys former promyse to Kynge Henry the viij to whome he dedicated thys present treatyse whiche was to haue done it in a. iiij square table of siluer or other wyse that cā I not groundedly tel For why the next yeare after both the king deceaced and Leylande also by a most pytiefull occasion fell besides his wittes and is not yet fully amended the heauenly father restore him agayne to this landes most singular commodite In that he calleth Englande an empire he doth not otherwyse than ded bothe Iosephus and Egesippus wyth other notable Historianes For Iosephus in lib. ij cap. xxvi de bello Iudaico sayth in the oracyon of King Agrippa The Romanes sought an other worlde beyond the great Occeane sending their mighty power and host in to Britayne whō they coulde neuer afore those dayes atteyne The Romanes by strength saith Egesippus obtayned and other worlde beyonde the Occeane sea in Brytayne farre from them li ij de excidio Heiroso lymae The empire therof is manifest in kinge Brennus in great Constantyne in Arthure and in Edwarde the third This bringe I in here that men should not disdaynously scorne that they are yet ignoraunt of ¶ Iohan Leylande And because