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A37089 A compendious chronicle of the kingdom of Portugal, from Alfonso, the first King, to Alfonso the Sixth, now reigning together with a cosmographical description of the dominions of Portugal / by John Dauncey. Dauncey, John, fl. 1663. 1661 (1661) Wing D289; ESTC R22503 109,540 240

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John the Third fifteenth King of Portugal 60 XVII Sebastian sixteenth King of Portugal 61 XVIII Henry seventeenth King of Portugal 64 XIX Philip the second third and fourth of that name Kings of Spain and 18 19 20 Kings of Portugal page 69 XX. John the Fourth One and twentieth King of Portugal 88 XXI Alfonso the Sixth Two and twentieth King of Portugal 182 XXII A Cosmographical Description of Portugal 193 XXIII Of Algarve 198 XXIV Of the Azores of Tercera Islands 199 XXV Of the Portugals Possessions in Asia 204 XXVI Of the Portugals Possessions in Africa 207 XXVII Of Brazile 208 IF any person please to repair to my shop at the Sign of Iohn Fletchers head on the back side of St. Clements without Temple-bar they may be furnished with al Plays that were ever yet Printed as also with several sorts of Romances and Histories more especially with the books hereafter mentioned of which though not printed for me I have sufficient numbers viz. The History of Independency compleat being the 1. 2. 3. 4. and last part which may be had single by such as have bought the others Blood for blood or Murthers Revenged lively set forth in 35 Tragical Histories some whereof have been the product of our late Times published by T. N. Esq. Venus undrest or the Practical part of Love extracted out of the Extravagant and Lascivious Life of a fair but subtile Female That useful Book for Gentlemen and Travellers being an exact Description of the several Counties and Shires in England by Ed. Leigh Esq. The Fanatick in his Colours or the rise height and fall of Faction and Rebellion from 1648. unto 1661. with an Apendix concerning Allegiance Government and Order by T. F. Summum Bonum or A Plain Path-way to Happiness conducting the Soul to its Haven of Rest through the Stormy passages of worldly troubles to which is added a short Dialogue of that excellent vertue of the Submission of Mans will to the will of God The Rudiments of Grammar the rules composed in English verse for the greater Benefit and Delight of young beginners by Iames Sherley Gent. A short view of the Life of the Illustrious Prince Hen. D. of Glocester and Ma●y Princess of Orange Brother and Sister to His Majesty of great Britain lately Deceased by T. M. Esq. Scutum Regale the Royal Buckler or Vox Legis a Lecture to Traytors c. Playes The Beggars Bush a Comedy written by Fran. Beamont and Iohn Fletcher both in folio and in quarto The Humerous Lieutenant a Comedy in folio The Scornful Lady a Comedy The Elder Brother a Comedy Philaster or Love lies Bleeding a Tragi-Comedy c. A King and no King A Comedy The Maids Tragedy The Night-walker or little Theif a Comedy all written by the same Authors in quarto The Qu●●n of Arrag●n A. Tragi-Comedy written by William Habington Esq in folio The Maids Revenge A Tragedy written by Iames Shirley in quarto Loves Mastriss A Masque written by Tho. Heywood in quarto The City Night-cap A Tragi-Comedy by T. B. in 4. The Obstinate Lady A Comedy by Sir Aston Cockain Knight in 4. The Obstinate Lady and Trapolin supposed a Prince both Comedies and several other Poems all written by Sir Aston Cockain Knight in octavo Plutus A Comedy in 4. Troades a Tragedy Translated out of Seneca by Sam. Pordage Gent. in 8. A Short and Compendious HISTORY Of the KINGDOM Of PORTUGAL THe Spaniards have a Proverb very vulgar amongst them terming the Portugueses Pocos y Locos few and fools spoken I suppose rather out of derision and disdain of that Nation then that its people and inhabitants really are so for whosoever shall read their actions will judge them to be managed with as much prudence as the Spaniards can boast of nor will any one believe that they could bring to perfection so great Atchievements as they have done with onely a simple valor 'T is true I believe them to be less numerous then the Castilians and yet I am not of the opinion that they are so few or their Kingdom so inconsiderable as the Spanish Proverb seems to make them which one may easily imagine when one considers that the Romans accounted Lusitania that is Portugal by it self when its bounds did not extend so far as now they do and without the addition of Algarve or Regnum Algarbiorum to be one third part of Spain much less can we think it so now when not onely its proper bounds are enlarged but likewise the Kingdom of Algarve added besides the Island in the Atlantick sea and their great conquests in Asia Africa and America But to return to the Kingdom it self and its original various fortunes after the decay and declension of the Roman Empire was it subject unto before it was setled under a Prince of its own The Alani were the first that preyed upon it and endeavored to plant in it but had scarce begun to do so but themselves were driven out by the Swemans and constrained to go seek another habitation these for some time enjoyed it peaceably making Braga their Imperial City till in the general Inundation of the overflowing Gothes and Vandals they with the rest of that part of the continent which is circumscribed by the sea and the Pyrenean Mountains became vassals to these irresistable Conquerors who living a long time in quiet enjoyed their conquest and were the first that in these parts entertained the Christian Religion till the Moors like a more violent flood fell in upon them and with the greatest part of Spain possessed themselves likewise of that Kingdom But some parts of Spain after many years slavery strugling for their liberty this Kingdom was in part recovered by the King of Castile and by them enjoyed till at length it gained a King of its own the maner thus Henry the second Duke of Lorrain whom some affirm to be Nephew to Godfrey of Bolloigne though others differ both in the person and his alliance to him flying from the fury of Henry the fifth Emperor came into Spain where moved with a generous emulation of his Uncle who was gone to the conquest of Ierusalem offered his service the subjection of the Moors and in short time arrived by his valorous atchievements against those enemies of the Christian Religion grew into so much repute with Alfonso the 6. King of Castile that he gave him his base daughter Teresia in marriage with his whole acquists in Portugal for her dower though with no other title then that of Counte or Earl some further addition he made to his Dominions and in the year 1094. had a son who after his grandfather was named Alphonso at last overborn with the burden of seventy seven years he died in the year 1112. ALFONSO the I. First King of Portugal ALfonso his son who from his very childhood had been bred up under his father in Military excercise after his death valorously prosecuted his victories against the Moors and against the