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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81967	London, King Charles his Augusta, or, city royal. Of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that city. An historicall and antiquarian work. Written at first in heroicall Latin verse, according to Greek, Roman, British, English, and other antiquities and authorities, and now translated into English couplets, with annotations. Imprimatur, Na. Brent.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1648 (1648)	Wing D328; Thomason E431_8; ESTC R202046	11,574	20

LONDON KING CHARLES HIS AUGUSTA OR CITY ROYAL Of the Founders the Names and oldest Honours of that CITY An Historicall and Antiquarian Work Written at first in Heroicall Latin Verse according to Greek Roman British English and other Antiquities and Authorities and now translated into English Couplets with Annotations PSAL. 142.5 Memor fui dierum antiquorum Imprimatur Na. Brent LONDON Printed for William Leybourn 1648. TO THE READER Courteous Reader THou art here presented with an Historicall Poem of the antiquity of this yet famous City where thou shall finde the Ancient Honours with the severall Names and Founders neatly cast into this elegant composure as well be fits so excellent a Subject For the Author it seems he was not ambitious that his Name should grace his Worke but rather that his Worke should grace his Name for let me tell thee it came from the Studie of that accomplished Poet of our Time Sir Will. Davenant whose Ingenious Fancy hath spun him such a woofe of immortall praise that shall never be eaten through with the all-else devouring teeth of Time or blasted by the poysonous breath of envy And now I shall cleare the Title from some aspersions which malice might be ready to cavill at because happily it may be thought not Calculated for the Present Times yet who knows not that LONDON hath always had the honour to be as well as to be call'd The City Royall and I hope Learning is not so much forgot but by that easie figure it may still be tearmed the City Loyall and then why not King Charles his Augusta although for more then the last Lustre of yeares it hath been Divorc'd from it's greatest lustre namely the presence of Him who only made it Famous To conclude May it be the prayer of all Loyall Subjects and true Citizens that it would please the All-Mighty Isa 1.26 to turne that Prophesie into an History amongst us viz. that He would restore our Judges as at the First and our Counsellors as at the Beginning that afterwards it may be called the City of Righteousnesse the faithfull City Vale. Polid. Virgil. Anglicae Hist lib. 7. Caeterùm tantùm abfuit ut Londinenses Cives qui fidelissimi erant armis viris muniti adventu hostium territi sint ut apertis partis adversùm eos DACOS confestim irruperint ita ut illi minimè sustinentes subitò cesserint The valour of the Citizens at the siege of LONDON by the DANES under King CANUTUS Anno Dom. MXVII BUt so far was it off from the Citizens of London who were most faithfull and furnished with arms and men from being frighted at the enemies approach that forthwith setting their City Gates wide open they sallyed out against them in such a manner that they being utterly unable to endure the shock sodainly fell off and went away The English of the Latine Verses to the KING To make the TRANSLATION compleat FAmes old reserves my verses subject be Who London built most sprosp'rous King for thee Thine Empires glory splendor and defence Now braver in our there born * Alluding to the Star which appeared at noon-day The Latin word in the originall is Astriferi which signifies or insinuates far more aptly then the English a Prince who brought a Star with him at his birth though happing a day over starry Prince Wall'd like an Harp in form an omen sure That peace and happy rule should there endure Whence the name grew and what the changes were I sing in brief Things found not fain'd are here Th' Isles Mother-town where Cynthia had her seat Our Auspurg once because Imperiall great I show to be such still as fits thy fame And now Aeternall if thou say'st the same Old things have ever with the Great their grace And greatly make for Kings of ancient race None more then Thou by whom all claimes are barr'd I tell not which is true but what is heard He 's blest who can part doubtfull things from sound Mean-while then these none certainer are found As none dread Sir then I more thine can be Who art his sonne who was a God to me KING CHARLES HIS AUGUSTA OR CITY ROYAL HE built this City who the Nation a NENNIUS who wrote about eight hundred years since in Mr. Seldens Manuscript diligently cōpared by himselfe with Sir H. Saviles Sir Robert Cottons M. Cambdens copies Sir Iohn Prise Humfrey Lhuyd all the Welsh with innumerable other of our Nation their followers brought As we by al our old known books are taught And to deny them faith our manners shames Upon the rising banke of royall Thames That valiant Worthy who did not bely With deeds degenerous his ancestry Equall to Kings of Troy for parts and fame Most luckie dismally who rightly came From the same stemm where Julius Caesar grew The Sylvian glory and sirnamed new Of his known flight with b Plinie and before him Diodorus Si●●●● who writes that 〈◊〉 the Lucanian Languuge BRU●● signifies fugitives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flight the word doth suit In old Lucanian who was wise ye● Brut● Of him our famous c Scorbie-grasse which the Romans call Britannica h●●● took also ●ame If true it be that from a Kings it came As he who was Vespasians d Plinie freind sets down By flight fates drew the way for Brutes renwon As for Aenoa● Crowne●●o cowerds 〈◊〉 No more then unstirr'd flames the roof attain This was his Troy his Trinobants cheif seat His empires top by him in time made great But being found for ships a port secure Th● Wels● a ship call e Mr. Camden in his Britannia Lhong it did enu●● In after-ages far another name Even London which it beareth still the same And this if some wise men rove right is true Dinas in Welsh a City Thus it grew f Mr. Selden and many of the Welsh There othe● are who think it call'd Lhan-Tain And of Dianas temple there did gain That famous title Lhan a temple is And Tain Diana London grew from this Now more then stories if conjectures weigh A thing to which even common sense saith nay Of all conjectures this to me seems best For under her as Goddesse to the West Beyond the Colts land where the Sun goes down That brave heroick Prince born to renown Great Brutus barvely came and fixt his seat Within the Oceans bosome fixt that great Imperiall state beyond the worlds known end Shut out where he his own known world did tend Nor Tamisis but Tainisis is Tames If rightly call'd Dianas name it names This many of our Britannes they are those Whom we call Welshmen for a truth depose And what thou hast my Williams in this case Most aptly found my memory must embrace Thou art opinioned that as the name Of London from the great Diana came So that it was with this word Lin put to Which signifies a Pool where waters doe As here they did cause lakes and this

that heavenly signe with which he adorned the Imperiall Banner or Standard most richly wrought and set with stones of greatest price and beautie Eusebius in Constantines life The figure in those coines is who crown'd Christs fold w th rest The empire carrying with him from the VVest He whom new Rome did worthily adore Constantinoples name unknown before VVas born o Fitz-Stephan an old Topographer of London first published in print by that memorable Citizen Mr. Iohn Stow. With these few small drops drawn hither out of my fuller annotations upon the Latin verses of which these are the translation I have sprinkled their margents as with a kinde of dewle salt For the noble matter may relish so the more kindly and be the more fi●tly understood by the learned and ingenuous reader Both which aymes of mine will hold good I hope who professing my selfe to be herein an Historicall Antiquarie have truly declared my self to be such as the duty of mine office did oblige The contrary whereof what it were else then under the colour of being an Antiquarie to destroy antiquitie I must confesse I know not The most able Censor among the Greeks Dionysius Halicarnassaeus familiar with Pompey the Great in his judgement upon the best Greek Historian Thucydides is so far from condmning the inserting of Nationall traditions into Histories such as those of Brute and some other of ours here are as he plainly confesseth it to be a duty His one words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. That among all men aswell in generall concerning places as in particulars concerning cities such memorials were preserved as came by hearsay which sons receiving from their fathers they again endeavoured to commend by their sons to posterity They therefore who would write of such ought to write so as they finde them received of old Thus and much more to that purpose upon which the justification of Herodotus whom Cicero styles the Father of Histories depends hath that Dionysius written there and written truly That the things in that British book which Geofrey of Monmouth translated were of such a traditional kinde his dedicatory Epistle to that valiant and learned Prince Robert Earle of Glocester natural son to King Henry the first King of England clearly declareth This was the reason which moved Herodotus without fearing or caring to be reputed fabul●●● by the rash or ignorant for his so doing to recite what he commonly found in traditions among Nations Common-weals or Cities touching their own originals as knowing it to be his duty as an Historian Therefore he tells us that one Targitau● the son of Jupiter by the daughter of Boristh●nes had three sons Lipo-xais Apo-xais and Colae-xais among whom he divided all Scyt●●a which so became first to be empeopled The same cause also moved Cornel. Tacitus to remember unto us that the old Germans derived their beginning from God Tuisto whose three nephews by his son Mannus shared Germanie among them and were of that Nation the first reputed parents The like but with much more likelyhood our oldest British traditions report of the tripartite division of this great I stand between Lycrinus Camber and Albanact the three sons of Brute Julius Silvius Brutu● father of the Britains and founder of London in London of a Brittish Queen For which and that the place was worthy seen To suit the change Augusta 't was proclam'd Before his dayes not to be found so nam'd VVherefore great City willingly I grant This freeman unto thee who well may'st vaunt Thy selfe thereof because he prov'd the man VVho first of Emperours the Title wan And great sirname of Great Then let it be An omen apt that mankindes Cheif in thee The cheif of Cities should be happy born VVhich boding nothing yet does both adorn But if she had not heretofore been taught That stately style now certainly she ought VVhen royall Charles the British empire swayes London which royal Lud did newly raise And newly name now ought Augusta be VVell able to make good that old decree The world too narrow for the same she beares With lofty crest she roll's the heavenly spheares Then 'till the Thames shall cease to ebb flow The ground to bear and skyes about to goe The heavens and earth to her most freindly both Aeternall flow'rs the state thereof shall cloath Far if God will beyond the reach of spight And never braver is Augusta right FINIS