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The natural history of the principality of Wales in three parts ... together with the natural and artificial rarities and wonders in the several counties of that principality / by R.B.
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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1695
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Wing C7339; ESTC R23794
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Christian King in the World and Brittain the first Kingdom that imbraced the Gospel by publick Authority After this he sent two Persons to Eleutherius Bishop of Rome to desire the form of some Laws to Govern his People by To which the Bishop replied You desire us to send you the Roman and Imperial Laws for the Reformation of the People and Guidance of the King and Kingdom of Brittain The Roman Laws we altogether mislike but the Law of God by no means By the Divine Clemency you have of late received the Law and Faith of Christ into your Kingdom You have with you the Old and New Testament out of them in Gods name by the advice of your Counsellors take you a Law and therewith by Gods permission Govern your Kingdom for you are Gods Vicar therein c. By this we may see the vast difference between the humility and piety of the Roman Church in the Primitive times and the Pride Cruelty and Usurpation of the present Synagogue of Satan This Epistle with two Preachers Fagianus and Daniranus whom the Bishop sent to King Lucius prevailed so much upon him that being Baptized into the Christian Faith he converted the Heathenish Temples of the Arch Flamins and Flamines into so many Bishops Sees whereof London York and St. David's in Wales were made the Metropolitans A Table that remains in St. Peter's Church in Cornhill London Records that King Lucius founded that Church for a Cathedral and likewise St. Peter's Westminster now the Abbey and likewise Dover Castle He reigned 12 years and lies buried at Glocester and dying without Children left the Roman Emperors his Heirs of whom Commodus succeeded in whose Reign the Roman Legions in Brittain fell into divers mutinies because the Emperor instead of Senators and Consuls who used to Command them put inferiour Persons over them but Helvius Pertinax being sent hither quieted all dissentions with the severe punishment of the Offenders and at length by his policy he obtained the Imperial Dignity Severus Reigned after him whom Albinus Lieutenant of Brittain opposed and assisted by the Brittish Youth fought a Battel with him in France where Albinus was defeated and Severus confirmed in the Empire and then coming over into Brittain endeavoured to secure the Countrey to himself by erecting several Walls and Forts in the In-land Parts and repairing those with Stone which were formerly of Turf or Earth and finding the Northern Brittains or Scots very troublesome he built a Wall or Fortification for defending the more Civilized from the Savage and Barbarous Inhabitants this Wall crossed the whole Island from Sea to Sea beginning at the Frith of Solney in Scotland and ending at Timnouth in length 132 Miles it was built with Turfs and Timber with strong Bulwarks at a convenient distance near if not upon the Foundation of the former called Adrians Wall the ruins whereof are yet visible through the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland for which act he Sirnamed himself Brittannicus and after 18 years Reign died at York in 212. not so much of Sickness say some Authors as of Discontent and Grief Others say of a Mortal wound given him by Fulgence Captain of the Picts Bassianus Garacalla his Son succeeded him and hastning to Rome offered very easie conditions of Peace to the yet resisting Brittains who being tyred with the long Wars accepted thereof and Hostages were given for conserving the same And now the Royal Title of Kings of Brittain being annexed to the Roman Emperors they by their continual divisions for gaining the Imperial Dignity gave a long breathing time of Peace to this harassed Island so that little of action happened here till the reigns of Dioclesian and Maximin in whose time Carausius being by the Romans made Admiral of the Brittish Seas to guard them against the Pyracies of the Saxons and Belgians he by conniving at their Robberies became rich and popular so that having notice the Emperor had ordered him to be secretly kill'd he by the aid of the Picts and Northern Brittains took upon him the Title of Emperor of Rome and valiantly defended his Dignity for seven years At length Maximin Marched to the Brittish Ocean with a powerful Army but hearing of the strength of Carausius and wanting Seamen he Encamped on the French Shoar and concluding a Peace with him returned back to Rome Carausius Governed the Brittains with Justice and Peace for seven years repairing the Roman Wall and defending them from their brutish Enemies but was at length Murdered by his treacherous friend Alectus who took upon him the Imperial Purple The Romans after the Death of Carausius resolved to attempt the recovery of this Island and Constantius with a Potent Army Landed here in a great Fog without observation or hindrance at which Alectus being surprized was slain with most of his Army the rest escaping toward London designed to Plunder and Burn it but the Romans made such speed that they prevented them killing Gallus their Leader and throwing his Body into a Brook that ran through the City which was after called Gallus his Brook now Walbrook After this these two Tyrants Dioclesian and Maximin raised a dismal Persecution in all the parts of the Roman Empire whereby 17000 Christians Men and Women were Crowned with Martyrdom within the space of one Month and in Brittain the Churches were demolished their Bibles and other Writings burnt and for 10 years together the poor People were continually tormented without intermission or any place being free from the Blood of Martyrs who were constant in the profession of the Faith Among others St. Alban was beheaded at the Town bearing his name whom Fortunatus Priscus mentions Albanum egregium faecunda Brittannia profert Brittain fruitful of all good Washt with glorious Alban's Blood His Instructor in the Christian Religion Amphiole or Brittain was afterward taken and being brought to the same place was whipped about a Stake whereto his Intrails were fastned and so wound out of his Body and was lastly stoned to death Several others suffered as Julius and Aaron at Leicester or rather Coverleon in Monmouthshire and so many at Lichfield that the place became a Golgotha or Field of Dead Corps and therefore the Seal of Arms of that City is charged with many Martyrs to this day But these two bloody Emperors enjoyed their honours a very short time for within a year after this bloody Persecution they were both of them by the hand of God saith Eusebius struck with such a mad humour that they renounced the Empire and laying aside the Imperial Robes Dioclesian retired into Dalmatia where he died raging of a terrible disease And Maximinus hanged himself at Marseilles in France Gallerius and Constantius succeeded them the last of whom was a Prince of singular Piety towards God and Clemency towards men being very kind to the Christians and rebuilding their Churches for which God so blessed him saith Eusebius that this virtuous Father left a more virtuous Son
Passions of Mankind displayed 〈◊〉 near 400 notable Instances and Examples discovering the transcendent Effects 1. Of Love Friendship and Gratitude 2. Of Magnanimity Courage and Fidelity 3. Of Chastity Temperance and Humility And on the contrary the Tremendous consequences 4. Of Hatred Revenge and Ingratitude 5. Of Cowardice Barbarity and Treachery 6. Of Unchastity Intemperance and Ambition Imbellished with Proper Figures Price 1 s. 18. THE Kingdom of darkness Or The History of Demons Specters Witches Apparitions Possessions Disturbances and other wonderful and supernatural Delusions Mischievous Feats and Malicious Impostures of the Devil Containing near 80 memorable Relations Foreign and Domestick both ancient and modern Collected from Authentick Records Real Attestations Credible Evidences and asserted by Authors of undoubted Verity Together with a Preface obviating the Common Objections and Allegations of the Sadducees and Atheists of the Age who deny the Being of Spirits Witches c. With Pictures of several memorable Accidents Pr. 1 s. 19. SUrprizing Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts containing 1. The Miracles of Nature or the wonderful Signs and prodigious Aspects and Appearances in the Heavens Earth and Sea with an account of the most famous Comets and other Prodiges from the Birth of Christ to this time 2. The Miracles of Art describing the most Magnificent Buildings and other curious Inventions in all Ages at the seven Wonders of the World and many other excellent Structures and Rarities throughout the Earth Beautifyed with Pictures Price 1 s. 20. THE General History of Earthquakes or An Account of the most Remarkable and Tremendous Earthquakes that have happened in divers parts of the World from the Creation to this time and particularly those lately in Naples Smyrn◠〈◊〉 maica England and Sicily With a Description of 〈…〉 Burning Mount Aetna and the seveâ—â—â— dreadful Conflagrations thereof for many Ages To which is added an Appendix containing several other late strange Accidents and Occurences As I. A Surprizing Account of Angels Singing Psalms in the Air over the Ruins of the Protestant Church at Orthez a City in the Province of Bearne and other places in France in the year 1686. with the Words they Sang in the hearing of many hundred Auditors at once Papists as well as Protestants II. The Life of a Great Person of near an Hundred years old who is now an Hermit in a Forest in France with the Devotions Cloathing Diet and Subsistance of him and his Companions c. III. The wonderful Army of Locusis or Grashoppers that were seen near Breslaw in Silesia Septemb. 7. 1693. and in other parts of Germany which in their March took up 16. Miles devouring every Green thing IV. Three Miraculous Cures wrought by Faith in Christ in 1693. As 1. Of Mary Maillard the French Girl suddenly healed of an extream Lameness 2. The Wife of Mr. Savage Cured of a Lame Hand 3. A Shepperd near Hitchin in Hartfordshire instantly healed of the King 's Evil under which he had languished Twenty Years Price one shilling 21. MEmorable Accidents and Unnheard of Transactions containing an account of several strange Events As the Deposing of Tyrants Lamentable Shipwracks Dismal Misfortunes Strategems of War Perilous Adventures Happy Deliverances with other remarkable Occurrences and select Historical passages which have happened in several Countries in this last Age. Printed at Brussels in 1691. and Dedicated to His present Majesty William King of England c. Published in English by R.B. Pr. 1 s. 22. MArtyrs in Flames or Popery in its true Colours being a Brief Relation of the horrid Cruelties and Persecutions of the Pope and Church of Rome for many hundreds of years past to this present time in Piedmont Bohemia Germany Poland Lithuania France Italy Spain Portugal Scotland Ireland and England with an abstract of the cruel Persecutions lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy in the year 1686 and 1687. Together with a short account of God's Judgments upon Popish Persecutors Price 15. Miscellanies 23. DElights for the Ingenious in above Fifty Select and Choice Emblems Divine and Moral Antient and Modern curiously Ingraven upon Copper Plates with 50 delightful Poems and Lots for the more lively Illustration of each Emblem whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation to which is prefixed A Poem intituled Majesty in Misery or an Imploration of the King of Kings written by K. Charles I. with his own hand during his Captivity in Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight 1648. with a curious Emblem Collected by R. B. Price 2 s. 6 d. 24. EXcellent Contemplations Divine and Moral written by the Magnanimous A.L. Capel Baron of Hadham together with some account of his Life and his affectionate Letters to his Lady the day before his Death with his Heroick Behaviour and last Speech at his Suffering Also the Speeches and Carriages of of D. Ham and the Earl of Holl who suffered with him With his Pious Advice to his Son Price 1. s. 25. VVInter Evenings Entertaintment in two parts Containing 1. Ten Pleasant Relations of many Rare and Notable Accidents and Occurrences 2. Fifty Ingenious Riddles with their Explanations and useful Observations and Morals upon each Enlivened with above 60 Pictures for illustrating every Story and Riddle Excellently accommodated to the Fancies of Old or Young and useful to chearful Society and Conversation Price 1 s. 26. DElightful Fables in Prose and Verse none of them to be found in Aesop but collected from divers Ancient and Modern Authors with Pictures and proper Morals to every Fable Several of them very applicable to the Present times by R. B. Price bound one shilling Divinity 27. THE Divine Banquet or Sacramental Devotions consisting of Morning and Evening Prayers Contemplations and Hymns for every day in the Week in order to a more Solemn Preparation for the worthy Receiving of the Holy Communion representing the several steps and degrees of the Sorrows and Sufferings of our blessed Saviour till he gave up the Ghost As 1. His Agony in the Garden 2. His being betrayed by Judas 3. His being falsly accused smitten buffetted and spit upon before Caiaphas the High Priest 4. His condemnation scourging crowning with Thorns and being delivered to be crucified by Pontius Pilate 5. His bearing his Cross 6. His crucifixion 7. Our Saviour's Institution of the Blessed Sacrament Together with brief Resolutions to all those scruples and objections usually alledged for the omission of this important duty With eight curious Sculptures proper to the several parts with Graces Imprimatur Z. Isham R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. a Sacris Price 1 s. 28. A Guide to Eternal Glory Or brief Directions to all Christians how to attain Everlasting Salvation To which are added several other small Tracts As 1. Saving Faith discovered in three heavenly conferences between our Blessed Saviour and 1. A Publican 2. A Pharisee 3. A doubting Christian 2. The threefold state of a Christian 1. By