Mephra Mutesis It was to him Joseph interpreted the Dreams and who entertained Jacob. This Patriarch died under The Death of Jacob. The Death of Joseph Tomesis the second afterwards Joseph continued to Govern under Orus in whose Reign he Dyed Of the World 2305. before Christ 1689. The Successors of Orus are these who The Israelites Persecuted follow Ratotis Achancheres Armais and Ramesses the first Ramesses the second he began to oppose the Israelites and his Son continued it he was called Amenophes the Third Of the World 2369. before Ch. 1635. The Birth of Aaron and Moses Cecrops K 〈…〉 of Athens The Birth of Aaron and Moses Of the World 2430. before Ch. 1574 Cecrops brought a Collony from Aegypt into Greece and there founded the City of Athens of which he was the first King Of the World 2467. before Ch. 1537. The Arabians became Masters of Babilon Tâ—â— Arabians in Babylon and having drove out the Chaldeans and there establisht a new Dinasty of which Mardocentis was the first King Of the World 2494. before Ch. 1510. Amenophis the third continued to persecute the Israelites but God delivered them by the hand of Moses as it is Related in the Book of Exodus Of the World 2513. before Ch. 1491. The Fourth Age. THat which passed in the Wilderness is fully described in the Book of Moses As to profane History that remarks the conquests of Sesostris the Son The Conquests of Sesostris or Aegiptus of Amenophis the Third who past thro' Arabia into Persia and went even to India where he past over Caucasus and entred into Scythia and arrived at Thrace and so passing the Bosphorus travelled through Asia the lesser and Syria and came back into his Kingdom at the end of Nine Years which he had spent to make himself master of those Countrys which have been named Besides the name of Sesostris he had that of Egiphes whence his Kingdom took afterwards its Name He had a Brother called Armais whom at his Return he drove out of Aegypt because he had broke the Orders given him to observe in his Brothers Absence It was this Armais whom the Greeks called Danaus Armais or Danaus who being Expelled his Country came to Greece where he became master of the Kingdom of Argos of whom was The Danaids feigned the Fable of the Danaids Of the World 2522. before Ch. 1482. Busiris the Brother of Amenophis the Busiris Third Uncle of the two preceeding Princes succeeded his Nephew Sesostris who died without Children This is that Busiris so famous for his cruelty to Strangers Of the World 2530. before Ch. 1474. Hermes Tresmigestus At this time lived Hermes Tresmigestus the most famous Phylosopher and one of Sesostris his Privy Councellors Agenor Agenor the Son of Belus the Aegyptian past from the upper part of Aegypt into that part of Palestine which from the name of Phaenix his Son was called Phaenicia Phaenix Caelix his second Son gave the Caelix name to Caelicia Cadmus the third having Cadmus persued the Ravisher of his Sister Europa Europa and not being able to retrieve her stopt in Boetia at a City he called Thebes from Thebes the name of another Thebes of high Aegypt his native Country This Cadmus brought Greek Characters to the Greeks those Characters that they used since for Writing Of the World 2549. before Ch 1455. The Death of Aaron and Moses The death of Aaron and Moses was a Year after Of the World 2552. before Ch. 1452 Joshua brought the Israelites into the Joshua past the Jordan Land of Promise where Manna failing they began to Eat of the Fruits of the Earth The first Year after the sixth from The first Sabbatick Year their Entrance is the first Sabbatick Year by which they regulated their Years of Jubilee Of the World 2560. before Ch. 1444 The Death of Joshua Joshua dies after he had judged the People 26 Years Of the World 2591. bef Ch. 1413. Othoniel the Brother of Caleb Judged Of the World 2599. before Ch. 1405. The Judges of Israel Israel Of the World 2659. before Ch. 1345. after him Ehud to whom Samgar succeeded Of the World 2679. before Ch. 1325. Belus King of Assyria of the race of Assur drove the Arabs out of Babylon and united the two Kingdoms Of the World 2682. before Christ 1322. Deborah ana Baruc. Deborah judged Israel with Baruc. Of the World 2719. before Christ 1245. Belus the Assyrian The City of Niniveh Ninus the Sonnet and Successor of Belus gave the Name to the City Niniveh which was Built by Assur in the time of Nimrod Of the World 2737. before Ch. 1267. This Ninus conquered all the Country between Tygris and India among the Kings whom he subdu'd was the famous Zoroaster Zoroaster King of the Bactrians Of the World 2781. before Ch. 1223. Gideon judged Israel his Son Abimelec The Judge of Israel usurpt the Title of King which his Father had refused Ninus gave to his second Son Argon the Argon King of Lydia Kingdom of Lydia which he had conquered from the Descendants of Atys Son of Hercules After the Death of Ninus Semeramis Semeramis his Widow Reigned in his place under the name of Ninias their Son Tholac and Jair govern'd Israel successively Judges of Israel then Jephta whose History the Scripture fully relates in the 11th and 12th Chapters of Judges The taking of Troy by the Greeks The The Siege of Troy Kings of that place were Dardanus the Son of Jupiter and Electra the Daughter of Atlas then Erictonius Tros Ilus with The Trojan Kings his Brother Asaracus Ilus by the Daughter of Teucer Son of Scamander King of Creet had Laomedon Asaracus was Father to Capis and Tyton Laomedon Father of Priamus Priamus Father to Hector and Paris and Cassys Father to Anchyses Anchyses Father to Eneas Tyton Father to Memnon The chief of the Greeks who were present The chief of the Greeks at the Seige of Troy at the War were Agamemnon and Menelaus Brothers and Sons of Atreus The first was King of Argos and Missena The second of Spanea Thiestes their Grandfather Pelops who was Son of Tantalus and of Hippodamia the Daughter of Enomaus King of Peloponesus Ulisses Husband to Penelope and King of Ithaca Achilles the Son of Peleus and Thetis .. Peleus Son of Jachus King of Aegina Patroclus Kinsman and Friend to Achilles both of them Pupils to Chyron the two Ajaxes the first the Son of Telamon King of Salamis the other of Oclus King of Locris Diomedes King of Aetolia Palamedes King of Eubaea Hercules Castor and Pollux Brothers of Hellena born of Jupiter and Leda Orpheus and the young Hylas Friend of Hercules Jason Prince of the Argonauts The Arnauts he was the Son of Aeson King of Thessaly Jason was Husband to Medea who afterwards married Aegeus
of Darius Codomanus to the Macedonians in The Empire of the Macedonians the person of Alexander Of the World 3675 before Ch. 329. It is remarkt what happened to him in that time with Talestris Queen of the Amazons Thalestris Queen of the Amazons A War against the Scythians who came to visit him in Hircaniâ— on the Banks of the Caspian Sea The War he afterwards undertook against the Scythians which proved unfortunate to him made him repass the Caâ—â—casus at the foot of which he founded aâ— second Alexandria The Conspiracy of Parmenio and oâ— The Conspiracy of Parmenio and Phylotas The Death of Clytus and Calisthenes his Son Phylotas cost both of them their lives The Death of Clytus and of Calistheneâ— the Phylosopher the first killed by Alexander himself in a Debauch the other by the hands of an Executioner being suspected to have conspired against Alexander Of the World 3676 before Ch. 328. Alexander advancing towards Indus Taxilis Taxilis a King whose Country lay on thiâ— side of that River submitted voluntarily to him so did Omphis another Indiaâ— Omphis King who lived beyond the same River But Porus the greatest King of that Porus. Country having opposed him was overcome and made a Prisoner and in the end treated very honourably by the Conqueror Of the World 3677 before Ch. 229. History does not forget to remark the The Death of Bucephalus Funeral Honours which Alexander caused to be paid to his Horse Bucephalus And the City he ordered to be built about his Tomb by the name of Bucephalia on the River Hydaspes His Army being arrived on the borders of Hypanis refused by a kind of Mutiny to pass further so that Alexander was Alexander returns He visits the Ocean forc'd to return back In his return he surveyed the Mouths of the River Indus and sailed for a while on the Ocean then taking his course along the Sea-side The loss of a great part of his Army by the great Droughts excessive Heat and want of Water and Provisions he lost three parts of his Army He arrived with the Remainder at Pasargade in Persia from thence marcht to Susa where Calanus the Calanus the Gimnosophyst Indian Gimnosophyst burnt himself because he found his Health begin to decay after he had enjoyed it perfectly for the space of Seventy Years Alexander being at Ecbatana in Parthia lost his dear Ephestion who died of a Debauch The Death of Ephestion of Wine Among his various expresses of Grief for his loss he often uttered some cruel ones and some very ridiculous He came to Babylon contrary to the Advice Alexander at Babylon and Council of the Caldeans who foretold that his coming there would prove Fatal He staid there some time and departed Laughing at the Prognosticators he took a Survey of the Mouth of Euphrates and there received the account of Nearchus and Onesicritus to whom he had given order to view the Coasts between the Mouths of the River Indus and Euphrates being return'd to Babylon giving His Return himself up to extraordinary Debauches of Wine died either by those Excesses or His Death of Poison given him by his greatest Familiars he lived but 32 Years of which he had Reigned 12. His Death happened in the first Year of the 114th Olimpiad and at the 449th Year from the Foundation of Rome Of the World 3681 before Christ 323. He left a Bastard Son named Hercules and his Wife Roxalana big with Child who was brought to Bed of a Son called after his Name these two Sons with Philip His Sons Arideus brother to Alexander acknowledged Arideus his Brother Perdiccas Governor of the Kings Kings by the Mecedonians under the Tuition of Perdiccas the two first by reason of their Childhood and the third in regard of the weakness of his Understanding The other Friends of Alexander shared among them his Conquests under the Titles of Governors which they assumed during the Life of those Kings But after that by the Fraud and Cunning of Olimpias and Antipater they were destroyed Their Death each of them took the Title of Sovereign in his Government It was not long before they fell to War among themselves by which the chief of them were ruined Perdiccas the first march'd into Aegypt The Death of Perdiccas Ptolomy King of Aegypt against Ptolomy the Son of Lagus and was there killed in Battle by Ptolomy who by that Victory was fully establish'd in that Monarchy and joyned to Aegypt Cyrenaica and part of Arabia Craterus had shared Macedonia and the Craterus killed rest of Greece with Antipater But Craterus having past into Asia against Eumenes was there kill'd in Battle Of the World 3680 before Ch. 320. Eumenes a-while after had the same Fate Eumenes killed by Antigonus who thus remain'd Master of a great part of Asia the Lesser having killed in Battle Lysimachus After which Lysimachus kill'd Antigonus was likewise slain in a Battle against Seleucus Demetrius the Son of Antigonus after he had restored Liberty to the ancient Republicks of Greece and had made himself Master of Macedonia lost it again and fell into the Hands of his Son-in-Law Seleucus Nicanor who kept him Prisoner tho' very honourably and most commodiously in a Peninsula of Syria where Demetrius The Death of Demetrius gave himself up excessively to his Pleasures died at the end of three Years Antipater Cassander and his other Sons the Death of Olimpias Antipater Cassander and his other Sons who had a hand in the Death of the Kings and in that of Olimpias they perish'd all in the space of twelve Years Thus the whole Succession of Alexander was divided into three Kingdoms That of the Selucides comprehended Mesopotamia The Selucides in Asia Syria and Asia the Lesser under Seleucus Nicanor who gave Name to this Dinasty Of the World 3692. before Ch. 312. That of the Ptolomy's comprizing Aegypt The Ptolomy ' s in Aegypt Cyrenaica with a part of Arabia under Ptolomy the Son of Lagus That of Macedonia under the young Antigonus Of Macedonia under the young Antigonus Philosophers who became Master there after that Pyrrhus who had disputed it with him was gone into Italy At this time lived Democritus Heraclitus and Zeno Prince of the Stoicks Euclid chief of the Mathematicians and Epicurus who kept two Schools in Asia one at Lampsasche and the other at Mytelene The Indians shook off the Macedonian The Indians set at Liberty Yoke having valiantly repuls'd Selucus who was advanc'd towards them to keep them in Obedience Of the World 3700 before Ch. 304. At his Return from this Voyage he The Foundation of Antioch and of Selucia founded two Cities in the same Year Antioch on the River Orontes in Syria and Selucia upon the Tygris the first after the Name of his Son Antiochus and the second after his own Name Of the World 3704
The End of the Kingdom of Pergamus and of the Kingdom of Attalus the last King of Pergamus under pretence he had made them his Heirs Scipio Aemilianus Africanus added to his Sur-name that of Numantinus having taken The taking of Numantia and ruined Numantia the only City in Spain had given Refuge to the remaining Party of the Carthaginians Of the World 3872 before Ch. 132. Demetrius Nicator set at Liberty by the Parthians killed in Battle his Brother Sydetes Kings of Syria Afterwards he was overcome by Sabynus whom Everietes the Second had sent to be King of the Parthians at their Request Of the World 3876. before Ch. 128. Nicator having been murthered in his escape by his Wife Cleopatra she caused her Son Antiochus whom she had by Nicator to be received as King Afterwards the young King having discovered that his Mother designed to have poyson'd him forc'd her to take that Poyson she had prepared for him Of the World 3882 before Ch. 122. In Aegypt Ptolomy Everictes called also Kings of Aegypt Physcon after the Death of Cleopatra his Wife his Sister and Sister-in-Law married the young Cleopatra Daughter of the other Cleopatra and of Phylometer their Brother He left two Sons by the young Cleopatra which were Ptolomy Laturus and Alexander under the Tuition of their Mother Of the World 3888 before Ch. 116. Two Antiochus's one Sur-named Grypus Of Syria Son of Nicator the other Cyzicenus Son of Sydetes disputed the Kingdom of Syria John Hircan took this occasion to set at liberty his Nation seized on Samaria and ruined the Temple which Manasses Brother to Jaddus had built there Two hundred Years before and subdued the Idumeans whom he compelled to be circumcised Of the World 3898 before Christ 106. After his Death Judas Aristobulus's Son The first King of the Jews after their Captivity took the Title of King His Reign was short for he died about a Year after with great Regret that he had killed his Brother Absalon Antigonus Alexander Jamnes whom he had put in Prison was set at Liberty and plac'd on the Throne and at the same time made High-Priest Of the World 3899. before Ch. 105. Grypus having been murthered by the Treason of his own Subjects and Cyzicenus killed in Battle by Seleucus the Son of Gryphus and Seleucus likewise slain in Battle by Philip the Son of Cyzicenus Of â—â—â—gs of Syria the World 3907 before Ch. 97. the Kingdom was disputed between that Philip and Antiochus Son of Seleucus Of the World 3911 before Ch. 93. In the mean time the Romans had past the Alps subdued the Country of the Allobroges and of the Saliens with that part of the Country called the Roman Province and Gallia Narbonensis These happy Successes abroad were disturbed by intestine Divisions between the Senate and the People supported by their Tribunes Tiberius and Cains Gracchus who there lost both their Lives Marius who began to make himself Marius considerable took the Plebeans part by whose Favour he had Commission to go and finish the War against Jugurtha King of Numidia who had declared himself Enemy to the Romans having put to Death his two Brothers Adherbal and Hiemsal Sons to Micipsa Allies to the Romans as their Father had been Marius triumph'd over Jugurtha having overcome and taken Jugurtha Defeated and made a Prisoner by Marius The Defeat of the Cimbrians and the Teutons Bellum Sociale him in Battle This Defeat of Jugurtha was attended with that of the Cimbrians and Teutons who were defeated by Marius first on the Banks of the Rhone and after that in Italy The same Marius made an end also of the War in Italy called Bellum Sociale because many People of the adjacent Country had made a League against the Romans demanding a Right of Pretension to the Offices and Dignities of that City All what is before-mentioned in the Roman Affairs was transacted between the Year 629 and 663 from the Foundation of Rome The Syrians wearied with the Civil Wars between their last Kings the Selucides The Syrians give up their Kingdom to Tygranes King of Armenia Mithridates King of Pontus gave the Crown to Tygranes King of Armehia an Ally of the most powerful Mithridates King of Pontus who having attack'd Nicomedes King of Bythinia and Ariobarzanes King of Cappadocia Allies of the Romans occasioned a long War This King in the first War was overcome by Sylla who gave such Conditions of Peace to the Vanquish'd as he pleased Then Sylla hastned his Return to Rome in order to oppose the Faction of Marsus These two Competitors being so powerful The first Civil War among the Romans in the Commonwealth by their Ambition occasioned the first Civil War among the Romans Marius who had been six times Consul Marius overcome and killed by Sylla pâ—rpetual Dictator His Death was there overcome and killed by Sylla who became Master of Rome and made himself perpetual Dictator yet he divested himself of that Sovereign Dignity sometime before his Death which was occasioned by the lousie Disease Mithridates having renewed the War Thâ— Second War against Mithridates overcome by Lucullus Pompey ' s Exploâ—â—s was often defeated by Lucullus to whom Pompey was sent to succeed to carry on that War Pompey had already gloriously acquitted himself in the Civil War where he was oâ— Sylla's Party At Twenty four Years oâ— Age he had triumph'd for his Victories in Sertorius overcome and killed Spain where he overcame and killed Sertorius who took Marius's part He had drove out the Gladiators supported by the Power of Spartacus He did the same With Spartacus chief of the Gladiators The Pyrates defeated to the Pyrates of Cilica who infested the Seas The like good Fortune attended him in the War against Mithridates He forc'd him from that side of the River and from Tygris where he was at last reduc'd to that Extremity that the miserable King The Death of Mithridates forsaken by his own People was constrained by his Son Pharnaces to kill himself Pompey having likewise reduced Tygranes King of Armenia to accept those Conditions of Peace he imposed on him returning into Syria stopt at Damas and there Pompey in Syriâ— was informed of the Difference between the two Brothers Hircanus and Aristobulus Sons of Alexander Jamne and of Alexandra King and Queen of the Jews This Queen after the Death of her Husband had most prudently Governed the Kingdom as Guardianess of her Children for the space of Nine Years But they quarrelled and made War one against the other After her Death Pompey commanded them to lay down their Arms and imposed certain Conditions which not being observed by Aristobulus Pompey besieged him and took him at Jerusalem and brought him Prisoner to Rome leaving the High-Priesthood to Hircan forbidding him to take the Name of King He put the Government of the Kingdom into the Hands of Antipater the Father of
Lepidus who commanded in that Province Of the World 3961. before Ch. 43. But their mutual Interests having obliged them to a Reconciliation in order to revenge the Death of Caesar and to oppose the power of his Murtherers favoured by the Senate these three Men made themselves Masters of the Republick by joining together and forming the famous The Triumvirat Triumvirate so fatal to many illustrious Persons of the Roman Empire Of the World 3962 before Ch. 42. Lepidus one of the Triumvirs stayed in Italy while the other two Octavius and Anothony passed the Seas to make War against Marcus Brutus and Caius Cassius who had great Forces in Greece That Affair was ended in a Battle near The Battle of Philippi Philippi in Macedonia Caius Cassius overcome by Anthony killed himself fearing the same fate had fallen on Brutus his Collegue but it fell out contrary he having The Death of Cassius and Brutus had some advantage over Octavius But the next day the two Armys again joining Battle Brutus was defeated and killed himself in Despair Of the World 3964 before Ch. 40. After this Victory the two Conquerers The Alliance between Octavius and Anthony allied themselves by Marriage Octavius Marrying Antonia Daughter to Anthony and Anthony with Octavia Sister to Octavius tho' she was a Widow a little before and with Child by Marcellus her first Husband These two Triumvers having little regard for their Colleague Lepidus divided They divide the Provinces between them between them the Provinces of the Empire Octavius took those of the West and Anthony those of the East Of the World 3968 before Ch. 36. Sextus Pompeius had considerable Forces Sextus Pompeius chiefly Naval on the Coasts of Sicily and all along the Eastern part of Italy Octavius made use of the Forces of Lapidus to Defeat Sextus Pompeius so that this last Son of Pompey the Great being forsaken of all fled into Asia where he fell into His Death the hands of Anthony's Party who killed him After that Octavius having corrupted the Army of Lepidus this Triumvir was reduct being abandoned by all to obey Octavius his Command who banish'd him to a little Island in the Mediteranean Lepidus ' s Death where he died an Exile Anthony having attackt the Parthians Anthonys War a-against the Parthians that War proved fatal to him for he there lost a great part of his Army yet with the remainder he made a safe and honourable Retreat Antigonus Son to Aristobulus by the help of the Parthians was establisht in Judea in the time of the civil War between the Romans but these great Disorders being some what appeased Herod favoured by Anthony his intimate Friend first of all made use of the Forces Ventidius commanded in Syria after that more effectually of those commanded by Sosius with which he besieged and took Jerusalem where The Death of Antigonus Antigonus was who falling into the hands of his Enemys was Beheaded Whereupon Herod having been already declared Herod King of the Jews King of the Jews by the Senate establish'd himself in that Dignity Anthony fell Passionately in Love with Cleopatra Anothony in Love with Cleopatra past his time at Alexandria in a shameful manner while Octavius was preparing to make War against him under pretence of the high Injury his Sister Octavia received by this disloyal Love of Anthony her Husband At last the business being come to an open Rupture the Affairs ended by one Naval Battle between the two Parties it was fought in view of the Promontary of Actium Anthony lost the day by deserting his The Battle of Actium Fleet to follow Cleopatra who retreated with her ships at the beginning of the Fight he followed her to Alexandria whereupon a false report raised by her means that she had killed her self gave himself a mortal Wound but being immediately The Death of Anthony after assured Cleopatra was living he caused himself to be carried where she was and died in her Arms. So Octavius who from that time was Octovius Augustus Master of the Roman Empire called Augustus became sole Master of all that belonged to the Republick it was from that Battle and from the Death of Anthony History begins to reckon the Forty Four Years that Augustus Reigned alone He came frequently after to Alexandria The Death of Cleopatra where having seized on Cleopatra she frustrated his Design notwithstanding all the care he took to preserve her Life Intending her for the chief Ornament of his Triumph to avoid which she killed her self applying a Serpent to her Arm which was brought to her in a Basket of Figs. In her ended the Line of the Ptolomys who had Reigned in Aegypt since the The end of the Kingdom of Aegypt death of Alexander to that time the Kingdom being reduc'd to a Provinee by Augustus He employed the two following years to set in order the Affairs of the East then he returned to Rome where he celebrated three Triumphs that of Actium of Dalmatia Augustus his Triumphs and of Alexandria with that vast Magnificence which had never been shown before After he had been powerfully setled in the Soveraignty he exprest a desire to His Soveranity over all the Empire divest himself of it but the Senate and People inured to servitude hindred him from executing his design whether true or feigned conferring on him excessive Honours with an absolute power over all the Empire Of the World 3977 before Ch. 27. He did not abuse his Power for his Government His Wisdom in Governing was such That the Romans never regretted the loss of their liberty under his Reign The Reputation he required by the clemency of his Government was spread about even to all Foreign Nations of His good Fortune which some of the most Barbarous and most remote courted his Friendship and and Alliance as the Indians but above all the Parthians who not only rendered him the Ensigns taken from him at the defeat of Crassus and that of Anthony with all the Prisoners taken at the last Battle but that which never happened to this Warlike Nation they presented him with two Sons of their King in Hostage as a pledge of their Treaty This great prosperity was only disturbed by some small losses on the Frontiers of the Empire The most considerable and which most afflicted him was the loss of the Legions commanded by Varus in The losâ— of Varus Germany who were surpized and cut in pieces by the Germans But Augustus so happy in all other respects The inward troubles of Augustus had great Domestick Troubles by the irregular conduct of the two Julias Mother and Daughter One his Daughter the other his Grand-daughter by the Death of his two Grand-sons Caius and Lucius whom he had adopted and as it was thought designed them for his Successors to the Empire also by the Death of Drusus Son to his Wife Livia
he had supported Athanasius Bishops of Rome In the place of Liberius they put the Deacon Faelix upon Condition he should favour the Arrians He was ordained by three of their Bishops The Persecution against the Orthodox Divines was so severe that Hosius and Liberius Hosius Liberius were forc'd to yield by the Cruelties they suffered in their Exile and signed to the Arrian Confessions framed in the Councils held at Sirmium in Pannonia by the Arrian Bishops By this means Liberius got leave to return Liberius re-establishâ— to his Church yet he could not be establish'd there but with great Violence and Faelix opposed him in the same manner There were many Persons killed on both sides and even Faelix himself according Faelix deposed to some Writers yet others say that he surviv'd his being deposed The Confusion was very great in the Church by the infinite Number of Confessions of Faith which were made in divers places of which the most part of them were Arrians To redress these Disorders two Councils were assembled one in the East at Seleucia the other in the West at Rimini The Council of Seleucia and of Rimini But in both Councils the Arrian Bishops being far more numerous than the Orthodox the latter being overpower'd the Arrians prevail'd So that the Mischief was thereby so much increased that as St. Jerome testifies the whole World was astonish'd to find themselves Arrians and sigh'd for it From Christ 359. However the Council of Selucia did one good Act in re-establishing St. Hillarius St. Hillarius Bishop of Poitiers A Council at Constantinople Ulufilus Bishop of the Goths Bishop of Poitiers in his Diocess from whence he had been banish'd for being Orthodox A third Council that Constance assembled at Constantinople added to all those general Ills this one in particular that Ulufilus Bishop of the Goths was there infected with the Contagion of Arrianism and afterwards all that Nation by his Example While that Council was held Constance ordered to be brought to Constantinople in very great Pomp the Bodies of St. Andrew the Apostle St. Luke the Evangelist and Timothy St. Paul's Disciple upon a Revelation he reported to have had of the place of their Burial Julius Constantius Brother to the Father of Great Constantine had left two Sons viz. Gallus Caesar whom Constance as has been mentioned had put to Death and Julian who having also been created Caesar Julian Caesar by his Cousin Constance and made Governor of Gaul behaved himself so well in that Charge and with so much Glory that having driven out many times the Barbarians who made Incursions into that Province the Army which he commanded ravish'd with his great Proâ—laimed Emperor Courage and Conduct proclaim'd him Emperor Augustus which he accepted tho' he had been expresly forbid by Constance to assume that Title Constance had employ'd himself three Years in a War against the Persians over whom he had got so great Advantages that they freely offered Proposals of Peace To which he agreed desiring to be freed of that Business in order to compose those of more Consequence in Gaul But in his way thither he was stopt at Antioch by a most desperate Fit of Sickness which made him to be baptized which he neglected to do according to the Custom practis'd at that time by great Persons especially by Princes This Sacrament was administred to him by Euzoius Bishop of Antioch an inveterate Euzoius an Arrian Arrian whom those of that Sect had plac'd in that See in opposition to Melecius whom Melecius Orthodox they had first of all seated there believing he would have favoured them in which they were mistaken for Melecius was Orthodox From Christ 361. Constance being somewhat recovered in his Health pursued his Journey but went not very far for he was again stopt by his Sickness at a little Town in Cilicia where Constance his Death he died aged Forty five Years having reigned Twenty four A little while after Julian coming to Julian the Apostate Emperor Constantinople was there received Emperor without any difficulty This was that Julian Sur-named The Apostate because he turn'd Pagan after he had been brought up in the Christian Religion During the first two Years of his Reign he endeavoured to ruine Christianity by all the Ways he could invent He was kill'd in a Battle against the Persians by a His Death Blow from Heaven as some write or as others will have it by an ordinary Accident of War However it may be said of him and of his Predecessor that both being endowed with excellent Parts 't was great pity that one should be seduced by the Arrians and the other by the Idolaters After the Death of Julian the Army Joâ—ian Emperor gave the Title of Emperor to Jovian or Jovinian one of their principal Officers who had all the good Qualities yet none of those ill ones of his two Predecessors So there was great hopes of a prosperous Reign had he ruled longer than eight Months at the end of which he died From His Death Christ 364. After his Death the Army set up in his place Valentinian who immediately chose Valentinian and Valens Emperors his Brother Valens to be his Colleague These two Emperors sharing the Management of their Affairs Valentinian passed into the West against the Germans who had revolted Valens stayed in the East to oppose Procopus a Prince of the House of Constantine who had took the Title of Emperor A Battle was fought between them near Nice where Procopus was overcome Procopus overcome and killed took Prisoner and was afterwards beheaded From Christ 365. Liberius Bishop of Rome being dead Bishopâ— of Rome there arose a Schism which was reckon'd to be the second of that Church between Damasus a Spaniard and Urcin or Urcisin a Roman each being elected by two different Factions of the Clergy and People Which was carried on with so much Violence and Animosity that 130 Men were killed in a bloody Dispute between the two Parties in the very Church where they were assembled for that Election From Christ 367. Of the two Emperors Valens was an Valens an Arrian Arrian and persecuted the Orthodox His Brother Valentinian being Orthodox made Valentinian Orthodox it his Business to procure the Peace and Prosperity of the Western Church He was fortunate in the War against many of the barbarous Nations who invaded Germany particularly against the Quades he reduc'd them to beg Peace by their Embassadors Valentinian being extreamly offended at the wretched Mien and miserable Equipage of those Embassadors put himself into so violent a Passion and exclaimed against his own and the Empire 's Misfortune to be concerned with such beggarly Enemies that he broke a Vein in his Breast of which he died losing His Death much Blood He was fifty Years old and had reigned twelve Years From Christ 375. This News being brought to
Persians Hussan Cassan possess'd himself of that Kingdom he succeeded Sophys Kings of Persia the Hermit Sophy from whence came the Sophyes who have Reigned in Persia to this time From Christ 1463. Pius the Second died No private Person ever laboured more than Aeneas Silvius to restrain the Authority of the Popes within the limits of their antient Popes Cannons yet no Pope ever took more pains to extend the Papal Power beyond all bounds He obtained of Lewis the Eleventh to abolish the pragmatick Sanction which were Rules extracted from The pragmatick Sanction what had been resolved in the Council of Constance and Basle to curb the exorbitant Authority of the Popes These Rules had been received in France where they were in form and force as Laws The Emperor Albert the Second died leaving his Empress big with Child She Kings of Hungary and Bohemia was delivered of a Son called Ladislaus who succeeded his Father in the Kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia Frederic the Third Cousin to Albert and Frederic the Third Emperor of the same House of Austria was Successor to the Empire The young King Ladislaus dying before he was marryed the Hungarians chose for their King Mathias Corvin Son Mathias Corvin King of Hungary of John Huniades a great Captain who had made himself famous in the War against the Turks The Bohemians for their part chose for George Polebrac King of Bohemia their King George Polebrac one of the Grandees of their Country This King being of the Evangelick Faith protected those of that Religion in his Kingdom Paul the Second called Barbaro Avenetian succeeded Pius the Second Then to Popes Paul succeeded a Cordelier named Riara who was stiled Sixtus the Fourth Charles the last Duke of Burgundy had Charles the last Duke of Burgundy defeated by the Switzers continually waged War with Lewis King of France He had conquered Lorraine of Rayner who had Right to the Kingdom of Naples and was Duke of Anjou He endeavoured to subject the Switzars which Design proved fatal to him for they overcame him twice in their Country where he went to attack them at Granzona and at Morat and the third time near to Nancy which he Besieged making War against Rayner King of Naples and Duke of Lorraine Charles having been His Death killed in this last Battel From Christ 1477. Mary Daughter and Heiress married to Maximillian of Austria His Daughter and Heiress Maria marryed Maximilian Son to Frederic the Third Emperor By this Marriage she brought to the House of Austria the Sovereignty of the seventeen Provinces in the Low-Countries with the County of Burgundy the Dutchy having been reunited to the Crown of France by King Lewis the Eleventh There was another Heiress who had The Right of the Kingdom of Cyprus brought the Right of the Kingdom of Cyprus to the House of Savoy She was Charlotta the only Daughter to John the Second of Lusignan King of Cyprus By marrying Lewis Duke of Savoy who having In the House of Savoy no Children she bequeath'd her Kingdom by Testament But James her Bastard-Brother having took possession of Cyprus Catharina Cornaro his Widdow To the Venetians transferr'd to the Venetians the Right she pretended to that Kingdom of which the Venetians put themselves into a present Possession The House of the Medices having for sometime swayed the Government of Florence several Conspirators of other A Conspiracy against the Medices great Families of that City supported by the Pope set upon the two Brothers Julian and Laurence in a Church at the time of Mass where Julian was killed Laurence having saved Himself did stir up the People against the Conspirators some of them were hanged up in the heat Among others Salviati Archbishop of Pisa From Christ 1478. The Pope employ'd his Arms Spiritual and Temporal against the Florentines but they maintained the War with Forces the King of France sent them under the Command of Philip de Comines whose Name is Philip Comines famous for his curious and judicious Memoirs After the Death of Edward the Fourth King of England his Son Edward the Fifth tho' a Child was presently after Affairs of England kill'd with Richard his Brother by Richard their Uncle who usurpd ' the Crown From Christ 1483. Lewis the Eleventh King of France died a Prince who had Reigned with Of France more absolute Power than any of his Predecessors for which reason some write that he invested the Kings with more Regal Authority others that he had exalted them beyond all sense and reason His great Qualities were attended with as many ill ones as Cruelty Injustice and Hypocrisy and about the end of his Reign he fell into very great imbecility by his fear of Death His only Son Charles the Eighth very young succeeded him John Cibo a Genouese under the Name Popes of Innocent the Eighth succeeded Sixtus the Fourth Henry the Seventh made himself King of England having overcome and killed in Battel Richard the Third Henry was of Affairs of England the House of Lancaster by his Mothers side He united the two Houses York and Lancaster who were Enemies by marrying Mary of York Daughter to Edward the Fourth and Sister to Edward the Fifth From Christ 1485. Ferdinand King of Arragon and his Granada taken from the Saracens Wife Izabella Queen of Castille took Granada from Boadilla the last King of the Saracens in Spain From Christ 1492. A little while after Christopher Colombus Christopher Columbus a Genouese found out the new World with great Success and infinite Advantage to Ferdinand and Izabella From Christ 1494. King Charles went into Italy where all Charles the Eighth in Italy the Cities received him as Conqueror so he entered Rome where Alexander the Sixth Successor to Innocent the Eighth either could not or durst not oppose him from thence he march'd to the Kingdom of Naples and made himself Master of it with incredible facility His Design was to carry on the War even to Constantinople to which end he had delivered from the hands of the Pope Zizim Brother to Bajazet the Second to make use of him against Bajazet but the Design miscarried by the Death of Zizim but chiefly by the League the Pope the Venetians and Lodowike Sforza Duke of Millan made against the King to fight him as he came back The Battel was fought The Battel of Fornova near Fornova a Village near to Piacenza where the King wholly routed them tho' they were six times more in number than those of his Army but the French lost the Kingdom of Naples in as short a time as they had Conquered it that there remained to them nothing more than a filthy The Neopolitan Disease Disease which cannot modestly be named Two Years after Charles being dead Lewis Duke of Orleans first Prince of the Blood succeeded him The new King broke off his Marriage with
Leage and Covenant taken by the The solemn Lâ—ague and Covenant by the Parliament Parliament The City of Glocester besieged by the King and the Siege raised by the Earl of Essex After which hapned the first Newberry Fight where were slain on the The Civil War of England King's side the Earls of Carnarvan and Sunderland with the Lord Faulkland The Queen of England delivered at Oxford of the Lady Catharine who died soon after The Scots came into England to assist the Parliament From Christ 1643. The Emperor's Ambassadors as also the Ambassadors from Spain France Swedeland Holland and others met at Munster in Westphalia to treat of Peace Urban the Eighth departed this life in the 77th year of his Age after he had held Popes the Pontificate 21 years In whose place was elected Baptista Pamphilio in his 70th year who gave himself the Name of Innocent the Tenth The French after a long fatigous Siege The French took Graveling took Graveling Christina Queen of Sweden took the Government of the Kingdom into her The Queen of Sweden Reigned own hands The Queen began her Journey from Oxford to the West took her leave of the King of Abbington The Queen brought to bed of the Princess The Princess Henrietta born Henrietta at Exeter Marston-Moor Fight between the King and Parliament where Cromwell first made himself known After which happened Civil War of England the second Fight at Newberry both unsuccessful to the King Arch-Bishop Laud Beheaded Archbishop Laud beheaded The Queen arrived at Brest in Britany Sir Thomas Fairfax made General by the Parliament and received his Commission Civil War from the House of Commons The Treaty at Uxbridge for a Reconciliation between the King and Parliament broke up without effect From Christ 1644. The Emperor sinding his Forces very much diminishing raise a newd Army and The Imperialistt beaten by the Swedes Ordered publick Supplications to the Virgin Mary whose Image he had redeemed out of the hands of the Swedes But notwithstanding all this meeting Fortstenson the Swedish General near Janowitz in Bohemia he suffered so great an overthrow that Vienna seemed to be in great Danger In the mean time General Wrangel as The Swedish General defeated the Danish General terribly oppressed the Danes and deprived them of several Towns after he had utterly defeated Buckwald the Danish General Besides these Successes the Swedes assisted by the French at Allersheim obtained another great Victory over the Imperialists and drove the Bavarians beyond the Rhyne In this year was fought the fatal Battel Civil War of England of Naseby near Leicester After which Fairfax carried all before him for the Parliament From Christ 1645. In the Low Countries the French took Mardyke Winnoxberg Courtray Dunkirk with other places but not long after lost all again King Charles the First left Oxford in Disguise and went to the Scotish Army who carried him to Newcastle and there upon the payment of two hundred thousand pounds delivered his Majesty up to the Parliament who ordered the King to be brought under Custody to Holmby-House The Great Seal of England broken and defaced Prince of Orange aged 63 years died The Death of the P. of Orange of a Feaver to whom his Son William succeeded as well in his Principality as in his Dignity according to the Conceffion of the States made in the year 1631. From Christ 1646. Leopold Arch Duke of Austria made Governour of Flanders Leopold William Arch-Duke of Austria made Governour of the Low Countries by the King of Spain The Neopolitan Populacy headed by Thomaso Masinello a poor Fisherman made a great Insurrection in that City but were The Death of Mazinello quelled at length and their Leader killed in a Monastery Fairfax marched with his Army thro' the City of London and soon after the Forts and Outworks were slighted The Parliament voted no further Addresses to be made to the King King Charles escap'd from Hampton-Court into the Isle of Wight but was kept Prisoner by Collonel Hammond in Carisbrook-Castle From Christ 1647. A Peace concluded between the Emperor on one side and the Kings of France and Sweden on the other also between the King of Spain and the States of Holland Lewis the Son of Frederic the Palatin was restored to the lower Palatin and made the eighth Elector of the Empire The upper Palatinate continued in the possession of the Duke of Bavaria Christian the Fifth King of Denmark departed K. Charles a prisoner in the Isle of Wight this Life to whom his Son Frederic the Fifth before that Bishop of Breme succeeded Uladislaus King of Poland died to The Death of the K. of Denmark whom his Brother Cazimir succeeded whose Reign was extreamly shaken by the The Death of the K. of Poland Philip IV. married Maria Anna of Spain Seditions of the Cossacks On the other side Philip the Fourth of Spain married with Maria Anna of Austria The Treaty between King Charles the First and the long Parliament broke off and the King brought Prisoner to St. James's sentenced to death by that bold The Death of King Charles the First D. Hamilton the E. of Holland and Lord Capel beheaded Traytor Bradshâ—w and most barbarously Murthered before his own Pallace King Charles the Second began his Reign from that day Duke Hamilton the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capel beheaded in the Palace-Yard before Westminster-Hall The Kingly Office voted unnecessary and troublesom King Charles the Second proclaimed in K. Charles proclaim'd in Scotland Civil War in France Scotland From Christ 1648. A great Discord arising between the King of France and the Parliament of Paris by reason of Cardinal Mazarine's Government Paris besieged by the King but in a little time after these Troubles were compos'd tho but for a short time and Paris sustain'd the loss of a second siege The Venetians burnt the Turks Fleet. The Venetians beat the Turks in a Sea fight In the Port of Foggia seventy two Gallies eighteen Men of War sixty Ships of Burthen and six thousand Men with a Basha slain The Christians losing but ninety Men killed and forty wounded Cromwell made General of the Parliament's Army marched into Scotland From Christ 1649. Towards the end of July William Prince of Orange attempted to make himself Master of Amsterdam by Surprise but fail'd of Success Not long after he died of the The death of the Pr. of Orange Small-pox and his Son William Henry was born eight days after his Decease Descartes the Founder of a new kind of Descartes death Philosophy died at Stockholm in Swedland The Princes of Conde and Conti with The princes of Conti c. made prisoners the Duke of Longueville committed to the Castle of Bois de Vincennes by the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin The Spaniards sold the Dutchy of Pontremoly Pontremoli sold to the Duke of