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
as he deserv'd the Government was Re-establish'd in its right Method The Emperor perswaded by his Wife and pious Sister resolved to Assemble a Council to Redress the Divisions of the Church but he could not execute his Resolution being prevented by Death which seized on him that Year in The Death of Theodosius the Fiftieth of his Age and the Forty Third of his Reign A Prince without Vice Pious and of an extraordinary Good Temper but Weak and very easie to be Governed by those who were near him From Christ 450. He dying without Issue the Senate People and Soldiers chose with a common suffrage Martian for their Emperor Martian Emperor who from a common Soldier rose by his Valour and great Conduct to the highest Commands in the Army Pulcheria having Pulcheria Marrys him procur'd by her Interest to raise him to this high Dignity marry'd him on this Condition as the Historians of that time have Written That they should live Chastly together as Brother and Sister From Christ 451. A little while after by the Authority of the two Emperors Valentinian and Martian a Council was Assembled of Six Hundred The Council of Chalcedon and Thirty Bishops in the City of Chalcedon The Errors of Eutychus were there Condemned and their Author Banish'd as also some Bishops his Adherents among others Dioscorus Bishop of Alexandria The Council confirmed what had been already Decreed by that of Constantinople under Theodosius the Great touching the Equality of Precedence between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople notwithstanding the Displeasure resented by the Legats of Leo Bishop of Rome Attyla King of the Huns was come with Attyla King of the Huns. a formidable Army which reach'd from the Banks of Tanais even unto the heart of Gaule Ravaging and Destroying all that dared to oppose him The City of Orleans refused to Surrender and while he besieged it Aetius Prefect of the Gaules made a League with Meroveus King of the French Theodorick King of the Goths and Gondicar King of the Buâ—gundians against this common Enemy The Confederates came to meet him before Orleans with their united Forces so soon as they approach'd Attyla raised the Siege and retreated they follow'd and overtook him in the Cataulaunike Plains where they overcome him with a mighty Slaughter of Overcome near Chalons Men. After this great Overthrow he retired into Illyria where he gathered together another Army greater then his first he came back into Italy took and destroyed Enters into Italy Aquilia and after that all the other Towns he past through so that he might have gone even to Rome if he had not been diswaded from going there by Bishop Leo who came to meet him and prevailed with him to March another way He past a second time into Gaule where Is again defeated in Gaule he was once more Defeated by Torismond King of the Goths and Sangiban King of the Allanes so being forc'd to retire he stopt in Panonia with his Huns from whom Panonia called Hungary that Province was called Hungary There as he was Celebrating his Nuptial with a Young Lady a Daughter of the King of the Bactrians who voluntarily had followed him he Gorged himself so Excessively The Death of Attyla with Eating and Drinking that it choak'd him From Christ 352. The People round about Aquilia and other neighbouring Counties of the Continent to preserve themselves from the Fury of Attyla retired to the Islands at the end of the Adriatick Sea which gave there the first Beginning to that wonderful City which from the Name of Heneti or Veneti was called Venice which by process of Venice time is become chief of a powerful Republick The British Islanders being infested by the frequent Incursions of the Scots or Picts applied themselves to Aetius Prefect of the Gauls to help them against their cruel Enemies He could not well supply them with Succors having to deal with Attyla and other Barbarians who ravaged Gaul Whereupon the Britains implored the Aid of the Saxons Who came over under the Command of Hengist with so vast an Army that in a little time they became Masters of that Country which took the Name of England Whether it was from the Angles the The Saxons in Britain chief People of the Saxons or else from Hengist by Contraction with the Word Land which signifies the Earth from The Name of England whence was derived the Name of England Valentinian was an imprudent Prince and was also wicked and debauch'd He The Death of Aetius put to Death Aetius Prefect of the Gauls upon false grounded Suspitions of his Fidelity And to fill up the Measure of his great Injustice he made use of a cunning Stratagem to violate the Wife of the Senator Maximus Grand-son to that Maximus who had taken the Title of Emperor and had been overcome and killed by Theodosius the Great This last vâ—â—lent Act of Valentinian cost him his Life For the Wife of that Senator died with extream Grief for the irreparable Injury she sustained Her Husband to Revenge himself seduc'd the Soldiers The Death of Valentinian III. who without making it known who did set them on killed Valentinian So Maximus having made an Interest Maximus Emperor with the Paetorian Bands they proclaimed him Emperor and the Senate acquiess'd to it more willingly because he married Eudoxia Daughter to Theodosius the Younger and Widow to Valentinian From Ch. 455. Maximus reap'd small Advantage by his Treason he was so indiscreet to discover the Secret to his new Wife thinking by that means to give her a full Assurance of his Loyal Love But the only Effect it wrought upon her was to make her resolve to Revenge the Death of her first Husband by that of the Second To which end she privately sollicited Genseric King of the Vandals to come into Italy Where he arrived with that Expedition that Maximus being not in a Condition to resist him fled from Rome to save himself in the Mountains but he was stoned to Maximus killed Death by the People enraged against him for his base Flight From Christ 456. Three Days after Genseric had entred Genseric takes Rome Rome and wasted it more cruelly than the Goths had done he had not time to ruine it utterly For the Winter approaching obliged him to set Sail for Africk to secure the vast Riches he had plundered and the great Number of Illustrious Prisoners he had taken among whom were the Empress Eudoxia with her two Daughters Eudoxia and Placidia After Genseric was retreated Avitus was acknowledg'd Emperor of Rome The Avitus Emperor Army of the Gauls having before proclaimed him But the Romans soon grew weary of him finding his Court composed not only of Gauls but also of Officers and Soldiers of his Army being the most part Barbarians Finding himself to be very much hated for that Cause he willingly resign'd up the Empire and retired to
the two deceased Kings From Christ 869. The Emperor Bazilius ordered a Council The Eighth General Council to be held at Cinstantinople which was called the Eighth General Council The Pope's Legates were there and prevail'd to have Photius deposed and to have Ignatius re-establish'd In this Emperor's time The Russians turned Christians the Russians were converted to Christianity Adrian the Second died three Years after this Council was held From Christ 872. Lewis the Second Emperor died Charles King of France his Uncle arrived at Rome before his Brother Lewis the Germanick and was there Crowned Emperor by John the Eighth Successor to Adrian the Second to the great Regret of Lewis the Germanick who died leaving three Sons Carloman Charles and Lewis who shared among them their Father's Dominions comprising all Germany and that part of Austrasia that borders upon it From Christ 876. The Emperor Charles the Second called The Death of the Emperor Charles the Bald. the Bald died poyson'd by his Physitian a Jew Lambert Count of Spoletto and Albert Marquess of Tuscany put Pope John in Prison from whence being escap'd he fled into France where in a Council held at Troye he crowned Lewis le Begue the Third Lewis le Begue Emperor Emperor who died about a Year and a half after He left two Sons Lewis and Carloman whom he had by a Wife of low Extraction whom his Father had forc'd him to repudiate From Christ 880. Tortulus a Lord of Brittany having married a Kinswoman of Charles the Bald from which Marriage came Ingelger who was Father to Foulques Rufus the first Count of Anjou Carloman King of Bavaria being dead The Death of Carloman without lawful Issue Lewis and Charles divided his Dominions Five Princes at that time shared the French Princes French Empire Lewis and Charles Sons of Lewis the Germanick in Germany in Neustria Lewis and Carloman the Sons of Lewis le Begue and in Burguâ—dy and in Provence Boson who had married the Sister of Charles the Bald. Of these five Princes Charles le Gras having Charles le Gras Emperor the Third of that Name made himself Master of Rouse was Crowned Emperor by the Pope King Lewis died in Germany the Emperor Charles inherited his Dominions Lewis one of the Kings of Neustria being The Death of the two Kings Lewis's also dead Carloman his Brother remained the sole King of that Province From Christ 882. He Reigned but two Years at the end of which dying the whole Monarchy was re-united in the Person of Charles the Charles le Gras sole Emperor of France Third Emperor called the Fat tho' there was another Posthumus Son of Lewis le Begue named Charles but so very young that he was not in the least capable to Reign Pope Adrian the Second died and had Popes to succeed him Stephen the Fifth From Christ 885. Paris besieged by the Normans for two The Siege of Paris by the Normans Years was raised not by Force of Arms but by a large Sum which Charles le Gras sent them From Christ 887. Basilius Emperor of the East died and Leo V. Emperor left for his Successor his Son Leo the Fifth Sur-nam'd the Philosopher whose Diligence in the Government of the Empire is very much applauded From Christ 888. The Emperor Charles le Gras died so Charles le Gras starved to Death forsaken and abandoned by all that he had not Bread to eat There remained but two Princes of all Arnold King of Germany the Line of Charlemain Arnold Bastard of Carloman who was acknowledg'd King of all the French possest beyond the Rhine that is to say of all Germany The Second was Charles called the Simple the Posthumus Son of Lewis de Begue Neustria belonged to him by Right but Eudes the Eudes King of Neustria Son of Robert the Strong Count of Anjou was by the Neustrians preferred before him Two other Princes who were of the Collateral Line of Charlemain shared between them what was on this side of the Rhine that is Raoul had the two Burgundies Raoul King of Burgundy and Boson before-mentioned possess'd all from Lyons to the Mediterranean which was called the Kingdom of Arles From Christ 889. In Italy Guy Duke of Spoleto and Berenger Guy Emperor of Germany Berenger King of Italy Duke of Friuli made an Agreement That Guy should have the Title of Emperor with the Kingdom of France and Berenger Italy But Guy finding his place in France possess'd by another returned into Italy and drove out Berenger These two Princes were also of the Collateral Line of Charlemain by the Wives From Christ 890. Arnoldus came to Rome and was there Arnold and Lambert Emperors crowned Emperor by Pope Formosus Successor to Stephen the Fifth tho' Lambert the Son of Guy had took the same Title with that of King of Italy From Christ 896. Pope Formosus being dead his Memory Popes was condemned by his Successor Stephen the Sixth with that Barbarity and Disgrace Formosus condemned that his Body was taken out of his Tomb and thrown into the River Tyber Theodorus Successor to Stephen being dead within a year his Successor John the Ninth re-establish'd the Memory of Formosus but he disannulled the Installment of Arnold Crowned by Formosus and confirmed the Title of Emperor to Lambert From Christ 897. Charles called the Simple had been Charles the Simple King of France brought into England by his Mother Avoiza Daughter to Edward King of England Eudes who had been made King being dead the Neustrians recall'd Charles and acknowledged him their King From Christ 898. Arnold King of Germany and of Lorraine dyed leaving two Sons Lewis his Legitimate Lewis King of Germany and Lorrain Son and Zwendipold his Natural Son the latter dying soon after Lewis became Master of all his Fathers Dominions under the Guardianship of Otho Duke of Saxony or Hatto Archbishop of Ments as others say and Leopold Duke of Bavaria in his time the Hungarians most miserably afflicted the Empire after they had beaten the Emperor in a Battel that lasted three days one after another From Christ 900. The Tenth Age. LEWIS King of Arles having made Lewis K. of Arles made bâ—ing by Berenger the second Emperor two Expeditions into Italy against Berenger the Second who had there taken the Title of Emperor was unfortunate in both of them From Christ 901. In the first he was shamefully Expelled in the second he lost his Eyes by the Command of Berenger who immediately caused himself to be Crowned by the Pope so there were two who assumed the Title of Emperor in Italy From Berenger and Lambert Popes Christ 902. John the Ninth being dead Benedict the Fourth held the See for two Years and after him Leo the Fifth who was Deposed about the end of forty Days by Christophilus and this latter turned out at the end of seven