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The varietie of memorable and worthy matters. By Walter Owsolde
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Owsolde, Walter.
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into Latine by Saint Austine Lib. 18 and 23 de ciuitate dei the substance whereof followeth The earth shall sweate signe of iudgement from heauen shall come a King which shall raigne for euer that is to say in humaine flesh to the end that by his presence he iudge the world so the vnfaithfull aswell as the faithfull shall see God with their eies aloft among his Saints and in the end of the world the soules of men with their bodies shall appeare whom hee shall iudge when the roundnesse of the earth vntilled shall be full of clods of earth and grasse men shall cast away their idols and all their precious Iewels the world shall be consumed with fire hee shall pierce the inferiour parts and breake the gates of darke hell then to the flesh of Saints shall be giuen free and cleere light and the euill shall be burned with eternall fire all secrets shall be opened and euery one shall knowe the secret of his neighbour and God shall discouer the consciences and harts of all men then shall there be lamentation and gnashing of teeth the Sunne and Starres shall loose their light the firmament shall be dessolued the Moone shall be darkened the mountaines shall be throwne downe and the valeis shall bee made equall with them there shall bee nothing in the world higher or lower then another mountaines and valleis shall be made plaine all things shall cease the earth shall be dryed vnto pouder and dust the fountaines and riuers shall be burned likewise then shall a trumpet sound from heauen in wofull horrible manner and the opening of the earth shall discouer confused and darke hell with the torments and paines of the miserable condemned and heere before the iudge shall come euery King a riuer of fire brimstone shal fall from heauen Diuers other things were prophecied by this Sibylle and because they were obscure and therefore not to be comprehended by the Gentiles before they came to passe she sayed of her selfe these words They shall thinke me a false and blind Prophetisse but when they shall see these things come to passe they will remember me call me no more a false Prophetisse but a Prophetisse of the almighty God The sixt was called Samia borne in the I le of Samos which said Hee beeing rich shall be borne of a poore mayde the creatures of the earth shall adore him and praise him for euer The seauenth was called Cumana because shee prophecied at Cumas a towne of Campania in Italie shee prophecied that he should come from heauen and raigne heere in pouerty hee should rule in silence and be borne of a virgen The eight was called Helespontica borne at Marmise in the territorie of Troy A woman shall descend of the Iewes called Marie and of her shall be borne the sonne of God named Iesus and that without carnall copulation for shee shall be a Virgen before and after his birth he shall be both God and man he shall fulfill the lawes of the Iewes and shall adde his owne lawe thereunto and his kingdome shall remaine for euer The ninth was of Frigia and prophecied in the towne of Ancire one of her sayings were The Highest shall come frō heauen and shall confirme the counsaile in heauen and a virgen shall be shewed in the valleis of the deserts The tenth was Albunea surnamed Tiburtina because she was borne at Tiber 15 mile from Rome The inuisible Word shall be borne of a virgin hee shall conuerse among sinners and shall of them be despised Lactantius Firmianus reherseth diuerse of their prophecies without making any particular mention of them they are to be referred specially notwithstanding as it should seeme vnto Sybilla Samberta who wrote 24 Bookes in verse chiefely intreating of the cōming miracles and life of Christ whereunto the sayings of all the other Sibylles are conformable S. Austine likewise in the 23 chapter of his 18 booke De ciuitate Dei reciteth those prophecies as followeth Then hee shall be taken by the wicked hands of the Infidels and they shall giue him buffets on his face with theyr sacriledge hands and they shall spit vppon him with theyr foule and cursed mouthes Hee shall turne vnto them his shoulders suffering them to be whipped yea hee shall holde his peace without speaking ere a word to the end that none shall knowe from whence his words proceedeth He shal also be crowned vvith thornes they shall giue him gall to eate vineger to drinke behold the feast that they shall make him in so much that thou ignorant and blind people shall not know thy God conuersing among men but thou shalt crowne him with thornes mingling for him gal and vineger Then the vaile of the temple shal rend and at midde day it shal be darke night for the space of three houres So the iust shal die the death and his death or sleepe shall continue three dayes and when he shall haue been in the bowels of the earth hee shal resuscit and returne to life Lactantius moreouer lib. 4. chap. 15. reherseth these prophecies of them Hee shal raise the dead the impotent and lame shall goe and runne nimbly the deafe shall heare the blind shal see the dumbe shall speake freely And a little before that sayeth with fiue loaues and two fishes he shal nourish in the Deserts 5000 men and the fragments thereof shall be sufficient to satisfie many more Many other thinges were foretold by these Sibyls as well of the ruines of great States as of Christ. The twelue Apostles with theyr martyrdome IAmes the sonne of Zebedee called maior for that hee vvas chosen to be an Apostle was sent to conuert Spayne from whence by reason of the obstinacie of the people for he conuerted in all but nine persons hee returned shortly againe to preach in Iudea Where by the enuy of a Iewish Bishop called Abiathar he was accused and beheadded by the consent of Herod Agrippa His body was conuaied by his disciples first to Ierusalem and from thence to Spayne where it yet remaineth in Compostella a famous pilgrimage Iames the sonne of Alphey called minor for that hee vvas last chosen hee was the first Bishop of Ierusalem and that by the space of thirty yeeres and then as he was preaching in the Temple hee was throwne headlong downe by the Pharises and by them stoned to death He was buried by the Temple Simon by Christ called Peter through the indignation of Nero because he had ouercome Simon Magus was crucified with his head downeward according as he desired Saul after his conuersion called Paul after hee had endured and escaped many dangers and torments as beating with rods and put in the stocks by Philippus stoned in Listria deliuered to wilde beasts in Ephesis bound and beaten in Ierusalem and many others lastly came to Rome whereby the commaundment of Nero hee was beheaded because hee was a Romaine borne the same day that Peter was crucified Paule in
THE VARIETIE of Memorable and worthy matters By Walter Owsolde Imprinted at London by I. R. for Ieffery Charlton and are to be solde at his shoppe at the great North doore of Paules 1605. To the Right vvorshipfull Sir William Romney Knight and Alderman of the Cittie of London RIght Worshipfull you may iustly thinke I am very bold being in respect a stranger vnto you to offer vp these lines to your fauorable censure yet the loue good affection which I owe to your worship for some sufficient causes may fully excuse my rashnes in that behalfe and considering withall your gentle disposition hoping you will take in good part this meane gift not respecting the value therof but the good will of the giuer as did that woorthy King accepting with gentle hart a draught of water of a simple hind so I expecting you will curteously vouchsafe the patronizing of these simple collexions although there be nothing woorthy your reviewing contained therein yet if you grant it but the reading you may finde some matter which may eyther delight you by bringing into your remembrance such memorable worthy things as haue hapned in former ages or driue other drousie thoughts out of your mind which if it so come to passe I shall haue the ful scope of my desires and be the more bolde an other time to offer to your view some thing of better worth And so I leaue you to the mercifull protection of Almighty God whom I beseech to blesse you with increase of worship long life and eternall happines Yours to commaund Walter Owsold To the curtious Reader WHen I consider with my selfe gentle Reader of the sundry kinds of delights which men of diuers natures take pleasure in as som in reading ancient histories whereof there are many sorts and kinds containing the amorous discourses of young gallants with the liues of their enamored Mistresses liuely disciphering foolish dotage in old men stale widdowes with the inconuenience of matching old age and wilfull youth together and againe some take pleasure in reading Chronicles declaring the famous and worthy acts of valiant Captaines and famous Gouerners with the changes and alterations of former times which may much profite men of all sorts Therfore I thought good to publish this small Treatise taken and collected out of diuers ancient learned and well approoued authors not vnnecessary to be had in remembrance which I hope the learned will take in good part because it saueth them a labour in perusing ouer diuers volumes to find the time and place where and when the matters heerein expressed were begonne performed continued and ended and as for the other sort I hope they cannot mislike it treating of matters which without this booke they should neuer haue knowne and so I leaue it to your fauourable censure Yours as you like this Booke W. O. The Table THE foure parts of the World page 1. The foure Monarchies page 1. The sixe ages of the World page 2. The seauen wonders of the World page 4. The seauen Wisemen of Greece page 5. The tenne Sibylls page 6. The twelue Apostles with theyr martyrdoms page 9. The ten persecutions of Christians vnder the Romaine Emperours page 11. The eight times that Rome hath been taken page 11. The seauen Electors of the Emperours of Germanie pa. 14. The three Crownes of the Emperour page 14. The twelue Peers or Pairs of Fraunce page 14. The eyght Parliaments of Fraunce page 15 The seauen Saxon Kingdoms that England was once deuided into page 17 Fiue Orders of Chiualrie which continue at this day among Princes page 8 The xiij Cantons of Swisserland pag. 22. The foure parts of the world ASIA so called of the Daughter of Ocean and Thetis or as some say of Asia the son of Maneé King of Lidia is seperated from Europe by the riuer Tanais nowe called Don by the sea called in time past Palus Meotides now Mare de Zabache and by Pontus Euxinus now Mer maiour and by part of the Mediterranian sea and frō Africk by the riuer of Nile Europe that old Writers coniecture to be so called of Europa daughter of Agenor King of Libia is seperated from Asia as is already showne and from Africk by the Mediterranean Sea Africke which some say is so called of one Affer of the line of Abraham is seperated from Europe by the Mediterranean sea and from Asia by the riuer of Nile America or West-India so called of Americus Vespusius but first found out by Christopher Columbus of Genua the yere of our Lord 1492. It is in manner of an Iland round about enuironed with the great Ocean sea The foure Monarchies THE first Monarchie was of the Assirians founded by Ninus about the yere of the World 2220. augmented by the Queene Semiramis and after it had endured the terme of 1300 yeeres it was translated by Arbactus vnto the Medes and there hauing endured 350 yeeres it was lost by Astiages and conquered by Cyrus The second Monarchie was of the Persians founded by Cyrus the yeere of the World 3425 which after it had endured 191 yeere was lost by Darius and subdued by Alexander the great The third Monarchie was of the Grecians founded by Alexander the great in the yeere of the world 3634 and before Christ 320 yeeres after whose death it was deuided among the Prefects which in his life time he had appointed in diuers countries by which diuision Seleucus was King nf Syria Ptolomeus of Egipt Antigonus of Asia Cassander of Macedonia Greece all which coūtries were after subdued by the Romans The fourth Monarchie or Empire was of the Romans founded by Iulius Caesar the yere of the world 3914 after the building of Rome 706 yeeres and before Christ 47 yeeres This Monarchie florished about the space of 470 yeeres till that after the death of Theodosius the great it was deuided by his two sons into two Empires Arcadius was Emperour of Constantinople which Empire endured though afterwards much diminished by the inuasions of barbarous nations vntill the yeere of our Lord 1453 and then was quite lost by Constantine and conquered by Mahomet second king of Turks Honorius was Emperor of Rome which Empire shortly after in the yeere of our Lord 475 about the ninth month of the raine of Augustus was vtterly ruinated by Othacar king of Goths And long after the yere of our Lord 801 it was restored by Charles the great and by him vnited to the crowne of France and by his successors translated into Germanie where it yet remaineth as a shadow onely or representation of the greatnes and maiestie of the ancient Romaine Empire The sixe ages of the World IN the deuiding of these ages there is great contrarietie of opinions among Writers for that some follow the computation of the 72 Interpreters some follow the Hebrues and the cōmon text of the Bible The first age from the creation of the world till the vniuersall flood endured according to the