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The ivbile of Britane. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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of their Kings in high buildings made for that purpose farre from the ground as in their Pyramides and Laberinths in such sort that the sonnes should see their fathers and so many fathers before his father buried in such sort reserued and kept with odors and sweetnes as though they were aliue They mourned seauenty two dayes abstained from wine or any other meate sauing bread and the water of Nilus So did they lament the death of Ioseph Yet the Kings of Egipt before they should be buried his fame his great actions and marshall exployts were rehearsed publishing his whole life from the beginning If they had been vicious drunken slothfull or had not done iustice or done any great crime he should not haue that honor of buriall which other Kings had which was the greatest infamy to any King in Egipt that might be which Kings of Egipt had more care to be well buried than to liue well The manner of the Scythian Funerals THe Scythians do in this manner when one dieth in Scythia of any great state his frends and his neighbors do carry all his beasts and kill them for a feast to solempnize the funerall of the dead As the Romans and Graecians do celebrate a feast for the honor of the Emperors and Princes birth which feast they call Hecatonbeon The sonne of this dead Scythian causeth his fathers head being filled with all sweet odors to be gilded ouer and to be set vp as a monument of his father where once euery yeare vpon the very day that his father dyed he keepeth a solempne feast where his friends and his neighbors do yearely at this feast offer sacrifice with ceremonies and drinke out of this gilded head where not only his fathers skull but his Graundfathers and diuerse of his Graund-fathers predecessors as Boles and Cupps on the table at funerall feasts were made of so many great fore-graundfathers skulls for they abhorred the rites and sacrifices of any countryes besides their owne So did the people called Sordisci in all poynts imitate the Scythians in their funerals in the selfe same ceremonies before recited FINIS Deut. 2. The Lord giueth lands and habitations to men Gyaunts dwelt in the land of Seir of Moab and of Ammon One language continued in the Patriarchs time vntill Nymrod Gen. 11. The Schithians and the Athenians brag of their antiquitie Iustine 2. Hist. Herodot 2 A yeare of Iubile among the Iewes The Iubile in great Brittane Oliuet called the Mount of corruption Wicked people The Iubile of Egipt The Iubile of Rome Great controuersie between fire and water Herod lib. 4. Heidfeld de diis ca. 2. De situ orbis ca. 10. Carneades Legen aurea Tranquil in vespas Plini lib 2. cap 9. Herodot 〈◊〉 vita homeri Heidfield de animal cap. 9. August lib de Gram. Heidfield de Griphis Gram cap 2.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cic. lib. 1. offic Lact. Hom. 33. contra martion Iud. 12. Schibboleth Plut. apoph Dionisius sought to be a King by a letter Sapien 7. Exod. 15. Quintil lib 1. institut cap 3. Rhodig 9 cap 5.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist. lib 7 polit ca. 7 Gen. 4. Heidfield◠lib de discordiis cap 22. Plin. lib 1◠cap. 9. Alex ab Alex lib 6 cap. 12. Iupiters priests Nisephor lib 12 cap. 2. Ioseph lib 18. 1. Ro. ca. 10 Secret elections 2. Reg. cap. 2. Iudg. ca. 6. Iudg. ca. 11 Darius horse Iosep. lib. 7. cap. 2. Diador lib. 4. cap. 1. Pharnaces King of Pontus Amasis King of Egipt Diodor. lib. 4. cap. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Lybia Alexi ab Alex. lib. 9. cap. 4. Saul In Mero Diod. lib. 4 cap. 1. Alex Neap lib. 4. cap. 23. Diodor. lib. 4 cap. 1. Diodor. lib. 2. cap. 2. Diod. lib. 4. cap. 2. Ergamenes Cyrus Xerxes Iudg. 8. The election of the Iudges of Israel Iudg. 11. Ieptha Gedeon Num. 17. Ioshua Iudg ca 1. The first Kings of Rome The Kinges of India Diodor. lib. 2. The Kings of Sicilia The Kings of Lydia Hyppotamus Diodor. 4. Mythridates Monima Darius Tygranes Crownes not esteemed of the Romans Suet. in vita calig 7. Plut. in Coriol Amphictions Kings of Egipt Sundrie Crownes Heathen altars Cyrus Of Aegipt Regall Ornaments Of Rome Of Cerinthia Pantal. lib. 6. Macedonia The Longobards The inauguration of the first King of Rome The inauguration of the Kings of Egipt Diodor. The inauguration of the King of Persia. Alex genial lib 1. cap 29. The Funerals of the Thracians The Funerals of the Macedonians The funerall of the Romanes The Funerall of the Egiptians Abel Mizraim The Scythian funerals
of his Gouernors For he called Moses a Heard-man from Madian vnto Egipt saying Mittam te ad Pharaonem Gedeon he elected from the barne a Thresher saing Tu liberabis Israel de manu Madian In like manner he called Ieptha from the land of Tob. But as before is sayd howsoeuer kings are elected the honor dignitie and reuerence of kings were such that after Iehu was annointed king sitting among other captaines his fellow captaines did put off their mantels cloakes and gownes to make him a seat like a throne for a king to sit with sounding of trumpets and saying God saue King Iehu such is the Maiestie of the name of a King that God called them Dij terrae As soone as Darius horse neighed the other sixe Princes which were in election with him lighted on foote prostrating themselues vpon the ground after the Persian manner hauing the sacred fire and the Image of the sunne carried before him What wonder is it for the Persians Armenians to whom it is peculiar to worship their kings as Gods sithence king Dauid so honored his sonne Salomon being a king annointed and sitting on his Fathers seat in such humble sort that being sicke and old in his bed bowed his head downe in token of his submission to the King his sonne and as Iosephus saith Tanquam Deum coluit We read that the Kings of Aethyopia being elected by their priests are lifted vp with such triumphes vpon their shoulders and carried so to be seen among the people Bacchantium more flexis genubus vt Deum honorant The late Emperours of Rome being elected were hoysed vpon mens shoulders and carried with ioyes and triumphes the people crying out Viuat Imperator They vsed no other ceremony in ancient time with the Kings of Fraunce but to lift the new elected King vpon a shield to bee carried about the campe saging Viuele Roy. So was Clodoneus the first christian French King The souldiors of Pharnaces vpon a tumult made in the campe sodenly they put a Reed into Pharnaces hand for a scepter and proclaimed him King of Pontus So the Iewes put a Reed into our Sauiours hand for a scepter in most contemptuous and ridiculous manner and kneeling sayd Aue Rex Iudaeorum hayle King of the Iewes The souldiers of Amasis vpon a sodaine shift to make him King of Egipt they clapt vppon his head in stead of a crowne a Helmet and so proclaimed him King of Egipt So the Iewes clapped a crowne of thornes vpon christs head a more precious Crowne than the Amphictions of Greece sent to Alexander or the Arabians and Armenians sent to the Romanes In diuers other countreys they make choice of their Kings diuersly In some place of shepheards supposing them that haue such care of their sheepe should haue more care ouer men In Homer Kings are called Pastores populi as you heard of the Kings of Israel and others In other places they made choyse of them that were most rich thinking that a rich King was best able to helpe his subiects and defend them from their enemies These kinds of elections of Kings and of priests which gouerned cheefely amonge the Ethyopians and Egiptians In Libia he onely should bee elected king qui citissimo cursu valeret He that was most swift in running In other Prouinces and countreys towards Arabia he that excelled in strength and courage of his bodie supposing him to be most fit and able to gouerne them These Nations knew not God in their elections yet they seemed to imitate the Israelites in outward fourme The people called Cathaei in India made choice of him to be their King that was most tall of stature and of goodly personage like Xerxes King of Persia who among so many hundred thousands was the only goodliest and tallest man Or like Saul King of Israell who was higher by the shoulders vpward than any one man within the whole Kingdome of Israell for God would please the people with such a King In Mero the King should be of sound limmes for the Law was that if the King should be lame or halt all his friends and houshold seruants should also halt and be lame And with good iudgement should they looke of such a King which should not limpe or be lame The custome was also in Meroe that the priests of greatest authority among the people should come and tell the King he must needs die so the Gods commaunded all the Kings obaied this Law per responsa Deorum Among the Sidomites they did elect no King ouer them vnlesse he were of the Kings stocke or haue his birth from the Kings familie quite contrarie to the people called Taprobani in India which suffered none to bee King among them that were of the Kings stocke especially if they had any children least they should claime to be the King by heritage Sabaei a Nation in Arabia after they had made choyse of their King they had a Law that it was not lawfull for the King to goe out of the Metropolitan Citie Saba according to the Law which if hee were so found he should bee stonied to death or should be deposed from his kingdome Such was the supersticiousnes of the heathens towards their Preists that Sabbachus King of Egipt though hee was warned in his dreame by the God of Heliopolis saying Nec faelix nec diuturnum Aegipti regnum fore vnlesse all the Priests of Egipt were slaine and that the King withall his army should marche ouer their dead bodies Thus being often troubled with this dreame the King called all the Priests of Egipt before him and told them how hee was warned either to kill them or else ouerthrow himselfe and his kingdome This supersticious King yeilded the kingdome vnto the Priests of Egipts hands and went to Ethiop by such meanes Priests grew in as much credit in Egipt as then the prophets were in Israell Many such Kings were either so cursed and banned in their kingdome or else driuen out of their kingdome and others put in by the Preist of Rome Such supersticious Lawes and customes in Ethiop continued vntill one Ergamenes was elected King in the time of Pto. Philadelphus the second of that name in Egipt this King expected the like end by the preists of Ethiop as his predecessors had and therefore Ergamenes did that which Sabbachus should haue done And as Iehu Daniel at Babilon and Elias did at the brooke Kison with the slaughter of all the Prophets and priests of Baal Now hauing somthing spoken of the Election of Kings so likewise of the Election of the Iudges how they were chosen and elected God elected Moses after he had fled from Pharo in Egipt to lethro in Madian from a shepheard to bee such a Prince and gouernor of such an army as neither Cyrus led vnto Scythia or Xerxes vnto Greece or Tamberlaine vnto Asia and that in a