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A56267	Epitome monarchiæ Britanicæ, or, A brief cronology of the Brittish kings from the first original of monarchial government, to the happy restauration of King Charles the Second : wherein many remarkable observations on the civil warrs of England and General Monks politique transactions in reducing this nation to a firm union for the resettlement of His Majesty, are clearly discovered / by Hamlet Puleston ...	Puleston, Hamlet, 1632-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4190; ESTC R21043	34,516	68

cause to himself and proceeds slowly therein all which is performed accordingly but it concludes with the ruine of Woolsey's and the Popes Authority For impatient of these procrastinations Henry discards the one and renounces the other rejects Katherine marries Anne grows weary of her impeaches her of incest with her own Brother cuts off her head in whose room the very next day succeeds Jane Seymour who dies in Child-birth And so he continues shifting and putting away or to death his Wives as well as other Subjects till his own appointed time came a little before which it is recorded that in great Agony he should say unto Arch-Bishop Cranmer Is there any mercy for him who never spared man in his wrath nor woman in his lust In his life he little regarded but rather endeavoured to defeat by Parliament the titles of his Daughters Mary by Katherine of Spain and Elizabeth by Anne of Bolen with both whose Mothers he had been grievously displeased and seemed more inclinable to the off-spring of his youngest Sister Mary Dowager of France by Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk but at his death by his last Will and Testament he constituted his Son Edward by Jane Seymour his next immediate heir and then in case they dyed issulesse the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth to succeed in their order Henry the eighth being dead Edward the 6th of that name his Son is at nine years of age proclaimed King and Edward Duke of Sommerset by the Mothers side ordained his Protector whose candid nature exposed him to the cunning wiles of Dudley Duke of Northumberland which at last brought Sommerset his Brother Thomas Marquesse of Hertford Admiral of England and even the King himself to their untimely ends The Fox Northumberland observing the difference between the Protector and the Admiral begun by the womanish emulation of their Wives doth underhand so foment it that the Admiral is brought to the block and the Protector not long after follows ' which renders the Pupill King more obnoxious to Northumberlands ambitious practices now that his two faithfull Uncles who should have supported him are removed out of the way Northumberland taking advantage of the Kings weaknesse of mind and body whereunto he is shrewdly suspected to have contributed advises him to make a Will wherein the King declaring that he was past his minority thoughot above sixteen years of age and that it appertained to him to dispose of the Kingdome as he pleased doth disinherit his Sisters Mary and Elizabeth as Persons of whose legitimation there was a question as likewise the issue of his eldest Aunt Sister Margaret married to the Scotish King as foreiners and aliens bequeathing the Crown to his Cousen Jane Grand-daughter to the Dutchesse of Suffolk the youngest Sister of his Father King Henry the eighth Guilford Duke Dudleys Son was husband to this Lady Jane who upon the death of Edward was proclaimed Queen but Mary the eldest Daughter of King Henry by the assistance of the Norfolk and Suffolk Gentry recovered that which both by birth and her Fathers appointment was her undoubted though for a small time detained right Notwithstanding Mary by the Protestants aid attained the Crown yet her Education in the contrary profession and the memory that for her Mothers sake it suffered its first detriment obliged her to recall the Catholick Religion that had been banished in her Predecessors days keeping as one wittily observes the Kingdom by Pater noster which she had gained by Our Father which art in Heaven Her zeal and over-ardent desire to extinguish that which she thought Heresy kindled many fires in this land for which she hears ill among the vulgar to this day and bears the brand of tyranny though of her self she was of a mild and merciful disposition Among other passages her severity to her Sister Elizabeth is much taxed of whose sincere devotion though outwardly conformable to the Romish Church the Queen much doubted and fearing a relapse of things after her own death could have been content that her Sister Elizabeth though the youngest had had the Precedency therein But Philip King of Spain Queen Maryes husband had other thoughts of and intentions towards Elizabeth whom he preserved from her Sisters violence and designed for his second we would say third wife for he was a Widdower when he married Mary by whom he now begins to despair of issue and by reason of her Dropsy perceives she was in no wise immortal here Queen Elizabeth at her first entrance makes shew as if she would tread in her Sister Maryes steps whereby she so charmed the Catholick Clergy and Nobility that they created her no disturbance And she did further so temporize with King Philip that he was a great favourer of her admission hoping shortly to be a Copartner with her both in Bed and Kingdom But the fancy which Philip though no Babe had builded in his brain quickly appears to be but an aerial Castle for Elizabeth soon undeceives him and other Romanists who had promised themselves other matters by declining Marriage disowing the Popes Jurisdiction and reducing Ecclesiastical Affairs to the same state and condition her Father and Brother had left them in The aversenesse of this Queen to Matrimonial Bondage as she accounted it gave occasion to that great and by her alwayes disliked dispute about the Succession That it belonged of right to Mary Queen of Scots Daughter of James the fifth Son of Margaret eldest Daughter to King Henry the seventh none could reasonably deny but Mary say the State Politicians of those times will ptove another Mary and our Religion will be depressed if she be advanced to the English Throne Her own Subjects have expelled her upon that account and shall we accept of her for our Princesse whom we have so much disobliged by detaining so long a Prisoner For this unfortunate Queen having been educated in France did after the decease of her first Husband the Dolphin return into Scotland of whose fashions by reason of her forein breeding being somewhat ignorant she could not consequently but be guilty of some miscarriages which her Enemies so aggravate that they stir up the people to a sedition seize upon her Person force her to resign to her Son James by Henry Lord Darly Son of the Duke of Lenox not full eighteen Months old of whom Earl Murray her Bastard Brother is made Regent who was the beginning and continuer of all her troubles Mary late and by right still Queen of Scots after this extorted and therefore invalid resignation fearing further attempts against her life escapes out of the loathsom Gaol where she was secured and betakes her self into England for succour sending news to her Cozen Queen Elizabeth imploring not only present protection but also such convenient aides as might restore her to her Kingdom of which she had been forceably deprived by her Mutinous and Rebellious Subjects Elizabeth at first gives good words and sends her large attendance

affirm that our present King Charles the second in whose posterity we trust it will remain as long as the Sun and Moon endures deduces his pedegree in an indisputable line from all that ever did or could pretend a title or interest to the Crown which we think can hardly be verified of any Prince besides this day in the Christian world For proof whereof we appeal to such of our Chronicles only as are undoubted and beyond exception Passing by therefore the Catalogue of British Kings from Brute to Cassibeline not as altogether untrue but as very uncertain passing by those likewise we find mentioned during the Romans abode here whose custom it was to permit native Kings indeed in their Conquer'd Provinces but only as instruments of Tyranny and wholly depending on the authority of the Empire and its Prefects We shall take our rise from the Saxons rule and especially at that time when from a multiplyed Estate it grew towards an Union And yet we cannot omit one passage we find Recorded of Cadwallader last King of the Britains on this side Severn who at his death prophesied that his Race should recover the Dominion of this Isle again which was fulfilled in the dayes of King Henry the seventh and more compleatly of King James as will appear when the series and progresse of the Story doth bring us thereunto The Saxons as hath been already hinted made a sevenfold partition of the Land they had wrested from the Britains but the Kingdom of the West Saxons whose first stone was laid by Cerdic did so increase in superstructure that in the end it overtopped all the rest Ina the fifth descendent of Cerdic was the first advancer of it to this prehemenency but he dyed without issue and the due order of the succession was somewhat disturbed by the intrusion of four or five one after another of the Blood-Royal indeed but not in such a propinquity as was Egbert Nephew but once removed from Ina of whose right and promising forwardnesse Britric the last of the Usurpers had so quick a sense that he contrived the destruction of young Egbert Which to avoid he was enforced to retire unto the Court of Offa King of Mercia or Middle England but finding small security there in regard his Enemy had married Offas daughter he escapes thence into France whence after the Tyrants death he returns to the enjoyment of that Kingdome which had been so long and so unjustly detained from him This Prince which we the rather note because of the affinity he hath with the Condition of our Sovereign that now is had by an exiles experience attained such a measure of prudence and all other perfections that he much improved the West-Saxon Empire which was now well near arrived to its Meridian and heighth when it suffered a most terrible Ecclipse by the interposition of the Danes who made their first irruption in his predecessors dayes and though they were valiantly resisted and frequently repulsed by him and his Successors yet did they never after cease from afflicting one part or other till they had reduced the whole to their subjection in which posture they held it but a little while as hath before been intimated and shall be more amply shewed in its due and proper place Egbert being dead Aethewolph his Son of a Bishop became a Prince and though his Education and Profession had rendred him a greater Votary than Warriour yet did he give the Danes a most memorable overthrow He had four Sons who were all Kings in their turns but the glory of the rest was Alfred the youngest no lesse famous for Arts than Armes in the first his Son Edward surnamed the Elder is reported to have been inferiour but in the last did equal if not exceed his renowned Father This Edward often worsted but could not totally extirpate the Danes who rcruited with fresh supplies from their own Comntry made daily more and more encroachments upon the already-tired English Nation whose case at that time especialy required some strong prop or stay to sustain and keep up its declining and tottering estate And upon this account it was that Athelstane Edwards bastard Son being at full maturity and ripenesse was preferred before his legitimate one Edmond then in minority the reason also that some succeeding Princes were for some time laid aside but Edmond being now come to Age after his Brother Athelstanes death the noblenesse of whose life recompenced the blemish of his birth was admitted to his Fathers Throne which he did wisely and couragiously manage but was too soon deprived of it and his life together by a villanous Affassinate in his own house at a festival whilst he went about to rescue his Sewer from the violence of that barbarous hand The more than ordinary hopes conceived of this brave Prince being thus untimely nipped in the bud his no-lesse-deserving Brother Eldred was elected King notwithstanding Edmond had left two Sons behind whose tender years in those troublesome times were thought uncapable of so weighty an imployment But upon the death of Eldred the Scepter which is a thing to be taken notice of in precedent and subseqent ruptures of this nature reverted to the right Heirs viz. the Sons of Edmond And first to Edwin the eldest whose dissolute and degenerate courses made sudden room for Edgar the youngest who matched any of his Predecessors in worth and excelled them all in power for he quieted and kept under Danes Welsh Scots insomuch as he is accounted at least from the Saxons entrance the first absolute Monarch of this entire Island In a word he was happy in his life and Reign but most unhappy in his Issue for having two Sons Edward and Ethelred by several venters the Step-mother Elfred made Edward a Saint to make her own Son Etheldred a King and though now by this removal of his Brother whereunto possibly he might not be privy none had any nearer title to the Crown than himself yet did that innocent blood lye heavy upon him and his seed nor could it according to St. Dunstans predictions be expiated but by a long avengement In promoting of which divine justice the Danes were the principal instruments who had layn still under Edgar but taking advantage of Ethelreds unsettled condition who by reason of this fore-stalling the Crown was termed the unready forced him first to purchase an ill-kept peace and then to relinquish his ill-gotten Kingdom of which death only prevented Swayn his expeiler to take actual possession and accumulate this to the Danish Crown But Cnute the Son of Swayn perfected his Fathers design and afforded Ethelred now returned out of Normandy whither to avoid the storm he had betook himself so sharp an entertainment that oppressed with grief for his bad successe he quitted this and made another world his second place of refuge leaving his Son Edmond Inheritor of little else but the miseries of an unfortunate house Yet did Edmond for his valour and hardinesse

up in his room Lambert ful of indignation and ambition awaited but his first opportunity to pul downe this painted and Counterfeit Idol which opportunity soon offered it self in a Parliament of Richards calling where the Elections having been somewhat freer than formerly much more of the old English courage was to be discovered than in any of Olivers Juntos that is they would not suffer themselves to be over-ruled by the dictates of an Imperious Army whereat the Great Officers took much offence first Remonstrating against and then compelling Richard to dismiss that comparatively honourable Assembly But Richard's own Obsequies as to his mock-dignity immediately attended this their funeral Pile and the Relicts of the long and long forgotten Parliament were conjured out of the Grave whither Oliver had sent them packing to be as it were his Administrators whom all thought so surely dead and safely buried that there had been no danger of this no less unlooked for than unwelcome Resurrection This Skeleton or Carcase of a rotten Parliament did so stink in the nostrils of all people that there was a general inclination to be rid of it but the good intentions for that purpose were in most Counties blasted before they were ripe for execution onely in Cheshire as hath been hinted a competent Party embodied themselves against whom Lambert was sent with treble their force whose puny Conquest over a few forlorn Gentlemen disheartened through the disappointment of Friends in other places was termed by one of Lambert's Parasiticall Officers in his own presence A Crowning Mercy alluding to Cromwel's expression which he used in his letter to the Speaker after Worcester business This being passed over by Lambert with a kind of an assenting silence compared with antecedent and ensuing Actions did clearely evidence that he had the like aspiring project in his pate and that he accounted not the thousand pound bestowed on him to by him a jewel by his Masters in which capacity he was resolved they should not long abide a sufficient reward for the great paines he had taken in gaining this in it self little and abating the consequences inconsiderable victory But General Monck Commander in cheif of Scotland had far other and more generous Resolutions which found a success answerable to the prudence wherewithall they were managed for making it the Ground of his proceedings to restore the now a second time ejected Rump-Parliament and afterwards to complete their imperfect number by re-admitting the long ago secluded members he doth first by Independent assistance dissipate the Anabaptisticall and fanaticall Crew and then by Presbyterian concurrence overthrow the Independents themselvs dexteriously applying the several factions in their order to one anothers ruine till at last by an inverted Method as it were he reduces us to that most happy posture we were in before the begining of this causeless and unnaturall Rebellion And now this Hydra-Parliament which had been once before legally by the King's death and twice violently by tumultuous Souldiery is now at last finally dissolved by themselves a priviledge they had long before extorted though till now unwilling to make use thereof and a better chosen in their stead who at the time appointed notwithstanding Lamberts flash in the interval which proved but as lightning before death convened and according to their duty did forthwith proclaim their undoubted Sovereign and sent Commissioners to invite him home to the Exercise of his Regal Government which hath filled our mouths with laughter and our hearts with mirth and occasioned the composing of this little Treatise the Author having no other mite whereby he might testifie his particular contentment in the midst of so publick and universal rejoycing But the Reader is to be advertised that this unfortunate Embrio conceived between His Majesty's being voted and coming in laboured far longer under the Press than under the Pen and when with much a do it had been produced it was so deformed and mis-shapen that a resolution was once taken to have stifled it in the birth and never to have permitted such a disfigured brat to have seen the light but upon second thoughts it hath liberty to wander abroad not out of any follish fancy that it will finde acceptance but out of a consideration that it will be no greater cruelty to expose it to the wide world than to suffer it to perish in a private Study And yet to make some satisfaction for former errors and delay we shall now add what hath hitherto been wholly omitted or but superficially glanced at to wit His Majesty's extraction from the Scotish and what is chiefest from the Brittish Race that of the Saxon and Norman having been the principal if not sole subject of the precedent discourse The Scots according to their best Historians came originally out of Ireland about 300 years before the Incarnation of our blessed Saviour under the conduct of Fergus the first who was also King there which if so then hath our King lineally descended from that Fergus a better Title than that of bare modern Conquest even unto that Kingdome and possessed themselves of the North-western parts of Brittany And it is remarkable that notwithstanding a Custome begun in the very Infancy of their State and continued about a thousand years that if the Son which frequently happened were under age at the Fathers death the next of the blood-Royal should be not Guardian but King not only during the minority of the Orphan but even during his own natural life whereby these Tenants pur vie had too fair or rather too foul opportunities to change their manner of hold into fee-simple yet did the true Proprietor though for a while disseised still recover his patrimonial right as may be made evident out of Buchanan himself who was yet a greater friend to an Elective than Hereditary succession Kenneth the third and Malcolm the second were the first Alterers of this suspicious Custome Ordaining that from thence-forward Children should succeed their Parents immediately and have only Governors such as the Parents in their life time should appoint to oversee them and their Kingdome until they attained their maturity whence it came to pass that for the future interruptions were much rarer the regular course of Nature more duly observed and a greater restraint put into the Practisers of aspiring and ambitious kindred Nevertheless Machbeth Grandson to Malcolme the second though but by his youngest Daughter invaded the Sovereignty and having murthered the lawful King Donald related to the said Malcolm in an equal propinquity and that by the eldest Daughter Beatrice did for a while usurp but he was expelled and slain by Macduffe Thane or Earl of Fife and Malcolm the third Son of Donald installed in his Fathers Throne This is that Malcolm who as he found refuge in the English Court under the Protection of Edward the Confessor when he was forced to withdraw himself from Macbeth's persecution so did he afford the like succour in the Scotish to the