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A64190	The number and names of all the kings of England and Scotland, from the beginning of their governments to this present as also how long each of them reigned, how many of them came to untimely ends, either by imprisonments, banishments, famine, killing of themselves, poyson, drowning, beheading, falling from horses, slaine in battells, murthered, or otherwise / written by John Taylor ...	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1649 (1649)	Wing T492; ESTC R10068	10,674	34

mention their deaths it seemes they died naturally because so few Kings raigned so long in such cut-throat times as those were 3. The third Kingdome was the tumultuous it endured 561. yeers it had 17. Kings and contained the Counties of Cornewall Devonshire Somersetshire Wiltshire Hampshire and Berkshire 4. The East-Saxons they raigned only over Essex and Middlesex they continued under 14. Kings 281. yeeres 5. Northumberland had 23. Kings it consisted of 6. Shires and Counties namely Yorkeshire Durham Lancashire Westmerland Cumberland and Northumberland It was divided into 2. Kingdomes it lasted 379. yeers 6. The East Angles bounds were Suffolke Northfolke Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely under 15. Kings it continued 353. yeers 7. The seventh last and greatest was the Kingdome of the Mercians it had 20. Kings it continued 497. yeeres it contayned 17. Counties Northampton Leicester Darby Lincoln Huntingdon Nottingham Rutland Cheshire Staffordshire Oxfordshire Worcestershire Glocestershire Shropshire Bedfordshire Warwickshire Hartfordshire Buckinghamshire All this while I finde that the Welchmen held their owne for there is no mention that any of those wrangling petty Kings had possession of so much as one Village in Wales 95 Vortiporus raigned 4. yeeres an incestuous Prince with his Wives Daughter 96 Malgo raigned 5. yeers hee murthered his Wife and lived incestuously with his brothers Daughter 4. Learned men were sent from Rome hither to convert the Idolatrous Heathen Saxons from Paganisme to Christianity their names were Augustine Melltius John and Justus 97 Careticus raigned 3. yeers and being oppressed with the Saxons he fled for saie●y into Wales where he died 98 Cadwane raigned 22. yeers he tamed the Saxons of Northumberland 99 Cadwallin raigned 48. yeers a brave victorious Prince hee was buried in London at St. Martins Ludgate 100 Cadwallader raigned 3. yeers a valiant and vertuous King he was the last King of this Land called Britaine till his time for then it was and not till then named Anglia and the men English men Cadwallader went to Rome and died there 101 Athelstane was a valiant noble Prince hee raigned 15. yeers he brought this Land to be but one Kingdome againe after it had beene divided into 7. neere 600. yeeres he was Crowned at Kingstone and buried at Malmsbury Anno Dom. 940. 102 Edmund raigned 5. yeers he was son to Athelslane slaine and buried at Glastenbury 103 Eldred raigned 9. yeers the Da●es were entred heer and opprest the people and banished him he was buried at Winchester 104 Edwin raigned 5. yeeres was crowned at Kingstone he was deposed for being an incestuous ravisher of his own kinswoman murdring hir husband 105 Edgar raigned 16. yeers he was brother to Edwin by birth but not by nature Edgar was crowned at Bathe he was a vigilant a valiant and a pious Prince he had a navie of 3000. ships as some have written to scowre the Seas from Enemies and Pirats hee built and repayred of Churches and Religious Houses the number of 47. He took 8. petty Kings of Wales prisoners and they Rowed him in his Barge on the River Dee to his Parliament at Chester buried at Glastenbury 106 Edward raigned 3. yeeres crownd at Kingstone murdered by his mother in law and his unnaturall brother Etheldred buried at Shaftsbury 107 Etheldred raigned 38. yeers he caused all the Danes to be slaine or expeld out of England he was buried in St. Pauls London 108 Edmond sirnamed Ironside raigned 2. yeers Canutus King of Denmarke came with a mighty power of Danes to revenge their Nations being banished kild in the time of K. Etheldred but Edmond and Canutus cōbated singly with condition that the Surving Victor should have all the Kingdom The Royall Combatants fought gallantly till through many wounds much blou● lost they fell both downe in each others armes and embraced Then they agreed that the Kingdome should be divided into halfes between them and the longest liver take all which agreement they lovingly kept till a Traytor named Edricus murdered K. Edmond for the which the Danish K. Canutus put Edricus to death with most grievous exquisite torments 109 Canutus raigned 20. yeers buried at Winchester An. Dom. 1038. 110 Harold the first raigned 3. yeers 111 Hardicanutus raigned 3. yeers This King was given so much to excessive drinking that hee dranke himselfe to death at Lambeth in joyfull memory wherof the merry Hock Mondaies were kept ye●rly with dancing and friendly meeting of neighbours which some that have beene mistakingly thought wise have judged to be Popery 112 Edward called the Confessor raigned 23. yeers he freed this Land from Danish slavery having no heire gave his Kingdome by Will to his Kinsman William Duke of 113 Normandy but Harold● crownd himselfe King and in the ninth month of his raign Duke William came kild and unkingd King Harold Thus ended the Raignes of the Britaines Romanes Saxons and Da●s in this Land from the yeer of the Wo●lds Cre●●ion 2858. before the birth of Christ 1108. yeers which was 1150. yeeres then by Deed of Gift some write by Conquest William the first came hither after a bloudy battell neere Hastings in Sussex with the slaughter of 70000. men on both sides the Norman Duke was crowned an English King on Christmasse day following he had a troublous raigne 21. yeers 115 William 2 sirnamed R●fus raigned 13. yeers hee was slaine in Newforrest in stead of a Deere as he was hunting buried at Winchester 116 Henry the first raigned 35. yeeres in much vexation he was buried at Redding 117 Stephen raigned 19. yeeres in continuall trouble buried at Feversham 118 Henry 2. raigned 34. yeers in much unquietnesse One of his sonnes named Jeffrey was troden to death in a throng at Paris also his son Henry he caused to be crownd King in his own life time which afterward vext him much and to loade him with more afflictions his wife with his sonnes Richard and John raysed Armes against him he died in France buried at Fonteverard 1189. 119 Richard the first called Cor de Lion raigned 9. yeers slaine 120 John raigned 17. yeers some have written that he was poysoned by a Monke others write he surfeited with eating Peaches 121 Henry 3. raigned 56. yeers and after a long tedious and troublesome life had the miraculous fortune to die in his bed 122 Edward the first raigned 35. yeeres 123 Edward 2. raigned 19. yeers murdered at Barklay Castle 124 Edward 3. raigned 50. yeers was buried at Sheen● 1378. 125 Richard 2. raigned 22. yeers murdered at Pomfret Castle 126 Henry 4. raigned 14. yeers buried at Canterbury 127 Henry 5. raigned 9. yeers buried at Westminster 1422. 128 Henry 6. raigned 37. yeeres murthered in the Tower 129 Edward 4. raignd 22. yeers buried at Winsor 130 Edward 5. was never Crowned raigned o● murdered 131 Richard 3. raigned not 3. yeers slaine 132 Henry 7. raigned 23. yeers buried at Westminster 1509. 133 Henry 8. raignd 37. yeers buried at Winsor 134 Edward 6. raigned 7.

The Number and Names of all the Kings of ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND From the beginning of their Governments to this Present As also how long each of them Reigned how many of them came to untimely Ends either by Imprisonments Banishments Famine Killing of themselves Poyson Drowning Beheading falling from Horses Slaine in Battells Murthered or otherwise Written by John Taylor at the Signe of the Poets Head in Phoenix Alley neer the middle of Long Aker or Covent Garden LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1649. NOVERINT VNIVERSI BE it known unto all men c. History hath such sorce and vertue that it wil make a man a Traveller that never went 10. miles from home it will describe unto him Cities Countries Manners Lawes Customes Fashions Wars and Peace both at Sea and Land it will give him admittance to speake with his hat on to the greatest Emperours Princes and Poten●ates and all sorts of people and Nations that have inhabited the whole world all this true and well written Histories will furnish a man withall in his owne chamber And because great bookes are of great prices and our large Chronicles are of such high rates that all men cannot reach to I have at mine owne cost written and caused this Briefe to be Printed Many Writers do make doubts whether this Land had ever any King called Brute but the most Authours do affirme that when Troy was spoyled by the Greekes that Prince AEneas fled into Italy and there he was married to a daughter of Latinus King of Tuscany now the Dukedome of Florence by which Lady he had a son named Ascanius who was the Father of Silvius Posthumus and that Silvius was the Father of Brute Brute being but 15 years old unfortunately as he in a Forrest was hunting slew his Father Silvius with an arrow as he shot into a thicket thinking he hadshot at a Deere for which he was banished from that Countrey and shipping himself with a good or great number of his followers he landed here and was the first King of this Land This is the opinion of many grave Writers but divers learned men do oppose those Authors For my part I am sure that one King or other did reigne here when this Land was first a Kingdome and because it beares the ancient name of Brittain or Brutaine I do hold with su● Authours as for Brute do hold with me Anno Mundi 2858. Yeares before Christ 1108. 1 BRute raigned 24. yeeres to his 3. sonnes Locrinus Camber and Albanact hee gave to the first England to the second Wales to the third Scotland 2 Locrine raigned 20. yeers he beat the Hunns or Hungarians hence who would have invaded this land and their King was drowned in Humber 3 Queene Guendoline wife of Locrine raigned 15 yeers beloved and honored for her just and vertuous government 4 Madan raigned 40. yeeres was eaten by Wolves as he was hunting● he was fierce and tyrannous he built Doncaster 5 Mempricius the son of Madan raigned 20. yeers and at last like his father was devoured by Wolves 6 Ebrank built Yorke and reigned 21 yeeres he had by 21. wives and other females 20. sonnes and 30. daughters he lived in the times of K. David and K. Solomon 7 Brute 2. raigned 12. yeers buried at York 8 Leile raigned 25. yeers built Carlile and some say Chester 9 Rudhudibras raigned 29. yeers built Canterbury Winchester and Shaftsbury 10 Bladud raigned 20. yeers built Bathe brake his neck in practising to flie 11 Leire raigned 40. yeers he built Leicester before Christs birth 830 yeers 12 Cordelia the Daughter of Leire raigned 5. yeers kild her selfe in prison 13 Morgan and Cunedague were brothers and grandchildren to Leire they ruled together but Cunedague slew Morgan at Glamorgan in Wales and raigned 33. yeers 14 Rivallo raigned 46. yeers it rained bloud 3. dayes in his time Rome was built out of the putrefaction of the bloud that fell it bred swarms of hornets and horseflies that stung many folks to death insomuch that with famine and other calamities there died so many that they which lived were not enough to bury the dead 15 Gurgustus raigned 38. yeers a most vicious Drunkard and his Brother 16 Sicilius raigned 49. of both which our Histories make no good mention 17 Iago raigned 25. yeers a wicked Prince he died of a sleepy Le●hargy 18 Kimmarus raigned 54. yeers 19 Gorbo●ug raigned 63. yeers as some write and some write but 42. let the Reader beleeve as he pleaseth 20 Ferex and Porex were brethren they were the last Princes of the Race of Brute Porex killed Ferex to revenge which their mother kild Porex by which meanes this Land was without a King and at division many yeares and shared into 5. petty kingdomes Some say Ferex and Porex raigned 50. yeers and others write but 5. 21 M●lmutius Donwallo raigned 40. yeers hee was the sonne of a Cornish Duke named Clotton he brought this Land againe into one Monarchy and was the first King that wore a Crowne of Gold 22 Belinus and Brennus were brethren and shared this Land betweene them but disagreeing Brennus was forced from hence into France from whence hee went and wan Italy ransackt Rome and at a siege of Delphos in Greece he slew himselfe Belinus raigned 26. yeers he builded the Port called Belingsgate 23 Gurguintus raigned 19. yeeres hee overcame the Danes hee sent many scattered and distressed Spaniards to inhabite Ireland 24 Guinthelinus raigned 26. yeeres hee built Warwicke 25 Cecilius raigned 7. yeers and was buried at Caerleon in Wales 26 Kimarus raigned 3. yeers a wicked King kild by a wild Beast in hunting 27 Elanius raigned 9. yeers histories make little mention of him 28 Morindus raigned 8. yeers he fought with a ravenous Sea-monster which had devoured many people who also devoured the King but hee killed the Monster afterward for he was found dead with his dagger in his hand in the belly of his devourer 29 Gorbomanus raigned 11. yeers a good King built Cambridge and Gra●ham 30 Archigalo ●lidurus Vigenius and Peredurus 31 were crowned and deposed again and with 32 shusfling fortunes these 4. Kings raigned 28. yeers From the time of Elidurus to King Lud there reigned in this Land 33. Kings of whom Historians doe make very various or little mention I will therefore but only name them Gorbonian raigned 10. yeers Morgan 14. Emerianus 7 deposed Ival 20. Rimo 16. Geruncius 20. Catillus 10. hee caused all oppressors of the poore to be hanged But since that time they have increased much Coylus raigned 20. yeers Ferex 5. Chirimu 1 he kild himselfe with excessive drinking Fulgon raigned 2. yeers Eldred 1. Androgius 1. Eliud 5. Dodamius 5. Gurginius 3. Merianus 2. Blodunus 2. Capenus 3. Quinus 2. Sillius 2. Bledgabredus 10. Rodianus 2. Archemalus 2. Eldalus 2. Redargius 3. Samullius 2. Penisellus 3. Pirhus 2. Caporus 2. Dinellus 4. Helius or Elius 1. From this King the I le of Ely had its