that is digged vp in earnest Yet neyther seuen Polydores more nor ten Buchanans shall perswade me that this Genealogy is a fabulous Tale. Let Polydore get him to Vrbin in Italy and Buchanan hye him to Buchany in Scotland it becommeth not these outlandish intruders to vsurpe the censure of the Brutan Histories if they looke well about them they haue enough to doe at home we neede none of their gossiping cups but they are dead and their historicall iudgementes are interred with them if any man will raise them from the graue who will beleeue their mortified Ghosts A Brutan may iustly except against the witnesse of an Italian or a Scot Ielousie and malignity are two blinde guids Then hold your owne ye braue Brutans and guide your selues your owne heades are fittest for your owne bodies THE ARTES AND ACTES OF Brute and his Brutans were in their Vertues and Vices Their vertue and Temperance appeared in Friendship and communion Betweene man wife in marriage Locrine married Guendolin Leyr married his two eldest daughters with two Dukes Cordeil was married to Aganip Duke of the Gaules for her womanly vertues and vertuous womanhoode Talke and conference Betweene superiour and inferiour the ruler and the subiect Guendolin after her husbandes death liued contentedly and louingly with her kindred and acquaintance in Cornewall till shee dyed Brute the second carried euer a greene shield with him to signifie what a minde he did carry withall euen a mind and desire to haue all thinges grow and florish like the fruitfull fieldes vnto a ioyful haruest whereupon hee was named Greeneshield a Prince gentle toward all men and merciful to the needie Leyl liued peaceably in his young dayes Hurdibras allayed the factions and quarrels that hee found among his people and of vnquiet men made them very quiet Leyr liued moderately with his subiectes Cordeil behaued her selfe so louingly and paciently that she would not punish the two sonnes of Maglan and Hennine for their fathers she thought it no reason to plaister one bodie for an other bodies sores to beate one for anothers fault Riual liued quietly Gurgustus kept his countrey in rest and wealthy peace by some learned counsell Betweene the father and the childe Cordeil being euer modestly and maydenly shamefaced either would not or could not flatter her father Leyr with needlesse phrases and vain othes but answered him mildly and simply without ostentation or deceite that she loued him as her naturall father with an obedient euer and thankfull hearth vnfainedly Betweene two coosins When Conedag was informed by his olde trustie friendes and tolde from his mortall ennemies that Morgan began roundly to make open warre agaynst him he himselfe desired peace by letters and sought it with all good meanes otherwise by Embassadours he was so vnwilling to shed bloud if he might chuse or euen to carry armour against his kinsman THIS WAS THEIR TEMPERANCE in Deedes and Wordes Their vice and Intemperance appeared in Wordes First Gonoril told Leyr she loued him more then her owne soule then Ragan sayd she loued him vnspeakably Leuity When Locrin saw Elstrid he would haue reiected Guendolin Memprise liued loosely and spent most of his time in pastime and licentious games Drinke Gurgust by some naturall infirmitie of braine was dronken once a day this dronkennesse neither shortened his life nor hindered his actions as it seemeth by the yeares of his gouernement and life Discord Madian was subiect to much impatience and tyrannie Memprise procured the death of those great men whom hee feared for their vertue and therefore hated for his owne guiltie life Venery Locrine kept Elstrid his captiue for his Concubine and accompanied her a long time too long by sixe yeares and twelue monethes Memprise solde himselfe to adultery he gaue his body to buggery and beastly loue which was loue sauing your reuerence Ebrank had twentie wiues some saye but I think nineteene of them were huswifes as we commonly saye and she his wife onely that married him and knew him first A right line is betweene two to go aside is to go amisse Their vertue or wisdome is seene in Discipline or desire of knowledge Madian though he were borne a mortall Prince or earthly God was in his childhood sent into Cornewall to his most valiant grandsir Corin that he might learne of him all experienced manhood fit for a soueraigne Ruler Bladud in his young yeares was sent otherwise and carried ouer seas to Athenes that hee might forsooth be taught the wisedome of the Grecians this Athenian English Prince at his returne brought home with him no lesse then foure great Philosophers to teach the Brutans and either found or founded Schooles for them at Stamford or Stanefoda after the smoothest and Atticall Idiome Artes both Geometry and Astrology Brute presently vpon his Arriuall searched this Iland optically and throughly he and his surueyed it quantitatiuely and queintly to the purpose Hurdibras taking in his head and hand to build the cittie or woodworke stone-worke of Caerpalladour called for the iudiciall aduise deuise of Aquila his Astrologer in laying the foundations of that starry and elementary Citty that the worlde might better esteeme it Philosophy both naturall and morall the foure wisemen of Athens that taught some of the Brutans euen as Bladud the king appointed them had many times for their variable and strange voices a wonderfull great audience and those wisemens schollers succeeded them and continued orderly about the times of fourteene hundred yeares after with great glorie but but how good I knowe not Bladud found the hote Bathes in this Iland by his Geomanticall and Hydromanticall skill and subtiltie Brute the first made many good politicke laws for the benefit direction of himselfe and his subiectes Guendolin ministred true iudgement to the people well and wisely at last fearing by reason or inspiration that the king Madian her sonne would scarsely vse her Honourably as the son should vse his mother went her way and dwelt far enough ought of sight in Cornewall among them that were glad euer of her daily company Ebranke for his sonnes sake and his owne sent his thirtie daughters to Siluius an Italian Duke that they might be married with their owne bloud the old Troian bloud and thereby get their father many friendes or welwillers abroad to strengthen him in his neede if nede were Wordes of counsell Cordeil tolde her father in a melancholicke vaine That as his riches were more or lesse so he should be loued and feared more and lesse This was their Prudence in teaching and learning Their vice or folly is seene in Deceite by bulding Locrine for want of better conueiance built a caue for his Concubine and made some few men of his priuy Counsell but tolde other men that it was a secret place for praier and sacrifice in the maner of his owne outlandish religion when he heard and knew of Corins death he crowned Elstrid queene and reiected Guendolin whom he seemed to
Punishing Gurgust was abhorred of the Brutans for his daily dronkennesse but suffered to be king for his birthrightes sake Madian and Memprise were hated of good men and feared of wicked men for theyr extreame and beastly crueltie so betweene both they were secretly forsaken in time of hunting and the wild beastes suffered to destroy them Here we may very fitly consider how the Power from heauen punished the people of Brutanie with raining bloud three dayes and vexing them with infinite swarms of venimous strange flies that stung their king Riual and many other to death See what life is that flies may take away euen litle flies with their little stings This was their Iustice in Religion and Pollicy Their vice or Iniustice is proued in Diuiding Locrin crowned Elstrid his concubine queene when Guendolin his true wife liued Ebranke dedicated the Temple of his Cittie to a liuing name and dead carcasse Diana that coulde not defend it or him Leyr gaue halfe his goodes to his two eldest daughters at their marriage and made them mightier then himselfe for speaking to him fairely or paintedly but he gaue nothing with Cordeil to her dowry because she told him an open truth without anie forgerie Rewarding Leyr at his death gaue his halfe kingdome to Cordeyl for defending him in trouble the people made her queene by common consent and thereby hindered the right of her two Nephewes the very next apparant heires THE CHRONOLOGY OF Brutes offspring BRute the first began to rule in the yeare of the world 2855. and ruled 24. yeares about the time of Samuell the mightie Prophet in Israel Locrin began in the yeare 2879. and rule 20. yeares in which time hee kept Elstrid seuen yeares about the time of Saul the first king of Israel Guendolin began in the yeare 2899. and ruled 15. yeares about the time of Dauid the kingly Prophet in Israel Madian beganne in the yeare 2914. and ruled 40. yeares about the time of faire Absolons fame in Israel Memprise began in the yeare 2954. and ruled 20. yeares about the time of Salomons magnificent buildings in Israel Ebranke began in the yeare 2974. and ruled 60. yeares in the 23. yeare of his raigne he built Caerbrank about this time the fierie Prophet Elias of Israel began to teach Brute the second began in the yeare 3034. and ruled 12. yeares about this time Baals Prophets were slain at the brooke Kison by the commaundement of Elias the Prophet of God Leyl beganne in the yeare 3046. and raigned 25. yeares about this time Eliseus the great Prophet beganne to worke wonders in Israel Hurdibras began in the yeare 3071. and raigned 30. yeares now Lycurgus the Lacedemonian law-maker florished Bladud began in the yeare 3101. and raigned 21. yeares now Hesiodus the Poet was famous now Homer liued Leyr beganne in the yeare 3122. and raigned 40. yeares now Sardanapalus the last king of Assiria was in his pride and sensualitie Cordeyl began in the yeare 3162. and ruled 5. yeares nowe Esaias the Prophet began to prophesie among the Iewes Conedag began in the yeare 3167. and raigned 33. yeares now Romulus and Remus were borne now the Olimpiades began Riuall began in the yeare 3200. and raigned 46. yeares now Roome was builded now Sennacheribs army was destroied by an Angel of God in one night Gurgust began in the yeare 3246. and raigned 38. yeares now Gyges got the kingdom of Lydia and Numa of Roome heereaboutes Herodotus beginneth his histories which containe 230. yeares Sisill beganne in the yeare 3284. and raigned 49. yeares nowe Tullus ruled in Roome and Ieremias the Prophet began to prophesie Iago began in the yeare 3333. and raigned 25. years now Ancus Martius ruled in Roome and Nabuchodonosor in Babilon Kymar began in the yeare 3358. and raigned 54. yeares now Daniel and Ezechiel the Prophets began to prophesie nowe the seuen wisemen of Greece were famous Gorbodug began in the yeare 3412. and raigned 64. yeares now Tarquinius was expelled out of Roome now Pythagoras liued now Cyrus the great was in his glorie Ferrex and Porrex beganne in the yeare 3475. and raigned 5. yeares now Xerxes beganne his Greeke wars now Anaxagoras the Teacher of Pericles Socrates and Thucydides was famous and somwhat singular Thus Brute and his offspring seeme to ende in the yeare of the world 3480. and to haue continued in the Gouernment of Brutanie 735. yeares There is a time of life and a time of death a time to arise and a time to fall a time for one stock and a time for another Yet infinite be that time which is predestinated for the name of Brute and his Brutans euerlasting be that honor which is due to the branches of such a Tree as groweth without withering is strong without decay and may best serue euen for the Phenix of all men and Vna of all the women in the earth The Topography set downe in the Historie of Brutes generation The places mentioned in this Iland are vniuersall More Locry the south part of Brutanie Cambry the west part Albany the north part so named of Locrin Camber and Albanact the sonnes of Brute All the kings that succeeded Locrin raigned in Locry and Conedag ruled it as his heritage Morgan fled into Cambry from Conedags armie he was ruler in Albany which was assigned him for his portion One of Leyrs sonnes in law was Duke of Albany Lesse Cornewall so called of Corin is in the boundes of Locry there Guendolin wrought her chiefe practises there Madian was brought vp one of Leyrs sonnes in law was Duke thereof Glamorgan is in the limits of Cambry there Morgan was slaine and his Armie ouerthrowne of whom that part had the name Other places ar lesse particular In the water Brute built Troynew by the Riuer Tems Locry and Albany are deuided by the riuer Humber where Locrin vanquished the Duke of the Albans called Humber of whome that riuer had the name Cambry is parted from Locry by the riuer Seuerne called otherwise Habren in which Elstrid and her daughter Habren were drowned by Guendolins commandement and of that daughter the Riuer had the name In the land Brute landed at Totnes Hauen Troynew built by Brute heere Locrin made Elstrids caue heere Bladud Conedag and Gorbodug were buried Caerkent the Cittie of Kent or Canterbury Caerwin or Winchester Caerpalladour or Shaftsbury built by Hurdibras Caerbadon or the Citty Bathe and Stamford built by Bladud Caerleyr or the Cittie of Leyr or Leecester built by Leyr There hee was buried there Cordeyl was buried These are in Locry Caerbranke or the cittie of Ebrank or Yorke and Edenbrough or the cittie of Maides built by Ebranke Caerleyl the cittie of Leyl these are in Albany Places more particular are Temples and religious houses Ebranke built a Temple in Caerbranke and there he was buried there was Riuall buried there Iago was buried Leil built a Temple in Caerleyl and there was he buried Hurdibras built three Temples in his three Citties
in wedlocke with the Pictes whom they knew to be barbarous Scythians by discent of bodies and consent of mindes and very vnfaithfull Their vice or intemperance is in Rashnesse Hirelda and Eueline two knightes in gaming fell to wrastling and in heate fell to wordes and in anger fell to blowes in rage fell to wounds and Hirelda was slaine in the tumult that arose by these meanes A gaming not so profitable as the death of a good knight is hurtfull in a realme Disobedience Eueline being sent for by the Protector Cassiuelan and the Councell departed from the Court with Androgy his kinsman and tooke no leaue of them Will is it selfe witlesse a stomacke without a heart maketh a man a swine Reuenge Aruirage vsed such meanes that he got Hammon the Romane who siue his brother Guinder guilefully and when he had him in his handes he caused him to be cut in peeces and threw him peece by peece into the Sea at South-hampton satisfying herein his insaciable anger for his brothers death and supposing vainly and madly that he killed Hamon so many times as he had peeces of him Their vertue or fortitude is in Glorious desire Hely called the Ile of Ely after hys name that he might be famous for euer Marius set vp a Colosse in remembrance of the victory he had of the Picts with Marij Victoria grauen in it a warly Register Magnificence Lud repaired olde Temples and Cities and built new He made walles about Troynew and called the West gate Ludgate in honour of hys owne name and then dwelt most there because he had built most there Aruirage road about the realme to renew the decayed Cities which the Romans defaced he built a Castle at Douer to strengthen that part of the Land against forraigne Powers Wordes When the Romanes thought to terrifie the Brutans by their letters these sent them word that as they must so they would defend their Countrey from all forces Aruirage being for his Noblenesse made the Emperours sonne in law and wishing to haue a memoriall of Claudius his queenes and wiues owne father called the Cittie where he married Claudiocestria or Glocester the rather to be free frō tribute in respect of his wife though he were free of himselfe by his vertue Victories Cassiuelan made the Romans flie to their ships at their first battell and at the second beware the third Desertes Cymbelin in his youth led so manly a life in Roome that the Emperour Augustus made him a knight there in his order of knightes Exercise Hirelda and Eueline two braue knightes wrastled openly at the Feast which was made after the victories against the Romanes Warre Guinder denied to pay tribute to the Romans chose rather to sight with them then yeald otherwise Aruirage did the like and when they came against him he made them flie from the southeast part of this Iland to the southwest there he draue them from Excester and Totnes within seuen daies made all well Marius staied the fire and sword of the Picts in Albany and slew their armies Deuise Aruirage seeing his brother Guinder dead took on him presently his armour and Princely cognisāce that the Brutans might not suspect their kings death and be discomforted then hee continued the battel so stedfastly and heartily that the Brutans were stirred vp to fight valiantly by his liuely example till they ouerthrew the Romans Their vice or extreme fortitude is in Bold rashnesse Stenny Cassiuelans brother in the wars against the Romans canne to I. Caesar and puld hys sword out of his hand and slew Labienus a tribune of the Romans therewith and was slaine Obscure glory When Stenny was dead he was buried at Caerlud and the sword which he puld from Caesar with his deaths wound was buried with him that it might be a remembrance of one venturous action euen in a hole Abasement Cassiuelan was tributary to Roome nine yeares Tenancy was too deligent in paying tribute to Rome euen 3000. pounds in gold Cimbelin hauing choice to pay or not to pay tribute forgat the slauery of the act and payd it Aruirage was perswaded by his wife to pay tribute when he had resisted the Romanes valiantly He should haue sent such a wife for the tribute vnto Roome from whence she came and kept the mony in his cofers for warres Coil saw in his poreblinde eyes that it was best to yeald to Roome and agreed to pay tribute Androgy departed to Roome with Caesar a mad and fickle courage THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS CApor began his raigne in the yeare of the world 3894. and raigned two yeares now Mithridates raised warres in Asia and Lucullus was sent against him Dinel began in the yeare 3894. and rule 4. yeares in this time Verres spoiled Sicilia three yeares together now Vergill the Poet was borne Hely beganne 3898. and raigned one yeare in this time Hortentius the Oratour flourished in Roome Lud began 3899. and rule 11. yeares in this time the Poet Horace was borne the conspiracie of Catiline was detected Ierusalem was taken of Pompey Caesar entered the wars in Gallia Cassiuelan began 3910. and rule 19. yeares in this time M. Crassus spoyled the Temple of Ierusalem the ciuill wars began betweene Caesar and Pompey Caesar corrected the Roman yeare Ouid the Poet was borne Tenancy began 3929. and raigned 23. yeares in this time Mecaenas liued the patrone of Horace Vergill and other learned men and gouerned Roome and Italy in the absence of Caesar Augustus so named for that reuerence was giuen him in a diuine maner now Vergill dyed Cymbelin began 3952. and raigned 35. yeares now Horace died the Angel Gabriel was sent to Zachary and Mary Christ was borne the 13. yeare of his raigne Onid and Liuy dyed Guinder began 3987. and ruled 28. yeares nowe Iohn-baptist preached and was slaine Christ taught the Iewes Paul was conuerted Iames was slaine Seneca was made Neroes teacher Aruirage began 4015. and ruled 30. yeares in this time Paul did most of his Actes Iames the lesse was stoned 70000. Romanes were slaine of the Brutans Paul was beheaded Peter crucified Seneca and Lucan bled to death Marius began 4045. and raigned 52. yeares in this time Iohn euangelist writ his Reuelation Plutark and Tacitus liued Timothy was stoned Dyonisius slaine with the sword Coil began 4097. and raigned 54. yeares now Ptolony and Galen liued the Christians by their praier got a strange victory of the Marcomanni and obtained a mighty great raigne from heauen now Lent was appointed by Telesphorus Lucy began 4151. and ruled 12. yeares in this time the Gospel was first preached in Brutany by Fugacius and Damianus Commodus would be called Hercules and Deus but was strangled of his owne man in Vestilians house So this Generation of Capor and the 11. Caporites ended in the yeare of the world 4163. and seeme to haue endured the times of 274. yeares in the kingdome of Brutanie THE PLACES IN THIS HISTORY The places are
if he had not his kingdome of him againe He spoyled the Temple of Macedonia in despite of all gouernment Pusillanimitie Elidure was content to bee taken and prisoned rather then giue any cause of bloudshed among his people by meanes of warre Their Vertue or Prudence is set forth in Writinges Mulmucy made many positiue lawes in his natiue language and caused them to be published that all men might read them for their direction and better aduisement Marcia a queene made many statutes to teach the subiects aright and easie way of morall life Right in respect of the crooked way and easie in respect of the loose and carelesse way which breedeth sorrowes Doinges Mulmucie fauoured all learned men of all kindes being minded to vse euery one in his mistery Belin fortified the late kingdome of his brother and now his owne kingdome with his owne souldiers and put out all Brens men for his sake and his owne safetie hee allowed his fathers lawes for his time lesse any man should obiectiuely quarrell with him Archigall seeing by dayly experience the dayly miseries of a wicked and inconsiderate life learned a new lesson and led his life orderly euer after Bren knowing his owne bodily beautie applied himselfe to that vaine and got goodwill by marrying great women in forraine Landes when he could not stay at home Belin was more carefull of his owne land then for outlandish goodes and returned from Gallia to Brutanie where his greatest charge was Their vice or folly is in Conceite or opinion Mulmucy dedicated a Temple to Apollo as if the dead man were wise and mightie Ignoraunce Elane ruled fondly and vnrulily Presumption Morind fought with a Sea monster and made no man of his counsell herein Improuidence Kymar was slaine by his enemies in time of hunting where they tooke him alone at a dead vantage The best Remedie against Follies Wichery is a tryall of all causes which belong to any effect Hee that can follow this Rule infallibly cannot be foyled in his Actions Their Vertue or Tēperance is known by Liberalitie Mulmucy accounting the Cittie and the Countrey two pillars of his kingdome priuiledged the waies which went to Citties and which were for plowes that the Cittizens and husbandmen of the land might be loued the more and better vsed for their immunities among themselues and with souldiers Bren gaue much treasure to his Noble Lordes in little Brutanie to winne their goodwill and wage battell with their helpe against Belin. A man alone is but halfe himselfe Marriage Bren married the Duke Elfinges daughter in Norway he married the dukes onely daughter of little Brutany and thereby was mightie in both places for fauour and power but I cannot tell certainly what became of his first wife he was an od man of wit and practise Concord Conwen the mother of Belin and Bren ioyned her two sonnes in one yea euen them two which was somewhat strange but what may not wordes do if they be well tempered and seasoned with true modestie when they were readie with their armies to ioyne in battell insomuch that straitwaies they ruled their former rages and went brotherly together against the common enemy Gurguint liued peaceably so did Guintelin so did Sisill the second so did Kymar the second so did Gorboman the second A sober heart maketh peace a drunken head strife Mercie Gurguint meeting with a Nauy of 30. strange shippes in the Scottish Seas and seeing plainly their extreame neede and hearing withall their pittifull Supplication gaue them his goodwill to dwell in Ireland and assured them of his good fauour so long as they liued well and neighbourly Elidure for his notable mildnesse and mercifull nature was named Meeke he heartily lamented his brother Archigals poore and wretched estate therefore he fayned himselfe sicke that by these meanes all his Noblemen and Lordes might come and visite him and at their being with him hee sued to them as it had been for his life That he might resigne his kingdom vnto Archigall Their Vice or Intemperance is known by Anger Morind was outragious alwaies and intollerable in his heate Maleuolence Archigall gaue himselfe to breede quarrels chiefly against his Noblemen and Rich-men Incontinency Bren being wounded to death in a tempest sent from the cloudes slew himselfe in a desperate rage Who can saue him whom God hateth It was wonderous that the Heauens should fight for Apollo I may thinke the Sprite of the Ayre was suffered to play this part to vpholde Apollonisme THE CHRONOLOGY OF Clotos offspring AFter the yeare of the worldes Creation 3480. there was ciuill Warre continually in this Iland for the space of 50. yeares in which time vainglorious Xerxes was weakened of the Greekes both by Sea and Land then the 12. Tables of Lawes were brought to Roome then Euripides was born then Esdras began to restore the Temple at Ierusalem Mulmucy began in the yeare 3530. and raigned 40. yeares in which time Bellum Peloponnesiacum began and ended then Socrates died violently by poyson malice Belin began in the yeare 3570. raigned 26. yeares in the first fiue yeares he and his brother Bren liued quietly together in this time Roome was taken of the Gauls now Aristotle was borne may the world be glad thereof Gurguint began in the yeare 3596. and raigned 19. yeares in this time Xenophons greeke History is ended now Alexander the great is borne to begin a peece of a new world Guintelin beganne 3615. and ruled 26. yeares in which time Plato dyed the more the pitie then Isocrates and Demosthenes plaied their partes with Philip then the Greeke Monarchy began to go on foote hereabout Buchanan begins his Scottish kinges 330. yeares before Christes Natiuitie Sisill began 3641. and ruled 7. yeares in this time Alexanders kingdoms were deuided betweene his worthies Kymar the second began 3648. and ruled 3. yeares in this time Cassander restoreth the Cittie Thebes the 20. yeare after Alexander destroyed it Elane began 3651. and raigned 9. yeares in this time Seleucus beganne his raigne in Syria and Demetrius deliuered Athens from the Macedonian yoke Morind began 3660. and raigned 8. yeares in this time Flauius a Secretary published the Ciuill Lawe which the high Priest onely knew aforetime Gorboman began 3668. and raigned 11. yeares in which time Decius the sonne deuoted himself to death for his Country Rome in the wars of the Samnites Archigall began 3679. and ruled 5. yeares in this time the Consul T. Coruncanus began first to professe the Ciuill Law now Pirrhus the Epyrote made warre with the Romans Elidure began 3684. and ruled 5. yeares in this time Ptolomeus Philadelphus entertained many learned and wise men Archigal began again 3689. and ruled 10. yeares Elidure began againe 3699. and ruled 2. yeares Vigeny and Peredure began 3701. and ruled 9. years in this time the 70. translated the Bible into greeke in this time the first Punick war beganne now Phalereus the Rhetorician now Theocritus the Poet now Euclides
the hauen where the Saxons vsed to land in a sepulchre of brasse spire like to put them in feare with the remembrance of him and his acts eyther neglected his will or forgat it O vniust men that take such a farewell of their friends Vter died by force of poyson at Verulam in Hertfordshire neere S. Albons Constantine and Constance the father and his sonne were not buried after the maner of Princes I haue not that peculiar regard of places nowe which I had before partly by reason of forenamed causes and partly in that they are sufficiently set foorth in these morall tables I desire heerein and euer a quiet iudgement and then I doubt not of any censurer but he will speake fairely Yet I must leaue euery man to himselfe to doe as he is caused in his deliberatiue and considerate insight If I omit some histories of Saxons I do but my duetie what haue I to do with them vnlesse it were to make them tributary to Brutans otherwise let their owne men commend them if they wil I owe them no seruice by writing or speaking Yet I haue named some of the Saxons though I doe it more for their sakes with whome they dwelt then for any merite of their owne Let them lye in dead forgetfulnesse like stones that haue desired or doe desire the trouble of Brutanie let their names be cleane put out and not come among the righteous When men play the parts of beasts let them go among the numbers of cattell in Zoography and keepe their fit place An ape must not come among Churchmen Serpentes must not dwell in chambers of Counsell make bates are not in case to cōuerse in the dwellings of peaceable Lords who can abide to haue a deformed mocker with hys distorted mouthes a venimous hisser with his noysom breath a rayling stage player with his trifling actions for his companion Arise ye sonnes of Ebranke and yee kinsmen of true auncient Brutans and make those stone-hearted creatures know that they are made to be your seruants and drudges let not any double forked toong perswade you that Brutanie is vnder any part of the earth THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS BEtweene the death of Gracian and the raigne of Constantine the second were about 36. yeares passed ouer in Brutanie without a Ruler In this time Theodosius was excommunicated by Ambrose for murder Ierome and Austin and Gouldmouth flourished Claudian the Poet was famous Siricius Bishop of Roome forbad Priests to marry Constantine the second began to raigne in the yeare of the world 4407. and raigned ten yeares in this time the Goths and Hunnes inuaded Italy and possessed it the Vandals entred into Spaine and spoiled it the first Councell was set against Pelagius the heretick a Brutan Constancy began in the yeare 4417. ruled 5. yeares In this time Ierome died S. Alban was martired at Moguntia Saluian the teacher of Bishops flourished in Massilia Burgundians were conuerted to christian religion Vortiger began to rule 4422. and ruled 16. yeares Then Vortimer beganne 4438. and ruled 7. yeares In this time Austin died Cyrill S. Patricke and Cassian flourished Theodosius founded a generall Schoole at Bononia Attila with 500000. souldiers spoyled the Romans horribly and all partes where he went Clodoue the first famous king of Fraunce liued Vortiger began to rule again 4445. ruled 9. years Aurely began 4454. and raigned 19. yeares in this time Genserick with the Vandals subdued Roome the Venetians began to dwell in their Ilands where they dwell now Mamertus a Bishop inuented Letanies Hilary of Roome adorned Churches with gold siluer Vter began 4473. and ruled 16. yeares in this time Honorick the son of Genserick banished 334. Bishops and Priestes out of Africke and slew many thousand christians but at last he was eaten vp of wormes Fulgentius the Bishop of Hispalis flourished Theodoricke the king of Gothes did many noble and vertuous acts in Italy and builded decayed places Arthur began 4489. and raigned 26. yeares in which time S. Patricke dyed in Scotland being 62. yeares old Theodorick would not suffer the Romans to practise any feates of war or to haue any weapons for feare they should rebell Cassiodore of a Senatour became a Moonke Constantine the third began 4515. and ruled 3. years at this time Gildas the Brutan liued surnamed Sapiens Boethius the Christian Philosopher liued and was martired Conan beganne 4518. and raigned 3. yeares in this time Symmachus the Roman prelate tooke vpon him to be supreme ruler and iudge of all Councels in Christendome Vortipory beganne 4521. and ruled 4. yeares now Clodoue the French king vowed christianisme and was baptised Olympius an Arrian for blaspheming the Trinitie was slame with lightning from heauen Malgo began 4525. and raigned 35. yeares now Iustinus the Emperour was first crowned by the Roman Bishop Iustinianus made the Codex of the ciuill law Tribonianus disposed the Digests of the same law S. Benedict and his sister Scholastica wrought woonders Priscian liued Carency began 4560. and ruled 3. yeares but after his death the Brutans had no king for 24. yeares space till Cadwan was made king now Totilas the tyrant of the Gothes raged in Italy and Narses sent from the Emperour slew him the nation of the Hunnes was almost vtterly extinguished in Greece by the Emperor Armenij receiued Christian faith Cadwan began 4587. and raigned 22. yeares in this time S. Brigit the Scot was famous Gregory of Roome called himselfe Seruaunt of Seruauntes the Latine toong was not vsed in Roome because all men conuersed there Cadwallin began 4609. and ruled 48. yeares now Heraclius slew Phocas and got the Empire and married his sisters daughter the Arabians receiued the law of Mahomet and were called Saracens Isidore Bishop of Hispalis liued Sabinianus Bishop of Roome appointed bels to distinguish the times of the day Honorius spoiled the Temple of Romulus to build the Temple of Saint Peter Cadwallader began 4657. and ruled 12. yeares in this time the Saracens got great part of Africk Martin of Roome constituted that his Clergy should vowe chastitie or loose their liuings Thus these kinges raigned 238 yeares I omit the interraignes before Constantine the second and Cadwan one was 36. yeares the other 24. yeares THREE SVPPOSES OF A STVdent concerning Historie The first Suppose A Nobleman or Captaine of men despiseth common matters in his own person he desireth to find in himselfe the commendable singularities of singular men in all ages he would be loquent as Mithridates that could speake 22. languages he would be eloquent as Orpheus that could perswade the Diuels and men as he listed hee would be logicall as Ramus that coulde iudge euerie mans writings and not be deluded by any writer he would be arithmeticall as Pythagoras that was admirable by the knowledge of Numbers he would be geometricall as Arithimedes that compassed many great matters by the misterie of proportions he would be astrologicall in all questions as Stoflerinus