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A57453	An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.; Van Hove, Frederick Hendrick.	1693 (1693)	Wing R169; ESTC R8443	18,952	88

to prepare the Way for the great After-work intended And having done much Mischeif on the Coast of Kent Harold with strong Navy forced him to draw towards the North parts where seeking to Land he was repulsed by the Earls Morcar and Edwin and forced to look Aid of the Scots and after of the King of Norway whom he induced to invade this Kingdom with great store of Men and Shipping These landing at Tinmouth and discomfiting their first Encounterers marched into the heart of England without Resistance But being come near to Stamford King Harold with a mighty army met them and after long Fight with the Loss of much Bloud and his best Men he finished that Action with the Death of Tosty and the King of Norway § 10. But from hence was he called with his wearied and broken Forces to a more fatal Business in the South For now William Duke of Normandy pretending a Right to the Crown of England both by the Testament of the late King Edward and also by Parentage upon the Advantage of the Time and the Disfurnishment of those parts Landed at Hastings Near to which Place was Fought that bloudy Battle wherein Harold Valianty Fighting amidst his Enemies Ended his Life and Reign which was scarce of one Year and the English with the loss of 20000. Men and the Flower of the Kingdom became the miserable Prey of the Normans § 11. But how so great a State as this could be with one Blow subdued by so small a Province in such sort as it could never after come to make any general Head against the Conqueror may seem strange and considerable But the Circumstances with the Disposition of that Time as may be Collected from the Writers that lived near it may somewhat though not altogether satisfy us in that point For they say the People of the Kingdom were by their being secure from their Foreign Enemies the Danes and their long Peace which had held in a manner from the Death of Edmon Ironside the space of fifty Years grown neglective of Arms and generally debauched with Luxury and Idlenesse The Clergy licentious and only Literaturâ tumultuariâ contenti Scholae non vitae discebant saith Malmesbury the Nobility given to Gluttony Venery and Oppression the Common sort to Drunkenness and all Disorder And they say that in the last Action of Harold at Stamford the bravest Men perished And himself growing insolent after the Victory retaining the Spoils without Distribution to the Souldiers made them discontent and unruly Or peradventure being not inured to be Commanded by Martial Discipline they were of themselves unmanageable and that coming to the Battle of Hastings with many mercenary Men and a discontented Army there was not that Valour and Resolution shewed as was meet in so important an Occasion Besides the Normans had a peculiar Militia or Fight with Bowes and Arrowes wherein they were Excellently practised and the English unacquainted with that Weapon were altogether unprovided for the Defence And thus they excuse the shame of our Nation THE REIGN OF WILLIAM the I. Anno I. § 12. BY these Advantages William the base Son of Robert Duke of Normandie having gotten the Victory in the Battle near Hastings Marched without any opposition towards London Where the Earls Edwin and Morcar Brothers of eminent Dignity and Respect in the Kingdom laboured with all their Power in solliciting the People for the Conservation of the State And to have Established Edgar Etheling next of the Royal Issue in the Soveraignty whereunto the rest of the Nobility had likewise consented had they not seen the Bishops averse or wavering And all Men generally transported with Fear or corrupted with new Hopes runing from themselves and their endanger'd Country and striving who should be first to entertain the present Fortune sought to preoccupate each other For streight upon his Approach to London the Gates was set all open the Archbishop of Canterbury Stigand with other Bishops the Nobility Magistrates and People all rendred themselves and their Obedience unto him and he returning plausible Promises of his future Goverment was within a short Time after Crowned at Westminster by Aldred Archbishop of York for that Stigand was not held Canonically Invested in that See and yet was thought to have been a principal Adherent to this Enterprise § 13. Here according to the accustomed Form in his Coronation the Bishops and Barons of the Realm took their Oath to be his true and Loyal Subjects and he reciprocally being required thereunto by the Archbishop of York made his personal Oath before the Altar of Saint Peter to defend the holy Church of God and the Rectors of the same to govern the universal people subject unto him justly with care to establish equal Laws for the preservation of Justice and upright Judgment to be used amongst them and taking Hostages for his more Security and Order for the Defence and Government of his Kingdome § 14. At the opening of the Spring then next following he returns into Normandy so to settle his Affairs there as they might not distract him from his Business in England which required his whole powers And to leave all sure behind him he committed the Rule of the Kingdom in his Absence to Odo Bishop of Bayeux his half-Brother by the Mothersside and to his cozen Fitz-Osborn whom he had made Earl of Hereford taking with him the chiefest Men Natives of the State who were likeliest to be Heads to a Revolt as the Arch-Bishop Stigand lately discontented Edgar Atheling a Titular Edwin and Morcar with many other Bishops and Noblemen In his Absence which was all that whole Summer nothing was here attempted against him but only that Edric surnamed the Forrester in the County of Hereford called in the Kings of the Welch to his Aid and Forraged onely the remote Boders of that Country The rest of the Kingdome stood quiet expecting what would become of that new World wherein as yet they found no great Alteration their Lawes and Liberties remaining still the same they did and might hope by this Accession of a new Province the State of England would be inlarged in Dominion abroad and not impaired in profit at home by reason the Nation was but small and being a plentifull and not over-peopled Country they were not likely to impester them § 15. The King now grown to this power soon settled his Estate in Normandy which in his Youth he had alwayes found turbulent within and overhardly neighboured abroad and secured him of that side of the World wherein he was much advantaged by the Time For Philip the first then King of France was a Child who otherwise would never have suffered the Normans being so stubborn and little affectionate to that Crown to have grown to such Greatness and besides was under the Curature of Baudovin Earl of Flanders his Uncle by the Mother whose Daughter King William of England had to wife which Alliance indeed gave him the greatest Means to

Vortigern to establish the Kingdome in his own Line and as he thought to strengthen himself with these Strangers took to Wife Renix the daughter of Hengist his own Wife living and by his dotage on her being a beautiful Lady who knew to take the advantage of his love gave the Saxons those Preferments in the State as the Brittons neglected by him soon became a prey unto them This Alliance and the Fertility of the Land letting in so many of this populous and Warlike Nation that e're Men scarce perceived their danger they were undone And notwithstanding the Combination of the British Nobility with the deposing of Vortigern and Electing King his Son Vortimer a valiant Prince who gave them many stout Battles yet could they not prevail against the Saxons thus established but were forced to quit their Country and betake themselves to remote Mountains and Deserts leaving All to the Invaders Who after many Fortunes dividing the Land into seven Kingdomes extinguished both the Religion Language and even the Name thereof And in this Heptarchy it continued till Egbert K. of the West-Saxons An. 828. being three hundred fifty years after their Entrance subduing the other Kings obtained the whole Dominion to himself And to raze out the Memory of a Division Caused by an Edict the whole Kingdome to be called England of the Angles a people that possest the middle part of this Island § 6. But neither he nor his Successors quietly enjoyed it For the Danes having been first called in to aid the King of Northumberland against the other Kings sorely infested the Land and combining themselves with the Welch and Scots prevailed so much that from the raign of King Britric Anno 387. they continued to afflict the same the space of two hundred fifty five years and in the End by the negligent and ill Government of King Ethelred whose Luxury and Oppression had made way for Division they got the absolute Dominion of the Kingdom and held it twenty six years by three of their Kings successively Canutus governed it twenty years and left it to Harold who raigned two years Canutus the second succeeded his Brother Harold and at a Banquet at Lambeth either by Surfeit or Poison died in the Second year of his Reign When streight the People of the Land by a sudden and general Massacre redeemed themselves from that odious Yoke of a Foreign Subjection which was held to be the Third Dissolution of this State But I cannot see how it should be so accounted seeing that this Canutus never altered the Government but embraced the same Religion maintained the Laws he found and added many Constitutions for the good of the Kingdom And to get into the People's affections he married Emma sometimes Wife to King Ethelred and daughter to Richard Duke of Normandy to whom for his better strength he had likewise given his Sister to Wife And then the short Time of the Government in the Succession of his two Sons seems not to have bred any great Alteration in the state of the Kingdome but onely in the Change of the person of the Prince and the preferment of his Nation before ours which by reason of the long foregoing wars were made incompatible of each other § 7. But yet this gave the Cause to that great and last Mutation of State effected by the Norman For King Etheldred to make his party good against the Invasion of the Danes combined himself with Richard Duke of Normandy married his Sister Emma and by her had Issue Edward after King of England intitled the Confessor who with his Brother were there brought up out of the dangers of the Wars and by the assistance of the Duke reconveyed over after the death of the last Canutus and here invested in the Kingdom For which Offices of Kindness divers Preferments were in way of Gratification bestowed on the Normans as the Archbishoprick of Canterbury and other especial Places and Dignities Ecclesiastical in a manner throughout the whole Land which prepared an easier passage for the Invasion following when the death of this good King Edward without Issue to inherit left the Succession doubtful or else by the Iniquity of times made it seem so For Edgar surnamed Atheling sonne of Edward the Son of King Edmond Ironside had his Claim neglected Either in respect of his Youth which yet was no Barr to his Right or for want of Means and power to oppose against the ambition of others who having swaied the Fortune of the time under an easie-natured Prince had Opportunity enough to work for themselves Although the Worthiness of his Grandfather shewed in the Defence of his Country might seem to deserve to have his Issue remembred in their Right § 8. But the Earl Godwin what in respect that King Edward had matched with his Daughter and what with his own Greatness and popularity having long managed the State of the Kingdome made the Ascent easie for Harold his Son to get up to the Crown and by Crossing the right Line of Succession called up Destruction and Misery both upon his own Race and the whole Kingdome For though Harold had a shew of Title as being the Son of Thira sister to Canutus King of England yet seeing all the Land had received an Oath upon the Massacre and expulsion of the Danes never to have any King of that Nation to raign over them it might seem no lawful Claim But yet the Favour of the people which both his person and Valour had gotten with the Necessity of the Time that required a Man of Spirit and Courage to undertake the burden of war and the Trouble which the World they saw was like to grow into cast it upon him with hope to keep out the Misery of a foreign Subjection and the Insolency of Strangers § 8. But the whole Course of things being overcast and set for Storms and Alteration could not by any providence of Men be prevented Though this new King who is said to have crowned himself used all the Means that a wife and valiant Prince could do both for the well ordering of the State and all provisions for defence yet the disjointed Affections of Men tending to their private Ends and working several Wayes to get up to their Hopes either left the Ship of the State which contained them all to the mercy of the Waves and every Man cast to save himself where the greatest likelyhood of Mastery appeared or else distracted with the ●error of the approaching Mischief failed in their Spirits and courage to withstand it For the Diligence of Men becomes often dasht with their Fear in publick Tumults and with the very Cogitation of the Evil to come § 9. And the first Man which began to afflict his new Government was his own younger Brother Tosty who for a former conceived Hatred was easily set on by the Duke of Normandy and Baldwin Earle of Flanders whose Daughter he had married to assail the Isle of Wight and

Normandy that brake his Neck His eldest Daughter Cicilia became a Nun. Constance Married to the Earl of Brittain Adela to Stephen Earle of Bloys who likewise became a Nun in her Age such was their great Devotion and so much were these Solitary Retirements affected in those times by the greatest Ladies Another was Affianced to Alfonsus King of Galicia who with the other Sister promised to Harold Died before Marriage § 41. What he was in the Circle of himself in his own continent we find him of an even or middle Stature comely Personage of good presence Riding Sitting or Standing till his Corpulency gathering upon him in his latter Age made him somewhat unwieldy of so strong a Constitution that he was never Sickly till a few Months before his Death His Strength such as few Men could draw his Bow and being about Fifty One of his Age when he subdued this Kingdom it seems by his continual Actions he felt not the Weight of Years upon him till his last Year § 42. His Mind was no less excellently composed and we see it the fairest drawn in his Actions wherein his Mercy and Clemency the brightest Stars in the Sphere of Majesty appeared next to his great Devotion above all his other Virtues by the often pardoning and receiving into Grace those who had forfeited their Loyalty and most dangerously Rebelled against him Seeming to hold Submission satisfactory for the greatest Offence and that he sought to extinguish Mens Eenterprises but not themselves For we find but one great Nobleman executed in all his Reign and that was the Earl Waltheof who had twice falsified his Faith before And those whom he had held Prisoners in Normandy as the Earls Morcar and Siward with Wolfnothus the Brother of Harold and divers others upon Compassion of their Endurance he released a little before his Death § 43. Besides he was as far from Suspicion as from Cowardize and of that Confidence an especial Note of his Magnanimity has he gave Edgar his Competitor in the Crown the Liberty of this Court and upon his suit sent him well furnished to the Holy War where he so Nobly behaved himself as he attained to great Estimation with the Emperours of Greece and Almain Which might have been held dangerous in respect of his Alliances that way being Grand-Child to Henry the third Emperour But these may be as well Virtues of the Time as of Men and so the Age must have part of this Commendation FINIS Books Printed for SAMUEL KEBLE at the Turk Head in Fleestreet EPICTETI Enchiridion Or the most Excellent Morals of Epictetus made English in a Poetical Paraphrase History of the Bible Lively described in 120 Cuts or Figures 120.120 The Innocent Lady Degrees of Marriage that which is Ordered to be had in all Churches Preparation to a Holy Life or Devotion for Families and Private Persons by the Author of the Weeks Preparatin ation A Collection of Private Form of Prayers out of the Common Prayer Book for Morning Noon and Night and other special Occasions being in a different Method from any former By the Author of the Weeks Preparation to the Sacrement Together with the Holy Feast and Fasts as they are observed in the Church of England Explained and the Reasons why they are yearly Celebrated A Table to all the Epistles and Gospels in the Book of Common Prayer so that you may Find any Text of Scripture being contained in them This Table may be put in your Common Prayer Book without new binding Rules for our more Devout Behaviour in the time of Divine Service in the Church of England An Explanation of the Terms Order and Usefullness of the Liturgy of the Church of England By way of Question and Answer recommanded to be learned after the Church Catechisme A Perswasive to the stricter Observation of the Lords Day in pursuance of his Majesty Order and Direction to Preachers By Matthew Bryan LL. 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