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A05297	A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine Who succeeding his father Vther Pendragon, and right nobly gouerning this land sixe and twentie yeares, then dyed of a mortall wounde receyued in battell, together vvith victory ouer his enemies. As appeareth cap. 9. And was buried at Glastenbury. cap. 12. an. 543. Collected and written of late yeares in lattin, by the learned English antiquarie of worthy memory Iohn Leyland. Newly translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London. Anno Domini. 1582.; Assertio inclytissimi Arturii Regis Britanniae. English	Leland, John, 1506?-1552.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1582 (1582)	STC 15441; ESTC S108439	67,318	92

A Learned and True Assertion of the original Life Actes and death of the most Noble Valiant and Renoumed Prince Arthure King of great Brittaine Who succeeding his father Vther Pendragon and right nobly gouerning this Land sixe and twentie yeares then dyed of a mortall wounde receyued in battell together with victory ouer his enemies As appeareth Cap. 9. And was buried at ●laste●bury Cap. 1● An. 543. Collected and written of late yeares in lattin by the learned English Antiquarie of worthy memory Iohn Leyland Newly translated into English by Richard Robins●● Citizen of London Anno Domini 1582. LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe dwelling in Distaffe Lane ouer against the Sign● of the Castell 1582. Insignia Illustrium Patronorum huius opusculi selectorum ARTVRVS BARO Gray de VVilton D. HENRICVS SIDNEY Illustrissimi Ordinis Garterij Miles vnus Consiliariorum D. Reg. in Principatu Walliae Praesid Magister Thomas Smith D. Reginae Custumarius Principalis in Portu London To the Right Honorable Lord ARTHVRE GRAY Baron of Wilton Lord Deputie Liefetenant Generall for the Queenes Ma●estie in Ireland To the Right Honorable Sir HENRY SIDNEY Knight of the Honorable Order of the Garter President for her Maiestie in the 〈◊〉 of Wales To the Right worshipfull M. THOMAS SMITH Esquire Chiefe Customer for her Maiestie in the Porte of London to the Worshipfull Societie of Archers in London yearely celebrating the renoumed memorie of the Magnificent Prince ARTHVR● his Knightly Order of the Round Table Grace mercy Peace in the Lord Euerlastinge HAVING in mindefull memorie Right Honourable and Worshippfull that mercifull couenaunt of peace by our omnipotent Creator towardes all flesh thus manifested I do set my Raine Bowe in the cloudes it shall be as a tokē betwene me the earth promising hereby neuer to destroy the same any more by waters how much ought mākind specially enioying by this peaceable pact from Heauē Earth the Sea aboundance of benefittes feare God in his holines loue one an other in righteousnesse and vse these benefittes with thankfulnesse to the aduauncement of his glory For this Bowe this Rainebowe I say of his couenant and pledge of his peace left vnto vs frō the deluge as Aristotle affirmeth Naturally appeareth by reflection or giuing backe of the light of the Sunne from a cloude opposite or against the same So our heauēly God the Father of light and giuer of grace departeth with the light of his manifolde mercies vnto mankinde from the opposite cloude of his displeasure Againe this Bowe of his couenant and pledge of his peace as it is saide by Albertus To be so much lesse in appearance as by how much the Sunne is higher in the Heauens and contrarie wise so much greater as the Sunne is lower to the earth So much lesse be the mercies of God minded of man as his mightie power appeareth out of our sight and againe so much greater seeme his mercies vnto vs as his mightie power is nere vs in sight Thirdly according to Aristotle this Rainebow of his couenant pledge of his peace As it appeareth in the Spring time in Sommer in Autume in Winter euening morning but specially in Autumne So is the performance of his mercifull couenant and peaceable pacte at all times apparant but specially in Autumne that is when mankinde laboureth most to leaue sinne and bring-forth fruites of good life as I saide fearing God in his holinesse louing one an other in righteousnesse and vsing his benefittes with thankfulnesse Thus and to this end graunting his couenant our omnipotent Creator and gratiouse God ordayning Man ruler ouer his Creatures in earth yet vnder his protection in heauen hath not onely bounde vnto him all humaine societie but hath also substituted euen his liuetenauntes godly rulers ouer the same to the foresaide effect for the aduauncement of his glory confirming the same couenant with the aucthoritie of his holie worde on this manner I will ordaine a place for my people of Israell I. And I will plant him and I will dwell with him II. And he shall be no more troubled III. And the children of iniquitie shall not vexe or afflict him any more IIII. By his word here he promised that which by his deede he performed to our forefathers Adam in Paradise Gen. 1. Noah his children Gen. 9. Abraham his seede Gen. 12. But louing his ●lect and hating their enemies he performed his promise vnto Iacob in his prouidence and vnto Laban in his iudgments Gen. 30. So did he in like manner vnto Ioseph and his vnnaturall brethren Gen. 37. Yea in his prouidence laying his right hand vpon Ephraim and in his iudgement his left hand vpon Manasses Gen. 48. Whereby as he prospered and protected his holy ones in peace and warres against their enemies we reade also in the deuine histories from time to time how and by what ordenarie meanes of power force and defence he reached vnto his feeble flocke his mightie arme to the discomforture of the enemie vtter subuertion both of their power pollicie according to his promises aforesaide Heere then memorable and praiseworthie is the prouidence of this most mightie God who promising helpe vnto the Iewes against the Gentiles vsed no kinde of speach so much as this That he would bend his Bow and dye his shaftes in bloud As who say God wil● make the Iewes shoote strong shootes to ouerthrow their enemies or at the least that shooting is a wonderful mightie thing whereunto the high power of God is likened This bow a weapon of defence the Raine Boe a token of truce This Bow in peace a pleasure the Raine Bowe a signe of serenitie this Bow in warres a paine to the enemie the Raine Bow at al times and to all people Gods toaken betwene him and the earth The one an instrment of mercy the other of destruction the godly haue both as their comfort and sauegarde by Gods protection the vngodly either wanting the one or hauing both haue them to their confusion and subuertion by his reiection As we reade of King Saul that he was slaine of the Philistians being mightie bow men and with him also his Sonne ●onathas who as the scripture saith neuer shot shaft in vaine And that the kingdome of Israell after Sauls death came vnto King Dauid who after he was King decreed by the first statute which he enacted That all the children of Israell should learne to shoote in the bowe according to a law made many a day before vt patet in libro iustorum a booke not now in vse to be ●ounde In his booke of Psalmes as hee saide He was at peace with them that hated peace So named hee the bow and arrowes in diuers manners meaninges as in his Psal. 7. vers 13. 14. Psal. 11. vers 2. Psal. 18. vers 13. Psal. 21. vers 12. Psal. 45. vers 6. Psal. 49. vers 9.

suppose of Henry the second King of England but as others thinke vnto whom I easely assent in the beginning of the raigne of Richard the first his Sonne Touching both this searching for and finding out of the bones two persons specially amongst others haue written their mindes of which two one was a Moncke of Glastenbury and by name vnknowne to me but the other was Siluester Giraldus Furdermore there had beene hereunto added also Gulielmus Meildunensis as the third witnesse to be conferred with them both but that death had taken him away in his aged yeares before the Scpulcre or Tombe was found The testimonies of these men will I vse especially and at this instant I will bring hether the wordes of Annonymus the Moncke King Arthure was entombed like as by K. Henry y e second Henry y ● Abbot had learned whose cosen germane familier friend he of late was But y e King had often times heard this out of the actes of the Brittaines of their historicall singers that Arthure was buried neare vnto the old Church in the religiouse place betweene two Pyramedes in times past nobly engrauen and erected as it is reported for the memory of him And King Arthure was buryed verie deeply for feare of the Saxons whom he had often times vanquished whome he had altogether reiected or cast out of the Isle of Brittaine And whome Mordred his mischeeuous Nephew had first called backe againe and brought thither against him least they should also with mallice of minde raige in crueltie towardes the deade body which had laboured by tooth naile euen now to possesse againe the whole Island after his death Againe for and in respect of the same feare he was laide in a certaine broade stone as it were at a graue found of them which digged there of seauen foote as it were vnder y e earth when yet notwithstanding Arthures Tombe was founde more lower of nyne foote depth There was moreouer founde a leaden crosse not set into the vppermost but rather neathermost parte of the stone hauing thereon these letters engrauen HIC IACET SEPVLTVS INCLITVS REX ARTHVRIVS IN INSVLA AVALONIAE And the Crosse taken out of the stone the saide Abbot Henry shewing the same we haue seene with our eyes and haue reade these letters But like as the Crosse was infired to the neathermost parte of the stone So that parte of the crosse engrauen to the ende it might bee more secrete was turned towardes the stone Doubtlesse a wonderfull industrie and exquisite wisdome of the men in that age who by all endeuoures desired to hide in secret manner the body of so greate a personage and their Soueraigne Lord especially the Patrone of that place by reason of the instant troubled state And who yet had further care that at one or other time afterwardes when the trouble surceased by the perfect order of those letters engrauen in the Crosse and found out other whiles they might make apparant testimonies of his buriall And as the foresaide King Henry had before declared all the matter to the Abbot so the body of Arthure was found not in a marble Tombe as it befitted so notable a Kinge NOw in fit time comes forth Siluester Giraldus that same eye witnesse of Arthures bones and ashes found and aptly adioyneth his accounte vnto these wordes And his body which as it were fantasticall in the end and as it were by spirites translated vnto places a farre off and not subiect vnto death fables so fully had fayned was in these our dayes by wonderfull and as it were meruailous tokens founde out buried more deeper in the earth at Glastenburie betweene two Pyrameds in old time set vp within the religious place and by a hollow Oake marked or knowne was with honor trāslated into the Church decētly bestowed in a Marble Tombe Whereupon a leaden crosse being engrauen in the stone not in the vpper part as it is accustomed but on the lowermost part rather which wee also haue seene for we haue handled the same conteyned these letters engrauen and not eminent and extant but rather inwardlie turned to the stone HIC IACET SEPVLTVS INCLITVS REX ARTVRIVS IN INSVLA AVALONIAE And these wordes follow euen there And seeing there were some euident tokens of finding the bodie there by his inscriptions and some by the Pyramedes engrauen although as very much defaced and ouerworne by too much oldnesse of time yet most chiefely and most euidentlie did Henry the second king of England declare and manifest full and whole vnto those Monckes according as he had harde of that auncient historicall Musician the Brittaine namely that they should finde him buried deepely in the earth for xvi foote at the least not in a Tombe of stone but in a hollow Oake And therefore his body beeing laide and as it were hidden so deepe to the end that it might not be founde of the Saxons inhabiting the Island after his death whome he in his life time had so puissantly subdued almost destroyed might sarcely at any time be found And for this cause were the letters as testimonies of truth engrauen vpon the crosse turned inwardes to the stone to the end they should at-that time kepe in secret what they conteyned and that sometime also according to the place time requisite they might discouer or manifest that same meaning Moreouer also he writeth these words euen in the same place We must also know that the bones of Arthures bodie which were foūd were so greate that euē that saying of the poet might seeme in these words to be fulfilled Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa Sepulchris And the Tombes being digged forth right He shall maruaile at the greate bones in sight FOr the bone of his shinne beeing layde to the shinne of a most tall person which also the Abbot shewed vs and as it was fastned vnto that grounde neare vnto his foote retched it selfe largly three fingers ouer his knee Also the scalp of his head as it were a wonder or spectacle was capable and grosse in so much as betweene the eye bryes and the eyes it largely conteyned a hande bignesse There appeared in this tenne or moe woundes all which except one only greater then the rest which gaped wide and which onely seemed to bee a deadlie wounde grewe together into one whole scarre Nowe if it shall auaile any man either to repeate y ● very selfe same thinges which I haue ere while recited out of Giraldus or not much vnlike to these let him read his booke viz. Speculum Ecclesiasticū where as two chapters lightsomly entreat of this matter In meane time yet I haue somwhat which helds me doubtfull For Giraldus affirmeth y t his burying place was of Oake which as I doe not streyght way affirme to be false So I will insinuate those thinges which vehemētly persuade me to y ● cōtrary First the nūber