HOMINIBVS CVM VITIIS BELLVM Let 's quarrell with our faults not with our friends 5. His Wife was Theophania the Easterne Emperours daughter by whom he had 14. An. C. 984 OTHO the third that succeeded him in verifying the prophetique verse Otho post Otho regnabit tertius Otho 1. Being but tenne years old at his Enthronizing his towardlinesse was such that he attained the title of Otho the kind and as the phrase went then Mirabilia Mundi the Miraâ—le of the World 2. Some put the Institution of the seaven Electors upon him A more difficult businesse he found to rectify the unruly Popes whose damnable ambition brawles and Schismes took off the best Emperours from better employments abroad 3. His word was VNITA VIRTVS VALET Vnited valour performes 'T is thought he was poysoned in Rome by Crescentius widdow in a paire of gloves 15. A.C. 1002 HENRY the second is chosen by the seaven Electors to succeed him he had the title of Henry the holy and Lame before Duke of Bavaria being of the blood of Otho the great some say his sonne others his Nephew 2. Having subdued all the enimies of the Empire he dealt so effectually with Stephen of Hungary that the most of them were brought to embrace Christianity 3. His word was NE QVID NIMIS Least overdoing prove undoing Kunegundis his Empresse is said to have lived by mutuall consent untouched with him This accompanied with other virtues was made meritorious to Saint him Some difference arose amongst the Electors concerning his successor but 16. CONRADUS the 2d called Salicus as much as to say A.C. 1024 as Aulicus a Courteour ended it Alsted Pezelius fetcheth the name from the river Sala in Franconia The great commotion in Italy he appeased with singular valour dexterity where besieging Millaine he was deterred by a vision the Monkes would have it of frowning St Ambrose which caused him to leave the enterprize 2. The deadly Feud betwixt the Guelphes and Gibellines brake out a fresh in this mans daies in regard he was a Gibbelline as all the Franconians whereas their neighbours of Suevia were entirely for the Guelphs 3. His Motto was a notable rule OMNIVM MORES TVOS IMPRIMIS OBSERVATO Observe all mens carriages but especially thine owne He was buried at Spire with his Empresse in the Cathedrall of his own erecting amongst the rest of his Linage as the inscription shewes Filius hic Pater hic Avus hic Proavus jacet istic Hic Proavi Conjux hic Henrici senioris his sonne 17. HENRY the third surnamed Niger Black Henry A.C. 1039 was elected to succeed him He married the daughter of Canutus the Dane then Raigning here in England Subdued the Hungarians and Bohemians who were alwaies mutining But thence was called away to Italy to keep the peace amongst the Popes who were like to pull St Peters chayre in peeces between them Three of them he deposed Benedict the 9. Gregory the 6. Sylvester the 3. And chose successively Clement the 2. Damasus the 2. Leo the 9. and Victor the 2. Taking an oath of the Citizens that they should not any more chuse a Pope without the Emperours consent In him decayed the glory of the Romane Empire 3. His saying was QVI LITEM AVFERT EXECRATIONEM IN BENEDICTIONEM MVTAT He that stinteth strife changeth a curse into a blessing The remedilesse ruine of Church and State hastned as it should seeme his death His sonne very young 18. A.C. 1056 HENRY the fourth succeeds him who growing up under the carefull education of his Mother proved a valiant and wise though an unfortunate Prince 2. In 62. Battailes which he waged in person for the most part he became victorious 3. For standing for his right in Election of Popes he was crossed especially by Gregory the seaventh known by the name of Hildebrand and his complices who twice Excommunicates him then sets up Rodolph Duke of Saxony his sworne Subject to rebell against and depose him bestowing on him as freely a Crowne and Empire as ever the Divell offered all the Kingdomes of the World to our Saviour Math. 4. but this project failing with the desperate and deplorable ruine of Rodulph 4. Notwithstanding his unimperiall submission in an unparallel'd manner at the Castle of Canusium and receiving there Absolution His own sonnes Henry and Conrade must afterward be set up against him 5. Whereby at length wearied and broken after tenne years Raigne he was deposed and driven to that exigent that he desired only a Clerkship in a house at Spire of his own foundation which was Barbarously by the Bishop of that place denyed him 6. Whereupon he brake out into that speech of Job Miseremini mei amici quia manus dei tetegit me 7. His usuall speech was MVLTI MVLTA SCIVNT SE AVTEM NEMO Many know much but few as they should know themselves Greife killed him and made way for his sonne 19. A.C. 1116 HENRY the fifth to succeed him 1. He urged by Pope Paschall to renounce his right in chusing Popes and Bishops Investiures by Staffe and Ring utter refuses it The Pope thereupon makes no more adoe but Excommunicates him 2. The Emperour rights himselfe by casting the Pope into Prison which brings him to covenant with the Emperour that he would lay no farther clay me to those Imperiall rights 3. For confirmation of which agreement and priviledges the Pope takes the Consecrated Host and deviding it into two parts gives the one to the Emperour and reserves the other to himselfe with an Excoration in these words Magdeburg Hist. Cent. 12. c. 8. Let him be devided from the Kingdom of Christ who shall presume to violate this Covenant bound up between you and me 4. Yet this held not no sooner had the Emperor turn'd his back the Pope had liberty of breathing but this knott is easily loosed by him that tyed it so solemnly and Calixtus his Successour so haunted the Emperour with furies that he was forced to quirt all his rights in that behalfe His word was MORTEM OPTARE MALVM TIMERE PEIVS It is not good to wish for death but worse to feare it He Marryed Maud the Daughter of our King Henry the First but dyed Childlesse His successor was 20. A.C. 112 LOTHARIUS the second Duke of Saxony chosen by the Nobles 1. He was much opposed in the beginning by Conrade and Frederick his predecessors Sisters sounes but by mediation of St Bernard of great esteem in those dayes a reconciliation was made between them 2. For the setling of Pope Innocent the 2d whom the Romans had violently unchayred he marches to Rome soone right 's all that was amisse is Crowned by the reestablished Pope which as a transcendent accident is pictured on a wall with these subscribed verses Rex venit ante fores jurans prius urbis honores Post homo fit Papae jurans quo dante Coronam The King came to the gate and sware he would uphold the
Cincius Fregepanius who set upon the Conclave bang'd the Cardinalls unhors'd the new Pope untill the people rescued him and made Fregepane submitt 2. Then the Emperour Henry came upon him and set up one Maurice Burdine by the name of Gregory the eight against him so that he was constrayned to fly into France where he shortly dyed of a Pluresie haveing first Excommunicated the Emperour freed the Templers from the subjection to the Patriarch of Ierusalem Burdine the Emperours man could not hold the place But 23. A.D. 1119 CALIXTUS the second a Burgundian gott it 2. He continues the Excommunication against the Emperour in a Councell of Germany makes the Emperour yeeld unto him and so absolves him but abuses his Pope Gregory whom he had made by setting of him upon a Camell with his face towards the tayle and then thrusting him shauen into a Monastâ—y 3. He appointed the foure Fasts decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his Sea was much against Preists Marryages whereupon our Simon of Durham made the verses O bone calixte nunc omnis clerus odit te Quondam Presbyteri potâ—rant uxoribus uti Hoc destruxisti postquam tu Papa fuisti Ergo tuum merito nomen habent odio The Clergy the now good Calixtus hate The heretofore each one might have his Mate But since thou gotten hast the Papall throne They must keep Puncks or learn to Lig alone 24. HONORUS the second an Italian comes next A.D. 1124 but with great opposition of two others that were set up against him 2. From this man John Cremensis was sent hither into England to dash Preists Marriages But in his greatest heat of urging his Commission he was found a Bed with a Whore 3. Platina tels us that one Arnulphus Bale adds an Englishman was Martyred in Rome for Preaching against the Clergies pompe and luxury His Countryman 25. INNOCENT the second enters upon the place A.D. 1130 he was opposed by an Antipope ealled Anacletus backt by Roger King of Sicily who forced this Pope to fly into Germany and France to be righted 2. The Emperour Lotharius with an Army setled him in his seat 3. But Roger King of Sicily hath another bout with him Imprisoneth him and his Cardinalls till he had gotten of him to be pronounced King of both Scicilies which was done and then Scicily was reckoned St Peters Patrimony So easie it was then for Popes to bestow Kingdoms in which neither by Divine nor humane Law could they clayme any interest His successor a Tuscan 26. A.D. 1143 CaeLESTINUS the second put in by Conradus the Emperour sate so short a time that nothing is noted of him not much longer remained 17. LUCIUS the second a Bononian A.D. 1144 for when he went about to abrogate the Office of Patricians and with Souldiers beset the Capitoll he was so pelted with stones by the Citizens that he soone resigned his life and place to 28. EUGENIUS the third a Pisan St Barnards Scholer A.D. 1145 to whom he wrote his Books of Confideration 2. But Eugenius more considered the enlarging of his place and power and therefore would not permitt the Romanes to chuse their owne Senatours nor their Patricians to beare any sway 3. This grew to such a quarrell that the Pope was faine to leave Rome and fly into France whence after some time and matters accommodated he returned and dyed at Tyber 29. A. 1153 ANASTASIUS the fourth took his place a Romane but did nothing in it worth the noting only he gave a great Chalice to the Church of Laterane whilst William our Arch-bishop of Yorke was poysoned in the Chalice 30. A. 1154 ADRIAN the fourth an Englishman succeeds before called Nicholas Brack-speare 2. This man would not suffer the Consuls in Rome to have any power and condemned Arnold of Brixia for an Heretique in holding with them 3. He quarrelled with Frederick the Emperour for not holding Hostler like his stirrop and afterwards Excommunicates him for clayming his rights and writing his name before the Popes for which the Emperour defends himselfe by a Letter 4. Great stirres there were also between him and William of Scicily concerning Apulia wherein William had the better and at length gott to be stiled King of both Sciciles 5. When with his Cardinals he had conspired to ruine the Emperour and had sent a Counterfeit to stabb him and an Arabian to poyson him he was choackt with a fly that gott into his Throat which verified that he was wont to repeat often There is no kind of life upon earth more wretched then to be a Pope Yet this lessened not 31. A. 1159 ALEXANDER the third an Hetrurian but that he opposed his Soveraigne in a more treacherous manner 2. He was chosen indeed in a strong Factionâ— of Victor Paschalis Calixtim Innocentius all clayming the place 3. The Emperour comes to Papia for to appease the stirrs sends for Alexander who insteed of obeying Excommunicates the Emperour and his Oposites and by the French Kings favour and his owne Purse settles himselfe in Rome 4. The Emperour comes with an Army to correct his insolency but Hartman Bishop of Brixia by effectuall perswasions turnes him from the Pope against the Saracens 5. There being Victorious and returning he was surprised by the Popes Treason who had sent his exact Counterfeit to the Souldan that he might not misse in laying wait for the man 6. Being apprehended therefore with his Chaplaine as they went to Bath themselves in a River of Armenia brought before the Souldan the Picture discovered him The Souldan uses him nobly appoints his Ransom then guards him home as farre as Brixia 7. The Princes of the Empire unite to revenge the prodigious Treason the Pope betakes himselfe to Venice where Duke Sebastian protects him Otho the Emperours Sonne is sent with an Army to hemme him in and not to fight untill his Fathers comming This charge he neglecting is overthrowne and taken Prisoner 8. The good Father to preserve his Soune is forced to submit in St Marks Church in Venice He prostrates himselfe before the Pope who setting his foot on his Neck with that of the Psalmist in his mouth Super Aspidem Basiliscum Thou shalt walk upon the Serpent and Adder and the Emperour replying non tibi sed Petro the Beast goes on mihi Petro to me as well as to Poter 9. This end after much trouble had that remar kable businesse The Pope gratified the Venetians as he had reason made his conditions with the Emperour at his pleasure and so returnes to Rome 10. Henry the second our King was much vexed by this Pope for the death of Thomas Becket of Canterbury whom the Pope made St Thomas for withstanding his King Soveraigne And upon the Kings submission to the lash granted to Him and his Heyres the Title of the Kings of England Hinc autem observatum est saith Flatina ut omnes Anglici à Romano Pontifice Regni jura recognoscant
Winchester and of the 24 seats thereof amongst the Welsh Lancelot du Lake Tristram and Gawen are named for his chiefest Knights and these names at this day are commonly given in Baptisme amongst us whereupon most conclude with Ieffry of Monmoth and Leland that there was such a valiant man against Newbrigensis and Pollidore that question it but all except against the Monkish fictions that are put upon him 2. King Henry the second upon bearing of a Welsh Bard chanting his Acts and death with his interring at Glassenbury sent to search the place where his corps were found with his faire Queene Guenevers the Brittish Helena's as her name imports In a Battle with his Cosen Mordred who laid a claime to the Kingdome at Commelford in Cornewall he received his deaths wound but slew outright the Rebell Duke Cadors sonne of Cornewall 6. A.Ch. 543 CONSTANTINE the third succeeds him who after diverse bickerings with Mordreds sonnes that stood for their right at length flew them both having taken sanctuary whereof Gyldas pittifully complaineth But himselfe soon found the like measure by a Nephew of Arthur's 7. A.Ch. 546 AUREZIUS Conanus a man sufficiently valiant and liberall but hearkning too much to Sycophants and embrewing his hands in the blood of his kindred he became soon odious and left his place to his sonne 8. An. C. 548 VORTIPORUS He valiantly withstood the intrusions of the Saxons yet Gildas declaimes against him also as a Tyrant and a dissolute libertine which made way the easier for the Nephew of Aurelius Conanus 9. An. C. 552 MALGO a Duke of Britaine He was a most personable man and therewithall a hardy King Yet his Imperfections were so notorious that he could not escape Gilda's lash who termes him a Tawny Butcher a Beare a contemner of Religion and an oppressor of the Clergy words unfit for a Clergy man to give or a King to beare some say that thereupon out of remorse of Conscience he betook himselfe to a Monastery but quickly threw off his cowle againe and ended his life in such desperate courses One worse then himselfe 10. CARETICUS is put into his place An. C. 586 This the Saxous soon espied and finding the dislike between him and his Subjects which he delighted in rather then appeased They aime at a Conquest of the whole Land and get Gurmundus an Arch Pyrate of Norway others say a King of the Africans then being in Ireland to assist them in it 2. He comes with all his Forces The King flies to Chichester the befiedgers by a stratagem of tying fire to Sparrowes ang so leting them flye into the Towne amongst Thatched houses and dry straw quickly fired it Careticus escapes into Wales which was with Cornewall the chiefe hold left for the poore Britaines Saxons then roame up and downe at pleasure and as some say called the whole Country Hengistland which now we call England 3. After 24 years of this streightning of the Britaines 11. An. C. 613 CADWAN Duke of North-wales becomes Governour of his Country Austine the Monke had before arrived amongst the Saxons sent by Pope Gregory and converted many of them to Christianity but carrying himselfe too high at a meeting with the British Bishops at a place thereupon called Austines Oake in Worcester shire no agreement was made between them not long after a Massacre was executed upon the harmelesse Monkes of Bangor wherein 2000 were slaine som say not without Austins instigation by wild Ethelfrid the Pagan King of Northumberland 2. This barbarous cruelty Gadwan leads his Forces to revenge but the matter by mediation was so composed betwixt them that they ever after continued friends untill his dying day to whom succeeded his sonne 12. CADWALLO An. C. 635 He joyning with Penda King of Mercia killed Edwin King of Northumberland with his sonne Osfride in the Battle at Hethfeild for which he it bitterly taxed by Beda but Beda being a Saxon is observed not to speake the best of the Britaines and soothed by the Romane Faction of Austins breed accounted the dissenting Britaines though better Christians then themselves little better then Pagans 2. Others acquit Cadwallo for a Noble Prince and a great defendor of his Country and scourge of their adversaries His sonne 13. An. C. 683 CADWALLADER proved not so successefull Notwithstanding at the beginning he had the better of those Saxons that opposed 1. In a great famine that fell upon all his territories he was forced with his Nobles to forsake his Country and sojourne with his Cosen Alan King of Little Britaine 2. In the interim his Pined Subjects were oppressed by the Saxons He about by his returne to relieve them is diverted by a Dreame some make it the appearance of an Angell and so goes to Rome on Pilgrimage there turnes Monke dyes and is there buried Where interred was with him the last of the Brittish Monarches Such an influence had Dreams and fancied apparitions and forged Sawes and the like delusions upon suspicious dispositions 2. WIth this last Distance or Ranke in the British Dynasty Contemporize 1. The Sourse of Mahumatisme by the Alcaron in the East 2. The Propagation of Papall Pompe and Superstition in the West betwixt which it was no marvaile if 3. Paganisme also tyrannized being conceited as senior to both as here it did by the barbarou Saxons upon the Poore Wasted and forsaken Britaines INQVIRES 3. Whether 1. Vortiger with Rowan his Saxon wife were consumed with wild fire from his besiegers or with Lightning from Heaven 2. The Rocks of Stone-heng were brought thither out of Ireland by Merlins Inchantments or Vter-Pendragons forces 3. Igren the Dutches of Cornewall could be so deluded without some connivence of her own as to mistake Vter-Pendragon in stead of her Husband 4. The story of Arthur be for the most part fabulous 5. That Pattent be undoubtedly from him that is alleadged to justify the Antiquity of the Vniversity of Cambridge 6. Austine the Monke arriving for the Saxons conversion to Christianity might not be suspected to have had a finger in the Massacre of the 2000 Monkes of Bangor 7. Cadwallador may be excused that forsook his distressed Country to become a Monke Saxon Heptarchie DINASTY II. 1. THE Dynasties of the Britaine 's having been exhibited in the former seaven Parcells The second of the Saxons succeeds and expires at the beginning of the Danish Government 2. It usually is divided into the Saxon 1. Heptarchy 2. Monarchy 3. The Heptarchy is intricated with diverse bickerings and Changes that puzzell the Memory and may be so farre only touched upon as they preface to the Monarchy which brings us to our direct discending line againe 4. In it are reckoned these seven petty Kingdomes 1. KENT 2. SUSSEX 3. EAST-SAX 4. EAST-ANGLES 5. MERCIA 6. NORTHUMBERLAND 7. WEST-SAX Of all which some particulars only may be pickt out which are most remarkable In KENT with Hengist the first invador seventeene or eighteene are said to Raigne An. C.
Lambert Simnell and Ferkin Warbeck two counterfeits set up by Margaret Dutchesse of Burgoyne King Edward the fourths fister but wisely and valiantly he quitted himselfe of them 3. The Cornish Rebells under Michaell Joseph and Thomas Flammoch made a great head against him distressed Exceter and Tanton but in the end were overthrowne at Black-heath in Kent 4. His cruelty in executing the harmlesse Earle of Warwick cannot be excused 5. The King and Queene of Castile driven into Waymouth by a storme were entertained Nobly by Sir Thomas Trenchard and afterwards by the King with great Pompe 6. His eldest sonne Arthur married Katharine Ferdinando's daughter of Arragon and dyes not long after 7. The King executes Penall Lawes to the great grievance of the Subjects by Empson and Dudley which at his death he repents of 8. He was buried in the stately Chappell he built at Westminster where most of his successors lye His Sonne 2. A.C. 1509 HENRY the eight succeeds 1. Marries his brother Arthurs wife Katharine by a dispensation from the Pope 2. He had Warres with the French and Scotts who received a shamefull overthrow by the Earle of Surrie in Flodden â—eild with the death of their King while our King was in France where the Emperour Maximilian was in his pay with this Motto ICH DEIN I serve 3. His favourites Cardinall Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell after much honour were at length cut off by him 4. Exceptions were taken against his Marriage with his brothers Wife and the Popes dallying with him in the businesse lost him his Supremacy and Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas Moore for standing for it lost their Heads 5. The Rebellions against him of Captain Cobler and the Pilgrims under pretence of Religion were quickly appeased 5. He is blamed for his change of Wives Was the first that wrot himselfe King of Ireland set out a book against Martin Luther and gained the title of Defender of the Faith He grew in his latter time to be very harsh and bloudy Dying he left to succeed him his sonne 3. EDWARD the Sixth A.C. 1548 by his wife the Lady Iane Seymour who lost her own life in his Birth to preserve her Sonnes 1. He being Crowned in the 11th yeare of his Age had for Protector his Vnkle Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset 2. The Scots breaking their promise for the Marriage of the young Queene with King Edward received a great overthrow at Muskleborough 3. Three Rebellions against him The first from Cornwall and Devonshire by Humphrey Arundell and some Popish Priests and seduced Gentlemen whom he distressed at Exceter The second in the North by Ombler a yeoman and Dale a Parish Clearke for Religion The third by Kett the Tanner of Norwich with his Complices for Inclosures were successively extinguished by his worthy Chiefetaines 4. He excellently purged the Church from Popish Superstition and setled the true Service of God and Preaching of his word 5. The unlucky dissentions of his two Vnkles the Lord Protector and his brother Thomas Lord Admirall arising from the siding of their Wives who should take Place was the Breakneck of both of of them Thomas suffered for Treason the Protector for Felony Vpon which the Kings Death soon followes leaving by his will the Lady Jane the Duke of Suffolkes daughter to succeed him but it prevailed not against the Title of his Sister 4. A.C. 1553 MARIE who especially won her right by the Norfolke men 1. Beheaded the Lady Iane with her Husband Gilford Dudly and Abettors 2. Vpon her resolution to Marry with Philip of Spaine Sir Thomas Wiat dangerously Rebells under pretence to oppose it and enters London as farre as Ludgate but was at last taken and executed 3. The Lady Elizabeth is accused as accessary to Wiats Insurrection thereupon is committed to the Tower afterwards removed to Woodstock but at length enlarged by the unexpected favour of King Philip. 4. Who prosecutes the Quarrells between England and France takes St Quintins The French recover themselves and get Callice which stuck in the heart of Q. Mary and with some other disasters cast her into a mortall Melancholy 5. She was ridiculously reported to have been with Child and some triumphing there was at home and abroad for her deliverance But it was but a Popish invention 6. Cardinall Poole was recalled and made Archbishop of Canterbury Her brothers Reformation which abrogated the Popes Supremacy she restored with the rest of that annexed Idolatry 7. Gardiner of Winchester and Bonner of London play the Butchers upon the Professors of the Gospell Arch-bishop Cranmer with the Bishops of Worcester and London Latimer and Ridley were burnt at Oxford with others of all sorts conditions otherwhere 8. The Dutches of Suffolke miserably flying to save her life To all which Troubles and Persecutions the Queenes death after five years Raigne set a Period and the most happy succession of her Sister 5. A.C. 1558 ELIZABETH who often solicited to Marry never consented 1. Shee banished all Popish Idolatry and restored the Purity of Religion 2. Pope Pius the fifth deprived her by his Bull fixed to the Bishop of Londons Gate by desperate Felton but it proved but a Calfe 3. The Insurrâ—ctions thereupon of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmoreland ended with the Ruins of the Rebells as also infinite plots against her Person and State had the same Issue See B. Carletons descâ—ption of them in a Table 4. Her protecting of the Low Countries overthrow of the Invincible Armado of the Spaniards in the Sea fight of 1588. Aiding Henry the fourth of France to settle him in his Kingdome Quelling the Irish Rebells and such eminent Atchievements renowned her throughout all the World insomuch as the Proud Turke by an honourable Embassage acknowledged her Excellency and desited her friendship 5. For her mercifull returning home certain Italians that were taken Prisoners in the 88 Jnvasion she was tearmed St Elizabeth by some at Venice whereof one told the Lord Carleton afterward Vicount Dorchester being there Embassadour that although he were a Papist yet he would never pray to any other Saint but that Saint Elizabeth 2. WIthin the Compasse of this Government may be observed 1. The Protestations of Christian Divines and Princes against Romes Tyranny Errours Idolatry Cheatings and Delusions of which a necessary Reformation was began and prosecuted 2. The Politique Plotts and combustions in the Councell of Trent to interrupt frastrate it 3. The censures Treasons and Massacres inflicted upon them that any way stood for it 4. In the mean while brave Huniades and Scanderbeg purchase immortall Glory in their Heroicall exploits against the Turke Columbus Americus Vesputius for discovering Cortez and Pizarro for Conquest of the West Indies Our Sir Francis Drake and Mr Thomas Candish for compassing the Globe of the world 5. But the chiefest thing of all was the cutting of the Combe of the Popes Supremacy so that it may be said As King Henry the seaventh Courted him
Methusalah dyed before the Flood CAP. II. The Intervall of the Noachians 1. An. Mund. 1657. THE second Distance takes its rise from the end of the Flood to the calling of Abraham for the space of 367 yeares gathered out of Gen 11.26 2. In which succeed 1. SEM the middle Sonne of Noah Junius as some contend but preferd before the elder Japhet and the youngest Cham. 2. He is thought by the Jewes Gen. 14. Broughton to be Melchizedek that brought provision to Abraham and his company at their return from their victory against the four Eastern Kings which is strongly opposed by some latter writers Cuneus Mouliâ— 3. In the distribution of the world after the Flood Asia fell to his share and his Posterities from whence t is likely that they spread themselves East-ward and so rounded the earth that way to people America as on the West they left Palestina and those Coasts to Chams issue the Cananites whose proper portion was Africke as Iaphets was Europe and the Isles Sems Successour was 2. ARPHAXAD younger Brother as it should seem to Elam and Ashur from whom descended the Persians and Assyrians Abulensis out of Comestor and Methodius mentions one Ionithus or Ionichus begotten of Noah 100 yeares after the Flood who informed the Easterlings in Astronomy Prophesied of the four Monarchies and put Nimrod his forward Scholer first to take state upon him His picture you have in Chronica Chronicorum as also of Persla Cathastua and Funda Sem Ham and Iaphets Wives But these Monkish Figments have lesse show of truth then the foysting in here of Cainan by the Greeks to be Arphaxads Son whom all the Hebrews omitt and ranck in the next place 3. SALAH He is said to have built Salem by Comestor and by others upon the passage of his Father Arphaxad over the River Tygris to seat himselfe with his Family in Chaldea to have named his Sonne 4. HEBER From this man his posterity were entituled Hebrewes In his time fell out a double division first of Tongues then of Nations according to their severall tongues He sticks to the Originall Hebrew and upon foresight of these divisions amongst others nameth his Sonne 5. Gen. 10.15 PELEG in whose time these Divisions fell out He begets 6. REU of whom we read nothing else but that he begate 7. Luk. 3. SARUG whom St Luke termeth Saruch following therein the Septuagint His Successour was 8. C. 24.2 Judith 5.7 NAHOR tainted with Idolatrous Leaven as appeares by Josuah's confession and Achiors Declaration Leaves behind him at Vr of the Chaldeans 9. TERAH He had three Sonns Haran Nahor and Abram but upon Harams death in Vr of the Chaldeans whether burnt by the Fire which faithfull Abram escaped as the Jewsh tradition delivers it or caused by some other meanes he removes from Vr to Charran in Mesopotamia with all his Family it should seeme upon his Sonne Abrams motion Gen. 12.1 A.M. 2020. who had his call from God and dyes there His Family at his death stood thus disposed Haran that dyed before him left behind him one Sonne named Lot and two Daughters Milcah and Iscah Milcah was taken to Wife by her Vncle Nahor who setled in that place But Iscah who should seeme to be termed Sarai for her Beauty and Houswivery was marryed to the great Father 10. ABRAM of whose travels from Charran to Canaan and from thence to Aegypt and Gerar. 2. of his Victories against the foure Easterne Kings 3. his domestique troubles by meanes of the dissention between his Wife Sarah and her Maid Hagar 4. his Circumcision by Gods appointment 5. his entertaining of Angels 6. receiving a Sonne from his Sarah past teeming his readines to Sacrifice him when God commanded 7. his second marryage and issue by Keturah and other passages of note From Gen. 12. to the eight v. cap. 25. the Scripture sufficiently sets downe from whence other Authors have it He is thought to be the first instructer of the Aegyptians in good Learning who before were ignorant He ever relyed on this sure ground that there was one God the Creator of all things and that all happinesse came from his good pleasure not from any strength or worth of our owne A Booke called Ietzira is Fathered upon him but the imposture is manifest and the peece thought to be R. Akibah's The rest of his Children otherwise provided for his Sonne Isaac is left to continue the holy Line the foreman of the next Intervall 2. COntemporary with this Period are reckoned 1. the building of the Tower of Babel 2. the introducing of diverse Languages 3. the Peopling of the World by Noah's Posterity 4. the Foundation of the Assyrian Monarchy in Nimrod Ninus and Semiramis 5. the Overthrow of the foure Easterne Kings by Abram and his 318 Household Servants 6. the Destruction from Heaven of Sodome and Gomorrah Gen. 18. 19. withother Cities of the Plain by Fire and Brimstone 7. the Incestuous Originall of the Moabites and Ammonites and Bastard-brood of the Ismaelites Also the Poets Ship Argos and Gigantomachia the Gyants Warre with their Gods may have reference to Noahs Arke and the Builders of Babel Discourse herevpon may be 3. WHETHER 1. The Flood drowned Paradice 2. The Arke could containe all sorts of Beasts and Fowle with sufficient provision for them for a yeare besides Noah and his Family 3. Sem were Noahs Eldest Sonne and the same with Melchizedec 4. His Posterity by an Easterne passage Peopled America 5. Hebrew were the only Tongue spoken before the Confusion at Babel 6. Abram were the first that had his name changed the first Victorious Leader in the Warres the first Professour of Liberall Sciences the first Circumcised and the first Purchaser of Land we read of 7. His Revelations mentioned by Epiphanius and his Assumption cited by Origen and the Booke Jetzirah put upon him be frivolous and fabulous CAP. III. Of the Israelites 1. THE third Distance is from Abram to the departing of Israel from Egypt and containeth the space of 430. years Gal. 3.17 2. In which succeed 1. ISAAC A. M. 2120. the promised seed given to Abraham and Sarah in their old Age. 2. He was forced by Famine to forsake Canaan and releive himselfe with King Abimelech in Gerar as his Father had formerly done where God gave increase of Seed 100 for one 3. Gen. 26 1â— By distrusting God's protection he denyed Rebecca to be his Wife as Abraham had formerly done Sarah But the plot was discovered by Abimelech and he reprooved for it and sent away safely 4. Notorious is his strange deliverance from being Sacrificed by his Father Gen. 22. and the birth of his twins Esau and Jacob of which 2. IACOB the yonger got the Birth right from Esau by purchase for a trifle and the Blessing by a stratagem Gen. 17. â—â— 2. Thereupon to avoyd his Brothers revenge he fled into Mesopotamia to
being inward with the Magicians daughter 3. Then he contracts with the Divell to be his wholly upon condition he would conduct him back to France and fit him with promotions 4. Vpon his returne into France he became admirable for his deepe learning and amongst others of great State had these Chiefetaines his Schollers in the Black-art Theophilact Laurence Malfitane Brazutus and Iohn Gratian. 5. By help of these and of his other Arts he became first Bishop of Rhemes then Arch-Bishop of Ravenna and thence to be Pope in which seate he concealed but ever practised his divelish mystery having in secret a Brazen head in stead of a Delphique Oracle 6. Consulting with this on a time how long he should live answere was given untill he said Masse in Jerusalem This made him confident of a long continuance but he was cozened by the Divells Aequivocation who seized upon him saying Masse in the Church of S. Crosse in one of Lent stations which was otherwise called Jerusalem that he little thought on 7. He is said to have then repented and in token thereof to have requested that his hands tongue and secret members might be cut off where with he had offended God and so to be put into a Cart which was done and the beasts of their ownaccord drew him to Laterane Church where he lyeth buried By the ratling of his bones in the sepulcher prognosticating the death of his Successors 8. But all this Onuphrius Ciaconius Bellarmine and other moderne Papists reject Benno Martinus Poonus Platina Stessa Fasciculus temper Mesteus Vicelius as a fable For which they can blame none but their own ancestors Ciaconius gives a Catalogue of his writings A booke of Geometry MS. in Cardinall Farnesies Library of Arithmetique of the Spheare the Composition of the Astrolabe with a volumne of Epistles which few should seem have met with He was held a Magician say his Advocates because he was a notable Mathematician which was rare in those obscure times After a little more then foure years 2. A. 1003 IOHN called Siccus saith Blondus whom those that leave out Pope Iohane and Iohn the Greeke Gregory the fifth his competitor reckon but the 17. Those that take in both say he was the 19. We keeping in Dame Ioan and not counting that Iohn may best take him for the 18th 2. Benno makes him to be given to Magick as his predecessor was He took off the choyce of Popes from the People upon this plausible ground Docendus est populus non sequendus the people are to be taught not followed 3. He appoynted the feast of All-soules upon Odoloh's dreams and Gregories Dialogues It is thought he was poysoned that one as good as himselfe 3. An. 1003 IOHN the 19 called Fasanus might take his turne For from Sylvesters the seconds time to Hildebrand or Gregory the seaventh inclusively amongst Popes saith Benno you shall find them all Necromancers 2. Little was acted in this Popes daies besides raising as they pretended of soules to make people believe Purgatory and the need of their suffrages 4. A. 1009 SERGIUS the fourth a Romane that succeeded passeth by with the title of a harmlesse and merry man 2. Ciacon puts upon him that this man was called Bucca Porci and changed his name and that he also instituted the seaven Electors of Gormany which is not likely He seemed to be of the same institution with 5. BENEDICT the eight a Tuscane his successor A. 1012 who was seen after his death upon a Black horse and confessed he was greatly tormented and desired the Bishop that thus saw him to procure Odilo of Cluniacke to pray for him and to tell 6. IOHN the 20th his brother An. 1024 that he should take a treasure which he discovered where it was hidden and distribute to the Poore for his Soule 2. He crowned the Emperour Conrade and was alwaies protected by him This Iohn with Benedict before him was the Bishop of Portuas sonne 't is hoped well begotten Their Nephew 7. A.D. 1034 BENEDICT the ninth keeps the Chayre to the Family he was formerly named Theophylact fellow pupill with Laurence and Iohn Gratian the Consurers whom he made Cardinalls 2. They were wont to wander the Woods invocate Devills and to bewitch Women to runne after them Laurence one of the crew could tell the standers by that a sparrow brought newes to his fellowes of a booty ready for them by the overthrow of a Cart. 3. Peter of Hungary was suborned by this Pope to put by Henry the third from his succession to his Father in the Empire to which purpose a Crowne was sent him with this Inscription Petra dedit Romam Petro Tibi Papa Coronam The Rock gave Peter Rome The Pope to thee this Crowne doth doome But Peter was quickly quelled by Henries valour and Benedict therewith terrified sold the Popedome to Iohn Gratian his Companion for 1500l. 4. After his death an Heremite is said to have seen him by a Mill having the body of a Beare and Head and Taile of an Asse But between Iohn Gratians bargaine and the Popedome steps in 8. A. 1044 SYLVESTER the third a Romane and Bishop of Sabine Laurence the Conjurers sonne This was done while Benedict was living who quickly recovers his seat againe outs Sylvester and gives the Polonians one Cashimire a Monke for their King In regard whereof diverse omit this Pope from him John Gratian an Italian by the name of 9. A. 1045 GREGORY the sixth receives the Keyes so that three Popes were extant here at one time which Ciacon calls the 20th schisme Bellarmine makes it but the 14th Benedict in the Laterane Sylvester in S. Peters and Gregory in S. Maries 2. But the Emperour coming to keep the Peace amongst them put to flight Benedict sent Sylvester home to his Bishopricke and banisht Gregory into Germany with his scholler Hildebrand then placeth in the Chayre 10. A. 1047 CLEMENT the second Bishop of Bamberge By the authority of a Synode he caused the Romanes to renounce by oath the right they claimed in chusing Popes 2. But this netled them so deepely that as soone as the Emperour was gone they set his Pope going with poyson Bracutus was the Competitor but 11. A. 1048 DAMASUS the second a Bavarian put him off that he might possesse the place which he kept but three weeks and two daies and then Brazutus did as much for him Whereupon the Emperour sent Bruno a Germane Bishop to supply the place He possesseth it by the name of 12. A. 1049 LEO the ninth As this man was going to Rome from Germany in his Pontificalibus Hildebrand falls into his Company and perswades the simple man to put off his Robes wave the Emperour and have a new Election from the Romane Clergy 2. This he did and then made Hildebrand Cardinall who managed all then at his pleasure At Vercellis he held a Councell against Beringarius but soon after he had a passe from Brazutus leaving his seate
to his Country-man 13. An. 1055 VICTOR the second who was received by the Romanes rather for feare of the Emperour then any liking to the man 2. Cardinall Hildebrand is dispatched into Germany to designe young Henry heire apparent to the Empire upon whose returne Victor was soon vanquished by one of Brazutus pills and so was the Lorayner 14. An. 1057 STEPHEN the ninth who was thrust in without Caesars consent he brought Millayne to vaile bonnet and crouch to Rome held a Councell at Florence against married Priests and chose that took Benefices of Lay-men 2. To reforme some such matters Hildebrand was Legat a Latere into Burgundy and other places But Brazutus neere home sent him the way of his Fathers One Mincius a Campanian then steps in by the name of 15. BENFDICT the 10th An. 1057 But because this was done without Hildebrands privity and in his absence a Councell was held at Sutrinum in which Benedict was deposed and Gerardus Bishop of Florence Hildebrands Companion placed by the title of 16. NICHOLAS the second Benedict thus deprived An. 1059 dyes in banishment and by diverse is not reckoned among the Popes 2. Nicholas bestirres himselfe to bring the election of the Popes to the Cardinalls and to bring Beringarius to a recantation of his opinion against Transubstantiation 3. In the mean while Hildebrand extorts from the Pope to be Arch-deacon of Rome and then Brazutus comes with his Cup and sets Nicholas also packing A man would have thought that then Hildebrand should have sped but 17. ALEXANDER the second An. 1061 a Millanois happens to be chosen Cadolus Bishop of Parma is set up against him and twice coming to Rome with an Army is twice repulsed 2. The Emperour complaines that Alexander was elected without his leave Hildebrand stoutly maintaines that the Emperour hath no right in the election of Popes Alexander inclining to yeeld the Emperour his due is soundly boxed by Hildebrand then imprisoned and at length poysoned Now comes Hildebrand the Hetrurian under the name of 18. GREGORY the seaventh An. 1075 without any election of Emperour or Clergy but only by his own intrusion 2. He had poysoned some sixe or seaven Popes by Brazutus before he could get the Popedome himselfe 2. In it he had a trick to shake out sparkes of fire out of his sleeves by another such he had brought it about that the voyce of the people was Peter the Apostle hath made choyce of Hildebrand to be Pope 3. He mainly set himselfe against the Emperour and had plotted that when he went to Prayers at S. Maries in Aventine hill a villaine was set with a stone to roll down from the roofe to brayne the Emperour but it fell out to the fall and quashing of the Executioner 4. He threw the Sacrament into the fire because it answered not his demands as the Heathen Gods did concerning his successe against the Emperour whom he Excommunicated and sent a Crowne unto Rodelphus Duke of suevia with this verse upon it Petra dedit Petro Petrus Diadema Rodulpho That Crowne the Rock did give to Peter Peter on Ralph bestowes in meeter To cause him to Rebell against his Master wherein he had the foyle and dyed miserably as Herman Count of Lucelburg that was next set up against the Emperour also did by the hand of a Woman tumbling downe a stone upon him as he was besiedging a certain Castle in Germany 5. At last he got the Emperour to such an advantage that he was faine to come to his Castle at Canusium Plat with his Empresse and Sonne barefooted in the cold of Winter and there to wait three daies fasting untill he might have audience which at length was obtained by the mediation of Madame Matilda the Popes minion or as they called her S. Peters daughter that left her Husband to live with this holy Father the Abbot of Cluny Earle of Savoy and others 6. When he pronounced the sentence of Excommunication against the Emperour Ben. the new seate whereon he sate unexpectedly rent in peeces He condemned Berengarius opinion against the Corporall presence together with Preists Marriages Sainted Liberius the Arian exercised what cruelty pleased especially against a Widdowes Sonne whose Foot he cutt off 7. But at last vengeance over tooke him for in a Synode at Brixia he was Deposed and dyed miserably in exile The Papists notwithstanding commend this man One Clement was set up against him in his life time But 19. VICTOR the third an Italian succeeds him A. 1086 thrust in by Matilda and therefore defended all Gregories doings 2. Tâ— is was not long for his Sub-Deacon poysoned him in the Chalice Christ's Blood in that case Platina being no preservaetive A Monke of Cluney 20. VRBANE the second an Hetrurian takes the place A. 1088 a true Diciple of Hildebrands and Crony of Matildahs 2. He opposes the Emperour and Excommunicates him and Cloment the third whom he had chosen Pope So that instead of Vrbanus he was called Turbanus because he set all Christendome in a Combustion quarrelling which Popes side to take 3. But Vrbane out stript Clement by holding diverse Synods and upon the information of Peter the Herâ—mite sending 300000 signed with the Crosse to recover the Holy-land under the Conduct of Godfrey of Bulloigne 4. Notwithstanding Iohn a Romane Citizen at last made him hide his head in the house of Peter Leo where he yeelded up his trouâ— Iesome spirit though St Benedict formerly as it was voyced had cured him of the Stone by Miracle 21. A. 1099 PASCHALIS the second another of Hildebrands brood seconds him This man would not forsooth in modesty take the place before the hyred shout of the multitude Petrus Raynerum virum optimum elegit Peter hath chosen Raynerâ—us an excellent man had heartned him to it 2. Then he shewes himselfe in excommunicating the Emperour Henry the fourth and setting his only sonne Henry the fifth against him to persecute him to the death And being dead caused him to lye unburied five yeares together 3. Neither agrecd he better with Henry the fifth He denyed the right of Investiture of Bishops and other Imperiall priviledgor whereupon he was laid in hold by the Emperour frees himselfe by a solemne Oath not to withstand any more the Imperiall right but as soone as the Emperour had turned his back and left Italy his holynesse could dispence for Perjury and Excommunicate the sonne as devoutly as he had done the Father 4. He gave entertainment to Anselme our Rebellious Archbishop of Canterbury and upheld him against his Soveraigne Henry the first but that understanding King kept them well enough at his staves end 5. Preists Marriages were reinterdicted by this Scholer of Hildebrand He made a great company of Carnall Cardinals had Albert and Theodorick with others noted by Ciacon set up Anti-Popes against him But 22. A.D. 1118 GELASIUS the second a Campanian had the luck to carry the place but not without great opposition of
and Iohn de Rupe-Scissâ 5. Raymund of Pinnasort a Spaniard of Bercinona composeth the booke of Decretalls Plat. Ciacon whi◠this Pope alloweth In these courses especially against the Emperour old 40. CELESTINE the fourth a Lumbard An. 1241 would have persisted but that almost at his first entrance he tooke a potion that marred his stomack and sent him to his predecessors One Robert Sommerton or Sommerlet an English man because he was upon election to be Pope by the like means was set going the same way 21. weeks the place lies voyd till the Emperour at the request of Baldwine the Easterne Emperour and Raymund of Tholose freed the Cardinalls he had in Prison to goe to an Election Revel 13. This pack of Sorcerers by some is tearmed the Kingdome of the Dragon 2. IN the compasse of this Period are found 1. Besides a knot of Conjurers and Poysoners 2. A Crew of Divelish Rebells abusing Religion to varnish their damnable designes 3. A rable of Orders of Munks that disorder all things 4. Wrangling Sophistry set on foot by Lanfranch Lombard Albertus Magnus with otheir Sects and Factions 5. Canonists glosing and descanting upon their Master Gratian the Collector of the Decrees 6. Comestor with lying Legendaries 7 Hildegardis Katherine of Seene and some other such Shee-Prophetesses notwithstanding Anselme and Bernard and the Hugoes de Sancto Victore and de Sancte-Claro are of better account The vexations of the poore Waldenses and barbarous usage of Learned Beringarius were wonderfull and of long Continuance as their Histories set out at large doe manifest INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Necromancy may be a tollerable way to Ecclesiasticall preferment 2. Pope Sylvesters Brazen head were the same with our Roger Bacons or of any other temper 3. Iohn Gratian the Conjurer had the Popedome at an easy rate for 1500l of Benedict the 9th 4. The Sub-Deacon that poysoned Pope Victor the third in the Chalice and Hildebrand that threw the consecrated host in to the fire believed Transubstantiation 5. Hildebrand aliàs Gregory the 7. poysoned sixe or seaven Popes before he could get the place for himselfe 6. Saladine with the Saracens did lesse hurt to Christianity in the East then the Popes with their Complices in the West 7. The Waldenses in the maine held the same opinions with the Protestants of latter times SECT IX The sixth Ranke of Devouring Abaddons FRom Aegyptian Magitians we fall upon Devouring Abaddons who strengthned their side by multitudes of Monkish Ianizaries that wasted for about 250. years following all that lay before them the leader of these was 1. INNOCENT the fourth of Genua A. 1243 he denounced the fourth Excommunication against the Emperour Frederick who had been his greatest friend held a Councell at Lions and deposed him set Henry of Thuring in his place and after him William of Holland and a great company of Crusiados that the Pope had marked for his own beasts but the Emperour crossed their Crownes as he met with them and Nobly defended himselfe untill he was poysoned at length by the Popes meanes and finally smothered by his bastard Manfred 2. This Pope was the only Patron of the foure orders of begging Locusts Dominicans Franciscans Carmelites and Augustines who hatched under him those addle eggs of Summaries Sophismes Repertories Reductories Quodlibets Exorcismes Breviaries Ritualls and the like 3. He offered to sell the Kingdome of Sicily to Henry the third at a reasonable rate being none of his own and quarrelled with our Robert Grostead Bishop of Lincolne who withstood him stoutly and contemned his Excommunication 4. And after his death is said to have minded the Pope by a thumpe on his side with his Crosyers staffe and this Item Veni miser in judicium Dei come wretch to Gods judgement and so eased the world of this Tyrant He left behind him Apparatum ad decretales an Apology against Peter de Vineis with other tracts mentioned by Ciacon and his successor a Campanian 2. ALEXANDER the fourth A.D. 1254 This man is all for Apulia Excommunicated Munfred diverted the money gathered to recover the Holy Land to work his own ends at home pilled England so farre that Fulke Bishop of London exclaimed against him one Leonard told his Legate that Churches were under the Popes tuition not fruition to defend not to expend and a Clearke he sent to be Prebend of Paules against the Kings Chaplaine was slaine in a tumult 2. He made for money Richard Earle of Cornwall Henry the thirds brother King of Germany whereupon a rime was made Nummus ait pro me nubet Cornubia Romae My purse tells me a quick dispatch 'Twixt Rome and Cornwall for a match Condemnes the bookes of William de Sancto Amore leaves 3. A. 1261 VRBANE the fourth his successor being formerly a Patriarch of Ierusalem He continued his sting against Manfred of Sicily and wrought Charles the King of France his Brother to be his death 2. Withstood the Romanes as much as he could who had set up a new Magistrate amongst them called Bandenses having power of life and death 3. Vpon solicitation by Eva an Anchoresse but as Onuphrius will have it by a drop of bloud distilling from the host in a Priests hand he instituted the feast of Corpus Christi day 4. Albertus Magnus and Aquinas are referred to this mans time 4. An. 1265 CLEMENT the fourth a French man is next who had before a Wife and three children 2. He brings in the French to get Naples sent Octobonus into England to take the value of all Church Revenues But he summoned by Death to a reckoning in a great Hubbub of the Cardinalls 5. A. 1271 GREGORY the tenth a Lombard was thrust into his place whereupon came the verses Papatus munus tulit Archi diaconus unus Quem Patrem Patrum fecit discordia fratrum An Arch-deacon the Papall Incomes gathers Whom Brethrens discord Father made of Fathers 2. He held a Councell at Lions at which was present Mychael Paleologus the Greeke Emperour and acknowledged the Laterane tenent of the proceeding of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne which twelve times before they had withstood 3. Bonaveuture was by him made Cardinall and Peter de Turantesia Cardinall of Hostia Radulphus of Auspurge Crowned Emperour but would not goe to Rome to have it Quia vestigia as he said ipsum terrebant because the Foxe saw no safe returne Peter de Tarautasia succeeds him by the title of 6. INNOCENT the fifth a Burgundian An. 1276 the first Pope of the begging Fryars being the same Peter Tartaret that wrote upon the Sentences and other workes 2. He endeavoured to set Peace amongst all but dyed before he could effect any thing 7. HADRIAN the fifth a Genoway followes A. 1276 named before Octobonus the same that kept so great a stirre here in England in the Raigne of Henry the third 2. Platina Vide Pitgah Evang. p. 182 He dyes before he was consecrated some say
by them Charles getting from him for his share France and Lewes Germany leaving only to him Italy with Gallia Narbonensis and Austrasia which he termed by his owne name Lotharingia to uphold the title of the Emperour which they sought not after 2 In his time the Saracens Plundered Italy which he could not help and Pope Iohan had gotten St Peters Chayre whose sexe could not be so well discerned saith Chalcondilas because the Popes usually shave their Beards 3. He is passed with this Symbole VBI MEL JBI FEL Gall commonly accompanies hony which broke him so much that he quâ—â—ted his Empire and betooke himselfe to a Monastery where he ended his dayes leaving his charge to 4. LUDOVICUS the second his sonne 1. An. C. 856 He repressed the Saracens in Italy subdued the Slavonians and brought them to Christianity Wanted not will but power to doe more good 2. At the Election of Adrian the second without notice given to his Embassadours then being in Rome he was sleighted with this excuse that no contempt was meant therein but a prevention of an ill conceipt that a Pope could not be chosen if such a presence were wanting 3. His saying was PAR SIT FORTVNA LABORI I aske but successe according to my paines taking He dyes without Issue and left the King of France his Vncle 5. CHARLES the Bald to succeed him in the Empire An. C. 876 He was first withstood by his elder Brother Lewes of Germany but his death ended the quarrell 2. He expells the Saracens out of Rome and raigned not so long to doe any great matters Bertram was set on worke by him concerning the Corporall Presence which then began to be grosly maintain'd in the Sacrament 3. His saying was QVOD PASTORI HOC OVIBVS The flock never thrives in the Pastors miseries He is thought to be poysoned by a Iew his Physition in Italy leaves his sonne 6. LEWES the Stammerer Crown'd by Pope John in France An. C. 878 but not acknowledged in Rome 2. He meant well but wanting health time performed little 3. His Motto was that of Galba's MILES LEGENDVS NON EMENDVS he dyed quickly left his Cosen of the elder house his successour 7. A.C. 880 CHARLES the Fat He had France Germany and Italy togither with the title of the Empire 2. And notwithstanding his unwildinesse of body did much against the Saracens and drove them from Italy The Normans and Belgians put him to more trouble to whom he was constrained to grant those Territories they ever since have kept 3. Those sad times set on some to write Threnos Germaniae the Lamentations of Germany according to his Motto OS GARRVLVM INTRICATOMNIA A prating tongue puzzells all businesse of consequence He proving unfit for Action some say was deposed others that he dyed with griefe and want All agree that 8. A.C. 888 ARNULPHUS his Nephew followed him he quelles the tumultuous Normans and in managing other affaires of the Empire shewed himselfe an able man 2. But falling upon Rifling of Churches Gods vengeance overtook his Sacriledge most say he died of the lowsy disease others that he was poysoned by Guido's wife whose Husband he had caused to be ignominiously hanged 3. His word was FACILE VOCABIS CACODEMONEM SED NON FACILE REPVLERIS It is easy to raise a Divell but not so easy to be rid of him His sonne 9. A.C. 900 LEWIS the fourth is advanced to his place 1. Never were the times more dissolute and dangerous then in this mans daies Beringarius and Lewis the sonne of Boson in Italy the Hungarians Germans and Saracens on all sides come upon him In Rome all things were carried by Maroziah the strumpet and her breed with whoÌ„ the Lombards were associated 2. His word was MVLTOKVM MANVS PAVCORVM CONCILIVM Few directors will guide many hands 3. In him some say ended the line of Charles the Great The Imperiall dignity being conferred upon 10. A.C. 912 CONRADUS Duke of Franconia It was offered by the Nobles to Otho Duke of Saxony but he excused himselfe through his age and commended Courade unto them which some make to be of the kindred of Great Charlesâ— 2. He grew Jealous of Henry old Otho's sonne and carried a hard hand over him but at length commended him to his successor 3. His word was FORTVNA CVM BLANDITVR FALLIT Fortune failes when she fawnes This 11. HENRY the first that succeeds A.C. 920 in the unquestion'd Germane line was termed Auceps the Faulkoner because he used much that kind of recreation 2. Chron. Chronicer He was so farre from sueing to the Pope to be Crowned that he refused that complement offered unto him 3 Purchased as one saith the holy Lance wherewith our Saviours side was pierced Hedio with some of the nailes to the bargaine of Radulphuâ— King of Burgundy giving him great guifts and part of Suevia for it which shewes that he was religious in his way 3. He overcame Arnold of Bavaria his competitor by perswasion the Hungarians Bohemians and Dalmatians by force Sleidan pacified all Germany and divided it into Marquisates 4. He founded Bishopricks brought in the martiall exercise of Tilting 5. His word was TARDVS AD VINDICTAM AD BENEFICENTIAM VELOX It is a Princely mind to be readier to gratify then to take revenge Vpon his peaceable death 12. OTHO the first his sonne takes his place An. C. 937 whose Symbole shewed his generous disposition AVT MORS AVT VITA DECORA Better it is to dye bravely then to live ignominioâ—sly 2. In France he freed King Lewis imprisoned by his Rebellious Subjects In Bohemia he expelled Bolislaus for murthering his own Brother From Italy he drove Beringarius King of the Lombards in Rome deposed that monster John the 12. setled Leo the 8. in his Chaire 3. For marrying a second Wife his sonne Laitholdus which he had by Editha his first wife our King Edmunds daughter rebelled against him but being overcome and submitting out of a fatherly affection was received againe into favour 4 Howsoever he was contented being in Rome to be Crowned by the Pope yet he left a decree that no Pope should be elected without the Emperours consent 5. After manifold Heroicall exploits atchieved by him in all parts of his Dominion he attained the Epethite of Magnus with Constantine and Charles dyed in the bed of Honour and left 13. An. C. 973 OTHO the second his sonne to inherit his royalties and virtues 1. His opposite the quarrelling Henry Duke of Bavaria was quickly quelled by him 2. He was termed the pale death of the Saracens for the often overthrowes especially in Apulia given them 3. The Greeks notwithstanding under the conduct of Basilius their Emperour and Constantine his sonne had the hand over him in a set Battell in such sort that he was faine to swimme for his life and escape in a Fishers boate whence falling amongst Pyrats he hardly freed himselfe 4. His word was PACEM CVM