franchises being possessed or claimed by any person or persons and which were to be seized into the Kings hands and of all escapes and Fellons and those inquisitions so from time to time to be taken to certifie into the Chancery And by the same Charter gave him power to substitute and appoint others under him for the better execution of the same which afterwards by Commission was executed accordingly And the said King also by his Charter bearing date 14 Junii 8º regni made and constituted the said Arthur Prince of Wales and Governour and Warden of the Marches towards Scotland and substituted as his Lieutenant and Vice-Warden under him Thomas Earle of Surrey for the due execution thereof Likewise the said King by his letters Patents dated 5. Novemb. 9. regni in augmention of the Revenue of the Prince did grant unto the said Prince the Honour Castle and Lordship of Wigmore and divers other Castles Mannours and Lands which some time had been belonging to the Earldom of March which came to the Crown by King Edward the IV. who was himself Earle of March before he assumed the regal estate To have and to hold during the pleasure of the King yielding yearly the Rent of 200 l. A Councel assigned the P. The Prince was sent unto the Marches of Wales for government of that Country and in the 17 regni Henry VII had a Counsell of wise and very worthy men assigned unto him as namely Sr. Richard Pool chief Chamberlain of the said Prince Sir Henry Vernon Sir Richard Crofts Sir David Philips Sir William Vdal Sir Thomas Inglefield and Sir Peter Newton Knights John Wilson Henry Marian Doctor William Smith after Bishop of Lincolne where he was buryed President of the Councel and Doctour Charles where not long afterwards the said Prince died in the Castle of Ludlow without issue I may not let passe what Mr. Lhoyd writeth concerning Sir Owen Tuder he saith that Sir William Stanley then Lord of Cromfield Mr. Lhoyd fol. 391. Yale and Chirkland aided Henry VII being followed by the Welshmen and that the said Henry knowing and pittying the thraldom and iniuries of that Nation from whom he descended took order to reform the same and granted vnto them a Charter of liberties The bondage of Hen. IV. taken from the Welsh by Hen. VII whereby they were released of that oppression wherewith they were afflicted by lawes I have set down before more heathenish then christian and here I cannot omit but some thing answer the reproachful and slanderous assertions of Joannes Bernardus Pontus Henlerus and others I my self have seen a manuscript where he is called a Shereman but rather ignorantly I hope then maliciously who go about to abase the noble parentage of Owen Tuder the Kings Grandfather following more their own affections then any good proof or authority for if they would read that noble work of Matthew Paris they shall find in page 843. of the printed book that Ednivet Vachan one of his Ancestours was the chiefest of Councel to Lhewelin ap Jorwerth otherwise called Leolenus Magnus and to David ap Lhewelin Princes of Wales as formerly They may also find in the Records of the Tower of London in an 29. Edward I. in the general homage done to Prince Edward of Caernavon first prince of Wales of the English bloud that Tuder ap Grono another of the Ancestours of Owen did his homage among the Nobles of Wales Owen Tuder descended from the K. of England as appeareth in the said Records Further the said Owens Grandmother the wife of Tuder ap Grono was Margaret the daughter of Thomas the son of Elianor which was the daughter of the County of Barr by Elianor his wife daughter to Edward I. King of England Besides all this there was a Commission at this time directed by King Edward VII to the Abbot of Lhan Egwest Doctor Owen Pool Canon of Hereford and John King Herald to make inquisition concerning the parentage of the said Owen who coming to VVales travelled in that matter and used the helps of Sir John Levof Guttin Owen Bardh Gruffith ap Lhewelin ap Evan Vachan and others in the search of the Brittish or Welsh books of Pedigrees out of the which they drew his perfect Genealogy from the Antient Kings of Brittain and the Princes of VVales and so returned their Commission which return is extant to be seen at this day And I God willing will set forth what I have in a compendium which I intend to annex to this present treatise of many things which cannot be well digested in method of History yet much conduce to the Glory of the Welsh the several princely stems from whence Owen Tuder and consequently the succeeding Kings of England descended Henry Duke of York After the death of Prince Arthur King Henry VII Charta creationis P. Wal. by his letters patents dated the 18 of February 19 regni in a parliament created Henry then his only son who after was King Henry VIII and whom before that in the 11. he had made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by an other Charter of the same year Constable of the Castle of Dover to be Prince of Wales Earle of Chester being then about the age of twelve years To have and to hold to him and his heirs Kings of England for ever being the like limitation of Estate and with the like investure as in former times had been acustomed But whether the King did grant the lands and revenues belonging to the said principality unto the said Henry or no as he had done unto Prince Arthur his brother doth not appear by any Charter therof that as yet can be found After the death of King Henry VII the said Prince Henry was King of England by the name of King Henry VIII he had a issue son called Henry who dyed very young he likewise had issue the Lady Mary afterwards Queen and the Lady Elizabeth and lastly prince Edward the youngest in years who first reigned after the death of his said father by the name of Edward the Sixt. Mary The Lady Mary daughter to the same King Henry the VIII Mr. Lhoyd fol. 393. by the Queen Catherine his first wife was Princesse of Wales and in the 17. year of King Henries reign he sent John Voiseie Bishop of Exeter to be Lord President of the Councel of the said Princesse in the Marches of Wales Elizabeth Elizabeth daughter to King Henry the VIII Mr. Lhoyd fol. 394. was in a Parliament begun the 15 day of January in the 25 regni declared Princesse and Inheritrix of the Crown of England with all the Dominions to the same belonging in default of issue male of the body of the said King Henry Sr. John Dodridge doth not approve of King Edward VI. Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth to have been Prince or Princesse formally for he saith there cannot be found any Charter among the records whereby it may appear that any of
Horsemen 132. and was named Cohors Miliaria that is to say a company of One thousand and more souldiers This Band hath the preheminence above all the Legions when they go to Fight for they are placed in the Forefront and begin the battel The second Band containeth 555 Footmen and 66 Horsemen of heavy Armour and is called Cohors Quinquegintaria The third band hath also 555 Footmen and 66 Horsemen The Fifth had as many These Five bands are set in array in the first battel The other Five bands have equally each band the like number so that these ten bands make a compleat Legion containing 6100 Footmen and 726. Horsemen King Leill in the end of his Reign fell to sloth and lust whereby civil dissentions arose which ended not in his life He reigned 25 years and was buried at Caleile alias Chester which hath given the honour of Earle to these honourable Families 1. Hugh sirnamed Lupus Azure a Wolfs head erased Argent 2. Richard Son of Hugh Gules crutely Or a Wolfs head erased Arg. 3. Randolph de Meschines Or a Lyon rampant with his tail erected Gules 4. Randolph de Gernoniis Gules a Lyon rampant with his tail erected Arg. 5. Hugh Kivilioc son of Randolph Azure 6 garbs 3. 2. 1. 6. Randolph Blondevil Son of Hugh Azure 3 garbs Or. 7. John le Scot Son to the Lady Maud eldest sister of Randolph Or 3 piles Gules Edward eldest Son to K. Ed. 3. England a label of 3 points Symon de Montfort E. of Leicester after whose death Chester was laid unto the Crown and hath been since united to the Principality of Wales Lud or Lud Hurdribras alias Cicuber KIng Lud his Father being Dead with general applause and consent ascends the Royall Throne of great Brittaine in the Year of the Worlds Creation 4279. as Mr. Fabian accounteth the First businesse which he took in hand was to settle his Kingdom for his Father towards the latter end of his Age addicting himself to sloath and giving way to the youthful sin of lust a vice most hateful in an old Man gave occasion to his Subjects who lived in Ease Wealth and Delights to stir up commotions and dissentions these broyls Lud though young yet wisely endeavours by all means and diligence to suppresse knowing that peace and quiet is the Object and chief effect which all distempers and Wars how just soever aim'd at by his studious endeavours and assistance of faithful Friends and careful Councellours he obtains his desire and having settled all distempers and reduced them to their due order and motion he set his mind wholly upon the beautifying of Britanny and therefore in imitation of his Royal Progenitors he begins a City which he calls Caer gant or Kaer kin which afterwards the Saxons call Canterbury which is to say the Court of Kentishmen True it is that Canterbury is now a Metropolitan Church and Archbishops See but it never had an Archflamen St. Augustine out of an affection of his own though some Authors affirm London according to the general rule of placing Archbishops where Archflamens were and bishops where Flamens was appointed by Pope Gregory to be the place there settled his Archiepiscopal chair For Canterbury it was first a Flamens Seat And the old Manuscript History called Abbreviatios Chronicorum saith in this time and setling of Bishops in King Lucius his Reign That the old Church of St. Martins was builded tunc constructa est extra Cantuariam Ecclesia sancti Martini and to notifie that he meant thereby a Cathedral and Episcopal Church he addeth this when he speaketh of changing Flamens into Bishops and all Histories testifie that the holy Bishop Lethardus which came hither with Queen Bertha before St. Augustin's time used it as his Episcopal See And Canterbury besides the Arch-bishop had another Bishop in that Church of Saint Martin divers hundreds of years and Mr. Lambert the Antiquary of Kent saith from Antiquities St. Martins Church built by the Romans in Canterbury was a bishops See untill the Normans came in and so two in one City thus substitute to the Archbishop Giâ—â—â—us And that Canterbury was a Primates See Mr. Broughton fol. 178. out of other Authors Ex Anacleto hujus Insulae divisionem Canterburie London Caerlegion York and Alba in Scotland by some taken to be St. Andrews Vrbs Legionum Cantuaria Londonia Eboraca Alba unde Albania Provincia were designed Primate Sees for such as Giraldus Cambrensis in his second book to Innocentius the 3. Sir John Price Matthew Parker the first Arch-bishop of Canterbury with others testifie Mr. Cambden calls this City Dorovernum saying that the River Stoure runs most swiftly by it which seems partly to give name unto it for that Durwherne signifies in the Brittish tongue a swift or fierce running river he saith it is Vrbs pervetusta Romanoque seculo proculdubio illustris And Malmesbury tels us Nec adeo magna nec euiliter parva quae terrae positione soli assinis maxima ubertate integro murorum ambitu fluviis irriguae nemorum opportunitate inclyta praeterea maris vicinitate piscium faecunda if any desire to satisfie himself further concerning this famous and glorious Brittish City let him read Mr. Cambden in his description of Kent The next City which King Lud founded was Caerguent Ptolomeus and Antoninus call this City Venta Belgarum the Saxons þinvancesvor the Latines Vintonia at this day Winchester some seem to derive the Etymologie from Vento others from Vine and not a few from Wina the Bishop But Lelands conjecture pleaseth better who from the Brittish word Guin or Guen i. e. white doth derive it and so maketh Caer Guin the White City so ab albedine prisci latini Albam Longam Albam Regiam nominarunt for this venta as the other two Venta Icenorum and Venta silurum in the midst between Chepstow and Caerleon in Monmouthshire in times past a Flamens Seat a City and an University or School of Philosophers Nunc seges est ubi venta fuit the high way â—or road is through the midst of it This City was remarkable in the Romans days In qua textrina sua sacra Imperatores Romani habuisse viderentur their weaving houses for according to Guidus Pancirolus illa Gynecia constituta sunt texendis principis ut militum vestibus navium velis stragulis aliis ad Instruendas mansiones necessariis to weave vestures and garments for Princes and Souldiers sails for ships linnen coverings or coverlids and other necessaries to furnish habitations the Cathedral Church of Winchester saith Godwin according to a respect that I finde in an old Manuscript was first built and erected by King Lucius and to speak further in his words This Church was hallowed and dedicated October the 29. 189. by Faganus and Damianus Bishops and he proveth from the same Antiquity that in the year 309. one Constance was Bishop there and in Saint Dubritius time Godwin Catal.
and ten poor people with a Collegiat Church a Dean twelve Canons Prebendaries as many Vicars sufficiently provided for with Revenues wherein himself lyeth buried and it was the greatest ornament of that City untill the hand of King Henry the eight lay over heavy upon all the like foundations and laid their lofty tops at his own feet In this City also was buried another Crouch-back viz. Richard the third in the Church of the Gray-Friers but now nothing remains of his Monument but only the stone chest wherein he was laid a drinking Trough now for horses in a common Inne This place hath given the Titles of honour to many Honourable Families year 1057 1057. 1. Algar the Saxon. year 1103 1103. 2. Edwin died 1071. 3. Robert de Bellamonte Gules a cinquefoyle Ermine 4. Robert de Bellamont 5. Robert de Bellamont L. Steward 6. Robert de Bellamont L. high Steward 7. Simon de Montfort married Amicia sister and coheir to the last Earl Robert L. high Steward 8. Simon de Montfort L. high Steward Gules a Lion rampant his tail double forked salteir wise Argent 9. Edmond Earl of Lancaster L. high Steward 10. Tho. Earl of Lancaster L. high Steward 11. Hen. D. of Lancaster L. high Steward 12. Henry D. of Lancaster L. high Steward England a Label of 5. points Ermine 13. William of Bavaria Earl of Heinalt married the Lady Maud of Lancaster Bendis losengè Argent and Azure 14. John of Gaunt D. of Lancaster L. high steward Henry D. of Lancaster Lord high steward Quarterly France and England a Label of 3. points Ermine Robert Dudleigh Lord Denbigh c. Or a Lyon rampant his tail double forked Vert. Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle descended of a sister of the said Robert Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester Or a Phaon Azure CORDEILLA THis Heroine Lady after just revenge taken upon her two sisters husbands and her fathers and husbands death by the consent of most Writers by the joynt suffrages and votes of the Brittains was admitted to the Royal Scepter in the year from the worlds creation four thousand three hundred and ninety eight years she governed her people and subjects for the space of five years with great applause and general liking but the two sons of her sisters Morgan of Albania and Cunedagius of Cambria and Cornwal envying her prosperity and thinking themselves injured in their birth-right their grandfather Leir having divided the kingdom equally betwixt their Mothers upon their Marriages conspire together and mustering their forces invade Cordeilla and reduce her to that necessity that she is taken prisoner and by her merciless Nephews cast into Gaol which she patiently a while endured but perceiving no hopes to regain her freedom or repossess her kingdom scorning to be any longer a slave to her insulting enemies seeing she could not free her body from bondage with true Trojan and masculine Heroick Spirit she makes a divorce between her purer soul and encaged carcass giving it free power to pass into another world leaving those parts which participated of drossie mold to be interred again in the earth from whence at first it came at Leicester in the Temple of Janus by the Sepulchre of her father Cunedagius and Morgan THe obstacle which hindered the designs of these two aspiring Princes Cordeilla the gallant Brittish Amazon and Virago being by violent death perpetrated by her own hand taken out of the way divide the kingdom betwixt them and became both kings in the year of the world four thousand four hundred and three but this gallantry lasted not long for the Court-Gnats whose life is a perpetual buzzing of news and flatteries fall upon the ear of Morgan and so fill his head with projects that he highly conceives he is injured by the equal dividing of the kingdom and thus discourses with himself And am not I the son of Gonorilla and she the eldest daughter of my Grand-father to me then as lawfull Heir Brittains Crown belongs Why then do I admit a corrival competitor and co-equal one firmament admits not two Suns nor one kingdom two kings no reason I should lose my birth-right no I am resolved I will not Cunedagius shall know that Morgan can rule the Brittains without his help this fire once kindled his flattering parasites bring fewel enough to augment it Cunedagius must bear rule no longer a private life or none at all must content him it is no small policy for Princes to have Spies in neighbouring Courts Cunedagius is quickly enformed of all the passages of his Cozen Morgan and thinks there is no security in delays and therefore puts himself into a posture as well to offend as defend yet to make his case the better and to ingratiate himself with the subjects he sends Messengers to Morgan who is already firing and destroying his Territories to Treat of a reconciliation and atonement but Morgan puft up with his imagined good success and thinking the offer of his kinsman to proceed either from fear or want of ability to resist him lends a deaf ear to the Treaty of peace and will have no other Arbitrator but the sword Cunedagius now resolved comes into the field and offers battell to his enemy his cause being just the Celestial powers seem to second his attempts and he who would have all or nothing is put to flight where the Conqueror makes use of his advantage and taking occasion by the foretop to prevent all hopes of recruiting and rallying again so hotly pursues his victory that Morgan is chased from place to place from Province to Province till being beaten into Cambria now Wales a Territory belonging to his Mortal Foe and there being most sharply put to it lost his life yet with this honour that that Country ever since from him hath had the appellation of Glanmorgan which is as much as to say in the vulgar tongue Morgans Land and thus after two years joyntlie reigning with his kinsman Morgan departed this life leaving Cunedagius to rule alone Cunedagius to shew an humble thankfulness to his Gods for so great a Victory having fully setled his Kingdom erects a stately Temple to Mars at Perth which is now St. Johns town in Albania now abusively called Scotland then a part of Brittannia and inhabited by the Brittish Nation We finde saith my Author in several Authors and Antiquaries to speak in their words that 800. years before the coming of Christ Cunedagius King of all Brittain Mr. Broughton fol. 336. 6. builded a Temple of Mars at Perth that is now St. Johns town in Scotland and placed there a Flamen Therefore we may not singularly deny unto this old city a Flamens Seat which Antiquaries generally grant unto all such in this time to have been changed into a Bishops See If any one ask what I have to do with Scotland my Scene being only the Brittish History I answer that to the great glory of the Brittains that which is now called Scotland was formerly
into the province leaving his son Bassianus to take charge of the army which after the Emperors departure grew carelesse and dissolute wherewith the General seemed nothing displeased either for that he was by his own nature inclined to the worst or else for that he hoped thereby to win the Souldiers favour as a mean for his advancement to the Empire after his fathers death which he had oftentimes attempted by indirect practises most unnaturally to procure In the mean while the Calidonians notwithstanding the late contract understanding what disorders were in that Roman camp suddainly invaded it killing and taking booty which they shared with their Neighbours borderers of the province that had assisted them in in the enterprise Severus being greatly incensed therewith sent part of his army to pursue the Calidonians expresly commanding that they should be all put to the sword without respect of age or fex This sharp manner of proceeding did somewhat quaile the hope of the Northren Brittains who fled into remote parts of Calidonia and Severus having rather stayed then ended the troubles as intending to prosecute the war with more advantage spent some time in repairing and enlarging Adrians wall which he carried thwart the Island from sea to sea entrenching and fortifiing it with Bulwarks and square Towers in places most convenient to give warning one to another upon any suddain assault for defence of the borders Then being wearied with age sickness and travail York having his mind also much grieved with the disloyal and unnatural practises of his son Bassianus he withdrew himself to Eboracum a Colonie of the Romans being then the station of the sixt Legion called Victrix and afterwards growing to be one of the chief places of account among the Brigantes for these stations of the Roman Legions were commonly the seed plots of towns and cities both in this Isle and divers other parts of the Empire It was reported that in his passage thither a Moor with a Cypress Garland on his head did meat and salute him by the name of a God and at his entrance into the City he was by error of the Southsayer that guided him brought into the Temple of Bellona and that black beasts being appointed for Sacrifice did of themselves follow him to his pallace These things howsoever thew fell out accidentally yet they were interpreted as ominous in respect of the event and now Severus perceiving his death to approach called before him some of his Councellors and chief Captains unto whom he is said to have spoaken in this manner It is now above eighteen years since I was first declared Emperor by the army in Pannonia during which time with what care pain and travail I have weilded this vast body of the Empire my continual employment in wars both at home and abroad may witness sufficiently For at my first entrance I found the State encumbered every where and now I shall leave it peaceable even to the Brittains The future prosperity whereof must depend upon the mutuall agreement of my two Sons For neither multitude of men nor abundance of treasure are so available to defend and maintain Commonwealths as amity and unity between Governors For by concord we see that small things grow to greatness whereas by discord the greatest fall to ruine I must now leave to them my Successors the imperial Diadem that which Bassianus hath so long thirsted after though he know not yet whether it be a thing to be wished or feared as having not proved the difference betwixt a Prince and a private person But ambition mindes are carried blindfold they know not whether in desiring that which having once obtained they can neither keep without great care nor leave without extream peril such a thing is Soveraignty whose greatness is not contained in it self but consisteth for the most part in the opinion and dependeth on the dispositions of other men it is vertue only not glorious titles which makes men truly great My self at this present may serve for an example to shew upon what a weak foundation humane greatness is built I have seen all things though now it avail me nothing seeing I must pay my debt to nature and after all my exploytes in the East and West parts of the World I must dye as I may say out of the World in a strange Country if any Country may be termed strange to the Romans who have now by conquest made all Countries their own I exhort you therefore as you tender the welfare of the Roman Empire of your own selves of your posterity be true and faithfull to my sons as you have been to me assisting them with your Councel and perswading them to mutual concord as the main pillar to support both their Estates and your own When he had uttered these or the like speeches he turned a side and shortly after yielded up the Ghost Baron Tom. 2. Annal. an D. 105 Manusc Gal. lic c. 100. Ma. West an 206. Galf. Mon. Hist 4 Reg. Bâ—it l 5. c 2. R. vit Hist l. 4. Selden Analeâ— c. 7. Gal. Mont sup l. c. 3. Pro. Cata Reg. Brit. in Severa Magdebur Cent. 3 c. 16. Flo Wigorn. 198 220. Mat West an 205 206. Baronius with others confess that Severus was descended of most noble Parents Constat Severum fuisse majorum Claritudine nobilissimum and yet not able to describe his Auncestry doth sufficiently prove him a stranger to those Countries and their Historians and to make further manifestation herein although he was born in Africk about Tropolis so far from Brittain yet he married a Brittish Lady as divers of the same Authors and others testifie and had by her Basianus his Son after King of Brittain and Emperor also some say her name was Martia and the first wife of Severus and sister of Fulgentius the Brittain that warred against and slew Severus at York Fulgentius Matris Basiani Frater And this Brittish Lady could not be married to Severus after his coming into Brittain but long before where he then lived in the East parts of the World For in Brittain he lived but a short time by our Modern calculation in their Catalogue of the Kings of Brittain four years The Magdeburgians have the like account following Eusebius Florentius Wigorniensis maketh his aboad here but three years The Monck of Westminster scarcely alloweth him two years continuance here The like have others all agreeing he was old and feeble at his coming hither yet Bassianus his Son by our Brittish Lady was so old at his death that he succeeded him both in this Kingdom and the Empire who being Emperor but six or seven years was as Dio and others witnesse at his death going on his 29 â—h year of age Almost twenty years old when his Father first landed in Brittain Divin Caracalla The Brittains continuing in variance and contention about a Successor to Lucius King of this Kingdom Severus the Emperor came hither some say to quiet the
Souldiers and pleasure of God S. Severinus de vita S. Martini Cap. 23. for defence and necessity of the Empire God himself sufficiently giving testimony thereto by the incredible event and victory following and that he slew none of his adversaries but in the feild upon which satisfaction St. Martin came to the feast and was far more honored of this Emperor there than any Prince the Emperors uncle brothers and such others there present sitting next unto the Emperor himself and his own Priest and Chaplain sat among those Princes Mr. Broug fo 573. And such was the honour and reverence our Emperor did yeeld publickly to that holy Bishop that in that solemn feast he refused to drink untill S. Martin had drunk out of the same bole before he condemned Priscillianus the heretick his Sectaries to death and banishment Justantius Tiberianus into our Brittish Island named Silley his judgement against those Hereticks was for things by them committed against his temporal estate Hâ—rris Hist Tom. 4. c. 34. Magdeb. cent 4. c. 16. Sylvius bonus C. Max. Caes Laudes Io. Leland Io. â—its in Silvio Bonâ— Harris sup Zosim l. 4. Baro. Spondan 382 in Anâ—al Annal. Scot. apud Hect. Boet. l. 7. Scot. Hist initio Yet do I not so contend saith Mr. Broughton to free Maximus that I would wash him clean from all spots and aspersions wherewith he is stained by some Writers I rather excuse him in profession of Religion then conversation of life yet both Symmachus Consul of Rome and our Brittish Writer Sylvius stiled the good Sylvius living in his time wrote Books in his praise and the very Scotish Antiquaries the greatest enemies he had for conquering and expelling them out of Brittain are forced to confesse that his carriage was such that it drew even his enemies to love honour and follow him and give him that honour here in Brittain which never any Emperor King or Ruler in it since the first inhabiting thereof enjoyed before him Which is that Ruling here 17 years he possessed and ruled over all Albion or Brittain And in this his general command here was a friend favourer to good Christians that Hiergustus being then King of the Picts both he and all his subjects Christians he freely for a small Tribute to testifie the whole Island belonged to the Roman Empire in his time suffered though a stranger quietly to reign as King among the Picts And plainly confessed that in Brittain divers years he behaved himself and in all mens judgement governed vertuously couragiously and as a good Emperor ought to do And that both the Christian Brittains and Picts the only then inhabitants here did marvelously well love him his Brittish Wife Queen and Empress daughter of Octavius is commended in the Histories to have been a very vertuous Lady The Brittish History sayth that Maximus being overthrown by Theodosius fled into Aquileia when by the treason of his own Souldiers whilst he was paying them their wages he was delivered to Theodostus disrobed of his Imperial ornaments and speedily put to an ignominious Death Theodosius Maximus being dead Theodosius the elder as he was Emperor so was he King and Ruler in Brittany this man is most renowned in Histories for the honoring the Church hate of heresies his praises be exceeding many among ancient Writers therefore I will onely and briefly use the testimonies of modern Historians in his behalf in their own words Stow Howe 's hist Tit. Rom. in Thedosio Magdeburg Cent. 4. c. 7. Col. 568. Mag. Cent. c. 10. Theod. Hist l. 6. c. 8. Theodosius the elder a most Christian Emperor Theodosius did open pennance in Millaine and fasted and prayed eight Months together according as St. Ambrose had enjoyned him because in the first part of his Empire he had commanded 5000 Citizens of Thessalonica to be slain and for the executing the innocent with the wicked in form of civil justice therefore the Arch-bishop would not permit him to rule in the Church nor to receive the Sacrament until he had performed his pennace The Magdeburgians of Germany say this Sacrament was Sacratissimum Domini Corpus preciosus Domini Sanguis Howes saith that St. Vrsula with 11000 Virgins which were sent into little Brittain to be married were martyred in this Theodosius his reign but others say it was in the time of Maximus Surius in St. Vrsula one give this relation Maximus entred into France possessed it all but especially one Province which was then called Formorica which is now called Little-Brittain because the Brittains did conquer and rase it and with great rage and fury put to Sword all the Natives thereof left it uninhabited as a wildernesse Maximus thought it necessary to people that Province again because it lay fit for him therein to conserve and transport his Brittish Souldiers Surius Ri. badeneira octob 21. and for that purpose he divided the fertile feilds lands of the Lesser-Brittain amongst his Souldiers which came to him out of Brit. to the end they might Till and Husband it and reap the fruit thereof But because his Souldiers might marry and have succession and settle themselves in that Province where there was no women for that they were also put to the Sword he determined to send unto the Island of Brittain Scotland and Ireland for a great number of Virgins which being brought into the new and lesse Brittain might marry with those Souldiers who were for the most part naturals of their own Country The chief Commander of all that Army was called Conanus a man of great birth and of greatest estimation of all the Brittains The Hist of St. Vrsula whom Maximus hath made his Leiuetenant General and Warden of all the Ports of that Coast Conanus desired to marry with the daughter of Dionecius King of Cornwal called Vrs a most Noble and vertuous Lady in whom did shine all the gifts of chastity beauty grace which might be desired in a woman throughout the Province of there were called forth 11000 Virgins as well for the intent above mentioned as also that they might accompany Vrsula who was to be their leader and Lady some of these Virgins went of their own accord others by constraint But seeing that the command of Maximus then Emperour was so peremptory that no excuse could be admitted they embarked themselves in those ships which were prepared for their passage unto the new Province of Brittain It pleased our Lord that these ships lancing out of the Haven met with a quite contrary wind which instead of carrying that blessed company towards Brittaine it furiously carried them quite contrary and passing by Zeland and Holland drove them into the mouth of the River of Rhene a River of great capacity and depth and carried them so high as the water did ebb and flow At that time when this happened Gratian the Emperour understanding what Maximus had done in Brittain and France and
the said Prince should accomplish the age of 14. years which was performed by them accordingly in all leases dispositions and grants of the revenues of the said prince The said K. Edw. by another Charter composed in English and bearing date 10 of Novem. 13o. regni appointed the said E. Rivers being brother unto the Queen to be governour of the person of the said prince and to have the education and institution of him in all vertues worthy his birth and to have the government and direction of his servants King Edward the fourth having reigned full 22. years left this mortal life 24. regni at VVestminster and was enterred at VVindsor Edward his Son and Heir then being at Ludlow neer the Marches of Wales for the better ordering of the Welsh under the Government of the Lord Rivers his Unkle on the Mothers side and upon the death of his Father drawing towards London to prepare for his Coronation fell into the hands of his Unkle by the Fathers side Richard D. of Glocester and the said Lord Rivers being upon his way to London Dulce vennum regnum was intercepted and lost his head at Pomfret for what cause I know not other then this that he was thought to be too great an obstacle between a thirsty Tyrannous desire and the thing that was so thirstily and Tyrannously desired Edward the 5. King of England for so he was although he enjoyed it not long being thus surprised under the power of his natural or rather most unnatural Unkle and mortal enemy was brought to London with great solemnity and pompe and with great applause of the People flocking about to behold his person as the manner of the English Nation is to do whose new joyes cannot endure to be fettered with any bonds His said Unkle calling himself Protector of the King and his realm but indeed was a wolfe to whom the lamb was committed for having thus surprised the Kings person he laboured by all means to get into his possession also the younger brother being D. of Yorke knowing that they both being sundered Vindex nocentes sequitur a tergo Deus the safety of the younger would be a means to preserve the elder and therefore by all sinister perswasions and fair pretences having obtained the younger D. from his mother the King and the D. both for a time remained in the Tower of London Ed. v. upon his return to England and there shortly after both in one bed were in the night smothered to death and buried in an obscure and secret place unknown how or where untill one of the Executioners thereof after many years being condemned to dye for many other his manifold crimes confessed also his guilty fact in this tragical business and the circumstance thereof of which by reason of the secresie and incertainty divers had before diversly conjectured And by this means all for the Coronation of Innocent Edward served the turn to set the Crown upon the head of Tyrannous Richard Out of which by the way I cannot but observe how hatefull a bloody hand is to Almighty God the King of Kings who revenged the bloodshed of those civil broyles whereof Edward the Father had been the occasion and the breach of his oath upon these his two Innocent Infants Edward Son of Richard III. This Tyrant and stain of the English story Inter warr ad magnum sigillum in Cancellaria Henricus rosas Richard D. of Glocester usurped the Kingdom by the name of Richard the third and became King yet as our Records of Law witness de facto non de jure and in the first year of his reign created Edward his son being a child of ten years of age Prince of Wales Lieutenant of the Realm of Ireland But for that the prosperity of the wicked is but as the florishing of a green tree which whiles man passes by is blasted dead at the roots and his place knoweth it no more so shortly afterwards God raised up Hen. Earl of Richmond the next heir of the house of Lancaster to execute justice upon that unnatural and bloody Usurper and cast him that had been the rod of Gods Judgment upon others into the fire also for in the third year of his reign at the battail of Bosworth whereunto the said Richard entered in the morning crowned with all Kingly pomp he was slain and his naked carkass with as much despight as could be devised was carried out thereof at night and the said Henry Earle of Richmond the Solomon of England Reigned in his stead by the name of King Henry the Seventh Arthur Son of K. Henry VII Henry the VII took to wife Elizabeth the eldest daughter and after the death of her brothers the Relict heir of King Edward IV. by which marriage all occasions of contention between those two noble Families of York and Lancaster were taken away and utterly quenched and the red Rose joyned with the white The said K. Henry the seventh by his letters patents dated the first day of December 5. regni created Arthur his Eldest son heir apparent being then about the age of three years Prince of Wales But before we proceed any further treating of the Princes of Wales let us consider from whence this Arthur descended and admire the goodnesse and providence of the highest and great God towards the VVelsh nation to bring the honour and principality to one descended of the Ancient Welsh or British blood I will bring the pedegree ascendent the noble Prince Arthur was son to Henry the VII Arthur The King of England from the Welsh blood first thus Henry VII Elizabeth Eldest Daughter to K. Edward IV. Edmund Earle of Richmond Margaret Daughter and Heir to John Duke of Somerset Sr. Owen Tudor Katherine Queen Dowager to K. Henry the V. Meredyth son to Tudor Tudor son to Grono Grono son to Tudyr Tudyr son to Grono Grono son to Ednivet Ednivet Vachan married Gwenlhian daughter to Rees Prince of Southwales Gruffith King of Southwales Rees ap Tudyr King of Southwales Whose Armes were Gules a Lyon Ramp within a border indented Or. I could deduce this family from several English matches as Holland Tuckets Norris but I should be too prolix and seem to exspaciate beyond my bounds and therefore I will return to our Prince of whom we now speak Dodridge fol. 28. Also there was a Charter of the Grant of the Lands of the said principality Earledom of Chester and Flint dated the 20 of February in the said fift year of the said King made unto the said Prince The said King Henry the VII by his Charter bearing date the 20. day of March in the eight year of his reign did constitute and appoint the said Prince Arthur to be his Justice in the County of Salop Inter war ad magnum sigillvm in Cancellaria Hereford Glocester and the Marches of Wales adjoyning to the said Shires to enquire of all liberties priviledges and