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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56253	An introduction to the history of the principal kingdoms and states of Europe by Samuel Puffendorf ... ; made English from the original.; Einleitung zur Geschichte der vornehmsten Staaten Europas. English	Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694.; Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?	1695 (1695)	Wing P4177; ESTC R20986	441,075	594

perceived what their Intention was they endeavour'd to drive them out of the Island but these taking up Arms and calling in a great many thousands of their Country-men to their assistance first took from the Britains the Eastern parts of the Island And the Western parts which were yet in the possession of the Britains being afterwards extreamly wasted by Plague and Famine so that the British King Cadwalladar retired into the lesser Britainy The Saxons took hold of this opportunity conquering all the rest of Britainy except the Province of Wales which being surrounded with Mountains they were not able to subdue This abovementioned Cadwalladar was the last King of the ancient British Race who perceiving that he was no ways able any longer to resist the Power of the Saxons retired to Rome into a Convent But Britainy received the Name of Anglia or England from the Angles § 3. These Saxons erected seven Kingdoms which however had not their beginning all at one time but according as they had taken one part after another from the Inhabitants At last they fell together by the ears among themselves till one having swallowed up another all were united into one Kingdom which how it happened we will briefly relate The first Kingdom then was that of Kent which began in the Year 455 and during the Reigns of seventeen Kings lasted till the Year 827 when it was subdued by the West Saxons The second was the Kingdom of Sussex which began in the Year 488 and under five Kings lasted till the Year 601 when it was likewise made a Province by the West Saxons The third was that of the West Saxons which began in the Year 519 and lasted under nineteen Kings 561 Years The Eleventh of these Kings named Ino did order That each Subject that was worth ten Pence should yearly give one Penny to the Pope of Rome which Tax was first called the King's Alms and afterwards Peter's Pence The fourth Kingdom was that of Essex which began in the Year 527 and lasted under fourteen Kings till the Year 808 when it was also conquered by the West Saxons The fifth was that of Northumberland which began in the Year 547 and lasted under three and twenty Kings till the Year 926 when it also was brought under subjection by the West Saxons The sixth Kingdom was that of the Mercians which had its beginning in the Year 522 and lasted under twenty Kings till the Year 724 when it also fell into the Hands of the West Saxons The seventh was that of the East Angles which began in the Year 575 and lasted under fifteen Kings till the Year 928 when under its King Athelstan it was united with the rest But after Egbert King of the West Saxons had either subdued the rest or forced their Kings to acknowledge him for their Supream Head he and his Successours were henceforward called no more Kings of the Saxons but of England Under his Reign the Danes first enter'd England as they continued to do under the following Kings tho' in the beginning they were at several times bravely repuls'd Nevertheless they got footing at last in the Northern parts of England where they lived for a while pretty quietly under the Protection of the Kings of England But in the time of King Ethelred who began his Reign in the Year 979 the Danes made Inrodes into the Southern parts of England forced the English to pay them great Summs of Money ravish'd their Women and committed such outrages that they got the Name of Lord Danes And tho' the English conspir'd against the Danes and cut them all off yet the Danish King return'd the next Year and made prodigious havock among the English their great Preparations which were made against the Danes being by the Craft of the Traitor Edrick notwithstanding Ethelred had made him Duke of Mercia giving him his Daughter for a Wife render'd ineflectual so that Ethelred was obliged to leave his desolate Kingdom and to retire into Normandy Sueno while he was busie in plundering the Nunnery of St. Edmund having been kill'd by a Sword which no body knew from whence it came Ethelred return'd out of Normandy into England and forced Canute Sueno's Son to retire out of England into Denmark but he return'd quickly with a much greater Force and Ethelred making all imaginable Preparations against him died in the Year 1016 whose Son Edmund sirnamed Ironside did defend himself with great Bravery against the Danes and might have obtained several Victories over them if he had not been therein prevented by that Traitor Edrick At last it was agreed That both Kings should make an end of the War by a single Combat in which tho' Edmund had the advantage of giving Canute a dangerous stroke yet was he persuaded to finish the Combat by dividing the Kingdom with the Danes and was afterwards as he retired privately to ease Nature treacherously murther'd by Edrick § 4. After the death of Edmund Canute called together the English Lords and asked them Whether at the time when the Kingdom was divided there was any thing mentioned concerning the right of Succession of the Brothers and Sons of Edmund and the English out of fear answering there was not he received Homage from them and was crowned King of England After he had rid himself of all that were left of the Royal Race he to curry favour with the People married Emma the Widow of King Ethelred sent most of his Danes home and reigned with great applause Some of his Parasites who pretended to attribute to him something above a Humane Power he ridicul'd by causing a Chair to be set near the Sea-side commanding the Seas not to wet his Feet but the Tide rolling on the Waves as usually he told them That from thence they might judge of what extent was the Power of all worldly Kings He died in the Year 1035. His Son Harald succeeded by reason of his nimbleness sirnamed Harefoot He did nothing worth mentioning but that he caused his Stepmother Emma and her Sons whom he had with fair words persuaded to come over out of Normandy to be miserably murther'd He died in the Year 1039 leaving no Children behind him After his death the great Men of the kingdom called out of Denmark Hardiknut his Brother born of Emma and Canute who was famous for nothing but his greedy Appetite he being used to keep Table four times a day His Subjects were so averse to him that when he happened to die at a Feast after he had reign'd but two Years the English made publick Rejoicings in the Streets which they called Hocks-tide the Danes after his death growing so despicable to the English that the Danish Government in England expired after they had ravag'd England for the space of 240 tho' they possessed the Throne but 26 Years After the death of Hardiknut Edward sirnamed the Confessor Son of King Ethelred

most able and wealthy Citizens should do Service as Souldiers and Equip themselves either with light Arms or compleat Armour according to their Ability And whereas formerly every body without distinction was obliged to serve the Publick in the Wars at his own Charge the poorer sort afterwards were never made use of but upon Extraordinary Occasions And though Riches do not make a Man the more Valiant yet was it but reasonable since every body was obliged to serve without Pay that those who were scarce able to maintain themselves should be spared as much as could be But besides this their Wealth was a Pledge of their Fidelity For he that has nothing to lose but his Life carries all along with him and has no such strict Obligation to face Death besides that he may easily be brought to desert his own Party if he meets with a prospect of a better fortune among the Enemies On the contrary a wealthy Man fights with more Zeal for the Publick Interest because in defending That he secures his own and is not likely to betray his Trust For if he deserts he leaves his Possessions behind him with uncertain hopes of a recompence of his Treachery from the Enemy And though this Custom grew out of fashion under the Emperours yet in lieu of that they always kept part of their Arrears behind to assure themselves of their Fidelity and these were never paid till they were dismiss'd It is also remarkable that though the Romans have been often Signally beaten in the Field yet did they never despair or accept of any disadvantageous Conditions of Peace except what they did with Porsenae and the Gauls call'd the Terrour to the first they were fain to give Hostages upon condition that they should not make any Iron-work except what was requisite for Tilling the Ground Of which shamefull Peace the Roman Historians have cautiously avoided to speak in their Writings And the Gauls were within an Inch of having put a period to the very Being of Rome if they had not been bought off with Money to Raise the Siege of the Capitol reduced to the utmost extremity by Famine For what is related that Camillus coming up just at the time of the weighing out of the Gold and drove the Gauls from the Capitol some look upon as a fabulous Relation Upon all other occasions they have always born their publick Misfortunes with an extraordinary Constancy For notwithstanding that Hannibal in the second Punick War had reduced them to the last Extremity yet was not a word of Peace mentioned at Rome And when their Generals by Claudius and Numantia had agreed upon shamefull Conditions with the Enemies they chose rather to deliver up the Generals to the Enemies than Ratifie the Treaty They used also commonly to have but a small regard and rarely to redeem such as were made Prisoners among them to teach thereby the Roman Souldiers to expect no deliverance but from their own Swords As this Custom did oblige the Souldiers to fight till the last so did their Constancy stand them in great stead among other Nations For he that shows himself once fearfull of his Enemy must expect to be Attackt by him as often as opportunity presents it self § 14. It is also worth the while to touch a little upon the Religion of the Ancient Romans which though it was derived from the Greeks yet the Romans knew much better how to Accommodate it to the advantage of their State It was therefore from the very beginning a constant Rule at Rome not to begin any publick Affairs of moment without good Indications or Presages Because that the Event of things is commonly supposed to happen according to the Approbation of God And therefore such as think themselves assured of the good Will of God undertake and effect things with a greater Courage These Indications were commonly taken from Birds Which being a very ancient Superstition which took its Rise from an Opinion of the Heathens that the Gods having their place of Residence immediately above the Region of the Air did make use of the Creatures of the next adjoyning Element for their Interpreters These Indications also were thought particularly usefull because the same were at hand at all times and the Motions and Chirpings of the Birds might be variously interpreted according to the Exigency of the Times and the Affairs of the State The cunning Augrs or Sooth-sayers made use of these Predictions from the flight of Birds to inspire the ignorant Multitude either with Hopes or Despair Valour or Fear according as it seem'd most suitable and convenient to the publick Affairs Wherefore Cato the Elder who was an Augur himself did not stick to say He did wonder how one Augur meeting another could forbear laughing because their Science was built upon so slight a foundation What the Romans did call Religion was chiefly instituted for the benefit of the State that thereby they might the better be able to Rule the Minds of the People according to the Conveniencies and Exigencies of the State quite in another manner than the Christian Religion does which is instituted for the benefit of the Soul and the future Happiness of Mankind Wherefore there were no certain Heads or Articles of Religion among the Romans whence the People might be instructed concerning the Being and Will of God or how they might regulate their Passions and Actions so as to please God But all was involved in outward Ceremonies viz. What sort of Sacrifices was to be made what Holy-days and Publick Games were to be kept c. For the rest the Priests were unconcerned as to what the People did believe or not believe of Divine Matters or whether after this Life the Vertuous and Wicked were to expect Rewards according to their several deserts or whether the Souls perish'd together with the Bodies For we see that the Heathens have spoken very dubiously concerning these Matters and the wisest of them have taken these things for Inventions wherewith to keep the People in awe But in their Ceremonies they were most exact performing the same with great pomp and outward show and rarely admitting of the least alteration to be made in the same All this was instituted to please the humour of the Multitude which is most moved with those things which dazle the Eyes and strike strongly on the Senses Wherefore their Temples and Sacrifices were not only extraordinary Magnificent but the Priests also were chosen out of the most Noble Families which served to increase the Reverence of the People that commonly judges of the Value of things according to the quality of such as are employed about them Yet besides this there was another Mystery in it For because they made use of their Religion only as an Instrument of State to make the People pliable to the Intentions of their Rulers it was by all means necessary that such Priests were made use of as understood the Interest of the State and did