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A43208	Englands chronicle, or, The lives & reigns of the kings and queens from the time of Julius Cæsar to the present reign of K. William and Q. Mary containing the remarkable transactions and revolutions in peace and war, both at home and abroad, as they relate to this kingdom, with the wars, policies, religion and customs, success and misfortunes as well of the ancient Britains, as Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman conquerors, with copper cuts and whatever else is conduceable to the illustration of history / by J. Heath.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1325; ESTC R29472	167,333	265

and had indeed enough to do to Defend themselves and were succeeded by Theodosius who began his Reign Anno Dom. 379. under whom the Christian Religion flourished and Damassus being Bishop of Rome the Second General Councel was held and now for the space of six Months the World was so troubled with Earth-quakes that the Dissolation and Ruine they occasioned is not countable Arcadius and Honorius next took place viz. 402. In whose Reign a marvellous Thing happened at Constantinople viz. About Noon a Fire entering the Great Church fastned upon the Bishops Seat and Consumed it thence growing up like a Pyramid seized the Roof and Burnt it not doing the People then Assembled any harm though it passed through them leaving the Church it passed directly ●… Senate-House and reduced it to Ashes This ma●… looked upon as a Divine Presage of those Miseri●… that soon after befel the Church and State for no●… the Roman Greatness growing to a period the Bra●… ches being too ponderous for the Bole to Suppo●… the Storms of War that came thundring from sevral Quarters rent and tore them in pieces ins●… much that we may say The Red Horse and h●… Rider were sent forth about this time To take pea●… from the earth and now the Britains groaned under the weight of their Enemies the Picts Scots an●… Wild Irish who came upon them in great Swarm laying waste all their pleasant places which mad●… them again Address the Romans who had so lon●… been their Masters for speedy Succour but ha●… word sent them That their hands were full of En●…mies and that they could not spare any of their Forces●… However Theodosius Junior and Valentinianus coming to the Thrones of the West and East for now th●… Roman Eagle was double headed a Legion wa●… ordered for Britain upon whose approach and after some Skirmishes the Barbarous People retired and the Romans before their departure taught the Britains the more perfect Exercise of Arms ad●… monishing them to renew strengthen fortifie their Wall from Sea to Sea and keep Watchmen o●… the Towers to defend them and give notice of the Enemies approach seeing they might be confident this was the last time they could expect any Succou●… from Rome so that after a possession of 597 years the Romans of their own accord left the flourishing Island of Britain carrying with them at sundry times the Flower and Strength of the Land to assist them in●… their Foreign Wars by which the Britains lay more easie and open to the Inroads and Incursions of their Enemies ●…us 〈…〉 whom balfe the world obey'd ●…r conquering 〈…〉 spread ●…ve hundred ninety seven years and then ●fatal times ●… the Isle again ●…en blood and 〈…〉 rag'd in every place ●…d Crimson Seas had delug'd Natures Face ●…en 't was Great Kingdom thy sad Woes came on ●…us plagues o'er took thee that thou thoughts't to shun 〈…〉 friendly seeming Saxons more undone 〈◊〉 what means the Saxons came to Conquer this Kingdom and divide it into a Hepterchie with their Succession of Kings and Discription of their resprective Kingdoms till it was reduced to a Monarchy and from thence till conquered by the Danes THE Romans as we have said by a voluntary relinquishment having left this famous Island in●…mbered with restless Enemies whose Ravages and ●…oils are too many to count and the poor defence●…ss Britains quite wearied out with continual Ala●…ms Slaughters Burnings and the Ravishment of ●…eir Wives and Daughters heartless to defend ●…emselves and out of all hopes of Assistance from ●…eir old Masters the Romans they at last understand●…g the Saxons were a powerful and prevailing Peo●…e in Germany who had inlarged their Borders and one great Actions resolved to apply themselves to his People for Succour and hereupon Vertigern ●…e King with the consent of his Nobles sent Am●…ssadors to the Heads of the Saxons and Jutes ordering upon the Rhine laying before them the ●…plorableness of the Kingdoms condition and how was at a point to be lost the Enemy having al●…ady advanced as far as Stamford in Lincolnshire ●…ith dreadful Spoil and Devastion intreating a speedy Succour and Protection promising large Re● wards for the Service The Saxons having well● weighed the thing upon certain notice of the● Fruitfulness of the Country and finding their own● Borders to streight and scanty for their numbers ● immediately closed with the request of the Britains● dismissing their Ambassadors with a very obliging● Letter and instantly drew out 9000 Men under the● leading of Hengist and Horsus two Brothers of a● noble Family who with expedition suitable to the● imergency of this occasion landed at Ebsfleet in● the Island of Thanet where they were received by● the King's Order with Songs and congratulations o● Joy and then joyning with them such Forces as he● had drawn together gave the Enemy Battle with● great slaughter defeating and overthrowing them so that they were obliged not only to repass th● Wall that was drawn from Sea to Sea as a defence● against Scotland but to leave the Kingdom in entire peace So the face of things seemed very much● changed but long this tranquility had not lasted before the two Brothers the first having married his Daughter Rawena to the doting King who had fallen in love with her upon a Complement she passed in drinking to him gave their Soldiers so much liberty that the People found themselves greatly oppressed of which reitered Complaints were made and the King used his interest with the Captains● to restrain them but they connived at it and demanded larger Pay giving out That they would lay th● Kingdom iu Ashes if it were denyed them seizing upon sundry Towns and Castles so that the Nobles perceiving the King blindly carried away by the couns●ls of his young Wife on whom he infinitely doated they consulted with Vortimer his Son 〈◊〉 Prince of great Hope and Courage when drawi● together what Forces they could without th● knowledge of the King they sell so unexpectedl● upon the Saxons that having overthrown them in 〈◊〉 bloody Battle they resolved to drive them out of the Land which accordingly they did forcing the remainder with their Captains to take shipping and be gone This defeat and disappointment so perplext the Brethren that gathering greater Forces they came again coasting the Country in their Ships and Barks and under pretence of friendship and desire to have the Daughter with them they were permitted quietly to Land but here their treachery appear'd for it being agreed that so many of theirs should hold a conference with a like number of the British Nobles about setling Affairs and reconciling the Differences between them and the Saxons under their long Coats they hid short Swords during the Treaty upon and watch-word given by Hengest fell upon the unarmed Nobles who expected no such matter killing all but one Earl who geting a Hedgestake made his passage through them and alarumed the Country with the fatal news And this some Authors

Wedding in Lambeth he suddenly f●ll down dead when he had reigned about two years He was third Son of Canute and the eighteenth sole Monarch he began his Reign Anno 1040 and was 〈◊〉 at Win●r and with him fell the D●sh Monarchy in England and the Saxons re-entered to the no small Joy of the people Thus Monarchies and Monarchs rise and fall Whilst worldly Pomp is Fortunes Tennis-ball The Saxon Monarchy restored c. HArdicanute being dead Edward the seventh Son of Ethelred by Queen Emma was sent for out of Normandy where he had taken Sanctuary during the Danish Monarchy and Crown'd upon his Arrival at Winchester by Edsine Arch-bishop of Canterbury Anno 1042. and to gain the greater favour of the people he remitted the Tax of 40000 Pounds a year which had for 40 years been levyed upon all Lands except those of the Clergy by the Name of Dane-Guilt and the better to settle his Kingdom he compiled a Body of wholsom Laws from those of the Mercians West Saxons and Danes still known by the Title of Edward the Confessor's Laws written in Latin his Wars were only with the Welsh Irish and some Danes but those very inconsiderable yet Earl Goodwin being very powerful joyned with his Sons against him and in January a very deep Snow falling which covered the Earth till the middle of March the Cattle and Fowls of the Air were starved in abundance and the Summer produced Lightnings that burnt up the Corn whereupon a Famine ensued and the King at the Instigation of Goodwin and Robert Arch-bishop of Canterbury seized upon his Mothers Jewels and committed her Prisoner to the Abbey of Warwick putting her to undergo the Law Ordalium which is to pass over nine hot Plow-shares with naked feet and blindfold laid about a yard asunder which she did without touching them before she knew she was come to the place so that a reconciliation hereupon ensued and this manner of tryal was by way of Purgation for such as were suspected of Incontinency he Imprisoned her for Marrying Canute and not assisting him and his Brothers in their Extremity In this Kings Reign a great Earth-quake happened and Earl Goodwin was choaked at the King's Table with a piece of Bread which he wished might choak him if he had any hand in the Death of Alfrid the Kings Brother He is accounted the first King that ever Cured the King's-Evil he Marry'd Edith Daughter to Goodwin a very Beautiful Lady but had no Children by her being reported never to have Carnally known her and seeing a needy Courtier come into his Chamber one Morning as he lay in Bed with the Curtains drawn and take as much Money out of his Coffer as he could carry he suffered it without speaking but upon his third coming he reproved him of Covetousness charging him to be gone for if Hugoline his Treasurer should come and seize him in the Fact he would be sure to stretch for it and scarce was he gone when the Treasuaer who had casually left open the Coffer came and appeared in a great Consternation at the loss but the King bid him not trouble himself for he that took it had most need of it And lying soon after upon his Death-Bed perceiving those that stood about him to weep he said If you loved me you would not weep but rejeyce because I go to my Father with whom I shall receive the Joys promised to the Faithful not through my merite but the free mercy of my Saviour who sheweth mercy on whom he pleases And giving up the Ghost he was buried at Westminster when he had Reigned 20 Years and 6 Months and 27 Days he rebuilt St. Peter's Westminster and St. Margret's Church made the first Great Seal and was the 19 sole Monarch of England called the Confessor Harrold Son to Earl Goodwin and Sitha his Wife Sister to Swain the younger King of Denmark was upon the Death of King Edward taken for King though he waved the Ceremony of this Coronation and to ingratiate himself with the People lightened the Texes and Behaved himself Courteous and Affable to all Men but he had not long held the Regal Dignity before William Duke of Normandy sent to put him in mind of his Oath which was made during his Imprisonment in Normandy whether in the time of King Edward he had been driven by stress of weather importing that when ever Edward died he should secure the Kingdom for the Norman Duke but Harrold urging what he then did was by constraint and that he conceived himself not obliged to stand to it The Duke prepared to Invade the Kingdom at which time a Dreadful Commet appeared denouncing the Woes and Miseries that ensued for before the Normans arrived a great number of Danes and Norwigeans landed in the North under the Leading of Testo and Harrold Harfrager King of Denmark and spoiling the Country before them marched to York which constrained the King to draw out his Army but being about to pass Stamford-bridge built over the River Derwent his Forces were stopped by a single Dane of Gigantick stature and strength and forty of his Men killed in attempting to remove him but in the end a Soldier getting under the Bridge in a Boat run his Spear through a Creuis and by that means killed him so that the Bridge gained the King gave Battle and overthrew the Enemy with great slaughter killing the Danish King and Tosto his Brother and Olave the Kings Son with Paul Earl of Orkney were taken Prisoners however they upon earnest supplication were suffered to depart the Kingdom in the ships that brought them with the heavy news of their loss but the King had scarce time to consider his advantage before he had News that William Duke of Normandy was Landed with 50000 Men at Pevensey in Sussex on the eigth of September 1066 and fired his Fleet to put his Soldiers out of hopes of return which made Harrold hasten to oppose him who by this time had sent a Messenger to London to demand the Kingdom but they dismissed him with Threats and although the Duke to prevent the effusion of more blood proffered to fight hand to hand yet the King refused it saying It should be tried by more Swords than one Whereupon the Armys advancing pitched in a large Plain and from thence the King sent Spies into the Dukes Camp who being taken were lead from Rank to Rank and made to take a perfect survey of the Army and so dismissed The 14th of October 1366 being come the Armys drew out and faced each other till the Trumpets sounded the Charge when at the first Encounter the Normans were forced to give ground and retire in disorder which the English perceiving and thinking the Battle won carelesly disranked to pursue them which they perceiving and taking that advantage rallied and changed the face of Fortune for the Normans entering the loose squadrons overwhelmed the English with showers of Arrows so that all was turned

Exploits and wa●… succeeded by Kenelem But this Prince was unfortunat●… in his Youth for having discovered some close Intreagues between his Tutor and Quindride his Sister the latter to prevent his reproofs caused the forme●… to Murther him when he had Reigned about thre●… Months and Cleolwolf who succeeded him reigne●… but a year before he was Expulsed his Kingdom by his Subjects at the Instigation of Bernulf who ther●… upon stepped into the Throne but being warred upon by the West Saxons and East Angles he was slai●… in Battle the Third year of his Reign Anno 831 an●… Ludecan who succeeded him felt the like Fate i●… the Second year of his Reign from Egbert the We●… Saxon in Conjunction with the East Angles Witl●… the next King of the Mercians was overcome ●… Egbert and forced to flee his Kingdom in the Thir●… year of his Reign And now the Danes began to pe●… plex the Coast having an Eye to the Conquest ●… Britain so that they drove Berthulf who succeede●… W●…laf out of the Mercian Kingdom in the Thirteenth year of his Reign And although Brudre●… got the Possession of it Anno 852 yet they kept hi●… in continual Alarums and notwithstanding at fi●… he was Victorious over them yet they returning wit●… greater Force he was forced to quit the Kingdom when he had reigned about Twenty years and w●… the last of the Saxon petty Monarchs in this Kingdo●… of Mercia Thus Kingdoms tost by fickle Fortune's hand Must Rise and Fall yet ne'er are at a stand Great things oppress themselves with their own weight And still must yeild to the Decrees of Fate An Account of the Kingdom of the East Angles with their Succession of Kings c. THis Kingdom so named from the Angles that claimed it for their Portion contained Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge and the Isle of Ely and took upon it the form of a Kingdom Anno 373 continuing ●53 years and had the Succession of Fifteen Kings of whom in their order Uffa was the first King of the East Angles who ●etled and founded the Kingdom but was in his beginning very much opposed by the British Princes He Reigned Seven years and gave place by Death to Titulus who Reigned a longer time for some Authors will have it that he held the Scepter of this Kingdom about 32 years Redwald succeeded him ●nd altho upon his coming to the Throne he was a Christian he turned Idolater he assisted Edwin to gain the Crown of Northumberland by slaying Ethel●ride in Battle and reigned over the Angles 8 years Expenwald succeeded him This King professed Chri●tianity and not being well setled in his Kingdom ●ne Richebert conspired against him and slew him when he had reigned Twelve years And Sigebert succeeded him being a younger Son of Redwald but being given up to a devout Life he after two years Reign resigned his Kingdom and turned Monk But that place could not secure his Life for he was ●lain by Penda Egrick upon the resignation took up the Scepter yet he reigned but four years before Penda overcome his Country and slew him in Battle Anna succeeded him but after a Twelve years Reign●… Penda who was a mortal Enemy to the Angles cam●… again overcome and slew him Upon the unfortunate falls of these last Kings E●…theibert got into the Throne as a favourite of Penda's but he had not reigned about Two years when O●…win King of the Northcumbers slew him in Battle fo●… taking part with Penda against him And Edelwa●… succeeded in the Throne yet he reigned only Eigh●… year●… before he gave place to Aldu●… who reigne●… Nineteen years and then E●…swo●f succeeded in a Reig●… of Seven years Beorn reigned after him Twenty fo●… years and then gave place to Ethelred who reigne●… Thirty five year●… yet there is nothing memorably recorded of their Actions And now these petty Kingdoms growing to a period Ethe●…bert began his Reign●… but having displeased the bloody Quindride Wife t●… Offa King of the Mercians she prevailed with he●… Husband to send for him under pretence of givin●… him one of his Daughters in Marriage but having got him in her power she caused him to be put t●… death when he had reigned Forty five years an●… was succeeded by Edmund in whose time the Danes cam●… over in great numbers burning and destroying before them insomuch that the King was obliged to shu●… himself up in Framingham Castle and after a lon●… Seige surrendred it But the Pagan Danes not regarding their Faith having stripped the poor King fin●… beat him with C●dgels then scourged him and afte●… that tying him to a Stake shot him to death with Arrows whilst with much Patience and Devotion he suffered the usage calling upon the name of Jesu●… and recommending his Soul to his Redeemer th●… years of his Reign are doubtfully mention'd however he began to Reign over the East Angles An●… 794 he was afterwards cannonized a Saint and th●… Town of St. Edmunds-bury still remains in remembrance of him Thus you the Saxon Hepterchie may view How first it rise and to a period drew To rise more glorious in what does eus●e The Saxon Government under sole Monarchs with the Succession if Kings their Reigns and Actions THe Hepterchie of the Saxons appearing very troublesome in their continual Wars amongst themselves and those of the Danes and British Princes who still held out the chief of the last that ●…pposed them during their petty Kingdoms were ●…ortimer Son of Vortinger who reigned Four years Aurelius Ambrosius who reigned Thirty two years ●…ter Pendragon his Brother who reigned Eighteen ●…ears Arthure of whom the Monks have created so ●…any Fables that the truth of his Actions are doubtful who reigned Twenty six years Constantine Son ●…f Cador Duke of Cornwal and Cousin to Arthur who ●…eigned Three years Aurelius Conatus who reigned Thirty three years Vortiporus who reigned Three ●…ears Malgo Cononus who reigned Five years Care●…cus who reigned Three years Cadwan who reigned Twenty two years Gadwallo his Son who reigned forty eight years and Cadwallader who reigned ●…leven years These were the Chief of the British Princes who opposed the Saxons and held ●…eir Kingdom for the most part in Wales and the Marches giving them at sundry times many notable ●…verthrows disputing their Country with the Inva●…ers till their Power was wasted and the remainder of ●…heir People compelled to betake themselves to the Mountains and Fastnesses Egberts's Fortune prevail●…ng he united the seven Kingdoms into one and be●…ame the first sole Saxon Monarch causing himself to ●…e crowned at Winchesier giving the whole Country the Name of England and the People the Epethit●… of English In the Fourteen year of his Reign th●… Danes with thirty three Ships landed in England t●… whom he gave battle with such Forces as on the sudden could be raised but was worsted loosing two Dukes two Bishops and most of the Common Soldiers he hardly escaping the Field yet afterwards th●… Danes were

neglecting it and refusing to acknowledge they ought so to doe he with a powerfull Army entred Scotland and being about to charge the Enemy as he was mounting his Horse startled and threw him breaking by a spurn of his Heel two of the King's Ribs yet without delay he remounted and gave them Battel charging quite through their Army with such slaughter that in a very short time they were all in Rout and Confusion so that in this Action near Fawkirk 70000 Scots are reported to be slain after which most of the strong places yielded to King Edward when returning victorious to England he in Parliament restored Mogna Charta and Charta Forestae agreeing that no Tax or Subsidy should be levied upon the People but by the Consent of Prelates Peers and Commons in Parliament and in the end of his Grants left out Salvo jure Coronae nostrae viz. Saving the rights of our Crown and at the earnest entreaty of the Pope he set Baliol at Liberty And now the King being desirous absolutely to subject and annex Scotland to the Crown of England raised another powerfull Army against which the Scots not able to make head retired and as their last refuge entreated the Pope to send his Letters of Inhibition which accordingly were sent but the King was so far from regarding them that he in a great passon swore he would not desist ahd when they urged it farther that if he persevered the Pope would take it upon himself he with a disdainfull Smile replied What! Have you done Homage to me as to the chief Lord of Scotland and do you now suppose that I can be terrified with Threatenings as if like one that had no Power to compell I would let the right which I have go out of my Hands Let me hear no more of this for if I do I swear by the Lord I will consume all Scotland from Sea to Sea This resolute Protestation so terrified the Scots that they only replied For the Justice and Rights of their Countrey they were ready to shed their Bloud and the King to justifie his Proceeding sent the Earl of Lincoln to Rome so that by the Influence of the Pope a Truce was concluded from all Saints to Whitsuntide but the Pope not so contented before the Truce was expired declared himself in favour of the Scots whereupon King Edward in a Parliament holden at Lincoln by the General Consent defended his Proceedings with a Protestation that they had not exhibited any thing to the Court of Rome as in form of Judgment or submitting to the Tryall of his Cause but rather for the satisfaction of its Merit and Justice and when the Pope required the King to stand to his decision for matter of Claim the Peers to whom the King had entirely referred it signified to the Pope that the King of England was not to answer in Judgment for any rights of the Crown before any Tribunal under Heaven and that by sending Deputies and Attornies to that purpose he should make the Truth and Justice of his Cause doubtfull forasmuch as it manifestly tended to the Disinherision of the Crown which with the help of God they would maintain against all Men And this was subscribed at Lincoln Anno 1301. by no less than 100 Peers so that Pope Boniface the Third perceiving no good to be done and loth to break with England gave over his Pretensions and left the Scots to make the best of their business whereupon the King made the Lord Segrave Custos of that Kingdom but the Scots thereupon growing impatient took Arms and overthrowing the Custos took him Prisoner but he was soon rescued by Sir Robert Nevil yet this made King Edward set forward with an Army which brought such a Terrour upon Scotland that he marched through the Kingdom from Roxborow to Cathiness 300 miles without the lest resistence for those that were in Arms betook themselves upon his approach to the Woods and Mountains The King thus absolute in Scotland had for a summe of Money Wallis their Ring-leader delivered into his hands so that at Westminster being found guilty of Treason in rebelling against the King his law full Sovereign he was hanged and quartered his Quarters sent into Scotland and set up in divers remarkable places after whose death Bruce that had contended with Baliol for the Kingdom headed the Scots and gathered a considerable Army but was routed by Aymery de Valence one of King Edward's Captains and forced into the Orcades where he lived an obscure Life with much hardship till he found another opportunity to head his Countrey-men and did many noble Exploits which drew King Edward to oppose him but in his way he fell sick at Carlisle where finding the near approach of Death he charged his Son Edward who was to succeed him that he should be industrious to bring the Scots under the English Obedience and that he should carry his Bones along with him through Scotland the better to render him victorious commanding on pain of his Curse not without common consent to recall out of Banishment Pierce Gavestone and farther enjoining him to send his Heart into the Holy Land accompanied with 149 Knights and their Train to which end he had laid up two thousand pounds of Silver and that upon pain of Damnation the Money should be turned to no other use then removing from Carlisle to Bury upon the Sands he there dyed of a Dissentery anno 1307. and his Body buried at Westminster This Edward the First was King of England Lord of Ireland Duke of Aquitain c. eldest Son to Henry the Third by Eleanor his Queen his first Wife was Eleanor Daughter to Ferdinand the Third King of Castile by whom he had Issue John Henry and Alphons all dying young Edward who succeeded him Eleanor married to Henry the Third Earl of Barrie Joan married to Gilbert Clare Earl of Hereford and Gloucester Margaret married to John the Second Duke of Brabant Berenger Alice and then Mary who at the earnest Entreaty of her Grandmother became a veiled Nun at the Age of Ten years Elizabeth first married to John Earl of Holland and Zealand then to Humfrey Bohun Earl of Hartford and ctssex then Beatrix and Blanch. By his Second Wife Margaret Daughter to Philip the Hardy King of France he had Issue Thomas Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England Edmund Earl of Kent and Eleanor who dyed young he began his Reign on the 16th of November anno 1272. and reigned 34 Years 7 Months and 12 days dying in the 35th year of his Reign and the 69th of his Age. Thus did grim Death close up our Monarch's eyes From whom no mortal Might could take the Prize In Arms renowned the World his Fame has heard Belov'd by most and by all Mankind fear'd The Reign and Actions of Edward the Second King of England c. THis King from the place of his Birth was called Edward of Caernavon he began his Reign anno 1307