Graston Leland 1. in setling Archflamines in London Yorke and Carleon Built Billings gate and the Tower of London 7. and so died honourably and was buried with great pompe leaving his sonne 3. A.M. 2588 GURGUINTUS to succeed him Vpon denyall of the Tribute granted to his Father Beline by Guiltdake King of Denmarke he passed thither with an Army and by Force recovered the continuance of the Payment of it 2. In his returne he mett with Captaine Partholine with a company of vagrant Spaniards that sought a place to dwell in whom he fixed in Ireland 3. This Partholines brother Cataber is said in earnest by some to have Founded the Vniversity of Cambridge Gaius 4. A.M. 3607 GUINTHOLINUS his sonne followes him the more famous for his learned and prudent Wife Martia from whom the Saxons had their Lawes Marthehelog translated unto them by King Alfred 2. He is said to have built Warwick about the time that Alexander the Great was borne leaves to succeed his sonne 5. A.M. 3640 SICILIUS guided by his mother in his nonage In his time the Picts got footing in the Marches of England and Scotland whom his sonne 6. A.M. 3642 KIMARUS a dissolute and carelesse young Prince never endeavoured to remove he was treacherously slaine in Hunting and 7. A.M. 3644 ELANIUS his sonne or brother that took his place in only named whose Bastard 8. A.M. 3652 MORINDUS had more mettell in him and was much magnified for his comely personage and courage but rashly encountring alone a Sea-monster that devoured all before him after a furious conflict he was also devoured by it leaving five sonnes of which 9. A.M. 3660 GORBOMAN proved a good Prince He repaired Temples Grafton â—ellinsh promoted Sacrifices according to the blind devotion of those dayes Built Cambridge and Grantham which others deny and say it was Canta another Towne inclosed with walls wherein some Philosophers were placed destroyed afterwards by the Saxons He dying without Issue 10. ARCHIGALLUS his brother takes the place A.M. 3671 but Deposed by the Nobles for his oppression untill the third brother 11. ELIDURUS finding him discontented in a Wood A.M. 3676 as he rode on Hunting lovingly restored him to his Royalties and then upon his death Raigned after him which was not long before 12. A.M. 3693 VIGENIUS and Peridurus the two youngest brethren bandied against him and shared his meanes betwixt them Vigenius dies and Peridurus for his cruelty was slaine by his Nobles so that Elidurus was freed out of Prison to Raigne the third time between whom and Helie there passing about 180 yeares Monometensis and others have made bold to name 33 Kings to take up that time But herein there is no agreement in names number or whether they were before Dunwallo or succeeded Elidurus Graston Hollinsh Polltdor Virgil. whereof Hollinshed hath a digression in the History of England lib. 3. c. 8. The names therefore of these Fayrie Kings may be well omitted of whom nothing is noted but the name to pitch upon 13. HELIE From him some think A.M. 3800 the I le of Elie took his name others say noe but from a multitude of Eales into which the Married Preists with their Wives and Children were transformed that refused to obey St Dunstanes Ordidinance that Preists should live single but that derivation is more probable that is deduced from Helig LLoyd which signifies in Brittish a Willow by reason of the plenty of Willowes which there grew 2. This Holye had three sonnes Lud Cassibilane and Nennius Nennius came not to raigne but 14. LUD succeeded his Father and reformed Lawes A.M. 3801 augmented Troynovant and thereupon called it Ludstowne now London His brother Nennius was offended with it conceiving thereby that the name of Troy should be forgotten Ludgate more plainly beares his name without offence 2. Some say Baynards Castle others that the Bishop of Londons Pallace was built by him for his Court 3. He left two sonnes behind him Androgeus and Theomantius who in their Nonnage fell under the protection of their Vncle Cassibellane the foreman in the next Distance 2. VVIth those times concurre 1. The latter Kings of the Persian Monarchy and former of the Greeks 2. The beginning of the Scotish Monarchy by Ferâ—usius crowned upon the fatallstone brought by Gathelus out of Spaine that hath this Inscription Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invenient Lapidem regnare tenentur Ibidem Except old sawes do faine and Wissards witts be blind The Scotts in place shall raigne where they this stone shall find 3. Aspiring of the Romanes to overtop all those that had gone before them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Any of Mulmutius Dunwallo's or Marcian's lawes may be now distinctly shewen 2. Brennus that sacked Rome were a Britan or a Gaule 3. Irelands first Inhabitants were Spanish exiles under the conduct of Captaine Partheline 4. The Vniversity of Cambridge were Founded by Cantaber Captaine Parthelin's Brother 5. Morindus encountring alone the Seamonster express'd not more vanity then vaâ—lour 6. The Transforming of Marryed Preists into Eales be not as hansome a Metamorphosis as any in Ovid 7. It were not surly vnadvisednesse in a Senator of Rome to hassard his owne head and of many others for some incivility offered to the gravity of his Beard Romane Tributaries DISTANCE V. THE fifth Distance is extended to King Lucius the first Christian that Raigned among the Britaines and begins with 1. A.M. 3095 CASSIBILLANE in whose time the Britaines were first Conquered and made Tributaries to the Romanes 2. He was brother to Lud and had the Kingdome cast upon him by reason of the nonâ—age of Luds sonnes Androgeus and Theomantius 3. Iulius Caesar at that time imployed in the subduing Gallia being informed they had underhand supplies from Britaine takes vantage thereupon to invade the Ile where partly by Stormes at Sea that wracked his Navy partly by Valour of the Inhabitants under this Kings conduct Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis He Britanes sought but Force to quell did lack And like a Coward shew'd his fearefull back As Pompey in the Poet object 's to his disgrace 4. Lucan Our writers say farther that Nennius the Kings brother meeting with Caesar hand to hand got his sword from him but with it a knock on the pate Monomelens that cost him his life within fifteene dayes after 5. At length upon a quarrell between the King and his Nephew Aadrogeus concerning one Evelin who had slaine the Kings kinsman and was countenanced therein by the young Prince matters came to that height that Androgeus revolts and calls back Caesar from France and assisteth him to the overthrow of his Country This rendred him so hatefull that Cassibellane dying without Issue the younger sonne of Lud 2. A.M. 3921 THEOMANTIUS was preferr'd to the place He quietly paid the Tribute to the Romanes which his vnkle had promised to Caesar administred Iustice at home and protected his Subjects from Forreigners
England Denmarke Norway some adde also part of Sweden together with Scotland were wholy subject unto him 3. His Iealousies of Ironsides Children moved him to send his sonnes Edward and Edmund to Swanus King of Denmarke to be dispatched but he abhorring such Villâ—ny transfer'd them to the King of Hungary where Edmund dying Edward Married Agatha the Emperour Henry the fourths Daughter by whom he had Edgar Etheling the surviving Heire of the Crowne of England which he could never recover 4. To strengthen his Title what he might he takes Emma to wife King Etheldreds Widdow M. Lambard makes good Lawes extant in the Saxon tongue and Latine gave one hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold for St Augustince Arme which he bestowed on Coventry as a memoriall of his Zeale though not according to knowledge 5. He had Issue by Emma his second Wife the faire Gunhilda and Hardy-Canutus Gunhilda was Married to the Emperour Henry the third where falling into suspition of Incontinency she was vindicated by her English Page overthrowing in her quarrell a great Gyant Hardicanutus was designed to succeed by his Father here in England but was put by in his absence by his Brother 2. A.C. 1038 HAROLD called Harefoot by reason of his swiftnesse Earle Goodwin withstands his entrance but by secret prevailing meanes was soone made his friend 2. A Letter is forged in Queene Emma's name to bring over her sonnes Edward and Alfred which she had by Ethelred to claim their Right to the Crowne Alfred comes and by Earle Goodwin is made away with all those that came with him at Gilford 3. Emma is banished but courteously entertained by Baldwin Earle of Flanders Harold thus secured as he thought from Competitors lives loosly dyes speedily and without Issue leaves the Kingdom to 3. A.C. 1041 HARDICANUTUS who made it his first worke to disintombe his Predecessors Corps and threw it into Thamisis but some Fishermen more courteous recovered it and buryed it againe in St Clements neare Temple-Barre 2. His recalling his Mother Emma and half Brother Edward and entertaining them respectively deserves commendations As also the prosecuting Earle Goodwin and the Bishop of Worcester for Prince Alfreds death but the Earle quitted himselfe by his Oath and a rich Present and the Bishops questioning is said to be for the Murther of the Kings Taxe-Collectors in Worcester by the inraged Citizens for which their City was afterwards consumed with fire 3. His Epicurismo left an ill Custome to all posterity Foure times a day his Table must be covered to invite men to Intemperancy Through which at a Marriage he is thought to have Choaked himselfe at Lambeth most rejoycing to be rid of him in memory whereof Hock-tide a Feast of scorning was a long time continued after In this third Heire expired the Danish Line and the Saxon revived againe in 4. EDWARD the sonne of Ethelred Emma A.C. 1043 commonly called the Confessour 1. To gaine the more love of his Subjects at his first entrance he remitted the Taxe of Danegilts so greivous to the Commonds collected the Lawes of his predecessors into a body for the administrationof Iustice which some say are the ground of our Common-Law though the Pleading be altered since the Norman Conquest 2. He was threatned by the Dane See M. Lambards Archnom and vexed by Griffith the Welch Prince who was quelled by Harold especially who was imployed against them Betweene him and the potent Earle Goodwin were such debates that twice came to the hazard of dangerous Battles if wise mediation of the Nobles had not prevented them the death of which Earle is reported to be his Choaking with a bitt of Bread upon an imprecation laid on himselfe that that might be his last if he had a hand in the death of the Kings Brother Prince Alfred though some say he died of the deadpalsie 3. Grafton In this man's time Coventry purchased its Freedome from Earle Leofrie by the Riding of his Countesse Godina naked through it but such order was taken by the Townesmen that shutting up all Doores and Windowes none beheld it 4. His unnaturall dealing with his good Mother Emma and vertuous faire Wife Editha Earle Goodwins Daughter cannot be excused For upon a poore surmise of Incontinency with Alwin Bishop of Winchester his Mother in his presence was put to the Ordalium to passe Blindfolded between nine glowing Coulters which she did untouched and his spotlesse Queene Editha denied Marriageright perchance for hatred to her Father and with one Waiting-maid to live disrespected in a Nunnery 5. Such actions so opposite to Gods word should Saint no man The first curing the Kings Evill is referred to him and thence to have continued to his Successors More Laudable was his respect to Edgar Etheling Grandchild to to Ironside by his sonne Edward the Out-law that died in banishment whom he intended for his successour and he had the best right to it but he being young and wanting meanes and friends to support him 5. A.C. 1066 HAROLD sonne of Earle Goodwin makes bold to take the place a man of excellent parts and approved valour as the Welch and others which he subdued in his Predecessors time found to their cost 2. He droven by Tempest into Normandy was affianced to young Adeliza Duke William's Daughter with whom he Covenanted upon Oath to make him successour to Edward in the Kingdome of England 2. But this contract he held as a nicity or complement and constrained Oathes no way to bind wherein he soothed himselfe but God is not mocked and usurpations thrive not long 3. Three Enemies at one time assault him Tosto his owne Brother Harold Harefager or Fairelocks of Norway and William Duke of Normandy The two former he manfully quelled but fell under the hand of William in that famous Battle of Hastings in Sussex the setter up of the next Dynasty 2. IN those times whiles Princes sought the ruines one of another Popes grew up to dispose of them and their Kingdoms and those that protested against such deformities and enormities could not be heard INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Canutus had the largest Dominious of any that ever Ruled in this Kindome 2. St Augustines Arme were worth so much as he gave for it 3. Edward the sonne of Etheldred deserved the Title of Confessour 4. Our Common-Law have its grounds from his Collections 5. Ordalium by hott Coulters be fit to purge suspition of Incontinency 6. Stopping the rights of Marriages without consent for a time of both Parties be not directly against Gods word 7. Harold were bound to keep his Oath to William of Normandy for the Crowne of England in prejudice to Edgar Etheling the apparent right Heire Of the Normans DYNASTY IV. THe Fourth Dynasty is of the Normans to the Plantagenets and hath in it 1. A.C. 1067 WILLIAM the Conquerour the seaventh Duke of Normandy the sonne of Robert begotten on Arlot a poore Skinners daughter whom he affected for her
handsomenesse and comely dauncing which by chance he beheld among her country companions 2. After the overthrow of Harold with little lesse then the losse of 68000 men on both sides in Battle field he quickly brought under the rest of the Kingdome The Kentish men circumvent him by a stratageme and thereby retained their ancient Customes and Liberties 2. Edgar Etheling the right heire formerly wronged by Harold with the discontented Earles Edwin and Morcar make some resistance but to no purpose Edgar flyes with his Mother and Sisters into Scotland where King Malcolme entertaining them nobly takes Margaret his Sister to Wife and by his constant and effectuall standing for him Edgar was reconciled unto the Conquerour and had Royall allowance from him 3. To those insurrections that here vexed him his eldest sonne Robert added a more unnaturall in Normandy which he hastening to appease was in Battle Vnhorsed by his own sonne whom upon submission he was content to pardon for the time 4. The Church found no friend of him whose Revenues he alienated and burthened with unusuall taxes not sparing the poore meanes of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford which must be diverted from the Students 5. Besides the imposing of the Norman Lawes he left the Doomesday Booke in the Exchequer containing a Survay in generall of all England For a groat to short in payment of some dues required he forced the Monkes of Ely to lay downe a 1000 markes notwithstanding for all this the Pope bucks him and allowes his doings and Title 6. He depopulated about thirty miles in compasse Cambden iâ— Hantshire and outed the Inhabitants to make a forrest for Wild-beasts which pleasured not himselfe so much as it proved unluckie to his Posterity The plainnesse of these times of Letting Lands is worth the comparing with the intricate prolixity of our times Then it passed for good From me and mine to thee and thine As good and as faire as ever they mine were To witnesse that this is sooth I bite the white waxe with my tooth But now we find it otherwise 7. After all these transactions abroad he is summoned by Death as he was in Normandy but had the place of his buriall compounded for before he was interred and then the Grave proved too little for him that had proved so great a Conqueror in the World His second sonne 2. A.C. 1087 WILLIAM Rufus by Arch-Bishop Lanfrankes working for him gets the place 1. He is strongly opposed by his elder brother Robert whom he calmeth with promising faire words without performance and Robert joynes in the famous expedition to the Holy Laud with Godfrey of Bullaine 2. As his Father began so he persisted to withstand Papall intrusions He sleighted the Popes Binding Loosing and held it bootlesse to invocate Saints Curbed Anselme Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and taxed the then swelling Clergy for their Pride Luxury Idlenesse and Avarice Heard a Disputation of the Iewes who bribed him to favour them against the Christians but they lost the day and their mony togither 3. A Groome of his chamber on a time bringing him a paire of Breeches of three shillings price was blamed of him and commanded to furnish him with a paire fit for a King that should cost a marke He goes and presenting him with a meaner paire which he said cost so much yea Bellamy or by St Lucies face saith the King they are well bought such was the frugality of those times and difference from ours 4. His liberality to Religious persons and places shewes that he was not voyd of Religion though he could not endure Appeales to Rome and his building the Towre in London and Westminster Hall of 270 foot in length and 74 in breadth are sufficient testimonies of his Magnificence 5. His death was casuall by the glance of an arrow from a tree Cambden in Hantshire ex G. Mapes shot by Sir Walter Tirrell at a Stagge in the New Forrest wherein foure Abbies and thirty fixe Parish Churches had been demolished with the removing of all the Inhabitants to make roome for Beasts or Doggs game as one calls it Rex cervum insequitur Regem vindicta Tyrellus Non bene provisum transfixit acumine ferri The King the Stagge vengeance the King doth chase Tyrells hard hap concludes this Tragick case Also Richard his brother and Robert his Nephew came to their untimely ends in the same place so dangerous it is to prove Abaddons especially in consecrated things A Colliars Cart that removes him thence brake in the way and left him in the dirt whence he was after taken and buried as a King in Winchester dying without issue his Scepter descended to his brother 3. A.C. 1100 HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark for his Learning He was wont to say that an unlearned King was a Crowned Asse 1. Great stirres he had with his brother Robert who returning from Ierusalem where he was made King to possesse England but missed of it and at length lost Normandy togither with his eyes by his unnaturall brother 2. He Married Maud King Malcolmes daughter of Scotland by her Mother Margaret lineally descended from Edmund Ironside to strengthen his title to the Kingdome 3. As his predecessors did so he stoutly denyes the Popes incroachings Curbs Anselme that continued Romes agent establisheth the Lawes of Edward the Confessor Holinshed and addes other convenient of his owne 4. A.C. 1114 He is said to have held the first Parliament which he ordained should consist of Three Estates of which himself was the Head Martin A great Bickering began in his time between Canterbury and Yorke for priority which continued a long time after till Canterbury carried it And Cardinall Cremensis the Popes Legate sent hither to interdict Priests Marriages was taken in the Act with a common strumpet which he excused in saying he was no Priest himselfe but a corrector of them 5. The drowning of his sonne William with diverse other Nobles was repaired in some sort by the Marriage of Maud his Daughter first with Henry the fifth Emperour of Germany and he dying without Issue next with Jeffery Plantagenet Earle of Anjoy by whom she had Henry Fitz Empresse Heire apparant to the Crowne But his Grand-father dying unexpectedly by eating of Lampresse and he not upon the place 4. STEPHEN of Blois steps in A.C. 1135 sonne to Adeliza daughter to the Conquerour and holds it which was the cause of no small stirres and blood-shed especially it being against his Oath which he had taken with the Nobles for the Empresse Mauds succession and first brake it The Bishops excused it that it was for the good of the Church but Perjury promotes not Piety 2. Lesse he could not expect then continuall oppositions from the Empresse and her sonne Henry to recover their right wherein after various successe and windings on either side At the Battle of Liucolne notwithstanding his Herculian laying about him with his slaughtering Axe the King himselfe was taken Prisoner
the first Popes may be suspected to be the false ware of Isodorus Mercator 3. It be likely that those Religious Popes in such extreme persecutions had liberty or list to think on making Cardinalls or Gossips and introduce a rabble of beggerly Ceremonies 4. Damasus and Anastathius and such other Registers of the Popes Lives be not supposititious Writers or shamelesly falsified 5. Those workes fathered on Clemens Romanus set forth by Lambert Gruter be not for the most part of a latter stampe 6. The Mistery of Iniquitie began not to worke in Pope Victor when he excommunicated the Churches of the East for dissenting about the time of keeping Easter 7. The madnesse of the Gnostiques Valentinians Arians Novaeeinns and the like be not revived and set on foot againe by our Moderne Fanatiques SECT IV. Tollerable Arch-Bishops 1. THe good Bishops having thus sealed their profession with their blood in the front of Christs Army The second file comes on Of 1. Tollerable Arch. bishops 2. Patriarches The Arch Bishops are 19. for the time of almost two hundred years in the ensuing order 1. MARCUS a Romane A.D. 336 who for the small time he held the place brought in the singing of the Nicene Creed and the giving of the Pall to the Bishop of Hostia which afterward when other Bishops procured in like manner they sweetly paid for This Pall was to be of Wooll not of silke Luke 15. or any other stuffe to signify the skinne of that lost sheepe which our Saviour by his example taught to be fetched home upon the good sheapheards shoulders from the wildernesse His Countryman 2. IULIUS had a longer time to doe more A.D. 336 In which Athanasius came to Rome and was friendly entertained by him where to give satisfaction of his doctrine concerning the Trinity he made that Creed which we have in our Litturgy approved then by Julius and his Clergy Ciacon and put amongst their Records from whence it was after taken out and published to be generally received of the Church 2. By his care also it was ordained that Protonotaries should be appoynted to Register the passages in the Church But Platina complaines that in his time they were become so illiterate that some of them could scarce write their own names in Lattaine being foysted into that place from the occupations of Bawdes and Parasites 3. An. D. 352 LIBERIUS a Romane that succeeds him was not so constant but either through feare or ambition subscribed to Arianisme and Athanasius condemnation 2. Foelix was clapt into his place who proved a stouter man but Liberius recollecteth himselfe againe and recovers his seate in which he dies a Confessor and leaves it to this 4. A.D. 358 FOELIX 2d his fellow Citizen who condescended to communicate with the Arians though he were none himselfe but afterward in a tumult was made away by them He made the second Schisme with Liberius therefore by some is left out of the Catalogue of Popes 5. An. D. 367 DAMASUS a Spaniard hardly got his place being mainly opposed also by Vrcicinus who was elected by the adverse faction After many bickerings and much bloud shed Damasus carried it 2. He was a great friend to St Hierome who as Ciaconius stifly maintaines was made Cardinall by him first by the title of St Anastasius and then of St Laurence It appears by his procurement Hierome much reformed the vulgar Lattaine Edition 3. He ordered those should be accursed that put their mony to Vse would pay no Tithes and appointed Gloria Patri c. to close up every Psalme 4. Some make him the author of the Pontificall containing the Popes Lives this is certain that the Luxury of the Clergy was at a great height in his time which gave occasion to the jest of an Heathen Consul Make me Pope and I will straight turne Christian 6. An. D. 385 SIRICIUS a Romane that followed did lesse good He excluded those that were twice Married and admitted Monkes into Holy Orders 2. The conceiâ— he entertained of the merit of Virginity made him fierce in prosequuting Iovinian 3. In his time but not by his meanes but by the good Emperour Theodosian's the Temple of Serapis in Aegypt was demolished and the Idoll broken 7. An. D. 398 ANASTASIUS of his own Tribe held on the same course 2. He was carefull to represse the errors of Origene the first that brought up the standing up at the reading of the Gospell The doings of 8. An. D. 402 INNOCENTIUS the Albane are not of much greater note notwithstanding he was a great stickler against the Pelagians 2. In his time Alaricus plundered Rome but Innocentius was then at Ravenna 3. some hand he seemed to have in the great conference then held in Carthage between the Orthodoxe and Donatists set downe by Papirius Massonius in Binius The Grecian 9. ZOSIMUS did somewhat also that way An. D. 417 brought in Tapers into the Church 2. forbid Clearkâ— to haunt Ale-houses or Taverns gave way to 10. BONIFACIUS a Romane An. D. 419 the Sonne of Jocundus a Friest He was chosen in a Hubbub being shrewdly opposed by Eulalius the Deacon which made the fifth Schisme saith Onephrius Beda in Collecta in fine cites a Booke of his Miracles but none of them are now found Registred 11. An. D. 423 COELESTINUS a Campanian takes the turne after him He is much to be commended for sending Germanus and Lupus hither into England Palladius into Scotland and Patrick into Ireland for the rooting out of the Pelagian Heresie 12. SIXTUS 3d a Romane that followes An. D. 432 was not so well imployed he was accused by one Bassus for getting a Nunne with Child but the matter was decided by a Synod to Bassus his disgrace 2. Much he was for building and hereby gott the title of the Enricher of the Church 3. At the Emperesse Eudoxias instance he made a Holyday for St Peters Chaire But all this could not keep out Gensericus from Plundering Rome An. D. 440 But 13. LEO the Tuscan prevayled better not only with the same Genserick but also with Atylas whom he disswaded from the sacking of Rome which then lay at his mercy This is attributed to the miraculous assistance of S. Peter and S. Paul who terrified the Hunnes whiles Leo speak unto him 2. In his time the horrible Earth-quakes were asswaged that ruin'd many Cities at the singing of a new Trisagium which a Boy rapt up into the Ayre learned of Angels being this Sancte Deus Sancte fortis Sancte immortalis Vpon the overthrow of Aquileia by Atylas the Venetians setled themselves in the Gulfe which now they have made so famous 3. Some Miracles are attributed to this man His works are set forth in one Volumne by the Cannons regular of S. Martyn in Lovayne being 20 Homilyes and 110 Epistles to be found in Bibl. Pat. part 5. p. 789. 14. A.D. 461 HILARIUS or Hilarus according to Onuphrius of Sardinia could not prevaile so much
Iohn was banished into Pathmos and wrote his Revelation Arrogated to himselfe Divine Honours and would be stiled Dominus Deus noster our Lord and God to which afterward the Canonists entitled the Pope 4. The Months December and October are designed to bear his name as Iuly and August doe of Julius Caesar and Augustus but this change of the Calender took not 5. When men were weary of him a Chough is said to have spoke Greeke from the Tarpeian rock 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All shall be well 6. Which could not be untill the Tyrant was slaine outright by his own servants which the Divell might informe Apollonius Tyaneus of when he cryed out at Ephesus the same time To him Stephen strike him kill him 7. His word was FALLAX BONVM REGNVM A Kingdome is a deceiptfull good He found it too true and a better successor then himselfe Cocceius 13. An. Ch. 96 NERVA a Father rather then a Prince of the Commonwealth he set things right that his predecessor had disordered revoked St John out of Banishment provided for poore forbad incestuous marriages 2. His Motto summes up his excellencies Seneca in Thyeste MENS BONA REGNVM POSSIDET my mind to me a Kingdome is 3. The shortnesse of his good government was continued by his adopted sonne and successour Vlpius 14. An. Ch. 98 TRAâ—ANUS a Spaniard the first stranger that raigned among the Italians his justice moderation and valour got him the title of Pater Patriae father of his Country 2. Notwithstanding the third persecution against the Christians was raised by him This was so me what mittigated afterward by the Testimony of Plinius Secundus concerning their harmlesse conversation 3. Plutarch was his Instructer and Lucian that scorner of all Religion lived in his time who thought it a disparagement to their great witts to stoop so low as Christianity Notwithstanding Oracles ceased especially at that time amongst the Heathen And frequent miracles were amongst Christians 4. The Iewes not lessoned by the late ruine of Jerusalem raise insurrections against him in which 200000 of them perished 5. His word was QVALIS REX TALIS GREX Subjects prove good by a good Kings example His cousen Aelius 15. ADRIANUS takes his place An. C. 113 much commended for his personall endowments of Memory Wit and other abilities 2. By the Apologies of Aristides and Quadratus the fourth persecution begun in his time was much staied a gainst the Christians who at length had so gained his good opinion that he would have builded a Church for them without Images if some about him had not told him that it would be dishonourable to all the rest of the Gods 3. The Iewes possessed with a fatall frenzy are up in Armes againe under an Impostor Barchocab a sonne of the starre that should rise in Iacob but he proved but Barchosbah a sonne of a lying cheater this drew upon them their grubbing up root and Branch the Plough upon the Citty the erecting of another out of its ruines by the name of Aelia from the Emperour with the statua of a sow set over the Gate in detestation of Judaisme 4. After many Journeys and setling affaires abroad and here in Brittany by building a wall of 80 miles to sever the Romanes from the Natives he returnes to right matters at home 5. His word was NON MIHI SED POPVLO consonant to that of the twelve Tables Salus Populi suprema lex esto the Peoples good must be the chiefe scope of the Ruler to be promoted by him as a Protector and Gardian not as a Servant or Officer to be accountable to his Subjects if he doe not his duty but to God only who is his only Superiour He dyes Poetically desperate with this farewell to the world Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis Quae nunc abibis in loca Pallidula rigida nudula Nec utsoles dabis jocos having adopted to succeed him A.C. 138 16. ANTONINUS Pius who erected a Temple for clemency he better affected the Christians after he had read the Apologies of Iustine Martyr and others 2. He had learned men in great esteeme as Galen who was his Physitian but detested Jdlelers as the bane of the Common-wealth 3. His Motto shewes his gentle disposition SATIVS EST SERVARE VNVM CIVEM QVAM MVLTOS HOSTES PERDERE one Cittizen is preserved with greater credit then a thousand enemies destroyed A.C. 161 His sonne 17. ANTONINUS Philosophus followes who associates to him his brother Lucius Verus of a contrary disposition The Philosopher furnished with all virtues his brother with vices but Verus continues not long so that the whole government returned to him Euseb Eccles Hist l. 5. c. 5. 2. He raised in a blind zeale the fifth persecution against the Christians wherein Polycarpus and Iustine Martyr suffered But his distressed Army in Germany being miraculously preserved by the prayers of the Christians calmed him into a more favourable conceit of them The Legion that obtained this help from heaven was thereupon termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for not only procuring raine to the thirsty Souldier but Thunder and Lightning to route the Eâ—nemy His word was REGNI CLEMENTIA CVSTOS Clemency is a Kingdomes best preserver His sonne 18. A.C. 180 COMMODUS thought not so A degenerate wresch and shame to his family 2. He kept 300 Curtizans and so many Boyes would needs be accounted Hercules the sonne of Jupiter and so encounter Wild Beasts with his club and Lions skinne had an ambition to have some months beare his name as Iulius Caesar and Augustus had but met at length with a draught of Poyson from his Sweet-heart Martia a strangling upon that to dispatch him quickly 3. This forted not with his Embleme PEDETENTIM though it ranne with all his Subjects desires who in a manner thrust into his place Helvius 19. PERTINAX an experienced souldier An. C. 193 and a worthy man too good to keep it long 2. But indeavouring resolutely to right things amisse he was basely without provocation murthered by the Praetorian bands 3. His motto is said to be MILITEMVS Let us March on His march was soon cut off by 20. DIDIUS Iulianus An. C. 193 who bought the Empire for mony and had his Symbole IN PRETIO PRETIVM Mony gets any thing but he had small incoms by his purchase Niger in Syria and Albinus in Britany lay claime to it and he being slaine in his Pallace by those he traded with 21. SEPTIMIUS Severus fucceeds An. C. 193 commended for a great Souldier and otherwise a worthy man 2. He set on foot the sixt Persecution it being the Divells policy to imploy especially men noted for morall honesty and abilities to massaker Gods Saints that the world might believe that those could not chuse but be most abominable whom such wise pious men were so earnest to extinguish 3. After some Victories in the East and building a wall here between England and Scotland he dyed at
Arch-Bishopricks and Bishopricks The Arch-Bishops were of London Yorke and Gloster the Bishops of other places Idoll Temples were destroyed Westminster built in the Isle of Thorny the place where it now stands being then so called 4. Priviledges and meanes were granted for the honouring such sacred places 5. The King dies without Issue wherefore to continue the line of Government wee are forced to take in the Emperour 2. An. C. 208 SEVERUS for he comes hither in Person to appease the tumults amongst the headlesse and heedlesse multitude orders that the Country should have no more Kings of her own 2. Built a Wall between England and Scotland of 112 miles in length to stop the suddaine incursions of the Scots and Picts at least repaired that wall which Adrian had erected before 3. He dyes here in Yorke and left his sonne the Monster 3. BASSIANUS to succeed him An. C. 213 of whose killing his brother Geta and other villanies mention is made before in his life Of him 4. An. C. 219 CARAUSIUS an obscure Britaine purchaseth the Government of the shattered State Eutropius wherein when he presumed to King it 5. An. C. 226 ALECTUS is sent from Rome by the Senate to out him which he quickly did And was as soon dealt with in the like kind by 6. ASCLEPIODOTUS Duke of Cornewall An. C. 232 This man resolutely bestirres himselfe for the freedome of his Country disgarrisons the Romane holds besieges London carries it kills the Romane Governour thereof Livius and throwes him into a Rivellet thence called Wall-brook But differences falling out between him and Coill Earle of Colchester it grew to a set Battle wherein Asclepiodotus was slaine and 7. COILL takes his place An. C. 2623 Constantius Clhorus is sent by the Romane Senate to subdue the tumultuous but matters were so politiquely contrived between them that in steed of outing Coill Clhorus takes his faire and peerclesse Daughter Helena to wife and with her the Kingdome after her Father He is highly commended for his morall virtues valour moderation and in those sad times for favouring the Christians After an excellent exhortation on his death-bed to those that were about him he quietly breathed his last and lyes buried at Yorke leaving 8. An. C. 310 CONSTANTINE the Heire and Augmenter of his worth whom he had by the British Helen As Lucius had the honour before to be Registred for the first Christian King so this Great Constantine is famous to all ages for the first Christian Emperour of whom more is said in his life amongst the Emperours After him expired the Romane vassalage which had endured 483 years by the intrusion of 9. An. C. 329 OCTAVIUS Duke of Cornewall Against him Constantine sends Traherne his Vnkle by the Mothers side but he was quickly encounterd by Octavius that had great means and friends and overthrowne neere Winchester but Traherne recruting his forces at an other Battle in the North had the better of Octavius who thereupon fled into Norway 2. Thence understanding that Traherne was slaine by an Earle that was his friend he returnes againe to his Estate and governs peaceably 3. And for the strengthning of his Title to make it good to posterity he sends for from Rome 10. An. C. 383 MAXIMIANUS or Maximus a kinsman of the Great Constantines For this mans harsh dealing with the Ghristians he is set forth by most writers as a Tyrant 2. Quarrells fell out between him and Conan Meridoc Duke of Cornewall and some conflicts with various successe but they agreed at last Maximianus bestowing Armorica which he had conquered upon Conan who called it Little Britaine and having made away the ancient Inhabitants sent into Cornewall for Wives to people it with Brittish blood 11000 Virgins were shipped thither by Diothen then Duke whereof Vrsnla his faire daughter was one but they were barbarously slaine in the passage by Guanus Captain of the Hunnes and Melga King of Ficts who afterward were forced into Ireland by Gracian a Leader sent from our Maximinian 3. Who puffed up with wealth and successe Rebelled against his Master Gratian the Emperour whom he slew in France and proclaimed himselfe Emperour but quickly lost that dignity with his life by Theodosius the great In Orat. funeb de exitu Theodofii neere Aquilea concerning whom St Ambrose hath this passage Maximus occisus est nunc in inferno docenâ— exemplo miserabili quam durum sit Arma suis Principibus irrogare Maximus is slaine and now in Hell by his miserable example teacheth what a hard matter it is for Subjects to take up Armes against their Princes 11. A.Ch. 391 GRACIAN then his Generall makes bold to supply the vacant place he was a Britaine by birth and education yet so Tyrannized over his Countrymen that in a short space he was slaine amongst them 2. Whereupon Guanus and Melga finding them destitute of a Leader come upon them out of Ireland The Scots and Picts breake in upon them from the North and Civill dissentions plague them as much in the middest so that nothing but Famine Bloud and desolation was before their eyes 3. In this extremity they repayre to Aetius the Romane Leiftenant in Gallia with this pittyfull complaint The Barbarous people drive us to the Sea and the Sea driveth us back unto them againe Hereof arise two kinds of death for either we are slaine or drowned and against such evils have we no remedy or help at all Therefore in respect of your Clemency succour your owne we most instantly desire you 4. But finding cold comfort either for that the Romane regarded them not or had his hands full otherwise they dispatch Embassadours to Aldroenus then King of little Britaine who consented to ayd them if they would accept his brother to be their King 5. Necessity enforceth them to imbrace the Condition and so 12. CONSTANTINE is made their King A.Ch. 443 He Lands with Forces at Totnesse slayes Guanus the Hunnish King in the Feild and defeateth the rest of the oppressours but soone after was treacherously slaine himselfe by a perfidious Pict 2. He left three sonnes surviving Constantius Aurclius Ambrose and Vter Pendragon Constantius that for his blockishnesse was Cloystered in a Monastery was thence taken to Raigne after him but was wholy guided as a Ward by Vortiger Duke of Cornewall who caused him to be made away that he might enjoy the Place and appeares the foreman of the next and last Classis or Distance in the Brittish Dynasty 3. WIth this Distance falleth in 1. The great Question concerning the first Planter of Christianity in Britany Whether it were 1. St James the sonne of Zebedee or 2 Simon Zelotes or 3 St Peter or 4 St Paul or 5 Joseph of Aramathea or 6 Aristobulus or 7 Timothy or all these or any other at diverse times and on diverse occasions may be said to have put their hand to the worke 2 The damnable Heresie of Pelagius first hence taking his rise with
opposing Pope Innocent the third in Stephen Langtons preferment to the See of Caterbury sleighting the Monks and vexing them 3. Their Combinations forced him after the Interdicting of the Realme for six years three moneths and sixteene dayes to render his Crowne to Pandulphus the Popes Legate and take it againe in Fee-Farme at the Rent of a Thousand Markes yearely which exasperated his Nobles against him howsoever it warped the Pope and Clergy to be for him 4. His Bickering abroad with the French and at home with his Barons made his Raigne very Tragicall which ended at Swansted Abby by Simon the Monkes Poyson as some say and gave way to his sonne 4. A.C. 1216 HENRY the third who Crowned between nine or tenne yeares Old 1. Cleared this Realme of the French who had Invaded it by the Popes interdiction by William Martiall Earle of Pembroke his Protector 2. Hubert De Burgo Earle of Kent did him much good service for which he had small recompence 3. His immoderate and exasperating favours cast on Strangers drew on the Barons Warres in which an Insanum Parliamentum held at Oxford appointed twelve Peeres in prejudice of his Regality The Earles of Leicester and Glocester are the greatest sticklers in it who took Prisoners the King with his brother Richard King of the Romanes and his sonne Prince Edward in the Battle of Lewes in Sussex 4. He confirmes Magna Charta The Earles fall at deadly fend between themselves Prince Edward tels the King of it and joyning with Glocester Rights himselfe by the Ruine of Leicester in the Battle of Eversham in Worcestershire 5. London is threatned to be Burnt by the King for taking the Barons part 6. Glocesters service failing of expected Favours repines to no purpose and undertakes to goe to the Holy Land but shrinking that enterprise is performed by Prince Edward and his Heroick Princesse Elianor who suck'd out there the poyson of an invenomed wound given him with the hazard of her owne life whereby he recovered He did there great service untill he was called back to succeed his Father that dyed after fifty six yeares Raigne by the Title of 5. EDWARD the first commonly called Longshanks A.C. 1273 1. He brought the Welch with their Valiant Prince Lewillin under the English Subjection 2. Conquered Scotland being at Variance who should be King brought thence the Marble Chayre in which the Scottish Kings were wont to be Crowned spoken of before 3. Hesleighted the Popes Inhibition to forbeare Scotland and in the Parliament of Lincolne under the subscription of the Peeres utterly renounced Pope Boniface his Supreame Authority 4. He banished the Jewes for their Exactions and Censured the Judges and Officers for their Corruptions 5. Vpon his Death-bed charged his sonne to continue the Banishment of Pearce of Goveston and to convey his Heart to be buried in the Holy Land 6. Of his sixteene Children which he had by two Wives Elianour of Spaine and Margaret of France 6. A.C. 1307 EDWARD the second surnamed Carnarvan the first English hereditary Prince of Wales succeeds him 2. He against his Oath calls Gaveston twice out of Banishment permits him to convey beyond the Seas his Iewels with a Table and Tressels all of Beaten Gold 3. In place of Gaveston beheaded by the Nobles he takes the Spencers Father and sonne to be his Favourites worse if it might be then Gaveston 4. At Estreveline and twice afterwards he received three notable overthrowes by the Scotts to the losse of all his Interest there and the Devastation of the Northerne parts of his Kingdome 5. Vpon these preposterous events Iohn Poydrus an Exeter man would needs prove the King a Changling and said himselfe was Long-shanks sonne But his claime was quickly strangled with an Halter 6. To right these wrongs the Barons by a Parliament get the Spencers banished The King recalls them the Barons take Armes receive a great overthrow and two and twenty of them are Behoaded The Spencers the more insult 7. The Queene flyes with the Prince into France is deserted by her bribed Brother the French King and commanded to returne by the Pope finds favour with Robert of Artois Earle of Henalt and Sr Iohn his brother returnes by their help into England is assisted by the Barons takes the King and the Spencers at Bristow The Londoners behead Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter for withstanding the Queenes proceedings The Spencers are executed the King is Deposed in Parliament sent to Killingworth as Prisoner and thence to Barkly Castle where he was barbarously Spitted to Death leaving his sonne 7. A.C. 1327 EDWARD the third otherwise calied Edward of Windsor to governe better 1. He surprised Mortimer the Minion of his mother and Executed him at Tyburne who had by his pernicious plotting caused King Edward the second to be made away by an Amphibologie Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To shed King Edwards blood Refuse to feare I hold it good And the Scottish Ragman to be redelivered in the Non-age of this King whereby the English laid claime to Scotland together with their Black Crosse so that the People cried out Vae pueris terrae saepissime sunt ubi guerrae Woe to the Land where Rulers age Is not mature to stop mens rage 2. Notwithstanding the King repaired this afterward by the overthrow of the Scotts at Hallidowne Hill which wiped off their contumelious Rime made upon their Victorie over the English in his Fathers dayes being this Long Beards heartlesse Painted Hoods witlesse Gray Coates gracelesse Make England thriftlesse And also in taking their King David the valiant Bruces sonne Prisoner at Nevils Crosse in his absence in France by the Queene and placing in Edward Balioll to be King 3. Against the French by himselfe and this Valiant sonne Edward the Black Prince He obtained eminent Victories at Cressay and Poycters In the last of which their King John was taken and brought into England 4. He Founded the Order of the Garter first quartered his Armes with France In his old age was much abused by a Strumpet Alice Pears 5. After he had seene the death of his Victorious sonne Edward the Black Prince he died peaceably at Sheene in Surry leaving to succeed him his Grandchild the Black Princes sonne 8. RICHARD the second 1. A.C. 1378 He misled by his Favorite Michael De La Poole and other Syeophants incurres the hatred of his People Iohn Wall Priest Watt Tylor lack Sraw and Jack Shepherd raise a Rebellion against him which happily was quieted by the Maior of London's William Walworths mortall blow given Watt Tylor 2. Thirteene Commissioners were appointed to see matters reformed but it came to nothing 3. An Invasion of French with twelve hundred Ships under Sayle against England by Gods providence were utterly scattered Iohn of Gaunt his Vncle Warreth successively in Spaine and himselfe in Scotland 4. He continues his hatred against his Nobles executes diverse of them Banisheth his Cosen Henry of
King Henry the eight Vnhorsed him King Edward the sixth Banished him Queen Mary indeed recalled him and with some hot Waters revived him so the Heroick Queene Elizabeth set him packing againe And her Learned successor King James hath so stab'd and branded him with his Penne that his Sonne our Sacred King CHARLES is too well Catechized and throughly grounded for permitting him to have any setling here or countenance hereafter To these times are referred the famous Sea-fight of Lepanto and 88. wherein Turke and Pope felt Gods hand against them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the seavenths surest claime to the Crowne were from his Queen Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the fourth 2. The executing of Edward Plantagenet the young harmelesse Earle of Warwicke ill became a Statist that professed Christiaenity 3. Henry the eight proved a better Defender of the Faith by rejecting the Popes Supremacy then retaining it 4. Edward the sixt's Reformation be free from the most and greatest exceptions that Novelists have made against it 5. The Martyring of Protestants in Queene Maries daies were not rather through the blondinesse of some Praelates then out of her own disposition 6. There were ground to suspect that Queen Elizabeth ever conspired against her Sister 7. Her passing the Statute of improvement hath not conduced more to the benefite of the Church and Vniversities then the Benificence of many of the chiefest Founders put together The Stuarts DYNAST VII THE Tudors breathing out their last Excellent in Elizabeth STUARTS take their turne by an Vnquestionable Title as Lineally descended from Margaret the eldest Daughter of Henry the seventh of these we have enjoyed 1. IAMES the first of England but sixt of Scotland Rex Pacificus 1. He attained the Crowne without the least Contradiction but greatest applause of all 2. For his Constancy and admirable Ability in maintaing the Truth of the Gospell against Popery Two Treasons were Plotted against Him that of the Preists Watson and Clarke with others misled by them and that Prodigious Project of the GVN-POWDER VILLANY Pope Clement the eight had formerly charged his Cronies here in England by a Bull not to admit Him King without a Toleration first obtained But God be praised it lay not in his Holinesse disposing 3. His exquisite Learning and exact Iudgment in Divinity was eminently apparent in the Conference at Hampton Court in his Publique Disputations in the Vniversities and interposiing his Censure in the weightiest Matters And last of all in his excellent Works set forth to the view of the World in one Volume 4. Now as these admirable Parts of his were a Curbe to the Schismaticall humours at Home so his Advice and Aide availed especially in composing differences abroad amongst the Reformed Churches To this end He sent certain Select and Worthy Divines to the Synod of Dort and his Letters to others whereby the world might witnesse how truly he stuck to his Motto REX PACIFICVS He caused the Bible to be Translated into English by Select Devines and set forth more exactly then formerly it had been done 5. And so this blessed Peacemaker when He had Peaceably Raigned Twenty two Yeares and upward in Peace departed in his Bed leaving his Peaceable Raigne and Virtues to his SONNE 2. CHARLES the first whom God of his Infinite mercy preserve to Raigne long over us c. 2. MEmorable things in King Jame's time serioussy to be commendad to Posterity are 1. The Translation of the Holy Scripture into English more accurately then it had beene formerly performed 2. The Conference at Hampton Court for the examining and setling Church Discipline against nibbling Sectaries 3. His sending Divines to the Councell of Dort and interposing for upholding Truth and Virtue against Innovators abroad 4. His quelling the Popes utmost forces drawne up by the Iesuits in point of Supremacy so that since that defeat we have little heard of it 5. The setting forth of his Works concerning matters of Divinity and State and sending them to be Libraried in both his Vniversities the like cannot be shewed of any Prince whatsoever 5. His enlarging the Priviledges of the Vniversities by granting them Burges in Parliament and Augmenting the Professors places in Divinity Law and Physick with ample and magnificent Additions 6. His miraculous discovery of the Popish Powderploet And thereupon the contriving of the Oath of Allegiance to discover true-hearted Romanists from Traytors and setting a day apart for solemnizing the remembrance of so admirable a Deliverance 7. Lastly in his time brake out that desolating Germane Warre which he endeavoured to prevent but God hath reserved to himselfe wholy to extinguish for which and the like pacifications all true Christians are bound to PRAY INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Parsons Doleman against King Jame's Title to the Crowne of England were not as ridiculous as perfidious 2. Learning ever more flourished in these Kingdomes then in King Jame's and Queene Elizabeth's dayes 3. The like Library can be shewen to that Erected by the Famous Sr Thomas Bodley in the Vniversity of OXFORD throughout the World 4 The Beneficence of Sr Henry Savill for Mathematique Professors or Mr William Cambden Clarentius for History or Sr Iohn Sedley and Dr White for Philosophy and of other for other Faculties have not exceeded the Liberality of most former times 5. The Building in these times for private or publique Vses have not equalized or outvied the Magnificence of former Ages 6. Discoveries Plantations and Trades abroad were ever more frequent or better Thrived 7. Any Nation have proved more ungratfull for such Multiplied Blessings then this of Ours for which especially we now justly Suffer Concerning History of Professions As also Naturall Various and Vaine Narrations 1. FRom the Histories of Successions in States or Families there will be an easy descent to the Histories of Professions Designing the Famous men in all kind of Faculties 2. Wherein a briefe may be taken of the Lives and Workes of 1. PHILOLOGISTS 2. HISTORIANS 3. MATHEMATICIANS 4. PHILOSOPHERS 5. PHYSICIANS 6. LAWYERS 7. DIVINES 3. These make up the Seven courses of the Encyclopaedia so much aimed at by roaving Witts which catch at all and take nothing in regard they fixe not upon one certain Study and make not the rest subservient unto it 4. PHILOLOGY takes up in its walke 1. Grammer 2. Rhetorique 3. Pâ—etry 4. Logicke 5. Anagnosticke or the method of reading Authors profitably 6. Critiques See Polanus de legendiâ— Authoribus cum fructu Alsted Encyclop Vossius de Historicis corrective and directive 7. Didactiques or the Art of teaching others with facility which we have learned by great industry 5. In HISTORY the Lives of the Ancient and Moderne Writers may be looked after in that particular especially we desire to be informed of which is observed by diverse of our Chroniclers more fully by Mr Isaacson and Sir Richard Baker 6. For MATHEMATIQUES the Lives of 1. Arithmeticians 2. Geometricians 3. Perspectivists 4.