Richard wonne the royall state Vnnatnrally the children of his brothe The King and Duke of Yorke he caus'd to smother For Sir Iames Tirrell Dighton and Blacke Will Did in the Tower these harmlesse Princes kill Buckinghams Duke did raise King Richard high And for reward he lost his head thereby A fellow to this King I scarce can finde His shape deform'd and crooked like his minde Most cruell tyrannous inconstant stout Couragious hardy t' abide all dangers out Yet when his sinnes were mellow ripe and full Th' Almighties Iustice then his plumâ—…s did pull By bloudy meanes he did the kingdome gaine And lost it so at Bosworth being slaine This Richard was neuer a good subiect but whâ—… he had got the Crowne he striued by all meanes to be a good King for in his short reigne of two yeeres two moâ—…s he made very profitable Lawes which are yet in force by which it may be perceiued how willing he was to 〈◊〉 his mis-spent time Henry the seuenth An. Dom. 1485. VVHen Ciuill wars full fourescore yeers more Had made this kingdome welter in her Gore When eightie of the royall blood were kild That Yorke and Lancasters crosse faction held Then God in mercy looking on this Land Brought in this Prince with a triumphant band The onely Heire of the Lancastrian line Who gracâ—…ously consented to combine To ease poore England of a world of anone And make the red Rose and the white but one By Marriage with Elizabeth the faire Fourth Edwards daughter and Yorks onely heire But Margret Burgunds Lancaster storm'd frown'd That th' heire of Lancaster in state was crown'd A counterfeit one Lambert she suborn'd Beign with Princely ornaments adorn'd To claime the State in name of Claâ—…ce sonne Who in the Tower before to death was done Wars ' gainst the French King Henry did maintaine And Edward braue Lord Wooduilâ—… there was slaine Northumberlands great Earle for the Kings right Was slaine by Northerne rebels in sharpe fight The King besiedged Boloigne but a Peace The French king sought and so the siedge did cease Still Burgunds Dutchesse with inueterate hate Did seeke to ruine Henries Royall state She caus'd one Perkin Warbecke to put on The name of Richard Edwards murdred sonne Which Richard was the youngest of the twaine Of Edwards sonnes that in the Tower was slaine The King at last these traitors did confound And Perkin for a counterfeit was found Sir William Stanley once the Kings best friend At Tower hill on a Scaffold had his end On Blacke Heath Cornish rebels were o'rthrowne A Shoomaker did claine King Henries Crowne The Earle of Warwicke lost his haplesse head And Lady Katherine did Prince Arthur wed But ere sixe moneths were fully gone and past In Ludlow Castle Arthur breath'd his last King Henry built his Chappell from the ground At Westminster whose like can scarce be found Faire Margret eldest daughter to our King King Iames the fourth of 〈◊〉 home did bring Where those two Princes with great pompe and cheare In State at Edenborough married were But as all Mortall â—…hings are traâ—…ory So to an end came Hâ—…nrie â—…arthly glory Twenty three yeeres and 8. months here he swaid And then at Westminster iâ—…s Tombe was laid He all his Life had variable share Of Peace Warre Ioy Griefe Royaltie and Care In his 1. yeere in 7. weekes space there dyed in London 2. Masors and 6. Aldermen besides many hundred others of a strange sweating sicknesse 1485. Anno Reg. 12. at Saint Needs in Bedfordshire there fell bail-stones 18. inches about King Iames the 4. of Scotland married Margret eldest daughter to Henry the 7. from whom our gracious Soueraigne is lineally descended Henry the eight An. Dom. 1509. FRom both the Lines and both the loynes did spring Of York Lancaster this mighty King Katherine that was his brothers wife of late He tooke to wife and crown'd her Queene in state Empson and Dudley lost their heads at Tower For racking the poore Commons by their power Warres dreadfull wars arose 'twixt vs and France Lord Edward Howard drowned by mis-chance At Brest he was high Admirall in fight Cast ouerboord dy'd like a valiant Knight In England Suffolks Duke did lose his head The King to Turâ—…in dâ—…d an army lead Turney he wonne with his victorious blade King Iames of Scotland England did inuade But Surries Earle the Scoâ—…sh King ouercame Who lost life there but wonne immortall fame Now Cardinall Wolâ—…ey in the Kings high Grace Was rais'd to honours from great place to place Lordship on Lordship laid vpon his backe Vntill the burthen was the bearers wracke The Duke of Buckingham his head did lose And Luther stoutly did the Pope oppose Blinde ignorance that long had look'd awry Began to see Truth with a clearer eye And then the King inspir'd with feruent Zeale Reformed both the Church and Common weale Iehouah with his power Omnipotent Did make this King his gracious instrument T' vnmaske his Truth from Antichristian fables And purge this wofull Land from Babelâ—… bables This King at Boloigne was victorious In peace and warre Magnifique Glorious In his rage bounty he did oft expresse His Liberality to bee excesse In Reuels Iusts and Turnies he spent more Then fiue of his Fore-fathers did before His Auarice was all for Noble fame Amongst the Worthies to inrole his Name A valiant Champion for the Faiths defence Was the great Title of this mightie Prince Sixe wiues he had 3. Kates 2. Annes one Iane Two were diuorc'd two at the blocke were slaine One sonne and two faire daughters he did leaue Who each from other did the Crowne receiue The first was Edward Mary next whose death Left State and Realme to Queene Elizabeth He thirty eight yeeres kept this Royall Roome At Windsor hee 's enter'd without a Tombe Leeth Edenbourgh and diuers other parts of Scotland were spoyled by Sir Iohn Dudley Lord Viscount Lisle Lord high Admirall of England with a Nauy of 200. tall Ships Anno 1544. King Henry went to Boloigne hee entred France the 13. of Iuly and into Boloigne the 25. of September in which yeere were taken 300. French Ships for prizes Edward the sixt An. Dom. 1546. HAd this Kings reigne bin long as it was good Religion in a peaceable state had stood What might haue his age bin when his blest youth So valiantly aduanc'd Gods sacred truth At nine yeeres age the Crowne on him hee tooke And ere sixteene he Crowne and life forsooke Too good for earth th' Almighty tooke his spirit And Westminster his Carkas doth inherit In his 5. yeere a strange Earth-quake did much harme in diuers places of Surry and a sweating sicknesse generally ouer England that dispatched those that were in good health in 12. houres or 24. at the most In one weeke there dyed of it in London 806. the most of them being men of best strength Queene Mary An. Dam. Dâ—… AFter a while this Queene had worne the Crown Idolatry was rais'd
CAROLUS STUART Koningk van Engelandt Schotlandt En Irlandt Gebooren A o. 1600. Binnen Londen onthalst A o. 1649. in 't 24 Iaer zyner Regeeringe Antâ—… van Dyck pinxit Ioost Hartgers excud S. Savery fâ—â—tt A MEMORIAL OF ALL THE English Monarchs being in number 151 from BRVTE to King CHARLES In Heroicall Uerse by IO. TAYLOR LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for Iames Bowler 1630 ⧠TO THE RIGHT Honourable LIONEL Lord Viscount Cranefield Earle of Middlesex c. MY humble Muse in lofty manner sings A Catalogue of Englands mighty Kings At first I do begin with Troian BRVTE And following Chronicles I do dispute Proceeding briefely with their Raignes and Names Till these blest dayes of our best Monarch IAMES T is but an Argument that 's written here That in such time such and such Princes were But he that meanes their Actions more to know May read Boetius Hollinshed or Stow Or our true labouring Moderne Master How Which Authors Learned Iudgement do allow Or if you le see how former times doe runne Reade the laborious paines of Middleton We haue had Kings since Brute of royall Blood One hundred forty sixe some bad some good Foure Queenes in all this time did only Raigne Whose Memories in Histories remaine So in two thousand and seuen hundred yeeres We had thrice 50 Princes it appeares This Kingdome here was fiue times won and lost And Kings as God decreed oft chang'd and tost Sometimes one swaid the Scepter sometime twaine And sometime seuen at once did rule and raigne Till sixe by bloudy warres lost life and throne And valiant Egbert ioyn'd them all in one But since through Heauens high prouidence I see T is growne more great and greater like to be Long may He liue by whom in one 't is guided And may they sinke that wish't againe diuided Then Noble Lord with good acceptance take This Poem for the Royall Subiects sake And though it be not compleate as it should Beare with it and accept of what I could The matter 's worthy though the manner poore VVhich makes me heere your Patronage implore And may you be externall and internall Blest and aduanc'd to happinesse eternall Your Honours in all obseruance to be commanded Iohn Taylor Yeeres before Christ. Medulla Historioe Anglicanoe BRVTE THE FIRST KING OF BRITTAINE began his Reigne 1. BRVTE Anno mundi 2858. Before Christ 1108. AENEAS from subuerted Troy exilde In Tuscan wedded King Latiâ—…s childe By whom the Realme of Italy he gain'd And after he had 3 yeeres fully raign'd He died and left Ascanius in his stead To whom Silâ—…s Postâ—…s did succeed From which Posthumus Royall loynes did spring Great Brutus Brittaines first commanding King The people then were here all voyd of pride Borne Naked Naked liu'd and Naked dy'd Three Sonnes Brute left Locrinus was his Heire To England Cambria Wales was Cambers share To Albanact the youngest 't was his lot To sway the Scepter of the valiant Scot. Thus 'mongst his Sonnes this Ile he did diuide And after twenty foure yeeres Reigne he dy'd Locrine 20. yeeres 1084. LOcrinus Eldest of old Brutus Sonnes By Valour vanquisht the inuading Hunnes He chas'd them their power did quite confound And their King Humber was in Humber drownd This Locrine had a Queene faire Guendolin Yet folly led him to the Paphaean sinne â—…esotted sence and blood with lust inflam'd He lou'd a beautie Beautious Estrild nam'd â—…y whom he had a Daughter Sabrin hight 〈◊〉 whome the King had whole and sole delight â—…or which the Queene made war vpon her Lord â—…nd in the Fight she put him to the Sword â—…nd after a reuengefull bloody slaughter Queene Guendoline tooke Estrild and her daughter â—…nd drownd them both to queÌ„ch her ielous flame â—…nd so from Sabrine Seauerne got the name Q. Guendoline 1064. About this time Saul was King of Israel VVHen 15. yeeres this Queen had wisely raign'd She dy'd then her Son the kingdome gain'd Queene Guendoline was allowed the gouernment in her Sonne Madans minority whose pâ—…dent reigne is appâ—…fully recorded in histories Madan 1009. VVHen forty yeers this King had rul'd this Ile As Stories say he died a death most vile The wide-mouth'd Wolfe and keene-tusk'd brutish Bore Did eate his Kingly flesh drinke his gore Madan was a vicious and wicked Prince the Sonnâ—… of Locrine and Guendoline Hee was a great Tyrant Hâ—… built the Toâ—…ne of Doncaster Hee had two â—…nes Mempricius and Mannus Mempricius raigned 20. yeeres 991. MEmpricius base his brother 〈◊〉 slew And got the Crowne by murder 〈◊〉 as dâ—…e Maids wiues and widdowes hoby 〈◊〉 deflowr'd He liu'd a Beast and dy'd by a Beast dâ—…uour'd Hee killed his elder brother treâ—… sly as â—…ee was parlying with him Hee was eaten of Wolues as hee was hunting Hee was so beastly that he was taâ—…din histories to be a Sodomite with Beasts in his time Ebranke 989. King Dauid reigne ouer Israeâ—… AT Edinburgh the Castle he did found Alcluid York he built new from the ground He builded Bambrough and reigned sixty yeeres Belou'd as it in Chronicles appeares Ebranke had 21. wiues by whom he had 20. Sonnes and 30. Daughters hee inuaded Gallia now France He was the Sonne of Mempricius In his Reigne reigne King Salomon Alcluid is Dumbreton in Scotland Brute the second 929. IF any noble act Brute Greeneshield did Hee 's wrong'd because from Histories th' are hid Twelue yeeres he rul'd that 's all I of him read And how at Yorke hee Iyeth buried This Brute was the Sonne of Ebranke and some histories write doubtfully that he conquer'd France and that after he receiued a great foyle in field by Brinchild or Brinchillus Prince of Henoway or Henault Leil 917. LEil Carleile bâ—…t and raignâ—…d yeeres twenty fiue And as Fame still keepes dead mens acts aliue So Leil though dead 〈◊〉 euer liue by Fame He lyes at Carleile which himselfe did frame Leil was the Sonne of Brute Greeneshield It is also written that he buâ—… the 〈◊〉 of Chester Lud or Rudhudibras was the Sonne of Leil a religious Prince in â—…s superstitious way of Paganisme for in these 3. Townes â—…ich he built hee erected 3. Temples and placed 3. 〈◊〉 or Pagan Bishops in them Rudhudibrasse 892. THis King built Canterbury Winchester And Shaftsbury he from the ground did reare And after twenty nine yeeres reigne was past At Winchester sore sicke he breath'd his last Bladud reign'd 20. 863. BAathe was by Bladud to perfection brought By Necromanricke Arts to flye hee sought As from a Towre he thought to scale the Sky He brake his necke because he soar'd too higâ—… This Bladud had beene a stâ—… in Ather â—…id whence hee brought â—…ny learned men hee buiâ—… elue ford a Colledge I thinke the first in England play the fowle or the foole he brake his necke on the Temple of Apollo in Troynouant Leire 844. LEire as the Story saies three daughters had The youngest good the
at Westminster In the 17. of his reigne on the 8. of Aprill 1233. there were 5 Sonnes in the firmament and the naturall Sun was as red as blood Edward Long-shanks An. Dom. 1272. THis was a hardy wise Victorious King The Welshmen he did to subiection bring He Scotland wan and brought from thence by fate Their Crowne their Scepter Chaire and Cloth of state That Kingdome with oppression sore he brusde Much tyranny and bloodshed there he vsde When thirty fiue yeeres he the Crowne had kept At Westminster he with his Father slept Edward the 1. In the 13. yeere his sonne Edward was borne at Carnaruan who was the first sonne of any King of England that was Prince of Wales An. 17. Wheat at 3. pence the Bushell Edward of Carnaruan An. Dom. 1307. THe hard mis haps that did this King attend The wretched life and lamentable end Which he endur'd the like hath ne'r bin seene Depos'd and poyson'd by his cruell Queene Which when the poyson had no force to kill Another way she wrought her wicked will Into his Fundament a red hot Spit Was thrust which made his Royall heart to split In his 8. yeere such a dearth that dogges and horses were good food many ate their owne children and old prisoners tore such as were newly committed in pieces and deuoured them halfe liuing The King reigned 19. yeeres 6. moneths Edward the third An. Dom. 1316. IN Peace and warre â—…his King was right good He did reuâ—…nge his murdred Fathers blood Hee and the blacke Prince his most valiant Sonne The field at Cressâ—… and at Poytiers wonne At first and lâ—…st in his victorious raigne Of French and Scots were six score thousand slaine And more his glory further to aduance He tooke the Kings of Scotland and of France The noble order of the Garter he At Windsor instituted caus'd to be When fifty yeeres this Land had him obaid At Westminster he in his tombe was laid In his 12. yeere he quartered the Armes of England and France as they are at this day Henry Pichard Viâ—…tner in his Maioralty feasted at once Edward King of England Dauid King of Scotland Iohn King of France the King of Cypres the Prince of Wales the Dolphin of France with many other great Personages of Honour and Worship Richard the second An. Dom. 1377. YOng King rash couÌ„sell lawes right neglected The good put downe the bad in State â—…rected The Court with knaues flat'rers here did swarm The Kingdome like a Farme was let to Farme The Commons rose in Armies Rouâ—…es and throngs And by foule treason would 〈◊〉 foule wrongs In this Kings raigne began the Ciuill warre Vnnaturally 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster Oppression on oppression breedes Confusion Bad Prologue bad Proceeding bad Conclusion King Richard twenty two yeeres raign'd misse-led Deposed and at Pomfret knock'd ith'head This King was Grandchild to Edward the 3. and sonne to the black Prince he was borne at Burdeux in France and was but 11. yeeres old when he was crowned so that all his miserable calamity may be imputed to his not hauing or not regarding good counsell Henry the fourth An. Dom. 1399. THe Crown wrong got froÌ„ the wrong ' doing king More griefe then ioy did to King Henry bring France England Scotland Wales arose in Armes And menac'd Henry with most fierce Alarmes Hot Percy Dowglas Mortimer Glendâ—…wre At Shrewsbury the King orâ—…threw their power He fourteene yeeres did raigne and then did dye At Cantâ—…rbury buried he doth lye Henry the 4. Hee began his reigne the 29. of September 1399. and the 14. of February following King Richard the 2. being in prison at Pomfret-Castle was murdered The raigne of King Henry was a continuall warre and trouble Henry the fift An. Dom. 1412. THis was a King Renowned nâ—…ere and farre A Mars of men a Thunderbolt of warre At Agencourt the French were ouerthrowne And Henry heyre proclaim'd vnto that Crowne â—…ine yeeres raigne this valiant Prince wan more I henaâ—… the Kings did after or before Intomb'd at Westminster his Carkas lyes His soule did like his Acts ascend the skies Henry the 5. In his 3. yeere hee past the sea with 1000. 〈◊〉 of Ships and Vessels into France His tombe or statue was couered with siluer but this yron age hath deuoured Henry the sixt An. Dom. 1422. THis Infant Prince scarce being nine moneths old The Realmes of France and England he did hold But he vncapable through want of yeeres Was ouer-gouern'd by mis-gouern'd Peeres Now Yorke and Lancaster with bloudy wars Both wound this kingdome with deep deadly scars Whâ—…st this good King by Yorke oppos'd depos'd Expos'd to dangers is captiu'd 〈◊〉 ' d His 〈◊〉 â—…xilde his sonne and many friends Fâ—…d murdred slaughtred lastly â—…ate contends To crowne him once againe who then at last Was murdred thirty nine yeeres being past King Henry the fixt being 10. yeers old was crowned King of France in Paris but with the strife betwixt the Nobility and the Commons in England the most part of France was lost againe which was neuer recouered since Edward the fourth An. Dom. 1460. EDward the 4 the house of Yorks great heire By bloudy wars attain'd the Regall Chairâ—… The poore King Henry into Scotland fled And foure yeeres there was royally cloath'd and fed Still good successâ—… with him was in the wane He by King Edwards power at last was tane But yet before the tenth yeere of his reigne Hence Edward fled and Henry crown'd againe By Warwicks meanes sixe moneths he held the same Till Edward backe in armes to England came And fighting stoutly made this kingdome yeeld And slew great Warwicks Earle at Barnet field Thus Ciuill wars on wars and broyles on broyles And England against England spils and spoyles Now Yorke then Lancaster then Yorke againe Quels Lancaster thus ioy griefe pleasure paine Doth like inconstant waters ebbe and flow Ones rising is the others ouerthrow King Edward twenty two yeeres rul'd this Land And lies at Windsor where his Tombe doth stand Edward the 4. In the first yeere on Palme-sunday 1460. there was a battell fought betwixt King Edward and King Henry neere Todcaster wherein were slaine of English-men on both sides 53000 700 and 11. persons The bloudy victory fell to King Edward In the 10. yeere of his reigne he was forced to forsake this Land whereby King Henry was restored againe to the Crowne But shortly after Edward returned and Henry was â—…urthered Edward the fifth An. Dom. 1483. HIgh birth blood state and innocent in yeeres Eclips'd and murdred by insulting Peeres This King was neuer crown'd short was his raigne For to be short hee in short space was slaine Edward the 5. Within 3. moneths after the death of his father hee and his brother Richard Duke of Yorke were depriued both of their liues and he of the Crowne by their tyrannous Unkle Richard Duke of Gloster Richard the third An. Dom. 1483. BY reason mischiefe murder and debate Vsurping