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A05300	The laboryouse iourney [and] serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes antiquitees geuen of hym as a newe yeares gyfte to Kynge Henry the viij. in the. xxxvij. yeare of his reygne, with declaracyons enlarged: by Iohan Bale	Leland, John, 1506?-1552.; Bale, John, 1495-1563. aut	1549 (1549)	STC 15445; ESTC S108451	38,192	130

name and from thens fourth called it Luddes towne whyche as a frynde to Antiquyte he greuouslye toke for so muche as the noble name of Troye shoulde by that meanes come to vtter oblyuyon wythin the lande Those colleccyons Nennius the Prouost of Bannochor not farre from Westchestre a man christenlye lerned for hys tyme more than vi hondred yeares after translated into Latyne out of the Brittyshe language as it is reported of the olde Brityshe wryters Huldricus Mutius rehearceth in the. viij boke of hys chronycle of the Germanes that Charles the great so muche regarded Antiquytees that he intermytted no daye but at one tyme or other he alwayes therin redde eyther some auncyent hystorye or els the sacred scriptures Alcuinus the Deacon an Englyshe man whyche was in those dayes hys chefe instructour in a serten epystle that he writeth to the vniuersall churche of Englande he muche commendeth a Biblyotheke or lybrary in Yorke buylded by the archebyshoppe Egbert for the noble monumentes that were conserued therin Date mihi inquit eruditionis libellos quales in patriae mea Anglia per industiam magisti mei Egberti habui remittam uobis aliquos ex pueris nostris ut excipiant inde necessaria reuehant in Franciā flores Britanniae Et non sit tantum in Eboraco hortus conclusus sed etiam in Turonia emissiones paradisi Permyt me to coppie out sayth he suche lerned volumes or bokes of erudycyon as I sometyme had rule of in my natyue contreye Englande by the appoyntment of my mastre Egbert And I shall sende of oure yonge men thydre to coppye out thynges necessarye and so to brynge into Fraunce the swete smellynge floures of Britayne Lete not the wele kepte garden be so reserued in Yorke but that we maye also taste in Turon the frutes of that swete paradyse Se how studyouse and laboryouse men were in those dayes not onlye for the conseruacyon of their lerned mennyes labours but also that other nacyons shoulde haue profyte of them Muche altered are we from that golden worlde nowadayes Lyke storyes do we reade of Kyng Sigebert and Kynge Alphrede here in Englande whyche not only sought out the best lerned men of theyr tymes to instruct their owne persones and famylyes but also they appoynted certen houres euerye daye for theyr owne pryuate studyes In the ende for increase of all kyndes of lernynge they reared vp the. ij vnyuersytees or generall studyes of Cambridge and Oxforde bryngynge thydre all monumentes of doctryne as a most necessarye mayntenaunce and ornature to the same whyche are in our dayes full myserablye decayed to oure realmes no small dyshonour But the cause therof maye easely be coniectured In these lattre dayes wherin Christ hath geuen to hys tyered congregacyon the sylence of halfe an houre or peace for a tyme without persecucyon of tyrauntes furyouse Apoca. viij God hath geuen to vs here in Englande wythall that he sumtyme gaue to hys chosen people the Hebrues in the foren prouynces He hath changed the harte of the lyon into the hate of our mortall enemye vtterlye to destroye hym and all suche as consent to hys myschefes Hester in the. xiiij cap. The harte of our noble Kynge is clerelye auerted from the cruell Haman of Rome and from hys dysgysed tormentours that so gredyly sought the innocent bloude of hys people Wherupon that rable of papystes careth not now what becometh of thys realme They muche reioyce whan the honour therof turneth to destruccyon as in thys decaye of lybraryes So longe as Antichrist reygned they were both writers and speakers but sens Christ came abroade eyther grace and lernynge hath fayled thē or els they mynde to bestowe non vpon hym Yet some in corners hath bene folebolde as hath wele apered by that wytlesse monstre whyche made the laste wylle of heresye and forte of moste open Idolatrye wyth suche other dottynge dastardes Now to turne agayne to the worthye examples of them that hadde respect to the honour of theyr contrey That noble and valyaunt captayne syr Iohan Oldecastell called also the Lorde Cobham perceyuynge the outrage of the Romyshe popes clergye in hys tyme agaynste the good doctryne of Iohan Wicleue caused all hys workes to be coppyed oute by moste fayre wryters at his owne great cost and charge and so connayed them into the lande of Berne that they myghte be there preserued from destruccyon Some parauenture wyll not allowe thys facte for so muche as their pope hath condempned Iohan Wicleue for an heretyke But lete suche lewde papystes dwell styll in theyr accustomed frenesie we knowe by hys doctryne that he was a true Apostle of Christ. Humfrey the good Duke of Glocestre for the fauer he bare to good letters purchased a wonderfull nombre of bokes in all scyences wherof he frely gaue to a lybrary in Oxforde a hondred and. xxix fayre volumes Thomas Gascoigne reporteth in hys boke of the floudes of Babylon that the kynges here in Englande were wonte to holde a great nombre of good writers within the monasteryes of their foundacyons to non other ende but only to coppie out the memorable workes of olde writers specyally of the hystoryanes and chronyclers that they myghte in their lybraryes perpetually remayne appoyntynge them great stypendes And thys worthie example they had from tyme to tyme of their fathers and predecessours But alas sayth he they now peryshe and come in great nombre to nought for want of renuynge What myghte thys good man haue sayde in our tyme yf he had seane this pyteouse desolacyon that we now beholde A fewe of vs there be that woulde gladly saue the moste necessary monumentes of their dyspersed remnaunt But wretched pouerte wyll not permyt vs to shewe to our contrey suche a naturall and necessary benefyte Neyther wyll they permyt vs theyr olde coppyes whyche haue them in possessyon but rather they suffre them to rotte vndre their handes Whan Bedas of Iaru wrote the chronycles of the Englyshe Saxons he had all the helpe that myghte be of the byshoppes lerned men here Cymbertus wrote vnto hym all that was done in the prouynce of Lyndesay now called lyncolne shiere Nothelmus sent to hym also all that he hadde gathered togyther in Sussex Sothray Kēte Alcuinꝰ gaue hym hys labours colleccyons for the prouynce of Yorke Daniel of wynchestre made hym peny of all that was done amonge the West saxons And frō all other quarters of the land were letters scroules and wrytinges dyrected by massengers vnto him to ayde that godly enterprise of his As it was ones noysed abroade in our tyme that Conradus Gesnerus a great learned man of Tygur in Germany was minded to put fourth his vniuersall Bibliotheke of all kindes of wryters a nombre of learned men in Germany Fraunce Italy serched out the names of many straunge authors with y e tytles of their

that it may be more permanent and farther knowne then to haue it engraued in syluer or brasse I entend by the leaue of God within the space of xij moneths folowyng such a descripcion to make of your realme in wryttinge that it shall be no mastery after for the grauer of painter to make the lyke by a perfect example ¶ Iohan Bale Not only haue this notable wryter and specyall frynde to Englande collected the monumentes of learnynge hystorical knowledge as is afore rehearced but also hath searched oute by his syx yeares labour al hauēs crekes ryuers mountaines hethes valleyes woodes cities townes holdes wyth suche other lyke after a most wonderful sort And to make vnto vs an orderly rehersal of the same he consequently gaue him selfe to the compylinge of a boke whome in the margende he thus intitled Liber de Topographia Britāniae primae a boke concerninge the descripcyon of y e first Britayne Yf this worke were not yet fully accomplished as the matter is now in doubte by reason of his troublous dysease great pytie it were but his labours shoulde come to some learned mannes hande that he mighte laudably finish it to the commē vse And although it were not so exactly folowed as he hath begunne it yet shoulde he be worthy perpetual memory in thys noble nacion for his good wyll and diligence Many noble workes we reade of that were left vnperfyght as their fyrst authors were preuented of deathe yet for theyr vtilite they haue bene fynished by other good mē As now in oure tyme the Epitome of Chronicles begunne by Thomas Lanquet was laboriously folowed and profytably ended by Thomas Couper a man worthy of cōtinual prayse for so studiouse labours The lyke also may be sayd of hym that brought to lyghte the great worke of Edwarde Halle The Lord dayly prosper so profytable affayres ¶ Iohan Leylande Yea and to wade further in thys matter where as now almost no man can wele gesse at the shaddow of the auncyent names of hauens ryuers promontories hilles woodes cities townes castelles and varyete of kyndes of people that Cesar Liui Strabo Diodorus Fabius Pictor Pomponius Mela Plinius Cornelius Tacitus Ptolomeus Sextus Rufus Ammianus Marcellinus Solinus Antoninus and dyuerse other make mencyon of I trust so to opē this wyndow that the lyght shal be seane so long y t is to say by y e space of a whole thousād yeares stopped vp the old glory of your renoumed Britaine to reflorish through the worlde ¶ Iohan Bale Folowinge hys most profytable processe for the syngular bewtye of Englande he calleth agayne to lyuely memory the auncyent names of cyties townes castelles hylles hauens ryuers and suche lyke whiche haue bene longe buryed in obliuion and had vtterly perished had not those noble wryters whome he here recyteth reserued them in their worthie workes to oure behoue Muche more are we bounde in that poynt to these foren authors than to al oure owne Hystorianes sens the worldes beginninge And whether we maye iustly ascrybe that to the neglygence of oure forefathers eyther els to the churlyshenesse of them which hath vnnaturally witholden them so longe tyme from vs I leaue it to be iudged of them that shal reade this treatise In this kinde of writinge haue Leylande plenteously done his part in Commentario Cygneae cantionis in Elencho antiquorum nominum and in Syllabo dictionum ueterum besydes hys other labours whiche we most desierously loke for at the handes of som worthy man that wyl shewe his natural harte therin to hys countrey Greatly is this vnwont maner of stodie ac●epted now a dayes amonge mē of knowledge and much was vsed of S. Hierome and Lactantius and is so wele exemplyfyed in the sacred scriptures as in the profane hystories of the nacions For Moses calleth Bethlehē Ephrata Ge. xxxv so doth Dauid and Micheas Psal. cxxxi Mic. v. Because that olde name shoulde neuer growe out of knowledge The cyty that Mathew calleth Cesarea Philippi Mat. xvi is named in the olde lawe Lesen and Laisa Iosue xix and Esa. x. Constantynople of olde wryters is called Bizantium Roma Latium and London Trenouantum At this wyll the Papistes and sectaryes laugh scornefully whiche neyther delyte in kynge nor contrey but only seke by subtyltees to vpholde their owne fylthy fleshe in the wicked kyngedome of Antichrist ¶ Iohan Leylande This done I haue matter at plenty already prepared to this purpose that is to saye to wryte an hystorie to the whiche I entende to adscribe this title de Antiquitate Britannica or els ●iuilis historia And this worke I entende to dyuyde into so many bokes as ther be shires in Englande and shyres great dominions in wales So that I esterne that thys volume wyl enclude a fyfty bokes wherof eche one seuerally shall conteyne the beginninges encreases and memorable actes of the chiefe townes and castelles of the prouince allotted to it ¶ Iohan Bale By this fulfilleth he hys former promyse which is to clarifye those thinges that oure negligent predecessours by more then a thousand yeares space had dyuersely darkened He hath prepared to our vse a most noble Chronicle of the Antiquitees of Brytaine called the Cyuile hystorie and conteyninge fyfty bokes Therin hath euery shire both of Englande and wales hys particulare boke comprehendyng theyr orygynalles and contynuall successes bothe of their peoples and gouernours In thē may euery Englysh man and walshe man as in a clere mirrour seuerally beholde the memorable actes prouysiōs commodytees and buyldynges of his owne natyue shyre in it selfe All the Chronicles of this noble realme which hathe bene made afore thys age what though their authors for the more part were men pythely learned yet at the syghte herof wyll apere but mistes and shadowes For neyther obserued they thys most decent order nor yet declared in so ample maner matters so necessary and so manye in nombre Lete vs therfore moste ernestly praye vnto God the moste plenteouse geuer of all good gytfes that this noble worke be not cast away by som cruel caterpiller or papyst which disdayneth to further hys owne nacion neither yet that it be destroyed by an ignoraunt keper or an ydel possessor But that it may fortunably lighte into the handes of suche a good stuarde of hys as is learned and louynge to his nacion that our natural bretherne and contrey men may ones tast of the swetnesse of so precyouse a frute and not therof be depryued to their inestymable discommodyte ¶ Iohan Leylande Then I entende to dystrybute in to syx bokes suche matter as I haue already collected concernynge the Isles adiacent to your noble realme and vndre your subieccion Wherof iij. shal be of these Isles Vecta Mona and Menauia somtime kingedomes ¶ Iohan Bale Consequently hath he herin stretched fourth his hande to the foren Iles parteynynge to this nacyon