in the Abbey of Rhynsbourg his widdow Lady Elizabeth being carried back into England where she was afterward maried to the Earle of Oxford So that by the death of Earl Iohn in this maner those countries were deuolued to the earls of Henault issuing by the mothers side froÌ„ the Earls of Holland 21 Iohn second of that name called Iohn of Henault claiming his right from Alix sister to William king of the Romans succéeded after Iohn as Earle of Holland Zeland and Frizeland c. He had a long and tedious trouble with Iohn de Reuesse who perswaded the Emperor that Iohn Earle of Holland dying without issue his Earledomes ought in right to returne to the Empire according as Charles the Bald Emperor of the Romans had at first giuen them in sée homage to Thierrie of Aquitaine This suggestion raised the Emperor Albert in Armes against Iohn of Henault but the Bishop of Cullen compounded the matter betwéen them and Iohn de Reuesse was afteeward drowned by which means Iohn of Henault was rid of a turbulent enemy Iohn of Henault hauing gouerned Henault thirty years and his Countries of Holland Zeland Frizeland 5. years died was buried at Valenciennes 22 VVilliam the thirde son and heire to Count Iohn of Henault succéeded his fathers earldoms he was commonly called The good Earle william for his Vertues Iustice good life and honorable actions In his time happened so great a dearth and famine tn Holland that poore people died with hunger euen in the streetes as they went seeking also for hearbes and rootes in the fields and woods there they were likewise found dead and in the common high wayes litle children died sucking at their Mothers breasts and some were enforced to feede on their deade Children In this time of Famine a poore waman in the Towne of Leyden being extreamly ouercharged with hunger entreated her owne sister being a woman of better ability to lend hir som Bread which she would thankfully repay again when God should inable hir She very vnkindly without any pitty of hir extremity denied her oftentimes notwithstanding the others often vrgings that she was assured shee could not bee without bread Heereupon the vnmercifull Sister lying both to God and to her owne poore sister saide If I haue any bread I wish that it may instantly be turned into a stone wherewith the heauy displeasure of God laid hold vppon her words going afterward to her Cupboord to relieue hir self she found al her loaues of bread conuerted into apparant stones died her selfe with extreamity of hunger It is crediblie saide that one or two of those stones are yet to be séene in S. Peters Church at Leyden as a memorie of this iust iudgement of God There is also recorded another memorable Historie of vpright Iustice doone by this good Earle VVilliam to a poore Countrey-Man against a Bayliffe of South Holland who hadde taken a goodly faire Cowe from him that was the releefe of himselfe his poore Wife and Children as there are some Kine in that Countrey which doe giue twenty pottles of Milke and more in a day The Bayliffe at the poore mans complaint to this good Earle William who lay then sick in his Bed at Valenciennes yet neuer debarred any suters from audience were he sick or well was adiudged to giue the poore man an hundred Crownes of good Gold for the wrong he had done to him which was accordingly performed But for his iniury to publique Iustice being himselfe an Officer and abusing the authoritie committed in trust to him the Earle sent for an Executioner and caused his head to be smitten off by his Beddes side This good Count William beeing a vertuous Prince victorious in warre a Man learned wise well spoken and iudicious a great friend to peace gracious to all men beloued in all Princes courts hauing gouerned his Prouences 32. yeares died the 9. of Iune 1337. and was buried with great pomp at Valenciennes 23 William the fourth Sonne to the good Earle William came to his Fathers Earledoms by lawfull succession He was a man of high merit and a most famous Souldier whereof hée made good proofe first against the Sarrazins and Moores in the Kingdome of Granada Next with the Emperour Lewes and many Noble Earles ayding his brother in law Edward the 3. King of England against the King of Fraunce Thâ—â—ly in ouer-running all Lithuania Liuonia and warring against the Russian Infidels lading home his men with victory and wealthy spoiles And lastly in preuailing against the Frizons and Robert of Arckell Gouernour of Vtrecht Yet it was his hard hap to bee slaine vnknowne among the Frizons before any coulde haue power to help him so that he left no lawful Childe to succéede him and therefore his Sister being Empresse remained his onely Heire 24 Margaret Wise to Lewes of Bauaria then Emperour and eldest Sister to Earl William slaine as you haue heard by the Frizons by the Emperours interposition of his authority and her owne Natiue right went downe by the Rhine into Holland accompanied with a most princely and well beséeming traine and was acknowledged to be Lady and Princesse of Holland Zeland and Frizeland But before her returne backe to the Emperour againe shee constituted both his and her eldest sonne named William of Bauaria to be her Regent there in those Countries for a summe of Money yearely paied to her but remaining vnpaid she might resume all her rights to her selfe againe The Emperour deceasing the Empresse Margaret came thither againe and had resignation from her son William of all the fore-said Countries retyring himselfe into Henault as being well contented there to liue till by intestine discord dangerous practises of two intruded factions called Cabillaux and Hoecks wherein both Nobles and Gentlemen did too far enter the Mothers gouernment did grow vnsufferable and Duke William was recouered from Henault to vnder-goe the Sole-authority Two very bloudy battailes were fought betwéen the Empresse and her Son and in the first Earl William escaped with great difficultie and fledde into Holland for this battaile was fought at La Vere in Zeland But in the second there was so much bloud spilt that for thrée daies after the old Riuer of Mense at full Sea was all ouer red in that place The Empresse by helpe of a small Barke escaped into England and vppon an agreement afterward made betwéene them Duke VVilliam had the quiet possession of Holland Zeland and Frizeland assigned him and the Empresse Margaret had the County of Henault where fiue yeares after she ended her daies and lieth buried at Valenciennes 25 Duke William being peaceably possessed of his Seigneuries according to the former composition béeing also Duke of Bauaria Palatine of Rhine and Earle of Henault by his Mothers death tooke to Wife the Lady Mathilda daughter to Henry Duke of Lancaster in England by
any seculer businesse going to warre or kéeping any Horses Haukes or Hounds The youth of his land to auoide wantonnesse and idlenesse were appointed but one meale a day and drunkennes either in man or Woman was punnished with death He raigned 13. yeares Ethus brother of Constantine who was a man of such swiftnesse of â—oot that he could match and make way in running with Harts and Hounds whereupon he was sir-named Light-foot Hee gouerned scarce two yeares Gregory the son of Dongall that raigned before Alpine in whose time liued Iohn Scot the famous Clerke This Gregory raignd 18. years Donald the fift Sonne of Constantine the second in whose time Gormond and his Danes were baptized and Gormonds name was changed to Athelstane He raigned almost 11. years Constantine the third Son of Ethus the swift 40. yeares He gaue ouer his kingly dignity and entred into Religion as Hector Boetius affirmeth Malcolme the Sonne of Donald 15. yeares Iudulph Sonne of Constantine the third and prince of Cumberland he raigned about 9. years Duffe the Sonne of King Malcolme foure yeares Culene Prince of Cumberland and Sonne of King Iudulph raigned not fully fiue yeares Kenneth Sonne to King Malcolme the first 25. yeares Constantine the Sonne of King Culene not three yeares Grime Nephew to King Duffe not fully nine yeares Malcolme the Son of Kenneth and Prince of Cumberland 25. yeares Duncane Nephew to Malcolme 6. yeares In his time was Banquho Thaine of Lochquaber of whoÌ„ the house of the Stuarts is descended euen to his Maiesty now raigning And then was England deuided betwéene Canutus King of Denmarke and Edmund Ironside after a valiant Combate fought betwéene them Mackbeth son to Sinell Thaine of Glammis raigned 17. yeares Malcolme Cammore Sonne of King Duncane hee changed the name of Thaines into Earls being tâ—en the first that euer were among the Scots according to their owne Histories At this time did William the Bastard duke of Normandy make his Conquest of England This King Malcolme raigned 36. yeares And after some difference for the Crown betwéene Donald Bane Brother to King Malcolme and Duncane a Bastard Son to King Malcolme which vsurpation continued for the space of thrée years Edgar the rightfull Prince attayned to his due claime Edgar Son to King Malcolme was the first that euer was annointed King in Scotland now was the generall passage to the Holy land vnder Godfrey of Bullen and many other Christian Princes This King Edgar raigned nine years Alexander Brother to Edgar being sir-named Alexander the fierce for his stearne valiancy in pursuing Théeues and Robbers Dauid Brother to King Alexander being in England married Maude Daughter to Waltheof Earle of Huntingdon and Northumberland in right of his wife was made Earle of Huntingdon and Northumberland with inheritance of the lands to them belonging In this King Alexanders time who raigned 17. yeares compleate the order of the Knightes of Rhodes beeing formerlie Knightes of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem tooke beginning and the order of the white Monkes Then liued also the Holy Man Richard de sancte Victore beeing a Scot borne but lyuing the more part of his time at Paris in Fraunce where hee died and lieth buried in the Abbey of S. Victore hee being a Brother of the same house Dauid Brother to Alexander succéeded as lawfull heire and ruled 29. yeares and two moneths It is recorded of this King that he excelled in Noble Vertues and sober conuersation of life being very pittifull to the poore and somewhat ouer-bountifull to the Church For when King Iames the first came to his Tomb at Dunfirmling he saide That hee was a sore Saint for the Crowne leauing the Church ouer-rich and the Crowne too poore He purged his Court so cleane of al vicious behauiour and disordered customes that it appeared to be a schoole of vertue No riotous banquetting surfetting cheare or lasciuious word could be herd there or any wanton signes whereby to kindle lust or idle concupiscence All the words workes and whole demeanor of his seruants tended euer to some good conclusion frée from moouing strife or a thought of sedition the Kings owne life and example seruing for their guide and direction He builded 15 Abbeyes viz Holy-Rood house Kelso Iedburgh Melrosse Newbottell Holmecultrane Dundranane Cambuskenneth Kinlois Dunfirmling Holme in Cumberland Also two Nunneries one at Carleill and the other at Northe Berwike with two Abbeyes beside New-Castle one of S. Benedictes order and the other of white Monks He erected likewise foure Bishoppricks in his Realme Rosse Brechin Dunkeld Dublane endowing them with rich rents faire lands and very commodious possessions Malcolme Sur-named Malcolme the Maid because his conuersation delight both in minde and body was so chaste from his verie infancie that he liued single al his daies and without mariage Hee was Son to Prince Henry that was sonne and heire to King Dauid and raigned not fully twelue yeares William Brother to King Malcolme and for his singuler Iustice Sur-named the Lyon In this Kings time Richard King of England sur-named Cueur de Lyon went his voyage to the Holy-Lande King William raigned nine and forty yeares Alexander the second Sonne to King William the Lyon who caused his Fathers death to be mourned for thorow his whole kingdom hee raigned 35. yeares Alexander the third sonne to the former King Alexander in whose time was a generall Counsell at Lyons in France He raigned 42. yeares and by reason of his dying without any issue the controuersie betweene Iohn Ballioll and Robert Bruse then happened which was heard and censured by Edward the first king of England albeit they maintained both their claimes vpon their Titles seuerally Balioll descending of Margaret eldest Daughter to Dauid Earle of Huntington Brother vnto William the Lyon and Bruse comming of Isabell second daughter of the saide Earle Dauid and the next heire male to William the Lyon for want of succession in the right line By which Title how euer Balioll is saide to be crowned King Robert Bruse inioyed the royal dignitie in the year 1305. He had issue Dauid that left no posterity and Margery maried to Walter Greate Stewarde of Scotland descended lineallie from the Princes of Wales by Neste Daughter to Griffithâ—ap Lhewlyn Mother to VValter the sonne of Fleance made Great Stewarde of Scotland by Malcolme the fourth Of whom came Robert the second first of the sur-name of Stuart that bare dominion in Scotland Robert Stuart being called Robert the second was crowned King with Royall solemnitie at Scone in the 47. yeare of his age on the Annuntiation day of our Lady in Lent 1370. he raigned ten years It is recorded of this K. Robert the 2. that hâ—s Captaines commanders were alwaies fortunat in war neuer returning but with spoils and victories He was a Prince of such
crowne of England and after much contention being taken and committed Prisoner vnto Cardiffe Castle in VVales after 26. yeares imprisonment hee there dyed and was buried at Glocester Maud King Henries Daughter was maried to the Emperor Henry but his other children William Duke of Normandy his Sister Marie Countesse of Perch Richard Earle of Chester with his Brother Otwell Gouernor to Duke William and the saide Earle of Chester his wife the Kinges Neece with diuers others to the number of 140. persons beside 50. Marriners following the king out of Normandie were all drowned King Henry raigned 35. years died in the Forrest of Lyons in Normandie and was buried in the Abbey of Reading which he had founded In this king Henry first of that name ended the line of the Norman kings concerning their heires male who had raigned about 69. yeares and then began the French by Title of the heyres generall Stephen Earle of Bullen and Mortaigne son to Stephen Earle of Bloys by Adela Daughter to king William the Conquerour vsurped the crowne from Maud the Empresse and her young sonne Henry which caused great Warres betweene him and her and very miserable times to the people till by an assembly of the Lordes at Winchester Articles of peace and agreement were concluded King Stephen raigned eyghteene yeares ten moneths and three and twenty dayes and was buried in the Abby of Feuersham in Kent Henry sur-named Fitz-Empresse and Shortmantle succeeded next in the crown of England He expelled strangers out of the Land and had a long and troublesome contention with Thomas Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterburie Hee crowned his sonne Henry as fellow-King with him which procured him much mollestation by meanes of his Quéene and his other sonnes In his time was the conquest of Ireland Dublin and Waterford being woon by Earle Strongbow He had diuers Concubines but especially fayre Rosamond whom he kept in a Labyrinth at Woodstock where she was poysoned by Q. Elianor King Henry the second raigned 34. yeares nine months and two dayes and dying was buried at Font-Euerard in the Dutchy of Alanson In him ended the raigne both of the Normans and French-men ouer the Realme of England Richard Earle of Poictiers and second Son to King Henry was crowned King at Westminster He went to the Holy-land and performed many worthy seruices there his brother Iohn in his absence aspired to rule the whole land being prouoked thereto by the French king As King Richard besiedged the Castle of Chalus Cheuerel he was wounded with an impoysoned quarrell shot at him by one Barturam de Gurden or Peter Bazile whereof he dyed hauing raigned nine yeares nine moneths and odde daies and was buried at Font-Euerard Iohn Lord of Ireland Earle of Mortaign and Glocester brother to king Richard was crowned at westm He had long tedious contentions with his Barons as also with the pope by whose meanes Lewes the French kinges sonne was drawne into the businesse had the crowne offered him by the Lords whereon he wrought great spoile in the Land King Iohn raigned 17. years six months and 27. dayes and dying by poyson was buried at VVorcester Henry third of that name and eldest Son to King Iohn succeeded immediately after his Father albeit he was but nine yeares old the Barons and French Lewes being still very mollestuous against whom VVilliam Marshal Earle of Pembroke was chiefe Generall of the Kings forces and preuayled worthily This King Henry raigned 56. yeares and 27. dayes and was buried at Westminster Edward eldest Sonne to King Henrie and Surnamed Long-shankes was crowned at Westminster after his returne home from the Holy Land This King conquered Wales and deuided it into Shyres and banished the Iewes for euer out of England Hauing raigned 34. yeares seauen months and twenty dayes hee dyed and was buried at VVestminster Edward of Carnaruon sonne to King Edward the first succeeded in the kingdome after his Father This king did ouermuch affect an Esquire of Gascoigne called Pierce Gauaston and disshonoured many of his Lords to aduance him as he did the like by the two Spensers the Father and Sonne At length he was imprisoned by his Barons with helpe of the Queene and Prince and then deposed when he had raigned nineteene yeares sixe months and seauenteene dayes Edward the third son to king Edward the second was crowned at Westminster in his Fathers life time Flanders yeelded themselues all their Townes to King Edward and laying claime to the Crowne of France in right of his Mother Queen Isabell he entred that land with a puissant army and quartered the Armes of France with his owne of England He deuised the woorthy Order of the Garter and Prince Edward Surnamed the Blacke Prince beside his famous victories in Fraunce reseated Don Peter king of Castile in his kingdom which his bastard Brother Henrie vsurped against him K. Edward the third raigned fifty yeares and fiue monethes and dying at Sheene was buried at Westminster Richard second of that name son to Edward the Blacke Prince being about eleauen yeares old succeeded after his Grand-father King Edward the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Cambridge being Protectors of the yong kings person The rebellion of Iacke Straw and Wat Tyler with the Essex and Kentishmen then hapned and the worthy act of William Walworth Lord Maior of London in arresting the traitor Great stormes arose betweene the king and hys Nobles because he had let to Farme the realme of England to Lords that abused the king and much misgouerned him sending abroad blanke Charters c. Whereupon in the end Articles were framed against the king and he committed to the Tower of London Henrie Surnamed Bullingbrooke sonne to Iohn of Gaunt being proclaimed king and Richard quite depryued when he had raigned 22. years three months nine dayes Dying hee was buried at Langley Henry Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke in the County of Lincolne beeing Cosin-Germaine to king Richard the second succeeded next by Richards depriuation and entailed the crown to him and his heires Owen Glendoure with his VVelchmen entered into Rebellion against the king and did put him in great daunger of his life by Treason by conueying a Caltrop into his bed This king Henry raigned 13. yeares and odde months and was buried at Canterburie with great solemnity Henry of Monmouth sonne and heire to king Henry the fourth succeeded after his father Hee vrged his title to France and fought the famous battell at Agin-court Hee raigned nine yeares sixe months and foure daies and dying at Boys de Vinciennes in France was buried at Westminster Henry of windsore being but nine moneths olde did yet succeed in his lawfull right He was also crowned king of France at Paris and had his time troubled with many grieuous combustions both abroad and at home as also diuers foughten battailes
Brother Floris the Blacke Prince enuying the happinesse quiet of Thierrie went and tooke part with them against him vntill such time as the Emperor Lotharius beeing their Vnckle had reconciled them and made them friends Conrade being ioyned as competitor in the Empire with Lotharius caused a fresh quarrell betwéen Thierrie and the Bishop of Vtrecht he ratifying the former grant of Henry which caused very long contention and much blood to be shed on either side Thierrie hauing gouerned his countries of Holland Zeland and Frizeland 40. yeares died in An. 1163. and lieth buried in the Abbey of Egmont 13 Floris the third eldest Son of Earle Thierrie as Heire to his Father inherited his right in Holland Zeland and Frizeland The Frizons pretending their former fréedomes and imperial liberties made still their reuoltes from time to time imboldned thereto by the often suggestions of Godfrey of Rhemen Bishop of Vtrecht who as his predecessors had done before him still questioned the Earledomes of Ostergo Westergoe in Frizeland but the Emperor Frederick went himselfe in person made an agréement in writing betwéene them Al which notwithstanding much hurt was doone on either side as time and treachery fitted them with apt opportunity A great controuersie hapned between the Earles of Holland Flanders for the Isle of Walchren and Count Floris in triall of fight became Prisoner to the Earle of Flanders who neuerthelesse vsed him princely and they being accorded by the Archbishop of Cullen and the Bishoppe of Liege the great hole néere to the Dam or Sluce was recouered with much adoe by casting a Dogge-Fish thereinto spéedy filling it vp with earth whereon they named it Hondâ—dam that is Dogs-sluce This Earle Floris assisting the Emperor Frederick Phillip King of France Richard K. of England with many other Dukes Christian Princes Earles at the siedge of Damieta in Soâ—ia fel there sick in the Army and died in the year 1208 hauing gouerned his Prouinces 27. yeares 14 Thierrie the seauenth hearing of his Fathers death in Palestine succéeded as his heire in all his Earledomes The whole time of his regiment was in warre and continual combustions First by his Brother Lord William of Holland who was with his Father Floris in Palestine performed there many honourable seruices thorow diuers disagréements that happened betwéene them notwithstanding as many labored reconcilings and pacifications Next Baldwin Earle of Flanders he was as molestuous to him likewise for the Isle of Walchien besides the Frizons rebellions and his trouble with the Bishops of Cologne and Liege as also his imprisonment to the Duke of Brabant and then the intrusion of the Bishop of Vtrecht after which ensued a peace vnited amity on all sides This Count Thierrie had no heirs male but two beautifull daughters Adella married to Henry of Gueldres who died without any Children and Ada meanely married by her Mother afâ—er her Fathers death to Count Lewes of Loos that so the gouernment might be disposed at her pleasure In the year 1203 Earle Thierry died hauing gouerned his Countries 1.3 yeares and lieth buried in the Abbay of Egmont 15 Ada daughter to Earl Thierry was Countesse of Holland Zeland after her fathers death which moued a great hart-burning in the Lordes Gentlemen that they should liue vnder a Woman and a poore Earls command Therfore they sent into Frizeland for Count. William protesting to assist him in attaining the gouernment of Holland The young Countesse Ada was surprised in their first attempt and her husband the Earle of Loos driuen to flight who yet won the Bishop of Vtrecht by Money and other promises to aide him and by this meanes he had some small successe for a while But the Countesse Ada dying without any Children Earle William was then the true and onely Heire to Holland and Zeland in which right of his he went with his power against the Earle of Loos and such was his successe that the Women did beat his Enemies with Distaues and Stones they beeing glad to cast away their Armour for lightnesse to saue themselues by flight yet many were drowned in the Ditches and a great number taken Prisoners with all the Earle of Loos Tentes Pauillions Plate Iewels and Munition which Count VVilliam royally deuided among his Hollanders remaining absolute Prince of Holland Zeland and Frizeland 16 William first of that Name succéeded rightfully in all his Earledomes by the death of his Néece the young Countesse Ada. Hee had some strife with Didier Byshop of Vtretcht and Gerard Vander Are his Brother but vpon certaine Articles al displeasures were qualified By his first wife Alix daughter to the Earle of Gueldres he had Floris that next succéeded him Otho bishop of Vtretcht William Lieutenant of Holland and two Daughters the one was Abbesse at Rhynsbourg and the other at Delfte His second wife was named Mary Daughter to Edmund of Lancaster son to Henry the third K. of England by whom he had no issue He gouerned 19. yeares dying lieth buried at Rhynsbourg 17 Floris the fourth succéeded his Father Count William in his Earledomes Hee tooke great delight in Iusts and Turnaments and the Earl of Clermont proclaiming a publicke Triumph for all commers at the Countesse his Wiues request who greatly desired to sée this Floris of whom she had heard much fame and commendation this honourable Earle of Holland Zeland c. was there treacherously slaine onely thorough the iealous suspition of the olde Earle of Clermont who was there likewise presently slaine himself and the Countes grieuing for this great mishap dyed soone after This Count Floris hadde a Daughter named Mathilde or Margaret as some call her who was married to Count Herman of Henneberg She despising a poore Widdow that desired her almes vpon vrgent necessity holding in either arme a swéete young childe both which God hath sent her at one birth gaue her uery reproachfull words beside as that shee could not be honest of her bodie and by her husband haue two children lawfully begotten The poore Woman grieuing to be reiected in such extreame want and néede but much more to heare her reputation so néerely touched knowing her soule cleare from all dishonest detection made no further suite to the Lady but falling vppon her knées appealed to God for defence of her Innocency and earnestly desired that as shee had conceiued borne those two infants lawfully by her husband euen so if euer that Lady should be subiect to the custom of women that it would please him to send hir as many children at one birth as there were daies in the years Not long after the Lady conceiued with child by her husband for hir deliuerance went into Holland to visit the earl hir brother taking vp lodging in the Abbey of religious women at Losdunen and grew so excéeding great as the like had neuer before bin séene
When her time came on the Friday before Palm-sunday in the yeare 1276. shee was deliuered of 365. children the one halfe being sons and the other daughters but the odde child was an Hermaphrodite and they were all wel shaped proportioned in their little members These children were laid in two Basins and were all baptized by Guydon Suffragan to the Bish of Vtrecht who named al the sonnes Iohn and the Daughters Elizabeth but what name he gaue the Hermaphrodite is not recorded They were no sooner baptized but they all died and the Mother also The two Basins are yet to be séene in the sayde Church of Losdunen and a memory of them both in Latine Dutch The Latine beginning thus Margareta Comitis Hennebergiae vxor Florentij Hollandiae Zelandiae filia c. Vnderneath are these verses En tibi monstrosum memorabile factum Quale nec à mundi conditione datum This Count Floris being so treacherously slaine as you haue heard before had his body brought backe into Holland by the Earle of Cleues and other Noble Lords who buried it in the Abbey of Rhynsbourg hee hauing honorably and vertuously gouerned his Countries 12. yeares He left but one Son named William six years old who was in the tutelage of his Vnckle Otho bishop of Vtrecht during his minority 18 William second of that name succéeded his father Floris in all his dominions being al the time of his vnder yeares in the gouernment of Otho Bishop of Vtrecht his Vnckle who was a verie worthy and carefull Guardian to him The pope hauing deposed Frederick the second Conrade his sonne from the Empire the princes Electors in despight of the Pope made this Earle William King of the Romaines and crowned him at Aix la Chapelle he hauing then attained to the age of 20. yeares A long and tedious trouble happened betweene him and Margaret Countesse of Flanders a very high minded and proude woman for the Country of Walchren wherein after a great foyle and slaugâ—â—he Flemings taking part with hir imprâ—ent of her two sons Guy Iohn she implored the aid of Charles Duke of Aniou against king William and sped thereby no better then shee had done before but was glad in the end to séeke reconcilement This K. William did build the Pallace of the Earles of Holland in the village of La Hage or the Hague where it is at this day a goodly Cloister at Harlem At his wars in West Frizeland where he preuailed very successefully he wold néeds without any other assistance then himself follow the rebels ouer the Ice where his horse slipping in him selfe almost drowned none néer to help him but enemies of the Frizons that lay secretly in ambush they beat him down with clubs staues not knoing that it was the king so they slew him But when afterward they took better notice of him by his Target Armes theron emblazoned in very harty sorrow for their foule déed they buried him secretly in a poore house in the village of Hooktwonde thinking so to wipe out all remeÌ„brance of him But his body was after found and buried in the Abby of Middlebourg in the Isle of walchreÌ„ 19 Floris the fift son to king William who was slaine so inhumanely albeit hee was but sixe moneths old yet he succéeded his father his Vnckle Floris being his Gouernor and Tutor At 17. yeares of age he went with an army against the euer-reuolting Frizons and ouercame them at a village called Schellinckhout very seuerely reuenging his fathers death on them by building foure Castles iâ—â—land brought them wholy vnder his obedâ— Afterward Counte Floris made a voyage into England where a marriage was contracted betwéene Iohn eldest Sonne to Earle Floris and Elizabeth Daughter to King Edward the first Iohn being not long after sent into England to accomplish the saide marriage where he remained in the Court of England till his Fathers vnfortunate death which briefely was thus A Knight liued in the Earles Courte named Gerard Van Velson who had bin a whole years space detained in prison and his Brother beheaded through certaine false suggestions whispered to the Earle which afterward appearing to be a meere iniurie the Earle sought to repaire this wrong with verie especiall fauours doone to the Knight great aduancements and woulde haue bestowed also his Concubine in mariage on him Which Gerard disdaining and replying that he would not weare his cast shooes the Earle rashly answered that he should take his leauings in despight of his heart To preuent marriage with the Earles Minion the Knight bestowed his affections else where and wedded a Lady of great honor and beauty Which when the Earl vnderstood he pursued his former rash folly to the price of his owne life Sending Gerard on an employment of much credit and respect and wherewith he was not a little pleased not doubting any such wicked intention The Earl came vnto Gerardes house vnder colour of hospitaliiy and there winning her to priuat conferenâ—e in her bed chamber forcibly defloured her to performe his rashe promise to her husband At Gerards return and this foule wrong discouered it was pursued with very bloody reuenge by a resolued conspiracy sworn against his life which albeit he had some warning of by a paper deliuered him by a poor woman yet his disaster being ineuitable a train was laid for him as he rode a hauking and xxi wounds he receiued on his body by the hand of the saide Gerard But he and the rest of the conspirators escaped not vnpunished for they had their heads smitten off and were then laide vpon whéeles but Gerard was put stard naked into a Pipe stuck full of sharpe nailes and was so rowled vp and downe through all the stréets of Leyden Then was he beheaded and laide on a whéele and all his Kinred to the ninth degrée put to death and laide vpon whéeles 20 After the wicked murther of Earle Floris the fift committed by the Fryzons as hath béen declared Iohn his onely son being then in England with King Edward his Father in law was next to succéede him as his rightful heire But before he could leaue England some partialities factions happened in Holland for the gouernement which soone were qualified at Earle Iohns being there present notwithstanding the subtle policie of Wolfart of Borssele seizing the person of Earle Iohn and Ladie Elizabeth his Wife thinking to haue the gouernement of the sayde Earle because as yet hee was but young Earle Iohn preuailed against the Frizons and the Byshop of Vtrecht and hauing gouerned his countries about foure yeares hee fell sicke at Harlem and there died He was the first of al the Earls of Holland that died without children wherfore in him failed the line masculine of the Earles from the Dukes of Aquitain which from Thierrie or Theodor the first Earl of Holland had continued 437. yeares He was buried
4000. for his diet and maintenance appointing the rest to young maides marriages and the releefe of Widdowes and Orphanes he not liuing aboue two yeares after When not onely happened his death but likewise the deaths of the Quéens Dowagers of France and Hungarie as also of Mary Quéene of England after whom succéeded her Sister Elizabeth in which time Emanuell Philebert Duke of Sauoy and Prince of Piemont was Gouernour and Lieutenant Generall of the Netherlands for King Phillip till the King of Spaines marriage beeing turned into tears by the vntimely death of the French king caused Margaret of Austria Bastard to the Emperor Charles the fift and Dutchesse of Parma to succéede the Duke of Sauoy in the Netherlandes regiment King Phillip returned then home into Spaine it being his last departure out of those Countries whereon not long after ensued the subtle bringing of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands by the creation of new Byshops and such was the power and priuiledge of the Inquisitors as none were able to withstande them in confiscation both of body and goodes at their owne pleasure Nowe albeit the Tyrannie of the Dutchesse gouernment in the Lowe Countries was more then the people could well endure yet to putte a sharper Snaffle in their mouthes King Phillip remooued his Bastard Sister Margaret and sent Don Ferdinando Aluares Duke of Alua who quickly brought the Netherlands into a most pittifull estate making himselfe sure of Gaunt and Count Horne and Count Egmont abusiuelie made Prisoners he builded the Castle of Antuerpe where he erected his owne proud Statue and procéeded to apprehend the prince of Orange by Commission setting downe Articles by the Spanish Inquisition which were confirmed by the King to ruinate the Netherlandes vppon which soone followed the execution of the sons of Batembourg at Brussels as also the Earls of Egmont and Horne William of Nassau Prince of Orange was made Gouernor of Holland Zeland Vtrecht for the States and proued verie fortunate in many attempts against the Duke of Alua which made him labor his repeale home into Spaine with Don Frederick his son Don Lewes de Requesens the great commander of Castile was sent to spoil the Dukes place in the Netherlands for the king of Spain to whom Aluaes former behauiour serued for an example in hys procéeding and notwithstanding his besieging of Middlebourg néere hande to famishment yet was his fléet defeated before his face the Town yeilded vppe by Collonell Mondragon to the Prince of Orange After many dangerous turmoiles on both sides the States sent to require succour of Elizabeth Quéene of England and soone after dyed Don Lewes de Requesens at Brussels in whose roome succéeded Don Iohn of Austria Bastard sonne to the Emperor Charles the fift as Gouernor for King Phillip in the Netherlands all the Prouinces whereof were vnited at the pacification of Gand whereupon the Castle was yeelded vnto the States and all the Spaniards departed out of Antuerp castle which was also deliuered into the States handes Don Iohn being receiued as Gouernor he sought ocasions how to renew warre against the Prince of Orange and diuers discontentmentes as also treacherous practises being noted in Don Iohn the States grew iealous of him and he was proclaimed the Countries enemye Then was the Arch-Duke Mathias called to be Gouernor and while the heart-burnings helde betweene Don Iohn and the States the Duke of Aniou and Duke Casimire also were required to succour them but to little effect for Arthois and Henault fell from the Netherlands generall vnion and then followed the death of Don Iohn of the plague in the Campe néere vnto Mamure Then Alexander Farnase Duke of Parma and Placentia bastard Nephew to the king of Spain succéeded Don Iohn in the Netherlands gouernment Whereuppon a stricter Vnion then before was made betwixte the Prouinces at Vtrecht The Duke of Aniou was called to bee Protector and partly Lord of the Countreyes in the Vnion which made the King of Spaine proscribe the Prince of Oraunge and set his life at sale to which proscription the Prince in euerie point made his iust answere Then were valiant and woorthye seruices performed by Syr Iohn Norris and Captain afterwards Sir Roger Williams In the yeare following the Generall Estates of the vnited Prouinces hauing declared Phillip K. of Spain second of that name to be faln from the Seigneury of the said prouinces in regard of his extraordinary and too violent gouernement against their priuiledges and freedomes solemnly sworne by himselfe In way of right and Armes tooke vpon them all the Gouernment of the politicke Estate and of the Religion in those Prouinces breaking the Kinges Seales absoluing the Subiects of their Oath to him and causing them to take a new Oath for preseruation of their Countrey and obedience to the saide States Vpon a bargaine made by the King of Spaine to kill the Prince of Orange the saide Prince was shot by one Iohn Iauvregui a banquerout-Merchants Seruant who was presently slaine but the Prince escaped that attempt with life Afterward he was traiterously murdered by one Balthazar Gerard a high Bourguignon at Delft in Holland whereon Prince Maurice being his Sonne succéeded his Father in the gouernment Then followed the siedâ—e of Antuerpe in which time the States once more re-commended their cause to the Q. of England either to giue her the full Soueraignty of the Netherlands or else to succor and reléeue them with her forces vppon good conditions offered Her Maiesty graunted to send them assistance but no soueraignty or protection of them would she take vpon her whereupon certain cautionary towns and Skonces were deliuered vp to her for repaiment of such sums of Mony as should be disbursed by her and Articles of couenant set down betwéene them Also Robert Lord Dudley Baron of Denbigh and Earle of Leicester was appointed by the Quéene of England to be her Gouernor generall ouer the English powers in the Netherlands In the time of the Earle of Leicesters gouernment for the Quéene were sundry woorthy seruices performed by the Earle of Essex Sir Iohn Norris the Lord Willoughby Sir Phillip Sidney Sir William Russell c. beside the subtile pretences of Sir William Stanley Rowland Yorke Patton and others who held faire weather with the Earle of Leicester and had the gouernment of Zutphen Sconce and the strong Towne of Deuenter to the great dislike of the States yet performed no such matter as the Earles hope was perswaded of them For after the death of that matchlesse Noble Gentleman Sir Phillip Sidney he being shot before Zutphen and thereof dying the Earle of Leicester being gone for England both Deuenter and Zutphen Sconce were deliuered vp to the Spaniards by base â—oruption of Money And not long after the Prince of Parma beleagering Sâ—luice by composition it
A Briefe Chronicle of the Successe of Times from the Creation of the World to this instant CONTAINING The Originall liues of our ancient Fore-Fathers before and after the Floude As also of all the Monarchs Emperours Kinges Popes Kingdomes Common-weales Estates and Gouernments in most Nations of this Worlde And how in alteration or succession they haue continued to this day Printed by W. Iaggard Printer to the Honourable Citty of London and are to be sold at his house in Barbican 1611. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR VVILLIAM CRAVON Knight Lord Maior of the Cittie of London Sir HENRIE MONTAGVE Seriant at Law to his Maiestie and Recorder of London And to all the Knights Aldermen and Worshipfull Bretheren the carefull Fathers and Gouernours of this Honourable Estate HAuing collected these briefe notes Right Honourable Right Worshipfull and my most respected concerning the Successe of Times in most of the Kingdoms thorow the World euen from the Creation to this instant yeare 1611. and modelled them all in this slender Volume that such as fauour Reuerend Antiquity might receiue both pleasure profit thereby I thought it part of my duty in regard of some fauour and respect lately by mee receiued to present your Honor and Worships there-with as a token of my gratitude and as a promise of my vttermost imployment in these or any other endeuours whereto my meannesse in ability by you shall be commaunded I know right well and such as know me haue heard me daily confesse it that I of infinite others was the most vnmeetest to vndergoe such a serious businesse which required if not the best able yet those that therein are much better seene then my selfe Neuerthelesse importunitie of Friendes that greeue to see no willing hand put to the plough or at least such euen like my selfe more forward then wise their perswasions I say and some regard had of the times necessity euery man beeing borne for the good of his Country hath vnder your Honorable and Worshipfull fauour made me thus aduenturous Concerning the helpes I haue had in this laborious trauaile the Authors themselues who haue best written and discoursed of those seueral Kingdoms and Nations euen them no other haue I herein followed borrowing beside some such matters from them as to my knowledge haue not in any of our Chronicles heeretofore bin remembred or at the least not plainly reuealed In our home affaires especially the antiquity of this famous Cittie I haue with others deliuered my opinion therin yet swaruing from some who haue beene thought ouer-scrupulous sometime straining at a Gnat yet very ealy swallowing a Camell The Dignitie that your Honor holdeth of Lord Maior of this Cittie and those graue Senators the Alder-men your Brethren I haue aymed at the Original Antiquitie thereof some Authors tearming them Domesmen Eldermen or Iudges of the Kinges Court But that the name of Alderman declareth both verie Reuerend Originall and great Antiquitie I find recorded that in the time of King Eadgar one Ailwin a man of the bloud Royall and for the speciall great authority and fauour hee had with the King being Sir-named Healf-Koning that is Half-King was Alderman of all England who founded that famous Monasterie in the Isle of Ely Our learned and worthy Antiquary M. Camden hath obserued the Epitaph engrauen on his Tombe containing these wordes Hic requiescit Ailwinus incliti Regis Eadgari Cognatus totius Angliae Aldermannus et huius sacri Coenobij miraculosus fundator Heere resteth Ailwin Cozin to the Noble King Eadgar Alderman of al England and of this holie Abbey the miraculous Founder Whereby appeareth that the Title of Alderman in those ancient reuerend and respectiue times was an addition of honor and high repute as distinguishing them that deserued that grace to be men of greater grauer and more sollide iudgment in matters appertaining to the Weale-publique then others vncapable of such especiall dignity Of such worthy Fathers hath this famous Cittie beene plentifully furnished from time to time as in our Chronicle may more at large appeare and to you those graue Senators and worthily styled Aldermen out of intire and dutifull affection haue I consecrated the liuing memorie of these my poore labours wishing to you all vnfeignedly that as heauen hath bestowed this earthly honor vpon you so hereafter it may crowne you with neuer dying happinesse Yours in all dutie to be commaunded A. Mundy To the Maister Wardens Assistants and whole Liuery of the Honorable Company of Merchant-Tailors being the worthy Society of S. Iohn Baptist anciently deriued from S. Iohn of Hierusalem and the famous Knightes of that religious Brother-hood Also to the Wardens Substitutes and the sixteene men of the same Company c. IT hath beene my hap worthy and worshipful Gentlemen among the variety of Collections to build vp the body of this briefe Chronicle to meete with an ancient and much esteemed Record of a Society and brother-hood styled by the name of S. Iohn Baptist of Hierusalem and how many Great Maisters haue gouerned that Society from Anno. 1099. to this present yeare with some briefe obseruations of their liues and actions as in Follio 187. more at large appeareth Concerning the originall progression seuerall Fortunes of this Military Brother-hood beeing tearmed Knights Hospitallers or Knights of the Hospitall of S. Iohn Baptist of Ierusalem next Knights of Rhodes and lastly Knightes of Malta I refer you there to be further satisfied yet some thinges beeing there accidentally omitted may fauourably and not vnnecessarily here be remembred These Brethren by solemne profession were bound to serue Pilgrims and poore people in the Hospitall of S. Iohn at Ierusalem and to secure by their man-hood their passages thither they charitably buried the dead were continually in praier mortifyed themselues with Watchings and Fastinges were courteous and kinde to the poore whom they called their Maisters and fed them with white Bread when themselues did eate browne They grew to be loued and liked of all sortes and through the liberal bounty of good Princes and priuate persons admiring their piety and prowesse they rose from this low degree to so high an estate and great riches that about An. 1240. they had within Christendome nineteene thousand Lordships or Mannors as the Knights Templers had nine thousand the Reuennewes and Rentes wherof in England fell afterward also to these knights Hospitallers of S. Iohn Baptist. And this estate of theirs growne to so great an height made way for them likewise to as great honors So that their Prior in England liuing then in the goodly Pallace of Saint Iohn Baptist of Hierusalem in the streete which receiued name of that house and is called yet to this day Saint Iohns-street was reputed the Prime Baron of the land and called the Lord of S. Iohns beeing able with fulnesse and abundance of all things to maintaine a very honorable Port. In successe of time as this worthy Citty grew to encrease not onely in large
Byshop of Rouen Iulianus Arch-Byshoppe of Toledo and others 87 Iohn the sixt a Greeke sonne of Paturnus or Patronus or Petronius vnder Tyberius he helde the Sée three yeares thrée months vacante one month ninetéene dayes A Synod in England 88 Iohn the seauenth a Greeke also son of Plato Cardinall Deacon vnder Tyberius and Iustinian he held the Sée two yeares seuen months seuenteene daies vacante three months 89 Sysinnius a Syrian sonne of Iohn vnder Iustinian Hee helde the Sée xx daies vacante one month eighteene daies 90 Constantine a Syrian sonne of Iohn vnder Iustinian and Phillippicus he held the Sée seauen yeares twenty daies vacante two moneths ten daies A Synod holden at London in England 91 Gregory the seconde a Romaine sonne of Marcellus Cardinall Deacon vnder Anastasius Theodosius and Leo he held the Sée xvi yeares nine months eleuen daies vacante one moneth A Synod holden at Rome about Images another synod at Moguntia or Mentz in Allemaign 92 Gregory the third a Syrian son of Iohn Cardinall priest vnder Leo Isauricus Hee helde the Sée x. yeares ix months xxiiij daies Vacante viij daies A synod at Augusta vnder Bonifaco 93 Zacharias a Greeke sonne of Polycronius Monke and Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine Copronymus He held the sée x. years iij. months Vacante xij dayes Synods at Rome in France 94 Stephen the second Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine He held the Sée thrée daies 95 Stephen the third a Romaine sonne of Constantine Cardinal Deacon vnder Constantine and Leo. He held the Sée v. yeares one month vacante one month 96 Paule a Romaine son of Constantine and brother to Stephen the third Pope Cardinal Deacon vnder Constantine and Leo. He held the Sée x. yeares x. months Vacante one month the tenth schisme betwéen Paul and Theophylact synods in Bauaria and in Allemayne 97 Constantine the second Duke Nepesius son being a Lay-man was created pope perforce But he was afterward shut vp in a Monastery after that they had pluckt out his eies He held the Sée four months iij. daies vacante ix dayes The eleuenth schisme was betwéene him and Phillip 98 Stephen the fourth a Sicilian Monk the son of Olibryus Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine and Leo. He held the See 4 yeares v. months xxiiij daies Vacante ix daies A synode was at Rome to take order for ensuing schismes and another synod was holden at Wormes 99 Adrian a Romain of a most noble family and son to Theodâ—r Cardinall Deacon vnder Leo the fourth Constantine his son He held the Sée xxiij years x. months xvi daies Then was the seuenth general Nicene counsell against the Iconomaches and after that Didier was taken then ended the raigne of the Lombards 100 Leo the third a Romaine son of Azzupius cardinall Priest vnder Constantine 8. and Nicephorus he held the Sée twenty yeares first and reseated xvi years v. months xviij daies vacante xvij daies In this Leos time was Charles the Great king of Fraunce created Emperor of the West to whom he fled for refuge The eighth Age. IN this eight age liued the learned venerable Bede S. Iohn Damascene Germaine Partriark of Constantinople Paulus Diaconus Vsuardus and Paulinus of Aquileia 101 Stephen the fift a Roman son of Inlius Marinus cardinall Priest vnder Lewes the meeke Emperor he held the See six months foure and twentie daies Vacante xi daies 102 Paschall a Romaine Monke and Abbot son of Maximus Bonosus cardinall Priest vnder Lewes and Lotharius Hee held the See seauen yeares three moneths seuenteene daies vacante foure daies 103 Eugenius the second sur-named the poores Father a Romaine son of Boëmond Cardinall Arch-Priest vnder Lewes and Lotharius he held the Sée foure yeares sixe months foure twenty daies vacante three daies The xij Schisme betweene Eugenius and Zinzinus 104 Valentine a Romaine sonne of Leontius Cardinal Arch-Priest vnder the same Emperors he held the Sée one month tenne daies vacante thrée dayes 105 Gregory the fourth a Romaine sonne of Iohn Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes and Lotharius Hee helde the Sée sixtéene yeares vacante fifteene daies Two Synods in Allemayne 106 Sergius the second a Romaine sonne of Sergius Cardinall Arch-priest vnder Lotharius he held the Sée three years vacante two months fifteene daies 107 Leo the fourth a Romaine Monke sonne of Rodolphus Cardinall Priest vnder Lotharius and Lewes the younger hee helde the Sée eight yeares three months sixe daies vacante fifteene daies The Synod of Mentz vnder Rabanus 108 Bennet the third a Romaine sonne of Peter Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes the yonger he held the Sée two yeares sixe months ix daies vacante fifteene daies The xiij Schisme between Bennet and Anastasius 109 Nicholas the Great sonne of Theodor Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes He held the Sée nine yeares seauen months thirteene daies vacante seauen months 110 Adrian the second a Romaine sonne of Talarus the Byshoppe Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes He held the Sée fiue years nine months twelue daies vacante twelue daies The eight generall counsell at Constantinople against Photius 111 Iohn the eight a Romain sonne of Gundus Cardinall Arch-Deacon vnder Lewes the younger Charles the Balde Lewes the Stammerer and Charles le Gros. He helde the Sée x. yeares two daies vacante two daies 112 Martine the second otherwise called Marine borne in Tuscane sonne of Palumbas Cardinall Deacon vnder Charles le Gros He helde the Sée one yeare fiue months 113 Adrian the third a Romaine other-wise called Agapetus sonne of Bennet vnder Charles le Gros He helde the Sée two yeares two monethes vacante xij daies 114 Stephen the sixt otherwise called Basile son of Adrian vnder Charles le Gros and Arnould he held the Sée sixe yeares eleuen dayes vacante fiue dayes A Synod at Cullen 115 Formosus of Portua sonne to Leo Byshop of Portua vnder Arnould He helde the Sée fiue yeares sixe months Vacante two months This is the first man that of a Byshoppe was made Pope The xiiij Schisme betwéene Formosus and Sergius the third who afterward was Pope 116 Boniface the sixt a Romaine sonne of Adrian byshop vnder Arnould or Arnulphus Emperor He helde the Sée sixe and twenty daies Vacante fourteene daies 117 Stephen the seuenth a Romaine Sonne of Iohn the Priest Byshoppe of Anagnia vnder Arnulphus He held the See one yeare 3. months vacante 3. daies A synod at Tiburtium 118 Romanus borne in Tuscany Son of Constantine who was Brother to Martine the second Pope vnder Arnulphus he held the sée thrée daies vacante eight daies 119 Theodorus the second a Romaine sonne of Photius vnder the Empyre of Arnulphus he held the see twenty daies vacante eleauen daies 120 Iohn the ninth a Tiburtine Monke son of Rempâ—aldus Deacon of the Romain Church vnder Arnulphus and during the Schisme of Sergius He helde the Sée two yeares fifteene dayes vacante nine daies
that were in Ierusalem chose F. Ermingard d'Aps to bee their Mayster The second day of October in the same yeare the Citty of Hierusalem was submitted to the power of Saladine 88. yeares two months and seauentéene daies after that it was deliuered by Godfrey of Bullen from the handes of the Infidels Frederick the first sirnamed Barbarossa then holding the Empire of the West and Isaac the Angell that of the East at Constantinople Vrbane the third beeing Pope of Rome and Phillip the second called Augustus Gods Gift and Conquerour raigning in Fraunce Then were expulsed out of Hierusalem the Knightes Hospitallers Templers and al the Latine Christians of which Christians the Hospitallers redéemed from captiuity of the barbarous to the number of two thousand with their Money All the Churches of the cittie were then polluted and prophaned except the Temple of the Resurrection which was bought with a great summe of Money by the Christians of the East After the losse of Hierusalem the Knights Hospitalers were continually in Armes faithfully assisting the Christian Princes that had put on Crosses for the recouery of the holy Land and did actions of high desert at the siedge of Ptolomais which after a long siedge of thrée yeares was regayned from the Infidels by the Christians the twelft day of Iuly 1191. And in that Citty the Knights of Saint Iohn kept then their ordinary aboad and residence And in the verie same yeare the Christians wonne a notable victorie against the Barbarians and Saladine theyr chiefe wherein they were worthily assisted by the knightes Hospitallers and Templers The yeare following beeing 1192. in Winter dyed Ermingard d'Aps the great maister in the cittie of Ptolomais and then was chosen in his place 11 Geoffrey de Duisson In his time there was truce taken for fiue yeares betwéene the Christians that were in the holy Land and Saladine by which meanes many Lords and Gentlemen of diuers Nations who had worne the Crosse and gotten great store of goodes and possessions returned home to their Countries and gaue their goods to the Brotherhood of saint Iohn which greatly did augment their renennewes And after the death of Henry Earle of Champaigne the Hospitallers and Templers remayned gouernours and administrators of the kingdome of Hierusalem howbeit that by the fewer number of Christians there abiding election was made of Amaury de Lusignan who had succéeded the king of Ierusalem in the kingdome of Cyprus with consent of the Patriarch the Prelats and Barons of the Realme in the yeare 1194. when soone after died Duisson the Great-Maister and then succéeded him by election 12 F. Alphonso of Portugall a knight of the Order of Saint Iohn and of the Royall house of Portugall though it dooth not appeare certainely to what king he was Sonne He made very worthy and commendable statutes whereof to this day there are some inuiolably kept But because he was of too stiffe nature ouer-rough surely and seuere hee encurred the hatred of the greater part of the Knights Hospitallers Which was the cause that hee renounced his Maistershippe and shipt himselfe for returne home to Portugall in the same yeare of his election But he dyed the first day of March in the yeare 1207. 13 The same yeare that Alphonso renounced the Great Maistershippe to wit in the yeare 1194. Geoffrey le Rat who was Graund-Pryour of Fraunce was chosen Mayster And Saladine then dying his Sonne Noradine Lord of Alepo succéeding him About this time Simon Earle of Montfort was sent by King Phillip Augustus with an Army into Syria where finding much disorder he tooke truce for tenne yeares with the Infidels in the yeare 1198. In the time of this tranquile estate there chanced a great difference betwéene the Knights Hospitallers and Templers grounded on this occasion The Hospitallers complayned that the Templers had enterprised too farre vppon their iurisdiction with much contempt and violation thereof Which quarrell after manie rough encounters and skirmishes was appeased accorded by the interposition of king Amaury the Patriarches of Antioch and Hierusalem and other Princes and Christian Prelats who comprimitted this difference in the name of Innocentius the third which fell out very successiuely For after that God the onely Staffe and stay of all affaires in the holy Land had permitted this friendly vnity betwéen these two millitary Orders of Knight-hood King Amaury of Lusignan so preuailed that the Great Mayster and Knights of Saint Iohn might liue with him in the Isle of Cyprus where hee graunted the gouernment of the Kingdome to them In the yeare 1205. King Amaury dyed so did Quéene Isabell who appointed her Daughter Mary which she had by Conrade of Monferrat to be her heire and he left her to be tutoured and guided by the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers In the yeare 1260. Geoffrey le Rat the Great Mayster dyed and then succéeded him 14 Guerin de Montagu of the language of Auuergne who with the Knights of his order ayded Lyuon King of Armenia against the Turkes and Barbarians that had intruded into his Kingdome In recompence whereof he gaue them the citty of Salef with the castles of Camard and new castle and their dependances Hee likewise recommended his heire and Kingdome to the Knightes of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn which guift was confirmed by the Pope the fift of August 1209. Then were Iohn de Brienna and Mary his Wife Heire to the Kingdome crowned King and Quéene of Hierusalem At length in the yeare 1230. Guerin the great Maister died in the citty of Ptolomais and during his tyme all the Christians affaires in the holy Land depended very much vppon the Knightes Hospitalers and Templers who albeit they had many contentions betwéen them yet did they still agrée together in all matters against the Infidels After him succeeded 15 One F. Gerin of whom no other name is found remembred Richard Duke of Cornewal and Brother to Henrie then King of England arryued soone after in Palestine with an Army of forty thousand men and did many worthy actions there The great Maister also and his knights with him bearing him company fought valiauntly against the Corasmine Infidelles There the saide Mayster was taken and sent as a Prisoner to the Soldane of Egypt where he died and in his place the Knights of S. Iohn elected in the citty of Ptolomais for their great Maister 19 Bertrand de Comps in the time of Pope Innocent the fourth and when the Generall Counsell was called at Lyons 1245. This great Maister was present in a furious battaile fought against the Turcomans that wasted all the country about Antioch in the month of August 1248 where hauing receiud sundry deadly wounds he ended his daies And in the Citty of Ptolomais on the 24. of Aug. was elected as Great maister 17. Peter de Villebride In his time Lewes K. of France called S. Lewes tooke on him the crosse against the Infidels with
was then in Aquitaine hardly brooking this disgrace mooued great warre against Charles the Simple which continued for long time Neuerthelesse at the houre of his death hee entreated the Princes of Fraunce that they should restore the saide Charles to the Kingdome because in true right it appertained to him This Odo brought vp as a noueltie to haue a great many Floure-de-Luces without any direct number in the Armes of Fraunce which continued so till the time of Charles the sixt He raigned nine years and lieth buried at S. Denis 31 Charles the third sirnamed the Simple son of Lewes le Begue or the Stammerer began to raigne soly in the yeare 900. After his Tutours death who had held the kingdome in the minority of his yeares The warre of the Normans continued stil yet the king fel into acquaintance with Raoull or Rollo their Duke and gaue him his daughter in marriage endowed with all the Land which then was called Neustria and afterward made a dutchy and named Normandy with especial condition that he should be baptized Robert Earle of Paris Brother to Odo lately deceased pretended to vsurp the kingdom and drawing many Lords into his faction crowned himselfe King But Charles with the ayde of the Emperour Henrie gaue him battaile néere to Soissons wherein the saide Robert was vanquished and slaine Héereat Hebert Earle of Vermandois his Brother in Law was highlie displeased yet hee dissembled it for an apt time and one day pretending to feast the King he entreated him to lodge in his castle of Peronne No sooner was he entred but he did shut him vp in a Tower where hee dyed compelling him to resigne the Kingdome to Raoull Brother to the Duke of Burgundy Hee left by Theargina his Wife a Sonne named Lewes who fledde for his safetie into England This King raigned alone 14. yeares and lyeth enterred at Peronne 32 Raoull of Burgundy Sonne to Richard Duke of Burgundy was made King in the year 917. This man not being of the linage of kings would néedes bée crowned at Soissons as well by fauour of Hugh the great Earle of Paris as also of Hebert Earle of Vermandois who then kept King Charles the Simple Prisoner seazing his person vnder coulour of feasting him and constrayning him before his death to resigne his Kingdome in presence of many Lords and to giue it as a frée guift to the sayde Raoull which yéelded the greater authority to his raigne The Quéene Theargina wife to King Charles the Simple séeing such troubles in France made her retirement into England to the King her Brother with her Son Lewes called Lewes of beyond the Sea Raoull made a voyage into Italy pretending to get the Empire which was then in strife and there he vanquished Berengarius an Italian Prince who laide some claime thereto But finding himselfe not wel affected of the Italians hee with-drew thence into France where hee dyed of a very strange disease béeing eaten with wormes notwithstanding all remedies applied by his Phisitions He raigned about tenne yeares died at Auxerre and was buried at S. Colombe néere Sens. 33 Lewes fourth of that name sir-named Lewes d'Outre-mer or of beyond the Sea Son of Charles the Simple was made K. in the yeare 929. being then in England with the K. his vnckle the Princes Prelats and Barons of France sent for him into England whither his Mother Theargina had carried him for refuge when Hebert had betraied King Charles her Husband he was crowned at Laon. The King had debate with Raoul of Burgundy about the Kingdome and made warre vppon the Emperour Otho for the Dutchy of Lorraine but peace being made betwéene them he tooke to Wife Herberge Sister to the said Emperour At his returne home into Fraunce hee caused Hebert Earle of Vermandois to bee hanged who had procured his Father to dye in Prison Hugh the great Earle of Paris who then held the full sayle of the kingdome raised the Normans to rebell against the King But the King drawing him to his side he rebelled from him again because he had made an agréement with the Normans without him and caused them also to alter their purpose with a fresh begunne warre wherein the King was taken Prisoner and carried to Rouen Afterward he was deliuered to the great Earle Hugh who detained him at Laon but the Emperour Otho came to his succour deliuered him Lewes raigned twenty seauen yeares and lieth buryed at S. Remy of Rheimes 34 Lothaire Sonne of Lewes d' Outremer or of beyond the Sea was made King in the yeare 956. At the beginning of his raigne Hugh the great Earle of Paris gouerned all the affaires of France but he dyed soone after leauing thrée Sonnes to wit Hugh Capet who afterward vsurped the kingdom Otho and Henry who were successiuely Dukes of Burgundy and was sumptuously enterred at Saint Denis Lothaire raigned 31. yeares and lieth buried at S. Remy of Rheimes 35 After King Lothaire Lewes his Sonne fift of that name succéeded in the gouernment in the yeare 986. He raigned but one yeare died without any heire and was the last King of the race or linage of Charles the great his burial was at Compeigne Charles Duke of Lorraine who was his Unckle and néerest Heire hearing of his death would néedes passe into France to make himselfe King But the French hated him extreamely as well because he had continually pertaken with the Allemaignes sworne enemies then to the French as also in regard hee was a bad Prince to his owne Subiectes So that they would not receiue him for their King but wholy ranne to Hugh Capet then Maire of the pallace a very wise and woorthy man Hee perceiuing that the French fauoured and affected him knew well enough how to sow both in their eares and hearts an vnliking opinion of Charles Duke of Lorrain to make him the more hatefull to them He first laid before them how hee had permitted the Allemaignes frée passage when they came and warred on France Next that he had maintained the chéefe enemies to the crown of France wherein hee stood guilty of high treason And so by consequent was disabled of any succession to the said Crowne ¶ Heere endeth the second generation of the Kinges of France in the ligne Masculine being the race of the Carlouingians and which continued after Pepin for the space of 233. yeares HVgh Capet Sonne to Hugh the great Earle of Paris possessed himself of the Crown of France in the yeare 987. He was by some of the French proclaymed King at Noyon first of al soone after in the Citty of Rheimes partly by fauour and partly perforce Crowned King of Fraunce and made his entrance into Paris whereuppon Charles Duke of Lorraine took Rheimes Laon and Soissons Hugh Capet with a potent Armie besiedged Laon where hee tooke Charles with his Wife and Children by Treason in the Byshop of
and a marriage concluded of Alice the daughter of Lewes to the son of England The King died at Paris hauing raigned 43. yeares and lieth buried in the Abbay of Barbeau which was founded by him 42 Phillip Augustus sir-named Dieu-donne Gods gift succéeded after his Father in the year 1181. He banished all the Iewes out of Fraunce and yet afterward permitted them entraunce againe ordaining many Edicts against Blasphemers as also the vsury of the Iewes He did put to death the Albigeois Heretiques and them of Besiers augmenting greatly the Cittie of Paris instituting Sheriffes and Alder-men commaunding the stréetes to be paued building also the Halles for Studentes and the Church-yard of S. Innocent and enclosing with wals the Vniuersity side Hée went to recouer the Citty of Hierusalem with Richard Cueur de Lyon King of England and falling off from him returned home into France Hee hadde afterward great wars against the said K. Richard and Iohn without Land his brother who succéeded him about the titles of Normandy Aquitain Poictu Maine Aniou Auuergne He won the battaile at Bouines against the Emperor Otho and other French Lords who were entred into rebellion against him In which battell perished fifty thousand men and Otho himselfe was enforced to flight the Earle of Flanders and the Earl of Bolongne being taken Prisoners by which reason the king was called the Conqueror He raigned 43. yeares died at Mante aged 59. lieth buried at S. Denis leauing two sons and a daughter 43 Lewes the eyght succéeded after his Father in the yeare 1224. In the life time of his Father hee crossed the Seas and made Warre in England attayning to no such successe as hee expected Hee renewed kindnesse and Brotherhood betwéene the French and Germaines tooke Auignon and warred vpon the Albigeois He raigned thrée yeares and lyeth buryed at Saint Denis 44 Lewes the ninth succeeded his Father Lewes the eyght in the yeare 1227. Blaunche his Mother in regard of his young yeares was appointed to bée Regent whereat some Lords were discontented but she tooke order sufficiently with them She maintained the warre against the English and agréement was made with them vpon solemne Oath to holde Aquitaine doing homage and to yéelde vp Normandie Ponthieu Maine and Poictiers The king being in peace exercised himselfe to liue Religiously building Churches Hospitals and Monasteries enriching them with rents reuennues In the 24. yeare of his raigne hee went to recouer the Holy Land descended into Egypt and tooke Damieta He was afterward so rudely assayled that he was taken by the Soldane but deliuered againe vppon his restoring Damieta and paying a great ransome Hee bought of the Venetians the Crown of Thornes as was supposed with other Relickes of the passion caused them to be safely kept in the holy Chappel at Paris Many Shepheards vnderstanding that the King was prisoner arose vp in armes and made great spoile in France but they were foyled by them of Orleance and Bourges The king at his returne did very seuerely chastise blasphemers And passing afterward into Affrica tooke Carthage and assailed Thunis where the Pestilence happening in his Campe he died of a flux of blood He raigned 34. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis Behold briefely the life and death of King Lewes ninth of that name who afterward by Pope Boniface the eight in the time of Phillip le Bel was cannonized among the number of Saints in Romes Kalender and called S. Lewes His raigne was truely in piety religion sanctitie and iustice His youth was much tormented with rebellions subleuations seditions of some Lords but his manly yeares did disperse them as the Sunne doth dimme clouds Hee was deuoute vpright valiant liberal seuere and yet clement vsing all these Vertues according as hee knewe them to be néedfull 45 Phillip the third Son of S. Lewes was proclaimed King in the Campe before Thunis in the yeare 1271. but was afterward Sacred at Rheimes He was Sur-named Phillip the hardie and at his comming back into France he had many difficulties about the death of Phillip his impoysoned Sonne in the Warres of Foix and Terracon Vpon an Easter day in the euening houre all the French being then in Sicily were euery one slaine whereon grew the By-word of the Sicilian Vespres or Euening The king died at Parpignan in the fortith yeare of his age and lieth buried at Saint Denis hee married Isabel Daughter to Peter of Arragon by whom he had Phillip Charles and Marie And then remarrying Marie Daughter vnto Henrie Duke of Brabant he hadde by her Lewes and Margaret 46 Phillip the fourth Sur-named le Bell or the Fayre Sonne to the fore-named Phillip succéeded his Father in the yeare 1286. both in the Kingdome of France and Nauarre in right of his wife In his younger daies he had a Schoolemaister a Roman borne and a great Diuine named Gilles who caused the King to write an excellent worke yet to be séene called The Institution of Princes As the King was at Paris being returned from his Corronation at Rheimes this Diuine according to the Vniuersities ancient custome which was to make a learned spéech after the kings sacring made a singuler Oratiō to him to encrease his desire in following Vertue piety preseruing his subiects in peace and tranquility He built the sumptuous Pallace of Paris subdued the Flemings who had forsaken his part giuen aide to the English against him the Earle of Flanders and his two sons beeing then taken prisoners The King left a Garrison in the countrey but they were slaine in a commotion of the people Whereupon the Earle of Flanders hauing giuen his faith to the King was sent thyther with one of his sons but being able to do no good he returned backe againe to the King and died soon after at Compeign The k. went thither himselfe in person at the first had no better successe but at length he charged them so furiously that he foiled 36000. wheron they were constrained to make attonement and pay him 200000. Crownes The day of Coutray was afterward fauourable to the Flemmings but deplorable to the French the English preuayling mightily against them Then came the Bulles of Pope Boniface against Phillippe but they were burned in the Court of the Pallace which made Boniface to excommunicate the King but Bennet his Successour absolued him againe In his time was the Papall See trans-ferred to Auignon where it continued thréescore ten yeares Rome being then gouerned by Legates The king died at Fountainebleu which was the place of his byrth hauing raigned 28. years and lieth buried at S. Denis 47 Lewes the tenth Sur-named Hutin after the conformity of his manners succéeded his Father in the yeare 1314. and had his right also after his Mother in the kingdome of Nauarre Enguerrand de Marigni General of the Finances being accused to haue robbed the
kings treasury was hanged at Mont-faucon which hee himselfe first caused to be made Lewes tooke first to wife Margaret Daughter to Robert Duke of Burgundy by whom he had a Daughter Next he married Constance whom he left with child of a Sonne named Iohn that liued but eyght daies This King raigned but xviij months died at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at S. Denis 48 Phillip the fift Surnamed the Long succéeded after his Brother Lewes Hutin in the kingdome being called Long in regard of his tal stature and slendernesse The Duke of Burgundie would haue troubled his possession of the crown in regarde of his Daughters Daughter but the Salique Law did not fauour him therein This King Phillip married Iane Daughter to Otholine Earle of Burgundy by whom hee had three daughters The first married with the Sonne to the Duke of Burgundy the second the Sonne to the Earle of Flaunders and the thirde to the Daulphine of Viennois by which marriages all Warres were asswaged in Fraunce During his raigne diuers Leapers and Lazers procured thereunto by the Iewes poysoned all the welles which caused a great Pestilence thorough the Kingdom but both the one and other were grieuously punnished therefore Neuer coulde this King obtaine of his people any impost or Taxation by him leuied He made a Law that there shold be in his kingdom but one kind of weight one measure and one money commanding that it should be duely kept But while this was in execution he died without any heires male hauing raigned fiue yeares in peace and lieth buried at S. Denis In these times certaine Troopes of Countrey people that were called Pastors and Shepherds arose againe in Fraunce as formerly some had done in the time of King Lewes the ninth These men made their vaunt that they would crosse the Seas and go warre against the Infidels They had two chiefe men of marke among them and wel beseeming such an assembly to wit a Priest that for his mis-behauiour was expulsed his Church and an Apostata Monke of the Order of S. Bennet These two fellowes so abused the hearts and beléefe of the poore popularity that silly Shepheards left their Flocks and Laborers their Manuall trades to follow these two impostures who made them verily beleeue that the Holy Land could be recouered by none but them In conclusion this heape of Rascality was quailed in Languedoc because in stead of preparing their fury against the Infidels and passing the Seas they fell vpon the Iewes whom the king had repealed into France 49 Charles le Bell Son to Phillip the fourth succéeded after his Brother in the year 1321. and likewise was King of Nauarre as his thrée predecessors had bin He had thrée wiues Blaunch whom he diuorced for her adultery Marie and Margaret Iourdain de l'Isle albeit hee was Nephew to Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was hanged and strangled at Paris for his strange offences This King fel to concord with the English appeased the Earle of Flaunders and drewe his people to a mutuall Reconciliation He was a great Iusticer raigned seauen yeares dyed at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at Saint Denis By his death the second branch of the Capets called De Valois came to the Royalty and began in 50 PHillip de Valois Coozin Germaine to the thrée precedent Kings dying without heire male his succession was in the yeare 1328. His right to the Crowne was dearely disputed betweene him and King Edward the third of England Son to the Sister of the thrée forenamed Kings who preferring his Mothers Title would néeds be King of France contrary to the Decrée of the Law Salique and consent of al the States He did king Phillip homage for Guyenne and Ponthieu but being not well pleased therewith cut him off quite from Flanders Bretaigne Germany Crecy where Phillip lost the day with the very flower of al the French Nobility taking Calais also by their flight Truce being taken betwéene both the Kings Edward of England had both the Title of king and Armes of France or conquest which euer after was attributed to him his Phillip raigned 22. yeares died at Nogent and lieth buried at S. Denis 51 Iohn Sonne to Phillip de Valois succee-his Father in the yeare 1350. proouing as vnfortunate in those tempestuous times as his father had done before him He married Ioane Countesse of Bolongne by whom he had foure sonnes and one Daughter Raoull the Constable of France was beheaded in prison In the day at Poictiers King Iohn was taken by the English and carried into England which imprisonment of his caused many pittifull Tragedies the most furious whereof were acted in the chiefe Citties of France Foure yeares after King Iohn passed into England for the fréedome of his Ostages but there he died at London hauing raigned 13. yeares His sonne caused his body to be brought to S. Denis 52 Charles the fift Sonne to King Iohn succéeded his Father in the yeare 1364. Hee sustained very great troubles during the captiuitie of his father by a commotion which the k. of Nauar raised at Paris who was aided by the merchants of the saide Citty and woulde haue had the Regency but that Charles being then Daulphine made opposition against him He dealte for the ransome and deliueraunce of his Father after whose decease he was crowned King Hee tooke to Wife Ioane Daughter to Charles Duke of Burbon by whom he had three Sonnes and one daughter He maintained great warres against the English hauing at one instant fiue seueral Armies in field against them because they were such potent enemies And to supply so mightie a charge he was faine to lay a heauie taxation vpon wine and Salt Bertrand de Guesclin a most worthy Knight was then his high Constable And the Bastille at Paris was then builded A sedition happened at Montpellier and six hundred of the seditious were executed This King was surnamed the Wise for his deep discretion goodnesse and gouernment He so loued Learning that he caused the Holy Bible to be translated into the French Language which remaineth yet in the Royal Cabinet of the Louure with many other good Bookes beside Hee had stil an eye to Iustice sitting daily to hear causes and ordering all his affayres by Counsel With much adoo he regained some Townes from the English in Poictu and Xaintonge Hee raigned sixteene yeares yeelded his soule to God at Chasteau de Beaute and lieth buried at S. Denis The Sect of the Turlupins was then abolished See Emil. Lib. 9. 52 Charles the sixt sonne of Charles the fift was crowned King at the age of fouretéen years being vnder the gouernment of his Vnckles the Dukes of Berry Burgundy and the Duke of Aniou who got into their custody many millions of Gold left by the King deceast And then no Money being to bee found the people were charged with heauy
Prinâ—es in hope of his daughters mariage The French K. and the duke sought to deceiue each other and the Constable of S. Paul waxing hatefull to them both they resolued his ruine and on a truce taken for 9. years betwéen the King and Duke the Constable was beheaded at Paris The Duke warred against the Swisses and was defeated by them both at Granson and Morat wherewith the Swisses were enriched The Duke besiedged Nancie and was there slain in battel by the Treason of the Earle of Campobachio an Italian where being engirt with a great troupe of Lanciers he receiued thrée wounds one in the head the second in the thigh and the third in the fundament He left one onlie Daughter and heire 32 Mary Daughter and Heire to Duke Charles the warlike Duke of Bourgogne succéeded her Father in al his Countries being but 18. yeares old when he was slaine before Nancy wherefore shee remained vnder the charge of the Duke of Cleues and his Brother the Lord of Rauestein The French King seized Piccardie and Arthois she happening into the Ganthois power endured much trouble by putting her chiefest seruants and Councellers to death the Flemings were defeated and the young Duke of Gueldres slaine Afterward a marriage was concluded betwéene Maximilian Arch-duke of Austria Son to the Emperor Frederick and the Lady Marie of Bourgogne albeit shee would more gladly haue matched with the house of France 33 Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria and Son to the Emperour Fredericke marrying the Princesse Mary of Bourgogne was thereby wedded to much war and trouble For first the Gueldres reuolted from the house of Bourgogne Next happened the battel of Guinegate wherein the Arch-Duke was the Conquerour Then Turnay yéelded to him truce was taken betwéen him and the French King and the new tumults of the Cabillaux and Hoecks were likewise by him pacified Dordrecht was surprized by the young Lord of Egmont also many Townes in Guelders yéelded to the Arch-Duke and not long after followed the death of the Arch-Dutchesse Mary who had the first yeare of her mariage a Sonne named Phillip Father to Charls the fift the second yeare a Daughter called Margaret betroathed in her infancye to Charles the Dolphin of France Sonne to King Lewes 11. and the third year a Sonne named Frances according to the name of Fraunces Duke of Brittaine his Godfather Maximilian beeing chosen King of the Romaines he made Engelbert Earl of Nassau Gouernour of the Netherlands in his absence And afterward vpon the bold insolency of the Ganthois and Bâ—ugois kéeping the King of Romaines prisoner Albert Duke of Saxonie was made second Gouernor of the Netherlands and General for the Emperor Frederick against the Flemings But Frederick dying his Sonne Maximilian succeeded him in the Empire by which meanes Phillip of Austria son to the said Maximilian inherited his right in Holland Zeland Frizeland c. 34 Phillip second of that name being but 16. yeares olde and succeeding his father Maximilian Emperor in the Netherlands had these Titles Phillippe Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Bourgogne Lothier Brabant Styria Carinthia Lembourg Luxembourg and Guelders Earle of Haspourg Flaunders Arthois Bourgogne Ferrette and Kiburch Palatine of Henault Holland Zeland Namur and Zutphen Marquesse of the Holie Empyre and of Bourgan Landtgraue of Elsaten Lorde of Windismarke Portenau Salynes and Macklyn Vpon his full possession of the Netherlandes peace was made betwéen him Charles the 8. King of France warre happening betwixt the Arch-duke and the Duke of Guelders great inconueniences followed thereon but Duke Albert beeing slaine before Groningen the Arch-Duke inherited the realme of Spain by his wife being made King of Castile and George Duke of Saxonie being then made gouernor of the Netherlands for the Arch-Duke Phillip continued the warres in Frizeland For vpon the death of Isabell Q. of Castile Iane her daughter being onely heyre and married to the Arch-Duke Phillip she héerby inuested him in the Realmes of Spain Leon Granado c. as absolute King But he enioyed that dignity not long for in the yeare 1506. the 27. of September hee died suddenly in the Citty of Bourgos suspected to be poysoned After the death of Phillip King of Castile the Emperour Maximilian tooke vppon him the gouernement of the Netherlandes as Guardian vnto Charles and Ferdinand his Grand-children being the Sons of Phillip and Iane King Quéen of Castille 35 Charles of Austria second of that name succéeded rightfully in all his Fathers Landes and Seigneuries and by the Emperors appointment his daughter the Ladye Margaret Dowager of Sauoy and Aunt to the Princes Charles and Ferdinand was Regent of the low countries Afterwarde Prince Charles tooke possession of the Netherlands and being crowned K. of Spain and Arragon soone after followed the death of the Emperor Maximilian and in an assemblye at Francfort for choise of a new Emperor Charles King of Spaine had frée election by the name of Charles the fift Then was Ladye Margaret Widdow both of Castile and Sauoy and Aunt to the Emperour Charles accepted as sole Gouernesse of the Netherlandes in her Nephewes absence Troubles happened in Spaine by reason of the Kings departure thence and not onelie warre in Frizeland but likewise betweene the French and Bourguignons as also the warre of Boores or Peazants in Germany and the Groningeois reiecting the Du. of Guelders did yeild themselues to the Emperor then hapned the 2. bloody edict froÌ„ the Emp. against the Netherland protestants then was the imperial diet at Ausbourg wher the protestant princes presented the confession of their faith After followed the deuouring inundation in the Netherlands the death of the Lady dowager Margaret whereby Mary of Austria 2. daughter to K. Phillip and Q. Iane of Castile succéeded in the gouernment of the Netherlands Warre happened betwéene the Emperor and the French King but vppon the comming of Quéene Elenor of Fraunce to the Emperor her Brother peace was concluded betwixte them 36 While Mary of Austria gouerned the Netherlands for the Emperor Charles her brother great troubles happened to the Protestantes by opposition of the Pope and Emperour againste them The Emperor affected the Empyre for Prince Phillip his Sonne which bred a quarrel betwixt the Emperor and his brother Ferdinand King of Hungary to whome the Princes of the Empire were more enclined then to Phillip and then the Protestantes denied their comming to the Counsell of Trent Phillip King of Spaine married Mary Quéene of England And not long after the Emperor resigned the Netherlands to his Sonne King Phillip whereby he was reckoned the 36. Earle of Holland Zeland c. and the Empire to his Brother Ferdinand K. of the Romans and Hungary departing out of the Netherlands to end his daies quietly in a Monastery not far from Placentia He reserued 100000 Crownes yearely to himselfe employing
at Brutes arriuall was no Britannia but a rude and solitary Desert or wildernesse without name Ferarum altrix a verie nursery or place of store for wilde Beastes The Countries and Regions of Britayne were then all ouer-growne with Woodes replenished with all kindnes of sauage and cruell beasts as Lyons Beares Wolues Foxes wild Boares and all other game belonging to the Chase Beside diuers other kind of wilde Beastes and Cattell especially a certaine kinde of white monsterous wilde Buls and Kine with long shagd curled haire and maines which kind of Cattel were as fierce and cruell as Lyons and could neuer be tamed by mans art as you may finde it registred and recorded in our ancient Chronicles and noted in the very common Dictionaries vppon these wordes Caledonia and Caledonia sylua Britanniae alwayes mistaken and corruptly Written Caledonia for Calydonia because the reason why our Countrey was first called Caledonia sylua was no better knowne to the auncient Romaines in Iulius Caesars time then it is at this day knowne to dyuers of our Antiquaries and Chronicles of Britayne For one deriueth Caledonia sylua from Calden and another fetcheth Calydonia sylua from Kaled But the ones faire Daughter Kaled is too young to bee the Mother of Calydon or Calydonia sylua Britanniae And the others Calden or Hazellsticke is as weake to be the Mother of Calydon For Calydon of whom Calydonia sylua by Aetolia in Greece tooke name was the Sonne of Aetolus who was the Sonne of Mars the God or Patron of battaile Mars was the father of Aetolus of Parthaon of the bright Britona called Britomaris the president of Britayne Aetolus the Sonne of Mars and Brother to bright Britona was Father of Calydon of whom Calydonia sylua by Aetolia in Greece Mother of our Calydonia sylua the generall name of all Britayne tooke name but especially of Calydonia sylua secunda which is Scotland called Britannia secunda In which part of Brytaine at this day is the most ancient Towne of Parthaon now called Perth and Saint Iohns Towne the principall Towne of Aetolia now called Atholl a Region or Countrey of Britannia Albania or Calydonia sylua secunda where the great Calydon Wood which beginneth at Striueling called the Dolorus Mount runneth foorth thorough Mentieth and Stratherne to Aetolia that fruitefull Region of Grampius Mount which reacheth to Lochquhaber and to Calydonium Promontorium which is Cathnesse or Orcha the angle point cape foreland or lands end of Scotland This Calydonia sylua Brytannia was the daughter of Calidonia sylua by Aetolia in Greece who tooke his originall from Calydon the Sonne of Aetolus Aetolia now called Atholl in Britayne is the Daughter of Aetolia a Citty of Albania and Calydonia sylua in Greece so called of Aetolus the Sonne of Mars Parthaon now called Perth or Saint Iohns Towne the principall Towne of Aetolia in Scotland tooke his glorious name of Parthaon the Brother to bright Britona called Britomaris the president Brytaine Of whome all Britannia contayning all the Countries and Regions of England Scotland Wales and Cornewall called by Alexander Necham in his book De diuina sapientia Bruti tellus took the most glorious name of Britaine For Brute of Albania the Founder of Brittaine came to this Isle by the Oracle of Britona called Diana of Calydonia sylua therefore hee called this Isle of Britannia of the bright Britana c. The same Brute also who was borne in Albania bannished to Albania and the first founder of Britayne called Albania called all our Countrey of Britayne Albion seu Albania not of the White Rockes and Cliftes as some men suppose but of Albania in Asia and Albania Epiri in Greece the Countrey of Helenus and Andromache Quéene of Albania Epiri from whence Brute of Albania brought the Albanian Troyans the founders of Britayne To approue what formerly hath béene sayde without any néede of repetition wée haue a multitude of most glorious Recordes and Chronicles Written and Printed confirmed by the Testimony of Iulius Caesar by Pope Eleutherius by a Parliament holden at Norham vppon Twede and another at Lincolne in the time of King Edward the first who by his Letters sent from Lyncolne â—o Pope Boniface dooth approoue Brutes Historie to bee no Fâ—ble as some Criticks of our time haue done who will not beleeue our ancient written Records although confirmed by Emperors Kings Popes and Parliamentes neyther the Testimony of Strangers Wherefore by the Oracle of Diana called Britomartis the President of Britayne and by the Oracle of Diana Lucifera that is to say Venus called Bosphorus the bright Quéen of Phrygia and Caria Mother of Eneas and the Graces of whom came Brute of Albania founder of Britaine who brought in Carius a Noble Prince of Lydia and Caria with the people of Caria and Swannes of Carie in Britaine By the Oracles aforesaide the Swans of Carie in Britaine are now stirred vp to maintain the verity of the Brittish History The Goddes of the Gentiles whose Temples our fore-fathers of the Troyan race erected in diuers Countries and regions of Britaine especially at Troia-noua now called London in Britaine where the Troynouants did sometimes Sacrifice Buls Bullocks and Stags to Diana Tauropolia whome the Gentiles called the Quéene of Heauen whych was the same Diana called Bellona whome the Brigantes honoured at Yorke Brigantium Ciuitas And what were these Brigantes I pray ye Herodian saith that the Briges Phryges and Brigantes were all one Whereupon I conclude that the Brigantes that is to say our Northerne Britaines were Phrygian Troyans The Brigantes of Brittaine are the people of Yorkshire Richmondshire Lancashire Dutham westmerland and Cumberland hard to the Pictes Wall where the Abij and Picti Agathyrsi dwell about Abus AestuariuÌ„ now called Humber And what were those Abij but Albanian Troyans that came also from Abus a Riuer of Albania Epiri And the auncient Brittaines called Picti Agathyrsi what were they Euen Scythian Troyans of Albania who sprang of Scythes and Agathyrsus the Sonnes of Hercules that sometime raigned in Troy for the famous Cittie of Troy in Phrygia the head of all Asia was in Scythia The noble Troyans were called Taurini and Tauroscythi of a famous mountaine of Asia called Tauâ—us Mount which runneth thorough all Asia a great part of the Mountain Taurus endeth in Caria which is a countrey of Asia belonging to Troy Venus called Bosphorus the mother of Eneas and the Graces of whome came Brute of Albania the founder of Britaine was Quéen of Phrygia and Caria The famous Riuer of Maeander is in Caria which riuer hath Golden sands and singing Swannes that sometime serued Venus Quéen of Phrygia and Caria wherefore the Swans of Caria and Signets of Troy in Britaine must alwayes sing of Troy Troyans The daughters of heauen and earth Isis Themis Rhea Thetis Abus Arius Alanus Ax Tameres
hundered shippes alwayes in readinesse and sayled therewith once a yeare about all great Britaine Hee had the whole Isle and all the Kinges thereof in subiection to him and was rowed vp and downe the Riuer of Dee by seauen Kings his vassailes Luduall one of those Kings did pay him a yearly tribute of Wolues He raigned 16. yeares and was buried at Glastenburie Edward eldest Sonne to King Edgar succeeded his Father being crowned at Kingston but by Counsell of Elfrith his Step-mother he was treacherously murdered when hee had raygned three yeares and was buried at Shaftesbury Ethelred or Egelred second Sonne to King Edgar was crowned at Kingstone but because his comming to the Crown was by his brothers murder he could neuer obtaine his peoples affection Al the Danes in England by the command of King Ethelred were murdered in one night He raigned 38. yeares and was buried in Saint Paules Church in London Edmund Son to King Ethelred and Surnamed Ironside was immediately proclaimed K. after his Fathers death as the Cleargy and Nobility did the like to Canutus because they hadde sworne fealty to his Father Swaine or Sweno whereon three great battailes were fought betwixt King Edmund and Canutus the Danes ouerthrowne at Otford in Kent beside the great battell at Ashdone in Essex neere Saffron walden where the Englishmen were foyled by the Danes and the Land once againe deuided betweene Canutus and King Edmund who was treacherously slaine at Oxford hauing raigned but one yeare and some few months and was buried at Glastenbury Canutus the Dane challenging all England to himselfe was crowned King in Saint Paules Church in London and maried Quéen Emma the widdow of king Etheldred hee raigned xx yeares and was buried at Winchester Harold surnamed Harefoot vsing the power of the Danes in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardi-kenutus Gouerned in Denmarke Hee raigned foure yeares dyed at Oxford and was buried at Westminster Hardikenutus or Hardy-Canutus Sonne of King Canutus and his Quéene Emma obtayning his Fathers Kingdome sent for his mother from exile He died with the cup in his hand as he sat merrily disposed at his Table in the third yeare of his raigne and was buried at Winchester With this Hardy-Canutus ended the dominion of the Danes in England who had grieuously oppressed this nation for the space of 250. yeares Edward the sonne of Ethelred and Emma was next crowned King at Winchester all the Danes being then quite expulsed the land This Edward was Surnamed the Confessor for hys vertuous life and worthy Lawes also he is saide to be the first that cured the Disease called The Kinges Euill Hee raigned three and twentie yeares and was buried at Westminster which in his life time hee had most sumptuouslye repayred Harold sonne of Earle Goodwin tooke vpon him the gouernment of the kingdome but William Duke of Normandy came into England with a powerfull Army and in battell Harold was shot through the braines with an Arrowe hauing raigned but nine months and was buried in the Monastery of Waltham in Essex by whose death Duke William obtained his Conquest of England William Duke of Normandy base Sonne of Robert Duke of Normandie and Nephew to King Edward the Confessor whom he perceiued more addicted to vertue then policy and through debility of body not like to liue long contryued his owne attaining to the crowne of this land after the decease of the aged King For hee placed diuers Normans in the cheefest roomes about him while he liued and when he was dead leuied an Army of diuers Nations and there-with pretending the Patronage of England agaynst Harold Earle Godwins Sonne who vsurped the Kingdome first fought with him and flewe him at a place now called Battell in Sussex and then tooke the Crowne on him by election of the Estates Seeking next to barre Titles he imprisoned Edgar Etheling the onely true heire of the Saxons bloud and by means of Ethelbert Arch-bishop of Hamborow procured Sweno King of Denmark for money to cease the Danes claime Hee builded foure strong Castles one at Nottingham another at Lincoln the third at York and the fourth neere to Haftings where he landed at his first arriuall in England Hee deuised the Couer le feu Bell to bee Rung nightly at eight of the clocke in all Citties Townes and Villages for preuention of mighty tumults He ordained the Tearmes and that they shoulde be kept foure times in the yeare and Iudges to sit in seuerall Courtes for desciding controuersiall matters betwixt party and party as is vsed vnto this day He appointed Sheriffes in euery shyre and Iustices of the peace to see offenders punnished and the Countries kept in quiet He ordained the Court of Exchequer with the Barons Clarkes and Officers thereto belonging as also the high Court of Chancery with the Booke then called The Rowle of Winchester nowe The Doomesday Booke whereby the whole Land was taxed and euery mans estate and wealth thoroughly knowne He raigned twenty yeares ten months and 26. dayes and was buried in the Abbey of Saint Stephen at Caâ—n in Normandy which he had founded And this is well worthy memory that hee being so great a Conqueror yet after his death coulde not haue so much ground to bury his dead body without wronging some other vntill that by his Executors it was bought for him William Rufus second sonne to the Conqueror by his Fathers appointment succeeded him in the Kingdom and was crowned at Westminster Robert elder Brother to King William Duke of Normandy went with Godfrey Duke of Bullen and other Christian Princes to the Holy-land to recouer it from the Saraziâ—s This King William Rufus caused new Walles to be builded about the Tower of London and layed the foundation of Westminster Hall Hee raigned thirteene yeares and was slain with an Arrow by one Sir Walter Tyrel a French knight in the New Forrest in Hampshire his body being buried at VVinchester In which Forrest not many yeares before had stoode 36. Parish Churches diuers faire Townes Villages and Hamlets containing thirty miles in circuite all which was laide wast by the Conqueror the poor inhabitants expelled thence and it was made a place for wilde beastes to liue in It was somewhat strange that in that very place the King should bee so vnfortunately slaine Richard his Brother blasted to death and Henry the Conquerors Nephew by his eldest Sonne Robert as hee ouer-earnestly pursued the game in the the bushes like to another Absolon straungely strangled to death vengeaunce from God as was thought punnishing the fathers offence in his posterity Henry sur-named Beauclerke for his Learning and youngest sonne to the Conqueror succeeded his Brother King William was crowned at VVestminster Robert Duke of Normandy being returned from the Holie-Lande warred with his Brother Henry for his right in the
to the effusion of much blood He raigned 38. yeares sixe months and foure daies and was buried first at Chertsey and afterwarde remoued to windsore Edward Earle of March tooke on him the gouernment of the Realm being son to Richard Duke of Yorke that was slaine at Wakefield His raigne also was filled with many troubles broyles and Rebellions yet hee gouerned 22. years one month and eight daies and was buried at Windsore Edward the fift son to king Edward the fourth succeeded after his father being neuer crowned but deposed by his Vnckle Richard Duke of Glocester when he had raigned two months eleuen dayes and with his brother was murdered in the Tower of London where both theyr bodies were obscurely buried Richard Duke of Glocester vsurped the kingdome two years two months and one day and was slaine in battell at Bosworth fielde by Henrie Earle of Richmond and buried at Leicester In him ended the line of the Plantagenets Henry Earle of Richmond surnamed Tudor son to Edmund of Hadham Earle of Richmond who was son of Owen ap Meredyth and Queene Katherine the French kings daughter wife to king Henry the fift This king Henrie builded and repayred in his life time many goodly houses beside his Mannor of Richmond and his Chappell at Westminster as Baynards Castle in London the goodly Hospitall of the Sauoy neere Charing-Crosse to which hee gaue lands for releefe of an hundred poore people Sir Religious houses for Franciscan Friers of the Obseruant and Couentall orders viz. at Richmond at Greenwich and at Newarke for Obseruants at Canterbury New-Castle South-hampton for Couentals Hee gaue also manie sums of money to good and godly vses And for that one of the goodliest Chappelles in Europe was by his meanes finished formerly begun by king Henry the sixt called the Kings colledge Chappell in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge I cannot omit the summe he gaue to accomplish the same which was 10000. lt viz. 5000. pounds in his life time and the rest by will at his death vnder his great Seale of England which was truely paide as is yet to be seen in the same Colledge Hee married his eldest daughter Margaret to Iames the fourth King af Scots of which happy marriage we enioy our dread Soueraign now raigning King Iames the sixt King Hentie raigned 23. yeares and somwhat more then 8. months and was buried in his new Chappell at Westminster Henry the eight sonne of king Henry the seauenth succeeded next in the kingdome after hys father He banished the Popes authority out of England and was proclaimed King of Ireland because the former Kinges were onely called Lords of Ireland He wun Terwin Tourney and Bullen in Fraunce and gaue the Church of the Gray Fryers in London to the Cittie to bee a place of releefe for poore people S. Bartholomewes Spittle the Gray Fryers and two parish Churches the one called S. Nicholas in the Shambles the other S. Ewin in Newgate Market were then made all one parish Church and he gaue in Lands for maintenance thereof fiue hundred Markes by the yeare for euer He raigned 37. years 9. months and 5. daies and was buried at Windsore Edward the sixt onely son to king Henry the eight was crowned king at Westminster Hée caused the Masse to be vtterly abolished Images to be defaced in Churches and the Lords supper to be ministred in both kindes There was then good orders deuised for the poores reliefe poore people were distinguished by thrée seuerall degrées in manner following Three degrees of poore 1. The poore by impotency 2. Poore by casualty 3. Thristlesse poore 1. The poore by impotency were also diuided into 3 kinds 1. The fatherles pore mans châ—â—d 2. The aged blinde and lame 3. The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2. The poore by casualty were also of three kinds 1. The wounded Souldior 2. The decayed Housholder 3. The visited with grieuous disease 3. The thriftlesse poore were likewise of 3. kinds 1. The Riotor that consâ—meth all 2. The Vagabond that will abyde in no place 3. The ydle â—erson as Strumpets and others 1 Christs Hospitall was appointed for the innocent and fatherlesse childe to be trained vp in knowledge of God and vertuous exercises 2 Saint Thomas Hospitall in Southwark was appointed for reliefe of the aged blinde and lame 3 Bridewel was also appointed for the Vagabond ydle strumpet and vnthrift Of all which seuerall Hospitals this Vertuous yong k. Edward was the founder and gaue the lands of the Sauoy which then serued as a harbour to Loyterers Vagabonds and strumpets that lay all day in the fieldes and at Night were harboured there to the maintenance of these houses which Lands were of the yearelie value of sixe hundred pounds and he gaue 4000 Markes beside of Lands taken in Mâ—â—tmaine so yearely valewed This worthy young King raigned sixe years fiue months and eight dayes and was buried at Westminster Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight and Sister to King Edward succeeded after her Brother She married with the Prince of Spain who was afterward king and raigning 5. years fiue monethes and tenne dayes was buried at Westminster Elizabeth second Daughter to king Henrie the eight and Sister also to king Edward came next to her right in the Crowne of England To write of the Princely life and raigne of that Virgin Empresse and matchlesse Queene woulde require large Volumes yet all too little for her high deseruing merit Hauing liued well neere threescore and ten years and happily raigned 44. yeares 4. months and od dayes she died the 24 of March 1602. was buried at Westm The lines engrauen on her Tombe may serue for her further memory A Sacrifice to Posterity HAuing restored Religion to the Primitiue sincerity established Peace reduced coine to the iust valew reuenged Domestical rebellion succored France greeued by ciuill war supported Belgia ouer-come the Spanish inuincible Nauy pacified Ireland by driuing out the Spaniards and compelling the Rebels to yeeld to her pardon increased very much the Reuennewes of both Vniuersities by a Law for theyr prouision of Victuall enriched all England administring most prudently the Imperial state thereof 45. yeares in true piety in the seauenty yeare of her age in most happy peaceable maner departed this life leauing heere hir mortal parts enterred in this famous and renowned Church by her conserued til by the command of Christ they rise againe immortall Iames king of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland first Monarch of the whole Islands or Countrey was proclaimed king the 24. of March 1602. being the onely inheritour to k. Henry the seauenth and Elizabeth his Queene issuing from Lady Margaret eldest Daughter to them both In whose happy marriage ended the long ciuill dissentions of the two deuided families of Yorke and Lancaster And by his most rightfull succession in the deuided
kingdomes of England and Scotland hath vnited them in one sole Monarchy of Great Britaine Long may hee raigne to Gods glory and comfort of his Kingdomes ¶ A briefe Catalogue of the Princes of Wales from the time that King Edward the first had conquered Wales to this instant 1. EDward borne at Caernaruon therefore called Edward of Caernaruon being Sonne to king Edward of England first of that name was the first Prince of Wales of the English bloud after the death of Prince Lhewelyn and came to Chester in the 29. year of his fathers raigne where he receiued the homage of the frée-holders of Wales 2 Edward of Windsore beeing eldest son to king Edward the second in the 15. yeare of his fathers raigne was created Prince of VVales and Duke of Aquitaine in a Parlament holden at Yorke 3 Edward borne at Woodstock sonne and heyre to king Edward the third in the 17. yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of Wales at London This Prince was surnamed the Blacke Prince hee tooke Iohn the French King prisoner and dyed in the 46. yeare of his age his father yet liuing 4 Richard sonne to Edward the Black Prince was created Prince of Wales at Hauering in the Bower in the fiftie yeare of king Edward the 3. his Grandfather and was afterward king of England by the name of king Richard the second 5 Henry of Monmouth sonne and heire to king Henry the fourth was in the first yeare of his fathers raigne created Prince of Wales at VVestminster 6 Edward of Westminster sonne and heyre to king Henry the sixt in the 31. yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of wales and Earle of Chester at westminster 7 Edward eldest sonne of king Edward the 4. borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster in the 11. yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester at London He was afterward king of England by the name of Edward the fift but neuer crowned because both he and his Brother were made away by the treachery of their Vnckle Richard Duke of Glocester that vsurped the Crowne 8 Edward the onely Sonne of king Richard the third being a child of ten years olde in the first yeare of the said kings raign was created prince of wales at London 9 Arthur sonne and heire to king Henrie the seuenth in the fift yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of wales at London dying at Ludlow Castle in the 17. yeare of his fathers raigne was buried with great Funerall solemnity at Worcester 10 Henry Duke of Yorke son to King Henry the seauenth and Brother vnto Prince Arthur was after the saide Princes death in the ninetéenth yeare of his Fathers raigne created Prince of Wales and was afterward King of England by the name of King Henry the 8. In the 26. yeare of his raigne the Principality and Countrey of Wales was by Parliament incorporated and vnited vnto the Kingdome of England and all the Inhabitants thereof made equall in freedomes liberties rightes priuiledges lawes and in all other respects to the naturall subiects of England 11 Edward sonne to King Henry the eight and borne at Hampton Court the Principality of Wales being incorporated as hath bin sayde to the Crowne and kingdome of England was no otherwise Prince of Wales then vnder the generall Title of England as the King his Father was king of England and vnder the name king of Wales as it being a member of England Nor do I read of any other creation or inuesture that he had in that Principality He was King after his Father by the name of K. Edward 6. 1 Marie Daughter to King Henry the eight by the Princesse Katherine Dowager Widdow of Prince Arthur was Princesse of Wales 2 Elizabeth Daughter also to King Henrie tâ—e eight was in a Parliament in the 25. yeare of her Fathers raigne declared Princesse and Inheretrix of the crowne of England with all dominions to the same belonging and therefore was as her Sister Princesse of Wales All these fore-named Princes of Wales were created solemnely by and in Court of Parliament except three which were Richard the second Edward the fifte and Edward Sonne to Richard the thyrde Those that were created out of Parliament were Princes whose fortunes proued hard and disastrous For Richard the second was deposed and after murdered Edward the fift was also murdered in the Tower of London and Edward sonne to Richard the thirde dyed within three moneths after as a iust iudgement of God for his Fathers wickednesse 12. Henrie sonne and heire to our dread Soueraigne King Iames in the eight yeare of his Fathers raigne ouer England c. was created in the Court of Parliament at Westminster Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay Earle of Chester and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter The strong arme of Heauen be his continuall keeper and defender Briefe Obseruations not vnfitly annexed to this our short Summary of England ¶ Of Bishopprickes and their circuites CAnterbury erected first by Augustine the Monke in the time of Ethelbert king of Kent by prouincial regiment reacheth ouer all the South and west parts of this Lande and Ireland also and there are few shyres wherein the Arch-byshop hath not some peculiets But in it selfe as from the beginning was and is proper to the See It extendeth but ouer one parcell of Kent which Rudburne calleth Cantwarland the Iurisdiction of Rochester including the rest so that in this one County both the greatest Archbishopricke and least Bishoppricke are vnited together Canterbury hath vnder it one Arch-deaconry that hath iurisdiction ouer 11. Deanries or 161. Parish Churches In time of popery vndername of first fruites it paide to Rome at euery alienation 10000. Ducats or Florens beside 5000. which the new elect did vsually pay for his pall each ducat being then worth an English Crowne Rochester included within the limits of Kent was erected also by Augustine in the raygne of Ceolrijc ouer the west-Saxons It hath one Arch-Deacon whose gouernement in spirituall causes ruleth 3. Deanries or 132. parish Churches whereby appeareth that in Kent are 393. parish churches whereof the saide two Arch-deacons haue cure and charge It paid to Rome at the bishops admission 1300. Ducats or Florens London was erected at first by king Lucius who made it an Archbishops See as in due place hath already bin remembred and so it continued till Augustine translated that title to Canterbury It includeth Essex Middlesex and parte of Hertfordshire containing in quantity the ancient Kingdome of the East Angles before it was vnited to the West-Saxons It hath foure Arch-deaconries viz. London Essex Middlesex and Colchester that haue vnder them 363. parish Churches beside peculiers The Archdeaconry of S. Albanes was added thereto by king Henry the eight which hath also 25. parishes whereof foure are in Buckingham the rest in Hertfordshire It payed to Rome
dignity of Senators in Aldermen It hath vnder Officers and according to the qualitie of Lawes so hath it seueral Courts and generall assemblies vpon appointed daies At parting with the name of Portgraues and Prouosts in the first yeare of K. Richard 1. the cittizens obtained to be gouerned by 2. Baliffes who in auncient déedes were called Sheriffes as the Lawe tearmeth the Shire Balliua vsing the same office of Shriuewick as the Portgraues before did The names of the first Bayliffes or Officers entring into their dignity at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell Anno 1189 were Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere King Richard also at that very time appointed a supreame Officer aboue the rest by the name of Maior which worde was borrowed from the Haebrew word Mar and signifieth Dominus Lord a word vsed by the Franconians and old Saxons their Neighbours of whom English-men haue their Originall but called Maire as the French did their Maires of the Pallace Thus was the chiefe Gouernor called Lord Maire or Maior because they vnderstood not that the epethite Maire or Maior implyed no lesse then lord without any other additions yet thus was it thē giuen for a larger augmentation of Honor. Now as the Goldsmiths yéelded London a Prouost before named Leofstanus euen so the same Company albeit not as yet rancked into a List of Brother-hood gaue London likewise the first Lord Maire or Maior in Dignity whose name was Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane and being so appointed by the King he continued in that supreame Office from the first yeare of King Richard the first vntill the fiftéenth of K. Iohn which was more then twenty foure years Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere béeing first chosen Bayliffes serued then as Sheriffes by all likelihood to the said Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Leifstane Maire whereby very well may bee obserued the progresse and continuaunce of those seuerall elections and choyces euen to this day the Sheriffes beeing first appointed and then the Lorde Maire after chosen at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-aungell at the first by King Richard it was ordained King Iohn in like manner after this high Dignity begun by his Brother graunted them frée liberty by Charter to chuse by voyces and handes yearely out of the twelue chiefest and principall Companies their Praetor or Maire Also two Sheriffes whereof the one should be called the Kings Sheriffe and the other the Citties Sheriffe which in that forme hath continued euen to this instant Nay more he graunted them full power and authority not onely to chuse theyr Sheriffes at their owne pleasure but also vppon iust occasion either of contempt mutiny disobedience or other offences to degrade and depriue them The Forrest of Middlesex and the Warren of Stanes being laid open in An. 1218. the King afterward in the yeare 1226. confirmed to the Citizens of London frée warrant and liberty to hunt a limited circuite about the Citty and in the Warren of Stanes Also that the Cittizens of London shoulde passe Toule-frée thorough al England and the Kedeles or weres in the Riuer of Thames or Midway to be pluckt vp and destroyed for euer When the Franchises and liberties were thus confirmed by King Iohn he granted moreouer that either Sheriffe should haue two Clarks and two Sergeants also that the Citty should haue a common Seale and that the Maior should bee presented to the Barons of the Exchequer and they then to admit him as lawful Lieutenant and Deputy vnder the king to gouerne the Citty Hauing thus briefly discoursed how the dignity of honor began in this famous Citty both in the stile of Lord Maior and Sheriffes as briefly wil we also part their progresse and succession from that first woorthy man Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Gold-Smith to the as worthy Man Sir William Crauon now gouerning this present yeare 1611. Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Goldesmith beginning to take that high office on him in the first yeare of King Richard the first who was also for his valour and courage Surnamed Cueur de Lion continued still in the same Dignity for more then twenty foure years and then deceassing in the 15. yeare of King Iohn he was buried in the Priory of the holy Trinity néer vnto Aldgate In the said 15. yeare of King Iohn either to serue out the remainder of that yeare or to go on in a new election Roger Fitz-Alwain was chosen Lord Maire but I neyther find his freedom or his death albeit he continued as it séemeth in Office but one yeare the like did Serle Mercer and William Hardell in the yeares 1214. and 1215. And then began the raigne of King Henry the third Son to King Iohn the 19. of October 1216. Iames Alderman and Salomon Blasing Lord Maiors serued out this yeare by seuerall parts each after other Serle Mercer was againe chosen Lord Maior and continued in the Dignity sixe yeares together Richard Renger beeing chosen Lord Maior continued so the space of foure yeares Roger Duke or Duck was Lord Maior of London foure yeares Andrew Bokerell Pepperer was Lord Maior of London seauen yeares together Richard Renger Lorde Maior againe one yeare William Ioyner Lord Maior one yeare who builded the Quier of the Gray-Fryers Church in London and afterward became a lay brother of that house Gerard Bat Lord Maior one yeare and béeing elected againe for the ensuing yeare the King would not suffer it because he had béene charged in the former yeare with taking Money of the Victuallers and could shew no reason for it Reginald Bongey was Lorde Maior two yeares Raphe Ashwy Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tony Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lorde Mayor two yeares Peter Fitz-Alwin Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tonny Lord Maior againe one yeare Roger Fitz-Roger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Lord Maior one yeare Adam Basing Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tolason Draper Lord Maior one yeare Richard Hardell Draper was Lorde Maior sixe yeares together Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare William Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior two yeares Thomas Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior foure yeares together Will Richards againe Lord Maior one yeare Allen le Zouch Lorde Maior one yeare and beeing a Baron of the Land and chiefe Iustice also he was slaine in Westminster Hall by Iohn Warren Earle of Surry in An. 1270. Sir Stephen Edwards Lord Maior one year Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon was made Custos of London and Constable of the Tower by reason of a great quarrell happening betwéene the Gold-smiths and the Taylors so that the King gaue the kéeping of the Cittie to his Son Prince Edward who made the saide Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon Custos of the Citty and Constable of the Tower as his Deputie But Prince Edward quickly obtained of the King his Father to haue the
Citties ancient liberties confirmed by Charter againe and so they proceeded on to their wonted election of a lord Maior and Sheriffes as before and Sir Hugh Fitz Othon was discharged of his office Iohn Adrian Vintoner was Lorde Maior of London two yeares Sir Walter Haruey Lord Maior and H. Frowike Pepperer likewise for part of that yeare wherein began the raigne of King Edward the first the 16. of Nouember 1272. Sir Walter Haruey Lorde Maior againe for one yeare Henry Walleis Lord Maior for one yeare Gregory Roksley Golde-Smith chiefe Say Maister of all the Kinges Mints thorough England and kéeper of the Kings Exchange at London was Lord Maior seâ—uen yeares together Henry Walleis who builded the Tonne vpon Cornhill to be a Prison and the Stockes to be a Market-house was Lorde Maior againe three yeares together Gregory Roksley being chosen Lord Maior againe King Edward was informed that the said Gregory Roksley tooke bribes of the Bakers and suffered them to sell bread that wanted sixe or seauen ounces of weight in a Pennie-loafe yet Wheat was then sold at London for 12. 16 pence the quarter VpoÌ„ which information the K. seized the Franchises and liberties into his own handes appointing first one Iohn Sandwich to be Custos thereof for one part of the yeare and Sir Iohn Breton Knight for the other part Thus did the Cittie of London continue vnder the gouernment of seuerall Men bearing the names of Custos till King Edward the second began his raigne which was the seauenth day of Iuly 1307. Sir Iohn Blunt Knight hauing béene Custos of the Cittie for the space of sixe yeares before was now in the first yeare of King Edward the second Lord Maior for one yeare Nicholas Faringdon or Farendon Golde-smith of whom the Ward of Faringdon both within and without tooke name was L. Maior for one yeare Thomas Romaine Lord Maior one yeare Richard Reffam Mercer Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lord Maior two yeares Nicholas Faringdon Gold-Smith againe Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe L. Maior one yeare Stephen Abendon Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Wingraue Lorde Maior thrée yeares In his time happened such cheapnesse of Corne that a Bushell of Wheate which had béene sold formerly for ten shillings was then solde for ten pence Hamond Chickwell Pepperer Lorde Mayor one yeare Nicholas Faringdon again Lord Maior one years Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Mayor two yeare Nicholas Faringdon Gold-smith againe L. Maior one yeare Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Mayor two yeares Richard Britaine Gold-smith Lorde Mayor one yeare In whose time King Edward the third began his raigne the 25 day of Ianuary 1326. who graunted the Lord Maior to bee Iustice for the Gaole deliuery at New-gate and the Cittizens of London not to goe by any constraint to any Warre out of the Citty of London Beside that the Franchises and liberties of the Citty should not thence-forward for any cause bée seized into the Kinges handes Nor â—ny Eschetor to bee in the Citty but the Lorde Maior for the time being Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Grantham Lord Maior one yeare Richard Swandland Lord Maior one yeare In whose time the King kept a great Iusting in Cheape betwéene Sopaâ—s-lane and the great Crosse Sir Iohn Poultney Draper Lord Maior two yeares Iohn Preston Draper Lord Maior one year Sir Iohn Poultney Draper againe L. Maior one yeare Reginald at the Conduit Vintoner L. Maior one yeare Nicholas Wotten Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Poultney Draper again Lord Maior one yeare He founded a Colledge in the parish Church of Saint Laurance Poultney by Candlewick-streete Henry Darcy Lord Maior two yeares In whose time the Sergeants to the Lorde Mayor and Sheriffes of London were graunted by the King to beate Maces of Siluer and Guilt with the Kings armes on them Andrew Aubery Grocer L. Maior two years Iohn of Oxenford Vintoner Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer L. Maior one yeare Iohn Hamond Lorde Mayor two yeares Richard Leget Lord Maior one yeare Geffrey Witchingham L. Maior one yeare Tho. Leggy Skinner Lord Maior one year Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Walter Turk Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Richard Killingbury Lord Maior one yeare Andrew Aubery Grocer againe Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer who with Henry Frowike founded the Colledge in Guild-hall Chappell and was againe Lord Maior two yeares Thomas Leggy Skinner againe Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer againe Lord Maior one yeare Henry Prichard or Piccard Vintoner who in one day feasted the kings of England France Scots and Cypres at his own house and was L. Maior one yeare Iohn Stody Vintoner Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Maior one yeare Simon Dolesby Grocer Lord Mayor one yeare Iohn Wroth Fish-Monger Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Peche Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Stephen Gondish Draper Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Not Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Adam of Burie Skinner Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Maior and Adam of Bury one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Mayor one yeare This Iohn Louekin builded Saint Michaels Church in crooked-lane Iames Andrew Draper Lorde Mayor one yeare Simon Mordon Fish-monger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Chichester Gold-smith Lord Mayor one yeare Iohn Barnes Mercer Lorde Mayor two yeares Iohn Piell Mercer Lord Mayor one yeare Adam of Bury Skinner againe Lord Maior one yeare William Walworth Fish-Monger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn VVarde Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Adam Staple Mercer Lord Maior one yeare His time no sooner expired but therewith ended the life of King Edward the third and on the 21. of Iune 1377. began the raign of King Richard the second Sir Nicholas Brember Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Philpot Grocer Lord Maior one year Iohn Hadley Grocer Lord Maior one year Wil. Walworth Fish-Monger againe Lord Maior In this yeare of his Mairalty happened the tumultuous rebellion of Iack Straw Wat Tiler Iack Carter Iack Truman c. with the commons of Kent Essex and other places But William Walworth being then Lord Maior arrested the Traytor Iack Straw so stoutly with his Weapon on the head euen as he saucily took the Kings Horse by the bridle in Smithfielde that thrusting him afterward through the throat the whole crewe were dishartened and séeing theyr Captaine slaine betooke themselues to flight For which worthy act the King immediatly knighted the Lorde Maior William Walworth and with him Ralphe Standish Iohn Philpot Nicholas Brember Iohn Launde and Nicholas Twifield
1555 1556. Elizabeth Q of England 1559 The Spanish Inquition 1565 1568 1574 Wil. Prince of Orange The Commaunder of Castile 1575 Don Iohn of Austria 1577. The Arch-Duke Mathias 1578. The Prince of Parma 1580. The Duke of Aniou 1581. The States for themselues 1582 The prince of Orange shot 1584 The Prince of Orange murdered 1585 The Earle of Leicester Sir Phillip Sidney slain 1587 Sluice The Lord willoughby 158â— Prince Maurice 1592 Ernestus D. of Austria 1594. Prince Maurice shoulde be murdered twice Sir Frances Vere 1595. Albertus Arch duke of Austria 〈…〉 1596 Hulst besiedged 1597 Tournhoult 1598 The Iesuits conspire the death of Prince Maurice The death of K. Phillip 1599 1600 The battaile of Nicuport Prince Maurice and the states losse 1601 1602. 1604 The long siedge at Oastend The Arch-dukes losse at Oastend 1605. 1606 1607 1608 1069 1610. The Originall of the Irish Leyland in Cyg Caâ—t Scotach or Scota the wife of Gathelus An. mund 2â—33 Cambâ—eâ— Lib. 1. dict 3. rub 5 6. The first K. of Ireland Roderick K. of the Picts Turgesius the Tyrant The iust punishment of a lasciuious Tyrant Saxo Grammat Albert. Crantz Syluest Girald Cambrensis O Dermon Mac Morogh Dermon sweareth allegiance to K Henry Gilbert Earl of Chepstone Robert Fitz Stephens Maurice Fitz-gerard Fitzstephens his men passe into Ireland A prophesâ— of Merlinâ— Richard Strongbow Earle of Chepstone and Pembroke Celidons prophesye Merlins Prophesie King Henry offended with Earle Strongbow The princes of Ireland sweare fealty to King Henry The yeares of our Lord 1174 1177 1182 1227 1228. 1253 1258 1261. 1267 1268 1269 1270 1272 1281 1295 1293 1314 1315 1317. 1319 1320 1321 1323 1327 1332 1338 1339 1346. 1355 1357 1361 1367 1369 1372 1381 1394 1401. 1403 1407 1413 1414 1420. 1470 1494 1501 1520 1523 1529 1534. 1540 1541 1546. 1546 1547 1548. 1549 1550 1551 1553 1555 1556 1556. 1557 1558 1559 1564 1565 1567 1568. 1570 1571 1572 1579. 1580. 1580. 1582 1584. 1588 1595 1597 1599 1600 1602. 1604. Gathelus a noble Grecian An. Mund. 2416 Ioseph Lib. 2 Cap. 7. Gathelus his departure out of Egypt He landed in Portingale The Citty Brachara builded Campostella builded The Scots foyleth the spaniards Gathelus his Marble stone The inscription on the stone of Gathelus Gathelus his people doo greatly a-abound Gathelus his two sonnes come into Ireland The death of Gathelus and valor of his son Hiberus Scottes and Spaniardes one nation Simon Brechus in Ireland first K. ouer the Scots Fandufus his issue Rothsay transporteth his Scots into the western Isles Argathelia in remembraunce of Gathelus The Pictes come into Albion Ferguhardus in Ireland Fergusius the first king of Scotland Feritharis the second k. of Scotland Howe the first kinges of sâ—ottes succeded each other The birth of our Sauiour Iesus Christ 54 58 71 75 131 133 162 176 207 211 216 242 252 273 287 322 358 360 363 369 424. 440 The Brittaines tributary to the Scots and Picts 470 481 501 521 531 The death of King Arthur Mordred c. 578 588 England made seuen kingdomes 606 620. 632 645 664 684 A generall Pestilence 688 697 Strange visions in Albion 6â—9 716 The Histories of the Kings liues written 734 762 767 769 788 819 824 830. 833 839 The vtter sâ—buersion of the Picts Translation of the Marble stone 860. 874 A vertuous King 876. 893. 903 943. 959 968 972 976 1000 1002 1010. 1034 1046. 1057 1092 * Thaines were as Barons 1101 1109 The beginning of the Knights of Rhodes 1153 The vertuous life and raigne of K. Dauid 1165 1214 1249 1290 The seueral claimes of Iohn Baliol and Robert Bruse 1250 The firste comming of the Stuarts to the Crowne 1390 The Kings name changed 1424 The inuention of guns in this kings time 1436. The Arte of Printing found out 1461 1488. King Iames married the eldest daughter to Henry 7. King of England 1513 1542 Mary Dowager of France returneth backe into Scotland 1567 Geog. Com. lib. Beros an t Lib. 1. Annius de Viter in CoÌ„ment sup 4. Lib. Beros de aut Lib. 1 Iohannes Bodin ad fact hist cogn Franciscus Tarapha Samothes first King of Celtica Wolfang Lazius demigr gen Lib. de Magic success Lib. 22. De ant CaÌ„t. ceâ—t Lib. 1. Script Brit. ceâ—t 1. Magus second King Sarron third King Druis 4. K. De bello Gal gicâ— Lib. 9. Lib. 6. Anti. Lib. 5 Bardus fift King The Celtes subiected by Albion the Gyant Bergion ruled in Ireland Britania of Britona and Britomartis Diana Britonas Oracle Albania Calydonia Aetolia Britannia a Wildernes Ferarum altrix Wilde Buls and Kine Calydon was the son of Aetolus Mars the father of Etolus Parthaon Britona Parthaon now Perth in Aetolia Aetolia now Athol Calydon wood CalydoniuÌ„ Cathnesse Calydon Aetolia Parthaon Britannia of Britona Albania of Albania Chronicles and written Records of Brute Dianas Temple at Troia noua Diana Tauropolia Theonteâ— Dea. Diana Bellona of Yorke Briges Phryges Brigantes Abus Aestuarium Abij Albaâ—i Agathyrsi Troyans called Taurini Tauroscythi Taurus the mansion of Venus Riuers of Britaine are Recordes of Brute Towns and Citties Recordes of Brute Diuers Nations and people of Britain Recordes of Brute Princes Noblemen and Gentlemen Recordes of Brute Brute slewe his Father Siluius Brute met with Corineus Brutes resistance in Gallia Brutes landing in Albion The building of London The deuision of Brittaine by Brute to his sonnes The death of Albanact The death of k. Locrine Madan deuoured by Wolues 2949 Memprecius deuoured by wild beasts 2969 The building of York 3009 3021 The building of Carleill 3046. The building of CaÌ„terbury Winchester and Shaftsbury 3085 The building of Bath 3105. The building of Leircester on the Riuer of Sore 3155 â—150 Britaine deuided the second time Cunedagius builded 3. Temples 3203. The building of Rome 3249 3287 3336 3364 3418 3476. The Pentarchy of fiue Kings 3529 The building of Blackwell hall Malmsbury and the vies builded Mulmutius Lawes The 4 high waies of England The beginning of sanctuary Waights measures to buy and sell by 3574 Britaine againe diuided The names of the foure high wayes of England Belines-gate The building of the Tovver of London 3596 The foundation of Cambridge 3614 3657 The arriual of the Picts 3663. 3669 3670 3676 3686 33. Kinges betwixt Elidurus and Lud. The Isle of Ely 3895 Luds-gate Troy-nouant altered to Luds Towne 3508 The RomaÌ„ comming into Britain with Caesar Four Kings in Kent 3921 3944 The birth of Iesus Christ The year of Christ 17 Guideruis slaine at Portchester How South hampton became so named 46 Ioseph of Arimathia came into Brittaine Britain gouerned by Romayne Deputies 73 The Pictes comming into Britain Westmaria Westmerland 125 Colchester builded 16â— Britain conuerted to the Christian faith Arch-byshops Bishops appointed in Britaine S. Peters Churches at Westminster London in Corne-hill The Wall of Adrian 207 A Trench cast in Brittaine from sea to sea