handsomenesse and comely dauncing which by chance he beheld among her country companions 2. After the overthrow of Harold with little lesse then the losse of 68000 men on both sides in Battle field he quickly brought under the rest of the Kingdome The Kentish men circumvent him by a stratageme and thereby retained their ancient Customes and Liberties 2. Edgar Etheling the right heire formerly wronged by Harold with the discontented Earles Edwin and Morcar make some resistance but to no purpose Edgar flyes with his Mother and Sisters into Scotland where King Malcolme entertaining them nobly takes Margaret his Sister to Wife and by his constant and effectuall standing for him Edgar was reconciled unto the Conquerour and had Royall allowance from him 3. To those insurrections that here vexed him his eldest sonne Robert added a more unnaturall in Normandy which he hastening to appease was in Battle Vnhorsed by his own sonne whom upon submission he was content to pardon for the time 4. The Church found no friend of him whose Revenues he alienated and burthened with unusuall taxes not sparing the poore meanes of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford which must be diverted from the Students 5. Besides the imposing of the Norman Lawes he left the Doomesday Booke in the Exchequer containing a Survay in generall of all England For a groat to short in payment of some dues required he forced the Monkes of Ely to lay downe a 1000 markes notwithstanding for all this the Pope bucks him and allowes his doings and Title 6. He depopulated about thirty miles in compasse Cambden iâ— Hantshire and outed the Inhabitants to make a forrest for Wild-beasts which pleasured not himselfe so much as it proved unluckie to his Posterity The plainnesse of these times of Letting Lands is worth the comparing with the intricate prolixity of our times Then it passed for good From me and mine to thee and thine As good and as faire as ever they mine were To witnesse that this is sooth I bite the white waxe with my tooth But now we find it otherwise 7. After all these transactions abroad he is summoned by Death as he was in Normandy but had the place of his buriall compounded for before he was interred and then the Grave proved too little for him that had proved so great a Conqueror in the World His second sonne 2. A.C. 1087 WILLIAM Rufus by Arch-Bishop Lanfrankes working for him gets the place 1. He is strongly opposed by his elder brother Robert whom he calmeth with promising faire words without performance and Robert joynes in the famous expedition to the Holy Laud with Godfrey of Bullaine 2. As his Father began so he persisted to withstand Papall intrusions He sleighted the Popes Binding Loosing and held it bootlesse to invocate Saints Curbed Anselme Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and taxed the then swelling Clergy for their Pride Luxury Idlenesse and Avarice Heard a Disputation of the Iewes who bribed him to favour them against the Christians but they lost the day and their mony togither 3. A Groome of his chamber on a time bringing him a paire of Breeches of three shillings price was blamed of him and commanded to furnish him with a paire fit for a King that should cost a marke He goes and presenting him with a meaner paire which he said cost so much yea Bellamy or by St Lucies face saith the King they are well bought such was the frugality of those times and difference from ours 4. His liberality to Religious persons and places shewes that he was not voyd of Religion though he could not endure Appeales to Rome and his building the Towre in London and Westminster Hall of 270 foot in length and 74 in breadth are sufficient testimonies of his Magnificence 5. His death was casuall by the glance of an arrow from a tree Cambden in Hantshire ex G. Mapes shot by Sir Walter Tirrell at a Stagge in the New Forrest wherein foure Abbies and thirty fixe Parish Churches had been demolished with the removing of all the Inhabitants to make roome for Beasts or Doggs game as one calls it Rex cervum insequitur Regem vindicta Tyrellus Non bene provisum transfixit acumine ferri The King the Stagge vengeance the King doth chase Tyrells hard hap concludes this Tragick case Also Richard his brother and Robert his Nephew came to their untimely ends in the same place so dangerous it is to prove Abaddons especially in consecrated things A Colliars Cart that removes him thence brake in the way and left him in the dirt whence he was after taken and buried as a King in Winchester dying without issue his Scepter descended to his brother 3. A.C. 1100 HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark for his Learning He was wont to say that an unlearned King was a Crowned Asse 1. Great stirres he had with his brother Robert who returning from Ierusalem where he was made King to possesse England but missed of it and at length lost Normandy togither with his eyes by his unnaturall brother 2. He Married Maud King Malcolmes daughter of Scotland by her Mother Margaret lineally descended from Edmund Ironside to strengthen his title to the Kingdome 3. As his predecessors did so he stoutly denyes the Popes incroachings Curbs Anselme that continued Romes agent establisheth the Lawes of Edward the Confessor Holinshed and addes other convenient of his owne 4. A.C. 1114 He is said to have held the first Parliament which he ordained should consist of Three Estates of which himself was the Head Martin A great Bickering began in his time between Canterbury and Yorke for priority which continued a long time after till Canterbury carried it And Cardinall Cremensis the Popes Legate sent hither to interdict Priests Marriages was taken in the Act with a common strumpet which he excused in saying he was no Priest himselfe but a corrector of them 5. The drowning of his sonne William with diverse other Nobles was repaired in some sort by the Marriage of Maud his Daughter first with Henry the fifth Emperour of Germany and he dying without Issue next with Jeffery Plantagenet Earle of Anjoy by whom she had Henry Fitz Empresse Heire apparant to the Crowne But his Grand-father dying unexpectedly by eating of Lampresse and he not upon the place 4. STEPHEN of Blois steps in A.C. 1135 sonne to Adeliza daughter to the Conquerour and holds it which was the cause of no small stirres and blood-shed especially it being against his Oath which he had taken with the Nobles for the Empresse Mauds succession and first brake it The Bishops excused it that it was for the good of the Church but Perjury promotes not Piety 2. Lesse he could not expect then continuall oppositions from the Empresse and her sonne Henry to recover their right wherein after various successe and windings on either side At the Battle of Liucolne notwithstanding his Herculian laying about him with his slaughtering Axe the King himselfe was taken Prisoner
England Denmarke Norway some adde also part of Sweden together with Scotland were wholy subject unto him 3. His Iealousies of Ironsides Children moved him to send his sonnes Edward and Edmund to Swanus King of Denmarke to be dispatched but he abhorring such Villâ—ny transfer'd them to the King of Hungary where Edmund dying Edward Married Agatha the Emperour Henry the fourths Daughter by whom he had Edgar Etheling the surviving Heire of the Crowne of England which he could never recover 4. To strengthen his Title what he might he takes Emma to wife King Etheldreds Widdow M. Lambard makes good Lawes extant in the Saxon tongue and Latine gave one hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold for St Augustince Arme which he bestowed on Coventry as a memoriall of his Zeale though not according to knowledge 5. He had Issue by Emma his second Wife the faire Gunhilda and Hardy-Canutus Gunhilda was Married to the Emperour Henry the third where falling into suspition of Incontinency she was vindicated by her English Page overthrowing in her quarrell a great Gyant Hardicanutus was designed to succeed by his Father here in England but was put by in his absence by his Brother 2. A.C. 1038 HAROLD called Harefoot by reason of his swiftnesse Earle Goodwin withstands his entrance but by secret prevailing meanes was soone made his friend 2. A Letter is forged in Queene Emma's name to bring over her sonnes Edward and Alfred which she had by Ethelred to claim their Right to the Crowne Alfred comes and by Earle Goodwin is made away with all those that came with him at Gilford 3. Emma is banished but courteously entertained by Baldwin Earle of Flanders Harold thus secured as he thought from Competitors lives loosly dyes speedily and without Issue leaves the Kingdom to 3. A.C. 1041 HARDICANUTUS who made it his first worke to disintombe his Predecessors Corps and threw it into Thamisis but some Fishermen more courteous recovered it and buryed it againe in St Clements neare Temple-Barre 2. His recalling his Mother Emma and half Brother Edward and entertaining them respectively deserves commendations As also the prosecuting Earle Goodwin and the Bishop of Worcester for Prince Alfreds death but the Earle quitted himselfe by his Oath and a rich Present and the Bishops questioning is said to be for the Murther of the Kings Taxe-Collectors in Worcester by the inraged Citizens for which their City was afterwards consumed with fire 3. His Epicurismo left an ill Custome to all posterity Foure times a day his Table must be covered to invite men to Intemperancy Through which at a Marriage he is thought to have Choaked himselfe at Lambeth most rejoycing to be rid of him in memory whereof Hock-tide a Feast of scorning was a long time continued after In this third Heire expired the Danish Line and the Saxon revived againe in 4. EDWARD the sonne of Ethelred Emma A.C. 1043 commonly called the Confessour 1. To gaine the more love of his Subjects at his first entrance he remitted the Taxe of Danegilts so greivous to the Commonds collected the Lawes of his predecessors into a body for the administrationof Iustice which some say are the ground of our Common-Law though the Pleading be altered since the Norman Conquest 2. He was threatned by the Dane See M. Lambards Archnom and vexed by Griffith the Welch Prince who was quelled by Harold especially who was imployed against them Betweene him and the potent Earle Goodwin were such debates that twice came to the hazard of dangerous Battles if wise mediation of the Nobles had not prevented them the death of which Earle is reported to be his Choaking with a bitt of Bread upon an imprecation laid on himselfe that that might be his last if he had a hand in the death of the Kings Brother Prince Alfred though some say he died of the deadpalsie 3. Grafton In this man's time Coventry purchased its Freedome from Earle Leofrie by the Riding of his Countesse Godina naked through it but such order was taken by the Townesmen that shutting up all Doores and Windowes none beheld it 4. His unnaturall dealing with his good Mother Emma and vertuous faire Wife Editha Earle Goodwins Daughter cannot be excused For upon a poore surmise of Incontinency with Alwin Bishop of Winchester his Mother in his presence was put to the Ordalium to passe Blindfolded between nine glowing Coulters which she did untouched and his spotlesse Queene Editha denied Marriageright perchance for hatred to her Father and with one Waiting-maid to live disrespected in a Nunnery 5. Such actions so opposite to Gods word should Saint no man The first curing the Kings Evill is referred to him and thence to have continued to his Successors More Laudable was his respect to Edgar Etheling Grandchild to to Ironside by his sonne Edward the Out-law that died in banishment whom he intended for his successour and he had the best right to it but he being young and wanting meanes and friends to support him 5. A.C. 1066 HAROLD sonne of Earle Goodwin makes bold to take the place a man of excellent parts and approved valour as the Welch and others which he subdued in his Predecessors time found to their cost 2. He droven by Tempest into Normandy was affianced to young Adeliza Duke William's Daughter with whom he Covenanted upon Oath to make him successour to Edward in the Kingdome of England 2. But this contract he held as a nicity or complement and constrained Oathes no way to bind wherein he soothed himselfe but God is not mocked and usurpations thrive not long 3. Three Enemies at one time assault him Tosto his owne Brother Harold Harefager or Fairelocks of Norway and William Duke of Normandy The two former he manfully quelled but fell under the hand of William in that famous Battle of Hastings in Sussex the setter up of the next Dynasty 2. IN those times whiles Princes sought the ruines one of another Popes grew up to dispose of them and their Kingdoms and those that protested against such deformities and enormities could not be heard INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Canutus had the largest Dominious of any that ever Ruled in this Kindome 2. St Augustines Arme were worth so much as he gave for it 3. Edward the sonne of Etheldred deserved the Title of Confessour 4. Our Common-Law have its grounds from his Collections 5. Ordalium by hott Coulters be fit to purge suspition of Incontinency 6. Stopping the rights of Marriages without consent for a time of both Parties be not directly against Gods word 7. Harold were bound to keep his Oath to William of Normandy for the Crowne of England in prejudice to Edgar Etheling the apparent right Heire Of the Normans DYNASTY IV. THe Fourth Dynasty is of the Normans to the Plantagenets and hath in it 1. A.C. 1067 WILLIAM the Conquerour the seaventh Duke of Normandy the sonne of Robert begotten on Arlot a poore Skinners daughter whom he affected for her
Bullingbrook for his freedome to have things reformed In his absence seâ—zeth upon his whole estate Bullingbrook returnes when the King was in Ireland The People flock to him The King resignes his Crowne to him is committed to Pomfred Castle there assaulted by eight Assassines valiantly kills foure of them and so is slaine himselfe 2. WIthin compasse of this Section are remarkable 1. The strange Vsurpation of Popes to make good or disanull the Titles of Kings and Demising of Kingdomes to Farme 2. The bringing in of Auricular Confession and Transubstantiation not for informing but infatuating Gods People 3. The persecutions of the poore Waldenses not for detestation of their Tenents which they laboured not to examine but out of a Iealousie lest these mens plaine dealing should discover their drifts and marre their Maâ—kets 4. The protestations of Wicliff and his followers against the grosse Superstition brought in by Monkes and Friers in Doctrine Discipline notably scourged by Ieffery Chaucer the Learned and Famous Poet of those times 5. Lastly upon remissnesse in Government and neglect of execution of Iustice the breaking out of such Out-Lawes as were Robin Hood and Little John with their Comrades or starting up of such Impostors and Villaines as were 1. William Longbeard under Richard the first a sharp reprover of Vice and Disorders in the Common Wealth Himselfe at last being found to be a Murderer that had fleaed a man and a Whoremaster that had used his Concubine in a Church and a Witch that worshiped at home a familiar in forme of a Catt 2. John Poydras a Tanners sonne of Exeter that stood upon it that Edward the second was a Changling substituted in his Cradle for him who was the right Heire to the Crowne 3. Iohn Wall a Preist 4. Wat Tyler 5. Jack Straw 6. Jach Shepherd with 7. William Lister their Captaine would make all Leveli without distinction of King or Subject Master or Servant INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the second consented to the Murther of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 2. The cause he suffered for were pertinent to saint him 3. Expiatory Pennance enjoyned for that murder were fit for a Preist to propose or a King to undergoe 4. King Iohn could forfeit his Kingdome to the Pope or the Pope let it to Farme 5. He were poysoned by a Monke or dyed otherwise 6. Queene Isabell were not more to blame for prosecuting her Husband Edward the second then the King was for sticking so close to Gaveston 7. King Richard the second were starved to death or barbarously Butchered by St Piers of Exton Lancastrians DYNAST V. SECT II. THus farre the Plantagenets have continued in an unquestionable right line Now followes the division of the Houses of Lancester and Yorke three of each succeeding in their order Of Lancaster we have 1. A.C. 1399 HENRY the fourth surnamed Bullinbrooke 1. This man backt his usurpation of the Crowne by Parliament Wherein John the Religious Learned and resolute Bishop of Carlile openly contradicted but could not be heard whereupon the Duke of Anmerle his Cosen Then the Percyes joyning with the Scots and French together with Owen Glendore and his Welch make a strong head against him 3. But in the Battell of Shrewsbury Henry Hotspurre is slaine outright Douglas the valiant Scot taken but released without ransome The Earle of Worcester beheaded Owen Glendore pursued by the Prince into Wales and famished there in the Woods 4. The like successe he had in discovering and suppressing the Earle of Northumberlands Rebellion with some Nobles and the Scots his Complices 5. Intending a voyage into the Holy Land he is arrested by an Apoplexie acknowledged to his sonne who had seized upon his Crowne upon supposall he was dead the little right he had to its and so by his Death leaves it to his eldest sonne 2. A.C. 1412 HENRY the fifth of Monmoth 1. At his first entrance he cashiered all his dissolute companions that followed him when he was Prince Reformes abuses in the Commonwealth growes upon the Clergy but was Politiquely diverted by Henry Chichesly Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to imploy his forces for the recovering of his Title to France 2. Vpon which he enters having cut off Richard Earle of Cambridge brother to the Duke of Yorke who by Treason would have prevented it takes Harflew gave the French with the oddes of about sixe to one an admirable overthrow at Agencourt where more Prisoners were taken then their surprisers whose throats were cut upon an after Alarum by Robinet of Bonvill 3. In a Sea-fight before Harflew the French had another extraordinary overthrow 4. He subdues all Normandy and takes Cane and Roane 5. The Dolphin of France being in disgrace by rifling his Mothers treasure and murthering John the young Duke of Burgoyne an agreement is made that Henry should marry Katharine the Kings Daughter of France and so succeed him in the Kingdome 6. This was Proclaimed and Performed accordingly He keeps his Court at Paris as Regent with incomparable Magnificence Returnes with his Queene into England who is delivered of a Sonne at Windsor upon which he is said to have spoken Prophetically I Henry of Monmoth shall remaine but a short time and gaine much but Henry of Windsor shall Raigne long and loose all 7. In his returne into France to rescue his friend Philip Duke of Burgoyne he sickneth and dyes at Bloys leaving his Sonne to succeed him but of nine Months old 3. HENRY the sixth of Winsor 1. A.C. 1422 His Protector was Humphrey Duke of Glocester Regent in France Iohn Duke of Bedford Manager of many weighty businesses at home Thomas Duke of Exeter his three Vnkles 2. All went well in Erance of which he was Crowned King in Paris untill the Seige of Orleance where Ioane the Sheapherdesse of Lorraine put in with her devices which wrought much mischiefe but at length she was taken and executed 3. Mountecute the valiant Earle of Salisbury and the Lord Talbot failing all things in France went to wrack till all was lost 4. Humphrey Duke of Glocesters murther the Kings Marriage with Margaret poore King Rayners daughter of Scicily with the Rebellion of Blewbeard and Iack Cade weaken the affaires at home 4. Richard Duke of Yorke sets on foot his Title to the Crowne got it by Parliament so farre forth as to be Heire apparent to Henry who was taken Prisoner in the Battle at St Albone but in prosecution of that businesse he lost his life with his Sonnes young Rutland 5. Notwithstanding at length Edward Richards Sonne the right Heire overthrew the King in Towton field and so recovered his Due 2. FAlling in with these times may be observed 1. That as Popes had deposed Kings now the Councells of Constance and Basill deposed Popes and set other in their places without the suffrages of Cardinalis 2. The perfidious dealing with Iohn Husse and Hierome of Prague which the Bohemians then complained of and yet sticks to Rome as an
HOMINIBVS CVM VITIIS BELLVM Let 's quarrell with our faults not with our friends 5. His Wife was Theophania the Easterne Emperours daughter by whom he had 14. An. C. 984 OTHO the third that succeeded him in verifying the prophetique verse Otho post Otho regnabit tertius Otho 1. Being but tenne years old at his Enthronizing his towardlinesse was such that he attained the title of Otho the kind and as the phrase went then Mirabilia Mundi the Miraâ—le of the World 2. Some put the Institution of the seaven Electors upon him A more difficult businesse he found to rectify the unruly Popes whose damnable ambition brawles and Schismes took off the best Emperours from better employments abroad 3. His word was VNITA VIRTVS VALET Vnited valour performes 'T is thought he was poysoned in Rome by Crescentius widdow in a paire of gloves 15. A.C. 1002 HENRY the second is chosen by the seaven Electors to succeed him he had the title of Henry the holy and Lame before Duke of Bavaria being of the blood of Otho the great some say his sonne others his Nephew 2. Having subdued all the enimies of the Empire he dealt so effectually with Stephen of Hungary that the most of them were brought to embrace Christianity 3. His word was NE QVID NIMIS Least overdoing prove undoing Kunegundis his Empresse is said to have lived by mutuall consent untouched with him This accompanied with other virtues was made meritorious to Saint him Some difference arose amongst the Electors concerning his successor but 16. CONRADUS the 2d called Salicus as much as to say A.C. 1024 as Aulicus a Courteour ended it Alsted Pezelius fetcheth the name from the river Sala in Franconia The great commotion in Italy he appeased with singular valour dexterity where besieging Millaine he was deterred by a vision the Monkes would have it of frowning St Ambrose which caused him to leave the enterprize 2. The deadly Feud betwixt the Guelphes and Gibellines brake out a fresh in this mans daies in regard he was a Gibbelline as all the Franconians whereas their neighbours of Suevia were entirely for the Guelphs 3. His Motto was a notable rule OMNIVM MORES TVOS IMPRIMIS OBSERVATO Observe all mens carriages but especially thine owne He was buried at Spire with his Empresse in the Cathedrall of his own erecting amongst the rest of his Linage as the inscription shewes Filius hic Pater hic Avus hic Proavus jacet istic Hic Proavi Conjux hic Henrici senioris his sonne 17. HENRY the third surnamed Niger Black Henry A.C. 1039 was elected to succeed him He married the daughter of Canutus the Dane then Raigning here in England Subdued the Hungarians and Bohemians who were alwaies mutining But thence was called away to Italy to keep the peace amongst the Popes who were like to pull St Peters chayre in peeces between them Three of them he deposed Benedict the 9. Gregory the 6. Sylvester the 3. And chose successively Clement the 2. Damasus the 2. Leo the 9. and Victor the 2. Taking an oath of the Citizens that they should not any more chuse a Pope without the Emperours consent In him decayed the glory of the Romane Empire 3. His saying was QVI LITEM AVFERT EXECRATIONEM IN BENEDICTIONEM MVTAT He that stinteth strife changeth a curse into a blessing The remedilesse ruine of Church and State hastned as it should seeme his death His sonne very young 18. A.C. 1056 HENRY the fourth succeeds him who growing up under the carefull education of his Mother proved a valiant and wise though an unfortunate Prince 2. In 62. Battailes which he waged in person for the most part he became victorious 3. For standing for his right in Election of Popes he was crossed especially by Gregory the seaventh known by the name of Hildebrand and his complices who twice Excommunicates him then sets up Rodolph Duke of Saxony his sworne Subject to rebell against and depose him bestowing on him as freely a Crowne and Empire as ever the Divell offered all the Kingdomes of the World to our Saviour Math. 4. but this project failing with the desperate and deplorable ruine of Rodulph 4. Notwithstanding his unimperiall submission in an unparallel'd manner at the Castle of Canusium and receiving there Absolution His own sonnes Henry and Conrade must afterward be set up against him 5. Whereby at length wearied and broken after tenne years Raigne he was deposed and driven to that exigent that he desired only a Clerkship in a house at Spire of his own foundation which was Barbarously by the Bishop of that place denyed him 6. Whereupon he brake out into that speech of Job Miseremini mei amici quia manus dei tetegit me 7. His usuall speech was MVLTI MVLTA SCIVNT SE AVTEM NEMO Many know much but few as they should know themselves Greife killed him and made way for his sonne 19. A.C. 1116 HENRY the fifth to succeed him 1. He urged by Pope Paschall to renounce his right in chusing Popes and Bishops Investiures by Staffe and Ring utter refuses it The Pope thereupon makes no more adoe but Excommunicates him 2. The Emperour rights himselfe by casting the Pope into Prison which brings him to covenant with the Emperour that he would lay no farther clay me to those Imperiall rights 3. For confirmation of which agreement and priviledges the Pope takes the Consecrated Host and deviding it into two parts gives the one to the Emperour and reserves the other to himselfe with an Excoration in these words Magdeburg Hist. Cent. 12. c. 8. Let him be devided from the Kingdom of Christ who shall presume to violate this Covenant bound up between you and me 4. Yet this held not no sooner had the Emperor turn'd his back the Pope had liberty of breathing but this knott is easily loosed by him that tyed it so solemnly and Calixtus his Successour so haunted the Emperour with furies that he was forced to quirt all his rights in that behalfe His word was MORTEM OPTARE MALVM TIMERE PEIVS It is not good to wish for death but worse to feare it He Marryed Maud the Daughter of our King Henry the First but dyed Childlesse His successor was 20. A.C. 112 LOTHARIUS the second Duke of Saxony chosen by the Nobles 1. He was much opposed in the beginning by Conrade and Frederick his predecessors Sisters sounes but by mediation of St Bernard of great esteem in those dayes a reconciliation was made between them 2. For the setling of Pope Innocent the 2d whom the Romans had violently unchayred he marches to Rome soone right 's all that was amisse is Crowned by the reestablished Pope which as a transcendent accident is pictured on a wall with these subscribed verses Rex venit ante fores jurans prius urbis honores Post homo fit Papae jurans quo dante Coronam The King came to the gate and sware he would uphold the
King Henry the eight Vnhorsed him King Edward the sixth Banished him Queen Mary indeed recalled him and with some hot Waters revived him so the Heroick Queene Elizabeth set him packing againe And her Learned successor King James hath so stab'd and branded him with his Penne that his Sonne our Sacred King CHARLES is too well Catechized and throughly grounded for permitting him to have any setling here or countenance hereafter To these times are referred the famous Sea-fight of Lepanto and 88. wherein Turke and Pope felt Gods hand against them INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Henry the seavenths surest claime to the Crowne were from his Queen Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the fourth 2. The executing of Edward Plantagenet the young harmelesse Earle of Warwicke ill became a Statist that professed Christiaenity 3. Henry the eight proved a better Defender of the Faith by rejecting the Popes Supremacy then retaining it 4. Edward the sixt's Reformation be free from the most and greatest exceptions that Novelists have made against it 5. The Martyring of Protestants in Queene Maries daies were not rather through the blondinesse of some Praelates then out of her own disposition 6. There were ground to suspect that Queen Elizabeth ever conspired against her Sister 7. Her passing the Statute of improvement hath not conduced more to the benefite of the Church and Vniversities then the Benificence of many of the chiefest Founders put together The Stuarts DYNAST VII THE Tudors breathing out their last Excellent in Elizabeth STUARTS take their turne by an Vnquestionable Title as Lineally descended from Margaret the eldest Daughter of Henry the seventh of these we have enjoyed 1. IAMES the first of England but sixt of Scotland Rex Pacificus 1. He attained the Crowne without the least Contradiction but greatest applause of all 2. For his Constancy and admirable Ability in maintaing the Truth of the Gospell against Popery Two Treasons were Plotted against Him that of the Preists Watson and Clarke with others misled by them and that Prodigious Project of the GVN-POWDER VILLANY Pope Clement the eight had formerly charged his Cronies here in England by a Bull not to admit Him King without a Toleration first obtained But God be praised it lay not in his Holinesse disposing 3. His exquisite Learning and exact Iudgment in Divinity was eminently apparent in the Conference at Hampton Court in his Publique Disputations in the Vniversities and interposiing his Censure in the weightiest Matters And last of all in his excellent Works set forth to the view of the World in one Volume 4. Now as these admirable Parts of his were a Curbe to the Schismaticall humours at Home so his Advice and Aide availed especially in composing differences abroad amongst the Reformed Churches To this end He sent certain Select and Worthy Divines to the Synod of Dort and his Letters to others whereby the world might witnesse how truly he stuck to his Motto REX PACIFICVS He caused the Bible to be Translated into English by Select Devines and set forth more exactly then formerly it had been done 5. And so this blessed Peacemaker when He had Peaceably Raigned Twenty two Yeares and upward in Peace departed in his Bed leaving his Peaceable Raigne and Virtues to his SONNE 2. CHARLES the first whom God of his Infinite mercy preserve to Raigne long over us c. 2. MEmorable things in King Jame's time serioussy to be commendad to Posterity are 1. The Translation of the Holy Scripture into English more accurately then it had beene formerly performed 2. The Conference at Hampton Court for the examining and setling Church Discipline against nibbling Sectaries 3. His sending Divines to the Councell of Dort and interposing for upholding Truth and Virtue against Innovators abroad 4. His quelling the Popes utmost forces drawne up by the Iesuits in point of Supremacy so that since that defeat we have little heard of it 5. The setting forth of his Works concerning matters of Divinity and State and sending them to be Libraried in both his Vniversities the like cannot be shewed of any Prince whatsoever 5. His enlarging the Priviledges of the Vniversities by granting them Burges in Parliament and Augmenting the Professors places in Divinity Law and Physick with ample and magnificent Additions 6. His miraculous discovery of the Popish Powderploet And thereupon the contriving of the Oath of Allegiance to discover true-hearted Romanists from Traytors and setting a day apart for solemnizing the remembrance of so admirable a Deliverance 7. Lastly in his time brake out that desolating Germane Warre which he endeavoured to prevent but God hath reserved to himselfe wholy to extinguish for which and the like pacifications all true Christians are bound to PRAY INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Parsons Doleman against King Jame's Title to the Crowne of England were not as ridiculous as perfidious 2. Learning ever more flourished in these Kingdomes then in King Jame's and Queene Elizabeth's dayes 3. The like Library can be shewen to that Erected by the Famous Sr Thomas Bodley in the Vniversity of OXFORD throughout the World 4 The Beneficence of Sr Henry Savill for Mathematique Professors or Mr William Cambden Clarentius for History or Sr Iohn Sedley and Dr White for Philosophy and of other for other Faculties have not exceeded the Liberality of most former times 5. The Building in these times for private or publique Vses have not equalized or outvied the Magnificence of former Ages 6. Discoveries Plantations and Trades abroad were ever more frequent or better Thrived 7. Any Nation have proved more ungratfull for such Multiplied Blessings then this of Ours for which especially we now justly Suffer Concerning History of Professions As also Naturall Various and Vaine Narrations 1. FRom the Histories of Successions in States or Families there will be an easy descent to the Histories of Professions Designing the Famous men in all kind of Faculties 2. Wherein a briefe may be taken of the Lives and Workes of 1. PHILOLOGISTS 2. HISTORIANS 3. MATHEMATICIANS 4. PHILOSOPHERS 5. PHYSICIANS 6. LAWYERS 7. DIVINES 3. These make up the Seven courses of the Encyclopaedia so much aimed at by roaving Witts which catch at all and take nothing in regard they fixe not upon one certain Study and make not the rest subservient unto it 4. PHILOLOGY takes up in its walke 1. Grammer 2. Rhetorique 3. Pâ—etry 4. Logicke 5. Anagnosticke or the method of reading Authors profitably 6. Critiques See Polanus de legendiâ— Authoribus cum fructu Alsted Encyclop Vossius de Historicis corrective and directive 7. Didactiques or the Art of teaching others with facility which we have learned by great industry 5. In HISTORY the Lives of the Ancient and Moderne Writers may be looked after in that particular especially we desire to be informed of which is observed by diverse of our Chroniclers more fully by Mr Isaacson and Sir Richard Baker 6. For MATHEMATIQUES the Lives of 1. Arithmeticians 2. Geometricians 3. Perspectivists 4.