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A05297	A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine Who succeeding his father Vther Pendragon, and right nobly gouerning this land sixe and twentie yeares, then dyed of a mortall wounde receyued in battell, together vvith victory ouer his enemies. As appeareth cap. 9. And was buried at Glastenbury. cap. 12. an. 543. Collected and written of late yeares in lattin, by the learned English antiquarie of worthy memory Iohn Leyland. Newly translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London. Anno Domini. 1582.; Assertio inclytissimi Arturii Regis Britanniae. English	Leland, John, 1506?-1552.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1582 (1582)	STC 15441; ESTC S108439	67,318	92

doinges Let them ouercome with powre if they can so the trueth be ours I will imitate the Noble Palme Tree which beeing pressed downe with heauie burdens yet falleth not to the ground at any time And neither at this instant doe I seeke for any reward so you vouchsafe me your courtesy good will fauour truly I may persuade my selfe I haue al thinges that I rightlie looke for And for amendes on my part also shall hereunto ensue most requisite promptitude expedite alacrity enflamed also by vertue of enment vnto like enterprises not onely but also to imparte you greater matters which shall stirre vp your learned eares and being stirred vp may long detaine them and so de●eyned as it were by a certaine land floude of pleasant delight therewith bring them vnto fragrant fieldes And all these thinges do I easily promise my selfe trusting in your honestie and helpe as one doubtlesse fully bent vpon hope thereof Surely my muse such as it is altogether is youres neyther tendeth ●he to any other purpose at any time but vnto your behoofe and the cōmoditie of all men I count it a base seruice to satisfie the common peoples humor but to performe you my continuall industrie differeth not far from a kingdome such a one as by a iust cause I may prefer euen before the kingdome of Alexander For what more reserued hee vnto him selfe wholy when he dyed of so greate Riches possessions and dominions sauing fame onely This though by many accomptes in example inferior obteyned by your meane shall I yet so earnestly aduance that nightes and dayes shall she watch for your welfare emolument And at lengthe those same most thicke mistie cloudes in deede of ignorance beeing shaken off vtterly dashed aside the light of Brittish Antiquitie with displayed beames farre and wide shall shine forth God giue you long life and wellfare most sincere fauorers of vertue and good learning FINIS LONDON Imprinted by Iohn wolfe dwelling in Distaffe Lane ouer against the signe of the Castell 1582. Gen. 9. Arist met●● liber 3. Cap. 1. Trac 2. ● Reg. 7 Deut 32. Reg. 3● 2. Reg. ● ● Reg. 23. 2 Reg. 1. A●●o ●30 Hest. Cap. 〈◊〉 2. Esd. 4 Reuel ● Deut. 31. Psal. 121. Psal. 132. William Paruus Polidorus Virgilius two aduersaries of K. Arthures fame The Authours good purpose in this worke Vther Pendragon king Art father Ouid. Epist. ● Vther Pendragon begat Arthur of Igerna the wife of Gorloys Gouernour of Cornwale and also a Virgin named Anna. Originall of Arth. name Ouid. 13. lib. Metam Fibis Iohn Stowe Then an ancient Cittie which was neere saint Albones the foūdations where of are yet apparant Iohn Stow. What time Arthur was crowned A. D. 316. Graius a writer his testimony Iohn Stow. Two Rulers of the Pictes aspire vnto Arthures kingdome Battle and victory ouer Arthur his enemies by Hoel his friend Arthure married Guenhera the daughter of Cadorus Duke of Cornwaile Iohn Stow Some iudge this to be Bathe Iohn the writer of the golden history Henry of Huntington King Art●ure Xij times General and Xij. times Cōquerour Iohn Rhes●s a louer of Antiquitie Iohn Stow. Iohn Stow. What time Arthure succeded Vther his Father Arthure could not cleane roote all the Saxones out of Brittaine H●el King of Brittaine aides him with a powe of 15000. men Lincolne beseeged by the Saxones Their slaughter fight Bath beseeged by the Saxons K. Arthure seekes to be aduēged of the Saxones His wordes His victorie ouer them Boccace mentioneth of Arthure M. Camden Cerdicius the Saxon helde warre with Arthure Arth. friendly to his foo William of Malmsbury Arthure sore distressed had it not bene for Ambrose a Romaine Gildas Aduersaries quarrel against Arthure William of Malmesbune a friendly writer Nennius another Mordred Arthure his Nephewe put in great trust His vertues mixt with vices Hoels neece viz. Helen stolne out of Armorica Arthure reuengeth that iniury Diuionensis Arth. subduing Fraunce his Nephewe Mordred in meane time betrayeth him cōfederating with Cerdicius Anno. 516. Mordred crowned Arth returned into England Valerius reporting that K. Arthure vanquished 30. kingdomes K. Arthures knights of his round Table Hoel the first knight Gallouinus the second knight 〈…〉 Gallouinus buried at Dorcester His bones Gian●like According● to the record of Glastenbury the name are Fugatius and D●mianus This Lucius being created the first Christian King in England liued about the yere after Christ 182 William of Malmesbury his iudgment of Gallouinus H●s wordes of reporte The manner of Galouinu● his death after the reporte of W. Malm●b Wi●liam of Malmsbury Iohn Leylands opinion to the contrarie His proofe out of a brittish Poet named Ioseph●● William of Malmsbury a most curious and painful searcher of Antiquitie William of Malmsbury The interpretation of Gallouinus his name Augusellus the th●●d knight Iohn Stow. An auncient Cittie in Kent nere Sandwich the ruins of it yet remaine The Prowesse and valiant aduenture of him one Graius a wri●er witnesseth Iohn Stowe Wryters Geoffrey of Mūmouth Iohn of ●orow Rossus of Warwicke Anonimus a writer Iderus the 4. knight neare of blood vnto Arthure His benefice●● towardes the Church at Glastenbury Lancelot th● fifth knight A faithfull friend and valiant aduenger of iniury done by Mordred vnto Arthure Syluester Giraldus his testim●nie of his buriall at Glastenburie Carodocus ● sixte knight Whose fame the Cronicles at Dorcester ●●toll Cadorus the 7. Knight of the most noble proge●ie of the kinges of England A stoute defēder preferrer of his princes dignitie Constantine his sonne succeeded Arth. ●ldas his testimony of Constantine a degenerate child a murtherer of Innocentes Iohn Stow. Vsuall places where K. Art● kept his 〈◊〉 table On this side Somertō neare vnto Glastenbury is the village Surton Camelet an old forte K. Arthure inhabited a castle at Somertō Iohannes Anneuillanus a writer extolleth K. Arth. round table K. Arthures round table where it standeth K. Edward the first made much of that round order of Knightes in his time Roger Mortimer solemnished the same order at Kenelworth Two Bishops religiouse fauourers of K. Arthures welfare Of S. Dauid Iltutus a Godly and learned father an other religiouse fauourer of Ar. K. Arthure his iourney to Ierusalem His zeale speciall good will towardes the Church men of Glastenbury Iohn Layland a bearer with Polidorus So farre as he bringes forth the truth and other wise his enemy Alias ●●ganus and Damianus This was king Henry the 2. Sonne of Geoffrey plantagenet brother to king Henry the first succeding him An. 1154. raigned 3. yeares 9. monethes 12. dayes and was buried of Founteuerard in Fraunce Wordes contayned in king Henry the 2. his deede of gift proceding from king Arthures beneuolence towardes the Church men at Aualonia He meaneth Robert Caxtō who translated the history of K. Arthure K. Arthures Seale kept at Westminster in Iohn Leylandes dayes His reporte in praise thereof describing the properties The Insculpture

vsed in many battels and specially in that battell at Bathe In such tryfling matters I do not much force to write But by the way that is not a thing vnworthie to be heard of the godly which Samuel the writer of Brittaine and Disciple of Elbodus the Bishoppe who flourished about nyne hundreth yeares agoe thus maketh mention of concerning Arthures expedition or rather peregrenation Arthure went vnto Ierusalem when as he tooke with him the signe of the Crosse of wood in memory of his Sauiour whereof the fragmentes are at this day reserued in Wedale a towne of Lodoneia six miles from Mailros Finally he exceedingly estéemed of those Church men at Glastenbury as partly I haue aboue saide in Idero and as I will here more largely shewe Siluester Gyraldus in his booke De Institutione Principis thus wryteth For aboue all the Churches in his Kingedome he fauoured and beare best good will vnto the Church of our Lady S. Mary at Glastenbury and with greater deuotion aduaunced the same before other Churches Polidorus according to his equitie and iudgment and so farre as his aucthoritie serueth him declareth there was no Monasterie at Glastenbury in Arthures time So exquisite a iudge is he of Antiquitie and specially concerning Brittaine He also contendeth that euen all the whole worlde by this rule but in deeds a most vniust rule is constrayned to embrace maintaine and beleeue that which is spoken of him touching Antiquitie as that which is pronounced for an Oracle To that he saith and writeth in truth will I as Virgill saith Ense leuis nudo parmaque inglorius alba That is With naked sword and sclender bright sheelde without boasting easely defend his aucthoritie and iudgment so auncient But what he falsly or vntruly declareth which thing he doth somewhat oftener through all partes of his History I may not beare with all I can not abide it neyther will I suffer it but the truth so much as it shall stand me vpon will I restore to her comelynesse fame and glory as one cheerefull and nothing fearefull in so doing though the enemies of truth burst them selues with inwarde mallice For vnto this most honest opinion that I should couragiously clea●e in this behalfe the thing done by those two Apostles of the Brittaines namely Fugatius and Damianus and the Epistle of Patritius the great which I haue in my custody confirming the same to omit for breuitie sake the testimonies of many others do will me or rather commaund me Henry Plātagenet the Nephew of Henry Beauclarcke King of England by the daughter of Mathilda affirmeth by prescript and manifest wordes in a certaine deede of gift that he saw and that it should not want vpright credit that hee read the couenants and articles concerning a certaine beneuolence of Arthures extended towardes the religiouse persons inhabiting Aualonia But I will hereunto annexe the very wordes of King Henries gift out of the originall deede Moreouer what thinges so euer haue beene giuen me from my Predecessors William the first William the second and Henry my Vnckle Yea of their Ancestors namely of Eadgar the father of Sir Edwarde of Edmond and of his father Edward and of Ealfred the Grandsire of the same of Brinwalchius Kenwinus Baldredus Ina Cuthredus and of Arthure and many other Christian Kinges And also of Kenwalchius the Pagan King whose priuileges and writings I haue diligently caused to be searched and to be presēted read in my presence Thus far the deed of gift If these witnesses of sure credit make not sufficiēt for most apparant knowledge of the truth surely there can nothing at any time auaylably serue For not to be satisfied with these being receyued and knowen at full is neyther the parte of a wise head no nor yet of a good iudgment CAP. VIII King Atthures Seale ANd because I haue againe entred into the Misteries of sacred Antiquitie and am descended a curious searcher into the bowels thereof it liketh me to bring forth to light an other matter namely Arthures Seale a monumēt most cunningly engrauen auncient and reuerent Concerninge which Caxodunus maketh mention yet breefly and sclenderly in his preface to the history of Arthure which the common people readeth printed in the English tongue Being moued with the testimony of Caxodunus whatsoeuer it were I went vnto Westminster to the end that what so as an eare witnesse I had heard I might at length also as an eye witnesse beholde the same Pondering well that sayinge of Plautus in my minde Pluris valet oculatus testis vnus quam Auriti decem Of more force standes eye witnesse one Then ten eare witnesses among The keeper of those secretes being requested of mee to shew me this monument by and by delyuered it both to bee seene and handled The sight of the Antiquitie pleased me at full and for a long time the Maiestie thereof not onely drewe away but also detayned myne eyes from me to the beholding thereof Of such force it is for a man aptly to chaunce vpon a thing with greate care desired The substance which tooke the most lyuelyest figure of Arthure imprinted vpon the Seale and which as yet doth firmely keepe the same still is ware of redde coloure which by some mishape or iniury of long time perished is crazed here there into peeces But so yet notwithstanding as no part of it is altogether lacking For the fragmentes or litle peeces thereof being before time by some mischaunce crazed are so closed vp together with siluer plates which is of rounde forme such as is the vtter side of the Seale that no parte of them may fall off For vpon the vtterside of this seale it is thus engraued with these breefe but in very deede most excellent most hauty and most magnificent tytles That is to say PATRICIVS ARTVRIVS BRITTANNIAE GALLIAE GERMANIAE DACIAE IMPERATOR And of trueth this inscription circleth the outermost compasse of the Seale The former parte thereof is most bright shining by a circle of christall which being taken off streightway may any man touch the war which by reason of the Antiquitie is most harde But the Portracture of Arthure printed thereupon resembleth I wotte neare what Heroyicall Maiestie For the Prince as it were inuested with purple royally sitteth vpon a halfe circle such one as we see the raine boe is Hauing a crowne vpon his heade he shineth like the sunne In his right hand riseth vp a scepter wrought with a Flowerdeluce at the toppe And his left hand holdeth a globe adorned with a crosse His bearde also groweth comely large and at length and euen that is a maiestie The other side of the Seale is altogether couered ouer with a thinne plate of Siluer By meanes wherof also it is vncertaine of what fashion it is There hangeth downe at the same a string chainefashionlike twisted of Siluer Certes Reader I pray God I

the posteritie in time to come myght not handle mine Authoritie or allegation in a worse manner At Glastenbury vppon the Tombe of Lydias Marble or Touchstone Artyficially engrauen and erected for Arthure and also for Guenhera these two little verses sauoring of that his time are written in this manner Hic iacet Arturi coniux tumulata secunda Quae meruit coelos Virtutum prole faecunda The second wife of Arthure heere entomed lo doth ly Who for the fruites of Vertuous life deserued the heauens on hye THere bee which say that Henry Suynesius Abbot of Glastenbury was the composer of these verses Except any man thinke that Henry Blesensis alias Soliacensis chaunged his name into Suynesius in whose time the bones and ashes both of Arthure and also of Guenhera were founde But what Giraldus Henricus do meane by the name of Second wise truly I doe not sufficiently vnderstand For so much as I cā remēber I haue neither hard of the name nor memorie of a second wife vntill this day But let credite remaine with Authors by the latter part of the second litle verse Virtutū prole faecūda it appeareth y ● Guenhera was more vertuous thē apt to beare children Neither am I ignorāt what Boetius writeth here that in times past there was a sharp battle fought betweene Arthure and Mordred at the riuer of Hūber and y t Guenhera being euē there caried away of y e Picts into their tents afterwards died and was buried at Horestia in the streete Angusia But I leaue Hector to the reporte of Veremūdus Turgotus those obscure writers And it might so bee that the Tombe was there erected for another Guenhera not Queene CHAP. XV. K. Arthures Tombe found WHen the Saxones powre grewe to some force after Arthures death that the Picts Scots by and by were put to flight chased away beyond the vale of Seuerne The same Saxones began not so much to feare and much lesse to esteeme of but rather openly to set at nought the remnauntes of those vanquished Brittaines Wherefore the glory of them beganne to floorish but of the Brittaines to decrease and fade away Yet so as the Saxones left almost nothing touching affaires passed betweene them and the Brittaines at that time perfectly written for the posterytie For those thinges which were written after Christ was knowne vnto them concerning the first victories of the Saxones are deliuered by the reportes of the common people so receiued and in writinges so committed or els the Brittaines being vtterly worne away by so many battles bestowed scarce any iust or right dilligence in writing of the historie Only there are extant certaine fragments of Gildas the Moncke of the City Bangor rather flaying aliue dismembring and wounding to death the Brittaines then allowing them with any value of vertue so farre foorth as he seemeth a Rethorician thorowly moued to make euyll reporte By this meanes were the affaires of Brittaine through calamitie of battles left obscure or vnrebayled The historicall singers only studied to preserue also with musicall meanes the famous memorie of Nobles in those daies They sung the famous facts of noble personages vpō the harp This studie or practise wonderfully profited knowledge as it were deliuered by hand vnto posterity Whereupon in deede it so commeth heere to passe also that the name fame and glory of Arthure might so be preserued after a sorte O factum bene Si quid mea Carmina possunt Aonio statuam sublimes vertice Bardos Bardos Pieridum cultores atque canentis Phoebi delitias quibus est data cura perennis Dicere nobilium clarissima facta virorum Aureaque excelsam famam super astra locare The English O well done If any thing my verses may auayle These statelie singers then aduance Will I That high Parnassus mount for to assaile As singers honouring the Muses friendes duly And Phoebus his delightes singing sweetly The famous actes of noble men to blase And stately fame I'th golden heauens to place WIlliam A Norman had conquered the Nation of Englishmen by permission of God and now came the kingdome of England vnto Henry the second of that name Nephew by Matildes the daughter of Henry Beauclercke and the Sonne of Geoffry Plantagenet Duke of Gaunt This man endeuoring by all meanes to enlarge the limittes of his kingdome applyed also his minde vnto the kingdome of Ireland Richard of Clare Erle of Chepstowe so called by reason of the wanderinge Riuer a man both most noble by birth fortune and vertue went into Ireland beeing before requested of Deronutius the ruler of Lagenia so to do in which expedition hee behaued him selfe so valiantly that they being cast out by heapes put to flight and vanquished which withstood the Ruler he purchased him selfe fame an immortall glory and if this also might any thing auaile to the purpose he obtayned besides greate riches vnto him selfe thereby taking to wife Eua the daughter of Deronicius and heire by right nougth King Henry had vnderstanding of the successe of Richard the Erle of Chepestowe and whether he enuyed his glory or which is most like that hee earnestly sought the pray of this rich kingdome hee forbad this Richard in the meane time to ●eare rule in Ireland not disdayning yet to proffer him reward He being wise fully knowing the Princes purpose gaue place vnto this right In the meane season Henry hauing prepared no small part of an Hoast came into Cambria or Wales and purposing there to appoynt the residue he thēce straight sayled from Menenia or Sanct Dauids into Ireland with hope of which kingdome to obtaine hee burned as hote as fire Whiles he busieth him selfe here aboutes being for his worthinesse as befitted receyued of the Gouernoures of Wales at h●s banquettes there vsing an Interpreter he gaue eare not with out pleasure vnto the historicall singers which singe to the Harpe famous actes of noble men Truly there was one amongst the rest most skilfull in knowledge of Antiquitie He so sunge the praises and noble actes of Arthure comparing Henry with him as Conquerour in time to come for many respectes that hee both wonderfully pleased also delighted the Kinges eares at what time also y ● King learned this thing especially of the historical singer that Arthure was buried at Aualonia in the religiouse place Whereupon sending away the saide singer as witnesse of such a monument most liberally rewarded he had conference with Henricus Blesensis alîas Soliacensis his nephew who euen then or a litle after was made of an Abbot in the Isle of Bermundsege cheife Magistrate ouer Glastenbury that he might with most exquisite diligēce search out thorowly the Tombe or burying place of Arthure within the compasse of that religiouse house It was assayed by him other whiles and at length founde out with greate difficulty in the last dayes as some