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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

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

64. vers 3. 4. 76. vers 3. 91. vers 5. 127. vers 4. 5. Finally in his 147. Psal. vers 6. Praying to God for deliuerance from his enemies and for their destruction He saith shoot thine arrowes and consume them So yet that He neither trusted in bowe nor sworde but in the power of God Hee affirmeth it Psalme 44. vers 6. And to conclude that he had rather liue in a godly peace thē to warre against the wicked he saith in the 119. Psal. vers 15. As at a marke he will ayme to walke in the wayes of the Lord. Of this minde was not King ●osias who though leading a godly life at home in Iuda yet going vniustly to fight against Nichao King of Egipt was rather friendly dehorted by him frō his purpose then otherwise saying Leaue off to worke agaynst the Lord which is with mee least he do ●tay thee which admonition Iosias not regarding as spoken from God tasted in deed of Gods iust iudgment for being shot thorow with arrowes he was woūded to the death incontinently I could at large here call to minde the commendation of this peaceable practise of shooting which once I as a rawe scholler reade ouer in Toxophilus and at times by tasked lessons interpreted in latine here and there but for breuitie I refer your honours and worshipes vnto the Histories there of the Ethiopian king and Cambyses king of Persia. Of Sesostris and his archers Of the Messagetanes which neuer went without their bowe and quiuer neyther in peace nor in warres Of Policrates and his one thowsand archers Of the Scithians whose whole substance and riches of a man being a yoake of Oxen and a plow a Nagge and his dogge his bowe and his quiuer were inuincible against Darius and other Monarckes To be short the Grecians Persians Athenians and the Romanes whose shooting in peace and warres was worthie of praise and fame Neyther here ought I nor will I omit with silence the deserued fame of our Ancestors in fauouringe this exercise in this our litle England long ago●e liuing and of latter time though breefly referring your honours worshippes vnto the histories at large as of Brute and his Troianes the first Brittaines before and after the ariuall of Iulius Caesar Claudius Vespasian Emperoures and they Romanes after them the Saxons vntill the time of Vortiger the vsurping murtherer who Gods prouidence so working for them and his iudgement vpon him by the two Brethern and valiant Brittaines Aurelius sirnamed Ambrose Vther Pendragon being burned in his Castell in Wales was occasion of the Brittaines more happier estate afterwardes But here yet by the way Right honourable and worshipfull as I applaude in this their well doing so it had beene a thing of Brittaine most worthelie to be wished for that Prince him selfe lesse opprobrius of all mē more praise worthie and most pretiouse in the sight of God if the serpent Tyrus had wanted here his vennime vncurable though his flesh proued medicinable against all other poysons as saith Cardanus in his booke of Comfort I meane if Vther Pendragon had wanted that serpentine poyson of adulterie Nigromancie murther things odible to God and good men when that most incomperable King Arthure of great Brittaine for his princely prowesse valiant vertues and triumphant victories yet prooued more Royally renoumed throughoute all the worlde in his time and to his posteritie The Hebrwes with greate and not vndeserued titles extolled their Iudas Maccabeus Homer the glory of all Greeke Poets left Hector and Achilles most commendable vnto the worlde Neyther by lesse diligence did the Grecians adorne with praise Alexander the most mightie conquerour And the Romanes aduanced the noble actes of their Caesar to the Skyes not enough The Burgonians profoundly praised Godfrey of Bulloyn for his noble valiancy as the scourge of the Sarazens in his dayes And as euery one of those are commended with due desert so in like māner there were neuer Brittaines wanting of excellent learning and exquisite knowledge to leaue with carefull diligence and credible commendation the progenie life prowesse prosperitie and triumphant victories of our said auncient Arthure worthely published vnto the worlde And as Alexander would haue none to purtract him but Apelles nor any but Lysippus to engraue him in bras●e nor any but Pyrgotiles to worke him in pretiouse stone So where in not three but many Artizans as learned Gildas William of Malmsbury Nennius Diuionenses Graius Iosephus Geoffrey of Munmuth Siluester Giraldus c. performed their worthie workmanshippes in our Arthure Maur to vse the Brittaine phrase euen one English Leyland for his learned laboure laudable hath perfectly polished him in all poyntes Chusing a cheefe most perspicuouse a valiant most victoriouse a couragiouse and most conquerouse a religiouse and most redoubted Royall soueraigne King Henry the eight as sole supreme Patron and protector thereof against the cankered currish kinde of caueling carpers Bycause his elder brother being named Arthure he him selfe a most christian King for all heroicall vertues commendable the rather seemed to fauour and further the aduancement of the fame of his most renoumed auncestor this same our ancient Arthure and the knightly traine of his rounde table Hereupon by patent of his princely prerogatiue ordayned graunted and confirmed hee vnto this honorable Citie of London free electiō of a Chieftaine and of Citizens representing the memory of that magnificent King Arthure and the Knightes of the same order which should for the mayntenance of shooting onely meete together once a yeare with solemne and friendly celebration therof So much in his noble minde preuayled all prouident care of princely prowesse valiancie cheualrie and actiuitie that he not onely herein imitated the examplers of godly K. Dauid for his Israelites as before and of that noble Emperour Leo in ouerthrowing idolatrie and exalting archerie maugre the mallice of that Romane Antichrist and all his members but also inuincibly maintayned the praiseworthie practize of this shooting in peace wars by the examples of his princly progenitors As after t●e conquest of K. Henry II. alîas Beauclerck so sirnamed the first furtherer of K. Arthures benificencie valiāt Edward sirnamed long first vizitor of the saide Kinges tombe valiant and victorius Edward III IIII. bountious and liberall Richard II. good and gratiouse Henry the V. wise po●itique iust temperate and graue King Henry the V●I his father Neither hath this ceased in the branch that flourished in the bole but by the milde religiouse and gratiouse King Edwarde the VI. and now last of all by the Phenix of feminine sex our most redoubted Hester and gratiouse soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth laudably lasteth in force and effect whose highnesse so many yeares humbling not exalting her selfe the more by reason of her power wholy setteth her subiectes in peace preferring the same Now therefore Right honourable and worshipfull as duetie bindeth euery degree to further the

vnto sound argumentes and relation of auncient writers proueth that Arthures Tombe was in times past eyther erected betwene the two Pyrameds or in a place not far distant from them Of Giraldus we wil say more in the Tombe of Arthure found In the meane time I wil herevnto annex the discription of the Pyrameds artificially purtrayed out by the very pencilles of the same Gulielmus as it were in a plaine table to the eyes of the beholders And where as that no doubte is vnknowne vnto all men I would willingly publish it if I could possibly expresse the truth what those Pyrameds do meane which being erected in a litle space from the olde Church do after a sorte include the Churchyarde of those religiouse persons Undoubtedly the more statelyer larger and nearer Pyramed vnto the Church hath fyue storyes height or flooers boorded is in height 26. foote This although it foreshewed some decay by reason of y e too much oldnesse yet hath it a few apparant spectacles of Antiquitie which may be plainely reade although they can not fully be vnderstode For in the vpper story or floore boorde is made an image in likenesse of a Bishoppe In the second is an Image expressing a Kingly state and letters Her Sex Bliswerh In the third neuerthelesse are names Wem Creste Bantomp Winewegn In the fourth Hate Wulfredi Franflede In the fifte and which is the lowest an image and this writing Logwor Weslielas Bregdene Swellwes Huyrgendes berne But the other Pyramed hath 18. foote height and foure storyes or flooers boorded wherein these wordes are reade Hedde Episcopus Bregorred Beorwalde What these may signifie I do not rashly define but I gather by suspition that within or about the same place are laide in hollow stones the bones of them whose names are reade on the outside Surele Logwor for certaine is affirmed to be the person by reason of whose name Logweres Beorh was so called which is now called Montacute Beorwalde neuerthelesse was Abbot after Hemgiselus These saith Meildunensis vnto whom the learned ought to referre these Pyrameds as from him by all meanes borowed and most famously set forth Now y e lady Guenhera offereth her selfe to be ioyned w t A●hure her Husband CAP. XIIII What manner Person Guenhera was I Haue easely beleeued that Guenhera was descended out of the progeny of the Dukes of Cornwale both leaninge vnto other argumentes and also for this cause specially that the History of Brittaine makes mention y t she was brought vp in y e Pallas of Cadorus ●uke of Cornwale also from hence taken vnto wi●e by Arthure The coniecture is and that not altogether vncertaine this name of Guenhera soundeth in the Brittish language the same that Bella Dona doth in the Italian in frēch Belle Dame no doubt the name was giuen for some fame as Guenllean that is White or fayre Leonora or of coniecture Helena so as y e worde White may signifie faire beautifull or amiable ●ut as it is sufficiently apparant y e she was beautifull so it is a thing doubted whether she was chaste yea or no. Truly so far as I can with honestie I would spare the impayred honor and fame of noble womē But yet the truth of y e historie pluckes me by the eare willeth not onely but commandeth me to declare what the Ancients haue deemed of her To wrestle or contend with so greate authoritie were in deede vnto me a controuersie and that greate The historie of Brittaine affirmeth that she had not onely carnall knowledge of Mordred the Pict but also that she was ioyned to him in mariage O mischiefe O lewd life O filthy dayes The writer of the historie of Gildas is in deede an Auncient Author but in mine exemplar that same Anonymus declareth these things of Guenhera the adultresse Arthure in despite of M●lua the ruler beseeged the fenny countries neare vnto Glesconia which noble man had defiled Guenhera being stolne away and caried thether This testimonie as touching a Queene though hee say she was stolne away is scarce honourable Women of such beauty are now and then stolne away by their owne good will Howsoeuer it was most assured is this that she liued no long time after the Death of her Husband and the Adulterer But whether through any disease of the bodie or with vnfayned sorrowe she dyed which I doe sooner beleeue it appeareth not playnely Writers make mention that the beeing mooued with repentance did put vpō her a holy Veyle at Ambrosia and that there she dyed and was also there buried vntill both the dilligence and also Godlinesse of Sir Lancelot the most courteous and most inuincible knight had translated the bones and ashes afterwardes vnto Aualonia Heere aryseth a doubt against the suspition of this Adulterie Whether so notable a Louer or friend of Arthure and the same a reuerencer of his royaltie had cōmitted such a fact that hee woulde burie the Adultresse in the most Religiouse place so neare her husbāds graue in the earth The history of the cloister at Glastēbury which was dilligētly collected fully sheweth that Guenhera was buried in the religious place neare her husbandes Tombe and that her bones and ashes were found the same time that her husbandes were Siluester Giraldus Menenēsis cōfirmeth this in his booke De Institutione Principis speaking of Arthure in the●e wordes For hee had two wiues whereof in deede the last was buryed with him and her bones founde at one time with her husbandes bones so yet separated that the two parts of the graue towardes the head namely which should containe the bones of her husband had beene ascribed vnto him But the third part at the feete cōtained the bones of a woman vpwardes Where as also a yeallow locke of a womās haire with the former integrity coulour was foūd which as a certaine Moncke desirously caught vp in his hand lifted it vp it altogether streightway perished into dust or pouder The same Giraldus recyteth such like matters in his booke intituled Speculo Ecclesiastico Hee doubtlesse might well with some authority speake concerning this geare for so much as euen then he beeing established in the fauour of K. Kichard coeur de Lion king of England came the very same time that the Sepulchre was found at Glastenbury and as an eye witnes by cōduction of Henry de Soliaco nephew vnto K. Henry by Adela and cosen germaine of K. Richard beeing the president of Glastenburie but afterwardes Bishop of Winchester learned full and whole all thinges which vnto Arthure appertained Yet notwithstanding if it were lawfull for me heere to speake all thinges which I thinke I would surely affirme that those thinges are of farre better credite which are delyuered vs of Arthures buryall then of Guenheras And yet woulde I not doe any iniurie vnto the Authorytie of Auncyent wryters that euen

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