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A13792	A true relation of a mighty giant named Theutobocus, sometimes king of the Theutons and Cimbrians, overthrown by Consul Marius 1700 yeares agone buried then by the castle of Langon, neere the towne of Romans in the prouince of Daufiné in Fraunce, whole bones were found of by chaunce, an. 1613, in a place called to this day, The Giants Ground, and vpon his tombe ingrauen in old letters Theutobocus Rex.	Tissot, Jacques.	1615 (1615)	STC 24091.5; ESTC S2933	6,641	18

A TRVE RELATION OF A MIGHTY GIANT named Theutobocus somtimes King of the Theutons and Cimbrians ouerthrowne by Consul Marius 1700 yeares agone Buried then by the Castle of Langon neere the Towne of Romans in the Prouince of Daufine in Fraunce Whose bones were found of by chaunce An. 1613. in a place called to this day The Giants ground and vpon his Tombe in grauen in old letters Theutobocus Rex IN DOMINO CONFIDO LONDON Printed by Edoward Allde dwelling neere Christ Church 1615. A TRVE RELATION OF THE GIANT THEVTOBOCVS AMong the many effects which this great mother and worke-mistris Nature hath produced in this vnder-world the excessiue tallnes of Giants hath euer held one of the highest rancks vpon the Theater of wonders Euen the holy Scripture in sondry places dtoh beare them witnes And the historiographers in the description of their so huge Collosses other relations which the Poets in their Giganto-machies do show the admiration wherein they were had As also the very Etimology of their name doth inferr the same for Giant signifieth a Son of the Earth As though it were not of the nature possibility of men to be gett such creatures Hence the verse Iuuenal Sat. 4. Vnde fit vt malim fraterculus esse gigantum Seemes to inferre an vncouth and extraordinary linage as proceeding straungely from the Earth which is also the cause that som who for their hie fortunes thought scorne to haue so low a birth did boldy auouch that their Ancestors were those Angels which the Greekes Latines call Demones and Genii as if it Lactant. Fir. lib. 10. cap. 15. had ben impossible to Nature to haue brought forth such high blood as they thought to be Or that that great worke-mistrisse should not haue bene able to haue imparted them both an extreame heate moisture togither the true causes of this excessiue tallnes to bring this sentence to effect Operatur natura quantum quandiu potest Ab extremis Picolomin de scientia ciuili gradu 10. c. 9. Arist 9 de natura anima ed extrema Natura enim in suis operationibus non facit saltum It is most true then that there haue ben Giants in this world that they haue had men for their fathers not only before but also long after the floud Otherwise from whence should Goliath haue come from whence Og King of Basan the first being 6. cubits a spanne high the bed of the other 9. cubits long the cubit according to the Greekes being 2. foote to the Latines one foote a half from whence all those Amachins in respect of which the Israelits did seeme but as grashoppers And from whence all the rest mentioned all along the Scriptures Do not the fathers also almost al Historiographers testify with one consent against all hard beleeuers that in all ages since at one time or other there haue ben men of such great extraordinary height S. Austen rehearseth that a little before the Gothes affliction there was at Rome a woman-Giant whose Parents did not exceede the common stature Plutarch in vita Sertorii 3. Plutarch the life soule of truth Antiquity writeth that Sertorius being entred the Towne of Tingis in Africk and finding there a mighty long and huge graue where then Antheus told him that that famous Antheus of Libia was buried a hard beleeuer as many others vpon meere incredulity caused it to be opened where finding indeed a mans body full 30. cubits long with much wonder solemnity did sacrifice vnto it peace-offrings religiously caused it to be shutt againe Pliny most curious in the inquiry of naturall things saith that in old Creta now of later yeares called Candia a great earthquake hauing turned vp a whole mountaine there vnder was found a dead coarse 46. cubits long which some did auouch to be the body of Arion Philostratus makes mention of 3. others of the same length one of whose skulls he could not fill with 72. pints of Candia Some others haue sayd that one of them was 30. cubits high the second 22. the third 12. But because he doth only describe that which was found in the Iland of Cos which he saith was 18. foote long not otherwise medling with that of Imbros nor of Lemnos found by Menocrates I am contented with the most verified things Finally all historians make report of an infinite number of such other great bodies as of that of Orestes being 7. cubits long which was digged vp by the cōmaundement of the Oracle That of whome there are yet some bones to be seen at Valence As also of a liue woman which Zonaras saith was a long cubit higher then any of the tallest men of her time And specially of the Emperor Maximinus which as saith Iulius Capitolinus in his life according to Codrus did vse his wiues bracelett as a ring to his finger pulld and drew whole coaches carts loaden after him broke bruysed to dust pouder a Topase between his fingers eate at his meales 50. 60. pound of flesh dranke a certaine measure full called Amphora Capitolina which is no lesse then the eight part of an Hogs-head did wearie out 20. 25. 30. souldiers in wrestling beat downe to the ground ten of them at once with many such greater deedes that cannot but argue an extraordinary strenght bignes And if we will giue credit vnto Virgil in that great peece of strength he doth attribute to Turnus in his combat against Aeneas which yet is not likely he would haue fained to grossely but that he had either read heard or seen the like you may see in the folowing verses that he alone pulld out of the ground a huge stone cast it at his enemie which hardly 12. other men could haue stirrd or lifted vp I should neuer end if I would go from time to time relating euery particular which is found in the stories about Giants One only the same now in hand belonging to the King of France which for some speciall causes he hath most graciously lent to the Printer bearer hereof being now in England is to be seen as it hath ben already thorough most Protestant Countryes for a present ready ey-witnes vnreprouable of what aboue we haue sayd The same bones Monsieur de Langon a worthy Gentleman of Daufine in France found in a Tombe which lay in a peece of ground of his called to this day and of olde Giants-ground where he had occasion of building therfore of digging where in by some Tombe was accomplished the Profery of Virgil Gradiáque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris The tombe of these bones 30. foote long was found some 17 or 18. foote deepe vnder the ground hard by an old Castle in times past called Chaumont now Langon neere a little hillock And the bones within were some putrified by reason of a certain slow spring which was found there what