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A57329	An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig'd according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. A premonition to princes.	1698 (1698)	Wing R151A; ESTC R32268	273,979	474

a Moment is enough to overthrow what seemeth founded in Adamant Henry VI. overwhelmed with the Storm of his Grandfathers grievous Crimes generally esteemed an innocent Prince yet refused the Daughter of Armaignac of the House of Navarre to whom he was Ally'd and Married a Daughter of Anjou and so lost all that he had in France He also condescended to the unworthy Death of his Vnkle of Glocester the main Pillar of the House of Lancaster Buckingham and Suffolk contrived the Duke's death by the Queen's procurement but the Fruit was answerable to the Plantation and they and their Adherents were destroy'd by York whose Son Edward depriv'd Henry the Father and Edward the Son of Life and Kingdom The Politick Lady the Queen lived to see the miserable End of her Husband Son and all her Adherents her self plunder'd and Father beggar'd to Ransom her Edward IV. hath his turn to Triumph when all the Plants of Lancaster except the Earl of Richmond were extirpated whom he had also bought of the D. of Britain but could not keep him But what stability can Edward's Plantation promise when he had seen and approved Prince Edward's Murder by Glocester Dorset Hastings c. which escaped not the Iudgment of God in the same kind He instructed Glocester to Murder Henry VI. and taught him the Art to kill his own Sons and to Vsurp the Crown Richard III. The greatest Master in Villany of all that went before him who by necessity of his Tragedy being to play more Parts in his own Person than all the rest yet so well fitted every Mans Humour that join'd with him as if each had acted his own Interest Buckingham and Hastings Enemies to the Queen and her Kindred are easily allured to condescend that Rivers and Grey the King 's maternal Vnkle and half Brother should first be separated from him then imprisoned and for avoiding future Inconveniences to lose their Heads Having brought them to the practice of that common Precept which the Devil has written on every Post To depress whom they have injur'd and to destroy whom they have depress'd Then Buckingham has it form'd in his Head That when the King and his Brother shall be of sufficient Age they will take severe Revenge of the Wrong to Rivers and Gray and therefore of necessity the King and his Brother must be made away Hastings being sounded by Catesby and found not fordable by reason of his Fidelity to his Masters Sons after an attempt to kill him sitting in the Council the Hangman must get the Tyrant an Appetite to his Dinner by striking off his Head a greater Iudgment of God than this upon Hastings I never observ'd For the same Hour and in the same lawless manner by his Advice the Execution of Rivers and Gray was performed Buckingham has yet a part to play for Richard in persuading the Londoners to Elect him King and to be rewarded with the Earldom of Hereford But after much vexation of Mind and unfortunate attempts being betrayed by his trustiest Servant he lost his Head at Salisbury without troubling his Peers Richard after other Murders and Mischievous Policies having destroy'd his Nephews and Natural Lords by the great Out-cry of innocent Blood became an infamous spectacle of Shame and Dishonour both to his Friends and Foes Henry VII the Instrument of Gods Iustice in cutting off the Cruel King Succeeded a Politick Prince if ever there was any who by the Engine of his Wisdom beat down as many strong Oppositions both before and after he wore the Crown as ever any King of England did For as his Profits held the Reins of his Affections so he wayed his Vnderstanding by his Abilities leaving no more to hazard than what cannot be denyed in all Human Actions This King never indured Mediation in rewarding Servants and was therein exceeding wise for what himself gave himself received both Thanks and Love Knowing that the Affections of Men purchased no way so ready as by Benefits were Trains which better became Great Kings than Great Subjects On the contrary in whatsoever he grieved his Subjects he wisely put it off to those that he found fit Ministers of such Actions He used not to begin their Processes whom he hated or feared by the Execution as Lewis XI did Yet he somewhat follow'd the Errors of his Ancestors as the Head of Stanley who set the Crown on his and the Death of the young E. of Warwick Son to George D. of Clarence do shew and likewise the Success of his Grand-children of the first Line c. Henry VIII the Pattern of a merciless Prince Succeeded One who precipitately advanced many but for what Virtue no Man could imagine and with change of his Fancy ruined them no Man knowing for what Offence To how many others gave he abundant Flowers from whence to gather Hony and in the end of Harvest burnt them in the Hive How many Wives did he cut off or cast off as his Fancy or Affection changed How many Princes of the Blood with many others of all Degrees did he Execute What causeless cruel Wars did he make upon his own Nephew King James V What Laws and Wills did he invent to establish the Kingdom in his own Family using his sharpest Weapons to cut off the Branches which sprang from the same Root that himself did Yet God took away all his own without increase though for themselves in their several Kinds all Princes of eminent Virtues And that Blood which King Henry affirmed that the cold Air of Scotland froze up in the North God hath diffused by the Sun-shine of his Grace from whence his Majesty now living and long may is Descended Of whom I may say truly that Malice her self cannot charge him justly with any of those foul Spots by which the Consciences of all the forenamed Princes were defiled or the Sword of his Iustice stained with any Drops of that innocent Blood which had stained their Hands and Fame And for the Crown of England it may truly be avowed He received it from the Hand of God neither hastning the Time upon any provocation nor taking Revenge upon any that sought to put him by it And refused Assistance of her Enemies that wore it long with as great Glory as ever Princess did He entred neither by Breach nor Blood but by the ordinary Gate which his own Right had set open and was received in at it by an universal Love and Obedience Thus the Northern parts of Britany infinitely severed from the South in Affection for a long time whereof grew deadly Wars with much Cruelty were at length happily united For which Blessing of God never to be forgotten as we are bound to much Thankfulness so the Fruit of this Concord maketh all petty Grievances to appear but as a Mole-Hill to a Mountain And if the uniting of the Red Rose with the White were the greatest Happiness next Christian Religion that ever the Kingdom received from God to that Day certainly the

the compass it has to qualify and mask over inward Deformities for a time Yet no man can long continue masked in a counterfeit Behaviour The things which are forced for pretences having no ground of Truth cannot long dissemble their own nature and the Heart will be seen at the Tongues end In this great dissimilitude of reasonable Creatures the common People are ill Iudges of honest things and their Wisdom is to be despised said Eccles. As for the better sort every Vnderstanding has a peculiar Iudgment by which it both censureth others and valueth it self and therefore I will not think it strange if my worthless Papers be torn by Ratts since in all Ages Censurers have not spar'd to tax the Reverend of the Church with Ambition the severe to themselves with Hypocrisie lovers of Iustice with Popularity and Men of the truest valour with Vain-glory For nothing is so easie as to Reprove and Censure I will not trouble the Reader with repeating the deserv'd Commendations of History yet true it is that among many other Benefits for which it has been honour'd it triumphs in this over all Human Knowledge that it gives Life to our Vnderstanding since the World it self has Life even to this day And it has triumphed over Time which nothing else but Eternity has done for it has carried our Knowledge over the vast devouring space of many Thousand Years and has opened the piercing Eyes of our Mind that we plainly behold living now as if we lived then that wise Work of the great God saith Hermes By it I say we live in the very time when it was Created behold how it was govern'd how cover'd with Water and again repeopl'd How Kings and Kingdoms flourished and fell and for what Virtues or Vices God made the one prosperous and the other wretched Neither is it the least of our Debt to History that it has made us acquainted with our dead Ancestors and raised them out of Darkness to teach us no less wise than eternal Policy by comparing former Miseries with our own ill Deservings But neither the lively Instructions of Example the Words of the wisest nor Terror of future Torments have yet so wrought upon our stupid Minds as to make us remember That the infinite Eye and Wisdom of God doth pierce through all our Pretences Nor to make us remember That the Iustice of God requires no other Accuser than our own Consciences which by no false Beauty of our apparent actions nor all the formality which we to gull Mens Opinions put on can be covered from him Examples of God's Judgments in particulars upon all Degrees that have played with his Mercies would fill Volumes For the Sea of Examples hath no Bottom though Marks set on private Men are when their Bodies are cast into the Earth written only in their Memory which lived with them so that the Persons succeeding who saw not their Fall fear not their own Faults God's Iudgments on the Greatest have been Recorded to Posterity either by those happy Hands which the Holy Ghost guided or by others Now to point as far as the Angels Fall for Ambition at Kings eating Grass with Beasts for Pride and Ingratitude at Pharaoh's wise Action when he slew the Infants at Jesabel's Policy in covering Naboth's Murder with many Thousands of the like were but a Proof that Example should be rejected at a distance For who hath not observed what Labour Practice Peril Blood-shed and Cruelty the Kings and Princes of the World have undergone and exercised taken upon them and committed to make themselves and their Issues Masters of the World yet hath Babylon Persia Macedon Rome or the rest no Fruit Flower or Leaf springing upon the face of the Earth Nay their very Roots and Ruins do hardly remain for all that the Hand of Man can make is either over-turned by the Hand of Man or Consumed by Time Politicians say States have fallen either by Foreign Force or Domestick Negligence and Dissention or by a third Cause rising from both Others observe That the greatest have sunk under their own weight others That Divine Providence hath set a Period ●● every State before the first Foundation thereof as Cratippus objected in Pompey But seeing the Books following undertake the Discourse of the first Kings and Kingdoms and that a short Preface cannot run very far back to the Ancients I will for the present examine what Advantage has been gain'd by our own Kings and their Neighbour Princes who having beheld both in Divine and Humane Letters the success of Infidelity Injustice and Cruelty have notwithstanding Planted after the same Pattern Mens Iudgments agree not and no mans Affection is stirred up alike with Examples of the like nature but is either touched with that which seemeth to come nearest to his own private Opinion or else best fits his Apprehension But the Iudgments of God are unchangeable no Time can weary him or obtain his Blessing to that in one Age which he Cursed in another Those therefore which are Wise will be able to discern the bitter Fruits of irreligious Policy as well in old Examples as new for ill Actions have always been attended with ill Success as will appear by the following Examples We have then no sooner passed over the violence of the Norman Conquest but we encounter that remarkable Example of God's Justice upon the Children of Henry I. who having by Force Craft and Cruelty over-reached his Brother Robert D. of Normandy Vsurped the Crown of England and disposessed him of his Dukedom and barbarously deprived him of his Sight to make his own Sons Lords of all but God cast them all Male and Female Nephews and Neeces Maud excepted into the bottom of the Sea Edward II. being Murdered a Torrent of Blood followed in the Royal Race so that all the Masculine Princes few excepted dyed of the Bloody-Flux And though Edward III. in his young Years made his knowledge of that horrible Fact no more than suspicious yet his putting to death his Vnkle the Earl of Kent made it manifest he was not ignorant of what had past nor greatly desirous to have had it otherwise But this Cruelty the unsearchable Iudgment of God revenged on his Grandchild and so it fell out even to the last of the Line That in the Second or Third Descent they were all buried under the Ruins of those Buildings whose Mortar had been tempered with innocent Blood For Richard II. having Murdered his Vnkle of Glocester was himself Murdered by Henry IV. Henry IV. having broken Faith to his Lords and by Treason obtained the Crown Entailed it by Parliament upon his Issue and by many Treacheries left all Competitors defenseless as he supposed leaving his Son Henry V. full of Valour and signal Victories yet was his Grand-child Henry VI. and his Son the Prince without Mercy Murdered and his Crown transferred to the Houses of his Enemies It was therefore a true Passage of Caussabon a Day an Hour

Peace between the Two Lions of Gold and Gules doth by many Degrees exceed both by sparing our Blood and assuring the Land As it pleased God to punish the Usurpation and unnatural Cruelties of our own Kings so do we find he dealt with the Sons of Lewis Debonair Son of Charlemain For after Debonair had put out his Nephew Bernard's Eyes the Son of Pipin the Eldest of Charlemain King of Italy and Heir of the Empire and after that caused him to die in Prison there followed such Murder and Bloodshed Poisonings and Civil Wars till the whole Race of that famous Emperor was extinguished Debonair further to secure himself put his Bastard Brothers into a Monastery But God rais'd up his own Sons to vex invade imprison and depose him alledging the former Violences to his Nephew and Brothers Yet he did that which few Kings do he publickly acknowledg'd and recanted his Cruelty against Bernard in the Assembly of the States But Blood unjustly spilt is not easily expiated by Repentance And such Medicines to the Dead have but dead Rewards He having also given Aquitain to Pipin his Second Son sought after that to cast him out as indeed he did his Son after him of the same Name at the Persuasion of Judith to raise her Son Charles Lothair his eldest Son he left King of Italy and Emperor against whom his Nephew Pipin of Aquitain Lewis of Bavier and Charles the Bald made War between whom was fought the most Bloody Battel that ever was known in France in which the Loss of the Nobility and Men of War encouraged the Sarazens to invade Italy the to fall upon Almain and the Danes upon Normandy After being invaded by Lewis and by his own Conscience for rebelling against his Father and other Cruelties he quits the Empire and dyes in a Monastery Charles the Bald seizeth on Pipin his Nephew and kills him in a Cloyster oppresses the Nephews the Sons of Lothair and usurps the Empire His Son Caroloman rebells and hath his Eyes burnt out by his Father Lewis of Bavier and his Son Caroloman are overthrown by Charles and Lewis dies of Grief as Charles doth of Poison by Zedekias his Phisician a Jew Whose Son also Lewis le Begne dy'd of the same Potion and Charles the Simple succeeded whose Natural Brothers Lewis and Charlemain rebell'd The Younger is slain by a wild Boar the Elder brake his Neck as did also the Son of Bavier Charles the Gross became Lord of what Debonair's Sons had held in Germany who invading Charles the Simple is forsaken of Nobles Wife and Wit dying a distracted Beggar Charles the Simple held in Wardship by Eudes Mayor of the Palace and after by Robert his Brother lastly is surprised by the E. of Vermandois and dyed in Prison Lewis his Son succeeded and brake his Neck one of his Sons dyes of Poyson the other in Prison Francis I. was one of the worthiest Kings that ever France had except his exposing the Protestants of Mirandel and Cabriers to the Fire and Sword of which though he repented and charged his Son to do Iustice on the Murderers yet was not that unseasonable Care accepted of by God who cut off his Four Sons without Issue to succeed And notwithstanding all their Subtilty and Breach of Faith with all their Massacres upon those of the Religion the Crown was set on his Head whom they all endeavoured to ruin and the Protestants are now in number and strength more than ever Spain has found God the same as Don Pedro of Castile may witness who as he became the most merciless of all Heathen or Christian Tyrants as the History of Spain records so he perish'd by the Hands of his Younger Brother who dispossessed all his Children of their Inheritance John D. of Burgoign may parallel this King if any can who after a Trayterous Murder of the D. of Orleance caused the Chancellor Constable divers Bishops Officers of Justice of the Treasury Requests Chamber of Accompts with Sixteen Hundred others suddenly to be slain which kind of Death eased the World of himself Ferdinand holding Arragon by Vsurpation of his Ancestors added Castile and Leon which he held by force of Arms from the Daughter of the last Henry and expell'd his Neece from the Kingdom of Navarr He betrayed Ferdinand and Frederick King of Naples his Kinsman to the French with the Army sent to their succour The Politick King who sold Heaven and his own Honour to make his Son the greatest Monarch saw his Death with his Wives and her untimely Birth buried together the like End he saw of his own Eldest Daughter his Second dyed Mad his Third was cast off by our King Henry VIII and the Mother of a Daughter whose unhappy Zeal shed a Deluge of Innocent Blood and had all his Kingdoms possest by strange Masters Charles V. Son to Arch. D. Philip who had Married Ferdinand's Mad Daughter after the Death of many Multitudes of Christian Souldiers and renowned Captains in his vain Enterprizes upon France Germany and other States while the Turk took the City of Rhodes was in conclusion chased out of France and in some sort out of Germany being persued by D. Maurice over the Alps which he passed by Torch Light and crept into a Cloister and became his Son's Prisoner who paid him very slowly Philip II. his Son not content to hold Holland and Zealand wrested by his Ancestors from Jaqueline their lawful Prince and to possess many other parts of the Netherland Provinces in Peace by persuasion of that mischievous Cardinal of Granvil and other Tyrants forgetting the remarkable Services done to his Father and the Forty Millions of Florens presented him at his Entrance and his solemn Oaths twice taken to maintain their Privileges which they had enjoyed under Thirty five Earls conditional Princes began to Tyrannize over them by the Spanish Inquisition and other intolerable Impositions and lastly by Force of Arms sought to make himself not Monarch only like the Kings of England France c. but Turk-like to overturn all their National Fundamental Laws Privileges and Customs To effect this he easily obtained a Dispensation of his Oaths from the Pope and then divided the Nobility under the Government of his base Sister Margaret of Austria and Cardinal Granvil Then he employ'd that Merciless Spaniard Ferdinand Alvarez D. of Alva who in six Years cut off Eighteen Thousand six Hundred Gentlemen and others by the Hand of the Hang-man Failing of his purpose by Force he tryeth Policy and sent Don John of Austria his Bastard Brother who upon the Papal advantage made no scruple to swear and having received Six Hundred Thousand Pounds of the Provinces to ease them of the Garrisons he suddenly surprized the Citadel of Antwerp Namure c. yet after so many Thousands slain Thirty six Millions of Treasure spent in six Years he left the Countrey and the King spent above One Hundred Millions with the Death of Four Hundred Thousand Christians