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B07424	The great Plantagenet. Or, A continued succession of that royall name, from Henry the Second, to our sacred soverainge King Charles. By Geo. Buck, Gent..	Buck, George, fl. 1623-1646.; Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623. Daphnis polystephanos.	1635 (1635)	STC 3997; ESTC S106071	21,009	66

continually seized thereof untill this day * His Maiesties Title to France see it more at large in the Argument So likewise his title to the crowne of France sheweth it selfe cleerely in the ancient possessions of these royall Plantagenets here presented His Majesties Progenitors first Dukes of Normandy then of Aquitaine Earles of Poictou of Aniou of Maine of Touraine and of Britaine and after Angolesme and lastly Kings of all France in the right of † Vide Iohn Froissard Tom. 3. Isabell or Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heire of Philip le bell King of France Mother of King Edward the third who made a most renowned and happy entry upon that his Royall inheritance And he his great Heires were not onely Titular Lords but also Actuall possessors of France many yeares and yet to this day in token of that ancient right have seisin of a * Gersey Gernesey Alderney c. are parcels of Normandy so consequently of France yet possessed by the King of England part of that Kingdome notwithstanding that counterfeit-heathnish law Salica maintained by al the power of France many ages against them His Majesties title and descent from the ancient Kings of Great Britaine and which is least knowne may thus readily be derived * His Majesties Title frō the British Kings The Welch Bardes as also our best Heralds Record that 1 Ruffin Rhese-ap-Gruffith surnamed Argluid Prince of South-Wales about the yeare of our Lord 1196 and issued from Cadwallader the last British King had a Daughter named 2 Faire Iulian Gwenlhiam married to 3 Edmund Edneuet Vachan Lord of Bransencle and chiefe Justice of Wales and bare to him a sonne called 4 Gerion or Jeronim Grono this Grono had 5 Theodore Tedor Tedor had Grono Grono had Tedor Tedor had 6 Veridik Meredith Meredith had Owen which Owen married Katherine Widdow of King Henry 5 and Daughter of the French King Charles the sixt by whom he had Edmond created Earle of Richmont by King Hen. 6. his Brother Vterine And this Edmond was father of King Hen. 7 who was Father of Queene Margaret his Majesties great Grandmother And lastly to finish his Majesties Titles to all those Diadems mentioned in this Poësie His Majesties title from the Saxon Kings I have inserted a Genealogie of the Saxon Kings drawne from the first uniter of the Heptarchy and the Godfather of Anglia King Egbert unto Matilda the Empresse Daughter and Heire of King Hen. 2. Ancestour of all the English Kings untill this day from whom this Poësie is a continued Pedegree unto his Majesty and his most excellent Sonne c. But it may be objected why I derive not his Title and Genealogie from some of the ancient Monarchs of this Isle Britons or Saxons or at the least from K. William the Conqueror I must answere that to have chosen any of the most ancient Kings I must have looked so farre backe as I should not onely have beene too tedious but also lost my selfe in obscure wayes as they know which know what our ancient Stories bee But as for William the Conquerour there bee many reasons why I should not begin with him although I goe as neare him as his Sonnes Daughter for first he was a Bastard Vide Lib. 5. Stephani Cadomensis de Gulielmo Conquestore editum An. Dom. 1603. and yet not that of the blood Royall of England his chiefe Title to the Crowne being but violence and his Sword as he confessed with remorse of conscience at his Death Secondly he was never possessed of one halfe of Britaine for hee had neither Scotland nor Wales and in Ireland not one foote Furthermore Girard Du. Haillan and other French Antiquaries according to their Salike Heraldry say that his line ended in his Sonne King Hen. 1. Philosalicus for all they hold as a Maxime La famille se cotinuè es masles et se finist aux filles and yet Du. Haillan notwithstanding or forgetting this affirmeth in another place that the race of the Kings of England issued out of the house of Aniow viz. from our great Henry and his ancestours continueth untill this day from whom there be many reasons on the other side why I should deduce the Genealogies of our Kings passed K. Henry 2. the greatest King c. and of our present Soveraigne Lord King Charles for this great Henry was not onely rightfull Heire and King of England but also the greatest King of whom there is any credible Story extant which hath beene in this Isle of Britaine since the time of the Roman Emperours who were reputed Lords of all the World which thus I demonstrate briefly He was King of England in the right of his Mother Matilda King Malcolm Knighted this King Henry 2. at 15. yeares of age Neubrig who writeth much in the honour of this K. Malcolm lib. 2. Cap. 20. the Empresse Daughter and Heire to King Henry the first by Matilda Bona Daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir and of Margaret his wife who was the Daughter of Edward Exul the Saxon Prince the Sonne of Edmund Ironside King of England Anno Dom. 1016. This Edmund was Sonne and Heire to King Etheldred who in ancient Charters is written Totius Britanniae Rex quod nota because an Anonymus in a little booke dedicated to King Iames affirmeth that never any Prince was King of this whole Isle untill then but hee is deceived for besides Constantius Chlorus and his Sonne our Country-man Constantine the great Constans Aurelius Ambrosius Vter and others which were Lords of all great Britaine Edgar also the Father of this King Etheldred was absolute Monarch of this Island and so puissant in forces both by Land and Sea as he was surnamed the Great and was styled Totius Albionis Basileus Anglici Orbis Basileus as G. Malmsburiensis Florentius Wigorniensis witnesse Britaria ab adventu Saxonum in insulam appellatur Anglica Ioan. Salisb. in Policratico Whereupon to note also by the way some thinke that the word Anglia was sometimes used for the whole Isle and which Ion Lidgate disertly assevereth in King Arthurs complaint in these words Great Britaine now called England and so likewise doth Geoffry Chaucer in the Franklins tale viz. Ranulfus Higeden in Polichronic in England that Clepid was Britaine and Ranulphus Cestrensis a graver Authour peremptorily affirmeth that King Egbert after his Conquests ordayned and commanded that the Saxons and Iutes should be called Angles and this Britaine should be called England but I leave this to be discussed by Antiquaries And to returne to the ancient Saxon Kings Progenitors of this Henry and also possessors of the whole Isle it is to be shewed for the better confirmation of that which hath beene said against the opinion of the Anonymus in diuers ancient Records and Charters of Donations of these Kings to Monasteries and to Cathedrall Churches Ex archiv is Ciscestrensis

of his Majesties device for the Knights of the Bath Whilst bright renowne builds trophies of his fame Unto the Southerne and the Northerne bound And all the Muses consecrate his Name Whose Wisedome Justice Piety hath given His acts a monument shal endure with Heaven 45. And Britaine had no sooner faith and force Combin'd but her Dolphin in tender age Henry Prince of great Britaine K. Henry 2. buried in Frōtenalx King Charles hath so many so ancient so lawfull Titles to this Empire as never any Prince Heire general of this Kingdome had He married Mary Daughter to Henry 4. of France Vowes to redeeme from Gallike bonds the Cors Of his Grandsire the Great Plantagenet And seise upon his southerne heritage And boūds trophies in the Pyrens set Stay Muse here drop a teare for deaths blacke cloud Too soone his glory our hopes did shrowd 46. But turne our eyes now from the clouded west And see the new Sun rising in the East With what auspicious browes the heavens exprest Their glad praesages the Coelestiall signes With holy Auguries shin'd Saturne did feast With sprit'ly Icve whil'st Apollo divines In Delphicke raptures the Age renu'd againe And tooke new influence from bright Charles his waine 47. The Stars of all yet were not absolute And Fates conspir'd to keep thē in their wants But Gods and Fates desert and publicke brute Have all pronounc'd him sole the worthy one To weare the Garland made of many plants And adde eternall Scepters to his Throne Of whom Apollo in his sacred rage Did as you heard such wondrous things praesage 48. And to accomplish full his happinesse Heavens have to him a royall Spouse decree'd All those fraile Saints and flatter'd Goddesses Shall kneele to her so wise so faire so loyall So great yet meeke as doth her sexe exceed And both thrice blessed in their issue royall For he and they which shal from them descend Shall raigne in Britaine till the world have end Charles Prince of great Bricaine 49. Away prophane sinke to the lowest Hells With your detracting murmurrs and hoarse Envy wil yeeld that fame not paralels spleens The fate of this great pair which doth out shine The luster of all former Kings and Queenes Strengthned with al the powers hands divine And in so just a scope their soules are spheard None ever liv'd more lov'd admir'd and fear'd 50 And every Nimph and Goddesse of the plaines Shall weare rich favours of Genesta's plants And that no common injury prophanes The sacred priviledge of her blest abode The Muses there shall keep their solemne hants And in her shades sing many learned Ode Whilst Poëts make her garlands more diuine Then that which doth for Ariadne shine Damaetas 51. Thanks blessed Prophet praised be thy art Which hath so much resolv'd my travailed minde My wish is satisfied in every part My thoughts and doubts are ridled every one And I confesse his name thou hast divin'd To whose high worth this garlands due alone For whose immortall raigne and happy fate Let all our vowes and prayers be consecrate VPON KING HENRIE THE SECOND the first Plantagenet of ENGLAND c. WHen Warlike HENRY by his Puissance Had set his Foote upon the brest of France Scepter'd Hibernia without Blood or sweat And by his Conquests made his Name so great That it found way to Victory and Fame And burft the gall of War where ere he came To Crowne his fate and make him greater yet There was no Title but PLANTAGENET To whose immortall linage Fame could adde No greater glories then from him they had A Name so Great in Destiny and Fate Rome would haue envi'd or have trimbled at And her proud Tryumphs too looke pale set By the brighter honors of PLANTAGENET whilst their imperial bayes as checkt with thūder Dropt frō their swelling tēples even with wōder To see their Fate so farre out shin'd by odds And Pedigree of all their Demy-gods And to be heire unto great Henries fame Would not be Rome but change her fate name FINIS