daughter of Prince Edward sur-named the Out-law son of King Edmond Ironside who being married to Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland brought to King Iames the first right of succession to this Crowne secondly Elizabeth of the house of Yorke daughter to King Edward the 4. married to King Henry the 7. of the house of Lancaster Thirdly Margaret their eldest daughter borne in the blessed white-red Vnion-bed of the two Roses who being married to Iames the fourth king of Scotland brought the second right of succession to our most gracious King Iames the happy Vniter of the two Kingdomes To these three Ladies of Britanny wee may adde other these of Germany bearing the same names from the which King Iames and his hopefull children namely Prince Fredericke are collineally descended and they are these first Margaret Countesse of Holland Dutchesse of Bauier and Empresse wife to Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bauier and Emperour secondly Elizabeth Princesse Palatine Empresse wife to Robert Prince Palatine and Emperour thirdly Margaret Dutchesse of Lorraine their daughter And it is my ardent wish that the fore-said two Germane Margarets and Elizabeth may proue as lucky to King Iames and his hopefull children for their Imperiall preferment in Germany as the two English Margarets and Elizabeth haue done for his Royall preferment in Britanny And the three Ladies of the same names which brought good fortune and preferment to the house of Howard were these first Margaret Plantagenet Dutchesse of Norfolke the onely daughter and heire of Thomas Plantagenet Earle of Norfolke son to King Edward the 1 secondly Elizabeth Lady Segraue the daughter and heire of the said Lady-Dutchesse Margaret of Iohn Lord Segrane thirdly Margaret Mowbray daughter of the said Lady Elizabeth and of Iohn Lord Mowbray maried to Sir Robert Howard Knight the father and mother of Iohn Lord Howard Duke of Norfolke So that as a Robert was the first Royall Progenitor of the Royall Stewards King Robert the Bruce surnamed the Noble being the Grand-father of Robert the first King of the Stewards and as a Robert Prince Palatine and Emperour likewise sur-named the Noble is he from whom King Iames and Prince Frederick are descended both in the 9. degree as our late published Pedigree doth show so was a Noble Robert the first Progenitor of the Dukes of Norfolke of the honoured name of Howard vnto whose worthy Patronage wee thought good for the reasons afore-said and others wee might mention to commend our Essayes in Latine and English whereof these Presents are but a scantling vndertaken by vs in honour of a number of most Noble Princes And thus Courteous Reader crauing thy fauourable construction of these our endeuours wee hauing no other intent but onely thereby to do honour in a schollar-like kind to such as are worthy of honour we bid thee hartely fare-well ALBIONS Remembrance of FREDERICKE and ELIZABETH 1 SITH Norths bright Nymph and Albions Rosie The sweetest meekest of the Lady-kind Must bound from vs to build her Summers bowre Flowre At Heidelberge now in this flowry time And that for Rhine she must abandon Thames For Germany leauing the land of IAMES 2 And sith Her presence sweete we must no more Injoy alas which was the ioy of hearts To all Her sex as HENRIES was before To those of His men women of all parts Which came to Court to veiw the worth and State Which their did shine through Him and Her of late 3 Sith that I say now Hymen doth her call From th'Ile of IEMMES to dwell in Germaines ground So that her face no more hence see wee shall Her face the grace of Country Court and Towne What rests but that we wish her asmuch ioy As by her absence we must reape annoy 4 For like as did deere Henry by his death Make men to mourne but mirth to Angels bring So the departure of Elizabeth Make Britans sigh but Germaines for to sing Thus in one yeare we drinke of double woes By loosing first our Lilly then our Rose 5 Which double losse might well our Iland drowne In sorrowes sea except there did remaine A Lilly-Rose with ioy our land to crowne To salue the sorrowes which wee do sustaine Henry Eliza both their flowers bequeath To make for Charles a Lilly-rosie wreath 6 Castor and Pollux of all brothers that haue bene were the most louingst as Aratus Apollodorus Hyginus do write euen so louing that the one would needs halue with the other his immortall State Plutarch doth likewise tell how that Cleomenes of Lacedemonia did loue his brother Enclides so deerely that he made him his coequall in the Kingdome and in our time or memory there was neuer one that loued his brother more deerely then our peerelesse Prince Henry did his brother Duke Charles For like as Pollux to his brother deere Castor by name his glory did impart Haluing with him his owne Immortall Sphere So much had Castor of Prince Pollux heart Euen so would Henry halue his Princely State That his lou'd Charles might it participate 7 Me thinkes I see sweete HENRY with his hand Plucking the choisest flowers of Paradise One day to decke this twise defloured Land With Syons store to make it happy thrise Euen now he makes a Garland for the day That CHARLES shall beare Constantixes crowne away 8 Likewise Eliza goes to breed and bring Forth to the light sonnes of a noble kinde Whose worth one day shall make vs Britans sing When they with CHARLES vnanimely combin'd * This shall be shewed in our Sybilla Britannica containing Prophesies in siue sundry Languages which seeme to promise no lesse As is fore-rold in spight of Turkish might Shall once regaine great Constantine his right 9 Gonilda the faire daughter of Canute the Danish King of England married to Henry the 3. Emperour Mathilda or Maud the daughter and heire of Henry the 1. K. of England maried to Henry the 5. Emperour reade hereof William of Malmesbury and Roger Houeden their Histories A better hap we hope this Match shall haue Then once two English-Germaine Matches had That to their Countries did no Issue leaue Which made Gonilda and Mathilda sad Kings daughters both the second Englands Dame To Emperours matcht both HENRIES by their name 10 And better then had once that match in France Twixt Francis and our Scotlands noble Queene That Mary hight and yet a better chance Then of that Match for to ensue was seene Twixt Spaine and England when Queene Mary thought With Phillip a great Vnion to haue wrought 11 Robert surnamed the Noble Prince Palatine Emperour had by his wife Elizabeth the Empresse goodly children fiue sons three daughters whereof reade in Custinianus Munsteruâ— Reusnerus and from them two Princâ— â—…dericke and Princesse Elizabeth are both lineally descended hee in the ninth and shee in the tenth degree as may be seene in the Pedegree I haue lately published the which numbers in them vnited
shall bring great terror and tribulation to the Mahumetane Turkes Lastly the most glorious Prophesie that I find of any Prince is of a Prince of the name of Charles the which Carion in his Chronicle hath applyed to Charles the fifth King of Spaine and Emperour but truely that most worthy valorous and victorious Prince hath left the accomplishment thereof to some other Charles then himselfe as the tenure of the prediction conferred with his deedes howsoeuer glorious may testifie and it hath bene alwaies my most ardent wish euer since I began to be some-what curious in this kind that that Prophesie alledged by Carion out of the old Chronicles of Magdeburg might haue one day his full accomplishment in the person of Prince Charles and that as he doth Symbolize with Castriote alias Scanderbeg in the common stile of Prince or Duke of Albany so may hee like-wise with him in his Prowesse against the Turkes and in his Titles of Christs Champion and the terrour of Turkes Whereof who will may read more in our Poem made vpon Prince Charles his Natiuity No lesse is promis'd by old Prophesies Which wee haue seene in Latine Greeke and French With other tongues which promise victories To Northerne hands how they combin'd shall drench Constantinople in a foaming floud Which shall be made of spilt Barbarian bloud 76 O happy sight to see Prince Charles one day Together with the States of Germany Against proud Turkes his Banner to display That as he 's nam'd the Duke of Albany So men may him a Scanderbeg enstile Th' horrour of Turkes the Hercles of this I le 77 CHRIST IESVS name sweete Charles of Britanny With Scanderbeg thy Champion and thy Knight Adde vnto his one Northerne Albany Sixe Albanies choose him thy fields to fight ' Gainst Mahomet and grant him for his hire Constantines Towne with the proud Turkes Empire 78 That our Myrsina may her Brother Crowne With Palmy-wreath in signe of victory And like Debora sing his high renowne Thanking great loue for the felicity It pleas'd him to her brother Charles to giue In whose sweete face lou'd Henry still doth liue 79 The Maids and Matrons shall with cheerefull voyce Extoll Myrsina and her honour raise Vp to the skies both aged men and boies Shall hop and danse and loud resound her praise Agnising her to be the sweetest Wight That euer lodg'd in Heidelberge all night 80 Three Emperours 3 daughters of the name of Mathilde or Maud haue ben married to three Palatine Princes the first Mathildis was the daughter of Otho the second Duke of Saxe and Emperour married to Siffrid Prince Palatine the second was the daughter of Rodulph the first Earle of Habspurg and Emperour married to Prince Lodowicke surnamed the Seuere the third Mathildis was the daughter of Adolph Earle of Nassaw and Emperour married to Rodolph Prince Palatine And as for Kings daughters that haue bene married to the Palatines we reade in Henninges Dauid Rorarius and Marquardus Freherus how that Blanch the eldest daughter of Henry the fourth King of England was the first wife of Lodowicke the fourth Prince Palatine sonne to Robert the Emperour who as Fabian and Cooper in their Chronicles doe write came heere into England Anno 1403 and was receiued of the said King Henry with great Triumph Our English Writers though they agree that the said Lady Blanch was married about this time to a Duke of Bauier and hee the Emperours sonne yet they make no particular mention of any such Match as the aboue named Germaines do auouch but rather otherwise Ranulph of Chester Walsingham Fabian and Stow doe not expresse the Dukes name that married her Polydorus erroniously calleth him Iohn sonne to the Duke of Bauier Hal and Hollinshed name him William Duke of Bauier sonne to Lewis the Emperour but this could not be for both English and Dutch Historians and Genelogicians write that the said Duke William married Maud daughter to Henry Duke of Lancaster whose other daughter Blanch married Iohn of Gant Earle of Richmond and in her right Duke of Lancaster and that she suruiued her husband foure yeares and that he died Anno 1377. some 25. yeares before the marriage of Blanch the eldest daughter of Henry the fourth who according to the truth was married to Lodowicke Duke of Bauier the sonne of Robert Prince Palatine and Emperour who had bene chosen but a short space before by the Electors and came heere into England as is said aboue And as for the rest of the Kings daughters mentioned in the Poem Ludomille of Boheme was the daughter of Primislay the 2. King of Boheme and of Constance his wife the daughter of Bela the third King of Hungary shee was married to Lodowick the father of Otho the Illustrious Prince Palatine and Duke of Bauiere Beatrice of Sicilie wife to Robert the second Prince Palatine was the daughter of Fredericke King of Sicilie according to Cuspinianus Carion Rheusnerus Marquardus and Brunnius as for Munsterus he doth not expresse his propper name but Henninges and Albizius make her the daughter of King Peter Dorothie of Denmarke the wife of Fredericke the second Prince Palatine was the daughter of Christiern the second King of Denmarke Elizabeth of Hungary was wife to Heary Duke of Bauier the yonger brother of Lodowicke called the Seuere Prince Palatine and Daughter and Heire of Bela the fourth King of Hungary Lastly Anne of Polony was the daughter of Conrade Prince of Poland and one of the three wiues of the fore-said Lodowicke the Seuere so called for that out of an vndiscreete humor of iealously hee practised a filthy cruelty vpon his wife Mary of Brabant in causing her head to bee cut off for that shee had written a letter to a Captaine of his owne named Henry Rucco which came into his hands for the which abhominable fact hee was so terrified with an horrible vision by night that his head became before the next morning as white as wooll so that hee repenting him of his iealousy and cruelty founded the Monastery of Furstenfield and endowed the same with rich possessions as Cuspinianus and Henninges do write Thus wee see how that it fared much more hardly with this good Lady Mary of Brabant then it did with Cunegunde the sister of Henry Prince Palatine maried to Henry the second Emperour who got leaue to purge her selfe of the like false suspition by going bare-foote as she did without hurt vpon a number of Plough-shares red hot as the same Cuspinianus with Vrspergensis doe write And in William of Malmesbury and Ranulph of Chester wee reade how that Queene Emme mother to King Edward the Confessor being accused of adultery with Edwin Bishop of Winchester purged her selfe in the same manner Semblably wee reade in Cuspinianus Paulus Emylius and Francis de Belle-forest how that Charles the Grosse King of France and Emperour accused his wife Richarda a daughter of Scotland of playing false play with Luitwald Bishop of Vercelle in
the election of the Emperour namely before the Duke of Saxe a Prince of great puissance authority and command notwithstanding that both Otho the 3. Emperor Pope Gregory the 5. which did ordaine the sanction of the seuen Electors according as Blondus Polydorus Bergomensis Nauclerus Crantzius Balaeus and Egnatius do deliuer were both of them Princes of the house of Saxe for the said Emperour Otho belike considering with himselfe how that hee had done a greater wrong to Charlemaigne in bereauing his race of the Golden Crowne of the Empire by the meanes of his foresaid Electionary sanction or decree theÌ„ he had done when as he opened his Sepulcher and bereft his Corps of the Golden Crosse did hang about his neck as Ditmarus who liued in those daies doth write for the which it is said that he was in his sleepe visited affrighted with a reuengefull vision of the said Charlemaigne menacing him with death which shortly after did ensue Otho I say considering the wrong afore-said done to Charlemaigne and his Race endeauored by al meanes to yeeld them some competent satisfaction and therefore preferred the Count Palatine of the Rhine being of the Imperiall bloud and Male Race of Charlemaigne before the Duke of Saxe and the rest of the Princes of the Empire in the fore-said Election Besides that the first Emperour which was elected by the seuen Electors which was Henry the second Duke of Bauier being likewise a Prince of the Saxon bloud and afterwards enstiled Saint Henry for his singular Piety Chastity as Vrspergensis Frisingensis Egnatius Cuspinianus others do witnesse he to make yet some further satisfaction to Charlemaignes Race did both marry the daughter of Siffrid Prince Palatine named Cunegunde and did like-wise restore vnto his brother-in-law Henry the first of this name Prince Palatine the Dukedome of Banier as we learne out of Ditmarus others And it was no doubt in regard of their fore-said descent from Charlemaigne that a certaine super-Imperiall priuiledge was coÌ„ferred vnto the Palatine Prince which is as the goldeÌ„ Bul of the Emperor Charls the 4. doth beare that he may in some case cite and summon the Emperor to appeare and answere before him Iudicially And because that in honor of the two most Noble Princes lately maried Frederick Elizabeth we haue drawne diuers Pedigrees descents both from glorious Charlemaigne and froÌ„ many other Emperors Kings of diuers countries coÌ„mon to them both especially seuen therfore mee thought it good to exhibite vnto the readers a suÌ„mary view of the same reseruing the more speciall handling thereof to another labour and worke in Latine In the first foure of the said seuen Pedigrees coÌ„mon to both the said Princes our most gratious Soueraigne King Iames his most Noble son-in-law Prince Fredericke are in one the selfe same degree of descent from the 20 Emperors and 24. Kings therein mentioned In the fifth Pedigree our most gratious Queene Anne and the said Prince are likewise in one and the same degree of Descent From the 4. Emperours and 3. Kings therein named And in th sixth and seuenth Prince Fredericke and Princesse Elizabeth do happely and iointly fall into one and the same degree of descent from the Emperour and 8. Kings contained therein Likewise Prince Charles and Prince Fredericke two brothers-in-law are colineally descended from two-borne-brothers to wit from Henry prince Palatine and Duke of Saxe the elder of the two from whom Prince Fredericke is in the 15. degree and from Otho Earle of Yorke and Emperour the yonger brother from whom P. Charles Duke of Yorke being likewise the yonger of the said two brothers-in-law is descended both on his fathers and his mothers side in the 13. and 14. degree though as I noted other-where some do hold that he had no children by any of his wiues The first of the fore-said seuen common pedigrees containeth fifteene Emperours of Romans Greekes and Germans with eight Kings of diuers Countries as namely Germanie Bauier for anciently it was a Kingdome Hungary Boheme Sicile and England whereof two Kings are therein specified to wit Edward the elder and Henry 2. from whom P. Fredericke is descended by both his daughters to wit Maude the elder married to Henry the Lyon Duke of Saxe and Bauier and Leonora the yonger married to Alphonse the 8. King of Castile Whereby we may see that like as P. Fredericke is descended from the Kings of England so is King Iames likewise descended from diuers of the Germane Emperours especially by the meanes of his most Noble mother and the most Illustrious house of Loraine whence it doth follow that hee is capable of the Imperiall dignity as being of the bloud of Germanie and of the Empire The second common Pedigree containeth fiue Emperours of Constantinople together with seuen Kings of France Hungary Aragon Valence and Sicile The third common Pedigree containeth seuen Kings of England Scotland Ierusalem Castile France Naples and Sicile of which number are Edmond Ironside and Henry the first Kings of England besides King Henry the 2. mentioned in the first Pedigree together with Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland The fourth common Pedigree is from S. Lodâ—wicke or Lewis the incomparable King of France from whom King Iames and Prince Fredericke on their most Noble mothers side Mary and Lucy-Iuliane are lineally descended in one and the same degree with King Lodowick the 13. of this name being all three in the 12 degree The fifth pedigree containeth foure Emperors and three Kings of Boheme and Poland The sixth pedigree containeth seuen Kings of Arragon Valence France Nauarre England Castile and Leon of which number are Edward the 2. and Edward the 3. Kings of England and Iohn of Gant his sonne Knight of the renowned Order of the Garter Earle of Richmond Darby Leicester and Lincolne Palatine of Chester Great Constable of France and High Steward of England Duke of Aquitane and Lancaster and King of Castile and Leon from whom prince Fredericke and princesse Elizabeth are lineally descended the one by his sonne Iohn Earle of Sommerset Marquis Dorset the other by his daughter Philippa married to Iohn King of Portugale both in the tenth degree which is the eleuenth from King Edward the 3. as the pedigree I haue lately published doth shew The seuenth and last Pedigree common to both the said Princes is from Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bauier and Emperour and his wife Margaret the Empresse and Countesse of Holland together with King Iohn of France from the which Emperour and Empresse they are both in the 12 degree So that the number of the Emperours contained in the said seuen pedigrees common to both falleth out to be twenty fiue and the number of the Kings of diuers countries therin specified is thirty and aboue and euen so many Kings besides 12. Emperours haue we found in the Princely descent of the Illustrious house of Howards as wee shall God willing shew in another
A MONVMENT of Remembrance ERECTED IN ALBION IN HONOR OF THE MAGNIFICENT DEPARTVRE FROM BRITANNIE and honorable receiuing in GERMANY namely at HEIDELBERGE of the two most Noble Princes FREDERICKE First Prince of the Imperiall bloud sprung from glorious Charlemaigne Count Palatine of Rhine Duke of Bauier Elector and Arch-sewer of the holy Romane Empire and Knight of the Renowned order of the GARTER ELIZABETH INFANTA of ALBION Princesse PALATINE and Dutchesse of BAVIER the onely Daughter of our most gratious and Soueraigne Lord CHARLES-IAMES and of his most Noble and vertuous Wife Queene ANNE Both of them being almost in one and the same degree of lineall descent from 25 Emperours of the East and West of Romanes Greekes and Germans and from 30 Kings of diuers countries By IAMES MAXVVEL LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Henry Bell and are to be sold at his shop within Bishops-gate 1613. A Summary view of the Historicall Points and Poeticall Conceits occurring in this present Monument 1 THAT Prince Fredericke is in one and the same degree of descent with our most gracious Soueraigne IAMES the Concorder from 20 Emperours of Romans Greekes and Germanes and from 24 Kings of diuers countries 2 That Prince Fredericke is in one and the same degree of descent with our most noble Queene ANNE from foure Emperours and three Kings 3 That Prince Fredericke is in one the same degree of descent with Princesse ELIZABETH his spouse from one Emperour and eight Kings of diuers countries besides the former 4 That Prince Fredericke is descended from Edward the Elder Edmund Ironside Henry the 1. and 2. and Edward the 3. Kings of England and likewise from Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland 5 That Prince Charles Prince Fredericke brothers in Law are collinially descended from two borne brothers to wit Fredericke Prince Palatine being the elder from Henry Prince Palatine and Duke of Saxe who was likewise the elder of the said two brothers and Prince Charles Duke of Yorke being the yonger from the yonger brother Otho once Earle of Yorke and Emperour 6 That the Pope did presumptuously and wickedly abuse Otho Earle of Yorke and Emperour 7 That there haue been as yet but onely two Emperours of the Palatine family the one a yonger brother named Lodowicke Duke of Bauiere the other an elder brother named Robert Count Palatine and that from both of them and their Empresses Margaret and Elizabeth Prince Fredericke and Princesse Elizabeth are lineally descended 8 That the said two Emperours chosen of the Palatine Family haue had an exceeding different Fortune in their acceptance towards the Pope the one being highly hated of three euill Auinion-Popes the other as highly beloued of one good Rome-Pope 9 That the Palatine Princes haue beene very officious at all times to the Kings of England and their children namely in electing some of them to be Emperours hoping that they shall yet hereafter proue more officious and forward in the same kinde then euer they haue done before 10 That our most gratious Soueraigne by the meanes of the most Illustrious house of Lorraine is lineally descended as from diuers of the German Emperours so from one who was both Prince Palatine and Emperour named Robert the Noble and consequently that being both of the Germane and Imperiall bloud that he is capable of the Imperiall dignity 11 That Albions Island though it be her fortune to bee deflowred of two flowres in one yeare a Lilly and a Rose yet must she not be altogether discouraged so long as there remaineth a Lilly-Rose behind 12 That there haue beene diuers matchings of the daughters of this Island with forraigne Princes namely of Germany France and Spaine and the cause why they haue beene all issulesse and fruitlesse 13 That there haue beene three diuers Vnion-endeauours of three Maries of three diuers countries English French and Scottish and that the third Mary was shee who with Mary in the Gospell did choose the better part 14 That of this late Alliance is to bee expected an Vnion of Northerne Princes long agoe fore-told as shall bee shewed in our Sibylla Britannica whereby the Turke must bee totally ouer-throwne and that as some haue thought neere the Riuer of Rhine 15 That among all the Prophesies or Predictions that doe promise any glorious exploit to be brought to passe by any Prince not as yet fulfilled that is the most notable which hath beene vttered concerning a Prince of the name of Charles with the Authors ardent wish for Prince Charles which is more fully expressed is a Poëme vpon his hopefull Natiuity 16 That peerelesse Prince Henry seemeth to inuite and adiure all the Worthies of Britannie by their most ardent loue towards him dead and aliue to glorifie the day of his deere sisters departure for Germany that her day may bee as celebrious as euer Gonilda's was and more 17 That Iasons Sydereall ship which once fetcht from Colchos to Greece the Golden Fleece looketh as if she did desire to descend from her starry Hauen into our Thames thence to transport the Golden Fleece of IAMES 18 That Castor and Pollux those two louing Twinnes borne in Aprill to banish Pyracie doe looke downe from their starry Tabernacle as if they meaned to grace and guard ELIZA'S Argo named Prince-Henry till she be safely arriued at the Shore of Germany 19 That Astraea or the Coelestiall Virgine vnder whose signe ELIZA was borne and likewise Prince FREDERICKE and who hath beene so liberall of her best influences in her Gracefull behalfe as may appeare more amply by our Poëme made vpon her Natiuity commands two of her greatest lights to attend Eliza to her ship and to light her so many nights as she shall chance to stay vpon the sea 20 That Aeolus Neptunus Tethys and Doris with the rest of the Marinall powers endeauour each of them to doe Eliza some good office the one perfuming the aire with Muskie-breath for her sake the others calming and sweetning the Seas for her sake 21 That the louing Dolphins desire to flocke about Eliza's Argo with many demonstrations of greatest ioy both for her owne sake and for her Grandames sake who was once a Dolphins deerest deere with Historicall examples of their rescuing of many persons from Sea-danger 22 That Rhine begins to reuell for ioy of Elizaes arviuall and the admirable nature thereof in discerning of such barnes as haue beene gotten with false play 23 That Cybele the mother of the Gods that is of Kings because she was the first Queene-mother in the world together with Flora Queene of May are both of them busied in contriuing of Aprill-carpets and May-coronets and Flowry-pearly-canopies in honour of Eliza the one to lay along vnder her feet the other to hang and beare aboue her head at her entrie to Heidelberge 24 That the syluane Pan together with the daintie Nymph Deiope are both gone to Palestine to fetch a Marriage-maypole for our Palatine-paire of two louing Palme-trees and of the
wonderfull loue that Histories do record to be betweene the Palmes male and female 25 That the three Graces resembling the three faces of three famous Brittish Queenes suted in three diuers colours are to present Eliza with three Roses of three diuers kindes 26 That the Mirtle-nymph of Heidelberge mounted vpon her crowned Lion is to meet our Rosie Nymph at the Citties-gate to do their seuerall obeysances with diuers notable things of the nature and Armes of the Lion 27 That the fragrant Mirtle-tree of Egypt is due to Eliza no lesse then the Mirtle-berry-hill of Heidelberge with the crowned Lion thereof as being of the Royall Egyptian bloud of Osiris Isis and Hercules who first bare the Lion in his Armes 28 That Eliza is another Myrsina who for her worth was once Mineruaes deere 29 That the Matrons and Maids of Heidelberge shall praise Eliza aboue all the daughters of Emperours and Kings that haue beene married to their Princes in former times and that the Muses there are to doe as much some in Poesie and other some in prose 30 That the Church-Holy-Ghost of Heidelberge founded by the Prince Palatine and Emperour Robert and Elizabeth the Empresse shall exceedingly reioyce at Elizabeths entry wishing withall that shee could sing as sweetly as doth Londons St. Pauls by the mouth of her Organ-quire of surplised singing-men for sweet Elizabeths sake 31 That vpon Pantheon hill hard by Heidelberge the most renowned Persian Princesse Panthaea is to present Eliza sprung from a Panthaea with a Lilly-garland made of such sweet Lillies as do grow about her Lilly-citty of Susa 32 That Panthaea is to bee honoured of all Matrones and wiues as their Patronesse most worthy of imitation and that her deere Abradate ought to serue for a Patrone and patterne vnto all husbands of louing their wiues deerely and thinking alwayes of them worthily with diuers notable examples of the fond iealousie of some husbands how that it hath turned highly to their harme shame and highest dishonour 33 That vpon S. Abrahams hill hard by Heidelberge Abraham and Sara seeme to meet Fredericke and Elizabeth whom they blesse with the blessings of Isaac and Rebecca Iacob and Rahel wishing they may long liue in highest honour besides S. Abrahams hill on earth and in the end be translated gloriously to S. Abrahams bosome and Gods holy hill in heauen Which is likewise the ardent wish of their right denoted and humble seruant Iames Maxwell TO THE RIGHT ILLVSTRIOVS HOVSE OF HOWARDS HONORED WITH THE CONFLVENCE OF TWO AND FOVRTY STREAMES OF PRINCELY BLOVD DERIVED FROM TWELVE IMPERIALL AND THIRTY ROYALL HEAD-SPRINGS HIS ESSAYES LATINE AND ENGLISH DONE AND TO BEE DONE IN HONOVR OF OVR MOST GRATIOVS KING QVEENE AND OF THEIR MOST HOPEFVL CHILDREN HVMBLY DEDICATETH IAMES MAXWEL THE AVTHOR TO THE COVRTEOVS READER TOVCHING THE REAsons of this present Dedication to the Illustrious House of HOVVARDS MY Muse courteous Reader hauing meditated certaine Historicall and Poeticall Essayes as well in Latine as in English in honour of our most gracious King Iames his most Noble wife Queene Anne and of their most hopefull children Prince Charles Princesse Elizabeth and Prince Fredericke her Spouse in whose common extraction descent I haue remarked no fewer then 25. Emperours and 30. Kings of diuers Countries I resolued with my selfe to commend the same to the honourable Patronage of the Illustrious house of Howard for these reasons following First because of the singular excellencie of this name in whose extraction no fewer then 12. Emperours and 30. Kings of diuers Countries are contained whereof most part are the same Emperours and Kings which do occurre in the extraction common to the aboue-named two most Noble Princes as shall bee shewed God-willing in our Latine worke and truely it must needs be a thing that doth much illustrate and commend the exceellencie and honour of our King and Country to haue such Subiects as this worthy house doth yeeld being so Nobilitated by the meanes both of their Princely descent and of their publicke deserts as they are Secondly because of a certaine kind of honourable and notable similitude and affinity that the Noble name of Howard hath with the Royall name of Steward for both names do signifie in the old Saxon tongue as much as the Warden or Gouernour of a a Place Fort or Castle both being at the first imposed by reason of the charge preferment and place the two first persones that were so named did beare in the Common-wealth So that these two Sur-names may truely say that which many other Sur-names cannot say which is that the first two Wights that euer bare the names of Steward and Howard as they were both borne in South-britanny so were they both men of quality reputation and rancke and euen such as wee commonly name Gentlemen and Noblemen Moreouer as both names giue the Lyon Rampant though different in coulour for their badge or Armes so both can fetch their Pedigree from diuers of the same Emperours and Kings of diuers Countries and namely from Kings of England and Scotland Likewise both names haue beene matched with the Royall bloud of England for as Margaret a daughter of England was married to a Royall Steward of Scotland King Iames the 4. in the which businesse a Noble Howard had an especiall employment so Katherine a daughter of the house of Howard was married to a King of England Henry the 8. Besides that famous Queene Elizabeth was descended from this Illustrious house on her mothers side the Lady Anne Bolen whose mother was the Lady Elizabeth Howard Countesse of Wilshire and Ormond daughter to Thomas the first of this name Duke of Norfolke As also the foresaid two Names haue had the fortune to seeke and aime at a three-fold matrimoniall Vnion one with another The first attempt and designe of marriage but hindered was betweene a Royall Steward euen a matchlesse Queene Mary and a Princely Howard Thomas the third of this name Duke of Norfolke brother to Henry Earle of Northhampton Lord Priuy-seale father to Thomas Earle of Suffolke Lord Chamberlaine Grand-father to Thomas Earle of Arundell the sonne of Earle Phillip The second attempt or designe of marriage was betweene the sonne and daughter of the fore-said two Princes to wit betweene Charles-Iames â—…ward Prince of Scotland and the Lady Margaret Howard which was likewise hindred with the former The third designe onely tooke effect by the vniting-meanes of our Concording-King the Maker of the marriage betweene Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Lord Admirall and the Lady Margaret Steward daughter of Iames Earle of Murrey Thirdly it hath bene the common fortune of both these names to reape much good lucke and preferment either of them by the meanes of three Ladies being both of the same Country and of the same names to wit either of them by two Margarets and one Elizabeth The three English Ladies which brought good fortune to the Royall name of Steward were these first Margaret the
make vp King IAMES his auspicious lucky number of Nineteene which is likewise the number of the coelestial Lyon according to Hyginus Germanicus Caesar writing vpon Aratus as also of the Kingdomes Prince-domes into which the Ile of Britanny with Ireland in former ages haue bene deuided the which are now all happely vnited in One in the person of the Lilly-Lyon of the North and in this vnited State long may they continue aye vntill all the Kingdomes of the earth bee fully vnited in the glorious person of the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah who delighteth to feede among the Lillies as it is in the Canticles The heauens Eliza will with Issue blesse By Fredericke her Spouse from Caesars sprung Such is our hope and such shall be our wish That songs may be of their sweete Issue sung When as it shall befall them as it hath Before to * Robert and Elizabeth 12 The two Henries Kings of England the 1. and the 2. had either of them a daughter named Mathilde or Maud and both of them were married to two Henries of Germany the first King Henries Mathilde was his onely daughter and heire and was wedded at fiue yeeres old to Henry the 5. Emperour and was crowned Empresse at Mentz on Saint Iames his day in the yeere 1114. being of the age as said is of 5. who after the decease of her husband dying without issue annó 1116. returned to her father King Henry bringing with her the Imperiall Crowne and Saint Iames his hand in honour whereof hee founded the Abbey and Church of S. Mary in Reading as William of Malmsbury William of Gemite Roger Houedon and Thomas Walsingham doe write The which deed of this North-South descended Lady for her father was King of England and her mother another renowned Mathildis was a daughter of Scotland borne of S. Margaret and King Malcolme me thinkes did beare this good signification that once a Iames and he the son of a Matchlesse Mary both of them hauing in their persons vnited the Royall blouds of both Countries should euen at the feast of the Annunciation of the glorious Virgin MARY enter to the vniting of these Kingdomes and that he should at the Feast of Saint Iames receiue the Imperiall Crowne of the same vnited Kingdomes on his happy head Whereof there is more to be read in our Poem that sheweth both by Theology Astrology the auspiciousnesse of his Maiesties entry to this Crowne for whereas there haue bene three diuers designes attempted before at three diuers times to vnite this Iland with three diuers Nations Germany France Spaine by the meanes of the Marriages of three Queene-heires Maud and the two Maries it was the great Vnion-Makers will to make the fore-said three Matches all fruitlesse to the end that it might be first fully and perfitely vnited with and in it owne selfe before any other such Vnion with any forraine Nation should be made as by those three marriages was intended and expected and when I compare the designes deeds of the three Maries together first of Mary of England by her Mariage with King Phillip labouring to vnite this Iland in whole or in part with Spaine next of Mary of Lorvaine by the Mariage of her yong daughter Mary of Scotland with Francis the Dolphin to deuouring to vnite it with France and lastly of the same Mary of Scotland by her second Marriage with her deerest cousen Henry Lord Darly Earle of Rosse and Duke of Albuny great-grand-child of King Henry the 7. intending to vnite this Iland with it selfe in her happy Issue when as I compare together I say the fore-said three diuers designes and endeuours of the fore-said three Maries I am constrained to giue out this verdite and censure concerning the same that the first two Maries were with Martha in the Gospell combred about many things but that the third Mary with Mary in the same Gospell had chosen the better part which was not to be taken from her The other Mathildis or Maude married into Germany was the daughter of King Henry the second wedded to Henry surnamed the Lyon Duke of Bauier and Saxe and bare him diuers children namely Henry Duke of Saxe c. and Prince Palatine in right of his wife Agnes heire of the Palatinate by meanes whereof Prince Fredricke is descended from the said King Henry the 2. in the 17. degree Another of their said children was Otho Lord of Brunswicke and Earle of Yorke created by his vnckle King Richard sur-named Lyons-heart who also was chosen Emperour afterwards and from him Prince Charles Duke of Yorke is both on his fathers and his mothers side descended in the 13. and 14 degrees though some haue written that he left no Issue by any of his wiues He is much wronged by Historians for that he was an enemy to the Popes vsurped super-Imperiall power and his Temporall vsurpations for when as hee did feast Pope Innocent the 3. in Rome being then his friend it chanced that hee made a motion to haue some things restored to the Empire which the Pope did possesse where-with he was so highly offended that he presumptuously took vp a sword to haue stricken the Emperor and afterwards did both Excommunicate him and pronounce the sentence of deposition against him whom before hee had aduanced to that dignity reade Vrspergensis Cuspinianus Carion Pedro de Mexia and others Heauens her vouch safe both the Mathilda's fate Two Henries girles both of South-britanny Betroth'd to Henries two of greatest state They Germaines both that Britanes once may see When with the first Mathilde Eliza shall Weare on her head the wreath Imperiall 13 And as the next Mathilda oft was seene To blesse her Spouse with plenteous Progeny Both with a Caesar and a Palatine To rule in Brunswicke Rhine and Saxony So may Eliza with Mathilda beare Vnto her Spouse a Caesar and a Peere 14 Iagello great Duke of Lithuany married Hedwigis heire of Poland daughter of Lodowick King of Hungary And like as once the braue Hungarian Heire Elizabeth did crowne her Casimire Great Polands King when as shee to him bare Sixe sonnes besides as many daughters deere So may to our Elizabeth befull Like fruitefull fate to crowne her Spouse withall 15 Poland on S. Valentines day and his sonne Casimire King of Poland married about the same time Elizebeth heire of Hungary the daughter of Albert the 2. Emperour Arch-duke of Austria and King of Boheme and Hungary by whom he had sixe sonnes whereof foure were Kings of Poland Hungary and Boheme and as many daughters That euen as hee from Casimire doth spring And from his wife twise Queene Elizabeth So his Elizabeth may make him sing When he by her such hopefull children hath Like hap to both sith both had hap to marry Eliza's two about mid-February 16 Henry who did his sweetest sister loue With heart so pure so sure me thinkes I see How he doth beg
leaue of the Powers aboue For to come downe from heauen to Germany Bringing with him a Garland for the day That Heidelberge salutes her Queene of May. 17 Abrahams hill in Dutch named Abrinsberge is a hill on the right hand of Heidelberge and is in the ancient Records of that Citty called S. Abrahami Mons as Irenicus Leodius and Marquardus do witnesse Me thinkes I see him from Saint Abrahams hill By Heidelberge inspiring euery wight How to vnite their Powers wit and skill Their Towne to decke with greatest glory bright Against the day that his deere Sister sweete In greatest state must ride along the streete 18 But first I see him from his owne Saint Iames Inspiring all the Worthies of this Isle With greatest state to bring her to the Thames In such array that twise ten thousand mile Both tongues and Tribes may talke of that daies glory When she departs and put it in some Story 19 Come Nobles all come Worthies Beauties bright With your best things adorne Eliza's day Flocke from all parts and grace you with her sight Before that she sweete one be gone her way Let euery wight that any honour hath Come honour all-belou'd Elizabeth 20 William of Malmes berry and Mathew of Westminster in their Histories do make mention of the great magnificence was vsed of the Nobility of England in conueying of Gonilda the faire daughter of the Danish King of England Canute to her ship it was so great that they exhausted their whole treasure for costly apparell to themselues and pretious presents to the Bride at her departure The Musitians and Minstrels at feasts and banquets were alwaies wont to celebrate the stately and Princely pompe thereof in their songs thinking that they could neuer sufficiently magnifie and extoll the same Let not the glory of Gouilda's day So much extol'd in English History When as she did from England take her way To her Spouse Henry into Germany Let not her day Elizaes day surpasse Sith she 's as good as e're Gonilda was 21 Flocke men and women from the farthest parts To view Elizaes face her grace her glory Come and adore this worthy Queene of hearts And hauing seene her keepe in memory What once yee saw who ne're shall liue the howre To see trans-planted such a gallant Flowre 22 Yee tender Virgins come before her face Her face wherein all manner-worth doth shine And with a song see yee salute her Grace Lauding Eliza with her Valentine Wishing that them as many daies may crowne As there grows Vines vpon the Rhenish ground 23 And yee bright starres extend your influenter And for her sake so yee the Season frame That it obscure not her magnificence But rather adde some luster to the same Thou golden Phoebus bind thy brightest raies To last as long as shall her progresse daies 24 That as the skies her nuptiall rites did grace With sweetest smiles after a stor my time Of boisterous blasts so euery time and place Both heauen and earth their bounties may combine With Flora and her Nymphes of greatest state Belou'd Eliza to congratulate 25 But if our heauens will needs some sorrow show And shed some teares when as she doth depart And weepe with vs as grieuing to forgoe So sweete a wight that cheer'd each eie and heart Yet must heauens weeping end when she shall rise Her cleeren esse bene enough to cleere the skies 26 A Season sweete to sweete Elizaes due A Beamy time befits so braue a Wight Fresh Flora flaunting in her garish hue And Violet weed must tend her day and night With all her traine till they Eliza crowne Heidelberge by interpretation is as much as a Hill or Towne of Myrtles from the which it takes the name according to the opinion of Franciscus Irenicus Michael Bohemus and Paulus Melissus because of the great aboundance of Myrtle berries which grow thereabout they are called here in England Whirtle-berries and in Scotland Blea-berries With Myrtle-wreath amids the * Myrtle-towne 27 The Argosie wherein Prince Iason went To Colehos ground to fetch the golden Fleece Once stellified amids the firmament After that it had long decored Greece This ship turn'd starre e'ne * The Constellarion called Argo in honour of Iasons ship consisteth of many stars wherof 18. are of the first second third magnitudes it doth risein the Spring season according to the obseruation of Astronomers the 13. of March after Ptolomies Kalender but somewhat sooner according to the Ephemerides of the Modernes and somewhat later according to the ancient Kalender of the Romanes which placeth the rising thereof vpon the fifth of Aprill See Prolomeus Aratus Hyginus Picolominaeus Maginus Stadius and others now she doth arise To calme the seas and for to cleere the skies 28 When I behold the twinkling of her face Shee lookes as if shee had a deepe desire To leaue a while her high aethereall place Which she now holds amongst those flames of fire For to descend amids our Riuer Thames Thence to transport the golden Fleece of IAMES 29 * Castor Pollux were borne the seuenth of Aprill and on the same day antiently their birth was celebrated in honour of them for that they did scoure the seas from Pirates and Rouers so that after their death they were held of Mariners and Sailers for their Patrons and Protectors from the danger of Pyrates See the ancient Pontificall Kalender Arotus Hyginus and others Castor and Pollux which therein did saile Borne in Aprill to banish Piracie Bid their star'd ship take downe herflags and vaile To the Prince-Henry of great Britanny You ship say they it beares a better Fleece Then that which once our Arge fetcht to Greece 30 The Virgin-signe * Of Eliza's natruity in the signe of Virgo see more in our Poem made vpon that subiect in a goodtime two of the said Virgo's brightest starres the one called Spica Virginis of the first magnitude the other called Cingulum Virginis of the third magnitude do arise at night the one the seuenth the other the eighth of Aprill as it were for Elizaes sake to light her all the nights of her voiage chiefly vpon the sea See Hyginus Maginus Picolominaeus which did Eliza beare Bids fast arise two of her greatest lights Her Zona-starre and then her Spica cleere To chase all Langour from so many nights As her deere daughter in her Ship must stay And for her sake she turnes the night to day 31 Tethis commands her daughter Doris then Her wonted bitternesse to set aside For feare to be rebuk'd of Gods and men If any frownes should in her face be spi'd Sith heauen and earth saith she do smile to day It 's meete that we put bitternesse away 32 The louing * Sixe famous Historians Plinius Pausanias Plutarchus Athenaeus Elianus Solinus doe relate admirable examples of the affection of the Dolphins towards Mankind and of their forewardnesse to rescue them from dangers on
Lumbardy her chiefe Councelor but she cleered her selfe to her great honour and her iealous yea impotent husbands great shame So did Gonilda the faire daughter of Canute King of England accused to her husband Henry the third Emperour of the like fault who when as shee could find none to fight in the defence of her honesty against her slanderous accuser being so strong and of so huge a Statute it pleased God to enspire a little boy with Dauids courage whom shee had brought out of England with her who encountring with the reproachfull Goliah first cut his knee and being fallen to the ground cut off his head and brought it to the good Empresse Gonilda who thanked God with great reioysing for working such a wonder for her sake by the hands of a boy being of so low a Stature that he was commonly called Mimecan or the Dwarfe as William of Malmâ—ssbury Mathew of estminster and Ranulph of Chester haue written The three Mathilda's Girles of Caesars three Which wedded were to Princes three of Rhine Had not more worth more grace more Maiesty Then lou'd Eliza Princesse Palatine Blanch once a daughter of South-britanny VVas not her match nor Anne of Polony 81 Nor yet Bohemies Lady Ludomille Nor Beatrice the Girle of Sicilie Nor she of Bauier whom they name Sybille No more her Match was Denmarkes Dorothy From Hungary and Bauier Ladies two Eliza's both might t' our Eliza bow 82 The Muses then of Heidelberge shall come Before her face with Pamphlets full of praise Some Dutch some French some Latine other some In Greeke her name and same abroad to blase Some shall in Verse and other some in Prose Record the worth of such a gallant Rose 83 Church-Holy-Ghost which Caesar Robert fram'd Prince Palatine and King of Germany With his Empresse Elizabeth surnam'd When it receiues the Rose of Britanny Shall pray great Ioue that shee see neuer death Till shee bee stil'd Empresse Elizabeth 84 Me-thinkes I see how Robert from his shrine With his Eliza sleeping in that place Awake to welcome their sonnes Valentine Wishing them both all health wealth hap and grace That as they both do from them iointly spring So may them Ioue to all their honours bring 85 One thing will want which much I wish were there An Organd-quior of Surpliz'd Saints to sing Such as we heare in Paules and Westminster Heauens earths delight but thou Concording King To Holy-Ghost-Church helpe for to restore Such holy-state as once she had before 86 O if S. Giles which Edinburgers holds With Heidelbergers Holy-Ghost could sing Such Organd-anthems shall bee sung in Paules Of Londoners the day that they shall bring This Lady home whose worth and dignity Should bee solemniz'd of these Citties three 87 On the left hand of Heidelberge is a Hil called Heiligenberg which is by interpretation the Hill of all Saints where according to Franciscus Irenicus and Thomas Leodius was anciently a Temple erected in honour of all the Heathen Gods called Pantheon like vnto that of Rome mentioned in Dion Cassius which Pope Boniface as Platina testifieth conuerted into a Church called Al-Saints When first Myrsina mounts Pantheon Hill By Heidelberge mee-thinkes a Lady-bright Panthaea nam'd Myrsina comes vntill Adorn'd with beauty modesty and might Such as she had when her lou'd Abradate In Perse was Lord of Susas Lilly-state 88 This Princely Dame whom Xenophon doth praise Both for her beauty and her chastity When to King Cyrus she a captiue was Who had good proofe of her pudicity As soone as shee doth her Myrsina meete Shee in this manner her begins to greete 89 Welcome Myrsina to Pantheon Hill Welcome pure Pearle whom I Panthaea loue Welcome to me and shall be euer still To Wights below and vnto Gods aboue Blest be the feete that fetcht this glasse to me Of thy sweete face wherein mine owne I see 90 As ardent loue may last betweene you twaine As did 'twixt me and my deere Abradate Ioue from aboue his blessings powre amaine Downe on your heads and make so mount your state Amongs your Peeres as much as Iuno's Lilly Surmounts the Primrose Panse or Daffadilly 91 Alcestis loued so entirely deerely her louing husband Admetus King of Thessaly that she choosed to die thereby to deliuer her said husband from imminent death as is in Euripides or as writeth Palaphatus more probably that shee made herselfe the captiue of Accastus to deliuer her husband from his captiuity who was afterwards deliuered by Hercules and restored to her louing husband And as for Pericles Prince of Athens he loued so deerely his louing Aspasia that he neuer went out a doores from her but he kissed her as writes Plutarchus Such vnquench't fire as once the breasts did burne Of Admetus and his Alcestis deere Burne both your breasts till both to ashes turne Or both turne starres amidst pure Venus spheare So liue so loue that time you surname may A Pericles and an Aspasia 92 Then for a token of her loue so deere Towards Myrsina for whose sake she came She her bequeathes a Lilly-crowne to weare And her entreates not to neglect the same And that this signe her grace should neuer leaue For Panthaea who her that garland gaue 93 The Lilly is the King of Flowers in regard both of the fairenesse the tallnesse thereof In Salomons Canticles it is the Symbole of our Sauiour In S. Hilary it is the Symbole of the glorious Angels It is likewise the Symbole or Ensigne of publicke hope as may appeare by the Imperiall Medals of Alexander Pius Aemilianus Claudius Tiberius Adrianus and others Finally it is the Symbole of beauty and pudicity according to S. Hierome and great store thereof did grow in the Persian fields about Susa the delicate and most sweet winter-seat of the Kings of Persia The which Cities name is by interpretation a Lilly as Athenaeus doth witnesse and was so named according to the testimony of Stephanus in Vrbibus from the aboundâ—nce of faire Lillies there growing It was once the Citty of Abradate and Panthaea who are so highly praised by Xenophon afterwards by St. Hierom. When Cyrus had ouercome the Assyrians this Persian Princesse was taken her husband Abradate Prince of Susa being then absent in Bactria hee being the most worthy and valorous Chiefetaine of his time and she both the most vertuous and the most beauteous Lady of all Asia who when as some of King Cyrus his Courtiers did comfort her the best way they could telling her amongs other matters that in steed of an Abradate she was to be honoured with the loue and society of a Cyrus no sooner heard she these words but she began to beate her breast to teare her haire and to rent her cloathes and vaile from top to toe taking vp amids her mournfull maids a most bitter lamentation The consideration of whose incomparable beauty and worth made Cyrus to forbeare to come into her sight as fearing to be ouercome
worke One thing there is which the special affection I do beare to the honour of the name of Iames will not suffer me to smother vp and that is That our most gracious Souerainge King Iames the first of this name in Britanny and likewise the first Christian vniter of the two kingdomes therof and the son heire of a Matchlesse Q. Mary together with his Noble son-in-law P. Fredericke are both of them in the 13. degree of lineall descent from Iames the first of this name surnamed the Fortunate son and heire of a worthy Queene Mary and the vniting King of Aragon and Valence of whom six famous Spanish Chroniclers Rodericus Toletanus Rodericus Sanctius Alphonsus à Carthagena Franciscus Tarapha Lucius Marinius and Damianus à Goes make most honourable mention And from the same vniting King of Aragon Iames the Fortunate who was likewise the Author of two seuerall Orders of Knighthood as Polydorus Zuingerus and others do write Prince Fredericke and Princesse Elizabeth are yet another way lineally descended and that both in one the same degree of the number of fifteene It is likewise worthy of obseruation that whereas there haue beene but only two Emperours of the Palatine Family heâ—…â—…e the one a yonger brother and Duke of Bauiâ—… 〈◊〉 Lodowicke the 5. the other an elder brother 〈◊〉 â—ount Palatine which was Robert surnamed tâ—… 〈◊〉 â—hat the two Princes lately married are descended equally from them both with their Empresses Margaret and Elizabeth from the first two both in the 12 degree and from the other two He in the 9. She in the 10 degree And my hearty wish is that these two names aforesaid Margaret and Elizabeth may proue as lucky Imperially for Frederickes and Elizabeths Imperiall preferment in Germany as the same names haue heretofore done royally for King Iames their fathers royall preferment in Britanny It is also worth the noting that as there haue beene as yet but only two Emperours of the Palatine family so haue they had a very different fortune in their acceptance towards the Pope for Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bauier and Emperour as is said before from whom Prince Fredericke is the 12 was highly hated of Benedict the 12 and before him yet more of Iohn the 22 whose name is so numerous that he might haue well said with the vncleane spirit in the Gospell my name is Legion and yet after him of a third pope Clement the 6. The which three popes most like the three Furies did no other thing else from day to day but heape hellish sentence vpon sentence of excoÌ„munication depriuation against the good Emperour who not withstanding all their Infernall fulminations and Cerbereall oblatrations receiued more honour in Rome at the hands of both Clergy Laity there then they all three did in Auinion and in spite of the Diuell liued longer in the Empire then they all three did in the Papacy But who list to learne more of the quarrels and contentions betweene the good Emperour Lodowike and the foresaid three euill popes of Auinion let them read the histories of Blondus Sabellicus Merula Cuspinianus and Thomas Walsingham who likewise do tell how that Edward the third King of England who went ouer into Germany to salute the said Emperour to treat of an alliance with him against France was met of the said Emperour at Colein and admitted to be his Vicar generall in the Empire And the same Lodowickes father named Lodowicke the Seuere Prince Palatine together with his brother Henry Duke of Bauier had likewise chosen Richard Earle of Cornwall son of King Iohn to be Emperour like as Robert the first of this name Prince Palatine for this Title is in Aurea Bulla as well as that of Count Palatine did choose the foresaid King Edward the third to be Emperour after the death of Lodowicke the 5. though hee too modestly indeed refused the said dignity By which particulars wee may espy how that the Palatine Princes haue been in former times very officious to the Kings of England and their children hoping that they shall hereafter proue yet more officious forward in the same kind then euer they haue done before to the end that old prophesies may take effect which doe promise that the Imperiall dignity shall for many yeares continue in Britanny as our Sibylla Britannica shall largely shew The other Emperour of the Palatine house was Robert surnamed the Noble who reigned in great honor 9 yeares and 9 moneths from whom prince Fredericke is the 9. as the pedigree lately published doth shew and who was so highly beloued of pope Boniface the 9. that hee not onely furthered and confirmed his election but also granted him towards a subsidy one yeares tythes of the Clergy through all Germany as Cuspinianus and others do write So that this good Pope in doing this good office and in vsing so well the worthy Emperour did answere to his name and was a Boniface indeed farre otherwise then did Benedictus the 12. and Clement the 6 in the behalfe of the other Palatine Emperour named before And for mine owne part I wish with all my heart that many such Bishops may sit in the Apostolicall Chaire as may both in their own persons giue vnto God the things that are Gods vnto Caesar the things that are Caesars and with blessed S. Peter teach all Christians to feare God honor the King The foresaid Robert the good Emperour who was so highly beloued of the good pope Boniface the 9. was a prince renowned for his great spirit quicke wit heroicall courage for his loue and study of Iustice for the which cause he was surnamed Robertus Iustimanus for his carefull endeuouring to repaire the ancient glory of the Empire Hee came into England with a goodly company as Fabian Cooper do write in the yeare 1403. to see the magnificence of the Court and the commodities of the Countrey who of King Henry the 4. was honorably triumphantly receiued feasted and during his abode lodged at S. Iohns by Smithfield lastly conueyed towards the seaside where either departed froÌ„ other with exchange of rich pretious gifts for this Robert saith our said English Author was a prince of great bounty liberality and magnificence and shewed diuers effects thereof towards the English at his departure He was likewise the first Emperor that euer ware S. Georges renowned order commonly called The Order of the Garter as Maximilian the 2. another glorious Emperour was the eighth He was likewise the first of the three Palatines which haue ben honored with the foresaid noble Order Iohn Casimire being the second who receiued it at the hands of famous Queene Elizabeth about the same time of the yeare day of the moneth to wit the 8. of February that P. Fredericke being the third receiued it at the hands of our gracious K. Iames. The said Emperor Roberts wife was named Elizabeth the Empresse princesse Palatine and was a Lady of singular vertue piety bounty chastity charity towards the poore who brought forth to her worthy husband many fine children to wit fiue sons by the meanes of the yongest whereof P. Fredericke is descended from the said Emperor Empres in the 9. degree three daughters by the meanes of the eldest wherof named Margaret princesse Elizabeth is likewise descended from them in the 10 degree the which numbers in theÌ„ vnited make vp K. Iames his luckly number of Nineteene Thus wee see that like as our most gracious King Iames with his hopefull children prince Charles princesse Elizabeth are lineally descended from two Margarets and one Elizabeth of Britany being the renowned daughters of prince Edward surnamed the Outlaw K. Edward the 4. and K. Henry the 7. in whose tripled right the two Margarets being married to two kings of Scotland Malcolme Cammore and Iames the 4. he doth at this day happily and rightfully enioy this Crowne So are they likewise descended lineally from other two Margarets an Elizabeth of Germany to wit froÌ„ Margaret Countesse of Holland Dutchesse of Bauier Empresse wife to Lodowicke the Emperour from Elizabeth Dutchesse of Bauier princesse Palatine and Empresse wife to Robert the Emperour and sustly from Margaret Dutchesse of Loraine the eldest daughter of the said Robert the Emperour and Elizabeth the Empresse and who was married to the most noble and valorous prince Charles surnamed Marcelle or the warlike Duke of Loraine from whom I haue deriued our hopefull P. Charles his pedigree and that as well on his noble mothers as on his happy fathers side and yet more from Emperours Kings and Princes of the name of Charles to the number of 9. besides those of other names as also I haue done from P. Albert Marquise of Brandeburge who for his incomparable courage was called the Achilles of Germany wishing with all my heart that like as prince Charles was borne on his day doth participate of his bloud so he may likewise inherit his heroical prowesse and so one day be enstiled the Achilles of Britanny the which our hearty wish is more fully expressed in an Astrologicall and Historicall poem made vpon his Natiuity And thus for the present are we contented to shut vp this Genealogicall summe with this six-line-Epigram in honour of Fredericke and Elizabeth whom the God of heauen prosper and preserue Both from Augustus and Augusta spring Lodwicke-Margret Robert-Elizabeth Both in one month Ioue to the light did bring Augustus nam'd which this good presage hath AVGVSTVS fate one day must them befall And him AVGVSTVS her AVGVSTA call FINIS