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A94143	Calamus mensurans the measuring reed. Or, The standard of time. Containing an exact computation of the yeares of the world, from the creation thereof, to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Stating also, and clearing the hid mysteries of Daniels 70. weekes, and other prophecies, the time of Herods reigne; the birth, baptisme and Passion of our Saviour, with other passages never yet extant in our English tongue. In two parts. / By John Swan.	Swan, John, d. 1671.	1653 (1653)	Wing S6235; Thomason E706_4; ESTC R203659	246,136	350

opinion 1108. yeares before the vulgar time of the birth of Christ which because it was about such time as Silvius Posthumus ended his reigne gave occasion to some idle headed Monkes to deliver to posterity that Brute was his Sonne and thereupon descended from the blood of the Trojans And that this might carry with it the face of an History they stuck not to tell us that which no Roman Writer reporteth viz. that he should kill his owne Father by chance and thereupon forsooke his owne Country to seeke his fortune elswhere But Verstegan proves all this to be fabulous and admireth much to see how many people have sought to derive their discents from the Trojans and how that many foundations of Cities are reported to have laid by them Yea saith he the follies of men have been such that they have given the glory to the fugitive People of almost all that is excellent in all Europe This therefore would be wisely considered for it standeth with farre more likelihood of truth that we hold him for some * Alstedius saith he came into France out of Italy was at the first a King of a people there called Rutuli and that he was droven thence by Aeneas Prince of Gallia from whence he came when he arrived here in this Island then called Albion where conquering the present Inhabitants he setled himselfe and obtained the rule and dominion over the whole Land which now after him the Conqueror must be called Brittain At the time of his death he divided the whole into three parts and left them to be governed by his three Sonnes Locrine Albanact and Camber Vnto Locrine who was the eldest he left Loegria now called England Vnto Albanact the second Sonne he allotted Albania now called Scotland and unto Camber the third Sonne he gave Cambria now called Wales And all this when he had reigned twenty foure yeares namely twenty after he built London and foure before This was the first King The next as I said was Locrine of whom and his Successors I intend to make no large discourse but shall rather endeavour to set downe the Kings and yeares that they reigned as punctually as I can not varying from what is commonly accounted except upon good ground for the reconciling of this Story to other Histories And to effect this I shall gather out of sundry Authors the years of their reign following no one not further then I find just cause For unlesse an eye be had not only to the times of Belinus and Brennus but also to the time of Coilus otherwise called Coelius or Cecilius I beleeve I shall produce no truer account then what hath been produced already by such as have trod this path before me from which I must here and there step a little aside the better I say to reconcile this Story to other Histories But first if the Brittaines came not from the Trojans it would be shewed how the now City of London came to be called Troy novant I answer that where it hath beene conceited that any Country or people have had their descent from the Trojans there they have interpreted the names of their Cities according as in nearnesse of sound they came neare to any thing concerning Troy and so * or Trenevid Trenewith which in the British Tongue is as much as to say New towne came to be corruptly called Troy novant that is to say new Troy which is now saith * In his Restit of Antiq. c. 4. Verstegan our old London This being answered I come now to the List or Catalogue which is as followeth Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A Catalogue of the British Kings probably fixed in their right times     3606. Brute 24. He built London and was buried there 3630. Locrin 20.   3650. Guendolin 15.   36●5 Madan * 40. * He built Don caster and was slaine by Wolves and wild beasts in hunting 3705. Mempricius 20.   3725. Ebranke * 60. * He built Yorke and by 20. Wives had twenty Sons and thirty daughters 3786. Brute * Greensheild 30.   3815. Leill * 22. * He built Carlile and was buried there 3837. Rudburdibras * 39. * He built Canterbury Shaftsbury and Winthester 3876. Bladud * 20. * He was a great Astronomer and made the Bathes at Caerbrand and attempting to fly fell down and was broken in peices falling upon the top of Apollo's Temple 3896. Leir 40.   3936. Cordilla or * Cordelia 5.   3941. Cunedag and Morgan 12.   3953. Cunedag alone * 33. * He built three Temples the first to Mars at Pexth in Scotland the second to Mercury at Bangor in Wales the third to Apollo in Cornwall 3986. Rivallo * 22.   4008. Gurgustus 15.   4023. Sicilius 49.   4072. Jago 25.   4097. Kinimachus 54.   4151. Gorbodug 58.   4209. Ferex and * Porex 5. In the death of these two the line of Brute failed 4214. Cloten 50.   4264. Dunwallo * 40. He was the first King of Britaine that was crowned with a Crowne of Gold and by him Blackwell Hall was built Malmsbury and the Vies He also ordained weights 4304. * Belinus and Brennus 15.   4319. Belinus alone 11.   4330. Gurngust 19.   * So called of bearing such a shield in the wars with Gaule * Betweene her reign and that of Queene Mary Daughter of K. Henry the eight no woman ruled in Brittain * In his time it rained blood for three dayes * He built Belingsgate and the Tower of London Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg The continuation of the former List of the British Kings     4349. Guentholen 26. Measures and made good Laws against Theft 4375. Coilus * 7. * He was slaine in his Bed by Fergus in reward whereof the Scots made Fergus their King 4382. Kymor 3.   4385. Elanius * Howan 6.   4391. Morwith * 9. * This King fonght with is Monster that came out of the Irish Sea and was slaine by it 4400. Grandabod or * Grantbodian 10   4410. Arthogaile 1.   4411. Elidurus 3.   4414. Arthogaile againe 10.   4424. Elidure againe * 1. * The reignes of ●●e Kings from the death of this Elidure are held to be very uncertaine howbeit I have assayed to set them down according to what I find in some Authors but am not fully satisfied why Heli afterward thentioned should have but one year 4425. Vigenius and * Peridure 7.   4432. Peridure alone * 2.   4434. Elidure againe 4.   4438. Gorbonian 10.   4448. Morgan 2.   4450. Emerianus 6.   4456. Idwallan 8.   4464. Rhimo 11.   4475. Geruntius 13.   4488. Catill 10.   4498. Coel 12.   4510. Porrex 2.   4512. Cherin 1.   4513. Fulgen 2.   4515. Eldred 1.   4516. Andragie 1.   4517. Vranius 3.   4520. Eliud 5.   4525. Dedantius 5.   4530. Detonus 2.   4532.

former Royalty and reigne begun ten yeares before this time of the Actium victory For should he reigne thirty seven yeares from hence and after him Archelaus nine then where shall we finde roome for them that governed in Iudea after Archelaus was removed from his Kingdome For after Archelaus was removed from his Kingdome Antiq. lib. 17. c 15. lib. 18. c. 3. Iosephus nameth Cyrenius and Coponius as Rulers and disposers of Iudea for a season And after Coponius Marcus Ambibuchus was Ruler and after him Aanius Rufus and then dyed Augustus Ioseph antiq lib. 18. c. 3. Now lay all these together and it will necessarily follow that Herod could not begin his thirty seven years so late as the first year of the Actium fight And if not so late as the Actium fight then for those 15 of Herods age at the Pharsalian battel we must read 25. And so Suslyga Kepler and * Tirin●usin Sacr. Bib. Tom. 1 Tornicl in Annall others have answered namely that the forementioned age of 15 years is directly against the mind of Iosephus because he writeth * Antiq. lib. 14. c. 23. elsewhere that Herod was familiarly acquainted with the most Noble among the Romans about tenne yeares before this time which could not be properly said of a Child being between five or six yeares old We may therefore acknowledge an ancient fault in some one or other who at the first transcribed the Authors Copy writing 15. in the stead of 25. which being long agoe is still continued both in the old Manuscripts and later printed Bookes For who seeth not how easily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might be written for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one signifieth 15 the other 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greeke text of Josephus where the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth olim or quondam shewing that Antonius had had familiar acquaintance with Herod and Phasaelus in former times This sure cannot be denied especially seeing all the other numbers and yeares both in Herod and his succeeding Sons agree very well and may be taken up without any the least contradiction Torniellus therefore in his Annals admonisheth that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vitiose scriptum est in Josepho qui ex Josepho descripserunt viz. Gorionide Photio Nicephoro Abulensi c. meaning that 15. is corruptly written in Josephus for 25 as also in those who have written out of Josephus viz. in Gorionides Photion Nicephorus and Abulensis Tirinius also in his Comment upon the holy Bible is of the same opinion and therefore he placeth the birth of Herod in the fourth yeare of the 176. Olympiad from whence to the three and fortieth Iulian year we have seventy yeares about which age Herod was when he dyed For the fourth year of the 176 Olympiad was in the year of the Iulian Period 4641. and the three and fortieth Iulian year in the year of the same Period 4711. which was 70 yeares after So also it will be if you account forty five from the yeare of the Iulian Period 4666. when the Pharsalian battell was for in that battell Herod was twenty five to which adde forty five and so shall his age be seventy in the year of the Iulian Period 4711 as hitherto hath been proved But doe I not heare it yet objected that the death of Herod will be far later then I have hitherto mentioned and that because the time of Archelaus his banishment was not till the reigne of Tiberius Iosephus and Strabo are compared to fortifie this objection For first Iosephus is witnesse that Archelaus was married to Glaphyra the daughter of Archelaus King of Cappadocia whose last husband before him had been Iuba King of Mauritania Now Iuba as is in the second place alleaged out of Strabo was alive till towards the middle of the second year of Tiberius and therefore Archelaus marrying his Widdow could not be banished till the end of the said year or beginning of the next To which I answer first that * Master Tho. Lydyat he who makes this objection is not constant to himselfe for in his Book De emendat Temp. page 162. he placeth the the banishment of Archelaus in the last year of Augustus saying that he was not banished in the 37 year of the fight at Actium but in the 37 year after Augustus had received that power and dignity which was called Tribunitia potestas and thereupon he dissenteth every way from Iosephus and gives him but eight years after his father Then in another book written on purpose to confirme the arguments of his first he would not have Archelaus banished till the dayes of Tiberius in regard of Iuba who was alive till then and whose Widdow he married as formerly hath been said But to this I have a second answer to wit that in Strabo we finde more Iuba's then one who were Kings of Mauritania about such time as the Romans were the greatest Monarchs in the World and therefore it were little lesse then great folly to distrub the times by pitching upon none but the last to be him whose Widdow Archelaus should marry We may as well say that among the Popes Gregory the first and Gregory the second were both one Or that among the Kings of England Richard the first and Richard the second were the same See therefore what Strabo saith in the end of his seventeenth and last book in the Description of Mouritania After Syphaces saith he Masinissa obtained the Kingdome and then Micipsa and his successours and in our times Iuba who was father to that Iuba who dyed lately And thus much concerning the times of Herod and his posterity The next thing to be spoken of is the birth of Christ of which in the following Chapter CHAP. XIX Of the true and right year of our Saviours birth and Baptisme HAving in the former Chapter clearly shewed the times of Herod and of his posterity it will in the next place be worth our while to inqure into the the right time of our Saviours birth Concerning which I finde a variety of opinions both among the Ancient and Moderne Writers and were it not for the time of Herods death should scarce know which to follow For first the Ancients they are divided and tell us thus When Calvisius Sabinus and Lucius Rufinus were Consuls then was Christ borne according to Sulpitius Severus in the second book of his sacred History this was in the 42 Iulian year and year of the Iulian Period 4710. But when Lentulus and Messalinus were Consuls then was Christ borne according to Tertullian Clemens Alexandrinus Cassiodorus Maximus Monachus and Cedrenus this was in the 43 Julian year Epiphanius and Eusebius are for the next year when Cesar the 13th time and Sillanus were Consuls this was in the 44 Julian year Dionysius Exiguus pitcheth upon the next year after when Lentulus and Piso were Consuls By which testimonies we finde how the Ancients were divided and that from

8 F Sabbath day   15 1 9 G Dies Dominicus The Lords day   16 2 10 A   17 3 11 B   18 4 12 C   19 5 13 D   20 6 14 E   21 7 15 F Sabbath day   22 1 16 G Dies Dominicus The Lords day   23 2 17 A   24 3 18 B   25 4 19 C   26 5 20 D   27 6 21 E   28 7 22 F Sabbath day   29 1 23 G Dies Dominicus The Lords day   30 2 24 A   FINIS Laus Deo CALVMVS MENSVRANS The Measuring Reed OR The Standard of Time CONTAINING The chiefe and principall Kingdomes of the WORLD both before and after CHRIST to the Destruction of JERVSALEM by the ROMANS Wherein the names of the KINGS and years of their reignes are noted and set down in their right times with other things well worthy of Observation The second PART By JOHN SWAN Remember the dayes of old consider the years of many generations Deut. 32.7 I have considered the dayes of old the years of ancient times Psa 77.5 LONDON Printed for John Williams at the signe of the Crowne in St. Pauls Churchyard 1653. The Contents of the Second PART CHAP. I. OF Peleg and Jocktan the two Sonnes of Heber and of Nimrod the beginning of whose Kingdome was at the building of Babel from whence he went into the Land of Assyria and founded Niniveh c. Page 1. CHAP. II. Of Ninus and his Successors p. 7. CHAP. III. Of the Kingdome of Egypt and of the Kings that reigned there p. 15 CHAP. IV. Of the Kingdome of Sycionia and of the Kings that reigned there p. 24. CHAP. V. Of the Kingdome and Kings of the Argives and of the Mycenae that succeeded them p. 34. CHAP. VI. Of the Kingdome and Kings of Athens the first whereof was Cecrops p. 45. CHAP. VII Of the Kings that reigned in the Kiagdome of Troy before the Greekes destroyed it p. 54. CHAP. VIII Of the Kingdome of the Aborigines p. 55. CHAP. IX Of the Kings of Italy after Latinus p. 56. CHAP. X. Of the British Kings that reigned in England from Brute to the time of Julius Caesar and after p. 59 CHAP. XI Containyng the Dynasties of severall other Kingdomes p. 64. CHAP. XII Of the Kings and other Governours of Rome from the founddation thereof by Romulus to the Destruction of Hierusalem by Titus p. 75. CALAMVS MENSVRANS OR The Measuring REED The second Part. CHAP. I. Of Peleg and Jocktan the two Sons of Heber and of Nimrod the beginning of whose Kingdome was at the building of Babel from whence he went into the Land of Assyria and founded Niniveh c. OF Heber it is said in Gen. 10.25 And unto Heber were borne two Sonnes the name of the one was Peleg for in his dayes was the Earth divided and his brothers name was Jocktan Now this Jocktan had thirteene sonnes men growne at the confusion of Tongues as the verses following make apparent and therefore that division of the Earth which was made at the birth of Peleg if the text be so to be understood as that there must be a division then could not be the same with that which was at the confusion of Tongues for Heber was but 34. yeares old when Peleg was borne Gen. 11.16 and Jocktan though he were borne before could not be old enough to have any of his Sons either born or if borne of age sufficient at their Vncles birth to be Conductors of Colonies from Babel to other Countries The confusion of Tongues was therefore long after the birth of Peleg and yet at the time of his birth there might be a division made of the Earth by Noah who when he saw his Sonnes and their Children begin to increase might take in hand to divide the Earth among them appointing to the head of each Family his place and portion but they loath to breake company and not willing to separate themselves each from other departed away together from the East where the Arke rested to the Land of Shinar where they found a Plain that pleased them and for a time they dwelled there Gen. 11.1 2. This time of their dwelling there before they began to build the Tower of Babel might end about fourteen yeeres after the birth of Peleg for so long time I find between his birth and the beginning of of the Chaldaean date which at the time when Alexander the great took Babylon as was observed by Calisthenes the Philosopher then present was running on in the yeare thereof 1903. which was also the yeare of the Julian Period 4484. out of which if we take 1902. compleat the beginning of the said date will be in the year of the Julian Period 2482. There therefore upon this ground I justly fix it and doe there also for the reasons aforesaid concerning Jocktan and his Sonnes place the beginning of that Tower whose top they intended should reach unto Heaven Perhaps they might begin the City before but not the Tower This Tower as Michael Glycas saith was forty yeares in building which will therefore make the confusion of Tongues to be 54. yeares after the birth of Peleg by which time the very yongest of Jocktans Sons might be of age sufficient to conduct a Colonie from thence according to the division of his Tongue This I find to be 155. yeares after the Flood was ended in the yeare of the World 1813. and in the year of the Julian Period 2522. And now had Nimrod reigned forty yeares from the beginning of the Chaldaean Date or at least had been a mighty man among them that built this City and Tower of Babel for so long a time The Scripture saith he began to be a mighty one in the Earth Gen. 10.8 thereby declaring that he was the first who had others under him Which if he began to have when the Nations first began to build the City and Tower of Babel as we find in Josephus then had he more under his command at that time then when Languages were confounded And for that cause perhaps it was that afterwards he ranged further like a mighty Hunter to inlarge his Dominions For after he had builded and gotten to himselfe Babel Erech Accad and Chalne in the Land of Shinar he went out of that Land saith Moses into Assiria and builded Niniveh and the City Reh●both and Chalah and Resen between Niniveh and Chalah Gen. 10.11.12 Some I know read that text otherwise as thus Out of that Land went Ashur and builded Niniveh Concluding hereupon that Ashur of Sems race being wearied with Nimrods cruelty went out of Shinar into another Country which he called after his owne name and there built Niniveh with the three other Cities aforesaid But of this there is little probability more like it is that Nimrod as I said before having gotten Babel Erech Accad and Chalne in the Land of Shinar was not therewithall content but coveting more and larger territories advanced

  In this yeare Troy was taken and destroyed 408. yeares before the Olympiads of Iphitus and 432. before the building of Rome began as is witnessed by Diodorus lib. 14. CHAP. VIII Of the Kingdome of the Aborigines THis Kingdome was in Italy and began in the year of the Julian Period 3385. Janus was the first King he reigned 33. yeares In his time Saturn fled out of Crete into this Country as both Poets and Historiograpers witnesse The time when he came was in the 17. yeare of Janus after which he and Janus reigned about 17. yeares accounting the yeare when he came to be the first yeare of his reigne Scal. Euseb These people were called Aborigines at the first because their Originall was unknowne and yet * Dionys Hal. some say they were formerly Arcadians and came with Oenotrius Sonne of Lycan into Italy But Scaliger saith their right name was Aberrigines a multo errore from their much wandring The next King after those two before mentioned was Picus the Sonne of Saturne he reigned 37. yeares Euseb Saint Austin speaking of Picus saith that he was the Son of Saturn and first successor in the Kingdome of the Laurentines For Laurentium was the eldest City of Latium the seat of the Aborigines and the place where their Kingdome after they came into Italy was founded called Laurentum of the Laurell Wood that grew neere it Moreover it is said of Picus that he was turned into a Pye because being a great Sooth-sayer he kept such a Bird alwayes for his Augury Of which see more in Saint Aug. De civit lib. 18. cap. 15. together with the notes of Ludovicus Vives thereupon Faunus the Sonne of Picus succeeded and reigned 44. years Euseb Vives ex Dionys Helvic Dionisius saith that some held Mars to be his great Grandfather and that the Romans worshipped him with Songs and Sacrifices as their Countries Genius Latinus reigned after Faunus 36. yeares in the latter end of his reigne Aeneas came into Italy and when Latinus was dead reigned after him three years But of Aeneas more shall be spoken afterward And now see all these in their right times Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A List of the ancient Kings of Italy before Aeneas rightly fixed 3385. Janus and Saturne 33. 3418. Picus the Sonne of Saturne 37. 3455. Faunus the Sonne of Picus 44. 3499. Latinus after Faunus 36. 3535. In this yeare Latinus dyed and Aeneas began to reigne CHAP. VI. Of the Kings of Italy after Latinus PEtavius gathers out of Dionisius that Aeneas the Successor of La●inus began to reigne in Italy in the fift yeare after the destruction of Troy The first year therefore of his reigne was in the yeare of the Julian Period 3535. and yeare of the World 2826. This was about three yeares after he came into this Country for he came hither about the second or third year after that City was destroyed Soon after his comming he married Lavinia Daughter to Latinus and built Lavinium Then when Latinus was slaine in the Warre with the Rutili and leaving no issue Male behind him he succeedeth in the Kingdome but is warred against by Turnus formerly betroathed to Lavinia but in this Warre Turnus is slaine by Aeneas and hee also slain afterward in another Warre with Mezentius King of Tuscanie after he had reigned three yeares Ascanius was his Successor with whom also Mezentius waged Warre and besieged him so streightly in Lavinium that he was glad to crave for peace but could not have it unlesse upon hard conditions whereupon he sallied out suddainly and slew Lausus the sonne of Mezentius which put that Army into such a feare that Mezentius not only condiscended to peace upon equall termes but ever after remained a true friend to Ascanius His Father was Aeneas and his Mother not Lavinia but Creusa For though Lavinia were with child by Aeneas yet she was not delivered till after her Husbands death And indeed being left alone without either Father or Husband she much feared his Son Ascanius and thereupon betooke her to the chiefe Herdsman of her deceased Husband by whom she had an house built her in the Woods and was there delivered of a Sonne whom she called Silvius Posthumus Now the People knew nothing of this save onely that she was with Child Ascanius therupon is suspected to have murthered her but he to clear himselfe causeth them to be both brought from thence and provideth carefully for them For in the seven and twentieth yeare of his reigne he leaveth the City Lavinium to his Step mother and built Alba longa where he reigned to the end of 38. years from the death of Aeneas and at his death neglecting his Sonne Julus he constituted * From him all the Albanian Kings were called Silvii Silvius Posthumus for his Successor Howbeit Julus was honorably provided for and from him discended the Family of the Julii This Sonne then of Aeneas by Lavinia succeeded Ascanius and reigned after him twenty nine yeares who because he was born in a Wood and after his Fathers death had this name of Silvius Posthumus The next after him was Aeneas Silvius he reigned one and thirty yeares After him was Latinus Silvius who reigned 51. yeares For if that which was the first year of Numitor was also the first yeare of Romulus as Saint Austin saith it was then must the time of this mans reigne be rather 51. then 50. yeares And note that of him the people were called Latines Alba Silvius succeeded and reigned 39. yeares Then Silvius Athys 24. Capis Silvius 28. Calpetus Silvius 13. Tiberinus Silvius 8. Of him the River came to be called Tiber because it was his hap to be drowned in it Agrippa Silvius succeeded and reigned 40. yeares After him was Aremulus otherwise called Alladius Silvius who having reigned 19. yeares was with Palace wherein he lived swallowed up because he strived to imitate the Thunder Next after him was Aventinus Silvius 37. Then Proca Silvius 23. Amulius Silvius 44. And last of all Numitor one which was also the first yeare of Romulus And now see them in their right times Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A Catalogue of the Kings after Latinus ex Eusebio all of them fixed in their right times 3535. Aeneas 3. 3538. Ascanius 38. 3576. Silvius Pasthumus 29. 3605. Aeneas Silvius 31. 3636. Latinus Silvius 51. 3687. Alba Silvius 39 3726. Silvius Athys 24. 3750. Capis Silvius 28. 3778. Calpetus Silvins 13. 3791. Tiberinus Silvius 8. 3799. Agrippa Silvius 40. 3839. Aremulus sive Alladius 19. 3858. Aventinus Silvius 37. 3895. Proca Silvius 23. 3918. Amulius Silvius 44. 3962. Nunitor 1. Which was also the first yeare of Romulus and yeare when the foundation of Rome was laid CHAP. X. Of the British Kings that reigned in England from Brute to the time of Julius Caesar and after BRute the first King of the Brittaines arrived here in this Iland according to the common