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A46926	The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. Shewing their honourable battels by sea and land: their tilts, justs, turnaments, for ladies: their combats with gyants, monsters and dragons: their adventures in foreign nations: their enchantments in the Holy Land: their knighthoods, prowess, and chivalry, in Europe, Africa, and Asia; with their victories against the enemies of Christ. Also the true manner and places of their deaths, being seven tragedies: and how they came to be called, the seven saints of Christendom. The first part.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1696 (1696)	Wing J800; ESTC R202613	400,947	510

Destiny to espy three inhumane Beasts lying at the foot of a Hill tumbling themselves against the warm Sun and his three pretty Babes sucking from their Dugs their most unkind Milk which spectacle so encouraged the Champion that without farther advisement with his single Sword he assailed at one time the three Monsters but so furiously they pursued him that he little prevailed and being almost breathless was forced to get into an Orange-tree else he had been buried in their merciless Bowels but when the three wild Beasts perceived him above their reaches and that by no means they could come near him with their wrathful Iaws they so rent and tore the root of the tree that if by policy he had not prevented them the Tree had béen pulled in pieces for at that time it was so full of ripe Oranges and so overladen hat the branches seemed to bend and the bows to break of which fruit he cast such abundance down to the Beasts whereby they restrained their furies and fed so fast thereon that in short time they grew drunk and quite overcome with a dead and heavy sleep this good and happy fortune caused St. George nimbly to leap off the Tree and with his keen edged Sword cut off ther heads from ther bodies the which being done he went to his Children lying comfortless upon a Mossie bank who so pleasantly smiled in his face that they made him greatly to rejoyce and to receive as great pleasure in their sights as though he had been honoured with the Conquests of Caesar or the Royalty of Alexander therefore after he had given them his Blessing he took them up in his Arms and spake these words following Come come my pretty Babes your safe Deliveries from these inhumane Monsters will add long Life unto your Mother and hath preserved your Father from a desperate Death from henceforh let Heaven be your guide and send you as happy Fortunes as Remus and Romulus the first Founders of Imperious Rome which in their Infancies were Nursed with the Milk of a Ravenous Wolf and as Prosperous in your Adventures as was that Persian Potentate which fed on the Milk of a Bitch At the end of which speeches he approached the Cabine where he left his Lady mourning for the loss of her Children but at his return he found her without sense or moving being not able to give him a joyful welcome whereat he fell into this extream passion of Sorrow O Fortune Fortune quoth he how many Griefs heapest thou upon my head wilt thou needs enjoyn me to an endless Sorrow See Sabra see I have redeemed our Sons and freed them from the Tygers bloody Jaws whose wrathful Countenance did threaten Death Which comfortable Speeches caused her presently to revive and to take the silly Infants in her Arms laying them sweetly upon her Ivory Bosome at which they seemed to smile as pleasantly as Cupid in the Lap of Dido when Aeneas sported in the Court of Carthage The kind imbraces loving speeches and joyful conference that passed betwixt the Champion and his Lady were now too long to be discoursed but to be short they remained in the Wilderness without farther Disturbance either of wild Beasts or other Accident till Sabra had recovered her Child-bed sickness And then being conducted by happy Stars they returned back the ready way to Christendom where after some few days Travel they arrived in the Bohemian Court where the King of that Countrey with two other Bordering Princes most Royally Christened his Children The Eldest they named Guy the Second Alexander and the Third David the which being performed and the Triumphs ended which in most sumptuous manner continued for the space of one Month then the Bohemian King for the great Love he bare to St. George provided most honourably for his Childrens bringing up First He appointed thrée several Embassadors with all things necessary for so Princely a Charge to conduct the three Infants to three several Countries The first and eldest whose Fortune was to be a Soldier he sent to the Imperial City of Rome being then the Wonder of the World for Martial Discipline there by the Emperor to be Trained up The Second whose Fortune was to be a Courtly Prince he sent to the Rich and Plentiful Countrey of England being the Pride of Christendom for all delightful pleasures The Third and Last whose Fortune was to be prove a Scholar he sent into Germany unto the University of Wittenburg being thought at that time to be the excellentest place of Learning that remained throughout the whole World Thus were St. George's Children provided for by the Bohemian King for when the Embassadors were in Readiness the Ships for their Passage furnished and Attendance appointed St. George in Company of his Lady the King of Bohemia with his Quéen and a Train of Lords and Gentlemen and Ladies Conducted them to Ship-board where the Wind served them prosperously that in a short time they had bad adieu to the Shore and Sailed chearfully away But as St. George returned back to the Bohemian Court it was his chance to come by an old Ruinated Monastery under whose Walls in former time his Father was Buried the which he knew by certain Uerses carved in Stone over his Grave by the Commons of the Countrey as you may read before in the beginning of this History Over the same he requested of the King that he might Erect a Stately Monument that the remembrance of his Name might live for ever and not be Buried in the Grave of Obscurity To which reasonable Demand the King most willingly consented and presently gave special commandment that the cunningest Architectors that remained within his Dominion should forthwith be sent for and withal gave a Tun of Gold forth of his own Treasury towards the performance thereof The sudden report of this memorable Deed being bruited abroad caused Workmen to come from every place of their own accord with such willingness that they in short time finished it the Foundation of the Tomb was of purest Marble whereon was engraven the frame of Earth and how the watry Ocean was divided with Woods Groves Hills and Dales so lively pourtrayed that it was a wonder to behold The Props and Pinnacles of Alabaster beset with knobs of Iasper Stone the sides and Pillars of the clearest Iet upon the top stood four golden Lions holding up as it were an Element wherein was curiously contrived the Golden Sun and Moon and how the Heavens have their usual Courses with many other things wrought both in Gold and Silver which for this time I omit because I am forced at large to discourse of the Princely Proceedings of S. George who after the Monument was finished with his Lady most humbly took their Leave of the King thanked him for his Love Kindness and Courtesie and so departed towards Egypt and Persia of whose Adventures you shall hear more in the Chapter following CHAP. XVI How St. George with his Lady arrived in

The Famous HISTORY OF THE Seven Champions OF Christendom St. George of England St. Denis of France St. James of Spain St. Anthony of Italy St. Andrew of Scotland St. Patrick of Ireland and St. David of Wales SHEWING Their Honourable Battels by Sea and Land Their Tilts Justs Turnaments for Ladies Their Combats with Gyants Monsters and Dragons Their Adventures in Foreign Nations Their Enchantments in the Holy Land Their Knighthoods Prowess and Chivalry in Europe Africa and Asia with their Victories against the Enemies of Christ. Also the true manner and places of their Deaths being Seven Tragedies and how they came to be called The Seven Saints of CHRISTENDOM The First Part. LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell M. Wotton G. Conyers and B. Walford 1696. To all Courteous Readers RICHARD JOHNSON wisheth increase of Vertuous Knowledge GEntle Readers in Kindness accept of my Labours and be not like the chattering Cranes nor Momus's Mates that Carp at every thing VVhat the simple say I care not what the Spiteful speak I pass not only the Censure of the Conceited I stand unto that is the Mark I aim at whose good likings if I obtain I have won my Race if not I faint in the first Attempt and so lose the quiet of my happy Goal Yours in Kindness to Command R. J. The Author's MUSE upon the HISTORY THE Famous Facts O Mars deriv'd from thee By weary Pen and painful Authors toyl Enroll'd we find such Feats of Chivalry As hath been seldom seen in any Soil Thy Ensigns here we find in Field Display'd The Trophies of thy Victories erected Such Deeds of Arms as none could have essay'd But Knights whose Courage Fear hath ne'er dejected Such Ladies saved such Monsters made to fall Such Gyants slain such Hellish Furies quell'd That Humane Forces few or none at all In such Exploits their Lives could safely shield But Virtue stirring up their Noble Minds By Valiant Conquest to enlarge their Fames Hath caus'd 'em seek Adventures forth to find Which Registreth their never-dying Names Then Fortune Time and Fame agree in this That Honour's Gain the greatest Glory is THE Honourable HISTORY OF THE Seven Champions OF CHRISTENDOM CHAP. I. Of the Wonderful and strange Birth of St. George of England How he was cut out of his Mothers Womb and after stoln from his Nurse by Kalyb the Lady of the Woods Her Love to him and her Gifts And how he enclosed her in a Rock of Stone and Redeemed Six Christian Knights out of Prison AFter the angry Greeks had Ruined the Chief City in Phrygia and turned King Priam's Glorious Buildings to a Waste and Desolate Wilderness Duke Aeneas exempted from his Native Habitation with many of his Distressed Countrymen like Pilgrims wandred the World to find some happy Region where they might erect the Image of their subverted Troy but before that labour could be accomplished Aeneas ended his dayes in the confines of Italy and left his Son Ascanius to Govern in his stead Ascanius dying left Silvius to Rule Silvius Deceasing left the Noble and Adventurous Brutus which Brute being the fourth Descent from Aeneas first made Conquest of this Land of Britain then inhabited with Monsters Gyants and a kind of Wild People without Government but by Policy he overcame them and established good Laws where he found the first Foundation of New Troy and named it Troynovant but since in process of time called London Thus began the Isse of Britain to flourish not only with Sumptuous Buildings but also with Couragious and Ualiant Knights whose Adventureus and Bold Attempts in Chivalry Fame shall describe what Oblivion buried in Obscurity After this the Land was Replenished with Cities and divided into Shires and Countries Dukedome Ear●doms and Lordships were the Patrimony of high and Noble Minds wherein they lived not then like Cowards in their Mothers Bosoms but merited Renown by Martial Discipline For the Famous City of Coventry was the place wherein the first Christian of England was born and the first that ever sought for Foreign Adventures whose name to this day all Europe highly hath in regard and for his Bold and Magnanimous Deeds at Arms gave him this Title The Valiant Knight St George of England whose Golden Garter is not only worn by Nobles but by Kings and in Memory of his Uictories the Kings of England Fight under his Banner Therefore Cal●ope thou Sacred Sister of the Muses guide so my Pen that it may write the true Discourse of this worthy Champion When Nature by true Consanguinity had recreated him in his Mothers Womb she dreamed to be conceived of a Dragon which should be the cause of her Death Which Dream she long concealed and kept secret untill her painful Burthen grew so heavy that her Womb was scarce able to endure it so finding opportunity to reveal it unto her Lord and Husband being then Lord High-Steward of England she revealed her Dream after this manner My Honourable Lord you know I am by Birth the King of England's Daughter and for these one and twenty years have I been your True and Lawful Wife Yet never was in hope of Child till now or that by me your Name should survive Therefore I conjure you by the pleasure of your Youth and the dear and natural Love you ●ear to the Infant conceived in my Womb that either by Art Wisdom or some other Inspiration you Calculate upon my troublesome Dreams and tell me what they signifie For these thirty Nigh●s past my ●ilent slumbers have been greatly hindred by grievous Dreams for night by night no sooner could sweet sleep take possession of my Senses but methought I was conceived with a Dreadful Dragon which would be the cause of his Parents Death Even as Hecuba the Beauteous Queen of Troy when Paris was in her Womb Dreamed to be Conceived of a Firebrand which indeed was truly verified For Paris having Ravished the Paragon of Greece and brought Helena into Troy in Revenge thereof the Grecians turned the Towers of Ilium into Blazes of Fire Therefore most dear and well beloved Lord prevent the like danger that I be not the Mother of a Viperous Son These words struck such terrour to his heart that for a time he stood speechless but having recovered his lost Senses he answered her in this manner My most dear and beloved Lady what Art or Learning can per●orm with all convenient speed shall be accomplished for never shall Rest take possession of my Heart nor Sleep close the Closets of mine Eyes till I understand the signification of these thy troublesome Dreams So leaving her in her Chamber in company of other Ladies that came to comfort her in her Melancholy Sadness he took his Iourney to the Solitary Walks of Kalyb the Wise Lady of the Woods without any Company except another Knight that bore under his Arm a white Lamb which they intended to Offer unto the Enchantress So travelling for the space of two days they came to a Thicket beset

be the vain imagination of men and believe in our True and Everliving God under whose Banner we Christians have taken in hand this long War Secondly Thou shalt give Commandment that all thy Barbarous Nations be Christened in the Faith of Christ. Thirdly and lastly That thy three Kingdoms of Barbary Morocco and India swear true Allegiance to all Christian Kings and never to bear Arms but in the true Quarrel of Christ and his anointed Nations These things duly observed the Life shall be preserved and thy Liberty obtained otherwise look for no mercy but a speedy and most terrible death These words more displeased the unchristian King of Morocco than the Sentence of his Condemnation whereupon in these brief Speeches he set down his Resolution Great Potentate of Europe reply'd Almidor by whose Mightiness Fortune sits fettered in the Chains of Power my Golden Diadem and Regal Scepter by constraint I must deliver up But before I will forsake my Country-gods I will endure a hundred Deaths and before my Conscience be reformed to a new Faith the Earth shall be no Earth the Sea no Sea the Heaven no Heaven Thinkest thou now proud Christian by thy threatned Torments to make me forget my Creator and believe in thy God the supposed King of the Jews and basely born under an Ox's Stall No no accursed Christians you Off-spring of Cain you Generation of Ismael you Seed of Vipers and accursed through the World look for a speedy shower of Vengeance to Rain from Heaven upon you wicked Nations Your bloody practices have pierced the Battlements of Iove and your Tyrannies beaten open the Gate of Mighty Mahomet who had provided Whips of burning wyre to scourge you for your Cruelties proffered to and against his blessed Worshippers Now with this deadly Curse I bid you all farewell The Plagues of Egypt ●ight upon your Kingdom The Curse of Cain upon your Children the Famine of Ierusalem upon your Friends and the misery of Dedipus upon your selves This wicked resolution and baleful Curse was no sooner ended by the desperate minded Almidor but the impatience of St. George was so highly moved that he gave present commandment to the appointed Executioners to cast him into the bolling Cauldron which incontinently they performed to the terror of all the Beholders To see this woful Spectacle the Battlements of the Temple were so thronged with People the Houses covered with Women and Children and the Streets filled with Armed Soldiers that it was a wonder to behold amongst which multitudes there were some particular Persons that at the sight of Almidor's death fell down and brake their Necks but the general number as well of Pagans as Christians cryed with chearful voices Honour and Victory follow St. George of England for he hath Redeemed Barbary from a miserble Servitude Which joyful hearing so delighted the Seven Champions of Christendom that they caused their Conduits to run with Wines the Streets to be beautified with Bonefires and a sumptuous Banquet to be proclaimed through the City which after continued for the space of seven days in more magnificent Royalty than the Banquet of Babylon when the Macedonian Monarch returned from the World's Conquest The Champions Liberty procured such faithful Love in the hearts of the Morocco Peers that with a general Consent they chose S. George for their Lawful King where after they had invested him in the Princely Seat of the Morocco Pottentate they set the Crown upon his Head and after presented him with an Imperial Pall which the Kings of Barbary usually wore upon their Coronation-day protesting to forsake their Profane Religion and be Christened in the Faith of Christ. This promised Conversion of the Infidels more highly delighted the English Champion than to have the whole World's Honour at Command for it was the chiefest point of his Knightly Oath to advance the Faith of Christ and to enlarge the Bounds of Christindom After his Coronation was so solemnly performed the other six Champions conducted him to a Princely Palace where he took true Allegiance of the Morocco Lords by ●●ighted Oath to be true to his Crown After this he established the Christian Laws to the benefit of the whole Country then he commanded all the Ceremonious Rites of Mahomet to be trodden under Foot and the true Gospel of Christ to be Preached likewise he caused all that did remain in Barbary to be Christened in the new Faith but these Observations continued but for a time as hereafter shall be discovered at large For Fame not intending to let the worthy Champion long to remain in the idle Bowers of Peace summoned them to p●rieve●e in the Noble Atchievements and to Muster up anew their Soldiers whose Armour Caukered Case had almost stained with Rust Therefore St. George committed the Government of the Country to four of the principal Peers of Morocco and Marched towards the Country of Egypt where lived Treacherous Ptolomy the Father of his beloved Lady Sabra whom he had left in the Kingdom of England In which Journey and happy arrival in Egypt we will leave the Seven Champions for a time and speak of the Faithless Infidels in Barbary after the departure of the Christians whose former Honours they slightly regarded For no sooner had St. George with his Martial Troops bidden their Country adieu but the Faithless Moors reconciled themselves to their formed Gods and purposed a speedy Revenge for the Death of Almidory against all Christians that remained within the Limits of that H●a●hen Nation For there were many Soldiers wounded in the 〈…〉 likewise a number oppressed with sicknes● which the Christian Champions had left behind for their better recoveries upon whom the Barbarous Moors committed their first Tyranny for they caused the distressed Soldiers to be drawn upon Sleds to the uttermost parts of the City and there put them into a large and old Monastery which they presently set on fire and most inhumanely burned the Christian Soldiers and after converted the place into a filthy Lestall Many Women and succourless Children they dragged up and down the Streets till their Brains were dashed against the stones and the blood had covered the Earth with a purple hue Many other Cruelties were committed by the wicked Infidels against the distressed Christians which I purpose to pass over and wholly discourse of the woful and bloody murder of an English Merchant and his Wife in the same City of Tripoly The report whereof may force even merciless Tygers to relent and those eyes to shed springs of Tears that never wept before The bloody-minded Negro's violating both Oaths and Promises before plighted to St. George by violence set upon the Merchant's House where first they made a Massacre of his Servants and before his face cast their dead Bodies to hunger-starv'd Dogs Then coming to the Merchant they bound him fast with hempen Cords to the strongest post in his House and after took his Children being seven of the goodliest Boys that ever Nature framed