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A06137	The first part of the diall of daies containing 320. Romane triumphes, besides the triumphant obelisks and pyramydes of the Aegyptians, the pillers, arches, and trophies triumphant, of the Græcians, and the Persians, with their pompe and magnificence: of feastes and sacrifices both of the Iewes and of the Gentils, with the stately games and plaies belonging to these feastes and sacrifices, with the birthes and funeral pomps of kinges and emperours, as you shall finde more at large in the 2. part, wherein all kind of triumphes are enlarged. By Lodowick Lloid Esquire.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1590 (1590)	STC 16621; ESTC S108766	125,621	204

in Egipt vnder Pharao the second in Ierusalem vnder king Ezechias the 3. and last vnder our Sauiour Christ at his death Againe in the second yeare after the Israelits came out of Egipt vpon the selfe same day in the wildernesse of Sinay the people of Israell celebrated the feast of the Passeouer by the commaundement of the Lord vnto Moses at euen of the 14. day of the moneth In Rome vpon this day Cerelia festa were most solemnlye with great ceremonies after their auncient custome celebrated in the honor of their goddesse Ceres vpon that day also the old Romans appointed with pompe and state great plaies called Circenses ludi to the same selfe goddess In this feast the most statelie magnificent shewes of all other solemne games were plaid in the great roome called Circus Maximus this was se● foorth cheefely by the triumphant emperors dedicated to Iupiter for their victories and before the Emperors by the C●●suls and Dictators for before they went into the battell they would go into the Capitoll and after sacrifice and due ceremonies done vnto Iupiter they vowed if the gods would graunt them victorie to celebrate publike plaies in this place Circo Maximo which contained in length three furlongs of breadth one furlong mad● and enlarged by Caesar the Dictator the buildings and seates which were made for the people to sit and to behold the games amounted to the number of 200060. seates The 10 Day THe Isralits departed from Rameses a citie in the land of Gosan the 15. daye of the first moneth which the Iewes call Nisan on the morrow after the passeouer vnder the conducting of Moses and Aaron after that God had plagued the Egiptians and had smitten the first borne within all Egipt and God spared not the cheefe rulers and in remembrance of this their deliuerance and going out of Egipt and from the tyramite of Pharao God commaunded to sanctifie the first borne vnto him aswell of men as of beasts the number that came out of Egipt were 600000 beside women and children this was doone 2. Die Azinorum God gaue the citie of Iericho vnto Iosua and Iericho was taken after Iosua had gone about the citie sixe dayes as the Lord had commaunded him and the seauenth day Iosua compassed Iericho seuentimes and the seauen priests that bare the Arke should sound their seauenth trumpet of Rams hornes a long blast and all the people shall shoute and then the walles of Iericho shall fall 2494. Christ Iesus our Sauiour by all probable reason of some of the best Astronomers did offer vp himselfe vpon the crosse to God his father vpon this day for our sinnes and transgression Some also of the Fathers holde opinion that Adam was created vpon this daie and that our Sauiour Christ tooke flesh of the Uirgin Marie vpon the same daye that he dyed Upon this daye Septin●ius Seuerus the 21 Emperour of Rome was borne in a Towne called Lepos in a Prouince of Affricke 195. Also Theodosius Iunior the sonne of Arcadius the Emperour was borne vpon this day 401 in the declining state of the empire there were three Theodosij the first of them was a noble Emperour out of the house and progenie of Traiane to whome he was most like in manners and conditions and all his life was resembled to Traianas life his victories were such that he merited to be called Theodosius the great Lewis surnamed Balbus the 26. king of Fraunce after hee had raigned 2 yeares died as on this day 879. Rossana a cittie of Assiria with all the villages and townes within thirtie miles about were by a great earthquake shaken downe to the ground also the great temple called Sophia at Constantinople with manie townes and buildinges of the cittie were ouerthrowen vpon this day by that earthquake 1556. Lodowick Duke of Millaine was taken by the French men and brought to Fraunce captiue vnto Lewis the 12. king of Fraunce 1500. Eight yeares before this died Laurentius Medices duke of Florence as vppon the same day 1492. The 11. daie THis was the third day of the feast of the vnleuened bread and the second day after the Israelites had departed out of Egypt at what day the Israelites remoued from Sucoth to the desart of Ethan in the edge of the wildernes not far from the red sea In the 16. of Nisan which is the eleuenth of April Ezechia king of Iuda sanctifyed the house of the Lord in the eight day and made an ende in the sixteenth in the which day Ezechias the king brought seuen Oxen seuen ●ams seuen sheep and seuen goats to be a sinne offering for the kingdome for the sanctuarie and for Iuda and their blood were sprinckled vpon the Altar and the Leuites with Cymbals Psalteries and harps and all instruments of Dauid and the Priestes held the trompets and the sonnes of Aaron were commaunded to offer these on the Altar of the Lord. As vppon this day the noble Roman Milo was condemned to 〈◊〉 at Rome for the killing of Claudius at what time Cicero pronounced an eloquent orationin the behalfe of Milo fifteen yeares before the birth of Christ. Selymus the ninth Emperour of the Turkes began his empire vpon this day at what time his father Baiazeth was poisoned by a Iewish phisition 1512. fyue yeares after hee had subdued Siria and conquered Egypt looke Alcairon which is called Meniphis the chiefest cittie of Egypt and tooke also their king Soldanus and haled him through the streetes of Alcairon by a rope after he commaunded him that he should be hanged in the chiefest gate of the cittie Iulius the second pope of Rome was vanquished by Lewis the eleuenth king of Fraunce at Rauenna where the pope lost 16. thousand souldiers and at that battaile Leo the tenth which was elected Pope would vppon that day be crowned pope to chaunge the vnfortunate day to bee fortunate some referre this day to be the 27. of March As on this day Lewis of Burbonie prince of Condie con●erred with the peeres of France at Aurelia about religion which was in question 30. yeares before at Ratisbone by Charles the fifth at what time they consulted to take a voiage against the Turke and this continued the space of a whole yeare and ended as vppon this day 1542. As vppon this day three sonnes and two Rainbowes were seene in the skies at Uenice The 13 daie THis was the fourth day of the vnleuened bread the third day after the Israelites had gone out of Egypt and the 4. day Pharo made readie to march after them for Moses had brought the bones of Ieseph out of Egipt for so Ioseph willed and made the children to sweare that they should take his bones away with them and the Lord went before them by daie in a piller of a cloud and by night in a piller of fire The Iewes held another feast called festum manipuli

came halting behind the Romane turned ●ppon the soden and fought with the Sabine and in fight slue him and then he easilie slue the other two being maimed before and not able to follow in fight ouer these Sabines M. Horatius was so receaued with such a triumph into Rome with al pomp and mirth his triumph was such that the Romanes long after vsed vpon this day a great feast in memorie of Horatius victorie The 24 daie THis was named amongest the Romanes Aegyptiacus dies either in memorie of some great victorie had ouer them by the Egyptians orels an ouerthrow The 5. day of the creation of the world wherein were foules fishes and other dumbe b●astes made by the Almightie vppon the which day our Sauiour Christ was taken by the Iewes and held his last supper As vppon this day Aurelius Quintilius was by the whole consent of the souldiers nominated Empero●r and by the assent of the Senate hee was made Augustus a man of singular sobrietie of great patience and gentlenes hee succeeded his good brother Au. Claudius a worthie man and a noble emperour who for the worthie seruice hee did to his countrey had by the Senate appointed him a goulden sheeld to hang in the councell house and a goulden Image in the Capitoll for a perpetuall memorie of his worthines this good Quintilius raigned but 17. daies emperour after his brother and was slain as vpon this day The 25 daie CHrist Iesus the sonne of God tooke flesh of the virgin Marie vpon this day on the which day the Angell Gabriel ●●luted the Uirgine The feast of the mother of the gods called Hylaria festa was solemnely celebrated in Rome vpon this day for that the daye began to be longer for in the time of Iulius Caesar and Octauius Augustus this day was counted the equinoctiall of the springe at what time the women of Rome sacrificed vnto Venus with great obsequies Theodosius the third of that name Emperour who was compelled by his Souldiers to take the name of an Emperor and within two yeares after was constrained vpon this daye to forsake the empire and to liue a priuate life in a monasterie he was so persecuted by ●eo the third surnamed Iconomachus so called for that hee defended Images who succeeded Theodosius 717. Frederike the second being Emperour was crowned king of Hierusalem and within 23. yeares after Conradinus the sonne of Conradus the Emperour was borne vpon this daye who died afterward at Naples 1252. Nicephorus surnamed Botoniates was elected Emperor of Constantinople vpon this daye who by Alexus was driuen out of his Empire into a monasterie where he died three years after he was chosen Emperor 1077. Iames the firste Bishop of Ierusalem after Christ and brother to him according to the manner of the Iewes which called them brethren that were cosins was stoned to death in witnesse of his faith as some writers suppose 64. Clemens the third Pope of Rome dyed 1191 by whose perswasion the Emperour Fredericke the first tooke a voyage into Italie besieged Mellaine Cremona Dertona and manye other Townes and Citties which reuolted from him he brought euen to the grou●de This Frederike was surnamed Aenobardus a Bononian borne and sonne to that Frederike which was Sonne to Conradus the Emperour The 26 Day THis was the seauenth day after the creation called the sabboth day The Rabbies of the Iewes more curious then wise in their fabulous bookes of Talmudists or Drash presume to know all things and let nothing passe they say that vpon this day Lazarus was raised from his graue being dead for foure dayes by Christ Iesus Conradus the second of that name a Frenchman after he had laide long siege to Melaine returned to Rome and was crowned Emperour of Rome by Pope Iohn the twentith of that name he reuenged vpon those that dwelt in Pannonia for that they aided the Italians he made his some Caesar during his abode at Rome 1017. Romanus Argyropilus Emperour of Constantinople by the meanes of his wife a lewde vitious woman named Zoes was strangled by Mychael Paphlago who succeeded him in the Empire and married his wife whome she also vsed as an instrument of hir wicked life for a long time but shee died of a miserable disease fit for such a beast 1033. Two Uirgines of Hypborea venturing as farre as Delos to performe certaine sacrifice vowed to the goddesse Lucina for safe deliuerance at childe birthe they dying at Delos in this iourney are so honoured of the yoong maides at Delos that they doo offer vpon the graue of these Hyperborean Uirgins the long haires of their heads and after three dayes they hang their haire vpon a long pole ouer their tombe and the young men in like sorte binding theyr haires with certaine sweete hearbes in a kinde of sacrifice vnto Argis and Vpis graue Againe in the Countrey of Iouia other ceremonies were vsed by a number of yongewomen singing hymnes of Lycaeus worke to further the celebration of the ceremonies naming often in theyr Songes the two Hyperborean Uirgins by the name of Argis and Opis with solemne musicke vpon their graue in the meane while the Priests sprinkeled their As●es which were kept in a pot ouer the graue of these Uirgins vpon a company of sicke persons who sat vpon the graue of the Hiporean Uirgins this became a Scythian sacrifice and from Scythia as Herodot dooth reporte into Thracia called Sa●ra triticea The 27 Daie NIsan or Abib the first moneth of the Iewes for on this daye their yeare began imitating the Egiptians for the first daye of the newe moone after the equinoctiall of the springe according to the oulde Iewes order custome but the latter Iewes begin their yeare after the moone in the equinoctiall autumne hauing respect to the best season of the yeare at what time the Iubileis of Moses began vpon the which day Noah vncouered the Arke and sawe the waters decreased and earth appeared yet staied in the Arke 56 daies expecting the word of the Lord. The 2. yeare after the Isralits departed out of Egipt in the first day of y e first moneth Nisan Moses reared the tabernacle whom the Maiestie of the Lord in the sight of all men couered all daye with thicke cloudes and all night with shining flames of fire Likewise Ezechias king of Iuda began as vpon this daye to repaire the Temple of Salomon at Ierusalem and caused the Priests and the Leuites to sanctifie the house of the Lord with sacrifices and thankes giuing at what time were dedicated 600 Oxen and 3000 sheepe The Rabbies affirme that vpon this daye Abraham the Patriarke was about to sacrifice vppe to GOD his sonne Isaac Upon this daye the olde auncient Romanes sacrificed with great solemnity to the mother of the gods Berecynthia which yearely the Romans vsed with great pompe carrieng most sumptuouslie the image of Berecynthia to bee washt in

spicarum they should bring vnto the Priest a shea●e of the first fruites of their haruest and hee should waue the sheafe before the Lord to be accepted for their sinnes and this should be done the morrow after the Sabaoth day for the Iewes had these manie feastes by the Lord commaunded to be kept 1 The feast of the Passeouer 2 The feast of vnleuened bread 3 The feast of the first fruites 4 The feast of blowing of trompets 5 The feas●es of Tabernacles Of these in their places orderly as they fall I shall hereafter plain●ie declare In Rome were certaine plaies and games called Ludi cereales which endured eight daies and were celebrated with the most solemne chear that might bee with the most pompe and sumptuous s●ghtes in the honor of Ceres these were often placed by the names of Cereales Circenses also Ludi magni sometimes by the names of Ludi votiui which were placed in Circo Maximo after any great triumph or victorie had Ludi Cereales were diuerslie in diuers countries solemnised Among the Grecians they vsed this sacrifice with torch-light in the which they imitated the Siracusa●s in the sacrifice to Proserpina at what time they offered vp the best wheat and chiefest corne being winnowed and through picked and clensed the women came to the altar of Ceres crowned with garlands made of wheat straw being decked and set foorth with al sweet flowers in Rome Their priestes held torches to this sacrifice and none might come but Priestes and women and then it should be solem●ized a little after Sonne setting Among the Romans they vsed these sacrifices and the plaies like vnto the plaies called Circenses which of all the regall shewes is with most pompe and magnificence plaid in Circo maximo at what time the Dictators Consuls and magistrates of Rome with all the Idols of their Goddes bedeck● with ●ewels and chaines are set iniuorie and golden chairs aboue the triumphant states of the Consuls and Emperours to behold these games and plaies The Christians seperating themselues from the Iewes do kepe still a solemne feast the eight day after the resurrection of Christ in memory of his glorious resurrection instituted vppon this daie by Higinus bishop of Rome 146. after Christ. Uppon this daie by D●oclesian the Emperour were great persecutions done vpon the Christians and spoiled their churches to the number of 305. vpon the which daie the head of Andrew the apostle was at Rome presented Henrie the fifth of that name after hee had kepe war●es in Flanders and against the Hungarians went to Rome to bee crowded and was resisted by the Pope but peace being concluded he was with great solemnitie crowned Emperour of Germanie and returning home from Rome and buried his father Henrie the fourth at Spire which had bin vnburied ●ine yeares such was the desire of men for an Empire and the contempt of an Emperour The 29 Day THis is the first day of the feast of vnleuened bread and the fourth day after the Israelites going out of Egypt at what time Pharo pursued after them with all the peeres of Egypt and at that time the Lord commaunded Moses to pitch their pauilions betweene Migdol and the red sea in hard and daungerous places for that God might haue the more glorie their care was such of Pharo and of his force following that they cryed vnto the Lord and he heard them and deliuered them frō the tirannie of Pharo As vppon this day Romulus the first king and founder of Rome tooke the Cittie of Fidena and brought it vnder obeisance of the cittie of Rome in the yeare 14. Caius Aurelius Cotta then Consull at Rome 〈◊〉 with great pompe and solemnitie ouer the Africans and ouer the Sicilians 50● I neede not to set forth euerie triumph with the pompe and solemnitie thereof for that I haue set some out by the which you may thinke so of the other Mecenas a great man in honor with Augustus Caesar 〈◊〉 and defender of all learned men was borne as ●pen this daye whose memorie was in Rome solemnlie kept with a feast solemnized by the learned patrons and fauoures of students he liued together with Horace in the time of Augustus 2. Emperor of Rome with whome he was greatlie exteemed this Macenas name is much honoured among learned men for his fauour to learning The goddesse Pessinūtia was by Cornelius Scipio brought to Rome called Mater magna or Dea magna the great mother or the great goddesse vnto whome in Phrigia the feast Orgia was celebrated in the honour of this goddesse to whom at the riuer Gallus her priests were gelded and called Galli according to the riuer this image was found in the field of Phrigia called Pessinuntinam and the Phrigians therefore called hir Pessinuntia The 14 Day THe 6. feast of the vnleuened bread being as on this day the Israelits pitched their tents before Baal Sephon Pharo the Egiptians followed after the Israelits cried vnto the Lorde and the Angell of God came betweene the tents of Israell and the tents of Pharao in a piller of cloud by day and in a piller of fire by night and Moses stretched out his hand ouer the sea as God had commaunded him and the sea went backe and gaue place for the Israelits to passe drie through the midst of the sea and Pharao followed after them and was with his power and all the Princes of Egipt with all his peeres and all his pompe drowned in the red Sea and Moses and the Israelits gaue thanks vnto God with a song of triumphe the victorie was so great and the triumphe was such that neither Salmanas●er Senaherib Nabuchadonazar Cirus nor Alexander the great had the like in any triumphe or great victorie of theirs as Moses had ouer Pharao Pompeius the great vpon this daye tooke Ierusalem and entred into Sanctum sanctorum spoiled the Temple and wasted the cittie 15. yeares before he was slaine in Egipt by Septimius and Photinus at what time he fled from Caesar at Pharsalia for succour to young Pharao whose father Pompei restored to his kingdome but his head was sent to Caesar for his good will that was the welcome that Pompey had in Egipt with Ptholomey Octauius Caesar vanquished M. Antonius in the great battell at Mutina vpon this day where two noble Consuls at Rome named Hircius and Pansa at that time were slaine in the field for it was for an empire and therefore they fought Iustilie for Cleopatra Queene of Egipt would faine be empresse of Rome also Antonius seeking to please hir little exteemed his wife Octauia which was Augustus sister hence proceeded the cause of these ciuill warres vntill Antonius was with his louer Cleopatra vanquished The cittie of Ierusalem was vpon this day besieged by Titus emperour of Rome at what time great multitudes of people came from euery coast to the feast of the vnleauened bread which

armie of the Saracens was ouerthrowen and killed at Petragoricon 968. The 3. daie M Fab. Ambustus at his third time being Consul of Rome triumphed with great solemnitie ouer the Tiburtines vnder whom the Torquinians which were subdued and taken to the number of 307. souldiers in his first Consulship were slaine and sacrificed in Rome for that they rebelled with Torquinius their last king against their countrie and now again by this Fabius in his third Consulship 348. of the best noble men were brought prisoners vnto Rome where they were whipped and scourged and after put to the sword in the maket place at Rome 397. yeares after the building of Rome Charles the third king of Neapolis leauing his sonne Ladislaus behind who after his father succeeded in Apulia went vnto Hungaria and their was created king 1386. but shortly he was slaine through the conspiracie of these noble men in Hungaria but Boof referreth this day to the 5. of December and also affirmeth that this king was bidden to Buda to a feast and was slaine sitting at the table Antioche a famous cittie in Siria was besieged by Godfredus and his armie which were Christians and was taken in that voiage they went to Ierusam into the holy land to fight against the Saracens and Infidels which were scattered into al partes of Asia and then dwelt in Ierusalem against whom manie Christian princes went to commence warre and to seeke to vanqtish out of the holie land 1090. The 4. Day VPon this daie a temple was builded and dedicated to Hercules in Circo Maximo a place where the Romanes vsed all kind of exercises and agilitie both on horsebacke and on foot at which time they also celebrated a feast in memorie of Hercules with solemne games and shewes in Numitia Also an other temple was dedicated to Bellona with great solemne sacrifice in the which Ap. Claudius a noble Romane caused this day to be celebrated in memorie of the victories of Pub. Sulpitius and also Fabritius against king Pyrrhus when he was wounded his Elephantes slaine and his armie vanquished to the number of 20000. men The 5 daie AS vpon this day the Romans builded a temple vnto Faith and yerely on this day they did vse solemne sacrifices to Iupiter Sponsar their patron for the Romanes had Iupiter in most honor to whom chiefly they did sacrifice the 2. was to Mars the 3. was to Quirinus which they named Romulus during his life putting him in the nūber of the Gods they called him by the name of Quirinus The Boetians had a great ouerthrow by the Thessalians vpon this day at Gerestion two Countries in Greece long before the Peloponesian warre which war was the destruction of Greece As vpon this day the Thebans had that famous victorie ouer the Lacedenionians at which battail Cleōbrotus the king with al the peeres and chiefest of the Lacedemomans were slaine that noble Greeke Cleomines was slaine at the kinges foote with a thousande of the most valiant Spartans about him at that time there was a great feast at Sparta When this newes came to the Ephories of the victorie of the Thebanes This battaile was 30. years after the ouerthrow of Athens by Lisander the Lacedemonian and now the ouerthrow of Sparta by Epaminondas the Theban these two citties were named the two eies and the two legs of al Greece and yet Sparta could not abide Athens neither could Athens abide Sparta Gauerus countie of Egmond and Philip countie of Hornia were vppon this daie at the commaundement of Duke Dalbe at Brussels in Brabant beheaded The 6. Daye VPon this day Moses was called vp to mount Sinai by the Lord with his minister Iosuah where he was sixe daies couered with a clowde and in the seauenth the Lord appeared vnto Moses whose glorie seemed to bee like vnto consuming fire and Moses was in the mount fortie daies and also fortie nightes The huge and monstruous Temple of Diana at Ephesus which for the greatnes thereof was deemed to be one of the seuen wonders was burnt as vppon this daie at what time the priestes of Diana cried out running vp and downe and saying that this daie is borne the tormentor and plage of all Asia for at that verie daie Alexander the great was borne when the Temple was on fire which afterward verified the priestes sayings yet some hold opinion that hee was borne the 6. day of Aprill 3610. Philip king of Mac●donia gaue a great ouerthrow as on this day to the Illiricans by Parmenios courage then being lieuetenant vnto him hee tooke the cittie of Potidea and there wan the garland of price in the games which were vsed in the mount Olimpus for running tilting also iusting with other exercises on horseback which were vsuall and had in great estimation among them Iulianus Apostataan exceeding great persecutor among the Christians and of the Christian religion resembled by Eutropius to M. Antonius whom this Iulianus endeuored in all pointes to imitate hee was well seene in the liberall sciences hee excelled in the Greeke tongue who in his warres against the Parthians after hee had conquered Assiria and returned thence was slaine by his enemies after he had raigned ninteen moneths as Eutrop saith who was present in these warres that hee was slaine in the 7. yeare of his raigne and the sixt calend of Iulie when hee had liued 31 yeares Alexander sonne to Ba●ilius and brother to Constantius raigned two yeares a most vicious and wicked Emperour nether like father nor brother geuen to lust and slothfulnesse calling those to honor and to bee chiefe with him which were most like to him in vice and therefore hee died by such a filthie surphet as is most straunge with bleeding at his nostrels and also at his priuities when he had raigned two yeares not so long as Iustin writeth The 7 daie ON this daie the Romanes builded a Temple called Templum mentis for that they had bowed going to the African warres if they returned with victorie to build vp a Temple in memorie of the same and to dedicate it vnto Minde for they supposed Faith Mind Peace Concord and Fortune to bee canonised goddesses and therefore builded to these Temples feastes and sacrifices The temple of Vesta was opened in Rome as vppon this day to renew the lampes where the Uestals Nunnes kept the holie and immortall fire this ceremonie of keeping the holie fire was also in the Temple of Apollo in Delphos and likewise at Athens but they differ in the ceremonies for in Greece old women which were past mariage and in Rome yong maides who might not marie with great deuotion and religion These lightes were neuer put out but once in Athens in the time of Aristion once in Delphos when the temple of Apollo was ●●rnt by the Medes and once in Rome in the time of the ciuill ●●rres betwee●e Pompei the great and Caesar when altar fire