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A07894 A briefe chronicle, of the successe of times, from the creation of the world, to this instant· Containing, the originall & liues of our ancient fore-fathers, before and after the Floude, as also, of all the monarchs, emperours, kinges, popes, kingdomes, common-weales, estates and gouernments, in most nations of this worlde: and how in alteration, or succession, they haue continued to this day. Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633. 1611 (1611) STC 18263; ESTC S112963 308,814 636

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contrary to his Commandement He tooke counsell of Pythonissa the Enchantresse for which he was reproued of God and was slaine in the battell Dauid both King and Prophet in his youth he was a Shepherd and feared God but afterward forgetting himselfe he committed both adultry murder He raigned forty yeares and being wearied with many molestations he wrote his Booke of Psalmes to the glory of God To him was renewed the ancient promise of Iesus Christ and of his eternall kingdom who as concerning his manhood and according to the flesh descended of him Salomon raigned forty yeares Of such prouision as Dauid with mighty expences had prepared in the fourth yeare of his raigne hee builded a Temple to God which in seauen yeares after was finished it being 80. yeares after the comming forth of Egypt He composed the Prouerbs Ecclesiastes and the Canticles At length spending his time in the delight of women straunge Concubines he who was a holy man elected of God as both Sonne and King fell into idolatry In regard whereof his kingdom after his death was deuided to the kingdom of Iuda which was for Rehoboam the Sonne of Salomon to the kingdome of Israell for Ieroboam the Sonne of Nabat Kings of Iuda or of Ierusalem REhoboam the Sonne of Salomon King of Iuda despised his Elders and adhered to the counsell of young heads He raigned wickedly 17 yeares Ieroboam the first King of Israel induced the people to idolatry In this time flourished the Poet Homer Abiam the Sonne of Rehoboam raigned thrée yeares He trusting in God ouercame Ieroboam king of Israel who was accompanied with eight hundred thousand chosen strong valiant men yet lost fiue hundred thousand of them by the others Army which consisted but of foure hundred thousand Asa a very good King raigned one and fortie yeares he tooke away the Idols and deposed his Mother from the Title of Lady because shée had erected them He trusting in his Physitians and not requiring helpe of God being diseased in his féete dyed Iehosaphat raigned fiue and twenty yeares he was a most debonaire Prince appointing euery where Law-makers and Magistrates admonishing them daily to do their dutie In his time the great Prophet Helias was wrapt vp into heauen Ahab a most wicked King of Israel tooke to wife Iezabel as wicked a woman they were both reproued by the Prophet Elias The Priestes of Baal were destroyed Iehorum the wicked Sonne of a vertuous Father raigned eight yeares beeing the husband to Athalia the Sister of Achab. Now was the prophet Elizeus In these dayes Licurgus the Law-maker did cut off the excesse of foode garments Hesiodus Othozias importuned by his Mother Athalia the Daughter of Amry raigned wickedly one yeare He was ouerthrowne by Iehu king of Israel the last of Salomons line Iehu also vanquished Iezabel the wife and brethren of Achab with all the Priestes of Baal in whose Temple they made their Thefts and Robberies Athalia slew all the Royall séede or race except Ioas who was nourished and kept by Iehoida Afterward Athalia was slaine in the seuenth year of her raigne Ioas raigned iustly fortie years during the time of Iehoida the Priest who being dead hee slew Zacharias his sonne in the Temple Sardanapalis king of the Assyrians beeing then vanquished threw himselfe into a fire Afterward his Monarchie was diuided among his Officers into the kingdomes of Assyria and Medea Pigmalion being king of Tyre Dido his Sister builded Carthage which she reduced into a kingdome shee being a woman verie magnanimous and chast as Iustine affirmeth in his eightéenth Booke whatsoeuer Virgill and Ouid say to the contrary Amasius raigned fiue and twentie yeares hee was admonished by the Prophet not to put his trust in humain strength yet for idolatry he was taken and slaine by his enimies Some do report that at this time was the ending of the effeminat Sa●●anapalu● and so consequentlie of the first Assyrian Monarchy which continued after Nimrod 1358. yeares Osias raigned iustly two and fiftie yeares He vndertook the sacrifycing Priests office for which he was switten with Leprosie in the ●8 yeare of his raigne In this time Abdias Amos and Ioel the Prophets liued Belus by some termed Belocus first King of the Babylonians was translated to the new Kingdome of the Assyrians and now was the beginning of the Olympiad in Greece Then also beganne the kingdome of the Medes by Arsacus Lieutenant to the womanish Sardanapalus And that of the Macedonians by Gramaus Ioathan a good King raigned sixtéene yeares in which time were Micheas Nahum and Ionas the Prophets Romulus and Remus in the first yeare of the seauenth Olympiade builded the Citie of Rome in Italy For the beginning whereof it is necessarie to read Dionisius Halicarnasseus in his first Booke Solynus Cap. 2 and Pausanias rather then Catoes Originals and Fabius Pictors fragments suspected rather of Noueltie then antiquity according to Beat. Reuanus Some do referre it to the following raigne about this time began the kingdome of the Lydians by Ardis Achaz the idolater raigned sixtéene years Esay then prophesied as appeareth in his seauenth Chapter of Iesus Christ to bee borne of a Virgin And Micheas that hee should be borne in Bethlehem About this time began the kingdom of the Romaines by Romulus Ezechias a good King raigned 29. yeares hee brake the Serpent of Moses whereunto the people had so many yeares offered Sacrifice Salmanazar King of the Assyrians for Idolatry ruined the whole kingdom of Israel vnto Samaria which had continued 244. yeares The Angell of God did then ouerthrow an hundred four-score M. men of warre in the Army of Sennacherib for their most exeerable blasphemies Tobias was captiue then in Niniuy Numa Pompillius king of Rome added two months to the yeare Ianuary and February there being no more before but ten in regard of them Manasses being a wicked and cruel king raigned 55. yeares he caused the Prophet Esay to be sawed in sunder thorow the middest And being captiued by his enemies he acknowledged God and being reduced to his kingdom he demolished the Idols Tullus Hostilius third King of Rome destroyed the kingdom of Alba whence came the family of the Iulij to Rome Candaulus Gyges were then Kings of Lydia Amon a more wicked King then his Father Manasses raigned two yeares and was slaine by his owne seruants Zaleucus was then Law-giuer to the Locrians Iosias a very good King raigned 31. yeares he cut downe the hallowed Woods and the Idolles In this time the Bookes of Moyses which for many yeares together had bin lost were found againe and now liued Sophonie Abacuck and Ieremy the Prophets as also Archilocus Simonides and Phocylides Poets Ancus Martius was the fourth king of Rome Epimenides Ioacham a very euill King the