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A09568	A briefe chronicle of the foure principall empyres To witte, of Babilon, Persia, Grecia, and Rome. Wherein, very compendiously, the whole course of histories are conteined. Made by the famous and godly learned man Iohn Sleidan, and englished by Stephan Wythers.; De quatuor summis imperiis. English	Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Wythers, Stephen.	1563 (1563)	STC 19849; ESTC S114630	119,109	230

Sennacherib folowed after him Sennatherib who kept hys dwellyng in Nineue He condemned kyng Ezechias in a great summe of money afterwards he came and befeged Ierusalem with a mighty army and by the Embassadours that he dyd sende he exhorted the people to yelde and guye ouer and rayled on the kung who hoped for succour at the hand of God But he remayned not vnpunished for euen in one night he loste an hundred foure scoure and fyne thousande men that were kylled by the Angell the whiche God euen a lytle before had fyrmely promised by Esay vnto Ezechias the kyng And beyng retourned home from thence he was murthered euen of his owne children Hitherto the Babilonians were subiect to the Assirians after the ouerthrowe of Sardanapalus but after that Sennacherib as it is sayde was so euyll handled nere vnto Ierusalem and shortly slayne of hys chyldren thynges were greatly chaunged and the kyngdome was diuided For the two brethren that had done the murther Adramelech and Sarasar dyd flye and yet not wythstandynge dyd put them selues in armes Assaradon and made out theyr power agaynst Assaradon theyr brother who dyd vsurpe the kyngdome after the death of hys father for as muche as before he dyd gouerne the publyke weale in hys fathers absence Merodach lieutenant of Babilon fyndyng thys occasion fitte for hys purpose dyd rebell Merodach and after that he had by lytle and lytle partly by fayre meanes and partly by threates gotten vnto hym self the countreys there about he defied Assaradon and finally hauyng vanquished hym in the twelfth yere of hys raygne he ioyned the whole Empyre of the Assirians vnto the Babilonians and raygned fourty yeres After him certain authours do place Benmerodach Nabuchodonozor the first of that name Benmerodach Nabuchodonozor but for asmuch as the holy scriptures make no mencion of him seing also we ought not rashly to beleue other writings we wil here place that Nabuchodonozor of whom the holy scripture so largely speaketh next after Merodach He then shortly after the beginning of his raigne made war against the Egiptians toke from them the whole coūtrey which is from Euphrates vnto Pellusiū He layed tribute vpon Ioachim king of Iudea the .viii. yere of his raigne he brought his sonne king Ieconias captiue into Babilon with the chief lords artificers not onely of the citie of Ierusalem but also of the whole coūtrey The .xviii. yere of his raign after that he had layed siege for the space of two yeres before the citie of Ierusalem he toke it The wynning of Ierusalem spoyled it brunt it he brake down the walls he led the most part of the people away captiue he put out the eyes of king Zedechias slew his children with the princes Ieremy did foreshew this miserie in the first yere of the raign of Nabuchodonozor from that time is to be rekened the .lxx. yeres of the captiuitie in Babilon About the .xxiiii. yere of hys Empyre after that Nabuchodonozor had vanquished the kyngs of the Amonites Moabites he led his army into Egipt hauyng gotten the whole countrey he afterwards began his Monarche The second yere of his sayd Monarche as the learned men of our tyme do recken he saw in hys dreame a merueylous great Image whose head was of gold his breast armes of syluer Nabuchodonozor saw a monstrous great image his belly thyghes were of brasse his legges were of yron hys fete partly of yron and partly of clay Vho after he was awaked because he had forgotten his dreame and yet not withstandyng was greatly astonished therwith he called together all the sothsayers and charmers whome he commaunded to declare vnto him what his dreame was the which yf they dyd not he threatened to put thē to death Daniel yong Daniel who was thither led captiue with the residue from Ierusalem knowyng thys he gaue to vnderstand that he could satisfie the kyngs desyre who beyng presented he first of all shewed what the kyng had dreamed then afterwards he declared what the dreame dyd signifie saying that the ymage did signifie the foure principall Empyres of the world which should orderly follow one after another Herevppon he spake on this maner vnto the kyng saying Thou truly art that head of gold thou I say whome God hath endued with power and maiestie vnto whome he hath geuen domination ouer all men ouer all beastes of the fielde and ouer the foules of the ayre After thee shall aryse another kyngdome of syluer that is to saye worse than thys of thyne The thyrde shall be of Brasse whyche shall haue domination farre abroade The fourth shall bee of Iron for euen as Iron bruseth and breaketh all thynges so shall that fourth and laste kyngdome beate downe all the others and shall make them subiect vnto it Beholde then the first prophecie and neuer hard of before touchyng the foure Empyres the whiche God hath reueyled vnto vs by Daniell a thyng worthy to be perfectly prynted in memorye for as much as in fewe wordes it comprehendeth the history of all tymes euen vnto the end of the world as I wyll hereafter declare It suffiseth for thys tyme to know how that God onely from that tyme dyd declare vnto vs the order and mutations of kyngdomes Nabuchodonozors power Now great Nabuchodonozars power was it is more manifest out of that place of Daniel where the scripture compareth hym to a tree whose heyght reacheth vnto heauen couerynge wyth hys shadowe the whole vniursall world whose leaues are excedyng fayre and fruite so pleasant that it was meate for all beasts in whose bowes and braunches all sortes of byrdes buylte theyr nestes and tooke theyr rest Thys then is the fyrst Monarche the whych vnder thys kynge was greatlye angmented and lyfted vp in soueraygne dignitie on the contrarye parte it tooke an ende and was altogether brought to ruine in his childrens childrens tyme as God had before shewed by Daniell and by other prophetes Nabuchodogozor raigned .xliii. yeres It is nedeful that al men but specially the kings princes shuld attentiuely read consider with what horrible monstruous example god punished his pride as sayth Daniel to the ende that they may haue the maiestie of god in reuerence and do their duetie towardes the people commytted vnto their charge Euilmerodach Nabuchodonosors successour Euilinerodach hys sonne folowed after hym who reigned thirtie yeres and had Assur for hys successour who reigned but three yeares Labassarbach folowed after him who kepte the kyngdome seuen yeres He being dead Balthasar dyd enioye the Empyre for fyue yeres Certaine doe count them after this sort but the learned men of our time haue these twoo and place nexte after Euilmerodach Balthasar his sonne they holde that he reigned fourtene yeres The which truely is necessary that it should so be for to furnishe the number of thre score and tenne yeres duryng the which the people

third booke How the Almaines are entred into fraūce BEFORE that we begyne to speake of Charlemayne vnto whom according as we haue sayd the West Empyre was bequethed it behoueth to declare somewhat of the Germaines of whom he proceaded Fyrst of all it is most euident that the Germayns haue oftentymes passed the Rheine and haue entred into the French dominio●s to the end there to make their inhabitition because of the goodnes of the country For the Teuthons did pierce into Prouince where they were defeicted by the Consull C. Marius Synce as the Auuergnaes and they of Autun did stryue and cont●nd for the principalitie certain bands of Almaynes hyred of the Auuergnaes and t●●y of Sens came thether By litle and lytle they so encreased that vnder the king Ariouistus they possessed the most part of the country Iulius Cesar defeicted them in plaine batta●le And certayn yeres a●ter as he made war against them of Liege which is a people beyond Brabant the Germains passed again ouer the Rheine for to assaile the Romain host But they were ouerthrowen where the Maze and the Rheyne meteth Many yeares after they held thēselues within their limites because that the Romain Emperours made war vpon thē But hauing gotten a certayn apt commodious time they loked vnto theyr aduantage and forraged Fraunce without ceasse So likewise in the Emperour Gallienus time a voluptuous man and of no worthines they did inuade and oppresse it by succession of time became so mightie that the Emperour Probus the fourth after Gallienus draue them out with great difficultie Iulianus also Lieutenant of the Emperour Constans dyd ioyne in battaile with them Synce in the Emperour Honorius time the Gothes entred by force of armes into Fraunce who beyng encoumbred with diuers w●rres graunted them the country of Aqui●ania to dwell in On the other syde the French Almayns entryng in armes through the country called Gallia Belgica suppressed them of Trire Gilderlād Cleaue with them of Liege of Terouane of Turney of Amiens of Beauuoys of Soissonois Which done they toke their habitatiō in that part of Gallia Paris the head Citie of Fraūce the which yet at this day beareth the name of Fraunce Wherof Paris is the head Citie nere wherto is the town of S. Denis the which was afterwards consecrated to bury the kings as it is yet at this present They being so enlarged and holding also before a great part of Germanie to witte al the country about the riuer of Mein and of Rheyne did not onely defēd themselues if any came to assaile them but also set vpon others And as the Romain Empire fel dai by day into decay in Asia Afrike the Lombards also waistig Italy they maruelously enlarged their limites in Fraunce Afterwardes manye of their kings raigned there vntil such time as the kyngdom fel into the hands of Pipine of Charlemaine his sonne Charles Martellus was the father of Pipine who was not king but one of the princes great maisters as they are commonly called He vanquished them of Bauiers of Swaine For according as the writters of the * Histories of Actes yerely done Annales of Fraunce do mention the time hath bene that the kynges haue had but only the tytle and the name as touching the whole aucthorie it was in the hands of the great Maister The Great maisters of Fraunce their credit For they were altogether degenerated from the vertue manlines of their ancestours and being addicted vnto pleasures voluptuousnes they toke no care of the publike weale Wherfore the Great maister had the administration and dyd increase so much the more hys power as the lithernes carlesnes of the king did abound Pipine who was great maister in the raigne of Childericus came to the crowne vnder such occasion The kyngs suffer the pope to displace them the thing hauing bene debated vpon before pope Zachary as they say Mentiō is made hereof in the decree which they intitill of Gratianus where it is said to be lawfull vnto the popes to put the kynges out of their thrones But the tytle inscriptiō of that place is false For albeit that there haue ben two Emperours named Anastasius notwithstādyng it cannot be attributed neither to the one nor to the other forasmuch as the first raigned more then two C. yeres before the befell the other .xxxvii. Moreouer in the last mans daies there was neuer any pope named Gelasius I thought it necessarye to adde this Contraritie in the writinges of Popes for to aduertise the readers to read intentiuely warly the writigs of popes For we find in diuers places that their chiefe end is to put their lawes in credite auctority by falsly giuing to vnderstand that they are very ancient Ouer besides this that Pipine did suppresse the Lombards in Italy at the request of the pope as is before said he made warre agaynst the Saxons and moreouer against them of Aquitania whose Duke beynge taken he slewe After the death of Pipyne they oftentymes rebelled But Charlemayne hys sonne putte ende vnto the twoo warres to wytte that of Saxonye and of Aquitania but not wyth oute greate trauayle Lōg warre against the Saxons He had warre with the Saxons for thre thirtie yeares space and during this warre he was also occupied with others For he did subdue the country of Bauier the which did rebell vnder the conduction of the Captain Tassilon and made two iournies against the Lombards and passed euen into the land of Lauor in such sort that he subiected all Italy and ordayned lawes as touchyng policie He constrained also the cities of Gallia situated about the Ocean sea in times past named * The auncient name of Britaine in Fraūce Armorica and now comprehended vnder the name of lytle Britayne to do their duety Because that they refused to pay the tribute that was yerely dew vnto the kings of Fraūce He went also into Spain where he was victorious against the Saracenes but at his returne the Gascons a people of Aquitania did lay waite for him in the forestes called * Mountaines which do diuide Fraunce frō Spaine Pirenees discomfited him Finally at the eyght yeres end he vainquished the Hūnes who held the country of Hungaria pacified Bohemia by hys Lieutenāts His last war was against the Danois or Normanes who wasted all that side of Germanye and of Gallia with their sea armie Through these so great actes he was surnamed the Great For before tyme the French kings did hold but that part of Germany which is betwen Saxony and Dunowe betwen the Rhey●e the riuer of Sala betwene Swane and Bauieres But he annexed the whole country of Saxonie moreouer the two Hungaries Demnarbe or the great Westphaly● Ireland and the mediteran cost of Dalmatia The aboue sayd French kings did possesse in Gallia the part which is betwene the Rheine and Loire