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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09898	The life of Alfred, or, Alvred: the first institutor of subordinate government in this kingdome, and refounder of the Vniversity of Oxford Together with a parallell of our soveraigne lord, K. Charles untill this yeare, 1634. By Robert Povvell of Wels, one of the Society of New-Inne.	Powell, Robert, fl. 1636-1652.; Alfred, King of England, 849-899.	1634 (1634)	STC 20161; ESTC S115025	29,645	188

THE LIFE OF ALFRED OR ALVRED The first Institutor of subordinate government in this Kingdome and Refounder of the Vniversity of OXFORD Together with a Parallell of our Soveraigne Lord K. CHARLES untill this yeare 1634. By ROBERT POVVELL of Wels one of the Society of New-Inne Printed by Richard Badger for Thomas Alchorn and are to be sold at the signe of the green-Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1634. REVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO PATRI AC DOMIno Gualtero permissione divina Winton Episcopo Sacrae Periscelidis Praesuli Domino suo honoratissimo Reverendissime Antistes INter publicas privatas rerum anxietates per suffuratas ansam arripui horas opusculum de antiquis legibus subdelegatis in hoc regno regendi formulis ab Alvredo olim praeillustri Angliae principe institutis ad Mosaicam moderno tempori deductis imitationem elucubrandi non citiùs opus istud peregissem honoratissimo juris perito examine suo trutinandū devovissem cum magnum me incessit desiderium in illius celeberrimi regis vitam virtutes gesta penitius inscrutandi quae omnia quidem accuratiùs perpendenti tantum mihi in delitiis erant ut variis sparsim Chronographis reperta in unum colligere fasciculum non pertaesum fuerit in illius adimplendi conatu sic unda supervenit undae mirae torrentis instar in animum meum de serenissimo nostro Carolo rege ipsius cum Saxonico illo antecessore suo aequiparabili fere in omnibus assimilatione meditationes inciderunt eò magis mirae quod tunc temporis insignissimus ille Aetoniae praepositus multas earundem licet longè concinniori disertiori idiomatis contextu in plausibus votis suis ad Regem è Scotia reducem dilucidè pertextuisset aetate hac calamorum typorum prurigine laboranti cum non deerint haud dicam histriomastiges insolentes insensati Regis legis ecclesiae Episcoporum totius ditionis hujus gubernationis mastiges licèt ipsissimis ipsi flagellis pereant non iniquum mihi cum nos non nobis solùm natos esse meminerim hoc minutulum meum in rei-publicae gazophylacium Regis legis ergo immittere visum est Ad opellam istam de legibus quod attinet quantùm naturalem subditorum erga sacram Regis Majestatem obedientiam quantum innatam Coronae regalis praeeminentiam nec non veterum consuetudinum novissimorum decretorum scientiam explicatura quantùm denique emolumenti ad rerum gerendarum subordinationē allatura videatur consultissimos appellare judices fas sit interim ad nobile par Principum sacrorum redeam quis de talibus talia qualia perrarò ulla produxit aetas silendo praeter ire queat Etenim ut alibi in Alfredum dicitur quae delectatio major quam clarorum virorum studia res gestas mores vitas ortus obitus tanquam tabulas bene pictas quotidie intueri Quis fructus uberior quam qui ex istiusmodi rerum lectione percipiatur Non alium hoc aggrediendo mihi finem destinaverā quām ut incomparabilia omnium in ij●● praesertim in Alf. nostro superstite bonorum insignia quasi totidem exemplaria imitationis commodè singulis accommodentur qualis haec micula mea prae grandioribus apud vulgus hominum estimanda videatur non multùm interest modo dominationis vestrae cui omnia quicquid me penes immò meipsum debeo patrocinio cum omni humilitate dicari digneris Intimis igitur à te praesul Reverende votis contendo ut hujus officii pignoris dedicationem acceptare non pigeat quo ingenti favore fretus alterum istud de legibus reipublicae utilitati devotum quorum intererit prius consultis alacrius exhibiturus sum Deus optimus maximus dignitatem vestram in ecclesiae et regni ornamentum et adjumentum diu incolumem praestet et annorum plenitudine transacta aeterna beatitudine in altissimis coronet Dominationi vestrae omni observantiae officio studio fide devinctissimus Servulus ROB POVELLUS The Preface HISTORY is the Herauld of Antiquity and the life of time and well deserves Cicero his appellation Magistram vitae it preserves and presents unto our understanding and knowledge in the booke of nature as it were in a Synoptick glasse the life and light of the boundlesse and beautifull theatre of the whole world the heavens the elements the glorious lights the nature of al herbs and plants and all creatures whatsoever both of sea and land yea even subterraneous things treasured up in the bosome and bowels of the earth the variety of all precious gems and all minerall bodies and materials whatsoever and not onely the life light of this great universe but of all persons and actions memorable and worthy to be recorded either for imitation of good or eschewing of evill ever since the world it selfe had its first created light it presents our first Parents in their innocence and naked purity and after their fall in their sinfull robes of figleaves Noah in the Arke the type of the Church militant and afterwards uncovered in his Tent. It brings to our memories the gracious and godly government of David Iehosaphat Ezechias and many other blessed Kings and on the contrary the tyrannicall and cruell oppressions of Pharaoh Astyages and Herod and many others with their wofull and exemplary punishments the lives of good and bad subjects an undermining Ziba and a faithfull Mephibosheth a proud Haman and a loyall Mordecai an incorrupted Naaman and a bribing Gehazi in a word a Pharisaicall Thraso and a penitent Publican it presents unto us from the mouth of God by the hand of Moses the Law of God or the deca logue proceeding from the eternall wisdome and rule of justice in God by which as by a Rule or Levell all the counsels and consultations all the actions and enterprises of men are to bee directed and squared This great Mistresse hath two eyes and by them she surveyes the whole world Topographie and Chronology and exact knowledge of places and of times which like the Cynosura are able to guide and conduct every studious reader in the vast Ocean of the affaires of the world unto the haven of true knowledge History is either universall describing the whole fabricke of the world or generall containing a national or provinciall description Quae mores hominum cognovit urbes or speciall comprehending the lives and actions of particular Princes or persons this last I shall walke in To be versed in the knowledge of forreigne Countries and affaires and to be a stranger at home were great folly and a way to forget the legiance and obedience which wee owe to our Soveraigne and his Lawes Vnder the service of that great Commandresse that yeelds subjection to none but eternity it selfe I shall humbly presume to present unto the world for the glory of our English Nation such a Prince as Constantine the