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A94143	Calamus mensurans the measuring reed. Or, The standard of time. Containing an exact computation of the yeares of the world, from the creation thereof, to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Stating also, and clearing the hid mysteries of Daniels 70. weekes, and other prophecies, the time of Herods reigne; the birth, baptisme and Passion of our Saviour, with other passages never yet extant in our English tongue. In two parts. / By John Swan.	Swan, John, d. 1671.	1653 (1653)	Wing S6235; Thomason E706_4; ESTC R203659	246,136	350

beginning of the eighteenth Dynastie Next after these follow the Kings that reigned in the eighteenth Dynastie as we likewise finde them in Josephus who in his first booke against Apion reckoneth on as followeth beginning first with Themosis otherwise called Amasis to whom he giveth 25. yeares and foure Moneths Chebron succeeded and had twelve yeares Amenophis 20. yeares and seven Moneths Amesses sister to Amenophis 21. yeares and nine Moneths Mephres twelve yeares and nine Moneths Mephramuthosis 25. years and ten Moneths Thmosis nine years and eight Moneths Amenophis 30. yeares and ten Moneths This is he who was sirnamed Memnon or the speaking stone because his Image as saith Eusebius Strabo and others gave a sound at the Sun-rising till the comming of Christ The next after him was Orus thirty six yeares and five Moneths After Orus was Acenchres the daughter of Orus 12. yeares and one moneth Then Rathoris the brother of Acenchres 9. yeares His Sonne succeeded his name Acencheres and the time of his reign 12. yeares and five Moneths Another Acencheres was after him and reigned 12. yeares and three Moneths Armais foure yeares and one Moneth Armesis one yeare and four Moneths or as he is otherwise written Ramesses by a transposition of letters His successour had the same name and was Ramesses Miamun though commonly written Armesesmiamun the time of whose reigne was sixty six yeeres and two Moneths This was that new King which knew not Joseph as being born after his death and willing to forget the memory of his benefits Exod. 1.8 The hard bondage of the Children of Israel began in his time His Daughter was Thermutis by whom Moses was preserved for so Josephus and Epiphanius call her Amenophis succeeded next in the Kingdome of Egypt and reigned after Amnesesmiamun nineteene yeares and six Moneths and not untill the end thereof were the Children of Israel delivered For though his Predecessor who reigned long was dead and gone yet their bondage still endured as is noted by Moses in Exod. 2.23 where the words be these And it came to passe after a long time that the King of Egypt died and the Children of Israel sighing by reason of the bondage cryed c. that is they cryed by reason of their hard bondage and servitude which still continued notwithstanding the long reign of the former King was ended Now this King as I apsaid before reigned nineteene yeares and six Moneths and pears plainly to be that very Pharaoh which was drowned in the Red Sea Nor doth Manetho but confesse as much in that which Josephus relateth out of him in his first book against Apion For though Manetho like a lying Priest of Egypt doth what he can with fabulous reports to colour over the matter for the credit of his Nation yet all things well observed he hath delivered enough to shew that Amenophis here mentioned was that King that followed after Moses when he led the Children of Israel out of Egypt Master Lydyat also sheweth the same not onely by mentioning this Testimony of Manetho but by adding thereunto that this was hee Qui ab Hippotamo raptus interiisse fertur which though it be taken as a Fable yet saith he and not amisse it is digna attentione fabula a Table well worthy of attention And thus having thus farre considered the severall Kings of this Dynastie I shall in the next place present them in a perfect List or Catalogue all fixed in their right times Yeares of the Iulian Period when they beg Kings of Egypt in the eighteenth Dynastie ex Josepho 2891. Themosis otherwise called Amasis twenty five yeares and four moneths 2916. Ghebron twelve yeares 2928. Amenophis twenty yeares and seven moneths 2949. Amesses ejus soror one and twenty yeares and nine Moneths 2971. Mephres twelve yeares and nine Moneths 2984. Mephramuthosis twenty five years and ten Months 3010. Thmosis nine yeares and eight Moneths 3020. Amenophis thirty yeares and ten Moneths 3051. Orus thirty six yeares and five Moneths 3087. Acenchres Ori Filia twelve years and one Moneth 3099. Rathoris Frater Acenchris nine years 3108. Acencheres Rathoris Filius twelve yeares and five Moneths 3120. Acencheres alter twelve years and three Moneths 3133. Armais four yeares and one Moneth 3137. Ramesses or Armesis one yeare and four Moneths 3138. Ramesses or Armesesmiamun fixty fix yeares and two Moneths 3204. Amenophis nineteen yeares and fix Moneths 3224. In this yeare Amenophis was drowned in the Red-Sea whose death gave an end to this Dynastie The next that followed was the nineteenth Dynastie in which these Kings reigned The first was Sethosis whose time of reigne was 51. yeares Helvic ex Afric This Sethosis or Sethos was Egyptus the brother of Danaus as Manetho sheweth and is also thought to be the same whom Herodotus and Diodorus call Sesostres This King if he were Sesostres is said to grow so mighty and proud that he made his tributary Kings to draw his Chariot by turnes But it one day so happened that one of those unfortunate Princes cast his eye many times on the Chariot Wheeles and being by Sesostres asked the cause of his doing so he replyed That the falling of that Spoke lowest which but just before was in the height of the Wheele put him in mind of the instability of Fortune Which when Sesostres deepely weighed he gave over to use that barbarous custome any more Next after Sethosis if we follow Africanus for this Dynastie Rhapsaces reigned 61. yeares After him Ammenepthes 20. Then Ramases 60. After Ramases was Ammenemes 5. And last of all Thuoris 6. All which particulars being cast into one summe do amount to 203. Thus then this Dynastie presents it selfe Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg Kings of Egypt the nineteenth Dynastie ex Africano 3224. Sethosis began and reigned fifty one yeares 3275. Rhapsaces sixty one 3336. Ammenepthes twenty 3356. Ramases or Rampses sixty 3416. Ammenemes five 3421. Thuoris six 3427. Here was the end of this Dynastie and beginning of the next The next was the twentieth Dynastie to which they who follow Africanus gives 125. but that 's a number too short as in the following reckonings better knowne will well appeare It is better therefore to account so many yeares to it as we find in Eusebius 178. It had in it twelve Kings accorto Africanus but neither doth he nor Eusebius name them Howbeit I thinke it probable that Cetes otherwise called Proteus Rampsynitus Nileus and those other that were before Chembis Memphites reigned now as we find in Diodorus This Dynastie began as hath been said in the yeare of the Julian Period 3427 and ended in the yeare of the same Julian Period 3605. The next after this was the one and twentieth Dynastie to which not without cause Eusebius gives 130. yeares and reckoneth it in these Kings Semendes 26. Psusennes 41. Nephercheres 4. Amenophthis 9. Opsochon 6. Spinaces 9. Psusennes 35. The first of these I take to bethe same whom other Authors call

Cibotium or Larnax in which he saved them who fled to him for succour The conflagration under Phaeton is said to be much about the same time not onely in Ethiopia Phaetons burning but in Istria a Region in Italy and about Cumae and the Mountaines of Vesuvius Of both which be strange Fables as that Phaeton should set the World on fire by overthrowing the Chariot of the Sun which indeed and truth was nothing else but an extraordinary great heat wherewith the World was vexed in those dayes And as for the other that Deucalion and his wife should be the restorers of mankind it was nothing else but because he cherished them that fled to him for succour for in his Boat Larnax or Cibotium he preserved many who otherwise had been drowned Ovid the Father of these Fables had without doubt read the first booke of Moses but Ovid was a professed Heathen Rom. 1 2●.25 and the Heathen as Saint Paul telleth us became vaine in their imaginations and thereupon to fit their owne fancy turned the truth of God into a lye as well in this as in such other things as the Apostle mentioneth in his first Chapter to the Romans Amphiction succeeded Cranaus and reigned after him ten yeares He finding Greece to be weake and subject to the incursions of the Barbarians instituted out of the body of the whole Country one generall meeting or Assembly which from him was called the Amphictionian Councill and in it he made Laws which beside those that were proper to every City were common to all as Helvicus noteth So that this seemeth to be the first Parliament that ever was in the world The first Parliament The next that reigned here was Ericthonius who having deposed Amphyction reigned after him 50. yeares He is said to be the Inventor of Waggons and to be the first that built a Temple to Minerva Pandion whose daughters were Progne and Philomela succeeded Ericthonius and reigned after him forty yeares This Pandion in the nine and thirtieth yeare of his reigne warred with Labdacus King of Thebes being aided by Tereus the Son of Mars for which favour Pandion gave him his daughter Progne Of whom we read that after Tereus had married her he ravished her other Sister Philomela cut out her tongue and cast her into prison where she wrought her story in needle worke and sent it to her Sister Progne hereupon slew her Sonne Itys whom she had borne to Tereus and set him before her Husband to eat Tereus upon this attempted to kill her but she fled and escaped Of all which Ovid fableth after this manner viz. that whilst Tereus followed after Progne he was turned into a Lapwing she into a Swallow and Philomela into a Nightingale Ericthius was the next King he succeeded Pandion and reigned after him 50. yeares His daughter Orithya was taken away and ravished by Boreas of Thrace The Poets ascribe this Rape to the North wind which was for nothing else but because Thrace was North from Athens About which time was also the Rape of Proserpina by Orcus or Aidoneus King of the Molossians But whether of these was first Eusebius sheweth but is not cleare whether they were when Ericthonius or Ericthius reigned Cecrops the second reigned next after Ericthius forty years Pandion the second succeeded Cecrops and reigned 25. years betweene whom and his successor was an Interregnum of two yeares For lesse then so there could not be in regard the whole time of this Kingdome to the death of Codrus was 490. which the particulars in Eusebius will not make unlesse there be so many yeares of Interregnum as at the first was noted Aegeus was the next he succeeded Pandion at the end of the Interregnum and reigned after 48. yeares He had as Justin saith two Wives The first was Ae●●ra by whom he had Theseus the second was Medea whom he married after she was rejected by Jason and by her he had Medus It is proble that he came to gaine his Fathers Kingdome by the aid of his Grandfather Pyla King of the Magarenses For as Pausanias saith when his Father was expeiled he fled to his Wives Father Pyla and died in his Country The aid therefore that was granted by Pyla was not to 〈◊〉 Pandion but his Sonne Aegeus though Sygonius writeth otherwise Or if it were to restore Pandion yet because he died before his restitution could be effected it must needes be that not he but his son was restored by it After Aegeus Theseus succeeded and reigned thirty yeares who before he was King according to his lot was sent into Creete to be devoured of the Minotaure For we are to know that not many yeares before the end of Aegeus his reigne A●●rogeus sonne to Minos King of Creet was treacherously slaine at Athens For which fact Mi●●● rose up in Armes against the Athenians and being too hard for them propounded them peace upon this condition namely that they should every yeare send seven Noble young men and as many Virgins to Creete to be devoured by the Minotaure Now it came to passe that in the fourth yeare of this agreement the lot fell upon Theseus the Kings Sonne who thereupon was sent thither in a Ship with blacke S●ils and Rigging in token of the great sorrow that was in Athens at his departure but chiefly in Aegeus his Father who gave command to his Sonne that if his hap were so good as to slay the Minotaure he should change his Sailes from blacke to white at his comming home againe Now it so fell out that Theseus by Ariadnes advice slew the Minotaure but at his returne being overjoyed with his good fortune forgat to alter his Sailes Whereupon it came to passe that his Father Aegeus looking from an high Tower and seeing the Ship to come back with Blacke Sailes thought his Sonne to be dead and for griefe thereof he presently cast himselfe into the Sea and was drowned Which Sea wasever after called by the name of Aegean-Sea But as for this Theseus he was Cosin German to Hercules to whom he was assistant in many of his Labors He it was that first of all stole away the beautious Helena being aided therein by Pyrithous whom hee must therefore aid in the like Rape which he did For though Helena was at this time rescued againe by her brothers Castor Pollux yet Theseus makes good his promise to Pyrithous and is assistant to him in his attempt to steale Proserpine the daughter of Aidoneus King of the Molossians In which theft Theseus was taken Prisoner and afterward set free by Hercules Coelius Rhodiginus relates this story otherwise and saith that her name whom these two came to steale was Cora the daughter of Ades and that they went to the River Acheron there to have done it Which I like better then to call her Proserpine because that Rape was long before this and was either in the dayes of Ericthonius or in the dayes of Ericthius

and they were these Giges 38. Ardis 49. Sadiattes 12. Halyattes 57. Croesus 14. Scaliger gathereth out of Sosicrates a Laconian Historiographer that Cyrus tooke Sardes and subdued Croesus 41. years after the death of Periander who thereupon setteth the end of Croesus his Kingdome in the first year of the 59. Olympiad the like doth Helvicus and some others And indeed the account would fit the turne well enough if all things else were correspondent but because they are not I must let it alone to them that like it For though from the fortieth yeare of Periander which was all the time that he reigned according to Laertius there be 41. years to the time that Cyrus subdued Croesus yet not so many from the end of his 44. at which time he dyed even in the fourth yeare of the 48. Olympiad as already hath been shewed I conclude therefore that when Croesus lost his Kingdome it was not the first year of the 59. Olympiad but rather and indeed the first year of the 58. Olympiad fourteenth year of his reign For we are not to account that last of his to be compleat but current when this calamity fell upon him and that it was also towards Winter in the yeare of the Julian Period 4166. Which being considered I would that the reigne of the Lydians be set one year higher then they be in the Table in the first Part next after the one hundred and nineteenth Page For there the conquest that Cyrus made of Croesus his Kingdome standeth against the year of the Julian Period 4167 whereas here I conclude it to be in the yeare of the same Period 4166. when the Soldiers were ready to take up their winter quarters But now see the List Years of the Iulian Period when they beg A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Lydia rightly fixed 3918. Ardysus 36. 3954. Alyattes 14. 3968. Meles 12. 3980. Candaules 17. This is he who lost his Kingdome by shewing his naked Wife to Gyges 3997. Giges 38. 4035. Ardys 49. 4084. Sadiattes 12. 4096. Halyattes 57. 4153. Croesus 14. current Cyrus conquered him and his Kingdome in the first yeare of the 58. Olympiad teste Solino and that was in the yeare of the Julian Period 4166. as before was said He had a Sonne who never spake in all life till now but now seeing a Souldier goe about to kill his Father upon a suddaine passion he brake his Tongue-string cryed out and said Oh man take heed wilt thou kill Croesus And from that day to his death he could speake as well as other men Herodot The next to be mentioned according to their order or course of time be the Kings of the Medes The reigne of the Medes of whom I gave notice in the latter end of the second Chapter They reigned without any strict hand over their subjects untill the dayes of Dioces and that 's the reason why he is accounted by Herodotus as the first King Nor is this my opinion alone Hist World l. 2. c. 27. S. 5. but of Sir Walter Raleigh likewise in his History of the World saying this Dioces was the first that ruled the Medes in a strict forme commanding more absolutely then his Predecessors had done For they following the example of Arbaces had given to the people so much licence as caused every one to desire the wholesome severity of a more Lordly King Herein Dioces answered their desires to the full For he caused them to build for him a stately Palace he tooke unto him a Guard for the defence of his Person he seldome gave presence which also when he did it was with such austerity that no man durst presume to spit or cough in his fight By these and the like Ceremonies he bred in the people an awfull regard and highly upheld the Majestie which his Predecessors had almost letten fall through neglect of due comportments In execution of his royall office he did uprightly and severely administer justice keeping secret spies to informe him of all that was done in the Kingdome He cared not to enlarge the bounds of his Dominion by encroaching upon others but studied how to govern well his owne The difference found between this King and such as were before him seemes to have bred that opinion which Herodotus delivers that Dioces was the first who reigned in Media Thus that Knight Moreover this was he that built the great City of Echatane which now is called Tauris and therefore should in all likelihood be that King Arphaxad mentioned in the booke of Judith which even the course of time approveth But if he be Arphaxad who was it that was that great Nabuchodonosor which fought against him I answer this seemes to be Saosduchinus King of the Assirians about the beginning of whose twelfth year Dioces was slaine For so it is read in the first Chapter of the book of Judith translated into Latin out of the Caldee by St. Hierom as a worthy Author well observeth in his laborious and learned Annals of the old Testament In the Greeke indeeed we are one while directed to the twelfth yeare another while to the seventeenth year of this King but that unconstancie argues a defect in the Copie and so I leave it comming now to shew the course of succession among these Kings of Media who began at the death of Sardanapalus Yeares of the Iulian Period when they beg A Catalogue or List of the Kings of Media partly out of Eusebius and partly out of Herodotus 3893. Arbaces 28. 3921. Sosarmus 30. 3951. Medidus 40. 3991. Cardiceas 13. 4004. Dioces 53. 4057. Phraortes 22. 4079. Cyaxares 40. 4119. Astyages 35. 4154. Here was the end of Astyages and the beginning of the reigne of Cyaxares secundus who according to Xenophon was the son of Astyages and called in the sacred Prophecy of Daniel by the name of Darius Medus He was the Vncle of Cyrus as being Brother to his Mother which Xenophon also sheweth Moreover we are to note that in the booke of Tobit and Daniel Astyages the Father of this Cyaxares is called Ahasuerus or Assuerus as may be seen Dan. 9.1 and Tob. 14.17 Next after these we are to reckon the Kings of Assyria which reigned at Niniveh after the death of Sardanapalus Kings of Assyria after Sardanapalus as those before mentioned reigned in Media The first of them may be granted to be that King whom Castor in his Canon calleth Ninus secundus saying as his words sound in the Latine Initium Chronographiae fecimus a Nino eam deduximus usque ad Ninum qui successionis jure accèpit Regnum a Sardanapalo Thus he Now this name some thinke was given him for the better lucke sake namely as I conceive That as the ancient Ninus did at the first enlarge this Kingdome so as it came to be a great Monarchy in like manner the same was hoped for by them who gave this name to this King Or else because he was