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A68197	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 1] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 1	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt1; ESTC S122178	1,179,579	468

shall not liue foorth halfe their daies * By féeding I vnderstand gluttonie by gluttonie lust by lust all wickednesse sinne according to the saieng of Salomon the king Wisedome entreth not into a wicked mind nor dwelleth with a man that is subiect vnto sinne A king hath his name of ruling and not of the possession of his realme You shal be a king whilest you rule well but if you doo otherwise the name of a king shall not remaine with you but you shall vtterlie forgo●it which God forbid The almightie God grant you so to rule the kingdome of Britaine that you may reigne with him for euer whose vicar or vicegerent you are within your aforesaid kingdome Who with the Sonne and the Holie-ghost c. Hitherto out of the epistle that Eleutherus sent vnto Lucius wherein manie pretie obseruations are to be collected if time and place would ●erue to stand vpon them After these daies also the number of such as were ordeined to saluation increased dailie more and more whereby as in other places of the world the word of God had good successe in Britaine in time of peace and in heat of persecution there were no small number of martyrs that suffered for the same of which Albane Amphibalus Iulius and Aaron are reputed to be the chiefe bicause of their noble parentage which is a great matter in the sight of worldlie men There are which affirme our Lucius to renounce his kingdome and afterward to become first a bishop then a preacher of the gospell and afterward a pope but to the end such as hold this opinion may once vnderstand the botome of their errors I will set downe the matter at large whereby they shall sée if they list to looke how far they haue béene deceiued I find that Chlorus had issue by his second wife two sonnes Dalmatius who had a sonne called also Dalmatius and slaine by the souldiors Constantius father to Gallus and Iulian the apostata besides foure other whose names as yet I find not But being at the first matched with Helena and before she was put from him by the roiall power of Dioclesian he had by hir three sonnes beside one daughter named Emerita of which the name of the first is perished the second was called Lucius the third Constantine that afterward was emperour of Rome by election of the armies in Britaine Now it happened that Lucius whome the French call Lucion by mean●s of a quarell growne betwéene him and his elder brother did kill his said brother either by a sraie or by some other meanes wherevpon his father exiled him out of Britaine and appointed him from thencefoorth to remaine in Aquitane in France This Lucion brought thus into worldlie sorow had now good leasure to meditate vpon heauen who before in his prosperitie had peraduenture neuer regard of hell Finallie he fell so far into the consideration of his estate that at the last he renounced his paganisme and first became a christian then an elder and last of all a bishop in the church of Christ. He erected also a place of praier wherein to serue the liuing God which after sundrie alterations came in processe of time to be an Abbaie and is still called euen to our time after Lucion or Lucius the first founder therof and the originall beginner of anie such house in those parts In this also he and diuers other of his freends continued their times in great contemplation and praier and from hence were translated as occasion serued vnto sundrie ecclesiasticall promotions in the time of Constant. his brother So that euen by this short narration it is now easie to sée that Lucius the king and Lucius or Lucion the sonne of Chlorus were 〈◊〉 persons Herevnto Hermannus Schedelius addeth also how he went into Rhetia with Emerita his sister and néere vnto the citie Augusta conuerted the Curienfes vnto the faith of Christ and there likewise being put to death in Castro Martis lieth buried in the saile towne where his feast is holden vpon the third daie of December as may readilie be confirmed whereas the bones of our Lucius were to be séene at Glocester That Schedelius erreth not herein also the ancient m●nunients of the said Abbaie whereof he was the originall beginner as I said doo yeeld sufficient testimonie beside an hymne made in his commendation intituled Gaude Lucionum c. But for more of this you may resort vnto Bouchet in his first booke and fift chapter of the Annales of Aquitane who neuertheles maketh the king of Britaine grandfather to this Lucion The said Schedelius furthermore setteth downe that his sister was martyred in Trinecastell néere vnto the place where the said Lucion dwelled whereby it appéereth in like sort that she was not sister to Lucius king of Britaine of which prince Alexander Neccham in his most excellent treatise De sapientia diuina setteth downe this Distichon Prima Britannorum fidei lux Lucius esse Fortur qui rexit moenie Brute tua Neither could Lucion or Lucius be fellow and of kinred vnto Paule the apostle as Auentine inferreth except he meane it of some other Lucius as of one whome he nameth Cyrinensis But then will not the historie agree with the conuersion of the Rhetians and Vindelicians whereof Schedelius and other doo make mention But as each riuer the farder it runneth from the head the more it is increased by small riuelets and corrupted with filthie puddels and stinking gutters that descend into the same so the puritie of the gospell preached here in Britaine in processe of time became first of all to be corrupted with a new order of religion and most execrable heresie both of them being brought in at once by Pelagius of Wales who hauing trauelled through France Italie Aegypt Syria the easterlie regions of the world was there at the last made an elder or bishop by some of the monkes vnto whose profession he had not long before wholie addicted himselfe Finallie returning home againe with an augmentation of fame and countenance of greater holinesse than he bare out of the land with him he did not onelie erect an house of his owne order at Bangor in Wales vpon the riuer Dee but also sowed the pestiferous féed of his hereticall prauities ouer all this Iland whereby he seduced great numbers of Britons teaching them to preferre their owne merits before the free mercie of God in Iesus Christ his sonne By this means therefore he brought assurance of saluation into question and taught all such as had a diligent respect vnto their workes to be doubtfull of the same whereas to such as regard this latter there can be no quietnesse of mind but alwaies an vnstedfast opinion of themselues whereby they cannot discerne neither by prosperitie nor aduersitie of this life whether they be worthie loue or hatred Neuertheles it behooueth the godlie to repose their

a castell in that countrie and after went into the borders of Wales and builded another castell neere vnto the riuer of Seuerne but being driuen out of that countrie they returned againe into Essex Those that had besieged Excester vpon knowledge had of king Alfreds comming fled to their ships and so remaining on the sea roaued abroad séeking preies Besides this other armies there were sent foorth which comming out of Northumberland tooke the citie of Chester but there they were so beset about with their enimies that they were constreined to eate their horsses At length in the 24 yéere of king Alfred they left that citie and fetcht a compass about Northwales and so meaning to saile round about the coast to come into Northumberland they arriued in Essex and in the winter following drew their ships by the Thames into the water of Luie That armie of Danes which had besieged Excester tooke preies about Chichester and was met with so that they lost manie of their men and also diuerse of their ships In the yéere following the other armie which had brought the ships into the riuer Luie began to build a castell néere to the same riuer twentie miles distant from London but the Londoners came thither and giuing battell to the Danes slue foure of the chiefe capteins But by Simon Dunel and Matt. Westm. it should seeme that the Londoners were at this time put to flight and that foure of the kings barons were slaine in fight Howbeit Henrie Hunt hath written as before I haue recited and further saith that when the Danes fled for their refuge to the castell king Alfred caused the water of Luie to be diuided into thrée chanels so that the Danes should not bring backe their ships out of the place where they laie at anchor When the Danes perceiued this they left their ships behind them and went into the borders of Wales where at Cartbridge vpon Seuerne they built another castell and lay there all the winter following hauing left their wiues and children in the countrie of Eastangles King Alfred pursued them but the Londoners tooke the enimies ships and brought some of them to the citie and the rest they burnt Thus for the space of thrée yéeres after the arriuing of the maine armie of the Danes in the hauen of Luie they sore indamaged the English people although the Danes themselues susteined more losse at the Englishmens hands than they did to them with all pilfering and spoiling In the fourth yéere after their comming the armie was diuided so that one part of them went into Northumberland part of them remained in the countrie of Eastangles another part went into France Also certeine of their ships came vpon the coast of the Westsaxons oftentimes setting their men on land to rob and spoile the countrie But king Alfred tooke order in the best wise he might for defense of his countrie and people and caused certeine mightie vessels to be builded which he appointed foorth to incounter with the enimies ships Thus like a worthie prince and politike gouernor he preuented each way to resist the force of his enimies and to safegard his subiects Finallie after he had reigned 29 yéeres and an halfe he departed this life the 28 day of October His bodie was buried at Winchester he left behind him issue by his wife Ethelwitha the daughter vnto earle Etherlred of Mercia two sonnes Edward surnamed the elder which succéeded him and Adelwold also thrée daughters Elfleda or Ethelfleda Ethelgeda or Edgiua and Ethelwitha How Elfleda king Alfreds daughter being maried contemned fleshlie pleasure the praise of Alfred for his good qualities his lawes for the redresse of theeues his diuiding of countries into hundreds and tithings of what monasteries he was founder he began the foundation of the vniuersitie of Oxford which is not so ancient as Cambridge by 265 yeeres king Alfred was learned his zeale to traine his people to lead an honest life what learned men were about him the pitifull murthering of Iohn Scot by his owne scholers how Alfred diuided the 24 houres of the day and the night for his necessarie purposes his last will and bequests the end of the kingdome of Mercia the Danes haue it in their hands and dispose it as they list Eastangle and Northumberland are subiect vnto them the Northumbers expell Egbert their king his death the Danes make Guthred king of Northumberland priuileges granted to S. Cuthberts shrine the death of Guthred and who succeeded him in the seat roiall The xvj Chapter IN the end of the former chapter we shewed what children Alfred had their number names among whome we made report of Elfleda who as you haue heard was maried vnto duke Edelred This gentlewoman left a notable example behind hir of despising fleshlie plesure for bearing hir husband one child and sore handled before she could be deliuered she euer after forbare to companie with hir husband saieng that it was great foolishnesse to vse such pleasure which therwith should bring so great griefe To speake sufficientlie of the woorthie praise due to so noble a prince as Alfred was might require eloquence learning and a large volume He was of person comelie and beautifull and better beloued of his father and mother than his other brethren And although he was as before is touched greatly disquieted with the inuasion of forren enimies yet did he both manfullie from time to time indeuour himselfe to repell them and also attempted to sée his subiects gouerned in good and vpright iustice And albeit that good lawes amongst the clinking noise of armor are oftentimes put to silence yet he perceiuing how his people were gréeued with theeues and robbers which in time of warre grew and increased deuised good statutes and wholsome ordinances for punishing of such offendors Amongst other things he ordeined that the countries should be diuided into hundreds and tithings that is to say quarters conteining a certeine number of towneships adioining togither so that euerie Englishman liuing vnder prescript of lawes should haue both his hundred and tithing that if anie man were accused of anie offense he should find suertie for his good demeanor and if he could not find such as would answer for him then should he tast extremitie of the lawes And if anie man that was giltie fled before he found suertie or after all the inhabitants of the hundred or tithing where he dwelt shuld be put to their fine By this deuise he brought his countrie into good tranquillitie so that he caused bracelets of gold to be hanged vp aloft on hils where anie common waies lay to sée if anie durst be so hardie to take them away by stealth He was a liberall prince namely in relieuing of the poore To churches he confirmed such priuileges as his father had granted before him and he also sent rewards by way of deuotion vnto Rome and to the