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A57453	An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.; Van Hove, Frederick Hendrick.	1693 (1693)	Wing R169; ESTC R8443	18,952	88

Vortigern to establish the Kingdome in his own Line and as he thought to strengthen himself with these Strangers took to Wife Renix the daughter of Hengist his own Wife living and by his dotage on her being a beautiful Lady who knew to take the advantage of his love gave the Saxons those Preferments in the State as the Brittons neglected by him soon became a prey unto them This Alliance and the Fertility of the Land letting in so many of this populous and Warlike Nation that e're Men scarce perceived their danger they were undone And notwithstanding the Combination of the British Nobility with the deposing of Vortigern and Electing King his Son Vortimer a valiant Prince who gave them many stout Battles yet could they not prevail against the Saxons thus established but were forced to quit their Country and betake themselves to remote Mountains and Deserts leaving All to the Invaders Who after many Fortunes dividing the Land into seven Kingdomes extinguished both the Religion Language and even the Name thereof And in this Heptarchy it continued till Egbert K. of the West-Saxons An. 828. being three hundred fifty years after their Entrance subduing the other Kings obtained the whole Dominion to himself And to raze out the Memory of a Division Caused by an Edict the whole Kingdome to be called England of the Angles a people that possest the middle part of this Island § 6. But neither he nor his Successors quietly enjoyed it For the Danes having been first called in to aid the King of Northumberland against the other Kings sorely infested the Land and combining themselves with the Welch and Scots prevailed so much that from the raign of King Britric Anno 387. they continued to afflict the same the space of two hundred fifty five years and in the End by the negligent and ill Government of King Ethelred whose Luxury and Oppression had made way for Division they got the absolute Dominion of the Kingdom and held it twenty six years by three of their Kings successively Canutus governed it twenty years and left it to Harold who raigned two years Canutus the second succeeded his Brother Harold and at a Banquet at Lambeth either by Surfeit or Poison died in the Second year of his Reign When streight the People of the Land by a sudden and general Massacre redeemed themselves from that odious Yoke of a Foreign Subjection which was held to be the Third Dissolution of this State But I cannot see how it should be so accounted seeing that this Canutus never altered the Government but embraced the same Religion maintained the Laws he found and added many Constitutions for the good of the Kingdom And to get into the People's affections he married Emma sometimes Wife to King Ethelred and daughter to Richard Duke of Normandy to whom for his better strength he had likewise given his Sister to Wife And then the short Time of the Government in the Succession of his two Sons seems not to have bred any great Alteration in the state of the Kingdome but onely in the Change of the person of the Prince and the preferment of his Nation before ours which by reason of the long foregoing wars were made incompatible of each other § 7. But yet this gave the Cause to that great and last Mutation of State effected by the Norman For King Etheldred to make his party good against the Invasion of the Danes combined himself with Richard Duke of Normandy married his Sister Emma and by her had Issue Edward after King of England intitled the Confessor who with his Brother were there brought up out of the dangers of the Wars and by the assistance of the Duke reconveyed over after the death of the last Canutus and here invested in the Kingdom For which Offices of Kindness divers Preferments were in way of Gratification bestowed on the Normans as the Archbishoprick of Canterbury and other especial Places and Dignities Ecclesiastical in a manner throughout the whole Land which prepared an easier passage for the Invasion following when the death of this good King Edward without Issue to inherit left the Succession doubtful or else by the Iniquity of times made it seem so For Edgar surnamed Atheling sonne of Edward the Son of King Edmond Ironside had his Claim neglected Either in respect of his Youth which yet was no Barr to his Right or for want of Means and power to oppose against the ambition of others who having swaied the Fortune of the time under an easie-natured Prince had Opportunity enough to work for themselves Although the Worthiness of his Grandfather shewed in the Defence of his Country might seem to deserve to have his Issue remembred in their Right § 8. But the Earl Godwin what in respect that King Edward had matched with his Daughter and what with his own Greatness and popularity having long managed the State of the Kingdome made the Ascent easie for Harold his Son to get up to the Crown and by Crossing the right Line of Succession called up Destruction and Misery both upon his own Race and the whole Kingdome For though Harold had a shew of Title as being the Son of Thira sister to Canutus King of England yet seeing all the Land had received an Oath upon the Massacre and expulsion of the Danes never to have any King of that Nation to raign over them it might seem no lawful Claim But yet the Favour of the people which both his person and Valour had gotten with the Necessity of the Time that required a Man of Spirit and Courage to undertake the burden of war and the Trouble which the World they saw was like to grow into cast it upon him with hope to keep out the Misery of a foreign Subjection and the Insolency of Strangers § 8. But the whole Course of things being overcast and set for Storms and Alteration could not by any providence of Men be prevented Though this new King who is said to have crowned himself used all the Means that a wife and valiant Prince could do both for the well ordering of the State and all provisions for defence yet the disjointed Affections of Men tending to their private Ends and working several Wayes to get up to their Hopes either left the Ship of the State which contained them all to the mercy of the Waves and every Man cast to save himself where the greatest likelyhood of Mastery appeared or else distracted with the ●error of the approaching Mischief failed in their Spirits and courage to withstand it For the Diligence of Men becomes often dasht with their Fear in publick Tumults and with the very Cogitation of the Evil to come § 9. And the first Man which began to afflict his new Government was his own younger Brother Tosty who for a former conceived Hatred was easily set on by the Duke of Normandy and Baldwin Earle of Flanders whose Daughter he had married to assail the Isle of Wight and

defraud him of it § 22. Most of the Lords after this great Defeat in the North came in upon Publick Faith given them and were conducted to Barkamstead by the Abbot Frederick Where some write that the King again took a personal Oath before the Archbishop Lanfranc and the Lords to observe the Antient Laws of the Realm Established by his Noble Predecessors the Kings of England and especially those of Saint Edward And all the Lords upon their Oath and submission were then reconciled unto him and thereupon held themselves quiet for a Time But whether it were that they found not their Entertainment such as they expected or that they had received Intelligence of new Hopes from abroad or that Edgar who was still in Scotland had sollicited them upon Promise of fresh Succours to aid him or howsoever it was many of them again Conspired contrary to their Oaths and went out The Earl Edwin making towards Scotland was Murthered by his own People by the way The Earls Morcar and Hereward betook them to the Isle of Ely meaning to make good that Place for that Winter whither also came the Earl Siward and the Bishop of Durham out of Scotland But the King who was no Time giver to growing Dangers beset all the Isle with flat Boats on the East and made a Bridge of a Mile long on the West and safely brought in his People upon the Enemy who seeing themselves surprised yielded them all to the King's Mercy Except Hereward a man of great Valour and Courage who with his Souldiers made a Retreat through the Fenns and Escaped into Scotland The Rest were sent to divers Prisons where they died or remayned during the King's Life § 23. We find that those Lords who remained Loyal upon their last Submission were all imployed and well graced by the King As Edric the Forrester that was the first Revolter in his Reign was held in especial Favour and Trust near about him Gospatric was made Earl of Northumberland and sent against Malcolm who in this time takes Advantage of subdue the Countries of Tisdall Cleveland and Cumberland Waltheof the Son of the Earl Siward he so highly Estemeed as he Married him to his Niece Iudith Though he were a Principal Actor in this last Commotion and in the Defence of the City of York against him and is said to have stricken off the Heads of divers Normans one by one as they entred upon a Breach to the great Admiration of all Men By which Valour of his he ransomed the Offence he had made and grew to that great Grace with the King who therein shewed a Noble and Magnanimous Nature to honour Vertue even in his Enemies § 24. And now there rested nothing for the general Quieting of the Kingdom but only the Suppression of Malcolm King of Scots the greatest Kindlefire of all these Conspiracies in the North parts and the only Fefuge for all that were discontented and mutinous in this State Against him the King led such mighty Forces both by Sea and Land as Malcolm rather then to adventure Battle was content to make his Peace and not only to give up Hostages for securing the same but also to do him Homage for the Kingdom of Scotland And so all his Home-Wars were ended Regni Anno 6. Saving only in Anno 15. he levied a Puissant Army and subdued Wales which Business held him not long For the Rest of his Government here he had no more to do here with the Sword though he had it always abroad during his whole Reign § 25. Now for the Doubt he might have of the great Men of the Kingdom who by Power or Love were aptest to disturb his Government it was in this sort taken away First by the Submission of Edgar Atheling who Anno 7. was restored into Grace and had a fair Maintenance which held him ever after quiet Then by those whom the Prisons kept from Attempting any more And lastly by the Revealing of a new Conspiracy contrived at a Marriage between Ralph de Waher Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk and his new Kinswoman the Sister of Roger the Young Earl of Hereford At which Solemnization in their Banquetting and Jollity the two Earls Normans with Waltheof and divers English Plotted to call in the Danes again and to make away the King Upon which Discovery they were all apprehended except the Earl of Norfolk who fled the Land and died some in Prison and some on the Scaffold § 26. The The Danes being on the Coasts with 200 Sail hearing how their Confederates had sped and the great Preparations the King had made after some spoils taken on the Coast of England and Flanders returned home and never after infested this Kingdom Though in Anno 20 of this King there was a great Rumour of their fresh Preparations for a new Invasion which made him entertain a great number of Frenchmen besides Normans which he brought into England about Harvest and held the most part of them all the Winter to the great Charge of the Kingdom But it came to nothing For the Wind held so long against the Danish Navy consisting of about 1000 Sail as it overthrew their intended Action and freed both the King and his Successors from future Fears that way for ever after § 27. The Forein Wars he had were all about his Dominions in France and raised by his own Son Robert whom he had left his Leiutenant Governour of the Dutchy of Normandy and the County of Maine Where by his Fathers Absence tasteing the Glory of Command he grew to assume into his own Power the Soveraign Rule of the Province caused the Barons there to do him Homage as Duke not as Leiutenant and put himself wholly under the Protection of the King of France who was not a little pleased to apprehend so good an Occasion to foster a Division in the House of so great and near a Neighbour who was now grown fearful and dangerous to all the Princes about him and therefore spared for uo Cost to set forward this Work The King understanding the Fire thus Kindled in his own House whilest he laboured to quench that himself had made in Others hasts with his Forces into Normandy to have surprised his Son Who advertised of his Coming furnished with 2000. Men at Arms by the King of France put himself in Ambush where his Father should pass and set upon him so Fiercely as he Defeited most of his People and in the Press happened to encounter with himself whom he unhorsed and wounded in the Arms with his Lance. But perceiving by his Voice it was his Father he hasted to lift him up again to his Horse craving most humble Pardon for his Offence which the King seeing in what Case he was easily granted and received him into Grace with whom and with his Son William who was likewise hurt in the Skirmish he retired to Roan and after being there cured of his Hurt returned again into England §

Sir Walter Raleigh's HISTORY of the Reigne of William the First The true Effigies of is HON ble S r. Walter Rawlegh Knight F. H. Van. Hove sculp An Introduction to a BREVIARY OF THE History of England With the REIGN OF King Williamthe I. Entitled the CONQUEROR Written by Sr. Walter Raleigh Kt. And Dedicated to the then Earl of Salisbury LONDON Printed for Sam. Keble at the Great-Turks-Head in Fleet-street And Dan. Brown at the Black-Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar 1693. THE PREFACE OF THE PUBLISHER THIS Life of William the Conqueror Writ by Sir Walter Raleigh was found in the Library of a Person of High Quality Whosoever hath been conversant in the Works of that accomplisht Knight and a little acquainted with his great Genius and Spirit and his manly and unaffected Stile will make no doubt but what here is presented unto the World was his genuine Issue For the Comprehensive and Penetrating thoughts the lively imagination and the mature and exact Iudgment of Sir Walter Raleigh do all manifestly appear in this small Treatise It may be matter of some wonder that a Work filled with such a number of judicious Reflections upon the Nature of Government in General and so many Wise Observations relating to the particular State of our own Country should have been thus long condemn'd to obscurity had not an ill fate attended the learned Compositions as well as the brave Actions of this renowned Gentleman But by what unhappy Accident soever it hath been hitherto confined to Privacy it was thought it would be an injury to the publique any longer to conceal a just and true Account of the Reign of William the First wherein so many remarkable matters and great Revolutions happened and to which the Writers of Government and Policy in our Nation have very frequent recourse Since the Transactions of that Time unto which they so commonly appeal are here related with that faithfullness brevity and clearness that become an Exact Historian IMPRIMATUR December 31 1692 EDM. BOHUN A BREVIARY OF THE History of ENGLAND Beginning at the REIGN of WILLIAM the I. Entitled the Conquerour The Introduction § 1. I Intend by the Help of God and your furtherance Right Noble Earl of Salisbury to write a Brief History of England from William I. entitled the Conqueror to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth of perpetual Memory A Work difficult as well for the Antiquity as the Lateliness of things done the one bereaving our Knowledge of the certain Counsels held in the managing of Businesses so long past the other not allowing our Understanding the inward and particular Motives of such Actions as are so near us Yet according to my Collections out of those antient Remains that are left unto the World and the Conferences Acts and Instruments of latter Times I will deliver the Succession and course of our Affairs insomuch as shall be fit for the publick Understanding without passion or partiality endeavouring to be of no other side then of Truth as it shall appear to my Apprehension § 2. And though I had a Desire to have deduced this History from the Beginniug of our first Kings as they are delivered in their Catologue yet finding their Actions uncertainly delivered and the Beginning of all eminent States to be as uncertain as the Heads of great Rivers and that idle Antiquity discovering no Apparent Way beyond their Times have ever delighted to point Men out into imaginary Tracts of Fictions and monstrous Originalls I did put off that Desire with this Consideration that this space of five hundred years which the Government of twenty Kings and two Soveraign Queens was more than enough for my and Ability weighing withal that it is but our Curiosity to look further back into the Times past than we can well discern and wherof we can neither have Proof nor Profit Besides it seemeth that God in his Providence hath bounded our Searches within the Compass of a few Ages as if the same were sufficient both for Example and Instruction in the Government of Men For had we the particular Occurrents of all Nations and all Ages it might more stuff but not better our Understanding We shall find the same Correspondencies to hold in the Actions of Men Vertues and Vices the same though rising and falling according to the Worth or Weakness of Governors the Causes of the Ruins and Changes of Commonwealths to be alike and the Train of Affairs carried by the Precedent in a Course of Succession under like Figures § 3. But yet for that this Chain of Affairs hath a link of Dependency to the former Times it shall not be amiss briefly to repeat the three Mutations in the State foregoing this last Conquest since the Time that Letters and Christianity were here received which left more certain Knowledge of Things done though not in that sort as we can assuredly learn either the Form of the Brittish Government under their Kings or by what Rule they held together whether their Petty Princes whereof they had many were subject to one Monarch or all Soveraign alike whether any parties did Cantonize or were free Estates or Common-wealths as peradventute they might be as well as the Gaules with whom they were one in Language or the Germans antient Precedents of like Liberties For no doubt the same Necessity that is the Mother of Society and Contriver of Mens Defences and Safeties finds out like Forms of Government in like times upon like Occasions But insomuch as is delivered in these uncertain Antiquities we find this Isle was never or never long subject to one entire Monarch but ruled by divers Kings § 4. And so Caesar found it and thereby found the easier Means to subdue it which was the first Dissolution of the State after it had remained under the Government of the Brittons as say our Stories one thousand and sixty years from Brutus to Cassibalan And yet the State then seem'd by this Conquest to lose little besides their Savage Liberty being reduced to a Civil Subjection For the Vanquisher sought not to extirpate the Nation but to maintain and improve it And under this Government it remained almost five hundred years until the Division of the Roman Empire in the time of Theodosius when it became neglected and recovered again the State of a Kingdome under Princes partly Brittish and partly Romans which by reason of continual Tumults and Mutinies seemed never to have held any calm or flourishing Government worthy the observing and in the end Vortigern an Earl of the Guisses abusing the Weakness of Constantius supplanted him and obtained the Kingdome which the better to keep against Aurelius and Pendragon the Sons of Constantius and also to oppose against the Invasion of the Picts and Scots he called in the Saxons to his Aid § 5. Who entring this Land under the Conduct of Hengist and Horsus gave the occasion of the second and indeed the most absolute Dissolution of the State For