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A01759	The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.; Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English	Gildas, 516?-570?; Abingdon, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 11895; ESTC S103163	93,511	458

swallowed but of purpose to shut up their mouths who otherwise might perhaps despightfully upbraide them with these old offences which truely they have no more reason to doe than those irreligious tongues who audaciously talking of the blessed Apostles call Saint Peter the denyer of his Master Saint Paul the Persecutor Saint Matthew the Publican for if wee should be esteemed as we have beene what were we other than the children of wrath but by the grace of God we are as we are and I beseech Christ his grace may not be voyd in us And now verily it is with great applause to be received that it hath pleased God to make the royall lines of these three severall people to meete in the Center of his Majesties person For of the first I meane the Britaines he is come by his last and best knowne descent out of our Country to wit the daughter of Henry the seventh whose Grandfather Owen Theoder was of their Princely blood For the second as cleere as the Sunne hee is by due originall lawfull King of Scotland and for the third it is knowne to those who have any experience in antiquities tha● Margaret from whom all the Kings of Scot●land have these fiv● hundred yeeres issued was the onely true in heritrice unto her great Vncle Edward the Confessour and her Grandfather Edmund Ironside and in one word to all the Saintly Saxon Kings of England so as a lineall right hath from that time hitherto remained in Scotland although William the conquering Norman did by the sword as especiall descider of kingdomes not onely obtaine the actuall possession of the Realme but also ever since leave the same unto his posteritie And yet moreover that none of the Norman race may in his Majesties enjoying of the Kingdome finde themselves agrieved God in his wisedome also disposeth as to the whole realme it is most apparent that he likewise rightly deriveth his title from the off-spring of the Conquerour Yea and that the Danish too if any now remaine who were planted here by their puissant Lords may have no cause to repine behold the Queene his Majesties Wife and their Sonne our Prince or exceeding hope are come of the Danish among whom that renowned Canatus was sometimes King of this Land in whom it is hard to determine whether his devotion to God his great conquests or his generall clemeney deserved high●st commendation In all which is to be considered hovv God of his goodnesse hath in one man conjoyned these mighty houses vvhich were not onely for descent and Country sometimes so diverse but also in deadly hatred so far disagreeing and in bloody wars so violent and contentious not unlike the frame of a perfect body which is contrived of the foure contrary and repugnant elements and also that those people which since the confusion of Babylon were ever severall should as loving brethren be now united in his Majesties Kingdome even as the Rivers which arising from contrary regions of North and South doe notwithstanding fall into one maine Sea and are made in the end one mighty water For as you shall perceive in this ensuing treatise the Britaines and Saxons were not onely sundry Nations but also in discord most dissenting to number the battailes that were fought betweene them were an endlesse labour they confronted either others many hundred yeeres in continuall hatred three Languages were most different their lawes customes divers the Britaines distressed and dispossessed of their noble fertile and Native soyle and driven by the power of their adversaries to live poorely in the barren mountaines of Cambria or Wales the English invaders raigned and disposed freely of all the rest of the Land untill it pleased the God of peace to make an end of all controversies The English in time having overcome them received the Britaine into the body of their Common-wealth and kingdome they never excepted at the diversitie that had beene betweene their lawes and ours they saw how in this very realme the Normanes had agreed before under one selfe-same rule and regiment with the Kentish Saxons notwithstanding their legall customes were of another fashion For as by skilfull Musitians is made of sundry instruments one delightfull consort and as by Lapidaries of diverse coloured stones one most rich Iewell and as of the Starres which vary in severall motions proceedeth the perfect harmony of the heavens So of these sundry Countries and customes of Britaines Saxons Danes and Normans is now framed one most excellent Commonwealth Neither yet was it objected that the Britaines having beene long starved with oppressing povertie would greedily raven on the English riches and Possessions for they were then neerer the time of Christ and so more perfectly instructed with his Charity who received the needy and sometimes prodigall child to bee partaker with his wealthy elder brother who rewarded him that entred into his worke at the latter end of the day with as large hire as the other who laboured from the morning who accepted into his favour as well the Gentiles as the Iewes And what insued hereupon hath any English-man beene hereby deprived of his profit No surely but although there have reigned 5 Kings and Queenes successively descended of the Britaine Nation although wee have had Generalls Councellours Iudges and Magistrates of that Country there was never as yet any Welchman as we call him boulstred out by their authority to afflict the English with any injuries The cōmodities that flowed from this blessed union were many first the charitie betweene both Nations a thing most acceptable in the sight of God the enlarging of the kingdome with the addition of so worthy a people the enriching of the same by making the marches and borders of the Country which heretofore lay waste by reason of the warre now subject to industrious husbandry the incorporating of that Land as a limbe now of England which was not onely sometimes a continuall adversary but also ever ready to entertaine and assist any forraigne invasion the fortifying of the power of the realme with the forces of those vvho deteined them before vvith discord at home from augmenting their dominion abroad the finishing of the unspeakeable charges of vvarre and expenses in maintaining garrisons on the fronteyres the stincking of all spoyle and stuffe and the ending of the effusion of Christian blood And novv if it bee easier to imitate a former example than bee the beginner of any action vvhy then doe not the English and Scottish seeing this vvith farre more readinesse conjoyne in one If discorde hath heretofore raigned betweene them the like hath also raged betweene the Saxons and Britaines if the Lawes of the one are diverse from us the Lawes of the other have beene as different if the discommodities of warre with the Britaines have beene so great and grievous no lesse have also beene those with the Scottish if the commodities of peace betweene the Britaines and us are so great and gracious why

should not the same be also in like sort betweene us and the Scottish the English and Britaines were in language most unlike the English and Scottish are of one tongue and if the names of persons and places doe not much deceive us the Southerne people of Scotland are either descended of the Saxons or at the least very much intermingled with the English blood besides that it is to be supposed that many of them are issued from the Britaines since their confiners in Cumberland which was a part sometimes of Scotland have heretofore beene Cambro or Welch Britaines For Nations by Neighbourhood passe one into another even as wee perceive by neerenesse of property the purest of the water to become ayre and the finest of the ayre to change into fire the English might also have justly conceived a jealousie against the Britaines in admitting them into the communitie of the kingdome least as the Lawyers say they should have accounted themselves in their remitter and upon this occasion have claimed their ancient possession of the Land whereof in fore passed ages they were as they thought wrongfully deprived which can no way be objected against the realme of Scotland who saving the most righteous title of our Soveraigne Lord to the Crowne can make no lawfull challenge of her forefathers inheritance but commeth as a Princely Virgin with the royall portion of a Kingdome to bee joyned in marriage with her husband England the banes betweene England and Wales were bid with many a terrible battaile and the match was made with blood shed but the union of England and Scotland was begun in loving wedlocke and established in lawfull descending issue Since it hath therefore pleased God to graft them both in one stocke let no man seeke to rent them into two sundry trees or rather breake them a sunder since he hath formed them into one body let none labour to dissever the members of the same since hee hath created them into one little world and encompassed it about with one mighty sea and now after thousands of yeeres reduced into one entire regiment let none presume to cut in two that webbe which God hath weaued in one or separate what hee hath joyned or spurne against his providence It is no new thing to see the greatnesse of Kingdomes encrease by the union of Countries for to omit the Assirians Persians and Macedonians who not onely flourished in the former and more unknowne ages of the world but also for the situation of the regions are farre distant from us and to consider a little of the Romanes and other more familiar and adjoyning Nations who have in latter dayes growne to the height of their renowne did not those Iron legges of Daniels statue the Cittie I meane that swayed over the universall world gather her first arising strength by receiving divers Territories which shee subdued into the corporation of her common-wealth did not the French by combining sundry Dukedomes and Earledomes together of which some to our cost and losse we have good cause to remember become the most ample and fruitfull Kingdome of all Christendome was not Spaine within these few hundred yeeres distracted in severall pettie Dominions the beames of whose glory by intermariages conjoyning in one are growne doe not onely shine through many parts of Europe but also to the East and West Indians The Dutchy of Burgundy the garden of Christendome was not sometimes divided in the small principalities of Flanders Henault Holland and the rest all which are now by uniting of houses gathered into one Coronet of exceeding beauty But let us leave travailing abroad and returne home into our owne Country were not the Saxons and English severed in seven smal kingdomes and afterwards by conquest brought into one whole Monarchie Were not the Britaines or Welch divided in three sundry regiments and hath not the force of the English fornace melted all their crownes into one mighty streame of gold and like the rod of Moses devoured all the rods of the Magicians and if we but enter into the histories either of our owne Iland or otherwise of these forraigne Nations shal we not every where easily finde that as by divided Kingdomes there came nothing but discord poverty and debasements so from united powers groweth tranquility plenty and magnificence we see the water of a great poole conserveth it selfe which if it were separated in small plashes would be quickely either dryed up with the sunne or soked downe in the earth and it is well noted by Saint Gregory writing upon Saint Luke that at the comming of our Saviour the Common-wealth of Rome was in her perfection because shee was conteined under the government of one Emperour and how the Kingdome of the Iewes ranne then to confusion in regard it was distributed into sundry Seignories grounding his reason on those words of Christ with which I will end this point Omne regnum in se divisum desolabitur Every Kingdome divided in it selfe shall fall to desolation Shew not therefore your selves as the Poet saith so farre removed from the Sunne which is the authour of wisedome that ye should seeke with envie to hinder the raysing of that frame which God hath so charitably builded but rather as the same Poet in the person of Dido uttereth that a Trojan and Tirian shall by her with equall affection bee respected so let us all with one voyce pronounce that English and Scottish shall by us now with love alike be entertained Neither yet if the matter it selfe can be concluded let there bee any difference about the name of this Kingdome for as it hath beene usuall to unite Nations so hath it beene as common to call united Nations by one name Although Greece had in times past beene divided into many Commonwealths and Principalities yet being all subjected afterwards under the dominion of one the former names vanished away and the whole was renowned by the name of the Empire of Greece the like was of Italy whose severall governments being gathered into one were all intituled by one name the Aquitanes Celtes and Belgickes were in former ages comprised under the name of Galles and having beene afterwards severed in sundry Provinces are now almost all conjoyned in one entire famous Kingdome which after the name of the most puissant part thereof is termed France our Ancestors not many yeeres since did familiarly know Castil Arragon and others which are all now universally converted into one mighty name of Spaine so were the West Saxons Mercians Norfolcians Northumbers and the rest of the Saxon Soveraignties changed by our Monarch Egbert into the potent and glorious name of England and Scottland doth in like sort not onely comprehend the Scots but also the Hebrides and others If therefore this hath beene so greatly practised let us not refuse to follow so many worthy presidents especially since it is not required at our hands that we should assume a newfound name but the most ancient name of