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A07894	A briefe chronicle, of the successe of times, from the creation of the world, to this instant· Containing, the originall & liues of our ancient fore-fathers, before and after the Floude, as also, of all the monarchs, emperours, kinges, popes, kingdomes, common-weales, estates and gouernments, in most nations of this worlde: and how in alteration, or succession, they haue continued to this day.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1611 (1611)	STC 18263; ESTC S112963	308,814	636

Martij Anno primo Edw. 6. Sir Edward Bellingham Lord Deputy 22. Aprills An. eodem Sir Francis Brian Lord Iustice Sir VVilliam Brabeston Lord Iustice Sir Anthony Seutleger the third time Lord deputy 4. August Sir Iames Croftes Lord Deputie twenty nine Aprilis Sir Anthony Sentleger the fourth time Lorde Deputy September 1. Anno primo Reg. Marie Thomas Lord Fitzwalter Lorde Deputie 27. Aprilis Sir Henry Sidney Lordes Iustices Doctor Coren or Corwen Lordes Iustices Sir Henry Sidney Lord Iustice alone eightéen Ianuary Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Lieutenant 19. Martij Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Iustice Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Deputy 6. Maij Anno primo R. Elizab. Sir Nicholas Arnold Lord Iustice Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputie the third time Doctor Weston Lord Chancellour Sir William Fitzwilliams Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputy the fourth time Sir William Fitz-williams Lord Iustice Sir William Fitz williams Lorde Deputy 11. Decemb. Anno. 14. Elizab. Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputy the fift time August 3. Sir William Drury Lord Iustice 14. Septem by patent 18. May. Sir William Pelham lord Iustice The Lord Arthur Gray Adam Arch-Byshoppe of Dublin Lordes Iustices Sir Henry Wallop Lordes Iustices Sir Iohn Perot Lord Deputy Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Deputy Sir William Russell Lord Deputy Thomas Lord Burrough lord Deputy Robert Earle of Essex Lord Lieutenant Charles Blunt Barou Montioy Lord Deputie Sir George Carew Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Deputy who yet to this day continueth in that honourable office ¶ Of the Kingdome of Scotland ACcording to the ancient Historiographers of Scotland in description of their Nations first off-spring and originall after Brutes first deuision of Brittaine to his Sonnes they make relation of a Noble man among the Grecians that was named Gathelus the sonne of Cecrops in the iudgement of some who builded Athens but according to the conceite of others the Sonne of Argus Nealus fourth King of the Argines This Gathelus being banished by his Father for some matter of disobedience departed thence into Aegypt in the thirty three yeare of Pharao Orus then King of that Countrey and there carried himselfe with such valiant and extraordinary successe against the Countries Enemies in the company of Moses Generall vnder the King himselfe that Pharao bestowed his faire Daughter named Scota on him in mariage hauing also then giuen him and his foll●wers the Citty Thebes Aegyptiaca reported to be taken from the Israelites Vpon iust occasion Gathelus after his Fathers in Lawes decease leauing Egypt being prouided of Shippes and other apt necessaries tooke his Wife Children and a great multitude both of Greeks and Ethyopians and setting forth of Nilus determined to séeke his fortune in other Countries This was in the year of the worlds creation 2453. and after his abiding in Egypt aboue 39. years what accidents befell him in this voyage is néedelesse to report his first arriuall was on the Coastes of Numidia in Affrick now named Barbary but being not able to settle there he came into a part of Spaine long after termed Lusitania It is said that the place of his landing there was called Port-Gathele after the name of Gathelus which afterward became corruptly to bee called Portgale or Portingale the certainty whereof I referre to better iudgements The people there inhabiting gaue both him and his at the first a bold repulse but in the end hee preuailed victoriously and after further friendly conference with the Spaniards he began to builde a Citty named Brachara on the bankes of the Riuer Mundus and so at the first did hee name the Citty it selfe Gathelus by the Spaniards further perswasions promise of assistance to their vttermost whatsoeuer disasters should betide him and his remooued to the Northside of Spaine on the Cantabrian Sea coasts now called Galitia where he builded likewise another Cittie named Brigantia afterwarde called Nouium and nowe Compostella Héere did Gathelus bear the Title of king and gaue lawes to his people commanding that they should all be called Scottish-men to honour the name of his deare beloued wife Scota as hee had alwayes so tearmed them in the time of his trauailes In time they grew to be so great a Nation that the Spaniards warring with them for their owne safety sustained the worst though victory remained to the Scots yet such good Orders were agréed on that both Scots and Spaniards should obserue their own lawes without inuasion offered on either side Then did Gathelus liue in peace with his neighbors sitting daily on his Marble stone in Brigantia administring Lawes and Iustice to his people which stone was fashioned like a seat or chaire hauing such a fate thereto belonging as is said that wheresoeuer that stone should be found there shoulde the Scottishmen raigne and hold dominion Héereof it ensued that there first in Spain afterward in Ireland and next in Scotland the Kings ruling ouer the Scottishmen receiued the Crowne sitting vppon that stone vntill the time of Robert the first King of Scotland On the stone was this inscription engrauen Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Inuenient lapidem regnare tenentur ibidem Englished thus Except olde Sawes doo faile and Wizards wits be blinde The Scots in place must raigne where they this Stone shal finde This quiet life of Gathelus did so daily encrease the aboundance of his people that the bounds of his dominion was not able to containe them and he beeing religious in couenant with the Spaniards auoiding all meanes of breach of the peace hauing intelligence of an Island lying North ouer against Spaine and wherein was but fewe inhabitantes made readie his shipping leuyed an Armie of his subiectes and vnder conduct of his two sonnes named Hiberus and Himecus or Hermion which hee had by his Quéene Scota conueyed them ouer into that Island which after-warde was named Hibernia after the name of Hiberus The History recordeth that the Scottishmen offered no violence to the inhabitants but fought all meanes to win them by gentlenesse which in the end was easilie compassed and all thinges appointed in decent order which made Hiber leaue his Brother to gouerne there in Hilberland or Ireland and return backe to Spaine There he found his Father Gathelus to be dead and hee with the peoples ioyfull consent was admitted to succéed him as his son but in regard of his admirable courage not satisfied with those bounds that pleased his father he made conquest of other Citties Towns neere about him so that they were inforced to sue vnto him for peace and agreed to such conditions that a league concluded amity and mariage contracts betwéen both Scots and Spaniards causing them to become as one people continuing their succession of Kings after Hibers death

A Briefe Chronicle of the Successe of Times from the Creation of the World to this instant CONTAINING The Originall liues of our ancient Fore-Fathers before and after the Floude As also of all the Monarchs Emperours Kinges Popes Kingdomes Common-weales Estates and Gouernments in most Nations of this Worlde And how in alteration or succession they haue continued to this day Printed by W. Iaggard Printer to the Honourable Citty of London and are to be sold at his house in Barbican 1611. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR VVILLIAM CRAVON Knight Lord Maior of the Cittie of London Sir HENRIE MONTAGVE Seriant at Law to his Maiestie and Recorder of London And to all the Knights Aldermen and Worshipfull Bretheren the carefull Fathers and Gouernours of this Honourable Estate HAuing collected these briefe notes Right Honourable Right Worshipfull and my most respected concerning the Successe of Times in most of the Kingdoms thorow the World euen from the Creation to this instant yeare 1611. and modelled them all in this slender Volume that such as fauour Reuerend Antiquity might receiue both pleasure profit thereby I thought it part of my duty in regard of some fauour and respect lately by mee receiued to present your Honor and Worships there-with as a token of my gratitude and as a promise of my vttermost imployment in these or any other endeuours whereto my meannesse in ability by you shall be commaunded I know right well and such as know me haue heard me daily confesse it that I of infinite others was the most vnmeetest to vndergoe such a serious businesse which required if not the best able yet those that therein are much better seene then my selfe Neuerthelesse importunitie of Friendes that greeue to see no willing hand put to the plough or at least such euen like my selfe more forward then wise their perswasions I say and some regard had of the times necessity euery man beeing borne for the good of his Country hath vnder your Honorable and Worshipfull fauour made me thus aduenturous Concerning the helpes I haue had in this laborious trauaile the Authors themselues who haue best written and discoursed of those seueral Kingdoms and Nations euen them no other haue I herein followed borrowing beside some such matters from them as to my knowledge haue not in any of our Chronicles heeretofore bin remembred or at the least not plainly reuealed In our home affaires especially the antiquity of this famous Cittie I haue with others deliuered my opinion therin yet swaruing from some who haue beene thought ouer-scrupulous sometime straining at a Gnat yet very ealy swallowing a Camell The Dignitie that your Honor holdeth of Lord Maior of this Cittie and those graue Senators the Alder-men your Brethren I haue aymed at the Original Antiquitie thereof some Authors tearming them Domesmen Eldermen or Iudges of the Kinges Court But that the name of Alderman declareth both verie Reuerend Originall and great Antiquitie I find recorded that in the time of King Eadgar one Ailwin a man of the bloud Royall and for the speciall great authority and fauour hee had with the King being Sir-named Healf-Koning that is Half-King was Alderman of all England who founded that famous Monasterie in the Isle of Ely Our learned and worthy Antiquary M. Camden hath obserued the Epitaph engrauen on his Tombe containing these wordes Hic requiescit Ailwinus incliti Regis Eadgari Cognatus totius Angliae Aldermannus et huius sacri Coenobij miraculosus fundator Heere resteth Ailwin Cozin to the Noble King Eadgar Alderman of al England and of this holie Abbey the miraculous Founder Whereby appeareth that the Title of Alderman in those ancient reuerend and respectiue times was an addition of honor and high repute as distinguishing them that deserued that grace to be men of greater grauer and more sollide iudgment in matters appertaining to the Weale-publique then others vncapable of such especiall dignity Of such worthy Fathers hath this famous Cittie beene plentifully furnished from time to time as in our Chronicle may more at large appeare and to you those graue Senators and worthily styled Aldermen out of intire and dutifull affection haue I consecrated the liuing memorie of these my poore labours wishing to you all vnfeignedly that as heauen hath bestowed this earthly honor vpon you so hereafter it may crowne you with neuer dying happinesse Yours in all dutie to be commaunded A. Mundy To the Maister Wardens Assistants and whole Liuery of the Honorable Company of Merchant-Tailors being the worthy Society of S. Iohn Baptist anciently deriued from S. Iohn of Hierusalem and the famous Knightes of that religious Brother-hood Also to the Wardens Substitutes and the sixteene men of the same Company c. IT hath beene my hap worthy and worshipful Gentlemen among the variety of Collections to build vp the body of this briefe Chronicle to meete with an ancient and much esteemed Record of a Society and brother-hood styled by the name of S. Iohn Baptist of Hierusalem and how many Great Maisters haue gouerned that Society from Anno. 1099. to this present yeare with some briefe obseruations of their liues and actions as in Follio 187. more at large appeareth Concerning the originall progression seuerall Fortunes of this Military Brother-hood beeing tearmed Knights Hospitallers or Knights of the Hospitall of S. Iohn Baptist of Ierusalem next Knights of Rhodes and lastly Knightes of Malta I refer you there to be further satisfied yet some thinges beeing there accidentally omitted may fauourably and not vnnecessarily here be remembred These Brethren by solemne profession were bound to serue Pilgrims and poore people in the Hospitall of S. Iohn at Ierusalem and to secure by their man-hood their passages thither they charitably buried the dead were continually in praier mortifyed themselues with Watchings and Fastinges were courteous and kinde to the poore whom they called their Maisters and fed them with white Bread when themselues did eate browne They grew to be loued and liked of all sortes and through the liberal bounty of good Princes and priuate persons admiring their piety and prowesse they rose from this low degree to so high an estate and great riches that about An. 1240. they had within Christendome nineteene thousand Lordships or Mannors as the Knights Templers had nine thousand the Reuennewes and Rentes wherof in England fell afterward also to these knights Hospitallers of S. Iohn Baptist. And this estate of theirs growne to so great an height made way for them likewise to as great honors So that their Prior in England liuing then in the goodly Pallace of Saint Iohn Baptist of Hierusalem in the streete which receiued name of that house and is called yet to this day Saint Iohns-street was reputed the Prime Baron of the land and called the Lord of S. Iohns beeing able with fulnesse and abundance of all things to maintaine a very honorable Port. In successe of time as this worthy Citty grew to encrease not onely in large

the said place and sent them Prisoners to Orleaunce where they were very strictly kept and died Capet being the Conqueror maintained that the kingdome should wholy appertaine to him because Raoull of Burgundy his vnckle had formerly possessed himselfe thereof by the voluntary resignation of Charles the Simple Hée caused his son Robert who had followed his studies to be crowned at Orleaunce and to associate him in the kingdomes regiment taking away the authority of the Maire of the Pallace when thus he aduanced his son whom he had by Adela daughter to Edward King of England Hee appointed also the twelue Peeres againe beganne the dignity office of Constable and established the Marshals of France He raigned alone with his Son 9. yeares He founded the Abbay of S. Magloire at Paris and lieth buried at S. Denis 37 Robert the sonne of Hugh Capet béeing Crowned King in the life time of his Father began to rule alone in the yeare 997. as true inheritour both of the Crowne and likewise of his Fathers vertues He raigned worthily béeing a Man very deuout and méeke the Kingdome continuing peaceable and without warre This King was very wise and could compose in Latine very learnedlie for he made many Proses Himnes and answeres which yet to this day are sung in the Church He was also well skild in Musique and would oft-times sing among the Channons and weare a Coape for companie with them liuing as religiously as royally Henrie Duke of Burgundy his Vnckle by the Mothers side made him Heire of his Dutchie leauing it vnto him by his Testament and incited him against Landry Duke of Neuers béeing beloued and supported by the Burgundians who insulted vppon his right in which attempt they foyled him and droue him to flight Hée ioyned the Cittie of Sens to the Crowne by confiscation for a certaine delict doone by the Counte Reynard He sent his Armie against the Valentians with Richard Duke of Normandy to assist the Earle of Flanders his Kins-man against Henry the Emperor He had thrée wiues Luthard Bertha whom hee forsooke vppon some occasion and Constance by whom hee had thrée sons one whereof died during his raigne In his time was an vniuersal famine and mortality He dyed hauing raigned 34. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis 38 Henry the first succéeded in the kingdome after his Father Robert in the yeare 1030. In his beginning to gouerne his younger Brother Robert warred against him béeing allied to the Earles of Champaigne and Flaunders who stroue to make him King by the procurement of his Step-mother but he assisted by the Duke of Normandy and the Earle of Corbeile mayntained his owne quietnesse He ioyned Meulanc to his Crowne by rebellion of the Earle of that place Raoull king of high Burgundy being dead the Emperor Conrade seazed on that part thereof which wee call La Franche Conte And the Dutchy béeing Roberts Brother to the King the kingdome of Burgundy which had so contied an hundred and thirtie yeares was then abolished The King seated young William the Bastard Duke of Normandy to whom he had béene Guardian peaceably in his Dutchy because some of his Subiects would haue depriued him thereof as beeing vnwilling to entertaine him He founded Saint Martine des Champs in the same place where his Pallace was without Paris By Anne his wife daughter to George or Gaultier king of the Russians he had Phillip and Hugh and a Daughter married to the Duke of Normandy Féeling himselfe to waxe weeke he caused his Sonne Phillip to bee crowned King of France And before his death he left Baldwine Earle of Flanders as Guardian of his Children He reigned 31. yeares and lieth buried at Saint Denis 39 Phillip the first succéeded after his Father in the year 1061. During his time William the Bastard Duke of Normandy conquered the Realme of England and Godfrey of Bullen was made King of Ierusalem also the Countrey of Gastinois came then to the Crown This king raigned 48. yeares and lyeth buried at S. Bennets on Loire 40 Lewes the sixt sir named le Gros immediatly after the death of King Phillip his Father in the year 1110. was sacred at Orleaunce by the Bishoppe of Sens the way of Rheimes not beeing then secure Some Princes and Lordes assisted by the King of England in the beginning of his raigne did giue him many molestations but still it was his happe to be Conquerour and the Warre of the English verie many times appointed was at last ended Pope Gelasius fled for refuge into France where hee was succoured against the Emperour In the yeare 1129. the King caused his Sonne Phillip to bée Crowned who two yeares after dyed at Paris by reason of a Hogges running betwéene the Legges of his Horse that threwe him violently on the Pauement and dying of that hurt he was buryed at Saint Denis Afterward hée had his other Sonne Lewes crowned and it was done by Pope Innocent he béeing then in France At this time were a great company of Lazers and Leapers in Fraunce who would haue infected all the rest of the people but they were all taken and burned The order of the Knights Templers Chartreux Monks began in this kinges raigne and the winds were so rough and impetuous in the yeare 1135. that they ouer-turned many Towers Castles Trées in Forrests and Mils This King appeased the troubles in Flanders Bou●bonnois Auuergne he builded the Abbay of Saint Victor néere Paris raigned 28. yeares died at the age of sixty leauing six Sons and a daughter and lieth buried at S. Denis 41 Lewes the seauenth sir-named the Young man beganne to raigne after his Father in the yeare 1138. He made war on Thibault Earle of Champaigne too●o● him the Citty of Vitry And in a great ●age burned the Church with 13 hundred persons in it that had fledde thither for safety By the solicitation of S. Bernald he went to Hierusalem with his Queene and with the Army of the Emperour Conrade where besiedging Damas thorough discord in the Army hée could boast of no aduauntage but retyring thence had not the Shippes of Sicily befriended him and his they hadde remained Prisoners there Beeing returned into Fraunce hée made a separation betwéene him and Queene Aelianor his wife Dutchesse of Aquitaine and Aniou vppon two suspitions conceiued against her Henry Duke of Normandie who afterward was King of England married her with her Patrimony of the saide two Dutchies and there-about followed great Warres betwéene France and England The King married Constance Daughter to the K. of Spayn who dyed soon after And then he remarried Alice daughter to the Earle of Blois by whom he had Phillip Dieu-donne Gods gift Then happened great disturbance in England betwéene the King and his son who making his recourse to Lewes caused thereby a very troublesome war without any aduantage to either side But in the end they were accorded

hundered shippes alwayes in readinesse and sayled therewith once a yeare about all great Britaine Hee had the whole Isle and all the Kinges thereof in subiection to him and was rowed vp and downe the Riuer of Dee by seauen Kings his vassailes Luduall one of those Kings did pay him a yearly tribute of Wolues He raigned 16. yeares and was buried at Glastenburie Edward eldest Sonne to King Edgar succeeded his Father being crowned at Kingston but by Counsell of Elfrith his Step-mother he was treacherously murdered when hee had raygned three yeares and was buried at Shaftesbury Ethelred or Egelred second Sonne to King Edgar was crowned at Kingstone but because his comming to the Crown was by his brothers murder he could neuer obtaine his peoples affection Al the Danes in England by the command of King Ethelred were murdered in one night He raigned 38. yeares and was buried in Saint Paules Church in London Edmund Son to King Ethelred and Surnamed Ironside was immediately proclaimed K. after his Fathers death as the Cleargy and Nobility did the like to Canutus because they hadde sworne fealty to his Father Swaine or Sweno whereon three great battailes were fought betwixt King Edmund and Canutus the Danes ouerthrowne at Otford in Kent beside the great battell at Ashdone in Essex neere Saffron walden where the Englishmen were foyled by the Danes and the Land once againe deuided betweene Canutus and King Edmund who was treacherously slaine at Oxford hauing raigned but one yeare and some few months and was buried at Glastenbury Canutus the Dane challenging all England to himselfe was crowned King in Saint Paules Church in London and maried Quéen Emma the widdow of king Etheldred hee raigned xx yeares and was buried at Winchester Harold surnamed Harefoot vsing the power of the Danes in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardi-kenutus Gouerned in Denmarke Hee raigned foure yeares dyed at Oxford and was buried at Westminster Hardikenutus or Hardy-Canutus Sonne of King Canutus and his Quéene Emma obtayning his Fathers Kingdome sent for his mother from exile He died with the cup in his hand as he sat merrily disposed at his Table in the third yeare of his raigne and was buried at Winchester With this Hardy-Canutus ended the dominion of the Danes in England who had grieuously oppressed this nation for the space of 250. yeares Edward the sonne of Ethelred and Emma was next crowned King at Winchester all the Danes being then quite expulsed the land This Edward was Surnamed the Confessor for hys vertuous life and worthy Lawes also he is saide to be the first that cured the Disease called The Kinges Euill Hee raigned three and twentie yeares and was buried at Westminster which in his life time hee had most sumptuouslye repayred Harold sonne of Earle Goodwin tooke vpon him the gouernment of the kingdome but William Duke of Normandy came into England with a powerfull Army and in battell Harold was shot through the braines with an Arrowe hauing raigned but nine months and was buried in the Monastery of Waltham in Essex by whose death Duke William obtained his Conquest of England William Duke of Normandy base Sonne of Robert Duke of Normandie and Nephew to King Edward the Confessor whom he perceiued more addicted to vertue then policy and through debility of body not like to liue long contryued his owne attaining to the crowne of this land after the decease of the aged King For hee placed diuers Normans in the cheefest roomes about him while he liued and when he was dead leuied an Army of diuers Nations and there-with pretending the Patronage of England agaynst Harold Earle Godwins Sonne who vsurped the Kingdome first fought with him and flewe him at a place now called Battell in Sussex and then tooke the Crowne on him by election of the Estates Seeking next to barre Titles he imprisoned Edgar Etheling the onely true heire of the Saxons bloud and by means of Ethelbert Arch-bishop of Hamborow procured Sweno King of Denmark for money to cease the Danes claime Hee builded foure strong Castles one at Nottingham another at Lincoln the third at York and the fourth neere to Haftings where he landed at his first arriuall in England Hee deuised the Couer le feu Bell to bee Rung nightly at eight of the clocke in all Citties Townes and Villages for preuention of mighty tumults He ordained the Tearmes and that they shoulde be kept foure times in the yeare and Iudges to sit in seuerall Courtes for desciding controuersiall matters betwixt party and party as is vsed vnto this day He appointed Sheriffes in euery shyre and Iustices of the peace to see offenders punnished and the Countries kept in quiet He ordained the Court of Exchequer with the Barons Clarkes and Officers thereto belonging as also the high Court of Chancery with the Booke then called The Rowle of Winchester nowe The Doomesday Booke whereby the whole Land was taxed and euery mans estate and wealth thoroughly knowne He raigned twenty yeares ten months and 26. dayes and was buried in the Abbey of Saint Stephen at Ca●n in Normandy which he had founded And this is well worthy memory that hee being so great a Conqueror yet after his death coulde not haue so much ground to bury his dead body without wronging some other vntill that by his Executors it was bought for him William Rufus second sonne to the Conqueror by his Fathers appointment succeeded him in the Kingdom and was crowned at Westminster Robert elder Brother to King William Duke of Normandy went with Godfrey Duke of Bullen and other Christian Princes to the Holy-land to recouer it from the Sarazi●s This King William Rufus caused new Walles to be builded about the Tower of London and layed the foundation of Westminster Hall Hee raigned thirteene yeares and was slain with an Arrow by one Sir Walter Tyrel a French knight in the New Forrest in Hampshire his body being buried at VVinchester In which Forrest not many yeares before had stoode 36. Parish Churches diuers faire Townes Villages and Hamlets containing thirty miles in circuite all which was laide wast by the Conqueror the poor inhabitants expelled thence and it was made a place for wilde beastes to liue in It was somewhat strange that in that very place the King should bee so vnfortunately slaine Richard his Brother blasted to death and Henry the Conquerors Nephew by his eldest Sonne Robert as hee ouer-earnestly pursued the game in the the bushes like to another Absolon straungely strangled to death vengeaunce from God as was thought punnishing the fathers offence in his posterity Henry sur-named Beauclerke for his Learning and youngest sonne to the Conqueror succeeded his Brother King William was crowned at VVestminster Robert Duke of Normandy being returned from the Holie-Lande warred with his Brother Henry for his right in the

liberty The deedes of Clodion for enlarging his Kingdome 450 The beginning of the Kinges of France in generation Attila with his Hunnes inuaded Gaule The ●ight of Attila out of Oval When Gaul began to be cald Franc● 460 The incontinent life of Childerick Childebert wronged his dearest frend The first Christian K. of France The Romaines Dominion ended in France How Clouis conuerted and becam a Christian by means of his Queene The Emperour sent Clouis a Crowne of Gold 515. Foure kings raigning together in France Clothaire Childebert warre in Spaine 559 Clothaire Sole-Monarch of the Gaules 567 Cherebert an vnchast King 157 Fredegond Concubine to Chilperick F●edegonde caused the King to bee murdered 587 Childebert seeketh to reuenge his fathers death Fredegonde a woman of great spirit Brunehault executed 631. The building of the Church of S. Denis Iewes banished out of France 645 The treachery of Grimoald Maire of the Pallace Clouis sole Monarch of the Gaules The care of Clouis for feeding the poore 663 The Maires of the Pals lace ouerrule the Kings 666 Childerick was slaine in hunting and his Q. also 680 Landresill murdered by Ebroin Pepin Heristel Maire of the Pallace 694. The woorthy deeds of Pepin Heristell 698 The power and authority of Pepin Heristel Charles Martell Bastard sonne to Pepin Heristell 716. Hermanfroy Maire of the Pallace Hermanfroy preuailed against Thibaulte 720 Charls Martell maire great Gouernour of France 722 The subtle pollicy of Charls Martell 727 Charles Martel ruled the whol kingdome Charles Martell made a gret slaughter of the Sarrazins 741 The death of Charles Martel who left three Sonnes Pepin maketh means to inioy the Kingdome The death of Childerick and his wife 751 Pepin aideth Rome against the Lombards Pepin instituted the Court of parliament Robert the Deuill 768 Charlemain made Emp of the west And the first that was called most Christian King The ending of the Lombards kingdome The vnfortunate battaile of Ronceuaux The twelue Peeres of Fraunce 816 Great difference betweene the Sonne and Father The sons in Armes against theyr father and their vsage to him The Lordes of Fraunce release their Emperour 843 The Normans became Maisters almost of all France K. Charles poysoned by his phisition 879 The Pope escaped out of prison 881 The base sons of Lewes made Kings The strange death of both the Kinges 186 A dishonorable composition with the Normans A great sl●ughter of the Normans Charles le Gros expulsed from the Empire kingdom 891 Charles the Simple sent for out of England crowned K. 900 Neustria now named Normandy Charles cōpelled to resigne his Kingdome 927 Hugh the great Cou●t of Paris Lewes d' Outremer or of beyond-Sea Raoull died very strange lie 929. Hebert Earl of Vermandois executed 956 The death of Hugh the great Earl of Paris 986 Charls duke of Lorraine seeketh to be King D. Charles disabled by Hugh Capet 987 D. Charles and his wife Children surprized by treason 997 The vertues of Robert son to Hugh Capet His Wiues children 1030. The ending of the kingdome of Burgundy The King of the Russians 1061. The conquest of England by William the Bastard 1110 The Pope flieth for refuge into France Knights Templers Chartreux Monkes 1138 1300. persons ●u●ned in a church A marriage betweene England France 1181. Vertuous deedes in a King Fifty thousand men slain in one battaile 1224 1227 Peace between Englande and France Peazants ari●e and do great hurt in France K. of France cald a Saint 1271 The Sicili-Vespres 1286. A Booke written by the King The Popes Buls against the King burned The Popes See was brought to Auignon 1314 Enguerrand executed at Mont-faucon 1316. Marriages make peace in France Another rising of Peazants in France 1321 Iourdain de l'Isle hanged at Paris 1328. The Battell of Crecy great losse of the French 1350. King Iohn as a prisoner brought into England 1364. Fiue armies at one time againste the English The Bibles first verssion into the French tongue 1380 〈…〉 Factions in the Court of France The King of England crowned in France 1423 Ioane the Pucelle of France 1461 The order of S. Michael instituted 1484. The Kingdom of Naples wonne by the French 1499 The kingdome of Naples reconquered Gaston de Foix. 1515 The King carried prisoner into Spaine The English wonne Bullen 1547. S. Laurance day at Saint Quintines King Henry hurt in ●●lting died soone after 155● The tumult of Amboise 1560 Anthony of Bourbon Lieutenant Generall The bloudy massacre at Paris 1574 The holy League or Vnion The King murdered by a Iacobine Fryer 1589. Iacques Clement Francis Rauilliart 1610. * A people neere to the Se●thians Battauia is Holland Zeland named by Zelandus 863 The two Sonnes of Counte Haghen Thierry Earl of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland The Frizelanders rebell againe A dreadfull Comet Ecclipses and earthquakes Adelbold Byshop of Vtrecht 1039. The Bishops of Cullen and Liege 1048. Two millitary Stratagems 1063. Robert the Frizon Robert Earl of Flanders 1077 The Crook backt duke of Lorraine The Fryzons conquered in two battels 1119 Dider duke of Sauoy 1133 Lotharius Conrade Emperors 11●3 Earledomes of Ostergo Westergoe 1166 The Dam or Sluce called dogs Sluce 1208. L. William of Holland 1198. 1203. The gouernmet of a Woman despised Women beat Men with Distaues and stones 121● Edmund of Lancaster son to the K. of England The wonderful birth of 365. Children This History is auouched for a truth by diuers good Authors Earle William king of the Romans K. William cruelly slain 1290 The History of the death of Earle Floris Aseuere r●uenge for the Earles death 1297 Wolfart of Borssele his secret intention 1300 The end of the race of the Dukes of Aquitain and succession of the Earles of Henault 1301. Iohn de Reuesse drowned 1305 The good Earle william 1316 A wonderfull dearth A straunge example of an vnmercifull Sister A worthy action of Iustice don by this good Earle William 1337 Earle William a worthy souldier 1338 1342 Robert of Arckel gouernour of Vtrecht 1346 Margaret the Empresse Princesse of Holland The factions of Cabillaux and Hoecks 1351. A grear effufion of bloud Mathilda daughter to Henry duke of Lancaster 1358 The Barons of Eughien beheaded 1368. A Sea Woman seen in the Zuyderzee 1401 1404 Phillip the bold Duke of Burgundy 1417 Iohn of Bauaria Byshop of Liege Iohn of Bauaria the Bishop reckoned the 29. Earl of Holland 1463 The Titles of Phillip Duke of Bourgogne The order of the golden Fliece instituted 1467. The Art of printing first inuented The warlike Duke of Bourgogne The Earle of Campobachio 1477 The Duke of Gueldres slaine 1479 Newe tumults of the Cabillaux and Hoecks 1482 Engelbert earl of Nassawe 1491 1494 The Titles of Phillip Arch-duke o● Austria 1497 1503 Iane daughter to Isabel married to the Arch-duke Phillip 1505 1506 1508 1515 1519 1520 Lady Margaret sole Gouernesse 1526 1531. Mary of Austria 1554. 1549.

constancy in promise that he sildome spake the word which hee not performed Such an obseruer of Iustice was he also that he would not remoue from any place but Proclamation was first made that if any of his men or officers did take any thing vnpaid for the partie to whome the debt was due should come in and imediatelie satisfied he willinglie heard the complaints of the poore and was as diligent in seeing their wrongs redressed Iohn Stuart Earle of Carrike and sonne to King Robert before named was crowned king but because Iohn was iudged to bee an vnfortunate name for Kings they changed it and called him Robert after his Fathers name and so hee was King Robert the third Then was the first creation of Dukes in Scotland for the king made his eldest Sonne Dauid Duke of Rothsay and his Brother Robert Duke of Albanie yet neyther of these sonnes succéeded their father but another son who was named Iames. This King Robert raigned 16. yeares Iames Sonne to King Robert succéeded his Father in the kingdome of Scotland his Quéen was deliuered of two Sonnes at a birth named Alexander and Iames Alexander dyed in his infancy but Iames liued and succéeded hys Father This King Iames the first raigned thirtéene yeares Of whom it is written that he was a very seuere and vpright Iusticer yet so milde and swéete of Nature that not any of their Princes did more reuerently embrace peace at home among his subiects or more willingly conclude it abroad with strangers then he His Wisedome appeared so manifestly in many very great and especiall affaires that Kinges of other Nations did louingly ioyne in league and friendship with him He had bin so wel educated in all Sciences and Gentlemanly actiuity by the carefull dilligence of the best Schoole-maisters that it coulde not be easily iudged in which hee was most perfect For hee was an excellent Musitian a rare Poet a most elequent Orator so exactly both in minde and memory he comprehended the depth of Diuinity and Lawe that for all these in his time he gaue not place to any one Lastly he was not onely a beauty to his Countrey in prouiding his peoples quiet at home but fought also for their defence against their enemies abroad The inuention of Gunnes happened in his time and he caused diuers pieces of Artillery to be made in Flanders one of which being a great and goodly Piece he called the Lyon whereon these verses he caused to be engranen Illustri Iacobo Scotorum Principi digno Regs magnifico dum fulmin● castra a reduce Factus sum subito nuncuper ergo Leo. Iames the second son to King Iames the first being but sixe yeares olde succéeded his Father in the Crown and was the 103. King of Scotland from Fergusius the first In this Kings time was the famous Art of Printing inuented in the Citty of Mentz in Germany This King raygned 24. yeares among his Subiects in the Camp hee carried himselfe so gently towards all men that they seemed not to feare him as their King but reuerenced and loued him like a father Hee would ride vp and downe amongst them and eat and drinke with them euen as if hee had bin fellow-like with the meanest Iames the third Sonne to King Iames the second being but seauen years of age succéeded his father in the kingdome and raigned 29. yeares Iames the fourth son to King Iames the third was crowned King of Scotland the 24. day of Iune 1488. he being then aged xvi yeares This King Iames the fourth married the Princesse Margaret eldest Daughter vnto Henry the seauenth King of England and raigned fiue and twenty yeares deseruing to be ranked and numbred amongst the best princes that euer there gouerned for his polliticke rule and administration of Iustice Iames the fift being a Childe aged one yeare fiue moneths and ten daies and sonne to king Iames the fourth was Crowned King of Scotland the one and twentieth day of September 1513. his Mother the Quéene being appoynted Regent of the Realme This King raigned 32. yeares being an obseruice of Iustice a defender of the Law and a sound shielde for the poore and innocent in which regard of his Nobility hee was called King of the Commoners He would set at libertie the poore oppressed with the tyranny of the rich and represse the rich from spoyling the poore All which he did with a kinde of seueritie but yet in such sort as therein appeared a woonderfull gentlenesse in his naturall disposition because he seldom did put any of them to death but did eyther by inprisonment or mulct punish the offence For it was his vsuall saying That he would neuer take life from any but onelie to keepe the Lawe sound for example to others and to keepe downe their boldnesse that dwelt about the borders His death was great lamented of his subiects to whom he was a perfect Patron and a louing Father Mary Daughter and heire to King Iames the fift began her raigne ouer Scotland the 18. of December 1542. She was but seauen daies old when the King her Father died and left her his kingdome hir mother then lying in child-bed in the Castle of Lithquo of which place the Lorde Leuingston being then Captaine had the charge both of mother and daughter committed to him with the mothers good liking frée consent This Q. Mary maried Frances the Dolphin of France who after his fathers death was king of France but King Frances dying Mary Qu. of Scotland and Dowager of France returned home againe into Scotland where hir Mother had bin Regent al the time of hir absence I meane vntill the x. of Iune 1560. on which day the Queen Mother of Scotland died Afterward Mary Q. of Scots maried Henry Stuart Lord Darnley Earl of Rosse Duke of Albanie son to the Earle of Lennox who was proclaimed king at the Market Crosse in Edenburgh the 28. of Iuly 1564. and on the tenth of February 1566. he was made Knight of the Order of S. Michael in the Chappel of Holirood house with great reuerence and solemnitie In the month of Iune next folowing the 19. day and betwéen the houres of x. and xi before noone Quéene Mary was deliuered of a goodlie young Prince who afterwarde was crowned King of Scotland by the name of Iames the sixt Iames the sixt Sonne to King Henry and Q. Mary being about a yeare old began his raigne ouer Scotland and was crowned King thereof the 19. of July 1567. Hee succéeded also in his rightfull inheritance of the Crowne of England after the decease of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory the 24. day of March 1602. gloriously vniting those kingdomes in one which formerly by Brute had bin long time deuided ¶ Of the Island of Albion before Brutes arriuall there and tearming it Brittaine after his owne name Also what Kinges raigned there before he came thither ¶ To

the Worshipfull Maister William Dios Esquire Remembrauncer of the Honourable Citty of London WHether this Lande were peopled before the flood or no it is no part of my purpose to argue heer thereon albeit Dominicus Marius Niger and Berosus do affirme that well as this Islande was inhabited with people long before the dayes of Noah as any other Countrey or part of the world beside But after the floud according to Annius de Viterbo Berosus and others when Noah deuided the earth among his thrée Sonnes that part which is now knowne by the name of Asia fell to the lot of his eldest Sonne Sem Affrica to his second Sonne Cham and Europe withall the Isles thereto appertaining to his third Son Iaphet among which this Island now called Brittaine with other Isles thereto belonging was certainely numbred Iaphet Noahs third Sonne by some called Iapetus by others Atlas Maurus because hee died in Mauritania in the iudgement of Bodinus auouching the consent and authority of the Hebrew Greeke and Latine Writers was the first that peopled the Countries of Europe deuiding it also by the Grand-fathers example among his Sonnes of whom Tuball according to Tarapha had the rule of Spaine Gomer the Italians and Samothes was the founder of Celtica which contained in it as Bale testifieth a great part of Europe but especially those Countries now called Gallia and Britannia which peopling of this Island by Iaphets Children is affirmed to be 200 yeares after the floud Samothes being the sixt Sonne of Iaphet and called by Moses Mesech by others Dis had for his portion as Wolfangus Lazius auoucheth the Countrey betweene the Riuer of Rhine the Pyrenean Mountaines where hee founded the kingdom of Celtica tearming his people Celtae which name was as indifferent to them of Gallia as to the Inhabitantes of the Isle of Britaine This King Samothes is reported to bee a Man excelling all other in that age in learning and knowled●e that of him thē arose a sect of Philosophers both in Britaine Gallia which were cald Samothei as Aristotle and Secion do say were surpassing both in the Law of God man and therefore greatly addicted to religion especially them of Britaine which not onely made the whole nation to take name of them but as Bale and Doctor Caius affirme the Island it selfe was named Samothea which was the first peculiar name it had before the arriuall of Albion Magus the Sonne of Samothes was second King of Celtica after his Father This Magus was likewise so famous for his learning that the Persians Magi or Diuines are said to come of him Sarron succéeded his Father Magus in the Countrey of Gallia and the Isle Samothea of whom Diodorus Siculus reporteth that a sect of Philosophers descended among the Celtes who were called Sarronides Druis or after Seneca Dryus raigned after his Father Sarron indifferently ouer the Celtes and Samotheans Of him came the Philosphers called Druides whom Caesar anoucheth to haue the charge of common and priuate sacrifices the discussing of pointes of Religion the education of youth the determining of matters in variance and full power to interdict so many from the Sacrifices to their Gods and societie of men as disobeyed their award If any doubt arose in the Countries about matters of Discipline they alwayes resorted to these Druides who as Humphtey Llhoyd witnesseth made theyr chéefest aboade in the Isle now called Anglesey and there at all times receiued their resolution Bardus the Sonne of Druis was the fifth King ouer the Celtes and Samotheans a man much renowmed for inuention of Musique and Ditties and he made an order of Philosophicall Poets or Herauldes calling them Bardi after his owne Name Of these Bardi Nonnius Strabo Diodorus Stephanus Bale and Sir Iohn Price doe thus record That they vsed to Register the Noble exploits of auncient Captaines and to draw the pedegrées and Genealogies of such as were liuing They did so excell in singing swéete Songes and Ditties to theyr Harpes that if two Armies had béene ready to ioyne battaile and any one of these Bards by fortune entred among them they had not the power to strike vntill he left singing and went from the Armies When Bardus was deceased the Celts began to affect liberty and addicting themselues to pleasure and ydlenesse would liue no longer vnder the strict orders of their auncient Kinges which brought them the sooner vnder subiection to the Gyant Albion who straited Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia tearming this Island formerly called Samothea Albion according to his owne name and subdued the people albeit the Title of Samotheans according to the iudgement of diuers Writers had continued from Samothes to Albion the space of 310. yeares This Albion was the fourth Sonne of Neptune whom Moyses calleth Nepthuim and who did put his said Son in possession of this Island by conquering the Samotheans as he did the like to his other Sonne named Bergion in Ireland and the Orkenies which were brought vnder his obeysance Concerning the Historie of Hercules Lybicus whom Moyses nameth Laabin his Conquests in Spaine his passage into Italy against Lestrigo and lastly his killing Albion and his Brother Bergion it being nothing incident to my present purpose I leaue it Also the Story of Danaus Daughters being fifty in number that they should arriue in this Island after the slaughter of their Husbandes the fifty Sonnes of King Aegyptus and that one of those Ladies should bee named Albina of whom this Land should bée called Albion I passe it ouer likewise and will now procéede to the knowne History of Brute Yet not daring to enter into so rich a Mine of hidden treasure till being guided by the Light of Brittaine the learned labour of a worthy Gentleman and Antiquarie Maister Henry Lyte of Lytescarie Esquire and which with his owne hand hée presented to our late Soueraigne Quéene and matchlesse Mistresse on the day when shee came in royall manner to Paules Church I be guided therein for my better direction vsing his owne words The Light of Britaine BRitannia Maior the Countrey of the bright Britona called Britomartis the president of Britaine that is to say the chast Diana of Calydonia sylua Astrorum decus Syluarum dea casta et innupta custos et cultrix nemorum metuenda Virago terror syluestribus apris This Britannia maior was first found by Brute of Albania the Conqueror of the Greeks the mightie deliuerer of the Troyans and first founder of the Noble Britaines Who by the Oracle of the bright Britona called Diana of Calydonia sylua Astrorum decus brought the remaines of the Albanian Troyans of Asia from Albania Calydonia sylua Aetolia in Greece to Albania Calydonia sylua and Aetolia in Briraine Before whose most happy and fortunate arriuall there was neither Towne Citty Countrey Riuer Region or place of name in Britannia for Britannia