loue hitherto for feare of Corin and not for liking Deceit by weapons Memprise slewe his manly brother Manlius by faithlesse craft to be out of his emulatiue danger and dangerous emulation Magicals Bladud dedicated his Bathes to Minerua a dead woman he taught Necromancy in all parts of his country he vndertooke to flie aloft in the ayre with deuised winges and meanes artificially and so fell downe inartificially and died sensibly neither could he become admirable this way as he hoped Wordes Leyr forgetting his Honour asked his three daughters a fond needlesse question as some vse to dally with young children and would forsooth heare of them that were women grown How much they loued him they might haue shewed on their finger Ignorance the Gyantes of this Iland being onely strong and wild men without any great forecast were subdued for want of arte and gouernment Sisill let all matters go and runne at auenture Iago had the same vile fault and died of a frensie as he liued with a megrim Their vertue fortitude is known by their Acts in Peace These honourable Rulers approoued their Princely magnificence and Philotimy in a braue maner Brute the first named this Iland Brutanie of his owne Noble and famous Name He built a fortunate Cittie by the Tems and called it Troy-new in perpetuall honour of his owne Countrey Ebranke built a faire Cittie in hys land Northward which he called Caerbranke after his owne name He built another Cittie with a Castle in Albany and called it Edenbrough in regard of his daughters Leyl built a Citie in this land Northward which he called Caerleyl by his own name Leyr built a Citie in the midst of his land and called it Caerleyr in respect of his owne name Thus they purchased their Glorie with heroicall expences and publicke actions profitably Then the vertuous subiectes shewed their excellent magnanimitie in good sorte They suffered not Madian to rule ouer them till hee was able to carry armour in the Field and lead an armie Duke Corin went to king Locrin with his ordinary battle Axe in his hand and behaued himselfe so manly and plainly with the king that he would not or durst not reiect Guendolin his spouse as he before had purposed Good warly rhetoricke Warre at home Those Dukes Maglan and Hennine suffred not their wiues king Leyrs two eldest daughters to be kept frō the Crowne by Cordeil the youngest daughter Locrin fought with Humber and flewe him in battle because he had slaine his younger brother Albanact the Prince and ruler of Albany Conedag and Morgan the sons of those two Dukes deposed euen Cordeil their aunt from hir vsurpation and royall gouernment Conedag defended his land against Morgan and put him to flight and slewe him and ioyned Morgans kingdome to his owne Guendolin the queene gathered an army against her husband Locrin the king and in their conflict he was slaine with an arrow abroad Ebranke got great victories and rich spoiles both in strange countries far off neere hand then returned home with his mony and men in safety ioy it is no lesse courage to get out of troble then to go through it This was their Fortitude in doing for their friends and vndoing their foes Their vice or extream fortitude is knowen by Couetous ambition Manly warred with his elder brother Memprise to depriue him of the kingdome accounting it his owne if he could win it Leyrs two sons in law Maglane and Hennine expelled him out of his land and vsurped his place a while no time to count of Morgan raised war against Conedag his coosin german with whom he liued neighbourly aforetime but now he aspired to Conedags kingdome Porrex made sodaine war vpon Ferrex his brother and put him to flight and slewe him to be ruler himselfe alone Audacious anger When the people might do what they would in the raigne of Sisill they being naturally giuen to fighting fell to ciuil war among themselues and spilt much innocent bloud Rage is blinde villanes somtime turne wars to their vile vses Pusillanimity or base idlenesse Leyl for want of a good heart coulde not rule his subiectes when he was olde Cordeyl being at her wits end despaired of her libertie and murdered her selfe in prison Gorbodug liued without any memorable act like an idiote or a verie swaine Sisill by continuall ease fell into many colde and phlegmaticke diseases and at last a lethargy made an end of him as hee sowed so hee reaped of a lasie life came a lothsome death Their vertue or Iustice is proued in Diuiding in the generations of the eighteene kings the Crown is euer iustly possessed either by the sons or by the brethren or by the next of the kings bloud except the next to king Leyr Brute the first deuided Brutany among his three sonnes the eldest had the best third the youngest the worst part the middle sonne the meane part not so good as the best nor so ill as the worst Ebranke built a Temple in Caerbrank and appoynted an archflamin to ouersee it Leyl built a Temple in Caerleyl and ordained a flamin to rule ouer it Hurdibras built Caerkent Caeruin and Caerpalladour for the benefit of the countrey and in euery of them he made a Temple Bladud built a Temple in his Citie Caerbadon which was made by him for theyr vse that kept the Bathes or came to them Conedag and Morgan the sonnes of two sisters parted Brutany betweene them and liued quietly So did Ferrex and Porrex two brethren for a time but the comedie became a tragedie Rewarding Brute the first gaue Cornewall to Corin his fellowsouldier for ouercomming Gogmagog the Gyant in wrastling Locrin bestowed the spoyles of Humbers armies vpō the souldiers that woon them in battell Cordeil welcomed her father Leyr most reuerently when he fled vnto her for succour and restored him to his kingdom Kymar kept his land in right frame and order by giuing all braue men that they truely deserued the chiefe pollicy with good natures Challenging Corin seeing changeable affections of Locrin charged him with a promise and contract made betweene him and Guendolin and vrged him so straitly and seuerely that hee made him content to stand to his word the rather for that good seruice which Corin did his father Brute Reuenging Locrin reuenged the death of Albanact his brother with the death of Humber Guendolin fought against her owne husband to plague him for his whoredome and other iniuries and prouided so well for her selfe that in the triall of their Cause hee was slaine and his whore drowned with her base daughter the fiery and deceitfull roote Baaras with the leafe Conedag and Morgan deposed Cordeil from the kingdom which she held from them a long time with some title by her father though insufficient seeing these were the sonnes of her eldest sisters Wyden with her waiting women chopped her sonne Porrex in peeces by night for killing his brother Ferrex without any iust cause
in wedlocke with the Pictes whom they knew to be barbarous Scythians by discent of bodies and consent of mindes and very vnfaithfull Their vice or intemperance is in Rashnesse Hirelda and Eueline two knightes in gaming fell to wrastling and in heate fell to wordes and in anger fell to blowes in rage fell to wounds and Hirelda was slaine in the tumult that arose by these meanes A gaming not so profitable as the death of a good knight is hurtfull in a realme Disobedience Eueline being sent for by the Protector Cassiuelan and the Councell departed from the Court with Androgy his kinsman and tooke no leaue of them Will is it selfe witlesse a stomacke without a heart maketh a man a swine Reuenge Aruirage vsed such meanes that he got Hammon the Romane who siue his brother Guinder guilefully and when he had him in his handes he caused him to be cut in peeces and threw him peece by peece into the Sea at South-hampton satisfying herein his insaciable anger for his brothers death and supposing vainly and madly that he killed Hamon so many times as he had peeces of him Their vertue or fortitude is in Glorious desire Hely called the Ile of Ely after hys name that he might be famous for euer Marius set vp a Colosse in remembrance of the victory he had of the Picts with Marij Victoria grauen in it a warly Register Magnificence Lud repaired olde Temples and Cities and built new He made walles about Troynew and called the West gate Ludgate in honour of hys owne name and then dwelt most there because he had built most there Aruirage road about the realme to renew the decayed Cities which the Romans defaced he built a Castle at Douer to strengthen that part of the Land against forraigne Powers Wordes When the Romanes thought to terrifie the Brutans by their letters these sent them word that as they must so they would defend their Countrey from all forces Aruirage being for his Noblenesse made the Emperours sonne in law and wishing to haue a memoriall of Claudius his queenes and wiues owne father called the Cittie where he married Claudiocestria or Glocester the rather to be free frō tribute in respect of his wife though he were free of himselfe by his vertue Victories Cassiuelan made the Romans flie to their ships at their first battell and at the second beware the third Desertes Cymbelin in his youth led so manly a life in Roome that the Emperour Augustus made him a knight there in his order of knightes Exercise Hirelda and Eueline two braue knightes wrastled openly at the Feast which was made after the victories against the Romanes Warre Guinder denied to pay tribute to the Romans chose rather to sight with them then yeald otherwise Aruirage did the like and when they came against him he made them flie from the southeast part of this Iland to the southwest there he draue them from Excester and Totnes within seuen daies made all well Marius staied the fire and sword of the Picts in Albany and slew their armies Deuise Aruirage seeing his brother Guinder dead took on him presently his armour and Princely cognisāce that the Brutans might not suspect their kings death and be discomforted then hee continued the battel so stedfastly and heartily that the Brutans were stirred vp to fight valiantly by his liuely example till they ouerthrew the Romans Their vice or extreme fortitude is in Bold rashnesse Stenny Cassiuelans brother in the wars against the Romans canne to I. Caesar and puld hys sword out of his hand and slew Labienus a tribune of the Romans therewith and was slaine Obscure glory When Stenny was dead he was buried at Caerlud and the sword which he puld from Caesar with his deaths wound was buried with him that it might be a remembrance of one venturous action euen in a hole Abasement Cassiuelan was tributary to Roome nine yeares Tenancy was too deligent in paying tribute to Rome euen 3000. pounds in gold Cimbelin hauing choice to pay or not to pay tribute forgat the slauery of the act and payd it Aruirage was perswaded by his wife to pay tribute when he had resisted the Romanes valiantly He should haue sent such a wife for the tribute vnto Roome from whence she came and kept the mony in his cofers for warres Coil saw in his poreblinde eyes that it was best to yeald to Roome and agreed to pay tribute Androgy departed to Roome with Caesar a mad and fickle courage THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS CApor began his raigne in the yeare of the world 3894. and raigned two yeares now Mithridates raised warres in Asia and Lucullus was sent against him Dinel began in the yeare 3894. and rule 4. yeares in this time Verres spoiled Sicilia three yeares together now Vergill the Poet was borne Hely beganne 3898. and raigned one yeare in this time Hortentius the Oratour flourished in Roome Lud began 3899. and rule 11. yeares in this time the Poet Horace was borne the conspiracie of Catiline was detected Ierusalem was taken of Pompey Caesar entered the wars in Gallia Cassiuelan began 3910. and rule 19. yeares in this time M. Crassus spoyled the Temple of Ierusalem the ciuill wars began betweene Caesar and Pompey Caesar corrected the Roman yeare Ouid the Poet was borne Tenancy began 3929. and raigned 23. yeares in this time Mecaenas liued the patrone of Horace Vergill and other learned men and gouerned Roome and Italy in the absence of Caesar Augustus so named for that reuerence was giuen him in a diuine maner now Vergill dyed Cymbelin began 3952. and raigned 35. yeares now Horace died the Angel Gabriel was sent to Zachary and Mary Christ was borne the 13. yeare of his raigne Onid and Liuy dyed Guinder began 3987. and ruled 28. yeares nowe Iohn-baptist preached and was slaine Christ taught the Iewes Paul was conuerted Iames was slaine Seneca was made Neroes teacher Aruirage began 4015. and ruled 30. yeares in this time Paul did most of his Actes Iames the lesse was stoned 70000. Romanes were slaine of the Brutans Paul was beheaded Peter crucified Seneca and Lucan bled to death Marius began 4045. and raigned 52. yeares in this time Iohn euangelist writ his Reuelation Plutark and Tacitus liued Timothy was stoned Dyonisius slaine with the sword Coil began 4097. and raigned 54. yeares now Ptolony and Galen liued the Christians by their praier got a strange victory of the Marcomanni and obtained a mighty great raigne from heauen now Lent was appointed by Telesphorus Lucy began 4151. and ruled 12. yeares in this time the Gospel was first preached in Brutany by Fugacius and Damianus Commodus would be called Hercules and Deus but was strangled of his owne man in Vestilians house So this Generation of Capor and the 11. Caporites ended in the yeare of the world 4163. and seeme to haue endured the times of 274. yeares in the kingdome of Brutanie THE PLACES IN THIS HISTORY The places are
Grecian more then in a Roman and why not in Brute more then in Caesar If Brutes Chronicles had been preserued aswell as Caesars I doubt not of this matter and of Brutes immortalitie in all writinges then Caesar had beene halfe a Brute We haue not any thing heere for Italians till wee be serued our selues we are onely in Brutanie and among Brutans Let other men haue leaue to speake of Saturne and Latium of Ianus and Ianiculum and other thinges before Brute who might be among his neighbours as singular and fortunate a man for foresight as Noah was among the men of former times It is no reason that Brute coulde not be giuen to trauell because the Italians were not giuen to trauelling among whome you say hee dwelt afore So you may deny almost euery actors Actes that hath liued admirably in the worlde It may bee that Brute and is fellowes swornemen were worth all the rest in liuely and manly action abroad as Abraham and his company were singular among the Assyrians and proued the rare man of the world Wee say not that Brute walked on the Sea or came hither by land and therefore your Alpes and your Hercules haue no present vse but as table talke to passe time and make a noyse Yet men hauing liued more then 2800. yeares from Adam to Hercules vppon the earth and Comer the sonne of Lamech and Cham and Sabati and other great men lying in Italy before Hercules was borne and seeking out the partes of the earth euery way we can beleeue reasonably that they passed ouer the Alpes before him Or if Hercules must needes be the onely man what a single reason is it that Brute might not follow him that way because Hercules onely had gone before I had rather conclude thus Hercules made a way through the Alpes so easily that any hardy trauailer might followe him that way Since Brutes time the Alpes haue been passable enough and the Gaules haue ouerrunned them and other people trode on them your Adhuc alienis is somwhat vnskilfully written of you Truely I would Tamerlane were euen now here to answere your Ocean argument hee could tell you that his multitude of rude Scythians and shepheardes could do more Actes then all the fine gay troopes and rankes of Baiazete that it is no good consequent which you bring forth as if the Albane shepheardes and clownes might not be as valiant in vanquishing the Alpes as the Carthaginian souldiers vnlesse it be an infallible Item that the iolliest men are euer greatest actors by sea and land your argument à maiori is easily set à minori in this maner The lightheaded Grecians and such other haue passed the Ocean much more is it probable that the manly and most hardy Albanes haue done the same thing hauing neither lesse wit by comparison of their Actes nor lesse courage in any point The actions of one doe not proue any thing of another but of that one pro or contra or else howe should we haue argumentes of contradictories of vnequals of vnlikes of diuisions or if your reason be an historie I see no cause why mine historie of Brute may not be credited aswell as yours of the Massilians who were long enough after Noahs Arke and other shippes of other men I beleeue to haue some auncestors in shipmastry and many fellowes He that goeth aspying goeth aspeeding opportunitie maketh men doe straunge workes haue you neuer heard of players and iesters that by deuises of games and pastimes haue obtained very great victories Remember man I say the famous and strong name of Brute and consider the nature of warly trauailers and neuer stand so stiffly in your naked coniecture How knoweth Buchanan that there was no such renowmed Brute in the world before the bannishment of the Tarquines in Rome might there not be another Brute 500. yeares before this counterfeit Brute of Rome or was there none such are you sure because the Roman and Greeke Historians of other nations forsooth haue made no such record It is no sufficient reason to carry Brutans from their owne old Registers by the wordes and silence of outlandish writers You knowe and I am sure there are no meane matters left out of prophane Histories which are in ecclesiasticall Histories and neuerthelesse allowed The more they leaue out the glorie of our land the more I presume by the nature of forraine countries that our land was enuied because it was most glorious I tell you I cannot thinke it necessarie that he which is named Brute in our Chronicle must bee so named in other Chronicles the same man may haue diuers names seuerally set downe in seueral bookes of seuerall languages and as for this most Noble Brute it is like enough he chaunged his name as he chaunged his habitation You may easily say A Moonke was the deuiser of this Brute you will say that he played the Poet that hee carued painted him in this maner but you cannot yet proue in this hast that the Moonke or student had not good proofe in his readings of this Brute that he had not his Authour for them It is out of question that manie books haue been written but once and that many such singular bookes haue been lost for want of coppies and it is probable that this Moonke had some olde monument or booke which may bee in Cambry to this day though Buchanan and Liuy neuer heard of it and may be as true of Brute as their olde Scottish Thinges and Romish Decades are accounted true by their fauourers and countrimen If the historie of Brute be not true because they haue not seene the proofe thereof no more is their historie true because we haue not seene the proofe thereof which was acted so many yeares ere we were borne thus it is as lawfull to coniecture for Brute as against him seeing he is but denied onely by coniectures and probabilities But what is this you say are mens mouthes stopped with a maske and shewe of Religion cannot men tell what to say against A shewe and appearance doe men that name the heathenish religion account it religion in Christendome I warrant you the Moonke was so far from purposing to stop mens mouthes with the idolatry of Diana that he neuer esteemed halfe the tenth part so much of her as Demetrius did for his profite in Ephesus and I dare say that the Religious Authour thought it no religion or imagined that the Brutanes would so esteeme it but onely named Diana as Castor and Pollux are named of S. Luke the Euangelist Your Synchronisme of Faunus of Sybilla and Praenestine is to no purpose it seemeth by this History of Brute that Dianaes Oracle was not vnknowne as you seeme to auouch But heere you will take the Moonke at a dead lift as you suppose and yet I tell you me-thinkes you and very bookishly and literally wise not reasonably and discoursiuely Must Diana needes speake latine because this Historian reporteth her Oracle in
Orcades and the Ile of Wight how can they so fill it that it may not be well named of Diana a desart in comparison of the Cities and Kingdomes in other landes where she abode most The name of Gogmagog is no more monstrous then the name of Onosconcoleros nor Tentagol more vast and strange then Nabuchodonozor neither shall those Names preiudice the Historie more with vs then these Names haue done with other in the Historie of the Assyrians Thus I may verie iustly and reasonably maintaine and vphold the historie of Brute for anie thing that master Buchanan hath said against it Concerning Dioclesian and his daughters I haue willingly lost all that delight of reading and answering although I see euidently that this Historie which you account a tale may be defended for ought you haue alledged Yet master Buchanan taketh much vpon him and chargeth some bodie with impudencie and a lye and plaieth the Terrible schoolemaster and yet when he hath done his best and his worst it is not proued that 24. yeares were not sufficient for Brutes retinue and the inhabitantes of this land togither with other of their kindred that resorted hither and remained here to replenish the Country with men of War to erect three kingdomes to accomplish great Actes by sea and land Let him looke into the kingdomes of Grecia in olde time and he shall finde fewer men in a kingdome then Brute alone with his companie might raise in 24. yeares let him remember the huge kingdomes of three men Sem Ham and Iaphet let him consider that mightie Actions are not done by money and number but by industry and vertue let him proue eyther that this Generation of Brute cannot possibly be true or else cease to spend his time with opinions and likelihoodes that may be repelled with the like againe rusty Antiquities more reuerend then scoured Nouelties Yet we are not desirous that Brute should be our Conquerour we wish not subiection to him or anie other outlandish Nobleman we had rather winne the land that this Brute came from and subdue it vnder our feete but when Brutans haue published an Historie and allowed it a long time we would not haue a Scot so presumptuous as to controll it much lesse to reiect it as this one Scot hath done very rawly and vnaduisedly So I leaue you master Buchanan and wishe you to sacrifice vnto the wiser dimi-goddesse Palinodia TO HIS MOST LOVING BROther Master Gabriell Haruey Doctor of Lawes WHen I saw both how iestingly and seriously our Historie of Brute was reiected of some auncient and newe bookmen I tried their maruellous iestes and reasons and felt them too weake to moue me Now my Answere is on foot with their Reply I may iustly hold mine owne and stand on Brutes side against all challengers that are or will come I saye Puissant Brute is no fabulous Prince but a true example no counterfeit man but a corporall possessor of this Iland let them saye what they can With this minde I haue here taken one Essay of our Chronicles in the best historicall Methode that I could make out of the best Historiognomers I am sure any Historie is easier for memorie and readier for vse this way then any other way which I haue hitherto seene in other mens Collections Tables Directories or any such other inuentions yet as it is proofe so approue it or reproue it I am not wedded to myselfe nor tyed to any sect in the world but heartily wish euery man to take euerie thing as it is not as it is made of this and that scribler or pratler which can tell better howe to play the mocking Ape then the iust controller Almightie God defend you dayly and amend them one day you know my minde in all my matters and that I would those petite Momes had better manners the schollers head without moderation is like the merchantes purse pennilesse without all credite I desire that euerie student may smell as the Lillies of Salomon and that euerie wilde Lilly may be set in his Gardens I saye out Hemlocke out Bramble out Weedes and let the bloud of furious Aiax himselfe saith Ouid be turned into a pleasant herbe I write not this to flatter any that should seeke after me but to follow you good Brother in your last Letters in whose Example I euer yet dwelt and am like to dwell euen till my Soule shall dwell in the Commonwealth of Heauen I cannot bid you farewell in a better minde and in this respect I set me rest here I remember your counsell and beginne my Essaye 1592. the 14. of Iune Your louing brother R.H. AN ESSAY OR TASTE OF THE first part of our Brutan Chronicles The History of Brute and Brutans setteth forth Principally and antecedently their persons in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had artes which they studied actes which they did This part of History is named Anthropology Accessorily and consequently the times when they beganne to Rule How long they ruled This part of History is named Chronology places in the Iland of Brutany This part of History is named Topography out of the Iland of Brutany This part of History is named Topography When a man is borne into the world he learneth some thing or other by learning he is brought to do somwhat but as all deeds are done in the compasse of a place so are they bounded with their beginning and ending THE GENEALOGY OR ISSVE of Brute BRute the first begat three sonnes of Innogen the first was Locrine the second Camber the third Albanact Locrine the eldest sonne begat Madian of Guendolin and Habren of Elstrid which had a skinne as cleere and white as Iuory or Lillies or Snow it selfe Madian begat Memprise Memprise begat Ebranke Ebranke a very goodly person among thousands and strong begat Brute the second and nineteene sonnes and thirtie daughters these fiftie children were borne vnto him of twentie women Brute the second begat Leyl Leyl begat Hurdibras Hurdibras begat Bladud Bladud begat Leyr Leyr begat three daughters the first was Gonorill the second Ragan the third Cordeil but left no sonne behind him Cordeil the youngest daughter as it came to passe succeeded hir father but Morgan and Conedag her two nephewes deposed her Conedag the sonne of Ragan being prouoked by Morgan the sonne of Gonoril his coosin german slew him in battell and ruled alone and begat Riuall Riuall begat Gurgust and Sisill Gurgusts brother succeeded Gurgust and Iago Sisils next kinsman succeeded Sisill and Kymer Iagoes brother succeeded Iago and begat Gorbodug Gorbodug begat Ferrex and Porrex of Wyden whose generations and issues are vnknown to vs as the issues of Ebranks nine and fortie children are not knowne very well nor the generations of Camber of Albanact of Morgan of Gurgust of Sisill and of Iago Thus the eighteene Rulers that came of Brute the first are come to an end as a tale that is tolde in sport or as a tree
and in the Temple of Caerwin was he buried Bladud built a Temple in Caerbadon there Sisill was buried Bladud fell downe vpon the aultar of Apollo when his flying failed him Prophane places Ebranke built a Castle in Edenbrough The Caue of Elstrid built by Locrin. The bellies of beastes were the toombers of Madian and Memprise Places out of this Iland mentioned are Neerer vs Germany thence Elstrid was brought by Humber thence Ebranke brought great spoyles Gallia whence Ebranke got many riches there Aganip the husband of Cordeil was Ruler Leyr and Ferrex in their neede fled thither Farder from vs Latium in Italy whether Ebranke sent his 30. daughters Athens in Greece where Bladud was taught and schooled For the trauailes of Brute before hee came to vs pertaine not to vs in respect of the places or otherwise Till hee was of our Commonwealth he was not with vs but against vs. THE GENEALOGY OR ISSVE OF CLOTO CLoto Duke of Cornwall descending from Corin Great Brutes nephew began the second family of the Brutan kinges and begat Mulmucie Mulmucie begat two sonnes of Conwen his wife the first was Belin the second was Brenne a verie personable man yet hee left no knowne seede behinde him Belin begat Gurguint Gurguint begat Guintelin Guintelin begat Sisill the second of Martia his wife Sisill begat Kymar the second Kymar begat Elane Elane begat Morind of his concubine Tanguestela Morind begat 5. sonnes the first Gorboman the second Archigall the third Elidure the fourth Vigeny the fift Peridure which died without any naturall issue onely Elidure begat Gorboman the second These are the 14. Generations of Cloto in the kingdome of Locry which 14. onely are well registred and acknowledged as true heires in the succession of the Brutan Crowne There are differences of Houses aswel for number as for time but opinion destroieth nature often or else some families would last euer the force of education is mightie THE ARTES AND ACTES OF Cloto and the Clotoans are in their Vertues and Vices Their vertue or Iustice appeareth in Diuiding Mulmucy of all the kings was first crowned with gold hee founded the Temple of Troynew Belin the first brother possessed the first part and Bren the second inherited the second after that Bren fled out of this Iland and left no children Belin tooke his kingdome for his owne Elidure being a younger brother to Archigall gaue ouer the kingdome vnto him accounting it rightly Archigals good for his life time Peridure after the death of his elder brother Vigeny tooke the kingdome into his handes because Vigeny died without issue and ioyned his owne kingdome and this in one Rewarding Mulmucy made of his Temples priuiledged sanctuaries that none should die or suffer any violence in them his lawes which he writ approue his righteousnesse Belin repaired the olde Citties which other kinges had built aforetime hee offered sacrifices and giftes freely to the Gods and most solemnly thanked them for the victorie he got against Brenne and his Norwaies He ordained three archflamins in three Citties hee confirmed his fathers lawes Martia was generally allowed for Ruler and king of the realme euen in the dayes of her husband and her sonne because her gift in iudgement was most singular and vnmacheable Gorboman repaired all the Temples in his whole kingdome throughout Elidure was chosen king three sundry times for his vpright dealing in all cases That constant vertue is happy that findeth her friendes constant like herselfe Punishing Belin would not restore Brens kingdome vnto him because hee had lost it by falshoode and in triall of warre Belin would not deliuer Guilthdake the Danish intruder out of prison and send him home to his kingdome in Denmarke vntill hee had taken a most sure order for a yearely tribute in consideration of his present deliuery to bee payd to Belin and his heires for euer Gurguint when the Dane denyed hys yearely tribute plagued the Dane incessantly by fire and sword till hee agreed to pay him the yearely tribute which was lawfully due to the king of Brutanie Archigall was depriued of the kingdome by his subiectes for his wicked life When Morind had ouerthrowne the Mores that inuaded his land hee burnt them before his face because they had burnt in some partes of this Countrey Heere wee may well consider the Iustice of Heauen which slewe many of Brens souldiers and wounded him to death when hee had spoyled a Temple Their Vice or Iniustice appeared in Diuiding Archigall sought by all meanes to aduaunce base men and rude vassals whom hee fauoured most and to pull downe the great and rich men whom hee liked not so much as them Like will to like tyranny respecteth onely herselfe Peredure and Vigeny enuying the grace and glory of their brother Elidure made warre against him and tooke him prisoner and kept him in hold while they liued without any other reason but the vnreasonable power of forcible entry Punishing Kymar the second being hated of some vngratious and desperate subiectes was slaine by them most wrongfully the more vnhappy man hee that coulde not foresee Morind was of so violent and boisterous a nature that whosoeuer offended him should surely dye for his fault though it were but a small trespasse because hee was displeased Euery offence is not deadly no man liueth without offences but a Prince without patience doth euer most mischiefe Their Vertue or fortitude is seene in Peace at home Mulmucy built Blackwell Hall and Malmesbury hee beganne to cut and lay out 4. High-waies vniuersall to this Land he restored chiualry Belin built those 4. waies and finished them he built a Citie and a Hauen with faire gates in Troynew and a Tower Guintelin built a Cittie Gorboman the first built two Citties Peace abroad Bren built some Citties in Italy and repayred some Warre at home Mulmucy vanquished 4. great Dukes which warred with him for the crowne of this kingdome Belin ouerthrew Brens armies twise he took Guilthdake prisoner and those ships that were sent against the Land Morind slewe an Irish Sea Monster he destroyed a Duke of the Mores and hys men that arriued in this Iland to destroy it Warre abroad Belin and Bren sayled together with both their forces into Gallia and subdued it Bren sought afterward newe kingdomes abroad he vanquished great partes of Italy and sacked Rome it selfe he got infinite spoyles in Macedonia Gurguint sayled into Denmarke and forced the king there in his owne Land to yeald vnto him Reuenging Bren gathered himselfe an Army in Norway to recouer his kingdom of Belin thereby So he prouided for himselfe afterward in Armoricke against Belin vppon the same cause and for the like purpose Their Vice or extreme Fortitude is in Ambition Bren arose with all his powers against Belin to take from him his right Dominion if hee could Vigeny and Peredure conspired against Elidure and tooke his kingdome from him by open force Rage Bren threatned Belin with wordes of great defiance
called Caerlud by his owne name but Stenny would haue it keepe the olde name in honour of the predecessors and Troians from whom he came It is iustice both to respect our auncestors and iustice to consider our own glory This were a pretty question for discourse which name ought to take place and stand in force if it were well handled Diuiding and deposing Cassiuelan the 2. sonne of Hely was the Protectour and Gouernour of the Realme in the minoritie and nonage of Luds two sonnes hys two nephewes Kingdomes are too heauy for childrens shoulders Cassiuelan ordained a common sacrifice to God that gaue him the victory against the Romanes and a publicke feast to his Nobles that helped him in the battels deuised many pastimes in honour of God and men Tenancy was made king by the treasonable absence of his elder brother Androgy Euery one of these kings hath his right succession except Cassiuelan which vsurpeth Punishing and correcting Cassiuelan summoned Eueline to appeare before him the Councell to answere for the death of Hirelda When he could not preuaile with Androgy by faire meanes he made warre vpon him to plague him for his stubbornesse Ought Androgy to bee at his call a disputable matter of great vse Nature preferreth the kings son to the Crowne before the kings brother but Pollicie preferred Cassiuelan before Androgy a good man before a bad Their Vice or Iniustice is in Diuiding Cassiuelan appointed vnto Androgy the eldest sonne of Lud the Citty of Caerlud and the land of Kent and to Tenancy the younger sonne the Land of Cornewall and kept the kingdome from them though they were his elder brothers true sons and vsurped it himselfe by force He is not fit to be a Protector that is ambitious it is a wofull thing to be a childe among our enimies or amongst the enuious sectaries Reuenging Androgy being vnable of himselfe to withstand Cassiuelan sent letters to I. Caesar in Gallia and certified him that if he would come into Brutany he should be welcome when hee had gotten Caesars Army to set vppon Cassiuelan in the valley of Dorobernia or Canterbury and the fight had endured till both partes were almost weary he came vpon Cassiuelan with a fresh reply and put him to flight and thus he displeased the whole realme to please himself yet his owne hurt was neuer the lesse for making the misery of his Country greater But when Cassiuelan thought to punish Androgy he punished himselfe as much as him he did euen put fire to Brimstone and flaxe to the flame It was traiterously done of him to warre against his legitimate king and of Androgy to make his natiue Country subiect to outlandish Powers Their Vertue or Prudence is in Order Cassiuelan brought vp Androgy and Tenancy Princes sonnes princely in all points Cassiuelan considering that the two victories which he had gotten of the Romans concerned himselfe and all his Noblemen most specially caused an assembly of them to be made that in a generall meeting there might bee a generall thankesgiuing to God almighty and to one another for their seruices and actes done in the Field Nothing teacheth men more courage then a beleefe of heauenly assistance with an honourable remembrance of their vertues this way of harting men is chiefest Desire of knowledge Lucy seeking al means to make his people true and louing among themselues and hearing that Christians were without hatred and falshood desired to heare their religion and receiue their doctrine and sent two Noble schollers Eluane and Meduine to Eleuthery Bishop of Roome with letters desiring to be taught Christianitie Reformacion Lucy changed the three Archflamins and the 28. Flamins into three Archbishops and 28. Bishops he destroyed the Temple of Apollo in the Ile Thorney and made a Temple in honour of the Almighty God which we now call Westminster Discipline Lucy seeing that men were executed for disobeying the law because heerein they disobeyed God and that the kings pardon was not so much to be esteemed as a pardon from God and perceiuing the heartie and vnfained repentance of some offenders and knowing that God forgaue such men thought it no reason that such Penitents should be put to death but reserued to a better vse wherefore he ordained that if any man did offend by mischance and repent him or any one were oppressed and could not otherwise escape oppression then by appealing to Gods word that such men should get them into the Temple of God and ther approue themselues to be true godly men and so be safe both body and goods Their vice or folly is in Permission the Brutans forgetting the true title that Luds two sonnes had to the kingdom of their father and feeling the liberall gifts of Cassiuelan an vsurper suffered him to keep the Rule Key of all the Land and taught one another to disinherit one another by causelesse and deceitfull popularitie and flattery Hatred the Brutans could not agree vpon a king no not in fifteene yeares space when Lucy was dead though euery countrey must needs see one nearer the Crowne then another if they could aduise thēselues marke euery family in good māer They could not foresee the miseries of forrain Dominion they were blinded with malice selfewill among themselues Improuidence Cymbelin was brought vp in Roome both in contempt of all his own countrey learning in slauery to outlandish with Coil the second was brought vp in Roome as if hee were borne to serue Roome and not to serue Brutany Of the two extreames it is safer to haue our men vplandish then outlandish plain then perilous Deceit the Brutans set great long sharp stakes closely in the bankes where the Romanes should arriue and so troubled them extreamely in theyr landing a poore and pittifull inuention to slay and Host Their vertue or temperance is in Behauiour Lud was bountifull in housekeeping and by that means beloued generally Cimbelin with the moderate vsage of himselfe so pleased the Emperour that he loued him greatly and receiued manie good words and gifts from him if this were not intemperance to please an enemy Aruirage got into such fauour with Claudius the Emperor that he married his daughter Genissa if this were not incontinence to be linked with outlandish that was mightier then himselfe He was beloued of his subiectes for his vsage toward them in all cases Marius was of honourable demeanour euery way He accepted the pitition of the vanquished Pictes he allotted to them the fardest part of Albany afterward he gaue himselfe to the wealth of the realme Lucy was loued of all his subiectes for his good life hys loynes were in the cloudes and hys seed among the starres he had rather be a father in Morals then in Naturals such was his abstinence It may be Galaxias the milky bright way in heauen was made in honour of such men as Lucy was no meaner then a Saint Marriage the Brutans would not in any case ioyne their daughters
so vnauisedly that with them he gathered the ilwill of the Brutans To haue is not the rule but to get well a mans glorie is not in mony but the glory of mony is in a man Their vertue or fortitude is in Victories Bassian and the Brutans slew Geta and the Romanes by night Maximinian ouerranne great partes of Gallia and Germania Octauy ouerthrew Traherne and the Romanes three legions neere Winchester and made them flie euen into Albany and pursued them into Westmerland Gracian being sent into the field from Maximinian ouercame Guany the Duke of the Huns and Melga the Duke of the Pictes and kept this Land from their furor by the helpe of the Brutans Coil Earle of Colchester which hee built rose against Asclepiodate and slew him and was made king Battels Bassian was able to endure all the pains of war a right Emperour for the campe The Brutans seeing the valiant wit of Carasse made him their king in spite of the Romans rather then they would yeeld to Roome they dyed in battell Death is better then slauery among enemies Constantine the first armed himselfe with the Brutans and fought against Maxentius did he not good among them to doe them the more mischiefe as the Philistines suspected Dauid who was a true saint of God Conan Meriadocke made war with Maximinian at diuers times because hee was a Roman O it is an hard bone to digest Rome which counteth all birdes dawes besides her owne chickens the man that hath another maister beside himselfe in his owne house is beside himselfe or else I beleeue he shalbe set beside his cushion at the last Magnanimitie Maximinian called Armorica Litle Brutany in honour of Brutans because they conquered it that a man winneth is his owne a man may call his owne possession by what name it pleaseth him new Lordes will haue newe names for their newe landes Octauy being appointed king in the absence of Constantine and hearing that Constantine was then made Emperor of Rome thought verily that he had enough to do in Roome though hee medled not with Brutany and tooke the Crowne to himselfe and chased the Romanes vp and downe in the land and played Rex with them at all handes to redeeme his Countrey from thraldome as hee counted it Home is for the homeborne Their vice or extreme fortitude is in Ambition Carasse a Brutan of lowe birth of a high heart but a venturous man a very hardydardy in deede as euer liued keeping the Hauens and playing the Sea captaine aspired to the kingdome and got it both by greater promises then hee coulde perperforme and by gathering more bankrupts ruffians to his side then he could keepe and contemning all noble and great men in the Land there was but one way with him and that was in his head onely all was one with him so that one might be all selfe-loue was selfewill and both were for himselfe Abiection of minde When Coil the third saw that Constantius was come from Roome with a great armie he feared and graunted him tribute and peace and euery thing els to be out of danger yet the most danger and damage in graunting these A babies wit in a kings estate The Brutans being afflicted by the Picts two times promised the Romanes a tribute to helpe them then they submitted themselues to Aldroene of little Brutany that he might succour them O Heauens where was olde Brutanie now where but in the Sea as a dead sea Whale THE TIMES OF THESE Romano-Brutans AFter there had been a king for 15. yeares space in which time Clemens Alexandrinus liued the Prophets were translated into Greeke Bassian began his Raigne in the yeare of the world 4179. and raigned 6. yeares in this time Papinian the great Ciuilian Chauncellor to Seuerus flourished Carasse began in the yeare 4185 and ruled 8. years in this time Origen began to shew himselfe Tertullian flourished Alectus beganne in the yeare 4193. and raigned sixe yeares about this time Zephirine chaunged the Communion cuppe into glasse for more decency which had been of wood commonly Asclepiodate began 4199. and ruled 30. yeares now Calistus appointed the 4. Ember weekes for the 4. quarters Vrban ordained that diuine vessels should be gold or siluer Coil the third began 4238. and raigned 27. yeares now Philip was the first christened Emperour Cyprian was martyred Decius the persecuter was swallowed of a quagmire Paul the first Hermite liued Constantius began 4265. and ruled 30. yeares in his time Eutychian bishop of Roome buried 300. martyrs with his owne hands Carus the Emperour was killed with lightning the Citty Spira in Germany was built Constantine the first began 4295. and raigned ten yeares nowe 20000. Christians were burnt in a Church on Christmas day at night Arnobius was famous Octauy beganne 4305. and ruled 54. yeares now Siluester refused to weare a golden Crowne which great Constantine offered him the great Nicene Councell was held Lactantius and Hilary were famous Moonkes beganne in Antonie the Hermite and Nuns in Marcella and Sophronia Constantinople was built Maximinian began in the yeare 4359. and raigned 8. yeares about this time Athanasius and Basilius flourished the Thalmud of the Iewes was compiled by Rabbi Iohanan Iulian the Apostata and Libanius raged Gracian began 4367. and ruled 4. yeares now Epiphanius wrote against heretickes Vphila found out the Gotes Letters or a b c about this time Gregory Nazianzene and Ambrose flourished So the Gouernement of these Brutanoromans continued for the space of 183. yeares but heere was no certaine Ruler in Brutany for 36. yeares after THE SIXT GENEALOGY OF Brutan Kinges THe Brutans chose Constantine the second the sonne of Aldroene king of litle Brutany for their king and he raigned ouer them and begat three sonnes the first was Constancie the second Aurely the third Vter but then Credulity slew him Constancie the eldest son succeeded his father but died without issue for Doltishnesse and Treason slewe him and Force lifted vp Vortiger to the kingdome but Self-will sharpned him so that the people hated him and by plaine might created his sonne Vortimer their king then Wichery puld him downe and Insinuation restored Vortiger yet Right and Vengeance at last destroyed him then Common Consent made Aurely the second son of Constantine the second a king but the diuels Art slew him and he dyed without issue so Vter the third son of Constantine succeeded him in the kingdome and begat vppon Igerne his wife or rather concubine Arthur the king who raigned and left no seede behind him then Constantine the third the sonne of Cador a Cornish Duke Arthurs coosin was made king but lasted not for Conan his kinsman slew him and became king begat Vortipory who liued and dyed without issue then Malgo the nephew of Conan raigned as king hee was of stature and personage the goodliest among all men of his time but left no Royall seede behinde him thus Carency got the kingdome by the goodwill of
Constance he lamented for ioy of his death and lesse he might be suspected of the fact hee caused the 100. Picts to be executed after the law and of all men was most against them yet so that some men perceiued his shites He that hath any lawfull title in any possession is wisest if he seeke it lawfully or els he may be put iustly from his owne The Duke of Cornwall had more right to the Crown then the Dukes sonne of little Brutanie but was it not extreame folly to chalenge it in so villanous a maner and was not Constance a most improuident creature to be garded with them which scarsely regarded him so much as a countriman doth his beast Surely God was angry with Brutans when hee suffered their Rulers to liue so rudely without the Rule of wisedome O yee Heauens blesse ye our Nobles and al other Regents on the earth or els they will be without Regiment in their liues and end basely with vile death Constance had been fit to be a poore mans Sowe in a sty which is content with any vsage so the trough be ful and the bones at rest lay a logge into a cloyster and it will come out all worme eaten and fit onely to be burnt Their vertue of fortitude is in Magnificence and Magnanimitie When Vortimer saw that he must die hee called his souldiers before hym and gaue all that he had among them and exhorted them euer to hold their owne against the Saxons and all forraine enemies A true heart is vertuous to the last gaspe Ambrius built the Abbey of Amsbruy Arthur built the castle of Windsor and founded the order of knightes of the round table Artgall the first Eare of Warwicke one of Arthurs knights chose a Beare for his beast because Arth in that language signified a Beare in remembrance of his name among all his posteritie Quicheline gaue seuen myles compasse of land to Berine Bishop of Winchester to build his See there and Kenwalke his sonne finished it Saint Osuald gaue his daughter Elfleda xii Lordships to build xii Monasteries with them vi in Bernicia and vi in Deyra When Cadwallader had conquered the Saxons in Kent and in the Ile of Might hee gaue the fourth part of the Ile that is 300. households to Wilfride in honour of religion and of his owne name Victories Edolf Earle of Chester seeing how Hengist slew the Brutans with secret kniues got him to a hedge and defended himselfe with a stake and slew of the Saxons 70. men and escaped Vortimer the sonne of Vortiger hated the Saxons more then hys father loued them hee pursued them and gaue them battell at the riuer of Darwent and ouerthrew them at Epyford he ouercame them hee chased them by the sea side into the Ile of Might he vanquished them at Cole More he turmoyled them in Norfolk in Essex in Kent he put them out of their possessions he droue them to the Ile of Tenet there he besieged them by water and by land and neuer left them till they fled out of the land Aurely with the aid of the king of little Brutany tooke Caerbranke from Octa and tooke him prisoner he sought with Hengist at Crekinford and slewe 4000. souldiers and 4. Dukes of the Saxons he droue them out of Locry euery where except Kent hee quitted himselfe from Ella and Porth two mightie Saxons Vter in the time of his brothers sicknesse put to flight Pascenty the sonne of Vortiger with his army of Germans and afterward slew him and Guillioman the Irish Prince at S. Dauids in Cambry and Cossa and Octa the Saxons Arthur fought 12. battels with the Saxons and euery time ouerthrew them he made them pay him tribute when hee was in Gallia and heard of Mordreds treason he returned and fought with him at Sandwich and ouercame him and againe hee ouerthrew him at Winchester and at Bathe he slew him Constantine the third vanquished the two sons of Mordred and put them to flight when they rose against him and chalenged the Crowne by theyr fathers title Vortipory the son of Conan discomfited the Saxons in many battels and got the vpper hand of them alwaies Malgo subdued the Saxons in all his wars he conquered Ireland Scotland Iseland Norway Denmarke the Orcades and possessed them Arthur slew in one day an hundred and fortie Saxons with his owne hand Cadwallader slew Lothary Prince of Kent and Athelwald king of Southsex and possessed those landes Cadwallin droue the Saxons all along to Middlesex and made Penda pay him tribute Now armies stay in Saxony and papermen flye from those coastes these do more harme in many places then those old armies did these will be sauced as they were and hunted out of the land by order of discipline none so busie as they and yet none more slight then they there is an Arthur in paper-worke against their inuasions which may in all right and equitie giue them twelue disgraces at the least and perhaps twelue times twelue let the triall proue all or let that labour be lost if they can recouer there 12 losses of this newe Arthur Their vice or extreme fortitude is in Ambition Vortiger tooke Constance out of a Monasterie to be king that he might do what he list in the kingdome vnder such an innocent and milksop and make his simplicitie a meanes for himselfe to get the Crowne as it proued afterward Mordred Arthurs kinsman being appointed Vicegerent in his royalty gaue great giftes and castels more then his owne to Cerdrick a Saxon and agreed with him to be crowned at Winchester with his goodwill so that himself might be crowned at Caerlud by his liking The two sonnes of Mordred the vsurper rebelled against Constantine the third for the kingdome and lost it No right or trueth can stay an aspyring humour Pusillanimitie Arthur gaue two Shyres to Cerdrick Duke of the Westsaxons to the end hee might be quiet those two shyres could do Brutans more good then Arthurs peregrination an enemie must not giue or take any thing but winne all by might or sleight When Cadwallader had raigned 12. yeares hee forsooke all his princely attyre and went to Roome and led a monasticall life euer after he preferd rest before riches the hood aboue the Crowne Rage or crueltie The Pictes to please their captaine Vortiger slew Constance their king and presented hys head to Vortiger imagining they had done the best act that coulde be to redresse his poore estate wherof he had complained to them Renowne the daughter of Hengist the concubine of Vortiger seeing what Vortimer had done in spight of the Saxons her countreymen and friends how he had taken away their possessions howe he reedified Churches which they destroyed howe hee was like to destroy them all if he liued a while sought out witches and magicians to charme or charactize him to death by some practise but when they could not worke vpon him she insinuated her selfe to one of his neerest men and
so corrupted his minde and sense with wordes gifts that he consented to poyson his Lord and so hee did Conan loued quarrellours aboue other men he made away his owne vncle that should haue bin king and slew his two sonnes Ethelfride Duke of Northumberland massacred 1200. moonks of Bangor in a beastly immanitie to please Ethelbert king of Kent which had offered praiers to God against him Carencie was so giuen to ciuill warres that he loued them aboue all other acts wherby he fell into such hatred that hee was not able to stand against the Saxons Out of all question it is extreame madnesse to admit any strangers into our countrey that are eyther more militar or more politick then the commonaltie vnlesse it be for a time and then away with them or they be kept in their boundes with certaine companie and neither see nor heare more then belongeth to strangers what shuld strangers but be vsed strangely they pretend pouertie but they intend to weaken our land they flie for religion but they foster heresies draffe is their errand but drinke they would either they are diuels in their owne likenesse or else they are Angels with the entrals of Diuels foolish pitty destroyeth the Cittie prouide for the weakest the strongest can saue it selfe the malignant hand will spoyle the impotent people when it cannot spill the bloud of Nobles but if Hares wurry Hounds and Harts be wounded of Ferrets then is the world turnd vpside downe the Hunters are vile keepers and the keepers are vilest men Let Brutans be fedde and taught as is meete for them and let my life go if they make not their ennemies round about them like Hares and Ferrets which euer auoyd the presence of men Their vertue or temperance is in Life and maners the Clergy in the time of Cadwallin behaued themselues so soberly and fatherly in all points that they were honoured of most men insomuch that as they went too and fro in the streetes and other places the people would kneele downe to them and aske them their blessing and gaue them whatsoeuer they demanded Wordes Berine Bishop of Dorchester conuerted Kingelist the king of the Westsaxons and christened him which he could neuer haue done without most temperate and well seasoned speech by the like moderation Pauline conuerted Edwine king of Northumberland to the christian faith Melite Bishop of Caerlud conuerted Sebert king of Essex to Christian religion The Clergy of Kent delt so with their king Ercombert that he puld downe the Temples of his false Gods and kept the Lent fast and became a Christian When the Brutan Bishops saw that Austin took vpon him as their soueraigne they would not resist him presently but stayd a while to see his life and behauiour and then to vse them therafter either frendly or aduersly Liberalitie When Ethelfride had put away his wife being great with childe Cadwan receiued her into his Court and kept her honourably till shee was deliuered and so long after as shee would Osuald Duke of Bernicia liked so wel of Cedda Bishop of Winchester that hee gaue him land to build and Abbey thereon The more is giuen for the promotion of Gods Maiesty the more he giueth to our benefite Their vice or intemperance is in Loue When Ronowen had saluted Vortiger with a golden cup of wine and desired him to drinke of it he beheld her bewtie and was presently so inamored of her that he could not be quiet till he had put away his owne wife by whom he had three sons and married her and for her sake loued Saxons more then Brutans he lay with his owne daughter to haue issue of her but in vaine Vter fell in loue with Igerne the wife of Gorleis Duke of Cornewall and slewe him at his castell Tintagel and tooke her to wife Malgo fel into the sinne of Sodom and lost all that he had gotten aforetime let not sense rule reason Liberalitie Vortiger entertained Hengist and Horsus with their three ships he gaue them y e hire of souldiers he bestowed the Ile of Tenet vpon them hee graunted Hengist so much ground as hee could compasse with a buls hide he took away the Earldom of Kent from Garangon and gaue it him Anger Constantine the third siue one of Mordreds sonnes for rebelling against him euen in the Minster of Winchester the other for the same cause in the temple at Caerlud Dionote Abbot of Bangor would not yeeld to Austin because he was of another Prouince neither would he preach to the Saxons because they spoyled the land do Ethelbert king of Kent what he could vnto him The vertue or iustice is in Rewarding Constantine the second receiued the crowne and rule of Brutanie by a couenant that hee made with the Brutans when he deliuered them from the tyranny of the Picts When Aurely remembred how fast the Brutans resorted vnto him and Vter at their landing at Totnes and how truely they serued him in his warres did them one good turne for another and repaired their temples and houses which the Saxons destroyed and restored their religion to them againe Deuiding In the time of Carency it was determined at Worcester by a Councell of the chiefest men That the goodes of the Church should be bestowed on the Bishops their Clergy the Churches the poore people and then Gregory the great appointed the two Archbishops of Brutany at Caerbrank and Caerkent The Archbishop of S. Dauids had vnder thim these 7. Bishops Hereford Cardiff Landaff Bangor S. Asaph Worcester Morgan Punishing The Pictes to reuenge the death of the 100. Picts that garded Constance made war agaynst Vortiger the friends of Constance deuised to ouerthrow him for the death of their Prince thus he was tossed vp and downe the land that hee could not be safe The Brutans seeing Vortigers extreame affection toward the Saxons deposed him when hee was taken prisoner by Hengist they forsooke him Aurely and Vter burnt him to ashes in his Castle The Bishops refused Austin by the aduise of an old Anchorite who iudged him no man of God which vsed his brethren like his seruants Cadwan slew Edwine and Osricke and Eufricke Saxon kinges for the bloud of the Brutans which they had poured out like water on euery side of the Realme Burials Vortimer was buried solemnly at Caerlud Aurely Vter were buried at Stoneheng in Salsbury plaine Arthur was buried in the valley of Glascenbury Constantine the third at Stoneheng Vortipory Vortiger Malgo and Carency were not orderly buried for their vile liues Cadwan died in war and was buried accordingly Constance deserued his faire buriall Their vice or iniustice is in Couetousnesse Vortiger forgetting his loyaltie to his Prince abused him intollerably and got him by his own consent the strongest Castels and best treasure that he had he euer defended the 100. Pictes what naughtinesse soeuer they committed in the Court. Vnthankfulnesse the Brutans being desired by Vortimer on his death bed to bury his body at
the hauen where the Saxons vsed to land in a sepulchre of brasse spire like to put them in feare with the remembrance of him and his acts eyther neglected his will or forgat it O vniust men that take such a farewell of their friends Vter died by force of poyson at Verulam in Hertfordshire neere S. Albons Constantine and Constance the father and his sonne were not buried after the maner of Princes I haue not that peculiar regard of places nowe which I had before partly by reason of forenamed causes and partly in that they are sufficiently set foorth in these morall tables I desire heerein and euer a quiet iudgement and then I doubt not of any censurer but he will speake fairely Yet I must leaue euery man to himselfe to doe as he is caused in his deliberatiue and considerate insight If I omit some histories of Saxons I do but my duetie what haue I to do with them vnlesse it were to make them tributary to Brutans otherwise let their owne men commend them if they wil I owe them no seruice by writing or speaking Yet I haue named some of the Saxons though I doe it more for their sakes with whome they dwelt then for any merite of their owne Let them lye in dead forgetfulnesse like stones that haue desired or doe desire the trouble of Brutanie let their names be cleane put out and not come among the righteous When men play the parts of beasts let them go among the numbers of cattell in Zoography and keepe their fit place An ape must not come among Churchmen Serpentes must not dwell in chambers of Counsell make bates are not in case to cōuerse in the dwellings of peaceable Lords who can abide to haue a deformed mocker with hys distorted mouthes a venimous hisser with his noysom breath a rayling stage player with his trifling actions for his companion Arise ye sonnes of Ebranke and yee kinsmen of true auncient Brutans and make those stone-hearted creatures know that they are made to be your seruants and drudges let not any double forked toong perswade you that Brutanie is vnder any part of the earth THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS BEtweene the death of Gracian and the raigne of Constantine the second were about 36. yeares passed ouer in Brutanie without a Ruler In this time Theodosius was excommunicated by Ambrose for murder Ierome and Austin and Gouldmouth flourished Claudian the Poet was famous Siricius Bishop of Roome forbad Priests to marry Constantine the second began to raigne in the yeare of the world 4407. and raigned ten yeares in this time the Goths and Hunnes inuaded Italy and possessed it the Vandals entred into Spaine and spoiled it the first Councell was set against Pelagius the heretick a Brutan Constancy began in the yeare 4417. ruled 5. yeares In this time Ierome died S. Alban was martired at Moguntia Saluian the teacher of Bishops flourished in Massilia Burgundians were conuerted to christian religion Vortiger began to rule 4422. and ruled 16. yeares Then Vortimer beganne 4438. and ruled 7. yeares In this time Austin died Cyrill S. Patricke and Cassian flourished Theodosius founded a generall Schoole at Bononia Attila with 500000. souldiers spoyled the Romans horribly and all partes where he went Clodoue the first famous king of Fraunce liued Vortiger began to rule again 4445. ruled 9. years Aurely began 4454. and raigned 19. yeares in this time Genserick with the Vandals subdued Roome the Venetians began to dwell in their Ilands where they dwell now Mamertus a Bishop inuented Letanies Hilary of Roome adorned Churches with gold siluer Vter began 4473. and ruled 16. yeares in this time Honorick the son of Genserick banished 334. Bishops and Priestes out of Africke and slew many thousand christians but at last he was eaten vp of wormes Fulgentius the Bishop of Hispalis flourished Theodoricke the king of Gothes did many noble and vertuous acts in Italy and builded decayed places Arthur began 4489. and raigned 26. yeares in which time S. Patricke dyed in Scotland being 62. yeares old Theodorick would not suffer the Romans to practise any feates of war or to haue any weapons for feare they should rebell Cassiodore of a Senatour became a Moonke Constantine the third began 4515. and ruled 3. years at this time Gildas the Brutan liued surnamed Sapiens Boethius the Christian Philosopher liued and was martired Conan beganne 4518. and raigned 3. yeares in this time Symmachus the Roman prelate tooke vpon him to be supreme ruler and iudge of all Councels in Christendome Vortipory beganne 4521. and ruled 4. yeares now Clodoue the French king vowed christianisme and was baptised Olympius an Arrian for blaspheming the Trinitie was slame with lightning from heauen Malgo began 4525. and raigned 35. yeares now Iustinus the Emperour was first crowned by the Roman Bishop Iustinianus made the Codex of the ciuill law Tribonianus disposed the Digests of the same law S. Benedict and his sister Scholastica wrought woonders Priscian liued Carency began 4560. and ruled 3. yeares but after his death the Brutans had no king for 24. yeares space till Cadwan was made king now Totilas the tyrant of the Gothes raged in Italy and Narses sent from the Emperour slew him the nation of the Hunnes was almost vtterly extinguished in Greece by the Emperor Armenij receiued Christian faith Cadwan began 4587. and raigned 22. yeares in this time S. Brigit the Scot was famous Gregory of Roome called himselfe Seruaunt of Seruauntes the Latine toong was not vsed in Roome because all men conuersed there Cadwallin began 4609. and ruled 48. yeares now Heraclius slew Phocas and got the Empire and married his sisters daughter the Arabians receiued the law of Mahomet and were called Saracens Isidore Bishop of Hispalis liued Sabinianus Bishop of Roome appointed bels to distinguish the times of the day Honorius spoiled the Temple of Romulus to build the Temple of Saint Peter Cadwallader began 4657. and ruled 12. yeares in this time the Saracens got great part of Africk Martin of Roome constituted that his Clergy should vowe chastitie or loose their liuings Thus these kinges raigned 238 yeares I omit the interraignes before Constantine the second and Cadwan one was 36. yeares the other 24. yeares THREE SVPPOSES OF A STVdent concerning Historie The first Suppose A Nobleman or Captaine of men despiseth common matters in his own person he desireth to find in himselfe the commendable singularities of singular men in all ages he would be loquent as Mithridates that could speake 22. languages he would be eloquent as Orpheus that could perswade the Diuels and men as he listed hee would be logicall as Ramus that coulde iudge euerie mans writings and not be deluded by any writer he would be arithmeticall as Pythagoras that was admirable by the knowledge of Numbers he would be geometricall as Arithimedes that compassed many great matters by the misterie of proportions he would be astrologicall in all questions as Stoflerinus