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A true description of His Majesties royall ship, built this yeare 1637. at Wooll-witch in Kent To the great glory of our English nation, and not paraleld in the whole Christian world. Published by authoritie.
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Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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appeare by his many battailes and victories yet the Chronologers of those times gave him the Characters of Iust and Peaceable for that is the true end of Warre to prepare and confirme a constant and setled peace He was first crowned at Kingstone upon Thames by Otho Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the yeere of our Redemption according to Fabian and others 940. in the fift yeere of Lotharius King of France and yet not admitted for absolute King till twelve yeeres after when he was againe crowned and annointed in the Citty of Bath by Dunstane Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Oswald Arch-bishop of Yorke The cause why his annointing was so long delay'd as the most write was by reason the King grew much inamored of a beauteous Virgin call'd Wilfryd who to avoyd his many temptations put on her selfe the habite of a Nunne who notwithstanding was at length brought to the Kings Bed for which act he was by Bishop Dunstane enioyned seven yeeres pennance c. Concerning those Kings whom you may perceive to lye prostrate under his Horses hoofes they were Kynadus King of the Scots Malcolme King of Cumberland and of the petry Kings of Wales Dufnall Grifith Huval Iacob Iudithil He moreover surprised by Sea a Prince of the Romans whose name was Maxentius who had done many out-rageâ— upon the Ocean and was the greatest Arch-pirate that those times afforded He also compelled Ludwallus prime Prince and King of Cambria which is Wales because he would have all the ravenous and dammageous beasts to be destroyed through his Land to pay unto him yearely by way of Tribute three hundred Wolves skinnes by reason whereof within the space of foure yeares after in England or Wales both which but especially Wales who before were miserably infested with that kind of beast there was scarcely to be found one Woolfe alive and so much for the Princes over which he had sâ—le dominion His Navy Royall consisted of three thousand and six hundred Ships such as they used in those dayes yet not any of them but serviceable either for Fight or bearing victuall and munition to furnish the Navy which hee divided into three parts appointing to every of them a severall Squadron and this hee did to secure Navigators from Enemies and Sea-Rovers as also from all other neighbour Princes who might challenge any interest in these our foure Seas And therefore every Spring and Summer he in person sayled with those in the East-parts to them that lay hovering in the West And sending them backe againe with their charge would with the West quadrant saile into the North and after with the Northerne fleete compasse into the East by which the Maine Ocean rounding those Ilands of which he was sole Prince and Monarch being at his only charge both quieted and secured he did as iustly he might write himselfe Lord of the Foure Seas And therefore his sacred Maiesty claiming this unquestionable Title from Him and being his true and undoubted Successour and this claime being this thousand and odd yeares not any way controversied I do not see but this Motto Ab Edgaro quatuor Maria vindico may genuinly to Him be approbriated and to Him alone But if any man shal either maliciously or peevishly make the least scruple of this His Maiesties iust and undoubted challenge Let them but read Polâ—dore Virgill Guido Ranulphus Hidgim in his Polycronicon Guliâ—lmus Malmsbury Florentius Landulphus Marianus Hovedaine Harding Mathew Paris Mathew of Westminster Froysart Fabian Holinshed Speed c. all of them Authentick and approved Chronologers and hee shall finde that they all agree and consent in this Musicall Harmonie And as they comply in the premisses whosoever shall truely examine them shall finde also that they differ not at all in the subsequence which as in the former I study brevity namely That being at Chester he provided him selfe of a most Princely Barge which was to be rowed with Oares which were silvered all over with whâ—ch hee entred into the River Dee and sitting at the Sterne tooke the charge of the Helme and caused eight of the before-named Contributary Kings to rowe him up and downe the River unto the Chuâ—ch of Saint Iohns from and unto hâ—s Pallace distant three miles to let the World know that Hee was Lord and Kingâ—f â—f so many provinces For his Religion he favoured Church-men above all the Princes before him and gave to them great immunities and priviledges building and reparing no lesâ—e than threescore decayed Churches and Monasteries within the compasse of sixteene yeeres for hee reigned not longer For his Iustice he used such rigor yet intermixed with mercy that never before his dayes was used lesâ—e oppression and robbery For his Temperance hee was of such contiuency that when the Danes who were then frequent in the Land had brought in drunken healths to â—he evill example and hurt of his Commons and Subiects he made a Law and or dayned certaine Cups of severall sizes with pinnes and nayles driven into them and whosoever drank past that marke or pin was to forfeit a certaine peece of money whereof one halfe fell to the Accuser and the other halfe to the Bayliffe or governour of that Burrough to distribute to the use of the poore but nothing to his owne private use or benefit Concerning his particular valour it is further thus reported of him One of those subiected Kings whom the History calleth Kinadus a very personable and proper Gentleman and of a strong and able constitution rowing upon the River when King Edgar himselfe being but of a low stature and as wee phrase it a middle-siz'd man steered the Barge whispered to him who sate next him and sayd Observe you not the insolence and pride of this Dwarfe whom Fortune not Valour hath raised to this Eminence I vow if I had him singly and alone in the field I would cut him into peeces and eate him after This being told the King he seemed to take no further notice thereof than to say That losers had liberty to speake freely and no question but hee was able to performe as much as he had boasted neither did hee once change his countenance upon him who had thus threatned him but calling one of his owne servants unto him whom he most trusted commanded him to provide two swords of equall size and fashion suitable to his strength and such as hee was well able to weild which done he layd them aside and the next day he invited Kinadus to a Feast and gave him more than ordinary welcome Much familiar discourse past betwixt them and more than custome Dinner being ended the King desired him to walke abroad and take the ayre to which the other willingly assented neither of them having more than one servant to attend them All the way they enterchanged pleasant discourse till at length comming to a Grove King Edgar commanded those who then waited upon them to retire and leave them When entring