when the King of Jerusalem and other Confederate Kings assembled a mighty Army utterly to destroy them for making this League with the Enemies of their Country upon their Supplication Joshua made a hard March to their Relief and utterly in a terrible Battle discomfited the Kings and their Armies and to lengthen out the Day for their Distruction at the Prayer of Joshua the Son and Moon that were hastening to set stood still for the space of a whole Day so that there was no Day like that Day in which God fought for Israel by destroying Multitudes of their Enemies with mighty Hail stones that fell upon them yet hurt not one of the pursuing Israelites and their five Kings being found hid in the Cave Mukkedaâ— Joshua pulled them out and caused the People to set their Feet upon their Necks in Token of Subjection slew them and hanged them on five Trees burning 2000 War-charriots with Fire and then marched through all the Land of Canaan taking Cities and Strong holds and in five Years utterly subdued it unless some few strong Garrisons and having caused is to be viewed divided it amongst the Tribes by Lot of 〈…〉 as Moses had appointed setting up the Tabernacle of God 〈◊〉 Shiloe This famous War as it was thus finished the fifty Thousand whose Lot was in the Land of the Amorites returned with great Riches to their Wives and Children and that the parting of the River Jordan might not in time to come make them be taken for another People they erected an Altar there which by a Misunderstanding had like to have created a bloody War between their Bretheren and them but the real Cause being known it was prevented And now Joshua having Governed successfully twenty Years and grown Old finding the time of his Death approaching assembled the Princes and Heads of the ePple and gave them a strict Command to Obey the Lord their God in all things that he had commanded by the Mouth of his Servant Moses and to walk uprightly in his sight that it might be well with them and their Children for ever And soon after he died greatly lamented of the People in the 110th Year of his Age and from â—â—e World's Creation 2560. and before the coming of Christ 1500. V. The Life and glorious Reign of David King of Israel DAvid the renowned King of Israel and Captain of the Peple of the Lord of Host was the Son of Jesse of the Tribe of Judah who in his young Years kept his Father's Flocks and was then very Daring and Valiant as appears by his fighting with and killing a Lion and a Bear who came to devour his Sheep and when Saul King of Israel sinned against God in disobeying his Commands this Striplin was appointed to Reign over Israel and by a special Command was annointed King by Samuel the Prophet And the first of his publick Appearance to make himself known and to rise to Greatness was when Saul and his Armies were defied by Goliah the great Giant of Gath whom he slew with a Sling and a Stone and had Michol the King's Daughter in Marriage as it had been promised to him that should overcome that daring Champion of the Philistines who had been a Man of War from his Youth upward and highly was he favoured in the Court of Saul by Abner the Captain of the Host with the Giant 's Head in his Hand But after his many Victories the Virgins in their Songs ascribed to him ten Thousands of Slain and to Saul but one which stirred up his Jealousie and Envy against him without his deserving it David no sooner became renowned at Court and throughout all the Land of Israel but Jonathan Saul's eldest Son and a very vertuous Prince made a very strict League of Friendship with him insomuch that they became as own Brothers he labouring to pacifie his Father's Wrath towards David till he incurred it himself and narrowly escaped Death as David had often done Saul by this time having Notice that by God's Appointment David was to be King of Israel his Spirit was so troubled that at times he fell into a melancholy Madness so that an evil Spirit possessed him and when David was playing before him on his Harp as he often did to drive away the Spirit Saul falling into one of his Fits narrowly mist slaying him by throwing a Javelin at him with such Force that it stuck in the Wall and David fled for his Life and Saul sent Soldiers to pursue him and beset his House where he had been taken but that his Wife let him down a Back-way and laid an Image in his Bed pretending he was sick till he escaped to the City of Nob where of Abimelech the High-Priest he obtained Shew-bread for his Sustenance and the Sword of Goliah kept there as a Monument for his Defence of which Doeg the Edomite informing all the People belonging to that place were slain by Saul's Command as Abettors to his Enemy which News greatly grieved David who then made his aboad in the Woods and Mountains And many were the Persecutions he endured from that time till Saul and his Sons being discomfitted by the Philistines fell on their Swords and died on Mount Gilboa After the Death of Saul Abner his Uncle after some Battles fought against David on the behalf of Ishosheth Saul's Son upon a Quarrel between them about Rispha one of Saul's Concubines deposed his Master and made an Agreement with David to settle him in the Kingdom which he performed by drawing the Tribes of Israel to his Party and David was saluted King but Joab Captain of David's Host envying a Man that had such great Power with the People and become a new Favourite with the King to his Prejudice secretly sent for him to treat about Affairs at Hebron and there in the Gate treacherously killed him whose Death David greatly lamented but Joab being powerful in the Army he durst not punish him for it And soon after Ishosheth the late King of Israel was murthered whose Murtherers David caused to be put to a cruel Death And soon after the Philistines invading the Land he overthrew them in two great Battles and extended his Borders by Victories over the Moabites and Ammonites and Westward upon the Phoenetians warring with the Arabians Syrians Humeans Amalekites and Messopotamians and much enlarged his Kingdom to which it was in the time of Joshua or ever before his Reign and settling his Affairs in Peace and Plenty the great Decayers of Virtue he unhappily cast his Eyes from his Tarras on the beautiful naked Body of Bersheba Wife to Vriah one of his faithful Captains as she was Bathing in a Fountain sent for her and lay with her and when she had told him she was with Child he sent for her Husband to cover the Shame but he refusing to lie with her he sent Letters by him to Joab to have him destroy'd who as he was directed set him in the Front of the Battle and retired
from him so that he sell by the Sword of the Ammonites And David took Barsheba to be his Wife and after the Prophet had reproved him he wept bitterly but that Child dying he begot on her Solomon who after was King of Israel Yet God punished him for this Sin by the Ravishment of his Daughter Tamar the Murther of his Son Amnon and lastly by the Rebellion of his Son Absolom who drove him almost out of his Kingdom and was contrary to the King's Command after a great Defeat slain by Joab as he hung by the Hair of the Head in an Oak whose Death David lamented in a very sorrowful manner till Joab rebuked him and compelled him to speak comfortably to the People whose Sorrow had utterly disheartened them After this Victory won David was carried back with the Consent of all the People to Jerusalem where having pardoned Shimei that cursed him in his Flight angry with Joab he made Amasa Captain of his Host who had headed Absolom's Army but Joab slew him in the way as they were marching in pursuit of Sheba a Captain who had rebelled whom he besiged in Adelda where his Head by the Perswasion of a Woman of that City was cut off and thrown over the Wall upon which Joab raised the Siege Yet David having numbred the People against the Advice of his Councellors to know what Strength he had God was displeased and sent a Pestilence that consumed a great number of them And now David having reigned eleven Years in Peace betook himself to Piety and Devotion writing his Hymns and Psalms in the Praise of God and preparing Materials to build the Temple and when he had reigned forty Years he died in the seventy second Year of his Age appointing his Son Solomon to succeed him in the Throne VI. The Life and valiant Actions of Judas Maccabeus Captain of the Israelites against Atiochus the Persecuting King of Syria AMong other famous Worthies of the World who stood as a Bulwark in the Defence of their Country and by true Valour with small Numbers got almost incredible Victories over the Multitude of their Enemies I must worthily rank Judas Maccabeus the renowed Captain of the Jews In the youthful Days of this valiant Heroe some of the looser sort of the Jews being punished for their Disorders and the Neglect of their Religion fled to Antiochus Epiphanius who reigned over Syria and a great part of Asia being one of those Greek Captains who had parted Alexander's Empire amongst them This cruel King they earnestly solicited to invade Jerusalem who in the Year of the World 3796 sent a great Army to invade the Land of Judea who slaughtered all that fell in their way burning and destroying their Towns and Strong-holds and had Jerusalem betrayed to him by the Factious Party who over-powering the others open'd the Gates and let in the Army where they sacrilegiously robbed the Temple carrying away the Golden Table Candlesticks and Censures with all other Vessels and Things of Value dedicated to the Worship of God raising a cruel Persecution against the believing Jews who refused to fall down and Worship their Idols fleying some alive roasting and broiling others boiling some in Cauldrous and putting the seven Sons of the Maccabes to horrible Torments by broiling them on Grid-irons and frying them in Brass Pans alive c. which Torments they overcame with a admirable Patience Constancy and Courage till Death eased them and gave lasting Joys for short Pain He 〈◊〉 threw the Altars slew the Priests and strangled their Children in the Arms of their weeping Mothers and prophanded the Temple of God with abominable Sacrifices In the time of this Dissolation in the Holy City and others God stired up the Spirit of Matthias Father of Judas Maccabeus to begin the Deliverance of his People from the Cruelties of the Heathen Tyrant This Man was a Priest who with his valiant Sons and other Godly Jews retired to the City of Modin where he was soon summoned to surrender and submit himself and all with him to the Tyrant's Mercy but he refused and calling the People together repeated all the miseries and Cruelties the Nation of the Jews had suffer'd exhorted them to be couragious and trust in God as he and their Fathers had done in the like Distress and revenge them on their Merciless Enemies with other encouraging Words which made them take Heart and resolve to stand in Defence of their Religion and Lives and fight on the Sabbath-day if they were assaulted which before they had refused for fear of breaking it suffering their Throats to be cut without Resistance their Enemies hunting 'em out in Woods and Caves whether they were fled and chusing for that Purpose to fall on them on that Day And whilst they were thus consulting an irreligious Jew to please the King's Commissioners prâ—â—â—â—tly stept forth and slewis Swine on the Altar to do Sacrifice to Jupiter when Matthias in his Zeal slew the Jew and overthrew the Altar and slaying Appolonius the King 's Captain and other Soldiers that resisted he cryed out All you that are affected to the Law of your Fathers and to the Service of God follow me Upon this he assembled a great Company overthrew his Enemies Armies and slaughter ed Multitudes of them putting to Death many of the Apostate Jews but being very aged he recommended to them as their Captain his Son Judas Macchabeus and when he had exhorted them to be Couragious and expect the Divine Assistance he gave up the Ghost Judas after his Father's Death took on him the full Command and overthrew Antiochus his Lieutenant of Samaria and slew him with most of his Army taking great Spoil After this Seron Governour of Coelosyria came upon him with a great Army when Judas encouraging his Men to trust in God who with a small Force could confound the Mighty and to fight like valiant Men he fell like a Tempest on the General and in a bloody Battle slew him and 800 Syrians getting great Spoil of their Tents and Armour These unexpected Defeats so enraged Antiochus that he commanded Lysias Governour of Egypt to march with all the Power of that Country and utterly destroy the Jews or sell them for Slaves to those that would give most and utterly to lay Jerusalem wast Upon this Lysia raised a huge Army and sent them under the leading of Ptolomy Nicanor and Georgias three prime Captains and Men of great Authority with the People whereupon Judas and his Men called on God for Assistance proclaiming a Fast and humbling themselves before him and then fell upon their Enemies with great Fury with only 3000 Men so that he soon put them to the Rout covering the Field with dead Bodies and slew them in the Pursuit to the Plains of Idumea and then returned to the Spoil and soon after overthrew Lysias who invaded Judea with an Army of 60000 Foot and 5000 Horse with a mighty Slaughter so that Lysias returned to
had delivered from his Enemies crowned Emperour of the West and having settled his Empire over many Nations in Peace he betook himself to a quiet Life he caused Lewis his Son to be crowned Emperour of the Romans giving him good Exhortations to govern well that great People committed to his Charge with a Regard to the Christian Religion Piety and Mercy having got him by his Sword and Prudence the Dominion over all France Germany Italy Hungary Poland and Part of Spain and so in the midst of his Devotions he died in the 71 Year of his Age when he had reigned 47 Years and was a while layed in State and then buried in a stately Monument in the Church of Aix In a Chappel himself had founded a little before for that Purpose IX The Life and Glorious Actions of Godfrey of Bulloign Duke of Lorain who conquered the Holy Land and was crowned King of Jerusalem SInce many People have heard of a Holy War and yet but few can tell to what Purpose it was made or in what Region I shall here for their better Instruction set forth a satisfactory Relation of it in the Life and noble Actions of one of the famous Worthies of the World Godfrey Duke of Bulloign Lorain and Verdon It so happened for the Lukewarmness of the Eastern Christians and their furious Contests about Niceties in Religion which caused a general Decay of Piety amongst them that God suffered them at first to be over-run and their Countries taken from them by the barbarous Sarazens and they being subdued by the Turks all manner of Cruelties were used towards the Christians that still inhabited amongst them in great Numbers which made them groan under their heavy Bondage and cry to God for Succour in their Distress when the Patriarch of Jerusalem and other good Men assembling it was resolved to send one Peter a French Man who had taken upon him the Life of a Hermit with their Supplications to the Western Christians beseeching them in the Bowels of Mercy and Compassion to look with Eyes of Pity on their Sufferings and with an armed Power rescue them and the Holy City of Jerusalem out of the Hands of the merciless Enemies of the Name Christ this Man after a tedious Travel and escaping many Dangers came to Rome Anno 1093 Vrbin the Second being then Bishop of that See to whom he delivered the Patriarch's Letters and gave a full Account of the Matter so moving that the Bishop could not refrain from Tears and summoning a Councel at Placentia whither most of the Christian Princes and Prelates were invited where appearing in full Assembly the Pope with moving Orations causing the Patriarch's Letters to be read and Peter to declare the cruel Usage the Eastern Nations suffered at the Hands of their Infidels the Princes were so inflamed with a Zeal of Delivering their suffering Brethren that with one Consent they agreed to raise Forces immediately and march to Jerusalem which unanimous Agreement the Pope no sooner perceived but with Tears of Joy in his Eyes he cried out It is the Will of God which Motto they put afterward in their Standard and so the Counsel ending every one repaired to their Country to raise Forces which were to wear Red Crosses on their Breasts to distinguish them And the Chief of these were Godfrey of Bulloign and his two Brothers Baldwin and Eustace Hugh Earl of Vermondois the French King's Brother Robert Duke Normandy Son to our King William Sir-named the Conqueror Stephen Earl of Chartes and Blois Hugh Earl of St. Paul Raymond Earl of Tholouse Robert Earl of Flanders with a great Number of Nobles and Gentlemen who landed with an Army of 300000 valiant Men on the Shoars of Asia striking Terror to their Enemies and marching on besieged the City of Nice the Capital City of Bythinia which Solimon the Turkish Sultan of Persia came with a a huge Army to relieve but was utterly defeated with such Slaughter that the Fields were covered with Blood and the Bodies of the Slain After which the Christians returned again to their Siege and Duke Godfrey with an Arrow killed a mighty Giant-like Turk who had manfully defended the Breach tho' twenty Arrows were sticking in his Breast and killed the Assailants in great Numbers with huge Stones which he threw at them and soon after the City was taken and delivered to Emanuel the Greek Emperor in Lien of the Supplies of Provision he was to furnish the Army withal This City taken they marched towards Syria in two Bodies the one commanded in Chief by Duke Godfrey and the other by the Duke of Normondy and the Earl of Flanders and in their Way being encountred by 300000 Turkish and Persian Horsemen they soon put them to the Rout with incredible Slaughter And having taken Tripolis a strong City in Syria they advanced towards Antioch but Peter the Hermit who had got together a great Multitude of Men out of the Territories of the Church and from Monasteries whose Business was rather Eating than Fighting advancing too far before the Army and falling into an Ambush of the Enemy most of them were slain with their Leader But the Army coming before the City of Pisidia it surrendred But new Duke Godfrey going into the Woods to recreate himself narrowly missed being slain by a monsterous Bear whom he found assaulting one of his Soldier who went to cut Wood but though the Bear got him down he drew his Sword under his Thigh by which he wounded himself and lost much Blood yet running it into the Belly of the Bear he killed her and on the like Occasion at another Time he hearing a Lyon roar piteously in a Forrest and going to see what the Matter was found a huge Serpent had twisted itself about the Lyon's Legs and with his poisonous Sting was darting at his Head to kill him but the Duke pitying the noble Lyon with his huge Sword cut off the Sepent's Head and relieved the Lyon who in Gratitude far surpassing most Men ever after during his Life followed him hunted wild Beast for him and fawned on him like a Spannel often defending him against his Enemies The Christians having conquered Siletia and a great Part of Armenia besieged the City of Antioch in which was a strong Garrison and at their first setting down before it Duke Godfrey with a selected Party only with their Swords in their Hands defeated an Army of the Turks who say in Ambush to surprize his Soldiers sent to fetch Provision for the Army at Port Simon brought thither by Ships from Genoa and Pisons which the Pope had sent for the Relief of the Christians in Syria and after a teâ—ious â—â—â—ge took Antioch and from thence marched towards Jerusalem overâ—â—â—wing â—ome Armies of Turks by the Way when in one Battle a Giâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Tâ—â—k seeing Duke Godfrey beat down Multitudes before him came on a â—aâ—y all foaming to encounter him with his mighty Cimiter but after a fierce Encounter the Duke with a forcible Stroak of his Sword cut his Shoulder down to his Wast so that he fell dead from his Horse The Army coming within sight of the Holy City Jerusalem fell on their Knees with devout Prayers for God's Assistance vowing never to depart till they had taken it and such was their resolute Courage that they no sooner came to the Walls but immediately many scaled them and beat the Defendants from the Battlements leaping into the City and tho' these were not seconded for want of Leaders they sold their Lives at a dear Rate After this they lay'd a formal Siege and it being extream hot Weather they suffer'd much thro' Thirst for the Brook Kedron was dried up and the Infidels had poisoned all the Wells yet that of Siloe had worked out the Poison and the Water was become wholesom yet it yielded but little however they made many terrible Assaults and at length enter'd by main Force putting all the Turks and Sarazens to the Sword And in Solomon's Temple found vast Riches whilst the Christians there embraced the Soldiers with Tears extolling them as their Deliverers Now the City was taken the Princes resolved to settle a Christian King therein and the Lot fell upon the Duke of Normandy but he minding his Intetests nearer home refused it Then with a unanimous Consent they chose Duke Godfrey King though he modestly refused so great an Honour however it being pressed upon him he accepted it but would not be crowned with a rich Crown that was offered him saying God forbid that any Christian King should wear a Crown of Gold where his Saviour for the Redemption of Mankind had worn a Crown of Thorns And the Princes having overthrown the Sultan of Egypt who too late coming to relieve the City most of them took Leave of the King and retutned home who being busied in enlarging his Frontiers fell sick and dyed in the first Year of his Regin and his Brother Baldwin succeeded him FINIS
The Famous and Renowned HISTORY OF THE Nine Worthies of the World VIZ. I. Hector Son of Priamus King of Troy II. Alexander the Great who first Conquered the World III. Julius Caesar the first Emperour of Rome IV. Joshua Captain-General of Israel V. David King of Israel VI. Judas Maccabeus a valiant Jewish Commander VII Arthur the famous British King VIII Charles the Great Emperour of Germany IX Godfrey of Bulloigne King of Jerusalem Giving a true Historical Account of their Glorious Lives Victories and Deatâ—â— London Printed by W. O. and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Pye-corner and London by The History of the Nine WORTHIES c. I. The Noble Actions Life and Death of the Famous and Renowned Hector Prince of Troy c. I Suppose there is few who have not heard of the famous Siege of Troy once a renowned City in Asia the Less against which all the Power of Greece fought ten Years e're they could subdue and utterly destroy it But being now to write of the glorious Actions of the Nine Worthies of the World whose famous Valour has made Men stand amazed and transmitted their Names and worthy Deeds to Posterity I must however say something of that War which has employed so many Pens Antient and Modern to set forth the Life and noble Atchivements of the Every-renowned and Valiant Hector the eldest Son of Priamus King of Troy This famous City commanding once so many Realms in Asia stood on the Coast of the Aegean-Sea on the Asian side near the Helespont called now the Streight of Constantinople over-against the Chersonesus of Thrace water'd by the famous Rivers Scamander and Simois after changing his Name till at length it was called Illium and Troy and was twice subdued by Hercules and Priamus Son to King Laomedon and Hesione his Daughter were carried Captives into Greece the first of them was ransom'd but the latter being very beautiful King Telamon Father to Ajax kept her for his Pleasure and would by no Entreaty consent to restore her though Priamus after the Death of his Father Laomedon coming to the Crown sent Antenor one of his chief Nobles to Telamon's Court to solicite her Delivery by whom and other Princes of the Greeks he was dismissed with Scorn and terrible Threats But Priamus concluding himself now strong enough to be revenged on the Greeks for the Injury and Affront done to him in the detaining his Sister called his Sons and Nobles to Councel laying the matter before them and requiring Advice All the Nobles approved of the Design but Hector and Helenus two of his Sons perswaded him from it as an Attempt full of Danger as likewise did Cassandra his Daughter who was a Prophetess and ever spoke Truth but never could have any Credit to be believed However the King being stedfastly bent on the matter ordered his Son Paris at whose Conception Queen Hecuba his Mother dreamed she brought forth a Fire-brand that set all Troy in a Flame was with his Brother Diophebus sent to Sparta with many Ships and armed Men where King Manelaus reigned and there being entertained as Guest they in his Absence stole away his Queen the fair Hellena Daughter to Ledea with many of her Ladies and laying the City wast brought with them great Riches to Troy where Paris was married as Venus had promised him to Hellena the most beautiful Lady in the World King Menelaus no sooner heard of this great Injury done him but he consulted with King Agamemnon his Brother and other Princes of Greece who looking upon it as an insufferable Affront done to all the Estates resolved upon a War vowing once more to level the Walls of Troy appointing Agamemnon General over all the Forces So with a thousand Ships passed from Europe to Asia and took Tenedos after a stout Resistance made by the Trojans who garisoned the strong Castle then coming near the City they Landed but not without great Effusion of Blood on both sides so that the Sea became red for Hector who by his Father 's Appointment was General of the Trojans advancing to Succour his Men that fainted with a mighty two-handed Sword levelled all in his way killing King Protesilaus as he came with a huge force to stop his Fury and soon after King Patarocleus who came upon him with two thousand Men whose rich Armour he coveted to take but was hindred by King Menon with a great Power which King after the Slaughter of Multitudes of his Men he slew in Revenge of that Disappointment driving many of the Greeks into the Sea but at last the strong Achilles Menelaus Agamennon Ajax Diomed Vlysses Idumeus and other valiant Princes and Captains getting on Shore so encouraged their Men that the Fight continued exceeding bloody till Night parted them and then the Trojans retired to the City Early the next Morning the Trojans took the Field and found the Greeks encamped not far from the City when the Trumpets sounding to Battle the two Armies joyned more furiously than before and Hector fell on like an impetuous Storm making whole Lanes of Dead before him at every stroke giving Death making Heads and Limbs to fly about the Plain till he came where King Humerus fought successfully him he encountered and soon overthrew with the slaughter of most of his Men and pressing forward came where Achilles and his Mirmydons made great Destruction overthrowing that strong Champion and slaying his Horse and had surely slain Achilles had not his Men rushed violently to his Succour and lost many of their Lives to save him and so pressing on he threw flaming Brands on the Grecian Fleet and set part of it on Fire and this Day he had gained assured Victory had he not met Ajax in the fierce Encounter and knowing him spared his Life and by him was perswaded to a Sessation of Arms for that time and making a Truce so that the Retreat was sounded much against the Will of the Conquering Trojans which Over-sight cost him his Life and the Destruction of his Family with the Ruin of the City The Greeks having gained a Truce recruited with fresh Forces secured their Fleet with Trenches and after this and some other dreadful Battles they plainly perceived unless Hector was slain all their Hopes of winning Troy was in Vain and that they should rather perish with their whole Army they then held a Consult how to bring it to pass by any means and in the Conclusion that Task was imposed on Achilles the Fiercest and Strongest of all the Greeks who watched many Opportunities but was as often worsted and wounded in all the fair Encounters and most of his Mirmydons the valiantest of the Soldiers slain till one Day contrary to the Intreaty of his Wife Andromache who dreamed if he went that Day to the Field he would be slain as also the King and the Tears of his Mother and Sisters hearing Margetton his natural Brother was slain and the Trojans in Rout he armed and
Senate fled with the greater Part of the Inhabitants whereupon he 〈…〉 without Resistance and was received by his Friends with joyful Acclamations then he seiz'd on the vast Treasure sent by all Nations as Tribute in the Temple of Saturn enriching his Soldiers and having settled Affairs and hearing Pompey was gathering forces in Greece and other Easter Countries he hasted after him with Part of his Army leaving Mark Anthony with the rest in Calabria who lingering behind Caesar impatient of Delay in a stormy Night stole from his Army and in a little Fisher-boat passed the Seas to fetch them a Danger the meanest of his Soldiers would not have ventured And then having his full Army after some Skirmishes and taking of Towns and drawing a Bullwark about Pompey's Army of fifteen Miles in Circuit both Armies upon the Plains of Thessaly joyned in a dreadful Battle where Crastinus an old Soldier crying out O Caesar I shall so behave my self this Day praise me alive or dead threw the first Pile and was himself slain being run through the Mouth with a Sword In this Battle Caesar as in all others was victorious most of the Senators and noble Romans with 40000 others being slain and Pompey fled to Egypt for Succour from King Ptolomy and being invited on Shore with great Promises of Kindness was treacherously slain e're he landed by Achilles and Septinus and his Head cut off and that Embalmed for Caesar's fight but he coming into Egypt not only detested the base Murther but wept over the Head causing it with the Body honourably to be buried But soon Phatinus and others of the Court conspired to take his Head but by his Courage and Fortune were prevented by his firing the Ship-house and swimming to his own Fleet after which he conquered all Egypt and the King in his Flight being drown'd in the River Nilus he made Cleopatra his Sister Queen and begot on her a Son named Cesaria afterwards slain by the Command of Octavius Augustus Having settled Affairs in Egypt he overthrew Pharnaces who had rebelled in Asia and in the Field of Thapsus in Africa in a bloody Battle overthrew Cipio the Roman General and Juba King of Mauritania who joyned his Forces with him Then coming to Rome had all the Honours he could wish heaped on him But Pompey's Son raising a War in Spain drew him thither where in the fatal Battle of Munday he overthrew them Then returning to Rome was decreed by the Senate Perpetual Dictator ever Augustus and Father of his Country had Temples and Statues erected to his Honour and without Controul whatever he pleased But attempting to be made a King that he might overcome the Parthians Brutus and Cassius with other Senators conspired against him and though several unlucky Dreams and Omens fore-run his Death as his Dreaming he was taken up into the Clouds and shook Hands with Jupiter his Wife 's dreaming the Night before he was slain she found him stabbed and bloody in her Arms a little Wren flying with a Laurel-branch to Pompey's Theatre was pulled to pieces by other Birds and all the Sacrifices appearing unlucky yet undaunted he went to the Senate-house and pocketed by the way a Scrole presented him unread that revealed the whole Conspiracy but no sooner had he taken his Seat but Cimber rudely took him by the Shoulders and the rest stabbed him with twenty three Wounds he in vain resisting such a Multitude And thus this Worthy never overcome but always fortunate in Wars fell a Sacrifice to the inraged Gown-men but his Death was severely revenged on them IV. The famous Life and Renowned Acts Joshua Captain General of the Israelites who subdued thirty Kings with the whole Land of Canaan AFter Moses by the mighty Hand of God with many Signs and Wonders had brought the Children of Israel out of their Egyptian Bondage fed and instructed them forty Years in the Wilderness he having Notice to prepare for his Death by the Appointment of God chose Joshua the Son of Nun to succeed him as Captain General of the People and utterly to subdue the Canaanites on the other side Jordan as he had done on this side When going up into Mount Abarim Moses died and was buried by God in a Valley least the Israelites who had a great Veneration for him knowing the Place of his Burial should have builded an Alter there and committed Idolatry in Worshipping him Upon Notice that Moses was dead Joshua encamped two Days before the River Jordan and on the third the Priests entered with the Ark of God when immediately the Waters retreated and stood like a Wall on either Hand so that the whole Army whilst the Priests stood in the middle passed over on dry Ground and then they took twelve Stones according to the Tribes and raised as a Monument to succeeding Ages And no sooner were the Priests come out of the River but the Waters returned to their full Forces before And the Princes of the Tribe of Gad and Rhuben and the Half Tribe of Manasses to whom the Land of the Amorites being the seventh Part of Canaan fell as a Lot of Inheritance having sent 50000 fighting Men to assist their Brethren in conquering the rest Joshua sent Spies to Jerico to view that strong fenced City who had been destroyed upon Notice of their coming had not Rahab the Harlot hid them under Bundles of Linnen till the Search was over and then let them down by the Wall in a Basket so they escaped to Joshua by which good Office she saved herself and her Houshold when the City was utterly destroyed for Joshua immediately went against it and by the command of God the Priests encompassed it six Days blowing Trumpets of Rams-horns and on the seventh Day seven times when by the mighty Power of God the Walls fell flat to the Ground and the whole Army marching into the City destroy'd all the People Rahab and her Houshold accepted and burnt it with Fire laying up the rich Spoil as the First-fruits of their Victory as a Dedication to God Almighty except a Wedge of Gold and a rich Babilonian's Garment which Achan with-held and hid in his Tent but going against Aii a strong fenced City and the Men of Israel being there discomfitted and thirty of them slain this Fraud was discovered to be the Cause of it and Achan stoned to Death after which they took Aii and put all to the Sword except the King who taken alive was hanged on a Tree as the like also they did by the City of Bethel and the rich Spoil was divided amongst the People The Gibeonites who dwelt in a Town near Jerusalem hearing how Joshua destroyed all before him dealt craftily sending Ambassadours pretendedly from a far Country wearing old Shooes and Cloaths with rent Bottles and mouldy Bread to make a League which they did but for this Deceit they were nevertheless punished by being made Slaves to hew Wood and draw Water for the Camp And