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A08698 The varietie of memorable and worthy matters. By Walter Owsolde Owsolde, Walter. 1605 (1605) STC 19001; ESTC S113804 16,833 30

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THE VARIETIE of Memorable and worthy matters By Walter Owsolde Imprinted at London by I. R. for Ieffery Charlton and are to be solde at his shoppe at the great North doore of Paules 1605. To the Right vvorshipfull Sir William Romney Knight and Alderman of the Cittie of London RIght Worshipfull you may iustly thinke I am very bold being in respect a stranger vnto you to offer vp these lines to your fauorable censure yet the loue good affection which I owe to your worship for some sufficient causes may fully excuse my rashnes in that behalfe and considering withall your gentle disposition hoping you will take in good part this meane gift not respecting the value therof but the good will of the giuer as did that woorthy King accepting with gentle hart a draught of water of a simple hind so I expecting you will curteously vouchsafe the patronizing of these simple collexions although there be nothing woorthy your reviewing contained therein yet if you grant it but the reading you may finde some matter which may eyther delight you by bringing into your remembrance such memorable worthy things as haue hapned in former ages or driue other drousie thoughts out of your mind which if it so come to passe I shall haue the ful scope of my desires and be the more bolde an other time to offer to your view some thing of better worth And so I leaue you to the mercifull protection of Almighty God whom I beseech to blesse you with increase of worship long life and eternall happines Yours to commaund Walter Owsold To the curtious Reader WHen I consider with my selfe gentle Reader of the sundry kinds of delights which men of diuers natures take pleasure in as som in reading ancient histories whereof there are many sorts and kinds containing the amorous discourses of young gallants with the liues of their enamored Mistresses liuely disciphering foolish dotage in old men stale widdowes with the inconuenience of matching old age and wilfull youth together and againe some take pleasure in reading Chronicles declaring the famous and worthy acts of valiant Captaines and famous Gouerners with the changes and alterations of former times which may much profite men of all sorts Therfore I thought good to publish this small Treatise taken and collected out of diuers ancient learned and well approoued authors not vnnecessary to be had in remembrance which I hope the learned will take in good part because it saueth them a labour in perusing ouer diuers volumes to find the time and place where and when the matters heerein expressed were begonne performed continued and ended and as for the other sort I hope they cannot mislike it treating of matters which without this booke they should neuer haue knowne and so I leaue it to your fauourable censure Yours as you like this Booke W. O. The Table THE foure parts of the World page 1. The foure Monarchies page 1. The sixe ages of the World page 2. The seauen wonders of the World page 4. The seauen Wisemen of Greece page 5. The tenne Sibylls page 6. The twelue Apostles with theyr martyrdoms page 9. The ten persecutions of Christians vnder the Romaine Emperours page 11. The eight times that Rome hath been taken page 11. The seauen Electors of the Emperours of Germanie pa. 14. The three Crownes of the Emperour page 14. The twelue Peers or Pairs of Fraunce page 14. The eyght Parliaments of Fraunce page 15 The seauen Saxon Kingdoms that England was once deuided into page 17 Fiue Orders of Chiualrie which continue at this day among Princes page 8 The xiij Cantons of Swisserland pag. 22. The foure parts of the world ASIA so called of the Daughter of Ocean and Thetis or as some say of Asia the son of Maneé King of Lidia is seperated from Europe by the riuer Tanais nowe called Don by the sea called in time past Palus Meotides now Mare de Zabache and by Pontus Euxinus now Mer maiour and by part of the Mediterranian sea and frō Africk by the riuer of Nile Europe that old Writers coniecture to be so called of Europa daughter of Agenor King of Libia is seperated from Asia as is already showne and from Africk by the Mediterranean Sea Africke which some say is so called of one Affer of the line of Abraham is seperated from Europe by the Mediterranean sea and from Asia by the riuer of Nile America or West-India so called of Americus Vespusius but first found out by Christopher Columbus of Genua the yere of our Lord 1492. It is in manner of an Iland round about enuironed with the great Ocean sea The foure Monarchies THE first Monarchie was of the Assirians founded by Ninus about the yere of the World 2220. augmented by the Queene Semiramis and after it had endured the terme of 1300 yeeres it was translated by Arbactus vnto the Medes and there hauing endured 350 yeeres it was lost by Astiages and conquered by Cyrus The second Monarchie was of the Persians founded by Cyrus the yeere of the World 3425 which after it had endured 191 yeere was lost by Darius and subdued by Alexander the great The third Monarchie was of the Grecians founded by Alexander the great in the yeere of the world 3634 and before Christ 320 yeeres after whose death it was deuided among the Prefects which in his life time he had appointed in diuers countries by which diuision Seleucus was King nf Syria Ptolomeus of Egipt Antigonus of Asia Cassander of Macedonia Greece all which coūtries were after subdued by the Romans The fourth Monarchie or Empire was of the Romans founded by Iulius Caesar the yere of the world 3914 after the building of Rome 706 yeeres and before Christ 47 yeeres This Monarchie florished about the space of 470 yeeres till that after the death of Theodosius the great it was deuided by his two sons into two Empires Arcadius was Emperour of Constantinople which Empire endured though afterwards much diminished by the inuasions of barbarous nations vntill the yeere of our Lord 1453 and then was quite lost by Constantine and conquered by Mahomet second king of Turks Honorius was Emperor of Rome which Empire shortly after in the yeere of our Lord 475 about the ninth month of the raine of Augustus was vtterly ruinated by Othacar king of Goths And long after the yere of our Lord 801 it was restored by Charles the great and by him vnited to the crowne of France and by his successors translated into Germanie where it yet remaineth as a shadow onely or representation of the greatnes and maiestie of the ancient Romaine Empire The sixe ages of the World IN the deuiding of these ages there is great contrarietie of opinions among Writers for that some follow the computation of the 72 Interpreters some follow the Hebrues and the cōmon text of the Bible The first age from the creation of the world till the vniuersall flood endured according to the