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A13415 All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.; Works Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver. 1630 (1630) STC 23725; ESTC S117734 859,976 638

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golden promises which were neuer performed but with the taking of Buckinghams head at sha●●●●● after specified Now mischiefe beganne to 〈…〉 the Queene was accused of sorcery by the Potector Hastings Lord Chamberlaine was beheaded suddenly without either crime or ●●● in the Towre Poore Iane Shore was also taken and carried to the Towre her goods to the vallue of 3000 ma● kes were seazedon and confiscate to the vse of the Protector She was a woman hauing many good parts and howsoeuer by the command of King Edward the fourth and her owne fra●●● shee fell into ●●● with the King ●●● she was euer inclined and did much good and cannot be taxed in Histories for doing any man hurt The King and his brother were both standred with bastard Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King which ●●● much modelly he refused though hee meant with all his ●●●●● to take it Anno 1483. RICHARD THE IIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND c. AMbition's like vnto quenchlesse thirst Ambition Angels threw from Heauen to Hell Ambition that infernall Hag accurst Ambitiously made me aspire rebell Ambition that damned Necromanticke Spell Made me clime proud with shame to tumble down By bloody murther I did all expell Whose right or might debard me from the Crown My smiles my gifts my fauours or my frowne Were fain'd corrupt vile flattry death and spite By cruell Tyranny I gat renowne Till Heau'n iust Iudge me iustly did require By blood I won by blood I lost the throne Detested liu'd dy'd lou'd bewail'd of none Anno 1483 June 22. Richard Duke of Glocester the 3 some of Richard Duke of Yorke the 3 Duke of Glocester and third of that name King of England Is tyranny and vsurpation griped the Scepter of the kingdome after hee he had proclaimed his Nephewes Bastardy his brother the deceased King Edward the fourths scandall and accused his own mother of adultry making his way to the Regality by the murther of his two innocent Nephewes which murther was committed by the bands of Sir Iames Tirrell Knight and one Myles Forrest and Iohn Dighton which villains murthered then in their bed and buried them beneath a paire of staires vnder an heape of stones in the Towne and in that ledging which in memory of that blanke deed is first named the bloody Towre their bodies were taken ● and againe buried obscurely no man knoweswhere By these means hauing gotten the Goale God ●●●●red his reigne to be his perpetuall sormens ●●●●● without and continuall horrory within the murtherers had part of their payment in this world for Myles Fo●rest ●otted aboue ground peece meale in S t Martins Str Iames Tirrell was executed for treason on the Towre-hill Dighton liu'd a hatted miscreant both of God and man the Duke of Buckingham though innocent of dthe murther yet hee suppresse the young Princes and raised the Tyrant and his end was the losse of his head at Salisbury Shortly after the Diuine iustice began to fall heauy vpon King Richard many of the Nobility and Gentrie for sooke him and fled into Britaine in France to Henry Earle of Richmond who was the onely heyre to the English crowne of the Line of the house of Lancaster king Richard in the dangers would haue procured a most wicked safety by marr●ing the Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter is his deceased brother King Edward the fourth the only inheritix of the house of York lawfull heyre to the Crowne but Gods prouidence and the Ladies vertue with stood that incestuous match shortly after Henry of Richmond arriued at Milford hauen in Wales where his Army encreasing met Richard at Redmere field neere Posworth seuen miles from Leicester where Richard vahautly fighting was slaine 1485 August 23 and was buried at Leycester HENRY THE VIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND ●Was the man by Gods high grace assign'd ●That for this restlesse Kingdome purchas'd rest ●ork and Lancaster in one combin'd ●● sundred had each other long opprest ●● strength and policy th' Almighty blest ●● good successe from first vnto the last ●● high ●houab turned to the best ● orld of perills which my youth o're past ●● white and red Rose I conioyned fast ●sacred Marriages coniugall band ●●ytors tam'd and treason stood agast ●● strong guarded by my Makers hand ●nglory and magnificence I raign'd And fame loue and a tombe was all I gain'd Anno Dom. 1485 August 22 Monday Henry of that name the seuenth King of England was Earle of Richmond borne in Pembroke-Castle in Wales sonne of Edmund of Hadham Earle of Richmond Sonne of Owen Theodore and Queene Katherin the French King daughter late wife to King Henry the sist was crowned at Westminster the 30 day of October by the bands of Thomas Bourghchier Archbishop of Conterbury this Prince was wise valsant and fortunate Through many perals hazards he had past his life and attained the Royalty of Englands throne and with much prudence and mu●●●ble fortitude be gouerned this Land Maugre many dangerous attempts and treacherom consp●acses plott●● against hun and his designes had such ausptcsous euents thus still hee was victori●●● ouer surre●gne cuall and 〈…〉 troubles One Lambest Simnei a Bakers sonne claimed the crowns countersetting in●●●else to be Edward Earle of Warwicke sonne of George Duke of Clarence Some write that ●●e assumed to bee one of king Edward the fourthes sonne which was murthered in the Toure howsoeuer Hambert gat into Ireland and in Christ Church in Dublin was crowned King of England and Ireland hee with an Armie landed at Fowdrey in Lancashire but King Henry met him and at the battell of Stoke he took him prisoner pardon'd him his life and gaue him a turn-spits place in his kitchen and after maue him one of his saulkners Lambert was net long supprest but another of his stamp supphes his roome of a rebellious imposture Peter or Perkin Warbecke the sonne of a Iew borne in Torney claimed the Crowne by the counterfest stile of Richard Second sonne to King Edward the fourth Perkin gat into England and after into Scotland where ●●● preuailed that he was married to the Lady Katherin Gordon the Earle of Huntleys daughters K. Iames the fourths kinsnman the rebels in Kent were ouen thwone and their Captante the Lord Audley taken and beheaded Perkin came out of Scotland and moues the ●●● men to ayae him King Henry net ouercame and ●●● and pardon ' him another counterfest a shoemakers son named Ralph Milford ●●● the Crowne and purchast'd a balter Perkin Warback Sica from the King and againe was taken and executed as Tyburnc King Henry gaue his daughter the Lady Margaret in ●●● to Iames ●●e fourth King of Scotland Arthur Prince of Wales the eldest Sonne of Henry Married with the Lady Katherin daughter to the King of Spaine but the Prince dyed ●●● after The King gathered a ●●● masse of money to the general grieuance of the subiects he had three font Arthur Henry
and ●●● to King Edward the sixt Shee was crowned at Westminster the first of October 1553 by the hands of Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester King Edward being dead his death was concealed two daies by reason of the feare of Queene Maries alteration of the religion which King Edward had established for which cause the Lady Iane was by many of the Lords and the Londoners proclaimed Queene This Lady Iane was eldest daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolke shee was then married to the Lord Guiford Dudlty fourth sonne to Iohn Duke of Northumberland her mother was the Lady Francis the daughter of Mary the French Queene and the younger sister of King Henry the 8. Queene Mary bearing that Iane was proclaim'd Queen begain to rowse raised an Army and was first proclaimed in the City of Norwich her powers still increasing she made towards London where all supplies forsocke the Lady Iane so that she with her husband and father and the Lord Thomas Gray with others were beheaded The Queene ceases all the protestant Bishops and Clergie to bee degraded suspended or imprisoned She raised againe the Mase and with it masse of misery to this kingdome King Philip of Spaine was contracted to Queene Mary but Sir Thomas Wiat with an Armie opposed it and after much bickering was taken and executed on the Towre●●● The Lady Elizabeth the Queenes sister was wrong●●ly imprisoned and in danger to be put to death Philip King of Spaine was married to Queene Mary with●● Royall solemnity at Winchester the 25 of Iuly Anno 1454. This wofull Land was in those daies a very Achetdima or field of blood the Popes M●reban●s ●●● Church and Commonwealth with holy Water Pax Censors Oyle Spittle Creame Altars Pictures Images ● Crosses Crucifixes Beades Lights Tapers Cand●●● the Breaden god these Romish warres did cost the li●es neere 6000 people that refused them some hanged ●●● burne and diuers others suffering other deaths and ●●ties K. Philip Queen Mary send defiance into France Philip went thither in person besieged the strong ●●● of S t. Quintins and man it but shortly after the English men lost Callice which had beene the King of English Towne 21 yeeres Wherefore Queene Mary tooke ●●● griefe that she● neuer enioyed her life-long after ●●● Callice was lost the 17 of Ianuary and the Queene ●●● at Saint Iames house the 7 of Nouember following ●●● 1558 when she had reigned 5 yeeres 4 moneth●●●● daies she lieth buried as Westminster ELIZABETH QVEENE OF ENGLAND FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Faith c. THe griefes the feares the terrors and the toiles The sleights tricks snares that for my life were laid ●pes prisons poysons pistois bloody broyles ●● these incompast me poore harmelesse Mayd ●● I still trusting in my Makers ayde Was still defended by his power diuine ●y glory and my greatnesse was displai'd ●● farre as Sunne and Moone did euer shine Gods mingled Seruice I did re-refine From Romish rubbish and from humane drosse ● yearely made the pride of Spaine decline ●●● and all Belgia I sau'd from losse I was Arts patterne t' Armes I was a Patron I liu'd and dyed a Queene a Maid a Matron Anno Dom. 1558 Nouember 17 Thursday Lady Elizabeth borne at Greenwich second daughter to King Henry the eight sister and heire to the late Queene Mary after shee had by Gods gracious prouience past through many afflictions as scandals calumnations sundry imprisonns ●●● and hazard of her life shee was at the age of 25 yeeres and od dayes crowned Queen of England France and Ireland at Westminster by the hand of Owen Oglethorpe Bishop of Carlielc the 13 of Ianuary The first good worke of hers after her coronation was to reforme and restore and Seruice of God to the Primitiue sincerity and prayer and preaching to be vsed in the English tongue she caused all the bables of Babek and all the Romish rubbish to bee cast out of the Church shee dismissed those Bishops and others of the Clergie as would not be reformed She caused all base momes and coyneste to be supprest and to be no vallue and in their stead she ordained that no coyne but Gold and Siluer shou● passe for current in her Dominions The French King Henry at a ●l●ng was vnfortunately slaine by a Lord named Mountgomery ●●inter of the l●●●nce running into his eye An. 1559. Sorne after the French molest Scotland but by Queene Elizabeths ●yde they were expulsed The Noble Earle of Arraw in Scotland and Ericus King of Sweaden were suuer●● to marry ●●● the Queene which her Maiesty with all princely modesty refused She was after sued to by Henry Duke of Aniou brother to the French King Charles the 9. Anno 1514. The bloody massaker was in France where in the City of Paris only 10000 Protestarts were m●n thered by the Pepists The Irish fell to rebellian vnder the Earle of Tirone which rebellion put England to much cost and trouble Henry Lord Darneley King of Scots most inhumanely murdred Anno 1568 and his Queen Mary assaulted by the oppression of her rebellicus Subiects came into England and was royally welcomed One Thomas Appletree discharging his ●●ce the Queene was in her Barge vpon the Thames the bullet ranne thorow both the Armes of one of her Watermen but the Queene vnderstanding that the shot was by casualtie pardoned the offender Her mercie iustice temperance fortitude magnanimity prudence learning and incomparable wisedome would each of them fill a volume So that neither ●●● vnablenesse of me the writer nor the briefnesse which I am ●●● to in thus abstract can no waies touch the ●em of her vertues wherefore I refer the reader to the great volumes of Hollinsheds story the Reuerend learned Cambden Master speed and others who haue writen more largely of her though all of them are much short of her vnimmitable merits shee ayed the 24 of March 1602 aged 69 y●eeres 6 moneths and 7 dayes she reigned 44 yeeres ●4 months and 7 daies On the 28 of Aprill after shee was buried at Westminster IAMES Of that Name THE FIRST And I. Monarch of the whole Iland of GREAT BRITAINE c. WEre all the flatt'ry of the world in me Great King of hearts Arts great Britaines King Yet all that flattery could not flatter thee Or adde to thy renowne the smallest thing My Muse with truth and freedome dares to sing Thou wert a Monarch lou'd of God and Men. Two famous Kingdomes thou to one didst bring And gau'st lost Britaines name her name agen Thou cansedst Doctors with their learned pen The sacred Bible newly to translate Thy wisdome found the damned powder'd Den That hell had hatcht to ouerthrow thy state And all the world thv Motto must allow The peace makers are blast and so art thou Anno Dom. 1602 March 24 Thursday Iames the first of that name King of England Scotland France Ireland the first King that was ●●● in England since the Norman conquest
Steward be Which at the last the Lord shall faithfull finde Heart tongue or eyes cannot thinke speake or see The glory that to him shall be assignde He shall out-passe the Angells in degree He shall out-shine all Starres that euer shinde He shall for euer and for euer sing Eternall prayses to his God and King 85 Vnto which God the Father first and last Whose goodnes all conseru's preseru's and seeds To God the Sonne whose merits downe hath cast Sinne death and hell due vnto sinners meeds To thee O Holy Ghost that euer wast The blessing that from Sire and Sonne proceeds And to the vn-deuided Three in One All Power and Praise and Glory be alone FINIS TO THE TRVELY VVORTHY AND RIGHT HONOVRABLE IOHN MORAY L. VISCOVNT ANNAN EARLE OF Annandale one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Royall Bed-chamber Earths Honours and Heauens happinesse THis Booke Good Sir the issue of my braine Though farre vnworthy of your worthy view Yet I in duty offer it to you In hope you Gently it will entertaine And though the Method and the Phrase be plaine Not Artlike writ as to the stile is due Yet is it voyde of any thing vntrue And truth I know your fauour shall obtaine The many fauours I from you haue had Hath forc'd me thus to shew my thankefull minde And of all faults I know no vice so bad And hatefull as ingratefully inclinde A thankefull Heart is all a poore mans pelfe Which with this Booke I giue your Worthy Selfe Your Worships euer most obliged IOHN TAYLOR THE SEVERALL SIEGES ASSAVLTS SACKINGS AND FINALL DESTRVCTION OF the Famous Ancient and memorable Citty of IERVSALEM THe Iustice Mercy and the Might I sing Of heau'ns inst mercifull Almighty KING By whose fore-knowledge all things were elected Whose power hath all things made al protected Whose Mercies flood hath quencht his Iustice flame Who was is shall be One and still the same Who in the Prime when all things first began Made all for Man and for himselfe made Man Made not begotten or of humane birth No Sire but God no Mother but the Earth Who ne'r knew Childhood of the ●ucking teate But at the first was made a man compleat Whose inward Soule in God-like forme did shine As Image of the Maiestie Diuine Whose supernaturall wisedome beyond Nature Did name each sensible and sencelesse creature And from whose Star-like Sand-like Generation Sprung euery Kindred Kingdome Tribe and Nation All people then one language spake alone Interpreters the world then needed none There liued then no learned deepe Grammarians There were no Turkes no Scythians no Tartarians Then all was one and one was onely all The language of the vniuersall Ball. Then if a Traueller had gone as farre As from the Artick to th' Antartick starre If he from Boreas vnto Auster went Or from the Orient to th' Occident Which way soeuer he did ●●● or minde He had beene sure his Country-man to find One hundred thirty winters since the Flood The Earth one onely language vnderstood Vntill the sonne of Cush the sonne of Cham A proud cloud-scaling Towre began to frame Trusting that if the world againe were drown'd He in his lofty building might rest sound All future Floods he purposd to preuent Aspiring to Heau'ns glorious Battlement But high Iehouah with a puff was able To make ambitious Babel out a bable For what is man that he should dare resist The great Almighties pow'r who in his fist Doth gripe Eternity and when he please Can make and vnmake Heau'n and Earth Seas For in their expectation of conclusion He plag'd them all with sundry Tongues confusion Such Gibrish Gibble Gabble all did tangle Some laugh some fret all prate all diffring wrangle One calls in Hebrew to his working Mate And he in Welch Glough whe● Comrage doth prate Another gapes in English or in Scotch And they are answer'd in the French or Dutch Caldaicke Syriacke and Arabian Greeke Latine Tuscan and Armenian The Transiluaniae and Hungarian The Persian and the rude Barbarian All these and diuers more then I can number Misunderstanding tongues did there incumber Thus he that sits in Heau'n their plots derided And in their height of pride their tongues deuided For in this sudden vnexpected chang The wife and husband Sire and sonne were strange The Brother could not vnderstand the Brother The Daughter stands amazed at her Mother By euery one a seuerall part is acted And each vnto the other seemesdistracted Thus by the iustice of the Lord of Hosts Each seuerall tongue was driu'n to seuerall coasts And GOD peculiar to himselfe did chuse His most beloued yet hard-hearted Iewes Iehouahs honor with them then did dwetl His name was onely knowne in Israel Salem his habitation was of yore In Sion men his Glory did adore Th' Eternall Trine and Trine Eternall One In Iury then was called on alone The sonnes of Heber were the adopted stocke Gods onely Chosen holy sacred Flocke Amongst all Nations them he onely lik'd And for his owne vse them he culd and pik'd Them his sin-killing sauing word he gaue T' instruct them what condemn'd and what would saue To them he gaue his word his Couenants band His Patriarks his Prophets and his hand Did blesse defend instruct correct and guide The Iewes and no one Nation else beside For them a world of wonders hath he done To them he sent his best begotten Sonne On them a Land he freely did bestow Where milke and hony plentiously did flow With them he was till they from him did turne And wilfully against his blessings spurne All heau'nly earthly Soules or Bodies good They lack'd no temp'rall or eternall food His Temple builded in Ierusalem Where he had daily sacrifice from them Where though their seruice was defect and lame Th' Almighties mercy did accept the same For though Mans sin is great God hath decreed To take his best endeuour for a deed And whilst they in his loue and feare abode They were his people he their gracious God But when impieties began to breed And ouergrow old Iacobs sacred seed When they from good to bad began to fall From ill to worse from worst to worst of all When Gods great mercies could not them allure And his sharp threatnings could not them procure When each ones body was vnto the soule A lothsome Dungeon to a prisoner foule When sin al shamelesse the whole Land o'rspreads Then God threw dreadful vengeance on their heads And for their heynous heaping sin on sin Ierusalem hath oft assaulted bin First Shishak Egypts King with might and maine Made hauock there in Rehoboams Raigne The Citty Temple Golden vessels Shielas All as a prey to the Egyptians yeelds Next loas came the King of Israel In Amaziahs dayes with fury fell He brought Iudea to Samariaes thrall King Kingdome Princes Peeres and people all Then thirdly Rezin King of Aram came In Abaz time with sword and furious flame Th' Assyrian great Zonach'rib was
labours and takes paine May with a better Conscience sleepe in bed Then he that is with ill got thousands sped So well I like it and such loue I owe Vnto it that I 'll fall againe to Rowe 'T will keepe my health from falling to decay Get money and chase Idlenesse away I 'm sure it for Antiquity hath stood Since the worlds drowning vniuersall Flood And howsoeuer now it rise or fall The Boate in Noahs Deluge carried all And though our wits be like our purses bare With any Company wee 'll make compare To write a Verse prouided that they be No better skild in Schollership then wee And then come one come thousands nay come all And for a wager wee 'll to Versing fall Epilogue to those that know what they haue read and how to censure TO you whose eares and eyes haue heard seene This little pamphlet and can iudge betweene That which is good or tol'rable or ill If I with Artlesse Nature wanting skill Haue writ but ought that may your thoughts content My Muse hath then accomplisht her intent Your fauors can preserue me but your frownes My poore inuentions in obliuion drownes With tolerable friendship let me craue You will not seeke to spill what you may saue But for the wrymouth'd Critick that hath read That mewes puh's and shakes his brainlesse head And saies my education or my state Doth make my verse esteem'd at lower rate To such a one this answer I doe send And bid him mend before he discommend His Enuy vnto me will fauours prooue The hatred of a foole breeds wise-mens loue My Muse is iocund that her labours merits To be malign'd and scornd by Enuious spirits Thus humbly I craue pardon of the best Which being gaind Sir reuerence for the rest FINIS A MEMORIALL OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS being in number 151. from Brute to King CHARLES TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE LIONEL Lord Viscount Cranefield Earle of Middlesex c. MY humble Muse in lofty manner sings a The y. Kingdomes were 1. Kent 2 ●●● Sussx and Surry 3 ●●●● ●●● Norfolke and Cambridge-shire 4 ●●●●●● ●●● Somersetshire and Corne●●● 5 Mertia Glostershire Hertfordshire Worcester Shra●●● Staffordshire Cheshire Warwike Leycester North Oxford Buckingham Bedford and halfe Hartfordshire 6 East-Saxon Essex Middlesex and halfe Hartfordshire 7 Northumberland diuided to two Kingdomes Deyrs and all brought to one Monarchy by Eghert King of sae●●● and called England 1968. yeeres after Brute A Catalogue of Englands mighty Kings At first I do begin with Troian BRVTE And following Chronicles I do dispute Proceeding briefely with their Raignes and Names Till these blest dayes of our best Monarch IAMES T is but an Argument that 's written here That in such time such and such Princes were But he that meanes their Actions were to know May read Boetius Hollinshed or Stow Or our true labouring Moderne Master How Which Authors Learned Iudgement do allow Or if you le see how former times doe runne Reade the laborious paines of Middleton We haue had Kings since Brute of royall Blood One hundred forty sixe some bad some good Foure Queenes in all this time did only Raigne Whose Memories in Histories remaine So in two thousand and seuen hundred yeeres We had thrice 50 Princes it appeares This Kingdome here was fiue times won and lost And Kings as God decreed oft chang'd and tost Sometimes one swaid the Scepter sometime twaine And sometime seuen at once did rule and raigne Till sixe by bloudy warres lost life and throne And valiant Egbert ioyn'd them all in one But since through Heauens high prouidence I see T is growne more great and greater like to be Long may He liue by whom in one 't is guided And may they sinke that wish't againe diuided ●●●e Noble Lord with good acceptance take ● Poem for the Royall Subiects sake ●●though it be not compleate as it should ●●with it and accept of what I could ●●●●● matter 's worthy though the manner 's poore Which makes me heere your Patronage implore And may you be externall and internall Blest and aduanc'd to happinesse eternall Your Honours in all obseruance to be commanded Iohn Taylor BRVTE THE FIRST KING OF BRITTAINE began his Reigne 1. BRVTE ●●●●●●munds 2858. Before Christ 1108. AENE AS from subuerted Troy exilde In Tuscais wedded King Latinus childe By whom the Realme of Italy he gain'd And after he had 3. yeeres fully raign'd He died and left Ascanius in his stead To whom Siluius Posthumus did succeed From which Posthumus Royall loynes did spring ●●● Great Brutus Brittaines first commanding King The people then were here all voyd of pride Borne Naked Naked liu'd and Naked dy'd Three Sonnes Brute left Locrinus was his Heire To England Cambria Wales was Cambers share To Albanact the youngest 't was his lot To sway the Scepter of the valiant Scot. Thus 'mongst his Sonnes this Ile he did diuide And after twenty foure yeeres Reigne he dy'd Brute being of the age of 15 yeeres as he shot at a wild beast the arrow glanced unfortunately and slew his Father Sinius AEneas for the which he was exiled and came on this ●●●●● then called Albyon I follow the common opinion for many Writers doe neither write or allow of Brutes being here accounting it a dishonor for our Nation to haue originall from a Pa●●●ide and one that deriued his descent from the Goddesse alias strumpet Venus Howsoeuer Histories are obseured and clouded with ambiguities some burnt left defaced by antiquity and some abused by the malice ignorance or partialitie of Writers so that truth is hard to be found Amongst all which variations of Times and Writers I must conclude there was a BRVTE Locrine 20. yeeres 1034. LOcrinus Eldest of old Brutus Sonnes By Valour vanquisht the inuading Hunnes He chas'd them their power did quite confound And their King Humber was in a The Riuer of Humber tooke the name from the drowned King of the Huns now Hungarians Humber drownd This Locrine had a Queene faire b Guendoline was daughter vnto Corineus Duke of Cornewall Estrild was a beautious Lady of King Humbers whom Locrinus tooke prisoner Guendolin Yet folly led him to the Paphaean sinne Besotted sence and blood with lust inflam'd He lou'd a beautie Beautious Estrild nam'd By whom he had a Daughter Sabrin hight In whome the King had whole and sole delight For which the Queene made war vpon her Lord And in the Fight she put him to the Sword And after a reuengefull bloody slaughter Queene Guendoline tooke Estrild and her daughter And drownd them both to quéch her ielous flame And so from Sabrine Seauerne got the name Yeeres before Christ. Q. Guendoline 1064. About this time Saul was King of Israel VVHen 15. yeeres this Queen'had wisely raign'd She dy'd then her Son the kingdome gain'd Queene Guendoline was allowed the gouernment in her Sonne Madans minority whose prudent reigne is applausefully recorded in histories Madan
woes opprest and prest Blest curst friends foes diuided and aron'd And after seuenteene yeeres were gone and past At Swinsted poys'ned there I dranke my last Anno 1199 Aprill 6 Tuesday Iohn ●●●●stly intruded the Crowne it being by right his nephew Arthurs who was sonne to Ieffry Duke of Britaine Iohns eldest brother howsoeuer Iohn was crowned on the 6 of May at Westminster by Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury but after a false reconciliation betwixt Philip King of France Iohn king of England and Arthur ' Duke of Britaine the said Duke Arthur was murthered some Authors in malice taxing king Iohn with the murther and some Writers altogether clearing him Hoasoeuer he had not one quiet day in his whole-Reigne his Principalities in France seazed only the French Wales in combustion Ireland in vproare Scotland preparing against him England all in confusion defender and hurliburly the King the Peeres the Prelates and Commons at perpetuall diuisioen The Pope of Rome thunders out his Excommunications against the King and all that obeyed him and interacts the whole Realme Soe that for three yeeres no Church was opened either for Gods Seruice to be exercised or Sacraments administred There was no Christian buriall allowed to any but the Carcasses of the dead were barbarously laid in vnhallowed places or cast like dogges into ditches yet all this time many of the English Nobilitie loyally serued their Soueraigne mangre the Papall Anathemizing The King went into Ireland and finding it shattered into contentions fractures ioynes and vnites it againe and returnes into England When suddenly Lewilyn Prince of Northwales who had married King Iohns daughter inuades the Marches of England but Lewilyn was soyled and Wales conquered But in the yeere 1211 the Popes set all curse beganne to fall heauy vpon king Iohn which curse also made many great Lords and other to far from the King neuerthelesse Scotland being in contention by a Traytor that claimed the Crowne there ●●● Gothred King John went thither aided his friend K. William and in that expedition set all in good peace taking the Traitor Gothred caused him to be hanged The Pope very liberally gaue the kingdome of England to Phil. of France An. 1112. More then 3000 people were burn'd drown'd on vnder London bridge in the space of 4 yeers King John made his peace with the Pope surrendred his Crown to Pandulphus the Legat for money and good words was blest and had his Crowne againe Philip of France attempts Englands inuasion his Fleet is beaten discontented sunke scattered taken by king Iohn Lewis the Dolphin of France landed at Sarawich with 650 ships came to London and tooke oaths of Allegeance of the Barons and Citizens in Pauls yet at last Lewis it forsaken of the English Lords yet holds possessions heere King Iohn being thus freed from Inuasion and Forraigne assaults was assaulted with poyson by a Monk in Swinsted Abbey hauing reigned more powerfull then fortunate 17 yeeres 5 moneths and odde dayes was interred at Worcester HENRY THE THIRD KING OF ENGLAND LORD OF JRELAND DVKE OF NORMANDY G●●en and Aquitaine c. IN toyle and trouble midst contentions broyles ●● z'd the Scepter of this famous land Then being gready wasted with the spoyles Which ●●●● I made with his French furious band But I with Peeres and people brauely mand Repald repulst expa●st insulting foes My ●●●ons did my Soueraignty withstand And wrap them●● and me in warres and woes But in each Battell none but I did lose I lost my Subiects lines on euery side From Ciuill warres no better gaining growes Friends foes my people all that fought or died My gaines was losse my pleasure was my paine These were the triumphs of my troublous raigne Anno 1216 October 19 Wednesday Henry the third the eldest sonne of King Ioha and Isabel which was the daughter of Aym●r Earle of A●golesme Thus Henry was borne at Winchester ●● first crowned at Gloucester by Peter Bishop of Winchester Iosseline Bishop of Bath and after ag●●man with his Lords he was againe crownes at Westminster by Stephen Langton Archbishop of Conterbury ●● Whitsanday God in mercy lookes gentle 〈…〉 calamities that this wofull Land pressed by forraigne warres and ciuill discord It all turned to a happy ●●●● betwixt the King and his Lords which continued a long time Gualo the Popes Legate the Bishop of Winchester William Marshall Earle of Pombroke being the protector of the Kings Realme the King ●●●●●●●●●● old by whose good gouernment Lewts the ●●●●●● of France with all his French Armies were exp●●ed out of the kingdome The King forg●●e all of the La●●●● the had taken part with Lewis but he made the Clerg●●● great sines Alexander the King of Scotland was married to the Leaytane sister to King Henry at which misiery Dragons were●●●●●●●●●●●●●● the ●●●●●● coun●●●●● fellow said he ●●● Iesus Christ sheuing the markes ●●● were of Nayles in his hands feet ●er the which bla●●●● my bewa● Crucified at a place called Atterbury neare the Towne of Banbury Some say hee was 〈…〉 two walls and started at Cathnes in Scotland The Bishop did excem 〈…〉 the people because they would ●● pay their Tithes for the which they burned the Bishop aliue for reward of which wicked act their King caused 400. of the chife offenders to be ●arged golded ●●●●●●● dr●● and put the Earle from his Earledoms Iohn King of Ierusclem came into England to ●raue ●● de●●f King Henry But the King was so busied here that he co●al●● ayd him K. Henry with a great Arm went into Britaine against Lewis King of France and spoyled the C●●●● mighty till at last a Peace was co●●l●ded The Emperor Fred●rick married the Lady Isabell the King ●●●● Eig●●●● Iewes were hanged for cru●●ring a ●●●●dre Lincolne Richard Earle of Cornwall the Kings●●● ther was made King of the Romanes The King l●●●●●●●● lands in France except the Duchy of Aquitaine Wales was in insurrection Ireland in rebellion England in a hurty-burly ●●stoy all Diuision betwixt the King and his ●●● Lords Anno 1233. 5 Sunnes were ●e●u 〈…〉 ●●●●●● in the East one in the West one in the South ●● in the North ●●●●● the fifth in the m●●st of the firmament The King entertaines Poictouines out of France and giues them places of great honour in Court and ●●●●●●● which made the English Barons raise At●●● agan●●●● King The Earl of Leicester and Gloucester ●●●●the King of England in the battell at Lewes The Lord Chiefe iustue●●●'d in Westminster-●●● ●●●●● after all these ones the King dyed in peace hauing reigned 56 yeeres ●●● burried at Westminster 127● EDWARD THE FIRST KING OF ENGLAND LORD OF IRELAND DVKE OF AQVITAINE c. MY Victories my Valour and my strength My actions and my neuer-conquer'd name ●ere spred throughout the world in bredth lēgth ●● mortall deeds I want immortall Fame ●●ebellious Wales I finally did tame ●● made them Vassalls to my princely Sonne ●●red Scotland fierce with
sword or Royall Scepter being a most vnfortunate Prince in all his worldly attempts the Peers in England bandied factions against each other the Duke of York claimed the Crowne the cōmons of Kent vnder the leading of their captiain lack Cade being in number 50000 came to London the Rebels murdered the Bishop of Sali bury and beheaded the Lord Say at the standard in Cheape the King was taken prisoner by the Duke of Yorke at the bartell of Saint Albans the French with 15000 men landed at Sandwich spoyled the Towne fierd it stew the Maior with all in authority there and likewise hauing burnt and pillaged many other places in De●on●●●●shire and the West they departed Queene Margaret the wife to King Henry the 6 met the Duke of Yorke with an Army neere Wakefield where the victory fell to the Queen the Duke being slaine with his son the Earle of Rutland and many others Thus for the space of 60 yeeres the three Kings Henries the 4,5 and 6 kept the Crowne in the Lancastrian line the house of Yorke got the soueraignty King Henry hauing reign'd 38 yeers ● months 4 daies he was ouercome by King Edward at a place called Mortimers Crosse neere Ludlow more of this vnfortunate Prince shall be spoken in the reigne of the next King Edward EDWARD THE IIIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND c. I Yorkes great heire by fell domesticke Warre Inthroaned was vn-King'd and re-inthroan'd Subiecting quite the house of Lancaster Whilst wofull England ouer-burthen'd groan'd Old Sonlesse Sires and Childlesse Mothers moan'd These bloody broyles had lasted three score yeares And till the time we were in peace attoan'd It walked fourescore of the Royale Peeres But age and time all earthly things out-weares Through terrours horrors mischiefe and debate By trult by treason by hopes doubts and feares I got I kept I left and Lost the State Thus as disposing heauens doe smile or frowne So Cares or Comforts wait vpon a Crowne Edward the fourth was Earle of March some and heire to Richard Duke of Yorke sonne to Richard Earl of Cambridge s●nto Edmund of langley ●●● of York 4 sento Edward the 3 King of England This King Edward the fourth Was borne at Roane is Normandy and in the yeere 1461 the 29 of Iune hee●● crowned at Westminister by the hands of Thomas Bourgchier Arcbishop of Canterbury Henry the fixt hauing a great power in the Nor●● was ●●● and encountred by King Edward neere Towton on Palmssunday where bet●●●xt the two Kings was fought a●●●● battell which continued ten houers in which cruell conflict the English ground dranke the sangkired ●●●● of ●●● 37000 of her naturall englishmen after ●●●●●●●●●● as Hexam by the Lord Montracute King Henry was again put to fight with great lesse be was afterward●●● disquid'd ●●●●●isoned ●● the Towre of London Edward new supposed all was well his minde was on m●●ruj● wherefore he sent Richard Neuill The great King ●● ker Ex●le of Warwich into France so treate forth Lady Bona sister to the French Quene but with meane space King Edward prou●ed himselfe man home and was married to the Lady Elizabeth Gray ●●● match was so deslatefull to Warwick that hee ●●●●●● fals aff from King Edward after which he took the King Prisoner but he escaping againe fled beyend the Saw The Earle of Warwick tooke King Henry out of the T●●nt and caused him againe to be crowned King Edward landed agains in England at Bornet s●ld tra 〈…〉 London his Army was met by the Earles of Warwick and Oxford King Henry being them againe ●●●●●●● s●●er where was fought a fierce battell where Edward was Vector the Earle of Warwicke with ●●●● N●●●● men were slaint● and comment on eath sides 10000 King Henry was againe committed to the Tonre Edward Prince of Wales the son of Henry the first was●●● the battel of Tewxbury murdred by Richard ●●● of Gloecether Soon after the bastard Lord ●●● vaised an Army of 17000 men against King Edward but the bastard was soons supprest and the most ●●●●● King Edward the fixt freed from his long●●● being murdred by the bloody hands of Richard ●●● of Glocester The King b●●ing through must ●●● ●●● peacs ●●● himselfe ●●●●●● Iane Shore his Combine ●●● pleasures were mixed with greife for his ●●● George Duke of Clarence who was ●●● of Malmsey the Towre of London 1475. ●●● of Scotland threatned was against England Richard Duke of Glocester was some against the Scots ●●●●●● king Edward ●●● haning ●●● Aprill 9 1483 ●●● at Windsor EDWARD THE V KING OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND IF birth if beauty innocence and youth Could make a Tyrant feele one sparke of grace My crooked Vncle had beene mou'd to ruth Beholding of my pitty-pleading face But what auailes to spring from roy all Race What suerty is in beauty strength or wit What is command might eminence and place When Treason lurkes where Maiesty doth sit My haplesse selfe had true false proofe of it Nipt in my bud and blasted in my bloome Depr●'d of life by murther most vnfit And for three Kingdoms could not haue one tombe Thus Treason all my glory ouer-topt And ●●● the Fruit could spring the Tree was lop't Edward the fifth borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster Sonne of King Edward the fourth beganne his short reigne ouer the Real●●● of England at the age of ●3 yeeres but ●●y the cunning dealing of Richard ' Duke of Gloucester his vnnaturall Vnckle he was neuer crowned ●●● young King with his younger brother Richard Duke of Yorke was at London with his mother and in the guidance of his Vnckle by the mothers side named Sir Anthony Wooduill Lord Riuers but by the ●●● and crafty dealing of the Duke of Glouster all the Queene kindred were remoued from the King and the Lord Riuers sent from Northampton to Pomfret with others whence they were imprisoned and beheaded The protector Richard hauing the King in his keeping and power his onely ●yn●● was next how to get into his hands ●●● person of Richard Duke of Yorke the Kings brother whom the Queene their mother kept close in the Sanctuarie at Westminster which Prince was gotten from the said Sanctuary by the ●● till plots and perswation of the Lord protector and the Duke of Buckingham The poore innocent Lambs being as it were put into the greedy Iawes of the Wolfe their rauenous Vnckle for safegard and protection and at the first approach of Richard Duke of York into his Vnckles presence he was entertained in all seeming reuerence with a Iudas kisse by his Vnckle The Duke of Buckingham was promised by the Protector for his trusty seruices to him in helo●●● him to the person of this Prince and for his future seruices to ayde him in his vnlawsfull attaining the Crowne of England that Gloucesters Sonne should be married to Buckinghams daughter and netball that Buckingham should haue the Earledome of Hertford with many other