stained this faire fame with crueltie vsed by him to his owne mother for after her second marriage he caused her to be imprisoned albeit the Pope labored the matter greatly by his Legate yet could hee neuer compasse her deliuerance Which sin was seuerely punished on him by his enemies who afterward tooke him in battell And then his son Sanctio succéeded him and after Sanctio diuers other to Iohn who was the tenth King in direct and natural line This Iohn was at the first expulsed from his Kingdome and made a Knight of S. Iohn of Ierusalem but at length he was re-called to his kingdome where he made very honorable proofe of his valour and among diuers famous déeds he tooke from the Sarrazins the Citty of Septia Hee had seauen Sonnes among which Ferdinand for intergrity of life was tearmed a Saint Henry another of his Sons was the first that found Noua Insula in the Athlantike Sea He being very skilful in the Mathematicks liued continually without a Wife and made his daily abiding in a Promontory which was called the Cape of S. Vincent and there he died in the yeare 1460. But Edward who was the eldest brother was made King and by warres he adioyned to the kingdome of Portugall Zelia Tigea and Alcazar in Affrica He had two Daughters or Sisters as some say named Ioane and Leonora the first was married to the king of Castille and the other to Frederick the third Emperor of whom was borne Maximilian the first who was afterward Emperor and Grandfather to Charles the fift He had also a Son named Alphonsus who succéeded him in the Kingdome and begate Iohn Emanuel who was 14. king of Portugal Emanuel had Iohn who took to wife the sister of Charls 5. Emperor called Katherine Lodwick died an infant but Isabel was wife to the said Charles he had another daughter that was maried to Charls D. of Sauoy After him succéeded Sebastian who in our time fighting with the Moors was slain and the king of Marocco with diuers other great Lords of the Moores Henry Vnckle to the deceased king followed him in succession he being then a Cardinal very aged holding the kingdom but some few months But he dying Phillip king of Spain entred on the kingdom resisting the claime of Don Anthonio beeing a brothers-Brothers-son of the dead King Henry and so out-wearied him that hée could neuer attaine thereto in full possession So it remaineth still vnder the Spanish gouernment ¶ The Kingdome of Italy COncerning the Kingdome of Italy the antiquity thereof when at first it was called Ianicula of Ianus Camesena of Cameses Saturnia of Saturnus Hesperia of Hesper and Italia of Italus with all the Kinges there raigning till the Latines and those likewise that descended of Eneas to the time of Romulus with the History both of olde Rome and Rome as it now is it remaineth to our generall History Onely we will say somewhat of the Originall of Venice moued thereto by iust occasion A breefe discourse of the Originall of the Venetians the foundation of Venice and how it hath beene gouerned from the year of our saluation 421. to thiâ— instant To the ancient Right Worshipfull and worthy Society of the Gold-Smiths HIstoriographers who haue written of the Venetians doe not agrée together in theyr true Originall For some doe write that they are descended of the Venetian Gaules inhabiting along the Ocean Sea in little Britaigne called Armorica whereof one of the principall Citties béeing a Bishops Sée was called Vennes Others and among them Titus Liuius borne in Padua assures vs that they came forth of Paphlagonia and that Philemon their Captaine being slaine at Troy the great they went with Antenor into Italy Others write that this Nation hauing béene Neighbours to the Cappadocians and venturing fight with the Cimmerians they hazzarded further vpon the Adriatick Sea in their Fortune The most common opinion is of them who say that the Hinitians or Henetes came with Antenor and in sometime after by changing of a letter were called Venitians or Venetes First of all they expelled the Euganeans who inhabited this Countrey betwéene the Adriatick Sea and the Alpes and builded the Cittie of Padua Afterward by successe of time they increased in such sort as they would not be satisfied to bee Maisters onely of that which had appertained to the Euganeans consisting of thirtie foure faire Citties and Townes but intruded farther to seaze on Bressano and Forli Some report this Countrey to be bounded with the Riuers of Pau and that of Adde as also the Lake of Guard aunciently called the Benack the Alpes and the Adriatick Sea And so the auncient Venetians in this manner extended their Dominion both in longitude and latitude in the most pleasant Countrey of Italy but the seating of the places did daily beget the elder estate of the Venitians hatred For on the one side the ordinary robberies of the Liburnians and on the other side the frequent and frightful courses of the Barbarians did hinder them froÌ„ any long time of continuing in quiet For without these impeachments this Nation had béene most fortunate in conquering by the right of Warre one of the most goodly and beautifull Regions in all Italie Nowe ouer and beside that on the South-side it is enuironed with a most calme circuite of the Sea and in regard thereof is the more capable of receiuing all strange Merchandizes So is it likewise wattered with very delectable Riuers whereby whatsoeuer commeth from the Sea is easilie transported to the very Nauell of the Prouince It aboundeth in Pooles Pondes Forrests and vnder-woodes and the whole Land is choicelie fertile in Corne Wine Oyle and all kindes of Fruites It is also plentifully stored with Countrey Houses Townes Citties and Villages Castles Fortes and such like very commendable for the scituation and enclosure of their Wals. These nâ—w Inhabitants when their weake estate beganne to growe in fairer forme they were seldome exempted from the Warres and incursions of Straungers For after manie bolde insolencies of the Barbarians with continued Warres against each other euen from their very beginning vntill the time of Attila they were yet much more dreadfully encombered with the furious assault of the Gothes a teÌ„mpest farre excéeding in turbulencie all other former disasters happening to them whatsoeuer For first the Hunnes a people of Scythia dwelling néere to the Riphean Mountaines conducted by Attila the Sonne of Mandluck dispersed themselues ouer Italie and making horrible spoyle wheresoeuer they went fell into the Prouince belonging to the Vinitians After a long siedge they tooke the Cittie of Aquileia and spoyled and burnt it wholly In like manner did they ruinate the Citties of Concordia and Altina and almost all the Venitian Region At the fearefull newes of this Warre the Venitians were more amazed then any other and so much the rather because they had béene formerly invred to sustaine their
was then in Aquitaine hardly brooking this disgrace mooued great warre against Charles the Simple which continued for long time Neuerthelesse at the houre of his death hee entreated the Princes of Fraunce that they should restore the saide Charles to the Kingdome because in true right it appertained to him This Odo brought vp as a noueltie to haue a great many Floure-de-Luces without any direct number in the Armes of Fraunce which continued so till the time of Charles the sixt He raigned nine years and lieth buried at S. Denis 31 Charles the third sirnamed the Simple son of Lewes le Begue or the Stammerer began to raigne soly in the yeare 900. After his Tutours death who had held the kingdome in the minority of his yeares The warre of the Normans continued stil yet the king fel into acquaintance with Raoull or Rollo their Duke and gaue him his daughter in marriage endowed with all the Land which then was called Neustria and afterward made a dutchy and named Normandy with especial condition that he should be baptized Robert Earle of Paris Brother to Odo lately deceased pretended to vsurp the kingdom and drawing many Lords into his faction crowned himselfe King But Charles with the ayde of the Emperour Henrie gaue him battaile néere to Soissons wherein the saide Robert was vanquished and slaine Héereat Hebert Earle of Vermandois his Brother in Law was highlie displeased yet hee dissembled it for an apt time and one day pretending to feast the King he entreated him to lodge in his castle of Peronne No sooner was he entred but he did shut him vp in a Tower where hee dyed compelling him to resigne the Kingdome to Raoull Brother to the Duke of Burgundy Hee left by Theargina his Wife a Sonne named Lewes who fledde for his safetie into England This King raigned alone 14. yeares and lyeth enterred at Peronne 32 Raoull of Burgundy Sonne to Richard Duke of Burgundy was made King in the year 917. This man not being of the linage of kings would néedes bée crowned at Soissons as well by fauour of Hugh the great Earle of Paris as also of Hebert Earle of Vermandois who then kept King Charles the Simple Prisoner seazing his person vnder coulour of feasting him and constrayning him before his death to resigne his Kingdome in presence of many Lords and to giue it as a frée guift to the sayde Raoull which yéelded the greater authority to his raigne The Quéene Theargina wife to King Charles the Simple séeing such troubles in France made her retirement into England to the King her Brother with her Son Lewes called Lewes of beyond the Sea Raoull made a voyage into Italy pretending to get the Empire which was then in strife and there he vanquished Berengarius an Italian Prince who laide some claime thereto But finding himselfe not wel affected of the Italians hee with-drew thence into France where hee dyed of a very strange disease béeing eaten with wormes notwithstanding all remedies applied by his Phisitions He raigned about tenne yeares died at Auxerre and was buried at S. Colombe néere Sens. 33 Lewes fourth of that name sir-named Lewes d'Outre-mer or of beyond the Sea Son of Charles the Simple was made K. in the yeare 929. being then in England with the K. his vnckle the Princes Prelats and Barons of France sent for him into England whither his Mother Theargina had carried him for refuge when Hebert had betraied King Charles her Husband he was crowned at Laon. The King had debate with Raoul of Burgundy about the Kingdome and made warre vppon the Emperour Otho for the Dutchy of Lorraine but peace being made betwéene them he tooke to Wife Herberge Sister to the said Emperour At his returne home into Fraunce hee caused Hebert Earle of Vermandois to bee hanged who had procured his Father to dye in Prison Hugh the great Earle of Paris who then held the full sayle of the kingdome raised the Normans to rebell against the King But the King drawing him to his side he rebelled from him again because he had made an agréement with the Normans without him and caused them also to alter their purpose with a fresh begunne warre wherein the King was taken Prisoner and carried to Rouen Afterward he was deliuered to the great Earle Hugh who detained him at Laon but the Emperour Otho came to his succour deliuered him Lewes raigned twenty seauen yeares and lieth buryed at S. Remy of Rheimes 34 Lothaire Sonne of Lewes d' Outremer or of beyond the Sea was made King in the yeare 956. At the beginning of his raigne Hugh the great Earle of Paris gouerned all the affaires of France but he dyed soone after leauing thrée Sonnes to wit Hugh Capet who afterward vsurped the kingdom Otho and Henry who were successiuely Dukes of Burgundy and was sumptuously enterred at Saint Denis Lothaire raigned 31. yeares and lieth buried at S. Remy of Rheimes 35 After King Lothaire Lewes his Sonne fift of that name succéeded in the gouernment in the yeare 986. He raigned but one yeare died without any heire and was the last King of the race or linage of Charles the great his burial was at Compeigne Charles Duke of Lorraine who was his Unckle and néerest Heire hearing of his death would néedes passe into France to make himselfe King But the French hated him extreamely as well because he had continually pertaken with the Allemaignes sworne enemies then to the French as also in regard hee was a bad Prince to his owne Subiectes So that they would not receiue him for their King but wholy ranne to Hugh Capet then Maire of the pallace a very wise and woorthy man Hee perceiuing that the French fauoured and affected him knew well enough how to sow both in their eares and hearts an vnliking opinion of Charles Duke of Lorrain to make him the more hatefull to them He first laid before them how hee had permitted the Allemaignes frée passage when they came and warred on France Next that he had maintained the chéefe enemies to the crown of France wherein hee stood guilty of high treason And so by consequent was disabled of any succession to the said Crowne ¶ Heere endeth the second generation of the Kinges of France in the ligne Masculine being the race of the Carlouingians and which continued after Pepin for the space of 233. yeares HVgh Capet Sonne to Hugh the great Earle of Paris possessed himself of the Crown of France in the yeare 987. He was by some of the French proclaymed King at Noyon first of al soone after in the Citty of Rheimes partly by fauour and partly perforce Crowned King of Fraunce and made his entrance into Paris whereuppon Charles Duke of Lorraine took Rheimes Laon and Soissons Hugh Capet with a potent Armie besiedged Laon where hee tooke Charles with his Wife and Children by Treason in the Byshop of
to haue got the start of his corage That the sacred person of so great a King should be vndone by the hand of an vnholy villaine and his owne vassaile that a Prince of the Sworde should be butchered with a Knife That he who had returned victoriously aliue from the heade of so manie Armies where death kept his open Shambles should bee robbed of his life by the hand of onely one and in the peacefull stréetes of Paris which were as yet euen warme with the glorie of his Quéenes Coronation perfourmed but the day before Is such a villanie as excéeds if it were possible the iust merrit of damnation and that two Kings of one Kingdome shoulde one after the other be so shamefully murdred the one by a Iacobine Frier the other sometimes of the Feliants Order is such an indelible blot on the brow of Fraunce as the vtmost date of time can neuer wipe off nor any Penne sufficientlie expresse the sorrowe fitting a Theame so vnpleasing 64 Lewes the thirteenth of that Name elbest Sonne to King Henry the fourth and Maria de Medices his Quéene being then scarcelie tenne yeares olde succeeded his Father in the Kingdomes Dignitie but the Queene his Mother was proclaimed Regent May hee long liue heire vnto his Fathers Fame and Heroycall vertues but defended by the hand of heauen from his fate and hard Fortune as all Christian Princes else I pray to God may be likewise preserued A Briefe Chronologicall Suruay concerning the Netherlands deuided into 17. prouinces with a Breuiate of the Earles and Princes there raigning from Thierrie who was the first Earle of Holland and Zeland to this instant time COncerning the Originall of the people inhabiting these countries we finde that two Brethren sons to the King of Cathes the one being named Battus or Batton the other Zelandus were the first Fathers of them and that from them they deriued theyr names For these two Princes being too extreamly pursued by the hatred of a Stepmother no way pittied or supported by the King their father escaping many traines and machinations of poysoning murthering and diuers other dangers by her daily deuised put in practise against them were forced to forsake their natiue abiding flie to an Island within the Rhine where Battus determining to make his stay called it Battauia after his owne name that is in plainer vnderstanding Holland Zelandus not liking to liue so néere or with his Brother least pursute should surprize them both reuenge there fasten which in more desperate place they had auoided he trauailed on to the vttermost couâ—nes of the Rhine and liking there to set down his rest imitated his Brothers example in styling the Country and called it Zeland Concerning their building of Citties Townes Castles and Fortes which afterward came to be ruined and defaced againe by wars with the Romans Saxons Gauls Danes c. or to what order of life the people disposed theÌ„selues and thorough how many and infinite encumbrances from their originall they passed for no meane store of years together these are matters méerely exempt from our intended breuitie and may more amply be séen in the history at large whereunto I referre any such desirous Reader and borrowing fauour for so large a leape I instantly procéede to the yeare 863. when Holland first became to be an Earledome In the yeare before mentioned Charles the Bald King of France at Bladell in the Prouince of Campeigne hauing there in his company a general assembly of his Princes and Barons for consultation of many important matters pleased to aduance the two Sons of Count Haghen who was Vnckle to the King for their great deseruinges and for the farther encouragement of the like vertuous minded Gentlemen Walger who was the eldest Sonne hee made Earle of Teysterbaudt and Thierrie the youngest Sonne or Theodor as some tearme him being formerly called Thierrie of Aquitaine hee made Earle of Holland This gift of the Kings especially that to Thierry was much withstood by the Frizelanders as scorning to be commanded by any new Lorde or Ruler wherfore they consulted with the Hollanders and a plot was layde to expell this newe Earle But it proued to no effect for the King comming thither in person with a powerfull army made such an example on the Ring-leaders in this Rebellion that the rest in great humility submitted themselues casting their weapons not onely at the Kinges féete but likewise at the Earles and vppon pardon they vowed theyr continuall bounden dutie to Thierrie His authority was then further strengthened in the yeare 868. by the Letters Patents of King Charles as also by them of Lewes King of Germany confirming him to be Earle of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland This Thierrie maried Genna or Ienna Daughter to Pepin the Bald king of Italy Sonne to the Emperor Charlemaigne He woorthily foiled the Danes that then possessed the Towne of Vtrecht the Wiltes and the Slaues disabling them from any further footing in Holland which made them presume to meddle in Zeland but thence they were repulsed likewise By which meanes he remained afterward in peace beautifying his Countries both wyth fayre buildings and good Lawes Hee dyed verie old hauing raigned forty yeares and after him succéeded 2 Thierrie his Sonne second of that name Earle of Holland Zeland and Lorde of Frizeland who married with Hildegarde Daughter to King Lewes of France the Stammerer and Sister to King Charles the Simple The Frizelanders did twice reuolt from their obedience and would not allow Earle Thierrie to be their Lord but slew very many of them that obeyed the Earle wasting spoiling and burning all the way as they went But at length they were iustly repayed for their insolency and such a slaughter was made of the Frysons without any merrie that few or none of them returned home to their dwellings Afterward he forced them to make the doores of entrance into their houses so low and narrow that they must stoope very lowe before they could get in and this he did to make them the more humble and seruile receiuing a new Oath of allegeance of them And hauing raigned about fiftie yeares beeing then aged 88. yeares olde he dyed leauing two Sonnes behinde him the eldest whereof being named Egbert became Arch-Bishop of Treues and Arnold his yongest Sonne succéeded him 3 Arnolde or as others will haue it Arnulph youngest Sonne to Earle Thierrie followed in rule as his Fathers Successour But hee helde the Earledomes of Holland Zeland and Lordshippe of Frizeland no longer of the Crowne of France but of Otho the third Emperor and so became in fée to the Empyre A verie fearful Comet appeared in his time with strange Ecclipses both of the Sunne and Moone being as red as blood and terrible Earth-quakes a fire also fell from Heauen in similitude like an huge Tower burning for a long time after which ensued so violent
whō he had not any children Much strife war and bloodie bickering happened betwéene him and the Byshoppe of Vtrecht with shrewd disaduantages on eyther side till by the meanes of some Noblemen they were reduced to amity This Duke VVilliam by what occasion it could neuer bee knowne fell distracted of his senses and slew a Knight with a blow of his Fist so that hee was shut vppe vnder good Guarde for ninetéene yeares space euen till he dyed Hauing gouerned his Prouinces of Holland Zeland and Frizeland before his madnesse seauen yeares and Henault two 26 Albert of Bauaria Brother to Duke William in the time of his distraction was sent for from Bauaria and made Gouernour of his Brothers Countries in hope of his recouery which by no meanes coulde hee compassed Hee vanquished the Frizons in many rebellions tooke the Towne of Delft and beheaded the Baron of Eughien vppon sinister informations which caused great trouble betweene him and fire bretheren of the said Baron but vpon their reconcilement Count Albert builded the Channorny of the Chappell at the Court of the Hage In his time a Sea-Woman by reason of great Tempestes at Sea and extraordinarie high tides was seene swimming in the Zuyderzee betwéene the Townes of Campen and Edam which béeing brought to Edam and cleansed from the Sea-Mosse grown about her by her long abiding there she was like to another woman endured to be apparrelled would féede on meates as others did yet sought shee all meanes to escape and get into the water againe had shee not very carefully bin tended She did learne to spin and exercise other womanly qualities being daily séene of infinite persons who haue made perfect testimoniall of this race accident and signified if for an vndoubted truth auouching that she liued fiftéene yeares and lyeth there buryed in the Church-yard In the yeare 1404. this famous Prince Albert dyed after hée had gouerned his Countries forty sixe yeares ninetéene as he was Tutor to his distracted Brother and twenty seauen as Prince Heire and Lorde of those Countries beeing buryed at the Hage in Holland 27 William sixt of that name after the death of Duke Albert of Bauaria his Father succéeded as his immediate Heire His first Wife was Daughter to Charles the fift King of Fraunce and shée dyed young without any Issue He secondly married the Daughter of Iohn Sonne to Phillip the bold Duke of Burgundie by whom he had one onely Daughtex named Iaqueline or Iacoba as the Dutch vse to call her This Count William wasted Frizeland spoiled Liege and preuailed against the Gueldres as also the Lordes Father and Sonne of Arckell at Gorrichom and reconciled the Duke of Burgundy to the French King The Dolphine of France Sonne to King Charles the sixt marryed Iaqueline Count Williams Daughter but he being poysoned by putting on a shirt of maile died without Issue As Earle William himselfe did not long after being bitten in the Legge by a mad Dogge which hurt could neuer bee cured So that Lady Iaqueline his Daughter and widow to the Dolphine of Fraunce was his true Heire in all his Seigneuries He gouerned thirtéene yeares and lieth buried at Valenciennes in Henault 28 Iaqueline or Iacoba Daughter and Sole-heire to William of Bauaria succéeded her Father in all his Earledomes and Seigneuries being then Widdow to the Dolphine of France and yet but 19. yeares of age In regard of her youth and widdow-hood she endured much mollestation in her gouernment chiefely in Holland for the two factions tooke head againe and bandied their boldnesse on both sides the Hoeckins fauouring the Countesses faction and the Cabillantines her Enemies by which meanes her rule was greatly disturbed For Iohn of Bauaria forsaking his Bishoppricke of Liege sought to make himselfe an Earle and marry his Nice Iaqueline vtterly against her will and yet to dispossesse her of her rightfull inheritance for which purpose he leagued himselfe with the Cabillantines and other powerfull Friends who neuerthelesse were slaine in their bolde aduenture at Gorrichome And to frustrate the Bishoppes vaine hope the Pope dispenced her marriage with Iohn Duke of Brabant albeit hee was her néere Kinsman whereby their Patrimoniall inheritances were the more strengthened and hée acknowledged as their Prince in Henault Holland Zeland Frizeland c. It were néedlesse here to relate the following molestations of Iohn of Bauaria the bishop to his Niece Iaqueline taking on himselfe the title of Earle and therefore by some rancked among the Earls of Holland or the after marriages of Lady Iaqueline to the Duke of Glocester Vnckle to Henry the sixt King of England the fourth and last time in great priuacy to Frank of Borsselle Lieutenant of Zeland or her no meane troubles by the Duke of Burgundy to whom she resigned vp all her Countries Let it suffice that she liued in continuall vexations 19. yeares and dying at the Hage was buried in the Chappell of the Court of Holland 30 Phillip Duke of Burgundy being both by Father and Mother rightfull yeire and successor to the fore-named Countesse Iaqueline was thus entitled Phillip Duke of Bourgogne Brabant and Lembourg Earle of Flanders Artois Burgogne Henault Holland Zeland and Namur Marquesse of the holy Empire Lord of Frizeland Salins and Macklyn He had thrée Wiues by the two first hee had no Children but by the last named Isabel daughter to Iohn K. of Portugall he had thrée sons Anthony losse who died young and Charles Martin Earle of Charolois and successor to his father This Phillip of Bourgogn instituted the order of Knight-hood of the golden Fliece had much discontent with his Son Charles whom at length he married to the Lady Margaret Sister to Edward the fourth K. of England The Rebels of Gaunt and Bruges dearly felt the valour of this Phillip he besieged Callis surprized Luxemboug subdued Liege and ouer-came the Hamecons Hee excéeded all his predecessors Duks of Bourgogne in riches Seigneuries height of Pomp and State He died the fift of Iune 1467. hauing gouerned about forty yeares In his time was the famous Art of Printing first inuented the men of Harlem in Holland do challenge the first honor thereof but it was reduced to perfection at Mentz by one Iohn Faustus who had béen Seruaunt to Laurence Ianson of Harlem as they constantly affirme it 31 Charles Sur-named the Warlique Duke of Bourgogne succéeded in all his Fathers Titles and Dignities The Inhabitants of Gant resisting him he brought them vnder obeysance defeated the Liegeois in battaile which enforced Liege to yéelde to him He made peace with the French King who doubted to be detayned at Peronne by Duke Charles Vpon a fresh rebellion of the Liegeois The Duke forced king Lewes to go with him to the siedge of their town which hee ruined and practised the like of the House of Brederode He warred against the Frizons and carried many
Prinâ—es in hope of his daughters mariage The French K. and the duke sought to deceiue each other and the Constable of S. Paul waxing hatefull to them both they resolued his ruine and on a truce taken for 9. years betwéen the King and Duke the Constable was beheaded at Paris The Duke warred against the Swisses and was defeated by them both at Granson and Morat wherewith the Swisses were enriched The Duke besiedged Nancie and was there slain in battel by the Treason of the Earle of Campobachio an Italian where being engirt with a great troupe of Lanciers he receiued thrée wounds one in the head the second in the thigh and the third in the fundament He left one onlie Daughter and heire 32 Mary Daughter and Heire to Duke Charles the warlike Duke of Bourgogne succéeded her Father in al his Countries being but 18. yeares old when he was slaine before Nancy wherefore shee remained vnder the charge of the Duke of Cleues and his Brother the Lord of Rauestein The French King seized Piccardie and Arthois she happening into the Ganthois power endured much trouble by putting her chiefest seruants and Councellers to death the Flemings were defeated and the young Duke of Gueldres slaine Afterward a marriage was concluded betwéene Maximilian Arch-duke of Austria Son to the Emperor Frederick and the Lady Marie of Bourgogne albeit shee would more gladly haue matched with the house of France 33 Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria and Son to the Emperour Fredericke marrying the Princesse Mary of Bourgogne was thereby wedded to much war and trouble For first the Gueldres reuolted from the house of Bourgogne Next happened the battel of Guinegate wherein the Arch-Duke was the Conquerour Then Turnay yéelded to him truce was taken betwéen him and the French King and the new tumults of the Cabillaux and Hoecks were likewise by him pacified Dordrecht was surprized by the young Lord of Egmont also many Townes in Guelders yéelded to the Arch-Duke and not long after followed the death of the Arch-Dutchesse Mary who had the first yeare of her mariage a Sonne named Phillip Father to Charls the fift the second yeare a Daughter called Margaret betroathed in her infancye to Charles the Dolphin of France Sonne to King Lewes 11. and the third year a Sonne named Frances according to the name of Fraunces Duke of Brittaine his Godfather Maximilian beeing chosen King of the Romaines he made Engelbert Earl of Nassau Gouernour of the Netherlands in his absence And afterward vpon the bold insolency of the Ganthois and Bâ—ugois kéeping the King of Romaines prisoner Albert Duke of Saxonie was made second Gouernor of the Netherlands and General for the Emperor Frederick against the Flemings But Frederick dying his Sonne Maximilian succeeded him in the Empire by which meanes Phillip of Austria son to the said Maximilian inherited his right in Holland Zeland Frizeland c. 34 Phillip second of that name being but 16. yeares olde and succeeding his father Maximilian Emperor in the Netherlands had these Titles Phillippe Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Bourgogne Lothier Brabant Styria Carinthia Lembourg Luxembourg and Guelders Earle of Haspourg Flaunders Arthois Bourgogne Ferrette and Kiburch Palatine of Henault Holland Zeland Namur and Zutphen Marquesse of the Holie Empyre and of Bourgan Landtgraue of Elsaten Lorde of Windismarke Portenau Salynes and Macklyn Vpon his full possession of the Netherlandes peace was made betwéen him Charles the 8. King of France warre happening betwixt the Arch-duke and the Duke of Guelders great inconueniences followed thereon but Duke Albert beeing slaine before Groningen the Arch-Duke inherited the realme of Spain by his wife being made King of Castile and George Duke of Saxonie being then made gouernor of the Netherlands for the Arch-Duke Phillip continued the warres in Frizeland For vpon the death of Isabell Q. of Castile Iane her daughter being onely heyre and married to the Arch-Duke Phillip she héerby inuested him in the Realmes of Spain Leon Granado c. as absolute King But he enioyed that dignity not long for in the yeare 1506. the 27. of September hee died suddenly in the Citty of Bourgos suspected to be poysoned After the death of Phillip King of Castile the Emperour Maximilian tooke vppon him the gouernement of the Netherlandes as Guardian vnto Charles and Ferdinand his Grand-children being the Sons of Phillip and Iane King Quéen of Castille 35 Charles of Austria second of that name succéeded rightfully in all his Fathers Landes and Seigneuries and by the Emperors appointment his daughter the Ladye Margaret Dowager of Sauoy and Aunt to the Princes Charles and Ferdinand was Regent of the low countries Afterwarde Prince Charles tooke possession of the Netherlands and being crowned K. of Spain and Arragon soone after followed the death of the Emperor Maximilian and in an assemblye at Francfort for choise of a new Emperor Charles King of Spaine had frée election by the name of Charles the fift Then was Ladye Margaret Widdow both of Castile and Sauoy and Aunt to the Emperour Charles accepted as sole Gouernesse of the Netherlandes in her Nephewes absence Troubles happened in Spaine by reason of the Kings departure thence and not onelie warre in Frizeland but likewise betweene the French and Bourguignons as also the warre of Boores or Peazants in Germany and the Groningeois reiecting the Du. of Guelders did yeild themselues to the Emperor then hapned the 2. bloody edict froÌ„ the Emp. against the Netherland protestants then was the imperial diet at Ausbourg wher the protestant princes presented the confession of their faith After followed the deuouring inundation in the Netherlands the death of the Lady dowager Margaret whereby Mary of Austria 2. daughter to K. Phillip and Q. Iane of Castile succéeded in the gouernment of the Netherlands Warre happened betwéene the Emperor and the French King but vppon the comming of Quéene Elenor of Fraunce to the Emperor her Brother peace was concluded betwixte them 36 While Mary of Austria gouerned the Netherlands for the Emperor Charles her brother great troubles happened to the Protestantes by opposition of the Pope and Emperour againste them The Emperor affected the Empyre for Prince Phillip his Sonne which bred a quarrel betwixt the Emperor and his brother Ferdinand King of Hungary to whome the Princes of the Empire were more enclined then to Phillip and then the Protestantes denied their comming to the Counsell of Trent Phillip King of Spaine married Mary Quéene of England And not long after the Emperor resigned the Netherlands to his Sonne King Phillip whereby he was reckoned the 36. Earle of Holland Zeland c. and the Empire to his Brother Ferdinand K. of the Romans and Hungary departing out of the Netherlands to end his daies quietly in a Monastery not far from Placentia He reserued 100000 Crownes yearely to himselfe employing
constancy in promise that he sildome spake the word which hee not performed Such an obseruer of Iustice was he also that he would not remoue from any place but Proclamation was first made that if any of his men or officers did take any thing vnpaid for the partie to whome the debt was due should come in and imediatelie satisfied he willinglie heard the complaints of the poore and was as diligent in seeing their wrongs redressed Iohn Stuart Earle of Carrike and sonne to King Robert before named was crowned king but because Iohn was iudged to bee an vnfortunate name for Kings they changed it and called him Robert after his Fathers name and so hee was King Robert the third Then was the first creation of Dukes in Scotland for the king made his eldest Sonne Dauid Duke of Rothsay and his Brother Robert Duke of Albanie yet neyther of these sonnes succéeded their father but another son who was named Iames. This King Robert raigned 16. yeares Iames Sonne to King Robert succéeded his Father in the kingdome of Scotland his Quéen was deliuered of two Sonnes at a birth named Alexander and Iames Alexander dyed in his infancy but Iames liued and succéeded hys Father This King Iames the first raigned thirtéene yeares Of whom it is written that he was a very seuere and vpright Iusticer yet so milde and swéete of Nature that not any of their Princes did more reuerently embrace peace at home among his subiects or more willingly conclude it abroad with strangers then he His Wisedome appeared so manifestly in many very great and especiall affaires that Kinges of other Nations did louingly ioyne in league and friendship with him He had bin so wel educated in all Sciences and Gentlemanly actiuity by the carefull dilligence of the best Schoole-maisters that it coulde not be easily iudged in which hee was most perfect For hee was an excellent Musitian a rare Poet a most elequent Orator so exactly both in minde and memory he comprehended the depth of Diuinity and Lawe that for all these in his time he gaue not place to any one Lastly he was not onely a beauty to his Countrey in prouiding his peoples quiet at home but fought also for their defence against their enemies abroad The inuention of Gunnes happened in his time and he caused diuers pieces of Artillery to be made in Flanders one of which being a great and goodly Piece he called the Lyon whereon these verses he caused to be engranen Illustri Iacobo Scotorum Principi digno Regs magnifico dum fulmin◠castra a reduce Factus sum subito nuncuper ergo Leo. Iames the second son to King Iames the first being but sixe yeares olde succéeded his Father in the Crown and was the 103. King of Scotland from Fergusius the first In this Kings time was the famous Art of Printing inuented in the Citty of Mentz in Germany This King raygned 24. yeares among his Subiects in the Camp hee carried himselfe so gently towards all men that they seemed not to feare him as their King but reuerenced and loued him like a father Hee would ride vp and downe amongst them and eat and drinke with them euen as if hee had bin fellow-like with the meanest Iames the third Sonne to King Iames the second being but seauen years of age succéeded his father in the kingdome and raigned 29. yeares Iames the fourth son to King Iames the third was crowned King of Scotland the 24. day of Iune 1488. he being then aged xvi yeares This King Iames the fourth married the Princesse Margaret eldest Daughter vnto Henry the seauenth King of England and raigned fiue and twenty yeares deseruing to be ranked and numbred amongst the best princes that euer there gouerned for his polliticke rule and administration of Iustice Iames the fift being a Childe aged one yeare fiue moneths and ten daies and sonne to king Iames the fourth was Crowned King of Scotland the one and twentieth day of September 1513. his Mother the Quéene being appoynted Regent of the Realme This King raigned 32. yeares being an obseruice of Iustice a defender of the Law and a sound shielde for the poore and innocent in which regard of his Nobility hee was called King of the Commoners He would set at libertie the poore oppressed with the tyranny of the rich and represse the rich from spoyling the poore All which he did with a kinde of seueritie but yet in such sort as therein appeared a woonderfull gentlenesse in his naturall disposition because he seldom did put any of them to death but did eyther by inprisonment or mulct punish the offence For it was his vsuall saying That he would neuer take life from any but onelie to keepe the Lawe sound for example to others and to keepe downe their boldnesse that dwelt about the borders His death was great lamented of his subiects to whom he was a perfect Patron and a louing Father Mary Daughter and heire to King Iames the fift began her raigne ouer Scotland the 18. of December 1542. She was but seauen daies old when the King her Father died and left her his kingdome hir mother then lying in child-bed in the Castle of Lithquo of which place the Lorde Leuingston being then Captaine had the charge both of mother and daughter committed to him with the mothers good liking frée consent This Q. Mary maried Frances the Dolphin of France who after his fathers death was king of France but King Frances dying Mary Qu. of Scotland and Dowager of France returned home againe into Scotland where hir Mother had bin Regent al the time of hir absence I meane vntill the x. of Iune 1560. on which day the Queen Mother of Scotland died Afterward Mary Q. of Scots maried Henry Stuart Lord Darnley Earl of Rosse Duke of Albanie son to the Earle of Lennox who was proclaimed king at the Market Crosse in Edenburgh the 28. of Iuly 1564. and on the tenth of February 1566. he was made Knight of the Order of S. Michael in the Chappel of Holirood house with great reuerence and solemnitie In the month of Iune next folowing the 19. day and betwéen the houres of x. and xi before noone Quéene Mary was deliuered of a goodlie young Prince who afterwarde was crowned King of Scotland by the name of Iames the sixt Iames the sixt Sonne to King Henry and Q. Mary being about a yeare old began his raigne ouer Scotland and was crowned King thereof the 19. of July 1567. Hee succéeded also in his rightfull inheritance of the Crowne of England after the decease of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory the 24. day of March 1602. gloriously vniting those kingdomes in one which formerly by Brute had bin long time deuided ¶ Of the Island of Albion before Brutes arriuall there and tearming it Brittaine after his owne name Also what Kinges raigned there before he came thither ¶ To
crowne of England and after much contention being taken and committed Prisoner vnto Cardiffe Castle in VVales after 26. yeares imprisonment hee there dyed and was buried at Glocester Maud King Henries Daughter was maried to the Emperor Henry but his other children William Duke of Normandy his Sister Marie Countesse of Perch Richard Earle of Chester with his Brother Otwell Gouernor to Duke William and the saide Earle of Chester his wife the Kinges Neece with diuers others to the number of 140. persons beside 50. Marriners following the king out of Normandie were all drowned King Henry raigned 35. years died in the Forrest of Lyons in Normandie and was buried in the Abbey of Reading which he had founded In this king Henry first of that name ended the line of the Norman kings concerning their heires male who had raigned about 69. yeares and then began the French by Title of the heyres generall Stephen Earle of Bullen and Mortaigne son to Stephen Earle of Bloys by Adela Daughter to king William the Conquerour vsurped the crowne from Maud the Empresse and her young sonne Henry which caused great Warres betweene him and her and very miserable times to the people till by an assembly of the Lordes at Winchester Articles of peace and agreement were concluded King Stephen raigned eyghteene yeares ten moneths and three and twenty dayes and was buried in the Abby of Feuersham in Kent Henry sur-named Fitz-Empresse and Shortmantle succeeded next in the crown of England He expelled strangers out of the Land and had a long and troublesome contention with Thomas Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterburie Hee crowned his sonne Henry as fellow-King with him which procured him much mollestation by meanes of his Quéene and his other sonnes In his time was the conquest of Ireland Dublin and Waterford being woon by Earle Strongbow He had diuers Concubines but especially fayre Rosamond whom he kept in a Labyrinth at Woodstock where she was poysoned by Q. Elianor King Henry the second raigned 34. yeares nine months and two dayes and dying was buried at Font-Euerard in the Dutchy of Alanson In him ended the raigne both of the Normans and French-men ouer the Realme of England Richard Earle of Poictiers and second Son to King Henry was crowned King at Westminster He went to the Holy-land and performed many worthy seruices there his brother Iohn in his absence aspired to rule the whole land being prouoked thereto by the French king As King Richard besiedged the Castle of Chalus Cheuerel he was wounded with an impoysoned quarrell shot at him by one Barturam de Gurden or Peter Bazile whereof he dyed hauing raigned nine yeares nine moneths and odde daies and was buried at Font-Euerard Iohn Lord of Ireland Earle of Mortaign and Glocester brother to king Richard was crowned at westm He had long tedious contentions with his Barons as also with the pope by whose meanes Lewes the French kinges sonne was drawne into the businesse had the crowne offered him by the Lords whereon he wrought great spoile in the Land King Iohn raigned 17. years six months and 27. dayes and dying by poyson was buried at VVorcester Henry third of that name and eldest Son to King Iohn succeeded immediately after his Father albeit he was but nine yeares old the Barons and French Lewes being still very mollestuous against whom VVilliam Marshal Earle of Pembroke was chiefe Generall of the Kings forces and preuayled worthily This King Henry raigned 56. yeares and 27. dayes and was buried at Westminster Edward eldest Sonne to King Henrie and Surnamed Long-shankes was crowned at Westminster after his returne home from the Holy Land This King conquered Wales and deuided it into Shyres and banished the Iewes for euer out of England Hauing raigned 34. yeares seauen months and twenty dayes hee dyed and was buried at VVestminster Edward of Carnaruon sonne to King Edward the first succeeded in the kingdome after his Father This king did ouermuch affect an Esquire of Gascoigne called Pierce Gauaston and disshonoured many of his Lords to aduance him as he did the like by the two Spensers the Father and Sonne At length he was imprisoned by his Barons with helpe of the Queene and Prince and then deposed when he had raigned nineteene yeares sixe months and seauenteene dayes Edward the third son to king Edward the second was crowned at Westminster in his Fathers life time Flanders yeelded themselues all their Townes to King Edward and laying claime to the Crowne of France in right of his Mother Queen Isabell he entred that land with a puissant army and quartered the Armes of France with his owne of England He deuised the woorthy Order of the Garter and Prince Edward Surnamed the Blacke Prince beside his famous victories in Fraunce reseated Don Peter king of Castile in his kingdom which his bastard Brother Henrie vsurped against him K. Edward the third raigned fifty yeares and fiue monethes and dying at Sheene was buried at Westminster Richard second of that name son to Edward the Blacke Prince being about eleauen yeares old succeeded after his Grand-father King Edward the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Cambridge being Protectors of the yong kings person The rebellion of Iacke Straw and Wat Tyler with the Essex and Kentishmen then hapned and the worthy act of William Walworth Lord Maior of London in arresting the traitor Great stormes arose betweene the king and hys Nobles because he had let to Farme the realme of England to Lords that abused the king and much misgouerned him sending abroad blanke Charters c. Whereupon in the end Articles were framed against the king and he committed to the Tower of London Henrie Surnamed Bullingbrooke sonne to Iohn of Gaunt being proclaimed king and Richard quite depryued when he had raigned 22. years three months nine dayes Dying hee was buried at Langley Henry Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke in the County of Lincolne beeing Cosin-Germaine to king Richard the second succeeded next by Richards depriuation and entailed the crown to him and his heires Owen Glendoure with his VVelchmen entered into Rebellion against the king and did put him in great daunger of his life by Treason by conueying a Caltrop into his bed This king Henry raigned 13. yeares and odde months and was buried at Canterburie with great solemnity Henry of Monmouth sonne and heire to king Henry the fourth succeeded after his father Hee vrged his title to France and fought the famous battell at Agin-court Hee raigned nine yeares sixe months and foure daies and dying at Boys de Vinciennes in France was buried at Westminster Henry of windsore being but nine moneths olde did yet succeed in his lawfull right He was also crowned king of France at Paris and had his time troubled with many grieuous combustions both abroad and at home as also diuers foughten battailes
to our Sauiour descended and he himselfe according to the flesh Of whom they kéepe a very solemne memory and aboue any other of the Apostles thinke reuerently of S. Thomas the Apostle Of the Kingdome of Persia PErsia hath carried the same name from the beginning to this day containing in it these Regions Lar and Requelmall The principall Citty thereof is called Siras in elder times tearmed Persipolis which is gouerned by the Sophy Great Lord of all Persia and Azimia called by our elders Assiria and the Kingdom of Dearbech sometime named Mesopotamia And Seroan that was Media and Parthia now called Iex with Hirca nowe tearmed Coraxan Sarmania nowe Dulcendano and Asia nowe at this instant called Hetti All these seuerall Regions with the greater Armenia which is a part also of them are gouerned by the great Sophy and their greatest or chiefest Cittie is named Tauris being built in the midst of the Mountain Taurus foure daies iourney off from the Caspian Sea Next vnto Tauris there are other Cittyes as of Soltauia Concassan Spahan Corazan Lera Mora Sarmachand Gesti Far Siras and Ormuz a Citty in the Persick Sea which at this day is called Mare Misindia In this Citty is great commerce of Merchandize made with the Portugales and there they fish for great aboundance of Pearles There are other Citties also Cureh Iex Casmine Coy with infinite Castles On the West side of Tauris are the Caspian Mountaines which are nowe called the Mountains of Arath And on the Bacchan Sea aunciently named the Caspian Sea are these Citties Sumacchia Derbent Bacchan and Mamutaga All these Prouinces and their Regions are very barren because they haue small store of Riuers the greatest whereof is called Bindarin but in former times they entitled it Bragada Concerning the gouernment obserued among the Persians it differs farre from all the other Mahumetists because they hate Nobility and relying on the seruile fidelity of slaues eyther murther their Friendes and Kindred or put out their eyes But among the Persians the Sophy is highly respected Nobility had in Honour and many wealthy Lordes are liuing amongst them whereof not one is to bee found in the Turkish Dominions The people also are the very ciuillest in all Asia men of vndaunted courage and speciall good Warriours both on Horse-backe and foote affecting Musique Learning and Poesie wherein some attaine to no meane excellency and they are much addicted to the study of Astrology So much in bréefe concerning the Persians the rest remaineth to our Generall History of the World ¶ Of the Kingdome of Thunis THE Citty of Thunis or Tunis being very great was by the Latines called Tunetum and of the Arabians Tunus but they holde that name to be a very corrupt vocable because in their Language Tunus dooth not signifie any thing This Cittie was anciently called Tharsus as that other in Asia and was at first but a very little Cittie builded by the Affricanes vpon the Lake which was formed from the Goletta distant from the Mediterranian Sea about twelue miles But after that Carthage was destroyed then did those Citties beginne to encrease both in number of habitations and dwellers in regard that the Armies which surprized Carthage béeing vnwilling to tarry there for feare of fresh supplyes from Europe came to abide at Tunis and there they builded many Houses Not long after there came thither a Captaine named Hucha di Vtmen who gaue them to vnderstand that an Army ought not to shut vppe it selfe in any Citty that shoulde touch or bee néere vnto the Sea And therefore they made a Citty which they named Cairoan about the distaunce of thirty sixe miles from the Sea and accounted to be an hundred miles from Tunis Then did the Armies forsake Tunis and inhabited this newe Citty other people gouerning those houses in Tunis that had bin abandoned by the Armirs After this about thrée hundered and fiftie yeares the Citty of Cairoan was destroyed by the Arabians so that the Rector or Ruler thereof fled thence into the West and raigned in Buggia as also ouer all the neighbouring partes but there remained still in Tunis a Family or kindred of the said Rector or Gouernour fledde from Cairoan who still possessed the same as Soueraigne Lordes thereof About ten yeares after they of Buggia were expulsed by Ioseph the son of Tessino but beholding the humility and kindnesse of the saide Lord they left the State vnto him which continued in tranquility so long as the Family of Ioseph raigned But Abdull Mumen King of Marocco hauing regained Mabdia which had béene taken by the Christians passed homeward in his returne by Tunis where hée tooke the gouernment vpon him And all the time that Abdull Mumen liued and Ioseph his Sonne with their Successours Iacob Mansor Tunis continued in peace vnder the rule of the Kinges of Marocco After the death of Mansor his Sonne Muhamet Ennasir mooued Warre against the King of Spaine but was ouercome and forced to flight escaping backe to Marrocco where after this foile hee liued but few yeares Then was his Brother Ioseph elected King who was slaine by certaine Souldiers to the King of Tebesm Now in the Interim betwéene the ouerthrow of Muhament his death as also the murthering of his Brother Ioseph the Arabians returned backe on Tunis and besiedged it But the Gouernour of Tunis gaue notice thereof to the King of Marocco that if he sent him not some immediate succour he should be constrayned to deliuer the Cittie to the Arabes The King well considering on a case of such importance did as became a man of his high spirit and experience electing aboue all other in his Court one borne in Ciuill a Citty of Granado named Habdulnaihidi whom hee foorth-with sent thyther with the same authority as if he had gone himselfe in person Béeing accompanyed with twenty goodly great Sippes he arriued at Tunis which was then euen halfe vanquished by the Arabes But by his wisedome prouidence and flowing eloquence hee foyled the Enemy pacified the State set all thinges in good order and made the Countries entrance sure against all Intruders After him his Sonne succeeded named Abu Zaccheria who in learning and wisedome excelled his Father Hée caused to bée builded in Tunis on the West side of the Cittyes very highest part a mightie great Rocke and many goodly Pallaces in the Cittie with a beautifull Temple that had an high Tower on the top thereof round engirt with strong wals This Abu Zaccheria went likewise to Tripoli where his valour won him such renowne and his wisedome made so good benefite of the Countrey that at his death hée left an infinite Masse of Treasure behinde him Hée being dead his Sonne succéeded him who was an ambitious proude young man and would no longer suffer himselfe vnder command of Marocco because he perceiued the declining and downfall of those Lords and that the family of Marino began to
and a marriage concluded of Alice the daughter of Lewes to the son of England The King died at Paris hauing raigned 43. yeares and lieth buried in the Abbay of Barbeau which was founded by him 42 Phillip Augustus sir-named Dieu-donne Gods gift succéeded after his Father in the year 1181. He banished all the Iewes out of Fraunce and yet afterward permitted them entraunce againe ordaining many Edicts against Blasphemers as also the vsury of the Iewes He did put to death the Albigeois Heretiques and them of Besiers augmenting greatly the Cittie of Paris instituting Sheriffes and Alder-men commaunding the stréetes to be paued building also the Halles for Studentes and the Church-yard of S. Innocent and enclosing with wals the Vniuersity side Hée went to recouer the Citty of Hierusalem with Richard Cueur de Lyon King of England and falling off from him returned home into France Hee hadde afterward great wars against the said K. Richard and Iohn without Land his brother who succéeded him about the titles of Normandy Aquitain Poictu Maine Aniou Auuergne He won the battaile at Bouines against the Emperor Otho and other French Lords who were entred into rebellion against him In which battell perished fifty thousand men and Otho himselfe was enforced to flight the Earle of Flanders and the Earl of Bolongne being taken Prisoners by which reason the king was called the Conqueror He raigned 43. yeares died at Mante aged 59. lieth buried at S. Denis leauing two sons and a daughter 43 Lewes the eyght succéeded after his Father in the yeare 1224. In the life time of his Father hee crossed the Seas and made Warre in England attayning to no such successe as hee expected Hee renewed kindnesse and Brotherhood betwéene the French and Germaines tooke Auignon and warred vpon the Albigeois He raigned thrée yeares and lyeth buryed at Saint Denis 44 Lewes the ninth succeeded his Father Lewes the eyght in the yeare 1227. Blaunche his Mother in regard of his young yeares was appointed to bée Regent whereat some Lords were discontented but she tooke order sufficiently with them She maintained the warre against the English and agréement was made with them vpon solemne Oath to holde Aquitaine doing homage and to yéelde vp Normandie Ponthieu Maine and Poictiers The king being in peace exercised himselfe to liue Religiously building Churches Hospitals and Monasteries enriching them with rents reuennues In the 24. yeare of his raigne hee went to recouer the Holy Land descended into Egypt and tooke Damieta He was afterward so rudely assayled that he was taken by the Soldane but deliuered againe vppon his restoring Damieta and paying a great ransome Hee bought of the Venetians the Crown of Thornes as was supposed with other Relickes of the passion caused them to be safely kept in the holy Chappel at Paris Many Shepheards vnderstanding that the King was prisoner arose vp in armes and made great spoile in France but they were foyled by them of Orleance and Bourges The king at his returne did very seuerely chastise blasphemers And passing afterward into Affrica tooke Carthage and assailed Thunis where the Pestilence happening in his Campe he died of a flux of blood He raigned 34. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis Behold briefely the life and death of King Lewes ninth of that name who afterward by Pope Boniface the eight in the time of Phillip le Bel was cannonized among the number of Saints in Romes Kalender and called S. Lewes His raigne was truely in piety religion sanctitie and iustice His youth was much tormented with rebellions subleuations seditions of some Lords but his manly yeares did disperse them as the Sunne doth dimme clouds Hee was deuoute vpright valiant liberal seuere and yet clement vsing all these Vertues according as hee knewe them to be néedfull 45 Phillip the third Son of S. Lewes was proclaimed King in the Campe before Thunis in the yeare 1271. but was afterward Sacred at Rheimes He was Sur-named Phillip the hardie and at his comming back into France he had many difficulties about the death of Phillip his impoysoned Sonne in the Warres of Foix and Terracon Vpon an Easter day in the euening houre all the French being then in Sicily were euery one slaine whereon grew the By-word of the Sicilian Vespres or Euening The king died at Parpignan in the fortith yeare of his age and lieth buried at Saint Denis hee married Isabel Daughter to Peter of Arragon by whom he had Phillip Charles and Marie And then remarrying Marie Daughter vnto Henrie Duke of Brabant he hadde by her Lewes and Margaret 46 Phillip the fourth Sur-named le Bell or the Fayre Sonne to the fore-named Phillip succéeded his Father in the yeare 1286. both in the Kingdome of France and Nauarre in right of his wife In his younger daies he had a Schoolemaister a Roman borne and a great Diuine named Gilles who caused the King to write an excellent worke yet to be séene called The Institution of Princes As the King was at Paris being returned from his Corronation at Rheimes this Diuine according to the Vniuersities ancient custome which was to make a learned spéech after the kings sacring made a singuler Oratiō to him to encrease his desire in following Vertue piety preseruing his subiects in peace and tranquility He built the sumptuous Pallace of Paris subdued the Flemings who had forsaken his part giuen aide to the English against him the Earle of Flanders and his two sons beeing then taken prisoners The King left a Garrison in the countrey but they were slaine in a commotion of the people Whereupon the Earle of Flanders hauing giuen his faith to the King was sent thyther with one of his sons but being able to do no good he returned backe againe to the King and died soon after at Compeign The k. went thither himselfe in person at the first had no better successe but at length he charged them so furiously that he foiled 36000. wheron they were constrained to make attonement and pay him 200000. Crownes The day of Coutray was afterward fauourable to the Flemmings but deplorable to the French the English preuayling mightily against them Then came the Bulles of Pope Boniface against Phillippe but they were burned in the Court of the Pallace which made Boniface to excommunicate the King but Bennet his Successour absolued him againe In his time was the Papall See trans-ferred to Auignon where it continued thréescore ten yeares Rome being then gouerned by Legates The king died at Fountainebleu which was the place of his byrth hauing raigned 28. years and lieth buried at S. Denis 47 Lewes the tenth Sur-named Hutin after the conformity of his manners succéeded his Father in the yeare 1314. and had his right also after his Mother in the kingdome of Nauarre Enguerrand de Marigni General of the Finances being accused to haue robbed the
vertues of his father Hee renewed and confirmed the alliance made by his Father with the Switzers and tooke the Fortes about Bullen on the Sea by such furious assaultes and ouer-much neglect in the English that they forsooke them and made a peace In the yeare 1552. he made his voyage for Germanie to maintaine the liberty of certaine Princes who had in the case required his help He brought Metz in Lorraine vnder his obedience and at his returne tooke Danuilliers Yuoy Monmedy and other places with-drawne by his Enemies He made agréement with Pope Iulius the third deliuering Mirandola Parma reducing also Siennato her ancient liberty wherof the Spaniards had bereaued her During this time the Emperor came and besiedged Metz where without doing any thing he lost a great number of his men The K. marching into the Low-Countryes took Mariembourg Bouoines and Diuant driuing his Enemie vndauntedly before him In the yeare 1555. truce beeing taken with the Empeperour Phillip King of Spayne and the King of England which lasted but a while the French forces being in Italy vnder conduct of Seigneur de Guyse the King assailed S. Quintines and won the day which was called S. Laurance day In the yeare 1557. the K. hauing assembled the same power and vnder the same Leader tooke Callice Guines Hames and the County of Oy with the Cittie of Thionuille the yeare following Peace beeing finally concluded betwéene them by meanes of marriage of Phillip King of Spaine with Elizabeth the eldest Daughter of France and the Prince of Piedmont with Margaret onely Sister to King Henry In toy of the saide marriages and peace a Turney was celebrated in Paris in the streete of Saint Anthony where King Henry running in the Lists was smitten with the Counter-cuffe of a Launce into the head whereof he died the tenth day of Iuly 1559. and in the 13. yeare of his raigne being interred at Saint Denis 60 Frances second of that name aged about 15. or 16. yeares olde succéeded his Father in Anno. 1559. In the life time of his Father hee marryed Madame Mary Stuart Daughter to the King of Scots And the 15. day of September he was sacred at Rheimes by the Cardinall of Lorraine Arch-Bishop of the said place Thence hee accompanied Madame the Dutchesse of Lorrain his Sister so far as Barleduc and with-drawing thence to Amboise thither came diuers men in armes whereon it was called the tumult of Amboise who saide that they would present requests to the King concerning the gouernment and matter of Religion But because they came in Armes some of them were executed and the rest appeased by the Kings Edict The King after a Councell holden at Fontainebleau appointing an assembly of the States to heare the gréeuances of his people and distrusting some intended mutiny he went to the Citty of Orleance in Armes where being desirous to procéede in his purpose hee fell sicke of a Catarrhe which happened in one of his eares whereof hee dyed the fift day of December 1560. and lieth buried at S. Denis 61 Charles ninth of that name succéeded his Brother Fraunces in the yeare 1560. And béecause he was but eleauen yeares olde the Kingdomes affayres were gouerned by the Quéen his Mother Anthonie of Bourbon and king of Nauarre being made Lieutenant generall which was to the great contentment of all the States then assembled at Orleaunce The raigne of this King was trauerssed with many ciuill dissentions about the matter of Religion whereon ensued the assembly of Poissi the Edict of Ianuary the death of the Duke de Guyse slaine at the siege of Orleaunce by Poltrot Then followed the Voyage of Bayonne the battels of Dreux S. Denis Iaâ—nac and Montcontour with other Edicts of pacification And the marriage of Henrie of Bourbon with Margaret de Valois whereat happened that most bloody and lamentable massacre Then the siedge of Sancerre and that of Rochelle with the retraite of the Prince of Conde in Germany And lastly the death of the King without any children being euen ouer-wearied with such numberlesse disturbances The King died the 30. day of May 1574. at Chasteau de Vinciennes lez Paris But before his death hee left the Quéene his Mother Regent vntill hys Brother who was then King of Poland were returned to France and he lieth buried at Saint Denis 62 Henry third of that name being returned from Poland to the no little griefe of that Nation so to part with their King vppon the thyrde day of February 1575. it being the verye same day in Lent whereon he had bin formerly crowned King of Poland in the Citty of Cracouia was likewise Sacred and Crowned at Rheimes by the reuerent Cardinall of Guyse The 15. day following of the same month was he married to Madame Loyse Daughter to my Lord the Earle of Vaudemont of the ancient and noble house of Lorraine His raigne was diuersly agitated with partialities in Religion which passed vnder pretext in faction formed against the State and couered with the name of an holy league or Vnion against which he combatted with difficulties enow and diuersity of exploits on either side Vnder his gouernement was the ouerthrowe of the Rutters Army the battel of Coutras the Estates of Blois and almost the whole reuolt of France The Reconciliation of two Kings which so pressed the factious and rebellious that they had no other recourse but to a most execrable parracide which was committed on the Kings person at S. Clou by Iacques Clement a Iacobine Monke the first day of August 1589. And so ended in him the race of that Royall branch of Valois 63 HEnry the fourth being formerly King of Nauar by right of succession came to be K. of France also being issued in direct ligne from Robert Earl of Clermont in Beaunoisis and the last Son of S. Lewes The beginning of his raigne was very Thorny marked with very signale actions in his progresse the most memorable whereof for breuities sake by a person of great honor and repute were noted in these foure liues Arques Yuri Dijon still shall beare the markes Of honor right and courage in that king To whom the strangers pride stands trembling To heare the fights of Dijon Yuri Arques Héere the life fame and due merit of that great King would giue mee way into a large fielde of ample discourse did not my purposed breuitie make imbarment Wherefore with the verie wordes of a woorthy and learned Gentleman I will conclude and summe vp this Man of men this Prince-like Souldiour and Souldiour-like Prince whose Royall face was white with Time watchinges and experience and the Lawrelles which did beguirt his venerable head and tooke their roote in his Caske were gathered in the grounds of thrée pitched fieldes thirtie fiue encounters of Armies one hundered and forty Combats and thrée hundred seuerall siedges of places in all which his person stroue if it were possible
raigne the 41. of his age and of our Lord 1172. Dermon Mac Morogh beeing deade some short while before The King beeing Royally welcommed into Ireland Dermon or Mac Carti Prince of Corke Donald O Bren Prince of Limerick Donold O Carel Prince of Ossorie and Macleighlin O Felin Prince of the Decies or Ophalie O Roâ—ke K. of Meth Oneale King of Vlster with Rotherick O Conor Dun the Brown Monarch of Ireland came al submitted themselues to k. Henry swearing fealty to be tributaries to him Al matters being ordered in Ireland to the Kings good lyking he departed thence to England hauing made Earle Strong-bow Earle of Pembroke the first Lorde Gouernor of Ireland ioyning Reimond le Grace in Commission with him in the yeare 1174. ¶ The names of the Gouernors Lieutenants Lord Iustices and Deputies of Ireland since the conquest thereof by King Henry the second RIchard Strongbow Earle of Pembroke Gouernor Reimond le Grace being ioyned for his more ease in commission with him Reimond le Grace Lieutenant by himselfe William Fitz Adelme Lieutenant hauing Iohn de Curcy Robert Fitzstephans and Miles Cogan ioyned in Commission with him Hugh Lacie Lieutenant Iohn Lacy Constable of Chester and Richard de Peche Gouernours Hugh Lacy againe Lieutenant Hugh Lacy the younger Lord Iustice Henry Loandoris Arch-bishop of Dublin Lord Iustice Maurice Fitzgirald Lord Iustice Iohn Fitzgeffery Knight Lord Iustice Alain de la Zouch Lord Iustice Stephen de Long Espe Lord Iustice William Deane Lord Iustice Sir Richard Rochell or Capell Lord Iustice Dauid Barry Lord Iustice Robert Vfford Lord Iustice Richard de Excester Lord Iustice Iames Lord Audley Lord Iustice Maurice Fitzmaurice Lord Iustice Walter Lord Genuille Lord Iustice Robert Vfford againe lord Iustice Fulborne Byshoppe of Waterford Lorde Iustice Iohn Stamford Arch-Bishop of Dublin Lorde Iustice William Vescie Lord Iustice VVilliam Dodingsels lord Iustice Thomas Fitz-Maurice Lord Iustice Iohn Wogan lord Iustice Theobald Verdoâ— lord Iustice Edmund Butler lord Iustice Roger Lord Mortimer Lord Iustice Alexander Bignor Arch-Bishoppe of Dubline Lord Iustice Roger lord Mortimer the second time lord Iustice Thomas Fitz-Iohn Earle of Kildare lorde Iustice Iohn Birmingham Earle of Louth lorde Iustice Iohn Lord Darcy Lord Iustice Roger Outlaw Prior of Kilmainan lorde Iustice Anthony lord Lucy lord Iustice Iohn lord Darcy second time lord Iustice Iohn lord Charleton lord Iustice Thomas Bishop of Hereford lord Iustice Iohn Lord Darcy ordayned lord Iustice by Patent during his life by King Edward the third Raphe Vfford lord Iustire Robert Darcy lord Iustice Iohn Fitz-Maurice lord Iustice VValter lord Birmingham Lorde Iustice his Deputies were Iohn Archer Priour of Kilmainan and Baron Carew with Sir ThoRokesby Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earle of Desmond had the Office of Lord Iustice for tearme of his life by the graunt of King Edward the third Thomas Rokesby Knight lord Iustice Almericke de S. Amand. appointed Lord Iustices by turnes Iohn Butler Earle of Ormund appointed Lord Iustices by turnes Maurice Fitz-Henry Earle of Kildare appointed Lord Iustices by turnes Lionell Duke of Clarence Lord Iustice Gerald Fitz-Maurice Earle of Desmond lorde Iustice VVilliam lord Windsor the first Lieutenant in Ireland Roger Ashton lord Iustice Roger Mortimer Iustices and Lieutenaunts especially recorded in the dayes of King Richard the second Phillip Courtney Iustices and Lieutenaunts especially recorded in the dayes of King Richard the second Iames Earl of Ormund Iustices and Lieutenaunts especially recorded in the dayes of King Richard the second Robert Vere Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublin created Duke of Ireland Roger Mortimer Earle of March Lieutenant Roger Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster lieutenant Roger Grey lord Iustice Iohn Stanley Knight lord lieutenant Thomas of Lancaster brother to king Henry the fourth lord Lieutenant whose Deputies at sundry times were Alexander Bishop of Meth Stephen Scrope knight the Prior of Kilmainan Iames Butler Earle of Ormond Lord Iustice Gerald Earle of Kildare Lord Iustice Iames Butler Earle of Ormond Son to the foresaid Iames Lord Iustice Iohn Stanley againe Lord Lieutenant Thomas Cranley Arch-Bishop of Dublin Lord Iustice Iohn Lord Talbot of Shefield Lieutenant Iames Butler Earle of Ormond the second time Lieutenant Edmund Earle of March Iames Earl of Ormond his Deputy Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Iohn Sutton Lord Dudly Sir Thomas Strange his Deputy Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Sir Thomas Stanley Sir Christopher Plunket his Deputy Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Lion Lorde Welles Deputy to the Earle of Ormond Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Iames Earle of Ormond by himselfe Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury the Archbishop of Dublin in his absence Lord Iustice Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Father to King Edw the fourth had the Office of Lieutenant by letters patents from king Henry the sixt for tenne years His Deputies at sundry times were the Baron of Deluin Richard Fits-Eustace Knight Iames Earle of Ormond and Thomas Fitzmoris Earl of Kildare Thomas Fitzmoris Earle of Kildare Lord Iustice in the daies of King Edward the fourth vntill the third yeare of his raigne After whom George Duke of Clarence brother to the King had the office of Lieutenant during his life and made his Deputies at sundry times these Men following Thomas Earle of Desmond Deputies to the duke of Clarence Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester Deputies to the duke of Clarence Thomas Earle of Kildare Deputies to the duke of Clarence Henry Lord Gray of Ruthine Deputies to the duke of Clarence Sir Rowland Eustace Lord Deputy Richard Duke of Yorke younger son to King Edward the fourth Lieutenant Edward Son to K. Richard the 3. Lieutenant his Deputy was Gerald Earle of Kildare Iasper Duke of Bedford Earl of Pembroke Lieutenant his Deputy was Walter Archbishop of Dublin Edward Poynings Knight Lord Deputy Henry Duke of Yorke afterward King by the name of Henry the eight Lieutenant his Deputy was Gerald Earle of Kildare Gerald Fitz-gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy Thomas Howard Earle of Surry afterwarde Duke of Norffolke Lieutenant Piers Butler Earle of Ossorie Lord Deputy Geralde Fitzgeralde Earle of Kildare againe Lord Deputy The Baron of Dublin Lord Deputy Piers Butler Earle of Ossorie again L. Deputy William Skeffington Knight Lord Deputy Gerald Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare the third time Lord Deputy William Skeffington againe Lord Deputy Leonard Lord Gray Lord Deputy Sir William Brereton Knight Lord Iustice Sir Anthony Sentleger Knight Lord Deputy ¶ The names of all the Lordes Deputies and Iustices in Ireland since the death of King Henry the eight who died in Ianuary 1546. SIr Anthony Sentleger knight by Patent dated 24.
of Britaine And among his other ordinances he first appointed weights and measures whereby men should buy and sel and deuised very seuere punishments for Theft He raigned 40 yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Brennus and Belinus the Sonnes of Mulmutius had in their Fathers life time the Land once more deuided betwéene them Belinus enioying Loegria Wales Cornwall and Brennus all the Countries ouer and beyonde Humber But when Brennus grew couetous to exceed his portion and sought to compasse it by forraine assistance he was enforced to flight and Belinus quietly seated in the whole possession Then finished he the foure high-waies of Britaine which his Father had begunne which were called the Fosse Watling-streete Erming-streete and Hiknel-streete confirming to them the priuileges which his Father had formerly granted He builded the Hauen called Belines-gate and a Castle also East-ward from that Gate called long time after Belines Castel but is the same which we now call the Tower of London Hee raigned twenty sixe yeares and was buried in Troy-nouant Gurguintus the Son of Belinus succéeded in Britaine after his Father He subdued Denmark and made them pay tribute to Brittaine In his daies was the Towne of Cambridge with the Vniuersity first founded by Cantaber a Spanyard according to Caius Hee raigned 19. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Guintholinus Sonne to Gurguintus raigned after his Father beeing marryed to a vertuous Lady named Mertia who deuised certaine Lawes which afterward were tearmed Mercian Lawes He ruled 27. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Sicilus Sonne to Guintholinus raigned after his Father albeit hee was then but seauen yeares old but his Mother Mertia had both the gouernment of his person and of the Realme in which time shee deuised those Lawes before mentioned It is saide that then the Picts arriued in Brittaine and possessed those partes which now are the Marches of England and Scotland hee raigned seauen yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Kimarus Sonne of Sicilius raigned thrée yeares Elanius Sonne of Kimarus raigned seauen yeares Morindus Bastard Son of Elanius In his time a came a wonderful Monster out of the Irish Seas that destroyed many people and the King in fighting with the said monster was deuoured by him hauing raigned sixe yeares Gorbouianus first Sonne of Morindus who builded the town of Grantham raignd 10. years Archigallus Elidurus Vigenius and Peridurus being all likewise the Sonnes of Morindus raigned seuerally in Brittaine by great contentions all their times scarcely reaching to 27. years yet Elidurus was crowned King three times ech after other But no sooner died Elidurus a King of most milde and princely nature but there passed aboue 185. yeares betweene the said Elidurus and the beginning of King Luds raigne in which time there raigned 33. Kinges of whose names and rule Authors doe so disagrée that I passe them ouer and come to King Helie who was the last of those 33. Kings who gaue name to the Isle of Elie builded a goodly pallace there with reparatiens of the Sluces Ditches Causies about the Isle for conuayance away of the water yet he raigned not fully a yeare Lud eldest son to King Hely succeeded in Britaines gouernment He enclosed Troy-nouant with a Wall made of lime and stone and fortified with diuers faire townes building also a gate in the west part of the wall which he cald Luds-gate He erected likewise a goodly Pallace somewhat néere to Luds-gate which is now the Byshop of Londons Pallace and in méere affection to the Citty hee altered the name thereof from Troy-nouant called it Caer-Lud that is Luds Towne since when corruption hath tearmed it London K. Lud raigned 11. yeares was buried néere Lud-gate He left two sons named Androgeus Tenancius whose minority in yeares made them vncapable of gouernment Cassibaline Brother to K. Lud was admitted King of Britaine or rather Ruler and Protectour of the Land during his Nephewes nonage In the 8. yeare of his raigne Iulius Caesar with his Romans came into Britain wher being wearied at first with a sharp battell after that his nauy well-néere destroyed by a sudden tempest hee returned back into Gallia or France But the next spring being the year before Christ 51. he crossed the seas againe with a greater army and compelled Cassibelane to consent that Brittaine should become tributary to the Romains Then raigned foure Kings in Kent Cingetorix Taximagulus Caruilius Segonax all whose power could not withstand Caesar whose preuailing thus in Britaine was Anno mundi 3913. and after Brute 1060. Cassibelane raigned 17. yeares Tenantius Luds youngest Sonne succéeded as lawfull King of Brittaine because his Brother Androgeus had assisted Caesar against Cassibelane He raigned 23. years and was buried at London Kymbeline or Cimbeline Son to Tenantius succéeded after his Fathers decease In his time was the Sauiour of the World our Lord Iesus Christ borne of the euer-blessed virgine Marie Kymbeline raigned 35. yeares Guiderius eldest Sonne to Kymbaline was King of Britaine in the yeare of our Lorde after his incarnation 17. Hee iudging the Romaines tribute to bée vniust denied to pay it This Guiderius was slaine at Portchester valiantly resisting against Claudius his Romains where one Hamo who was on the Romans side attired him selfe like a Britain changed his shield and armor and so entring the thickest of the British host cam at last where the K. was and so slew him But Aruiragus Brother to Guiderius perceiuing this villainy caused himself presently to be clad in the kings coat armor and other furniture whereby the Kings death was scarcely discerned He renewed the fight with such vndaunted courage the Claudius was beat backe to his ships Homo to the next adioyning Woods whether Aruiragus pursued him and slew him ere he could get off the hauen casting him peece-meal into the sea which Hauen in memory of his name was euer after called Hamans Hauen afterward by corruption Hampton Hauen and now at this day commonly called Southampton Guiderius raigned 23. or after others 29. yeares Aruiragus youngest Sonne to Kymbeline succéeded his Brother as King of Brittaine In his time Vespasian came into Britaine landing at Sandwich or Richborough Also about the yeare of Christ 53. and while this Aruiragus raigned Ioseph of Arimathia was sent by Phillip the Apostle into Brittain and one Simon Zelotes came then thether also Then began Brittaine to be gouerned by Romaine Lieutenantes and Treasurers Aruiragus raigned 28. yeares dyed in the yeare of Grace 73. and was buried at Glocester Marius sonne of Aruiragus succéeded his father in the State and then came the Picts with Roderick their King into this land but Roderick was slaine by Marius and his people vanquished In memory of which victory against the Picts Marius erected a Stone where
dignity of Senators in Aldermen It hath vnder Officers and according to the qualitie of Lawes so hath it seueral Courts and generall assemblies vpon appointed daies At parting with the name of Portgraues and Prouosts in the first yeare of K. Richard 1. the cittizens obtained to be gouerned by 2. Baliffes who in auncient déedes were called Sheriffes as the Lawe tearmeth the Shire Balliua vsing the same office of Shriuewick as the Portgraues before did The names of the first Bayliffes or Officers entring into their dignity at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell Anno 1189 were Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere King Richard also at that very time appointed a supreame Officer aboue the rest by the name of Maior which worde was borrowed from the Haebrew word Mar and signifieth Dominus Lord a word vsed by the Franconians and old Saxons their Neighbours of whom English-men haue their Originall but called Maire as the French did their Maires of the Pallace Thus was the chiefe Gouernor called Lord Maire or Maior because they vnderstood not that the epethite Maire or Maior implyed no lesse then lord without any other additions yet thus was it thē giuen for a larger augmentation of Honor. Now as the Goldsmiths yéelded London a Prouost before named Leofstanus euen so the same Company albeit not as yet rancked into a List of Brother-hood gaue London likewise the first Lord Maire or Maior in Dignity whose name was Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane and being so appointed by the King he continued in that supreame Office from the first yeare of King Richard the first vntill the fiftéenth of K. Iohn which was more then twenty foure years Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere béeing first chosen Bayliffes serued then as Sheriffes by all likelihood to the said Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Leifstane Maire whereby very well may bee obserued the progresse and continuaunce of those seuerall elections and choyces euen to this day the Sheriffes beeing first appointed and then the Lorde Maire after chosen at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-aungell at the first by King Richard it was ordained King Iohn in like manner after this high Dignity begun by his Brother graunted them frée liberty by Charter to chuse by voyces and handes yearely out of the twelue chiefest and principall Companies their Praetor or Maire Also two Sheriffes whereof the one should be called the Kings Sheriffe and the other the Citties Sheriffe which in that forme hath continued euen to this instant Nay more he graunted them full power and authority not onely to chuse theyr Sheriffes at their owne pleasure but also vppon iust occasion either of contempt mutiny disobedience or other offences to degrade and depriue them The Forrest of Middlesex and the Warren of Stanes being laid open in An. 1218. the King afterward in the yeare 1226. confirmed to the Citizens of London frée warrant and liberty to hunt a limited circuite about the Citty and in the Warren of Stanes Also that the Cittizens of London shoulde passe Toule-frée thorough al England and the Kedeles or weres in the Riuer of Thames or Midway to be pluckt vp and destroyed for euer When the Franchises and liberties were thus confirmed by King Iohn he granted moreouer that either Sheriffe should haue two Clarks and two Sergeants also that the Citty should haue a common Seale and that the Maior should bee presented to the Barons of the Exchequer and they then to admit him as lawful Lieutenant and Deputy vnder the king to gouerne the Citty Hauing thus briefly discoursed how the dignity of honor began in this famous Citty both in the stile of Lord Maior and Sheriffes as briefly wil we also part their progresse and succession from that first woorthy man Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Gold-Smith to the as worthy Man Sir William Crauon now gouerning this present yeare 1611. Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Goldesmith beginning to take that high office on him in the first yeare of King Richard the first who was also for his valour and courage Surnamed Cueur de Lion continued still in the same Dignity for more then twenty foure years and then deceassing in the 15. yeare of King Iohn he was buried in the Priory of the holy Trinity néer vnto Aldgate In the said 15. yeare of King Iohn either to serue out the remainder of that yeare or to go on in a new election Roger Fitz-Alwain was chosen Lord Maire but I neyther find his freedom or his death albeit he continued as it séemeth in Office but one yeare the like did Serle Mercer and William Hardell in the yeares 1214. and 1215. And then began the raigne of King Henry the third Son to King Iohn the 19. of October 1216. Iames Alderman and Salomon Blasing Lord Maiors serued out this yeare by seuerall parts each after other Serle Mercer was againe chosen Lord Maior and continued in the Dignity sixe yeares together Richard Renger beeing chosen Lord Maior continued so the space of foure yeares Roger Duke or Duck was Lord Maior of London foure yeares Andrew Bokerell Pepperer was Lord Maior of London seauen yeares together Richard Renger Lorde Maior againe one yeare William Ioyner Lord Maior one yeare who builded the Quier of the Gray-Fryers Church in London and afterward became a lay brother of that house Gerard Bat Lord Maior one yeare and béeing elected againe for the ensuing yeare the King would not suffer it because he had béene charged in the former yeare with taking Money of the Victuallers and could shew no reason for it Reginald Bongey was Lorde Maior two yeares Raphe Ashwy Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tony Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lorde Mayor two yeares Peter Fitz-Alwin Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tonny Lord Maior againe one yeare Roger Fitz-Roger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Lord Maior one yeare Adam Basing Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tolason Draper Lord Maior one yeare Richard Hardell Draper was Lorde Maior sixe yeares together Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare William Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior two yeares Thomas Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior foure yeares together Will Richards againe Lord Maior one yeare Allen le Zouch Lorde Maior one yeare and beeing a Baron of the Land and chiefe Iustice also he was slaine in Westminster Hall by Iohn Warren Earle of Surry in An. 1270. Sir Stephen Edwards Lord Maior one year Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon was made Custos of London and Constable of the Tower by reason of a great quarrell happening betwéene the Gold-smiths and the Taylors so that the King gaue the kéeping of the Cittie to his Son Prince Edward who made the saide Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon Custos of the Citty and Constable of the Tower as his Deputie But Prince Edward quickly obtained of the King his Father to haue the
Burgesses of the Citty adding the Dagger into the Citties Armes which till that day was a red Crosse in a Siluer field onely Iohn Northampton Draper Lord Maior two yeares Sir Nicholas Brember Grocer knighted with Syr William Walworth Lorde Maior three yeares together Nicholas Exton fishmon lord maior 1. yeare Nicholas Tâ—â—ifield or Tâ—ylorde knighted with Syr William Walworth Lord Maior one yeare William Vâ—naâ—r Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Adam Bâ—mme Goldsmith who prouided the Cittie of such plenty of corne from beyonde the seas that the Citty was able to furnish the countrey Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Hend Draper in whose time happened a great tumult in London because one of the bishop of Salisburies men had taken a Horse-loafe from a Bakers man in Fleete-streete and on the Byshops complaint to the King the Lord Maior being sent for to Windsore and other of hys Brethren the Maior Sheriffes and other substantiall Cittizens were there arrested the Maior committed to the castle of Windsore and the rest to other Castles and Holdes The King seized the citty into his hands appointing a Warden to gouerne it named Sir Edward Darlingâ—â—g knight c. But in short while the Kinges displeasure was pacified and the liberties of London restored and ratifyed William Sâ—ondon Grocer lord maior 1. year Iohn Hadley Grocer againe lord maior one yeare Iohn Froshe Mercer Lorde maior one yeare William More Vintner L. Maior one yeare Adam Bamme Gold-Smith againe Lorde Maior one yeare Richard Whittington mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Drew Barentine Gold-smith Lord Maior 1. yeare At his expiration of Office beganne the raigne of King Henry the fourth the 29. of September 1399. Thomas Knolles Grocer lord maior 1. yeare Iohn Francis Goldsmith lord maior one year Iohn Shadworth mercer lord maior one yeare Iohn Walcote Draper lorde maior one yeare William Ascham Fishmonger lord maior one yeare Iohn Hend draper again lord maior one year he builded new againe the parish Church of saint Swithen at London stone Iohn woodcock mercer lord maior one yeare Richard VVhittington mercer agayne lorde maior one yeare In which year died of the plague more then 30000. people William Stondon Grocer againe lord maior one yeare Drew Barentine Gold-smith againe lorde maior one yeare Hee builded part of the Goldesmiths Hall and gaue them lands Richard Marlow Ironmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Knoles Grocer againe L. Maior one yeare he began anew to builde the Guild-Hall in London c. Robert Chichley Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare William Waldren mercer Lord Maior one yeare In his time died king Henry the fourth his sonne King Henry the fift began his raigne the 20. day of march 1412. William Cromar Draper lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Faulconer mercer who builded the Postern at Moorgate and lent the king 10000. markes vpon Iewels Lord Maior one yeare Nicholas Wotton Draper Lord Maior one yeare Henry Barton Skinner who first ordayned Lanthorn and Candle-light in the winter Euenings from Hallontide to Candlemasse Lorde Maior one yeare Richard Marlow Iremonger againe Lorde Maior one yeare William Seuenoke Grocer who founded a free Schoole and Almes houses at Seuenoke in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Richard Whittington mercer of whose worthy déeds we haue else where spoken Lord Maior again one yeare William Cambridge Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Robert Chicheley Grocer againe L. Maior one yeare He gaue the plot of ground to builde the parish church of S. Stephens in Walbrooke thereon In his time died king Henry the fifte and King Henry the sixt began his raigne the 31 of August 1422. William walderne mercer again Lord Maior one yeare Newgate was then builded by Richard Whittingtons executors William Cromar Draper againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Michell Fishmonger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Couentrie mercer Lord Maior one year Iohn Reinwell Fishm lord maior one yeare Iohn Gidney Draper Lord Maior one yeare Henry Barton Skinner againe Lorde Maior one yeare William East-field mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Nicholas wotton Draper againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Welles Grocer a liberall benefactor for newe building the chappell by Guild-Hald beside of his goodes was builte the Standarde in west-Cheape Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Parneis Fishmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Brokle Draper Lord Maior one yeare Roger Oteley Grocer Lord Maior one year Henry Frowicke Mercer Lâ—de Maior one yeare Iohn Michell Fishmonger againe L. Maior one yeare Sir VVilliam East-field mercer who was made a Knight of the Bathe and gaue great bounty to rhe Water conduits Lorde Maior againe one yeare Stephen Browne Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Robert Large mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Paddesley Gold-smith mint-maister Lord Maior one yeare Robert Cloptoâ— Draper Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Hatherley Ironmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Catworth Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Henry Frowicke mercer in whose time Pauls Steeple was fiered with lightning and hardlye quenched Lord Maior againe one yeare Sir Simon Eyre Draper who builded Leaden Hal for a common Granary to the city c. Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Olney mercer Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Sidney Draper Lord Maior one yeare Stephen Browne Grocer againe Lord Maior one yeare Thomas Chalton mercer in whose time happened the Rebellion of Iack Cade of Kent Lord Maior one yearâ— Nicholas VVilford Grocer lorde Maior one yeare William Gregory Skinner lord Maior one yeare Godfrey Filding mercer who was made one of the counsell to King Henry the sixt and King Edward the fourth lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Draper who was the firste maior that was rowed by water to westminster for till that time they rode thither on horseback lord Maior one yeare Stephen Foster Fishmonger who enlarged Ludgate Lord Maior one yeare William Marrow Grocer lorde Maior one yeare Tâ—omas Canning Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Godfrey Boloine mercer who gaue a 1000. li. to poore housholders in London c. lord Maior one yeare Thomas Scot Draper lord Maior one yeare William Hulin Fishmonger lord Maior one yeare Richard Lee Grocer lord Maior one yeare In his time began King Henry the sixt his troubles and King Edward the fourth entered hys raigne the fourth of March 1460. Hugh witch mercer lord Maior one yeare Thomas Cooke Draper made knight of the Bath in the fifte yeare of King Edward the 4. Lord maior one yeare Mathew Phillip Gold-smith made Knight of the Bath the fift yeare of Edward the fourth and afterward knighted in field the tenth of Edward the fourth Lord
maior one yeare Raphe Ioceline Draper Knight of the Bath and knighted also in field Lord maior one yeare Raph Verney mercer Lord Maior one yeare Henry weauer one of the Sheriffes of London was then made knight of the Bath Iohn Yong Grocer knighted in the field L. Maior one yeare Tho. Oâ—dgraue Skinner L. Mayor 1. year William Tayler Grocer L. Maior one yeare Richard Lee Grocer againe lord Maior one yeare In whose time the Tower of London being deliuered to him and his brethren they released King Henry the sixt thence Iohn Stockton mercer who worthily withstanding the Bastard Fauconbridge hee with eleuen Aldermen Thomas Vrswick then Recorder were all knighted in the fielde by K. Edward the fourth Lord Maior one yeare William Edwards Grocer L. Maior 1. year Sir william Hampton Fishmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Tate mercer lord maior one yeare In his time the Sheriffes of London were appointed to haue seuerally 16. Sergeants each Sergeant his Yeoman Then also was ordained sixe Clearkes viz. a Secondary a Clarke of the Papers and foure other Clarkes beside the vnder-Sheriffes Clarkes Robert Drope Draper L. Maior one yeare Robert Basset Salter L. Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Ioceline Draper knight of the Bath lord maior one yeare Humfrey Hayford Gold-smith lord maior one yeare Richard Gardener mercer lord maior one year Sir Bartholmew Iames Draper Knighted in field and who newly builded the great Conduit in West-Cheape lord maior one yeare Iohn Browne mercer lorde maior one yeare William Hariot Draper lord maior one year Edmund Shaa Goldsmith who builded Cripplesgate lord maior one yeare Then beganne the raigne of King Edward the fift son to King Edward the fourth but preuented by the cruell vsurpation of his Vncle Richard Duke of Glocester who began his raign the 22. day of Iune 1483. And because many haue often desired to know the country and parentage of our Lord Maiors of London in regard that diuers worthy houses haue descended of them my purpose was to haue examined our ancient Recordes from the verye beginning of that honourable dignity and so to haue pursued the tract thereof by reporting each mans Fathers name and Country euen to this instant Wherein I haue had the most laborious and painfull helpe of my especiall kind friende maister W. Williams And shaping our course from the present gouernment of sir William Crauon hoping to haue reached the maine height of our purpose euen to Henry Fitz-Alwin c. We could procéed no further backward then the raign of king Richard the third where I will now begin with their country and parents and so heereafter go on with the rest if this great labor may be but fauourably accepted ¶ The raigne of King Richard the third RObert Billisdon Haberdasher Sonne to Alexander BillisdoÌ„ of Queeningborough in the Countie of Leicester Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Hill Grocer Sonne to William Hil of Hilston in the Countie of Kent Sir William Stocker Draper sonne to Thomas Stocker of Eton in the Countie of Bedford And Iohn Ward Grocer son to Richard Ward of Howdon in the Countie of Yorke These thrée Maiors were all in this one yeare by reason a sweating sicknesse And King Richard being slaine at Bosworth-field Henry the seauenth began his raigne the 22. of August 1485. Hugh Brice Gold-smith Sonne to Richard Brice of Dubline in Ireland Lorde Maior one yeare Henry Collet Mercer son to Robert Collet of Windouer in the Countie of Buckingham Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Horne Salter made Knight in the field by King Henry the seauenth was son to Thomas Horne of Snaylewell in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Robert Tate Mercer Sonne to Thomas Tate of the Cittie of Couentry Lord Maior one yeare William White Draper son to Wil. White of Tickhill in the Countie of York Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Mathew Linnen-Draper and translated to the Mercers Sonne to Thomas Mathew of Sherington in the Countie of Buckingham Lord Maior one yeare Hugh Clopton Mercer son to Iohn Clopton of Stratford vppon Auon in the Countie of Warwicke where the saide Hugh builded the goodlie Stone-Bridge Lord Mayor one yeare William Martine Skinner sonne to Walter Martin of the Countie of Hertford Lord Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Ostrich Fish-Monger knighted by Henry the seauenth sonne to Henry Ostrich of Hitchin in the Countie of Hertford lord Maior one yeare Richard Chawry Salter Son to William Chawry of Westram in Kent Lord Mayor one yeare Henry Collet Mercer again Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tate Mercer sonne to Thomas Tate of Couentry and Brother to Robert Tate Maior forenamed Lord Mayor one yeare This Iohn Tate Robert Sheffielde Recorder and both the Sheriffes were knighted in the fielde by King Henry the seauenth for theyr good seruice against the Rebelles at Black-Heath Fielde William Purchas Mercer son to Iohn Purchas of Gamelinghey in the County of Cambridge Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Perciuall Merchant-Taylor knighted in field by King Henry the seuenth sonne to Roger Perciuall of London L. Maior one year Nicholas Aldwine Mercer Son to Richard Aldwine of Spalding in Lincolnshire lord Maior one yeare Hee gaue twelue pence a péece to 3000. poore people in London and the like to as many in Spalding William Remington Fish-Monger son to Robert Remington of Boston in Lincolneshire Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Shaa Gold-smith son to Iohn Shaa of Rochford in Essex Lord Maior one yeare Hee was made Knight in the fielde by King Henry the seauenth and hee caused the Aldermen his Bretheren to ride from the Guilde-Hall to the Thames side when he took Bardge to Westminster where he was sworne by the Kinges Councell He first kept Court alone in the afternoon for redresse of matters called before him Bartholmew Reade Gold-smith son of Roger Reade of Crowmer in Norffolke L. Maior one yeare William Capell Draper son of Iohn Capell of Stokeneyland in Suffolke Lorde Maior one yeare He was knighted by King Henry the seauenth And he first caused Cadges to be set vp in euery Ward for punishment of Rogues and vagabonds Iohn Winger Grocer son to William Winger of Leicester Lord Maior one yeare Thomas Knesworth Fish-Monger sonne to Iohn Knesworth of Knesworth in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Haddon Mercer son of VVilliam Haddon Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior one yeare VVilliam Browne Mercer Sonne of Iohn Browne Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior for one part of the yeare and Laurance Ailmer Draper Sonne of Thomas Ailmer of Ellesnam in Essex Lorde Maior for the other part Stephen Iennings Merchant-Taylor sonne to VVilliam Iennings of VVolnerhampton in Staffordshire where hee builded a frée Schoole worthily
yet maintained by the Merchant-Taylors and the greater part of S. Andrews Vnder-shaft Parish Church in London Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Bradbury Mercer sonne to VVilliam Bradbury of Branghing in Hertfordshire Lord Maior part of the yeare and Sir VVilliam Capell the rest wherein dyed King Henry the seauenth and Henry the eight his sonne began his raigne the 22. of Aprill 1509. Henry Keble Grocer son to George Keble of London Cittizen and Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Roger Acheley Draper sonne to Thomas Acheley of Stanwardine in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir VVilliam Coppinger Fish-Monger son to VValter Coppinger of Buckseill in Suffolk And Sir Richard Haddon Mercer were Lord Maiors this yeare by seuerall partes each after other William Browne Mercer sonne to Iohn Browne Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior one yeare George Monox Draper borne in London Lord Mayor one yeare Sir William Butler Grocer son to Richard Butler of Bindenham in Bedfordshire Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Reest Grocer sonne to William Reest of Peterborow in Northamptonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Exmew Golde-smith sonne to Richard Exmew of Ruthin in Cheshire Lorde Maior one yeare he made the Water-Conduite in London wall by Moore-gate c. Thomas Mirfin Skinner sonne to George Mirfin of Elie in Cambridgeshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Iames Yardford Mercer sonne to William Yardford of Kidwelley in Wales L. Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Brugge Draper sonne to Thomas Brugge of Dymmocke in Glocestershire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Milborne Draper son to Iohn Milborne of Long-Melford in Suffolke L. Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Mundy Gold-Smith son to William Mundy of Wycomb in Buckinghamshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Baldry Mercer son to Richard Baldry of Stow-market in Suffolke Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Baylie Draper son to Iohn Baylie of Thackstead in Essex Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Allen Mercer son to Richard Allen of Thackstead in Essex Lorde Mayor two yeares Sir Thomas Seymor Mercer sonne to Iohn Seymor of London Fish-Monger who was Sonne to Robert Seymor of Walden in Essex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iames Spencer Vintoner son to Robert Spencer of Congleton in Cheshire Lord Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Rudstone Draper son to Robert Rudstone of Hatton in Yorkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Dodmer Mercer son to Henrie Dodmer of Pickering-Leigh in Yorkshire béeing frée of the Brewers he was from them translated to the Mercers and Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Thomas Pargitor Salter sonne to Iohn Pargitor of Chipping-norton in Oxfordshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Nicholas Lambert Grocer son to Edmond Lambert of Wilton in Wiltshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Stephen Peacock Haberdasher sonne to Stephen Peacock of the Citty of Dublin Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Christopher Askew Draper son to Iohn Askew of Edmonton in Middlesex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Champneis Skinner sonne to R. Campneis of Chew in Somersetshire Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Allen Mercer againe Lord Maior one yeare and made a priuy Counceller to the King for his great wisedome Sir Raphe Warren Mercer son to Thomas Warren of London Fuller who was sonne to William Warren of Fering in Essex L. Maior one yeare Sir Richard Gresham Mercer son to Iohn Gresham of Holte in Norffolke Lorde Maior one yeare Sir William Forman Haberdasher sonne to Willi◠Forman of Gainsburgh in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Hollis of London Mercer L. Maior one yeare Sir William Roche Draper sonne to Iohn Roche of Wixley in Yorkshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Michaell Dormer Mercer son to Geffrey Dormer of Tame in Orfordshire L. Maior one yeare Iohn Cootes Salter son to Thomas Coots of Bearton in Buckinghamshire Lorde Maire one yeare Sir William Bowyer Draper son to William Bowyer of Harston in Cambridgshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Laxton Grocer sonne to Iohn Laxton of Yongdel in Northamptonshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Martin Bowes Golde-Smith sonne to Thomas Bowes of Yorke Citty Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Henry Hubberthorne Merchant-Taylor son to Christopher Hubberthorne of VVadingworth in Lincolnshire L. Maior one year In whose time died King Henry the 8. and King Edward the sixt began his raigne the 28. of Ianuary 1546. Sir Iohn Gresham Mercer son to Iohn Gresham of Holte in Norffolke Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Henry Amcotes Fish-Monger son to William Amcotes of Astrap in Lincolnshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Rowland Hill Mercer sonne to Thomas Hill of Hodnet in Shropshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Andrew Iudde Skinner son to Iohn Iud of Tonebridge in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Dobbes Skinner son to Robert Dobbes of Baitby in Yorkeshire L. Maior one yeare Sir George Barne Haberdasher sonne to George Barne Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas White Merchant-Taylor son to Thomas White of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire Lord maior one yeare Then died king Edward and Queene Mary began her raign the 6. day of Iuly 1553. This sir Thomas White founded S. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxenford and gaue 2000. li. to the Citty of Bristoll to purchase 100. and 20. li. land yearely c. Sir Thomas Lyon Grocer son to Iohn Lyon of Peryfare in Middlesex Lorde Maior one yeare Sir William Gerard Haberdasher sonne to Iohn Gerard Cittizen and Grocer of London who was son to William Gerard of Seddingbourne in Kent Lord Maior one year Sir Thomas Offley Merchant-Taylor sonne to VVilliam Offley of the Citty of Chester lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Curteis Fish-Monger sonne to Iohn Curteis of Enfield in Middlesex he was frée of the Pewterers and from them translated to the Fish-Mongers Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Leigh Mercer sonne to Roger Leigh of VVillington in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare In which yeare died Quéene Mary and Quéene Elizabeth began her princely raigne the seauentéenth day of Nouember 1558. Sir William Huet Cloth-worker son to Edmond Huet of Wales in Yorkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Chester Draper sonne to Iohn Chester Cittizen and Draper of London Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Harper Merchant-Taylor son to William Harper of the Towne of Bedford lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Lodge Grocer son to William Lodge of Cresset in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Iohn White Grocer Sonne to Robert White of Farnam in Surry Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Richard Malory Mercer son to Anthony Malory of Papworthamus in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Champion Draper son to Richard Champion of Godilming in Surrey Lord maior one yeare Sir Chtistopher Draper Iron-monger son to Iohn Draper of Melton Mowbrey Lord Maior one yeare
Sir Roger Martin Mercer son to Laurance Martine of Melford in Suffolke Lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Roe Merchant-Taylor son to Robert Roe Cittizen and Merchant-Taylor of London who was son to Reiginald Roe of Lee in Kent lord maior one yeare Sir Alexander Auenand Iron-monger son to Robert Auenand of Kings-Norton in Worcestershire Lorde maior one yeare Sir Rowland Heyward Cloth-worker sonne to George Heiward of Bridge-north in Shropshire Lord Maior one year Sir William Allen Mercer son to William Allen Cittizen and Pasteller of London who was son to Richard Allen of Stondon in Hertfordshire Lord Mayor one yeare Sir Lionell Ducket Mercer son to William Ducket of Flynton in Nottinghamshire Lorde maior one yeare Sir Iohn Riuers Grocer son to Richard Riuers of Penseherst in Kent L. Maior one yeare Sir Iames Hawes Cloth-worker son to Thomas Hawes Cittizen and Merchant of London who was son to Iohn Hawes of Stokenwenton in Middlesex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Ambrose Nicholas Salter sonne to Iohn Nicholas of Nedingworth in Huntingdonshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Langley Gold-Smith son to Robert Langley of Althrop in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Ramsey Grocer sonne to Iohn Ramsey of Elenbridge in Kent lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Pipe Draper sonne to Richard Pipe of Wolnerhampton in Staffordshire hée was frée of the Leather-sellers and from them translated to the Drapers Lord Maior one year Sir Nicholas Woodroue Haberdasher son to Dauid Woodroue Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was son to Iohn Woodroue of the Parish of Vscombe in Deuonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Branche Draper sonne to Iohn Branche Cittizen and Draper of London who was son to Iohn Branch of Laynham in Suffolk Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iames Haruey Iron-monger son to William Haruey of Cotwalton in Staffordshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Blanke Haberdasher sonne to Thomas Blanke Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was sonne to Thomas Blancke of Guildford in Surry Lord Maior one yeare Sir Edward Osborne Cloth-worker sonne to Richard Osborne of Ashford in Kent Lorde Maior one year Sir Thomas Pulloccill Draper son to William Pulloccill of Fotescray in Kent lord Maior one yeare Sir Wolstane Dixie Skinner son to Thomas Dixie of Catworth in Huntingdonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir George Barne Haberdasher son to Sir George Barne Knight Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lorde Maior one yeare Sir George Bond Haberdasher sonne of R. Bond of Trull in Somersetshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Martine Calthrop Cittizen and Draper of London Lord Maior for part of the yeare and Richard Martine Gold-smith for the rest Sir Iohn Hart Grocer son of Raphe Hart of Sproston Court in Yorkshire L. Maior one year Sir Iohn Allot Fish-Monger son to Richard Allot of Lymbergh in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one part of the yeare and Sir Rowland Heywerd the rest Sir William Webbe Salter Sonne to Iohn Webbe of Reading in Barkshire lord Maior one yeare Sir William Roe Iron-monger Sonne to Thomas Roe of Penseherst in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Sir Cutbbert Buckle Vintoner son to Christopher Buckle of Bourgh in Westmerland L. Maior for part of the yeare and sir Richard Martine Goldsmith the rest This sir Richard Martine was sonne to Thomas Martine of Saffron VValden in Essex Sir Iohn Spenser Cloth-worker son to Rich. Spenser of Waldinfield in Suffolke Lord Maior one yeare Sir Stephen Slaney Skinner sonne to Iohn Slaney of Mitton in Staffordshire Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Skinner Cloth-worker son to Iohn Skinner of Walden in Essex Lorde Maior for part of the yeare and sir Henry Billingsley Haberdasher the rest This sir Henrie Billingsley was sonne to William Billingsley Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was sonne to Roger Billingsley of the Citty of Canterbury in Kent Sir Richard Saltonstall Skinner son to Gilbert Saltonstal of Hallyfax in Yorkeshire Lord Mayor one year Sir Stephen Soame Grocer son to Thomas Soame of Bradley in Suffolke Lord Maior one year He was frée of the Girdlers and from them translated to the Grocers Sir Nicholas Mosley Cloth-worker sonne to Edward Mosley of Hough in Lancashire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Ryder Haberdasher sonne to Thomas Ryder of Muckleston in Staffordshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gerard Haberdasher son to sir William Gerard Knight Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lorde maior one yeare Sir Robert Lee Merchant-Taylor sonne to Humphrey Lee of Bridge-north in Shropshire Lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Benet Mercer sonne to Thomas Benet of Wallingford in Barkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Low Haberdasher son to Simon Low Cittizen and Merchant-Tailor of London who was sonne to Raphe Low of London Gentleman Lord Maior one yeare Sir Leonard Holyday Merchant-Taylor son to William Holyday of Redborow in Glocestershire Lord maior one yeare Sir Iohn Wats Cloth-worker sonne to Thomas Wats of Buntingford in Hertfordshire Lord maior one year Sir Henry Roe Mercer sonne to sir Thomas Roe Knight Cittizen and Merchant-Taylor of London Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Humphrey Welde Grocer son to Iohn Welde of Eaton in Cheshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Cambell Iron-Monger son to Robert Cambell of Fulsam in Norffolk Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Crauon Merchant-Taylor son to William Crauon of Appletreewick in Yorkshire Lord Maior now gouerning to whom with the rest of his worthy Brethren I wish all health and happinesse Since the time also of King Richard the third these Gentlemen haue born office in this Citty according to their names and places ¶ Recorders of this Citty M. HVmphrey Statkey Esquire M. Thomas Fitz-Williams Esquire Sir Robert Sheffield Knight M. Iohn Chaloner Esquire M. Robert Brooke Esquire M. Shelley Esquire M. Baker Esquire M. Roger Cholmeley Esquire M. Richard Onslow Esquire M. Thomas Bromeley Esquire M. VVilliam Fleetwood Esquire M. Edward Coke Esquire M. Edward Drew Esquire M. Thomas Fleming Esquire M. Iohn Crooke Esquire Sir Henry Montague Knight Common Sergeants of this Citty M. Robert Moloneux Esquire M. Iohn Haugh Esquier Thomas Higham M. Thomas Frowick Esquire M. Thomas Marow Esquire M. Iohn Greene Esquire M. VVhite Esquire M. VValsingham Esquire M. VVonley Esquire M. Robert Sothwell Esquire M. Robert Brooke Esquire M. Atkins Esquire M. Marsh Esquire M. Randall Esquire M. Thomas Kirton Esquire M. Thomas Wilbraham Esquire M. Richard Wheeler Esquire ¶ Chamberlaines of this Citty M. WIlliam Phillip Esquire M. Miles Adys M. VVilliam Purhas M. William Milborne M. Nicholas Mattock M. George Medley M. Thomas Haies M. Iohn Sturgeon M. George Heaton M. Iohn Mabbe M. Robert Brandon M. Thomas Wilford M. Cornelius Fish ¶ Common-Clearkes or Towne-Clearkes M. WIlliam Dunthorne M. Nicholas Pakenham M. Walter Stub M. William Pauior M. Thomas Rushton M.
liberty The deedes of Clodion for enlarging his Kingdome 450 The beginning of the Kinges of France in generation Attila with his Hunnes inuaded Gaule The â—ight of Attila out of Oval When Gaul began to be cald Francâ— 460 The incontinent life of Childerick Childebert wronged his dearest frend The first Christian K. of France The Romaines Dominion ended in France How Clouis conuerted and becam a Christian by means of his Queene The Emperour sent Clouis a Crowne of Gold 515. Foure kings raigning together in France Clothaire Childebert warre in Spaine 559 Clothaire Sole-Monarch of the Gaules 567 Cherebert an vnchast King 157 Fredegond Concubine to Chilperick Fâ—edegonde caused the King to bee murdered 587 Childebert seeketh to reuenge his fathers death Fredegonde a woman of great spirit Brunehault executed 631. The building of the Church of S. Denis Iewes banished out of France 645 The treachery of Grimoald Maire of the Pallace Clouis sole Monarch of the Gaules The care of Clouis for feeding the poore 663 The Maires of the Pals lace ouerrule the Kings 666 Childerick was slaine in hunting and his Q. also 680 Landresill murdered by Ebroin Pepin Heristel Maire of the Pallace 694. The woorthy deeds of Pepin Heristell 698 The power and authority of Pepin Heristel Charles Martell Bastard sonne to Pepin Heristell 716. Hermanfroy Maire of the Pallace Hermanfroy preuailed against Thibaulte 720 Charls Martell maire great Gouernour of France 722 The subtle pollicy of Charls Martell 727 Charles Martel ruled the whol kingdome Charles Martell made a gret slaughter of the Sarrazins 741 The death of Charles Martel who left three Sonnes Pepin maketh means to inioy the Kingdome The death of Childerick and his wife 751 Pepin aideth Rome against the Lombards Pepin instituted the Court of parliament Robert the Deuill 768 Charlemain made Emp of the west And the first that was called most Christian King The ending of the Lombards kingdome The vnfortunate battaile of Ronceuaux The twelue Peeres of Fraunce 816 Great difference betweene the Sonne and Father The sons in Armes against theyr father and their vsage to him The Lordes of Fraunce release their Emperour 843 The Normans became Maisters almost of all France K. Charles poysoned by his phisition 879 The Pope escaped out of prison 881 The base sons of Lewes made Kings The strange death of both the Kinges 186 A dishonorable composition with the Normans A great slâ—ughter of the Normans Charles le Gros expulsed from the Empire kingdom 891 Charles the Simple sent for out of England crowned K. 900 Neustria now named Normandy Charles coÌ„pelled to resigne his Kingdome 927 Hugh the great Couâ—t of Paris Lewes d' Outremer or of beyond-Sea Raoull died very strange lie 929. Hebert Earl of Vermandois executed 956 The death of Hugh the great Earl of Paris 986 Charls duke of Lorraine seeketh to be King D. Charles disabled by Hugh Capet 987 D. Charles and his wife Children surprized by treason 997 The vertues of Robert son to Hugh Capet His Wiues children 1030. The ending of the kingdome of Burgundy The King of the Russians 1061. The conquest of England by William the Bastard 1110 The Pope flieth for refuge into France Knights Templers Chartreux Monkes 1138 1300. persons â—uâ—ned in a church A marriage betweene England France 1181. Vertuous deedes in a King Fifty thousand men slain in one battaile 1224 1227 Peace between Englande and France Peazants ariâ—e and do great hurt in France K. of France cald a Saint 1271 The Sicili-Vespres 1286. A Booke written by the King The Popes Buls against the King burned The Popes See was brought to Auignon 1314 Enguerrand executed at Mont-faucon 1316. Marriages make peace in France Another rising of Peazants in France 1321 Iourdain de l'Isle hanged at Paris 1328. The Battell of Crecy great losse of the French 1350. King Iohn as a prisoner brought into England 1364. Fiue armies at one time againste the English The Bibles first verssion into the French tongue 1380 〈…〉 Factions in the Court of France The King of England crowned in France 1423 Ioane the Pucelle of France 1461 The order of S. Michael instituted 1484. The Kingdom of Naples wonne by the French 1499 The kingdome of Naples reconquered Gaston de Foix. 1515 The King carried prisoner into Spaine The English wonne Bullen 1547. S. Laurance day at Saint Quintines King Henry hurt in â—â—lting died soone after 155â— The tumult of Amboise 1560 Anthony of Bourbon Lieutenant Generall The bloudy massacre at Paris 1574 The holy League or Vnion The King murdered by a Iacobine Fryer 1589. Iacques Clement Francis Rauilliart 1610. * A people neere to the Seâ—thians Battauia is Holland Zeland named by Zelandus 863 The two Sonnes of Counte Haghen Thierry Earl of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland The Frizelanders rebell againe A dreadfull Comet Ecclipses and earthquakes Adelbold Byshop of Vtrecht 1039. The Bishops of Cullen and Liege 1048. Two millitary Stratagems 1063. Robert the Frizon Robert Earl of Flanders 1077 The Crook backt duke of Lorraine The Fryzons conquered in two battels 1119 Dider duke of Sauoy 1133 Lotharius Conrade Emperors 11â—3 Earledomes of Ostergo Westergoe 1166 The Dam or Sluce called dogs Sluce 1208. L. William of Holland 1198. 1203. The gouernmet of a Woman despised Women beat Men with Distaues and stones 121â— Edmund of Lancaster son to the K. of England The wonderful birth of 365. Children This History is auouched for a truth by diuers good Authors Earle William king of the Romans K. William cruelly slain 1290 The History of the death of Earle Floris Aseuere râ—uenge for the Earles death 1297 Wolfart of Borssele his secret intention 1300 The end of the race of the Dukes of Aquitain and succession of the Earles of Henault 1301. Iohn de Reuesse drowned 1305 The good Earle william 1316 A wonderfull dearth A straunge example of an vnmercifull Sister A worthy action of Iustice don by this good Earle William 1337 Earle William a worthy souldier 1338 1342 Robert of Arckel gouernour of Vtrecht 1346 Margaret the Empresse Princesse of Holland The factions of Cabillaux and Hoecks 1351. A grear effufion of bloud Mathilda daughter to Henry duke of Lancaster 1358 The Barons of Eughien beheaded 1368. A Sea Woman seen in the Zuyderzee 1401 1404 Phillip the bold Duke of Burgundy 1417 Iohn of Bauaria Byshop of Liege Iohn of Bauaria the Bishop reckoned the 29. Earl of Holland 1463 The Titles of Phillip Duke of Bourgogne The order of the golden Fliece instituted 1467. The Art of printing first inuented The warlike Duke of Bourgogne The Earle of Campobachio 1477 The Duke of Gueldres slaine 1479 Newe tumults of the Cabillaux and Hoecks 1482 Engelbert earl of Nassawe 1491 1494 The Titles of Phillip Arch-duke oâ— Austria 1497 1503 Iane daughter to Isabel married to the Arch-duke Phillip 1505 1506 1508 1515 1519 1520 Lady Margaret sole Gouernesse 1526 1531. Mary of Austria 1554. 1549.
but he did as much to the men sent by Lewes sirnamed Gods guift king of France So that in a short while so great a number of the French perrished by falshood and Treason that the name of Manuell became odious among the French Roger entred in earnest vpon the Countrey of Greece besieged Constantinople and with a gallant brauado culled many floures of gold and siluer out of the Emperors garden Manuell offered outrage to an Ambassador of Venice and in one day surprised all their Marchants whom he had betraied vnder the colour of peace for which the Venetians constrained him afterward dearly to buy his owne peace He made warre against the Turks wherein he was almost taken And after hee had raigned eight and thirty yeares hee liued as a Monke and died of a grieuous disease Alexius the sonne of Manuell helde the Empire after him in the yeare 1180. vnder Andronicus his coosin-germain who then was his Tutor afterward his companion in the empire and at last his murderer for secretly he caused his hed to be cut off and threw his body into the Sea he being but fifteen yeares old Andronicus Comnenes the sonne of Isaake entred on the empire of Constantinople after his coosine germain Alexius whom cruelly he had caused to be murdered in the yeare 1183. William king of Sicily made warre vpon him to reuenge the death of Alexius And as he was assailed on all sides Isaacke sirnamed the Angell contrary to all opinion came so suddenly vpon him that he not onely foiled him but deiected him from the empyre and hauing seized vpon his person hee caused one of his eies to be pulled out and then set him vppon an Asse with his face backward crowning him with a wreath of rotten Garlicke or Onions and holding the stalke of one of them in his hand in stead of a Scepter In this order was he shewen through the Citty of Constantitinople men women and children doing many iniuries vnto him casting both durt and filth in his face smiting him also with stones and staues In this manner being cruelly bruised and murdered he was hanged vp when yet the women would not leaue him so but dismembred him into the smallest pieces Isaack the Angell tooke the empyre on him after Andronicus in the yeare 1185. He qualified the tyrranie of many and entertained magnificently Frederick Emperor of Rome who passed into Syria Hee redéemed with a great sum of mony his younger brother Alexius whoe most vnthankefully bereft him both of his eies and Empire because he séemed to fauour the Venetians He kept him likewise in prison vntill that Alexius the sonne of Isaac in despite of his vncles mallice by tears and faire intreats obtained succour of the French and the Venetians wherewith he deliuered his Father who very soon after died hauing taken too much the fresh ayre after his so long close imprisonment Alexius the Angell murderer of his Brother Isaac helde the Empire of Constantinople after him in the yeare 1195. He was most wicked cruelly handled his elder brother onely to vsurpe the Empire The like hee would haue doone to his Nephew Alexius who escaping from him was carried by Sea into Dalmatia where hee found the Nobility of France with Baldwin and the Venetians whom he moued to warre against his vncle promising them thirty thousand marks of gold and all kind of victuals if his imprisoned father or himselfe might by their meanes regaine the Empyre Hereupon those valiant lords hoysed saile towards Constantinople and tooke it hauing first broken the chain which thwarted the Sea Alexâ—us saued himselfe by flight Isaac was deliuered out of prison who died soone after and his sonne Alexius the younger was elected Emperor Alexius the yonger being sonne to Isaac was seated in the Empire in the yeare 1204. by an agreement made betwéene him and the French and Venetians It is said that then it was sought to haue the Patriarch of Constantinople subiect inferior to the Pope of Rome and that the Emperor should recompence the French and Venetians for the damages which Manuell had doone vnto them But scarcely was he entred into his gouernment of the Empire and employing his paines to accomplish his promises when as Murziphilus no Noble man yet one whom he hadde aduanced to great authority killed him And so this yong and innocent Prince died by Treason Murziphilus finding his sinne much misliked in the night time fledde away with his Wife his strumpets and treasure yet not long after hee was brought backe againe from Morea as a Captiue to Constantinople where he died miserably By this meanes both the Citty and empire of Greece remained to the French and Baldwine was the first Emperour of the French Nation Baldwine Earle of Flanders was after Alexius the younger elected emperour of Constantinople by all the warlike souldiors of Flaunders as also the Marquesse of Montferrat of Sauoy and of Venice in the year 1205. Before this election there was a condition thus determined That if the emperor who was to be elected should be of the French the Venetians should make a Patriarch as it happened Baldwine then recouered all that belonged to the Empire of Constantinople except Adrianople which Theodor kinsman to Alexius the murderer held as his wiues dowry and kept there his Empire But as the French laide siege thereto and were vpon the very point of surprizing it Baldwine was there taken and put to death hauing scarsly gouerned one yeare Henry the brother of Baldwine was made Emperor after him Hee pursued the besieging and assault of Adrianople but the Sarazins comming to succour it he retyred to Constantinople which then he strongly fortified He made peace and alliance with the Vallachians tooke their Dukes daughter in marriage and both farre off and at home guided all affaires prouidently Hee constituted William son to Boniface K. of Thessaly soon after his fathers death leauing his daughter Iolanta as his heyre who was married vnto Peter of Auxerre that succéeded him in the Empire Peter de Courtnay or to speake better of France being the yongest sonne of Lewes le gros and Earle of Auxerre by the meanes and right of his wife Iolanta in reguard that Henry hadde lefte no heyre male succéeded in the Empire of Constantinople the yeare 1216. He returning to Rome after his Coronation besieged Baudras in fauour of the Venetians But it proued in vaine for at a gallaunt Banquet hee was beheaded by Theodor Lascarus who called himselfe Emperor of Adrianople and of the Graecians This trechery was performed vnder the shadow of a feigned peace with a faithfull promise made vpon a false Oath Others say that Lascarus had laid ambushes in the Forrest of Thessaly in the place called Tempe and that he surprised Peter in such manner shutting him vp in Captiuity and that so he died His wife Iolanta during this his thraldom held the Empyre two yeares Robert sonne to the
the Turkish Emperors because they are said to raigne very little time or not at all Mahometh first of that name brother to Iosuah Mustapha and the forenamed Moyses is said notwithstanding the rest to be Emperor of the Turkes in the yeare 1409. There are som that doo attribute only to this man all those matters which are reported of Iosuah or Cyriscelebes He ouer ran the Countries of the Bulgarians Valachians imposing great Tributes and Taxations vpon them Then he entred on the Satrapes of Asya recouering all those places which Tamberlaine had taken He chased out of Galatia and the Countries of Pontus and Cappadocia his own kindred and Allies without extending any pitty to any Princes and Lordes of his owne blood albeit it is true that he left some in their own intire dwellings Being returned into Greece hee came to Adrianople the Metropolitan Citty of Thrace and there he constituted the seate of his Empire expelling thence the Christians that had there any abiding He died in the twelft yeare of his Empire which is reckoned to be in the yeare 1418. leauing his sonne Amurath the second to be his successor Amurath the second Sonne to the forenamed Mahometh succéeded his Father in the Turkish Empire in the yeare 1418. He vnderstanding the death of his father and desiring to passe from Asya into Thrace vanquished his Vncle Mustapha to whom the Gréeks gaue fauour and succour He was the first that for the guard of his person made election of Christian Renegados to bee his Ianissaries by the power and courage of whom both he and his successors haue subdued almost the whole East He assailed with his forces and did great dammages to the Countries of Hungaria Bosnia Albania Valachia Greece He tooke Thessalonica from the Venetians He had victory against Ladislaus King of Poland against the Cardinall Iulian and against Huniades He held the Empire or Kingdome of the Turks for the space of 32. yeares and then left it to Mahomet his Sonne Mahomet the second Emperor of the Turks succéeded his Father Amurath in the year 1450. He began his reigne as an Homicide causing his younger Brother to be murthered because his fathers body should not be buried alone He was a most wicked and sinfull man not beléeuing in any God For he would say that his Mahomet was a false Prophet like vnto himselfe made a mockery of the Saintes Prophets and Patriarches He woon and left the sirname of Great to the house of the Otthomans Hee ruyned the Empyre of Constantinople which he seized by assault the 29. day of May 1453. as hath béene already declared in the report of the life of Constantine the eleauenth togither with the Empire of Trebisonde He tooke twelue kingdomes two hundred Citties from the Christians in the year 1479. He besieged the Isle of Rhodes which was then held by the knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem but his labour was in vaine for it was couragiously defended by the said Knights their great maister Peter d'Aubusson or d'Ambois a French man At length he died of the Collick the fourth day after he sickened hauing liued 58. yeares reigned one and thirty Baiazeth second of that name and sonne to Mahomet the second by meanes of the Ianissaries was made Emperor of the Turkes in the yeare 1481. He conquered and expulsed Zizim his younger brother whom the chiefest Lordes would haue had to be Emperour but hee beeing fled for refuge to the Isle of Rhodes the great master of the Knights sent him to King Charles the eight Baiazeth vanquished Caraman and recouered all whatsoeuer hee hadde gotten from the Turkes on either side of the Mount Taurus He subdued Valachia and so went on against the Sultane of Aegipt who was too strong for him For hauing receiued the fugitiue Mamelukes after the death of Caraman and entertaining besides a great number of Arabes for his defence oftentimes hee conquered and put Baiazeth to flight Afterward Baiazeth subiected the Inhabitants of the Ceraunian Mountaines and tooke from the Venetians Lepanto Modon and Duraz. In the end his youngest sonne Selim whoe by means of the Ianissaries had gotten preferment before the eldest and was declared to be Emperor in his fathers life time enforced him to flight and afterward poisoned him in the yeare 1512. at the very same time when the battell of Rauenna was fought vnder the happy reigne of King Lewes the twelfth Selim hauing expulsed and after poisoned his Father because he liued too long was Emperour of the Turkes in the yeare 1512. To this parracide he added the murder of his brethren Achmet and Corcuthus and caused seauen of his Nephewes to be strangled that were the Children of his brothers He conquered and expelled the Sophi of Persya and in diuers battels discomfited the two Souldanes Campson and Tomombeus with the Mamelukes and Arabes Hee added Aegipt and Arabia to his Empire and tooke the great Cayro Then returning home to his countrey of Greece an vlcer ingendred in his Raines which increasing continually like a Canker procured his death in the eight yeare of his reygne Anno 1519. Soliman whom some tearme to be the second of that name Emperor of the Turks carried that name as is said because he very wisely prouided for all affaires whereunto the yssue of them was also as correspondent For this name of Soliman by som transposed sillables deliuereth the name of Salomon the most renowmed King for Wisedome There was not any before him nor of the race of the Othomans more seuere and valiaunt For the déedes and warres of Soliman came not one iote behinde those of his Father hauing recouered Syria vanquished Gazel that was reuoulted and surprised Belgrade and Rhodes then afterward Buda two seuerall times and put to the worse the Army of Austria that fled away before him And néere vnto Buda had the victory ouer Rokandolphe who had a great Army He vanquished the Spaniards at Castelnoua in Dalmatia and put to flight the Army by Sea which séemed inuinsible In the yeare 1543. he tooke Strigonia and Alba Regalis two worthy Citties of Hungaria He conquered the kingdomes of Assyria and Mesopotamia with the Citty of Babylon that might be compared with Memphis and Aegypt conquered by his Father He ouer-ran and wasted the frontiers of Armenia Medea and Persia and twice tooke Tauris the principall Cittye of Persia chasing the Sophi farre off before him into the mountaines For the rest the Turks themselues doe confesse that for 200. yeares before they neuer had Lord that was a greater Iusticer more sober wise and humane then he was But this humanity ceased in him when he caused his eldest sonne Mustapha to bee strangled to please his Concubine Rosa who desired that hir Sonne Selim might be Emperour after his Father Hee was repulsed by the Emperour Charles the fift when hee came with a powerfull Army to besiege the Citty of Vienna in Austria He
kindes of Théeues as formerly hath bin saâ—â— who name themselues Sarracenis not in regard of Religion or bloud but by an auncient appellation of the said people of whome Ptolomey makes mention and saith that their liuing is in Idumea Amianus Marcellinus in the History of Iulian the Apostat Emperour makes a description of them and saith that Those places more than two hundred yeares before the Originall of Mahomet or of his Alcoran were fully furnished with the said Sarrazins and Assyria afterward euen so farre as the Cataracts of Nylus or the kingdome of Prester Iohn where they vsed the same courses violences thefts vpon merchants and inhabitants of the neighboring Countries according as the Arabes or Alarbes doe at this day Whereupon because that their chiefest habitation was in the Desarts and Mountaines which are in Arabia and the neighbouring quarsers or Countries as Chaldaea Assyria Mesapotamia Suria and Aegipt when the Arabes arose with their new Religion and had frequented the foresaid Regions the néerer Countries supposed that these people were those former Sarazins by ignorance of their Language as also by rashnesse of some Writers who liued then in Suria and since that time in Spaine séeming to haue good knowledge of those people and therefore continually then called Sarazins Moreouer to confirme that vaine appellation those Interpreters in Spaine who by commandement of S. Bernard were appointed to interpret the Alchoran in euery place where they found the vocable Mulsulman which is as much to say in the Arabian tongue as Peaceble and faithfull towards God they interpreted the same Sarraceniâ— or Sarazins This Mulsulman then is the vocable whereby al that beléeue in the Alcoran will be called whether they bee Arabes Syrians Persians Tartars Turks or Moores Whosoeuer then would enter into any peaceable and friendly conference with them albeit none doe hate their name more than the Turks must call them Mulsulmans as we do our selues Christians or faithfull people So are they all named by the Author of the Ismaell or Ismaelitish race and by their Bastard Prophet After our manner and in respect of Religion they term a man Mulsulmam and a woman Mulsulmina or Mulsulminet albeit some say Mussim by a corrupt pronunciation As we may well conceiue by our owne selues who do vse to call those disfigured wanderers that walke among vs with deformed faces and long ilfauored lockes vsing all subtle Thefts piâ—â—eries and legerdumaines they can deuise we nick-name them to be Sarrazins Aegiptians or Gypsies I thus conclude then that when Hystorians write that the Sarrazins inuaded and made vse of Rhodes next of Thrace then of Italy Spaine and other Countries it is to be vnderstood of the Orientall people and Affricanes that were of the Mahometan Religion because they vsed the selfe same cruelties thefts and robberies as the Sarazins of rockie Arabia did And to speak truly all Europe wold at this instant haue bin haunted with those people if they had not béene formerlie expelled and spoiled It remaineth yet freshe in memory that the great Graundfather to Phillip king of Spaine not long since deceased named Ferdinand expulsed them out of the Kingdom of Granado with their king called Melen and he bestowed six whole years together in stout wars onely in foiling them And then the dominion which the Sarazins and Moores held in Spaine had finall conclusion After which time those faith lesse Mahumetists durst neuer presume any more vpon Spaine where they had held the Kingdome of Granado eight hundred yeares Before the said Ferdinand king Alphonsus in the yeare of our Lord 1233. slew in diuers places aboue two hundred thousand of them when they held strong forts and Citties in Spaine which he forced them to forsake and since then haue béene vtterly ruined Henry the Emperour made another great massacre of them in the yeare of Iesus Christ 1010. in Italy expelling them wholy out of that Countrey Among the Sarazins there were not only very generous persons but likewise some men of great learning as Auicen Mesuus Isaac Mansor Auerroes and many others Now as all things haue their vicissitude and alteration by courses so after that the Sarazins had raigned in Africa and partly in Europe for about the space of eight hundred yeares there came a people from diuers parts of Scythia which at this day we call Turks who in lesse than twoe hundred yeares ouercame in Armes those people called Sarazins with many other Christians beside not onely in Asya but in Europe and Affrica And albeit that those Turks were of the same Religion to wit Mahumetists yet did they not abstaine from vexing and troubling them with warre euen in like manner as they did the Christians For in the yeare 1012. they took Ierusalem and all Iudaea from them but the Sarazins of Aegipt recouered them againe and held them for three hundred yeares after Neuerthelesse they were yet againe deiected thence in the year 1517 by the Turks the Sarazins loosing then not onlie Palestine and the Holy-land but likewise Egipt Syria Arabya and the very same Countrey of Idumea where as the Sarazins had their original and are there subiect to the Turkes nowe at this instant For Campson their King lost the daie against Selim Emperor of the Turks and Tomombeus his successour being next chosen to bee King in his place was taken and afterward ignominiouslie strangled in the graund Caire the very principall Citty of Egypt where we may behold the end of the Sarazins not any part of them now remaining except such few as are in the Turks seruility This short discourse giues vs to vnderstand that Sarazins were not all such as are called Mahumetists but they that had their beginning in the Countries of Idumea and the desart or rockie Arabia and all those that being ioined with them commanded vnder them in diuers Countries rendring other Nations subiect to them by Armes Vncill such time as they were exterminate by the people whose Countries they vniustlie vsurped and planted their Religioâ— by war As also at length by the Turkes although they be of the same Religion For warre is maintained among them for desire of soueraignty and ambition euen as well as among vs that are Christians ¶ A briefe Collection of the Byshops and Popes of Rome from the yeare 44. to this instant 1611. With the seuerall Ages of the Church since the Ascension of our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ vp into Heauen OVr Lord Iesus Christ the Nazarite God and man Messias Sauiour of the world Holy of holies Soueraigne and Eternall Highe Priest head of the Church 1 Peter called Cephas borne in Bethsaida the sonne of Iohn and first called of the Apostles is said to hold his seat seauen yeares at Antioch and afterward at Rome xxiiij yeares vnder the Empire of Claudius and Nero who caused him to be crucified in the same place Simon Magus being reputed to be
so weakned and diminished that many other Kingdoms were established in Spaine as that of Nauarre by Enocho Counte of Bigorre in the yeare 960. which he tooke away from the Moores and Sarrazins by a very valiant conquest of them The Son of this Enocho being named Garzias second king of Nauarre woon and conquered Arragon from the same enemies And afterward in the year 116. was Arragon reduced to be a kingdome by the Will and Testament of Sanchio the Great fourth King of Nauarre for loue to Ramyrus his Natural Sonne who was the first King thereof This was the same Sanchio who being Earle of Castille in the kingdome of Leon tooke on him first the name of King Castille which he left vnto his Sonne Ferdinand The Kingdome of Portugal was also conquered from the same Moores by Earle Henry Sonne vnto the Duke of Lorraine who held it first of all vnder Title of Earle in the year 1110. but quickly after brought he it to be a Kingdome Spaine did continue so in this kinde of State for a long time deuided into many Kingdomes And the Moores had also theyr abiding there possessing still a great part thereof till such time as Ferdinand the fifte King of Arragon who was married to Isabell the onely heire of Castille And he wholly expulsed the Moores out of Spaine in the yeare 1492. In no great distance of time after he possessed himselfe of Sicilie Naples inuading also the East Indiaes But fraudulentlie he vsurped the Kingdom of Nauar against Iohn d'Albret who was indéede the lawfull King And it is this Ferdinand and Isabell his Wife that wee may say truely the Kingdome of Spaine onely had beginning in They left one onelie Daughter named Ioane who was married to Phillip the first of Austria Sonne vnto the Emperor Maximillian and Mary of Bourgundie hee succéeded in this Kingdome of Spaine and other Countreyes beside He was likewise Earle of Bourgondie of Flaunders and Lorde of the Lowe-Countreyes in the right of his Mother In this his Marriage was borne Charles the fift who was afterward Emperor Hee raigned nine and thirtie yeares preseruing his Prouinces verie happilie And he left for successour both in Spaine and the more part of his other Countries his sonne Phillip the second who raigned thrée and fortie yeares hauing adioyned to his other Estates the Kingdome of Portugall in the yeare of our Lorde 1580. and so consequentlie all that which the Portugalles helde in the East Indiaes and else-where as in Affrica and Brasile which came vnto him by the death of King Henrie the Cardinall Hee died aged seauentie yeares the thirtéenth day of September 1598. No long time before his death he hadde made peace with the mighty and most Christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre Henry the fourth Phillip the thirde his Sonne succéeded him and raigneth as yet to this day He married Margaret Daughter to the Arch-Duke of Austria by whom he had a Sonne in the month of April 1606. Of Germany and the Princes Electors LIttle can we héere speake of Germany in regard it requireth a large ample discourse Onely concerning the Princes Electors I finde it recorded that Pope Gregorie the fifte of that name being a Natiue of Saxonie in Germanie and Kinsman to the Emperour Otho to the end that the Empyre might long remaine in the hands of them of his Nation procured a Law to be made with the consent of Otho about the election of the Emperor in the yeare of our Lord 1002. which Law was afterward duely kepte and hath béene to our time that it shoulde be alwayes lawful and permitted to the Allemaignes or Germaines only to elect and chuse the Prince that was to be called Caesar and King of the Romaines with the Title likewise of Soueraigne Emperour and Augustus so soone as his election was approoued It was therefore ordered that that thrée Ecclesiasticall persons and foure of the Laytie shoulde haue the full authority heerein with the voyce of all the State in generall The Ecclesiasticall men were the Arch-Byshoppes of Magonoe Treues and Colongne The Layickes were the Marquesse of Bradenbourg the Count Palatine of Rhine the Duke of Saxony and the King of Bohemia to all whose Successors this Dignitie appertained And the King of Bohemia was added for the seauenth Electour to the end of auoyding all differences which might happen in the election and to iudge especially ouer the other ¶ A short Chronologicall Discourse of Fraunce the Originall of that Nation and a briefe History of their kings from Pharamond their first Gouernour to Lewes 13. now raigning ¶ To the Worshipful Mayster Richard Langley Esquire Towne-Clarke of the Honourable Cittie of London THe greater part of such as haue Written concerning the Originall and Etymologie of the Name Francs or Francions who afterwarde came to bee called Frenchmen haue scarse faithfully or respectiuelie handled that Subiect Many ancient moderate Writers as Sigisbert Gregory of Tours Aimonius the Monk Hunibant and the more part of our Chroniclers and Annalistes made theyr whole recourse to Dreames and Fables because they liued in those barbarous times when learning was trodden vnder-foot and good Bookes were burned by the Gothes Vandales and Hunnes with other vnciuil Nations who quenched and smothered the light of good Letters which being hidden vnder-ground to auoid such barbarous and abortiue fury our fore-named Writers were robd of knowing those sound Authors without whom they could not iudiciouslie censure or write the History of the French Nation Others that long time after and much néerer to our instant Age haue likewise written on the same Argument by following the track of those former blinde-guides haue fallen into their errour and folly reading no other Authours but those misse-leaders neyther taking any paines to peruse those graue auncients which more polished seasons haue discouered vnto vs. So that those best embraced Authours of the French are euen the loudest lyers leauing a rooted opinion in their ydle fancies that they are issued of the Troyans and that they were named French of Francus or Francion the Sonne of Hector who after sacke and spoile of the saide Citty saued himselfe with so many as could escape the Graecians Sword and fire in the Palus Maeotides and that of his name whom they thus followed they were first called Francks or Francions Next that néere to this Palus Maeotides they builded a Citty which they named Sicambria after the name of an Aunt to Francus the Daughter of King Priam and that there they dwelt vntill the Emperor Valentinians time being then constrained to passe into Allemaigne and thence into Gaule See héere the conceite of some fond French-men concerning the Etimologie of their name which if any one should offer to take from them he should in their iudgment commit no mean crime And albeit there are many and contrary opinions in this case yet I will plainely tell ye no more
one yeares and the other seuenty six after they had long time gouerned their Churches And then began Christian Religion to flourish by the holy and painefull writings of many Doctours This is all that can be saide of Pharamond first King of the Francs or Franconians who afterward were called French-men And hee after he had raigned ten or according to some others eleauen yeares died in Anno Dom. 431. Our Historyes haue not giuen him any Wiâ—e albeit some say that Clodion his Successor was his Sonne 2 Clodion second King of the Francs Franconians or French succeeded his Father Pharamond in the yeare of grace 431. He was sir-named Clodion the Hairy because hee wore his Beard and Haire long ordaining the French to weare the like in signe of liberty because the Romaines vsed to poule and shaue all such as they subdued in signe of seruitude and this fashion of wearing long haire continued in France vntill the time of Peter Lombard in the raigne of Lewes the younger fourth King of that name Clodion perceiuing the Romaines to war weak by Warres which they maintained against the Vrisigotes and loath to loose occasion for enlarging his Kingdome leuied a mighty Army subdued the Thuringians or Lorraignes took Cambray by assault putting all the Romaines to the Sword that were therein and vanquished their Army néere to the Riuer of Rhine Then passing the Forrest Charbonniere hee tooke Tournay and pursuing his purpose for dilation of his Confines he went into France conquering Burgundy Tholouse Angolesme and all Aquitain Clodion hauing raigned twenty yeares died in An. 449. 3 Meroneus third King of the French succéeded Clodion as his Sonne or néerest Kinsman Anno 450. Tritemius writeth that he was Sonne to Clodion but it is not found to bee so in the Histories of France In him the generation of the Kings of Fraunce tooke beginning which endured vntill King Pepin the Sonne of Charles Martell Meroneus like vnto his Predecessors was a Pagan yet very bold and couragious in warre as he declared by many foughten battailes wherein hee was continually present In his time Attila King of the Hunnes or Hungares who tearmed himselfe Flagellum Dei leuyed an Army of fiue hundred thousand Men and came into the Countrey of Gaule where he spoyled Coulongue and Treues with many Castles scituated on the Rhine Hee trauersed Fraunce also where hée wasted Amiens Beauuais Chaalons Troys and Rheimes bringing his siedge before Orleaunce Meroneus séeing Fraunce so much oppressed with the helpe of Aetius Lieutenant Generall in Gaule for the Armie of Theodosius the younger Emperour of Rome and of Theodorick King of the Vuisegothes gaue him a strong battaile in the Catalaunique Fieldes which is sayde to be néere to Chaalons in Champaigne in which fight were slaine about two hundred thousand Men of Warre as well on the one side as the other Attila beholding his Men in disorder and that he could not call them backe againe as he would was enforced to retire home to Hungarie where he could neuer after re-assemble them of that company This battaile was fought in the yeare 452. Others say it was in the twenty seuenth year of the Empire of Valentinian the third Meroneus hauing his hopes much more highly aduaunced by such a great and glorious victory tooke the Citties of Sens Paris and a great part of Gaule not finding any to offer him resistance So that thence forward the Countrey which before has beene tearmed Gaule began euen then to be called France He caused one of his Sonnes to be throwne into a Fire because hee hadde slaine the King of Cornewall who came in courtesie to bée merrie with him Cornewall béeing then tributarie to France as some haue reported who also doe entitle Meroneus to be the first king of the French and all his Race the Merouingians Hee dyed in the tenth yeare of his raigne after hee hadde very much enlarged his Kingdome in Anno Domini 472. Or according to others 459. 4 Childerick or as some tearme him Chilperick Sonne to Moroneus succéeded him in the year 460. The great luxurie and bad life which he led in the beginning of his raign abusing the Wiues and Daughters of many worthy Lords begot him such indignation and hatred among theÌ„ that they purposing to surprize him he was faigne to saue himselfe by flight to Basinus king of Thuringe now called Lorraigne This did he by the councell of a friend of his named Vidomarck who as a secret token betwéene them breaking a Ring of Gold gaue him the one halfe coniuring him to giue no faith for his returne but to him that should bring him that other halfe The French elected in his place a Lieutenant of the Romaines named Gillon who held Soissons and laide such heauy exactions on euery man exercising also such cruelties on the Princes of France that in the 8. yeare hée was expelled and Childerick againe restored wholly by the meanes of Vidomarch Childerick pursued Gillon his Enemy and had great victories and conquestes against him Hee fought a battaile also néere to Orleaunce against Andoacre who was Duke of the Saxons Hee enlarged his Kingdome along the Riuer of Loyre so far as Angeirs One great and irreparable errour he committed for breaking the right of Hospitality with Basinus King of Thuringe who had receiued and relieued him in the chiefest of his aduersity he caried away with him his wife Basina by whom he had a Son called Clouis He died in An. 485. the 26. of his raigne 5 Clouis first King Christian and fift King of France succéeded his Father in the year of our saluation 485. He married Clotilda Sister to the Duke of Burgundy He made warre vppon Siagrius the Sonne of Gillon Lieutenant to the Romaines who held Soissons and som other parts of Belgick Gaule from whence hée expulsed him and made him fly to Tholouze to Alaâ—ic King of the Vuisegoths who betrayed him and sending back to Clouis he had his head smitten off So the Romaines being partly fled and partly slaine held no longer dominion in France Hauing likewise vanquished King Basinus hee â—â—bdued Thuringe now called Lorraigne and amplified the kingdom euen from the Rhine so far as Seine extending her limits to the riuer Loyre The Quéene his Wife did often times sollicite him to become a Christian whereto he would by no means listen til being in a hot conflict against the Allemaignes who descended in great companies to driue the French out of Gaule and desparing of the battaile hee thought vppon the God of Clotilda his Quéene promising that he would be a Christian if that day he obtayned the victory It pleased God to grant it him and hée was Baptized at his returne in the Cittie of Rheimes by Remy Arch-Byshoppe of the sayde place with his two Sisters and more then thrée thousand of the Nobility The sacred Oyle was poured on his head
him and accompanied with manie other Traytours leuied a great Army wherein Pope Gregory tooke part with them and then they compelled their Father to come and submit himselfe to their mercy bereauing him of his imperiall Ornaments and giuing him the habite of a Monke they caused him to be strictly guarded in the Abbey of Saint Medard de Soissons His Wife they sent as an exile into Italy and his Sonne Charles as a Prisoner to Prouence The Lordes of Fraunce and Allemaigne béeing vnwilling to suffer that such shame and indignity should bee done to an Emperour in the following yeare they gaue him his liberty bringing his Wife and Son againe vnto him Lothaire chéefe causer of his Fathers captiuity was glad to fly thence into Italy The Emperor constrayned his Sonnes to séeke his mercy and then hée fréely forgaue them At Mayence hée dyed hauing raigned twenty sixe yeares and was interred at Metz. 26 In the yeare 843. Charles the Baulde Sonne of Lewes the Méeke was made King by a diuision or partage made with his Bretheren Charles remained King of France Lewes king of Germany and Lothaire had Italy with the Empire Prouence and Austrasia whereof he made a Dutchy calling it Lorraine after his owne name Before the saide partage they had a great battaile néere to Auxerre wherein almost all the Nobility of France lost their liues Which was the cause that the Normans who were risen vnder conduct of two valiant leaders were become Maisters well-néere of all France but in the ende they were expelled by the King who was â—rowned Emperour by Pope Iohn after the decease of his Nephew Lewes the Son of Lothaire In this time he became very high minded contemning the French manner of habite anâ— wearing the Graecian fashion with a Dalmatian garment hanging down to his héels beside other strange pompous attires Hauing raigned two yeares in the Empire he was poysoned by his Phisition dying at Mantua and buried at Verceillis but seauen years after his body was transported to S. Denis He raigned in all 38. yeares 27 Lewes the second sirnamed the Stutter or Stammerer Sonne of Charles the Bauld succéeded his Father both in the Empire and Kingdome in the yeare 879. Charles the Bauld had thrée sons the first was named Charlon whose eyes hee caused to bee puld out in regard of his wicked gouernment The second was called Charles who dyed before him And the third was this Lewes sir-named the Stammerer because his tongue was somewhat short and made him to falter in his spéech Pope Iohn came into France being escaped out of prison because heâ— stood against the crowning of Charles le Gros Sonne to Lewes of Bauaria Emperour He Crowned King Lewes the Stutter Emperour which hée enioyed not long in regard of his sicklynesse for he dyed in the second yeare of his raigne leauing his Wife Richeult Sister to the King of England and who was returned home to her Brother great with Child of a Son that was afterward called Charles the Simple He appointed as his Guardian Odo Sonne to the Earle of Aniou hoping great comfort of the fruit in her Womb. Hee left also two Bastard Sons Lewes and Carlon During his raigne the Normans were valiantly repulsed hee lyeth buried at Compeigne 28 Carlon and Lewes the illegitimate sons of Lewes le Begue were Kings after his decease in the yeare 881. not hauing any other heire to succéed him Some sought to giue the kingdom to Boson King of Prouence and others to Charls the Emperor king of Germany Carlon Lewes neuerthelesse were crowned Kings and carried themselues valiantly against the Normans who for fiue years space made very great enterprises on France In the battaile which they had néere to Chinon they fought manfully vpon the riuer of Vienna there nine thousand were slaine beside them that were drowned in flight They expelled also the fore-named Boson and Charls the Emperor séeking to make themselues Kinges of France These two brethren died strangely Lewes pursuing a wilde Beare with his Iaueling was shot thorow with an arrow which one of his traine did let fly at the beast so he died in the 4. yeare of his raigne Carlon died a yeare after as vnluckily for hee being one day very pleasant on horse-back galloping after a faire Damsell who ran for her safety into a small Country cottage he not staying his horse nor minding the impossibility of his passage brake his necke at the doors entrance Now because he was the eldest and suruiued his Brother the name of King is atttibuted to him as if that he had raigned alone They were both buried at S. Denis 29 Lewes the third sirnamed Fai-neant Do nothing after the death of Carlon his Father was made King in the yeare 886. This man being altogether carelesse albeit hee hadde a great number of men which his Father had assembled to resist the Normans who wasted the kingdome very much would not vse any resistance but like one fearefull and negligent made agréement with them and promised to giue them 12. thousand pounds of Money yearely till twelue yeares should bee expired Whereuppon the French disdaining to bée tributary to the Normans deposed the said Doe nothing and made him a shauen Monke at Saint Denis And the rather they did it because he had taken a Nunne from Challes S. Baudour néere Paris married her whether she would or no. To resist the Normans the French sent for Charles le Gros Emperor of Rome Nephew also to Charles the bald and him they made King The Normans kept Paris besiedged with forty thousand men who were in such sort foyled as not a man of them escaped aliue Neuerthelesse to containe them in some more moderation hee made alliance and agréement with their Dukes Which raised such strange garboiles in the Realme so displeased the people and incensed them with such hatred against him that they expulsed him both out of the Empire and Kingdome and hee dyed in a poore Village of Suauba very poore and miserably Yet the fiue yeares of this raigne are attributed to him and not to Lewes Doe nothing 30 Odo or Eudes Sonne to Robert Earle of Angiers was made King in the yeare 891. after Charles le Gros by aduise of the Princes albeit hee was not of the race of Charlemaigne but onely Tutour to Charles the Simple and he was preferred by Arnould the Emperour successour to Charles le Gros who would haue had the Kingdome himselfe During his raigne the Normans breaking their agréement made with Charles le Gros began to warre againe much more cruelly then before and now the second time besiedged Paris But Odo carried himselfe so vndauntedly that he ouer-came them manie times In this while certaine Barons of the Realme had sent for Charles the Simple into England and Crowned him King of Fraunce at the age of fouretéene yeares Odo who
a Pestilence that the liuing dyed burying the dead The Frizons reuolting againe from obedience made all his raigne a continuall warfare and the Armies on eyther side méeting néere vnto Winckell so dreadfull a battaile was fought betwéene them that the Hollanders sustained the worst Count Arnolde being there slaine and a great number of his chéefest Nobility This battaile was fought the eightéenth of October the morrow after Saint Lamberts day in the yeare 993. So this Earle Arnolde hauing raigned fiue years and being thus vnfortunately slaine was buryed by his Father and Grand-father in the Abbie of Egmont 4 Thierrie third of that name and Sonne to Counte Arnolde succéeded as fourth Earle of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland Being desirous to reuenge his Fathers death vppon the Frizons hee was much impeached therein by Adelbold Bishoppe of Vtrecht against whom neuerthelesse hepreuailed in two foughten battailes in the year 10â—8 and with great slaughter of the Fryzons brought them vnder obedyence to his youngest Sonne Floris whom hee made Lord of them This Earle Thierrie liuing afterward in very peacefull daies vndertooke a Pilgrimage to Ierusalem with the Lord of Arckell his loyall Subiect who died at Hierusalem and was there very honourably buried by Thierrie After whose returne home and some yeares passed in peace with his Wife and Children hauing raigned 46. yeares he died in Anno 1039. and was buried by his Fathers in the Abbay of Egmont 5 Thierrie fourth of that name was the fift Earle of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland after the decease of Thierrie his Father In a Iourney of Princes and Lords performed for pleasure in the Cittie of Liege it was this Earles hard hap to kill a Brother of the Bishops of Cullen and Liege whereby ensued such discord and mollestation that after many aduentures of reuenge vnder-taken by the Germaine Gentlemen albeit therein they sustained much losse of men the Earle was shot into the Thigh with a poisoned Dart of which wound hee dyed the fiftéenth of May 1048. after he had gouerned nine years and was buryed by his Fathers in the Abbay of Egmont He was neuer marryed and therefore left not any Childe to succéede him 6 Floris who as you haue heard before was Earl of Frizeland now after his Brothers death became the sixt Earl of Holland and Zeland The former mishap at Liege could not as yet be forgotten by the Bishops of Cullen and Liege but they would needes prosecute fresh reuenge vppon Count Floris who beeing a man of vndaunted spirite defeated his Enemies in two seuerall attempts Once by a cunning Stratagem causing Ditches and Pit-fals to be made in South Holland and couering them with Straw and grasse so that they could not be easily discerned At this time a bloody battaile beeing fought betwéene them there was forty thousand of the Earles enemies slaine beside twenty sixe thousand more who were drowned and smothered in those Ditches An. Dom. 1058. The second foile of his aduersaries happened foure yeares after this when the Hollanders putting the Germans to flight returned with rich spoiles and great store of Prisoners this was in the yeare 1062. yet was it this Earles ill fortune to be afterward slaine vnarmed as he sate vnder an Elme taking the aire his enemies preuailing by this aduantage Hee had ruled in Holland 14. yeares and in Frizeland 21. and lieth buried at Egmont 7 8. Gertrude widow to Earl Floris in regard that Thierrie her son was in his nonage gouerned those Countries in his right And in the year 1063. she remarried with Robert the Frizon son to Baldwin of Lisle de Buck Earle of Flanders with the good lyking of all the States and Nobility Hee also was made Guardian of young Earle Thierrie and had this Gertrude thrée Sonnes Robert Sur-named the young who went with Godfrey of Bullen to the holy Land and was after his Father decease Earle of Flanders Phillip father to William of Ixt Baldwin Bishop of Teroanne beside thrée daughters also which he had by the saide Gertrude This Robert was called the Frizon not in regard of his birth but of his big stature strength and courage for hauing preuailed against the Frizons and hearing of his Brothers death Baldwine de Mons Earle of Flanders hee laide claime to the saide Earledome and notwithstanding the opposition of Richild Widdow to Earle Baldwin by meanes of the Flemings hee ouer-threwe the King of France in a battaile and shee with her Sonne Baldwine remaining satisfied with the Country of Henault Robert became quietly Earl of Flanders For eight yeares space he carryed himselfe with great wisedome and valour and dying in the yeare 1077. was buried in the Cannons Church founded by himselfe at Cassel Gertrudes time of rule by her selfe and Roberts after are reckoned as two seuerall gouernments 9 Godfrey sir-named the Crooke-backt Duke of Lorraine in this time of young Earle Thierries minority was made an instrument in regard of the former quarrell of Count Floris and the Byshops of Cullen and Liege as yet not reuenged to their minds to suggest a false information to Henry the fourth Emperour whereby the sayde Godfrey became an Vsurper of the young Earles right for the space of foure yeares But as he was sitting on the draught to ease his body a Seruant of young Count Thierries did thrust a Iaueling vp into his fundament whereof he died not long after at Maestrecht 10 Thierry fift of that name who by Crooke-backt Godfrey and other strange oppositions had long time bin debarred from quiet possession of his right at length by an absolute conquest of the Frizons in two seuerall great battailes recouered all and returned home as a Conquerour Afterward he married Whithilde daughter to Frederick Duke of Saxonie by whom hee had a Son and a Daughter Floris that succeeded him and Mathild married to the Duke of Orleans Earle Thierrie hauing gouerned fiftéen yeares dyed and was buried in the Abbey of Egmont 11 Floris second of that name and sir-named the Fat or Grosse succéeded next after his father Thierrie he greatly fauoured men of the Church whereby the Abby of Egmonts reuenewes were largely encreased He being a man of very peacefull inclination little or no disturbaunces happened in his time but onely by the Frizons who for their rebelling were seuerely punnished and forced to submit themselues to his mercy This Floris married Petronilla or Parnell Daughter to Didier Duke of Saxony and Sister to Lotharius the Emperor By her he had thrée Sonnes Thierrie Floris called the Blacke Prince of Kenemerlandt and Symon also one Daughter named Hadewick who was Countesse of Gueldres Hauing gouerned his Countries very honorably for the space of thirty one yeares Hée died in Anno. 1133. and lieth buried in the Abby of Egmont 12 Thierrie sixt of that name succéeded his Father Floris and was much mollested by the Frizons in regard that his
Brother Floris the Blacke Prince enuying the happinesse quiet of Thierrie went and tooke part with them against him vntill such time as the Emperor Lotharius beeing their Vnckle had reconciled them and made them friends Conrade being ioyned as competitor in the Empire with Lotharius caused a fresh quarrell betwéen Thierrie and the Bishop of Vtrecht he ratifying the former grant of Henry which caused very long contention and much blood to be shed on either side Thierrie hauing gouerned his countries of Holland Zeland and Frizeland 40. yeares died in An. 1163. and lieth buried in the Abbey of Egmont 13 Floris the third eldest Son of Earle Thierrie as Heire to his Father inherited his right in Holland Zeland and Frizeland The Frizons pretending their former fréedomes and imperial liberties made still their reuoltes from time to time imboldned thereto by the often suggestions of Godfrey of Rhemen Bishop of Vtrecht who as his predecessors had done before him still questioned the Earledomes of Ostergo Westergoe in Frizeland but the Emperor Frederick went himselfe in person made an agréement in writing betwéene them Al which notwithstanding much hurt was doone on either side as time and treachery fitted them with apt opportunity A great controuersie hapned between the Earles of Holland Flanders for the Isle of Walchren and Count Floris in triall of fight became Prisoner to the Earle of Flanders who neuerthelesse vsed him princely and they being accorded by the Archbishop of Cullen and the Bishoppe of Liege the great hole néere to the Dam or Sluce was recouered with much adoe by casting a Dogge-Fish thereinto spéedy filling it vp with earth whereon they named it Hondâ—dam that is Dogs-sluce This Earle Floris assisting the Emperor Frederick Phillip King of France Richard K. of England with many other Dukes Christian Princes Earles at the siedge of Damieta in Soâ—ia fel there sick in the Army and died in the year 1208 hauing gouerned his Prouinces 27. yeares 14 Thierrie the seauenth hearing of his Fathers death in Palestine succéeded as his heire in all his Earledomes The whole time of his regiment was in warre and continual combustions First by his Brother Lord William of Holland who was with his Father Floris in Palestine performed there many honourable seruices thorow diuers disagréements that happened betwéene them notwithstanding as many labored reconcilings and pacifications Next Baldwin Earle of Flanders he was as molestuous to him likewise for the Isle of Walchien besides the Frizons rebellions and his trouble with the Bishops of Cologne and Liege as also his imprisonment to the Duke of Brabant and then the intrusion of the Bishop of Vtrecht after which ensued a peace vnited amity on all sides This Count Thierrie had no heirs male but two beautifull daughters Adella married to Henry of Gueldres who died without any Children and Ada meanely married by her Mother afâ—er her Fathers death to Count Lewes of Loos that so the gouernment might be disposed at her pleasure In the year 1203 Earle Thierry died hauing gouerned his Countries 1.3 yeares and lieth buried in the Abbay of Egmont 15 Ada daughter to Earl Thierry was Countesse of Holland Zeland after her fathers death which moued a great hart-burning in the Lordes Gentlemen that they should liue vnder a Woman and a poore Earls command Therfore they sent into Frizeland for Count. William protesting to assist him in attaining the gouernment of Holland The young Countesse Ada was surprised in their first attempt and her husband the Earle of Loos driuen to flight who yet won the Bishop of Vtrecht by Money and other promises to aide him and by this meanes he had some small successe for a while But the Countesse Ada dying without any Children Earle William was then the true and onely Heire to Holland and Zeland in which right of his he went with his power against the Earle of Loos and such was his successe that the Women did beat his Enemies with Distaues and Stones they beeing glad to cast away their Armour for lightnesse to saue themselues by flight yet many were drowned in the Ditches and a great number taken Prisoners with all the Earle of Loos Tentes Pauillions Plate Iewels and Munition which Count VVilliam royally deuided among his Hollanders remaining absolute Prince of Holland Zeland and Frizeland 16 William first of that Name succéeded rightfully in all his Earledomes by the death of his Néece the young Countesse Ada. Hee had some strife with Didier Byshop of Vtretcht and Gerard Vander Are his Brother but vpon certaine Articles al displeasures were qualified By his first wife Alix daughter to the Earle of Gueldres he had Floris that next succéeded him Otho bishop of Vtretcht William Lieutenant of Holland and two Daughters the one was Abbesse at Rhynsbourg and the other at Delfte His second wife was named Mary Daughter to Edmund of Lancaster son to Henry the third K. of England by whom he had no issue He gouerned 19. yeares dying lieth buried at Rhynsbourg 17 Floris the fourth succéeded his Father Count William in his Earledomes Hee tooke great delight in Iusts and Turnaments and the Earl of Clermont proclaiming a publicke Triumph for all commers at the Countesse his Wiues request who greatly desired to sée this Floris of whom she had heard much fame and commendation this honourable Earle of Holland Zeland c. was there treacherously slaine onely thorough the iealous suspition of the olde Earle of Clermont who was there likewise presently slaine himself and the Countes grieuing for this great mishap dyed soone after This Count Floris hadde a Daughter named Mathilde or Margaret as some call her who was married to Count Herman of Henneberg She despising a poore Widdow that desired her almes vpon vrgent necessity holding in either arme a swéete young childe both which God hath sent her at one birth gaue her uery reproachfull words beside as that shee could not be honest of her bodie and by her husband haue two children lawfully begotten The poore Woman grieuing to be reiected in such extreame want and néede but much more to heare her reputation so néerely touched knowing her soule cleare from all dishonest detection made no further suite to the Lady but falling vppon her knées appealed to God for defence of her Innocency and earnestly desired that as shee had conceiued borne those two infants lawfully by her husband euen so if euer that Lady should be subiect to the custom of women that it would please him to send hir as many children at one birth as there were daies in the years Not long after the Lady conceiued with child by her husband for hir deliuerance went into Holland to visit the earl hir brother taking vp lodging in the Abbey of religious women at Losdunen and grew so excéeding great as the like had neuer before bin séene
When her time came on the Friday before Palm-sunday in the yeare 1276. shee was deliuered of 365. children the one halfe being sons and the other daughters but the odde child was an Hermaphrodite and they were all wel shaped proportioned in their little members These children were laid in two Basins and were all baptized by Guydon Suffragan to the Bish of Vtrecht who named al the sonnes Iohn and the Daughters Elizabeth but what name he gaue the Hermaphrodite is not recorded They were no sooner baptized but they all died and the Mother also The two Basins are yet to be séene in the sayde Church of Losdunen and a memory of them both in Latine Dutch The Latine beginning thus Margareta Comitis Hennebergiae vxor Florentij Hollandiae Zelandiae filia c. Vnderneath are these verses En tibi monstrosum memorabile factum Quale nec à mundi conditione datum This Count Floris being so treacherously slaine as you haue heard before had his body brought backe into Holland by the Earle of Cleues and other Noble Lords who buried it in the Abbey of Rhynsbourg hee hauing honorably and vertuously gouerned his Countries 12. yeares He left but one Son named William six years old who was in the tutelage of his Vnckle Otho bishop of Vtrecht during his minority 18 William second of that name succéeded his father Floris in all his dominions being al the time of his vnder yeares in the gouernment of Otho Bishop of Vtrecht his Vnckle who was a verie worthy and carefull Guardian to him The pope hauing deposed Frederick the second Conrade his sonne from the Empire the princes Electors in despight of the Pope made this Earle William King of the Romaines and crowned him at Aix la Chapelle he hauing then attained to the age of 20. yeares A long and tedious trouble happened betweene him and Margaret Countesse of Flanders a very high minded and proude woman for the Country of Walchren wherein after a great foyle and slaugâ—â—he Flemings taking part with hir imprâ—ent of her two sons Guy Iohn she implored the aid of Charles Duke of Aniou against king William and sped thereby no better then shee had done before but was glad in the end to séeke reconcilement This K. William did build the Pallace of the Earles of Holland in the village of La Hage or the Hague where it is at this day a goodly Cloister at Harlem At his wars in West Frizeland where he preuailed very successefully he wold néeds without any other assistance then himself follow the rebels ouer the Ice where his horse slipping in him selfe almost drowned none néer to help him but enemies of the Frizons that lay secretly in ambush they beat him down with clubs staues not knoing that it was the king so they slew him But when afterward they took better notice of him by his Target Armes theron emblazoned in very harty sorrow for their foule déed they buried him secretly in a poore house in the village of Hooktwonde thinking so to wipe out all remeÌ„brance of him But his body was after found and buried in the Abby of Middlebourg in the Isle of walchreÌ„ 19 Floris the fift son to king William who was slaine so inhumanely albeit hee was but sixe moneths old yet he succéeded his father his Vnckle Floris being his Gouernor and Tutor At 17. yeares of age he went with an army against the euer-reuolting Frizons and ouercame them at a village called Schellinckhout very seuerely reuenging his fathers death on them by building foure Castles iâ—â—land brought them wholy vnder his obedâ— Afterward Counte Floris made a voyage into England where a marriage was contracted betwéene Iohn eldest Sonne to Earle Floris and Elizabeth Daughter to King Edward the first Iohn being not long after sent into England to accomplish the saide marriage where he remained in the Court of England till his Fathers vnfortunate death which briefely was thus A Knight liued in the Earles Courte named Gerard Van Velson who had bin a whole years space detained in prison and his Brother beheaded through certaine false suggestions whispered to the Earle which afterward appearing to be a meere iniurie the Earle sought to repaire this wrong with verie especiall fauours doone to the Knight great aduancements and woulde haue bestowed also his Concubine in mariage on him Which Gerard disdaining and replying that he would not weare his cast shooes the Earle rashly answered that he should take his leauings in despight of his heart To preuent marriage with the Earles Minion the Knight bestowed his affections else where and wedded a Lady of great honor and beauty Which when the Earl vnderstood he pursued his former rash folly to the price of his owne life Sending Gerard on an employment of much credit and respect and wherewith he was not a little pleased not doubting any such wicked intention The Earl came vnto Gerardes house vnder colour of hospitaliiy and there winning her to priuat conferenâ—e in her bed chamber forcibly defloured her to performe his rashe promise to her husband At Gerards return and this foule wrong discouered it was pursued with very bloody reuenge by a resolued conspiracy sworn against his life which albeit he had some warning of by a paper deliuered him by a poor woman yet his disaster being ineuitable a train was laid for him as he rode a hauking and xxi wounds he receiued on his body by the hand of the saide Gerard But he and the rest of the conspirators escaped not vnpunished for they had their heads smitten off and were then laide vpon whéeles but Gerard was put stard naked into a Pipe stuck full of sharpe nailes and was so rowled vp and downe through all the stréets of Leyden Then was he beheaded and laide on a whéele and all his Kinred to the ninth degrée put to death and laide vpon whéeles 20 After the wicked murther of Earle Floris the fift committed by the Fryzons as hath béen declared Iohn his onely son being then in England with King Edward his Father in law was next to succéede him as his rightful heire But before he could leaue England some partialities factions happened in Holland for the gouernement which soone were qualified at Earle Iohns being there present notwithstanding the subtle policie of Wolfart of Borssele seizing the person of Earle Iohn and Ladie Elizabeth his Wife thinking to haue the gouernement of the sayde Earle because as yet hee was but young Earle Iohn preuailed against the Frizons and the Byshop of Vtrecht and hauing gouerned his countries about foure yeares hee fell sicke at Harlem and there died He was the first of al the Earls of Holland that died without children wherfore in him failed the line masculine of the Earles from the Dukes of Aquitain which from Thierrie or Theodor the first Earl of Holland had continued 437. yeares He was buried
Martij Anno primo Edw. 6. Sir Edward Bellingham Lord Deputy 22. Aprills An. eodem Sir Francis Brian Lord Iustice Sir VVilliam Brabeston Lord Iustice Sir Anthony Seutleger the third time Lord deputy 4. August Sir Iames Croftes Lord Deputie twenty nine Aprilis Sir Anthony Sentleger the fourth time Lorde Deputy September 1. Anno primo Reg. Marie Thomas Lord Fitzwalter Lorde Deputie 27. Aprilis Sir Henry Sidney Lordes Iustices Doctor Coren or Corwen Lordes Iustices Sir Henry Sidney Lord Iustice alone eightéen Ianuary Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Lieutenant 19. Martij Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Iustice Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Deputy 6. Maij Anno primo R. Elizab. Sir Nicholas Arnold Lord Iustice Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputie the third time Doctor Weston Lord Chancellour Sir William Fitzwilliams Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputy the fourth time Sir William Fitz-williams Lord Iustice Sir William Fitz williams Lorde Deputy 11. Decemb. Anno. 14. Elizab. Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputy the fift time August 3. Sir William Drury Lord Iustice 14. Septem by patent 18. May. Sir William Pelham lord Iustice The Lord Arthur Gray Adam Arch-Byshoppe of Dublin Lordes Iustices Sir Henry Wallop Lordes Iustices Sir Iohn Perot Lord Deputy Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Deputy Sir William Russell Lord Deputy Thomas Lord Burrough lord Deputy Robert Earle of Essex Lord Lieutenant Charles Blunt Barou Montioy Lord Deputie Sir George Carew Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Deputy who yet to this day continueth in that honourable office ¶ Of the Kingdome of Scotland ACcording to the ancient Historiographers of Scotland in description of their Nations first off-spring and originall after Brutes first deuision of Brittaine to his Sonnes they make relation of a Noble man among the Grecians that was named Gathelus the sonne of Cecrops in the iudgement of some who builded Athens but according to the conceite of others the Sonne of Argus Nealus fourth King of the Argines This Gathelus being banished by his Father for some matter of disobedience departed thence into Aegypt in the thirty three yeare of Pharao Orus then King of that Countrey and there carried himselfe with such valiant and extraordinary successe against the Countries Enemies in the company of Moses Generall vnder the King himselfe that Pharao bestowed his faire Daughter named Scota on him in mariage hauing also then giuen him and his follâ—wers the Citty Thebes Aegyptiaca reported to be taken from the Israelites Vpon iust occasion Gathelus after his Fathers in Lawes decease leauing Egypt being prouided of Shippes and other apt necessaries tooke his Wife Children and a great multitude both of Greeks and Ethyopians and setting forth of Nilus determined to séeke his fortune in other Countries This was in the year of the worlds creation 2453. and after his abiding in Egypt aboue 39. years what accidents befell him in this voyage is néedelesse to report his first arriuall was on the Coastes of Numidia in Affrick now named Barbary but being not able to settle there he came into a part of Spaine long after termed Lusitania It is said that the place of his landing there was called Port-Gathele after the name of Gathelus which afterward became corruptly to bee called Portgale or Portingale the certainty whereof I referre to better iudgements The people there inhabiting gaue both him and his at the first a bold repulse but in the end hee preuailed victoriously and after further friendly conference with the Spaniards he began to builde a Citty named Brachara on the bankes of the Riuer Mundus and so at the first did hee name the Citty it selfe Gathelus by the Spaniards further perswasions promise of assistance to their vttermost whatsoeuer disasters should betide him and his remooued to the Northside of Spaine on the Cantabrian Sea coasts now called Galitia where he builded likewise another Cittie named Brigantia afterwarde called Nouium and nowe Compostella Héere did Gathelus bear the Title of king and gaue lawes to his people commanding that they should all be called Scottish-men to honour the name of his deare beloued wife Scota as hee had alwayes so tearmed them in the time of his trauailes In time they grew to be so great a Nation that the Spaniards warring with them for their owne safety sustained the worst though victory remained to the Scots yet such good Orders were agréed on that both Scots and Spaniards should obserue their own lawes without inuasion offered on either side Then did Gathelus liue in peace with his neighbors sitting daily on his Marble stone in Brigantia administring Lawes and Iustice to his people which stone was fashioned like a seat or chaire hauing such a fate thereto belonging as is said that wheresoeuer that stone should be found there shoulde the Scottishmen raigne and hold dominion Héereof it ensued that there first in Spain afterward in Ireland and next in Scotland the Kings ruling ouer the Scottishmen receiued the Crowne sitting vppon that stone vntill the time of Robert the first King of Scotland On the stone was this inscription engrauen Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Inuenient lapidem regnare tenentur ibidem Englished thus Except olde Sawes doo faile and Wizards wits be blinde The Scots in place must raigne where they this Stone shal finde This quiet life of Gathelus did so daily encrease the aboundance of his people that the bounds of his dominion was not able to containe them and he beeing religious in couenant with the Spaniards auoiding all meanes of breach of the peace hauing intelligence of an Island lying North ouer against Spaine and wherein was but fewe inhabitantes made readie his shipping leuyed an Armie of his subiectes and vnder conduct of his two sonnes named Hiberus and Himecus or Hermion which hee had by his Quéene Scota conueyed them ouer into that Island which after-warde was named Hibernia after the name of Hiberus The History recordeth that the Scottishmen offered no violence to the inhabitants but fought all meanes to win them by gentlenesse which in the end was easilie compassed and all thinges appointed in decent order which made Hiber leaue his Brother to gouerne there in Hilberland or Ireland and return backe to Spaine There he found his Father Gathelus to be dead and hee with the peoples ioyfull consent was admitted to succéed him as his son but in regard of his admirable courage not satisfied with those bounds that pleased his father he made conquest of other Citties Towns neere about him so that they were inforced to sue vnto him for peace and agreed to such conditions that a league concluded amity and mariage contracts betwéen both Scots and Spaniards causing them to become as one people continuing their succession of Kings after Hibers death
in his posterity amongst which were Metellus Hermoneus Ptolomeus Hiberius and Simon Brechus Passing ouer the contentions in Ireland vnder the rule of the fore-named Himecus the three sonnes of Metellus viz Hermoneus Ptolomeus and Hiberius being sent thither in defence of the iniuried Scots let vs speake of this Simon Brechus lineally descended of the Scottish blood who was the first King that raigned ouer the Scots in Ireland he brought with him thither the fatal Marble stone and was thereon crowned in signe of his full possession of that kingdome in the yeare from the worlds creation 3270. after the floud 1616.55 from the building of Rome after Brutes entrance into Brittaine 870. and before our Sauiours incarnation 697. He gouerned his subiects with great Iustice fortie yeares after whom succeeded Fandufus from whom yssued Ethion that begate Glaucus whose sonne named Nottasilus was the father of Rothsay all which raigned successiuely ouer the Scots in Ireland Rothsay to auoide the super-abounding encrease of the Scottish Nation in Ireland transported them by diuers numbers into the Isles anciently called Ebonides afterward Hebrides but now by the Scots the Westerne Isles lying on the West halfe of Scotland and named the Isle he first possessed them of the isle of Rothsay after his owne name this was 133. yeares after Simon Brechus was crowned King Nor may we forget that they also named those Islandes and an especiall part thereof by the name of Argathelia in memory of their first guide Prince Gathelus and as yet to this day it is called Arguile wherein also as all ouer the mayne and firme land called then Albion and they Albion-Scots they planted themselues albeit it was a wast and very desert dwelling Héere could I enter into a necessary declaration concerning the comming of the Pictes into those partes of Albion what people they were their combustions with the Brittains and Scots and rule of their Kings till their absolute destruction according to an ancient Prophesie That the Scots should in the end destroy all the Pictish progeny But because I haue briefely spoken of them and hauing referred their further relation to our generall History we will now goe on with our matter of the Albion Scots In the troubles of Ireland among the Scots there inhabiting one Ferguhardus a very worthy and noble Prince raigned there who sent an armie to assist the Brittish and Albion Scots vppon theyr request of aide vnder the conduct of his son Fergusius who was a young gallant Prince yet an expert Warrior and tooke with him the Marble stone because he went to a dangerous war and hoped withall that the issue of his paines should be the attaining of a kingdome As indéed vpon an assembly and parlement held at Arguile and his high merit to excéed all others whatsoeuer he was elected and sacred in that supreame office in the yeare after the worlds creation 3640. before our blessed Sauiours incarnation 327. after the building of Rome 420. and after Brutes entrance into Britaine 790. This Fergusius after he had raigned royally the space of 25. yeares sayling into Ireland to quiet a discontentment amongst the Nobility was driuen vpon a Rocke where he perished by drowning and that Rocke hath euer since euen to this day bin called Rock-Ferguse otherwise Knock-Ferguse After the much lamented death of Fergusius because his sonnes were ouer young to vndergo the waighty charge of gouernment his Brother Feritharis was crowned King being enthroned in his Kingly Ornaments with all solemnitie his two edged sworde his scepter Royall and his Crowne of Golde made in forme of a Rampire for preseruation of his Countries libertie which manner of inuesting continued without any alteration till the dayes of Achaius King of Scotland who confirming a perpetuall league with Charlemaigne Emperor and K. of France to last for euer betwéene Scots and French added to the Crowne foure Floure de Lices with four Croslets deuided in sunder with equal spaces rising somewhat higher then the Floure de Lices that thereby the obseruing of Christian Religion and sincere faith maintained by the Scottish Nation might appeare the more apparant to al that behelde it After Feritharis who raigned worthy 15. yeares not Ferlegus the eldest sonne of Fergusius succéeded but Mainus the younger sonne being then aged 24. yeares and after him his son Doâ—uadille the following succession we will thus briefely relate Doruadil raigned 28. yeares Nothatus Brother to Doruadil raygned two yeares Reuther son to Doruadill 26. yeares Reutha the Vnckles son to Reuther seuentéene yeares and then entering into a priuate life he resigned the Crowne to Thereus Thereus the sonne of Reuther who raigned 12. yeares Conanus Lord of Galloway who after the decease of Thereus in Brittaine yeelded the gouernment to Iosina Brother to Thereus and raigned 24. yeares Finnanus sonne to Iosina thirty yeares Durstus sonne to Finnanus nine yeares Ewin Vnckles sonne to Durstus xix yeares Gillus base sonne to Ewin who being expulsed Ewin second of that name was crowned K. and raigning xix yeares resigned his state to Ederus Ederus the sonne of Dothan 38. yeares Ewin the third son to Ederus 7. yeares Metellanus sonne to Carren the Brother of Ederus in the 12. yeare of whose raigne our Sauiour Iesus Christ was borne of the blessed Virgin Mary in Bethlem which was 324 yeares after the establishing of the Scottish kingdome by Fergusius This Metellanus died in the 28. yeare of his raigne Caratake son to Cadallan and Nephew to Metellanus raigned xxi yeares Corbreid yongst brother to Caratake 34. years Dardan sur-named the Great for his huge stature foure yeares Corbreid Gald eldest sonne of King Corbreid 35. yeares This was a very worthy and famous King and the Countrey where hee last fought with the Romaines in memory of his owne name was called Galdia which as some thinke is that now named Galloway Lingthake son to Corbreid Gald two yeares Mogall nephew to Corbreid Gald six and thirty yeares Conarus son to Mogall 14. yeares Ethodius Nephewe to King Mogall In this Kingsraigne Lucius King of the Brittains with a great part of his people receyued the Christian faith being according to the Scottish Chronicles in the yeare after our Sauiours byrth 187. This Ethodius raigned 33. yeares Satrahell or Serrahell Brother to Ethodius raigned foure yeares Donald Brother to Satrahell 21. years In this kings time the Scots receiued with him the Christian faith 330. yeares after the erection of the Scottish Kingdome And this Donald was the first that caused Golde and Siluer to bee coyned in his Realme stamping a Crosse on the one side and his face on the other Euthodius the second beeing Sonne to the former King Euthodius raigned 16. yeares Athirco son to Ethodius 12. yeares Natholocus a Noble man of Argile xi yeares Findocke sonne to Athirco ten yeares Donald Brother to Findock
the battell wâ—s fought whereon was engragen Marij victoria The Stone was set vppon Stanesmoore and the whole Country thereabout taking name of this Marius was cald Westmaria now Westmerland Marius raigned 53. yeares and was buried at Carleill Coilus Sone of Marius was after his Fathers death King of Britaine hauing bin educated among the Romaines which made him pay them the tribute all the time of his raigne Hee builded the Towne of Colichester in Essex now called Colchester he raigned 55. yeares departed this life at Yorke and lieth there buried as some say but others at Coâ—lchester Lucius sonne of Coilus succéeded King after his Father being a very godlye and Vertuous Prince And because since the comming of Ioseph of Arimathia into the land there was much talke about Christ and Holy Religion whych many had begun to embrace he sent to Pope Eleutherius that hee would send some more learned men to him whereby both he and his might fully be enstructed in the faith of Christ Eleutherius sent vnto him Dâ—ianus and Faganus by some called Fugatius and Damianus two woorthy learned Clearkes who at theyr comming conuerted the King and his people from Paganisme There were in those dayes within the bounds of Britaine 28. Flamines and 3. Ach-flamines that were as Byshoppes and Arch-byshoppes of the Pagan Religion in whose place King Lucius appointed the 28. Byshoppes and thrée Arch-Byshops of Christian Religion Oâ—â— of which Arch-byshops held his Sée at London another at Yorke and the thirde at Caerleon Arswike in Glaumorganshire To the Arch-byshop of London was subiect Cornewall and all the middle part of England euen vnto Humber To the Arch-Byshoppe of Yorke all the North parts of Britaine from the Riuer of Humber to the furthest parts of Scotland And to the Arch-Byshop of Caerleon was subiect all wales within which countrey were then seauen Byshoppes where now there are but foure This King Lucius is saide to builde the Church of Saint Peter at VVestminster and Saint Peters Church of Cornehill in London This Lucius raigned 12. yeares and dying without issue the Brittaines fell at variance by which meanes the Romaine Lieutenants go on againe with their Gouernement the Emperor Adrian comming in person into Britain then the wal of Adrian was built from the mouth of Tine to the Water of Eske containing thirty miles in length Adrian hauing quieted all disturbances in Britain Lollius Vrbicus Calphurnius Agricola Vlpius Marcellus Pertinax Clodius Albinus and Heraclitus succéeded each other as Lieutenantes ouer the Brittaines for the Romaines which manner of Gouernement so continued to the yeare of our Lord 207. Seuerns Emperor of Rome did now beginne his rule in Britaine causing a Trench to bee cast from Sea to Sea Hee raigned not fullye fiue yeares and was buried at Yorke His Sonnes Geta and Bassianus contended for the Gouernment Geta was slaine in battell and Bassianus ruled sixe yeares but hee was likewise slaine by one Caransius a Britaine of vnknowne Byrth whom the Britaines accepted as their King till Alectus was sent from Rome with his Legions of Souldiors who conquered Caransius in field and slewe him Aesclepiodotus Duke of Cornwall preuayling in fight against Alectus and Liuius Gallus or Wallus whom when he had slaine he threw into a Brooke which tooke name of him and was called Wallus Brooke nowe Walbrooke was admitted to raigne ouer the Britaines And discord being afterward raised betwéene the King and one Coell Earle of Colchester they met in a fielde of battaile where Asclepiodotus was slaine after he had raigned thirty yeares At this time was Britaine in cruell persecution vnder the bloody tyrants Dioclesian and Maximus Alban a Cittizen of Werlamchester being the first that suffered martirdome in Britaine hee being conuerted to Christian faith by zealous Amphibilaus and because he would not sacrifice to their false Gods he was beheaded on the top of the hill ouer-against VVerlamchester where a Church and Monastery was builded in memory of hys martyrdom and VVerlamchester being destroyed the place tooke name of him and is to this day called S. Albanes A number of Christians were likewise assembled at another place to heare the word of life preached by that vertuous man Amphibilaus but they were all there slaine by the Pagans and the place in their memory named Lichfield The fielde of dead bodies It is also recorded that in the dayes of these Tyrants Dioclesian and Maximus of godly men and Women professing the faith of Iesus Christe there were martired in sundry place aboue 17000. Coell Earle of Colchester began his rule ouer the Britaines in An. Dom. 262. But Constantius being sent from Rome to suppresse him hee couenanted to pay the tribute gaue his daughter Helena a Noble and learned Lady in marriage to Constantius King Coell raigned 27. yeares and is said to be buried at Colchester or rather at Glocester Constantius succéeded in the rule of Britain after Coell and had by his wife Helena a Sonne named Constantine that was afterwarde Emperor and sir-named Constantine the Great In this Constantius dayes Amphibliaus was apprehended and suffered martyrdome at Redburne néere to VVerlamchester fiftéene yeares after the death of S. Alban Constantius raigned eleuen yeares Constantine sonne of Constantius and Helena and sir named the Great was King after his Father and created Emperor in Britaine His Mother Quéene Helena went to IerusaleÌ„ where she found the Crosse that our Sauiour was crucified on and the Nailes which shee gaue to her Sonne Constantine who did set one of them in the Crest of his Helmet another in the bridle of his horse and the third he threw into the Sea to asswage a rough Tempest Octauius or Octauian beganne his raigne ouer the Britaines in Anno 329. being called Duke of VVindsore He assembled a great companye of people and fought with the Gouernours of the Land which Constantine had heere appoynted yet was he expelled by Traherne into Norway and Traherne being slaine by treason afterward Octauius sent Maximianus Cosin to the Emperor Constantine to whom he gaue his daughter in marriage Octauius raigned 54. years About this time the Empresse Helena Mother to Constantine for loue she bare to Colchester and London did newly engirt them both with Walles rounde about causing great Bricke and huge Tyles to be purposely therefore made which are yet to be seene in the Towne and Castle of Colchester Maximianus or Maximus vsurped in Brittaine the Title of the Empyre and assembling all the men of Warre and youth of the Realme he went into France expelled the French-men out of Armorica and placed Brittaines there vnder Conon Meridoc Duke of Cornewall whereon it was euer after called Britayne the Lesse This Maximus or Maximianus hauing slayne the Emperour Gratian at Lyons in France was slaine himselfe at Aquileia by the Emperor