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A56267	Epitome monarchiæ Britanicæ, or, A brief cronology of the Brittish kings from the first original of monarchial government, to the happy restauration of King Charles the Second : wherein many remarkable observations on the civil warrs of England and General Monks politique transactions in reducing this nation to a firm union for the resettlement of His Majesty, are clearly discovered / by Hamlet Puleston ...	Puleston, Hamlet, 1632-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4190; ESTC R21043	34,516	68

of the aforesaid Robert the second c. but that it is demurred by some First Whether Nest Walter 's Mother were an Heir or no 2. Admitting that she were whether her Ancestor Cadelh were the eldest Son of Rodri Mawr who being King of all Wales was the first that did make a partition thereof George Owen Harry in a Book entituled The Genealogy of the high and mighty Monarch James by the Grace of God King of Great Brittaine c. Printed 1604. favours Cadelh with the first Colume among Rodri's Sons but D. Powel in his Chronicle written before and taken out of most Authentick Records is peremptory in vindicating the Birth-right to Anarawd Prince of Northwales and maintaining that though his two Brothers Cadelh Prince of Southwales and Mervyn Prince of Powis were sharers in the Inheritance yet did they hold from him and his Children or ought so to have done as from Lords Paramount and therefore we must only adhere to Anarawd's line and wave his Majesties descent from all other Princes of Wales which were either but Usurpers or at the best but of the youngest House and Vassals and Homagers to the Princes of Northwales In doing this we shall begin before the Fraction even with Cadwallader himself and so by Anarawd come down to his Majesty not meddling with Intruders upon any other score than as we have hitherto done to wit to shew that sometimes such there were by God's permission but never intended for perpetuity the succession always in the end these Imposters notwithstanding revolving to the genuine and legittimate Heir Cadwallader then surnamed Bendigaid or the Blessed having lost the greatest part of his Kingdome to the Saxons did by the perswasion of his Cousin Alan King of Little Brittain betake himself to Rome and there lived and died in God's Service bequeathing to his Posterity the fore-recited Prophecy That they should one day be Masters of his whole Isle again But Ivor the Son of Alan governed next after him his own Son Edwall Ywrch that is the Roe being unable or unwilling to divert the Helm in such turbulent and tempestuous weather Yet did his Son Rodri-Moel-Wynog undertake it and left it to his Son Conan Tyndaithwy whose Daughter Esylht was his Heir but she knowing how unfit feminine shoulders were to sustain so great a burthen in those Martial times took to Husband a Noble Prince Mervyn Vrych by whom she had Rodri Mawr or Roderick the Great who more consulting private affection than Reason of State made that unpollitick Division of Wales which being united was scarceable to defend it self against the Invasions of the Saxons their implacable and continually encroaching Neighbors Now though much of the Demean were defalcated from Anarawd by his Father Rodri yet did the Fee and Chiefeship remain to him and his which his Brother Cadelh did sparingly enough acknowledge and his Son Howel less for he not onely withdraws his Allegiance for Southwales but after the death of Edwal Voel the son of Anarawd seizes upon Northwales it self yet is he commonly stiled Dha or the Good not certainly for such undue acquisitions and unjust detentions but for the excellent Laws he made a thing not unusually practised by those who have less of equity on their side to warrant their ill-gotten and unlawfull Possessions Howel Dha being dead the Principality returned to Jevaf and Jago the Sons indeed but yet but the yongest Sons of Edwal Voel no respect being had by them of their elder Brother Meyric whose Son Edwall nevertheless obtained it having waited the leisure not only of Howel and Cadwalhan the sons of Jago but also of Meredith ap Owen ap Howel Dha who followed his Grandfathers steps and committed a second Rape upon Northwales herein the more excusable that he took it from one who had himself no other plea than that of force and extortion thereunto But Edwall ap Meyric having after the exercise of some patience gained what his Father was injuriously deprived of left both his bad and good Fortune to his son Jago or James viz. to the defrauded for a while by an Abator or two Aedan ap Blegared and Llewelyn ap Sitsylht but afterwards to recover his Paternal Right which yet he doth not long enjoy but loses it with his life to Gryffith ap Lewelyn ap Sitsylht and his Son Conan to preserve his life is forced to flee into Ireland where marrying with Ranulht Daughter of Alfred King of Dublyn he had by her a Son called Gryffith who will be found another Medium besides that of Fergus whereby more of the Irish Bloud-Royal is transmitted into His Majesty's most Princely veins And if as doubtless it will be it be objected that neither of these foundations are of sufficient strength to build a claim to a Kingdome upon it not appearing that Fergus or Alfred were Kings of Ireland entirely but supposed to be of parcels only or that Ranulht Alfred's Daughter was also his Heir Our Answer is that we do not lay the whole stress of our King's Interest to that Kingdom upon such weak and infirm undersetters but affirm that the most considerable part of the Inhabitants as English Scotch Welsh are undoubtedly His Majesty's natural Leiges and as for the original Natives whom Conquest hath made Subjects this however seemingly imperfect Title joyned with that obliges them to continue so especially seeing it is such a Conquest as hath been confirmed by more Centuries of years than those within the compass of which Jephtha demanded of the Ammonitish King why he had not all that while recovered his now too late challenged Land And as concerning the Title it self as bad as it is a better it is presumed cannot be produced by any pretender whatsoever But to return from our digression Ireland lying somewhat out of our Road which is principally confined to Great Brittain Prince Gryffith ap Conan ap Jago with the assistance of the Irish reprieves that Countrey which properly belonged to him out of the Talons of Trahern ap Caradoc the last of the Usurpers there having been since Jago's death no fewer than four to wit Gryffith ap Llewelyn ap Sitsylht he that ejected and killed Jago Blethyn ap Convyn his Brother Rywalhan and this Trahern whom Gryffith the lawfull Heir slew at the battel of Carnarvan and after a long and prosperous Reign had this felicity superadded to his former that his eldest Son Owen was his Successor which happened not to Owen himself but his first-born Jorwerth Drwyndwn upon a pitiful Cavil that he had a deformity in his nose which his surname doth import was laid aside and his younger Brother David preferred before him Yet did that most noble and valiant Prince Llewelyn the Son of Jorwerth Drwyndwn dispossess his usurping Uncle David and not content to have repaired late losses proceeds to resume former alienations by reannexing to his Territories those several fragments of Wales which the weakness or improvidence of his Predecessors had suffered to be pared away from their already too slender and scanty Dominions And here two waies offering themselves to bring us to our journeys end we are at a stand which to elect that of Mortimer's or of Owen Tudyr's Race We have indeed engaged in the beginning of the progress to prosecute that of Sir Owen Tudyr's but an unexpected rub hath fallen out in our passage which we did not fore-see when we made that promise viz. that Gryffith ap Llewelyn the Father of Elewelyn ap Gryffith the last Prince of Wales the Father of Catherine the Mother of Eleanor the Mother of Margaret the Mother of Meredith the Father of Sir Owen was but the base Son of Llewelyn ap Jorwerth ap Drwyndwn and therefore his attempt to drive out his lawfully begotten Brother David was altogether lawless as likewise was his son Llewelyn's keeping out Gulladys Dhy or the Black the Sister and Heir of David because she was married to an English man namely Sir Ralph Mortimer Lord of Wigmor by whom he had Roger Mortimer the Father of Edmond the Father of Roger the Father of Edmond the Father of Roger the Father of that Edmond who married Philippa the Daughter and sole Heir of Lionell Duke of Clarence third Son of King Edward the third and by her had that Roger from whom to make another deduction to His Majesty would be but an idle repetition of what hath been already declared and is obvious to every one that hath but heard of the great Controversie between the Yorkish and Lancastrian House But be it how it will whether Mortimer or Tudyr's Right be the firmest certain it is that both these different lines do centre in the same point wherein the Roses met and from thence like Rivolets that have formerly been divided do unitedly flow unto His Majesty so that he need not as the French do sodder up a broken Title with a devised Law salique repugnant to the Law of Nature or use so poor an evasion as the King of Spain is said to do when the Duke of Medina Sidonia once in a generation tenders a Customary Petition to have the Kingdom delivered up unto him as his due the Answer is that the place is already full but may dare the whole World to shew a more unexceptionable claim than his unto the Imperial Crown he now wears And long may it flowrish upon his head and the head of his Posterity even unto the end of the World And let all the People say Amen FINIS

in War surnamed Ironside hew himself out with his Sword the moiety of a Kingdom For after the effusion of much blood on both sides and to stop the shedding of more it was agreed between the two Competitors Cnute and Edmond to try their right by single combate in proper person and the over-commer to take all But there proving equality in the sight there was likewise made equality in the command between them yet did not Edmond long enjoy his share being circumvented by the practice of Edric Earl of Stratton the Arch-Traytor of those times whose falshood had ruined the Father and now his ambition destroys the Son for which Cnute invents a suitable reward causing his head to be set upon the highest place of the Tower of London therein performing his promise of advancing him above any Lord of the Land which was the mark that this faithlesse wretch aimed at and now attained but in a far different sence from that which he had vainly proposed to himself Cnute being thus rid of a Rival denied copartnership to the Sons of Edmond as pretending the whole to appertain to the Survivor and for fear they might prove thorns in his side he sent them far enough out of the way into Swedeland say some there to be murthered but they were mercifully preserved and conveyed to the Court of Hungary where Edmond dyed without issue but Edward had by Agatha Daughter to Henry the fourth Emperour of Germany a Son named Edgar and a Daughter called Margaret who was the cause as hereafter shall be shewed that the Saxon stem which now seemed withered doth once more reflourish though inocculated we confesse upon another stock Notwithstanding this transportation of Edmonds Sons yet did not Cnute hold himself sufficiently assured of his new accquired Kingdom till he had married Emma widdow of Ethelred whereby he gained the love of the English but the promise he made in marriage that the Children begotten on her should succeed was for some time frustrated by the preoccupation of Harold surnamed Harefoot the eldest son of Cnute by a Concubine but his reign was brief as likewise was that of his Brother Hardi Canute the lawfull Son of Cnute and Emma with whom expired the Danish Dominion here which had been but of a short duration though their incursions and molestations had continued for a longer space Edward styled the Confessor to distinguish him from Edward the Elder and Edward the Saint was next King being the Son of Emma also but by her first Husband Ethelred the Unready and did in some sort restore the Saxon blood For in truth there was a nearer relation to the Crown extant though not so near at hand for the present to wit Edward surnamed by reason of his Forein education the Outlaw the Son of Edmond Ironside the eldest Son by his first Wife of the above mentioned Ethelred the Unready who ought by the Law of Nature and Nations to have preceded Yet did the Confessor wanting Issue himself do his Nephew the Outlaw so much right as to recall him with his Children out of their Banishment in Hungary and designed him his Successor but the Outlaws death before the Confessors prevented that determination Neverthelesse the Confessor without delay pronounced Edgar the Outlaws Son and his own Grand Nephew Heir apparent and gave him the surname of Etheling which in those dayes were only peculiar to such as were in hopes and possibility of a Kingdome And more than so this poor Etheling never was For first he was debarred by his own Guardian Harold the Son of Goodwin Earl of Kent who disdaining the title of Regent which he was only constituted assumed that of King Afterwards by William Duke of Normandy who though he pulled down Harold yet did he not set up Edgar laying claim himself to the Crown by virtue of a pretended Donation from his Cosen Edward the Confessor which had been too weak a plea had it not been justified by a long sword which hath ever since given him the appellation of William the Conquerour Robert the eldest Son of the Conquerour should by right of primogeniture have succeeded his Father in all his Dominions but having proved a Rebel at the French Kings instigation he had only the Dukedom of Normandy assigned to him and the Crown of England was bequeathed to his Brother William surnamed Rufus who dying without any legitimate off-spring and Robert being absent in the Holy-land Henry the youngest Son of the Conquerour as Duke of Normandy but eldest as King of England seized upon it and to ingratiate himself with the Natives and to corroborate his Title he Married Maud Daughter of Margaret by Malcolme King of Scots Sister to Edgar Etheling Son of Edward the Outlaw Son of Edmond Ironside Son of Ethelred the Unready Son of Edgar the peaceable Son of Edmond Son of Edward Senior Son of Alfred and by which means the Royal seed of the Saxons became to be replanted in the English Soil For this Henry the first had not to mention his Son William who perished by water whilst he was young by the foresaid Maud a Daughter of the same name whom he first espoused to Henry the fifth Emperour of Germany afterwards to Jeffrey Plantagenet Earl of Aniou by whom she had a Son called Henry in whom did fully concur the Norman and Saxon Race But the true hereditary succession was somewhat intercepted by Stephen Earl of Bologne Son of Adela the Conquerours Daughter from whom he could derive but a slender title For had the Conquerours line Masculine failed then ought Theobald Earl of Bloys Stephens Eldest Brother by the same Adela to have been prelated And therefore his surest Tenure proceeded from his Election by the Nobility who notwithstanding their natural Allegiance and twice repeated Oath and among them Stephen himself is reckoned to be one that had sworn Fealty to Maud and her Heirs in the Reign of her Father Henry admitted this stranger and that for no other reason though other were alleged as that Maud was a woman and consequently uncapable of anointing that she was married out of the Realm without the consent thereof which if of any moment should before their solemn engagement have been taken into consideration than that he being a Creature of their own erecting was more obliged to them and would upon all occasions be more ready to gratifie their aspiring humour Yet wanted not the Empresse and her Son adherents both within and without the Kingdom to assert their right who raised such a cloud of trouble to Stlphen that he could not dispel it during his whole reign so that at length he came to a composition and his own Son Eustace whom he had designed his Successour being already dead he adopts Henry fitz-Empresse and proclaims him heir apparent with this Proviso That he himself should enjoy the Crown as long as he lived which was not a full year after this peaceable agreement Henry the second of that name is

cause to himself and proceeds slowly therein all which is performed accordingly but it concludes with the ruine of Woolsey's and the Popes Authority For impatient of these procrastinations Henry discards the one and renounces the other rejects Katherine marries Anne grows weary of her impeaches her of incest with her own Brother cuts off her head in whose room the very next day succeeds Jane Seymour who dies in Child-birth And so he continues shifting and putting away or to death his Wives as well as other Subjects till his own appointed time came a little before which it is recorded that in great Agony he should say unto Arch-Bishop Cranmer Is there any mercy for him who never spared man in his wrath nor woman in his lust In his life he little regarded but rather endeavoured to defeat by Parliament the titles of his Daughters Mary by Katherine of Spain and Elizabeth by Anne of Bolen with both whose Mothers he had been grievously displeased and seemed more inclinable to the off-spring of his youngest Sister Mary Dowager of France by Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk but at his death by his last Will and Testament he constituted his Son Edward by Jane Seymour his next immediate heir and then in case they dyed issulesse the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth to succeed in their order Henry the eighth being dead Edward the 6th of that name his Son is at nine years of age proclaimed King and Edward Duke of Sommerset by the Mothers side ordained his Protector whose candid nature exposed him to the cunning wiles of Dudley Duke of Northumberland which at last brought Sommerset his Brother Thomas Marquesse of Hertford Admiral of England and even the King himself to their untimely ends The Fox Northumberland observing the difference between the Protector and the Admiral begun by the womanish emulation of their Wives doth underhand so foment it that the Admiral is brought to the block and the Protector not long after follows ' which renders the Pupill King more obnoxious to Northumberlands ambitious practices now that his two faithfull Uncles who should have supported him are removed out of the way Northumberland taking advantage of the Kings weaknesse of mind and body whereunto he is shrewdly suspected to have contributed advises him to make a Will wherein the King declaring that he was past his minority thoughot above sixteen years of age and that it appertained to him to dispose of the Kingdome as he pleased doth disinherit his Sisters Mary and Elizabeth as Persons of whose legitimation there was a question as likewise the issue of his eldest Aunt Sister Margaret married to the Scotish King as foreiners and aliens bequeathing the Crown to his Cousen Jane Grand-daughter to the Dutchesse of Suffolk the youngest Sister of his Father King Henry the eighth Guilford Duke Dudleys Son was husband to this Lady Jane who upon the death of Edward was proclaimed Queen but Mary the eldest Daughter of King Henry by the assistance of the Norfolk and Suffolk Gentry recovered that which both by birth and her Fathers appointment was her undoubted though for a small time detained right Notwithstanding Mary by the Protestants aid attained the Crown yet her Education in the contrary profession and the memory that for her Mothers sake it suffered its first detriment obliged her to recall the Catholick Religion that had been banished in her Predecessors days keeping as one wittily observes the Kingdom by Pater noster which she had gained by Our Father which art in Heaven Her zeal and over-ardent desire to extinguish that which she thought Heresy kindled many fires in this land for which she hears ill among the vulgar to this day and bears the brand of tyranny though of her self she was of a mild and merciful disposition Among other passages her severity to her Sister Elizabeth is much taxed of whose sincere devotion though outwardly conformable to the Romish Church the Queen much doubted and fearing a relapse of things after her own death could have been content that her Sister Elizabeth though the youngest had had the Precedency therein But Philip King of Spain Queen Maryes husband had other thoughts of and intentions towards Elizabeth whom he preserved from her Sisters violence and designed for his second we would say third wife for he was a Widdower when he married Mary by whom he now begins to despair of issue and by reason of her Dropsy perceives she was in no wise immortal here Queen Elizabeth at her first entrance makes shew as if she would tread in her Sister Maryes steps whereby she so charmed the Catholick Clergy and Nobility that they created her no disturbance And she did further so temporize with King Philip that he was a great favourer of her admission hoping shortly to be a Copartner with her both in Bed and Kingdom But the fancy which Philip though no Babe had builded in his brain quickly appears to be but an aerial Castle for Elizabeth soon undeceives him and other Romanists who had promised themselves other matters by declining Marriage disowing the Popes Jurisdiction and reducing Ecclesiastical Affairs to the same state and condition her Father and Brother had left them in The aversenesse of this Queen to Matrimonial Bondage as she accounted it gave occasion to that great and by her alwayes disliked dispute about the Succession That it belonged of right to Mary Queen of Scots Daughter of James the fifth Son of Margaret eldest Daughter to King Henry the seventh none could reasonably deny but Mary say the State Politicians of those times will ptove another Mary and our Religion will be depressed if she be advanced to the English Throne Her own Subjects have expelled her upon that account and shall we accept of her for our Princesse whom we have so much disobliged by detaining so long a Prisoner For this unfortunate Queen having been educated in France did after the decease of her first Husband the Dolphin return into Scotland of whose fashions by reason of her forein breeding being somewhat ignorant she could not consequently but be guilty of some miscarriages which her Enemies so aggravate that they stir up the people to a sedition seize upon her Person force her to resign to her Son James by Henry Lord Darly Son of the Duke of Lenox not full eighteen Months old of whom Earl Murray her Bastard Brother is made Regent who was the beginning and continuer of all her troubles Mary late and by right still Queen of Scots after this extorted and therefore invalid resignation fearing further attempts against her life escapes out of the loathsom Gaol where she was secured and betakes her self into England for succour sending news to her Cozen Queen Elizabeth imploring not only present protection but also such convenient aides as might restore her to her Kingdom of which she had been forceably deprived by her Mutinous and Rebellious Subjects Elizabeth at first gives good words and sends her large attendance