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A51707	Brittains glory: or, The history of the life and death of K. Arthur, and the adventures of the knights of the Round Table : giving a relation of their heroick exploits and victories in many lands ... pleasant and delightful, altogether worthy the perusal of the ingenious reader.	Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent.; J. S.	1684 (1684)	Wing M339; ESTC R43418	18,774	26

Brittains Glory OR THE HISTORY Of the LIFE and DEATH of K. ARTHUR And the Adventures of the KNIGHTS of the Round Table GIVING A Relation of their Heroick Exploits and Victories in many Lands but especially in the Holy-Land against the Turks and Sarazens The Combates with Gyants and Monsters and fearful wild Beasts Encounters with Pyrates at Sea His building Pallaces Love to Ladies and the many deliverances wrought by him With other wonderful Atchievements Pleasant and delightful altogether worthy the perusal of the ingenious Reader Printed by H. B. for J. Wright J. Clark W. Thackeray and T. Passinger 1684. Entred according to Order JOHN SHURLY TO THE READER COURTEOUS READER DVring the Revolutions of this Kingdom such have been the Valourous Exploits of the Princes and other Renowned Warriours Natives not only in this our Land and neighbouring Countries but throughout the known World that all Nations have stood amazed and trembled at their Prowess And amongst others well may the famous ARTHUR that Renowned Brittish King take place though to lessen the Credit of his great Exploits some envious Aliens have endeavoured to prove there was never such a man but since it is evident by Chronologers of the most Antiquity and Integrity that he was the Son of Vter Pendragon of the Antient Brittish Royal Blood I shall not use more Arguments to manifest it to the World but proceed to the Matter of History as I find it layed down for the Instruction of future Ages And remain Reader Yours to serve you I. S. BRITTAIN'S GLORY OR The HISTORY of the Life and Death of King Arthur and the Adventures of the Knights of the ROUND TABLE CHAP. I. Of the Parentage of King Arthur and how he came to the Crown after his Fathers death THE Saxons after the departure of the Romans having under the title of friendship seized upon many strong places in this Kingdom the native Brittains after having tryed their fortunes in many dreadful Battels were obliged to retire into Wales and Cornwall ●et retaining many places of considerable strength and from thence by frequent excursions greatly anoyed the Enemy not forgetting their antient Ualour and the former Glory of this Isle amongst which was King Vter Pendragon lineally descended from the Brittish Kings who in the Year Anno 500. began to Raign over the Brittains that possessed the Mountainous Country with great success giving the Saxons many defeats and gaining greatly upon them till at last falling in love with a fair Lady named Igrayin wife to Alfridus Duke of Cornwall he so doted on her Beauty that not finding her to be won by perswasion to yield her chastity to his disposal he plotted with Merlyn a famous Necromancer of that age to bring his designs about by policy This Necromancer undertaking the matter the better to ease his Princes labouring thoughts with Spells and by Magick Inchantment so wrought that either deluding the Ladies sight or transforming the King into the shape of her Lord she received him as such and suffered him in the absence of Alfridus to injoy her a whole night on whom he got our famous Arthur For her Lord being in War against the West-Saxons was slain e're his return of which the King hearing though greatly grieved at the loss of so renowned a Subject yet as much rejoyced that fate gave him opportunity to procure the love of the fair Dutchess in an honourable way which he prosecuting after the days of mourning were over so dealt with her by fair words and rich presents that being now at liberty she was contended to be his Wife and was married to him by the Bishop of Carlile with great pomp and splendour all the Lords and Nobles subject to his Scepter together with their Ladies adorning their Nuptials and assisting at the Ceremony And so great was the joy that easting Turnament and all manner of disports to recreate the sences were held for twenty daies Yet the Queen was troubled to find the fruits of her womb increase so fast as fearing to be suspected of Adultry for well she knew she had been deceived when she computed the time of Alfridus death with the time she supposed him in her embraces but the King to put her out of doubt and to prevent melancholly thoughts in loving wise unrevealed the whole mistery yet it was agreed between them that it should be kept secret and that the Child should as soon as born be conveyed to a trusty Guardian to prevent obloquie The Queen about six months after the Ceremony of the Wedding was over being brought to bed of a Son the Child named Arthur as it was before resolved was conveyed by trusty hands to a Lady of good repute named Marilda Wife to Sir Ector one of the Kings Knights who brought him up in such learning as was meet for his Years When as his Father worn out with the continual toiles of War and much distempered through the many wounds he had received died leaving him sole-Heir of his Dominions who thereupon was proclaimed by most of the Nobility and Crowned King though some taking the advantage of his green years rebelled raised divers Commotions but he growing up and getting the Reins of Government into his hands did many great Exploits as will in the series of this History appear CHAP. II. The Description of King Arthur's usual Accuterments his Vision and the Interpretation thereof And how he constituted the Knights of the Round Table KIng Arthur by this time being grown up became exceeding tall strong insomuch that he seemed more than man and in many Iusts and Turnaments so well behaved himself that none could stand before him A Horse he had which he called Beaucephalus after the name of the Great Alexander's Horse and he in all Exploits proved the best in the world His Sword was of a large size viz. five foot in length and in breadth eight inches cutting with two fearful edges on which hung death and destruction His Launce was eight cubits and the head thereof formed of Massy Steel weighing six pound His Armour was of the highest prooff shining with Gems and burnished Gold And the better to inure him to War and great Exploits he frequently rode thus accutered and often in places of greatest danger glorying in nothing more than his strength and manly prowess delighting in nor fancying none but such as were truly valiant and feared not Death in any of his dreadful shapes but to such he was lavish to Excess retaining no other for his Counsellor but Merlyn the famous Necromancer from whom as from an Oracle he received the certainty of future events and at his request recreated him with strange and wonderful sights the Representation of Magick and amongst the rest upon a great Plain before the Kings Palace at Cardigan he raised a stately Tower and round it a pleasant Garden adorned with Fruits and fragrant Flowers Fish-ponds Fountains pleasant Bowers and Umbrages into which he led the King and all

in whom consisted his chief strength for scarce was there any one of them but durst encounter ten ordinary men hand to hand and as he increased them so he inlarged their pensions which drew the most valiant of all Nations to serve him though none were admitted before they were tryed The habit the ordinary wore when without their Armour was a Uest lined with Sables and on the back of it a red Cross and on their Thighs Cushes of highest prooff their Stockings were in the manner of Buskins and their Shooes of Camels skin the Hair appearing outward on their Heads they wore Caps made of Seal-skins lined with Silk and Cotten and about their neck Silk of divers colours each of them in UUar carrying a double Faulchion a Battel-Axe a Bow and Quiver and a Launce being severally allowed a Esq or Armour-bearer who attended them in all Battels CHAP. XI How King Arthur upon the Relation of a Hermit what miseries the Christians suffered in the Holy Land sailed thither with a great Fleet and how at his first arrival he took Joppa ABout this time King Arthur finding nothing worthy of his Sword at home and altogether impatient of ease studyed how he might imploy it abroad and whilst he was musing thereon an Hermit in poor aray came to the Court and filled it at once with pitty and desire of revenge upon the dismal Relation he made which was That the Turks and Sarazens had fallen upon Iudea and Palastine with an Army of 100000 men and made such slaughter of the Christians in those parts that such as escaped were forced to fly into Rocks and Caves of the Earth and there were either starved to death or became a prey to wild Beasts And that they had taken the Holy City of Ierusalem after thirty days Siege and put almost all the Christians they found therein to the sword polluting the Temple and Holy Sepulchre with their Heathenish Worship As also that they impailed the Patriarch alive for refusing to worship Mahomet This story coming to the Kings ear he could not refrain from shedding tears when sending for the Hermit in the presence of his Nobles he most strictly examined him to all particulars and finding he delivered nothing but what as he said himself had been an eye-witness to the King turning to his Lords said Hear you this my Lords shall we suffer the Enemies of our Lord and Saviour thus to triumph over the professors of his Name to which they with one voice reply'd That it was intollerable and that they were ready to venture their Lives and Fortunes in that Holy War and in his service whereat the King highly commending their resolutions vowed by the Passion of his blessed Lord whom those Infidels defied and blasphemed he would not take pleasure in any thing till he had faced those barbarous Nations and tryed his Fortune to free the Holy City from its pollution and thereupon he sent to all the neighbouring Princes for aid resolving to set saile early in the Spring it being now the middle of August He likewise layed double Taxes upon his own Subjects and demanded double Tribute of the Saxon Princes who did not so willingly pay it at that time as was expected by reason most of them were unconverted and therefore secretly rejoyced at the prosperity of their brother Infidels But however the King raised a great Mass of money and caused his Navy to be augmented so that from France Danemark and other Ports of Spain hauing received fifty ships of War most of them Manned with Voluntiers of those Nations he with 200 saile on board of which he had 50000 men in the beginning of April waighed Anchor and having a fair wind coasting France and Spain he joyned likewise divers other ships who were ready to attend him for the noise of this War had overspread all Christendome when passing through the Straits into the Mediteranian Sea he brought such a fear upon the Sea-towns that the Infidels inhabiting them fled with their substance to the Mountains into which the Christians entering found yet some booty but desirous to pass on to Jerusalem the King sayled to the Isle of Cyprus then governed by one Emanuel a Christian where having refreshed his Army he again imbarqued and sayling through that tract of Seas arrived at Joppa a famous Sea-Port and the in let of Palastine which he found strongly fortified as likewise Salmanezer King of the Turks incamped with a Host of 100000 Turks Jews and Sarazens about six miles from thence yet landing his men he resolved to besiege the City and by taking it secure the Port whereupon causing his Enginers to make divers batterings after the Roman fashion which under the favour of the night notwithstanding the besieged hurled down wild-fire and stones in great abundance they set to the Walls on the North side and by force of Cords battered with such fury that they rent the Uamures in divers places making the City tremble which so alarum'd the Infidels that they sallyed 10000 strong upon the quarter guarded by the Earl of Merionoth but coming to handy-strokes were forced to retire 5000 less than they came and the next morning by King Arthurs express command a furious assault was given on all parts when as the Brittains with their shot of Arrows beating the besieged from their defences mounted planted the Kings Standard upon the wall entering and killing the Infidels in great number so that all the streets ran blood till such time as the King upon their throwing down their Arms and on their knees begging mercy bid spare the sword when having expelled them the Town he placed a Garrison of divers Nations therein and so marched to joyn Battel with Salmanezer CHAP. XII The overthrow of Salmanezar and taking of Jerusalem with what else happened remarkable on that occasion THe Infidels being greatly troubled at the loss of Joppa desired their General to lead them to battel e're the Christians advanced any further to which after many delays he consented and on the fifteenth of July early in the morning advanced in hopes to surprize the Christians but finding them in battel-aray he began to repent his rashness but finding no means now to retire unless with loss and disgrace he divided his Army into three parts the first containing 40000 men he lead himself the second containing 36000 he committed to his Brother Albamazer a Gyant of great stature fierce and cruel and the third containing 24000 to Gouzeles Governour of Jerusalem Nor did King Arthur delay to Marshal his Battel in the best manner leading the first Battalian consisting of 20000 choice Souldiers and an hundred Knights of the Order for the guard of his person the second battle consisting of 10000 he committed to Battanius Duke of Cornwall the third battel consisting of 10000 he committed to Sir Lancelot du Lake the fourth consisting of the like number was lead by Frovonius a noble Dane When as both Armies marching in this posture