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B07424	The great Plantagenet. Or, A continued succession of that royall name, from Henry the Second, to our sacred soverainge King Charles. By Geo. Buck, Gent..	Buck, George, fl. 1623-1646.; Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623. Daphnis polystephanos.	1635 (1635)	STC 3997; ESTC S106071	21,009	66

worthies of this land 19. A Prince form'd of the true materiall mould He was as valorous as politicke Hee could well win and what he wan could hold And fortune followes such men in their traine (1) Normandy not Neustria Pithaeus Westria was his he rul'd in (2) Little Britaine Armoricke And raignd in Albion and Aquitaine In briefe a Sov'raigne he did raigne and rule From Pyraene Mount ains to the frozen (3) Terrarum ultima Thule Seneca Island or Thy-leusell that is Shetland secundum Gasp Peucerum apud G. Camdenum Thule 20. His glorious enfigne next he doth display Whose valiant zeale and Chivalry divine K. Richard 1. surnamed Caeur de Lyon married Berengaria daughter of Garcia King of Navarre Made in the Pagan Kingdomes such a way As all the Christian Hosts might enter in He tooke Acon and Ioppa in Palestine And did besides the Realme of Cyprus win He ward with Men and slew the Austriak Lyon Then made a peace with God and went to Syon 21. Next rides King Iohn to whom stout Calidoun Tooke solemne oath to be a true Leig-man To him the King and the heires of his Crown K. Iohn brother to Rich. 1 surnamed Sans terrae He got Angolesme by marrying with Isabell daughter and heire of Almery Earle of Angolesme and the Isle of Man by conquest Walter Buck brought 700 men out of Brabant wan Ely divers Castles for this K. Iohn Vide Camdenū in Occadini et Holinsh And by his auspices the Brabant Knight From Rebell Lords their Isle of refuge wan By him great Thamsis bridge so exquisite Which lay in wooden modells was begun A braver worke in Europ ne're was done 22. Then comes his Sonne with other Architects Hen. 3. surnamed Winchester maried Elianor daughter of Raymond Ear. of Provence Not to build Babells and Castles in the Aire But he a holy house for God projects The which he doth at Westminster performe A Temple high magnificent and faire A glorious pile for sacred use and forme And shall remaine to all posterity The hallow'd Monument of his Piety 23. Now adde the formost two which bore his name K. Edward 1. surnamed Longshank married first Elianor daughter of the K. of Castile she was heire of Ponthieu and Mother of K. Edward 2. by his second Wife Margaret Da. of the French K. He had Tho. of Brotherton from whom by Segrave Moubray the Howards are descended Who of the Saint disguis'd a Ring received To th' one some give a Hammer for surname Because he bruis'd Gaiothell in his rage And him of Iacobs Stone and Chaire bereaved But Iacob repossess'd them by praesage The other Edward the Templars did expell Of whom I can no more say to say well 24. Behold him next who in his doome supreme Pouuoire above an Estre did advance For he was offered Caesars Diadem 2 Vide Tho. Walsingham in Ed. 1. K. Ed. 2. surnamed of Carmarvon married Isabell daughter and heire of Phil. le Bel K. of France K. Edw. 3. surnamed de Windesore married Philip daughter of William Earle of Henalt c. He tooke Calais and wan many victories of the French as at Crecy and Sluys c. refused to bee Emperour Paralipom ad Abb. Vrspergens But followed boones forbod and downe anon Cuts with his Mothers sword the flowers of France And plants them in his field of Albion And puts them in his royall Lyons guard For so quoth he Dieu et mon droyt award 25. Phillip the famous Macedonian Ed. de Woodstock P. of Wales and of Aquitainc married Ioan Da. and heire of Edm. Plantagenest Earle of Kent First he overthrew 60000 Spaniards and Frēch in Spain betwixt Naveret and Naiara Had not a son of higher worth then he For where the Prince blacke Edward went he wan This honors comet first did faire appeare At Cressy field which Navaret did see After more bright then Mavors in his Spheare But Poiters chiefly where hetooke King Iean For there a double victory he wan 26. Two Richards more succeed the one a Prince K. R. 2 his son surnamed de Burdeaux married Anne of Lexeinbourg Da. of the Emperour Wenceslaus K. R. 3 surnamed de Fotheringay Du. of Gloster c. married Anne Nevill Da. of Ric. the great Earle of Warwick Whose goodly presence men to wōder moved And was as bountifull as any since Fame hath bin sharp to th' other yet because All accusations of him are not proved And he built Churches did make good lawes And all men held him wise and valiant Who may deny him then his Genest Plant. 27. But Henry Bullingbrook me thinks doth frowne King Henry 4. surnamed de Bolenbrock married Mary Daughter and heire of Humphery Bohun Earle of Hereford c. He was Duke of Lancaster in the right of his Mother Blanch Da. of Hen. Duke of Lancaster c. That Gloster here should next to Bourdeaux com Because he from his Cozen tooke the Crowne Mistake not Henry for by right for neither Of yee in these triumphall Carrs is roome But best of all you may be matcht together Yet I must grant thou wert a Princely knight And Patron of the bloody Rose by right 28. But to thy sonne the Dolphins strange repaire King Henry 5. surnamed de Munmouth married Kath. Da. to Charles the 6 the French King Of this Dolphine vid. Tho. Walsingham in An. Do. 1392. He conquered France for the most part He dyed at Blois de Vinciennes neere Paris Swimming in post up to the royall Porte Foretold that he was borne the Lillies heire This signe was soone by sequels verified Dolphin he was by right or swords effort And he in France victorious liv'd and dyed whom Agincourt so nobly did receive At Vinciene Parke of all he takes his leave 29. Henry his sonne surnamed of Windlesore K. H. 6 surnamed the Saint built a Colle dge at Eaton and the Kings Colledge in Camb. married Marg. Da. of Rene. K. of Sicil. Du. of Aniou Who was in London and in Paris crowned Most worthily a Plant of Genest bore But not by Scepters sole his praise beganne K. H. 7. solicited the Pope to Canonize K. H. 6 who refused His christian vertues made him most renowned For he was deem'd a very holy man And had bin made a Saint long since shrin'd But that the vice-Saint maker was unkind 30. I must omit that proud Plantagenet R. Du. of Yorke heire generall of the Crowne Regent of France Married Cecely Nevill Da. of Ralph Earle of Westmerland Who in high Parliament the King defide But I may not his gallant sonne forget Who twice did win the royall Gole by armes And was the father of the happiest bride That ever Camber compast in his armes K. H. 4. married Wydevile Da. of Ant. Earle Rivers extinguished Lancaster Q. Eliz. 1. King Ed. 5. She made the losse the lighter of that sonne Whose raigne then

DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE THE GREAT PLANTAGENET OR A CONTINVED SVCCESsion of that Royall Name from HENRY the Second to our Sacred Soveraigne King CHARLES BY GEO. BVCK Gent. Quod maximum et optimum esse dicitur oportet esse unum Ex Arist Top. lib. 7. LONDON Printed by Nicholas and Iohn Okes. Anno Domini 1635. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sir JOHN FINCH Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas c. SIR AS You draw your Eye from the Title I must craue pardon to meet your Lordships Expectation and confesse in these Papers I have but practis'd like a young Limbner wipt away the dust from some Antiquities and by them drawne these proportions which are done too but imagine luscae and not to the full portraicture of that Imperiall greatnesse Nor haue I strain'd my Fancy in high shaddowes for in things of this Nature I would be industrious not affected There wants nothing in the Subiect to make an Historian and a Poet. And had these Intentions met anabler Pen they might with some desert of Pardon haue beene admitted the intermission of your Lordships more serious Houres I haue nothing to excuse mee but my Zeale which in the throng of those that Honour and admire You presses thus neere the influence of your great Vertue humbly prostrating these poore indeavours and the duty of Your most humble and unfained honorer George Buck. To his noble Friend Maister GEORGE BVCK upon his Poësie Noble Friend THou need'st no attributes unto thy Muse He that shall be thy Reader and peruse Thy learn'd Endeavours must with me confesse That thy owne Pen doth best thy selfe expresse Thou art above the vulgar hight or hate That thus the Acts of Kings can vindicate O. ROVRKE To his honoured Friend George Buck on this his Revivall of the Royall-Name of the PLANTAGENETS KIngs are above their Fates and glorious live Though layd in Dust by the prerogative They have o're Fame but this Religious debt Due to the Name of Great Plantagenet So long uncancel'd lay we did distrust Their Names would be more buried then their Dust Till some rich Mercy thy learn'd Quill did wooe To pay this Debt which none but it could doe And now so cleere discharg'd againe their Name Is borne in Triumph on the wings of Fame And to the deeds to which their life did climbe They now in Dust have learn'd to conquer Time For this their Royall gratitude returnes To thee the Laurells which now crowne their Vrnes Who would not wish this Wreath his owne which springs Ioyntly bequeath'd thee from so many Kings Robert Codrington To his deserving Friend Maister George Buc. GEorge in thy deare name methinkes I apprehend That Virtue which did sweare me first thy friend And did not still thy constant soule retaine That worth entire I would e'n here restraine My Pen for 't is not as some may thinke perchance That knowes not thee my doting Ignorance But so much truth as tells me He that can But imitate thee is a happy man And did the World but know thee halfe so well As I it would be thought no flattery to tell How high and nobly Wit and Judgement flowes In thy cleare Soule without vaine glorious showes Let others boast how much their sportive wit Doth please this Madam or with that commit When femall hands interrs their wither'd Bayes Thy Genest shall grow greene and crowne thy praise George Bradley The Preface or Argument of this POESIE DAmaetas having long beene a Wood-man and observed the Natures and Properties of many Trees apprehended some Mystery and peculiar matter in the Genest more then hee could attaine to and meeting with Silenus a man of great Learning and Authority for hee was held a Prophet exposeth to him his Conceit Silenus by meanes of a late accident was well able to instruct and resolve him For there had beene a complaint made lately to Apollo against certaine unworthy fellowes which presumptuously tooke Garlands off his ancient Tree the Laurell He forthwith calling the Muses to Councell in Helicon established Ordinances for the due wearing of that and all other Garlands And because the ancient Garlands were abused and prophained with common and unworthy use he made choyce of a new Tree viz. the Genest and instituted Garlands thereof giving them prerogatives above the rest and appropriated them to one imperiall Family seated in * Britania or Albion rather vide Stanz 13 and is taken out of Orpheus in his Argonaunt where Master Camden rather readeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Albion or Alba rather then Pinaria Leucëëssa with expresse defence that none else should weare them that not all the Princes of this Family should weare Garlands hereof but some a Chappelet and some onely a branch or Plant the compleate Garland reserved for his favorite * Sub Daphnis quod nomen in hac Ecloga datus S.R. Carolo sicut Julio Caesari olim in Ecloga 5. Virg. à Pastoribus Daphnis After Silenus declareth more particularly who and what these royall Worthies were Beginning with the great Henry sonne of the Empresse Matilda the first King of this Iland surnamed * Plantagenet from Planta-Genistae so call'd as some say for wearing a slip or stalk of broom in his cap or hat who write that toward his latter days in penance contrition for his past sins he undertook to goe to the Holy Sepulcher in the poore and despised habit of a Broome-man and to signifie himselfe so bore a broom-stalk in his cap as I have read of other Princes who in great penitece humblenes for their sins for their better privacy security have travail'd thither like Carpēters Joyners other poore mechanicke Tradesmen wearing in the same kind somebadge of the trade they seemed to professe Others say it was because he scourged himselfe with the stalks of broom which grew upon the Plaines where once the holy City stood But I shal expresse this occasion more amply in another place He was also surnamed Courtmantle Plantagenet and so deducing a Geneologie from him through his Royall posterity to our present Sacred Soveraigne Charles his now Heire whom hee Crowneth with this Polyanthine Garland c. In whose Sacred Person are joyntly met and coalesced the Royall bloods Titles and Interests not onely of great Britaine but also of France and Ireland For Scotland the Crowne and Scepter thereof missa per innumeros avos all men acknowledge his ancient right therein And his Majesties Title to Ireland will be manifest in the Genealogy herein deduced from the Great Plantagenet King Henry the second the first English Prince of * Lyonell Planta Duke of Clarence 3 Son of K. Edw. 3. married Eliz. Daughter and Heire of Will. Mure-Burk Earle of Vlster Lord of Conacht from whom the Dukes of York are descended Camden in Hiber Ireland and from his Heroicall posterity as well Marches as others who have beene

Ecclesiae and in other ancient Monuments in these styles * Ephoca Ego Athelstanus Rex Anglorum Dominicae Incarnationis DCCCCXXX Regni verò mihi gratis Commissi vj. Indictione iij. * Ephoca Epacta xviij Concurrente iiij Nonis Mensis Aprilis iij. Lunae rotigerae vagationis i. per ejusdem omni-patrantis dextram totius Britanniae regium solio sublimatus c. Ego Edmundus Rex Anglorum caeterarumquègentium in circuitu persistentium Gubernator Rector Anno Domini 945. Ego Edredus King Edred was Uncle to Edgar Ingulf Rex terrenus sub Imperiali potentia Regis saeculorum aeterniquè Principis magnae Britaniae temporale gerens imperium c. Anno Domini 148. Ego Edgarus totius Albionis Monarcha c. An. Dom. 966. and in another Ego Edgarus totius Albionis finiti-morumque regnum Basileus An. Domini 974. These three last styles hath Ingulfus Abbot of Croyland transcribed by him from the Charters of the Monastery and the other two before going are copied out of the Records of Chichester Cathedrall Church as also these three next following Ego Eadwis Basileon totius Albionis If 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sub Rex This Edwis or Edwin was eldest Brother to the great K. Eadger Asser in Histo de Gestis Ealfridi c. Anno Domini Dcccc. Lvj. Imperij antem i. And in another place Ego Edwin Rex gentium Albionis c. And in the date of a Charter of Bishop Brighthelmus Anno secundo imperij Edwin totius Albionis Insulae imperantis there is also in Asser Meneuensis Aelured or Aelfred a more ancient Saxon King then these written Omnium Britanium Insulae Christianorum Rector An. Dom. 872. And Edward surnamed Pius and Confessor was from the yeare of our Lord 1050. King of this whole Ile if there be any credit to be given to our Stories was styled Rex Albionis Io. Twinus in Albionicis as Iohn Twin avoweth out of his Charters given to the Abby of Abington and that same King Etheldred before cited was styled in the Charters of Glastonbury Etheldred Anglicae nationis caeterarumque gentium triniatim intra ambitum Britan. Insulae degentium c. Basileus and another King in old inscription Britinniae Anax and many such more which were too long to recite And some Kings of the Norman race which is more rare have beene so styled For the Lord Bishop of Bristow voucheth a Coine of King Iohn wherein is stamped Ioannes In his Treatise about the Union Rex Britonum But his Grand-child K. Edward 1. and after him K. Edw. 3 Vide Th. Walsingham in K. Edw. 1. in Ed. 3. were greater Monarchs here then he But this great Henry Plantagenets Empire extended beyond the bounds of the Britanish world and his greatnesse so farre exceeded all other Kings his Ancestours that hee was styled Maximus Britaniae Regum as I will shew by and by and by good right Jo. Praesul Carnotensis in Policratico for besides this his great Britaine and Ireland he was possessed of a great part of France by these Titles Hee was Duke of Normandy by right of Inheritance from his Grandfather King Henry 1 K. Edw. 3. erected Aquitaine into a Princedome for his eldest sonne Ed. Duke of Normandy c. He was Duke of Aquitain that is Gascoine and Guien sometimes a iKngdome and Earle of Poictou by the marriage of Queene Elinor Daughter and Heire of William Duke of Aquitaine Jean de la Hay and Earle of Poictou whose wife Ieanne was daughter of David King of Scots He was Earle of Aniou Seminary of Kings of Touraine and Maine his native Countrey by right of inheritance from his Father Geoffry le Bel Earle of them all He swayed in little Britaine which authority he acquired partly by the Marriage of Const daughter and heire of Conan Earle of Brita with his third sonne Geoffry Earle of Richmond but chiefly by his Sword as it appeareth by Gu. Lib. 11. Cap. 18. Neuburgensis who then lived and thus writeth Cum a potentioribus in Britania inferiores premerentur Regis Anglorum auxilium expetentes ejus se ditioni spontanè subdiderunt c. ipsosque potentes viribus subegit sicque in brevi tot a Britania potitus est He also conquered Auuergne For Ireland he twice invaded that kingdome and by Armes seconded with Letters of favour of his good Friend Pope Adrian an Englishman hee brought the discording Princes there Girald Cambr. in Hibern expugnata G. Canden to submit their differences and their Titles to him and so obtained the possession of the Isle As for those parts and parties in this our Great Britaine viz. of England Scotland and Wales which did not acknowledge his Soveraignty he reduced them in good time to the ancient subjection and obedience which they owed to the British and Saxon Kings his Progenitors The Welch-men in their Stories acknowledge this but for the other if any doubt be made G. Neuburgensis veridicus Autor as Polidore Virgill observeth him will thus satisfie him speaking of this King Henry and of David K. of Scots his prisoner being then both at Yorke Occurrit ei Rex Scotorum cum universis Regni nobilibus qui omnes in Ecclesia beatissimi Apostolorum Principis Regi Angliae tanquam principall Domino hominum cum Ligeantia id est solemni cautione standi cum eo pro eo contra omnes homines Rege proprio praecipiente fecerunt ipse quoquè Rex Scotorum coram universa multitudine nobilium utriusquè regni Regem Anglorem modis solemnibus Dominum suum seque hominem fidelem eius declaravit eiquè tria praecipua regni sui munimina scilicèt Rokesburke Berwick Castellum puellarum loco obsidum tradidit c. But Iohn Bishop of Chartres maketh his Empire yet much greater Jo Bish Carnotensis in Policratico for he boundeth it to the Southward with Spaine and to the Northward with the Isle of Orkney and might as well if it had pleased him with the North-Pole as Giraldus Cambrensis did and then styleth him maximum Britaniae Regum and goeth further and compareth him to Alexander and ascribeth as some interpret the first discovery of the West-Indies which was made by Madok a younger sonne of Owin Gwineth D. Powell Prince of North-Wales An. Dom. 1170. to this King because it was done by his auspices as we may as well also attribute to him the redeeming of our great Arthur from the injurious imputation of a fabulous Heros because he caused his Monument to be sought out which was sunke deepe into the ground in the Isle of Aualon by the occasion of a Bardes song D. Powell in the Hist of the Princes of Wales which he heard in Pembrooke but I will set downe Gyraldus his owne words written in manner of a Panegyrick to this King elegant enough for those times Sil. Giraldus in Tepographia