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A61366	Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain derived from the Phœenicians, wherein the original trade of this island is discovered, the names of places, offices, dignities, as likewise the idolatry, language and customs of the p by Aylett Sammes ...	Sammes, Aylett, 1636?-1679?	1676 (1676)	Wing S535; ESTC R19100	692,922	602

likelyhood Son of Silvius but others will needs have him Brother of Jago succeeded Anno Mundi 3364. There is nothing Recorded of this Prince but that he was buried at York after he had reigned four and fifty years GORBODUG the Son of Kinimacus the fourth from Silvins An. Mundi 3418 is stigmatized with the same reproach of Tyranny and was buried at Troy-novant after he had Ruled rather to compleat the account of Histories than in truth sixty three years He left behind him two Sons Ferrex and Porrex FERREX and PORREX began joyntly to reign Anno Mundi 3476. This is the third time that the Kingdom fell not entirely to the Elder Brother As after the Laws of Troy the Sovereignty And all resort of Right doth appertain To the Eldest Brother in Property The Eldest Sisters right so by right should have been Soveraign Lady and over them all Queen By equitee of that ilk Law and Right In place where it is holden Law perfeight These Brothers for five years in great Amity ruled the Island until Porrex the younger inflamed with the Ambition of being sole Governour attempts privately upon the life of Ferrex But it seems Ferrex had notice given him of his Brothers design thought it proved not so timely as to give opportunity to avoid the stroak by any other way than flight Gallia was esteemed the nighest and securest retirement where Arriving he sollicits the Princes of that Realm and especially Gunhardus or Suardus to assist him in vindicating his Right to the Crown This just Request being obtained he returns into Britain and with a mighty Army gives his Brother battle Fortune not favouring the just and equitableness of his cause his Army was defeated and in the Battle himself lost his life Porrex enjoyed not long his unnatural Conquest for his own Mother Idone or Widen looking upon him as the bloody murtherer of her Son Ferrex by a deed no less Barbarous prosecutes her Revenge for finding Porrex asleep privately murthered him neither could Motherly pity asswage her Anger until she had cut and mangled his Body in a thousand pieces For this unnatural and much admired Cruelty she was slain by the sury of the Multitude This extinguisht the House of Gorboduc and periodized the Line of AEnaeas insomuch as the Kingdom fell into innumerable divisions from thence into a Heptarchy One seized Loegria another Cambria a third Cornwal a fourth Albania and the fifth division is not specified distinctly by any Authors but is supposed to be Northumberland or Kent which in old Pedigrees their names are cited to be these RUDAUCUS King of Wales CLOTENUS King of Cornwal PINNOR King of Loegria STATORIUS King of Scotland YEVAN King of Northumberland Histories make particular mention of Pinnor otherwise called Pireman King of Loegria and of Rudacus King of Cambria Staterus King of Albania Cloten King of Cornwal but are silent in the other Princes names This Heptarchy is conjectured to have continued One and fifty years until Dunwallo Son of Cloten King of Cornwal whether by the clearest Right and Title or the longest Sword obtained the whole Kingdom is uncertain According to the foregoing Computation we need not with Polidore Virgil invert the Order of the British History in this place but continue the succession of Monarchy from this Period with Guintolin and not Donvallo Molmutius For allowing Molmutius to follow immediately after the Heptarchy his two Sons Belinus and Brennus will be found to be Kings of Britain about the time when Rome was sackt and so may not be obliged to set those two Princes any farther backward as Polidore hath done three hundred years but rather a little more forward For from the Entrance of Brute Anno Mundi 2850 to Belinus and Brennus Anno Mundi 3574 are 724 years whereas Rome is supposed to be sackt in the seven hundred and tenth year after Brutes Arrival as is gathered by Polidore Virgil out of Eusebius This Controversie with some others relating to the same Belinus and Brennus is particularly managed by Sr. John Price against Polidore Virgil as also by many others But seeing the true evidence of this matter is to be made out by Computations which account in seven hundred years according to diversity of Authors differ half in half it is the safer way in my Judgment to follow the usual method in the Succession of the British Kings than by the dependance of the uncertainty of Chronology in things of so vast a distance to invert the whole Order of their Reigns and so like Witches who would conjure them out of the World read them backwards MOLMUTIUS called Dūnvallo Son of Cloten King of Cornwal either judging himself to have the better Right or longer Sword invaded his Neighbour Princes First he began with Pinnor King of Loegria whom he overcame and slew before he could joyn with his Confederates Rudacus King of Cambria and Staterius King of Albania After this success he sets upon the fore-mentioned Princes with an Army of thirty thousand Men but the Victory hanging too long for his eager expectation he made use of a stratagem for counterfeiting the Arms of his Enemies he gave them a terrible overthrow in the Encounter The King of Northumberland or Kent is not mentioned in this Battle wherefore he is supposed beforehand to have surrendred his Kingdom By thismeans Molmutius Dunvallo called also Donebant became the sole Monarch of this Island Anne Mundi 3529. If he got the Crown by Oppression he managed it with no less prudence and moderation enacting several excellent Laws translated out of the British Speech into the Latin by Gildas and afterwards out of the Latin into the English Tongue by Alfred King of England And these Laws are Recorded by Count Palatine and are taken notice of by Mr. Sheringham and particularly recited by Mr. Selden in his Janus Anglorum They were to this effect 1. Ut Templa Deorum c. That the Temples of the Gods should enjoy such Priviledges and Immunities that no Malefactor flying to them for Sanctuary could be seized or by force drawn from them before he had obtained pardon 2. That High-waies leading to Temples or Roads to great Cities should have the like Priviledges 3. That Ploughs Oxen and other Labouring Cattle should enjoy the same Immunities and the reason of this Law is given because otherwise the Ground might lie untill'd and the People perish for want of Bread 4. He set out the number of Ploughs that should be in every Shire and Hundred with severe Penalties upon all that should be the occasion of lessening the Number 5. The fifth is the same almost with the third only it seems a little to restrain it namely That no Oxen or Labouring Beast should be seized for Debt unless there were no other Goods or Chattels to make satisfaction 6. He ordained set Weights and Measures for buying and selling 7. A Law against Thieves and Robbers These are the Molmutian Laws

〈◊〉 Dion Cass. BOADICIA described in Person by the Greeks Tacitus Tacitus vit Agric. Ann. Dom. 60. An. Dom. 70. Suet. vit Ner. Josephus Suet. vit Galbae Suet. vit Otho Ann. Dom. 71. Tacitus Tacitus Ann. Dom. 72. Tacit vit Agr. Ann. Dom. 80. Count Palat. 〈◊〉 Count Palat. Anna Dom. 81. * Tweed as some think Ann. Dom. 82 Ann. Dom. 83. An. Dom. 84. Anne Dom. 85. * Trinobantes rather The Order of the Battles on both sides Anno post Christum 86. Hol. Hist. of Brit. Suet. vit Domitian Tacitus Juvenal Agricola poysoned by Domitian in reward of his good Service and Vertues Juvenal Ann. Dom. 86. Martial Joh. Bale Matt. Parker An. Dom. 98. Ann. Dom. 96. Anno Dom. 98. Gal. l. 9. c. 8. Method Med. Tacitusi Beda Am. Marcel Beda An. Dem. 118. Cambden Spartianus in vit Hadriani Speed Chron. Ann. Dom. 80. Bishop Usher William of Malmsbury An. Dom. 132. Ann. Dom. 139. Digest lib. 36. An. Dom. 162. Capitolinur Capitolinus vit Macrin Ann. Dom. 181. AElius Lamp Fol. 1119 Anno à Passione Christi 169a al. 156 ex Leg. St. Edv. Reg. Confesità inscribitur M S. Guil. Lond. † Rege dimicabunt * degunt consistunt MS. ibid. † Rege dimicabunt MS. ibid. The first Bishops in Britain † Ante adventum Augustini Gal-Arturius Vodinus Mart. Christian Religion establisht in Britain 181 years after the death of our Saviour Christ. Capitolinus Beda * Pope † Princeps magna gloriae Ninnius Fabianus Harding Count Palat. An. Dom. 183. Xiphilinus out of Dio. Cass. * Tilia and in Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Tree bearing fruit as great as a Bean round within seeds like Antiseeds AElius Lamp in vit Comm. Hel. Pertinax Propraetor Jul. Capitol in vit Pertin Clo. Albinus Jul. Capitolinus * Crassus Julius Severus Propraetorl Commodus requited for designing Martia's death Camb. Brit. Lampridius vit Commod This is said to PERTINAX the following Emperour An. Dom. 1941 Jul. Capitol Clo. Albinus again Propraetor Ann. Dom. 194. Eutrop. Spart Dio. Ann. Dom. 194. † Constantinople Herodian Onuphrius Herodian An. Dom. 198. Digest lib. 28. tit 6. Speed Chron. An. Dom. 208. Dio. Cass. Herodian Spartianus Orofius Spart Eutrop. Victor Hect. Boet. Hier. Surita Guid. Pauc Bede Cambd. Brit. Xiphiline ex Dion Speed Chron. An. Dom. 〈◊〉 Spartianus Homer Spartianus Cod. lib. 3. Tit. de Ret vindicatione lig 1. Liv. Dicad 1. lib. 1. Flor. Val. Max. Varro de Ceremontis Note No Emperour was capable of this Honour in being Deified but such as left Children and near Relations behind them according to the Customs at first instituted by Augustus and afterwards reinforced by Tiberius Herodotus vit Severi † The Senate mourning in Black Via Sacra † FORUM f viz. FORUM Eoarium Piscarium Olitorium Lipsius lib. 3. cap. 7. * Tarq. Superb deposed An. Dom. 212. Aurel. Victor Sabellicus Bede Eutropius An. Dom. 284. An. Dom. 218. Count Palat. An. Dom. 219. Lamprid. Herodian Aurel. Vict. Euseb. Onuph An. Dom. 223. Lampridius Sabellicus Lampridius An. Dom. 236. Basinstoke Not. 18. ad lib. 5. Not. 15. ad lib. 3. An. Dom. 236. Capitolinus An. Dom. 238. † Old Carlile An. Dom. 243. British Hist. Basing stoke An. Dom. 245 Eusebius Camb. Brit. Eusebius Eutrop. Vicior An. Dom. 250. An. Dom. 252. An. Dom. 254. An. Dom. 261. Porphyrius An. Dom. 269. Pollio Not. 22. adl 5. FATHERS That is according to the British Hist. the Trojans Basingstoke An. Dom. 271. Vopiscus An. Dom. 276. An. Dom. 277. Vopiscus vit Benosi Camb. Brit. Vopiscus An. Dom. 282 Vopiscus An. Dom. 285. Aur. Vict. Bede Eutrop. Ninius Cambd. Trinobantes Eumenius Sigonius † Caraucius or Alectus Caraucius This seemeth to be spoken to Constantiuque * Alectus † Caraucius or Alectus Caraucius This seemeth to be spoken to Constantiuque † Caraucius or Alectus Caraucius This seemeth to be spoken to Constantiuque The acknowledgment of perpetual Obedience Tacitus Camb. Brit. Tacitus Dio Cass. Herod Vopisc al. Basingstoak Not. 14. ad 1. 5. Bede Hect. Boet. Pompo Latus Avent Fort. Prisc. in Laud. Virg. Bede Speed Chron. Aurel. Vict. Eusebius An. Dom. 289. An. Dom. 269. An. Dom. 299. An. Dom. 300. An. Dom. 305. Eusebius Eutrop. Niceph. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Religious devout godly merciful honest just and bountiful In Essex Hist. Bede Angl. l. 1. c. 8. Ex Orat. Ambrosii in laud. HELENAE Reg. Basingstoak cut of Mekurchus † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Religious devout godly merciful honest just and bountiful In Essex An. Dom. 306. Panegyrick Oration to Constantine the Great Euseb. vit Constant. Gelasius Ciz lib. 〈◊〉 Act. 〈◊〉 Nicen. cap. 3. An. Dom. 310. Camb. Euscbius † Pecunia Londini notata Zosimus Malmsbury An. Dom. 319. Ammianus Pancirolus Gildan And in the Laws Basiggstoak lib. 6. Gaufrid 1. 2. c. 3 4. Fabian An. Dom. 337. Socrates lib. 2 cap. 31 An. Dom. 340. Jul. Firmicus Speed Chron. Basingstoak lib. 6. An. Dom. 344. Am. Marcel lib. 15. cap. 2. Basingstoak lib. 6. Gildas Socrates Zosimus Basingstoak lib. 6. An. Dom. 361. An. Dom. 364. An. Dom 365. * Called otherwise Attigotti Catalotti Cattiti Erasmus giveth them the name of Azoti They were Cannibals as st Hierom writeth lib. 2. cont Jov. An. Dom. 370. Amm Marcel lib. 27 and 28. † Simmachus Speaking to his Son THEODOSIUS the Emperour An. Dom. 376. MAXIMUS the Tyrant Orosius Gregor Turonensis Gildas Bede * Bono Reipublicae 〈◊〉 now Little-Britain An. Dom. 379. CHRYSAN An. Dom. 395. Claudian Claudian MARCUS chosen Emperour by the Britains GRATIAN Emperour CONSTANTINE a Souldier chosen Emperour * Constant. Sosom lib. 9. Olympiador apud Photium Rutil Claud. Malmsbury Ninnius Prosp. Aquit Nicepharus Gildas An. Dom. 4104 Gildas An. Dom. 418. An. Dom. 423. Buehanan Gildas Gildas An. Dom. 430. Gildas Mat. Westm Constantius vit Germ. Gildas An Dom. 446. Bede Gildas Gildas An. Dom. 446 or 447. Witichindus † BRETS Saxons An. Dom. 448 or 449. German An. 431 to 447. Prosp. Tyro * Rusus in the copy First Duke of the Guisses and Earl of Cornwal then King of Britain † Elsewhere Decius Paulinus A Pagan Prince † Elsewhere Decius Paulinus A Pagan Prince * Rusus in the copy First Duke of the Guisses and Earl of Cornwal then King of Britain Polider Virg. † The Daughter of Hengist † Deposed after six years Government Strabo lib. 5 p. 159. Livy Suetonius † The Ceremony of the Roman Freedom Dion lib. 3. Livy lib. 9. Note Titles of Honour originally were conferred for the sake of vertue not estate witness Sir Walter Rawleighs Hist. of the World Plutarch in Romulo † De Leg. 6. fol. 759. Varro Ant. * Note This Custome was much in use among the Britains Cicero de Divin 〈◊〉 Ovid. 〈◊〉 lib. 15. Rev. 17. 15. Plat. in Crat Plutarch in the Life of Pericles Ter. Varro Dio. Halicar The God JANUS The God JUPITER The Goddess

but the only Argument to prove this a British Monument is Catigern's Tomb who fell in a Battle against Horsa where the Tomb only differs from this in bigness and as being fixed without Mortises and Tenons as we have it expressed by Mr. Cambden in his description of Kent wherein he sets down several other things worthy of observation relating to that Country THE CONTINUATION OF THE British KINGS In the Daies of the SAXONS TO Aurelius Ambrosius succeeded his Brother UTER PENDRAGON a Prince nothing inferiour to him either in Valour or Fortune he is reported a Roman but the greatest demonstration we have of his being so was that whilest he lived he not only buoyed up the sinking genius of Britain by his own Vertues but had also freed this ISLE from a troublesome Intruder as the Saxon in all probability was like to prove had not Divine providence preordained to the contrary si Pergama dextra Defendi potuisse etiam hac defensa fuisset Before he came to the Crown he was sent by Aurelius who then lay sick to oppose Pascentius Vortigern's second Son a Man likely to prove a dangerous Enemy as pretending to the Crown and at that time in conjunction with another malevolent Planet GILLAMARE King of Ireland Against these Uter prudently made all the haste he could with resolution upon the first opportunity to give them Battle lest this new Pretender through length of time might steal away the Affections of the unstable Britains and he himself bring his own Credit in question by delaying the Engagement insomuch that the one being actuated by his own natural fierceness from whence termed UTER the other spurr'd on by Ambition the Fight for a long time stood doubtful but in the end Pascentius and his Irish Associates were slain ill defending their claim to that which their Fathers before them held by as bad a Title Aurelius being dead and himself freed from all Competitors in the Kingdom he began to have an eye upon the proceedings of the Saxons For understanding how Esk and Occa Hengist's Sons had harrassed and spoiled the Country as far as the City of York with all the speed therefore imaginable he wade after these Free-Booters and as suddenly defeated them taking the two Brethren prisoners A good natured Prince without doubt that spared the Lives of those that were by piece-meal stealing his Kingdom and whose Father but a little before had sacrificed 300 of his Nobility In this Prince his time landed Kerdic the Saxon a new Enemy sierce and hardy who notwithstanding all opposition Pendragon could make daily discomsited the Britains and gained Territories large enough for himself and his Followers Now whether this happened whilst he was doting on the fair Dutchess of Cornwall and so could not spare time to attend their Motions sure it is we read that the Britains to recover what they had lost set upon the Saxons under the Conduct of Natanleod or Nazeleod a certain King of Britain but were sufficiently routed by Kerdic and his Saxons from whence the place in Hantshire as far as Kerdicsford now Chardford was called of old Nazaleod Now some and not improbably suppose this Nazeleod to be the right name of Uter Pendragon who for the terrour of his eagerness in fight became more known by the Sir name of Uter signifying in the Welch Tongue dreadful as Edward was termed the Black Prince for the same Reason We shall speak nothing here of his lying with Igren Dutchess of Cornwall nor how by the art of Merlyn he was made so like the Duke of Cornwall that neither the Dutchess nor Servants could perceive the cheat contenting our selves since it cannot be helped that from that adulterous Bed the vertuous Prince Arthur sprang ARTHUR after the death of Pendragon his Son Arthur by the Dutchess of Cornwall was advanced to the Throne being then not above fifteen years old early he came by his honour and as early troubles the usual Concomitants of it overtook him but on purpose as it seems to make him more glorious For Lotho King of the Picts and Gouran King of the Scots having married Anna and Alda the Sisters of Uter laid claim to the Crown in right of their Wives These had Justice on their side and Arthur eleven points of the Law Possession and a good Sword to make it good they often backt their Pretences with a good Army and were as often defeated by this young Prince yet not so throughly but that they held him in Plea all his life-time upon occasions assisting the Saxon against him and at Cambula in Cornwall saith Leland this British Hector encountering Mordred Lotho's Son slew him outright and received of him his own deaths wound Ninnius reports that he over-threw the Saxons in twelve great Battels but with what credit I know not Kerdic the Saxon during all the time of Arthurs Reign continually gained ground of him and possest himself of Somerset and Hantshire in defyance of all the opposition he could make against him but after the fight at Mount Badon the Saxons are said to have sate down quietly for a good while after which those restless Spirits would scarce have done had they not stood in fear of an Army more powerful than their own Therefore we may with some Reason believe he gave the Saxons some considerable defeat and might with all probability have eased the Kingdom of that troublesom Enemy had not his generous Spirit been almost consumed and over-wearied by their continual Supplys Fame has done no Prince more Injury than this for by representing him so far beyond all proportion she has made him Monstrous and by her over-fond talking hath made Posterity suspect with some reason whether there ever was any such Person The Bards styled him IMPERATOR BRITANNIAE GALLIAE GERMANIAE DACIAE now who can believe that he should ramble so far to purchase new Countreys especially with the blood of his own People that could not defend his own against the Enemy at home Caradoc relates that Melvas King of that Country which is now called Somerset detained from him his wife Guenever in the Town of Glaston for the space of a whole year and afterwards restored her at the desire of Gildas not by any compulsion or force that Arthur could make against him If this be true then Arthur seems to be a very unlikely Man to run-over Germany that could not chastise the affront of a little Prince of Somerset that had so much defiled his Bed Now the greatest Argument we have to prove there was ever such a Man as ARTHUR is this King HENRY the Second whilest he was at Pembroke diligently hearkning to a Welch Bard that was singing the notable Exploits of King ARTHUR and taking particular notice of the place of his Burial the Song designing it to be in the Churchyard of Glastonbury and that betwixt two Pyramids commanded for his further satisfaction that they should dig thereabouts When they came some

Dominican Fryar who thus telleth the story OF THE Famous MONASTERY OF BANGOR AND THE Conference held between AUGUSTINE and DINOTH Abbot of that place DOnc puis que Seint Augustin lestoit venuz trova en Wales un Arcevesque un Abbeie tresnoble en la cite de Bangor e estoit devisee en sept portions e en chescune estoient tres cenz moines q' vivoient de lur labour Lur Abbe fu apele Dinooth sage elerc e ben apris en les sept arz que sont liberals apelez E qnant Seint Augustine li auoit perle li demaunda subjection a li com a celi qestoit mande legat en la terre per le Pape e per la court de Rome Et outre ceo li priast q'il li eidast de praecher Mes il li denia l'un e l'autre Puis apres la mort Seint Augustin Adelberd Roy de Kent trop corouce entisa Ethelfrid Roy de Northumbre e les autres Rois de Sessons encountre le dit Dinooth Abbe de Bangor pour ceo qu'il auoit despit Seint Augustin L'an de grace sis cenze e unze e fu set son successor Laurens A cel temps Ethelfrid Roy de Northumbre a la request Adelberd Roy de Kent sen ala oue graunt ost sur les Britouns venant par Leycestre dona bataile a lamestre de la cite Brocmaill e puis q'il auoit ses genz tue e nausre adrein lenchasa e puis q'il estoit entre la cite troua leinz graunt nombre de moines e de hermites q'estoient Britouns e pour ceo les ocist trestuz al nombre de mil e deus cenz dont li auint male fortune Quar alant outre vers Bangor encountre treis Duks de Bretons cest a savoir Blederik Duc de Cornwaile 〈◊〉 Duc de Demethe q'ore est Southwales e Cadwan Duc de Venedoce q'ore est dit Northwales lur dona bataile mes il le naufrent e fuerent de ses genz dis mil e sessaunte Lors se aniuerent les Princes de Bretons e par acord fesoient Canwan le Duc de Venedoce lur Roy. Puis Cadwan pursui Ethelfrid jusques a Humbre mes il acomparnant a li les Rois de Sessous le reumt encontre mes acordee estoit par 〈◊〉 Cadwan regnast de sa Humbre q'est de part le South e Ethelfrid de la q'st depart le North. WHen St. Augustine was come he found in Wales an Archbishop and a famous Monastery in the City of Bangor divided into four Societies every one of which contained three hundred Monks who lived on their own labour Their Abbot was called Dinoth a prudent Clerk and well learned in the seven liberal Sciences with whom Angustine entring into Conference demanded subjection to him as being sent Legat into the land from the Pope and Court of Rome And moreover required that he would be assisting to him in preaching but he refused both the one and the other It sell out that after the death of St. Augustine Ethelbert King of Kent highly incensed thereat stirred up Edelfrid King of Northumberland and other Saxon Princes against the said Dinoth Abbot of Bangor because he had slighted St. Augustine And then after other Narratives he goeth on In the year of Grace 611 his Augustin's Successor was Laurence at which time Edelfrid King of Northumberland at the instigation of Ethelbert King of Kent leads a great Host against the Britains and coming to Leicester gives battel to Brocmail Governour of the City and cutting and hewing apieces his People puts them to flight When he was entred the City he found a great number of Monks and Hermits whom because they were Britains he slow everyone to the number 1200 upon which account he had afterwards ill fortune For proceeding on towards Bangor he was met with by three British Captains viz. Blederick Duke of Cornwal Margeduc Duke of Demetia which is Southwales and Cadwan Duke of Venedocia which is North-wales who giving him battol wound him and slay of his Nation ten thousand and sixty Then the British Princes meet and with general consent make Cadwan Duke of Venedocia their King who chased Edilfrid as far as the River Humber but he making head again through the assistance of the Saxon Princes the quarrel was took up by Friends and agreed that Cadwan should possess all on the South of Humber Edelfrid the North. These are the chief Records extant concerning the foundation of the first Christian Church among the English-Saxons which was begun in Kent under King Ethelbert But the long Catalogue of Bulls Charters and Grants of Lands given by this King or by Popes and Archbishops of Canterbury during his reign to particular places Churches and Societies of Men I have purposely omitted because they tend not to the substance of Religion and being most of them forged all suspected shew rather the cunning of later Ages in contriving than the possible magnificence of these times they are fixed to when perhaps the simplicity of the Christian Religion and the poverty of them who first propagated it in the Island gave no pretence for such large Possessions and Immunities to flow in of a sudden upon them But it was not long before pomp and state grew up in our Church by the continual influence of Rome and that most excellent Religion which was ever observed to gain most ground by the meekness and humility of those who professed it those vertues being spent and pride and luxury succeeding was fain to be propped up with Secular advantages and the life and substance gone shadows and forms introduced and Secular liberties being preached up as the interest of Christ which were ever found to be the most destructive to his Gospel ETHELBERT reigned fifty three years Bede sets his reign higher and allotteth him fifty six years but it is generally agreed that he died in the year six hundred and seventeen EADBALD EADBALD the Son of Ethelbert by his first Wife Birtha succeeded his Father in the Kingdom of Kent Being young at his entrance he was no sooner freed from the awe of his Father saith Bede but he renounced the Christian Profession whose severity was not agreeable with the licence of a Crown and was likely to prove too great a curb to his exorbitant lusts and unnatural passions For whether tempting for Lust or tempted out of an ambition of Rule he took to wife his Father's second wife whose Name hath not had the honour of being recorded And being actually engaged in a sin which Heathenism it self did alwaies abhor he made it his business so much the more to discourage Christianity by how much he knew its Doctrine condemned such Incestuous practices And now might be seen what influence the Religion of the Prince had upon the lives of the People for they who had embraced Christianity only as the Religion most fashionable in the daies of the old King now thought