England since the first entrance of the ROMANS As Also of the Kings and Princes of Wales the Kings and Lord of Man and the Isle of Wight together with the Princes and Lords of Powys Printed at London 1641. THE PREFACE TO THE CATALOGVE Of the KINGS of ENGLAND THe Realme of England is thâ—t Southerne and more flourishing part of the Isle of Britaine that which was civiâ—ized by the Romans and made a Province of their Empire when as the Northeâ—ne parts thereof were â—ither neglected or not conquered When it was under the command of the Romaâ— Emperours it wanted not its proper and peculiar Kings over the chiefest and most principall of their Tribes and Nations it being the custome of that Empire as Tacitus hath truely noted habere servitutis instrumenta etiam Reges Of these inferiour tributary Kings those which were in their severall times of more power then others may probably be thought to have assum'd unto themselves the stile and title of Kings of the Britons even as in after times during the heptarchy of the Saxons those which gave law unto the rest did call themselves and were accounted the Kings or Monarchs of the English But those inferiour petite Kings being in tract of time worne out and almost all the South reduced under the immediate command of the Roman Empire either the Emperours themselves or such of their Lieutenants as did here usurpe the regall state were stiled Kings of Britaine till Constantine the Great united it inseparably to the Roman Diadem And in him ended the first line of the Kings of Britaine according to the British story The second line of Kings beares daâ—e from the departure of the Romans who being called from hence to looke unto their Empire in the Continent leâ—t their possessions here unto the â—ury of the Scots and Picts who dwelling in the Northerne and unconquered parts attempted to subdue the Southerne For the repressing of whose rage the Britons chose themselves a King out of Armoâ—ica now called Bretagâ—e being extracted from the old British bloud which had not long before beene planted in that Region by the Roman Emperours Whose li4e continued here not long till they were dispossessed both of Crowne and Countrey by the Saxons a German people called in by Vortiger to oppose the Scots and other Nations of the North. Who having by degrees subdued all that which formerly had beene conquered by the Romans the Countrey beyond Severne excepted onely divided it amongst themselves into seven Kingdomes which finally being all brought under by the West-Saxon Kings did at last settle and continues in the name of England A Kingdome though of small extent compared unto the greater Countries of France Spaine and Germany yet of so high esteeme abroad that it may challenge an equality with either of them and in some kinde hath had precedâ—ncie before them For to the honour of this Realme as well before as since it had the name of England we may say thus much It was the first Kingdome which received the faith of Christ which was here planted as it is affirmed by Gildas upon certaine knowledge toward the latter end of Tiberius Empire Tempore ut scimus summo Tiberii Caeâ—aris as his owne words are which by computing of the times will fall to be five yeares before Saint Peter came to Rome and but five yeares after the death of our Redeemer It shewed unto the world the first Christiaâ— King whose name was Lucius and gave unto the Church her first Christian Emperour even the famous Constantine here borne by whose example and incouragement the saith was generally received over all the Empire and all the Temples of the Idols either demolished or forsaken It also was the first Christian Kingdome out of which the Jewes those bitter and most obstinate enemies of the Crosse of Christ were universally expulsed and our of which the insolent and usurped Supremacie of the Popes of Rome was first ejected after they had a long time domineered in the Church of Christ. The one of these performed by King Edward the first the other by King Henry the eighth Not to say any thing in this place of their warres and victories in France Spaine Scotland the Netherlands the Isle of Cyprus and the Holy land In these regards the Kings of England as they are aâ— absolute so they are as sacred as of any Countrey whatsoever What ever things are proper unto Supreme Majesty Scepters and Crownes â—he Purple Roâ—e the Gloâ—e or golden Ball and Vnction have beene as long theirs as any others The foure first are by Leland a â—â—â—ous Antiquarie ascribed unto King Aâ—thur who did begin his reigne Anno 506. which was as soonâ— as they were ordinarily in use with the Roman Emperours And thiâ— doth Leland justifie out of an ancient Seale of the said King Arthurs kept in his time as an especiall monument in the Abbie of Westminster As for their Vnction or Annointing it appeares by the old Roman Prâ—vinciall and the ancient practise that of all the Kings of Christendome there were none anciently annointed but the two Emperours of the East and West the Kings of France England Sicilie and Hierâ—salem By reason of which Vnction or annointing besides what is united or annexed to the Crowne Impâ—riall of this Realme it was declared Term. Hilarii 33. Edward 3. that the Kings of England were capaces jurisdictionis spiritualis capable of Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction As after in the reigne of King Henry the eighth it was declared rather then enacted that the Kings highnesse was the Supreme head of the Church of England and that he had authority to reforme all errours heresies and abuses in the same 26. Henry 8. cap. 1. Which title or Supreme head though used by King Edward 6. in aâ—l his â—eigne and by Queene Mary for awhile was changed by Queene Elizabeth into that of Supreme Governour and it is now reckoned as a part of the stile of the Kings of England that they are Supreme Governoâ—rs in all their Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall Now as the Kings of England are absolute at home so are they no lesse honoured and esteemed abroad the Emperour being accounted filius major Ecclesiae the eldest sonne of the Church the King of France filius minor or the second sonne and the King of England filius tertius adopâ—ivus the third and the adopted sonne In generall Councels the King of France took place at the Emperours right hand the King of England on his left and the King of Scots having precedencie next before Castile And whereas since the time of Charles the fifth the Kings of Spaine have challenged the precedencie of all Christian Princes yet in the time of King Henry 7. Pope Iulius gave it to the English before the Spaniard Nay lest the Kings of England might fall short in any thing wherein their neighbour Princes glory they also have an adjunct or
5 Roderick sirnamed the Great who divided Wales betweene his three sonnes allottiâ—g unto each his partthe Countrey being divided into North-Wâ—les South-Wales and Powys-land which had their severall Lords and Princes as hereafter followeth The Principality and Princes of South-Wales SOuth Waâ—es in the division of the Countrey amongst the sonnes of Roderick Mawr â—ell unto Cadel the second sonne It contained all that quantity and tract of ground which now we call the Counties of Glamorgan Pembroke Carmarthen Cardigan and part of Brecknock which being the richer and more fruitfull part of Wales and lying most open to invasion both by sea and land was soonest brought under the command of the Kings of England The principall seat of the Princes of it was Dynâ—sar or Dynevor Castle not farre from Carmarthen who thence were called by their subjects the Kings of Dynevor and whilest they stood upon their owne legges were these that follow A. Ch.   877 1 Cadell second sonne of Roderick  2 Howell 907 3 Howell Dha 948 4 Owen  5 â—neas  6 Theodore Mawr 1077 7 Rhese I. 1093 8 Gryffith I.  9 Rhese II.  10 Gryffith II. in whom ended the line of the Princes of South-Wales his Countrey being conquered by the English and his two sonnes Meredith and Cynerick taken by King Henry the second who caused their eyes to be put out After which time South-Wales was reckoned as a part of the Realme of England The Principality and Princes of North-Wales NOrth-Wales in the division of the Kingdome of Wales fell to the share of Amarawd the eldest sonne of Roderick Mawr the last King thereof with a superiorâ—ty of power over both the rest who were but homagers to this It contained in it all that territory which now doth comprehend the Counties of Merioneth Deâ—bigh Flint Carnaâ—von and the Isâ—e of Anglesey which being the more mountainous parts and consequently of more difficult accesse then the others were as they did longest keepe their liberties so doe they still preserve their language from the incursions of the English Abersâ—aw in the Isle of Anglesey was the Princes seate who were hence sometimes called the Kings of Abersraw and were these ensuing A. Ch.   8077 1 Amarawd eldest sonne of Roderick 913 2 Idwallo 3 Merick  4 Joanes 1067 5 Conan 1099 6 Gryffith 1120 7 Owen 1178 8 David I. 1194 9 Llewellen I. 1240 10 David II. 1246 11 Llewellen II. the last of the Princes of Wales of the British bloud of whom and the conclusion of his race see the following Catalogue The Kings and Princes of it according to the History of Wales IN the History of Wales writ by Humphrey Lloyd the Kings and Princes of Wales are reckoned differently from that succession of them before laied downe The reason of which difference may be that he reciteth there the Predominant Princes such as gave law unto the rest whether of North-Wales South-Wales or of Powys-land even as wee see was done before in summing up the Monarchs of the English Saxons out of the severall Kingdoms in that Heptarchie Now for his Catalogue of the Welch both Kings and Princes he recites them thus A Ch.   688 1 Ivor 720 2 Roderick Moâ—winoâ— 755 3 Conan Tindaethwy 820 4 Mervyn Urich 843 5 Roderick Mawr 877 6 Amarawdh 913 7 Edward Voel 940 8 Howel Dha 948 9 Jevaf and Jago 982 10 Howel ap Jevaf 984 11 Cadwallan ap Jevaf 986 12 Meredith ap Owen 992 13 Edwal ap Meiric 1003 14 Aedan ap Blegored 1015 15 Lhewellen ap Sitâ—ylt 1021 16 Jago ap Edwall 1037 17 Gryffith ap Llewellen 1061 18 Blethyn and Rhywallon 1073 19 Trahaern ap Caradoc 1078 20 Gryâ—â—ith ap Conan 1137 21 Owen Gwineth 1169 22 David ap Owen 1194 23 Llewellen ap Jorweth 1240 24 David ap Llewellen 1246 25 Llewellen ap Gryffith the last Prince of Wales of the British race who lost his life and principality to King Edward the first Anno 1282. After whose death the King perceiving that the Welch had no affection to be ruled by strangers sent for his Queene then great with child to come unto him to Carnarvon and hearing that shee was delivered of a sonne called the Welch Lords together and proffered them a Prince to beare rule amongst them of their owne nation one who spake no word of English and such a one whose life no man could tax To such a Prince when they had all sworn to yeeld obedience he named his new-borne sonne unto them and made him their Prince since when the eldest sonnes of England have commonly beene created Princes of Wales The Princes of it of the bloud Royall of England WALES thus brought under the obedience of the Kings of England hath since beene commonly the honourary title and possession of their eldest sonnes Not that they challenge it as of due belonging to them but take it from their Fathers as of speciall Grace by solemne creation and investure tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis Regibus Augliae to hold to them and their heires Kings of England our Kings not being willing to deprive themselves of such a power of gratifying and obliging their eldest sonnes as they saw occasion Edward 2. who had been summoned by his Father unto the Parliament by the name of Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester summoned his eldest sonne King Edward 3. by no other name then Earle of Chester and Flint Edward 3. first used the ceremony of creation by letters Patents and investiture which hath since continued and for the want of which Edward 6. Queene Mary and Queen Elizabeth however in their severall turnes they have beene called Princes and Princesses of Wales were not truely such Those which were so created either by Parliamentary Writ or especiall Charter are these that follow A. Ch.    1 Edward of Carnarvon eldest sonne of King Edward the first 1344 2 Edward the black Prince eldest son of King Edward the third 1377 3 Richard of Burdeaux eldest sonne unto the black Prince 1399 4 Henry of Monmouth eldest sonne of King Henry the fourth 1454 5 Edward of Westminster onely son of King Henry the sixth 1472 6 Edward of Westminster eldest son of King Edward the fourth 1483 7 Edward Earle of Salisbury eldest sonne of King Richard the third 1492 8 Arthur the eldest sonne of King Henry the seventh 1506 9 Henry Duke of Yorke second sonne to King Henry the seventh after K. Henry the eighth 1610 10 Henry eldest sonne of King Iames the first Monarch of Great Britaine 1616 11 CHARLES Duke of Yorke second sonne of King Iames now the second Monarch of Great Britaine Princes and Lords of Powys-land POwys-land is the third part of Wales but the least of all containing onely the whole County of Montgomery and part of Radnor Brecknock Denbigh and Shropshire The chiefe seate hereof was Matravall in Montgomery shire from whence the Princes of it would be called the Kings
on the vacancie thereof they nominate their designed Bishop unto the King who having given his Royall assent dismisseth him to the Arch-Bishop of Yorke for his consecration This is perhaps the reason why the Bish. of Man is no Lord of Parliament because not at the Kings disposing none having suffrage in that house but those that hold immediately of the King himselfe nor is it reason that they should Whether the Bishop of this Isle was anciently a Suâ—â—ragan to the See of Yorke I can hardly say I finde ordered in the Act of Parliament 33. H. 8. c. 31. wherein the Bishoprick of Chester was made a member of that Province that that of Man should be reputed of it also which may perhaps perswade one that it was otherwise before The Diocese hereof containeth onely 17 Parishes of the which five are Market Townes the rest Villages the people of them all being very conformable unto the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England Now for the Bishops of this See I can meete with few and therefore shall desire those who are more conversant in the businesse of this Isle to supply this want and make a perfect catalogue of the Bishops of Man out of the fragments here ensuing Bishops of Man  ✚ ✚ ✚ A. Ch.   Michael Bishop of Man 1203 Nicolas 1217 Reginald 1257 Richard Bishop of Man dedicated the Church of S. Maries in Russin  ✚ ✚ ✚  Heâ—â—â— Mann who died Anno 1556  John Merick  George Lloyd removed to Chester An.  1604.  Forster  Parry now Bishop of Man 1641. THE THIRD TABLE OR A CATALOGVE OF All the Dukes Marquesses and Earles which have been in England since the first entrance of the NORMANS TOGETHER With the honourary Offices which they or any of 〈◊〉 have enjoyed in their severall times The Preface to the ensuing Catalogne of Dukes Marquesses and Earles THe Kings of England as they are the fountaine of all authority and jurisdiction in their owne Dominions so are they the founâ—aine also of all civill honour which they dispose of and dispence as to them seemes best Kingâ— have so much of God in them whose Deputies they are on earth as many times where they finde merit and desert to raise the poore out of the dust that they may set them with the Princes even with the Princes of their people Now for their honourary attributes which by our Kings have beene conferred upon their Subjects the ancientest are those of Earle and Baron the Kings of England of the Norman race not giving unto any the stile of Duke untill that Edw. the third created his sonne Edward the black Prince Duke of Cornwall Anno 1336. As for the title of Marquesse that was made honourary by King Richard the second who first created his great favourite Robert de Vere then Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublyn as afterwards he made his Cosen German Iohn de Bausort one of the sonnes of Iohn of Gaunt by Katherine Swinfort then Earle of Somerset the first Marquesse Dorset But that of Earles hath beene as ancient in this Kingdome as the line of Normandy William the Conquâ—râ—r advancing many to that honour at his first enâ—â—ance on this State both to reward them for their service and oblige them to him Of which ranke were the Earles of Arundâ—ll Chester Cornwall Kent Oxford with some others Anno 1067. being the next yeere after he attained the Kingdome Which with the other Earles of ancient creation were commonly endowed de tertio denario placitorum Comitatus with the third penny of the pleas of that County wherof they were Earles the other two parts being accompted by the Sheriffe the Vice-Comes into the Exchequer for the Kings use And though we mean to go no lower in our following Catalogue then the stile of Earle yet by the way we may take notice that Viscount here became an honourary title in the time of K. H. 6. who in the 18. of his raigne advanced Sir Iohn Beaumâ—nt unto that honour and gave him place above all Barons as Richard 2. gave his new Marquesses precedencie before all Earles Now at the ennobling of deserving persons into these high dignities it is and hath beene of later times the custome of the Kings of England to give unto them some set pension for the support of their estate which is now generally brought unto this proportion that Viscounts have a fee of 20. markes Earles of 20. li. Marquesses of 40. markes and Dukes of 40. li. assigned unto them out of some part or other of the Kings revenues Which bounty I observe not to have beene used in the creation of a Baâ—on excepting onely that it pleased his sacred Majesty now being when hee created the righâ— honourable Montjoy Blount now Earle of Newport L. Montjoy of Thurleston in the County of Darby to give unto him and his heires a fee of 20. markes per annum which I note here by reason of the singularity and rarenesse of it Nor have the Kings of England beene â—â—customed to frame new honourary titles for the advancement of those men which are dear unto them but to preferre them before others of the same honourary ranke and order Henry the sixth bearing especiall affection unto Henry Beauchamp Earle of Warwick first made him the prime Earle of England or Praecomes Angliae And when he after made him Duke of Warwick hee ordered him to have precedencie next after the Duke of Norfolke and before the Duke of Buckingham The â—ame King Henry making his halfe-brother Edmund of Hâ—dham Earle of Richmond gave him the place above all Earles and next of all unto the Dukes Thus did King Iames of blessed memory conferre upon the Earle of Nâ—â—tingham on his surrendry of the place and Office of Lord Admirall the seniority and precedencie of the Mowbraies out of which house he was extracted during the life of the said Earle And thus his sacred Majesty now being when he created the right honourable the Visâ—ount Walling ford Earle of Banbury gave him precedencie before all Earles created since his Majesties happy comming to the Crowne And in the Patent of creation of the right honourable the Lord Montjoy 3. Can there was a clause of precedencie inserted before all the Barons of that yeere by which hee forthwith had the place both of the Lord Craven and the Lord Falconbridge though created before him So absolute a power have our English Monarchs in the dispensing of their honours and maâ—shalling those persons whom they have advanced to these high dignities As for the Female sex they have no reason to complaine that they have beene neglected or omitted in the distributing of these honourary rewards and dignities some of them having had the happinesse to taste the bounty of the Prince in the highest honours For thus the Lady Margaret dâ— Brotherton daughter of Thomas of Brotherton Earle of Norfolke was by King Richard the second made Dutchesse of Norfolke Anno
ΗΡΩΟΛΟΓΙΑ ANGLORVM OR An help to English History CONTAINING A succession of all the Kings of England and the English-Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales the Kings and Lords of Man and the Isle of Wight As also of all the Arch Bishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said Dominions In three Tables By Robert Hall Gent. LONDON By T. and R. Cotes for Henry Seile and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-streete over against Saint Dunstans-Church 1641. TO THE MOST EXCELLENT PRINCE CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES Heire-Apparent to the Monarchy of Great Britaine c. Most Illustrious Sir I Doubt not your Closet already abounds and is daily replenished with volumes of English History as those Mirrours in whose Reflections your Royall Ancestors you may best discover Theirs and direct your owne Actions I therefore humbly addresse this piece to your Highnesse not as a Booke but as an Index which cannot offer the Pompe ofâ— a Volume yet may yeeld the profit of a Manuall The work is Posthumus bereav'd both of the Author and protection and had it not desired to live under the Patronage of so clement a Prince was willing to dye in the Cradle rather then be expos'd to theadventures of a distempered Age. I referre its merits to the judgement of the Publique to whose use it affords it selfe but humbly begges that being an Orphan its Fatherlesse condition may finde succour and countenance from the splendour of your goodnesse under which it hath beene first brought â—orth into the world Vouchsafe â— therefore Great Prince to cast a gracious Eye on this desertedâ—Object and the poore Oblation of Your most humbly devoted servant and Subject HENRY SEILE A GENERALL PREFACE Touching the use of these three Catalogues or Tables HAving a purpose to peruse our English Histories and those of forraine Nations which had any intercourse or commerce with the affaires either of this Realme or Church of England I found it no small trouble to me to know the names of those whose actions I encountred within the said perusall For whereas commonly great persons are not called by the names of their Families but of their Dignities it was a matter of no meane difficulty to finde out what and who they were who were presented to us by their Dignities as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall Upon this ground to save me from that troublesome inquirie for the time to come I set my selfe to draw up a complete and perfect Catalogue of all the persons of chiefe ranke in this Realme of England from Earles inclusively and upwards so farre as any light of story and warrantable ascent would direct and guide me And having formed it in that frame and order as hereafter followeth found manifestly that that paines it cost me was not ill bestowed because of that great ease it did me being once composed For then no sooner did I meete in any story with any either Prince or Prelate of or in this Nation but I could forthwith turne unto him and by computing of the times finde out exactly who he was And yet me thought it was not perfect till I had added to the same all those Soveraigne Princes which have borne rule in all or any part hereof the names and actions of the which occurre as well in our owne Chronicles as forraine stories That done I thought it not amisse to note and adde according as I met it in my course of reading what Kings and Prelates of this Nation have beene ennobled in the Church with the stile of Saints as also what great offices any of the Arch-Bishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles had severally borne in the Civill State By doing which as I received great ease and benefit as before is said so I was easily intreated to let all such partake thereof who thinke it may be either profitable or usefull to them and for that cause have suffered it to come abroad that they that will may take the benefit of my poore endeavours And this I have the raâ—her beene intreated to to satisfie the mindes of those if any thing will satisfie them that either are the enemies of Regall or Episcopall power For whereas some concâ—ive that Kings were instituted by the people on â—ight perhaps of such confusions as had beene noted and observed in a popular government these following Catalogues will make it evident and apparent that in this Countrey there was never any other government then that of Kings either in any part thereof or the whole together And whereas it is factiously given out by others that the Episcopall authority and regiment in and of the Church is not the proper and peculiar government of the same but violently obtruded on it by the power of man the Tables of Episcopall succession will make it evident that the said forme of Government is of as long a standing as the Church it selfe Religion and Episcopall jurisdiction being brought into this Land together Lastly if any such there be as have beene formerly that would crie downe Nobility and that precedencie and power which somâ— men have above the rest they may here see that from the first setling of this Monarchie in the Norman Race that Kings of England have advanced to place and dignity whom they thought most fit and did it sans controule of inferiour people And so they did no question in the Saxons times and those before them of which if we have no such cleare and evident succession as in the rest of later ages it is because their digties and honorarie titles were rather personall then hereditary Now in these Catalogues I shall begin as reason is with that of Kings from the first entrance of the Romans to this present time to which I shall adjoyne the Kings and Princes of Wales as also the Kings and Lords of Man and the Isle of Wightâ— assigning unto every one his time according to the computation of our best Historians The Catalogue of the Bishops I shall bring along from the first planting of Religion here amongst the Saxons since which we have a cleare and undeniable succession in the holy Hierarchy the former times under the Empire of the Britons having transmitted to our hands onely some fragments of antiquity by which we may perceive that the Episcopall government was here received together with the faith it selfe but cannot gather from the same a constant and continued succession of the persons governing Then for the third Catalogue that of the Nobility we have continued that from the first entrance of the Normans to this present day that at one view a man may see the quality and antiquity of those noble families which are now both an honour and an ornament to this flourishing Kingdome I shall not neede say more in this generall Preface having prefixed particular Prefaces to each severall Catalogue to which I rather shall referre the Reader then detaine him here THE FIRST TABLE OR A CATALOGVE OF All the Kings which have reigned in
1398. And thus the Lady Anne Bullen daughter of Thomas Earle of Wilâ—s was by King Henry 8 made Marchionesse of Pembroke Anno 1532 as was the Lady Margaret daughter of Georgâ— D. of Clarence created Countesse of Salisbury by the same King Henry Anno 1514 Thus also the Lady Elizabeth Finch being by King Iames created Viscountesse Mâ—idstone was by our gracious Soveâ—aâ—gne Lord now being created Countesse of Winchelsey Anno 1628. the dignity entailed on the heires males of her body hegotten And finally thus was the Lady Elizabeth Richardson wife of Sir Thomas Richardson Lord Chiefe Justice created Baronesse Cramont by his Majesty now reâ—gning not to say any thing of the Lady Mary Fane Baronesse Despencer or of the Lady Margaret Lennard Baâ—onesse Dacres of the South being restitutions rather then creations Now for the method which I am to use in this following Catalogue it shall be after the most naturall of the Alphabet as being of most ease and speediest use in finding what we have a minde to looke for And in the same I shall lay downe the just successions of and in each severall title premising first a brief description of the placâ— denominating together with the yeere of Christs nativity wherein each severall Duke Earle or Marquesse either succeeded in the place or was advanced unto the same I also shall report in briefe on what pretext of bloud such and such men attained those honours which they have enjoyed If any neernesse or descent of bloud was pretended by them and where a family breakes off and a new comes in that I have marked with a few crosses thus ✚ ✚ ✚ ✚ I have observed also who and how many of each title have managed any of the great and honourary Offices in the Common-wealth as those of Lord high Steward Lord high Chamberlaine Lord â—â—â—â—table Lord Admirall Lord Chancellour Lord Treasurer Lord Chiefe Justice or Lord Privie Seale together with the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlaine of hiâ— Majesties houshold and the LL. Presidents of Yorke and Wales and Chancellours or either oâ— the Universities Such of them as have had the honour to be admitted into the Order of the Garter I have noted with this littlâ—â—sterisme * And all this I have done 〈…〉 much brevity as was possible 〈◊〉 nothing in this place but a Nomencâ—â—tor a 〈◊〉 and naked Catalogue of names and hoâ—ours for the more easie understanding of oâ—r English History which was the matter which first moved me to compose 〈◊〉 Tables As for the order of precedencie of the men themselves that are thus dignified and advanced as now they stand that is to be accounted from and by the seniority of their creations in their severall series save that a course was tooke in Parliament 31. H. 8. c. 10. for placing those above the rest which were entrusted with the greatest Offices of State and Court. As viz. that of the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord President Lord Privie Seale Lord Constable Lord high Chamberlaine Lord Admirall Lord Marshall together with the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlaine of his Majesties houshold Which manner of precedencie being it is personall as unto the men and hath no reference to their place and titlâ—◠〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 with the times according as they 〈…〉 and favour with their 〈◊〉 and Soveraignâ— But for the places which have given 〈◊〉 and title to Dukes Marquesses or Earles and for the men that have beene honoured with those titles they are thâ—se that follow taking along such Lords and Viscounts as have â—eene dignified with and by the selfe-same titles and no more but those Saint Albans S. Albans is the fairest and the goodliest town in the County of Hertford It arose out of the ruines of old Verulamium a towne more strong and ancient â—arre as being the strongest Fort of all the Britaines in the time of Caesar though not haiâ—e so beautifull It took both name original Grandour from Alban once a Citizen of Verulamium who suffering Martyrdome for the faith of Christ during the persecution of Diocâ—â—â—ian had first a faire Church built in memoriall of him in that very place or if you will Ecclesia mirandi operis atque ejus martyrio condigna in the Authors language Bedae hist. lib. 1. c. 7 But this Church and towne of Verulam being both destroyed in those fierce warres which were betweene the Saxons and the Britains Offa the great and puissant K. of the Mercians built not farre off from the old seate a Monastery to the honour of Saint Alban endowed it with a great revenue and many goodly priviledges as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall This in short time improved the Monastery into a towne the Abbat in regard of his great possessionâ— and jurisdiction correspondent drawing no ordinary conâ—â—â—ence of all sorts of people Pope Adrian borne at Aâ—bats-Langley about five miles off added this honour to the place that as Saint Alban was the first Martyr of the Engllsh nation so should the Abbat have precedencie of all English Abbats This house was valued at the suppression at 2510. li. 6. s. 1. d. per annum and was surrendred into the hands of Sir Thomas Pope Doctor Petre and Master Cavendish for the use of K. H. 8. Decemb. 5. Anno 1639. The Abby Church being a stately and magnificent fabrick is leâ—t standing still townesmen purchasing the same at the price of 400. li. and turning it into a Parish Church as it now remaines For the great battels fought about this towne and in the very streets thereof between the two contending houses of York and Lancaster I leave you to the common Chronicles The persons which it hath ennobled are these that follow Viscounts and Earles 1620 1 Francis Bacon L. Verulam and L. Chan. of England created Visc. S. Albans Jan. 18. 1628 2 Rich. de Burgh E. of Clan-Ricard in the Kingd of Irel creat E. of S. Albans Aug. 23 1636 3 Vlike de Burgh E of S. Albans and Clan-Ricard now living 1641. Anglesey ANglesey is an Iland of North-Wales situate over against Carnaâ—vonshire from which it is divided by a narrow straight called in the Latines Mona by the Britains Mon but being conquered by the English obtained the name of Anglesey as one would say the Iland of the English-men It is exceeding fruitfull both in corne and cattell from whence the Welch are liberally stored with both And therefore it is said proverbially Mon mam Cymbri that Anglesey is the mother of Wales It was the ancient seate of the Druides and brought with no small difficulty under the command of the Romans by Iulius Agricola the people fighting here ut pro aris focis for their religion and their gods It containeth in it 74. Parishes the principall wherof is named Beauâ—arish being at this time the head towne of â—he shire and Aberfraw now an obscure and â—omely place but anciently the Royall seate â—f the Kings of North-Wales The persons which it hath given title
peculiar title annexed unto the stile Imperiall For where the King of France is stiled Christianissimus most Christian and the King of Spaine Catholiâ—us or the Catholick King the King of England hath the title of Defensor fidei oâ— the defender of the Faith A title not so much conferred on King Henry 8. by the Popes of Rome as confirmed unto him For in a Charter of King Richard 2. unto the University of Oxford the same stile occurres for which and other proofes hereof consult the Epistle Dedicatory before Doctor Cracaâ—â—horp against the Arch-Bishop of Spalato and Sir Isaâ—c Wake in his Rex Platonicus But now we goe unto the Kings South-Britaine or ENGLAND The Kings thereof according to the British story from I. Caesar unto Constantine  1 CAssibelan  2 Theomantius  3 Cymbeline  4 Guiderius A. Ch   45 5 Arviragus called Prâ—â—â—sagâ—â— by Hector Bâ—â—â—ius 73 6 Marius 125 7 Coilus 180 8 Lucius the first Christned King of Britâ—ine and the world who dying without Children left the 〈◊〉 Emperours his heire 207 9 Severus Emperour of Rome 211 10 Bassianus sonne of Severus 218 11 Carausius a noble Briton 225 12 Alectus 232 13 Aesclepiodorus 262 14 Coilus II. 289 15 Helena daughter of Coilus and Constantius Emp. of Rome  16 Constantine sonne of Helena and Constantius who added or uniteâ— his estate in Britaine unto the Monarchy of Rome South-Britaine or England the Kings thereof from the departure of the Romans unto the setling of the Saxons A. Ch.   431 1 COnstantine of Arâ—orica or little Britaine 443 2 Constantius sonne of Constantine 446 3 Vortiger Earle of thâ— Gevisses who called in the Saxons 464 4 Voâ—â—imer 〈…〉 471 5 Vortiger againe 481 6 Aurelius Ambrosiuâ—â—â—â—cond sonne of 〈◊〉 500 7 Uâ—er Pendâ—â—gon 〈◊〉 son of Const. 506 8 Arthâ—r son of Vter â—â—â—dragon 542 9 Constantine II. next Cousin of Arthur 546 10 Conan 576 11 Vorhpor 580 12 Malgo. 586 13 Careticus 613 14 Cadwan 635 15 Cadwallan 678 16 Cadwalladar After whose death the Saxons having totally subdued all the Countrey on this side the Severne â—he British Princes were no longer called Kings of Britaine but Kings of Wales of whâ—m more hereafter The Kingdome and Kings of Kent THe Saxons being called in by Vortiger to resist the Scots and other people of the North did by degrees expulse the Britons and having totally subdued the Countrey erected in the same seven Kingdomes Of these the ancientest was that of Kent confined within that County onely the Kings these that follow A. Ch.   455 1 Hengist the first King of 〈◊〉 488 2 Eske or Osca 512 3 Octa. 532 4 Immerick 561 5 Ethelbert S. the first Christned King the founder of S. Pauls in London 617 6 Edbald 641 7 Ercombert 665 8 Egbert 673 9 Lotharius 686 10 Edrick 693 11 Wightred 726 12 Egbert II. 749 13 Ethelbert II. 759 14 Alricus 794 15 Ethelbert III. sirnamed Pren. 797 16 Cuthred 805 17 Baldred who in the yeare 827. lost both his life and Kingdome unto Egbert King of the WEST-SAXONS The Kingdome and Kings of the SOUTH-SAXONS THe Kingdome of the South-Saxons was begun by Ella a noble Captaine of that people It contained the two Counties of Sussex and Survey which were thence denominated the first so called quasi South sex the Countrey of the South-Saxons the second qâ—asi South rey as lying on the South of the river Tâ—amise This Kingdome lasted but a while and had onely these foure Kings that follow viz. A. Ch.   488 1 Ella the first King of the Soâ—th-Saxoâ—s 514 2 Cissa  3 Ethelwolf or Edilwach the first Christned King of the South-Saxons  4 Berthun and Authun two brothers both joyntly reigning and both joyntly vanquished by Cradâ—all King of the WEST-SAXONS The Kingdome and Kings of the WEST-SAXONS THe third in order of these Kingdomes and that which did in fine prevaile over all the rest was that of the West-Saxons It contained in it the Counties of Cornwall Devon Dorset Sommerset Wiltes Southampton and Berks the Kings these A. Ch.   522 1 Cerdicus the first King 17. 539 2 Kinricus 29. 565 3 Celingus or Cheâ—line 10. 595 4 Celâ—icus 5. 600 5 Ceolwolf 614 6 Kingil the first christned King 646 7 Kenewalchin 31. 677 8 Sigebertus 1. 678 9 Esâ—win 2. 680 10 Centwin 7. 687 11 S. Cedwalla 3. 690 12 Ina 35. who first gave thâ— Peter-pence to the Church of Rome 725 13 Ethelard 14. 739 14 Cuthbert 16. 755 15 Sigebert II. 1. 756 16 Kinulphus 31. 787 17 Bithrick 13. 800 18 Egbert of whom see more in the Saxon Monarchs The Kingdome and Kings of the EAST-SAXONS THe Kingdome of East-Saxons is the fourth in order of the Heptarchie begunne in Anno 527. some five yeares after that of the Wâ—st-Saxons It comprehended the Counties of Essex Midlesex and part of Hertfordshire the Kings these that follow A. Ch.   527 1 Erchenwme 587 2 Sledda 596 3 S. Seber tthe first Christned King of the East Saxons and first founder of S. Peters in Westminster  4 Seward and Sigebert 623 5 Sigebert the little  6 Sigebert III. 661 7 Swithelme 664 8 Sighere 664 9 S. Sebba  10 Sigherd  11 Seofride 701 12 Offa. 709 13 Selred 747 14 Suthred subdued by Egâ—ert King of the West-Saxons and his Kingdome made a member of that rising Empire The Kingdome and Kings of the EAST-ANGLES NExt to the Kingdome of the East-Saxons was that of the East-Angles containing in it the Counties of Norfolke Suffolke and Cambridge shire with the Isle of Ely and had these Kings following A. Ch.   575 1 Uffa the first King 582 2 Titullus 593 3 Redwald the first christned King 624 4 Erpenwald 636 5 S. Sigebert 638 6 Egric 642 7 Anna. 654 8 Ethelbeâ—t 656 9 Edelwald 664 10 Alduffe 683 11 Elsewolfe 714 12 Beorne 714 13 S. Etheldred 749 14 Ethelbert II. who died Anno 793. 870 15 S. Edmund After whose slaughter by the Danes and that his Kingdome had beene long wasted by that people it was at last united to the West-Saxons by King Edw the elder The Kingdome and Kings of the NORTH-HUMBERS THe Kingdome of the North humbers or Northumberland was the fifth in course of time of the Saxon Heptaâ—chy it was divided into two parts or Provinces the one of which was called Bernicia the other Dâ—ira of which the former called Bernicia was founded by one Ida Anno 547. the other by one Ella his fellow and companion in armes Anno 559. This last contained the whole Countries from the North of Humber to the Twede viz. the Counties of Yorke Durham Lancaster Westmorland Cumberland and Northumberland the other all that part of Scotland which lieth betweene the river Twede and the Frith of Edenbourg which was as farre as ever the Romans had gone before them Those Kings of either which were more powerfull then the other were