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A79571 An epitomy of history. Wherein is shewn how severall princes and nations, came to their particular countries and dominions; also many great affaires in Judea, Tartaria, Russsia, Poland, Swethland, Germany Italy, Piedmont, Scotland, England, and many other places throughout the world, from the birth of our Saviour to this present time. H. C. 1661 (1661) Wing C39; ESTC R223831 56,492 161

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that after went away but Embassadors came from Poland for Anion who they had chose King who agreed that Rochel and two other Townes should have liberty of Religion within their own bounds but the King dying the Queen-mother sent for her other Sone out of Poland then condemned Mountgomerie but now several Catholicks joyn with Condie for the Countries good the Cardinal Lorain walking barefoot with penitentiaries contracted a disease that killd him after several bickerings Embassadors come to the King from England the Cantons and elsewhere and a peace was made for more liberty for the Protestants Radulph was next chose Emperor of Germany he was King of Bohemia and Hungaria he called a Diet at Ratisbone about reforming Religion the Turke in a fight lost eighteen thousand for fifty two of the Christians Transilvania joyning with the Emperor the Turk was often sent back with loss and upon the Embassadors coming from Hungarie to Vienna it was agreed that Catholick Lutheran and Calvenist and no other should exercise their Religion the Protestants of Austria being abused they take armes but by the help of the Moravians they obtain peace the Emperor died all was quieted and both accuse the Jesuits as authors of their broyles In France the Catholicks fearing if the King should die Navar might be King confederated in Armes pretending against the Hugonites who was in Rochell but they goe to Paris the King made an offer of Land to give the Catholick General but these Leagers prospering moved the King to be o● them and roote out the Protestants Navar and Condie declare against these things joyn with the German forces fight the King who seem'd to comply with Guize and ordered all to profess the Catholick way Condie overthrew the King but Guize came into Paris suddainly against the Kings command upon which the King set forth a fierce Edict against the Protestants bestowed a great place on Guize declared Cardinal Burbone of the Royall blood excluded Navar all which Guize would have confirm'd by Parliament but jealousie being among the Grandes Guize was slain the people cried out of the King saying they ought to support the Church and was free from their Oath the King then joyns with Navar wars with the Leagers repulsed de Main that intended to surprise him besieged Salaize beat Count Brissac that came to releive it He also goes against Paris which so put the Leagers to it that they got a Jockabine Monke who coming demurely to the King pretending letters gaining through his subtilty the Kings retirement in the Chamber where the Masaker was concluded reading letters he stob'd the King upon which the attendance coming in killd the Murtherer this Monke was canoniz'd St. Jeques the King named Navar his successor the Leageurs proclam'd another but King Henry the fourth and young Navar goes towards Paris Demain the Leagers generall daily lost men but the King got a great victory Demain fleeing plucking up a bridge drown'd many of his men the King stopping provisions to Paris 100 thousand dyed with famine the Duke of Parma came to relieve it but durst not attempt the Kings Army and the Leagers went to ruine apace everywhere the Duke of Savoys Army was also overthrown also the King slew 700 Romans of 2000 and sent the rest to Italy also the Duke of Parma being invited to come once more into France was discomfited and another Duke being beaten out of the field said farewell my Cannons and further most blasphemously said I renounce God and run this day a hie fortune plunging himself and horse into a River at last the Bishops turn'd the King who came to Masse Paris now yeelds but yet many of the Leagers was inveterate still against the King a youth that was told the King could be no King if the Pope consented not to it stab'd the King but not mortall but the young Schollar was torne in peeces by horses the Jesuits was ordered to depart who after Petition to be restored the Protestants Petition for an Edict to prevent what they suffer'd A woman attempts to poyson the King she was burnt for it two others that attempted him mischief he only said God will punish them The Duke of Savoys forces came suddenly to Geneva got the word kill the Centinel was above an houre in the streets but beaten out and some hang'd A Synod at Gat declared the Pope Antichrist the Jesuits was admitted at Berne to the grief of the People A Turke was now baptized a Citizen of Geneva was burnt for a plot against it There was now a great plague after great cold The King of France one day was very sad could not sleep rose and pray'd some Nobles going in Coach with him abroad being chearfull the King said we may weep yet by Sunday but there met the Kings Coach when it stood in a street a Layer who when the King stooped stab'd him on his leftside who spit blood lost his apprehension and by the time he came home died the Murtherer was rackt and condemn'd his hands was put into a Furnace flaming with fire and brimstone after there was colups of flesh taken from him by red hot pinchers and burnt and scalded Pitch and Rosine was poured into those wounds also melted lead was poured on his Navell he had his papps pincht off and was torne in peeces by horses then his parts burnt and his ashes thrown in the air The Kings Son Lewis was crowned by the Cardinal many Nobles of France was Protestants some now wrote against Belarmine about the popes Temporal power Now in the Netherlands Don John of Austria the King of Spains governor endeavoured to bring in the Inquisition the General Estates call Mathias of Austria who was of the blood to govern them and Proclamed John an enemy to the Kings Neatherlands The Pope promised eternall life to all that would help John against the Neatherlands Mathias chooses for his Leiftenant Nassaw Prince of Orange upon which some of the Nobles mutined so that John got a victory over Mathias the Duke of Anion assists the States Amsterdam besieged by the Spaniords made an agreement with the States of Holland and a little after the Friers Monks and Priests went out the States sitting at Antwerp publisht a Decree for to entertaine the pacification of Gant which the Jesuits refusing to sware was thrust out at Gaunt was some Friers sentenc'd for Sodomie Mathias and States complain to the Assembly of Princes in Germany of the Spaniards cruelty the States called the Duke of Anion their Defendor One Captain Pont of the Dukes Army abusing a maid and boasting of it she stabb'd him the States at last Decree that neither Catholick or Protestant shall attempt any thing upon one another this the Catholicks would not brook and no small stirrs was at Aras Don John died to whom succeeded the Prince of Parma Anion returns to France many fell for money from the States the Prince of Orange was made governor of Flanders Embassadors
for the King of Ipyrus more Townes by his eloquence then the King himself by the sword The son of Craesus seeing one running at his father with a drawn sword through strong affection though dumb all his life before cried O kill not the King The rich Cardinal of Winchester that procured the death of the good Duke of Glocester King Henry the sixth being struck with an incurable disease cryed fie will not death be hired will money doe nothing An Earle that used commonly to say let me be drown'd in a privy if such a thing be not so was so drown'd at St. Peters Monastery at Erford Sila put to death all he could remember and caus'd it to be regestred that he had precribed and put to death 4700 Citizens of Rome Contentions was so great in Constantius time between the Bishops that they brought whole bundles of Petitions against one another to the Emperor who desirous of Peace burnt them without reading Cardinall Langi acknowledged that formation of the Masse was needful and liberty of meats convenient but that Lather should reform all that was not to be endured Catos Daughter being married to Brutus who conspiring against Julius Caesar being troubled in mind and not imparting it to his wife observing it she being grieved took a rasor and wounded her thigh and losing much blood fell into a Feaver and after at hearing of her husbands death killd her self The first Christian King in the world was Lusius of the Brittains The first Christian Emperor Constantine was borne in England England is called the Granery of the Western world the Pope formerly received yearly from hence more then Ten tuns of Gold Cleobis and Bilon brethren in Greece lov'd their mother so dearely as they harnessed themselves to draw her Coach when she was to goe to Junoes Temple Some Elephants the Magull keeps to execute Malefactors some they pash to death presently others they break their joynts by degrees as they are bid William the Conqueror gave a mannor and certain yard-lands in Buckingamshire to one upon this condition that the possessor thereof should find litter for the Kings Bed when he came that way Rubenius Celer would needs have it ingraven on his Tomb that he had lived with his wife Ennea fortie three years and yet they never fell out In a battel when the Persians was overthrown by the Turks many women was slain that being arm'd followd their husbands in the battel Cleopatra Queen of Egppt at a banquet drunk up a pearl dissolved worth fifty thousand pounds and one dish at second course was valued at two hundred and fifty peeces of gold When the bloody Danes raged in England they coming to a Nunnery at Coldington in Scotland Ebba the proresse with the rest of the Nuns cut off their own noses and lips chosing rather to preserve their virginity then their beauty yet the Danes burnt the Monastery and them in it Godfrie of Bulligne with his followers in four years conquered all the goodliest Provinces of Asia in one fight his men stood in blood to the anckles in another he slew a hundred thousand Turks or Infidells Two brothers followers of Phythagoras lov'd so intirely that Dionysius condemning one the other offered to dye in his stead which the Tyrant seeing desired to be a third in their affection Pericles was so patient as he dispatcht much business and after came softly to his house at night and ordered his man to light home a fellow that had been railing at him all the day Theomesticles by the strength of his memory could call all his soldiers by name King Romulus was first a Shepheard Priscus a banisht stranger and Servius a Bond slave as his name imports Calvin an eye witness testifies that when Geneva embrased the Gospell the Magistrates found by visiting the relicks that what was adored as the braine or St. Peter was a Pummis stone and Anthonies arm was the sinew of a Stag the parcell of wood in Europe which the Papists say are parts of Christs Crosse will load a ship though the Crosse was no more then a man could bare Boca di porco or Swinsmouth being chose Pope changed his name Sergius which president his successors follow if one be a Tyrant he is called Clemens if unjust Inosent Micypsa on his death-bed caused all his sons to write this sentence in golden letters by concord small things are increased by discord great things are overthrown Ten Noble virgins delivered by the Romans as hostages to Parsonna upon Peace with him being abroad without guard escapt home but Publica Consul to the Romans returned them again though his own Daughter was one of them De Thermes a French General knighted a soldier for first mounting a bulwark and an hour after hang'd him for doing it without command Henry the fourth K. of England when his eldest son Prince of Wales was committed by the Lord chief Justice for afronting him on the Bench thanked God he had a Judge so impartiall and a son so obedient to submit to Justice The Egyptians being releeved with Corne by King Apis and the Corn being done by the labor of the Ox they worshipt Apis under the form of a pide Ox. In Poland there was bred a stinking disease by reason of a vicious humor glewing together the haire of the head in the form of little Serpents full of nastiness yielding if pricked blood and the cutting of this haire at first would cause the humor to torter some other part of the body Erostratus a young man to make himself famous and to perpetuate his name set on fire Diana's Temple at Ephesus one of the Stateliest fabricks of the world Eunomius the heretick boasting he knew God Basil to convince him of his ignorance graveld him in twenty one questions about the pismire A Spanish Cobler lying on his death-bed laid a speciall charge upon his eldest son to retain the Majesty worthy his family The Mahomitans pray with a still voyce useing many words which set forth the omnipotency eternity and other atributes of God and acknowledge themselves burthens to the earth poyson to the Air dareing not to look to heaven but comfort themselves in Mahomet and pray five times a day at 6.9.12.3 and 6. at night King Sapores straitly besieging Nisibis upon the prayer of a devout man God sent an Army of Gnatts and Flies that tormented away the Persians A Varlot betraying the Isle of Rhodes to the Turk to have his daughter was after told by the Turk that if he should be his son in law he must not be a Christian but a Musleman within and without and so fleyed off his baptised skin and put him in a bed strewed with salt to get a new skin killing him with shame and torment Judge Morgan Lord chief Justice of the Common pleas refusing any witness to speak or any other matter to be heard in favour of the adversary her Majesty being partie the Queen declared that her pleasure was that whatever
from the Emperor and King of Spaine could not effect peace the Romish would have no Religion but theirs exercised the reform'd not be deprived of theirs the States choose Anion their Soveraign and so agreed with him on Articles but the King of Spaine desiring the life of the Prince of Orange puts out an Edict of prescription against him Orange apologis'd the Estate approv'd of it cause their Magistrate to abjure the King of Spaine Anion was made Duke of Brabant he receiv'd at Antwerpe both Romanists and Protestants into his protection One Anestroes boy watching his time and being perswaded by a Frier that by characters he gave him he should pass invis●bly shot the Prince of Orange in at the Chap but not mortall which boy was immediately run through with a Halbard and after hang'd Parma had also dealt with some to kill Anion and Orange but La Bordo discovering something saved himself another killed himself in prison another was drawn in peeces with horses Anion sends a Commander to seize on Dunkirk for himself and put out the States Garrison intended against Bruges and Antwerpe but at Antwerpe the King of France crying kill kill the Towne is our own was beaten out with the loss of above 1500 the Duke excused all this yeelded up again the Towns to the States two more by the Spaniards order attempts to kill Orange but faild one of which was strangled the States of Holland having now taken the Government upon themselves Newport Dunkirk Sas Hulst Gant and several other places was lost the Prince of Orange sent to England to help them Bruges was reconciled to the Spaniard Anion died and in his sickness would not admit a Priest and was troubled much for his revolt A high Burguion that liv'd at Delf a whole year trayterously shot the Prince of Orange who praying God to pitty his poor soul and the poor people died the Murtherer was executed after a terrible manner who confest that one of the Prince of Parmaes Counsellors promis'd him great rewards divers places now yeelds to Parma even Brussels and Antwerpe Morris Nassaws Son is made Governor the distressed States got Queen Elizabeth of England to assist them on conditions to have Flushing and other places security for monies the Queen declared the reasons hereof the Earle of Leicester was accepted Governor swore to defend them against the Spaniards but he hindring all Traffick with France also complaint was made against him in Spaine all English Ships was arrested and goods confiscated many of the English Ships had commission from the Queen and took several prizes from the Spaeniards Parma now going to besiege Nuys hang'd a Minister and two Captains at Clost and spoild the Town a hallowed sword was brought him from the Pope with remission of sins to those that should be at saying Masse at its first coming Leicester marcht to Zutphen where Sir Philip Sidney was shot and died at Linter it raigned blood Zutphen where Leceister had left a Governor and another place where was a Scotts Governor were sould to the Spaniards the King of Spains Provinces was troubled with dearth and wolves the States discontented though not all at Leicester he by the Queens order resigned his Government there was a Treaty between the Queen and Parma but nothing effected Breda was surpris'd for Morris Parma died Arnestus Arch Duke of Austria succeeded who entred Brussels but Solme prosperd for the States in Flanders and Cramberg in Frezeland was yeelded to Count William the Duke sent two to the States to treat but Groning now yeelded to Orange a Soldier once under Morris his guard was executed for Treason against him the Duke died with grief Albertus Cardinall of Austria came in his roome he takes Callis from the French but Peace was quickly made he took Hulst from the States with about the loss of 5000 but Morris in the dead of Winter overcame the Cardinalls Army slew his Generall and 2000 men with the loss of nine of Orange his side after Groll and divers places more yeelded to Prince Morris One Panne that came from Dowway had undertaken to kill the Prince the King of Spaine died Albertus his Army turn'd out Ministers and put in Priests at Weezel but the States thrive at Sea by their Fleet Creucaeur yeelds to Morris the States goe against Flanders the Prince besieging Newport but Albertus after marrying the King of Spains Daughter came against the Prince the Prince having sent a party to keep a passe which the Dukes Army had passed before was forc'd to fight Morris lost 800 men after the Armies engage where Sir Francis Vere under Morris utterly rooted the Spaniards slaying 6000 Morris lost 800 but most English Slucegrave Berke and divers places was after taken by the Prince who with some English ships had the best of it in two Sea fights in one was slain 300 of the Spaniards 36 of the States and in another 2000 Spaniards and 50 of the States but Ostend yeelded to the Duke but a truce was made for 12 years In England Queen Elizabeth sets out a Proclamation against Childrens being brought up in Popish Seminaries beyond Sea the King of Spaine Pope prepare a great Army against her but was imployd through the death of the King of Perrugall another way a Rebellion now broke out in Ireland by the Spaniards instigation the chief was slain 700 Italians yeelded themselves the King of France comes to England about matching his brother to the Queen A Jesuit and another was executed for Treason and Sedition and coming from Rome after by Parliament there was an Act against seducing the Queens Subjects and saying Masse the Scaffold one Sabboth day at the Beargarden fell down killing some of the people King James works himself out of Dowers hand and pardoned him one Browne writing that the Church of England was no true Church and two of his followers was put to death one Lewis denying the God-head of Christ was burnt Gowery about to take the King again was beheaded one Paris on confession of his intentions against the Queen was executed Letters was taken at Sea intimating a great designe of the Spaniard against England the Parliament made an Act for preservation of the Queen against Popish Priests the Earle of Northumberland conscious of ill designes laid violent hands upon himself The Queen concludes a stricter amity with the King of Scots she sends a Fleet to the West-Indies which return'd with great booty Dr Geford and others conspire the Queens death one his conscience terrifying told it to Secretary Walsingam and several was executed the French Embassador sets one to kill the Queen who revealing it the Embassador was soundly rebuked now in 1688 the Spaniards invade England with an Navie call'd invincible of 130 Shipps 20000 Men 172 Ensignes 6320 bushells of Pease and Beanes with great store of Biscate Oyle Bacon Wine and other provisions many thousand Armes in store with Pickaxes for Pioneers under the Duke of Modena