any seculer businesse going to warre or kéeping any Horses Haukes or Hounds The youth of his land to auoide wantonnesse and idlenesse were appointed but one meale a day and drunkennes either in man or Woman was punnished with death He raigned 13. yeares Ethus brother of Constantine who was a man of such swiftnesse of â—oot that he could match and make way in running with Harts and Hounds whereupon he was sir-named Light-foot Hee gouerned scarce two yeares Gregory the son of Dongall that raigned before Alpine in whose time liued Iohn Scot the famous Clerke This Gregory raignd 18. years Donald the fift Sonne of Constantine the second in whose time Gormond and his Danes were baptized and Gormonds name was changed to Athelstane He raigned almost 11. years Constantine the third Son of Ethus the swift 40. yeares He gaue ouer his kingly dignity and entred into Religion as Hector Boetius affirmeth Malcolme the Sonne of Donald 15. yeares Iudulph Sonne of Constantine the third and prince of Cumberland he raigned about 9. years Duffe the Sonne of King Malcolme foure yeares Culene Prince of Cumberland and Sonne of King Iudulph raigned not fully fiue yeares Kenneth Sonne to King Malcolme the first 25. yeares Constantine the Sonne of King Culene not three yeares Grime Nephew to King Duffe not fully nine yeares Malcolme the Son of Kenneth and Prince of Cumberland 25. yeares Duncane Nephew to Malcolme 6. yeares In his time was Banquho Thaine of Lochquaber of whoÌ„ the house of the Stuarts is descended euen to his Maiesty now raigning And then was England deuided betwéene Canutus King of Denmarke and Edmund Ironside after a valiant Combate fought betwéene them Mackbeth son to Sinell Thaine of Glammis raigned 17. yeares Malcolme Cammore Sonne of King Duncane hee changed the name of Thaines into Earls being tâ—en the first that euer were among the Scots according to their owne Histories At this time did William the Bastard duke of Normandy make his Conquest of England This King Malcolme raigned 36. yeares And after some difference for the Crown betwéene Donald Bane Brother to King Malcolme and Duncane a Bastard Son to King Malcolme which vsurpation continued for the space of thrée years Edgar the rightfull Prince attayned to his due claime Edgar Son to King Malcolme was the first that euer was annointed King in Scotland now was the generall passage to the Holy land vnder Godfrey of Bullen and many other Christian Princes This King Edgar raigned nine years Alexander Brother to Edgar being sir-named Alexander the fierce for his stearne valiancy in pursuing Théeues and Robbers Dauid Brother to King Alexander being in England married Maude Daughter to Waltheof Earle of Huntingdon and Northumberland in right of his wife was made Earle of Huntingdon and Northumberland with inheritance of the lands to them belonging In this King Alexanders time who raigned 17. yeares compleate the order of the Knightes of Rhodes beeing formerlie Knightes of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem tooke beginning and the order of the white Monkes Then liued also the Holy Man Richard de sancte Victore beeing a Scot borne but lyuing the more part of his time at Paris in Fraunce where hee died and lieth buried in the Abbey of S. Victore hee being a Brother of the same house Dauid Brother to Alexander succéeded as lawfull heire and ruled 29. yeares and two moneths It is recorded of this King that he excelled in Noble Vertues and sober conuersation of life being very pittifull to the poore and somewhat ouer-bountifull to the Church For when King Iames the first came to his Tomb at Dunfirmling he saide That hee was a sore Saint for the Crowne leauing the Church ouer-rich and the Crowne too poore He purged his Court so cleane of al vicious behauiour and disordered customes that it appeared to be a schoole of vertue No riotous banquetting surfetting cheare or lasciuious word could be herd there or any wanton signes whereby to kindle lust or idle concupiscence All the words workes and whole demeanor of his seruants tended euer to some good conclusion frée from moouing strife or a thought of sedition the Kings owne life and example seruing for their guide and direction He builded 15 Abbeyes viz Holy-Rood house Kelso Iedburgh Melrosse Newbottell Holmecultrane Dundranane Cambuskenneth Kinlois Dunfirmling Holme in Cumberland Also two Nunneries one at Carleill and the other at Northe Berwike with two Abbeyes beside New-Castle one of S. Benedictes order and the other of white Monks He erected likewise foure Bishoppricks in his Realme Rosse Brechin Dunkeld Dublane endowing them with rich rents faire lands and very commodious possessions Malcolme Sur-named Malcolme the Maid because his conuersation delight both in minde and body was so chaste from his verie infancie that he liued single al his daies and without mariage Hee was Son to Prince Henry that was sonne and heire to King Dauid and raigned not fully twelue yeares William Brother to King Malcolme and for his singuler Iustice Sur-named the Lyon In this Kings time Richard King of England sur-named Cueur de Lyon went his voyage to the Holy-Lande King William raigned nine and forty yeares Alexander the second Sonne to King William the Lyon who caused his Fathers death to be mourned for thorow his whole kingdom hee raigned 35. yeares Alexander the third sonne to the former King Alexander in whose time was a generall Counsell at Lyons in France He raigned 42. yeares and by reason of his dying without any issue the controuersie betweene Iohn Ballioll and Robert Bruse then happened which was heard and censured by Edward the first king of England albeit they maintained both their claimes vpon their Titles seuerally Balioll descending of Margaret eldest Daughter to Dauid Earle of Huntington Brother vnto William the Lyon and Bruse comming of Isabell second daughter of the saide Earle Dauid and the next heire male to William the Lyon for want of succession in the right line By which Title how euer Balioll is saide to be crowned King Robert Bruse inioyed the royal dignitie in the year 1305. He had issue Dauid that left no posterity and Margery maried to Walter Greate Stewarde of Scotland descended lineallie from the Princes of Wales by Neste Daughter to Griffithâ—ap Lhewlyn Mother to VValter the sonne of Fleance made Great Stewarde of Scotland by Malcolme the fourth Of whom came Robert the second first of the sur-name of Stuart that bare dominion in Scotland Robert Stuart being called Robert the second was crowned King with Royall solemnitie at Scone in the 47. yeare of his age on the Annuntiation day of our Lady in Lent 1370. he raigned ten years It is recorded of this K. Robert the 2. that hâ—s Captaines commanders were alwaies fortunat in war neuer returning but with spoils and victories He was a Prince of such
kingdomes of England and Scotland hath vnited them in one sole Monarchy of Great Britaine Long may hee raigne to Gods glory and comfort of his Kingdomes ¶ A briefe Catalogue of the Princes of Wales from the time that King Edward the first had conquered Wales to this instant 1. EDward borne at Caernaruon therefore called Edward of Caernaruon being Sonne to king Edward of England first of that name was the first Prince of Wales of the English bloud after the death of Prince Lhewelyn and came to Chester in the 29. year of his fathers raigne where he receiued the homage of the frée-holders of Wales 2 Edward of Windsore beeing eldest son to king Edward the second in the 15. yeare of his fathers raigne was created Prince of VVales and Duke of Aquitaine in a Parlament holden at Yorke 3 Edward borne at Woodstock sonne and heyre to king Edward the third in the 17. yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of Wales at London This Prince was surnamed the Blacke Prince hee tooke Iohn the French King prisoner and dyed in the 46. yeare of his age his father yet liuing 4 Richard sonne to Edward the Black Prince was created Prince of Wales at Hauering in the Bower in the fiftie yeare of king Edward the 3. his Grandfather and was afterward king of England by the name of king Richard the second 5 Henry of Monmouth sonne and heire to king Henry the fourth was in the first yeare of his fathers raigne created Prince of Wales at VVestminster 6 Edward of Westminster sonne and heyre to king Henry the sixt in the 31. yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of wales and Earle of Chester at westminster 7 Edward eldest sonne of king Edward the 4. borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster in the 11. yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester at London He was afterward king of England by the name of Edward the fift but neuer crowned because both he and his Brother were made away by the treachery of their Vnckle Richard Duke of Glocester that vsurped the Crowne 8 Edward the onely Sonne of king Richard the third being a child of ten years olde in the first yeare of the said kings raign was created prince of wales at London 9 Arthur sonne and heire to king Henrie the seuenth in the fift yeare of his Fathers raigne was created Prince of wales at London dying at Ludlow Castle in the 17. yeare of his fathers raigne was buried with great Funerall solemnity at Worcester 10 Henry Duke of Yorke son to King Henry the seauenth and Brother vnto Prince Arthur was after the saide Princes death in the ninetéenth yeare of his Fathers raigne created Prince of Wales and was afterward King of England by the name of King Henry the 8. In the 26. yeare of his raigne the Principality and Countrey of Wales was by Parliament incorporated and vnited vnto the Kingdome of England and all the Inhabitants thereof made equall in freedomes liberties rightes priuiledges lawes and in all other respects to the naturall subiects of England 11 Edward sonne to King Henry the eight and borne at Hampton Court the Principality of Wales being incorporated as hath bin sayde to the Crowne and kingdome of England was no otherwise Prince of Wales then vnder the generall Title of England as the King his Father was king of England and vnder the name king of Wales as it being a member of England Nor do I read of any other creation or inuesture that he had in that Principality He was King after his Father by the name of K. Edward 6. 1 Marie Daughter to King Henry the eight by the Princesse Katherine Dowager Widdow of Prince Arthur was Princesse of Wales 2 Elizabeth Daughter also to King Henrie tâ—e eight was in a Parliament in the 25. yeare of her Fathers raigne declared Princesse and Inheretrix of the crowne of England with all dominions to the same belonging and therefore was as her Sister Princesse of Wales All these fore-named Princes of Wales were created solemnely by and in Court of Parliament except three which were Richard the second Edward the fifte and Edward Sonne to Richard the thyrde Those that were created out of Parliament were Princes whose fortunes proued hard and disastrous For Richard the second was deposed and after murdered Edward the fift was also murdered in the Tower of London and Edward sonne to Richard the thirde dyed within three moneths after as a iust iudgement of God for his Fathers wickednesse 12. Henrie sonne and heire to our dread Soueraigne King Iames in the eight yeare of his Fathers raigne ouer England c. was created in the Court of Parliament at Westminster Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay Earle of Chester and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter The strong arme of Heauen be his continuall keeper and defender Briefe Obseruations not vnfitly annexed to this our short Summary of England ¶ Of Bishopprickes and their circuites CAnterbury erected first by Augustine the Monke in the time of Ethelbert king of Kent by prouincial regiment reacheth ouer all the South and west parts of this Lande and Ireland also and there are few shyres wherein the Arch-byshop hath not some peculiets But in it selfe as from the beginning was and is proper to the See It extendeth but ouer one parcell of Kent which Rudburne calleth Cantwarland the Iurisdiction of Rochester including the rest so that in this one County both the greatest Archbishopricke and least Bishoppricke are vnited together Canterbury hath vnder it one Arch-deaconry that hath iurisdiction ouer 11. Deanries or 161. Parish Churches In time of popery vndername of first fruites it paide to Rome at euery alienation 10000. Ducats or Florens beside 5000. which the new elect did vsually pay for his pall each ducat being then worth an English Crowne Rochester included within the limits of Kent was erected also by Augustine in the raygne of Ceolrijc ouer the west-Saxons It hath one Arch-Deacon whose gouernement in spirituall causes ruleth 3. Deanries or 132. parish Churches whereby appeareth that in Kent are 393. parish churches whereof the saide two Arch-deacons haue cure and charge It paid to Rome at the bishops admission 1300. Ducats or Florens London was erected at first by king Lucius who made it an Archbishops See as in due place hath already bin remembred and so it continued till Augustine translated that title to Canterbury It includeth Essex Middlesex and parte of Hertfordshire containing in quantity the ancient Kingdome of the East Angles before it was vnited to the West-Saxons It hath foure Arch-deaconries viz. London Essex Middlesex and Colchester that haue vnder them 363. parish Churches beside peculiers The Archdeaconry of S. Albanes was added thereto by king Henry the eight which hath also 25. parishes whereof foure are in Buckingham the rest in Hertfordshire It payed to Rome
high an employment confirmed by an assurance so vnreproueable and equalling what can be saide in like case of venerable Antiquitie I referre my selfe to be censured by the very seuerest iudgement Secondly concerning the first workers in Gold Siluer and other Mettalles in any place of eminence or note in Europe vnder controul neuerthelesse of such as haue reade and obserued more then I haue done I finde their Originall to be among the euer-curious ingenious Veniâ—ians euen at the first plantation of Venice which iustly may be tearmed Miracolo del Mondo The foundation of Venice holds paritie and proportion of Antiquity with the prime estate of the Francs or French as you may obserue where it is more at large expressed Looking backe then to the first Note of Diuine obseruation and remembering after the worlds deuision among the sons of Noah that Iaphets son Tubal had all Europe for his partition with this last Collestion concerning Venice and then as all Arts and Sciences haue a place of Original as Riuers from the Sea and extend themselues afterward to the remotest places of the worlde So may it likewise be gathered that those respectiue times admyring and honouring Art and Inuention gaue such way to their present and succeeding fame passage that all Landes became Partners of their predecessors prerogatiues Lastly to speake but of our owne Kingdome and therein for breuities sake but of this Noble Citty it self I find that when it had cast off the yoke of strange confusion endured vnder the sufferance of so manie conquerings After I say it came to haue command within it selfe vnder the awe and gracious fauour of worthie Kinges and Potentates who made choyse of Magistrates to be their Deputies and to present their God-like persons for general obedience the very first man that attained to the place of eminence and was styled Maire of this renowned Citty was called Henry Fitz-Alwine Fitz-Liefstane Goldsmith and held that supreame Office more then 24. yeares together A memorable Note in regard of Priority and as since then carefully remembred so iustly challenging continuance to vtmost posterity But because this slender volume speakes more though briefely of you then heere can wel be affoorded and commeth to you from a free hart in kindnes requiring but as free and courteous acceptance this is al the charge by me imposed on it To tel the whole Golden band of your worthy Brother-hood that I haue done nothing heerein either for flatterie or vaineglorie or in expectation of mercinarie recompence but according to truth sincerity and honesty which is the best defence for any that speakes of Antiquitie Yours to be commanded A. Mundy A Table of the seuerall Arguments handled in this Booke THe Originall and Succession of our forefathers from Adam to the generall Deluge Fol 1. From the Flood to the Princes and Iudges of Israel 5 FroÌ„ the Princes Iudges to the Iewish kings 12 From the Iewish Kings to the Kings of Iuda 14 From the Kinges of Iuda and Ierusalem to the Monarchy c. 19 The Monarchy of the Chaldeans Assyrians c. 19 The Monarchy of the Persians 20 The Monarchy of the Grecians 23 The Kings of Macedon 24 The Kings of Syria 26 The Kings of Egypt 29 The Monarchy of the Caesars or Romaines 32 The Emperors of the west from Charlemaign 54 The Emperors of the East 61 The Ottomans or Turkish Emperors 89 Originall of the Sarazins 102 Byshops Popes of Rome from the originall and Ages of the Church 108 Originall of the Knights of S. Iohns of Ierusalem and all other Orders of Knight-hood 157 Of the Emperor of Ethiopia Prâ—te Ian. 214 Of the Kingdome of Persia 220 Of the Kingdome of Thunis 227 Of the great Prouince of Moscouia 229 Of the Kingdome of Poland 233 Of sundry other Kingdomes Conquered by the Romaines 235 Of the Kingdome of Portugall 241 Of the Kingdome of Italy 255 The Originall of the Venetians 258 Of the Dukes of Venice 269 Of the Kingdome of Spaine 300 Of Germany and the Princes Electors 304 The Originall of the French Nation 305 Of Pharamond the first king of France and consequently of all the other kings of France 316 Of the Earls of Holland and Zeland 382 Of the Kingdome of Ireland 427 Of the Gouernors Lieutenants and Deputies of Ireland 435 Of the Kingdome of Scotland 442 Of Albion before Brutes arriuall what Kings raigned there 466 The Light of Britaine and of all the Kinges succeeding after Brute 471 A Catalogue of the Princes of Wales 522 Of Englands Bishoppricks their circuits 526 Foundation of the Colledges in Cambridge Oxenford 532 Of the Shires in England and Wales 535 Originall Antiquity and modern estate of London 537 Temporall Gouernment of London since the Conquest 573 A SHORT SVMmary or briefe Chronicle of TIMES ¶ Containing the originall and succession of our auncient Fore-fathers from the first CREATION of the World As also of the Monarches Emperours Kings Popes and Famous men with all the most memorable matters hapning since the Worldes beginning to this instant time OVR Eternall GOD al good Almighty and most mercifull in the beginning created and made the World of nothing that is to say Heauen Earth and Waters as first and principall matter togither with the Angels He disposed and gaue forme in sixe daies for he rested the seauenth and blessed it to all thinges inclosed within the circle of Heauen All which hée did by his word namely Iesus Christ and the blessed Spirit these thrée persons being one Diuine essence for the workes of the sacred Trinity are inseparable whom I most humbly beséech to fauour and assist me in beginning and ending this short Summary After that this soueraigne Architect had created of nothing in one instant this first masse or matter and disposed in sixe daies this whole round frame at length vpon the sixt day he created Man of the slime of the earth in the Damascene territory scituate in Syria or in HebroÌ„ according to the Haebrues Tradition into which place he withdrew himselfe after he had sinned and made him after his owne likenesse as concerning his soule which also he created of nothing he named him Adam that is to say Red man or Red-Earth according to the Hebrue language Afterward he took a rib from Adam as he lay asléepe in Paradice and thereof formed Heuah which signifieth as Moses writeth followed by Iosephus Soroow and Mother of the Liuing and according to Zorarus Woman Thus began the institution of Marriage and houshold life togither Adam and Heuah our first Parents by perswasion of the Serpent that is to say the Deuill transgressed the Commandement which God had giuen them for effect of their faith and obedience In regard whereof they were cast out of terrestiall Paradice that is to say a Garden abounding in pleasures where GOD had placed them together and with their posterity were subiected to sinne death and the
4000. for his diet and maintenance appointing the rest to young maides marriages and the releefe of Widdowes and Orphanes he not liuing aboue two yeares after When not onely happened his death but likewise the deaths of the Quéens Dowagers of France and Hungarie as also of Mary Quéene of England after whom succéeded her Sister Elizabeth in which time Emanuell Philebert Duke of Sauoy and Prince of Piemont was Gouernour and Lieutenant Generall of the Netherlands for King Phillip till the King of Spaines marriage beeing turned into tears by the vntimely death of the French king caused Margaret of Austria Bastard to the Emperor Charles the fift and Dutchesse of Parma to succéede the Duke of Sauoy in the Netherlandes regiment King Phillip returned then home into Spaine it being his last departure out of those Countries whereon not long after ensued the subtle bringing of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands by the creation of new Byshops and such was the power and priuiledge of the Inquisitors as none were able to withstande them in confiscation both of body and goodes at their owne pleasure Nowe albeit the Tyrannie of the Dutchesse gouernment in the Lowe Countries was more then the people could well endure yet to putte a sharper Snaffle in their mouthes King Phillip remooued his Bastard Sister Margaret and sent Don Ferdinando Aluares Duke of Alua who quickly brought the Netherlands into a most pittifull estate making himselfe sure of Gaunt and Count Horne and Count Egmont abusiuelie made Prisoners he builded the Castle of Antuerpe where he erected his owne proud Statue and procéeded to apprehend the prince of Orange by Commission setting downe Articles by the Spanish Inquisition which were confirmed by the King to ruinate the Netherlandes vppon which soone followed the execution of the sons of Batembourg at Brussels as also the Earls of Egmont and Horne William of Nassau Prince of Orange was made Gouernor of Holland Zeland Vtrecht for the States and proued verie fortunate in many attempts against the Duke of Alua which made him labor his repeale home into Spaine with Don Frederick his son Don Lewes de Requesens the great commander of Castile was sent to spoil the Dukes place in the Netherlands for the king of Spain to whom Aluaes former behauiour serued for an example in hys procéeding and notwithstanding his besieging of Middlebourg néere hande to famishment yet was his fléet defeated before his face the Town yeilded vppe by Collonell Mondragon to the Prince of Orange After many dangerous turmoiles on both sides the States sent to require succour of Elizabeth Quéene of England and soone after dyed Don Lewes de Requesens at Brussels in whose roome succéeded Don Iohn of Austria Bastard sonne to the Emperor Charles the fift as Gouernor for King Phillip in the Netherlands all the Prouinces whereof were vnited at the pacification of Gand whereupon the Castle was yeelded vnto the States and all the Spaniards departed out of Antuerp castle which was also deliuered into the States handes Don Iohn being receiued as Gouernor he sought ocasions how to renew warre against the Prince of Orange and diuers discontentmentes as also treacherous practises being noted in Don Iohn the States grew iealous of him and he was proclaimed the Countries enemye Then was the Arch-Duke Mathias called to be Gouernor and while the heart-burnings helde betweene Don Iohn and the States the Duke of Aniou and Duke Casimire also were required to succour them but to little effect for Arthois and Henault fell from the Netherlands generall vnion and then followed the death of Don Iohn of the plague in the Campe néere vnto Mamure Then Alexander Farnase Duke of Parma and Placentia bastard Nephew to the king of Spain succéeded Don Iohn in the Netherlands gouernment Whereuppon a stricter Vnion then before was made betwixte the Prouinces at Vtrecht The Duke of Aniou was called to bee Protector and partly Lord of the Countreyes in the Vnion which made the King of Spaine proscribe the Prince of Oraunge and set his life at sale to which proscription the Prince in euerie point made his iust answere Then were valiant and woorthye seruices performed by Syr Iohn Norris and Captain afterwards Sir Roger Williams In the yeare following the Generall Estates of the vnited Prouinces hauing declared Phillip K. of Spain second of that name to be faln from the Seigneury of the said prouinces in regard of his extraordinary and too violent gouernement against their priuiledges and freedomes solemnly sworne by himselfe In way of right and Armes tooke vpon them all the Gouernment of the politicke Estate and of the Religion in those Prouinces breaking the Kinges Seales absoluing the Subiects of their Oath to him and causing them to take a new Oath for preseruation of their Countrey and obedience to the saide States Vpon a bargaine made by the King of Spaine to kill the Prince of Orange the saide Prince was shot by one Iohn Iauvregui a banquerout-Merchants Seruant who was presently slaine but the Prince escaped that attempt with life Afterward he was traiterously murdered by one Balthazar Gerard a high Bourguignon at Delft in Holland whereon Prince Maurice being his Sonne succéeded his Father in the gouernment Then followed the siedâ—e of Antuerpe in which time the States once more re-commended their cause to the Q. of England either to giue her the full Soueraignty of the Netherlands or else to succor and reléeue them with her forces vppon good conditions offered Her Maiesty graunted to send them assistance but no soueraignty or protection of them would she take vpon her whereupon certain cautionary towns and Skonces were deliuered vp to her for repaiment of such sums of Mony as should be disbursed by her and Articles of couenant set down betwéene them Also Robert Lord Dudley Baron of Denbigh and Earle of Leicester was appointed by the Quéene of England to be her Gouernor generall ouer the English powers in the Netherlands In the time of the Earle of Leicesters gouernment for the Quéene were sundry woorthy seruices performed by the Earle of Essex Sir Iohn Norris the Lord Willoughby Sir Phillip Sidney Sir William Russell c. beside the subtile pretences of Sir William Stanley Rowland Yorke Patton and others who held faire weather with the Earle of Leicester and had the gouernment of Zutphen Sconce and the strong Towne of Deuenter to the great dislike of the States yet performed no such matter as the Earles hope was perswaded of them For after the death of that matchlesse Noble Gentleman Sir Phillip Sidney he being shot before Zutphen and thereof dying the Earle of Leicester being gone for England both Deuenter and Zutphen Sconce were deliuered vp to the Spaniards by base â—oruption of Money And not long after the Prince of Parma beleagering Sâ—luice by composition it
dignity of Senators in Aldermen It hath vnder Officers and according to the qualitie of Lawes so hath it seueral Courts and generall assemblies vpon appointed daies At parting with the name of Portgraues and Prouosts in the first yeare of K. Richard 1. the cittizens obtained to be gouerned by 2. Baliffes who in auncient déedes were called Sheriffes as the Lawe tearmeth the Shire Balliua vsing the same office of Shriuewick as the Portgraues before did The names of the first Bayliffes or Officers entring into their dignity at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell Anno 1189 were Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere King Richard also at that very time appointed a supreame Officer aboue the rest by the name of Maior which worde was borrowed from the Haebrew word Mar and signifieth Dominus Lord a word vsed by the Franconians and old Saxons their Neighbours of whom English-men haue their Originall but called Maire as the French did their Maires of the Pallace Thus was the chiefe Gouernor called Lord Maire or Maior because they vnderstood not that the epethite Maire or Maior implyed no lesse then lord without any other additions yet thus was it thē giuen for a larger augmentation of Honor. Now as the Goldsmiths yéelded London a Prouost before named Leofstanus euen so the same Company albeit not as yet rancked into a List of Brother-hood gaue London likewise the first Lord Maire or Maior in Dignity whose name was Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane and being so appointed by the King he continued in that supreame Office from the first yeare of King Richard the first vntill the fiftéenth of K. Iohn which was more then twenty foure years Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere béeing first chosen Bayliffes serued then as Sheriffes by all likelihood to the said Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Leifstane Maire whereby very well may bee obserued the progresse and continuaunce of those seuerall elections and choyces euen to this day the Sheriffes beeing first appointed and then the Lorde Maire after chosen at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-aungell at the first by King Richard it was ordained King Iohn in like manner after this high Dignity begun by his Brother graunted them frée liberty by Charter to chuse by voyces and handes yearely out of the twelue chiefest and principall Companies their Praetor or Maire Also two Sheriffes whereof the one should be called the Kings Sheriffe and the other the Citties Sheriffe which in that forme hath continued euen to this instant Nay more he graunted them full power and authority not onely to chuse theyr Sheriffes at their owne pleasure but also vppon iust occasion either of contempt mutiny disobedience or other offences to degrade and depriue them The Forrest of Middlesex and the Warren of Stanes being laid open in An. 1218. the King afterward in the yeare 1226. confirmed to the Citizens of London frée warrant and liberty to hunt a limited circuite about the Citty and in the Warren of Stanes Also that the Cittizens of London shoulde passe Toule-frée thorough al England and the Kedeles or weres in the Riuer of Thames or Midway to be pluckt vp and destroyed for euer When the Franchises and liberties were thus confirmed by King Iohn he granted moreouer that either Sheriffe should haue two Clarks and two Sergeants also that the Citty should haue a common Seale and that the Maior should bee presented to the Barons of the Exchequer and they then to admit him as lawful Lieutenant and Deputy vnder the king to gouerne the Citty Hauing thus briefly discoursed how the dignity of honor began in this famous Citty both in the stile of Lord Maior and Sheriffes as briefly wil we also part their progresse and succession from that first woorthy man Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Gold-Smith to the as worthy Man Sir William Crauon now gouerning this present yeare 1611. Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Goldesmith beginning to take that high office on him in the first yeare of King Richard the first who was also for his valour and courage Surnamed Cueur de Lion continued still in the same Dignity for more then twenty foure years and then deceassing in the 15. yeare of King Iohn he was buried in the Priory of the holy Trinity néer vnto Aldgate In the said 15. yeare of King Iohn either to serue out the remainder of that yeare or to go on in a new election Roger Fitz-Alwain was chosen Lord Maire but I neyther find his freedom or his death albeit he continued as it séemeth in Office but one yeare the like did Serle Mercer and William Hardell in the yeares 1214. and 1215. And then began the raigne of King Henry the third Son to King Iohn the 19. of October 1216. Iames Alderman and Salomon Blasing Lord Maiors serued out this yeare by seuerall parts each after other Serle Mercer was againe chosen Lord Maior and continued in the Dignity sixe yeares together Richard Renger beeing chosen Lord Maior continued so the space of foure yeares Roger Duke or Duck was Lord Maior of London foure yeares Andrew Bokerell Pepperer was Lord Maior of London seauen yeares together Richard Renger Lorde Maior againe one yeare William Ioyner Lord Maior one yeare who builded the Quier of the Gray-Fryers Church in London and afterward became a lay brother of that house Gerard Bat Lord Maior one yeare and béeing elected againe for the ensuing yeare the King would not suffer it because he had béene charged in the former yeare with taking Money of the Victuallers and could shew no reason for it Reginald Bongey was Lorde Maior two yeares Raphe Ashwy Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tony Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lorde Mayor two yeares Peter Fitz-Alwin Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tonny Lord Maior againe one yeare Roger Fitz-Roger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Lord Maior one yeare Adam Basing Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tolason Draper Lord Maior one yeare Richard Hardell Draper was Lorde Maior sixe yeares together Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare William Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior two yeares Thomas Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior foure yeares together Will Richards againe Lord Maior one yeare Allen le Zouch Lorde Maior one yeare and beeing a Baron of the Land and chiefe Iustice also he was slaine in Westminster Hall by Iohn Warren Earle of Surry in An. 1270. Sir Stephen Edwards Lord Maior one year Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon was made Custos of London and Constable of the Tower by reason of a great quarrell happening betwéene the Gold-smiths and the Taylors so that the King gaue the kéeping of the Cittie to his Son Prince Edward who made the saide Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon Custos of the Citty and Constable of the Tower as his Deputie But Prince Edward quickly obtained of the King his Father to haue the
Wallus Brooke Walbrook The martirdome of S. Alban Werlamchester S. Albanes Iohn Rossus Warwicons in lâ—â— de wigorâ— Epis Lichfielde why it was so called 26â— Constantius married Helena daughter to King Coell 189 The martirdome of Amphibilaus 306 Q Helena found the Crosse and the Nailes 329 Octauius put to flight by Trahernes Helena walleth London Colchester 383 Litle Britain 390 The Saxons first enterance into Britaine Constantinus crownd at Cicester Hengist the Saxon his Brother Horsus Vortiger deposed Vortimer Crowned The Britain Nobles murdered on Salisbury plaine The death of Vortiger 481. The death of Hengist Stone-heng 500 The birth of Arthur 5â—6 Arthur had 12. battailes against the Saxons 542 546 Conan murdered his Nephewes 548 580 Eight kings of the English Saxons The Britains loose theyr ancient seats Augustine the Monke sent into Britaine 613 The Britainâ— 24. yeares without a King 635 S. Martins at Ludgate built 678 The ending of the Brytaines Gouernment 800 The victories of King Egbert The first noâ—ination of England by K. Egbert The first inâ—asion of the Danes 837. A woorthie victory ouer the Danes 857 Ethelbald defiled his fathers bed 862. 867 Nine Baâ—tâ—â— fought with the Danâ—s in one yeâ— 87â— K. Alfred builded 3. Monasteries Oxford built by Ki. Alfred 900 The East-Angles coÌ„quered by K Edward K. Edward a great builder 924 King Athelstane the first monark of England 940 946 955 959 K. Edgar his fleet of ships A tribute of Wolues 975 979 The Danes murdered in one night 1016 Edmund Ironside and Canutus both proclaimed Kings 1017. 1035. 1041 The ending of the Danes gouerment in England 1042 The Kinges Euill 1067 England conquered by D. William 1067 Duke Williams policy to get the Crowne Edgar Etheling true heire of the Saxons blood Rake vp the fire The foure Tearmes The Exchequer and Court of Chancery K. William destitute of a Graue 1087 The foundation of Westminster Hall 511 New forrest in Hampshire and strange accidents theâ— happening 1100 Robert D. of Normandy King Henries Children drowned 1135 K. Stephen vsurped the Crowne 1154 Tho. Becket Archbishop of Canterb. 1189 Ki. Richard went to the holy-Land he was called Cueeâ—de-Lion 1199 1216 William Marshall Earle of Pembroke 1272 Wales conquered 2307 Piece Gauâ—ston 1327 The Order of the Garter 1277. Iack Straw his rebels Articles against the King 1399. The Crown entailed 1413 The battell of Agin-court 1423 The houses of Yorke Lancaster 1461 1483 Edw. 5. neuer crownd 1483. Bosworth field 1485 The memorable buildings of king Henrie the seuenth Kinges Colledge chappel in Cambridge 1509 Lords of Ireland King Henries gifts to charitable vses 1549 The Masse abolished Christs hospitall S. Thomas Hospitall Bridewell 1553 1558 1602 Prince of Wales by general title 1. Princesse of Wales 2. Princesse of Wales Prince of Wales by creation Iurisdiction of Canterb. Iurisdiction of Rochester Iurisdiction of London Iurisdiction of Chichester Iurisdiction of winchest Iurisdiction of Salisbury Iurisdiction of Excester Iurisdiction of Bath Iurisdiction of Worcester Iurisdiction of Gloster Iurisdiction of Hereford Iurisdiction of Lichfield Iurisdiction of Oxford Iurisdiction of Elie. Iurisdiction of Norwich Iurisdiction of Peterborow Iurisdiction of Bristow Iurisdiction of Lincoln Iurisdiction of Landaffe Iurisdiction of S. Dauids Iurisdiction of Bangor Iurisdiction of Saint Asaphes York her Iurisdiction Iurisdiction of Chester Iurisdiction of Durham Iurisdiction of Caerleill Bish of Man Years of the foundations 1546 1441 1511 1505 1446 1496 1342 1343 1256 1348 1354 1326 1459 1519 1585 1539 1459 1375. 1276 1437 1516 1430 1323 1340 1263 1557 1556 1316 1517 873 The names by diuers giuen to London Caesar and Strabo alledged by M. Camden London burnt by the Danes Wil. Malinsbury Maintenance of the wals London wall in circuite Four Gates no more in elder time The Posterne gate by the Tower Aldgate Bishopsgate The Easterlings Mooregate Criplesgate Fabians manuscript Aldersgate Christs hospital postem New-gate Ludgate Ludgate made a free prison The South side of London William Fitz StepheÌ„ his words Water gates Queenes-Hith The Stilyard or Guilda-Halla Teutonicorum The order for the Citties prouision at Belins gate and Queenes-hithe Downe-gate Wolfesgate Ebgate Oyster-gate Bridge-gate Buttolphs-gate Belins-gate Two water gates London-bridge S. Marie Oueries London-bridge of Timber London bridge of Timber burnt Fleetbridge Oldbourne bridge Cowbridge Of the CoÌ„duites 〈…〉 〈…〉 The Sâ—â—â—dard 〈…〉 cheap Conduits Alderman burie and Fleestreets The Citties deuision into Wardes 26. wards 26. AldermeÌ„ Portsoken Ward Kâ—hten Guilde Toâ—â—â—street Wâ—â—d 〈…〉 Algate ward * Of a shaft or Maypole higher then the Church Steeple * Of ColmaÌ„ Haw a Haw yard or garden Limestreete Ward Leaden hall Bishopsgate Ward Hospitall of Bethelem New church yard Fishers folly Croâ—by place Gresham Colledge Leather sellers Hall Brodestreet ward * Of three men so named founders thereof * Of Fynke the founder S Anthonies schoole Drapers hal Merchant Taylers hal Corne-hill Ward The Wey-house The Royall Exchange S. Peters schoole Rus Bell in Cornehill Langborne Ward all fenny about with a Morish ground * Of Birchouer the first builder and owner Pewterers Hall Belins-gate Ward Bridgeward Fishmongers Hall Stock fishmongers Salt fishmongers Candlewick street ward Weauers of Drapery Tapery and Napery Walbrooke Ward Wooll-Church Haw or Beame Downegate Ward Guilda Aula Teutonicorum Colde Harbrough Merchaunt Taylors schoole the Mannor of the Rose Skinners hall Tallow-Chandlers Hall Ioyners hall Dyers Hall Vintry ward Whittingtons Colledge Parish Clerks hall Vintners hall Plummers Hall Fruiterers Hall Cutlers hall Glasiers hal Cordwainer street ward Nine a clocke Bell is nightly rung Cheap ward Guilde Hall built Anno 1411. Courts for the Citty Grocers hal Mercers Chappell and Hall Coleman street ward Founders hall Armorers Hall Bassings Hal ward Bassinges Haugh Masons hall Weauers hall Weauers of Woollen Clothes Girdlers hal Coopers Hall Cripples gate Ward Haberdashers hall Waxchandlers hall Plaisterers hall Brewers hal Pinners hal Bowyers hal Aldersgate Ward Goldsmiths Hall Cooks hall Faringdon ward within How Faringdon warde took name 1361. The free schoole in Paules Church-yard founded by Iohn Collet Doctor in Diuinity and Deane of Paules Imbroyderers hall Barbar chirurgions hall Sadlers hall Butchers Felt makers hall Bread-street Ward Salters hall Cordwaâ—ners hall Queenes Hith ward Painters hal Blacksmiths hall Castle Baynard ward Woodmongees hall Stationers Hall Faringdon warde and Bride-ward both without Ethelred Earle of Mercia Portgraue or Portreue Wolfegar Portgraue Prouost Robert Bar-Querel prouost Portgraue and Sheriffe of London Middlesex William Fitz Stephen his words Bayliffes of London The first Bayliffes of London Beginning of the Mayralty The first L. Maire of London The time of the L. Mairs election Choyce of Lord Maire by voyces and hands Choyce of Sheriffes Forrest of Middlesex and warren of Stanes Toule free thorough al England granted to London Common seale of the Citty 1189 1213. 1216 1217. 1223 1227 1231 1238 1239 1240 1241 1243. 1244 1245 1247 1248 1249 1250 1251 1252 1253 1259 1260 1262 1266 1267 1268 1269 A Custos appointed ouer the Cittie of London 1270 1272. 1273. 1274 1275 1282 1285 London againe in the charge or rule of a Custos 1307 1308 1309 1310 1311 1313 1314 1315 1316 1319 1320 1321 1323 1324 1326 The Lord Maior Iustice for Gaole deliuery at New gate 1327 1328 1329 1330 1332 1333 1334 1335 1336 1337 The first Maces to Sergeants granted 1339 1341 1342 1343 1345 1346 1347 1348 1349 1350 1351 1352 1354 1355 1356 Foure kings feasted at the L. Maiors house in one day 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362 1362 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369 1370 1372 1373 1374 1375 1376 1377 1378 1379 1380 The Lord Mayor kild Iack Straw the Rebell The dagger added to the Citties Armes 1381 1383 1387 1388 1389 1â—90 13â—1 A Warden appointed to gouerne London 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 1402 1403 1304 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 1411 1412 1413 1414 1415 1416 First Lantherne and candle-light 1417 1418 1419 1420 1421 1422 1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428 1429 1430 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 L. Maior Knight of the Bath 1438 1439 1440 1441 1442 1443 1444 Pauls steâ—ple fired 1445 1446 1447 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453 The first Maior rowed to Westminster 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 1460 1461 1462 Lord Maior Knight of the Bath 1463 Lord Maior Knighted in the fielde 1464 1465 A sheriffe knight of the Bath 1466 1467 1468 1469 Lord Maior deliuered the king out of the Tower 1470 L. Maior 11 Aldermen and the Recorder knighted in fielde 1471 1472 1473 Sergeants yeomen Clearks appointed 1474 1475 1407 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 Three Lord Maiors in one yeare 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495. 1496 Black heath field 1497. 1498 1499 1500 1501 Lord Mairs first riding from the Guild Hall to take Bardge to Westminster 1502 1503 First setting vp of Cadges 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 1513. 1514 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 1520 1511 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 1530 1531 1532. 1533 1534 1535 1136 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545. 1546 1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 1569 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 1580 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585 1586 1587 1588 1589 1590 159â— 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610
Deuill But our good God being made all of mercy perceiuing the offence of Man did promise him that the séede of the Woman which is Iesus Christ should breake the head of the Serpent that is to say his kingdome and power deliuering vs from the captiuity of sinne death the Deuill In this promise we may note the sourse or spring-head of the Gospell which afterward was oftentimes repeated and diuersly signified by sundry figures for comfort of our holy Forefathers euen to the comming of Iesus Christ When Adam was throwne forth of Paradice he began to labour in the earth with great pain Afterward he knew Heuah his wife who brought him a sonne called Caine who was an husbandman and the first murtherer of his brother Abell the iust Shepheard In whom began the first persecution of the Saintes by the wicked for the true and sincere seruice of God In this man also began the Kingdom or citty of God and in the other the citty of the World and of the Diuell as shal be better manifested in Nimrod This murder being thus committed Caine was abhominable in the sight of God he withdrew himselfe from his father and builded a Citty after the name of his first son Enoch Adam had daughters also and at the age of 230. yeares he begat Seth. Seth at the age of 105. yeares begat Enos Enos aged 99. yeares begat Cainam Cainam aged 70. years begat Malaleel Malaleel aged 605. yeares begat Iared Iared aged 160. yeares begat Enoch Enoch who at the age of 65. yeares begate Methusalem walked with God declaring his iudgements to ensue vppon men degenerating from humaine and reasonable Nature into brutish and vnbrideled voluptuousnesse For the Sonnes of God that is to say the Sayntes by the generation of Seth beholding the Daughters of men that is to say the wicked by the generation of Caine to be fayre tooke them to Wife without any regarde and celebrated marriages with the people of abhomination of whome Gyants were borne men of might and great Renowne Methusalem at the age of 187. yeares begate Lamech Adam dyed aged 930. yeares Iust Enoch was carried aliue vp into heauen Lamech at the age of 182. yeares begat Noah the deliuerer of Iustice whom the Poets not vnderstanding the creation of the worlde called Heauens Chaos Seede of the world Father of the Gods Noah being 500. yeares of age with his wife Thitea that is to say Earth or according to the Poets Aretia Cybele Vesta and Mother of the Gods begat Sem Cham and Iaphet with whom by the commandement of God in the hundred yeare after he entered into the Arke which had béene built by him and was preserued from the Flood The Generall Deluge BY which invndation of waters God brought an horrible vengeance to punnish the wicked liues of men Sem who was Melchizedech two yeares after the flood begat Arphaxad beeing then aged 100. yeares Arphaxad aged 35. yeares begat Salê Salê at the age of thirty yeares begat Heber and builded the Citty of Salem though some say it was Sem that should be called Ierusalem the Citty of God seated in the midst of Iudea Heber of whom the Hebrewes were after named being aged 34. yeares begate Pâ—aleg at which time the earth was diuided betwéene the sonnes of Noah Sem and his off-spring enioied the East part of Syria to wit Asia C ham Zoroastres had Iudea Egypt Arabia and all Affrica Iaphet who by the Poets is called Iapetus had with his people all Europe Phaleg at the age of thirty yeares begat Reu at which time Nimrod the Babylonian Saturn hindmost Nephew of Cham began his raigne builded the Tower of Babell where beganne the confusion of tongues into seauenty two the common language of the Hebrew remaining entyre Samothes or Dis King of the Gaules of whom the Gaules or Celts tearme themselues to be discended as Caesar declareth in his sixt Booke began also his raigne in short time after as Gomerus Gallus likewise did his in Italy and Tuball the Sonne of Iaphet his rule in Caltiberia now called Spaine Oceanus swayed in Egypt as Tuiscon or Ascenas did in Allemain or Germany Reu at the age of 32. yeares begat Saruch Saruch aged thirtie yeares begat Nahor or Nachor tearmed Fayre Iupiter the second King of the Assyrians Nachor at the age of 29. yeares begat Thares or Terah who is saide to be Ninus the third King of the Assyrians Hee erected Temples Altars and Statues to his dead father which were a great occasion the verie sourse of Idolatries Osyris and Isis first found out the means of Corn at this time in Egypt and nowe did Aegiaâ—eus become first King of the Sicyonians or Peloponnesus now named Morea Thares a maker and seller of Idolles being 70 yeares of age begat Abraham Nahor and Aran the Father of Lot Semiramis the wife of Ninus in habit of a man raigned ouer the Assyrians in the name of her Sonne Noah died aged 905. yeare old 350. years after the flood Saturne Pluto Cybele Mother of the Gentiles Gods Sol Iupiter Pallas or Minerua Venus Cupid Vulcane Mercury and all the crew of these faigned Gods then began Abraham boing aged 75. yeares by the Commaundement of God departed from his owne Country and Kindred for God had promised vnto him the land of Canaan and blessing vppon all people by his wisedome which is Iesus Christ he begate Isaac Saron King of Gaule ordained publicke Schooles Druis his successor being a verie wise Prince of whom the Druides are saide to be deriued appointed Priests Phylosophers among the Gaules So do affirme Berosus in his fift Booke Caesar in his sixt Booke and Cornelius Tacitus in the Manners of the Allemaynes or Germaines Isaac aged 60. yeares begat on his Wife Rebecca Esau and Iacob twinnes Abraham Sem and Heber dyed Inachus was the auncient and first King of the Argiues At this time Bardus K. of the Gaules became the inventer of Verses and of Musicke and Hercules ruled in Lybia Iacob called Israel at the age of 84. years maried Lea and Rachel and of them together with their two Hand-maids had twelue sonnes Ruben Simeon Leui Father of the Leuites and Priestly lignage Iuda of whom the Iewes doo hold their name and the Royall lignage of Iesus Christ discended Issachar Zabulon Gad Aser Dan Nephtalin Ioseph and Beniamin all Patriarkes with Dina one only daughter who was the wife of Iob according as Philo the Iew recordeth Of these twelue Patriarkes the 12. Tribes or Linages descended Afterward Iacob being aged 130. yeares went downe into Egypt with all his family to his Sonne Ioseph the Deputie to Pharaoh who had bin sold by his Bretheren In that place he gaue vppe the ghost being aged then
147. yeares hauing prophesied that Iesus Christ should come before that the Scepter were taken from Iuda or a Duke of his generation Galathes the Sonne of Hercules was King of Gaule whereof it tooke the name Prometheus and Atlas at this time were very excellent Astrologians Ioseph dyed 54. yeares after his Father The Israelites now began to be euill intreated by the Egyptians Moses the last Nephew of Leui was borne 64. yeares after the death of Ioseph Cecrops then builded the Citty of Athens and was first King thereof Also he was the first Authour of the most abominable idolatries that euer were among the Grecians The Deluge of Deucalion Princes and Iudges of Israel MOses aged 80. yeares by the commandement of God reproued Pharoah wrought many myracles in Egypt with-drew the people of Israel our of Egypt by the Red-Sea béeing in number more then sixe hundred thousand This their departure thence happened in the yeare 430. of the promise made to Abraham for the blessing of all Nations by his séede Moyses gaue the Law to the people in the Deserts of Arabia as a School-maister vntil the comming of the promised séed For this cause he ordained for the sins of the people diuers Ceremonies of sacrifices marriages punishments solemnities of feasts For the action of War he numbred more then six hundred and thrée thousand without comprehension of the Leuites to whom he prescribed theyr charge In the end he instructed the rude people in diuers commandements For Gods ordinances he constituted Iosuah his successour and rendred vp his spirit in the 120. yeare of his life and of the departing out of Egypt the 40. read Exodus Leuiticus Numbers and Deuteronomy all which are heere thus briefely collected Daâ—danus hauing slaine his Brother Iason was the first King of Troy Ianigines was then King in Italy the most cruell Tyrant Busiris King in Egypt and Mercurius Trismegistus that is to say thrée times the most great King Priest and Philosopher See M. Ficinus in his life Iosuah passed the people dry foote thorough the Riuer of Iordan into the Land of Promise The Sunne stayed while he fought the battel he slew one and thirty Kings And after he had distributed their Countries amongst the people he died thirty yeares after the death of Moyses The Israelites then left God and serued Idols Orcus King of the Molosses made then a rape of Proserpina And Cadmus brought the Charracters of Letters into Greece Othoniell of the Lignage of Iuda gouerned the people eight yeares and was the third Iudge of Israel in order and not the first as some haue supposed He deliuered the people from the oppression of the King of Mesopotamia Aiod or Ehua slew the king of the Moabites raigned eight yeares and deliuered the people from the idolatry of the Moabites In this time began but much rather encreased the Gods and Idolatries of the Gentiles according to Iosephus as Bacchus Pandion Radamanthus Aeacus Minos King of Creet Dedalus and Icarus at this time made their flight Tantalus Amphion founder and first King of Thebes Linus Barach with Debora the Prophetesse iudged 40. yeares ouercame with ten thousand men only the Army of Sisara consisting of two hundred thousand men The Argonaâ—tes sayled then to Colchos then liued Areus and Thiestes Pan also and Midas King of Phrygia abounded in Treasures Gedeon a valiaunt Captaine iudged fortie yeares and deliuered the Israelites from the seruitude of the Madianites In this time liued Circes Medea Enchanteresses with Medusa and Andromeda Euristheus first king of Mycena was slaine by Aeacides hauing commaunded well néere thorough all Greece for the space of forty fiue yeares togither Abimelech the naturall Son of Gedeon was Iudge thrée yeares he slew 69. of his naturall legitimate Brethren only that he might raigne Sparta or Lacedemon was theÌ„ builded by Spartus the Sonne of Phoroneus Others doo attribute the building thereof to Aristhenes who was their first king Thola was Iudge 25. yeares then liued Ruth Mother to the Grand-mother of Dauid then also were Castor Pollux Apollo the inuenter of Musicke Aesculapius his Sonne Orpheus and Museus who were the first Poets according to Linus Iair iudged 22. yeares during which time the people liued in maruailous quiet as they did before in the raigne of Thola But afterward there happened interregnum eightéen yeares together in all which time the Israelites were seruile to the Philistims for their idolatries Pyrrhus then inuented the Tennis Play Theseus vanquished the Minotaure and Hercules came from Spayne into Italy 55. yeares before Aeneas Iephta the Bastard was Iudge sixe yeares and being thereto compelled by his vow hee slew his onely Daughter Theseus now made his rape of Helena shee being then a very young Mayden Sybilla Aericthrea liued in this time shee that fore-told the ruine of Troy and of whom Homer telleth many goodly tales Abesan or Ibsan iudged seuen yeares The History of Ruth happened in this time Pluto Neptune then were and Paris stole Helena the wife to Menelaus king of the Lacedemonians Elon was Iudge ten years in whose time happened the Warre betwéene the Greekes and the Troyans for the rape of Helena Wife to Menelaus by Paris Sonne to Priam the last King of Troy Abdon iudged eight yeares Aeneas with his companions came into Italy and Francus if wée may beléeue Manethous and others the Sonne of Hector with his followers also came into Austria Of the one descended the Latines kings of the Romaines and of the other the Kinges of France In these dayes liued Pilades and Orestes the two loyall friends Sampâ—on the strong was Iudge 20. yeares he slew a thousand Philistims with the iaw-bone of an Asse and was deceiued by a Strumpet The Linage or Tribe of Beniamin was now almost vtterly destroyed onely thorow detestable voluptuousnesse Hely Priest and Iudge raigned fortie yeares and was punnished of God for his ouer great indulgence towards his children The Ark of Moses was then taken by the Philistims Bâ—ute the Sonne of Syluius third King of the Latines expulsed then the cruell Gyants out of the Island which after his owne name he called Brittaine now England and deuided his Land to his thrée Sonnes in thrée seuerall kingdoms to wit Loegria to Locrine Cambria now called Wales to Camber and Albania now called Scotland to his third Sonne Albanact Samuel the Prophet and innocent Iudge to those wicked children He annointed Saul to the Israelites they desiring a King t And then began the Kingdome of the Lacedemonians instituted by Euristhenes and of the Corinthians founded by Atletes Kings of all the Iewish people SAule first King of the Israelites with Samuel raigned fortie yeares Hee pardoned Agag King of Amalec his Prisoner and reserueth the spoile to Sacrifice to God
third moneth of his raigne was led captiue into Egypt and his Brother constituted king in his place by the king of Egypt Iocim raigned eleauen yeares For his abhominations he was chained and led captiue to Babylon by Nabuchadonoser the great king of the Assyrians Tarquinius Priscus was fift king of the Romains In Greece then liued Sapho Stesichorus Pherecydes Draco Solon and others of the Sages Ioachim otherwise called Ieconias being 18. yeares old and besiedged by the Assyrians yeelded himselfe with his Mother his Princes and the greater part of his people to Nabuchadonoser and was transported into Babylon where in prison he begat Salathiell Father to Zorobabell then liued Ezechiell Baruch and Daniell Sedechias his Vnckle was constituted king in the place of Ieconias by Nabuchadonoser by whom after the eleuenth yeare of his raigne hée was taken as a Rebell his eyes were pluckt out and then he was led with the rest of the people to Babylon In this time the Temple and City of Ierusalem was miserably burned by the Assyrians Then happened that lamentable captiuity of Babylon fore-told by the Prophets and continued seauentie yeares all which was occasioned by the contempt of Gods word false Doctrine and auarice in the Priests and Prophets conioyned with the tirrany of their Kings and sinnes of the people but especially idolatry as appeareth in Ieremy Cap. 19 22 23 29 32. Baruch 6. Ezechiell 13 22. And then was this great Nabuchadonoser for his arrogancie thrust out of his kingdome and fed with the Beasts Seruius Tullius was sixt King of the Romaines Croesus in Lydia Balthazar in Babylon and for abusing the Vessels of the Temple hee was slaine The kingdome then deuolued to Darius the Medean Vnckle of Cyrus King of Persia and Medea The Monarchy of the Caldeans Assyrians or Babylonians NAbuchadonoser the great King of Babylon in the 24. yeare of his raign and of the world 3362. was he that established the great and first Monarchy described with that of the Persians Grecians and Romaines by Daniell compared to the head of gold and to the Eagle flying It endured but seauenty eight yeares in three Kings and he that raigned longest it was but 43 yeares Euilmerodach whom Herodotus calleth Labynitus raigned thirty yeares Thales Clito Pittacus Bias Cleobulus and Periander wisemen of Greece are all referred to this time And it is an error to seperate them otherwise as some haue done Soloâ— being the most ancient Balthazar the contemner of God and renewer of the olde Caldean idolatry abolished before abusing in his feasts those vesselles which had bin taken from the temple of Ierusalem and making a mockery at the true God of the Iewes was put to death by the Medes and Persians who possessed them-selues of the Monarchy in the tenth yeare of his raigne There is great difficulty about this Monarchie which cannot heere bee declared The Monarchy of the Persians CYrus sent home the Iewes into their country with Zerobabell their conduâ—er to repayre the Temple He made warre against the Scythians for the space of sixtéene yeares in which time raigned his Son Câ—mbyses Daniell then foretolo the passion of Iesus Christ and the desolate ruine of Ierusalem vnder Vespasian after seauenty Wéekes were passed ouer which were 490. yeares after the repayration of the Citty Tarquine the proude for the violation of Lucretia was then chased out of Rome Consulles were created the year 244. after the building of Rome Cyrus raigned 29. yeares Read more of Cyrus his sonne Herodotus lib. 1 3. Xenophon 8. Cambyses raigned alone eight yeeres being a cruell man he slew his Brother and Sister and caused a Iudges skin to be flayed off because hee had iudged falsely Pythagoras the great Phylosopher sailed into Egypt to learne Diuinity and to Babylon for Astrologie and the course of the starres Many doo referre the History and ouerthrow of Holofernes to this time but according to Genebrard it is reputed to the time of Nabuehadonoser Darius the sonne of Hidaspes otherwise called Ahasuerus the husband of Hester raigned 36 yearee He entred into Greece with sixe hundred thousand fighting men afterward vanquished Miltiades being accompanied onely with eleuen thousand men Coriosanus the Romaine was now put into exile and Esope composed his booke of Fables Now liued also Anacharsis Anâ—ximenes and Heracâ—â—â—us Phylosophers Anaximander invented the Horoâ—oge and Spheare strong Milo was in this time Read more of Darius in Herodotus and Iustine Lib. 1. Xerxes raigned twenty yeares Hee assayled the Grecians with a far greater Army then that his Father had which was repulsed by Themistoâ—les In meane while his Sonne Artaxerxes hold the Kingdome by whose commaundement Eâ—â—râ—s restored the Common-weale of the leâ—es and Nehemias by strong hande repayred the walles of the Citty Now liued Câ—mon Aristedes and Pindarus the Poet as also Pericles that wise and valiant Athenian Captaine of whom read more in his life set downe by Plutarch Artaxerxes or Darius Long-hand helde the kingdom aboue twentie yeares Now did the ten men write the law of the twelue tables at Rome and now liued Empedocles Sophocles Gorgias Anacreon Democritus Euclides Hippocrares and Herodotus Greece became diuided into two factions by reason of a great contentious war Read more thereof in Thucidides Xenophon Darius the Bastard raigned 19. years in whose time liued Socrates Aristophanes Thucidides Alcibiades Lysander Conon Epaminondas Architas Timon Dionisius of Siracusa the Tyrant And now was the kingdome of the Sicambrians and Francus in Franconia according to Trithemius where raigned forty Kings Artaxerxes Mnemon raigned fortie yeares and exercised acts of Armes with his Brother Cyrus Thrasibulus chased the Lacedemonian Tyrants out of Athens Rome was taken by the Gaules vnder the conduct of Brennus that bold warriour Then liued Xenophon the Captaine Phylosopher and Orator Plato Phocion Isocrates Polybius Praxiteles Metasthenes Camillus and Crates Occhus a most cruell Tyrant raigned sixe and twenty yeares Phillip King of Macedon oppressed the liberty of all Greece At Rome was then Curtius Torquatus Decius Corinnus the hundred and sixty Matron Sorceresses Iadus was High-Prâ—est of the Iewes and then liued Berosus the Historian Arses or Arsaces raigned thrée yeares His tyrrannicall actions were the cause that all the race of great Cyrus perished Alexander the great the Son of Phillip then vanquished and demolished the Citty of Thebes And then were Demosthenes Diogenes and Epicurus Darius the last King was ingrateful and disloyall hee was also ouer-come by Alexander in the sixt yeare of his raigne The Samnites then subdued the Romaines and then was Ceius Papyrius Cursor M. Curius Dentatus triumphing in his humility of minde refused the treasures of the Samnites and he would neither be vanquished in warre nor corrupted with money Valer. Max. lib. 2. cap. 3. The Monarchy of the Graecians ALexander the great hauing one onely Army of
and Charles the Bald. After a warre no lesse great and sharpe then vnhappy and lamentable he remained Conqueror and reigned fifteene yeares Lewes the second son of Lotharius raigned 21 yeares hee was at continuall discord with his Vncle Charles the Bald for the Kingdom of Austrasia Charles the Bald sonne to Lewes the Meeke was Emperor and king of France two yeares Lewes the Stammerer was made Emperour by the meanes of Pope Iohn the second hee died at Compeigne vpon a good-friday Charles the Grosse Emperor and k. of France who degenerated from the Noble race of Charlemain reigned ten yeares Arnold whose body was full of vermine by the iust iudgement of God he being addicted to so many seuerall rapines He raigned 12. years Lewes the third or rather the fourth sonne of Arnold raigned x. years Som do hold that after Arnold vntill the time of Otho there was no true Emperour of Rome but vacation of the empyre for the space of thréescore yeares Conrade being the last of the race of Charlemain reigned seauen yeares Henry the first called the Faulconer whoe brought peace to all Germany reigned 18. years He was expert in Armes beganne the pence or small money among the Almaynes and subdued the Vandals who then receiued the Christ faith Otho his sonne reigned â—6 yeares It was said of him that he made good proofe that he whoÌ„ God will helpe no man can harme for hee had innumerable enemies and yet very easily he subdued them all Otho the second his sonne too seuere raigned ten yeares He re-seated Nicephorus his Godfather Emperor of Greece after hee had bin driuen out of his Empire Otho the third raigned ninetéene yeares Hee was called for his spirite the wonder of the world In his time began the institution of the Princes Electors of the Empire in the yeare 1002. This is the common opinion which neuerthelesse the learned Onuphrius declareth to be erronious verifying by certaine authorities and testimonies of the Authors of times that the Emperors after this Otho were elected not by seauen Princes but in generall by voyce of all the Arch-bishops Byshops Princes Lords and Gentlemen of Germany and continued so till the time of Rodolphus the first which was in the yeare 1280. And he saith that it cannot bee certainely gathered at what time the seauen Electors were instituted not finding any one of the auncient Authors that speakes thereof And yet notwithstanding hee is of the minde that they were established in the Interim of the interregnum and schisme of the Empire which continued twenty three yeares after the death of Frederick the second which was in the yeare 1250. vntill the election of Rodolph of Haspurge Henry of Bauaria the second raigned twentie two yeares Hee was a prudent and victorious Prince and hee expulsed the Sarrazins out of Italy Conrade the second raigned fiftéene yeares In this time the name of a Cardinall as is saide came first in vse Henry the third surnamed the Black raigned 17. yeares hee laboured earnestly to take away the Schismes of the Church happening by the plurality of the Popes whereof hee deposed three as vnwoorthy and ordayned that there should bee no more created without his permission Henry the fourth raigned fifty yeares He was present in 62. battels and great troubles happened betwéene him and Gregory the seauenth touching the power to elect and confirme the Pope Then was Ierusalem taken by Godfrey of Bullen and the floure of Christendomes Nobility Henry the fift raigned twenty yeares Hée tooke Rome and the Pope who would not crown him except hee would ordaine his election to bée without the Emperor and contrary to the order of Henry the third Now began the Kingdomes of Portugal Naples and Sicily Lotharius the second raigned 11. years being very much respected for his great valour in war his loue to religion reparacion of good laws c. Conrade the third raigned fiftéene years a good Prince and made warre against the Sarrazins with King Lewes the young Frederick the first called Barbarossa a Prince addicted to hardines magnanimity and Iustice raigned 37. yeares This is the man vpon whose ouer-much humility Pope Alexander the third declared the insolency of his Luciferian pride in treading on the Emperors back and then he began to sing Super Aspidem Basiliscum ambulabis Then liued Auicen Auerroes Mesuus Phisitions And Changius was first King of the Tartares Henry the sixt raigned tenne yeares a good Prince he subdued the kingdome of Pouilla or Apulia Phillip brother to Henry a good Prince raigned nine yeares In his time beganne the Frier orders of Mendicants or begging Friers Iacobins and Gray Friers Ab. Vspergens hist Otho the fourth raigned foure yeares He came to the Empyre by the meanes of Innocent the 3. and afterward lost it by his owne occasion being murdred in the end as he had done his predecessour Fredericke the second reigned 37. yeares being both wise and magnanimious He was expulsed the Empire by the meanes of Pope Innocent the fourth This Prince was the restorer of Astronomy by helpe of the Almagist of Ptolomy The factions of the Guelphes and Gibelines now caused great harmes in Italy Conrade the fourth reigned thrée yeares a good Prince He was excommunicated by Pope Innocent the fourth according as by him his Father was depriued of his Empire Willielmus raigned two yeares a good prince Albertus Maguus Lullius and Alphonsus King of Spaine were then great Astrologers There was interregnum 17. yeares Rodulphus reigned 19. yeares He made Austria the Imperiall seat ordaining his sonne Albert first Duke there of whom is the house of Austria desceaded Adolphus raigned six yeares He was expulsed for his vices by the Princes Electors and slain afterward in warre by Albertus his successor Albertus raigned ten yeares Pope Boniface the eight gaue him the Realme of France the Papall chaire was transferred to Auignion 72. yeares New was Othoman the first Emperour of the Turkes Henry the seauenth reigned six yeares a very graue and prudent Prince But a Iacobine frier being suborned by a Florentine poisoned him with the consecrated Host Lewes of Bauaria reigned 33. yeares He vsed very great clemency towards his enemy and prisoner Frederick of Austria restoring him to his Dukedome Now began the Sects of the Flagellanti or Whippers Bartholomeus Petrarch and Boccace then liuing Charles the fourth Author of the golden Bull raigned 32. yeares Dante then liued Wenceslaus reigned 22. yeares very carelesly He was taken by his brother Sigismund and put into prison at Vienna They were both sonnes to Charles the fourth Lithuania then receiued the Christian Faith Robert or Rupert reigned ten yeares then liued Chrysolaras Laurentius Valla Poge the Florentine and Tamberlain the Tyrant of the Tartares led an Army of a
country all about the sacred Sepulchre of our Lorde which was ruined about the yeare of saluation 1012. by the commandement of Equin Califfe of the Sarrazins and continued so ruined vntill the time of Constantine Monomachus Emperor of Constantinople who at the intreaties of the christians which then dwelte in Ierusalem with the consent of Bomensor Elmonius Stensabus Califfe or Soldane of Egypt built it againe at hys owne charges in the yeare 1048. About which time certain Gentlemen and Italian Merchants of the Citty of Melphes frequenting the Portes and Maritane Citties of Syria and Egypt and bringing good Marchandizes into those Countries woon themselues much loue and liking not onelie of the citties Gouernours but also of the Califfe of Egypt and being wel disposed christians they would oftentimes goe to Ierusalem to visit the holy memorable places and hauing no place of retirement in the citty they obtained fauour and permission of the Califfe to builde there a Church and a Pallace for their owne vse and habitation as also for others of their Nation in that quarter of the cittie where the christians might dwell neere to the holy Sepulchre There they erected two Monasteries one in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary called S. Maria de la Latina differing from the Greeke churches whych were in Ierusalem and placed there an Abbot of Mont-Cassina and was builte to lodge christian Pilgrims therein The other was dedicated to S. Mary Magdalen as a place of entertainment of all such women as should aduenture thither in pilgrimage they being both Religiously gouerned Not long after they builded an Hospital wherein to lodge as well all sickly trauaylers as any other Pilgrimes of honest disposition with a Church also thereto belonging beeing both dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist These Monasteries Churches and Hospitals were long time mayntained by the care and cost of the Amalphitanes who founded them and vntill such tune as the Citty was conquered by the Christians from the Infidels and that Godfrey of Bullen was there elected King which was in the yeare 1099. 1. The Citty being thus woonne F. Gerard was the first Rector or Gouernor of the hospital of S. Iohn who when the Citty was besiedged by the Christians was very ill dealt with by the Infidels was long time by them kept a captiue prisoner because they distrusted that he had some secret intelligence with the Christians which beleagered the Citty But after that the Christians were maysters thereof he was delyuered out of prison and gouerned both wisely and charitably the Hospitall of S. Iohn perswading and induring Christian Kinges and Princes to enrich and endow it with their liberality which indéed they did in bountifull manner so that in France Italy Spaine and other Prouinces of christendome the Hospitall of S. Iohn founde good Benefactors and attained in short time to great reuennewes and possessions In the yeare 1113. Pope Paschall the second receiued F. Gerard and the Knights of S. Iohn vnder protection of the Apostolique Seate and graunted them great priuiledges ordayning that after the decease of F. Gerard they shold proceed cannonically to the election of another Rector or Gouernour who was afterward called Great Mayster of the Order or military hospitall of S. Iohn of Ierusalem a name which continueth yet to this present after fiue hundred yeares from the beginning thereof 2 In the yeare 1118. F. Gerard departed out of this life in the Papacie of Gelasius the second and when as the order of the Knights Templers began After his decease there succéeded him by election F. Raymond de Puy who was a professed Knight of the Order Albeit some holde opinion that F. Roger succéeded deceased Gerard and gouerned the hospitall of S. Iohn from the yeare 1118. vntill the death of Baldwine second of that name King of Ierusalem who died in the yeare 1131. F. Raymond in a generall Chapter assembled in Ierusalem with aduise of the other Knights made Statutes for the Order formed and instituted a rule of life which all the following Knights were to obserue Hee was called Great Maister of the Order and yet he qualified that Title by calling himselfe Seruant vnto the poore of Christ Iesus and Guardian of the hospitall of Ierusalem This Great Maister perceiuing that the reuennewes of the Hospitall did daily encrease and that hee could not better employ such wealth then against the Infidelles by making war vpon them he made offer to the K. of Ierusalem of himselfe his strength and all his Knightly Brethren who bare in their streamers Ensignes a Crosse Argent in a fielde Gules And thence forward these religious brethrē were distinguished into thrée degrees for one company were knights another Captains the third Seruants not hauing from the beginning any other difference among them but that some were Ecclesiastical persons the other Layicks And from that time forward there was not any enterprize in Palestine against the Infidels but the Great-Maister was present thereat in person with his religious Knights who were first called knights Hospitallers or of the hospital of S. Iohn of Ierusalem afterward knights of the Rhodes lastly knights of Malta They grew into so great credit and reputation that they were employed in the managing guiding al affaires of chiefest importance Among others Gerard Gebert Knight of this Order was sent by Foulkes K. of Aniou into England to treat on the marriage of Constance Princesse of Antioch Néere to the Q. Melisenda daughter to Prince Boemond with Raymond son to the Earle of Poicters who was then in the Court of Henry King of England In like maner this mariage being thus concluded by the ingenuity of this knight at the same time Raymond Berengarius earl of Barcelona Prince of Cathalonia who had cōquered the isles of Maiorica Minorica from the Mores in single combat defended the chastity honor of Mahauld wife to the Emperor Henry the fift against two Allemaigne Knights that had falsely accused her of Idolatry to shut vp the conclusion of his dayes resolued to take the habite of this famous Brother-hood and in that sacred profession he perseuered al his life time after which was in the year 1131. Not much differing from this time it is reported that three Knights of this Order beeing natiue Frenchmen of Picardie detained then by the Soldan of Egypt in captiuity were admirably deliuered and trans-ported out of Egypte with Ismeria daughter to the saide Soldane to the place where at this instant is the church of Nostre Dame de Liesse and this hapned in the yeare 1139. In the yeare 1153. Raymond the Great Master caused the siedge to be continued before the cittie of Ascalon which the Infidelles had defended against the christians more then fiftie yeares and at length it was yeilded to the saide Maister the 12. day of August 1154 which was in the tenth yeare of King Baldwine the 3. In acknowledgement
of a prize so signale and beneficiall to all christendome Pope Anastasius the fourth gaue and granted verie great priuiledges to the Order of these Knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem the first day of Nouember in the same yeare exempting them from the iurisdiction and controule of the East Ecclesiasticall Prelates which was the cause of great troubles betwéene the Bishops of the country there and the knights of this order albeit the Pope and his Cardinals maintained them still stoutly Some haue held that this Great M. Raymond was a Florentine but the most credible opinion is that hee was a French-man a Natiue of Daulphine issued of a verie Noble house called du Puy whereof namelie â—acques Bosius the Italian who hath amplie written the historie of this order is an ingenuous witnesse Hee died in the yeare 1160. with this reputation that hee had bin a man of good and vertuous life fearing god valiant wise and aduised in the affaires of the world and one wel approued in warlicke exercises 3 After that Raymond was deceased there succéeded in the Maister-ship and gouernment of the Order F. Auger de Balben of whome there is found nothing deseruing memorie but that in his time died King Baldwin the third who was not onlie much bemoaned of the christians but likewise of the Infidelles who saide That the Christians had iust cause to lament for the death of Baldwine because they had lost a Prince that had not his equall in the world This Great-Maister Auger after he had gouerned his charge in peace and repose about thrée yeares died in the yeare 1163. 4 Arnold de Comps was next elected Mayster in his place who was a man of great spirite valour and councell And in short time after his election he entered into Egypt with Amaulrie the new King of Hierusalem who made warre vpon the Califfe of Egypt because he refused to continue and pay the anuall tribute wherein hée had bound himselfe to King Baldwine the third for a perpetuall payment to the Kinges of Hierusalem Arnold after he had with great wisedom and courage gouerned the Hospitall of S. Iohn about foure yeares died in the yeare 1167. and then succeeded him 5 Gilbert d'Assaly or de Sailly who was of stout mind and so liberall that hee flowed in bounty especially to his Souldiers so that he fel into great expences and wasted the whole treasure of the house Insomuch that hee was enforced to borrow Money at interest with conditiâ—ion that if he tooke from the Infidels the Citty of Belbeis anciently called Pelusium he should stand acquitted to his Brother-hood as indéed he did and victoriously performed his promise the third day of Nouember 1168. In which yeare he held a Chapter generall in Hierusalem where perceiuing that he was greatly indebted and had charged the Hospitall with more than an hundred thousand Crownes of méere debts beeing also much grieued that his attemptes found not equall Issue to his high desires hee determined to renounce his great Maistership which he did in the yeare 1169. 6 By his resignation or renunciation rather another Knight was chosen Great Maister named F. Gastus or Castus of whom there is nothing found that makes to any purpose of this our briefe History And the breuity of his time of gouernment was the cause by reason he was not a full yeare in the charge but dyed in the very same yeare of his election and had 7 F. Ioubert a very religious man for his successor who in the yeare 1176. ioyned himselfe with Phillip Earle of Flanders that was then come into Syria to assist King Baldwine the fourth against Saladine who had a very powerfull Army miraculously vanquished by the Christians that were but few in number in the moneth of Nouember 1177. at which time the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander the third were reconciled together At length Saladine with-drew himselfe from the Countrey of Damas in the year 1179. And then dyed Ioubert Maister of the Hospitallers a man very charytable to the poore and sickly It is saide that méere conceite of griefe to behold so manyfestly the ruine of christian affaires in Syria with the shamefull and damageable truce made betwéene the King of Ierusalem and the Earle of Tripoli by his example with Saladine was the onely cause of abridging his dayes hauing gouerned the Order of Saint Iohn about tenne yeares 8 In his stead was elected Roger de Molins a man of high discretion and courage In his time happened a great dissention betwéene the Prince of Antioche and the Patriarch of the said place and this Roger was chosen to be mediator of peace and agréement betwéene them which followed in the yeare 1181. This Roger with Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem and Arnald de Trogo Master of the Knights Templers was sent by the King of Hierusalem in quality of an Ambassador into the West to require ayde of the Christian Princes These Ambassadours were kindly entertained by the Emperour King Phillip Augustus Gods gift sirnamed the Conquerour the Kings of Sicily England and Hungary they returned back againe into Syria all but the Maister of the Templers who dyed by the way In the yeare 1187. the Earle of Tripoli being leagued and confederated with Saladine graunted him passage and reléeued his Army with victuals And Saladine hauing besiedged the citty of Ptolomais the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers ioyning together disordered the whole Army and Roger the great Mayster fighting valiantlie there dyed with the fall of his Horse vpon him and smothered in his Armour as also being much troden on with the enemies Horses His body being afterward found among the dead was buried with great woe and sorrow And notwithstanding this losse of the great Maister yet the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers won the day of battaile against the Turkes and Sarrazins of whom died then in the field about fiftéen thousand the first day of May in the yeare 1187 After whom 9 F. Garnier of Naples in Syria which was the ancient cittie of Sichem in Canaan was elected great Maister In his time was a bloudy battaile fought betwéene the Christians and Infidels wherein the King of Hierusalem named Guy de Lusignan was taken Prisoner with the very chiefe Lordes of his Kingdome It is said also that the Christians had then the true Crosse in the battell but it was taken from them by the Infidels and almost all the Knightes of Hierusalem and the Templers were one part slaine in the battaile and the rest beheaded in cold bloud F. Garnier after he had fought verie manfully yet being mortally wounded in many places of his body by the goodnesse and swiftnes of his Horse escaped into the Citty of Ascalon where ten daies after hee departed into a better life the fouretéenth of Iuly hauing béene great Maister but two months and sixe daies 10 The twenty day of the saide moneth of Iuly 1187. the Knights
that were in Ierusalem chose F. Ermingard d'Aps to bee their Mayster The second day of October in the same yeare the Citty of Hierusalem was submitted to the power of Saladine 88. yeares two months and seauentéene daies after that it was deliuered by Godfrey of Bullen from the handes of the Infidels Frederick the first sirnamed Barbarossa then holding the Empire of the West and Isaac the Angell that of the East at Constantinople Vrbane the third beeing Pope of Rome and Phillip the second called Augustus Gods Gift and Conquerour raigning in Fraunce Then were expulsed out of Hierusalem the Knightes Hospitallers Templers and al the Latine Christians of which Christians the Hospitallers redéemed from captiuity of the barbarous to the number of two thousand with their Money All the Churches of the cittie were then polluted and prophaned except the Temple of the Resurrection which was bought with a great summe of Money by the Christians of the East After the losse of Hierusalem the Knights Hospitalers were continually in Armes faithfully assisting the Christian Princes that had put on Crosses for the recouery of the holy Land and did actions of high desert at the siedge of Ptolomais which after a long siedge of thrée yeares was regayned from the Infidels by the Christians the twelft day of Iuly 1191. And in that Citty the Knights of Saint Iohn kept then their ordinary aboad and residence And in the verie same yeare the Christians wonne a notable victorie against the Barbarians and Saladine theyr chiefe wherein they were worthily assisted by the knightes Hospitallers and Templers The yeare following beeing 1192. in Winter dyed Ermingard d'Aps the great maister in the cittie of Ptolomais and then was chosen in his place 11 Geoffrey de Duisson In his time there was truce taken for fiue yeares betwéene the Christians that were in the holy Land and Saladine by which meanes many Lords and Gentlemen of diuers Nations who had worne the Crosse and gotten great store of goodes and possessions returned home to their Countries and gaue their goods to the Brotherhood of saint Iohn which greatly did augment their renennewes And after the death of Henry Earle of Champaigne the Hospitallers and Templers remayned gouernours and administrators of the kingdome of Hierusalem howbeit that by the fewer number of Christians there abiding election was made of Amaury de Lusignan who had succéeded the king of Ierusalem in the kingdome of Cyprus with consent of the Patriarch the Prelats and Barons of the Realme in the yeare 1194. when soone after died Duisson the Great-Maister and then succéeded him by election 12 F. Alphonso of Portugall a knight of the Order of Saint Iohn and of the Royall house of Portugall though it dooth not appeare certainely to what king he was Sonne He made very worthy and commendable statutes whereof to this day there are some inuiolably kept But because he was of too stiffe nature ouer-rough surely and seuere hee encurred the hatred of the greater part of the Knights Hospitallers Which was the cause that hee renounced his Maistershippe and shipt himselfe for returne home to Portugall in the same yeare of his election But he dyed the first day of March in the yeare 1207. 13 The same yeare that Alphonso renounced the Great Maistershippe to wit in the yeare 1194. Geoffrey le Rat who was Graund-Pryour of Fraunce was chosen Mayster And Saladine then dying his Sonne Noradine Lord of Alepo succéeding him About this time Simon Earle of Montfort was sent by King Phillip Augustus with an Army into Syria where finding much disorder he tooke truce for tenne yeares with the Infidels in the yeare 1198. In the time of this tranquile estate there chanced a great difference betwéene the Knights Hospitallers and Templers grounded on this occasion The Hospitallers complayned that the Templers had enterprised too farre vppon their iurisdiction with much contempt and violation thereof Which quarrell after manie rough encounters and skirmishes was appeased accorded by the interposition of king Amaury the Patriarches of Antioch and Hierusalem and other Princes and Christian Prelats who comprimitted this difference in the name of Innocentius the third which fell out very successiuely For after that God the onely Staffe and stay of all affaires in the holy Land had permitted this friendly vnity betwéen these two millitary Orders of Knight-hood King Amaury of Lusignan so preuailed that the Great Mayster and Knights of Saint Iohn might liue with him in the Isle of Cyprus where hee graunted the gouernment of the Kingdome to them In the yeare 1205. King Amaury dyed so did Quéene Isabell who appointed her Daughter Mary which she had by Conrade of Monferrat to be her heire and he left her to be tutoured and guided by the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers In the yeare 1260. Geoffrey le Rat the Great Mayster dyed and then succéeded him 14 Guerin de Montagu of the language of Auuergne who with the Knights of his order ayded Lyuon King of Armenia against the Turkes and Barbarians that had intruded into his Kingdome In recompence whereof he gaue them the citty of Salef with the castles of Camard and new castle and their dependances Hee likewise recommended his heire and Kingdome to the Knightes of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn which guift was confirmed by the Pope the fift of August 1209. Then were Iohn de Brienna and Mary his Wife Heire to the Kingdome crowned King and Quéene of Hierusalem At length in the yeare 1230. Guerin the great Maister died in the citty of Ptolomais and during his tyme all the Christians affaires in the holy Land depended very much vppon the Knightes Hospitalers and Templers who albeit they had many contentions betwéen them yet did they still agrée together in all matters against the Infidels After him succeeded 15 One F. Gerin of whom no other name is found remembred Richard Duke of Cornewal and Brother to Henrie then King of England arryued soone after in Palestine with an Army of forty thousand men and did many worthy actions there The great Maister also and his knights with him bearing him company fought valiauntly against the Corasmine Infidelles There the saide Mayster was taken and sent as a Prisoner to the Soldane of Egypt where he died and in his place the Knights of S. Iohn elected in the citty of Ptolomais for their great Maister 19 Bertrand de Comps in the time of Pope Innocent the fourth and when the Generall Counsell was called at Lyons 1245. This great Maister was present in a furious battaile fought against the Turcomans that wasted all the country about Antioch in the month of August 1248 where hauing receiud sundry deadly wounds he ended his daies And in the Citty of Ptolomais on the 24. of Aug. was elected as Great maister 17. Peter de Villebride In his time Lewes K. of France called S. Lewes tooke on him the crosse against the Infidels with
get fooling raigning ouer the Regions of Fez as Beni Zeiren did in Telensm and in Granado These two great Potentates beganne to warre vppon each other and to contend for priority of State But by this their discord the power of the Lordes of Tunis encreased so that they went with an Army against Telensi and compelled them to pay them tribute Whereupon the King that new arose from the House of Marino and had béene at surprizall of Marocco sent many rich presents to the Gouernour of Tunis recommending both himselfe and his whole State vnto his fauour The Gouernour accepted him as a Friende alwaies prouided that hee should be inferiour to him And so he returned in tryumph to Tunis causing himselfe to bée called King of Affrica which Tytle was thought very desertfull for him because as then there was not a more powerfull Prince in all Affrica then hée He began then to ordaine his Court Royall with Secretarie Councellers and a Captaine Generall vsing all those Ceremonies that the Kinges of Marocco formerly had done And from the time of this Prince euen to our dayes Tunis held on the same encreasing Dignity as well in habitations as ciuility so that it became the onely and singular Cittie of Affrica Where now wee leaue her to our larger History as also the Kingdome of Fez because the Originall of the one came from the other and therefore they are the more capable of an intire discourse which aryseth to a very spacious and large quantitie There also will we relate the condition and originall of sundry other remote Kingdomes which for the reason before alleadged are in this briefe Chronicle purposely omitted ¶ Of the great Prouince of Moscouia As also the Manners Religion and power of the Prince their ruling MOscouia is a very great Northerly Region containing more then fiue hundered leagues in length The principall Citty thereof beeing called Mosca or Moscuua greater then the Citty Paris in Fraunce and seated on the Riuer Mosqua There is a large Stone squared in the middest of the Cittie whereon whosoeuer can mount himselfe without beating down in the vacancy of the Crowne he is held as Prince of the Countrey and obtayneth the principality For very great fightes and combates the Inhabitants haue had one against another about the mounting on that stone Hée that comes to be Prince of the Countrey dooth not call himselfe King but Duke being contented with that popular name and differeth not in Garments from the other Noble-men of the land saue only that he weareth a higher bonnet It is a Countrey rich in Siluer and so stronglie guarded thorow out that not onely straungers but their owne natiue people likewise can passe no way without the Princes Letters The countrey is flat and plaine without any Mountains therefore that which is saide of the Ryphean Mountaines and that they are in this Countrey is méerely fabulous for there is not any such hill at all There are great store of Forrests abounding with wilde Beasts which are daily chased and great profite is made by Trafficke for the skinnes of those Beasts as of Harts Wolues Ermines Martines Zubelines Fouoynes and diuers others This Prouince confineth Liuonia on the one side Tartaria on the other on the third quarter it hath the Euxine Sea containing many other Prouinces to it so that the Prince can in very few daies leuie foure hundered thousand men on foote to begin warre withall They drinke nothing but a kinde of Béere and yet none but the rich may drinke thereof for they haue no Wine but what is broughte from other countries They be subiect to drunkennes as all other Northerly people are and Winter is there so sharpe long and extreame that if any Water be hurled vp into the Ayre it fréezeth before it can fall to the earth Their Corne â—â—uer perfectly ripens but when they haue reaped it they dry it in their stoues or hot-houses and then grinde it The Spring time is very colde with them and their Summer which lasteth but two months onely is extreamly hot They haue not any vse of money but instead thereof they haue Plates of Gold or siluer squared without anie marke or stampe thereon which is taken for as much as it weigheth in merchandize As for their Garments they go cloathed like Turks in long Gownes or Robes hauing narrow sléeues and girded about their middle Their buildings and manner of life differeth very little from them of Poland and Bohemia They are Christians like vnto the Greekes receiuing order of Priest-hood from the Patriarche of Constantinople saying Seruice in their Temples in their vulgar toong which is the Sclauonian Language and theyr Carracters are Greeke The abiding of the Prince is in a goodly great Pallace in the Citty of Moscuna built after the Italian manner being so strong and spacious as in our times the like is not to be found There are in the fore-named Citty as also in diuers other places men very learned and wise that did make their aboad whereas the Schooles be The Muscouite is Tributary to the King of Tartaria who ouercame them in the yeare of the Worlde 6745. according as their Annales doo deliuer their Chronologies are not according to our Obseruation in accounting after the yeares of Iesus Christ When the Tartarian Ambassadors doo come before the Moscouite Prince hee standeth bare headed before them and they sit couered He hath wel-néere daily Warres against the Polonois and Scythian who albeit they are subiects to other Kings yet doth he much enlarge his dominions ouer them Now although as we said at the first these Princes contented them-selues with the name of Duke vntill the time of hys Father now raigning yet would he néeds vsurp the name of King giuing himselfe these ensuing Titles as his Son also doth the same The great Lord Basilius by the grace of God king Prince of Russia Great Duke of Volodimeria Moscouia Nouogardia Plescouia Sureluchia Tuueria Iugaria Permia Vraquia Bulgaria Great Lord and Duke of the Lands in Nouagadia the lower of Cyeruigouia Rezauia Riscouia Belloya Iaroslauia Bierosolia Vdoria Obdoria Condidia c. By which large plurality of Titles it appeareth that he is farre more potent then some haue immagined him to be But concerning his vassailage to the King of Tartars he holdes it no dishonor to him for he doth it to this end That while hee kéepeth peace with him hee bringeth much more easily vnder his obedience all the néere neighboring people and with the power of the great Tartare he is ten times stronger then of himselfe For the saide Tartare bringes ordinarily a Million of men with him to the field al well appointed for warre with two or thrée hundered péeces of Cannon and thrée hundred thousand horsse c. Of the Kingdome of Poland POlonia in elder times called Sarmatia is said to receiue that name of the worde Pole which in that
Language is as much to say as plaine smooth or éeuen and so much the rather is it to bee credited because all the Countrey is plaine spacious full of thicke woodes and verie few hilles or mountaines in it The Earth is colde and fréezing whereby it produceth little store of Wine or Oyle but contrarywise it yéeldeth much Graine and diuers other kindes of Pulse c. Zechus and Lechus or Leschus were the first that euer gouerned in Polonia or there builded any Citty Castle They both gouerned for some time but after the whole race of Lechus was extirpated the Barons of the kingdome assembling to giue succession to Leschus concluded to liue at liberty and without any farther checke or controule Neuerthelesse that Iustice might be administred to the people and they gouerned as necessity required they ordained twelue Vaiuodes or Paladines which order hath continued in that kingdome euen to our daies but not without great hurt to the whole land For there was no change of these Officers but the dignitye lasted their life time although they carried them-selues badly in their authority despising their betters and euill entreating their Inferiours Such as among these Vaiuodes were Castillians Commaunders of Castelles Captaines Iudges and such like great Magistrates did what themselues pleased whereby ensued that this Kingdome could neuer haue any great progression in armes being oppressed by such petty and no mightie or potent Lords But in no long while after the faction of Lechus growing in hatred of the Vaiuodes or Paladines gouernment would néedes haue one peculiar Prince and therefore they made choise of a worthy and valiant man named Gracchus who dwelt at the foote of the Sarmatian Mountaines néere vnto the Riuer Vistula He builded a Citty calling it Graccouia which is nowe corruptly named Cracouia a Cittie greatly blessed both in beautie and Scituation as also infinite Marchandizes which is there Trafficked from all Nations of the worlde it being the Metropolis of the whole kingdome The race of Gracchus fayling it returned againe to the gouernement of twelue Paladines but with much infelicity because in contending for Competitors diuers factions grewe amongst them and consequently insurrections in armes to withstand one another wherby great damage happened to the whole lande Among these turbulent spirits there was a Polander named Pâ—â—arislaus a man expert in armes of quicke apprehension and one that could well fish in such troubled Waters The people reuolted all to his faction they made him their King and he was the fift Gouernour of that Prouince after the firste Lechus or Leschus After his death another gallant young man succéeded him tearmed by the Polacks Leschus the second who proued to be a man of singuler prudence but made olde with time and dying he left it to his Sonne Leschus the third This man made his Sonne Pompilius Legittimate but deuided the Kingdome among twenty other that were his Bastards to the great detriment of the Country But Pompilius being legittimate entred into the gouernment and leauing Cracouia appointed his seate in another City called Gneza but finding it too mollestuous he transferred the State to another Citty named Crusuicza In this Citty he died of the Stone according as himselfe had continually foretold And the chiefe Lords being assembled in Counsell they determined that no more of Pompilius his successours shoulde raigne ouer them but with one consent made choise of a Countreyman named Piastus one of no great stature but strong and well sinnewed This was the first branch of those Kings that continued to the time of Casimirus the second of Lodwick of which selfesame race were also descended the moderne Princes of Slesia This Piastus accepting the Gouernement tooke vpon him the Title of Duke onely whose succession comming at length to Boleslaus in the yeare D. CCCC XC IX hee was then made King by Otho the third Emperour But the Kingdome comming to another Boleslaus successour to the former hee was expulsed thence and dyed Whereupon the Polonians aduaunced in his place his Brother Vladislaus in the yeare MLXXXII by the Title of Duke But in the yeare MCCXCV the Title of King was taken againe by Primislaus the second who at first was Duke of the greater Poland and of Pomerauia or Pomerland and so continued the succession euen to Ladislaus the first begotten sonne of Cassimirus who while his Father liued was designed to bee King of Hungaria and of Bohemia He tooke in Marriage Anne Daughter to the King of Fraunce by whom hee had Lodwick and Anne Lodwicke succéeded his Father in both his Kingdomes and tooke to Wife Marie Sister to Charles the Emperour But in the yeare of Christ 1492. the Barons of Polonia at a dyet elected after the Death of Cassimirus his Sonne Iohn Albertus His continuaunce was but a while therefore by the greater part of the Barons Alexander Great Duke of Lithuania was elected who going in Armes agaynste the Tartares dyed in Vilua aged fiue forty yeares Sigismond his younger Brother succéeded him Anno 1500. who hadde the Title of King Anno 1506. and made great Warre vppon the Neighbouring Nations especially on the Moscouites of whom he slew thirty thousand in the yeare 1514. He deceasing Augustus Sigismond tooke his place and after him Henry the thirde Brother to Charles the ninth King of Fraunce was chosen and made King But his Brother dying and he affecting his paternall kingdome more then the other forsooke Poland and went into France to his rightfull Inheritance The Polanders being thus forsaken they made choise of Maximilian the second being Emperour to be their King But he not resoluing to accept it and the Kingdom standing on some doubtful tearms Stephanus Battori Prince of Transiluania being a man of great valor came into Poland with a slender power where he was created King and so continueth A briefe Suruay of sundry other kingdomes as they were by commaund of the Emperor Iustinian set downe in the Romaine Bookes de Iuris-prudentia THe Romaine Emperors in their Imperiall Titles of honour and renowne did not onely obserue giue to themselues the names of those Prouinces wonne by them or reduced vnder the yoke of their Empire but likewise of such Nations and people as lefte theyr owne Countreyes in abounding multitudes and entered vppon the possessions of others to expell and chase thence the Naturall Inhabitauntes to plant there their owne abyding by bidding them many Battailes in some surmounting and in others spéeding according to the Fortune of Warre Of those Nations I intend to speake in some measure of their Originall and howe they succeeded because at length they ruined the greate Romayne Empyre whereto I am the rather induced to instruct such as are little skilled in Histories not onelye Cosmographicall but likewise Geographicall and to shewe them apparantly howe much they haue iniured the greater part of our Hemisphere Wee will first beginne with the Gothes
chéefest mishappes amongst the Barbarians Whereupon it is saide that euen then a great number of persons with-drewe them-selues from the firme Land to the Isles where Venice at this instant is builded hasting thither from all other partes especiall vpon the arriuall of this cruell Enemie Attila Some of the better sort of Padua first began the retreat and being come to the entrance or issue of the Riuer which was then very déepe whence the name of Rialto hath remained to the same place as deriued of the word Riuealto they there laid the first foundation of the Cittie of Venice The meaner people of Paduaj enforced by the selfe same feare fled thence and began to people themselues in Chioggia Malamocco and Albiola Some of them of Aquileia at the same time betooke themselues to the Marshes or Fennes of Grada and vpon the fresh returne of Attila the people ranne in mighty affluence along the sea Coastes to the neighbouring Isles They of Aquileia bestowed themselues in Grada a place néerest to firme Land yet engirt with Waters They that fledde from Concordia made vse of Coarli and the Attinois sixe little Islands néere to one another which they gaue names vnto according to the Names of the Gates of their former lost and ruined Citties To wit Torcello Maiorbo Buriano Muriano Amiana Gonstantiaco These seuerall places where at this present the citty of Venice is seated were in elder times very straite or narrow Islandes and néere vnto each other sauing onely that they were separated by the pleasing course of Riuers which ranne into and returned againe from the Sea according to the changes of his fluxe and reflux Nor in these straites were then any dwellinges to bee discerned but onely of Sea-Fowles that flew thither from the Seas to sport themselues vppon the Sunnie banckes and Fishermen also would some-times there put in for harbour The Paduans that tooke vp the Rialto were the first that beganne to builde and it was in the very same place where the first Foundation of the Citty was laid namely the 25. day of March in the yeare of our Lord 421. and second yeare of the raigne of Pharamond first King of the Gaules or French-men in the time also of Pope Boniface the first and of the Emperour Honorius Whereby it plainly appeareth that at one and the selfe-same time began both the kingdome of France and the Commonwealth of Venice And that both the one and the other haue continued to this present for twelue hundred yeares very little either more or lesse This Cittie so newlie begun encreased dailie both in people and buildings But sée what happened vppon a suddaine a Greeke Carpenters House or rather he was one of the Shipwrights named Entinopus falling a fire consumed in a moment with a violent continual embracing 24. faire new built Houses Which when these new-come Inhabitantes perceiued and fearing that Heauen was offended with this their manner of beginning forgetting God and seruing their owne appetites They fell all to praier and made a solemne vow to builde a Church in the honour of God and in memory of the Apostle S. Iames at which very instant time a mighty tempest of raine as suddainelie fell whereby the rest of the new-begun Cittie was happilie preserued That Church is yet at this daie plainelie to be discerned with the markes and appearances of great antiquity euen in the very midst of the Rialto And it was then consecrated by foure Byshops to wit Seuerianus Bishop of Padua Ambrose Bishop of Altina Iocundus Bishoppe of Treuisa Epodius bishop of Vderzo a Priest was there appointed to performe diuine seruice The first foundations of this famous Citty were men of honest repute Noble and rich For the ancient Venitians at the change of their abiding brought with them thither their Wiues and Children with the very wealthiest mooueables which they had and so at leisure withdrew themselues to places of a more secure dwelling But béeing impeached by incurssions of the Hunnes to Till the Groundes vppon the Sea Coastes such as had any meanes or apt commoditie gaue themselues to fighting and to make Salt or to transport the goods of their neighbors estéeming the benefite thereby gotten to bee no more dishonest or vnbefitting then to Plough and husband the grounds of others As for the wealthier sort they addicted themselus to Traffick Merchandizes with strangers and by their frequent aduenturing into diuers Countries some of them being very skilfull Miners and well experienced in the triall of seuerall Dors or Mettals hidden in the ground which by industry and endeauour they found in the earth became Finers or Triers of those Mettals and extracted from the grosser substances the purer perfections of Golde and Siluer whereby in their owne language they were tearmed Orifici deriued of the Latin word Aurifex Gold-smiths or Hammer-Men that of those refined Mettals could frame Cuppes Pots Ringes Basons Ewres or any other néedfull matter whatsoeuer both for the seruice of God in Churches and Temples and for the royaltie of Emperors Kinges and Princes So that by the consent of diuers good Authours as Liuie Florus Cassidorus Trogus Pompëius and others the first Gold-Smiths Workers in Gold and Siluer and framers of those excellent Mettals into such orderly meanes for vse within the partes of Europe liued in Venice whereas yet to this day doe remaine the very best ingenious and perfect work-men for such matters according to the iudgement of many that are to bee found in any part of the World Concerning such as remained more ordinarily at home for rare and safety of the Cittie they applied their Spirites to deuise good lawes and customes for generall benefite During which time such was their due respect of Iustice and so precise care of equitie and right to all men as among so great a number of people there could not bee any disorderly differences noted Catholique Religion they so singularly commended and the daylie presence of some reuerend Prelates who had saued themselues with their Compatriots that it augmented among them a common affection to piety And their assistance appeared very requisite not onely for the ministry of holy offices but also for retention of the Inhabitants of this new Citty in auncient piety and Religion Fearing least they might bee infected with the poyson of Arrian Heresie because nothing else made more spoyle and hauocke thorough all the Prouince except the Weapons of the Gothes and Hunnes Such was the beginning of the Citty of Venice and in such manner of liuing and in such exercises shee spent her first infancy till by her Vertues shee attained to greater groweth and grounded her selfe in her instant state and condition It hath constantly bin held that this common-wealth euer-more retained that forme of gouernment which is tearmed Aristocratia that is that the most noble and woorthiest Cittizens should guide and gouerne For although it be saide
and wealth was chosen to this dignity Hee made his sonne Duke with him and they gouerned together In his time the church of Grada being mollested he sent an Ambassador to pope Stephen to accord the difference The Bishopprick of S. Peter de Castello Oliuolo was then erected And he died hauing gouerned 23. yeares 8 Giouanni Galbaio hauing bin Duke 9. years with his father gouerned the commonwealth yet 9. yeares more and after the said time hee made Mauritio his Sonne companion with him in the Principality But they being both of wicked and vnsufferable life hauing murdered Iohn Patriarchat of Grada throwing him downe headlong from an high tower Fortunatus successor in the Patriarchate made a conspiracy against them another was elected Duke Wherat being not a little confounded the Father fled into France the son to Mantua the xvi yeare of their rule 9 Obelerio being elected Prince by them that had intelligence with Fortunatus tooke his Brother Beato as his associate and Valentine beside being their thirde brother was admitted with them in the same dignity And it is worth note that of these thrée brethren Beato is onely placed in the rank of Dukes in the Counsell chamber of Venice where as Obelerio incited Pepin king of Italy to make war on the Venetians and Beato maintained the cōmonwealth raigning 5. years 10 Angelo Participatio after he had well born himselfe in the warre against Pepin was elected Duke the people being summoned to the Rialto He founded the Dukes Palace in the same place where that now built standeth The deuision of the Empire was made in his time the Venetians left in their own liberty The City was diuided into wards stréets and precinctes The Pregadi the Ouaranta who for criminal offences was then instituted among them He gouerned eightéen yeares 11 Giustiniano Participatio hauing bin an associate in the dignity with his father was after his death confirmed by the people He repealed home his brother Iohn who was then at Constantinople accepted him as his fellow ruler he made the peoples authority greater than before gaue aid to Michael the Emp. against the Sarazins The body of S. Mark was in his time broght from Alexandria accepting into his protection the church remaining at this day was cōsecrated in his memory He died the 2. year of his dignity 13 Giouanni Participatio remained in the royaltie inlarged the Church of S. Marke placing therein a great number of priests Canons and appointing a Primicerio to gouern them He caused the head of Obelerio to be cut off whom hee had besiedged in the Isle of Curtia He made war vpon the Nauratines and ouercame them In the end a conspiracy was deuised against him and being confined to Grada in the eight yeare of his Principality he shaued his head and bearde and made himselfe a Monke in which estate he died 13 Pietro Tradonico of Pola hauing carryed himselfe to the peoples contentment in the wars against Pepin was elected duke He ioyned Iohn his son in rule with him gaue succor to the Emp. of Constantinople who made request thereof by Theodosius Patricius He was made Protospatary of the empire in help whereof he sent 60. gallies Lewes 2. granted him many priuiledges in the end he was slain by a sedition in his 27. year 14 Orso Participatio hauing appeased the sedition was made Duke The Turkes hauing spoiled Dalmatia euen so far as Grada wer vanquished by him Giouanni Participatio his son whom he had made associate with him in his gouernment Basilius the Emperor highly honored him for that good Seruice and made him Protospatarie of the Empire He gouerned 17. yeares 15 Giouanni Participatio beeing confirmed in his dignity tooke and burned Comachio wasted the County of Rauenna to reuenge himselfe on the Count of Comachio who had imprisoned and wounded to death his Brother Badoario He growing much ouercome with sicknesse caused the Church of Saint Cornelius and S. Cyprian to be built at Malamocco and hauing gouerned fiue yeares and sixe monthes renounced the Dignitie 16 Pietro Candiano was elected after the voluntarie dismission of his Predecessour Hée was a valiaunt Man and expert in Armes and yet notwithstanding greatlie addicted to deuotion He went in person with tenne Gallies against the Narantines who as Théeus robbed and purloined from the Venitians Fighting valiantlie against them hee died at the second time with the weapons in his hands He gouerned no longer then fiue months Dominico Tribuno is set by some in rank with the Dukes but others lesse curious in search of the History haue omitted him because hee was Duke but thrée months and thirtéen daies and nothing is remarkeable in his time but a certaine priuiledge granted by him to Chioggia 17 Pietro Tribuno Sonne of Dominico was elected Duke He obtained of Guydo Emperour and King of Italy a confirmation of all auncient Priuiledges The Barbarian Hunnes came againe into Italy and burned Heraclea Capo de Arger and Chioggia This Prince ouercame them with very much honour and this was the third time that those Strangers sought to vsurpe on that State Hee gouerned twentie foure yeares 18 Orso Badoaro called himselfe Participatio and was the first that changed his name He sent for his Son Pietro to Constantinople and he was made Protospatarie In the yeare 920. he obtained of Rodolphus Emperour and King of Italy the confirmation of the Venitians auncient authority to stamp Monies He addicted himselfe wholy to piety and in his 20. yeare hee renounced the Dignity to make him-selfe a Monke and liue priuately 19 Pietro Candiano the second was a worthy man and made war on Lauterio Marquesse of Istria who hindred the Traffique of the Venitians he ouer-came him and reconquered the people of Capo d'Istria He vanquished Albertus Son to the Emperour Berengarius who impatronizing himself of Rauenna impeached the passage of the Venitians Ships In his time Maydens were stolne by the Testaines to ioyne in marriage with them but they were soone recouered He gouerned seauen yeares 20 Pietro Badoaro the Sonne of Orso was redéemed by him from the Sclauonians Hée gouerned but two yeares and seauen moneths alwaies in peace which he much affected Berengarius the Emperour did him many fauours for his great deserts 21 Pietro Candiano the third Sonne to the second Candiano associated himselfe in his dignity with his son Pietro at two seuerall times armed 33. Shippes against the Narentines but at the second time he made peace with them His son being reproued by him for his bad behauior reuolted from him and against the Common-wealth The people would haue slaine him but he was sent into exile where ioyning with Guydo Sonne of Berengarius hee endangered the Common-wealth Whereat his father grieuing died in his fiftéenth yeare of his gouernment 22 Pietro Candiano the fourth being repealed from exile albeit the people had sworne neuer to receiue him was made prince with very great
yeares and sixe months 68 Nicholo Tâ—ono had such good happe that in his time the common-wealths affaires went well against the Turke Pietro Mocenigo General in the Archipelagus vnited his power with the Popes The King of Naples they of Rhods sent 85. Gallies together and tooke Satalia a cittie of Pamphilia He made league likewise with the King of Persia against the Turke Iames King of Cyprus comming to Venice espoused Catharina Cornara adoptiue Daughter of S. Mark He gouerned one year eight months and fiue daies 69 Nicholo Marcello Atturney of S. Matk after some lawes made by the Correctours was elected Duke In his time there was a conspiracie in Cyprus to haue the Kingdome fall into the power of Ferdinand King of Naples Pietro Morcenigo went thither with a great Armie where hee appeased all troubles and seuerelie chastised the Rebelles Scutari a Cittie in Liburnia was besiedged by the Turke and valiantly defended by Antonio Loredano This Duke gouerned one yeare foure monthes and 17. daies 70 Pietro Mocenigo was elected Duke in desert of all his worthy deeds Lepanto was besiedged in his time by the Turke vertuously maintained by Antonio Loredano They brought their power likewise before the Isle of Stalimena but the same Loredano by his valour defended it The Daughter to King Ferdinand came to Venice with the Cardinall her Brother where they were roially entertained This Prince caused a Mony to be stamped which he sirnamed by his owne name And gouerned but two yeares and nine months 71 Andrea Vendramino had such ill hap in his gouernment that the Venitian Army was two seuerall times put to flight by the Turkes Once néere to Croya in Albania and the other in the Countrey of Friuli He was a goodly man of person and had a most beautifull Ladie to his Wife by whom hée had as goodlie Children whom he allyed in marriage with the chéefest Families He gouerned one yeare and eyght months 72 Giouanni Mocenigo Brother to Pietro Mocenigo hauing continued the Warre against the Turke in the ende made peace with him Ordering the matter so that hée left Scutari and Stipula in libertie of commerce and power to kéepe a Deputie at Constantinople Hée made Warre against Ferdinand King of Naples at the instance of Pope Sixtus the fourth which occasioned the long Warre called Sociale In the ende peace was made the Common-wealth hauing gotten Rouigo and Polesano The Cittie became much disgraced by fire and a pestilent sicknesse The Prince dyed hauing raigned seauen yeares and six moneths 73 Marco Barbarigo the Plague béeing ceased caused all to bée new builded which the Fire had defaced in the Pallace Hee was greatly differing from from all other Princes to wit in pardoning and forgetting perticuler iniuries doone vnto him but such as were committed against the State he would haue reuenged with stricttest seueritie The Grand Signeur or Turke sent a perticular Ambassadour vnto him to congratulate his election He gouerned but nine months 74 Agostino Barbarigo withstood the progresse of Charls 8. King of France when he made war against them of Arragon for the kingdome of Naples which he conquered The Turke vsurped on the Common weales of Lepanto Modona and Corona The Kingdome of Cyprus was brought vnder the tutelage of the Senate and Quéen Catharina brought thence to Venice The Office de la Sante was created by occasion of the Pestilence The Duke gouerned 15. years and 21. daies 75 Leonardo Lauredano sustained a very rigorous war against the chiefest Princes of the world there being a league made at Cambray betwéene the Emperor Maximilian the King of France them of Naples and the Dukes of Sauoy Ferrara and Mantua incited thereto by Pope Iulius the second All the whole estate of firme land was surprized except Treuisa but in the end it was recouered He liued in the Principality ninetéene yeares eight months and 20. daies 76 Antonio Grimani being Generall had a most infamous disrout or foile by which occasion he was dismissed of the charge of Procurator of S. Marke and confined to Cherso Hee brake his limitation and with-drewe himselfe to Rome to the Cardinall his Sonne where hee had so many woorthy Offices imposed vppon him as not onely he was re-established in his Atturnies place againe but hée was likewise made Duke at the age of eighty two yeares and gouerned but one yeare ten monthes and two daies 77 Andrea Gritti gaining best part of the glory for the reprisall of Padua was in very great estéeme Hee dealt so with the King of Fraunce to whom he was Prisoner that his Maiesty allyed himselfe with the Common-wealth and Brescia and Verona were reconquered Hee knew very well how to make his carriage pleasing to the Senate during the warres betwéene Charles the fift Emperour and King Fraunces the first as also against Solyman Hee gouerned fiftéene yeares seauen monthes and eyght daies 78 Peitro Lando continued the defence of the Common-wealth against the Turk with whom at last he made a peace knowing how to make vse thereof maintaine his owne charge while the war continued betwéen Charles the fift and King Frances the first He gouerned sixe yeares and eight months 79 Francesco Donato making benefit also of this peace beautified the Citty with many goodly buildings besides that of the Pallace He sent succour to the Emperour against certain Rebels in Germany The Princes of Guise comming to Venice in his time were entertained as fitted their dignity He gouerned seauen yeares and six months 80 Marco Antonio Treuisano a Man altogether deuoute laboured that the Common-wealth might abound in goodnesse and ciuill manners preuenting by his owne worthy example that vices should not be winekt at as in too many Countries they are He gouerned a yeare wanting thrée daies 81 Francesco Veniero could so well skill of gouerning the Common-wealth that albeit the Turke in his time made Warre in Apulia and the King of Fraunce in Tuscanie yet all was well at Venice and the Quéene of Poland Royallie welcommed thither Hée gouerned two yeares one moneth and twentie daies 82 Lorenzo Priuli was sollicited by the Pope to make Warre against the Emperor But hée being a Friend to the Common-wealth by no meanes would offend him but mediated a pacification of those affaires In his time peace was made betwéene Fraunce and Spayne and Charles the fift dyed This Prince gouerned thrée yeares eleauen months and eyght daies 83 Girolamo Priuli Brother to the precedent Prince enioyed those great Honours which Pope Pius the fourth gaue to the Common-wealth And all his delight was to heare Ambassadours in the Hall of Kinges In his time the Councell of Trent was concluded whither he sent as Ambassadors Nicholo de Ponte and Matheo Dandolo The Common-wealth held at Baptisme the Sonne to the Duke of Sauoy bâ— a Deputie borne of Marguerite of France He dyed hauing gouerned eight yeares two monthes and foure daies 84 Pietro Loredano by the concurrence of two others was elected Duke
contrarie to the hope of all or his owne expectation The Arsenall was burned in his time and there then also happened a very great dearth of all thinges Selim Successour to Solyman tooke occasion to breake peace with the Common-wealth demaunding of them the Kingdome of Cyprus and mooued Warre vppon this Subiect He gouerned foure yeares fiue monthes and eight daies 85 Luigi Mocenigo Warre beeing kindled against the Turke lost the Kingdome of Cyprus Nicosia béeing taken and Famagosta surrendered The Common-wealth made league with Pope Pius the fift and Phillip King of Spayne so that their Armies béeing ioyned together in the yeare 1571. they obtayned a woorthy victorie against the Turkes Soone after Henry the third King of Fraunce came to Venice where hee was magnyficently entertayned This Prince dyed in his seauenth yeare 86 Sebastiano Veniero was elected by common voyce and with such applause that dyuers Turkes ranne to him and kissed his féete Hée created fiue Correctours of the Lawes for ruling the affaires of the Pallace The Citty was deliuered of a dangerous plague and the Pallace was againe very greatly defaced by fire This Prince gouerned not aboue one whol yeare 87 Nicholo de Ponte was created Duke a man very learned in al the Sciences and whereof he had made publicke profession in Venice He passed thorow all the honours of the Common-wealth wherewith the Cittizens coulde possibly gratifie him The Seminary of S. Marke was instituted by him Certaine Princes of Iapponia arriuing then at Venice were by him most honourably entertained He builded the Bridge of Canareggio and gouerned seauen yeares nine months and thirteene daies 88 Paschale Cicogna Procurator of S. Mark was elected when he was at diuine seruice in the Church In his time there was great warres betwéene France and Spaine about Piedmont and betwéene the Emperor and the Turke for some parts in Hungaria He caused the Town of Palma to be builded in the confines of the countrey of Friuli and a newe Castle or Fortresse in the Isle of Cephalonia He hadde the honour of the wonderfull Bridge of the Rialto which hee builded And gouerned ten yeares or thereabout 89 Marino Gâ—imini Procurator of S. Mark was so highly in grace and fauour of the people that on the day of his election they declared extraordinary signes of ioy and continued them for many following daies The second yeare of his Principality he caused the Dutchesse his Wife to be crowned in great Triumph At which time Pope Clement the eight sent hir the Rose of gold In his time much ioy and triumph was made for the peace concluded betwéen the Kings of France and Spayne Vppon occasion of the Popes comming to Ferrara obtained by the Ecclesiasticall Estate the Cardinall Aldobrandino passed thence to Venice where he was most honorably welcommed with diuers other Cardinals There was such an extraordinary ouer-flow of waters in the fift yeare of his Principality that the Barks Boats and Gundeloes floated on the place of S. Marke euen as if they had béen in a ful maine riuer He dyed and was much bemoaned of the people hauing gouerned ten yeares and eight moneths 90 Leonardo Dandolo hauing by his woorthy deseruings singuler wisedom and dexterity managed passed affaires and gone through al honors of the Common-wealth giuing euident testimony of his care and faithfulnesse was aduanced in the place of Grimani the tenth day of Ianuary 1606. He had bin sent Ambassador to Constantinople to Mahomet hee being newlie come to the Empire of the East in the common-wealthes-name to salute him with accustomed complements He hath such a practiue brain and so happy a memory seated in a soule so religiously zealous for common benefite that the Senate hath referred more to him then to any other of his Predecessors The Citty hath in his time béene excommunicated by Paulus Quintus now pope about some pretentions appertaining to his Sée But it may well be saide of this Prince that against such Thunder-clappes and lightning flashes he hath shewne himselfe like an immooueable Rocke in defence of that estate in generall In like manner two principall Pillers of Christendome threatned great disaster and ruine buâ— that most Christian Henry the fourth King of Fraunce embracing those two Collombes vpheld both the one and other redressed all discontentment by the entermise of his Ambassadors and hath erected a Triumphall Arche to the immortality of his glorie This Prince now liuing happily in peace doth dayly acknowledge to Fraunce his particular affection for such fauour and may in time much better declare it God long preserue him and all other good Princes ⧠Of the Kingdome of Spaine SPaine was in her yonger daies held by sundry petty Kings and Tetrarches and afterward became deuided into many Commonweals The Carthiginians a people of Affrica hazzarding their fortune thither helde one part thereof and possessed themselues of many Citties Townes and places vntill they were expelled thence by the Romaines in the time of the Punick warres Since when it was continually subiect vnto the Commonwealth of the Romaine reduced into forme of a Prouince only in the raign of the Emperor Augustus So it remained till the Emperor Honorius in whose daies the Vandales a people of the North parts broght it vnder their command But they were soone after chased thence by the Gothes who established there the seate of their kingdom which in that kind they maintained for the space of about two hundred years nor were they then called kings of Spaine but kings of the Goths In the raigne of Roderick king of the Goths the Moores of Affrica entred Spaine in the yeare 715. they beeing brought thither by one named Iulian in very despightfull indignation and to shape out a way to his bloody reuenge because King Roderick had dishonoured his Sister or as some others say his daughter And so did the Moores possesse themselues wel-néer of al Spain seizing the city of Tolledo which was theÌ„ the capital city Thus ended the kingdom name of the Goths in Spain Nor rested they so but pursued on their conquest still there remained none but Galitia the Asturies Leon which countries king Pelagius Vnkle successor of Roderick had fled to for refuge there shut vp himself in regard that those places were inuironed with Mountaines might wel defend shelter him for some time But his successors being hardly pressed by the Sarrazins could no longer resist wherefore vnder the raigne of Alphonsus the seconde they were forced to craue the helpe of Charlemaigne King of Fraunce by whose valour and Vertue the Moores were beaten thence a great way and had bin quite cast out of the Country if the Spaniards mallice had bin no hinderance thereto Afterward the kings of Leon and Galicia for such were then their only titles being so formerly preserued began somwhat to increase in power And in regarde of this expedition performed by the French the strength of the Moores was
so weakned and diminished that many other Kingdoms were established in Spaine as that of Nauarre by Enocho Counte of Bigorre in the yeare 960. which he tooke away from the Moores and Sarrazins by a very valiant conquest of them The Son of this Enocho being named Garzias second king of Nauarre woon and conquered Arragon from the same enemies And afterward in the year 116. was Arragon reduced to be a kingdome by the Will and Testament of Sanchio the Great fourth King of Nauarre for loue to Ramyrus his Natural Sonne who was the first King thereof This was the same Sanchio who being Earle of Castille in the kingdome of Leon tooke on him first the name of King Castille which he left vnto his Sonne Ferdinand The Kingdome of Portugal was also conquered from the same Moores by Earle Henry Sonne vnto the Duke of Lorraine who held it first of all vnder Title of Earle in the year 1110. but quickly after brought he it to be a Kingdome Spaine did continue so in this kinde of State for a long time deuided into many Kingdomes And the Moores had also theyr abiding there possessing still a great part thereof till such time as Ferdinand the fifte King of Arragon who was married to Isabell the onely heire of Castille And he wholly expulsed the Moores out of Spaine in the yeare 1492. In no great distance of time after he possessed himselfe of Sicilie Naples inuading also the East Indiaes But fraudulentlie he vsurped the Kingdom of Nauar against Iohn d'Albret who was indéede the lawfull King And it is this Ferdinand and Isabell his Wife that wee may say truely the Kingdome of Spaine onely had beginning in They left one onelie Daughter named Ioane who was married to Phillip the first of Austria Sonne vnto the Emperor Maximillian and Mary of Bourgundie hee succéeded in this Kingdome of Spaine and other Countreyes beside He was likewise Earle of Bourgondie of Flaunders and Lorde of the Lowe-Countreyes in the right of his Mother In this his Marriage was borne Charles the fift who was afterward Emperor Hee raigned nine and thirtie yeares preseruing his Prouinces verie happilie And he left for successour both in Spaine and the more part of his other Countries his sonne Phillip the second who raigned thrée and fortie yeares hauing adioyned to his other Estates the Kingdome of Portugall in the yeare of our Lorde 1580. and so consequentlie all that which the Portugalles helde in the East Indiaes and else-where as in Affrica and Brasile which came vnto him by the death of King Henrie the Cardinall Hee died aged seauentie yeares the thirtéenth day of September 1598. No long time before his death he hadde made peace with the mighty and most Christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre Henry the fourth Phillip the thirde his Sonne succéeded him and raigneth as yet to this day He married Margaret Daughter to the Arch-Duke of Austria by whom he had a Sonne in the month of April 1606. Of Germany and the Princes Electors LIttle can we héere speake of Germany in regard it requireth a large ample discourse Onely concerning the Princes Electors I finde it recorded that Pope Gregorie the fifte of that name being a Natiue of Saxonie in Germanie and Kinsman to the Emperour Otho to the end that the Empyre might long remaine in the hands of them of his Nation procured a Law to be made with the consent of Otho about the election of the Emperor in the yeare of our Lord 1002. which Law was afterward duely kepte and hath béene to our time that it shoulde be alwayes lawful and permitted to the Allemaignes or Germaines only to elect and chuse the Prince that was to be called Caesar and King of the Romaines with the Title likewise of Soueraigne Emperour and Augustus so soone as his election was approoued It was therefore ordered that that thrée Ecclesiasticall persons and foure of the Laytie shoulde haue the full authority heerein with the voyce of all the State in generall The Ecclesiasticall men were the Arch-Byshoppes of Magonoe Treues and Colongne The Layickes were the Marquesse of Bradenbourg the Count Palatine of Rhine the Duke of Saxony and the King of Bohemia to all whose Successors this Dignitie appertained And the King of Bohemia was added for the seauenth Electour to the end of auoyding all differences which might happen in the election and to iudge especially ouer the other ¶ A short Chronologicall Discourse of Fraunce the Originall of that Nation and a briefe History of their kings from Pharamond their first Gouernour to Lewes 13. now raigning ¶ To the Worshipful Mayster Richard Langley Esquire Towne-Clarke of the Honourable Cittie of London THe greater part of such as haue Written concerning the Originall and Etymologie of the Name Francs or Francions who afterwarde came to bee called Frenchmen haue scarse faithfully or respectiuelie handled that Subiect Many ancient moderate Writers as Sigisbert Gregory of Tours Aimonius the Monk Hunibant and the more part of our Chroniclers and Annalistes made theyr whole recourse to Dreames and Fables because they liued in those barbarous times when learning was trodden vnder-foot and good Bookes were burned by the Gothes Vandales and Hunnes with other vnciuil Nations who quenched and smothered the light of good Letters which being hidden vnder-ground to auoid such barbarous and abortiue fury our fore-named Writers were robd of knowing those sound Authors without whom they could not iudiciouslie censure or write the History of the French Nation Others that long time after and much néerer to our instant Age haue likewise written on the same Argument by following the track of those former blinde-guides haue fallen into their errour and folly reading no other Authours but those misse-leaders neyther taking any paines to peruse those graue auncients which more polished seasons haue discouered vnto vs. So that those best embraced Authours of the French are euen the loudest lyers leauing a rooted opinion in their ydle fancies that they are issued of the Troyans and that they were named French of Francus or Francion the Sonne of Hector who after sacke and spoile of the saide Citty saued himselfe with so many as could escape the Graecians Sword and fire in the Palus Maeotides and that of his name whom they thus followed they were first called Francks or Francions Next that néere to this Palus Maeotides they builded a Citty which they named Sicambria after the name of an Aunt to Francus the Daughter of King Priam and that there they dwelt vntill the Emperor Valentinians time being then constrained to passe into Allemaigne and thence into Gaule See héere the conceite of some fond French-men concerning the Etimologie of their name which if any one should offer to take from them he should in their iudgment commit no mean crime And albeit there are many and contrary opinions in this case yet I will plainely tell ye no more
their Estate whereby ensued manie contentions among them For some woulde haue it brought into a Monarchie which is the Gouernement of one Prince onely And others into an Aristocratie which is to bee gouerned by a certaine number of Wise and discréete personnes Héereuppon in a publlque assemblie made on this occasion one among them named Charamond made a verie eloquent Oration in the behalfe of Monarchie and his maine scope aymed that they shoulde elect for their King and Prince Pharamond a man iust verie deuoute of good sorte and valiaunt qualities necessarilie requyred to bee in a Prince Moreouer hee added that if hee shoulde doo anie thing vnfitting for a King and Prince it was a very easie matter for them to take away from him the administration of his Kingdome and Gouernement because people were before Kings and made them their Rulers Nor can I be perswaded quoth he that the man now to be elected will any way fall into Tiranny or raise vs in any disobedience towardes him in regard of the vertuous qualities wherewith he is endued And from him may we well expect all such Iustice kindnesse care and assistaunce as Subiects can hope for in their Prince his actions behauiour of life being so wel knowne vnto vs. He is Sonne to this woorthy Captaine Marcomir who so wisely and happily hath brought vs hither who so securely hath heere established vs and who so valiantly sheelded vs from the Romaines threatnings when by inequality of our power to theyrs wee were compelled to forsake the Palus Maeotides Wee are then much obliged to Pharamond in memory of his Fathers weighty merites And these two especiall reasons shoulde mooue vs to receyue him as our King and preferre him before all other to that dignity euen as wee ought to aduance Monarchy before Aristocratie whereunto I know some among vs will encline without fore-seeing the harmes that will befall vs if we embrace it For if wee consider our auncient manner of life it hath beene to obey one and not many in which regarde me-thinkes that the first thing which ought to be respected in the establishing of an Estate is the humour of the Inhabitantes and to consider of what commaund or gouernement they are most capeable to wit of Monarchie alone or many-headed Aristocratie Thus spake Charamond and then manie contrarieties were mooued among them about diuersitie of Opinions Whereupon Prince Charamond beganne agayne another most excellent Oration maintaining his former spéeches againste Quadrek a great Prince likewise who defended the contrarie saying That Kingdomes gouerned by many Princes were more peaceable and better pollicied then to be subiects to one king onely After all these disputes long debated on eyther side the Francs who were more capeable to liue vnder a Monarchie then a publicke commaunde because they were men free most hardie and couragious by common consent elected King Pharamond and according to their custome placing him vppon a Pauois lifted him vppon the Shoulders of men and so walked with him thrée times about the place of their méeting proclaiming him theyr King This was in the yeare of the Worldes creation 438◠And of Iesus Christ 420. Or after others foure hundred twenty six or four hundred twenty and seauen Some say that he was the Sonne of Marcomir yet others say no. His name was Pharamōd or Waramond which in the ancient Franc Language signifyeth a man of truth And wee may well conceiue that his name and Nature were correspondent and that he was a vertuous personage considering they chose him for their king after such a great contention and withall that such as desire to liue vnder a Monarchy and to haue one King will haue him to be a good man which is the onely felicitie that can come to any Estate when a Prince is furnished with integritie and trueth and all other Vertues commendable in a Prince Euen as contrariwise it can sustaine no greater mischiefe then to be subiected to barbarousnesse and Iniustice of a cruell Tyrant All the truest Histories doo agrée that Pharamond was the firste King of the Francs or Francons in Franconia a Prouince of Germanie but they speake not of his passage into Gaule for hee was neuer there And the first of them that euer went thither was Clodion the Hayrie Sonne according to some of the fore-named Pharamond Nor came he also thither but as wee vse to say to bidde the Countrey Good morrow For hee was repulsed chased and compelled to returne thence And hee that of the two Nations of the Francones and Gaules made them but one reducing them into one bodye was Meroneus the Sonne of Clodion as shall bee after declared in his due place Pharamond liued onelye on the Bankes of Rhine without passing anye further thence it contented him to bring his people onely thither to sounde not the foord but the fortune of passage into Gaule Beeing chosen King hee conceiued that the verie strongest bonde which bindes and shuttes vp anie State for longest continuance is the Constitution of Lawes which are nothing else but a reason planted in Nature commending honest occasions and prohibiting their contraries Beside that they had neuer béene made by Lawe-Makers but for the conseruation of States Empyres Kingdomes Seigneuries Citties and theyr Inhabitantes And because long Warres as also their so recent and late foyle had brought his people vnto some good forme of obedience hee concluded to make new Lawes which might cause them to liue vnder certaine Rules of pollicy considering that as hardlie can a people liue without Lawes as the body without members For the better establishing of these newe Lawes hee vsed the aduise of foure his cheefest Barons euen those of woorthiest merrite amongest all his Lordes to whome some doo giue these Names Vridogast Sagobast Vrisogast and Bosogast Hee likewise deuised certaine Lawes which hee tearmed Saliques and Ripuaries the Chapters whereof are yet to bee seene which doo not speake any thing of the generall right of his Kingdomes but concerning the particular right of euerie one especially in the Article of Succession From whence our French Nation hath deriued the Lawe Salique speaking of the succession of the Realme of France the institution whereof they attribute to Pharamond Against which Iudgement wee will not oppose our selues any way onely we say by the testimony of truest Histories there is not found any but this Salique Law which the French doe boldely affirme to bee made by Pharamond Yet such as labour to haue vs beléeue this opinion doe scarcely know howe the Kingdomes of Barbarians and their Kinges gouerned Albeit it was a custome obserued among Barbarous Nations that their Daughters should neuer succéede in the Crownes of their Kingdomes Also in the raigne of Pharamond the third generall Councell of Ephesus was holden against Nestorius Byshop of Constantinople the fourth Schisme came into the Church Saint Hierome and Saint Augustine died the one aged ninetie
returned to him againe by suruiuing his saide Brother Dagobert was in great peril of death in the life time of his father because he had cut off his schoolmaisters beard and caused him to bee grieuously beaten but miraculously he auoyded the anger of his father whereupon he builded the Church of S. Denis in France which he inriched with treasures taken from other churches especially that of Poictiers and graunted them also the Fayre of Lendit Hee was the first that gaue any patrimony of the Crown to Churches He conquered the Sclauonians who were then Idolaters and quieted the Gascoignes that had rebeld against him compelling also the King of Bretaigne to do him homage It is said that being much addicted to pleasure he would train after him a troupe of gallant maidens apparrelled like to Quéenes By a perpetuall Edict hee banished all Iewes out of France that would not bée baptised During his raigne Mahomet the false Prophet a natiue of Arabia began to shew himselfe He raigned sixtéene yeares died of a Flux in his belly at Espinay and lieth buried at Saint Denis which hee instituted as a Sepulchre for Kings 12 Clouis second of that name succéeded his Father Dagobert in the yeare of mans saluation 645. He had but one bastard Brother named Sigibert who in the life time of his father Dagobert was prouided of the Kingdome of Austrasia and raigned there but eleauen yeares leauing a Sonne whom hee dearely re-commended vnto Grimoald Maire of his Pallace But he insted of aduancing him in his right caused him to bee shauen and sent vnto a Monastery in Scotland making his owne sonne Hildebert King of Austrasia Clouis hearing this wicked act within two yeares after caused Grimoald to bee put to death and expulsed Hildebert out of the Kingdome by which meanes Clouis remained sole Monarch of the Gaules He had by his wife Baudone a Lady of Saxonie thrée Sons who were all Kings each aftâ—r other In his time there hapned in Fraunce such scarsity of victuals and consequently such an extreame famine that Clouis to redresse it took from the Church of S. Denis the siluer couertures about the Relicks and roofe and other treasures wherewith his father Dagobert had enriched it to féede the poore in so great a misery exempting thereto in recompence the iurisdiction of the Bishop of Paris He went to Ierusalem and there warred against the Infidels He raigned sixtéene yeares and dying was buried at S. Denis 13 In the yeare 663. Clothaire thirde of that name succéeded after his father Clouis Kinges in those times were so carelesse of maintaining their Maiestie Royall that they suffered themselues to be gouerned by the Maires of their Pallace who had charge of all their publicke affaires while they in meane space gaue themselues wholly to voluptuousnesse These Maires héereby tooke such authority vpon them that the king was but as their vassaile and him woulde they kéepe in some Castle or other place of pleasure neuer shewing him to the people but onely once in a yeare the first day of May and then it was done with great pompe and Royall magnificence mounted in a triumphall Chariot and the people that tooke pleasure in such sights wold salute him onely with loud acclamations This course continued till Pepin le Bref which was almost an hundred yeares During the raygne of such Kings Paris and Normandie was all their largest demaines the rest of Oâ—ule being diuorced as it were from the Kings Soueraigne prerogatiue was in the possession of many Princes making themselues Dukes and Earles in theyr seuerall iurisdiction He lieth buried at Chelles néere Paris dying in the yeare 666. and fourth of his raigne Hee did not any thing deseruing to be written but onely kept his subiects in peace For Ebroin was so terrible he being then Maire and Gouernor as neither the princes of France or any other Straungers durst attempt to rayse Warre against him The honor both of kings and Kingdome died with Clothaire for the Maires of the Pallace pretending to guard the rightes of the Crowne beganne each one thorowe his owne auarice to debate the Gouernement of publicke affaires as formerly hath béene declared 14 Childerick second of that name and sonne of Dagobert succéeded his Brother Clothaire in the yeare 666. being receiued by the French in hatred of Theodorick who by the perswasion of Ebroine was crowned King but afterward shauen and put into S. Denis Monastery as Ebroine himselfe was at Lucon in Burgundie His insolencies and cruelties hastened his tragicall ending being slaine as he was hunting with his wife Blitilda great with childe by one named Bodille a Gentleman of Franconia whoÌ„ he had caused to be cruelly beaten He raigned 12 yeares and is buryed at S. Germain des Pres. 15 Theodorick first of that name Sonne also to Dagobert and Brother to Childerick was againe made king in the year 680. He after the death of Cothaire the third raigned a yeare and more before Childerick albeit he was the younger Brother onely by the meanes of Ebroine Maire of the Pallace But in regard of his badde gouernment he was shut vp in a Monastery and so was Ebroin Maire of the Pallace whose cruelties the French could not endure But Childerick and his Quéen being murdered in hunting he was fetcht forth of the Monastery and aduanced againe to the dignity Royall in the yeare before expressed And then was Landresill the son of Archambauld made Maire of his Pallace But Ebroin forsaking his Cloister got a great Army together won the victory against them killing Landresill by Treason and taking the King and kingdome into his owne gouernment reuenging himselfe without sparing any Hee ouercame Pepin and Martine Brothers to the Duke of Austrasia and contrary to his faithfull promise killed the saide Martine himselfe also being after slaine in the night time by Hermanfroy Count of the same country Pepin Heristell was then made Maire of the Pallace who carried himselfe valiantly in his Office and greatlie augmented the kingdome This King Theodorick whom some doo call Thierry hauing raigned xix yeares died in Anno 693. leauing two sons by his wife Clotilda Clouis who was king after him and Childebert During the raigns of these two precedent kings the greatnesse of Royal Maiesty which ought to be in Kings did ouer-much obscure it selfe the Church of Rauenna dissenting from the Romain Church was yet by meanes of Pope Donus drawne to voluntary conformity which greatlie encreased the Cleargies honour and their dignities so that the Romain Church much augmented it selfe 16 Clouis third of that name and eldest sonne to Theodorick entred into possession of the Royaltie being verie yong in years An. 694. In his time Pepin Heristell Maire of the Pallace passed the Rhine with a puissant Army subduing the Saxons and Sueuians who had reuolted from obedience by reason of some troubles happening in France Hee also
him and accompanied with manie other Traytours leuied a great Army wherein Pope Gregory tooke part with them and then they compelled their Father to come and submit himselfe to their mercy bereauing him of his imperiall Ornaments and giuing him the habite of a Monke they caused him to be strictly guarded in the Abbey of Saint Medard de Soissons His Wife they sent as an exile into Italy and his Sonne Charles as a Prisoner to Prouence The Lordes of Fraunce and Allemaigne béeing vnwilling to suffer that such shame and indignity should bee done to an Emperour in the following yeare they gaue him his liberty bringing his Wife and Son againe vnto him Lothaire chéefe causer of his Fathers captiuity was glad to fly thence into Italy The Emperor constrayned his Sonnes to séeke his mercy and then hée fréely forgaue them At Mayence hée dyed hauing raigned twenty sixe yeares and was interred at Metz. 26 In the yeare 843. Charles the Baulde Sonne of Lewes the Méeke was made King by a diuision or partage made with his Bretheren Charles remained King of France Lewes king of Germany and Lothaire had Italy with the Empire Prouence and Austrasia whereof he made a Dutchy calling it Lorraine after his owne name Before the saide partage they had a great battaile néere to Auxerre wherein almost all the Nobility of France lost their liues Which was the cause that the Normans who were risen vnder conduct of two valiant leaders were become Maisters well-néere of all France but in the ende they were expelled by the King who was â—rowned Emperour by Pope Iohn after the decease of his Nephew Lewes the Son of Lothaire In this time he became very high minded contemning the French manner of habite anâ— wearing the Graecian fashion with a Dalmatian garment hanging down to his héels beside other strange pompous attires Hauing raigned two yeares in the Empire he was poysoned by his Phisition dying at Mantua and buried at Verceillis but seauen years after his body was transported to S. Denis He raigned in all 38. yeares 27 Lewes the second sirnamed the Stutter or Stammerer Sonne of Charles the Bauld succéeded his Father both in the Empire and Kingdome in the yeare 879. Charles the Bauld had thrée sons the first was named Charlon whose eyes hee caused to bee puld out in regard of his wicked gouernment The second was called Charles who dyed before him And the third was this Lewes sir-named the Stammerer because his tongue was somewhat short and made him to falter in his spéech Pope Iohn came into France being escaped out of prison because heâ— stood against the crowning of Charles le Gros Sonne to Lewes of Bauaria Emperour He Crowned King Lewes the Stutter Emperour which hée enioyed not long in regard of his sicklynesse for he dyed in the second yeare of his raigne leauing his Wife Richeult Sister to the King of England and who was returned home to her Brother great with Child of a Son that was afterward called Charles the Simple He appointed as his Guardian Odo Sonne to the Earle of Aniou hoping great comfort of the fruit in her Womb. Hee left also two Bastard Sons Lewes and Carlon During his raigne the Normans were valiantly repulsed hee lyeth buried at Compeigne 28 Carlon and Lewes the illegitimate sons of Lewes le Begue were Kings after his decease in the yeare 881. not hauing any other heire to succéed him Some sought to giue the kingdom to Boson King of Prouence and others to Charls the Emperor king of Germany Carlon Lewes neuerthelesse were crowned Kings and carried themselues valiantly against the Normans who for fiue years space made very great enterprises on France In the battaile which they had néere to Chinon they fought manfully vpon the riuer of Vienna there nine thousand were slaine beside them that were drowned in flight They expelled also the fore-named Boson and Charls the Emperor séeking to make themselues Kinges of France These two brethren died strangely Lewes pursuing a wilde Beare with his Iaueling was shot thorow with an arrow which one of his traine did let fly at the beast so he died in the 4. yeare of his raigne Carlon died a yeare after as vnluckily for hee being one day very pleasant on horse-back galloping after a faire Damsell who ran for her safety into a small Country cottage he not staying his horse nor minding the impossibility of his passage brake his necke at the doors entrance Now because he was the eldest and suruiued his Brother the name of King is atttibuted to him as if that he had raigned alone They were both buried at S. Denis 29 Lewes the third sirnamed Fai-neant Do nothing after the death of Carlon his Father was made King in the yeare 886. This man being altogether carelesse albeit hee hadde a great number of men which his Father had assembled to resist the Normans who wasted the kingdome very much would not vse any resistance but like one fearefull and negligent made agréement with them and promised to giue them 12. thousand pounds of Money yearely till twelue yeares should bee expired Whereuppon the French disdaining to bée tributary to the Normans deposed the said Doe nothing and made him a shauen Monke at Saint Denis And the rather they did it because he had taken a Nunne from Challes S. Baudour néere Paris married her whether she would or no. To resist the Normans the French sent for Charles le Gros Emperor of Rome Nephew also to Charles the bald and him they made King The Normans kept Paris besiedged with forty thousand men who were in such sort foyled as not a man of them escaped aliue Neuerthelesse to containe them in some more moderation hee made alliance and agréement with their Dukes Which raised such strange garboiles in the Realme so displeased the people and incensed them with such hatred against him that they expulsed him both out of the Empire and Kingdome and hee dyed in a poore Village of Suauba very poore and miserably Yet the fiue yeares of this raigne are attributed to him and not to Lewes Doe nothing 30 Odo or Eudes Sonne to Robert Earle of Angiers was made King in the yeare 891. after Charles le Gros by aduise of the Princes albeit hee was not of the race of Charlemaigne but onely Tutour to Charles the Simple and he was preferred by Arnould the Emperour successour to Charles le Gros who would haue had the Kingdome himselfe During his raigne the Normans breaking their agréement made with Charles le Gros began to warre againe much more cruelly then before and now the second time besiedged Paris But Odo carried himselfe so vndauntedly that he ouer-came them manie times In this while certaine Barons of the Realme had sent for Charles the Simple into England and Crowned him King of Fraunce at the age of fouretéene yeares Odo who
was then in Aquitaine hardly brooking this disgrace mooued great warre against Charles the Simple which continued for long time Neuerthelesse at the houre of his death hee entreated the Princes of Fraunce that they should restore the saide Charles to the Kingdome because in true right it appertained to him This Odo brought vp as a noueltie to haue a great many Floure-de-Luces without any direct number in the Armes of Fraunce which continued so till the time of Charles the sixt He raigned nine years and lieth buried at S. Denis 31 Charles the third sirnamed the Simple son of Lewes le Begue or the Stammerer began to raigne soly in the yeare 900. After his Tutours death who had held the kingdome in the minority of his yeares The warre of the Normans continued stil yet the king fel into acquaintance with Raoull or Rollo their Duke and gaue him his daughter in marriage endowed with all the Land which then was called Neustria and afterward made a dutchy and named Normandy with especial condition that he should be baptized Robert Earle of Paris Brother to Odo lately deceased pretended to vsurp the kingdom and drawing many Lords into his faction crowned himselfe King But Charles with the ayde of the Emperour Henrie gaue him battaile néere to Soissons wherein the saide Robert was vanquished and slaine Héereat Hebert Earle of Vermandois his Brother in Law was highlie displeased yet hee dissembled it for an apt time and one day pretending to feast the King he entreated him to lodge in his castle of Peronne No sooner was he entred but he did shut him vp in a Tower where hee dyed compelling him to resigne the Kingdome to Raoull Brother to the Duke of Burgundy Hee left by Theargina his Wife a Sonne named Lewes who fledde for his safetie into England This King raigned alone 14. yeares and lyeth enterred at Peronne 32 Raoull of Burgundy Sonne to Richard Duke of Burgundy was made King in the year 917. This man not being of the linage of kings would néedes bée crowned at Soissons as well by fauour of Hugh the great Earle of Paris as also of Hebert Earle of Vermandois who then kept King Charles the Simple Prisoner seazing his person vnder coulour of feasting him and constrayning him before his death to resigne his Kingdome in presence of many Lords and to giue it as a frée guift to the sayde Raoull which yéelded the greater authority to his raigne The Quéene Theargina wife to King Charles the Simple séeing such troubles in France made her retirement into England to the King her Brother with her Son Lewes called Lewes of beyond the Sea Raoull made a voyage into Italy pretending to get the Empire which was then in strife and there he vanquished Berengarius an Italian Prince who laide some claime thereto But finding himselfe not wel affected of the Italians hee with-drew thence into France where hee dyed of a very strange disease béeing eaten with wormes notwithstanding all remedies applied by his Phisitions He raigned about tenne yeares died at Auxerre and was buried at S. Colombe néere Sens. 33 Lewes fourth of that name sir-named Lewes d'Outre-mer or of beyond the Sea Son of Charles the Simple was made K. in the yeare 929. being then in England with the K. his vnckle the Princes Prelats and Barons of France sent for him into England whither his Mother Theargina had carried him for refuge when Hebert had betraied King Charles her Husband he was crowned at Laon. The King had debate with Raoul of Burgundy about the Kingdome and made warre vppon the Emperour Otho for the Dutchy of Lorraine but peace being made betwéene them he tooke to Wife Herberge Sister to the said Emperour At his returne home into Fraunce hee caused Hebert Earle of Vermandois to bee hanged who had procured his Father to dye in Prison Hugh the great Earle of Paris who then held the full sayle of the kingdome raised the Normans to rebell against the King But the King drawing him to his side he rebelled from him again because he had made an agréement with the Normans without him and caused them also to alter their purpose with a fresh begunne warre wherein the King was taken Prisoner and carried to Rouen Afterward he was deliuered to the great Earle Hugh who detained him at Laon but the Emperour Otho came to his succour deliuered him Lewes raigned twenty seauen yeares and lieth buryed at S. Remy of Rheimes 34 Lothaire Sonne of Lewes d' Outremer or of beyond the Sea was made King in the yeare 956. At the beginning of his raigne Hugh the great Earle of Paris gouerned all the affaires of France but he dyed soone after leauing thrée Sonnes to wit Hugh Capet who afterward vsurped the kingdom Otho and Henry who were successiuely Dukes of Burgundy and was sumptuously enterred at Saint Denis Lothaire raigned 31. yeares and lieth buried at S. Remy of Rheimes 35 After King Lothaire Lewes his Sonne fift of that name succéeded in the gouernment in the yeare 986. He raigned but one yeare died without any heire and was the last King of the race or linage of Charles the great his burial was at Compeigne Charles Duke of Lorraine who was his Unckle and néerest Heire hearing of his death would néedes passe into France to make himselfe King But the French hated him extreamely as well because he had continually pertaken with the Allemaignes sworne enemies then to the French as also in regard hee was a bad Prince to his owne Subiectes So that they would not receiue him for their King but wholy ranne to Hugh Capet then Maire of the pallace a very wise and woorthy man Hee perceiuing that the French fauoured and affected him knew well enough how to sow both in their eares and hearts an vnliking opinion of Charles Duke of Lorrain to make him the more hatefull to them He first laid before them how hee had permitted the Allemaignes frée passage when they came and warred on France Next that he had maintained the chéefe enemies to the crown of France wherein hee stood guilty of high treason And so by consequent was disabled of any succession to the said Crowne ¶ Heere endeth the second generation of the Kinges of France in the ligne Masculine being the race of the Carlouingians and which continued after Pepin for the space of 233. yeares HVgh Capet Sonne to Hugh the great Earle of Paris possessed himself of the Crown of France in the yeare 987. He was by some of the French proclaymed King at Noyon first of al soone after in the Citty of Rheimes partly by fauour and partly perforce Crowned King of Fraunce and made his entrance into Paris whereuppon Charles Duke of Lorraine took Rheimes Laon and Soissons Hugh Capet with a potent Armie besiedged Laon where hee tooke Charles with his Wife and Children by Treason in the Byshop of
the said place and sent them Prisoners to Orleaunce where they were very strictly kept and died Capet being the Conqueror maintained that the kingdome should wholy appertaine to him because Raoull of Burgundy his vnckle had formerly possessed himselfe thereof by the voluntary resignation of Charles the Simple Hée caused his son Robert who had followed his studies to be crowned at Orleaunce and to associate him in the kingdomes regiment taking away the authority of the Maire of the Pallace when thus he aduanced his son whom he had by Adela daughter to Edward King of England Hee appointed also the twelue Peeres againe beganne the dignity office of Constable and established the Marshals of France He raigned alone with his Son 9. yeares He founded the Abbay of S. Magloire at Paris and lieth buried at S. Denis 37 Robert the sonne of Hugh Capet béeing Crowned King in the life time of his Father began to rule alone in the yeare 997. as true inheritour both of the Crowne and likewise of his Fathers vertues He raigned worthily béeing a Man very deuout and méeke the Kingdome continuing peaceable and without warre This King was very wise and could compose in Latine very learnedlie for he made many Proses Himnes and answeres which yet to this day are sung in the Church He was also well skild in Musique and would oft-times sing among the Channons and weare a Coape for companie with them liuing as religiously as royally Henrie Duke of Burgundy his Vnckle by the Mothers side made him Heire of his Dutchie leauing it vnto him by his Testament and incited him against Landry Duke of Neuers béeing beloued and supported by the Burgundians who insulted vppon his right in which attempt they foyled him and droue him to flight Hée ioyned the Cittie of Sens to the Crowne by confiscation for a certaine delict doone by the Counte Reynard He sent his Armie against the Valentians with Richard Duke of Normandy to assist the Earle of Flanders his Kins-man against Henry the Emperor He had thrée wiues Luthard Bertha whom hee forsooke vppon some occasion and Constance by whom hee had thrée sons one whereof died during his raigne In his time was an vniuersal famine and mortality He dyed hauing raigned 34. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis 38 Henry the first succéeded in the kingdome after his Father Robert in the yeare 1030. In his beginning to gouerne his younger Brother Robert warred against him béeing allied to the Earles of Champaigne and Flaunders who stroue to make him King by the procurement of his Step-mother but he assisted by the Duke of Normandy and the Earle of Corbeile mayntained his owne quietnesse He ioyned Meulanc to his Crowne by rebellion of the Earle of that place Raoull king of high Burgundy being dead the Emperor Conrade seazed on that part thereof which wee call La Franche Conte And the Dutchy béeing Roberts Brother to the King the kingdome of Burgundy which had so contied an hundred and thirtie yeares was then abolished The King seated young William the Bastard Duke of Normandy to whom he had béene Guardian peaceably in his Dutchy because some of his Subiects would haue depriued him thereof as beeing vnwilling to entertaine him He founded Saint Martine des Champs in the same place where his Pallace was without Paris By Anne his wife daughter to George or Gaultier king of the Russians he had Phillip and Hugh and a Daughter married to the Duke of Normandy Féeling himselfe to waxe weeke he caused his Sonne Phillip to bee crowned King of France And before his death he left Baldwine Earle of Flanders as Guardian of his Children He reigned 31. yeares and lieth buried at Saint Denis 39 Phillip the first succéeded after his Father in the year 1061. During his time William the Bastard Duke of Normandy conquered the Realme of England and Godfrey of Bullen was made King of Ierusalem also the Countrey of Gastinois came then to the Crown This king raigned 48. yeares and lyeth buried at S. Bennets on Loire 40 Lewes the sixt sir named le Gros immediatly after the death of King Phillip his Father in the year 1110. was sacred at Orleaunce by the Bishoppe of Sens the way of Rheimes not beeing then secure Some Princes and Lordes assisted by the King of England in the beginning of his raigne did giue him many molestations but still it was his happe to be Conquerour and the Warre of the English verie many times appointed was at last ended Pope Gelasius fled for refuge into France where hee was succoured against the Emperour In the yeare 1129. the King caused his Sonne Phillip to bée Crowned who two yeares after dyed at Paris by reason of a Hogges running betwéene the Legges of his Horse that threwe him violently on the Pauement and dying of that hurt he was buryed at Saint Denis Afterward hée had his other Sonne Lewes crowned and it was done by Pope Innocent he béeing then in France At this time were a great company of Lazers and Leapers in Fraunce who would haue infected all the rest of the people but they were all taken and burned The order of the Knights Templers Chartreux Monks began in this kinges raigne and the winds were so rough and impetuous in the yeare 1135. that they ouer-turned many Towers Castles Trées in Forrests and Mils This King appeased the troubles in Flanders Bouâ—bonnois Auuergne he builded the Abbay of Saint Victor néere Paris raigned 28. yeares died at the age of sixty leauing six Sons and a daughter and lieth buried at S. Denis 41 Lewes the seauenth sir-named the Young man beganne to raigne after his Father in the yeare 1138. He made war on Thibault Earle of Champaigne tooâ—oâ— him the Citty of Vitry And in a great â—age burned the Church with 13 hundred persons in it that had fledde thither for safety By the solicitation of S. Bernald he went to Hierusalem with his Queene and with the Army of the Emperour Conrade where besiedging Damas thorough discord in the Army hée could boast of no aduauntage but retyring thence had not the Shippes of Sicily befriended him and his they hadde remained Prisoners there Beeing returned into Fraunce hée made a separation betwéene him and Queene Aelianor his wife Dutchesse of Aquitaine and Aniou vppon two suspitions conceiued against her Henry Duke of Normandie who afterward was King of England married her with her Patrimony of the saide two Dutchies and there-about followed great Warres betwéene France and England The King married Constance Daughter to the K. of Spayn who dyed soon after And then he remarried Alice daughter to the Earle of Blois by whom he had Phillip Dieu-donne Gods gift Then happened great disturbance in England betwéene the King and his son who making his recourse to Lewes caused thereby a very troublesome war without any aduantage to either side But in the end they were accorded
and a marriage concluded of Alice the daughter of Lewes to the son of England The King died at Paris hauing raigned 43. yeares and lieth buried in the Abbay of Barbeau which was founded by him 42 Phillip Augustus sir-named Dieu-donne Gods gift succéeded after his Father in the year 1181. He banished all the Iewes out of Fraunce and yet afterward permitted them entraunce againe ordaining many Edicts against Blasphemers as also the vsury of the Iewes He did put to death the Albigeois Heretiques and them of Besiers augmenting greatly the Cittie of Paris instituting Sheriffes and Alder-men commaunding the stréetes to be paued building also the Halles for Studentes and the Church-yard of S. Innocent and enclosing with wals the Vniuersity side Hée went to recouer the Citty of Hierusalem with Richard Cueur de Lyon King of England and falling off from him returned home into France Hee hadde afterward great wars against the said K. Richard and Iohn without Land his brother who succéeded him about the titles of Normandy Aquitain Poictu Maine Aniou Auuergne He won the battaile at Bouines against the Emperor Otho and other French Lords who were entred into rebellion against him In which battell perished fifty thousand men and Otho himselfe was enforced to flight the Earle of Flanders and the Earl of Bolongne being taken Prisoners by which reason the king was called the Conqueror He raigned 43. yeares died at Mante aged 59. lieth buried at S. Denis leauing two sons and a daughter 43 Lewes the eyght succéeded after his Father in the yeare 1224. In the life time of his Father hee crossed the Seas and made Warre in England attayning to no such successe as hee expected Hee renewed kindnesse and Brotherhood betwéene the French and Germaines tooke Auignon and warred vpon the Albigeois He raigned thrée yeares and lyeth buryed at Saint Denis 44 Lewes the ninth succeeded his Father Lewes the eyght in the yeare 1227. Blaunche his Mother in regard of his young yeares was appointed to bée Regent whereat some Lords were discontented but she tooke order sufficiently with them She maintained the warre against the English and agréement was made with them vpon solemne Oath to holde Aquitaine doing homage and to yéelde vp Normandie Ponthieu Maine and Poictiers The king being in peace exercised himselfe to liue Religiously building Churches Hospitals and Monasteries enriching them with rents reuennues In the 24. yeare of his raigne hee went to recouer the Holy Land descended into Egypt and tooke Damieta He was afterward so rudely assayled that he was taken by the Soldane but deliuered againe vppon his restoring Damieta and paying a great ransome Hee bought of the Venetians the Crown of Thornes as was supposed with other Relickes of the passion caused them to be safely kept in the holy Chappel at Paris Many Shepheards vnderstanding that the King was prisoner arose vp in armes and made great spoile in France but they were foyled by them of Orleance and Bourges The king at his returne did very seuerely chastise blasphemers And passing afterward into Affrica tooke Carthage and assailed Thunis where the Pestilence happening in his Campe he died of a flux of blood He raigned 34. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis Behold briefely the life and death of King Lewes ninth of that name who afterward by Pope Boniface the eight in the time of Phillip le Bel was cannonized among the number of Saints in Romes Kalender and called S. Lewes His raigne was truely in piety religion sanctitie and iustice His youth was much tormented with rebellions subleuations seditions of some Lords but his manly yeares did disperse them as the Sunne doth dimme clouds Hee was deuoute vpright valiant liberal seuere and yet clement vsing all these Vertues according as hee knewe them to be néedfull 45 Phillip the third Son of S. Lewes was proclaimed King in the Campe before Thunis in the yeare 1271. but was afterward Sacred at Rheimes He was Sur-named Phillip the hardie and at his comming back into France he had many difficulties about the death of Phillip his impoysoned Sonne in the Warres of Foix and Terracon Vpon an Easter day in the euening houre all the French being then in Sicily were euery one slaine whereon grew the By-word of the Sicilian Vespres or Euening The king died at Parpignan in the fortith yeare of his age and lieth buried at Saint Denis hee married Isabel Daughter to Peter of Arragon by whom he had Phillip Charles and Marie And then remarrying Marie Daughter vnto Henrie Duke of Brabant he hadde by her Lewes and Margaret 46 Phillip the fourth Sur-named le Bell or the Fayre Sonne to the fore-named Phillip succéeded his Father in the yeare 1286. both in the Kingdome of France and Nauarre in right of his wife In his younger daies he had a Schoolemaister a Roman borne and a great Diuine named Gilles who caused the King to write an excellent worke yet to be séene called The Institution of Princes As the King was at Paris being returned from his Corronation at Rheimes this Diuine according to the Vniuersities ancient custome which was to make a learned spéech after the kings sacring made a singuler Oratiō to him to encrease his desire in following Vertue piety preseruing his subiects in peace and tranquility He built the sumptuous Pallace of Paris subdued the Flemings who had forsaken his part giuen aide to the English against him the Earle of Flanders and his two sons beeing then taken prisoners The King left a Garrison in the countrey but they were slaine in a commotion of the people Whereupon the Earle of Flanders hauing giuen his faith to the King was sent thyther with one of his sons but being able to do no good he returned backe againe to the King and died soon after at Compeign The k. went thither himselfe in person at the first had no better successe but at length he charged them so furiously that he foiled 36000. wheron they were constrained to make attonement and pay him 200000. Crownes The day of Coutray was afterward fauourable to the Flemmings but deplorable to the French the English preuayling mightily against them Then came the Bulles of Pope Boniface against Phillippe but they were burned in the Court of the Pallace which made Boniface to excommunicate the King but Bennet his Successour absolued him againe In his time was the Papall See trans-ferred to Auignon where it continued thréescore ten yeares Rome being then gouerned by Legates The king died at Fountainebleu which was the place of his byrth hauing raigned 28. years and lieth buried at S. Denis 47 Lewes the tenth Sur-named Hutin after the conformity of his manners succéeded his Father in the yeare 1314. and had his right also after his Mother in the kingdome of Nauarre Enguerrand de Marigni General of the Finances being accused to haue robbed the
impositions whereby great seditions happened at Paris Rouen and Orleaunce The King tooke into the Armes of France againe the thrée Floure-de-Luces onely and fell sicke of a Phrenzy by reason of two factions in his Court the Dukes of Berry and Burgundy against the Dukes of Orleaunce and Bourbon whereby many lamentable mishaps ensued The Princes tooke the gouernment into their hands and diuision happening concerning the treasure the Duke of Burgundy caused the Duke of Orleaunce to bee slaine at Paris and the Duke of Burgundy was slaine at Montereau Phillip his Sonne craued ayde of the English who presently tooke well neere all Normandy beside the vnhappy day to the French of Agincourt or Azincourt where many woâ—ull Tragedies were acted on the Theater of France by the English Burgundians and the Kings Mother who was imprisoned at Paris The King of England maried Madame Katherine of France The Duke of Burgundy deliuered him the King the Quéene and the Citty of Paris where he caused him to be crowned King and many other Citties and Towns were deliuered him beside King Charls hauing raigned forty two yeares died at Paris and lieth buried at Saint Denis His raigne was long but full of calamity 54 Charles the seauenth Sonne to Charles the sixt was made King in the yeare 142. Hée found his Kingdome possessed in all partes by the English Paris and the greater part of the Realme beeing then commaunded by the Duke of Bedford Regent for young Henry King of England who called himselfe King of Fraunce held his Parliament at Paris was there crowned king and made the Seale and Monies also in his own name King Charles hauing nothing else but the Countries of Poictu Berry and Orleaunce whereon the English in a mockery called him the king of Bourges They went to besiedge the Cittie of Orleaunce but they were thence repulsed by the French Captaines For they had a Maide in their Company who was called Ioan the Pucelle and they verily beléeued that she was sent of God for the succour of King Charles and to chase the English out of France The King after the discomfiture of the English néere to Partenay was conducted to Rheimes and there crowned But the English got the Pucelle and burned her at Rouen The King made peace with the Duke of Burgundy who foorthwith left the English and afterward recouered Paris and Normandy from them King Charles raigned 38. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis 55 Lewes the eleuenth succéeded his Father in the yeare 1461. beeing then in Burgundy whence the Duke conuayed him to Rheimes where he was crowned Hée found a number of notable Enemies both Domesticall and Forraigne For his Lords made warre against him which they tearmed The Weale-publike warre he lost the day to them at Montle-hery Gransson Nancy and Guinegaste The order of S. Michaell was then instituted and Iacques d'Armaguac beheaded His raigne was full of feare suspition and treachery which so pierced his hart that in a long time of dismay after 33. yeares gouernment he died and lieth buried at Nostre Dame de Clery 56 Charles the eight succéeded his Father Lewes in the yeare 1484. being crowned at the age of 14. yeares yet the States méeting at Tours appointed that hee should not haue any Regent Hee sustained a long warre in Bretayne which termined by his marriage with Anne eldest Daughter to Fraunces Duke of Bretayne by whom he had three Sons but could not long enioy any one of them At the request of his Confessour hee rendered to the King of Spaine the Earledomes of Roussillon and Parpignan which his Father had won Being in peace he aduentured to recouer the kingdom of Naples which he did without striking one stroke in full conquest K. Alphonsus and his son Ferdinand being thence retired left Glibert de Montpensier Vice-Roy there Returning home into France he was assailed on the way by the Romans Venitians and them of Milleyne at Fornouë where his person was in great danger the enemies being tenne to one Neuerthelesse hee charged them with such courage that he bare thence the victory He deliuered the Duke of Orleaunce béeing besiedged in Nouarre and made peace with the Duke of Millaine He returned home into France where hee dyed within a yeare after at Amboise as hée stood and beheld the Princes playing at Tennis He raigned fouretéene yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis Thus ended in him the direct ligne of Valois he dying without any heires Masle and then followed the collaterall Issue which began in 57 LEwes the twelft néerest of Kinne to Charles the eight in the yeare 1499. Hée beeing Duke of Orleaunce and also of Valois He repudiated Ioane Daughter to King Lewes the eleauenth whom hee had married perforce and espoused Anne of Bretaigne Widdow to the King his Predecessour He established a Parliament at Rouen gaue orders to the Uniuersitie of Paris sent his Army into Italy tooke Genes and Millayne and Lewes Sforza Duke of Milleyne who dyed a Prisoner in France The Kingdome of Naples was re-taken vnder the conduct of Monsieur d' Aubigny And the King vanquished the Venetians Army at Agnadell where hée tooke Bartholmew their Leader albeit the Pope banded with the Venetians against him Gaston de Foix tooke Boulongne and wonne the battaile néere to Rauenna where he was slaine by chasing the enemies ouer-far and yet notwithstanding the victory remained to the French with surprizall of the Cittie and many Captaines and great persons taken Prisoners Hereupon the Pope raised many heauy enemies against him whom in the ende hee woorthily vanquished He raigned 17. yeares and lieth buried at S. Denis 58 Frances de Valois as néerest of Kin succéeded King Lewes in the yeare 1515. This King bare such affection to learning that he was sir-named The Father and Restorer of the Sciences At his beginning he ouercame the Switzers took Millaine and Fontarabie Afterward being desirous to winne the Townes belonging to the Dutchy of Millaine and to bring his siedge before Pauia hee was taken Prisoner in the yeare 1524. and carried Captiue into Spaine Fraunce was then very greatly afflicted not only by this disaster but by a great Famine because the Corne was frozen vppe in the Earth The King was deliuered by a treaty holden at Madrill and married Elianor Sister to Charles the fift Emperour peace beeing then concluded in the yeare 1535. The King possessed himselfe of Sauoy Piedmont repulsing the Emperour out of Prouence But peace beeing made for tenne yeares the Emperour passed thorough Fraunce with very great entertainement War began in the Low-Countries which after many alarmes was accorded in the yeare 1544. euen then when the English won Bullen The King deceased at Rambouillet hauing raigned 32. yeares an lieth buried at S. Denis 59 Henry the second succéeded his father Frances de Valois in the yeare 1547. No way degenerating from the laudable
vertues of his father Hee renewed and confirmed the alliance made by his Father with the Switzers and tooke the Fortes about Bullen on the Sea by such furious assaultes and ouer-much neglect in the English that they forsooke them and made a peace In the yeare 1552. he made his voyage for Germanie to maintaine the liberty of certaine Princes who had in the case required his help He brought Metz in Lorraine vnder his obedience and at his returne tooke Danuilliers Yuoy Monmedy and other places with-drawne by his Enemies He made agréement with Pope Iulius the third deliuering Mirandola Parma reducing also Siennato her ancient liberty wherof the Spaniards had bereaued her During this time the Emperor came and besiedged Metz where without doing any thing he lost a great number of his men The K. marching into the Low-Countryes took Mariembourg Bouoines and Diuant driuing his Enemie vndauntedly before him In the yeare 1555. truce beeing taken with the Empeperour Phillip King of Spayne and the King of England which lasted but a while the French forces being in Italy vnder conduct of Seigneur de Guyse the King assailed S. Quintines and won the day which was called S. Laurance day In the yeare 1557. the K. hauing assembled the same power and vnder the same Leader tooke Callice Guines Hames and the County of Oy with the Cittie of Thionuille the yeare following Peace beeing finally concluded betwéene them by meanes of marriage of Phillip King of Spaine with Elizabeth the eldest Daughter of France and the Prince of Piedmont with Margaret onely Sister to King Henry In toy of the saide marriages and peace a Turney was celebrated in Paris in the streete of Saint Anthony where King Henry running in the Lists was smitten with the Counter-cuffe of a Launce into the head whereof he died the tenth day of Iuly 1559. and in the 13. yeare of his raigne being interred at Saint Denis 60 Frances second of that name aged about 15. or 16. yeares olde succéeded his Father in Anno. 1559. In the life time of his Father hee marryed Madame Mary Stuart Daughter to the King of Scots And the 15. day of September he was sacred at Rheimes by the Cardinall of Lorraine Arch-Bishop of the said place Thence hee accompanied Madame the Dutchesse of Lorrain his Sister so far as Barleduc and with-drawing thence to Amboise thither came diuers men in armes whereon it was called the tumult of Amboise who saide that they would present requests to the King concerning the gouernment and matter of Religion But because they came in Armes some of them were executed and the rest appeased by the Kings Edict The King after a Councell holden at Fontainebleau appointing an assembly of the States to heare the gréeuances of his people and distrusting some intended mutiny he went to the Citty of Orleance in Armes where being desirous to procéede in his purpose hee fell sicke of a Catarrhe which happened in one of his eares whereof hee dyed the fift day of December 1560. and lieth buried at S. Denis 61 Charles ninth of that name succéeded his Brother Fraunces in the yeare 1560. And béecause he was but eleauen yeares olde the Kingdomes affayres were gouerned by the Quéen his Mother Anthonie of Bourbon and king of Nauarre being made Lieutenant generall which was to the great contentment of all the States then assembled at Orleaunce The raigne of this King was trauerssed with many ciuill dissentions about the matter of Religion whereon ensued the assembly of Poissi the Edict of Ianuary the death of the Duke de Guyse slaine at the siege of Orleaunce by Poltrot Then followed the Voyage of Bayonne the battels of Dreux S. Denis Iaâ—nac and Montcontour with other Edicts of pacification And the marriage of Henrie of Bourbon with Margaret de Valois whereat happened that most bloody and lamentable massacre Then the siedge of Sancerre and that of Rochelle with the retraite of the Prince of Conde in Germany And lastly the death of the King without any children being euen ouer-wearied with such numberlesse disturbances The King died the 30. day of May 1574. at Chasteau de Vinciennes lez Paris But before his death hee left the Quéene his Mother Regent vntill hys Brother who was then King of Poland were returned to France and he lieth buried at Saint Denis 62 Henry third of that name being returned from Poland to the no little griefe of that Nation so to part with their King vppon the thyrde day of February 1575. it being the verye same day in Lent whereon he had bin formerly crowned King of Poland in the Citty of Cracouia was likewise Sacred and Crowned at Rheimes by the reuerent Cardinall of Guyse The 15. day following of the same month was he married to Madame Loyse Daughter to my Lord the Earle of Vaudemont of the ancient and noble house of Lorraine His raigne was diuersly agitated with partialities in Religion which passed vnder pretext in faction formed against the State and couered with the name of an holy league or Vnion against which he combatted with difficulties enow and diuersity of exploits on either side Vnder his gouernement was the ouerthrowe of the Rutters Army the battel of Coutras the Estates of Blois and almost the whole reuolt of France The Reconciliation of two Kings which so pressed the factious and rebellious that they had no other recourse but to a most execrable parracide which was committed on the Kings person at S. Clou by Iacques Clement a Iacobine Monke the first day of August 1589. And so ended in him the race of that Royall branch of Valois 63 HEnry the fourth being formerly King of Nauar by right of succession came to be K. of France also being issued in direct ligne from Robert Earl of Clermont in Beaunoisis and the last Son of S. Lewes The beginning of his raigne was very Thorny marked with very signale actions in his progresse the most memorable whereof for breuities sake by a person of great honor and repute were noted in these foure liues Arques Yuri Dijon still shall beare the markes Of honor right and courage in that king To whom the strangers pride stands trembling To heare the fights of Dijon Yuri Arques Héere the life fame and due merit of that great King would giue mee way into a large fielde of ample discourse did not my purposed breuitie make imbarment Wherefore with the verie wordes of a woorthy and learned Gentleman I will conclude and summe vp this Man of men this Prince-like Souldiour and Souldiour-like Prince whose Royall face was white with Time watchinges and experience and the Lawrelles which did beguirt his venerable head and tooke their roote in his Caske were gathered in the grounds of thrée pitched fieldes thirtie fiue encounters of Armies one hundered and forty Combats and thrée hundred seuerall siedges of places in all which his person stroue if it were possible
to haue got the start of his corage That the sacred person of so great a King should be vndone by the hand of an vnholy villaine and his owne vassaile that a Prince of the Sworde should be butchered with a Knife That he who had returned victoriously aliue from the heade of so manie Armies where death kept his open Shambles should bee robbed of his life by the hand of onely one and in the peacefull stréetes of Paris which were as yet euen warme with the glorie of his Quéenes Coronation perfourmed but the day before Is such a villanie as excéeds if it were possible the iust merrit of damnation and that two Kings of one Kingdome shoulde one after the other be so shamefully murdred the one by a Iacobine Frier the other sometimes of the Feliants Order is such an indelible blot on the brow of Fraunce as the vtmost date of time can neuer wipe off nor any Penne sufficientlie expresse the sorrowe fitting a Theame so vnpleasing 64 Lewes the thirteenth of that Name elbest Sonne to King Henry the fourth and Maria de Medices his Quéene being then scarcelie tenne yeares olde succeeded his Father in the Kingdomes Dignitie but the Queene his Mother was proclaimed Regent May hee long liue heire vnto his Fathers Fame and Heroycall vertues but defended by the hand of heauen from his fate and hard Fortune as all Christian Princes else I pray to God may be likewise preserued A Briefe Chronologicall Suruay concerning the Netherlands deuided into 17. prouinces with a Breuiate of the Earles and Princes there raigning from Thierrie who was the first Earle of Holland and Zeland to this instant time COncerning the Originall of the people inhabiting these countries we finde that two Brethren sons to the King of Cathes the one being named Battus or Batton the other Zelandus were the first Fathers of them and that from them they deriued theyr names For these two Princes being too extreamly pursued by the hatred of a Stepmother no way pittied or supported by the King their father escaping many traines and machinations of poysoning murthering and diuers other dangers by her daily deuised put in practise against them were forced to forsake their natiue abiding flie to an Island within the Rhine where Battus determining to make his stay called it Battauia after his owne name that is in plainer vnderstanding Holland Zelandus not liking to liue so néere or with his Brother least pursute should surprize them both reuenge there fasten which in more desperate place they had auoided he trauailed on to the vttermost couâ—nes of the Rhine and liking there to set down his rest imitated his Brothers example in styling the Country and called it Zeland Concerning their building of Citties Townes Castles and Fortes which afterward came to be ruined and defaced againe by wars with the Romans Saxons Gauls Danes c. or to what order of life the people disposed theÌ„selues and thorough how many and infinite encumbrances from their originall they passed for no meane store of years together these are matters méerely exempt from our intended breuitie and may more amply be séen in the history at large whereunto I referre any such desirous Reader and borrowing fauour for so large a leape I instantly procéede to the yeare 863. when Holland first became to be an Earledome In the yeare before mentioned Charles the Bald King of France at Bladell in the Prouince of Campeigne hauing there in his company a general assembly of his Princes and Barons for consultation of many important matters pleased to aduance the two Sons of Count Haghen who was Vnckle to the King for their great deseruinges and for the farther encouragement of the like vertuous minded Gentlemen Walger who was the eldest Sonne hee made Earle of Teysterbaudt and Thierrie the youngest Sonne or Theodor as some tearme him being formerly called Thierrie of Aquitaine hee made Earle of Holland This gift of the Kings especially that to Thierry was much withstood by the Frizelanders as scorning to be commanded by any new Lorde or Ruler wherfore they consulted with the Hollanders and a plot was layde to expell this newe Earle But it proued to no effect for the King comming thither in person with a powerfull army made such an example on the Ring-leaders in this Rebellion that the rest in great humility submitted themselues casting their weapons not onely at the Kinges féete but likewise at the Earles and vppon pardon they vowed theyr continuall bounden dutie to Thierrie His authority was then further strengthened in the yeare 868. by the Letters Patents of King Charles as also by them of Lewes King of Germany confirming him to be Earle of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland This Thierrie maried Genna or Ienna Daughter to Pepin the Bald king of Italy Sonne to the Emperor Charlemaigne He woorthily foiled the Danes that then possessed the Towne of Vtrecht the Wiltes and the Slaues disabling them from any further footing in Holland which made them presume to meddle in Zeland but thence they were repulsed likewise By which meanes he remained afterward in peace beautifying his Countries both wyth fayre buildings and good Lawes Hee dyed verie old hauing raigned forty yeares and after him succéeded 2 Thierrie his Sonne second of that name Earle of Holland Zeland and Lorde of Frizeland who married with Hildegarde Daughter to King Lewes of France the Stammerer and Sister to King Charles the Simple The Frizelanders did twice reuolt from their obedience and would not allow Earle Thierrie to be their Lord but slew very many of them that obeyed the Earle wasting spoiling and burning all the way as they went But at length they were iustly repayed for their insolency and such a slaughter was made of the Frysons without any merrie that few or none of them returned home to their dwellings Afterward he forced them to make the doores of entrance into their houses so low and narrow that they must stoope very lowe before they could get in and this he did to make them the more humble and seruile receiuing a new Oath of allegeance of them And hauing raigned about fiftie yeares beeing then aged 88. yeares olde he dyed leauing two Sonnes behinde him the eldest whereof being named Egbert became Arch-Bishop of Treues and Arnold his yongest Sonne succéeded him 3 Arnolde or as others will haue it Arnulph youngest Sonne to Earle Thierrie followed in rule as his Fathers Successour But hee helde the Earledomes of Holland Zeland and Lordshippe of Frizeland no longer of the Crowne of France but of Otho the third Emperor and so became in fée to the Empyre A verie fearful Comet appeared in his time with strange Ecclipses both of the Sunne and Moone being as red as blood and terrible Earth-quakes a fire also fell from Heauen in similitude like an huge Tower burning for a long time after which ensued so violent
Brother Floris the Blacke Prince enuying the happinesse quiet of Thierrie went and tooke part with them against him vntill such time as the Emperor Lotharius beeing their Vnckle had reconciled them and made them friends Conrade being ioyned as competitor in the Empire with Lotharius caused a fresh quarrell betwéen Thierrie and the Bishop of Vtrecht he ratifying the former grant of Henry which caused very long contention and much blood to be shed on either side Thierrie hauing gouerned his countries of Holland Zeland and Frizeland 40. yeares died in An. 1163. and lieth buried in the Abbey of Egmont 13 Floris the third eldest Son of Earle Thierrie as Heire to his Father inherited his right in Holland Zeland and Frizeland The Frizons pretending their former fréedomes and imperial liberties made still their reuoltes from time to time imboldned thereto by the often suggestions of Godfrey of Rhemen Bishop of Vtrecht who as his predecessors had done before him still questioned the Earledomes of Ostergo Westergoe in Frizeland but the Emperor Frederick went himselfe in person made an agréement in writing betwéene them Al which notwithstanding much hurt was doone on either side as time and treachery fitted them with apt opportunity A great controuersie hapned between the Earles of Holland Flanders for the Isle of Walchren and Count Floris in triall of fight became Prisoner to the Earle of Flanders who neuerthelesse vsed him princely and they being accorded by the Archbishop of Cullen and the Bishoppe of Liege the great hole néere to the Dam or Sluce was recouered with much adoe by casting a Dogge-Fish thereinto spéedy filling it vp with earth whereon they named it Hondâ—dam that is Dogs-sluce This Earle Floris assisting the Emperor Frederick Phillip King of France Richard K. of England with many other Dukes Christian Princes Earles at the siedge of Damieta in Soâ—ia fel there sick in the Army and died in the year 1208 hauing gouerned his Prouinces 27. yeares 14 Thierrie the seauenth hearing of his Fathers death in Palestine succéeded as his heire in all his Earledomes The whole time of his regiment was in warre and continual combustions First by his Brother Lord William of Holland who was with his Father Floris in Palestine performed there many honourable seruices thorow diuers disagréements that happened betwéene them notwithstanding as many labored reconcilings and pacifications Next Baldwin Earle of Flanders he was as molestuous to him likewise for the Isle of Walchien besides the Frizons rebellions and his trouble with the Bishops of Cologne and Liege as also his imprisonment to the Duke of Brabant and then the intrusion of the Bishop of Vtrecht after which ensued a peace vnited amity on all sides This Count Thierrie had no heirs male but two beautifull daughters Adella married to Henry of Gueldres who died without any Children and Ada meanely married by her Mother afâ—er her Fathers death to Count Lewes of Loos that so the gouernment might be disposed at her pleasure In the year 1203 Earle Thierry died hauing gouerned his Countries 1.3 yeares and lieth buried in the Abbay of Egmont 15 Ada daughter to Earl Thierry was Countesse of Holland Zeland after her fathers death which moued a great hart-burning in the Lordes Gentlemen that they should liue vnder a Woman and a poore Earls command Therfore they sent into Frizeland for Count. William protesting to assist him in attaining the gouernment of Holland The young Countesse Ada was surprised in their first attempt and her husband the Earle of Loos driuen to flight who yet won the Bishop of Vtrecht by Money and other promises to aide him and by this meanes he had some small successe for a while But the Countesse Ada dying without any Children Earle William was then the true and onely Heire to Holland and Zeland in which right of his he went with his power against the Earle of Loos and such was his successe that the Women did beat his Enemies with Distaues and Stones they beeing glad to cast away their Armour for lightnesse to saue themselues by flight yet many were drowned in the Ditches and a great number taken Prisoners with all the Earle of Loos Tentes Pauillions Plate Iewels and Munition which Count VVilliam royally deuided among his Hollanders remaining absolute Prince of Holland Zeland and Frizeland 16 William first of that Name succéeded rightfully in all his Earledomes by the death of his Néece the young Countesse Ada. Hee had some strife with Didier Byshop of Vtretcht and Gerard Vander Are his Brother but vpon certaine Articles al displeasures were qualified By his first wife Alix daughter to the Earle of Gueldres he had Floris that next succéeded him Otho bishop of Vtretcht William Lieutenant of Holland and two Daughters the one was Abbesse at Rhynsbourg and the other at Delfte His second wife was named Mary Daughter to Edmund of Lancaster son to Henry the third K. of England by whom he had no issue He gouerned 19. yeares dying lieth buried at Rhynsbourg 17 Floris the fourth succéeded his Father Count William in his Earledomes Hee tooke great delight in Iusts and Turnaments and the Earl of Clermont proclaiming a publicke Triumph for all commers at the Countesse his Wiues request who greatly desired to sée this Floris of whom she had heard much fame and commendation this honourable Earle of Holland Zeland c. was there treacherously slaine onely thorough the iealous suspition of the olde Earle of Clermont who was there likewise presently slaine himself and the Countes grieuing for this great mishap dyed soone after This Count Floris hadde a Daughter named Mathilde or Margaret as some call her who was married to Count Herman of Henneberg She despising a poore Widdow that desired her almes vpon vrgent necessity holding in either arme a swéete young childe both which God hath sent her at one birth gaue her uery reproachfull words beside as that shee could not be honest of her bodie and by her husband haue two children lawfully begotten The poore Woman grieuing to be reiected in such extreame want and néede but much more to heare her reputation so néerely touched knowing her soule cleare from all dishonest detection made no further suite to the Lady but falling vppon her knées appealed to God for defence of her Innocency and earnestly desired that as shee had conceiued borne those two infants lawfully by her husband euen so if euer that Lady should be subiect to the custom of women that it would please him to send hir as many children at one birth as there were daies in the years Not long after the Lady conceiued with child by her husband for hir deliuerance went into Holland to visit the earl hir brother taking vp lodging in the Abbey of religious women at Losdunen and grew so excéeding great as the like had neuer before bin séene
Prinâ—es in hope of his daughters mariage The French K. and the duke sought to deceiue each other and the Constable of S. Paul waxing hatefull to them both they resolued his ruine and on a truce taken for 9. years betwéen the King and Duke the Constable was beheaded at Paris The Duke warred against the Swisses and was defeated by them both at Granson and Morat wherewith the Swisses were enriched The Duke besiedged Nancie and was there slain in battel by the Treason of the Earle of Campobachio an Italian where being engirt with a great troupe of Lanciers he receiued thrée wounds one in the head the second in the thigh and the third in the fundament He left one onlie Daughter and heire 32 Mary Daughter and Heire to Duke Charles the warlike Duke of Bourgogne succéeded her Father in al his Countries being but 18. yeares old when he was slaine before Nancy wherefore shee remained vnder the charge of the Duke of Cleues and his Brother the Lord of Rauestein The French King seized Piccardie and Arthois she happening into the Ganthois power endured much trouble by putting her chiefest seruants and Councellers to death the Flemings were defeated and the young Duke of Gueldres slaine Afterward a marriage was concluded betwéene Maximilian Arch-duke of Austria Son to the Emperor Frederick and the Lady Marie of Bourgogne albeit shee would more gladly haue matched with the house of France 33 Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria and Son to the Emperour Fredericke marrying the Princesse Mary of Bourgogne was thereby wedded to much war and trouble For first the Gueldres reuolted from the house of Bourgogne Next happened the battel of Guinegate wherein the Arch-Duke was the Conquerour Then Turnay yéelded to him truce was taken betwéen him and the French King and the new tumults of the Cabillaux and Hoecks were likewise by him pacified Dordrecht was surprized by the young Lord of Egmont also many Townes in Guelders yéelded to the Arch-Duke and not long after followed the death of the Arch-Dutchesse Mary who had the first yeare of her mariage a Sonne named Phillip Father to Charls the fift the second yeare a Daughter called Margaret betroathed in her infancye to Charles the Dolphin of France Sonne to King Lewes 11. and the third year a Sonne named Frances according to the name of Fraunces Duke of Brittaine his Godfather Maximilian beeing chosen King of the Romaines he made Engelbert Earl of Nassau Gouernour of the Netherlands in his absence And afterward vpon the bold insolency of the Ganthois and Bâ—ugois kéeping the King of Romaines prisoner Albert Duke of Saxonie was made second Gouernor of the Netherlands and General for the Emperor Frederick against the Flemings But Frederick dying his Sonne Maximilian succeeded him in the Empire by which meanes Phillip of Austria son to the said Maximilian inherited his right in Holland Zeland Frizeland c. 34 Phillip second of that name being but 16. yeares olde and succeeding his father Maximilian Emperor in the Netherlands had these Titles Phillippe Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Bourgogne Lothier Brabant Styria Carinthia Lembourg Luxembourg and Guelders Earle of Haspourg Flaunders Arthois Bourgogne Ferrette and Kiburch Palatine of Henault Holland Zeland Namur and Zutphen Marquesse of the Holie Empyre and of Bourgan Landtgraue of Elsaten Lorde of Windismarke Portenau Salynes and Macklyn Vpon his full possession of the Netherlandes peace was made betwéen him Charles the 8. King of France warre happening betwixt the Arch-duke and the Duke of Guelders great inconueniences followed thereon but Duke Albert beeing slaine before Groningen the Arch-Duke inherited the realme of Spain by his wife being made King of Castile and George Duke of Saxonie being then made gouernor of the Netherlands for the Arch-Duke Phillip continued the warres in Frizeland For vpon the death of Isabell Q. of Castile Iane her daughter being onely heyre and married to the Arch-Duke Phillip she héerby inuested him in the Realmes of Spain Leon Granado c. as absolute King But he enioyed that dignity not long for in the yeare 1506. the 27. of September hee died suddenly in the Citty of Bourgos suspected to be poysoned After the death of Phillip King of Castile the Emperour Maximilian tooke vppon him the gouernement of the Netherlandes as Guardian vnto Charles and Ferdinand his Grand-children being the Sons of Phillip and Iane King Quéen of Castille 35 Charles of Austria second of that name succéeded rightfully in all his Fathers Landes and Seigneuries and by the Emperors appointment his daughter the Ladye Margaret Dowager of Sauoy and Aunt to the Princes Charles and Ferdinand was Regent of the low countries Afterwarde Prince Charles tooke possession of the Netherlands and being crowned K. of Spain and Arragon soone after followed the death of the Emperor Maximilian and in an assemblye at Francfort for choise of a new Emperor Charles King of Spaine had frée election by the name of Charles the fift Then was Ladye Margaret Widdow both of Castile and Sauoy and Aunt to the Emperour Charles accepted as sole Gouernesse of the Netherlandes in her Nephewes absence Troubles happened in Spaine by reason of the Kings departure thence and not onelie warre in Frizeland but likewise betweene the French and Bourguignons as also the warre of Boores or Peazants in Germany and the Groningeois reiecting the Du. of Guelders did yeild themselues to the Emperor then hapned the 2. bloody edict froÌ„ the Emp. against the Netherland protestants then was the imperial diet at Ausbourg wher the protestant princes presented the confession of their faith After followed the deuouring inundation in the Netherlands the death of the Lady dowager Margaret whereby Mary of Austria 2. daughter to K. Phillip and Q. Iane of Castile succéeded in the gouernment of the Netherlands Warre happened betwéene the Emperor and the French King but vppon the comming of Quéene Elenor of Fraunce to the Emperor her Brother peace was concluded betwixte them 36 While Mary of Austria gouerned the Netherlands for the Emperor Charles her brother great troubles happened to the Protestantes by opposition of the Pope and Emperour againste them The Emperor affected the Empyre for Prince Phillip his Sonne which bred a quarrel betwixt the Emperor and his brother Ferdinand King of Hungary to whome the Princes of the Empire were more enclined then to Phillip and then the Protestantes denied their comming to the Counsell of Trent Phillip King of Spaine married Mary Quéene of England And not long after the Emperor resigned the Netherlands to his Sonne King Phillip whereby he was reckoned the 36. Earle of Holland Zeland c. and the Empire to his Brother Ferdinand K. of the Romans and Hungary departing out of the Netherlands to end his daies quietly in a Monastery not far from Placentia He reserued 100000 Crownes yearely to himselfe employing
was also yeelded vp after it hadde endured 17000. Cannon shot and more Beside vpon some discontentment betwéene the Earle of Leicester and the States the Quéene called home the said Earle into England and the Lord Willoughby remayned there Generall of the English forces The sundry worthy seruices both by him and the English performed with the Spanish vndoubted hopes of Englands coÌ„quest in the dreadfull yeare of 1588. Prince Maurice his entrance into the Netherlands regiment and the Duke of Parmaes wars in France all these I passe ouer referring such as desire farther satisfaction therein to the large History of the Netherlands The Prince of Parma dying at Artas after his retreate from Rouen the second of September 1592. Maurice of Nassan borne Prince of Orange Marquesse of La Vere and of â—ing c. was made great Captaine and Admirall Generall of the vnited Prouinces of the Lowâ—countries by the Estates And Ernestus Arch-duke of Austria was also made Lieutenant Gouernour and Captaine Generall for Phillip King of Spaine Prince Maurice proouing very successefull in his warlike artemptes a Renegate or Apostat Priest in the habite of a Souldier was corrupted by the Arch-Duke Ernestus to murther the Prince Maurice at Breda and vppon his owne confession thereof hée was executed at the Hage Afterward vppon Prince Maurice his valiant surprisall of Gronning Ernestus hadde dealt in like manner with a Souldier named Peter du Four who had sometime serued in the company of the Guarde to Prince Maurice â—o vndertake the murdering of him at Lillo the which treason beeing confessed by the man himselfe he was executed in the Towne of Berghen vp-zoom Here might much be said of the honorable seruices of Sir Frances Vere and others but our purposed breuity is the onely imbarment and the Netherlandes History at large may thereof discharge me The Arch-Duke Ernestus dyed the twenty one day of February 1595. Moâ—dragons forces defeated by Prince Maurice and La Motte slaine before Dourlaus the Estates vnder the King of Spaine gladly sought peace with the vnited Prouinces and sent Articles in writing to Prince Maurice for consideration of their motion This was not done but vppon good aduise in the King of Spaine perceyuing the Netherlandes and Prince Maurice his great fortunes against him adding euery daie more and more to his vtter abolition thence Hereupon Albertus the Cardinall Brother to deceased Ernestus Arch-Duke of Austria was sent by the King to gouerne there for him many Easterlings and Netherland ships which had bin staied in Spain to méet the Indian fléete were suddenly released and Phillip of Nassau who is now Prince of Orange and Earle of Buron that had long time béene restrained of his liberty in Spain for better countenancing the intended businesse he likewise was sent along with the Cardinall Albertus The Cardinall being made Gouernour for the King de Spaine tooke Callice from the French King as his first peece of seruice but for losse thereof he recouered La-fere from the Spaniards Whereuppon the Cardinall besiedged Hulst in Flanders which yeilded in the end but it was a deare purchase to the Cardinall for this siedge continuing some two months cost him the liues of aboue threescore valiant Captaines besides other Commanders Collonels and men of mark and â—bouâ— fiue thousand well approued souldiers Then did the king of Spaine dispense with himselfe for payment of his debtes which made many Merchants in Spaine Italy Antwerp Amsterdam and Middlebourg to become Banquerouts A league was made betwéen the French King the Quéene of England and the States against the Spaniardes and then did Prince Maurice goe to Tournhoult where the Earle of Varax was slaine Amiens also was surprised by the Spaniardes but soone besiedged and recouered by the French King albeit the Cardinall offered succour which prooued in vaine Prince Maurice besiedged and tooke the Townes of Alpen Meurs Rhinberg Groll Brefort Enscheyde Oldenzeel Otmarsom Goor and Lingen all which seruices he performed in thrée monthes Then hapned another treacherous plot against the life of Prince Maurice by perswasion of the Iesuites at Doway and vnder-taken by Peter Panne a Cooper by Trade but beeing then a Broaker or Banquerout Merchant who hauing receiued the Sacrament to performe the déede either with Knife Ponyard or Pistoll the Prouinciall of the Iesuites made a long Sermon to encourage him in the action and assuring him of Paradice if he performed it vsed these wordes to him besides Goe in peace for thou shalt go like an Angell in the guard of God But the man beeing terrifyed in conscience discouered the whole Treason without any compulsion and was therefore executed at Leyden in Holland The King of Spaine growing weake and sickly gaue his Daughter the Infanta named Isabella Clara Eugenia in marriage to the Arch-duke Cardinall Albertus with transaction of the Netherlands and Bourgogne whereupon hee left his Cardinals habit went to fetch the Infanta Soone after died the King of Spaine on the 13. day of September Anno 1598. being seuenty one yeares old add foure months The Arch-Duke and the Infanta beeing come into the Neatherlandes had their instalment at Brussels Louaine Antwerp c. The Emperour sent to the States concerning a peace but theyr resolution held to make warre in Flanders Then happened the siedge and memorable battaile of Nieuport where Prince Maurice tooke dyuers Fortes from the Spanyards and ouer-threw the Arch-dukes Army he being there in person but gladly fled away leauing his Armes Horse of Combate all his Houshold Artillerie and baggage behind him and lost 6000. men beside 800. taken Prisoners among whom was Don Francesco de Mendoza Admirall of Arragon Marquesse of Guadaleste and Lieutenant Generall of the Arch-Dukes Army who was led to Oostend Don Baptista de Villa noua led to Horne in Holland Don Alonzo Ricquell to Delft Don Gonzalo Hernandes de Spinola to Vtrecht Don Pedro de Montenegro to the Hague Don Pedro de Valasco to Berghen with Don Francisco de Torres Don Antonio de Mendoza Don Pedro de Leusina to EnchuiseÌ„ besides the Arch-dukes thrée Pages Count Carlo Rezi Don Diego de Guzman and Mortier Don Pedro de Monte-maior his chiefe taster likewise his Phisition Barber Harbinger Rider Cook Porter the Grooms of his Chamber most of the Archers and Halberdiers of his Guard and in a manner all his houshold with thrée Priestes or Monkes 40. Auncients and 37. Pentioners tearmed by them Ancient and Sergeants reformed He lost also sixe pieces of Ordynance 136. Ensignes of foot taken and fiue Cornets of horse comprehending the Mutiners Standerd and the recouered lost Colours Moreouer on the Arch-Dukes side were slaine the Earle of Saume the Earle of La Fere the Seneshall of Montelimar the Baron of Pimereull Chassy Ortigny Son to the President Richadot Don Gaspar de Sapena Colonel who dyed at Oost-end
Don Diego de Torres Don Gaspar de Loyazo Don Gonzalo d'Espinola Don Ioan de Pardo Don Garcia de Toledo Don Lopode Capeta Don Alouzo Carcamo Don Louis Faccardo Sebastian Velasco Sebastian Doteloa Christionall Verdugues Mattheo d'Otteuille Ioannettin de casa nueua the Pay-Maister Alines and many other neuer knowne Prince Maurice and the States at the first encounter in the morning and lastly in the battell lost about 2000. men among whom were Bernard Couteler and Hamelton Captaines of Horse and some twenty Captaines of foote but no Man of Marke or speciall note In this braue exploit at Neiuport the vertue and valour of Sir Frances Vere Generall and Sir Horatio Vere his Brother Colonell will for euer bee remembred The occurrences in the following yeares as the besiedging of Oast-ende The enterprise on Flessigne The practise to sacke Antwarpe again Graue yeilded vp to Prince Maurice Also his honourable offers to the Town of Sluice and it beeing yeelded to him vppon composition euen in the viewe of the Arch-Dukes Army They require a larger field of discourse then by this breuity can be admitted Procéed we then to speake of the long continued siedge at Oast-end which lasting thrée whole yeares and eleauen wéekes was at last compounded withall and on the twenty two day of September 1604. yéelded to the Arch-duke What numbers were slaine in this long continued siedge of Oastende can hardly be gathered albeit a note was found in a Commissaries Pocket who hadde beene slaine the seauenth of August 1604. before Oastend wherein were dyuers good obseruations especially concerning the Arch-Dukes Campe and what number of each degree dyed and were slaine therein during this siedge vntill the yeelding vppe thereof viz Maisters of the Campe seauen Colonelles fifteene Sergeant Maiors twenty nine Captaines 565. Lieutenants 11â—6 Ensignes 322. Sergeants 1911. Corporals 116â— Lanspizadees 600. Souldiers 54663. Mariners 611 Women and Children 119. all amounting to 72124. persons To continue the memory of this long siedge as also the winning of Sluice Counters of Siluer and Copper were made in the vnited Prouinces bearing on the one side the figure of Oostend on the â—ther the Towns of Rhinberke Graue Sluice Ardenbourg with the Forts of Isendyke and Cadsant with this inscription round about Plus triennio obsessa hosti rudera Patriae quatuor ex me vrbes dedi Oost-end being more then 3. yeares besiedged gaue the Enemy an heape of stones and to her natiue Country four Towns Another Counter concerning Sluice had these words on the one side Traxit duxit dedit Anno 1604. And with the Armes of Zeland on the other side were these words Beatus populus cuius adiutor Deus For the following yeares from 1604 to 1608. I finde no especiall or memorable accydents but an enterprise by prince Maurice on the Riuer of â—â—held Antwerp with the taking of the Castle of Wouwe néere to Berghen Vpzoome Spiholas taking of Linghen with an attempt on Berghen and Groll taken by composition c. For a treaty of peace hapning between England and Spaine the like also chanced to bee talkt on concerning the Netherlands and many méetings were made to bring it to effect At length it was brought to passe by the labor and endeuor of a Frier as was reported who made many errands between Spain and the Netherlands vntil it was accomplished Since when nothing hath hapned of any consequence but the taking in of the Towne of Guliche in Germany where the prince Maurice behaued himself very honorably Of the Kingdome of Ireland AVoyding all nice and secupulous curiosity about the first name and Originall of Ireland I purpose to follow these best receiued authors as Giraldus Cambrensis Flatsbury Henry of Marleborow and others that therein do giue the best direction They say and affirme that the Hispaniards the Originall off-spring of the Irish because Hispaine in those ancient daies was called Iberia after the name of Iberius the Sonne of Iuball and in regard also that the famous Riuer Iberus was then their habitation did entitle this land Iberia as Leyland and some other Chroniclers Write or Ibernia with addition of the letter n to expresse a kinde of variation From which Ibernia it may easily be presumed that Iberland or Iuerland receiued first sound and so Ireland by contraction or corruption in common phrase It is said like wise to be called Scotia at the very same time in reuerend respect of Scotach or Scota wife to Gathelus an ancient Noble Captaine of those Iberians she being Mother others say Grand-mother to Hiberus and Hermon the Sons of Metellus raigning then in Hispaine Fiue brethren men of no meane merit and valour beeing sons to one Dela all woorthy Sea-men and skilfull Pilots rigging a fleete arriued in Ireland and perceiuing it to be but slenderly peopled concluded by casting lots for seuerall shares to diuide the Country among themselues The foure elder brethren who were named Gandius Genandius Sagandus or Gangandus Rutheragus or Rutheranus hauing cast the whole Island into four partitions and finding their yonger brother Slanius to stand quite exempted from any abyding sucuaying more aduisedly their seueral portions which were thus squared Lagenia Leinster lying East Connatia Connaght west Vltonia Vlster North Momonia Mouuster south each made an abatement of his proportion amongst them laid out a fift part named Media Meeth which afterward from being the lesser share by his manly carriage proued to be the largest he obtained the whole monarchy of Ireland appointing Meeth to serue for the monarchs diet or table It appeareth then that Ireland was thus deuided into fiue seueral territories or kingdoms and that the Spaniards or Hispaniardes first peopled the same There are also accounted 130. pettye Kings of that Nation from Hermon that slewe his Brother Hiberus of whose name the Irish receiued theirs to Laogirius the Son of Nealus Magnus in whose daies Ireland was conuerted to the Christian faith by that holy man S. Patâ—ik About which time cam Roderick a Scithian Prince with no great number of men who were the Picts he their king and there they sought to make their abiding but the Irish perswaded theÌ„ thence and then they betooke themselues to the North part of Brittaine where both Rodericke and the more number of his followers were slain by Marius King of Brittaine In no long while after one Turgesius a notable Pyrat of the Norweigâ—ans came thether likewise with a strong power and made himselfe King or Conquerour of Ireland vsing much tirrany and deflouring al the other Kings daughters till by the pollicie of Omalaghlilen King of Meth whose daughter also the tyrant would needs rauish a company of young youths were disguised like faire Nimphs with shorte sharpe Skeines hidden vnder theyr Garments and the faire young Ladye her selfe Daughter to Omalaghlilen was theyr chiefe conducter to the lasciuious
Tyrants bed Chamber Turgesius his onely companions at that instant were a few dissolute young men affected like himselfe whom the King had made acquainted with this amorous purchase promising that his lust being satisfied where he liked to make election the rest should remaine at their free disposition No sooner were these disguised yong Gallantes entered the Chamber and the king preparing him-selfe to embrace the Kinge of Meths Daughter but drawing foorthe theyr Skeynes they first cooled the Tyrants heate in his owne bloude and afterwarde his Minions were in like sort serued The fame of this valiant acte being quickely flowne thorough Ireland and the Princes rising in Armes on so apte an aduantage they resolued to free themselues from such seruility as indeede they did and made Omalaghlilen their chiefe King or commander in honor of this their great deliuerance Concerning diuers other inuasions of Ireland afterwarde by the Danes Norwegians Swedens Normans c. reported by Saxo Grammaticus Albert Crantzius and others they are matters no way incident to our present purpose but referred to our generall determination more capeable of such plenty of discourse Therefore passing ouer those former yeares of trouble and disturbance let vs come to Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis his history of the conquest of Ireland when Dermon Mac Morogh K. of Leynster fled out of Ireland to craue succor of Henrie the second King of England who was then in Aquitaine busied with very serious affayres wherein I will be so briefe as I may This Dermon Mac Morough King of Leinster hauing bin from his youth and entrance into the Kingdome tirranous ouer his Nobilitie and full of oppression to all the Gentrie became highly hated and despised and so much the rather for rauishing the wife to Ororike prince of Meth in the absence of her husband Ororike not brooking such an indignity procured Rotherick K. of Connagh and Monarch of all Ireland ouer the other Kings to giue him aid with al the forces that either of them could make Dermon vnderstanding this main opposition fled into Aquitaine where he found Henry the second King of England and such was his distressefull tale to him with Oath of allegeance sworne vnto him to be his true vassaile and subiect that king Henry made kind acceptance of him and took him into his protection graunting him his Letters pattents into England to vse the aide and meanes of his Subiects for recouery of his right in Ireland Beeing returned from King Henry into England he came to Bristow where his letters Patents were many times publickely read and liberall wadges and offers made to such as in this extreamity would giue him assistance All proued in vaine till Richard sonne to Gilbert Earle of Chepstone being promised Dermons Daughter heire in marriage with inheritance and succession in his Kingdome was bounde to visit him with aide in Ireland at the following Spring Robert Fitz-Stephens and Maurice Fitz-gerald had promise also of the Towne of Wexford being the chiefest Towne in Leinster and sixe Cantreds of land to them and theirs for euer to come likewise with their best help at the Spring ensuing Vpon hope of this assistaunce Dermon ventured home among his enimies but in very priuate manner for his owne safety At time appointed Robert Fitz-Stephens accompanied with Maurice Fitz-gerald and with thirtie seruiceable Gentlemen all of his Kinred beside thrée hundred bold Archers the best chosen and onely men of Wales sailed in three sundry barks and landed in theÌ„ Calends of May at the Banne in Ireland Whereby an old Prophesy of Merlins was said to be fulfilled viz. A Knight by-parted should enter first with force in Armes and breake the bounds of Ireland Their landing there proued so succesful to Derman that hee kept his word with Fitz-stephens Fitz-gerald for the town of Wexford territories thereto appertaining with the cantreds of land he sent also for Richard Strongbow Earle of Pembroke son to Earle Gilbert of Chepstone who vppon Dermons letters and intelligence of Fitz-Stephens great fortunes with his followers there desiring ernestly to make one in so worthy an imploiment made sute to k. Henry for his passage thither But whither he obtained leaue or no he being of very noble parentage greater in spirit then possessions aiming at the fairest fortunes dreadles of the kings displeasure with such power as hee coulde prouide he landed at Waterford in September Héere it shall not differ much from our purpose to report those Noble mens names who before any other of the English assisted this woorthy Earle Richard Strongbow for Dermon in subduing Ireland to the Crowne of England according as they are recorded in the chancery of Ireland as the learned M. Camden hath also obserued them Robert Fitz-Stephens Haruey de Mont-maâ—ish Maurice Prendergest Robert Barr. Meiler Meilerine Maurice Fitz-Giâ—ald Redmund Nephew of Fitz-Stephens William Ferrand Miles de Cogan Gualter de Ridensford Gualter Alexander sons of Maurice Fitz-Girald William Notte Robert Fitz-Bernard Hugh de Lacie William Fitz-Adelm VVilliam Marcarell Humfrey Bohun Hugh de Gundeuill Phillip de Hasting Hugh Titell Dauid VValsh Robert Poeâ— Osbert de Hetloter william de Bendenges Adam de Geruez Griffin Fitz-Stephens Nephew Raulfe Fitz-Stephens VValter de Barry Phillip VValsh Adam de Hereford Iohn Curcy Hugh Contilon Redmund Cauâ—â—more Redmund Fitz-Hugh Miles of S. Dauids VVith diuers other beside Then also was it generally noised that Celidons prophesie was fulfilled viz A little Fire-brand shal go before a great fire and as the sparks kindle the lesser wood so shal the same set the gâ—et wood on fire There was another prophesy also of Merlins viz. A great fore-runner of a greater follower shall come he shall tread down the heads of Desmond Leinster the waies before opened and made ready hee shall in large Dublin Leinster diuers other places were immediatly won Earle Richard married to Eua Dermons daughter By which marriage he enioyed but one daughter onely who enriched VVilliam Mareâ—chall with the Earledome of Pembrokes Title faire Lands in Ireland fiue Sonnes all dying childlesse and as many daughters who honored their husbands viz. Hugh Bigod Earle of No folk Guarin Montchensey Gilbert Earle of Glocester VVilliam Ferrars Earle of Derbie and william Breose with children goodly honours and rich possessions Vpon the newes in England of Earl Strongbow and his followers daily preuailing in Ireland King Henry grew offended with him and made a Proclamation against him that none of his Subiectes shoulde further assist Dermon or him But vppon the Earles priuate passage into England and conference with the King at Newham néere to Glocester all displeasure was forgotten and the King hauing then an Armie in readines should passe forthwith into Ireland where all should be deliuered vp into the Kinges possession King Henry landed at Waterford on Saint Lukes day in the seauenth yeare of hys
raigne the 41. of his age and of our Lord 1172. Dermon Mac Morogh beeing deade some short while before The King beeing Royally welcommed into Ireland Dermon or Mac Carti Prince of Corke Donald O Bren Prince of Limerick Donold O Carel Prince of Ossorie and Macleighlin O Felin Prince of the Decies or Ophalie O Roâ—ke K. of Meth Oneale King of Vlster with Rotherick O Conor Dun the Brown Monarch of Ireland came al submitted themselues to k. Henry swearing fealty to be tributaries to him Al matters being ordered in Ireland to the Kings good lyking he departed thence to England hauing made Earle Strong-bow Earle of Pembroke the first Lorde Gouernor of Ireland ioyning Reimond le Grace in Commission with him in the yeare 1174. ¶ The names of the Gouernors Lieutenants Lord Iustices and Deputies of Ireland since the conquest thereof by King Henry the second RIchard Strongbow Earle of Pembroke Gouernor Reimond le Grace being ioyned for his more ease in commission with him Reimond le Grace Lieutenant by himselfe William Fitz Adelme Lieutenant hauing Iohn de Curcy Robert Fitzstephans and Miles Cogan ioyned in Commission with him Hugh Lacie Lieutenant Iohn Lacy Constable of Chester and Richard de Peche Gouernours Hugh Lacy againe Lieutenant Hugh Lacy the younger Lord Iustice Henry Loandoris Arch-bishop of Dublin Lord Iustice Maurice Fitzgirald Lord Iustice Iohn Fitzgeffery Knight Lord Iustice Alain de la Zouch Lord Iustice Stephen de Long Espe Lord Iustice William Deane Lord Iustice Sir Richard Rochell or Capell Lord Iustice Dauid Barry Lord Iustice Robert Vfford Lord Iustice Richard de Excester Lord Iustice Iames Lord Audley Lord Iustice Maurice Fitzmaurice Lord Iustice Walter Lord Genuille Lord Iustice Robert Vfford againe lord Iustice Fulborne Byshoppe of Waterford Lorde Iustice Iohn Stamford Arch-Bishop of Dublin Lorde Iustice William Vescie Lord Iustice VVilliam Dodingsels lord Iustice Thomas Fitz-Maurice Lord Iustice Iohn Wogan lord Iustice Theobald Verdoâ— lord Iustice Edmund Butler lord Iustice Roger Lord Mortimer Lord Iustice Alexander Bignor Arch-Bishoppe of Dubline Lord Iustice Roger lord Mortimer the second time lord Iustice Thomas Fitz-Iohn Earle of Kildare lorde Iustice Iohn Birmingham Earle of Louth lorde Iustice Iohn Lord Darcy Lord Iustice Roger Outlaw Prior of Kilmainan lorde Iustice Anthony lord Lucy lord Iustice Iohn lord Darcy second time lord Iustice Iohn lord Charleton lord Iustice Thomas Bishop of Hereford lord Iustice Iohn Lord Darcy ordayned lord Iustice by Patent during his life by King Edward the third Raphe Vfford lord Iustire Robert Darcy lord Iustice Iohn Fitz-Maurice lord Iustice VValter lord Birmingham Lorde Iustice his Deputies were Iohn Archer Priour of Kilmainan and Baron Carew with Sir ThoRokesby Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earle of Desmond had the Office of Lord Iustice for tearme of his life by the graunt of King Edward the third Thomas Rokesby Knight lord Iustice Almericke de S. Amand. appointed Lord Iustices by turnes Iohn Butler Earle of Ormund appointed Lord Iustices by turnes Maurice Fitz-Henry Earle of Kildare appointed Lord Iustices by turnes Lionell Duke of Clarence Lord Iustice Gerald Fitz-Maurice Earle of Desmond lorde Iustice VVilliam lord Windsor the first Lieutenant in Ireland Roger Ashton lord Iustice Roger Mortimer Iustices and Lieutenaunts especially recorded in the dayes of King Richard the second Phillip Courtney Iustices and Lieutenaunts especially recorded in the dayes of King Richard the second Iames Earl of Ormund Iustices and Lieutenaunts especially recorded in the dayes of King Richard the second Robert Vere Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublin created Duke of Ireland Roger Mortimer Earle of March Lieutenant Roger Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster lieutenant Roger Grey lord Iustice Iohn Stanley Knight lord lieutenant Thomas of Lancaster brother to king Henry the fourth lord Lieutenant whose Deputies at sundry times were Alexander Bishop of Meth Stephen Scrope knight the Prior of Kilmainan Iames Butler Earle of Ormond Lord Iustice Gerald Earle of Kildare Lord Iustice Iames Butler Earle of Ormond Son to the foresaid Iames Lord Iustice Iohn Stanley againe Lord Lieutenant Thomas Cranley Arch-Bishop of Dublin Lord Iustice Iohn Lord Talbot of Shefield Lieutenant Iames Butler Earle of Ormond the second time Lieutenant Edmund Earle of March Iames Earl of Ormond his Deputy Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Iohn Sutton Lord Dudly Sir Thomas Strange his Deputy Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Sir Thomas Stanley Sir Christopher Plunket his Deputy Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Lion Lorde Welles Deputy to the Earle of Ormond Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Iames Earle of Ormond by himselfe Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury the Archbishop of Dublin in his absence Lord Iustice Lieutenants to K. Henrie the sixt Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Father to King Edw the fourth had the Office of Lieutenant by letters patents from king Henry the sixt for tenne years His Deputies at sundry times were the Baron of Deluin Richard Fits-Eustace Knight Iames Earle of Ormond and Thomas Fitzmoris Earl of Kildare Thomas Fitzmoris Earle of Kildare Lord Iustice in the daies of King Edward the fourth vntill the third yeare of his raigne After whom George Duke of Clarence brother to the King had the office of Lieutenant during his life and made his Deputies at sundry times these Men following Thomas Earle of Desmond Deputies to the duke of Clarence Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester Deputies to the duke of Clarence Thomas Earle of Kildare Deputies to the duke of Clarence Henry Lord Gray of Ruthine Deputies to the duke of Clarence Sir Rowland Eustace Lord Deputy Richard Duke of Yorke younger son to King Edward the fourth Lieutenant Edward Son to K. Richard the 3. Lieutenant his Deputy was Gerald Earle of Kildare Iasper Duke of Bedford Earl of Pembroke Lieutenant his Deputy was Walter Archbishop of Dublin Edward Poynings Knight Lord Deputy Henry Duke of Yorke afterward King by the name of Henry the eight Lieutenant his Deputy was Gerald Earle of Kildare Gerald Fitz-gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy Thomas Howard Earle of Surry afterwarde Duke of Norffolke Lieutenant Piers Butler Earle of Ossorie Lord Deputy Geralde Fitzgeralde Earle of Kildare againe Lord Deputy The Baron of Dublin Lord Deputy Piers Butler Earle of Ossorie again L. Deputy William Skeffington Knight Lord Deputy Gerald Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare the third time Lord Deputy William Skeffington againe Lord Deputy Leonard Lord Gray Lord Deputy Sir William Brereton Knight Lord Iustice Sir Anthony Sentleger Knight Lord Deputy ¶ The names of all the Lordes Deputies and Iustices in Ireland since the death of King Henry the eight who died in Ianuary 1546. SIr Anthony Sentleger knight by Patent dated 24.
in his posterity amongst which were Metellus Hermoneus Ptolomeus Hiberius and Simon Brechus Passing ouer the contentions in Ireland vnder the rule of the fore-named Himecus the three sonnes of Metellus viz Hermoneus Ptolomeus and Hiberius being sent thither in defence of the iniuried Scots let vs speake of this Simon Brechus lineally descended of the Scottish blood who was the first King that raigned ouer the Scots in Ireland he brought with him thither the fatal Marble stone and was thereon crowned in signe of his full possession of that kingdome in the yeare from the worlds creation 3270. after the floud 1616.55 from the building of Rome after Brutes entrance into Brittaine 870. and before our Sauiours incarnation 697. He gouerned his subiects with great Iustice fortie yeares after whom succeeded Fandufus from whom yssued Ethion that begate Glaucus whose sonne named Nottasilus was the father of Rothsay all which raigned successiuely ouer the Scots in Ireland Rothsay to auoide the super-abounding encrease of the Scottish Nation in Ireland transported them by diuers numbers into the Isles anciently called Ebonides afterward Hebrides but now by the Scots the Westerne Isles lying on the West halfe of Scotland and named the Isle he first possessed them of the isle of Rothsay after his owne name this was 133. yeares after Simon Brechus was crowned King Nor may we forget that they also named those Islandes and an especiall part thereof by the name of Argathelia in memory of their first guide Prince Gathelus and as yet to this day it is called Arguile wherein also as all ouer the mayne and firme land called then Albion and they Albion-Scots they planted themselues albeit it was a wast and very desert dwelling Héere could I enter into a necessary declaration concerning the comming of the Pictes into those partes of Albion what people they were their combustions with the Brittains and Scots and rule of their Kings till their absolute destruction according to an ancient Prophesie That the Scots should in the end destroy all the Pictish progeny But because I haue briefely spoken of them and hauing referred their further relation to our generall History we will now goe on with our matter of the Albion Scots In the troubles of Ireland among the Scots there inhabiting one Ferguhardus a very worthy and noble Prince raigned there who sent an armie to assist the Brittish and Albion Scots vppon theyr request of aide vnder the conduct of his son Fergusius who was a young gallant Prince yet an expert Warrior and tooke with him the Marble stone because he went to a dangerous war and hoped withall that the issue of his paines should be the attaining of a kingdome As indéed vpon an assembly and parlement held at Arguile and his high merit to excéed all others whatsoeuer he was elected and sacred in that supreame office in the yeare after the worlds creation 3640. before our blessed Sauiours incarnation 327. after the building of Rome 420. and after Brutes entrance into Britaine 790. This Fergusius after he had raigned royally the space of 25. yeares sayling into Ireland to quiet a discontentment amongst the Nobility was driuen vpon a Rocke where he perished by drowning and that Rocke hath euer since euen to this day bin called Rock-Ferguse otherwise Knock-Ferguse After the much lamented death of Fergusius because his sonnes were ouer young to vndergo the waighty charge of gouernment his Brother Feritharis was crowned King being enthroned in his Kingly Ornaments with all solemnitie his two edged sworde his scepter Royall and his Crowne of Golde made in forme of a Rampire for preseruation of his Countries libertie which manner of inuesting continued without any alteration till the dayes of Achaius King of Scotland who confirming a perpetuall league with Charlemaigne Emperor and K. of France to last for euer betwéene Scots and French added to the Crowne foure Floure de Lices with four Croslets deuided in sunder with equal spaces rising somewhat higher then the Floure de Lices that thereby the obseruing of Christian Religion and sincere faith maintained by the Scottish Nation might appeare the more apparant to al that behelde it After Feritharis who raigned worthy 15. yeares not Ferlegus the eldest sonne of Fergusius succéeded but Mainus the younger sonne being then aged 24. yeares and after him his son Doâ—uadille the following succession we will thus briefely relate Doruadil raigned 28. yeares Nothatus Brother to Doruadil raygned two yeares Reuther son to Doruadill 26. yeares Reutha the Vnckles son to Reuther seuentéene yeares and then entering into a priuate life he resigned the Crowne to Thereus Thereus the sonne of Reuther who raigned 12. yeares Conanus Lord of Galloway who after the decease of Thereus in Brittaine yeelded the gouernment to Iosina Brother to Thereus and raigned 24. yeares Finnanus sonne to Iosina thirty yeares Durstus sonne to Finnanus nine yeares Ewin Vnckles sonne to Durstus xix yeares Gillus base sonne to Ewin who being expulsed Ewin second of that name was crowned K. and raigning xix yeares resigned his state to Ederus Ederus the sonne of Dothan 38. yeares Ewin the third son to Ederus 7. yeares Metellanus sonne to Carren the Brother of Ederus in the 12. yeare of whose raigne our Sauiour Iesus Christ was borne of the blessed Virgin Mary in Bethlem which was 324 yeares after the establishing of the Scottish kingdome by Fergusius This Metellanus died in the 28. yeare of his raigne Caratake son to Cadallan and Nephew to Metellanus raigned xxi yeares Corbreid yongst brother to Caratake 34. years Dardan sur-named the Great for his huge stature foure yeares Corbreid Gald eldest sonne of King Corbreid 35. yeares This was a very worthy and famous King and the Countrey where hee last fought with the Romaines in memory of his owne name was called Galdia which as some thinke is that now named Galloway Lingthake son to Corbreid Gald two yeares Mogall nephew to Corbreid Gald six and thirty yeares Conarus son to Mogall 14. yeares Ethodius Nephewe to King Mogall In this Kingsraigne Lucius King of the Brittains with a great part of his people receyued the Christian faith being according to the Scottish Chronicles in the yeare after our Sauiours byrth 187. This Ethodius raigned 33. yeares Satrahell or Serrahell Brother to Ethodius raigned foure yeares Donald Brother to Satrahell 21. years In this kings time the Scots receiued with him the Christian faith 330. yeares after the erection of the Scottish Kingdome And this Donald was the first that caused Golde and Siluer to bee coyned in his Realme stamping a Crosse on the one side and his face on the other Euthodius the second beeing Sonne to the former King Euthodius raigned 16. yeares Athirco son to Ethodius 12. yeares Natholocus a Noble man of Argile xi yeares Findocke sonne to Athirco ten yeares Donald Brother to Findock
constancy in promise that he sildome spake the word which hee not performed Such an obseruer of Iustice was he also that he would not remoue from any place but Proclamation was first made that if any of his men or officers did take any thing vnpaid for the partie to whome the debt was due should come in and imediatelie satisfied he willinglie heard the complaints of the poore and was as diligent in seeing their wrongs redressed Iohn Stuart Earle of Carrike and sonne to King Robert before named was crowned king but because Iohn was iudged to bee an vnfortunate name for Kings they changed it and called him Robert after his Fathers name and so hee was King Robert the third Then was the first creation of Dukes in Scotland for the king made his eldest Sonne Dauid Duke of Rothsay and his Brother Robert Duke of Albanie yet neyther of these sonnes succéeded their father but another son who was named Iames. This King Robert raigned 16. yeares Iames Sonne to King Robert succéeded his Father in the kingdome of Scotland his Quéen was deliuered of two Sonnes at a birth named Alexander and Iames Alexander dyed in his infancy but Iames liued and succéeded hys Father This King Iames the first raigned thirtéene yeares Of whom it is written that he was a very seuere and vpright Iusticer yet so milde and swéete of Nature that not any of their Princes did more reuerently embrace peace at home among his subiects or more willingly conclude it abroad with strangers then he His Wisedome appeared so manifestly in many very great and especiall affaires that Kinges of other Nations did louingly ioyne in league and friendship with him He had bin so wel educated in all Sciences and Gentlemanly actiuity by the carefull dilligence of the best Schoole-maisters that it coulde not be easily iudged in which hee was most perfect For hee was an excellent Musitian a rare Poet a most elequent Orator so exactly both in minde and memory he comprehended the depth of Diuinity and Lawe that for all these in his time he gaue not place to any one Lastly he was not onely a beauty to his Countrey in prouiding his peoples quiet at home but fought also for their defence against their enemies abroad The inuention of Gunnes happened in his time and he caused diuers pieces of Artillery to be made in Flanders one of which being a great and goodly Piece he called the Lyon whereon these verses he caused to be engranen Illustri Iacobo Scotorum Principi digno Regs magnifico dum fulmin◠castra a reduce Factus sum subito nuncuper ergo Leo. Iames the second son to King Iames the first being but sixe yeares olde succéeded his Father in the Crown and was the 103. King of Scotland from Fergusius the first In this Kings time was the famous Art of Printing inuented in the Citty of Mentz in Germany This King raygned 24. yeares among his Subiects in the Camp hee carried himselfe so gently towards all men that they seemed not to feare him as their King but reuerenced and loued him like a father Hee would ride vp and downe amongst them and eat and drinke with them euen as if hee had bin fellow-like with the meanest Iames the third Sonne to King Iames the second being but seauen years of age succéeded his father in the kingdome and raigned 29. yeares Iames the fourth son to King Iames the third was crowned King of Scotland the 24. day of Iune 1488. he being then aged xvi yeares This King Iames the fourth married the Princesse Margaret eldest Daughter vnto Henry the seauenth King of England and raigned fiue and twenty yeares deseruing to be ranked and numbred amongst the best princes that euer there gouerned for his polliticke rule and administration of Iustice Iames the fift being a Childe aged one yeare fiue moneths and ten daies and sonne to king Iames the fourth was Crowned King of Scotland the one and twentieth day of September 1513. his Mother the Quéene being appoynted Regent of the Realme This King raigned 32. yeares being an obseruice of Iustice a defender of the Law and a sound shielde for the poore and innocent in which regard of his Nobility hee was called King of the Commoners He would set at libertie the poore oppressed with the tyranny of the rich and represse the rich from spoyling the poore All which he did with a kinde of seueritie but yet in such sort as therein appeared a woonderfull gentlenesse in his naturall disposition because he seldom did put any of them to death but did eyther by inprisonment or mulct punish the offence For it was his vsuall saying That he would neuer take life from any but onelie to keepe the Lawe sound for example to others and to keepe downe their boldnesse that dwelt about the borders His death was great lamented of his subiects to whom he was a perfect Patron and a louing Father Mary Daughter and heire to King Iames the fift began her raigne ouer Scotland the 18. of December 1542. She was but seauen daies old when the King her Father died and left her his kingdome hir mother then lying in child-bed in the Castle of Lithquo of which place the Lorde Leuingston being then Captaine had the charge both of mother and daughter committed to him with the mothers good liking frée consent This Q. Mary maried Frances the Dolphin of France who after his fathers death was king of France but King Frances dying Mary Qu. of Scotland and Dowager of France returned home againe into Scotland where hir Mother had bin Regent al the time of hir absence I meane vntill the x. of Iune 1560. on which day the Queen Mother of Scotland died Afterward Mary Q. of Scots maried Henry Stuart Lord Darnley Earl of Rosse Duke of Albanie son to the Earle of Lennox who was proclaimed king at the Market Crosse in Edenburgh the 28. of Iuly 1564. and on the tenth of February 1566. he was made Knight of the Order of S. Michael in the Chappel of Holirood house with great reuerence and solemnitie In the month of Iune next folowing the 19. day and betwéen the houres of x. and xi before noone Quéene Mary was deliuered of a goodlie young Prince who afterwarde was crowned King of Scotland by the name of Iames the sixt Iames the sixt Sonne to King Henry and Q. Mary being about a yeare old began his raigne ouer Scotland and was crowned King thereof the 19. of July 1567. Hee succéeded also in his rightfull inheritance of the Crowne of England after the decease of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory the 24. day of March 1602. gloriously vniting those kingdomes in one which formerly by Brute had bin long time deuided ¶ Of the Island of Albion before Brutes arriuall there and tearming it Brittaine after his owne name Also what Kinges raigned there before he came thither ¶ To
the battell wâ—s fought whereon was engragen Marij victoria The Stone was set vppon Stanesmoore and the whole Country thereabout taking name of this Marius was cald Westmaria now Westmerland Marius raigned 53. yeares and was buried at Carleill Coilus Sone of Marius was after his Fathers death King of Britaine hauing bin educated among the Romaines which made him pay them the tribute all the time of his raigne Hee builded the Towne of Colichester in Essex now called Colchester he raigned 55. yeares departed this life at Yorke and lieth there buried as some say but others at Coâ—lchester Lucius sonne of Coilus succéeded King after his Father being a very godlye and Vertuous Prince And because since the comming of Ioseph of Arimathia into the land there was much talke about Christ and Holy Religion whych many had begun to embrace he sent to Pope Eleutherius that hee would send some more learned men to him whereby both he and his might fully be enstructed in the faith of Christ Eleutherius sent vnto him Dâ—ianus and Faganus by some called Fugatius and Damianus two woorthy learned Clearkes who at theyr comming conuerted the King and his people from Paganisme There were in those dayes within the bounds of Britaine 28. Flamines and 3. Ach-flamines that were as Byshoppes and Arch-byshoppes of the Pagan Religion in whose place King Lucius appointed the 28. Byshoppes and thrée Arch-Byshops of Christian Religion Oâ—â— of which Arch-byshops held his Sée at London another at Yorke and the thirde at Caerleon Arswike in Glaumorganshire To the Arch-byshop of London was subiect Cornewall and all the middle part of England euen vnto Humber To the Arch-Byshoppe of Yorke all the North parts of Britaine from the Riuer of Humber to the furthest parts of Scotland And to the Arch-Byshop of Caerleon was subiect all wales within which countrey were then seauen Byshoppes where now there are but foure This King Lucius is saide to builde the Church of Saint Peter at VVestminster and Saint Peters Church of Cornehill in London This Lucius raigned 12. yeares and dying without issue the Brittaines fell at variance by which meanes the Romaine Lieutenants go on againe with their Gouernement the Emperor Adrian comming in person into Britain then the wal of Adrian was built from the mouth of Tine to the Water of Eske containing thirty miles in length Adrian hauing quieted all disturbances in Britain Lollius Vrbicus Calphurnius Agricola Vlpius Marcellus Pertinax Clodius Albinus and Heraclitus succéeded each other as Lieutenantes ouer the Brittaines for the Romaines which manner of Gouernement so continued to the yeare of our Lord 207. Seuerns Emperor of Rome did now beginne his rule in Britaine causing a Trench to bee cast from Sea to Sea Hee raigned not fullye fiue yeares and was buried at Yorke His Sonnes Geta and Bassianus contended for the Gouernment Geta was slaine in battell and Bassianus ruled sixe yeares but hee was likewise slaine by one Caransius a Britaine of vnknowne Byrth whom the Britaines accepted as their King till Alectus was sent from Rome with his Legions of Souldiors who conquered Caransius in field and slewe him Aesclepiodotus Duke of Cornwall preuayling in fight against Alectus and Liuius Gallus or Wallus whom when he had slaine he threw into a Brooke which tooke name of him and was called Wallus Brooke nowe Walbrooke was admitted to raigne ouer the Britaines And discord being afterward raised betwéene the King and one Coell Earle of Colchester they met in a fielde of battaile where Asclepiodotus was slaine after he had raigned thirty yeares At this time was Britaine in cruell persecution vnder the bloody tyrants Dioclesian and Maximus Alban a Cittizen of Werlamchester being the first that suffered martirdome in Britaine hee being conuerted to Christian faith by zealous Amphibilaus and because he would not sacrifice to their false Gods he was beheaded on the top of the hill ouer-against VVerlamchester where a Church and Monastery was builded in memory of hys martyrdom and VVerlamchester being destroyed the place tooke name of him and is to this day called S. Albanes A number of Christians were likewise assembled at another place to heare the word of life preached by that vertuous man Amphibilaus but they were all there slaine by the Pagans and the place in their memory named Lichfield The fielde of dead bodies It is also recorded that in the dayes of these Tyrants Dioclesian and Maximus of godly men and Women professing the faith of Iesus Christe there were martired in sundry place aboue 17000. Coell Earle of Colchester began his rule ouer the Britaines in An. Dom. 262. But Constantius being sent from Rome to suppresse him hee couenanted to pay the tribute gaue his daughter Helena a Noble and learned Lady in marriage to Constantius King Coell raigned 27. yeares and is said to be buried at Colchester or rather at Glocester Constantius succéeded in the rule of Britain after Coell and had by his wife Helena a Sonne named Constantine that was afterwarde Emperor and sir-named Constantine the Great In this Constantius dayes Amphibliaus was apprehended and suffered martyrdome at Redburne néere to VVerlamchester fiftéene yeares after the death of S. Alban Constantius raigned eleuen yeares Constantine sonne of Constantius and Helena and sir named the Great was King after his Father and created Emperor in Britaine His Mother Quéene Helena went to IerusaleÌ„ where she found the Crosse that our Sauiour was crucified on and the Nailes which shee gaue to her Sonne Constantine who did set one of them in the Crest of his Helmet another in the bridle of his horse and the third he threw into the Sea to asswage a rough Tempest Octauius or Octauian beganne his raigne ouer the Britaines in Anno 329. being called Duke of VVindsore He assembled a great companye of people and fought with the Gouernours of the Land which Constantine had heere appoynted yet was he expelled by Traherne into Norway and Traherne being slaine by treason afterward Octauius sent Maximianus Cosin to the Emperor Constantine to whom he gaue his daughter in marriage Octauius raigned 54. years About this time the Empresse Helena Mother to Constantine for loue she bare to Colchester and London did newly engirt them both with Walles rounde about causing great Bricke and huge Tyles to be purposely therefore made which are yet to be seene in the Towne and Castle of Colchester Maximianus or Maximus vsurped in Brittaine the Title of the Empyre and assembling all the men of Warre and youth of the Realme he went into France expelled the French-men out of Armorica and placed Brittaines there vnder Conon Meridoc Duke of Cornewall whereon it was euer after called Britayne the Lesse This Maximus or Maximianus hauing slayne the Emperour Gratian at Lyons in France was slaine himselfe at Aquileia by the Emperor
hundered shippes alwayes in readinesse and sayled therewith once a yeare about all great Britaine Hee had the whole Isle and all the Kinges thereof in subiection to him and was rowed vp and downe the Riuer of Dee by seauen Kings his vassailes Luduall one of those Kings did pay him a yearly tribute of Wolues He raigned 16. yeares and was buried at Glastenburie Edward eldest Sonne to King Edgar succeeded his Father being crowned at Kingston but by Counsell of Elfrith his Step-mother he was treacherously murdered when hee had raygned three yeares and was buried at Shaftesbury Ethelred or Egelred second Sonne to King Edgar was crowned at Kingstone but because his comming to the Crown was by his brothers murder he could neuer obtaine his peoples affection Al the Danes in England by the command of King Ethelred were murdered in one night He raigned 38. yeares and was buried in Saint Paules Church in London Edmund Son to King Ethelred and Surnamed Ironside was immediately proclaimed K. after his Fathers death as the Cleargy and Nobility did the like to Canutus because they hadde sworne fealty to his Father Swaine or Sweno whereon three great battailes were fought betwixt King Edmund and Canutus the Danes ouerthrowne at Otford in Kent beside the great battell at Ashdone in Essex neere Saffron walden where the Englishmen were foyled by the Danes and the Land once againe deuided betweene Canutus and King Edmund who was treacherously slaine at Oxford hauing raigned but one yeare and some few months and was buried at Glastenbury Canutus the Dane challenging all England to himselfe was crowned King in Saint Paules Church in London and maried Quéen Emma the widdow of king Etheldred hee raigned xx yeares and was buried at Winchester Harold surnamed Harefoot vsing the power of the Danes in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardi-kenutus Gouerned in Denmarke Hee raigned foure yeares dyed at Oxford and was buried at Westminster Hardikenutus or Hardy-Canutus Sonne of King Canutus and his Quéene Emma obtayning his Fathers Kingdome sent for his mother from exile He died with the cup in his hand as he sat merrily disposed at his Table in the third yeare of his raigne and was buried at Winchester With this Hardy-Canutus ended the dominion of the Danes in England who had grieuously oppressed this nation for the space of 250. yeares Edward the sonne of Ethelred and Emma was next crowned King at Winchester all the Danes being then quite expulsed the land This Edward was Surnamed the Confessor for hys vertuous life and worthy Lawes also he is saide to be the first that cured the Disease called The Kinges Euill Hee raigned three and twentie yeares and was buried at Westminster which in his life time hee had most sumptuouslye repayred Harold sonne of Earle Goodwin tooke vpon him the gouernment of the kingdome but William Duke of Normandy came into England with a powerfull Army and in battell Harold was shot through the braines with an Arrowe hauing raigned but nine months and was buried in the Monastery of Waltham in Essex by whose death Duke William obtained his Conquest of England William Duke of Normandy base Sonne of Robert Duke of Normandie and Nephew to King Edward the Confessor whom he perceiued more addicted to vertue then policy and through debility of body not like to liue long contryued his owne attaining to the crowne of this land after the decease of the aged King For hee placed diuers Normans in the cheefest roomes about him while he liued and when he was dead leuied an Army of diuers Nations and there-with pretending the Patronage of England agaynst Harold Earle Godwins Sonne who vsurped the Kingdome first fought with him and flewe him at a place now called Battell in Sussex and then tooke the Crowne on him by election of the Estates Seeking next to barre Titles he imprisoned Edgar Etheling the onely true heire of the Saxons bloud and by means of Ethelbert Arch-bishop of Hamborow procured Sweno King of Denmark for money to cease the Danes claime Hee builded foure strong Castles one at Nottingham another at Lincoln the third at York and the fourth neere to Haftings where he landed at his first arriuall in England Hee deuised the Couer le feu Bell to bee Rung nightly at eight of the clocke in all Citties Townes and Villages for preuention of mighty tumults He ordained the Tearmes and that they shoulde be kept foure times in the yeare and Iudges to sit in seuerall Courtes for desciding controuersiall matters betwixt party and party as is vsed vnto this day He appointed Sheriffes in euery shyre and Iustices of the peace to see offenders punnished and the Countries kept in quiet He ordained the Court of Exchequer with the Barons Clarkes and Officers thereto belonging as also the high Court of Chancery with the Booke then called The Rowle of Winchester nowe The Doomesday Booke whereby the whole Land was taxed and euery mans estate and wealth thoroughly knowne He raigned twenty yeares ten months and 26. dayes and was buried in the Abbey of Saint Stephen at Caâ—n in Normandy which he had founded And this is well worthy memory that hee being so great a Conqueror yet after his death coulde not haue so much ground to bury his dead body without wronging some other vntill that by his Executors it was bought for him William Rufus second sonne to the Conqueror by his Fathers appointment succeeded him in the Kingdom and was crowned at Westminster Robert elder Brother to King William Duke of Normandy went with Godfrey Duke of Bullen and other Christian Princes to the Holy-land to recouer it from the Saraziâ—s This King William Rufus caused new Walles to be builded about the Tower of London and layed the foundation of Westminster Hall Hee raigned thirteene yeares and was slain with an Arrow by one Sir Walter Tyrel a French knight in the New Forrest in Hampshire his body being buried at VVinchester In which Forrest not many yeares before had stoode 36. Parish Churches diuers faire Townes Villages and Hamlets containing thirty miles in circuite all which was laide wast by the Conqueror the poor inhabitants expelled thence and it was made a place for wilde beastes to liue in It was somewhat strange that in that very place the King should bee so vnfortunately slaine Richard his Brother blasted to death and Henry the Conquerors Nephew by his eldest Sonne Robert as hee ouer-earnestly pursued the game in the the bushes like to another Absolon straungely strangled to death vengeaunce from God as was thought punnishing the fathers offence in his posterity Henry sur-named Beauclerke for his Learning and youngest sonne to the Conqueror succeeded his Brother King William was crowned at VVestminster Robert Duke of Normandy being returned from the Holie-Lande warred with his Brother Henry for his right in the
crowne of England and after much contention being taken and committed Prisoner vnto Cardiffe Castle in VVales after 26. yeares imprisonment hee there dyed and was buried at Glocester Maud King Henries Daughter was maried to the Emperor Henry but his other children William Duke of Normandy his Sister Marie Countesse of Perch Richard Earle of Chester with his Brother Otwell Gouernor to Duke William and the saide Earle of Chester his wife the Kinges Neece with diuers others to the number of 140. persons beside 50. Marriners following the king out of Normandie were all drowned King Henry raigned 35. years died in the Forrest of Lyons in Normandie and was buried in the Abbey of Reading which he had founded In this king Henry first of that name ended the line of the Norman kings concerning their heires male who had raigned about 69. yeares and then began the French by Title of the heyres generall Stephen Earle of Bullen and Mortaigne son to Stephen Earle of Bloys by Adela Daughter to king William the Conquerour vsurped the crowne from Maud the Empresse and her young sonne Henry which caused great Warres betweene him and her and very miserable times to the people till by an assembly of the Lordes at Winchester Articles of peace and agreement were concluded King Stephen raigned eyghteene yeares ten moneths and three and twenty dayes and was buried in the Abby of Feuersham in Kent Henry sur-named Fitz-Empresse and Shortmantle succeeded next in the crown of England He expelled strangers out of the Land and had a long and troublesome contention with Thomas Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterburie Hee crowned his sonne Henry as fellow-King with him which procured him much mollestation by meanes of his Quéene and his other sonnes In his time was the conquest of Ireland Dublin and Waterford being woon by Earle Strongbow He had diuers Concubines but especially fayre Rosamond whom he kept in a Labyrinth at Woodstock where she was poysoned by Q. Elianor King Henry the second raigned 34. yeares nine months and two dayes and dying was buried at Font-Euerard in the Dutchy of Alanson In him ended the raigne both of the Normans and French-men ouer the Realme of England Richard Earle of Poictiers and second Son to King Henry was crowned King at Westminster He went to the Holy-land and performed many worthy seruices there his brother Iohn in his absence aspired to rule the whole land being prouoked thereto by the French king As King Richard besiedged the Castle of Chalus Cheuerel he was wounded with an impoysoned quarrell shot at him by one Barturam de Gurden or Peter Bazile whereof he dyed hauing raigned nine yeares nine moneths and odde daies and was buried at Font-Euerard Iohn Lord of Ireland Earle of Mortaign and Glocester brother to king Richard was crowned at westm He had long tedious contentions with his Barons as also with the pope by whose meanes Lewes the French kinges sonne was drawne into the businesse had the crowne offered him by the Lords whereon he wrought great spoile in the Land King Iohn raigned 17. years six months and 27. dayes and dying by poyson was buried at VVorcester Henry third of that name and eldest Son to King Iohn succeeded immediately after his Father albeit he was but nine yeares old the Barons and French Lewes being still very mollestuous against whom VVilliam Marshal Earle of Pembroke was chiefe Generall of the Kings forces and preuayled worthily This King Henry raigned 56. yeares and 27. dayes and was buried at Westminster Edward eldest Sonne to King Henrie and Surnamed Long-shankes was crowned at Westminster after his returne home from the Holy Land This King conquered Wales and deuided it into Shyres and banished the Iewes for euer out of England Hauing raigned 34. yeares seauen months and twenty dayes hee dyed and was buried at VVestminster Edward of Carnaruon sonne to King Edward the first succeeded in the kingdome after his Father This king did ouermuch affect an Esquire of Gascoigne called Pierce Gauaston and disshonoured many of his Lords to aduance him as he did the like by the two Spensers the Father and Sonne At length he was imprisoned by his Barons with helpe of the Queene and Prince and then deposed when he had raigned nineteene yeares sixe months and seauenteene dayes Edward the third son to king Edward the second was crowned at Westminster in his Fathers life time Flanders yeelded themselues all their Townes to King Edward and laying claime to the Crowne of France in right of his Mother Queen Isabell he entred that land with a puissant army and quartered the Armes of France with his owne of England He deuised the woorthy Order of the Garter and Prince Edward Surnamed the Blacke Prince beside his famous victories in Fraunce reseated Don Peter king of Castile in his kingdom which his bastard Brother Henrie vsurped against him K. Edward the third raigned fifty yeares and fiue monethes and dying at Sheene was buried at Westminster Richard second of that name son to Edward the Blacke Prince being about eleauen yeares old succeeded after his Grand-father King Edward the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Cambridge being Protectors of the yong kings person The rebellion of Iacke Straw and Wat Tyler with the Essex and Kentishmen then hapned and the worthy act of William Walworth Lord Maior of London in arresting the traitor Great stormes arose betweene the king and hys Nobles because he had let to Farme the realme of England to Lords that abused the king and much misgouerned him sending abroad blanke Charters c. Whereupon in the end Articles were framed against the king and he committed to the Tower of London Henrie Surnamed Bullingbrooke sonne to Iohn of Gaunt being proclaimed king and Richard quite depryued when he had raigned 22. years three months nine dayes Dying hee was buried at Langley Henry Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke in the County of Lincolne beeing Cosin-Germaine to king Richard the second succeeded next by Richards depriuation and entailed the crown to him and his heires Owen Glendoure with his VVelchmen entered into Rebellion against the king and did put him in great daunger of his life by Treason by conueying a Caltrop into his bed This king Henry raigned 13. yeares and odde months and was buried at Canterburie with great solemnity Henry of Monmouth sonne and heire to king Henry the fourth succeeded after his father Hee vrged his title to France and fought the famous battell at Agin-court Hee raigned nine yeares sixe months and foure daies and dying at Boys de Vinciennes in France was buried at Westminster Henry of windsore being but nine moneths olde did yet succeed in his lawfull right He was also crowned king of France at Paris and had his time troubled with many grieuous combustions both abroad and at home as also diuers foughten battailes
to the effusion of much blood He raigned 38. yeares sixe months and foure daies and was buried first at Chertsey and afterwarde remoued to windsore Edward Earle of March tooke on him the gouernment of the Realm being son to Richard Duke of Yorke that was slaine at Wakefield His raigne also was filled with many troubles broyles and Rebellions yet hee gouerned 22. years one month and eight daies and was buried at Windsore Edward the fift son to king Edward the fourth succeeded after his father being neuer crowned but deposed by his Vnckle Richard Duke of Glocester when he had raigned two months eleuen dayes and with his brother was murdered in the Tower of London where both theyr bodies were obscurely buried Richard Duke of Glocester vsurped the kingdome two years two months and one day and was slaine in battell at Bosworth fielde by Henrie Earle of Richmond and buried at Leicester In him ended the line of the Plantagenets Henry Earle of Richmond surnamed Tudor son to Edmund of Hadham Earle of Richmond who was son of Owen ap Meredyth and Queene Katherine the French kings daughter wife to king Henry the fift This king Henrie builded and repayred in his life time many goodly houses beside his Mannor of Richmond and his Chappell at Westminster as Baynards Castle in London the goodly Hospitall of the Sauoy neere Charing-Crosse to which hee gaue lands for releefe of an hundred poore people Sir Religious houses for Franciscan Friers of the Obseruant and Couentall orders viz. at Richmond at Greenwich and at Newarke for Obseruants at Canterbury New-Castle South-hampton for Couentals Hee gaue also manie sums of money to good and godly vses And for that one of the goodliest Chappelles in Europe was by his meanes finished formerly begun by king Henry the sixt called the Kings colledge Chappell in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge I cannot omit the summe he gaue to accomplish the same which was 10000. lt viz. 5000. pounds in his life time and the rest by will at his death vnder his great Seale of England which was truely paide as is yet to be seen in the same Colledge Hee married his eldest daughter Margaret to Iames the fourth King af Scots of which happy marriage we enioy our dread Soueraign now raigning King Iames the sixt King Hentie raigned 23. yeares and somwhat more then 8. months and was buried in his new Chappell at Westminster Henry the eight sonne of king Henry the seauenth succeeded next in the kingdome after hys father He banished the Popes authority out of England and was proclaimed King of Ireland because the former Kinges were onely called Lords of Ireland He wun Terwin Tourney and Bullen in Fraunce and gaue the Church of the Gray Fryers in London to the Cittie to bee a place of releefe for poore people S. Bartholomewes Spittle the Gray Fryers and two parish Churches the one called S. Nicholas in the Shambles the other S. Ewin in Newgate Market were then made all one parish Church and he gaue in Lands for maintenance thereof fiue hundred Markes by the yeare for euer He raigned 37. years 9. months and 5. daies and was buried at Windsore Edward the sixt onely son to king Henry the eight was crowned king at Westminster Hée caused the Masse to be vtterly abolished Images to be defaced in Churches and the Lords supper to be ministred in both kindes There was then good orders deuised for the poores reliefe poore people were distinguished by thrée seuerall degrées in manner following Three degrees of poore 1. The poore by impotency 2. Poore by casualty 3. Thristlesse poore 1. The poore by impotency were also diuided into 3 kinds 1. The fatherles pore mans châ—â—d 2. The aged blinde and lame 3. The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2. The poore by casualty were also of three kinds 1. The wounded Souldior 2. The decayed Housholder 3. The visited with grieuous disease 3. The thriftlesse poore were likewise of 3. kinds 1. The Riotor that consâ—meth all 2. The Vagabond that will abyde in no place 3. The ydle â—erson as Strumpets and others 1 Christs Hospitall was appointed for the innocent and fatherlesse childe to be trained vp in knowledge of God and vertuous exercises 2 Saint Thomas Hospitall in Southwark was appointed for reliefe of the aged blinde and lame 3 Bridewel was also appointed for the Vagabond ydle strumpet and vnthrift Of all which seuerall Hospitals this Vertuous yong k. Edward was the founder and gaue the lands of the Sauoy which then serued as a harbour to Loyterers Vagabonds and strumpets that lay all day in the fieldes and at Night were harboured there to the maintenance of these houses which Lands were of the yearelie value of sixe hundred pounds and he gaue 4000 Markes beside of Lands taken in Mâ—â—tmaine so yearely valewed This worthy young King raigned sixe years fiue months and eight dayes and was buried at Westminster Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight and Sister to King Edward succeeded after her Brother She married with the Prince of Spain who was afterward king and raigning 5. years fiue monethes and tenne dayes was buried at Westminster Elizabeth second Daughter to king Henrie the eight and Sister also to king Edward came next to her right in the Crowne of England To write of the Princely life and raigne of that Virgin Empresse and matchlesse Queene woulde require large Volumes yet all too little for her high deseruing merit Hauing liued well neere threescore and ten years and happily raigned 44. yeares 4. months and od dayes she died the 24 of March 1602. was buried at Westm The lines engrauen on her Tombe may serue for her further memory A Sacrifice to Posterity HAuing restored Religion to the Primitiue sincerity established Peace reduced coine to the iust valew reuenged Domestical rebellion succored France greeued by ciuill war supported Belgia ouer-come the Spanish inuincible Nauy pacified Ireland by driuing out the Spaniards and compelling the Rebels to yeeld to her pardon increased very much the Reuennewes of both Vniuersities by a Law for theyr prouision of Victuall enriched all England administring most prudently the Imperial state thereof 45. yeares in true piety in the seauenty yeare of her age in most happy peaceable maner departed this life leauing heere hir mortal parts enterred in this famous and renowned Church by her conserued til by the command of Christ they rise againe immortall Iames king of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland first Monarch of the whole Islands or Countrey was proclaimed king the 24. of March 1602. being the onely inheritour to k. Henry the seauenth and Elizabeth his Queene issuing from Lady Margaret eldest Daughter to them both In whose happy marriage ended the long ciuill dissentions of the two deuided families of Yorke and Lancaster And by his most rightfull succession in the deuided
1522. 1523. 1534 1550 1555 1555 1559 1566 1572 1585 1590 1590 1590 1592 1605 1605 1099 1099 1113. 1118 The beginning of the Knightes Templers Knightes Hoâ—pitallers of the Hospitall of S. Iohn in Ierusalem became afterward to be Knights of the Rhodes lastly Knights of Malta 1131. 1139. 1160 1163 1167. 1169 1169. 1179. 1187 1187 1191 1192 â—194 1194 1198 1205 1260 1230 1240 This is mistaken for this was K. Richard the first himselfe 1345 1248 1251 1260 1265 1278 1288 1294 1296 1308 The beginning of the Knights of the Rhodes who helde their first name of S. Iohns Knights stil 1317 1327. 1346 1353 1355 1365 1373. 1376 1395. 1321. This Anthony de Riuers was sent for to Rhodes he being then chiefe Commander of the Brotherhood at S. Iohns of Ierusalem in Saint Iohns street 1437. 1342 1461. 1467. 1476 1503. 1512 1513. 1521 The losse of Rhodes to the great gâ—eefâ— of al Christendome The knightes of Saint Iohn becam Knightes of Malta 1534 1535 1536. 1558 1561. A new Citty builte at Malta on S. Elemes Mount 1568 1572 1582 1595. 1601 Ecclesiasticall orders 1070 1099 1308. 1523. 1117. 1310 1130 1150 1212 11â—0 1219 1320 12â—â— 1048 The Secular Orders 1349 1350 1367 1409 1429. 1469 1561. 1578 Sabellic lib. 8. de Suplem Chron. The power of Prester-Ian His souldiâ—â—s Armour foâ— tâ—â—ir defence The exercise of the King Ptete-Ian His dyet manner of life The attendance and seruice of the Emperor The wiues of the Emperor The Originall of the Ceremony The Emperors Crown Scepter and habit The Emperors tribute by his Kings Tributes in generall of his people The onely glories of Prete-Ian his Ethyopians Whence the Ethyopians de deriue their antiquity The chiefe Citty of Persia The gouernment of the great Sophy Fishing for Pearles Of the Persian gouernment and nature of the people The ancient name of Tunis Cairoan a new Citty builded Cairoan destroyed by the Arabes Tunis gouerned by the Kinges of Marocco Tunis besiedged by the Arabes Tunis deliuered froÌ„ the Arabes The declyning of the kingdome of Marocco rising of that of Fez. The King of Tunis King of Affrica A strange election of the duke of Moscouia Concerning the Countrey Men for the Warre Their drink and Corne. Their money Their Religion The Princes Court Learned men amoÌ„g them His daily warres The K. of Muscouâ—aes Tules He is tributary to the King of the Tartars Of the maner and scituation of Polonia The firste Rulers of Poland Vayuodes called Paladines Gracchus the firste Prince of Poland Paladines chosen againe A King created againe Gracouia forsaken by the King Piastus refused the name of K calling him selfe Duke of Poland The discent of the kings of Poland Henry heire of France King of Poland Strange nations weakned the Roman Empire The originall of the Gothes More people then the Countrey can feede The Goths wander to seeke a new dwelling The Goths raigne in Italy and Spaine The reason of the Gothes continuance Of the Ostrogoths Westrogoths Wisigoths The errour of some young Cosmographer Of the Vandales The errour of Procopius The trauels of the Vandales into diuers couÌ„tries The Huns of Scythia and theyr trauailes Attila King of the Huns Attila his losse in France Of the Lombardes and whence they descended A very seuere Edict Istria in Italy conquered and new named Lombardy The Normans issued from Norduegia Suesses cam out of Sweuia They goe among the Heluetians Their pouertie among the Heluetians Of the Allemaignes whence they were deriued The true Alemaigns of Suaba Alaines what people they were and whence they came Of the Gepides or Girpedes The Originall of the Picts and their comming into the Isle of Orkeney The first k. of the Picts Kenneth K. of Scots desolateth Pictland Of the Getes Of the Bourguignons Of their first name A faire vniuersitie in Bourgougn Of the kingdome of Naples Robert Guiscard the valiant Norman The Scicilian euening Hen. count of Lorraine The first K. of Portugal The King of Portugal a Knight of S. Iohn of Ierusalem The succession of the Kinges of Portugall People of Paphlagonia People by the inner gulfe of the Adriatick Sea towardes the Alpes Liburnia the Countrey of Croaua between Istria Dalmatia The scituation of Venice and capacitie thereof Mountains in the north part of Scythia where snow lieth continually An ancient citty in that part of Italy called Forum Iâ—lij The first foundation of Venice Litle IslaÌ„ds in the Sea and neere adioining The prime estate of the place wher Venice now standeth The first builders of Venice at what time Theyr first buildings destroyed by fire The first Church built in Venice Noble and rich men the first fouÌ„ders of Venice The first Goldsmiths knowne in Europe were in Venice Care of Iustice and common good Loue of religion in especial respect Aristocratia optimatum principatus The Gouernment of Consuls and who were the first in Venice The creation of Tribunes and what they were Election of a Duke among the Venetians Who was the first D. of Venice Spaine deuided at first into six Prouinces viz. 1. Terracon 2. Carthage 3. Lusâ—tania 4. Gallacia 5. Boetia 6. Tingintaua 433. The Moors in possession of all Spaine The Kingdomes of Nauarre Arragon Portugall conquered from the Moores 1492 The beginning of the kingdom of Spaine and deâ—cent of their kings 1516. 1555 1598 Of Germany and the Princes Electors Three Ecclesiastiks and three Layickes with addition of a fourth the K. of Bohemia The errour of Writers about the names originall Francus or Frencion the son of Hector Sicambra the Daughter of King Priam. Cimmerians Cimbrians Sicambrians Francs or Francions The Hebrew Fraci and the Affricanes The Cimbrian Chersonnesus Torches or Torques of Torquor their King Theudomer a kinsman by descent to king Priam Neumagi is new kinsmen Antenor married Cambra Daughter to the King of Britaine Priam Son to Antenor succeeded him then Marcomedes Clodion Clodomire Meradac BoloÌ„ kings leagued with the Teutones Why the Emperour Valentinian called theÌ„ Francâ— K. Priam slaine and his people fled into Germany The Sicambrians liued with the Pánonians Franconia in Saxonie and France in Gaule Of the word Franc or Francs The French wold haue their name deriued of Ferocitie Hector had no son but Astianax Franchise and Immunitie The Francs builded a Citty neere to the Palus Maeotides The Francs foyled by the Emperor chuse a Captaine named Marcomir The words of Amianus Marcellinus They chuse an order of gouerment among theÌ„ The aduise of Charamond concerning the election of Pharamond Quadrek his opposition against Charamond The election of King Pharamond Pharamond first King of the Francs or Franconians Clodion was the first that entred into Gaule Pharamond deuiseth Lawes for his people with consent of his Lords Lawes Saliques or Ripuaries A custome among barbarous Nations Especiall maters happening in the time of Pharamond 431 Clodion sirâ—named Hayrie for wearing long hayre and a beard in signe of
1555 1556. Elizabeth Q of England 1559 The Spanish Inquition 1565 1568 1574 Wil. Prince of Orange The Commaunder of Castile 1575 Don Iohn of Austria 1577. The Arch-Duke Mathias 1578. The Prince of Parma 1580. The Duke of Aniou 1581. The States for themselues 1582 The prince of Orange shot 1584 The Prince of Orange murdered 1585 The Earle of Leicester Sir Phillip Sidney slain 1587 Sluice The Lord willoughby 158â— Prince Maurice 1592 Ernestus D. of Austria 1594. Prince Maurice shoulde be murdered twice Sir Frances Vere 1595. Albertus Arch duke of Austria 〈…〉 1596 Hulst besiedged 1597 Tournhoult 1598 The Iesuits conspire the death of Prince Maurice The death of K. Phillip 1599 1600 The battaile of Nicuport Prince Maurice and the states losse 1601 1602. 1604 The long siedge at Oastend The Arch-dukes losse at Oastend 1605. 1606 1607 1608 1069 1610. The Originall of the Irish Leyland in Cyg Caâ—t Scotach or Scota the wife of Gathelus An. mund 2â—33 Cambâ—eâ— Lib. 1. dict 3. rub 5 6. The first K. of Ireland Roderick K. of the Picts Turgesius the Tyrant The iust punishment of a lasciuious Tyrant Saxo Grammat Albert. Crantz Syluest Girald Cambrensis O Dermon Mac Morogh Dermon sweareth allegiance to K Henry Gilbert Earl of Chepstone Robert Fitz Stephens Maurice Fitz-gerard Fitzstephens his men passe into Ireland A prophesâ— of Merlinâ— Richard Strongbow Earle of Chepstone and Pembroke Celidons prophesye Merlins Prophesie King Henry offended with Earle Strongbow The princes of Ireland sweare fealty to King Henry The yeares of our Lord 1174 1177 1182 1227 1228. 1253 1258 1261. 1267 1268 1269 1270 1272 1281 1295 1293 1314 1315 1317. 1319 1320 1321 1323 1327 1332 1338 1339 1346. 1355 1357 1361 1367 1369 1372 1381 1394 1401. 1403 1407 1413 1414 1420. 1470 1494 1501 1520 1523 1529 1534. 1540 1541 1546. 1546 1547 1548. 1549 1550 1551 1553 1555 1556 1556. 1557 1558 1559 1564 1565 1567 1568. 1570 1571 1572 1579. 1580. 1580. 1582 1584. 1588 1595 1597 1599 1600 1602. 1604. Gathelus a noble Grecian An. Mund. 2416 Ioseph Lib. 2 Cap. 7. Gathelus his departure out of Egypt He landed in Portingale The Citty Brachara builded Campostella builded The Scots foyleth the spaniards Gathelus his Marble stone The inscription on the stone of Gathelus Gathelus his people doo greatly a-abound Gathelus his two sonnes come into Ireland The death of Gathelus and valor of his son Hiberus Scottes and Spaniardes one nation Simon Brechus in Ireland first K. ouer the Scots Fandufus his issue Rothsay transporteth his Scots into the western Isles Argathelia in remembraunce of Gathelus The Pictes come into Albion Ferguhardus in Ireland Fergusius the first king of Scotland Feritharis the second k. of Scotland Howe the first kinges of sâ—ottes succeded each other The birth of our Sauiour Iesus Christ 54 58 71 75 131 133 162 176 207 211 216 242 252 273 287 322 358 360 363 369 424. 440 The Brittaines tributary to the Scots and Picts 470 481 501 521 531 The death of King Arthur Mordred c. 578 588 England made seuen kingdomes 606 620. 632 645 664 684 A generall Pestilence 688 697 Strange visions in Albion 6â—9 716 The Histories of the Kings liues written 734 762 767 769 788 819 824 830. 833 839 The vtter sâ—buersion of the Picts Translation of the Marble stone 860. 874 A vertuous King 876. 893. 903 943. 959 968 972 976 1000 1002 1010. 1034 1046. 1057 1092 * Thaines were as Barons 1101 1109 The beginning of the Knights of Rhodes 1153 The vertuous life and raigne of K. Dauid 1165 1214 1249 1290 The seueral claimes of Iohn Baliol and Robert Bruse 1250 The firste comming of the Stuarts to the Crowne 1390 The Kings name changed 1424 The inuention of guns in this kings time 1436. The Arte of Printing found out 1461 1488. King Iames married the eldest daughter to Henry 7. King of England 1513 1542 Mary Dowager of France returneth backe into Scotland 1567 Geog. Com. lib. Beros an t Lib. 1. Annius de Viter in CoÌ„ment sup 4. Lib. Beros de aut Lib. 1 Iohannes Bodin ad fact hist cogn Franciscus Tarapha Samothes first King of Celtica Wolfang Lazius demigr gen Lib. de Magic success Lib. 22. De ant CaÌ„t. ceâ—t Lib. 1. Script Brit. ceâ—t 1. Magus second King Sarron third King Druis 4. K. De bello Gal gicâ— Lib. 9. Lib. 6. Anti. Lib. 5 Bardus fift King The Celtes subiected by Albion the Gyant Bergion ruled in Ireland Britania of Britona and Britomartis Diana Britonas Oracle Albania Calydonia Aetolia Britannia a Wildernes Ferarum altrix Wilde Buls and Kine Calydon was the son of Aetolus Mars the father of Etolus Parthaon Britona Parthaon now Perth in Aetolia Aetolia now Athol Calydon wood CalydoniuÌ„ Cathnesse Calydon Aetolia Parthaon Britannia of Britona Albania of Albania Chronicles and written Records of Brute Dianas Temple at Troia noua Diana Tauropolia Theonteâ— Dea. Diana Bellona of Yorke Briges Phryges Brigantes Abus Aestuarium Abij Albaâ—i Agathyrsi Troyans called Taurini Tauroscythi Taurus the mansion of Venus Riuers of Britaine are Recordes of Brute Towns and Citties Recordes of Brute Diuers Nations and people of Britain Recordes of Brute Princes Noblemen and Gentlemen Recordes of Brute Brute slewe his Father Siluius Brute met with Corineus Brutes resistance in Gallia Brutes landing in Albion The building of London The deuision of Brittaine by Brute to his sonnes The death of Albanact The death of k. Locrine Madan deuoured by Wolues 2949 Memprecius deuoured by wild beasts 2969 The building of York 3009 3021 The building of Carleill 3046. The building of CaÌ„terbury Winchester and Shaftsbury 3085 The building of Bath 3105. The building of Leircester on the Riuer of Sore 3155 â—150 Britaine deuided the second time Cunedagius builded 3. Temples 3203. The building of Rome 3249 3287 3336 3364 3418 3476. The Pentarchy of fiue Kings 3529 The building of Blackwell hall Malmsbury and the vies builded Mulmutius Lawes The 4 high waies of England The beginning of sanctuary Waights measures to buy and sell by 3574 Britaine againe diuided The names of the foure high wayes of England Belines-gate The building of the Tovver of London 3596 The foundation of Cambridge 3614 3657 The arriual of the Picts 3663. 3669 3670 3676 3686 33. Kinges betwixt Elidurus and Lud. The Isle of Ely 3895 Luds-gate Troy-nouant altered to Luds Towne 3508 The RomaÌ„ comming into Britain with Caesar Four Kings in Kent 3921 3944 The birth of Iesus Christ The year of Christ 17 Guideruis slaine at Portchester How South hampton became so named 46 Ioseph of Arimathia came into Brittaine Britain gouerned by Romayne Deputies 73 The Pictes comming into Britain Westmaria Westmerland 125 Colchester builded 16â— Britain conuerted to the Christian faith Arch-byshops Bishops appointed in Britaine S. Peters Churches at Westminster London in Corne-hill The Wall of Adrian 207 A Trench cast in Brittaine from sea to sea
whō he had not any children Much strife war and bloodie bickering happened betwéene him and the Byshoppe of Vtrecht with shrewd disaduantages on eyther side till by the meanes of some Noblemen they were reduced to amity This Duke VVilliam by what occasion it could neuer bee knowne fell distracted of his senses and slew a Knight with a blow of his Fist so that hee was shut vppe vnder good Guarde for ninetéene yeares space euen till he dyed Hauing gouerned his Prouinces of Holland Zeland and Frizeland before his madnesse seauen yeares and Henault two 26 Albert of Bauaria Brother to Duke William in the time of his distraction was sent for from Bauaria and made Gouernour of his Brothers Countries in hope of his recouery which by no meanes coulde hee compassed Hee vanquished the Frizons in many rebellions tooke the Towne of Delft and beheaded the Baron of Eughien vppon sinister informations which caused great trouble betweene him and fire bretheren of the said Baron but vpon their reconcilement Count Albert builded the Channorny of the Chappell at the Court of the Hage In his time a Sea-Woman by reason of great Tempestes at Sea and extraordinarie high tides was seene swimming in the Zuyderzee betwéene the Townes of Campen and Edam which béeing brought to Edam and cleansed from the Sea-Mosse grown about her by her long abiding there she was like to another woman endured to be apparrelled would féede on meates as others did yet sought shee all meanes to escape and get into the water againe had shee not very carefully bin tended She did learne to spin and exercise other womanly qualities being daily séene of infinite persons who haue made perfect testimoniall of this race accident and signified if for an vndoubted truth auouching that she liued fiftéene yeares and lyeth there buryed in the Church-yard In the yeare 1404. this famous Prince Albert dyed after hée had gouerned his Countries forty sixe yeares ninetéene as he was Tutor to his distracted Brother and twenty seauen as Prince Heire and Lorde of those Countries beeing buryed at the Hage in Holland 27 William sixt of that name after the death of Duke Albert of Bauaria his Father succéeded as his immediate Heire His first Wife was Daughter to Charles the fift King of Fraunce and shée dyed young without any Issue He secondly married the Daughter of Iohn Sonne to Phillip the bold Duke of Burgundie by whom he had one onely Daughtex named Iaqueline or Iacoba as the Dutch vse to call her This Count William wasted Frizeland spoiled Liege and preuailed against the Gueldres as also the Lordes Father and Sonne of Arckell at Gorrichom and reconciled the Duke of Burgundy to the French King The Dolphine of France Sonne to King Charles the sixt marryed Iaqueline Count Williams Daughter but he being poysoned by putting on a shirt of maile died without Issue As Earle William himselfe did not long after being bitten in the Legge by a mad Dogge which hurt could neuer bee cured So that Lady Iaqueline his Daughter and widow to the Dolphine of Fraunce was his true Heire in all his Seigneuries He gouerned thirtéene yeares and lieth buried at Valenciennes in Henault 28 Iaqueline or Iacoba Daughter and Sole-heire to William of Bauaria succéeded her Father in all his Earledomes and Seigneuries being then Widdow to the Dolphine of France and yet but 19. yeares of age In regard of her youth and widdow-hood she endured much mollestation in her gouernment chiefely in Holland for the two factions tooke head againe and bandied their boldnesse on both sides the Hoeckins fauouring the Countesses faction and the Cabillantines her Enemies by which meanes her rule was greatly disturbed For Iohn of Bauaria forsaking his Bishoppricke of Liege sought to make himselfe an Earle and marry his Nice Iaqueline vtterly against her will and yet to dispossesse her of her rightfull inheritance for which purpose he leagued himselfe with the Cabillantines and other powerfull Friends who neuerthelesse were slaine in their bolde aduenture at Gorrichome And to frustrate the Bishoppes vaine hope the Pope dispenced her marriage with Iohn Duke of Brabant albeit hee was her néere Kinsman whereby their Patrimoniall inheritances were the more strengthened and hée acknowledged as their Prince in Henault Holland Zeland Frizeland c. It were néedlesse here to relate the following molestations of Iohn of Bauaria the bishop to his Niece Iaqueline taking on himselfe the title of Earle and therefore by some rancked among the Earls of Holland or the after marriages of Lady Iaqueline to the Duke of Glocester Vnckle to Henry the sixt King of England the fourth and last time in great priuacy to Frank of Borsselle Lieutenant of Zeland or her no meane troubles by the Duke of Burgundy to whom she resigned vp all her Countries Let it suffice that she liued in continuall vexations 19. yeares and dying at the Hage was buried in the Chappell of the Court of Holland 30 Phillip Duke of Burgundy being both by Father and Mother rightfull yeire and successor to the fore-named Countesse Iaqueline was thus entitled Phillip Duke of Bourgogne Brabant and Lembourg Earle of Flanders Artois Burgogne Henault Holland Zeland and Namur Marquesse of the holy Empire Lord of Frizeland Salins and Macklyn He had thrée Wiues by the two first hee had no Children but by the last named Isabel daughter to Iohn K. of Portugall he had thrée sons Anthony losse who died young and Charles Martin Earle of Charolois and successor to his father This Phillip of Bourgogn instituted the order of Knight-hood of the golden Fliece had much discontent with his Son Charles whom at length he married to the Lady Margaret Sister to Edward the fourth K. of England The Rebels of Gaunt and Bruges dearly felt the valour of this Phillip he besieged Callis surprized Luxemboug subdued Liege and ouer-came the Hamecons Hee excéeded all his predecessors Duks of Bourgogne in riches Seigneuries height of Pomp and State He died the fift of Iune 1467. hauing gouerned about forty yeares In his time was the famous Art of Printing first inuented the men of Harlem in Holland do challenge the first honor thereof but it was reduced to perfection at Mentz by one Iohn Faustus who had béen Seruaunt to Laurence Ianson of Harlem as they constantly affirme it 31 Charles Sur-named the Warlique Duke of Bourgogne succéeded in all his Fathers Titles and Dignities The Inhabitants of Gant resisting him he brought them vnder obeysance defeated the Liegeois in battaile which enforced Liege to yéelde to him He made peace with the French King who doubted to be detayned at Peronne by Duke Charles Vpon a fresh rebellion of the Liegeois The Duke forced king Lewes to go with him to the siedge of their town which hee ruined and practised the like of the House of Brederode He warred against the Frizons and carried many