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
stained this faire fame with crueltie vsed by him to his owne mother for after her second marriage he caused her to be imprisoned albeit the Pope labored the matter greatly by his Legate yet could hee neuer compasse her deliuerance Which sin was seuerely punished on him by his enemies who afterward tooke him in battell And then his son Sanctio succéeded him and after Sanctio diuers other to Iohn who was the tenth King in direct and natural line This Iohn was at the first expulsed from his Kingdome and made a Knight of S. Iohn of Ierusalem but at length he was re-called to his kingdome where he made very honorable proofe of his valour and among diuers famous déeds he tooke from the Sarrazins the Citty of Septia Hee had seauen Sonnes among which Ferdinand for intergrity of life was tearmed a Saint Henry another of his Sons was the first that found Noua Insula in the Athlantike Sea He being very skilful in the Mathematicks liued continually without a Wife and made his daily abiding in a Promontory which was called the Cape of S. Vincent and there he died in the yeare 1460. But Edward who was the eldest brother was made King and by warres he adioyned to the kingdome of Portugall Zelia Tigea and Alcazar in Affrica He had two Daughters or Sisters as some say named Ioane and Leonora the first was married to the king of Castille and the other to Frederick the third Emperor of whom was borne Maximilian the first who was afterward Emperor and Grandfather to Charles the fift He had also a Son named Alphonsus who succéeded him in the Kingdome and begate Iohn Emanuel who was 14. king of Portugal Emanuel had Iohn who took to wife the sister of Charls 5. Emperor called Katherine Lodwick died an infant but Isabel was wife to the said Charles he had another daughter that was maried to Charls D. of Sauoy After him succéeded Sebastian who in our time fighting with the Moors was slain and the king of Marocco with diuers other great Lords of the Moores Henry Vnckle to the deceased king followed him in succession he being then a Cardinal very aged holding the kingdom but some few months But he dying Phillip king of Spain entred on the kingdom resisting the claime of Don Anthonio beeing a Brothers-son of the dead King Henry and so out-wearied him that hée could neuer attaine thereto in full possession So it remaineth still vnder the Spanish gouernment ¶ The Kingdome of Italy COncerning the Kingdome of Italy the antiquity thereof when at first it was called Ianicula of Ianus Camesena of Cameses Saturnia of Saturnus Hesperia of Hesper and Italia of Italus with all the Kinges there raigning till the Latines and those likewise that descended of Eneas to the time of Romulus with the History both of olde Rome and Rome as it now is it remaineth to our generall History Onely we will say somewhat of the Originall of Venice moued thereto by iust occasion A breefe discourse of the Originall of the Venetians the foundation of Venice and how it hath beene gouerned from the year of our saluation 421. to thiâ— instant To the ancient Right Worshipfull and worthy Society of the Gold-Smiths HIstoriographers who haue written of the Venetians doe not agrée together in theyr true Originall For some doe write that they are descended of the Venetian Gaules inhabiting along the Ocean Sea in little Britaigne called Armorica whereof one of the principall Citties béeing a Bishops Sée was called Vennes Others and among them Titus Liuius borne in Padua assures vs that they came forth of Paphlagonia and that Philemon their Captaine being slaine at Troy the great they went with Antenor into Italy Others write that this Nation hauing béene Neighbours to the Cappadocians and venturing fight with the Cimmerians they hazzarded further vpon the Adriatick Sea in their Fortune The most common opinion is of them who say that the Hinitians or Henetes came with Antenor and in sometime after by changing of a letter were called Venitians or Venetes First of all they expelled the Euganeans who inhabited this Countrey betwéene the Adriatick Sea and the Alpes and builded the Cittie of Padua Afterward by successe of time they increased in such sort as they would not be satisfied to bee Maisters onely of that which had appertained to the Euganeans consisting of thirtie foure faire Citties and Townes but intruded farther to seaze on Bressano and Forli Some report this Countrey to be bounded with the Riuers of Pau and that of Adde as also the Lake of Guard aunciently called the Benack the Alpes and the Adriatick Sea And so the auncient Venetians in this manner extended their Dominion both in longitude and latitude in the most pleasant Countrey of Italy but the seating of the places did daily beget the elder estate of the Venitians hatred For on the one side the ordinary robberies of the Liburnians and on the other side the frequent and frightful courses of the Barbarians did hinder them froÌ„ any long time of continuing in quiet For without these impeachments this Nation had béene most fortunate in conquering by the right of Warre one of the most goodly and beautifull Regions in all Italie Nowe ouer and beside that on the South-side it is enuironed with a most calme circuite of the Sea and in regard thereof is the more capable of receiuing all strange Merchandizes So is it likewise wattered with very delectable Riuers whereby whatsoeuer commeth from the Sea is easilie transported to the very Nauell of the Prouince It aboundeth in Pooles Pondes Forrests and vnder-woodes and the whole Land is choicelie fertile in Corne Wine Oyle and all kindes of Fruites It is also plentifully stored with Countrey Houses Townes Citties and Villages Castles Fortes and such like very commendable for the scituation and enclosure of their Wals. These nâ—w Inhabitants when their weake estate beganne to growe in fairer forme they were seldome exempted from the Warres and incursions of Straungers For after manie bolde insolencies of the Barbarians with continued Warres against each other euen from their very beginning vntill the time of Attila they were yet much more dreadfully encombered with the furious assault of the Gothes a teÌ„mpest farre excéeding in turbulencie all other former disasters happening to them whatsoeuer For first the Hunnes a people of Scythia dwelling néere to the Riphean Mountaines conducted by Attila the Sonne of Mandluck dispersed themselues ouer Italie and making horrible spoyle wheresoeuer they went fell into the Prouince belonging to the Vinitians After a long siedge they tooke the Cittie of Aquileia and spoyled and burnt it wholly In like manner did they ruinate the Citties of Concordia and Altina and almost all the Venitian Region At the fearefull newes of this Warre the Venitians were more amazed then any other and so much the rather because they had béene formerly invred to sustaine their
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
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
two and thirty thousand footmen and foure thousand fiue hundred horsemen marched thorow all Asia In the seuenth yeare of his Monarchy he was poysoned in Babylon Read his life set downe in Plutarch and Iustine lib. 11. After his death there grew dissention betwéene the Captaines and Macedonian Lordes who should be successour of this great Empyre At length it was resolued on the person of Arideus sur-named Phillip the Brother of Alexander Perdiceas was created Captaine General Soone after the Prouinces and Gouernments were distributed among Alexanders Captains who immediately appropriated them to themselues each one enioying the title and quality of a king Thus this great Monarchy was deuided into many parts and kingdomes all which neuerthelesse were in short while reduced into three principall kingdomes Macedon Syria and Egypt Of Macedon and the succession of Kings there raigning ARideus Phillippus the Brother of Alexander who had bin elected successor raigned in Macedon six yeares gouerning wholy by Antipater who managed all the affaires of the kingdome This king was slain by Olympias the mother of Alexander Cassander the Sonne of Antipater after the death of Arideus inuaded Macedon hauing caused the Mother and wife of Alexander to be slain Olympias and Roxana hee raigned eightéene yeares Antipater and Alexander the sons of Cassander raigned together foure years Antipater slew his Mother Alexander made warre vpon Antipater calling Demetrius to his aide who caused him to be slaine Demetrius after the death of Alexander raigned seauen yeares But hauing attempted to recouer the Empire of his father Antigonus in Asia-minâ—r which Seleucus then held he was vanquished and taken by Seleucus and dyed in prison Antigonus Gomathes the Sonne of Demetrius raigned afterwarde in Macedoâ— for the space of 36. yeares hauing recouered the kingdome which after his Fathers death had béene inuaded by many that held it for the space of eight yeares For Pyrrhus King of the Epirotes held it first Lysimachus next tooke it from him while he was seriously busied with the Romaines Lysimachus being dead Prosomâ—us Ceraunus invaded it but in short while after this Ptolomie was slaine by the Gauâ—â—s who came into Macedon and by this meanes Antigonus re-entred vpon the kingdome of his Father Demetrius who raigned eight yeares left his Sonne named Phillip verie young in years and one Antigonus was made his Tutor or Gouernor who marrying with the Mother of his Pupill by that meanes made himselfe king Antigonus Doson raigned twelue yeares Aratus chiefe of the Achaian line hee called to his aide against Cleomines King of the Lacedemonians who was vanquished by Antigonus and tooke the Cittie of Sparâ—â— Phillip the son of Demetrius raigned 44. years and hauing made warre against the Romaines he was vanquished vnder the conduct of T. Quintus Flaminius and all taken from him that he inioyed except the sole kingdome of Macedon wherein succeeded Persâ—us who raigned eleuen yeares Hée was vanquished and taken prisoner by Paulus Aemilius Consull and Captaine Generall of the Romaines and led in triumph to Rome the yeare of the Citties building 587. And then was Macedon reduced into the forme of a Prouince Of Syria and the Succession of the Kings there raigning AFter the death of Alexander the Great Seleucus was the first king of Syria Perdiccas being dead he regained the Cittie of Babylon part of the Indiaes Soone after by the helpe of Ptolomy king of Egypt hee made warre against Antigonus who commaunded in the lesser Asia and hauing ouercome him laid claime to the kingdome and was made King thereof and in short time after he ioyned al Asia-minor to Syria Antigonus being slaine in battaile And thus by him was established the great Empire of Syria Hee vanquished also Lysimachus and took from him the kingdom of Macedon But soon after he was slaine by Ptolomeus Cerannus hauing raigned 32. yeares in Syria Antiochus Soter that is to say Sauior or Preseruer the Son of Seleucus raigned 19. yeares to whom succéeded Antiochus sur-named Deos that is to say God who raigned 15. yeares Seleucus Callinicus the son of Antiochus raigned twentie yeares In his time Arsaces the Parthean reuolted from his obedience hauing vanquished manie of his neighboring Nations hee founded the kingdom of the Partheans which afterward became most potent Seleuchus sirnamed Cerannus that is to say Lightning raigned thrée yeares And after him came Antiochus the great who raigned 36. yéers He was conquered by the Romans vnder the Scipioes conduct in two foughten battailes with whom afterward he made peace on condition that he should leaue the lesser Asia from the mountaine Taurus to the Romans After whom succéeded his sonne Seleuchus Philopater that is to say A Louer of his Father who reigned twelue yeares Antiochus Epiphanes that is to say Famous who also was sonne to great Antiochus raigned twelue yeares This is the King that took Ierusalem and did so much harme to the Iewes polluted and contaminated the Temple and would constraine them to change their Religion He put the seauen brethren most cruelty to death made a most famous Martyrdome of them His Army was vanquished by Iudas Machabeus and after him his sonne Antiochus Eupator raigned two yeares In which time Demetrius the Sonne of Seleuchus Philopater who had béene giuen in Hostage to the Romans for the peace of Antiochus the great his Graundfather being fled from Rome come into Syria caused a great number of the people to reuolt that afterwarde deliuered him into the handes of the said King Antiochus who caused him immediatly to be put to death Demetrius Soter after the death of Antiochus raigned x. yeares In this time the Iewes were gouerned by the Machabees Alexander the naturall sonne of Antiochus Epiphanes hauing gathered an Army and being seized of some Citties in Syria vanquished Demetriu in battaile and slew him This Alexander raigned fiue yeares Demetrius Nicanor the sonne of Demetrius Soler came into Syria with an Army and being ayded by the King of Egypt he invaded the kingdome Alexander fled into Arabia where he was slaine and Demetrius raigned two yeares Antiochus Sedectes the sonne of Alexander assisted by Triphon expulsed Demetrius and inuaded the kingdome which he held 3. yeares Triphon slew Antiochus and possessed himself of Syria where he raigned three yeares Demetrius being yet liuing who was in short while after taken by the Partheans Antiochus surnamed Soter and Pinus Brother of Demetrius Nicanor vaÌ„quished Tryphon who afterward was slaine And hauing raigned twelue yeares he died in a battel against the Partheans Demetrius Nicanor who before had raigned two yeares was let go by the Partheans raigned afterward foure yeares more But being ouercome in battaile by Alexander Zebin he was slaine Alexander Zebin whome the King of Egypt had sent to the Syrians complaining of the cruelty of Demetrius raigned
to bee the first Byshop of Rome then liued likewise Philo the Iew Perseus Mela Pliny the elder and Columella Saint Paule the Apostle went then thorow the World proclaiming Iesus Christ accompanyed with Saint Luke Then liued Dionisius Areopagita And then was the first Councell of Ierusalem Nero the Sonne of Agripina afterward the Wife of Claudius raigned thirtéene yeares Hee was the first Persecuter of the Church and did put Saint Peter and Saint Paule to death hee slew likewise his Maister Seneca also his owne Mother and Lucan the Poet. Then liued Simon Magus and Appolonius Nero beeing erpulsed from Rome slew himselfe after hee had set Rome on fire to make himselfe pastime of a Bon fire Sergius Galba the seauenth month of his Empire was slaine by Otho Suetonius Egesius Lib. 4. Cap. 21. M. Siluius Otho he also most wickedly slewe himselfe in the third month of his Empire confessing that he had cruelly tormented the spirit of Galba According to Suetonius and Tacitus Lib. 7. Aulus Vitellius brought vp at Bourdeaus de Caprea being a vicious Man and a glutton was hewed in péeces and cast into Tyber hauing raigned eight months He caused himselfe to bée serued at his Table with two thousand seuerall kinds of Fishes and seauen thousand of Foules all at one supper Suetonius Lib. 9. Iosephus Lib. 5. de Bel. Iudas Vespasian a modest and gracious Prince a louer of skilfull men and good Artisans raigned ten yeares accompanied with his Sonne Titus who ruinated Ierusalem Iosephus Proclus Epictetes This ruine was the most lamentable that euer happened for therein dyed 110000. men read Iosephus in his sixe and seauen Bookes of the Iewish wars and Egesippus Titus the delight and sollace of mankind raigned two years He vsed to say That no man ought to depart from a Prince with a sad countenance Casstus Neracius Proculeius and Pegasus were then Lawyers and Saint Bartholmew was then martired in India Saint Matthias in Iudea S. Andrew in Scythia Saint Mathew in Aethyopia Saint Thomas in Bragmania Hierusalem was then taken the Famine beeing so extreame as Mothers were compelled to eate their owne children Domitian Brother to Titus was a most wicked man and persecuter of the Christians hee raigned fiftéene yeares then liued Martiall Iuuenall Statius Trogus and saint Iohn wrote the Gospell as also Iosephus did the Warres of the Iewes Domitian would néedes afterward bée called God and Lord of his people wherfore being hated of all men he was slaine Nerua a good Prince and the adopted father of Traian raigned one yeare he gaue more than an hundred thousand Crownes to reléeue poore Cittizens He tooke away extreame taxations and wanting mony he sold his garments plate and Pallace esteeming his owne Parents and kindred much lesse then he did the publick benefit The Christians were in great quyet vnder him and the banished repealed among whome was S. Iohn Traian a good Emperour but that he persecuted the Church reigned 19. yeares Being admonished that he was ouer gracious to all men he answered That he was such to his Subiects as he could wish others should be to him if he were a Subiect Then liued S. Ignatius S. Eustachius Pliny the yonger Plutarch Aulus Gellius Suetonius Tacitus Solinus Aelius Adrianus a man studious and skilfull in all Sciences and the first Emperour that suffered a beard on his face raigned 21. yeares Iulius Celsus Iulian and Neracius Priscus were Lawyers councellors to the Emperour Then were liuing Ptolomy the great Astrologer Phanorinus Dionisius the Milesian and Heliodorus Hierusalem was repaired by Adrian who therefore had his name chaunged and was called Helias Antoninus Pius reigned 23. yeares He was a Prince of such estéeme as straunge Nations would resort vnto him and make him Iudge of their differences for hee had alway this saying ready I had rather saue one Cittizen then kill a thousand Enemies In this time were Polycarpus Ireneus Iustine Martire Egesippus Appian Florus Macrobius Iustine Gallen and Palladius Lucian the Atheyst also was then torne with Dogs This Emperour tooke awaie the wages or hire of strumpets punnished idle Magistrats and was called Father of his country Read Eutropius Lib. 8. Thelesphorus the ninth Pope as some report did then institute or rather restore the time of Lent M. Antoninus the Phylosopher called Aurelius borne in Gaule with L. Commodus Verus and called Brethren in the Bookes of the Pandectes raigned 19. yeares This good prince being vnwilling to oppresse his subiectes made sale of all his fairest and richest Iewels plate wearing garmentes belonging vnto him and his wife Eutrop. lib. 8. Lucius Aurelius Verus gouerned the empyre with his brother Marcus Antoninus the space of eleauen yeares By some Authors he is set down in order before his brother by others after him L. Commodus the most wicked sonne of good Antoninus raigned 13. yeares He was strangled by his Concubine and other Conspirators Eutrop. lib. 8. Orosius lib. 8. cap. 18. Lampridius doth most amply describe his life at large Aeâ—ius Pertinax raigned six moneths He had refused the Empire and beeing desirous to reforme the gouernment he was slaine by Iulian his successour who bought the name of Caesar of the Warriors The people much bemoaned this Prince crying out aloud O father of goodnesse Father of the Senate Father of al bounty Farewell V. Iulian raigned seauen moneths and being hated of all men for sleying his predecessor him selfe was also slaine by appointment of the Senate Dissention grew amongst the Christians for the celebration of Easter And the second Councell appointed the day of Sunday and fiue other after Euseb lib. 5 cap. 24. Metianus Sâ—euola Martianus and Cassius were now Iurisconsultes Aphrodiseus and Aphronius Sophysters Pescennius Niger or Nigerius the sonne of Annius Fuscus indifferently lerned fierce proud and inclined to all vice was saluted as Emperour by the souldiors of Syria where he commanded and was slaine by Seuerus L. Septimâ—us Seuerus raigned 18. yeares He was a Persecutor of the Church but otherwise a valiant Prince addicted both to good letters and Armes He was so well beloued and gouerned so nobly that the Senate said of him Eyther he should neuer haue bin borne or else hee deserued neuer to die Read Spart and Vict. Then liued Origen Tertullian Philostrates the Sophister and Apuleyus Cl. Albinus issued of the Romaines families of the Posthumians and Albines made himselfe Emperour in France He was surprised by the Souldiers and brought halfe aliue to Souerus where hauing his head smitten off he was hanged on a gibbet and being torne with dogges he was throwne into the Riuer A. B. Caracalla the sonne of Seuerus and husband to his stepmother raigned seuen years He slue Geta his brother and Papinian the great and famous Lawyer with diuers other At last himselfe was slaine by a souldior of his Guarde Herod lib. 4. Antoninus Geta
but he did as much to the men sent by Lewes sirnamed Gods guift king of France So that in a short while so great a number of the French perrished by falshood and Treason that the name of Manuell became odious among the French Roger entred in earnest vpon the Countrey of Greece besieged Constantinople and with a gallant brauado culled many floures of gold and siluer out of the Emperors garden Manuell offered outrage to an Ambassador of Venice and in one day surprised all their Marchants whom he had betraied vnder the colour of peace for which the Venetians constrained him afterward dearly to buy his owne peace He made warre against the Turks wherein he was almost taken And after hee had raigned eight and thirty yeares hee liued as a Monke and died of a grieuous disease Alexius the sonne of Manuell helde the Empire after him in the yeare 1180. vnder Andronicus his coosin-germain who then was his Tutor afterward his companion in the empire and at last his murderer for secretly he caused his hed to be cut off and threw his body into the Sea he being but fifteen yeares old Andronicus Comnenes the sonne of Isaake entred on the empire of Constantinople after his coosine germain Alexius whom cruelly he had caused to be murdered in the yeare 1183. William king of Sicily made warre vpon him to reuenge the death of Alexius And as he was assailed on all sides Isaacke sirnamed the Angell contrary to all opinion came so suddenly vpon him that he not onely foiled him but deiected him from the empyre and hauing seized vpon his person hee caused one of his eies to be pulled out and then set him vppon an Asse with his face backward crowning him with a wreath of rotten Garlicke or Onions and holding the stalke of one of them in his hand in stead of a Scepter In this order was he shewen through the Citty of Constantitinople men women and children doing many iniuries vnto him casting both durt and filth in his face smiting him also with stones and staues In this manner being cruelly bruised and murdered he was hanged vp when yet the women would not leaue him so but dismembred him into the smallest pieces Isaack the Angell tooke the empyre on him after Andronicus in the yeare 1185. He qualified the tyrranie of many and entertained magnificently Frederick Emperor of Rome who passed into Syria Hee redéemed with a great sum of mony his younger brother Alexius whoe most vnthankefully bereft him both of his eies and Empire because he séemed to fauour the Venetians He kept him likewise in prison vntill that Alexius the sonne of Isaac in despite of his vncles mallice by tears and faire intreats obtained succour of the French and the Venetians wherewith he deliuered his Father who very soon after died hauing taken too much the fresh ayre after his so long close imprisonment Alexius the Angell murderer of his Brother Isaac helde the Empire of Constantinople after him in the yeare 1195. He was most wicked cruelly handled his elder brother onely to vsurpe the Empire The like hee would haue doone to his Nephew Alexius who escaping from him was carried by Sea into Dalmatia where hee found the Nobility of France with Baldwin and the Venetians whom he moued to warre against his vncle promising them thirty thousand marks of gold and all kind of victuals if his imprisoned father or himselfe might by their meanes regaine the Empyre Hereupon those valiant lords hoysed saile towards Constantinople and tooke it hauing first broken the chain which thwarted the Sea Alexâ—us saued himselfe by flight Isaac was deliuered out of prison who died soone after and his sonne Alexius the younger was elected Emperor Alexius the yonger being sonne to Isaac was seated in the Empire in the yeare 1204. by an agreement made betwéene him and the French and Venetians It is said that then it was sought to haue the Patriarch of Constantinople subiect inferior to the Pope of Rome and that the Emperor should recompence the French and Venetians for the damages which Manuell had doone vnto them But scarcely was he entred into his gouernment of the Empire and employing his paines to accomplish his promises when as Murziphilus no Noble man yet one whom he hadde aduanced to great authority killed him And so this yong and innocent Prince died by Treason Murziphilus finding his sinne much misliked in the night time fledde away with his Wife his strumpets and treasure yet not long after hee was brought backe againe from Morea as a Captiue to Constantinople where he died miserably By this meanes both the Citty and empire of Greece remained to the French and Baldwine was the first Emperour of the French Nation Baldwine Earle of Flanders was after Alexius the younger elected emperour of Constantinople by all the warlike souldiors of Flaunders as also the Marquesse of Montferrat of Sauoy and of Venice in the year 1205. Before this election there was a condition thus determined That if the emperor who was to be elected should be of the French the Venetians should make a Patriarch as it happened Baldwine then recouered all that belonged to the Empire of Constantinople except Adrianople which Theodor kinsman to Alexius the murderer held as his wiues dowry and kept there his Empire But as the French laide siege thereto and were vpon the very point of surprizing it Baldwine was there taken and put to death hauing scarsly gouerned one yeare Henry the brother of Baldwine was made Emperor after him Hee pursued the besieging and assault of Adrianople but the Sarazins comming to succour it he retyred to Constantinople which then he strongly fortified He made peace and alliance with the Vallachians tooke their Dukes daughter in marriage and both farre off and at home guided all affaires prouidently Hee constituted William son to Boniface K. of Thessaly soon after his fathers death leauing his daughter Iolanta as his heyre who was married vnto Peter of Auxerre that succéeded him in the Empire Peter de Courtnay or to speake better of France being the yongest sonne of Lewes le gros and Earle of Auxerre by the meanes and right of his wife Iolanta in reguard that Henry hadde lefte no heyre male succéeded in the Empire of Constantinople the yeare 1216. He returning to Rome after his Coronation besieged Baudras in fauour of the Venetians But it proued in vaine for at a gallaunt Banquet hee was beheaded by Theodor Lascarus who called himselfe Emperor of Adrianople and of the Graecians This trechery was performed vnder the shadow of a feigned peace with a faithfull promise made vpon a false Oath Others say that Lascarus had laid ambushes in the Forrest of Thessaly in the place called Tempe and that he surprised Peter in such manner shutting him vp in Captiuity and that so he died His wife Iolanta during this his thraldom held the Empyre two yeares Robert sonne to the
forenamed Peter so soone as he heard the tidings of his fathers hard aduenture departed presently from Fraunce and went directly to Constantinople where he was receyued as Emperor in the yeare 1220. There hee carried himselfe valiantly vntill such time as hée tooke to wife a young Lady who was promised troth-plighted to a Gentleman of Burgundy that neither could or would endure such a shame But he boldly comming into the Pallace did cut off the Ladies nose and threwe hir mother into the Sea because she had béen the procurer of this vniust marriage To all which the Emperour durst not say one word but went to Rome to receiue the Crowne And returning thence not long after with an intent to bee revenged he died of a strange disease in Achaia Baldwine the second sonne to the said Robert succéeded his Father in the Empire of Constantinople in the yeare 1228. But because he was ouer-young Brennus King of Ierusalem in title onely was sent from Italy to be ioyned with him as his gouernour whose daughter hee married making none account of the daughter of the king of Pontus whereby great warres ensued Baldwine being but barely stored of money for these warres and very hardly pressed engaged his son to the Venetians and to the King S. Lewes a peece of the true Crosse as it was reported to be and many precious Reliques of the Church So leuying a great Army he planted it at the entrāce of the straite of Constantinople But in the meane while by secret intelligence Michaell Paleologus had gotten into the Citty Then Baldwin flying thence with the Patriarch betooke themselues to Negropont dreading only the outward harmes while they within were ten times worse Then did the Greekes recouer the Empire of Constantinople which the French hadde helde almost the space of thréescore yeares Michaell Paleologus hauing thus cunningly seized on the Empire and got it into his owne possession held it stil very manfully for the space of two and twenty yeares But hee ran into his peoples hatred for making agréement with pope Gregory the tenth in the Councell at Lyons and acknowledging duty to him After him his son succéeded Andronicus who within a while after tooke his sonne Michaell to be his associate in the empire But Michaell being dead his sonne Andronicus the younger made warre vpon his graundfather Andronicus and compelled him to accept him as companion with him in the Empire Whereat the Emperour Andronicus conceiued such inward dislike that he soone after died hauing raigned 43. yeares Andronicus the yonger carried himselfe both wisely and valiantly in gouerning the Empyre He died of a burning Feauer hauing raigned 33. yeares his sonne succéeding Iohn Cantacuzen who was Schoolmaister to Iohn Paleologus and fellow also with him in the Empires gouernment of whom more shal be said in the life of Iohn Paleologus Iohn Paleologus called also Caloian succéeded his father in the Empire of Constantinople the yeare 1341. He being very young had for his Tutor and companion in the Empire Iohn Cantacuzen who was expulsed by the seditious deuises sleights of a man of meane birth but yet quicke dexterious and full of courage which made him the better accepted in Court It is said also that the ambition of the Patriarch of Constantinople was thereto a great furtherance But he being impatient at such an iniurie made war for fiue yeares against the mother of Iohn Paleologus and against Iohn the said Emperour and was the first man that brought the Turkes in Armes into Europe At length Constantinople yeilded it selfe vnto him and when he tooke it he did no wrong to any one but carried himselfe as fellowe Companion of the Empire giuing his daughter in marriage to the said Emperour Iohn Afterward he made warre vpon the Genowaies spéeding one while well and another ill hauing neuerthelesse with him the Venetians and the men of Arragon Then Iohn Paleologus whoe had béene banished made warre vpon him being principally ayded by the Turkes and to whome hee gaue first habitation in Europe by which meanes he cunningly entred Constantinople in the yeare 1357. And then Cantacuzen forsaking the Empire entred into a monastery and liued there as a Monke But Matthew his sonne séeking to be Competitor with Paleologus was constrained to desist So Paleologus hauing had the victory in diuers warres died in the yeare 1384. hauing raigned sixtéene yeares with his Tutour Cantacuzen and 27. yeares alone by himselfe in all 43. yeares After him was Emperour for the space of thrée yeares Andronicus the eldest sonne who neuerthelesse is not set in the number of the Emperors Manuell by some called Emanuell son to the said Iohn Paleologus held the Empire of Constantinople in the yeare 1387. And the most remarkable matter in his life was that he left seauen sonnes of which Iohn the eldest succéeded in the Empyre in the yeare 1421. Iohn eldest sonne to Manuell entred on the Empire after his fathers decease He being more addicted to peace and quietnesse then War gaue his assistance in the Councell at Ferrara which was afterward transferred to Florence Eugenius the fourth then being Pope As Emperour of the East he was graciously welcommed by both the Churches the Greek and Latine which were then made one Returning home to his Empire he liued no long time after but died not leauing any posterity of him in the yeare 1445. Constantine the eleauenth and sonne of Manuell after the death of his brother Iohn held the Empire called the Greeke Empire in the yeare 1445. He hauing bin King of Morea before was called Draco for the cruelty which hee exercised against the Turkes But when Constantinople was taken by Mahomet the second son to Amurath the second Then all trembling and hee retiring to a gate of the Citty to escape by flight was stifled to death in the prease and confusion of people that likewise fled away the 29. day of May 1453. His head was carried on the point of a Launce to be shewn through the enimies camp in derision And vndoubtedly it is a matter worthy note as also of some meruaile that Constantinople edified or re-edified enriched and exalted by Constantine the first sonne to S. Helena and after the manner of Rome shoulde vnder this Constantine the eleauenth hauing his mother to beare the same name of Helena likewise bee surprized and kept vnder the power of the Turkes euen to this instant A briefe History or summarie of the Othomans or Emperors of the Turks for the space of three hundred yeares OThoman the sonne of Orthogules was Emperor of the Turkes in the yeare of our Saluation 1300. He was the first of this Nation that carried this name which he had in regard of a Castle that he took in Galatia And he was the first also that renewed the glory and honor of his Nation For these people hadde taken Ierusalem in the yeare 1008. but they were
euen in his Baptisme and all his successours at their Coronations haue in like manner béene sacred Clouis changed his former Coate of Armes taking thrée Golden Floure-de-luces in a fielde Azure where-with hée first warred vppon Gondebant King of Burgundy who was Vnckle to his Wife and discomfited the Vuisegothes before Poictiers hauing slaine with his owne hand Alaric theyr King and wonne from them the Countrey of Aquitaine so farre as the Pyrenean Mountaines and almost all Gaule and Allemaigne Héereuppon the Emperour Anastasius sent him a Crowne of Golde with th◠Title and vesture of Patritius and Consull He made a choyse of Paris for his ordinarie abyding and commaunded it to bée the chéefe Cittie of his Kingdome where he dyed in Anno 514. béeing aged eyghty yeares And was buryed in the Church of S. Geneuiefue du mont de Paris which himselfe had founded in memory of Saint Peter and Saint Paul leauing four Sons and two daughters 6 Childebert succéeded his Father Clouis in the yeare fiue hundred fiftéene but not in the whole kingdome For he leauing foure Sonnes liuing it was deuided into foure partes among them and each one was King of his seuerall portion Childebert hadde for his part Paris where hée held his Seate royall with other dependaunces as Poictu Maine Touraine Champaigne Aniou Guienne and Auuergne Clothaire was King of Soissons Clodomire King of Orleaunce and Theodorick the Bastard béeing the eldest was King of Metz. They made Warre by the procurement of Clotilda their Mother on Sigismond King of Burgundy who was slaine with his Wife Child by Clodomire king of Orleaunce who likewise in another battaile was kild himselfe by Gondemar vnder a feigned pretence of friendshippe but for this in the end Burgundy was taken and destroied Clothaire assisted by Childebert possessed himselfe of the Kingdom of Orleaunce and slew his Nephewes Clothaire and Childebert had great wars together which in the ende was accorded and they passed with their armies into Spaine against Almarick who vsed their Sister very hardly because she would not bee an Arrian And killing him in the battaile they brought her backe with them into France Hée raigned 45. yeares and dyed without any Children hee lieth buried at S. Germaine des Prez which he founded by the name of S. Vincent 7 Clothaire the Sonne of Clouis succéeded his Brother Childebert in the yeare 559. or as some say 560. hee had before béene King of Soyssons fortie fiue yeares and suruiued all his Brethren and their Children so that at length he remained sole-king of France He was luxurious and cruell in the death of his two Nephews Children to Clodomire King of Orleaunce He likewise with much disgrace vpon a Good-Friday slewe Gauliter d'Yuetot in a Church For reparation of which wrong he aduanced or erected the Land of Yuetot which is in Normandy into a kingdome to the heires of the said Gaultier Clothaire séeing himselfe Sole-Monarch of the Gaules would néedes leuy the third part of the Churches reuennewes Against which the Arch-bishop of Tours made resistance telling the King boldly that the reuennewes of the Church were the goods of the poore He lost a battaile against the Saxons and Thuringians because hee would not take them to mercie and suffer them to depart with their liues saued Hee ouercame in warre Cran his Bastard Sonne who rose in armes against him causing him his wife and Children to be burned hauing also formerly slaine the Duke of Bretaigne whom he had caused to reuoult Hee raigned 51. yeares dyed at Compeigne and lieth buryed at S. Medard de Soyssons Anno 567. 8 Cherebert or Aribert succéeded his Father Clothaire in the yeare 567. Paris fell to him by partage He was very vnchast of life repudiated his Wife to entertaine two of her waighting women for which Germaine Byshoppe of Paris excommunicated him Hee raigned nine yeares died without any heires And lieth buried at Saynt Romaine néere Blaye in Gascoigne 9 Chilperick succéeded his Brother Cherebert in the year 577. hauing before raigned nine yeares King of Soissons He had thrée wiues the first whereof he diuorced from him compelling her to enter into Religion The second beeing named Audoüera he banished And the thyrde called Athanagilde he caused to be strangled in her bedde All which was done by the procurement of Fredegonde his Concubine whom hée then married and had a Sonne by her named Clothaire His Brethren warred againste him for his inhumanities and woulde haue deposed him but in the ende they were pacifyed Chilperick perceiuing his Brother Sigibert king of Metz to be much molested by the Allemaigns tooke many Citties from him whereat Sigibert being iustly offended neuer ceased till by the helpe of Gontran hee recouered all that was taken from him pursuing him still in such sort that Theodebert his Son was slaine and hee glad to saue himselse in Iournay where Sigibert besieged him Sigibert was slaine in his Tent by two Traitors hyred thereto by Fredegonde In short while after Fredegonde knowing that the king had noted ouermuch familiarity betwéene her and Landry Maire of the Pallace her adulterer she caused the king to be murdered by the said Landry at Chelles néere Paris as hee returned somewhat late one night from hunting hauing raigned in all 23. years and lieth buried at S. Germaine des Prez 10 In the year 587. Clothaire second of that name the son of Chilperick Fredegonde being but foure months old was acknowledged for Legitimate and made king vnder the gouernement of Gontran King of Orleans his Vnckle who made Landry Maire of the Pallace Tutor to the young King and because he should bee norished with his Mother Fredegonde Childebert King of Metz endeuoured by Armes to get the gouernment of the kingdome and as much as in him lay to haue Fredegonde punished for the death of his Father Sigibert and of his Vnckle Chilperik whom she had caused to be both murdered Gontran appeased him by making hym his heire yet notwithstanding in short while after he began war againe against which Landry with Fredegonde who was a woman of admired courage opposed themselues And she to imbolden the French carried the young king hir son in her armes walking so with him thorough the thickest of the battell and shewing him vnto the soldiors she would say Fight for your younge King and defend his kingdom by which means Sigibert was foiled and driuen to flight Brunehault hauing put to death many children of the bloud Royall was deliuered to Clothaire who caused her to be torne with four horses He reuenged himselfe on the Saxons leauing no male child aliue that was taller then his sword He raigned 44. yeares and lyeth buried at S. Germaine des Pres. 11 Dagobert first of that name succéeded his Father Clothaire in the yeare 631. he gaue to his brother Aribert the kingdom of Aquitaine in partage which
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
conquered the Frisons with their Duke and made them to receiue the Christian faith He raigned foure yeares and his buriall is not recorded 17 Childebert second of that name succéeded his Brother Clouis in the yeare 698. Of his déeds there is little set downe in writing for Pepin Heristell Maire of the Pallace ruled then the whole kingdome and mannaged all the affayres of Fraunce at his pleasure He heard Ambassadors and gaue them aunswere according peace or truce as to himselfe séemed best In these raignes the Maires of the Pallace held such authority as it was not lawful for any to contradict them And yet Lambert Bish of Vtrecht whom Pepin had reuoked from bannishment notwithstanding al his power did not forbeare to reproue his adultry but it cost him his life for hee was slaine by Dodon brother to his concubine Pepin made his own son Grimoald Mair of the palace in which office he was soone after slaine Then he made his bastard son called Charls Martel duke of Austrasia and Maire of the pallace Pepin died in the 17. year of his gouernment as Maire of the Pallace And Plectrude his wife being desirous to rule with her young sonne Thibaulte caused Charles Martel to be imprisoned at Colougne Childebert die◠hauing raigned 18. yeares and lieth buried at S. Stephens of Naucy as some haue supposed that his brother Clouis doth also 18 Dagobert second of that name succéeded his father Childebert in the yeare 716. He was gouerned by Plectrude widdow to Pepin Heristel and by Thibaulte Sonne to his sonne Drogon Some French men Crowned as their King one named Daniell or Chilperick hauing the Counte Hermanfroy Maire of the Pallace that had slaine the cruell Ebroine Charles Martell was still kept Prisoner at Coulongue by Plectrude who hindred him by that meanes from enioying his Dukedome of Austrasia Thibault the youngest Sonne of Plectrude aspyring to bee Sole-Maire of the Pallace as also to expell Hermanfroy and his King Chilperick raysed an Army against them But Hermanfroy withstood him so couragiously néere to the Forrest Charboniere that Thibaulte was glad to fly with losse of his people By this meanes Hermanfroy like a Conqueror supported the raign of Chilperick vntill that Charles Martell was escaped out of Prison Dagobert raigned foure years leauing two Sons who by the factions of diuers Princes affecting the gouernment were made Monkes 19 Clothaire fourth of that name was king in Anno. 720. After that Charles Martell had escaped out of Prison wherein he had béene detained by Plectrude his Step-mother he came presently into Fraunce with a strong Army to re-seaze his Lordship of Maire of the Pallace and to exclude Chilperick called Daniell with duke Hermanfroy Maire of the Pallace who hadde made him King of France after the death of Dagobert the second They encountred together and by the ayde of the Duke of Frise hée was discomfited and fled But yet his courage was not quailed for afterward hee foiled Chilperick néere to Cambray who hauing revnited his forces with the helpe of Eudo Duke of Aquitaine was once more vanquished in Champaign The Duke of Aquitaine retyring tooke Chilpericke home with him into his Country Hermanfroy called by some Rainfroy was pursued and taken in the Cittye of Angiers where Martell in kindnesse left him to finish his daies Charles Martell hauing preuailed against all disaduantages was receiued in Fraunce for Maire and great Gouernor After the first victory which he had against Chilperick he made Clothaire the fourth King of France whom some do tearme to be Brother and others Vnckle to Dagobert the second He raigned two yeares and lieth buried at Nancy 20 Chilperick second of that name otherwise called Daniel hauing bin nourished young in a Monastery had formerly raigned two yeares before Clothayre the fourth Charles Martell after the death of the said Clothaire sent for him out of Gascoigne and acknowledging his lawfull right caused him to be constituted King in the yeare 722. This did he the rather nowe in the fresh Sun-shine of his reconfirmed power to hold him as King in apearance onely that he dying without issue might leaue the Crown to his Brother He raigned almost fiue yeares and lyeth buried ot Noyon 21 Theodorick second of that name or Thierry as some call him eldest sonne of Dagobert the second was made King in the yeare 727. Charles Martell sent to fetch him forth of a Monastery whereinto he had bin put when he was young and created him King in bare Title only For Charles Martell beeing Maire of the Pallace did mannage the whole businesse of the Kingdome and carried himselfe therein with very good credit Thus did the Maires take such aduantage of the Kings carelesnesse as in the end they expelled them from the Royall dignity and vsed it only for themselues Charles Martell subdued the Saxons and those of Bauaria that entred into rebellion Eudo Duke of Aquitain raised the Sarrazins who then bare great sway in Spayne to come with him and Warre in France making open passage for them They came thether to the number of foure hundered thousand persons with Women Children and Seruaunts with purpose to inhabite the Country wasting it al along as they went But Charles Martell met them néere Tours where hee vanquished and slew 350000. with very small losse of his owne followers Afterward hee preuailed against the Frisons and once more hee foyled the Sarrazins before Auignon expelling them in the ende quite out of Fraunce This king hauing raigned fiftéene yeares dyed and lieth buried at S. Denis 22 Childerick thirde of that name Surnamed the Insensible in regard of his blockish neglect and carelesnesse beeing likewise brought from the Monastery succéeded his brother Theodorick in the yeare 741. In which yeare Charles Martell Maire of the Pallace and Gouernour of Fraunce after many famous and woorthy victories by him obtained dyed and was in Royall habite interred at Saint Denis in the ranke of Kinges albeit hee neuer had the Name nor Title He left thrée Sonnes Pepin Carloman and Griffon Pepin being Maire of the Pallace lost not a iotte of that authoritie which his Father hadde formerly exercised ouer the Kinges but gouerned the Realme with his Brother Carloman Griffon thinking himselfe not sufficiently remembered by his Father seazed Laon to himselfe and helde it stronglie but in the ende hee was constrained to agree with his Bretheren Carloman contemning the goodes and honours of this Worlde went to Rome to Pope Zacharie and receiued the habite of Religion at his hands Pepin succéeding as heyre to that which Carloman had forsaken and hauing the fauour of the chiefest in the Kingdome sawe occasion smile vppon him to make himselfe a King and therefore woulde not let slippe so fayre an opportunity Héereupon by his Ambassadors hee gained the consent of Pope Zachary whom hee thorowly acquainted with the pusilanimity and dissolute life
and all our famous Riuers of Britain with the Deucalion Sea and Islandes of Brittaine especially Archadia Aemonia Arachne are glorious records of Brute and the Troyans the founders of Britaine Diuers our most ancient Citties and Townes of Britaine as Oxford vpon Isis and Themis Troia-noua vppon Isis Themis and Rhea Albanorum Yorke Brigantium ciuitas Antandros turned to S. Andros Parthaon Perthe turned to Saynt Iohns Town Albanum ciuitas turned to S. Albanes Chester and Doriscestria with the auncient Townes of Derby and Leicester and Tyanton vpon Tamares Riuer of Britaine with diuers other Townes and Citties of Britaine are Records of Brute and the Troyans Founders of Britaine The diuers Nations and people of Britaine as the Troy-nouants Brigantes Scotobrigantes the people of Albania Calydonia and Aetolia the Iberi the Albani and Georgij the people of Derbie and Leycester the people of Chester that came from Cestria Epiri with the Dores loues and Cares and the Tamarites of Tyanton commonly called Tanton All these are Records of the Noble people of Greece and Asia the remaines of the Troyans that came into to Britaine with Brute To these adde a Catalogue or Register of the ancient Princes Noblemen and Gentlemen of Britaine whereof there are some remaining to this verie day beginne wee then thus Brute Corineus Locrine Camber Albanacte Madan Mempricius Ebranke and hys twentie Sonnes Brute Greensheild Assaracus and Cecilius c. Belinus and Brennus Cambra or Cambria Antenors Wife Cambra Belinus Daughter Conidagus King of Albania slewe Morgan at Glammorgan Conidagus builded the Temple of Minerua at Bangor in Wales the temple of Mars at Parthaon now S. Iohns town of Aetolia in Scotland Aruiragus in whose dayes a Ioseph of Aramithia preached in Brittaine Leile Androgeus Brother to Cassibelanus this Androgeus let Iulius Caesar into Brittaine Pirrhus Alexander Arcadius Alexander Audax Achaius Etolus Helena Coile Constantine Graye Persie Dercie Carie Busir or Bousir Cicell Cydne Dennis Bridgis Andros Carowe Caros Tracie Rhese ap Rhesus Oen or Owen King of Calydon Brent the son of Hercules Thinn Euance Bryce Hil Drake Calais Nele Gryne Dorill Hodie Crane c. These and infinite more beside whiche Brute brought with him from the Countries of Isis and Themis and from Albania Calydonia Sylua and Etolia in Greece to Albania Calydonia Sylua and Etolia in Britaine are vndoubted records of him and the Troyans Founders of Britaine Thus much out of Maister Lytes Light of Brittaine which worthy Gentleman being deceased his Son Maister Thomas Lyte of Lytescarie Esquire a true immitator and heyre to his Fathers Vertues hath not long since presented the Maiesty of King Iames with an excellent Mappe or Genealogicall Table contayning the bredth and circumference of twenty large shéets of Paper which he entitleth Brittaines Monarchy approouing Brutes History and the whole succession of this our Nation from the very Original with the iust obseruation of al times changes and occasions therein happening This worthy worke hauing cost aboue seauen yeares labour beside great charges and expence his highnesse hath made very gracious acceptance of and to witnesse the same in Court it hangeth in an especiall place of eminence Pitty it is that this Phoenix as yet affoordeth not a fellowe or that from priuacie it might not bee made more generall but as his Maiesty hath graunted him priuiledge so that the world might be woorthie to enioy it whereto if friendship may preuaile as he hath bin already so shall he be still as earnestly sollicited Brute the sonne of Siluius hauing vnfortunately slaine his father in hunting as he shot his Arrow at a Deare was therefore bannished his Countrey whereupon he went into Grece where a great number of the Troyans liuing before in seruitude resorted to him and by his valour hee gaue them liberty by conquerring Pandrasus King of that Country who was descended of the Noble Achilles Hee compelled him also to let him haue his faire Daughter Innogen in marriage with furniture money victuals and Shipping wherewith after many hard aduentures passing along the straits of Gibralterra and coasting along the shore on the right hand hee met with Corineus and another company that came with him from Troy likewise with Antenor Ioyning then their powers together they sayled on til arriuing within the riuers mouth of Loire which deuideth Aquitaine from Celtike Gallia supposed to bee Gascoigne they landed in the Dominions of a King called Goffarius and Surnamed Pictus by reason hee was descended of the people of Agathyisi who were other-wise termed Picts King Goffarius with his men dyd sharply resist those new commers but sustayned the worst twice in the last conflict Brutes Nephew named Turnus was slaine in whose memory Brute builded there a City which to this day is called Tours in Touraigne Departing thence he and his traine came to the Isle of Britaine and landed at the hauen now called Totnesse Anno. 2855. and after the destruction of Troy 66. before the building of Rome 368. years which was before our Sauiours natiuity 1116. almost ended He found this land desolate sauing a few Giants who in short time were vanquished for Corineus wrastled with the strongest of them named Goemagot or Gogmagog at a place beside Doner where hee cast him headlong downe from one of the rockes in regard whereof the place is called Gogmagogs Leap or fal Brute builded London calling it Troy-newydh or Troia-noua He begate on his wife Innogen 3. sons among whom he deuided his kingdome before his death To Locrine who was the eldest hee gaue the middle part calling it Loegria or Loegiers To Camber his second sonne he gaue the west part of the Island calling it Cambria or Cymbry deuided from Loegria by the riuer Seuerne To his third son Albanact he gaue al the North part entitling it Alban or Albania according also to his name To Corineus his deare estéemed friende and companion hee gaue that part of the Land which after him to this day is called Corinwall Lastly when he had gouerned this land 24. yeares Hee died and was buried at that new Citty which he had builded Anno ante incarnat Christi 1132. Locrine after his Father Brutes death was king of Loegria and Lorde Paramount of the whol Island of Britain In his time Humber or Humyr King of the Hunnes entered into Albania and slew Albanact But Locrine and Camber to reuenge their brothers death met in Arms with Humber neere to an arme of the Sea that parted Loegria and Albania where killing him in the fight they threw his body into the water which in memory of his name is yet called Humber Locrine married Guendolen Daughter to Corineus but falling in loue with Estrilde a strange Lady in King Humbers Campe hee reiected his wife which caused her to raise an army againste him In triall of that fight Locrine was slaine and Guendolen drowned Estrilde with her Daughter Sabrine
or Hauren in the Riuer of Seuerne so called after her name Locrine raigned twenty yeares and left a Sonne named Madan Madan sonne of Locrine and Guendolen began his raigne ouer the Britons an mundi 2909 He vsed great tyranny among his people builded Madancaistre now called Dancaster Hauing ruled this land 40. yeares hee was deuoured of Wolues other wild beasts as he was abroad in hunting He left 2. sons Mempricius Manlius Mempricius eldest sonne of Madan succéeded his Father and slew his Brother Manlius for better confirmation of his gouernement He fell into vnlawfull lusting after women so that hee forced his peoples wiues and daughters and albeit he had a wife and many Concubines yet he vsed the abhominable sinne of Sodome So that becomming hatefull both to God and man being one day lost of his people as he was hunting hee as his father was eaten of wilde beastes after he had raigned 20. yeares Ebranke sonne of Mempricius by his lawfull wife succéeded in rule ouer the Britons Hee had one and twenty wiues on whom he begat twenty Sonnes and thirty Daughters He was the first Prince of this Land that euer inuaded Gallia now called France from whence he returned with great riches and triumph Hee builded the Citty of Caerbranke nowe called Yorke about the 14. yeare of his raigne in Albania or Scotland hee builded also the Castle of Maidens and the Cittie of Alclud He gouerned Brittain very nobly forty yeares and lieth buried at Caerbranke or Yorke Brute Tarianlas or Greeneshield Sonne of Ebranke succéeded his Father in the regiment of Brittaine Hee sought to bring all Gallia vnder his subiection and some do auouch that hee performed it albeit Brinchild gaue him a great foile in Henault He raigned twelue yeares and was buried by his father at Yorke Leill the sonne of Brute Greenshield raigned after his Father He builded the Citty called Caerleil that is to say Leill his Citty or the Citty of Leill and repaired also Carleon now called Chester which is saide to bee built before Brutes entrance into this land by a Gyant named Leon Gauer Leill raigned 25. yeares and was buried at Carleill Lud or Ludhurdibras the Son of Leill ruled Britaine after his Father He builded the Citty of Kaerkin now called Canterbury the Citty of Caerguent now called Winchester and Mount Paladour now cald Shaftsbury Aquila a Prophet or Bardh of the British nation wrote diuers Prophesies concerning the building of Shaftsbury Lud raigned 29. yeares and was buryed at Canterbury Baldus or Bladus son of Lud-hurdibras succéeded his Father in the rule of Brittaine Hee was skilfull in the Sciences of Astronomy and Nigromancy he builded the Citty of Caerbran now called Bathe and made there hot Bathes though William of Malmsbury is of the mind that Iulius Caesar made those baths which cannot bée so because Iulius Caesar neuer went so farre that way into the Land This Bladud was so proud of his art that he would needes presume to fly in the aire but hee fell on the Temple of Apollo in Troy-nouant and was there torne in pieces hauing raigned twenty yeares Leir the Son of Bladud followed his Father in Britaines gouernment being a Prince of most Noble Nature and gouerned his Subiectes very royally He builded the Towne of Caerleir now called Leircester And because the History of his thrée Daughters Gonorill Regan Cordeilla with their seuerall marriages to Henuinus duke of Cornewall Maglanus Duke of Albania and Agauippus prince of Gallia is very wel known and all the fortunes thereto belonging I am the easier induced to passe it ouer with all the troubles happening to King Leir through his owne weaknesse Leir raigned forty yeares and was buried at Leircester Cordeilla youngest daughter to K. Leir succéeded as Quéen and Gouernesse of Britain but her two Nephewes Cunedagius and Morgan sons to hir as vnkind Sisters made short hir time of gouernment after the decease of her Husband Aganippus For they imprisoning her and shee being a Lady of vnconquerable courage gréefe and despaire of liberty made her there to slay her selfe after she had ruled fiue yeares Cunedagius and Morgan deuided the whole land between them after Cordeillas death But enuy and couetous desire in either to rule alone raised them in armes against each other Morgan was slaine in Cambria by Cunedagius and the place of his death is yet called Glan-Morgan Morgans land he not hauing raigned aboue two yeares with his Brother who afterward builded thrée temples one to Mars at Perth in Scotland another to Mercury at Bangor in Cambria and the third to Apollo in Cornwall He raigned 33. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Riuallus Son of Cunedagius next ruled Britaine in whose time it rained blood 3. daies together which blood engendered such multitudes of Horseflies that many people were stung to death by them In his time was the City of Rome builded he raigned 46. yeares was buried at York Gurgustius son of Riuallus raigned 37. years Sysillius or Cecilius Brother of Gurgustius 49. yeares Iago or Lago Cozin to Gurgustius twentie eight yeares Kinimacus or Kinmarus Son of Sisillius 54. yeares Corbodug Son of Kinimacus 43. yeares or by some 62. yeares Ferrex and Porrex Sons or Gorbodug raigned ioyntly till ambition deuided them Ferrex being slaine in battaile the Mother of them both wrought afterward the death of Porrex After which great troubles endured for the space of fifty yeares for the Sole-Monarchie of this land became then a Pentarchie as deuided betwixt fiue Kinges or Rulers And héere ended the line of Brute The Pentarchy 1. Rudacus King of Cambria or Wales 2. Cloton King of Cornewall 3. Pinnor King of Loegria 4. Staterus King of Aibania 5. Yewan or Owen King of Northumberland Mulmutius Dunwallo the Sonne of Cloton who was allowed for most rightfull Heire hee succéeded as Sole-Monarch of Britaine after his Father This Mulmutius builded a Temple in Troy-nouant cald the Temple of Peace which some do hold to be that ancient monument called Blackwell-Hall He builded also two Townes Malmsbury and the Vies and was the first king that was crowned with a Crowne of Gold He made diuers good Lawes which long time after were called Mulmutius lawes being turned out of British into Latine by Gildas Priscus long time after translated out of Latine into English by Alfred K. of England and mingled among his statutes He began to make the foure great high waies of Britain and gaue priueledges to Temples Ploughes Citties high waies leading to them so that whosoeuer fled to them should bee in safety from bodily harme and thence he might depart without preiudice to his person In regard that he was the first king crowned with a golden Crowne most writers giue him the name of the first King
three yeares Antiochus Grypus the sonne of Demetrius hauing vanquished and slaine Alexander Zebin in battell raigned 29. yeares During which time his Brother Antiochus the Cyzicenian made warre vpon him without intermission After the death of this Antiochus Grypus mightie troubles were in Syria for some time because they of the royall race were in continuall warres killing and maâ—sacring one another Vntill such time as one Antiochus the sole remainder of that race dying without any successor Tigranes K. of Armenia inuaded this great kingdom wherevpon he was not long after surprized by the Romaines vnder the conduct of Pompey and the Countrey was then reduced into the forme of a Prouince the yeare of the Citty of Rome 693. Of Egypt and the Succession of the Kings there raigning PTolomeus Lagus Soter the most excellent man of all Alexanders Captains was made King raigned fortie yeares ouer Egypt Theophrastus Zeno Theocritus and Menander then liuing and the Romaines made Warre agaynst Pyrrhus Read more of this King in Iustine lib. 13 14 15. Orosius lib. 3 cap. 23. Fergusius was the first king of Scotland Ptolome Philadelphus raigned 38. yeares He first appointed that great Library in Alexandria and caused the Bookes of the Bible to be translated into the Gréeke tongue by the seauentie two Interpreters Aristeus Phalaris Chrisyppus Carneades and Aratus then liued and at Rome happened the first Punick warre Regulus Ptolomey the Liberall husband to his owne Sister raigned 26. yeares At Rome then grew the second Punick War and then liued the Scipioes Fabius Maximus and Marcellus Hanniball was vanquished by Scipio Affricanus the eldest And in this time liued the Authour of the Booke of Wisedome Ptolomey the Parricide raigned 17. yeares He slew his Mother and his Sister who also was his wife At Rome began the warre of Macedon against King Phillip and the war of Asia against the great Antiochus and Hanniball the Fugitiue Then liued great Cato Ennius Neuius Plautus Panetius And Iesus the Sonne of Syrach Author of the Booke of Ecclesiasticus Simon the Iust being Byshop of the Iewes Ptolomey Epiphanes vnder the tutelage of the Romaines raigned 24. yeares The Brethren Macchabees did then valiantly withstande Antiochus the most cruell Tyraunt of Syria his great repentance is to be read in the second Booke of Macchabees the ninth Chapter Ptolomey called Matricide raigned 35. yeares Paulus Aemilius hauing taken the Persian king made Macedon a Prouince to the Romaynes Then happened the third Punicke Warre The warre of Achaia and of Numantia in Spain vnder Scipio Affricanus the younger and Lelius Terence then liuing Ptolomey the Liberall otherwise called Physcus a verie detestable man beeing Brother to Ptolomy the Matricide raigned nine twentie yeares He married his Brothers wife and afterward her Daughter The Sects of the Pharisies Sadduces and Esseans then arose At Rome was the seruile warre And the lawes for actions of the field by the Gracchi Ptolomey Alexander hauing expelled his brother Lathyrus raigned seauentéene yeares Afterward he was thrust out himselfe by his owne people for the death of Cleopatra a wicked woman At Rome was the Iugurthine warre and three Sunnes visibly séene in this time Functius doth attribute these seauentéene yeares and this raigne to Ptolomey Lathyrus preferring him before Ptolomey Alexander Ptolomey Lathyrus beeing repealed to rule againe raigned eightéene years At Rome was the Cimbrian warre Mithridates warre and the ciuill warre betwéene Marius and Sylla Then li Lucullus Antonius and Crassus Orators Lucretius the Poet Varro Sylla dominéered cruelie who retyring himselfe to liue sollitarilie in the fields dyed of Vermine engendred in his owne bodie Ptolomey Auleâ—es raigned thirty yeares Being excluded by his owne people vnder Pompeyes authority he was reseated by Gabinius Pompey ouer-came Hieras and Sertorius the Pyrates as also Tigranes and Mithridates Then was the conspiracy of Cataline Caesar vanquished the â—aules Cicero liued in exile and Crassus was foyled by the Partheans Ptolomey Dionysius the last King raigned 8. yeares he caused great Pompeyes head to bée cut off Then liued Catullus Hortensius Salust Diodorus Siculus Cato Vtican M. Lepidus Marcellus and Marke Anthony Cleopatra helde the kingdome a-while with her Brother and afterward wholly by her selfe two and twentie yeares Shee vnderstanding that Marke Anthonie was vanquished by Augustus slew her selfe Now was the ciuil warre between Pompey and Caesar And that goodly Library that contained two hundred thousand Volumes was burned in this time Plutarch in vit Antoni The Monarchy of the Caesars or Romaines IVlius Caesar a very gracious Prince and one of the Worlds chiefest Captaines raigned fiue yeares He vanquished Pompey and his confederates Ptolomy hee slew restored Cleopatra his friend Sister to Ptolomy to the kingdom of Aegypt Returning home to Rome he was slaine in the Senate house by Brutus Cassius and other Conspirators Dioscorides then liued but if you would haue more of Caesars life read Suetonius Florus in the life of Caesar Octauius Augustus the last Nephew of Iulius by the Sisters side and his adopted Sonne raigned 56. yeares he was happy in war moderate in peace and liberall to euery one Then liued Virgill Horace Tibullus Propertius Vitruuius Mecenas And then dyed Cleopatra and her husband Marke Anthony Aegypt being then reduced into a Prouince Herod a stranger fauoured by Augustus was then King of Iudea So the Scepter being wholly taken from Iuda Iesus Christ God and man the Sauiour of the world was then borne of a Virgin in Bethlehem according to the Prophesies of Iacob Genes 49 Esay 7 Micheas 5. Iesus Christ came in the yeare of Augustus forty two and of the world 3963. Ouid was then in exile the Citty of Lyons founded and then liued Titus Liuius Valerius Maximus Strabo and Francus King of the Sicambrians in the lower Allemaigne Aquila Tuberus Galba Labeus and Caius were then Law-giuers or Law-Makers Herod the great murderer of Innocents and there were numbred then at Rome foure hundred sixty foure thousand men Claudius Tiberius the Sonne of Liuia afterward Wife to Augustus raigned 23. yeares beginning very well but proouing afterward to bée most wicked Iesus Christ for our saluation was then crucified in Hierusalem vnder Pilate the Prouost of Iudea he said that A good Shepheard should clip his Sheepe and not deuour them C. Caligula Sonne of Germanus a most wicked Man raigned thirtéene yeares This beast the ruine of men made himselfe to bee adored as God hee poysoned his Vnckle Tiberius and defloured all his Sisters leauing them then to others like abusing T. Claudius Vnckle of Caligula and Monster of Men raigned fouretéene yeares He preferred Nero before his owne Son by the treason of whom hee was poysoned with a Mushrome Messalina his first wife peerelesse in all labricity and wickednes then flourished And Saint Peter the Apostle liued reported
other in the West foure yeares togither Constantine commanded in Gaul Spaine Affrica and Italie The other in Greece Arnobius Lactantius Dorotheus bishop of Tyre Eusebius and other Learned personages liued at this time Galerius Maximianus tearmed Armentarius because he was a Neat-heards son was made Emp. being a goodly person a fortunat warrior Maximinus nephue to Armentarius by his sister was Emp. persecuted the Christians in the East Seuerus Prefect of Italy and Africke was published Emperor by Galerius fighting with Maxentius was taken at Ravenna and slaine Maxentius elected Emperor by his souldiors raigned a Tyrant and was like vnto his Father Maximinus Being vanquished by Constantine néere to Pont-Miluius he was drowned in a Gulfe and his body neuer after found Licinius Licinianus borne of Countrey Parents was fortunate in the wars which he had against Maximinus Afterward hee became a mocker of Christ and persecuted such as beléeued in him and because he was ignorant hee was a great enemy to all that were learned Martinianus was created Caesar by Licinius against Constantine he was in his camp at night but sled before next morning Constantine the great son of Helena an holy woman with Maxentius and Licinius reigned 31. yeares He was religious and affable and transported the Bible into diuers Countries He assembled the Councell of Nice against Arrius the Heretick He builded the Citty of Constantinople calling it after his owne name whither the Imperiall seate was translated and changed from Rome into Greece after he had granted Syluester to be Pope Euseb lib. 10. Niceph. lib. 8. Crispus was made Caesar by his father Constantine but being afterward falsly accused to his father he was put to death for that he would not consent to the inordinate appetite of Faustine his Stepmother Constantine the second with his brethren raigned 17. yeares ioyning thereto the thrée yeares raigne of Magnentius Themistius Donatus and Libanius the Sophister then â—iued and S. Anthony the Heremite was knowne in Aegypt by many miracles Iulian the Apostata helde the true Religion ten yeares and was named Emperor by the men of warre in Paris against his will He forbad the Christians the study of letters and being wounded to death hee cryed out At length thou hast vanquished O Galilean S. Cyrill Optatus Basile Nazianzene Epiphanius Hilarie Didimus Exuperus· all learned Diuines then flourished Iouianus a kind and learned man raigned eight months and made confession to his Warriours of the name of Iesus Christ Now was the first order of Monkes instituted by S. Basile vnder certaine rules of liuing Valentian a good and Catholique Prince and Valens his Brother raigned fiftéene years This man held the error of the Arrians and constrained the Monkes to vndertake Armes in war he died vnhappily Gratian the son of Valentinian during whose whole life time hee was an associate in the Empire Hee raigned afterward with Valentinian the second his younger Brother and Theodosius sixe yeares Maximus tearmed Emperor by his Souldiers slew Gratian and held the Empire foure yeares after which time Valentinian returned to the Empire againe fiue yeares Theodosius after that Gratian was slaine by Maximus raigned thrée yeares with his Brother Valentinian the death of whom was bemoaned by Saint Ambrose for the great zeale hee had to Christian Religion S. Hierome S. Augustine and P. Orosius then liued Arcadius and Honorius the Sons of Theodosius raigned twenty nine yeares as well in the East as in the West About this time the great Empire of Rome began to decline by the infidelity of Ruffinus and Stilico their Tutors The very greatest part thereof was vsed by the Scythians Burgundians Lombardes Hungarians French Goths and Vandals And Rome was foure times taken by the Goths and Vandals within a 139. yeares Then liued S. Chrysostom and Claudian Honorius raigned with Theodosius Sonne to his Brother sixtéene yeares Theodosius the second youngest Sonne of Arcadius raigned at Constantinople twenty seuen yeares after the death of Honorius hauing afflited Valentinian the third the Son of Constantius and Placida Daughter is Theodosius who raigned fiue yeares in the west At this time the Frenchmen leauing Franconia beganne to enter vppon the Gaules vnder Clodion their second King F. Valerius Martianus raigned in the East seauen years and Valentinian the third at the same time in the west during their raigne the Burgundians other western Nations were conuerted to the Faith The Vandals came out of Spayn into Affrica and afterward they tooke Rome vnder the conduct of their King Genserichus Attila King of the Hunnes entred into Gaul with fiue hundred thousand men deliuered battle to Meroüeus their second king who had ioined with Aetius Lieutenant to the Emperor There hee lost an hundred and fourescore thousand men fled into Hungaria not any man being wounded behind About this time was great Arthur King of Britaine Leo the first reigned 17. yeares associated by Leo the sonne of his daughter who after he had reigned one yeare alone gaue vp the Empire to Zeno his Grandsire who raigned tyrannically 17. yeares The estate of the Church was then very greatly troubled as also that of the Western Empire Italy had then nine Emperors in twenty yeares who all slue one another Anastasius raigned twenty fiue yeares Hée was an Eutichian Heretique was smitten with lightning and dyed as a iust punishment for his Heresie Fulgentius Iustine raigned 9. years he was first a Swine-heard afterward a Cow-heard next a Carpenter a Souldier a Captaine and last of all Emperor gouerning very well and godly and expelling the Arrian Heretiques Then liued Boetius and S. Bennet or Benedict began his order Iustinian raigned thirty eight yeares All his care and study was to repaire the decayed Empire and re-establish ciuill right in the execution wherof he was seconded by excellent personages especially by Belfarius Narses and Tribonianus The first chased the Vandals out of Affrica which they had held 95. years and deliuered Rome from the Gothes who had conquered it and yet were once more expulsed thence by Narses Iustine the second raigned ten yeares beloued of al men for his liberality Sophia his wife mocked him with Narses the Gouernour of Italy whereat hee beeing offended called the Lombardes by whose helpe he reuenged himselfe Now was the Kingdome of the Lombardes founded by Clebus where raigned thirty two kinges vntill the time of Charles the Great Tiberius the second raigned seauen yeares hée was a very charitable man one that loued God and his Saints and therefore no doubt was beloued of him againe Mauritius raigned twenty yeares hee was descended of very meane Parentage and in the end was murthered for his couetousnesse a vice as much discommendable in a Prince as liberality is beséeming and maketh him renowmed Phocas raigned eyght yeares And beeing the Murderer of his Predecessor himselfe was likewise murdered
withall his Race Now was the contention for the Primacy of the Church betwéene Rome and Constantinople and now was Saint Gregory Heraclius raigned thirty yeares who was the Murderer of Phocas The fiftéenth yeare of his raigne beganne the rule of Mahomet the false Prophet of Arabia where were the Agarenes and Sarrazins to whom the Aegyptian and Arabian Princes called Soldanes next succéeded After them came the Turks about the yeare 1300. Mahomets false Doctrine by the negligence of the Emperors and Christian Princes grewe to such a head that it not onely poysoned Asya and Affrica but also a very great part of Europe Constantine the third raigned foure moneths being a good Prince and very young Hee was poysoned by his Step-mother that her son might raigne Heraclion who hauing his nose and tongue cut out was banished two yeares after Constans the Sonne of Constantine raigned twenty seauen yeares And being very couetous he was slain by his own followers in the Bathes of Syracusa Constantine the fourth reigned 17. years He ouercame in one Battell thirty thousand Sarazins and afterward fel to great wickednes The learned and venerable Beda liued in this time Iustinian the second a wicked man raigned 16. yeares but not without interruption beeing deiected by Leontius and Leontius by Tiberius Absimaris who reigned other thrée yeares therfore these thrée are said to raigne sixtéene yeares Now was the beginning of the Dukes of Vennice which had béene gouerned before for the space of 230. yeares by Tribunes Phillip Bardasanes reigned two yeares Hee was cast out of his Empyre by his Lieutenant after that they pluckt soorth his eies Hee had much talke and little wisdome disposing badly of the goods of the Empyre he became after a schismaticall Monke Anthemius called also Athanasius the second reigned thrée yeares He was deiected from his Empyre by Theodosius chiefe of his Army and turned into a Monastery He hadde taken away the Empyre and then pluckt out the eies of his predecessor Theodosius the third reigned one yeare He left the Empyre seeing himselfe to be assayled by Leo his successor and became a Monke Leo the third a wicked man reigned twenty foure yeares He was called Iconomachus a defacer of Images and would not suffer the Christians to haue any in their Temples Hee was excommunicated by Gregory and by authoritie of a Councell held at Rome against his owne of Constantinople Blondus lib 10. The Sarazins besieged Constantinople three yeares together in which time died three hundred thousand of Pestilence and Famine Constantine fift of that name the son of Leo the Isaurian succeeded his father in the Empyre of Constantinople the yeare of our saluation 742. He was sirnamed Copronymus because he would discharge his belly in the Fonts appointed for Christian Baptisme He was an vtter enemy not only to the Images of Saints but also vnto their reliques causing them to be burned He did put to death many of the best and most respected persons and among others two Patriarches of Constantinople He made warre againste the Bulgarians both by land Sea Fortune sometime smiling vpon him otherwhiles â—owring In his absence one Artabasdus was made Emperor at Constantinople But hee receiuing newes thereof returned and either put out or rent forth the new Emperors eies caused his children to be slaine In his time there was so cold a Winter that the Sea of Constantinople was frozen After many cruelties this Emperor died a Leaper Artabasdus albeit he was descended of mean birth yet notwithstanding for the faithfulnesse good vertues and commendable qualities which were in him he was liked of the Senate souldiors and afterward was elected Emperor by the zealous Christians for the hatred that euery one bare to Constantine the fift He became a better louer of the Saints and fortified the Cittye of Constantinople against Constantine who had bin expulsed thence Neuerthelesse both hee and it were besieged and the Citty being surprized his eies were pluckt out his châ—ldren put to death Leo the fourth was Emperor after his Father Constantine the fift He was not onely heyre to the Empire but also to his Fathers vices And his mother who was deuout and one that loued God would giue no consent that he shoulde bee Emperor He made some attempts vpon the Sarazins that dwelt in Syria He tooke the Crowne which Mauritus had dedicated to God and set it on his owne head it being very richly beautified with rich pretious stones But soone after he had an Impostume in his head with a fiery Ague whereof he died Constantine sixt of that name and sonne to Leo the fourth was Emperor after his Father Hee reigned nine yeares very young with his mother who with his consent also was perswaded by Therasius Patriarch of Constantinople to call a generall Councell of thrée hundred and fifty Bishops In short while after Constantine excluded his Mother from the Empyres gouernment He caused the eies and toong of Nicephorus to be puld and cut out hearing of a secret intention to make him Emperor Also he did shut vp in a Monastery his wife Mary who was the daughter of King Charlemaine and then tooke a Concubine by the councell of his Mother whoe pretended that her sonne was hated of the people Herevpon not long after she caused him to be taken and plucking forth his eies shut him vp in prison where he died in the yeare 798. and then she raigned alone about the space of fiue yeares Irene issued from Attica was wife to the emperor Leo the fourth by whom he had Constantine the sixt before mentioned and reigned with him nine yeares and afterward alone by hirselfe fiue yeares or little more as hath already beene said She was thence expelled by Nicophorus sent in exile to the Isle of Lesbos which at this instant is called Mitiline At the time when this Lady gouerned the Empire of Constantinople Charlemaine was sacred and crowned Emperor of Rome or of the West for his vertues A briefe Collection of the History liues of the Emperours of the West from the time of King Charlemain who was the first Emperor in the West CHarlemaine king of France and the greatest Emperor for all perfections that euer was The restorer of Iustice equity and peace among men and re-establisher of Common-weales with honest Lawes and Religious doctrine learned in languages and al disciplines raigned King and Emperor 14. yeares Gal. lib. 4. Emil. lib. 2. The Kingdome of England then began by King Egbert Lewes his sonne sirnamed the Meeke or Debonaire was likewise King and Emperour 26. yeares He caused a Councell to be held wherein all Ecclesiasticall persons were forbidden to weare any superfluous garments iewelles and Ringes In reuenge whereof they prouoked his sonnes to conspire against him two seueral times Lotharius his sonne contended with his Brethren Lewes Germanicus
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
Cittizens he was the easiâ—r slaine sleeping in his chamber by Iohn Zimiscus and Theophila wife to Nicephorus gaue fauourable entrance to the murtherer and all the stranglers that were with him Iohn Zimiscus the murderer of Nicephorus was Emperor of Constantinople after him Hee was a man valiant in warre he recouered all Bulgaria which the Roxalians held and Sphendollanus their king submitted himselfe vnto him But after this victory being returned to Constantinople with triumph he was poisoned He made fellowes with him in the Empire Basilius and Constantine brethren who were sonnes to Romanus the predecessor of Nicephorus Phocas Basilius the second and Constantine the eight being brethren and sonnes to the yong Romanus were Emperors of Constantinople after Iohn Zimiscus in the yeare of Saluation 976. Barda Sclerus made ciuill warre vpon them intending to vsurpe the Empire but being foiled in the battell he fled to the Persians The like did Phocas when he was ouercome and for the same cause for taking it in scorn to be misprized after he had well declared his duty against Sclerus he sought to make himselfe Emperor Basilius afterward vanquished the Bulgarians in many battels and as a punnishment for their Rebellion he caused the eies of fiftéen thousand Captiues to be pulled out reseruing onely but one of them to guide the rest to Samuell their Duke For they had ouerrun the Country of Thrace Macedon Greece and put all to fire and sword Now was all Bulgaria subiected to the Empire of Constantinople which till then had euermore béene Rebellious Duke Samuell liued not long after but died with méere grèefe and vexation Constantine was companion with his brother Basilius in the Empyre more in Honor then power But after his death he was sole Emperor almost thrée yeares and died swallowed vp in his pleasures and vaine voluptuousnesse Romanus of Argyra or as he was commonlie called Argyropilus kinsman to Constantine the eight succéeded him in the Empire At the beginning he changed many bad matters into better But being vnable to make head against the Sarazins hee gaue his minde to gather a huge masse of money Afterward by the Treason of Zoa his wife and her Adulterate companion he was drowned as he bathed himselfe in his stoue or Hot-house Michaell the Paphlagon the Adulterat friend of Zoa the Empresse and who had suffocated her husband Argiropilus bathing in his Stoue was by her made Emperor of Constantinople in the yeare 1034. He had béene a seruant-straunger hauing his head very vnfashionable and euerie houre he was subiect to the falling sicknesse foaming at the mouth In briefe whatsoeuer deserued any respect in him only was that he hadde a pleasing Complexion which made Zoa extreamly doate vpon him she being well stept into age Yet for all this he did not misgouerne the Empyre but tooke truce with the King of Aegipt for thirty yeares He deliuered the Citty of Edessa which was besieged and was very benigne to all them of his Court excepâ— to Zoa for the horride lewdnesse he knew by her At length being full of the Dropsie he appointed Michaell Calaphates the adopted sonne of his Wife Zoa to be his immediate successor Michaell Calaphates the adopted son of Zoa after the death of Michaell the Pâ—phlagon prostrated himselfe at her feete swearing that he intended not to hold the Empire but in name only and that all the power should remaine in her By which flatteries coyned speeches he was made Emperour of Constantinople in the yeare 1042. Soone after he laid a plot against Zoa imposing falsely vpon her that she had deuised to poison him Whereupon her head was shauen and she commaunded to a Monastery But the People growing mutinous against him made Theodora sister to Zoa Empresse repealed Zoa from the Monastery pursued Calaphates and plucked out both his and his sonnes eies He was called Calaphates because his father was a maker of ships or a Ship wright Zoa repealed from her exile and Monastery by the people was re-placed in the Soueraigne Estate of Constantinoples empire to enioy the same with her sister Thedora which was in the same yeare when as Michaell Caliphates had raigned but foure moneths Thus the bad gouernement of Emperors raised an opinion that the Empire might be better ruled by Women then by men But as a woman is euermore variable and vnconstant according to the Poets iudgement Euen so Zoa albeit she was a woman and aged thréescore yeares did yet neuerthelesse burne in carnall and voluptuous concupiscence Wherevppon shee re-called Constantine Monamachus from exile and taking him to be her husband made him Emperour These two women hauing then held the Empire scarsely three moneths Constantine the ninth sirnamed Monamachus who likewise being of the Imperiall line race was made Emperor by his wâ—â—e Zoa at Constantinople in the yeare 1042. He was very carelesse and full of his owne pleasures and kept a beautifull Strumpet in stead of his Wife neuerthelesse hee maintained and got the victory in two great ciuill warres and some others beside It was then that the Turkes began to extend theyr powers very farre in Asiaâ— and yet no withstanding they were vanquished with the Roxalians and Patzinaces which were two Nations of the Scythians Zoa died beeing threescore and tenne yeares old and Constantine being ful of the gout hauing also a pluriâ—ie died thereof some few years after Theodora sister to Zoa who had formerly held the Empire of Constantinople as hath beene already declared in our speaking of Zoa entred vpon the Empires rule againe but alone by her selfe after Constantine Monomachus in the year 1055. and gouerned about two yeares And we hold it no shame to place her in the rancke and number of the Emperors considering that she did not declare her authority in the Empire with an effeminate or negligent spirite But gaue so good orders and caried her selfe so manly that she maintained peace and tranquility as well towardes strangers as among her owne people Moreouer all goodnesse and quietnesse so aboundantly flourished in the time of her gouernment as no occasion can bee alleadged neither will any man of wisedome misprise the Empire and Dominion of such a Woman But as sicknesse with age did ouer-charge her by the pleasing perswasions and remonstrances of her ordinary seruants she made partaker with her in the Empires sway a certaine man some-what too aged named Michaell and then she liued not long after Michaell sir-named the Auncient was Emperour of Constantinople after the saide Theodora and onely by her meanes Hee was renowmed both for Noblity and riches but in other affaires concerning the support and charge of the Empire he was very vnapt in regard of his many years which made him burthenous and in-sufficient And when he had scarsely ruled one yeare Isaac Comnenes both dismissed and deposed him from the State of the Empire So liuing solitarily and like a priuate man he died
soone after Isaac Comnenes was Emperour of Constantinople in the yeare 1058. Hee deiected from the Empire Michaell the Auncient neuerthelesse hee was a man valiant and couragious renowmed for his actions both in peace and war of great spirit but somewhat arrogant The Patriarch of Constantinople gaue him good aide in raising him to the Empires Dignity but hee requited him very badly for he banished him all his friends He was deriued of a Noble race diligent ready and expeditious in al his businesse But a disease in the side tooke him as hee was hunting which growing to desperation of any long life he made himselfe a monke instituting as Emperour Constantine Ducas with the good liking and consent of the Senate and people It is written of him that he was so chast that he would not accompanie his wife after her first child albeit his Physitians aduised him thereto for helpe and mitigation of his disease Constantine the tenth called also Ducas was Emperour of Constantinople after the forenamed Isaacke in the yeare 1060. At his first entrance there happened a great conspiracy against him which he suppressed but with very great difficulty He was deuout towards God and a good iusticer but insatiable auarice disgraced him for which he was hated of his owne people and condemned by his enemies who did much harme to the Empire In his time happened a strange accident and yet no nouelty to Constantinople that many Churches and houses were ouerthrowne by an Earthquake He died aged thréescore years leauing Eudoxia his wife and thrée of his sonnes heyres to the Empire Eudoxia and her sonnes helde the Empyre of Constantinople after their father Constantine Ducas This woman would haue wel gouerned the Empires affaires if warres had not much molested her abroad As strangers then cam rushing in on all sides of the Empire so was it conceiued by generall opinion that the ablest man that coulde be had had his hands full in a charge of such import And yet at length Eudoxia contrary to her Oath and promise to hir dying husband hauing reigned seauen moneths and some few oâ— daies remarried with Romaine Diogenes which match shee déerely afterward repented as being much wearied with the arrogancy of this man who would néedes gouerne all himselfe Romaine sirnamed Diogenes tooke vpon him the Empire of Constantinople in the year 1068. He made warre two seuerall times and in the first attempt Fortune spake him faire but very vnkindly in the second for his people being one part slaine and the other driuen to flight himselfe left alone albeit an Emperor was taken which accident had neuer been seen before that the Emperour of Constantinople was taken prisoner in warre And yet notwithstanding it is said that the Turke Sultan Azan hearing those tidinges could not beléeue it but stayed his iournâ—y somewhat short of him And then sending for him he had no sooner séene him but he held him in honor and estimation and giuing him great presentes sent him backe againe at liberty after he had concluded a peace with him But in this interim all things were renversed at Constantinople as it is a vsuall custome so soone as vnwelcome newes are brought For Eudoxia was expulsed Diogenes dismissed and Michaell de Constantine chosen Emperour who first caused the eyes of Diogenes to be plucked out and afterward banished him in which miserable estate he died and was faine to be buried by his wife Eudoxia Michaell who was tearmed Parapinacius in reguard of the great Famine that happened in his time was made Emperour of Constantinople in the yeare 1071. He was a man altogither vnapt for so weighty a charge for béeing wholely addicted to his Booke and to compose verses with his Schoolemaister Psellus the Turkes assailed the Empyre on all sides especially on that part of Asya Wherupon his chiefe Commanders and Captaines thorow méere constraint made election of another Emperour ouer them to wit Nicâ—phorus â—otaniat who was the more easilie accepted of the Cittizens because they held their negligent Emperour in high disdain contempt I vnderstand that Michaell was put into a Monastery with his wife and son and there he was made a Monke Nicephorus Bataniat who was descended of the line of the Emperor Phocas easily as being the very noblest of all other obtained the Empire when Michaell was expelled thence Hee tooke Constantine the son of Constantine Ducas whoe would haue vsurped the Empire causing him to be shorne aduanced him to the order of priesthood Afterward Nicephorus himselfe was deiected by the brethren of Comnenes who before had assisted him in expelling the vsurpers of the Empire and was shut vp in a Monastery where hée liued but a short while Alexius Comnenes the younger brother but best beloued amongst the souldiors held the empire after him and on the very day of Easter entred Constantinople which he spoiled as an enemy Alexius Comnenes Son of the Emperour Isaac tooke on him the Empire of Constantinople in the yeare 1081. He went with the Venetians against Robert Guiscard but he was repulsed and vanquished Moreouer he stroue to hinder and breake the memorable enterprise of the French for the recouery of the Holy land But Bohemond Duke of Apulia leuied an Army against him and besieged Baudras Then Alexius dreading his power made composition with him promising to furnish the French with victuals and all other néedfull things Afterward he erected two goodly buildings one for poore Orphants and the other for a Colledge He was also very charitable to poore aged men discréet and moderate in his manners and not lightly induced to punish Hée gaue fauour and support to all men of merite and vertue exalting them to places of dignity In the end being ouerpressed with a long sicknesse he died in the thréescore and tenth yeare of his age Caloian Sonne to Alexius held the Empyre after his father in the yeare 1118. He made many warres in Asia vanquishing in diuers Battels both the Turkes and Persians taking sundry Citties from them He was a contrary opposite to the Venetians and the French who were then vnited Notwithstanding the Venetians took the Isles of Rhodes Samos and Miteline Hee died of the pricke of a Dart which himselfe had poisoned smiting his hand by chance vpon it as he made offer with it against a wild Boare He aduaunced all his owne friends to dignities Manuell or Emanuell brother or as some say Sonne to Caloian entred on the Empire of Constantinople after him in the yeare 1142. He entreated Conrade Emperor of Rome to lende him ayde against Roger king of Scicily who both troubled and would haue vsurped the Empyre each after other and likewise to assist him against the Turkes as thus his request seuerally pretended But Manuell hauing a contrary and another kind of leauen hid in the dow sent Conrades men where they were all famished Nor did it suffice him to deale thus vilely with them
conquered by the Christians vnder the conduct of Godfrey of Bullen and those that then remained of the Turkes retired themselues to Nicea hauing neuer after any one K. of renowne vntill this man who made himselfe a Monarch hath the first place in the History of the Turkes He was but of meane descent yet of great spirit cunning dilligent and ambitious hauing euermore in his hart a desire to raigne and pondered vpon all meanes that thereto might best aduance him In this high disposition hee founde Fortune very fauourable to him for he subdued the greater part of Bithinia tooke many fortes néere to the Pontick Sea But his very greatest honour was the surprising of Sina a Citty anciently called Sebastia He died aged in the first yeare of Phillip de Valois King of France and Edward the third King of England Orchanes Son to the said Othoman was Emperour of the Turkes after his father He would not alter a iote of this newe authority no more then his father did and whom he farre surpassed in Warlike actions By his liberality and good carriage he woon the hearts of his people pursuing on very well what his father had begunne By his industry vigilancie and prouidence he woon the Countries of Mysia Lycaonia Phrygia and Caria and tooke in Warre Prusya which is now called Bursia and which was the aboade of the Kings of Bithynia where he receiued a hurt whereof he died in the first yeare of the raigne of Io. K. of France Edward the third of England stil raigning He raigned 22. yeares leauing Soliman and Amurath his sons and successors Soliman sonne of Orchanes raigned 2. yeares after his Father He made warre vpon the Greekes passed from Asya into Europe where he vanquished the Bulgarians and tooke many places from them especially in Thrace he got the Citties of Adrianople and Philopolis Some say that he died in his Fathers life time with a fall from his horse in hunting and that very soone after his father died with gréefe And this is the reason why some doe not set him in the rank of Turkish Emperors Amurath first of that name and sonne to Orchanes was Emperor of the Turkes in the year 1350. Good Fortune attended on him as shee did on his Graundfather and on his own Father likewise But he was as contrary to his graund father by the mothers side as his father had béen to his predecessor who bereft him of a great part of Cilicia by killing his sonne Amurath incited thereto by Iohn Paleologus sent twelue thousand Turkes for seruice of the said Paleologus which was the source and beginning of the ruyne of Constantinople For being allured with the riches of Europe to make another voyage he passed in the Genowaies gallies six thousand Turks vnder colour of yet giuing fresh succour to the Emperor of Constantinople and to expell his enemies out of the Empire But it was with full intention to vsurpe Greece So he crossed the arme of the Hellespont Sea to Abydos seazing Calypolis and other Citties Afterward with a verie strong power he set vpon the Emperor himselfe who no way doubted him Then tooke he Seruia and Bulgaria whose Princes he foiled comming in good manner against him But one of the followers of Lazarus Despote of Seruia in reuenge of his Maisters death slaine in the fight killed Amurath in the yeare 1378. Baiazeth King or Emperor of the Turks first of that name after the death of Amurath his Father slew his elder brother Solyman by Treason and enioyed the Empyre of the Turkes alone to himselfe To reuenge the death of his Father he made warre against Marke Lord of Bulgaria both vanquishing and killing him and subduing beside a great part of his country In short while after he ran thorow the Countries of Hungaria Albania and Valachia and doing great hurt vnto them tooke many Christians whom he carried Prisoners into Thrace In regard of most bold attempts in his Martiall businesse wherein hee was both hot and sudden hee was called Baiazeth Hildrin that is to say Heauens Lightning He subdued almost all Greece being assisted with the guifts and graces of Nature both in body and mind He besieged Constantinople for the space of eight yeares the Emperor wherof was gon into France to require assistance which was granted him Neuerthelesse Baiazeth had the victory ouer the French Hungarians Germaines Seruians Mysians at once assembled against him And so returning to Constantinople with a fresh besieging and finding no meanes to preserue the Empire of Constantinople suddenly Tamberlain came against Baiazeth and gaue him battel on mount Stella where Pompey fought with Mithridates There did Tamberlain conquer him bound him in chaines of gold placing him in a Cage of yron led him in that manner thorough Asya and Syria In which miserable estate Baiazeth died and after his decease we find that there was interregnum vntil Mahomet one of his sons came Iosuah or Cyriscelebes whom some wrongly name Calapine the eldest sonne of Baiazeth after the foyle of his Father was defeated of Asya by Tamberlain led Captiue to Constantinople for the Emperor as a singular prize But he was vsed as the sonne of a Prince and soon after with great humanity in the Emp. released and sent home into Asya where he recouered his Fathers kingdome After when he had well reestablished his forces he stoutly resisted Sigismond King of Hungary who came to assaile him and had woon diuers Prouinces from him presuming that the Turks could no way reléeue him after so great an ouerthrow giuen by Tamb. But Fortune spake no friendlier to Sigismund then she had formerly don to him when he fought against Baiazeth at Nicopolis his people being al larded with arrows before they could fall into order of battell For the Horsmen turned bridle euen at the first shocke noise of the Enemy and Cyriscelebes remained conqueror who was slaine by his brother Mustapha otherwise called Musulman in the very flower of his age the yeare 1407. Mustapha or Musulman was Emperor of the Turks a very small time for his brother Moyses possessed himselfe of the State and expelled him Som name this Mustapha Orchanes the second whom they tearme to be son and heire to Iosuah or Cyriscelebes and that he was slaine by Moyses his vncle by the fathers side but Moyses quickly did suffer his deserued punnishment For loosing both goods and life together himself was also slain by his owne brother Mahometh There be that write that this Mahometh raigned next after his father Baiazeth making no mention of Iosuah or Cyriscelebes neither of Mustapha or Orchanes nor of Moyses but after Baiazeth do make his sonne Mahometh presently to follow Moyses was expulsed and put to death by his brother Mustapha or as others say his nephue Orchanes and soone after he was likewise slaine by his brother Mahometh And these twoe by some are not set in ranke with
Byshop of Rouen Iulianus Arch-Byshoppe of Toledo and others 87 Iohn the sixt a Greeke sonne of Paturnus or Patronus or Petronius vnder Tyberius he helde the Sée three yeares thrée months vacante one month ninetéene dayes A Synod in England 88 Iohn the seauenth a Greeke also son of Plato Cardinall Deacon vnder Tyberius and Iustinian he held the Sée two yeares seuen months seuenteene daies vacante three months 89 Sysinnius a Syrian sonne of Iohn vnder Iustinian Hee helde the Sée xx daies vacante one month eighteene daies 90 Constantine a Syrian sonne of Iohn vnder Iustinian and Phillippicus he held the Sée seauen yeares twenty daies vacante two moneths ten daies A Synod holden at London in England 91 Gregory the seconde a Romaine sonne of Marcellus Cardinall Deacon vnder Anastasius Theodosius and Leo he held the Sée xvi yeares nine months eleuen daies vacante one moneth A Synod holden at Rome about Images another synod at Moguntia or Mentz in Allemaign 92 Gregory the third a Syrian son of Iohn Cardinall priest vnder Leo Isauricus Hee helde the Sée x. yeares ix months xxiiij daies Vacante viij daies A synod at Augusta vnder Bonifaco 93 Zacharias a Greeke sonne of Polycronius Monke and Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine Copronymus He held the sée x. years iij. months Vacante xij dayes Synods at Rome in France 94 Stephen the second Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine He held the Sée thrée daies 95 Stephen the third a Romaine sonne of Constantine Cardinal Deacon vnder Constantine and Leo. He held the Sée v. yeares one month vacante one month 96 Paule a Romaine son of Constantine and brother to Stephen the third Pope Cardinal Deacon vnder Constantine and Leo. He held the Sée x. yeares x. months Vacante one month the tenth schisme betwéen Paul and Theophylact synods in Bauaria and in Allemayne 97 Constantine the second Duke Nepesius son being a Lay-man was created pope perforce But he was afterward shut vp in a Monastery after that they had pluckt out his eies He held the Sée four months iij. daies vacante ix dayes The eleuenth schisme was betwéene him and Phillip 98 Stephen the fourth a Sicilian Monk the son of Olibryus Cardinall Priest vnder Constantine and Leo. He held the See 4 yeares v. months xxiiij daies Vacante ix daies A synode was at Rome to take order for ensuing schismes and another synod was holden at Wormes 99 Adrian a Romain of a most noble family and son to Theodâ—r Cardinall Deacon vnder Leo the fourth Constantine his son He held the Sée xxiij years x. months xvi daies Then was the seuenth general Nicene counsell against the Iconomaches and after that Didier was taken then ended the raigne of the Lombards 100 Leo the third a Romaine son of Azzupius cardinall Priest vnder Constantine 8. and Nicephorus he held the Sée twenty yeares first and reseated xvi years v. months xviij daies vacante xvij daies In this Leos time was Charles the Great king of Fraunce created Emperor of the West to whom he fled for refuge The eighth Age. IN this eight age liued the learned venerable Bede S. Iohn Damascene Germaine Partriark of Constantinople Paulus Diaconus Vsuardus and Paulinus of Aquileia 101 Stephen the fift a Roman son of Inlius Marinus cardinall Priest vnder Lewes the meeke Emperor he held the See six months foure and twentie daies Vacante xi daies 102 Paschall a Romaine Monke and Abbot son of Maximus Bonosus cardinall Priest vnder Lewes and Lotharius Hee held the See seauen yeares three moneths seuenteene daies vacante foure daies 103 Eugenius the second sur-named the poores Father a Romaine son of Boëmond Cardinall Arch-Priest vnder Lewes and Lotharius he held the Sée foure yeares sixe months foure twenty daies vacante three daies The xij Schisme betweene Eugenius and Zinzinus 104 Valentine a Romaine sonne of Leontius Cardinal Arch-Priest vnder the same Emperors he held the Sée one month tenne daies vacante thrée dayes 105 Gregory the fourth a Romaine sonne of Iohn Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes and Lotharius Hee helde the Sée sixtéene yeares vacante fifteene daies Two Synods in Allemayne 106 Sergius the second a Romaine sonne of Sergius Cardinall Arch-priest vnder Lotharius he held the Sée three years vacante two months fifteene daies 107 Leo the fourth a Romaine Monke sonne of Rodolphus Cardinall Priest vnder Lotharius and Lewes the younger hee helde the Sée eight yeares three months sixe daies vacante fifteene daies The Synod of Mentz vnder Rabanus 108 Bennet the third a Romaine sonne of Peter Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes the yonger he held the Sée two yeares sixe months ix daies vacante fifteene daies The xiij Schisme between Bennet and Anastasius 109 Nicholas the Great sonne of Theodor Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes He held the Sée nine yeares seauen months thirteene daies vacante seauen months 110 Adrian the second a Romaine sonne of Talarus the Byshoppe Cardinall Priest vnder Lewes He held the Sée fiue years nine months twelue daies vacante twelue daies The eight generall counsell at Constantinople against Photius 111 Iohn the eight a Romain sonne of Gundus Cardinall Arch-Deacon vnder Lewes the younger Charles the Balde Lewes the Stammerer and Charles le Gros. He helde the Sée x. yeares two daies vacante two daies 112 Martine the second otherwise called Marine borne in Tuscane sonne of Palumbas Cardinall Deacon vnder Charles le Gros He helde the Sée one yeare fiue months 113 Adrian the third a Romaine other-wise called Agapetus sonne of Bennet vnder Charles le Gros He helde the Sée two yeares two monethes vacante xij daies 114 Stephen the sixt otherwise called Basile son of Adrian vnder Charles le Gros and Arnould he held the Sée sixe yeares eleuen dayes vacante fiue dayes A Synod at Cullen 115 Formosus of Portua sonne to Leo Byshop of Portua vnder Arnould He helde the Sée fiue yeares sixe months Vacante two months This is the first man that of a Byshoppe was made Pope The xiiij Schisme betwéene Formosus and Sergius the third who afterward was Pope 116 Boniface the sixt a Romaine sonne of Adrian byshop vnder Arnould or Arnulphus Emperor He helde the Sée sixe and twenty daies Vacante fourteene daies 117 Stephen the seuenth a Romaine Sonne of Iohn the Priest Byshoppe of Anagnia vnder Arnulphus He held the See one yeare 3. months vacante 3. daies A synod at Tiburtium 118 Romanus borne in Tuscany Son of Constantine who was Brother to Martine the second Pope vnder Arnulphus he held the sée thrée daies vacante eight daies 119 Theodorus the second a Romaine sonne of Photius vnder the Empyre of Arnulphus he held the see twenty daies vacante eleauen daies 120 Iohn the ninth a Tiburtine Monke son of Rempâ—aldus Deacon of the Romain Church vnder Arnulphus and during the Schisme of Sergius He helde the Sée two yeares fifteene dayes vacante nine daies
The ninth Age. IN this ninth Age liued Aymonius Monachus Theophilact Rabanus Maurus Ansegisius Anastasius 121 Bennet the fourth a Romaine sonne of Mammolus vnder Lewes the fourth son of Arnulphus he held the see thrée years four months Vacante six daies 122 Leo the fift borne at Ardea he forsooke the Papacy and became a Monke vnder Lewes the fourth He held the See one moneth tenne daies 123 Christopher a Romaine sonne of Leo Cardinall-Priest vnder Lewes the fourth Hee gaue ouer his dignity to Sergius the third made himselfe a Monk He held the see seuen months The xv Schisme betwéene Leo the fift Christopher and Sergius the third 124 Sergius the thirde a Romaine Sonne of Bennet one of the Earles of Tusculum Cardinall-Priest vnder Lewes the fourth Hee held the see seauen yeares foure monthes sixe daies vacante vij daies Two Synods at Rheimes 125 Anastasius the thirde a Roman Son of Lucian vnder the Empire of Conrade Emperor He held the see two yeares vacante two daies 126 Lando a Sabine borne sonne of Tâ—iâ—nus vnder Conrade He held the Sée six months xxi daies Vacante xxvi daies 127 Iohn the tenth of Rauenna sonne of Iohn Of Byshop of Bolognia he was made Arch-Byshop of Rauenna vnder Conrade and Henry surnamed the Byrder Emperors hee helde the sée thirtéene yeares two monethes and thirtéene dayes 128 Leo the sixt a Romaine sonne of Christopher vnder the fore-named Henry he helde the Sée seauen moneths fiftéene daies vacante one month 129 Stephen the eight a Romaine Sonne of Teudemunde vnder Henry hee helde the See two yeares and one Moneth vacante tenne daies 130 Iohn the xi a Romain the natural son of Sergius third Pope one of the Earles of Tusculum vnder Henry He held the Sée four years ten months fiftéene daies vacante twelue daies 131 Leo the seauenth a Romaine vnder Otho the Great who was the first Allemayne Emperor He held the Sée thrée yeares six moneths ten daies vacante thrée daies 132 Stephen the ninth a Romaine vnder the Empire of Otho he helde the Sée thrée yeares foure-months twelue daies vacante ten daies 133 Martine the third whom some others doo tearme Marine the seconde a Romaine vnder Otho Hee helde the Sée thrée yeares foure monethâ— twelue dayes Vacante twelue daies A Synod at Bonnonie 134 Agapetus the second a Romain vnder Otho he held the See seauen yeares nine months ten daies vacante twelue daies Then was the Ingelheimensian Synod 135 Iohn the twelfth a Romaine called also Octauian the sonne of Albericus a Romaine Prince an Earle of Tusculum Cardinall Deacon vnder Otho hauing was deposed in a Synod at Rome he held the Sée ix years thrée months fiue daies vacante one day 136 Leo a Romaine sonne of Iohn vnder Otho hee helde the Sée one yeare foure months The xvi Schisme after Iohn the 12. betwéen Leo the 8. and Bennet the 5. 137 Bennet the fift a Romain Cardinall Deacon was elected in the schisme after the death of Iohn the twelfth he forsooke the Papacy by constraint and was exiled to Hamborough in Saxony where he died he held the Sée one yeare sixe monthes 138 Iohn the xiij a Romaine sonne of Iohn the Byshop he was Byshoppe of Naruia vnder Otho He held the Sée six years eleuen months fiue daies vacante xiij dayes 139 Domnus the second Donus or Domnio a Roman vnder Otho hee held the Sée one yeare vacante two daies 140 Bennet the sixt a Roman sonne of Hildebrand vnder Otho he held the sée eight years six months vacante fiue daies 141 Boniface the seauenth a Romaine sonne of Franco-Ferrutius Cardinal Deacon vnder Otho the second he held the Sée seauen moneths fiue daies vacante twenty daies The seauentéenth Schisme betwéen Boniface the 7. and Bennet the 7. 142 Bennet the seauenth a Romaine sonne of Deus-dedit an Earle of Tusculum Byshoppe of Sutrium vnder Otho the second he held the Sée eight yeares six months Vacante fiue dayes 143 Iohn the fourtéenth called also Peter born in Pauia and Byshop of the place where he was borne vnder Otho the third he helde the See thrée months 144 Iohn the xv a Romaine son of Leo Priest vnder Otho the third hee held the See eight moneths vacante seauen daies 145 Iohn xvi a Romain sonne of Robert vnder Otho the third he helde the See ten yeares six months ten daies vacante sixe dayes 146 Gregory the fift a Saxon Allemayne called Bruno the son of Otho vnder Otho 3 he held the see two yeares fiue moneths ten daies The xviij Schisme betwéene this Gregory and Iohn the xvij This is he in whose time the Princes Electors were first created in Allemaign or Germany 147 Syluester the second a Frenchman born in Aquitain called Gerebert Monk of S. Floure Abbot of Bobie of Arch-byshoppe of Rheimes he was made Arch-byshop of Rauenna a very great Phylosopher vnder Otho 3. He held the sée foure yeares i. month x. daies vacante xxiij daies 148 Iohn the xvij a Romaine called Sicco of very meane descent vnder Henry the second He held the Sée ten months vacante twenty daies The tenth Age. IN this tenth Age liued Ado of Vienna Odo Abbat of Clugnie Suidas Luitprandius Regino and Wirichinde 149 Iohn the xviij a Romaine called Fasanus or Fanassus vnder Henry the second he held the See foure monthes twenty daies Vacante nineteene dayes A great synod holden in Allemaign 150 Sergius the fourth a Romain called Peter the sonne of Martine he held the Sée two yâ—â—res and fifteene daies Sede vacante eyght dayes 151 Bennet the eight a Roman son of Gregogory Earle of Tusculum vnder Henry Hee helde the See eleuen yeares one moneth thirteene dayes The ninetéene Schisme between Bennet and one whose name is not truely known 152 Iohn the xix a Romaine and Earl of Tusâ—ulum sonne to Gregory and Brother to Bennet the eight Pope Byshoppe of Portua hee helde the see foure yeares foure months vacante xix daies 153 Bennet the ninth a Roman Earl of Tusculum called Theophilact Sonne of Albericus Brother to Bennet the 8 and Iohn the xix Popes Cardinal Deacon vnder Conrade Henry 3. He held the See xiij yeares foure moneths nine dayes The xx Schisme betweene him and Iohn the 20. called Syluester the third 154 Iohn 20. called Siluester the 3. a Romain son of Laurentius Byshop of Sabina vnder Henry 3. He held the see one month xix daies 155 Gregory the sixt a Romain called Iohn Gratian sonne of Peter Leo Arch-Priest vnder Henry 3. he held the Sée two yeares vij months 156 Clement the 2. a Saxon Allemayn or Germaine called Suidegerus Byshop of Bemburg vnder Henry 3. He helde the Sée nine monthes vacante nine moneths 157 Damasus 2. of Bauaria in Allemaign called Pope Bagniarius byshoppe of Brescia After that Damasus the second and Bennet the ninth had beene
séeing that he had attained to this Soueraigne dignity he resolued to put in execution a matter which in his predecessors daies had often béene intended but could not any way be effected viz. to depart from the Isle of Cyprus and to get a dwelling some where else which hee very happily performed For in Anne 1308. the very yeare of his election hée made a voyage to Constantinople and afterward into France where the Pope gaue him the Isle of Rhodes if he could get it which with his Knights he conquered in the yeare 1309. and seauen other Islands néere adioyning So that thither was the residence of saint Iohns knights transferred and then they were afterward called Knights of the Rhodes yet kéeping the Name of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem still Not long after Otthoman first Emperour of the Turkes came and besiedged Rhodes with a Potent Army but it was reléeued by Amadis the fourth Earle of Sauoy and Otthoman was compelled to raise his siedge After which time the Earles of Sauoy wore on their Armours a Crosse Argent in a fielde Gules in memory of the helpe they had giuen to the Knightes of the Rhodes The order of the Templers hauing béene vtterly suppressed in a generall Councell holden at Vienna in Dolphine the greater part of theyr goods was giuen to the Order of the Rhodes and confirmed by Pope Clement the fift 1312. In the yeare 1314. the Knightes of the Rhodes conquered the Isle of Lango with other Isles in the Archipelagus And in the yeare 1317. Folquet the Great Maister pleasing his owne humour ouer-much in his victories and conquestes beganne to grow haughty proud and insolent which brought him into contempt of his companions whereupon the Knights reuoulted from him and if he had not saued himselfe in a Castel they had seized his person But in regard they could not get him they deposed him from the dignity of Great Maister in his place elected 25 Maurice de Pagnac wherof Pope Iohn the twenty two beeing aduertised hee was greatly offended thereat and sent two Prelates to the Rhodes to informe themselues of the fact with commaund to cite the Great Maister de Villaret and de Pagnac to appear at Auignon in person Gerard des Pins beeing appointed Lieutenant Generall in the meane while At this instant time Orchanes Emperour of the Turkes came boldly and besiedged the Isle of Rhodes but the knights had an admirable victory against him for there were then tenne thousand Turkes hewen in péeces In this Interim Maurice de Pagnac died at Montpellier Anno. 1322. and Folquet de Villaret was re-established in the dignity of Great Maister But hee perceiuing that it was against the liking of his fellowe knights renounced his Great Maistership in the yeare 1323. and liued as a priuate Knight vntill the first day of September 1327. when he dyed and was buried at Montpellier 26 The same yeare that he gaue ouer his dignity the Knights of the Rhodes chose Elion de Villeneufue borne also in Prouence and Priour of Saint Gilles In the yeare 1343. a league was made betweene the Seigneury of Venice the K. of Cyprus and knights of the Rhodes And the Great Master hauing won the name of an happy gouernor died the 27. of May at Rhodes In his life time he had enclosed the great Maisters Pallace with wals towers and deuided the languages Bayliwicks and other dignities of the Order 27 After the decease of Villeneufue Deodon or Gods-gift a Natiue of Prouence was elected Great Maister About foure yeares before hée was promoted to this Dignity hee had fought with an horrible and monstrous Dragon that greatly afflicted the Isle of Rhodes And hauing kild the Monster he was therefore so highly honored and estéemed that his memory yet remaineth renowned to posterity In the yeare 1347. he ayded the King of Armenia against the Soldane of Egypt Pope Clement the sixt helde the Knights of Rhodes in such estéeme that almost all the Fortes in Italy belonging to the Sée were gouerned seuerally by one of them In the yeare 1351. Constance King of Armenia became a Brother Knight of Rhodes And in the yeare 1353. the Sonne to Iohn Canta-cuzen Emperour of Constantinople came and required ayde of the Great Maister of Rhodes who after he had gouerned this Order of Saint Iohn seauen yeares sixe months and ten daies dyed the seauenth of September in the saide yeare 1353. and was buried in the Church of S. Iohn of Rhodes Hee builded Milles in the Citty of Rhodes and engirt the Subburbs with walles making them very strong on the Sea side 28 Next succéeded him by election as Great Maister Peter de Cornilian Priour of S. Gilles borne also in Prouence Hee was Maister but one yeare eight months and seauentéene dayes for falling into a gréeuous sicknesse hee died in the Citty of Rhodes the 24. of August 1355. He was a man of very exemplarie life and so seuere that hee was sur-named the Corrector of Customes He held a generall Chapter at Rhodes 1354. wherin many good Statutes were made 29 After the great Maister was deceased according to acustomed form Roger des Pins born likewise in Prouence did next succéede him In his time the Pope perswaded the Knightes of Rhodes to buy the Principality of Achaia of Iacques de Sauoy Prince of Piedmont and the Knights of Rhodes made a generall assembly in the Citty of Auignon to effect the treaty of buying the sayd principality of Achaia and to reform some abuses crept into the Order For their statutes were now traduced into the Latine tongue and to all Princes were sent authenticall Copies or Volumes of them by appointment of the great Maister And in the yeare 1359. the great Commander the Marshall of the Order were sent into France in quality of Ambassadors to be visiters and reformers There was an assembly of the Knights called at the Cittye of Carpentras but it could not hold in regard of the great Maysters death who dyed the 28. of May 1365. and was much lamented but by the poore especially to whom hee was a great and charitable Almoner 30 Raymond Berengarius of Prouence also was next chosen great Maister who had bin before Commander of Castle Sarrazin In his time the King of Cyprus and the Knights of Rhodes made a league together and tooke perforce the Citty of Alexandria in Egypt which they ransackt spoyld and burnt The Armenians being expulsed by the Sarazins out of their dwellinges wer charitably entertained by S. Iohns knights in the Isle of Lango and at the same time the Citty of Tripoli in Syria was taken and sacked by the King of Cyprus and the Knightes of the Rhodes In the yeare 1371. the Great Master was by the Pope elected Nuntio from the Apostolique seat to appease the rumors and diuisions which were then in the Kingdome of Cyprus whether he went in person and both by his Authority and wisedome he soone seased
one yeares and the other seuenty six after they had long time gouerned their Churches And then began Christian Religion to flourish by the holy and painefull writings of many Doctours This is all that can be saide of Pharamond first King of the Francs or Franconians who afterward were called French-men And hee after he had raigned ten or according to some others eleauen yeares died in Anno Dom. 431. Our Historyes haue not giuen him any Wiâ—e albeit some say that Clodion his Successor was his Sonne 2 Clodion second King of the Francs Franconians or French succeeded his Father Pharamond in the yeare of grace 431. He was sir-named Clodion the Hairy because hee wore his Beard and Haire long ordaining the French to weare the like in signe of liberty because the Romaines vsed to poule and shaue all such as they subdued in signe of seruitude and this fashion of wearing long haire continued in France vntill the time of Peter Lombard in the raigne of Lewes the younger fourth King of that name Clodion perceiuing the Romaines to war weak by Warres which they maintained against the Vrisigotes and loath to loose occasion for enlarging his Kingdome leuied a mighty Army subdued the Thuringians or Lorraignes took Cambray by assault putting all the Romaines to the Sword that were therein and vanquished their Army néere to the Riuer of Rhine Then passing the Forrest Charbonniere hee tooke Tournay and pursuing his purpose for dilation of his Confines he went into France conquering Burgundy Tholouse Angolesme and all Aquitain Clodion hauing raigned twenty yeares died in An. 449. 3 Meroneus third King of the French succéeded Clodion as his Sonne or néerest Kinsman Anno 450. Tritemius writeth that he was Sonne to Clodion but it is not found to bee so in the Histories of France In him the generation of the Kings of Fraunce tooke beginning which endured vntill King Pepin the Sonne of Charles Martell Meroneus like vnto his Predecessors was a Pagan yet very bold and couragious in warre as he declared by many foughten battailes wherein hee was continually present In his time Attila King of the Hunnes or Hungares who tearmed himselfe Flagellum Dei leuyed an Army of fiue hundred thousand Men and came into the Countrey of Gaule where he spoyled Coulongue and Treues with many Castles scituated on the Rhine Hee trauersed Fraunce also where hée wasted Amiens Beauuais Chaalons Troys and Rheimes bringing his siedge before Orleaunce Meroneus séeing Fraunce so much oppressed with the helpe of Aetius Lieutenant Generall in Gaule for the Armie of Theodosius the younger Emperour of Rome and of Theodorick King of the Vuisegothes gaue him a strong battaile in the Catalaunique Fieldes which is sayde to be néere to Chaalons in Champaigne in which fight were slaine about two hundred thousand Men of Warre as well on the one side as the other Attila beholding his Men in disorder and that he could not call them backe againe as he would was enforced to retire home to Hungarie where he could neuer after re-assemble them of that company This battaile was fought in the yeare 452. Others say it was in the twenty seuenth year of the Empire of Valentinian the third Meroneus hauing his hopes much more highly aduaunced by such a great and glorious victory tooke the Citties of Sens Paris and a great part of Gaule not finding any to offer him resistance So that thence forward the Countrey which before has beene tearmed Gaule began euen then to be called France He caused one of his Sonnes to be throwne into a Fire because hee hadde slaine the King of Cornewall who came in courtesie to bée merrie with him Cornewall béeing then tributarie to France as some haue reported who also doe entitle Meroneus to be the first king of the French and all his Race the Merouingians Hee dyed in the tenth yeare of his raigne after hee hadde very much enlarged his Kingdome in Anno Domini 472. Or according to others 459. 4 Childerick or as some tearme him Chilperick Sonne to Moroneus succéeded him in the year 460. The great luxurie and bad life which he led in the beginning of his raign abusing the Wiues and Daughters of many worthy Lords begot him such indignation and hatred among theÌ„ that they purposing to surprize him he was faigne to saue himselfe by flight to Basinus king of Thuringe now called Lorraigne This did he by the councell of a friend of his named Vidomarck who as a secret token betwéene them breaking a Ring of Gold gaue him the one halfe coniuring him to giue no faith for his returne but to him that should bring him that other halfe The French elected in his place a Lieutenant of the Romaines named Gillon who held Soissons and laide such heauy exactions on euery man exercising also such cruelties on the Princes of France that in the 8. yeare hée was expelled and Childerick againe restored wholly by the meanes of Vidomarch Childerick pursued Gillon his Enemy and had great victories and conquestes against him Hee fought a battaile also néere to Orleaunce against Andoacre who was Duke of the Saxons Hee enlarged his Kingdome along the Riuer of Loyre so far as Angeirs One great and irreparable errour he committed for breaking the right of Hospitality with Basinus King of Thuringe who had receiued and relieued him in the chiefest of his aduersity he caried away with him his wife Basina by whom he had a Son called Clouis He died in An. 485. the 26. of his raigne 5 Clouis first King Christian and fift King of France succéeded his Father in the year of our saluation 485. He married Clotilda Sister to the Duke of Burgundy He made warre vppon Siagrius the Sonne of Gillon Lieutenant to the Romaines who held Soissons and som other parts of Belgick Gaule from whence hée expulsed him and made him fly to Tholouze to Alaâ—ic King of the Vuisegoths who betrayed him and sending back to Clouis he had his head smitten off So the Romaines being partly fled and partly slaine held no longer dominion in France Hauing likewise vanquished King Basinus hee â—â—bdued Thuringe now called Lorraigne and amplified the kingdom euen from the Rhine so far as Seine extending her limits to the riuer Loyre The Quéene his Wife did often times sollicite him to become a Christian whereto he would by no means listen til being in a hot conflict against the Allemaignes who descended in great companies to driue the French out of Gaule and desparing of the battaile hee thought vppon the God of Clotilda his Quéene promising that he would be a Christian if that day he obtayned the victory It pleased God to grant it him and hée was Baptized at his returne in the Cittie of Rheimes by Remy Arch-Byshoppe of the sayde place with his two Sisters and more then thrée thousand of the Nobility The sacred Oyle was poured on his head
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Childerick with other his predecessors In like maner he layed open to him the paines and Trauayles of his Father and himselfe only in defence of the Kingdome and how it was more conuenable that hee who attended the charge of publicke affaires should likewise beare the name of king rather then hee that waited not thereon at all but followed his own delights and voluptuous pleasures which being considered by the Pope by the intermise of Bruchard Byshop of Bourges and Folrad Chaplaine vnto the saide Pepin it was ordained that Childerick should be shauen and sent vnto his Monastery againe where he dyed with Gisala his wife hauing raigned nine years And then was Pepin with ful consent of the Nobility and generall sufferages of all the people proclaimed King of France Heere ended the first generation of the Kinges of Fraunce in the ligne Masculine beeing termed the race of the Merouingians which lasted from Pharamond to this Pepin 331. yeares And heere beginneth the second generation called the race of the Carlouingians PEpin surnamed Le Bref or Short Son of Charls Martel was made king of France in the year of grace 751. hauing bin nine years Maire of the Pallace from the raigne of Chilperick the third This man as well by consent of Pope Zacharie as fauour of the French Nobility his former good gouernment also especially considered was sacred King the first of that race Pope Stephen who succeeded Zacharie withdrew himselfe into France to haue succour against Astulphus King of the Lombards Pepin being acquainted therewith tooke part with the holy sée of Rome promising to restore that which was vsurped from it In requitall whereof the Pope sacred him againe with his two Sonnes And Pepin marching with his Armie into Italy sent the Pope home to Rome againe for Astulphus was besiedged in Pauia and constrained to make agréement with the Pope Pepin gaue to the Sée of Rome the Exarchate of Rauenna and many other Citties and Towns by him conquered He had many victories against Gaiser or Waifer Duke of Aquitaine who in the ende was slaine and his Country conquered in a battaile which he won néere to Perigord He subdued the Saxons who were reuolted from their allegeance And he instituted the Court of Parlament in France He died at Paris in the eyghteenth yeare of his raigne leauing two Sonnes and seauen Daughters which hee had by Bertha his Wife In his time was Robert Surnamed the Deuill Sonne vnto Aubert Duke of Normandy 24 Charles the Great called Charlemaigne son of Pepin le Bref succéeded in the kingdome the yeare of Grace 768. and was Crowned at Wormes after he had made partage with Caroloman his Brother when hee had raigned 32. yeares King of France by consent of the Cleargie and Romaine people in regarde of the great good done by him to Christendome the Church of Rome he was proclaimed and crowned Emperor of Rome in the year 800. vpon Christmas day the people crying aloud thrée seuerall times To Charls Augustus crowned of God the great and peaceable Emperor life victory He was the first called Most Christian King being a man of great stature admirable strength eloquent in many languages studious affecting to heare the reading of histories a great louer of learning and the learned as Parls and Pisa can well witnesse Nicephorus he deuided the Empire agreeing that the one shold be called Emperor of the East and the other of the West He quailed the commotion raised in Guiâ—nne by the procurement of his Brother Caroloman who therefore went in a rage to Rome and returning thence died soone after To please his Mother he married Theodora Sister or daughter to Didier k. of the Lombardes whom he quickly diuorced and remarried Hildegrande Daughter vnto the Duke of Swethen by whom he had Charles Pepin Lewes Rotrude Bertha and Gilette Hauing pacified the broyles in Aquiâ—aine at the request of Pope Adrian he went inâ—o Italy against Didier whom he subdued and so gaue ending to the Lombards kingdome sending the king his wife and children into exile He conquered the Saxons against whom he warred thirty yeares hauing twelue seuerall Battailes against them He repulsed the Sarrazins that wasted Spaine and lost one battaile in dealing with them wherein perrished thirtie thousand of his men but returning on them the second time he won a famous victory But too true it is that bringing his armie home into Fraunce and passing by Ronceuaux his arrieregarde was rudely assayled by the Gascoignes and there he lost a great number of his Knights among whome were Rowland and Oliuer He conquered the Hâ—nnes Sclauonians Bauarians and Danes loosing his two best Sonnes Charles and Pepin accomplishing many déedes woorthy of memory as well in war as peace He founded the Vniuersities of Paris Pauia and Bolongne apointing also Orders for Ecclesiasticall personnes called Capitula Caroli Magni and caused the Counselles of Maience Rheimes Tours Chaalons Arles Francfort to bee holden ordaining withall the twelue Péeres of Fraunce Such was the raygne of this great Charles till beeing crazed with a Feauer hee dyed in the sixe and fortyeth yeare of his Kingly Gouernement the fouretéenth yeare of his Empyre the seauenty one of his age and lyeth buried at Aix la Chapelle 25 Lewes Surnamed the Debonnaire or méeke succéeded his Father Charlemaigne both in the Romaine Empyre and Kingdom of Fraunce but not in his Vertue and greatnesse of courage for hee was so Nick-named in regarde of his ouer-much readinesse and facility which made his authority despised both of his owne people and straungers in the yeare 816. Many debanches hapned vnder his raigne as well on behalfe of Bernard his Nephew king of Italy his wife and children whom he caused to be put to death as also in his war against the Bretons who would not bee brought vnder his obedience He had thrée sonnes by his first wife to wit Lothaire whom he made King of Italy Pepin King of Aquitaine and Lewes King of Bauiere In second marriage hee had Iudith daughter to the Count of Altorfe by whome he had Charles the Balde who after him was K. of France Hee endeuoured to reforme the ouer-great pompe and dissolutions in them of the Churche by a Counsell holden at Aix la Chapelle His three first Sonnes made diuers wars vppon him being thereto prouoked as well by the Ecclesiastickes as by the partage which hee had made to Charles the Balde his yongest son In their first attempte they besiedged him at Compeigne where they tooke their second mother Iudith whom when they had shorne vayled they sent her in Religion to Poictiers leauing their Father then without any administration or royall charge But afterward beeing recouered from such seruility and causing his wife to be brought him againe he was so milde and méeke that he pardoned the Rebels all their offences A seconde time his Sonnes arose against
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
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
kings treasury was hanged at Mont-faucon which hee himselfe first caused to be made Lewes tooke first to wife Margaret Daughter to Robert Duke of Burgundy by whom he had a Daughter Next he married Constance whom he left with child of a Sonne named Iohn that liued but eyght daies This King raigned but xviij months died at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at S. Denis 48 Phillip the fift Surnamed the Long succéeded after his Brother Lewes Hutin in the kingdome being called Long in regard of his tal stature and slendernesse The Duke of Burgundie would haue troubled his possession of the crown in regarde of his Daughters Daughter but the Salique Law did not fauour him therein This King Phillip married Iane Daughter to Otholine Earle of Burgundy by whom hee had three daughters The first married with the Sonne to the Duke of Burgundy the second the Sonne to the Earle of Flaunders and the thirde to the Daulphine of Viennois by which marriages all Warres were asswaged in Fraunce During his raigne diuers Leapers and Lazers procured thereunto by the Iewes poysoned all the welles which caused a great Pestilence thorough the Kingdom but both the one and other were grieuously punnished therefore Neuer coulde this King obtaine of his people any impost or Taxation by him leuied He made a Law that there shold be in his kingdom but one kind of weight one measure and one money commanding that it should be duely kept But while this was in execution he died without any heires male hauing raigned fiue yeares in peace and lieth buried at S. Denis In these times certaine Troopes of Countrey people that were called Pastors and Shepherds arose againe in Fraunce as formerly some had done in the time of King Lewes the ninth These men made their vaunt that they would crosse the Seas and go warre against the Infidels They had two chiefe men of marke among them and wel beseeming such an assembly to wit a Priest that for his mis-behauiour was expulsed his Church and an Apostata Monke of the Order of S. Bennet These two fellowes so abused the hearts and beléefe of the poore popularity that silly Shepheards left their Flocks and Laborers their Manuall trades to follow these two impostures who made them verily beleeue that the Holy Land could be recouered by none but them In conclusion this heape of Rascality was quailed in Languedoc because in stead of preparing their fury against the Infidels and passing the Seas they fell vpon the Iewes whom the king had repealed into France 49 Charles le Bell Son to Phillip the fourth succéeded after his Brother in the year 1321. and likewise was King of Nauarre as his thrée predecessors had bin He had thrée wiues Blaunch whom he diuorced for her adultery Marie and Margaret Iourdain de l'Isle albeit hee was Nephew to Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was hanged and strangled at Paris for his strange offences This King fel to concord with the English appeased the Earle of Flaunders and drewe his people to a mutuall Reconciliation He was a great Iusticer raigned seauen yeares dyed at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at Saint Denis By his death the second branch of the Capets called De Valois came to the Royalty and began in 50 PHillip de Valois Coozin Germaine to the thrée precedent Kings dying without heire male his succession was in the yeare 1328. His right to the Crowne was dearely disputed betweene him and King Edward the third of England Son to the Sister of the thrée forenamed Kings who preferring his Mothers Title would néeds be King of France contrary to the Decrée of the Law Salique and consent of al the States He did king Phillip homage for Guyenne and Ponthieu but being not well pleased therewith cut him off quite from Flanders Bretaigne Germany Crecy where Phillip lost the day with the very flower of al the French Nobility taking Calais also by their flight Truce being taken betwéene both the Kings Edward of England had both the Title of king and Armes of France or conquest which euer after was attributed to him his Phillip raigned 22. yeares died at Nogent and lieth buried at S. Denis 51 Iohn Sonne to Phillip de Valois succee-his Father in the yeare 1350. proouing as vnfortunate in those tempestuous times as his father had done before him He married Ioane Countesse of Bolongne by whom he had foure sonnes and one Daughter Raoull the Constable of France was beheaded in prison In the day at Poictiers King Iohn was taken by the English and carried into England which imprisonment of his caused many pittifull Tragedies the most furious whereof were acted in the chiefe Citties of France Foure yeares after King Iohn passed into England for the fréedome of his Ostages but there he died at London hauing raigned 13. yeares His sonne caused his body to be brought to S. Denis 52 Charles the fift Sonne to King Iohn succéeded his Father in the yeare 1364. Hee sustained very great troubles during the captiuitie of his father by a commotion which the k. of Nauar raised at Paris who was aided by the merchants of the saide Citty and woulde haue had the Regency but that Charles being then Daulphine made opposition against him He dealte for the ransome and deliueraunce of his Father after whose decease he was crowned King Hee tooke to Wife Ioane Daughter to Charles Duke of Burbon by whom he had three Sonnes and one daughter He maintained great warres against the English hauing at one instant fiue seueral Armies in field against them because they were such potent enemies And to supply so mightie a charge he was faine to lay a heauie taxation vpon wine and Salt Bertrand de Guesclin a most worthy Knight was then his high Constable And the Bastille at Paris was then builded A sedition happened at Montpellier and six hundred of the seditious were executed This King was surnamed the Wise for his deep discretion goodnesse and gouernment He so loued Learning that he caused the Holy Bible to be translated into the French Language which remaineth yet in the Royal Cabinet of the Louure with many other good Bookes beside Hee had stil an eye to Iustice sitting daily to hear causes and ordering all his affayres by Counsel With much adoo he regained some Townes from the English in Poictu and Xaintonge Hee raigned sixteene yeares yeelded his soule to God at Chasteau de Beaute and lieth buried at S. Denis The Sect of the Turlupins was then abolished See Emil. Lib. 9. 52 Charles the sixt sonne of Charles the fift was crowned King at the age of fouretéen years being vnder the gouernment of his Vnckles the Dukes of Berry Burgundy and the Duke of Aniou who got into their custody many millions of Gold left by the King deceast And then no Money being to bee found the people were charged with heauy
a Pestilence that the liuing dyed burying the dead The Frizons reuolting againe from obedience made all his raigne a continuall warfare and the Armies on eyther side méeting néere vnto Winckell so dreadfull a battaile was fought betwéene them that the Hollanders sustained the worst Count Arnolde being there slaine and a great number of his chéefest Nobility This battaile was fought the eightéenth of October the morrow after Saint Lamberts day in the yeare 993. So this Earle Arnolde hauing raigned fiue years and being thus vnfortunately slaine was buryed by his Father and Grand-father in the Abbie of Egmont 4 Thierrie third of that name and Sonne to Counte Arnolde succéeded as fourth Earle of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland Being desirous to reuenge his Fathers death vppon the Frizons hee was much impeached therein by Adelbold Bishoppe of Vtrecht against whom neuerthelesse hepreuailed in two foughten battailes in the year 10â—8 and with great slaughter of the Fryzons brought them vnder obedyence to his youngest Sonne Floris whom hee made Lord of them This Earle Thierrie liuing afterward in very peacefull daies vndertooke a Pilgrimage to Ierusalem with the Lord of Arckell his loyall Subiect who died at Hierusalem and was there very honourably buried by Thierrie After whose returne home and some yeares passed in peace with his Wife and Children hauing raigned 46. yeares he died in Anno 1039. and was buried by his Fathers in the Abbay of Egmont 5 Thierrie fourth of that name was the fift Earle of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland after the decease of Thierrie his Father In a Iourney of Princes and Lords performed for pleasure in the Cittie of Liege it was this Earles hard hap to kill a Brother of the Bishops of Cullen and Liege whereby ensued such discord and mollestation that after many aduentures of reuenge vnder-taken by the Germaine Gentlemen albeit therein they sustained much losse of men the Earle was shot into the Thigh with a poisoned Dart of which wound hee dyed the fiftéenth of May 1048. after he had gouerned nine years and was buryed by his Fathers in the Abbay of Egmont He was neuer marryed and therefore left not any Childe to succéede him 6 Floris who as you haue heard before was Earl of Frizeland now after his Brothers death became the sixt Earl of Holland and Zeland The former mishap at Liege could not as yet be forgotten by the Bishops of Cullen and Liege but they would needes prosecute fresh reuenge vppon Count Floris who beeing a man of vndaunted spirite defeated his Enemies in two seuerall attempts Once by a cunning Stratagem causing Ditches and Pit-fals to be made in South Holland and couering them with Straw and grasse so that they could not be easily discerned At this time a bloody battaile beeing fought betwéene them there was forty thousand of the Earles enemies slaine beside twenty sixe thousand more who were drowned and smothered in those Ditches An. Dom. 1058. The second foile of his aduersaries happened foure yeares after this when the Hollanders putting the Germans to flight returned with rich spoiles and great store of Prisoners this was in the yeare 1062. yet was it this Earles ill fortune to be afterward slaine vnarmed as he sate vnder an Elme taking the aire his enemies preuailing by this aduantage Hee had ruled in Holland 14. yeares and in Frizeland 21. and lieth buried at Egmont 7 8. Gertrude widow to Earl Floris in regard that Thierrie her son was in his nonage gouerned those Countries in his right And in the year 1063. she remarried with Robert the Frizon son to Baldwin of Lisle de Buck Earle of Flanders with the good lyking of all the States and Nobility Hee also was made Guardian of young Earle Thierrie and had this Gertrude thrée Sonnes Robert Sur-named the young who went with Godfrey of Bullen to the holy Land and was after his Father decease Earle of Flanders Phillip father to William of Ixt Baldwin Bishop of Teroanne beside thrée daughters also which he had by the saide Gertrude This Robert was called the Frizon not in regard of his birth but of his big stature strength and courage for hauing preuailed against the Frizons and hearing of his Brothers death Baldwine de Mons Earle of Flanders hee laide claime to the saide Earledome and notwithstanding the opposition of Richild Widdow to Earle Baldwin by meanes of the Flemings hee ouer-threwe the King of France in a battaile and shee with her Sonne Baldwine remaining satisfied with the Country of Henault Robert became quietly Earl of Flanders For eight yeares space he carryed himselfe with great wisedome and valour and dying in the yeare 1077. was buried in the Cannons Church founded by himselfe at Cassel Gertrudes time of rule by her selfe and Roberts after are reckoned as two seuerall gouernments 9 Godfrey sir-named the Crooke-backt Duke of Lorraine in this time of young Earle Thierries minority was made an instrument in regard of the former quarrell of Count Floris and the Byshops of Cullen and Liege as yet not reuenged to their minds to suggest a false information to Henry the fourth Emperour whereby the sayde Godfrey became an Vsurper of the young Earles right for the space of foure yeares But as he was sitting on the draught to ease his body a Seruant of young Count Thierries did thrust a Iaueling vp into his fundament whereof he died not long after at Maestrecht 10 Thierry fift of that name who by Crooke-backt Godfrey and other strange oppositions had long time bin debarred from quiet possession of his right at length by an absolute conquest of the Frizons in two seuerall great battailes recouered all and returned home as a Conquerour Afterward he married Whithilde daughter to Frederick Duke of Saxonie by whom hee had a Son and a Daughter Floris that succeeded him and Mathild married to the Duke of Orleans Earle Thierrie hauing gouerned fiftéen yeares dyed and was buried in the Abbey of Egmont 11 Floris second of that name and sir-named the Fat or Grosse succéeded next after his father Thierrie he greatly fauoured men of the Church whereby the Abby of Egmonts reuenewes were largely encreased He being a man of very peacefull inclination little or no disturbaunces happened in his time but onely by the Frizons who for their rebelling were seuerely punnished and forced to submit themselues to his mercy This Floris married Petronilla or Parnell Daughter to Didier Duke of Saxony and Sister to Lotharius the Emperor By her he had thrée Sonnes Thierrie Floris called the Blacke Prince of Kenemerlandt and Symon also one Daughter named Hadewick who was Countesse of Gueldres Hauing gouerned his Countries very honorably for the space of thirty one yeares Hée died in Anno. 1133. and lieth buried in the Abby of Egmont 12 Thierrie sixt of that name succéeded his Father Floris and was much mollested by the Frizons in regard that his
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
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
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.
Martij Anno primo Edw. 6. Sir Edward Bellingham Lord Deputy 22. Aprills An. eodem Sir Francis Brian Lord Iustice Sir VVilliam Brabeston Lord Iustice Sir Anthony Seutleger the third time Lord deputy 4. August Sir Iames Croftes Lord Deputie twenty nine Aprilis Sir Anthony Sentleger the fourth time Lorde Deputy September 1. Anno primo Reg. Marie Thomas Lord Fitzwalter Lorde Deputie 27. Aprilis Sir Henry Sidney Lordes Iustices Doctor Coren or Corwen Lordes Iustices Sir Henry Sidney Lord Iustice alone eightéen Ianuary Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Lieutenant 19. Martij Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Iustice Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Deputy 6. Maij Anno primo R. Elizab. Sir Nicholas Arnold Lord Iustice Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputie the third time Doctor Weston Lord Chancellour Sir William Fitzwilliams Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputy the fourth time Sir William Fitz-williams Lord Iustice Sir William Fitz williams Lorde Deputy 11. Decemb. Anno. 14. Elizab. Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputy the fift time August 3. Sir William Drury Lord Iustice 14. Septem by patent 18. May. Sir William Pelham lord Iustice The Lord Arthur Gray Adam Arch-Byshoppe of Dublin Lordes Iustices Sir Henry Wallop Lordes Iustices Sir Iohn Perot Lord Deputy Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Deputy Sir William Russell Lord Deputy Thomas Lord Burrough lord Deputy Robert Earle of Essex Lord Lieutenant Charles Blunt Barou Montioy Lord Deputie Sir George Carew Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Deputy who yet to this day continueth in that honourable office ¶ Of the Kingdome of Scotland ACcording to the ancient Historiographers of Scotland in description of their Nations first off-spring and originall after Brutes first deuision of Brittaine to his Sonnes they make relation of a Noble man among the Grecians that was named Gathelus the sonne of Cecrops in the iudgement of some who builded Athens but according to the conceite of others the Sonne of Argus Nealus fourth King of the Argines This Gathelus being banished by his Father for some matter of disobedience departed thence into Aegypt in the thirty three yeare of Pharao Orus then King of that Countrey and there carried himselfe with such valiant and extraordinary successe against the Countries Enemies in the company of Moses Generall vnder the King himselfe that Pharao bestowed his faire Daughter named Scota on him in mariage hauing also then giuen him and his follâ—wers the Citty Thebes Aegyptiaca reported to be taken from the Israelites Vpon iust occasion Gathelus after his Fathers in Lawes decease leauing Egypt being prouided of Shippes and other apt necessaries tooke his Wife Children and a great multitude both of Greeks and Ethyopians and setting forth of Nilus determined to séeke his fortune in other Countries This was in the year of the worlds creation 2453. and after his abiding in Egypt aboue 39. years what accidents befell him in this voyage is néedelesse to report his first arriuall was on the Coastes of Numidia in Affrick now named Barbary but being not able to settle there he came into a part of Spaine long after termed Lusitania It is said that the place of his landing there was called Port-Gathele after the name of Gathelus which afterward became corruptly to bee called Portgale or Portingale the certainty whereof I referre to better iudgements The people there inhabiting gaue both him and his at the first a bold repulse but in the end hee preuailed victoriously and after further friendly conference with the Spaniards he began to builde a Citty named Brachara on the bankes of the Riuer Mundus and so at the first did hee name the Citty it selfe Gathelus by the Spaniards further perswasions promise of assistance to their vttermost whatsoeuer disasters should betide him and his remooued to the Northside of Spaine on the Cantabrian Sea coasts now called Galitia where he builded likewise another Cittie named Brigantia afterwarde called Nouium and nowe Compostella Héere did Gathelus bear the Title of king and gaue lawes to his people commanding that they should all be called Scottish-men to honour the name of his deare beloued wife Scota as hee had alwayes so tearmed them in the time of his trauailes In time they grew to be so great a Nation that the Spaniards warring with them for their owne safety sustained the worst though victory remained to the Scots yet such good Orders were agréed on that both Scots and Spaniards should obserue their own lawes without inuasion offered on either side Then did Gathelus liue in peace with his neighbors sitting daily on his Marble stone in Brigantia administring Lawes and Iustice to his people which stone was fashioned like a seat or chaire hauing such a fate thereto belonging as is said that wheresoeuer that stone should be found there shoulde the Scottishmen raigne and hold dominion Héereof it ensued that there first in Spain afterward in Ireland and next in Scotland the Kings ruling ouer the Scottishmen receiued the Crowne sitting vppon that stone vntill the time of Robert the first King of Scotland On the stone was this inscription engrauen Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Inuenient lapidem regnare tenentur ibidem Englished thus Except olde Sawes doo faile and Wizards wits be blinde The Scots in place must raigne where they this Stone shal finde This quiet life of Gathelus did so daily encrease the aboundance of his people that the bounds of his dominion was not able to containe them and he beeing religious in couenant with the Spaniards auoiding all meanes of breach of the peace hauing intelligence of an Island lying North ouer against Spaine and wherein was but fewe inhabitantes made readie his shipping leuyed an Armie of his subiectes and vnder conduct of his two sonnes named Hiberus and Himecus or Hermion which hee had by his Quéene Scota conueyed them ouer into that Island which after-warde was named Hibernia after the name of Hiberus The History recordeth that the Scottishmen offered no violence to the inhabitants but fought all meanes to win them by gentlenesse which in the end was easilie compassed and all thinges appointed in decent order which made Hiber leaue his Brother to gouerne there in Hilberland or Ireland and return backe to Spaine There he found his Father Gathelus to be dead and hee with the peoples ioyfull consent was admitted to succéed him as his son but in regard of his admirable courage not satisfied with those bounds that pleased his father he made conquest of other Citties Towns neere about him so that they were inforced to sue vnto him for peace and agreed to such conditions that a league concluded amity and mariage contracts betwéen both Scots and Spaniards causing them to become as one people continuing their succession of Kings after Hibers death
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
being named Donald of the Isles twelue yeares Crathlint Son to King Findock twenty foure yeares Fincomarke the Vncles sonne to Crathlint 47. yeares Romacus Nephewe to King Crathlint foure yeares Angusianus Nephewe to King Crathlint two yeares Fethelmachus Cozin to Angusianus thrée years Eugenius the Sonne of King Fincomarke thrée yeares Ferguse Sonne to Erthus who was Sonne to Ethodius Brother to Eugenius and borne in Denmarke 16. yeares Eugenius the Son of Ferguse in whose time the Wall called Adrians Wall was vndermined and ouerthrowne Also the Brittaines were made tributary to the Scots and Pictes which was about fiue hundred yeares after that Iulius Caesar had brought them in subiection to the Romaines after our Sauiours birth 446. and the seauenth of Eugenius his raigne Then was the Isle of Albion sore infected with the Pelagians Heresie and Paladius tearmed by some the Apostle of Scotland was sent by Pope Celestine to the Scots and Picts This Eugenius raigned 30. yeares and aduanced the State of his Countrey to more wealth and felicity then any of his Predecessors had done before him Dongard brother to Eugenius raignd 5. years Constantine Brother also to Eugenius 17. yeares Dongall or Congall Nephew to Constantine and son to his Brother Dongard 20. years Conranus Brother to Congall in whose time the great K. Arthur was borne and S. Germane preached among the Souldiers in the Camp and bare the Kings Standard in the field wben with the cry of Alleluia thrée tunes together the Saxons were miraculously discomfited This Conranus died in the 20. yeare of his raigne the 16. of Arthurs ouer the Brittaines and fift of the Emperor Iustinian An. Christi 531. Eugenius his Nephew and son to his brother Congall in whose time was the bloudy battell betweene the Britaines Scots and Picts wherein aboue 20000. men were slain with Mordred K. Arthur Gawan or Gauan brother to Mordred and most part of the Brittish Nobility This Eugenius raigned 38. yeares Conuall Brother to Eugenius in whose time S. Colme or Colombe came from Ireland into Scotland This Conuall raigned ten yeares and then Kinnatill his Brother being enthroned at Argile by free election liued but twenty dayes after his Coronation Aldan Sonne to King Conran was crowned by the holy Father Saint Colme and raigned thirty seauen yeares In this Aidans time the Saxons hauing driuen the Brittaines into Wales and insulting ouer their lands and Countries deuided the kingdome into seauen parts or deuisions ordaining seuen seuerall Kings to rule ouer them In this King Aidans rule died Saint Colme at Dune in Ireland whereon his toomb these verses were found engraued Hi tres in Duno tumulo tumulantur in vno Brigida Patricius at que Columba pius Saint Colme Saint Patrick and Brigetta pure These three in Dune lies in one Sepulture Kenethus Keir Son of Conuall or Conwall raigued foure months Eugenius fourth of that name Son to King Aidan and by some called Brudus according to S. Colmes prophecy of him was crowned King of Scotland He raigned 15. yeares Ferquhard Son to Eugenius 13. yeares Donald or Donwald the third son of Eugenius 15. yeares Ferquhard the second Nephew to Donwald 18. yeares Maldwin Sonne of king Donwald in whose time was a grieuous Pestilence through most part of the World consuming a greater number of Men before it ceased then were left aliue for it continued the space of three yeares together He raigned twenty yeares Eugenius the fift Nephew to Maldwin foure yeares Eugenius the sixt the Sonne of Ferquhard ten yeares In this Kinges raigne were many wonderfull visions séen in Albion In the Riuer of Humber to the apparant view of a multitude of men a number of Ships appeared vnder saile as ready furnished for the war In the Church at Camelon a noyse was heard like the clattering of Armour Milke was turned into bloud in dyuers places of Pict-land and Chéese conuerted into a bloudie Masse or Cake Corne as it was gathered in Haruest time was all bloudie and it rained blood in the further partes of Scotland as the Scottish Chronicles doe make mention Ambirkeleth Nephew or Son as some say to Eugenius the fift raigned not fully two years Eugenius the seauenth Brother to Ambirkeleth who caused the Histories of his Ancestours liues to be written in Books and volumes for example to posterity appointing those Monuments to bee carefully kept in the Abbay of Iona now called Colmekill he raigned 17. yeares and dyed much lamented Mordacke Nephew to Eugenius In whose time according to venerable Bede foure seueral people liued in peace and quietnesse within the boundes of Albion though differing in manners language lawes and ordenaunces Saxons whom hee called English-men Brittaynes Scots and Picts In which time also Bede concluded his history with the ending of King Mordacks life Ethfine Son to Eugenius the seauenth who had foure Gouernors vnder him in his Realme Donald Treasurer of Argile Collane of Athol and Mordake of Galloway his Lieutenants Conrath the Thane of Murreyland He raigned 30. yeares Eugenius the eight Son of King Mordacke thrée yeares Ferguse the third Son of King Ethfine thrée yeares Soluathius Son of Eugenius the eight twenty yeares Achaius Sonne of King Ethfine in whose time was a perpetuall league confirmed betwéen him and the Emperor Charlemaigne of France And then had Hungus the Pictish King the vision of Saint Andrew and his Crosse as is reported whereby S. Andrew became Patron both of the Scots and Picts This Achaius raigned 32 yeares Conuall the Brother of King Ethfine fiue yeares Dongall Sonne of King Soluathius fiue yeares Alpine the Sonne of King Achaius foure yeares Kenneth the Sonne of Alpine This is that famous and renowmed King in whose time the Pictish Nation were vtterly destroyed the Cittie of Camelon cast downe the Castle of Maidens forsaken by the Picts and none or verie few of them left liuing in Albion Which happened after their first beginning to raigne there 1173. yeares 1166. from the enterance of Fergusius eight hundred thirty nine after our Sauiours birth and from the Worldes Creation 4806. In memorie of this his famous victorie King Kenneth brought the Marble Stone out of Argile where till then it hadde béene kept into Gourie and placed it at Scone néere to the place where he preuailed against the Picts This roiall K. died in the yeare 856. hauing raigned 20. yeares in great renowne and glory Donald Brother to King Kenneth died in the sixt yeare of his raigne which was much mollested by the Danes vnder Cadane King of Denmarke pretending a Title to the Picts lands Constantine the Sonne of King Kenneth a very worthy and famous king who redressed al disorders in his Land appointing Priests to apply their vocation and not to meddle with
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
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 Worshipfull Maister William Dios Esquire Remembrauncer of the Honourable Citty of London WHether this Lande were peopled before the flood or no it is no part of my purpose to argue heer thereon albeit Dominicus Marius Niger and Berosus do affirme that well as this Islande was inhabited with people long before the dayes of Noah as any other Countrey or part of the world beside But after the floud according to Annius de Viterbo Berosus and others when Noah deuided the earth among his thrée Sonnes that part which is now knowne by the name of Asia fell to the lot of his eldest Sonne Sem Affrica to his second Sonne Cham and Europe withall the Isles thereto appertaining to his third Son Iaphet among which this Island now called Brittaine with other Isles thereto belonging was certainely numbred Iaphet Noahs third Sonne by some called Iapetus by others Atlas Maurus because hee died in Mauritania in the iudgement of Bodinus auouching the consent and authority of the Hebrew Greeke and Latine Writers was the first that peopled the Countries of Europe deuiding it also by the Grand-fathers example among his Sonnes of whom Tuball according to Tarapha had the rule of Spaine Gomer the Italians and Samothes was the founder of Celtica which contained in it as Bale testifieth a great part of Europe but especially those Countries now called Gallia and Britannia which peopling of this Island by Iaphets Children is affirmed to be 200 yeares after the floud Samothes being the sixt Sonne of Iaphet and called by Moses Mesech by others Dis had for his portion as Wolfangus Lazius auoucheth the Countrey betweene the Riuer of Rhine the Pyrenean Mountaines where hee founded the kingdom of Celtica tearming his people Celtae which name was as indifferent to them of Gallia as to the Inhabitantes of the Isle of Britaine This King Samothes is reported to bee a Man excelling all other in that age in learning and knowledâ—e that of him theÌ„ arose a sect of Philosophers both in Britaine Gallia which were cald Samothei as Aristotle and Secion do say were surpassing both in the Law of God man and therefore greatly addicted to religion especially them of Britaine which not onely made the whole nation to take name of them but as Bale and Doctor Caius affirme the Island it selfe was named Samothea which was the first peculiar name it had before the arriuall of Albion Magus the Sonne of Samothes was second King of Celtica after his Father This Magus was likewise so famous for his learning that the Persians Magi or Diuines are said to come of him Sarron succéeded his Father Magus in the Countrey of Gallia and the Isle Samothea of whom Diodorus Siculus reporteth that a sect of Philosophers descended among the Celtes who were called Sarronides Druis or after Seneca Dryus raigned after his Father Sarron indifferently ouer the Celtes and Samotheans Of him came the Philosphers called Druides whom Caesar anoucheth to haue the charge of common and priuate sacrifices the discussing of pointes of Religion the education of youth the determining of matters in variance and full power to interdict so many from the Sacrifices to their Gods and societie of men as disobeyed their award If any doubt arose in the Countries about matters of Discipline they alwayes resorted to these Druides who as Humphtey Llhoyd witnesseth made theyr chéefest aboade in the Isle now called Anglesey and there at all times receiued their resolution Bardus the Sonne of Druis was the fifth King ouer the Celtes and Samotheans a man much renowmed for inuention of Musique and Ditties and he made an order of Philosophicall Poets or Herauldes calling them Bardi after his owne Name Of these Bardi Nonnius Strabo Diodorus Stephanus Bale and Sir Iohn Price doe thus record That they vsed to Register the Noble exploits of auncient Captaines and to draw the pedegrées and Genealogies of such as were liuing They did so excell in singing swéete Songes and Ditties to theyr Harpes that if two Armies had béene ready to ioyne battaile and any one of these Bards by fortune entred among them they had not the power to strike vntill he left singing and went from the Armies When Bardus was deceased the Celts began to affect liberty and addicting themselues to pleasure and ydlenesse would liue no longer vnder the strict orders of their auncient Kinges which brought them the sooner vnder subiection to the Gyant Albion who straited Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia tearming this Island formerly called Samothea Albion according to his owne name and subdued the people albeit the Title of Samotheans according to the iudgement of diuers Writers had continued from Samothes to Albion the space of 310. yeares This Albion was the fourth Sonne of Neptune whom Moyses calleth Nepthuim and who did put his said Son in possession of this Island by conquering the Samotheans as he did the like to his other Sonne named Bergion in Ireland and the Orkenies which were brought vnder his obeysance Concerning the Historie of Hercules Lybicus whom Moyses nameth Laabin his Conquests in Spaine his passage into Italy against Lestrigo and lastly his killing Albion and his Brother Bergion it being nothing incident to my present purpose I leaue it Also the Story of Danaus Daughters being fifty in number that they should arriue in this Island after the slaughter of their Husbandes the fifty Sonnes of King Aegyptus and that one of those Ladies should bee named Albina of whom this Land should bée called Albion I passe it ouer likewise and will now procéede to the knowne History of Brute Yet not daring to enter into so rich a Mine of hidden treasure till being guided by the Light of Brittaine the learned labour of a worthy Gentleman and Antiquarie Maister Henry Lyte of Lytescarie Esquire and which with his owne hand hée presented to our late Soueraigne Quéene and matchlesse Mistresse on the day when shee came in royall manner to Paules Church I be guided therein for my better direction vsing his owne words The Light of Britaine BRitannia Maior the Countrey of the bright Britona called Britomartis the president of Britaine that is to say the chast Diana of Calydonia sylua Astrorum decus Syluarum dea casta et innupta custos et cultrix nemorum metuenda Virago terror syluestribus apris This Britannia maior was first found by Brute of Albania the Conqueror of the Greeks the mightie deliuerer of the Troyans and first founder of the Noble Britaines Who by the Oracle of the bright Britona called Diana of Calydonia sylua Astrorum decus brought the remaines of the Albanian Troyans of Asia from Albania Calydonia sylua Aetolia in Greece to Albania Calydonia sylua and Aetolia in Briraine Before whose most happy and fortunate arriuall there was neither Towne Citty Countrey Riuer Region or place of name in Britannia for Britannia
of Britaine And among his other ordinances he first appointed weights and measures whereby men should buy and sel and deuised very seuere punishments for Theft He raigned 40 yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Brennus and Belinus the Sonnes of Mulmutius had in their Fathers life time the Land once more deuided betwéene them Belinus enioying Loegria Wales Cornwall and Brennus all the Countries ouer and beyonde Humber But when Brennus grew couetous to exceed his portion and sought to compasse it by forraine assistance he was enforced to flight and Belinus quietly seated in the whole possession Then finished he the foure high-waies of Britaine which his Father had begunne which were called the Fosse Watling-streete Erming-streete and Hiknel-streete confirming to them the priuileges which his Father had formerly granted He builded the Hauen called Belines-gate and a Castle also East-ward from that Gate called long time after Belines Castel but is the same which we now call the Tower of London Hee raigned twenty sixe yeares and was buried in Troy-nouant Gurguintus the Son of Belinus succéeded in Britaine after his Father He subdued Denmark and made them pay tribute to Brittaine In his daies was the Towne of Cambridge with the Vniuersity first founded by Cantaber a Spanyard according to Caius Hee raigned 19. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Guintholinus Sonne to Gurguintus raigned after his Father beeing marryed to a vertuous Lady named Mertia who deuised certaine Lawes which afterward were tearmed Mercian Lawes He ruled 27. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Sicilus Sonne to Guintholinus raigned after his Father albeit hee was then but seauen yeares old but his Mother Mertia had both the gouernment of his person and of the Realme in which time shee deuised those Lawes before mentioned It is saide that then the Picts arriued in Brittaine and possessed those partes which now are the Marches of England and Scotland hee raigned seauen yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Kimarus Sonne of Sicilius raigned thrée yeares Elanius Sonne of Kimarus raigned seauen yeares Morindus Bastard Son of Elanius In his time a came a wonderful Monster out of the Irish Seas that destroyed many people and the King in fighting with the said monster was deuoured by him hauing raigned sixe yeares Gorbouianus first Sonne of Morindus who builded the town of Grantham raignd 10. years Archigallus Elidurus Vigenius and Peridurus being all likewise the Sonnes of Morindus raigned seuerally in Brittaine by great contentions all their times scarcely reaching to 27. years yet Elidurus was crowned King three times ech after other But no sooner died Elidurus a King of most milde and princely nature but there passed aboue 185. yeares betweene the said Elidurus and the beginning of King Luds raigne in which time there raigned 33. Kinges of whose names and rule Authors doe so disagrée that I passe them ouer and come to King Helie who was the last of those 33. Kings who gaue name to the Isle of Elie builded a goodly pallace there with reparatiens of the Sluces Ditches Causies about the Isle for conuayance away of the water yet he raigned not fully a yeare Lud eldest son to King Hely succeeded in Britaines gouernment He enclosed Troy-nouant with a Wall made of lime and stone and fortified with diuers faire townes building also a gate in the west part of the wall which he cald Luds-gate He erected likewise a goodly Pallace somewhat néere to Luds-gate which is now the Byshop of Londons Pallace and in méere affection to the Citty hee altered the name thereof from Troy-nouant called it Caer-Lud that is Luds Towne since when corruption hath tearmed it London K. Lud raigned 11. yeares was buried néere Lud-gate He left two sons named Androgeus Tenancius whose minority in yeares made them vncapable of gouernment Cassibaline Brother to K. Lud was admitted King of Britaine or rather Ruler and Protectour of the Land during his Nephewes nonage In the 8. yeare of his raigne Iulius Caesar with his Romans came into Britain wher being wearied at first with a sharp battell after that his nauy well-néere destroyed by a sudden tempest hee returned back into Gallia or France But the next spring being the year before Christ 51. he crossed the seas againe with a greater army and compelled Cassibelane to consent that Brittaine should become tributary to the Romains Then raigned foure Kings in Kent Cingetorix Taximagulus Caruilius Segonax all whose power could not withstand Caesar whose preuailing thus in Britaine was Anno mundi 3913. and after Brute 1060. Cassibelane raigned 17. yeares Tenantius Luds youngest Sonne succéeded as lawfull King of Brittaine because his Brother Androgeus had assisted Caesar against Cassibelane He raigned 23. years and was buried at London Kymbeline or Cimbeline Son to Tenantius succéeded after his Fathers decease In his time was the Sauiour of the World our Lord Iesus Christ borne of the euer-blessed virgine Marie Kymbeline raigned 35. yeares Guiderius eldest Sonne to Kymbaline was King of Britaine in the yeare of our Lorde after his incarnation 17. Hee iudging the Romaines tribute to bée vniust denied to pay it This Guiderius was slaine at Portchester valiantly resisting against Claudius his Romains where one Hamo who was on the Romans side attired him selfe like a Britain changed his shield and armor and so entring the thickest of the British host cam at last where the K. was and so slew him But Aruiragus Brother to Guiderius perceiuing this villainy caused himself presently to be clad in the kings coat armor and other furniture whereby the Kings death was scarcely discerned He renewed the fight with such vndaunted courage the Claudius was beat backe to his ships Homo to the next adioyning Woods whether Aruiragus pursued him and slew him ere he could get off the hauen casting him peece-meal into the sea which Hauen in memory of his name was euer after called Hamans Hauen afterward by corruption Hampton Hauen and now at this day commonly called Southampton Guiderius raigned 23. or after others 29. yeares Aruiragus youngest Sonne to Kymbeline succéeded his Brother as King of Brittaine In his time Vespasian came into Britaine landing at Sandwich or Richborough Also about the yeare of Christ 53. and while this Aruiragus raigned Ioseph of Arimathia was sent by Phillip the Apostle into Brittain and one Simon Zelotes came then thether also Then began Brittaine to be gouerned by Romaine Lieutenantes and Treasurers Aruiragus raigned 28. yeares dyed in the yeare of Grace 73. and was buried at Glocester Marius sonne of Aruiragus succéeded his father in the State and then came the Picts with Roderick their King into this land but Roderick was slaine by Marius and his people vanquished In memory of which victory against the Picts Marius erected a Stone where
Theodosius after he had gouerned the Britaines eight yeares Gratian a Britaine taking on him-selfe the Rule of Britaine for his stearne and rough Gouernement was quickely slaine About this time did the Saxons first enter into this Lande and the Romain Empyre greatly declining their rule in this kingdome and payment of Tribute which hadde continued for the space of foure hundered eighty three yeares nowe quite ceased Constantinus Brother of Aldroemus King of little Brittaine at the sute of the Arche-Byshoppe of London in Name of all the Brittaines accepted the Gouernment of this Lande and was Crowned at Cicester Hee had three Sonnes Constantius who was made a Monk Aurelius Ambrosius and Vter Sur-named Pendragon This Constantinus was Trayterously slayne in his Chamber by a Pict and then one Vortiger a Britaine a man of great power amongest the Britaines tooke Constantius out of the Abbey of Winchester and Crowned him King But causing him soone after to bee murdered and the murderers strangled least hee should bee discouered hee got himselfe to bee chosen King Aurelius Ambrosius and Vter Pendragon Bretheren to the murdered king being glad to flye into Brittaine Armorica Hengist the Saxon and his Brother Horssus bringing great store of Saxons into the Realme by marrying his Daughter Rowen to Vortiger grewe into no meane sauour filling still the Lande with three sortes of Germaine people to witte Saxons Iutes and Angles who at length made such spoyle and hauucke of the Brittaines that from Sea to Sea the whole Realme was most pittifully wasted and ruined the Britaines beeing enforced for to flye out of theyr owne Countrey and the Saxons enioyed their possessions Vortiger was deposed and Vortimer his Sonne crowned King who had foure principall Battailes with the Saxons and preuailed very worthily against them til by the meanes of Rowen Daughter to Hengist Vortimer was poysoned after hee had gouerned the Britaines seauen yeares and odde moneths Then was Vortiger restored to his kingdom againe and Hengist performed his bloody treachery on Salisbury Plaine on a May day murdering 460. Noble Britaines with Kniues which he and his Saxons had closely hid in their Pockets There was Vortiger taken prisoner and could not gaine his liberty till hee had graunted Hengist three Prouinces or Countreyes of his Kingdome to wit Kent and Essex or as some write Sussex where the South Saxons afterwarde inhabited and Norffolke and Suffolke where the East Angles planted themselues At this time was the Heptarchie or seauen Kingdomes of this Lande Aurelius and his Brother Vter returned out of Brittaine Armorica with a powerfull Army and marching into VVales against Vortiger assayled him in his Castle which they consumed with fire where perrished Vortiger and all else there with him Aurelius Ambrose was made King of Britain anno 481. He gaue Hengist battaile who flying for safety was taken by Edoll Earle of Chester beheaded at Conningsborow In memory of the Britaines slaughter on Salisbury plain stones were fetcht out of Ireland and set vp in the same place and called to this day Stone-heng Aurelius raigned nineteene yeares was poysoned by a counterfeit Monk and buried at Stone-heng Vter sur-named Pendragon because Merlin likened him to a Dragons heade which at his birth maruailously appeared in the firmament at the corner of a blazing Starre He loued fayre Igrine wife to Gorlois Duke of Cornwall on whom he begot the valiant Prince Arthur Vter raigned 18. yeares and was buried by his Brother at Stone-heng Arthur Sonne of Vter Pendragon succéeded his Father in the kingdome Hee fought twelue battailes against the Saxons returning Conqueror in euery one of them yet coulde he not driue them out of the land but still they possessed Kent Sutherie and Norfolke He instituted the order of the round Table was deadly wounded in a battell which he fought with his cozen Mordred and hauing raigned 26. yeares was buryed at Glastenbury betwéene two Pillers where hys body was afterward found in the dayes of King Henry the second about the yeare 1191. Constantine Cozen to Arthur and Sonne of Cador Duke of Cornewall succéeded next in the gouernement But Aurelius Conan warred against him and slew him in the fielde when hee had raigned foure yeares and was buryed at Stone-heng Aurelius Conan was next King of Britaine albeit his Vnckle had most right thereto whom he imprisoned and cruelly murdred his two sons after which himselfe liued not long but died before he had raigned two yeares Vortiporus raigned after his Father Aurelius Conan foure yeares and left no issue to succeede him in the kingdome Malgo Nephew of Aurelius Conan raigned fiue yeares Careticus ruled Britain thrée yeares and the English and Saxon Kings remoouing the Britaines enlarged the boundes of theyr owne Dominions so that beside the Kinges of Britayne there raigned eight Kings of the English Saxons as Ethelbert in Kent Cissa in Sussex Ceauline in Westsex Creda or Crida in Mercia Erkenwine in Essex Titila in East-Angles Ella in Deira and Alfred in Bernitia The Brittaines lost possession of the more part of their auncient seats and the faith of Christ was thereby greatly decayed for the Churches were destroyed and the Arch-Byshoppes of Caerleon Arswike London and Yorke withdrew together with theyr Cleargie into the Mountaines and Woodes in Wales Now was Augustine the Monke and others sent to preach the Christian faith in Brittaine and was made Arch-byshop of Britaine or the English Nation and King Ethelbert with his people of Kent were conuerted to the Christian faith Cadwan was elected King of the Britaines in Anno 613. For after Careticus they had remained for about the space of 24. years without any especiall Gouernor being led by sundry Rulers this Cadwan had before bin Duke or Ruler of North-wales He gouerned two and twentie yeares Cadwallo or Cadwalline Sonne of Cadwan succéeded as King of the Britaines after his Father He raigned 48. yeares and being dead his body was balmed with sweete confections and put into a Brazen Image by meruailous Arte melted and cast which Image was also mounted on a goodly brazen horse and so set vp aloft on the West gate of London called Ludgate in token of his Conquests and for a terror to the Saxons The Church of Saint Martine vnder the same Gate was then also builded by the Britaines Cadwallader Sonne of Cadwallo succéeded him in the Britaines gouernment whose raygne lasted but thrée yeares for hee was constrayned with his people to forsake their Natiue Countrey and by Sea to flye ouer into Britaine Armorica there to séeke reléefe for their languishing bodies In this Cadwallader ended the line and gouernment of the Britains now called Welchmen which name they tooke of their Leader Wallo or Gallo or else of a Quéen of Wales called Gales or Wales The Britaines had the greater part of this Lande in
rule reckoning from Brute to this time 1822. yeares and nowe the whole Dominion of the Lande came to the Saxons Egbert the Son of Alcmund a petty Prince the son of Offa of the bloude of Ina King of the West-Saxons hauing bin banished by k. Brightrick into France after Brightricks death was repealed home and succéeded as the seauentéenth King of the West-Saxons He subdued the Cornishmen and seuearely punished the vnquyet Welch-men Bernulfe King of Mercia was ouerthrowne by him and Kent Essex Southrie and Sussex with their seuerall Kings al brought vnder his obeysance and the kingdome of Northumberland yeelded vnto him Then subdued he North-wales and tooke the Citty of Chester Afterward assembling a Counsell at Winchester he was there crowned King and Soueraign Lord of the whole land which he chaunged from the name of Britaine and from the seuerall appellations of the Heptarchie and called it Engle-lond or Angles-land that is to say The Englishmens Land wherof in Latine it was termed Anglia a name taken from the Angles whych of the three people then possessing it to wit the Iutes Saxons and Angles being indéede all but one Nation were the most valiaunt and populous In his time was the first inuasion of the Danes and hee had an ouerthrowe by them at Carrum which successe causing them to aduenture the like attempt the yeare following landing theyr Fléet in Wales and ioyning with the Welch-men they were ouerthrowne by K. Egbert at a place called Hengistenton and a great number of them slaine This glorious Prince hauing greatly enlarged the bounds of his kingdome and raigned seauen and thirtie yeares died and was verie Royally buried at Winchester Ethelwolph eldest sonne to the most victorious King Egbert succéeded next in the kingdom of England All the time of his raigne hee was grieuously troubled with the Danes inuasions but he had a worthy victory ouer them at Ockley in Southrey such as the like hath hardly béene heard of in the English Dominions He deuided the kingdom betweene himself his son Ethelbald hauing raigned twenty yeares was honourably buried in the Cathedrall Church at Winchester Ethelbald succéeded his Father Ethelwolphe by inheritance but to his second sonne Ethelbert in his life time he had giuen the kingdomes of Kent and Essex which he had conquered This Ethelbald presumed to defile his Fathers bedde and maried his Step-mother Iudith he raygned fiue years and dying was buried at Shirbourn Ethelbert second sonne of King Ethelwolph succéeded after his Brother Ethelbald in the regiment This Ethelbert droue the Danes out of Kent many times ouerthrew them put them to flight He raigned fiue yeares and was buryed by his Brother Ethelbald at Shirbourne Ethelred third Sonne to King Ethelwolph raigned next after his Brother Ethelbert Hee fought nine battails with the Danes in one year bearing still the victory away with him but dissention among the Saxon Kinges furthered the Danes in conquest of their kingdomes Ethelred was slaine in fight with the Danes hauing raigned fiue yeares and was buried at Winbourne Abbey Alfred or Alured sur-named the Great yongest Sonne to Ethelwolph succéeded his Brother in the Kingdome Hee was very greatly troubled with the Danes who inuading diuers parts of the Land did most cruelly wast it yet had he in one yeare seuen battailes with them and ouer-throwing them at length recouered his kingdome He builded 3. Monasteries one at Edlingsey afterward called Athelny neer Taunton in Sommerset-shire the second at Winchester called the New Minster and the third at Shaftsbury where his Daughter Ethelgeda was Abbesse But by perswasion of Neote a famous Learned Monke he built the Vniuersity of Oxford being himselfe a good Grammarian Rhetorician Phylosopher Musitian and Poet as also a most perfect Architect Hee raigned 29. yeares and six months and was buried in hys New-Minster at Winchester Edward sonne to King Alfred and Surnamed the Elder succéeded in the kingdome after his Father Hee subdued the Kingdome of the East-Angles and so enlarged the boundes of his Kingdome that he had most part of Great Brittaine vnder his obedience he built a new Town at Nottingham on the South-side of Trent and made a Bridge ouer betwéene the old Town and new He repayred Manchester in Lancashyre accounted then the Southend of Northumberland and built a Towne called by ancient writers Thilwall néere to the Riuer of Mercia placing therein a Garrison of Soldiors Diuer other Townes and Castels also he builded as two at Buckingham on either side the Riuer Ouse against the Danes incursions and another at the mouth of Auon he repayred the Towns of Toceter and Wigmore and hauing raygned 24. yeares was buried in the New Minster or Monastery at Winchester Athelstane or Adelstane eldest Son of King Edward succéeded his Father and as his Auncestors was crowned at Kingston on Thames A great army of the Danes Scots and Irish was ouerthrowne by King Athelstane Northumberland Westmerland and Cumberland yéelded vnto him Hee was the first of the English Kinges that obtained the gouernement of the whole Kingdome which continued so 140. years after though not without some interruption the Danes in the meane time vsurping the Crown by the space of thirty yeares The Welch Cornishmen ware subdued by him He builded two Monasteries one at Wilton in the Diocesse of Salisbury and another at Michelme in Somersetshire founding also a Colledge of Priests at S. Edmunds-bury There were fewe famous Monasteries in this land but he beautified them either with some new piece of building Iewels Bookes or Lands and caused the sacred Scriptures to be translated out of the most pure Fountaine of the Haebrewes into the English Saxon tongue He raigned 16. yeares and was buried at Malmesbury Edmund Brother to King Athelstane succéeded next after him and vanquishing the Danes was afterward vnfortunatly slain hauing raigned fiue yeares and was buried at Glastenbury Eldred or Eadred Brother to King Edmund succéeded next in the royall Dignity being crowned also at Kingstone vpon Thames Edwin and Edgar Sonnes to King Edmund were put by from ruling in regard of their tender age Eldred subdued the Northumbers repayred the Abbey of Abington built by King Ina but ruined by the Danes And hauing raigned nine yeares was buried in the olde Monasterie at VVinchester Edwine eldest Sonne to King Edmund succéeded his Vnckle Eldred and was crowned at Kingston This Edwin was wholly addicted to sensuality and pleasure banished Dunstane Abbot of Glastenbury for reproouing his Rape of Algiua his neere Kinswoman euen when hys Lords were sitting in Counsell He hauing raigned foure yeares was depriued and dying with greefe was buryed in the new Abbey at VVinchester Edgar Brother to King Edwine was annointed and crowned King at Bathe and afterward at Kingstone He was a great fauourer of Religious men and had a Fleete of three thousand and sixe
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
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
maior one yeare Raphe Ioceline Draper Knight of the Bath and knighted also in field Lord maior one yeare Raph Verney mercer Lord Maior one yeare Henry weauer one of the Sheriffes of London was then made knight of the Bath Iohn Yong Grocer knighted in the field L. Maior one yeare Tho. Oâ—dgraue Skinner L. Mayor 1. year William Tayler Grocer L. Maior one yeare Richard Lee Grocer againe lord Maior one yeare In whose time the Tower of London being deliuered to him and his brethren they released King Henry the sixt thence Iohn Stockton mercer who worthily withstanding the Bastard Fauconbridge hee with eleuen Aldermen Thomas Vrswick then Recorder were all knighted in the fielde by K. Edward the fourth Lord Maior one yeare William Edwards Grocer L. Maior 1. year Sir william Hampton Fishmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Tate mercer lord maior one yeare In his time the Sheriffes of London were appointed to haue seuerally 16. Sergeants each Sergeant his Yeoman Then also was ordained sixe Clearkes viz. a Secondary a Clarke of the Papers and foure other Clarkes beside the vnder-Sheriffes Clarkes Robert Drope Draper L. Maior one yeare Robert Basset Salter L. Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Ioceline Draper knight of the Bath lord maior one yeare Humfrey Hayford Gold-smith lord maior one yeare Richard Gardener mercer lord maior one year Sir Bartholmew Iames Draper Knighted in field and who newly builded the great Conduit in West-Cheape lord maior one yeare Iohn Browne mercer lorde maior one yeare William Hariot Draper lord maior one year Edmund Shaa Goldsmith who builded Cripplesgate lord maior one yeare Then beganne the raigne of King Edward the fift son to King Edward the fourth but preuented by the cruell vsurpation of his Vncle Richard Duke of Glocester who began his raign the 22. day of Iune 1483. And because many haue often desired to know the country and parentage of our Lord Maiors of London in regard that diuers worthy houses haue descended of them my purpose was to haue examined our ancient Recordes from the verye beginning of that honourable dignity and so to haue pursued the tract thereof by reporting each mans Fathers name and Country euen to this instant Wherein I haue had the most laborious and painfull helpe of my especiall kind friende maister W. Williams And shaping our course from the present gouernment of sir William Crauon hoping to haue reached the maine height of our purpose euen to Henry Fitz-Alwin c. We could procéed no further backward then the raign of king Richard the third where I will now begin with their country and parents and so heereafter go on with the rest if this great labor may be but fauourably accepted ¶ The raigne of King Richard the third RObert Billisdon Haberdasher Sonne to Alexander BillisdoÌ„ of Queeningborough in the Countie of Leicester Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Hill Grocer Sonne to William Hil of Hilston in the Countie of Kent Sir William Stocker Draper sonne to Thomas Stocker of Eton in the Countie of Bedford And Iohn Ward Grocer son to Richard Ward of Howdon in the Countie of Yorke These thrée Maiors were all in this one yeare by reason a sweating sicknesse And King Richard being slaine at Bosworth-field Henry the seauenth began his raigne the 22. of August 1485. Hugh Brice Gold-smith Sonne to Richard Brice of Dubline in Ireland Lorde Maior one yeare Henry Collet Mercer son to Robert Collet of Windouer in the Countie of Buckingham Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Horne Salter made Knight in the field by King Henry the seauenth was son to Thomas Horne of Snaylewell in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Robert Tate Mercer Sonne to Thomas Tate of the Cittie of Couentry Lord Maior one yeare William White Draper son to Wil. White of Tickhill in the Countie of York Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Mathew Linnen-Draper and translated to the Mercers Sonne to Thomas Mathew of Sherington in the Countie of Buckingham Lord Maior one yeare Hugh Clopton Mercer son to Iohn Clopton of Stratford vppon Auon in the Countie of Warwicke where the saide Hugh builded the goodlie Stone-Bridge Lord Mayor one yeare William Martine Skinner sonne to Walter Martin of the Countie of Hertford Lord Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Ostrich Fish-Monger knighted by Henry the seauenth sonne to Henry Ostrich of Hitchin in the Countie of Hertford lord Maior one yeare Richard Chawry Salter Son to William Chawry of Westram in Kent Lord Mayor one yeare Henry Collet Mercer again Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tate Mercer sonne to Thomas Tate of Couentry and Brother to Robert Tate Maior forenamed Lord Mayor one yeare This Iohn Tate Robert Sheffielde Recorder and both the Sheriffes were knighted in the fielde by King Henry the seauenth for theyr good seruice against the Rebelles at Black-Heath Fielde William Purchas Mercer son to Iohn Purchas of Gamelinghey in the County of Cambridge Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Perciuall Merchant-Taylor knighted in field by King Henry the seuenth sonne to Roger Perciuall of London L. Maior one year Nicholas Aldwine Mercer Son to Richard Aldwine of Spalding in Lincolnshire lord Maior one yeare Hee gaue twelue pence a péece to 3000. poore people in London and the like to as many in Spalding William Remington Fish-Monger son to Robert Remington of Boston in Lincolneshire Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Shaa Gold-smith son to Iohn Shaa of Rochford in Essex Lord Maior one yeare Hee was made Knight in the fielde by King Henry the seauenth and hee caused the Aldermen his Bretheren to ride from the Guilde-Hall to the Thames side when he took Bardge to Westminster where he was sworne by the Kinges Councell He first kept Court alone in the afternoon for redresse of matters called before him Bartholmew Reade Gold-smith son of Roger Reade of Crowmer in Norffolke L. Maior one yeare William Capell Draper son of Iohn Capell of Stokeneyland in Suffolke Lorde Maior one yeare He was knighted by King Henry the seauenth And he first caused Cadges to be set vp in euery Ward for punishment of Rogues and vagabonds Iohn Winger Grocer son to William Winger of Leicester Lord Maior one yeare Thomas Knesworth Fish-Monger sonne to Iohn Knesworth of Knesworth in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Haddon Mercer son of VVilliam Haddon Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior one yeare VVilliam Browne Mercer Sonne of Iohn Browne Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior for one part of the yeare and Laurance Ailmer Draper Sonne of Thomas Ailmer of Ellesnam in Essex Lorde Maior for the other part Stephen Iennings Merchant-Taylor sonne to VVilliam Iennings of VVolnerhampton in Staffordshire where hee builded a frée Schoole worthily
liberty The deedes of Clodion for enlarging his Kingdome 450 The beginning of the Kinges of France in generation Attila with his Hunnes inuaded Gaule The â—ight of Attila out of Oval When Gaul began to be cald Francâ— 460 The incontinent life of Childerick Childebert wronged his dearest frend The first Christian K. of France The Romaines Dominion ended in France How Clouis conuerted and becam a Christian by means of his Queene The Emperour sent Clouis a Crowne of Gold 515. Foure kings raigning together in France Clothaire Childebert warre in Spaine 559 Clothaire Sole-Monarch of the Gaules 567 Cherebert an vnchast King 157 Fredegond Concubine to Chilperick Fâ—edegonde caused the King to bee murdered 587 Childebert seeketh to reuenge his fathers death Fredegonde a woman of great spirit Brunehault executed 631. The building of the Church of S. Denis Iewes banished out of France 645 The treachery of Grimoald Maire of the Pallace Clouis sole Monarch of the Gaules The care of Clouis for feeding the poore 663 The Maires of the Pals lace ouerrule the Kings 666 Childerick was slaine in hunting and his Q. also 680 Landresill murdered by Ebroin Pepin Heristel Maire of the Pallace 694. The woorthy deeds of Pepin Heristell 698 The power and authority of Pepin Heristel Charles Martell Bastard sonne to Pepin Heristell 716. Hermanfroy Maire of the Pallace Hermanfroy preuailed against Thibaulte 720 Charls Martell maire great Gouernour of France 722 The subtle pollicy of Charls Martell 727 Charles Martel ruled the whol kingdome Charles Martell made a gret slaughter of the Sarrazins 741 The death of Charles Martel who left three Sonnes Pepin maketh means to inioy the Kingdome The death of Childerick and his wife 751 Pepin aideth Rome against the Lombards Pepin instituted the Court of parliament Robert the Deuill 768 Charlemain made Emp of the west And the first that was called most Christian King The ending of the Lombards kingdome The vnfortunate battaile of Ronceuaux The twelue Peeres of Fraunce 816 Great difference betweene the Sonne and Father The sons in Armes against theyr father and their vsage to him The Lordes of Fraunce release their Emperour 843 The Normans became Maisters almost of all France K. Charles poysoned by his phisition 879 The Pope escaped out of prison 881 The base sons of Lewes made Kings The strange death of both the Kinges 186 A dishonorable composition with the Normans A great slâ—ughter of the Normans Charles le Gros expulsed from the Empire kingdom 891 Charles the Simple sent for out of England crowned K. 900 Neustria now named Normandy Charles coÌ„pelled to resigne his Kingdome 927 Hugh the great Couâ—t of Paris Lewes d' Outremer or of beyond-Sea Raoull died very strange lie 929. Hebert Earl of Vermandois executed 956 The death of Hugh the great Earl of Paris 986 Charls duke of Lorraine seeketh to be King D. Charles disabled by Hugh Capet 987 D. Charles and his wife Children surprized by treason 997 The vertues of Robert son to Hugh Capet His Wiues children 1030. The ending of the kingdome of Burgundy The King of the Russians 1061. The conquest of England by William the Bastard 1110 The Pope flieth for refuge into France Knights Templers Chartreux Monkes 1138 1300. persons â—uâ—ned in a church A marriage betweene England France 1181. Vertuous deedes in a King Fifty thousand men slain in one battaile 1224 1227 Peace between Englande and France Peazants ariâ—e and do great hurt in France K. of France cald a Saint 1271 The Sicili-Vespres 1286. A Booke written by the King The Popes Buls against the King burned The Popes See was brought to Auignon 1314 Enguerrand executed at Mont-faucon 1316. Marriages make peace in France Another rising of Peazants in France 1321 Iourdain de l'Isle hanged at Paris 1328. The Battell of Crecy great losse of the French 1350. King Iohn as a prisoner brought into England 1364. Fiue armies at one time againste the English The Bibles first verssion into the French tongue 1380 〈…〉 Factions in the Court of France The King of England crowned in France 1423 Ioane the Pucelle of France 1461 The order of S. Michael instituted 1484. The Kingdom of Naples wonne by the French 1499 The kingdome of Naples reconquered Gaston de Foix. 1515 The King carried prisoner into Spaine The English wonne Bullen 1547. S. Laurance day at Saint Quintines King Henry hurt in â—â—lting died soone after 155â— The tumult of Amboise 1560 Anthony of Bourbon Lieutenant Generall The bloudy massacre at Paris 1574 The holy League or Vnion The King murdered by a Iacobine Fryer 1589. Iacques Clement Francis Rauilliart 1610. * A people neere to the Seâ—thians Battauia is Holland Zeland named by Zelandus 863 The two Sonnes of Counte Haghen Thierry Earl of Holland Zeland and Lord of Frizeland The Frizelanders rebell againe A dreadfull Comet Ecclipses and earthquakes Adelbold Byshop of Vtrecht 1039. The Bishops of Cullen and Liege 1048. Two millitary Stratagems 1063. Robert the Frizon Robert Earl of Flanders 1077 The Crook backt duke of Lorraine The Fryzons conquered in two battels 1119 Dider duke of Sauoy 1133 Lotharius Conrade Emperors 11â—3 Earledomes of Ostergo Westergoe 1166 The Dam or Sluce called dogs Sluce 1208. L. William of Holland 1198. 1203. The gouernmet of a Woman despised Women beat Men with Distaues and stones 121â— Edmund of Lancaster son to the K. of England The wonderful birth of 365. Children This History is auouched for a truth by diuers good Authors Earle William king of the Romans K. William cruelly slain 1290 The History of the death of Earle Floris Aseuere râ—uenge for the Earles death 1297 Wolfart of Borssele his secret intention 1300 The end of the race of the Dukes of Aquitain and succession of the Earles of Henault 1301. Iohn de Reuesse drowned 1305 The good Earle william 1316 A wonderfull dearth A straunge example of an vnmercifull Sister A worthy action of Iustice don by this good Earle William 1337 Earle William a worthy souldier 1338 1342 Robert of Arckel gouernour of Vtrecht 1346 Margaret the Empresse Princesse of Holland The factions of Cabillaux and Hoecks 1351. A grear effufion of bloud Mathilda daughter to Henry duke of Lancaster 1358 The Barons of Eughien beheaded 1368. A Sea Woman seen in the Zuyderzee 1401 1404 Phillip the bold Duke of Burgundy 1417 Iohn of Bauaria Byshop of Liege Iohn of Bauaria the Bishop reckoned the 29. Earl of Holland 1463 The Titles of Phillip Duke of Bourgogne The order of the golden Fliece instituted 1467. The Art of printing first inuented The warlike Duke of Bourgogne The Earle of Campobachio 1477 The Duke of Gueldres slaine 1479 Newe tumults of the Cabillaux and Hoecks 1482 Engelbert earl of Nassawe 1491 1494 The Titles of Phillip Arch-duke oâ— Austria 1497 1503 Iane daughter to Isabel married to the Arch-duke Phillip 1505 1506 1508 1515 1519 1520 Lady Margaret sole Gouernesse 1526 1531. Mary of Austria 1554. 1549.
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
the sonne of Seuerus and Iulia borne at Milaiu After the Parthian warre wherein he wan great fauour was called Caesar Antoninus in the life time of his father Op. Macrinus with his sonne Diadumenus raigned one yeare Both the one and other had their heads smitten off by their men of warre Macrinus was learned and seuere but withall detestable and craftie causing his predecessor to be murdred Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalus the Bastard of Caracalla who was a dishonest whore-hunter and most abhominable in life beside gaue great estates to wicked Bawds Pandors Iesters c. And being generally despised he was slaine by his souldiors in the fourth year of his raigne both his owne bodie and his mothers being dragd along the stréets and cast into the common laystall Alexander Seuerus raigned peacebly without eâ—â—usion of bloud 13. years He was a good prince and did vtterly forbid the selling of Offices Vlpianus Paulus Pomponius Alphenens Affricanus Callistratus and other excellent Ciuill Lawyers the schollers of Papinian then liued with Dion the Historian and Philostratus The Kingdome of the Persians was then founded by Artaxerxes and after transported to the Sarazens and now commanded by the Sophi Maximinus a persecutor of the Christians raigned three yeares Being at first but a silly shepheard he was made Emperor by the Souldiors without authority of the Senate and then by them slaine Gordianus a Prince of a Noble spirite with his sonne named Gordianus the younger a good Prince raigned six yeares and was slaine by Phillip his successor In his time was a woonderfull Ecclipse of the Sunne Read I. Capitolinus who placeth also Pupienus and Balbinus created by the Senate with Gordianus the elder Pupienus Maximus a new man and sonne to a Smith gaue himselfe alwaies to vertue and Military seruices prouing fortunate against the Polonyans and Germans M. Caelius Babynus and Pupienus after they had béene Consuls and that the Gordians were slaine in Affryca were created Emperors by appointment of the Senate against Maximinus and both of them were vndeseruedly slaine Gordianus the second yongest sonne of Gordianus by his daughter born at Rome was slain in a sedition of souldiers by Phillip Prefect of the Pretorians C. Valens Hostilianus is not placed in this ranke by some Historians because immmediately he died smitten with the Pestilence so that scarsly there remaineth any memory of him Phillip an Arabian by Nation was the first Christian of the Caesars and raigned fiue yeares He gaue by his Testament all his rightes and treasures to Pope Fabian And heere began the riches of the Roman Church Hee was likewise slaine by his successour as he had kilde his Predecessour Decius Triaan a persecuter of the Christians reigned two yeares S. Saturnine the Byshop was martyred at Tholouse S. Laurence Hippolita Cecily Agatha and Appollina Q. Herennius Hetruscus is not by any Historian placed among the Emperours Neuerthelesse in this ranke is his picture found in the booke of Hubert Goltzius and there it is recorded of him that he was the sonne of Decius that he was slaine in Hungaria in a Battel againste the Gothes Vibius Gallus with his sonne Volusianus reigned two yeares Being persecutors of the Church were both slain by the souldiors At this time there was such a contagious pestilence and almost so generally dispearsed that in many places there was left no Creature liuing This pestilence continued fiftéene yeares and séemed to be partly occasioned thorough the wicked gouernment of this Emperor Aemilianus Lybienus borne in Mauritania in his yong yeares followed Armes and soon after he was made Emperor He was slain at Spoleta being aged 40. yeares Licinius Valerianus with his sonne Galien persecuting the Church raigned fiftéene yeares He was Captiue to Sapor King of Persya whoe vsed him as a footstool when he mounted on horsbacke S. Cyprian and S. Cornelia were then martyred Porphirius wrote against the Christians The thirty Tyrants vsurped the Empyre Read Trebellius Polyo c. S. Paul the first Hermite began the solitary life Galien the son of Valerian suffered the Christians to liue in quiet and reigned nine years alone after that his father was ledde captiue into Persia by Sapor He was excéeding wise but addicted to Lust Saloninus Valerianus the sonne of Galien was slain with his Father being retired to Millain and was but ten yeares old Cassius Labienus Posthumus from beeing a simple souldior attained to great dignities and being in France was made Emperor in the time of Galien where he was slaine Flauius Claudius of whom yssued the familie of the Constantines a good Prince of Noble lignage and highly estéemed reigned two yeares Dyonisius being then Pope deuided the Diocesses and Parishes of the Christians Tom. 1. de Concil Iamblicus Plotinus and Iuvenâ—us priest reduced the foure Gospels into Hexameter verses Aurelius Quintillius brother to Claudius after the death of his brother was saluted as Emperor by the Senate and slaine 17. daies after Valerius Aurelianus a cruell man reigned six yeares He tormented the Christians and repulsed the Franconians entring out of Germanie into Gaul He was the first that wore an Emperial Crowne a louer of Military discipline and one that rigorously punnished the vices of his Souldiors He vanquished Zenobia a very Warlike Lady holding the Empyre of the East Tacitus was slain the sixt moneth of his empyre This good Prince caused the books of Cornelius Tacitus to be receiued into all Libraries The Manicheans began from the time of Aurelianus to infect the Church Annius Florianus brother to Tacitus being desirous to raigne vsurped the Empyre as by inheritance but in a short time hee was slaine at Tharsus by his souldiors Probus a good Prince the Author of peace in the high and lower Germany or Almain reigned six yeares and foure moneths He said That hee had no need of Warriors hauing no enemies and that the souldior not doing any thing ought not to eate vp publike prouision Carus a good and wise Prince reigned two yeares with his sonnes Carinus and Numerianus two brethren of very different nature The first was most wicked and full of cruelty The other full of goodnesse valour and knowledge Then liued Volcatius Herodian Lampridius Spartianus Pollio Vopiscus and Capitolinus Historians Dioclesian with Maximianus Herculius reigned 20. yeares he was a most cruell persecutor of the Christians and would haue himselfe to be worshipped Katharine Lucy Agnes Barbus Sebastian Vincent Cosmo and Damian and innumerable other Martyrs through the world in his raigne to the number of 17. M. were put to death in thirty daies Valerius Maximus sir-named Herculius a man of fierce and cruell nature was very outragious in lust especially with his owne Sisters blockish in giuing councell without ciuillity and gouernment and therfore had Dioclesian to assist him in the Empire Constantius Chlorus father of Constantine and Galerius the one gouerned in the East the
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
When her time came on the Friday before Palm-sunday in the yeare 1276. shee was deliuered of 365. children the one halfe being sons and the other daughters but the odde child was an Hermaphrodite and they were all wel shaped proportioned in their little members These children were laid in two Basins and were all baptized by Guydon Suffragan to the Bish of Vtrecht who named al the sonnes Iohn and the Daughters Elizabeth but what name he gaue the Hermaphrodite is not recorded They were no sooner baptized but they all died and the Mother also The two Basins are yet to be séene in the sayde Church of Losdunen and a memory of them both in Latine Dutch The Latine beginning thus Margareta Comitis Hennebergiae vxor Florentij Hollandiae Zelandiae filia c. Vnderneath are these verses En tibi monstrosum memorabile factum Quale nec à mundi conditione datum This Count Floris being so treacherously slaine as you haue heard before had his body brought backe into Holland by the Earle of Cleues and other Noble Lords who buried it in the Abbey of Rhynsbourg hee hauing honorably and vertuously gouerned his Countries 12. yeares He left but one Son named William six years old who was in the tutelage of his Vnckle Otho bishop of Vtrecht during his minority 18 William second of that name succéeded his father Floris in all his dominions being al the time of his vnder yeares in the gouernment of Otho Bishop of Vtrecht his Vnckle who was a verie worthy and carefull Guardian to him The pope hauing deposed Frederick the second Conrade his sonne from the Empire the princes Electors in despight of the Pope made this Earle William King of the Romaines and crowned him at Aix la Chapelle he hauing then attained to the age of 20. yeares A long and tedious trouble happened betweene him and Margaret Countesse of Flanders a very high minded and proude woman for the Country of Walchren wherein after a great foyle and slaugâ—â—he Flemings taking part with hir imprâ—ent of her two sons Guy Iohn she implored the aid of Charles Duke of Aniou against king William and sped thereby no better then shee had done before but was glad in the end to séeke reconcilement This K. William did build the Pallace of the Earles of Holland in the village of La Hage or the Hague where it is at this day a goodly Cloister at Harlem At his wars in West Frizeland where he preuailed very successefully he wold néeds without any other assistance then himself follow the rebels ouer the Ice where his horse slipping in him selfe almost drowned none néer to help him but enemies of the Frizons that lay secretly in ambush they beat him down with clubs staues not knoing that it was the king so they slew him But when afterward they took better notice of him by his Target Armes theron emblazoned in very harty sorrow for their foule déed they buried him secretly in a poore house in the village of Hooktwonde thinking so to wipe out all remeÌ„brance of him But his body was after found and buried in the Abby of Middlebourg in the Isle of walchreÌ„ 19 Floris the fift son to king William who was slaine so inhumanely albeit hee was but sixe moneths old yet he succéeded his father his Vnckle Floris being his Gouernor and Tutor At 17. yeares of age he went with an army against the euer-reuolting Frizons and ouercame them at a village called Schellinckhout very seuerely reuenging his fathers death on them by building foure Castles iâ—â—land brought them wholy vnder his obedâ— Afterward Counte Floris made a voyage into England where a marriage was contracted betwéene Iohn eldest Sonne to Earle Floris and Elizabeth Daughter to King Edward the first Iohn being not long after sent into England to accomplish the saide marriage where he remained in the Court of England till his Fathers vnfortunate death which briefely was thus A Knight liued in the Earles Courte named Gerard Van Velson who had bin a whole years space detained in prison and his Brother beheaded through certaine false suggestions whispered to the Earle which afterward appearing to be a meere iniurie the Earle sought to repaire this wrong with verie especiall fauours doone to the Knight great aduancements and woulde haue bestowed also his Concubine in mariage on him Which Gerard disdaining and replying that he would not weare his cast shooes the Earle rashly answered that he should take his leauings in despight of his heart To preuent marriage with the Earles Minion the Knight bestowed his affections else where and wedded a Lady of great honor and beauty Which when the Earl vnderstood he pursued his former rash folly to the price of his owne life Sending Gerard on an employment of much credit and respect and wherewith he was not a little pleased not doubting any such wicked intention The Earl came vnto Gerardes house vnder colour of hospitaliiy and there winning her to priuat conferenâ—e in her bed chamber forcibly defloured her to performe his rashe promise to her husband At Gerards return and this foule wrong discouered it was pursued with very bloody reuenge by a resolued conspiracy sworn against his life which albeit he had some warning of by a paper deliuered him by a poor woman yet his disaster being ineuitable a train was laid for him as he rode a hauking and xxi wounds he receiued on his body by the hand of the saide Gerard But he and the rest of the conspirators escaped not vnpunished for they had their heads smitten off and were then laide vpon whéeles but Gerard was put stard naked into a Pipe stuck full of sharpe nailes and was so rowled vp and downe through all the stréets of Leyden Then was he beheaded and laide on a whéele and all his Kinred to the ninth degrée put to death and laide vpon whéeles 20 After the wicked murther of Earle Floris the fift committed by the Fryzons as hath béen declared Iohn his onely son being then in England with King Edward his Father in law was next to succéede him as his rightful heire But before he could leaue England some partialities factions happened in Holland for the gouernement which soone were qualified at Earle Iohns being there present notwithstanding the subtle policie of Wolfart of Borssele seizing the person of Earle Iohn and Ladie Elizabeth his Wife thinking to haue the gouernement of the sayde Earle because as yet hee was but young Earle Iohn preuailed against the Frizons and the Byshop of Vtrecht and hauing gouerned his countries about foure yeares hee fell sicke at Harlem and there died He was the first of al the Earls of Holland that died without children wherfore in him failed the line masculine of the Earles from the Dukes of Aquitain which from Thierrie or Theodor the first Earl of Holland had continued 437. yeares He was buried