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A18928	The historie of Great Britannie declaring the successe of times and affaires in that iland, from the Romans first entrance, vntill the raigne of Egbert, the West-Saxon prince; who reduced the severall principalities of the Saxons and English, into a monarchie, and changed the name of Britannie into England.	Clapham, John, b. 1566.; Salteren, George, attributed name.	1606 (1606)	STC 5348; ESTC S108009	147,229	324

spirit of zeale in first planting the Christian religion among Idolatrous Saxons and English It is reported that Gregorie the Great when he was but Archdeacon of the Sea of Rome tooke notice first of the state of the I le of Britannie by seeing certaine yong men borne in a Province of the Northumbers presented in an open Market at Rome to be there sold For marking well their faire complexions and comlinesse of stature he enquired whence they were and vnderstanding that they were Angles of a Province called Deira and vnder the government of Alla but as yet heathen for so the Inhabitants of those parts then were he seemed much to lament that such excellent outward gifts of Nature should want the ornaments of inward grace and thereupon alluding to the name of their Prince and Country according to their significations in the Latin and Hebrew tongue he vttered these words as it were by way of Prophecie These men are worthily called Angles for they have the verie faces of Angels and they shall be one day fellow heires with Angels in Heaven For the people of Deira must be delivered De-ira Divina by their conversion to the Christian faith and Alla their King must be taught to sing Alleluia to the praise of the most high God which worke being now Bishop of Rome he was made the Instrument to effect by sending Austen at this time to preach the faith of Christ in Britannie where in a short space the Christian Religion encreased in such measure that vpon one day wherein the memoriall of the birth of our Saviour was celebrated there was above ten thousand men besides women and children baptized in a river the water thereof being hallowed by Austen the Monke who commanded the people by reason of the great multitude and the small number of Priests to go in by couples and one to baptise another In the name of the blessed Trinitie When these things were done Austen went into France where according to order given by the Sea of Rome before his departure thence he was by Etherius Bishop of Arles consecrated chiefe Bishop of the English Nation and at his returne into Britannie he sent Laurence a Priest and Peter a Monke to advertise the Bishop of Rome of the successe of his labors requiring also further instructions in some doubtfull points concerning the discipline of the Church and other matters of ceremonie and observance CHAP. III. Instructions sent to Austen from the bishop of Rome for the ordering and government of the new Church in Britannie The Primacie of the Sea of Canterburie The first English bishops of London and Yorke HEreupon the Bishop of Rome signified by his Letters to Austen and the rest of his Associates how acceptable a worke to God and his Church they had performed commending their great zeale and constant minds which neither the travaile of a long and laborious journey nor feare of danger by sea or land could dismay from persisting in their good intention giving thanks to God that had assisted them with his spirit and exhorting them to hold on the course into which they were alreadie entred Touching the Ecclesiasticall government if there were any thing either in the Church of Rome France or any other Church which Austen thought meete to be altered for the better service of God he willed him therein to vse his pastorall authoritie and to select out of everie one of them what himselfe thought most requisite for setling an vniformitie of government in the Church of Britannie affirming that divine worship was not to be esteemed in regard of the place but the place to be honoured in regard of the divine worship Further he put him in mind of the ancient custome of the Sea of Rome which had ordeined the profits and revenues of Bishoprikes to be divided into foure equall parts whereof the first was assigned to the Bishop him self and the family for the maintenance of hospitalitie the second for the benefite of the Clergie in generall the third for reliefe of the poore and the fourth for repairing of Churches Then he admonished him to deale gently with the new Converts and to tollerate some of their erronious Traditions for a time lest by restraining them at first to the precise observation of Christian discipline in everie point he might divert them from their good purpose and hinder the proceeding in the generall cause For he supposed it a matter of verie great difficultie to plucke vp at once those ranke weedes of Superstition which by long continuance of time had taken deepe ●oote in their affections considering well that he that desireth to attaine the highest place must ascend thither by steps and degrees and not by leapes as it were in an instant He answered likewise many other objections propounded by Austen concerning degrees of consanguinitie and aliance to be observed in cases of Marriage and also touching the admission of meete persons to be partakers of the Lords Supper Touching the punishment of Sacrilege he advised that offenders therein might first be charitably corrected admonished to the end that knowing the greatnesse of the crime they might by penance and restitution make amends and detest from thence-foorth to commit the like With the Bishops of France he willed him not to intermeddle otherwise then by counsaile and exhortatation lest by interposing himselfe in matters of Ecclesiasticall government there he should seeme to thrust his Sickle into an other mans Harvest but he appointed all the Bishops of Britannie to be vnder his jurisdiction giving him power to nominate and consecrate Bishops in severall places where he thought convenient Howbeit it was then decreed that the Bishop of London should ever after be consecrated by his owne Synod and receive his Pall from the Sea of Rome for he appointed the Citie of London to be the Metropolis and chiefe Sea though Austen contrarie to the Bishop of Romes direction in that behalfe transferred it afterwards to Canterburie as a place vnto which he was well affected for the good entertainment he had there first received and also for that it was more commodious for sending by Sea to Rome and more free from danger then the miner parts about London whose inhabitants were lesse civill and not so well in inclined to receive the doctrine of christianity as the 〈◊〉 were For Pope Gregorie ordained London and Yorke to be the Seas of two Archbishoprikes and that each of them should have vnder it twelve inferior Bishopriks but that neither of the Archbishops should be subject to other nor take place of precedence otherwise then according to prioritie of consecration save onely that for Austens honour he appointed all of them to remaine vnder his jurisdiction during his life CHAP. IIII. Austen receiveth the Pall from Rome Gregorie the Great sendeth gratulatorie Letters to Ethelbert who is converted to the faith being the first Christi●n Prince of the English nation The Church of Saint Paul in London is founded Melitus the

carelesse as in times of peace following their pleasures and making no provision for defence The Britans having in the meane time taken armes vnder the conduct of Voadica a Ladie of the blood of their kings for in matter of government they made no difference of sex and being informed of the state of the Colonie determined first to assaile the townes and forts in their passage thither which they attempted accordingly with no great difficulty surprised the greatest number of them CHAP. III. The Britans take armes vnder the conduct of Voadica Her Oration to her Souldiers The Roman Colonie is surprised Cerealis comming to succour it hardly escapeth with life Catus the Procurator flieth into France THe good successe the Britans had in taking in some places of defence as they marched forward made them desirous and adventurous to invade the Colonie it selfe and Voadica as their leader being a woman of a great spirit and comely personage apparelled in a loose gowne of diverse colours with a golden chaine about her necke and a light speare in her hand standing vpon a heape of Turves the better to be seene her daughters on each side of her with a shrill voice vttered these or the like words It is no new custome for the Britans to make warre vnder the leading of women ennobled by their birth and discent the examples of former times can well witnesse the experience thereof Howbeit at this present I wil disclaime all titles of dignitie and prerogatives of blood and what difference soever there is in our estates yet shall our fortune in this action be indifferent and common to vs both I shall not need to repeate that which you all know but too well namely what miseries we have endured vnder the tyrannie of this prowd Nation You have had the triall both of libertie and bondage and I doubt not but you find now how much the one is to be preferred before the other and howsoever some of you heretofore for private respects have inclined to the Roman governors as favourers of their vsurped soveraigntie yet I suppose you will now confesse with me that freedome in a poore estate is better then golden fetters For what abuse can there be named so vile or indignitie so disgracefull that hath not bin offered vs without respect of degree age or sex we till our grounds sweat for other men that reap the sweat of our travells the wealth that we gather to maintaine our selves and our families is by other men wastfully and riotously mis-spent we have nothing our owne but what they leave vs and nothing left vs but labour and vexation our bodies and estates being consumed to satisfie their ambition covetousnes We have not so much as our heads toll-free so narrowly are we sifted from the highest to the lowest Other subdued Nations are yet by death freed from bondage but we even after death seeme to live still in thraldome while we are enforced to pay tribute as wel for the dead as the living What! are we a nation so contemptible that we can serve to no other vse then to be slaves or so vnhappie that death it self can not acquite vs from being miserable How long shall we give way to our owne wrongs Shall we hope for reformation of these abuses Nay we have hoped too long and by patient bearing of one injurie we have drawn on another Why should we not rather seeke to redresse them for if we enter into due consideration of our selves what are the Romans more then we our bodies are as strong as theirs our numbers greater We have agilitie of body our women no lesse then our men to run to leape to swim and to performe all warlike exercises for which indeed we are naturally more fit then for the spade plough or handy-crafts And how soever the Romans may seeme fortunate by the folly or weaknes of other Nations yet are they not comparable vnto vs whom Nature hath framed to endure hunger cold and labour and to be content with things necessarie onely For to vs everie herbe and roote is meate each river and spring yeeldeth vs drinke while we seeke no further then to appease hunger and quench thirst each tree serves for shelter against storms in winter for shadow against the parching heate of summer we need no other beds then the earth nor covering then the heavens whereas they must have their joynts suppled with hot baths sweet oyntments and soft couches and their bodies pampered with wine daintie fare and all kind of effeminate nicenesse and delicacie These be the properties wherein they imitate their master Nero who hath onely the shape of a man being indeed a woman or rather neither man nor woman but a monster of nature a singer a fidler a stage-player a murtherer and one that excelleth other men as farre in vice as he doth in preheminence of degree Besides all this the cause of our warre is just and the Divine powers that favour justice have made our first attempts prosperous and me thinketh that the necessitie of our case were able to make even Cowards valiant Your ancesters could make head against Iulius Caesar and the Emperours Caligula and Claudius The Germans have lately freed themselves by that memorable overthrow of the Roman Legions vnder the conduct of Quintilius Varus and shall not we who scorne to be reputed inferiour to the Germans in valour be confident in our owne strength and boldly adventure considering that if we prevaile we recover our lost libertie if we be forced to retire we have woods hills and marishes for our refuge and if we die we doe but sell those lives with honour which we cannot possesse with safetie For mine owne part you shall find me no lesse readie to execute when time serves then I am now to advise and exhort you my selfe having determined either to vanquish or die If any of you be otherwise minded then live and be slaves still With these and the like speeches she inflamed the hearts that were alreadie kindled and perswading the Britans to pursue their enemies as Dogs and Woolves doe fearefull Hares and Foxes she let slip out of her lap a quick Hare at whose running through the campe the Britans showted apprehending it as a matter ominous and fore-signifying the Romans flight And thereupon they cried that they might be speedily led to the Colonie it selfe as the seat of their slaverie which at their first comming they surprised killing spoyling consuming all with sword and fire except the Temple onely into which the Souldiers fled as a Sanctuarie though it could not long protect them from the violence of the furious multitude Petilius Cerealis the Lievtenant of the Ninth Legion comming to succour the Garrison had all his footmen slaine and himself with a few horse hardly escaped Catus the Procurator knowing himselfe to be odious to the Britans by reason of the extortions he had committed in his office fled secretly into Gallia CHAP.

perhaps most fit to avoid contention which many times ariseth among great spirits about superioritie of place These Knights were commonly chosen for their valour and skill in feats of Armes wherein they strived vpon emulation one to excel another Into this societie were admitted strangers of divers Nations who for desire of glory came over into the Iland to make proofe of their sufficiency by exercise of armes with the Brittish Knights For Arthur himself by vndertaking great difficult enterprises in forraigne Countries after he had subdued the Saxons in Britannie made his name no lesse famous abroad then at home Touching his birth some have doubted whether he were a Roman or a Britan though the Britans challenge him for their Countryman confidently affirming that he was borne at Tyndagel in Cornewall and surely if the acts of such worthy men as at sundry times were transported out of the I le to aide the Romans in the wane of the Westerne Empire had beene faithfully registred the glorie of the Brittish Nation might well have been preserved from all suspition of vntruth without the support of forged and fabulous inventions As for the place where he died or the manner of his death I find no certaine report concerning the same in any approved Writer But his body was buried at Glastenbury betweene two Pyramides where the enscription of his name engraven vpon a leaden Crosse was discovered many hundred yeares after his death namely in the raigne of King Henry the second who having some intelligence of the place by the songs of the Brittish Bards commanded it to be digged and the Monument to be sought for Divers strange and incredible things to the prejudice of posteritie have beene written of this Prince of Queene Guinever his wife of Gawen his sisters sonne and of Merlin a phantastical Prophet with others commonly called Wandring Knights matters indeede more fit for feined Legends and poeticall fictions then for a Historie which ought to be a Register of things either truely done or at least warrantable by probabilitie And albeit those ridiculous and absurd reports of idle Writers doe seeme to have repaired the reputation of this Prince and to have called in question the truth it selfe so farre forth as some have doubted whether there were ever any such man or not yet divers Authors of good regard pittying his misfortune in that behalfe have both confirmed his being and commended him as a great souldier and the chiefe pillar of the State of Britannie in his time CHAP. IX The Britans flie into Wales and Cornewall where they seate themselves The Saxons and English possesse the greatest part of the I le which is afterwards divided into severall Principalities AFter the death of the noble Prince Arthur the hope of the Britans was cleane abated and a great number of them fled secretly into Wales and Cornewall as places furthest off from annoyance by the enemie and naturally defensible by reason of the bogges woods and high mountaines on the one side and the seas on the other Then the Saxons finding little or no resistance began in processe of time to erect certaine Provinciall governments in the South parts of the I le in the end divided the whole Land excepting that portion which the Scottishmen and Picts inhabited Northward into seven Principalities which were severed by certaine limits and governed for the most part by Princes according to order of succession till by making continuall warre one vpon another and the Provinces subdued augmenting the Dominions of the Conqueror the whole land was in the end brought into a Monarchy by the West Saxons But in what manner these things were done the Writers of former ages have much varied and the actions and events of those times being set downe so darkely and corruptly that I purposed to have omitted the relation of them as a hard and vnpleasant taske for me to vndertake and likely to receive small approbation of others if I had not beene thereto induced partly for respect of order which required a continuation and partly vpon desire to preserve the memory of some men whose names as marks of our Christianitie imposed vpon vs in our baptisme and registred in our calenders Churches are at this day in some vse with vs deserving well considering the state and condition of that age not to be altogether forgotten howsoever their doings through the negligence or ignorance of some Writers have beene left to posteritie as records of Antiquitie farced with absurdities and composed meerely of fragm●nts peeced together sometimes without method and for the most part without due coherence of circumstances and matters For many of those Writers being Monks and religious persons vnacquainted with matters of estate applyed themselves for the most part to register the charitable deeds of their Bishops and benefactors founders and maintainers of Monasteries and Hospitalls or such like generall observations and if aught were well written by any secular man the same hath perished by the many calamities of the Country a thing common to vs with other Nations or Time it selfe hath worn out in a manner the remembrance thereof I purpose therefore to make onely a bare and simple narration of the names of the Princes and to point out the most memorable things as I finde them reported in their severall raignes distinguishing the Principalities themselves and relating successively one after another such actions as for the most part concurred in time whereby though I shall be sometimes forced to report the same matters yet I shall more easily avoide confusion and obscuritie which the handling of them all joyntly would bring with it And so superficially passing over these imperfect affaires of the seven-fold regiment of the Saxons and English I will hasten to the occurrents of those times which afford more certaine and plentifull matter of discourse and may yeeld perhaps some contentation to the Writer and more profite and delight to the Reader The end of the First Booke of the Second Part of the Historie of Great Britannie ❧ The suceession of the Kentish-Saxon Princes 1 HEngist ruled 31. yeares 2 Vsk 24. yeares 3 Otta 20. yeares 4 Ermeric 29. yeares 5 Ethelbert the first Christian Prince 26. years 6 Edbald 24. yeares 7 E●combert 24. yeares 8 Egbert 9. yeares 9 Lothar 12. yeares 10 Edrick 2 yeares 11 Withred 33. yeares 12 Edbert 23. yeares 13 Edelbert 11. yeares 14 Alric 34. yeares ❧ The Archbishops and Bishops in the Principalitie of the Kentish-Saxons the times of their succession and continuance in their Seas from the conversion of the English Nation to Christianity vntill the ra●gne of Egbert the West-Saxon Prince who first obtained the Monarchy Anno Dom. Archbishops of Canterbury 598 Augustine the Monke sent by Gregorie the Great then Bishop of Rome to preach the Christian faith to the English sate 16. yeares 614 Laurentius 5. yeares 619 Mellitus translated from the Sea of London 5. yeares 624 Iustus translated from the Sea of Rochester

sonnes of Sebert ruled ioyntly Serred Seward Sigbert 4 Sigebert surnamed the Little the sonne of Seward 5 Sigbert the sonne of Sigebald brother of Sebert 6 Sigher 7 Sebbi 8 Sigeherd the sonne of Sebbi 9 Seofride the brother of Sigeherd 10 Offa the sonne of Sigeherd 11 Celred 12 Suthred defeated by Egbert Prince of the West-Saxons ❧ The succession of the Bishops of London in the Province of the East-Saxons 604 Melitus the first Bishop sent from Rome sate thirteene yeares after whose translation the Sea was void about fortie yeares 658 Cedda eight yeares 666 Wina translated from the Sea of Winton 9. yeares 675 Erkenwaldus twenty two yeares 697 Waldherus eighteene yeares 715 Ingualdus thirtie one yeares 746 Egwulfus eight yeares 754 Wighedus seven yeares 761 Eadbrichtus eleven yeares 775 Deora nine yeares 784 Eadbaldus eleven yeares 795 Heathobertus in the time of Egbert the West-Saxon Prince eighteene yeares The first CHAPTER The principalitie of the East-Saxons erected by Erchenwin Sebert the first Christian Prince Miletus the first Bishop of the East-Saxons hath his Sea at London Saint Pauls church there founded by Ethelbert the first Christian Prince of the Kentish-Saxons The Church at Westminster founded by Sebert Cedda afterward called St. Chadde preacheth the Gospel to the East-Saxons Sigher and Sebbi ioyntly rule the Province ERchenwin was the first of all the Saxons that erected a Provinciall government among the East-Saxons who then inhabited those parts which now containe the Counties of Essex Middlesex and part of the Countie of Hartford all which both himself and his successors many yeares togither held by homage of the Kentish Princes as of their superiour Lords This Prince having reigned a long time with what successe I find no certaine report left the government to Sledda his sonne who to strengthen his estate by affinitie married Ricula the daughter of Ermerick the Prince of Kent by whom he had issue Sebert that succeeded him Sebert governed peaceably the Province of the East-Saxons which in his time was converted to Christianitie for in the yeare of Grace 604. Miletus was sent by Augustin the Archbish. to preach the faith of Christ to that people and had the Cittie of London assigned to him for his Episcopall Sea where Ethelbert the Kentish Prince erected a Church which he dedicated to Saint Paul endowing it with large possessions and Sebert following his example therein founded an other at the West end of the citie where afterwards a Monasterie was builded The place at that time being environed with water and overgrowen with thornes was called Thorney and afterwards by reason of the situation thereof the West-Minster It is reported that in more ancient times there had beene a Temple of Apollo which being overthrowen by an Earth-quake Lucius the first Christian Prince of the Britans reedified and converted to a Church for the exercise of the Christian Religion Sebert having spent the most part of his time after his conversion in deedes of Charitie and Devotion ended his life and was buried in that Church togither with his wife Ethelgoda Serred Seward and Sigbert his sonnes ruled ioyntly the province of the East-Saxons They were all men of disordered conversation and open despisers of religious rites for being not yet baptised they would have receyved the Sacrament of Christs bodie wherein for that Miletus the Bishop had opposed himself against them they expelled him from his Sea at London and themselves soone after were by Kinegles the West-Saxon Prince deprived both of government and life Sigebert surnamed the Little the sonne of Seward succeeded in the principalitie which in short time he left to Sigbert the nephew of Sebert the first Christian Prince of the East-Saxons Sigbert was by perswasion of Oswin chiefe governor of the Northumbers converted from Paganisme to Christianitie wherein he was confirmed by Cedda a devout learned man that then preached to the East-Saxons and recovered many of them which after the expulsion of Miletus had fallen from the faith He was afterwards by Finan the Bishop of Holy-Iland consecrated bishop of the East-Saxons amongst whom he preached the Gospell of Christ without interruption till such time as Sigbert the Prince procoring the dislike of his Subjects for that he shewed too much clemency to the Mercians his enemies was trecherously murdered by one of his owne kindred After his death Swidhelin the sonne of Sexbald obtained the regement and was baptised by Cedda the Bishop Then Sigher Sebbi ruled togither but not with absolute authoritie for at that time they acknowledged allegeance to Wulfere Prince of the Mercians In those dayes great plague and mortalitie fell vpon the Inhabitants of the Province and Sigher renouncing the faith fell to Idolatry which in a short time greatly encreased till Iarumanus the Bishop of Lichfield and certain priests being sent thither by VVulfere to that end laboured with all diligence to stop the course thereof and in the end suppressed it CHAP. II. The Devotion Chastitie and Chiritie of Sebbi the Prince The maner of his death Offa resigneth the government and goeth to Rome where he entreth into Religion Egbert the West-Saxon Prince obtaineth the principalitie of the East-Saxons IN the meane time Sebbi and the people vnder his obedience notwithstanding the relapse of their Country-men persisted constantly in the faith of Christ and Sebbi himselfe by praying fasting and Almes ceeds manifested his owne earnest desire to maintaine the same being so strongly possessed with the spirit of zeale and love of Chastitie as he perswaded his wife to a separation whereby they might serve God with more puritie of heart and his pietie and humilitie was had in such estimation even among the religious persons as they reputed him more meete to have beene a Priest then a Prince After he had with much difficultie obtained his wives consent for a separation he bestowed the greatest part of his worldly wealth vpon the poore reserving nothing for himselfe besides his necessarie maintenance but onely the expectation of a future recompence In his time lived Erkenwald a godly Priest who was afterward Bishop of London He founded two Monasteries the one for himselfe at Chartsey in Surrey and the other for Ethelburga his sister at Barking in Essex Sebbi having ruled about thirtie yeares fell sicke of a grieuous and verie painfull disease by reason whereof doubting lest ●hrough frailtie of the flesh he might burst out into any intemperate speeches or do any other thing vnseemely for his person profession he desired Waldher the successor of Erkenwald then Bishop of London by prayers and ghostly counsaile to assist him in his agonies and that no more then himselfe and two of his Chaplains onely might be present at the time of his departure so great a care had this religious Prince in well finishing that race which he had prosperously continued the most part of his life and in preventing all occasions of scandall to the faith which he professed His bodie