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A81967	London, King Charles his Augusta, or, city royal. Of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that city. An historicall and antiquarian work. Written at first in heroicall Latin verse, according to Greek, Roman, British, English, and other antiquities and authorities, and now translated into English couplets, with annotations. Imprimatur, Na. Brent.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1648 (1648)	Wing D328; Thomason E431_8; ESTC R202046	11,574	20

structure large On Plaines of Sal'sbery the same doth showe Where made stōes ar more hard thē stōes that grow The common sort that heap doth Stonage name And albeit heavens whole force beats the same As disobedient undemolisht still Yet beares it up the head and ever will Though part be swallowed by the yeilding ground It hath two rude rowes of huge stone set round Rude ones indeed unlesse time makes them such The art worn out and of the substance much From under whose vast pile late times did dig The antlers of a dear extremely big Whose sacrificed body flames had fed Such were the offerings which to Cynthia bled He whosoever holdeth that the same Was rais'd t' immortalise q In the book called Nero Casar Bunducas name That martial Queen shall have no foe of me For without Phoebes wrong it well may be Thus Britain ever more that Virgins style Britain th' Atlantick Oceans fairest Ile It self the Oceans mistresse and sole Queen Which she to curb from her white clifts is seen The circling Seas chief darling pearl more clear Then is the Moon when she doth full appear Although the British pearls look pale r Plinie in his Naurall History and wan For grief they took since so far Caesar ran As to break through the secrets of her Seas Nor have they yet recover'd their disease Unlike those pearls which that triumphant Prince Did gather here and brought away from hence To deck the brest-plate he to Venus vow'd In Venus ſ Suetonius in his Julius Caesar Temple Rome thereby made proud But ever under Virgins was our Ile The blessed Virgin had it in her style After Diana had the title lost The maiden mother Delias glory crost Light drives out darknesse milde the fierce out-weares Protectrix here above one thousand yeares This mov'd King Arthur to advance in t William of Malmesburie in his Latin Histories published by Sr. H. Saevile and dedicated with the works of some other our oldest Historians by that rare gentleman to Q. Elizabeth printed in one great Volume at London first and since beyond the seas Mr. Camden makes it clear that this most victorious Britian Prince King Arthur was enterred at Glastenburie sheild The Virgins semblant who from every field Returning victor vanquished in fight The Saxons powr's in vain through fates despight The Britans bravery withering in his death And crown'd her forhead w th a u Nennius who also writteth of the picture in his sheild nameth the twelve severall places where King Arthur obtained those twelve severall victories in the like number of set battels twelvfold wreath England was after call'd Our Ladies Dow'r And we have seen it under maidens pow'r Eliza Maiden Queen her title reft Dian ' to Mary Mary t' her it left Eliza so was by another name Enstyled x The Art of English poesie a book dedicated to her self Sir Walter Raleighs English Poem entituled Cynthia and dedicated to that Goddesse Queen as Mr. Camden every where calls her The most famous and most learned Poet of our Nation Mr. Spenser in his Colin Clowt's come home again mentions Raleighs Cynthia with much honour Cynthia nor amisse the same In the mean time they will have London be Lhan-Tain of her that the names pedigree Let various fancies under face of truth Take whom they will My Muse things sure ensu'th Our Worlds chief City loves not names blind born And what 's not like her royall self doth scorn The brother german of that paramount Prince Great Cassibeline who drave y Julius Caesar himself though not so clearly in his Commentaries and all other who have written of his war in Britain though some of them more magnificently for Cassibelines glory as Lucan then some others have done Caesar hence And made Romes Eagles back to take their flight His Troian wheels swift thūdring through the fight His brother royall Lud when once he had The aged Citie with new buildings clad Made all things new the marble gates and walls Then Dinas-Lud or z Gildas the Historian whom Monmowth cites and Polydore Virgil confesseth to have read Lud-Dine he it calls The old name chang'd which was at first new Troy Whose prints the Trin●bants in theirs enjoy Lud-Dine of Lud refounder of the same By use and time softned to Londons name Nor is the word Lud barbarous being found In Hebrew names by a Gen. 10.27 Moses self renown'd Therefore though Sems Lud was no' ' kin to this Yet to the word thence splend or added is This of all Cities in the British clime Because for majesty it was the prime Old seats a kind of majesty retain And finally because it was the main Of all which being Romes our Seas did wall Those times b Ammianus Mercellus Augusta nor did falsly call King c A Greek coyn of the Emperour Claudius in Octavius Strada and in the English Nero Caesar where it is explained Etiminius or d Svetonius Adminius he Who King Cun ' ob●lines son was one of three His court kept here when e Dion Cassius Beric sold our land To Claudius Caesar who did Rome command And by his right of conquest gain'd therein Made Romes walls f Pomeria protulit Old Inscriptions extant in Gruterus and Rolinus and the best ancient authors wider then they carst had bin London was long before g Cor. Pacitus Annal lib. 14. Cornelius wrote A place for trade and concourse most of note And known to Rome for such and long before To the bold h Julius Caesar writes that the Britains sent aid to the Galls and Strabo that the Veneti in Gallia had sea helps from hence in their war against Caesar for preserving their Mart here which was no where more likely to have been then at London which in Neros time was above all other Towns of ours most famous Venets on the Celtick shore Which bred such envy that the fates thought fit With Romes self in mishap to equal it Under one tyrant both to cinders turn'd That want only this miserably burn'd But Londons greater glory hence did spring That the first Christian i The old Brittish book translated by Monmouth Lucius was her King The realm k Hereof I have long since written a small book unpublished and London for a signe of this One crosse display gules in argent is A glorious standard God and good indeed When the brave English here l Matthew of Westminster and other old ones made Pagans bleed And Saracens there that Antichristian sect In m Henry of Huntingdon Matthew Ranis ●o●eden and others Cordelions dayes with blest effect Great are these glories and enow but more Doe here ensue That Monarch who first wore And first did spred in Roman arms the crosse And therewith his own standard did embosse Call'd Labarum n The coines of Constantine the Great and of other Emperours after him doe show the figure of

LONDON KING CHARLES HIS AUGUSTA OR CITY ROYAL Of the Founders the Names and oldest Honours of that CITY An Historicall and Antiquarian Work Written at first in Heroicall Latin Verse according to Greek Roman British English and other Antiquities and Authorities and now translated into English Couplets with Annotations PSAL. 142.5 Memor fui dierum antiquorum Imprimatur Na. Brent LONDON Printed for William Leybourn 1648. TO THE READER Courteous Reader THou art here presented with an Historicall Poem of the antiquity of this yet famous City where thou shall finde the Ancient Honours with the severall Names and Founders neatly cast into this elegant composure as well be fits so excellent a Subject For the Author it seems he was not ambitious that his Name should grace his Worke but rather that his Worke should grace his Name for let me tell thee it came from the Studie of that accomplished Poet of our Time Sir Will. Davenant whose Ingenious Fancy hath spun him such a woofe of immortall praise that shall never be eaten through with the all-else devouring teeth of Time or blasted by the poysonous breath of envy And now I shall cleare the Title from some aspersions which malice might be ready to cavill at because happily it may be thought not Calculated for the Present Times yet who knows not that LONDON hath always had the honour to be as well as to be call'd The City Royall and I hope Learning is not so much forgot but by that easie figure it may still be tearmed the City Loyall and then why not King Charles his Augusta although for more then the last Lustre of yeares it hath been Divorc'd from it's greatest lustre namely the presence of Him who only made it Famous To conclude May it be the prayer of all Loyall Subjects and true Citizens that it would please the All-Mighty Isa 1.26 to turne that Prophesie into an History amongst us viz. that He would restore our Judges as at the First and our Counsellors as at the Beginning that afterwards it may be called the City of Righteousnesse the faithfull City Vale. Polid. Virgil. Anglicae Hist lib. 7. Caeterùm tantùm abfuit ut Londinenses Cives qui fidelissimi erant armis viris muniti adventu hostium territi sint ut apertis partis adversùm eos DACOS confestim irruperint ita ut illi minimè sustinentes subitò cesserint The valour of the Citizens at the siege of LONDON by the DANES under King CANUTUS Anno Dom. MXVII BUt so far was it off from the Citizens of London who were most faithfull and furnished with arms and men from being frighted at the enemies approach that forthwith setting their City Gates wide open they sallyed out against them in such a manner that they being utterly unable to endure the shock sodainly fell off and went away The English of the Latine Verses to the KING To make the TRANSLATION compleat FAmes old reserves my verses subject be Who London built most sprosp'rous King for thee Thine Empires glory splendor and defence Now braver in our there born * Alluding to the Star which appeared at noon-day The Latin word in the originall is Astriferi which signifies or insinuates far more aptly then the English a Prince who brought a Star with him at his birth though happing a day over starry Prince Wall'd like an Harp in form an omen sure That peace and happy rule should there endure Whence the name grew and what the changes were I sing in brief Things found not fain'd are here Th' Isles Mother-town where Cynthia had her seat Our Auspurg once because Imperiall great I show to be such still as fits thy fame And now Aeternall if thou say'st the same Old things have ever with the Great their grace And greatly make for Kings of ancient race None more then Thou by whom all claimes are barr'd I tell not which is true but what is heard He 's blest who can part doubtfull things from sound Mean-while then these none certainer are found As none dread Sir then I more thine can be Who art his sonne who was a God to me KING CHARLES HIS AUGUSTA OR CITY ROYAL HE built this City who the Nation a NENNIUS who wrote about eight hundred years since in Mr. Seldens Manuscript diligently cōpared by himselfe with Sir H. Saviles Sir Robert Cottons M. Cambdens copies Sir Iohn Prise Humfrey Lhuyd all the Welsh with innumerable other of our Nation their followers brought As we by al our old known books are taught And to deny them faith our manners shames Upon the rising banke of royall Thames That valiant Worthy who did not bely With deeds degenerous his ancestry Equall to Kings of Troy for parts and fame Most luckie dismally who rightly came From the same stemm where Julius Caesar grew The Sylvian glory and sirnamed new Of his known flight with b Plinie and before him Diodorus Si●●●● who writes that 〈◊〉 the Lucanian Languuge BRU●● signifies fugitives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flight the word doth suit In old Lucanian who was wise ye● Brut● Of him our famous c Scorbie-grasse which the Romans call Britannica h●●● took also ●ame If true it be that from a Kings it came As he who was Vespasians d Plinie freind sets down By flight fates drew the way for Brutes renwon As for Aenoa● Crowne●●o cowerds 〈◊〉 No more then unstirr'd flames the roof attain This was his Troy his Trinobants cheif seat His empires top by him in time made great But being found for ships a port secure Th● Wels● a ship call e Mr. Camden in his Britannia Lhong it did enu●● In after-ages far another name Even London which it beareth still the same And this if some wise men rove right is true Dinas in Welsh a City Thus it grew f Mr. Selden and many of the Welsh There othe● are who think it call'd Lhan-Tain And of Dianas temple there did gain That famous title Lhan a temple is And Tain Diana London grew from this Now more then stories if conjectures weigh A thing to which even common sense saith nay Of all conjectures this to me seems best For under her as Goddesse to the West Beyond the Colts land where the Sun goes down That brave heroick Prince born to renown Great Brutus barvely came and fixt his seat Within the Oceans bosome fixt that great Imperiall state beyond the worlds known end Shut out where he his own known world did tend Nor Tamisis but Tainisis is Tames If rightly call'd Dianas name it names This many of our Britannes they are those Whom we call Welshmen for a truth depose And what thou hast my Williams in this case Most aptly found my memory must embrace Thou art opinioned that as the name Of London from the great Diana came So that it was with this word Lin put to Which signifies a Pool where waters doe As here they did cause lakes and this