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A32793	Anthologia historica containing fourteen centuries of memorable passages and remarkable occurrents, collected out of the English, Spanish, Imperial, and Jewish histories, and several other authors, and writers.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing C3793; ESTC R6733	198,797	474

milk and food of Life do ordinarily transfuse some insensible seed of their own hereditary infirmities which in time grow upon their Children and become both sensible and dangerous unless they are purged out so it must be acknowledged of St. Gregory and Austin whom he sent into England and that together with the substantial Doctrin of the Christian Faith his Scholars and Converts might receive some few of his infirmities and superstitions which like hereditary diseases increasing with time and growing stronger ought not therefore to be still cherished because hereditary Id. p. 5. The Devil appeared unto one Secundello a Deacon in the likeness of our Saviour and said unto him I am Christ Go forth and do Cures and heal Diseases he being seduced with this delusion did so and putting his hand upon the infirm in the name of Christ they were immediately healed and he returned stuff'd with pride and vain glory Mortons appeal p. 18. It 's noted of Caesar that he therefore disclaimed the Title of a King that thereby he might more plausibly and popularly execute all monarchical and Kingly power and Authority The Pope stiles himsejf Servo Servorum The Servant of Servants that thereby he may Lord it over Gods Heritage And notwithstanding this Title of Humility yet the Book of the P●ntifical Ceremonies doth require that all Mortal Men of whatsoever State or Degree when they come first into the Popes presence must kneel thrice and also kiss his feet Idem p. 35. 159. Platina relates that P●pe Sabinian commandded first the lighting of Lamps in the day time in Churches for this reason ut Horae distinguerentur officii gratia that the Houres for Divine Offices might be distinguished and duly observed And so we read in our English Histories that King Aelfrid who divided the natural day into three eight houres viz. One for his bodily refreshment one for his studies and the third for the affaires of his kingdom measured hi time by the burning of Wax-tapers Clocks and Watches and Hour-glasses being not then invented Idem p. 57. Binius relates that some Donatifsts who in contempt threw the Sacramental bread unto Dogs were by those Dogs fallen mad set upon and eat up themselves And in St. Johns Colledg in Cambridg Dr. Whitaker being the Master one Booth a Bachelor of Arts and an excellent Scholar who in contempt had taken the Sacramental bread and thrown it over a Wall not long after threw himself Headlong from the battlements of the Chappel and died within four and twenty hours after Idem p. 132. Pope Alexander in the behalf of Ferdinand King of Portugal thus decrees concerning India Upon our meer Motion and Liberality saith he and from the fulness of our Apostolical Authority we give unto you all the Islands and Lands as well those which are found out as those which shall hereafter be discovered in India from the North-Azores unto the VVest to you and your Heirs for ever And this upon no better Truth or Title than the Devil promised the Kingdomes of the VVorld to our Saviour Bp. Mortons appeal p. 155. The Popish VVriters though confessing some of their Popes as John the twelfth to be sceleratissimos Monstra most Wicked Monsters yet stile them of good and godly Memory Because say they we herein respect not what they did but what became them to have done By which reason like honour of blessed Memory belongeth to Jeroboam among the Kings Balaam among the Prophets and Judas among the Apostles Idem p. 159. The Books of accounts belonging to Christ-Church in Canterbury do testifie that there being three several Offerings in that Church One to Christ another to the Virgin Mary a third to Thomas Becket The Oblation to Thomas Becket communibus annis did amount to eight hundred or a thousand pounds To our Lady two hundred pounds To our Saviour somtimes five Marks somtimes twelve Marks and somtimes Hoc anno nihil This year Nothing Bp. Mortons appeal p 242. The necessity of ministring the Eucharist to Infants was defended by St. Austin and Innocent the first and was practised by the Church almost six hundred years together yet at length was left off and rejected as a fond and unwarrantable custome Idem p. 244. IMMANUEL Historical Collections Century IV. ZEno being asked how a man might be wise answered He must converse vvith the dead viz. by reading understand and know the acts of the Antients Don Pedro Men. Imp. Hist preface The Trophies of Miltiades stirred up Themistocles What Homer wrote of Achilles provoked Alexander and Alexanders History did Julius Caesar to great exploits Ibid. Philosophy Rhetorick Mathematicks and Astrology have been banished Rome and a long time it was e're Physick was admitted Ibid. Sylla having overthrown Marius made himself Dictatour and seised on Rome nevertheless before his death he deposed himself from his Dictatorship and left it at liberty Pompey followed Sylla's faction and Caesar Marius p. 4. The greatest civil warr that ever was in the World was between Pompey and Caesar in which were engaged all the Roman Senators and Souldiers and lasted five years It was waged in Italy France Spain Epirus Thessaly Egypt Asia and Africa The whole Roman Empire not sufficing the ambition of the two Commanders Pompey not enduring an Equal nor Caesar a Superior Imperial History p. 6. Men commonly judg that lawful in themselves which they condemn in others Pompey would not allow Caesar to stand for the Consulship being absent though he himself had it before he was of lawful age Idem p. 7. Caesar coming to the River Rubicon which the Senate commanded him not to pass with his Army is reported to use these words If I forbear it will be the beginning of my disgrace and if I pass it will be to all Men Mortal Yet preferring his own honour before publick good using these Words Jacta est Alea the Lot is Cast past the River and began the Civil VVar. p. 8. Pompey having raised a new raw unexperienced Army his Old Legions being in Spain under Patricius and Afranius two inexpert Captains Caesar being in suspence which to attaque first at last resolved to go into Spain saying Let us go first against the Army that is without a Captain and then against the Captain that is without an Army Caesar disguised with three Servants entred a Brigandine intending to cross the Sea but coming down he River to enter the Sea it was so troublous and tempestuous that the Master not daring to pass farther would have returned Then Caesar discovered his face and said Fear not ●hou carriest Caesar and all his Fortunes p. 12. Pompey worsted Caesar at Dirrachium but prosecuted not his Victory On which ●aesar said to his Friends Of a truth this Day had ended our Wars if our Enemies had had a Captain that had known how to use his Victory p. 13. Caesar commanded his Horse-men fighting with Pompey's Cavalry who were nice and effeminate Gentlemen to strike them no

where but in the face which they not able or willing to endure presently retired and lost the Day to Caesar Pompey flying towards Egypt had his Head smitten off in a Boat by the command of the King of Egypt which Caesar wept at when it was shew'd unto him and put to Death those that did it Imperial History p. 15. Afranius one of Pompeys Captaines and Juba King of Mauritania rather than fall into Caesars Hands determined to dye fighting the one against the other Juba slew Afranius and afterward commanded his own Slave to kill himself and so died desperately p. 18. Caesar returning to Rome had four triumphs granted him one for France the second for Egypt the third for Pontus and King Phraaces which he conquered so quickly that he wrote of it veni vidi vici I came I savv I conquered The fourth for Juba As for his Conquest of Pompey he refused because it was over a Romm Citizen Ibid. p. 18. Caesar being in great danger in his last War in Spain against the younger Pompey was ready to have killed himself but recovering the day he said of it That in other Battels he fought for his Honour but in this for his Life Idem p. 19. When Caesar was counselled to have a Guard alwayes about him He answered he would have none for he would rather dye once than live in perpetual care and fear p. 21. Caesar in the fifty sixth year of his age was slain in the Senate seventy of the chief Senators conspiring his Death he having the Night before when a question was asked what Death was best answered The suddain and not propensed His Wife dreamt that Night that he lay dead in her Lap and Spurina warned him to have heed to the Ides of March and a Note was given to him going to the Senate discovering the conspiracy which he began to read but was interrupted and died with it in his hands p. 23. When Marcus Antonius made the Funeral Oration for Caesar who was slain forty and two yearrs before the Birth of our Saviour he shewed his bloody Robe to the People which so enraged them that they ran with burning-brands from the fire of Caesars burning and set on fire the Houses of Brutus and Caffius two principal Conspirators and slew in their rage one Elius Cinna mistaking him for Cornelius Cinna one of Caesars Murderers though he was his Friend And observable it is that all Caesars Murderers within three years died and not one of them of a natural death Imperial History p. 26. Augustus Caesar shut Janus Temple three times in token of Vniversal peace which had bin but twice shut before from the foundation of Rome and in the forty and second year of his Raign the last time that he shut Janus Temple Christ was born Idem p. 49. Tiberius though most unchast himself yet was a great punisher of unchastity in others In the eighteenth year of whose Raign Christ was Crucified whom Tiberius would have had the Senate admit into the number of the Gods but they refused p 59. When one condemned by Tiberius desired that he might be put to present Death he answered No I am not yet so much your Friend p. 60. Caligula was the best Servant and the worst Lord in the World He made a Bridg three Miles over an Arm of the Sea covered it with Earth and built Houses on it and burnt such an infinite number of Torches in the Night he lay there that the darkness of the Night was expelled whereupon be brag'd that he had made of the Sea Land and of the Night Day He commanded himself to be worshipped as a God yet was so afraid of Thunder that he would creep under a Bed to hide himself He wisht all the Roman People had but one Neck that he might destroy them all at one blow He gathered a great Army and marshalled them on the Sea coast and commanded them to gather Cockle-shells for which he demanded Triumph and was killed by Conspiracy in the year of our Lord God sixty three Imperial History p. 70. Nero though most cruel by Nature yet feigned Clemency insomuch that a warrant being brought him to sign for the putting one to Death He said he would that he could not write p. 85. When Agrippina was told that her Son should be Emperour but that he should kill his Mother She replied Let him have the Empire and then kill her and spare not which he accordingly did and viewed his Mothers Womb in which he lay Idem p. 89. In the days of Nero the City of Laodicea was wholly laid wast and destroyed with an Earth-quake p. 90. In the days of Nero it was more dangerous to be rich than to commit offences Few were punished because of their misdeeds but many lost their lives because of their wealth Idem p. 91. When Nero espoused Sporus whom he castrated as his Wife One hearing of it said It had been well for the VVorld that Nero's Father Domitius had never bad but such a VVife Idem p 94. Nero set Rome on fire and in six Days and seven Nights would not suffer it to be quenched so that of fourteen Parts ten were burned and the while got up into a high Tower where delighted with the sight He sung verses out of Homer concerning the burning of Troy He raised the first persecution against Christians whom he covered with Wild Beasts Skins and then set Dogs at them p. 94. Otho when his Army was discomfited to avoid effusion of more Roman blood slew himself and when he was burned divers slew themselves for love of him Imperial History p. 112. Vitellius coming into the Fields where the dead Bodies that were slain taking part with Otho lay unburied his Souldiers and Captains holding their Noses He reproved them saying that there was not a sweeter smell in the World Than the smell of an Enemy being Dead especially a Citizen He banished Astrologers and Mathematicians because they had foretold he should not raign above a year He was excessive in his prodigality and most bloudy in his cruelty He put to Death two young men only because they had interceeded for their Father whom he had condemned to Death p. 115. Vespasian was made Emperor against his VVill and forced to accept of it with drawn Swords by his Souldiers who threatned otherwise they would immediately kill him He was a good Prince lived seventy nine yeares died in his Bed For his health he used frictions and fasting one day every month without eating any thing Id. p. 117. 129. Titus was called Deliciae humani generis sent none from him discontented One Night having given nothing that day he said to his Friends Heu diem perdidi and when two great men had conspired his Death he freely forgive them without punishment Domitian delighted in catching Flies and though he were evil himself yet he severely punisht evil Governours He commanded himself to be called God and Lord. p. 136. When a Battel

had Herod and Philip the Tetrarchs Herod would have compelled the Pharisees to swear obedience to him who would not but Phaeroras his wife payeth their fine hoping by their means to obtain the Kingdom for her Sons whereupon he cast off his houshold Servants that were of the Pharisees faction and requireth Phaeroras to put away his wife Antipater whom Herod had joyned with him in the government conspires against his Father is accused condemned and cast into Prison who was convinced to have prepared poyson for his Father which being given as a Tryal to a condemned Malefactor presently kill'd him Herod fell sick of a terrible painful burning sickness in his intrails with a Canine appetite an vlcer in his bowels a furious Collick His members rotted and were full of crawling wormes a perpetual Priapisme with an intolerable stench a violent convulsion of his Nerves and shortness of breath Apprehending his death he sent for the Nobles of the Jews upon pain of death to come to him shu● them up in the Hippodrome and commanded his Sister Salome and his brother Alenas that at his death the Soldiers should kill them that so he might not die without Lamentation but Salome and Alenas discharged them and sent them home unhurt Six daies before he died he caused his Son Antipater to be slain He raigned after the Romans appointed him King thirty and seven years He died after Christs birth one year and lived sixty and left his Kingdom to Archelaus Joseph Antiq. from p. 370. to 450. When Herod assaulted certain Thieves who had betaken themselves unto their Caves there was an old man amongst them with his wife and seven Sons who being required by them that he would suffer them to go and submit themselves took up the entry of the Cave and as his Sons advanced themselves to issue out he slew them so that having massacred them all and afterwards his wife and cast their dead bodies down the Rock he reviled Herod to his face refused his proffered pardon and threw himself down head-long after them preferring death before servitude Ioseph Antiq. p. 377. At such time as Caesar and Anthony made Trial of their Titles in the Actian Warr and in the seventh year of the raign of King Herod there happened such an earth quake in the Country of Judaea that divers beasts were slain and many men over-whelm'd with the ruine of their Houses and perished to the number of ten thousand Id. 391. At that time viz. when Pontius Pilate was governour was Jesus a Wise-man if it be lawful to call him a man For he was the performer of divers admirable works and the instructor of those who willingly entertain the truth He drew unto him divers Jews and Greeks to be his followers This was Christ who being accused by the Princes of our nation before Pilate was condemned by him to the Cross yet did not those that followed him forbear to love him notwithstanding the ignominy of his death For he appeared unto them alive the third day after according as the Divine prophets had before testified and divers wonderful things were done by him and from that time the race of the Christians who have derived their name from him have never ceased Id. 466. Decius Mundus a Roman Knight profered six thousand pounds to Paulina a beautiful but chaste Lady for one nights free enjoying her but was refused She afterwards by the contrivance of I le the Priest of Isis who pretended to her that their God Anubis desired familiarity with her was prevailed with to take her lodging in the Temple and there entertained Mundus instead of Anubis which he bragging of to her she informes her husband who complained to the Emperor Tiberius of the abuse who hang'd the Priest destroyed the Temple and threw Anubis Statue into Tiber and banished Mundus Id. p. 468. Four Jews dwelling in Rome and expounding the Law had prevailed with Fulvia a noble Lady and wife to Saturnine to become a Proselyte and to send Purple and Gold to the Temple at Jerusalem which they received and converted to their own use This being discovered and complaint made to Tiberius he commanded all the Jews to depart ou● of Rome so that Multitudes suffered for the offence of four Joseph Jews Antiq. p. 4 8. Vitellius shewed the Jews great favour came to Jerusalem restored to them the custody of the Priestly Vestments sent Pontius Pilate to Rome and removed Caiaphas from his Priest-hood and advanced Jonathan the Son of Ananus to that dignity Id. p. 463. Philip the Tetrarch Reigned thirty seven years and behaved himself very peaceably he made his ordinary abode within his own Dominions He walked being accompanied with a small number of his chosen servants and had that seat carried after him wherein he was accustomed to sit and do justice And therein sate he to the end that if any one presented himself and required his assistance he might without delay do him right for on the first motion the seat was placed in that path wherein the Plantiff met him and being seated thereon he examined the cause punished the guilty and absolved the innocent Id. p. 471. Herod the second having put away the Daughter of Aretas King of Arabia his lawful wife and taken Herodias who was his Brother Aristobulus Daughter and his Brother Philip's wife Philip yet living was discomfited by Aretas Souldiers and his Army quite overthrown divers of the Jews were of the opinion that God justly punish'd him for the death of John the Baptist whom Josephus commends for his vertue and ascribes his death to Herods fear lest his Subjects being allured by his Doctrines and perswasions should be drawn to revolt Id. p. 471. Herod's progeny is related by Josephus that we may know that neither the number of Children nor any other humane force can be available without the fear of God considering that within the space of one hundred years all Herods Line which was very numerous was extinguisht a very few excepted Joseph p. 471. Agrippa the Great the Son of Aristobulus who was Herods Son by Mariamne married Cypros the Daughter of Salamso the Daughter of Mariamne by Herod which Salamso was the wife of Phaseolus the Son of Phaseolus Herod's Brother Agrippa had by his wife Cypros three Daughter Bernice Mariamne and Drusilla and two Sons Drasis that died young and Agrippa so that Agrippa the Great and his wife were both the Grandchildren of Herod the Great Id p. 471. Agrippa the Great riding with Cajus Caligula wisht the death of Tiberius his Uncle and Cajus his Succession and was complained of by his Coachman to Tiberius who kept him six months in chains in Prison he was told by a German conjecturing from the sight of an Owl which sat over his head of his future prosperity and death within five days he should again see that Bird. When Cajus came to the Empire he released him from Prison and created him King of Judaea and had the Tetrarchy of