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A65611	The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical histories in which the most excellent historians are reduced into the order in which they are successively to be read, and the judgments of learned men concerning each of them, subjoin'd / by Degoræus Wheare ... ; to which is added, an appendix concerning the historians of particular nations, as well ancient as modern, by Nicholas Horseman ; made English and enlarged by Edmund Bohun, Esq. ...; Reflectiones hyemales de ratione & methodo legendi utrasque historias, civiles et ecclesiasticas. English	Wheare, Degory, 1573-1647.; Horsman, Nicholas, fl. 1689. Mantissa.; Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1592; ESTC R6163	182,967	426

Chapter of the Gruterian Edition he will find the History intire from the Conquest of Perseus King of the Macedonians to the XVI th year of the Reign of Tiberius Caesar and he may all along as he pleases joyn the Lives I have mentioned above in their order with Vellejus to enlarge the History and so he may pass on to the Writers of the Caesarian times The Authour having in the end of the XVIII th Section made onely a short mention of Appianus Alexandrinus I think it not amiss here to give somewhat a larger account of him because there is an excellent Version of his Works in English whereas Dion Cassius to my knowledge was never translated into our Language Henry Stephens in his Dedicatory Epistle before Appianus calls him the Companion of Dion Cassius and saith that these two were of great use to all those who desired to know the flourishing times of the Roman Common-wealth and to understand many passages in Cicero and others concerning the State of the Roman Republick for those Latine Historians who have come down to us cannot so well satisfie their Thirst as Dion and Appianus but if they do not leave their Reader wholly Thirsty yet we cannot deny but he will remain very unsatisfied And a little after saith he I shall mention another thing in which he is the Companion of Dion that is he relates not a few things that concern the change of the Roman State and the institution of their Princes and there is one thing in which he excells Dion and all the other Historians which is his ascribing those miseries which are attributed by all the rest to Fortune to the Providence of God thus far that Learned man speaks of him Vossius saith he writ the Roman History in XXIV Books beginning at Aeneas and the taking of Troy but with great brevity till the times of Romulus and then he wrote more accurately of all the succeeding times till Augustus adding some things here and there to the Reign of Trajan but then the manner of his dividing his Works and the Titles and Arguments of his Books may be best Learned saith he from Photius and from his own Preface of this vast work we have now extant nothing but his Punick Syrian Parthian Mithridatick Iberian and Illyrian Wars and 5 Books of the Civil Wars of the Romans and a fragment of the Celtick or German War Henry Stephens prefers him also before Dion Cassius and all the rest of the Historians because he reduced his History into certain Classes that though the whole was a Roman History yet the variety of the Titles which he placed before each Book seemed to promise the Reader a kind of new Subject and by that hope alured him to proceed not to mention saith he how much more easily any thing sought after may be found in this method of Writing in this Appianus has been very ingeniously imitated by Dr. Howell in his late Learned Universal History Photius gives this account of Appianus his History of the Civil Wars of the Romans these things are saith he contained in them first the Wars betwixt Marius and Sylla then those betwixt Pompey and Julius Caesar who contended against each other and fought many great Battels till fortune favouring Caesar Pompey turn'd his back and fled then the Wars of Antonius and Octavius Caesar who was afterwards call'd Augustus against the Murtherers of the first Caesar in which many of the greatest Romans were contrary to all Laws and Justice proscribed and Murthered then the Wars betwixt Antonius and Augustus themselves who had several sharp Fights to the destruction of great Armies till at last Victory smiling upon Augustus Antonius fled into Egypt having lost his Army and there Murthered himself which being the last Book of the Civil Wars shews also how Augustus took in Egypt and the Common-wealth of Rome became a Monarchy under Augustus He gives us also this account of the Authour Appianus was by Birth an Alexandrian and at first a Pleader of Causes at Rome afterwards he was a Praefect or Governour of some Provinces under the Emperours his Style is moderate and restrain'd but as far as is possible he is a lover of truth and an exact relatour of Military Discipline apt to put Life into the desponding Souldiery and to appease them when enraged and well able to describe and imitate any passion He flourished in the Reigns of Trajan and Adrian thus far Photius speaks of him That which prevailed upon me chiefly to insert this Addition in this place was Appianus his History of the Civil Wars in V Books written with great Clearness Elegance and Accurateness In which beginning with the Gracchian Sedition about the Agrarian Laws A. V. C. 622 or there abouts and continuing it down through all the various Seditions and Civil Wars of the Romans to the Death of Pompey the younger Anno V. C. 718. which was but five years before the fatal Battel of Actium and Augustus his settlement in the Empire a story that is not writ at large and intirely by any other but this Authour and Dion Cassius and is one of the best Supplements that is extant of the last Books in the end of Livy and one of the best Introductions too to the History of the Caesars and is one of the most lively Representations that is to be found in any History of the disorders of Common-wealths and the miseries that attend great changes in Governments and so of great use in this our unsetled Age. It is certain this History has lost its end for Photius gives an account that it reached much lower down in his times than it doth now ☞ There is now in the Press an excellent History of these times written Originally in French but made English wherein all these Greek and Latine Historians which have related the History of this great change in the Roman State are reduced into one Elegant body Intituled the History of the first and second Triumvirate Printed for Charles Brome SECT XXI The History of the Caesars is first to be fetched from Suetonius and Tacitus the great Honour shewn to both of them by the testimonies of very Learned men the judgment of the most famous Criticks concerning Tacitus various or rather contrary Light afforded both to Suetonius and Tacitus by Dion Cassius AS to the Writers of the Caesarian times let the Reader begin with Suetonius Tranquillus a most correct and candid Writer as Vopiscus stiles him He flourished under Trajan and Adrian Anno Christi 127 and was Secretary to Trajan he was an intimate friend to Pliny Secundus and he deserved his esteem being as Pliny saith in a Letter to Trajan an honest sincere Learned man And thence I conclude that the Testimonies of the later Criticks concerning him are true as that of Ludovicus Vivis Suetonius is the most diligent and impartial of all the Greek or Latine Writers he seems to me to have written

almost in the same words the Romans having Conquered the Kingdom of Macedonia brought the World under their Dominion yea as the same Polybius acquaints us the Nations submitted in great Numbers to them and made them the Arbitratours of Peace and War betwixt themselves which Florus also confirms for from henceforth saith he the Kings of the World and the Captains People and Nations sought Protection from this City And again Polybius Now it was confess'd by all necessity extorting from them this Declaration that the Romans must for the future be obeyed and their Commands submitted to To conclude Daniel the Prophet States here the beginning of the IVth Monarchy if the Learned Melancthon thinks right whose words are these when Daniel names and depaints the IV th Monarchy he does not begin it onely from Julius Caesar and Augustus but includes the time in which the City of Rome was possess'd of the Empire of the World even before their Civil Wars began And therefore if from hence we compute the time of its duration there is to the time of Julius Caesar 118 years from thence to Constantine the Great 356 years from thence to Augustulus who was forced by Odacrus King of the Heruli to resign the Empire are above 170 years and from thence to Charles the Great 325 years so that from the Conquest of Macedonia to Charles the Great are 978 years and from thence to Charles the V th are 720 years so that from the Overthrow of Perseus to the Reign of Charles the V th there is in all 1688 years SECT V. Why these four were call'd by way of Eminence the Monarchies I Am not Ignorant that many other Dynasties Kingdoms Empires and Commonwealths here and there flourished in the World during the times of the three first Monarchies but especially in the Ages of the first and second as for Example that of the Egyptians Cicyonians Spartans and Aethiopians and others frequent mention of which is made in ancient Historians and we reade that some of them had some times vast Dominions as Sesostris King of Egypt Venit ad occasum mundique extrema Sesostris Et Pharios currus Regum cervicibus egit Who saw the Western Shoars the bound of things And drove his Char'ots o'er the Necks of Kings As Lucan sings and Justin saith Vexoris King of Egypt extended his Empire to Pontus Strabo saith too that Tearchon the Aethiopian led an Army into Europe and Pliny writes that the Aethiopians were great and powerfull to the times of the Trojan Wars and the Reign of Memnon yet that the said IV Monarchies did much excell all these is too well known to need any proof for it is to be observed that we do not call these the IV great Monarchies as if they included all other Regions and Nations but because they were Masters of a great part of the World and had so much power that they could easily Curb and give Laws to all other Princes for therefore did God Erect Monarchies in the World that men might be Governed by Laws Justice and a good Discipline as Melancthon observes SECT VI. How the reading of History is to be begun good Epitomes not to be Condemn'd Synopsis of Histories Chronologers some other Compendiums commended by Name What Authours are principally to be consulted as to Universal History Rawleigh one of the best but the History of the Bible is the most ancient and first of all to be read WHerefore if any man desires to run over with advantage the History of these Monarchies or Empires and in them the History of the World I would advise him to begin with some short Compendium Chronology or Synopsis before he enter that vast Ocean because he may by that means learn at once the series of times and Ages the Successions of Empires and the greatest changes which have happened amongst Mankind and so he may if he please draw in his mind an Exemplar or Idea of the whole body of the Universal History which he may contemplate with ease as it were at once and this too was the advice of Lodovicus Vivis At first saith he choice is to be made of some Authour who begins with the remotest times and brings down from thence the chiefest heads of History in a constant thred to or near our times for although in truth it cannot be denied that Compendiums have some times done much mischief in the World and proved the ruine of some of the best ancient Authours yet we will not therefore despise those Epitomes which are made with reasonable Abreviations if they render the way to an improvement plain and easie For as Infants being led by the hand learn at first to go so I would by all means perswade young men to begin the Study of History with Epitomes and short Histories till the Foundations being well laid in process of time they may approach and try the very Fountains with good advantage It will be therefore usefull to begin with Beurerus his Synopsis or Sleidan's Compendium pendium of the IV great Monarchies which is written as Reineccius expresseth himself concerning it in an Elegant Polite manly Style and which may well be thought to be of the number of those Books which are attended with a long Liv'd Genius or if he please Melancthon's Chronicle which as one Stephanus tells us whoever has not tasted must be a mere Block it being the most Learned and Elegant Epitome of the History of almost the whole World There are other Books of equal worth which may as justly be recommended to the Reader As first Reinerus Reineccius his Syntagma of those Families which in the Monarchies have had the Government A laborious exquisite work by which the Reader being led as it were by the hand into the pleasant Fields of History shall perform his Journey with much the greater Ease Pleasure and Happiness I think also that Jacobus Capellus his Sacred and Exotick History adapted with great diligence to the order of times he being a man of much Learning is by no means to be deprived of its deserved Commendation it being worthy to be read seriously in the very first beginning of the Study of History and which I wish he had brought down to our times for it ends with the Birth of Augustus A. V. C. 696. But Dionysius Petavius a Jesuit has lately writ an excellent piece of the same Nature which he hath styl'd Temporum Rationarium in which the Sacred and Prophane History of all times from the Creation of the World to the year of Christ 1632 is shortly brought down and confirm'd with Chronological Proofs Amongst the more famous Chronologers if the Reader desires to perfect himself in Chronology which will be of Vast Advantage to him besides Capellus and Petavius both which I rank in that order he may reade Funccius Buntingus Helvicus or Sethus Calvitius who in a late Edition

Pyrenean Mountains THe principal Writers of the History of Gallia which the French now possess that I may say nothing of the most ancient Julius Caesar his VII Books of the Gallick War And Hirtius who continues him nor of Appianus his Celirks which belong to this Story are these Gregorius Turonensis Bishop of Tours in his first Book brings down the History from the beginning of the World to the Reign of Theodosius the first in the other nine Books he sets forth the Lives and actions of the Kings of France to his own times and the year of Christ 594 but the XIth Book which is supposed to have been added by Fredegarius ends in the Death of Charles the Great which happened Anno Christi 814. Paulus Aemilius Veronensis a man of a Livian style of whom mention is made above Sect. XXV as Reinerus Reineccius bears witness spent XXX years in the compiling his History of France after the Dissolution of the Roman Dominion and comes down to Philip and Charles his Brother Children of Luis that is from the year 420 to the year 1488 the opinion of J. Lipsius concerning this History is that if a few things were lightly Corrected he would be a person above the Learning of our Age and deserve the Commendations given to ancient Authours and Ludovicus Vivis saith his History is written with more Fidelity and truth than that of Gaguinus who has disclosed and intermixt his own affections in his History Paulus Jovius hath written the Reigns and Lives of Charles the 8th Luis the 12th and Francis the first King of France splendidly and elegantly Arnoldus Ferronius Burdegalensis hath continued the History of Aemilius to Henry the second Philippus Comines of whom mention is made above Sect. the 25th has woven the History of Luis the XIth and Charles the VIIIth his Son in a clear and elegant style and although Jacobus Mejerus avers in many places that he is mistaken yet he is in the judgment of the Learned Vossius a true and a prudent Historian and Johannes Sleidanns gives him this Elogie This Authour is in my judgment the nearest to the ancient Historians of all those that have wrote in or near our times both in prudence and veracity for he lays before us the grave deliberations that passed in the Closets of Princes before they appeared in their Events abroad which very few have attempted to do fewer have been able to do it effectually and even those who could have done it have yet not dared to do it lest they should offend their Princes Johannes Frossardus has splendidly and elegantly written the History of those dreadfull Wars which passed betwixt the English and French from the year 1335 to the year 1400 who deserves the greater faith because he was a follower of the Courts of Kings and Princes especially of Philippa Daughter of the Count of Heynault Queen to Edward the third King of England nor did he relate any thing in his History but what he had seen with his own Eyes or heard from others who had seen them or had the chief Commands in the Wars Johannes Sleidanus hath excerpted the most material passages out of this History and turned them into Latine for it is Originally written in French and Sir John Bouchier Knight translated this intire History into English Enguerus Monstreletus hath continued Frossardus and brought down the French History to the Reign of Luis the XIIth Martinus Longaeus wrote a Commentary in X Books of the actions of Francis I. of Valoise King of France and Stephanus Doletus and Galeacius Capella have written the History of the Wars betwixt Charles the fifth and this Prince for the Dutchy of Milan from the year 1520 to the year 1530 the latter is followed by Gulielmus Paradinus who hath added the story of the succeeding years to the year 1555. A nameless person perhaps Franciscus Hottomanus has written the History of France during the Reigns of Henry the second Francis the second and Charles the IXth Rabutinus hath written the Expedition of Henry the second against Charles the Vth undertaken in the year 1552 on the behalf of the Princes of Germany Eusebius Philadelphus that is Theodorus Beza who by the Cloudiness of this name obscured himself has wrote the History of Charles the IXth and of his Mother Petrus Matthaeus a Lawyer the Royal Historian has writ the History of Henry the IV th King of France and of Navar in VII Books BESIDES these which we have mentioned there are several others which ought to be perused as Carolus Molinaeus who hath writ of the Rise and Progress of the French Kingdom and Monarchy and Hubertus Leonardus of the Origine of the French ●●tion but then Hunibaldus Francus who has wrote the affairs of the Franks from the Wars of Troy to the times of Clodoneus is to be esteemed of the same nature with Annius his Berosus and the rest of those fabulous Writers in the judgment of the famous Vossius de Hist. lat lib. 2. c. 22. Aimoinus the Monk is to be better thought of who is an excellent Historian as the Authour de Regimine Principatus lib. 3. c. 21. calls him which work is commonly but very falsely ascribed to Aquinas he wrote the actions of the French from the year 420 to the year 826 in V Books for the proof of whose Fidelity these words of his make very much there was another Monk in the same Monastery a Priest and a professed Monk as well as he and his name was Audoaldus he was of the same age and in his Manners and Conversation very like him from whose Mouth we have received what is delivered and much more which we are confident is faithfully related Nor is Joannes Trithemius though a German to be lightly passed by who has writ III Books of the Origine Kings and affairs of France from the year of Christ 433 to the year 1500 which was the III year of Charles the VIII th Nor Nicholaus Gilius who hath Composed the Annals of France Hermannus Comes who writes of their affairs to the year 1525 or Robertus Gaguinus who has deduced their History from the most remote Antiquity to the time of the Expedition of Charles the VIII th into Italy Anno Christi 1493 though he has mixed his own affections with the History as Vivis saith and yet Mejerus is not to be admitted neither who calls him a frivolous Writer which is to be attributed to his disaffection to the French Nation and all their Historians for he saith of them in general the French do not use to relate their actions with more fidelity than they transact them and besides as Mejerus out of his too great affection to his Countrey has delivered many things done in his own times there very partially so in Foreign affairs he is not over much to be Credited Paulus Jovius affirming of