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A50902	The history of Britain, that part especially now call'd England from the first traditional beginning, continu'd to the Norman conquest / collected out of the antientest and best authours thereof by John Milton.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing M2119; ESTC R13663	213,672	366

and the Gods must witness that otherwise to express her thoughts she knew not but that she lov'd him above all Creatures and so receavs an equal reward with her Sister But Cordelia the youngest though hitherto best belov'd and now before her Eyes the rich and present hire of a little easie soothing the danger also and the loss likely to betide plain dealing yet moves not from the solid purpose of a sincere and vertuous answer Father saith she my love towards you is as my duty bids what should a Father seek what can a Child promise more they who pretend beyond this flatter When the old man sorry to hear this and wishing her to recall those words persisted asking with a loiall sadness at her Fathers infirmity but somthing on the sudden harsh and glancing rather at her Sisters then speaking her own mind Two waies only saith she I have to answer what you require mee the former Your command is I should recant accept then this other which is lest mee look how much you have so much is your value and so much I love you Then hear thou quoth Leir now all in passion what thy ingratitude hath gain'd thee because thou hast not reverenc'd thy aged Father equall to thy Sisters part in my Kingdom or what else is mine reck'n to have none And without delay gives in mariage his other Daughters Gonorill to Maglaunus Duke of Albania Regan to Henninus Duke of Cornwall with them in present half his Kingdom the rest to follow at his Death In the mean while Fame was not sparing to divulge the wisdom and other Graces of Cordeilla insomuch that Aganippus a great King in Gaul however he came by his Greek name seeks her to Wife and nothing alter'd at the loss of her Dowry receavs her gladly in such manner as she was sent him After this King Leir more and more drooping with Years became an easy prey to his Daughters and thir Husbands who now by dayly encroachment had feis'd the whole Kingdom into thir hands and the old King is put to sojorn with his Eldest Daughter attended only by threescore Knights But they in a short while grudg'd at as too numerous and disorderly for continuall Guests are reduc'd to thirty Not brooking that affront the old King betakes him to his second Daughter but there also discord soon arising between the Servants of differing Masters in one Family five only are suffer'd to attend him Then back again he returns to the other hoping that she his Eldest could not but have more pity on his Gray Hairs but she now refuses to admitt him unless he be content with one only of his followers At last the remembrance of his youngest Cordeilla comes to his thoughts and now acknowledging how true her words had bin though with little hope from whom he had so injur'd be it but to pay her the last recompence she can have from him his confession of her wise forewarning that so perhaps his misery the prooff and experiment of her Wisdom might somthing soft'n her he takes his Journey into France Now might be seen a difference between the silent or down-right spok'n affection of som Children to thir Parents and the talkative obsequiousness of others while the hope of Inheritance over-acts them and on the Tongues end enlarges thir duty Cordeilla out of meer love without the suspicion of expected reward at the message only of her Father in distress powrs forth true filial tears And not enduring either that her own or any other Eye should see him in such forlorn condition as his Messenger declar'd discreetly appoints one of her trusted Servants first to convay him privately toward som good Sea Town there to array him bathe him cherish him furnish him with such Attendance and State as beseemd his Dignity That then as from his first Landing he might send word of his Arrival to her Husband Aganippus Which don with all mature and requisite contrivance Cordelia with the King her Husband and all the Barony of his Realm who then first had news of his passing the Sea goe out to meet him and after all honourable and joyfull entertainment Aganippus as to his Wives Father and his Royall Guest surrenders him during his abode there the power and disposal of his whole Dominion permitting his Wife Cordeilla to go with an Army and set her Father upon his Throne Wherin her piety so prosper'd as that she vanquish'd her impious Sisters with those Dukes and Leir again as saith the story three years obtain'd the Crown To whom dying Cordeilla with all regal Solemnities gave Burial in the Town of Leicestre And then as right Heir succeeding and her Husband dead rul'd the Land five years in Peace Untill Marganus and Cunedagius her two Sisters Sons not bearing that a Kingdom should be govern'd by a Woman in the unseasonablest time to raise that quarrel against a Woman so worthy make War against her depose her and imprison her of which impatient and now long unexercis'd to suffer she there as is related killd her self The Victors between them part the Land but Marganus the Eldest Sisters Son who held by agreement from the North-side of Humber to Cathness incited by those about him to invade all as his own right warres on Cunedagius who soon met him overcame and overtook him in a Town of Wales where he left his life and ever since his name to the place Cuncdagius was now sole King and govern'd with much praise many years about the time when Rome was built Him succeeded Rivallo his Son wise also and fortunat save what they tell us of three daies raining blood and swarmes of stinging Flies whereof men dy'd In order then Gurgustius Jago or Lago his Nefew Sisillius Kinmarcus Then Gorbogudo whom others name Gorbodego and Gorbodion who had two Sons Ferrex and Porrex They in the old Age of thir Father falling to contend who should succeed Porrex attempting by treachery his Brothers life drives him into France and in his return though aided with the force of that Country defeats and slaies him But by his Mother Videna who less lov'd him is himself with the assistance of her Women soon after slain in his Bed With whom ended as is thought the Line of Brutus Whereupon the whole Land with civil broils was rent into five Kingdoms long time waging Warr each on other and som say 50 Years At length Dunwallo Molmutius the Son of Cloten King of Cornwall one of the foresaid five excelling in valour and goodliness of person after his Fathers decease found means to reduce again the whole Iland into a Monarchy subduing the rest at opportunities First Y●●ner King of Loegria whom he slew then Rudaucus of Cambria Staterius of Albania confederat together In which fight Dunwallo is reported while the Victory hung doubtfull to have us'd this Art He takes with him 600 Stout men bids them put on the Armour of thir slain Enemies and so unexpectedly approaching

the Squadron where those two Kings had plac'd themselvs in fight from that part which they thought securest assaults and dispatches them Then displaying his own Ensignes which before he had conceal'd and sending notice to the other part of his Army what was don adds to them new courage and gains a final Victory This Dunwallo was the first in Britain that wore a Crown of Gold and therfore by som reputed the first King He established the Molmutine Laws famous among the English to this day writt'n long after in Latine by Gildas and in Saxon by King Alfred so saith Geofrey but Gildas denies to have known aught of the Britans before Caesar much less knew Alfred These Laws whoever made them bestow'd on Temples the privilege of Sanctuary to Cities also and the waies thether leading yea to Plows granted a kind of like refuge and made such riddance of Theeves and Robbers that all passages were safe Forty Years he Govern'd alone and was buried nigh to the Temple of Concord which he to the memory of peace restor'd had built in Trinovant His two Sons Belinus and Brennus contending about the Crown by decision of Freinds came at length to an accord Brennus to have the North of Humber Belinus the Sovrantie of all But the younger not long so contented that he as they whisper'd to him whose valour had so oft repell'd the invasions of Ceulphus the Morine Duke should now be subject to his Brother upon new Designe fails into Norway enters League and Affinitie with Elsing that King which Belinus perceaving in his absence disposseses him of all the North. Brennus with a Fleet of Norwegians makes toward Britain but encounter'd by Guithlac the Danish King who laying claim to his Bride pursu'd him on the Sea his hast was retarded and he berest of his Spouse who from the fight by a sudden Tempest was by the Danish King driv'n on Northumberland and brought to Belinus Brennus nevertheless recollecting his Navy lands in Albania and gives Battell to his Brother in the Wood Calaterium but loosing the day escapes with one single Ship into Gaul Mean while the Dane upon his own offer to become tributary sent home with his new prise Belinus returns his thoughts to the administring of Justice and the perfeting of his Fathers Laws and to explain what High-waies might enjoy the foresaid privileges he caus'd to be drawn out and pav'd fowr main Roades to the utmost length and bredth of the Iland and two others athwart which are since attributed to the Romans Bren-Brennus on the other side solliciting to his aid the Kings of Gaul happ'ns at last on Seginus Duke of the Allobreges where his worth and comliness of person wan him the Dukes Daughter and Heir In whose right he shortly succeeding and by obtain'd leave passing with a great Host through the length of Gaul gets footing once again in Britain Nor was Belinus unprepar'd and now the Battell ready to joyn Conuvenna the Mother of them both all in a fright throws her self between and calling earnestly to Brennus her Son whose absence had so long depriv'd her of his sight after imbracements and teares assails him with such a motherly power and the mention of things so dear and reverend as irresistibly wrung from him all his enmity against Belinus Then are hands joyn'd reconciliation made firm and Counsel held to turn thir united preparations on Foren parts Thence that by these two all Gallia was overrun the story tells and what they did in Italy and at Rome if these be they and not Gauls who took that City the Roman Authors can best relate So far from home I undertake not for the Monmouth Chronicle which heer against the stream of History carries up and down these Brethren now into Germany then again to Rome pursuing Gabius and Porsena two unheard of Consuls Thus much is more generally beleev'd that both this Brennus and another famous Captain Britomarus whom the Epitomist Florus and others mention were not Gauls but Britans the name of the first in that Tongue signifying a King and of the other a Great Britan. However Belinus after a while returning home the rest of his daies rul'd in Peace Wealth and Honour above all his Predecessors building som Cities of which one was Caerose upon Osca since Caerlegion beautifying others as Trinovant with a Gate a Hav'n and a Towr on the Thames retaining yet his name on the top wherof his Ashes are said to have bin laid up in a Golden Urne After him Gurguntius Barbirus was King mild and just but yet inheriting his Fathers Courage he subdu'd the Dacian or Dane who refus'd to pay the Tribute Covnanted to Belinus for his enlargement In his return finding about the Orkneies 30 Ships of Spain or Biscay fraught with Men and Women for a Plantation whose Captain also Bartholinus wrongfully banish't as he pleaded besaught him that som part of his Territory might be assign'd them to dwell in he sent with them certain of his own men to Ireland which then lay unpeopl'd and gave them that Iland to hold of him as in Homage He was buried in Caerlegion a City which he had wall'd about Guitheline his Son is also remember'd as a just and good Prince and his Wife Martia to have excell'd so much in wisdom as to venture upon a new Institution of Laws Which King Alfred translating call'd Marchen Leage but more truly therby is meant the Mertian Law not translated by Alfred but digested or incorporated with the West-Saxon In the minority of her Son she had the rule and then as may be suppos'd brought forth these Laws not her self for Laws are Masculin Births but by the advice of her sagest Counselors and therin she might doe vertuously since it befell her to supply the nonage of her Son else nothing more awry from the Law of God and Nature then that a Woman should give Laws to Men. Hir Son Sisilius comming to Yeares receav'd the Rule then in order Kimarus then Danius or Elanius his Brother Then Morindus his Son by Tanguestela a Concubine who is recorded a man of excessive Strength Valiant Liberal and fair of Aspect but immanely Cruell not sparing in his Anger Enemy or Freind if any Weapon were in his hand A certain King of the Morines or Picards invaded Northumberland whose Army this King though not wanting sufficient numbers cheifly by his own prowess overcame But dishonour'd his Victory by the cruel usage of his Prisners whom his own hands or others in his presence put all to several Deaths well fitted to such a bestiall Cruelty was his end for hearing of a huge Monster that from the Irish Sea infested the Coast and in the Pride of his Strength foolishly attempting to set manly valour against a Brute vastness when his Weapons were all in vain by that horrible mouth he was catch't up and devour'd Gorbonian the Eldest of his five Sons then whom a Juster man liv'd not in his Age was a great

thy advantage that after these words choak't with the morsel tak'n he sunk down and recover'd not His first wife was the sister of Cannute a woman of much infamy for the trade she drove of buying up English Youths and Maids to sell in Denmarke whereof she made great gain but ere long was struck with thunder and dy'd The year ensuing Siward Earl of An. Dom. 1054 Northumberland with a great number of horse and foot attended also by a strong fleet at the Kings appointment made an expedition into Scotland vanquish't the Tyrant Macbeth slaying many thousands of Scots with those Normans that went thether and plac'd Malcolm Son of the Cumbrian King in his stead yet not without loss of his own Son and many other both English and Danes Told of his Sons Death he ask'd whether he receav'd his Deaths wound before or behind when it was answerd before I am glad saith hee and should not else have thought him though my Son worthy of Burial In the mean while King Edward being without Issue to succeed him sent Aldred Bishop of Winchester with great presents to the Emperour entreating him to prevail with the King of Hungary that Edward the remaining Son of his Brother Edmund Ironside might be sent into England Siward but one year surviving An. Dom. 1055 his great Victory dy'd at Yorke reported by Huntingdon a man of Giant-like stature by his own demeanour at point of Death manifested of a rough and meer souldierly mind For much disdaining to die in bed by a disease not in the field fighting with his enemies he caus'd himself compleatly arm'd and weapon'd with battel-ax and shield to be set in a chair whether to fight with death if he could be so vain or to meet him when far other weapons and preparations were needful in a Martial bravery but true fortitude glories not in the feats of War as they are such but as they serve to end War soonest by a victorious Peace His Earldom the King bestow'd on Tosti the Son of Earl Godwin and soon after in a Convention held at London banish't without visible cause Huntigdon saith for treason Algar the Son of Leofric who passing into Ireland soon return'd with eighteen ships to Griffin Prince of South Wales requesting his aid against King Edward He assembling his Powers enter'd with him into Hereford-shire whom Radulf a timorous Captain Son to the Kings Sister not by Eustace but a former husband met two miles distant from Hereford and having hors'd the English who knew better to fight on foot without stroke he with his French and Normans beginning to flie taught the English by his example Griffin and Algar following the chase slew many wounded more enter'd Hereford slew seven Canons defending the Minster burnt the Monasterie and Reliques then the City killing some leading captive others of the Citizens return'd with great spoils whereof King Edward having notice gather'd a great Army at Gloster under the conduct of Harold now Earl of Kent who strenuously pursuing Griffin enter'd Wales and encamp'd beyond Straddale But the enemy flying before him farther into the Country leaving there the greater part of his Army with such as had charge to fight if occasion were offer'd with the rest he return'd and fortifi'd Hereford with a wall and gates Mean while Griffin and Algar dreading the diligence of Harold after many messages to and fro concluded a Peace with him Algar discharging his fleet with pay at West Chester came to the King and was restor'd to his Earldom But Griffin with breach of faith the next year set upon An. Dom. 1056 Leofgar the Bishop of Hereford and his Clerks then at a place call'd Glastbrig with Agelnoth Vicount of the shire and slew them but Leofric Harold and King Edward by force as is likeliest though it be not said how reduc'd him to Peace The next year An. Dom. 1057 Edward Son of Edmund Ironside for whom his Uncle King Edward had sent to the Emperour came out of Hungary design'd Successor to the Crown but within a few days after his coming dy'd at London leaving behind him Edgar Atheling his Son Margaret and Christina his Daughters About the same time also dy'd Earl Leofric in a good old age a man of no less vertue then power in his time religious prudent and faithful to his Country happily wedded to Godiva a woman of great praise His Son Algar found less favour with King Edward again banish't the year after An. Dom. 1058 his Fathers death but he again by the aid of Griffin and a fleet from Norway maugre the King soon recover'd his Earldom The next year Malcolm An. Dom. 1059 King of Scots coming to visit King Edward was brought on his way by Tosti the Northumbrian Earl to whom he swore brotherhood yet the next year An. Dom. 1061 but one while Tosti was gone to Rome with Aldred Archbishop of York for his Pall this sworn brother taking advantage of his absence roughly harrass'd Northumberland The year passing to an end without other matter of moment save the frequent inrodes and robberies of Griffin whom no bonds of faith could restrain King Edward sent against him after Christmas Harold now Duke of West-Saxons An. Dom. 1062 with no great body of Horse from Gloster where he then kept his Court whose coming heard of Griffin not daring to abide nor in any part of his Land holding himself secure escap't hardly by Sea ere Harold coming to Rudeland burnt his Palace and Ships there returning to Gloster the same day But by the middle An. Dom. 1063 of May setting out with a fleet from Bristow he sail'd about the most part of Wales and met by his brother Tosti with many Troops of Horse as the King had appointed began to waste the Country but the Welch giving pledges yeilded themselves promis'd to become tributary and banish Griffin thir Prince who lurking somewhere was the next year tak'n and An. Dom. 1064 slain by Griffin Prince of North Wales his head with the head and tackle of his Ship sent to Harold by him to the King who of his gentleness made Blechgent and Rithwallon or Rivallon his two Brothers Princes in his stead they to Harold in behalf of the King swore fealty and tribute Yet the next year An. Dom. 1065 Harold having built a fair house at a place call'd Portascith in Monmouth-shire and stor'd it with provision that the King might lodge there in time of hunting Caradoc the Son of Griffin slain the year before came with a number of men slew all he found there and took away the provision Soon after which the Northumbrians in a tumult at York beset the Palace of Tosti their Earl slew more then 200 of his Souldiers and Servants pillag'd his Treasure and put him to flie for his life The cause of this insurrection they alledg'd to be for that the Queen Edith had commanded in her Brother Tosti's behalf