then what I haue read and séene written Some say that in times past there was a nation in Europe scattered dispierced héere and there who were called Cimmerians one part of them had the Name of Cimbrians another Sicambrians and a third Francs or Francions These people passing thorough the Countrey of Pannonia now deuided into two parts the one called Hungaria and the other Austria were driuen from their precedent dwelling which was at the Cimmerian Bosphorus by the Goths in the yeare of the Worldes Creation 3520. Others say that these Cimmerians tearmed theÌ„selues to bée deriued of those Fraci that appeared on the Earth after Noahs Floud viz that of those diuisions made in the whole vniuerse by partage of the Mediterranean Sea those which were in Europe distinctly on the right hand gaue to the Haebrews these Fraci euen as them on the left hand did the Affricanes There are some others who doe fetch the Originall of those Cimmerians from Gomer the Sonne of Iaphet and youngest Sonne of Noah of whom they should take their Name by change of some Letters calling them Cimmerians instead of Gomorians But howsoeuer it was that Nation of Cimmerians abandoning the vtmost Confines of Thrace and the fore-named Bosphorus deuided themselues into dyuers bands oâ—e whereof made their way to the Pannonians another to that side of Germanie where the Cimbrian Chersonnesus is described by our Geographers And the rest leauing Europe passed into Phrygia and making vppe higher into Asia set downe their rest on the Banckes of Danubie and the maine Ocean There once more they separated them-selues into two Troopes One whereof entred into Europe vnder conduct of their King named Francion And being no other then méere Vacabond persons enquiring still for noueltie of Countries after they had runne through a great part of Europe at length they rested on the banckes of Rhine where they would néeds build a Citty in semblaunce and Name of Troy the Capitall Commaunder of Phrigia They began the foundation but the worke remained imperfect The other sort that made their aboad on the banckes of Danubie elected for their K. one named Torchor by whose name they were called Torches or Torques euen as on the contrary side the other after the name of Francion their King were tearmed Francs Françions or Françons They waxing weary of their kings Empire which grew to an insupportable tyranny expulsed them liued a long time without any King vnder authoritie of their Captaines But in the end corruption ouer-swaying those Captaines and threatning a tyranicall vsurpation they did likewise cast them off and grew to their former election of Kings againe euen from the selfe-same stirp and race whereof their first Kings had bin elected They made choise then of a Man named Theudomer son to Richomer a man of strong great and goodly stature wearing his Haire long and hée was descended of the race of Priam King of Phrygia and of Francion So that if this opinion be true it should enstruct vs that the Originall of the Françons or Françions procéeded of the Cimmerians and that those Cimmerians came from Phrygia and the Troyans The Cimbrians who were descended of the Cimmerians went to the banckes of Rhine and dwelt there in those straits where in these daies are the Countries of Holland and Gueldres But they were forced thence by frequent ouerflowings and strange invndations of the waters of Rhine The Sicambrians being issued of these Cimbrians and who neuer boudged from the shoares of Rhine as these others did of whom we haue formerly spoken they passed into Italy and from thence into other Regions heretofore mentioned And it is to be noted that when the Cimbrians went first to Rhine bee it that they came from the Pannonians by Land or from Phrygia and Thrace by the Germaine Sea being in number about 489360. they were by the Teutones and Thuringians Neighbors to Rhine named Neumagi as much to say as new Kins-men or Cousins Afterward when their King Antenor a man of great power had espoused Cambra a beautifull wise and chast Lady borne in the Country of Brittaine now called England in fauour of her he tearmed his people Sicambrians This happened in the yeare of the Worlds Creation 1550. At which time Artaxerxes raigned ouer the Persians and Hanniball passed first into Italie Antenor King of the Sicambrians lest to those his people inhabiting on the Rhine his Sonne Priam for their King After whom succéeded Marcomedes who extended his Dominion from the banckes of Rhine so farre as Thuringe The other Sicambrian Kinges succéeding after these fore-named did almost all of them tearme themselues Troyans which holdeth with good iudgement to shew that the Sicambrians were issued of the Cimmerians and Phrygians There were also many Kinges of these Nations and after that the Sicambrians grew to encrease néere the Rhine both in multitude of men and riches diuers other Kinges raigned ouer them who extended the limites of their possessions on eyther side the Rhine In the raignes of Clodion Clodomire the second Meradac and Bolon vnder conduct of whom the Cimbrians forsooke the shoares of Rhine by reason of the invndations of the saide Riuer and likewise of the Sea they leagued them-selues with the Teutones or Allemaignes and departed in great troopes from their habitations leauing very few there behinde them who being afterward vanquished by the Romaines with other people of the Gaules neighbouring néere the Rhine continued peaceably in their dwellings vntill the declining of the Romaine Empire but yet they were wadged as Souldiers in the Romaine Legions and serued the Romains faithfully in all their wars Some certaine yeares after they rebelled against the Emperour Honorius who conquâ—red them in a battaile But recouering theyr losse they grew in to good fauour with the Emperour Valentinian Héereupon some haue written that in regard they gaue him good ayde against the Alaâ—nes expelled them from the Palus Maeotides they were by him called Francks and dispensed withall for tenne yeares tribute which formerly as a Due they payed to the Romaines But at the ten yeares end the Emperor sent his Collectours to them to leuy againe the saide tribute whereto they would in no wise listen but despising his commaundement they murdered his Officers The Emperor being offended at their rebellion assembled a potent Army that vanquished them in battaile wherein also Priam their King was slaine and they driuen to flight from theyr Cittie Sicambria Beeing thus expulsed thence they came into Germany which then was enimy to the Romains possessing themselues of Thuringe they liued there for some time vnder the raigne of Marcomedes son to Priam of Sueno sonne to Antenor one of their Kings thus you may sée what some haue said But as concerning the Citty of Sicambria builded néer to the Palus Maeotides not by the Françones or Françions but onely so auouched by the writings of Hunibant
of Britaine And among his other ordinances he first appointed weights and measures whereby men should buy and sel and deuised very seuere punishments for Theft He raigned 40 yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Brennus and Belinus the Sonnes of Mulmutius had in their Fathers life time the Land once more deuided betwéene them Belinus enioying Loegria Wales Cornwall and Brennus all the Countries ouer and beyonde Humber But when Brennus grew couetous to exceed his portion and sought to compasse it by forraine assistance he was enforced to flight and Belinus quietly seated in the whole possession Then finished he the foure high-waies of Britaine which his Father had begunne which were called the Fosse Watling-streete Erming-streete and Hiknel-streete confirming to them the priuileges which his Father had formerly granted He builded the Hauen called Belines-gate and a Castle also East-ward from that Gate called long time after Belines Castel but is the same which we now call the Tower of London Hee raigned twenty sixe yeares and was buried in Troy-nouant Gurguintus the Son of Belinus succéeded in Britaine after his Father He subdued Denmark and made them pay tribute to Brittaine In his daies was the Towne of Cambridge with the Vniuersity first founded by Cantaber a Spanyard according to Caius Hee raigned 19. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Guintholinus Sonne to Gurguintus raigned after his Father beeing marryed to a vertuous Lady named Mertia who deuised certaine Lawes which afterward were tearmed Mercian Lawes He ruled 27. yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Sicilus Sonne to Guintholinus raigned after his Father albeit hee was then but seauen yeares old but his Mother Mertia had both the gouernment of his person and of the Realme in which time shee deuised those Lawes before mentioned It is saide that then the Picts arriued in Brittaine and possessed those partes which now are the Marches of England and Scotland hee raigned seauen yeares and was buried at Troy-nouant Kimarus Sonne of Sicilius raigned thrée yeares Elanius Sonne of Kimarus raigned seauen yeares Morindus Bastard Son of Elanius In his time a came a wonderful Monster out of the Irish Seas that destroyed many people and the King in fighting with the said monster was deuoured by him hauing raigned sixe yeares Gorbouianus first Sonne of Morindus who builded the town of Grantham raignd 10. years Archigallus Elidurus Vigenius and Peridurus being all likewise the Sonnes of Morindus raigned seuerally in Brittaine by great contentions all their times scarcely reaching to 27. years yet Elidurus was crowned King three times ech after other But no sooner died Elidurus a King of most milde and princely nature but there passed aboue 185. yeares betweene the said Elidurus and the beginning of King Luds raigne in which time there raigned 33. Kinges of whose names and rule Authors doe so disagrée that I passe them ouer and come to King Helie who was the last of those 33. Kings who gaue name to the Isle of Elie builded a goodly pallace there with reparatiens of the Sluces Ditches Causies about the Isle for conuayance away of the water yet he raigned not fully a yeare Lud eldest son to King Hely succeeded in Britaines gouernment He enclosed Troy-nouant with a Wall made of lime and stone and fortified with diuers faire townes building also a gate in the west part of the wall which he cald Luds-gate He erected likewise a goodly Pallace somewhat néere to Luds-gate which is now the Byshop of Londons Pallace and in méere affection to the Citty hee altered the name thereof from Troy-nouant called it Caer-Lud that is Luds Towne since when corruption hath tearmed it London K. Lud raigned 11. yeares was buried néere Lud-gate He left two sons named Androgeus Tenancius whose minority in yeares made them vncapable of gouernment Cassibaline Brother to K. Lud was admitted King of Britaine or rather Ruler and Protectour of the Land during his Nephewes nonage In the 8. yeare of his raigne Iulius Caesar with his Romans came into Britain wher being wearied at first with a sharp battell after that his nauy well-néere destroyed by a sudden tempest hee returned back into Gallia or France But the next spring being the year before Christ 51. he crossed the seas againe with a greater army and compelled Cassibelane to consent that Brittaine should become tributary to the Romains Then raigned foure Kings in Kent Cingetorix Taximagulus Caruilius Segonax all whose power could not withstand Caesar whose preuailing thus in Britaine was Anno mundi 3913. and after Brute 1060. Cassibelane raigned 17. yeares Tenantius Luds youngest Sonne succéeded as lawfull King of Brittaine because his Brother Androgeus had assisted Caesar against Cassibelane He raigned 23. years and was buried at London Kymbeline or Cimbeline Son to Tenantius succéeded after his Fathers decease In his time was the Sauiour of the World our Lord Iesus Christ borne of the euer-blessed virgine Marie Kymbeline raigned 35. yeares Guiderius eldest Sonne to Kymbaline was King of Britaine in the yeare of our Lorde after his incarnation 17. Hee iudging the Romaines tribute to bée vniust denied to pay it This Guiderius was slaine at Portchester valiantly resisting against Claudius his Romains where one Hamo who was on the Romans side attired him selfe like a Britain changed his shield and armor and so entring the thickest of the British host cam at last where the K. was and so slew him But Aruiragus Brother to Guiderius perceiuing this villainy caused himself presently to be clad in the kings coat armor and other furniture whereby the Kings death was scarcely discerned He renewed the fight with such vndaunted courage the Claudius was beat backe to his ships Homo to the next adioyning Woods whether Aruiragus pursued him and slew him ere he could get off the hauen casting him peece-meal into the sea which Hauen in memory of his name was euer after called Hamans Hauen afterward by corruption Hampton Hauen and now at this day commonly called Southampton Guiderius raigned 23. or after others 29. yeares Aruiragus youngest Sonne to Kymbeline succéeded his Brother as King of Brittaine In his time Vespasian came into Britaine landing at Sandwich or Richborough Also about the yeare of Christ 53. and while this Aruiragus raigned Ioseph of Arimathia was sent by Phillip the Apostle into Brittain and one Simon Zelotes came then thether also Then began Brittaine to be gouerned by Romaine Lieutenantes and Treasurers Aruiragus raigned 28. yeares dyed in the yeare of Grace 73. and was buried at Glocester Marius sonne of Aruiragus succéeded his father in the State and then came the Picts with Roderick their King into this land but Roderick was slaine by Marius and his people vanquished In memory of which victory against the Picts Marius erected a Stone where
high an employment confirmed by an assurance so vnreproueable and equalling what can be saide in like case of venerable Antiquitie I referre my selfe to be censured by the very seuerest iudgement Secondly concerning the first workers in Gold Siluer and other Mettalles in any place of eminence or note in Europe vnder controul neuerthelesse of such as haue reade and obserued more then I haue done I finde their Originall to be among the euer-curious ingenious Veniâ—ians euen at the first plantation of Venice which iustly may be tearmed Miracolo del Mondo The foundation of Venice holds paritie and proportion of Antiquity with the prime estate of the Francs or French as you may obserue where it is more at large expressed Looking backe then to the first Note of Diuine obseruation and remembering after the worlds deuision among the sons of Noah that Iaphets son Tubal had all Europe for his partition with this last Collestion concerning Venice and then as all Arts and Sciences haue a place of Original as Riuers from the Sea and extend themselues afterward to the remotest places of the worlde So may it likewise be gathered that those respectiue times admyring and honouring Art and Inuention gaue such way to their present and succeeding fame passage that all Landes became Partners of their predecessors prerogatiues Lastly to speake but of our owne Kingdome and therein for breuities sake but of this Noble Citty it self I find that when it had cast off the yoke of strange confusion endured vnder the sufferance of so manie conquerings After I say it came to haue command within it selfe vnder the awe and gracious fauour of worthie Kinges and Potentates who made choyse of Magistrates to be their Deputies and to present their God-like persons for general obedience the very first man that attained to the place of eminence and was styled Maire of this renowned Citty was called Henry Fitz-Alwine Fitz-Liefstane Goldsmith and held that supreame Office more then 24. yeares together A memorable Note in regard of Priority and as since then carefully remembred so iustly challenging continuance to vtmost posterity But because this slender volume speakes more though briefely of you then heere can wel be affoorded and commeth to you from a free hart in kindnes requiring but as free and courteous acceptance this is al the charge by me imposed on it To tel the whole Golden band of your worthy Brother-hood that I haue done nothing heerein either for flatterie or vaineglorie or in expectation of mercinarie recompence but according to truth sincerity and honesty which is the best defence for any that speakes of Antiquitie Yours to be commanded A. Mundy A Table of the seuerall Arguments handled in this Booke THe Originall and Succession of our forefathers from Adam to the generall Deluge Fol 1. From the Flood to the Princes and Iudges of Israel 5 FroÌ„ the Princes Iudges to the Iewish kings 12 From the Iewish Kings to the Kings of Iuda 14 From the Kinges of Iuda and Ierusalem to the Monarchy c. 19 The Monarchy of the Chaldeans Assyrians c. 19 The Monarchy of the Persians 20 The Monarchy of the Grecians 23 The Kings of Macedon 24 The Kings of Syria 26 The Kings of Egypt 29 The Monarchy of the Caesars or Romaines 32 The Emperors of the west from Charlemaign 54 The Emperors of the East 61 The Ottomans or Turkish Emperors 89 Originall of the Sarazins 102 Byshops Popes of Rome from the originall and Ages of the Church 108 Originall of the Knights of S. Iohns of Ierusalem and all other Orders of Knight-hood 157 Of the Emperor of Ethiopia Prâ—te Ian. 214 Of the Kingdome of Persia 220 Of the Kingdome of Thunis 227 Of the great Prouince of Moscouia 229 Of the Kingdome of Poland 233 Of sundry other Kingdomes Conquered by the Romaines 235 Of the Kingdome of Portugall 241 Of the Kingdome of Italy 255 The Originall of the Venetians 258 Of the Dukes of Venice 269 Of the Kingdome of Spaine 300 Of Germany and the Princes Electors 304 The Originall of the French Nation 305 Of Pharamond the first king of France and consequently of all the other kings of France 316 Of the Earls of Holland and Zeland 382 Of the Kingdome of Ireland 427 Of the Gouernors Lieutenants and Deputies of Ireland 435 Of the Kingdome of Scotland 442 Of Albion before Brutes arriuall what Kings raigned there 466 The Light of Britaine and of all the Kinges succeeding after Brute 471 A Catalogue of the Princes of Wales 522 Of Englands Bishoppricks their circuits 526 Foundation of the Colledges in Cambridge Oxenford 532 Of the Shires in England and Wales 535 Originall Antiquity and modern estate of London 537 Temporall Gouernment of London since the Conquest 573 A SHORT SVMmary or briefe Chronicle of TIMES ¶ Containing the originall and succession of our auncient Fore-fathers from the first CREATION of the World As also of the Monarches Emperours Kings Popes and Famous men with all the most memorable matters hapning since the Worldes beginning to this instant time OVR Eternall GOD al good Almighty and most mercifull in the beginning created and made the World of nothing that is to say Heauen Earth and Waters as first and principall matter togither with the Angels He disposed and gaue forme in sixe daies for he rested the seauenth and blessed it to all thinges inclosed within the circle of Heauen All which hée did by his word namely Iesus Christ and the blessed Spirit these thrée persons being one Diuine essence for the workes of the sacred Trinity are inseparable whom I most humbly beséech to fauour and assist me in beginning and ending this short Summary After that this soueraigne Architect had created of nothing in one instant this first masse or matter and disposed in sixe daies this whole round frame at length vpon the sixt day he created Man of the slime of the earth in the Damascene territory scituate in Syria or in HebroÌ„ according to the Haebrues Tradition into which place he withdrew himselfe after he had sinned and made him after his owne likenesse as concerning his soule which also he created of nothing he named him Adam that is to say Red man or Red-Earth according to the Hebrue language Afterward he took a rib from Adam as he lay asléepe in Paradice and thereof formed Heuah which signifieth as Moses writeth followed by Iosephus Soroow and Mother of the Liuing and according to Zorarus Woman Thus began the institution of Marriage and houshold life togither Adam and Heuah our first Parents by perswasion of the Serpent that is to say the Deuill transgressed the Commandement which God had giuen them for effect of their faith and obedience In regard whereof they were cast out of terrestiall Paradice that is to say a Garden abounding in pleasures where GOD had placed them together and with their posterity were subiected to sinne death and the
third moneth of his raigne was led captiue into Egypt and his Brother constituted king in his place by the king of Egypt Iocim raigned eleauen yeares For his abhominations he was chained and led captiue to Babylon by Nabuchadonoser the great king of the Assyrians Tarquinius Priscus was fift king of the Romains In Greece then liued Sapho Stesichorus Pherecydes Draco Solon and others of the Sages Ioachim otherwise called Ieconias being 18. yeares old and besiedged by the Assyrians yeelded himselfe with his Mother his Princes and the greater part of his people to Nabuchadonoser and was transported into Babylon where in prison he begat Salathiell Father to Zorobabell then liued Ezechiell Baruch and Daniell Sedechias his Vnckle was constituted king in the place of Ieconias by Nabuchadonoser by whom after the eleuenth yeare of his raigne hée was taken as a Rebell his eyes were pluckt out and then he was led with the rest of the people to Babylon In this time the Temple and City of Ierusalem was miserably burned by the Assyrians Then happened that lamentable captiuity of Babylon fore-told by the Prophets and continued seauentie yeares all which was occasioned by the contempt of Gods word false Doctrine and auarice in the Priests and Prophets conioyned with the tirrany of their Kings and sinnes of the people but especially idolatry as appeareth in Ieremy Cap. 19 22 23 29 32. Baruch 6. Ezechiell 13 22. And then was this great Nabuchadonoser for his arrogancie thrust out of his kingdome and fed with the Beasts Seruius Tullius was sixt King of the Romaines Croesus in Lydia Balthazar in Babylon and for abusing the Vessels of the Temple hee was slaine The kingdome then deuolued to Darius the Medean Vnckle of Cyrus King of Persia and Medea The Monarchy of the Caldeans Assyrians or Babylonians NAbuchadonoser the great King of Babylon in the 24. yeare of his raign and of the world 3362. was he that established the great and first Monarchy described with that of the Persians Grecians and Romaines by Daniell compared to the head of gold and to the Eagle flying It endured but seauenty eight yeares in three Kings and he that raigned longest it was but 43 yeares Euilmerodach whom Herodotus calleth Labynitus raigned thirty yeares Thales Clito Pittacus Bias Cleobulus and Periander wisemen of Greece are all referred to this time And it is an error to seperate them otherwise as some haue done Soloâ— being the most ancient Balthazar the contemner of God and renewer of the olde Caldean idolatry abolished before abusing in his feasts those vesselles which had bin taken from the temple of Ierusalem and making a mockery at the true God of the Iewes was put to death by the Medes and Persians who possessed them-selues of the Monarchy in the tenth yeare of his raigne There is great difficulty about this Monarchie which cannot heere bee declared The Monarchy of the Persians CYrus sent home the Iewes into their country with Zerobabell their conduâ—er to repayre the Temple He made warre against the Scythians for the space of sixtéene yeares in which time raigned his Son Câ—mbyses Daniell then foretolo the passion of Iesus Christ and the desolate ruine of Ierusalem vnder Vespasian after seauenty Wéekes were passed ouer which were 490. yeares after the repayration of the Citty Tarquine the proude for the violation of Lucretia was then chased out of Rome Consulles were created the year 244. after the building of Rome Cyrus raigned 29. yeares Read more of Cyrus his sonne Herodotus lib. 1 3. Xenophon 8. Cambyses raigned alone eight yeeres being a cruell man he slew his Brother and Sister and caused a Iudges skin to be flayed off because hee had iudged falsely Pythagoras the great Phylosopher sailed into Egypt to learne Diuinity and to Babylon for Astrologie and the course of the starres Many doo referre the History and ouerthrow of Holofernes to this time but according to Genebrard it is reputed to the time of Nabuehadonoser Darius the sonne of Hidaspes otherwise called Ahasuerus the husband of Hester raigned 36 yearee He entred into Greece with sixe hundred thousand fighting men afterward vanquished Miltiades being accompanied onely with eleuen thousand men Coriosanus the Romaine was now put into exile and Esope composed his booke of Fables Now liued also Anacharsis Anâ—ximenes and Heracâ—â—â—us Phylosophers Anaximander invented the Horoâ—oge and Spheare strong Milo was in this time Read more of Darius in Herodotus and Iustine Lib. 1. Xerxes raigned twenty yeares Hee assayled the Grecians with a far greater Army then that his Father had which was repulsed by Themistoâ—les In meane while his Sonne Artaxerxes hold the Kingdome by whose commaundement Eâ—â—râ—s restored the Common-weale of the leâ—es and Nehemias by strong hande repayred the walles of the Citty Now liued Câ—mon Aristedes and Pindarus the Poet as also Pericles that wise and valiant Athenian Captaine of whom read more in his life set downe by Plutarch Artaxerxes or Darius Long-hand helde the kingdom aboue twentie yeares Now did the ten men write the law of the twelue tables at Rome and now liued Empedocles Sophocles Gorgias Anacreon Democritus Euclides Hippocrares and Herodotus Greece became diuided into two factions by reason of a great contentious war Read more thereof in Thucidides Xenophon Darius the Bastard raigned 19. years in whose time liued Socrates Aristophanes Thucidides Alcibiades Lysander Conon Epaminondas Architas Timon Dionisius of Siracusa the Tyrant And now was the kingdome of the Sicambrians and Francus in Franconia according to Trithemius where raigned forty Kings Artaxerxes Mnemon raigned fortie yeares and exercised acts of Armes with his Brother Cyrus Thrasibulus chased the Lacedemonian Tyrants out of Athens Rome was taken by the Gaules vnder the conduct of Brennus that bold warriour Then liued Xenophon the Captaine Phylosopher and Orator Plato Phocion Isocrates Polybius Praxiteles Metasthenes Camillus and Crates Occhus a most cruell Tyrant raigned sixe and twenty yeares Phillip King of Macedon oppressed the liberty of all Greece At Rome was then Curtius Torquatus Decius Corinnus the hundred and sixty Matron Sorceresses Iadus was High-Prâ—est of the Iewes and then liued Berosus the Historian Arses or Arsaces raigned thrée yeares His tyrrannicall actions were the cause that all the race of great Cyrus perished Alexander the great the Son of Phillip then vanquished and demolished the Citty of Thebes And then were Demosthenes Diogenes and Epicurus Darius the last King was ingrateful and disloyall hee was also ouer-come by Alexander in the sixt yeare of his raigne The Samnites then subdued the Romaines and then was Ceius Papyrius Cursor M. Curius Dentatus triumphing in his humility of minde refused the treasures of the Samnites and he would neither be vanquished in warre nor corrupted with money Valer. Max. lib. 2. cap. 3. The Monarchy of the Graecians ALexander the great hauing one onely Army of
because they were the first that forsooke their owne natiue Countrey which was called Gothia or Gothland signifying a good Land it béeing a Northerne Prouince of Germanie This Land abounded in Graine Fruites Cattle Woodes Riuers Mettals but especially in Copper and Skinnes seruing for Furres At all times and as yet at this day is to be discerned the Kingdom of Swessia or Sweuia hath bin comprized vnder the Dominion of the Gothes As the Countrey was fertile in fruites euen so were the Women thereof likewise in Children for as they were strong and of great stature so had they vsually two Children at a birth which was the cause then and so it yet continueth that they had and haue more people then can wel liue together the Country not being sufficient to find sustenance for so many In like manner they are very great féeders much more then they that liue in the Easterne or Meridionall partes The Gothes perceiuing and aduisedly pondering on this vrgent case they leuied the more part of the youngest and strongest men of their Countrey to the number of thrée hundred thousand and married such as were not to ridde themselues of the charge of Daughters as well as of Sonnes for the Countrey ordinarily abounded in the Feminine more then in the Masculine Sexe So being well prouided of all necessaries for warre and leauing a chiefe commander at home of the Royal linage they wandred abroad through the fields to win by power or compasse by loue some new habitation wherein to liue Many Authors and among the rest Trebellius sayth that the first tidings of this their straiing was vnder the raigne of the Emperour Flauius Claudius about the yeare of Iesus Christ 272. And that they passed thorough Allemaign Hungary Thrace Greece Gaule and into Italy They lost many battailes and wonne likewise as many against the Romaines and other people maintaining themselues so well that they raigned in Italie euen in despight of the Italians and Emperours the space of seauentie one yeares as Procopius auoucheth At length they went into Spaine whence afterward they would not remooue For the Catholique Kinges of Spaine that then raigned by succession and raigne yet to this present were issued from the race and line of their Kinges who were indéed very generous people Now it is not to bee imagined that in regard of such a mightie leuy of men the Countrey of Gothia or Gothland or the neighbouring borders remained without Inhabitants or the rule of Kinges For there were then left behinde so many as the Land was able to nourish who had their Kinges in authority ouer them and strength sufficient to withstand any inuasion of the Countrey As for the conquering Armyes abroad they continued in Honour for a very long time albeit they lost great store of men in battailes encounters surprisals and passages of Riuers yet were these disaduantages still supplied by the daily birth of Children among them because they had their wiues in all places with them Perhaps some strangers mingled among theÌ„ who wearing their habits learning their language holp still to supply the friâ— of this people Such as haue bin named Ostrogoths were people issued of the same country of Gothia or Gotteland froÌ„ a place which is yet cald Ostrogothia the principall Citties whereof are Scheâ—ng and Lincopt They vsed to warre alone by themselues being separate from the Goths yet ranging the world according as they did The Westrogothes in like manner came out of a Country cald Westrogothia among whom the chéefest Citties to this day are Scaris and Vernen Wisigoths or Bisigoths came foorth of a Countrey named Visbi the principall Cittie whereof iâ— yet called Visbi I was the more willing to make this discription because I haue heard of diuers who are but slenderly experienced in Cosmography that do tearme those Ostroâ—goths to bee Gothes Orientall or of the East and the Westrogoths Occidentall Gothes or dwelling in the West and so contrarywise of the other Albeit they were all descended and came out of the kingdome of Gothia or Gotteland as Munster hath very well obserued The Vandales in the erronious iudgement of Procopius a Gréeke Authour are said to bée of the same Nation and that all the people of Goths Vandales Alains Hunnes and others whom I am hereafter to describe were deriued out of one and the same Land and were comprehended all vnder the Name of Sauromates or Sarmates and haue no other difference but by the names of their Captaines or Kinges But I must maintaine against him that the land of the Vandales is distant from Gotheland aboue the space of two hundered leagues and therefore they cannot bee one people with the Gothes True it is that this Nation is Septentrionall or in the North as the others are and is a Maritime Countrey named yet to this day Vandalia but as I haue already saide very farre off the one from the other This people did almost as much hurt to the Romaine Empire as the Gothes did for ioyning diuers other people with them as the Alaines Suabes Franconians they trauerssed the Rheine Gauderichus béeing then their King and passing among the Gaules wasted and spoyled them very greatlie Then went they into Spaine and tooke possession in despight of the Gothes of the Countrey adioyning to the Kingdome of Granado which to this day is called Vandalia or by corrupting the Worlde Vandelusia albeit the Spanyards mince it more nicely and nick-name it to be Andalusia But to bee bréefe they were thrust foorth of Spayne wholly in the yeare 431. vnder another of their Kings named Gensericus and passed thence into Asia where they raigned 76. years From thence they were compelled in the seauenth yeare of the Emperor Iustinian Anno Dom. 528. by the valour of one of his Captaines named Belisarius The Hunnes departed also out of their Countrey for the selfe-same cause as the Gothes did about the yeare one hundred sixty eyght onely to séeke some Land where they might liue after the Scythians Religion making first choyce of Pannonia where they alwayes so strongly kept and guarded it till after their owne name it was called Hungaria This people came from that part of Scythia which is tearmed Hunos no long distance from the Riuer Tanais but it is a miserable estate at this day and vnder subiection of the Moscouite Hauing vsurped Pannonia they kept it manfully against the Romaines and two hundred yeares after Attila theyr King accompanied with some people of Allemaigne as Bohemians Gepides or Girpides Schlesites Werlies Thuringians Goths Ostrogothes and others making in all about the number of sixe hundred thousand men passed through Allemaigne which they much endamaged Then went he into France where hee lost a battaile in which perished a great number of his men this battel was giuen him by the Romans Gaules and certaine Goths allied together and he lost as some Authors
being named Donald of the Isles twelue yeares Crathlint Son to King Findock twenty foure yeares Fincomarke the Vncles sonne to Crathlint 47. yeares Romacus Nephewe to King Crathlint foure yeares Angusianus Nephewe to King Crathlint two yeares Fethelmachus Cozin to Angusianus thrée years Eugenius the Sonne of King Fincomarke thrée yeares Ferguse Sonne to Erthus who was Sonne to Ethodius Brother to Eugenius and borne in Denmarke 16. yeares Eugenius the Son of Ferguse in whose time the Wall called Adrians Wall was vndermined and ouerthrowne Also the Brittaines were made tributary to the Scots and Pictes which was about fiue hundred yeares after that Iulius Caesar had brought them in subiection to the Romaines after our Sauiours birth 446. and the seauenth of Eugenius his raigne Then was the Isle of Albion sore infected with the Pelagians Heresie and Paladius tearmed by some the Apostle of Scotland was sent by Pope Celestine to the Scots and Picts This Eugenius raigned 30. yeares and aduanced the State of his Countrey to more wealth and felicity then any of his Predecessors had done before him Dongard brother to Eugenius raignd 5. years Constantine Brother also to Eugenius 17. yeares Dongall or Congall Nephew to Constantine and son to his Brother Dongard 20. years Conranus Brother to Congall in whose time the great K. Arthur was borne and S. Germane preached among the Souldiers in the Camp and bare the Kings Standard in the field wben with the cry of Alleluia thrée tunes together the Saxons were miraculously discomfited This Conranus died in the 20. yeare of his raigne the 16. of Arthurs ouer the Brittaines and fift of the Emperor Iustinian An. Christi 531. Eugenius his Nephew and son to his brother Congall in whose time was the bloudy battell betweene the Britaines Scots and Picts wherein aboue 20000. men were slain with Mordred K. Arthur Gawan or Gauan brother to Mordred and most part of the Brittish Nobility This Eugenius raigned 38. yeares Conuall Brother to Eugenius in whose time S. Colme or Colombe came from Ireland into Scotland This Conuall raigned ten yeares and then Kinnatill his Brother being enthroned at Argile by free election liued but twenty dayes after his Coronation Aldan Sonne to King Conran was crowned by the holy Father Saint Colme and raigned thirty seauen yeares In this Aidans time the Saxons hauing driuen the Brittaines into Wales and insulting ouer their lands and Countries deuided the kingdome into seauen parts or deuisions ordaining seuen seuerall Kings to rule ouer them In this King Aidans rule died Saint Colme at Dune in Ireland whereon his toomb these verses were found engraued Hi tres in Duno tumulo tumulantur in vno Brigida Patricius at que Columba pius Saint Colme Saint Patrick and Brigetta pure These three in Dune lies in one Sepulture Kenethus Keir Son of Conuall or Conwall raigued foure months Eugenius fourth of that name Son to King Aidan and by some called Brudus according to S. Colmes prophecy of him was crowned King of Scotland He raigned 15. yeares Ferquhard Son to Eugenius 13. yeares Donald or Donwald the third son of Eugenius 15. yeares Ferquhard the second Nephew to Donwald 18. yeares Maldwin Sonne of king Donwald in whose time was a grieuous Pestilence through most part of the World consuming a greater number of Men before it ceased then were left aliue for it continued the space of three yeares together He raigned twenty yeares Eugenius the fift Nephew to Maldwin foure yeares Eugenius the sixt the Sonne of Ferquhard ten yeares In this Kinges raigne were many wonderfull visions séen in Albion In the Riuer of Humber to the apparant view of a multitude of men a number of Ships appeared vnder saile as ready furnished for the war In the Church at Camelon a noyse was heard like the clattering of Armour Milke was turned into bloud in dyuers places of Pict-land and Chéese conuerted into a bloudie Masse or Cake Corne as it was gathered in Haruest time was all bloudie and it rained blood in the further partes of Scotland as the Scottish Chronicles doe make mention Ambirkeleth Nephew or Son as some say to Eugenius the fift raigned not fully two years Eugenius the seauenth Brother to Ambirkeleth who caused the Histories of his Ancestours liues to be written in Books and volumes for example to posterity appointing those Monuments to bee carefully kept in the Abbay of Iona now called Colmekill he raigned 17. yeares and dyed much lamented Mordacke Nephew to Eugenius In whose time according to venerable Bede foure seueral people liued in peace and quietnesse within the boundes of Albion though differing in manners language lawes and ordenaunces Saxons whom hee called English-men Brittaynes Scots and Picts In which time also Bede concluded his history with the ending of King Mordacks life Ethfine Son to Eugenius the seauenth who had foure Gouernors vnder him in his Realme Donald Treasurer of Argile Collane of Athol and Mordake of Galloway his Lieutenants Conrath the Thane of Murreyland He raigned 30. yeares Eugenius the eight Son of King Mordacke thrée yeares Ferguse the third Son of King Ethfine thrée yeares Soluathius Son of Eugenius the eight twenty yeares Achaius Sonne of King Ethfine in whose time was a perpetuall league confirmed betwéen him and the Emperor Charlemaigne of France And then had Hungus the Pictish King the vision of Saint Andrew and his Crosse as is reported whereby S. Andrew became Patron both of the Scots and Picts This Achaius raigned 32 yeares Conuall the Brother of King Ethfine fiue yeares Dongall Sonne of King Soluathius fiue yeares Alpine the Sonne of King Achaius foure yeares Kenneth the Sonne of Alpine This is that famous and renowmed King in whose time the Pictish Nation were vtterly destroyed the Cittie of Camelon cast downe the Castle of Maidens forsaken by the Picts and none or verie few of them left liuing in Albion Which happened after their first beginning to raigne there 1173. yeares 1166. from the enterance of Fergusius eight hundred thirty nine after our Sauiours birth and from the Worldes Creation 4806. In memorie of this his famous victorie King Kenneth brought the Marble Stone out of Argile where till then it hadde béene kept into Gourie and placed it at Scone néere to the place where he preuailed against the Picts This roiall K. died in the yeare 856. hauing raigned 20. yeares in great renowne and glory Donald Brother to King Kenneth died in the sixt yeare of his raigne which was much mollested by the Danes vnder Cadane King of Denmarke pretending a Title to the Picts lands Constantine the Sonne of King Kenneth a very worthy and famous king who redressed al disorders in his Land appointing Priests to apply their vocation and not to meddle with
three yeares Antiochus Grypus the sonne of Demetrius hauing vanquished and slaine Alexander Zebin in battell raigned 29. yeares During which time his Brother Antiochus the Cyzicenian made warre vpon him without intermission After the death of this Antiochus Grypus mightie troubles were in Syria for some time because they of the royall race were in continuall warres killing and maâ—sacring one another Vntill such time as one Antiochus the sole remainder of that race dying without any successor Tigranes K. of Armenia inuaded this great kingdom wherevpon he was not long after surprized by the Romaines vnder the conduct of Pompey and the Countrey was then reduced into the forme of a Prouince the yeare of the Citty of Rome 693. Of Egypt and the Succession of the Kings there raigning PTolomeus Lagus Soter the most excellent man of all Alexanders Captains was made King raigned fortie yeares ouer Egypt Theophrastus Zeno Theocritus and Menander then liuing and the Romaines made Warre agaynst Pyrrhus Read more of this King in Iustine lib. 13 14 15. Orosius lib. 3 cap. 23. Fergusius was the first king of Scotland Ptolome Philadelphus raigned 38. yeares He first appointed that great Library in Alexandria and caused the Bookes of the Bible to be translated into the Gréeke tongue by the seauentie two Interpreters Aristeus Phalaris Chrisyppus Carneades and Aratus then liued and at Rome happened the first Punick warre Regulus Ptolomey the Liberall husband to his owne Sister raigned 26. yeares At Rome then grew the second Punick War and then liued the Scipioes Fabius Maximus and Marcellus Hanniball was vanquished by Scipio Affricanus the eldest And in this time liued the Authour of the Booke of Wisedome Ptolomey the Parricide raigned 17. yeares He slew his Mother and his Sister who also was his wife At Rome began the warre of Macedon against King Phillip and the war of Asia against the great Antiochus and Hanniball the Fugitiue Then liued great Cato Ennius Neuius Plautus Panetius And Iesus the Sonne of Syrach Author of the Booke of Ecclesiasticus Simon the Iust being Byshop of the Iewes Ptolomey Epiphanes vnder the tutelage of the Romaines raigned 24. yeares The Brethren Macchabees did then valiantly withstande Antiochus the most cruell Tyraunt of Syria his great repentance is to be read in the second Booke of Macchabees the ninth Chapter Ptolomey called Matricide raigned 35. yeares Paulus Aemilius hauing taken the Persian king made Macedon a Prouince to the Romaynes Then happened the third Punicke Warre The warre of Achaia and of Numantia in Spain vnder Scipio Affricanus the younger and Lelius Terence then liuing Ptolomey the Liberall otherwise called Physcus a verie detestable man beeing Brother to Ptolomy the Matricide raigned nine twentie yeares He married his Brothers wife and afterward her Daughter The Sects of the Pharisies Sadduces and Esseans then arose At Rome was the seruile warre And the lawes for actions of the field by the Gracchi Ptolomey Alexander hauing expelled his brother Lathyrus raigned seauentéene yeares Afterward he was thrust out himselfe by his owne people for the death of Cleopatra a wicked woman At Rome was the Iugurthine warre and three Sunnes visibly séene in this time Functius doth attribute these seauentéene yeares and this raigne to Ptolomey Lathyrus preferring him before Ptolomey Alexander Ptolomey Lathyrus beeing repealed to rule againe raigned eightéene years At Rome was the Cimbrian warre Mithridates warre and the ciuill warre betwéene Marius and Sylla Then li Lucullus Antonius and Crassus Orators Lucretius the Poet Varro Sylla dominéered cruelie who retyring himselfe to liue sollitarilie in the fields dyed of Vermine engendred in his owne bodie Ptolomey Auleâ—es raigned thirty yeares Being excluded by his owne people vnder Pompeyes authority he was reseated by Gabinius Pompey ouer-came Hieras and Sertorius the Pyrates as also Tigranes and Mithridates Then was the conspiracy of Cataline Caesar vanquished the â—aules Cicero liued in exile and Crassus was foyled by the Partheans Ptolomey Dionysius the last King raigned 8. yeares he caused great Pompeyes head to bée cut off Then liued Catullus Hortensius Salust Diodorus Siculus Cato Vtican M. Lepidus Marcellus and Marke Anthony Cleopatra helde the kingdome a-while with her Brother and afterward wholly by her selfe two and twentie yeares Shee vnderstanding that Marke Anthonie was vanquished by Augustus slew her selfe Now was the ciuil warre between Pompey and Caesar And that goodly Library that contained two hundred thousand Volumes was burned in this time Plutarch in vit Antoni The Monarchy of the Caesars or Romaines IVlius Caesar a very gracious Prince and one of the Worlds chiefest Captaines raigned fiue yeares He vanquished Pompey and his confederates Ptolomy hee slew restored Cleopatra his friend Sister to Ptolomy to the kingdom of Aegypt Returning home to Rome he was slaine in the Senate house by Brutus Cassius and other Conspirators Dioscorides then liued but if you would haue more of Caesars life read Suetonius Florus in the life of Caesar Octauius Augustus the last Nephew of Iulius by the Sisters side and his adopted Sonne raigned 56. yeares he was happy in war moderate in peace and liberall to euery one Then liued Virgill Horace Tibullus Propertius Vitruuius Mecenas And then dyed Cleopatra and her husband Marke Anthony Aegypt being then reduced into a Prouince Herod a stranger fauoured by Augustus was then King of Iudea So the Scepter being wholly taken from Iuda Iesus Christ God and man the Sauiour of the world was then borne of a Virgin in Bethlehem according to the Prophesies of Iacob Genes 49 Esay 7 Micheas 5. Iesus Christ came in the yeare of Augustus forty two and of the world 3963. Ouid was then in exile the Citty of Lyons founded and then liued Titus Liuius Valerius Maximus Strabo and Francus King of the Sicambrians in the lower Allemaigne Aquila Tuberus Galba Labeus and Caius were then Law-giuers or Law-Makers Herod the great murderer of Innocents and there were numbred then at Rome foure hundred sixty foure thousand men Claudius Tiberius the Sonne of Liuia afterward Wife to Augustus raigned 23. yeares beginning very well but proouing afterward to bée most wicked Iesus Christ for our saluation was then crucified in Hierusalem vnder Pilate the Prouost of Iudea he said that A good Shepheard should clip his Sheepe and not deuour them C. Caligula Sonne of Germanus a most wicked Man raigned thirtéene yeares This beast the ruine of men made himselfe to bee adored as God hee poysoned his Vnckle Tiberius and defloured all his Sisters leauing them then to others like abusing T. Claudius Vnckle of Caligula and Monster of Men raigned fouretéene yeares He preferred Nero before his owne Son by the treason of whom hee was poysoned with a Mushrome Messalina his first wife peerelesse in all labricity and wickednes then flourished And Saint Peter the Apostle liued reported
to bee the first Byshop of Rome then liued likewise Philo the Iew Perseus Mela Pliny the elder and Columella Saint Paule the Apostle went then thorow the World proclaiming Iesus Christ accompanyed with Saint Luke Then liued Dionisius Areopagita And then was the first Councell of Ierusalem Nero the Sonne of Agripina afterward the Wife of Claudius raigned thirtéene yeares Hee was the first Persecuter of the Church and did put Saint Peter and Saint Paule to death hee slew likewise his Maister Seneca also his owne Mother and Lucan the Poet. Then liued Simon Magus and Appolonius Nero beeing erpulsed from Rome slew himselfe after hee had set Rome on fire to make himselfe pastime of a Bon fire Sergius Galba the seauenth month of his Empire was slaine by Otho Suetonius Egesius Lib. 4. Cap. 21. M. Siluius Otho he also most wickedly slewe himselfe in the third month of his Empire confessing that he had cruelly tormented the spirit of Galba According to Suetonius and Tacitus Lib. 7. Aulus Vitellius brought vp at Bourdeaus de Caprea being a vicious Man and a glutton was hewed in péeces and cast into Tyber hauing raigned eight months He caused himselfe to bée serued at his Table with two thousand seuerall kinds of Fishes and seauen thousand of Foules all at one supper Suetonius Lib. 9. Iosephus Lib. 5. de Bel. Iudas Vespasian a modest and gracious Prince a louer of skilfull men and good Artisans raigned ten yeares accompanied with his Sonne Titus who ruinated Ierusalem Iosephus Proclus Epictetes This ruine was the most lamentable that euer happened for therein dyed 110000. men read Iosephus in his sixe and seauen Bookes of the Iewish wars and Egesippus Titus the delight and sollace of mankind raigned two years He vsed to say That no man ought to depart from a Prince with a sad countenance Casstus Neracius Proculeius and Pegasus were then Lawyers and Saint Bartholmew was then martired in India Saint Matthias in Iudea S. Andrew in Scythia Saint Mathew in Aethyopia Saint Thomas in Bragmania Hierusalem was then taken the Famine beeing so extreame as Mothers were compelled to eate their owne children Domitian Brother to Titus was a most wicked man and persecuter of the Christians hee raigned fiftéene yeares then liued Martiall Iuuenall Statius Trogus and saint Iohn wrote the Gospell as also Iosephus did the Warres of the Iewes Domitian would néedes afterward bée called God and Lord of his people wherfore being hated of all men he was slaine Nerua a good Prince and the adopted father of Traian raigned one yeare he gaue more than an hundred thousand Crownes to reléeue poore Cittizens He tooke away extreame taxations and wanting mony he sold his garments plate and Pallace esteeming his owne Parents and kindred much lesse then he did the publick benefit The Christians were in great quyet vnder him and the banished repealed among whome was S. Iohn Traian a good Emperour but that he persecuted the Church reigned 19. yeares Being admonished that he was ouer gracious to all men he answered That he was such to his Subiects as he could wish others should be to him if he were a Subiect Then liued S. Ignatius S. Eustachius Pliny the yonger Plutarch Aulus Gellius Suetonius Tacitus Solinus Aelius Adrianus a man studious and skilfull in all Sciences and the first Emperour that suffered a beard on his face raigned 21. yeares Iulius Celsus Iulian and Neracius Priscus were Lawyers councellors to the Emperour Then were liuing Ptolomy the great Astrologer Phanorinus Dionisius the Milesian and Heliodorus Hierusalem was repaired by Adrian who therefore had his name chaunged and was called Helias Antoninus Pius reigned 23. yeares He was a Prince of such estéeme as straunge Nations would resort vnto him and make him Iudge of their differences for hee had alway this saying ready I had rather saue one Cittizen then kill a thousand Enemies In this time were Polycarpus Ireneus Iustine Martire Egesippus Appian Florus Macrobius Iustine Gallen and Palladius Lucian the Atheyst also was then torne with Dogs This Emperour tooke awaie the wages or hire of strumpets punnished idle Magistrats and was called Father of his country Read Eutropius Lib. 8. Thelesphorus the ninth Pope as some report did then institute or rather restore the time of Lent M. Antoninus the Phylosopher called Aurelius borne in Gaule with L. Commodus Verus and called Brethren in the Bookes of the Pandectes raigned 19. yeares This good prince being vnwilling to oppresse his subiectes made sale of all his fairest and richest Iewels plate wearing garmentes belonging vnto him and his wife Eutrop. lib. 8. Lucius Aurelius Verus gouerned the empyre with his brother Marcus Antoninus the space of eleauen yeares By some Authors he is set down in order before his brother by others after him L. Commodus the most wicked sonne of good Antoninus raigned 13. yeares He was strangled by his Concubine and other Conspirators Eutrop. lib. 8. Orosius lib. 8. cap. 18. Lampridius doth most amply describe his life at large Aeâ—ius Pertinax raigned six moneths He had refused the Empire and beeing desirous to reforme the gouernment he was slaine by Iulian his successour who bought the name of Caesar of the Warriors The people much bemoaned this Prince crying out aloud O father of goodnesse Father of the Senate Father of al bounty Farewell V. Iulian raigned seauen moneths and being hated of all men for sleying his predecessor him selfe was also slaine by appointment of the Senate Dissention grew amongst the Christians for the celebration of Easter And the second Councell appointed the day of Sunday and fiue other after Euseb lib. 5 cap. 24. Metianus Sâ—euola Martianus and Cassius were now Iurisconsultes Aphrodiseus and Aphronius Sophysters Pescennius Niger or Nigerius the sonne of Annius Fuscus indifferently lerned fierce proud and inclined to all vice was saluted as Emperour by the souldiors of Syria where he commanded and was slaine by Seuerus L. Septimâ—us Seuerus raigned 18. yeares He was a Persecutor of the Church but otherwise a valiant Prince addicted both to good letters and Armes He was so well beloued and gouerned so nobly that the Senate said of him Eyther he should neuer haue bin borne or else hee deserued neuer to die Read Spart and Vict. Then liued Origen Tertullian Philostrates the Sophister and Apuleyus Cl. Albinus issued of the Romaines families of the Posthumians and Albines made himselfe Emperour in France He was surprised by the Souldiers and brought halfe aliue to Souerus where hauing his head smitten off he was hanged on a gibbet and being torne with dogges he was throwne into the Riuer A. B. Caracalla the sonne of Seuerus and husband to his stepmother raigned seuen years He slue Geta his brother and Papinian the great and famous Lawyer with diuers other At last himselfe was slaine by a souldior of his Guarde Herod lib. 4. Antoninus Geta
or Iupedes what people they were there are opinions enow concerning them Some say that they were at first of Scythia and came thence as the Lombards did into Italy But hauing made a more curious and dilligent search I finde that they were a people of Germany and called then Gepudij or Sepusij and according to Ptolomeus Matauastus now at this day Siebemburgs that followed the Gothes the Vandals and the Normands also beeing erring and Vagabonde people till at length they ventured on the Seas and went to inhabite the Isles of the Orchades whereof Thylle is the latest inhabited as Volateranus auoucheth and they are now subiectes to the King of Scotland In speaking of so many Nations who are all said to be deriued from the Scithians we may not forget the Picts who by most Writers opinion are said to be a people of Germany that had their Originall out of Scythia descending of the Agathyrsi in Sarmatia who vsed to paint and collour their faces thereupon were named Picts Before they entred into Britaine they inhabited the Isle of Orkeney for a long time together ferrying ouer into Cathnesse daily so multiplying both in power number that getting vp further into the land they possessed Rosse Murrey-land Merne Angusse whence passing into Fife and Louthian they droue thence the Brittain Inhabitantes who were onely poore people that liued by nourishing breeding Cattle This their entrance into Albion for so was it then called was in the year of the worlds creation 3633. Cruthneus Camelonus is said to be the first king of the Picts that he builded a famous Citty on the bank of the Riuer called Caron appointing it to be the chief City of all the Pictish kingdom He builded also the town of Agneda afterward called Edenbrough of Ethus king of the Picts and the Castle named The Castle of Maydens because the Pictish kings kept their daughters there vnder strict custody in all good exercises til their yeares of mariage Concerning the warres strifes and bloody contentions betwéene the Albion Scots and Picts thorough all their Kings raigns til their vtter ouerthrow and quite desolation of Pict-land by Kenneth the victorious King of Scots I referre it to our larger discourse Only letting you know that this subuersion and vtter ruine of the Picts hapned in the year of our redemption 839. in the sixt yeare of King Kenneths glorious raigne 1168. yeares after their first plantation in Albion The Getes haue bin and yet are a warlick people mollested greatly by the Turkes at this instant and yet they found the Romain work sufficient These are the Transyluanians Valachians Moldauians their country is neere to the Riuer Ister where it falleth into the Pontick sea The Bourguignons are helde by Orosius to come forth of Germany and Volatteranus saith that Iouinianus the Emperour vanquished some such people that liued by the Riuer of Rhine But there is nothing more certaine according as I haue gathered by the Germaine Histories then that they yssued from some remaynes of the Gothes Vandals and Hunnes who beeing altogether chased by the Romains threw themselues on that part of Gaule which is called after theyr name and there perforce enthroned themselues For afterwarde they coulde so well resist the Romaines that they were constrained to yéelde them tolleration and let them liue in the saide Countrey amongst the first Inhabitants There they builded Fortes Villages and Townes which they called then Bourgs of the Gothes Hunnes but being soone corrupted into one word from Bourgs-Goth-Hunnes they are now called Bourguignons as much to say as a martiall people Aetius Lieutenant to the Emperor Theodosius gaue them a battel in the yeare of Christ 435. and won the day But it cost him so deare that he would neuer after meddle any more with them About the yeare 430. they receiued and embraced the Christian fayth This people in these dayes are become very ciuill and are as much addicted to Learning as to Armes For they haue a goodly Vniuersitie founded by one of the Dukes of Bourgougne wherein many Lectures are read of all the Sciences to Schollers of all Nations at Dola the Capitall Cittye of that parte of Bourgougne which is vnder commaund of the house of Austria and there they hold a Parliament also As for the other part of Bourgougne in obedience to the Crowne of France Digeon is the Metropolitane Citty thereof where likewise is helde another Parlament And these two Bourgougnes are maintained in very good peace albeit they are in obeysance to diuers Princes We wil conclude this discourse with the kingdome of Naples which is a Citty very auncient and Noble in all respects and giueth the Title of kingdome to the whole Prouince by her owne proper name As concerning the name of Kingcome I do not hold it to be of any great antiquity because the Normanes took it from the Grecians who possessed this Prouince in diuers partes thereof and then it was entitled the Earldome of Apulia or Puglia as some do yet tearme it Robert Guiscard a verie valiant and woorthy man expulsed suddenly the Grecians thence and tooke Sicilie also from the Sarrazins entitling himselfe Duke of Apulia and of Calabria and Earle of Sicilie In no long time after his nephew Ruggiero or Roger hauing conquered the Citty of Naples which till that time had béene in the Grecians Gouernment receiued the Title of King of both the Scicilies by Anacletus the Anti-Pope in the yeare of our Lorde 1130. which afterwarde was confirmed vnto him in good and lawfull manner And from that time forwarde it was called the kingdome of Scicilie on this side Pharos vntill the raigne of Charles the first when it became deuided from Sicilie by occasion of that famous accident called Vesro Sciciliano the Scicilian Euening wherein so many of the French were slaine I finde moreouer in many good Historians that Naples hath had three seuerall Names to wit the Kingdome of Naples the Kingdome of Apulia and the Kingdome of Scicilie on this side Pharos ¶ Of the Kingdome of Portugall THe Kingdome of Portugall beganne in the yeare of Christ M.C.X. after this manner Henry Earle of Lorrayne comming thether performed many valiant déedes against the Sarrazins And his high deseruings mooued Alphonsus the sixte King of Castile to giue him a Bastard daughter of his in mariage named Tiresia and in way of Dowrye assigned him also that part of Galicia which then was contained in Lusitania Of this marriage was Alphonsus borne who was the first that euer stiled himselfe K. of Portugall and he was the first also that tooke the Citty of Lisbone from the Sarrazins For he hauing conquered fiue of their kings in seueral battels caused his Armes to bee adorned with fiue seuerall Crownes and Coat-Armors which euer after continued the Ensigne of the kings of Portugall in perpetuall memory of his valour But he quickly
in his posterity amongst which were Metellus Hermoneus Ptolomeus Hiberius and Simon Brechus Passing ouer the contentions in Ireland vnder the rule of the fore-named Himecus the three sonnes of Metellus viz Hermoneus Ptolomeus and Hiberius being sent thither in defence of the iniuried Scots let vs speake of this Simon Brechus lineally descended of the Scottish blood who was the first King that raigned ouer the Scots in Ireland he brought with him thither the fatal Marble stone and was thereon crowned in signe of his full possession of that kingdome in the yeare from the worlds creation 3270. after the floud 1616.55 from the building of Rome after Brutes entrance into Brittaine 870. and before our Sauiours incarnation 697. He gouerned his subiects with great Iustice fortie yeares after whom succeeded Fandufus from whom yssued Ethion that begate Glaucus whose sonne named Nottasilus was the father of Rothsay all which raigned successiuely ouer the Scots in Ireland Rothsay to auoide the super-abounding encrease of the Scottish Nation in Ireland transported them by diuers numbers into the Isles anciently called Ebonides afterward Hebrides but now by the Scots the Westerne Isles lying on the West halfe of Scotland and named the Isle he first possessed them of the isle of Rothsay after his owne name this was 133. yeares after Simon Brechus was crowned King Nor may we forget that they also named those Islandes and an especiall part thereof by the name of Argathelia in memory of their first guide Prince Gathelus and as yet to this day it is called Arguile wherein also as all ouer the mayne and firme land called then Albion and they Albion-Scots they planted themselues albeit it was a wast and very desert dwelling Héere could I enter into a necessary declaration concerning the comming of the Pictes into those partes of Albion what people they were their combustions with the Brittains and Scots and rule of their Kings till their absolute destruction according to an ancient Prophesie That the Scots should in the end destroy all the Pictish progeny But because I haue briefely spoken of them and hauing referred their further relation to our generall History we will now goe on with our matter of the Albion Scots In the troubles of Ireland among the Scots there inhabiting one Ferguhardus a very worthy and noble Prince raigned there who sent an armie to assist the Brittish and Albion Scots vppon theyr request of aide vnder the conduct of his son Fergusius who was a young gallant Prince yet an expert Warrior and tooke with him the Marble stone because he went to a dangerous war and hoped withall that the issue of his paines should be the attaining of a kingdome As indéed vpon an assembly and parlement held at Arguile and his high merit to excéed all others whatsoeuer he was elected and sacred in that supreame office in the yeare after the worlds creation 3640. before our blessed Sauiours incarnation 327. after the building of Rome 420. and after Brutes entrance into Britaine 790. This Fergusius after he had raigned royally the space of 25. yeares sayling into Ireland to quiet a discontentment amongst the Nobility was driuen vpon a Rocke where he perished by drowning and that Rocke hath euer since euen to this day bin called Rock-Ferguse otherwise Knock-Ferguse After the much lamented death of Fergusius because his sonnes were ouer young to vndergo the waighty charge of gouernment his Brother Feritharis was crowned King being enthroned in his Kingly Ornaments with all solemnitie his two edged sworde his scepter Royall and his Crowne of Golde made in forme of a Rampire for preseruation of his Countries libertie which manner of inuesting continued without any alteration till the dayes of Achaius King of Scotland who confirming a perpetuall league with Charlemaigne Emperor and K. of France to last for euer betwéene Scots and French added to the Crowne foure Floure de Lices with four Croslets deuided in sunder with equal spaces rising somewhat higher then the Floure de Lices that thereby the obseruing of Christian Religion and sincere faith maintained by the Scottish Nation might appeare the more apparant to al that behelde it After Feritharis who raigned worthy 15. yeares not Ferlegus the eldest sonne of Fergusius succéeded but Mainus the younger sonne being then aged 24. yeares and after him his son Doâ—uadille the following succession we will thus briefely relate Doruadil raigned 28. yeares Nothatus Brother to Doruadil raygned two yeares Reuther son to Doruadill 26. yeares Reutha the Vnckles son to Reuther seuentéene yeares and then entering into a priuate life he resigned the Crowne to Thereus Thereus the sonne of Reuther who raigned 12. yeares Conanus Lord of Galloway who after the decease of Thereus in Brittaine yeelded the gouernment to Iosina Brother to Thereus and raigned 24. yeares Finnanus sonne to Iosina thirty yeares Durstus sonne to Finnanus nine yeares Ewin Vnckles sonne to Durstus xix yeares Gillus base sonne to Ewin who being expulsed Ewin second of that name was crowned K. and raigning xix yeares resigned his state to Ederus Ederus the sonne of Dothan 38. yeares Ewin the third son to Ederus 7. yeares Metellanus sonne to Carren the Brother of Ederus in the 12. yeare of whose raigne our Sauiour Iesus Christ was borne of the blessed Virgin Mary in Bethlem which was 324 yeares after the establishing of the Scottish kingdome by Fergusius This Metellanus died in the 28. yeare of his raigne Caratake son to Cadallan and Nephew to Metellanus raigned xxi yeares Corbreid yongst brother to Caratake 34. years Dardan sur-named the Great for his huge stature foure yeares Corbreid Gald eldest sonne of King Corbreid 35. yeares This was a very worthy and famous King and the Countrey where hee last fought with the Romaines in memory of his owne name was called Galdia which as some thinke is that now named Galloway Lingthake son to Corbreid Gald two yeares Mogall nephew to Corbreid Gald six and thirty yeares Conarus son to Mogall 14. yeares Ethodius Nephewe to King Mogall In this Kingsraigne Lucius King of the Brittains with a great part of his people receyued the Christian faith being according to the Scottish Chronicles in the yeare after our Sauiours byrth 187. This Ethodius raigned 33. yeares Satrahell or Serrahell Brother to Ethodius raigned foure yeares Donald Brother to Satrahell 21. years In this kings time the Scots receiued with him the Christian faith 330. yeares after the erection of the Scottish Kingdome And this Donald was the first that caused Golde and Siluer to bee coyned in his Realme stamping a Crosse on the one side and his face on the other Euthodius the second beeing Sonne to the former King Euthodius raigned 16. yeares Athirco son to Ethodius 12. yeares Natholocus a Noble man of Argile xi yeares Findocke sonne to Athirco ten yeares Donald Brother to Findock