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

entertained the Angels continued till the i me of Constantius the younger Id. p. 21. London was built three hundred fifty and six years before Rome in the time of Eli the high Priest Graftons Hist p. 36. King Locrine Brutus Son kept Estrildes his beautiful Concubine seven years in a secret cave at London and when he went to her gave out that he would make a secret sacrifice to the Gods On her he begat Habren whom Gwendolin his Wife together with her Mother threw into Severn and drowned and from the childes name commanded the River to be called Habren as the Welch now call it and by corruption Severn p. 39. King Bladad who founded Bathe having made himself VVings and intending to fly with them fell on the Altar of Apollo and bruised himself and therewith died Id. p. 47. In the time of Rivalio King of England it rained blood for three daies continually which bred an innumerable company of Flies and after was followed with a fearful pestilence Id. p. 49. Malmutius gave priviledge of Sanctuary to Temples Cities Carts and the four High-wayes which are called The Foss from Totness to Lincoln VVatlingstreet from Dover to Cardigan Erming street from St. Davids to Southampton Kickneld street from VVorcester to Tinmouth p. 54. 57. When Brennus besieged the Capitol the Ganders awakened the VVatch and saved it On which accasion the Romans long time after held a feast of Ganders the first day of June p. 59. When the Soldiers of Brennus had robbed the Temple of Apollo at Delphos his Army was destroyed by an Earth-quake and hail-stones and Brennus in despair slew himself p. 59. Morindus King of Brittain was slain by a Sea Monster whom he rashly would needs encounter with in the year of the VVorld three thousand six hundred fifty two Archigallo King of Brittain being deposed his Brother Elidurus was substituted King in his place who when he had raigned five years finding his Brother by chance in a VVood restored him again to his Crown Grafton p. 63. Ptolomeus Philodelphus King of Egypt being desirous to have the old Testament translated into Greek released freely a hundred thousand of the Jews that were captive gave great gifts and sent to Jerusalem for seventy Interpreters who coming to him in seventy daies finished it and were richly rewarded every one having given them three suits of apparel two talents of Gold and one Cup of one Talent of Gold and sufficient furniture for all their journeys and expences p. 63. In the daies of Eldadus King of Brittain there was a child born in Rome with four feet four hands four eyes as many ears and both Natures Id. p. 65. From Adam to Christ are three thousand nine hundred sixty three years six months and ten da s and from Christs birth one thousand six hundred and seventy three so that the VVorld hath endured five thousand six hundred thirty and six Grafton p. 74. Lucius the first Christian King in the year of Christ one hundred and eighty appointed VVestminster to be a Sanctuary Id. p. 83. Severus the Emperor built a Wall between Tine and the Sea which was one hundred twenty two miles long Id. p. 84. Donald the third King of Scots a cruel Tyrant never laught but when he heard of the discord and slaughter of his Nobles p. 87. Austin and his Mother praising God for his Conversion sung the Hymn Te Deum answering mutually p. 92. Vortiger having procured a guard of an hundred Picts to attend King Constance he made them drunk and laid open to them his own poverty and by secret wayes let them know his mind to have the King removed whom they wickedly slew and Vortiger for so doing put them all to death and usurped the Crown Grafton p. 95. Hengist the Saxon begg'd of King Vortiger so much ground as an Ox hide would compass which being granted he cut the Hide into small thongs and with the same measured out a large circuit of ground in Lindsey long after named Thong Castle p. 96. Vortimer caused his Sepulchre of Brass made spirewise to be set in that Port in Kent where the Saxons were commonly wont to arrive and his dead Corps to be laid in it to terrify the Saxons of which Saxons King Arthur in one day with his own hands slew 140 and Edolse at Stonehing with a stake ●o and got safe away to his Castle p. 99. 160. 106. In the Monastery of Bangor in the year five hundred forty six there were more than two thousand Monks that lived by the travail of their hands of whom one Etherfrid King of Northumberland kill'd twelve hundred at one time when they came to pray for the good speed of the Brittans Grafton p. 109. Pope Gregory writing an answer to Austins questions gave this determination That all goods that were given to the Church should be divided into four parts One to the maintenance of the Bishop and his houshould the second to the Clergy the third to the amendment of Churches and the fourth to the reliefe of poor people and works of mercy p. 114. Kenneth Keir King of Scotland commanded all Juglers Minstrels and scoffers to be banished as Vagabonds or else to find some honest occupation to live by p. 116. Elsteda the daughter of King Oswy was gigen by her Father to God with twelve Mannors on which to build twelve Abbeys Grafton p. 122. Glazing was first brought into England by Bennet a Monk about the year six hundred p. 122. Tiberius the Emperor beheaded one that had found out the Art of making Glass malleable saying That that Art would make Gold and other Metals of no value p. 123. Wilfred being deposed from the Arch-bishoprick of York applied himself to the Saxons and taught them fifteen years and instructed them in the Art of Fishing p. 124. In the raign of King Ino King of the West Saxons one Brightwoldus after he had been a long time dead was restored again to life and told many things of great wonder to many men whereby he caused great Alms and deeds of charity to be done Id. p. 127. Eugenius King of Scotland caused the Acts of his Ancestors to be committed to writing and that Historiographers should be found at the common cost Grafton p. 128. Before the Danes came into England in the daies of Brithricus King of the VVest Saxons in the year 779 as men walked in the streets Crosses like unto blood fell upon their clothes and blood like drops of Rain fell from Heaven p. 130. A grant of Land made by Athelstan in this short form I King Athelstan give unto Paulan Odham and Rodham as good and as fair as ever they mine were And thereto witness Maud my wife p. 147. When Dunstan held Ethelred being an Infant over the Font he defiled it with his ordure Whereon Dunstan sware by God and his Mother this child will be unkind to God and his Church Id. p. 160. When Seward Earl of Northumberland being sick of a

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

tired and was fetcht off with a Boat Mariana Hist de Esp 2 part p. 94. In one of the Islands of the Canaries called del Hiero there is no other Water but what doth distil and drop from the Leaves of one Tree p. 136. An Infant of eight Months old at the begining of the troubles of Portugal about the year 1385. in Ebora heaved it self up in the Cradle and in a loud voice said three times Don Juan King of Portugal Idem p. 138. Tamerlane besieging Beritus they held ●ut the first day but yielding the second they sent out the young Boyes and Girles clothed in white with green Boughs in their hands who falling down on the ground beg'd mercy but this barbarous Tyrant commanded his Horse-men to ride over them and so kill'd them all A certain Geno●ay advised that he should shew mercy and that he was a Mortal man To whom Tamerlane answered Dost thou think I am a man no I am the scourge of God and the plague of Mankinde Idem p. 191. Vincent Ferrer a Dominick Frier of Valencia famous for Miracles converted 8000 Moores and 35000 Jews Who preaching in his vulgar Tongue strangers understood him as if he had spoke to each in his own Language a singular gift and since the Apostles only granted to him Idem p. 195. There were Laws made in Castile that the Moores should wear a piece of blew cloth in form of a Crescent the Jewes a round piece of yellow cloth and Priests Concubines a piece of red cloth whereby they might be known to be such Id. p. 197. About the year 1407. the Pay of a Horse-man by the day was twenty Maravedes and of a Foot-man ten A Maravede is a brass coyne of which six make an English penny Id. 198. Henry King of Castile entring upon the government of his Kingdom found his revenue so extremely exhausted that having been one day in the Field catching of Quailes he returning found nothing prepared for his breake-fast asking his Steward the reason was answered that he had neither money nor credit to buy what was necessary The King marvelled at and commanded him that he should upon a pledge buy him some flesh and dress it with his quailes for his break-fast Which done his steward waiting on him there arose several discourses amongst which one was that his Grandees and courtiers fared otherwise and that the Arch-bishop of Toledo and other chief Courtiers did by turnes feast one the other and that night they were all to Sup at the Arch-bishops The King in a disguise went to see what past where he saw most plentiful provisions and heard their discourses of each ones revenues what of their own and what of the Kings rent The King resolved to remedy these disorders and gave out the next morning that he was sick and intended to make his Will The Courtiers came to the Castle in which the King lay who had given order then when the Courtiers were entred their retinue should be kept forth which was accordingly done The Nobles waited in the Hall a greet space about noon the King comes in Armed with his Sword drawn and sitting down with an angry Countenance turnes to the Arch-bishop and askt him and the rest how many Kings they had known in Castile One answered three others four and who knew most five The King replied and how can this be since I that am so young know Twenty And you are they to the great impoverishment of my Kingdom and dishonour to our Person but I shall take care that your raign shall not be long and that you make no longer a scoff of me and with this calls for the Executioners of Justice with their Instruments and six Hundred Soldiers that were in readiness They being all amazed the Arch-bishop fell on his Knees and begged pardon and so did all the rest and promised amendment The King gave them their lives but not their liberties till they had given up all the Castles they were intrusted with and an account of the Kings rents which they had received A Notable deed that humbled and kept in awe his great Subjects This Princes saying was I more fear the curses of my people than the Armes of my Enemies His Queen was the Daughter of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Constance the Daughter of King Pedro the cruel and himself the Grandson of Henry the Bastard Brother of the same King Peter Mariana 2 part p. 200. John King of Castile being dead the whole nobility profered and were very importunate with his Brother Ferdinand to accept the Crown but he refused it and caused his Brothers Son John the second a Child of twenty two Months old to be proclaimed King Idem p. 202. Four Leagues distant from Girona a City in Spain in the year one thousand four hundred and twenty there opened two Mouthes of Fire which burnt those that came within two stones throw of them and near to these issued forth a stream of black Water of a stinking savour which fell into the River kill'd the Fishes and the savour of it was so strong that it reacht to Girona Mariana 2 part p. 239. In the year one thousand four hundred thirty and seven seven men that went forth to the VVoods in Spain near Guadalajar were frozen to death and not long before it snowed forty dayes together Id. p. 291. Alvaro de Luna who had bin thirty years favourite to John King of Castile fell at last into disgrace was condemned and beheaded A Witch had told him that he should dye in Cadahalso Now the King had given him a Country so called which for that reason he would never enter into not minding that Cadah●lso signifies a Scaffold on which indeed he ended his days Id. p. 340. About the year one thousand four hundred fifty six a Country called Bojano sunk with an Earth-quake and remaines a standing Lake of VVater in which disaster there perished thirty thousand Persons of all sorts p. 350. And in the year one thousand five hundred forty four there was an Eclipse of the Sun that lasted a whole day Id. p. 741. A great Commander of the Moors in Malaca being killed with many wounds yet bled not till a bracelet of Gold which he wore on his Arm was taken off and then the blood abundantly issued out It 's supposed that the Bracelet had a stone taken out of a Beast called which hath a marvailous Virtue to restrain blood p. 677. At 〈…〉 of Bolongue a part of the Wall 〈…〉 with a mine so that both those 〈…〉 and those without could see under yet fell down again and settled in its own place Id. p 682. The Island of Brittain was the first National Church in the whole World of Christians For though the Gospel was Preached in many other Nations privately long before yet of all Nations it was the first that with publick approbation of Prince and State received the Profession of the Christian Religion under King Lucius about