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A09569	The key of historie. Or, A most methodicall abridgement of the foure chiefe monarchies, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome Being a generall and compendious chronicle from the Flood. Digested into three bookes. Whereunto is added a marginall chronologie of euery Roman emperors raigne, and of all the most memorable persons and accidents. Together with briefe illustrations vpon the more obscure names, places, and offices. With a directory table for the more profitable reading of history. Written by that excellent and most learned man Iohn Sleidan.; De quatuor summis imperiis. English. Abridgments	Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1627 (1627)	STC 19850; ESTC S114662	111,008	406

certaine helpers in that worke whose names are mentioned all ouer He did the like also in the references and lawes of the Emperours which being comprehended in three bookes the Gregorian Hermogenian and Theodosian he contracted into one volume naming it Iustinians Code vsing other mens helpes therein whose names the Emperour reckons vp in the preface to his booke There are Authors that report how this Tribonianus was a couetous man and for gaine Virgil 6. Aenoad as the Poet saith made and marred lawes In the Code before mentioned there are many of Iustinians lawes which contradict the former There was added also a peculiar worke of new constitutions which throughout beare the name and title of Iustinian The Emperour intreated Belisarius whom I spoke of him by whose prowesse hee had obtained so many and so glorious victories most ignominiously and in his extreame old age caused his eyes to bee put out In his raigne some Councels were assembled at Constantinople wherein Menna Patriarch of that Citie sate President who as their bookes haue it is stiled the most holy most blessed and oecumenicall In the beginning of the Code an Epistle of the Emperour to the Archbishop of the Citie of Rome is set downe wherein he calls him the Head of all Churches and subiects all to him Furthermore although the learned are of opinion that it was forged yet grant it be true it is certaine that this controuersie continued many yeers after til at length the Bishops of Rome amplified with abilities preuailed and in the possession of the Church would erect to themselues a Tower which whether reared by the hands of men or fauour of Princes now carries the name as though it were founded by power diuine We haue formerly mentioned how the sixth Councell of Carthage was held in S. Austines time wherein Pope Boniface the first and Pope Caelestines fallacies were vnmasked when they alledged how it was decreed at Nice that all Prouinces should appeale to them And in Iustinians time Boniface the second was Bishop of Rome whose Epistle is extant wherein he sharpely reprehends Aurelius Bishop of Carthage in the before-mentioned Councell and saies that he with his fellowes did by the deuils instigation resist the Church of Rome as also giues God thankes that in his time Eulalius Aurelius his successor was reconciled to the Church of Rome and after that rehearses the words of Eulalius wherein he professes that hee condemnes both his predecessors and successors whosoeuer they bee that goe about to weaken the priuiledges of the holy and Apostolicall Church of Rome Agapetus the next to Boniface remoued Anthemius Patriarch of Constantinople out of his place for denying the two natures in Christ Theodora the Empresse tooke this very hainously and by Belisarius admonished Siluirius Agapetus his successor to restore him and Belisarius certaine other accusations also being laid to his charge turnes him out of his place and sends him into banishment substituting Vigilius who likewise called to Constantinople and refusing to recall Anthemius was condemned to the like punishment whereby it sufficiently appeares in what manner the Bishops of Rome were then subiect to the power of the Emperour Iustine the II. Iustine I●I 565. an 10. m. 10. d. 20. being Emperor the Persian war was renued which miscarying Archelaus the Emperors Lieutenant of a new concludes a peace Narses the Emperors Lieutenant throughout Italy after the Gothes were expulst and Totilas dead held Italy almost sixteene yeares afterwards called home by the Emperour from whom receiuing certain vnwelcome letters and therein perceiuing his ingratitude he not onely stayes still but surther for reuenge sending away his Ambassadours instigates the Lombards then seated in Pannonia proffering them very large rewards to depart from Pannonia and come into Italy the most pleasant and fruitfull of all Countries Thereupon they tooke that part of Italy which till this day retaines the name from them This Iustine as it is written constituted an Exarch Gouernour throughout Italy hee was as it were the Emperors Vicar or Deputy His chiefe seat was at Rauenna neglecting Rome and in each City and towne ordaining some Gouernour The Italian writers report that this new ordinance was the bane of Italy and Rome Narses soone after dyed at Rome Tiberius not long before adopted and made Collegue in the Empire Tiberius II. 576. an 6. m. 10. d. 8. was Iustines successor He got two happie victories against the Persians and established a peace with the Lombards whose Kingdome then reached from the Samnites vnto the Alpes the City of Rome onely expected which after they had for a space sharply besieged at length constrained by force of tempest and raine raised their siege Mauritius 582. an 19. m. 3. d. 11. Mauritius Tiberius his sonne in law being created Emperor in some certaine battels by his Lieutenants ouerthrew the Persians and at length concluded a peace with them recalling his Army he expelled the Scythians out of Mysia repressed the Lombards throughout Italy chased the Hunnes out of Pannonia but being hated of the souldiers for his couetousnesse was enforced vpon a mutinie arisen to flie to Chalcedon there at length was slain together with his wife children Phocas 603. an 8. m. 4. d. 9. and whole race by Phocas the Centurion who afterwards throgh sedition was proclaimed Emperor It is written that in Mauritius his raigne a Comet appeared for sixe moneths space and then also was Mahomet borne whom we will speake of hereafter At that time Iohn Bishop of Constantinople stiled himselfe the vniuersall Patriarch but Pelagius the second Bishop of Rome vehemently resisted him and pronounced his decrees void His successor Gregory the first sharply reprehends him for this and indeed confesses that in the Councell of Chalcedon this title and honour was giuen to his predecessors but none of them vsed it As also he exhorts Mauritius the Emperour by his Letters to restraine him for that also appertained to his authority which he in arrogating such a kinde of power did much impaire It is recorded that the next after Gregory Boniface the III obtained the primacie from Phocas certaine Edicts and charters being publisht in that behalfe In Phocas his raigne the Persians very greiuously annoyed the Common-wealth seizing vpon Mesopotamia and Assyria and marching on euen vnto the lesser Asia such was the negligence of this Prince Germany also together with Gallia and a great part of Italy reuolted The Saracens wasted Aegypt and he himselfe being slaine for his cruelty and neglect of the Common-wealth Heraclius succeeded Then againe the Persians marching on very farre through Aegypt inuade Africa which they bring vnder their subiection The Scythians diuersly dismember Europe Heraclius at length marching into Asia when hee could not make his peace though propounding certaine conditions little tending to the honour of the Romanes almost by meere constraint encountred with the Persians who now also forraged Iudaea and in a battell or two discomfited them Then

Emperour after this trayning vp his subiects in feats of Armes vanquishes the Dalmenincians takes the City of Prague together with Wenceslaus Duke of Bohemia making that countrey tributary to him In maine battell he ouerthrew the Hungars then againe after the truce ended breaking into Saxony and distributed the tribute which the Saxons paid them amongst the poore He intended to haue gone to Rome Otho the Great 936. an 36. m. 10 d. 6. but hindered by sicknesse constitutes his elder son Otho heire of the Empire He commenced wars many yeares together against the Bohemians then in rebellion as also vanguisht and put to flight the Hungars who then also striking ouer the Rhyne in the Vangions Countrey Of Wor●●bs had made an inroad into Franconia with intent to march on from thēce and pillage in Saxony Hee brought Burgundy vnder his subiection and afterward marching with a great Army into Italy and vanquishing the Berengarians there maried his second wife Aditheida Luitholdus his sonne hereat displeased practises treacherie against him hauing Coadiutors euery where in readinesse to serue his plots and amongst the rest Conradus Duke of Sueuia his sisters husband But his father besieging him at Ratisbon he first brought into distresse humbly craues and obtaines pardon After this the Hungars hauing forraged France breake into Germany in greater multitudes then at any time before and encampe themselues neere Auspurgh on that place which takes name from the Riuer Lych. The Emperor marching thither with the Saxons Franks Sueuians Bauarians and Bohemians after a doubtfull and long battle put almost all the enemies forces to the sword and caused some of their Chieftaines to bee hanged Then returning into Saxony after he had setled the affaires there makes a new expedition into Italy but before his iourney constituted his sonne Otho Collegue in the Empire At length arriuing at Rome he assembles a Councel where hee sate President and deposed Pope Iohn the XII for his offences in whose place he appointed Leo of that name the VIII A decree of his is extant incerted in the Papall Law where he sayes that hee conferres to Otho the Emperor and to his successors for euer the authority of choosing Popes disposing of the See Apostolike and confirming of Bishops as also pronounces a most seuere punishment against those who not expecting the Emperors approbation consecrate Bishops See here another Decree contrary to some other before After this there is the forme of an oath added by which as they report the Emperor Otho bound himselfe to Pope Iohn but it s not added who this Pope Iohn was nor of what numb●r ●n name either this Iohn or Otho were And surely it is wonderfull that matters of such importance and moment should be so negligently put into writing Now if Otho the I. tooke this oath then this obiection may hold against him That whereas in this forme before-mentioned amongst other things he sweares not to procure any danger to the Popes life nor to abrogate his honor and dignity but how can this appeare when as he as we said before remoued Iohn out of his place and ordained another Let him that can reconcile this Otho by reason of the new broiles marches againe into Italy where hauing setled the affaires and returning home dyed about the beginning of May and was buried at Maidenburg in the yeare of Grace 974. In regard of his noble exploits and surpassing prowesse Hee 's stil'd the Great Henry D. of Bauaria rebelled against Otho the II. Otho II 973. an 10. m 7. d. 2. but the sword reduc'd him to his duty Lotharius was then King of France whose brother Charles was by the Emperour created Duke of Lorraine vnder condition that hee should bee a * Beaesiciarius Leige-man of the Empire Henry the Emperour as the Annals report got this Prouince from Charles the Simple King of France and entailed it to his successours in order But Lotharius displeased hereat on a sudden leauying an Army speedily meets him at Aix and had almost discomfited the Emperour before hee was aware The Emperour to reuenge this affront musters vp forces marching on as far as Paris at length not without great blood-shed on both sides concludes a peace Returning home and from thēce making an expedition to Rome hee commenced warre against the Greekes who held Calabria and Apulia where after his Army was defeated he was intercepted by Pyrats as he fled by sea but not being knowne who he was they dismist him vpon a summe of money paid in hand and so returning to Rome besieges Beneuento with the remainder of his forces takes and sets fire on it And not long after wounded with a dart in a battle against the Greekes and Sarazens departed his life and was buried at Rome To him his sonne Otho succeeded by consent of the Nobility Otho I●I 983. an 17. m. 1. d. 21. and was consecrated at Aix He created one Bruno a Germane Pope afterwards called Gregory the fift But Crescentius a Consull of Rome set vp Iohn Bishop of Placentia in opposition to him The Emperour therefore comming to Rome inflicts a heauy and ignominious punishment vpon Crescentius and his Complices and caused Iohn of that name the XVII his eyes to be put out The Emperour in regard of the perpetuall dissensions about succession in the Empire ordained with the Popes help That certaine of the prime Nobility in Germanie should bee authorised with right and power of electing the Emperours lest that any man hereafter should set vpon that dignity as hereditary The Electorall Princes of Germany constituted 〈◊〉 the yo●● of Christ 1000. This Decree was made about a thousand yeares after Christs birth Robert then raigned in France a Prince that loued peace and learning The Annalls ex●oll him for building many Churches and amply endowing them as also going in pilgrimage to Rome This Emperor Otho granted to B●leslaus Duke of Polonia regall dignity and immunity The beginning of the kingdome of Polonia 9 ● as their Annalls haue it This therefore is the beginning of that Kingdome Otho after this returning out of Italy g He was poisoned by a paire of gloues giuen him by Cresentius aforesaid his widow Henry II. or the Lome 1001 an 23. m. 5. d. 16. dyed The next Emperour after him was Henry of that name the II. Duke of Bauaria kinsman to Otho the great D. of Saxony and Emperour He hauing setled a peace in Germany and drawne on some of his aduersaries into amity by his extraordinary kindnesse and subdued other some marched into Italy there restoring Apulia to the Empire which the Sarazens had taken Then after his consecration by Benedict the VII sending away his Army into Germany He himselfe taking his iourney through the Sequans Countrey came to an enterueiw with Robert the French King where a confirmation of amity was established on both sides This Emperour was greatly loued of the Clergie for hee was very liberall

and conuicted of falshood Further bee it granted that the Emperor was thus most exceedingly profuse perhaps for himselfe onely hee might herein abate of his own right but could not doe it for his successors authorized with coequal power and Protectors of the Common-wealth For hee who damnifies the freedome and liberties of his Empire ought not to haue the title of Father of his Countrey nor can he ordaine another to share with him in equality of authority or preiudice the same By Constantine the Emperors appointment The first Councell of Nice held in An. 325. continued 3. yeares a most populous Counsell was called and assembled at Nice a City in Bythinia wherein the heresie of Arrius denying Christ to be coequall in substance with his father was condemned It s recorded that many Bishops not onely out of Europe and Asia but also out of Egypt and Lybia met together there Amongst other one decree was that through Egypt Lybia and Pontapolis the ancient custome should be maintained that is all the Bishops there should remaine vnder superiority of the Bishop of Alexandria notwithstanding the vsurpation and withholding therof by the Bishop of Rome as also that the Church of Antioch and other Prouinces and Churches should each one entirely retaine their peculiar priuiledges After this Councell certaine Iewd opinions were vented one Eustathius being Author about shunning of mariage e In monasticall manner and some women artired in mens habite about a new and vnusuall kind of habit about forbearance to eate flesh and forsaking propriety of possessions And hereupon many husbands procuring a diuorce and seruants leauing their masters betaking themselues to this new and religious habite as they call it women likewise taking the same course forsaking their husbands and those who fed vpon flesh as also the Ministers of the Church that were maried being publikely contemned as persons impure and vnacceptable to God a Counsell was assembled at Gangra a town in Paphlagonia wherein those were condemned who either taught or held that opinion Constantine for reestablishing a peace in the Common-wealth being with most generall acclamation confumed both by the Senate and people of Rome turned himselfe wholy to forraine warres and after many battels ouerthrew the G●thes and Sarmatians then forraging the Countrey of Thracia afterwards being strucken in yeares he proclaimed warre against the Persians who wasted the Country of Mesopotamia and in Asia where he was arriued with his Army after receipt of a medicine for recouery of his health breathed his last not without suspition of poison This is he by surname stiled the Great who named Byzantium a City of Thrace after his owne f His desire was to haue it called New Rome but vse preuailed and altered it to Constantinople name and thither translated the Imperiall Seat He began his g At Rome but hee raigned 6. yeares before in Brittaine and elsewhere raigne about the three hundred and twelfth yeare after the birth of Christ It is written that Comets of wonderfull greatnesse were seene before his death Hee left three sonnes Constantine Constantius and Constans amongst those was the body of the Empire diuided to Constantine part of the Alpes Gallia Hispaine Brittaine h The Iland of Orkney lying neer and belonging to Scotland the Orcades Ireland and i Now called Island lying beyond Scotland as some say others Hitland Constantine 337. An. 3. Constantius 337. An. 24 Conslaus 337. An. 1● Thyle were allotted to Constans Italy Africa with the Islands Illyricum Macedonia Achaia Peloponnesus and Greece to Constantius Asia and Thrace Constantine not satisfied with this diuision made warre vpon his brother Constans and at Aquileia whither he was then come ioyning battell with Constans his forces lost both his Army and his life Constans who in the meane time was vp in Armes against the k The same who were afterwards called Gothes Carion Getes and Sarmatians in Dacia returnes into Italie and hauing gotten the Alpes inuaded Gallia and in two yeares space won all his deceased brothers dominions but was slaine within a while after by the treachery and crafty dealing of Magnentius Him the souldiers before hand allured and inueigled with rewards elected Emperour Constantius the onely suruiuing brother of the three vpon notice hereof deputing Gallus his vncles sonne and sisters husband his Vice-gerent ouer Asia marches with a strong Army into Italy and so into Gallia where in maine battell he ouerthrew the Enemy But Magnentius escaping sends his Ambassadors to sue for peace Whose suit the Conqueror rejecting he on a fresh wages battell again but with ill successe thereupon flying to Lyons where perceiuing his owne friends to conspire his destruction and not hauing any corner where to hide himselfe became his owne executioner Afterwards Constantius commanded Gallus his Cosin germane and Vicegerent for Asia as abouesaid who abused his authority and power to bee put to death when he could not otherwise remedy it After this he returnes into Asia with intent to prosecute the warre in Persia which by reason of Magnentius his faction aboue-mentioned he had broken off And in regard the Germanes about this time making an inroad into Gallia forraged the Countrey there hee adopted his other Cosin germane Iulianus Gallus his brother and to him committed the protection of Gallia Iulianus hauing had prosperous successe in his designes and in many battel 's gotten the vpper hand beat backe the Enemy beyond the Rhyne tooke many prisoners and rescued many Roman souldiers out of prison and at l Strasburg in Germany Argentine almost quite cut off the Enemies whole Army Hereupon the souldiers proclaime him not onely Caesar but also Augustus and set a Diadem vpon his head but against his will as hee pretended For in his letters to Constantius he indeauoured to remoue the envie of the fact frō himselfe But Constantius hereat greiuously offended ceasing his warre in Persia and liberally and kindly entreating the neighbouring nations that they might continue their allegiance sets forward on his iourney to reduce Iulianus to his duty but on the way whilst hee was yet in Asia being taken with a feuer ended his life first ordaining Iulianus his successor During Iulianus his raigne the enemies contained themselues within their owne bounds not raising any commotion in any place Julianus 361. an 1. m. 7. d. 23. He himselfe went out against the Persians and forraging Assyria hauing put the Enemies forces to flight marched forwards as farre as Ctesiphon At length returning home with his forces the enemy set vpon him in the rere where fighting in the midst of his souldiers in the maine battalia hee receiued a wound whereof within a while after he died an enemy to the name of Christ The souldiers hauing thus lost their Leader Iouinianus 363. m. 7. d. 22. being plunged in great distresse create Iouinianus Emperor at what time Iulius the first of that name was Bishop of Rome certaine of whose Epistles to

of Germanie vpon the Danish sea Theodoricus thereby to strengthen himselfe obliged the Kings of the Vandals Visigothes and Burgundians to him by affinitie Whilest the squares went thus in Italie great troubles were on foot throughout Thrace Affrica and Britaine where at length the Saxons got the vpperhand Zeno dying at Constantinople Anastatius 491. an 27. m. 3. d. 3. Anastatius succeeds him Hee fauoured many of those who allowed of Eutyches his opinion wherupon a dissention grew betwixt him and Gelasius Bishop of Rome who by tedious letters dehorts him as their bookes haue it from vndertaking the protection of them for there were two things saith he whereby principally this world should bee gouerned the sacred authoritie of Bishops and regall power and so much the more charge lies vpon the Priests for that they euen for other men must render an account to the Lord but he was to gouerne for ciuill policie yet so as to bee subiect to the Ministers of God and to depend vpon their iudgement and seeing that Priests doe obey the lawes politicall it is likewise iust that hee himselfe should not refuse those constitutions which the Steers-men in matters diuine establish therefore sithence this honour ought to be giuen to all Ministers of the Church the cause it selfe requires that to him most especially it should bee attributed whom God by his owne word as also the consent of the Church would haue to rule ouer the whole order of Priests Let him leaue off therfore and rather heare him an excuser in this life then finde him an accuser in the other After this his decree concerning the holy Bible is annexed in which he grants superiority to the Sea of Rome as they call it then to Alexandria the third place to Antiochia In Anastatius his raigne Sicilie was tossed with troubles and hostile insurrections which were quenched by the Authors death Then also the Hunnes wasted Armenia and Cappadocia the Getes Macedonia Thessalie and Epirus from both which the Emperour was enforced to buy his peace by gifts and no small losses Much about this time which was in the yeere of Grace 500. Clodoueus King the French first of all imbraced the Christian Religion hauing beene very oft and earnestly solicited thereunto as also to forsake his Idols and superstition by his wife who was of the house of Burgundie The Councell of Orleans in his raigne established which consisted of thirty three French Bishops is extant wherein amongst the rest it is decreed that if the rauisher of a Virgin shall flie to a Church though hee haue offered violence to the Virgin yet hee shall not come within danger of death but shall either bee as a bondslaue or else redeeme himselfe from her Anastatius slaine by lightening or as the papall law speakes dying vpon an x Sleidan as Meibomius notes here mistakes the Emperour for Pope Anastatius Iustine 518 an 9. d. 24. ● eruption of his bowels Iustinus succeeded a man of obscure parentage and from a swine-heard made a souldier as it is written He was at dissention with Theodoricus King of the Gothes Lord of Italie about diuersitie of Religion but yet they held off from blowes Theodoricus dying Alaricus his Grand-child by his sonne succeeded to the great ioy and contentment of the Gothes Iohn the first of that name was then Bishop of Rome He with other more was sent in Ambassage by the aforementioned King Theodoricus to Constantinople where as their bookes relate hee was most honourably entertained not onely by the people but also by the Emperour himselfe For they say they were exceeding ioyous that it was their fortune now at length to see and entertaine the blessed S. Peters Vicar as they tearme him in Greece which had neuer befallen them before since Constantines time the Great and Syluesters But it is strange that they should pra●e thus of Syluester who came not into Greece as it is manifest For then when it was most be●oofefull as also needfull I meane at the Councell of Nice he stirred not but sent thither his Legates Victor and Vincent and afterwards as they relate he himselfe assembled another Councell at Rome wherein he confirmed the decrees of the Councell of Nice There is extant also a consolatorie Epistle of this Iohn the first to the Bishops of Italie wherein hee exhorts them that albeit King Theodoricus polluted with Arian heresie threatned destruction to them and to all Italie yet they should not desist from their purpose but resolutely proceed After Iustine Iustinianus 527. an 38. m. 3. d. 13. his sisters son Iustinianus was made Emperour Hee wholly bent himselfe to the restoring of the Common-wealth and at his first entrance set ouer the whole charge of gouernment to Belisarius who by many great battels ouercame the Persians transgressing their bounds and offring violence to the Romane dominions set free Illyricum wasted by the Gepidaes and Bulgarians reduced the Parthians being vp in armes to amitie ouerthrew the Vandals most powerfull forces in Affrica recouered Carthage and from thence striking ouer into Sicilie where hauing notice of the rebellion in Affrica he returnes thither and speedes well Then at length marching into Italie takes Naples sackes it ouerthrowes the Gothes whose King Theodatus then was After this he repaires to Rome where he was kindly and honourably entertained by all remouing from thence takes in the townes and forts euery where and amongst the rest Perousa after this he besieges Rauenna where Vitigis King of the Gothes giuing him battell loseth his Armie is taken prisoner and carried away by Belisarius to Constantinople The Gothes renewing their forces in the country beyond Po elect Hildebrand their king To him two succeeded and after them Totilas He in Belisarius his absence ouer-running all Italie takes Rome after a siege sackes and sets fire on it Belisarius hereupon recalled hauing finished the warre against the Parthians who againe forraged Syria returnes into Italie and recouers the Citie in a manner left desolate and then incountring with the enemy had a happy battell but sailing into Sicilie for prouision is called backe by Iustinianus which affoorded occasion to Totilas to renew his forces returne to Rome The Emperour forthwith ordaines Narses the Eunuch Generall in the Italian warre hee expelled the Gothes quite out of Italie which was so much the easilier effected they hauing lost their King Totilas who died of a wound That warre with the Gothes lasted eighteene yeeres And Iustinianus thus recouering Italie and Affricke after he had assumed his Grandchild by his daughter for his Collegue in the Empire departed this life Some write that hee was a Prince of a dull nature and ouerswaied by his wife Theodora Tribonianus the Lawyer was in high esteeme with him he who abrogating the writings and disputations of the Ancients gathered out of them an hotchpotch of the lawes and left vs the fragments onely which now goe vnder the name of the Pandects But he had